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Spktiai Dtspateh 10 7ae Chteaao Tribune.
Iowa C1rY, H., Jan. 5.-Thc District Court
Is In session here, at which began the celu-
br atcd conspiracy caso Of tho State agalMst
A. A. Kennedy 4 Co., ,dry.goods merchants
Of Oxford, q yi1lnge fl this county, twelve
miles west OF here. They arc cllhrg.u with
conspiracy to tefrnud thoir creditors, and
with arson. 1t will occupy several slay5.
, 1881-01-06

NEW HAVEN, Jan. 6.-cAarles N, Harlan.
arrested Monday for robblng Ellhu Slerry''s
safe OF $4,000 III securities. confessed to-
day tl.at |le porpetrated ths deed, and linpll.
Gated August l,odenscllatz. gardener for
Edward Ma!ley, i. dry.Fouds laerchant.
lsruWcr ana Reilly found tho bonds aud
other yniunbles In Ills h0t.ll0use.
, 1881-01-06

Bpte&a! utpatea 10 1ns Chicago 1tsbun4,
CA,ito, ILL.,, jan. Stills morning q new
born inulatto hube WIS discovered III mn old
carpot.suck III q h,rrel u,ler tue plank
walk corner Of Levee And Twelfth. streets.
1t wus fruzen stltf, and Its throat wis cut,
which showed that; 1t Ind beon murdered.
M Glow to Tie perpetrator,
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ROBBED ON TIE CARS.

6pSsEd1 J3Fp0{tH to TN EH1ta90 7t1b4Hss
CLINTON, ILL.,, Jan. 6.-Josepll Tiofentaler,
a deaf and dumb mute, Of Chicago, wlltlo
coming from Chicago to Normal, on Ills way
to Clinton, was robbed OIL thu cars BY sharp
ers OF n flno watch worth S55. md money to
the saIne amount. After getting Ills money
capped III tho darkness. Tiefontalcr s1ly8 that
lie would not be able to Identity tho vlllalns,
their work Wa5 dUne SO quick.
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spstEat DspaftA 10 9h4 CAEdN Iftb90s
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 6.-A special
from blurfreesboro ,says q band ot K4-klux
visited tho house Ut 1lelry Miller (eolose4)
last M!glIt to whip hi,n for supposed arson:
tho mob, Instantly killing. l.. II, Newman.
Yle mob dispersedt loaytnR thu body wlcEo
1t fell,
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tho sco,ln,rol. Under the statute Inv Of
Texas, ho is justlnoblo for protecting hlssis-

AnNESTED FOR RTEAIINt7 MULES,
Special Dtspaseh 10 1hs Chicago Tribune.
CARitsvtrr.r. ILL.,, jan. h.-Yesterday
Clark Swim. u former resident, was arrcsicd
charged with stealing two mules, harness,
.at,d wagon from, Ills uncle, William johnson,
WHO lives nrnr Dloomtnoton. Swim Ind
disposed OF tho mules tn Thomas Calldnl, OF
thls city, for .S4,5. lie was takon to Blooms
inpton fir trial.
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bovelet, thnt thor mny be- glued 70 as 70 no a.
most Invisible. Mr. Hos hns 4 act of ' Altlson's
History nf EAr,pe," illustrated ty himself with
over Ian cnEruvlng., all Of which nrp artists
prnofA. 1fo lns IN tInHk Walton, nlsO prOfuscty
Illustrated 1T EreAt coat.
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ISnfANAro11s,.J Jai,. 6.-Thc trial Of Mrs.
Brown for the murtior Ut her h,.sbhnd was
concluded this afternoon. md given to the
jury at hutf-past 4, but they had not roaclle,l
Il verdict ut IL O'Clock.
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LEAvENwo1rr1i, Kas., inn. Cd. =. Free
man. n druggist fr0m Chicago, who obtained
u situation with j. e. Vaughn about II month
nEo. uccnlnped yesterday. lnklng with lin Il
considerable sum Of money belonging 10 Ills
employer.
, 1881-01-06

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pointed as the Committee. -
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resolution calling on the Federal Goycril-
l1lellt TO pension the soldiers of the Florida,
DlacklIawk, and Mexican wars, and to slmi.
larly remember tho widows ol tho dead pa-
trlots.
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before the resolution was half read, and tho
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more staid and prosaic than in tho IIouse.
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, 1881-01-06
CRININA AL CALENDAR.
TIE 1iUFOilD CASE.
Sptttdt Dtspateh to TAs ttAltaeo Tribune.

