Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-19
THE NEWS BUDGET.
A Summary of Events During the
Past Week.


A MAN named Lindley, at Princeton,
Ill, will endeavOr to live twenty davs on
beer.
Two hundred and fifteen speeches were
delivered in Indiana, Saturday evening
at one hundred and two meetings
MOsT of the Indians in Oregon and
Idaho are said to be restless and ugly, but
the season is so far advanced that active
hostilities are not looked for this year.
A NUMBER of prisoners in the jail at
Laredo, Tex, broke out, and, making for
the river, undertook TO swim across. The
sheriff and a posse pursued, and, standing
on the bank, fired at the men in the water
Two were killed.
A FRAME building with brick veneer
ing containing sixty thousand pounds of
bran, collapsed at Montreal, burying one
man and twelve boys in the ruins One
Of the latter was sufocated and several
others were severely injured.
SPECIAL AGENT SAwYER, of the census
bureau, completed his labors of revising
the work of the census enumerators of St.
Louis on the 18th inst. He makes the
population of St. Louis 333, or.
THERE is considerable excitement at
Sarnia, Can, over a new silver find on Sill
yer lslet. 1t is reported that nuggets of
almost pure silver are being taken out
weighing from 80 to $50 pounds and worth
from $500 to 81, 900 each.
A PARTY named Charles Carver, resid-
ing in Woodstock. Va, began fast of one
hundred days duration on the 10Th inst.
Should he succeed in his experiment he
will challenge DIR. Tanner to a competitive
match.
THE Union Pacific railroad company
has contracted for monument to the
memory of Oliver and Oakes Ames, to be
located in Wyoming, at the highest point
of the Rocky mountains and to cost $780,
600.
| Miss ADELAIDE NELSON, the accom-
| plished actress, who recently announced
her retirement from the stage, and sailed
! for Europe, died suddenly, on the 18th
inst, at the Continental hotel, in Paris
TIE military board from Gen. Sher-
mans staff appointed to dispose of the
| Fort GratiOt military reservation to the
! Northwestern railway company has sent a
report to Washington which favors that
policy. Consideration, $4,000
MAIL contractor Adams, of Little Rock
has telegraped the Washington authori-
ties for military protection on the mail
Paso. Indians are making things hot in
that region.
COLONEL MILES, Indian agent, will
leave Fort Reno, |. T., on the 18th inst,
in charge of eighteen Cheyenne and Ara
pahoe children, who are to be placed in
school at Carlisle, Pa, or Hampton, Va.
Several chiefs will accompany the party.
A CHARLEsrowN, Ill, darkey got drunk,
zoo l. i
tipped the buggy over All escaping un-
hurt, they reentered the vehicle and made
another start. Recklessness on the part
of the moke soon admonished the women
that it was time to leave and both jumped
one breaking a leg and the other her col
lar-bOne.
LETTERS received at Winnipeg, Manito-
ba, state that a tribe of Indians in the
northwestern territory, fifteen hundred
strong, which refused to enter into treaty
relations with the Canadian government,
has seized store at Duck Lake, and COM
mitted other depredations of a character
unusual in that country. The savages are
said to be starving.
DETROIT, Mich. business circles are
wholly taken by surprise to learn of the
assignment of ThOs. McGrew, president of
the Globe tobacco company, and also of
the Michigan Savings Bank, and large
real estate owner. He had been for years,
also, 4 heavy dealer in wool A general
assignment of all his property was made
to Albert HI. Wilkinson, attorney,
just previous to this second mort
gage of $4,000 put on the Mechanics
block which he owned, and still another to
secure the Michigan savings bank for OBJ
legations. The cause ofthe failure is said
to be large losses in wool transactions, and
overlooking himself with real estate.
which produced more interest and taxes
than income His assets rightly figured
S25O,OOO The liabilities represent a
much larger figure, but cannot vet be
stated.