Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-03-13
HISTORY OF THE WEEK
MISCELLANEOUS.
IINE is raging in Bolivia.

sine die March 9th.
THE national greenback convention
met in Chicago, March 4th.
KANSAS and Nebraska will, this year,
build additions to their state capitols.
Mrs. BAYARD Taylor and daughter
arrived in New York, from Germany,
March 9th.
THE amount of claims already held
against Archbishop Purcell amount to
s. 100000.
TUE net earnings of the Union Pacific
railroad for the year ending Dec. 81,
1873, were s., ,931, ,372.
The Lincoln public school at Ottum-
wa, Iowa, was destroyed by fire March
4th. Loss $4,000; insured for $11, 900.
AN explosion of sulphuric acid near
Potts lille, Pa, March 5th, resulted in
the death of three men.
The new director Of the mint, Hon.
II. G. Burchard, of ILL.,, took possession
of his Office March 5th.
GEN. W. T. SHERMAN and wife have
been very i'll of late-the former of
pneumonia and the latter Of consump-
ton.
AT fire in Georgetown, near Wash
ingtOn, last Saturday night, three col
ored children named Martin burned to
death
ELIZABETH, New Jersey, is trying to
raise her municipal debt of $5,S00,000,
and only possess taxable property to
the extent of $14, 100000.
Gov. ROBINSON, of New York, has
presented to the senate formal charges
against the state superintendent, and
recommends his removal.
CALIFORNIA will not be represented in
the lower branch of congress at the ex-
ira session, the election for members
not being held until next September.
So many attempts having been made
recently to burn the city of Columbus,
/ o., the citizens have formed vigilance
committee and patrol the city nightly.
The Wisconsin legislature, Just adj
journed, appropriated for various OBJ
jects 299,17777, about 100000 of
which went to the charitable institu-
tons.
THE men selling bogus Bohemian and
other fancy-titled oats, are abroad in the
land. One of this gang has been vic
| timizing farmers around Akron, Ohio,
| to a fearful extent.
! NOTWITHSTANDING the women of So
bula, Iowa, Iabored hard in unison with
the temperance men, to elect the tenn
perance ticket on the 4th inst, the Ii
cense men carried the day.
A DISPATCH from Eastport, Maine,
says the ship Turkish Empire went
ashore on Big Duck island one night
last week and was completely wrecked.
The captain and SIX men were drowned.
The regular session of the Indiana
legislature failed to make the appropria-
tions necessary to carry on the state
government, an extra session was call
ed by Gov. Williams to meet on the
18th.
No tidings having been received of
the fourteen fishing vessels which went
out from Gloucester, Mass, to Georges
Bank, it is believed the whole fleet was
swamped in the recent gales, and that
all on board have persisted.
A DEs MONIES special of March 4th
says the city and town elections held
Yesterday, so far as heard from, show
decided gains for the license party over
the prohihitionists, this generally being
the work OF exciting local questions.
New HAAtPsH1RE will be represented
by only one senator in the extra session
of congress, unless the governor shall
, appoint a senator to act until the legls
lature can elect a successor to Mr.. Wad
leigh, whose term of Office expired
March 4th.
IT is said that the Texas Pacific lobby
will move on the new congress, and en-
deavor to get a bill passed at the extrs
sess on. The leaders assert that the
new congress will be more favorable tt
their scheme than the one which ha:
: just expired.
t The republican state convention 0
Michigan met at Lansing March 9th
; and nominated the following candidates
For associate Judge of the suprem,
: court, the present incumbent, Jane
l Y. Campbell, of Detroit; for regents o
the university, E. 0. Grosoenors, o
Jonesville, and James Shearer, of Ba.
City.
A WINoNA, Mimi, dispatch. Marcl
9th says Warner, the Chicago lightning
r rod man, in custody here to wait tria
n for stealing rods from the st. Charlie
: Depot, made tender of 5000 bail to-day
and was re-arrested on another charg
: of forgery. 1t is charged that he raises
0 a note of $50 to $50. He was put IN
n der additional bonds of $500 for exam
i ination on Thursday.
e Both houses of the Minnesota legs
b lature have passed bill regulating tn
grading and measurement of wheat
The new system. to be knewn as Min
e nesota standard grade, includes seve
|. grades from No. 1 extra to No. 4 stanC
ard and rejected standard. Grain mus
be measured only in the legal half-bust
: el, by the prescribed methods. Ih
p other sections make a refusal of pu1cf
l. asers or agents to grade or measur
e wheat as above a misdemeanor, punlst
,s able by fine or imprisonment.
D. A ERE in East St. Louis, on the ct
j. inst, commencing in a wagon sno
= owned by Mrs. Henrietta Bousch, de;
i troyed about $4,000 worth of property
el In part of Mrs. Bousch's shop, use
q as residence, there were sleepin
- three of Mrs. Bousoil's children, Henr
~ Sch9pperketler and Mrs. Catherir
d Boorst, all of whom We're burned I
ly death. Mrs. Bousch jumped from
b. window and fatally injured herself.
L. EBERHARD FABER, founder and hes
70 of the great lead pencil house, died
2 2 New York, March Sd. He was boz
uS near Nuremberg, Bavaria, Dec. 6, 1S3
rk the youngest son of George Leona
er Faber, son of A. w. Faber, and gran
son of Casper Faber, who first begs