Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-07-14
GENERAL NOTES

TIE family OF Mr.. Gomez, who was
killed by the calamity on the Morelos
railroad, in Mexico, has sued the company
for damages.
WORK on the Yorktown centennial mon
ument, which is to cost 100000. will be
| begun at once.
IHE presence of the comet has driven
the superstitious negroes of Richmond in
TO the revival meetings in hordes.
The wife and three daug hters of General
Flyers, of the British army, have been
drowned at French watering place.
DurING the fiscal year Just ended our
mints coined $1O6, 7SS,94O. of which $27,-
637 $50 was in silver dollars.
ABOUT six thousand negroes are in at
tendance upon the colored Baptist camp
meeting in progress at Muncie, Ind.
CINCINNATI reports a temperature of
over l03 degrees, the highest for nine
years. Thirteen deaths from sunstroke
are chrOnicled.
The Vienna papers assert that the vic
tim of the murder at Winnetka, Ill, was
undoubtedly Ignaz Hopf, formerly mayor
of Naffersdorf.
THE shipment of hog products from this
country during the month of May were
5S 100000 lbs less than for the CORE
spending period in in 1880.
TwENTY-THREE recruits deserted from a
party obtained in Canada for the north
west mounted police, while in transit
through the United States.
The directors of the De Lesseps canal
company have practically completed the
purchase of the Panam railway for $l7,
5OO, 900, and the canal is to follow closely
the line of the track.
THE Manitoba and the Northern Pacific
railway managers have appealed to the
courts for possession of the Pelican Val
ley in Minnesota.
THE winning four OF the Minnesota
boat club have resolved to enter for the
national regatta at Washington in Sep
tember, and will practice on White Bear
| lake.
The mercury i'll st. Louis rose above
! 100 degrees. Nine policemen were forced
to give up their beats, and the morgue
was crowded with corpses of those pros
trated by the heat.
THE success of Director General KIM
ball, of the Atlanta cotton exposition, was
so great that the executive committee
have decided to yield free floor space to
every class of exhibits from every quarter
of the globe.
The London Lancet, the acknowledged
organ of the best medical and surgical tai
ent in England, basing it's opinion upon
the daily bulletins issued by his physicians,
expresses the belief that there is reason
able ground for hope" for President Gar
fields recovery.
RosCoE CONKLING, in letter to Attor-
ney General MacVeagh, calls his atten-
tion to the broad distiction between as
sailing the life of an Individual and an
attempt to take life of special value to
the whole people, and suggests rigorous
punishment for assaults on high executive
officers.
HAVING received warning that a plot
for escape was about to be carried out, the
jailer at Erie, Pa, found that seven prison
ers had armed themselves with iron bolts,
and stanchions wrenched from the win
dows, and accumulated wires, files, and
material for descending through hole in
JAMES MCBRIDE, an inmate of the
Soldiers. home at Dayton, O., expressed
Joy at the shooting of President Garfield.
He was marched out of the institution at
the point of the bayonet, and left beyond
the gates. This is the second instance of
exultation reported in a land of fifty mil
lions of people.
In commenting upon the attempted as-
sassiDation, London journal predicts
that a marked change Of opinion will take
place in the United States in regard to
the Nervousness of political murder, and
that the Americans will appreciate their
responsibility in harboring plotters
against the lives of European monarchs
Two runners from the camp of Sitting
Bull have reached Poplar River agency
and are negotiating for the surrender of
twenty-nine lodges of hostiles who are en-
camped just north of the border line
This would leave Sitting Bull with only
thirteen lodges to cope with the Crees who
are in the field after his scalp.
The supreme court of Michigan has Just
rendered a decision in case in which a
man lent another money wherewith to
get up a corner on wheat. The lender
sued to recover the money back. The court
held that combination entered into to
artifcially affect the price of any necessity
of life was illegal, and the loan in this
case could not be recovered.
IT seems as difficult to decide who first
saw the comet as who struck Billy Patter-
son. i. w. Thickstun. of Mosertown, Pa,
claims to have noticed it at a. IN. of the
22d, an indianapolis policeman says he
saw it at 2:30, and 0. c. Charlton, of Le-
banon, Ind, at o'clock. Other claim
ants, date unannounced, are L. T. Ed
wards, of Haverford college, Philadelphia !;
Edgar A. Larkin, of New Windsor, ILL.,,
and K. G. McElhanny and t. F. Newland,
of Springfield, Ill.