Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-21
WEST AND SOUTH,

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localities for aid in behalf of the sufferers
from the Mount Carmel tornado. ANY aid
from cities or towns that may be sent to R.
S. Gordon, Mayor, or Judge 7. j. shannon,
of the banking house of Shannon & BeaI,
Chairman of the Relief Committee, will be
wisely and faithfully appropriated toward
those who are worthy and needy.
! THREE squares, bounded by Market, Twen-
| ty-frst and Twenty-second streets and the
bay, in Galveston, Texas, were destroyed by
fire on the morning of the Sth. The loss was
estimated at over 81 100000
THE International Typographical Union, at
its recent session in Louisville, KY, elected
the following officers for the current year:
| President, Darwin r. Streeter of St. Louis; !;
First Vice-President, Edward Griffin, of Bal
timore; Second Vice-President, Edwin Fitz-
George, of Trenton, n. j.; Secretary and
| Treasurer, John O'DonnelI, of Boston, Mass,
reelected; Corresponding Secretary, John
Armstrong, of Toronto, Canada.
THE Brownsville (Texas) Sentinel of the
| 10th announces that disease something like
| cholera had broken out among the troops at
| Ringgold Barracks. About thirty were in
hospital, and six had died. The attack COM
menced with diarrhea and collie. similar
disease had appeared in Brownsville and sew
eral cases had proved fatal.
AT its recent session in Chicago, the Amer
lean Medical Association passed resolutions
urging that the Government duty on quinine
be removed.
IT was reported, on the 18th, that Senator
Ferry, who had been seriously ill at his
home in Grand Haven Mich, was much bet
| ter and out of danger.
A COLLISION occurred, on the morning of
the 18th, near Point of Rocks, Md, between
the regular morning accommodation train
from Winchester, Va, and q special ex-
cursion train from Frederick to Washing
ton with an excursion party for Mt Yer
| non. The engines crashed into each
other. Four persons were instantly killed
and eighteen wounded, all on the
excursion train. The killed are: Charles FL.
Keifer, editor of the Frederick Examiner;
Richard Detrow, merchant; Dorsey Walker,
merchant, and Howard E. Dickson-all of
Frederick City. A Frederick dispatch says
the accident was attributable 10 the gross
carelessness and negligence of the train men.
A TELEGRAM was received from Senator
Morton, on the 18th, announcing the arrival
of himself and party at San Francisco. They
will leave there for Oregon about the Goth,
and will not begin the Grover investigation
before the lst of July.
THE Virginia City New Chronicle of the
18th publishes an account of an interview
on the Mormon question with w. W. Bishop,
who defended John d. Lee. He states, from
intimate personal knowledge of Mormon
affairs, if Brigham Young thinks he can
stand trial and get clear there will be no
resistance; if he apprehends convic-
ton he will unquestionably fight. His
followers will stand by him to the
last man. Higbee, Haight and Stewart can
| only be taken by superior force of United
States troops. Under the present jury sys-
TEN, it is simply impossible to convict any
of the other assassins in Utah. Lee was con-
victed only because Dist.-Att'y Howard sue
ceeded in making Young believe that by the
conviction of Lee, Utah would be admitted
into the Union as a State, whereupon Young
ordered his conviction for the good of the
church.
On the 11th, the First National Bank of
Mount Vernon, ILL.,, sent package contain
ing $4,000 per Adams Express to the Third
National Bank of St. Louis. 1t did not reach
its destination, but on the 18th package of
brown paper was delivered instead.
AN Atlanta (Ga.) dispatch of the 14th says
the recent election in that State on the ques-
ton of holding Convention to remodel the
Constitution had resulted III a maj aiority of
10000 in favor of such Convention. The
counties in the northern part of the State
were almost unanimous in favor of the
measure
THE proposition to settle the old railroad
bond Indebtedness of Minnesota by the is
sue of new six per cent. bonds for half the
amount of the old seven per cents, payable
in thirty years, has been defeated at the polls
by heavy majority.
THE Common Council of Chicago have
passed an ordinance prohibiting the retailing
of fireworks in the city.
IN Chicago, on June 14th, Spring Wheat,
No. 2, closed at S1.50@15O15 cash. Cash
corn closed at 464c for No. 2. Cash oats
No. 2 sold at 3S14c; and 3715037$4c seller
July. Rye No. 2, &c. Barley No. 2 (new),
9215c. Cash Mess Pork closed at S12 80. Lard,
SS.65@S.70. Beeves-Extra brought $3.50
@6.75; Choice, s6.00@6 25; Good, $500
5.75; Medium Grades, S5O0@5 25; Butchers
Stock, SS.50@475; Stock Cattle, etc, $500
475 Hogs brought s445@5.S5 for Good
to Choice. Sheep sold at s2.75@5.0O for
Poor to Choice.