Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-06-09
GEN NERAL NOTES.

A CORPS Of engineers will at once start
out from Duluth to survey for an airline
road to Chicago.
THE immigration to the United States
for May was rs. 6.S12, exceeding anything
ever known at Castle Garden.
THE first crate of Georgia peaches has
gone forward to New York. A yield of
sixty thousand baskets is expected.
THE Pioneer Mail company, of st.
| Louis, which has had postal contracts for
nearly half a century, has been compelled
to suspend.
GALE SHERMAN, of Lima, O., travelled
thence to Boston on his bicycle, to par
ticipate in the meet. About 450 men and
machines are on hand.
| THE members of the Ute commission
have arrived at Los Pinos agency. The
reds who ride in to draw rations are
abundantly supplied with the best arms.
WILLIAM MALONE. Jr., was married at
! Petersburg, Va, to Miss Mary A. Tanner.
! Mrs. Senator Malone will s:on go to Eu-
rope, where she intends to remain for sew
eral years and educate her daughter.
THE American Bible Society will, for the
present, adhere to the old version, or
king James Bible" of which they have
many thousand copies on hand, out of
100000 manufactured last wear.
| THE court of claims has decided that the
| Union Pacific read is subject to the limited
rates for postal-cars prescribed by the re-
vised statutes, and cannot be allowed extra
compensation.
| IN removing two bodies from contiguous
graves in the cemetery at Idaville, Ind, it
was found that nothing was left of one but
bones, while the other had turned to flint
and weighed three hundred pounds.
THE Boston nine beat the Clevelands,
s to 4, by which figures the Worcesters
vanquished the Detroit club. The Chica-
goes won game with Troy, 4 to 3, and
Buffalo beat Providence, to 2
| A RAILWAY ticket war is liable to break
out at Kansas CITY the agreement as to
rates having been broken by the agent of
! the Rock Island road, who sold two un-
limited tickets to Buffalo for $25 each, and
refuses to redeem them.
! THE greenbackers of Iowa nominated
Hon. D. NJ. Clark. of Wayne county, for
governor, and Hon. James NJ. Holland, of
! Henry county, for lieutenant governor
Mrs. Mary r. Nash, of Des Moines, was
selected tor superintendent of public in
strgctiOn.
AT the annual meeting of stockholders
of the Northwestern railway, held in Chi
cago. the old officers were reelected, but
the Vanderbilt interest caused the substi-
tuition of Anson Stager and Frederick w.
| Vanderbilt on the board Of directors for
D. p Morgan and Frank Work.
The Illinois legislature has reached. an
adjournment. In the senate chamber
George Terwilliger, tie assistant secretary,
was presented with handsome gold
watch. A bill to make decoration dav a
legal holiday passed without dissent The
house put through the senate bill provid-
ing for immediate settlements between
county and town collectors.
ORRIN HICKoK had arranged to trot ST.
Julien on the Detroit track against the
time Of Maud S, In trial. the flyer went
TO the half-mile pole in Loo, and was COM
ing home at a 2:10 gait when he stepped
in hole and nearly fell over on the track.
The injury will prevent his starting this
week.
THE New York Legislature has passed a
bill providing that steamship companies
shall be taxed 81 for each steerage passen-
ger landed in New York The object of
this tax is to provide for the expenses at
tcndant on the inspection of emigrant-
carrying vessels, and other expenses.
/ The bill now awaits the Governors sigma
4 ture.
HANLAN, the Canadian oarsman, refuses
to row on any other waters than those OF
Toronto Bay. He says that if Ross con-
sents to row there he will put up $1,000,
and will get another person who with
Ross shall put up $1,000, making purse
of $1,000 for the winner. This is in an
swer to the challenge of Mr.. Kennedy, Of
Portland, Me, who offers to put up 81 800
if Hah!an and third person unknown
will row in New England.