Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-25

A telegram from Kansas City (Mo.) of the
| 18th says it was reported there that the Bend
ers had been tracked to Northern Mexico. Ii
consequence of there being no eXtraditior
| treaty between the United States and Mexico
| they cannot be brought back except by kid
| mapping, and the present reward offer
ed is not sufficient to warrant the undertaking
! An effort, it is said, will be made to capture
| them this winter, if the reward is made suf
| ficient to justify an attempt to kidLap them
A large portion of the business part of Hud
sonville, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire on the
night of the 18th. Loss about $4,000, with
little or no insurance.
The Secretary of the Wisconsin State Grange
has issued an official call for a meeting of the
State Grange at Janesville, to commence Jan
uary 90 All masters installed for 1874, and
their wives are entitled to vote.
POLITICAL.
The United States Supreme Court at Wash
ington has sustained the right of the State OF
Nebraska to tax the property of the Union
Pacific Railway within the boundaries of said
State.
The Iowa State Grange adjourned on the
18th to meet at Des Moines on the second
Tuesday in next December. Before adjourn
ment several resolutions in favor of various
transportation schemes were adopted, among
them one for a double-track freight railway
from Council Bluffs directly through on the
shortest line to Norfolk, Va. Statements
were made in the Grange during the debate
preceding the adoption of this resolution that
English and German capitalists were ready to
advance the required money to build and
equip the road.
Returns from Pennsylvania on the 10Th in
Dictated the adoption of the new Constitution
of that State by large majority. Out of a
total vote Of $685. Philadelphia gave &c, S64
majority in favor of the Constitution.
The second annual meeting of the Illinois
Farmers State Association was opened in
Decatur on the 10th. The following inscrip-
tons were prominently displayed in parts of
the hall: 'Boston tea party, December Is,
1774;" "All wealth comes from the soi;"
equal and exact justice to all men -
"Where combination is possible, competition
is impossible - "Put your votes where they
will do the most good" About four hun
dred delegates were in attendance President
Flagg delivered the opening address. The
Secretary stated that reports from eighty -four
counties showed an aggregate of $50 Clubs,
with a membership of &c, 473, and $40 Oranges
who had reported their organization but not
their membership.
A State Temperance Convention will be
held at Lincoln, Neb., January II.
The Minnesota State Grange of the Patrons
of HJsbop6ry tic animal
at Fairbault on the 10th. The Nebraska State
Grange was in session at Lincoln.
The Illinois Farmers Association on the
nth adopted resolutions demanding that Con
gress grant no more of our lands to railway s
or any other corporations without first obtain
ing permission by popular vote of three
quarters of all the States in the Union; that
there shall be no building of the Texas Pa
ctic, or the Atlantic & Pacific, or the issuing of
Government bonds to them until the farmers
Of the West, the planters of the South,
and the laboring men, manufacturers, mer-
chants and consumers of the East have trans
portation facilities in the interest of the pro-
ductive consumers of those sections. Presi-
dent Flagg delivered an address on State Rail
way Legislation.
The Alabama State Senate has unseated q
member of that body because while postmas-
ter he charged one of his clerks with abstract
ing money from the mails and had him impris-
oned, but subsequently, when pressed closely
by investigation, confessed that he himself was
the guilty party.
The two houses of the California Legisla-
lature met in joint session on the 18th and
| voted for Senator for the long term. The
ballot resulted: Faray (Dem), ii; Booth
other joint ballot was had, with exactly the
| same result except that one of the members
who voted for Booth was absent
The Illinois Farmers Association adjourned
on the 18th, after adopting Constitution and
bylaws and a series of resolutions The res
olutions declare that every American voter
should do all in his power to secure the cleo
ton of honest and competent men to office;
that farmers are absOlved from all allie
glance to the old political parties; that the
| repeal of the salary grab law should be retro
active; that large salaries are antagonistic to
republican principles; that the civil service
should be reformed; they favor improving the
navigation of lakes and rivers; oppose a pro-
tSStINS taiill, NS piSCdtc lEe system OF SuDSl-
dies; favor legal-tender currency issued di-
rectly by the government, and interchangeable
for bonds bearing the lowest possible rate of
interest; demand the revision of the
patent laws; insist upon biepnial sessions Of
the Legislature; assert the right of the State
Legislature to legislate for the control of
railroads and oppose any attempt of Con
gresS to exercise such control: condemn
the practice of public officials in receiving
free passes from railway managers; demand
reduction of taxation; declare that
''since large number of pillow manufacturers
of the West have thrown down the gauntlet
we take it up, and recommend the farmers OF
this State to patronize none of the said manu-
facturers until they will sell to us direct
at wholesale rates. The election
for officers resulted in the choice
of ". c. Flagg, PRESIDENT; S. NJ.
Smith, Secretary; and j. H. Pickrell, Treasu-
rer.
CONGRESSIONAL.
There was No session Of ~, Al, -