Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-15
THE NEWS.

ACCORDING 10 London Q1SpaICn OF the
4th, England had sent Admiral Drum
mond to the East with orders to prevent
the forcing OF the Dardanelles. The Ber-
lin Telegraph Agency of the same date
says England had concluded an alliance
with Turkey and guaranteed the latters
integrity.
THE special train from New York for
San Francisco reached the latter city at
9:25 on the morning of the 4th,
making the run in eighty-three hours and
thirty-fve minutes, nearly four hours
ahead Of schedule time. On one portion
of the trip sixty miles were made in fifty
seven minutes --.
THE Florida Republican State Conven-
ton was held on the I'd, and chose dele
gates to the National Convention, of whom
seven are supposed to be for Blaine and
one for Conkling. M. L. Stearns was
nominated for Governor and ID. Mont
gomery for Lieutenant-G Governor. A bolt
was made by certain dissatisfied members
Of the Convention, who placed in nominal
ton Senator ConOver, for Governor, and a
Mr. Lee for Lieutenant-G Governor. The
boilers chose no delegates to the National
Convention. .r#f vHt
A late New York dispatch says a large
number of counterfeit five dollar bills was
a1oat in that city and Brooklyn. Among
them were counterfeits on the First Ma
tional Bank of Chicago, H.. Paxton, Ill. !;
Galena, ILL.,; Louisville, Ky. and the
Traders National Bank of Chicago. The
best bills are those on the Chicago banks.
OFFICIAL kilograms were received in
Athens, on the 18th, from Constantinople,
stating that Abdul Aziz committed suicide
on account of the seizure of his private
funds. The Porte had officially notified
the foreign ambassadors Of the accession
of Murad Etfendi and demanded his
recognition.
q A WOMAN named Wilhelmina Weick
was recently sentenced at Buffalo, n. Y,
10 be hanged ON the 21st inst, for the
murder, last September, OF her step-son.
A CINCINNATI dispatch of. the 4th says
letters had been received from members of
the two expeditions from that city to the
Black Hills, which show that the reports
of the massacre of a portion of their num-
Der were false. Both expeditions had ar
rived safely at Custer City without being
molested by Indians. II
A MAJORITY of the Circuit Judges for
Cook County, H., TO whom the question
of the legality of the election of Mr.. Hoyne
ton by Mr.. Colvin for writ of quo aod7-
TGnt0, decided on the 5th adversely to Mr..
Hoyne, Judges McAllister, Rogers and
Williams concurring, and Judges Far
well and Booth dissenting. The decision
is to the effect that there had been va
cancy in the Mayoralty ever since the
expiration of the term for which Mr..
Colvin was elected, and that the failure
of the Common Council to provide for fill
ing the vacancy at the late election by is
suing call for the same (the regular pc
RODS for electing a Mayor being bienni-
ally, beginning with 1879, nullified the
vote of the people for Mr.. Hoyne at the
election 1t is also decided that the Com
mon Council can still call special cleo
ton for Mayor to fill the vacancy.
On the 4th inst, Mr.. Moody preached
his first sermon in his new tabernacle in
Chicago to large congregation.
ACCORDING to a Constantinople dispatch
of the 9th the Grand Vizier, on behalf of
the Porte, had issued letter offering full
amnesty to all insurgents who would
make their submission, and in order to
give them time to do this, consenting to a
six weeks armistice. 1t was reported
that quarrel existed between the new
Sultan and the Khedive OF Egypt, and
that the latter had been ordered to Con-
stantinople.
A MELBOURNE (Ausralia) dispatch re-
ceived on the It'll, announces that the
Fenian prisoners held under surveillance
in West Australia had recently escaped on
board an American whaler.
THE reunion of the Grand Army of the
Potomac was held at Philadelphia on the
9th. Gen. Hancock presided. The well
coming speech was made by Mayor Stoke
ly.r Ex-Gov. Dix, OF. New York, deliv-
cred an eloquent Grafton, and spirited adj
dresses were made by Gems. Sherman,
Sheridan and Hooker, Gov. Hartranft and
ex-Gov, Curtin. .. 3D.. uH H
THE Boston Egensng Journal announces
that j. G. Aver, the patent-medicine man,
ufacturer, had been sent to an insane asy-
lum in New Jersey.
THE Chicago Tribune of the 18th says
the Eastern railroads had finally decided
to make no further reduction in passenger
rates, and that there is no probability that
the present rates will go up again before
next winter.
ALDERMAN J. 81. HILDRETH, of Chi.
cage, on the 9th, plead guilty TO two
counts of the Indictment lately found
against him for being concerned, while
gauger, in the whisky frauds.
DISPATCHES from various points in the
Old World received on the morning OF
~ q 9th cav there WAS no immpdia ate nrOh-