Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-02-05
The Missouri House Of Representatives Votes Against
Women as School Officers
Proceedings in Congress-The Louisiana
Question Under Discussion.
Various Other Foreign, Domestic, Personal
and Political Items.
FOREIGN.

According to a cable telegram of the 25th,
the Carlists report that Santander and Por-
tugalete surrendered Internationally to their
forces on the god, and that the entire Segovia
battalion, number of artillerymen and engi-
neers, ZOO Remington and 400 Minnie rifles,
and two cannons fell into their hands.
According to a London telegram of the Goth
intelligence had just been received of the
death of DR.. Livingstone in the interior of
Africa He is said to have died of dysentery,
in June last while travelling from Lake
Bembe to Unyanyembe. He had been travel
ing over a partially submerged country, and
aJter wading four days through water was
seized by the illness of which he died His
body had been embalmed, and was being con-
Veyed to England by way of Zanzibar.
The RI. Hon. Benjamin Disraeli has issued
an address to his constituents in Buckingham
SHIRE condemning the course of the Govern
ment, and asking for reelection to Parlia-
ment. Mr.. Nolan, Secretary of the Irish
Amnesty Association, announces his intention
of contesting the election of Gladstone in
Greenwich.
On the morning of the 9th, while the ex-
press passenger train from Edinburgh for
Glasgow, Scotland, was running at great
speed, it collided with another express train.
Sixteen persons were killed and a number
were severely injured. Several coaches were
demolished
The dissolution of the British Parliament
and the royal decree ordering new elections
for members of the House of Commons, have
precipitated England into a spirited political
excitement, the contest being between the
Tory and Government parties, represented by
Disraeli and Gladstone respectively.
According to Bayonne dispatch of the 2Sth,
the report that the Carlists had captured San
lander was denied, but another was current
that the corporation was negotiating to raise
2,000, 900 piasters, which the Carlists demanded
as the price for restraining from bombarding
the city.
A Berlin dispatch of the Goth says that Herr
Bremen, the German explorer of Africa, in a
letter to DR.. Petermann, of Gotha, dated Fan
Zibar, says Livingstone died on the 18th of
August. This date differs from the previous
report, but all doubt has been set at rest by an
official dispatch received in London on the
9th from Zanzibar. This dispatch states cir
substantially that Livingstone died in Lobisa
after crossing the marshes, for hours wading
in deep water. The suferings of his whole
party were terrible, and ten of them died in
consequence.
According to Spanish reports from foreign
papers received in New York on the Goth
twenty-seven voluE teers at Soria took refuge
in a tower which the Carlists burned, causing
the death of the whole number.
The Parliamentary canvass in England is
being attended with considerable excitement
Advices received on the morning of the 3Oth
report several riots as having occurred at the
meetings held by the several candidates.
The nomination of Members of the British
Parliament began on the S0th ult. Dispatches
received up to the morning of the 31st state
that seven Liberals and ten Conservatives had
been returned, the Conservatives gaining one
member at Frowe.
A Hamilton (Ont) dispatch of the 30th ult.
states that of 206 members in the Commons,
135 had been returned so far as heard from.
OF these, the Administration had los, major
ity of the whole House. 1t was probable that
the Government would be sustained on the
test vote by at least eighty or ninety in the full
House.