Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-06-17
THE NEWS.

tate Tor Jno transfer OF Jne BLACK
Hills region to the Government have
failed. Before they left Red Cloud de-
manded compensation for the inter-
prefers and other Indians who had &C
companied the regular delegates, which
was, with an exception or two, refused.
To demand for horses, equip
ments and guns Commissioner Smith
replied that he would net give them guns
if he could, and as to horses and saddles
he would give them had he the power to
do so, but he had not. An Associated
Press dispatch of the following day says
difficulties are apprehended between them
and whites who may enter their country
for the purpose of seeking for gold.
1t was estimated by the agents
that the Sioux can muster from
5000 to 5000 warriors, half of whom
can be armed with rifles and the
remainder with bows and arrows. The
Government, meantime, will endeavOr to
prevent adventures from going to that
country, still having some hope through
the medium Of commissions to effect a
treaty with the Sioux.
ACCORDING to a Pottsville (Pa.) dis
patch of the 9th the military had made
preparation to protect all working miners
at Mahanoy City and vicinity, and in
sure a continuance of work.
THE Wisconsin Democratic State Con
vention will meet at Milwaukee on the
9Th Of September.
EDWARD WELBY PUGIN. the celebrated
English architect, is dead.
NJ. STAENPFLI was recently elected
President of Switzerland.
THE Mexican Government has sent
two regiments to watch the Rio Grande
border and prevent raids.
GEN. H. w. BARRY, Congressman from
Mississippi, died of apoplexy in Wash
ngton on the 18th.
SECRETARY DELANo has notified the In
dian Bureau that commission will be
sent out to the Sioux to negotiate for the
abandonment of their hunting grounds
in Nebraska.
THE Indian Agent at Fort Sill tele-
graphs to the effect that 400 Quahada
Indians, heretofore hostile, have ex-
pressed willingness tomake peace with
the Government, and surrendered 1000
ponies as an evidence of their sincerity
JUDGE WILLIAMS, of the Cook County
Qll.) Circuit Court, on the 18th sentenced
the twenty-five Chicago Aldermen and
the City Clerk who canvassed the votes
of the recent city incorporation cleo
ton, in defiance of an Injunction issued
by the court, to pay fine of 500 each
for contempt of court. The six lawyers
who advised that the injunction be dis
regarded were fined $500 each. An APP
peal was taken.
THE President has directed that all
lands lying near the Mississippi River,
within twelve miles of its mouth, be re-
served for military purposes, under the
act authorizing the construction Of jet
ties for deepening the channel
HENRY GREENwALL, manager of an
opera-house in Galveston, Tex, who re-
Gently refused two COlored women seats
in the parquet of his establishment has
been found guilty by jury of violating
the Civil-Rights law and fined $500.
A PARIS correspondent of the London
Times in q dispatch of the morning of
the 9th says there were rumors of re-
publican movement in Madrid.
A BANQUET was given at Berlin on the
evening of the Sth in honor of ex-senator
Schurz.
THE town of Morshansk, on the river
Tsna, in Russia, has been entirely de-
stroyed by fire. 1t contained a popula-
ton of 10000.
The Supreme Court of New Hamp.
shire has declined to pass an opinion on
the action of the Governor and Council
in the contested Senatorial election eases.
The court expresses the opinion, howev-
er, that when the State Senate adiudged
Priest and Proctor duly elected Senators
such action was conclusive as to their
rights. The seeding Republican Sena-
tors returned to their seats on the Sth
and the Senate concurred with the House
in notifying the Governor that both
branches were organized and ready for
business.
A KANSAS CITY (Mo.) dispatch of the
18th says the grasshoppers were leaving
rapidly, and comparatively few remained
in that region. The ST. Louis Republican
of the 18th says editorially that it ap-
pears that the insect pests have wrought
damage to the growing crops only in a
few isolated localities, and that there is
time to repair much of the mischief by
planting late corn crops.
ACCORDING to a Philadelphia dispatch
of the Sth IN few days several organiza-
tions, aggregating $4,000 in number,
would leave that city for the Black Hills.
JUDGE Nelson, of the United States
District Court at Winona, Mimi, has
rendered decision affirming the consti
nationality Of the CivilRights law.
A MASS MEETING of the citizens of Co.
lumbia, S. c., held on the It'll, adopted
resolutions requesting the Mayor and
Aldermen of the city to resign, because
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