Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-12-05

below. Eleven men were seriously hurt. Up
TO six o'clock In the evening two had died,
the foreman, Davis, and a Mr.. Williams.
Robert II. Kelly has been appointed Pen
sion Agent at Louisville, KY, rice William
4. Gallagher, suspended.
The wheelbarrow troupe, from. Valparaiso,
Ind, arrived in Chicago On the 10th, both
wheeler and wheeled being considerably dis
gusted With this manner OF settling an cleo
ton bet, the trip having severely taxed the
endurance Of both parties. This would seem
TO be a case where both sides lost and
neither w~on-except in notoriety.
The Illinois Female COLLEGE at Jackson
Vile, the property of the Illinois Conference
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was de-
stroyed by fire on the evening Of the 18th.
Loss nearly $4,000; insured for $4,000.
Grants exact majority In Illinois Is 50, us.
The State Legislature Is composed as fol
lows; Senate, 30 Republicans, 19Democrats;
House, ~ Republicans, G5 Democrats. The
Congressional delegation c~onsiAts OF four.
teen Republicans and five Democrats and
Liberals, as follows: Republicans First
DlsLTlEL, 81. D., hltts DtNbbh, Ddalti II" Fhiu
Third, Charles b. Farwell; Fourth,
Stephen A. Hurlbut; Fifth, HoratioC. Bur
chard; Sixth, John B. Hawley; Seventh,
Franklin Corwin; Eighth, ~Greenbury l..
Fort; Ninth, Granville Barrere; Tenth,
william Ray; Thirteenth, John McNulta
Fourteenth, Joseph g. Cannon; Sixteenth,
James s. Martin; Eighteenth, Isaac
Tl.n,ar4m n..,,.ratu n,I I ibnraie- EIovupt =
District, Robert NJ. Knapp; Twelfth, James
G. Robinson; Fifteenth, John X. Eden;
Seventeenth, William K. Morrison; Nine
teenth, Samuel S. Marshall.
A alarm Of fire occurred at two O'Clock the
other morning in Cincinnati, when, the
horses being disabled, men got out Of bed
and drew six engines to the spot in only
three or four minutes longer time than it
would have taken the horses.
Governor Palmer has commuted the SEN
tence Of Gregori Peri, who was to have been
hanged in Chicago in December, for the
murder of O'Bricn and Ready, over a year
ago, to Imprisonment in the Penltentiary for
life.
The poultry disease is reported as having
appeared IN some sections of the West.
A change Of venue has been granted in the
cases of Christopher Rafferty, and Andrew j,
Perfect, the two Chicago murderers, The
new trials will take place In Lake County
for Rafferty,, and VIII County for Perfect.
The Chicago papers Of the 2lst report the
horse disease az having run It's course in the
city, and the horses were nearly all we'll or
rapidly recovering.
The Society Of the Army Of the Cumber.
land held It's sixth annual reunion, at Day
ton, o., on the 10th.
Twcnty-one buildings, constituting a large
part of the business section of Galva, H.;
were destroyed by fire on the morning of the
2lst. Thirty-tiye business firms were burnt
OUT, and thirteen families rendered home
less, Total loss about 100000; insurance
about $4,000.
The Democratic members of the Indiana
Legislature on the 2lst nominated James
d. Williams, State Senator from Knox
County, as a candidate for United States
Senator.
st. Paul Mimi dispatches OF the Goth
reported that a working force of eight
hundred men, engaged in track laying on
the Winona n st. Peter Railroad, had
been showed in at a point distant from
any settlement, and with but q short
supply OF provisions, and that all efforts
to reach them with aid had proved un-
avalling, so heavy were the snow-drifts.
A dispatch of the 2lst says the
weather was moderating, and a second
relief train bad been sent out from New
ulm, with good prospects OF reaching the
workmen.
stanton, the man with the alleged $250,000
ruby, arrived at Denver from Arizona on the
Goth, and freely exhibited the gem, which is
very beautiful, though jewellers are in doubt
as to its being anything more than q garnet,
He also shows what he calls a $4,000 dia.
mond,