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TIE HuFONn CASE.
sptttaa bt'patea to 1at Galeaso 7ftauns
og nSgsvf trs sr ns ny murder Ss: tS o. uao 'iS5 Hot
OF Tho Court u Appeals vas cal!eF! at ,,' oWen.
ton uaf. lie tte1ohso oojeeted 10 the sit1!nE
Jut1Rc, Mayor, anil special election failed to
n,yatts Tim anpointmont BY Tho Governor of a
julre TO try 1t,
OwESruy, Ky,. Jan, "A specta1 TORN OF
tho owen Circuit Court. called for the pt,r-
pose of trying Col, Tl.omns Iufor,t, cltargell
will, the murder ot Juttgo j, NJ. Elliott, COLI
vcnctt nt Owcuton ttlis morning Judge L. u.
Major IN tIo brnrI. Tile distinguished at-
tornoys, Col. ], 4, Pra1j, Col, Phil u, Thump-
son. {lcn. John NU,ln,al,, and ex-Jl,ttge T.. j.
McNannn,a arrived Mt Spartn OF, the morning
train from louisville, md voro driven over
Tho Owen hills IN slctxhs. Tho ride was far
from a.ielje,ttul ote, Aslow, tlrtzzilng rain,
llatoycntuallyc ycl,nngcd fllto snow: blew incur
faces tlie oiltiro WAY. my 1aato tne tMa,w1nE
Nv so p1scss r1,s nstivaa cntni nu H t,a dst"n ~
frn,n Snarta in Owrntutl as tIlrtren nliirs,
but this is "tat1y," md rs such ls n decitletl
case Of "Iengtl'elctt sweetness long drawn
the dlstancu fs ft!tly seyelltecn nliles.
c1ul term to oFdsr. Mr.. q. +. De1nrnett,
recently elected C11,'omwenats ;AttornSy
clines to prosecute the case, nn;l Judge Mal9r
appointed tho llnn. +. y. McNnna,nn III hts
stentl. That Eentlc1.lnil invetl the Colrt ti,at
o. nothing could lM legally done unless the
70 ren'ov9h him fivli!iie Jefferson County Jay
o'clock Tomorrow afternoon,
T!,c ordeT !, ,nsa1I Was n.nao afa Inc court aa'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-01-27
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

WRIGHT x MOODY, merchants of Bart
lett, Tenn, have made an assignment, to
secur 81 600 due to creditors in Louis
vile and Memphis
THE charred remains Of George W.
Wood have at last been taken from the ru-
ins of the Beckwith house, at Oshkosh,
Wis.
ALLEY BROTHERS, merchants Of Olive
Branch, Miss. have failed, the sum of
S45, 900 being due to Louisville and Mem
phis creditors.
The finishing shop of the Massachusetts
state prison at Concord, was burned on the
Goth inst. The loss to the state was LOCO
and to Waring < Co., hat manufacturers,
$1,000.
A FIRE in Walker street. New York on
the 18th inst, caused loss of $45, 900 to
Obsteller 4 Co., silk importers, besides
damaging the stocks of other dealers to the
am Junt of 5000.
! OK January 24th, the Fort Clark eleva-
tor, at Peoria, ILL.,, containing one hun
/ dred thousand bushels OF grain, was des-
troyed by fire. The building was insured
for $4,000.
AT Watertown, III northern New y ork,
! the snow is from two to four feet deep.
! The saw mills at Sandy Greek ere crush
ed to the earth by the pressure on their
roofs.
DIPHTHERIA is raging in the vicinity of
/ ' Nalparaiso, Ind, with a virulence that
almost equals that of the yellow fever.
| Chauncy GAYLORD, residing near Chris
man Station, buried FIVE children in one
grave, and two more were not expected
to survive the day. One of the latter
begged most piteously not to be put in a
coffin.
A sIX-sToRY tenement-house in Mott
street, New York, caught fire on the 22d
inst. No less than 800 persons resided
in the building, and the police were forced
to use their clubs to hurry the screaming
women and children into the street
which enterprise was successfully accom-
plished and the flames speedily subdued
CHRISTIAN KJAR, employed in mil
near Fond du Lac, Wis, met with terri
ble accident on the 2Ist inst He waE
standing in front of the saw, giving some
instructions to another man about setting
it, when the carriage started up and com
ing upon X jiar before he was aware of it
approach, struck him and carried hin
against the saw, the latter severing one les
Just below the body. The carriage con
tinued moving forward showing the unfor
tunate man before it the whole length 0
the log. He was carried to his boarding
house and surgical aid was summoned
from Green Bay, but death ensued from
excessive loss OF blood about twenty min
utes after the accident The unfortunate
man leaves wife and children living a
Fort Howard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-01-27
FOREIGN

