Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-24
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Tifis, and succeeded at Teheran, Ho
bartstown, Adelaide, Melbourne, and at
points in India, China and Japan.
The Republican Gen. Iona on the 18th
issued a proclamation calling on the
Carlists to surrender within eight days,
and threatening to lay waste the coun-
try occupied by them if they did not.
The Iowa Episcopal Convention in ses-
sion at Davenport on the 9th elected
Rev. H. O. Potter, of New York, Bishop
of Iowa Mr. Potter telegraphed his
declination, and on the 10th Rev. W. R.
Huntington, of Worcester, Mass, was
elected on the third ballot
On the 8th the Iowa State Grange as
sembled at Des Moines, about 200 dele
gates being ia attendance. Grand Mas
ter Smedley delivered the annual adj
dress. The number of subordinate
Oranges in the State was stated to be
2,0OO-an increase of 1872 during the
year The Treasurer submitted his re-
port on the 10TH showing the receipts
during the year to have been $33, 1882;
expenditures, $31 ,5O771; balance on
hand, 81. 83311 The State Agent re-
ported the business of his Office for the
year at 100000 The saving to the
Grange by the State Agency is over
$4,000 The Committee on the Railroad
Tariff Law reported that it had proved
impracticable.
According to dispatches received on
the 10th the actual number Of negroes
killed in the fight at Vicksburg on the
18th is reported at $50, forty eight of
whom were buried in one field on the 9Th
Gov. Woodson, of Missouri, has or
dcred an election on the Goth Of January
for delegates to the Constitutional Con
vention
1t transpired during the trial of Count
Won Amin, on the 18th, that Bismarck
had directed his secretary to act as a spy
upon his conduct.
The steamer Pelican was recently lost
off the coast of England with all on
board
The Administration approves of the
course of Gov Ames, of Mississippi, in
the Vicksburg troubles, in endeayoring
to Suppress the disorders without calling
upon the General Government.
The trial of Jesse Pomeroy, the boy
murderer, was concluded at Boston on
the 10th by averdict of guilty Of murder
in the first degree The jury recon-
mended that he be imprisoned for life.
An earthquake shock was felt in New
York and Connecticut on the night of
the 10th.
The trial Of the case Of Triton 0s.
Beecher has been postponed until the
first Monday in January
CharIestown, w Va, lost 5000, 900
worth of property by fire on the night
Of the 10u.
Julia A. Garretson has been elected
State Lecturer Of the Iowa Grange.
On the 10th the Frankfort (Ky.) Grand
Jury found an Indictment against Jones'
Clerk of the Court Of Appeals, charging
him with usurping an office established
by the Constitution, by being Ineligible
from the fact that he accepted chal
lenge to fight a duel. Jones gave bond
in the sum of 100000.
Another cremation ceremony was re
Gently successfully performed in Ores
den. There was nothing offensive in it,
it is said
The instruction in the Argentine Re
public is over and political offenders
have all been amnestied
A total amount of $3.50, 600 has been
awarded on about 1000 claims by the
Southern Claims Commission.
TiIton's attorneys have appealed from
the order of Judge McCue granting bill
Of particulars in the Beecher case
A boy eight years DID, named John
Neville, was recently kidnapped from near
his parents residence in West Hoboken,
New Jersey.
Some of the prominent citizens of
Nicks6urg have issued an address, giving
a statement of the troubles there, in
which they charge q vast amount of Off
NAdA NolA uptIou, anu QSlcuu the dCJaO0 OF
the citizens in the recent warfare, claim
ing that they were obliged to take up
arms in self-defense.
King Kalakaua reached Washington or
the 18th.
The constitution of the Iowa State
Grange his been so amended as to reduce
future membership to 100 delegates, and
to provide for districting the State in
proportion to the number Of subordinate
Oranges.
Five children Of John Datterich. of
Preakness, n. j., were drowned on the
18th by the breaking of the ice on the
pond, near their fathers house, on which
they were sliding.
The New York Republic gave up the
ghost on the 18th.
Fears were entertained in New Or
leans, on the 18th, of an attack by White
T,pa0llprs uOOD tho Election Ppt17rniDC