Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-13
issued by the Postoffice Department dur
inc the month of March

| EX-SECRETARY BELKNAP has retained
as his counsel in the impeachment trial,
Messrs. Montgomery Blair, Jere S. Black,
Ben. Butler and Matt. Il. Carpenter.
AN ORDER was issued, by the President,
on the 9Th, directing the relocation of the
Army Headquarters at Washington, and
also requiring that in future all orders
issued by the War Department relative to
military affairs Ibe promulgated through
the General of the Army.
THE returns from the Rhode Island
State election, received on the morning of
the 9Th, give Lippitt (Rep.) for Governor,
8,212; Howard pro-, 6,227; Beach
Oem.), 3,472-Lippitt lacking about 1, 400
Of an election by the people. Alderman
| (Rep.) for Secretary of State, is elected by
about 10, 900 majority over Pierce (Dem.) J.
The General Assembly will stand-Sen-
ate, twenty-seven Republicans and nine
| Democrats; House, sixty-three Republi-
cans and nine Democrats, thus insuring
the election Of the Republican State ticket
by that body.
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| delphia on the 4th by Postmaster Fair
man, that the pOstoffice of that city would
| be closed at dark, and all night work anu
| business suspended in accordance with
Secretary BristoW's recent Instructions
| Several business firms of the city there
upon offered to defray the expenses of
keeping the office open as usual, which
offer was accepted by the Postmaster.
In the suit of Frank Moulton against
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, defendants
demurrer has been sustained, with leave
to plaintiff to amend his complaint within
| twenty days, on payment of costs.
Four powder magazines near Salt Lake
City, Utah, exploded onthe afternoon of
the 9TH, with terrible effect. Three
men were at work in one of the maya
zines, and all that could be found of them
were small pieces of flesh, the largest of
which was portion of q foot in boot
A woman and boy in the city were struck
by boulders and killed, and several other
persons were injured. One lady died
from fright The partial remains of two
| boys were found near the ruins of the
magazines. They were out hunting, and
it is supposed they fired into one of the
magazines and caused the explosion.
THE motion for a new trial in the case
of w. O. Avery, late Chief Clerk Of the
| Internal Revenue Bureau at Washington,
recently convicted of completely in the
| whisky frauds at ST. Louis, has been over
| ruled.
THE failure Of F. e. Canda & Co.,
railroad contractors, Chicago, and doing
| business in St. Louis under the name of
| HI. Il. Payson & Co., has been announced.
| Their liabilities are stated to exceed
| 100000.
ACCORDING to dispatches from London
and Vienna, of the 9Th, affairs in the Tur-
kish provinces had again assumed a
| threatening aspect. A report prevailed
that the whole of northwestern Bosnia had
broken out in full rebellion, and that
SerVia was making heavy preparations for
war.
| MORE than 5000 Workmen in the Der
| byshire (England) coal mines have quit
work because Of proposed reduction of
| wages.
| THE Emperor of Brazil left Para on the
9Th, on the steamship Hevelius, for the
United States.
| ATTY. GEN. PIERREPoNT, an attorney
named A. @. Bradley, Levi P. Luckey and
Gen. Babcock appeared before Clymer's
| investigating committee on the 9th, and
denied many of the essential parts of De-
tective Bells story.
On the 9th Mr.. Springer, of the House
Committee on Foreign Affairs, asked Gen.
| Schenck if the committee should say that
he (Schenck) had been engaged in the
| Emma Mine transactions in good faith,
and with no fraudulent intent, whether
| he would still desire fuller investi CATION
for the sake of others. Gen. Schenck said
that he did desire such an investi cation
| for others as we'll as himself; that he
was neither a dupe nor a rascal; he had
| invested in the mine with his eyes open
| and with view of lettering his con-
l ditiOn, and he wished to show that the
/ failure Of the mine was owing to misman-
agement.
THE Springfield (Mass.) Republican of
| the 9th says that in settling up the affairs
of Patrick DOnahue, the bankrupt pro
prietor of the Boston Pilot, facts of a
most disgraceful character have come
to light. 1t appears that during the past
| four years he has had thousands of dollars
placed in his hands for safe keeping by
Irish Catholics, who regarded him as
their best friend. Such money he put in
to his private business and lost.
THE Missouri State Democratic Con
vention will meet at Jefferson City, on the
3lst of May, to elect delegates to the Ma
| tiOnal Convention.
RIGHT Rev. JOHN JOINS, Bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Vir-
ginia, died at Alexandria on the night
of the 9Th.
| CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
On the 31st ult., the debate on the Mississippi
resolutions of Mr.. Norton was continued in the
Senate, and substitute offered by Mr.. Chris