Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06
THE NEWS.


cares of state for a season and retire to
Italy for rest He would appoint the
CZarowitch as Regent
THE dykes surrounding the town of
Herzozonbusch, Holland have been swept
away by recent floods. At last accounts
the town was entirely isolated. Railroad
bridges and roads had been destroyed, a
hundred houses had disappeared, and 6, 900
persons were homeless.
THE American Episcopal Church in
Rome, Italy, was consecrated by Bishop
Littlejohn, of Long Island, on the 25th.
THE Executive Committee of the New
York State Central Democratic Green
back Committee has called State Con-
vention, to meet in New York city, June
1, to choose delegates to the National
Democratic Convention at St. Louis
THE Iowa Democratic State Convention
for the selection of delegates to the Dem
ocratic National Convention has been
called to meet at Des Moines on the 18th
OF May.
ACCORDING to Ragusa telegram of the
Goth, the summons of Prince Milan to
Peko and other Montenegrins to abandon
the insurgents had been disregarded
ADVANCE sheets of the st. Louis direc-
tory place the population of that city at
498, 1872
THE details of the loss of the British
emigrant ship Strathmore have just come
to hand. She struck on the rocks among
the Crozet Islands in the South Pacific,
on the 1st of last july and went to pieces
at once. Forty-four of her passengers
and crew were drowned. The survivors
reached one of the islands, where they re-
manned without shelter for six months,
subsisting on birds and birds eggs until
they we're rescued about Jan. 1, 1876, by
the Captain of an American whaler.
ACCORDING to a Constantinople dispatch
of the 9th the Ottoman Bank had re-
fused to make further advances to the
Turkish Government.
The first Chinese. locomotive lately
made its trial trip on the railway near
Shanghai.
The Chinese contributions to the Amer
lean Centennial Exposition are valued at
100000.
THE United States Supreme Court has
affirmed the decision of the lower court
in the Grant Parish Ua.l cases, in sub
stance that these cases do not properly
come within the scope of the Enforce
oof, hot Il
take cognizance of such offenses. The
cause was remanded with instructions to
discharge the defendants. In the Ken
lucky election case the Supreme Court de-
cides that the Federal election law is I'M
constitutional, and that Congress has not
provided by appropriate legislation the
punishment for the offense charged.
HIGH water in the streams Of New En-
gland has put stop to the operation Of
many of the mills, and serious damage
has been done by floods in many locali-
ties. The town of Fullerville, Mass, was
entirely swept away on the Goth, and the
town OF Clinton was also seriously dam
aged by the giving way of dam.
THE boot factory of Clafiin & Coburn at
HOpkinton, Mass, was burned on the
Goth, involving loss of $180,000.
THOMAS W. PIPER, formerly sexton of
the Warren Street Church in Boston, who
was recently convicted of the murder of
Mabel Young in the belfry of that build
ing, has been sentenced to be hanged.
A TEXAN named Davis recently killed
a man named Atchison, at Herkings' Mill,
in Colorado, in consequence of quarrel
over the pronunciation of the word New
foundland."
ACCORDING to advices received IN Lon
don, on the 28tn, from India, the steamer
Jowaa had been recently wrecked in the
Arabian Sea. She had 500 pilgrims on
board, and only three Of these escaped.
A RAGUsA dispatch of the 2Sth states
that the negotiations between the Turk
ish and Herzegovinian authorities had
failed.
A NEW ministry has been formed in
Italy under the leadership of Signor De-
pritis.
THE Spanish steamer Elvira exploded
and sank off San Sebastian on the 2Sth.
The fatalities were numerous
THE boiler of locomotive on the elias
gov 81 Southern Railroad exploded at
Glasgow, Scotland, on the 2Sth. Five
persons were killed outright and nine
badly injured.
A LATE Washington dispatch states that
United States Treasurer New has with
drawn his resignation for the present, at
the request of the President.
Ex-MINIsTER ScHENCK appeared before
the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
on the 2Sth. He denied that he was cor
ruptly interested in selling a worthless
mine to English capitalists, and said he
would be able to prove that he bought and
paid for the shares he holds under an hon
est conviction of their value; that he had
sustained a serious loss from the invest
ment; that the failure of the mine was
owing to mismanagement,a and that, prop
erly worked, it was as valuable, in pro-
portion, as it was originally represented to
be.