Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-08-26
THE NEWS.

Emperor and an immense concourse of
people
PRINCE CHARLES THEODORE, the great
uncle of the King of Bavaria, fell from his
horse at Naples, Italy, on the 18th and
was instantly killed.
THE Austrian Government has notified
Turkey that she must devise more ener-
getic measures for the suppression of the
instruction in Herzegovina. The town
of Metakia and Fort Govansko were re-
ported on the 10Th to have been captured
by the insurgents.
IT was announced on the 10Th that the
broken Freedmen's Bank at Washington
would speedily pay 20 per cent. of its liza
bilities
THE President was present at the Ma
tional Sunday-School Convention at Fair
point, n. Y, on the 18th.
EDWIN BOOTH, the tragedian, was
seriously injured by being thrown from
his phaeton at Coscob, Conn, on the 18th.
THE Chicago Inter- Ocean of the 18th
published crop reports from large portion
of the Northwestern States and the Terri
tory of Dakota, from which itappears that
the wheat average is 50 per cent, oats 10
per cent, and corn 81 per cent Rye and
barley show diminished yield. The po-
tato crop is represented as excellent
THE Rockford, Rock Island & ST. Louis
Railroad was sold at auction in Chicago
on +bo 9Th b,r Ordor Of +I,a ITn;tod Sta+oc
Circuit Court, under a foreclosure of
mortgage. It was bid off by representa-
tive of the German bondholders for ST.
800 600, of which $500, 900 was in cash.
THE Directors Of the Winnebago COun-
ty Agricultural Society on the 10Th voted
five to fOur-tO sustain the action of the
Secretary in inviting Jefferson Davis to
deliver the annual address in September.
Mr.. Davis subsequently sent telegram
saying that unforeseen events had made it
impossible for him to attend the fair.
THE official returns of the Kentucky
State election show majority of 36,139
for McCreery. The House stands ninety
Democrats to ten Republicans.
ACCORDING to a Madrid dispatch of tie
nth body Of 5000 Carlists had on that
day made an unsuccessful attempt to re-
lieye SEQ de Urgel.
THE subscription raised in Germany to
indemnify Prussian priests for the with
draWal of the State grant amounts to only
$780, 00-less than half the sum with
drawn
A DISPATCH to the London Neaos of the
18th says the Bosnian instruction is
spreading. The towns of Berbir, Dubieza
and Kostainicza had been burned and
many prominent Turks slaughtered.
THE Democrats Of the Fourth Maine
Congressional District have nominated j.
G. Madigan to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Samuel f. Hersey.
MIR. HYMEN, Congressman elect from
North Carolina, arrived in Washington
on the 18th, and says the delegates to the
convention in his State stand sixty one
Republicans to fifty-nine Democrats.
The body of Newton S. Grimwood, the
Chicago Journal reporter who accom-
panied Prof. Donaldson in his late balloon
ascension from Chicago, was found on the
shore of Lake Michigan, near Montague,
Muskegon County, Mich, on the morning
of the 18th. 1t was partly buried in the
sand and had evidently lain there for
some time, and was in partially decom-
posed condition. The body was clothed
except as to hat and shoes, and in
addition thereto had on a bursted life
preserver 1t was found by Mr.. A. Beck
with, mail carrier, and was identified by
letters and notes of the trip which were
found upon it. No traces of Prof Don
aldson or the missing balloon had been
discovered up to the morning of the 18th,
though diligent search had been made for
them along the shore north and south of
the place where Mr.. Grimwood's body
was found
A PASSENGER train on the st. Louis,
& St. Joseph branch of the St. Louis, Kan
sas City & Northern Railroad broke
through a trestle-wOrk over a ravine near
Cover Station on the morning of the 18th,
precipitating the mail and express car and
two passenger cars down to the bottom, a
distance oftwenty feet. Seeing the trestle
give away the engineer put on all steam
and succeeded in running his engine
safely over, breaking loose from the
train. There were fifty or sixty passen-
gers on the train, over forty of whom were
injured, but the only one killed was aman
supposed to be E. j. Angina, of St. Louis.
Several others were likely to die from their
injuries, among them Capt W. II. B. War
rem, of st. Joseph, Mo-, and Judge R. A.
Debolt, member Of Congress from the
Tenth Missouri District.
Rev. CHARLES G. FrNNEY, President of
Oberlin Ohio College, died very sudden
" on the 10Th, at his residence at Oberlin,
of heart disease.
A VIENNA dispatch of the 18th says the
instruction in the Turkish provinces
covers 200 miles of territory. A London
dispatch of the same date says letter had
inst been received, dated Aug. Is, which
stated that 10000 Dalmatians were ready
to ioin theinsurgents. Itwas also stated that