Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-11-07

iured by the accident and In the panic whicl
ensued.
A special from Havana on the Goth, say
that Henderson, the American arrested D.
the Cuban authorities on suspicion OF beins
ir league with the insurgents, had been re
leased by order OF the Captain General.
The Rev. Jean Henri Merle d. Aublgne, tn
celebrated historian of the Reformation, die
suddenly at Geneva, Switzerland, on tn
| 2lst, in the seventy.third year of his age.
| The Royal Geographical Society In Lon
| don gave banquet to Stanley, on the nigh
/ of the 2lst. May of the nobility and mum
! Der Of American gentlemen were present
| Among the latter were Moran, United statct
| Charge d. .t6aires, and "Msrk TWAIN" th'
humorist Moran replied 10 toast in homo
of the President of the United States,
A large meeting in favor of amnesty to the
Fenian prisoners was held in Manchester
England, on the evening Of the 22d, at which
Isaac Butt, NJ p, leader Of the Irish home
rule party, was the principal speaker. Mr.
Butt, in the course of his remarks, said
that Ireland never could welcome Gladstone
to her soil unless amnesty to her sons was
made complete, He also spoke in terms OF
vigorous censure Of the treatment accorded
to prisoners, who, he alleged, have suffered
during their confinement gross cruelties at
the hands Of their jailors.
A. W. Harris gives in the Montreal Cana
da) Gaaette Of the 2lst, the following treat
ment u, the horse distemper so prevalent in
Canada and in the United States, ''In the
early stage of the disease give, the first two
days, ten drops OF tincture OF aconte in a
little water every FIVE hours, after which
give pail OF water TO drink, and occasional
" gargle with the following; Dissolve two
ounces of saltpeter, one pint Of water, or
double the quantity, then wet flannel cloths
with vinegar and turpentine, equal quaint
ties, and put close to the throat on each
side within two inches OF the butt Of the
eye; wet 1t in the course Of every four or
FIVE hours. successful result will follow
if properly attended to; keep warm and fan
soft and warm
Several Japanese ships were wrecked re-
Gently on Formosa, and the crews eaten by
the natives, The King Of Loochoos sent an
embassy TO Yeddo for aid 10 ayenge their
death
The German troops have evacuated
Rhcims, and the French garrison marched in
on the oath, amid great rejoicing.
A Yokohama dispatch Of the "a says the
authorities had notified foreigners residing
outside the foreign settlements to return at
once, and Japanese were forbidden to lease
their premises This course was considered
impolitlc and illiberal by the friends Of the
Government,
Sir JC Duke Caleridge, Attorney. Gen
cral Of Great Britain, recently delivered an
address before the Liberal Association of the
city of Exeter, in the course Of which he
said of the result Of the Geneva Arbitration,
that England had got well ont Of a bad
business
Rousscl, a prominent French Communist
found guilty Of the charges against him, has
been sentenced to death,
President Theirs has forbidden the sale in
France of carlcatures Of the GX,Emperor
Napoleon and his family.
George Bancroft, the American Minister
to Germany, has received the congratula.
men in Berlin on the decision Of the EN-
peror in the San Juan case.
The London Tunes Of the 2dth says "The
decision on the San Juan question Is unsatis-
factory, unclear and indecisiyc, but we &c
cept it," 1t repudiates the charge that En-
gland intrigued at Berlin TO stultify the Judg-
meut.
The Spanish Cortes has rejected the reso-
luton providing for the abolition of capital
punishment for political otienscs, by vote
of 90 against IS.
A new Ontario Cabinet has been formed,
consisting Of P. MOwatt, Premier and Attor-
ney General Adam Crops, Treasurer; f. Il,
Pardee, Secretary of State; A. Mckellcr,
Minister Of Public Works, and K. W. Scott,
Commissioner Of Crown Lands.
A Toronto (Canada) dispatch OF the 18th
announces that the horse disease had nearly
disappeared from that city.