Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-31

crew of the Vigilante for fear the German
Consul and his family at Cartagena would be
shot.
The laying of the fourth cable between
Sidney, Cape Breton, and Placentia, N. F.,
has been successfully completed.
Gold closed in New York on the 25th at
1852.
4 young daughter of William Wall, resid-
ing near Fulton junction, Iowa, tried recently
to kindle fire with kerosene. An explosion
ensued, and the burning Oil was scattered all
over her body. Before it could be extingush-
ed, her flesh was burned to crisp, and she
could not long survive.
The Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Com
missioners have officially stated that a reduc-
ton in favor Of all persons who are sending
articles for exhibition at fairs would not seem
to give any business advantage to one person
over another, and therefore would not be an
unjust discrimination. They say: =" The
facts that these articles are designed
for exhibition at industrial fairs !;
that such fairs are matters of pub
lie encouragement; that no one is injuriously
sons sending this class of articles are treated
alike, would seem to Justify what would
otherwise, as between rival business men, be
prinaa tacie evidence of unjust discrimination.
When reduction does not pecuniarily injure
any one, but on the contrary encourages the
industrial interests of the country, and thus
accords with public policy it leaves, we think,
no good reason to declare such reduction an
unjust discrimination. 1t is not mere dis
eliminating but unjust discrimination that
is prohibited by the Constitution and the
statute"
The new Directory of Chicago contains 1885,,
O7O names, indicating population of about
465, 600.
The G. r. 81 2. express train, which left
Council Bluffs at 425 on the afternoon of the
2lst was thrown from the track near Casey,
Iowa, and robbed. The robbers had placed
Instructions on the track. When the train
approached, they shot the engineer as he was
attempting to stop the train, after he had dis
covered the danger. The locomotive, tender
and two baggage cars were thrown from the
track. The express car was entered, the safe
broken open and robbed. The passenger
coaches were but little damaged. The track
was torn up for some distance. The robbers,
after securing the booty, mounted their horses
and started off south.
Eight deaths from cholera occurred in Louis
lana, Mo-, between eight and twelve O'Clock
on the night of the Goth. Hundreds of citi
zens were preparing to leave the place Four
deaths from cholera occurred at Mt. Vernon
Ind, on the 2lst, three in Cincinnati and one
in the Ohio Penitentary.
The larger portion of the business part of
Jackson, Tenn, including the Wing and
Tribune office, was burned on the Goth. Loss
over 100000
A circular of the Post-oftice Department
cautions Postmasters from selling, and the
public from buying, the official stamps of the
Department. 1t appears That Postmasters in
some of the States have been selling these
stamps. Letters bearing these stamps are
sent from their points of destination to the
Dead Letter Office, being known to be private
letters. A Postmaster in Ohio lately received
200 official stamps and sold 40.
A late New York dispatch says that it is
untrue that there is to be no investigation by
the Deacons and Trustees of Plymouth
Church of the Bowen-Tilton scandal. The
trial has been postponed on account of the
absence of Mr.. Beecher and a number of the
committee Charges will be filed against
Bowen and Tilton and be fully investigated in
the fall. The sessions will not probably be
public.
A dispatch from st. Louis on the 22d says
the cholera had abated at Louisiana, Mo, but
oil thn, h,l Cd nf
since it first broke out, including some of
the most prominent citizens. In Prairieville
and Troy the scourge ragged fearfully, the towns
being almost depopulated either by disease or
the people fleeing from their homes Out of
one family of nine persons in the former place,
all of whom were well on the 18th, only two re-
manned. The disease also prevailed at other
towns near by. Business was almost suspend
ed, and most of those who were able were flee
ing from the infected places. A reporter of the
Evans Vile Und) Journal of the 22d says there
were only about 1,500 people in Mount
Vernon, and that the surrounding towns were
full of Mount Vernon citizens, who had fled
from the city The Board of Health had re-
quested all persons not to visit the place for
the present.
The robbers of the express train near Casey,
Iowa on the 21st, secured booty to the amount
of only about s., 600. The valuable express
matter usually sent by this train on Mondays
was forwarded the night before.
An Italian named Glione was recently exam
ined, at New Haven, on charge of keeping
Italian boys in condition of servitude, to
profit by their earnings. He was held in bonds
of 81 900 for trial in October, and was COM
mitted to Jail for want of bail
The Manitoban Court, before which Messrs.
Fletcher, Bentley, Hoy and Keegon, citizens of
Minneapolis, have been undergoing an exami-
nation on charge of attempting to kidnap
the bogus Lord Gordon, rendered its decision
on the Esd, committing the prisoners for trial.
The Chicago Tribune of the oath says the
Chicago & Alton Railroad had decided not to
time since against number of farmers in Nc
Lean and Livingston Counties, who DELAYED
the business of the road by refusing to pay
more than the legal fare, and also by declining
to be elected from the train. In a conference
held at Springfield on the 23d, between the
Commissioners, the former stated that its tar
if would be rearranged within the ensuing
four weeks so as to remove all cause for the
complaints of extortion evoked by the present
rates.
Governor Carpenter of Iowa has offered re-
ward OF $500 each for the apprehension and de-
livery of the Rock Island train robbers. A ST.