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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

THE spoke factory of Cunningham &
Co., at Fostoria, O., was burned, causing
loss of $25, 900.
THE steamship City of Berlin, helpless,
from a broken crank, was towed into the
harbor of Boston by the Samaria.
TWELVE new cases OF smallpox develop
ed at Fort Wayne, Ind, recently, six of
them.being in one family.
DR.. J. d. MCLEOD, of Chicago, was seri-
ously wounded in New York by the ex-
plosion of a gas-machine.
THE steamer Illinois will bring 800
Russian refugees to Philadelphia, and an
old railroad depot is to be fitted up as a
temporary home for them.
SECRETARY LINCOLN has ordered the
dispatch of 100 900 rations from St. Louis
to the sufferers by overfowed rivers in
Arkansas and Mississippi.
G. S. CoEN, Jr., general ticket agent of
the Ohio and Mississippi road, was acci-
dentally killed at North Vernon, Ind, by
putting his head out of car window.
FIRE destroyed the tannery of Ruyter
& Sons, at Greenbush, n. j.. valued at
$50, 900 and five business houses in Athens.
Texas, worth $4,000.
The levee on Bayou Lafourche broke
in two places the other day, the most
alarming one being at Thibodeaux. Un-
less speedily closed, a large section of
rich sugar land will be inundated.
THE water at Cairo is fourteen inches
higher than the mark made by Abraham
Bird in 1915, but the levees stood the test.
A big break occurred just below, ,Concordia
Mississippi, and five persons were
drowned.
AT Nauvoo. ILL.,, recently, the residence
Of John Wilhelmy was found in flames,
and his two children were burned to
death in full view of hundreds of specta-
tors. The mother was nursing a sick
neighbor, and on learning the result of
leaving her little ones alone she attempted
suicide.
DANIEL BOLTON, formerly clerk of Ing
ham county, Michigan, killed himself
with a shotgun on his farm near Leslie.
On opening vault on the third floor of
the Union National bank building in Chi
cago, and striking a match, an explosion
of gas took place, which blew an office
boy across the room and inflicted damage
to the extent of 81 500.
A CHICAGO press dispatch saws that a
loud explosion occurred in the union
building, in which the several offices of
the Associated Press and the Western
Union Telegraph company are located,
shaking the entire building and knocking
out heavy plate glass from the win
dows in all parts of the building. The
wood work, doors and plas.ering were also
demolished. The explosion was caused
by boy named James Brett, who entered
one of the vaults, where gas had been
escaping for some days, with a lighted
match. He was seriously, if not fatally,
injured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09
Boy Inventors
Manchester Times.

Some of the most i'm portant inven-
tlons have been the work of mere
boys. The invention of the valve mo-
ton to the steam engine was made by
boy. Watt left the engine in q very
incomplete condition, from the fact
that ne had no way to open or close
the valve except by means of levers
operated by the hand. He set up a
large engine at one Of the mines, and
boy was hired to work these valve lev
ers. Although this was not hard work,
yet 1t required his constant atte ton.
AS he was liking these leve he saw
that parts of the engine moved in the
right direction, and at the exact time
that he had to open or close the valves.
He procured strong cord and made
one end fast to the proper part of the
engine, and the other end to the valve
lever; and the boy had the satisfaction
of seeing the engine move off with per-
feet regularity of motion.
A short time after the foreman
came around and found the boy play
ing marbles at the door. Looking at
the engine he soon saw the ingenuity
of the boy, and also the advantages of
so great an invention. Mr.. Watt then
carried out the boys inventive genius
in practical form, and made the
steam engine a perfect automatic
working machine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09
FOREIGN.

