Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-21
THE NEWS.

cholera had broken out in the province of
Hysore, India.
DIR. FORBES, Lord Bishop of Brechin,
IN Scotland, died ON the 9th.
SSENAToR PEAsE and u. Salty. tWells,
of Mississippi, with the Acknowledgement
OF thatState callednon Atty.-Gen. Pierre-
pOnt, Washington, on the 9th, and adj
vised him that if there were no interior
ence by the, General Government in Mis-
sissippi the'result would be the redemp-
t4On Otithe State from the difficulties now
existing.
WESTERyELT, who was convicted of
being implicated in the abduction of
Charlie Ross, has been sentenced to seven
years. solitary confinement in the Peni-
Tertiary.
THE members of the bankrupt firm of
Duncan, Sherman 81 Co, of New York
city were arrested 'On the Sth, on a charge
OF fraud. They were released on bail of
So 900 each. Mr.! Duncan has withdrawn
his offer to pay ihis creditors 80 per cent
IN notes.
lANoTHER suit has been begun against
Nun. M. Tweed to recover the sum of
$983,640, said to- have been paid on war
rants ifraudulently certified by. him.
4J0HN RYAN, of Boston, died on the 9th
from injuries received ina prize-fght the
day before with Michael Carney.
A MANnamed Femberton, under ARREST
tot horse-stealing, was lynched at Forest
CITY, I'LL, onIthe.morning Of the 9th.
IHE Chicago Journal of the 9th~says
that informationf from various parts of the
West indicated that although the corn in
some, localities had been damaged by flood
ordr0st, yet the aggregate crop would be
neutrality-suspicious." Advices from the
South also indicated that the cotton crop
MGuld better than the average.
THE Prince of WALES started on his
andian trip Oh the evening of the 18th.
ACCORDING to a special to the London
I7dlegra2oh of the 18th, Turkey and Servia
Gs2d,mutually agreed to withdraw their
arcpps from the frontier
A ROME telegram of the 18th says Cardi
aal McCloskey had uordered a splendid
marble: altar for the cathedral in New
Eork,.Et a cost of $4,000.
THE Kaiserhof Hotel, in Berlin, the
lapgeso in Germany, was burned on the
Nth. Loss $1,000,000.
The British iron steamer Biscay, while.
on a recent voyage from Cronstadt to
BremerhaNen, foundered off Jutland.
Eleven persons were drowned.
A McETREAL telegram of the 18th says
no day had'been appointed for the burial
of Guibord's remains and that it was pos
sibIaitanig htj.be deferred for considera-
ble, period
SANLEL @, lDIMMICK, Acknowledgement
of iPennsylyahia, died at Harrisburg on
the 1ath, of pneumonia.
UEfE>6pripg feld Mass Republican of
the 14th says Gen Bartlett had declined
the En0mination for Lieutenant-Go
OF Massachusetts, on 1.-The Democratic
ticket.
AtECHAEL CARNEY, the, survivor of the
aaef&atSl prize fight nearl Boston, and the
seoGnds ofltIle pagilists have given them
seIweaup to,the police authorities.
The Indian Bureau at Washington re-
ceiwed "a dispatch on the 18th from the
Bl&diZFHLls ceXploring party announcing
the discovery ,Of-gold in the Bear Lodge
Mountains, twenty miles east Of Little
Missouri Buttes. The field does not ex-
coed diffy square miles, and is wholly in
Wyoming.
THENorth Carolina Constitutional State
Convention adjourned sine dc on the
evening oftthe nth.
AN Augusta (Ga. telegram of,she 18th
Announces tie sudden and seri@se illness
OF AleNande-, II. SeF hens.
ACCORDING to Paris dispatch aof the
18th SEP Carlict soldiers had crossed the
frontier at .ReTc de Nanasque into fF4ance
and had been R;sarpaed by the French au-
thoritieS
A MADRID lpaoeroof she 18th seysr she
french authorities wereseeking to inte1ne
Gen. Saballs, ard Don Carlos had 0rderad
chat he be shot WA ereTer <ound
LETTERS from the Asctic expedition
We're received in London 81 the 18th. On
the 9th and Eth Of August tie vessels were
at ENaygart HiEaits--all well 7
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 18th
states that the Attorney GEES 9ral was in
daily receipt Of advices from IsIississippi.
A DUEL with ,swoTf's was sought near
Paris, on the 1atll, between "a couple of
Americans named Riggs andl Paine. The
latter was slightly Nvounded.
THE Rumber OF grain and tnolasses
distilleries in operation on the LIST inst.
was ia, With a total daily spiritpraducing
capacity OF 1S9, 1888 gallons, an Increase
over September of fGcty4tive dist,leries,
and 1884 gallons daily.
THE Womea's International Christian
Association met at PittssksrghGn the 18th.
Mrs. Samson, of Boston, was elee.od
President and Mrs. John I'll. Winters, sef
DAYTON. Ohio, Viee-Presideat.
On the 18th the unfinished Agricultural
Hall, on the National Centennial grounds,