Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-09-23
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-- CHILL accepts the mediation of the Uni
ted States between itself and Peru.
THE revelations of the political prison
er who committed suicide, ascribe the
Winter Palace explosion to a man already
in custody.
OWING to the continued depression in
the Irish linen trade, the flax spinners will
after October 4 reduce their working davs
to four per week.
A LONDON magistrate has sentenced
Henry Perry, convicted af assaulting and
robbing a bank messenger on the under
ground railway, to thirty lashes and
twenty years Imprisonment.
crime
Mrs. JOSEPH POWELL, of Quincy, H.,
undertook to prevent an assault on her
husband by a negro by jumping between
the two men. At that instant gun in
the hands of the negro was discharged
and she fell with a mortal wound in her
hip.
A BAND of three hundred Servian bri-
gands has crossed to the Hungarian side of
the Danube. A battalion of troops has
been ordered to bar their way toward the
interior. Much alarm is felt among the
traders of western Servia because of the
recent large increase of bands of robbers.
A DISPATCH from India, believed to
have been inspired by the marquis, of
Ripon, viceroy, says that England must
now settle the Candahar question without
delay. The place must be annexed, given
10 the ameer of Afghanistan, or made an
independent state Ripon favors relin-
gushing it in favor of Abdurrahman.
TIE DiriHo says: 'The latest note
drawn up by the British cabinet, and now
communicated to the powers, demands the
cession OF Dulcigno without further delay.
Admiral Seymour has been invested with
full power to take up whatever position he
considers most advantageous for the pur-
pose of the demonstration"
THE condition of the River Niles causes
anxiety 1t is rising enthusiastically, and
is several weeks late. The inundation is
lower than at the corresponding period in
| 1879 Irrigation, however, proceeds well.
There are some complaints from the in
terror that the cotton crop has suffered,
but to what extent is not known.
THE foreign consuls in Dulcigno have
been warned by the commanders of the in
ternational fleet to remove their families
to place of safety. This is thonght to be
| preliminary 10 the execution oil the orders
under which the men-of=war are acting.
The sultan is still playing double part,
and the conclusions that none but heroic
measures will answer is strengthening.
The French iron-clads have Joined the
European fleet at Ragusa at last, and il
is now believed that action will be taken
without delay. All of the commanders
have been instructed by their governments
that, III case operations which may have
political consequences become necessary,
they shall decide the matter for themselves
without referring to their superiors. This
liberty of action extends even to the bonn.
bardment of Dulcigno.
4 HORRIBLE accident occurred at West
Aurora depot, on the 18th inst, al
half-past p. M, resulting in deatha few
hours later. Frank Lynch, a married
man. whose home is in Litchfeld, Mass.
but who has for some time been working
in the foundry at Plano, Kendall county
boarded a passing freight train. coming
east, for the purpose of riding over to the
East Side. BY some means he slipped anC
fell under the train, five cars passing over
him. His right leg was cut off above the
knee and the left foot Just above the ankle
his right hand was also badly mashed
DR.. Z. B. Howell was called, who die
everything possible for the poor suffer
er, but his injuries were such that ht
expired.