Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.

The January interest on government
bonds amounts to So, 414,0OO.
DANIEL J. MANNING, ex-secretary of the
treasury, died at the residence of his son,
in Albany, Saturday.
SCARLET fever has broken ont iu Koko
Lao, Ind, with twenty nine cases reported
and three of diptheria.
The visible supply of wheat and corn
last Saturday was, respectively, A 247,-
634 aud 5,759, 407 bushels. Since last re-
port wheat increased 1,O16,625 bushels,
and corn increased 376, 1898 bushels.
LACK of orders is the cause ascribed
for shutting down the steel rail and steel
converting department Of the rolling
mill at Springfield, Illinois. Two Hun.
dred men are thrown out of employment.
IT is again announced that line of
pi pes and tanks for the transmission of
oil from the oil-wells of Ohio and Indiana
to Cincinnati and Chicago is about to be
established.
GOVERNOR ALGER, of Michigan, repeated
his charity of last year, giving clothing
to 500 newsboys, and fuel and -four to
thousand poor and deserving families.
JOHN G. FREMONT, with his wife and
daughter, is spending the winter at Los
Angeles, wherehe viii complete the Sec
ond volume of his memoirs.
JOHN J. LITTLEToN, editor of the Nat
ional Review, of Nashville. Tenn, who
was shot last Saturday by Joseph K.
Banks, died early Wednesday morning.
A TOTAL of 1854 miles of new railroad
has been built in the northwest during
1887, besides about 500 miles of road bed
made ready for the iron. next year.
SUNDAY night at Benton, Ky, the wife
of Wesley Ray gave birth to four children,
two boys and two girls, ali of whom are
doing well.
The home of workingwomen's children
known as the Lathrop Memorial, erecte,
at Albany, n. Y, by the wife of Senatoss
Stanford, of California, has been dedica
ted.
The Corern Embassy is on the steamer
Oceanic, now detained at quarantine at
San Francisco, having smallpox on
board.
The captain and first mate of the Brit
ish bark Embleton are charged with such
cruelty on the voyage from San Francis
CO to Sunderland that three of the crew,
to escape it, jumped over board.
THE Adventists of Battle Greek, Mich,
fully persuaded that the day of doom is
close at hand, are discardlng jewelry
and making other preparations. At
meeting Tuesday night $4,000 was raised
to establish missions.
BATTLE was fought in the mountains
near Guatemala recently between federal
forces and revolutionists, ending in the
rout and almost humiliation of the in
surgents and the execution of the cap
tured leaders.
II is believed the big raft of logs that
went astray in the Atlantic ocean between
Nova Scotia and New York has gone to
pieces, and that separate logs are floating
about, greatly increasing the danger of
navigation.
The coal trade at Reading is for the
time being paralyzed by the strike of
railroad hands. Not car passed through
Reading from the coal regions on Satur
day, against $500 cars the preceding
Saturday.
THE Standard Oil Company, is prepar-
! ingNto construct an immense pipe line to
Chicago for the transportation of oil for
fuel, and will build thousand tanks at
Lima, Ohio, for the storage of the product
of the Northwestern Ohio field.
THE strange story of the life led by a
shipwrecked crew for nine months on a
barren island in the South seas has reach
ed San Francisco by way of Honolulu.
The sailors lived solely on fish and the
meat and eggs of birds