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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23

interrupted diseu ssion, and when the doors opened
the senate adjourned.
House-Mr. Hewitt, rising to a question of
privilege referred to the recently published letter
OF Jacob K. Shipherd to Minister Hurlburt, of
Peru, and to the use of his (Hewitt's) name as
being one of the gentlemen with whom ShipheId
claimed TO be in confidential negotiations. II was
proper to say he didn't know Shipherd, had never
known him, and the use of his name by Shepherd
was entirely without his knowledge or consent
He found on his desk one day a circular
which may have related to ;his busi-
ness, and which he threw into the waste basket
He was authorized in behalf of August Belmont
to make the same disclaimer
On motion Of Mr.. Valentine, of Nebraska, the
bill was passed authorizing the secretary of war
to send TO Nebraska tents etc.. to be used at the
soldiers reunion to be held at Grand Island, Ne
braSka.
The bill introduced by Mr.. Cobb, of Indiana,
was then considered, providing that all silver coin
defaced Or worn by ordinary use shall be received
by the government and paid for in perfect coin at
its original price.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23
CRIME.

I'M. Dixon. postmaster at Ennix, Tex,
has been arrested for the embezzlement OF
$500.
TIE assassination of John Lanahan, an
Iowa farmer, was the work of his daugh.
ter.
THEODORE PATTON, a prodigal son OF
the ex-sheriff at Detroit, was shot dead In
a saloon, by some person unknown.
DEPUTY SHERIFF STEVENS, Of San An
tonic. killed Juan Garcio, noted horse
thief. who fred at him to escape being al
| rested.
| LEWIS POWELL. a white citizen OF
INnchburg. Va, has been sentenced to loo
Iashes ON The bare back for HOUSEKEEPING
and robbery.
| JOHN FRANK, who has far the past year
systematically robbed the fare-boxes in
the Peoria, H., horse cars, has been caught
in the act.
In a cornfeld near Bloomington, ILL.,, a
colored tramp was caught in the act OF
searching a mail-pouch stolen from st.
Louis train.
: LARGE number of witnesses, includ-
in0 twenty Indians, have arrived at Dead
wood to appear on the trial of Crow Dos
for killing Spotted Tail.
T.
has four times been convicted of the
murder of Dora Broemser, has beer
granted a writ of error by Justice Miller
Of the United States supreme court.
: Hon. A. w. CAMPBELL, the West Nlr
6 gina journalist who achieved dlstlnctlol
e in the Chicago convention, has com
menced divorce proceedings, having
Z caught leading merchant of Wheelln
l. in his residence under circumstance
q which left no doubt of his wife's guilt.
= w. J. MCGARIGLE, chief of police c
, Chicago, asks an appropriation of SS49
e 72O so for the fiscal year. The arrests tc
le 1881 numbered 31,713, and the fines in
posed aggregated 1853, ,937. The recon
10 mendation is made that the day squad
IN increased from forty to seventy-hve me-
re A lightweight prize-6ght, for 500
g side. took place a few days since IN MI
nesota. across the river frcm Grand Fork
ol Dakota. There was only one round,
81 which John Cook Knocked out the eye
a Skinny Frost.
SrsAN Mosr, of Lancaster, Pennsy
uS vania. locked the doors of her house
IL. the inside, and beat her mother-ln-law
death. She then confessed her crime
p the authorities, and expressed the no
its that someone would kill her.
VS. In the SticSney murder trial, at Denv
AS the prisoner made an attempt on
' throat of one of the counsel for the pro
D. cution, after calling him liar. !
ta- court announced that Stickney would
o. bandcuffed if the scene were repeated.
af THE authorities at Adrian, Mich, hs
oi placed Ralph J. Jewell in jail and for'
i've Alderman Clark to give s0,0uO pail
me answer for completely in the fraud.
tod derman Hearne, of Adrian, held a conf
.eu ence in New York with the parties
let negotiated the loan, when it was agr
nse that the bonds should be returned II
,,,s council would authorize the release OF
'"' money deposited with the trust oompa
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23
country ;

