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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

JOHN ROBERTS carriage factory at
Cincinnati, was burned on the Goth. The
loss was nearly covered by insurance.
A FIRE at Bateiville, Arkansas, Feb.
21st, destroyed a large portion of the
business section of the town. Loss $75-,
900; about one-haif ius ured. Two men
lost their lives during the fire.
A FIRE broke out in John Roberts
building, Cincinnati, on the goth, caus-
ing loss of SIS, 800 to Victor Burnham's
wall paper store.
A NASHVILLE dispatch of the goth
says: The Cumberland river is still ris
ing. The lowlands nearabout have been
covered and 800 people have been fore
ed to vacate their homes.
THE steamer Hibernian which arrived
at Halifax, Feb. Goth, reports a very
stormy passage. Heavy seas often swept
the decks, and one seaman went over
board.
a COLUMBUS, O., dispatch of the 21st,
gives the particulars of terrible acci-
dent on the Bellaire aad S. w. railroad.
A mixed train jumped from trestle six
ten feet high, injuring dozen passen-
gers, some fatally,
w. F. GILBERT, Of Niobrara. Neb,
agent for the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST.
Paul railway, broke through the ice there
tuesday, and was drowned, says d Sioux
City special of the 21st. He had about
5000 and valuable watch on his person
A LARGE five story iron front building,
384 and 3o6 Broadway, New York City
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26
Railroad Equipment.

The Pullman car shops at Detroit are
building several hotel cars for line to
run between St. Louis and Denver over
the Missouri Pacific and Kansas Pacific
roads.
The Barney & Smith Manufacturing
company at Dayton, o., has contracted
to build 800 coal cars for the Atlantic &
Great Western, to carry twenty tons
each. The company is building five
postal cars for the St. Louis, Iron Noun
tain & Southern road.
The Beaver Falls pa. car works are
to build 800 freight cars for the Pitts
burg & Lake Erie road.
The National Dispatch line has con-
tracted for 100 Tiffany refrigerator cars,
to be added to 100 already in the line.
It is stated that the purchasers of the
Hinkley Locomotive works, in Boston
are making arrangements to organize
new company, and that they intend TO
run the works without interruption.
Pittsburg Locomotive works, in ad-
engines for the Georges Creek & Cum
berland, and two for the East st. Louis,
& Carondelet road
Inc new snOpS OF the MISSOURI Car
and Foundry company, in st Louis.
have capacity of twelve freight cars
and 200 wheels day. They are very
complete and well arranged.
The Central Vermont shops at st. AL
bans, Vt, are to build four mogul freight
engines, with 19x24 inch cylinders.
A new company with capital stock
of $50, 900, named the Jacksonville Car
company, has been organized to run the
Car shops builtseveral years ago in jack
sonville. Ill, but not occupied until
now. Mr.. I. G. Dutro of S., Louis is
manager.
The Kansas City, St. joseph & Council
Bluffs shops in St. Joseph, Mo-, recent
ly turned out two very handsome pas
senger ears.
The Chicago & Northwestern shops
in Chicago are building fifteen new pas
serger cars.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26
CABLEGRA MS.

