Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-03

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thirty seven cholera deaths in Nashville on the
3d. and eight in Memphis.
The United States steamer Juniata has sailed
from New York in search of the missing
steamer Polaris. The steamer was accompa-
MED by two launches, and carried 1870 men,
and provisions enough for herself, the Tigress
(Which is soon to follow, and the Polaris, if
found.
Two negroes named George Washington and
Simpson Walker have been arrested at James
vile, Wis, for the murder of their house
keeper, white woman named Mrs. Thomas,
whose dead body was found in the woods near
their house few days ago.
The recent official report of the Bureau
of Agriculture shows the average increase
of cotton acreage over last year nearly l.
per cent. The condition of the crop was;
Florida, 2 per cent. above the annual average.
All the others fall below, viz: Virginia and
Alabama, per cent North Carolina, 10:
South Carolina, Il; Georgia and Louisiana, e:
Mississippi and Arkansas, S; Texas, IA; and
Tennessee, 10. The acreage cultivated will
fall considerably below that planted. The
statistical returns of corn completed to June
l. do not include the area and condition, fol
the reason that it was too early, but the foot
notes of the correspondence show that the
planting of corn in most sections of the coun
try had been much retarded by the excessively
wet and cold weather, aud that the pests which
usually thrive in such weather, the cut-worms
had commenced extensive operations, anC
threatened to greatly damage the crop. The
Bureau reports the wheat crop as looking
well, and that oats and rye promised an in
creased yield.
The following important order has recently
been issued by the Commissioner of Pensions
"On and after the 1st day or July, the consid
Grafton of all invalid increase cases will be sus
pended by the Pension Office until the biennial
examination, which takes place on the 4th OF
September next. Medical examinations, how
ever, will continue in such cases, so that nc
applicant may suffer loss as to the commence
ment of increase by reason of date of the med
zeal examination. Meantime all original eases
upon file will be considered and disposed of so
far as the evidence will warrant"
The Illinois railroads have generally adopted
new schedules of rates under the law taking
effect July 1.
Several cases of what was believed to be
cholera had occurred at Cairo, ILL.,, up to the
25th. Three cholera deaths were reported al
Cincinnati on that day. All fears of the
disease becoming epidemic in the latter city
had disappeared
There were fourteen cholera interments il
Memphis on the 25th. There were twenty five
deaths in Nashville-fourteen white
The Walworth trial in New York was con
CORD character by his uncle, brother of the
murdered man, and other witnesses. His moth
er's testimony was principally devoted to the
story of her married life with Mr. WalwOrtl
and the manner of their separation. Her hus
band was always in the habit, she says, OF
carrying pistol. Two letters were submitted
by the defense, one from Frank to his uncle
the last he wrote before the murder, and the
other, Mr.. WalwOrth's last letter to his wife.
The latter is an appeal and demand to be
allowed to see his children, written in style
of high tragedy, and intersperscd with threats
of killing his wife and himself i'll case she had
taught his children to hate him. 1t warns
Mrs. Walworth to keep Frank out of his way.
The letter never reached Mrs. Walworth- 1t
was intercepted by Frank, and was the occa-
sion of his last journey to New York Before
leaving, he wrote his uncle, enclosing the in
tercepted letter, and stating that he was about
to 90 to his father in New York; but there is
little, if anything, in his letter indicating an
intention of taking his fathers life.
Concerning railroad passes, the Chicago
Tribune of the 9th says: Five Of the
largest railroads doing business with this city
have signed the agreement to issue no more
passes after July |, except to employees and to
those entitled by contract to. receive them.
The roads are the Illinois Central, the Bur
ington q Quincy, the Rock Island, the
Northwestern and the st. Paul. The Chicago
q Alton Road refuses to join the movement
because it is not weeping enough. Its Presi
dent announces TIT every pass heretofore
issued by that road will be recalled July l
and no more passes will be issued in any case
The Indianapolis, Bloomington Il Western
the Peoria u Rock Island, and the Rockford
Rock Island & ST. Louis Railroads declined t.
sign the agreement, but for what reason is no
stated
The other day two little boys in Chicago
named Evans undertook TO kindle a fire by tn
use of kerosene, when the can exploded ant
both children were badly, the elder fatally
burned.
A Washington dispatch of the 9th says tn
Acknowledgement would, in the course of sew
eral DAYS forward to the Secretary of War hi
opinion relative, to the unsettled balances 0
the Freedmen's Bureau, and there was reason
to believe he would recommend suits agains
Generals Howard and Balloch for the recover
of money alleged to be due the Government.
The Secretary of the Interior has made tn
following important ruling: When home
stead is Cancelled and a homestead claiman
is found on the land at the dat
of such cancellation, together with Others
who all design taking the land under pre-
emption laws, the homesteader being legal
upon the land, his settlement right rests in
stantly on such cancellation, while the claim
ants having gone on the land while it wa
covered by said homestead, were trespassers
and the homestead claimant is the preferre
party under The presumption laws.
Albert II. Smith was executed at Spring
field, Mass, on the 9th, for the murder, i
November last, Of Charles II. Sackett, 0
Westfeld.
| In the Walworth trial, on the 9th, lctte
was produced in evidence and read, from tn
senior Walworth to his wife, traducing in tn
strongest terms the memory of his father
| assaling Wiley his brother and sister an
wife, and in awful language threatening,
case his wife would not see that he ha