Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-02-19
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to Liverpool, his physician having recon-
mended a sea voyage.
A communication from the members Of the
Boston Grange was presented on the 9th to a
committee of the National Grange appointed
to consider the important question whether the
membership of the Grange entitled it to recog-
milton. The memorial recites that its mem
bers were the only persons in Boston who
took any interest in the movement or did any
thing to assist National Deputy Abbott in his
work in Massachusetts. They plead that the
Grange was organized by Mr.. Abbott, as the
representative of the National Grange, and was
accepted by the State Grange, and plead that
they are ''interested' in agriculture in a way
to bring them fully within the scope of the
organization.
The resolution to remove the headquarters
of the National Grange to st. Louis has been
referred to q special committee of five, to re-
port at the eighth session of the National
Grange. The following is the committee:
Messrs. Parsons, of Minnesota; Warden, of
Florida; Hamilton, of Alabama; Cotton, of
Vermont, and Allen, of Missouri
Master Adams, of the National Grange, has
appointed as the Committee on Centennial
Celebration Messrs. Saunders of Washington,
Chambers Of Alabama, Hudson of Kansas,
Wright of California, Chase of New Hamp-
shire, Brown of Michigan, and Davie of Ken
lucky.
The Massachusetts Senate has passed the
resolution annulling and resembling the reso-
luton of 1872 which censured Charles Sumner
fo,, nc oJo4 -
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars of
Michigan has chosen jackson as the place for
the next session, and elected c. 2. Russell,
John Evans and D. P. Sagendorf delegates to
the Grand Lodge at Boston in May next. A
report adverse to any change in the State
Constitution on the question of prohibition
was adopted unanimously. Officers for the
year ensuing were elected as follows: c. t.,
D. P. Sagendorf of Charlotte; Chief, Thomas
Carney, Jr., of Bay City; V. T., Ellen j.
Christian, of Pontiac; Secretary, John Evans,
of Bellevue; Treasurer, N. S. Sharp, of North
Adams.
The Rev. Charles Kingsley, the author, and
one of the chaplains-in-ordinary to her Males
ty Queen Victoria, has arrived at New York,
ON a visit to the United States.
The anniversary OF the late President Lin
coins birthday was celebrated in Buffalo on
the 18th by exercises in the various public
schools and appropriate exercises by citizens
at st. James Hall in the evening.
The Illinois General Assembly adjourned
on the 18th, out Of respect for the memory of
the late President Lincoln, that being the an
niversary of his birth.
Major General James B. Steedman has been
elected to succeed Chief-Justice Waite as del
egate to the Ohio Constitutional Convention.
The Diocesan Council of Wisconsin met at
Milwaukee on the 18th for the purpose of
selecting Bishop in the place of the late Rev
DR.. Arrnitage. That day was devoted to dis
eussion. On the 18th, after a stormy day, Dr.
De Koven, of Racine, was nominated by the
clergy on the fourth ballot, but rejected by the
laity, and the Council adjourned sine die.
The Massachusetts, House of Representa-
tives on the 18th concurred, by a vote of 119
to 48, in the resolution of the Senate rescind-
ing the vote of censure on Senator Sumner
passed in 1872.
Judge Rogers, of the Cook County Grim
inal Court, has sustained the Indictment found
against ex-Treasurer Gage, of Chicago, for
failing to turn over the city moneys, but the
first Indictment for perjury is quashed on
points to meet which second indictment was
found by the last Grand Jury.
The anniversary of the Illinois State Wom-
ans Suffrage Association occurred in Chi
cago on the 18th. The following were elected
officers of the Association for the ensuing
year: President-AIrs. Jane Graham Jones;
Vice Presidents-Miss Alta NJ. Hulett, Mrs
NJ. W. Campbell, Mrs. O. E. Grover, Mrs
Hoag (of Bloomington, Mrs. Tracy Cutler, the
Rev. Or. Thomas; Corresponding Secretary
Miss Alta NJ. Hutlett; Recording Secretary
Mrs. c. V. Waite, Executive Committee-AIrs.
W. Campbell, Mrs. NJ. A. Day, Mrs. H. S.
Towle, Mrs. S. Blake, Mrs. DR.. Underwood,
Mrs. Harriet Speight, Mrs. Blake, Mrs. Susan
B. Richardson, the Rev. NJ. j. Savage, Mrs.
Mott, Mrs. Fell (of Bloomington, Fernando
Jones, A j. Grover (of Earlsville), the Rev. J.
McGown.