Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-07-28
GENERAL NOTES

pSALf EhS III NEW i OTk are S6Illng tlCk-
cts to Chicago at from $7.75 to SO.
THE railway building since January has
brought the tracks of the United States to
an aggregate of 100000 miles.
CHIEF JUSTICE SHANNON, of Dakota. has
organized at Pierre the first court ever
held in that part of the territory.
SENATOR BEN HILL underwent sur
gical operation at Philadelphia for an af-
fection of the tongue.
ANOTHER case of Asiatic cholera is re-
ported from Camden. n. j., the victim
being an aged clergyman.
WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT has offered
to bear two-thirds the cost of suitable
buildings for female college at Nashville.
HENRY WILLARD and party have return
ed to st. Paul from a trip to the end of the
Northern Pacific track.
THE st. Joseph fruit region of Michi-
gan will have neither peaches nor black
berries to ship this year. but the crop of
whortleberries will be immense.
SITTING BULL and two hundred follow
ers surrendered at Fort Buford and we're
placed in compartments at the post. The
famous chieftain is sullen and insolent
In declining to appoint day of thanks
SINlhS loI Tue TeCoVe1Y OI Ine president,
Governor Roberts, of Texas, has drawn
down upon himself a whirlwind of indig-
nation.
AN heir to the vast estate of Elizabeth
Nanattoe, of Syracuse, has been discov-
| cred at Milwaukee in the person of John
Green ship-carpenteT.
LARGE crowds of people have been flock
ing into Maryville, Mo, to witness the
execution of Albert and Charles Z. Tai
bott for the murder of their father.
TIE army-worm is rapidly extending
over the state Of Illinois, and in MANY
places many farmers are cutting their
| crops in advance of their ripening. A
field Of forty acres of oats at Sycamore,
ILL.,, was ravaged in forty-eight hours.
DR.. GATLING, the inventor of the gun
bearing his name, has invented torpedo
for the destruction Of torpedo boats, and
gave very satisfactory exhibition recent
ly. 1t will throw shell three miles,
which will pierce the iron skin of a tor
pedo boat easily.
REBUILDING has commenced at New
Ulm, MINI. Henry Willard has given
81, 800 to the relief fund. 81 900 has been
raised at Milwaukee, and St. Paul and
Minneapolis have pledged $1,000 each.
The number of deaths by the cyclone has
swollen to th1rtY-four.
THERE are sixteen persons in iail at
Chicago on charge of murder. The bail
of John c. Hayward, indicted for the
murder of James Mcmahon, has been re-
duced to $500. He has lain in iail for
three years, and was once convicted and
sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
Killing people in Chicago ought not to be
regarded az a joke.
SITTING BULL, five other chiefs, and
forty lodges are really on the way to Fort
Buford, in charge of Jean Louis Legare,
and were expected to arrive inside our
lines Tuesday. Major Brotherton sent out
Blk army wagons with supplies for the
guests.
SHERIFF WoOD, of Sycamore, ILL.,, was
persuaded to take a prisoner named Ed
ward Hardy to the BARRIERS. The jail-bird
made dash when the doors were opened,
but was recaptured by the sherrif's young
est daughter, who thrust revolver in his
face and forced him to halt
Four armed men, believed to be the
James boys and their accomplices, went
into camp at the ferry lanoing near Lex
ington, Mo-, the other night, and were
driven ten miles by a party of United
otdtcb river eHPlOySs- 1He euudu dIc
thought to be the Winston train robbers.
TIE Secretary of State when at Deer
Park, said to a friend who met him at the
depot: For Heavens sake, don't call
me Blaine. Call me Jervis, or any name
you please, but don't call me Blaine.
am nearly tormented to death by visitors,
letters and kilograms, and l came up here
to get rid of them, and have a couple of
days rest"
VAST as has been the immigration from
Europe during the past year, the commits
sioners at Castle Garden report an increas-
ing demand for labor which they are ut
terly unable to supply. Agriculturists
are wanted for Florida, Louisiana. and
West Virginia smelters for The mining
towns, and graders for the railways with
which the new southwest is being grid
ironed.