Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-07-29
THE NEWS.

THE German Government has ordered
that declaration of submission by Catholic
clergymen to the new laws shall be kept
strictly secret, to secure them from Ultra
montana persecution.
LADY FRANKLIN. widow of Sir John
Franklin, the Arctic explorer, died in
London on the night Of the 18th.
ABOUT 10000 persons assembled in
Hyde Park, London, on the night of the
18th and adopted resolutions protesting
against the grant of e150000 to the Prince
OF Wales for his journey to India
says the Carlists had begun the lombard
ment of Puigcerda.
The Typographical Union of Washing
ton has, by vote of 146 to As, decided not
to comply with the demand of employing
printers for a reduction of rates for com
position.
EMMELINE, one of Brigham Young's
wives died on the 18th
THE wife of Henry Peden, of Indian
apOlis, Ind, used kerosene oil to kindle a
fire on the 18th, and was fatally burned
INFORMATION was received at Washing
ton on the 18th that the ST. Louis United
States District Court Grand Jury had in
dicted Chief Clerk Avery, of the Treasury
Department, for completely with ST. Louis
distillers in whisky frauds.
GEO. n. JACKSON, the cashier of Col
lector of Internal Revenue Buckner, of
the Louisville (Ky) District, recently
poisoned himself Since his death he has
been discovered to be in default in his
cash to the extent of about $75 ,000
No TIDINGs from Messrs. Donaldson
and GrimWood the aeronauts, had been
received in Chicago up to the morning of
the 10Th. A vessel Captain reported hav-
ing seen something floating in the water
which had the appearance of being life
preserver and basket, and another Cap
tain thinks he saw the body of man in
the lake off Grand Haven. The report
that Donaldson's balloon was rotten and
poor affair is Indignantly denied by the
persons to whom it belonged
A LONDON dispatch of the 18th says the
American rifle team had decided not to
shoot as team at Wimbledon
THE Commissioners to Herzegovina
sent by the Porte to tranquilize affairs,
have reported that the whole country be-
tween Mostar and the Austrian frontier, as
far as Ragusa, is in state of revolt and
that the insurgents had threatened to kill
all who refused to unite with them
VIM. II. BUTCHER, at North Adams,
Mass, recently completed a walk of 500
miles in five days, twenty three hours and
twenty-five minutes.
Mn. TnunLuw WEED recently stated
that three times during the first year of the
late civil war in this country Queen Vic
toria personally interested herself to pre-
vent "ar 10y England and France against
the United States
On his late return from the Indian Terri
tory Prof. Marsh, of Yale College, wrote
to the President that the supplies
furnished to the various Indian tribes
were inferior and improperly distributed.
lie also charged Secretary Delano and
Indian Commissioner Smith with being
cognizant of these frauds, and that Indian
Agent Saville, of the Red Cloud Agency,
was wholly untitled for his position and
guilty OF the grossest frauds upon the
Indians in his charge This letter was
accompanied with samples of the
goods furnished. The President called
the attention of the department to
the letter, and the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs straightway came
out with positive denial of the
charge of fraud and corruption, so far as
his own department was concerned and
said the commission appointed to inquire
into the condition of affairs at the Red
Cloud Agency had completely exonerated
the Agent. A New Haven dispatch of
the 18th says that notwithstanding the
above denial and explanation Prof. Marsh
had reiterated his former statements and
charges A special commission ap-
pointed to investigate these charges
met III New York on the evening of
the 10Th, consisting of Messrs. Faulk
ner, NJ. c., of West Virginia; Harris, NJ !.
c., of Massachusetts, and Fletcher, M. c..
of Missouri. The meeting, which was
strictly private, was organized by electing
Gov. Fletcher Chairman Prof. Marsh
and Indian Commissioner Smith appeared
before the body. Mr. Marsh presented
his charges in pamphlet FORM which had
already been printed. The investigation
will take place at the Red Cloud Agency
4 MADRID paper of the Goth states that
Gen Dorregaray, the Carlist chieftain
had been wounded and had taken refuge
in France.
DELEGATES from all the PRESBYTERIAN
churches in Christendom met in London
on the Goth. Many representatives OF
American and Canadian churches were
present.
THE Governor of Bosnia mas heen or
dered to dispatch troops to suppress the
Herzegovina insurrectlon.
On the 10Th the Postmaster General con.