Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-06-24
THE NEWS.

DdGu, EHSIdHu, on Jne lltn. Several
persons were killed and many seriously
injured
THE Agricultural Department at Wash
ington has statistics carefully collected
irresponsible persons in the following
States, giving the number of live hogs in
Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio,
Kentucky and Wisconsin on the 1st of
January last at 14,212,S00 1t was esti-
mated that returns from other States
would make the hog crop for the year
over 100000
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 18th
says the headquarters of the National
Grange of Patrons of Husbandry would
shortly be removed to Louisville, KY.
THE members of the dry goods house
of Ell. B. Clafin & Co., New York, have
recently been indicted for dealing in
smuggled silk goods, knowing them to be
such, and have given bail in the sum of
$4,000 each.
THE following officers were elected by
the international Typographical Union
at its late session in Boston: President,
Walter I'll. Bell, of Philadelphia; First
Vice-President, James Harper, of Mon
treal; Second President, c. F. Shell
don, of Kansas City; Secretary and
Treasurer, VIM. A. Hutchinson, of Chi
cago; Corresponding Secretary, w. S.
Pride, of Wilmington, Del.
The California Republican State Con-
vention met at San Francisco on the
18th and nominated Hon. T. G. Phelps
for Governor, Joseph M. Cavis for Lieu
tenant Governor, o. III. Hallett for Sec
rotary of State, VIM. Beckman for Treas
urer. The Administration of President
Grant was Endorsed, and his third-term
letter declared to be explicit as to the
third-term agitation.
THE Chicago Times of the 18th states
that the Supervising Architect of the
Treasury and the engineers appointed to
examine the walls of the new Custom
House building in that city had con-
demned the entire structure and advised
its demolition.
DETAILS were given IN late Panama
dispatch of fearful earthquake which
occurred in New Granada on the 18th
ult Large portions of the cities of San
Cayetana, Gramalata, Arboleda, Cucuta
and San Cristobel were destroyed, and
several thousand persons were reported
killed.
A LATE libel suit against the Pitts
burgh Daily Post, brought by w
Moore, formerly Chairman of the Demo
cratic County Committee, has terminated
in a verdict for the plaintiff for $4,000
damages. The Post had denounced
Moore as an impostor, etc.
A GANG of cattle-thieves was over
taken by company of State troops near
Brownsville, Tex, on the 18th, and their
whole number were killed. One of the
soldiers was fatally shot.
THE safe Of the United States man-of-
war Cumberland, which was run into and
sunk in Hampton Roads by the Confed-
crate ram Virginia, in 1862, has, recently
been recovered by diver. The safe
contained between 100000 and 100000
in gold, and was found in seventy-eight
feet of water
THE American rifle team reached
Queenstown, Ireland, on the 14th They
were enthusiastically received by the
Irish Rifle Association and delegation
from the Common Council of Dublin.
THE Treasury Department was conf
dent on the 18th that the proofs already
obtained were sufficient to convict all
the crooked" whisky distillers.
THE Bureau of Statistics reports the
total value of foreign merchandise i'm
ported into the United States during the
month of April at $45, S67, $40, falling
otfof 81, 793, 285 as compared with April
of last year. The total value of foreign
imports for ten months ending April 80
was $3.50, ,479, age inst 1896, 3O5, go
during the corresponding period of 1874
"a decrease of $35, 630,190. For the
same ten months the total value of COM
modities exported to foreign countries
was $532, 619, 1877, against $573, 072, 109 for
the corresponding period Of 1674-a de-
crease of $40,452 ,423.
VIM S. KING, NJ. c., indicted for per
jury by the Grand Jury of the District of
Columbia, has given bail in the sum of
$4,000 for his appearance before the Dis
trict Criminal Court.
On the 14th the members of the firms
of Clafin & Co. and Field, Morris, Fen
ner & Co., together with Col. Des Anges
and Charles L. Lawrence, were arraigned
to plead to indictments found against
them by the Grand Jury for com Ecity in
silk-smuggling frauds. All plead not
guilty with the exception of Lawrence.
H. B. Clafin s. Co. have published
a card, in which they say they expect to
demonstrate their innocence of any COM
plicity in attempts to defraud the Gus
toms revenue.
TON MCGEHAN, the client of Clement
+. Vallandigham at the time the latter
accidentally shot himself in attempting
to show how the man for whose murder
Mcclellan was being tried might have I'M