Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-06-28
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winter.
Mr.. Wyman, treasurer of the United
States, is confined to his home by i'll
ness.
G. 7. Lanigan, OF New York, has be-
come managing editor of the Rochester
Post Express.
General F. E. Spinner, who sign5d so
many greenback bills, is visiting friends
IN Boston.
Lord Beaconsfeld used to address
his wife at dinner as "My dear Mary
Ann"
The Toronto Telegraph is disposed
to believe as true the report that Queen
Victoria is spiritualist.
Nine. Modjeska's husband, Charles
B. Chlapowski, has been admitted to
American citizenship in San Francisco.
A movement is on foot in Mobile.
Ala, to raise funds to erect 8 monu-
ment to "Admiral' Raphael Semmes.
The New York Mail and Express
says Everybody is reading the life of
General John A. Dix, written by his son
the Rev. Morgan Dix"
Frau Gerster lately went to Paris to
hear Delibe's new opera, "Lakme,"
which she intends to introduce to Amer
lea next season.
The pUstoffice department has sent an
agent to examine the Niobrara and Rapid
City nail-route, which was created bY
congress on representations made by Hon.
E. <. Valentine, of Nebraska. That
gentleman claims that the hostility of
Senator Van Wyck to the project springs
from personal motives. Mr.. Valentine
admits the absence Of population along
the route.
The wife and daughter of General n.
2. Banks arrived home, at Boston. from
Europe, on Saturday, after an absence
of about two years.
Alexander Mitchell. of Milwaukee. is
now said to be the richest man of the
Western States; he is credited with
about twenty-five millions.
Lawn-tennis girls" is the name
given in New York to the young ladies
who adopt the str1ning style of walk.
A letter from Rome says the pope is
now in better health and apparently
more full of vigor than he has been for
years past.
Professor David s. Jordon, of the In
diana university, at the head of a party
of students, thirty in number, will sail
by the Switzerland for Europe to-day.
Adeline Patti began her operatic en-
gagement In London yesterday Since
she left America she has resided at her
castle, Craig-y-Nos, in Wales.
The Rev. Robert West, the editor of
the Advance, Chicago, will deliver the
Seminary Commencement next Tues
day evening.
The emperor of Germany has gone
to Weisbaden, where he will have an
interview with the king of Denmark on
topics touching the relations of Den
mark and Germany.
Rev. Theodore G. Williams, pastor
of the Universalist church at Winches.
ter, VT, has been called to the pastor
ats of All Saints church, New York, to
succeed the Rev. DR.. Bellows.
The mother of Edwin Booth lives
quietly at the Washington Hotel, Phil
adelphia. Her one thought and hap
piness, the pride Of her old age, is her
son Edwin, the only survivor of her
children.
Colonel NJ. e. Thornton has shaken
the dust of Atlanta from his feet and
is somewhere IL the North. Just be
fore his hurried departure he sold his
paper, the daily Post-Appeal.
Miss Teresa Adams. an American
pupil Of Nine. Marchesi, will sing ua-
der contract at Spezzia, the Italian
watering place, this summer. She will
make her debut in ''La Sonnambula. j."
Lord Wolseley and Lord Alcester
have been rewarded for their Egyptian
services by the House Of Commons,
which on Thursday night passed the
bill providing for grants of money to
them.
Loco, whom General Crook captured
is lawfully the head chief of all the
Apackes. When he was a gilded youth
of the cjgarette-smoking period he got
the name Loco, fool" but during re-
cent years his ability as a scalp-taker
mas Deen proven more tnan once.
Hide8abro SAFE, Cornell university
graduate Of last year, has returned to |
Japan, his native country, after marry |
ing young lady Of indianapolis, and |
is employed at salary of $4,000 a |
year by the Japanese government in
It's agricultural department.
The trustees of Vassar college have |
elect Assistant Professor Manuel J.
Drannon, Of Harvard college, to be
professor of rhetoric and English liter
ature, to succeed Professor T. J. Backus, I
who has been appointed principal of
Packer institute, Brooklyn.
Mr.. Crawford, the young author of
the novels, "Dr. Claudius" and ''Mr.
Isaacs," is said to be remarkable lin
guist. He is a devout member Of the
Catholic church. It is reported that
he will shortly return from Europe. |