Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-19
NEWS ITEMS.

dence at Cincinnati.
It is now learned that the robbers
who entered the Belleville Qll) Bank
at noon on Saturday, secured a pack
age of money containing 81 AS.
A fve-foot vein of coal was found
on Saturday, about a mile east of
Lemars, Iowa, at depth of 376 feet
The coal is pronounced of superior
quality.
Mrs Albertine Huffman, IS years
old, and Mary DonlOn, aged II, were
drowned in the Patapsco river, near
Baltimore, Md, on Sunday, by the
upsetting of their boat.
Five families of assisted Irish immi
grants landed at Castle Garden, New
York, Saturday. There is said to be a
ship in Valencia Bay, Ireland, loading
wholly with paupers.
James Carey, the Irish informer,
has been taken by detective from
Dublin to London, to be shipped away
without reward or written pardon.
His family were sent In advance.
Subscriptions amounting to 800, 900
have been guaranteed in aid of the
tennial Exposition at New Orleans
next year The total amount wanted
is $500, 900.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe wears
clothes of the fashion of twenty-five
years ago.
Senator Fairs recent wife has left
San Francisco and gone with rchil-
dren to Santa Cruz to live.
Annie Louise Cary is not woman
sutfragist She writes: II do not ask
for ballot, though very life were at
stake.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg has
selected a cottage on the mountain
side at New Hartford, Ct, and will
spend the Summer there.
The Dude of Sutherland and Sir
Thomal Brassey hold United States
bonds as an investment to the amount
of S., 600, 600 each.
Lieutenant General Phil H. Sheri-
dams mother, SO years of age, still
lives in the same house in Perry,
Somerset county, o., in which he was
born.
Hon NJ L. Joslyn, the Assistant
Secretary of the Interior at Washing
ton, is on a visit to his old home at
Woodstock, Ill, for the first time since
his appointment.
John Hoey, President of the Adams
Express Company, has more men at
work in his private Long Branch gar
dens than any of the big florists, for
whom New Jersey is celebrated.
President Arthur and party of ten
persons Will start for the Yellowstone
Valley about August /, to be absent
six weeks The arrangement are be-
ing made by General Sheridan
Jim Keene the great speculator,
like Jay Gould, is small specimen
Of a man, physically. He weighs a
tritle over 100 pounds. He is sallow
and melancholy looking. He is Is
years old,
johanna Wagner, niece of the great
composer, has been appointed q pro
fessOr of singing at the Munich Con
servatory. She is the first woman
ever chosen for such a professorship
in Germany
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain. President
of the Board of Trade in the British
Cabinet, or in other words, Minister
of Commerce, will visit the United
States this Autumn as a free trade
missionary
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, who is
at present in Europe, will sail for
American III the latter part of this
month to make arrangements for the
coming season. She has been in Paris
StIId vino with St,i Clia
Mr.. Oscar Dickson, the eminent
Swedish merchant and patron of Pro
lessor Nordenskjold, the Arctic ex-
plorer, will, next Fall, be the guest of
the Prince of Wales, and go on hunt
ing excursion with him.
The daughter of Lord Denbigh,
peer of England, has become a Sister
of Charity a la Rue de Rae, Paris.
Her father the former Visconte of
Fielding, is'the only male descendant
of the Courts of Hapsburg
Charles g. F'ranchlyn, the owner of
the cottage in which President Gar
field died, has ordered a stained-glass
window In memory of the latter,
which Will be placed in st. James
Episcopal Chapel, at Elberon, some
time this month.
Mr.. BookwaIter, who was the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor of Ohio
in 1881, recently remarked in Hatford.
in explanation of his defeat, that
with Garfield dead it would have
been a disgrace for Ohio to elect a
Democratic Governor"
Among the readers at fremont Tenn
pie, Boston, July 4, was Miss Belle
Cushman Eaton, a grandniece of
Charlotte Cushman. She is only II
years of age, a student at the New
England Conservatory of Music, and
is reader of much promise.
Hon. S. P. Round, the Public Print
er, and family will leave Washington
for Chicago August l. Thence they
will proceed to Denver Col. After
months stay in that city they will 90
to Manitou Springs returning to
Washington some time in October