Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-09-28
was elected chairman of the state central

was elected chairman OF the state central
committee.
THE case of Mrs. Seymour RODGERS
against the Robert 7. Lee Mining Compa-
nv of Colorado, in which nearly quarter
interest in the mine is involved, came up
in the United States circuit court at st.
Louis. On the application of the plainu-
if for the appointment of receiver,
Judge McCrary intimated he would not
appoint a receiver, but would consider
the question of securing the payment of
the plaintiff 5 interest in the working
of the mine.
G. c. MILLER, of Leon, Kansas, and
Lord Crawford, of England, simulta-
neously inform Harvard observatory OF
the discovery of comet close to the sun
and visible in the day time.
A MARKED feature OF the reunion of the
Army OF the Cumberland at Milwaukee
was the gathering of one hundred mem
bers of the Iron brigade, to whom Gen. Glib
bon read an original poem and Miss Au-
brey presented silk guidon. Speeches
were made by Generals Bragg and Fair
child. Miss Ransom, a Washington art
ist, gave the Cum berIand veterans an oil
portrait of President Garfield, and Gen.
j. D. Cox delivered ali eulogy on the
martyred president.
SECRETARY TRLLER has decided that
the Indian police may be furnished with
revolVers for the better enforcement of
their official authority, but the custom Of
supplying them with the best improved
breech-loading rifles will be discontinued.
No rifles and no fixed ammunition for
breech-loaders will hereafter be placed in
the hands of any Indians by the depart
ment
THE Unitarian conference at Saratoga
voted to raise $4,000 annually during the
next two years for the American Unitar-
ian association. Rev. J. L. Jones, of the
committee on endowment of the proposed
Wade Theological school at Cleveland,
stated that Mr.. Wade had pledged him
self, when the committee secured $780,
600, to add $350,0O0, and if they would
raise 900 more he could add an
equal sum, making the total 100000.
AT Morristown, Pa, 'on the 18th inst,
Mrs. Henrietta B. Melville, the wife of
Engineer Melville. was taken from her
home to the state asylum for insane. The
certificate upon which she was deprived
of her liberty was signed by DR.. Fisher
Longstreeth, of Sharon Hill, and DR..
Samuel Bartletson, of Clifton. The for
mer has been her attendant. The certif-
cate sets forth that the examiners are con-
yinced from examination that Mrs. Mel
vile is not of sound mind, that she was
brought to that condition through alco-
holism; and that she was proper person
to receive treatment at an asylum for the
insane. The parting between mother and
children was most affecting.
AN attempt is being made by Messrs.
Charles L. Wright & Co., ship-brollers, to
establish an American steamship line with
a new kind of vessel planned and patented
by Captain Sundborg, lately of the Swed-
ish navy. The steamers Will ply between
New York and the European ports, and
will be controlled entirely by American
capital. According TO the plans as set
forth in the prospectus the new steamers
will have displacement IF 11.000 tons,
length of 450 feet. They are to have four
decks, two of which will be for saloon
passengers. Each steaneris to be moved
by two propeilers, worked by two COM
pound engines of 4 500 hor,e power each.
Capt. Sundborg claims that he will be
able to obtain speed of st least twenty
miles an hour, and more in good weather.
The time for quick passages to Europe
will be five days.