Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-28
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

been slain within year in Indian Terri
tory.
a DIVIDEND of per cent. has been de-
clared by the directors of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad, pay
able April 26.
The saloons of Omaha we're all closed
last Sunday, and the result was that only
three arrests were made for drunkenness,
against former average of thirty.
The excitement in Lower California
| over the recent discovery of gold is in
crossing and hundreds of men are leav-
ing for the mines.
The medical bill to bar out all but the
so-called regular profession from prac-
tice in the State of Rhode Island vas
killed in the House.
A BILL was passed by the Michigan
bouse Tuesday prohibiting the sale of
liquor in any place of amusement or any
adjacent room by vote of 81 to 13.
The ice on the $500" river is fast dis
appearing, and vessel men believe the
$500" canal will be open for navigation
about April 10.
OF the men who were in Congress when
Hannibal Hamlin entered it, only three
besides himself are now alive-Bradbary,
of Maine, Fitch, of Michigan, and Jeffer-
son Davis.
s. E. GROSS, the gentleman selected by
tina Laborities as their candidate for
Mayor of Chicago, has made formal
decIination of the nomination.
The Ohio house Friday passed the
Braham bill, which provides for the in
spection of live stock on foot in that
state before being slaughtered. There
were few votes against the bill.
The oil market at Pittsburg, Pa, was
in f-rry Wednesday, and the excite
ment was such as sshad not been seen Oh
the exchange for months, the fuctu-
atoms during the day being so rapid that
it was impossible to follow then.
THE annual report of the Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy Road shows a deficit
of 81, 33l, 425 in the finances of the COM
pany. The directors charge it mainly to
the late strike.
JACKSON, Mich,-Austin Blair, Michi-
gan's famous war governor, has been Ill
since his return from the inaugural cere-
monies at Washington. His illness has
now taken more serious turn, AMI his
condition is critical.
AUSTRALIAN school teachers have been
| exhorted to suppress a peculiar nasal
twang in the voice that is developing In
the rising generation, and which is be-
coming as distinctive as the Yankee
twang.
w. q. PERMISSION, of Argyle, Wis, re-
GENTLY found small bright stone which
jewellers pronounced a diamond OF the
fro Mr 70 toiv hot
he can get shovelful where he found the
first one. The find has aroused consid-
cradle excitement.
AT the sale at Chickering Hall, New
York, of the Erwin Davis collection of
paintings, Bastisn Lepage's Joan of
Arc" brought S23, 400 and Troyon's "Pas-
tursge in Normandy" brought $17,5OO.
In all, 143 paintings which were sold,
brought $243,96O.
The eIopement and marriage of Miss
Pauline Fuller, daughter of the chief
Justice of the United States, is announced
from Milwaukee, where the Young lady
was welded to James M. Aubrey, Jr., of
Chicago, Tuesday night.
VIM. s. JACKSON, the husband of the late
Helen Hunt Jackson, better known in the
literary world as "H. H." was married to
his third wife in Colorado Springs few
days ago. He is prosperous banker in
| that city, and is well known as q shrewd
railroad manager.
THERE is much bitterness felt by the
negroes in Sorth Carolina over the pass
age Of bill in the Legislature providing
for an election law, which provides that
all boxes shall be labelled aud that voters
shalt approach the poll one at time and
place their several ballots in the proper
boxes. The bill will seriously affect the
illiterate negro element in the State.
PURCELL, 1. T.-Oklahoma Hill and
party have sent Geographic message
to President Harrison to the effect that
the situation in Oklahoma is critical and
that it is national necessity to have
action taken at once. The telegram con
oludes: eff the thousands of actual,
honest settlers clamoring for admittance
are compelled to depend upon the right
to settlement until too late TO make a
crop actual starvation will follow
A CORPORATION has been organized for
the purpose of making money out OF the
location of the capital of South Dakota.
The o,pital stock is $1,OOO,0OO, which is
divided into shares of SO each. These
shares are TO be sold to the voters, and
the money vii! be used in buying land at
place which will be most suitable, and
the voters, who, of course, will be stock
holders in the corporation, will vote for
the capital to be located there, thus
causing boom in their own property.
A GANG of train robbers boarded a
train on the Pittsburg AID Lake Erie
road, near Shannopen, Pa, Tuesday, and
beat brakeman named CIeary to insen-
sibility. They were driven off by the 9TH
er train hands without securing any
booty. A posse of citizens started in
pursuit and captured nine of the gang.