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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-06-07
The Japanese Horror of Fire.

Yokohama Letter to San Francisco Chronicle.
As the hour approaches for the light
ing Of lamps IN the evening at Yoke
hama the sound Of the fire patrol is
heard, and all the night long the streets
are perambulated by these warning
guardians, who beat two hand-sticks
or choppers together with the regularity
clockwork, giving forth sharp, ring
Ing sound that there is no mistaking,
and they also have regular note Of
warning which they cry out st regular
intervals of time, 50 that the necessity
of precaution is present to the mind of
all the dwellars in the city throughout
the hours Of darkness, whether they
will or not. The incendiary is the most
depraved of criminals in the estimation
of the people, and none others were so
fearfrllly punished in the past. At
present death is the penalty meted to
one who commits arson.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-06-07
After Nineteen Years.
Menomenie, Dunn County, Times.

A quiet wedding ceremony was SOL
emnized at the Menomonie House IL
this city on Sunday evening May goth,
by the Rev. NJ. L. Kern. The circum-
stances connected with the parties are
such of romantic nature that We pub
lish them. On the 18th day of January,
1910, Mr.. Charles P. Hepburn married
a young lady at Williamsport, Pa, with
whom he lived until 1854 During that
time seven children were born to them.
In 1864 separation occurred, Mr..
Hepburn taking his departure ana leav-
ing all the children. Subsequently he
married another lady with whom he
lived until her death. which occurred
in 1881. His former wife still lived in
Pennsylvania, and reared her family
there. One of her sons, Mr.. James 2.
Hephurn, now a man of Sc years OF
age and married, Is conductor on the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-06-07

4 handsome Senorita went to one of
the best photographers in Madrid lately
to have her picture taken. When the
posture was all settled, and the cloth
was about to be drawn, the artist threw
q last glance ct his subject, and, to his
consternation, found that she was hold
ing q pistol to her head. What are
you doing?" he cried, "you would not
shoot yourself, it would ruin my busi-
ness; besides it would be wicked to mar
go lovely face" ''Do not be afraid"
she replied. 81 have 10 thought of
spelling the original of one Of your
best pictures, but my love has left me
and I'm going to send him my photo
graph in this posture, with the me essage
that I'll fire if he does not return to me.
a few weeks after the photographer
bad the pleasure of taking the photo
graphs of the young pair without the
pistol.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-06-07
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-06-07
Murder and Marital Unfaithfulness.

Prof. SWING, IN Chicago Magazine.
4 man Offering violence to q woman
might well be shot down by the nearest
friend of the girl or wife, but when per-
sons in middle life and by deliberate
steps turn away from home and wan
der away into the outside world, if
either Of them Is fettered by marriage,
the remedy is not pistol, but divorce.
What q fool Ruskin would have been
had he shot anybody! What an infinite
blockhead would the Rev. Newman
Hall have made of himself had he at
tempted to keep his domestic affairs
all right by means of few murders
In this city, when a wife recently ran
off with another man, the deserted
mortal requested the new husband to
treat well the stolen wife. Go idea! No
bloodshed! No noise and confusion!
Is AS wife prefers B, she is not worth
the powder that would kill B.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-06-07
What He Was i'm Favor of.
Brooklyn Eagle.

Lounging through the corridors of
the state capitol one day was an old
farmer; to whom came female suff-
rage canvasser, with q petition, and po-
litely asked him if he would sign it. He
eyed the document suspiciously awhile.
and then asked:
"What is it?"
GA petition in favor of the woman's
movement" )" she responded in her most
insinuating tone of voice.
"Then Pm agin it." said the agrioul-
turist, with the emphasis of man who
had some domestic infeicity. GA wo-
man who's allu5 in movins' is allus
gettin' in trouble. If you've got any.
thing to keep her sot, I'll sign it,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-06-07

Anthony z. Henderson, who died Ia
Erie, Pa, on the 11th, inst, bequeath-
ed his fortune of a20O,0 900 to 1886. 900.
after some small personal bequests
arc deducted, to the towns of Newcas-
tie, Pa, and Cleveland, O., for the es-
tablishment ana maintenance In each
of an industrial home for poor boys, IN
which they may be taught the trades
and given a sufficient education for the
ordinary requirements Of business life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-06-07

