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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-24
CRIME.

u. BARTH, of Napa, Cal, has fled to
Arizona with $4,000 of trust funds.
IT is discovered that J. Howard Wells,
Jay Gould's blackmailer, is a commissarv
who defrauded the government out of
about 81, 100000 and then went to Europe
during the war.
A SON of Rev. DIR. Lanahan, pastor of
the Foundry Methodist church of Wash
ington, was arrested in the postoffice at
Baltimore for embezzling money from the
mails
JOSEPH GREEN, young lawyer Of New
Orleans, attempted to fight duel with
Gutheim, a son of the leading rabbi of that
city, in the lower park, but the principals
and seconds were bagged by the police
and locked up.
AT Scandia, Kan, DR.. w. H. Wood
ward was mortally shot by j. G. Hum
phrey, editor of The Telescope. The affray
grew out of local political contest, and
there are threats Of lynching.
Two adventures whose fathers are mer-
chants in Pittsburg were found secreted in
a through mail car at Steubenville, O..
They fought vigorously against being ar
rested, but were finally slowed away in
| all
AT Madden, West Va, desperate
named Robinson, shot Marshal Allen
! Belcher through the heart. and fired three
times at the mayor. A mob collected to
| lynch the murderer, and the state rifle
men were placed on guard around Charles
| ton Jail.
! THE five men whe robbed Jesse Baldwin,
of Boardman, o., of $4,000 in gold, took
a train at COlumbiana and rode to Pitts
burg. As they carried no baggage, it is
LIZ ., Al, L J L
scene of the robbery
BELLE SPAULDING. who has been on
trial for several days at Galesburg, H..
| for the murder of her husband, has been
acquitted. The jury, which held that the
killing was iustifable, was invited by
! Miss" Spaulding to an oyster supper
! after the verdict was rendered. Eight of
| them accepted. The lady will be married
at an early day, it is said.
THE commission appointed by the gov
ernor of Massachusetts to investigate the
charges of scandalous conduct made
against the Ninth regiment of that state
! have found "a true bill" against the regi-
ment, and Governor Long has instructed
Colonel Strachan to report the names of
the culprits within thirty days that they
may be dishonorably discharged.
| HE udh aTTOSJeu dL OrdnO 1Sla0u,
Neb., for murders in Pepin county, Wis,
admitted to reporters at st. Paul that he
was Edward Maxwell, who killed the
Coleman brothers. He stated that, while
besieged in the Eau Gale woods. he and
his brother Lon went eighty-fve hours
without food. He will be taken from
Menomonee to Durand, Wis, to await
trial.
J. HOWARD WELLEs, who attempted to
extort information from Jay Gould about
the stock market, is nervous wreck. He
occupies acell in the Tombs, and begged
hard to be allowed to retain his penknife.
So peculiar is the case that it is believed
he can only be punished with years i'm
prisonment and fined $500. A Chicago
gentleman writes to the Times that Welles
was a commissary of subsistence at Balti-
more during the war, and bled the con-
tractors mercilessly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-24
GENERAL NOTES

SINCE the lamentable disaster in Grand
street, New York, the inspectors have
found fifty unsafe buildings.
joseph MYERS, of Toledo, hanged him
self with the same rope used by his father
in committing suicide three moaths ago.
THE expenditures of the national board
of health since its organization in April,
1879, to June 80, 1881, have been $40, ,S9S.
THE Fishery society of Germany will
send some dogfsh to the Z nited States in
return for the gift of California salmon
spawn.
JACOB NEUSBAUM, living near Wabash,
Ind, is probably the oldest man in that
State. At los years of age moves about
without a cane.
SENATOR SHERMAN, on his way to the
Atlanta exposition, made a brief address
on Change in Cincinnati, speaking of a
law to assist honest creditors in pursuing
debtors.
a WELL at San Antonio, Texas, contains
quicksilver in large quantities, and opin-
ion differs as to whether it is a natural
deposit or reveals a plot to poison the
family.
THE steamship Newport, of the Cuban
line, ran into school of sperm whales of
the Delaware capes, two of which were
completely cut in two, one of them being
sixty-fve feet in length.
JOSEPH PULITZER, of St. Louis, editor OF
The Post Dispatch, has been arrested on q
charge of criminal libel preferred by
| Chief of Police Kennett The trouble
arises frsn articles published in denunci
alton of gamblers and their allies on the
police force.
PATRICK a. COLLINS. president of the
| Irish Land League of America in a man
! ifesto recently issued, says the call for g
national convention at Chicago is a sum
mons to the entire race and all it's friends
All branch leagues are urged to elect I he
| full number of delegates, and to select the
| best and wisest men.
| Two-THIRDs of the Hoosac Tunnel tracl
between Troy and Saratoga has been laid
and the engineers have located the rout,
through River street, the main thorough
fare of Troy, for mile and half. Th,
street is only forty feet wide, and is ALREADY
used by the horse-car-lines. Property
owners threaten a lively fight.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-24

