Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-08-19
THE NEWS.

ing home rule and amnesty for the impris-
oned Fenians.
ACCOUNTS from Damascus to the 23d of
July say that cholera was raging violent
ly there. -Four hundred cases were re-
ported daily, but the real number was
thought to be somewhat larger The dis
ease was also reported raging in Antioch
and adjacent towns.
CAPT BoGARDUs, the American pigeon
shooter, recently defeated Rimell, the En-
glish champion.
SERIOUS riots occurred in Glasgow be-
tween Orangemen and Home-rulers during
tie O'COnnell celebration. Several were
severely injured
A REVOLUTION has broken out in Ko-
khand, in Central Asia. The Khan is re-
ported to have fled and his troops to have
gone over to the insurgents
THE Government pension rolls contain
the names of 228, 034 pensioners, decrease
Of 1871 since last year. The amount paid
out in 1874 was 81 1925, 900 less than in the
previous year.
THE journeymen printers of Washing
ton Cd. c. have accepted the employers
terms of fifty cents per 1000 ems for gen
eral composition and forty cents per hour
for time work.
BENJAMIN b. HALLECK, a clerk in the
cash-room of the Treasury Department in
Washington, VIM. III. Gilman, saloon
keeper, and an old gambler named Brown
were arrested for the theft of $47, 600 from
the Treasury Department, on the 18th.
A special of the evening of the 9Th says
Hallcck had made a full confession. 1t
was thought $780, 900 of the money would
be recovered
A COMMITTEE of the creditors Of J. B.
Ford 81 Co. recommend the acceptance or
thirty-fve cents on the dollar
AN explosion occurred in a Government
arsenal near Philadelphia on the morning
of the 18th, killing one boy and wounding
eighteen others.
THE business portion of Victory, n Y,
was destroyed by fire on the 9th. Loss
estimated at $250000. An old woman
and boy were burned to death in one of
the houses and fireman fell from lad
der and was killed.
IN the case Of John d. Lee, charged
with being the leader in the Mountain
Meadows massacre, the jury reported on
the It'll that they were unable to agree and
were DISCHARGED by the Court
Hon. CHARLES SCHAEFFER, formerly
State Treasurer of Minnesota, committed
suicide by shooting himself with a re-
volver in Oakland Cemetery, st. Paul, at
the grave of his wife, on the morning OF
the Sth.
THE Massachusetts, Republican State
Convention will be held at Worcester on
the 28th of September.
THE trial of Alexander and William
Collie on the charge of obtaining large
sums of money from the London and
Westminster Bank onfalse pretenses came
to a sudden end on the 9th by the an
nouncement of the fact that Alexander had
absconded to the Continent
FOURTEEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED
dollars of the $47 900 stolen from the
Treasury Department were recovered on
the 9Th. The money, consisting of twenty
nine $500 bills, was deposited in a bank
at Alexandria to the credit of Gilman.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of a recent
date says the Government income for the
last fiscal year is larger than any estimate
made
THE Chicago Industrial Exposition will
be open on the Sth of September and con-
tinue one month.
Gov. BEvERIDGE has issued procla-
nation offering a reward of $400 each for
the arrest of the perpetrators of the MUIR
ders committed III Williamson County :,
ILL.,, within the past two years. The
county has also offered a reward of $1,000
THE majority in Alabama for the State
Constitutional Convention is 16, 500. The
delegates stand politically as follows
Democrats 81, Independent Democrats 6,
Republicans u.
IRA p RANKIN has been nominated for
Congress by the Republicans of the First
California District.
A LONDON dispatch of the morning Of
the 18th says serious affair had arisen
between the Russian and Prussian front
Ter guards at DOnbrowa, on the boundary
between the two countries. The trouble
was provoked by the Russians, who tres
passed on Prussian territory. Several Of
the guards were We unded.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE telegram Of the 10th
announces the departure of Turkish troops
to Herzegovina to suppress the insurrec-
ton.
THE Carlist villages on the plain OF
Alaoa have submitted to the National
Government. A Madrid dispatch of the
10th says the Official Gazette had pub
lished an order directing a levy of 1O0,-
600 men.
OTTMAN, the Treasury robber, was sent
to Jail on the 10th in default of $40, 900
bail.
ACCORDING to a Cheyenne dispatch of
the 10th Gen. Crook and Col. Stanton had
returned from the Black Hills, and report