Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-31

surplus of &c, 600 900 bushels for export. That
journal advises the farmers to sell all their
wheat as soon as possible for fear of still lower
prices.
Prominent South Carolinians had an inter-
view with Attorney General Williams on the
Oath, and urged the discontinuance OF the
further prosecution of Ku-Klux offenders in
the South, as that organization was broken
up, and a cessation of prosecutions would
have concliatory effect upon all classes.
They urged also that those convicted and
serving out terms of sentence be pardoned.
The Attorney General replied that instruc-
tions has already been issued to stop the
prosecutions against the Ku-klux offenders,
except in very aggravated cases, and some OF
those convicted had already been pardoned.
1t was the policy of the President to pardon
them all, keeping the most aggravated cases.
however, until the last.
The Post-offce Department on the 18th COM
menced supplying the small offices through
out the country with postal cards
An adjourned meeting of Railroad Managers,
Superintendent, and ticket and passenger
agents, to consider commissions, free passes,
etc, was held in st. Louis on the 24th After
considerable discussion, resolutions were
adopted declaring that no more free passes or
iialf-fare tickets shall be issued after August
l, except to officers, agents and employees OF
roads Twenty-one roads were represented
two-thirds of which are west of the MISSISSIPPI
pi River
A Minneapolis telegram of the 18th says it
then seemed to be generally conceded by
parties on both sides of the boundary that the
recapture of Gordon was effected on American
soil.
In noticing the reports in some sections OF
the country that the cholera was prevailing in
Chicago the city papers Of the 25th emphatic
ally DENY the statement. The Times says "The
simple fact is that there has not been a case Of
cholera in this city, and that the health of the
city is quite as good as usual at this season of
the year"
The verdict of the Coroner's jury in the case
of Rafferty,, the engineer killed on the wrecked
railroad train, is that he came to his death by
reason of the train on the G. r. |. " 7. K. r.
''being thrown from the track, between Anita
and Adair, Iowa, without any negligence on
the part of said Company, by the misplace
ment of the rail, with felonious intent, by a
certain number of masked men to us unknown;
, and we further find that the said John Ranerty
refused to abandon his train when appraised of
danger and died manfully at his post"
fire broke out in four-story brick plan
ing mill in Baltimore on the 18th, and III
short time the building was enveloped in
flames, and the boilers of the engine exploded.
A stiff breeze drove the flames to the adjoiE-
ing buildings, and it was not long before the
four blocks bounded by Liberty street on the
east, Saratoga on the north, Howard on the
west, and Lexington on the south, and inter
sected by Park and Clay streets, were each
ablaze, and several fine buildings on Mulberry
street had taken fire from the burning brands
hurled by the wind. Ten blocks of buildings
were destroyed, mostly dwellings, before the
fire was extinguished. The aggregate loss
was variously estimated at from 100000 to
100000