Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-23

call attention to the defects in monetary sys-
| tem and will no doubt lead to legislation to re-
move the want of elasticity The panic has brought
ereenbacks about to a par with silver. l wonder
that silver is not already coming into the market
| to supply currency in the circulating medium.
When 1t does come and predict that 1t soon Will,
we will have made one rapid stride toward specie
payments. Currency will never 60 below silver
after that
A dispatch from San Francisco of the 18th
says the troops under command of Lieutenant
Schuyler had come up with the Apaches under
Delche, killed fourteen warriors and dis
persed the band.
dispatch from Springfield, Dakota, of the
ed the Poncas on the morning of that day.
The fight began on the bluffs back of the
Agency, and the Sioux were repulsed with
loss of four killed. Subsequently they re-
newed the attack, and fighting was going on
at the date of the dispatch. The Poncas had
four killed at that time.
An Albany, New York, special of the 18th
says that Charles, II. Phelps, Cashier of the
State Treasury Department, had been arrested
upon the charge of robbing the Treasury of
$685.
An Athens, Pa, dispatch of the 18th says a
bold robbery had been perpetrated on the
First National Bank, of that place, on the
preceding night. While Charles Hull, the
cashier, was working at the desk, about 1870
in the evening, five men came in, and gagged
and handcuffed him. The vault doors and
the inner safe being open, the robbers secured
everything therein and escaped. The cashier
was found on the floor of the back office the
next morning in a state of nervous eX-
haustion. The loss to the bank was proba-
bly, small, as it held but small amount
of currency. The special deposits taken
would amount to about 10000, mostly ne
gotiable.
Dispatches from Memphis Of the 18th report
that the absence of frost and the prevalence of
warm and sultry weather had caused an in
crease of yellow fever. The deaths that
day from the disease numbered forty one. The
Odd Fellows had lost twenty-six members,
four widows and wives and eight children, and
have now forty-four sick
A Toledo, Ohio, dispatch of the 18th says the
seventh reunion of the Army of the Tennessee
had been held in that city on that day. Gen
eral Sherman presided, and General Logan de-
livered an grafton. The President and about
four numbered officers were present and par
ticipated in its ceremonies.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, of Hi
nois, recently in session in Springfield, ad-
journed on the evening of the 10th to meet
next year in Chicago.
The Railway and Warehouse Commission of
the State of Illinois, according to a Spring
field dispatch of the 10th, had been in session
in hat cit on hal
which had been propounded by shippers had
been considered and answered, as follows: A
shipper on the Illinois Central Railway com
plains that the company charge tariff upon
estimated and not actual weight in transport
ing lumber, and insist on their right to do so.
The Commissioners decide that actual weight
must be the standard. A Rock Island coal
company inquiries: First, has railway
company the right to discriminate in favor of
small shippers from the same point? The
Board reply that the company has not the
right, and refer to their published circular.
Second, are the railway companies obliged
to put in switches for parties owning coal
mines near their tracks? The Board answer
by referring to section 5, article Is, of the
Constitution, which says: "All railway
companies shall permit connections to be
made with their track, SO that any such con-
signee, and any publiciwarehouse, coal bank,
or coal yard may be reached by the cars ON
said railway" Third, are the railway COM
panies obliged to furnish cars to mining COM
panies to transport coal on the line of their
road +? The answer is: Yes, if reasonably
practicable.
A Philadelphia dispatch of the 10th says
that Charles Gibbons and Others, of Philadel-
phia, who are owners of canal boats on the
Pennsylvania canals, had filed printed charges
with the President against Secretary Richard
son, based upon the fact that the Treasury
Department has continued to enforce its con-
struction of the navigation law, and to require
canal boats to register as marine vessels and
take out license, in spite of the decision of the
United States District Court that such tax was
not legal. These printed charges close with
formal articles of impeachment, which these
gentlemen offer to establish if they can be
heard before a court of impeachment.
A private dispatch from Calvert, Texas, of
the 10th says the yellow fever in that place
had been worse than at Shreveport Over
seven per cent. of the population had died.
The deaths from fever at Memphis, on the
10th, numbered twenty-six, and at Shreveport
six.
New Orleans dispatch of the 10Th an
nounces that the passengers and crew of the
steamer Missouri, wrecked in the vicinity of
Key West, Florida, had arrived in that city
The wreck was caused by the carelessness of
the officers. Several of the crew had been
drowned, but the passengers were all saved.
A Louisville dispatch of the 10th say ter
| rife explosion had occurred ON the evening of
that day, at the City Hall, caused by foul sew
erage, gas and leaky gas pipes The fiagstones
| around the structure were shattered, and the
building itself was shaken as if by an earth
quake. Several persons were injured but
none, fortunately, were killed.
| A Lincoln, Neb., dispatch of the 10th says
that there had been heavy prairie fires in that
State, originating from sparks of locomo-
tives. In Saline County ten children and one
woman had been burned to death. There had
been also an immense destruction of property,
grain, haystacks, etc.
| A Parsons, Kansas, telegram of the 18th
| says the colored residents of the Indian Terri
tory, formerly slaves of the Choctaws, Chcka
saws, Creeks, Seminoles and Cherokees had