Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.

SOUTH CAROLINA had another earth
quake shock Thursday morning.
Me-. PowDEKLEY's physician says he is
entirely broken down by hard work.
GENERAL SHERIDAN's children are among
the protest and most simply dressed in
Washington.
REPORTS from the west and northwest
indicate an immense loss of live stock by
the late blizzard.
THE construction of the "Guy Robert
son Mesa Canal" in New Mexico, which
will reclaim L, 100000 acres of now useless
land, Is to begin at once.
Both branches of the Legislature OF
Washington Territory have reenacted the
woman suffrage law, but exemptiug WON
an from jury duty.
SENATOR WILSON was re elected by the
Iowa L gisIature Tuesday, receiving SO
out of 80 votes in the Assembly, and sc
out of IL in the Senate.
FRANK SMITH, his wife, and two child
rem, persisted in the fire that destroyed
their home at Harrod, Allen county, o.,
Wednesday night.
AT Montreal, with the mercury 20 de-
ed property in the business portion of
the city to the amount of 100000.
The venerable mother of the late Pres
ident James A. Garfield, died at her home,
at Mentor, Ohio, Sunday morning, aged
Sc years.
sIx-FooT vein of coal was struck at
Colfax, Mclean County, H., Friday
morning, at the depth of 400 feet.
THE business failures in the UnitCd
States and Canada for the week number
314, against 288 last week, ana 301 in the
corresponding period of 1887.
GOLD has been discovered, of high
grade and paying quantities, near Omaha,
nuggets brought up from a well in a
farm near the city standing the assay
test.
SOME clever rascal has issued and sold
thirty thousand forged tickets of admis
sion to the jubilee mass in Rome, and q
new set of tickets will have to be printed
by the Vatican authorities.
The cold wave extends into the south,
causing much suffering. A general freeze
is reported throughout Texas, the tenn
perature being lower than it has been for
twenty four years.
The president on Tuesday signed the
commissions of Justice Lamar, Secretary
Villas, and Postmaster General Dickinson
The two latter took the oath of Office in
time to attend a cabinet meeting in the
afternoon.
SPEAKER CARLISLE had a second chill,
pproximating the conjestive form at 4
O'Clock tuesday morning, but rallied sub
sequently, and at latest reports was i'm
proving. His condition is not without
grounds for apprehension, however.
MEMBERS of the Forty-first Kentucky
Reg iment, VINO claim TO have never been
mustered out of the United States service,
have made arrangements to prosecute a
claim for an honorable discharge and
back pay.
IT Is feared that the missing steamer,
Britannia, having on board $50 Italian
emigrants for New York, encountered
and was sunk by logs from the recently
lost Nova Scotia raft, fragments of which
have been seen of late IN mid ocean.
ONE hundred and thirty-five persons
are known to have persisted in the recent
blizzard. OF these. 81 IN Dakota, Is in
Minnesota, II in Nebraska, in Iowa and
in Montana. Fifty five others are re-
ported missing.
A PARTY of ten young people, coasting
down a steep hill on bob sleds near Os-
vego, n. Y, coilided with a wagon load of
timber Saturday, with terrific effect, all
being rendered insensible, and some of
them badly hurt. One of them has since
died, and two others are not expected to
survive.