Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-24

vile, Ind, struck few weeks ago. ne cIi
ployers subsequently hired several negroes t6
| take the place of the strikers. conflict re-
| Gently took place between the strikers and the
! colored laborers, in which firearms and Other
| deadly implements were freely used, and sew
| eral wounds were inflicted on both sides. Some
| of the wives and daughters of the strikers were
engaged in the mob. The troops at Indian
apolis were called out to quell the disturbance
| and several arrests have been made.
A new swinding dodge has been brought tC
| light in Washington. A man styling himself
''Rev. J. Hall Barney" with confederate
| named Sutton, has been sending circulars tc
Government employees, purporting to come
| from the White House, and bearing the name
| of General Babcock, soliciting {" contributions
| for suppressing election frauds, and to REIN
| burse the Treasury for money lent for election
purposes" Barney has been arrested.
News from Arizona to the 4tE is to the effect
that Major Randall, Twenty third Infantry,
| had attacked the tents of the Apaches on the
East Fork of the Verde, killed forty war
| riors, and captured a number of women and
| children. Propositions for the surrender OF
| large numbers of the worst Apaches in Ari-
| LOild Htt bCtll uidtlC W Slpoh
Announcement made on the 18th that
| the various through lines between Chicago and
New York had agreed upon a reduction in the
freight tariff, as follows: First-class, 81;
second-class, 80 cents; thrd-class, Is cents
fourth-class, 20 cents; special class, 10 cents
This is a reduction of % cents on the first
class; 20 cents on the econd-class; 10 cents
on the third-class, and cents on each of tn,
other classes. A further reduction was antici
pated on the full opening II navigation.
destructive fire has vently occurred at
Chicopee, Mass, two large cotton mills and
5000 bales of cotton being burned. Loss Over
100000, Eight hundred hands were thrown
out of employment by this fire,
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts, ha.
sustained the validity of the blanks used by
telegraph companies, in an action brought tc
| recover damages for the non -dclivcry of an UNI
| repeated day message, written upon the usua
! blank of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany. The court held, in effect, that the com
pany assumed no responsibility for dispatches
| not insured or repeated.
Attorney General Williams, in Washington
| received Il dispatch on the 18th from J. K
| DtthNlt1, jnlttu SldltS ATTORNEY at New
| Orleans, stating that Deputy Marshal De
| klyne had returned from Cofax. According
| to his statment, the details of the recent dis
| turbance there are horrible. The whites Of
Grant Parish ''attempted to GUST he incum
| bent parish officers by force, and failed, The
| Sheriff protecting the officers with coloret
| posse. Several days afterwards, recruits from
| other parishes, to the number of 800. came t.
| the assistance of the assalants, when they
demanded the surrender of the colored people
| This was refused. An attack was made, anC
| the negroes were driven into the Court
| House The Courthouse was fred, and tn,
| negroes slaughtered as they left the burning
building After resistance had ceased, sixty
| five negroes, terribly mutilated, were founC
dead near the ruins of the Courthouse. Thir
~, known to have been taken prisoners, are
said to have been shot after the surrender ant
thrown III the river Two Of the assailant.
were wounded Attorney General William.
telegraphed back TO Mr.. Bcckwith as follows
You are instructed to make a thorough inves
ugatiOn of the affairs in Grant Parish and, il
you find that the laws of the United State
have been violated, you will spare no pains nol
expense to cause the guilty parties to be ar
rested and punished, and if military aid i.
necessary to execute any United States process
you will call on General Emory for that pur
pose, who has been instructed to furnish it,
News from the Modoc seat of war TO the 1Stl
states that after three days hard fighting the
stronghold Of the MOd0cs had been captured
and Captain Jack and his band had fed to the
hills southeast of the Lava-Bcd, the cavalry
being in hot pursuit. Five of the Government
troops were killed and ten wounded.
The Grand Jury of Woodford County, Hi
| nois, has failed to find an Indictment against
Mrs. Workman, the Eureka murderess, for the
killing of Mrs. Hedges. The vote stood three
for and nineteen against bill