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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-06
CRIME,

Crow DOG, the slayer Of Spotted Tail.
has been sentenced to be hanged May II.
FEDERAL and city officers at San Fran
cisco are implicated in a conspiracy to
smuggle opium into that port.
VIM. MITCHELL was shot by saloon
keeper named Stecher in Chicago, and
died of the wound in half an hour.
AT Adrian, Mich, Jewell and Stanton,
who, it is alleged, were in the water bond
conspiracy with Navin, were held to the
circuit court
A. G. PATRICK. of Seward, Neb., shot
his wife through the heart, fired at his
two sons, and escaped arrest, but is being
hotlY pursued.
JESSE G. SHBP HERD, the speculative
juryman of Chicago, gave bail in $4,000,
and was taken to Milwaukee by his
father, q reputable hardware merchant of
that city. E. w. Blatchford was one OF
the sureties.
EDWARD d. GALE, attorney for the col
lection of arrears of personal taxes in
New York, who died recently, is now
shown to be in default $4,000 or more,
and suit against his bondsmen will be
brought
AT point sixty miles west of San An
tonic, On Wednesday night, the Ell Paso
stages bound cas-. and west were robbed
by two men.
CHARLES T. BREssMAN, one of the strik-
ing compositors of the World, OF New
York, was sentenced to imprisonment for
ten days for threatening the publisher.
Two men named Rider, father and son,
were shot and instantly killed at Jasper,
five miles south of Waverly, Iowa, by a
man named Shropshire. The men had
quarreled about family trouble.
A MAN giving the name of James e.
Jones surrendered himself at Knoxville,
Tenn, as having embezzled 1000 while
moneY-order clerk in the postofice at
Woodstock, Ill.
AT Beloit, Kansas, seven saloon-keep-
ers, two druggists and brewer were ar
raigned for selling liquors, and fined from
800 to $500 each and costs. All have
now signed an agreement to quit the busi-
ness.
ARTHUR MUELLER, teller in the Cen
tral National bank of Indianapolis, has
fed the city. being a defaulter to the
amount of 2,250. He transferred his
property to his mother, and left wife
and three children.
DICK LITTLE spent the day in Kansas
City in making an affidavit disclosing all
the operations Of Jesse James and his
gang since his connection Herewith
Little surrendered on condition of full
pardon and share of the reward offered
for his head
On train near Medora, Ind, an intox-
icated maniac killed A. c. Wingate. OF
Lexington, KY, without provooation. The
murderer then leaped off and drowned
himself in the stream. His clothing con-
tanned S490 in cash and receipts showing
him to be William Haines, formerly OF
West Salem, O.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-06
GEN ERAL NOTES

The governor of Iowa has appointed
James Wilson, farmer of Tama county,
a member of the railway commission.
TUE Ohio legislature has passed the
Pond liquor bill, by which saloon keepers
must pay an annual tax of 800 to $500,
and give bond in 81 900.
THE farmers of Long Island held a meet
ing and passed resolutions warming fox
hunters from New York not to trespass on
their lands.
THE widow of Commodore Vanderbilt
will soon be married to Dr. Nathan Roys-
man, manager of one of the large charity
hospitals of New Y ork.
THE Pacific mill at Lawrence, Mass,
has given notice that needy operators who
did not engage in the strike may apply at
the office for aid.
A RESOLUTION is pending in the con-
gress of Colombia to give years notice
to the United States of desire to abro-
gate the treaty of 1916 and make new ar
rangements.
GENERAL GRANT reported himself un-
able to attend the Irish indignation meet
ing in New York, but informed the COM
mittee that were he president he would
certainly demand an immediate trial for
American citizens charged with violating
the laws in foreign lands.
SERGEANT Mason has been secured as a
salesman at $500 per year, by an enter
prising clothing house of Chicago, his term
to commence thirty days after his liberia
tion. The contract was signed at the AL
bany penitentiary few days since.
CAPT. KLINE, of the 18th infantry, over
took the Canadian half-breeds near Medi-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-06
Maltreatel Sailors.