THE alliance between Peru and Boiiv-
ia was announced by cable on the 23d to
have been broken off.
SOME forty inmates Of the Winter Pal
ace at st. Petersburg, were arrested on
the goth, charged with completely in the
explosion.
By way of London, Feb. 22d, state that
from eight 10 ten persons are daily dying
Of yellow fever.
A GRAND banquet was given in Paris,
on the evening of Feb. 10, in honor of
Gen. Fairchild, who was about leaving
for his new post as Minister of Spain.
Three hundred covers were laid.
INTELLIGENCE was received at Liver
pool on the 22nd inst, that the ship Tri-
montaIne which assisted in rescu1ng
passengers from the sinking Vile du
Havre few years ago,was herself aband-
oned at sea on the 18th in a sinking con-
dition. All hands saved.
THE news from the interior of Russia
is heartrending, says cablegram Of the
23d. Famine and d.phtheria are deci-
mating the population. The provinces
Of Saratof and Kief, which annually ex
port in ordinary times enormous quanti-
ties of grain, had scarcely any crop last
year. The calamity is aggravated by
want of fodder for the cattle, and the
peasants are forced to sell them. In the
Caucasus the famine is still greater,
where the people are committing suicide
and selling their children.
THE London Standards Berlin cores.
pondent telegraphs the following under
date of Feb. 22d: Lately the Car hardly
ever left the Winter Palace. When he
went abroad he was surrounded by a
cloud of mounted officers, who concealed
the carriage and protected the inmate
with their bodies. In the palace he was
accessible only 10 diplomatists, dignita-
ries, and officers of the househ old. AT
chapel detectives occupied seats that
were formerly reserved for distin-
guished visitors, Detectives infested
the kitchen. Every dish was tasted by
persons of rank, especially selected for
the purpose. The emperor did not even
venture to open his letters, documents
stepped in poison having repeatedly been
sent to him. Yet with all their elabo:
rate precaution it occurred to nobody
to search for the announced, advertised
and placarded mine in the basement
The emperor and the duchess of Edin.
burg were seated in an apartment next
to the dining room when they heard the
report of the explosion. The lights
we're extinguished and the gas pipe
burst. The princess, the officers and the
Wallets went blindly through the dark,
and then poured promiscuously through
the door of the royal apartments. The
sovereign was found cropping his way
out of the fatal quarter. All who saw
the sight, the picture of Alexander II
leading his daughter away from the mine
of dynamite, say it is one that could
never be forgotten.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26
THE WEEKS WORK.
Selected From Every Source.
WASHINGTOE.

THE president on the Goth inst. nomi-
mated Rowland E. Trowbridge, of Mich
lgan, commissioner of Indian affairs,
vice Hayt removed.
THE senate, in executive session Feb.
20, confirmed Frank Mason, of Ohio, Z.
S. consul at Basle, Switzerland; and re-
jected the nominatian of Edward Spar
der, for census supervisor for first district
of Louisiana.
THE committee on territor les, on the
20tb inst, decided the passage of the bill
extending the jurisdictictien of the u
S. courts In civil and criminal matters to
the Indian Territory, and providing for
the requirement of citizenship by In
dians and the allotment of lands to them
in severalty under prescribed condi-
tions.
THE senate on the goth inst. confirmed
the following nominations; Louis H.
Ayme, consul of the United States at
Merida; Byram G. Stiffany, register Of
the land office at Grand Forks, Dakota !;
Edgar W. Mann, register of the land
office at Cheyenne; William J. Ander-
son, receiver of public moneys at Grand
Forks, Dakota; William H. James, post
master at Berea, Ohio.
THE senate select committee on Freed
mems bank met Feb. goth. Arson NJ
operry, general field agent and inspector
OF branches, testified to the solvency of
the bank and to the marvellous increase
in its business from the start up to 1874,
the time of its failure. The deposits had
grown from 100000 in 1866 to $10,00O,-
600 in 1872, and to S55,000,C00 in 1874. He
stated the cause of the banks failure was
primarily, the violation ofthe company's
charter in entering general business in
the branches, which opened the doors to
wild speculation in real estate loans and
other doubtful securities. The worst
complications and losses, he said, arose
from operations in Washington. He
had never known the bank to sustain a
loss through the dishonesty Of colored
men in charge Of any Of the branches.
Marshal Frederick Douglass, former
president of the bank, resumed his testi-
mony, from which it appeared that du-
ring his short administration he had been
able to gain but little insight into the
true inwardness Of the concern.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26
GENERAL NOTES.

