Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-04-10
THE WEEKS WORK.
A Record Of Important Events,
Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS
MISCELLANEOUS.


Summit, n. c., on the 3rd inst.
The walking matches in the eastern
cities have ceased to attract attention.
SOME of the young women of Dixon
ILL.,, have formed boat club.
The wife Of Jacob Morris, of PhiIo
H., attacked her husbaed with bread
knife April 1st, inficting fatal wound
THE centennial celebration at Lexing
ton, KY, on the 2nd inst, was a grand
affair.
THE trial of the assassin, Buford, who
shot Judge Elliot, at Frankfort, KY, has
been set for Monday, April %, at d
special term Of court.
ANOTHER fierce storm prevailed of
the Massachusetts coast April 1st and il
is feared that many lives were lost at
sea.
The United States pension agency al
Milwaukee, Wis, paid $3.50, ,081 38 army
pensions during March, and 81, 1919
navy pension-a total Of 1921, ,272.75.
A HEAVY frost in the vicinity ol
Charleston, S. c., on the 4th inst, des-
troyed vast amount of early garden
vegetables and growing crops.
A PANIC, caused by an alarm of fire,
occurred in New York city grammar
school on the 3rd inst. Owing to the
intervention of the police the excite
citement was quelled before any one
was hurt.
A Boston special states that the
coming twelve months will probably see
more done to advance the business in
terests of Boston than any similar peri
cd for a long term of years"
THE Northern Pacific contractors on
the extension to the Yellowstone have
entered into a contract with a st. Louis
man to furnish 500 southern negroes at
$1.20 per day as graders. This was
worked up by the friends of Senator
WindOm's colonization scheme.
Fo& refusing to give his authority for
certain statements telegraphed his news
paper, Frank E. Nevins, Springfield
correspondent of the Chicago Tribune,
was committed to jail by the speaker of
the Illinois legislature.
A DISPATCH says the following is the
amount of hard wood that has been put
into the streams tributary to Oshkosh,
Wis, during the past winter: Embarass,
100000 feet; Main Wolf, 100000
feet; Little Wolf, 100000 feet; oak ties,
$4,000; cedar posts, 10000; hub tim
Der, 10000.
A GREENYILLE, Miss. dispatch Of the
9th inst, says: Yesterday morning
Matt. Chrismore, a we'll known sport
ing character, was found murdered in
his bed. His head had been crushed
by an iron bolt, throat cut and body
ripped open the entire length. Sus-
piciOn points to an associate, now in
jail.
WALTER WATSON was hung at New
port, Indiana, April Sd. for the murder
Of Ezra Compton, in January last. The
prisoner was accompanied to the scat
fold by his young wife, who took her
leave Of him there, weeping bitterly.
Watson was calm and self-controlled.
He had experienced religion a few days
before. His neck was broken in the
fall. and in nine minutes his pulse ceas-
ed to beat
A TORONTO, Ont, dispatch of April
3rd says, the largest party of emigrants
for Manitoba that ever left Ontario
started this morning from Windsor. 1t
consisted of two special trains, contain
ing forty-eight cars. The capital at
their disposal amounts TO over quar-
ter Of million. A large numb Der OF far
mers left Pictou, n. S., yesterday for
Manitoba. Another party, numbering
100, leave to-day.
SOME interest is excited III the New
York iron trade by the fact that Mr..
Vanderbilt has bought, in England,
$4,000 tons of steel rails at a price which
equal 500 per ton landed here, while
the price for the best American would
be $40 delivered. The rails are guaran-
teed for fifteen years, but the trade are
reluctant to regard this as the reason
for paying SO ton advance upon the
home prices, and wonder what the 9TH
er motives may be.
DISCOVERIES of rich silver mines were
recently made twenty miles south of
Sante Fe. They are true fissures, car
rying galena and ca1bonates, assaying
80 to 200 ounces. The silver is near
the surface, and the quantity of the ore
is ineXhaustible. The district is four by
six miles in extent, embracing several
old Spanish mines. Anthracite coal,
iron and fire clay are abundant in the
district.
FORTY failures were reported in New
York city during March, in which the
total liabilities amounted to $3.50, ,449,
and the assets to $211,755. Compared
with the preceding months, March
shows a decrease in number of eight
failures, and $4,000 in the amount of
liabilities. During the month of March,
1878, eighty-fve failures were reported,
In which the total liabilities amounted
to SS,4S0,000.
SAYS Des Moines dispatch of April
3rd: Reports from Davis City, Decatur
county, say the citizens in view of the
Iawlessness and crime by the gang of
desperadoes, lead by Irving Tucker and
one Taiter, on Monday banded togeth-
er and seized Tucker and hung him.
Taiter was also captured, and said he
was ready to swing if he was allowed
to kill Topliffe and Frisby, two citizens
against whom he had grudge, but he
was taken from the mob and placed in
jail. The mob then went to the bagnio
0I Martha MCLain, tore down the
house and destroyed its contents during
| the fray.
A BELoIT, Wis, dispatch of April Srd
says: The Rev. Henry d. Porter, mis-
sionary to China, was this noon mar
ried to Miss Elizabeth c. Chaplin, daugh-
ter of President A. L. Chaplin, of Beloit
college at the residence of the brides
parents, DIR. Chaplin performing the
ceremony. After the wedding numer-
Gus friends enjoyed a delightful recep-
ton. The bride and groom departed
on the afternoon train for the east.