Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-06-08
GENERAL NOTES

LIrTL Sioux, a trotting horse, was sold
son of Des Moines, for "a 500.
Four HUNDRED Mormon proselytes ar.
rived at Salt Lake yesterday, and in three
hours had been dispatched to their new
homes.
SEVERAL iron-shops in New York have
conceded the wages demanded. Eight
hundred striking boiler-makers have gone
to work.
Ex-senator MCDONALD, of Indiana.
agrees with Hon. Abram S. Hewitt that
the high tariff is the cause of the present
strike in the iron-mills.
MAJOR GEoRGEN. BLISS, of Providence.
r. l., who was last week elected a state
senator has become insane from the ex-
citement of the Ger test.
JAMES DoLAN, the king of pickpockets,
died yesterday in Sing Sing prison. of
heart disease. He was born in New York,
and once served term in the galIeys at
Brest, France.
The immigration at Castle Garden for
May reached the unprecedented total of
90,019, larger number than came to our
shores in either of the years of 1876 or
1873.
THE exchanges at twenty-five clearing
houses show a marked decrease in the vol
ume of business, especially at the manu-
featuring centers.
MANAGER MERRILL, of the st. Paul
road, has recently traversed the region be-
tween Chicago and Council Bluffs by two
routes. He reports an immense acreage of
corn, of healthy growth, and has no fears
IN regard to our great staples.
CHARLES II. REED went TO Boston and
applied to Judge Gray, of the supreme
court. for a writ of habeas corpus for
Guiteau. The Judge answered that he
must wait to present the case to his asso-
ciates.
The saw-mills at Muskegon, Mich,
have started with the utmost vigor.
Eleven hours is to be a days work, except
on Saturdays; no strikes are to occur dur
ing the season; no distinction is to made
between union men and Independents, and
wages are to be paid weekly.
JAY GOULD and party of his friends
were elected directors of the Mutual Union
Telegraph company, and the announce
ment is made that its future relations
with the Western Union will be friendly
and conservative.
A LANDLORD at Eureka Springs, Ark.
predicts that Senator Ben Hill will recov-
er. Several bones have been taken from
his jaw, but he masticates beefsteak
walks about the hall, and entertains Wis
itors.
The stepfather of Blanche Douglass, in
volved in the murder of Jennie Cramer,
is an aged and blind beggar, whose daily
post is at the corner of Canal and Centre
streets, in New York.
The line Of civilization in the valley of
the Yellowstone is two hundred miles in
advance of the Northern Pacific track
layers. A colony from New England set
tied at Boz eman in 1864, and has erected
thriving town. Through Pullman
trains are running to Glendive, and will
soon go to Miles City.
IT is announced at Washington that
the springs at Waukesha, Wis, have
passed into the hands of a party of sena-
tors, congressman and governors, the
stock of the company having been mar
keted by Tom Nichol. Mrs. Dunbar, the
former owner, will reside with her mar
ried daughter in Paris.
THE governor of CoahuiIa Mexico, re-
fused to permit the Catholic clergy at
Saltillo to have a street parade during
the Easter holidays, an event which led
to the arrest of several priests, where-up-
on all the others left the state. Citizens
have to take their children to Monterey
for baptism.
The will of Moses Taylor, of New York
whose estate has been carefully appraised
at $35, 100000, was offered for probate or
June 3rd. To his wife he left all his per.
sonal property and net income of $1O0,
600 per apnum. The executors are di
rt cted to divide the remainder equally be-
tween five chi ldren