Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-14
I'ELEGRAP HIC.
GENERAL NOTES.

THE estimated expenditures Of the
Post Office Department for the last
fiscal wear Will exceed the receipts by
So, 900, 900.
THESt. Paul and Omaha Road has is
sued a circular stating that passenger
rates over it's road in Iowa are reduced
to cents per mile to conform TO the
new law.
In the county elections Monday IN
Utah the Mormons elected all the oth-
GERS.
A PROCLAMATION ordering quaran-
tine against Texas cattle was issGed
Tuesday by Governor Crosby of Mon
tana.
THE Eight Ohio Republican Congress
sional Convention took fifty ballots at
Springfield Tuesday without reaching q
nomination. A resolution that delegates
were entitled to vote as their conscience
NAV dlctaUe was voted down.
THE Greedy Arctic relief expedition
came TO anchor in the harbOr of Ports
mouth, N. H., Friday afternoon. The
party were warmly welcomed by Sec
retarv Chandler, all the naval vessels
in port, and the citizens generally.
THE whcat,yield of Manitoba this
wear is estimated at $500, 900 bushels.
The prevalent disaffection does not ap-
pear to have spread to the growing
grain. nor did 1t prevent the sturdy far
mers from attending strictly to busl-
ness.
IN report to Governor Hamilton on
the Texas fever Dr.. Paaren recon-
mends that most Of the southern states,
nd tt1H r.
itorv. be proclaimed IS infected, and
railroad companies b, prohibited from
bringing cattle from those p aces mo
Illinois until Nov. /, unless they certify
that the shipments are healthy and nave
been outside the Effected districts for
sixty days.
A MUsCATINE Iowa dispatch of the
9th says: Judge Hayes Of the seventh
Iowa judicial district, has rendered an
important decision as to the jurisdic-
ton of justices of the peace under the
new Iowa prohibitory liquor law. Judge
Hayes holds that justices have no juris-
diction to try, derormine or pass Judg-
ment upon cases under this law, other
than to hold a preliminary trial and
bind defendants over to the district
court. The decision is based upon the
opinion that the penalties of the new
law exceed the jurisdiction of justices.
By this decision all liquor cases COM
menced here under the new law are
dismissed. The question is one of great
Importance, and will be appealed to the
supreme court.
INFORMATION has been received at the
Treasury Department. that the Interna'
tional DIstilling Company. at Des
MONIES, Iowa, is shipping distilled
spirits to Canada under an export bond,
without unloading it from the cars, at
t-mpting to bring it back into the
United States at more eastern ports.
The laws OF the Dominion Of CanadsS do
not permit the importation Of distilled
spirits in packages of less than 1000
gallons, and, as domestic spirits are put
up in packages less than that in size,
the foreign Custom House certifica tie
necessary to cancel the export bond
could not be procured. Instructions
have accordingly been issued to refuse
bond and clearance in such cases, and
in the event that the spirits may have
gone across the border the Custom
House officers are instructed to hold
them Cn their arrival and turn them
over to the proper officers of the internal
revenue for the payment of tax.