Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-28

Stevens Point, seized the guard, beat down
the doors, took out the Courtwrights and
hung them to pine tree by the roadside.
PROF. WATSON, Of the Michigan State
University, has recently discovered new
planet.
Isaac MCAFEE, colored man, has been
recently sentenced to twenty years i'm
prisonment for having year ago caused
a terrible accident on the Selma (Ala) s.
Dalton Railroad by placing distractions
on the track.
THE Des Moines State Register of the
18th published returns from eighty-seven
counties in Iowa, giving Kirkwood 26679
majority and Indicating Republican ma
jority of seventy-two in the Legislature.
A LONDON dispatch of the goth says
extensive and disastrous floods had re-
Gently occurred throughout Lancashire
and Warwickshire. Traffic by rail in
that section had been for many miles alb
solutely stopped.
THE Supreme Court of Germany on the
Goth affirmed the verdict of the Hammer
gericht in the case of Count Won Arnim
PROF. WHEATsTONE, the English nat
ural philosopher and electrician, died at
Paris on the goth.
A LATE st, Petersburg dispatch reports
the burning of 200 dwellings, asynagogue
and five schools in Widsy, Russian Po-
land. Several were burned to death and
more than 5000 persons were rendered
homeless.
Philadelphia on the evening Of the Goth,
consisting of delegations from Chicago,
Detroit, Milwaukee, Toledo, Cleveland,
Buffalo, ST. Louis, indianapolis, Cincin-
natl and Pittsburgh. They were hospita-
bly, entertained by the Philadelphians.
A REUNION of Union and Confederate
soldiers was lately held at Elizabeth, n.
j. Fourteen veteran companies partici-
pated.
AMONG the failures announced in New
York on the Goth was that of Butterick &
CO.. dealers in fashion plates, patterns,
etc; liabilities about 100000; assets
small. The assets of the Broadway dry
goods firm of Rice, Goodwin & Walker,
which failed about year ago, pay, it is
said, one cent on the dollar
REUBEN BENTON was accidentally
struck in the head with mallet while
playing croquet at Titusville, Pa, on the
Goth, and so badly injured that he died in
few hours.
A LONDON paper of the 22d gives addi-
tional particulars Of the flood. The
valley Of the River Don had formed a
lake half a mile wide and fifteen miles
long; many collieries and iron-works had
been flooded and thousands of operatives
thrown out Of employment. At Darling
ton the flood had been particularly severe,
the gas-works, among other establish
ments, being drowned out. AT Ruther-
ham, in Yorkshire, over 900 people had
been thrown out Of work.
A PARIS telegram of the 21st says the
work of sinking a shaft 100 meters deep,
preliminary to the construction of the En-
glish Channel tunnel, would shortly be
commenced near Calais.
THE King Of Bavaria on the Dist pro-
rogued the Bavarian Diet. The resigna-
ton of his Ministers he has refused to ac-
cept
THE town of Iquique, IN Peru, South
America, was recently almost entirely
wiped out by fire.
FREDERICK HUDSON, formerly manag-
ing editor of the New York Herald, died
at Concord, Mass, on the 21st, from being
struck the day before by a locomotive
while riding across a railroad track in a
buggy.
A MASS MEETING was held in New York
city on the Goth to protest against the ex-
clusion of the Bible from the public
schools.
THE will of the late Isaac NJ Singer,
the sewing-machine inventor, bequeath-
ing property amounting in value to $14,
100000, was offered tor probate in New
York city on the Dist.
GEN. Sol MEREDITH, of Indiana, died
at his residence in Cambridge City, on
the 21st, of cancer in the stomach.
On the Dist, at Denver, Col, police
man found in the cellar of a small tene-
ment-house recently vacated the dead
bodies OF an old man and three boys, all
Italians, who had been murdered.
AT the special election in California on
the Goth Prof. Carr, the Republican can
didate for Superintendent Of Public In
struction, was elected. All the Judges in
office in San Francisco, both Democratic
and Republican, were reelected with a
single exception.
THE Wisconsin Supreme Court has late
ly decided that the action of the Wood
County canvassers in throwing out the
vote of the town of Lincoln at the cleo
ton last year was illegal. The decision
was made on contest over county
offices, but the counting of the vote
of Lincoln would elect Alexander S. Nc
Dill Rep.) to Congress instead of George
". Cate, who received the certificate of
election. A fine of $500 was imposed on
tba panvaSSpr who threw ont the votes