Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-10-18

quire fresh ballot, and the result il
twelve is still uncertain. The govern
ment gains SO seats. There was con
sidera bic excitement last night in from
of the Figaro Office, but the police dis
! persed the crowd.
THE WAR WIRES DOWN.
A New York telegram of Oct. 15tl
states that no dispatches have been re
/ ceived by the Associated Press from
Europe since midnight Saturday. The
land wires connecting with the cable,
on the European side are interrupted
by storm.
SPAIN.
! A Madrid telegram of the 1lth inst
says the Spanish government has paiC
the American Minister $4,000 on ac-
count of claims for losses incurred bx
American citizens in Cuba through the
revolution.
GERMANY.
A London telegram of the 11th inst.
states that the German bank in Pome,
rama, which suspended with s750,00C
liabilities, is the Ritterschaftliche, pri-
vate bank of Stettin It did large
business in advances on land and agri-
cultural products.
A Havana telegram of Oct 18th
states that a general feeling of demoral-
lzatlon prevails among the insurgents.
During the week 104 surrendered with
their arms and baggage, and it is report
ed that General Prendegast has gone to
Lanzanillo to open negotiations for the
surrender of 500 more insurgents, the
greater portion of whom are officers. y
A dispatch from London of Oct. 10Th
says all immediate apprehension of
famine in northern India next year has
passed away, though high prices and
some pressure on the poor will remain
until the spring crop is assured. Emil
grants from the threatened tracts are al
ready returning home, and agriculture
is active everywhere.
NEWFOUNDLAND.
A. telegram from Queenstown of Oct.
18th, states that the steamer Consett,
from Antwerp for New York, arrived
here with her bows stove and the for
ward compartment filled with water,
from q collision with the ship Jessore.
from Liverpool with passengers for
Melbourne, at o'clock Wednesday
morning, 100 miles west of Fastness
The JessOre sank. The Consett rescued
all hands.
PERU.
A New York dispatch of Oct. 12 says
the announcement is made that Harry
Meiggs died at Lima, Peru, Sept. 30.
He had been sick for some three
months, having had two strokes of par
alysis, and his final malady is said to
have been softening of the brain.
Mr. Meiggs was born in 1911 at Cats
kill, n. Y He made fortune in the
lumber business in New York city, but
lost it in the panic of 1887. In 1S48 he
went to San Francisco and engaged in
the same trade, employing a large num-
Der of men. His immense business was
prostrated by the panic in that state in
1854, and to save himself, he resorted to
questionable proceedings which obliged
him to secretly leave the state. He
LeAo tuIlltu uo III SlllIl, koOutIl AlueIlCd,
where he took an enormous railroad
contract, making profit in two years
of $1,326,000. Subsequent enterprises
connected with railroad building in
Peru, increased his fortune, and he set
tied his Indebtedness in California. The
legislature of that state, by special act
restored him to citizenship, and invited
him to return. His South American
railway contracts were on stupendous
scale, exceeding the most famous build
ers of Europe or America. In 1870 he
contracted with Peru to build six rail
ways for $125, 100000, and was engaged
in completing the last of them wher
prostrated by sickness. His demise may
increase the financial difficulties under
which Peru is now laboring.
GREAT BRITAIN.
A London telegram of the 18th, says
an explosion took place to-day in the
collier at Pemberton, Lancashire. O.
over forty miners in the pit, only five
80 far, have been rescued. Only two
| bodies were recovered.