Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN

the SANTANA Bay Company.
A New York Herald cable special from
London, Gath, says: can agreement has been
made between Duke de Montpansier and the
adherents of ex-Queen Isabella to place
Prince Alphonso upon the throne of Spain;
the duke to be regent during the minority
of the Prince Alphonso, and the latter to
marry the youngest daughter of the duke
Isabella accepts the programme, and two
Important parties, therefore, will act together
in the present crisis.n
The English Secretary of State for the War
Department has presented to Parliament
the army estimates fer the year 1854. The
total expenditure is e14, 10000. The
regular army at home and abroad num-
bers 125, 900 men, Of whom 1000 constitute
the home force. Besides these, the estimates
provide for 139, 600 militia, $4,000 yeomanry,
161 600 volunteers 10 ,09O. of first reserve, and
10000 Of second reserve. The recruiting SER
vice is in satisfactory state of efficiency.
The total number Of assertions from the
regular forces during the past year was
1000. The Secretary concluded by recon-
mending legislation to prevent 's~ s t
per day.
ministerial crisis had terminated by the cleo
ton of Figueras as President of the Council,
and CASTELAR, as Minister of State. Figueras
declared, in an address to the Assembly, that
there would be no change in the manage
ment of affairs.
On the Oath, John Bright took his seat in
the House of Commons for the first time
since his prolonged illness, and was loudly
cheered On entering the Chamber.
Charles Reade, the English novelist, has
obtained verdict of goo damages in a
libel suit brought against the proprietors of
the London Morning ADVERTISER.
Advices from Spain, received in London,
18th, say that Gen. Zeballo, the Carlist
leader, was marching on Madrid with four
battalions. Foreign men-of-war are cruising
OFF the Spanish coasts, to protect the sub
jects of their respective Govern
ments. Italy, Austria, and majority
of the European powers maintain semi
formation of regular government. Russia
is not disposed to recognize, in any manner,
the present government. The government
was organizing army of twenty battalions
to fight the Carlist insurgents. The leading
governments of Europe had agreed to pro-
tect Portugal against aggression from Spain
The Swiss Government had formally recog-
nized the Republic of Spain.
The American club of Liverpool gave a
grand ball in celebration of Washington's
birthday.
The steamship Grecian, from Liverpool for
Palerm with 40 hands on board, is sup
posed to be lost.
A London dispatch, Goth, says that Sir
Rowland Stephenson is acting as mediator
between the masters and men in South
Wales for the settlement of the strike. It is
probable that the coal miners of North
Wales will strike in fortnight if the in
crease Of wages they demand is not conced-
ed. The mining districts are quiet.
A dispatch from Vienna, Goth, says that a
socialist instruction is reportAd among the
peasants in the Russian provinces of Valhy-
MIA and Podolia. The insurgents are said to
be numbering their opponents, plundering,
and burning property. A force of Russian
troops sent to suppress the instruction was
defeated. The Government of Russia for
bids the transmission of any dispatches rela-
tive to the trouble.
Mail advices from Mexico bring intelli-
of Guadalaiara, in which the insurgent
Indian chief Lozada was completely routed
by the Government forces under General
Corona. The official report says that
Lozada lost three pieces of artillery and had
many killed, wounded and taken prisoners.
It is said that Lozada had force of $1,000
to 10000 men under his command.
Madrid advices of the 9th say that Senior
CASTELAR, had addressed a memorandum to
the foreign powers, urging the immediate
recognition of the Republic. He argues that
European powers, having recognized the
revolution of 1868, cannot refuse similar ac-
ton with regard to the Republic, which is
the logical consequence Of the events of
1865, now that royalty has abdicated.
The Spanish Republic will not
be brand of discord for
Europe. The transformation the country
has gone through is purely internal. Foreign
nations should not demand of the Govern
ment energetic action, while they withheld
from it their moral support. The memoran-
dun had been forwarded by telegraph to the
principal capitals of Europe.
At Liverpool, Eng, recently, five women
lost their lives by fire which occurred in
seed and rice packing house.
A London dispatch, 2sth, says that the
efforts to settle the coal miners strike in
Wales had failed.
The Catholic Bishops of Ireland have re-
solved to oppose the Education bill, and
have sent an address to the Irish members
OF Parliament, urging them to press for its
withdrawal.
Spanish advices of the 2Sth state that In
iarte Alfonso, brother Of Don Carlos, had
Issued proclamation in his behalf, calling
on the soldiers of the regular army to join
the Carlists, and offering the officers ads
ranced rank.
Advices from Paris state that reconcilia-
ton had been effected between the Duke of
Montpensier and ex-Queen Isabella. The
Prince Alfonso is to marry the daughter of
the Duke, who will assume the Regency of
Spain.
DOMESTIC.
Gold closed in New York on the 2sth at
1l4X@l1424.
A Justice of the Peace at Tolono, H., has
fined conductor on the Illinois Central
Railroad fifteen dollars for having put off
his train a passenger who refused to pay the
company's schedule rate of fare, rendering
the legal three cent-a-mile rate instead. The
case was appealed.
Robert Champion, colored, was hanged at
Tayette, Mo-, On the 2lst, for the murder of
his wife in July last. He stoutlv and Der