Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-17
Gieanings.

ton Will De held at D6S Molnes June II
next.
Ten thousand people attended the
Grand Arn1y's concert Of war songs at
Boston.
Kerr, the absconding clerk of Pres
ton, Kean & Co, of Chicago, has been
captured at Lima, Peru.
Mrs. Myra CLARK Gaines secured an
other judgment against New Orleans
for 81 925, ,667.
The Grand Trunk railways receipts
for 1882 exceeded those Of the previous
year by 147 yer cent.
The republican convention of Penn
sylvania has been called to meet at
Harrisburg July IL.
Freemason's hall, in London, with its
valuable regalia, paintings and por-
traits, was consumed by fire.
Messrs. Moody and sankey are pas
sengers by the Labrador, now on her
way to New York.
DR.. Thomas Evans, the fashionable
American dentist of Paris, has been
visiting the Prince of Wales at Sand
ringham.
Joaquin Miller will read a poem be-
fore the New York Press Association
at its twenty-seventh annual meeting
in June.
Judge David Davis and his bride, who
have been passing their honeymoon in
the Yosemite Valley, have returned to
San Francisco.
"There will be more than one will
changed" ays the Boston Journal,
"when Harvard College confers a de-
gree upon Gov. Butler"
Nine. Theo intends to sail from New
York for Havre on the 23d instant.
Mr.. Brewster, the Attorney General,
has recovered from his recent i'll
ness.
Senator Colquitt, has had a $4,000
mansion built for himself at E5gewood,
Ga.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has re-
turned from Florida to Hartford, for
the summer.
The late Captain G. G. Daily, of Port
land, Me-, left $25 900, his entire fortune,
to the Atlantic Lodge of Free Masons,
of that city.
DR.. Mark Hopkins has been denounc-
ing the evolution theory as "atheistic."
He told the young men at the Prince
ton Seminary so.
The profits of the dramatic festival
$4,000. '' "eeA are eS'ihisN'
Moody and Sankey, the famous re-
vivalists, arrived in New York from
England Saturday.
The Rev. Josiah Henson, the original
of Mrs. Stoves "Uncle Tom," died at
Dresden, Can, Saturday, aged 81.
Mr.. Chandler, the secretary of the
navy, is in Concord, n. N, having been
called thither by the dangerous illness
of his mother.
Mr.. Henry Irving, the great English
actor, urges that professionals should
give no help to amateurs.
Ex-Gov. Richard J. Oglesby lefG Lin
coin, H., the other night, for Lead
vile, Col, to look after his mining in,
terests.
Ex-Gov. Leland Stanford has been
confined 20 his house for nearly two
months by muscular rheumatism.
The Hon. Robert G. Winthrop, of
Massachusetts,, will enter upon the
18th year of his age on the 18th inst.
Frederick Marquand, of New York,
has given $50 600 for the endowment
of the Princeton College Art School.
Mr.. Foster, who died at Fostoria, O.,
few days ago, left property worth
about $500 900. all of which goes to his
son, Governor Foster. Governor Foster
is already rich.
Robert G. Winthrop is at Washington,
making his annual visit to Sanders W.
Irving, nephew of Washington Irving,
who resides there. Mr.. Winthrop will
enter his seventy-ffth year on the 12sh
Of this month.
Chace Lewis, venerable citizen of
Providence. who died on Thursday. left
81 600 TO Bates college, 5000 to the
R.ger Williams Baptist Church of
Providence, and several smaller be-
quests TO various colleges and hos
pitals.-
The late George T. Wilson, of Rhode
Island. left $100, 900 to Brown University
and So, 900 to Dartmouth College. A
daughter of the testator contested the
will, bat it has been sustained by the
Rhode Island Supreme Court.
Marie R0ze, the pima donna, was
entertained at breakfast recently by
Mr.. and Mrs. Gladston, at the premier's
officia residence.
Miss Cynthia Eloise Cleveland, the
only lady lawyer in DAKOTA, and widely
and well known as the president Of the
Dakota ". @. t. u, has concluded to
enter upon the active tuties of her pro-
fessiop.
Keppler, one of tie proprietors Of
Puck, who sailed for Europe the other
day, is completely broken down in
health, and his trip j for the sake of
much needed rest. He is ss.id to be
worth over $500, 600.
Edward Moran, theartist, appears to
be as obdurate creditor Ss the plaintiffs
attorneys in Bardell Y. Pickwick. He
has kept Daniel P. Scord locked up in
Ludlow street Jail, N New York, for
the space of two years.
The Bgelow estae, on the summit
| of Boston's famous Bunker Hill, has
been bought by The Sisters of ST. Jo-
seph, who will esablish Catholic
school there.
Mr.. Niehaus, the cincinnati sculptor,
has sent to Chicago several models of
Lincoln statue and fountain to be
placed in Lincoln. park, Chicago, by
the executors of th Bates estate.
Theodore ParkeIis to have $4,000
statue in Boston. The late Nathaniel
G. Nash left $5 GO(for that purpose and