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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-02

to Afghanistan. The Agenco Russo
concludes as follows: events at Cabul
and in the Turcoman territory tend to
prove the necessity of a good under
standing between England and Russia" !"
LONDON press dispatches of the 22d
state that it is generally believed that or
drrs have been sent to the acting Resi-
dent of Mandalay, Burmah, to leave with
his party, as soon as he can, without be-
traying undignifed haste or the appear
ance of fear This measure will give
general satisfaction, as no intercourse
now exists between the Residency and
the Burmah Court without running great
risk AS acting Resident, he has not
been treated with any more discourtesy
than was shown TO the Resident, but the
ordinary civilities and attentions due
representative OF the British Government
have been studiously withheld, and his
presence had not the effect of checking
the cruelties still practiced by the court.
A BERLIN dispatch of Sept. 24th says
there is a growing bitterness towards the
government on the part of the natives Of
AIsace-Lorraine. An extraordinary pres
sure was brought to bear upon the peo-
pie of Srasburg to induce them to par
ticipate in the recent demonstration in
honor of the Emperor, but
they obstinately held aloof, de-
clined to take the slightest part in the
ceremonies. This apparently irrecon-
cilable disposition of t. e ople of those
two provinces is creating considerable
feeling and some uneasiness on the part
of the government.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-02
FIRES,

A FIRE at Dover, n. H., on the 26th
destroyed several buildings. Loss $685.
900.
THE merican carpet factory at Water
town, Mass, was burned on the 25th inst.
Loss, $4,000.
THE barn of Charles Mears, of Lincoln,
was burned Sept. Goth. Twelve horses,
several cattle, and large quantity of hay
and feed burned up. Two former work
men are arrested on suspicion. Loss
about $24,O0O
A BAY CITY, Mich, special of the Goth
says fire at West Bay City this after
noon destroyed Arnold & Catlin's dry
kiln and $4,000 feet Of lumber. Loss,
$4,000 to $4,000; no insurance.
A QUINCY, Ill, telegram of the Goth
says a fire broke out in the bakery and
confectionery establishment of John
Vessels. Loss, $4,000. Insured as fol-
lows: Etna, $500; Newark OF Jersey
City, $1,000; Central Insurance Com
pany, $1,000.
AT East Saginaw on the Goth of Sept, a
fire broke out in the oil barrels adjoining
a building occupied by Alexander La
roche, in West Bay City, and, oommun1
eating to the building, it was completely
gutted. Laroche lived in the upper por-
ton. The loss will approximate $4,000
and $4,000 insurance.
A GREEN BAY, Wis, dispatch of the
25th states that the residence of ex-Sen.
T. O. Howe was burned. The building
was total loss, together with the barn D..
Nearly al. the contents of the house were
saved in good condition, including a
large anu valuable library, and the horses
and carriages. The fire commenced in
an unexplained manner in the rear of the
house. He was insured in the London,
Liverpool, and Globe for $10,0U0.
A LIGoNIER, Ind, special of the both
states that destructive confiagration
visited the town of Albion, county seat
of Noble county, about o'clock this
morning. The fire originated in the
garret of frame building, occupied as a
saloon, belonging to w. White, and
spread to the north with such rapidity
that three frame store buildings, oc-
cupied by A. Fulton, Adam Kimmel and
W. W. White, were reduced to ashes in
a short time. Loss estimated at from
$4,000 to $4,000; partly insured. Nearly
all the goods were removed.
A DEs MONIES, Iowa, special, under
date of the Goth, says the town of Carroll,
Carroll county, has been the theatre Of a
disastrous confagration, resulting in the
loss of $150,O0O to 100000. The greater
portion of the business center of the town
is wiped out. The fire originated in
Henry Chapman's saloon, on Fourth
street. In two hours it had done all the
mischief. The Masonic and Odd Fellows
hall, Presby terian church, and over 40
business houses were burned. Insurance
about $4,000, distributed in the North
American of Philadelphia, the Traders
of Chicago, the Home of New York, the
Phenix, the Springfield Fire and Marine,
the Amazon of Cincinnati, the Fire Asso-
citation of Philadelphia, the State of Des
Moines, the Phoenix Of Hartford, and the
German of Freeport, Ill. Rebuilding
has already commenced.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-02
CRIME.

