Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-05-08
GENERAL NOTES.

Al a nihilist meeting in New York
city on the 3rd inst. resolutions were
adopted tayoring the Russian nihilist
movement. The addresses appealed
for sympathy for the victims of Russian
despOtisn.
The funeral of Bush Clark, member
of congress, occurred at Iowa City,
Iowa, on the 3rd inst There was a
large attendance; including stats off
cials and personal friends, and the
ceremonies were most impressive.
THE wife of Secretary Sherman, their
daughter and Miss Denison sailed, May
1st, for Europe, in the steamer Adri-
attic. The secretary and some friends
of the family in revenue cutter ac-
companied the tourists down the bay.
A Sr. PAUL special of May 4th says
that heavy rains prevail all over the
state and northern Iowa, and the con-
tinuance Of cool weather, remove the
present apprehension of drought. Ad-
vices from all parts of the state just be-
fore the rain, indicate that the crop
had not suffered materially.
A CHICAGO special of May I'd says the
Farmers Loan and Trust company of
New York filed bill to forceclose a
mortgage on the Western Union rail
way, a corporation Of Wisconsin and
Illinois, which radiates from Milwaukee
in several directions; the amount of
the mortgage is $3,000,000.
A LOUISVILLE special ofthe End states
that the democratic state convention
nominated for governor DR.. Luke P.
Blackburn; for lieutenant governor,
Jas. E. Canrell; attorney general, P.
Warding; auditor, Fayette Hewitt.
No other nominations have been made
and no platform has been adopted.
ADvICEs from Southeastern Kansas of
May 9Th, say that about 9, 900 men have
gone into the Indian Territory within
the past week; also, that rich silver
mines have been discovered just south
of the Kansas line, and claims in large
numbers are being registered daily in
the Squatters' Registry Office. two miles
from Baxter Springs, Kansas.
A New YORK dispatch of the End
says the Wyoming, of the Williams &
Guion line, arrived to-day with three
hundred and fifteen emigrants, ofwhom
one hundred and thirty-eight were En-
glisE Mormons. Elder Pratt was in
charge of this consignment. The en-
tire party left this afternoon by the
Pennsylvania railroad for Salt Lake
City.
A LANSING, Mich, special of the End
inst. says the state board of canvassers
has concluded the state canvass. For
supreme court Judge. James V. Camp
bell, republican, received 132, ,134 votes;
John B. Shipman. fusion, 1920; for
regents of the university, E. G. Grosve-
nor, republican, 131, $50; James Shearer,
republican, 1874; Henry Whiting,
fusion, 126, ,333; Geo. P. Sanford, fusion,
126, ,614.
A New ORLEANS dispatch of May 2nd
says IN the constitutional convention
the committee on state affairs publishes a
notice to the creditors of the state that
the committee are prepared to receive
propositions relative to the adjustment
of the bonded and floated debt Of the
state. Propositions are to be submitted
in writing to the chairman of the COM
mittee by a syndicate or agency repre-
senting each class of Indebtedness.
In the Miles polygamy case on trial
at Salt Lake,on Saturday the 5rd, Judge
Emerson sentenced Daniel II. Wells,
first councillor to the twelve apostles of
the Mormon church, to pay $500 fine,
and two days Imprisonment for con-
tempt in refusing to answer questions
relative to polgamy marriages in the
endowment house said to have been