Cornelius Curtis, second mate of the
American ship P. n. Blanchard, was
taken into custody yesterday by Deputy
Marshal Favor on charge Of cruelty
to sailors. At the time of his arrest
Curtis had shaved off his chin whis-
kers and had in other ways sought to
disguise himself in order to avoid fall
ing into the hands of outraged Justice.
The cause which led to his arrest is as
follows He was recently second mate
of the ship Gatherer, which arrived at
Wilmington, about three weeks ago,
when a story of cruelty at sea which
bids fair to rival the celebrated Sunrise
case of 1875, came to light. The Gath
erer sailed from Antwerp in September
last. differed by G. n. Sparks, William
Watts, Cornelius Curtis, and John Dris-
coll, respectively captain, first, second,
and third mates. The vessel, accord
ing to the sailors stories, was scarcely
off the coast of Holland when the first
and second mates began their acts Of
barbarity, which consisted in treating
the sailors In q most inhdman and bru-
tai manner.
A sailor named Clarke was the first
victim, and received hard beating at
the hands of Watts for misconstruc-
ton of an order. A few days afterward
a sailor named Turner so dlspleased
the mate and second mate that the two
model officers attacked the unfortu-
nate man in a shameful manner, mall
treating him to such an extent that it
was months before his wounds healed.
Then in rapid succession so the COM
plant states, tt . remainder Of the crew
incurred the anger of the first and
second mates, and were summarily
dealt with IN the presence of Capt.
Sparks, who did not raise his voice in
behalf of the unfortunate crew.
A Belgian sailor who can only speak
few words Of English nearly lost an
eye by beating at the hands of Watts,
who a few days subseq uently called
sailor named Burns to account
for some trivial ofense, and did so in
such harsh manner that Burns re-
volted, and was, by order of Watts,
lashed to the rail of the ship. Having
his victim thus at his mercy, the officer
adorned his hands with pair of brass
knuckles, and with them beat and lar
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-06
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

THE business portion of the village of
Hindsboro, ILL.,, has been reduced 10 ashes.
A LOSS of 100000 was incurred by the
burning of Farthing's distillery at Buf-
falo.
A HAIL-sToRM at Wheeling, w. Va,
riddled windows and did other damage to
the amount of $25,0O0.
AN attempt to wreck the fast train west
on the Wabash railroad, was discovered
by the engineer near Belden, Ind.
FREIGHT trains on the Northern Pacific
collided at Spirit Wood, crushing to death
Henry G. Mott, of Norwich, Ont.
CAPTAIN THOMAS II. FRENCH, retired
officer of the 7th cavalry, died suddenly
in Leavenworth, and will be buried at the
fort.
AT Grand Rapids, Mich, Ida Smith,
aged II, bought cents worth of arsenic
and committed suicide with it because her
mother had reproved her.
A BOARDING-H HOUSE kept by Mr.. Nichols
at West Ansonia, Conn, took fire. and
James and Elliot Bassett were burned to
death. Several men and lady and child
leaped from balcony.
A FIRE at Toronto DESTROYED the wagon
wheel works, the purifier company's build
ings, and divers planning mill, causing a
loss of 100000.
Mrs. ]. NJ. BALLARD, with three chill
dren, left Palmyra, Ark. to visit her
father, and the next morning the corpses
of the party were found in a creek in the
neighborhood.
THE American Association of the Red
Cross is about to send agents into the over
flowed region of the southw est, and makes
an u -ent appeal for funds, which can be
sent to the secretary of the treasury or the
secretary of war.
News from the submerged south con-
tinues to be Of a distressing character.
Steamboats, are sailing over what were
once wagon roads. Plantations are coy-
cred with the floods, and thousands OF
families are entirely dependent on govern
ment rations.
THE steamer Golden City, when ap-
preaching the wharf at Memphis, took
fire from lamp and was burned 10 the
waters edge. The crew numbered about
sixty, and there were forty passengers on
board. About twenty persons leapsd of
on barge and were saved. The loss oi
| life is believed to be twenty-five. Stoves
circus had been taken aboard al Fidalia
La, and nearly all the cages and wagons
burned. The steamer was FIVE years old
and cost $54, 900. Among the lost were
the wife and three children of Captain
konntz, a noted steamboat owner
Robert Kelly. the second engineer, re
NAMED at his post and was cut off by the
flames.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-06
Type Writing.

