Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-12
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.

Mr.. PowDERLEY's physician says he ii
entirely broken down by hard work.
THE liquor license of Atlanta, Ga, has
been fixed at $1,000 by the new City
Council.
The total number of immigrants landed
at New York during the year 1887 was
371,619.
FoR eleven months ended Nov. 80 last
the net earnings of the Union Pacific
Road show an increase of S2,228,992.
SENATOR PALMER, of Michigan, has
given $4,000 for the erection of a build
ing at Detroit, to be used by the G. A. R.
of the State.
THE freight rates on iron and steel
from Pittsburg to western points have
been reduced from 81 to III and Is
cents.
The visible supply of wheat in Cali
fornia January 1 vas 100000 centals,
against 100000 centals on the same
date in 1887.
The visible supply of wheat Saturday,
Dec. 81, was 44,421.13O bushels; an in
crease of LA, 400 bushels. The corn sup
ply was 1925, 258 bushels; an increase of
265,851 bushels.
THE pig-iron market in the South is
reported booming. The furnaces are
running to their fullest extent. and all
products is speedily disposed of.
The total amount of money paid for
cattle received at the Union Stock Yards
at Chicago during the year 1887 was about
$100,000,000. This for cattle alone, say
ing nothing of sheep, hogs and horses.
The flour production at Minneapolis
last week reached 100000 million barrels,
against 10000 barrels the previous week.
The market is quiet, but change of prices
is noted.
SOME clever rascal has issued and sold
thirty thousand forged tickets of admis,
sion to the jubilee mass in Rome, and a
new set of tickets will have to be printed
by the Vatican authorities.
The great objective thirty-six-inch
lens has been successfully mounted in
the Lick telescope at Los Angeles, but
the sky has not yet been clear enough for
observation.
CALIFORNIA reported unusually cold
weather on Saturday-24 degrees above
zero in the nothern portion Of the state
and SO at San Diego, the extreme south
ern portion.
The December fire losses were So.
3O8 600 against 100000 for the same
month last year. The total fire waste fo1
1887 was $129, 264,OOO, about thirteen mil.
lions greater than in 1886.
STORAGE warehouse property along the
! Brooklyn water front amounting in value
TO $10,000,0O0 is about to be put into the
control of a colossal trust. Fully one
half the foreign commerce Of the port OF
! New York will be involved.
| SOMETHING very like a tidal wave OF
monsGrous proportion swept upon the
headlands outside of Portland harbol
Thursday night. The great mass rose
sixty feet above high-water mark, carry
ing everything before if.
! PATRICK O'BRiEN, an Iowa contractor
was found freezing III doorway at Gin
cinnati, Wednesday night. He had beer
! drinking, and on his person was found
| $4,000 IN money and $4,000 in checks.
| A STATEMENT of the comparative growth
Of Industry and business in the south fol
the past two years shows remarkable
progress. Daring 1887 the total amount
of new capital employed, including The
capital stock of incorporated com panies
was $256,296 600, against 1929, 226,O0(
for 1886.
The Sixty-eighth General Assembl!
of Ohio organized at Columbus Monda!
the Hon. I. T. Davis of Washington
County, being elected President pro ten
of the Senate, and the Hon. E. l.. Lamp
son, of Ashtabula County, Speaker OF
the House, q Republican and Democratic
combination defeating the majority OF
the Republican caucus nominees in the
| Senate.