Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-06-19

with General Davis, said: Bogus Charley
and Shacknasty Jim killed General Candy
Allen David, the Klamath chief, advised them
to kill General Candy; SO they did it. l. am
telling the truth. did not kill him. had il
done, but did not do it. I don't lie Bring
the men that saw me do this thing. l want to
face them. If had my chains of would
tell all the men who did these things"
The massacre of the Modocs is denounced ii
unmeasured terms by the Oregon papers.
The cholera at Nashville was abating on the
18th. There were twenty-four interments al
Memphis on that day, against eighteen the da,
before
Mrs. Lucy Fisk, executrix Of the estate o.
James Fisk, Jr., has recently brought suit
very similar to the suit brought by the United
States Government, against the Union Pacific
Railroad Company and others. The Credit
Moblier Company, Gov Dix, the Hon. Georg
Opdyke, the estates of Cakes Ames and Jane
Brooks, Oliver Ames, Cyrus H. Mccormick
Edwin D. Morgan, and others, are made par
ties defendant. 1t is charged that $1,000
shares have been distributed among the per
sons forming the Credit obilier combination
for which no money was paid, and that vas
and fraudulent profits were. made on the va
| rious construction, telegraph, coal, supply
and other contracts. The declared object O
the suit is to have receiver appointed to tax,
charge of the property of the Union Pacii,
! and Credt-Mobilier Companies to have tn.
stock fraudulently issued returned or paid for
and, finally, to have the property or the pro
ceeds from its sale distributed among the rail
roads bonn tide stockholders.
At Decatur, ILL.,, a few days ago, Fred
Bickes, hardware dealer, who had for some
time past been hard drinker, shot his father
in the head with small revolver. Bickes, Jr
had been On drunken spree, and went into
his fathers house while the family were at tea
and was invited to partake, when he common
ced abusing his mother, using the worst of
language. His father ordered him to desist,
when he drew pistol, leaned over the table
and shot his father in the face The wound
was thought to be fatal Young Bckes then
stepped away, placed the pistol near his eye
and fired, the ball lodging in the brain, ntiict-
ing mortal wound.
The cholera in Memphis was thought to be
abating on the 18th. There were nineteen in
terments, against twenth-four the day before.
Recent crop reports from Washington state
that accounts were in from enough of the
wheat growing States to show that the crop
of this year will, in all probability, be less
than half what it was last year. In western
New York, and in fact along the entire lake
region OF the country, winter wheat is, as
might have been expected from the unusual
severity of the past season, almost total
failure. Other crops have also been severely
injured by the late spring. The crops in Iowa
are suffering greatly from the iong-continued
wet weather. There was every reason to be
lieve that, with the exception of the fruit
crops, all others will be very short, the de
fciency being especially heavy in cereals. Ii
fact, says the dispatch, 1873 will probably be
the worst year we have had since the beginning
of the war
The Chicago Times of the 18th says the
general freight agents of the different rail
roads doing business in Illinois held meeting
the day before for the purpose of deciding
upon some uniform freight tariff. The meet
ing did not result favorably, as no agreemen,
was effected, owing to the difference of inter
ests. The Times thinks this is probably the last
of these conferences, and that each road will
hereafter work on its own hook. $50 far as
the Alton & st. Louis railroad is concerned
it management will pay no further attention
to the action, or non action, of other roads
but will proceed Immediately with the arrang-
ing OF a freight tariff of its own
There were seventeen interments at Mem
phis on the 18th, two less than the day before.
Speaking of the disease prevailing in that city,
the Memphis Ledger of the 9th says: There is
no such a thing possible as stemming the pop
ular impression outside of Memphis that we
have cholera here to an alarming extent, and
all we can do is to go along quietly, as we did
last winter when smallpox reports were so
incredibly multiplied, until the impression
dies out of the public mind. Considerable
sickness prevails, as everybody knows, but
there is very little cholera, and even less chol-
era-morbus, and it is surprising how few
deaths occur.