Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-10

that they should only regard those fears
which were personal. The law did not make
it justification when killing was done through
fear that the lie of another was in danger.
They could, however, consider whether the
fear that his mothers life was in danger
did not give point to the fear which he en-
tertained for his own life on the meeting on
the morning of the Sd of June. The jury
retired at 4:30 p. M, and at S:25 came into
court and announced their verdict to be equity
of murder in the second degree" The Court
announced that it would suspend sentence I'M
til the following Saturday.
The vicinity of indianapolis was visited
by an extraordinary thunder storm on the
night of the LIST, which did considerable dam
age to the crops. Four houses in the city
were struck by lightning, and in one of them
two girls were seriously, and perhaps fatally,
injured
A severe storm passed over a portion of
Prehle County, Ohio, on the morning of the
Cd, doing considerable damage to the wheat
crop. At Camden, that county, it assumed
the proportion of tornado. 1t was fifty feet
in width and came from a southwesterly direc-
ton. Houses, stables, trees and fences were
demolished
There were three deaths from the effects of
excessive heat in New York City on the I'd
A destructive tornado visited Neosho Coun-
ty. Kansas, on the night of the LIST. A fearful
storm prevailed, the heavens being filled with
flame while the rain fell in torrents. The
tornado came from the southwest. 1t first
struck the stone house of Mr.. Giddens.
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it down and burying three children and
Mrs. Giddens in the ruins The children,
aged fourteen, twelve, and ten years, were in
stantly killed, and Mrs. Giddens seriously in
iured. The gale next struck Mr.. Rogers
house, southeast of the town, and demolished
it. Mr. Rogers was badly injured and his wife
fatally Mr.. Jones' house, west of the town,
was moved fifty yards. Andrew Rhodes
house, east of the town, was moved from its
foundation. The tornado did not strike the
town of Galesburg. 1t was a narrow belt, and
swept everything in the track-houses, fences,
trees and crops-clean as the mowers scythes.
Much damage has been done to the wheat and
corn crops.
The Military Commission appointed to try
the case Of Capt. Jack and company met at
J..
Advocate, announced that he was not ready to
proceed with the trial, and that Mrs. Bob Rid
die, of interpreter fame, was by the bedside of
an ai]ing relative, whereupon the Commission
adjourned until the 5th.
BY the injunction issued on the I'd at the
instance of the Government counsel in the
Credit Mobilier suits, the Union Pacific Rail
way is forbidden to pay any interest to bond
holders whose stock was got directly or indi-
recuy through the Credit-Mobilier or its
contracts Payment of the July interest has
accordingly been made only to those who were
able to declare that their stock came from
clear hands.
Philadelphia celebrated the Fourth by for
mally transferring to the Centennial Commits
sion the site granted it by the City of Phila-
delphia, and by other exercises intended to
inaugurate the preparations for the celebra-
ton in 1876 of tie completion of the first
century of American Independence. a proc
lamation was made public by the President
reciting the Act of Congress under which the
Exposition was to be held, and inviting the
people Of other nations to take part.
The Excise Commissioners of New York
against selling Intoxicating beverages dagger
included) on Sunday, and also not to grant any
license hereafter to any place where music is
introduced.
A number of celebrations were held through
out the Northwest on the Fourth, under the
auspices of the Patrons of Husbandry. At
Springfield, H., Governor Palmer was the
speaker; at Urbana, H., General Black; at
Gal"sburg, H., Hon Leonard SWEET at Pom
tiac, H., Hon. S. NJ. Smith, and at Mar
shall, Wis, Judge Horace S. orion. The at
tendance generally was large at these cclebra-
tons.
The number of cholera cases reported on the
Sd was-in Cincinnati, four; Nashville, five;
Memphis, six; Louisville, three The disease
was said to be spreading in Middle Tennessee
particularly in Bedford County.