United States Senator Thomas w.
Palmer, of Detroit, is to deliver the
annual address at the fair of the Mich
igan Farmers Club, in Grand Rapids,
in June. Accepting the invitation he
wrote: 'I shall be on hand at the time
named, Providence permitting, and
shall be very glad to meet your people
at nay usual terms, viz, if you will
stand the address I will stand the rest
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-06-07

pA-y paying us $3.50 you will receive for
one yer your county paper with the Milwau-
kee Weekly Sentinel, the representative news
paperof the State. Sample copies may be
seen this office.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-19

square concern; and for the third time
we feel weakening tendency towards
the Labor World. An honestly admin
istered employment agency might be OF
some benefit to the workingmen of the
country; but when deeds of kinduess
are to be performed for suffering hui
manity at So a head the action is robbed
of that sweet incense Of charity, kind
ness and humanity which clings round
good deed done, without money or
price. ...-..L..-.-.--..-..-..--.-..-.-
We have thought of this subject a
great deal, and have always been of the
opinion that employment bureaus at
tached to labor journals would prove
beneficial. While they would not be
able to increase the number of situations
they would be the means of wiping out
some of the rascally shops that rob the
poor men under the guise of furnishing
them work, for we never once thought
of attaching fee to the good work and
making the poor devils who were out of
work pay it. Any man or set of men
who want to make money off of the la
boring men are traitors and the worst
enemies the cause has and any outfit
that wants men to pay for being told
where they can procure work is as bad
as foreman who collects toll from the
workmen under him.
If the Labor World wants to run an
employment shop in connection with
its office, and charge $3 for providing
the suffering unimployed with situa-
ton, we have no objections; but we do
most emphatically object to its using as
an advertisement the sacred expression,
For the sake of suffering humanity
The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-19
QUESTIONABLE.

The last issue of the Labor World con-
tains dOuble-leaded editorial advertis-
ing a scheme called the american In
dustrial Agency" which promises to Sc
cure permanent and satisfactory employ
ment for any and all upon compliance
with certain conditions, the principal
being the payment of ST. for registering
and application, and written order for
s. more to be deducted from the wages
of those for whom the employment is
secured. The World speaks in high
terms of the scheme and claims its OBJ
jects are to "help the cause of suffering
humanity"
We don't like to fine fault with work.
ers in the cause of labor, or to take issue
with journals devoted to it, unless we
are forced to do so by some glaring piece
of inconsistency or apparent selfish
move, and then we feel it duty to say
plainly what are our honest convictions.
And we do feel called upon at this time
to say that this American Industrial
Agency" does not look to us as strictly
The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-19
MUST REST.

Helen Williams, that great and good
woman who is devoting her life to the
elevation of the laboring classes in the
publication of the Womans World, is
compelled to take three months recre-
alton. She has worked hard in the
cause for long time, and now must
yield to the demands of nature, if she
would prolong her life. We but express
the wish of the thousands who love and
reverence this brave and noble woman
when, we pray that the proposed vaca-
ton will bring new life and vigor to am
over-worked constitutions and that she
may ere long return to that station in
the field of righteous war against injus-
tice she has SO grandly filled with bene-
fit to the cause and honor to herself.
We make the following extract from her
editorial bidding adieu'to her readers:
1t will be seen that | have written
very little for The Woman's World this
week L am sick; could not write. [
have been far from we'll for long time
years. l would not attach any impor-
tance to my condition. pushed ahead
by sheer will-power, and thought that
not even death could overcome me. But
now have reached a point where
must stop work or die. One of the best
physicians in the city told me yesterday
that he would not insure my life for SIX
months if did not stop all brain work
and take perfect rest for three months.
NV trouble is complicated, involving
several organs, entailing great weakness
upon all of them. 1t is the result of
overwork, deprivation and anxiety; the
same causes that are shortening the lives
of two.thirds Of the race. But friends,
do not intend to remain sick. l am
going to devote all my power to the et-
fort of, getting we'll again. | have
fight to make, and | am going to make
it. | have very little concern for the
money I owe my subscribers: Ihey.
have carried me in an atmosphere OF
pure love. They will not think OF the
money themselves-except in their gen.
erosity to regret that they had not been
able to- give more. They have met me
on a plane far above the plane ofmoney,
and nv Indebtedness becomes an lncon-
seouential affair. If | get well, and
believe that ill,-this matter OF m IN
debtedness will still bind me, and WIZ
take up my work just where l lalo .he ~
down, and carry out my contract " .;hnG 10y
letter. The three months of PrescffiDoI r,I
rest necessary to the continuation u M
life and the life of my paper Will eApliiS p1iS
in August, and until then l mus oi.' s
good bye to my subscribers Win WILL wy oboil
surance that nothing but dea!n ~ 01h The
prevent them from again receiving iN'
Woman's World.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-19

to let him be heard? Certainly the men
to whom he desires to talk are not all
the idiots the Tribune's pyramid of In.
tellect would have us believe, and if he
should visit Denver we feel satisfied
that, in spite of the positive protest o1
the great brainy journal, he will have a
large audience. This man has been un-
sparingly lied on, as has every other
that has taken up arms against the
"divine-right" masters, and we do not
intend to condemn him unheard. We
are of the opinion that every intelligent
workingman in the city is in the same
boat. If he is as painted by his enemies
we shall candidly say SO, but we prefer
to take his word for it to that of the
lying newspapers and their able aid, the
associated press. When the Tribune be-
comes the guide OF the working people
of this section, and it's exceedingly in
tellectual gang the standard by which
men shall be judged, we'll want to find
some soft spot where we can lie down
and die.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-19

