Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-02

man Dan Matte, cabin-boy unknown and
three colored firemen.
In a recent fight with Missouri out
laws, John W. Whicher, a detective who
had traced the James brothers to their
hiding place in Clay County, was cap
tured, led into the public highway and
brutally murdered. On the same day
three detectives encountered the Younger
brothers in St. Clair County, and a shooting
ARRAY followed, in which John Younger was
killed and jim Younger badly wounded in the
breast. The casualties on the part of the de-
tectives were, one man killed, one seriously
wounded and one escaped. On the 23d Gov.
Woodson sent message to the Legislature
detailing the facts in relation to the outlaws.
so far as known, and calling upon that body to
appropriate money to enable him to extermi-
nate them.
The extradition treaty between the United
States and Ecuador was officially proclaimed
at Washington on the 25th, and is to continue
in force for ten years.
Several buildings in Mott Haven, n. Y,
were destroyed by fire few nights ago, and
in one Of them Mrs. Burns and her three chill
dren were burned to death. Her husband and
two children escaped.
On the Oath the Indians made an attack on a
rancho at Scott's Bluffs, Neb., killing one man
and running off several horses. The Sioux at
Fort Laramie and the other Sioux agencies
were reported sullen and discontinued. 1t
was thought they contemplated immediate
hostilities. Red Cloud and Spotted Tail were
among those declared unfriendlY.
The printers strike at New Orleans was
ended on the 18th, the union men resuming
work or the Picayune, Republican and Times
at sixty cents per 1000. The Bee had a full
complement of non-union men, and would
probably retain them.
An unknown, good-looking young woman
visited fruit and liquor store in Brook
lyn, N z, few days ago, and in
quired of the proprietor if praying bands could
use his saloon, explaining that she was a COM
mittee of one appointed to make such inquiries
She was informed that praying band would
be subjected to no indignity, provided the SER
vices were properly conducted. Subsequently,
however, to the horror of the proprietor, she
appeared again at the store, and, as before,
unattended. It was the busiest part of the
day, and many custo mers were in the place.
Not at all abashed, though, she walked calmly
through the store and installed herself behind
the bar. The astonished barkeepers paused
in their work, and the thirsty customers
looked on in amaZement. Not noticing
the flutter she had occasioned, the Young
woman composed herself, and broke out
into an earnest prayer, much to the edifca-
ton of the crowd, and to the evident dis
comfort of the proprietor. She finished her
prayer, which was a long oHe, and walked
calmly out of the place and disappeared as
as she had come, leaving the
multitude agape with establishment and the
proprietor perfectly bewildered.
A number of gentlemen in New York who
are really and zealously in earnest in their eff
forts to restore the practice of burning the
dead instead of burying them are contem-
plating large meeting or some other form of
demonstration before the public.
A dispatch from Marion, N. c., says the
shocks on Bald Mountain were more violent
on the night of the 25th than at any previous
time since the commencement of the volcanic
disturbance.
As member of the praying league at Rich
mond, Ind, was about to engage in prayer on
the 25th, at saloon, the proprietor presented
a bill against her son for forty drinks. She
paid the bill-$4-took a receipt, and said:
3" Now, friend, l shall indict thee on forty
charges of selling to my son, who is a minor
Two colored men were hanged in Sumter,
S. c., on the 9th, and white man in Abbeys-
vile, all for murder.