WARE BROTHERS. wine merchants o
London, have failed for 100000.
| WHEN Skobeleff arrived at St. Peters
burg he was heartily cheered by larg,
crowds
AN Austrian force lost tive hundred
lnen IN an attempt to force the pass sage o
! the Drina river.
| HAVING made satisfactory diplomatic
| arrangements, France is to withdraw hel
forces from Tunis at an early date.
MINISTER LOWELL. responded to toast
TO the Representatives Of Fore4sn Pow
ers " at the annual banquet of the asso
| clated chambers of commerce in London
AUSTRIAN troops had battle lasting
nine hours with force of one thousand
| insurgents. and defeated them Two
| Austrians were killed and six wounded
A BERLIN cablegram announces that the
Russian ambassador has assured Bismarck
that the czar was greatly offended by Sko-
belief y attitude in Paris.
AN Algiers cablegram reports battle
between battalion of French troops and
party of fifteen hundred insurgents, in
which the former lost twelve men and the
latter one hundred
A BILL is before the Dominion parlia-
ment to give the American Telegraph and
Cable company the right to land cables on
the west coast of the Dominion, with a
view Of making Asiatic connections at that
point.
ALL the farms on Dursey island, thirty
four in number, have been sold for non
payment CT rent. The Land league in
tends TO build houses and support the ten
ants on the island.
Two Austrian detectives watched every
movement of General Skobeleff after he
crossed their frontier. He saws he fails
to understand why his recent speech Gre
ated such a sensation, as severer language
is used in Russia daily.
In the British house of commons, the
motion of Lord Churchill that writ be
issued for Northampton was rejected. A
motion of Lyons, of Dublin, that Brad
laugh was guilty of proclamation, and
therefore incapacitated from sitting as
member, was withdrawn. During the de-
bate Bradlaugh passed the bar and took
seat, whereupon Northcote moved his ex-
pulSlon for contempt of the house, the
vote standing 29l to S3. Bradlaugh then
left, and new writ was issued.
QUEEN VICTORIA was fired at as she was
leaving the Great Western railroad sta
tion at Windsor for the castle. A miser-
ably dressed man named Roderick Nc
Lain. believed to be native of the South
Sea Islands, and insane, was the assassin.
The Queen did not know the shot had
been fired. and suffered no i'll consequences.
But for the Intervention of the Windsor
police, the crank would have been roughly
handled by the police During Queen
Victoria's reign of forty-four years this is
the seventh personal attack made upon
her
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09

the war debt. To the attending physician
of the testator s., 900 is given, on a condi-
tion expressed as follows: THAT nv head
is severed from my body, as have great
horror of being buried alive"
A CoLoRED woman of Council Bluffs.
who was sold from her mothers arms in
Kentucky thirty-eight years ago, has
traced her agent parent to Denver, and
they will soon meet.
No appeal having been lee the
Bourne will-case at Newport, r. l., Allen
T. Rice, editor of .he North -Americdn Re
tieaC, will receive 100000 and one-third
the residue of his mothers estate.
THERE is considerable alarm at Calves
ton over the frat case of smallpox, the
victim having been driven about town in
a haeS, after lying i'll for several days.
The house where he is under treatment
has been quarantined, and the council
made an appropriation for the board of
health.
a PROLONGED conference in New York
between the Western Union telegraph
managers and the ckieftains of the press
associations ended in a banquet rendered
to the journalists, at which speeches were
made by Sidney Dillon, Whitelaw Reid.
Cyrus w. Field. and William Henry
Smith.
THE Standard Coal and Iron company.
with a capital of $25, ,000,0 900, has been or
ganized in Boston by James G. Blaine and
Eugene Hale of Maine, Governor Foster
and other capitalists of Ohio, and Oliver
Ames of Massachusetts. 1t is chiefly
consolidation of coal and iron companies
in the Hooking valley of Ohio, and repre-
sents thirty thousand acres of mineral
lands.
In the Sprague divorce case, the ex-sen-
ator withdrew his counter bill, and the
complainant struck out all allegations ex-
cept that of non-support. The custodian
at Canonchet testified that Sprague had
refused to maintain his wife, and the case
was docketed as held for advisement until
the amount of alimony can be settled.
The girls were surrendered to the moth.r,
while William remains with his father.
The will of Charles A. Reed, of New
ton, Mass, after .begueathing 100000 to
his family, gives $4,000 to the town of
Salem and 100000 to the city of Newton,
the income from each gift to be used in
giving picnics to chil!ren, scientific lee
lures, and relief TO poor widows. His
physician was left $500 on condition that
he sever the testator's head from the
trunk. An amount not to exceed $4,000
ls to 60 to the treasurer of the United
States for the reduction of the war debt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09
CRIME.

