Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-01-26

work on the canal has been stopped by E
general strike of laborers for $1.50 pc
day.
The dry goods house of w. K. Bird, a
Des MOines, was closed few days since
by II. B. Clafin & Co., of New York, OF
account of past due paper for $27, 600.
THE sugar-refning firm of Eccles
Thoms & Co., of Baltimore, whose liabili
ties are $67 900, has offered its creditors 81
cents on their claims.
AN exiled Hungarian nobleman, Count
Franz de la Forest, practicing medicine il
New York, died in abiect poverty the
other day, although the owner of large es
ates and coal mines.
A LIVELY fight is in progress at Leaven-
worth over the enforcement of the occupa-
tion tax of 80 per month. Several law,
yers who were arrested took retaliatory
steps by causing Mayor Fortesque and the
members of the council to be hauled up
for neglecting to pay.
BRAKEMAN MRLIUs, who is charged
with criminal carelessness in the New
York Central disaster, admits that he can
neither read nor write. He has been on
the road or quarter century.
RAILROAD officials in Texas report a
very heavy immigration from the Pacific
slope. California capitalists are purchas-
ing large tracts of land between the Rio
Grande and the Staked plains, for wheat
raising and grape-culture.
AT Bennington, Vt, the funeral of Park
Valentine and wife, who were killed in
the railway accident near New York the
other day, was conducted by the clergy
man who married them the day before the
accident.
BEFORE commencing his sermon Sunday
evening, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher re-
called sentence in recent discourse re-
fectipg upon the Brooklyn board of educa-
tlon, and repudiated the construction
placed upon it by the public.
The old railway bonds of Minnesota
were burned in the capitol at St. Paul, re-
Gently, in presence of Governor Hubbard
and Ex-Governor Pillsbury. As they bore
interest tor twenty-three years, it required
$4, 103, 600 in cash and new bonds to replace
them.
The postmaster at Wilmington, O., re-
ports to the department the presence of
fifty virulent cases of small pox. The au-
thorities at Indianapolis have ordered the
vaccination of every resident within thirty
days. In the twin cities of Pittsburg and
Allegheny thirty new cases developed
since Saturday, and six are reported at
Grand Rapids.
The secretary of the Panama Canal
company says one thousand men are at
present employed on the work and eight
excavators are in use. A vast quantity of
material and machinery is on the way
from France; dump and platform cars
costing $4,000 were recently shipped
from Massac achusetts, and two steam fire
engines have been sent from New York.
AT Hampton, Pa, while William Cork
was dying Of smallpox, his wife placed a
lighted candle in his hands and knelt be-
side the bed in prayer. She instantly
succumbed 10 exhaustion, the bedding
was set On fire, and she and her child were
overcome by smoke. The neighbors saw
the situation, but only one dared to enter
the house. The flesh was burned from
Cork's bones and his wife and dausht
will not recover.
New England has practical poIyga-
mist-a rascally drummer-whoi is now
in fair way to receive his deserts. His
name is George w. Bristol. He has q
wife in Meriden, Conn, wife in Wor-
cester, Mass, and wife in Providence
E. l., to all of whom he has been reg
ularly married within a few years. As
his business was that of a travelling
agent, he was for time able to conceal
his bigatny by visiting each one Of his
homes in turn. The-wives are young
uniformly pretty, and belong 10 respect
able families. They are united in then
desire to punish him, now that they
have found him out, and he has beer
arrested just in time to prevent his
union with another girl at Middletown
Connecticut.