THE Times, like so-called newspapers
of the class to which it belongs, jumps
into Herr Most, and plainly shows that
it is entirely ignorant of the man and
his objects or wilfully misrepresents the
case and endeavors to mislead it's few
readers by batch of malicious lies. The
idea of that coolie concern attempting
to instruct the people upon the situation
of the laboring people and the struggle
for their rights they are now engaged in
strikes every knowing and intelligent
citizen of Colorado as extremely ridicu-
lous. We have no desire to review the
article IN question entire. 1t is lie
from headline to dash-rule. But we
cannot let the opportunity to show this
lying, cheap-labor tool of monopoly,
which is presented in the last paragraph
of it's article, up in it's true colors. 1t
says 80 far as the laboring classes in
Colorado are concerned, they are we'll to
do, and we trust that they will waste
neither time nor money on either Most
or Mezzeroff." Now, in the first place,
the man that indited those words knew
that be was lying No one could better
know so than one who employees printers
to get out his dirty, lying sheet and COM
pels them to work twelve hours each
day for the miserable pittance of an
average less than SIS per week. In the
next place, every well-informed reader
is aware that the condition Of the work
men of Colorado, with few exceptions, is
worse than in the older localities in the
east. There are more idle men in Den
yer to-day in proportion to it's popula
ton, and lower rate of wages paid
with the exception of one or two of the
organized trades than in any city in the
United States. If the Times expects to
deceive any thinking person or pull the
wool over the eyes of the laboring men
of this locality, it very greatly mistakes
the intelligence of this people, and sadly
over estimates the influence of sheet
that is known by them as the small-fry
foe of justice, honesty and decency.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-19
THE BALL ROLLING.

Elsewhere we publish call for state
convention, to be held in Denver, Satur-
day, June 10, for the purpose Of selecting
delegates to the anti monopoly conven-
ton which meets in Chicago, July 4
The trouble has been since this subject
was first broached that there was no
head to the large anti-monopoly element
in the state, and would consequently be
without a means of starting the ball
rolling. This difficulty has been over
come by the representative working
mems organization of the state yielding
to the pressure of popular demand and
appointing a committee to take the nee
essary primary steps That committee
began work at once, and the call before
referred to is submitted by them for
careful perusal and consideration.
The committee will mail circular
copies of the call to prominent gentle
men throughout the state who are eknoWn
to favor the movement, and by every
means in their power endeavor to have
the interest taken which the end to be
attained merits. But to awaken the peo,
ple and induce them to see the necessity
for immediate and positive action the
committee must have the cooperation
of those equally interested with them in
the success of the movement and the
ultimate overthrow Of the monopoly
power that is impoverishing the land
and beggaring the people. To this end
it is to be hoped there will be ample as
sistance afforded the committee in their
work. Anyone knowing the addresses
of active men who are favorable to such
step as the present one, is requested to
communicate it, with any other informa-
ton which may he useful.
Now is the time to strike for our rights.
No such opportunity was ever before
presented to the people to wrest from
the hands of the base pretenders the
power that justly and constitutionally
belongs to them. There is no semblance
of any old party in this movement; no
sore-head, disappointed politicians are
connected with it, and the power lies in
us to forever exclude .all such. The
movement has originated with pure
men, with a pure motive and now it
rests with the people to keep it pure and
carry to successful ending this great
work.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-19

WILL some kind and benevolent per
son, with Immaculate perceptions, be so
kind as to inform us what the Tribune is
driving at? One issue comes out charg-
ing the English government with MUIR
dering men for doing their duty and
attempting to liberate an oppressed and
abused people, In the next issue it at
tempts to justify the government in the
very same case. On Tuesday it is MUIR
der; on Wednesday, a just reward for
treason. This great straddler also flies
at Herr Most, and abuses him in the
highest style of the art. 1t also hurls its
abusive ISLANDERS at any and all who for
a moment agree with the socialist in any
particular. 1t says that Most has
neither courage nor sense" but that he
is an Ignorant fraud" That is lie,
though, through ignorance on the SUBJ
ject, the writer may not have known it
when he gave it utterance. Most is not
an ignorant man. No man understands
his subject better than he. AS for his
being a coward, his fearlessness in boldly
denouncing the rottenness he has sense"
enough to see exists. shows the absurd
fallacy of such a charge. And if the
man is such knave and fool why fear
The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-19

