Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-06-23
GENERAL NOTES

| IHE Pennsylvania greenback conven.
tlon nominated K. w. Jackson, of Mer.
Ger county, for state treasurer, and re-elec-
ted T.. ). Watson, chairman of the state
central committee.
EIGHTY brakemen of the Iron Mountain
road employed at Little Rock have struck
for $50 per month.
THE shipments of strawberries from
Muskegon to Chicago in one day were
nine hundred cases.
A VEIN of coal, eight feet below the SIR
face has been discovered on the line Of
the Duluth and Winnipeg road.
| A FLOCK of $50 blooded sheep were kilI<
ed by lightning on the farm of Colonel d.
A. Alkert, In Nodaway cosnty, Missouri.
Tile migration to the United States
for the past eleven months was 564 2q4
Germany leads with 175, ,206, but Canada
contributed 110,611.
T9E citizens of Des Moines have pre-
sented team, carriage and harness to
Vicar General j. T. BRAZIL. Governor
Gear made the address.
The Greenhackers of Ohio have nomin-
ated John Seitz, of Seneca. for governor !.
Charles Jenkins, of Mahoning. for lieu
tenant governor, and Joseph Watson. of
hnoZ, for supreme court Judge
HE members of the New York stock
exchange are waking up to the necessity
of establishing a news bureau to provide
trustworthy information on all matters
affecting the price of securities.
THE corn crop of Iowa is estimated at
80 per cent. of the average, and the
breadth planted is found to be over three
million acres. Spring wheat is placed at
81 per cent. of the regular yield.
TIE wheat crop of Kentucky is esti
mated at 6I per cent. of the average.
With the drouth of May, the corn crop
will be very late in maturing
ENGLISH physicians have decided that
Mrs. Edwin n Booth must be removed to
the United States, and the trayedians' en-
gagements on the other side of the Allan
tic have been cancelled
The boy evangelist Rev. Thomas Harri-
son, after eleven weeks of earnest labor at
indianapolis. is credited with 2.2OO con-
versions. Sixteen churches in that city
are now open for revival work, and the
use of the theatres for Sunday services
has been rendered.
WHEN the Ute commissioners came IN
cross the Gunnison river, two of the chiefs.
Colorow and Joe, had disapneared. but
Sapanavaro and Guero will rrobably aid
IN the selection of new reservation on
Grand river.
CLARA FOLZ, the San Francisco woman
lawyer, being told by the opposing coun-
sci IN court that a woman's proper place |
was at home raising children, retorted: |
: A woman had better be engaged in al |
most any business than raising such men
as you are, sir.
CHIEF JUSTICE SENER, of Wyoming, de-
cldes that the recent marriage of China
man and a white women, being legal in
Colorado, must be recognized as valid in
Wyoming. This makes Lee Chin solid
With the Mclean man But the CeIeg-
lals have boycotted him for throwing
himself away on white trash, and his
rouble has only commenced.
ERAsTUs WYMAN, of New York, has be-
,ome president of the Great Northwestern
Telegraph company of Canada, since the
'ecent transfer of control. The pathway
9 now open for the amalgamation of the
Montreal and Dominion lines under this
harter, when the three can be absorbed
" the Western Union. '
REV. CowLEY, of the Shepherds fold, oil '
New ork, who served year in the pen
tentlary for starving the children, has
'een given trial by Bishop Potter. The
committee selected has spent six weeks to ,
eclare that Cowley should not have been {
punished as felon, and ought not to be
eposed from the ministry, and the bishop '
I'LL give him some minor position in the ,
hurch. )
IHE Iowa democratic state convention !
Ias attended by $50 delegates One of I
he first incidents was the congratulatory '
ddress of Hon. Weslev Hoffs, of St.
4ouis. Judge L. d. Kinne was nomina- s
ed for governor, Captain j. NJ Walker
or lieutenant governor, Hon. III. B. Hen t
ershott for Judge of the supreme coust, {