Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-18
EpITOME OF THE WEEK.
CONDENSED TELEGRkPHIC NEWS.

had been Issued Tor the immediate mGbili-
| zatiOn of two army corps to watch the
Polish frontier. Austria was collecting
munitions of war, opposite Belgrade,
preparatory to seizing the Servian capital,
in the event that Russia occupied Rouma-
MIA.
AN extraordinary meeting of the
Cabinet was held on the 7th, to consider
the Presidents reply to the application of
the Louisiana Republican Legislature for
protection against apprehended Demo
cratic violence. The Cabinet approved
| the reply which was forwarded to Gov
Kellogg, and which in substance declines
to interfere with either legislative body,
particularly as a committee of each House
of Congress was then engaged in investi-
eating all the facts in regard to the late
election.
Mrs. CHARLOTTE DE FOREST EGBERT,
sister of the late Commodore Vanderbilt,
died on the 5th, aged eighty-five years.
1t is stated as remarkable circumstance,
and one almost unknown in medical an
nails, that both she and her brother closed
their eyes just before they died and that
they remained tightly closed after death.
The funeral of the dead Commodore oc-
CURED on the 7th, and was attended by
a large concOurse of citizens. The re-
mains were taken to the Church of the
Strangers, where the funeral services were
held. They were simple and unostenta-
| tiOus. The remains were buried in the
Moravian Cemetery, on Staten Island
MASS CONVENTIONS, called by the Dem
ocratic State Committees, were held at
Springfield, Ill, indianapolis, Ind, and
Columbus, Ohio, on the Sth. The attend
ance at each was large. The Illinois gath
ering was addressed by Messrs. Trum-
bull, Palmer and Farnsworth; the
Indiana by Judge Gooding, Dan
Voorhees,, Julian and others; the
Ohio by Gen. Ward and Geo. II. Pendle-
ton. AT each, resolutions were adopt
ed. Those of Illinois declare that the
counting of the votes for President and
Vice President by the President of the
Senate without concurrence of both
houses of Congress would be contrary to
usage, revolutionary in character and
dangerous to the rights of the people, and
insist upon fair and honest count under
the supervision of both houses. The res
Olutions in the other States were substan-
TALLY the same.
IT was reported at Constantinople, on
the 9th that Roumania had notified the
Porte that she considered herself released
from her vassalage to Turkey because
Article 7 of the new Constitution violated
her territorial and governmental rights
BERLIN dispatches of the 9th say Servia
was negotiating with the Porte for an in
dependent peace upon the basis of the
Statu quO before the war and the mainte-
nance of the treaty of Paris.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT and Frederick
May fought a duel on the afternoon of
the Sth. The meeting took place one
mile from Marydell, Md, short dis
tance from the line of the Maryland &
Delaware Railroad Three shots were
fired without injury to either, after which
the entire party left the grounds.
THE position and uneas1ness of Rou-
mania caused the Porte to declare, on the
10Th, that the new Constitution was purely
internal and did not affect the rights of
that principality, which were guaranteed
by the Treaty of Paris. II was reported
at ConstantinOpie on the same day that a
Russian army in Turkistan, 40, 900 strong,
had been destroyed by an uprising of the
inhabitants.
On the 10th the United States Senate
Committee on Privileges and Elections
ordered Gen. D. NJ. Frost, of st. Louis,
to be subp9naed to testify in relation to
his (Frost's) alleged ineligibility as a
Presidential Elector.
IN New York, on the 10th, DR.. Charles
Phelps, whose name had been associated
with the Bennett-May duel, was sub
p@naed before the Grand Jury by the Dis
trict Attorney to testify concerning the
late meeting at Slaughter Station. He
refused to answer all questions, on the
ground that he would criminate himself
He was taken before Judge Gildersleeve,
in the Court of General Sessions, and,
still refusing, was committed to the City
Prison for thirty days for contempt of
Court a writ of hd6eds corpus was sub
sequently granted.
THE organization of the Wisconsin Leg
islature was effected on the 10th by the
election of Republican officers in both
branches.
IT was reported on the 18th that a
Turkish attack had been made upon Riatz,
| in violation of the armistice. Over 200
persons were killed and wounded.
A BALTIMORE dispatch of the nth says
| May was wounded in his duel with Ben
nett. The injury was so severe that it
was feared fatal results might follow.
Other dispatches say May did not receive
a scratch. 1t was reported in New York
on the 18th that Mr.. Bennett and Miss
May had been privately married and had
left on steamer for Europe.
LOUISIANA.
In the Republican Legislature on the
9th bill was passed prohibiting the
formation of military organizations other
than militia The Democratic Legislature
| pasSed a Joint resolution declaring the