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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-20
The Nayy JObbers.
AN INDEPENDENTS PROTEST.

AN INDEPENDENT PROTEST.
PHILADELPHIA, Penn, April II The
Times of this city is considered the
best type of strictly fearless and
independent newspaper published in
the United States. 1t will say editori-
ally in the morning: William E.
Chandler is to be secretary of the navy,
so strongly sented with the flavor of the
lobby and Of jobbers that none can
mistake the atmosphere to be breathed
in and about the navy department.
George M. Robson, ex-secretary of
the navy, under whose profigate ad-
ministration our navy was destroyed,
and whose jobbing contracts to the ex-
tent of millions had to be cancelled by
his successor, is chairman OF the naval
committee in the house and potential
in naval appropriations.
Under this band of official jobbers,
specially accredited by the admins
tration, it is proposed to spend twenty
or thirty millions of the surplus in the
treasury, ostensibly to create credita-
BILE navy, but in fact to inaugurate a
carnival of prodigacy and plunder.
The peoples money must be appro-
priated by congress before it can be
made the prey of the Chandler -RoD oDeson
jobbery sindicate. Halt the navy Job
bers by closing the public purse
strinpsI
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-20
TFIEGRAPHIC-
Condensed Tor Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WARRINGTON.

The fund for the family of Sergeant
Mason has swollen to $1,000, and Betty
fayors the purchase of farm In Virginia
on her husbands release.
In the star-roste cases at Washington,
Judge Wylie decided the incidents SUI
fcient. The recognizance of Stephen W.
Dorsey was declared forfeited, and his ar
rest was ordered.
the appropriation of $500 600 to place ad-
Washington, as also the purchase of the
square next west OF the structure.
DR.. d. w. BLISS. who saws that he
oyertaxed his strength in Mr.. Garfield 3
case, will leave Washington shortly for an
extended European tour
In his latest card, Guiteau expresses
the belief that had his relatives all died
twenty-five years ago il would have been
a god-send to him.
TUE senate committee on territories
will report Mr.. Butt er's bill to create a
territorial government in Alaska. the
present officers to constitute a legislative
council.
CONGRESSMAN DIBRELL, of Tennessee
in an official statement of the fiscal cispo-
sitlon of the confederate specie, shows that
$108 1922 80 was distributed to the troops
at Washington, Ga, on May 3, 1868.
A PETITION to congress not to interfere
with Chinese immigration has been
signed by four thousand firms of New
York, including the entire dry-goods trade
and the president of every b ank in the
clearing -honbe.
The senate confirmed the nomination of
William Z. Chandler to be secretary of the
navy by % to Is. The appointments of
w. II. Hunt as minister to Russia and J .
r. Partridge as minister to Peru were also
approved. A. G.. Botkin, has been reap
pointed marshal for Montana.
IT is stated that ever since the adjourn
ment OF the Schofeld board of inquiry,
except during the four months of Presi-
dent GarGeld's administration, pardon has
been within the reach of Fitz John Porter,
but he would not accept it. He can still
receive pardon and nomination to the
army if he wishes.
THE senate passed a bill to fix at s., 600
per snum the salaries of the election
commissioners under the anti-polygamy
law. Mr.. Saunders introduced a bill to
appropriate 100000 in trust for the
Wichita and other bands of Indians, the
income to be paid them semi-annually, on
condition of their relinquishing their
rights to 40, ,000, 900 acres of land in Kansas
and Indian Territory.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-20
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

