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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09
CRIME.

The police of Philadelphia claim to
| have clew to the Italians who stole the
corpse of the earl Of Crawford from the
family vault in Aberdeenshire.
The executive council of Massachusetts
was unit in refusing pardon to Charles
P. Sticknev, of Fall River, who is serving
a term in state prison for embezzlement.
In the town of Saxevilie, Waushara
county, Wis, German shot and fatally
wounded his elder brother. The names OF
the parties are unknown.
Two postofice inspectors from Chicago
have for some days been in Detroit, look
ing into robbery committed in Illinois
and have recovered 800 worth of stolen
stamps.
A JEwELRY store in Masstllon, Ohio,
was recently entered by two young men
who threw the proprietor on the floor and
kept him quiet with revolver while they
packed up eighteen watches and escaped
| HERMAN BIERBACH, who canvassed Mil
waukee as an alleged agent for several
publications and collected subscriptions in
advance, has been sent to state prison for
| thirty months.
! MoLLIE HoLBRooK, who recently cscap-
ed from Chicago officers while travelling
through Canada, has been recaptured in
New York. She is wanted at Chicago to
answer to the charge of robbery to the
amount of $4,000.
A CLERGYMAN and several Harvard
graduates have left Providence for Den
yer to testify to the insane tendencies OF
Charles w. Stickney, who is soon to be
tried for the murder of Mr.. F. Campan
and Miss Deveraux.
AT the st. Paul round-house in Milwau.
kee, discharged engineer named Denny
took an overcoat from under the head ot
Engineer Washburn while he Law asleep
and distracted $50.
| HENRY DERRANCE, of New Orleans, who
received a fve-year sentence for com.
plicity in the murder of E. c. Mix, Jr.
made an attempt to kill himself with q
revolver in the parish prison.
A CROWD of thieves and sports gathered
in the saloon of Barney Aaron, in New
! York, to welcome home Holden and
White, the prize-fghters released from
Jail in Ohio, but the detention of their
train for six hours carried the festivitie;
over dow
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09
GRAND RAPIDS WIS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1882

one connected with the road had authority
to infringe on the rights of the Indians.
THR customs commissioner at Montreal
is taking testimony in regard to the oper-
ations of the Pullman Car company
Charles Robinson, late assistant superin-
tendent, swore that cars built in Montreal
were Systematically taken to Detroit or
Chicago to be fitted up, and brought back
without paying duty; and that large
quantities of stationery, lamps, spittoons,
and blankets were brought over from
Chicago in evasion of the customs laws.
COLLECTOR SPAULDING, of the Chicago
custom house, has made a large number
of changes. Albinus Fl. Wright and Jno.
A. Fitch were appointed deputy collectors
and John B. Nordheim bond clerk.
Among those decapitated are G. D. Austin
add John StillwelI, both of whom are said
to be relatsve II e1-President Hayes.
George Barron has established himself as
custom-house broker, disputing the mo-
nopoIy of Sheldon & Co.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09

The anti-polygamy bill reported by
Senator Edmunds from the Judiciary
committee strikes out from the should
er in every direction. 1t is sweeping
enough, surely, and the presumption
is that from the legal standpoint, it is
built on strong foundations, and meant
to stand against all quibbles. 1t pro-
vides for the punishment OF men IN
the territories who marry more than
one woman, or who live with more
than one woman as wife; for the pun
lshment Of women who marry men
who already have wives; prevents po-
lygamlsts from serving on juries; dis
franchises all polygamists, both men
and women, and puts Utah for election
purposes under the rule of comm is
sion appointed by the resident.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09

Mr.. SCovILLE has appeared in the
criminal court at Washington, and filed
papers on which he bases his motion
for trial. F. H. Snyder and J. w.
Guiteau made affidavits that q newspa-
per was found in the room occupied by
the jurors, on which five of them had
written their names. Mr.. Scoville
makes the points that the verdict was
an uncertain one; that the trial was
unlawfully extended into the Decem-
Der term of court, and that the court
had no jurisdiction of the cause. Mr..
Corkhill remarked to a party of gen.
tlemen that Guiteau will bo executed
not later than June 80.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09
GENERAL NOTES

