Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-11-06
GENERAL NOTES.

A FARMINGTON, Me-, dispatch Of Nov
lst says that Jacob Abbot, the well
known author, is dead.
New YORK advices of Nov. 2nd state
that fifteen steamships are overdue. The
cause is doubtless the great storms that
have prevailed on the Atlantic Ocean.
A CINCINNATI telegram Of the 1st inst
says Judge Harmon, superior court, has
made decision sustaining the integrity
and validity of the assignment by Arch
bishop Purcell of number of pieces of
property in trust for the payment of his
debts as against an attachment by the
Jefferson national bank of Steubenville
fora debt of the archbishop. The as
sIgnment was made in good faith, and
for good purpose.
CHICAGO advices of the 1st announce
the death at the Grand Pacific hotel in
that city Of Hon Zachariah Chandler,
Q. S. senator from Michigan. The
death Of Senator Chandler is supposed
to have occurred in the night as the body
was found in bed quite cold and it is be-
lieved that death must have occurred
during sleep. The cause of death is
stated as congestion of the lungs.
AT a cabinet meeting on the 31st the
secretary of the treasury called attention
to the fact that the Dominion of Canada
has prohibited the importation of Amer
lean cattle on account of an apprehen
sion of pleuI o-pneumonia, and as the
same apprehensions are felt among
Americans in regard to Canadian cattle,
it was agreed that an order shall be i'm
mediately issued prohibiting the intro
duction of Canadian cattle into this coun-
try.
A DISPATCH from Cincinnati of Nov.
1st, gives decision recently rendered
in the superior court of interest to church
trustees was also rendered in the case of
John Johnson, who furnished money to
the Church of the Sacred Heart, taking
from the church treasurer a writing that
the church had received the money and
that its property was pledged to the pay
ment. The church is not corporation.
The court decided that the action against
the church property and against the
members was good and was not made
defective By embracing all the members
A GRAND HAVEN dispatch of the 30th
says the wind is blowing hard from the
northwest since early this morning, rem
dering it impossible for tug and lighters
to remove the cargo of the wrecked
steamer Amazon, or to learn her condi-
ton. The sea is running high and the
waves dash over her. 1t is believed that
if the winds continue all day she will go
to pieces. The cabin and furniture are
all broken up and washed ashore. The
hull is badly faggled and filled with wa
ter. There are 5000 pounds of -four in
her hold.
A NEW YORK dispatch of Nov 1st
states that major-general Joseph Hooker
died yesterday. Gen. Hooker had been
in usual health an hour before his
death, and purposed going to
New York tomorrow to attend to
business matters. He gave large din
ner party at Garden City Hotel on the
25th, and has seemed to be in the best
of spirits and to enjoy social intercourse
with his many friends. At 5:45, his
valet, hearing the general struggling for
breath hastened to his side and assisted
him to lie down upon the bed, and the
same time running for help. The hotel
superintendent hurried to the room but
when he arrived the general was dead.
A RAwLINs dispatch of the Goth say;a
courier just in from Gen. Merritt's camp
on White River reports that Gen. Adams,
U. s. peace commissioner, came into
Merritt's camp on the morning of the
Oath with the women and children of the
Meeker and Price families. The cap
tiyes were unharmed, and had not been
subjected to any insult or injury. The
Indians desires peace, and claim to have
been forced into the outbreak. Terms
of surrender have been forwarded to
Washington.
A RAwLINs dispatch of the 30th says
James Drais, General Merritt's chief of
scouts came into Rawlirs this morning
with dispatches and mail. He reports
numerous fresh Indian trails crossing the
road in the vicinity of Williams Fork
and Now Rapids, and also a camp fire
near Milk river, at the crossing of Cot
tonwood creek. On the Muddy he saw
three Indians. He and Eugene Taylor,
one of Merritt's scouts fred upon them
and they retreated up the bed of the
creek. Drais came into Rawlins, warn
ing the escort with the body of Lieutenant
Weir, which was short distance ahead
of him, and also number of ranchmen
on their way to Snake river.
A RAwLINs, Wy, dispatch of Nov.
3rd says courier come in from the
front last night with dispatches and mail.
All was quiet at Merr1tts camp. On the
Goth an Indian came into Merritt's
camp to have a peace talk, he was in
formed that Merritt had no authority to
make peace, he then gravely told the gen.
eral if he would give up his arms, am
munition, horses, and mules he would be
allowed to leave with his men. After
the Indian left the camp numerous
signal fires were observed in the neigh
borhood of the camps. Two companies
of infantry will be stationed at Snake
River to protect stores and furnish es-
corts for wagon trains with supplies for
Merritt
A TELEGRAM was received at the war
department on the 30th from Gen. Nc
Dowell stating that the Hualpiese In
dians, of Northern Arizona, were starv-
ing and asking if they could be fed by
the war department. There being no
appropriation available for such pur-
poses the matter was referred to the de-
partment of the interior.
1t is ascertained at the interior de-
partment that subsistence of the Hualpi-
ese, AriZonia Indians, whom Gen. Nc
Dowell reports TO be starving, was pro-
vided for by the Indian bureau several
months ago, by means of an official letter,
authorizing the war department to issue
rations of beef and -four to those Indians,
and present accounts for payment to the
Indian bureau The term for
which this authorization was Civ
en- will not expire until the 10th
of December, but Commissioner Hayt,
yesterday, extended the time for 60
days from that date. Before the ex-
piration of that period congress will
have an opportunity to make an appro-
priation for the Hualpiese. They are
not agency Indians and no appropria-
ton has ever been made for them spe-