Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-10-24
is, THURSDAY, OCTOBER "a. 1878.

| h1hG DOuIhe, tie leader or TIT
gang and a notorious desperate
and wounded Dan Dement, whc
however, escaped. Three other .
the gang also got away, but the posse
started IN pursuit at once, going soutl
toward Fort Dodge. Mike Bourke was
the leader of the band that robbed the
Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe train a
Kingsley, and the Kansas City, st. 10
d Council Bluffs train at Winthrop, some
months ago. 1t is believed that the cap
ture of Bourke will break up one of the
strongest and most desperate bands OF
thieves and robbers ever organized.
LORD DUFFERIN's FAREWELL.
A Quebec dispatch of the 10Th, says
Notwithstanding the worst storm Of the
season, this morning thousands of citi
zens turned out to-day to say farewell tc
Goyernor-General Duferin who sailed
to-day for England.
CLOSE OF THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION.
a Chicago dispatch of the 10Th saws
The exposition which closed tonight has
thanks 10 successful management, been
the most interesting and largely attend
ed of any ever held here. Thousand.
from outside the city have visited it
daily, and the exhibition as we'll as
spectators have derived profit and
pleasure.
CROP STATISTICS.
A Washington Associated Press tele-
gram of the 10Th says: Returns to the
department Of agriculture place the
acreage and condition of the corn crop
at 96, an increase of 4 over the Septem-
Der average, which brings the figures up
to those of August. The average condi-
ton is 3 per cent. less than in October,
1877; as the acreage has been but slight
ly enlarged, this difference may be tax
en- as fair Indication of the productive
yield. The out turn of the crop will not
vary largely from 100000, 1000 bushels.
While the October returns do net mate
rally change the statistical aspects of
the wheat crop, the yield on the whole
will be in advance of that of last year,
and from present indications will exceed
400, ,000.0 900 bushels.
REVIVAL OF TRADE.
A telegram from New York, dated
Oct. 18th says: The first seven weeks
of the fall trade show that the sales
have been better than during any of
the corresponding periods since the
panic. Since the 1st of January there
has been an increasing balance of for
elgn trade in our favor, equal to $85,-
100000 at this port alone, and the ex-
! ports are now regularly far in advance
or the imports. Inquiries extended
among prominent merchants elicit the
belief that the revival of trade has actu-
ally begun
FAILURES OF 1878.
New York advices of the 10th inst.
says the authentic figures of actual
failures all over the United States dur
ing the third quarter of the year have
| been awaited with more interest than
usual, owing to the large numbers who
sought to avail themselves of the ma
tiOnal bankrupt law prior to its expira-
ton, on September 1st. Statistics for
each quarter for the first nine months
of the year are now furnished by the
mercantile agency of Dun, Barlow &
Bro. as follows: Number of failures
for the Sd quarter of 1873 were 1888;
the liabilities for the last quarter are
500, 100000 as compared with $42, ,000,-
900 tor the same period of 1877. For
the first nine months of 1873 the fail
ures numbered S,768 as compared with
$3.50 for the same period in 1877.
Liabilities for first nine months of 1873
were $197 100000 against $141 ,OOO,-
900 for nine months of 1877. 1t is
admitted that the petitions in bank
ruptcy filed in the period named con-
siderably exceed the figures given
above, but it must be understood that
| large number of applicants for relief
were either those whose failures had
been previously reported or those who
had gone out of business or were not
engaged in mercantile pursuits, and
hence not included in the mercantile
failures. The above figures refer to
failures only among those who were in
active business and suspended payment
during the period under review. The
agency considers that the number of
actual failures was not as large as might
have been anticipated, among 100000
traders reported in business, and in
| view of the temptation oferedt to certain
relief from past misfortune or antici-
! patton embarrassment. The trade of
the country is believed to have survived
what threatened to be serious shock
to the confidence and to the credit
growing out of the circumstances of the
repeal of the bankrupt law; and ex-
cepting the unfortunate epidemic in the
south, the general conditions of trade
are more healthy than at any time
since 1873.