Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-06-24

cifc, so as to be in readiness in case of a
war with China.
One of the inmates of the Jail at Spring
field, Ill, has the smallpox. The build
ing is crowded with prisoners, and it is
feared that there may be an epidemic.
THE flood in the Mississippi continues.
4 rise of twenty feet is reported at Nc
Gregor, where the thousands of tons of ice
have been swept away.
RUSSIAN exports have fallen off so per
cent. during the last six months as COM
pared witA the exports of the correspond
ing six months of last year.
SEVERAL French firms are said to have
received large orders from the Chinese
government for rifles, with a request that
the orders be filled as speedily as possible.
ABOUT 5000 immigrants landed at Castle
Garden on the 18th inst. Among them
were 800 Mormons, who took passage i'm
mediately for the saints abode, Salt Lake
City.
THE prohibitionist national convention
have nominated for president, Neal Dow,
of Maine, for vice-president, A. H. Thomp-
son, of Westerville, O. The convention
was held at Cleveland, Ohio, on the 18th
inst.
MOONEY, the leader of the Leadville
strike, was arrested on warrant from the
sheriff of Lake county, while addressing a
meeting at Denver called to indorse the
Leadville strike. No resistance was at
tempted.
NOTwITHSTANDING the favorable report
from the department of justice in the case
of Gen. Macarthur, of Chicago, it is said
the president will not pardon him until
the amount of his defalcation has been
made good.
J. K. EMMETT (''Fritz'') has been commit
ted to the Kings county On. " Ienebriate
asylum at the instance of his family. He
is in very poor health as the result of pro-
longed "sprees," and confinement is the
only remedy left.
A PARTY of about fifty Poles arrived in
Chicago. on the 10th inst, and were car
ried ir express wagons to the northern
part OF the city, where they we're found the
next day asleep under sidewalk. There
were several sick children in the band.
Some charitable fellow-countrymen of the
emigrants took them in charge and sup
piled them with food and quarters.
THE supreme court at indianapolis, Ind.
overthrew the constitutional amendments,
changing the time of holding the election
for state officers, from October TO the sec
ond Tuesday in November. The opinion
of the court was rendered by Judge Bidell,
Judges Hawk and Warden concurring,
Judge Niblack dissenting. The opinion is
yer long and reviews the history Of the act
fully. This again places Indiana among
the states holding elections in October.
THE Indiana republicans have nomi-
mated the following state ticket: For gov
ernor, Hon. Albert G. Porter, of Marion
county; for Acknowledgements, Thomas
Hanna, of Putnam; for judge of the su-
preme court, third district Hon. Byron K.
Elliott, of Marion; for judge of the su-
preme court, fifth district, VIM. A. Woods,
of Elkhart; for secretary of state, Col. E.
II. Wolf, of Rush county; for treasurer of
state, Col. Roswell S. Hill, of Clay county
for attorney-general,J Judge d. p. Baldwin,
of Cass county; for reporter of the supreme
court, Francis M. Dice, of Fountain coun-
ty; for clerk of the supreme court, Daniel
Boyce, of Tippecanoe; for superintendent
of public instruction, Prof. J. NJ. Bloss,
of Nanderburg county.