The Irish citizens of Bloomington, Ill.
made up a purse of 81 900 recently, to
send to Dublin.
VANDERBILT'sa art collection, the largest
and finest in New York, includes nothing
by an American hand.
AT a dinner party given in Baltimore
by Robert Garrett, there were present
James 6. Blaine, Thomas F. Bayard and
F. B. Gowen.
HENRY J. FISK, wholesale merchant
of Montreal, has been sued by his di-
vorced wife for $250,0O0 which she in
trusted to his care when they were mar
ried.
The half-breed republicans of New
York have decided to make Collector
Robertson their candidate for governor, in
the expectation that Conkling will head
! the stalwart ticket.
A MEETING in aid of the prosecuted He
brews of Russia will be held in New York
soon. Among those who signed the call
are General Grant, Robert Collyer, and
Roscoe Conkling.
| ANNIE HOWARD, of Boston, 80 years of
age, who died at the insane hospital from
voluntary starvation, left a handbook
calling for 5000. She gave ten years OF
her life to the care of an insane brother,
\ L
ton she lost her reason.
THE corn famine, which for months has
prevailed in southern Illinois, has given
the farmers a lesson of which they will
take advantage this spring. A Vandalia
dispatch says that most of the farmers in
that vicinity drive to town to purchase
corn for feed.
THE British authorities in the north
west territory have ordered thirty mount
ed police from Fort Walsh to Fort Nc
Leod, to quiet trouble between the ranch
men and Blackfeet. The Indians art
gathering about Fort Walsh to demane
more food.
COLONEL HATCH, commanding at Gus
ter, Montana, telegraphs that the Grow
chiefs complain of the cutting of ties 70,
the Northern Pacific on their reservation
General Manager Haupt states that nc
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09

were drowned by breaking through the
ice on Crooked lake, Barry county, Mich.
| igan.
THERE are three cases of small pox at
Waukegan, Ill, and pest-house is to be
erected on the lake front. Mrs. Frank
Long died of the disease.
In 1881 there were S22 deaths from small
pox in Chicago, 1879 in Philadelphia
454 in New York, and "A in Pittsburg
which had the greatest mortality in pro
portion to population.
Four men were fatally burned by the
overturning of ladle of molten metal in
a foundry at Burlington, Vt.
The court house at Havana, ILL.,, erect
ed thirty years ago, was destroyed by fire,
the other night, but all the records were
saved.
A BREAK of one hundred feet is report.
ed in the O'Brien levee, at Tropical
Bend, La, flooding the country for six
miles back.
| By an overflow from the Tennessee riv-
| er, ten miles of the track of the Nash
vile, Chattanooga and st. Louis road have
| for the past fifteen days been submerged
to the depth of six feet.
THE First Methodist church at Racine,
Wis, which cost $45, 900. was destroyed by
| fire. There is insurance to the amount
Of $4,000. The walls are standing, but
are in imminent danger of topping over
CHICAGoANs who have watched the
operations of the cable-cars have wonder
ed that some of the hordes of bows who
infest the route were not killed. The first
casualty came the other evening, when
Benjamin r. McLeary, the engineer who
carelessly cut the cable, fell under a grip
car, his head being nearly severed from
the trunk.
THE Tennessee river at Johnsonville,
has reached the highest point known dur
ing the present food. The town has vir-
tually been destroyed. and the railroad
bridge is threatened. East of Knoxville,
the tallest peak of the Buffalo mountains,
having been undermined by the constant
rains, fell from height of three hundred
feet, alarming citizens for a distance of
thirty miles.
Two young men, Andrew Gunderson, a
Scandinavian, and Fred Matter. Ger
man, II and q years old respectively,
while skating across the head of Lake
Pepin, fell into an air-hole and were
drowned. Two small boys who saw them
state that they had hold of each others
hands while going through the ice. They
were found at a depth of twenty feet,
about forty yards from the shore. There
home is in Isabella, Pierce county, Wis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09
Acrid ImpnritieS in The Blood

Produce rheumatism, gout and other distressing
maladies. 1t is one of the benefcent effects of
using Hostetters Stomach Bitters that these i'm
purities are absorbed from the vital current, and
carried off by the kidneys, which are rendered
standard depurent. This also results In benefit
to the kidneys and bladder, since the activity
which the Bitters produce is reflected in increased
health and vigor in these organs. sluggish ten
dency in those ig thus overcome and renal
diseases of destructive and obstinate nature pre-
vented. Fever and ague, dyspepsia, constipation
and liver complaint are among the forms of indis-
position which this fine medicine eradicates. 1t
regulates the habits of the body, improves the
health, and remedies the feeling of dependency
resulting from dyspepsia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09

THE following is from a Washington
letter: ''The Mormon church has for
years kept an accurate record in detail
of the private ife-especially at Wash
ington-of every senator and repre-
sentative, and it is this record, | am
sorry to say, which has given the Nor
mons such tremendous and fatal power
at Washington for q quarter of cen
tury." When Uncle Sam takes the
Mormons by the scruff of the neck
they will understand that black-sheer
congr essmen are not running the
country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

Az embankment in a new railway Gu
IN Cleveland, o., caved in, fatally iDjur-
ing two men.
THOMAS G. SHEARER, secretary of the
wharf company at Galveston, shot him.
self dead in his dining room.
THE fire which broke out in barrel
factory at Jersey City caused a loss OF
100000. A fireman was seriously in
iured.
SMALLPOX is reported to be rapidly in.
creasing in Cincinnati and abating in
Pittsburg and New York.
THE wife and child of Nelson Decker
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09

