Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-03
THE NEWS.

Great Northern Railway IN England which
resulted in the death of thirteen persons
and caused serious injury to many others
The accident took place in the midst Of a
binding snow-storm. Among those killed
was the son of Dion Boucicault the well
known playwright.
MOTHER STEWART, well known in con-
nection with the Ohio crusade made her
first appearance before London audience
on the evening of the 23d.
RAGUsA kilograms Of the 22d report
continued fighting between the Turks and
the insurgents in which the latter gen
orally had the advantage. Trebigne was
threatened with famine. A report pre-
vailed in Constantinople on the 22d that
the Porte had accepted Count Andrassey's
proposal for the pacifcation Of the dis
turbed provinces.
A BERLIN telegram of the 23d says a
German squadron, consisting Of three
rm-clads and one tender, would visit
Philadelphia during the Centennial
AN Austrian army Of observation NUM-
bering $4,000 is reported to have been or
dered to the Dalmatian frontier to await
emergencies.
A MADRID telegram Of the 23d an
nounces that the Ministry had secured a
large majority in the new Cortes. The
opposition numbered seventy.
THE Russian Imperial Academy has re-
Gently elected Prof Newcomb, Of the
Naval Observatory at Washington, Prof.
Gould, of the Argentine Republic, and
Prof. Whitney, Of New Haven, as CORE
spending members.
ACCORDING to news received in New
York on the 22d from Havana a force led
by Henry Reeves, $500 strong, had in
Vaded Sagua County and destroyed sugar
estates, some of which were valued at
So, 600, 900 each. Sagua La Chica, where
there were warehouses containing 900
hogsheads of Muscovado sugar, had been
burned and all the sugar consumed. The
estate Cayoespino was in the hands of the
rebels and of course destroyed.
THE correspondence between Secretary
Fish and Minister Cushing ard other for
eign Ministers OF the United States were
transmitted to the House of Representa-
tives on the 21st. This chiefly consists of
a rescript Of the note to Mr.. Cushing, the
tone of which does not materially differ
from that part of the Presidents message
relating to Cuban affairs. Nothing was
given OF the replies received from Euro
pean Governments to the advisory circu-
lar forwarded by Secretary Fish, and no
allusion made to any correspondence with
the Spanish Government direct since Nov.
5, 1875
THE latest counterfeit circular shows
that there are in circulation spurious bills
on the First National Bank of Indianap-
oils, the First National Bank Of New
Albany and the first National and Rich
mond National of Richmond
JORDAN, CLARK & Co., one of the lead
ing wholesale clothing firms in Boston
have suspended, owing to the Justification
of heir books by their confidential book
keeper, Frank Sanford, who has alb
seconded
A MAN named Edward Williams, who,
with Mrs. Melting had been arrested for
the murder of the latter's husband, was
taken from the Jail on the night of the
22d, at Barboursville, West Va, and
hanged by mob. He acknowledged the
crime. Mrs. Melting was also threatened
with similar fate, but was finally spared.
She said she had repeatedly attempted to
poison her husband, and accused herself
OF being the cause of the murder by Will
liams, but begged most pitifully for her
life.
A FREIGHT train On the Cincinnati &
Marietta Railroad went through an iron
bridge over Spring Grove avenue in Cln-
cinnati, on the afternoon of the 22d kill
ing three men, wounding two and totally
wrecking the bridge, locomotive and
eleven freight cars.
SPAIN has directed her diplomatic rep
resentatives at European Courts to inform
the various governments that after the de-
feat of the Carlists, which is shortly ex-
pected, she will be able to make short
work of the Cuban insurgents.
A PARIS dispatch of the oath says an
other conspiracy against the life of
Prince Milan had been discovered at Bel
grade.
THE cremation Of the corpse of the late
Chevalier Rossi occurred publicly in the
Monumental Cemetery, at Milan, Italy,
on the Esd.
THE Jackson (TenR.) Whsg and Tribune
announces the assassination of Dock
Mangum, a noted guerrilla on the Federal
side during the war;
THE house of Mr.. Alexander Ellerbe,
OF Marion, S. c., was burned few days
ago, and his five children persisted in the
flames.
VIENNA telegram of the 25th saws
Turkey had notified the European powers
that she should occupy Montenegro if she
did not cease giving aid to Turkeys re-
bellious subjects.
ACCORDING 10 Madrid dispatches of the
25th, 400 deputies had been elected to the
Cortes. Of these thirty were supporters
of Sagasta, ten Clericals, one Cantonalist.