Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-17

the falling of the east wall of Ponds house
The persons killed were 7. n. Pond and three
of his employees, named Pendergast, Irainor
and Neff, Mrs. Steiger and her two children.
One the men rescued from the ruins would
probably die.
A few mornings ago the dead body OF Mrs.
Elizabeth Hedges was found in Eureka, III, in
a badly mutlated condition, the face and neck
| having been torn by hogs. Mrs. Hedges was
ITbost thirty six years of age, and was an ac-
tive member ofAhe NJ. E. Church. An inves-
tigation showed that she had been murdered.
A letter was found on her person, without date
or signature, the purport OF which was that
| Abraham of old had more than one wife,
and Solomon had numerous concubines. This
letter was traced to the Rev. L. Z. Workman,
pastor of the church of which the deceased
| was a member. Belief was entertained that
Mrs. Workman had ip fit of jealous rage as
sailed and murdered Mrss Hedges, and the cor
| oner's Jury rendered verdict TO that effect.
Much excitement was caused by this 'terrlble
! tragedy, as all the parties concerned stood
high in the community. Mr.. Workman,
while admitting the authorship of the letter
| found on the corpse, and also of two or three
| others of a similar import afterwards brought
| to light denies that any criminal intimacy had
existed between himself and the murdered
| woman. Mrs. Workman, after her arrest, ex-
hibited signs of being insane.
| An Omaha dispatch of the 9Th says the tide
of immigration through Omaha to the West
| continued undated, and has never been
equaed since the completion of the Union and
| Central Pacific Railroads.
| A law has been passed by the Massachusetts
Legislature providing that eggs must be sold
| by weight and that the standard weight of
dozen of eggs shall be one pound and eight
ounces
1t is stated by the Peoria Democrat OF the
9TH, that Mrs. Workman, the wife of the
Eureka Methodist minister, had confessed hay
ing killed Mrs Hedges, at Eureka, and she did
it in self-defense The general feeling was
| that Mrs. Workman was driven frantic by her
discovery of her husbands too intimate rela-
tons with the widow Hedges, and in fit Of
desperation, killed the supposed cause of her
| domestic misery.
| At fire in San Francisco on the night of the
It'll, the son and daughter of John O. Day were
| burned to death.
| A Washington dispatch of the Sth announces
that the Treasury Department had commenced
| paving the cotton claims filed under the act of
Nav u.s. 1872 Over 1000 claims have been
presented, covering over s6,0o0,000 More
than one-half of them will be rejected on ac-
count of insufficient proof. The claims being
paid are for the cotton seized by the Govern
ment agents after June, 1865.
| The spring freshets have caused considerable
damage throughout nearly all the Northern
States especially in the Eastern and Middle
| States where the streams have been swollen TO
| an unusual height. The dam at Ramshorn
Pond, West Milbury, Mass, 500 feet long, was
washed away on the 9th carrying off two
| houses for some distance, and causing other
| damage. At Wilkes Barre, Pa, the Susque-
hanna was twenty three feet above low water
mark The Mohawk River reached an unusual
height causing great damage to the tracks of
| the New York Central Railroad, and tempo
rarily obstructng the running of trains The
high water in the Delaware also caused much
trouble along the line of the Erie Railway.
The employees of the New York Gas Compa-
nv were on a strike on the It'll leaving a large
part of the city in darkness in the evening. On
the Sth the strikers made demonstration on
the Manhattan Gas Works, on the Tenth ave-
nue. side but the attacking party was repulsed
|
made, but the police were on the alert and the
strikers were forced to desist, after several of
them had been roughly handled by the police.
At Rochester, n. Y, on the 18th, the foun-
dation wall on the river side, on Front street,
of the new city building for police and fire de-
partments went out when about twenty or
thirty persons were upon it looking at the
river. 1t was estimated by an eyewitness that
ten or fifteen were carried into the river and
swept over the high falls.
At East Liberty, Pa, recently, nearly ], 200
hogs, 200 cattle and large number of sheep
were found smothered to death on live stock
train which had arrived there from Chicago.
Valuable coal discoveries are announced as
having been made about eighty miles south of
| Lincoln, Nebraska A fourfoot vein of fine
coal had been found.
At Middletown, Conn, on the 9th a nearly
completed brick building, known as the
shepard Block fell in, burying under the
ruins some fifteen men, several Of whom were
killed. and others more or less injured.
A meeting of prominent railroad men was
held at the Sherman House, Chicago, on the
10th, having for its object the adjustment of
| freights and fares on the roads centering in
that city.
A New York telegram Of the 10th says:
| professor Cantel A Bigie, Of the Wisconsin
University, failed to keep his appointment yes
terday, to fly from the pinnacle of the Trinity
Church steeple to Bowling Green, dsappOint-
| ing thousands of scientists and patrons of
science who had congregated on the streets
and house-tops in the neighborhood, in response
to a special invitation. In the light of the dis
appointment, they are now able to syllable the
Professors name"
The Secretary of the Interior at Washington
received letter on the 10th from the Modoc
Peace Commissioner Meacham in which
Meacham says the principal impeachment to
peace negotiations was the fear that the In
dams indicted by the Jackson County Grand
Jury would be given up for punishment The
Peace Commissioners and military were, how
ever, working together tremendously to over
come the distrust of the Modocs, but diff
Guilty was encountered from the Intervention
of bold, bad white men, who, from mer-
cenary motives desired prolongation of the
war. +
dispatch of the 10Th says timber conha-
grafton was raging on all sides of Gordons-
vile, Va, and the entire population was panic
stricken, and some families were leaving their
homes to avoid destruction.
A State Cranrp Convention of the Patrons