Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-03-20
HISTORY OF THE WEEK
MISCELLANEOUS

Cae March 1Zth.
The iron trade is booming, 50 say the
Pennsylvania manufacturers.
THE Manhattan Savings bank of New
York, which was robbed few months
since, resumed business March 18th.
The amount of claims already filed
against Archbishop Purcell amount to
50, 100000
RECENT experiments show that shrunk-
Ell wheat answers well for seed.
THE remains of Bayard Taylor reach
ed New York, on board the GiAe1t,
March 18th.
The supreme court of Tennessee has
decided that sleeping cars running
through Nashville are taxable. An APP
peal will be taken to the supreme court
of the United States.
The secretary and treasurer Of local
fire Insurance company in Vermont is
$125,O00 short in his accounts. His
name is A. G. Woodland.
O'LEARY broke down utterly on March
18th, In the championship walk at Gil
more's Garden, New York, and so lost
the race.
DR.. JOHN III. WORDSWORTH. supelvis-
ing surgeon-general of the marine hos
pital service, died at Washington at 1
o'clock on the morning of the 18th inst.
A ST.. PAUL dispatch of the 18th says
the first boat of the season cleared from
Duluth to-day. two days earlier than
last year and tie earliest on record.
A PHILADELPHIA dispatch says that
DR.. James DeKoven, the well known
president of Racine college, has been
chosen rector of st. Mark s church, in
that city.
A DISPATCH from New Orleans dated
March 18th, says that the Bonnie Lee,
with eleven hundred and fifty bales of
cotton, sank III Red river. A wrecking
boat has gone to her assistance.
THE British steamer Severn, from Lon
don to Quebec, ran down, off Dunge-
ness, pilot cutter, having twelve pilots
and a crew Of eight on board. Ten
pilots and five of the crew were drown
ed.
AT Lowell, Mass, owing to the death
of the sheriff, murderer could not be
legally hung, AMI be was reprieved un-
TIL a new officer can be appointed to the
place. 1t was great disappointment
to the prisoner.
GOVERNOR PRESCOTT, OF New Hamp-
shire, hes appointed Charles H. Bell,
of Exeter, senator for the extra session,
to fill the vacancy Occasioned by the
expiration of the term of Senator Wad-
leigh. Bell has accepted.
MEMBERS of the Michigan legislature
propose to make grand excursion t.
Lake Superior IN August next, rendez-
vousing at Chicago, then going by rail
to HAnse, by steamer to Houghton,
and by the Mineral Range road to Calu-
met.
BAYARD TAYLoR's remains were re-
moved from the governors room in
the City Hall, New York, on the 18th
inst, where they have been lying in
state. and taken by special train on the
Pennsylvania railroad to Kennett
Square.
THE bark Sleipner arrived at the
passes below New Orleans on the 10th
inst. from Rio, III charge of the mate,
who reports that during the voyage the
captain, second officer and boy died
of yellow fever. The vessel is at quar-
antine.
Mrs. GEN. THOMAS w. SHERMAN died
of consumption at Newport, r. L.,
March 18th. At the time Gen. Sher-
man himself was very i'll and his recov-
cry seemed doubtful. He was not in
formed of his wife's death, lest the blow
should be too great Ior him.
A LETTER received at Ottawa, Canada.
March 18th, from Mr. p. Breeland, a
Manitoba trader at the Moose Noun
tain, near Sitting Bulls camp, states
that the snow is disappearing and the
buffalo are moving north. There is
strong talk Of joining the American hos
tile tribes in the spring.
IT is th ought that the fishing vessels
lost in the storm off the Massachusetts
coast Feb. Goth number fully A. Such
a long time has elapsed since the storm
that all hope of ever again hearing from
the vessels is lost. By this disaster 146
men have died at sea while Al widows
and 100 orphans are left without sup
port.
a BALTIMORE dispatch saws Captain
Vaughn Of the British bark Soqittd, has
just arrived and reports that on Febru-
airy 10Th, latitude 40 deg. II min. north,
longitude 16 deg. min. west, he spied
U. S. man-of war, bark rugged, WITH
rudder head gone. He could not under
stand the name but the commander de-
sired to be reported and requested a
steamer be sent to his assistance.
S. D. FIELD, superintendent of the
Electric Light company, San Francisco,
has combined the principles of several
electric machines so as to work the
electric light and telegraph lines at the
same time. To-day, in the Western
Union Office, in this city, one of his ma
chimes worked fifteen lines of circuits,
varying from 100 to $50 miles, inciud-
ing one duplex 1913 miles. This is the
first time an experiment has succeeded
working telegraph circuits.
A DISPATCH of March 11th says: A
fire swept over about fifty square miles
of forest, few miles from Yankton,
Sunday, destroying standing timber,
cord wood, houses, household furniture.
clothing and cattle, in all properly to
the value of about $4,000. A strong
wind prevailed and the fire burned it
self out. No human lives lost.
A New York dispatch of March 11th
says: A party of 81 New York street
boys was started this afternoon for
homes on farms in Kansas, by White
law Reid, who used portion of a fund
of 81 900 given him by a stranger from
the interior of New England, for any
charitable use he might select. Mr.