Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-04
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IlEIOhNS received at Denver on the
18th indicated that the Republicans had
carried the Territory and would have a
majority in the Constitutional Conven-
ton.
heard from on the Gath, sixteen of them
unoficially. Kirkwood's majority was
stated to be 81, 925.
LONDON dispatches of the Goth say the
leading Catholics of England had ar
ranged to give Cardinal McCloskey an
imposing welcome on his arrival in Great
Britain. The British Admiral in the
Mediterranean had been instructed to take
action relative to the late attacks upon
English vessels by Spanish pirates.
ACCORDING to a Montreal dispatch of
the Goth the remains of Guibord will be
buried Nov. Is, the sixth anniversary of
his death.
| a NEW YORK special Of the Goth says
rumor prevails in that city that the mem
bers of the secret order of United Irish
men Redivivi of New York had recently
| McGeaghan was accused of betraying the
secrets of the order, tried, convicted and
sentenced to die the death Of a traitor.
A YOUNG daughter of r. A Hotchkiss,
of Burbank, Dakota, was recently fatally
burned by the explosion of a kerosene
lamp.
THE entire business and thickly-settled
portion of Virginia City, New, was, on
| the Goth, made desolate, all the hotels,
churches, newspaper offices, public build
ings, telegraph and express offices, stores
and business places and large number
cf dwellings being burned. Ten thou
sand people were rendered homeless.
THE larger part of the business section
of Austin, Miss, was destroyed by fire on
the Goth Loss $50, 0OO
The statue to Stonewall Jackson, pre-
sented to Virginia by anumber of English
gentlemen, was formally inaugurated at
Richmond on the Goth. Fifty thousand
strangers were present, and the demon
STATIONS are said to have been imposing.
| orr1ClhL ICUuI uS give GlIc IOIIOWlIS ny
ures for the Gubernatorial tickets at the
late election in California; Irwin, Demo
crat, 81 500; Phelps, Republican, 81 ,322;
Bidwell, Independent, 29,752; Lovett,
Temperance, 356. TWINS majority over
Phelps is 80, 167, and 70 over all.
A COLUMBUS dispatch of the Goth gives
| the vote for Governor and Lieutenant
Governor at the recent Ohio election as
follows: For Governor: Hayes, 297,613;
Allen 292,264; Odell Prohibitionist,
1857. Hayes plurality, $40; majority,
1859. Lieutenant Governor: Young,
297 ,931; Cary, 287, 96S; Thompson, $500.
Youngs plurality, 1868; majority, 6,333.
News was received on the Goth from the
recent election in Oregon indicating the
election of Lane Dem.) to Congress by
about 1 200 majority.
THE German Parliament met on the
9th and listened to a speech from the
Emperor, which was read blythe Secretary
of State. A Berlin dispatch Of the same
date says council of physicians had de-
clared Count Won Arnim to be unable to
bear the term Of Imprisonment to which
he had been sentenced.
THE President on the 9th issued his
annual proclamation designating Thurs
day, Nov. 20, as a day Of thanksgiving
| throughout the United States
THE Director of the United States Mint
says the fire at Virginia City will result in
a decrease of s., 100000 per month of gold
bullion and of $1,500,000 per month Of
silver for the next four months.
AN earthquake shock was felt at Mem
phis, Tenn, and in some portions of Mis-
sissippi on the 9th.
THREE of the parties implicated in the
late murder of the Italians in Denver have
been arrested. One of them, an Italian,
says he played his harp while five others
cut the Threats of their victims.
F. c. LATRoBE Dem.) was elected
Mayor of Baltimore, Md, on the 9th, by
2,731 majority.
DISPATCHES from Virginia City of the
9th estimated the total damage by the
fire at from 100000 to $1,000, 900. Two
men were killed by falling wall. I'M
mediate relief was needed to relieve the
suffering of the homeless and destitute
| The schOol-houses, the only public build
| ings which escaped the flames, had been
converted into lodging places, but they
were altogether inadequate. Bread was
scarce, but liquor was plenty, and the
streets were filled with drunken mob.
The military were protecting the property
of the city.
ACCORDING to a London dispatch of the
| 2Sth the number of cases of cattle plague
for the quarter ending Oct. is was as fol-
| lows: In Somersetshire, SO, 000 Cheshire,
900; Dorsetshire, $4,000; Gloucester
shire, A 900; Oxfordshire, $4,000; War
wickshire, 900; Norfolk, 81 900; Cum
berland, $4,000. There had been over
500, 900 cases in England and Wales.
A MADRID dispatch of the 2Sth says
rumor prevailed that the Carlist Gen.
Dorregaray had been shot, by order of
| Don Carlos.
THE returns to the Agricultural Depart
ment for October indicate that the wheat
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