Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-09-25
DOMESTIC.

In letter to the Washington Chronicle of
| the 18th, General Sherman offers evidence to
| show that the burning of Columbia, s. c., was
| caused by Confederate soldiers.
! Post-of1ice authorities in Washington have
| been Informed by the government of Germany
that newspaper taxes are no longer collected
from persons in the Kingdom of Prussia to
whom they may be addressed, on newspapers
printed in the German language in the United
States.
The Board of Health of Memphis officially
| announced on the 18th that the yellow fever
| had appeared in that city. 1t was said to be
confined to few blocks in the northwestern
portion of the city, and it was hoped that it
would not become epidemic. The news from
| Shreveport, La, on the 14th, was to the effect
that the disease there was on the increase. 1t
| was estimated that five hundred persons were
| down with the fever, and the deaths so far
| amounted to one hundred and forty-six. A
| dispatch to the Howard Association, of New
Orleans, says no report could possibly exag-
| gerate the condition of affairs in Shreveport,
and they were indeed deporable. Physicians
pronounce the disease genuine yellow fever in
its epidemic form.
| IL OF IltlIe ROCK, Ark, tne Olu-
| est banker in the State, suspended on the
| morning of the 18th.
Dispatches from Shreveport, La, of the
| 18th represent the yellow fever undated, and
| the distress in the city indescribable. OF six
| men in the telegraph office five have taken the
fever and two are already dead. The inter
ments average thirty Or forty daily, in popu-
| lation of perhaps not over 1900. The physi
clans and nurses are worked down. Sixty per
cent. of those attacked die.
The people of Memphis, Tenn, are greatly
| excited over the rumors Of the prevalence of
the yellow fever in that city. On the 18th,
all the trains leaving on the various railroads
were crowded with people fleeing from the
scourge.
A train was wrecked on the 18th on the De-
troit d Milwaukee Railroad between Grand
Rapids, Mich, and Lowell. There were eleven
passenger coaches, all crowded, and all are re-
ported demolished. Six persons were known
to be killed.
Another murder was perpetrated in New
YORK on the 18th. Walter Bray, who was
riding on the front platform of a Third avenue
street-car, struck street-sweeper on the head
with a car-hook because he did not get out of
the way as promptly as the driver wished.
The railway bond forgers of New York,
Johnson and Yates, have been admitted to bail,
the former in $50, 900, and the latter in 49, 600
| A New York paper announces the failure Of
| the Eclectic Life Insurance Company with
| deficiency of nearly 800, 900.
On the late voyage to New York of the
| steamship City of Brooklyn, woman who
| was steerage passenger, insane from sick
ness, threw her little boy, four years old, over
| board, and then, with her babe in her arms
| jumped into the sea. She was rescued but
| the children were drowned
| The steamer Ironsides, of the Engeman
line, one of the largest steamers on Lake
| Michigan, foundered and sunk within seven
miles from Grand Haven, Mich, on the 18th.
| Her signal of distress was hoisted at 9 o'clock
| in the morning, but so terrible was the sea and
| heavy the wind that no assistance could posi-
| bly, reach her. She labored in the trough of
| the sea from about 130 a. m till the time she
sunk. The passengers and crew, OF which
| there were nineteen of the former and thirteen
| of the latter, manned the life-boats and left
| her about II a. m, the last boat leaving her
| at about II so a. N. When the last boat had
got about a quarter Of mile from her, she
went down. There were six boats filled with
the crew and passengers. One of
the boats, having five men and four women,
capsized, and only one man reached the shore.
Four boats had reached the shore up to II
p. IN. The boat with Captain Sweetman, his
| wife, and five passengers had not been heard
from. 1t is feared they among the lost
| Thirty-two persons are known to have been
| saved, and eighteen bodies had been re-
covered. The following is partial list Of
| those lost, whoes bodies had been recovered
and identified: John Driscoll, steward of the
boat; John Hilles, of Milwaukee; Charles
Wimmell, agent of G. E. Harling & Co., New
| York; Mrs. H. A. Valentine and child, Of Mil
waukee; Mr.. John Denison, of Spring Lake,
Mich; Mr.. J. B. L. Dewitt, of Milwaukee;
James Brown, Harry Hughes, Ed. lyle The
| others are not yet identified
| The underwriters estimate that the damage
to vessel property on the lakes during the re-
cent storm will amount to 100000, with in
| surance for a~but one-third that sum.
The State Temperance Committee of New
York have issued a call for State Convention
to meet in Utica, October g.
A Yankton Dakota) dispatch of the 10Th
| g.. L , w Inc murderer OF
| General E. s. McCook, was brought up on
| that day for examination, which he waived,
and was committed to the Territorial jail to
await his trial for the murder at the October
term of the United States District Court, at
which Judge Barnes will preside"
A Washington dispatch says member of
| Congress, who was member of the Banking
and Currency Committee of the last Congress
| states that he shall advocate system in the
next Congress which will permit unrestricted
free banking, conditioned only upon adequate
bonded security for the circulation
There was stock panic in Wall street. on
! the 18th. Rock Island and the Western fan
cies reached the lowest point touched within
| five years.
Professor King, accompanied by four news
paper correspondents, made balloon ascen-
sion from Buffalo, n. Y, on the 10th. At four
O'Clock in the afternoon of the 18th, he was
over Whitney's Point, N. Y, moving in a
southeasterly direction.
destructive conflagration occurred in
Chicago on the afternoon of the 18th Four
acres were burned over, and about 200 fami
| lies rendered homeless. There was an intense
| excitement among business men, and for a
| time fears were entertained that the sGreat
Blaze was about to be duplicated. The con-
| ditions seemed favorable for such An event
The wind blew almost a gale from the