Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-10-18

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+ War Department. $40 Az 76
( Library of Congress. Observation-Disclosures. p s
Court of Claims. =. ........... /. aG5. As
Treasury Department. 273, 50
/ POstofice iepartment..-.. ......-.... 20. 90
I Navy Department. 2OO, IS
/ Judicial. .....-........... 262, So
Total. .......... ............... Ss6, sos, so
Accompanying these estimates are
the following, submitted by the secre
tary of war without recommendation
Forts and Notifications, S2,06S,OOO; riv
ers and harbors, S132, POI. Estimates
of 1901 ,453 for permanent annual ap
preparations were also submitted fol
| the information of congress, but is no
recommended.
CUBAN PLUCK.
A Havana telegram of the 10th say7
the eighth anniversary of the declara
ton of Cuban independence was cele
brated to-day with appropriate services
by the congregation of the church O.
Santiago, West 22d street. Rev. Mr
Depolena preached sermon suitable
to the occasion, and urged the necessity
for sacrificing everything, if occasion
required, to the principles of the revo-
luton in Cuba.
THE MEXICAN TROUBLE.
Advices from Elpaso of the 14th show
the most serious and threatening state
of affairs in the entire lower portion o.
Elpaso country, by the possession of q
mob, and Americans throughout the
country have abandoned their homes
and fled to Elpaso for safety. Judge
Howard, who killed Lous Cardiz at El-
paso on the 10th inst, succeeded in
making his escape to Massala, where he
still remains. Cardiz is said to be lead
er of mob who are more desperate
and threatening in consequence of his
death. The sheriff of Elpaso is also al
Massala, but refuses to return with
Howard, as the latter would be killed
Immediately by the mob, while the
sheriff himself will be killed if he dares
to return without Howard. Lent Payne
who is in charge of detachment OF
troops, says four companies will be re-
quired to suppress the mob. A large
number of Vallanes are encamped neal
the county seat.
REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL CAUCUS.
\ Washington telegram of the 10th
says the republican members of the
House in caucus this morning nom
mated General Garfield, of Ohio, fol
speaker; Gen. ]. NJ Rusk, ex-membel
from Wisconsin, clerk; Ordway, of New
Hampshire, sergeant-at-arms; Harri
son, of Tennessee, doorkeeper; Sher
wood, of Michigan, postmaster; J. HI
Butler, of the District of Columbia
chaplain. The nominations were made
by acclamation, except that for clerk
Gen. Harry White nominated Leonard
Myers, who received II republican
votes, and was then Withdrawn, wnere
upon Rusk's nomination was made
unanimous. Gen. Garfield was placed il
nomination by Monroe, of Ohio. Case,
of the republicans involved in contests
to-day were brought before the caucus
and briefly explained; it was agreed
that the members of caucus should holC
firmly together in their behalf, anc
Messrs. Garfield, Hale, Conger Butler
of Massachusetts, and Williams of Mich
igan were appointed to take the leaC
in the management of the various con
tests.
ANOTHER TRAIN kOBBER CAUGHT.
A st. Louis special of Oct. 18th states
that another of the Big Springs trair
robbers was caught in Galway county
Missouri. He had on his person at the
time OF his capture s., 500.
CHIEF JosEPH's BATTLEFIELD.
A Helena, Montana, telegram of the
18th says Gen. Miles abandoned his
battlefield in y the Bears Paw
mountains on the morning of the
9TH inst, and started to return to hi
camp on the Yellowstone. He was ac
companied by the surrendered band O
| savages and his own wounded. There
is little left to mark the scene of the
Indian disaster. EThe rife-pits occupied
by the savages remain as a monumen
to their endurance, and the carcasses o
the animals killed during the fight arr
all that is left to remind one of the con
flict. The snow which has fallen in the
mountains has obscured nearly all tht
other evidences of the fight.
MINISTER TO RUSSIA.
A telegram from Washington of Oct
10th says the president has rendered
the Russian mission to a New Yorker
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4 TERRIBLE FATE.-In India, leper
are occasionally buried alive. When {
leper is past all hope of living NOR,
than Il few days or weeks his nearest re
lations arrange, with his approval, fo
his immediate interment. Self-destruc
ton by burial is called samadh, and il
regarded as SO highly meritorious tha
the disease is sure to die out in The
family of the victim So lately as 1877
leper named Oomah, living and linger
ing at Serohi, entreated his wife to pu
an end to his misery. A Bunnia, o.
tradesman, was accordingly engaged t.
make the necessary arrangements
which simply consisted in hiring {
couple of laborers to dig hole int
which they thrust Oomah, consentins
to his own death. The curbar, coerce(
by the British Government, at length
took cOgnizance of this incident, anC
fined the widow one hundred rupees
The Bunnia was sentenced to three
years imprisonment, and the grave
dlggers each to two years, but it is yer,
unlikely that they will undergo half tina
punishment.
MoOsEN MINNESOTA. Last week Fri
day. Mr.. Mckenzie, living few miles
north of here, shot and killed monste
moose, within four miles of Bush City
He seemed to be stray one, having
probably fed away from the herd, anC
when killed was feeding among some
cattle. He stood over six feet high. anC
to look at was larger than a horse, anc
was nearly coal-black Moose used tc
be quite plenty here in years gone by