Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-24

chanan, died in Virginia on the 18th
THE Wisconsin lower House has passed
the Vance bill, which repeats the dis
tinctive features of the celebrated Potter
Railroad law.
AN Investigating Committee of the
Louisiana House of Representatives sub
mitted report on the 18th, in which they
recommended the Impeachment of Gov.
Kellogg and other State officers, for al
legged violations of the law by the felonious
appropriation of public funds.
ACCORDING to San Sebastian dispatch
Of the 10th the Carlists were concentrating
at TObaso for final struggle
A MEMBER of the British House of
Commons, named Hurst, elected last De-
cember, has been unseated, for sending
letters to voters offering to pay their rail
way expenses to the polling places.
Judge Quain decided that this was brib-
cry, and declared the election void
THE Minnesota Republican State Con-
vention, to select delegates to the National
Convention, is to be held on the oath Of
May.
RETURNS received at Galveston, on the
10th, from the Texas State election indi-
Gated the success of the entire Democratic
State ticket
CHEF JUSTICE RYAN, of the Wisconsin
Supreme Court, has lately rendered a de-
cision denying the application of Miss
GOodell, Of GAINESVILLE, to practice in that
court, holding that there is no Wisconsin
statute authorizing the admission Of fe-
males to legal practice in the State courts
from which the common law has always
excluded them.
THE Illinois Independent State Conven-
ton met at Decatur on the 10th, and NOM
mated full State ticket, as follows: Gov
ernOr, Louis Stewart, of Kendall County;
Lieutenant Governor, J. Fl. Pickerell, of
Macon; Secretary of State, Dr. NJ. NJ
Hooton, of Marion; State Auditor, John
Hise, of Chicago; State Treasurer, Henry
L. Aspern, of Champaign; Attorney
General, w. S. Coy, of Mclean. Dele
gates to the National Convention were
also chosen. The platform adopted de-
mands the repeal of the Specie Resump-
ton and National Bank acts, and the substi-
tuition of legal-tender paper money for the
National Bank circulation; the perfect
ing OF monetary system based upon the
faith and resources of the nation, and
adapted to the demands of legitimate bust
ness, which money shall be legal tender
in payment of all debts, public and pri-
vate, duties on imports included, except
that portion of the interest and principal
OF the present public debt that is, by the
express terms OF the law creating it, made
payable In metallic money, this money to
be interchangeable at the option Of the
holders, with registered Government
bonds bearing a rate of interest not ex-
ceeding 3.65 per cent. per annUm
THE Independent Greenback State Con
vention of Indiana met at Indianapolis on
the 10th, and placed in nomination the
following ticket: Governor, Franklin
Landers, present member of Congress from
the Indianapolis District; Lieutenant
Governor, Arson WoIcott, of White
County; Secretary of State, Leroy Tenn
pleton, Of Benton State Auditor, Morris
N. Bundy, of Henry; State Treasurer, j ohm
@. A. Newson, of Bartholomew; Attorney
General, W. 4. Upton, of Fountain:
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
Rev. r. S. BlOunt, of Green; Reporter
of Supreme Court, Charles A. Knight, of
Clay; Judges of Supreme Court, William
f. Barnett, Of Vanderburg; John B.
Haines, of Delaware; H G.. Newcomb,
Of Marion; Judge Lindsay, of Howard.
| The resolutions demand the immediate
and unconditional repeal of the Specie
! Resumption act, and are also in other
respects, on the financial question, SINH
lar in substance to those adopted by
the Illinois State Convention at Decatur.
| On the afternoon Of the 18th, the steamer
franconia ran into the steamer Strath
| Clyde, off Dover, England. The boiler of
the latter vessel exploded, and she sank
Immediately. Fifty-two of her passengers
and crew were drowned.
| THE London papers of the afternoon of
the 18th say that Gen. Schenck, the United
| States Minister, had rendered his resigna-
ton, and that it had been accepted.
A LONDON dispatch of the 18th SAYS
that information had just been received
| there of the capture of three of the MUIR
| derers of Mr.. Birch, the English resident
| at Perok.
PRESIDENT GRANT signed the Centen-
NAL Appropriation bill on the 10th, using
! for this purpose pen made from the Quill
| plucked from the wing of an American
eagle
AN Omaha dispatch of the 18th says it
was officially stated that the Sioux, Chey
enne and Arrapahoe Indians had been and
were yet making the most extensive prep
| arations possible for an outbreak in
very few weeks. They had pur-
chased large quantities of ammuni
| ton and arms wherever they could
get them, going as far south as the
Indian Territory for that purpose. 1t had
| been known for some time that the best
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