The damage in London by the overflow
of the Thames is placed at ,, ,000,00W
THE foreign embassies at Constantine
pie have heard rumors that Greece intends
attacking Turkey at the end of January.
THE militia barracks at Eiin burgh,
Scotland, were burned on Sunday. 1t is
supposed that incendiary lighted the
blaze.
a TERRIFIC storm prevailed, on the
Mediterranean, on the 23rd and 24tn of
Jan. 1t was rumored that fifty smacks
have been wrecked.
THE opposition of the Berlin journals to
the Semitic agitation has brought out sub
scriptions of fifty thousand marks toward
establishing an ant;-Jewish newspaper.
Oh. the reassembling OF the French
chambers, Leon Say was reelected presi-
dent OF the senate, and Gambetta of the
! chamber of deputies.
The police of Berlin prohibited a meet
ing of workmen to protest against the
anti-Jewish agitation, although no inter
ference on the contrary side had been at
tempted.
THE steamer Toronto, OF reaching Liv-
erpool from Portland, reported the loss OF
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-01-27
GRAND RAPIDS, WIS, THURSDAY JANUARY 81, 1881.

Ia head of cattle and 200 sheep on her
passage. The AssYrian Monarch, in
crossing the Atlantic, lost 81 beeves.
OVER three hundred Irish police and a
squadron Of dragons succeeded, on the
10Th inst. with the aid of the parish priest,
IN serving notices of eiectment on the
tenants of Lord Gravard, at Drumlith.
The pope expresses regret that lis let
ter concerning agitation in Ireland has
not been published, and has requested
Archbishop McCabe to withhold it no
longer from the public.
IL the trial of the traverser8, at Dublin,
one of the counsel for the traversers asked
the acqlittal of Gordon and Boyton, in
order to rejoice the greater Ireland beyond
the seas. The court room was crowded
with spectators, many of whom wept over
picture of famine drawn by counsel.
RUSSIA maintains, in opposition to the
opinion of the French government, that
the powers are bound to abide by the de-
clslons of the Berlin conference on the
Greek frontier question.
A GALE and snow-storm, the severest in
the memory of living persons, ragged over
nearly the whole of the United Kingdom,
the 21st inst. The damages amount to
many millions.
THE house of commons had taste of
obstruction tactics, on the 21st inst, when
Charles Dawson, an Irish member, spoke
for nearly two hours on the assimilation
of borough franchises. Cries Of ''Shut
upn' were raised while a home rule men,
ber was speaking.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-01-27
TELEGRAPHIC.
Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON.

