Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-18

Vic I1CH VI d SHIpWTCCh6u vessel Which
had been thrown upon small island off
the coast Of Cuba. They report that while
there they found the remains of four men.
who had built huts and were evidently
part Of the crew of an iron ship which ap-
peared to have sunk near the shore. They
had doubtless died of starvation.
IT was believed on the 9Th that Bigelow.
the Democratic candidate for Secretary OF
State of New York, would have nearly
$4,000 majority.
A New YORK dispatch of the Sth says
the order of United Irishmen Redivivi
had tried another member for treason and
condemned him to death. Patrick J.
Walsh is the alleged traitor.
THE Moody and Sankey revival meet
ings in Brooklyn on the 9Th and 9th were
largely attended and an unusually earnest
religious sentiment manifested
HENRY r. MANN, Treasurer of Sarato-
ga County, n. Y, during the last fifteen
years, has proven a defaulter in the sum
of $150,000. A suspended paper-collar
mandatory in which his son was inter-
ested is supposed to have absorbed con-
siderable portion of the missing funds.
The steamship, City of Waco, which
reached Galveston, Tex, on the 9Th from
New York, loaded with oil, anchored
outside the harbor and was discov-
cred to be on fire at one O'Clock on
the morning of the 9th. There was
heavy wind, and the vessel was soon
burned to the waters edge and sank
Great uncertainty existed on the 9th as to
the fate of those on board, some reports
being to the effect that they had taken to
the boats and drifted out into the gulf, a
heavy gale prevailing at the time; but a
dispatch from Galveston on the morning
of the 10th says the impression was gain
ing ground that they had all persisted on
the Inflated vessel. There were forty
eight persons on board, including the
crew
THE French Minister of Finance has
reported to the committee of the Assem-
bly, that the revenue of France since the
been $4,000, 900 in excess of the esti-
mates. =
RUSSIA has by special ukase, issued
Nov. 6, annexed that portion of Khokand
lying on the right bank of the Syr Daria,
from the Russian frontier to the River
Nareen.
ACCORDING to a London dispatch of the
10th the war in Malacca had assumed 2
religious aspect.
Cook 81 Sons clothing mandatory, in
Stafordshire, England, was burned on the
10th. The loss was very heavy and 600
persons were deprived of employment
SEVERAL important failures at the East
were announced on the 10th. Among
them were the firm of James Wickham &
Son, commission merchants of New York
city, and F. Geedowsky, an extensive
manufacturer Of furniture at Boston.
A SEVERE earthquake shock occurred
in portions of Missouri and Kansas on the
morning of the 10th. At independence,
Mo, several brick buildings were con-
siderably injured, and citizens were
aroused from sound slumber, thinking
their houses were falling. The shock felt
at Topeka and elsewhere in Kansas was
also severe.
ANOTHER survivor Of the crew of the
steamer Pacific, named Neal O'Haley,
was picked up ON the morning of the Sth,
thirty miles inside the Straits of Fuca
He was floating on raft, from which
Capt Howell had been washed off and
drowned. He says the Pacific was struck
by vessel under full sail. Two boats
got away from the wreck. Five dead
bodies had been recovered up to the Sth.
A SINGULAR accident occurred at the
Detroit Pullman car works on the after
noon of the 10th. A large air tube, six
feet square, extends from the basement to
the roof to carry up the dust of the plan
ing machine to the cupola. While twelve
or fifteen men were sweeping dust from
the cupola down the tube to be car
ried away, the fine particles took fire from
smoldering embers near the foot of the
fiue and exploded with burst of flame,
which burned several of the men fearfully,
some of them dangerously.
HEAVY storms prevailed in France and
England during the week preceding the
18th, and vast tracts of country were
threatened by the rising floods.
A FIRE-DAMP explosion occurred in
Marialiaye colliery, Belgium, on the 18th,
which caused the death of ten persons
and serious injury to 100.
ACCORDING to Constantinople dispatch
of the 18th the Sublime Porte had ordered
the districts of Trebigno, Biletz and Piva
to be detached from Herzegovina and
organized as separate department under
an Armenian Greek Governor.
VICE president WILSON was taken VIC
lently i'll after warm bath at the Capitol
in Washington on the morning of the
10th. His physician reported him as
much improved in health on the 18th, and
thought he would speedily recover.
THE New York State Senate will con
tain p Republicans and II Democrats:
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