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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-30
PERSONAL.

The investigation into the charge against
Senator Caldwell, of Kansas, Of having oh.
tanned his election as Senator by bribery,
was begun before the United States Senate
Committee on the 10th.
A full Jury for the trial of "Boss" Tweed
was secured on the 18th.
Mrs. Lydia Sherman, convicted in Connec-
nicut of having poisoned her husband in
1871, has made a confession and acknowl-
edges to- having poisoned three husbands
and four children. She has been sentenced
to State Prison for life.
Acting Secretary of the Interior Cowan has
replied to the House resolution calling for
information relative to the Teton Sioux In
dams. Their proper name is Titwans. They
are a nomadic people, under the care of the
Indian Agents OF the Upper Missouri, and
number 5000 souls.
In the battle of the companies of the
Fifth Cavalry with Apaches in Arizona,
December %, near Salt River, not warrior
escaped All the band were killed, and
twenty-five women and children were cap
tured.
Recent dispatches from various parts of
Minnesota give further details of the terrible
nature of the recent storms At Fergus
Falls eight people are known to be frozen;
at Morris four, and scattered through the
intermediate country seven or eight others.
Two men were found near st. Peter, sitting
up in sleigh, frozen stiff, wrapped in buf-
falo robes. At Worthington, two transfers
have been found dead.
The trial of Mrs. Ellen C. Wharton for the
alleged attempt to poison Eugene Van Ness,
was begun at Annapolis, Md, on the 18th.
Durant has commenced suit against James
Brooks and Cakes Ames, to recover Credit
Mobilier shares alleged to have been fraudu-
lently obtained or unlawfully appropriated.
Rev. W. G. Clark has been expelled from
the New York Conference of the Methodist
Church, for carrying on lottery, ostensibly
for the benefit of a mission house and free
reading room. He continues to serve a
church of his own in Brooklyn, and is ap-
parently successful
| Perfect, the Chicago wife murderer, has
had his second trial, on change of vense,
at Joliet, and is again convicted of murder
| in the first degree, with hanging as the pen
alty
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-30
The Credit.M0biIier Investigation.

Mi. Dawes was sworn before the Commit.
tee on the 18th, and submitted written
statement. He says he never was the owner
of any Credit-Mobilier stock; he agreed to
take ten shares of stock, but the agreement
was rescinded before the stock was trans.
ferred.
w. Hastings sent letter to the Commit
tee, proposing to show that large share
holder in the Union Pacific Railroad, and
also the Credit-Mobilier, testified in a Cali
fornia Court that he, said shareholder, had
used the money and stock of the Union Pa
cihc Road, and of the Credit Mobilier. to
brlbe Congressman, to inaugurate influence,
and to carry through, by bribery and cor,
ruption, legislation in the interests of rail-
roads.
Charles II. Nelson, son-in-law of James
brooks, produced his certificates of stocks
IN the Credit-Mobilier, the first certificates
being for 100 shares, dated December 26
1867, and the second for 50 shares, dated
February 49, 1868. He testified that Brooks
mad no interest in the stocks further than
that he had advanced Ae money to purchase
portion OF them and had secured to the
witness the chance to obtain them, saving
he d!a not care to hold the shares himself,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-30
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

