Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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A London dispatch, Sd, says that discovery
had been made Of frauds of gigantic scale
ON the Bank of England, committed oy One
Warren, alias Horton, an American, throus d
q series of skiilful forgeries on the names
of the Rothsuhifds and other great financial
houses Areward of 81, 600 had been offered
for his apprehension.
The ship Chacabuco, from San Francisco
for Liverpool, ran into the ship Torch in the
Irish Channel. The Chacabuco sunk in a few
minutes after the collision, and twenty four
of the ships company were drowned. The
were saved.
The ships Tres Marias and Glass came in
to collision in the harbor of Cadiz, Spain,
and ninety persons were reported drowned.
European advices of the LIST con .radict a
report that the Khivan expedition had been
abandoned by Russia.
Three hundred Liberal Catholics have
united in an address to Pere Hyacinthe, urg-
ing him to resume the pulpit at Geneva. A
favorable reply was received.
The Dominion Parliament assembled at
Ottawa on the 5th, and unanimously elect
ed James cockburn Speaker.
The Welsh coal miners strike is over. the
workmen offering to return to the collieries
until the first of April, and then trust to the
employers for an advance of wages from that
date.
a London telegram of the 9th says Presi-
dent Theirs had recognized the belligerent
rights of the Carlists in Spain. The impress
sion was growing in London that Don
Carlos would succeed.
General Sickles has communicated to
Senior CASTELAR, the congratulations of the
United States Senate upon the establishment
of the Spanish Republic.
A report from Berlin on the 9th says
many Russian officers and diplomatists bad
left st. Petersburg for Asia. 1t was proba-
BILE that the Khiva campaign would com:
mence at an early day.
Later reports from London regarding tba
Bank of England forgeries, place the amount
involved at a much higher figure than az
first reported. The London police, on the
9TH, arrested woman giving her name as
Ellen Burnham, and known to be the accom-
plice of Warren, the principalin the forgeries.
Over S13, 500 was found in her apartments,
which she said was not hers.
The French Government, up to the It'll
inst, had paid Germany {, 500, 100000 francs
on account of the war indemnity.
The London Times of the 22d Of February
gives particulars Of the frightful accident al
Smyrna, mention of which has heretofore
been made. a cafe built upon piles over the
sea, broke down suddenly during perform
,ance given by company Of acrobats. There
were 2C0 persons present. 4 loud crack
ing was heard, and within five minutes the
entire cafe had disappeared under the water
A few of the persons near the entrance con
trived to effect their escape, and some per
sons saved themselves by jumping through
the windows into the sea. Boatmen rowed
up in numbers, but their efforts to save life
were in vain. The search for the dead
bodies was sad spectacle. The acrobats
were withdrawn from the water in THEN
snowy costumes of the previous night, the
limbs Of all the bodies contracted with pain
Two hearses were engaged the whole of the
day in conveying the remains discovered tc
She hospitals. The total number Of bodies
found up to that time was 50, and it was sup
posed there were still so more in the water