Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-10
THE NEWS.


of the 18th ult., scout has arrived brin ging
intelligence that Crazy Horse with thirty
lodges was enr0ute from Sitting Bulls
camp, and that he had demanded of Capt
Egan that treaty be negotiated.
ACCORDING to a Washington telegram
of the goth ult., the enforced resignation
of Geo. III. Cowell, Chief Clerk in the
Postotfice Department, and personal
friend of ex-Postmaster Jewell, had been
accepted to take effect on the 1st of Au-
gust.
The dispatch published in Chicago and
St. Louis papers on the goth ult. that Gen.
Crook had met terrible disaster has been
officially declared unfounded.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the goth
ult. states that the President had said he
had it in his power to completely clear
himself from the charges made by ex-
Solicitor Wilson, and that he would GER
tainly do so.
A PARTY of men from the Black Hills
reached Omaha on the 31st ult., and it was
reported that they brought with them
$500, 600 in gold dust. One of them, it is
said, had $4,000.
AT Salt Lake City on the 31st ult., Judge
Schaeffer rendered decision in the suit
of Ann Eliza 0S. Brigham Young, to re-
cover alimony, giving plaintiff 500 per
month, or $4,000 in all, and giving the
defendant thirty days in which to pay the
amount, and providing in default of such
payment that execution shall issue against
his property.
THE Indian version of the Custer fight
agrees substantially with the accounts
from other sources. It was announced on
the 31st ult. that all the cavalry on duty in
Southern Kansas, Texas and the Indian
Territory had been ordered to join Gen.
Terry or Gen. Crook.
JOHN LOUGHBOROUGH, a member of the
Arkansas State Senate from the Little Rock
District, was found dead in his house on
the afternoon of the Dist ult., shot through
the heart. Investigation developed the
fact that he had committed suicide
THE public debt statement for July
shows the following: Coin bonds out
standing $1,696, 684, 450; total debt, So
176, ZOO, III; cash in Treasury, $105, 249,-
034. Debt less cash in the Treasury, So
098, 301 81 decrease during July, 81 1885,
O33.
On the LIST, the President issued his
proclamation announcing the admission of
Colorado as State of the Union.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 31st ult
says the President had requested the res
ignation of Supervising Architect Potter
The Chicago Tribune of the 1st states that
Mr. Potter had said he retired from the
position voluntarily, and denied having
been requested by the President to resign.
sitting as Court of Impeachment, voted
to acquit ex-Secretary Belknap, the vote
standing thirty-fve fol. conviction, and
twenty-five for acquittal-less than the
tWo-thirds required to convict. On the
second article thirty-six voted guilty, and
twenty-five not guilty. Twenty three of
those voting not guilty stated that their
reason for not doing SO was want of ju-
risdiction. The following is the vote in
detail:
For CoRUction-Bayard,B Booth, Cameron (Pa.) },
Cockrell, Cooper, Davis, Dawes, Dennis, Ed
munds, Gordon, Hamilton, Harvey. Hitchcock,
Kelly, Herman, Fey, McCreery. Mcdonald, Mer-
rimon, Mitchell. Morrill,, Norwood Oglesby, Ran
dolph, Ransom, Robertson, Sargent, Salisbury,
Sherman, Stevenson, Thurman, Wadleigh, Wal
lace, WhYte, Withers.
For 4cQuittdt-Anthony, Allison, Boutwell,,
Bruce, Cameron (Wis.) Christiancy, Conkling,
Conover, Cragin, Dorsey, Eaton, Ferry, Freezing
huysen, Hamlin, Howe, Ingalls,, Jones (Nev.)
Logan, Mcmillan, Paddock, Patterson Spencer
West, Window, Wright.
Absent or Not V0ting.-AIcorn, Bogy, Burn
side, Clayton, English, Johnston. Jones (Fla.),
declined to vote on the ground that the Senate
had no Jurisdiction. Messrs. Conover and Wright
voted for acquittal on the ground that they be-
Heved the charges were not sustained.
ALL of the candidates on the Massa-
chusetts State Prohibition ticket have
withdrawn except those for Governor and
Lieutenant Governor.
DURING. July the Philadelphia Mint
coined "a, $50 pieces of gold, valued at
1858, 900; silver, number of pieces, 1854
500; value, $25S, 300; base metal num-
Der Of pieces, $4,000; value, SIS, $50;
total number of pieces, 1923, $50; total
value, 1856, $50
A SPLENDID statute of Washington ar
rived at Philadelphia on the 1st, from
Leghorn, Italy, having been 10 days on
the voyage. 1t Is twelve feet high, cut
from a single block of marble, and will
be placed near the Main Building on the
Exposition grounds
A DISPATCH was received at Omaha on
the 1st from Camp Brown, Wyoming Ter
ritory, which says Indian scouts had
brought intelligence that the hostile
Indians We're moving southeast, and at last
accounts were at the head of the Little
Powder River. 1t was thought they were
making for the agencies.
On the 1st row-boat on Bawbeese
Lake, east of Coldwater, Mich, over
turned when about 200 yards from shore,
and Of the seventeen men, women and
children therein, nine were drowned. The
victims resided at Coldwater, and were
attending a picnic on the shores of the