Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-02-20

and many families were burning oil cake as
substitute.
A few days ago destructive.fire, suppos-
ed incendiary, occurred at Jackson, Tenn,
destroying property to the amount OF Sloo,-
600.
The Secretary of the Treasury has aatho-
rized the Assistant Treasurer at New York
to purchase 81 100000 bonds each Wednes-
day, and sell 81, 500, 900 coin each Thursday
during the month of February.
Four boilers in the American Iron Works
at Pittsburgh. Pa, exploded on the ID, kll-
ing seven persons and wounding several
others. The explosion was so tremendous
that three sections of the building, of some
fifteen feet each, were completely shattered,
the roof being carried entirely away ana
scattered in all directions.
Two murderers were lynched at Bozaman,
Montana, on the night of the 1st-one, an
old man named Triplet, for murder COM
mitted three months before; another,
Young man called Steamboat Bill, for muir
dering Chinese woman two days before.
The Jury in the second Wharton murder
trial, at Annapolis, Nd, were unable to
agree, and have been discharged. They
stood eight for verdict of guilty, and four
for not guilty.
The Government has extended to February
90 the time within which it will receive ap-
plications from those who wish to become
exhibitors at Vienna.
Near Harrodsburg, KY, few nights ago,
four men attempted to rob the mail stage.
AS the leader, Teburn McAnelly, after hav-
ing intimidated the driver, was climbing up
to get the mail, an inside passenger, named
Roberts, shot him dead. The other robbers
fled. but were pursued, and two Of them ar
rested.
Andrew Dalrymple, living near Tidoute, Pa,
was carelessly engaged in filling torpe-
do with nitro glycerine at his house on the
5th, when it exploded, blowing him to
atoms, killing his wife and fatally inJuring
his children. who were in an adjoining
apartment The house was totally wrecked.
The Postmaster General has issued adver-
tisements for bids for the new penny postal
cards 1t is the intention of the Depart
ment to have the cards ready for issue by the
LIST of May.
The second trial of Christopher Rafferty,,
for the murder of Policeman O'Meary, at
Chicago, in August last, was terminated at
Waukegan on the 9Th, the jury bringing in
verdict of guilty, and fixing the penalty
death by hanging.
1t is stated that all the evidence relating
to persons not members of the present Con-
gress, will, by agreement of the Poland Mo-
bilier Committee, be stricken from the rec
Ords.
A dispatch from Washington on the 9Th
says that orders had been issued to the com
mandant of the United States forces operat-
ing against the Modoc Indians, to make
such disposition of his forces as will tend to
protect the settlers and their property in
the neighborhood, and suspend further hos
tile proceedings against the Indians, unless
absolutely necessary, until the arrival OF
the Commission recently appointed to in
vestigate the causes which led Captain Jack
to wage war upon the whites, and the result
of the investigation is made known.
few DAYS ago a horrible discovery was
made in Brooklyn, n. Y, the particulars of
which are as follows: It seems that some
weeks since, Jacob Knoop, proprietor of
liquor saloon in that city, gave up business
and rented his saloon. The saloon was
locked up, and Knoop had not since been
seen, until a few evenings ago, when the
| new proprietor went to take possession. In
side was found the dead body of knoop, and
beside it his dog, feeding on one of his legs,
The flesh had been eaten from the rest OF
his body. 1t is supposed he had been dead
several days.
Philadelphia has appropriated 5000 in
aid of the Centennial celebration.
| Leo Canman has been sentenced to ten
years imprisonment in the State Penlten-
tiary, for abstracting money from registered
letters while clerk in the Chicago Post
| Office.
| McNulty, the Peoria wife-murderer, was
hanged 1T Peoria at one O'Clock P. m, on the
18th. He made long speech on the galloWs
protesting his innocence, and asserting that
some of the witnesses for the prosecution
had sworn falsely against him.