Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-09

A Madrid dispatch Of the 21th announce
the defeat Of 10000 Carlists under Prince
Alphonzo after two days fighting. On the
2Sth Gen. Concha, in the midst Of terri
bic storm, surprised three Of the outlying de-
lenses Of Estella. The Madrid dispatch states
that the CarIist loss was very heavy, and that
they would be forced to return into the prov
ince Of AIava. Orders had been issued from
Car1ist headquarters directing all Generals to
carry on the war hereafter without truce or
parley.
The dissfpated nephew Of the Gar OF Rus
STA, the same who stole his mothers diamonds
and squandered them upon an American ad-
ventures, has been sentenced to deprivation
OF his military rank and decorations and to
Punishment to Caucasus for life.
From Havana, on the 9th, comes the report
Of the capture BY the Cubans, near Santiago
de Cuba Of 400 Spaniards and forty carloads
OF proyisions, and that the prisoners were shot
In retaliation for similar executions by Spanish
troops.
Dispatches received by the Madrid Govern
ment on the Goth convey the startling intelli-
gence that Marshal Concha, commander Of
the Republican forces before Estella, was
killed on the preceding day in an attack upon
the Carlist intrenchment at Muro, near Es-
tella. When the national troops learned Of
the death Of Concha they returned to their
former positions. Gen. Zabala, Minister Of
War. succeeded to the command. Besides
Marshal Concha, one Brigadier and several
staff officers were killed. The entire loss of
the national troops is stated in official dis
patches to have been 1900 in killed and
wounded. The Government was organizing
fifty battalions for active service. The death
Of Concha, according to Paris dispatches, was
m event Of considerable political Importance
Reports of destructive fires in Nelhynia,
Poland, are received. In two days over l POO
houses were burned. The two succeeding
days the town was again visited by fire and
reduced to ashes.
A letter received in Holland from Sumatra,
under date Of April 10, relates that the Ach-
cenese on the night of March 20, made an
attack on Dutch fort, captured it and over
whelmed the garrison. The loss of the Dutch
is placed at 1000 killed and 1000 wounded.
Among the stories current in Paris on the
1st was one to the effect that Marshal Concha
was killed at the instigation of Marshal Ser
rano because he was an Alphonsist. 1t is said
that an accidental fire in two houses near Es-
tella was made pretext by the Carlists for
massacring all the wounded Republicans who
fell into their hands at the battle of Muro.
Don Alphonzo was wounded in the arm
during the recent battle. Dispatches from
Madrid on the morning of the I'd report that
the Republican troops were greatly excited
over the reports of the murder and mutila-
ton of the wounded by the Carlists, and it
was feared that they would make sanguinary
reprisals.
Gen Michel Dominique has been elected by
the National Assembly President of the Re
public of Hayti
A Paris dispatch of the LIT says the Sub
Committee of Thirty had drawn up a new
Constitutional bill providing for the continu-
ance of the title of " President of the Repub-
ie;" for a second Chamber; for a personal
septennat to terminate with the expiration of
MacMahon's seyen-year term, or sooner in
case Of his death or resignation. No provision
is made for a successor to the President, thus
leaving an opportunity for the restoration of
OF the empire or the monarchy when the sep
tennat ends