Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-20

der modifying the Chinese registration
act. Under this Cinnamon need not be
photographed and but one witness is
| required.
Excitement has been caused in
Guayaquil, Ecuador, by the discovery
of eighty cases of arms which had been
landed there without the knowledge
Of the government.
w. Robbins, New York agent for the
National Life Insurance company
committed suicide at New York by
shooting. He would shortly have in
herited 100000.
Contest has been filed against the will
Of Humphrey Fickus, who died at
Evansville, Ind, in February, leaving a
| $4,000 estate The ground for the
| contest is that FickuS was Of unsOund
mind.
Miss Edith Day has returned to Port
land, Ore, over the Southern Pacific,
having completed her 10000 mile rail
road journey through the United States
and Mexico in Ii days IA II hours.
! At a recent session of the Austral-
asian postal conference a resolution
was agreed to favoring the construction
of a Pacific cable, from Australia to
| Vancouver, to afford an alternate tel
egraph route to England.
Henry Irving will start, with his
whole Lyceum company and some
five hundred tons of baggage, in August
! for San Francisco, where he is to begin
his American tour in September. The
tour will occupy eight months.
On account of increased railway
rates the British army authorities have
adopted the novel method of sending
transports required for various manoeu.
vres by road in trains wagons drawn by
traction engines. The cost has thus
been reduced fully one-half.
The mummies Of the high priests of
Ammon, now in the possession of the
Egyptian Government, are to be ratified
off shortly. They will be divided into
six lots and drawn for by the museums
of London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Vienna
and St Petersburg.
Boilermakers and iron shipbuilde1s
of Boston and its vicinity have present
ed demand to their employers for 3
nine-hOur work day with ten hours pay
The twenty-one manufacturers involved
met and unanimously decided that the
request could not be granted.
The DiXOn-G1fffin controversy has
now assumed a more plausible shape
Dixon is willing to concede the entire
earth to the Braintree lad, and agrees
to meet him at catch weight on one OF
two weeks notice. Judge Newman
will take the match for Coney Island
il Griffin consents.
Of the sum of $4,000 needed to meet
pressing obligations on DR.. Talmage's
Brooklyn tabernacle, more than $4,000
: New York World, and it is announced
| that the full amount necessary has
been subscribed.
. A petition to the pardon board is be
ing prepared in behalf of Hugh F
Dempsey, the knights of Labor leader
who is now serving a sentence in the
western penitentiary for the Home
stead poisoning cases. The plea viii
likely to be presented the next meeting
of the board
This fall William X. Vanderbuilt
, Olden Goelet and James Gordon Ben
nett will go on a cruise through Europ
can and Asiatic yachts will keep togeth
er. A wild animal hunt will be par
| of the program in India. The trip viii
last until well in the year 1894.
Attention cutter constructed of alum
!, inium, said to be the first -goins
vessle made Of this metal, is beins
built at Loire Her hull will weigh only
$500 kilos, whereas built of the ordin
airy material it would weigh 1900 kilos
The members so far elected to the
Rhode Island legislature are forty-one
Republicans and forty-one Democrats, a
tie, and twenty-siX seats remain to be
filled by elections the present week
Upon the result of these elections de-
ponds the complexion of the legislature
and the choice of state officers, there
having been no election by the people
The two cndidates named for the
bishOpric Of Massachusetts, made va
cant by the death of Phillips Brooks
and to be filled by election Of the dio,
cesar convention, May 8, are well.
known clergymen OF New York, VIZ:
Rev. DR.. Morgan Dix of Trinity church
who is called conservative or moderate
high churchman, and Rev. DR.. Greer of
st. Bartholomew church, who is
known as q broad churchman