Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-07
THE NEWS.


submission.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch of the 25th
says the Consular mediation had failed.
ACCORDING to a Paris dispatch of the
25th Bonapartist council had been re-
Gently held at Arenberg, Switzerland, at
the chateau of ex-Empress Eugene,
where it was resolved that the Empress
should resign the regency and that the
Prince Imperial, guided by NJ Rouher,
should have charge of affairs.
THE President has accepted the resigna-
ton of Secretary Delano, to take effect
Oct. /. The letter of resignation is dated
July 5, and the Presidents letter of ac-
ceptance Sept. %.
REV Ell. G.. TmTON has declined the
nomination for Governor of Wisconsin on
the Temperance ticket.
THE board appointed to investigate the
Chicago CustOm-House building made
public their report on the Goth It is to
the effect that some of the material used in
the structure so far should be rejected and
some other notifications made in the
plan, and that then the structure may
safely be proceeded with. The Secretary
of the Treasury has Endorsed the report,
and has directed that work on the build
ing be resumed in the spring in accord
ance with the suggestions made by the
commission.
A HORRIBLE murder was perpetrated
near Belle Center, Ohio on the 22d, the
victim being a young girl named Allie
Laughlin. The perpetrator of the crime
was James w. Shell, who, according to
the testimony Of his wife, enticed the girl
away into the woods and after a desperate
struggle killed her with knife On re-
turning Shell told his wife what he had
done, and threatened to kill her should
she reveal the story. She also testi-
fed that he had made previous threats
to her against the person and life of
Miss Laughlin. Great excitement pre-
vailed in BellefOntaine when the crime be-
came known, and on the night of the 23d
Shell was taken from the jail by an ex-
asperated crowd and hanged He pro-
tested his innocence and charged his wife
with the murder Of the girl Mrs. Shell
was lodged in Jail at BeIlefontaine on the
25th, as an accOmplice before the fact, she
having confessed to a previous knowledge
of her husbands intention to commit the
outrage and murder.
On the 9th the American ship Ellen
Southland was lost off the Lancashire
coast, England. Eight of the crew per
ished, and the pilot and four of the boats
crew of a life-boat which went to the
SOuthard's assistance were drowned.
ACCORDING to a Santander dispatch of
the 9th prominent Carlists and the Car
list committees in foreign lands had en-
deavored to persuade Don Carlos to aban-
don the struggle for the Spanish throne
and give in his adhesion to King Al
phonSo.
THE report OF the Government Direct
Ors of the Union Pacific Railroad, just
submitted in Washington, shows that the
gross receipts of the road during the year
ending June 80, 1875, were $11 ,522, 021,
an increase over the previous year Of
81, 275 1863; increase in net earnings dur
ing same time, $1,576424; operating ex-
penses, $4,788, $50.
THE Fourth National Bank of Chicago
suspended on the 25th.
THE clergy and business men of Chi
cago have lately taken preliminary steps
toward inaugurating great religious re-
vival this fall and coming winter. Eff
forts are making to secure the personal at
tendance of Messrs. Moody and Sankey,
but in any event revival is determined
on. One report is to the effect that the
evangelists are to remain and prosecute
their eligious labors in New York.
EX-SENATOR CARL ScHURz delivered d
hard money speech at Cincinnati on the
9th.
G. H. HAM, Of the Int61-Oc6an, has been
removed from the office of United States
Appraiser of Merchandise at Chicago, and
r. G. Feldkamp appointed as his sue
cessOr.
A SERIOUS accident occurred on the
Burlington & Missouri Railroad, near
WOODBURY., on the 9th. Three passenger
cars were thrown from the track, and one
passenger was killed and about thirty in
jured.
ACCORDING to a special telegram from
Vienna, published in the London Times
on the morning of the Goth, the Porte had
addressed a circular to foreign powers
stating conflict was inevitable if Monte
negro and Servia continued their persist
ent violation of neutrality. The present
condition of affairs rendered it necessary
to keep 100000 men under arms to watch
trespassers, and Turkey could not con
tinue this much longer. 1t was an
nounced on the 2Sth that twenty -nint
members of the Servian Skuptschina haC
resigned their seats. A Ragusa telegram
of the same date says several unimportan
towns near the Dalmatian frontier haC
joined IN the Instruction, and the Turk:
had retired toward Stolatse.
MADRID dispatches of the 2Sth saw tina
personal differences had arisen betweer
Carlist leaders which Don Carlos himsel
had been unable to reconcile. Gamande
bad boar dafaatad in CataIOD;o ~ ~