davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-03
A LOST STEAMER.
= Boat by the Name of Jennie Gil
christ, Wrecked at Rock Island HI.

Ever since the high water has rem
dered the running of trains between
Rock Island and Cordovas impossible,
the steamer Jennie Gilchrist has been
employed to carry passengers and
freight between these points. At 10 to-
night the Gilchrist left for up the river
with heavy load of freight and two
barges. When just above the govern
ment bridge the cam-rods of the en-
gine gave way and the machinery
ceased to work, and the currents run
with amazing strength just there, and
the boat drifted, a helpless wreck,
straight for the bridge. The crew and
passengers were panic-stricken and
unable to do anything. The boat
struck the bridge with tremendous
force and careened over, filling the hold
with water. The weights slid off the
safety-valve and the steam poured from
the boiler upon the helpless people.
The wreck sunk little and passed un-
der the bridge, floating down past the
city front within few rods from tie
shore.
In the meantime the bridge signal
had sounded the alarm, which was re-
6CuOeu Dy In6 CITY ur6-DellS and a
large and anxious crowd had gathered
by the river. The scene there beggar-
ed description. The wreck came float
ing past and the air was filed with the
shrieks and groans Of the scalded and
drowning, while the sympathizins peo-
pie on shore were totally unable to
render any assistance, for nearly all
the skiffs and row boats have been
placed in winter quarters. Strong men
in the crowd wept in agony at the
thought of the suffering wretches in the
stream. A little later, however, the
steamer Evansville and the ferry boat
were manned and started out to rescue
the survivors, while one row boat was
finally procured and started on the
same mission These worked for hours
and have succeeded in rescuing nine of
the unfortunate ones.
The boat was owned by FL. NJ. Gil
christ of Rapids City, and commanded
by Pat Mantz. There were on board
twenty-three pers ons, comprising the
passengers and crew, seventeen of whom
are reported lost.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-03
GENERAL NOTES

HANLAN will leave Toronto at once to
row Ross at Washington
Mrs. EDWIN BOOTH is again reported in
a critical condition Of health.
CAPTAIN PAUL BOYNToN, who is floating
down the Missouri river, was welcomed to
Sioux City by an artillery salute.
GENERAL A. B. NETTLEToN has become
sole owner of The Tribune, of Minneapolis,
and David BIakely will take charge Of
the Minneapolis office Of The Pioneer
Press
THE Michigan Central fre-reIief com
mission reports twenty-five hundred de-
pendent families, and states that fevers
prevail among them.
REV. DR., BURNS, principal of the Wes-
leyan female college at Hamilton, Ont.
prints a letter indorsing the views held
by DR.. Fl. W. Thomas.
WITH a powerful lobby, the distilIing
interest will make an effort to have con-
gres8 reduce the whisky tax to so cents
per gallon.
THE seventh daughter of Hon. William
NJ. Evarts was married to Charles H.
Tweed, of New York, in the Episcopal
church at Windsor, Vt. The bridegroom
is member OF Mr.. Evarts' law firm. The
young couple left for Quebec, where they
will sail for Europe.
The fire relief commission of Michigan
has on hand $175,0OO, with liabilities of
$4,000. The stock of provisions will last
but two or three weeks. It is believed
that $250,000 would tide the unfortunates
over to May.
NINE governors attended the cotton ex-
position at Atlanta, one day recently.
Cotton was picked from a patch inside
the incIosure and suits of clothes manu-
featured before dark for Governors Bige-
low of Connecticut, and Colquitt of Geor-
gia.
FIVE HUNDRED delegates are in attend
ance upon the Mississippi river improve
ment convention at st. Louis. Mark H.
Dunnell, of Minnesota, is to be perma-
nent president. The Missourians are
greatly disgusted over the fact that the
gathering is divided into squads eager to
advance the interests of the localities they
represent
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-03

