Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-01-06
FOREIGN

! THE proceedings in the state trials con-
tinue to excite but little interest.
/ FRESH cases of "Boycotting" are contin-
ually reported from Ireland.
| The Dutch government is about to ap-
| peal to the people of the British nation in
| favCr of the independence of Transvaai.
TILE magistrates of Limerick have under
! examination an army corporal charged
with drilling members of Fenian organ
! ization.
| THE porte has resolved to mass one hum
dred thousand troops on the Greek
| frontier. and concentrate forces at other
points.
| A DUBLIN dispatch reports that many
| Jurors in the state trials are securely Boy
cotted, and will not answer to their names.
! There are two gun-boats in the bay at
Galway.
| A REPUBLIC has been organized at Held
elburg, in Africa, by the Beers, who num-
Der 1000, and a detachment of colonial
| troops has been sent to the scence Of the
revolt. 1t is thought in London that
| Wolseley will be dispatched thither with
a British army.
/ A NEWSPAPER Of Quebec states that or
ders have been issued on the citadel to
serve out fifty rounds of cartridges to each
man, double the sentries and pull in the
draw bridges. This is believed to have
originated in the investigations of an i'm
perial government spy into the strength
of the Irish people in Canada.
THE people of Dublin are surprisingly
Indifferent to the result of the state trials
Parnell, on Dec. 81, reached the court
room an hour after the opening of proceed
! ings. \ iuryman, who Was half an hour
late, was threatened with fine of e1O0
should the ofense be repeated.
The barraQk accommodation about Dub
| lin is insufficient for the increased number
of soldiers, and temporary barracks Will,
therefore, be fitted at Rathkeale, County
! Limerick, and Ennistymon, County Glare,
| for detachments of infantry, each compris-
| ing two officers and fifty men. Another
detachment will be sent to Loughrea, coun-
| ty Galway, as soon as quarters have been
provided
THE state trials were formally opened
at Dublin, Dec. 80. in the Court of
Queens Bench before Lord Chief Justice
May and Justices Fitzgerald and Barry.
/ The court room was densely crowded with
spectators Chief Justice May read an
address stating that after the misconcep-
tion which had arisen as to what he had
SAID on former occasion, ne should not
take part in the present trials. A great
| crowd of people around the approaches
! to the Four Courts loudly cheered the
trayersers upon their arrival.
THE impression of the cabinet officers
on the Whitaker case is that the intima-
ton to the effect that Whitaker will be
given another chance at West Point will
prove erroneous. 1t is thought the case
will be finally disposed of in the course of
a few days The argument in writing re-
Gently submitted to the president and sec
retary of war by Prof. Greener contains
two alternatives, viz: First, that he be
granted trial by court-martial. Second,
that he be reinstated at the academy.
Upon argument in support of the first
proposition, he maintains that the find
| ings of the court of inquiry were but par
tial, and that the cadet was placed at great
disadvantage in that trial by being COM
PEELED to prove himself innocent. Regard
| ing his reinstatement, the Professor ar
CUES that, owing to his absence from his
| classes while attending the court of in
quiry, he necessarily fell behind in his
studies, and, further, that his marks in
discipline and military tactics, as shown
by the academy records, are not SO low as
to Justify his expulsion.