Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02
THE WORLDS WORK.
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS
SIX of the most valuable houses ot
Gardner, ILL.,, were destroyed Dec. 26th.
EZRA WILSON. of Boston, first killed
his divorced wife and then shot himself
December 25th.
Snow fell to the depth of four feet in
Western New York on Christmas, and
all railroads were blocked.
The Chicago and Northwestern freight
depot at Fond du Lac, Wis. burned on
Christmas. The books were saved.
G. BAILEY, stock-raiser and merchant
of Plattsville, Wis, was gored to death
Dec. 26th, by bull that was Oil his farm
Two men were killed and five wound
ed by boiler explosion in the D0min-
ion paper mills at Kingsley, Canada
Dec. 25th.
THEi court house and nearly all the
county records OF De Kalb county, Mo-,
were burned Dec. Goth. Loss estimated
at 100000.
CHIEF MOSES and ten of his principal
supporters have been captured in Ore
gon. The backbone Of that Indian re-
bellion is broken.
THE Globe and Niagara Touring mills
at Black Rock, near Buffalo, burned on
Christmas. Loss $4,000; insured for
about $4,000.
THREE engines and snow plow ran off
the track of the New York and Oswego
Midland railroad, near Fulton, n. Y,
D &c. Goth, and killed two employees.
S. D. RICHARDS, the murderer of nine
Nebraska people, was captured at Steu-
benville, Ohio, Dec. 23d, and confessed
to a hideous record of crime.
A Boston telegram under date of De-
cember 9th says: Rev. Leonard
Woods, 1T one time president of Bow
doin college, and author of many vol
umes, is dead.
THE people of Kansas City distrib-
uted provisions and groceries to the
needy poor of that place on Christmas.
The whole city, nearly, joined in the
splendid charity.
A FIRE in Cleveland Dec. 24th des
trOyed property belonging to the Stand
ard Oil company amounting to $200,000
y
AFTER five hours deliberation the Jury
in the trial of Joe. S. Peters and Mrs. A
B. Clark for the murder of the latter's
husband at La Grange, ILL.,, returned a
verdict of not guilty as to both Dec. q.
GENERAL d. c. McCULLUM, formerly
general superintendent of the Erie rail,
way, and subsequently at the head OF
the government railway service during
the war of the rebellion, died in Brook
lyn, Dec. 9th.
AN engine of the Lehigh Valley road
while rounding curve near Hazelton,
Pa, Dec. 10Th, umped the track, kill
ing the fireman and brakesman and
badly scalding the engineer, and track
man.
THE latest reports from the revenue
raid in Fentress county, Tenn, is to the
effect that forty-six illicit distillers have
been arrested and bound over to the
United States circuit court, and illicit
concerns valued at SC, 900 destroyed.
A VICTORIA, British Columbia, dis
patch of Dec. 9th says, on the 18th Of
December, John Boyd killed in cow
ardly manner Thomas O'Brien, at Fort
Wrangel, Alaska. The citizens tried
him by a jury of his own selection
found him guilty and hung him next
day.
A PHILADELPHIA dispatch under date
of December 9th says: Ex-COngress.
dence at Winnewood, last night, 10 visi
a neighbor, and was found before mid
night frozen to death by the roadside
The deceased represented the 5th dis
trict in the 45th congress.
A SUB COMMITTEE of the Potter com
mittee, consisting Of Potter himself
Cox, of Ohio, and Stenger, left Wash
ington December 30th for New Orleans
to finish the investigation of election
returns in that state. AS that commit
tees appropriation is exhausted, tbs
remainder of the investigation will be
carried on at personal expense.
A Boston telegram of Dec, 9th says
One of the boldest highway robberies
which ever took place in this vicinity is
claimed to have occurred late last night
in East Boston, when Edward Revett, 9
pawnbroker, was knocked down by two
unknown ruffians and robbed of $3.50
and iewelry, ETC., valued at $500 more
He says he lay four hours in the street
before he regained consciousness, anC
was nearly frozen.
THE long and notorious trial of Mrs
Belinda Mack, of GAINESVILLE, Wis, in
dIcted for numbering her husband il
company with the hired man, Franz
Dickerson, ended Dec. Goth, with yer
dict of guilty of murder in the first de
gree. She was sentenced to states pri
son for life. Dickerson, who swore ht
had held improper relations with Mrs
Mack, and who turned states evidence
will be tried later.
MAJ MORRILL,, of the engineer corps
has written letter for publication, il
which he shows that Capt. Eads is no
the inventor of the jetty system, bu
that it has been used by our militar,
engineers for fifty years. He also queS
tions the success of the jetties at th,
mouth of the Mississippi, as Capt. Eads
contract looks for depth of so feet
and he has thus far obtained only {
depth of % feet, although he has beer
paid in advance for depth of 2S feet
A WASHINGTON special of Dec. 27tl
says: The bureau of statistics has jus
issued very interesting statemen
showing the exports of provisions from
the United States during the month o
October last, the totals of which are a
follows:
| Articles Value. Article. Value.
BaSoa. B2,l s. 6sa 05l Butter 90 q s9 s9
Fresh Beef =. 81, 214 Lard ......... ], o., I6
Salted beef. 156, 994 Eggs. -. Al
Pork ..-....... 344, $50 allow =. 80. 453, 6U