Is the house Of representatives, on the
24th of Jan. Mr.. Hull, from a Florida
district, was unseated, and Mr.. Bisbee the
contestant, admitted Mr. Reagan made
a vain effort to have the Interstate com
merce bill taken up, and nothing was ac-
complished but the passage of several
minor bills.
THERE is general feeling in congress
that some protection is needed by the peo-
pie against the gigantic railroad and tele-
graphic mOnopolies. This necessity has
been made more apparent by the recent
consolidation of the great telegraph lines.
Mr.. Springer, in conversation to-day,
spoke with much spirit of his intention in
presenting his resolution to the house and
said that one of his chief objects was to as
certain the actual value of the property of
the Western Union Telegraph company,
and the cost of operating its lines.
OF all the cabinet positions the treasury
IS now the most absorbing topic of specu-
lation. The western men, Allison and
Wilson, of Iowa; Morton, of New York;
and Senator Window, of Minnesota, are
the most frequently mentioned. The visit
OF Allison to Mentor was announced yes
terday by Mr.. Wilson's friends to be in
his behalf, but it is quite as confidently
SldLeu III Olnef quarters to-day that
General Garfield sent for him to confer
with him personally as to his wishes in re-
gard to the matters of his own appoint
ment. Mr.. Allison has, however, said to
his intimate friends that he would like to
have Wilson appointed. As to Window
it is known that this name has been very
favorably considered by the president-elect,
and urged by mutual friends who would
like to see him in the cabinet.
THE committee on post offices and post
roads, by nearly an unanimous vote, have
authorized the chairman to report the
resolution, relative to adopting a COVER
mental system of postal telegraphy, to the
house for adoption. If it should be adopt
ed by the house the committee will be au-
thorized to institute inquiry at once and
to send for persons and papers. 1t is un-
derstood that subcommittee will be ap-
pointed, of which the chairman, Mr..
Money, and Gen. Singleton, of Illinois,
will be members. The third member has
not yet been selected. The committee fa-
vor thorough and prompt investigation
of the cost of reproducing the telegraph
lines now owned by the Western Union
company and the expense OF operating
them. This will also bring out the profits
which the company has derived from its
investment, and demonstrate whether the
government can safely enter upon the
business of telegraphy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-01-27
GENERA NOTES.

RAILWAY men at Montreal are discuss
ing plan TO put tunnel under the Falls
of Niagara.
THE widow of Frank Leslie has brought
suit against one of his sons to restrain the
publication of new magazine in the
name of the noted publisher.
On decree of foreclosure, the Green
Bay and Minnesota railroad was sold, at
Milwaukee, for $2, 100000, to John |. Blair,
for the bondholders.
A COMPANY has been formed at London
with a capital of G500,0O0 to facilitate
the importation of beef from America, and
will build four large steamers.
TIE purchasers of the bankrupt Har-
wood stock of goods, at Minneapolis,
find that it invoices $431 900, of which they
pay two-thirds.
WHEN asked if his answer to his wife's
charges would develop anything new,
Governor Sprague replied that it ought to
effect a vacancy in the United States SEN
ate.
The Michigan supreme court. in the
scandal originating at the state university,
has exonerated Douglas on all points,
placed Rose in the attitude of defaulter,
and saddled the costs on the university.
As the Maine legislature must adjourn
by Feb. 14y after which date sreenback-
er might be appointed senator by Govern
Or Plaisted, Mr.. Blaine intends to send
in his resignation some time this month
and make room for Frye.
Mr.. TREsCOTT, one of the commission
ers who negotiated the treaty with China,
says the only change produced by it in the
status of Cinnamon in this country is that
/ the United States government now stands
pledged to protect them from prosecu-
ton.
THE Illinois senate adopted a resolution
/ that the railroad and warehouse commits
! sioners furnish the committee on railroads
with full details of all complaints of ex-
tortion or discrimination by the roads and
authorizing the committee to investigate
such complaints with power to send for
1 persons or papers.
THREE different reports have been sub
mitted by the congressional memembers
of the board of visitors to West Point
| Senator Garland and Representative Phil
/ lips declare that the mingling of the races
is subject to drawbacks which no legisla-
! ton can control. Senator Edmunds is OF
! opinion that the standard of admission
oug hit TO be raised, and Representative
Mckinley and FELTON, hold views directly
J to the contrary. Senator Garland presents
bill providing that hereafter no officer
above the rank of colonel shall be assign
/ ed to duty at the academy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-01-27
The Griefs and the HerOism of Miners.

Samuel PlimsOll in tho Nineteenth Century.
[ remembered seeing one poo: wo-
man a day or two after the explosion of
the Edmunds or Swaith main pit. The
dead body of her husband was then ly-
ing in the mine; but she had children
the daily work of life must be done
even by her. She wanted a pan which,
nearly fun of dirty water, stood near
her doc upon a stone. / shall, sup
pose, never forget lit is many years ago
now the far-off look in her eyes as she
approached the pan; her whole figure
was the expression of one without hope,
the very embodiment of despair: She
raised the pan by the edge, utterly
careless that the falling water splashed
her dress and feet, and listlessly moved
away. Her grief was too deep for
words or tears; and I turned away with
a heart sick to see such suffering, and
to know that she was but one of more
than a hundred in the same sad con-
ditiOn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-01-27
CRIME.