The Eastern railway depot at Salem,
Mass, valued at $4,000, was destroyed by
FIRE.
THE storm at New Iberia, La, left
800 persons in that parish without shell
ter or support.
AN incendiary fire destroyed the paper
mill of j. Howard Lewis, near Chester,
Pa, valued at $50 900.
THE Copley mill, at Round Lake. Mich,
owned by Cobbs Il Mitchell, of Cadillac,
valued at 81, 900. was destroyed by fire.
THE Bennett house, at LeadvilIe, con-
tanning about fifty people, took FIRE in the
night and was swept away, one lodger
having been burned to death.
WHILE driving in Indianapolis with
three small children, Mrs. K. J.. Boyd
overturned the buggy at a corner, and all
It's occupants were taken home inesnsible.
The college of Mount St. Mary, near
Emmettssurg, Md, +, has been closed for q
month on account of the outbreak of ma
lignant scarlet fever among the students.
THOMAS HI. QUIGLEY, a conductor on
the Santa Fe road was killed near Las
Vegas, by locomotive jumping the track.
Engineer Mitchell was also seriously in
iured.
THE distillery of Oscar Furst, located
two miles south of Peoria, and the bonded
warehouse adjoining were destroyed by
FIRE. The loss is 1850. 600, and the in
surance 100000. The institution will be
speedily rebuilt.
A FIRE at Titusville, Pa. destroyed the
Hotel Brunswiok, the Parshall opera
house and hotel, and the Watson stables,
on which the loss is estimated at $3.50. 600.
A fireman was fatally burned and color
ed cook probably lost her life.
AT the bar of saloon in st. Louis,
Charles II. Allen, whose father was q
wholesale dry-goods merchant, shot him
self through the brain on being reproached
for his worthless2ess. Not less than 81 0 :
OOO had been wasted in the endeavor to
| establish him in business,
A POISONING accident, at Milwaukee,
Wis, resulting in the death of a woman
named Ladosch, aged 65 years and child
Il months old, named Gekel. is recorded.
The father of the child took home a
package of arsenic to kill rats, and placed
it in box marked poison. This box was
put on the sewing machine. and in some
manner was knocked off upon the floor
Here the infant found it, and ate some OF
the contents. Just at this iuncture the
grandmother. Mrs. Ladosch, came in and
noticed the child eating the powder. She
also tasted it, for the purpose of ascertain
ing whether or not it was injurious. In g
short time both became deadly sick, and
though physicians were called, tbs babe
died at midnight, and the old lady at
o'clock.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-20

tial compromise with his Canadian credit
ors, and in their interest has left Chicago
for Winnipeg, 20 endeavor to secure some
thing from the $75, 900 stock of goods in
the hands of Moody, his confederate.
CHICAGO detectives state that the man
who swindled Charles Francis Adams In
Boston is well connected in Milwaukee.
He secured position in the government
printing Office at Washington through the
influence of Matt. Carpenter or some other
Wisconsin politician.
JOHN NASsETT, an aged farmer near
Cambridge, o., maddened by breach of
faith on the part of his son. shot him
through the abdomen with rife, and then
killed himself. The son had accepted a
deed of the homestead on condition of
maintaining his parents.
A RESIDENT of Racine, Wis, named
John Mainland, took tea with his alliance d
bride, Susan Karls, the other eyen.n
and, Oa starting ou: for walk with her,
he fell senseless from the effects of some
drug she had given him. She took $29. 80
from his pockets, and left him to be picked
up by the police She will be arrested for
poisoning him.
THE mayor and other officers Of St. Jo-
seph, Mo, on reaching New York to in
quire into the bond mystery, identified
James Fisk as William Scott, for whom
they had reguisition from the governor
of Missouri as fugitive from Justice.
In the cases of the Chicago gamblers,
the Jury convicted Jeff Hankins and John
Gibbons. and motion was made for a
new trial. Judge Gary, to whom tho re-
naming cases had been submitted, pro-
nounced judgement against Jaynes, Gum,
Lester, Skakle, Grove, and Belknap
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-20
GEN ERAL NOTES

