Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-01-31
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC.

president of the Hungarian chamber
Of deputies.
Admiral Carpenter has landed mar
ines at Chez Foo, China, for the pro-
lection of the American consulate.
Prohibition gets another backset in
South Dakota, the senate passing the
resubmission bill.
It is believed that Mexico and
Guatemala will fight and all Central
America may be involved.
The house judiciary committee de-
cides against Judge Kicks impeach-
ment, but adopts a vote Of censure.
Two banks in Binghamton, n. y
the Merchants, and Erastus Ross &
Sons-suspended.
The sugar trust gained a victory in
the knight case, the supreme court
holding the antitrust law inapplicable.
A bill to prohibit the teaching or
practice of mesmerism was introduced
in the Missouri house.
Gertie Preston, assaulted by Samuel
Orr, at West Superior, Wis, is dead.
An attempt to lynch Orr is feared.
A 2OO-acre farm ear Wheaton has
been purchased by Chicago deyotees
Of golf and polo.
A. t. Hay, lawyer, and inventor,
died at Burlington, Iowa. He built
the first all-steel bridge in the world.
Edmund Nichols is under arrest at
Belleville, Ind, charged with being
one of the HInshaW murderers.
The international folklore congress
let at Memphis. All the papers were
read by women.
Tony ChiseSi, a former resident of
Chicago, was killed at New Orleans,
supposedly by an agent of the malta
Portions of what is believed to be
the missing steamer ChicOra have
Girifted ashore at South Haven, Mich.
Gold has been found in a creek at
Marysville, Iowa. The inhabitants are
much excited over the discovery.
The German government intends to
construct four large iroaclads, a cruis-
er and despatch boat at an estimated
cost of S0,0O0,000 marks.
Government architects declare it will
be impossible for them to complete
the new Chicago postoffice within three
years.
Inefficiency of tie Boring sea regula-
tons to prevent pelagic sealing was
shown by a statement sent to the
house 10y Secretary Carlisle.
The sena torial deadlock in Minnesota
was broken by the election of Gov
,ernor Nelson, democrats aiding in the
result.
A bill to regulate primary elections,
which provides for Incorporating polit-
ical parties, has been offered in the
Illinois house.
The Nebraska house appointed a
committee to investigate the charge
that Representative Robertson was a
member of vigilance organization.
Miners of the Belleville Qll) district
complain of infringement of the wage
scale and have asked a conference
with the operators.
DR.. Selim Ill. Peabody, of Chicago,
delivered d lecture on the swastika
before the international folklore con-
;gress.
Judge Hustled, of Dubuque, Iowa,
decided a Chicago bucket-shop was
not valid consideration for a $4,000
mortgage.
A decrease of 1,S06,OOO bushels in
che available wheat supply in the
United States and Canada is reported
10y Bradstreet's.
There is no cessation to the riots in /
Brooklyn. The troops fire into a mob, I
fatally wounding a boy and injuring a
man. t
A gale swept over Chicago, prostrat-
ing insecure walls and tearing signs |
from their fastenings. Fourteen per-
sons were injured.
The McGann bill appropria,ing
100000 for a new postoffice for Chi
cago passed the house by vote of
1877 to 81.
Debs and his associates were add
mltted to bail by the supreme court,
pending the hearing of the petition for
habeas corpus.
Resolutions expressing sorrow att
the death of Vice PRECEDENT Stevenson's
daughter were adopted by the Illinois
house.
A bin to prohibit gambling of every
description in Wyoming has been of
fered in the legislature and will prob
ably pass.
-Four men entered the home of d. S.
Patton, near Ell Paso, H., and after a
light in which a number of shots were |
fired, secured 5000 and escaped.
Major Henry Gocdspeed died at
Salt Lake, where he founded Ham
,mond hall to counteract the Mormon
doctrine.
Iowa's supreme court decided that |
sales of liquor by an Omaha house |
through a travelling agent to an Iowa |
firm were not subject to the Iowa law |
\ terrific snowstorm is raging in the
California mountains. In the railroad
c1ts the drifts are from twenty TO
fifty feet deep.
A f9ispatCh from Vienna says that