Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
LATEST TELECRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.

4 BUSINESS building at Clinton, Ill,
collapsed Sunday evening, destroying
the stock and machinery of three firms,
the loss approximating $4,000.
A RUMOR prevailed at Milwaukee
Monday that the Wisconsin Central
Read was about to build lire from
Green Bay to Sturgeon Bay, distance
of 90 miles.
THE employees of the State House at
Madison during the recent session of
the legislature cost the State of WIS
consin $4,000.
HUGH GRAHAM has succeeded in OBJ
tanning Judgment of $S5,231 against
the estate of the late Cyrus Il. McCor-
mic for infringement OF a patent on
harvesting machines.
THE International Bank of Guatemala
has suspended on account OF being
forced bv the late President BarrioE to
hand over $500, of railroad deposits.
It had capital of 81, 500, 900, and its
stock was mainly owned in England.
FARMERS in Kentucky, Missouri, Kan
sas, and other states continue to pillow
up their wheat fields and prepare for
other crops. TIE destruction to winter
wheat by the hard winter can no longer
be doubted.
AN assignment was filed at Cincinnati,
Wednesday by the Louis Cook Manu-
featuring Company Carriages and bug
gies), preference being given for $685.
600. TIE liabilities are placed at $780,
600.
THE force OF American marines who
are temper arly occupying portion OF
the Isthmus Of Panama, pending the re-
establishment of law ana order ia that
region, are threatened by the revolution
lists, who have fred upon their pickets
4 CLOUD-BURsT on the Medicine
Lodge river, il Kansas, suddenly Caus-
ed mass Of water from five to twelve
feet high to sweep through the valley,
taking portion Of the town of Meslicinc
Lodge in it's course. Much destruction
was the result, and several persons were
drowned. Destructive storms and
floods are reported in Texas.
RENSSELAER,. WELLS, who died Satur-
day at RushviIIe, ILL.,, had been a Free
Mason sixty-seven years, voted for
every republican President from Ere
mont to Blaine, and was respected
mcmber Of the Presbyterian Church.
NIX. n. - w AMAN, bIS UIS5ouISI VI
the United States, at Washington, has
resigned his Office, in order to accept
the vice-presidency OF a national bank
ly cashier of the Third National Bank,
of New York, has been appointed as his
successor.
EARL DUFFERlN, the British Viceroy
of India, sends word to Gladstone that
the possession of Penjdeh, the disputed
boundarY-line town in Afghanistan,
would not be worth fighting for, and
that the Ameer is entirely willing to
surrender it to Russia. 1t is stated that
the Gladstone Cabinet comedies in the
Viceroy' s view.
ONE day last week James Glass, in
company with three other parties, w.ile
logging, four and a half miles from
Harvell, Mo, discovered den Of snakes,
which they dug out, and succeeded in
killing sixteen rattlesnakes, six cotton
mouths, one copperhead and one blue
racer. Three hundred yards distant
was an old den, in which they found
and killed three rattlesnakes.
The Bartheldi colossal statue of Lib
berty, to be erected at Bedioe's Island,
ia New York harbor, has been taken
down at Paris, and the several tarts
numbered and packed in boxes, ready
for transportation to Rouen, where it is
to be embarked on one Of the war YES
sells of the French Government. This
vessel will sail on the Sth of Nav, and
probably arrive at New York between
the 22d and tbs Goth. A fitting reception
will of course be accorded by the Unit
ed States authorities.
LAST week in the mountains Of
Frederick County, Maryland, two hunt
ers discovered Thomas Murphy, who
twenty years ago eloped with Ellen
Garrett, the daughter of a preacher. The
pair settled down in cabin in the
woods, the woman giving birth to two
children. now respectively 10 and II
years, and both densely ignorant.
Murphy's wife died four years ago, but
the man has no intention of returning
to civilization. The county authorities
viii take charge Of the children, enc
Of whom is a beautiful girl.
GABLEGRAMS.