Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-24


The Khan of khva has signed convention
| to pay to Russia 100000 roubles indemnity
| within ten years, in virtue of which he is CON
| firmed on the throne
report prevailed in Paris on the 18th that
| the Shah of Persia would return at once to
| Teheran, on account of an instruction within
| his dOmniOns.
DOMESTIC.
Gold closed in New York on the 18th at 1l5T
GIG.
suit has been recently instituted in the
United States District Court, New York City,
against Duden, Freres & Co., lace importers,
for 100000, the penalties for alleged irregu-
larities in importing goods involving frauds on
| the revenue laws.
The confessed murderess, best known
Kate Stoddard, was present on the 18th at the
coroner's inquest on the Goodrich murder
case. She stated to the Coroner that her real
name was Lizzie Lloyd King; that
she was twenty-siX years OF age, and
was born in Plymouth, Mass. BY advice
of her counsel she declined to say anything
in relation to the charge against her. The
property found in her possession was identi-
=
to the murdered man. The jury returned a
verdict that Goodrich ''came to his death by
pistol wounds in the head, inflicted by Lizzie
Lloyd King, alias Kate Stoddard." The Brook
lyn Eagle states that there is no doubt that the
woman is insane, and that six years ago she
was an inmate of a lunatic asylum. 1t ap
peared in the evidence that after the murder
she carried away with her cup full Of Good
rich's blood, and, in its CONCEALED state, she
had been eating portion of it every day since.
| It is believed that the man Roscoe is concerned
in the murder, and that the prisoner is en-
| deayorng to shield him for some cause. He
| has not yet been arrested.
| Grand Rapids, Mich, was heavy sufferer
| by fire on the 18th. One hundred dwellings
and number of stores, mills, hotels and other
| buildings, the whole covering six of the most
thickly built squares in the city, were de-
| stroycd. The loss was estimated at $500, 900;
insurance about 100000.
The Tgress sailed on the evening Of the
18th, from the Navy-Yard in New York, on her
voyage in search Of the Polaris
A servant girl in the family of DR.. Bassett,
at West Union, Iowa, in trying to light fire
with kerosene oil, the other day, so seri-
| The suit of Miss Linda Gilbert against the
Chicago Egentag Post for SANDER has resulted
in verdict for the plaintiff damages six
cents. The suit grew out of comments made
by the Post on the efforts of Miss Gilbert to
raise funds, by means of lottery enterprise,
for the purchase of a prison library.
A letter from Hamilton County, Iowa, says
that the tornado on the 4th completely cleared
a twenty-acre field of corn, ''taking corn, dirt,
and al.' ga school-house was carried away,
and has not been seen since" ga stable with
two horses was carried over eighty rods"
One thousand newly converted Mormons were
landed in New York on the 18th, and another
large company was expected.
| The Commissioners of the Northern Pacific
Railroad have chosen Tacoma, Washington
| Territory, the western terminus of that
road.
| A -year-old child, in Dubuque, Iowa,
named Mary Fleschman, died recently of rat
| bite inflicted three days before.
| Late reports from all sections of Virginia
| represent the oat crop the finest in the State
for many years. Wheat is harvested and will
| hardly yield an average. The corn crop was
very promising.
| The State Auditor Of Louisiana, on the 18th
sold about $4,000 belonging to the general
fund, to the highest bidder, in sums ranging
from $500 to $1,000, for State warrants, the
money bringing from s1.40 to SLAP in State
warrants. The Treasurer applied for an in
junction restraining the Auditor from further
action in this direction, and declared that he
would not receive the warrants from the Audi
tor, or make any entry regarding them.
| A dispatch from Cairo, H., on the 10th, says
the cholera was reported to be very bad in the
northern part of that (Alexander) county, and
about forty-fve miles from that city it was
said that from the 10th to the 18th inst. there
had been thirty cases, twenty proving fatal
| The neighhorhood was said to be almost with
out an inhabtant, every one having gone to
the hills. The crops had been left to take care
| Of themselves. In Cairo there was not a case
of cholera, and the health generally was re-
markedly good.
The Coronor's jury, in their verdict in the
Goodrich case declared their conviction that
the Coronor's jury, as an institution for the
| discovery of crime or the detection of indi-
viduals, has outlived the period of its neces-
sity or usefulness. They urge that, in cases
where the causes Of death are uncertain and
an Investigation is necessary, the latter could
be more efficiently conducted by some legally
| constituted criminal or health authorities or
by both combined, than under the present sys-
/ TEN.
| CHASTITY horror has recently been brought
| to light in New York City, by the finding of
the mutiiated remains of a wealthy and eccen-
| trio woman in her house where she resided
alone. The body had been almost entirely de-
voured by rats, and it is thought the woman
when found had been dead three or four
| weeks. She was a maiden lady by the name
| of Wietts.
There were 257 convicts in the Iowa Peni
tertiary on the 3Oth of June