Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-05-29

broken open and rifled by the mob few weeks
ago. He holds that, as the city had no police
available at the time, it is not responsible.
| President Grant issued the following procla-
nation on the 22d:
WHEREAS Under the pretence that William T;
Kellogg, the present Executive of Louisiana, ana
the officers associated with him in the State al
ministration, not duly elected, certain turbu-
| lent and disorderly persons have combined TO,
gether with force and arms to resist the laws ana
| constituted authorities Of said State; and,
| WHEREAS, 1t has been duly certified by the pro
per local authorities, and judically determined by
the inferior and superior Courts OF SAID state that
| the same officers ale entitled to hold their offices
| respectively and execute and discharge the rune
| tons thereof: and
| WHEREAS Congress- at the last session, upon due
| consideration of the subject, tacltly recognized
said Executive and his associates, then as now in
office, by refusing to take any action with respect
| thereto; and,
| WHEREAS 1t is provided in the Constitution of
the United States that the United States shall pro-
tect every State in this Union application OF the
| Legislature of the Executive when the Leglsla-
| ture cannot be convened against domestic violence
| and
| WHEREAS 1t is provided in the laws of the Unit
! ed States that in all of Insurrection III any
State of obstruction to the laws thereof it shall
be lawful for the President of the United States on
application of the Legislature of such State, or the
| Executive when the Legislature cannot be cOnven-
| ed, to call for the military of any other State or
States, employ such part of the land and naval
forces shall be judged necessary for the purpose
| of suppressing such instructions or causing the
| laws to be duly executed, and,
! WHEREAS, The Legislature of said State is not
now in session, and cannot be convened in time to
meet the present emergency, and the Executive OF
| said State. under Sec. of Art. of the Consttu-
| ton of the United States and the laws passed IN
pursuance thereof, has therefore made application
| to me for such part of the military force of the
United States may be necessary and adequate TO
protect such State and citizens thereof against
| domestic Violence and to enforce the execution of
| the laws and
| WHEREAS 1t is required that whenever it may be
| necessary in the Judgment of the President to use
military force for the purpose aforesaid, he shall
| forthwith, by proclamation, command such 1nsur-
gents to dsperse and retire peaceaby to their re-
| spectiye homes within limited time; now, there
| fore.
! [, Ulysses s Grant. President Of the United
States do hereby make proclamation and com
mand the said turbulent and disorderly persons to
| disperse and retire peacefully to their re-
| spective abodes within twenty days from
| this date, and hereafter to submit them
selves to the laws and constituted authorities Of
| said State and invoke the aid and cooperation
of all good citizens thereof TO uphold the law, and
preserve the public peace.
In witness whereof | have hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal of the United States to be
affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this I'D day of
May, in the year of our Lord 1873, and the hide
pendencc OF the United States the nlnety-seyenth
U. S. GRANT
BY the President:
j. G. BANCROFT DAVIS, Acting Secretary of State
According to Washington dispatch of the
22d, the Quartermaster General, who has
charge of all National cemeteries, had stated
that they had not been placed under the sole
charge of the Grand Army on Decoration day,
but that all organized professions or parties
desiring to take part in the ceremonies would
be admitted.
"The New York 4 Chicago Railway Com
pany' is the title OF a new railway company
just formed, with capital stock of s., $500 600
1t is a consolidation of several companies
which have already constructed the whole or
part of their roads in Indiana, Ohio, etc.
News received from the Modoc war on the
23d, announces the surrender to General Davis
of tifty-siX men, women and children Of Cap
tain Jacks tribe, including fifteen warriors,
among the number "Hooka JIM" Bogus
Charley" ''Shack nasty jim Curly head
Doctor Prank and others, the best fight
ing men Captain Jack had. Captain jack S
whereabouts were unknown. 1t was thought
he had twenty warriors with him, and was in
the Pit River Mountains.
News was received in Washington on the 23d
that Colonel Mckenzie had made an attack on
the camp of the kickapoo and Upon Indians,
about eighty miles from Fort Clark, Texas
The Indian loss nineteen killed and two
wounded, and former chief Of the Lipons
and forty-one women and children were
captured, besides two villages and accumu-
lated property destroyed. Colonel Mckenzie 5
loss was three men wounded, one mortalIy.
\ Washington special to a New York paper
says the President had stated that Col. Me
Kenze's raid against the Indians into Mexican
territory was made in pursuance Of orders, and
that our Government is determined to stop
outrages on the Texas frontier at all hazards.
\ most terrific tornado passed over portion
of Washington County, Iowa, on the afternoon
of the 22d, tearing down houses and fences,
uprooting trees, and scattering destruction
| along its pathway. A dispatch from Wash
ington says that the whirwnd was about half
a mile in width and that it rcsembled
a huge balloon in shape a num-
| Der Of persons were killed by falling timbers,
and by being caught up by the storm and
dashed violently to the earth. The damage to
property is immense. The tornado tore a
schoohouse to pieces, and carried girl four
teen years of age, about a quarter of a mile
away When found she was smashed to a
Jelly. Miss Smith, the teacher, and six or eight
scholars were hurt, some badly. Eight per
sons We're known to have been killed.