Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-07-20

0uIIy on LlaL Gay reported that certain
claims at Deadwood were paying 81 ,0CG
per day. As high as $2,70O in one day
had been taken out of some of them.
DURING the two months ending on the
evening of the 10th, 2,O76,1O6 persons
visited the Centennial Exposition, at
Philadelphia, and the total cash receipts
were S6S4, $50
DON PEDRO, the Emperor of Brazil,
sailed from New York on the 18th, for
Europe, in the steamship Russia.
THE building in New York City known
as Castle Garden has been destroyed by
fire 1t has been in use for many wears as
an immigrant depot.
A PHILADELPHIA special says that on
the Exposition grounds on the 18th seven
ty-one persons had been overcome by the
intense heat, and had to be carried to the
hospital in the Landsdowne Valley. Sew
eral similar cases occurred on the 18th,
and the thermometer stood at 104 degrees
in the shade
A LATE Fort Sally dispatch says the
Indians who were in the fight with Gus
ter's troops assert that his remains were
shockinglY mutilated, his heart torn out,
placed on the end of a pole and war
dance held around it, and that the
Chief Rain-in-the- Face still had posses
sion of it,
BISHOP CHENEY has been elected Pre-
siding Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal
Church, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Bishop Cummings.
AT special election held on the 18th,
Monroe Heath (Rep,) was elected Mayor
OF Chicago by majority Of about 5000
over the two opposing candidates.
| PRESIDENT GRANT sent a letter to eX
Sec'y Bristow, on the 18th, stating that he
had learned that he had declined to testify
| before the Congressional Committee in re-
| latiOn to the whisky frauds, claiming that
what occurred in the Cabinet was mat
ter of high privilege, and that commit
tee of Congress had no right to de-
mand its divulgence. While approving
of this action on the part of Mr..
| Bristow, the President said he re-
leased him from all obligation of
secrecy on the subject, and adds that q
desire not only that you may answer all
questions asked relating to it, but wish
that all members of my Cabinet and eX-
members of the Cabinet since / have been
President may also be called upon to tes-
| tify in regard to the same matters"
AN Augusta (Me) telegram of the 18th
says Mr.. Blaine's condition had not i'm
proved, and his physician was confirmed
in the belief that the original trouble was
of the nature of sunstroke. A sea-voyage
would be urged as soon as Mr.. Blaine's
strength would bear it.
| Gov HENDRICKS was presented with
| formal notification of his nomination to
the Presidency, at Saratoga, on the
18th. He said he would reply in a few
days. It was understood that he accepted.
AT Newark, n. j., on the 18th, three
brothers named Thielhorn, notorious as
bad and desperate men, while resisting an
attempt to arrest them, shot and killed one
police officer and fatally wounded another.
After seriously wounding another man, the
trio charged upon a tannery near by, IN
which they used to work, where they killed
two workmen. The operatives, recover
ing from the first shock of terror and con-
sternation, and armed with their curryiHg-
| knives, drove the murderers from the
factory and pursued them some distance
to the bank of the Passaic River, into
which the hunted men plunged in the
hope of escape. There the Infatuated
populace assailed them with stones and
other missiles, and the three men were
| killed in the river.
THE Prohibitionists of Illinois met in
State Convention at Chicago on the 18th,
and nominated a State ticket and adopted
the platform of the National Convention.
James f. Simpson, of Greene County, is
the candidate for Governor and A Y.
Mccormick, of Adams County, fol Lieu
! tenant Governor. Electors at-Large were
also nominated.
THE Republican State ticket in North
| Carolina is headed by Thomas Settle for
Governor, and W. A. Smith for Lieutenant
Up to the night of the 18th, nothing had
been received from Gen. Crook. Gen.
Sheridan was in constant communication
by telegraph with Fort Fetterman, the
nearest point to where Crook was supposed
to be operating.
SPEAKER KERR wrote to a Washington
friend from Alum Springs, Va, on the
18th, that he was slowly but substantially
improving liz health.
ABROAD.
AN explosion of ire-damp took place at
colliery near st. Arold, France, on the
Sth, which killed forty-tive persons and
caused serious injury to forty 9th