Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-09-07
THE NEWS.
AT HoNE.

the mOnInly coinage Oh silver aggregates
about So, 100000
Z" THE counsel for Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, in the suit for alleged malicious
prosecution brought by Francis d. Moul-
ton, have served upon the latter's cOun-
sci notice Of application for change of
venue on the ground that the selection
of an impartial jury in Brooklyn is i'm
possible.
On the Goth, the attendance at the Cen
tennial Exhibition was greater than on
any previous day Number Of paid adj
missions, 90, 873; total admissions, includ-
ing free list, 1O4, 514. Receipts during the
week ending on the 25th, $108,000.
is OK the evening of the Goth man
named George E. Adams was arrested at
Buffalo, N. Y, who confessed that he
threw the Lake Shore trains off at Lake
View and Northeast, Pa, causing the
death of one man at the latter point; also,
that his heroism at Fairport near Rochester,
by which he saved a New York Central
train by arOusing a farmer near and tell
ing him that he had seen several men tear
ing up the rails was mere pretense, and
that he had misplaced the track himself
He says that his object was to create SYM
pathy with the railroads, and then get en-
ployment that he intended to flag the
trains on the Lake Shore Road, but was
too late in both cases. Adams was former
ly a brakeman on the Lake Shore 81 Michi-
gan Railroad.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 2Sth
says twenty-eight employees of the Pen
sion Office had been notified that their
designations would be accepted.
FIVE Molly Mcguire prisoners, who
were recently convicted of the murder of
a policeman at Tamaqua, Pa, have been
sentenced to be hanged
In view of the improved demand for
prints, Sprague Mills, in Rhode Island,
and the Maine and Connecticut print
works, which have been idle several
weeks, will start up at once.
GRAssHoPPERs were reported as being
very numerous in the vicinity of Omaha,
Neb., on the 28th, and doing good deal
of damage to vegetables and late corn.
SEC'Y MORRILL, has revoked Sec'y Bris-
lows order of July -, 1875, placing
Special Agents under the direction of the
Solicitor of the Treasury.
THE New York Republican State Com
mittee organized on the Goth, with Alonzo
b. Cornell as Chairman.
The great coal sale took place in New
York City on the Goth. Prices ranged
from 1915 to $3.50 per tOn-a decline Of
from one to two dollars a ton. These low
prices had a dIscOuraging effect in the
Pennsylvania mining regions, the coal
operators contending that the prices
brought would compel them to suspend OPP
erations, unless the tolls and labor could
be reduced to a much lower figure than at
present.
THE Democrats of Berks County, Pa,
have renominated Hon. Hester Clymer
foI Congress.
A BLOCK of buildings in San Francisco,
including the Railroad Hotel, was de-
stroyed by fire on the night of the 28th.
Loss about $500, 900.
On the goth it was reported that Gen
Sherman had said he was of the impress
sion that the hostile Sioux had been di-
yided up, and that they were endeavoring
to get out of the Powder River and Big
Horn country. He believed they did not
want TO fight any more, and that they
would endeavor to cross the Yellowstone
and escape.
AT meeting in Chicago, on the Goth,
of the National Sportsmen's Association,
Greene Smith, of Peterboro, n Y, was
chosen President for the ensuing year.
THE second race off Chicago, on Lake
Michigan, between the yachts Frolic, of
Chicago, and the Ina, of Toronto, Can
ada, came off on the 29th. The Ina came
in slightly ahead, but the referee decided
against her because she did not round the
stake-boat from the port side, which the
articles of agreement called for. The
distance sailed was thirty miles. The
Frolic having won the previous contest on
the Goth, was declared entitled to the
stake money.
THE managers Of the Centennial Expo
sition have decided to have two more
twenty-five cent days-Sept. and 8.
THE Connecticut Republican State Con
vention, held on the 30th ult, nominated
For Governor, Henry G. Robinson, of
Hartford Lieutenant Governor, F. J.
Kingsbury; Secretary of State, Gen. F. A
Walker; Treasurer, jeremiah Olney
Comptroller, Eli Curtis.
The New York Democratic State Con-
vention met at Saratoga on the 3Oth ult
and adopted resolutions ratifying the
nominations of Tilden and Hendricks and
endorsing the platform of the St. Louis
Convention. When names were present
ed for candidates for Governor there were
loud calls for Seymour" A dispatch
was read from him saying his name must
not be used, as his health would not per
nit. A motion was made and unanimous
ly carried to nominate Horatio Seymour
by acclamation, and the Convention ad
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