Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-04

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J all in his power to settle the Louisiana
question on the basis of his propositions.
A proposition was then submitted to
! him by the committee, which he rejected,
still adhering to his original PROPOSE
! tions
In Exeter, n Y, during the recent
cold weather, three children who had
been sent by their parents on basket
peddIing expedition froze to death
The glue factory of Vail Bros, in
Chicago, was recently destroyed by fire,
involving loss of over $3.50, 600.
At Veedersburg, Ind, lately, Mr..
! Henry Eister and wife left their three
little children-two girls and boy
alone in their house, and during their
absence the building was burned down
and the little ones persisted in the flames.
The prosecution in the Tilton-Beecher
case on the 23d, at the conclusion of
Mrs. Moulton's cross-examination and
the denomination of Mrs. Kate Carey,
announced that their case was closed,
and the court adjourned till the follow
ing day Mrs. Moulton testified that Mr..
Beecher and Mrs T1lton admitted to her
that they had committed adultery in
1871, and that each claimed to be the one
most to blame. Mrs. Moulton admitted
that on one occasion, when Mr.. Beecher
spoke of his great suffering and talked
of committing suicide, with tears
streaming down his cheeks, she
placed her hand on his shoulder
and kissed him on the forehead,
and said if ever there was a good man
she believed he was one. On another
occasion, when Mr.. Beecher was on his
way to prayer-meeting, she had, IN the
presence of her husband, thrown her
arms around Mr.. Beecher's neck and
asked Mr.. Moulton to save this good
man. On the ross-eXaminatiOn on The
23d Mrs. Carey admitted thai she had
been discharged from one place for in
toxicatiOn.
Ernest Ortwein, the murderer of the
Hamnett family, near Pittsburgh, Pa,
last April, was hanged in that city on
the 23d
After debate extending over several
days the French Assembly, on the gath,
passed bill for the organization of an
upper house by vote of 448 ayes to PAL
noes.
On the 23d the Select Committee on
Alabama Affairs submitted a majority
report, setting forth that the elections in
that State had been carried by the Dem
ocrats by fraud and intimidation that
outrages upon the negro voters had been
of frequent occurrence, and that the
charges of corruption and plundering
against the Republican officials were
unfounded and unworthy of belief The
report closed with a recommendation
in favor of the passage of the Force bill.
The minority of the comm ittee made
report disagreetng with the views Of the
majority.
Gen. Hawley has been renominated
| for Congress by the Republicans of the
First Connecticut District.
A New Orleans telegram of the gath
says the Conservative caucus had, after
an exciting debate, accepted the
Wheeler proposition for compromise
| by majority OF one vote.
The Ohio State Prohibition Conven-
ton met at Columbus on the gath and
nominated the following State ticket:
For Governor, Jay Odeli, of Cleveland;
Lieutenant Governor, II. A. Thompson,
of Franklin; Acknowledgement, S. Adams,
of Cleveland; State Auditor, Belmont
Locke, Of Lawrence County; State Treas
urer, E. FL. Young, of Champaign; SUI
preme Judge, D. G. Montgomery, of
| Knox; Member Board of Public Works,
J. R. Buchol, of Akron.
| While the congregation of St. An
drew's Church, on Duane street, in New
| York, were assembled in the building on
| the evening of the gath, the walls of an
! adjoining structure, burned a few days
before, were blown down by high winds
and fell upon and crushed through the
church roof, falling upon the east gal
lery principally, which was crowded
with people. Six persons were killed
and twenty-five seriously injured.
The Democratic Senators and Repre-
sentatives in the Alabama Legislature
have signed protest against the me-
mortal presented in the Senate of the
United States on the 23d It is said that
several Republican members of the
Legislature deny having signed any such
memorial
Speaker Wilt entered a protest in the
! Conservative caucus at New Orleans, on
the Goth, against the Conservative mem
bers returning to the hall Of the House,
g from which they were driven by hostile
bayonets, until they can do so without
qualification or any concessions what
ever" About thirty members signed the
protest.
CONGRESSIONAL.