Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-02-19

women, and the prospect is that this will
soon become one Of the most powerful and
effective temperance movements ever inaugu-
rated in this country
The committee to investigate the condition
of the homesteaders in Northwestern Iowa
have recently returned to Des Moines. In the
counties of Lyon, Sioux, O'Brien and Osceola
there is great restitution, and. unless relief
| be speedily granted, there will be much suffer-
ing, and many must leave their claims.
The Boston School Board has, after long
debate, refused to reconsider their unfavorable
action relative to the admission of ladies to
membership. The vote stood So in favor to
g. against.
The Board of Navigation Commissioners at
Washington have adopted resolutions favor.
| ing the opening up and improvement of the
great water lines, and denouncing what they
| term ''the false cry of economy"
Washington telegram of the 18th says
! Secretary Fish was emphatic in denouncing as
untrue the statement of the Paris Paty5e that
'sharply-worded notes have recently been ex-
changed between the Governments of Ger
many and the United States" nor was the Ger
man Minister aware of any subject for the oc-
casion of unkind feeling between the two
countries.
Secretary Richardson has reported to the
United States Senate, in response to their in
quiry, that twill take four years to have silver
enough coined by the mint to replace the
fractional currency.
At meeting in New York city on the 10th
of the Cheap Transportation Association, in
formation was given that peoples freight
road" would soon be built across the CONT
| nent which would be managed in the inter
ests of the people. After the work shall be
fairly begun it will be completed in three
years.
Several so-styled Doctors in Chicago have
been arrested and held to bail in the sum Of
So, 600 each on the charge of publishing and
circulating obscene literature through the
mails
Letters from Fort Laramie, received in
Omaha on the 18th, say that Lieutenant Rob-
inson and Corporal Coleman, in charge of
lumber train were killed by Indians on the
9th, twelve miles east of Laramie Peak, on the
Cottonwood. Their bodies were recovered on
the 10th, riddled with bullets and scalped.
dispatch from Cheyenne of the 11th says it
was thought that the Indians had agreed upon
general uprising along the Platte. The
agent at Red Cloud reported to General Ord
on the 18th that Miniconia Indian on the Sth
had shot and killed his chief clerk, Frank
Appleton. Agent Howard, from the Spotted
Tail agency, has written that several large war
parties had left, it was feared to go upon the
War-path.
The National Grange of the Patrons of
Husbandry on the 18th adopted platform of
principles in which they announce the pur-
poses and objects of the Order A memorial
to the Patrons of Husbandry in the Cotton
States was also adopted, declaring in favor of
mixed husbandry in the South, instead of ex-
pending the energies of the people in raising q
single crop.
A Springfield Qll) dispatch Of the 18th says
about eleven railway companies were running
under the schedules of the State Board of
Railway and Warehouse Commissioners. Not
all of these had formally notified the Board of
their acceptance, but had quietly altered their
own rates to suit. The Toledo, Wabash &
Western had signified its intention to reduce
| its passenger rates to three cents per mile,
the Board rate, being nearly two cents less
| than it wanted to charge.
| The praying temperance movement in Ohio
was progressing notably on the 18th. Strong
demonstrations were made in Xenia and
| Columbus. In the latter city the ladies were
| preparing for a determined onslaught upon
the Legislature. Cincinnati dispatch says
| the reports for Southern Ohio and Indiana
showed no abatement of enthusiasm in this
woman's temperance crusade. Everywhere
there was an abundance of faith in its ultimate
triumph. In Shelbyville, Ind, a lively antago-
nism had developed. The saloon-keepers
served written notice on the ladies that they
would hold them responsible for loss of bust
ness, and the next day an immense meeting
was held and an incorporated company organ
lied, with 100000 capital, to fight the liquor
traffic legally, if other means fail. The ladies
then prepared reply to the paper of the sa-
oon-keepers, charging them with destroying
! the business of the community, exhausting re-
| sources, adding to taxes, and increasing crime,
and defending their right to pray for the re-
moval of such an evil.
| The War Department in Washington, on the
18th, received official adyices confirming the
accounts of the murder of Lieutenant Robin
| son and Corporal Coleman by the Indians. A
dispatch was received by the Commissioner of
| Indian Affairs from E. A. Howard. of the
| w LStStOut ASGuCy, udl6u feDrutry y, stating
that in view of late Indian outrages he was
compelled to ask for military protection. The
| Commissioner replied that every protection
would be afforded, and application was made
to the War Department for this purpose.
! The January circular of the National
! Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry saws
| there had been an increase, since the middle
| of December, of 1866 Oranges, and the whole
number is now over 1000. The largest in
crease took place in the former slave States,
where sos new Oranges were formed, against
459 in the Western States. The national
membership of the Oranges now numbers
10000.
In the National Grange, on the 18th, Mrs
Taylor, of South Carolina, was elected as
| Pomona, in place of Mrs. Kelley, resigned,
and Mrs. Moore, of Florida, as Flora, in place
of Mrs. Abbott. A resolution was adopted,
" That it is the sense of the National Grange
that the expression interested in agricultural
pursuits in article five of the Constitution,
means engaged in agricultural pursuits, and
having no interest in conflict with our pur-
pose"
| Governor Woodson, of Missouri, on the
18th offered reward of So, 600 apiece, dead or
alive, for the men who robbed the passengers,
express, and mail on the Iron Mountain Rail-
/ way train, at Gadshill, on the 31st ult. In ad-
| ton to this it is understood the Governor of
Arkansas has offered $4,000 and the Post
! Office Department $50 ualxincr az, accommodate