Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-31
THE NEWS.
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some time since. They were warmly
welcomed by their countrymen
On the 18th visitors were admitted to
the Centennial Exposition at half-rate, or
for twenty-five cents The attendance
amounted to over 60 ,O00 persons.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made on the 10Th
that Hon. Josiah Quincy, of Boston,
Mass, had failed. His liabilities are
stated at $50, 900 and his assets at $780,
600.
A. P. FIELD, Attorney General of Lou
isiana, died at New Orleans on the 10Th.
He was sevcnty-si years old.
CAPT. GEORGE I. ANTHONY, Of Leav-
enworth, is the Republican candidate for
Governor Of Kansas, instead of Col. D. r.
Anthony, as at first announced. The two
gentlemen are cousins.
SPEAKER NJ. c. KERR died at Rock
bridge Alum Springs, Va, at 30 on the
evening Of the 10Th. His last moments
were comparatively free from pain. He
was forty nine years of age and was a
native Of Titusville, Pa.
THE employees Of the New York &
New Jersey Railroad struck on the 21st.
Non payment of wages for the past four
months, and the protesting of notes given
for the previous four months wages, are
said to have occasioned the strike.
ACCORDING to a Des Moines Gowa) tele-
gram the grasshOppers came down on the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad,
near Nicola, on the Goth, in greatnumbers
-Four trains were blockaded two hours on
the afternoon of the 21st Continued
rains had prevented their feeding and lit
tie harm had been done to the growing
crops.
ALL but twenty-seven of the Utes who
left Fort Fetterman after having been
Toasted and armed, and having INDUCED
in numerous ar-dances, are reported to
have deserted at Cheyenne River few
days ago, taking with them the arms
which were furnished them to fight the
Sioux with
THE remains of the late Speaker Kerr
reached Washington on the morning of
the 22d. The casket containing the body
was removed to a special car, and a detail
of six men Of the Capitol police was
placed on guard. During the morning, a
number of Mr. Kerr's friends and others
visited the depot to view his remains. At
II 80 the funeral party, with the remains,
LETT for New Albany, Ind, U50 Harrisburg,
and Indianapolis.
THE great coal combination has been
broken up. The announcement of the
disruption of this combination caused
considerable excitement at Pottsville, Pa,
on the 22d, and a great deal of uneasiness
was manifested in the mines as TO the
ultimate result. 1t was generally con-
ceded that there would be decline in the
price Of coal and a corresponding reduc-
ton in miners wages.
SLIGHT FRosTs occurred in some por-
tions of New York and Pennsylvania on
the night of the GOTH
THE Indian Commissioners have issued
an order to nearly all the Indian agencies
prohibiting all sales of arms or ammuni-
ton to either whites or Indians by parties
holding licenses as Indian traders.
THE President issued the following
proclamation on the Dist:
1t is with extreme pain that the President an
nounces to the people of the United States IT,
death of the Speaker of the House of Represen-
tatives, the Hon. Michael c. Kerr, or Indiana A
man of great intellectual endowments, large cuI-
ture great probty and earnestness in his devotion
hQ Ssn6 frnn thn
ton OF power and usefulness to which he had been
recently called. The body over which he had
been selected to preside not being in session to
render its tribute of affection and respect to the
memory Of the deceased, the President invites the
people of the United States to a solemn recogni-
ton OF the public and private worth and the ser
vices OF apure and eminent character.
U. S. GRANT.
A PORT RICHMOND (Pa.) dispatch states
that two miners (James Martin and Peter
Mccartney were attacked by a crowd of
Mollie Maguires on the afternoon of the
21st McCaffrey was killed outright, and
Martin was so terribly injured that he died
in short time
BISMARCK specials of the 23d say large
war party of Sioux appeared on the op-
poslte bank of the river from Berthold
Agency few days previous and demand
ed supplies. Upon being refused they
opened fire for fifteen minutes, when they
withdrew and moved south toward Fort
Lincoln. A white scout had just come in
with dispatches from the Rosebud, an
nouncing that Gems. Crook and Terry,
after etfecting a junction, had left their
horses, wagons and tents behind, and
were in hot pursuit of the Sioux, expect
ing to come up with them before they
reached the Yellowstone.
THE President and Mrs. Grant were in
Philadelphia on the 23d, on visit to the
Centennial Exhibition.
THE Supreme Lodge of the World,
knights of Pythias, met in Independence
Hall, Philadelphia, on the 22d. The
street parade was participated in by about
L, 900 members, and consisted of delega-
tons from every State and Territory in the
Union, and from the British provinces.
A CAPE MAY On. j. telegram of the
23d says the Delegates elected by the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, North and South,
to effect a reunion of those bodies. had ar