Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-03-30

The rumOr is current in Ottawa that
Sir Charles Upper will sail for Canada
at once in connection with the trouble
which has arisen over the British
French treaty signed by the High Com
missioner on behalf of Canada.
The schooner L. A. Lawrence, Cap
tain Haskell, with coal from Norfolk
for Boston, arrived at the Breakwater
with the center board fast in the well,
and probably broken. The captain has
wired the owners for orders.
The Spanish Minister Of Marine, Ad-
miral Cervera, has resigned his port
! folio on the ground that he cannot agree
with the proposals of his colleagues IN
the Cabinet for .retrenchment. Premier
Sagasta will assume temporarily the
duties of the Marine Ministry.
David J. Shippy, of Buena Vista, Ga,
was waylaid and shot to death on the
22d, by the three members of the HOgg
family, father and two sons. The
tragedy was the result of an old feud.
Samuel GOmpers, President of the
Federation of Labor, has addressed a
Of America, urging them to join in MAX
ing united protest against the pro-
posed treaty between the United States
and Russia.
An unknown white man, apparently
So years of age, was found dead on the
23d along the track Of the Philadelphia
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad at
-,
lis thought that he was killed by the
cars.
The Russian Minister Of Public Works
is about to start on a tour Of sanitary
inspection along the lines of railway
in the provinces of Niini-Novgorod,
Yaroslav and Orel, where a number Of
fatal cases of cholera are reported.
AdviceS just received from Behring
Sea show that the steamer Alexander,
which left San Francisco early this
year, is already in the forbidden waters.
This steamer cleared from Frisco fOl
Hakodale, Japan, January %. She cal:
:. ried Il full sealing outfit, and another
suspicious circumstance was that she
carried so men. At the last moment
: several cases of Winchesters and car
: tridges were secretly put aboard.
The armored cruiser New York sail
ed on her trial trip from Philadelphia
, at noon on the 22d. Though this trial
} is not the Official one, it is by far the
most important, for it will settle the
vessels future usefulness as Warship
; 1t is stated that capital has just beer
subscribed in New York to start a new
factory to compete with the white lead
, trust. New York and Chicago capital
lists have put in several hundred thOus
and dollars. Some of the capitalists
and most of the employees in important
places with the new company are, OF
till lately have been with the trust.
At indianapolis, Ind, by vote of Il
to 6, the city council has passed the
I, Grand Army encampment ordinance
, levying a special tax of t ID cents pei
: 500 on city property. The ordinance
is for the purpose of raising $4,000 tC
J defray the expenses of entertaining the
t Grand Army of the Republic next Sep
, TENDER.
The Cotton Belt (St Louis & South
westerly management has placed in the
field Il corps of surveyors looking to the
: extension of the Cotton Belt Line from
Delto, Mo, to the Mississippi river, tc
secure direct communication with rail
road lines in Illinois leading to the nOrtl
and east, and afford direct rOut" tC
Chicago.