Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-06
THE NEWS.

to interfere.
THE royal palace at Barcelona was
almost entirely destroyed by fire On the
Goth.
A ST.. PETERSBURG dispatch Of recent
date says the disorders in Northern Kbo-
kand would soon be made the occasion by
Russia for the annexation Of the remain
der Of the country.
PRESIDENT GRANT has signed the bill
extending the time Of duration Of the
Alabama Claims Commissioners to the
22d Of July next
A WASHINGTON dispatch Of the Goth
says the Mexican Secretary of Foreign
Affairs had stated, in reply to request of
Minister Foster for permission for regular
United States troops to follow raiders
across the border, that the Mexican
Executive was without authority to
grant such request except by con-
sent Of Congress. Mr. Foster replied
that the acknowledgment by the Mexican
Government of its inability to restrain it's
own citizens would be the strongest pos
sible argument to all advocates Of the &C
QUESTION of territory in Mexico. Mr.. Eos
ter said further that the citizens Of Texas
must be protected, and if Mexico did not
prevent raiders from crossing the border
the United States would.
EIGHT lawyers of Franklin, La, recent
ly handed to Judge Mentz, of the ST.
Mary's Parish Court, document request
ing him to resign because of his alleged
manifest incompetency and the interested
motives which generally influenced
his decisions. The Judge replied
that he had tried to perform his
duty faithfully and impartially, and
that inasmuch as the signers of the paper
did not vote for him, he should continue
to administer the functions of his Office
until his constituents (meaning the col
Ored people, called upon him to resign.
The members of the bar threatened to ap-
peal to the next Legislature to secure his
impeachment
AT Cincinnati, the other night, Mrs.
Lawrence dropped a coal-oil lamp. The
fire caught in the carpet and her clothes,
and in an instant she was wrapped in
flames and fearfully and probably fatally
burned Her husband and daughter
made efforts to save her and were them
selves badly burned.
THE thermometer indicated eighty de-
grees above zero at Memphis, Tenn, on
the 25th.
WHILE Christmas festivities were being
celebrated in a school-house IN the little
village of Hillikon, canton of Aargon,
Switzerland, the floor Of the structure
gave way and all were precipitated into
the cellar. Eighty persons were killed
and fifty more or less injured.
IN consequence Of the vigorous bonn
bardment of the position by the Carlists,
the commander at Hermann gave notice to
the national authorities on the 9th that
he should be compelled to abandon the
post unless reinforcements were promptly
forwarded. The reported death of Gen.
Rodas had been confirmed by Madrid
special of the 9th.
a DESPERATE battle was fought between
the Turks and Herzegovinians On the 23d,
near Nitchltza, which lasted during the
entire day, and in which the Turks CLAIM
to have been victorious. The fighting
was desperate on both sides and the losses
severe.
THE Pacific Mills, at Lawrence, Mass,
employing $500 operatives, have given
notice of reduction of from 10 to Is per
cent. in wages, to take effect J an. /, owing
to the depression in the price of print
cloths.
AT business meetingof Brooklyn Ply
mouth Church held on the evening of the
9th resolutions were adopted acceding
to the demand of Mrs. Moulton for a
mutual council to advise the church and
Mrs. MoultOn upon the questions sub
mitted by her in her memorandum of
Dec. %, whether the reasons of the
church for dropping her from its member
ship as it did were valid and sufficient,
and as to the validity and suffciency of
her reasons for abstaining so long from
the services and sacraments Of the church.
THE Hudson River sugar refinery, at
Hastings, N. Y, was burned on the Goth,
and $50 men were thrown out Of employ
ment.
THE ninety-elghth anniversary of the
battle of Trenton, which occurred Dec.
%, 1777, was celebrated at Trenton, n. J.,
on the 9th, in a mock engagement be-
tween troops representing the Federal and
British armies.
Mrs. HoLDsoN, living at Merom, Ind,
while attempting to set lamp on man
tel, the other evening, dropped and broke
it. The coal-oil was scattered over her
clothes, which took fire and burned her
so badly that she died shortly after
ward.
A SPRINGFIELD Ill.) special telegram
of the 9th says Mrs. Abraham Lincoln,
who had been residing in that city since
her sojourn at Batavia, was greatly i'm
proved in health and spirits.
EX-SENATOR VIM. &. RICHARDSON died
of paralysis at Quincy, III, on the morn