Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-06-12

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Fractional currency. 45,21o,642
Coin certificates. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5o,44o,ooo
| Interest. Observation-Disclosures. 30, 669, 90i
Total debt. s. 26O, AZ. g9S
| Cash in Treasury:
| Currency. Observation-Disclosures. $685. 199
Special deposits held for redemption
| of certificates of deposit as provided
| by law. So,lSoooo
| Total in Treasury 11O,779115
Debt less cash in Treasury. s. 149, 1873
Decrease during the month. .......... 3,5252S2
Bonds issued to Pacific Railroad Com
panes, interest payable i'll lawful -
money, principal outstanding. 64,b23,5t2
| Interest accrued and not yet paid. 1,6lo5o1
Interest paid by United States. 1o,5O32oO
mails. etc .....:.......!........... 4,1s5,773
Balance of interest paid by United
States .........................$ 14,323o07
| The Modoc war has at last been terminated
by the capture of Captain Jack and the rem
nant of his band. 1t seems that on the morn
ing of the lst three miles above the mouth of
Willow Creek, the Warm Spring scouts struck
a hot trail and after brief search the MOdOcs
were discovered Colonel Perry surrounded the
Indian retreat His men were bound to fight.
Suddenly Modoc shot out from the rocks
| with a white flag. He met Warm Spring,
and said Jack wanted to surrender. Three
scouts were sent out to meet Jack. He came
out cautiously, glanced about him
moment, and then, as if giving up all
| hope, came forward and held out his
| hand to his visitors Then two of his
warriors, five squaws, and seven children dart
| ed forth and joined him in the surrender, Cap
tain Jack is described as being about forty
| years of age, five feet eight inches high, and
compactly built. He has large and we'll
formed head and face, full of individuality.
Although dressed in old clothes, he looks every
| inch chief.
| The Chicago Common Council, by vote of
% to 8, has changed the hour for closing
saloons from eleven O'clock to twelve o'clock
at night
| Mansfield T. Walworth, a well-known
| writer author of several works of fiction, was
on the morning of the Sd, shot and instantly
killed by his son, Frank H. WalwOrth, aged
| nineteen, at the Sturteyant House, New York.
| Young Walworth, after committing the terri
BILE deed, at once delivered himself up to the
police authorities. The deceased had been
! separated from his wife for some three years,
and the son lived with his mother at Saratoga
Springs. In extenuation of his crime, he says
that his father had sent them insulting letters,
| and had threatened to shoot both his mother
and himself.
| A meeting of Western Railroad managers
was held in Chicago on the Sd, at which were
representatives of fifteen different railroads,
among them the Chicago x Northwestern, the
Milwaukee & st. Paul, Illinois Central Chi
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dalia & Terre Haute, Ohio Il Mississippi, Gil
man, Clinton Il Springfield, Chicago, Danville
& Vincennes, and the Chicago q Iowa. After
considerable discussion it was unan-
mously resolved to cancel all outstand-
ing passes on the Both of June and
to refuse to issue any more after that date
| This order is absolute, except with regard to
the passage of employees over roads with
| which they are connected, and except in cases
where roads are compelled by existing con-
tracts to grant passes. Clergymen are no
| longer to be allowed halffare tickets, and
railroad officers are no longer to exchange
passes with each other.
At Evanston. H., few days ago, Mrs.
Iverson was horribly and probably fatally
burned by the explosion of can Of kerosene,
WITH which she was endeaYoring to start a fire.
The State Superintendent of Public Instruc
ton of Illinois announces that an eXamina-
ton of teachers desiring State certificates will
| be held at Springfield, on Tuesday and Wednes
day, the LIST and I'd days of July next
| The Commissioner of the Department of
Agriculture has furnished the Milwaukee
Chamber of Commerce with an interesting
tabular statement. 1t shows the number of
bushels of wheat raised in each State of the
| Union in each of The past twelve years.
The total estimated production of wheat
in the United States in 1872 was 249, 997,-
600 bushels showing increase of 49,
30 900 bushels compared with the crop of
| 1871. The largest production in any single
State was in California-25, 600, 600 bushels.
Illinois, Minnesota. Wisconsin, and Iowa, re-
spectvely, ranked next to California, ranging
from q, 100000 to 24,700,00O bushels. The
total production in the Northwestern States
named, in 1872, was 1925, 900 bushels, an
| increase of &c, 230,0 600 bushels over the crop
| of 1871 in the same States. Secretary Langston,
| of the Chamber of Commerce of Milwaukee,
| is authority for the statement that 1856, 900
bushels of wheat, including flour, had been
| received at Milwaukee and Chicago and other
points, up to May 81 last, from the crop of
1872, in the four great wheatproducing States
of the Northwest-Illnois, Wisconsin, Iowa
and Minnesota-which, together with the
estimated amounts for food and seed in these
| States, leaves an available surplus still to
| come forward between the LIST of June and the
| incoming of the next harvest of 16, 70, 900
bushels in wheat and flour.
Losses by the late Boston fire are divided as
| follows: Foreign companies, S31 600; New
York companies, 291 900; Pennsylvania, $780,
| 600; Hartford, Conn, ST, 600; Providence,
$4,000; Bangor, $4,000; miscellaneous, $685.
| 600.
The st. Louis tobacco fair opened on the Sd,
with entries from all parts of Missouri, Kan
sas, Illinois, Indiana Kentucky, and nearly all
OF the Southern States. Premiums to the
amount of over $4,000 were awarded.
A Leavenworth dispatch of the 4th says i'm
migration into KANSAS during the month of
May was unprecedently large. Reports from
all parts of the State represent the growing
crops to be in excellent condition. An abund-
ant yield OF all kinds of grain is anticipated.
A dispatch of the I'd says Captain Jack and