Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

F1FTY-sIx lunatics persisted in the re-
cent insane asylum fire at long Poine,
Canada
GEN. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, one of the
surviving heroes of the lost cause is eighty
| four, but as buoyant as an active man OF
fifty.
A FULL-BLooDED Sioux maiden Jose
phine Crowfeather, has just taken vows
as Benedictine nun.
EX-SENATOR SAWYER, of Alabama, now
earns his daily bread as a second class
clerk in the War Department at Washing
| ton.
/ THE visible supply of wheat and corn is
bushels. Both have decreased since last
report the following amounts: Wheat
96, 938 bushels; and corn, 1891 bushels
AT Mondays Conference of the South
ern NJ E. Church at st. Louis, the Rev
DR.. Atticus G. Raygood, of Sheffield, Ala
and the Rev. Oscar ?. Fitzgerald, of Nash
vile, were elected bishops.
The remains of the late President Gar
| field and those Of his mother were removed
Tuesday morning from the public vault IL
the Lake View Cemetery, at Cleveland,
| Ohio, to the crypt in the Garfield monu
ment, which is to be dedicated on Memoir
ial Day.
STOCKTON, CAL Several bad breaks
| occurred Wednesday morning In the Unior
| Island levees. About twenty thousand
acres will be flooded, one-haf of which
| is in wheat. Portions of North Visalis
are flooded from break in the levee along
| the St. John S river, and considerable dam
age done to grain fields and vineyards.
| HEAVY rains in the Red River Valley
have made the wheat prospects there bet
ter than for several years past. The state
ment of the Agricultural Department al
Washington gives the condition of winter
wheat in Illinois as very bad from frost,
excessive rains and floods.
LINCOLN, Nebraska. - Gov. Thaye1
has made public a proclamation con-
vening the Legislature June 5th for the
| purpose of passing maximum rate law,
repeating the law creating state board Of
transportation, passing the Australian bal
lot bill and declaring for more
currency and the free coinage of silver.
The governor says that the cost will not
be more than $4,000 per week, and two
weeks will be long enough to transact the
business mapped out. The announcement
| is entirely unexpected.
SAN FRANCIsCo.-On April 26, last, the
| ship Oneida, from San Francisco to the
| Alsntain canneries, was shipwrecked at
Sanak Island, Alaska. Seventy-seven
Cinnamon were drowned. Forty-fve
white men and thirty-three Cinnamon
were saved. The captain has since disap.
peared.
CITY OF MEXICO. - President Diaz
speaking of the fillibustering move
ment in Lower California, told an
Associated press correspondent to-
day that ne placed but little import.
ance in the reports. He knew the United
States government would not allow the
neutrality to be violated, and the Mexican
government would protect her own terri
tory.
CHICAGo.-E. J. Lehman, the we'll
known capitalist and owner of the
great department store, has been declared
by jury to be distracted, and his wife
appointed CONSERVATION of his estate. HI
has been in the Bloomingdale asylum, N
Y, some time now, and in the opinion Of
experts is clearly lunatic. The trouble
resulted from too much mental work con
sequent on the management of his enor
| NOUS business.