Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-16
TELEGRApHIC.
GENERAL NOTES.

REPRESENTATIVE RANDALL, who has
been seriously III, was much better Sun
day, and expects to be able to go out
early next week.
JUST before daylight Sunday morn
ing Roland Bros. meat market and T..
r. Curtis photograph. emporium, at
Madison, Wis, were injured by fire to
the extent of $4,000.
STREEMBURGER's sash and door fac
tory, at Fond du Lac, with large
quantity of stock, was destroyed by fire
Monday morning. The insurance is
$4,000.
RAILROADS in the vicinity of Mem
pnis, Tenn, were damaged considerably
by rain, Monday night, causing deten-
tion to travel.
The national convention Of the
Amalgamated Association of Steel and
Iron Workers will be held in New York
April Is.
Elk. CHIEF CLERK CARDIGAN has given
the names of confederates in the navy
fraud cases in Washington and will APP
pear against them.
THE president will, ere long, issue a
proclamation commanding the cattle
barons to move their fences and cattle
off the public domain.
WOLVES and eagles are reported to
be killing and carrying off the stock
that remains in the destituted sections
of Central West Virginia.
NEWS continues to be received con-
firmatory of the report Of the killing of
President Barrios, of Guatemala, in the
recent battle.
NINE Whites, including two priests
were killed by Riel's followers at Frog
Lake, and woman was taken prisoner
from Frog Lake, is reported to have
fallen into the hands of the insurgents.
DURING March the losses by fire
reached $4,000 900, and for the first
three months of 1885 the loss is $27,-
100000. The average fire waste for
March in the past ten years has been
less than 100000.
3 CAPTAIN EVAN P. HOWELL, editor of
the Atlanta Constitution, appoiated by
President Cleveland as Consul to Man
chester, has forwarded to the president
his formal declination of the office.
CAPTAIN HOWARD, U. S. A, is to in
struct Canadian troops in the Northwest
in the use of gathering guns. The Do
minioH Government is undecided
whether to offer a reward for the cap
ture of Riel dead Or alive.
BISHOP TAYLOR and o6her American
missionaries arrived at Sierra Leone,
Africa, Jan. 2. A month later another
party Of missionaries arrived, sixteen of
whom were children, who intended to
strike across the continent, It is feared
that they will lose their lives in the at
tempt.
AN internal machine was found in
the cellar of the residence of Mr.. Will
liam Stewart at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It
was piece of iron gas pipe, two inches
and filled with pound and half Of
rife powder. The internal machine
was tossed in through an opening in the
sash which had been broken out several
days before 1t fell in the coal bin and
failed to explode. The fuse had been
lighted but fortunately went out
TELEGRAPHIC communications has
been reopened from BattIefOrd, in the
region of the Northwest Canadian re-
bellion. The Indians have massacred
eight white people at Frog Lake, in
Guiding two priests and an Indian
Agent. No attack has been made on the
village of Battleford. The general in
dications are that there will be a gen
eral rising of the Indian tribes of that
region. Several thousand Canal ian
of the rebellion.