Two men, brothers, entered a Wash
ington newspaper office one day recent
", armed with pistols, and commenced
a quarrel with one of the editors who
happened to be in. They intended
evidently, to shoot the editor with
whom the quarrel was made, and while
one of the brothers grappled with him
the other fired his pistol several times
Instead of killing the journalist, how
ever, he killed his brother. An assas
sin in intention thus met with suddei
and terrible retribution. The othe
who fired the fatal shot made hlmsel
liable as murderer since he causes
death while deliberately engaged IN tn
commission of an unlawful act.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23

Mr.. JOHN w. GUITEAU, since the
conviction of his brother, has spent
norton of every day with him. He
states that Charles does not show any
mental anguish, and is not in any man
ner broken up. He says his brother
has no fear of death, and will meet 1t
with the air Of martyr. He IS hopeful,
regarding himself as Gods man, and
saws: soThey may do what they please
with my body, but the American people
will be satisfied in less than fifty years
that my act was for the benefit OF th'
country"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23

Section 2. That whenever a new state is ad-
mitted to the Union, the representative or repre-
sentatives assigned to it shall be in addition to
the number of three hundred and twenty-six.
Section 3. That in each state entitled under
this appOrtionment, the number to which such
state may be entitled in the 48th and each subse-
quent congress shall be elected by districts COM
posed of contiguous territory and containing as
nearly as practicable an equal number of inhah-
itants and equal in number to the representatives
to which such state may be entitled in congress,
no one district eecting more than one representa-
tive unless the legislature of such state shall 9th.
erwise provide before election. Such represen-
tatives shall take their place as provided by law
Where no change shall be hereby made in the rep
resentation of a state the representatives to the
48th congress shall be elected therein as pro-
vided by law. If the number hereby provided be
larger than it before the change, the addi-
tiOnal representative representatives allowed
to said state under this apportionment, may be
elected by the state at large and the other repre-
sentatives to which the state is entitled by dis
tricts, as now prescribed by law in said state and
if the number hereby provided for shall in any
state be less than it before the change hereby
made, then the whole number to such state here
by provided for, shall be elected at large unless
the legislatures of said states have provided OF
shall otherwise provide before the time fixed by
law for the next election of representatives there
in.
SectiOn4. All acts and parts of acts inconsist-
ent herewith are hereby repealed.
SATURDAY, FEB. 18.
.Seaate-Not in session.
Bo,se-A bill to promote the efficiency of the
life-saying service was reported, and the house
went into committee of the whole on the imme-
date defsisncy bill, which appropriates 81 ,S22 :
9S3.
Quite an interesting discussion arose on the
silver question.
Mr.. Hewitt made vigorous attacks on the
standard silver dollar characterzing it as cheat
and fraud, and fiat money in its worst and
Objectionable sense, and asserting it rendered
all commercial transactions cheating transac
tions.
Messrs. Stephens and Marsh defended the
silver dollar, declaring it to be the true unit
of value. They characterized the act Of
1873 as an act passed for the purpose of degrad-
ing silver, and Marsh declared that the cry thai
the standard dollar was fraudulent, was false il
fact and untrue in principle.
Mr.. Buckner also defended the standard dollar
and after further discussion upon various item:
in the bill, the committee rose and reported it tc
the house. Passed. yeas 155, nays 26. Ad-
journed.
MONDAY, FEB. 20.
Senate-Sen Hale, from the census committee,
reported favorabiy the house apportionment bill
and asked unanimous consent for its immediate
consideration,
Sen. Vest objected, but the bill was taken uI
and the amendments of the committee thereto
adopted without objection.
consumed the session until an executive session
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23

An egg depositlong ago by an os-
trich was discovei in a subterranean
culumbarium at zaga. 1t has been
submitted to a nical examination
by NJ. Ballaud. ! its composition
was found to diffam a recently laid
egg In that it haeore carbonate and
phosphate of lind less of carbonate
of magnesia, &C.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23
FOREIGN.