AN immigrant woman gave birth to
two girls and boy while on board train
on the st. Peul and Omaha road.
J. T. CLARK, general superintendent of
the Union Pacific road, has rendered his
resignation, to accept the same position
on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul.
ABOUT 5000 was realized from the sale
of the household goods of Jesse James,
and the widow and child have gone to re-
side at KearneY, Mo.
IN the oratorical contes. at Minneapolis
the first honor was awarded TO w. W.
Clark, of the state university, the second
being taken by a grandson of DIR. Leonard
Bacon.
EIGHTY members of the 1st Virginia
confederate infantry and the Otey battery,
of Richmond, are guests of 3 post of the
Grand army at Trenton, n. j.. where a
grand barquet was given them.
CITIZENS of Milwaukee have subscribed
funds sufficient to lease the Cold Springs
race-course for FIVE years, and it will be
rendered to the State Agricultural associa-
tion for the annual fair
THE Garfield monument fund commit
tee at Cleveland, received $3.50 contrib
ution from ex-Presideut HAYES. and has
information that 81, 200 will be soon sent
from Paris.
The aurora borealis Was very brilliant
the other evening, and the atmosphere
was SO deeply charged with electricity that
telegraph wires between Chicago and
the Atlantic coast were operated without
batteries,
On the ground that it should have been
presented to the probate court of Chicago,
Judge Loomis refused to consider the pc
titien of Mrs. Scoville for the appoint
ment of q conservator for the estate OF
Charles J. Guiteau, and quashed sum.
mons thoughtlessiy issued by deputy
clerk.
AT Melrose, Mass, in the presence OF
invited guests from all parts of New Eng.
land, William III. Thurber, Providence
merchant, was married to Miss Julia Ann
Butler, who was born in the Himalays
mountains while her parents were hiding
from the Sepoys.
AFTRR the 1st of May a person using
profane language in the state of New
York may be arrested, taken directly be-
fore a magistrate. and, if convicted, sen,
to Jail for ten days. 1t is a summary pro.
cess, and the law will doubtless have re-
straIning influence on eorRer-loafers and
drivers of overloaded wagons.
SUCH is the stagnation in ocean freights
that oil-cake is taken from New Yo.k to
Liverpool for two shillings sixpence pc,
ton, and a halfpenny is bid and penny
asked for grain by steamer: and wheat has
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-20
FOREIGN.

ENGLISH newspapers announce the
birth of daughter to Mrs. Richard A
Proctor, the American wife of the English
astronomer.
PARNELL has written the editors of sew
eral Paris journals refusing interviews,
on the ground that his parole forbids
communication with persons connected
with politics.
COUNT Geza Zichy, the one-armed
Hungarian pianist. has accepted an invi-
tation from the Prince of Wales to appear
in several concerts In London during the
forthcoming season.
The Jewish exiles in New York have
learned that there g great danger of a
massacre in Warsaw Odessa, and Kieff by
Russian peasants during Easter week.
THE Peruvian minister at Washington
has received a cablegram announcing that
President Pierola has left Peru, and that
the nation is united in support Of the Cal
deron government.
URUGUAY adjusted it's difficulty with
Italy over the maltreatment OF two citi-
zens of the latter country by giving them
92, 1000 each, furnishing their assailants.
and saluting the Italian flag.
IT is alleged that Vogel & Co.. silk
merchants at Hong Kong, have swindled
American and European merchants out of
81, 4,C00, 900 or more by forwarding inferior
goods. The head of the house has fled to
Italy.
THE Canadian senate has passed bill
legalizing marriage with the deceased
wife's sister. Its opponents give notice
that they will appeal to the governor gen.
eral for veto or to the queen to disallow
the bill.
THE lord mayor of London asks sub
scriptions of $4,000 or 80 to send to Cana
da 200 families of unemployed poor. Oil.
phant, who represens the committee to aid
Russian Jews, has arranged for the emil
grafton of II, 900 to America.
THE London Times saye: Chill has stuck
its talons deep into the body of Peru and
can not disentangle them. The conqu est
and incorporation of Peru straightway
into the victo rious republic would, in the
interest Of one as well as the other, be pre-
ferable 10 the intolerable relations which
bind them now together"
CAPT. DUGMoRE, formerly of the Brit
ish army, has been prosecuted at the Par
sonstowns sessions for posting violent
''no-rent" placards. He refused TO find
sureties for good behavior, and was SEN
fenced to imprisonment for six months.
Capt. Dugmore is the Land-league candi-
date for parliament for Meath. 1t is ex-
pected he will be returned without op-
position.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-20
CRIME.

DURING the dinner hour, a jewelry store
at Lima, o., was robbed of goods valued
at 81 500.
In the supreme court ST Deadwoed,
Judge Moody granted writ of error in
the case of Crow Dog, returnable at the
June term.
JAMES MORAN, of Troy, N. Y, has gone
to the penitentiary for six months for re-
peating at the charter election.
MoLLIE HoLBsooK, a pickpocket, well
known in Chicago, has been sentenced to
hve years In the New York prison.
IHE adIutant general of Texas has been
asked for detachment of rangers to sup
press COW thieves in Chambers and Liber-
ty counties.
A DENVER dispatch states that nearly
81 100000 in drafts and money have been
stolen from the mails in Colorado since
December.
THE supreme court of New York has or
dered the arrest of General Clinton B.
Fisk on the charge OF defrauding Francis
A Fogg of SO 900.
ALPHoNsE NARCOTIC, the merch ant who
absconded from Montreal. has made par
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-20

