Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-17
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Gold closed in New York on the 18th at
| 116@1169.
The Secretary of State has forwarded to the
representatives of foreign nations in the
| United States, copies of the Presidents proc
| lamation in reference to the International Ex-
hibition to be held in 1876, with request to
| transmit them to their respective govern
| ments
| The Postmaster at New York City states
| that under the new Postal law there had been
| falling off for the first week of about $4,000
| free newspaper exchanges at that office.
| On the morning of Independence Day pic
| mic party went out on Green Lake, Wis, in a
small yacht, on fishing excursion, and had
| proceeded but short distance when a squall
| struck the boat, capsizing it. The following
persons were thrown into the water and
| drowned: Mrs. A. z. Carman, Mrs George
| Harding, Mrs. Jennie DIN, Mrs. NJ. c. Rus
sell and child, William Bloxham, wife and
child, Mrs John Baird, and a child of the
| Rev. Mr. Allen.
| A girl named Elizabeth McWay, at Mobiles
| vile Ind, used the kerosene can to hurry up
| the fire few days ago, and was burned to a
| crisp from the neck down. She lived but a
| short time.
| John Elliott and Margaret Rollinston, ae-
| companied by a child, attempted to cross the
! Niagara River from the American side in q
| small boat, on the 4th, but were caught in the
rapids and carried over the Falls. They were
| from Cincinnati, and were to have been mar
| ried on the following day.
| Prof. La MontaIe, an aeronaut, of Brook
| lyn Mich, was instantly killed at lonia on the
afternoon of the Fourth, by falling from a bal
| loon. He had assembled 500 or 600 feet, when
| the balloon collapsed. The ropes passed from
under the basket, and the Professor came
| down 100 feet from where he assembled, to the
horror of ten or twelve thousand spectators.
| In Dudley, Mass, a few nights ago, a
French woman and child were so badly burned
| by an explosion of kerosene oil that both died.
| Another child could not recover.
Recent news from the Indian country states
! that a band of 200 Arizona Indians had crossed
| The line and entered chihuahua to spoil the
Mexicans. Captain Jack and his companions
| in confinement were reported to be growing
wan and weak from the effects Of their i'm
prisonment. TIE number of Modoc captves
! had been increased by the surrender of three
more braves, with their women and children.
Three Slight shocks Of earthquake occurred
at Buffalo on the evening of the 9th, and an
other on the morning of the 18th. The only
| damage done was the throwing down of a
chimney in the center of the city.
| 4 dispatch from Stanley's Yellowstone ex-
petition, dated Scamp, seventy miles west of
| Bismarck, Dakota, June 30,'' states that the
| haal IF tIn ItI,o 10 nd
Indians were offering no serious resistance to
the location Of the railway through their hunt
| ing grounds. Abundant coal of good quality
was found twenty miles west of the
Missouri River, on the surveyed line of the
road, and the country thus far traversed by
the eXpeditionary force is an excellent one,
| we'll grassed and watered
The deaths from cholera reported on the 18th
were: in Cincinnati, seven; Memphis, three;
| in Nashville there was none One fatal case
had occurred in Jersey City A special from
Chattanooga reports fifteen deaths from the
disease in that city during the preceding forty
eight hours.
A report concerning the prospects of the
cotton crop, which comes through the Agri-
cultural Bureau at Washington, states that
the yield will be fully equal to that of last
| year, the increased acreage compensating for
the unfavorable weather.
The rayages by the recent storms in Illinois,
Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin and Missouri
were immense, and great damage was done to
| the crops. In many sections buildings, or
| chards, railroad bridges, etc, were destroyed,
and railroad travel was greatly impeded. Many
lives were lost by drowning, lightning and
falling buildings.
At Red Rock, Iowa, the other day, a little
| girl of eleven years, named Ef1ie Robertson
was visiting at the house of Mr. Gilbert Barr.
| The children being left alone in the house,
they attempted to fill lighted lamp with kerr
osene. An explosion resulted, and the house
was burned to ashes, all escaping save Miss
| Ellie, who was burned in the house.
| A Des Moines Gowa) telegram Of the Sth
says Governor Carpenter had decided not to
call the Convention of Governors on the trans
portaton question until next fall
The Military Commission in session at Fort
| Klamath Oregon, proceeded on the 9Th to the
trial of Captain Jack, Schonchin, Boston Char
ley, Black jim, Slotuck and Barncho, who at
the present time are implicated in the Candy
massacre The first charge is, murder and
| VOCATION Oh tllc laws VI WdT, SecOnu assault
with intent to kill A B. Meacham and l.. D.
Dyer.
The Railroad and Warehouse Commission
ers of Illinois, in session at Springfield on
the 9th, had under consideration numerous
complaints in writing from various sections
of the State, in which the writers charge that
the railroads had raised their freight tariffs
one hundred per cent. in some places, and
the evidence contained in the communica-
tions went to show that the rates had been
increased an average of thirty per cent. A
Springfield special says: $50 far as the Com
missioners have compared the new with the
old schedules, they agree with the complaints
that have been made, that there has been
general increase in the rates They
propose, as soon as it can be done,
to show exactly what the amount of the in
crease in detail is on each road in the State y
As an evidence of the force and effect of the
great storm at Fond du Lac Wis, and yicini-
ty, on the 4th, it is said that in one county
two hundred and fifty barns were demolished
Wrecked buildings, Frustrated orchards and
badly damaged fields mark the track of the
hurricane through several counties Similar
storms were equally destructive in almost
every other Western State.
A State Educational Convention was held al
Raleigh, n. c., on the 9th. Representatives
were present from all portions of the State.