Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-11
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

EX-SENATOR NYE, of Nevada, died re-
Gently at White Plains, n. Y.
a RECENT London dispatch announces
the temperance of the plague at Bagdad.
Hon. r. A. DUELL, United States Com
missioner of Patents, rendered his resigna-
ton few days ago.
On New Years Day Queen Victoria was
proclaimed Empress throughout India,
with great ceremony.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT died at his resi-
dence in New York city, on the morning
of the 4th aged nearly eighty three years
A Mrs. KELLY, Of Columbus, Ohio, a
few days ago, was fatally burned, by the
explosion of kerosene oil lamp which she
was filling.
PASSENGER RATES from Chicago to
New York have been advanced to $1S; to
Boston, $19; to Philadelphia, Baltimore
dlIi w dSlllHSUou, S1O-
AN immense amount of damage was
done along the south coast of England by
a severe gale on the 1st. Nearly every
town from Dover to Portsmouth was in
undated by the high tide.
OTIs ID. SWAN, a prominent New York
broker, has recently absconded, taking
with him large amount of trust funds
His embezzlements are estimated at be-
tween 100000 and 100000.
ACCORDING to the public debt state
ment for December, the amount of coin
bonds outstanding was 1,G90, ,821, $50; :;
total debt, So, ,229, ,922 ,519; cash in Treas
ury, $137, 7,001 ,27S; debt less cash in the
Treasury, $2,092, ,921 ,241; increase during
December, $685., ,142.
A PASSENGER TRAIN ran off the track
between Horsens and Aarhuus, in Den
mark, a few days ago, and nine persons
were killed and thirty-seven others more
or less injured. This is said to have been
the first railway accident that involved
loss of life which ever happened in that
country.
Gov. HAYES, in his recent message to
the Ohio Legislature, gives the indebted
ness of the State at $36, ,059, ,9S7 56. The
reimbursable debt is $6,384, SOB 80, and
the irreducible debt, $4, 1907, ,71G.90. The
estimated receipts for the current year
from all sources, including balance on
hand, is So, 1886, $50 and the disbursements,
50, ,416,7 The State debt was reduced
during the past year nearly 81 100000.
UP to a recent date the amount of silver
disbursements from the United States
Treasury to the 2Sth aggregated $25, ,511,-
500, of which SIS ,395 ,512 was for the re-
demption Of fractional currency, and
$40, lie, ,996 was silver paid in lieu of
notes and checks. The amount paid by
the Assistant Treasurer in New York was
1886, ,607; BoJton, 81, ,537 ,030; Philadel-
phia, So, ,164, ,430; St. Louis, 1,475, ,082 ;
Cincinnati, $2,260, ,251; Chicago, $685.
977 Baltimore, 1901, ,012.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT, of the New
York Herald, was horscwhipped on the
morning of the Sd, by the brother of
Miss May, his affianced. Bennett was to
have been married on Christmas He did
not appear. \ new arrangement was made
and the Sd was fixed upon for the cere-
mony. Again the groom failed to ap-
pear. After waiting a long time for him
to come, Fred May found Bennett just as
he was coming out of the Union Club
House, drew rawhide and struck him
The parties were then separated. Tele-
grams of the 4th say Bennett had chal-
lenged May to fight duel
ALBERT A. WOODWARD, eX confidential
clerk of VIM. M. Tweed, who was arrest
swer to indictments for forgery and
embezzlement, has been discharged
from. custody on his own recog-
nizance Woodward handed over to
Mr.. Peckham number of import
ant documents to be used as evidence in
the forthcoming trial of Tweed, and trans
ferred to the city and county of New York
property amounting to S105, ,000 beside
furnishing security for a restitution OF
$50, 900 more. The Attorney General or
dered the discharge of the prisoner on his
own recognizance, that he might testify