Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-08-19

A RALEIGH On. c. dispatch of the 9th
says the result of the convention election
was still doubtful. The Democrats
claimed four majority in the convention.
Mr.. GLADSTONE, ex-Premier, has issued
another pamphlet, in which he rediscusses
the questions relating to papacy which
formed the subject of his former pamphlets
on Vaticanism."
SHAW & THOMPSON, well-known British
iron merchants and manufacturers, failed
for 5000, 900 on the 18th, and then compro.
missed with their creditors by paying fifty
cents on dollar.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN was buried
at Copenhagen on the 18th. The day was
made one Of national mourning.
A LONDON special of the morning of the
18th says that great numbers of Montene-
grins had joined the insurgents around
Trebigne
THE French Government has interdicted
the sale in France of Mr. Gladstones writ
ings against papacy.
HALLECK and Brown, recently arrested
for completely in the late robbery of the
United States Treasury, were examined on
the 18th and committed to jail IN default
$4,000 bail each.
THE New York Republican State Con-
vention will meet at Saratoga on the 9Th
of September
THE mare Lulu made the astonishing
time of 2:15 at Buffalo on the 10th
THE Republicans of the Maine Fourth
Congressional District have nominated
Gen. Plaisted to fill the vacancy occa-
stoned by the death of VIM. M. Hersey.
RESIDENTS of Minneapolis, Mimi, re-
port seeing a balloon floating westward
over that city, at a great height, on the
evening of the 10th.
THE Independent Democrats of the
First California District have nominated
Sam. Brannon for Congress.
THE Oregon Independent State Conven-
ton, on the 18th, nominated G. w. Whit
ney for Congress.
Mrs. ANNIE SUMNER used coal oil to
kindle fire at Cincinnati a few mornings
ago, and at twelve o'clock was a corpse
4 CATTLE TRAIN on the st. Louis, Kan
sas City & Northern Railway collided on
the evening of the 18th with a. special
train on the Hannibal & ST. Joe Road near
Kansas City. The latter contained several
railway officials, several of whom were in
jured.
A MADRID dispatch Of the 18th says the
AlphOnsists had carried one of the outly-
ing towers of SEQ de Urgel, and on that
day turned its guns upon the citadel The
levy OF troops recently ordered embraces
youths who shall be nineteen by the 31st
OF December next. The man of war Vic
toria was reported on the 18th as lombard
ing Lequito, on the Blscayan coast.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE telegram Of the 18th
says the situation in Herzegovina had be-
come exceedingly grave. The insurgents
had attacked Trebigne, and were burning
and pillaging in all directions The Turks
had been defeated at Bileridia after a per-
sistent fight
THE French Geographical Congress has
awarded medals to the American Statisti-
cal Bureau at Washington and Prof Hay
den.
ACCORDING to Washington specials of
the 18th it was understood that an adverse
decision had been given on the petition of
Fitz John Porter for a rehearing of his
case, upon the ground that the finding of a
courtmartial after approval and execution
of a sentence cannot be reviewed or re-
opened.
NOTICE Of trial of the 100000 libel suit
of Theodore Tilton against the Brooklyn
Eagle and Thomas Kinsella was entered
on the 18th in the Brooklyn City Court.
THE levee at Shawneetown, H., gave
way on the morning of the 18th, owing to
the high water in the Ohio River. The
town was inundated to the depth of from
five to seven feet.
THE new Institution for the Feeble
Minded in Illinois has been located at
Lincoln.
RETURNS from all counties in Wiscon-
sin except one give the total population of
the State at 1 1886, $40, being an increase of
1S1, 900 in five years.
THE Oregon Independent and the Ore
gon Republican State platforms declare in
favor of specie payments The former IA
vors the repeal of the act increasing the
salary of the President.
THE election in North Carolina for dele
gates to the Constitutional Convention re-
suited in the choice of sixty Democrats,
two Independent Democrats and fifty
eight Republicans.
YELLow-FEvER broke out at Pasca-
goula, Miss, on the Sth, and on the 10Th
there were thirty cases under treatment.
At Fort Barrancas, Fla, there were no
new cases on the 18th.
THE Chicago Journal of the 18th,
speaking Of the balloon ascension of
Messrs. Donaldson and Grimwood, saws:
"There is now but little doubt that
they were dashed into the lake by the
gale of that terrible night and that their
bodies and the balloon sank in the middle
of Lake Michigan, where, the water be-
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