"A California Chinaman committed
suicide by examining paper up his nose.
"A pint Of whisky terminated a two
days drunk and the drunkard, in Pitts
burgh.
Joseph Heidelberg, glazier, living
in New York City, was snow-balled to
death by boys on New Years day.
AT North Adams, Mich, a saw-mill
was destroyed by an explosion of the
boiler. Four employees were instantly
killed, and others injured.
AT Franklin, v the other day, an
infant child fell fronl lounge into pail
Of scalding water and was fatally burned
"A man and two boys were killed in
Monroe County, Wis, by the explosion
of can of Danforth's non-explosive OIL
Leroy Hall, young man of Union,
Conn, was found in his fathers stable
trampled to death and cut to pieces in a
horrible manner by one of the horses. 1t
is supposed that the animal was excited
to fury by the young mans wearing a
frock smeared with blood from some
butchering done during the day.
Near Morton station, Pa, Mrs Carr
and three children burned to death bv the
u. y.
Carr was filling a lamp, which was not
lighted, but the heat of the room raised
| a vapor from the fluid, which was 1gnited
by the stove. The lamp was two yards
distant.
was lost at sea in June, 1872, and a Dor
ton of her crew were picked up by the
schooner Eagle, of the Falkland Islands,
after terrible sufferings. They had been
compelled to eat the bodies of their COM
rades who died of cold and starva-
ton.
AT Hazel Green, Wis, a man was
preparing some nitrO.glycerine, when the
the spot, and killing him instantly. One
ed up some distance from the body. Both
| and the body was so torn and lacerated
that it would have been impossible to rec
ognize it. The building in which the ex-
plosion took place was blown to atoms,
and it is said that, on the spot where the
building stood, the only vestige that re-
| manned was single board. The unfor-
tunate man leaves wife, but no children.
"A well-known miner of California,
AoSCubiy fiSlttI Ills lUluc anu Slcppeu 1nCO
the bucket and was let down. During
the descent the rope broke and let the
bucket loose. Its occupant seized the
upper end of the rope and hung suspend
ed. The engineer, unaware of his predic-
ament, lowered the rope until he suppos-
ed his employer had reacl ed the bottom
shaft, it being two hundred and fifty feet
deep, and then stopped. Meantime, the
victim chung to the rope and shouted
wildly for help, but none was near. At
length, when exhausted, he INDUCED in a
silent prayer, in the expectation of being
dashed to pieces by the fall about to take
place, and, closing his eyes, let go and fell
about eighteen inches. When found he
was lnsensible-of any injury.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN

The japanese government has adopted the
European calendar, beginning with the hrst
of this year.
The total number of emigrants who lett
Liverpool during the year 1872, for America
was 1854 900.
A recent dispatch from Bombay says that
report had reached that city that terrible
earthouake occurred at Soonguhur, town
of India. in the detached district of the Bar
ada dominions ia miles north of Bombay,
and 1900 persons are said to have been
killed in the town alone. Nothing had
been heard from the surrounding country,
but it was feared that there was much ad-
ditional loss of life.
ALondon letter says that the retirement
of Bismark from the Prussian Cabinet is
really due to the differences arising between
him and the Emperor William on the Church
question. The Kaiser became alarmed at
Bismark's course toward the Catholics, and
declined to further follow the Prince in his
policy.
Several persons were burned to death in a
fire at Litchfield, England, on the 18th.
The new Chief of the Sandwich Islands,
who fills the place of the deceased Kama
hameha as Regent, is a Yankee by the name
u cSSAA
Chief Justice in the Islands. He was for
merly leading lawyer in Bangor, Maine,
and at one time represented his district in
Congress.
The funeral services of Louis Napoleon
took place at Chiselhurst, England, on the
18th, and were witnessed by $4,000 people.
The Empress Eugene was too i'll to attend.
While the ex-Emperor's remains lay in state,
on the 14th, they were visited by $4,000 peo-
ple The body will be taken to France for
interment.
A boiler in a factory at Charleroi, Bel
GUM, exploded on the 18th, with most
fatal results. Eleven persons were instantly
killed, and a large number wounded, some
of them in very serious manner.
One of the persons who went from France
to attend the funeral of Napoleon brought
with him some soil dug from the garden of
the Tuileries, which he strewed over the
coffin after it was deposited in the sacristy
of the chapel at ChiseIhurst. Many French
spies were present at Chiselhurst while the
funeral services were taking place.
News from Livingstone, dated November %,
state that the last train of supplies sent out
had reached him, and that he had begun an
other march into the interior of Africa.
Decissey, French Minister of War, has
written a letter to Marshal Mcmahon, pro-
hibiting the circulation of Bonaparte ad-
dresses in the barracks of the French troops,
and urging the severe punishment of persons
found distributing such papers.
The number of emigrants who left the
port of Bremen for the United States, last
year, was $4,000. Emigration from Ham
burg, during the same time, $4,000.
A grand reception was given on the 18th,
at Chiselhurst, by the Empress Eugene and
Napoleon ", to LOCO soldiers, statesmen
and other distinguished Frenchmen. The
Empress and her son passed through rooms
filled with people, all in the deepest mourn
ing, and gave their hands to be kissed. 1t
is said the Imperialists expet speedy res
toration of the Empire, with the Empress as
Regent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-30

