Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-04
THE NEWS.

OH LAc A0Ih hltJ-ouO pCioOHo IOob IncA
lives through the burning of match
factory at Gottenburg, Sweden.
Two-thirds of the city Of Port au Prince,
Hayti, was burned on the 18th, involy-
ing the destruction of from 600 to 700
houses, and the loss of about So, 100000.
The fire originated from the explosion of
a barrel of kerosene.
On the 18th the National House of
Representatives passed eighty-three in
dividual pension bills.
The examination of Mr.. Tilton in the
Triton Beecher trial was concluded on
the 18th, and Mr.. Bell, ex-Deaeon of
Plymouth Church; Joseph H. Richards,
brother of Mrs TiltOn; Mr. Braisher and
Mr.. Robinson, business partner of Mr..
Moulton, were examined. Mrs. Moulton
was on the witness-stand on the 10Th.
The testimony of these witnesses was
mainly corroborative of the testimony
of Messrs. Moulton and Tilton.
W. S. King, of Minnesota, has written
"a letter to the Legislature of the State in
reply to the resolution calling upon him
to resign if he could not appear before
the Congressional Committee and ex-
plain his connection with the Pacific
Mail subsidy. Mr.. King characterizes
the resolutions as Every extraordinary
in SO far as they correctly illustrate your
lack of knowledge of the common pro-
prieties and decencies of official posi-
ton, your painful disregard OF truth in
your official action, and your false and
hypOcritical pretenses of virtuous re-
gard for the honor of the State of Min
nesota." He prOnounces false the charge
that he had accepted money as a consid-
Grafton for his services in behalf of the
Subsidy bill, and emphatically asserts,
as he says he stated under oath two years
ago, that he never accepted nor received
a dollar in consideration of such service,
and that not one dollar of the money re
,ceived by him was ever intended or APP
piled to influence vote on such bill
Sd. r. Mcmillan (Rep) }, the present
Chief-J ustiCe of the State Supreme Court,
has been elected United States Senator
by the Minnesota Legislature.
The wife of Senator Mcdonald,
of Indiana, died suddenly, few days
ago.
A negro was admitted into the senior
class of the New Orleans High School
ON the 18th, and twenty out of the TWEEN
ity-two members Immediately left the
school
On the Goth, at Washington, the lead
ing Republicans and the Louisiana Con
gressional delegation agreed to leave out
the question of the election of 1872 and
to recognize Kellogg as Governor as long
as the Government shall continue to sus-
tain him as such; the four Conservatives
unseated in the Legislature on the 4th of
January to be admitted, and new or
-ganization of the Legislature to be Sc
cured.
A New York court has recently rem
dered a verdict Of $4,000 in favor of
passenger, and against the New York &
New Haven Railroad Company The
plaintiff was robbed of that sum while
riding from New Haven to New York,
and the court held that the company
must protect its patrons.
A railroad train was overturned and
mostly burned near Mingo junction,
Ohio, on the 10Th. No one was killed
but several were injured, among them
Mr.. j. n. Mccullough, first Vice-Presi-
rdent,of the p, Ft.W..& G. Railroad Com
pany, who had three ribs broken and was
otherwise injured.
sSnowis reported to be three feet deep
on aleyel,in the vicinity of Fort Sully.
Late arrivals from the Black Hills re-
port that an abundance of gold had been
secured
A broken rail, at Sheffield, H., on the
Goth, threw passenger car and a sleeper
into a culvert. Several persons were in
jured, and F. j. Browning, of Annawan,
Ill, killed.
Spain has agreed to pay $4,000 in
demnity for the Nirginius affair.
The .Gern1GniG newspaper, printed at
Benin shaving published the recent en-
cyolical letter of the pope to the Prus-
sian Bishops, has been contiscated and
the pG0prietors prosecuted.
An explosion occurred in the safety
fuse works at Redraths, Cornwall, En-
gland, on the Goth. Five girls were killed
John Mitchell ON the 21st, issued an
address to the electors of Tipperary,
presenting himself again as candidate
for Parliament.
4 fleet of British men-of-war has bonn
barded and captured Fort Mombazique,
on the island of Mombaz, off the coast
OF Africa. Two slaNe-Ships have been
captured, with 800 slaves on board.
The next eonsistory, according to a
Rome lltaly) dispatch of the 2sd, will
create four ecclesiastical provinces in
North America.
Sir Charles Lyel, the eminent English