Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-06-21
SQUiBS.

dHC6 cause.
T. irty-seven West Point graduates
died during last year-the sam e number
as the year previous.
Editor Halstead, OF Ciuctnnati. In.
tends to pass the summer at Long
Branch.
Governor Butler hints that he will
not attend the commencom3 mt exercis-
es at Harvard.
w. w Thomas, Jr., of Portland Me,
says that he is willing to accept the
Swedish mission.
Bjornsterne Bjorson's Oldest boy goes
on the stage next fall.
Uncle Rufus Hatch will not use his
yacht this summer. It makes him sea-
sick TO sail.
Representative Abram S. Hewitt has
taken cottage at Newport for the sea-
son.
Du Chaillu, the African traveller, is
IN New York. His books were written
by Charles Nordhof.
Harvard did not give john Hancock
an LII. ID. until he had been elected
governor nine times.
Mrs. Meyers, wife of the general, has
left Washington, with her family, for
ner place In Minnesota, near Buffalo.
The Count and Countess Bozenta
MADAME Modjeska,) will summer at
the National Yellowstone Park.
The death of Hon. Eugene Casserly,
formerly United States Senator from
California, is hourly expected at San
Francisco. His disease is softening of
the brain.
Postmaster General Gresham has
gone to Indianapolis. where he will re
main for several days. Mr.. Frank Hat
ton acts as Postmaster General during
his chiefs absence.
General Thayer's statue at West
Point will be unveiled Monday. The
statue Is OF granite. is eight feet high
and cost 81, 600, which sum was con-
trlbuted by graduates Of the academy.
Mr.. Gar6eI1's portrait ordered by
the New Jersey Legislature from Angelo
Woodward, of New York, has been re,
ceived at Trenton and it will be placed
IN the assembly chamber next week.
Colonel J. B. KilIebrew, of NJ vile,
has been visiting the Mexic mes
of Polk, the defaulting state treasurer
of Tennessee, and reports that they
are "good for $4,000 q year, if prop
erly worked"
James McDermott, who figured In
connection with the Irish troubles a
few weeks ago, arrived at New York
from Liverpool yesterday.
The Rev. DR.. w. M. Taylor will de-
liver an address at Princeton during
comncncem Mt week, commemorative
of the late DIR. Lyman Atwater.
Mrs. Pancoast, who died in Balti-
more on Thursday, was the widow of
Professor Joseph Pancoast and the
mother Of Professor William II. Pan
coast, of Philadelphia.
Charles Lee, the first attorney gener-
81 Of the United States, was buried at
Warrenton, Va. His grave there is de-
scrlbed as overgrown with weeds and
almost unmarked.
Pedestrian Cummings, "the cham
pIon one-mile runner of the world. ;"
landed at New York from Liverpool
yesterday.
Professors Bright. Gore. Elliott and
Won Jagemann, of Johns Hopkins uni
versity, are booked to sail by the Bel
genland for Europe tomorrow morn
ing.
Chester w. Chaplin, the ex-president
of the Boston & Albany railroad, suf-
tered a paralytic stroke on Tuesday.
Mr.. Chaplin is 81 years old.
Mile. Marie Litta is now believed to
De out of immediate danger, having
experienced q favorable change. She
IS, however, dClirious most of the time.
Lillian Russell, the runaway actress.
is said to be the daughter of Cynthia
Leonard, a woman's rights advocate,
and Mr.. Leonard, the wellknown Chi
Cago printer.
Gen. George Crook is about ffty-three
years of age, but he looks little more
than forty. He is about five feet ten
inches high, wiry as q greyhound, and
can Outrlde and outmarch any man In
the American army.
The New York World says: cit is re-
ported that Senator Blaine's second son
Emmon, Is engaged to Gen. Sherman's
daughter Rachel. Miss Rachael is the
youngest daughter Of the Sherman
family. She is very bright and viva
cious, and her hair is brilliantly red.
John Livingstone, a brother of the
explorer, sailed from New York for
Europe last week tc visit his birthplace
In Scotland. HIS home is at Listowel,
Ontario.
Mile. Marie Litta. the singer, who re
Gently returned to her home at Bloom
ington, ILL.,, in critical condition of
health, is now believed to be out of
immediate danger, having experienced
favorable change Saturday. She is
however, still delirious most of the
time.
III. Vignaux and Mr.. Schaefer, the
billiardists, lave agreed to q trial of
II