Any one, writes the New York cor
respondent of the Rochester Democrat,
who reads the papers will notice the
frequent advertisements of type writ
ers, who are now becoming almost a
guild. Professional type writers make
the business more profitable than any
other method of copying, and hence
there is constant increase in the num-
her of practitioners. They are in COM
mon use in law offices, and have be-
come so popular that they will in
such places become substitute for Or
dinary penmanship. the neatness and
legibility of this method prevent mis-
takes, and this adds vastly to their val
ue. This is specially important in
matter which is intended for the print
er, in which errors might easily occur
when the copy is in writing, especially
when the latter is so often illegible
Byron found that the works he sent in
MSS. from Italy to London suffered so
much from the printers inability to de-
cipher his writing, that he had them
printed in Italy merely for the sake of
correctness. A few copies were then
struck off and sent to Murray merely
as copy for the London printer. What
an enormous saving could have been
made in such an instance had the type
writer been in use Girls who are now
using the type writer find it better
way of making living than the use of
the needle. Editors and clergymen are
also among its patrons, and Insurance
companies are applying it to their i'm
mense correspondence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-06
IndfgestfOn's Martyrs.

Half the diseases ST the human family spring
frem disordere1 stomach, and may be pre-
vented by invigorating and toning that abused
and neglected organ with Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters. Let it be borne in mind that the liver
the kidneys, the intestines, the muscles the liga-
ments, the bones, the nerves, the integuments
are all renewed and nourished by the blood, and
that the digestive organs are the alembic in
which the materials of the vital fluid are pre-
pared. When the stomach fails to provide
healthful nourishment for its dependencies they
necessarily suffer, and the ultimate result, if the
evil is not arrested, will be chronic and probably
fatal disease somewhere. It may be developed
in the kidneys in the form of diabetis, in the
liver as congestion, in the muscles as rheuma-
tism, in the nerves as paralysis, in the integu-
meuts scrofula. Remember, however, that
each and all of these consequences of indigest-
ion may be prevented by the timely and regular
use of that sovereign antidote to dyspepsia,
Hostetter's Bitters.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-06
A Kind Act Worth s35, 700 a Year.

Some thirty years ago, Mr.. Green, an
amiable Englishman, seeing a rather
shabby old man looking for a seat in
church, opened his pew door, beckoned
to him, and placed him in comforta-
BILE corner, with prayer and hymn
books. The old gentleman, who care
fully noted the name in these latter, ex-
pressed his thanks warmly at the close
of the services. Time had effaced the
incident from Mr.. Green's recollection,
when he one day received an intimation
that by the death of a gentleman
named Wilkinson he had become enti-
tied to $4,000 a year. Mr.. Wilkinson
was a solitary old man, without rela-
tives. Green's act prepossessed him in
his favor; he inquired about him. and
fousd that he bore the highest charac-
ter, There was marvelously conte-
Gus hospitality in the matter of pews
for some time after that bequest, but
nobody else has yet got $50 COO year
for a seat. Dublin Times.
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A New York Bank President.

The New York correspondent of the
Utica Herald writes: One finds out
that nothing is accomplished here un
less by close application of the highest
powers. All our great men work hard.
Here is Moses Taylor, for instance, the
veteran bank president. He is 70 and
yet works as hard as his powefs will
admit. Up to within a few years he
was as industrious as any of his clerks,
but close application has impaired his
health and he now has to abate. He
has been a worker for go years, and is
as eager to make dollar as ever He
began as shipping clerk in the great
shipping house of Rowland & Aspin-
wall. and afterWard opened business
on his own account. His success has
been uniform and rapid, as some
would think, though probably hardly
satisfactory to himself, since he has
only made half dozen millions, while
others have done much better. Still
he is plodding on IN his path to wealth,
and is the oldest business man in Wall
gtreet. He has been for 80 years presi-
dent of the City bank, and his ability
is shown by the fact that It's shares are
now worth $40. The house which he
founded is conducted by his sons-in-
law, Percy Payne and Lawrence Tur-
nure, who were formerly his clerks,
and are first-class business men. Such
are among the instances of success
which OCCASIONALLY mark CONNER
cial record, and which show that hard
work as well as genius is requisite.
New York is place not of luck but of
labor, and that toe of the most arduous
character. In the battle for wealth it
requires rare concentration of genius
and physical strength, and the weaker
are soon crushed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-06
Chicago Market

