Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-06-10
THE NEWS.

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THE accounts up to the morning of the
goth place the number of dead by the
Holyoke (Mass) disaster at seventy-one;
fatally burned, twenty-five; otherwise
burned and wounded, twenty-seven.
THE Chicago Journal of the 28th says
the reports from the grasshopper-in-
ficted regions of the West indicated that
the first reports were greatly exagger-
ated.
DIR. J. H. ECCLEsToN has been elected
Episcopal Bishop of Iowa.
ACCORDING to q London dispatch Of
the goth ult Paul Boyton, who started
the day before to cross the British Chan
mel from Cape Grisnez, France, in his
life-saving suit, landed between Dover
and South Foreland on the morning of
that day, having been in the water con-
tinuously for nearly twenty-four hours.
AN investigation concluded at Berlin
on the goth ult. shows that the offer of
Wiessinger to assassinate Bismarck was
THE ships Alert and Discovery, of the
British Arctic expedition, sailed from
Portsmouth, England, on the afternoon
of the 29th ult
THE Secretary of the Treasury has di-
rected the sale of 100000 in gold each
week during the month Of June.
THE 29th ult. was observed as Decora-
ton Day in many parts Of the country
Sunday, the Both, and Monday, 31st, were
observed in other localities.
A LETTER from President Grant to the
Chairman of the recent Pennsylvania
Republican State Convention has been
published, in which he disclaims all de-
sire for a denomination. He says: "I
am not nor have | ever been Candi-
date for a denomination. 7 would not
accept a nomination if It were rendered
unless it should come under such cir
cumstances as to make it an impera-
tive uty-circumstances not likely to
arise"
A NUMBER of business blocks in Spring
field, Mass, were destroyed by fire on
the Both ult Loss estimated at nearly
100000.
THE graves of the Confederate dead in
the cemetery at Nashville, Tenn, were
decorated on the 2Sth ult., several Fed
eral and ex-Federal soldiers being pres
ent
SEVERAL iron companies in England
failed on the 31st ult., with liabilities of
G750,0O0.
THE Court of Claims at Washington
has given judgment in favor of the Union
Pacific Railroad in suit to recover one
half of the amount earned from the Gov
eminent transportation, but which wG.s
withheld by the Government to pay the
interest in advance of the time when the
subsidy bonds mature. The judgment
is for $4,000, and the court ordered
that the counter claim of the Govern
ment for $12 100000 for the payment of
interest on bonds, be disallowed. An APP
peal was taken.
WESTON recently made two failures in
attempting to accomplish 515 miles in
six days. The first time he made only
375 miles, and on the second he was COM
PEELED to quit at the end of three and a
half days, having walked only 200 miles.
PHILIP A WADswORTH, Collector OF
Internal Revenue at Chicago, was, on
the 31st ult., requested to tender his res
ignation.
THE graves of the Union soldiers in
the National Cemetery at Nashville,
Tenn, were decorated on the 31st ult.,
about 4 900 people being present, more
than half of whom were ex-Confederates.
SEVERAL prominent members of the
British Anti-Slavery Society waited on
Lord Derby on the 1st and asked that
the Government should interfere to stop
the Cuban war and secure the abolition
of slavery in the Antilles.
THE Secretary of the Treasury on the
list called in for payment 100000 600 of
$50 coupon bonds dated May 1, 1862,
and announced that interest thereon will
cease on the 1st of September.
The following is the report of the con-
dition of the public debt on the 1st inst
Six per cent bonds 131, Sic 500
Five per cent bonds ............... 590,632, $50
Total coin bonds. .............. s1,7a2,149,25O
Lawful money debt. $500. s1467S,OOO
Natured debt Observation-Disclosures. 1870, $50
Legal-tender notes 5II,loo,I22
Certificates of deposlt......... 55,345,OOU
Fractional currency. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 43,6l5,713
Coin certificates. ........ -......... I9,9IOoUO
Interest Observation-Disclosures. 1864, $50