sionists, two liberals, twenty-three pro-
gressists, five members of the party of the
people. thirteen socialists, four particu-
Iarists, and two members of the centre
party.
PRESIDENT GREvY has accepted cabi-
net which comprises Gambetta as minis
ter of foreign affairs, Rousseau of the in
terror, large of finance, and COmperon of
war.
AT a conservative banquet at Bristol
the marquis of Salisbury insisted upon the
right of Irish landlords to compensation,
saying that the sub-commissioners were
appointed because of their favoring the
governmental policy.
AN Irish farmer in County Kerry was
dragged from his bed by band of armed
men, and when he admitted having paid
his rent he was fred at FIVE times, being
severely wounded. A landowner named
Curtin was taken from his house at
Mount Mary, beaten, and compelled to
stop proceedings for the eviction of ten
AMI.
TWENTY-FIVE farms in the county Tip
perary were sold by the sheriff and bought
in by the emergency committee. Sexton,
the land-leaguer, is going to the south of
France. O'Brien was permitted to leave
Kilmainham Jail and make visit to his
diving mother. The land-league treasurer
at Paris received G2, $50 last week from the
United States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-24
TELEGRAPHIC.
Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON.

IHE president has given Frank Hat.
tons postoffice at Burlington, to John L.
Waite, y, A. HadleY, postmaster at Lit
tie Rock, has been suspended for dishOn-
esty, and Inspector Cameron is in charge
of the Office.
Col. PARKER, of the postofice depart
ment, has received $500 in subscriptions
for the widow of Ira Humphrey, the he
roic mail-carrier who lost his life in the
discharge Of his duty in the terrible forest
fires in Michigan.
THERE is high authority for the asser-
tion that neither Malone nor any other
southern leader will be rendered cabinet
position, however much the administra-
tIon may wink at the work of the read
lusters of Virginia in killing the Bour-
bons
SECRETARY FoLGRR has issued cir
cular intended to secure greater safety to
passengers on lake and coast steam vessels.
inspectors must see that every require
ment of equipment is provided, and the
rules and regulations of the board of su-
pervising inspectors observed.
In the Guiteau trial, on the third day,
fifty ladies were admitted as spectators.
The jury was completed and sworn. The
1Soaoolh RdNS W the press d CdIu otdeIllS
that he was on trial for his life, and ap-
pealing to the legal profession to volun-
teer in his defense. Mr.. Scoville an
nounced in court that he did not approve
of the document, and Guiteau responded
that he had not yet accepted the services
of counsel, but would defend himself.
THE trial of Guiteau has commenced at
Washington. The authorities have little
fear of an attempt being made to seize
and lynch the assassin on his daily trips
from the jail to the courtroom. The
prisoner announces that he awaits an ac-
quittal for visit to Europe and suhse-
quent lecture tour. Elihu Root, of New
York, has been selected by the president
to conduct the prosecution, and will be
assisted by Judge J. K. Porter and w.
d. Davidge Mr.. Scoville, the prisoner 8
counsel, will have the aid of General
Henkie and Mr.. Robinson, of Washing
ton.
FROM present appearances the contest
for the speakership of the house of repre-
sentatives is narrowed down to Mr.. Kas-
son, of Iowa, and Gen. Keifer, of Ohio.
There is general indisposition to elect
an eastern man, and HiscOcck, the most
able of the eastern candidates, halls from
New York, which has already large rep
resentation in high places under the ad-
ministration, and has the presidency Mr.
Kasson is believed to be the best qualified
of those who are candidates. He is de-
scribed as prompt, determined, and a
good parliamentarian."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-24
VOL XIV.

