Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-10
THE NEWS.

anu VINO were only married ClVIlly, be eX-
humed and removed from consecrated bu-
rial places
A RAGUsA telegram of the goth ult says
the insurgents were retreating, pursued by
the Turkish troops. They had burned
nine villages.
AVITToRIA SPAIN dispatch of the Both
ult. announces the capture of Aregria by
Gen. Quesada.
THE Senatorial elections were held by
the electoral colleges throughout France
on the Both ult. Returns from all but two
districts show the following results: Mon
archists, 65; pure Bonapartists, 10; Re
publicans, 90; Monarchists and Imperial
lists, 45. Buffet, Minister of Interior and
Chief Of the Cabinet, and Dufaure, Min
lister Of Justice, are among the defeated.
THE St. Petersburg (Russia) Gazette of
the Both ult. complains that American
ships have for long time been assuming
fishing privileges to which they are not
entitled in the Ochotsk Sea.
The Union Republican Congressional
Committee, as agreed upon in caucus on
the night of the goth ult., is as follows:
Alabama, Representative Chas. Hays; Arkan-
sas, Senator S. w. Dorsey; California S nator A.
A Sargent: Florida Senator B Conoyer: iii
nois, Senator John A. Logan; Indiana, Represent
alive M. c. Hunter; Iowa, Representative Jas.
Wilson; Kansas, Representative w. A. Phillips:
Kentucky, Representative John d: White; Louis
lana, Senator j. r. West; Maine, Representative
Eugene Hale; Massachusetts, Representative
Henry L. Pierce; Michigan, Representative Jay
A. Hubbell; Minnesota, Representative H. B.
MlGGig las
Nebraska, Senator P w. Hitchcock; Nevada,
Representative VIM. Woodburn; New Hamp-
SHIRE Senator cragn New yeT
York, Representative Thos. c.. Platt; North Car
0lina, Representative John A. Lyman; Ohio,
Representative Chas. Foster; Oregon, Senator
John H. Mitchell; Pennsylvania. Senator Simon
Cameron; Rhode Island, Representative L. W.
Ballou; South Carolina, Representative A. S.
Wallace; Tennessee, Representative Jacob NJ.
Ihornburgh; Texas, Ser atOr Morgan Hamilton;
Vermont, Representative 9. II. Joyce; Virginia,
Representative VIM. E. H; Stowell Wisconsin,
Representative j. M. Rusk; Idaho, Delegate
Theo. w. Bennett; Dakota, Delegate j. p Kid
der; New Mexico, Delegate S. p Elkins; Wash
ington, Delegate Orange Jacobs: Connecticut,
Delaware, Georgia. Maryland: West Virginia,
Colorado, Montana, Wyoming Territory and the
District of Columbia have no representation.
WINsLOw, the Boston forger, is believed
to have gone to Holland with his family.
His forgeries aggregate several hundred
have taken a large portion of the avails
with him.
CAPT. PAUL BOYTON swan from Alton,
H., to st. Louis, a distance of twenty five
miles, on the Goth ult., in his life-saving
apparatus.
A DYNAMITE EXPLOSION occurred on the
afternoon of the 28th ult in a factory in
Baltimore. About 800 cans, containing
twelve pounds of powder each, exploded
in volleys, continuing for half an hour
The building was shattered, and six fire
men were niured.
THE West Virginia State Senate has i'm
peached John S. Burdett, State Treas
urer, and ordered his removal from Office,
by vote of twenty to three.
AN Omaha telegram of the Goth ult
states that a large number of citizens had
left there during the previous week for
the Black Hills, and many persons were
arriving daily, en- route from the East
Trouble was anticipated from the Indians
The ArrapahOes are said to be determined
on war for the possession of the Black
Hills country, and are prepared for it.
SENATOR SHERMAN has recently written a
letter to State Senator Burns, of Ohio, in
the nomination of Gov. Hayes for the
Presidency, as being, in his opinion, the
strongest candidate the Republicans can
put in the field.
SPEAKER KERR has written a letter to
J. H. Reall, of Philadelphia, in which he
states that he does not desire to have his
name used in connection with the Demo
cratic National ticket this year, but ex-
presses his belief that the Democracy can
not do better than to nominate Gov. Hen
bricks for President.
THE Nebraska State Fair occurs this
year at Lincoln, commencing Sept. %
Moses Stocking has been chosen President
of the State Board of Agriculture.
GREAT damage was done throughout
Southern Illinois, Indiana and Ohio by
the heavy rains during the week ending on
the 29th ult.
A MADRID dispatch of the 31st uIt says
Spain had intimated to Great Britain that
it undertook to wipe out the Carlists in
ten days, after which it would turn its at
tention to the disposition Of the Cuban
insurgents
THE Scottish National Rife Club has
accepted the challenge of the American
Team to shoot for the worlds champion
ship.
A ROME Qtaly) dispatch of the 31st
nit. says the Vatican had directed Cardi-
nal Simoni, the Papal Nuncio, to leave
Madrid if the Government assents to an
approval by the Cortes of the clause of the
proposed Constitution relating to liberty
of worship.
AMONG the nominations sent to the
Senate by the President on the 31st ult.
was that of Charles r. Gill, of Wisconsin,
to be Commissioner of Pensions in place
of Henry VI. Atkinson, resigned and ap-
pointed Surveyor General for New Mexico.
A MURDER was recently committed in
Greenpoint, n. Y, the murderer (Andreas
Fuchs) deliberately cutting up the body
of his victim CIV. W. Simmons) the next
NOR ling after the murder, and disposing