Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
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A NJ. (''Long'D Jones has given So,
COO to the academy at Warren, Ill,
his old home.
Admiral Mello has re-entered Rio
bay, recaptured two islands and is
preparing to make Il decisive fight.
Residences of the jurors who will
try Valiant, the French anarchist
will be specially guarded.
The Spanish steamer Mosques was
sunk by the British steamer ESk and
two of the crew were drowned.
Great Britain and Russia have agreed
to an extension of the modus vivendi
in regard to the Boring sea fisheries.
valiant, who threw the bomb in
the French chamber of deputies, was
found guilty and sentenced to death.
The queen attended the funeral Of
one of the palace housemaids at Os-
borne. She laid a wreath upon the
coffin.
The French government has confer
red the decoration of the Legion of
of the independence Beige.
The departure of the British war
ship Resolution for her station in tue
Mediterranean has been again delay
ed, owing to defect i'll her machin-
cry.
A despatch from Rome says that
the Italian customs receipts for De
cember declined f2SO,000. In the last
six months the indirect taxes decreas-
! ed f440,OOO.
The Canadian minister of marine
| threatens to deprive the Frazer river
salmon packers of their licenses If
they remove their canneries to Point
Roberts, which is on the United
States side of the border.
The Turkish government will send
reinforcements of troops to Albania,
in order to prevent a collision between
the Albanians and MonJenegrins on
the frontiers of Albania and Montene-
gro.
The Anathema annually pronounced
against the French since the invasion
of 1912 at the Christmas mass in the
st. Petersburg churches, was omitted
this year on account of the Franco
Russian entente.
DR.. Fairfax Irwin, of the United
States marine hospital service, who
has been studying cholera in various
European cities, has started from Lon
don for st. Petersburg to study the
disease there and in the various af-
fected Russian provinces.
Harry Seymour Foster conservative,
member of parliament for North Suf-
folk. is about to bring libel suits
against the Westminster Gazette and
a number of provincial papers for as
soGating him with the reverseS of the
Trustees and Securities corporation.
E. f. Prior, Of indianapolis, until
within a day OF two a street railway
employee is wildly insane over the de-
fusion that assassIns are lying in wait
for him.
Mrs Elizabeth NJ Dickinson, Of
Ashtabula, Ohio, sued the Ashtabula
Steel Plant company for $1,000 dam
ages for fraud in purchasing a tract
of land.
Mary X. Schrader, victim of the
white-cap outrage at Columbus, Ind,
has filed a suit against the men on
trial for $4,000 personal damages.
Fannie X Earl. widow of Dr. Earl,
late of Lake Mills, secured q verdict Of
$500 and interest against the Odd
Fellows Accident Insurance company
of WeStfieId, Mass.
Benjamin Herbert, of st. Louis, al
leges his mother was placed in an In
sane asylum by his father, though en-
tdrely sane
Notwithstanding Governors Mitch
ellis opposition, the Duval club asserts
it will pull off" the CoTbett- Mitchell
fight at Jacksonville.
Naval officers testify before the SEN
ate committee that there was no con-
spiracy in the landing of American
marines during the Hawaiian revolu-
ton.
Cut off by the burning of hosting
machinery, Seventy-five Grass Valley
(Cal) miners escaped by an airshaft
1000 feet deep.
T. B. Haughey, president of the
suspended indianapolis National bank,
is said to be in danger of mental col
lapse
Wool manufacturers met in New
York and after electing officers adopt |
ed resolutions denunciatory of the
Wilson tariff bill.
Hamburg-American and North Ger
man Lloyd Steamship companies have
decided to consolidate their Mediter-
ranean lines.
Capt. William Hansen of New Bed |
ford, who was captain of the cup de- /
fender Vigilant last season, has sign !
ed a contract to sail TO Frederick |
Grinnen next season on his schooner
Quickstep.
Commodore Charles G. Carpenter,
commander of the Kfttery (Me) navy
yard, received orders yesterday de
taching him and placing him on wait
ing order January Is. His three
years service expired two months ago.
His successor will be Capt. Montgom-
cry Sicard, recently detached from
the Miantonomoh
-Four cases of smallpox and one sus-
piciOuS case have been discovered in
Nashville, Tenn The sick are ali ne
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