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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-06-15

can not turn aside from his private affairs,
| he will contribute to the campaign his
full share of labor.
The Greek chamber of deputies passed
resolutions of grief at the death of Carl
baldi, and requested the government to
instruct its ministers to Italy to attend the
! funeral and present wreath of flowers on
behalf of the Greek people. ..
| SECRETARY FRELINGHUYsEN S papers on
the Clayton-Bulwer treaty aretreated light
ly by the London press. One journal as
serts the treaty has been made and ought
to be kept; and another maintains tn at
England's commercial, legal, political in
| terests are against the position assumed
| by the American Secretary.
| ARABI BEY informs the sultan that the
construction of earthworks at Alexandria
was carried on with the purpose of allay-
ing the fears of the natives, who were ex-
cited at the menacing attitude of the for
eign squadrons. An early withdrawal of
the latter, ne says, would tend to tranquil
ity.
A BAND of one thousand or more Crows
and Arapahoes has been seen on Powder
river, seven miles from old Fort McKin-
ney, and one hundred lodges are reported
near the fort. As they are said to be kill
ing cattle for consumption, scouts have
been sent out to learn what is on foot.
SENATOR BIxBY 3 residence on the cor
ner of Fifth avenue and Forty-second
street, New York. sold for $150,000. Sam
uel j. Tilden has of late been investing
heavily in city lots The purchaser Of
the Jumel homestead has been offered
IA 900 for his bargain.
The Battery park in New York contains
hundreds of Russian Jews. The agent of
the relief committee admits that several
who were placed on good lands in o hio
have found their way back to the metrop-
oils. The number forwarded from Brody
is ia excess of the arrangement made.
They seem to feel that they are doing the
relief committee great favor by coming
to the United States.
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Grants Sale of His Name.

New York correspondence st. Louis
Post Dispatch: If General Grant goes
on for the next to years as he has in
the past and allows his son also to fish
in the turbid waters of Wall street, he
stands very good chance of making
himself impossible, or at least very
unlikely. as the next presidenty. If a
subscription list for stock and bonds in
almost any Wall street scheme that
you may think of is shown to you, ten
to one that you will find General
Grants name down for SO and so many
hundreds thousands-generally for a
very large amount. He would have,
indeed, to be a very wealthy man to
pay these huge amounts in cash into
the Golfers of all these various enter
prises. "Grant merely sells his name,"
a very well-informed Wall street man
told me the other day, land the in
slders' of each corner have to pay up
FOR him and give him the profit if there
is any. If there's a loss he doesn't
take it. [ know personally of a case
in which Grant agreed to take certain
amount of stock in a company, but
never disgorged penny toward paying
for his subscription. AS soon as the
stock, however, was quoted at pre-
H1ium he sold out, sent to the company's
office for the delivery of the shares and
coolly begged the difference. This is
an easy and sure method of specula-
ton, and is only pity that it requires
the glamor of an ex-president's name
to be treated SO comfortably and so
costly by the greedy sharks of Wall
street. Colonel Fred Grant and Jesse
Grant are both nice young fellows, as
the world goes, but, as was seen in the
collapse of the American Electric Light
company of Boston, their connection
with all sorts of highly speculative
enterprises jeopardizes name which
for the sake of the American people
should be ever stainless and ever
beyond the reach of nasty gossip.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-06-15
CRIME.

