Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-04
THE NEWS.

1(UMORS pfCVdlICu III Berlin on the S4tl
that Bismarck had rendered his resigna-
ton of the Chancellorship in consequence
of i'll health.
ACCORDING to Madrid dispatches of the
oath the Government had refused permits
sion to the Republicans to hold electoral
meetings. Senior Marfori, formerly Min
lister of the Colonies, had been arrested
and would be expatriated.
THE Director of the Mint estimates the
gold and silver production of the coun-
try next year at 500, 100000.
THE Commissioner of Pensions has
completed his annual report. The invalid
pension roll is 105, AIS, costing yearly
$10,961 ,218. The roll of army widows is
104, 885, at an annual cost of S12 1885, $40
The survivors of the war of 1912 number
1876 and the annual payments are ST.,
524 600. The widows of the war of 1912
number 5,163, at a total annual rate of
S495, 648.
In late letter to the New York Herald
DR.. Hayes, the Arctic explorer, expresses
his belief in the existence of an open Polar
sea- and his belief that in the vicinity of
the pole there is an open navigable sea in
the summer; that it may be reached by
ship or boat by way of Smiths Sound, and
that the>north pole is within the reach of
any nation that will spend money enough
to get to it.
MEssRs. MOODY AND SANKEY began
their revival labors in the Brooklyn On.
Y J rink at $3.50 O'Clock on the morning
of Sunday, the Gath. An afternoon service
was also held, to which at least 5000 peo-
pie were unable to gain admittance. An
nouncement was made that services would
be held every evening during the week ex-
cept Saturday.
THE registration in New York city for
the coming election aggregates 144,934,
against 146,218 last year.
Mr.. AND Mrs MURRAY were burned to
death during fire in the house OF Susan
Bradley, at Cheshire, Conn, few nights
ago.
THE town Of Vermillion, Erie County,
Ohio, was almost wholly destroyed by fire
on the 22d Loss estimated at $4,000;
insurance light
Mrs. D. L. MURDEN, of New Orleans,
was burned to death on the 22d by the eX-
plosion of COal-oil lamp.
PROF. ATCHINsoN, an aeronaut, recently
attempted balloon ascension at Elkhorn,
Ky, but when several hundred feet high
the balloon took fire, and he was precipi-
tated to the earth and badly, and it was
thought fatally, injured.
THE Charlott esviIle (Va) National
Bank suspended on the 23d. Several
business firms connected with the bank,
doing business there and in Baltimore,
were also forced to suspend.
THE trial of Col. John A. Joyce forcon-
spiracy to defraud the revenue, at Jeffer-
son City, Mo, was concluded in the
United States District Court on the 23d
by verdict of guilty on all four counts
of the Indictment
LONDON dispatches Of the 25th say dis
astrous floods had occurred at Gainsbor-
ough, England. The river Trent had
overiowed its banks, washing away the
railroad and causing the drowning Of sew
eral persons. Thirteen persons had per-
ished by the late inundation at Noting
ham and six at Burton-on Trent. Be-
tween the 18th and 22d fifty-five persons
had persisted on the Scottish coast by
shipwreck.
THE annual report of U. S. Treasurer
New contains the following statement of
year 1875: