Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-16
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but without success, the uniform answer
being that the institution had gone into
liquidation, and the Secretary had been in
structed to pay out no more money.
The dog that bit Mr.. William Mccormick,
of New York, who recently died of hydropho-
bia, has been found and positively identified,
and scientists who have examined him pro
nounce the dog perfectly healthy, and the
| theory is advanced that the bite OF any dog,
whether mad or otherwise, may cause hydro
| phobia.
| At East Cleveland, Ohio, few DAYS ago,
| Christina Ross, a servant girl, while endeavor-
| ing to replenish vapOr stove with some com
| bustible fluid, supposed to be gasoline, missed
her footing, and accidentally spilled some
of the liquid on the stove. The flames
| communicated to the measure contain
| ing the fluid, and enveloped her
person. Minnie Brammer, another do
nestle, in endeavoring to extinguish
the flames, set fire to her own clothing, and
both girls were burned so severely that they
died in a few hours after.
A recent Des Moincs Iowa dispatch says
the management of the Chicago, Rock Island
! d Pacific Railroad had determined to obey the
new law of Iowa for the regulation of passen-
ger and freight rates, as matter of expert
ment, they still denying the justice and con
stitutionality Of the law
! verdict was rendered by the CorOner's
| jury on the Mill River disaster on the 3D. It
censures the Legislature for Indifferent legis-
| Iation, the miIl-owners for their parsimOny,
| the engineers for blind and obscure directions,
the contractors for poor work, and the County
| Commissioners for accepting Il work so mani
| testify poor and insecure.
| A destructive fire occurred on the afternoon
| Of the 4th at Allegheny City, Pa, caused it
was supposed by tire-crackers. One hundred
houses were burned, and the total loss by the
| conflagraton was estimated at S250,000
Fire-crackcrs were the cause of destruc-
| tive cOnflagration at Pontiac, H., on the
morning of the 4th. Several Of the largest
! blocks in the town were consumed, involving
a loss Of S115,O00.
Judges Davis, Drummond and Hopkins, of
| the United States Court, have decided that the
Potter Railway law of Wisconsin is valid, and
denied the injunction sought by foreign stock
holders of the Northwestern Railway. An APP
peal was taken to the United States Supreme
Court Some of the collateral questions are
to be argued hereafter
The new bridge which spans the Mississippi
at st. Louis was formally opened to public
traffic on the 4th. The event was celebrated
with music, speeches, professions and fire
works.
4 half-doZcn boys celebrated the Fourth in
| Chicago by filling bottle with powder and
setting fire to it. The result was the killing
Of Gilbert McCune and the serious and proba-
bly, fatal wounding Of Willie and Werner
Schafer.
The Fourth was very generally celebrated all
| over the country. Orations were delivered by
| speakers of greater or less renown, and there
We're parades Of military, civic, and other or
| CARNATIONS, with the usual fatal accompani-
ments.
A Washington dispatch Of the 18th says that
of the ) per cent National Bank reserve re-
quired to be kept in the Treasury S9,OOO,OOO
had been received, which is one-half of the
total amount to be deposited under the new
law. Applications for bank charters had
reached s., 100000, and the circulation surren
dered S2,OOO,OOO
The Land Office heretofore kept at Lincoln
Neb., has, by direction of the President, been
removed to Bloomington, in the same State.
| A Washington dispatch of the 18th says the
new Commissioners of the District OF Column
bia had unanimously agreed upon 4 general
| system of retrcnchment.
On the 18th the Illinois Board of Railroad
| and Warehouse Commissioners reduced the
grain inspection fees throughout the State %
per cent and ordered that the word "new
shall be inserted in each certificate of inspec-
ton of newly-harvested crop of wheat, rye
and barley until the LIST day of September; of
oats until the 1st day of August, and of corn
until the Goth day of April of each wear.
According to dispatches received from the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs on the 18th, a
serious outbreak had occurred among the
Indians in the Indian Territory. The Chey
| ennes Comanches and Kiowas to the number
of 1000 had gone upon the war-path, and
were everywhere committing depredations at
| tended with unusual barbarities Five war
parties were thought to be moving from the
north fork of the Canadian River in the direc-
ton of the trail from the agency to Caldwell,
| Kan. The agent telegraphed that the Indians
had said they would clean out every white
man and rancho in that region An urgent
| demand had been made for troops with which
| to repel the marauders.
| \ Madison (Wis) dispatch of the Sth saws
! that on that morning the Acknowledgement
had filed i'll the Supreme Court of Wisconsin
bill in equity, complaining of violation of
the laws of the State regulating railroads by
the Chicago Il Northwestern and Chicago.
| Milwaukee Y st. Paul Railroads, and a peti
ton that they be enjoned BY the court to
obey said law so far as it had been held valid
by the late decision of the United States Cir
cult Court. An appeal from that decision had
been effected
The financial statement of the Illinois State
Treasurer shows that during tn, month Of
June the receipts were S330,0lS. 30. and tbe
disbursements S223, SG327
Information was received at CHEYENNE ~,
the Sth of a battle with the Sioux ahou+ sev
enty-five miles from Camp Brown. The 20
suit was the killing and wounding of fif+v In
dams and the capture of 100 horses Three
soldiers were killed and three wounded
A New York dispatch of the Sth saws tho
Golden Age of that date contained an editorial
haunting Plymouth Church with its continued
silence in respect to the Tilton- Beecher scan
dial. 1t concludes as follows: The fact ad-
mits of only one construction, and whoever
thinks, draws the inevitable conclusion. There
Is silence more oppressive and ominous than
| that of death. The American people now
| know what that silence is"
The great single scull race of five miles at
Springfield, Mass, between Brown, OF Halifax.
! and So, o,.4|o u.