Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-03
PERSONAL.

General Spinner, on the 22d, entered upon
the thirteenth year of his service as Treas
urer of the United States.
In the Senate, On the Gath, there was quite
lengthy debate upon the question Of re-
considering the confirmation Of Mr.. Casey as
Collector at New Orleans. The motion to
reconsider was, after considerable opposi
ton, finally laid on the table by vote Of IS
to %. The confirmation in the first instance
was by a vote Of % to Is.
Lieutenant Governor Milton Fl. Petit, Of
Wisconsin, died at his residence at Kenosha,
on the night of the 23d, aged forty-eight
years.
Senator Caldwell has resigned bis seat in
| the United States Senate. He placed his
resignation in the hands of Governor Os-
| borne (hen in Washington), on the Gath,
and sent letter to the Vice-President, an
nouncing what he had done.
| Marshall Magruder, who shot with intent
| to kill Clarence J. Lockwood, in a board
ing house in Madison street, in New York
City, on the Doth of January last, has been
found guilty and sentenced to ten years in
the States prison, with hard labor.
| William L. Langston, son of the old
| lady who, with the little girl, Mary Easter,
who was living with her, was found muir.
dered in her bed recently, near Paradise,
| Coles County, H., has confessed to the
killing of both parties, and accuses his wife
as an accessory. Langston is now in jail
awaiting trial.
A Louisville (Ky.) telegram Of the Gath
says the suit of William NJ. Lent against
Philip Arnold and Robert Slack, for $780,
| ha5 nj ~, 4ha III toc
| Court, by the consent of the parties. The
suit grew out of the notorious California
diamond swindle. The dismissal was the
result Of compromise, Arnold paying Lent
s150,000 cash, and each party paving his
own costs. The money was paid General
John NJ. Harlan, Lent's attorney, in green
| backs.
Ex-senator Cattell, of New Jersey, has
| been appointed Financial Agent of the
| Treasury Department, to visit Europe in
connection with the new loan.
| The Trumbull County Ohio Republican
Convention, held at Warren on the 25th,
adopted a resolution asking James A. Gar
| field to resign his seat in the House of Rep
| resentatives at Washington, declaring that
| by voting for the retroactive salary bill he
has forfeited the confidence of his constitu-
| ents.
In the great six-million suit brought
| in the name of the People of the
State of New York against Tweed,
Connolly, Ingerso1, and others, to
recover the 5000, 600 taken from New York
County by what are known as the audit
frauds, Justice Hardin decided on the de-
murrer of Ingersoll that the people of the
State have no right of action against Inger-
soil. lie based his objection on the broad
ground, fatal, if sustained, to the whole
suit, that the County and not the State are
the real parties in interest within the mean
ing Of the code.
Governor Austin, of Minnesota, has &C
copied the resignation of State Treasurer
Seeger, who was under impeachment by the
Legislature for alleged financial irregulari-
ties.
VIM. NJ. Tweed has resigned his seat in
the New York State Senate
In reference to the President. action in
the case of O'Brien, recent Washington
dispatch says all the facts about the muir
der Of Cunningham show that it was not
premeditated, and that there were circum-
stances about it which TIE President could
consider, but which the jury could not. A
case of murder with malice aforethought
will find no mercy with the President.
President Grant will hereafter, while Con-
gress is not in session, receive callers on
other than official business on MONDAYS,
Wednesdays and Thursdays, from eleven to
one o'clock.
The Hon. James Dixon, formerly United
States Senator from Connecticut, died Of
heart disease, at his residence, in Hartford,
On the 9th, aged IS.
POLITICAL.
A Manchester On. Fl. dispatch Of the 22d
saws the friends of Hon Rail 4bo Do,,