Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-23

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total loss was estimated at 100000
According to St. Paul dispatches of the 18th
the grasshoppers in Southwestern Minnesota
had been lately reinforced by swarms from the
short-grass prairies of Northern Minnesota
and Northern Dakota In Manitoba, in the
vicinity Of Fort Garry, they had destroyed ali
growing crops.
On the afternoon of the 18th, during heavy
rain-storm, the roof of the Hovey Block, in
Cleveland Ohio, fell in, causing the death of
| one man and the serious injury of two others
The 18th was celebrated by the Orangemen
of New York and vicinity without interfer-
ence.
The New York bank statement Of the 18th
| shows gain of s5,500000 in specie, -, 5000
in deposits, and a decrease Of 100000 in
greenbacks.
A destructive fire occurred in Streator, H.,
on the morning of the 18th, which consumed
large portion of the business part of the
| city
A Springfield (AIass.) dispatch of the 18th
| says that, on the afternoon of that day, the
| paymaster's train Of the Fitchburg Railroad,
consisting Of an engine and one passenger
car, had been thrown from an embankment
| near ShelbuIne Falls, Mass, fifteen feet high.
There were nine persons on board, all Of
| whom were more or less hurt.
A genuine ease of Asiatic cholera occurred
| in Louisville, KY, lately.
On the 18th two reservoirs in the town Of
Chester, Hampden Co, Mass, gave way, and
| swept the valley below Of bridges, mills and
dwellings, causing a loss of about 5350,O00.
| No lives were lost.
| fire broke out in Oshkosh, Wis, on the
afternoon of the 14th, which before it was eX-
| tfnguished burned over strip two miles long
! and one mile wide The loss is estimated all
the way from 100000 to S1,0OO,OO0. One-haIf
of the business portion of the city is gone and
one-quarter of the residence portion. Several
deaths are reported, among which is that of
". P Taylor, the City Treasurer who died
overwork while striving to stay the ravages
Of the flames
An incendiary fire was started on the after
noon of the 18th, in a rag-pickers' shop at
No. 527 South Clark street, Chicago, which,
before midnight, had burned over sixty acres
of territory, destroyed over 1000 houses and
rendered 5000 persons homeless. A stiff wind
was blowing from the southwest, similar in
intensity to the wind that prevailed on the
day of the great fire in 1871, and
burning cinders were carried a long
distance, setting on fire several
structures in advance of the point where the
fire originated, and where it was sought to be
confined. The territory burned over en-
braced that portion of the South Division "
ing between Twelfth and Van Buren, streets
and Clark street and the lake. A portion of
this was covered with the shantes and wood
en- buildings saved from destruction in the
previous great fire, although toward the last
the progress Of the fire in northeasterly
direction brought several of the finest
structures in the city within the line of de-
struction. Among the more important build
ing destroyed were the Olivet Baptist Church;
First Baptist Church; Adelphi Theater;
Michigan Avenue Hotel; St. James Hotel;
Inter-O Oceanic buildings; German Evangelical
Church; two Jewish synagogues; the Post
office; the offices of the FtreSjde Friend, Nelc
Coye,,a,,t and Northwestern Lenude,moan; the
Jones School building; the Con
tincntaI; Woods Hotel, and yari-
Gus business structures. The total loss
was variously estimated from 100000 to
$7000,00o. Several persons were killed.
Three engines belonging to the Fire Depart
ment were burned.
The business portion of the village of Iowa
Falls, Iowa, was burned on the afternoon of
the 18th. FOrty-fiye buildings were destroyed,
inhicting a loss of about S130,000.
The official returns of the vote on the Con-
stitutional Convention in Arkansas foot up as
follows: For the convention, so, 259; against,
8,6O7. Of the 81 delegates elected, 20 are
Democrats and Conservatives.
At the intercollegiate regatta held at Sara
toga on the 18th the crew from Princeton won
in the siX-oared race, and the Yale boat was
victorious in the single-scull race.
The losses of the various insurance compa-
MES by the fire in Chicago on the 18th are
said by the Tribune of the 10th to aggregate
s., 3S1, 400
Another fire broke cut in Chicago on the
18th, at the corner of Milwaukee avenue and
Morgan street, in the West Division. About
block was burned over. Loss not exceeding
100000.
Treasury gold sold in New York on the 10th
at 1O9.77. The aggregate bidding was 81, 1885,
600
An Omaha (Neb.) dispatch of the 10th re-
ports that on the day previous immense clouds
vi SidSSlIOppCIS Ildu dllSulCu near columbus,
doing considerable damage, and that they
were moving eastward.
Up to the 10th the Comptroller of the Cur
rency had received applications aggregating
S4OOO,0O0 from the West and South for por-
tions of the National Bank currency to be re-
distributed.
On the 10th, at East Saginaw, Mich, Gold
smith Maid trotted three straight heats in
2:1924, 2:1619 and 2:16, being not only the
three fastest consecutive heats on record, but
two heats the slower of which was better
than the best time ever made by any trotting
horse in America or elsewhere
The total insurance loss by the recent fire
at Oshkosh, Wis, is stated to be S251 800
A dispatch from Tiskilwa, H., of the nth
says that one-third of the town had been
burned. Loss not stated.
PERSONAL.
Gen. W. s. Hillyer. formerly Provost-Mar-
shall on the staff of Gen. Grant, died in Wash
ingtOn on the 18th.
On the 18th Theodore Tilton addressed a
letter to Mr.. Beecher's committee engaged
in Investigating charges preferred by him,
stating that he should prepare a full and de-
tailed statement " of such facts as are within
my knowledge touching matters which COM
promise the character Of Rev Henry Ward
Beecher.
Gov. Caldwell, Of North Carolina died on