THE strike at the Ressemer steeI-works
at Homestead, Pa, led to riot, in which
three men were injured.
For pirating plays in Chicago, Alexan-
der Byers and Edward Corby have been
held in the criminal court in bonds of
1000.
CHAs. w. STICKNEY. who was acquitted
of the murder of Campau and Mrs. Dew
eraux, at Denver, was discharged from
custody, Saturday.
C. J. LANSING. a prominent attorney of
Eureka, New, killed his wife with re-
volver and surrended himself at the jail,
refusing to give reasons for his crime.
AN old and blind soldier, named Cul-
bertson Coombs, drew his pension at Co
lumbus, o., and was soon after robbed by
two men at point nearly opposite the
court house.
WILLIAM P. RosENBLArT, OF Buffalo,
who helped TO bankrupt his uncle P. j.
Hanour, some years ago, has now ab-
seconded to Cuba with SIS, 200 belonging to
his mother, leaving her in deststute con-
dition.
THE Philadelphia committee of 100
have discovered frauds in the November
election in the fifteenth division of the
Twenty-sixth ward. Warrants were is-
sued for the arrest of the Judge and in
spectors, but they had ..aed. The COM
mittee offers a reward of $500 for their
apprehension.
ORvILLE B. Roe, of La Sale, ILL, find
ing that his wife would no longer labor to
support him in idleness, fired one shot
through her haad and another through
her head, and then killed himself. Cling
ing to their mothers bloody body five
children were found for whose relief a
subscription has been taken up. 1t is
thought that Mrs. Roe may possibly re-
cover.
IL police court in New York, j James
b: Mantrope was arraigned for disposing
OF bonds of the Peruvian company for
$4,000 belonging to another person, and
appropriating the money. The accused
charges that this is conspiracy to pre-
vent his giving evidence against the man.
| ipulators of the Peruvian scheme.
TIE furniture firm of Titcomb & Pratt.
of Chicago, caused the arrest of Alexan-
der Porter, its bookkeeper, and Richard
J. Buckley and David L. McLain. collec-
tors, for the embenlement of $500 by
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09
To Hhonl 1t man Concern.

10 Whom 1t may Concern:
In the Rochester n. Y, Democrat and
Chronicle of December 81, 1881, there ap-
peared statement in the form of a card
from DR.. ]. B. Henion, of this city, re-
counting his remarkable recovery from
Bright's disease of the kidneys, after sew
eral doctors of prominence had given him
up. by the use. of preparation manufac-
tured in this city and known as Warmers
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.
We are personally or by reputation ac-
quaInted with DR.. Henion, and we believe
he would publish no statement not literal
Iy true. We are also personally or by
reputation well acquainted with II. II.
Warner d Co., proprietors of this remedy,
whose commercial and personal standing
In this community is of the highest order.
and we believe that they would not pub
lish any statements which were not liter
ally and strictly true in every particular
I. h. PARSONS, Mayor, RoCheser.)
WM. PURCELL, Editor Union and I'D
reriiSer.)
w. D. SHUARr, Surrogate Monroe
County.)
EDWARD A. FROST. (Cl, k Monroe,
County,
Z. B. FENNER, District Attorney, Mon
roe County,
DANIEL T. HUNT, POSTMASTER, Roches-
j.. NJ. DAvY. Ex-Member Congress,
Rochester.)
JOHN s; MORGAN, Special Co. Judge,
Monroe Co..
HIRAM SIBLEY, Capitalist and Seeds
man.
W. c. RowLEY, County Judge, Monroe
County,
JoBN VAN VooRH1s, (Member of Con-
gress.
CHARLES E. FITCH, editor Democrat
and Chronicle and Regent of the Uniyer-
sity.)
To the Editor of the Living Church, CHICAGO,
Ill.,:
viii you allow the following card, per-
sonal to myself, to appear in your widely
circulated paper?
There was published in the Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle of the 31st of De-,
cember last, statement made by j. b.
Henlon, nj. d., narrating how he had
been cured of Bright's disease of the kid
neys, almost in its last stages, by the use
of Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.
l was referred to in that statement, as
having recommended and urged DR..
1iehIoH W ITY tue remedy, winch ne DID,
and was cured.
Now the republishing of this statement
in many of the leading journals of the day
has been the cause of an incessant flow of
letters to me making many inquiries, but
chiefly whether the statement is true, or a
mere advertising dodge, etc., etc.
L beg, therefore, to anticipate any fur
ther inquiries and save time and labor.
and some postage, by saying that the state
ment of DR.. Henion is true, 80 far as it
concerns myself. and / belive it to be true
in all other respects. He is parishioner
of mine and / visited him in his sickness.
l urged him to take the medicine and
would do the same again to any one who,
was troubled with disease of the kidneys
and liver. ISRAEL FooTE, I'd. d. e
Rector of st. Paul's Church.
Rochester, N. Y, Jan. %, 1882.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09
GEN ERAL NOTES

