Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-30
DOMESTIC.

Gold closed in New York on the 10th at
1124@121s.
Advices from Arizona to January state
that General Crook on that morning had re-
ceived dispatch from Major Brown, stat
ing that his command fought the Apaches,
killing fifty-seyen and capturing twenty
three His only loss was one Lima Indian.
The battle occurred at the National fortifca-
tions, on Salt River, thirty miles above Nc
Buell., and lasted five hours.
Terrible snow storms have recently occur
red in Minnesota, and in some places along
the Winona & st. Peter Railroad the drifts
reached to the top of the telegraph poles,
and the snow was packed SO closely that
men could walk on the surface. The storm
on the st. Paul & Pacific Railroad was the
seyerest ever known. At Kirk Haven, there
were several farmers in town when the storm
first burst upon them. They left for home
with their teams, and very few had been
heard from. One wagon was found, contain
ing Mrs. soland and boy, who were frozen
to death. Many teams, both oxen and
horses were found frozen in the drifts, and
the fate of their owners was unknown.
On the Iowa Division of the Milwaukee
& st. Paul Railroad there were recently
eight freight trains showed in between
McGregor and Austin. The snow was
packed so tight that snow plows had no
effect upon it, and it would have to be
shoyeled out. All that could be seen of
some of the trains was here and there the
top of brake just protruding above the
snow, and nothing but the top of the smoke
stack of an engine marked the whereabouts
of some.
The Commissioners appointed to make a
valuation Of all the real estate in the Dis
trict of Columbia, belonging to the United
States, except public buildings, and also
grounds which have been dedi Gated to pub
lie use as parades and public squares, report
the total valuation at SIC, 1S6,3335.
Recent attempts to secure the repeal, by
the Chicago Common Council, of the law
prohibiting the sale Of liquor on the Sab
bath, have finally failed, the ordinance as
originally adopted being retained.
One of the fues of the boiler of the
steamer Julia st. Clair collapsed near Eu
faula, Ala, few nights ago, scalding thir-
teen persons, mostly colored deck hands
and tiremen. One man died instantly. One
was crowned, two were mortally injured
and one uuaccounted for.
The recent terrific hurricane of snow, at
tended by intense cold weather, in the
Northwest, was most calamitous in it's eff
fects throughout Minnesota. Scores of per
sons who were caught in the storm are
frozen to death. All the railroads and the
common roads in the State were blockaded
with huge snow-banks, rendering transpor
tation impossible. The storm broke upon
the State, from the northward, very sud
denly, and continued to rage fGriously fol
over two days. Some idea of the extent Of
the storm and its fatal effects may be formed
from the following particulars given in q
st. Paul dispatch of the 18th:
'.The list of ahths by the late storm is receiv
ing houriy accesslons. So far the greatest nurs-
Der OF casualties are reported from Brown Coun.
ty. In the vicinity of New Ulm within few miles
OF witch eighteen persons are Known to have
persisted A gentleman from Red weed Falls saws
that when he left there thirty-seven deaths had
been reported OF persons frozen In Reavie,
Chippewa. yellow Medicine and Pedxooa Center
Among the fatal cases named in Sibley County are
p. B. Baker 4. X. jenkins and P. Sanderbaroer
Those named from Brown County are Thomas
O'Connel, with team; Mr.. Tenney q youno
named Morehouse, L. NJ Fox
wife, child, and lephew, of New Ulm were
overtaken by the storm on the Redwood road he
tween Madelia and Marshall. They protected
themselves with the sle.gh-box ard sacks of nour
until Wednesday morning. when the nephew and
child died. The mother held the dead body of her
were discovered and taken 70 Marshal. Mr.. Fox