Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-25

white man near Laurel Hill, called him
to the door and riddled him with bullets.
A posse from Bayou Sara went
out for the body, but the ne
groes would not give it up, and a fight
ensued in which three negroes and three
white men were killed. The county was
said to be ablaze with excitement. Act
ing Gov. Antoine had received informa-
ton that seventeen colored men were
killed and many others wounded. He
had applied to Gen. Augur for military
aid to quell the disturbances.
THE Reform Republican Conference
met in New York, on the 10Th. Dr.
WoOlsey was chosen President. About
300 delegates were present. A committee
was appointed, with Carl Schurz as Chair
man, to devise plan to 6 remedy existing
evils and preserve the National HONOR
and instructed to report on the following
day. A lengthy address was reported and
adopted Oh the 10Th. 4 resolution was
also passed declaring it inexpedient to
make Presidential nomination.
THE delegates to the National Conven-
ton chosen by the New Jersey Republi-
can Convention were uninstructed, but
majority are supposed to favor the nonli-
nation of Mr.. Blaine for the Presidency.
LETTERS for persons On the Centennial
grounds at Philadelphia may be directed
to 1.-The Centennial Branch PostCffice.' -
THE National Prohibition Convention
assembled at Cleveland, Ohio, on the nth,
and placed in nomination Gen. Greene
Clay Smith, Of Kentucky, for President,
and c. T. Stewart, Of Ohio, for Vice
President. The resolutions reaffirm the
prohibition plank of the platform of 1872
and favor equal suffrage and eligibility to
office, without distinction Of race, relig-
ion, creed, property or sex.
On the morning of the 18th, at st.
Louis, Mcguire and Mckee were COM
mitted to the County Jail. The latter
paid his fine of $4,000. After their cells
had been carpeted and fitted up for their
reception they took possession Of them.
THE Iowa Democratic State Convention
assembled at Des Moines on the 18th,
over 800 delegates being in attendance.
| Hon Fl. H Trimble was chosen Presi-
dent. Delegates to the National COnven-
ton at st. Louis were chosen, and were
uninstructed except to vote as unit.
They are reported to be mostly for
Tilden. The resolutions demand that
the National Convention select for
standard bearers men whose lives,
private and official, are a guar
antee of their ability to carry on the work
of reform made necessary by the crimes
and corruption of the Republican party;
favor an early return to specie payments,
but deprecate the forced resumption con-
templated by the 'Sherman Resumption
act of 1876" and demand its repeal, on
the ground that it has had and is now
having blighting effect on industry.
The Independent State Central Com
mittee of Indiana has nominated Arson
| Wolcott for Governor, in place of Land
ers, declined.
ACCORDING to Fort Laramie (Wy. T.
telegram of the 18th the Indian war, for
years predicted, had actually begun. For
weeks the murder of white men had been
confined to the Black Killers, but recently
a United States mail carrier, en- route to
Camp Robinson and Red Cloud Agency,
had been killed, scalped and fearfully
mutilated.
THOMAS NJ. PETERS is the Republican
| n Of A 10
delegates chosen to the National Repub-
| lican Convention are said to favor the
nomination of Secretary Bristow for the
Presidency.
The expedition against Sitting Bull
left Fort Lincoln on the 18th, Under COM
mand of Gen. Terry.
THE majority of the delegates to the
National Convention chosen by the Re-
publican Convention of Tennessee, on the
18th, are said to favor Senator Morton for
the Presidency. The others are divided
between Blaine and Bristow.
THE Ohio Democratic State Convention
Hon. George FL. Pendleton was chosen
President The following nominations
were made For Secretary of State, Will
liam Bell; Judge of Supreme Court, VIM.
E. Finch; Member of the Board Of Public
Works, II. P. Clough; Electors at Large,
Judge William Lang and Granville
Stokes. The resolutions favor the immedi-
ate and unconditional repeal of the Specie
Resumption act; the defeat Of all
schemes for resumption which involve
| either contraction of the currency, per-
| petuation of bank issues, or increase of
| the interest burden of the debt; the grad
ual substitution of legal-tenders for Ma
| tional Bank notes; the issue by the Gen
| eral Government alone of all the circu-
lating medium, whether paper or metal
lie. The Delegates at Large to the St.
Louis Convention were requested to favor
| the nomination of ex-Gov. Allen for Pres
iden.
A SALoNTcA dispatch Of the nth says
six persons concerned in the recent out
RACES at that point had been executed in