Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-30
CURRENT EVENTS.
MISCELLANEOUS

u ~ w ALhEtIj uoulOCTdL, was elected
Z. S. senator by the Arkansas Iegisla
ture Jan. 25th.
Gov. Il. D. VANCE was elected L. S
senator by the North Carolina legisIa
ture Jan. 21st.
The Indianapolis legislature elected
D. w. Voorhees, for U. S. senator Ions
and short term, jar. 21st.
ARCH BISHOP PURCELL, of Cincinnati
is in financial trouble with liabil ties o
nearly half million dollars.
GOV. HILL. of Delaware, and Gov
HOyt of Pennsylvania, were installed il
office Jan. 21st.
LOUISIANA will indulge in a constitu
tional convention which will meet April
21st.
EX-GOv. HARTRANFT has been nomi
mated and confirmed Maior-General ol
the National Guards Of Pennsylvania.
The Wisconsin State Grange met in
Milwaukee, Jan. 22nd. The order is
represented ina fourishing condition.
THE lower house of tie Louisiana
legislature repealed the charter of the
Louisiana lottery by vote of 63 to 90
last week.
GEN. JAMES SHIELDS, for the short,
and Col. G. Vest, for the long term,
were elected U. S. senators from Mis-.
souri, Jan. 21st.
GEN. SHIELDS senatorial term to
which he has Just been elected in Mis-
souri,, will last only six weeks, expiring
March 4th.
TIE Omaha banks are glutted with
gold. They receive the deposits of the
Union Pacific railroad, which are now
made largely in the shiny metal.
A RICHMOND. Va, dispatch says r. L.
I. Beal conservative, elected to the 10th
congress, has been chosen to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Repre-
sentative Douglas.
Gov. CRossELL, of Michigan, in his re-
cent m essage stated that last year 3,
986, 1913 90 were spent on the public
schools in the state, the percentage of
attendance being only 81 per cent. of
the whole number enrolled.
GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN, in Illinois, Ros-
coe Conkling, in New York, and 0. H.
Platt, III Connecticut, were elected U.
S. senators, Jan. 21st Also upon the
same day the Florida legislature elected
Wilkinson, colored, senator, to succeed
COnOver.
NEWFOUNDLAND was promised 81 ,00O,-
600 of the fishery award before the
award was made, and that sum has
been placed to the credit of the prov
ince in the Bank of England. 1t will
be used to build railway across the
island.
THE new senator from Connecticut,
Mr.. Plat, has only local reputation.
He has been in both houses of the legis-
lature, and speaker of the house, serv-
ing with credit in every Office he has
held.
A CINCINNATI dispatch of Jan. Goth
says that VIM. E. Coffin, for many
years teller of the La Fayette bank,
and who has been missing for a few
weeks, is defaulter to the amount of
10000.
A SPECIAL from Riverton, KY, of Jan.
22nd says Solomon Johnson, a school
Robinson's creek, in Pike county, by
James Bently, who failing to incite him
into quarrel, smashed his skull with a
heavy club. Bently escaped. A large
number of country people are on the
trail, and it is thought that he will be
lynched if caught.
4 LIST of the railways upon which
new track has been laid during the past
year is published. The table shows
that not less than 1922 miles were COM
pleted during the year, considerable
greater mileage than was opened in any
year since 1873. Very probably later
information may increase this record,
so that 1t is safe to say that over 5000
miles OF track were laid on new roads
or extensions Of old roads during the
year IN the United States. The recapit-
u,ation shows the total number of roads
to be 157.
THE report of the railroad commits
sloner of Wisconsin shows that only
ninety-one miles of new road have been
constructed III that state during the last
year. The total number of miles now
in operation is 1854, including ninety
four miles of narraw-gague track. The
total number of passengers carried was
2,429 ,925, an increase of 476, 6,697 over
last year. The tons of freight carried
were 8, ,54S, 400, an increase of 414,199.
OF the whole Dumber of passengers car
ried only two were killed, and two in
jured.
A FT. WAYNE. Ind, special of Jan.
23rd says quite sensation was caused
here at o'clock this morning at the
Fort Wayne, Jackson and Saginaw de-
pot, by the bursting Of a trunk as it was
being taken from the train. 1t was
found to contain the dead body of
man about so years of age, which had
been squeezed into the trunk. The
body was entirely nude, and contained
several blood patches and scars. 1t was
removed to the morgue, where it still
awaits Identification. 1t is learned that
the trunk was sent from Waterloo, and
the body is supposed to have been de-
signed for the medical college.
ACCORDING to the governors M essage,
the financial affairs of Kansas have
been honestly and economically man
aged. The receipts last year exceeded
the expenditures by $4,000. The
bonded debt is but s1,1S2;000, and of
this the state holds S45S,000 in the sink
ing and school funds. The value Of
school property is 81, 527 900, and the
permanent school fund amounts to
nearly S450,OO0. The latest figures Of
the railroad business in that region
show a remarkable advance over last
year, and are confrmatory of the
cheerful outlook suggested by Gov. St.
Johns message.
AN Erie, Pa, telegram of Jan. 22nd.
says that Mrs. Captain Daniel Dobbins