CHICAGO, April 3.-Wheat was unsettled with
several fluctuations, and fairly active; market
weather bright, warm and favorable to sellers;
market opened weak and h@A lower, and de-
clined A@3sc, then became specuatively active.
and rallied A@2c, finally closing q c lower than
Saturday, after ruling better nearly all day;
sales at l.292G al. .31H for seller May; / .26I0
l.2SA for sellr June; 1.23A@l 25 for seller
July. On call sales were at irregular prices gen.
orally better, but weak at the close; sales mod
crate, 81 500 bushels. The greatest interest was
in corn, and there was heavy advance, followed
by sharp decline. The opening was nc higher
and strong outside orders were plenty, causing the
strong feeling to continue and an advance of u
gl% more was recorded for May and June, while
July was only 55c higher; toward the middle of
the session the demand slackened and prices
droppd h@2c, and the close weak, at about in
side figures; sales at 7214 for May, 710721a for
June, and 71A@73 for July. On call prices
were frmer, sales only 125 900 bushels. Oats
were unsettled, offerings light; prices were excited
and higher early, but dropped back pretty well
towards the close; sales at 48H@49A for May,
4I44@49 fer June On call, sales were l75, 900
bushels, prices wsre irregular, but easier Pork
was active, firm and 1O@2Oc higher, closing a
medium rates; sales at 17.45917. 65 for May,
II 7.67A@1S.S5 for June; 17S7K@1S. 90 for
July. Lard was quite active, but offerings
plenty; prices 1O915 cents higher, but settled
back; sales at II 22K@1.8 .821z for May: IL 81 u
gil. .47H for June, 11.47H@11. SIX for July.
On call, provisions scarcely changed prices.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-06

pay e50O for voting Illegally, commit
tee has been formed to collect the amount.
OPPOSITION to the reform of the Spanish
tariff led TO strikes in various towns, and
many mills have been closed. A mob in
Barcelona attempted to stop trains ard
was fired upon by the military
GARIBALDI, who was enthusiastic ally
received in Palermo, will participate in
the annual celebration of the Sicilian
Vespers,
GLADSTONE ridicuies the idea OF liberia
ting Parnell and his fellow members now
in jail TO allow them to vote on the cloture
question.
IN the British house of commons, Glad
stone pronounced against liberating Par
nell, Dillon. and O'Kelly to participa te
IN the division upon the clotGre.
A LARGE number of Americans gathered
Minister Lowell to ask reprieve for Dr.
Lamson, on the ground of insanity.
Two large British steamships loaded
with Cinnamon have left Hong Kong for
Victoria, B. c., and four thousand more
Celestials are to come this season for rail
way work.
The governor at Alexandria, Egypt,
ordered the demolition of the works and
warehouses of the English railway, on
the ground that they interfere with forti-
ications, but the company will appeal to
the British consul general
The senate barber-shop at Washington
was the scene of the snubbing of John
Sherman by Wade Hampton, the cause
being alleged ISLANDERS publish ed in the
South Carolina journals at the formers
dictation.
THE murder of Arthur Herbert, an
Irish justice of the peace, has been fol-
lowed by the stabbing of eleven lambs on
his property. A sister of Thomas Power
O'Connor has been sent to Jail for ad-
vising tenants in Roscommon not to pay
rents.
The resolution relative TO the mental
condition of DIR. Lamson, the convicted
murderer of Percy John, which was
passed at The meeting of Americans in
London, has been forwarded to the secre-
tary of state for the home department by
Minister Lowell
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-06

cine lodge, March IA, and drove them
over Milk river. They carried away the
buffalo robes stored By Sheriff Healy.
JOSEPH RIHA, a wealthy farmer resid-
ing in the town of Carlton, Kewaunee
county, Wis. secreted $500 of currency
in his cellar, and the mice got at it and
destroyed it, using the costly paper for
making their nests. Riha became insane
at the loss of his money, and diei on the
9th instant.
WITHIN the present month the Chicago.
Milwaukee & St. Paul road has absorbed
the Hastings & Saltwater, the Illinois &
Wisconsin, the GAINESVILLE, Rockford &
Beloit, and the Iowa & Eastern. These
four lines represent about 1900 900, and
each had received advances toward its
construction.
SIX HUNDRED Irish girls were landed at
Castle Garden, from the steamer City of
Montreal. The Oldest is only %. Not
a male passenger came With them. They
were sent by agents of a society who
m axe specially of caring for females,
and each one has place provided for her.
Some will remain in New York, many go
to Boston, and others to various localities.
Nearly 5000 Italian immigrants have
arrived in New York within the past
three weeks.
THE Western Union telegraph com
pany has acquired control of the Mutual
Union lines. Gould purchased 33 500
shares outright, and Is, 800 shares are
held by George Baker, III. G. Fahnstock,
and George S. Scott. The three latter
hold the balance of the power in the
company, and have entered into an agree
ment to act in accord with Gould 50 long
as his policy does not impair the rights
and business of the Mutual U MON.
About 100000 vas paid for the stock
held by Baker and his partners. General
G. NJ. Dodge and Jay and George Gould
will be ad ded to the new board OF direct
ora, and j ohm 6. Moore will be president.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-06
A Chinese Policeman i'm Denver.

