Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-11-20
TELEGRAPHIC.
GENERAL NOTES.

CLEYELANDS S plurality IN Connecticut
Is LIZA st. John has 1886 votes ana
Butler 1,634. There was no prohibition
vote IN the state four years ago.
The Wisconsin, Minnesota and Pacific
mas been extended from near Madison.
MINI, westward to Watertown, d. T.,
fifty miles.
1t is reported in New York that an at
tempt will be made to prevent Mayor
elect w. r. Grace from taking tie office,
the allegation being that he was never
fully naturalized.
The Pullman Palace Car Company
owns 1,140 sleeping-cars and has 1851
stockholders. The company il reported
to have surplus of over $7,000,000.
The official and reported pluralities
from ali the counties in Pennsylvania
show u net plurality for Blaine and Lo-
gan of 77,s41, The republican plurality
Ia 1880 was 37,982.
NONE of the State Officers of Connec-
f1sut having received a ma jority of the
VI tes cast Nov. 4, the republican Lcgis-
lature must elect the entire State
ticket.
The next Wisconsin legislature will
probably stand; Senate-Rspublicans
20; Democrats, 13. ASsembly-ReDub-
Iicans, SO; Democrats, 40; Ind, pen
dents, 1.
MAJOR KIDD Oem.)will contest the
elecuon to Congress of Major George
Steele (Rep) from the Wabash Qnd.)
District.
The Northwestern, st. Paul. and
Minneapolis and ST. Louis agents
decided at S.. Paul Thursday to reduce
grain freights from Dakota and Min
nesota points to Chicago and Mllwau-
kee about cents per 100 pounds.
TRIAL of the case of Mrs. Cotton
against Cove; nor Stanford, c. P. Hunt
rngton, and Charles Crocker was begun
Tuesday at San Francisco. The amount
involved is nearly So 100000.
CARROLL county, Iowa, brought suit
against the bondsmen of w. r. Rug
giles, the defauIting Treasurer of the
county, and the court de- ided that the
bondsmen we're liable for the full
amount of the shortage, about $4,000.
THE Nation Il Cotton Exchange esti-
males the cotton crop in the United
States this year at 5,726,000 bales, a
There are prospects that the 'stop CROP
may increase this by rs, 900 bales.
THE total vote of the city of New
York is as follows: Cleveland, 131, 500;
Blaine, SO 543; Butler, 8, ,450; st. John,
1,033. I'll is gives Lluraity for Cleve-
land in the city Of 42, 356. Four years
ago the vote was: Hancock, 123,O15;
Sl.730: Weaver, $40; Hancock over Gar
field, Al 1896.
The press all over the country is talk
ing of Randall for secretory of the |
treasury. Bayard is generally named
for secretary of state. Thurman is |
frequently mentioned for attorney gen
eral, as that position would give him
power to fight the Pacific roads. Senator |
German will probably go into the Cab
met, also.
THERE are in circulation in Boston
counterfeit silver dollars SO finely ex-
ecuted as to almost defy detection.
They are Of whitish color, dated 1884,
and have a fine, clear and almost per-
feet ring. The die is excellent, and the
size and thickness correspond with the
standard silver dollars.
AN analysis for undisputed re-
turns to the next (Forty -ninth) Congress
sho VS. that of the forty -one democratic
members of the present House, who
voted against considering the Morrison
Tariff bill, only eighteen have been
elected, while of the Isl democrats who
vbted for the motion to consider the
Morrison bill, nearly 100 are reelected.
Oa the basis of these fl ures the sup
porters of the Morrison Tariff bill will
perhaps be found to be increased in the
Forty-ninth Congress.
BUSINESS failures: At Cincinnati,
5otlieb Straus & Co., hats and caps;
liabilities, 100000. At Louisville, KY,
d.nry Wolf, wholesale d. aler in
" hisky. with $500 liabil ties. ami
assets sufficient to cover. At T export,
H., the store of James J. WISE jeweler,
vas closed by the sheriff.
PLANS ia e been d avn for the pro-
oosed erection of a bridge over the
straits OF Messina that separate S ely
rom Italy. The bridge will b. built be- !
ween Cap del Pezzo and Ganzirri,
where tfe channel is two and one-half
niles IN width, and the depth of water |
'6l feet. Tw" g eat piers will support {
vla'fuct OF SIT Ell raised to height IF $
28 teet above the water. (
IHE students of the woman's college
It Greenvills, S. c., wear characteristic /
uniforms. Their winter dress, in which =
hey have just appeared, is of blue-black V
ashmere. 1t has vest of velvet and a d
.lan Skirt, with oversk TT and basque il
hats trimmed with vel L
'et, and taa-coloro1 loves complete the
costume of these fair devotees of higher f
ducltion. i
A~cvDrny-e ! I.