EDWARD RAINY, formerly of Galesburg,
ILL.,, murdered a man named Young at O5-
wego, Kan, and escaped from the officers
who captured him.
R. K. SCOTT, formerly governor of South
Carolina, is on trial at Napoleon, o., for
the murder of young Drury, last Christ
mas.
Two highly respectable citizens OF
Montgomery, Ala, named Thomas j. Cox
and J. w. Crawford, mortally wounded
each other in an affray.
a HUGE highwayman, disguised as a
female, closely veiled and riding dark
gray horse, is doing thriving business in
the Boston mountains in Arkansas.
LEMAN LOGAN, who robbed the postof-
fee at Assumption. H., has been sentenced
to imprisonment in the Joliet penitenti
ary for three years.
AN inmate of the jail of Milw aukee is
believed to be Lon Williams, who muir
dered the sheriff of Dunn county, and un-
firing efforts TO establish his identity are
being made.
THE people of Seymour, H., took from
an officer a man named Wolf, guilty of an
outrage on a farmers daughter, and fixed
a rope about his neck, but the constable
rescued him. Several pistol-shots were
fired at the villain.
JAMES E. ANDERSON, who became no.
torious in the Tilden campaign in Louisi-
ana, and has lately been editing daily
journal in Eureka, New, was beaten over
the head with a revolver by w. j. Pen
rose, and badly injured.
Mrs. BRADFORD, a sister OF Jefferson
Davis, died at New Hope, KY, and was
buried in the cemetery at Gethsemane
abbey. at New Haven, Ky.
THE men who robbed DIR. Parks bank
at Fieldon, Ill, were seen recently in that
region while cooking chickens on the
roadside. One is said to be a Maxwell F;
the other is named Clarke, from Calhoun
county.
THE Garfield monument committee re-
ceives about one thousand letters day,
asking for relics, and has decided to enter
upon the manufacture of keepsakes from
the lumber of the pavilion, for which they
expect contributions.
The Connecticut regiment which par
ticipated in the celebration at Yorktown
was escorted through the streets of Co.
lumbia by local militia, and given an ar
tillery salute. The officers were banqueted
at the city hall.
WILLIAM J. SIPPLE, formerly employed
by the Erie railway as telegraph opera
tor. has been al aIrested for connection with
a conspiracy to rob the paymaster's train,
near Jersey City. An discriminating dis
patch was found in his pocket.
ABOUT midnight on Monday, three men
boarded Fort Wayne train at Bucyrus,
0. The conductor saw them standing on
the platform of a Pullman coach, and
opened the door to inform them that the
regular cars were forward. They endea-
vored to force their way in, and one OF
them fred several shots. The conductor
shouted to the passengers, and the robbers
rushed through the coach and sprang to
the ground.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-03
FOREIGN.

On a recent trip to Glasgow, Sir Will
liam Harcourt was carefully guarded by
detectives.
A STEAMER with a large quantity of dy-
Mantle for Russia was stopped in the Oar
danelles.
The French forces in Tunis have lost
nine hundred men by disease, typhoid fe-
yer causing the greater mortality.
THE khedive of Egypt has been per-
suaded to visit Constantinople, and En-
gland and France will thereupon order
their iron-clads away from Alexandria.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made to hold
meetings in every Catholic chapel in Ros-
common, Ireland, at a certain day, and
convert the branch land leagues into ten
ant defense associations. The constabu-
larry at Dublin have been instructed to
warn people against allowing land-league
meetings in their houses. A bailiff's son
was shot in Ballinamo1e.
THE Russian government has become
concerned over the emigration of Jewish
citizens to the United States, and will en-
deavor to settle them in two agricultural
provinces.
THE customs collector at Toronto confis-
Gated as indecent certain photographs of
French paintings which had been on ex
hibition at the royal academy of arts in
London.
The chief of detectives at Dublin con-
hrms the report that there was a plot to
assasslnate Secretary Forster. Twenty
three members of the corporation of Dub
lin voted to confer the freedom of the
city upon Parnell and Dillon, and the
lord mayor alone defeated the resolution.
a priest near Glare Mcrr;s evaded the DO
lice by holding a Land league meeting in
his church.
SEVERAL arrests lder the coercion act
were made in Ireland the other day, in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-03
GRAND RAPIDS, WIS, THURSDAY NOVEMBER g. 1881.

Guiding that of woman for keeping a
'No-rent" manifesto in her window, and
of DR.. Kinny, Of the executive committee
of the land league, for intimidating ten
ants. Seven of the political prisoners
will be transferred from Kilmainham to
other iails, but Sexton and O'BriGn are
not robust enough to be removed.
SIX arrests were made in Ireland in one
day under the coercion act recently, among
them being Stack, of Tralee, long in penal
seryitude for treason; the president of the
Kilkenny branch league, and O'Neill, the
organizer of the Cork branch. The Health
magistrates will apply to the lord lieuten-
ant for an increase of the police force.
The postmaster general has warned en-
ployes to sever their connection with the
land league. The police dispersed a
meeting of the Ladies' league at Ballintra.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-03