o;dinp in the town of Lincoln, blue Ear Ia
County. froze to death in the late STORM:
He had been after wood with yoke OF
cattle and nearly reached home, When ~
10 nrohahle that the cattle either would
mr. could not face the wind and turned
owav from home. They were unhitched,
and when found one was stiff. The young
man had travelled quite distance, and
apparently did not give up till exhausted
Cantain Russell Blakely, of this city,
states that he has never in his lifetime ex-
nerienced a storm of equal Or SURPRISING
fury except on one other memo
rahle occasion, in the State OF
illinois. In the winter of 1886
he was a resident of that State,
and the entire region was swept by storm
which. he asserts, was more violent and
colder than the one which had recently
devastated the western borders of Mime
sofa. and cast desolation and sorrow into
scores of homes. People there died In
strange conditions, some near thar
thresholds, while others wandered aim
lessly away to their ends. The record OF
its casualties was even more appalling
than that of the late storm. he Illus
trates the cold and suddenness OF the ILL
nois storm by the statement that he cross.
ed street to obtain cigar, through mud
and water. In short time afterWard,
when returning to his quarters, he re-
traced his steps on ice nearly or quite
thick enough to sustain"'his weight.
The Captain states this as a fact, and
among those who know him it will not be
estioned-incredible as it may appear.
St Paul Press, january IA and 10.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-30
Shaken Constitutions.

General debility, and the dependency byv
invariably accompanied, are often regard
symptoms of incurable physical decay. G.
thus afflicted it is often said that their COS
are undermined; that they have nothing X
back upon that they are hopeless cases.
least eight instances out of ten, is false
constitution may be shaken withou: t---
mined and even if undermined may be Pc
strengthened; and in many so-called h07s9 =
there are reserves of vitality and latel: v... &c
system that only require stimulating and DE- q
to render them equal to the work Of rc-ss :.
best and surest stinulant and invigorant tia. /,
given as a remedy for decay Of the vita. K
whether natural or casual, is Hostet;er': =
Bitters. If the faltering physique can be r5l l
healthy activity by any human means, this II
ting vegetable cordial viii accomplish tal .
Its effect upon the appetite, the digestiol,G
Gus system, the secretive organs and The Il.
most salutary. 1t not only acts directly u .
constitution itself. Persons left by fever i
deplorably helpless condition thatit would Sc;
they could never recover, may be comTlcs-s
up-it might almost be said re-buiIt-by this,
this well-nigh infallible, vegetable restorative
season of Indictment winds and chilling larl
Bitters should be taken as protective medc-i
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-30
FACTS AND FIGURES.