The postofice department has been
advised that the Canadian authorities
are again evading the postal treaty with
the United States. this time with refer
ence to postage on newspapers. A cor
respondence will begin Immediately
looking to fairer Interpretation of the
existing treaty in order to prevent any
further misunderstanding.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09

PRESIDENT GARFIELD was shot on the
ID of July, and died eleven weeks and
two days afterward, on the 10Th of Sep
tember, The trial of Guiteau began
on the 14th of November, or eight
weeks after the presidents death, and
the verdict was given on the 25th inst,
or ten weeks and two days after the
opening of the trial. 1t was twenty
nine weeks and four days from the day
of shooting to the day of conviction
and it was eighteen weeks and two
days after Gen. Garfeld's death that
Guiteau was found guilty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09
VOL XIV.

SCARLET FEVER is an epidemic at
New York, and it has assumed alarm
ing proportions, there being ia deaths
from the disease last week. There is
also an increase in the number of
smallpox cases.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09

LIEUTENANT HAYES, who lost his life
with General Custer at the time of that
fearful massacre, left two orphan sis
tiers, who are now in Washington in
destitute circumstances. They have
been making underclothing for ten
cents apiece in order to buy bread.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09

"How long would it take to go to the
moon ?" asks an occasional reader. II
much depends upon the route you take.
If you go by way of rock blast, OF
a dynamite upheaval, you would prob
ably arrive in about fifteen minutes
but if you went by the Guiteau trial
express, you .wolnd strike it about when
the twilight was settling down upon
eternity. Rome Sentinel
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09

So far since the opening of this ses-
sion of Congress, 1000 bills have been
introduced in the House alone, to say
nothing of the several hundred bills in
troduced in the Senate. 1t is not an
encouraging fact that a great proper
ton of these measures are personal
claims and asked for subsidies, which
are backed by pertinacious lobbies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09

"All through advertising" remarked
ex-Mayor Gregory to us as he went
homeward with a bottle of st. Jacobs
Oil, "that l bought this. Your paper
contains SO many wonderful cures-of
course they are facts-and so / thought
I'd try bottle for the rheumatism p
Madison [ Wts. J Daily Democrat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09

ABOUT thousand million dollars Of
our national debt have been paid since
the war ended. France has now near
ly treble our debt, and Great Britain
more than double. Even Spain has a
bigger debt than that which remains of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09

you deliberately resolved to do it, and
that deliberate will was the sole i'm
pulse.
This may seem insanity to some per-
sons, but the law looks upon it as will
full crime.
You will have due opportunity of
having any errors I may have commit
ted during the course of the trial, passed
upon by the court above; but mean
while, it is necessary for me to pro-
nounce the sentence of the law:
That you be taken hence to the COM
mon jail of the district, from whence
you came, and there be kept in cofine-
ment; and on Friday, the 30th day of
June, 1882, you be taken to a place
prepared for your execution within the
walls of said jail and there, between
the hours of II o'clock noon and 2 P.
NJ, you be hanged by the neck until
you are dead, and may God have
mercy on your SOUL"
During the reading Guiteau stood ap-
parently unmoved and with his gaze
riveted upon the judge, but when the
final words were spoken, he struck the
table violently and shouted
"And may the Lord have mercy on
your soul! I'd rather stand where [ do
than where that jury does, or where
your Honor stands. Pm not afraid to
die. | stand here as Gods man and
God Almighty will curse every man
who has had part in procuring this un-
righteous verdict.
Nothing but good has come from
Garfield's removal, and that will be the
verdict of posterity on my inspiration.
| don't care a snap for the verdict of
this corrupt generation.
[ would rather thousand times be
in my position than that OF those who
have bounded me to death. I shall
have glorious flight to glory, but that
miserable scoundrel, Corkhill, will have
a permanent job down below, where
the devil is preparing for him."
Upon the arrival of Guitean at the
jail, he was at once taken to his cell
and a guard placed over him.
This precaution is always observed in
cases where prisoner is under SEN
tence of death, and will be rigidly ad-
hered to in Guiteau's case, both by
night and day.
There is no foundation for the report
that Guiteau committed suicide.
After apparently talking himself out
the prisoner turned to his brother and,
without thc slightest trace of excite
ment, conversed for some minutes be-
fore being taken from the courtroom.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09

It is thought that "Clara Belle," of
the Cincinnati Enquirer, is a man. No
man, however, could write so intelli-
gently of woman's dress, except, per-
haps, Mr.. Jefferson Davis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09

