Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-06-03
THE NEWS.

marcK. IL was JnOugnJ IN Berlin that
the finding would not be regarded by
Germany as final settlement of the mat
ter
RELIGIOUS procession which was
passing through the streets of Brussels
on the 23d was broken up by a mob.
THE New York Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 22d
ACCORDING to a Tyrone pa dispatch
of the 23d the destruction and desolation
caused by the fire at Osceola and IL the
neighboring forests were very much
greater than before reported. Nine
tenths of the town were burned.
DANIEL O'LEARY, the Chicago pedes-
trian, on the 23d finished the unprece-
denied feat of walking 500 miles in 153
hours, 3 minutes and so seconds. In
the course of the walk he accomplished
so miles in nine consecutive hours, 200
miles in less than fifty hours, and made
mile in seven minutes and twenty
eight seconds, the shortest time on record
A DREADFUL calamity recently oc-
CURED on the River Muir, at the town of
Judenburg, in the province of the Tyrol.
a ferry-boat sunk in the middle of the
stream and seventy-six passengers were
drowned
The new American Minister to Austria,
G. S. Orth, presented his credentials to
the Emperor on the Gath
A MADRID dispatch of the oath an
pOuuPpc tho ratraat of tho N,
troops from Igualda.
THE General Land Office has decided
that benefits extended by law to pre-
emptors who, by reason OF grasshopper
raids, are compelled to leave their lands
may also be extended to pre-emptOrs
whose crops have in the same manner
been destroyed, but who have continued
their residence upon their respective
claims. Those whose crops were injured
in 1874 will be entitled to an extension
of one year from July l, 1875, and where
injury occurs in 1875 the extension will
date from July 1, 1876.
A LARGE number of Republicans as
sembled in Manchester, n. H., on the
evening of the oath to demonstrate
against the late action of the Governor
in the contested election cases in Sena
torial Districts Two and Four Resolu-
lions were passed denouncing such &C
ton, and pledging resistance by all law
full means.
MABEL YOUNG, aged five years, was
found i'll the belfry of the Warren Ave
nue. Church, in Boston, on the 23d,
little after church services, in horribly
mutilated condition. She died on the
Gath. The sexton of the church, a man
named Piper, has been arrested on sus-
picion Of being the murderer of the
child.
GEN. TERRY has been directed to re-
lease the Gordon mining party if the
capture was made outside of the Sioux
Reservation, but in case it was made in
side to require the parole from each in
dividual composing it not to violate the
conditions of the treaty of 1869 with the
Sioux Indians. Parties have no more
right, under the treaty of 1869, to go to
the Big Horn than they have to go to the
Black Hills.
In Chicago, on the Oath, Anna Kuhn
wenski attempted to light fire by using
kerosene oil. She was fatally burned.
A SPECIAL to the St. Louis Globe Demo-
crat Of the 23d says three members of a
family named Finley, living in Cooper
County, died of starvation the previous
week.
THE memorial services at Memphis,
Tenn, on the oath are said to have been
the grandest ever witnessed in the South.
About 100 eX-Federals participated in
the ceremonies. The graves of both the
Confederate and Union dead were deco
rated with floral tributes, and everything
is said to have passed off in pleasing
manner.
THE upper house of the Prussian Diet
on the Goth passed bill for the suppress
sion of converts.
BECAUSE of the failure of the Du-
chesne prosecution the Belgian Ministry
has decided to introduce bill making
threats to commit murder a punishable
offense
THE Postmaster-Generalh has decided
that a person to whom newspaper or
periodical is sent without his consent
or request is not regular subscriber"
within the meaning of the law and must
pay double transient rates of postage.
Work was resumed in the coal mines
at Mahanoy City, Pa, on the 25th, at 90
per cent. reduction on the basis of 1874
Early resumption of work in the entire
anthracite regions was expected.
THE Rhode Island General Assembly
elected Henry Lippett Governor and
Henry I. Sisson Lieutenant Governor
on the 25th.
HEAVY rains on the 25th put an end to
the extensive forest fires raging in the
lumber region of Pennsylvania.
THE court to which the appeal in the
case of the Tipperary election was re-
ferred on the Goth unanimously decided
that the late John Mitchell was disquali-