Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-03-27
GRAND RAPIDS WIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 81. 1879.

Guard have been arrested as Nihilists.
A PARIS dispatch says the village of
Vernet, near Vichy, containing one
hundred houses, has been totally des-
troyed by fire.
! A PEsTH dispatch says one hundred
and twenty thousand persons were
rendered homeless by the recent over
| flow.
! The German shipping trade is very
much depressed, and large number of
the owners of sailing vessels have de-
cided not to put them into commission
this spring.
A CORRESPONDENT at Berlin declares
positively that 10000 Russians are be-
! ing conveyed across the Caspia Sea, and
| it is believed they are destined for
Merry.
MANY avaanches have recently oc-
curred in the Austrian Tyrol. At
Bleiburg ten houses were crushed, forty
persons killed, eighteen seriously injur-
ed, and fifteen missing.
THE situation at Mandalay, in India,
continues to grow more and more
alarming. Complete disorder reigns,
and the British troops would be gladly
welcomed.
SAYS a Szegedin cablegram of March
18th: Five thusand two hundred out of
the ten thousand houses have fallen,
and one thousand nine hundred persons
were browne J. The waters are subsid-
ing and the adjacent towns are out of
danger.
A SzEGEDIN cablegram of March 18th
says, the work of saving life is over, and
the saving of property has commenced.
The authorities telegraph that no fur
ther supplies of provisions are neces-
sary.
PINTO, the Portuguese explorer, who
has crossed Africa, telegraphs: 81 strug-
gled with hunger, thirst, natives, floods,
and drouth. [ have saved all my pa
pers, twenty geographical charts, many
Typographical maps, three volumes of
notes, meteorological studies, drawings
and diary Of complete explorations
of the Upper Zambasi, with seventy-two
cataractS."
DURING the comming summer 5000
Italians will leave Tarranta for the
southern coast OF of New Guinea to es-
The initiators and leaders of the enter
prise are Menotti Garibaldi and a fell
loW-soldier named Achille Pazzari. Six
million dollars, required for the enter
prise, is ready. The equipments will
include cable to connect with North
ern Australia.
A CALCUTTA cablegram of March goth
says: The origin Of the trouble between
the Burmese and British residents at
Mondalay is that the latter protect and
refuse to deliver up two royal princes
and their families who have taken ref
uge IN the residence Of the king of Bur-
NAH, vino is said to be mad with drink,
and, urged by fanatics and the reaction
ary party, threatens to force them from
the residency. Such hostile measure
on the part of the government it is be-
lieved, would be the signal for a general
massacre Of citizens.
THE French floating battery Arroqaqats
foundered off the coast of France, March
18th; forty-seven men were drowned
out of a crew Of one hundred and twen-
ty-two. A storm arose during the firing
practice, and the Arr0gante sprung a
leak; the ship S0Uerain, near by, was un-
able to render any assistance. An ef-
fort was made to beach the Arrogante,
but she sank about kilometer from
the Island of Hyeres. The A1rogonteS
armor was five inches thick at the
water line; she carried nine six-ton
guns, and was of 1888 ton burthen; her
engines were five hundred horse power