Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-11-25
GEN ERAI NOTES.

IT is predicted that Minister Moves will
be recalled from Paris in March.
SITTING BULL is hunting buffalo, with
great success, almost on the boundary line
PEORIA has organized the Central CITY
Gas Company, with a capital of $250,000.
IN the vicinity of Clarence Iowa, the
school-houses are to be closed, on accoun
of fuel famine.
MONROE. Mich, on the 10Th inst. cele-
brated the completion of its courthouse,
which cost $4,000.
DISPATCHES from all over Ontario re-
port that from three to ten inches Of snow
fell on the 18th inst
TORONTO is SO elated over the victory of
Hanlon that it proposes to deed him the
site Of his new summer hotel, and exempt
him for life from taxation.
THE latest rumor about General Grant
is that he is to be put forward for TIE
presidency, in 1884. by gigantic politico-
railway combination headed by Jay Gould.
THE corOner's jury in the case of the
Chinaman killed bv the mob at Denver
Oct. 81, strongly censures the conduct of
the city government and police.
7. G. MANNING, ex-chief justice of the
supreme court of Louisiana. has been ap-
pointed by the governor of that state
United States senator, Uice Spotford, de-
ceased.
JOHN c. CALHOUN, Of Nevada, nephew
of the late South Carolinian, of the same
name, is insane, and imagines himself
Jesus Christ. Wounds received in the war
caused his insanity.
LIVERPOOL reports the arrival of II ,769
head of American cattle from New York,
Boston, and Baltimore during the past three
months. The number lost on the pass
age was ,l15 head.
THE annual report of the Chicago and
Northwestern railway company shows an
increase in net income over the previous
year of 81, ,424 ,421. Five passengers were
killed on the road during the year; 80
employees, and 40 others.
THE seemingly endless Valentine scrip
case is again brought to public notice
through a suit instituted in the superior
court of Cook county, ILL.,, by two Of the
Valentine heirs to recover S150,00O from
the city for the use of the lake front prop
srty.
The Milwaukee Sentinel publishes the
names and addresses of $500 male persons
who claim they were not returned by the
census enumerators. Most of these are
believed to be voters, and it is claimed ac-
cOrdlng to the usual ratio would bring the
population of Milwaukee to 10000.
AN unparalleled social event at Harris
burg was the marriage of the eldest
daughter of Don Cameron to Villa m
H. Bradley, at the Pine Street Presbyter-
ian church. Gen. Sherman was a spec
tator. The presents represented two hun
dred friends.
ALBANY, New York, dispatches of the
18th inst. says: The cars reaching here
this evening, are covered with snow and
ice. 1t showed all the way from Montreal
to Plattsburg. The cold wave struck this
city about noon. The thermometer fell 13
degrees in half an hour.
The Inter Ocean announces that Chicago
capitalists will Immediately begin the
erection of a large and elegant private
hotel on the corner of Michigan avenue
and 21st street, to cost half million dol
lars. 1t will be luxury in all its belong
ings and run on the plan of some Of the
finest similar hotels in eastern cities.
THE board of trustees of the Syracuse
University have elected Rev. Charles n
Syms, ID. d., pastor of the Summerfeld
NJ Z. church, Brooklyn, to the Office of
chancellor of the university, made vacant
by the election of Chancellor Erastus O.
Haven, to the episcopacy. DIR. Syms was
born of American and Methodist Episco-
pal parents, in Union county, Indiana, in
1885.
DEUPTATIoNs of spinners waited on the
manufacturers at Fall River, Mass, on
the 22d inst, asking for ten per cent. adj
vance; they were courteOusly met, but
were told that the state OF the market did
not warrant an advance, and SO the manu-
facturers told them that now would be a
good time, perhaps, for both manufactur-
ers and employees to take vacation.
THE Chicago Times of the 18th inst,
says: The fact developed that large guam
titles OF material which is called butter,
and sold as such on the market, is really
made of lard by peculiar process known
only to few One establishment in the
city has been doing a prosperous business
for more than a year, and has trade so
extensive that shipments are made to Eng
land. A representative of The Times was
shown through the place, and there was
no effort at concealment made; the manu-
facturer is frank about it, and says the
compound is no more in furious than pork
A large number Of restaurants are said to
be using it as butter, and the report is that
other manufactures are to be opened
shortly.
GEN. MILES forwards dispatch from
Lieut.. Kislingbury, dated Camp Mouth of
Musselshell, Nov. 10, as follows: Indians
attacked us to-day, about + P. NJ Some
Indians at a distance were discovered by