Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-05-12
GENERAL NOTES.

THE government is feeding one thousand
destitute people in and around Yanton.
Both houses of the Michigan legisla-
ture have nassed bill making it fine
able misdemeanor to get drunk.
CAPTAIN PAUL BoYToN has returned to
New York, having escaped from the Chill
ians and swan out to an English steamer
OWING TO deadlock in the police board
at Troy, n. Y, the station-houses are
locked and the city is without guardians.
THERE is report at New York that
Hon. Carl Schurz has been rendered the
presidency of the Northern Pacific Rail
road.
The switchmen on the several roads in
Chicago have struck, and propose to re-
main idle until the companies accede to
their demand for higher wages.
AT baseball, Chicago beat Cleveland,
6 to 0; Worcester beat Troy, Toto 5; De
troit beat Buffalo, 4 to 2, and Providence
beat Boston, Z to l.
THE saloons at Parsons, Kan, have
closed, the druggists and physicians refuse
to give bonds, and all former drinking
places have Grape on the door-knobs.
MINING speculation at New York has
suddenly experienced great revival, and
seats in the exchange have risen 10 $4,000.
Events in the stock market also indicate
another vigorous bull campaign.
ONE thousand bakers, out on a strike,
paraded the downtown streets of New
York. The Grand Trunk brakemen at
Toronto demand an advance of fifteen to
twenty-five cents per day.
THoME, the defaulting cashier of the
Panama Canal company, who was report
ed to have fed with $6.000,000, was found
at Arica Peru, in half-insane condition,
and allowed to go free on restoring fifteen
thousand francs.
CoLoRow, the Ute chief, having .heen
interviewed denies that he has ordered the
whites into the post at White
river. The Utes declare they will
not fight unless an effort is made to remove
them, but insist in the most positive
manner that they will not leave their
homes.
SITTING BULL is only forty miles from
Fort Buford, but declares that he will not
surrender. 1t is charged that his emissa-
ries are tiying to induce the young bucks
to leave the agency and join him.
By the giving way of dixie at East St.
Louis. stream of water almost equal to
the Mississippi is Oowing through the
streets, with possibility that it may be-
come the main channel.
IN Oregon one has to obtain a fve-dol-
lar license to drink whisky straight at
bar. The saloon-keeper is liable to heavy
peualties if he sells to an unlicensed topper.
The newspapers have taken to publishing
$5 men, which is very discouraging to the
barkeepers.
IN ball game at Providence, before
fourteen hundred spectators, the nine of
that city was defeated by the Boston club,
to 2. The Worcesters beat the Troys,
to 5. and the Buffalos waxed the Detroits
6 to 5. The Clevelands beat the Chicagos,
3 to1.
COLONEL A. F. WILLIAMS and nine
other mining capitalists of San Francisco
have equipped a schooner to leave for the
silver mountain reported to have been dis
covered in Alaska by sailors. Some
specimens have assayed from $4,000 to
$4,000 per ton.
THE census of Mississippi, which
was take Il simultaneously with the Federal
census, shows nearly the same population
The total number of voters in the state is
240, ,720, divided as follows: "Whites,
110, ,113; eolored, l30,6O7..
A sECfND prayer cure is announced from
Canaan township, Perm, where Miss Ella
Ludwig, who suffered for years from an
apparently incurable hip disease, was
made able to walk by the combined sup
plications of her friends at her bedside, on
day fixed by lady in Connecticut.