CHARLES NJ. PHELPS, the defaulting
state treasurer of New York, who was
serving term of five years at the Auburn
penitentiary died of consumption JAN
18th.
FEDERAL troops are in pursuit of the
robbers who recently captured a stage
near Fort Cummings, it having been as
certained that they were whites disguised
as Indians.
NEAR Plain city, o., on the Goth inst,
Mrs. Ophelia Clark, her niece, and an
adopted son were killed with a club.
Roberl Garnes, cOlored man, who for
merly lived with them, has been arsested
The Pennsylvania board of pardons has
voted IN favor of releasing from prison
John S. Morton, formerly president of a
Philadelphia street railway, who was SEN
fenced to ten years Imprisonment for the
fraudulent issue of bonds.
GEORGE REYNOLDS, of Salt Lake, for
merly secretary to the presidedt of the
Mormon church, has served his term of
two years in the Utah penitentiary for
bigamous marriage, and been released. A
purse of 500 was made up for him by the
MormOns.
A FELLOW of some assurance went into
a bank at Columbus, O., and sold a par
value S1S worth of alleged gold quarter
and half dollars. When captured by the
police he was lust closing dicker for a
like amount at another bank.
AN insane man who went aboard the
steamboat Annie P. Silver, at Memphis,
Jan. 24th, as deck passenger, soon after
ward shot at a negro, fired at the pilot,
killed the clerk, Daniel Blake, and put
ball through the palm of Captain Silver's
hand. He was then knocked down with a
poker and handed over to the authorities
at Madrid
SITTING BULL, having grown tired of
negotiating with the military authorities,
has started for the British possessions, ac-
companied by forty lodges Fifty lodges
which refused to follow him will sur en-
der at Fort Buford in a few days. 1t is
not known what action the troops will
take in regard to the fugitiyes, but it is
deemed possible that the latter may be
pursued even across the boundary line, and
compelled te surrender.
A FIENDIsH crime. which seems the
product of diseased mind, was perpe-
trated at Lapeer, Mich, on the 10Th inst.
Mrs E. 2. Barnard has for some months
followed the movements of Rev. f. S.
Curtis and wife. During tho absence of
the pastor at church. Mrs. Barnard went
to residence, charged his wife with having
wronged her, threw gasoline over the ven
cradle lady, and set it on fire, returning to
church and joining in the hymns of
praise. The dying lady gave the details
as her life ebbed out. The murderess was
placed in Jail.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-01-27

TnE United States supreme court is
engaged in hearing the case of the
children of Edwin Hoyt, of New York,
against Chaffee, the assignee of the A.
4 W. Sprague Manufacturing Com
pany The plaintiffs claim that the in
yestment of their interests as minors
in the copartnership manufacturing
property of A. & w. Sprague, made
by their guardian, Mary Sprague, while
they we've miners, under the authority
Of a general resolution of the general
assembly of the state of Rhode Island,
was wholly void and illegal, and the
resolution unconstitutional, and that
the appraisement Of the then interest
made prior to the conversion OF two
large manufacturing establishments IN
70 corporations was fraudulent, and
part OF q scheme controlled by A. & W.
9prague TO keep the control of the
whole property in their hands. The
courts decision is looked for with great
interest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-01-27

HoS. II. A. w. TABOR, of Denver, the
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado for
the past two years, has announced to
the state senate his intention to hold
the office until his successor has been
qualified. The late George B. Robin
son was elected lieutenant governor at
the last election, but died before quail
flying. 1t appears that there is no pro
vision in the constitution or laws of the
state for such an emergency, and the
case, il the issue should be raised in
the state senate, would have to go to
the supreme court for settlement.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-01-27

Snow has fallen almost continuously
in the Wahsatch range of mountains
since Christmas. \ slide on the 18th
inst, at the little mining hamlet of
Alta, swept away house, killing four
persons, and another avalanche buried
two unfortunates. On Friday night
4 slide half mile in width, which
would have demolished the town but
for a fiat area intervening, caused four
deaths, and swept away the buildings of
the Joah Lawrence company. People
are fleeing from the Big Cottonwood
region, as several other avalanches are
impending.