Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-10

Gold closed in New York on the Sd at
1151s@1154.
The final report of the Mexican Border
Claims Commission, which has been sent in to
Seer etary Fish, covers 400 cases, involving
claims to the amount of S11 100000
The Secretary of the Treasury has directed
the Assistant Treasurer at New York to give
notice that during the month of July he will
sell 81 100000 in gold, on the first, second,
fourth, and fifth Thursdays each, and $1,000,
900 on the third Thursday, and that he will
purchase S5OO,O 900 of bonds on the third We'd
nesday of the month.
A Parsons (Kansas) telegram of the 2Sth says
the wheat had been nearly all harvested in that
part of Kansas and was saved in good order.
The Chicago Journal of the 2Sth says: "Our
adyices regarding the growing crops through
out the Northwest are, as rule, very encour-
aging. The young corn is doing finely. The
potato is the only doubtful crop-the bugs
being extremely destructive in many locall
tiesn
The books of Dudcn, Freeres Il Co. have
been seized by the Custom-H House officers il
New York, on the charge that the firm has
during series of years, carried on syste
matte course of swindling on the Revenue De
partment. The principal house of the firm is
in Brussels, and they have branch offices il
Nottingham, London, St. Petersburg, San
Francisco and New York.
At Salem, Ind, on the morning of the Goth
a party of about forty masked men prvhc hte
the JAN where Delos Hebron was confined fol
the murder, few days before, of DR.. Hal
stead, and, after pelting the prisoner with fire
balls and pistol-bullets, took him out and
hanged him. Great excitement was caused by
the affair."
There were nine cholera interments at Mem
phis on the 2Sth. There were eight deaths
from that disease at Nashville on the 2Sth, and
ten on the Goth. In Cincinnati fourteen, and
seven deaths during the two days named.
In the Walworth trial, on the 30th, Mrs.
Walworth testified to acts of presumed insan-
ity committed by her late husband at various
times. Mr.. OConor presented more of Wal
worth's letters in evidence, one of which was
so vile that it could not be read out in open
court. General Martin 2. Hardin, brother of
Mrs. Walworth, testified that the deceased had
pointed pistol at him on one occasion, had
sent him several threatening letters, and also a
kind of Internal machine, loaded with powder
and ball: Considerable evidence was adduced
regarding the eccentric habits and moroseness
of the prisoner for some time prior to the
shooting.
The total receipts of the National Treasury
from internal revenue during the fiscal year
ending June 80 were s115, $40, 127, being over
$4,000, 900 in excess of the estimates
LII
cidental explosion of powder in building at
Virginia City, Nevada, on the 30th.
A Laramie CIV IT, dispatch says that the
Ute Indians encamped in and about Rawlins
Springs have been accused of committing
various depredations recently, and on the 2Sth
a party of citizens from Rawlins went to one
OF the Ute camps, when quarrel ensued, in
which the citizens killed ten or twelve Indians
and took sixteen ponies, a lot of blankets, sad
dies, etc, ana returned to Rawlins. The
Laramie Sentinel says: "The Indians are very
much excited, and general Ute war is feared
in consequence, which will seriously interfere
with the timber, mining and other interests
throughout this region
There were thirteen deaths FROM cholera in
Cincinnati on the Both, and eight in Nashville
There were also reports of the cholera in St
Louis, but all the cases resembling that disease
could be traced 10 the use of impure well
water, imprudcnt diet, or dissipation. There
was no alarm in the city, nor was there any
apprehension.
The following is the public debt statement
July /:
Six per cent. bonds s.. Isl 23s. $50
rive per cent bonds. ................ 414567, 800
Total coin bonds ..............S16a 5 sos $50
Lawful money debt. Observation-Disclosures 1461S 900
Matured OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 81 ,929 10
Legal tender notes. Observation-Disclosures. 356,0s9 967
Certificates of deposit. .............. 81 73O 900
Fractional currency Observation-Disclosures. a. 1g9 365
com certlhcates. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 80 400 900
Interest Observation-Disclosures. 42,356 .652
Total debt. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 81, 216 S39 ga
q
Cash in Treasury:
Coin. $780,. 4O2
currency. Observation-Disclosures. 9.TS3, 529
Special deposits held for redemption
of certificates of deposit as pro-
vided by law. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 81, 80, 900
Total IN Treasury. ................S 129. 020 931
Debt, less cash in Treasury 81 147 SIS 713
Decrease during the month. .......... 2,145 159
Bonds issued to Pacific Railroad Com
panies, interest payable in lawful
fists iirr % <