Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-07-20
GENERAL NOTES

MARTIN P. AVERY. the living skeleton
died in New York of dyspepsia.
In New York for the day ending Sun
day noon. 159 deaths were reported O
which 86 were children aflic ted witt
/ cholera iufantum.
A BUST of Garfield, from the photograph
used on the fve-cent postage stamp. has
been completed by Preston Powers. oil
Florence, Italy, and is pronounced by the
widow and mother of the president be.
yond criticism.
Two artesian wells will. be sunk in Col
orado by Commissioner Loring, as an ex-
pertinent toward reclaiming the desert
sections by irrigation.
As there was no probability of securing
convictions of the violators of the Smith
law in Cincinnati, the cases were dismiss
ed on motion of the prosecuting attorney.
The race at Sioux City between Kneeb's
Elmwood Chief and Fishers Hampton
Girl. two-mile heats, three in FIVE. for
$1,000, was won by the Chief in three
straight heats.
MEADE WoODsON, a prominent resident
of Kansas City, who died July 16, was one
of John Morgan's men in the raid through
Indiana and Ohio.
ILLINOIS again gives rich promise of
producing one-sixth of the rye crop of the
United States. The harvest in the south
ern counties shows yield and quality
above the average.
In New York July IA IN the space of
forty hours, 80 600 barrels of freight were
taken off the steamship City of Montreal.
an equal amount carried on board. and
800 tons OF coal thrown in.
A LOCOMOTIVE on the Erie road was
July Il run from Patterson to Jersy CITY
by hydrogen gas produced by the decom-
position of water under the action of ig-
nited naphtha. The trip was made one
minute ahead Of time, the engine having
l4O pounds of steam on reaching its des-
tinatiOn.
As a special train on the Burlington
road, conveying Manager Potter and
party, approached the bridge over White
Breast creek, on the Charlton branch.
two coaches left the rails, and the engi-
neer stopped them within one foot of the
high embankment, where thev would
have plunged into the stream.
Our of five thousand striking EN- ployes
OF the Harmony mills at Cohoes, N. Y.
not more than one hundred are now IT
hand with which to start operations.
Three hundred men in the wire-mill at
New Haven struck because payments are
to be made fortnightly instead of weekly,
President Jarrett addressed 3 meeting OF
strckers at Cleveland, urging them 10
hold out until the rolling-mill company
accepts their terms, as the contest was the
most important IN the United States.
MiIwauuaa YEsrIat
MILWAUKEE,, July IT, flour Steady and
quiet; fair demand. Wheat-Tame; No. 2,
hard, nominai No. 2 1.25I; 12515 for seller July;
LIS for selle, august; 1875 for seller Sep
tember; the year, nominal; No. 3, 1.Ol%; NOD,
and rejected, nominal Corn-Lower; No. 2,
79s4; rejected, 76. Oats Unsettled and lower;
No 2, nominal white, 5SH. Rye-Steady and
unchanged; No. l, 731l; No. 2, II. Barley
Steady; Ne. 2, 81 bid for seller cash and July;
50 bid for seller September; extra No. 3, nom
inal, 70 bid. Provisions-Lewer; Mess Pork
2l.5O for seller cash and July; 216O for seller
August. Lard-Prime steam, 1895 for seller cash
and July; 1855 for seller August. Live Hogs
Lower; 7.6O@8.15. Receipts Flour, 3,879; wheat,
20 900 barley, 3, $50. Shipments-Flour 1870;
wheat, 2,775; barley 500.