Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-12-07


that county in his possession.
REV. I. n. WILLIAMSON, d. d., the
distinguished Universalist author and di-
vine and one of the fathers of ODD Fellow
ship in America, died in Cincinnati on the
Goth.
A sCANDALOUs breach of promise suit,
which had occupied the attention OF one
of the courts of New York for the two
weeks preceding, and in which wealthy
Spaniard, named Del Vale, was defend
ant, was concluded on the 25th by ver-
dict of fifty dollars for Miss Henriques,
the plaintiff.
THE New York Tribune of 25th says
Gov. Hendricks in a recent interview
with Gov. Tilden said that public sentI-
ment in the Western States in regard to
the election was so strong that he was i'm
PEELED to come East to ascertain the con-
dition of public feeling there. He ex-
pressed his " admiration of the conduct of
Southern Democrats who, without the
least manifestation of turbulence, had ap-
pealed everywhere to the courts, and was
glad both in the West and ON his journey
Eastward, to notice the disposition of all
parties to have matters amicablY and law
fully settled" Gov. Tilden is said to have
fully concurred with Gov. Hendricks.
SPECULATIoNs and rumors in respect to
the Eastern question were abundant and
contradictory throughout Europe on the
+ai
to be thoroughly in accord, and to have
fully arranged the future programme,
which was said to be an eminently
peaceful one. On the other hand, it was
reported that Russia was continuing her
war preparations on gigantic scale, and
that conflict with Turkey was deemed
inevitable.
CAPT. ALLAN YOUNG, who commanded
the Pandora in her late trip to the Arctic
regions, will, it is said, next spring again
attempt the Northwest passage in that
vessel.
J. MILTON TURNER (eolored United
States Minister to Liberia, having been
refused accommodations at the Astor
House, New York City, has commenced
an action under the provisions of the Civil
Rights bill, to recover $1,000.
West Madison street, in Chicago, were
destroyed oy fire on the morning of the
9th. Among them was a restaurant and
lodging house, in which four inmates
James Allen, Agnes Healy, Emma Brad
ley and George Bovad-were burned to
death. Allen leaves a wife and five chill
dren in Boston, Mass. Agnes Healy was
a servant girl, aged sixteen years. Emma
Bradley was twenty three years old, and
had been married only three months,
her husband being an industrious young
carpenter. George Bovad was clerk in
the restaurant, and was twenty-six years
of age.
THE French Chamber of Deputies, on
the 2Sth, rejected bill to increase the
stipends paid to the priests which was
supported by the Government. A minis
terial crisis was threatened.
AN Athens dispatch says a ministerial
crisis existed in Greece on the 29th.
A DISPATCH from Old Fort Reno on the
Goth, gio Fort Fetterman, Wy, of the 9th,
says Gen. Mckenzie, with ten companies
of cavalry, had just struck large body of
Sioux. Companies l and NJ, Fourth
Cavalry, had been nearly annihilated.
Lieut.. Mckinney was killed. They were
sending mules from the infantry camp to
bring in the dead and wounded The fight
was progressing at last accounts.
THE Governor of Rhode Island, on the
28th, called an extra session of the Gener-
al Assembly, to meet Dec. 1, to elect
Presidential Elector in place of George H.
Corliss, adjudged by the Supreme Court
ineligible.
NEWS was received from Constantine
pie on the 29th uit that Turkey had
caused to be drawn up proclamations ad-
dressed to the Mussulman subjects of Rus
sia A ministerial crisis had arisen in
the Turkish Cabinet in consequence of the
Grand Vizier having refused his assent to
the Constitution proposed by Midhat
Pasha, who had appealed to the Sultan to
support his refusal.
Y VIENNA telegram of the Both ult. says
the Car has ordered the mobilization of
the three remaining districts of European
Russia.
A CoAL-eAs explosion took place at
Liverpool, Eng, the 25th ult., on the
steamer Prussian, by which ten laborers
were terribly and fatally mangled.
A BUCHAREST telegram of the Both ult
announces the arrival of Turkish ENJOYS
instructed to insist upon the abrogation of
the Convention between Russia and
Roumania.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 30th
ult. says the resignation of W. F. Clarke,
Chief of the Customs Bureau of the
Treasury Department, had been requested,
rendered and accepted.
A FORT FETTERMAN telegram of the
Both ult. confirms previous reports of the
fight between Gen. Mckenzie and the
Sioux. Over 200 lodges and their con-
tents had been destroyed and many war
riors killed. Besides Lieut.. Mckinney,
killed, five soldiers were killed and TWEEN
ty wounded.
A FIRE on the corner of South Water
street and Michigan avenue, in Chicago,
on the night of the Both ult., destroyed prop
erty valued at S150,000
The Chicago Tribune of the Both ult
says movement was on foot among some
of the leading merchants of that city look
ing TO obtain the Signature of every busi-