Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-09

says over one thousand dock laborers
struck work at Hull. contrary to expec
tation. Nearly all the masons at Shef
field struck against the reduction which
they were notified on Dec. 26, would
take effect to-pay.
A CORK dispatch of Jan. 9TH SAYS: Al
a meeting of the town council yester.
day, after several bitter speeches by
catholic members, the motion that the
letter Of the US. consul at Queenstown
announcing General Grants coming, be
simply marked ''read," was carried
without a dissenting vote. A previous
motion to give Gen. Grant proper
reception was ignored.
The London Times in its financial
summary for 1873, says the Industries
have been disorganized, credit shaken,
and failures multiplied on every hand.
The failures will be nearly 5000 more
than last year. Not only have wages
been reduced, and thousands of artisans
thrown out of employment, but many
thousands of those above the artisan
class are either in actual want or on the
confines Oft. The Increasing numbers
driven to grant bills of sale on their eff
fects Is, one significant proof of what is
going on in the ranks of the lower. and
middle classes. E. "
ADMIRAL HoRNBY, commanding the
British fleet in the Sea of Marmora. tel
egraphed Jan. 3rd that one of the
thlrty-eight guns of the turret-ship
1han1derer burst on the second ofJanu-
airy, killing Lieuts. Coker and Daniels.
two petty officers and four seamen and
marines. The gun bust just in front Of
Trumions, and the muzzle was blown
overheard. The gun had just been
fired with q battery charge, but when it
burst it was loaded with a full charge
and empty shells. The boatswain and
80 men were wounded, twelve of them
badly. The turret of the disabled ship
was otherwise uninjured.
The viceroy of India telegraphs the
details of the ameer's withdrawal from
Cabul. The ameer held Durbar until
Dec. 10Th, when it was resolved that
after the fame of Ali Musjid at Pawar,
no further reliance could be placed en-
his troops or resistance offered. The
ameer therefore concluded to seek Rus
sian protection and place his case before
European congress, leaving Yakoob
Khan, his son, in charge. Yakoob was
released the same day, and anoath was
administered to the effect that he should
do as the ameer directed. The ameer
left Cabul Dec. Is. His authority had
almost disappeared. The CabuI chief
has written Gen. Roberts, offering his
services, and says the ameer has gone
to St. Petersburg. :.
The Russian university students are
still bolsterous. A London dispatch of
December 31st says: An account Of the
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a meeting outside of the town, made |
decided protest against the closing Of
the university, forcing their way in, af-
ter disarming the police, and fixed on
the blackboard an energetic protest
againstany arbitrary proceedings of the
authorities. The companies of local
militia tried to disperse the students.
A collision ensued, and eighty persons
were killed and wounded. "A cavalry
company finally charged the square in |
front of the university, and many of the
students were arrested. Similar riots,
on smaller scale, have broken out in
other university towns. 1t is believed it !
IS the intention to proclaim a state of
seige in Keif. The police are instructed
to stop the smuggling of revolutionary
and prevent the entrance
of revolutionary emissaries from Ger