Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-05-19

ed resolution looking 10 the transfer of
the dust of William Penn from an Eng
lish churchyard to Philadelphia.
THE legislature of Michigan has passed
the amendment to the new liquor-tax bill,
which provides for a $500 tax on spirit re-
tailers and 5000 on beer sellers.
a PARTY of Tennesseeans are about to
start for Montana with three hundred
head of fine breeding cattle. The trip will
consume three weeks, and the cost of
transportation will be 81 000
THERE is good authority for the state
ment that the Northern Pacific Company
and Henry Willard will compromise on
the basis of the retirement of President
/ Billings and the surrender of half the di-
rectOrships.
THE officers of the Chicago and Alton
road have secured a term of four wears in
the penitentiary for r. G, Crawford, a
confidence operator, who swindled Ed
ward Tucker of Springfield, out of $400
on an Alton train.
/ CORNELIUS J. VANDERBILT was brought
into court at Brooklyn to answer to suit
tor $50 due on a diamond stud purchased
in 1870. His counsel stated that he had
paid $l60,000 of old debts since he came
IhlO pOSS6SSIOn OF means.
Col. THOMAS A. SCOTT, of Philadelphia,
who last week was stricken by paralysis
for the third time, and whose death was
momentarily expected, has risen from his
bed, and his physicians Lave hopes that
he may recover.
ON Sunday the pope appointed the Very
Rev. John McMullen, vicar general of the
archdiocese of Chicago, to be bishop of
the Iiooaca Of L.
Very Rev. Killian G. Flash, of Milwau-
kee, to be bishop of the diocese oe La
Crosse, Wis.
The rolling mill at Atlanta, Ga, has
been forced to suspend by the failure of
the Citizens bank. Its operatives, four
hundred and fifty in number, have at
tached all the material and machinery to
pay their wages for April
THE resolution of the Illinois senate to
adjourn sine die on May 81 was amended
by the house by an extension for three
days. 1t is safe to assume that there will
be no quorum for the three days in dispute,
but members will draw $15 additional by
the change.
The quartermaster at Yankton has IS
sued 31.4O0 rations to sufferers bv the
flood. Captain Clagne, who was sent by
General Terry on a tour of investigation
reports that the officers at Fort Randall
saved seven hundred persons from possible
starvation.
ELIAS H. ALLEN, a negro citizen of
Meadville, Pa, has secured a mandamus
against the school directors directing
them TO admit his minor children to the
public schools of that city A separate in
stitution has heretofore been maintained
for colored pupils
THE statue of Stonewall jackson in Me-
tairie cemetery, New Orleans, was unveil-
ed in presence of several thousand persons,
among whom were the widow and daugh-
ter of the illustrious soldier. General
Fitzhugh Lee delivered the address, and
Jefferson Davis responded to calls by a
brief speech.
STRIKES have become so popular in Can
ada that the Caughnawega Indians have
taken hand For plotting RATS of tim
Der down the Lachine rapids, they demand
an increase to $3.50 per day, with the con-
dition that no white man be employed.
The reds assaulted timber agent for hir-
ing some French Canadians.
The son of a Broadway stage driver
found in a dilapidated trunk which he had
purchased a cluster diamond brooch lost
by Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt at Sara
toga, and valued at $4,000. The youngster
in returning the prize. said he did not ask
a reward, but hoped the affair might aid
his father in securing an easier job.