Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-08-05
THE NEWS.

France at S10 ,UUU,OOU.
THE Spanish Government has decided
to contract a loan of $7,000,000 to indem-
Nifty the owners of emancipated slaves in
Porto Rico. A London dispatch of the
oath said Don Carlos had written a letter
to King Alphonso, reproaching him for
allowing the civil war to be conducted
with such excessive rigor, and counseling
moderation on the side of the Alphonsists
on pain Of reprisals by the Carlists. The
Carlist losses during the three weeks end
ing Julya25 were estimated at 1000 men
in killed, wounded and missing. IT,
A LOCKOUT commenced in several cot
tOn-mills in England on the Oath [i
SEvERAL thousand sailors and work.
ingmen attended ameeting held at Birken-
head, England, on the Goth, to indorse
PlimsOll's course in Parliament. Resolu-i
tons expressing with and pledg-
ing support to him were adopted. u g.
THE report of the Department of Agri-l
culture for July 1 shows the condition of
spring and winter wheat together at about
including California, averages. "a, and
spring wheat 90. Spring wheat States in
the Northeast and n orthwestare general
ly in higher condition Of the winter
wheat area the South Atlantic and Gull.
States are generally above the average,
but in the Middle States the conditionais
very low, New York ranging downlto 40.
West of the Alleghenies the prospect is
better, the State averages being between II
in Ohio and 50 in Iowa. California re.
ports winter wheat at 76 and spring wheat
at 70. ..r,.... -a9
THE Postoffice Department has sent to
the Department of Justice. the names of
thirty-nine mail contractors who are to be
prosecuted for failure to perform service
after their bids were accepted. The con.
tracts were relet and the difference be-
tween the amount paid and the bids, for
the thirty nine routes, was $417, 097, which
is the amount of damages claimed.
IT was announced by the New York
Tribune of the Goth that Postmaster-Gen.
Jewell had set the new route along the
shores of the lakes for the fast mail to the
West, expected to begin to run by the LIST
of October. 1t will make the distance
from New York to Chicago IN not more.
than twenty-six hours, and it is hoped to
reduce the time to twenty -four, a. gain of
twelve hours over the present mail and eX-
press train. .s -... (
In Boston, recently, Hugh Donahue
walked l., leo miles in / 100 consecutive
hours. He was in good condition at the
close .-arr4t- e.'
MARY FRAMES, at Indianapolis, on the
23d, used kerosene oil to light fire., She
was fatally burned. -.... ..xz..-z.-
ATTY.-GEN. PIERRErorT has decided
adversely to the Chorpenning claim.
YELLow-FEvER was raging at Pensa-
cola, Fla, and other gulf ports, according
to advices received at Washington on the
Goth, and.orders have been issued for the
adoption of all possible means to prevent
the spread of the disease.
ACCORDING to dispatches from Lisbon
on the Goth there was a very severe drought
in several districts of the province Of
Minho Portugal Crops were DESTROYED
and cattle were dying of hunger. A
canine was threatened, and the Govern
ment had sent relief to the suffering in
habitants. s.sa ea5 TO $3.50
ISAAC NJ SINGER, inventor of the Singer
sewing machine, died at London on the
oath, aged sixty-eight.
A LONDON dispatch of the Goth saws
Plimsoll was meeting with warm support
for his course in Parliament, and the Gov
eminent was evidently terrified The
Shipping bill had been revived and the
House Of Commons had fixed upon the
29th for its second reading.
THE Viscompte de Beaumont Vassy, the
well-known political writer, died in Paris
on the goth.
IT was stated in June last that the Pres
ident had addressed letter to Secretary
Delano requesting his resignation, and
that the latter had besought the President
to retain him in the Cabinet. A Wash
ington Associated Press dispatch of the
Goth says such statement was without any
foundation III fact.
CHIEF CLERK AVERY, of the Treasury
Department at Washipgt who was in
dicted by the Grand Jury at ST. Louis for
completely in the whisky frauds, was re-
quested to resign on the Goth, and did So
AN order has been issued by Brig. Gen.
Ord, commanding the Department of
Texas, that persons appearing in that de-
partment in the disguise of Indians will
be treated as Indians, and, if not killed
when captured, will be sent to Fort Marion,
Augustine, Fla, and not be allowed to
change their Indian dress.
ANN ELIZABETH HoAG and Thomas p.
Willis testified in the Mountain Meadows
massacre trial on the 26tk, and con-
firmed the statements that the outrage was
instigated and committed by the Nor
mons. The emigrants were promised
peace if they would give up their arms
they agreed to this and marched out along
side the Mormon soldiers, who shot them
down at a signal, the Indians killing the
women. One IF the witnesses was at a
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