Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-07-22
THE NEWS.

have signified their acceptance, with only
two exceptions.
THE damage caused by the food in the
Rhone Valley is estimated at about ,000,-
900 francs.
THE instruction at Herzegovina, along
the Dalmatian border, according to a
Vienna dispatch of the 18th, has assumed
threatening proportions. The populace
had attacked the Turkish authorities IN
the frontier towns and raised the Austrian
flag.
CoRTINA, Mayor of Matamoras, Mexico,
was lately arrested by the Mexican au-
thorities under suspicion Of being con-
cerned in the Texas raids and sent to the
City of Mexico Mexican papers say that
he was the supporter and defender Of
criminals and the enemy of justice and
order
THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided to allow claims of State
officers for the refunding of the income
tax paid upon the emoluments of their
offices filed in due time.
Mrs. SARToRIs, daughter of President
Grant, has a fine boy, born on the 18th at
Long Branch, weighing ten and half
pounds.
Mr.. MOULToN recently addressed let
ter to the District Attorney of Brooklyn,
asking for speedy trial under the indict-
ment for libeling Mr.. Beecher. Attorney
Britton responded that he could not well
attend to the matter at the present time,
owing to more urgent Jail cases, but in
timated that later in the season he will
have the matter attended to.
THE daughter of Patrick Boylan, of
West Davenport Iowa, was fatally burned
the other evening by the explosion of a
can of kerosene, while lighting the XII III
en- fire with its contents
THE funeral of Gen. Blair at ST. Louis
on the 18th was the most imposing affair
of the kind ever witnessed in that city.
THE house of Messrs. Corking, of Man
chester, England, failed on the 18th, with
large liabilities.
THE Earl of Derby has been requested
to receive a deputation of persons interest
ed in the Nova Scotia coaI-fields for con-
ference.
A FAREWELL meeting Of Messrs. Moody
and Sankey took place in London on the
night of the 18th. A number of titled
gentlemen and 700 cIergymen were pres
ent.
A MADRID dispatch Of the 18th says
military combinations had been made
which would force the Carlists to take
refuge in France or accept battle under
disastrous circumstances.
On the evening of the 18th, as a num-
Der of Orangemen were returning to Law
renee, Mass, from picnic celebration of
the battle of the BOyne, they were assailed
by a crowd of several hundred Irishmen
and serious riot ensued, during which
several persons were seriously wounded.
A squad of police undertook to quell the
disturbance, and were themselves assaulted,
but they compelled the mob to disperse by
a liberal use of fire. arms.
A MINERS strike occurred in the
collieries at st. Clair and Vaudeville, Pa,
on the 18th, the men being dissatisfied
with the recent 10 per cent. reduction.
DURING the last four months Moody and
Sankey have held 2S5 meetings in En-
gland, which have been attended by 2,170,-
600 persons. The amount of money ex-
pended for buildings, printing, ETC., was
e140,000
THE masters of the cotton mills in Ash
ton, Stalybridge, Dunkenfeld and Moss
ley, England, on the 18th gave notice Of
lockout on the 24th because the wOrkmen
in certain departments had refused to re-
fer disputes in regard to wages to arbi-
traitors
A SANTANDER dispatch Of the 18th an
nounces that the Spanish steamer BayOnne
had been wrecked on the Biscayan coast.
Her crew were saved by the Carlists, who
had threatened to hold them as hostages,
to be shot if the Royalists lombard any
more coast towns.
AT an extraordinary council OF Cabinet
officers held in Washington on the 18th
the subject of our relations with Vene-
zuela was considered. The latter Govern
ment nearly ten years ago agreed to pay
indemnity for injuries sustained by Ameri-
can citizens. The Venezuelan Govern
ment has at last expressed a disposition to
pay up, but claims the right to designate
the particular parties to whom the money
shall be paid This proposition will be
rejected, and unless the matter is speedily
adjusted the United States Minister to
Venezuela will be withdrawn.
REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER was ser
enaded at his farm in Peekskill on the
evening of the 18th. In response Mr.. b.
expressed his intention of going on"with
his work. He said the expenses of the
trial had been to him over S75, 900, and
had not Plymouth Church come to his aid
he would have been financially ruined.
THE attachment suit against the prop
erty of Congressman W. s. King, of
Minnesota, brought by the Pacific Mail
Company to secure the repayment OF
money alleged to have been improperly
Maid 10 him to induce the passage OF what
i known as the Pacific Mail Subsidy
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