Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-03

A frightful avalanche recently oc-
CURED at Mount St Bernard. Eleven
persons persisted.
A deputation from ffty-two chambers
of commerce waited upon Lord Derby
on the 25th to protest against the pro-
posed reciprocity treaty between Canada
and the United States. On the 25th the
rhinoceros at the London Geological
Gardens fatally gored two of his keepers.
A fire recently occurred at Cronstadt.
Russia, which burned over fifteen squares
of ground and consumed the residences
of about $4,000 persons.
The latest reports from Irun represent
the Carlists as within 500 yards of the
Notifications.
The General Grand Chapter of Royal
Arch Masons, recently in session at
Nashville, Tenn, elected and installed
the following officers: John Frizzell, of
Tennessee, Deputy General Grand High
Priest; R. F. Bower Low, of Louisiana,
Grand King; John McClelland, of Massa-
chusetts, Grand Treasurer; G. G. Fox, of
New York, General Grand Secretary;
Henry Bostwick, General Grand Royal
Arch Captain.
There was a convention of leading
members Of the Independent party in
Indiana at Indianapolis on the 25th, at
which a declaration of principles was
adopted-favoring new political organ
ization and advocating the withdrawal
from circulation of all National and
State bank notes and the issuing of paper
money by the Government directly to
the people, such money to be legal ten
der for public and private debts, includ-
ing duties ON imports. A National Ex-
ecutive Committee was appointed
At its recent session the Indiana State
Grange adopted resolution I" that the
State Grange, in council assembled, has
no sympathy with any past, present, or
future attempt that may be made by any
political party or political aspirant to
absorb little reflected warmth, decency,
or support by persistently calling and
publishing their meetings at the same
time and place of ours, and that decent
respect for our Order requires that such
attempts be suitably rebuked by pub
fishing this resolution"
Wesley Underwood, convicted MUIR
derer, hung himself in the Palmyra (Mo)
jail on the night of the Gath. He was
+O boyya baaO hI1nU or, tho 0-th
A recent decision of the Indiana Su-
preme Court declares that colored chill
dren are not entitled to public school
benefits, on the ground that at the time
of the adoption of the State Constitution
colored people were not citizens. In the
opinion of the court the Fourteenth
Amendment, subsequently adopted does
not supersede this provision of the State
Constitution.
A $150,000 fire occurred at Independ-
ence, Mo, on the night of the 25th.
The recent publication of the pretended
account of the escape of the wild beasts
at Central Park and the killing and
manning of a great number of persons
has been the cause of the death of Henry
A. Martin, of Plainf1eld, n. J. He read
the account in the New York Herald,
became terribly excited over the perusal
of the horrible details, was taken sick,
and shortly after died.
The New York Graphic Of a late date
mentions that the New York Central and
Lake Shore Railroads have decided to
extend double track from Albany to
Chicago, to be used for freight purposes.
The tracks between New York and AL
bany are already completed.
A weak shock of an earthquake was
felt in Newburyport, Mass, on the night
of the Oath. The vibration was from
west to east.
During the night of the Goth the infant
child of Allan Glass, of Freemansburg,
Pa, was carried away from the crib
where it was sleeping by its mothers
side.
Vice-President Wilson is said to have
so much improved in health lately as to
justify the expectation that he will pre-
side over the deliberations of the Senate
during the coming session.