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

JOHN ii. JONES, was reelected L. S.
senator by the Nevada legislature Jan.
18th.
A CHANGE is reported soon to be made
in the Office OF United States Collector
and marshal at New Orleans.
/ INDIAN Commissioner Havt has made
lengthy reply to the items of COM
plant in General Sheridan's report.
THE Cumberland and Ohio rivers
have been unusually high, and great
amount of property was destroyed.
GEN. SIGEL fell upon the ice and broke
his leg recently, when near his home at
Morrisania, New York
SHERIFF WALLACE, of Hamilton
county, Ohio, is short $23, 900 of public
funds.
JOHN BACK, postmaster of French
burg, KY, has been arrested for rifing
valuable letters.
A FIRE at Galva, ILL.,, Jan. 18th de-
stroyed $4,000 worth of property in
the Union block.
ARCH BISHOP PURCELL, of Cincinnati,
| is in financial trouble with liabilities of
nearly half million dollars.
Mrs. COBB, the Norwich, Conn, hus-
band poisoner, has been found guilty of
murder in the second degree.
HoN. GEO. G. VEST was nominated for
the long senatorial term from Missouri
by the democratic legislative caucus,
Jan. 10th.
SITTING BULL has sent twelve runners
tn hn Init Staf fn otf
ment of existing troubles, and return
Of his band.
Gov. VANCE was nominated by the
North Carolina democratic legislative
caucus for United States senator, by &C.
CIamauOn.
A FIRE at Grundy Center, Iowa, JAM
II, destroyed eight business houses, in
Guiding two banks and the postoffice.
Loss estimated at $4,000.
II is feared the steamer Homer, bound
from Boston to Liverpool, is lost. She
has not been heard from since she sail
cd Dec. 18th.
w. ?. HILL was elected United States
senator by the Colorado legislature Jan.
II. He Is president Of the Boston and
Colorado Smelling company.
THE Tennessee river has been on a
regular spree. It rose thirty-eight feet
above high water mark and destroyed
a large amount of property.
In the contributions to the Memphis
Howard Association, Illinois stands sec
ond in the list of states. New York
contributed 500, ,804. and Illinois $52,-
307.
GEN. JAMES SHIELDS was nominated
by the democrats of the Missouri legis-
lature for the senatorial short term,
over David IL. Armstrong, by vote Of
SS to 81, Jan. 10th.
PREsCoTT, Arizona, dispatches says
the territorial legislature adopted a me-
! moral asking congress to appropriate
money for geological and mineraiogi-
cal survey of Arizona.
A CINCINNATI dispatch of Jan. Goth
rsays that VIM. E. Coffin, for many
years teller of the La Fayette bank, and
who has been missing for few weeks,
is defaulter to the amount of 800, 900.
THE Worth and Church streets fire, in
New York city. caused the suspension
of six or eight small insurance COM
/ panies. The block in which the fire
occurred was regarded as valuable, in
/ goods stored there, as any single block
IN the city.
A brutal murder was committed in
Chicago Jan. 10th by drunken brute
/ by the name of Frank Donaghue. He
rose in the night from bed in which
he was sleeping with his friend and fell
/ low-workman, Martin Houston, and
taking pocket knife stabbed him some
/ twenty times about the head.
4 III NEW disease has made its appear
ance among the horses in the lumber
camps of Northern Wisconsin. The
eyes and throat swell largely, and the
joints stiffen. 1t seems to be an epi-
demic, for in some camps all the horses
are sick. 1t is already seriously inter-
fering with lumber operations.
THE 18th legislative assembly of Da-
kota met Jan. 14th and organized. Gov.
Howards message says the territory has
! been wonderfully prosperous for the
| past two years. He states the indebt-
edness of the territory at S17 900 and
asks for a law authorizing an i'm migra-
ton board.
A FIRE On Grand street New York on
the 14th and 10Th of January destroyed
a vast amount of property reaching into
the millions. The Pacific bank, Levy
Bros, Noumberger, krouss & Louer,
Howard, Sanger & Co., Edwin Bates &
Co. were principal losers.
JANUARY IA was a bad day for failures.
Jenkins, Lone & Son of Boston failed for
S225,000; the City Savings Bank of
Oswego, n. Y, closed its doors; and
Jas. III. Prentice, hat manufacturer in
Brooklyn, made an assignment with
liabilities of 100000. BY the latter
failure 200 men were thrown out of en-
ployment.
A CONFERENCE between Chief Red
Cloud and member of Gen. Crooks
staff occurred at Fort Robinson, Neb.,
Jan. IS. The object of it was to secure
the services of some Sioux warri )rs as
scouts in the expedition against the re.
bellious Cheyennes. Red Cloud very
reluctantly decided to allow the U. S
officers to enter his camp for the pur-
T pose OF securing recruits.
D. u. RICHARDS was arralgned anC
tried Jan. 10 at Mindon, Kearney coun
, ty, Nebraska, on charge of numbering
, Peter Anderson, a Swede, on the 9th O.
Dec. last. The jury brought in yer
dict of murder in the first degree
Richards was sentenced to be hanged
April 26, between 10A NJ. and 4 P. NJ
He was indicted but not tried for the
murder of the Haralson family. He
appeared perfectly Indifferent.