Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-08-25
GENERAL NOTES

In three-mile rowing race at Halifax,
for $500, Mckay beat Plaisted by two
lengths.
The senate of Georgia defeated, by a
vote of 20 to -, the temperance bill re-
ported by a special committee.
HANLAN is giving exhibitions on Creve
C9ur lake, near S. Louis, and is likely to
select that course for his match with Ross.
Mrs. MARIA HUFF, of Clinton, Wis,
has celebrated her one hundredth birth
day, in which seventy-eight descendants
took a lively interest.
THE switchmen employed by the Erie
road at Olean, n Y, have struck for an
advance from 81 IS to 81 per day, leaving
1000 freight cars in the yards.
THE Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
road has secured another tract Of forty
acres in Minneapolis, and will erect repair
and construction shops for all It's lines
west of the Mississippi.
! INDIAN AGENT HUNT announces the dis
covery Of rich and extensive silyer-felds
in Indian Territory. near Fort Sill. and
the commissioner of Indian affairs asks
| for troons to keep out irtruders.
A SEARCH for the remlins of A T. Stew
art has been commenced in Cypress Hills
cemetery, Brooklyn, the supposed clue be-
ing an oil sketch of theground handed to
a detective by a newsboy.
| THE drouth in the vicinity of Indian
apolis arouses the livelest apprehension
in regard to fire There have been sew
! eral instances where farmers have seen
their barns and crops burned by sparks
! from locomotives.
| AT the Minneapolis fair there will be
twenty-mi1e race between Miss Cook, of
| California, and Miss Jewttt, of Minnesota,
and another between the winner and Miss
| Williams, of England, fo' 500, 900 and the
cham pionship Of the word.
| IN the contest for the base ball cham
pionship, the score at the end of last week
stood: ChiCagos, 3S; Bufalos, 81; De-
troits, 3O Boston and Providence, 27
each; Cleveland, 25; Worcester and Troy,
| 81 each.
THE Northern Pacific ro.d and the Ore
gon Navigation company have Jointly
sent out scientific expedition to explore
the territory between Lake Superior and
the Pacific coast The leader is Prof.
Raphael Pumpelly, of he census office.
GENERAL HANCOCK and three staff off
GERS went to Boston to inspect the fortif-
cations along the New england coast, but
the condition of the president caused
change in their plans md they have gone
! to Portland.
THE first sod has ,een turned in the
New York and New Ioundland railway,
whose termini are to b st. Johns and the
north end of Notre Dame bay A gold
mine of great promiseis reported to have
been developed at tn, eastern end of the
line.
GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN has completed ar
rangements for operating fast Pullman
train on the London, Brighton & South
Coast railway. One ar will have res
taurant and a news agency. The company
will experiment with the American sys-
tenn of checking baggage.
A PROMINENT physician of Cincinnati
reports 20 well-defnd cases Of typhoid
fever among the 400 English colonists at
| Rugby, Tenn. Two deaths have occurred.
A corps of physiciansand nurses has been
dispatched to the afflicted settlement Bad
drinking water was tie chief cause of the
epidemic.
THE Apaches madea raid on the miners
near Mutt Station, New Mexico, and killed
George Daily, the general manager. Tne
deceased was known in all the mining
camps of the west, having had charge of
the Little Chief and Chrysolite at Lead
vile, and of the Robinson consolidated
properties.
FATHER GRoGAN, of Chicago, prevented
the Michael Davitt Land-league club of
the Fifth ward from meeting in the school
house Of st. Bridget's parish, and is said
to have called the members unprincipled
yagahonds. The club marched to Finu-
canes hall, followed by tbs priest, who
was elected. The father then entered
with. policeman to cause some arrests,
and both were driven away.