Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-03-06
HISTORY OF THE WEEK
MISCELLANEOUS.

/ CHARLES w. ANGEL has been sen
| fenced to ten years in the penitentiary
| THE City Bank of Oswego, n. Y, has
gone into the hands of a receiver.
The national butter, cheese and egg
association meets in Chicago, March s.
6, and Z.
A BOILER explosion at Stockton, Cali
fornia, on the 22d of February, resulted
IN the death of six or eight men.
THE amount of claims already filed
against Archbishop Purcell amount to
$3,600,000.
LATEST reports from Leadville state
that that young city now numbers 15,-
900 inhabitants.
THE Nebraska legislature adjourned
sine die at 2:45 a. M. Feb. 26. It passed
600 bills during the session.
THE State Fair Of Ohio has been To-
Gated at Columbus for the next two
years.
OF the 5000 inhabitants of DEBORAH,
Iowa, $3.50 have recently signed the
total abstinence pledge.
The Maine legislature has passed a
bill suspending the public high schools
for one year.
THE Northern Pacific railroad be-
tween Fargo and Bismarck, was snCw-
bound three days last week.
JOHN z. LEWIS, dry goods merchant
of Winona, Mimi, has suspended with
liabilities of about $50, 900; assets said
to be $4,000.
THE old settlers of Wisconsin who
came to the state prior to 1913, are re-
quested to meet July Is, to form per
manent association.
| KING CARNIVAL took formal posses
sion of the city of New Orleans Febru-
airy 24th, and ordered the season Of
merriment to begin.
THE Illinois senate passed bill pro-
viding for the election by the people of
! the park commissioners, who are now
appointed by the governor.
IT is reported from Winnepeg that
the Dominion government are going to
prevent American boats running in the
Canadian waters of the Red river this
summer.
THE Irish Catholic societies OF Toron-
to, Canada, have resolved to walk as
usual on st. Patrick's day this year,
and intend inviting all Irish Protestants
to join the procession.
A centennial SAFE" containing lot
of photographs of distinguished men"
was locked up at Washington the other
day, and it is not to be opened till 1876,
and then by the President of the United
States.
T.rpDr,Dxv NoL,,cl-o - rrroo t1,y "A; ;ot
ed with smallpox. Out of a population
of 1900, eighty-seven are now down
with the disease, which is of most ma
lignant type.
A SCHOONER ran ashore near Borngate
February 26, and several of the crew
were drowned in the surf. The cap
tain's wife also died before aid could
reach her.
THE Illinois senate by vote of Is to
16, adopted a resolution thanking sena-
tors and representatives at Washington
for the adoption of law for restricting
Chinese immigration.
CHAs. w. ANGEL, the defaulting sec
retary of the Pullman Car Company,
arrived in Chicago from his foreign trip
February %, and Immediately went to
jail.
The manufacturing property of the
Atlantic Delaine company in Provi-
deuce, r. l., was sold at auction last
week for 100000. The property cost
over 100000.
THE United States marshall swooped
down upon the towns of Peoria and
/ Pekin, H., Feb. 2Stn, and arrested
4 "a
conspiracy in the whisky frauds.
A DISPATCH from Nelsonville, O.,
states that the house Of J. M. Lunsford
was burned to the ground about II
o'clock on the night of Feb. 20th. Mr..
Lunsford and six of his children, who
were asleep were smotheIed or burned
to death. Only the wife and one child
escaped.
THE United States district court at
Des Moines, Iowa, has ordered the writ
of electment to issue against B. f. Allen
to oust him from his $150, 900 home
stead for the benefit of his creditors,
which the court decided that he for
feited by voting as a citizen of Chicago.
The estimated cost Of the proposed
/ inter oceanic canal across the American
Isthmus, Nicaragua route, is &53 100000
! but it is considered wise to regard the
actual cost, including the interest on
dormant capital, at double that sum.
ExILDE LACH APELLE, the little French
pedestrienne, after completing her 2
700 mile walk in 2, 200 consecutive quar-
ter hours in Chicago, started upon an
other tramp of 800 quarter miles, finish
ing it on time, and making the best
score on record.
THE taking of testimony by Ignatius
Donnelly III the contested election case
with Washburn, closed Feb. 24th. The
investigation extended through forty
davs. 1t is understood that Mr.. Wash
burn will not take any testimony.
F.P. DEwERs, chairman of the green
back national committee, accepts the
challenge of Thomas Nj. Nichol, seore-
tary or the Honest Money League, for
public discussion of the greenback
question.
THE heavy-brained youths in the
eastern colleges are distinguishing them
selves by the usual rows with the facul-
ty. Wholesale expulsions of students
have occurred at Trinity college, Hart
ford, and at st. Stephens college,
Poughkeepsie.
A FOND DU Lac, Wis, dispatch of
March 1st says respectable German
named Helm was found dead and mu-
tilated on Horizon Marsh yesterday.
His watch, buffalo coat, and large sum
of money which he was known to have
was missing. No clew to perpetrators
of the deed