of this fact in small operations and cool
the parts by artificial cold. The ears,
the nose, sometimes the cheeks and
the hands and feet are the parts most
liable to be frozen. One of the first ef-
fects of freezing is to stop the circula-
ton of the blood, and any part in which
the circulation is checked by other
means Is all the more likely to be
! frozen.
The oId-fashioned skates, held on by
numerous tight straps across the feet,
are dangerous on this account, as to
keep them in place the straps are
drawn SO tight as to impede the circu-
latlon in the feet, and frost-b bitten feet
are often the consequence. Though the
operation of freezing is painless, sud-
den thawing is attended with inflamma-
ton and great pain. The thawing
should be very slow, in order that the
circulation in the parts may be restored
gradually. For this reason it is advised
to rub the frozen parts with snow or in
the absence of that with water made
as cold as possible with ice.
1t is said that in Russia, when one
observes that another's face or nose is
being frozen, it is an act of common
pollteness to catch up handful ofsnow
and apply it to the face of the unfortu-
nate, even if he is stranger. In cases
of severe freezing, besides gradual
thawing by the use of snow or ice, a
physician should be called, as it may
be that proper precautions are needed
to prevent modification of the parts. 1t
is not necessary for the feet to be actu-
ally frozen to produce chilblains. The
term frost-bitten is usually applied to
such cases. Children often suffer great
ly from getting their feet very cold and
then going to the fire to warm them.
The circulation is disturbed and the
parts remain exceedingly sensitive to
future changes of cold and heat. Chill
blains vary from slight inflammation
to severe cases in which the skin breaks
and even ulcers are formed. OF course,
such cases require professional treat
ment. To allay the intense itching and
pain of ordinary chiblains, q great
number of applications have been used.
An ounce of sulphate of zinc white
vitrioD in pint Of water, or an ounce
of sal ammoniac dissolved in half pint
each Of vinegar and alcohol are among
the washes often used. 1t is stated on
good authority, though we have not
had occasion to try it, that the applica-
tion of ordinary kerosene oil is very
efacacious in allaying the itching and
pain n.-Anaerisa9 AoricuAu7iSt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-20

WHAT might have been frigbtful
accident, occurred at the navy depart
ment in Washington, Saturday after
noon, In the fall of the elevator. Pay
master Webster and a party, including
several ladies, were ascending, when
the cable. which was old and worn,
broke, and the elevator descended
with fearful velocity through three
floors, but some Of the machinery be-
came disarranged, and the speed was
moderated so that when it finally came
to the ground floor there was but a
slight conclusion, and the party alight-
ed with no other damage than a good
shaking and bad scare.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-20

IT is reported that the secretary OF
War has informally recommended the
mitigation of the sentence of Sergeant
Mason to four or FIVE months impris-
onment in the guard house, and to for
felt all pay and allowances and be dis
honorably dismissed from the service.
Nothing will be done in the case by the
president until the decision by the SUI
preme court on the motions to grant a
writ of habeas corpus and certiorari is
reached General Arthur is said to
have taken considerable interest in the
case, and it is believed he has a dis
position to mitigate Mason's sentence
considerably, even if he does not par
dOn him outright.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-20

THERE are in the country 170, $40 re-
tail liquor dealers, one to every 294 in
habitants. The smallest ratio in any
state is found in South Carolina, one
to $40, and the greatest in Nevada, one
to 65 The territories of Arizona and
Montana have each one to II. Kansas
has one to S97, Vermont one to 812,
Maine one to 791 and Massachusetts
one to 345. The ratio is generally high
or in the Northern than in the Southern
states. The figures are furnished by
the Internal Revenue Commissioner,
and show merely the number of Gov
ernment licenses issued, those to drug
stores of course included.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-20

FRANK JAMES is said to have been
seen in Cincinnati Friday, and to have
purchased ticket for St. Louis. 1t is
his disposition to seek vengeance, and
the already frequent reports of the
assassination of the governor of Mis-
souri, indicate what the public expect.
There are several men who were en-
gagged in the assassination of Jesse
James who will sleep easier when they
know his brother Frank is under the
sod. Frank has not the qualities of
leadership, or the ability to plan that
his brother had, but is equally daring,
and has an ugly, morose disposition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-20

