Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-02-18
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

UTAH Liberals fight the statehood move
ment.
ST. PAUL is flooded with green goods"
circulars.
PRESIDENT TANNER, of Illinois College,
jacksonville, died NJ 1nday morning.
JOHN JAY KNOX died Tuesday afternoon
at his home in New York.
SECRETARY BLAINE emphaticaily de-
MES the report that he Is about to resign
from the cabinet.
ANOTHER line Of soundings will be
taken before deciding upon the route for
toe proposed submarine cable between San
Francisco and the Hawaiian Islands.
The United Iron workers of America
convened in annual session in Columbus,
10, Tuesday. Gov. Mckinley delivered
the address of welcome.
The steamer Button, from Brazil, is
guaranteed at New York with yellow
fever on board. Five of the crew have
died, and four are down with the disease.
ARCHBISHOP JOHN IRELAND, CT St.
Paul, Mimi, has arrived in Rome, and
has been cordially received by the pope.
A CHICAGO syndicate Is negotiating for
the purchase of onyx deposits In Tehuacan,
| Mex.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANNAMAKER
is said t. have made 81, 100000 by the rise
in Reading stock
ELDER EADEs, the best known Shaker
in the United States, died at Louisville,
Saturday, aged IS years.
COUNT Won BLUcHER, whose marriage
at Milwaukee last July caused such a sen
sation. has just died in a New York lodg
ing house.
ALBION W. SMALL, president of Colby
University, Waterville, Me-, has accepted
the position Of professor Of social science
in the university Of Chicago.
EMMA ABBOTT g ashes have been sealed
into the beautiful monument at G!ouces-
ter erected by the famous singer before
her death.
The foundries at Hamilton, Ont, were
reopened Thursday with a force Of non
union molderS in place of the striking
union men.
! LEADING negroes in Little Rock, Ark,
, have organized national association with
! 50, 5000 capital stock, the object being
| to operate business houses for colored
people.
AN old gentleman of Keokuk City, Iowa,
has broken the record. He proposed, was
accepted, procured a license and was mar
ried inside of 80 minutes from the time he
first saw the bride.
ENGLISH journals strongly denounce
the report Of the American emigration
commissioners charging Great Britain
with Systematically sending its convlcts
! to tkls country.
! PRESIDENT HARRISON, on Thursday
sent to the senate the name of Frank w {.
Okley OF Madison, to be United States
marshal for the western district of Wis
| c0nsin.
HON. HENRY Fl. BINGHAM will deliver
| the Grafton at the unwilling of the Get
| tysburg monument June 2. He was
wounded in that battle, near the copse OF
trees in which the monument stands.
| QUOTATIONS between the United
| States and Canada in regard to reciprocity
of trade relations, were formally opened
| Wednesday.
| THERE is a rumor ahoat that Post
master General Wannamaker is to ba sent
to Paris to succeed Whitelaw Reid as
minister, and that Gen. Jas. S. Clarkson
is to take Mr.. Wapnamaker' place.
The liabilities of the failed Deming &
Silver City bank in New Mexico, are
1852, 900. The bank officers expect to re
sumo in ninety days.
| CARA, the Mexican reyoutionist, has
published an open letter to President Har.
rison, in which he denies that he has vio-
| lated the neutrality laws.
| THE meeting of the cabinet Tuesday was
attended by all the members but was Of
short duration. The Behring Sea question
was considered briefly, but no action was
! taken.
The committee on president and vice
president, en- Wednesday. discussed briefly
and without action, Mr.. McAleer's resoiu-
! ton providing that the electoral college
! shall consist of one elector from each con-
| gressional district; two from each st ate.
chosen by the citizens Of the state to rep
resent the number of Legislators in that
state, and one from each state or territory
to be chosen by the vote of the people
| This is the Michigan plan.
JUSTICE JAMES, of the supreme court of
the District of Columbia, Monday morn
ing delivered the opinion of the court Ill
the silver-brick case. The petition of
Merrick, Morse and others for mandamus
to compel the secretary of the treasury to
receive and coin into dollars silver brick
rendered him by the petitioners was de-
MED. Chief Justice Bingham dissented
from some of the views of the majority,
but agreed with them upon the main
question,