Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-09
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES

The state Republican convention will
meet In st. Paul July %.
DR.. 81. L. HELMBoLD has for the fifth
time been adjudged insane.
SIR FRANCIS BURDETT, cousin of
Baroness Burdett Coutts, died Tuesday.
The system of licensing gambling
houses has gone into effect in Omaha.
Hon. I. JEFFERSON COOLIDGE, minis
ter to France, has sailed from New York
The American sugar trust attempts to
''bear the market In Germany by refus-
ing to buy German sugar at present.
The National Mlllers' association open
ed its annual meeting in Chicago.
FIFTY thousand acres of land in Monroe
county, ILL.,, is overhowed.
EXCITED Pierre, S. D., people seen a
forty-foot serpent or fish in the Missouri
river at that place.
S. NJ. WILSON, the most distinguished
member of the legal profession in San
Francisco, died on Saturday.
AN Indian from the White Earth reser-
walton is admitted to the bar of the United
States court of appeals in st. Paul.
Col W. B. REMEY, Judge advocate
general of the navy, was placed On the re-
tired list Saturday, with the rank of col.
onel in the marine corps.
H. PARSONS, of Duluth, is nominated
for congress by the Peoples party of the
Sixth district.
A HUNDRED stone cutters employed on
the new rock at Duluth struck for four
dollars a day and pine hours work. The
demand was refused.
The grain sent from Iowa for the re-
lief Of the famine sufferers of Russia has
been unloaded and dispatched to the dis
| tressed provinces. Il filed 80 cars.
Ex-PREsIDENT Cleveland and his fam
lily have taken up their residence for the
summer at Buzzard's Bay, Mass
SIR ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, lieutenant
governor of Ontario, died in Toronto
Tuesday, aged 70 years.
Ex.PREsIDET Folks will is overturned
by the Tennessee courts and the property
given to the heirs-at-law.
| 3THE first Bohemian soldiers monument
in the United States was dedicated in Chi
cago Sunday, with all the pomp and so
lemnity of the Grand Army ritual.
IT is proposed to put Johnson county
Wyo., the scene of the recent conflict be
tween settlers, rustlers and great cattl,
growers under martial law.
| SEVERAL witnesses testified Saturda,
that they had paid J. Genmiller certain
sums monthly for appointments in th
bureau.
| SECRETARY BLAINE met the Candia1
commissioners at the state de- artment OF
Saturday and talked over the trade relation
between the United States and Canada.
Rev. Father Quigley, Catholic pr1es
of Toledo, Ohio, has been indicted for re
fusing to give the names of the pupils at
parochial school under his charge to tn
Board of Education as required by law.
JOHN JACOB AsToR has donated SIS, OO(
to the New York Grant monument funt
and $4,000 to the general fund of the New
York Press club.
TIES teamer City Of New York arrived
at Liverpool Wednesday, having made
the trip from New York in 81,
days and twenty minutes, thus beating tn
record.
A SYNDICATE of Kalamazoo capitalist
has sub, cribed sufficient amount to pur-
chase and operate the American Vince
company's plant.
THE city council of Cleveland has won
victory over the gas companies of that cit,
forcing them to reduce prices from 81 t.
so cents thousand.
THE fine arts department of the world
fair has received official notification tina
Secretary Tracy of the navy department
had consented to detail the United State
frigate Constellation to the service Of the
fair.
CosTER & MARTIN, Chica % brokers
fail In an attempt to corner the corn mar
ket, though they succeed IN driving corr
up from 46 cents to 81. Prices afterward
fell to SIS cents and the brokers assign.