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

the robbers obtained about SIC, 600
$4,000 from the United States and 81 900
from Adams Express Companies.
EDWARD Y. PARSONS, member OF the
House Of Representatives from the Louis
vile (Ky.) District, died in Washington,
on the 9Th, of brain fever.
OK the 9Th the Secretary of War ad-
dressed a letter to the President giving
history of Indian affairs relating to the
Sioux or Dakota Nation. The terms of
the treaty, the Secretary says, have been
literally complied with on the part of the
United States, and have been observed by
the great mass of the Indians, some of
whom, however, have never recognized
the binding force of the treaty. but
have treated it with contempt In
February last the Secretary of the Int
rior notified the Secretary of War that the
time given Sitting Bull and his men to re-
turn to an agency had expired, and that he
and his forces still refused tocomply with
the directions of the Indian Commission
ers, and that therefore the Indians were
turned over to the War Department to be
dealt with by the army, Sec'y Cameron
says the discovery of gold on the western
border of the Sioux reservation, and the
intrusion of our people thereon, have not
caused this war.
On the 9Th Gen Sheridan expressed to
Gen. Sherman the opinion that there was
no occasion to call for volunteers in the
campaign against Sitting Bull. With the
six companies of the Twenty second
Infantry, Gen Sheridan says Terry's
forces will number about 1900
men, and Crook, when joined by
Merritt, will have about the same force,
which will be sufficient for the move
ment against the Sioux. Gen. Terry's
official report of the Little Big Horn fight
confirms the previous reports of the disas-
ter, and estimates the fighting force of the
Indians at $500. A later dispatch from
Terry, received on the 9th, states that the
Indians had retreated, dividing into two
parties, one of which was going toward
the Big Horn Mountains and the other
eastward
Hon. Z. CHANDLER has been elected
Chairman, and r. G. Mccormick Secre-
tary, of the Republican National Com
mittee.
THE propeller St. Clair was burned on
Lake Superior on the night Of the 9th.
Twenty six lives were lost.
The Milwaukee whisky cOnspiratOrs
were sentenced on the 10Th, the penalties
inflicted ranging from one day to six
months imprisonment and from 5000 to
$1,000 in fines.
THE Chicago papers of the Sth report
an unusually brilliant meteor as having
passed over the city on the evening pre-
vious, which lighted up the ground ten or
twelves times more than it is Illuminated
by the full moon, and leaving a very
bright track, which was visible for fully
four minutes The sam meteor was OBJ
served from several other localities.
ACCORDING to a Washington dispatch of
the 18th President Grant had demanded of
p NJ Gen. Jewell his resignation, and
the latter had thereupon rendered it to the
President. The most intimate friends of
Mr.. Jewell were unable to account for
this action, except on the grounds of polit-
icaI considerations. On the same day the
President appointed SecOnd-Assis't P. M.
Gen. Tyner, of Indiana, to succeed Mr..
Jewell. Mr.. Pratt, Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, also rendered his resigna-
lion on the 18th, to take effect on the 1st
Of August.
GEN CUsTER's old comrades met in
Washington on the evening of the 10th,
and adopted resolutions of respect and
took steps for the organization of Il Custer
Monument Association.
THE President, on the 18th, received
letter of congratulation from the King of
Italy, on the occasion of the Centennial
celebration.
THE heat in Washington on the 10th
and 18th was excessive, and, for the first
time in the history of the Capital, build
ing operations were suspended because of
the heat. Since the 0th there had been
twelve deaths from sunstroke.
THE petition of James Bagley and 9th
ers to set aside the will of A. 7. Stewart
has been dismissed by Surrogate Colyin,
of New York.
A BAND of 800 Mormons, who recently
arrived from Europe, started from New
York, on the 18th, for Utah. Some of the
men had eight wives.
THE Committee appointed by the ST.
Louis Convention to inform Gov Tilden
OF his nomination for the Presidency by
the Democratic party waited on the Gov
ernor at his residence in New York, on
the evening of the 18th, and formally no.
titled him Of such action on the part of
the Convention. The Governor accepted
the nomination, and said he would trans
NIT to the committee formal letter of ac-
ceptance.
SIXTY fatal cases of sunstroke occurred
in New York city on the 10th, exceeding
in number those of any previous day for
thirty-five years, except July ,, 1872,
when sixty ght were reported. Several
fa+aI oaCac wore also reDOrtpd in FaStarn