II. G. WRIGHT, one Of the editors of
the Augusta, Ga, ChrOnacle G C0nst5tu-
tjOndJiSt, died on the 22d inst, aged 80.
A CALL for national starch manufac-
turers convention was issued on the goth,
to meet at Cincinnati March Sd.
IT was stated on the Goth that Bishop
Feehan, Of Nashville, had been appoint
ed Bishop of Chicago.
THE Parnell Irish relief committee e
of Omaha sent another installment of
81 900 on the Goth. This makes $4,000
contributed by Omaha.
THE law abolishing slavery in Cuba
was promulgated in the Official Gazette at
Madrid, says dispatch OF the Goth.
DIR. BRANDRETH, the well.known pat
ent medicine man, died Feb. Goth, at his
residence, near Sing Sing, aged 70 years.
He was worth between $2,000,0S0 and
$3JV00,000.
4 New YORK telegram Of the 22d says
the man who contributed $4,000 to the
Herald Irish relief fund, with directions
that his name should not be revealed was
Russell Sage.
THE opening OF the Cincinnati South
ern railroad was celebrated on the 23rd
of Feb, in grand style. The pioneer
freight train consisted of one hundred
cars. The first passenger train will be
run on the Sth of March.
New YORK city was greatly excited
over statement made in a newspaper,
on Feb. 23rd, that the bodies of paupers
who died at Bellevue hospital are all
given over for dissecting purposes
NEARLY all the prisoners in the Kane
county, HI, Jail at Geneva, escaped Fri
day night, says dispatch of the 22d.
The escape, which was so successful,
was planned by George Wilson, the no.
torious Chicago housebreaker. The
affair occurred soon after dark.
THE banking house of J. 3. Hogue 6
Co., at Peoria, ILL.,, closed business on
the Goth. They request all depositors to
present their claims, saying they will be
paid in full. This action was made nee
essary by the failure o: Thomas Neill,
who owed the bank large amount of
money.
DISPATCHES of the 10Th announce the
death of James Seenox, of New York, a
celebrated philanthropist and mil
lionaire, aged t0years, after an illness
of two months. The land covered by a
farm left to him by his father in 1880
situated on Fourth and Fifth avenues
near Scventy-Second street, then costing
Sc 920, is now worth ten millions of dol
lars.
The Illinois Press Association met
Feb. 1920 in Chicago. A large number
of editors were present A resolution
was adopted in favor of repeating the
duty on print paper and upon the stock
which enters into its manufacture, anG
a committee appointed to secure the CO.
operation Of the press Of the entire state
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26

VIOLA A. PoMERoY, who brought suit
against San Francisco theatrical man
ager because she was discharged for
having wooden leg, has had her wit
nesses swear that, though not as nim-
ble as cat, she is as nearly so as most
actresses. One said that he had seen
her, as Classy in "Uncle Toms Cabin" ;"
lump out of window and run over a
river of ice like a whirlwind; another
recollected that, as Florence in ''The
ed Pocketbook, she jumped from a
sinking ship and was rescued, just as
we'll as any woman with two natural
legs could have jumped and been res
cued; and third had witnessed her IN
"Lucretia Borgia" in a part in which
she wore tights. Miss Pomeroy offered
to dance before the court, to show that
her wooden leg was no detriment, but
nat was not permitted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26

Mrs. HICKs-LoRD, the somewhat
famous New York widow, has recently
made for herself twenty four peignoirs,
or night robes, at an expense of nearly
$4,000. The combinations of fine Ham
burg embroideries, hand-sewed tuck
ings and pufs, laces and Nainsook mus
lin that make up these possible wedding
garments, are fully described by re-
porter, and are simply wonderful. The
Troy Times is reminded bv the descrip-
ton of a young lady who was married
in that city recently, and who remarks
ed, in gulleless and simple maiden
childishness to near friend: Charley,
you just ought to see my undercloth-
ing; it is bang up"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, Feb. 23.-Flour-Dull and nom
inal Wheat-Actiye, firm and higher, No. red
winter, at 1.2115; No. Chicago spring, lay for
seller cash; 1.25 for seller March; 1.254@
4,25% for seller April: No. 3 Chicago spring,
11O@112; rejected 390y2. Corn-Stronger; at
37A for seller cash; 372s for seller March !;
872l for seller April; Az bid for seller May;
rejected 80. Oats-Quiet and steady; fresh at
324 for seller cash; 90 for seller March; 36
bid for seller May. Rye-Steady Barley
Steady. Dead Hogs-Firmer and unchanged.
Pork-Strong and higher; at II 95 for seller cash
1l9501l.9.H for seller March; IL 10Q1212H !;
for seller April. Lard-At 7.25 foI seller cash !;
7.25 1727h for seller March; 1891. .371l for sell
Ter April. Hogs-Receipts, 10000; shipments,
3, 300, moderately active and sc higher; light
steady; 4.2094.50; choice heavy, 4.55 a4S0: mixed
packing, 4.3014.50. Cattle-Receipts, 600; ship
ments, 3,30o; quiet and generally unchanged; !;
shipping 3.S00500; butchers, fairly active, at
, 400; calves, 4.OG05 50: stockers' and feed
ers'. quiet ard scarce, at 2S0G390. Sheep--Re-
ceipts, 200; unchanged.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26

