Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-09
HISTORY OF THE WEEK
MISCELLANEOUS.


January I'd.
The first narrow gauge, through
train started over the Erie road Dec.
Both.
BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, has experienced
considerable fright over the appearance
of smallpox there.
THE board Of inquiry resumed inyes-
tigation in the F'itz John Porter case at
West Point, January Sd.
A SALUTE was fired at Des Moines. Ia.
Dec. 28th in honor of the thirty-second
anniversary of the admission of that
state into the union.
The Canadian parliament has been
prOrogued until February 9th, and will
not then be called for the dispatch of
business.
JUDGE HENRY SMITH, OF Memphis, an
ex-judge Of the supreme court of Ten
-nessee. dropped dead at his residence
Dec. 31st.
CALEB CUSHING, the distinguished
jurist, died at his residence in Newbury-
port, Mass, at II O'Clock p. m. of the
End inst.
JUDGE CHAs. T. SHERMAN, formerly
U. S. district judge, and brother of Gen.
and Secy, Sherman, died at Cleveland,
Ohio, Jan. 1st.
THE Moffat bell punch liquor law in
creased the saloon revenue of Virginia
during 1873, $4,000 over the receipts
OF the previous year.
THE New York gold room was closed
as medium of speculation Dec. 31st.
At the clearing house there will no
longer be gold exchanges.
THE subcommittee of the Potter in
vestigation committee, and also the
yellow fever congressional commission,
met in New Orleans Dec. 30th.
THE new state capital at Lansing,
Mich, was dedicated Jan. 1st, and
thrown open to the public. The legis-
lature OF that stale also met on that
day.
The Mexican government has made
arrangements for the payment of the
third installment of $500, 600 indemnity
to the American citizens, due this
month.
Liz N1SIilllOOb NdfC Ii1dL SHGDb J1C
whole country, beginning on New Years
day, was the most remarkable one for
years. As far south as Memphis the
thermometer was fifteen degrees below
zero.
DURING the past year 917 failures
were reported in New York with liabili-
ties of $63, $685. ,403, and assets at $18,-
$50, ,531. This exceeds Ine record or
any former year, but a large number is
due to tie repeal of the bankrupt act.
A New YORK telegram of December
31st says: One hundred and eighty
deaths the past week from scarlet fever
an increase of so upon the previous
week-impels the board of health to
take action.
The thermometer at Jacksonville,
Fla. fell to 80 degrees on the 9Th inst,
and everything was covered with ice on
account of a drilling rain. This oc-
currence has no equal in thirty years
of Florida history. 1t is feared the
orange trees are injured seriously.
A SANTA BARBARA (CaL) dispatch of
Jan. End says that at 9 P. NJ, in the
midst of a storm of wind and rain, a
tornado struck the city from the south
east, and, occupying narrow path,
tore through several blocks, unroofing
and blowing down houses and outbuild-
ings and uprooting trees.
THE Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad company, made a sweeping
reduction in passenger fare, to take ef-
feet Jan. 1st. The rate is reduced to 4
cents per mile on the main line and all
branches in Kansas, Colorado and New
Mexico. This is reduction of over 33
per cent.
THE Honore block in Chicago, con-
tanning the postoffice, Gen. Sheridan's
headquarters and several law offices,
was partially destroyed by fire on Jan
uary 4th. Nearly everything about the
postoffice was saved. Loss on building
estimated at $3.50, 900; individual losses
about $4,000. Nearly everything, in
Guiding the building, was very largely
insured.
A PHILADELPHIA dispatch of Jan. 2nd
says: The resumption of specie pay
ment in this city caused no stir what
ever. Inquiry at the prominent banks
showed the demand for gold, up to
noon today. very limited. At the
office of the assistant United States
treasurer gold is not being paid out ex-
cept for interest and government obli-
CATIONS, while the business of .resump-
ton for the present is being centered at
New York. ~ -
THE excessive cold weather was sig
nalized by a large number of fires and
great destruction of property. The fol-
lowing fires were reported Jan. 3rd: AT
Osceola, Wis, four dwellings, loss &c.
900; at Columbus, Ga, Rankin House,
loss $4,000; at Chatfeld, Mimi, post
office and seven adjoining buildings.
loss $4,000; at st. Louis, second Bap-
tist church and st. Mary's institute, loss
large; at Portland, Maine, loss $4,000;
at Schoolcraft, Mich, five stores. loss
$4,000.
A NORWICH, Conn, dispatch of Jan.
3rd says: The sensation in the Cobb trial
to-day, was the appearance on the wit
ness stand of Wesley A. Bishop, alleged
paramour of Mrs. Cobb. His testimony
corroborated the story told in his con.
fession already published, to effect that
it was settled between them, that she
was to become free by burying her hus
band. and he by getting divorce from
his wife. He purchased for Mrs. Cobb
aconite and arsenic which she admins
tered to her husband.
A DUBUQUE, Iowa, dispatch of Jan
End says the large stone Touring mill a
Rockdale, 2 miles west of this city, was
burned to the ground. As no other pos
sible cause can be ascertained for its
/ origin, it is believed the fire. originated
from flour gas in the patent flour apart