Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-08-18
GENERAL NOTES

ported for the past year was $40, ,596.
SIX Sioux chiefs from Standing Rock
are en- route to Washington for a confer
ence.
A DISPATCH from Yates says two squaws
were caught carrying guns and ammuni-
tion into Sitting Bulls camp.
THE people Of Yankton, Dakota, pro
pose 10 erect on bluff near that city 4
Congregational college TO cost 100000.
Mrs. JOHN KLINE, of Brooklyn, after
twenty-five years of married life, took her
clothing and $4,000 in money, and eloped
with the husband of her most intimate
female friend.
The city engineer of Montreal has
found a woman who for sixteen months
has been engineer in boot-heel factory,
has perfect knowledge of her business,
and never had an accident.
THE wheat corner in Chicago has made
prices for cash and August delivery six
cents higher than rule in Milwaukee, and
cargoes continue to arrive by lake from
the latter port.
AT large meeting of socialists in New
York it was resolved that Secretary
Blaine was bound to give an explicit an
swer to the questions propounded in re-
gard to the extraditIon uf Leo Hartmann.
EFF oRTs are being made in Arizona to
secure the removal of John G. Fremont
from the goVernorship, as for the past
three years he has spent most of his time
at the east.
AT the funeral of General Robert Pat
terson, of Philadelphia, Generals Grant,
Sherman, Hancock and Porter officiated
as pall-bearers. and Generals Schofeld,
Sickles and Hartranft were present.
Grow DOG, who assassinated Spotted
Tail, proceeded to Fort Niobrara and sur
rendered himself. Colonel Montgomery
has asked instructions from Washington
as to what shall be done with him.
TEE widow of ex-president Fillmore,
who died in Buffalo recently, was in her
list year. In October last she suffered a
severe stroke of paralysis. The only sur
yivor of the ex-president is an unmarried
son by his first wife.
OMAHA has nearly ready for use a wa
ter system constructed by a private com
pany at cost of $3.50, 900. The storage
| capacity is eighteen million gallons, and
there are thirty-one miles of pipe.
THEODORE ALLEN, notorious gambler
of New York, was recently united in
ildI IldSC W 41 iSS Lila n NIONST, a
young lady of beauty and refinement.
and possessing half million in her own
right.
GENERAL GRANT has bought for $685.
600 a residence on Sixty-sixth street.
New York, for his future home. He will
be at the soldiers reunion at Blooming
ton, ILL.,, on September 6, and go thence to
st. Louis and to Mexico.
Trr e Topro
veterinary surgeon TO Madison County to
found so badly diseased that he caused
| them to be shot; four others have bee !
placed in isolation for thirty days.
No successor to Bishop Haven can be
elected until the next general meeting of
bishops, but the four conferences on the
Pacific coast will be taken in charge by
Bishop Harris, who is now on his way
westward.
DURING the races at Saratoga, Benjamin
II. Benton, of New York, was arrested for
attempting to bribe stable-boy with 5000
to poison Applegate & Brothers steeple-
chaser Glasgow. He was held for ma
licious mischief, but jumped his bail.
a TRAIN of four wagons, valued at
$4,000, was captured and burned by In =.
dians while en- route to Arizona. Tran
quilino Luna, delegate in congress from
New Mexico, is in pursuit of the reds with
forty mounted volunteers from Las Lunas
PETER DAHL of Chicago, died in the
Cook county hospital, recently, of hydro
phobia. He was bitten in the thumb by a
dog six months ago, but there seemed to
have been no injuries inflicted until he
related the occurrence and was informed
that he would die from the bite.
THE water in the croton reservoir at
New York has been reduced six inches by
the increased consumption, in addition to
95.OOO,OO0 gallons daily delivered by the
aqueduct There are 5000 meters in use
in large buildings Surveys are being
made for a new aqueduct.
COMMISSIONER FINK reports that the
joint executive committee of the trunk
lines resolved to restore on August % the
grain rate OF 25 cents from Chicago to
New York. The meeting was a secret
one, and lasted for three hours. No rep
resentative of the Vanderbilt roads was in
attendance