Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-13
THE NEWS.

city, was robbed few nights ago of $25,-
900 worth of jewelry and diamonds. The
persons IN charge of the store were chic
reformed by the robbers.
MIR. SHEARMAN, on behalf of Plymouth
Church, and J. NJ. Van Colt, for Mrs
MoultOn, at a conference on the morning
of the 31st ult agreed that ten churches
and five ministers should be called on
each side to form the mutual council to
decide on the questions submitted by Mrs.
MOultOn in her recent letter. The mutual
council will convene on Tuesday, the 18th
instant.
AMONG the ocean steamers arriving at
New York on the I'd was the SaIier, on
board of which it was at one time reported
there had been placed one Of Thomas
dynamite internal machines.
ANTHONY G.. HEsING, H. B. Miller and
Jacob Rehm were arrested in Chicago, on
the 31st ult., on warrants charging them
with completely in whisky frauds. Hes
ing and Rehm were held in bail of $50
900 each; Miller's bail was fixed at $10,-
900. A warrant was also issued for the
arrest of VIM. Minty, Deputy Collector
of the Revenue Department, but up to the
morning of the Sd, he had not been found
The Illinois D.stillery, one of the largest
IN the country, was also seized on the 31st
A BERLIN dispatch of the Sd says Arch
bishop Ledochowsky's term of imprison-
ment will terminate on the Sd of Febru-
airy next, and that the Catholics through
out Germany proposed to celebrate the
event in an appropriate and imposing
manner
ARCHDUKE RUDOLPHE, Prince Imperial
of Austria, will be crowned King Of Hun
gary in July.
A BRUSSELS dispatch of the Sd says
rioting had broken out among the miners
in the Louviere district, and a detachment
of soldiers had been sent to queIl the dis
orders
SERIOUS disagreements between the
Khedive &C Egypt and Mr.. Carrie, the
British Commissioner, were reported on
the Sd.
EX-GOy, CARPENTER, of Iowa, has &C.
cepted the position of Second Comptroller
of the United States Treasury.
DIsT. ATTY. BRITToN, of Brooklyn, n
Y, on the Sd entered a10IEe pros in the
cases of Loader and Price, indicted for
perjury in connection with the Beecher-
Tilton scandal, the ground of the motion
being that the affidavits of these persons
were not made to be used in court, but
simply to affect public opinion.
DISCOVERIES made on the 1st show that
some of the prisoners in the Ohio Peni-
tertiary have b.on quite extensively en-
gagged in the manufacture of counterfeit
nickels, or five-cent pieces The metal
used was amalgam, procured for platin g
harness in the harness-shops.
THE Ohio General Assembly convened
at Columbus on the 3d. Charles I'll.
Grosvenor (Rep.) was elected Speaker of
the House; William Leonard (Rep.)
Chief Clerk, and William Brown, (Rep.
Sergeant-at-Arms, and subordinates in ac-
cOrdance with the decision Cf the Re-
publican caucus. In the Senate j. G..
Donaldson rep was elected Chief Clerk,
and E. L. Jones Rep.) Sergeant-at-
Arms. The Governors message shows
the public funded Gebt to have been,
on the 10Th of November, $780,
920.12-$36, 1856 Is having been redeemed
during the year The local indebtedness
of the State for the past year is S25 ,957,
59S.21, being an increase over the former
year of $4,071, 5S0.S5. The irreducible
debt is SALT, 669.31 This makes the
aggregate debt in Ohio, State, local and
trust funds, $36, 0S5, 1864.
THE Louisiana Legislature met on the
3D. The bonded and floating debt Of the
State jan. was $19,061, 645. 25-a reduc-
ton of So, 1919, 800 since the commence
ment of the Kellogg administration. The
debt of the city of New Orleans is $23,
900, 900.
Gov. CREERY, in his message to the
Legislature on the Sd, places the amount
of the Kentucky State debt at sis, 439, 400
MARK M. {" BRICK'O PoMERoY has re-
moved his Desa0crat from New York to
Chicago. The initial number from the
latter city was issued on the LIST inst.
HARRISON LUDINGToN, the Republican
Governor elect OF Wisconsin, was formal
ly inaugurated at Madison on the Sd.
A LONDON dispatch of the 4th says a
Ministerial crisis impended at Pesth, in
consequence of the demands Of Hungary
for the forced circulation of Hungarian
bank-notes in Austria
ACCORDING to a Berlin dispatch of the
4th the German Government had replied
favorably to the American note in relation
to intervention in cuban affairs.
LORD LYTToN has been appointed
Viceroy of India, in place of Lord North
brook.
SIR ANTHONY RoTHsCHILD, of the emf
nent banking firm, died in London OF
the 4th.
A CONSPIRACY has lately been discov
cred at Belgrade to make Karageorge
witch the reigning Prince of Servla, anC
several important arrests have been made
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 4th say
the rumor of difference of opinion be
tween the President and Secretary Fisl