Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-09
The West.


Fifteen hundred and thirty-one buildings
have been erected at St. Louis during the
past year, at a cost of S., 6S4, 900. Of these
buildings only eighty-six are frame.
The semi annual report of the Ohio State
Commissioners shows that the receipts TO,
the period ending November 15 1872, were
$s7S, s45, and the disbursements $685., $40
There was on deposit in New York at the
date of the report 1925 ,312, for the purchase
and redemption of Ohio State stocks. Dur
ing the past six months S192,2o3 Of funded
debt has been redeemed, and the amount
outstanding November Is was IS, 5s3, SAG.
A strike was in progress among the coal
miners near sprin gfield H., on the 2lst,
with no sign of backing down on either
side
w. H. Mowrer, foreman Of the Galesburg
Uil.) Register, accidentally choked to death
while at his dinner on the 21st. When he
sat down he took a piece of meat, and i'm
mediately arose, and said, II am choking;'
then returning to the Office he started up
stairs, got up as far as the third step and
stood for moment and dropped dead.
Intense cold weather was experienced
throughout the Western States on the 2lst
and ed. In many sections the thermome-
ter marked lower temperature than it had
done for many previous years.
| The Indiana Legislature adjourned on the
21st. During the session, the Senate intro
duced 167 bills, and passed % Of them and Fl
House bills. The House introduced 267 bills
and passed 60 of them, and 90 Senate bills.
The Senate passed joint resolution and the
House 4.
| The Chicago journal of the 23d says {:
"Not since the fearfully cold New Years
| day of 1864 has this region known such in
tense frigidity as that of Saturday night
and last night. Here the mercury in the
| thermometer sank as low as 20 and 25 degrees
below zero, and elsewhere in the North
west it fell several degrees lower"
| Several cases of death by freezing are report
ed in different sections. Four explosions of
kitchen ranges occurred in Cincinnati on the
21st, one in Chicago and one in Cleveland
all caused by the freezing of the water in
| the pipes.
| Portland, Oregon, had a $3.50, 900 fire on
| the 23d.
Satanic and Big Tree, the Kowa Chiefs
who had been confined in jail in st. Louis
| for three months, left on the 23d for the
Texas Penitentiary at Huntsville, in charge
of United States Deputy Marshals Ncwcomb
and Morgan.
\ servant girl in employ at W. F. Flagg's
residence, Bloomington, Ill, in trying the
virtue of kerosene as a fire kinder, was so
badly burned that her recovery was doubt
| full The stove was demolished, scattering
the girl, oil, can, etc, promiscously around
the room. In Springfield, H.. on the same
day, Miss Belle Wallace, eighteen years old,
was fatally burned while trying to light a
fire by pouring coal oil on it. The can eX-
ploded and set her clothes on fire.
Intense cold weather continued through
out the West and South on the morning of
the 4th. A woman and her three children,
| living in log hut on German Prairie, near
| Springfield, H., were found in bed frozen to
death on the morning of the oath.
The Union soldiers of st. Louis held a
meeting in that city few days ago, and
adopted a memorial to the Senate of the
| United States, praying that body to pass
the Homestead act adopted by the House on
the 18th Of December.
The Chicago express on the indianapolis,
I Peru & Chicago Railroad was thrown Off the
| track by broken rail on the 18th, eighteen
miles from Indianapolis, and twenty persons
were injured, of whom at least three would
| die
Bya snow slide near Central City, Mich, a
| few days ago, eight or ten teams and team
sters were carried 800 feet across Cotton
| wood Creek Some Of the transfers were
| shoveled out but it was thought others of
them would not be found before spring.
The South.
The Alabama Senate organized perma-
nently on the 18th, and elected Democratic
officers In the House the Republicans
would not permit the journal to be read.
They insisted on adjourning Immediately
after the l-call, and carried their point.
The Alabama House permanently organ
lied on the Goth, by the election Of Z. C.. Par
sons, Speaker; Robert Barber, Clerk; r.
| Whitaker (colored), Doorkeeper; and w. Y.
Turner, Assistant Clerk, all being Republi-
cans At the election for doorkeeper, more
votes were cast than members present. Both
candidates were Republican.
At New Orleans on the Goth, Judge Durell
issued writ directing the United States
Marshal to Professionally seize the New Or
leans Times nc wspaper establishment, which
order W as executed and the office closed.
A large amount OF business property was
burned at Helena, Ark, on the 23d. Loss
about s67 600,
VIM. NJ Harrison, Reform candidate for
Associate Justice in Arkansas, filed bill of
complaint on the Gath asking for an injunc-
ton to prevent NJ. L. Stevenson and Z. J.
Earl, the Republican candidates, whose
election had been announced by the State
Department, from exercising the duties of
office; and also asking for a restraining
order to prevent Acting Governor Hadley
and Secretary of State Johnson from
altering or changing the original re-
turns, and asking for a mandamus to COM
pei them to produce in Court the original
returns, statements, etc, in reference to the
election. The bill charges the Governor,
! Secretary of State, Registrars, County
Clerks and Judges Of Election with confed-
Grating together and fraudulently depriving
thousands of citizens Of the right to vote; of
changing and altering the returns, and pre-
venting the returns from being made from
four counties, by which the complainant
AYERS he was deprived Of the benefit of 10, COO
votes.
The Memphis Bank, J. S. Murphy, Pres.
dent, suspended payment on the Goth, with
liabilities amounting to $4,000.
Congressional.
| In the Senate, on the Goth, bills were
passed-House bin extending the time for the
completion of the Winona & st. Peter Railroad;