Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-11-13

Five per cent bonds. ................ 4S9, 212 800
Total coin bonds. 81 723, $40 $50
| Lawful money debt. 14,67S, 600
Matured debt. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 14,226 $50
Legal tender notes. Observation-Disclosures. 361, 031 ,94S
Certificates of deposit ADMINISTRATIONS. S,S75,OOO
Fractional currency. 1855, 149
Com certlncates Observation-Disclosures. 2I,569 $50
Interest 81, zoe, 595
Total debt. s., 3334 212
Cash in Treasury
Coin ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ssa, s13, 5s1
Special deposits held for redemption
of certificates of deposit as provided
by .................... s,s75,0O
Total in Treasury. ............... $95 SEQ, 1856
Debt, less cash in Treasury 81 al e33 476
Increase during month. 3,039. 57S
Bonds issued to Pacific Railroad Com
panies, interest payable IN lawful
money, principal utstanding ..... "a 623. 572
Interest accrued and not yet paid. l,292, 40
Interest paid by United States. 90, Az $50
Interest repaid by transportation of
mails, etc. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 4,53s ,813
Balance of interest paid by United
States .........-..............S 15,W9, 112
The last rail on the International bridge,
| over the Niagara River at Buffalo, was laid
on the 1st, and train with officials passed
over the bridge on the Cd.
A Washington paper of the Sd says it had
been asserted that the house of Jay Cooke &
| Co., which borrowed from the First
| National Bank of that city nearly $780,
600, had since their failure withdrawn
| 100000 in railway bonds and de-
| posted them with the Secretary of the Treas
| ury security for $500, 900 advanced by the
| Secretary few days before their failure
| The creditors of the First National and Jay
e - NOT Nv ain ai
of this, saying they would like to know why
| the Government should be preferred cred
| tor. They say if the Cookies have $500, 600
it belongs to them, and the Government has
no right to deprive them of their pro rata
dividend.
| A Mrs. Schultz was burned to death at
Jesup, Iowa, a few evenings ago. by the over
turning of lamp.
The Trustees of the Illinois and Michigan
Canal, announced on the Sd that that water
course would be closed on the Goth of this
| month
The case Of Rafferty,, twice tried and con-
victed of murder for the shooting of Chicago
| policeman, has been remanded by the Supreme
| Court for another trial, on the ground that
| the Court below erred in ruling out the offer
| ing of the warrant with which the two police
men were seeking to arrest, as evidence and
all testimony in regard to it, the Supreme
| Court holding that, if the warrant or the serv-
ing CT it were illegal, then the offense was
manslaughter, and not murder.
Ex-Acting Mayor Cicallo, of Memphis (who
| officated during the illness of Mayor Johnson
has been accused of drawing supplies contrib
uted for the yellow-fever sufferers, on the pre-
tense that they were for widow lady, and
| then appropriating them to his own use A
| dispatch of the I'd says he had admitted the
facts charged, but would shield himself in the
law giving power to the Mayor to control the
distribution of the supplies. On learning that
| the matter would be made public, Cicallo took
an armful of ill-gotten articles to the lady's
house, and offered them to her, but she re-
| fused to take them.
A Selma, Ala, telegram of the Sd announces
that quarantine restrictions against all points
| had been removed.
A Washington dispatch of the 4th says At
torney General Williams had received tele-
| gram from Governor Kellogg saying that the
military in Grant Parish, La, aiding the civil
| authorities to arrest the perpetrators of the
Colfax massacre, did not arrive until after the
|
| place. The telegram also says that the latest
advices Indicate that the outrage is fabrica-
| ton" A New Orleans dispatch of the same date
says: "The account of the Grant Parish out
rage, telegraphed hence November l, as shown
by all accounts, was perpetrated after the ar
| rival there of the Mctropolitans, and had
been fully confirmed by the publication, in
Sunday papers, of the proceedings of the
public meeting held in Alexandria to consider
the subject The above facts should have
been known to Kellogg when he sent his
dispatch of the 4th to Acknowledgement
Williams"
The Comptroller of the Currency has called
| for statement of the condition of the Ma
tional Banks at the close of business on Octo-
Der Is and November l.
The report of the Commissioner of Pensions
shows that the names of 16, 4O5 new pensioners
had been added to the pension rolls during the
fiscal year ending June so, 1878, and 10, 223
names dropped for various reasons. The net
gain to the number Of pensioners was 6,1S2,
making the grand total of pensioners of all
classes 23S,411. The total annual amount of
pensions on the Both of June was SIC, 2259, 2S4.
A New York telegram of the 9Th says that
James ID. Centre, the eighth juror in the Stokes
| case, had been sentenced to thirty days i'm
prisohment and fine of $3.50, for a too free
use of his tongue while the trial was progress
ing.
The Illinois Railroad Commissioners are
| reported to have determined to bring suits
against the Chicago Northwestern and the
| Illinois Central Railroads for extortionate
charges.
| A convicted murderer named Wade was
hanged at Williamsport, Pa, on the 9th. Two
attempts at hanging were failures, owing to
the rope being too long. During the delay
| occasloned by these blunders on the part of
the sheriff, the wretched victim uttered the
most horrible blasphemies, mingled with
prayers for mercy. The third effort was sue
cess, the prisoners neck being finally broken.
at meeting in Philadelphia on the 7th, of
the Board of Directors of the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad, it was determined to declare scrip
dividend of five per cent, payable in or before
fifteen months, the Company having the op-
ton to redeem it in cash after the lapse of six
months. The scrip will be received at par in
payment of unpaid alotments. Colonel