Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-06-12
PERSONAL.

According to the Brooklyn Eagle of the 3lst
ult., Mr.. Beecher and his friends had deter
mined to take definite action on the whole
matter of the Bowen Tilton Beccher scandal,
and at a meeting of the dcacons of Plymouth
Church the previous evening it was resolved
to proceed at once with an investigation.
The New York Tribune, through its editor,
Whitelaw Reid, acknowledges subscriptions
to the Greeley statue fund of Sl0,6S3.
William NJ. Twced's trial has been adjourned
until October in consequence of the sickness
OF John Graham, one of his counsel.
The Brooklyn FagLe Of the Cd contains the
following:
To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle:
DEAR SIR: | have maintained silence respecting
the SANDERS which have for some time followed me
should not speak now, but for the sake of raliev-
ing another from unjust imputations. The docu-
ment which was recently published, bearing my
name with Others. published without consulta
ton with me or with Mr.. Tilton. nor with any au-
thoriZation from us If that document should lead
the public to regard Mr.. 1ilton as the author OF
the calumnies to which it audes, it will do him
great injustice. am unwilling that he should even
seem to be responsible for injurious statements
whose force was derived wholly from others.
HENRY WARD BEECHEE.
Mrs. Lamb, who was some months ago ar
rested near Hudson, Wis, on charge of hay
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woman and two Of her children, confcsscs tC
the poisoning of her two children, Mr.. Gar
| land, and Mrs Gilman, bat denies having
caused the death of her husband. Her coun
| sci defended her on the plea of spiritual insan
| ity, she claiming that she was impelled to the
murderous acts by the advice Of spirits
| Hon. John A. Bingham, of Ohio, has beer
| appointed Minister to Japan, in place of De
Long, resigned.
| The Massachusetts, Medical Society has votet
| to expcl the members convicted of hay inc
practiccd homeopathy There was only one
dissenting vote.
The man who was arrested at Cedar Rapids
| Iowa, some days since, as being s'old MAJ
Bender" turns out to be another individual
| named Henry Cephas. He has been liberated
The Polaris survivors arrived in Washington
on the 5th, and were interviewed by the
Secretary of the Navy.
report was current in New York on the 5ti
that Stokes had been denied new trial by the
Court of Appeals.
The President and his family and General
Babcock left Washington on the 9th for Long
Branch
Wright, the Washington murderer, who was
to have been hanged on Decoration Day but
was respted out of respect to its commemo
rative character, was executed on the 9th.
Hon. John Printiss, the oldest printer and
newspaper publisher in New England, and per
haps in the United States, died at kecne, n
H., on the 9th, in the Goth year of his age. He
established the Ne1o Hampshire Sentinel in
1899, and conducted it for forty nine years
A report was sent from New York on the
9th, that Victoria c. Woodruff had died sud
denly of heart disease. A subsequent dispatch
stated that she was not dead but in an uncon-
scious condition.
An enterprising individual, writing to the
Government from Tiftin, O., has offered to pay
100000 for the privilege of exhibiting Captain
Jack throughout the country during sixty
days
The jury in the case of Mrs. Charlotte Lamb,
the Wisconsin, poisoner, has found her guilty
of murder.
The recent Jubilee in Chicago, in commemora-
ton Of the rebuilding of the city, was in all re-
spects success. Over $4,000 visitors from
different sections of the country were in the
city on that occasion. The musical concerts
were largely attended.
dispatch from General Davis camp on the
9TH says preparations had been made by Gen
eral Davis for the hanging of about dozen
OF the worst OF the Modoc gang, when an
order was received from Washington to hold
the prisoners. This stopped the contemplated
execution. The feeling in camp was one of
profound disgust at the result
News was received in San FIR ancisco on the
G. h of y
San Carlos Agency, in Arizona. Lieutenant
Amy, of the 9Th Cavalry, had been shot and
killed, and an attempt was made on the life of