Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-17
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heaVy tall OF snow IN
ne spanish provinces, Navarro and Gui-
9uzcoa' N the 9Th.
a ARUssELs telegram of the 7th saws
ILL Common Council Of Antwerp had in
vltea Mr., Motley, the American historian
OF the Dutch Republic, to grand histori
cal ,yste in honor of the patriots of the six
tenth century,
EDWARD S. STOKES was brought before
Judge Dyckman, at White Plains, N. Y,
on the 9th, on a writ Of habeas corpus, and
a motion for his release, On the ground
that he had been imprisoned ten months
before receiving his final sentence, was de-
MED.
CHEF JUSTICE WHITE, of Utah Terri
tory, in charging the Grand Jury, on the
18th, concerning polygamy, said: "Polyg
amy must be suppressed in this Territory.
MormOnism may survive it, and, relieved
from it, would stand unshackled and free
as every other creed or mode of religious
worship, shielded and protected by the
Constitution of our common country; but
if Mormonism cannot sever itself from
p0lygamy, it viii be to it the bridal of
DEATH
THE trial of Gen. Babcock was begun
in st. Louis On the 18th. He pleaded
F" not guilty" and the court adjourned
to the 8th. A motion for new trial in
the case of Mr.. Mckee was made on the
9TH
On the 9Th, the British Parliament was
opened by the Queen in person. Lord
Cairns, the Cord Chancellor, read Her
Majesty's speech.
A MADRIF telegram of the 9Th says the
Royalists had secured entire mastery of
the provinces of Biscay and Alava
SENATOR eCHRIsTIANcY, of Michigan,
was married in Washington, on the 18th,
to Miss Lille Lugerbeel, lately a clerk in
the Treasury Department.
A BOSTON telegram of the 9Th says quite
a sensation prevailed in Newburyport,
Mass, caused by the late marriage of
James Parton, the author, to his step
daughter, a relation forbidden by the laws
of that State. The bridegroom learned
his status'on the morning after the we'd
ding, and left his home in charge of his
wife and took rooms for himself at a
boarding house. A special act is to be
introduced in the Legislature legalizing
the marriage.
MEssRs. MOODY AND SANKEY held their
first revival meeting in New York city on
the evening of the 18th, at Barnum's
Hippodreme. Fully 5000 people were
present.
PERRIN III. SUMNER was arrested in
Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 9Th, charged
with committing forgeries in California
aggregating 100000.
On theanorning of the Sth body of
masked men appeared at the jail in
Bloomington, Ind, overpowered the Sher-
if, secured,the keys, and shot and killed
prisoner named G. A. Marshon. Mar
shon was convicted of murder and SEN
fenced tothe Penitentiary for life, three
years ago, but the Supreme Court lately
granted him new trial.
ON the 9th, E. P. Weston, the Ameri-
can pedestrian, and Perkins, the English
champion, completed match for ESQ
cup. The match was the greatest number
of miles in twenty-four hours. Perkins
made sixty-fve miles in fifteen hours and
winner.
A HENDAYE (Spain) dispatch of the 9th
says the Carlists had assumed the often
sive against the Alphonsist positions
Ajarzan.
ONE Holbrook, former special agent
of the Postoffice Department, appeared
before the House Committee, in Washing
ton on the 9th, and gave testimony show
ing collision of contractors with clerks
for the purpose of procuring fraudulent
contracts.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred in New
York city on the evening of the 9th.
Thirty buildings in the block bounded by
Grand, Howard, Broadway and Crosby
streets, were burned, involving loss, in
buildings and contents, of about 81 $780,
DOC. Three firemen were killed and four
seriously injured by falling walls.
THE two Grain brothers, on trial at
Cairo, ILL.,, on change of venue from
Williamson County, were convicted on
the 9th and sentenced to the State Peni-
tertiary for twenty years each.
THE Michigan State Prohibition Con
vention, to choose delegates tothe Nation
al Convention at Cleveland, has been
called to meet at Detroit on the 22d of
March.
THE contest for the Mayoralty OF st.
Louis, which had been before the City
Council for several months, was decided
on the evening of the 9th by a vote of ten
for James Ii. Britton, the present Mayor,
and sixteen for Henry Overstolz, the con-
testant Mr.. Overstolz was installed at
$50, and made an address to the Council
Mr.. Britton, in card published on the
morning of the 10th, states that he excerpts
to the action of the Council, and shall