Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-30
THE NEWS.

ARMY States IudG tll6 Turks nave 1OSC, by
battle and by the diseases incident there
to, 5000 men since the beginning of the
Herzegovinian instruction.
FERDINAND FREILIGRATH, the German
poet, died on the 18th at his home in Cam
slant, in Wirtemburg. He was sixty
years old.
THE steamer Isabel went ashore on
Pendever Rocks, between st. Ives and
Lands End, England, on the night of
the 18th. All on board persisted.
A NAPLES telegram of the 18th says
the long-expected eruption of Mount
Vesuvius had commenced. Lava was
flowing toward Pompeii, and the sight
was said to be grand.
HALLoCK, the Treasury Clerk, who
stole the $47, 900 package from the cash
room in the Treasury at Washington,
about year ago, has been sentenced to
four years Imprisonment.
FOURTEEN bodies have been recovered
from the ruins Of the almshouse at Nor
witch, Conn, recently destroyed by fire.
Ex-MNIsTER SCTENCK reached New
York on the 10Th, from Europe.
THE Massachusetts Republican State
Convention has been called to meet in
Boston on the 28th of April.
THE -hundredth anniversary of the
evacuation of Boston by the British
troops was duly celebrated in that city on
the 18th. Business was generally sus-
pended.
THE King of Spain and his army en-
tered Madrid on the morning of the Goth
amid the cheering Of the inhabitants and
shouts Of Long live the Pacificator
King" Over 40, 900 strangers witnessed
the festivities
ACCORDING to London dispatches of the
goth, intense cold had prevailed through
out England and Scotland. In the latter
country great quantities of snow had
fallen and railroad traffic was generally
suspended.
IT was stated in Washington on the
Goth that the Treasury Department would
receive during the week, from San Fran
cisco, fourteen tons Of silver coin to pre-
pare for the circulation Of silver This
will amount to $500, 1000 The amount of
silver in the vaults of the Treasury was
less than $4,000. The amount of frac-
tional currency still in the vaults was
100000. Since the middle of last
month the acquisitions upon the Treasury
from banks and other offices for frac-
tional currency had amounted to $1,000
900.
THE President, on the Goth, Withdrew
the nomination of r. P. Derrickson as
Internal Revenue Collector for the First
Illinois District, ana nominated j. D.
Harvey, of Chicago, for the position, the
Senate confirming the appointment.
RETURNS from all the towns in New
Hampshire but two give Cheney (Rep.) a
plurality over Marcy Dem. for Governor,
Of 1903, and a majority of 1878. The
Republicans will have majority in the
Legislature Of thirty-four on Joint ballot
A FIRE at Charleston, S. c., on the goth
destroyed al the buildings on both sides
of King street from Columbus to Line
streets, and extended up the King street
road for three quarters of a mile Hun
dreds OF persons were rendered homeless,
and loss of over $500, 900 was sustained.
Insurance, $85, 600.
A SEVERE snow storm prevailed over a
large portion of the South on the Goth.
Good sleighing was reported at Memphis,
the snow being ten inches deep Weather
unusually cold for the season.
THE French Chamber of Deputies was
the scene of considerable excitement on
the 21st, growing out of a demand by the
Left for the passage Of a decree granting
amnesty to the criminals of the Commune.
Nj. DeCassagnac characterized those
tavoring the motion as "Assassins of the
Commune, " whereupOn NJ Perrin retorted: :
The Assassins of the Coup d'etat owe
some indulgence to the Assassins of the
Commune" M. Cassagnac immediately
sent challenge to NJ. Perrin, who at once
accepted it,
A SEVERE snow storm prevailed in
1soALios 11stly, III l1Ae <Oll. anu fearful
hurricane along the coast of the Mediter-
ranean. Extensive damage was done.
IN the Senate, in executive session on
the 21st, the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions reported back the nomination of
Richard II. Dana, Jr., to be Minister to
England, with the recommendation that it
be not confirmed
SEVERE storms prevailed in many sec
tons OF the East on the night of the goth
and morning of the 21st. Great damage
was done to property on the coast, and
several lives were lost Fifteen inches of
snowfall in some parts of Maine, New
Hampshire and Vermont.
THE National Council of the Order of
Sovereigns OF Industry met at Cleveland,
on the 21st, eleven States being repre-
scented.
IN the South Carolina State Senate. on
the 21st, Montgomery Moses, Judge of
the Seventh Circuit, was found guilty of
high crimes and miSdemeanors. and re-
moved from Office.
RECENTLY, at Tunis, an attempt was