Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-11-28

81 AAGRaNNb - tbN ADhI Co." @-~ No
ease had nearly run It's course in New York,
though It's sequel, in the form Of %dropsical
e~ffusicn, wa killing many ani4-4,s that were
worked while suffering from the epidemic.
The Spectator (Sew Yorkyof the 18th, pub
fishes the following list Of suspended insur-
ance companies, and the mount each would
probably pay; Massachusetts COmpanies-
Bay State, 50 cents on the dollar; Boston,
60; Boyiston, 80; City, 20; EAlott, rs; FIX
change, 10; FanucIl Hall, 80; F.renen's, 81.
; Franklin, Pr; Howard, Is; Lawrence, 20;
Manufacturers rs; Merchants, ID: Mutual
Benefit, %; National, 70; North American.
50i Peoples, Is; Prescott, 30. snoe d ncatt,.
er, -; Suffolk, 80; fremont, -; Washing
ton, %. New York Companies--Ttumboidt
40i international, Is; Market, 30. Providence
Companics-Equitable, 60; Merchants, s..
The total amount captured hy the robbers
OF the Waterford National Bank is COM
puted by the directors at $44o,OCo. Up to
the 18th no trace Of the robbers had been
obtained.
Two valuable trottiug horses were burned
TO death IN a recent fire at Madison, Y. j.,
"slonch, y formerly "Idaho,'f ana semitic
"slouch" has q record of2.2S These horses
were tbs property of James Brice, Jr. They
were afflicted with the prevailing epizo-
otto, but were in aconvalescent state before
the fire. The owner would not have sold
them for $20,e0).
The full returns give Grant q majority of
5,439 In New Hampshire. His majority in
Pennsylvania Is about $4,000.
The Board Of Assistant Aldermen Of New
York City On the l4th tabled the resolution Of
the Board ofhldermcu f%orbidding the erection
Of Mansard roofs, unless Of fire proof matcri-
al. 1t Is said that insurance meu have deter
mined to class such structures as extra haz-
ardous, and some companies have fixed the
rate Of insurance At fifty per cent.
One daily, fifteen weekiy, ard eleven
monthly papers were brfned out Of their
quarters by the Boston fire, while almost
every establishment IN the city suffered more
or less. Rev. Robert Laird Collier telc-
graphed to Chicago on the l4th that the
number Of families burned out would not
probably amount TO more than three hun.
dred, II was supposed there were twenty
five Thousand sewing women and clerks
without present employment.
The Boston Relief Committee on the 18th
voted in favor OF accepting The generous
contributions from other cities In sid Of !hc
sufferers by the recent FIRE.
Comptroller KnoX estimates that the Bes-
ton banks have lost about two mllious-oue
twenty eighth OF their resources.
Horses were recently dying in New York
City at the rate Of thirty daily. This NOR.
taIity WAS caused by drupsy and CHAMBERS,
resulting from neglected cases Of eplZootic.
These two forms OF disease had In most in.
stances shown themselves when q complete
recovery was supposed to have been elect.
ed. Horses, apparently IN perfect health at
night, would be found in the morning with
legs and body swollen to an astonishing de.
gree. The treatment adopted was admins.
tering tonies, vegetable and mineral, aud,
where necessary, the application OF a stimu-
liant to the outside OF the body.
The following are the casualties by the
Boston fire as far as known on the l4th
killed-Lewis G. Thompson, Lewis Porter Alb.
bot, Frank Oimstcad, William Ferry, Daniel
J 'echrane, md five Others, names unknown.
Wounded-TtOma Maioncy, Colonel Freeman.
Ham j. Noodora, q. W, Gardner, Francis
Oshcr, Charles Paine, Thomas Waldron. John
Richardson, Peter Digham, Albert C. Abbott.
M~irriug-JOseph BUR-, George Smith. Walter y.
Twombly, John Dillon.
Albert G, Abbott, believed to be fatally in
jured, was to have been married on Thanks
giving Day. His brother Lewis, killed,
leaves i widow and three children. Their
mother, it was thought, would not survive
the shock caused by the news of the fate of
her sons.
In the Pennsylvania Constitutional Con.