Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-12-14

DISPATCHES from Belgrade on the 5th
say Turkey had violated the armistice by
attacking a Servian outpost on the line
of demarkation between the two armies.
The foreign Ambassadors at Constantine
pie had been notified of this violation.
| LONDON telegrams of the 5th state that
England was about to abandon its position
on the question of extraditing fugitives
from the United States, and had already
arrested Brent, the Louisville forger, and
issued warrants for the arrest of Winslow
and Gray.
The Louisiana Returning Board de-
clared the result of their canvass of the
votes on the 9TH. They give the highest
| Hayes Elector "a, 1856, and the lowest IA
003; the highest TiIden Elector 70,566,
and the lowest 70, ,335. Packard, Republi-
can, for Governor, is given 3, ,426 MAORI
ty, and the entire Republican State ticket
| is declared elected. Of the Congressman
declared elected four are Republican and
two Democratic. The State Legislature
as returned is also Republican. A dis
patch says these results were secured "by
throwing out the parishes where great in
timidation and violence existed, and also
a few polls in New Orleans where frauds
| occurred"
RECENT Mexican dispatches say that
| LerdO, who was lately declared President
of that Republic, had been driven out of
the City of Mexico by the troops of
| Porfrio Dias, the revolutionary chieftain.
Mrs. IRENE HOUSE, who killed her
husband, the noted New York divorce
lawyer, some months ago, and who was
subsequently tried and acquitted, has
become insane and been taken to the
New Jersey State Insane Asylum, at Tren-
ton.
AN Omaha dispatch of the 5th says that
after full hearing, Judge Savage had re-
fused to grant an Injunction to restrain the
Republican Electors of Nebraska from
casting their votes for President.
The Florida Returning Board on the
morning of the 9th made their report of
the canvass of the votes in that State, Civ
ing Hayes 946 majority, and electing
publican Congressman as elected The
Legislature is Democratic by five majority
on Joint ballot.
JAPAN advices received on the 9th give
accounts of a recent fire at Kanogawa,
which destroyed roo native houses. A
village Of forty houses in the province of
Ech1zen had been destroyed by tidal
wave.
THE process of cremating the body
of the late Baron De Palm, at DIR. LIE
Moyne',s Crematory, at Washington,
Pa, was successfully accomplished
on the 9th. A Pittsburgh dis
patch says "The body was on a
wire cradle, which, when in the retort,
raised it about two inches from the bottom
of the retort. The door was opened, and,
as the body slid in, fume of smoke
from the burnt evergreens rose from the
body. A fainter odor of burning flesh
pervaded the building, but no unpleasant
feature appeared, and the process was
pronounced success in every particular.
Observations every ten minutes dis
shrunk in size and passed away in vapor
and gases. At the end of the first hour
| the bones crumbled, and the outline of the
form was lost. AT the end of the second
hour, the body was greatlyreduced in size,
the larger bones and ribes only being visi-
BILE, and they would apparently crumble
at the slightest touch. At 0:45 the crib
was moved back in the retort two inches,
and the whole mass crumblei. Col.
| Olcott then pronounced the incineration
ended and complete, in two hours and
twenty minutes
A TERRIBLE disaster occurred at the
Brooklyn On. " Theater on the night of
the 5th. During the performance of the
the 1.-TWO Orphans" a gas-jet set fire to
| the woodwork in one of the wings of the
stage. A scene of great confusion fol-
lowed, the large and frightened audience
frantically attempting to escape from the
| burning building. About 800 persons per-
ished in the ruins. The building was
completely destroyed.
| A LONDON dispatch of the 7th states
that Brent, the Louisville forger, had been
held upon the charges of forgery and ut
| tering counterfeit money, and would be
handed over to the United States authori-
| ties after fifteen days. Winslow and Gray
had disappeared, but British detectives
and United States representatives were en-
deavoring to discover their hiding places.
| IT was reported on the 7th that the
Russian war office had decided not to per-
nit correspondents to join the Army of
| Occupation until it had crossed the from
tier. A proposition to subject their re-
ports to species of censorship had been
rejected by the Gar himself. The pub
| licatlon of the AIatski Nir has been sus-
| pended for one month because of its pub
lication of the composition of the army.
| THE European Plenipotentiaries held a
preliminary meeting at Constantinople
on the 7th, in respect to the coming Con-
| ference. Much patriotic excitement was
| said TO prevail throughout Turkey, and
the sons of the best families were volun-
tarily enlisting in the Turkish army.
OVER 500 bodies had been recovered
from the ruins of the Brooklyn Theater
| up to the evening of the 1th.
AT Republican indignation meeting
held at Salem, Oregon, on the night of the
| 9th, resolutions were passed denouncing
| the Governor for his action in the matter
of issuing certificate of election to Cronin,
| Democrat), and calling upon the United
States Senate to prevent him from taking
his seat in that body, to which he is
elected, on the ground that he has will
| fully violated his OATH.