HAVING made satisfactory diplomatic
arrangements, France is to withdraw her
forces from Tunis at an early date.
For using the name of real parsonage
in novel, civil tribun al IN Paris gave
judgment against Emile Zol q.
In the Prussian landtag one of the new
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23

TIE marriage of Clara Louise Kel-
logg has been postponed for about a
month beyond the date fixed upon in
March for the event. Miss Kellogg's
present concert tour is extremely profit
able, and she desires to extend it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23

THE secretary of the treasury report
ed to the house that, in the enforce
ment of the internal revenue laws,
twenty-nine officers had been killed
and fifty wounded, and eight informers
had been assailed and wounded
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23

A Denver reirter asked Alice Oates,
the actress. ho1 old she was, and she
replied, 'I antwenty.two." "Were
YOU twenty-five Gently" inquired the
reporter, innocdy, at which the littel
kicker said she tested newspaper re
nOrterS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23
Given by Doctors

rs it possible thalr. Godfrey is up and at
work. and cured by simple a remedy2'
Il assure you it rue taat he is entirely
cured. and with moth but Hop Bitters; and
only ten days ago hioctors gave him up and
said he must die"
Well-a-day. Tharemarkable! I will &c
this day and get sofor ny poor George
know hops are good
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23

AT Lawrenceville, H., Miss Seed
postmistress Of the town, recently SUI
perseded, took a fatal dose of chloro-
form, either with suicidal intent or to
cure toothache. She died in a few
hO1rs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23

ENGLISH local bonds, country seats
and farming land, are being freely ad-
yertised in New York papers, in the
effort to attract American capital to
EurOne.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23

Captain Stone, trainer and form er
owner of the ma says Mr.. Wander
bilt intends to maa road-horse of the
phenomenal trottMaud S., the COM
ing spring, and t she never again
will trOt against T..
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23
covered.

THF wife, stepdaughter and three
children of John Morland perished in
the flames of his burning house at
Pripgle's Mills, Canada. Two young
men stopping at the house over night
were so badly burned that they will
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23

THE New York EUening Telegram,
which is James Gordon Benefits after
noon enterprise, has now reached cir
culation which ranks it among the first
of the phenomenal newspaper success
es of the time. It's regular circulation
is nearly eighty thousand copies daily.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23

A SMALLPOX patient escaped from
the pest-house at Buffalo, while deliri-
Gus, and created CONSERVATION by
dashing down the street clad only IN q
quilt. He could not be caught, and
his whereabouts has not since been dis
covered
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23
county, 10000 acres of land and $4,000
head of cattle. paving $500 600

SINCE the decision of the New York
courts against the immigrant head-mogey
law, the steamship companies have with
drawn their offer TO pay fifty cents for
each passenger landed, and the commits
sioners at Castle Garden are left without
adequate funds to support the immigrant
institutions
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23

THE fire commissioners of Boston
have ordered rope fire-escapes to be
supplied by all manufacturers employ
ing five or more hands.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23

TIE New York Society for the fre-
vention of Cruelty to Children has Is
sued its seventh annual report, giving
an interesting account in detail of the
work of that organization during the
wear 1881. One thousand nine nun
dred and ninety-nine complaints were
received by the society for the year,
1861 cases were prosecuted, and there
were $50 convictions obtained. One
thousand one hundred and sixty-ont
children were relieved and placed II
homes or institutions, and 357 were
cared for and clothed in the society
reception room. The average cost O
sheltering, feeding and clothing 80
children was S2.16 Ito for each child
1t cost S15, ,2S3 to run the society durm
the year, and the receipts were Slo,ool
THE report of the society for the sul
preston of vice, which has just held II
annual meeting in New York, show
that its agent. Anthony Comstock, ha
Travelled over $4,000 miles, seized 80
900 open letters and 10000 songs, cati
logues, etc, Of grossly obscene cha
acter. and destroyed many pounds
hooks and sheet stock, and twenty-fi'
nictures OF the same description. Or
b,ndred offenders have been arrestt
during the year, and forty-four convi'
ed and punished. The entire expen
of this work was but $4,000. The la
have been severe enough, but here'
fore there has been little effort TO
force them. Mr.. Comstock is engag
in good cause. The publisher OF
scene literature, and those who seno
into the homes Of the land, to pols
the minds of the young, are GRIMM
of the vilest order, and merit any pr
ishment the statutes inhict.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23
VOL XIV.

