Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-16
GEN NERAL NOTES

LIEUTENANT GoRRINGE, who brought
the obelisk to New York, has invented a
snowmelter for use in the streets of that
city.
A VACCINE farm has been established at
the southern line of Chicago by physi-
clan from San Francisco. who commenced
business with two hundred heifers.
The Garfield Scent postage-stamp will
be issued March l, and is pronounced the
truest likeness of the murdered president.
A COLLECTOR of letters in the New York
postofice pursued his avocation quietly
for a month while nursing his daughter
through a case of smallpox.
SOME Ohio ladies residing in Washing
ton have prepared an elegant fre-screen
for the mother of President Garfield.
Two cannon balls and box of old Eng
lish pennies, relics of the revolutionary
campaign. were unearthed at New York
on the site of the new produce exchange.
Nor MON missionaries are actively at
work in Union county, Tennessee, where
they have secured a number of negro con-
yerts.
THE woman sufragists of Boston in
vited the members of the legislature to a
reception at private residence, and five
honorables out of $50 responded in per-
son.
FIVE leaders in the kidnapping case at
Cornell university have been ordered to
leave Ithaca, and President White de-
clares that he will repress hazlng at any
cost.
The mayor of Halifax imposed fine
of $400 upon Captain Ritchie, OF the
steamship Peruvian, for allowing steer
age passengers to land while there was
smallpox aboard the vessel.
THE British authorities in the north
west territory have ordered thirty mount
ed police from Fort Walsh to Fort Nc
Leod, to quiet trouble between the ranch
men and Blackfeet. The Indians are
gathering about Fort Walsh to demand
more food.
COLONEL HATCH, commanding at Gus
ter, Montana, telegraphs that the Grow
chiefs complain of the cutting of ties for
the Northern Pacific on their reservation,
General Manager Haupt states that no
one connected with the road had authority
to infringe on the rights of the Indians
ALL parties interested have decided
that it is best to extend the Atlantic and
Pacific road to San Francisco, to prevent
the route from being taken by some other
company. 1t is also understood that the
Union Pacific shall extend it's Utah sys-
tenn to connection with the Atlantic and
Pacific, receiving a pro rata percentage
of the through business.
A FEUD of long standing took A. M.
Soteldo and his brother to the editorial
rooms of the National Republican, at
Washington, to settle accounts with Clar-
ence Barton. Charles Soteldo inflicted
two flesh wounds on Barton. but his third
shot struck his brother in the region of
the spine, and it is believed that he can
not recover. Barton and Charles Soteldo
fought to the head of the stairs and fell
down them together.
CROP reports from every portion of the
northwest show that winter wheat is in
excellent condition and that the area OF
spring wheat will be increased. Farmers
in southern Illinois and Indiana are buy.
ing corn for their own consumption, and
the hog crop has been quite thoroughly
market ed. Minnesota still has on hand
twenty million bushels of wheat, and ex.
poets to raise crop one-fourth larger than
last year.