Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27

the President, and accompanied by lettet
requesting it's early presentation to the new
Government.
News from the Modoc country on the 18th,
says that about 600 troops are in the field
waiting orders. Canby's plan seems to be to
surround the lava bed and starve the
Modocs. For that purpose four posts will
be established on the outskirts of the lava
sections and on the shore of the lake.
A German named Albert Goethe Was brut-
ally murdered in Chicago, on the 18th, by
one of gang of rowdies who entered a
saloon where dance was being held, and
grossly insulted girl who was in company
with Goethe, at which the latter attempted
to eject them. The murderer escaped.
The U. s. Attorney General denies the
statement that he had rendered decision
declaring the eastern terminus Of the Union
Pacific Railroad TO be at c ouncil Bluffs.
Near New Albany, Ind, g. few nights
since, a boy and girl, the children of
colored man named Reed, were burned to
death in their house, in the absence of their
father An older boy escaped from the
burning building.
man named George Macdonald, sup
posed to be the chief operator in the recent
Bank Of England forgeriers, was arrested
on the steamer Thuringia on it's arrival at
New York on the 20th. About $1,000 in
gold and quantity of diamonds were found
in his possession. He protes ted his limo
cence.
The Bulls Head Bank of New York City
has failed, and it is stated that large defal-
cations have been discovered on the part of
some of its officers. 1t was a State institu
ton and carried large amount of depo sits,
especially from butchers and drovers.
A dispatch from st. Louis, Goth, says
''The strike on the st. Louis, Kansas City &
Northern Railway is practically ended.
Everything has been quiet to-day, and trains
have run without molestation. The Com
panv has now over fifty new engineers, and
freight trains will resume running to-mor.
row. About forty strikers, and those en-
gagged in obstructing the road, destroying
property, and interfering with trains, are
now in Jail at different points, and are to
be prosecuted to the utmost extent of the
law"
Another mysterious murder has occurred
| in Brooklyn. Charles Goodrich, wealthy
resident of that city, was found dead on the
morning Of the 21st, in the basement Of q
residence where he was in the habit of sleep
| ing alone Three pistol shot wounds were
| in his head. two of the bullets being imbed
| ded in the brain. 1t is thought that some
| thief was aware of the fact that Goodrich
was in the habit of sleeping in this house
alone, and supposed that he carried eonsid
cradle money about him, and that he hac
broken into the basement, and on Goodrich:
| coming down stairs had Waylaid, murdered
and robbed him.
a dispatch from Lewes, Del, says that
| the bark Jens Larsen, from London for Phil
adelphia, went ashore at indian River inle
on the Goth. The captains wife and daugh
ter, the first and second mates, and two sea
men were drowned in attempting to land.
Near Wickenberg, Arizona, March 18th
the Apaches murdered Augustus Swain ant
James Mcdonald Their bodies were horri
bly, mutilated. Swain was one of the frs
settlers, and for a long time Government
| guide.