Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-15

tional Bank cannot be thrown into bankruptcy
under the Bankrupt law.
Columbus (Ohio) dispatch of the 4th says
the engineers strike had died so quietly that
hardly any one knew just the process of its
termination. Most of the engineers who
could obtain employment had gone to
work.
The Executive Committee of the Labor-Re-
form party of Tennessee has issued an invita-
ton to the Labor-Reformers and Farmers OF
the West and South to take measures for
calling convention, to meet in st. Louis on
the I'D of February next, in order TO resist
the alleged unjust combinations Of Eastern
monopolists and capitalists.
A Key West dispatch of the Sd says: cap
tain w. D. Whiting, the Chief of Staff of the
North Atlantic squadron; Lieutenant Adolph
Mark, Flag Lieutenant, and Chief Engineer
Harris, Of the dispatch boat Dispatch, have
been summoned to Washington to testify IN
the investigation in regard to the sinking OF
the Virginius. Captain Whiting received the
Firginius; Mark brought her TO the Tortu-
gas, and Harris made an engineering survey
before she left Bahia Honda'
The Postmaster-General has ordered post
masters to forward all letters or packages re-
ceived from foreign countries to the places OF
their destination before permitting any in
reference by officers of the customs.
The First National Bank Of Memphis, Tenn,
which suspended during the panic, has resum
ed business in full.
Washington dispatches of the 9th say the
opinion in official and diplomatic circles was
that the Spanish Republic was practically
ended.
A very severe storm ragged on the 9TH
throughout the East, extending far into the
South and almost totally cutting of all tele
graphic communication with New York and
Washington. A Cincinnati dispatch of the 18th
says the force of the storm seemed to have
centered in that parallel Of latitude and one
hundred miles east of there. at Columbus,
Ohio, all the telegraph lines leading from the
city except one were Frustrated. The sidewalks
in all parts of the city were covered with
branches of broken trees broken down by
the weight of ice collected upon them.
An increase of freight rates from Chicago to
the East has been decided upon by a confer
ence of railroad men held at New York.
Two men named McEwan and Smith, of
Bay City, Mich, who had been afioat on cake
of ice since the 31st ut, drifted ashore at
Pineoning, on the 18th. They were both alive,
but were very much exhausted and could not
talk much, to give particulars. They had been
afioat for six days and nights, without any
thing to eat except a small piece of raw fish.
A party of six persons left Alabaster on the
4th, in a fishing boat, to rescue Smith and
McEwan, and it was feared that they had all
been lost, as the boat was found on the 18th,
capsized in the water, six rods from shore,
near Whitestone Point.
A few nights ago, in lapeer, Mich, the
house of James McMsnigal took fire after the
family had retired for the night, and was en-
tirely consumed All the members of the
family-husband, wife and child-perished in
the burning house.
The next Nebraska State Fair is to be held
at Omaha in September next.
Helena, Montana, was nearly destroyed by
fire on the night of the 9th.
A majority of the Indiana Supreme Court
have decided unconstitutional the 9th section
of the Baxter Temperance law, under which q
person may he fined for intoxication, and also
be compelled to diyulge where he obtained his
liquor.
The Illinois State Fair is to be held at PEG
ria, commencing Monday, September II.
Three Indians and one white man have beer
sentenced to be hung at Fort Smith, Ark, or
the Sd of April, for murders committed in the
Indian country.