ILLINOIS has l, 400 convicts in the Joliet
penitentiary. and 3S4 at Chester.
Gov. CORNELL created a sensation by
removing L. d. Pillsbury, superintendent
of state prisons, and nominating Isaac V.
Baker, Jr., a worshiper of Conkling.
THE Iowa house of representatives. by
vote of 90 to l, passed a bill appropriate
ing $3.50 for the purchase of gold medal
for Kate Shelley, the Boone heroine.
A BRONZE cast of the face and left hand
of President Garfield has been made in
New York for his family, and the mold
broken to prevent duplication. 1t repre-
sents his features after death, and plainly
dipicts his sufferings.
CHARLES ALBERT READ, who died re-
Gently at his home in Newton, Mass, left
5000 10 the treasurer of the United
States. to be applied to the reduction OF
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09

IN the trial of the Nihilists at St.
Petersburg, Soukhahof and other lead
ers excused their resort to assassina-
ton because of cases of injustice and
cruelty of the government that came
under their observation. They are
proud Of the part they played as terror
lists, because they believe it is right to
destroy government in whose name
SO many abuses were practiced. In
America the one man who resorts to
assassination makes no complaint
against the government, and admits
no grievance against the man he killed.
No wonder that even such men as
Shahof repudiate such miscreants
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09

THE Russian Jews recently arrived
at Philadelphia, in retelling the story
of their prosecutions, make it plain
that the Russian tradesmen and peas
ants were animated by d prejudice so
strong as to make them like savages,
and that the local authorities were
either overawed by the mob or in SYM
pathy with it. The refugees, 1t Is said,
were very much touched by their re-
ception in this country, and are eager
20 find homes. In considering the
question of whether they should re-
mann In the east, go to Florida, or come
70 'he northwest, the eastern papers
put the northwest first. All climatic
considerations would favor the north
west, but the special inducements of.
fered will probably take many of them
to Florida.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09

POoch. To appropriate money to the Wisconsin
Dairyman's Association. For the preservation
OF certain game. To appropriate money to the
Central Wisconsin agricultural association. Re-
lating to term insurance companies. For pro-
lection of fish in Devils lake. To amend chap
ter 81, general laws of 1873. To provide more
perfect system of scaling logs. To change the
name of the village of Spring Valley to Wis
BraReh. To amend the act Incorporating the
city of Ripon. Relative to the examination of
insane. Relating to town clerks Relating tc
the municipal court of Marathon county. To
appropriate money to the Wisconsin wool grow
erS' association. Relative to property. exempt
from taxation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09

where the first ill-considered tariffs
have been modified in accordance with
the reasonable representations of the
railroads, and Were, nevertheless, all
genuine abuses in railway management
have been abated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09

GEN. GRANT is reported to have been
seriously "squeezed'' in the stock mark
ct lately. The story is that he bought
Louisville and Nashville stock in the
neighborhood of 100, since which it has
declined to 81.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09
Layine the GroundworL of HaaItb

