Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-20
THE NEWS.

Sln, The Insurgents III DOSuld were treat
ing both Mahommedans and Christians
with great inhumanity. In Pasnitza over
200 houses had been burned and over 200
persons had been killed.
OK the 9th at st. Louis. Mo, w. W.
Jill, a well known inventor, was fatally
shot by Samuel Shane, brother of a young
girl with whom he had been criminally
intimate. During the affray the boy him
self was MORALLY wounded.
A BOILER exploded at Binghamton, n.
Y, on the 9Th, killing the foreman, man
named John Mallory, and a boy named
Gambler. Several bystanders we're more or
less injured.
BEING dissatisfied with the decision Of
the lower court, in his action against Mr..
Beecher for malicious prosecution, Mr..
Moulton has appealed to the Supreme
Court. The appeal will be argued in
May.
IN the United States District Court at
st. Louis, on the Sth, Con. Mcguire, late
Collector OF Internal Revenue, was SEN
fenced to pay fine of $4,000 and to be
imprisoned in the st. Louis County Jail
six months. The application of Mckee
for new trial was over-ruled. A motion
in arrest of judgment was taken under
consideration. w. O. Avery defaulted
and his bail was declared forfeited. He
was subsequently arrested in Washington
PARIS dispatches Of the 9th report that
an extensive instruction against the
province of Constantine in Algiers
Troops had been sent to subdue it.
O'LEARY, the Chicago pedestrian, re-
Gently walked 500 miles, at San Francisco,
in 139 hours and thirty-two minutes
He made the 495th mile in eight minutes
and fifty eight seconds.
Col. Whitley, having testified before
the House Judiciary Committee to certain
facts tending to implicate Gen. Babcock
in the safe-burglary conspiracy, the latter
appeared before the committee on the 9Th,
and said emphatically that he knew moth
ing of the safe burglary, and that if he
had known it was in contemplation he
would have taken measures to prevent it.
ACCORDING to a Belgrade special to the
London Times, of the 10th, the Austrian
representative at that city said to Prince
Milan that if he declared war against
Turkey, Austrian and Turkish troops
would occupy Servia. The Prince laid
the threat before his Parliamentary Coun-
Gil, who unanimously advised him to pay
no attention to it. A Constantinople tele-
gram of the same date announces the de-
feat of 800 insurgents near MAIDEN two
days previous.
Mr.. A. L. STEWART, the New York
dry goods merchant and capitalist, died
II that city on the 10th, aged seventy
years. His estate is estimated at $25,
100000 to $50, 100000. He leaves a wife
but no children.
AT New Laredo, Mexico, on the 9th, an
American merchant of Laredo, Tex,
named Diamond, was imprisoned and
his life threatened by the commander of
the Mexican Federal troops, for
hesitating to contribute his property
and refusing to pay fine of 800.
Maj. Merriam, of the United States army,
demanded his release, which, after some
words, was complied with, but the Mex
lean authorities threatened to kill the
merchant at the first opportunity. Mer-
riam told Quintano, commander of the
Mexican Federal forces at that point, that
he would have his command in readiness
to protect American citizens Quin-
tano told him to do as he pleased
A revolutionary party attacked Quin-
tano on the morning of the 10th,
and were repulsed but subsequently re-
newed the attack. Stray bullets, comm Q
to the Texas side, wounded three Ameri-
can cfiZens-one man and two women.
At the request of the Special Deputy
United States Marshal, Maj. Merriam
planted a twelve FOUNDER on the bank of
the river in the morning, and in the after
noon the MeXicans opened a hot fire
from New Laredo on our guard
at the ferry, and they were COM
PEELED to withdraw The fire was
then concentrated upon the gunners,
whereupon Col. Sexton threw two shells
into New Laredo, Mexico, from his
twelve-pounder, which silenced the Mexi-
can fire on our soldiers and citizens. Two
men and three women of Laredo, Texas,
were wounded. one badly. In the even
ing the Mexican Federal troops opened
fire again on the United States Govern
ment troops, the latter returning the fire
with twelve pound howitzers, and Smelling
ing New Laredo, Mexico.
VIENNA kilograms of the 18th say the
Turkish Envoy had lately had an inter
view with Count Andrassy, at which he
said that it was impossible for the Porte
to concede the conditions demanded by
The insurgent leaders. The Sultan had
made all the concessions to rebels he
could and maintain his own self-respect
THE New York papers of the 10Th con-
tain call issued by the committee APP
pointed by the New York and Brooklyn
Association Of Congregational Ministers
-Messrs Hobart, Stone and Virgin-for