Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-05-22

inches higher than it has been for sew
eral years and is still rising.
A BISMARCK, Dakota Territory dis
patch Of the 18th, says that millions of
little grassnoppers are jumping about
in this vicinity. What harm they
may do is altogether problematicaI.
The New York assembly passed a
bill making six per cent. the legal rate
Of interest on the 10Th, and it is believ-
ed the senate will concur in the meas
ure.
CHICAGO papers of the 18th have ad-
vices from a large number of localities
througout Illinois. Iowa, Wisconsin and
Minnesota, where delightful rains have
recently prevailed.
A WALLA WALLA dispatch of the 10Th
says Chief Moses claims only a portion
of Colville reservation instead of the
whole as previously reported.
FRIDAY, the 10th inst, was busy day
for the hangman. Robert Cheney. col
ored, of New Orleans, Hery Davis, white,
Henry Andrews, white, and Lewis Car
Teton. colored, all of Raleigh, North
Carolina, and ]. J. West, of Boonville,
Mo-, were hung; Wln. Wilkinson, of
Henry Cross, of Salem, Mass, hung
himself; and Brotherton, of Auburn,
n. Y, was sentenced to hang July 11th.
A JOLIET, ILL.,. dispatch dated the 18th
says the strike Of the Quarrymen at Le-
mont has proved, so far, perfectly sue
cessful. They are now getting $3.50
day for their labor, which is excellent
wages for quarrymen. 1t is understood
that as soon as present contracts are
filled the employers will shut down the
quarries and employ no men unless
they can be hired for 81 25 day. To-
morrow the Joliet auarries will pay to
their lsborer5, for April, about $1,000.
A MACKNAW, Ill.,, special under date
Of the 10th says arepOrt has been start
ed to the effect, that gold had been dis
covered in ravine on Mackinaw river.
near that place. The report has contin-
ued to increase until great excitement
exists through this region. 1t is said
that those who made the alleged discov-
cry have taken care to obliterate all
traces of the work, and refuse to give
any information on the matter.
A DISPATCH from Victoria B. c., of
the 10th, says the steamship California.
from Alaska, arrived this afternoon.
She reports all quiet at Sitka. The war
steamer Alaska is lying at anchor in
the harbor. Six of the Alaska's crew
attempted to desert few days ago, by
swimming ashore, having first donned
life preservers. They were tracked by
Indian runners and captured.
A New YORK dispatch of the 18th
Inst. says direct communication by Ca
BILE and transandine line between Peru
and Europe, is at present interrupted.
Admiral DUbolldU, OF the Gillian squad
ron, has cut the coast cable at Iquique
and taken the Chilian end on board his
vessel in order to place himself in di-
rect communication with his govern
ment at Santiago.
A Boston dispatch Of the 18th says,
Gardner Colby, for whom the universi-
ty at Waterville, Me-, was named, has
left property of $1,500,0O0, of which
$46l 600 is bequeathed to public institu-
tions. Colby University receives $780,
900, Newton Theological Institution and
Brown University and the American
Baptist Home Missionary Society re-
ceived $50, 900 each, the American Bap-
tist Missionary Union, $4,000, and the
Baptist organizations located here, with
a few nonsectarian institutions, from
$4,000 to $1,000.
A New YORK dispatch of the 16,h
says Jay Gould talks very enthusiast
cally of his new opposition telegraph
scheme, and says there is no enterprise
at present offering such vast profits as
the telegraph business. His Canadian
connections from Oswego and Syracuse
are already built. He expects, he says,
to be in connection with Cincinnati and
Louisville within ninety days, and with
in thirty days with Montreal. President
Garrett, of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad company, is said to have sub
scribed 100000 toward these new
lines.