Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-17
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stricken from the budget.
Thirty mutineers were recently ar
rested in Madrid for resisting an order
to proceed north with their regiment.
The Carlist leader Sohano, recently cap
tured on a railway train in Cordova, was
shot on the 4th, having been declared by
court-martial guilty of robbery and as
sassinatiOn.
The last official document issued by
the late Mayor Havemeyer was COM
muncation to the Commissioners of Char
tiles and Corrections complaining of the
partiality shown toward Mr.. Tweed in
his prison confinement and demanding
an investigation.
Hiram Smith was hanged at Water
town, n Y, on the 4th for the murder
of Charles Wenham, in January, 1873.
He died protesting his innocence.
Rev. George D. Gillespie, of Ann Ar
Dor, has been elected Episcopal Bishop
for the Western Diocese of Michigan.
The Wisconsin Board of Canvassers
Wisconsin Congressional District to
Judge Cate. They declared that he is
elected by majority of two votes.
David A. Gage, ex-Treasurer of Chica-
go, recently on trial at Waukegan for
misappropriating public moneys, was de-
clared mot guilty on the 4th.
T. H. Pick@ell, of Illinois, has been
elected President of the Short-Horn
Breeders Association for the ensuing
year; S. F. Lockridge, of Indiana, Sec
rotary, and Claude Matthews, of Indi-
ana, Treasurer. The next session of the
association will be held in Toronto,
Canada, Dec. 2, 1875.
The longshoremen's strike in New
York city is ended, the disagreeing par
ties having come to an amicable under
standing.
Lawlessness and crime seem to be the
order of the day in the Pennsylvania
mining districts. A large number of the
unemployed miners are reported in a
needy condition.
L
ty struck on the 9Th Over 100000 work
men we're thus thrown out of employ
ment.
The King of the Sandwich Islands left
San Francisco for Washington on the
9Th
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has
declined to direct the State Board of
Canvassers to give the certificate of
election from the Eighth District to Nc
Dill.
The New York Court of Appeals has
decided that Mr.. BeeCher is entitled to a
bill of particulars in the cause entitled
Tilton Us. Beecher, thus overruling the
decision of the lower Court.
In the Cheap Transportation Conven-
ton at Richmond, Va, on the 4th, res
Olution was unanimously adopted recog-
nizing, in addition to the lines of trans
portation recommended by the United
States Senate Committee on Trans
portatioB, the proposed Rock Isl
and & Hennepin Canal in IL
inois, connecting the Mississippi
with the Illinois River and Canal
and the chain of waterways to the sea-
board, as project Of great merit, and
urging upon Congress the necessity of
speedy construction of the work The
name of she association was changed to
1.-THE American Board of Transportation
and Commerce" and Hon. Josiah Quincy,
of n1n ont
for the ensuing year; F. B. Thurber, of
New York, Treasurer, and r. H. Fergu-
son, of Troy, n. Y, Secretary. The next
annual meeting is to be held in Chicago
A deputatiOn of English Catholic la
dies recently paid a visit of congratula-
ton to the Westphalian Countess who
was recently fined tor expressing sym
pathy with the Bishop of Padeborn in
his ecclesiastical trials
The funeral of the late Mayor Have
meyer, of New York, occurred on the
5th
A Vicksburg (ATiss) dispatch of the
9TH says an alarm was sounded at 8
o'clock in the morning that the negroes
were marching on Jne IOWn. Inc Clll-
zens gathered en- mdSse, armed imme-
diately, and advanced to meet them on
the Baldwin Ferry Road. They were en-
.countered on Grove street, just outside
of the city, about 200 strong. The COM
mander of the citizens warned the negroes
to dispense, but they refused, and imme-
diately firing commenced on both
sides. The negroes retreated about a
mile, and again made stand in an old
breast work and house, but were soon
routed. The loss in this engagement was
one citizen, Oliver Brown, killed, and
about twelve or fifteen negroes killed.
several wounded, and about twenty pris-
oners On the Halls Ferry road about
$50 negroes were found and routed after
a short engagement, with several killed
and wounded. The attack was made for
the purpose of reinstating the negro
Sheriff Crosby. 1t was reported that the
negroes were burning cottCn-gins and
dwellings in the neighborhood.
According to Paris kilograms of the
Sth the Rothschilds had advanced So