Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-16
THE NEWS.

ACCORDING to a Constantinople dispatch
of the Sd Nevisigne, the focus of the Her
zegovinian Instruction, had been de-
strOyed.
THE strike Of the operatives in the Dun
dee (Scotland) mills ended on the Sd by
the acceptance Of per cent. reduction in
wages
GEN. KAUFMAN has arrived at Khokand,
the center Of the rebellion against Russia
in Central Asia.
GOLDSMITH MAID trotted mile in
2:144 at Hartford, Conn, on the Sd.
SIX murderers were hanged on the same
gallows at Fort Smith, Ark, on the Sd.
The crimes for which they were executed
were of very iendish character and their
guilt had been fully established.
THE Coroner's jury impaneled to in
quire into the cause of the death of W. G..
Ralston, the deceased bank President at
San Francisco, returned a verdict on the
Sd Of accidental death by drowning.
THE financial outlook in San Francisco
was improving on the Sd, and general
business had resumed its usual channels.
BERLIN dispatches of the 4th state that
the Sclavonic papers had announced that
the leaders of the insurgents had agreed
to issue a manifesto demanding the indie
pendence Of Bosnia and Herzegovina I'M
der Christian Prince, to be chosen from
one of the European dynasties Servia
had undertaken to restrain her subjects
from participating in the rebellion. Sexer
Pasha, in a Geographic dispatch of the
same day, says that the trouble was nearly
ended, and that the imperial troops
had been able to traverse the country
without resistance On the 9Th an insur-
rectiOnary movement was reported in the
neighborhood of Gradatschatz, in Bosnia.
SeXer Pasha had been authorized to pro-
pose a limited form of autonomy for Her
zegovina.
ACCORDING to London dispatch of the
5th the strike at Oldham had ended, the
terms of the operators having been &C
cepted.
IL. L. HELMBOLD, the well-knoWn ad-
vertising druggist, was discharged from
the Pennsylvania Insane Asylum on he
4th, on writ Of 6abeaS corpus.
WILLIAM Dazzle, alias Prof Ariel,
made an ascension in a hot-air balloon at
Jackson, Mich, on the 4th. While de-
scending, and when within fifteen or
twenty feet from the ground, the professor
jumped from the basket into the river and
started to swim ashore, but sank to the
bottom and was drowned.
THE Grand Jury of Washington Coun-
ty, Ga, by whom the alleged negro insur-
rection had been investigated, presented
a report on the 4th recommending the dis
charge of the remaining prisoners The
recommendation was complied with.
A DUEL was fought near Rockford, Ill,
on the 4th, between Maj J ohn n. Edwards,
of the St. Louis Iimes and Col E. S.
Foster, of the St. Louis Journal. The
difficulty grew out of a newspaper quar-
rel over the jeff Davis affair in connec-
ton with the Winnebago County Agricult-
ural Society. The distance selected was
twenty PAGES. The shooting was bloodless
and the parties and their friends left the
field and returned to ST. Louis.
ACCORDING to a recent issue of the San
Francisco Bulletin Mr. Mills, former Pres
ident of the Bank of California, is au-
thOrity for the statement that the late
President RalstOn was defaulter to the
bank in the sum of between $4,000, 900
and $4,000,000. 1t was also stated that
Mr. Ralston had raised money upon an over
issue of bank stock for his own personal
benefit.
A SHANGHAI special of the 9th says the
difficulty between England and China had
been adjusted satisfactorily.
MADRID dispatches of the 9th say that
numbers of Carlists in all parts of Cata-
lonia, Navarro and the Biscayan provinces
had given in their submissions to the
Government Of King Alphonso and asked
for amnesty.
In the trial OF Westervelt a Philadel-
phia, on the 9th, Gil Mosher identified
twenty-three letters received by Mr. Ross
as having been written by his brother, the
deceased burglar. In an interview with {
Philadelphia Times reporter HRS. MOshel
is reported as having stated that her hus
band had partly confessed to her that he
was one of the abductOrS of Charlie Ross
and afterward denied it. She asserted
that she did not know where the child
was, but that he must be living. She die
not think Westervelt had anything to dc
with the abduction.
A SAN FRANCISCO dispatch received by
the New York Herald on the 9th states
that Mr.. Ralston's private property, as
signed to Mr. Sharon, would exceed his
liabilities by about 100000, and tina
the Indebtedness charged against Mr.
Ralston was not personal, but had grown
out of aid which the bank had openly
given in the way of loans to industrie'
throughout the State This statemen
was contradicted by a later dispatch OF
the 9th.
THE Postofice Department has ordered
the mail service on steamers plying be
tween Louisville and Cincinnati to be dis
continued after Sept. 10 What is known