Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-13

| law passed at the late session Of Congress,
| in cases where a counterfeit of a note of
| any National Bank is discovered, all of the
| denomination in circulation of the bank is to
be called in.
The Chicago Times says that at an i'm
portant council Of Western railroad managers,
held in that city on the 4th, it had been re
solved, after considerable discussion, to re-
store ante-panic rates for the transportation
of grain from the interior to Chicago. This is
an increase Of from 10 to p per cent over
existing rates.
A dispatch from Omaha of the 4th says in
teIligence had been received at military head
quarters that Clusters Black Hills expedition
was returning, having fulfilled its orders.
During the first seven months of the pres
ent year 1855 immigrants arrived at the
port Of New York, a falling off of 105, $50
compared with the corresponding period of
1873.
A St. Joseph (Mo.) dispatch of the 4th says
the grasshoppers have entirely destroyed
the corn crop of Western Kansas and Nebras-
ka. 1t is doubtful if 1000 bushels of corn
will be raised in Kansas or Nebraska west of a
line passing from the Platte River, in Nebras-
ka, through the towns of Humboldt, Seneca
and Manhattan to Wichita, on the Arkansas
River. Hundreds of new settlers in Western
Kansas and Nebraska are selling their
cattle and household goods for whatever they
will bring and preparing to leave the coun-
try. As there is a good crop of wheat and
other small grain there will be no starvation,
but great drawback on the business of the
country. The 'hoppers' are as thick as bees,
devouring every green thing in their path
and slowly moving to the south and east. 1t
is feared they viii destroy all the corn west Of
the Missouri River"
On the 9Th the steamboat Pat Rogers, run
ming on the Ohio River in the Louisville Mail
Line, when near Aurora, Ind, caught fire and
burned to the waters edge. The fire was
caused by careless smokers dropping their
cigars upon cotton bales 1t is said that
three cool-headed men might have saved the
boat and her passengers, but the officers and
crew were completely demoralized by fear and
left the helpless women and children TO their
horrible fate Between twenty and thirty
lives were lost and several persons were in
jured.
The Illinois State Treasurer reports the
receipts for the month of July at $3.50, 76S.01
and the disbursements at S254, 667.S7.
A Washington dispatch of the 18th says:
eThe amount of National Bank notes received
for redemption at the Treasury to the close Of
business to-day is SO, 9O5, 427. The amount Of
Iegal-tender notes deposited by National Banks
as a reserve fund for the redemption of their
notes is $16, TO, 906, and the amount of the cir
culation of the National Banks outstanding to
IN ~ IL,
reserve required under act of July 20, 1874,
has been deposited with the exception OF
about S7SO,OO0"
The President has directed the land office
of the lately-created Western District of Kan
sas to be located at Hayes City, and that OF
the Arkansas Valley District at Larned.
According to the reports received on the
18th the number of lives lost by the burning OF
the steamer Pat Rogers would reach to nearly
or quite thirty.