Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-02

battIe-ship Iowa and of the cruiser
Brooklyn to the Carbon Steel company
of Pittsburg. This included the nickel
protective armored deck.
The United States cruiser, Philadel-
phia, sailed on the oath from New York
for Port Royal, S. c., having on board
the members of the board that will SUI
perintend the trial of the dynamite guns
on the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius.
The Indiana Humane society through
Gen Coburn has decided to appeal to
the legislature for broader powers. At
the annual meeting just held D. w. Coffin
was made president; Mrs Eliza Hend-
ricks, vice-president; w. II. Robson,
secretary; and David E Snyder, treasur-
err
Il. A. Knight, receiver Of the order of
the Iron Hall, has collected from seven
ty branches of the order in MaSsachu-
sets about 100000. There are eighty
more branches to be heard from, and
the receiver expects to collect over
S275,0OO.
The United States Banking company,
of Gerwals, Ore, suspended payment
yesterday.
The exodus Of southern negroes to
Oklahoma continues. Twenty families
passed through Denison, Texas, on the
25th bound for the Cherokee strip.
Q. H. Goodrich, who has just resigned
as assistant general freight agent of the
Will, it is said, accept a similar position
with the Reading.
hTe Bruner and Acker Milling compa-
ny of Seymour, Ind, has brought Il
damage suit for S7,475 against G. Il
Harlow for entering into the milling
business when, it is alleged, he made a
contract to keep out.
An east-bound passenger train collided
with a West-bOund switch engine on the
Terre Haut and indianapolis railroad
near Brazil, Ind, on the Oath. No one
was injured.
A man with half a dozen or more
wives is under arrest in Cincinnati, o.,
charged with conducting swindling OPP
eratiOns through the mails.
The dismantled and deserted hull of
the Norwegian bark Star Of India has
been sighted. Her crew Of thirty seven
were undoubtedly lost.
The United States Supreme Court on
the 9th sutained the award Of the
Court Of Claims to Smithmeyer & Pels,
the architects who designed the Con-
gressional library building, of $4,000 in
their suit against the United States.
The infant daughter Of Jonas Christie
phel, of Goshen, Ind, pulled a kettle
Of boiling water over upon itself on the
18th and was scalded to death.
Indian Commissioner Morgan has gone
to Chicago to buy in open market 3OO,-
600 pounds Of bacon for issue to West
ern tribes Of Indians under treaty stipu-
latiOns.
The scheme for building the Winona,
Marshalltown & Southern railroad is
booming. A survey will be commenced
February 1.
Won Chin Foo, representing the Chi
neSe Equal Right league of New York
City, appeared before the house com
mittee on foreign affairs yesterday and
advocated the repeal Of the Geary Chi
nese exclusion act. He urged the pas
sage Of the Andrew bill which leaves
the law as it was ten years ago.
At st. Paul the mercury dropped
from IS to 40 degrees in the past
twenty-four hours and tonight registered
IL below. Duluth reports the same, as
do the DakotaS and Montana.
! Nearly 200 women were present at
the annual meeting OF the Illinois
Women's Press association held at the
Palmer house last evening.
The Illinois supreme court has rem
dered Il decision that women can vote
at school elections. Last spring Mar
tina E. Plummer and May NJ. Moss de-
feated Oscar 0. Yost and Otto Wallace
by the aid Of the votes of 293 women
The county court decided against the
women, but on appeal the supreme
court reversed the lower court.