Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-01
LATEST EVENTS.

FOREST fires are doing a great deal ot
damage in New Brunswick.
| Mrs. Gov. WILLIAMS, of Indiana. dieC
on the 29th of June
THE people of Texas are said to be indig
nant at the acquittal of Jim Currie, the
murderer of Ben Porter
GEORGE BENNETT, the assassin OF Hon
George Brown, of the Toronto Globe, has
been sentenced to death.
president HAYES, Chief Justice Waite
and Stanley Matthews attended the open
ing exercises of Kenyon college, Ohio, or
the 26th inst. The executive and chief ot
the bench each made speeches.
THE Mississippi floods continue to dc
great damage to the farming lands on the
Illinois side of the river.
| The czar has issued an ukase fixing the
number OF men to be enrolled for the com
pletion of the Russian army at 235, 600.
INSTEAD of passing the summer at Bal
moral and Osborne, as usual, the queer
will go to Ireland for a change of scene.
THE Farmers and Mechanics bank. a
state institution at st. Paul, has failed
with liabilities of about $4,000, and as
sets of 100000.
| IT turns out that a minister of Calais
| Me-, who was supposed TO have drowned
himself, has fled to Canada, owning to fl
nancial difficulties.
BLAKE Burton, who some time ago left
Leadville with two companions for the
Gunnison country, is captive in the Ute
camp. The Indians killed his partners.
THE western division of the Erie rail
way, from Hornesville to Salamanca and
Dunkirk, has been changed from broad tc
standard gauge.
Hon. GEO. GREEN, ex-judge of the Iowa
supreme court, and, later, prominent
railroad man, died at his residence, near
Cedar Rapids, on the 24th inst.
OIL has advanced twenty cents per bar
rel at Pittsburg. Leading brokers attrib.
ute the rise to speculation, claiming that
there is no solid bottom for it,
PITTsBURG claims for herself an increase
of 26 per cent. and for Allegheny 81 pei
cent. in population since last census. The
combined number of souls is placed al
232, 900.
BISHOP Borgess.. pf net-oit, hos issued c
| pastoral prohibiting lawn fetes, fairs, excur-
siOns, picnics, boat-rides, ETC., to be given
as means of raising funds for the benefit OF
churches in that diocese.
EDWARD w. PRATT, New York bank
clerk, was robbed in that city, of pack
age containing $1,000. The thief, aided
| by an express wagon, got away, and can
not be traced.
| \ LETTER from Constantinople relative
to the famine in Asia Minor states that
the British consuIs and American mission,
aries have done great deal to alleviate
| the suffering there.
CHAIRMAN ATKINS, of the committee on
appropriations, in closing his annual sum
mary of the years work, says the total es-
Inmates of revenue for the fiscal year 1881
amount to 82SS, 100000 and that the esti-
mated expenditures are within 1902, ,635
| 81 Of this amount.
THREE lake steamship lines, the West
ern transportation company, the Union
Steamboat company, and the Western
States line, all owned or controlled by the
railroad trunk lines, have formed pool
ing combination to increase and maintain
rates.
A YOUNG man was given front seat in 4
Columbus, O., church last Sabbath on ac.
count of alleged deafness. Soon after the
collection had been taken up the fellow
was seen TO transfer the cash III the box
which had been left near him, to his own
pocket. A deacon attempted to arrest
him, but he broke away and fled, the
pastor and congregation following. He was
finally run down and the money secured.
The Indiana republicans have nomi
mated the following state ticket: For gov
ernor, Hon Albert G. Porter, of Marion
county; for lieutenant-governOr, Thomas
Hanna, of Putnam; for Judge of the SUI
preme court, third district Hon. Byron K
Elliott, of Marion; for Judge of the su
preme court, fifth district, VIM. A. Woods
of Elkhart for secretary of state. Col. L
H. Wolf, of Rush county; for treasurer o
state, Col. Roswell S. Hill, of Clay county
for attorney-general, Judge D. P. Baldwin
of Cass county; for reporter Of the supreme
court, Francis NJ. Dice, of Fountain coun
ty; for clerk of the supreme court, DAME
Boyce, of Tippecanoe; for superintendent
of public instruction, Prof. ]. NJ. Bloss
of Vanderburg county.