Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-25
THE NEWS.


of Wales.
On the 18th a tidal wave ten feet high
swept up Parret River, Somersetshire,
England, breaking the lock gates at
Bridgewater, sinking one vessel and more
or less injuring twenty others.
DISASTROUS floods were reported
throughout England and Ireland on the
18th
CARDINAL MCCLosKEY left Queenstown
for New York on the 18th.
THE ship Calcutta, from Quebec for
Liverpool, was lately wrecked at Crosse
Isle twenty-five of the crew and a lady
passenger were drowned. Only the Cap
tain, three men and boy were saved.
THE annual report of the Commissioner
of Education shows an increase of 10000
school children during the year. There
are enrolled in the public schools 8,000,-
900 pupils; average daily attendance, A.
100000; estimated population between six
and sixteen years of age, 1885, GA; num-
Der Of teachers employed, 241 300; total
income public schools, $50, los, 905; total
expenditures, $74 ,974 ,989; value of school
buildings, $165, 758,447.
HIRAM LEFFINGWELL has been APP
pointed United States Marshal for the
District of Missouri, and T. G. Woodward,
of Iowa, Examiner in Chief of the Patent
Office
On the 18th Mrs. Moulton wrote to Mr.
Sherman, Clerk of Plymouth Church,
asking the church to join with her in call
ing Council Of Churches, before which
Plymouth Church should give its reasons
for the action taken in dropping her name
from its roll of membership, and she
should state her reasons for absenting
herself from the services of the church.
In case of refusal on the part Of the
church to comply with this request within
four weeks, she gave notice that she her
self should call for such a council.
On the 18th Col. Joyce was sentenced to
Imprisonment in the Penitentiary for
term Of three and half years and to pay
fine of $500 Before sentence was
passed he addressed the court in his own
behalf, declaring himself the victim of
selfconvicted perjurers and thieves. 1t is
said Joyce's object in demanding SEN
tence was to avoid being called upon to
answer other indictments pending at st.
Louis; also that he was prompted by a de
sire to protect others from the effect Of
any testimony he might otherwise have
been required to give.
NICHOLAS THOMAS, Of Chicago, is said
to have perfected a new motor similar in
a general way to the sO-called Keely in
vention, but differing in application and
effect.
THE body Of Capt Wolfe, Galveston
pilot on board the City of Waco, has been
found near where the steamer went down.
THE Amoskeag Mills, of Manchester,
n H., have given notice Of reduction
of from to 10 per cent. in the wages Of
operatives after Dec. /.
ACCORDING to q New York dispatch of
the 18th Judge Moore, of Brooklyn, had
decided to order a commission to take the
testimony of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Rich
ards in the Loader perjury case.
THE official canvass Of the vote of
Maryland gives Carroll, Democratic can
didate for Governor, 12, 821 majority The
Democrats have a majority of twelve in
the Senate and thirty in the House.
ACCORDING to a London dispatch Of the
niorning Of the 10th an engagement be
tween the Turks and Herzegovinians near
~ I, +oI Al, ~,
former, who had between 800 and 1000
killed and lost their baggage, ammunition
and most of their cannon.
THE Greek Christians of Cappadocia
according to the Augsburg AAegem6ine
Ze5tung, have lately petitioned the Porte
to expel the American missionaries be-
cause they "make proselytes and incite to
rebellion"
A PARIS dispatch Of the 18th says the
clergy of Roubax had refused to chant the
prayer beginning with the words g Dom
me fac saJpam rompubJtcaan,' as requested
by the Minister of Public Worship.
A FINANCIAL panic prevailed on the
London Stock Exchange and the Paris
Bourse on the 18th.
The damage done in London and its
immediate neighborhood by the high
tides on the 10th was estimated to be over
$5,OO0,OO0.
SECRETARY BRIsTow has called in for
redemption $50 coupon and registered
bonds of 1864 and 1S64-'65 to the amount
of 81, 7S5, $50. Interest will cease. Feb.
10, 1876.
THE report that Treasurer New contem-
plated resigning his official position is
emphatically denied by Washington dis
patches.
THE New England Labor Reform
League met in Boston on the 18th. Reso-
buttons were adopted denouncing politi-
cal parties, and asserting that Legislation
in this country tends not to protect per
sons and property but to promote the in
terests of speculative robbery. Hints of q
revolution and secret military organiza-
tons among laboring men were thrown
ont