Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-12-14
CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The public debt statement for NOvem-
ber, shows the following: Coin bonds
outstanding, $1,697 1920, 100; total debt,
81, ,221 ,6S5, ,S84; cash in Treasury, $132,
$40 ,686; debt less cash in Treasury,
50 ,089, 1856, 1913; increase during Novem-
Der, $457 ,662.
THE Main Building at the Centennial
Exposition at Philadelphia has been pur-
chased by joint stock company, which
designs to use 1t for a permanent annual
exposition. Price paid, $3.50, 900.
THE New York Herald announces that
Tweed has determined to dismiss all his
counsel and let the law take it's course.
AT Columbus, Ohio, a few nights ago,
while Mrs. Richard Barr was filling a
lamp with burning-fuid poured from a
pitcher, the flame from another lamp on
the table was communicated to the fluid,
which exploded and ran over the clothing
of Mrs. Barr. A quilt was speedily
thrown over the woman, but her body was
so badly burned that she died few hours
after.
THE telegraph line between Cheyenne
and Deadwood has been completed.
A FIRE in New Orleans on the
1st destroyed 112 houses, fifty of
which were occupied by hun
dred families who lost nearly all theil
effects and were left in destitute condi-
ton, many of them losing all their wear
ing apparel. About twenty f1remen were
injured, several seriously. Value of prop
erty destroyed estimated at between $780,
600 and $400 600; insurance $4,000
CHARLES B. WILKINSON, defaulting
United States Revenue Collector at St.
Joseph, Mo, has been sentenced to two
years Imprisonment in the Missouri State
Penitentiary, and to pay fine of $4,000.
A BUCHAREST dispatch of the I'd says a
Russian Commission had assumed the
management of the railway connecting
Russia and Roumania. Russian agents
were travelling throughout the latter coun-
try making a thorough Typographical
survey.
ACCORDING to a Washington special of
the 2d the President had said that he did
not apprehend any difficulty in the settle
ment of the Presidential question.
A NEW YORK dispatch of the Cd says
Secretary Robson had recovered the tull
amount of the 100000 advanced to Jay
Cooke & Co., as Government fiscal agents,
before the panic of 1878.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE telegram of the ID
hog OF
Adrianople by which 1000 houses had
| been swept away.
A ZARA telegram of the Sd says the
| Meradites had risen in favor of the Mon
tenegrins. According to the German
Sclavonic newspapers, British naval Of
ticers had been appointed to the command
of the Turkish gunboats.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the Sd
| says Russia had ordered 20,000,000 car
tridges in the United States.
| IT was reported on the 4th that the
Porte had telegraphed to its representa-,
tives abroad denying that dissensions pre-.
vailed in the Turkish Cabinet. An in
surrectionary movement had broken out
| in Bulgaria and Armenia.
VIENNA dispatches of the 4th say Rou-
mania had prepared an energetic demand
| to be submitted to the forthcoming Con-
| ference, insisting that the Great Powers
guarantee her neutrality. She had given
to Russia the privilege of crossing her
| territory in the event of war with Tur-
| key.
| News was received from Paris on the
4th that President McMahon had finally
! decided to accept the rendered resigna-
ton of the Ministry, but requested them
| to remain in office until he could decide
whom to appoint to succeed them.
THE monument of the printers of the
United States to Horace Greeley = a
bronze bust-was formally placed over his
tomb in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn,
| n. Y, few days ago, the ceremonies
being participated in by Thurlow Weed,
William Cullen Bryant, and other dis
tinguished printers and journalists who
were the associates and co-workers of Mr..
Greeley.
TIE military force under Gen. Crook
left Fort Reno, on the morning of the 3D.
for the junction of Little Powder River
with Powder River, where they expected
to strike the hostile Sioux. The latest in
formation was to the effect that Sitting