Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-06-26

phis on the 18th, against twelve the day before.
Physicians said the number Of cholera patients
was increasing but the disease yielded more
readily to treatment than before.
| The Mexican Border Investigating Com
mittee have returned to Washington to prepare
their report, having been engaged since January
| last in taking evidence. They investigated
some four hundred cases, and received,
| in addition, thirteen hundred G Parte
affidavits The Comanches are said TO De
| mainly engaged in the business OF stealing
and selling the children and women OF the
white settlers, while the Kickapoos and Ii
! pans land Mexicans disguised as such) chiefly
confine themselves to cattle stealing. The
raids of these people are so frequent that
stock-raising within two hundred miles OF the
| Rio Grande has been well-nigh abandoned.
The Navy Department has ordered Com
| mander Green to the command of the vessel
| to be dispatched for the discovery and relief
| of the Polaris, with Lieutenant Commander
White as Executive Officer. Efforts are being
made to start the expedition early in July.
At Thorndike, eighteen miles from Belfast,
Me-, on the morning of the 10th, Almon Cor
W
dered in bed A brother of Gordon was ar
rested on suspicion. dispute about piece
of property is said to have been the cause.
In suit for libel brought by one W. II
Whitney against the GAINESVILLE (Wis.) Gazette,
in which the damages claimed were $4,000,
the jury gave the plaintiff Sl,lOO. The
alleged libel consisted in an article published
designating Whitney as "a swindler."
few evenings ago, two little girls, aged
| respectively eight and ten years, who were out
looking for COW near Dodson, Ohio, were
assaulted by a young man named George
Donnell, and the younger girl was brutally
outraged Donnell was arrested soon after,
plead guilty, and not procuring bail, was sent
to Jail.
A Cincinnati telegram of the 10th says the
previous forty eight hours had developed the
presence there of cases resembling cholera.
Three fatal cases and three not fatal had been
reported Little excitement existed, as the
citizens generally did not apprehend the prev
alence of cholera as an epidemic during the
season.
Isham Bolton O'Neill was hanged at Atlanta,
Ga, on the 18th, for the murder OF James
Little in September, 1871
A few nights ago party of fifty men III
Rutherford County, Tenn, lynched negro
named Joe Woods, who had outraged and
killed white woman, widow.
There were fifteen deaths from cholera in
Memphis, on the 10th, and in Nashville there
had been thirty-two since the 14th, almost all
of them among the negroes.
Colonel Mackenze's report of his recent at
tack upon the Kickapoo and Lipan Indians has
reached the War Department. General Sheri-
dan, in his Endorsement on the report
SAYS he does not believe that any boundary ex-
lists when such merciless banditti are being
pursued He thinks there can be no just cause
for dissenson if the lawful forces of either
the United States or Mexico pursue them for
the purpose of capturing them or ending their
deeds of violence.
Joseph c. Howard, who had been arrested
for stealing horses in Franklin County, Mo-,
was Iynched by party of about two hundred
men on the night of the 10th. He made CON
fession before he was hung duplicating sew
| eral other men in horsestealing.
| The sudden death of a woman with symp-
| toms of cholera was reported in Cincinnati
| on the 18th.
The capture Of three negroes of New
Iberia, La, who murdered two white men,
was effected on the 18th, through the States
| evidence of accomplish. They were then
taken from the officers Of justice by mob
of over 1000 white citizens and hanged.
| They confessed taking part in the crime,
but insisted that the one who turned States
evidence cut the throat of one of the murdered
| men.
| At Memphis on the 18th, there were fifteen
| interments ten of cholera. On the same day
there were fifty deaths in Nashville, thirty five
being from cholera. The disease was evident
" spreading. Dispatches from Gallatin,
Lebanon, Granville, and other points show
that the scourge was carrying off great
many at those places.
| The Texas Legislature in view OF the Mexl-
can depredations on the border, has provided
for the employment of a volunteer force for
the purpose of protection.
The Chicago Tinaes of the 18th announces
| that the Chicago 81 Alton Railroad had estab-
lished a schedule of rates under the new rail
road law. The Times says the competing
points will be obliged to pay higher rates than
at present, and the points where there is no
| competition will pay perhaps somewhat less
The other roads had not yet prepared their
| schedules: but it was believed that they would
| conform in the main to the same basis as that
adopted by the Alton Company.
| During the removal of the Modocs from the
peninsula Tule Lake, to Fort klamath, one OF
| the Indians known a Curly-hcaded Jack, who
| surrendered with the Hot Creek band to Gen.
Davis, at Fairchld's rancho, shot himself. lie
has since died
1t has been decided by Judge Rogers, Of the
Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill, that the
authority of the Mayor of Chicago to revoke
saloon keepers licenses who violate the Sun
day law, is warranted both by the spirit and
the letter of the law.
Two deaths from disease presenting cholera
| symptoms were reported in Cincinnati on the
| 18th. Both were new cases. One was sick
only day.
| In Memphis, on the 18th, there were fifteen
| interments eleven Of whom died of cholera.
| The weather clearer, and hopes were en-
| tertained that the disease would subside. At
| Nashville on the same day, the cholera deaths
| numbered thirty-eight whites and twenty-five
colored Business was almost totally suspend
| ed and there was considerable exodus of
people out of the city.
| The Postmaster General, it is stated, has de-
| termined to issue an order directing that all