FRIDAY morning the Tribune printed
what it named an interview with Herr
Most, who it claimed had been hidden
in the city several days by his socialistic
friends. The interview might be induced
to 90 down if it didn't smack so much OF
kansas City telegraph received in the
early part of the week, and of points
gathered at this office on Thursday after
noon. AS it is, the story is too thin to
catch anyone. The zeal of the Tribune,
however, is commendable, inasmuch as
Herr Most is an Ignorant, cowardly vag,
unworthy the consideration of any de-
cent man" But then the Tribune gang
are noted for the company they keep.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-19

making ia the same direction e 10. :.
rested, will soon leave Us but the pos. 81.
ofa republic. American Sentry -'"'e
Brady, ! man alleged to have ha.,
Of the Phenix park murderers, was buns uns
Yesterday he died game. The aov0ru ;, ] snE
ment was less game, for !, forhoaa
hearse to come for his body - n;
mother visited him before his exeou4 4:oH
and demanded that he make no ST. So
ment. Why should there be one ? ~ Mo
fact that the man was hung was evidence
of minor crime which grew out of tbs
greater crime of English oppression
No staten ent was necessary. Thers
was wrong, an attempt to right it An
informer and an execution This, in
Grief, has been the struggle for Irish
libertv.-Denver Tribune. y
There are advantages to be derived
through and by labor organizations but
so far they have not been reached. The
labor leaders are partially at fault for
this but in part only. They find it verv
difficult to lead the masses in the right
direction. They find it easier to fall in
with them and to become in certain
sense demagogues. They know that to
speak the truth, to be candid, to be hon.
est is to be crushed by them. The
working classes are not yet prepared for
the leadership of honest men. True,
there are some honest men in the lead
but must drift with: the channel, and
not enGeaver to exercise any good influ-
ences over them.-Labor World.
1t would appear that few daring men
have done more to attract public atten
ton to the treatment of Ireland TODAY
than could he accomplished if she had
standing army in the field, and that,
too, without the carnage and suffering
inseparable from the methods of what is
hypocritically termed honorable war
fare" We imagine that the mode Of
warfare which emancipates a nation
with the least possible suffering to our
fellowmen is not only the most humane
but the most honorable also. We fail to
see the honor and the humanity of a
warfare which sanctions the moving
down of twenty or thirty thousand men
in the MONDAY of life in single battle,
and condemns the more effective and
less brutal system of convincing tyrants
of the necessity of being just to all men,
Irish World.
It has not yet dawned on the minds
of those who control the protected in
dustries Of the United States that they
are "killing the goose that lays the gold
en- egg" Workingmen have heretofore
been under the delusionthat protection
to the manufacturers meant protection to
them also. The delusion is being rapidly
dispelled by manufacturers themselves.
Every ship-load of European "pauper
labor" tends to open the eyes of the
workers to the fact that although the
products of such labor was practically
excluded by the tariff, the manufacturer
alone profted thereby. Not satisfied
with the great advantages given him un-
der the tariff, the manufacturer has sent
his agents to other nations to hire the
very "pauper" labor the American work.
ingman fondly supposed he was pro-
tected against, and the inevitable result
will be that the great body of working
men, who have hitherto been protec-
tionists, will become pronounced free
traders. The next thing to do is to stop
the importation Of labor under contract.
st Louis Union.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-19

criminally careless Of the great duties
that devolve upon us as the sons OF
brave and independent men, and the
fathers off helpless generation growing
up around us. Let US be ready to strike
a decisive blow for liberty and equal
rights in 1884, or be prepared, to stain
our hands in blood very shortly after. =.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-19
JOUR- EXCHANGES,

Every mechanic of common sense
knows that the only way to keep wages
above the low-water mark of starvation
is by effective organization. Capital is
generally rapacious and aggressive
Dayton Gazette.
Most of the old world monarchical
governments have ceased legislatlng. for
the people, and the progress we are
The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-19
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The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-19

WHEN you have read this issue of
your paper hand it to some one who is
not subscriber and call his attention to
the anti-monopoly matter in it. You
must do what you can to help us in this
matter, and you will if you know which
side of your bread has the butter on it.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-19

THE Harrison reduction works, at
Leadville, were totally destroyed by
fire Thursday morning. The loss is
about $4,000, which is entirely covered
by insurance. 1t is said the works will
be at once rebuilt
The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-19

IF nothing. .transpired to prevent it
Daniel Curley was executed this (Fri-
day. morning, in Dublin. And still the
hour for Irish rebellion has not yet ar,
rived. There is now more than Emmets
epitaph to be written.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-19

NEW YORK has had enough of the
Chinaman, and now there isa strong and
respectable element in that city which
says John must go.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-19

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ussion of all sides Of the labor questions
of the day. Contributions always welcome.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-19

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