Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-02-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN

,vare visited by one of the most violent
.torms ever experienced there, even at this
season of the year. The snow fell to extra
ordinary depth in London and surrounding
country On the morning of the I'd it was
six inches deep in the city. Travel was al
most wholly suspended. In the provinces
the snow fall was much heavier, and in the
extreme north there were drifts several feet
deep. The gale ragged with great fury all
around the English and Irish coasts. Many
wrecks are reported, and there was fearful
loss of life, especially off Torquay and
around the Sicily Islands.
The report that Srdar Abdul Rahem had
captured Fort Hissar at the instigatlon OF
the Russians, and was making other aggres-
sive movements in Afghanistan, was contra
dicted in London on the I'd.
The Berlin Tessische Zeitung of the LIST
argues that the Russian forces in Central
Asia are strong enough to defy any attempt
of the British to check their progress, and
England is powerless. Russia was only
waiting for false step on the part OF En-
gland.
It is stated that the Secretary of State at
Washington has recently received dispatch
from Minister sckles, to the effect that the
latter had been officially informed by the
Spanish Government that no steps would be
taken to abolish slavery in Cuba until the
instruction in that island had been sup
pressed.
A dispatch from the south of France on
the Sd saws that remnants of the Carllst
bands were crossing the frontier, and seek
ing refuge on French soil.
A London dispatch of the 4th says the
new United States funded loan which was
about being placed on the market, promised
to be a great success.
The Court House in Quebec, Canada, was
completely burned a few days ago, entalllng
a loss of all the records of the Province
since its foundation, together with titles,
deeds, and other important legal docu-
ments.
A dispatch from Calcutta informs US that
the city of Lehree, Beloochlstan, mas oeen
nearly destroyed by an earthquake. Up
ward of 500 persons were killed. Lehree
was walled city, having total population
of about 5000.
TIE colliery owners in South Wales an
nounce their intention of importing Chinese
1aborers to take the place Of strikers in the
mines.
It is stated that over one hundred persons
have been frozen to death in England during
the recent cold weather,
The legislative Council concurring, Prince
Lunalilo was inaugurated King of the Sand
witch Islands on January 5.
Coal has advanced in England to forty
eight shillines per ton, and many furnaces
and mills have suspended.
The English Parliament reassempled on
the 9th. The Queen, in her speech, expressed
regret at the rapid rise in prices, and the
consequent disputes between the Workmen
and employers, and promised that bllls
would be introduced improving the system
of higher education in Ireland, the recon
struction of the Supreme Appellate Courts,
and for the prevention of corrupt practices
at elections.
Robert Bowles, of the firm of BoWles
Brothers, American bankers in Europe, has
been tried in London for the fraudulent
conversion of securities deposited with the
firm, and acquitted.
The cholera has again broken out in a
yirulent form in several places in Russia and
Hungary.
The earthquake shocks on the Island OF
Samos, which caused so great destruction
of property and loss Of life, continued four
days.
Advices from Paris state that compro
mise has been effected between President
Theirs and the committee of thirty. The
latter agree to modify their constitutional
project by extending the veto power of the
Executive so as to allow the President tc
suspend the operation Of a law by his veto
for two months after its passage by the AS
sembly, and also giving tt President the
right to participate personally in the debate
in the chamber on interpretations and al
questions of general policy.
1t is stated that an Indictment has beer
found in Paris against Gen. John c. Fremont
and some of his associates who helped hin
to negotiate the Memphis Il Ell Paso Railroad
bonds in the European market, and that the
trial will come off there shortly.
A dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica, Jan
81. saws that Sir John Grant had arrived a
st. Thomas from England to resume thu
Governorship of Jamaica. The English GOV
eminent has been largely petitioned to e2
tend his administration for seven years.
DOMESTIC.
Gold closed in New York on the Ith