"A wheat plant in IT'S days exhales 100,-
600 grains of water.
The Bethel Fair, lately held in Gin
cinnati for charitable purposes, realized
$21 ,465.99.
The value of the manufactured pro-
ducts of New Hampshire ten years ago
was S37 100000. Now it is $71 900, 600.
--Gilpin County, Col, shipped over
81 ,O0C, 900 worth of bullion last year, and
the bank deposits of the county amount
to Sc, O00,00
Cincinnati has S8journalists, ofwhom
16 belong to the United States. 60 are Ger
mans, and the rest belong to other nation
alities.
"A Charleston, S. c., circular estimates
the rice crop of the South as follows
North Carolina, 600 casks; South Carolina,
$4,000; Georgia, 10, 400, and Louisiana,
1850.
Massachusetts continues to make her
criminals pay for their living. The ex-
penditures of the State Prison at Charles
town during the past year have amounted
to $134, $50 81, while the receipts have
been S145, 1854 which gives profit of
$14 $50 %.
More than fourteen hundred millions
of cigars are smoked in Cuba every year,
and il mense quantities are also exported.
The PHILIPPINE Islands annually export one
hundred and twenty five millions of cigars
and unknown quantities of cigarettes and
cheroots We believe that Connecticut
also supplies the country with large guam
titles of Havana cigars. -krchGnge.
1t is estimated that if horse cars were
superseded by steam in New York, there
would be saved, in time, 2, 300 years every
twelve months, to the 10000, 900 of per-
sons who are yearly moved in the cars,
as it would result in saving at least half
an hour day to each individual travel
ing, and this saving would make up the
grand aggregate. Carrying this calcula-
ton step further, 40, 900, 600 half hours
may be valued at at least $1,000 900,
which is one half the estimated cost of
the proposed underground road.
"A curious illustration of the power
of scientific prediction, even on subjects
by no means of a mathematical kind, has
Just been affOrdedlls. In the memoirs of
the Museum of Practical Geology-"Min-
eral Statistics of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland for the year
| 1S71"-just published by Robert Hunt,
Keeper of Mining Records, the consump-
ton of coal in 1871 is stated at III, 352, OPS
tons. In Professor Stanley Jevons' book
on the Goal Question" published more
than seven years ago, he estimates the
probable consumption Of coal in Great
Britain for 1871 at 117,900,0 900 TONS
London Spectator.
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-30

WORTHY OF NoTE.-An excb.,.
there is scarcely a day passes that ::
hear, either from persons coming !,
office or in some other way, of 7bs'
of Johnson's Anody1,e Ltmsnse,d in ,
of coughs and colds, so prevalent abs
lust now.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-30

The SUPREME QUEsTIoN--H is
the most important of earthly blessings,
and therefore the nervous anxiety of the
sick to ascertain the relative merits of the
various medicines in use is not surprising.
Within the last two years many thou
sands OF lnvalids have abandoned the
preparations of the pharmacopolist for
the remedy introduced by DR.. Walker. of
California, under the somewhat eccentric
name OF VINEGAR BITTERs. That this
new Vegetable medicine is winning
golden opinions of all sorts of people" is
beyond doubt. The accounts we hear
OF Its extraordinary effects in cases of
chrome dyspepsia, rhuematism, liver
complaints, malarious feyers. nervous
p1!rostrations and many other distressing
diseases, certainly justify the popularity
winch 1t has everywhere acquired.
DIR. Walker claims for his specific q
remedial power over all disorders that do
not involve an irreparable destruction of
Done and fibre, and results so far annear
TO nave justified the claim. In this age
u1 wonders we are not disposed to denv
the possibility of any phenomena not ii.
rectly at variance with the laws of natpra
ana as 1t is held by many Psychologists
mat all maladles proceed from the same
generic cause, we see no reason for the
hcredullty with which some peonle 70.
caro- III the idea of Universal Medicine
Dr; Walkers preparation seems destined
" oe universally approved.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-30

POISONOUS BITEs-Prof. "ADao.-
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it many times without single failurra. ''e,
equally etfectual in neutralizirg and L
Poison from the Bites Of all EenomHT. e
Reptiles. No cae travelling in the wn, !,
be without it. '
See advertisement in this paper
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-30

THE BROWNS AND BLACKS produced hya
preparation, CRfsTADoRo'S EXCELs,oB !
cannot be exceIed by Nature ITS tirt5
comparison with Natures most fayoreI !,
and defy detection.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-30