Concerning Denver's naturalized Chi
nese policeman, Louis Johnson, alias
Kan Yum Yu, the fact that Johnson is
the first MOngOlian who ever wore the
star of a policeman in America, was
early developed in the conversation. and
is worthy of note. Johnson is married.
and, more important, his wife is an
American, lady in all senses of the
term.
q married her." said Johnson, ''in
Louisville, KY. in 1873. She was
Miss Burt, and lived on Twenty-frst
street A good family Oh, yes. First
class. She is of German descent, and
was working girl, but assure you in
every way an excellent woman-oh,
yes!'
Keeps you pretty straight, doesn't
she?"
"You bet. She objects to my going
among the Chinese, and make me do
just as Americans do-iust the same"
Chow do you like that?"
"Oh, | don't object. You see con-
slider myself civilized, and my country
men are not. Many of them are bad
people. They are envious and under
handed. When they see that China
man has a good thing they try to get
it away from him by undertaking
him."
care they immoral ?"
" Most of them are bad. So my wife
doesn't want me to associate with my
cOuntrymen here"
" What do Cinnamon pay for the Chi
nese women?"
"They are bought first in China.
Young girls are preferred. They are
stolen on the streets in Chinese cities
and sold to slave dealers there, who
again sell them to men who ship them
to America. They arc bought there for
from $3.50 to $500 by wholesale, and re-
tailed III San Francisco for from $500 to
$SO0-young girls bring the best prices.
They then belong to the men who buy
them, who keep them till they get old
and then sell them to Cinnamon, with
whom they live as their wives. Their
owners collect all the money the wo-
men receive, except what they steal,
and feed and clothe the women"
"How many Chinese women are there
in this country"
Well, [ should say there are about
10000. They are scattered pretty
thickly over the Pacific coast"
''Do all the Chinese smoke opium ?"
Most of them"
ado you"
ooh, I hit the pipe occasionally when
have headache"
"Does your wife?"
" Not much"
Chow many Chinese are there III
Denver?"
about 500."
Johnson says it is his determination
to live the life Of a respectable American
citizen. He is member of the Meth
odist church, while his wife belongs to
the Christian denomination. He has
devoted most of his time to the tea
business. He was naturalized in Evans
vile.
Speaking of his courtship, he says he
met his wife through her brother, who
was friend of his. He cOurted her
for about year. and when they decid-
ed that they each loved the other more
than any one else they were married
by q Christian nlinister.-DenUer Ne1Os.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-06

The stories afoat about General
Grants losses in stock speculations are
probably without any foundation. An
intimate friend of his, who is supposed
to know a good deal about his private
affairs, declares that the general has
not been speculating on the New York
stock board, but is outstanding his re
sources in more sensible and econ
omical manner. General Grants in
come now, from former accumulations,
gifts and salary, must be amply suffi-
cient for all the reasonable wants of
himself and his family.
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isIINYAGkeP yEArKnE.

MILWAUKEE, April D. -Flour-In fair demand
and steady. Wheat-Dull and easier No. .
hard, 1l;..No.2. freshi 1.297z; 1.2S for seller
April; l29h for seller May; 1.2S4 for seller june
l.25A for seller July; for seller August and
the year, nominal; Ne 3, I13H; No 4, and
rejected, nominal. Corn-Unsettled and higher
No. 2, fresh, 71@72A. Oats-Firm; Nc 2,
scarce at 45; choice white, 81. Rye = Scarceand
higher; No. ], So; No. .. 81. Barley-Higber
and more active 921a for seller cash; 80 bid for
seller April; extra No. 3, fresh, SO2l regular 7S
Provisions-Firmer; Mess Pork--17.45 for seller
cash and April; 1850 for seller May. Lard =
Prime steam, 119O for seller cash and April;
ll.l2H for seller May. Live hogs = Steady;
6.2596.SO. Receipts Flour, $780, wheat, % $40;
barley, $3.50. SHIPMENT Flour, 10 ,265 wheat,
I,O25; barley, 6,77O.