Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-02

rency alone, neither expanding nor con-
tracing it, being satisfied that our finan-
cial troubles will heal themselves if
left to the operations of the natu-
raj laws of trade and commerce:
and one indorsing President Grant and
his Administration, particularly for his
removal of officers suspected of dishon-
esty, and prosecuting the guilty ones, so
that no guilty man should escape. The
nominations are: For Governor, God
love S. Ortiz; Lieutenant Governor, Col.
Robert S. Robertson; Secretary Of State,
Isaiah P. Watts State Auditory, VIM Hess !;
State Treasurer, Geo. T. Hernott; Attor-
ney-General, John W. Gordon; Reporter
of Supreme Court, L. D. Miller; Clerk,
Chas. Scholl; Superintendent OF Public
Instruction, O. Ii. Smith; Judges of the
Supreme Court-W. P. Edison, A. c.
Vooris, H. G.. Newcomb and John f.
Kibbey. Delegates were chosen to the
National Convention and instructed to
work for the domination of Senator Nor
ton.
THE Illinois State Republican Conven-
ton is to be held at Springfield on the
gath Of May.
THE steamer Switzerland, from New
York, while sailing up the channel at
Antwerp, on the 22d, ran down the brig
antine Hero. Four Of the crew of the
latter were drowned.
WNsLow, the Boston forger, was
brought before London police court on
the 23d, and remanded until. March 2 to
await the arrival of an officer from the
United States with extradition papers.
| A CONsTANTINOPLE dispatch Of the esd
says the Sultan of Turkey had on that
day signed the decree granting amnesty
to all insurgents who returned to their
| homes within a month.
THE Connecticut Democratic State Con-
vention, held on the 23d, renominated
| Gov. Ingersoll and the rest of the present
| State officers. The platform adopted de-
clares that the only currency known to
the Constitution is gold and silver; that
coin forms the only stable basis for the
|
that it is the duty Of Congress to adopt
such measures as shall lead to an early
resumption of specie payments.
THE Maine Legislature has passed and
! the Governor has signed bill abolshing
capital punishment in that State.
THE failure of Elijah Shaw, Of Wales,
| Mass, owner of five WOODEN mills in
which 275 hands were employed, was
announced on the 23d; liabilities $780,
| OOO
THE Maryland Republican State Con-
vention is to meet on the 4th of May at
Frederick City.
OFFICIAL election returns received up to
the 23d from thirty eight counties in
Texas give Gov. Coke (Dem.) A, 381 ma
jority. For the Constitution, 2,269.
A LONDON dispatch of the oath says the
captain of the steamer Franconia, which
recently ran down the steamer Strath-
| clyde, near London, had been arrested by
order Of the Coroner's jury upon the
| charge Of manslaughter.
failed on the Gath, with liabilities aggre-
eating over $3,OOO,000
A PEsrH (Hungary) dispatch of the
Gath, says the high water in the Danube
had caused immense damage in that city.
The suburbs were entirely submerged,
and several large manufacturing establish
ments had been destroyed. A distillery,
undermined by the current, had fallen
and crushed eleven persons.
A sLEEPING-CAR on the Harlem Rail
road extension was thrown from the track
by broken rail, near Wallingford, Conn,
on the night of the 23d, rolled down an
embankment, caught fire and was burned
up. There were ten passengers on the
car, two of whom-Mr. G. E. Bissell,
proprietor Of the Sherman House, Chica-
go, and his son-were burned to death.
Nearly all the other passengers in the car
were more or less injured, but none fatal
ly. Mr.. Bissell's son, lad seventeen
years old, was in the center of the sleep
ing-car. The father got out, but hearing
the cries of his son, went back to save
him, and both persisted.
THE Ohio Prohibitionists met in Con-
vention at Columbus, on the 23d, and
nominated the following State ticket: For
Secretary of State, E. S. Chapman; Judge
of the Supreme Court, D. W. Gage; Mem
Der of Board of Public Works, Ferdinand
Schumacher; Comptroller Of the Treasury,
J. G. Murdoch; School Commissioner,
Geo. Il. Jenkins Among the resolutions
adopted was one demanding that the ques-
ton of prohibition shall be submitted to
all adult citizens of Ohio, irrespective of
sex.
THE jury in the case Of Gen. Babcock,
on trial at ST. Louis on the charge of being
connected with the whisky conspiracy,
returned a verdict of mot guilty. on the
afternoon of the oath
THE Indiana Democratic State Conven-
ton has been called 10 meet at Indianap-
oils on the 10Th Of April.
4 YANKToN ID. To- dispatch of the Gath
says the excitement about the Black Hills