Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-27
THE NEWS.


Intention Of making a collective commu-
nication to the Porte for reform in the
disaffected provinces.
A LONDON telegram of the 10Th says 600
weayers at Macclesfeld had been locked
out Of the Lower Heves mills in conse-
quence Of a disagreement between the
proprietors and the Secretary of the Weav-
ers' Union.
JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, the American
historian, has been elected Foreign Asso-
ciate of the French Academy of Moral
and Political Science.
A LONDON telegram of the 10th says the
English National Rife Association had
accepted the challenge Of the American
Rife Association to shoot for the cham
pionship Of the world during the Centen-
NAL.
ADMIRAL KRABBE, Russian Minister of
Marine, died lately, and Vice-Admiral
Lessowski has been appointed bis sue
cessor
A ROME dispatch Of the 10Th says the
Vatican had directed the Archbishops of
Cologne and Treves to find means to avoid
deposition from their sees.
A MADRID dispatch of the 10th says the
Spanish Government had sent out diplo-
matte note in reply to the American circu-
lar on Cuban affairs. The reply is quite
belligerent in tone and takes high ground
on all questions raised by the United
States.
FROM information received in New
York on the 14th there is little doubt of
the sinking in the Irish Channel of the
American ship Harvest Queen and the
loss of her entirec crew of thirty men. The
disaster was cansed by a collision with the
steamer Adriatic, early on the morning of
the 31st ult.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 18th
says that, representations having been
made to the President that the laws of the
United States were INSTRUCTED in several
parishes in louisiana, United States Dist
Atty. Beckwith had been instructed,
through the Department of Justice, to
bring all illegal combinations, as we'll as
individual offenders, to trial under the
Enforcement act The President had ex-
pressed a determination to preserve order
to the extent Of his constitutional power
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 18th
states that Secretary Chandler had APP
pointed commission to examine into the
suspended pension cases and to direct
payment wherever no actual fraud barred
the grant Of pension.
AT indianapolis, on the 18th, in the
United States District Court, McGritf was
found guilty on nine Of the twelve indict-
ments against him for revenue frauds.
THE widow OF the late ex-President
Johnson died on the night of the 18th at
the residence of her daughter, near Green
vile, Tenn.
A SIOUX CITY Qowa) dispatch of the
18th says advices from the Upper Mis-
souri, country indicated that Sitting Bull
was preparing for the war-path, and that
ne had threatened destruction to the from
tier settlements.
D. w. MUM, ex-SUpervisor of Internal
Revenue, has been required to give bail in
the sum of $15, 900 to appear at Milwaukee
to answer to the charge of conspiracy to
defraud the Government revenue and &C
cepting brides. He emphatically denies
being guilty of any of the alleged charges.
Several of the Chicago distillers and
Tectifers have confessed in court to hav-
ing been engaged in manufacturing and
dealing in crooked whisky and expressed
their Willingness to tell all they know
concerning the ring frauds and the
revenue officials and others engaged in
them.
On the 18th a cotton mill at Manchester,
England, owned by Dilworth & Son, and
another at Ashley, owned by Lumley &
Simpson, were burned, involving a loss
Of over $500,000
THE election of Senatorial delegates in
France took place on the 10Th. La Patrie,
of the morning of the 18th, gives pro-
fessedly official information that of $4,000
communes 1000 had returned Copserva-
tive delegates.
A BERLIN dispatch of the 18th says the
Government had determined to close all
UrsuIine converts and schools on the 1st
of April next.
A BRUSSELS paper of the nth says that
Louise Lateau, the peasant girl who some
time ago attracted crowds Of pilgrims by
the exhibition on her person of an al
legged miracle of the stigmata, was serious
" i'll and likely to die.
THE Democratic National Committee
meet at Washington on the 22d of Feb
ruary next to fix the place and time for
holding the next National Convention.
On the 18th George s. Bangs, recent
Superintendent of the Railway Mail
Service, was nominated for Assistant Unit
ed States Treasurer at Chicago
SECRETARY FISH, while before the
House Committee on Foreign Affairs on
the 18th, stated that he did not regard as
unfriendly the tone OF a recent Madrid
telegram giving the outline of Spain's re-
ply to the American circular, addressed
10 foreign nations, asking their moral sup
port in the event of mediation or interven-
ton by the United States in the Cuban