Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-16
POLITICAL.

Numerous protests are arriving in Wash
ington from Wyoming Territory against the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of that Territory and its in
corporation into Colorado. The friends of
female suffrage III Wyoming are particularly
! exercised.
A New Orleans telegram of the 2Sth says,
on the authority Of Governor Warmoth's
private secretary that the statement pub
lished in Washington, to the effect that the
Governor had abandoned the contest and ad
vised the Legislature not to meet on the 9th
of January, was untrue.
The Maine Legislature organized on the
list. John B. Foster, of Bangor, was chosen
President of the Senate, and G. F. Webb, Of
Waterville, Speaker Of the House.
At the organization of the Massachusetts,
Legislature on the LIST, DR.. Loring was
chosen President of the Senate, and John E.
Sanford Speaker of the House.
General John A. Dix was inaugurated as
Governor of New York State on the 1st.
The Missouri Legislature met at Jefferson
City on the LIST, and temporarily organized.
Governor Caldwell and the other State
officers of North Carolina were inaugurated
on the LIST.
Governor Washburne was inaugurated as
Governor of Massachusetts, on the Cd. His
address says that while the Boston disaster
caused commercial embarrassments, the
public finances are gratifying. The funded
debt has been reduced s., 100000 during the
year. The total funded debt is now about
S27,O00,0Oo. He considers the labor question
as of the first Importance.
At special election held on the I'd in the
Bradford District of Pennsylvania, to fill the
vacancy in Congress caused by the resigna
ton Of Mercur, Mr.. Bonnell, Republican,
was elected by about 1000 majority over
Victor E. Piollet.
Governor Perham, Maine, was inaugu-
rated on the "a, and delivered his annual
message, which shows a healthy condition
of the financial, agricultural and manufac-
turing interests of the State. The Legisla-
ture elected the following State officers :
Geo. G. Stacy, Secretary of State; B. B.
Murray, Adjutant-General; ". P. ?. Bur-
leigh, Land Agent Il. NJ. Plaisted, Attor-
ney-General.
The Lower House Of the Missouri Legisla-
ture permanently organized on the I'd by
the election of Mortimer McIlheney, Dem
ocrat, for Speaker, and j. I. Pratt, Dem
ocrat, Chief Clerk.
On the afternoon Of the 3Oth ult., fourteen
of the women held in Rochester, n. Y, for
illegal voting at the election, gave bail to APP
pear at the Albany Court Susan B. An
thony refused to furnish bail, and was re-
| manded.
| The Legislature of Michigan convened on
| the list. Charles N. Crosswell was elected
| Speaker of the House. Governor Bagley was
| inaugurated on the I'd. The message of re-
firing Governor Baldwin was read on the
I'd. The total debt of the State is S1,762,
292.7S. The State owns 3,102, 923 acres of
land. The value of school-houses and lots is
s., 469, 1906 There are 5,365 public schools in
the State, with seating capacity of 3S1, S12
The number Of children of school age is
404, 994. The fixed school fund is 81, 9GS, 272,
| and there are school lands unsold valued at
s., sos, 135. The income of the State Uni
yersity is s,6,359.6l, and its expenditures
so, 900.
The Ohio General Assembly met at Column
bus on the I'd. Governor Noyes, in his an
nual message, states the aggregate debts of
the State to be $50, 1877 500 81, in which is in
Guided 100000 of debt in aid of railroad
enterprises. The receipts for the fiscal year
ending November Is, were s4,757,797; the
disbursements were IS, 05S, ass.
| Governor Browns Message was read in
! the Missouri Legislature on the Sd. The re-
ceipts into the Treasury for the past year
were s2,s66, 1913; balance on hand at the
commencement of the year, s642, 6e6; total,