Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-20

cate the office. Hon. Thomas How're was
unanimously nominated for Mayor, and
committees were appointed to wait on the
Mayor and Town officers and notify them
of the action of the meeting
A RAIN and hail-storm at Creston Iowa.
on the night of the 10th, destroyed five
dwelling-houses and large number of
barns, etc. No person was killed, but a
few were injured.
RUSSIAN newspapers of the 18th say, in
carefully prepared editorials, that foreign
interference in the Turkish affairs would
meet with Russia's decided opposition, if
directed against Sclaves and their right
eOus requests.
ACCORDING to a Belgrade telegram of
the 18th the Servian Government had
made a forced levy of ten dollars per
head, the National loan having proved a
failure
A MADRID telegram of the 18th
says the Pope had threatened to
withdraw the Papal Nuncio from Spain
unless Article II of the proposed Consti-
tution-the article guaranteeing religious
liberty-be rejected.
THE Maine Democratic State COnven-
ton will meet at Bangor on the 18th of
June.
THE Ohio Legislature adjourned on
the 18th, to reasonable Jan. 2, 1877, hay
ing been in session 101 days
THE Athens (Greecel High Court of
Justice has sentenced NJ Balassapoulous,
former Minister of Ecclesiastical At
fairs, to one years Imprisonment, de-
privation of political rights for three
years, and to give the $40, 900 he received
as bride for the bestowal of appoint
ments, to the poor. NJ. Nikolopoulous,
late Minister of Justice, has also been
sentenced to ten months Imprisonment.
The Archbishop of Cophalonia was fined
10000; the Archbishop of Patros, $4,-
400, and the Archbishop of Messene
1900, being double the amounts they re-
ceived as brides. all were impeached for
bribery and corruption.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch of the
18th announces an insurgent defeat near
Kjevacs. The rebels were reported to
have lost 800 killed and wounded The
Turkish loss was insignificant.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 18th
says that L. K. Lippincott, late Chief
Clerk in the General Land Office, had
been indicted for fraudulent transactions
in connection with Chippewa lands, and
had fled to some foreign country.
THE funeral of the late a. t. Stewart
took place on the 18th at his home and at
St. Marks Church, Bishop Potter ofticiat-
ing.
A LATE New York telegram states that
the pooling arrangement between the
trunk lines had fallen through, and that a
new railroad war impended.
A FORT LARAMIE (Wy.) telegram of the
18th states that man named Rowsee had
just arrived and reported that he and a
party of five men were attacked by In
dams just north of the Cheyenne River,
on the 7th. One Of the party-Norm
| Storms, Of Iowa, was shot through the
| body and killed. Rowsee was shot through
| the shoulder, but not seriously.
On the 18th, at St. Louis, Gen. John
Mcdonald, ex-United States Collector of
Internal Revenue, was sentenced to
| three years in the Penitentiary and to pay
a fine Of $4,000; and W. O. Avery, late
| Chief Clerk in the Revenue Bureau at
Washington, was sentenced to two years
In the Penitentiary and fined 81 900.
THE Virginia delegation to the Repub-
| lican National Convention are reported to
be unanimously in 1avor of Blaine for
President Those from South Carolina
are uninstructed, but Bristow is reported
to be their first choice, and Blaine their
| second.
WILHELMINA SCHoPERFAR, the daugh-
ter of German widow of Warrick Coun-
| ty, Indiana, while attempting to fill a
coal-oil lamp, on the night Of the 18th,
upset the can on the stove. An explosion
followed, and the girl and her mother
were badly and fatally burned. The girl
died the next morning. The house was
| partially DESTROYED