THIRTY citizens of Cleveland have
subscribed 81, 600 each to the Garfield
monument fund, and the contributions
from the country at large have reached
the sum of 3,62459, a total of $43,-
G24 50. 1t is the intention to raise
$15O,O0O if possible. The Presidents
body has been removed from the pub
lie vault to that owned by Colonel
Scofeld, of Cleveland, and will remain
there until the permanent burial place
is prepared.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-03

The gigantic statue of Liberty, to be
placed on Bedloe's island in New York
harbor, female form 12O feet high,
from whose brow an electric light will
guide the great ships safely to port, is
50 near completion that it is expected
to be in position in about eighteen
months or two years hence at most. 1t
is made of hammered copper, the ex-
pense being borne by the people of
France. The statue will stand on a
pedestal of masonry 100 feet in hight,
giving the light cleaning from the dia-
dem an altitude of $50 feet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-03

THERE is fair prospect that the
Philadelphia courts will send the owner
Of the factory in which large number
Of people were roasted to death last
week, to the penitentiary. Every man,
or company of men, who erect build
ings regardless and reckless Of human
life, whether it be factory, theatre,
church, public hall, school, or tene-
ment house, should be held liable.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-03
Window Elected.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Oct. 25.-The Min
nesota legislature balloted for senator
to-day. In the senate the vote stood:
William Window, %; James Smith,
jr., democrat, 5; scattering, 3 demo-
Gratis and 1 republican. In the house
the vote stood: Window, Sc; Smith,
IL; scattering, 3-two republican and
one democratic The joint convention
to declare Window elected senator for
the rest of his unexpired term viii meet
tomorrow.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-03

THE question of whether OF not a
man in Boston possesses the flag of the
pirate Alabama is now exciting some
attention in the east. The Boston party
says the flag is the only genuine one,
and that he would not take $4,000 for
it, while an ex-officer of the pirate ship
asserts with equal positiveness that the
resident of the Hub has either been
imposed upon or is trying to deceive
people. He says that the flag of the
Alabama went to the bottom of the
ocean with the vessel, and it is to be
hoped that his statement is true.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-03

GEN. GRANT is going to have a grand
family reunion next Thanksgiving The
gathering will take place at the new
mansion in New York, which will be by
that time in complete order, and seven
teen members of the family will sit
down to dinner. They include General
Grants mother, little, old lady with
white hair and a lively memory, who
lives in Jersey City with her daughter,
Mrs. Corbin; Col Fred Grant with his
pretty, dark-eyed wife and children;
Jesse Grant, wife and children; Ulysses
Jr. and wife; and Mr.. and Mrs. Sarto-
ris, who, with their children, will sail
from England in time for the festival.
THE audience at Yorktown was COM
posed largely of persons to the manor
born, and the applause of the populace
was given to the distinguished persons
whose faces were most familiar. Ar
thurs was little known, because his
pictures had not been fully circulated
in that part of the country. An OBJ
servant correspondent, probably Alex
ander Mcclure, notes that Blaine was,
as he always is, the cynosure of admir-
ing eyes; but the thoughtful cast of his
countenance, his evident abstraction
and preocupation, seemed to inspire
the throng with an instructive sentiment
OF dehcacy, whose expression was a
touching OF the hat and deep reveren-
nal sanitation as the great minister of
state passed along, no longer lightly
ana Jauntlly, with the buoyant step of
old, but with something of the delibera-
ton of age indicated in his suddenly
white hair and careworn face. Shar-
man, fussy and consequential, over
riding everyon passed almost unrec-
ognized. He was the most incongru-
ously bedecked figure on the grand
estrade. His gold, yellow and white
were specially attractive to the African
hosts, who couldn't be made to believe
that it wasn't Massa Grant Hancock,
passing from the pavilion to the canopy
Of the president in the open space sur
rounding the cornerstone, was instant
" recognized, and for ten minutes there
was mlnging of the stentorian lungs
OF the north and the rebel yell of the
SCUM. The general. leading his little
granoson' blushed ike girl, took off
his hat, and passed on with bowed
head"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-03

THE report of the director of the
mint relative to production of precious
metals for the fiscal year 1880 shows
that the estimated production of $780,
100000 in gold has been sustained, and
that the value of silver produced dur
ing 1880, namely, $39, 100000, exceeds
the estimate of the director by 81, ,500,-
600. Silver bullion purchased during
the fiscal year for coinage amounted
to 24,282, ,571, standard ounces, worth
in its coinage value $2S, ,232,S $40, and
the deposit of silver coin and bullion
not of domestic production was $2,-
507 ,766, Of which probably $2,000,0O0
was purchased and used.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-03
VOL XIV.