The governments proceeding against
the star route conspirators has fallen to
the ground. This news will be received
with just Indignation by the people.
The scamps have stolen millions of del
lars of the peoples money, and now go
scott free. The whole responsibility of
this fatal blunder must rest upon the
Hayes administration. If the thieves
had been proceeded against in time,
the statute of limitations would not
have aided in their escape as it has.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Tyner affirms that he exposed these
frauds to Hayes and Key in 1878, but
they declined to prosecute because 1t
would hurt the party. The history of
the matter is in brief that the offenses
of the accused in swindling the govern
ment through fraudulent mail con-
tracts were alleged to have beeu COM
mitted before the 1st of October, 1878.
The federal statutes provide that infa-
nous crimes must be proceeded
against within three years from the
time of their commission, if at all, and
q constitutional prOvisioS makes neces-
sary presentation of such cases by a
grand jury as preliminary to prose-
cution. The cases in question should
therefore have been presented by the
grand jury of the district previous to
October 1st of the present year, as is
well known, no move was made until
the administration of Garfield began
to collect evidence. The necessary
time consumed in collecting this evil
dence took the cases over the time
allowed by the statute for indicting by
grand jury, and in order to get them
in within the required time an inform
alton was filed by the representative of
the attorney general. This informa-
ton has been thrown out on the ground
that there is no authority for proceed
ing in such manner. There will
doubtless, and Justly too, be wide spread
excitement over this travesty on JUS
tice and farcial attempts to execute the
laws
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-24
FOREIGN.
his place.

AT Mecca, on the 9th of November, three
hundred persons died of choler.
A LIVERPOOL dispatch announces the
arrival of Hannibal Hamiin and wife and
Miss Blaine.
BY the explosion of gas in a sulphur
mine at Gessolurgo, Italy, forty persons
we're killed and forty-one wounded.
THE Marquis of Lorne. in replying to
an address, said there was hardly one per
son in thousand in Canada who did not
attach the greatest value to the connection
with Great Britain.
A TRAIN conveying six French soldiers,
was upset near Susa, Tunis, by stones
placed on the track, for which piece of
| deviltry an Arab was saot.
MATIN MULLEGUE. a Iand-league or
| ganizer for County Roscommon, ireland,
has been rearrested and lodged in Galway
jail. The deputy lieutenant for West
meath was fired at IN daylight by two men
! behind hedge.
EIGHTY-EIGHT second ballots for mem.
.bers of the German Reichstag have re.
suited in the election of nine conservatives
sixteen nalionul liberals, fourteen seces,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-24
q Succession OF Evils.

The course of kidney disease may thus oe
traced. First, inactivity then inflammation, then
degeneration finally destruction of the organs. A
gentle stimulus, such as afforded by Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, is oftentimes the unquestioned
means of preventing one of those numerous NAL
aides to which the kidneys and bladder are sub
ject, and which are so prone to terminate suddenly
and fatally. Nephitis, Bright's disease, diabetes
catarrh and stone of the bladder are ali malades
which, even in their inception, are well calculated
to arouse the gravest apprehensions bat which
may be checked at the outset with this benign
preventive which is also fine restorative of gen
eral vigor, an anti-malarial specific, and rem
edy for dyspepsia liver complaint, constipation
rheumatism and nervousness. It is thoroughly
reliable and safe and fine tonic for the enfeebled
and de5pOnding at all times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-24

