Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-28
THE EAST.

THE Maine State Greenback Convention
met ut SkOwhegan, on the 18th. Rev. H. E.
Munson, of Skowhegan, was nominated for
Governor. The platform adopted demands
the immediate repeal of the Resumption act
of Jan. Il, 1875; that the Government as
sumo its sovereign functions and fur
nish the people with a currency based upon
the faith and resources of the Ma
ton, IN harmony with the genius of our
Government and adapted to the wants of
Legitimate business; that as fast as practi-
cable National Bank notes be Withdrawn
and replaced by paper money issued by the
Government directly to the people, aud be
made full legal-tender for all debts, pub
lie and private, except when coin is in
contract, that this money shall be receiva-
Die for all duties, dues and taxes, and be
interchangeable with low interest-bearing
Government bonds; that the Government re-
monetize silver; that the present bonded
debt of the country be refunded as rapidly
as possible into registered interchangeable
bonds bearing a low rate of interest; that the
public domain should be reserved lor actual
settlers, and that there shall be retrenchment
and economy in all branches of the public
vice.
A New YORK dispatch of the 18th states
that the old passenger rates between the
West and East would be restored at once,
and the fast trains would soon be withdrawn
REV. JoUN S. c, ABBOTT, the historian,
died at FAIR Haven, Conn, on the 18th.
THE Philadelphia Typographical Union
has reduced prices of composition to forty
cents per 1000 ems on newspaper work, aud
tn thirtv-fiya and thirty Spya, captS ~, hool-
work.
On the 18th, the entire Freshman class of
Princeton College, numbering 100 men, were
suspended and ordered to leave town They
were charged with bull-dozing' the faculty
CONSIDERABLE excitement has been ere
ated at the East because of the exclusion of
Joseph S>ligman, a prominent New York
banker, from the Grand Union Hotel at Sara
toga, on the ground, it is alleged, of his be-
ing Jew. His brother, Jesse Seligman,
stated on the Goth that he thought it very
unlikely that any measures would be taken
to institute proceedings against Judge
Hilton under the Civil Rights act. What
he wished impressed upon the public was
the fact that this was not a person
al controversy between his brother and
Judge Hilton. His brother was excluded
from the Grand Union Hotel on the ground
that a rule had been made excluding all of
his race. Judge Hilton is reported to have
said that he had done what he conceived to
be his duty in the protection Of the interests
of the property in his charge; there was a
class of people whom he would not have in
the hotel, and he had right to say so.
Four tramps were killed and one fatally
injured by the giving way of the walls of a
long-disused lime kiln near Bridgeport, Pa,
on the Goth. They were sleeping on the
broken furnaces.
On the 21st, eleven of the Mollie Mcguire
consp;rators of the Pennsylvania coal re-
gions, convicted of murder, were hanged
six at Pottsville, four at Mauch Chunk and
one at Wilkesbarre.
THE body of Mary Ella Harrington, alb
Quoted from East Boston nearly year ago,
has been recently found in the Merrimac
River, six miles from Lowell, Mass The
body was bound with ropes into the smallest
possible compass, sewed in sacks and
weighted down.
GOLD closed in New York, on June 21st, at
1O59s. The following were the closing quo
tations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring
Wheat, S1.59S@1.60; No . Milwaukee,
s1.67. Oats, Western and State, 4O06Oc.
Corn, Western Mixed, 6055c. Pork, Mess.
S1425114.40. Lard, S9.20. Flour, good to
choice, s6.65@6.75; White Wheat Extra,
s6so@7OO. Cattle, 1o14@1214c for good to
extra. Sheep, s4.5o@61211. Hogs, s5.oO@
SO.
AT East Liberty, Pa, on June 21st. Cattle
brought: Best, Sc 25@6.50; Medium, $3.50
$500; Common, s4.50@5.50. Hogs sold