Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-09-26
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

ANOTHER COMPLICATION FOR THE ENGLISH.
/ A Calcutta cablegram of the 22nd
says: An officer of the Ameer of
Afghanistan at Alimusjid has refused to
allow the British mission to Cabul to go
through the Khyber Pass, and crowned
the heights which commanded the pass
with his followers. After a three-hours'
| interview with the officer, in which he
warned him that his act would be re-
garded as the act of the Ameer himself,
Mai. Cavagnari, commanding the ad-
vanced escort Of the mission, returned
to Jamro0d and the mission has with
! drawn to PeshaWaun.
| IMPORTANCE OF THE ABOVE.
Aspeciai from Calcutta says the main
body of the mission to Cabul had pro-
| ceeded as far as Jamrood. Its return
! thence was telegrap phiCally ordered by
the Viceroy. The mission will now be
withdrawn. It is fully recognized that
| the Ameer Of Afghanistan is merely the
puppet of Russia. The question
will consequently cease to be treated
from an Indian standpoint, and become
a very serious problem of English for
| eign politics. The immediate object of
the viceroy is to make it clearly Under
stood that he has no quarrel with the
Afghanistan people, and to win over all
the border tribes. Maj CavagDari re-
peatedly warned the Afghanistan
officer that the Ameer would be
held responsible. The officer, in
the presence Of two Indian Princes
| attached to the mission, expressed his
unfinching determination to forcibly
resist the passage of the mission.
There is not shadow of doubt he is
acting under full instructions from the
Ameer, as two of the Ameer's responsible
officers, who are also believed to be in
direct communication with the Russian
embassy, recently arrived at Alimusjid.
The Russian envoy is still residing at
| Cabul.
RAIDING THE INDIANS.
A Leavenworth, Kan, special of the
| 23d says: A dispatch from Dodge City,
Kansas, says the Indians who were be-
| ing pursued by troops and cattlemen
were found entrenched on Sandy Greek,
80 miles southwest of here. Fighting
began Saturday, and at last accounts
several Indians had been killed, but no
body on our side hurt. The Indians
are said to have a great number of
stolen sheep in their possession.
BURGLER SHOT.
A Chicago special of the 21st says:
Burt Taylor, the we'll known burglar,
was shot dead by policeman, this
morning, while trying to escape from a
house which he had just robbed.
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
a Savannah dispatch of Sept. Goth
says that the cotton exchange of Sa-
vannah, at a meeting to consider the
question Of a Southern Pacific railroad
along sd parallel, adopted a resolution
| declaring that the road ought to be con-
structed without delay, upon the plan
of Senator Johnston, of Virginia, allow
! ing the Southern Pacific to build east
ward until met by the Texas Pacific 60
ing west, and providing for separate
short lines from Ell Paso to New Orleans,
and Ell Paso to Memphis, with an in
termediate branch to Vicksburg.
FOUNDERED AT SEA.
A Philadelphia telegram of the Goth
says: The bark Carlo has arrived with
153 officers and the crew of the Spanish
frigate Pisa1ro, foundered at sea. The
PiSarro was homeward bound. She
left st. Georges, Bermuda, on the 9th
for Faval, and sprang a leak during
hurricane on the 10Th. The water rose
rapidly and put out the fires. Thieves
sci was kept afioat for two days by bail
ing, and when she was sighted by the
bark. her crew was completely exhaust
ed. Her crew came off in boats at Z
A. NJ, but did not reach the bark until 4
P. NJ, when they were in such an eX-
hausted condition that they had to be
hoisted on board.
MOONsHINERS SEEK REVENGE.
A Nashville special of the 18th says:
An attempt was made at Tracy City to-
day to assassinate United States Deputy
Collector J. M. Davis, who has been the
leader of all the revenue raids in Middle
Tennessee during the past six years. He
had been attending court in answer to
charge of having killed Joseph Haynes
near that point last May while on raid,
and was walking to dinner, when some
unknown party fired at him from cover,
the ball passing into the thigh of James
Spears, another revenue man at Davis
side, fatally wounding him. The Judge
Immediately referred the matter to the
grand jury, telling that the assassin
must be found and punished.
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