Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-07-15

L. Eaton; Secretary of State, Hans B.
Warner; State Treasurer, Mai. Henry
Baetz ;Attorney-Gene John r. Bennett:
SUPERINTENDENT of Public Instruction,
Robert Graham. E. W. Reyes was re
elected Chairman of the State Cen
trail Committee. The platform approves
the third-term letter of President Grant:
indorses the present Republican National
Administration and the policy of arbitra-
ton in setting International difficulties;
favors tariff for revenue only; advocates
the gradual resumption of specie pay
ments; favors legislative control of public
corporations, etc.
THE Opposition State Convention of
Minnesota, held at St. Paul on the 18th,
nominated D. L. Buell. for Governor; E.
W. Durant, Lieutenant Governor; Albert
Scheffer, Treasurer; J. W. Sencerbox,
Railway Commissioner; Adolphus Bier
man, Secretary Of State; Lafayette En-
NETT, Chief-Justice NJ Doran, State Audit
or; A A Mcleod, Clerk Supreme Court
The name Democratic Republican was
adopted. The resolutions favor resump-
ton of specie payments and a return to
gold and silver as basis of currency; a
tariff for revenue; the State control of pub
tic corporations, etc.
THE rivers Toques and Orbiquet, in
France, recently overlooked their banks
and inundated the town of LesieuX and its
environs. Several lives were lost
A TERRIFIC rain and hail storm visited
Switzerland lately. The hail-stones were
of great size, killing and wounding many
persons, destroying crops and damaging
much valuable property.
A COMMERCIAL crash is predicted in
Norway in consequence of the stagnation
in the lumber trade
ACCORDING to Madrid dispatch Of the
6th Carlists were continually presenting
themselves to the authorities, demanding
amnesty.
THE Executive Committee of the Ma
tional Grange, in session in Washington
on the 9Th, voted to remove the headquar-
tiers Of the National Grange to Louisville,
KY They also voted to hold the next
meeting of the National Grange at Louis
vile on the third Wednesday in Novem-
Der next.
Prof STEINER, with three compan-
kee on the evening of the 18th, intending to
make an eastward voyage to the Atlantic
coast. After being up three hours they
landed about twenty-eight miles from Mil
wau<ee. The quality of the gas with
which the balloon was inflated is said to
have been poor. Another attempt was
contemplated.
IN his late report concerning the Black
Hills region Prof. Jenney says that coun-
try is admirably adapted for agricultural
purposes.
Mrs. STRTNGER, of Cincinnati, found
the kindling-wOOd in her cooking-stove too
damp to burn well, so she undertook to
hurry up matters by pouring coal-oil from
can into the stove. After five hours of
the most acute agony she died from the
effects of her burns.
A REAL-EsTATE lawsuit Of great magni-
tude and duration is one of the probabili-
ties in Chicago. A strip of land contain
ing about twenty-five acres and worth sew
eral millions Of dollars, on which stand
the Illinois Central depot and portion of
the tracks, is in dispute, having just been
entered by Willis Drummond, late Com
missioner of the General Land Office, at
the Land Office in Sprin gfeld. It has
been occupied and presumably owned by
the railroad company for the last thirty
years.
GEN. FRANCIS P. BLAIR, JR., died athis
residence in st. Louis on the night Of the
9th, aged tifty-three.