Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-20
THE NEWS.


York or the 28th ult. for Hamburg, was
totally wrecked on an outlying ledge of
the Scilly Islands, about thirty miles
from Lands End, England. The ship
was one-half mile out of its course, an
error solely attributable to the preva-
lence of dense fog. Of the 379 per-
sons on board, 311 are known to have
persisted. Several prominent German
citizens of Chicago, Milwaukee, Daven-
port Qowa), and other Western and South
ern cities were lost.
On the 9Th the Italian Chamber of
Deputies, by vote Of 519 to 149, approved
the ecclesiastical policy of the Govern
ment.
A RESOLUTION was adopted on the 8th
by the Belgian Chambers approving the
recent correspondence with Germany.
THE bill for the suppression of relig-
ious orders in Germany has been read
third time without amendment, and
the bill giving the old Catholics q share
of the Catholic Church property passed
the latter by 202 to 70. The provincial
authorities have been instructed to treat
the giving of money to priests who have
been subjected to legal penalties as a
punishable otfense.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 9th
saws that the work on the new Custom
House building in Chicago will have to
be entirely Overhauled and the building
reconstructed from the foundation. en-
failing an additional cost Of 100000
and postponing the completion of the
structure year.
THE Postmaster-General recently is
sued an order carrying into effect the
treaty for the formation of a general
postal union concluded at Berne Oct. 8
last.
THE Grand Jury of the District of Co
lumbia has declined to find an Indictment
against Mr. Dana, of the New York San,
for libeling ex-Gov. Shepherd.
AN attempt was made by miners on
the night of the 18th to burn the Philadel-
phia g Reading Railroad bridge above
Locust Gap.
A NEW trial in the case Of Early vs.
Storey, of the Chicago Times, has been
denied, the plaintiff consenting to accept
$4,000 in lieu Of the $4,000 awarded by
the jury. The defense appealed to the
Supreme Court In another libel suit
against Mr. Storey for stigmatizing a
Chicago lawyer as a" shyster" the jury
7,o4-1ry, n ,yo,Jio+ Of CaS00
john BENDER, the Kansas murderer,
lately imprisoned at Florence, Arizona,
has again escaped.
CAPTIVE Cheyenne, Arapahoe and
Kiowa Indians from the Cheyenne Agen-
CIV arrived at Fort LeaverWorth on the
8th, and were placed in the guard-house.
Up to the morning of the 10th the bod
les of ninety-one of the Schiller victims
had been recovered. Only fifteen pas
sengers were known to have been saved.
OK her recent trip from Lisbon to
London the steamer Cadlz sunk, and
sixty-three lives were lost.
THE Intransigente prisoners who we're
concerned in the Cartagena instruction
were recently released from custody.
THE Department of A griculture reports
the condition of the winter wheat crop
in the Ohio and Missouri Valleys to be
such as to indicate only ive-eighths
crop. In Kentucky the yield would be
rs per cent; Ohio, 81; Michigan, IS !;
Indiana, &c; Illinois, 60; Missouri, So;
Kansas, 81. The condition was better in
Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia.
In the Beecher trial on the 10th Lewis
J. James testified that on the morning Of
June ,, 1873, he saw Mr.. Beecher going
in the direction of Remsen street and
Mr.. MouIton's residence. jeremiah P.
Robinson was recalled to testify in re-
gard to Mrs Moulton having, in 1878, told
him of her alleged interview with
Mr.. Beecher, but the evidence was ruled
out Mrs Sarah Eddy testified that she
called at Mrs. Moulton's on the I'd of
June, 1878, and met Mr.. Beecher on the
steps Of Mr.. Moulton's house, as he was
coming down. Mrs. Moulton was re-
called and testified that Mrs. Eddy called
on her on that day, and that she repeated
the conversation to her.
GEO. n. KIRKMAN, living near Nevada,
Iowa, was hanged by mob on the night
of the Sth.
THREE HUNDRED striking miners of
Locust Gap visited two collieries near
Pottsville, Pa, on the 10th and forced
the miners employed there to stop work,
telling them that if caught at work again
the whole party would be attacked and
killed.
THE Massachusetts Legislature has APP
propriated $4,000 to represent that
State at the Centennial Exhibition.
A NUMBER of distillers at Chicago, st.
Louis, Milwaukee and other points in the
West have been lately seized by Govern
ment officers on the charge of gross VIC
lation of the Revenue law.
CHEF JUSTICE LOWE on the 10th de-
MED the motion for an attachment com
polling Brigham to pay alimony to Ann
Eliza Young, on the ground that the al
legged marriage was bigamous or polyga