Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06

lence, depth and impetuosi$s. The people of
portion of the place were hemmed in. Every
moment houses were tesn from their founda>
tons and swept away, with their occu-
pants. Ropes were procured, line was
formed, and brave men, thus protected,
dashed into the tecrent and saved many lives.
Three Cinnamon We're lost. The part of the
town devoted 10 dance-houses and other
places of amusement was destroyed. The
flood lasted Only half an hour. Dispatches
of the Both announce the finding Of a5oat
twenty bodies, and several were missing who
were supposed to have been drowned.
An Oshkosh (Wis.) dispatch OF the 18th
SAYS that the storm Of the night of the 26th
had caused great devastation and the loss of
several lives near Steyensville and Horton
vile, north of that point. The crops had been
Frustrated over a large extent of territory.
Dispatches dated Bismarck, July p, have
been received from Gen. Custer, commanding
the Black Hills expedition. The command
was moving steadily forward ana was in good
health and spirits. Hostile Indians were hoy
ering about the column.
The President on the 27th issued his procla-
nation Tatifyng the eXtradition treaty with
u ulSO. LtlC tOIIllClNC
and navigation with the same Government.
Pittsburgh (Pa.) dispatches of the 2Sth say
that the loss of life by the late flood exceeds
the estimate heretofore given.
A New Orleans dispatch of the 2Sth says a
serious accident had occurred on the Mobile
& New Orleans Railway, near the former city,
caused by switch being left open. The en-
gineer and fireman were killed, and several
seriously injured
A band Of fifty Indians, Kiowas and Co.
manches, on the 2Ist attacked and killed five
men near the moath,of Ute Creek.
Washington dispatch of the 29th says that
the aggregate number of Oranges in the
United States isabout 10000 On the LIST day
of June Iowa had 1894; Indiana, 1865; Mis-
souri, /, 929; Kansas, ,@21; Illinois, ,4S1, and
Kentucky 1,1OI The cotton and gulf States
alone had 4,065 Oranges. There are now
Oranges in all the States and about thirty in
the Canadas-
A Washington telegram of the 30th says
that GOV. AInes, Of Mississippi, having re-
turned to his post, had written to the War
Department that he entirely conceded with
the Lieutenant-Go Governor in his view of the
necessity of troops to maintain order at
Vcksburg.
A Galveston telegram of the 30th says that
a fight had recently occurred near Jacksboro,
Tex, between the Montague Rangers and
q company of the Tenth United States
Cavalry and a large body of Indians.
The Rangers lost twelve killed and sew
eral wounded, and the cavalry several
killed including the commander, and
a large number wounded. The report adds
that the combined forces had been driven
back to JacEsboro. The Indians numbered
500
The Tooth anniversary Of the discovery of
oxygen by Joseph Priestly was celebrated at
Northumberland, Pa, on the 31st ult. A
large number. Of scientific men participated in
the ceremonies.
A Westchester Pa.) dispatch of the 31st
ult says that petitions had been numerously
| signed in that region praying for pardon or
a Communication Of the death sentence in the
case of Udderzool.
| On the 1st the Secretary of the Treasury
called in for payment S25, 100000 of 5-20 bonds
of the issue known as the third series, act OF
| Feb %, 1862, dated May l, 1862