Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-07-13
THE NEWS.
AT HOME.

tuition.
THE Illinois Supreme Court has decided
that the CITY Tax act,' under which the
taxes in Chicago for the years 1873 and
1874 were attempted to be collected, is un-
constitutional and void In consequence
of this decision, it is said, Chicago will
lose 81 100000.
The July statement of the public debt
shows the following: Outstanding debt
less cash in the Treasury, S2,099, 439, 345;
decrease during June, 1881, 377; de-
crease during the fiscal year ending June
30, 1876, $29, 249,3 81.
o. NJ. HOUSE, noted New York di-
vorce lawyer, was shot and instantly
killed by his wife on the evening Of the
30th ult, near Lawrence Station, n. J.
She claimed to have killed him to protect
her son by former husband from his
brutality.
A BELGRADE dispatch of the ID says
that Prince Milan had issued a war mani
festo on the preceding day and proclaimed
a state of seige throughout Seryia. The
proclamation was everywhere received
with great enthusiasm. 1t was said that
the English, German and Austrian am
bassadOrs had informed the Porte that they
would not interfere.
THE National Democratic Committee
has elected A. S. Hewitt, of New York,
Chairman, and f. o. Prince, Of Massa-
chusetts, Secretary. The Executive Com
mittee is composed Of the following John
G. Priest, of Missouri; NJ. M. Ham, of
Iowa. George L. Miller, Of Nebraska :;
VIM. II. Barnum, of Connecticut; Miles
Ross, of New Jersey; NJ. w. Ransom, of
North Carolina; John G. Thompson, of
Ohio; VIM L. Scott, of Pennsylvania, and
VIM. B. Bates, of tennessee.
IT was reported from Washington on
the Sd that Senator Morrill, had decided to
accept the Secretaryship of the Treasury
THE Centennial celebration in Phila-
delphia on the 4th was a grand and sue
cessful affair. The military parade be-
gan about eight a. NJ, and after an hours
march through some of the principal
streets of the city, the troops were re-
viewed at the grand stand by Gen Sher-
man. An immense crowd Of people had
assembled in the square around indie
pendence Hall, anxious to be pres
ent at the formal exercises of the
day. Among the notahles present
at the stand were Gen. Sher-
man, Gen. Sheridan, Vice President Fer
ry, Gov. Hayes, Gov. Bagley, ex-Gov.
NOyes, the Emperor Dom Pedro, etc.
Gen. Hawley introduced Vice-President
Ferry, who, in the absence Of President
Grant, presided over the assembIage. Aft
er a prayer by Rt. Rev. William Bacon
Stevens, Oliver Wendell Holmes hymn
''Welcome to all Nations rendered
by a chorus of 600 voices The original
copy of the Declaration of indie
pendence was then produced by
Mayor Stokely, to whom it had
been entrusted by President Grant. 1t
was received with tremendous applause
by the vast assemblage, and Mr. Lee,
grandson of Richard Henry Lee, was in
troduced and read the same. Bayard
Taylor recited the ode prepared by him
self for the occasion, after which the ora
ton of the day was delivered by VIM. NJ.
Evarts, of New York The formal exer-
cises were closed by the singing of the
doXology, in which the entire assemblage
joined. At night the State House was
brilliantly Illuminated by calcium lights
In the Early libel case against Storey,
Of the Chicago Times, in which the Cir
cult Court of Cook County found the de-
PENDANT guilty and assessed the damages at
$4,000, and which was appealed to the
Illinois Supreme Court, the latter tribunal
has affirmed the verdict of the lower
court.
A LETTER received in Washington on
the 9Th, says Speaker Kerr was improving
decidedly, and was then quite hopeful of
recovery.
TIE number of visitors at the Centen-
NAL Exhibition on the 4th exceeded
$4,000
THE Louisiana Republican State Con-
vention closed a session Of several days
duration on the 9th. 4 full State ticket
was nominated, headed by S. B. Packard
for Governor and G. G. Antoine for Lieu
tenant Governor. Gov. Kellogg was
placed at the head of the Electoral ticket
and his administration endorsed.
The town of Rockdale, near Dubuque,
Iowa, was swept away by a sudden rise of
water IN Catfish Creek on the night of the
4th, mill-dam having given way-and
thirty nine lives were lost. A very severe
rainstorm prevailed the first part of the
night, and at midnight the terrible flood
burst upon the town, carrying before it the
houses and their sleeping occupants.
News was received Cia Salt Lake CITY
on the 9th that Gen. Custer with five com
panies of his command, had attacked an
Indian village of between ;, 900 and 1000
warriors, about thirty miles below the Lit
tie Horn, on the 25th ult., and that the
General himself, fifteen officers and every
man belonging to the five companies were
killed. Col Reno, who was to have at
tackled the village on the opposite side
from the one assailed by Gen Custer
was, with his command, surrounded hv
the Indians and held one day in the
woods, without water, until Gibbons com