Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-02-18
THE NEWS.


There was fighting on the 7th near Estel-
la, in which eight Carlist battalions are
reported to have been worsted.
A Mexican mob recently attacked
Protestant church at Acapulco. Four
Mexicans and one American were killed
and eleven wounded.
Tsae Tien, son of Prince CHEN, has
been proclaimed Emperor of China.
The British Parliament was opened on
the 9Th by speech from the throne.
The jury il the libel suit of W. II.
Kemble against the New York Sun failed
to agree.
The New Lebanon On. Y Shaker set
Element was very badly damaged by fire
on the 9th.
One of the Judges of the Cook County
Circuit Court has lately declared the law
requiring ballots to be numbered to be
unconstitutional.
A bill to abolish capital punishment
has been defeated in the Ohio House of
Representatives by vote Of AZ to A.
A caucus of the Conservative mem
bers OF the Louisiana Legislature was
held on the night of the 9Th, at which a
proposition was adopted-38 to 27-fa-
voring as a proposed compromise that
the Conservatives should be allowed a
majority of about ten in the House, and
that the past action of the Kellogg Gov
eminent should not be inquired into.
After the vote Speaker Wilt, it
it said, rendered his resignation,
and Gov. McEnery, who was
present by courtesy, said by this
action of the caucusit was evident to him
that it was time to lower the Democratic
banner, and he therefore wished to re-
tire. At mass meeting held on the
evening of the 9th, addressed by Nc
Emery, Wilt and others, resolutions
were adopted denouncing the proposed
compromise in strong terms, and declar-
ing that nothing less than the reinstall
ment of the legally declared Legislature
as it stood on the 4th of January would
be agreed to.
The messenger of the House Sergeant
alarms has discovered w. S. King near
Compton, Canada, and served him with a
subpoena to appear and testify in rela-
ton to the Pacific Mail subsidy business.
J. J. Routt, Second Assistant Postmas-
ter-General, has been confirmed as Gov
ernor of Colorado.
The President has signed the Little
Tariff bill
The following message from the Presi-
dent was presented to the Senate on the
Sth:
To the Senate of the United States
Herewith have the honor to send, in accord
ance with the resolution of the Senate of the Sd
inst, all information in hy possession not here
toore furnished relating to affairs in the State of
Arkansas. ] will venture to express the opinion
that all the testimony shows that in the election
of 1872 Joseph Brooks was lawfully elected
Governor of that State that he has been I'M
lawfully deprived of the possession OF his office
since that time; that in 1874 the Constitution
ton and revolutionary proceedings Overthrown
and Constitution adopted and a
new State Government established. These pro
ceedlngs, II permitted to stand, practlCaly ignore
all the rights of minOrities in all States. Also,
what is there to prevent each of the States recent
ly readmitted to Federal relations on certain con-
ditiOns from changing their Constitutions and
violating their pledges if this action in Arkansas
is acquiesced in? L respectfully submit whether
Government, if not of the National Government
also, should be recognized by Congress. | earn
estly ask that Congress will take definite action
IN this matter. to relieve the Executive from act
ing upon questions which should be decided by
the legislative branch of the Government.
U. S. GRANT.
Executive Mansion, Feb. s. 1875.
The eastern-bound express train on the
Missouri Pacific Railroad was thrown
from the track on the 18th, near Usage
River bridge, by broken rail. The
sleeping-car and the passenger coach
were badly wrecked, and twenty per
sons were more or less seriously injured,
one girl it was thought fatally.
The Congressional Committee on
Louisiana Affairs concluded their in
vestigation on the Sth, and adjourned to
meet in Washington.
The Spanish army under Alphonso
have recently received serious check,
losing, according to Carlist accounts,
1000 men in killed, wounded and
prisoners. The " official" account ad-
mits loss of 500 and say that mill
tary operations in the direction of Estella
are suspended for the present. The Car
list chief Menderi was recently shot for
high treason by order of Don Carlos.
The Bishop of Strasburg recently is
sued pastoral letter, in which he de-
clared the church to be prosecuted. The
German authorities seized the copies
and forbade the PRONUNCIATION of the doc
ument
Whiting, the man who, according to
1rwin's testimony, received a bride of
$4,000 to secure the passage OF the Pa
cifc Mail subsidy, has been found in
Canada, and subpenaed to give his tes-
timony before the House Committee of
Ways and Means.
The first train, consisting of three
gravel-cars and box-car laden with 100
passengers, passed through the Hoosac
Tunnel on the 9th. The passage was
made in thirty Eve minutes.
Senator Buckingham's funeral took
Mace at Norwich Conn on the OH