Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-09-25
FOREIGN,

FOREIGN.
An express train which left Vittoria, Spain,
on the morning of the 18th, for Madrid, while
going at full speed ran off the track The
cars were badly wrecked, and seventeen per-
sons were killed and seventy wounded.
Scarcely person on the train escaped unin-
jured
dispatch has been received at the Admit
rally Office in London, from the commander
of the British steam-sloop Daphne, an
nouncing the capture, in the Indian
Ocean, near the Zychelle Islands, of a
slave ship, upon which there had been horri-
BILE suffering. The small-p had ragged in the
hip, and out of 800 slaves taken on board $50
had died. The remaining fifty were terribly
emaciated from disease and want.
Dispatches from the frontier of Spain, on the
14th, report that the Carlists had defeated
General Santapan Iona, between Sayas and
Nidarga. The Republicans suffered severely
and lost two guns. The army of the North
was badly crippled by this reverse. The Car
lists were investing Tolosa.
Later dispatches from Madrid deny that the
Republican forces under General Iona had
been defeated. On the contrary, the engage
ment resulted in victory for the Government
troops. The Carlists were defeated with great
slaughter. The leaders of the Cartagena in
surrectionists were endeavoring to secure the
cooperation of the Carlsts in their efforts to
raise the seige Of that city General Moriones
had been appointed Generalissmo of the ar
mics of Spain.
A building in Stonehouse, Devonshire, Eng
land, fell on the 18th, killing eight persons
and injuring several others.
kilograms from Havre announce the death,
near that city, of the Duke de Riausores the
husband of Queen Christine, of Spain.
A great fire is reported in Auckland, New
Zealand, by which forty-eight buildings were
destroyed. Loss, 100000.
According to a special dispatch from Madrid
the bOmbardment Of Cartagena had recon-
menced The Insurgents were actively en-
gagged in mounting their guns, made frequent
sorties out, and captured cattle with impuni-
ty. The Pampeluna authorities had levied a
tax on cergymen and Others suspected of ia
yoring the Carlists.
a report was current in London, on the 10Th,
that further changes would be made in the
British Cabinet
Serious bread riots occurred at Tralee. Ire
land, on the 10th, and several houses were
Quilted. The police were obliged to charge on
the mob with fixed bayonets.
The evacuation of France BY the German
army Of occupation was completed at $50
a. m. on the 10th
A late storm the Black Sea caused the
loss of seventy vessels south of the Bospho-
rus. At one point PCS dead bodies had been
washed ashore.
Berlin dispatch of the 10th says addresses
signed by large numbers of the Catholic clergy
of the United States had been received by the
German priests, approving of their attitude in
opposition to the Prussian Government.
kilograms from Frankfort -on-the- Main, of
the 18th, state that Carlist bonds are quoted
in that market.
dispatch of the 18th from Madrid, Spain,
says that the insurgent frigates have sailed
from Cartagena for Aguilas, thirty-seyen
miles distant, to collect provisions The lat-
ter town is faithful to the National Govern
ment, and Will resist any attempt to levy con-
tributons. The British Admiral is there. and
promised the Government that he will prevent
the mSurgent fleet from bombardine the
town. There was a serious riot on the
10Th in Ecija, provoked by the Intran-
sigentes. Many persons were killed
and injured. The municipal cleo
ton in Malaga on the 10th was attended
with disorder and bloodshed There was fight
ing at several CT the polling Places and rioting
continued late into the night.
MIR. Starnes the English traveller. who
reached Paris from Central Africa on the 17th.
reports that he met Dr. Livingstone on the 1st
OF July at which time he was in perfect
health.
Chief-Justlce Cockburn, at the close of the
hearing in the Tchborne case on the 18th
said that if the claimant resumed bis
travels through the country REPRESENTING
himself as martyr, it would be the dutv
of the court to put stop to the scandal bv
committing him to Jail. Every iudoe and
juryman connected with the case had been
threatened with assassination if q verdict
against the defendant should be brought in
The Chief-Justice warned the claimant that
II he made another speech or appeal before
me pubic he would surely be imprisoned
Ne" revelations are made every day of the
trlai, ana public interest in the case increases
INFORMATION has been received by the Brit
lsh Board OF Admiralty that boats belonging
to the navy have been attacked by pirates near
Penang, and two of their officers wounded
The man-of-"ar Ihalia had been dispatched
to the scene of the outrage with orders 70
chastse the pirates.
The Cologne Gazette of the 18th saws that
cholora is raging with great violence in Hn,.
gary, and that the percentage of deaths is nm
usually large.
King Lunalilo, of the Sandwich Islands. is
seriously ILL.,
dispatch from Vienna of the 10Th say.
that II had been officially reported that there
had been :, 755 cases Of cholera at Vienna since
the outbreak OF the disease, and that of this
number LILO had proved fatal For the