Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-30
DOnESTlC.

million of people, and five hundred bands of
music, wsuld be present
DOMESTIC.
According to Chicago papers of the 18th,
prize fight occurred on the morning Of De-
tober Is, at Robertsdale near the Indiana State
line, about thilt teen miles from Chicago, be-
tween William Madden and James Taylor.
Fifty-ive rounds had been fought with little
damage on either side, when the cry was
raised, "The Cops are ON us" and hundred
policemen from Chicago broke through the
bushes and captured the entire party includ-
ing the two principals.
According to a Washington dispatch of the
18th, the State Department had received no
official advices of the threatened monarchical
revolution in France. All the information at
hand there had been CLEANED from the news
papers and private letters.
Dispatches from Memphis and Shreveport
of the 18th say that the yellow fever continues
to rage in those cities. In the former city
the deaths from the disease on that day num-
bered thirty. The disease has also appeared
in Pine Bluff, Ark, Montgomery, Ala, and
ether Southern cities.
A telegram from Memphis of the 18th says
the steamer Mary E. Poe, from st. Louis to
New Orleans, had been totally consumed by
fire, about ten miles from Osceola, Ark, on
the preceding day. Six or eight lives had been
lost.
The presence of cold weather and frost at
Memphis on the 18th had the effect to dimin-
ish the ravages of the yellow fever. The NOR
tuary report on that day showed seventeen
deaths.
New York kilograms of the Goth say that
charges had been preferred before the Police
Commissioners of New York against certain
detectives for keeping money seized from
Mcdonnell, the Bank of England forger. The
amount thus surrepttiously obtained was said
to be $4,000. Eleven hundred immigrants
had arrived at the port of New York on the
GOTH
A Washington dispatch of the Goth says the
Supreme Court of the United States had de-
cided on that day, in q case that came from
New York. when drover travelling on pass
had been injured and sued to recover for such
injuries, that contract made by the defend
ant and pass issued to him were no impedi-
ments in the way of recovering, if he was not
guilty of neglect of ordinary care and pru-
"
that there was no such negligence on his part
in leaving the car and proceeding to look after
his cattle in manner stated as would debar re-
covery.
At Salt Lake, Utah, on the Goth, the horse
Granger trotted ten miles in thirty minutes
and four and a quarter seconds, being the best
time on q half-mile track ever made in
America.
A New York dispatch of the Goth says that
a tow of thirty-tive canal boats on the Hudson
River had broken loose at Stony Point, on the
morning of that day, and that six had been
lost, with all on board. The pecuniary loss
was $4,000. A heavy storm had been raging
during the twenty-four hours preceding.
According to Washington dispatches of the
2lst, the Treasury Department had received
notice that 80, COO ounces of silver had been
received at the Mint in Philadelphia, from
Chicago, with request that it be coined and
returned in half and quarter dollars and
dimes. This would furnish silver change to
the amounto So, 800. In Washington, silver
was being paid out TO considerable extent,
and Dr. Linderman, Director Of the Bureau
of the Mint, says that silver would be in
general circulation as currency by the 10th Of
November. AL the mints in the country
had been ordered to work to their full capac-
ity in striking off the coins. The President
had approved the report of the Commission
ers sent to examine the sixty-fye miles of
Northern Pacific Road between Portland and
Puget Sound, and directed patents to issue
for the lands to which the road rs entitled
under the law.
st. Louis telegram Of the 2lst SAYS the
Attorney General had commenced proceedings
in the Circuit Court against the ST. Louis
Mutual Life Insurance Company in behalf of
Mr.. Cottrell, policy holder. The petition
charges that the charter Of the company has
been forfeited for several years by reason of
sundry acts of mafeasance and usurpation.
The court ordered writ of quo ,carrarato to
issue, returnable on the first day of the Deem
Der term, and notice to that effect to be served
on the company Immediately.
IN the Eastern States, on the GOTH accord
ing to dispatches from that section, heavy
rains had prevailed, which had caused great
damage to property and considerable loss of
life. The storm had been particularly violent
in the vicinity of Pottsville Pa, and along the
line of the New York Midland Railway
A New Jersey telegram of the 2lst saws a
train on the Midland 81 Oswego Railway had
been wrecked on the night preceding, at
Stockholm, Nj, by the engine plunging into
the creek at that place. the engineer, fire
man and one of the brakemen had been
drowned.
According to a Springfield dispatch of the
2lst, the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad
Company had dismissed the suits brought
against Myers and Creary some months since
for refusing to pay more than three cents a
mile for passage over the road.
The mortuary report on the 21st showed
that there had been thirty seven deaths in
Memphis on that day from yellow fever
Montgomery, Ala, dispatch of the 21st
says there had been three deaths from yellow
fever in that city on that day. The Manager
Of the Southern & Atlantic Telegraph Office
had died.
The commission of United States engineers
appointed by the War Department, some time
ago, to examine and ascertain whether the
bridge now in process of construction across
the Mississippi River at St. Louis will, when
finished, obstruct navigation, have made a
very elaborate report. They find that the
bridge, as at present designed, will prove a
very serious obstruction to navigation, and
as it Is impracticable to change the plans of
the bridge, or to raise it, except at an enor
nous cost, they recommend canal, or open