Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-09-30
THE NEWS BUDGET.
A Summary OF Events During the
Past Week
Latest Events.

REACE haE1ng DeGll restoreO III CuDd the
Spanish government will recall fifteen
thousand troops. i -- -.
TIE Span:shfqueen is doing well, and
Madrid had a holiday on the 2Sth inst, in
honor Ofthe baby. szE
Miss FLORENCE Triton, daughter of
Theodore Tilton, has been married in Lon
don to Mr.. PeltOn, of Louisiana.
NEARLY all of the sick horses in Boston
are much better, and it is thought a few
days more of fine weather will eradicate
the distemper.
A HORSE distemper resembling the epl-
zootic of 1872, but somewhat milder, has APP
peared in Boston, and is causing serious
Inconvenience.
HENRY FAwcErT, the British postmas-
ter general, will visit the United States
this fall, to study telegraphy as practlced
in this country.
IT is estimated that the various rail
roads centering in Chicago will expend
$6,000,000 in permanent improvements
there this year
A. III. LATHAM, Of Albany. and Miss
Sarah j Faris, OF RenneviIle, Ind, were
married by telegraph, on. the 2Sth inst,
by Rev. Mr.. Parrett, of Portland, Ind,
officiating
THE Montreal city council has defeated
big job by refusing to extend the char
ter of the city passenger railway for forty
years. There is great rejoicing over the
result.
FIFTY-Two citizens of Cincinnati have
subscribed 81, 900 each toward the fund of
Sl5O0OO necessary to meet the conditions
of Mr.. Vests donation of like sum for
the erection of an art museum.
JESSE ID. GRANT. third son Of the gem
eral, and Miss Lizzie Chapman, daughter
of a wealthy merchant, were married at
San Francisco on the Dist inst. The
young couple will start for the east
HooPEsToN, Ill, now claims to have a
mastodon, as well as Chicago and Paw
Paw. Fragments of the monster were un-
earthed by Iaborers who were excaEating
for drain. One of the teeth weighs eight
pounds.
MIR. TALMAGE preached on the Chinese
question, last Sunday. He admitted that
Chinatown, in San Francisco, was bad in
many respects, but declared that in his
dark-lantern tour of New York he had
found worse places.
ARoMAN Catholic priest Of fourteen
years standing, named Seguin, of Mon
treal, writes long letter to a local paper,
addressed to,Bishop Fabre," announcing his
conversion to Professionalism and giving his
reasons therefor. ~ e
HEamother Of Lille and Lavinia Grace,
two of the victims of the railroad disaster
at Mays Landing, died on Tuesday from
the shock to her system produced by the
death of her children and was buried to-
day.
RUMoRS of combination TO reduce pro-
duction has caused sharp advance in
crude oil at Pittsburgh and Oil City, Pa.
Since last Friday there has been a rise Of
ten cents and heavy transactions have
taken place at the advanced figures.
ThE official canvass shows that the con-
Stitutional amendment repudiating por-
tion of the debt of Arkansas recently
submitted to the people of that state, has
been defeated by about seven thousand
majority. The total vote was 10000.
MORENO, the adventurer, late prime
minister to King Kalakaua, of the Sand
wich Islands, has arrived i'll Washington
for the purpose of securing Minister Con-
ley's recall. As Conley is an Ohio man, it
is evident that Moreno does not know
what he esks.
A NEW dinner-table and sideboard have
been manufactured for the state diring-
room of the whitehouse by an Ohio firm.
The articles are massive and costly, and
besides numerous devices of a national
character, have few peculiar to Ohio.
OK the 23rd instant, the remains of
one of the men buried in the Hudson riv-
ortunnel at jersey City was found by la
borer excavating the caisson, who was
overcome with horror at the discovery.
The homes were nearly bare and il was
Impossible to identify them.
NOTWITHSTANDING the semi-official an
nouncement that Gen. Miles is to be ap-
pointed chief of the signal service, Gen.
Hazen, basing his claims mainly on the
ground that he is an Ohio man, is making
determined effort to secure the position.
Hazen 'loafed around the capitals of
Europe for several years while Miles was
raising scalps in the far northwest.
THE Galesburg, ILL.,. negro who married
an Episcopal clergyman's daughter and
was arrested for stealing the sachel in
which he carried her trousseau. has been
held 10 bail on a charge of larency. Miss
Chase, the bride, has been stopping with
friends at Kenoshia, Wis. for few days.
but left there on the DIST inst. for a distant
state.
THE officers of the Wabash Railway
company awarded the contract on the 24th
inst. for the grading, bridging and iron
ing of the first eighteen miles of a project
ed airline railroad from Chicago to
Peoria. The company has also given
orders for the Immediate extension of the
Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska railroad
from Prairieville, Iowa, to the Missouri
river
A VICTORIA dispatch says: A genuine
sea serpent, six feet in length, with an
orthodox mans head shaped like pan
ther, ana tail whitfield down to a sharp
point, was brought in by the Indians, who
caught 1t on the water straits of Deparo
Its appearance created intense interest
among savants, and old fishermen cannot
place the monster. The serpent has been
photographed and the body will be pre-
served in spirits and sent TO Ottowa for
classification.
PITTSBURGH is excited over the case Of
a nun who was removed from the house OF
the Good Shepherd to Dixmont insane
ASYLUM under suspicious circumstances
The superintendent of the asylum has had
charge of her for three months and says
she is perfectly sane and was when she
was brought to the asylum. The doctor;
who certified to her insanity admit thai
their examination lasted only 1ye MIN
utes The young woman complained OF
very harsh treatment from the nuns Hel
friends will take her away from Inc
asylum.
A DISPATCH from Des Moines Ia, says
Levi Johnson, of Norton county, Kan, Is
here soliciting aid for the people in Phillips
Sherman, Decatur, Sheridan, Rawlins and