Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-08-31
CONDENSED NEW S.

Cherokee strip" open to settlement on
Sept. 16.
Sarah J. Galloway secures verdict
for $4,000 damage against the Mil
waukee road in st. Paul.
Denver business men viii send two
carloads of flour and five of potatoes
to the unemployed of New York CITY
The London Pelican announces that
MAY Yohe, the Chicago actress, and
Lord Hope have been secretly married
for some time.
New York and London hop buyers
are reported to have lost S4,UO,OOO IN
am attempt to corner the crop on the
Pacific coast.
The steel yacht Volunteer is on the
rock at the entrance of Hadley harbor
near New Bedford, Mass.
The nomination of Joshua e. Dodge,
of Wisconsin, to be assistant attorney
general, at $1,000 year, was sent to
the senate.
Because Missouri river lines refuse
to except its basing rates, the Union
Pacific declares the Western Ass0cla-
ton agreement void.
In an address at Kissingen Prince
Bismarck declared himself opposed to
the Capitalization of the imperial
power.
J. S. Rutherford and his wife, living
near Dolly Warden, Ohio, were tarred
and feathered by masked men.
At the firemens tournament at Can
ton, ILL.,, records were lowered by teams
from Lincoln and PalO.
f. 0. Lane, prosecuting attorney OF
Gregg county, Texas, in jail for rob
bling his father, committed suicide.
In exchange for three Orloff horses
from the cars stables three Of Palo
Altos trotters will be shipped to
Russia.
The largest lawn party ever known
is given on the worlds fair grounds in
honor Of the West Point cadets.
A French consulate in Italy is mob
bed. The difficulty between the two
countries is, however, satisfactorily adj
justed.
In order to move the wheat crop
Minneapolis millers and elevator men
have decided to use checks and due
bills.
Students of the Indiana normal
school at Terre Haute have decided
not to turn unless President Parsons
is removed.
Clark's thread mills at Newark, n. j.,
which have shut down for the last
three weeks, resumed operation this
morning on quarter time.
DR.. Edward e. Conoy, a graduate of
Chicago medical school, has been
arrested at New York charged with
keeping an unlicensed baby farm.
A Hamburg paper gives what it calls
semi-official authority for the assertion
that a German cardinal, probably DR..
Kopp, prince bishop of Breslau, will be
the successor of Leo Kill This looks
like scoop on the Vatican.
Friends of James McLaren, who left
Racine for Chicago on Aug. Is, are
worried by his continued absence and
fear that he has been foully dealt with.
Wallace & Sons, brass and copper
manufacturers at New York and An
sonia, have suspended. Their iabilit-
les are $S75,OOO; nominal assets, So
100000
The Dominion liner Sarnia sailed
from Liverpool for Montreal twenty
six days ago and has not been heard
from since. 1t is feared that something
has happened to the vessel.
The New York board of trade issues
call for a convention of commercial
bodies in Washington Sept. II to urge
the repeal of the Sherman law.
China informs President Cleveland
that all Americans will be expelled
from China if the Geary law is not
modified or repealed at next session of
congress.
The coal miners strike in Kansas is
not settled. Agitators will not allaw
the men to return to work.
Over 1000 longshoremen in New
York struck against a reduction of
5 per cent per hour in wages.
A mob of unemployed laborers at
Denver, Colo, drove out OF the trench
seventy-five men who were working
eight hours at 1,20 a day, with cries
of NO starvation wages in free Amer
ioa,''
Herbert 1ngliS, marine superintendent
for the Cunard Steamship company,
and eight companions We're drowned
in the Meme river, near Sutton Bridge,
Eng, while returning from an excur-
sion.
Heir next of kin to the late Daniel
T.. Grouse, who died at Syracuse, y. Y,
two years ago, are compromising with
a 6-year-old daughter by secret mar
riage, where by her portion will be
81, $50, 600.
Thomas Boring, aged fifty-fOur, was
found dead in car of corn at Bement,
Ill. He was loading corn when he took
fit and the corn. pouring in, smother
ed him to death.
Ed" Partridge, the plunger, will
abandon the board of trade in Chicago
and succeed to the business of Fish,
Joseph & Co., as they about two years
ago succeeded him.
A fire at Waukegan, destroyed the
the entire square bounded by Madison,
GeneSep CLAYTON and State streets