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

Mordecai.
PERSONAL.
Frank H. Walworth was on the 9Th sentenced
to imprisonment in the State Prison for life.
Judge Davis, before passing sentence, said
that the evidence, in his opinion, justified the
verdict (murder in the second degree) and he
was not sure but it would have justified YER
dict of murder in the first degree. The pris
oner heard his sentence apparently unmoved,
and at the close retired from the courtroom
accompanied by his mother. Upon being
taken to his cell he parted cheerfully from the
Sheriff, saying that his was case that he
thoroughly understood but did not blame the
world for not understanding.
Vice President Wilson's Illness, it is now
stated has assumed a paralytic form, dis
ablng him physically, and rendering necessary
a cessation of intellectual labor, at least for
the time being.
Attomey-G General Williams, at the request
of Secretary Belknap, has given an opinion
to the effect that General Howard is RESPONSE
bic for all the losses sustained in the Freed
mems Bureau by the Government through
himself or any of the subordinates he appoint
ed under the act of 1861. They may be prose
cuted criminally for any defalcations which
happened not longer than two years ago, and
prosecuted civlly without any limitation as to
time General Howard and any of his assist
ants who are army officers are also subject to
trial by court-martial.
a recent Washington dispatch says the Pres
ident had authorized a personal friend IN that
city to deny i'll toto a report that he had de-
signs upon a third term in office.
An International Convention of Young
Mems Christian Associations was recently held
at Poughkcepsie, N. Y, which numbered an
attendance of one hundred and fifty delegates.
There are 926 associations in this country and
Canada
Young WalwoTth was taken to the State
Prison at Sing Sing on the 9th. His mother re-
qucsted that she be allowed to take him from
the Tombs 10 the depot in her carriage, under
the guard of a Deputy Sheriff, but the request
was refused, and the young man was manacled
like the other prisoners, and placed in the
prison van.
The Rev. DR.. Goodwin, of Chicago; Gov
crnor Campbell, of Wyoming, and n. J. Tur-
ney, of Ohio, have been appointed by Secre
tary DelaAo as a Commission to investigate the
Ute troubles
A Washington dispatch Of the 10th says the
Stanley Yellowstone expedition, thirteen days
out, had been heard from. Very bad weather
had been experienced, but they had no trouble
from the Indians They expected to reach the
Yellowstone by August /.
In reply to an invitation to assist, at Phila-
delphia, on the 4th, in giving the Centennial
,.fa tha+ oft, ~
dent Grant announced his inability to be pres
ent, owing to the illness of his father, but he
hoped and trusted ''that the Centennial will
receive the 4th proXimo such go Off as
will attract the attention of the nation to it,
and awaken determination on the part of the
people to make it a grand success; also that
foreign nations may have awakened in them a
spirit of honorable rivalry with our young Re
public in the exhibition three years hencc''
The Masters of the various Farmers Oranges
in North Carolina have organized a State
Grange, William S. Battle, of Edgecombe is
President.
Minnie Waltham, oljas Kate Stoddard the
murderess of Charles Goodrich, in Brooklyn,
on the Dist of March last has at last been dis
covered and arrested, and has made a full con-
High street, in that city, and working in New
York during most of the time since the muir
der. She was identified in the street on the
18th, by young woman who had been a form
er acquaintance of hers, and who had been for
some time employed by the police authorities
to aid them in their search for the murderess.
After her arrest, her trunks were searched,
and in them were found Goodrich's watch and
chain, his lingering and pocketbook, the
latter containing forty dollars in bills, believed
to be the identical money taken from the muir
dered man. Although sorely pressed for
money at various times, and even forced to
sell portion Of her clothing to get food. she
had not parted with a single article belonging
her murdered paramour. There was also
found in her trunk ix-barreled revolver with
which the murder was done, and which had,
apparently, not been touched since Three of
its barrels were still loaded; the other three
she had emptied into herlo body The only
plea she makes for herself is, that, after living
with her for long time, he wished to throw
her off, and that she could not bear to part
with him. SO she "kilcd him for love-