Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-08
Etc, Etc, Etc, Etc.
FOREIGN.

A severe conflict between a band of Carlists
and Republican force is reported to have oc-
CURED on the 25th before Bocayrente, in the
province of Valencia, Spain. The insurgents
were defeated with heavy loss in killed and
wounded.
According to a Madrid dispatch of the Goth
the resignation of General Sickles, United
States Minister, had been officially accepted.
1t is SAID France has given satisfactory as
surances to Germany relative to the hostile
pastorals of the French Bishops.
The news of the appointment of Gushing
as Minister to Spain was favorably received at
Havana.
The Madrid Government has not only re-
fused to accept the resignation of Captain
General Jovellar, but has granted him extend
ed and extraordinary powers.
The Prize Court at Havana has condemned
the steamer Virginius as lawful prize.
A late cable telegram says the English
steamer Becklow was recently wrecked near
Gibraltar, and twenty-five out of twenty three
of those on board were lost.
An election ARRAY occurred few days ago
in Monterey, Mexico, in which several persons
were killed and wounded. Similar disturb
ances occurred in Tampico, and the Mayor
was imprisoned by State troops.
The treaty recently concluded between
Russia and Bokhara is published. The Khivan
territory on the right bank of the Amadaria
River is given to Bokhara, which, in return
agrees to abolish slavery and establish mutual
trading facilities with Russia.
Burriel, the Cuban butcher, has been re-
lieved from his command of the Eastern
Division because in one of his recent pronun
ciamentos he attacked the Home Government
He has been summoned to Madrid to answer
charges which have been preferred agains
him.
A late Paris dispatch says six more Com
munsts have been sentenced to death at Yer
sailles.
A telegram was received in London on the
31st ult, which stated that the steamship
Elbe, bound from London for Hamburg, had
been lost at sea, and that thirty-two of those
on board persisted
News from Spain of the 31st ult was to
the effect that there had been a complete rup-
ture between President CASTELAR, and Sal
meron, the President of the Cortes. The sit
uation was regarded in Madrid as serious.
The Government had suppressed several news
papers Of Federal proclivities.
Intelligence from the Ashantee war, received
on the 31st ult., says the British forces were
driving the Ashantees before them, and had
penetrated seventy miles into their country
Jovellar Captain General of Cuba, has
ordered a strict inquiry into the circumstances
connected with the recent disappearance OF
Ralph Keller, the New York Tribune CORE
spondeut. Keller was on board of a Spanish
steamer bound for Havana, and on the arrival
of the steamer at that port he was not to be
found, he having mysteriously disappeared
during the trip.
BY the Havana newspapers the United State:
are charged with having purposely sunk the
Virgnius in order to avoid turning her over
TO Spain.
Berlin telegram TO the London Daily TeZe
graph of the I'd says the German Government
had absolutely resolved to abstain from any
interference with the inner ecclesiastical or
ganization of dioceses during their struggle
with the Roman Church, and to confne its ac
ton to vigorously repelling any eneroachment:
of the Bishops upon State rights.