Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-26

backs and absconded, as IS supposed,
on the Oceanic, for China.
On Dec. 18th a true bill was found
by the grand jury against Samuel L.
Ludlam, who is charged with setting
fire to MS hotel, the Ocean Horse, at
Cape May and with thus causing the
memorial confagration OF Nov. 9.
Ex-PREslDENT MORTON, of the Phila-
delphia Market street railway company
and Samuel B. HuhD, who pleaded
guilty to fraudulently over-issuing the
stock of the company, were sentenced
each to ten years imprisonment in the
eastern penitentiary Dec. 18th.
THE great St. Louis bridge was sold
Dec. Goth under a decree of the court
foreclosing the first secured ,1%JItgaged
bonds. 1t was purchased in the name
of Anthony J. Thomas, OF New York,
who paid $4,000 in gold as earnest
money. The price was s., 100000.
THE harbor and lake convention
which closed its labors at St. Paul, Dec.
10th, was largely attended, and the
proceedings We're very interesting. A
large amount of valuable statistics of
lake traffic was gathered, and the i'm
portance of rendering the harbors more
available was fully set forth.
JACK KEHoE, the Infamous leader Of
the Molly Maguires in Pennsylvania
was hung at Pottsville, Dec. 18th. The
crime for which he was convicted, was
committed June IA, 1862, when he
killed, or assisted in killing, F. w. S.
Langdon. Betribution was long de-
ferred, but it came at last.
AT st. Paul, Dec. Goth, U. S. District
Attorney Billson began proceedings in
twenty-one cases of alleged trespass on
government pine lands. The alleged
trespassers are mostly residents of Min
neapolis and Fort Cloud, lumbermen.
but not prominently known in the busi-
ness.
The jury in the case of Whalen
against Gen. Sheridan, tried in the U.
S. circuit court, in New York, brought
in verdict for defendant after long
trial. The suit was for the recovery Of
over 100000 for the seizure of kilona
plantation, St. Charles Parish, Louisi-
ana, in August, 1867, and the eiectment
of Whalen by the military, on the order
of Gen. Sheridan, who was then mill
tary governor.
The directors of the Northern Pacific
railway met in New Yerk Dec. 18th
10Th. Proposals for the construction of
the Missouri river division of the road
were opened, and the lowest bid for the
first one hundred miles to be completed
by the 1st of November next, was ac-
cepted, and the board ordered revision
of the surveys Of the second one hun
dred miles to the Yellowstone, prepara-
tory to letting work on that.
A PORTLAND dispatch to Governor
Ferry, of Washington, Dec. 22nd, says:
Gen. Terry has been closeted with Gen.
Howard, i'll this city, considering the
alarming state of affairs in the eastern
part Of the territory, and the suspicious
attitude of Chief Moses and his band.
Steps have been taken to secure the
safety of settlers. Two companies of
infantry and two of cavalry will be
despatched to Kittillas Valley as soon
possible. A post will be established
near Ettensburg. Camp Harvey will
be abandoned, and the troops there
stationed at the new post.
The Florida state canvassing board
completed the canvass of the late con-
gressional election returns Dec. 21st, and
gave certificate to Hill, democrat, his
maj rity being Is. The returns of B1e-
ward county, which gave a democratic
majority, was thrown out on account of
fraud, and Madison county, which gave
a republican majority, was thrown out
because one precinct was not included
in the returns. The canvassing board
of Brevard county have been indicted
by the United States grand Jury for Civ
ing fraudulent returns.
Gov. CARRIER, of Nebraska, on Dec.
18th offered a reward of $4,000 for the
apprehension of the gang of villains
who burned Ketchum and Mitchell
alive in Custer county last week. Ad-
ditional information received from Bord-
en- county stamp the outrage as the
worst ever known to have been per-
petrated by civilized men. The two
men we're chained to a pole extended
horizontally, with their feet barely
touching the ground. In this manner
they were slowly burned to death.
People in the western part of the state
are fearfully excited, and the country
will be secured for the apprehension of
the gang.
THE trouble between the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st Paul and St. Paul &
Sioux City railway companies culmi-
mated in an agreement between the
two companies Dec. 10Th, by which
they retain joint ownership ofthe tracks
and gain mutual right of way for a
short line to Minneapolis. A meeting
of Representatives of nine railroads CEN
tering in st. Paul was held at which a
union depot and transfer company was
formed, with a capital of half million.
with authority to handle and transfer al
freight, build side tracks to all indus
trial establishments. and to form con-
nection with any roads that may be
built hereafter. The new com 0any will
builda union depot $50 by 800 feet.
An Ohio Idea.
A countryman came to Xenia, Ohio,
the other day with some friends, to