Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-27

| IT is reported from San Francisco
CAL, that 81, 100000 have been subscribed
for the proposed cable between San Fran
cisco and Honolulu, and that the work
will be commenced within eighteen
months.
CITIZENS of Tuscaloss county, Ala,
have declared war on the "moonshiners,'
or illicit distillers. The latter are armed,
and a bloody conflict is among the near
| probabilities.
THREE hundred delegates from all
parts of the Union, to the Worlds Sun
day-school Convention, which meets in
London July 2, have sailed from New
York on the steamer Bothnia.
| A CONNECTICUT woman is suing her
neighbor for damages for putting up fly
| screens. She claims that the flies which
cannot get into the neighbours house on
this account will come into hers, and she
will thereby have double the usual mum
| Der.
P1rrsBURG church people propose to re-
build the churches destroyed at Johns
town, each Denomination taking care of
its own. This is practical charity such as
Pittsburg people have been noted for
ever since the first news of the disaster
<as sent over the wires.
A NEWFOUNDLAND dog in California
which lost it's master was found no less
than three times trying to dig open his
grave. After the last visit, the body for
some reason or other, was disinterred, and
the dog upon shifting the coffin took to
the woods and thereafter refused all
food.
The largest ferryboat in the world is
the Solano, used in carrying passengers
across the straits of Carquinez, between
Belnicia and Port Costa. 1t is 400 feet
long, and has capacity of forty-eight
freight cars and two locomotives.
JOLIET, Ill.-A committee sent from
| this place TO ascertain the condition of
affairs among the striking miners in the
Braidwoed district, reports that they
| found many cases of actual want in the
| households of the miners, nearly all OF
whom have large families. There are
about 5000 persons without means
Livelihood.
Mrs. HETTY GREEN, of New York, enjoys
an income of $4,000 day, and her total
yearly expenses are said to be less than
| $4,000. Her fortune at present is estimat
ed at $4,000, 900, and it is climbing at the
rate of more than million year. Mrs.
Green has proved on sundry occasions
that she is amply able to take care of her
self and this big hunk of money.
MARTIN BURKE, the man under arrest at
Winnipeg for completely in the Cronin
murder, is reported to have made Con-
fession. It is said that he has consented
to waive extradition proceedings provid-
ed the authorities will allow him TO turn
states evidence. The special grand jury
Investigating the murder has returned an
indictment against Burke, charging him
with murder and conspiracy to murder.
GENERAL j. G. FREMONT may now be
seen on fine days on Broadway, New York
It was thirty-three years ago when he
was A years old that he stood as the first
republican candidate for president of the
United States, his wife, Jessie, being as
romantic figure in the campaign as he
himself was. General Fremont bears his
years well, and enjoys life with Jessie on
his ranch in California. His figure is ye
straight and his movement spry. He has
not forgotten his old home up in Ninth
street, where the Wide Awakes awoke the
echoes in the olden times.