A BARRIE special of Sept. goth says
Chester Munroe, for the murder Of Thos.
Cook, in the township of Mulmier, last
June, has been sentenced to be hanged
on the 18th Of October.
A PARIS, Ill, special of the goth says
the Edgar circuit court has sentenced the
following persons 10 the penitentiary
Geo.Miller, horse thief, five years; Henry
Jones, horse-stealing, three years; Geo.
Barrett, larceny, two years: Henry White,
larceny, three years.
A STRATFoRD, Conn, dispatch of the
9th states that the Rev Dexter L. Louns-
berry, pastor of Christ Episcopal church;
of this village, was shot dead in his bed,
by his wife, at an early hour this morn
ing. The rectOrY, in which the tragic
affair occurred, is large, tWO-stOry frame
building, on the main street of the viii
lage, nearly opposite Christ church.
A SPRINGFIELD, Mass, telegram of the
Goth of Sept. says that Mr.. Chester Good
ale, a wealthy and prominent citizen of
South Egremont, went TO the barn to take
care of his horses, and, not returning, his
family instituted a search, and found him
lying on the barn floor with his head hor-
ribly gashed and nearly dead. At first
it was suggested he was kicked by a
horse, but soon after a heavy club was
found, also evidence that tramps had
slept in the barn over night, while his
pocketbook, which was supposed to have
contained $3.50, was missing. 1t is evil
dent that the tramps had made MUIR
derous attack upon Mr.. Goodale, and
robbed him. Mr.. Goodale is So years
old, and will probably not survive the
assault, The tramps escaped. Great ex-
citement prevails throughout the region.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-02
CASUALTIES.

MARY CURTIN was caught in a revOlv
ing shaft in a waste mill at Springfield,
Mass, and instantly killed Sept. Goth.
AT indianapolis on the Goth the walls
Of j. & P. Evans oil mill were forced
out by the press of 10000 bushels of flax
seed. Fortunately all the employees
escaped into the street, and the only dam
age IS from the loss Of seed and the wall,
amounting to $4,000. This is the second
accident of the kind occurring to this
firm, the old mill having caved out.
NEW ORLEANS advices of the goth
state that intelligence has been received
there of a terrible accident which hap
pened about ten miles from Port Cortes,
on the Island of Ruatan, on the 9Th inst
A tralu of railroad cars, having on board
400 kegs of gunpowder, was proceeding
on Its way, when falling spark ignited
the powder, and the vast magazine ex-
ploded with deafening noise. The
conductor and all the passengers, num-
Derlng ten, were hurled into the air and
literally blown to pieces. The cars were
OF course demolished, and fragments of
them Were found strewing the ground at
long dist ances.
A TERRIBLE fate overlook three little
children near Battle Creek, Mich. on
the night of Sept. Goth. A dispatch
says Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Long, living
on section 81, in the town of Lee. nut
their three children to bed earlv in The
evening and went to prayer meeting.
They had been absent but short time
when Lambert Bates, one of the neigh
bors, discovered that the house was on
fire. A number of other neighbors dis
covered the fire about the same time and
fastened to the scene. The house burn
ed very rapidly, and when the neighbors
arrived it was a mass of flames. Mr..
Bates broke in the front door,
but was unable to enter the
building on account of the in.
tense heat. Reaching in as far as he
could he succeeded in getting hold of the
bed upon which one ofthe little children,
little 3-year-old girl, was lying, and
pulled it through the door, The girl was
insensible, and would have died in a
few minutes. Prompt measures succeed
ed in saving her, but she is yet very weak.
The other two children perished in the
flames. They were both boys. one
named Frank, about Z years old, and one
about 2, named Henry The body of
the smaller child was almost entirely
consumed, and the other was reduced 10
helpless mass Of flesh. The house,
together with all its contents, was de-
stroyed. The fire is supposed to have
caught from the explosion of kerosene
lamp that was left burning. The un-
happy parents are nearly crazed with
grief.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-02

PROFESSOR GUYoT has published a
new map of the Catsl1ill Mountains, the
result of several summers work i'll the
Catskill region with his barometer and
surveying instruments. He has meas
ured the height Cf over two hundred
places, determined by triangulation the
position of all the many summits, ana
discovered mountains that were not
known to exist. A large part of the re-
gion, especially the southwestern, is an
untracked wilderness of forests; and in
several cases the only chance for max
ing his triangnlation was by climbing
to the tops of the highest trees. He has
found higher points than were before
recorded, and many of them. His Ia
bic of attitudes contains three peaks
over 1000 feet, thirteen over {, 800 feet,
and thirty-six over 8, 800 feet. The
highest point is one of the previously
unknown, Slide Mountain, in the south
ern Catskills; It's height is 4.2O5 feet
above tide.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-02
More Hanging in PENNSYLVANIA.