JOHN TIBBITTs, who committed double
murder at Perham, Mimi, was captured
at Bismarck, June 9, and confessed his
crimes.
Two sons of the late Mayor Sparrow, of
Ottawa, Ont, have been arrested on
charge of counterfeiting 80 bills of the
Banque National.
The authorities of the insane asylum at
Utica, n. Y, suppressed for one month
the publication of the fact that David
Poulton, a crazy convict, killed an inmate.
AT San Bernardino, California, rouble
! suddenly arose between the partners in
the burning Moscow mine. J. Taylor
killed j. A. Peterson and inflicted mortal
wounds on himself
THE sheriff of Hancock county. West
Virginia, made requisition to Governor
Jackson for $50 stand of arms, with which
| to repel the en-Malonev prize ght-
ing party from Pittsburgh.
THE New York stock exchange, by a
vote of more than two-thirds of the mem
bers, expelled William j.. Hutchinson,
for frauds practiced upon John Duff, r.,
in the Hannibal & st. Joe deal, after he
had paid back $750,000.
PATRICK MORAN, of Brooklyn, has
brought suit for $4,000 against the war
den, deputy warden, and one of the keep
ers of the Auburn penitentiary. for tor
turing him while he was serving term
for passing counterfeit money.
WoRKMEN engaged in tearing down the
abandoned Campballite church at Dallas,
Tex, found beneath the floor large guam
titles of dynamite and nitro-gl ycerine
and full set of burglar tools. Last win
ter force of four hundred citizens were
kept on duty for a month 10 prevent rob-
beries
DWIGHT E. WHEATON. having served
| four years for highway robbery, was, June
14th, released from the penitentiary at
Michigan City. An officer from Bloom
lngton, ILL.,, stood ready to seize him for
the third time for killing James O'Neil,
an engineer on the Alton road. The de-
tectlves now claim to have ample evil
dence to convict Wheaton of the murder.
WHEN two miles north Of Denton, Tex,
Missouri Pacific train was tagged. This
proved to be no surprise, as armed guards
had for weeks accompanied all express
trains. When Il stop was made in deep
eut, four masked men spraug into the
mail car, and were greeted with a lively
volley. They then started for timber, and
were hotly pursued, one of the robbers be-
| ing shot. At Denton a posse was put on
the trail, who soon discovered a dead
raider. A huge pile of logs was found at
d point few hundred yards from the
place where the train was stopped. The
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THE New York trades unions are
arranging for monster mass-meeting
to protest against the new penal code
of that state against strikers, which
goes into effect next December. The
new code provides for the punishment
of persons, who break their contract
of service or hiring, knowing that the
probable consequences will be to en-
danger persons or valuable property,
thus taking -cognizance apparently of
strikes, as for example When the
workmen in an iron furnace agree to
quit work just as the molten metal is
ready for casting when compositors
on newspaper withdraw at an hour
purposely so late as to prevent the pre-
pairing of the next days paper and
when railroad hands stop at a fixed
time along the line of the road, leaving
the cars, passenger, and freight where
ever they may happen TO be at the
moment.
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GEN ERAL NOTES

GOSSIP in the Baptist church at Des
Moines has led to the withdrawal of
forty-two members, including four trus-
tees and the superintendent of the Sabbath
school.
CHARLES CALLING was put off a train on
the Hot Springs railroad, last summer be-
cause his excursion ticket had expired. A
Jury at Little Rock awarded him damages
of $4,000.
THE democratic state central commit
tee OF Illinois met at Springfield, and de.
cided to hold the state convention in that
city September Z.
The postofice at Osborn, Mo-, took fire
early on Sunday morning, and the flames
spread until a loss o f $40, 600 was inflicted
upon the town
VETERANS of the union and confederate
armies have spent two DAYS on the battle
field of Gettysburg in revising the limits,
and were yesterday entertained at lunc
together.
A ST.. LOUIS syndicate is said to have ex-
pended 81 SOC, 600 in the purchase of mixes
and railroads in the coal region of south
ern Illinois, with the intention of creating
a new steel-manufacturing city.
A TRACT of 81 acres on the Hudson
river, near Peekskill, has u. n leased for
a camp-ground for the militia of New
York. The 23i regiment. of Brooklyn,
will embark July l, for week under
canvass.
SEVERAL thousand inf uential republi-
cans of Maine united in requesting James
q. Blaine to be candidate for congress-
man-at-large. He replied that, while he
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-06-15
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

WILLIAM B. MEELER & Co., brokers in
Broad street, New York, we're forced tc
suspend by delinquent customers.
THIRTEEN of the principal business
houses of lie Mars, Iowa, were burned
the loss being estimated at $4,000.
A SMALL Pox patient died in the pest
house at Grand Rapids, Mich, June 9th
and five new cases were reported, all in
large families.
A CONSTRUCTION train on the Madison
division of the St. Paul road ran off an
embankment. killing two laborers and
severely wounding FIVE others.
AT Rochester, Pa, the Rochester
Foundry and Machine works. beside sew
era1 frame dwellings,, were destroyed by
fire. Loss, 100000; insured for $4,000.
A FIRE on Simpsons dock, in Boston
caused loss of $4,000. An old man
named Michael Burke, whose house was
in danger, dropped dead of heart disease.
A LOSS of $4,000 was incurred by the
burning of the ice-houses of G. A. Butch
at indianapolis. The Fourth ward school
house at Manistee, Mich, was destroyed
by fire.
HANLAN, the oarsman, is PROSTATE with
typnOlu leNer, anu the winnipeg race
with Ross has been declared off. His
physicians say he will not be able to row
for two months.
Two boilers exploded in the Middle.
bury shaft of the Payne & Newton Coal
Company, near Akron, Ohio. The build.
ings and offices were destroyed, thus, oi
course suspending operations for some
time. No lives were lost.
IN Chicago, June 18th, 6 year-old
! child, named Minnie E. Trasham, was
playing about the railway tracks on State
street, when she was run down by a grip.
car driven by Albert E. Chapman. Her
left leg was subsequently amputated
Lieutenant Hayes caused the drivers ar.
rest for criminal carelessness.
The entire business quarter of Poca.
hontas, Ark, was destroyed by fire or
Monday evening, causing a loss of 800,
000 The fouring-mill of Henry Rode
at Ogdensburgh. N. Y, valued at $75 900
| has been burned. Four children OF John
Jackson were roasted alive near Harris
Station, Mo. The iron firm of Cleveland
Brown & Co., at Cleveland, was damaged
900 by flames last evening.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-06-15
FOREIGN.