A TUSCAN (Ari) dispatch says on
the 9th instant Captain Rucker, Ninth
Cavalry, commanding one of the col
umns pursuing the hostile Indians, af-
ter following them two days with his en-
tire command in the direction of San
Andreas, came suddenly upon them
strongly fortified in a narrow and rough
canyon. The troops were received by
heavy fire, by which several horses
and men fell. The Indians charged the
troops, who gave way and retreated
pellmell. The Indians drove the troops
across the river. Rations and bedding
were abandoned, which the Indians
secured
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26
A Land Grant Decision.
Washington Telegram, nth.

The attorney general has rendered
an opinion upon the question SUBJ
mitted by the secretary of the interior,
touching the right of land grant rail
road, to deviate in constructing its road
from the line of route as definitely
adopted. The question arose in con-
nection with the grant to the state of
Iowa, to aid in the construction of
railroad from McGregor, westerly, the
point of the road between Algona and
Sheldon was built by the G. M. st. Paul
company, and it deviated from
the line of the route as sur
veyed and adopted by the McGregor
and Missouri river company. about five
miles at one point. The question as TO
what effect that DETECTION would have
upon the grant was submitted by the
secretary, and the attorney general
holds that in order to entitle the state
to the land granted it is necessary that
road should be constructed according
to the line of definite location. If q
different road is built, than that definite
ly located, it cannot entitle the state to
the benefit of the lands. The question
whether the road constructed is or is
not the road as definitely located is one
for the interior department to deter
mine, and which must be largely within
the discretion of the secretary. Some
DETECTION must, in many cases, be ex-
pected, but there must be substantial
compliance with the line of location.
He also holds that while the state had
a right to fix the points at which the
roads should be constructed, it could
not thereby affect the right of the Unit
ed States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26
An Expensive Household.
London Telegraph.


His Majesty the Emperor of China.
is just now in a serious difficulty.
Young though he is, he has already to
maintain some seventy women on his
establishment in various capacities,
and, like every other gentleman who
has ladies under his protection, the
duty devolYes upon him of cloathing
them. This would be a comparatively
easy task were the seventy fair ones of
a reasonable turn Of mind. But, un-
happily for the peace of the Brother Of
the Sun and Moon, their extravaganza
is pronunced 10 be beyond all bounds.
Two hundred and fifty Thousand taels,
which is more than one-half of the
land tax of the Empire, were expended
last year III silk, satin, gauze, velvet,
red, and gilt paper, and pearls. 1t is
said that one dress which was in pos
session CT an Empress was covered last
year with seed pearls worked in SO pc
culiar fashion as to have cost fabu-
loas sum. With respect to this robe
there are great searching5 of heart. The
Empress is aged, though the dress is
new. Ifshe die, according to custom,
it must be burned, supposing it to be In
her possession at the time of her demise.
She refuses to part with it, and the idea
of this wastefulness, coupled with the
prospect of Increasing extrav-
agance in the coming year, troubles the
owner of the vermilion pencil exceed
ingly. Contemplating the position of
this illustrous parsonage, and remem-
bering that as yet, he is too young to
be practically married, it is curious to
speculate as to what his position Will be
when he arrives at mans estate, and
finds himself the lord of seventy
additiOnalWiYes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26

A fact probably but little known is
that the United States nickle five cent
piece furnishes a key to metric meas
ures and weights. This coin is two CEN
timetres in diameter, and its weight is
five grammes. five of them placed in
4 row will give the length of the
decimetre, and two Of them will weigh
4 adegramme. As kilolitre is a cubic
metre, the key to the measure of length
is also the key to measures of capacity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26

