Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-13

Lawyers at Portland and Salem, Ore,
are implicated in a conspiracy to SNUG
gle Chinese into this country from
Vancouver, B. c.. Sensational revela-
tons are promised.
Six women, w C. T. Z. committee
appointed TO investigate the blind |
pigs at Rolla, S. D., We're forcibly
elected from one of the places. All |
were injured.
George Haywood was elected town |
clerk of Concord, Mass, the other day, I
for the forty-frst time. The records
of the office have been in charge of
the Haywood family for more than
century.
The Baltimore Conference refused to |
admit to its membership the Rev. Hugh |
Johnson of Canada. He can not, there |
fore, become the pastor Of the famous
Metropolitan Methodist church in Wash
ingtOn City.
A big meeting will be held in New
York by Irish-Americans soon to give
emphasis to the demand that England
shall release Irish dynamiterS, now in
English prisons.
NJ Mossan, a French scientist, mas
succeeded in producing small artificial
diamonds for the present until the
telegraph brings further particulars.
congressman George Fred vii
Hams asserts with positivness that he
is out of political life, and that the
report of his intention to run for con-
gress in the seventh Massachusetts is
wholly unfounded.
| Judge Dykman of the superior court
of Baltimore sustained a Baptist min
lister in the refusal to testify in a re-
cent case on the ground that informa-
ton received in his professional
character was privileged.
The house of bishops of the protes
tant Episcopal church, during the
session in New York last week, declar-
ed against receiving government appro-
! priations for sectarian schools, and also
against the Chinese exclusion law.
Mrs. Alice NJ Cheney, the only
woman express messenger in Boston,
began business four years ago, taking
the transfers for the Adams Express
company between Chelsea and Boston.
She now has five teams at work every
day.
Loss of money in "a company for
Extracting grease from leather" to-
gether with 1.-THE abolition of eXtraor-
binary 1.-THE and the operation Of Land
lords act'," are given as the causes
of the bankruptcy Of an English
clergyman.
A childrens hospital is being built
near Milan, Italy, by the Duchess
Eugenia Litta Boloquine, who has sold
her jewels, laces, etc, for 100000,
to be used for this purpose She in
tends giving her personal service to
the convaleSent ward.
The Rev. T. Smell, the Congregation
al minister in Sunderland, England,
is an expert dentist, and practices the
craft freely for the benefit of the poor.
Last year he extracted 22,S16.
The final dedication of the great
Mormon temple at Salt Lake City,
which has been in course of cOnstruc-
ton for forty years and has cost an
immense sum of money, has been set
for April g. About 100000 MOrmons
are expected to attend.
Jesse Anton met his wife on the
street at Chadron, Neb., and deliberate
Iy shot her through the head, killing
her instantly. He then fired at his
own head, falling dead beside his
wifes corpse She had refused to live
with her husband.
The romantic details OF the escape
of William Sharkey from the Tombs
in woman's clothes which had been
passed into the cell by his sweetheart,
Maggie Jordan, will be rehearsed in a
suit which will be tried in the New
\ York supreme court.
The president Of the Holy Synod OF
Russia persuaded the minister of the
Interior to exempt the Jewish sect
called the karaitas from the recent
anti-JeWiSh laws. The KaraiteS num-
Der a few thousand. They are rather
heterodoX, and the president hopes to
induce other Jews to join them.
The Barre Sliding railway has been
reinstated in the good grace of the
NOllu pcOp1S, tilll tiI IllSCIlIS
of the directors held Saturday the
company showed funds to complete
the work and was authorized to con-
tinue with the same, and to have it
finished as soon as possible after May
list
The youngest man who can write his
name as governor is John e. Osborn,
the chef executive of Wyoming. He
is only 81, doctor by profession, very
good looking, of pleasing address, and
went from Vermont to the west some
fourteen years ago, though a native of
New York.
Professor Virchow, the world-famous
pathOlOgiSt, was an ardent politician
in his younger years and had many
an oratorical tilt with Prince Bismarck.
He invented the word 'kulturkampf,'
to designate the fight for culture that
ragged so violently in Germany some
years ago.
Emil Frey, who was recently elected
vice-preSident of Switzerland, Is a de
voted friend of America. When our
late unpleaSantneSs occurred he left
tho Swiss university, where he was
! studying, and came to America enlist
] ing in the Twenty-eighth Illinois. In
! 1862 he resigned a heutenancy and
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