Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-16
LATEST KILOGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.

tho tobacco crop in Lancaster county'
Pa.
The Salvation Army's barracks at
Caro-, Mich, are now used as dance
hall.
AT McKeesport, Pa, Black Bros.
who have been drilling for gas, struck
| oil Wednesday at depth of 1000 feet.
THE vacations taken by, the Judges
and officers of the New York city courts
cost the taxpayers $130.463 every sum
| mer.
THE Alaska exploring expedition,
Lieut.. Storey in command, arrived at
Ilinlink, Ounalaska, June 6, and will
proceed north as soon as the ice in
Behring's sea will permit.
FIVE HUNDRED men are working on
| the great railroad bridge of the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad over the Susque-
hanna at Frenchtown. The structure
will be ninety-five feet above the water
level, and will be built entirely of graz.
| ite and iron.
A man in Epson County, Georgia.
twenty-five years ago buried 5000 sill
yer half dollars, and did not unearth
them again until last week, when they
were exhumed and put into circulation.
A dumb Inmate of the poor asylum
| at Vincennas, Ind, named Steffy, was
boxed on the ears by his keeper for try
ing to run away, and Immediately be-
gan to speak.
ANDREW d. WHITE, ex-president of
Cornell university, declares that be is
not candidate for the governorship of
New York. Probably it wouldn't make
much difference if he were. Men like
him are not in favor with the politicians
! of the Empire State.
THE Supreme Temple, Patriarchal
| Circle, of Odd Fellows, in session at st.
Paul, elected officers, Peter Vanvechten,
Jr., of Milwaukee. being chosen SUI
preme Consul, and Geo. G. O. Akley, of
Chicago, Marshal.
The situation in Indian Territory is
about like this: The Cheyenne Indians,
being well armed, are likely to make
trouble. An attempt to disarm them
is sure to make trouble. The war de-
partmenU is in doubt whether to tackle
possible trouble or a positive one.
GOLD and silver coins valued at $1,000
have been unearthed on a farm near
Racine, Ohio, including a number of
old and rare American and foreign
pieces. There have been traditions of
buried treasure in the neighborhood
since its earliest settlement.
THE strike caused the closing down
Wednesday of all the lumber mills oa
the river in Bay City and West Bay
City. At one point the officers and
were made but when a threatening
Il cd ioS1 +
were released.
DISPATCHES from points in North.
western Iowa, Northwestern Nebraska.
Southwestern Dakota, and Southeastern
Minnesota state that within few DAYS
the corn crop has been greatly improy-
Z d by warm weather.
AN investigation ordered by the gov
ernor of South Carolina develops a
shocking condition of affairs in the con-
vict camps of that state, the prisoners
having been Systematically overworked,
underfed and cruelty punished. The
next legislature will probably abolish
the system of farming out convicts to
railroad companies and mining opera
tors.
MRS. ELIZABETH GILvERsON, of Mans
field, Ohio, has sued for divorce from
&
kept the body Of her dead son in a box
under her bed for twenty years, COM
polling her by threats of violence to oc-
cupy the bed every night. She claims
that the emanations from the box in
jured her health.
A bad fraud on the government has
been fou2d in Cincinnati by internal
revenue officers. Two slaves of bar
rel arc thickened, the one in which the
bunghole is and the one opposite, the
other slaves being of the ordinary
thickness. The gaugiDg instrument, of
course, in such case, measures the
capacity of tiae barrel two gallons less
than the actual contents. The govern
ment has lost largely by the trick.
a VIOLENT storm, attended by wind
and lightning, swept across the state of
Wisconsin from northwest to southeast,
late Wednesday night, working great
destruction to property at various
points. At Sparta it ragged fercely for
q full hour, unroofing many buildings,
uprooting trees, and leveling crops. At
Lind nineteen barns and six dwellings
were partly wrecked. At Madison the
damage is estimated at $4,000 Re-
ports of similar visitation also come
from points in Illinois, Indiana and
Michigan.