| THE Spanish ABB lition society denoun
ces the outrages and cruelties practiceC
on slaves in Cuba.
The proposed increase In the customs
duties was rejected by the German reichs
! tag.
The Military party in Egypt are de
| sirous of reconciliation with the khe
dive
A CAIRO correspondent says Arab Bey
has been acting under the advice of ar
Afghan Mussulman.
! THE Austrian troops in Dalmatia suffer
ed two defeats at the hands of the insur-
gents recently, About 120 Austrians
were killed.
BIsMARK's inf uence decided the Sultan
to send the pacifcatory commission to
| Egypt. The German Chancellor was op-
posed to resort to war.
A BLOODY war has broken out between
! the tribes of Central India. The blood
and hair of murdered victims are being
distributed as incentives TO take up arms.
FRENCH crops. according to the finance
minister, will yield an abundant harvest,
ard prevent large amount of capital
from leaving the country.
THE bursting Of a gun on the British
ir0nclad, SWittsure, when off Madeira,
last week, killed one man and mortally
injured four others.
There were serious riots June 18th be-
tween the natives and Europeans. Sew
eraI persons were killed and wounded,
and number of houses destroyed The
police at first remained inactive. Riot
Gus demonstrations later took place be-
fore the French consulate, to which sew
eral of those mortally wounded at the
outbreak of the riots were conveyed. The
disturbances continued some time before
the authorities took steps to suppress
them. The English consul was severely
hurt, receiving a gun-shot wound. The
engineer of the English man-of-war Su-
perb was killed. The disturbances con-
tinued FIVE hours, when the military ap-
peared and dispersed the rioters. So far
as ascertained, the rioting commence on
the street near the Great square. The i'm
mediate cause was the stabbing of an Arab
by Maltese. A mob of natives collect
ed, cleared the street with sticks, and
made their way into the Great square,
where they demolished the music pavil-
ions and the furniture in the adjoining
cafes. The Europeans precipitately lett
the square. and took refuge for some time
at the French consulate. The soldiers
were called out, but they looked on dur
ing the work of demolition and bloodshed
without. interfering
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-06-15
C aripg tor tie ILNn.

