Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-12-30

ton.
A LISBON dispatch of the 21st SAYS a
Portuguese gunboat had been ordered
to the island Of st. Thomas to put down
an alleged instruction of the negroes.
THE election of Senators by the French
Assembly has resulted in the choice of
thirteen Legitimists, four Orleanists, one
Bonapartist and fifty-eight Republicans
HENRY WAINWRIGHT, the murderer of
Harriet Lane in Wbitechapel road, Lon
don, last September, was hanged at New
| gate on the 21st. He left statement ac-
knowledging the justice of his sentence.
A BERLIN special to the London Times
of the 22d says it had been ascertained
that the total number killed by the late
| dynamite explosion at Bremen Haven was
1913; wounded, SO; twenty Of the injured
were hopelessly MANNED, and there were
Sc widows and 1876 orphans, for whose
benefit it was proposed to raise subscrip-
ton of 49, Goo
THE trial of II. G. Bowen's libel suit
against the Brooklyn IN. " Eagle was
begun on the 21st.
AT Milwaukee, on the Dist, Philip
| Weimer, rectiier convicted of revenue
frauds, was sentenced to eight months i'm
prisonment in the County Jail and to pay
a fine of $4,000. John S. Taft, a Gauger,
was sentenced to the State Prison for five
months and to pay fine of $4,000.
GEORGE REYNoLs, the polygamous Nor
mon, was sentenced at Salt Lake on the
21st, by Chief Justice White, to two years
Imprisonment and to pay fine of $500
Reynolds appealed and was released on
$4,000 bail.
AT a special election in the Seventh Ju-
dicial District of Illinois, held ON the
Dist, T. Lyle Dickey, of Chicago, was
chosen Judge of the Supreme Court to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Judge Mchllister.
ACCORDING to a Vienna special of the
22d eighty insurgent delegates had recent
ly met at Jamnetza, in Bosnia, and unani-
mously rejected the Sultan's 1rman, pro-
posing sundry reforms, as unworthy of
confidence. They had formed provis-
ional government
THE British training-shlp Goliath was
burned at Gravesend on the morning Of
the 22d. 1t was reported that twenty
boys had persisted in the flames.
A SHANGHAI (China) dispatch of the
22d says that Chen Lang Pin and Yung
Heng had been appointed Ministers to the
| United States.
A WASHINGTON telegram Of the 22d says
the Granger cases, involving the question
of the right Of States to regulate the carry
| ing rates of railroads, would be further
argued before the Supreme Court on the
18th OF January.
THE report that Secretary Bristow had
directed to be paid to the Union Pacific
Railway Company the sum adjudged due
by the Supreme Court is pronounced IN
| true by Washington dispatch of the 22d.
a GAs-MAIN running under Federal
street, in South Boston, Mass, exploded
on the 22d, tearing up the pavement for a
great distance. Many were buried under
the debris. A grain-house was badly
shattered and the foreman killed. Sew
eral persons were blown into the water
and drowned The number Of victims as
far as ascertained up to the morning Of
the 23d was as follows: Killed, 20; fatal
! ly injured, 4 seriously hurt, 8; slightly,
! 3. Seven persons were missing and were
supposed to have been blown into the
water, in addition to those already found
therein.
THE Bank of Brandywine, at West
Chester, Pa, failed on the 22d 1t was
thought depositors would be paid in full.
PRESIDENT GRANT was present as
guest at the seventh annual dinner of the
New England Society, in New York, on
the 22d Many other distinguished per-
sons attended and responded to toasts.
| AT Augusta, Ca, two men named Til
ley and Radcliffe recently fought duel
with pistols, IN which the former was
badly wounded, and died the next day.
AN earthquake shock was felt in Rich
mond, Va, on the night OF the 22d. The
alarm was general, the shock being felt in
| all parts of the city.
Gov. HARTRANFT has pardoned Xingo
Parks and several others of the miners
convicted in Clearfeld County, Pa, of
conspiring together for riotous purposes.
| A SUIT in the ST. Louis (Mo.) Circuit
Court against the Missouri State Lottery,
managed by Murray, Miller s. Co., charg-
ing them with usurpation of their fran
chise and praying for Judgment of custer,
was decided on the 22d against the de-
PENDANTS. An appeal was taken to the
Supreme Court.
THE Commercial Loan Company and
Savings Bank of Chicago suspended on
the 21st. 1t was thought that depositors
would realize about eighty cents on the
dollar.
AN advance in railroad treights over
the different routes between the East and
| West has been lately established.