Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-06-03
GEN ERAL NOTES.

A PowDER-MlLL explosion in Belgium
has caused large loss of lie.
So many congressman are preparing
to leave the capital for Chicago, that it
is feared that there will not be quorum
in the house after Thursday.
THE reformed presbyterian synod has
formally requested all its mem bers to de-
sist from the manufacture, sale or use of
''that most dangerous weed, tocacco."
AT the drawing Of the Patty House
lottery, in Fond du Lac, Wis, No. 49,
73Sd rev the Patty House Phillip Faust,
of Auburn, H., held the ticket. No
1896 drew $1,000.
FIVE deaths and many cases of pros
tratlon from heat were reported in New
York on the goth inst Approaching 3
o'lock the thermometer in sheltered
spot marked 81 degrees.
JOHN O'RoURKE, of the Boston base
ball nine, while playing with the Troys,
attempted to make a difficult play and
ran against fence, cutting cash in his
throat five innhes a. dlea dle2pg; HIifal N: E.
conference, at CInern..ad, for book
agents at New York resulted in the al.
most unanimous selection of Messrs.
Philips g Hunt. The scattering vote
was "a. The fourth ballot for boo k
agent at Cincinnati, resulted in the
choice of VIM. 2. Stowe, of Wisconsin,
| by the following vote : Stowe, 334 Hitch
cock; SO; Doughty, Al.
| DENNIS KEARNEY, has been granted a
writ of hd5eus corpus, by the supreme
court of California, and is again tree.
| Upon his release, the wnrkingmen, head
ed by a brass band, escorted Kearney
! from his house to the Sand Lois, where a
very large crowd was gathered. kearney
addressed them in his usual style an
nouncing his intention of taking up the
agitation wtere he left it and making it
more bitter than ever.
ANOTHER biography Of Mayor Kal-
loch has appeared. Anticipating its
publication Kalloch wrote threatening G
letter to the author, saying he would not
allow the publication, and expressing
the hope that the penal code would afford
him protection, del icate intimation
that if the penal code wasn't enough
something else would be. However, the
pamphlet came out, and went off like
hot cakes.
GEN. HATCH arrived in Ojo Calientt
: on the 9th, two or three days ahead o
his troops, who are worn out and desti
ute of stock. Since the opening of tn
, campaign against Victoria they hav
; marched more than one thousand miles
9 It is believed that many Comanches ar
now with the Apaches, and that III
strength of the hostiles is much create
! than that of the military. The savage
! i have killed seventy-eig hit people in on
!. county since the 1st of May.
THE latest Indian news is that si
) herders were killed in the ranch of p
J triocino Lunay, eight miles from Tulal
), asa. In Socorro county and In the NJ;
u eullaus about fifty men were killed, tw
women, and three Americans, name
e unknown. In the vicinity of Tularasi
d Socoito county, every ranch has bee
T. cleaned out by Apaches, and the numbt
t. of those murdered since May 1st is Sc
e enty.eight General Hatch's comman
le has marched more than 1000 miles
le pursuit Of the Indians.
- The representatives of the .variol
II, military companies of the state, met
e St. Louis onthe 26th inst, and organize
~ a society called the National Guard q
sociation of Missouri, with Brig. Gel
ra Chas. w. Squires, of ST. Louis, as pres
as dent. Primary arrangements were MAJ
IN for holding an encampment OF all Il
OF militia in the state at st. Louis, begll
s., ming July Isl. Resolutions were adopt
~ urging congress to adopt the bill
ne pending before that body, to increa
re- the appr opriation for the Nation
Ito Guards from $3.50, 900 to S 100000.
ey BUSINESS circles were startled on
ed goth inst at Chattanooga. Tenn, by t
announcement that the Vulcan Iron a
sh- Nail works were thrown into bankru
in CIV, and James G. Warner, of NashVl
he was appointed receiver. The best
aft formation is that the liabilities are S3t
he coo; assets available about $500, 600;
vas hands were employed in the works.
r receiver is directed to continue opeI
on ing the mill as long as he does not
US pair the assets. The cause assigned
raj the failure is shrinkage in iron.
ne, THE West Point court of inquiry
as made its report which is to the Ell
has that Whittaker's story of the outrage
zee, him is not credible, that he would h
J a called for help if he had been assault
that he was tied SO loosely that he CO
at have released himself had he deslI