In the Spring months, says the Ag-
r1cuh1trist, when there are frequent
showers, and the grass is in rapid growth
the lawn mower may be used as often
as once q week with decided benefit.
But in our climate, with its extremes
and uncertainties, such fixed rules as
"mow once week" will lead to trouble,
if followed. With the first draUght the
grass on the lawn shows diminished
growth, and is often really at stand
STILL At such times nothing worse can
be done to the grass than to cut it. All
that there is above ground is needed to
sustain the root, and incidentally to
shade the surface. In the treatment of
the lawn, as in all other gardening op-
erations, some thought should be given
to the present condition of the plants
and the object to be gained by the op-
Grafton. The kind of grass varies with
the time or frequency of cutting. A
fine, thick bottom growth of June grass
Or blue grass may be kept pretty close
ly shaven. But many front yards and
lawns have timothy or herds grass
sod. and if this be allowed to grow eight
to twelve inches high and then cnt, it
will leave good woody stubble, and if
dry weather prevails, it will be a long
time before new growth from the roots
comes up, the plot in the mean time
having the appearance of burned
over surface, or dry stuble at the best.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-06-15
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO June 12-Flour- Quiet and un-
changed. Wheat-Lower; 1.32 for seller cash;
1.32 for seller June; 1.34 for seller July; Ill
for seller August No. 3 Chicago spring, 1.lO
regular or No. wheat, 1.16@@1.16K for seller
July;lOS for seller August. Corn-Unscttlsd
and generally lower; 68I for seller cash; 68XG
58A for seller June; 69H@69H for seller July;
69%@69X for seller August; 69Z for seller Sep
tember; rejected, 6S. Oats--Lower; so for seller
cash; 49H for seller June; A 41S for seller July;
3511 for seller August; 34H for seller September;
34A for seller October; 337S. or seller the year.
Rye-Dull and lower; 1@72. Barley-No
trading. Pork-Madly active and higher; 20. 80
G2O 50 for seller cash; 2O.95 fer seller October;
1920 for seller the year. Lard-Denand fair;
prices higher; 11.4O for seller cash and June;
1l.40@11.42M for seller July; 11.55@ 11.57H
for seller August; 11.67H Hfor seller September
and October; 1850 l1.3714 for seller the year.
Bulk meats-Quiet but steady; shoulders, 900;
short ribs, 1l.85; do clear, 11.90. Butter-Firm;
fBir to fancy creamery, 1922, fair to fine
dairies, Eggs-Easier; 18@l8H. Whiskey
Dull at LIS. Freights-Corn to Buffalo, &c.
Receipts-Flour, $500; wheat, 5000; corn, 81
200; oats, $1,000 rye, 3,l00; barley, 13 900.
Shipments 2IOO; wheat. 5000; corn,
224 900; oats, 72 900; rye, 1900; barley, 900.
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Windy And Dusty.

eyes, gentlemen, that was rather a
severe storm here few days ago, but
wouldn't compare with some I We seen.
Why. wind came along here few
years ago that lifted street car clear
from the track, and held it against the
side of house for four days. Another
time saw barrel of ashes picked up
at the union depot, just as I was leav-
ing for Denver, and I'll be hanged if
that barrel wasn't carried every foot of
the way out there and then dropped in
back yard owned by brother of the
man who had it in st. Louis. And dust!
Why, one day while was shingling my
house nailed the shingles all over the
roof, and thought it took great many
shingles to do it. Well when I came to
investigate | found l had been mailing
them on the dust. Another time"
But a bystander considerably killed
him, and the recording angel had time
to sharpen her pencil.
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nIIWaukea ERarKaI

MILWAUKEE,, June 12.-Flour Dull and un-
changed. Wheat-Very tame and lower; No.
2 hard, nominal; No. 2. 1.33; 1.33 for seller
juno; 1.34 for seller July; 1.1795 for seller
August; 1.O8 for seller September; year, nominal;
Ne. 3, 1.1lH; No. 4 and rejected nominal Corn
Lower; No. 2, 691+; rejected, 6SH. Oats
Dull; mo. 2, 49K; white, 81. RYe-NOminally
over; No. /, 20; No. 2, 68. Barley--Dull and
unchanged; No. 2, cash and June, 81, July,
65; extra No. 3, Is. Provisions Easier. Mess
rk,-2O.4O for seller cash and June; 2O45 for
seller July. Lard-Prime steam, l1.4O for seller
cash and June; 11.45 for seller July. Live
hogs-Quiet but firm; 7.5O68.OO for fair to
choice. Freights-Wheat to Buffalo, at noon,
2A. Receipts-Flour, s, S,0S5; wheat. 81 $50; bar
ley. 1,O4O. Shipments Flour, 3,485; wheat,
40 els; barley. / .625.
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may be found there at the present
moment. The stores which happen to
be best known to American visitors are
crowded, and the hotels which they
patroni re are packed to the roof"
Lieutenant Hewitt, of the Twenty
second United States Infantry, who died
last week at San Antonio, Tex. was
married a few hours previously TO the
eldest daughter of Colonel Blanton
| Duncan, who is herself in bad health,
and not expected to live.
Henry E. Abbey, the manager, is in
London negotiating with Henry Irving,
the great English tragedian, for tour
OF the United States next year. The
arrangements are nearly settled and the
terms are extravagant. Irving is to
appear Ill six plays. including "Ham-
lei" 'Chsrles /, "''The Bells" "Louis
XII" and "The Lyons Mail. Mr.. Irving
sails On the I'd OF August, in the Brit
annie.
Chief Justice Wait and Justice Gray,
of the United States supreme court,
General Sherman, and one or two 9TH
ers, will take trip to Yellowstone e
Park, Yosemite valley; Oregon, and
great places of the Pacific coast this
summer.
The Catholic ladies of Ohio are up
in arms against Bishop Gilmour, of the
Cleveland diocese, owing to what they
regard his oficious attempt to break
up the Irish women's land league.
"Mind your own business, and wen
mind ours" is the word they send him.
Mrs. Mahala English, mother of the
Hon. w. HI. English, of Indiana, and
widow of Major Elisha 7. English, died
sunday afternoon, at Indianapolis, age
So, from general debility. She was. q
native of Fayette county, Kentucky,
and lived in Scott county, Indiana, over
fifty years.
The Princess Louis, wife of the Mar
quis of Lorne, Governor General of the
Dominion of Canada, arrived in the
steamship Sarmatian, at Quebec, Sun
day evening, and was received by her
husband. As the steamship approach
ed the wharf, a royal salute was fired.
The Princess was loudly cheered, the
passengers joining in the loud huzzas
She is in excellent health, and suffer
ed little from sea-sickness during the
voyage.
The descendants of John Wing, who
went to Boston, from England, in 832,
will celebrate the 250th anniversary of
his settlement in America, by a gen
eral meeting in Sandwich, Barnstable
county, Mass, next Monday.
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DEMoREsT's MAGAZINE for July is GER
tainly the finest number ever issued OF
this popular periodical. This interest
ing number commentaries the sixtieth
birthday of the proprietor and senior
editor, Mr.. w. Jennings Demorest, and
some Of the articles have especial ref
erence to this event. Among the
writer's are many names of literary dis
tinction. Col. Thos. W. Higginson con-
tributes "Brook Farm Period in New
England;;" Miss Kate Field, English
Women in Bondage;;" Miss Alcott
HR. W. Emerson" and Mrs. Martha ].
Lamb, Sixty Waymarks in Universal
Progress" Among the poets of this
number are Mrs. Julia Ward Howe,
Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton, Mrs
Sarah Bridges Stebbins, and George w.
Bungay. "The Admiral's Ward" is
continued, and Jennie June gives
another of her pleasant "Talks with
Women"
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There is TrOubIe i'm Store

