Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-04-24
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

Observation-Disclosures have discovered
why trees do not flourish near electric
lights. They need the repose of darkness.
The pope has now formally set his face
against cremation, and has forbidden
the priests to accord the rites of christian
burial to persons disposing of their own or
anybody else's body in this fashion.
MINNEAPoLIs, Minn.-The Journals
Chamberlain IS. d. special says: It is
reported here that troops will remove the
boomers from Sherman, new town on
the reservation opposil e here. The land
is claimed by the Indians.
DENVER, Col. has an incorporated stock
company of women who have undertaken
the development of a summer resort at
Dina Park, forty miles from that city 1t
is designed especially for the comfort of
women, children, and families.
THE traveller and ethnologist, Tushkuroff
points out the fact that there are 100000
heathens and $4,000 Mohammedans in the
Russian army, the latter forming IS per
cent. of the Cossack regiments, and also
declares that Christianity is dying out in
Southern Russia
ANXIETY is felt regarding the fate of the
National Line steamer Erin, which sailed
from New York December % has not since
been heard from She carried load Of
700 cattle and had twenty cattlemen ON
board besides her crew of sixty-fve sail
Ors.
FLAMES in the factory of the Grubb
Crockery Company, at Nashville, Tenn,
caused a loss of $4,000.
A PIECE of pink coral thirty feet long
and nine inches in diameter at one end,
with branches projecting about four feet
On all sides, was recently obtained on the
coast of japan. It's value in prepared state
would be about 5000.
BARABoo, Wis.-Wyatt H. Graves, the
West Salem banker, who obtained money
from the Boraboo Savings bank and bank
at Reedsburg, was released from Gus
today, having made a satisfactory settle
ment.
TOPEKA. Kansas. = Rev. B. F. Fos-
ter, of this city, who has been In Ala
bama the past two weeks, in the interest
of the Oklahoma Immi grafton Association,
writes that ten thousand colored people
will come from Alabama before July l. to
settle in Oklahoma. A letter from Atlanta
states that fifteen hundred left that city on
the 18th inst, for the new country.
New YoRK.-It was. discovered Thursday
morning at Castle Garden, that of | ,403
French and Italian immigrants on board
the steamships Cachemere, the majority
were bound for Pittsburgh, under contracts
made in Italy. The United States Con-
tract Labor Inspectors have gone out to
the steamer anchored off Liberty Island,
prepared to arrest all suspicious parties
The great majority of the immigrants are
men.
PIERRE, S. D.-Through the efforts of
the Indian Rights society, another big
pow WOW has been called by the
big chiefs of the Sioux Indian
nation to reconsider the action
on taking lands in severalty as
provided 10y law. At the meeting called for
next Sunday at point two or three miles
up Bad river, John Grass, Sitting Bull
and other noted chiefs as we'll as other
bands of hostiles, will attend.
NEW YoRK.-The Independent this
week gives a return vote of one hun
bred and twenty-six Presbyteries of the
Presbyterian church on revision of the
confession of faith These returns show that
eighty-two votes in favor of a revision,
forty against and four refused to vote.
There are yet eighty-six Presbyteries to be
heard from and the indications are, says
the Independent, that the vote in favor of
a revision, will be nearly, if not quite,
two-thirds of all the Presbyteries.
PIERRE, S. D.-A runner from
Cheyenne, seventy miles west on the
reservation says band of Indians are Civ
ing the agent considerable difficulty
Chief Big Foot with about forty braves
refuses either to take up land
or to vacate for settlers, and commenced
to make trouble. Two companies of in
fantry and three of cavalry
were dispatched from Fort Meade,
cornered the Indians and awaiting orders
as to their disposition. Big Foot refused
to capitulate and serious trouble is appre-
hended.