Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-09-18
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left their camp.
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The Coroner's jury at Muir, on the Detroit
& Milwaukee Railway disaster, find William
Brown, the brakeman of the express train,
criminally guilty of disobeying the orders of
Conductor knil to go back further toward the
freight train; also find Conductor Sherin, En-
gineer Montreul and Brakemen Cotney and
Law, of the freight train, guilty of criminal
negligence-the engineer for running at great
er speed than the rules of the company allow;
the conductor for not having the brakemen at
their posts; aud the brakemen for not being
at their posts. The men were all in custody
except Brown, who was in Canada.
The Fulton Elevator in Chicago was burned
on the morning of the 1th, and $4,000 bushels
of corn were more or less damaged. Loss
about 100000
Secretary Fish has paid the Sl5, 100000
awarded to this Government at Geneva, Swift
zerland, into the United States Treasury. Sc
cretary Richardson invested the money III five
per cent registered bonds on the 9th, to wait
further action by Congress.
\ daughter of James White of Grafton,
ago. The usual explosion followed, and the
foolish girl was burned to death.
The Jail at Pleasant Hill, Nebraska, was de-
stroyed by fire few mornings ago, and four
of the inmates were burned to death.
Judge T. Crawford and istrictAttOrney
| Arthur II. Harris, of the Twelfth Louisiana
judicial District, were assassinated on the 6th,
| twelve miles southwest of Winnsboro, in
| Franklin Parish, while on their way to hold
| court at that place. The murderers were
| not known, but it was thought that personal,
and not political, differences led to the assass-
| nation, as Crawford was Radical and Harris
| a Democrat.
A few days ago, at Muskegon, Mich, bru-
tai wretch named James D. Canavan, horribly
| abused little girl nine years Of age. He was
arrested, and came near being hanged by a
mob of indignant citizens, but the pub
| lie authorities got him into jail, where
he was subsequently visited by the
father of the girl, who shot Caravan
in the mouth, the wound not being fatal one.
The prisoner was atterward indicted, tried,
convicted and sent to State Prison for life, all
| within the space of three days.
| A Shreveport Ua.) dispatch of the 10th
says: yellow fever prevails as an epidemic,
and business Of all kinds is suspended, There
| is much suffering for want of attention; nurses
| and doctors are worn out. Intermenls yester-
day were 10 and to-day u. At least AGO are
down, though not all with the fever. The
sickness is fearful to contemplate"
The Secretary Of State holds the bond for
| sl5, 800, 900, the amount of the Geneva award,
and has not placed it for safe-keep-
ing in the Treasury. The bond is
made payable to the order Of the Secretary OF
State It is for the largest amount of money
ever issued by any government in single
| transaction. Photographs of the bond and the
certificate of deposit were completed at the
| Treasury Department on the 1lth, and copies
sent to the President and each member of the
| Cabinet.
The Illinois State Railway and Warehouse
Commissioners sometime since issued a circu-
| lar, i'll which they assumed that for business
purposes, intersectng lines of road form a
| continuous line. In reply to a query by
the Superintendent of the Rockford Rock
Island & st. Louis Railroad, as to whether
each road can bill goods to point of intersec-
ton, and confine its receipts and liability to
| the same point, the Commissioners answer that
| the goods must be receIpted for to the destina-
ton. They can be billed to the point of inter
| section, but the bill must also state the rate to
| the destination.
According to a Washington dispatch of the
| 18th Colonel Robb, one of the ex- Commissioners
| toinquire into the depredations committed on
persons and property of American citizens on
the Rio Grande border, had recently received
| mn of ST. hat
constantly occurring, and that since the Com
| mission left the section last spring large
droves of cattle have been driven to the Mexi-
| can side from ranches between Brownsville
| and BraZos de Santiago, and between Browns
vile and Rio Grande City. These thieving
operations were committed in daylight, and in
| several instances eXulting gestures were made
by the MeXicans, who had escaped with their
| booty, to the United States cavalry who had
pursued them, but halted on the American
side of the river In addition to cattle cal
ing murders have been committed not far
from Forts Clark and Concho. 1t will be
recollected that the Commissioners reported
an actual loss of about Sl5,0OO,0OO by such
| incursionS The amount has been consdera-
bly, increased since the term of the commission
expired.
The United States Marshal at Shreveport,
La, has telegraphed to the Department in
| Washington that the local authorities on the
Texas Pacific Railroad had stopped the cars by
force on account of the yellow fever at
Shreveport, and the General Government is
asked TO interfere to compel the running of
trains.
The recent American Pathological Exhbi-
ton at Boston was great success. The Ne
braska fruits, which attracted marked atten-
ton, were awarded the first premium, and were
divided up to be taken by the delega es from
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York
and New Jersey, for exhibition in their re-
spective States.
/ A Convention of General Freight Agents at
Cleveland, Ohio, has adopted the following
basis for the government of the future ad-
vancement Of rates on eastern bound fourth
class freights to New York: Cleveland, Ohio,
&c.; Dayton, Ohio, 42c.; Cincinnati, Ohio,