Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-12-23
ENERAL NOTES.

| AN earthquake shock and the eruption
| of a volcano are reported from Washing
ton territory.
| THE workingmen Of Lyme, Mass, elect
ed Henry G. Lowering mayor, by plua-
| ality of 300.
An investigation of alledged violations
of the franking privilege has been set on
foot in congress.
THE Brooklyn tabernacle is in financial
straits, and the pastor, the Rev. De Witt
Talmage, threatens a strike for cash.
Two servant girls of Cincinnati, named
Mary and Rosa Stegenann, have been be-
queathed $4,000 by their aunt, Mrs.
Joseph Ruhe, of Philadelphia.
THE cable announces the death of Sen.
Buoncompagni, an Italian scientist and
author, and Of Earl Crawford, British
Peer who dabbled in letters.
Two cases Of smallpox having develop
ed among a steamship load of Italian
emigrants arriving at New Yor, the yes
sci has been quarantined, and $50 persons
have undegone vaccination.
GEN. ORD having been retired, Gen.
Auger will take the department of Texas.
Colonel Miles will be promoted to brig
adler general, and placed in command at
West Point.
THOMAS ALLEN admits that he is nego-
tiating with Jay Gould for the sale of the
Iron Mountain road, which would place
in the hands Of the latter control of the
commerce of St. Louis.
Both houses of the Vermont legislature
have passed a bill declaring a nuisance
any place where liquor is sold or given
awav, or gambling is allowed, and its
keeper can be fined and imprisoned
GEN. WILLIAM B. HAzEN has been ap-
pointed chief signal officer of the army
This promotion advances Gen McCo0k to
the colony of the ct h infantry.
]. |. CASE, of Racine, has brought suit
against the firm of Fish Brothers & CO.,
and asks for receiver He Claims that
Sl50,000 and to other parties to the amount
of $350,000.
AN explosion in manufactory on Twen
ty-sixth street, New York, carried a four
thousand pound boiler, almost unbrol<en,
a distance of nearly two hundred feet, do
ing no damage on the route.
A ST. LOUIS newspaper says that Secre-
tary Schurz will return to journalistic
work after the 4th of March. From the.
same source it is learned that Mr.. Schurz
is writing book which will shortly be
published by the Appletons.
THE Alabama & Great Southern rail
road company are about to tunnel Look
out Mountain in order to connect their
road, which has its present terminus at
Wauhatchie, with Chattanooga about five
miles distant.
IT is stated that there are six democratic
Senators, including Bayard, Butler,
Hampton, and Pendleton, who will vote
against the reopening of the Kellogg case
If this report turns out true, and it is
probable that it will, Senator Kellogg will
retain his seat 81
EDISON is still working hard and hope
fully on the electric light. He claims to
have proved that its subdivision is not an
impossibility, and asserts that his inven-
tion will soon be perfected. The cost of
lighting the city of New York by his
method will, he says, be something like
$2.000,000.
IF we may believe philosopher who
writes in the New York Sun, spot on the
sun is now visible to the unassisted eve
a little to the right of and below the center
of the suns disk. By the aid of smoked
or colored glass, or, better still, an opera
glass, the spot may be more readily seen.
n GOMP3S1 Ol w 1SCOIlS1i republican
capitalists have purchased the Milwaukee
Daily NeerSs for 81, ,000 and will publish a
new morning paper on the associated press
franchise so secured. Horace Rublee, of
Madison, ex-Ministere to Switzerland, will
be editor-in-ehief of the new organ
"A BILL appropriating 81, 500, 600 for t he
reported to the house on the 10th inst. 1t
was the original intention to ask for So
100000, but, in view of the evident i'm
possibility of obtaining such sum, the
committee on Mississippi Levess decided
to reduce it to a minimum.
4 CONFERENCE of the hackers of Cover
nor Foster Tor the Ohso senatorship was
held at Columbus on Sunday, among those
present being three members of the house
from Hamilton rounty, which has hereto
fore been considered solid for Sherman. 1t
is claimed thai forty-twe republican pa
pers in Ohio have declared for Foster
THE health of the United States Senator
Lamar, of Mississippi, is entirely restored.
His continued absence from WASHINGTON
is caused by the ill-health of his wife,
whom he has recently taken to San An
tonic, Tex He will shortly be in Wash
ington. In the meantime he is ''paired
Off with Senator Blaine on all political
questions that may come to vote in the
senate during his absence.
PRESIDENT GONZALES. of Mexico, has
completed his cabinet. which is believed
to be progressive and liberal one Gen
Oiaz, the late president, becomes minister
OF pu blic works in order to push some i'm
pIovcments in the internal affairs of the
country It it believed that he will have
great influence with President Gonzales
and it Is well, for his own administration
has been successful, progressive, and in
tcliigent.
E. w. THoMALES, clerk in the Chioa-
go internal revenue office, disappeared in
his shirt-sleeyes on Monday, while his ac-
counts were being Investigated. He
proves a defaulter to the amount of 49,
1860. Two deputy marshals are in
search of him, and efforts have been made
to capture him at Detroit. He has a wife
and four children at Lake View.
i COMMITTEE of New York bankers and
merchants have gone to Washington to
induce Secretary Sherman to anticipat e
the January interest and redemptions,