A CORRESPONDENT in the South writes:
"Quinine is priced higher then gold by
a multitude of poor fever-stricken peo-
pie in the South" Malaria will do
some deadly work IN the region of the
overflow, and a multitude of people
who have lost all their earthly posses
sion should not have to appeal in vain
ior aid to the benevolent people of the
Nation. When the government aid
ceases there will be much suffering for
even the neeessaries of life. We OBJ
serve the ladies of New York City have
organized, and are forwarding clothing
to the government officers at New Or.
leans, who distribute it TO the needy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-20
Nature Dem lands a Tonic

Y hen the nerves are unstrung, the head aches,
the appetite is poor or variable, the sleep dis
turbed, and general depreciation of vital power
is experienced. Such state of things cannot
long exist without the development of serious dis
ease. The most active and genial invgorant
known is Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. The abso-
Lutte purity of it's sprituous basis and botanic in
gradients gives it permanent claim to public
confidence, and its surprising medicinal value is
admitted by medical nen of distinction, by whom
it is widely used in private practice. For fever
and ague-both as preventive and remedy
dyspepsia, liver complaint, bilious remittent fever
constipation, choeraic complaints, fatuence, and
all intestinal disorders, it is thoroughly reliable
remedy. 1t is the anti-febrile specific par excel
lence of the malarial districts of ths and other
countries, where diseases born of miasma prevail
and as general household remedy it is also uni
yersally esteemed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-20

GENERAL NEWTON is preparing for an
other blowing up of submarine rocks
ut He'll Gate, in New York harbor, to
be three times as big as that of six
years ago. Eleven acres of the reef
known as flood Rock are being tunnel
ed at a depth Of fifty or sixty feet, and,
when the work is complete, two years
hence or so, the whole reef will be
broken up with one scattered charge of
dynamite. About seven acres are al
ready completed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-20
NO. 16.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.

Among scientific men who have made longevity
study, It IS almost unanimously agreed that a
fruit and vegetable diet is conducive to long life
and perfect health. Aud 1t is among the Yege-
table kingdom that We fnd our principal means of
restoring health TO the invalid and strength to the
weak. In olden times, when centenarians were
common, and men of so years were considered
youthful, herb doctors were the only physicians
DR.. Guysott's elbow Dock and SarsaparilIa with
the exception of ore ingredient, and that is iron,
IS strictly vegetable compound and Is not in
furious to the most delicate invalid. Its effect on
the general system is most wonderful. 1t gives
real strength to every part of the body, and its
soothing effect in quieting the brain and nervous
system is most remarkable. Its principal ingre-
dients are Yellow Dock Sarsaparilla, Juniper
Iron, Buchu, Celery, and Calisaya Bark. Where
the disease is of an exhaustive nature, il quickly
checks all decay. In cases of dyspepsia it does
not act as a severe cathartic, but gives real
strength to the digestive organs. and thus perma-
nently cures this distressful disease.
"Uncle ST, how is you gwine ter vote
in dis leckshun?" 81 vote wild my
mouf shet and do de job airly-dat's
my ham allus." But which ticket 'ud
yer vote-Dimocrat, Publican or In
d'pendint?" ?" "I wouldn't vote nary
wun-I'se 'er scratcher from 'er county
whar de seven year itch ar politikly
eperdemic-an' votes for men an not
fer de labil what's put on de ticket. I
never goes to sea in de bote jess kase
it's got er gilt figger-head." "Den yer
don't believe in stickin' ter de nomina-
shunsw "Yas, L does-but Use gin'ur-
ly de man what makes de nominashuns
on my tickit, an de sooner dat every
homes man forms hisself in a holler
squar, calls hisself ter order an nomi-
mates his own tickit unanimously, de
sooner dar will be reform III politics an
honesty In de guberment."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-04-20
FrOSt-Bites and UhilblaiDs.

Probably nc other forms of accident
or injury come upon us SO unexpected
ly as those due to excessive cold. As
general thing we are not aware that
part is being frozen until the mischief
is already done. This is due to the
fact that one of the effects of severe
cold is to destroy the sensitiveness of
the parts exposed Surgeons make use