Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-19
FOREIGN.

Several prominent persons are to be prose
cuted in England for conspiring with Arthur
Orion to get possession of the Tichborne es-
tate.
The success of the English campaign in
Ashantee is confirmed by recent dispatches
from General Wolseley. Coomassie had been
captured and burned, and the natives had re-
quested treaty of peace.
The report of the killing of Cespedes, ex-
President of Cuba, is confirmed. He was
surprised by the San Quentin battalion on
February % and Immediately shot. His body
was brought to Santiago de Cuba and buried
on the LIST inst.
On the 9th the British Parliament adjourned
TO enable those members who had accepted of
fee under Disraeli to go back to their consti-
tuents for reelection.
The Bishop of Treves was arrested on the
Sth in obedience to orders from Berlin. Great
excitement followed. On the 9th the semi
nary attached TO the Bishops see was forci-
bly, closed genumbers of the populace adj
tempted to interfere with the orders of the
Government. and for lime it seemed as if a
serious riot impended. Troops came to the
assistance of the authorities and dispersed the
mob.
The London papers of the 10Th published a
long statement signed by Charles Orion, in
which he confessed that he recognized the
Tichborne claimant as his brother the first
time he saw him, and that silence on his part
was bought with e5 paid monthly, for year,
and the promise of thousand or two add
tional at the conclusion of the trial.
According to a dispatch from Gen. Wolse-
ley dated Feb. 10, the King of the Ashantees
had sent him 10000 ounces of gold, the first
installment of the indemnity, with request
for peace. Three of the six Kings tributary
to King Koffee had given in their submission
TO British supremacy. The terms of peace
were: The King agreed to pay $4,000 ounces
of gold; to withdraw from the coast; to keep
the road free from Coomassie to the River
Prah; to protect commerce, prohibit human
sacrifices and keep the peace forever.
According to the last dispatches the British
losses in the Ashantee war were sixteen killed
and 36S wounded
Gen. Moriones having resigned his command
in the Spanish army of the North, Marshal
Serrano has assumed supreme control, and,
according to Madrid dispatch of the 18th,
would thereafter conduct the campaign against
the Carlists.
Gen. JovelIar has been superseded as Captain
General of Cuba by Gen. Concha.
On the 18th the Duke ana Duchess of Edin-
burgtl made their entry into London in the
midst of a binding snow-storm. An immense
crowd witnessed the entry, and the throng
was so great that by the breaking of a plat
form at Charing Cross several persons were
killed and twenty-four injured. The storm
was unprecedented in some parts of the
island. The Caledonian Railway was block
AIDED by snow and several trains were buried
in drifts. In some cases the station houses
along the line were covered, the chimneys only
appearing above the snow.
a Madrid dispatch of the 10th says the Gov
ernor of Bilboa had informed Marshal Serrano
that he had provisions sufficient to last until
April. A determined attempt was about to be
made to compel the Carlists to raise the siege.
A unprecedentedly heavy snow-storm pre-
vailed in Constantinople on the 18th, causing
great distress among the poor of that city.
The London Liberal journals of the 18th
contained highly euIogistic notices of the late
Charles Sumner.
At the regular half-yearly meeting of the
Directors of the Bank of England, held on the
18th, il was stated that the cost of apprehend-
ing and convicting the Bidwells and Melon
aid, the parties who committed the frauds
upon the bank, was $4,000.
According to Rome dispatch of the 18th
the Pope had written to Austrian Bishops,
urging them to use all their influence to pre-
vent the passage of the proposed ecclesiastical
laws.