Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-06-19
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FOREIGN.

A Madrid dispatch OF the 9TH says that a
portion of General VeIarde's troops in BARGE
ona had mutinied, and he had saved himself
by flight, and subsequently resigned. The
Cortes on the 18th elected Senior Orenz Pres-
dent. Figueras announced to the Cortes his
determination to return to them the powers
with which the Assembly had invested him as
President of the Provisional Government of
Spain He said that the conditions of the ten
ure of his grave responsibility had become
more difficult than heretofore. Senior Pi y
Margall was nominated to form new Cabinet.
On the Sth the Coctes passed resolution def
nitely proclaiming Federal Republic, by a
vote of 2l0 yeas against nays.
Prince Jerome Napoleon called upon Presi-
dent MacMahon in Paris on the 18th, and left
his card. The President returned a message
acknowledging the courtesy with his compli-
ments.
a dispatch of the 7th says the cholera had
disappeared from the country adjacent to the
Danube.
The following United States Commissions
have been assigned to arrange and supervise
the exhibition in the American department
in the Vienna Exhibition, Very few of the
exhibitors from this country were pres
~
Painter Agricultural. A. Warder. Food
e. NJ Horsford Iron and Steele. Men
denhall Paper-G w Silcox. Machinery
g. A. Stanbery. Philosophical instruments
R. r. Lines. Musical Instruments-N. NJ.
Lowe Education-J. D. Philbrick.
The Geneva award of SIS, 500, 600 it is said is
to be paid September IA of the present year.
The Alexandra Palace, near London, has
been destroyed by fire. Loss s., 100000 Sev-
eral persons were injured during the progress
of the fire.
At recent election in Lyons, France held
under late act of the Assembly, thirty five
out of thirty-six Radical nominees were
chosen.
Ministerial circular addressed to the Pre-
tects of Departments, suggesting confidential
ly the employment Of subsidies and such other
means of influence as could be secretly brought
10 bear for the control of the Press, was read
In the French Assembly on the 10th NJ Beule,
Minister of the Interior, admitted the authen-
ITCHY of the circular, and accepted the respon-
slbillty for issuing the same. After a pro
tracted scene of confusion and excitement. a
motion supporting the Government was car.
ried by vote of 3S9 yeas against 315 nays
scrvatives was still unbroken.
report was current in Paris on the 10th
that Count Won Arnin, the German Ambassa
dor, had been recalled, because he made un
necessary calls upon President MacMahon
The Spanish Ministry rendered thei- resgna
hons on the 10TH and during the afternoon the
Cortes entrusted to Senior Figueras the organi
cation OF new Ministry. After consultation
with his friends and with leading members Of
The Cortes, Senior Figueras reported that ht
was unable to form Cabinet Senior Orense
has resigned the Presidency of the Constituen
Cortes
A dispatch from Washington to the Asso
ciated Press on the 10th says: ''The reports OF
the proceedings of the Board of Inquiry al
vienna, while they do not impugn the honesty
VI GENERAL Van Buren,, show his incapacity fol
the business placed in his charge, and hence
'ne Irregularities which led to his suspen
SION
The New York Daily Graphic of a recen,
oate contains an extract from private letter
dated Rome, May Is, which gives a rumor. nre
Valenf IN that city, that Pope Plus TX. had died
some days previous, aud that his place was
nued by an old and astute priest named Abbate
Minati, who is said to bear STRIKING re
semblance to the Pope The letter saws. 9Th.
Pope died, but, instead of their announeno
this fact to the public by bulletins from the
Vatican, they began to inform the outside
world that the Holy Father was getting better
and finally that he was quite well again, the
TACT being that the remains of Plus X were
hiooen away in some Of the secret recesses Of
Tue vatican cellars, and that Abbate Minat
quietly stepped int his place"
Several French officials rendered their resig
NATIONS on the 18th, in consequence of the
circular issued by the Minister of the Interio,
suggesting the subsidzing of the Press.
commissioner Schultz, General Van R,1ren,s
successor at Vienna, in a recent letter saws
the American Department of the Vienna Nv
position would be in complete order nv the
10th OF June, which could not be the case
with that OF any other nation, not excen.;no
england, which had the advantage of corns
OF workmen brought to Vienna to hasten r.
completion and perfect that department The
austrian Government, he says, should have
taken another year to prepare for the Exposi-
uon Not only were the grounds not finished.
Out all those facilities which they had promised
were incomplete.