TIE Illinois Supreme Court for the
Northern Grand Division will meet at
Ottawa, en- Tuesday, March 2, 1880.
The Spring term of the Appellate Court
will begin on Tuesday, March 2. All
the cases on the docket for the present
term have been heard and taken on
call, and large number of decisions
rendered. The docket for the coming
term will not be SO large as for the pres
Cnt term
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26

THE highest inhabited place in the
world IS Galera, a railway village in
Peru, Il, $50 feet above the sea. Near
it a tunnel 3.847 feet long is being bored
through the peak of the mountain, coo
feet above the perpetual snow line. A
miners habitation on Mount Lincoln
Colorado, is "a .157 feet above the sea.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26

THE population OF Memphis, accord
ing 10 the latest directory, shows fall
ing of of 1850 during the last year. 1t
is now placed at 40,957. Its trade has
greatly increased, the single item of
cotton being $4,000 bales greater than
for the same time last year, and 5000
Crnafnr than In 1877
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26
Milwaukee Market,

MILWAUKEE, Feb. 23.- Flour = Inactive.
25c higher; closed weak; No.
hard, 25: No. l, 1884; No. 2, 1.22A seller
February, 1.2l4; seller March: / 221; seller
April, 1.24A; No. 8, 1.G9A; No. 4, 1.o4:
rejected, c5. Corn-IIigher at 371a for No, 2.
oats-Higher and firm at 3214 for No. 2. Rye
1ac lower; st 75c. Barley-FIrm; at 20 for No 2
Provisisions- Steady.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26

The Sedalia (Mo.) Democrat reports
that party of gentlemen have digcov
cred mound near Knob Noster, that
State, which contains the skeletons of
pigmies, with skull no larger than mans
fist, and the jaws provided with full sets
of teeth, showing them to be the re-
mains Of grown persons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26

THE engineers in the employ of NJ.
De Lesseps have completed the survey
of the route of the proposed ship canal
across the isthmus of Panama, and the
estimate of the cost of the canal when
completed at 84O,OO0,OOO francs, or
about $160,0OO,O0O It will take eight
wears to construct the canal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26
Fees Of Dncfnrs.

The fec of doctors is an item that very many
persons are interested in Just at present. We be-
lleye the schedule for visits is $780, which would
tax man confined TO his bed for year, and in
need of daily visit over 81 900 year for medical
attendance alonel And one single bottle OF Hop
Bitters taken in time would save the 81 600 and
all the Yeas sickness.-Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26

"Going to leave, Mary?" ayes, mum;
find | am very discontented." '1f
there is anything l can do to make you
comfortable, let me know" "No,
mum, it's impossible. You can't alter
your fgger to my fgger, nc. morn l can.
Your dresses won't fit me, and [ can't
appear on Sunday as used at my last
place, where missus' clothes fitted
'xactly."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26

You can't fool Quincy girl. When
her "fellow" rises from his seat in the
theatre between the acts and says: 'I'll
be back in moment" she dazzles him
with one of her most reliable smiles,
and pulling him back with the remark,
Il brought ONE with me-" coyly slips
into his hand pinch Of cloves Or roast
ed cnffee,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26

For $5 note an eastern minister mar
ried a child only 10y years old 10 the step
father and cousin Of the child, man
aged IS years. There are worse preach
prs than CoWley.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26

Woman read this: A girl down in
Massachusetts, who painted pottery has
become insane. And in the horrible
dreams and hideous fancies that glare
upon her darkened mind she imagines
she sees all the things she has painted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26

AN Iowa paper says 1.-The Des Moines
ladies have made compact to remain
at home Friday afternoons to receive
calls" But if they al remain at home
who will do the calling?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26

Rev. HAYDEN is poor man. and his
father, who before the trial was COM
paratively wellto do, has been almost
ruined by the expenses attending his
sons defense.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26
nnffer Tiyf,fS-

The business revival and new era of prosperity
which has commenced are in keeping with the in
creased health and happiness all over the land re-
sulting from the general introduction of Warmers
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. "The changes
wrought by this remedy" says Rev. DR.. Harvey,
"seem but little less than miraculous.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26

A tramp went into Nevada hotel
and said: "Fill me up with whiskey and
have fun with me-"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26
VOL. XIII.
TWINkLINGS.

ONLY six miles of railroad were built
in New Jersey last year.