Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-23

Walkingham & Voight, 100000; Schua-
bel Bros. S150,000; John Slade & Co.,
$15O,O0O; Henry w. Malloy & Co., $780,
/ 900; VIM. Simpson Sons & Co., $50, 900;
Nonotuck Silk Co., $4,000; B. Smith,
$150,000; Farstnian & Co., S250,0OO.
+ The stove manufacturers, in session at
Rochester, n. u, last week, adopted a
resolution demanding law in ali states
/ forbidding the employment of more
than one-tenth of the convicts in prisons
/ in any one line Of manufacture, and
! ordered a petition drawn embodying
/ the same, to be sent TO the various legis-
latures. New York was selected as the
place Of next meeting.
! II is rumored in Canada that the
British minister at Washington, while
| on his recent visit to the MARQUIS of
| Lorne, conveyed to his excellency a de-
! sire expressed by the Washington cabi-
net to renew negotiations for a reciproc-
I-ity treaty with Canada. The story is
not credited in well-informed Canadian
circles.
/ SHARPE and Mcdonnell were hanged
at Mauch Chunk, Pa, Jan. Il, for the
murder of Geo. X. Smith, coal opera
tor, at Audenried, on the night of Nov.
9TH, 1868. The drop had scarcely fallen
before a telegram arrived from Gov.
HartIanft repreiving the criminals, for
a few days. 1t was too late, however,
as the bodies were already dangling in
| the air. an excited scene followed and
the friends Ofthe dead men were voci-
ferrous for revenge for time. No vio-
lence ensued.
AN Omaha dispatch Of Jan. Is, says:
The captured women and children at
Fort Robinson, will be released at the re-
quest of Red Cloud. The Ogallallas
earnestly desiring that widows and
orphans who are their relatives be turn
ed over to them as their natural pro-
| tectors, to take them to their homes
and care for them. 1t is believed the
adoption of this course will serve to
allay all excitement and really attach
Red Cloud Indians to the government.
A JACKSONVILLE, Fla. dispatch of
Jan. 18th says: Lieut-Gov. Hull has
been indicted by the U. S. grand jury
on charge of conspiracy with others
in obtaining false returns of elections
in Brevard county. Hull was the
democratic candidate for congress at
the late election, from the second dis
trict, and holds the certificate of cleo
ton from the governor. He is presid-
ing oyer the senate at Tallahassee, and
! telegraphs he will be here without SER
vice of warrant.
A SAN FRANCISCO dispatch of Jan. Ia,
says the Giant Powder Works, of Band
mann, Nelson & Co., situated about
half a mile southwest of Golden Gate
Park, blew up this afternoon. Four
white men and number of Cinnamon
were killed. The works were COM
pletely destroyed, and many buildings
in the neighborhood, occupied by en-
ployes, including the superintendent
residence, were wrecked. The explo-
sion occurred in the nitro glycerine
house.
The committee appointed by Gov.
Phel p@, of Mo-, to examine the condi-
ton of the state treasury, has made its
report, In summing up the committee
says: There should have been in the
state treasury December 31st last, $472,-
465 cash, but there actually was but
$129, ,232, leaving deficit of $343, ,233.
Of this amount 1886, 187 is locked up in
the Mastin bank, the remainder is in
county bonds and such other shapes as
not to be available.
A TELEGRAM from Newport, East Ten
nessee, states that gold mine discov-
cred in that vicinity is attracting much
attention from eastern capitalists, that
several scientific and some practical
men had visited the region, and were
well pleased with the prospect. They
say it equals anything they have seen
in California. The quartz has been
found to be rich in gold.
Iii mistake to attribute, as is done
in some newspapers, the mortality in
congress to "the unhealthy atmosphere
of Washington" Of the six congress
men who have died within a year,
Leonard, of louisiana, died of yellow
fever in Cuba; ;Welch, of Nebraska, died
of penumonia at his home; Douglas, of
Virginia, of intemperance; Williams,
of Michigan, of appolexy; Hartridge, Of
Georgia. Of pneumonia, and Schleicher,
of Texas, of erYsipelas.