Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-24
Methodist Centennial Celebra-
ton at Philadelphia.
Extensive Fire at Grand Rapids, Mich.
Many Buildings Destroyed.
Other Interesting Foreign and
Domestic News.
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN.
A Madrid telegram of the 18th gives particu-
lars of an International instruction in
Alcoy The Mayor and the Collector were
assassinated, and their bodies dragged through
the town by the mob. Five cotton factories
were burned The people of Malaga had
also risen against the municipality and
assassinated several counclmen. The Gov
ernor of Malaga had resigned. The reported
defeat and death of Cabrinety is con-
frmed. General Velarde, with seven bat
talions, arrived before Alcoy on the 18th. He
was obliged to arrest thirty of his own men for
INSTRUMENTATION On the march. 1t was rumor-
ed that the lnternatonalsts had risen in Car
thagena and made themselves masters of the
town, the forts, the telegraph and the railway.
The marines remained faithful to the Govern
ment, and held the maynard
The following account Of events subse-
quent to the capture of khiva is given in a
recent dispatch: The Khan voluntarily en-
tered the Russian camp and gave in his sub
mission, formally declaring himself vassal of
Russia. Gen Kaufman then restored him
to the throne, and appointed a council of adj
ministration to assist him in the Government
during the occupation of the khanite by the
Russian forces. The Khan, in token of graft
tude, issued, on the oath of June, decree for
ever abOlishing slavery within his dominions.
Gen. Kaufman has sent dispatches to Tehc-
ran notifying the Persian Government to make
preparations for the reception of 10000 natives
of Persia released from slavery by the Khan's
decree
report is current in London that, previous
to his departure from that city, there was
well-organzed and elaborately-p planned scheme
arranged for the robbery of the Shah of his
jewels but the plot was accidentally discover
ed and frustrated before it reached a culminat
ing point.
President MacMahOn, in recent converse
ton with a correspondent is reported to have
said: There is no reason why the present
regime in its amended constitutional FORM
with a military executive who should reign
over the country and rule over the army,
should not become established in France.
When the words empire and republic be-
come synonymous with discipline, every cti-
zen soldier, and every soldier the servant of
the Republic, there will be as little strife in
the country TO who shall be Minister as
there is at present as to who shall be Mar
shall
Madrid telegram of the 14th says the
successes of the Carlists and the outbreak and
atrocities at Alcoy had awakened a strong
feeling against the insurgents. War meetings
were being held in the provinces. The Gov
eminent troops had reoccuped Alcoy. Ad-
vices from Carlist sources on the 18th state
that the supporters of Don Carlos were gain
ing ground with such rapdity, and their num-
bers were so steadily on the increase, that
there was general cry from all the Republi-
can commanders in the North for reinforce
ments, in order to hold their ground.
The Spanish Government has promulgated
decree annulling all edicts of sequestration
placed upon the property of the rebels and
rebel sympathizers in Cuba.
By an order Of the Educational Department
of Japan, in future all foreign teachers will
be obliged to procure license, and no teacher
of the Christian religion shall be employed.
recent accident occurred the Gale
DOMAIN Railway, England, by which two per-
sons were killed outright and thirty injured
some fatally
1t was reported from Madrid on the 18th
that the Government still found it necessary
10 maintain strong precautionary force in
Barcelona, to nullfy the efforts of the Carlists
to create disturbances which might enable
them to seize the city. Arrests of Carlst
agents and sympathZers continued. Bayonne
adyices of the 18th state that the Carlists had
occupied the town of Berga, fifty miles from
Barcelona. The garrison of 500 surrendered
as prisoners of war.
A recent cable dispatch SAYS that kilograms
from the Continent, where the cholera had
been prevalent, represent that the disease was
everywhere abating.
The German Government bought an addition
al 50, 600, 600 in United States bonds in London
on the 18th.
The rinderpest is said TO be so general and
destructive among the herds Of Russia that
the German authorities have deemed it neces-
sary to prohibit all importations of cattle from
Russian ports.
Cable dispatches of the 10th announce that
Don Carlos had re-entered Spain, and Issued a
proclamation invoking the help of the God of
armies, declaring that listening to the voice of
suffering Spain he came to fight for God and
his country, and concluding with the exhorta-
ton, ''Volunteers, forward and save
dying Spain" The Carlists claimed to have
10000 men under arms Three members of
the Spanish Ministry resigned on the 10th in
order to facilitate the formation of a homo
geneous Cabinet. All the workmen in the fac
tories at Barcelona had struck, and the shops
were closed.
The Projects of the occupied departments in
France have been instructed by the Govern
ment to nterdict public rejoicings on the oc-
casion of the evacuation of the territory by the
German troops.