The board of pardons to-day refused
to recommend the murderers Peter
McMarus and John O'Neil, Mollie
Maguries, of Northumberland county,
and Andrew Tracy, of Mexican, to
favorable consideration of the governor,
and they will be hanged on the 9th of
October. McManus and ONeil on De-
cember Is, 1874, with a club and ham
mer, beat to death Frederick Hesser
the coroner of Northumberland county,
and watchman at a colliery near
Shamokin. The murderers were arrest
ed within this year. Tracy who was d
lawyer in Mexican county, murdered
Miss Mary Riley, his cousin September
Is, 1879, by shooting ner in the head
while she was walking with q compan-
ion. The assassin approached from be
hind. Tracy had been in love with the
girl, and, his friends assert. shot her in
fit of insanity caused by the obstacles
interposed to the intermarriage of cous-
ins in the Catholic Church, of which
Miss Riley and he were members.
Counsel for the commonwealth before
the pardon board asserted the crime
was inspired by jealousy, resulting from
pleasant relations existing between the
prisoner and the girl.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-02
CABLEGRAMS.

A VIENNA correspondent, writing
under date of Sept. Goth, says there is
good reason to suppose that Bismarck's s
interviews with the ambassadors from
Italy and Turkey was very satisfactory
to those countries.
A VIENNA dispatch of the Goth SAYS
GOrtschakoff is expected at Berlin to-
day, on his way to Russia. He will
have an interview with Bismarck, at the
special wish of the czar, to remove any
misunderstanding
CONsTANTINoPE advices under date of
Sept. 26 indicate that the speedy return
of Mahmaud Nedim Pasha to power is
probable. 1t is said that the objections
to him on the part of several powers have
been greatly diminished.
A CAIRO dispatch of Sept. 26 saws
Gen. Gordon Pasha has had a parley
with the general commanding the Abys-
sinians, which has resulted in.the with.
drawal ofthe Abyssinian troops from the
Egyptian frontier, Gen. Gordon has
gone to see the King OF Abyssinia.
THE Liverpool Post of Sept. Goth saws
that in consequence of the prevalence of
foot-and mouth disease among 1900
head of sheep which had recently ar
rived there the privy council is about
to issue an ordor placing American
sheep IN the same category with cattle
A CoNsTANTINoPLE correspondent
telegraphs under date of Sept. Goth: 1t
is thought an understanding between
Greece and Turkey is impossible. War
like preparations are progressing on
both sides. 1t is the opinion here that
Austria is obstructing the efforts for an
understanding, and that, in the event eff
hostilities, she would Immediately oc
eupy Macedonia.
AN official telegram of Sept. 24th.
from Gen. Domakin, commanding the
Russian expedition in Central Asia, states
that an advanced detachment of the ex-
pedition against the Telke TurcomaDs
passed the kopel Diagn on the 11lh inst.
At Bashi and Beurma no Turcomans
were encountered, and only fifty Kibithas
remained at Artchman, the rest of the
population having decamped.
THE semi-official 4gence Russo of St.
Petersburg under date of Sept. Goth de,
nies that Russia is intriguing with AT.
ghanistan, and says: Had Russia
wished to create difficulties for England,
she would have liberated Abdul Rha-
man, the pretender to the Afghan throne.
whom, on the contrary she is watching
in Samarcand, and preventing his flight
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-02
IDS, WIS., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2 1879.
Mrs. J. S. -Prestidge and Alf Watkins
remain in a critical condition.

