Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-23
THE NEWS.

count of the prevalence of the foot and
mouth disease.
A CRISIS occurred in Spain on the 18th,
and the entire Ministry resigned The
next day Gen. Jovellar formed new one.
The daughter of Prince Bismarck has
been betrothed to Prussian Count with
an unpronOunceable name.
Hon. HENRY T. Blow, of st. Louis,
formerly United States Minister to Brazil,
died suddenly of congestion at the United
States Hotel in Saratoga, N. Y, on the
18th.
THAT portion of Maj. Powell's explor-
ing party in charge of A. III. Thompson,
arrived at Gunnison, Utah, ON the 18th,
en- route for home.
A ST. JOSEPH (Mo.) distiller, under pros
ecution for violation of the Internal Reve-
nue. laws, pleaded guilty on the 18th.
MIKE SCULLY, a Columbus (Ohio) pc
destrian, has recently finished walking
1000 miles in 900 hours.
Mrs. ABRAHAM LINCOLN reached
Springfield, ILL.,, on the 18th, IN charge of
her son Robert. A dispatch of that date
says she was not regarded as being any
better mentally, than when she first went
to Batavia
BELGRADE kilograms of the 18th say
that because of the recent concentration of
Turkish troops on the frontier, the Servian
Government had ordered the mobilization
of six frontier brigades, aggregating $4,000
men. According to Constantinople dis
patch of the same date serious fighting
had occurred during the preceding week,
in which the Turks had been defeated and
in consequence the siege of Treb1gne had
been renewed
ELEVEN workmen we're asphyxiated by
gas at the Downington Wood colliery in
Shropshire, England, on the 18th.
On the 18th a water-spout washed away
fifty houses at st. Gilman, France Nine
dead bodies had been recovered up to the
morning of the 18th, and sixty persons
were still missing.
A MONTREAL (Canada) telegram of the
18th says that in the Church of L'Evectree
on the day before, the Bishop of that city
cursed the grave of Guibord
THE election in Maine on the 18th re-
suited in the success of Gen. Conner
(Rep.) for Governor by about 5000 ma
jority. The Legislature is largely Repub-
lican.
JUDGE GILBERT, in Brooklyn, on the
10Th, Iondorad a decision in tho case
wherein VIM. f. johnson, cOlored, sought
to compel the principal of public school
to admit his son, instead of sending him
to the school provided for colored chill
dren. The court held that the common
schools were a public charity; that the
benefits conferred by them are free gift
from the State, and the State may pre-
scribe in what manner the gift may be en-
ioyed. The motion for mandamus was
denied
WEsTERvELT testified on the 18th that
he never saw Charlie Ross, and had no
knowledge Of his Whereabouts, but wished
he had
DR.. III. T. HELNBOLD has commenced
suit against the Pennsylvania Hospital for
the Insane, Drs. j. Littell and J. Gordon
Maxwell, Aid. John Urcan, and others
who were concerned in his incarceration
in Kirkbrides Asylum
PERRY's flagship, the Lawrence, sunk
in Erie harbor sixty-two years ago, has
been raised, and the bottom found to be
in good state Of preservation.
ONE of the severest storms experienced
on Lake Michigan for many years oc-
Cured on the night of the 9th, and much
damage to vessel property and great loss
of life are reported, Among the casual
ties was the sinking of the two propellers
the Equinox and the Mendota-and the
loss of nearly all on board the two vessels.
The former was loaded with salt, and had
in tow the schooner Emma A. Mayes.
When within about ten miles of Point
Sauble she suddenly sank. There were
twenty persons on board, including the
crew and Capt. SCOTS daughter and
niece, all but one of whom are supposed
to have persisted. The survivor Charles
Burns, wheelsman-was picked up by a
schooner after being on the wheelhouse in
the lake for thirty-six hours. The Men
dota, laden with coal and having in tow
two coal barges, foundered with one of the
barges, and of the twenty persons on
board twelve were lost.
MONTENEGRO had definitely informed
the insurgent leader that she cannot make
war against the Porte, according to a
Vienna dispatch Of the 14th.
THE London Standard of the 18th says
612 men and 15S women had been recent
" indicted in Russia, of whom 265 were
charged with participating in the Social
istic movement.
On the 14th freight train on the Grand
Trunk Railway was thrown from the
track and totally wrecked. Several of the
employees on the train were killed. The
ruins took fire and a large number of cat
tie were roasted to death.
IN New York city on the 18th as Mrs.