Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-07-08
THE NEWS.

Hood III the GarOnnc nad been appalling.
Over 500 houses had fallen in Toulouse,
and it was reported that over 1 700 persons
had persisted. In the St. Cyprien quarter
213 corpses had already been recovered.
At Tremouillet five houses only remained
standing out Of 400. In the district of
Folk two villages had been submerged
and many dead bodies had been found.
A LETTER was received in New York on
the 25th giving an account of the great earth
quake at Circuta, South America, on the
18th Of May. The first shock killed in q
single instant 5000 people out of a popula-
ton of 10000
GARCIA, who stole MurillO's famous
picture from the Seville Cathedral, and
who was kidnapped in Cuba and subse-
quently sent to Spain, is reported to have
been shot at Madrid without trial. The
Carlist fortress of Misavet, on the river
Ebra, is officially reported to have surren-
dered.
A BERLIN dispatch of the 25th says
Count Won Arnim would appeal from the
late decision Of the Kammergericht in his
case
PROF. DONALDSON and three members
Of the press made balloon ascension
from Toronto on the 23d and were picked
up the next day by a vessel five miles off
Point Peter, on Lake Ontario.
THE New Hampshire House of Repre-
I,a Init
ccnsuring the Governor and the Council
in the Senatorial matter, by vote Of ia
TO 1866
MORTIMER THOMPSON, better known as
@. K Philander Doesticks, 2. B., died in
New York city on the 25th,
THERE were three executions for MUIR
der in New England on the 25th. At
Dedham, Mass, James H. Costley was
hanged for the murder of Julia Hawkes.,
and at ThOmaston, Me, Louis Wagner
and John True Gordon swung from the
same scaffOld. Gordon was insensibe
when hung, having stabbed himself in the
breast with intent to commit suicide.
AT Plymouth Church prayer-meeting on
the evening Of the 25th Mr.. Beecher, re-
ferring to the scandal trial, said he should
continue to act as pastor Of Plymouth
Church no matter what the verdict Of the
jury might be, because he felt that his con
gregation would still have faith in and
stand by him. The jury had not agreed
upon verdict up to the morning of the
Goth
THREE vinegar factories were seized in
Cincinnati on the 25th for illicit distilla
ton Of whisky.
A DISPATCH from Omaha, signed by
United States Senators Hitchcock and
Paddock, was published on the Goth, de
claring the reports of grasshopper ravages
in Nebraska greatly exaggerated. They
had done but little damage, and only in
isolated cases The crops promised well.
JUDGE o. B. McFADDEN, Delegate to
Congress from Washington Territory, died
on the 25th
THE damage by the recent inundation in
the Garonne region was estimated on the
2Sth at about e15,OO0,000. The low est
estimate of deaths in the flooded districts
was 1900.
FOUNDATIONS have recently occurred in
Bohemia, Moravia, Corinthia, Tyrol and
Beriat, with considerable loss OF lie and
immense destruction of property.
RED CLOUD and Spotted Tail Indians
havesigned an agreement to relinquish THEN
hunting privileges in Nebraska for $25, 900
in horses, cows, wagons, etc.
Mrs TMToN has made an affidavit in
which she denies the statements made in
the affidavits of the alleged new witnesses
upon whose evidence reopening Of the
Beecher case was asked for She also sol
emily declares that she is innocent of all
the offenses charged against her in con-
nection with Mr.. Beecher, except that IN
der the influence of her husband she had
made charges against Mr. Beecher which
both she and her husband knew to be
false
A TORNADO passed over Detroit on the
evening of the 9th. Its path was about
500 feet wide, and thirty houses were de
stroyed. -Four persons were killed and
many others injured.
THE court of inquiry appointed by the
British authorities to investigate the loss
of the Schiller have made their report, at
tributing the loss of that steamer to the
neglect of the officers in not Obeying the
directions prescribed for thick weather.
EDMUND JONES & Co., the London
agents Of the Burmese Government failed
on the 18th for nearly S1,OOOO0O
a VIOLENT thunderstorm passed over
Buda, hungary, on the 2Sth, accompanied
by hail and rain in immense quantities.
The dispatch says the surrounding hills
and the roofs OF the houses were covered
with ice two feet thick. Over 500 persons
were missing, of whom 100 it was thought
had been killed
A LONDON dispatch Of the 2Sth an.
nounces the recent death of the United
States Consul at Zanzibar
THE Secretary of the Treasury has di-
rected the Assistant Treasurer of the
United States at New York to sell $5,00O.
900 of coin during the month Of July.