Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-03
GENERAL NOTES.

DR.. MARY WALKER is writing a book
her sex.
YELLOW fever is frightening many
European canal employees from the 18TH
mus; $50 returned to France by the two
last steamers.
ORRIN A. CARPENTER, acquitted of the
murder of Fora Burns, has been ordered
to leave Lincoln, ILL.,, by the citizens of
that place.
The Princess Elizabeth Alexandria
Louisa Alice, who is to marry the broth
er of the Russian Gar, and to become
the sister in-law OF her aunt, the Ouch
ess of Edinburgh, is not yet 20 years of
age, is exactly like her mother, the late
Princess Alice, and is said to resemble
her closely in intellectual power and in
character. She is a great favorite with
the Queen.
THE Minneapolis & st. Louis railroad
has contracted for the building of eighty
miles Of road nOrthwestward from Nor
ton. Morton is within q few miles of
the terminus of the Pacific division, and
the proposed extension is to run between
the Hastings and Dakota division of the
Milwaukee & st. Paul and Winona &
st. Paul division of the Chicago G North
western. The objective point is thought
to be some point in the James river val
ley.
IT is believed that all ideas Of running
fast mail trains over the Rock Island
and st. Paul roads have been abandon
ed, as they would not bepaiG for by the
government, and would only carry local
mails. The contract made between the
Burlington road and the Post Office de-
pertinent was on the express condition
that the former should carry all mails
going from Chicago to Council Bluffs,
Omaha. Atchison, Topeka, Leavenworth,
Kansas City and Denver, which gives it
the great bulk of the mail in the west,
and every bound crossing the Missouri
river at the points named. This contract
is worth 81 900 cay to the Burlington
road, and obs the other Iowa lines of
any through mail.
SAN FRANCISCO was treated to a very
alarming earthquake shock on the goth
INST. that astonished even some Of the
oldest inhabitants. AS described in one
dispatch, the first intimaUion was that
of an upheav&l lasting about five sec
OndS. This was succeeded by trenlu-
Ions movement, which was quickly fol-
loved by u series of terrestrial waves SO
violent as to test the most solidly- built
structure in the city. The earthquake
lasted bout twenty seconds, the range
being northeast to- southwest. An in
vestigatiOn shows the lower part of the
city suffered the most, the houses being
built on made ground. Several large
buildings were seriously damaged. and
walls thrown out of perpendicular.
Wooden buildings, however, remain in
tact. No accidents to life are reported.
It was the most serious shock since the
year 1868.
VIM. DUHRING, q prominent oil opera
tor and one of the stockholders Of the
POcahOntas coal mine in West Virginia.
III which 153 miners recently lost their
lives in the explosion, has hit upon a
novel plan of extiaguishing the FIRE,
which is still raging. His idea is TO have
an engineer local e FIVE of the nine cham
bers and then drill wells or holes through
the top of the mountain, an estimated
distance of 500 feet; through the open
ings thus made il is proposed to intro
duce streams of water until the entire
mine is flooded aud the flames are
quenched. A gang of rig builders left
for thu mine Saturday. who will employ
the oil met hOds of drilling wells. With
in week the drills will be in operation
but it will be fully two months ere the
mine will be flooded. Mr.. Duhring saws
the cause of the explosion is still mys-
terry.
A Columbia, s. c., dispatch in regard
to the tornado says: Between 4 and 5
o'clock terrific tornado, accompanies
by deafening peals o. thunder, appalling
/ flashes Of lightning, and torrents of rain,
passed over the country two miles
northwest of this city, demolishing sew
eral residences and a large number of
barns and GU houses, uprooting trees,
and destroying everything in its track,
which, fortunately, DID not exceed a
quarter of mile in width. The storm
extended into the adjacent county of
| Lexington, where great damage was
also done The only casualties so far re-
ported occurred when the resi- dence of
/ G. 7. Ia, ior, FIVE miles from Columbia,
was blown down, in which Mr.. Tayl,r
and his wife and son were all severly in
! juTed by falling timbers. Four residences
near Taylor's were also demolished. but
the inmates escaped with slight bruises.
L is feared that further reports of more
serious damage in remote localities of
adjacent counties will be heard to-
night