Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-21

in the Constitution.
An Indictment against Charles Nell
rath, late State Auditor Of Minnesota. for
alleged malfeasance in office in connection
with school lands, was tried on the 18th,
and resulted in a verdict of not guilty.
PRESIDENT GRANT and party reached
Chicago on the 10Th on their return to
Washington from the West.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai to the Lon
don Times of the 18th says the aspect of
affairs at Pekin was becoming satisfac-
tory.
A ROME dispatch Of the 18th says Italy
would be represented by royal commits
sioners at the American Centennial, after
all.
THE dry-goods house of Strauss, Leh-
man & Co., of New York city, failed on
the 18th with liabilities estimated at $780,
900.
On the 18th Frenchman named La
Page was arrested in Sunoook, n. H., on
suspicion of being the guilty party in the
Langmaid murder.
THE name of John Quincy Adams has
been placed upon the Democratic ticket
as candidate for Lieutenant Governor of
Massachusetts,, Uace Gen. Bartlett, de-
clined.
HON. Charles G. Davis is the Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress in the First
Massachusetts District.
THE National Women's Congress met at
Syracuse on the 18th. Prof. Maria Mitch
elldelivered the annual address.
THREE colored men were attacked in
New Orleans on the night of the 18th, one
Of them being killed outright, another
MORALLY and the third slightly wounded.
Two white men, charged with the crime,
were arrested and put in jail. A mass
meeting was held on the 18th at which
resolutions were adopted disclaiming re-
sponsibility for the outrage, condemning
all violence and piedging support to the
law of the land.
THE trial at Murphysboro, Ill, Of John
Bulliner and Allen Baker 1.-TWO of the par
ties implicated in the Williamson County
Qll.) vendetta) for murderresulted, on the
18th, in a verdict of guilty and a sentence
of twenty five years in the Penitentiary.
BECAUSE of his perpetual troubles with
the Prussian Government the Prince
Bishop of Breslau on the 18th severed his
connection with the Prussian portion Of
his diocese.
A SPECIAL telegram to the London
Ness of the 18th says Russia was prepar-
ing for a military expedition against Box
hara in Central Asia.
A WASHINGTON dispatch oftthe 18th de-
MES that the Government has threatened
to acknowledge the rights of the Cubans
in case hostilities be not closed before the
list Of January next.
THE State Register had returns from
giving a majority of "a, 500 for Kirkwood,
and estimated his majority in the State at
| about 10000. The Republicans would
have majority Of thirty-two in the Senate
and sixty in the House.
A HARD-MoNEY CONVENTION was held
at Detroit on the 18th. Resolutions were
E,Gdopted declaring against all schemes for
currency initiation or any form of ire
deemable paper currency. Letters favor
/ ing hard money were received from Sen
ator Christiancy, ex-Gov. Blair and others,
and delegates were appointed to attend
the Cincinnati Convention.
AN Omaha telegram of the 114th states
that the Republican majority in Nebraska
would be about 10, 900, and that the new
Constitution had been adopted
RETURNS received on the 18th from all
but three counties in Ohio gave Hayes a
majority over Allen of 3,463. Cary ran
10000 behind Allen. The Republicans
have majority of eighteen in the Legis-
lature-seventeen in the House and one in
the Senate.
IN the United States District Court at
Salt Lake, on the 18th, Judge Foreman
delivered a strong charge to the Grand
Jugin opposition to polygamy or biga-
my, aand called upon the jury to indic1 all
persaGs known to be guilty.