Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-09
Foreign Intelligence.


A crisis occurred in the Spanish Cabinet
on the Goth, and the Ministers of Finance,
Public Works and Colonies have retired.
Senior Echegary has been appointed Minister
of Finance Becerra, Minister of Public
Works, and Mosquera, Minister of Colonies.
Large portions of the country in Leicester,
Derby and Nottingham, England, were sub
merged, on the Goth, By the floods In some
sections Of these counties the tops Of trees
and hedges only were visible.
A dispatch from Liverpool on the Goth
says that 449 persons, including passengers,
had persisted by marine disasters within the
previous ten days. Thirty persons were lost
By the sinking of the ship Matchless, Off
northumberland County.
There was a demonstration in Paris on the
Goth, of three Thousand students, in favor of
Professor Robin, a distinguished member of
the Institute, who had been struck from the
jury list in consequence of his disbelief in
the existence of God.
The freshet in the Seine was subsiding on
the 21st.
The river Thames, which had already over
flowed its banks in many places, suddenly
rose nearly foot on the 21st at Windsor.
thousands of acres of other lands were sub
merged.
The French Assembly has passed the bill
restoring to the Orleans Princes their con-
fscated property. The Assembly adjourned
on the 2lst for the holidays.
It:was estimated in London on the 23d that
the total liabilities of the exploded firm of
Bowles Bros, bankers, would foot up more
than $3.50, 900; assets, e4S,000.
An explosion occurred on the 21st in a
coal mine of Silverdale, England, by which
eight miners were suHocated.
The German papers state that the Ameri-
can press has greatly exaggerated the ac-
ton of the Prussian Government looking to-
ward the checking of emigration. The par
tial revocation of reduced fares for emil
grants on the German railways is "required
by motives of political economy and private
interest"
Bismark has received formal notice from
the King OF the acceptance of his resigna-
ton of the Premiership.
The King of the Sandwich Islands is dead,
and as he has left no direct heir, and did not
name his successor, the throne continued
vacant at last accounts, and revolution
was expected.
By the terms of the bill read in the Span
ISL Cortes on the 24th slavery is to cease in
Porto Rico in four months from the time the
measure of emancipation is passed, and the
Shareholders are to be paid for the slave
property thus confiscated.
The East.
Gold closed in New York on the Goth st
112@l12h
Jay Gould, who was some time since ar
rested on charge of having appropriated
to his own use 100000 of the Erie Rail-
road funds while he was President of that
corporation, has refunded that amount, and
the suit against him has been withdrawn
The Boston Board of Aldermen have re-
fused licenses to Madames Woodruff and
Clafin to lecture in Music Hail.
George Francis Train was arrested in New
York on the Goth and locked up in station
house, on bench warrant, to answer the
charge of publishing obscene literature.
The Committee on recounting the votes
for Mayor and Aldermen of Boston, con-
cluded the May orally count on the Goth,
and their figures elect Henry L. Pierce, by a
plurality of 20 votes over Mayor CASTOR.
Ward shows mistake of about 500 votes !;
and other wards also show discrepancies in
figuring up the votes for Aldermen.
George Palmer Putnam, the well-known
nuplisher. died suddenly in New York on the
evening of the Goth, of apoplexy.
A full jury was completed in the Stokes
case on the 21st.
A report appeared in a New York paper
few mornings ago to the effect that the we'll
known actors Sothern snd W. ]. Florence
were to fight duel. The rumor has been
traced to gigantic practical joke played on
Philip Lee, a newly arrived young English
man, husband of Miss Nelson the actress
Lee was invited to dine with sothern' who
promised he should meet party OF chsrac-
4eristic Americans. Lee accepted ana SET
down to dinner with Sothern, Neu 0f!sA''