Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-10

The French Assembly On the 4th elected
NJ Louis Joseph Buffet President, uice NJ.
Grevy, resigned.
George Bidwel1 and Edward Noyes, who
were arrested in London on charges of
completely in the .frauds on the Bank of
ngland, were subsequently released on
filing bonds for their future appearance.
The Parliament of New South Wales has
voted $500, 900 to aid immigration.
DOMESTIC.
Gold closed in New York on the 4th at
11s15@l1S5s.
Near Detroit, Mich, recently, while Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Peters were absent from
home over night, their house was burned to
the ground with all lis contents, and three
of their children persisted in the flames.
Their eldest girl barely escaped with her
life.
An accident occurred on the Rensselaer, &
Saratoga Railroad near Shusham Station,
Vt, on the night of the 30th, caused by a
passenger train running off an embankment,
by which Fred Downs, conductor, and Pat
rick Monahan, fireman, were instantly kill
ed. The cars were badly wrecked, and near
" all the passengers were more or less in
jured, though, it was thought, none fatally.
The baggage car took fire, and the through
mails were about half burned up.
On the morning of the 30th, train On the
Great Western Railway was thrown from
the track, by broken rail, about thirty-five
miles from Detroit, Mich. The sleeping ear
was turned over, and two ladies were thrown
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children were also badly burned, and one
was likely to die. The car took fire and was
destroyed. The other cars were thrown
from the track, and all the passengers more
or less bruised.
A comparison of the receipts of internal
revenue for six months ending January 81,
1872, and January 81, 1873, shows an increase
in the latter on spirits of s2,617 ,902; fer
mented liquors, 5000, 234; penalties, SOS, 5l2.
A New York dispatch of the 3lst says the
Postmaster General considered the recent
postal car difficulties settled until the next
Congress, the Railroad Companies having
announced an intention to continue for the
present the running of such cars on their
roads.
George Bryan, negro, was hanged by a
mob at Chillicothe, O., few nights ago,
for an attempted outrage on a highly re-
spectacle white lady living about twenty
miles from that place.
By the falling of a platform in the in
terror of the new Singer building, on the
corner of Washington and State streets,
Chicago, on the 31st, Philip Minsen and
William Bross were precipitated to the
ground, a distance Of one hundred and ten
feet, and were fatally injured. Two others,
man and boy, were seriously hurt.
Meetings of farmers are still being held
in different portions of Illinois protesting
against the alleged exorbitant charges and
unjust Determinations f the railroads.
General Candy telegraphed to General
Sherman on the 31sJ that the Commission
to the Modocs worked well. He was of the
opinion that the Modocs were more subdued
and more amenable to reasoning than at
the previous interview.
Sarah Bell was burned to death at Nash.
vile, Tenn, few evenings ago, by the cx-
plosion of lighted lamp, into which she
was attempting to pour oil.
Cerebro, spinal-meningitis is prevailing to
an alarming extent in some localities in
Kentucky.
The body Of the brother of Senator York,
of Kansas, was found recently in the woods,
two miles west Of Usage Mission. He had
been shot and his body concealed in some
thick bushes. This makes seven persons
missing and supposed to have been muir
dered between Usage Mission and Indepen.
dence within the past six months.
Intelligence has been received of the
murder in cold blood, by Cherokee Indians,
Of Mr.. Deming and three other Government
surveyors, one hundred and twenty miles
southwest of Arkansas City. The men had
gone one mile and half from camp, and
their bodies were found by their comrades
buried in the sand. Two others of the
same party and provision train had not
been heard from for some time, and fears
were entert aimed for their safety.
The following statement shows the con-
dition of the public debt April l:
Six per cent. bonds. ............ 81 1884. TAI $50
Five per cent. bonds. 414, 567 300
Total coin bonds. 81, TAG, 300. 15G