Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-06-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

tanned the right of the Spanish people to
choose their own Government. Senior Orense,
Federal Republican, was elected President of
the Cortez.
Cable dispatches of the I'd state that a severe
engagement took place on the 31st in the
Province of Barcelona, between a force of Re-
pubIicans and bands commanded by Fristany
and Don Alfonso. After a stubborn fghv the
insurgents fled. General Nouvillas announces
that with IL, 600 men he held all the mountain
passes in Biscay, and was driving the Carlists
toward the coast All the Federal Republican
factions in Barcelona had united in opposition
to the Monarchists. dispatch from Bayonne
says that Doregarry had been deprived of his
command.
According to Berlin special of the LIST, the
German Government dissatisfied with
President MacMahon's address to the French
Assembly and would not enter into regular
diplomatic relations with his Government until
satisfied that France would faithfully adhere
to the treaty of Frankfort.
The International Typographical Union met
at Montreal, on the Cd. One hundred and
twenty delegates were present The following
officers were elected for the ensuing year:
President, w. R. Mackean, Washington; First
Second Vice President, W. g. johnson, Troy;
Secretary and Treasurer, John Collins, Gin
cinnati; Corresponding Secretary, j. E. Haw-
kins, Memphis.
The Hon. Joseph Howe, Governor of Nova
Scotia, died recently, aged6S.
The capture of Talefoo, in southwestern
China, is announced in Shanghai dispatch of
the 3D. 1t is also stated that the victorious
forces fell upon their captives and massacred
thirty thousand. The Sultan poisoned him
self rather than fall into the hands of his
enemies.
The Government has recently been advised
by Minister belong that religious liberation in
Japan had not been decreed The laws and
edicts against Christianity had not been abol
ished, but orders had been issued for return
of the banished Christians to their homes, and
for the removal of offensive proclamations
against Christianity.
A dispatch from Berlin, on the Sd, SAYS
Asiatic cholera had appeared in two villages
in West Prussia, having been cOmmuncat ed
from Russian Poland. A rigid quarantine of
the infected districts had been established
President MacMahon issued proclamation
to the French army on the Sd, in which he
said: 1.-The choice of the President of the Re
public from your ranks shows the confidence
of the National Assembly in your loyalty"
The President also issued an order appointing
General L'Admirault, Military Governor of
Paris, to the command of the Army of Yer
sailles.
Dispatches to the London Times of the 4th
contradict the reports that there was less cor
diality in the relations between the French and
German Governments since the election of
MacMahon.
Both the Carlists and Republicans in Spain
have agreed to regard the Northern Railway,
held by the former, neutral line. This al
lows travel and traffic not contraband of war
to be freely resumed.
According to the Vienna correspondent of
the London Times, the second great settling
day on the Vienna Exchange proved better
than had been anticipated. The number of
insolvents was increased by about half d
hundred, though there might have been
among those toled out on the Sd a dozen
who, a couple of weeks before, thought they
had or were thought to be worth a million.
They were, without exception, new men,
who had been brought to the surface by the
tide OF fortune. There had been gambling
on the most extended scale. For months the
Exchange had been flooded with all sorts of
new stock some of which was utterly value
less, while the price even Of those stocks which
had some value was driven up to fabulous
price.
\ strike was in progress on the 4th among
the employees of the Great Western Railway
Company in England. Some 500 of the men
had quit work.
The italian statesman, Urbana Rattazzi, died
at Frosinone on the morning of the 5th aged
65
The American Department in the Vienna
Exposition was opened on the morning of the
5th and steam applied to the machinery. The
novelties surpass those from other countries
President White, Of Cornell University, and
Ex-Governor f. d. Morgan, of New York, are
Chairman of the Bureaus Of Education and
Commerce, respectively.
The London Pal Nal Gazette of the 9Th
publishes an appeal Of the ex-Empress Eu-
genie to the people of France in favor of her
son.
A Paris dispatch of the 5th announces the
arrival in that city of Prince jerome Napoleon,
and says his presence caused much agitation
in the Hobbies of the National Assembly
The first reception of President MacMahon
took place on the evening of the 9TH, and was
a brilliant affair.
Santa Rosa, an American citizen who had
been imprisoned in Cuba, has been released.
The Duke dc Brogle, French Minister of
Foreign Affairs has addressed circular letter
to the representatives of France abroad de-
claring the difference between the majority in
the Assembly and Theirs was on his domestic
policy, which did not offer sufficient guarantees
against revolution. The policy of the new
Government, he continues, will be moderate at
home and pacific abroad. All attempts at rev.
oiutlon Will he vigorously opposed without at
lacking existing Institutions
special dispatch to the London Times from
Central Asia announces the arrival at Kras-
nordsk, on the 18th of May, of the South Cas-
plan detachment Of the Russian exnedition
against khiva.
Pietri, formerly private Secretary of the En-
peror Napoleon, denies the authenticity of the
appeal of the eX-Empress Eugene to the
French people, published recently in the Lon
don papers.
A special from Berlin on the 9th saws the
Emperor William was seriously sick, and his
physicians advised him not to undertake a
Journey to Vienna.
DOMESTIC.