Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-03-15
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.

4 FRENCH steamer arrived in New York
Monday with case of small pox aboard,
The Union stock yards at Chicago, con-
ain 345 acres.
In 1871, 26,OO0,00O Britishers used %,
100000 pounds OF tobacco. Now, 81 ,00O,-
coo use 100000 pounds.
MISS BOOTH, of Harper's Bazaar, is Gre
dited with earning $4,000 year by trans
lating, besides her $1,000 as editor.
W.K. VANDERBILT las engaged Joseph
Real, French cook, at a salary of $780,
600 year.
Bishop Spaulding thinks that celibacy
threatens the country more than polyg-
amy
THOMAS J. POTTER, general manager of
the Union Pacific Road, died Friday
morning at Washington.
A BILL allowing women to vote on the
license question has passed the third
reading in the Massachusetts house.
The locomotive engineers of the G., B.
d Northern, between Chicago and st. Paul,
struck on Wednesday.
The Canadian government has decided
to proceed with the work on the 800"
canal.
CHICAGO mourns the death of DR.. W. Il.
Reder, the noted Universalist clergyman
OF that city.
NINE valuable horses, smuggIed over
the Canadian border without payment of
duties. have just been seized at Dewitt,
Iowa.
THE locomotive engineers and firemeE
OF the c., B. & @. are on strike. Over
| 1000 men are out and the business of the
road Is paraiyzed.
THFRE are in the Sunday-schools of the
Christian world 16, 447 $50 scholars and
1852, 1877 teachers, making grand total
OF Is, 100000.
THE active rate-cutting field at present
| is in the southwest, where the Missouri
| Pacific, the Fort Scott and Gulf, ana the
Frisco are having lively tussle.
MAYOR Roche has received
$3.50 in contributions for the Mount
! Vernon sufferers, making total of $l9,-
685 contributed by Chicago citizens.
TIE two elections held in Massachu-
sets Monday resulted very satisfactorily
| to the prohlhitionists. Out of ifty-fve
towns in the eastern part of the state OILY
eight voted for license.
THREE hundred worbmen in the rail
road shops of the Pittsburg, IT. Wayne &
| Chicago R'y Co. IN Pjt5sourg, we're dis
charged to day on account of lack OF
work.
COLONEL INeERsoLL says he twill never
! again vote for 2 man who is not distin.
guished for something, who hasn't made
his mark in some calling, who hasn't got
some brains.'
THE High License bill, which recently
passed the New Jersey Legislature and
was vetoed by tho Governor, has been
passed over the veto by both houses and
IS now law.
THE Iowa Supreme court decides that
liquor unla afuliy brought into the state
is subject to seizure at all times and
places, even WheR found in the posses
sion of a person holding a permit to
sell.
MISS LOUISA ALooTT, of Boston, the
well known writer, died a5 the Highlands
early Tuesday morning Of spinal men
nights. She drove into the city last
Thursday and took cold, which proved
fatal. She had been suffering from ner-
vous prostitution for long time.
HEAVY blasting caused oily bubbles TO
rise to the surface of the river at Charles
City Iowa, and it is believed that depos-
its of petroleum uuderlie the district
| When removed from the water, and a
match being applied, the scum burned
readily. The aid of petroleum experts
will be invoked.