Without ylgor there can be no healthfu regu-
larity in the performance of the bodily functions
1t IS to its nyigOrating influence, that Hostetters
Stomach Bitters owes large proportion of its
popularity. The people of America find in it the
virtues of a commanding tonic, and have learned
by experience that it is an efficient antidote to
the poison Of malaria whether in air or water
Also that it conquers blliousness and constipation
and remedies nervous debility Few family rem
edies have a more comprehensive scope, and as
suredly there is none the merits of which have
been more widely recognized by the press, the
pnbEc and the medical profession. Travellers and
emigrants use it with advantage against the vicis-
situdes Of climate, and influences of an unhealth-
full nature existing in water or food, and mariners
miners and others, counteract the effects of ex-
posure and hardship.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09

THE fall of that building at st. Louis
was startling reminder of the possible
insecurity Of many of the hasty struc-
lures that have gone up everywhere.
Poor mortar and poor masonry seem
to be the cause, and they are by no
means confined to st. Louis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09

A BELGIAN who landed at Castle Gar
den, Saturday, has pair of horns an
inch long protruding from his fore
mead, and seems proud of his pecu-
liarity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09

THE Utah polygamists express fear
that measures ostensibly aimed at the
marriage relations of but small por-
ton Of the people" will subvert the
constitution and deprive the people of
their rights. This is on the same line
as the thief who shouts "stop thief
when in danger of being caught. Let
the Utah legislature drop the awkward
marriage relations" and dismiss their
fears.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09

THE authorities at East Hampton,
Mass, held two seminary students in
$1,000 each for kidnapping freshman,
two others in the same sum for hazing,
and twenty others in 500 each as wit
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09

THE penalty envelopes" in which
free official correspondence is hereafter
to be exclusively mailed, may be no
better than the old stamps, but they
will serve the purpose of reminding
senders constantly that there are fines
and penalties attached to the use of the
mails for any but strictly official letters.
The hint, too, will very likely be some
times effective.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09

TIE gamblers of Chicago are claim
ing very confidently that they have
plenty of friends on the Grand Jury
who will save them from harm. "Some-
thing may be done," they say, "for eff
feet, and show made of trying to
punish us, but it will amount to moth
ing" There are other claims quite as
impudent as this made by these gentle
men, who seem to fancy that they own
the government. Let us see how well
their claims are founded
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09

THE first proof of the new Scent
postage stamp, containing the vignette
of Gen. Garfield, and we'll kn1wn as the
Garfield stamp, and which is intended
as q present to Queen Victoria from the
American Bank Note Company, was
received at the Department.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09

A DISPATCH from Cairo, H., states
that the city is an island, being quite
surrounded by water. The water is
fiffy-three feet above low water mark.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09

In refusing to commute the sentence
of st. Louis murderer, the governor
of Missouri says: have not one par
ticle of sympathy for the murderers
of women, who, after the cowardly
deed, shrink behind the towards plea
of insanity and plead for mercy. They
should remem Der that the law was net
made for mercy, but punishment, and
that, having had no mercy toward their
victims, they have no right to ask such
from the executors of the law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09

TIE disappearance of MIR. H. w.
Loomis, one of its oldest and most re-
spected citizens, is mystery that Rock
ford, H., cannot solve. A mass meet
ing of citizens is to be held to raise
means to push the search for him be-
yond the present limited capacity of
the police. 1t is ose of the most re
markable and painful cases that has
ever occurred, as there seems to be an
absolute absence of any clews by which
the missing man may be traced.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09
GRAND RAPIDS WIS, THURSDAY, MARCH g. 1882.

forcing balances. The frauds have long
been in progress, and were discovered by
the bookkeeper being attacked by small
pox. --- r.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09

AGENT TIFFANY telegraphs that the
indians at San Carlos are excited over
the approaching execution of three
red scouts, and that the other prison
ers complain of their long confinement
without trial. The agent earnestly
recommends suspension of the execu-
tions until all the cases are decided.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, held large anti
Mormon mass meeting recently. Re
buttons were passed demanding the
suppression of polygamy by Congress.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09

One voice all over the land goes up from moth
ers, that says, my daughters are 80 feeble and
sad, with no strength, all out of breath and life
at the least exertion. What can we do for them?"
The answer is simple and full of hope. One to
our weeks use of Hop Bitters will make them
healthy, rosy sprightly and cheerful.