Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-24

"A serious ldtailty Is carry lno oh
the horses in Page county, Iowa.
The first cargo of new wheat was
shipped from San francisco last week
There were 1911 deaths in St Louis
last week, fifty more than in the week
before
The wheat crop in Kansas is most
! ly secured, and the yield is better than
anticipated.
Two deaths from cholera occurred
IN Cincinnati last Saturday, and three
on Sunday forenoon.
1t is hoped the cholera has entire
" disappeared from Elizabethtown and
Paducah, Kentucky.
THE morality in New Y ork last
week showed an increase Of 30 per
cent. over the week before.
Two girls, Lizzie Earhardt and
Mary Shaw, aged fourteen and eleven
respectively, daughters of prominent
citizens, were drowned at Elkader, To-
wa, while bathing in a mill-race, on
Thursday evening.
The Philips & Colby Construction
Co. in suit brought by Seymour ct
al, and just decided in the Chicago
Courts, is adjudsed to pay damages
in the sum Of S107, eco. Phillips &
Colby were the Construction Go. in the
building Of the Central Road.
The Shah has been called home
because Of a little "onpleasantness'
within his realm, Mr.. Shaw, as the
gamtns have it will probably have a
pile OF head work to do when he ar
rives at Teheran. We shudder to think
Of the blood that must flow in famished
Persia.
The Portage Co. Term of Court
has not yet closed its session. The
calendar numbers larger number of
cases than ever before. including a
number Of criminal eases. We believe
two or three murder cases were on the
docket. The term will have continued
nearly three weeks.
The last Ogiensburg Leader con-
tains the valedictory of its editor, Hop
kins The Leader suspefds because
It doesn't pay, not BY a decree of the
Sheriff The Ogdensburghers ought new
cr to let the Lcuder 60 down. 4 bet
ter encouragement, will always make a
better paper, we don't care who drives
the quill.
An extensive robbery was perpe-
trated On board the steamer Red Wing,
on Thursday night, while on her north
ward trip between Dubuque and Da-
venport, from which the thieves rea-
lied several hundred dollars. Many
Of the passengers who slept with their
pantaloon5 on had their pockets cut
open and the money distracted.
Saturday afternoon, while the
match between the Mutuals and the
Atholetics wa5 in progress in New
York, a scafold overlooking the field
containing about fifty persons, gave
way, seriously injuriny a number of
! them. Five were picked up with bro
ken arms, one with broken ankle,
and another with internal injuries,
A very readable letter and full of
interest, advocating the establishment
Of manufactures at the south as the
sures5 and quickest way way OF
reinYig0rating the southland with
permanent prosperity, '-appears in
,,e Mississippi Pilot, copy Of
which is before US, written by our
neighbor and Old acquaintance Mr.. H..
/ Fl. Hccox. 1t being matter in
which We are interested only in a
general way, We do not publish it.
The p. NJ. General announces the
fact that since the franling privilege
has been done away with, the Depart
ment is recuperating, and will become
self sustaining. This is cheering news.
! It is little amusing, the fact that
the department is now obligel to pre-
pay its packages CT stamps and blanks
sent out to the various Offices all over
the country, involving a big expense.
Though an oversight, a probationary
clause tor the Department was omitted
in the bill, and we are glad Of it,
Wisconsin IS having a Beecher
scandal not ministerial one how
ever The facts are these. One
Beecher residing in Boston alleges that
Senator Howe is connected with a