COLONEL J. HOWARD WELLEs, an
elderly gentleman of high social stand
ing in New York, has been arrested for
writing threatening letters to Jay
Gould, the well known capitalist, in
which he stated that God had commits
stoned him to assassinate Gould. 1t
is believed that the writer is insane.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-24

WASHINGTON gossip in regard to the
cabinet, is as unsatisfactory as ever. 1t
is now thought that all the members of
the Garfield cabinet will be constrained
to retire. Even Secretary Lincoln,
who has all along been considered sure
to retain his place, has not been invited
tc stay. Ex-senator Howe continues
to be mentioned prominently among
those who are likely to go into the new
% binpt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-24

THE Iowa state tenn perance organi-
cotton has issued an address to the
people of the state urging the organi-
zation and the holding of county con-
ventions of the various temperance and
religious societies on the 7th day Of
December, preparatory to a state con-
vention, to be held at Des Moines, some
time in January.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-24
LEROY BREWER.

Beauties of a free country: Things
are getting down pretty fine, Foggs
thinks. He went into an eating house
the other day; calling to waiter he
said: ''Will you take my order?" II
will take your request, cir" respon-
ded the gentlemanly attendant.-Bos-
ton Irq1lscript.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-24

GUITEAU, the assassin, intends to
make a great speech in his own de-
fense, and his brother believes that it
will go far in proving that he is really
insane
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-24

Lorillard advertised for 500 strippers
when the girls of his tobacco factory
struck. We have not heard, however,
that the Soldene troupe applied for an
engagement Boston Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-24

The Milwaukee wis EUe7aing Wis
cOiasi1a says: ''1n all our experience we
have never heard so many favorable
reports from all classes as we have con-
cerning st. Jacobs Oil.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-24

THE sharp advance in governm ent
bonds in New York recently, has at
tracted much attention There has
been some very heavy buying by
wealthy private investors, while large
amounts were taken by New England
banks, partly for the purpose Ct in
creasing their circulation. The banks
generally report small notes very
scarce
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-24

When the bell of locomotive be-
gins to ring out in Missouri the con-
ductor yelIs "Look out for the train
robbersw
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-24
Proof Everywhere.

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doubt of the power and efficacy of Hop Bitters
to cure then they can find cases exactly like their
own, in their own neighborhood, with proof posi-
tive that they can be easily and permanently
cured, at a trifing cost-or ask your druggist or
physician.
GREENWICH, Feb, IL 1880.
Hop Bitters Co.-SIRs-I was given up by the
doctors to die of scrofula consumption. Two
bottles of your Bitters cured me.
LEROY BREWER
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-24

THE excitement attending the failure
of the prosecution of the star route
cases has not abated in Washington. Col.
Cooks excuse for the information
plan of procedure, that it was so ar
ranged on account Of the too sudden
adjournment of the district grand jury,
Is considered untenable, because that
course was decided upon long before
the grand jury was adjourned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-24

THE business of rafting at the Beef
Slough boom, Wis, is now closed for
the season, and although the scaling is
not quite finished, yet enough has been
ascertained to estimate the total
amount RATED at 4O5,OOO,0O0 feet,
which IS the largest ever known before
on the river for one season, and which
greatly exceeds the amount turned out
on the Black and ST. Croix rivers. A
large number of logs still remain above
and which will be accessible when the
work begins next spring.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-24

The SIX healthiest cities in the
United States are said to be in the
order following: Knoxville, New Ha-
ven, Portland, San Francisco, Cleve-
land and Lawrence. The unheslthiest
are Charleston, Memphis, Lynn, New
York, and St. Louis. St. Petersburg is
the unhealthiest city in the world. and
is followed by Malaga, Alexandria.
Warsaw, and Buda-Pesth. In New
York the deaths exceed the births bv a
thousand a month. or $4,000 year.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-12-29
4 General Review ofthe
Ruby Mining District
With q Brief Sketch
of Gupnison Countu.
HISTORICAL.