A YOUNG man of Springfield, ILL.,, on
being halted by two foot-pads, drew a
revolver, and held them until police
men arrived.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23

IN order to extend her profitable con-
cert tour, Miss Clara Louise Kellogg
has postponed for some weeks her
marriage to a Philadelphia broker.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23

"Ma, am I all made now?" asked a
little miss of hree-and-one-halfy years at
the breakfast table yesterday morning.
"Why, dear?" said the fond mother.
Because I have had my ears pierced,
and was vaccinated yesterday" said
little Tot.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-23
MONDAY, Feb. 20.

isenate.-Senator Kingston introduced petition
of Mrs. Morse and thirty-fve Others in favor of
woman suffrage.
The following bills were concurred in To in
corporate the city of Port Washington to amend
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1882-04-13
DEATH OF JUDsE LOWE.

One Of Kansas best and truest men is
Scott Monday morning, after months OF slow
decline and weary sickness. He was man
Of whose friendship any one might be proud.
General Grant estimated him as one of the
best and purest men with whom he ever
came in official contact, and before retiring
from the Presidency offered him any position
10 which he might aspire within the gin o!
the executive. The Commonwealth says:
"His, disease was paralysis, caused by
sunstroke about three years ago. He was
born in Onida county. New York, August
%, 1898, Of New England parentage. When
still a child his parents moved 10 Ohio,
where for several years he was engaged in
farm labor. He read law in Cincinnati, Ohio,
and after his admittance TO the bar wss for
some years on the bench in that city. He
moved 10 Kansas in 1861, settling in Mound
City. He was elected to the State Legislala-
lure in 1852. and was appointed Judge OF the
Sixth Judicial District, on its organization
In 1867, by Governor Crawford, and at the
next election was elected to that position.
In 1871 he moved to Fort Scott, and in March,
1871. he resigned his Judgship 10 take seat
in Congress, to which he was elected the
fall before. He was reelected TO Congress
10 1872, and served two full terms.
'.In March, 1875, be was appointed United
States Judge in Salt Lake, but only held the
Office few months, resisning because of the
place. He returned 10 Fort Scott and prac-
uced his profession till 1879, when be WIS
elected Judge OF the Judicial District in
which he resided. For the past year he has
been unable 10 do much service on the bench.
his place being filed by w. C. Webb
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1882-04-13
PLUMB'S VIEW OF 1T.

In the United States Senate on the Goth oil
March. on a bill 10 make an appropriation to
educate the children OF the Indians, Senator
Plumb made a speech from which We make
sample extract:
Mr.. PREsIDENT-Wha is education. Is
IL not educating a man to teach him to do
something that he has not before dones Is
il not educating a man TO teach him TO take
care of cattle that he has not before done
Is il not educating man 10 teach him to
take care of his body and lead himself from
the pauperized condition in which he Is
found: Is there any higher education than
that: If so, what is it, When you have
put man in n condition to cover his back.
to clothe himself, to feed his stomach, and to
relieve himself of the good offices and char
tiles of the government, is there any other
office the government ought 10 perform in
regard to him: Whatever else comes to him
will come to him because OF the inducement
which the result OF his labor brings TO his
comprehension. If he wants \ Cs, II will
be because by reason of what he has learned
be realizes that the A b Cs enlarge his ca
pacity; that he can take care of more cattle
that he can multiply his faculties, his oppor-
tunities and his offices. As said, We are
beginning at the wrong end when we neg
lect these obvious things and propose to give
the money of the government to these lndi-
ans for that which they do not appreciate,
and which cannot, in any appreciate way,
make them self.sunDorting
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1882-04-13

PRESIDENTIAL COUNT BILL.

