Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN

Informing AIu UudG iaAu "oNiN
from interfering with Russian progress IN
Central Asia if it did not threaten Afghanis-
tan. Nine thousand Khivan troops were be-
.ieo;no Russian forts on the Euerba River
Another force of 2, 900 Knives were depredat
ing on the Russian fisheries at the mouth of
the Euerba. Reinforcements had been sent
to the Russian troops in that locality.
Persons entering Germany from France
are not not now required to provide them
selves with passports.
Details of the great storms in England
show that two hundred and twenty one ma
rine accidents occurred in November, and
over one hundred lives were lost at sea in
December.
A Hessian convict was pardoned, not
long ago, on condition that he would emf
CRATE to this country. Our Minister at Ber-
lin was informed of this proceeding, and
he exacted from the Grand Duke of Hesse a
promise that nothing of the kind shall occur
again.
The revenue receipts of Great Britain for
the quarter ending December 81 amount to
SIS, 0OO, OOO an increase of $1,000 over the
preceding quarter.
Prosecutions have been instituted against
the Roman Catholic journals, in Berlin and
in the German provinces, which published
the recent Papal allocution.
King Amadeus, of Spain, has expressed
himself as heartily in favor of the bill re-
Gently introduced in the Cortes providing
for the emancipation of the slaves in Porto
Rico.
A recent London dispatch says hundreds
of agricultural hands were out of employment
there because the farmers refused to pay the
wages demanded, and they were preparing
to emigrate to Brazil.
The Russian Government has communi-
Gated to Great Britain its plan for the cam
paign in Central ASIA and has offered to al
low British officers to witness it.
A 100000 fire occurred at Montreal,
Canada, few nights ago
The London Times of the 3d. in an article
upon the death of King Kamehameha, says
it must confess that the Americans will
eventually people the Sandwich Islands,
which will become a valuable colony be-
tween San Francisco and China and Aus
tralia.
Recent advices state that an understand
ing has been arrived at between England
and Russia with regard to the war against
the Khiyas. Prince Gortschakoff has given
assurance to the British Minister at st.
Petersburgh that Russia has no hostile de-
sign against Afghanistan, and that the Rus
sian expedition, commanded by General
Kaufman, was sent to punish the Khon of
KhiYa, who still refused to surrender Rus
sian prisoners. The British Government eX-
pressed Itself satisfied with this explanation.
DOMESTIC.
Gold closed in New York on the Sd at
111xl114.
By the burning of the City Pest House Of
Boston, q few nights ago, 800 smallpox
patients were turned out of their beds and
cast upon the community.
By the sinking of the ship Peruvian, with
a heavy cargo from the East Indies, just
as she was reaching her destination at
Boston, on the Goth, twenty five lives were
lost, and nearly million dollars worth o.
goods.
The Developments in the New York Centre
street fire, where several girls were burned
to death, show that those unfortunate vic
TINS owe their death to niggardliness or
carelessness. A dispatch of the 2Sth says
the various parties interested in the owner
ship of the property in Centre street still
refused to take steps for exhuming the bodies
of the burned girls from the debris. The
Boards of Health and Police stated that
they had no legal authority to remove the
ruins.
Several incendiary fires having recently
occurred in New York City, there was some
talk on the 2Sth of Vigilance Committee,
and there was a possibility of a violent
movement for the suppression OF the Inter
national Societies in New York and its
vicinity.
A suit threatening the titles of over hun
dred owners of real estate on the South Side
in Chicago, and involving property to the
value of nearly s., 900, has been begun in
the Superior Court of that city.
At the Belfast furnace, Ironton, Ohio, the
other day, Ellis Moore, James Venters and
Andrew Diles went into three boilers to
clean them, leaving open the valve connect
ing the boilers with the remaining ones of
the battery. The engineer, suppCs sing the
boilers Containing the men to be dis connect
ed, soon afterward turned on steam, and
VenterS and Diles were SO parboiled that
they died in few minutes. Moore sue
ceeded in escaping.
At last accounts twelve men were believed
to be buried under the Cottonwood ava
lanche in the Utah Mountains. The slide
came from the very mountain top, a dis
tance of mile, with frightful speed and
force.
letter from Whining ton, \. c., Decem-
Der 27, states that Andrew Strong, one of
the notorious outlaws of Scutfietown, was
shot dead by a young man named Wilson,
whom Strong had warned to leave the place.
His body was delivered by Wilson to the
Sheriff, who Immediately paid him 81, 900 for
it, which is the standing reward by the
county for any of the Lowry gang, dead or
alive. Wilson is also entitled to $4,000 re-
ward from the State. The only member Of
the gang now alive is Steve Lowry.
Disasters on Western rivers DESTROYED
1925, 200 worth of property during the past
year. Fifty eight lives We're lost by expio
sions, and 565 by falling overheard.
The National debt statement, January /
Is as follows:
Six per cent bonds .....-.-......S 1,342, 0s4 $50
Five per cent. bonds. 4l4,56T, 300
Total coin bonds. S1,756 65l 45o
Lawful money debt. S17,45S, 0O0
Matured debit. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 4,0S4, 220
Legatendcr notes Observation-Disclosures. 3SS, 6l2, 294
Certificates of Deposit. ........... 25,310.0O0
Efacuohal currency. ................. 45,I22,06l
Com certificates. Observation-Disclosures. 3263, 0C0
1850, 575
Total debt without interest ....S s., 231 191 OPS