Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-20

nouncing that Henry Ward Beecher had com
mitted suicide. The report was extensively
circulated, and much confusion followed
! when it was ascertained that the report was
a hoax.
A brutal prize fight occurred near Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 18th, between Billy Ed
wards and Sam Collyer. Eleven rounds were
fought when ColIyer threw up the sponge,
Arguments in the railroad-injUnction suit
pending before the Wisconsin Supreme Court
closed on the 18th, and the case was taken
under advisement
| According to Memphis CTenn.) dispatch es
/ q war between the races was raging on the
/ 18th at Austin, Miss. The town was reported
| as surrounded by negroes who had threatened
| TO attack and destroy it. The whites were
/ hurryin@ to the rescue OF the beleaguered
town, and the besieging force Of blacks was
! receiving constant achievements. The
! cause Of the trouble was the shooting of
negro girl by one DIR. Smith Dispatches
state that he was attacked by a negro, when,
drawing pistol. he fired at him, but
missed, and killed a little negro Girl
who was standing near, which exasperated
the colored pec pie to such an extent that
they collected mob and took Smith to the
woods to hang him, but were dissuaded there
from by the entreaties of some white women.
On the night Of the 10th an attack was made
on body Of negroes, which resulted in the
killing of ten and the wounding of as many
more
At Rochester, \. Y, on the 18th, Goldsmith
Maid beat her previous unprecedented time
by three-quarters of a second, making her
mile in 2:143l. Not a skip was made during
the entire heat. The other heats were trotted
in 2:19H and 2:193l
An Omaha (Neb.) dispatch of the 18th says
that on the 9th company Of strolling In
dams camDed near a remote farmhouse in
Colfax County, Neb. Two squaws searched
the house for food and beat the farmers wife
over the head for Directing. The man came
home, and seeing his wife wounded, shot one
| of the squaws. The other reported the fact,
and twelve Indians came to the house,
skinned the farmer, and cut his hands off and
heart out in the presence Of his wife.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court adjourned
on the 18th for two weeks, when it was ex-
pected the decision in the railroad-inju
case would be rendered.
The President of the railroad between Phil
adelphia and Port Deposit has notified the
Postofffce Department that he will cease car
rying the mails over his road unless addition
al compensation is given. He is now receiy-
ing all the pay allowed by law for the mail
service on his road.
It is said the annual report Of the Depart
ment of Agriculture will probably not be pub
lished till after the meeting of Congress. The
appropriation for printing this report, con-
trary to precedent, is to be disbursed subject
to the order of the Commissioner and not Of
the public printer, as heretofore. The latter
refuses to print unless the appropriation is
placed to his credit, which the Commissioner
refuses to do.
A recent Washington dispatch says: Re
ports received by the authorities here show
that American iron shipbuilding is increasing
largely The Delaware ship-Yards in particu-
lar are employing large forces of wOrkmcn,
but are overtaXed with business, and are sew
eral months in arrears of orders. FOrty-tiyc
iron steamships are now building, forty OF
which are for the Reading Coal Road. Numer-
Gus other large orders have been given"
A Memphis dispatch of the 18th says the
recent trouble in Austin, Miss, was a trifing
affair During the entire disturbance only
one negro was killed and no white man was
even wounded. The colored men Of Mem
phis held a mass meeting on the night of the
18th and passed resolutions deprecating all
violence and conflict between the races.