Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-11-20
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN.
The Paris Press of the 9th says the Right
had not only agreed to limit MacMahon's term
of office to five years, but had consented that
he should be officially designated by the title,
''P1esident of the Republic'' By these con
cessions the Right gained enough Republican
members to give them a majority in the com
mittee on the prolongation of the Presidents
powers.
The following is the official announcement
of the shooting in Cuba of the Insurgent lead
ers captured on board the steamer Nirginius.
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, November
10 Ills EXcelency the Captain General;
Al SIX o clock this morning were shot, at this
city, for being traitors TO their country, and for
being insurgent chiefs, the following persons styl
ing themselves Patriot Generals: Bernebe Pc
dro Cespedes, Commanding General of Cenfugos;
General Jesus del Sal and Brgadier- General Wash
ington Ryan. The executions took place in the
presence OF the entire corps of volunteers and the
force of regular infantry and sailors from the fleet
AN immense concourse of people also witnessed
the act. The best of order prevailed. The prison
ers met their death with COmpOsure.
'BURR1EL.r
The Emperor William has promulgated a
royal decree relieving General Won Room of
the Presidency of the Prussian Ministry and
appointing Prince Bismarck in his place, and
Herr Camphauser, Minister of Finance, Vice
President.
committee representing the French res
dents Of San Francisco, Cal, presented Thier
with an address, at Paris, on the 10th. The
ex-President, in replying, said that the Mon
archists had suffered a check, and that con-
servative Republic was assured.
On the 10th, Mexico celebrated the adop-
-
Constitution, among which are the abolition
of peonage and the separation Of Church and
State.
a New York dispatch Of the 10th says it was
reported there that engagement had oc-
Cured a few days before near Puerto Principe,
Cuba in which the insurgents were severely
beaten, losing twenty killed and eighty taken
prisoners. The report says the Spanish com
mander caused all the prisoners to be shot on
the field of battle.
A press letter from Havana dated the 9Th
gives the following account of the execution of
the Nrglnius' prisoners at Santiago dc Cuba:
The four prisoners were shot at place made
famous by previous executions, and in the usual
Misunderstanding close to the sIaughter-house
wall All marched TO the spot with firmness. BAN
BETA and Ryan showed marked courage, although
the former was slightly affected toward the last.
bandaged but the rest up to the last never iinched
moment and died without fear or regret BAN
BETA and Ryan were killed at the first DISCHARGE
A letter has recently been published in Eu-
rope from Bishop Won kettler, of Mainz, ad-
dressed to the German Emperor, in which the
latter is challenged TO prove the assertion
against the loyalty of the German Catholics
contained IN his reply to the Pope's letter
According to the London Times of the 18th
there Is a second letter from the Pope to the
Emperor, which the latter had not published
and which the Catholics say he was afraid to
publish.
a dispatch from Paris on the 18th saws il
was reported that an extensive plot in favor
IF the Count de Paris had been discovered in
that city, and the authorities were said to be
in possession of documents by which a num-
Der of well-known politicians are compro-
missed.
There was a report at Bayonne on the 18th
that another battle had taken place between
the Carlists and the Republicans, in which the
former won a great victory, the Republicans
losing 800 men and the Carlists 200.
According to q Havana dispatch of the 18th,
the captain and thirty-six of the crew of the
steamer Nirginius were executed at Santiago
de Cuba on the 18th, and, on the next day,
twelve more of the Cuban volunteers on the
vessel were shot, among whom was Franchi
Aifaro. The Spanish say that Alfaro came to
assume the Presidency OF the so-called Cuban
Republic. He offered the authorities s, 900, 600
if they would spare his life Captain Joseph
Fry, commander of the Nirginius, was a ma
tive of Florida, forty-six years of age He
leaves wife and seven children in New Or
leans
1t is reported that several passengers, both
men and women, by the steamer City of New
York, from New York, on the 9th, which ar
rived at Havana on the 11th, were arrested by
the Spanish authorities on landing. They
were accused of completely with the insur-
gents.
At late public meeting in London,
Carvell Williams, who had recently returned
from America, gave an account of his visit
He praised the voluntary religious system, and
especially commended the public schools of
the United States.
A Madrid dispatch of the 18th states that
the lnsurgent forts at Cartagena had opened a
heavy fire upon the land and naval forces of
the Government.
A cable telegram of the 14th saws the Brit
lsh Government had instructed its Consuls at
Havana and Santiago de Cuba to watch
the proceedings against the captives of the
Virginius, as 1t had been informed that one of
them was subject of Great Britain
The German Government made a further
payment, on the 14th, of $4,000, 600 for bonds
of the United States funded loan.
A dispatch from Cartagena on the 14th re-
ports that cannonading continued all the pre-
yious day, notwithstanding violent storm.
The city had received fresh supplies of pro-
visions and ammunition. The British Consul
was the only representative of a foreign gov
ernment who remained in the place.
Intelligence has recently been received at
London, Eng, that a famine prevailed in
Greenland, caused by a failure of the fisheries.