Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-09-04

means of transportation from the West to the
Atlantic and Southern seaboard; declaring that
eve will support no man for office who has eyei
been guilty of receiving retrospective increase
of salary for public service or received an ad
vance in salary by the act of March 3, 1872
and that, railroads are public highways, and
railroad companies are common carriers, and
demanding that the State and National Legis-
| latures shall control them by just and equita-
| BILE law.
| A dispatch from Westminster, Md, says
| VIM. A. Matthias, aged twenty-five, died, as
| was supposed at three O'Clock on the after
| noon of the oath, of brain fever, and the body
was placed on ice. On the Goth, when the fam
| ily assembled for the funeral services, it was
noticed the skin had assumed natural APP
pearance, and examination showed that life
was not extinct. Physicians were called, and
Matthias is recovering.
The Chicago Tribune Of the Goth publishes
dispatches from the interior of Illinois and the
| lower part of Iowa, showing the condition of
| the corn crop. The Tribune says: "The most
favorable returns are made from points along
the line of the Illinois Central Railroad but
the majority of the districts along that road,
Iowa expect an inferior yield.'
Intelligence was brought to Waco, Texas
on the 2Sth, by the stage driver, that large
body of Indians had surprised and captured
Fort Sill, in the Indian Territory, massacring
the women and children, and nearly half of
the Fourth United States Cavalry. The re-
port was discredited in Washington.
Judge Elisha Mears, of the Thirteenth Ar
kansas judicial Circuit, who resides at Clarks-
vile, johnson County, while recently going
to his home, about three-fourths of a mile
from town, was shot and mOrtally wounded
by some unknown person.
A Washington special of the 29th says the
Post Office Department was extremely dissatis
fed with the postal cards issued by the con-
tractors. They are not equal to the contract
requirements, either as regards paper or
printing, and the contractors had been notified
that, unless they Immediately conform to
their agreement, the contract would be an
nulled
Rodman, the Assistant City Treasurer of
Brooklyn, n. Y, is defaulter to the amount
of about S250,000 Besides being Assistant
City Treasurer, he was also Secretary of the
Brooklyn Trust Company, whose defaulting
President, Mr.. Mills, recently committed sui
eide, as is supposed, by drowning.
William Clark Campbell (colored), was
hanged at Cairo, H., on the Goth, for the MUIR
der in April last, Of Thomas Doyle, the mate
of river boat. A. Pike was hung at Boise
City, Cal, on the same day, for the murder of
an Indian, the first instance of the kind in
California.
The night express west, on the Detroit Il
Milwaukee Railroad consisting of the bag
gage-car two coaches, one sleeper and two
emigrant cars, became disabled, on the night
of the 2sth, in consequence of the engine
throwing a driving wheel off, mile east of
Muir The train was followed by Il through
freight, which ran into the rear of the pas
senger- train, killing five women and one child,
and injuring ten others, all of whom were inn
migrants.