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

Illegal marriage.
A WASHINGTON dispatch Of the Cd saws
that the Freedmans Bank was crowded
on that and the preceding day with resi-
dent colored persons drawing their por-s
tons of the dividend of 90 per cent.
RICE (Rep) was elected Governor of
Massachusetts, on the Cd by majority of
about 5000 over CASTOR (Dem.). Grape
| (Rep.) was elected to Congress in the First
| District.
CARROLL Dem is elected Governor of
Maryland by about Is, 900 majority. Leg
islature Democratic.
| A PORTLAND (Ore.) dispatch of the Cd
says later returns materially reduce the
majority for Lane DEM for Congress. A
dispatch from Salem says the election of
Warren rep by small majority was
| indicated.
| THE election in Chicago and Cook
County on the I'd was very exciting one
and resulted in the choice of L. G. Huck
Rep.) as County Treasurer over a. c.
Hesing (Opp.) by between 5000 and 1000
majority. Local and personal matters en-
tered largely into the canvass, and third
and Independent Dem.) candidate was in
the field and received over 1000 votes.
The Republicans did not claim their vic
tory as partisan one. About 81, 900 votes
were polled in the city of Chicago alone
| the largest vote ever cast.
ACCORDING to a special telegram from
Berlin of the Sd the Northern powers had
requested Austria to transmit PROPOSE
| ton to the Sublime Porte, embodying the
guarantees to insure the performance of
| the Sultan's promise of reform to the in
| surgents in his vassal States 1t was be-
lieved in Berlin and Vienna that Turkey
would be unable to suppress the rebellion,
and that armed Austrian intervention
would take place in the spring.
A BERLIN dispatch of the Sd announces
the destruction by fire of the arsenal at
Realsberg, Prussia. Over 10000 rifles
had been burned. Loss about So, 100000.
J. DONALDSON & Sons, London West
India merchants, failed on the Sd for
$350,000.
| UNITED STATES MINISTER SCHENCK has
recently written a letter to the London
Times exposing and denouncing the sys-
tematic sale of fictitious American uni
Versity diplomas.
AN official dispatch published in Madrid
on the Sd says that the last of the Carlists
in the province of Catalonia, numbering
six officers and $50 men, had surrendered,
and that the province had been entirely
pacifcated.
THE EE Cron&std of the Sd stated that
Gen. Saballs, having returned to Spain
had been arrested by Don Carlos and
would, together with Gen. Dorregaray,
| be contaminated because of his failure
to prevent the late disasters in Catalonia.
A. P. GAYLORD, of Saginaw City, Mich,
has been appointed Assistant Attorney
| General for the Interior Department.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has adj
dressed circular to Collectors of Customs
| stating that no further importations of
neat-cattle or hides will be allowed for the
present from England, in consequence of
|
/ ease in that country.
/ THE annual report of the Postmaster
| General, just completed, shows that dur
ing the past year 3,640, 1877 letters We're re-
ceived at the Dead-Letter Office in Wash
ington, of which number 210,377 were
foreign. These dead letters contained
So, SAG, 1894 in money, drafts, etc.-all
of which except about $375,000 was re-
turned to the senders.
THE returns received on the morning
of the 4th from the Pennsylvania cleo
ton indicated that Hartranft (Rep) for
| Governor had received about 1000 ma
jority.
THE new Legislature of New Jersey is
composed as follows: Senate-Republi-
cans, 10; Democrats, 8. House-Repub-
licans, 81; Democrats, %.
THE Tammany ticket was defeated az
the late election in New York city. Re
corder Hackett wcs successful by over
5000 majority, and Morrissey was elected
State Senator by about 1900 majority.
The news received up to the morning of
the 4th rendered it probable that the Dem
ocratic State ticket had been elected The
| Albany EUendng Journal of the 4th put
the Democratic majority in the State at
between 5000 and $1,000 The Legisla-
ture is Republican-Senate by IL and
House by 16 majority.
A DUEL with pistols was fought in New
\ ork city on the Cd between two Polish
Jews named Joseph Goldman and Moses
Piskall, who were partners in business.
Goldman was killed and Piskall MORALLY
wounded.
A FIRE at Sherman, Tex, on the list
burned sixty-fve business places, the
postoffice, every printing office in the
town, and rendered some thirty families
homeless. Loss estimated at 100000
A SHOCK of earthquake was felt at At
lanta and other places in Georgia on the
night of the Cd.
THE Arkansas General Assembly con-
yened on the Cd.
A MAN named Jackson, of Jefferson