II lssenc7aiiy supposed by all who
have read newspaper sketches of Gun
nisoa county, that the first settlement
was made in tn: county about 1873,
which is trse so far IS our vast popu-
lat'on is concerned, but nearly twenty
years ago party of gold hunters dis
covered rich placers up Washington
sulch, which is 2 tributary to Slate
river. At that time there was cutie
a settlement at that place and it has
been said that something over a mil.
lion in gold dust was panned from the
stream in very short time. These
parties, not prospecting for leads,
deserted the country after panning
the stream out, and from that time on
the stream his been worked but not
e any great success. Then up
NJ xbo-xsss5 5 tl1Ie vs. no settlement
4 all = the country except an occa-
s'onal band of venturesome prospec-
tors who would reconnoiter through
the country, which was then occupied
by the Indians, who always found
good fishing and plenty of game in
and along the beautiful winding
streams.
About the year 1873, Prof. Sylvester
Richardson and small party of set
tiers crossed the range with their fam
lilies at considerable peril. Doubt
less when this party arrived on this
side of Marshal Pass and looked down
the valley and the winding Tomichi
as it travelled sluggishly along to meet
the Funnlson river, they must have
thought they had discovered a new
Eden, for it is as beautiful sight a,
man ever looked upon, sublime be-
yond description, especially when the
setting sun cast the shadow OF its ravs
back On old Mount Ouray and other
high and neighboring peaks. Prof:
Richardson's party travelled on until
within the vicinity of the present town
OF Gunnlson, where they scattered
about taking up ranches. AT that
time there was no market for hav or
other productions of the valley and
naturally enough these ranchmen had
a hard struggle for four or FIVE Years.
Of course they prospected OCCASION
ally, but we're never fortunate enough
10 strike a BONANZA, therefore nothing
occurred during that period worthy Of
mention. One thing they were always
oiest with was an abundance of fish
and game. In 1873 prospectors be-
gan to come in, but the winters were
so severe they would leave in the fall.
however, there are claims in the Elk
Mountains located IS far back as 1874.
In 1879 quite an influx of prospectors
came into the country.
The town of Gunnison began to
assume metropolitan airs, and soon
the railroad surveyors we're in the
country, only to be followed closely
by the graders and track layers OF the
Denver and Rio Grande railroad.
The engineering skill of which over
Marshall Pass has never been eoualed
IN any country.
So far the road has reached Crested
Butte, where the terminus will be all
winter, and it has transformed that
place from a rather dull sleepy hamlet
into thrifty and enterprising town,
by carrying from their coal banks car
loads Of the black diamonds every
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-12-29

day; while at night the place reminds
US of Pittsburg by being illumin-
ed with the flames from the coke
ovens. In fact everything round
about gives indications of progress,
prosperity, industry and wealth, and
the future of this country can be hard
)y realized.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-03-10
Concerning Women.

Wrinkles disfgure woman less than i'll
nature.
Woman is an idol that man worships until
he throws it down.
Women love always; when earth slips from
them, they take refuge in heaven.
The whisper of beautiful woman can
be heard farther than the loudest call of duty.
There is no torture that woman would not
suffer to enhance her beauty.
Ofall things that man possesses, women alone
take pleasure in being possessed.
Before promising woman to love only her,
one should have seen them all, or should see
only her.
We meet in society many beautiful and at
tractive women whom we think would make
excellent wives-for our friends.
We censure the INCONSISTENCY of women
when we are the victims; we find it charming
when we are the objects.
The highest mark If esteem woman can
give man is to ask his friendship; and the
most signal proof of her Indifference is to Offer
him hers.
AT twenty, man Is less lover OF woman
than Of women he is more in love with the sex
than with the individual, however charming
she may be.
Men are so fearful Of wounding woman S
vanity that they rarely remember that she
may by some possibility possess grain of COM
mon sense.
Women among savages is beast of burden;
in Asia she is piece of furniture in Europe
she is a spoiled child.
1t is not easy to be widow; one must re-
assume all the modesty OF girlhood without be-
ing allowed to feign its ignorance.
Women of the world never use harsh ex-
pressions when condemning their rivals. Like
the savage, they hurl elegant arrows, orna-
mented with purple and azure, but with pois-
oned points.
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