Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-18
TIE NEWS.

THE college and library at Charlie
vile, France, were burned on the 9th.
Loss about $200,0OO
The Russia Mlr, of a late date, says 3d.
700 Iurcomans recently assembled at
Meru and resolved to solicit help from
Afghanistan to prosecute a holy war
against Russia.
AN explosion took place on the evening
OF the 9Th in the magazine of the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Great Western Railroad
Company, in which was stored the giant
powder and nitro glycerine used for
blasting in the Bergen tunnel, near Jer-
sey City. Every building within a radius
Of two miles was more or less injured.
One person was killed, and the loss to
property exceeded $4,000.
ABOUT five o'clock on the afternoon of
the 9th Chicago was visited by tornado,
accompanied with heavy rain, peals of
thunder and flashes of lightning. The
tempest continued very few minutes
only, but during that time over d quarter
of million dollars damage was wrought
The Cook County Hospital was stripped OF
its roof; the Michigan Southern Freight
Depot, said to be the largest in the world,
was leveled to the ground, and the work
men therein employed buried under
the debris. Five men were seriously,
and one or two, it was thought, fatally
injured. A child was killed by the blow
ing over of a house on Blue Island avenue,
and four girls were injured by the falling
in of q chimney on Franklin street.
Several of the churches on Wabash avenue
were injured, notably, Grace Church,
whose spire was hurled to the ground and
broken into innumerable fragments
Trees were uprOOted, fences overthrOWn
and sidewalks scattered. The shipping
in the habor was badly injured, though
no loss of life had been reported up to the
morning of the 9Th. The crib, standing in
the lake, two miles from the city, the lake
terminus of the tunnel which supplies
Chicago with water, was struck by light
ming, and the roof and a portion Of the
cuperstructure carried away. The keeper
was injured somewhat, although not Sc
riously. The damage caused by the storm
was variously estimated at from $25O,00O
to $500, 600. At Leavenworth, Kansas,
the same storm eliminated at half past
three in the morning, and was very vio-
lent. Several large brick buildings were
thrown down. The damage to property
in the city and county was estimated at
from $150,00O to $500 Other places
west and south of Chicago suffered to a
greater or less extent
ACCORDING to a Yreka (Oregon) dis
patch received on the 9Th, Col. Wingard,
United States Paymaster and his clerk,
on the way to Fort CASTOR to pay the
troops, were lately attacked by two high
waymen, the clerk killed and $1,000
taken from him Wingard was wounded,
but escaped with the most of the funds.
One robber had since been captured.
THE St. Louis crooked gaugers and
storekeepers were sentenced, on the 9th,
to from six to fifteen months imprison-
ment in the county jail and to pay fine
of S., 900 each.
A LONDON telegram of the 18th says
riot had occurred the preceding day be-
tween the Christians and MahOmmedans
at Salonica, in European Turkey. The
German and French COnsuls were assas-
sinated. The French Government i'm
mediately sent a squadron thither, and
the Turkish authorities a frigate with
commission authorized to punish the
guilty parties.
THE President has pardoned James E.
Marsh, a convicted Gauger from Western
Missouri
ACCORDING to a Washington telegram
OF the 9th, on and after the 6th, checks on
the Treasury would be paid in silver if
the holder desired.
THE Emperor of Brazil reached Wash
ington on the It'll.
AN Alexandria EGYPT dispatch of The
Sth says the financial difficulties of Egypt
had been arranged by the conversion of
her funded and floating debt into seven
per cent. stock, to mature in sixty-three
years.
THE Spanish Government recently is
sued an order permitting officers who
served under Don Carlos to resume service
in the royal army.
A VIENNA telegram of the Sth says
Austria had informed Turkey that it would
close the port of Kick if the forces at
Scutari were increased.
A NATIONAL Liberal Republican Con
vention has been called to meet at Phila-
delphia, July %.
A Fort LARAMIE telegram of the 7th re-
ports further Indian outrages on the route
to the Black Hills. 1t was stated that
every train on the route had to fight from
five to six hours to as many days in order
to get through. Advices from the north
ern Indians say the Cheyennes, Ara
pahoes, Minneconjous, Uncapapas,
and other bands of Sioux had
formed a confederation under Sit
tingBull, to lay waste the Nebraska
Dakota and Wyoming frontier. Sitting