Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-02-06
DOMESTIC.

Gold closed in New York on the Oath at
Has.
The Woman's Suffrage Convention re-
Gently in session in Washington, charged an
admission fee on the night of the 18th, and
the District authorities entered the room
and caused the close of the meeting, on the
ground that the parties had no license.
A great rise in the Hudson, Mohawk, AL
leghany, Susquehanna, and other Eastern
rivers was reported on the Goth. Oa- 'ging
foods had occurred in many sections.
The next Illinois6tate Fair will be held at
Peoria, to last one week, beginning Septem-
Der Is.
A supplementary treaty has been entered
into for the lease of the SANTANA Bay to an
American Company. 1t provides that the
effective capital of the company must be
100000 in current money of the United
States, divided into 5000 shares of the value
of 500 each; but said capital and shares
may be increased from time to time by a
vote of not less than the two-thirds part of
the capital existing at the time. A Wash
ington dispatch to the New York Herald of
the 18th states that Congressman consider
the SANTANA Bay scheme impracticable, and
the Haytien Minister thinks the American
purchasers will find that they have made a
bad speculation, the bay being fit for
nothing but naval station.
Leading Cuban tories in New York, SYM
pathiZing with Spain, have forwarded to
Madrid a protest against the intervention of
Secretary Fish in regard to slavery in Cuba
A New York dispatch of the Goth saws
three thousand cases of smallpox were re-
ported to exist in Boston, and the percentage
OF deaths was much larger than by all other
causes combined. Nearly all the burials
were made in the night. The epidemic had
serious effect upon commercial interests
generally.
The House bill to abolish the Thanking
privilege, as amended and passed by the SEN
ate, on the 22d, is as follows:
Be il enacted, etc. That the frankinp nrivileoe
be, and the same hereby is abolished from and
after the LIST day of July 1873 and that henceforth
All oihclal correspondence, of whatever nature
ana other malla0le matter sent from or addressed
to any officer of the Government or to any person
now authorized to frank such matter, shall be
EnafseaGle Win the same rates of postage may
DE lawfully imposed upon like matter sent by or
addressed to any other persons; Pfprided that no
compensation or allowance shall now or hsreaf-
ter, be made to Senator'S members and deIeoates
OF the House of Representatives on account Of
postage. ' VI
A st. Paul (Minn.) telegram OF the Dist
says the reported loss of life by tn, great
storm proves to have been greatly exacger-
ated. good many lives had been lost. an
a number Of persons had been more or less
crippled, but nothing like the terrible disas-
ter first reported.
The Susquehanna River was rising at Port
Deposit, Nd, on the 21st, and there was
over six feet of water in the streets. All
the houses on the river side had been de-
serted. Rain had been falling all day. Wo.
men and children had taken refuge on the
heights, where they built fires to keep from
ireezlng. Ice was gorged opposite the town,
aud piled up twenty five feet high
All post-oiiices having a daily mail are
hereafter TO be supplied with weather re-
ports issued by the Signal Service Office.
Frames are to be furnished, and postmasters
are instructed to display the reports publicly
in their offices, in order that all classes NAV
A New York dispatch of the oOtb COVE
'the full text of ths SANTANA purchase on.,
vention shows that the Company bas oh
tanned absolute sovereignty over the Pep;,
sula, with its inhabitants and private inter
ests., The sovereignty conceded to the
Comp.'ny is greater than that of the stats
of New York, or any other State in the
Union, for H. includes the right to levy and
collect custom duties, and to do many other
hings which can Lnly be done by a sover-
eign nation. Baez not only sells them these
extraordinary privileges, but he sells them