Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-12-02
GENERAL NOTES.

ISAAC P. GRAY has taken the oath OF
Office as governor of Indiana.
A LOUISVILLE negro died of lockiaw
caused bv wound in his heel from nal
in his shoe.
A RUMoR is afoat in San Francisco that
j. G. Flood is a candidate for Booths seat
in the senate.
THE parliament nf Queensland has pass
ed bill for the construction of a trans
continental railway.
THE second Presbyterian church of Chi
cago has extended 4 call 10 Rev. John S
Macintosh, of Belfast, ireland, with a sal
airy of $1,000
A PRESENT from Queen Victoria to the
president of the United States was receiv-
ed at the white house on the 9th inst, in
the shape of It massive desk made from
timbers Of II. NJ. S. "Resolute.'
Ex-Governor YOUNG and Col. Davt
have secured Sherman headquarters at
Columbus, and Governor Foster has taken
his household goods to the capital. Gran
ger legislators will be well entertained
until the senatorial election.
ALBANY, New York, dispatches of the
18th inst. says: The cars reaching here
ice. 1t showed all the way from Montreal
to Plattsburg. The cold wave struck this
city about noon. The thermometer fell IS
degrees in half an hour
IN the Washington Avenue Methodist
church at Minneapolis on Thanksgiving
day. flames peered through the ceiling as
the pastor was closing his sermon. His
presence of mind averted panic, and the
L. 10, orc
Two important cabinet positions appar-
emily hinge upon the success or failure
of Ben Harrison and Charles Foster in
their senatorial aspirations. 1t is pre-
dicted that the Camerons will furnish a
representative for Pennsylvania, Blaine
one for New England, and that Conkling
will be given portfolio for Levi P. Nor
ton.
THE aldermen of New York are nearly
unanimous against the production of the
passion play, and have called for an opin-
ion as to their power tG prohibit it. Ed
win Booth sends by cable strong con-
demnation of the representation. No
competent actress in New York will accept
the role of the Virgin Mary, but one has
been secured in San Francisco. Public
sentiment dOoms the scheme to defeat.
THE Northern Pacific has secured from
a syndicate of American and European
bankers the sum of forty million dollars,
by the sale of bonds at prices rang
ing from ninety cents to par. Director
Wright reports the rails laid within thirty
miles of the Yellowstone, ard predicts the
completion of the road within three years.
Steel rails will soon be shipped around the
Horn, to be laid on western end the metal
for three hundred miles having been pur-
chased within the past ten days
JAMES G. WATSON, the eminent astron-
omer, and director of the Washburn OBJ
servatory at Madison Wis. died at his
residence at the state university, on the
oath inst, after few days illness. Pro-
fessOr Watson was taken with a violent
cold and congestion of the bowels in the
morning and at noon the doctors despaired
of his life. In the afternoon he was some
what better, but was taken worse in the
night, and died at o'clock the next
morning. Professor Watson assumed
charge of the Washburn observatory at
the state university a year and half ago,
going there from the Michign observa-
tory, with which he had been connected
some twenty years. A deep gloom pre-
walls in Madison, at his unexpected death,
and our state university and the cause of
science throughout the world have sus-
tanned great loss by his death.