Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-25
LATEST KILOGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.


against so, 100 for the same period
in 1888.
JOHN HALEY Saturday evening was
nominated by the democrats of Idaho,
delegate to congress. An anti-Mor-
mon resolution was voted down.
THE examiner has completed his ex-
animation Of the wrecked New Bruins
wick On. j. bank, showing assets of
$570, 900, with liabilities reaching $780,
900.
TIE Supreme Court of Iowa has de-
cided that the act appropriating $4,000
to aid the farmers association in it's liti-
cation against the barb-wire companies
is constitutional
MORTGAGE bondholders of the Vulcan
Iron Works at st. Louis, decided Thurs
day to fOreclose the mortgage, but in
tend TO buy in the works when they are
sold.
RECENT reports of damage to the rice
crop in the south by floods were grossly
exaggerated, and the loss will be small
compared with the total yield. Since
Jan. India exported 2,460, 800 bags of
rice. The European market is fairly
active at irregular prices.
HENRY A FRELLsEN. a New Orleans
merchant, who when a subject of Den
mark, took an active part in Greece's
struggle for freedom, and they became
intimate with Lord Byron, died We'd
nesday at the age of 81.
THE Mother Superior, Mary T. x.
Wald founder of the order Of Sisters
of Mercy in America, died in a convent
at Manchester, N. H., Wednesday morn
ing aged "a.
EIGHT thousand coal miners are engag-
ed in the strike in Pennsylvania, and
not more than 1000 men are at work.
The women have organized ''tin-pan
brigade" and greet the non-unionistS
with a serenade on pans, kettles, ETC.,
when they leave work in the evening.
THE international surveying party has
located the Mexican boundary line 600
yards north of the old line. This de-
cision throws q portion of the town of
NOgaIes, A. T., on Mexican soil, which
occasions much excitement and con-
sternaUion among the Americans.
In the United States circuit court at
Hartford, Conn, Saturday, a decision
was rend cred by Judge Shipman in the
suit involving the validity of the tubu-
lar lantern patents The judge in an
elaborate opinion sustains the validity
of compliments patents, declares the
defendants lanterns infringements, and
grants a peremptOry injunction restrain
ing further violation of compliments
rights, with damages for past infringe
mentS.
THE cholera appeared at Naples, Italy,
on the 1st instant, and since that time
there have been 3,297 deaths in that
city. Three hundred and forty-eight
persons died there during the "a hours
ending at noon Sunday. Since the be-
ginning OF the epidemic in Marseilles;
France, LAO Frerchmen, 247 Italians,
10 Spaniards, II Greeks, Australians,
5 English, II Swiss, Germans, 3 Am
orleans and 1 Swede have died.
A STEAMER from China, which ar
rived at San Francisco last night, brings
an appalling report Of the inundation
last month of the province of Kiangsi,,
in China, by a terrible four-days flood.
The country was covered by go feet of
water, sweeping away entire towns and
villages and drowning 10000 people.
The fact that the submarine cable has
been silent as regards such terrible
calamity renders this news very doubt
full
The following has been received di-
rect from the secretary of state:
AUGUSTA, Me, Sept. IS give you the foot
ngs Of the vote for governor: Robbie. 78 912; Red
mon, 59,061; H. b. Eaton, 3,131; Eustis, 1,190;
w. A. Eaton, 81; scattering, Is. This cOmpila-
ton Is made from the clerks returns to this office,
excepting the towns of HoltOn, Sherman, King
man, Newport. PASSPORT, WATERFORD and the
plantations of Castle Hill and Number Fourteen.
Washington county The returns from seven
towns and 250 plantations are from other sources,
but are believed to be substantially correct All
Cities towns and plantations of the state are in
cluded in the above compilation. (Sgned.)
JOSEPH SMITH, secretary of state
This shows the republican plurality
to be 1851, and a majority over all of
5,411.
AT the meeting of the army of the
Cumberland association on the 10Th
inst, officers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows:
President-Lieut Gen. Phil. Sheridan.
Corresponding Secretary-Col. Henry NJ. Cist-
TreaSurer-Gen. Jas. Fullerton.
Recording secretary-Col. John W. Sterile.
The commissioners on the Garfield
monument fund and on memoirs report
ed, and the meeting adjourned until this
evening, when banquet will be held at
the arsenal.