Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-09

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to eat with their fingers, tilt their legs or
the table, and finally got into quarrel, in
which immense bowie knives and Colt navy
revolvers were brandished. Sothern gave
Florence mock challenge, upon which Lee
fed from the room, though Sothern tried tC
| explain it was "the custom of the country
One of the party had Sothern and Florence
subpGnaed to appear at the Tombs, which
they did, explaining their joke to Justice
Bowling, and receiving their discharge upon
| their own recOgniZance.
In the New York Oyer and Terminel
Court, on the 21st, George Francis Train
pleaded guilty to publishing paper called
the Train Ligue, which, according to the in
dictment, is an obscene publication. He was
remanded to the Tombs prison.
A New York dispatch of the 22d says Mr.
orion, after considerable negotiation, had
resold to WhiteIaw Reid fifty shares out OF
the 100, constituting the capital stock of the
Tribune Association. The paper would
therefore, remain under the chief control Of
Mr.. Reid
| The Central Presbyterian Tabernacle,
Brooklyn, of which the Rev. T. Dewitt Tai
Aege is pastor, was destroyed by fire on the
morning of the 22d. The tabernacle was
erected in 1870, and, being being built of
corrugated iron, was regarded as ire-proof.
Estimated loss S95, 900; insured for S75, 900.
The New York Herald of the 22d says a
number of the present stockholders of the
| Union Pacific Railroad had written to Hor-
aceF. Clark, President of the road, asking
him to commence a suit for the recovery of
SIS, 100000, said to have BEEN taken by and
divided among those engaged in the Credit
! Mobilier transaction.
Barnum's Museum and Managerie, in New
York City, was burned on the morning Of
9th. The large collection of curosities
| and all the animals lover one hundred), ex-
| cept two elephants and one camel, were
bnrned to death. The building was similar
to Talmage's church, destroyed a few days
before. 1t was vast framework of pine
covered with corrugated sheet iron.
The flames enveloped its inter
ior in surprisingly short time.
The dying agonies of the motley con-
gregatiOn Of animals are wildly described
by the spectators. The cages containing the
four CRATES were opened, but the terrified
creatures seemed paralyzed, and would not
bulge. Some of the keepers wept on find
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The immense elephant that played the hand
organ also refused to leave, but got on his
knees and persisted, rubbing his head against
the earth AID roaring in anguish. The fierce
banging of the lions and tigers against their
cages could be heard above all the din. The
Academy of Music, directly opposite, was
saved By the favorable direction Of the wind.
Among the animals destroyed were eight
camels and omedaries, one leopard, one
yak, one Gland, one llama, two sea lions,
boa-c onStrictors, apes, gorillas, ostliches,
etc. The loss by this fire was variously es-
timated at from $500, 00O to 100000.
On the afternoon of the 24th, mail train
on the Buffalo, Cory & Pittsburgh Railroad,
when within about eighty rods Of the sta
ton at Prospect, was thrown off the track
at trestle work, and one passenger coach
and a baggage car fell off the bridge, dis
lance of twenty feet, turning over and strik-
| ing the ground bottom side up. A dispatch
of the 18th gives the following particulars
"When the cars struck, the trucks crashed
through the bottoms OF them, and as the
| stovesof the passenger cars were directly I'M
der the trucks, they were crushed to pieces,
and Immediately the woodwork of the cars
took fire. OF forty-six people known to have
been in the cars, but one escaped unaided,
q namely, the brakeman on the passenger
coach, who jumped clear off the cars as they
were falling. The woodwork of the passen-
ger car, thickly coated as it was with var
nish, burned freely, and before anything could
be done by the force at hand to prevent it,
the flames enveloped both ends of the car,
and crept rapidly toward the center. Pen
ned within at this time with no possible
chance to extricate themselves, were forty
three adult passengers, the conductor and
one child. OF those seated in the ends of the
car, none escaped, but, help arriving, about
twenty-five dead and living were taken out
of the center of it, and the flames were ex-
tinguished, or, more correctly speaking,
went out for lack of anything further to feed
upon. The roll foots up as follows: Saved,
all more or less injured, 10; dead, 80; miss
ing S. The dead, with four exceptions, were
burned so as to be unrecognizahle from the
features, and there are but three that
could possibly be identified from the
shreds of clothing adhering to the roasted
flesh. Five were headless and without
limbs, and the remaining ones had the
flesh all burned off the extremities. The
eight missing are supposed to have been
completely consumed, and there are pieces
of skulls, watches, and the like, sufficient
to partially justify such a belief" The
cause of the accident is supposed to have
been a broke flange on the tender.
The entire block on the west side of Cen
ire street, between Leonard and North, New
York City, was burned on the evening of
the oath. Among the establishments de-
stroyed was that of the New York Newspa-
per Union. Seven persons persisted in the
flames, and FIVE Others were more or less in
jured. The total loss by this fire was esti-
mated at $3.50, 900.
The Grand Jury of the Court of Oyer and
Terminer have found an indictment against
Victoria Woodruff, Tennie G. Clafin and
James n. Blood for libel against Luther
Challis.
Susan B. Anthony and the other females,
to the number of fourteen, who voted at the
late election at Rochester, N. T., have been
bound over for trial before the United States
District Court in the sum of $500 each. The
election inspectors who received the votes
have also been held for trial.
While about three hundred men, women
and children were in attendance in the upper
audience room Of the Baptist Church in the
Seventh Ward of Williamsport, Pa, on the
evening of the 25th, participating in the
Christmas celebration, the floor gave way,
and nearly the entire assemblage was pre-
emit ated I q the cellar below FOurte cen were