Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-12-29
GENERAL NOTES

HARRY WRIGHT has been engaged t.
manage the Providence baseball club mex
season, at liberal salary.
THE legislature of Virginia elected FL
II. Riddleberger to the U nited States sen.
ate. He goes unpledged TO either party
A SHERIFF in Dakota, having an execu.
ton in his memorandum book, went to
! Chicago to obtain plans for a scaffold.
SQUIRE CLARK was hanged at Lexing.
ton, S. c., for the murder OF Scott Hook
DR.. RAUCH, secretary of the Illinois
board of health, alarmed over the spread
of smallpox through immigrants, urges
the national board to carry out quarantine
regulations in Chicago.
The steamship Anchoria brought to
New York an invoice of three hundred
tons of Scotch potatoes.
COLONEL George Hicks, of Illinois, has
obtained from the governor of Jamaica,
letters of naturalization as a British sub
| iect.
ExPosITO, the extradited Italian bandit.
now on trial at Palermo. denies all the
charges against him except the seizure OF
Rose, an English citizen.
/ AFTER the Vanderbilt wedding the other
day, the railway magnate gave the bride
his present residence On Fifth avenue.
and cheek for $500
THE youngest daua hter of William III
| Vanderbilt was married to the son of Gen.
James Watson Webb, at St. Bartholomew 3
church. n. York. Three rectors oficiat-
ed, and Bishop Potter delivered the bene-
diction.
THE citizens of St. Adams, VT, met to
discuss the voluntary closings of the hotels
on account of the temperance crusade, and
resolved to put new vigor into the reform
movement.
DAVID I. WELLEs, representing the pur-
chasers of controlling interest in the
Sentinel, of Milwaukee, has commenced
suit against the present managers of the
faper to gain possession.
The Virginia house of delegates almost
unanimously passed bill to relieve forty
citizens from disability incurred by duel
ing. Included in the list are the names
of II. HI. Riddleberger, General Payne,
and three members of the Wise family.
The health auth critics of Chicago re-
ported ten cases of smallpox in one day
and five deaths. The warden of the Jol-
let penitentiary has prohibited residents
of any of the chief cities of Illinois from
visiting prisoners.
The health board of Cincinnati report
tfty-six new cases of small-box for the
week. The disease has lately appear ID
in the oontioI part or inc city. Tie vac
cinations at the health office average two
hundred per day.
A BRIDAL outfit, comprising ffty-six
lots of goods, which was smuggled into
the port of New York by Joseph Leopold,
Milwaukee steam boat owner, was sold
at auction by the customs authorities for
less than $1,000.
THE jail at fernando, Miss, was emp
tied OF its inmates on Thursday night.
Among those who escaped is Edward
Neims, who is under sentence of death for
the murder of Rufus Armistead.
CHRIS gibson, the oldest scout in the
government service, reports to Gen. Pope
that there will be an uprising of the Utes,
Piutes, and Navaioes in New Mexico in
the spring. The reds on the Utah reser-
vation are being freely furnished with
arms by the Mormons.
GENERAL IGNATIRFF has ordered an
active search for the second cutter from
the Jeanette. James Gordon Bennett
sent cablegram from Paris to Secretary
Frelinghuyeen stating that he had trans
ferred six thousand rubles to General
Ignatieff to aid Captain De Long and his
party. The distance by wagon from St.
Petersburg to the point where the ship
wrecked crew are stopping is four thous-
and miles