For those who neglect to rectity Irregularities of
the stomach, liver and bowels, which they fool
ishiy imagine will "come night of themselves"
bused by the development of some serioas chronic
maladY, traceable to what they were pleased to
consider trifing disorder of the above named
associate organs. Such elimination is easily
avoided. A course of Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters invariably has the effect of renewing the Sc
cretive action of torpid liver restoring healthy
digestion and assimilation, and rendering the
habit of body perfectly regular. The activity of
these all-important functions being restored. and
the entire system toned and regulated by this in
comparable corrective and invigorant, no danger
to the general health is to be apprehended from
causes which, if not eradicated in time, will as
suredly undermine it.
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GRAND RAPIDS, WIS, THURSDAY, JUNE l5 1892

clerk at 81 200 per annum, to be paid out of the
senate contingent fund. The resolution went
over without action.
H0use-Butterworth from the committee, on
appropriations, reported back the army appro-
priation bill with the senate amendments, re-
commencing concurrence in some and non-con-
currence in others. Among the amendments in
which non-eoncurrence is recommended is that
making the army retirement compulsory at the
age of 81, instead of 90, as provided in the bill
as it passed the house. After debate, the senate
amendment was agreed to-yeas 101 4; nays SIS.
Other recommendations of the committee on ap-
preparations wereiagreed to without division. The
house then proceeded to District of Columbia
business.
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SAYS the Chicago Tribune: "Politic-
al assessments have again begun. A
circular letter has been sent to every
person IN government employ, say
ing: Under the circumstances in
which the country finds itself placed
the committee believes you will esteem
it both a privilege and pleasure to
make contribution which it is hoped
will not be less than -. The COM
mittee are authorized to say that such
q voluntary contribution from persons
employed in the service of the United
States could not be objected to in anv
official quarter. Please make promrt
and favorable response to this letter by
bank check etc This letter is as of
fensive as it could well have been
made, although it was doubtless in
tended to be very polite. 1t violates
an express provision of the statute
levies blackmail, and insults all civil
service reformers in the land. 1t states
in about so many words that the dis.
graceful scheme meets the approval oi
the president, and hypocritically offers
indemnity against removal for comply.
ing with the assessment. To the tens
OF thousands of earnest men who are
STRIVING to purify the civil service, this
disgraceful resolution is humiliatine
surprise. The people had begun to
hope for better things at the source OF
the stream"