Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-11-28

that women are entitled TO the right Of suf-
frage under the Fourteenth Amendment.
Governor Palmer, by proclamation, has
designated Thursday, November 2s-the day
appointed by the Presidents a day Of
Thanksgiving in Illinois.
Horses were rapidly appearing in the
streets OF Chicago on the 18th, and the
disease had about run It's course. One hun.
bred and forty-two deaths had occurred so
far. The disease was rapidly spreading Ia
Cincinnati, and business was being serious
- hindered. In Milwaukee it was estimated
that there were from i've hundred 10 slE
hundred horses affected. Street travel was
seriously impedcd.
Up to noon on the 18th the contributions
in Chicago to the Boston Relief Fund
amounted to over S2l3,00O. Further con-
tributions were made by the Masonic lodges
and other societies, and private donations
were still being received.
At Youngstown, Ohio, on the nth, two
boilers trecently set up in place of those
which exploded three months ago. blew up,
killing two fircmen, and ~iniuring several
other p~ersons-three seriously.
Grants majority in San Francisco is eos.
a Topeka dispatch of the 18th says the
official returns show a Republican majority
in Kansas Of SO, 100. The Legislature stands
ll9 Republicans and II Democrats.
The indiana Sons Of Temperance, Grand
Division, have elected the following officers
or the ensuing year: g. w. P, II. c. Lee,
Indianapolis; q. ". A., Ira {. Kelly, Rens.
%sclaer; &. s., J. B, Abbott, Indianapolis; g..
7. r., r. Newcomb, Indianapolis.
The first donation in Chicago to the Bos-
ton sufferers was from a poor peanut ped.
dler, who gave five dollars. The second
was from George NJ. Pullman, who gave five
thousand dollars.
a Republican caucus Of the Indiana Legis.
%laturc, held on the night of the 18th, by q
unanimous vote renominated Hon. o. p.
Morton for United States Senator. Every
Republican Representative was present and
voted, and every Senator, except Scott, who
had not returned from his European tour.
The Madison Joura0s Of the 10th figures
1900 majority for Grant in Wisconsin, and
a Republican majority in the Legislature, on
joint ballot, of thirty,scven.
Benjamin ErIanger, proprietor Of the Den
Yer Savings Institution, is said to have all.
seconded with $4,000 belonging to deposltors.
A hundred Of the latter are poor servant
girls, and many of the Others are working
peai le.
The Indiana Legislature met in special
session on the 18th. V. X. Edwards was
chosen Speaker of the Fouse, and G.. W.
Friedlcy as President Of the Senate.
No., ,,a.- =, NINA 81 g A 4 > "a
in all the Northwestern States.
W. G. Morcau, editor of the Logansport,
tlnd,) SDl,, was shot a few days ago, but not
fatally wounded, by Judge Dykcman, whom
he had attacked in his paper.
a st. Louis telegram of the 14th says Col
oncl Hay, Republican, in the Fifth District,
is defeated 10y q small majority, which leaves
the Congressional delegation four Republi.
cans and nine Democrats.
Grant has u majority in California of
about 1000.
OF the nineteen members of the next Con-
gress from Illinois, fourteen will be Repub-
licans and five Democrats.
The subscriptions in one day in Chicago,
for the Boston Relief fund, exclusive of the
NAVSn'NN Nbhtl lRuttN ny ltt SiltuEO NSlltl
Society, are stated at $50, 600.
General Oglesby's majority for Governor
in Illinois is officially announced to be 40
SO, The majority for Grant and Wilson is
about $1,000.
In his late message TO the Indiana Ltgis.
lature, Governor Baker recommends that
provision be made for calling q Convention
to revise the Constitution of the State, and
also favors the building of two additional
hospitals for the insane, and the charging
of the present institute for the education OF
the blind; also recommends the completion
Of the House of Refuge aud other public
buildings.
Two young men of Valparaiso, Ind,
named Drago and poAeroy, in the early part
of the season, made 4 wager on the Presi-
Dental election and drew up a written con
tract, binding the losing party to wheel the
winning party from Valparaiso to Chicago
on It wheelbarrow. The distance by road is
nifty miles, Drago bet on Greeley and Pom
eroy on Grant. They started on the Journey
at one O'Clock on the ltth, accompanied by
several young men in n carriage. The
wheelbarrow was gotten up for the occa-
sion, with springs, we'll cushioned, silver.
mounted, and large wheel.