Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-03

HE COLORADO State republican Con-
vention will be held at Pueblo on the 23d
Of August.
GEO. F. TALBOT, of Maine, has been
appointed Solicitor of the Treasury to
succeed Bluford Wilson, resigned.
ACCORDING to Fort Laramie dispatches
of the god, Gen. Merritt had left to rein
force Gen. Crook. A junction would be eff
fected on the 9Th of August. The Agent at
Red Cloud says 900 Sioux and 1 200 Chey-
ennes had left the reservation to join Sit
ting Bull When all his reinfOrcements
reached him Crook would have about
800 men exclusive of officers and camp
attendants. Terry was marching south to
form junction with Crook.
Hon. THOMAS BRADY, of Indiana, has
been appointed Second Assistant Postmas-
ter General.
YELLOW FEVER is said to prevail on
Dixs Island, in the lower New York
Bay. Several vessels are in quarantine,
and several persons have died.
THE Captain of the yacht Mohawk,
which lately capsized off Staten Island
was promptly acquitted, on the 22d, of
having caused the accident by his crimi-
nal negligence.
A RECENT frontier estimate says Sitting
Bull had TO- 0C fighting braves under his
control, well armed and possessed Of an
abundance Of provisions and ammunition
The troops operating against them num-
bered between 5000 and 1000. The re-
ported death of Sitting Bull is denied.
THE Commissioner of Indian Affairs on
the gath telegraphed instructions to the
Indian Agents at Red Cloud and Spotted
Tail agencies to turn over the Indians I'M
Camp Robson and Camp Sheridan re-
spectiyely.
On the 23d, two children of NJ. Pritch-
ard living in Noble, Ind, were fatally
burned by the explosion of can of kero-
sene, which they were using about the
kitchen fire. They lived about five hours.
At Rossville, Ind, on the 21st., the wife
of James Golden met with like acct
dent. She lived in terrible agony until
the morning of the 22d.
THERE was a slight frost near Port Jer-
Wis, n. Y, on the night of the 23d.
TIE President, on the Oath, signed the
Silver-Coin and Army Appropriation bills
On the night of the 23d, a cloud burst
on Diamond Range Mountains, thirteen
miles east of Eureka, Cal, and a column
of water two feet deep rushed upon gang
Of wood-choppers, drowning thirteen
Cinnamon and several Italians
An explosion occurred in the Black Dia-
mond Coal Mine, at Mount DiablO Cal,
on the Oath, by which six miners were
killed and five others badly injured The
explosion was caused by a blast igniting
accumulated coal dust
A PHILADELPHIA dispatch of the 25th
says the average daily expenses of the
Centennial EXh' oition, since the opening,
had been about $4,000, and the average
daily receipts $12, 285.O5.
UNITED STATES SENATOR CAPERTON. of
West Virginia, died in Washington on the
Goth, of disease induced by the hot wealth
er. He was sixty-six years Of age, and
his term in the Senate would have expired
in 1881
THE Commissionership of Internal
Revenue, having been formally declined
by Congressman MacDougall, of New
York, was, on the Goth, accepted by Gen
Green B. Raum, of Illinois.
THE majority report of the House Com
mittee on Naval Affairs, presented on the
Goth, concludes with statement that, in the
administration Of the naval service during
the last seven years the law has been dis
regarded aid violated in the letting of con-
tracts and in the purchase of supplies; in
the destruction and sale of property belong
ing to the naval service; in the failure to
cover into the Treasury the proceeds of
the sales of the property; in the disburse-
ments of the appropriations made for the
support of the navy; in exceeding the APP
preparations made by Congress for given
fiscal years, etc, etc. A resolution was
submitted to the House directing that the
legal questions and proof be referred to
the Judiciary Committee, who shall ex-
anime and report whether the violations
Of law referred to in the report be i'm
peachable ofenses, and if so, that they
shall report articles of impeachment
against George NJ. Robson, Secretary of
the Navy. The minority report alleges
that the majority report is unfair, falla-
cious and evidently promoted by parti-
san spirit ignoring entirely testimony
favorable to the Navy Department, and
presenting other portions in such ways as
to intiict gross injustice upon the Secre-
tary and other officers
Two battalions of artillery of four
companies each, from the First and Sec
ond Regiments, have been ordered to be
sent from the Division of the Atlantic to
the Department Of the Missouri, to report
to Gen. Pope.
THE firm of Jay Cooke & Co. of Phil
adelphia, having gone through the bank
ruptcy court, have been discharged.
JAMES Nolan's shoddy mill, in Philadel-
phia, was burned on the morning Of the