The Presidential count bill, which passed
that the Presidential electors of each Stale
shall meet and give their votes on the second
Monday of January next following their ap-
pointment at such places rs the Legislatures
of the various States NAV direct; that each
State. pursuant TO its laws existing on the
day fixed for the appointment of electors,
may determine prior to the meeting of such
electors any controversy concerning the ap-
pointment of all or any of them, and that
such determination shall be conclusive evil
dence of their lawful title and shall govern
in the count by Congress that no electors
vote, or votes from anv State from which but
one return has been received, shall be re-
jectcd except by an affirmative vote of the
two houses; that if more than one return is
received from any State the votes Of those
electors appointed by the lawful tribunal OF
such State shall be counted, and in the event
of question as to which of the two or more
of such State tribunals is the lawful tribunal,
the votes of the electors appointed by that
tribunal which the two houses. acting sepa-
rately. shall decide to be the authorized one
shall be counted: that IN case OF an undeter-
mined contest between two or more sets OF
electors of q State, those votes shall be
counted which the two houses, acting sepa-
rately. shall decide to be the lawful elector-
al votes. The bill also provides that if the
counting of the votes shall not be completed
before the fifth calendar day next after the
first joint meeting of the two houses, no re-
cess shall be afterwards taken by either
house until the counting is finished.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1882-04-13
SENATOR INGALLS, TARIFF VIEWS.

We take the following from an interview
with Senator ingalls,, reported in the Topeka
Common edlta by its Washington cores
pondent:
EYES," said the Senator, .'out in my own
town of Atchison, Kansas, they are consum-
ing potatoes brought from Scotland. Here
is an instance where the heresy of free trade
seems TO find room to take root. But upon
general principles the high-sounding and
captivating theory that one should buy
where one can buy the cheapest, and sell
where they can sell the dearest. is a delusion,
a fancy and Pigment Of the imagination.
Twenty-Five years ago, when l went to Kan
sas / noticed all alorg the Missouri river
great fields of hemp growing. Those rich
alluvial bottoms along the Mississippi and
and Missouri rivers and their tributaries are
specially adapted to the development of this
industry. Those great farm houses and big
barns and immense plantations on the Platte
purchase are largely the result and product
of the growing Of hemp. 1t was immensely
remuneratiye. The soil, the climaie, the
conditions of labor, were specially stimu-
latiye in the growth of this branch of pro-
duction. That industry is now thing Of
the past. 1t has no existence. Had an i'm
penetrable and Overwhelming cloud of in
sects settled down upon that vast region,
and remained there day and night, summer
and winter: had tornado swept over that
vast scope of country each successive season
and destroyed every product each year; had
a blight rested upon all the land and blasted
every effort Of human energy,-more COM
pletely perfect and absolute desolatfon and
death to the hemp-growing interests would
not have ensued. And what do you suppose
was the cause of this destruction of an i'm
portant and growing INTEREST,""
just ut that fraction of a second ready
response 10 the Senator's conundrum did
not suggest itself to my mind and the Sena-
tor said
"Why, few years ago it was suggested
to somebody by some one, as a smart thing,
TO reduce the duty on jute butts-a coarse.
fibrous article grown in India on ten-cents-
per-day labor-from $40 to SO per TOM From
that moment hemp-growing in the west. and
it is principally remunerative in the great
and rich valleys Of our western and southern
rivers. was doomed. The jute butts are
brought over as ballast for n trifle; it is
grown for next TO nothing by paupcr labor
In India and the East, and, OF course our
Am, rican hemp-growers cannot compete
In its production against such odds.