Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-26
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FOREIGN.


A dispatch from Berlin on the 14th says the
German Reichstag had defeated the Govern
ment proposition fixing the strength of the
army on effective peace footing at 401, $50
men, The National Liberals proposed to fix
the minimum strength of the army at 36O,O
A large number of French citizens assembled
at Chiselhurst, England, on the 16th to cele-
brate the eighteenth anniversary of the birth
of the Prince Imperial. The Duke of Padua
congratulated him upon his attaining his
majority and the Prince made suitable reply,
and in conclusion said: "Despite the conf
dence inspired by the loyalty of President
MacMahon, an irresistible current OF public
opinion has pronounced in favor of the
plebiscite. l am ready to accept its verdict"
A London dispatch of the 10th says Gen.
Wolseley would bring home the remains of
DR.. Livingstone.
According to a cable telegram of the 10th
the ship Laconia, from Alexandria Egypt for
Algiers, with 27S pilgrims who were returning
from Mecca, encountered terrific gale in the
Mediterranean. One huge wave washed over
board 1T of the pilgrims, and they were
drowned.
The following telegram was sent by the AS
ISOLATED Press on the morning of the 18th.
1t bears date City of Mexico, March 49,"
90 fearful outrage was perpetrated by mob
at Ahualulco, in the State of Jalisco, last
Sunday. In the morning priest delivered an
incendiary sermon, in the course of which he
advocated determination of the Protestants.
This so excited his hearers that an armed
mob of 200 persons gathered in the evening,
and proceeded to the residence of the Rev.
John Stevens, a Congregational minister
sent out by the Boston Board of
Foreign Missions. With cries of Long live
the priests hey broke into the house and,
Selling the clergyman, smashed his head to a
jelly, and chopped his body into pieces. They
afterward sacked the house and carried off
everything of value. After much delay the
riot was suppressed by the local authorities"
correspondent of the Daily Ne1US, pub
lished in London on the 18th, says that in the
Tfrhoot district in India $1,000 natives, all of
them furnishing for want of food, had applied
to the Government for assistance The cor
respondent adds that one-half the population
will die if adequate relief be not afforded.
According to a Vienna dispatch of the 18th
the Catholic Bishops in the Reichsrath had
threatened to withdraw if the passage of the
ecclesiastical bills was pressed.
dispatch to London paper from Central
Asia represents that anarchy reigns in Khiva.
At a meeting of Louisiana bond-holders held
in London on the 18th resolutions were
adopted denouncing the funding bill passed at
the late session of the Louisiana Legislature
as arbitrary, unjust and injudicious, and cal
culated to shake confidence in all American
securities. Resolutions were also adopted to
take measures to resist the carrying into effect
the provisions of the act.
A Bavonne telegram of the 18th says the
Carlists had entered Olot without opposition.
According to latest Sandwich Island reports
Prince Kalakena had been elected King of
Hawaii, to succeed the late Lunalilo. When
his election was known there was a serious
riot by mob of Queen Emma's adherents,
which was only quelled by the intervention of
United States and British marines. One of the
members of the Assembly was killed and sew
eral were badly injured.
Berlin dispatch of the 18th announces the
death of Johann Heinrich Maedler, the we'll
known German astronomer.
According to mail reports from Rio Janeiro
of the Esd of February, Gen. Mitre had been
elected President of the Argentine Republic
1t was thought that rupture between the
Republic and Chilli was imminent.
Upon the reassembling of the English Par
lament on the 10Th, shortly after opening, the
members of the House of Commons were
summoned to the Chamber of Peers to hear
the Queens speech read Suitable addresses
in response were made by both Houses
The Fusileers arrived at London from the
Gold Coast on the 18th.
According to a Havana dispatch of the 10Th
the Commission investigating the affairs of
the Bank of Havana had ascertained that there
had been an illegal issue of bills amounting
to S44, o00,0 900.
A dispatch was received by the Carlist j unts
on the Goth, at Bayonne, saying that Gen.
Palacios was marching upon Madrid with
$4,000 men, after defeating with great loss the
Republican column under Collejo, near Ming
lanilla, forty-four miles southeast of Cuenca
The Carlists had captured an outlying fort a
Bilboa. The bombardment of the city con
tinued. The publication of military news a
Madrid had been forbidden.
A London dispatch of the Goth announce
that the steamer Manitoban, from the GolC
Coast, with Gen. Wolseley on board, has beer
signaled off Portsmouth.
A Kingston paper of a recent date says al
inquiry will shortly be held in respect to TIT
British subjects captured on board thu
steamer Virginius and shot by order of Gen
Burriel.