Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-08-29
DIR. MODELLING.

DIR. MODELLING.
DIR. Modelling, who attempted the as
sassination of the Emperor, is suspected
of feigning madness. He will be con
! veyed to a lunatic asylum and placed
under the examination of experts.
EXHIBITION PRIZES.
/ A Paris dispatch of the 26 says the
distribution of prizes at the exhibition
has been postponed until Oct. 20.
PEACE CONGRESS.
Five thousand persons were at the
peace congress in Paris on the 25th oil
Aug. Tolaine presided. Resolutions
were passed favoring international ar
bitratiOn Letters were read from
Victor Hugo and Louis Blanc.
AMERICAN INVENTIONS AT PARIS.
A London cabIegram of the 22nd inst.
says: The Times prints two columns OF
descriptions of the mechanical display
Ofthe United States at the Paris eXhibl-
ton. and in an editorial article COM
menting thereupon, the Times says the
pre-eminence of the mechanical genius
be admitted and is illustrated, not for
the first time, in the exhibition in Paris.
| The Times, after pretending to exhaust
the whole secret of the phenomena OF
the inventive genius across the Atlantic,
finds a reason therefor in the greater eff
ficiency Of labor here, and the increased
cost and difficulty of hiring it. The
condition of the Union as an economic
society, drives its inhabitants towards
inventions, and there, as elsewhere,
necessity may be said to be the mother
of it.
INTERNATIONAL PRISON CONGRESS.
A Stockholm dispatch Of the 21st says
the international congress for the pre-
ventiOn and repression of crime includ-
ing penal and reformatory treatment
assembled to-day. NJ Won Blornsferna
Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs, was
elected president, and the Rev. Dr.. E
c.. Wines, of the United States, honorary
president The municipality of Stock
holm will entertain the members of the
congress tomorrow.
THE BLOODY BATTLE OF SEROJEVO.
A dispatch from Vienna, dated Aug.
Goth, gives the following particulars OF
a terrible battle fought by the Austrian
troops against the Bosnian insurgents.
The official report of Gen. Phillipovich
shows that the capture of SerOjevo was
the result of the combined operations
Of his own force and that of Gen
Tegethoff. Gen. Tegethoff occupied
Nizoka on the 18th, he capturing q
quantity of arms and ammunition
after the engagement, in which he had
81 men wounded and 4 killed. He i'm
mediately advanced a considerable dis
tance in the direction of SerOjevo. Or
Monday Gen. TegethOtfs force formed
in an attacking column against the
northern side of Serojevo, and opened {
cannOnade against the castle. At Csc
in the morning the insurgent artillery
replied Meanwhile the force of Gen
Philhpovich divided into two column!
and was favored by a thick fog in eff
fecting Il turning movement, and thC
column directed against the insur
gents position on the westward. A
Seroev0 they commenced an attack a
7:30, but the main column driving tht
insurgents with difficulty from theil
strong positions, they only reached thei
appointed position on the heights sOutl
5 of the city at 1870, when the insurgents
cannon were silenced, and the Austrian
infantry advanced in q swarm. Gen
Phillipovich says fighting of the mos
horrible kind ensued, which lasted un
? til 1870 p. NJ. The troops were free
upon from every doorway and window
Men and women and sick and wounded
+ insurgents in military hospitals partici
: pated in the incredible scenes of tn
widest fanaticism. 1t was only OWN!
: to the good discipline of the troops tha
a the town was not more seriously dam
: aged; as it was, many houses were burn
ed. The losses unfortunately were no
inconsiderable. The insurgents fled i
! all directions, especially towards GaraS
e da and Rogatica. At the close Of tn
fighting the imperial flag was hOiste
and saluted amidst the cheers of tn
: Christian population.
j THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY CONFET
+. ENCE.
! A Paris dispatch Of the Goth inst. say
at the sitting of the international none
tary conference, Mr.. Groesbeck e1
u planned the position of the Unite
! States treasury, showing its advance tc
e ward resumption of specie paymen
4 All the delegates explained the mon
etary condition of their respective cour
s tries. Goschen said that althoug
England has a geld standard she
greatly interested in the matter of silve
a retaining its monetary condition. III
Il believed the world would remain diviC
:, ed into two parts, one having a gold tn
Il other double standard. He maintain
A cd there was no harm in this being th
Is case.
y The Swiss representatives supporte
Goschen's views.
Is Mr.. Mees, representative of Ho
TT land, thought that the Unite
% States would only be supporte
r by nations laboring under forced pape
currency.
~ Leon Say, French minister of
t, nance, said the monetary questio
S would remain too obscure for France
$ take sides so long as Germany had
! considerable stock of silver which sh
c could throw upon the market of Franc,
y He, however, approved of the initiativ
le having been taken by the United State
,e The following are the proposition
submitted to the monetary conferenC
y by the United States delegates:
rs First. 1t is the opinion of this assen
IS bly, that it is not desirable that silver |
20 excluded from free coinage in Euror
and the United States, or, on the CO..
ST trary, this assembly believes it to |
De desirable that an unrestricted coinas
of silver and its use as money of u