CAPTAIN HoWGATE surrendered him
self Saturday, pleaded not guilty to his
Indictment, and was committed to Jail
in default of $4,000 bail. An indict-
ment for forgery as well as for embez-
element has been found against him,
and he will be tried at an early day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-03
Chicago 1sarkRJ.

CHICAGO, Oct. IL Flour Quiet, weak and
unchanged. Wheat Active but lower No. 2
Chicago spring, 1.33A@1.34 for seller cash.
1874 for seller October; 1.34AGL343l for
seller November; 1854 a. I.36I for seller De
cember; 1.28s for seller January; No. 3 Chicago
spring, III rejected, 96G LOO. Corn-Inactiye
and lower; No. 2, 62G6216 for seller cash; 81
for seller October; 6214 for seller November 63ss
for seller December; 697I for seller May; rejected,
59g59A. Oats-Fairly active and a shade
higher; No. 2. AK for seller cash; 4514 for
seller October; AN for seller November; 442s
for seller December; AK for seller May. Rye
Fairly active and a shade higher; No. 2, 1.03AG
I.O3H. Barley-Active and shade higher, at
L07G 107K. Pork-Active bat lower; 165OG
1850 for seller cash: 1870 for seller October and
November; 1915 for seller December; I775G
17.77H for seller January. Lard-Active but
lower; 11.421z for seller cash and November;
II.606 1922 for seller December; 11.77KG
reports: Hogs-Receipta 1000; shipments, 800;
unchanged; demand chiefly for fat heavy; com
mon, mixed and Workers in light request; mixed
packing, 5.85G6.4O; light, 5.s096.O5; choice
heavy. 6.jOG 7.OO culls and grassers ,3.75@ 5.25.
Cattle-Receipts 5000; shipments, 1000; steady
and slow; good to prime shipping, 6.OO@7.OO;
medium to choice, 5.00G5.75; common to fair,
4 00G 500; butchers steady; common to fair
2.00G4.75; good to choice, 3 10G4.00; stOckers
very plenty and dull, at 22593.5O; feeders $50
400; rangers steady; grass Texans, 300G3.80;
northern Texans 3-S0G4.15.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-03
1sEIWauRee 7sArknI.

MuwAUKEE, Oct 81. = Flour Dull anG
neglected. Wheat Lower and feeble; No. 2
hard nominal; Nc. 2. 1857; l.331lfor seller Oc-
tober; 1.34 for seller November 1853 for seller
December; 1867 for seller January; 1.371 for
seller February; 1881 for seller March; No. ?.
l. 10; No 4 and rejected nominal Corn-Quiet;
No. 2.64. Oats-Firm and higher No. 2, AZ
Rye-Dull and lower; No. /, 1.O2H bid, 1.O3
asked. Barley-Quiet; No. 2 90.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-03

"A philosopher out in Omaha has
written a book to prove that Shaks-
peare's Hamlet was a woman. Next
we expect somebody viii undertake to
prove that Shakespeare was an idiot.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-03

1t is useless to groan with rheuma-
tism when bottle Of St. Jacobs Oil
will cure it, as everybody knows.-Co-
hn1b,ts Ohio Daily Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-03
hAHoKA No Eeh Q 1SsI

hAHohAi MO-, teb. y, 1851.
L purchased FIVE bottles of your Hop Bitters O.
Bishop & Co. last fall, for my daughter, and am
well pleased with the Bitters. They did her more
good than all the medicine she has taken for sir
years. WM I MCCLTRE
The above is from a very reliable farmer.
whose daughter was in poor health for seven or
eight years, and could obtain no relief until she
used Hop Bitters. She is now in as good health
as any person in the country. We have large
sale, and they are making remarkable cures
W. II. BISHOP g. co.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-03

Pere Hyacinthe has been lecturing in
Paris to crowded audiences, his subject
being the late President Garfield.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-03
CRIME.

