Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-10-19
THE NEWS.


and discovered therein the horribly burned
bodies Of Thomas Ingraham, Lewis Sulli-
van, George Sill, William Furlong and
James Mcdonald, workmen employed in
making repairs on the vessel.
A COLUMBIA IS. c. telegram Of the 18th
states that Gov. Chamberlain had issued a
proclamation in which he says it had be-
come impracticable, in his judgment, to
enforce by the ordinary course of judicial
process the laws of the State within GER
tain counties, and, it having been made
known to him that illegal organizations
known as rife-clubs existed in the State,
he ordered that they be disbanded within
three days, and that if this order was dis
regarded he would exhaust his own powers,
and then appeal to the United States Gov
eminent.
AN Atlanta telegram of the 9Th places
the Democratic majority in ninety-two
counties in Georgia at 10000. The forty
five counties to hear from would make
the majority $4,000. The Legislature will
stand Senate, forty three Democrats, one
Republican. The House has six Republi-
cans, three colOred.
A DENVER (Col) dispatch of the 18th
says the Republican majority in the State
will be about 300, and that the Legis-
lature will also be Republican in both
branches.
A FIRE in Houston, Texas, a few nights
ago, destroyed an entire block of build
ings, some of them the handsomest bust
ness structures in the place. Loss $780,
000
a CINCINNATI dispatch of the 9Th says
the resignation of L. S. Tyler, Secretary
cepted. He is said to have resigned be-
cause of his continued absence abroad on
account of illness in his family.
THE 81, 900, 900 suit against William NJ.
Tweed and the 100000 suit against
Peter B. Sweeney were called in New
York court on the 9th, and adjourned till
Nov. 10.
THE official statement of the recent
Maine election shows that the majority
for Conner (Rep.) over Talbot Dem For
Governor is 15,037.
On the morning of the 9th, while three
loaded cars were being hoisted from the
slope of colliery, at New Boston, Pa,
the rope broke, and the cars ran to the bot
TOM Four miners were killed.
A FIRE at Cleveland, Ohio, on the
morning of the 9th destroyed buildings
and contents to the value of about 1926
600.
JACOB REHM, of Chicago, sentenced to
Imprisonment for six months and to pay a
fine of $4,000, for his completely in the
whisky frauds, has been pardoned by the
President, the pardon to take effect on the
expiration of three months from the date
of the sentence and the payment of a fine
of ST 600. The three months had expired
on the receipt of the pardon, and Mr..
Rehm at once paid the penalty of 81 900,
and was set at liberty.
AT Beaver, Utah Territory, on the 10th,
Judge Foreman sentenced John D. Lee,
convicted of participation in the Mountain
Meadows Massacre, nineteen years ago, to
to be shot on the Goth of next January.
A CHEYENNE telegram of the 10th says
party of Indians had recently crossed
the Platte, and were raiding the ranches
on the Laramie.
JOHN F. CLEVELAND, for many years
financial editor of the New York Tribune,
died in that city on the 10th, of heart dis
ease. He was brother-in-law of the late
Horace Greeley.
THE steamer Southern Belle was burned
on the Mississippi River, near Plaque
mine, La, on the morning of the 10th.
The boat and cargo were totally destroyed,
and several lives are reported lost.
THE business section of the town of
Sandy Hill, n. Y, was burned on the
night of the 10th. Loss about $780, 900.
THE Ohio election returns received on
the morning of the 18th indicate the cleo
ton of the Republican State ticket by
from $500 to 1000 majority. The Re-
publicans had probably elected twelve
Congressman and the Democrats eight
THE yellow-fever interments at Savan-
nah, Ga, on the 18th numbered six. The
Mayor of Brunswick announces that
enough supplies and money had been re-
ceived to carry his city through the cpl
demic.
In the West Virginia election, On the
10th, the Democratic ticket was success
full. A Wheeling dispatch of the 18th
says Matthews majority for Governor
would reach 10000. The Legislature
will be about two thirds Democratic
EARLY in the evening of the 10th, the
Marion County Qowa) Treasurer's office,
at Knoxville, was entered by two masked
men, who overpowered the Treasurer,
and forced him to open the safe The
amount taken was about $4,000.
A TERRIBLE accident occurred at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 18th. The boilers in
Zug & Co.'S rolling mill exploded, wreck
ing the building and burying large num-
Der of workmen in the ruins. Ten dead
bodies were recovered sooE after the acct
dent A large number were wounded,
some of whom have since died.
r. WOODwARD reached New York