Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-04-01

letter stating that the story that Mr..
Tilton carried her from her bed was
wicked lie, which second note witness
said was written at the urgent solicita-
ton of Mrs Tilton. Witness was cross
examined as to her statement before
the Church Examining Committee and
stated that she had made some mistakes
in her story there which she herself had
subsequently discovered, She would
then have told all she had sworn to
on the trial had she remembered it at
the time She could not be certain as to
exact dates of several occurrences sworn
to here by her. Up to the time she came on
the stand she had told her story substan-
TALLY to the stenographer, Mr.. Sherman
and Judge Porter; this was some time
during the week of her first evidence on
the wltness-stand; haG previously told
some of the particulars to Mrs. Ovington.
A Grand Jury of the District Of Co
| lunfb1a has indicted Whitelaw Reid, of
the New York Tribune, for libeling ex
Gov. Shepherd.
/
United States Supreme Court dividends
and profits earned in the last half of the
year 1870 are subject to the income tax
of p per cent
In recent charge to the Grand Jury
at Memphis, Tenn, Judge Emmons, of
the United States Circuit Court, in
structed them in substance that the
| Fourteenth Amendment to the United
States Constitution applies to States and
not to Individuals and that the denial to
q negro of the full and equal enjoyment
of the accommodations and privileges of
| theaters and inns is matter that the
State Government alone controls, and
can only be reached by civil action.
A conspiracy has been discovered the
object of which is the assassination of
Gen. Cabrera, the recusant Carlist chief
tain. Don Carlos has issued a decree
calling into the military service all the
males in the Navarro Provinces over
eighteen years old.
| Louis Kossuth has been defeated in a
parliamentary contest in Hungary.
Ten thousand people attended the
funeral of John Mitchell, at Newry, Ire
land, on the 23d.
A fire occurred at Osaka, Japan, on
the 18th of February, which destroyed
300 buildings and caused the loss of
several lives. The day previous 800
houses were burned in Yokohama.
1t appears that the late John Mitchell
was in fact citizen of the United States,
as appears from the records in the Office
| District of Columbia.
James Brown was hanged at Pottsville,
Pa on the Oath for the murder, in Feb
ruary, 1872, of Daniel S. Kreamer, his
wife, her mother and Annette Kreamer
On the Gath special committee re-
| port was made to the Rhode Island Leg
! islature on a recent conflict of authority
between the United States Marshal and
the State Constables over wholesale
stock of liquors attached by the Marshal
and afterward seized by the State Con-
stables because sales were made from
! the stock in violation of the State law
| The committee censure the Chief of Po-
lice for aiding the United States Mar
shal and recommended the adoption of
| a resolution requesting the Governor to
transmit to the President of the United
States statement of the facts relating to
1.-The interference of the United States
Marshal for the District of Rhode Island
with the State Constables in the dis
charge of their duty.
Bessie Turner's cross-examination was
] concluded on the gath. Several correc-
tiOns as to dates were made, and she adj
mitted to having made mistakes in her
evidence before the Church Investigating
!'Committee. She reaffirmed her testimony
as to Mr.. Tilton's conduct in his family
and toward her. George L. Perkins, of
Norwich, Conn, testified that he saw
Mr.. Beecher in the train on the Bostono&
Albany Railroad, en- route for Boston, on
the 18th of June, 1878, the date fixed
upon by Mrs. Moulton as the day Mr..
Beecher confessed to her. John G. South
/ wick testified that Mr.. Tilton had denied
to him the truth of the Woodruff scandal
as far as it related to Mr.. Beecher and
Mrs. Tilton.
Gov. Kellogg on the Gath issued p call
for an extra session of the Louisiana
| Legislature, to meet on the 18th of April,
| TO carry out the adjustment of the po-
litical difficulties and for other pur-
poses.
Gen. Ord is reported as saying, in re-
ply to a telegram asking if the returned
Black Hills miners would be permitted
to return with reinforcements and pro-
visions: Troops from Fort Laramie
and hostile Indians have both gone for
you miners. For their saA1es I hope the
troops will reach them first, as the mill
tary orders are simply to bring in the
party, eonfne the leaders, burn their