Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-11-14
The Ment.

4 special dispatch from Dekalb, Ill.,, TO
the Chicago I5ibauc Of the 2Gth gives an &C
count Of a horrible balloon accident which
had happened IN that town. 1t seems the
balloon started before the aeconaut had got
into the basket, and a rope, which was
attached to the machine, became entangled
around the leg of man named McMann,
and before he was able to free himself
from the coil, the balloon had carried u u
up fully 100 feet ~ this .dddy hcigLt ne
released himself and climbed into the
basket. The balloon kept ON in its upward
course, and when il had reached an elevation
Of 400 feet the involuntary aeronaut Jumped
out His death was simultaneous with his
reaching the earth. The balloon took fire
shortly afterward and was quickly coa-
sumcd.
The Oregon Legislature has passed bill
TO appropriate 5000 tor the erection OF a
State Capitol AZ Salam.
The attempt to enforce the Sunday liquor
laws in Chicago was not so successful on the
eth as on the previous Sabbath. Several sa-
looms we're kept running and their pro-
I prietors would be prosecuted
I The proprietor and principal editor OF the
( Chicago Jo,1rIi were recently cited by the
! Supreme Court at ottawa, TO show cause
why they should not be dealt with for con
/ tempt of that cosrt in publishing in tho
/ Jo,guH an article rejecting upon the action
/ of the court in granting writ OF sppsrSedfoS
| in the Rafferty, case.
There was tremendous snow.storm at
! Salt Lake City on the 27th, unparalleled for
the season,
A Columbus Ohio telegram of the @th
! ult. SAYS the horse disease had reached that
city. The Chicago Trjb,oc of the Soth ult.
announces that there were thirty horses sick
I in Chicago, with all the symptoms Of the
horse disease The Mayor had written let
ter TO the Superintendent of railroads lead
/ ing into the city, requesting that they refuse
10 bring on their ears any horses, into the
city, during the prevalence, at Other points,
of the disease,
st Carbondalc, H., the proposition to Ii
censc the sale of wine and beer in the cor
poraton limit, has been rejected hy two
thirds vote
The corner stone OF the fire monument to
he erected in Central Park, Chicago, wss laid
on the &oth ult,
The horse disease was rapidly spreading
at Cleveland. Ohio, on the a0th ult. In Chi
cago over three hundred horses were sick
and at Evanston Ill, forty horses were dowr
with the disease The Chicago 7r5"1e OF
the &lst says "A large number Of the ami
mails Of the West Side Railway Company are
affected, as are all those at Parmelee's sta
blcs Fifty belonging 10 the West Side ON
nihus Line are under treatment, and the dis
ease is spreading among the private stables
All the stahlea in town have been ordered b,
DR.. Ranch to be dtsintected, and the Illinois
Humane Society has given notice that it vii
arrest any person using diseased horse
Prudential motives alone should restrain
hor,e,owncrs, as 1t is said that the disease
ii the animal be oyerworked runs into
fatal form Of the glanderS'
\ tire at Grand Rapids Mich, OF the nigh
of the &Oth ult. DESTROYED three blocks o
the business portion Of the town Iota
loss over 800 900.
In Chicago, on the $lst ult., over on
thousand horses were sick OF the preya!hn!
influenza, the entire stock of several barn
being rendered unavailable, The diseas
; was rapidly spreading
q. Governor Noyes, of Ohio, has issued rrc
. camstion for the observance Of Thursday
November =, as \ day Of thanksgiving an
j prayer,
q The street cars and omujhuses in ChlcaT
had nearly all stopped running ON the mort
{ ing OF the "a, because Of the diseased COZ
@ ditlou az the horses The disorder W"
4 spreading and had begun to develop itse