Mrs. J. S. -Prestidge and Alf Watkins
remain in a critical condition.
Four new cases were reported at
Memphis on the 2Sth and one death
The total number of new cases for the
week is SO; whites, Al; colored, %; total
number to date, 1879. Total rumber of
deaths from yellow fever for the week,
81; white, &c; colored, 5. Total deaths
10 date, SS2 The donation to the How
ards, today, aggregate 366,49. These re-
ports show they have III nurses on
duty, attending 102 white, and 81 colored
families. At a meeting of the safety
committee, a resolution was adopted to
dispense with the services of two colored
companies after the 1st of October Ten
days extra rations will be issued to the
men when disbanded.
OAK GROVE advices of the 23th says
the first case here was Miss Retta Man
ming, taken Sept. II, and died the
22nd; Charles Campbell, taken Sept. 20 :;
now convalescing; Willie Manning,
taken Sept. Goth, and died Sept 25th !;
John T. Bailey, taken Sept. 25th, still
sick. The disease is genuine yellow
fever, the infection being traced to some
goods which John W. Bailey purchased
in Memphis for Miss Retta Manning to
whom he was engaged. There are 3
members of the same family liable to the
disease. About twenty people in the
neighborhood have also been exposed to
the disease, from visiting the patients be-
fore it was ascertained that they had the
yellow fever. Oak Grove is in Marshall
county, Mississippi, 80 miles southeast
of this city. A regular shot gun quar-
antine has been established by the Mis-
sissippi authorities around two dwellings
where the fever exists, and every pre-
caution has been taken to prevent its
further spread
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-02
GENERAL NOTES.

ADvICEs from Berlin of the 2Sth indi-
cate that Germany will participate in
the proposed monetary congress.
TIE employees in Bingham, Knight &
Co.'s cigar factory at Battle Creek, Mich,
struck on the oath for $3.50 per thousand,
and gained the strike. The former price
was Sc
AT Louisville, Ky, Gus Burke, an en-
plove of J. Y. Escott & Son, who lived
on Rose Lane street, near Jackson, died
on the oath, after great suffering, from
eating some toad stools that he had gath
cred, thinking them to be mushrooms.
Two brothers also partook, and are lying
in critical condition, the chances being
against their recovery.
A FALL RIVER dispatch of the 24th
says there are indications that the spin.
ners' strike in this city is about over, and
the general opinion seems to be that if
the manufacturers would discharge the
knob-stick spinners and employ all their
old help at the old wages, the strike could
be eEded in a few hours.
4 NEW YORK telegram of Sept. 9th
says the steamship Neckar, from Europe,
has brought S745,0O0 of gold coin. The
steamship City of Brussels, from Liver
pool, has brought $4,000 in gold coin.
The Neckar has brought SSOO,O0O, of
which S5O0,0O0 is American gold coin.
A KNOXVILLE, Tenn, dispatch ofSept.
9th says Anthony Blain, colored, was
hung at Morristown, this evening, for
the murder OF Maggie Walker, his STEP
daughter, July last. After conviction,
the prisoner refused to make applica.
ton for new trial and also objected to
appeal to the court of last resort.
A PROVIDENCE telegram Of Sept. 2Sth
says further hearing was had, this af-
t,rnoon in the supreme court, upon an
application of Mrs. Sprague for uus-
tee. Mrs. Sprague's counsel withdrew
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-02
YELLOW FEVER,

A MEMPHIS dispatch of the 25th re-
ports ten additional cases Of yellow fever
and two deaths.
MEMPHIS advices of the 9th state that
six new cases were reported for the day,
three of whom are colored. Among
those reported this afternoon is Wm
Kranz. Two additional deaths have oc-
CURED, Edward Kopeltsky and Louis
Kores. Last named is colored. Dona-
tions to the Howards, to-day, were $1,000
from chamber of commerce, New York,
and $40 from F. c. Buell., New York.
-Four cases of fever are reported ten miles
south of Bailey station, Tennessee Five
deaths have recently occurred in a family
named Bailey, residing at that point.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-02
A Lonely Mans Death.
Troy (Penn.) Gazette.

On Sunday last there died a man well
known by name to our citizens, but one
of those mysterious beings whose inner
life is fast-locked secret, even to their
fast friends. Fer twenty years John
Christian has lived in our village, and
yet, in that time, we doubt if he has
ever told one person the secret of his
life. An honest and industrious man,
who paid his debts, paid the men he
employed, supported himself until the
last few weeks, when worn with dis
tressing disease that had not allowed
him to go to bed for many years.
brothers of the Masonic lodge cared for
him, there is mystery about his life.
He SAID nothing to any one of his re-
latives or friends, and died a stranger
in town where he had lived for
twenty years, and where he was holding
an office. When brothers of the lodge
examined among the effects, they found
not one scrap of paper, one registry
or letter that would show that
he had the usual humanities;
not one word to indicate that there was
any human heing in whom he had an
affectionate interest; and yet he was
an intelligent, gentle, kindly-disposed
man whose sufferings called forth SYM
pathy. Hidden away IN trunk was
silver cup, containing a silver watch
and dollar IN money, and, wrapped
up carefully in a package by itself,
Iady's slipper. IL another place in a
box was an embroided lady's work-bag,
but no letter, no name, nothing to indi-
cate who it was in whom he had an IL
tcrest sufficient to make him keep these
things. Were they mothers or wife's
Or friends? Not word to tell! No one
knew where he was born or where he
had lived, what his age, what relatives
he had.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-02
In the town of South Starksboro, Vt

