Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-02
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

WILLIE T. WELoH, a 12-year-old boy at
Rockland, Me-, died Tuesday from i'm
moderate cigarette smoking.
The idea that fish food was brain food
mad a run of ten years before anyone ask
ed why Esquimaux, who eat the most fish,
had no mental smartness.
:. The body of Paul Lemoyne, lumber
man of Chippewa Falls, Wis, who disap-
peared two weeks ago, was found in the
river Tuesday. One hundred dollars were
found in his pockets.
THE question of constitutional amend
ment was vote3 on ia Massachusetts,
Monday. The amendment was defeated
by majority of from $4,000 to 10000.
FEARS are entertained that the United
States war-ship Monongahela, which
sailed for Samoa over sixty days ago, has
been lost, as no reports have been re-
ceived of her arrival.
THE Michigan legislature has passed
the bill providing for the inspection on
hoof of all the beef consumed in the
state.
TIE death of Justice Stanley Mathews
leaves Ohio without representative in
the UniUed States supreme court for the
first time in sixty years
The late James Flood of California is
said TO have spent $5,OO0,00O, on his San
Francisco home. The bronze fence about
the grounds cost 100000, and the bronze
gates almost as much more.
A "GUsHER" oiI-wen was struck at Leg
ronviile, Pa. The oil spurted 115 feet in
the air, and commenced flowing at the
rate Of 700 barrels day, to the intense
excitement of the inhabitants.
LITTLE Katie Reimer of Scio, Kan,
now carries the mail from Atwood to Sell
den three times each week. The distance
is about 40 miles, and the trip is made in
in blackboard drawn by a pony. Miss
Katie is the only girl carrying the mail In
that State.
SHINGE KUsIDA, young Japanese wom-
an who has been doing good work among
her people as a temperance lecturer, is to
be sent to the United States to study the
methods mere.
BOsToN.-Returns are how being re-
ceived from the cities and towns of the
vote for and against the prohibition
amendment. The total vote for the
amendment is 1896; against, 1873, 1876;
showing majority against the amend
ment of AZ ,499.
JUDGE WHITE of Pittsburgh, Pa, has
issued only 254 wholesale and retail liquor
licenses in the county this year, and a
this is only about one fourth OF the mum
Der issued two years ago, the liquor ele-
ments of Pittsburgh and Allegheny are
much excited over the matter.
New BEDFORD, Mass.-Mrs. Frances
FOlsom Cleveland, wife of Ex-President
Cleveland, who was in Marion two yeras
ago, when she sojourned there for the
summer, is again to take up her residence
there, having leased the cottage of the
Rev. Percy Browne.
KANSAS CITY.-A Times Purcell special
says: Thousands of disappointed home.
stead seekers returning from Oklahoma,
are obtaining lots from the Indians in
the Chicasaw, Chootaw and Greek nations.
Many of the Indians welcome the
white settlers and some are said to favor
the allotment in severalty of their reser-
walton.
PHILLIPS Books is catching it for hav-
ing come out against prohibition. Rev.
]. Howard Smith, in the Amendment, tells
him that he is in the company of pub
licans and sinners, and that his uttefances
are applauded in the ante chambers of
nell. 1t is remarkable, says an exchange,
by the way, how much some rabid enthu-
siasts seem TO know about the state of
public opinion in the lower regions.
A SPRINGFIELD dispatch states that sew
eral hundred people at Oak Ridge Park
on Sunday went to see Mrs. King, a
| negress, turn water into wine by prayer.
The effort failed, of course, and now Mrs.
1
miracles. The woman attracted consid
cradle attention at Springfield last winter
by fasting forty days and nights. At her
meeting day she declared that she had
abstained from food since April 4.