Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-06-22
GRAND RAPIDS, WIS, THURSDAY, JUNE %. 1882.

officer in the army. has been dismisse,
from the service for misaSpropriation o
funds.
FREDERICK Voss. eight years of age. wa
ran over by Third avenue car in New
York, for which the company has beer
mulcted in $4,000.
Rev. CORNELIUS BRETT, who bears the
GARFIELD memorial volume prepared TO,
Queen Victoria, has sailed for Europe.
Mr.. BocHMAN, a brewer. bas presented
to the Italian colony Of New York the
house and grounds on Staten Island occu-
pied by Garibaldi as candle factory.
IT has been ascertained that the July
wheat corner in Chicago is being engi-
neered by P. d. Armour, John Plankinton,
and Alexander Mitchell.
THE graduating class at West Point
was given its diplomas by General How
| ard, and addresses were delivered by SEN
ator Harrison. General Sherman, and Col.
E. s. Otis.
HON. WILLIAM DENNIsON, who died at
Columbus June Is, was the war governor
of Ohio, and held the Office of postmaster
general under Presidents Lincoln and
Johnson. He was 81 years of age, and
has been i'll for several months.
Hon. JAMES WILSON, at present rail-
road commissioner, has been nominated
for congress by the republicans of the
Fifth district of Iowa, after they had bal
loted 145 times on FIVE other candidates.
A TRACT of 81 acres on the Hudson
river, near Peekskill, has been leased for
camp-ground for the militia of New
York. The 23d regiment, of Brooklyn,
will embark July l, for week under
canvass.
2THE resignation of the fficers of FIVE
companies of the original End regiment Of
Chicago are to be accepted at Springfield, /,
and the men mustered out of service.
Recruiting for the lst infartry is very ac-
tive, and 100 men have been secured for
the honary corps.
BUSINESS men of New England, repre-
senting over $200,000,000 of capital, who
urged General Francis Walker for place
on the tariff commission. have sent to the
senate a strong protest against making
John L. Hayes the chairman.
The republicans state convention of
North Carolina Endorsed the nominees of
the liberal movement, and passed reso-
luton requesting members of the legisla-
ture to vote against prohibitory liquor
laws. One Of the leading spirits in the
convention was Col. William Johnson, a
malignant secessionist during the war;
another was District Attorney BOYD, the
leader of Kuklux band in 1870.
Col. FhED RoEIR was nominated for
governor by the republican convention of
the state of Maine. For congress the fol-
lowing gentlemen were placed In nomina-
ton: Thos. 3. Reid, Nelson Dinghy,
Chas. A. Boutille and Seth D, Millenken.
the convention Endorsed President Ar
thurs administration.
the relief committee admits that several
who were placed on good lands in Ohio
nave found their way back to the metrop-
oils. The number forwarded from Brody
ls in excess of the arrangement made.
They seem TO feel that they are doing the
relief committee great favor by coming
to the United States
WIN. H. VANDERBILT and party of ten
associates passed over the Northwestern
railway through Wisconsin on the 21st
inst. Mr.. Vanderbilt says the object of
his visit Is an examination Of the lines of
the Northwestern, with an inquiry into
the traffic sources of the west. The party
intends to go as far north as Winnipeg,
returning to Chicago in week. Mr.. Van
derbilt admitted having a large Individual
interest in the Rock Island, Burlington,
Santa Fe, and Q Union Pacific roads, but
stated he desired no voice in their man
agement. He improved the opportunity
to deny that he ever unloaded Lake Shore
stock on his friends, and remarked that
he had this year increased his holding in
that road by 10000 shares. He said he
had given no one assurance that the Lake
Shore road would pay per cent. quarter
", nor would he pretend that the New
York Central was at the present time
earning 8 per cent. per annum. He de-
clared that he held the same interest in
Michigan Central as for several years
past.