In the town of South StarksbOro, VT,
in Addison county, resides a family
named Hoskins, who, during the ad-
ministration of President Lincoln, be-
came the parents of three boys at one
birth. President Lincoln, upon hearing
of the circumstance, named them as
follows: Abraham Lincoln, Simon
Cameron, and Gideon Wells. The three
babes have now grown to manhood, and
are strong, active and healthy men. A
New York Sun correspondent visited
them last week and was surprised to
learn that the parents have several 9TH
er children born some time before the
trlp!ets, and others that were born after
them. The mother has a sister who
has given birth to twins several times,
to three children at another time, and
four at another, making seven children
within seventeen months. A part only
of these children survived the first year,
but the mother is now living, having
lost her husband about year ego. The
town of South Starksboro, where these
prolific people reside. is a wild, noun
famous region, principally settled by
lumoelmen, and their hardy mode of
lie tends 10 develop healthy, vigorous
men and women.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-02

The United States District Attorney
in Salt Lake City is to be instructed to
assist the next Grand Jury at Salt Lake
City, which meets next month, to ex-
anime the Endowment House, where
all the polygamouS games are cele-
brated. An attempt will be made to
bring the records of the Endowment
House into court, and the Department
Of Justice will make vigorous prose
cution of the case.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-02
Taxation and Debt, East and West.
New York Times.


Surprise is exhausted in respect to
the facts of western growth. Whenever
the statisticau comes forward with the
latest collection of data upon the in
creased productiveness and expansion
of that section, we expect, almost as a
matter of course, nothing but a fresh
series of marvels. In the paper upon
this topic read before the Social Sci
ence Congress at Saratoga by MIR. Rob
ert P. Porter, of Chicago, there is no
failure upon this score. We accept
without question its statement Of the
wonderous increase of population in the
trans-Alleghan region; of the constant
extension of the area of soil brought
under cultivation; and the rapid growth
of manufacturing enterprise there.
Such facts, marvellous as indeed they
are, scarcely move US, for they are
what the history of the last quarter of a
century or more bas taught the world
to expect. But some figures which
Mr.. Porter offers upon the comparative
Indebtedness of nine selected eastern
and western states, and the ratio of
taxation to population and the value of
property in each group, have much of
novelty in them. They have, too, q
special interest at this time, when so
much is heard about the crushing in
debtedness Of the west, and the hard
heartedness of eastern capitalists in de-
manding repayment of the loans they
have made there. II Mr.. Porter's
figures can be accepted as correct, they
enable us to understand how much
justice there is in these complaints.
In the first place, Mr.. Porter presents
figures in proof of his assertion that
the ratio of necessary living expenses
to annual earnings is less for persons
living IN western states like Illinois
than for persons OF the same class liv-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-02

The two,cent postal-card is coming,
ana will soon be in general circulation.
Ii has two stamps, one at each end, and
spaces for two messages. The sender
who desires information valuable to
himself occupies one of the spaces, and
the leturn correspondent the other.
One stamp is cancelled st the office
from which it is originally sent, and the
other at the return office.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-02

/ Central Africa lives a king, who
according to Commander Cameron, de-
mands dine praise for himself, an
proclalms the DEGREES of the deity or
deltles which reaclhi from the mouth
Of an idol which re consults, and which
nobody bat himself and single priest
ess is ever allowed to see. Like many
another sovereign in Christian lands, he
religiously keeps matters pretty much
IN his own hands.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-02

CAPTAIN GENERAL BLANCo, Of Cuba,
has issued a general order TO the army
announcing that insurgents attacked
the village of Mayari, in the province
of Santiago &c Cuba. The garrison de-
tended the village until the arrival of
reinforcements, when the insurgents
were defeated.