EDWARD RAINY, formerly of Galesburg,
H., murdered man named Young at Os-
wego, Kan, and escaped from the officers
who captured him.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-26

The present prosperous condition of Mis-
souri, presents favorable opportunity for
giving some attention to q matter that has.
perhaps, been too long neglected. We
mean road improvement. In the county of
st. Louis there are about one hundred miles
of rock and gravel road as good as can be
found anywhere in the country-so smooth
and hard and so nearly level that team
can haul throughout the year about twice
as large u load as it can in other parts of
the State not with such improved high
ways. There are few other counties in
Missouri where efforts have been made to
secure rock or gravel roads The highways
which run up and down the hills are simple
earth-roads, good enough in the summer
and fall, when there Is the least occasion for
using them, but almost impossible quag-
mires In the winter and spring when farm
ers want to do most of their hauling. Ii is
true improved roads are expensive ut first
and they are not TO be found IN abundance
except in thckly settled countries where
they are the growth Of years of labor and
care But If Missouri is not old and rich
enough to have an ample supply of good
roads II is old and prosperous enough TO be.
gun the work oil bullulny them at least, and
this duty may, with propriety, be pressed
strongly upon the consideration of It's peo-
pie. We say that the first cost of a good
road is large, but the first cost is nearly the
whole cost, for when a road-bed is well con.
structed the expense of keeping il in repair
is triling. In the prairie countries where
road metal is not TO be had at convinient
distances, Improvement would be most
costly, but even here the level or gently
rolling surface of the land would partly
compensate for the cost Of the dressing.
there would be no steep hills to cut down
and no gullies to fill up aud road-bulding
would consist simply In throwing
up n curved bed and Gaping Il
with broken stone or gravel. In
many counties, however, the present main
highways run along lodges of rock or
gravel beds In streams that afford an abund.
ant and cheap supply of the metal needed,
and the chief expense Of road-making
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-26
MARKETS by TELEGR.aPH
NEW YORK

NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, November Is Flour dull and
declining
Wheat moderately active; 81 to = lower.
corn opened a to Z lower afterwards recover.
od and advanced a.
Pork dull II 3.S.
Lard weak IA.
Spirits mrpentine5j
X sin 2lj.
Frcghts steady.
Solee very dull prices nominally un.hal gid
sugar unchanged In price but dun; rem, i
dnll ANA weak standard A ga to "a.
Molnsses unchanged and dull.
WOOL steady but rather quiet: domestic fleece
o. 10 io pulled 70 to ~; unwoshed II to 80; Tex.
NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, November 25,-Flour onet
steady; snpcrhne AZ II 3: double 5B asa. treblr
a Ga; higher grades Gla74.
Corn good demand ut n to S2c.
Corn meal scarce firm; new 10 to 3bO
&c >"V'NS ~ "
Pork quiet hut steady att
to l2a{ 7 - -
Dry salt meat quiet: shoulders loose G1o
acked GO 10 6 %; no sides here,
Bacon steady no shoulders ON hand; clenr rib
and long clear los; clear IL
Hams dull aud lower choice sugar cured
canYassod to 10.
~ n,'AVA HIiHi NVhlVIn rcCUUcu w 10 / IL
Iohee actiye and firm; cargOcs ordinary Ia
prime o To l2A;
Sugar good demand; inferior to 3 10; com.
mol to good common So to ca; fnir TO fully fair
1913 10 ~; prime to choice 90
hola'ses quiet but tirm common IS 20 40:
centrifugal q to i5; fair u to A. prime TO choice
AZ to 53c
Rice firm; ordinary to choice 8 to &c.
Bran higher az Ii.
CHICAGO
CHICAGO, November25 F lour unt hanged
Wheat unsettled; lower closing strong: 80 2
Chicago spring l25 Il l25ti cash; 125h Tor No
Vmber l25h for December; 12SiOr January,
No do NJ; regulars to 20.
Corn duh and week 5S IL cash; November and
December 50 for January,
Oats active, firm and highcr Il cash anl No.
yember i5a for December i3N TO- j ,luary
Pork unsettled, generally h. ner ut l6 to 10 s5
cash November and December17 lOt II for
January,
Lard active; ashade hig her at 10 o. cash and
November 10 % IL to II for December; ii 20 To-
II % 10 for January
Bulk meats easier shoulders IS; sh ort ribs
: So short clear %
Whiskey steady and unchanged
ST. LOUIS
ST. LOUIS, November 25-Flour dun and
unchanged.
Wheat opened lower and advanced; closed
firm No, 9 red fall, 1907 cash; lSI 10 for DE
Gem rcr 10 for January
Corn hihger ati5A cash: ASK for December.
Pork quiet; II cash; II o. for January
Bulk meats steady; shoulders 90 rib G5;
clenr 10 '
Bacon slow; shouldcrsS,s; rib and sides 1912
Lard better ut lie.
Whiskey steadyat l6.