Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-08-28
The officials IF the road acted with prompt

The inquest was held at Montgomery, the
scene Of the accident, in the afternoon to-day,
and the verdict of the jury was that those
killed came to their death by the criminal neg
lect of Conductor Pewett and Engineer Smith,
of the freight train, in running out OF their
time. The jury recommend prosecuting them
for manslaughter.
Developments in the Wawase ct lnvestlgatioh
show that when the fire broke out the engineer
was tending bar. He served two or three
customers to drink while the smoke was
issuing from the immediate vicinity Oh the
boiler and fire-room.
number of frame buildings, three miles
south Of Louisville, KY, were destroyed by
fire on the morning of the ed, and negro
family, consisting Of father, mother, and four
children, were burned to death
PERSONAL.
The seventh annual reunion Of the Army OF
the Cumberland is to be held III flttsburgh Oh
the 18th and 18th Ct September.
A Des Moines dispatch of the 10th says an
oflicia! statement shows that the number OF
Oranges in Iowa was 1,75O. The number in
the United States On the 10Th of July was 5000,
with total membership of 25O,ooo.
The Attorney-Geaeral has recommended 10
the President that pardons be granted 10 o.
Hood Of South Carolina, and AdoiphuS Du'
priest and George Holland, of North Carolina
who are serving ont terms IN the Albany
Penitentiary for Ku-Klux outrages.
J. G.. Abbott, General Deputy Of the Patrons
of Hssbandry, who has been engaged for some
time past in organizing Oranges throughout
New England addressed public meeting al
Boston, on the evening of the 10th, on the OBJ
jects of the Order, and then established a
Grange in that city.
Rev Gardiner Spring, for more than three
score wears the pastor of the Old Brick
Church (Presbyterian) congregation, IN New
York City, died at his residence in that city
on the 10Th, aged SO years.
The Southern Wisconsin and Northern I'LL
nois Agricultural Association was organized
at Beloit, Wisconsin, on the 10Th, by the
election Of the Hon II. n. Davis, President;
s. j. Goodwin, ESQ.,, Chief Marshal; Henry
F. Hobart, Secretary and Treasurer; eleven
Vice Presidents, and eight Superintendent OF
Departments The first fair of the Assocla-
ton will be held Friday, September ., upon
the grounds of the Beloit Driving Park Asso-
citation.
Mayor Medill of Chicago, and family have
gone on trip to Europe. Alderman l.. L.
Bond is acting Mayor of the city in the absence
of Mr. Medn
jefferson Davis addressed the Southern His
torcal Convention, at White Sulphur Springs
Va, few days ago. In speaking of the late
he said tt q have hppp m cheated than
conquered by the declarations of the Federal
President, Congress and Generals, for there
never could have been surrender had we an
ticipated what followed, and We would today
have been free" resolution was adopted
that President Grant be requested to permit
the Secretary Of the Society to examine al
papers and archives of the Government cap
tured by the Federal forces from the Confed
crates during the war, and to make copies OF
such of them as he may think fit.
Vice President Wilson has been elected
President of the New York Cuban League.
President Grant and party arrived at Long
Branch, on the 22d, from their New England
trip.
Father Ryan, a Catholic priest whom Bishop
Foley had depOSed, mas brought SUIT III tN'
Circuit Court of Chicago, against the Bishop
to recover S25 900, on the ground that he ha>
been damaged to that extent by the action O
the Bishop, which, he alleges, was violation
of the canons of the church.
Judge Emerson has sustained the defend
ants demurrer in the case of Ann Elizt
Young rs. Brigham Young, for divorce
against the jurisdiction of the District Court
The Judge held that the Probate, not thu
District, Court, had jurisdiction in divorce
cases.
The Patrons of Husbandry of the Georgi;
State Grange met in Athens, few days ago
the number of delegates present being sixty
four. The number of Oranges organized il
the State was ninety-six. Great enthusiasm
in the Order was manifested, and importan
business was transacted.