Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-06-19

| ton of martial law against the Carlist
| insurgents; liberty of the Antilles, and sup
| preston of slavery. 1t estimates the deficit
| in the finances at the end of the present month
| at 2SO0OOO reals
DOMESTIC.
Gold closed in New York on the 18th at
117(@117I.
A special from Washington on the It'll says:
From statements thus far made in the Polaris
investigation, the separation of the vessel from
the ice-foe was purely accidental instead of
being effected with premedit lion; that there
is not the slightest reason, from the testimony
thus far taken, to suspect any poisoning, mu-
tiny or heartless deserton, and that Esqui-
maux Joe never told any such story as has
been attributed to him in regard to the
death of Captain Hall"
Attorney General Williams announced his
opinion on the 18th that such of the Modocs as
are charged with offenses against the re-
cognized law of war, might be tried and
punished by military commission. The War
Department would, in accordance with this
opinion, send instructions to General Davis,
through General Scofield.
The Hyde Park wooden mill, near Boston
was recently destroyed by fire. Loss, $500. 600;
insurance, 100000
$4,000 fire occurred in Cincinnati on the
Sth burning 400 barrels of coal oil, twenty
five freight cars, mostly loaded, a lumber yard
| with 5000, 900 feet, chiefly hard lumber, and
seventeen dwellings, most of them small frame
cottages. Toledo was also a recent sufferer by
fire to the extent of s2OO,OOO About dozen
| stores were burned
| Mrs. Boldly and Mrs. Scheera, two women
widowed by the Modocs, We're at General
Davis camp few days ago for the purpose of
| identifying the murderers of their husbands
They recognized Hooka Jim and Steamboat
| Frank as having been concerned in the massa-
ere. These two Indians had turned States
| evidence and assisted in the capture of others
Of their gang, and were consequently at
| liberty and armed. The women became
excited, and losing all control over their feel
lngs, began crying, and started in for des-
| perate work. Mrs. Schcera drew pistol and
started for Steamboat Frank, and Mrs Boldly
| drew a knife and dashed at Hooka jim
General Davis stepped in and secured both
weapons. During the struggle the General
received a slight cut in the palm of the hand
and near the thumb. Hooka and Steamboat
! stood like statues. Neither spoke or offered
| to resist.
1t was announced on the 9th that General
Schoield had been instructed by telegraph to
appoint Military Commission to try the
Modoc prisoners.
| The house of Mr.. Joseph Dalrymple near
| Goshen, Ind, caught fire one night recently,
and was entirely consumed The bodies of
Mrs. Dalrymple and two children were burned
to cinders.
| Dispatches from San Francisco on the 9th
| give the particulars of the massacre of some
| Modoc prisoners, supposed to have been done
| by some Oregon volunteers. On the morning
of the 18th James Fairchild and about dozen
other men left Fairchild's Rancho, Cottonwood
Creek, with seventeen Modoc captives, women
and children, including Shacknasty Jim, Bo-
gus Charley, Tehee Jack, Pony and Little
John. The Indians were in wagon
drawn by four mules. At the crossing
OF Lost River the party encountered the
| oregon volunteers, under command of Capt
| Hlser. The soldiers gathered about the wagon
and questioned Fairchild who told them that
| the Modocs were all Hot Creeks, except Little
John, and that there were no charges against
| them Fairchild undertook to push on to
Boyles' Camp, and the volunteers retired
to the camp near Crawleys. On the road he
noticed two men ahead, riding to Rocky Point,
| as II to intercept him. When the team ap-
preached, one presented a neede-gun at Fair
| child and ordered him to dsmount Every
male Indian prisoner was then deliberately
shot and killed. The warriors shot were I'M
| armed. They were not charged with murder
| The news of the massacre was received in San
Francisco with surprise and indignation.
A dispatch from New Orleans on the 9th
says the cholera was thought to be on the
increase in that city, though there was no
marked increase in the mortality.
! A large fire occurred at Newburgh, N. Y.
on the 9th. Loss $500 900.
By an explosion of fire damp at the Henry
| Clay Colliery, near ShaUokin, Pa, on the 10th,
a number of miners lost their lives. There
were fifty men in the slope at the time of the
explosion, thirty-fve of whom were known to
have escaped. Up to ten O'clock ten dead bo-
dies had been taken out.
| In New York City, Dr. Julius E. Julian has
been sentenced to one year Imprisonment and
to pay $500 fine for sending obscene publica-
tons through the mails
| Geo. Edmonds, a coal miner of Steubenvil]e
Ohio, recently bought a twenty five pound can
can OF blasting powder, and put it in cupboard
IN his dwelling. While he was at work and his
wife out on an errand his children found the
can and set fire to it. Three of them were
Killed outright, and the fourth so badly in
Jured that it could not live. The children
were all under ten years of age The house
was almost destroyed
The Postmaster General has decided not to
abrogate the postal-card contract but to give
| the contractors time to obtain better paper and
| continue the work.
| DR.. Lewis E. Meyers, dentist of Middle
town, N. T., while drunk recently, stabbed his
| father in the breast, near the heart, with a
sharp instrument. 1t was thought the wound
| would prove fatal.
ltisreported that Captain Jack, in an interview