Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-16

L W dlker was CHOSEN President by accla-
nation, Republicans and Democrats all
voting for him
AT Fond du Lac, Wis, on the 9th, Mrs
James Shambaen attempted to light fire
by the aid of kerosene. She was horribly
and fatally burned
THE Ohio State Fair opened at Column
bus ON the 9th, under favorable auspices.
ACCORDING to a London dispatch of the
18th, $4,000 animals in Dorsetshire were
suffering from the cattle plague
A ST.. PETERSBURG dispatch of the 18th
says 800 Khokand rebels were defeated
by Gen. Kaufman on the 4th.
THE Protestant cemetery vault in Mon
treal containing the remains of Guibord
was guarded, on the night of the 9th, by
eighteen men, heavily armed.
IN the case of the Brooklyn colored
man who applied for mandamus to COM
pei the Board of Education to admit his
son to a school set apart for white chill
dren, Judge Gilbert said on the 18th that
the system of cOmmon-schOol education
was established for the public and all per-
sons had access to it.
ALL the State constitutional amend
ments submitted to the people of New
Jersey have been adopted except the clause
repeating the " Five-County act.'
DIR. EDWARD RANSOM, Democratic can
didate for President of the North Carolina
Constitutional Convention, was elected on
the 18th on the fourteenth ballot.
II was reported in San Francisco on the
18th that an Indian outbreak had occurred
in Eastern Nevada and Western Utah A
number of settlers and miners had been
killed
THE Central Illinois Fair opened in
jacksonville on the It'll
THE Wisconsin State Fair was formally
opened at Milwaukee on the 18th, under
favorable auspices.
Gov. BEvERIDGE, of Illinois, on the 7th
telegraphed to the States Attorney at
Rockford expressing the hope that prompt
measures would be taken to vindicate the
law forbidding dueling.
VIM. IRWIN, Governor-elect of Califor-
MA is a native of Butler County, Ohio.
He has been a resident of California since
1852.
STEPHEN B. ELKINs (Rep.) has been re-
elected Delegate to Congress from the
Territory of New Mexico.
Mrs. G. H. Young, of Kansas City,
Mo, was fatally burned on the night of
the 9th by the explosion Of lighted l1ero-
sene lamp which she was carrying from
one room to another.
HIS HOLINESS THE POPE cordially re
ceived Cardinal McCloskey on the even
ing of the 8th.
The Red Cloud Investigating Commits
sion reached Washington on the 9Th A
dispatch of that date says the commission
found nothing substantial enough to back
up the charges of Prof. Marsh.
THE New York Republican State Con
vention met at Saratoga on the Sth and
nominated: For Secretary of State, f. W.
Seward Comptroller, F. E. Spinner;
Treasurer, Gen. E. A. Merritt; Attorney
General, Geo. L. Danford; State Engi-
neer, O. H. P Cornell; Canal Commits
sioner, VIM. E. Tinsley; State Prison In
spector, Rev. Benoni T. Ives. The reso-
lutions adopted declare against further
currency imitation and in favor of the
speedy return to specie payments; recog-
nize as conclusive President Grants dec
laratiOn that he is not candidate for re-
nomination, and declare opposition to the
election of any President for third term :;
indorse the Administration of President
Grant, etc.
THE Pennsylvania Democratic State
Convention assembled at Erie on the 0th
and effected a permanent organization,
after which it adjourned for the day.
Mrs. PEER testified in the Westervelt
trial on the Sth that on July g. 1874, she
saw in a Brooklyn street-car Westervelt,
accompanied by little boy whom she
now recognizes as Charlie Ross.
CAPT. JONES, of New York city, COM
mitted suicide on the 0th by jumping into
the rapids and going over the American
falls at Niagara.
AN explosion occurred in a ceIluloid
factory at Newark, n. j., on the Sth which
set the building on fire and destroyed it.
Of thirty men in the building at the time
some escaped uninjured, but several were
either killed outright or fatally injured.
THE Democratic Reform State Conven-
ton of Wisconsin met at Milwaukee on
the 9th, and renominated the present State
officers by reclamation. A platform was
adopted indorsing the reform resolutions
of 1878, including the one favoring sound
currency in coin or its equivalent.
THE Maryland Republican State Con-
vention met at Westminster on the 0th
and adjourned to meet in Baltimore on
the 22d
| Miss EAGLEsFIELD, a young lady law
student, was admitted to practice in the
Circuit Court at Terre Haute, Ind, on the
| Sth
THE Chicago and Cincinnati Industrial
Expositions were opened on the 6th, te
continue one month.
THE fifteenth biennial session Of the
| American Pomological Society was begun