Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-09-24
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The Commissioner of the Pension Office has
decided as preliminary to the consideration
Of claims under the act Of June Is, 1874, for q
pension of $50 per month, alleging perma-
nent and total disability, the applicant must
present evidence showing conclusively that he
requires the regular aid and attendance of
another person.
A St. Paul telegram of the 18th says Gen.
Clusters final official report to Gen. Terry re-
capitulates his former statements and takes
strong ground in favor of the immediate open
ing Of the Black Hills for military reasons.
Tt indorses the report of the gold discoveries
and suggests further explorations next sea-
son. Nevertheless, Prof Winchen and Prof.
Donaldson assert that Custer does not know
of his own knowledge that any color of gold
was found in the Black Hills
The particulars of the recent revolution in
Louisiana will be found in another column.
The Indian agent ut Ponce Reservation,
D. T., states that a party of Indians recently
arrived from Spotted Tails agency, near the
head Of White River, and brought the report
that white men were coming into the Black
Hills in large numbers from Montana and
other Territories.
the 18th, reciting the recent revolutionary
proceedings in Louisiana, and stating that
the Executive of the State the Legislature
not being in session, had made APP
plication for Federal aid to protect
the State and citizens thereof against
domestic violence, and concluding as
follows: CHOW, therefore, I, U. S. Grant,
President of the United States, do hereby
make proclamation and command said turbu-
lent and disCrderly persons to disperse and
retire peacefully to their respective abodes
within five days from this date, and hereafter
to submit themselves to the laws and consti-
tuted authorities of said State. I invoke the
aid and cooperation of all good citizens
thereof to uphold the law and preserve the
public peace"
According to Washington dispatches of the
18th orders had been issued for troops to hold
themselves in readiness in case they were re-
quired to proceed to New Orleans. Three war
vessels had been ordered to proceed from Kew
West at once.
A Wellsboro (Pa.) dispatch of the nth says
the bank in that place had been robbed by
five men, who bound and gagged the Cashier
and his family and then forced him to oper
the safe, from which they took $4,000.
A special from Trenton Tenn, says that Oh
the 10th forty indictments had been found
against parties supposed to have been con
cerned in the recent massacre of persons il
Gibson County.
Washington dispatch of the nth says
Atty.-Gen. Williams had received a large
number of letters from United States Mar
shals, Attorneys and others, representing
terrible state of affairs in some portions o
Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi
and Louisiana. There was not so much dis
turbance as heretofore in South Carolina
Correspondents say that there was no safet,
for colored people. There were no complaints
from Texas, North Carolina and Virginia.
President Grants represented to have said
in conversation on the 18th, that he believed
all serious trouble in Louisiana was over
and expressed the hope that the business
aspect would be fully resumed in New Orlean
and elsewhere in the State. He was gratifet
on learning that there had been no contiic
whatever between the Federal and Stat
troops, and that the General Government ha,
not been forced to extreme measures.
BY direction of the President, Adjt.-Gen
townsend sent a telegram to Gen. Emory o.
the 18th, approving of all the acts of the lat
Ter, except so far as they named Col. Brook
to command the city of New Orleans.
would have been better to have named hin
commander of the United States forces i
that city. The reinstatement of the kellogg
government at all hazards was ordered in thi
dispatch.