Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-08-21

phia, Wilmington & Baltimore, and other rail
roads, many miles of track were washed away
or SO covered with land slides or floods as tC
be nearly impossible Pittsburgh reports that
SO violent rainfall has never before occurred
there, and throughout the country bridges
culverts, dams, and roadways had been de
s'royed, and a great deal of private property
devastated.
At Indianapolis, a few days ago, Ida Shan
non, aged IA, was the victim of kerosene
lamp explosion.
The editor of the Farmers Union, Mime
apols, Minnesota, says the yield of wheat IL
the State is much better than was expected
being estimated to exceed twenty-five bushels
per acre.
According to Cairo dispatch of the 18th
the cholera, in its most pestilential form, had
appeared near Makenda, Illinois. family
named Ramsey, consisting of husband, wife
and child, who recently fled from Indiana to
escape the scourge, were stricken down with
it, and ell were dead in twelve hours Foul
or five relatives who came to their assistance
were in a few hours taken down, and soon
died.
A Washington dispatch of the 18th says
the Secretary of the Treasury had sent
by a special messenger, to Collector
Arthur, of the port of New York, an or
der for the immediate removal of nearly
one hundred customs officers, some of them
occupying responsible places, on charges OF
fraud and corruption, and that the dismissal OF
another lot of dishonest officers was expected
in few days.
A widow woman residing near Elkader,
Iowa, the other day poured oil on fire she
had just lighted, when an explosion followed,
setting her clothes on fire and burning her sc
severely that she died the same night in great
agony.
In recent letter U. s. Treasurer Spinn Ell
says: "The resumption of specie payment
has been, and ! think will continue to be, put
off until the time when the balance of trade
shall be in our favor. When that time ar.
riyes resumption will be easy. In truth it will
from that cause come of its own accord"
The returns of the Agricultural Department
for the LIST of August indicate a general and
somewhat marked improvement in the
condition and promise Of the cotton crop since
the LIST of July. The average condition Oh
July |, was S5.5; on August |, 91.S.
The Government examination into the Wa
wasset disaster was begun at the Treasury
Department in Washington on the 18th. A
Washington dispatch of that date says eighty
two bodies had been recovered from and about
the wreck, and it was believed that at least two
hundred persons were on board at the time of
the disaster.
Gold in New York on the 18th sold as low
as l1433s, and closed at ll4T.
General Rosser, in charge of the railway
survey of the Stanley Yellowstone expedition
has reported that he finds the new route OF
access to Western Dakota, from the Missouri
to the Yellowstone River, entirely practicable
and satisfactory, it being greatly superior to
those of former days. The distance, two
hundred and five miles, is twenty-one miles
shorter than the survey of 1871. The grades
are moderate. The Directors of the Com
pany have accepted the new line recommended
by General Rosser, from Bismarck, the pres
ent end of the track, to the Yellowstone
crossing.