Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-11
THE NEWS.

case of Hallett Kilbourne, the contuna-
cious witness, and remanded him to the
custody of the United States Marshal to
answer an indictment. The prisoner
gave bail and was released The action
of the Court was reported to the House,
and the matter referred to the Judiciary
Committee
Both ult., the Turks had succeeded, after
desperate fighting near Presjeka, in re-
victualing Nissa The insurgents suf-
fered great losses.
FCAPE COAST advIces received III Lon
don on the Goth ult., report that the King
of Dahomey had refused to pay fine i'm
posed on him for maltreating British
subject, and had sent an insolent message
to the British commanding officer, invit-
ing him to visit Dahomey where hewould
pay the demand in powder and balls.
The German Government mas given to
the Inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine
the right Of suffrage in cases where, elect
ing to retain tie French nationality, they
still remained domiciled in those prov
inces.
A TELEGRAM from Mexico of the 30th
ult states that Gen. Diaz, the leader of
Mexican instruction, had occupied Ca
MARCO without opposition.
HoN. J. i. GRAHAM, United States Con
sal at Florence, Italy, died on the Both
ult
THE Centennial Commissioners at Phil
adelphia have decided to close the Exhi-
bition grounds and buildings on Sundays.
The Director General announced, on the
Seth ult, that the Exposition will be open
to the public on Wednesday, the 10th
inst.s at noon.
THE effort to pass the Parton Marriage
bill over the Governors veto failed in the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
on the goth ult.-yeas, So; nays, ia.
The Chicago Tribune of the goth ult.,
publishes letter from Custer City, in
which the writer says gold abounded in
the Black Hills, but not around that city
ON Rapid Creek, miners were making
about six dollars aday, and would do better
when the frost was out of the ground.
There was plenty of gold topay anyone
that has means TO build sluices, but pan
work would not prove profitable. Food
was plenty and cheap. A young
man named James McCune, who re-
turned to Quincy, H., on the goth ult.,
tells another story. He says many miners,
including himself, had become convinced
that gold had not been discovered in pay
ing quantities, or, if it had been, that the
danger from the Indians was too great to
tempt any Of them to go where it was to
be found. 1t was not often that anyone
was found who had been lucky enough to
pick up nugget of any value. He says
food was scarce and high. A large num-
Der of those who had rushed to the Hills
lived entirely upon game, which was for
tunately plenty.
FOURTEEN prisoners escaped from the
Chicago jail on the morning of the Both
ult. 1t seems one of the prisoners over
powered the Waterman, and, with the aid
of another prisoner, bound and gagged
him, secured the keys to the cells, and
liberated those who escaped.
THE boilers of the ferry-boat plying be-
tween sRudesneim and Bingen, on the
Rhine, exploded on the 1st and killed
thirty Of the passengers.
THE statement issued on the list shows
the public debt to be s., PA 800, S73. Cash
in Treasury-coin, SIT COS, 428; currency,
So, 161 1857; special deposits held for re-
demption of certificates of deposit, $685.,
665, 900; total, SIG, 431 ,615. Debt, less
cash in the Treasury, 50, 107, 1886, 25S. De-
crease during the month, $2,791, fS1.
The seventeenth General Conference OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church met in
Baltimore on the 1st. Bishop Ames made
the welcoming address, and Bishop James
responded A resolution was adopted
ratifying and confirming the action chang
ing the place of holding the present Gen
eral Conference from st. Louis to Balti-
more. Geo. w. Woodruff was elected
Secretary, and Rev. Israel Pershing, of
PItsburg, Assistant Secretary.
LONDON us pdICueS VI INC "a say IHdt
orders had been issued for a military and
naval expedition against the King of Da-
honey, to punish him for his late insult
ing refusal to pay a fine imposed for mall
treating British subject.
THREE THOUSAND iron workers IN Shet-
field, Eng, who were on a strike, re-
sumed work on the I'd, at smaller wages.
GEN. SCHENCK was before the Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs again on the I'd,
and denied the statement made by Park
that his letter of resignation as Director
of the Emma Mine Company was copied
from draft made by the latter, in which,
interpretations were made at Parks sug-
gestions so as to satisfy the public that he
(Schenck) had not resigned because of
dissatisfaction with the status of the COM
pany. Gen. Schenck said the letter of
resignation was written by himself with
out aid from any one. He also again as
serted that he did not think his connection
with the Emma Mine Company morally
wrong or unbecoming.
THE House Judiciary Committee have
.lo Sorraart at A tn ON