Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-04-15

ernor and Council of Massachusetts ask
ing that the sentence of Pomeroy, the
boy-fend, be executed.
Mr.. Beecher's examination was re-
sumed on the 9Th. He repeated his en-
phatic denial of being the author of the
letter OF contrition, or of the expressions
attributed to him by Mr.. Moulton. He
also denied the several declarations of
Messrs. Tilton and Moulton that he had
ever confessed even a minor offense in
connection with Mrs. Tilton. In regard
to the celebrated interview sworn to by
Mr.. Tilton as having occurred between
the witness and Mr.. and Mrs Tilton, at
which the paternity of one of Mr.. Til
tons children was in question, Mr..
Beecher denied that any such interview
ever occurred, and pronounced the story
monstrous and absolute falsehood."
The returns up to the morning of the
9Th indicated that Chas. r. Ingersoll
(Dem.) is reelected Governor of Con-
necticut by about 1000 majority The
Congressman elected are: First District,
Geo. M. Landers, DEM; Second, James
Phelps, Dem; Third, FL. II. Stark
weather, Rep; Fourth, VIM. III. Barnum,
Dem. The Legislature is probably Dem
ocratic.
According to Yankton ID. IT, dis
patch of the 4th two men, named Owens,
had arrived there direct from the Black
Hills, bringing with them several nuggets
and particles of gold which they took
out with an ak. They left four of their
number behind and returned for provis-
ions and tools.
A LATE telegram from Key West, Fla,
says there had been only four cases of
yellow fever there, and the disease had
entirely disappeared.
The trial of John D. Lee and others,
charged with participation in the Noun
tain Meadow massacre, has been post
poned.
A young son of Jacob Welker, of St.
Paris, Ohio, was fatally burned on the
9th by the explosion of coal-oil can
while attempting to hurry up a fire by
pouring oil upon it.
The case of George @. Cannon, for
polygamy, has been appealed by the
prosecution to the Territorial Supreme
Court and bonds of $4,000 given for his
appearance.
A Detroit dispatch of the 9Th says the
Republican State ticket for Supreme
Court Judge and Regents of the State
University of Michigan had been elected
by from 10000 to $4,000 majority.
The election in Cincinnati on the 9TH
resulted in the success of the Demo
cratic municipal ticket by majorities
ranging from 1000 to 5000.
Gen. Sheridan was at New Orleans on
the 9th, probably (says dispatch of that
date) on account of the Mexican border
troubles
A correspondent of the Paris Journal
des Debats writes TO that paper from
Rome that Pho Mono will take up
his residence in the United States should
it become impossible for him to remain
at Rome, and it was with a view to such
emergency that Archbishop McCloskey
was elevated to the Cardinalate.
Gov. Tilden, of New York, has par
doned James W. Ingersoll, sentenced in
1878 to five years Imprisonment for
forgery in the second degree. He was
connected with the Tweed frauds
Mr.. Beecher continued his denials of
the evidence of Messrs. Tilton and Moul-
ton on the 9th and 7th, and explained the
letters which passed between himself and
Mrs. Tilton, denying that they had any
meaning warranting the construction put
upon them by the prosecution, and claim
ing that they related mainly to Mrs. Til
toms domestic troubles and the defend
ants sympathy for her as pastor and
friend.
Remarkably cold weather, with a light
fall of snow, prevailed in Central Cali
fornia on the 9Th, which was thought to
have imperiled the safety Of the fruit
crop.
At the election in Wisconsin on the
9th Edward G. Ryan was chosen Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court without
opposition.
P. t. Barnum, the great Snowman, was
elected Mayor of Bridgeport on the 9Th
John Robinson, the wel-known circus
man, was defeated on the same day for
the same office in Cincinnati.
An investigation into the Duchesne
plot for the assassination of Prince Bis
marck has been commenced at Liege,
Brussels.
A bill giving to unmarried women the
right to vote for members of Parliament
was refused second reading in the
British House of Commons on the 9TH,
by vote of 152 to 1877.
The Court of Claims has recently de-
cided that the power given to the Presi-
dent to pardon crimes does not author
ize HIM to restore forfeited or confscated
property.
On the 18th the President suspended
w. Ringgold, Postmaster at New Or