Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-03-12
Victoria C. Woodruff ct al. in lail in
New York City.
Organ nation OF Farmers Oranges in
the State OF Maine.
Various Other Interesting News Items
FOREIGN.

News was received in New York on the
morning of the 2Sth giving the intelligence Of
terrible sonhagration at Panama on the 18th
ult., whereby the largest portion OF the bust
ness part Of the city was destroyed. The
losses are estimated at over a million OF dol
Jars, mostly insured in London companies.
Control OF the fire was lost from the first, and
The flames had everything their own way, and
only stopped from want of material to feed
upon
The trial in London Of the Tichborne
claimant on the charge Of perjury, which
lasted 1870 days. has resulted in his conviction
on all the charges, and he has been sentenced
to fourteen years penal servitude. The jury
WAS only out a short time. There was great
excitement in London over the verdict.
A Madrid dispatch of the 2Sth ult. an
nounces that Count Serrano had been de-
clared President OF the Republic, and General
Zabala, the Minister of War, WAS appointed
President OF the Council Of Ministers. Gen
eral Morionez had failed to relieve Bilboa, and it
was reported that his army had been defeated
by the Carlists, with loss OF 5000 men,
killed and wounded. A Bayonne telegram Of
the LIST says the Carlist forces had occupied
the city of Toosa, in Guipuzcoa, and An
dodiu, small town in Biscny, near San Sc
bastan.
A terrible accident occurred on the Great
Western Railway in Canada on She night of
the 2Sth ult passenger coach attached to
the Sarnh accommodation train took fire when
seven miles out of London, the fire being
caused, it is supposed, 10y the fall
ing Of lamp. The fire was not dis.
covered until the interior of the saloon was
completely filled with flames, which spread
through the coach almost Instantly. The pas
sengers were compelled to jump from the rear
platform and through the windows. The tras
was stopped as quickly as possible, but before
they could be extinguishcd eight persons were
sutlocated or burned to death. Several others
were injured, some of them seriously.
The Carlist Jun Ia at Bayonne received a
dispatch on the "a lust TO the effect that
Bilboa had surrendered to Don Carlos, and
that the Carlists had met the Republican
army near Somorrostra and defeated it, in
tctng a loss Of 1000 in killed, wounded and
prisoners
Dispatches received in London on the I'd,
from India, state that over 100000 people
districts of India.
A boiler exploded in Blackburn, England,
ON the 2d, killing twenty persons and wound
ing thirty, some of them fatally,
British Journals generally approve the yer
diet in the nchborue case, dispatch of the
ID says that his counsel had entered a motion
for new trial, aud in the event of the failure
of the motion would appeal TO the House Of
Lords
Later adSices from Nagasaki. Japan, say
that the iusurgeut forces, which according 10
previous accounts were marching upon the
city, bad been totally defeated by the Govern
mcut forces
According to a Bsyonue dispatch of the 9TH
Don Carlos had been proclaimed King Of
Spain, and the coronation would take place ut
Buboa.
Madrid telegram OF the 4th says that the
recent successes Of the Carlists had aroused
the national spirit of the people, who werr
coming to the aid OF the Government in its
efforts to crush the Instruction Contrihu-
tons OF money aud clothing were being re.
coiyed from the provincial authorities.
Havana dispatch of the 4th reports the
killing of eN.Prvsid,nt Ccspedcs, and his
burial NJ Santiago de Cuba.
According to dispatches from Calcutta
received in London ON the 9TH the distress
among the famine stricken people in Eastern
Tishost was increasing In one village alone
there had been eighteen deaths from st,rya.
ton in four days. The number Of applicants
for relief had increased from $4,000 10 $1,000
within week
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