Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-03-08
NEWS ODDITIES.

Il is reported that Lynn, Mass. has
upwards of forty Chinese laundries.
Conrad William Carl Eppengen de
Sponneck, the Danish statesmen, is dead.
General Greedy has returned to Wash
ington.
Rider Raggard is said TO be at wo.k on
the promised sequel to "She."
Matthew Arnold say that the American
'funny men" are national calamity.
Col. Villas private secretary, E. P
Hanna, has resigned.
1t is considered certain that the senate
will reject the fishery treaty.
Mr.. Dapew claims to wear bee proof
bonnet.
Miss Emma Thursby has been the guest
of Mrs. Ole Bull, at Cambridge.
Mrs. Cleveland was presented with a
fawn at St. Augustine.
Turkey will declare Prince Ferdinand
q usurper in Bulgaria.
6. L. Berry, a ranchmen of Laramie,
W. T., has killed fourteen bears this
winter
Steel has been made at Birmingham
Ala, the first ever made from Alabama
ore.
The Missouri asylum for deaf and
dumb at Fulton, Mo-, was destroyed by
FIRE. Loss, 100000.
Lille is in Kansas City without an en-
gagement. Here is good player over
looked.
The eight hour movement is now as
serting itself strongly on the Pacific
coast.
| ed TO fight six rounds at Ashland, April
7th.
The old Western league will be revived
with clubs at Denver, Wichita, Pueblo
Hutchinson, Leavenworth and st. Joseph
Senator Farwell, of Illinois, was once a
poor man himself, but now he makes 500
a day.
Senator Quay has already won in Wash
ington a widespread reputation for gen
erous and unassuming hospitality.
Mrs. Maurice su1cided by the pistol
method in a Chicago hotel Thursday
morning. Il is the outcome OF scandal
The BARRIERS National association is
out in support of the boycott on Mil
waukee beer.
Negotiations for a settlement of the
flint glass workers strike have again been
declared off.
The tug Batcheller, sunk at her dock
in Grand Haven Thursday, from working
in the ice the day before.
Bob Burdette says that the oysters of
San francisco taste as though they were
bound in calf, library style.
Mr.. Gladstone has discarded the shabby
old victoria which he used TO drive, and
now drives spanking turnout.
1t is thought the senate will not con-
firm the appointment of Maj. Rathbone
TO be consul general to Paris.
Marshall 2. Wilder, the humorist, is
going to Japan to- make the MikadO
smile.
; Wilkie Collins is again afflicted with the
govt, a disease from which he has always
suffered more or less.
The middle name of George w. Childs
the philanthropist, is William, not Wash
ington, as it is often given.
Judge McCue, the newly appointed
| treasurer at New York, is said to be the
richest man ever in that place.
Frances E. Willard thinks it funny that
men are willing that women should enter
any profession except their own.
! Ten persons and many head of cattle
were killed and many houses destroyed
by an avalanche in Switzerland
Pyne, member of parliament, was sen
fenced to six weeks imprisonment with
out hard labor. He will appeal, and was
| released on bail.
| The opera house, Niles block, the
| Challenge rink and several residences
were burned at Salamanca, n. Y, Wednes-
day. Loss, $4,000.
Nearly all the business portion of SUIT
Ter Greek, Col, was burned Thursday
Loss between 100000 and 100000.
Mitchell, the pugilist, has been bound
over in e200 bonds to await trial for ar
ranging to fight Sullivan.
Sixty persons were drowned by the
laundering of the French schooner, FIeu1
| de Lamer, off the isle of Covenna.
| The lower house of the Hungarian diet
by vote of 185 to sc, has approved the
convention delimiting the frontier be-
tween Hungary and Roumania.
DIR. Peters, chief of the German Afri
can society, has suddenly returned to
Berlin from cart Africa. 1t is supposed
that he quarreled with the German au
thorities.
Fred Gebhard's FLY, Her Lillyship
gives promise of being a fast two-year
old. She was named after Mrs. Lang
try.
| The club managers of the reorganizeo
Western league are pledged to pay nc
more than $1,000 to any of their players
Charley Snyder caught sixteen straight
1878, and that is still the best catcher'E
| record.
| In s1x-round fight, lasting forty min
utes, at Bayonne City, N. j., Wednesday
morning, Joe Farrell, of the latter city
knocked ont Jack Shea, of Providence
who had twenty pounds the advantage il
weight.
| CONGRESSMAN Barnes, of Georgia, /;
collecting the queer letters received b!
! him and some of his brother members
end will publish them in book form with
| lots of pictures.
| It ia stated that a pool at Cincinnati
has secured control of 10000 shares OF
! Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton stock,
and will keep Ives and his friends out OF
the management.
WISCONSIN GLEANINGS.
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