Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-11-30

MCKEE, of the st. Louis Globe Demo-
crdt, lately imprisoned for conspiracy to
defraud the Government out of the whisky
tax, was pardoned on the 18Th, and re-
leased from confinement. VIM. o. Avery,
confined at Jefferson City, Mo-, has also
been pardoned. .s. ..-.--...
In the case of Admiral Porter and
others lately tried at Washington, a de-
cree has been rendered for S67 $50.
On the 18th the Vermont House of Rep
resentatiYes passed the bill for filling the
vacancy in the Electoral College, by a
vote of 129 to 10.
ACCORDING to recent New York dis
patches it was estimated that an aggregate
of So, 500, 900 was held in the pool boxes
in that city-wagered on the result of the
Presidential election. Of this amount
John Morrissey held 81 ,250, 900.
On the night of the 18th, at Sacramento,
Cal, during a performance at Moore
Opera House, situated over livery
stable, the floor gave way, and nearly
1000 persons were precipitated into the
stable below. Eight persons were killed
outright, and nearly 100 others injured,
many of them probably fatally.
COMPLETE details of the effects of the
storm wave of Oct. 81 were received from
Calcutta, India, on the GOTH The pre-
viously reported loss of life proves not to
hauo hoar to1 yai
variously estimated at from 10000 to
800, 900. Three large islands and many
smaller ones were entirely submerged, as
was also the mainland for six or eight
miles. The stencil from the un-
buried putrefying bodies was becoming
intolerable, and general outbreak of
cholera was feared. The disease had al
ready appeared in the district of Nook
holly.
THE Younger brothers, on trial at Fari-
bault, Mimi, have pleaded guilty to an
indictment for numbering Haywood, the
cashier of the Mortified Bank, and have
been sentenced to Imprisonment in the
State Penitentiary at hard labor for life.
The full text of the remarks of the Czar
of Russia to the British Ambassador at his
court is given in a London dispatch of the
21st. In it the announcement is made
that Russia does not desire war with
Turkey that she has nc ulterier designs
either upon Constantinople or India, and
that her only desire is the protection of
the Christian subjects of Turkey. It
was reported that the Russian au-
thoritis had sunk tcrpedoes off the
harbors of Odessa, Kentch, Sebastopol
and Eschahoff Itwas also stated that the
Austrian and Hungarian Governments, in
view of possible warlike complications,
had prohibited the expectation of horses.
A CONVENTION of the Christians of the
Northwest assembled in Chicago on the
21st. A large delegation was present.
The chief object of the assemblage was
to take counsel concerning the further
prosecution of the great revival in the
West inaugurated by Mr.. Moody at
Chicago.
THE Pail Mall Gazette, Standard and
other leading conservative papers of
London contained editorials, on the 22d,
expressing their entire distrust of the
Cars recent pacific assurances.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made on the 22d
that the Servian Ministry had resigned in
a body-cause not given.
BETWEEN the 1st and 23d of Novem-
Der over 81 900, ,000 in gold was sent from
London to the United States. Nearly
$500,000 was shipped on the 22d.
JAMES RYAN, of Peterboro, Ont, con-
victed of wife murder and sentenced to be
hung on the 22d, had his sentence COM
muted to Imprisonment for life on that
day Ryan is one of the millionaires of
Canada, his. estate being valued at 81 ,200,-
O00
SECRETARY MORRILL, has issued an or
der suspending the Bureau of Printing and
Engraving until he can make an inves-
tigation concerning certain alleged irreg-
ularities @= --
THE several departments of the Govern
n.ent have called for appropriations for
the ensuing year amounting, in the aggre-
gate, to about $175, 1000, 900, against $780,
100000 appropriated at the last session of
Congress.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 22d
says Gen. Barry had arrived there from
Fort Monroe, and was in command of the
United States soldiers stationed in that
city. There were no arrivals of troops on
the 22d, and Gen. Sherman said none had
been ordered to Washington, except the
eight companies or batteries then in bar
racks at the Arsenal and NavyYard.
THE New York papers state that the re-
mains of Joseph Henry Louis Charles,
Baron Won Palm, Grand Commander of
the Sovereign Order of the Holy Sepul-
cher at Jerusalem, Prince of the Roman
Empire and Knight of st. John of Malta,
will be cremated at Washington, Pa, on
the 9th of December.
-Ex- Secretary Belknap on returning to
Washington few days ago found himself
and Representative Hester Clymer the