Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-12-23

James L. Lawton for completely in these
frauds.
A PUEBLO (Col.) dispatch of the 18th
says the revenue officials had discovered
an underground crooked whisky distillery
on the Arkansas River, near that civ.
A BREMEN dispatch Of the 18th saws a
man named Thomassen had been ar
rested in that city upon the charge OF
placing dynamite in his baggage with the
| intention of causing an explosion in mid
ocean and destroying the steamer Mosel.
The rough handling of the packages on
the docks had caused the late premature
explosion and saved the vessel. 1t was
| understood that Thomassen had confessed
the plot.
ACCORDING to a Constantinople dispatch
Of the 18th the Austrian Ambassador had
again asked the Grand Vizier of Turkey
to suspend hostilities and open negotia-
tons with the insurgents.
| GEN. A. A. HUMPHREYS, Chief of the
Engineer Corps Of the United States
Army, was recently elected correspond
ing member of the French Geographical
Society.
The cabinet-shops of the Wheeler &
| Wilson Sewing Machine Company, at
| Bridgeport, Conn, were destroyed by fire
on the night of the 18th. Loss $500, 900 I;
insurance $300,00O
FREELAND, HARDING & LOOMS, of Bos-
ton, clothing dealers, have failed. Liabil-
tiles estimated at $4,000.
On the 18th announcement was made of
the failure of John Hopkins, leather
dealer, OF Ne" York city.
THE following summary OF TIC report
of the Acknowledgement was sent to Con-
! gress on the 18th: He urges that District
Attorneys be paid by salaries only, to be
| graded according to place; that the Dis
trict OF Columbia be no exception to the
law; recommends giving the appoint
ment of Assistant District-Attorneys
to the Attorney uni
form mode of selecting jurors for
United States Courts; that a law be
passed forbidding the payment Of Deputy
Marshals by certificates, and the advance
Of any money to Marshalswhose accounts
| are unadjusted at the Treasury over six
months. In the case of Brigham Young
he asks further legislation. The labors of
! the Supreme Court and Court of Claims are
referred to, and the suggestion made that
such legislation be had as will enable the
latter court, aided by the Attorney Gen
| eral, to increase the safeguards against
| improper testimony by devising differ
ent mode of taking it, and to force old
| cases to early trial or require them to be
dismissed without power of restoration
To these ends he proposes, after consulta-
ton with the court, to draft a bill and
submit it to the present Congress.
THE London War Office received dis
patch on the 10Th announcing the defeat
of the Malays in recent encounter near
Penang Sixty OF the enemy were killed
and large number wounded.
A BERLIN telegram to the London Times
of the 10th says Thomassen, the man
| arrested for completely in the late dyna-
Gently made several Intellectual attempts
| at suicide and had to be bound and close
| ly guarded. The total number of killed
and wounded was estimated to reach 1870.
| A SPECIAL from ST. Paul de Loanda an
nounces that Capt. Cameron's exploring
expedition had reached there on the 10Th
of November, having traversed the
African continent from Ujiji. The expe-
ditiOn had been pronounced a success.
THERE are now 100 Oranges in Massa-
chusetts, an increase Of thirty-five during
the past year. The number of members
is 1000.
AT the municipal election in Boston on
the 14th Mayor Cobb-the " Citizens"
candidate-was reelected by majority
of between 1900 and 5000 over H. J.
BOardman
REV. JOHN HENRY HOBART BROWN,
Bishop-elect of the Fond du Lac wis
Diocese, was consecrated at Cohoes,
n. Y, on the 18th.
THE National Cheap Transportation
Convention met IN Chicago on the 18th. A
large delegation was present.
AN order was received in Chicago on
the 10Th dissolving the Court of Inquiry
in the case of Gen Babcock.
A BREMEN dispatch of the 18th says
that Thomassen, the originator Of the
Bremen Haven explosion, had died from
the effect of his self-inficted injuries.
Before his death he made full confes-
sion and indicated his accomplices. He
asserted that his true name was William
King Thompson, and that he was a native
of Brooklyn, n. Y. He had purchased
the material in the United States and had
the machine constructed by German
mechanic, with clock work so arranged as
to cause the explosion when the vessel
was in mid-ocean. The rough handling
of the package on the docks had precipi-
tated the catastrophe.
4 BRUSSELS telegram of the 10th says
frightful explosion had occurred on that
day in the coal mine at Framiers, near
Mons. The bodies of 10 miners had al
ready been recovered.
GEORGE S. BANGS resigned the position