Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-16
GENERAL NOTES.

their 5777th year Saturday.
Pyne, NJ. p, has been lodged in the
Waterford jail and refused bail.
Over $500 has been sent from New
York in aid of the Reading strikers.
The marquis of Lansdowne has &C
ceptsd the vice-royalty of India.
Thomas Harrison, the once famous
"boy preache," is now living at Eliza
beth, y. J.
I'D. Payne, NJ. P, who defed and elud-
ed the Dublin police, was arrested ii
London Friday.
The next convention of the American
horticultural society will be held in Tex
as two years hence.
The Odessa university has been re-
opened, and will remain so until another
Nlhlilstlc plot Is discovered.
The Lafayette( Mo- Morning News, a
republican daily and weekly, has sus-
pended publication.
-Four grain buildings burned at KATY
topn, Pa, and father and two children
persisted.
Patriotic st. Petersburg capitalists will
build number of fast steamers which
can be readily converted iEto cruisers.
ColCnel Fred Grant and his mother are
said TO own controlling interest in the
Cosmopolitan magazine, of New York.
1t took three gallons of ink to conduct
Senator Cockrell,s correspondence last
year.
man was killed in a wreck caused by
car running away on the Kansas City
cable railway.
An epidemic of typhoid fever is pre-
vailing at the state Industrial school for
girls at Adrian, Mich.
The United States has $24O,0oO,O0O in
vested in Mexico, in mines, railroads and
ranches, and England has SSO,OOOOOO.
Duncan c. Ross, Captain James G.
Daily, and Greek George are the happy
trio that are now doing Texas.
match game of checkers is being
arranged between the champions of Ra
cine and Renosha counties.
Allan Arthur, some of the late ex-presi-
dent, Is preparing some memoirs of his
father.
Austin Corbip has horror of photo
6 taphers. He declares that he will never
have his picture taken.
Cleveland and Washington will play
exhibition games in Atlanta before the
opening of the season.
Mrs. Sarah Robinson, of Boston, the
alleged wholesale pOisoneT, has been
found guilty of murder IN the first de-
gree.
The fishing schooner Rising Sun was
wrecked in binding snow storm off
Portsmouth, n. H., Friday night and two
of her crew persisted.
FIechettes, new in or outdoor game.
has taken Paris by storm. It consists in
throwing feathered darts, lik jayclins, at
target
James McConyille, of Stuebenviile,
Ohio, has been appointed receiver Of the
Metropolitan National bank of Cincin-
natl
Senator Hearst, who is interested in
nearly all the principal mines in the west,
has not lost dollar in mining in fifteen
years.
Congressman TjIIman, of South Caro-
lima, says that the overcoat is northern
luxury unworthy of man with blood III
his veins.
A big labor demonstration is shortly
to be given in New York 30 express
sympathy for the Reading strikers.
A building owned by p. W. Gates, of
Chicago, and occupied by several firms,
burned early Thursday morning, causing
loss of $4,000.
DR.. Bromayen successfully performed
the operation of tracheotomy on the
crown princes throat Thursday, and the
patient is doing well.
Both houses of the Swedish parliament
have passed bill imposing an import
duty of 212 crowns per hundred kilos on
rye, barley, wheat, corn, peas and beans.
Henry Bath g. Sons, owners of the
Great Eastern, think Barnum's offer of
$25O,000 inadequate. They favor a plan
for breaking up the big vessel, and ask
$35O,0C0 for it.
MiIton's cottage, where he wrote "Par-
adise Lost" is to be purchased by means
of fund and preserved as relic of the
great poet.
Sir Edwin Arnold, it is stated, is likely
to be appointed poet laureate to succeed
Lord Tennyson, as the queen warmly fav-
ors the author of Light of Asia"
Evan Lewis, the Stranger, failed to
throw Jack Carkeek in fifteen minutes at
the Palace theatre, Milwaukee,, and lost
wager of $50.
The members of the Racine college
base ball club are now obliged TO prac-
tice in the gymnasium at the Y. NJ. q. A.
They are there twice week and the nine
promises to be a strong one this year.
Rear Admiral Jouett is timtd for
fighting man. he says there ''is not
country in the world SO rich, SO weak and
surrounded by SO many sources of danger
as the United States"
An unnamed road geIding by Goodin's
Cham pion was driven by John Trout TO
sleigh over Beacon park course in 2:31A.
This is said to beat the sleigh record.
Manager Harry Wright, of the Phila-
delphia league club, has written to Allan
ia to see if he can secure the grounds
there for few weeks before he-season
practice.
Point Preeze park, Philadel phia, has
been sold to an organization of wealthy
men who will use it for a private driving
track. They paid for it SAT, 800, and as
the grounds cover sixty-four acres it looks
like great bargain.
a powder mill at WaynesVille, Pa, was
blown up Friday. Four men were in
stantly killed and forty others injured.
Buildings were visably shaken for a dis
lance of twenty miles.
The subcommittee of the republi-
can rational committee selected General
Fitzsimmons, of Chicago, for sergeant-at
arms and the Grand Pacific as head
quarters.
Up to date 1C, 500 local assemblies of
tho Knights of Labor have been started
A clerk employed in the general Office,
says 5000 of them have disbanded or left
the order, 1000 are in good standing and
the remainder are in arrears. He says
30 lnl rnernhsrs are in crnnd rtnndinor