Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-27
GENERAL NOTES

THE steamer Corwin has sailed for the
Arctic regions to relieve the crew of the
Rogers.
The Providence Tool company, OF
Rhode Island, has called meeting of its
creditors.
THE steamer Alaska arrived at Panama,
Sunday, with the family and remains OF
Minister Hurlbut.
The wife of the president of Guatemala,
accompanied by physician, is the guest
| of a Chicago hotel.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made at Bos-
! ton for an International electrical exhibi-
| zion next September.
Manitoba, are delayed at St. Paul by the
food in the Red river.
| AMONG the receipts Of cattle at the
| Chicago yards the other day, were ten
carloads from Winnemucca, New, which
brought six cents per pound.
A DELEGATION from New Albany, called
upon James G. Blaine and asked him to
deliver an oration on decoration day, He
replied that he expected to be in Eu-
rope before that time:
TwENTY-oNE counties in Kansas report
crop prospects unsurpassed. Grass was
never so promising, and cattle and sheep
passed through the winter well.
Four special trains on the Grand Trunk
road left Montreal, the other day, for
Manitoba. One family consisted of a
man, wife, nine sons, and thirteen daagh-
ters.
TABOR and others have sold the Hen
riette mine at Leadville, Colorado, to a
party of French and English capitalists
for 81, 100000.
ELI JAH BUELL., an octogenarian, who
has the finest residence and grounds In
Lyons, Iowa, was The first man to take a
schooner load of merchandise into the
harbor of Chicago.
THE United States steamship Iroquis,
lying at the Mare island navy-yard in
California. will be dispatched to the relief
of the officers and crew of the Arctic
steamship Rodgers, which was wrecked
off the Siberian coast.
The aurora borealis was very brilliant
the other evening, and the atmosphere
was 80 deeply charged with electricity that
telegraph wires between Chicago and
the Atlantic coast were onerated without
| batteries,
SUCH is the stagnation in ocean freights
lld1 Ol1-CdhC 10 bdhCH lTOu NEW L OIh ~
Liverpool for two shillings sixpence per
ton, and halfpenny is bid and penny
asked for grain by steamer: and wheat has
been received at Baltimore for the cost of
loading and discharging.
UNDER the presidency of Hon. Edward
! F. Moves, party of Cincinnatians have
| organized to secure Shakspearean dra-
matte festival of or week, next fall, with
Booth, Barrett, Mccullough, and others
in the cast. A guarantee fund of $40, 900
was subscribed. and John Simpkinson
went to New York to make the necessary
arrangements.
A PASSENGER arriving at Kansas City,
over the Santa Fe road, says a train was
ditched near Rincon. New Mexico, last
Sunday night, and that FIVE armed men
attempted to rob the express-ear, con-
| tanning 5000, 900 in silver from the Arizo-
ma mines, but were frightened away by
the train-men and passengers When the
cars were thrown from the track the
fireman was killed and the engineer and
express messenger wounded.
| THE pardons issued by Gov. Crittenden
| to Robert and Charles Ford, reached St.
| Joseph at noon on the 18th inst, and the
| boys shook hands with everybody and
passed out of Jail. At the door Sheriff
Trigg, of Ray county, arrested Robert fol
the murder of Wood Hite, near Rich.
mond. 1t was arranged that the triI
! should be made by way of Kansas City
and the prisoner was attended by his faith.
er and brother and guarded by officers
Sheriff Thomas of St. Joseph, has slept in
his clothes for two weeks.