Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-02
THE NEWS.

OfnC6S Oh GH6 lOIClSn po"C1o H. ScCuIlHS
the restoration of peace in her northwest
eTn provinces.
FERDINAND of Austria, lat ely deceased,
left by mis- will $6,000,000 10 the Pope.
A RAGUsA dispatch of the 22d reports
the capture of seven forts near the Monte
negrin frontier by the insurgents.
IT WAS rumored at Santander on the
22d that a plot had be en- discovered hav-
ing for its object the murder of Don Car
los Several persons had been arrested
and imprisoned.
THE Swiss National Council lately
passed resolutions for the suppression OF
converts and Sisters of Charity.
THE American rife team arrived at New
York on the 21st They were heartily re-
ceived.
JAMES I'll. Noe, ST., member Of abrush-
manufacturing firm in New York city,
encountered burglar in his store on the
22d, whom he attempted to arrest, butwas
himself fatally beaten with an iron bar,
bound and robbed by the villain, who's
threatened to return and kill him if he
made any outcry before he had time to es-
cape.
AT Reading, Pa, lately, Mrs. Besslnger
was ordered by her husband to leave the
premises and take her two little girls with
her, while he would retain their boy.
Next day she went to the canal with the
children and, after filling basket
with stones, she bound the basket
securely to her body and, taking
the three children in her arms, leaped in
to the canal and all were drowned The
indignant neighbors, on the occasion of
the funeral, which occurred on the Dist,
and was attended by over 1000 people,
fired shots at the husband and he was
hurriedly placed in carriage and driven
off under guard of the police.
THE population. of the city Of New
Orleans, as shown by the recent census, is
as follows: Whites, 145, 721; colored,
57,647; total, 203, 1868, an increase of II ,966
upon the census of 1870. The population
of the whole State is: White, 404, 361
whites of 1865 and total increase of 1885,
115 over the census of 1870
GORDON, the Black Hills miner lately
under arrest at Omaha, was released on
parole on the 21st. He afterward surren-
dered his parole and then, by direction of
his counsel, attempted to escape. He was
rearrested by Gen. Ruggles and confined
in the guard house. He subsequently had
the General arrested for false imprison-
Cnment and also caused the arrest Of the
General and his clerks for assault and bat
terry.
ACCORDING to a special in the London
,Standdrd of the Oath the HerzegOvinian
insurgents had massacred the ninety-ive
Turkish prisoners captured at Marsie.
VIENNA official reports of the 23d indi-
Gated the wheat crop in Austria and Hun
gary would not yield more than 100000
quintals. The quality was also poor.
PORTIONS of Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minnesota and Northern Illinois were Wis
tied by quite severe frosts ON the nights of
the 21st and god.
THE full official returns from all the
counties in Wisconsin show the total pop
ulatiOn of the State to be ! 1886, 500
PRESIDENT MUTT, of the Indiana State
University, died at Bloomington, Ind, on
the 23d, of remittent fever.
COL D. r. ANTHONY, who was shot on
the 10th of last May by w. w. Embrey,
made his appearance on the streets of
Leavenworth, Kan, on the 23d, after hav-
ing been confined to his room for 104
days.
AN Augusta (Ga.) dispatch of the 23d
says that some of the negroes connected
with the recent troubles in that State had
made confessions. Jake Norman testi-
fed that nineteen counties were to have
been embraced in the insurrection-Fri-
day, the Goth, being appointed for the up
rising.
A REPORT prevailed in Chicago on the
24th that a Government detective named
James E. Miller had been shot at and
wounded by some one supposed to be act
ing in the interest of parties implicated in
Ile WHISKY TduuS. Miller Is al eA-
Gauger and had volunteered his evidence
in behalf of the Government.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch of the oath
says the Porte had concentrated forces in
the vicinity of Nissa, in consequence of
the position taken by the ServIans in the
HerZegovinian affair
COMMODORE JAS. G. GOoDENOUGH, COM
handing the British squadron in Aus
tralian waters, died on the Goth in conse-
Quence of wound received on the 10Th
from poisoned arrow in an engagement
with the natives at Carlisle Bay.
THE foot and mouth disease has broken
out with great violence IN Dorsetshire,
England, and it was estimated on the Gath
that 10000 cattle were down with It.
ACCORDING to Madrid telegram of the
9th the garrison of the citadel of SEQ de
Urgel had raised flag of truce, and hos
tilities had been suspended pending nego-
tfations for surrender.
THE Secretary of the Treasury decides
that the $50 bonds of 1865, dated May and
November, were issued before the January
and July bonds of the same year, and