Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-11-07

the jury the Judge specifically charged that
the plea of drunkenness Is of no effect in
extenuation Of crime.
The importation of horses from Canada
has been forbidden at Detroit, Mich, on &C
count Of the prevalence of the horse disease
which Is reported to have made its appear
ance IN that city.
Governor Baker has issued his proclana.
ton conveulng the Indiana Legislature TO
extra session on Wednesday, November 10.
! At Angola, Ind, on the night of the GOTH
a man named o'sulliyan, hearing noise,
went to the front door, and was shot
through the heart, killing him instantly.
| The occurrence was shrouded in mystery.
Two parties, named respectively John Boyke
| and Jas Clingeraw, were arrested on suspi-
| cion.
A full Electoral ticket for OConor and
Adams has been put in the field in Ohio.
| fire in East Saginaw, Michigan, on the
22d, destroyed large business block, the
loss aggregating over $780, 900
| At Toledo, Ohio, on the 22d, Mrs. Charles
| J. Fisher was fatally burned by the explosion
Of kerosene lamp.
| In Chicago, on the night of the 22d, some
stables belonging TO j. Y. Scammon were
destroyed by fire, and twelve horses perish
ed in the flames.
| At the recent session, IN Dubuque of the
Iowa Grand Lodge |. 0. of O. f., the follow
ing officers were elected and installed
Grand Master, c. D. Kretchmer, Dubuque
Deputy Grand Master, II. K. Walker Mt.
Pleasant; Grand Senior Warden, B. F. New.
man, Council Bluffs; Grand Secretary, VIM.
Garrett, Burlington; Grand Treasurer, John
! B. Glenn, Bloomfield Grand Representatives
| TO the Grand Lodge ofth United States, Erie
J. Caeh, Keokuk, W. W, Moyae, DesMoines
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
were recently in SEES ion at st. Louis. A
resolution was adopted fayorin5 the abolish
ment of all Sunday trains, and committee
was appointed to confer with railroad
officials throughout the country on the sub
ject. A clause to be inserted in the act Of
Incorporation providing for the expulsion
OF any engineer addicted to the use of in
| toxicatng liquors was also adopted.
! The Republicans of the Fourth Wisconsin
District have nominated General Fred. C..
| Winkler for Congress.
! few evenings ago, 1t dark, as a farmer
named Cromwell, living two miles west Of
| Franklin, Mich, was walking in his door
yard, some one rested rife on the roadside
| fence, three or four rods away, and shouted.
| AS Cromwell turned the unknown fired, the
| bullet striking him in the left lung, INJECTING
/ a wound from which the man died in about
fifteen minutes.
In Detroit, Mich, few days ago a color-
| ed man named Hcdgeway, who was refused
| registration as voter applied to the Su-
/ preme Court for an order compelling the
/ Board to register him. His parents were
! slaves in Virginia, but ran away and escaped
to Montreal, where the petitioner was born.
! He claimed that he was citizen under the
! net of 1855, declaring that children of citi-
/ zens born abroad were natural citizens of
| the United States. Other claims were ad-
vanced, but this was the principal point, and
the cause was decided adverse to the petit
TONER, and to the effect that he was u for
eigner and obliged to take out naturalization
| papers MS such.
Gen. Howard has arrived at San Diego en-
route from Arizona He reports passing eleven
days in the camp Of the great Apache chief,
Cachise He selected the southeast corner
of Arizona, fifty-tiye miles square, fof new
reservation for a thousand Apaches, with
Cachise as leader.
| woman named Elizabeth Pickard, living
in Springfield, ohio, was fatally burned the
other night by the explosion of can OF
coal oil, from which she was filling lamp.
She lived twelve hours in the most intense
agony, the flesh having been burned off in
several places
The horse disease was on the increase in
Detroit on the 25th, and all the cars of the
! city railroad had been hauled of.
1t was stated on the 25th, on the authority
of veterinary surgeon, that tina horse dis
ease had appeared in st. Louis, but only a
very few cases had yet occurred, Vigorous
precautions were being taken to prevent its
spread If possible.