Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-23
NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

JOSEPH JEFFERSON received So, 900 for
his autobiography.
JOHN B. HARLOW has been appointed
Postmaster at st. Louis.
MANY of the coopers of Minneapolis are
said to be destitute and starving.
DURING the year ending Nov. 30, Michi-
gan produced 1854 79 barrels of salt.
THE death of Walker Blaine from pneu-
monia occurred at Washington Thursday
morning.
HISTORIAN BANCROFT is remarkably
well this winter. He ascribes his good
health to the warm weather.
TwENTY-oNE deceased persons have
been cremated at Rosedale. near Los
Angeles, Cal. The last one only a few
days ago.
CALVIN S. BRIcE was elected to the
United States Senate by the Ohio Legisla-
ture on Tuesday. The joint vote of the
houses was as follows: Brice, rs; Foster,
66; Halstead, 1; Neal, L..
The statistics of wild beasts in India for
1888 show that they do not grow anyless
deadly. Twenty-Five thousand nine hum
dred and seventy persons were killed IN
1888, All increase of 600.
CAPTAIN Cook, the recently elected door
keeper of the Kentucky House of Repre-
sentatives, is 80 years old, z feet In height,
weighs 260 pounds and wears No. IL
shoes.
ARTEsIAN wells sunk In the Desert Of
Sahara reach water at a depth of go feet,
at which a steady power of 5000 gallons
per minute has been obtained. The water
is brackish, but answers for irrigation pur-
poses.
THE Massachusetts, Supreme Court has
ruled that a man who is injured In a rail-
road accident while riding on a pass can
not recover damages.
PHILADE1PHIA.-Capt Berdo, of the
English steamship Falls, from Java
withSugar, which arrived Saturday, reports
that he picked up on the passage the dis
abled steamship Siam, with alarge and
valuable cargo, and 400 passengers, and
towed her safely into Alden, Arabia.
TRENTON, n. "A cablegram
was received announcing the accept
ance by the English trust of the terms Of
fered for the sale of five of the Trenton
potteries. Eleven potteries at East Liver
pool. Ohio, are also embraced in the
LEWISTON, Idaho.-Hon Judge Lee
Logan died on Wednesday. In March,
1888, he was appointed associate justice of
the supreme court of Idaho. He married
Gertrude Tucker; daughter of Hon. Ran
dolph Tucker, of Virginia.
FROM the year the patent office was
established up to the present time $500
patents have been granted to females. The
first woman patentee was Mary KEGS, who
invented a machine for weaving a mixture
of silk and thread.
JERSEY CITY.-At a mass meeting I'M
der the aupsices of the African American
League Tuesday night, Thomas Fortune,
the founder of the league, made a conser-
vative address In which he urged his race
to get down to business and stop wishing
for what they could never attain.
ACCORDING to the best statistical author
ity, the consumption of sugar in the world
Is 100000 tons a year, of which the
United States consumes 1900, 600 tons and
Great Britain l, 100, 900 tons. This is a
quantity about equal to the beat sugar pro-
duction of Europe-that is, as much or
nearly as much beat sugar as cane sugar is
produced in the world.
ARTHUR MACK, eX-cLlel OF Gn6 Dndng-
hal detective force, asserts that while
China has a population of over $50, 900, 600,
yet the criminal element in proportion to
numbers is less than 10 per cent. of what
it is in the Chinsee quarter of San Francis
CO.. He accounts for this by the greater
stringency of the laws for the punishment
of crime in China and the greater certainty
In their administration.
JACKSON, Michigan. = The Smith
Middlings Purifier company, recently re-
organized, has been confronted by
claims from the Preston National Bank, of
Detroit, amounting to $3.50, 900. These
We're contracted by George 7. Smith in
July last. The new company refused to
pay the claim. The company gives its liza
bilities at S4S4, 900; assets, $500, 900. Mr..
George T. Smith owes the company $780,
600, but is unable to pay.
BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis.-Mrs.
Moses Poquette has just returned from the
funeral of her mother, Madeline la Re-
veire, at Prairie du Chen. The deceased
had rather a remarkable record as regards
her progeny. She was born in Prairie du
Chen over eighty years ago. was the only
daughter of a family of eighteen children,
and at the time of her death had 131 di-
rect descendants living. Five generations
were represented at the funeral.