Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-30


vention at Albany on the 22d and decided
not to nominate State ticket. They re-
solved in favor of a speedy return to
specie payments.
THE Minnesota Autobiography State
Convention met at Owatonna on the 22d
and made up State ticket by selecting
the candidates for Governor, Secretary of
State, State Auditor and Chief-Justice
from the Democratic ticket, the Lieuten-
ant-Governor and Attorney General from
the Temperance ticket nominating E. w
Dixie, the present incumbent, for State
| Treasurer; A. J. Edgerton, the late incum-
| bent, for Railroad Commissioner, and
| Sherwood HOugh, the present in
cumbent, for Clerk of the Supreme
| Court. The convention declared in ia
vOr OF Treasury notes as legal tender for
all public or private obligations; the sub
stitution of such currency in place of the
National Bank notes, and that the Gov
ernment's bonded debt should be bought
in with 1866 convertible bonds, payable in
specie or currency at the Governments
option.
THE Maryland Republican State Con-
vention met at Baltimore on the 22d and
nominated: For Governor, J. NJ. Harris;
Attorney-General, S. T. Wallis; Comp
troller, Edward Wilkins. Resolutions
were adopted favoring a speedy return to
specie payments and opposing further ex-
pansion Of the currency.
THE dispatches received on the 22d from
the late disasters on the Texan coast show
that the storm had swept over the whole
shore line, and in addition to the damage
done at Galveston, that at least pine towns
had been nearly or quite obliterated,
namely: Indianola, where but three
houses were left standing and from
$50 to 200 lives lost; Saluria; Sa-
bine Pass; Calcasieu; San Bernar-
dino; Buffalo Bayou; Lynchburg; Mat
agorda and Cedar Lake. A large
number Of lives were lost, and the destitu-
ton and suffering of the survivors were
very great. A dispatch to New Orleans
from IndianOla says: "Send us help, for
Gods sakem Aid was being forwarded
to the sufferers by the people of New Or
leans and Galveston. Mayor Davis, of
Galveston, telegraphed to the Mayor of
St. Louis on the 22d, appealing for aid
and saying the survivors in the towns de
strOyed had lost everything, and that pro-
visions, clothing and every necessary of
life were needed. The floods were caused
by heavy winds blowing the waters of the
gulf in huge waves upon the coast.
ACCORDING to a Belgrade dispatch of the
23d the Servian Minister of War had
ordered a large force to the Bosnian
frontier as an army of observation.
CHARLES @. FISHER, late Assistant
United States Attorney for the District of
Columbia, has been arrested in Washing
ton on the charge of stealing appeal bonds
and papers in District cases. He waived
examination, and was held to answer be-
fore the Grand Jury.
ATTY.-GEN. PIERREPoNT has received
kilograms from Mississippi, from persons
of both parties, commencing his recent
letter to Gov. Ames. These kilograms also
say that perfect peace reigned in the late
disorderly portion of the State. Gov. Kel-
logg, Of Louisiana, it is said approves of
the Attorney Generals course in the Mis-
sissippi troubles.
A REPORT prevailed in Washington on
the 23d that the Red Cloud Investigation
Commission would unanimously acquit
Secretary Delano and Commissioner Smith
of fraud.
A GREENBACK mass meeting was held
at Cooper Institute, New York, on the
evening of the ODD. Resolutions were
adopted condemning the policy of con-
traction demanding the retirement of the
National Bank circulation and the substi-
tuition therefor Of legal-tenders, and favor
ing the payment of one-haIf Of the Gus
toms dues in greenbacks.
MAIL accounts received on the 23d from
Galveston, Tex, represent the loss of prop
erty as far exceeding in amount that given
by previous telegraphic reports Three
hundred houses were swept away, and the
aggregate loss of property would reach
81, 000,0 900. 1t was thought that the total
number of lives lost along the coast by the
storm would reach 400, and several small
towns back from the coast are reported to
have been swept away.
ELKINs' (Rep.) majority for Delegate to
Congress from New Mexico IS placed at
1900. In Wyoming the Legislature is
divided politically as follows: Council,
Republicans and II Democrats; House, 8
Republicans and Is Democrats.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made on the 23d
that J. Russell Jones had been appointed
Collector of Customs at Chicago, rice n.
B. Judd, resigned.
THE MARKETS.