FOR THROAT DISEASES and Affections Of
'ne cnest' Nbro""'s Bronchial Troches,, ara
Oh value For Coughs, Irritation of tho
throat caused by cold, or Unusual Exertion ~.
the vocal organs, in speaking in public W
singing they produce beneficial results "
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-30

"THE QUEENS TOILET" for the @
ion, is prepared from the prescripao
well-knoWn Physician.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-30

Dc 10 HAVE elegant light Biscuits. Rolls
buckwheat Cakes, Fruit Dumplin1s eto
you should use Dooley's Yeast Powder, Az =,
b bour ofocer for it. It is a pure Bakina
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-30

CoNsUMPTIoN.-For the cure of this dis
tressing disease there has been no medicine
yet discovered that can show more evidence
of real merit than ALIENS LUNG BALsAM.
This unequaled expectorant, for curing Con-
sumption and all diseases leading to it, such
as affections of the Throat, Lungs, and all
diseases of the Pulmonary Organs, is nitro
duced to the suffering public, after its merits
for the positive cure of such diseases have
been thoroughly tested by the medical fac
ulty. The Balsam is, consequently, recon-
mended by physicians who have become ac-
quainted with its great success.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-30

1--we can benefit the readers Of III.
any by recommending Parsons 2
PITS to be the best anti bilious n,4
the country, we are willing t05, ;,
have had about as good a chance 70 !
any one.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-30
DIR. P1ERCE's Golden Ma.

will cure cough in one half t ~. bli
essary to cure it with any otb 'ne (ic
and it does 1t, not by drying il ~ lae
naogtng the couse-subdutqg the -. b
healing the affected parts. For arg" a'a
Laryngitis, Hoarseness, Sapnrasaa.i Ca
of Voice, Bronchitis, Severe I CEISSioN
gering Coughs, it will be fonn "SV DC
any medicine that has ever befo..@o
fered to the public. Sold by 6rD 'e
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-30

IT Is ALroGErHAIwRoNG to trihe witt oy
Cough or Cold, when the risk is so grea, "y }
remedy so sure, prompt and Thorough
Jayne's Expectorant can be readily fOu1c add
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-30

There is station on the Pittsburgh,
Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad called
Hannah. in honor of deceased citizen
Of Fort Wayne. A train stopped there
the other day, and the brakeman, after
the manner of his class, thrust his head
inside the door and called out Hannah"
loud and long. A young lady, probably
endowed with the poetic appellation Of
Hannah, snpposing he was addressing
her, and shocked at his familiarity on so
short an acquaintance, frowned like a
thunder cloud and retorted, "Shut your
MOUTH He shut it.
AT mill in Harding County, KY, a
boy named Crume, 10 years old, got a
heavy shawl which he was wearing
caught in some machinery, and was hor-
ribly crushed and mangled, dying in
stantly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-30

ASK your grocer for Prussing's Cele5rs,& u G
Vinegar. Warranted pure. Preserves Flyh
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-11-29

THANKSGIVING Day was observed in
our city in the usual manner, with this
exception: Sarah was invited to take
dinner-with whom, land where, we
are not going to divulge. Promptly
when the clock struck II, the company
was requested to enter the dining nall,
and ali were coon seated and began to
partake of the substantials and luxur.
les spread so temptingly before them.
Everything went along merrily. George
was carving the turkey won at rattle,
asking each one what part of the tur-
key they desired. Sarah likes the leg
best, but, as she is a modest
young lady, when asked, said: 81
will take the part which ought
to be dressed in drawers" A
young gentleman opposite chimed in
with ii will take the part that ought
to wear the hustle" The young lady
tainted of course, the gentleman split
gravy over himself, spelling his panta-
looms go badly that he did not wait to
finish his dinner, but went of and
purchased a suit OF clothing at the
equare dealing one Price clothing house
OF H. Franks, 40 Monroe street, where
you can always find the beet and
cheapest stock inthe market