THE result of the Guiteau trial recalls
to the Graphic an old story of the
Irish bar. Judge Porter was on the
bench, and prisoner was brought be-
fore him accused of having committed
some offense while under the influence
of too much poteen. The sentence was
severe, and the Judge, in passing it con-
cluded "Go now, my man. Take
warning from this, and curse whisky all
the rest of your days" 'I will, your
honor and I'll curse Porther, too"
was the placid response. The prisoner
in Washington is doubtless in this
frame of mind at present.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09

THE woman, Blanche Douglas, it is
said, will tell the whole story of cir
cumstances and events that led up to
the death of Jennie Cramer. What
she has said sheds new light on the
case to the confusion of both prosecu-
tiou and defense, and makes the
sad story of the poor girls fate more
pitiful and distressing. In dispelling
the mystery that has hung about the
case, she presents the Malleys in worse
ight than they have yet appeared.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09

That poor bedriddes, invalid wife. sister,
mother, or daughter, can be made the picture of
health by few bottles of Hop Bitters. WW you
let hem suffer. when so easily cured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-09

FIRST REPORT.
New YORK, Jan. 31.-The New York
Times building on Printing House
Square, is burning. The flames are
raging fercely and there is no doubt
the building will be total loss.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
New YORK, Jan. 31.-Ambulances
are on the spot. There is slight snow
falling, but the air is dry and crispy,
with a light breeze from the north,
which increases the difficulty of con-
trolling the fire. The block in which
the fire is burning is an irregular shaped
gore with the building formerly occu-
pied by the World. On its southeast
corner is the Times building, and the
fire is in the northern angle Of the gore.
The Tribune Office is directly across
Washington street from the Times, and
the San offices are on the upper corner
of the same block with the Tribune.
The fire has been burning fercely for
an hour, taking hold in the top of the
building and sending up
LARGE MASSES OF FLAMES.
S. Irenus Prime sends the following
to the associated press:
''The New York Observer has been
burned out, and this weeks issue will
be delayed" The Observer Office was
at 81 Park Row in the old World build
ing. There were large number of Of
fees, stores and advertising agencies in
that and adjoining houses. In one of
these houses there were a number of
women employed, and it is reliably
stated that one woman fell or leaped
from the roof over Pettingill's advertis-
ing office and was killed. There are ru-
mors of another woman being burned
the offices, but these cannot yet be ver-
flied.
THE LOSSES
will be very heavy, both on the build
ings and the stocks in store, including
wholesale supplies of rubber, machin-
cry, etc.
At II o'clock, the southern end of
the gore was a mass of ruins, bu it is
now thought the Times offices will be
saved, though the danger is not entire
ly over.
THE 'tTIMEs" SAVED.
NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-The Times
building is saved, but considerably
damaged. The flames are confined to
the Brennan street and Park Row corn
er of the block. Only one life is lost,
that of a woman, already referred to.
| OCCUPANTS OF THE BUILDING.
NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-Among the oc-
cupants of the burned building were
the Scientific american. the Scottish
american Journal, the Iurt. Field and
Farm, and Ttompson's Bank Note and
Commercial Reporter, and the following
advertising agents: S. NJ. Pettingill &
Co., John F. Phillips & Co., Chas. Mey,
er & Co., J. Waite Thompson, Nichola
Monachessi, A. r. Thompson, Lev
Disbrow, and Leander III. Grail.
i The top floors of the building Were
occupied by various manufacturers ant
by weekly newspapers, which emplyet
women as compositors. A woman ant
The Portland daily press., 1882-03-08
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

XHTANTED-Agents to sell our elegant pictures
wv of the Garfield Family, published under the
directions of Mrs. Garfield the only authorized pic
ture samples free to agents that work. For further
particulars, address j. II. BUFFORDS SONS, art
publishers, SO Federal St., Boston; established
1880. mar8-dlm
The Portland daily press., 1882-03-08
The Cut Under Hay Racks.

Several suits in equity against parties who,
it is alleged, have infringed the patent popu-
larly called the cut under hay rack patent, have
been commenced in the Circuit Court of the
United States at Portland, to be followed by
many Others as we are informed, against par
ties in various parts of the State.
Mr.. bennett informs US that his investiga-
tions have led him to the conclusion that no
case of priority of invention can be found He
claims that the invention was introduced by
his extensive advertising fifteen years ago and
since; that he is entitled in equity as we'll as
in law, to have the benefit of his patent; that
all of the law which has been quoted in the
newspapers may be law, but none of it invali-
dates his patent, because not applicable 10 his
case. He calls our attention to the advice
some newspaper correspondents have given
farmers to combine and fight the suits brought
to enforce his rights, and quotes Story b.,
page 173, where Judge Story says:
A combination of number of persons to re-
sst patent approaches very near, if it does
not reach a criminal conspiracy.
He says such combination would compel
suits against all who combined. Hon Josiah
III. Drummond is counsel with Mr.. bennett.