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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

The boot and shoe factory of r. Nc
Greedy & Co., at Montreal, valued with
it's stock at 100000, was destroyed by
fire.
ELI STILsON, a pioneer citizen of Osh-
k0sh, formerly president of the Wiscon-
sin Agricultural society, died at his
home Monday.
SILAS MERCHANT, of Cleveland, manu-
facturer of Ice-machines, has made an
assignment, with liabilities of $780,
900.
FIVE valuable horses, standing under
tree at Erie, Pennsylvania, were killed
by lightning, the only mark upon them
being melted shoes.
ELEVEN victims of the cyclone at RO-
chester, Minnesota, were buried at Oak
wood cemetery, in the presence Of three
thousand persons. A freak of the wind
was the driving of a pine board through
the trunk of maple tree.
FOREST fires would have destroyed the
village of Ashland, Wisconsin, the other
day but for a shower at night. Hun
dreds of men fought the flames all
day.
CHARLES w. GRISwOLD, for many
years one of the proprietors of the Fifth
Avenue hotel, New York, died at Long
Branch of Bright's disease.
Two employees of a hotel in Dayton,
Ohio, engaged in friendly struggle for
possession of a revolver, the result be-
ing that one was shot through the right
lung.
a A COLLISION of freight trains at Turner
Station, seven miles west Of Kansas
City, demolished both engines and sew
eral cars, and caused a loss of $40, 900
to the Santa Fe road.
DIR. F. w. P. Butler, son of the South
Carolina senator, was thrown from his
horse while riding with lady at Lam
caster, and then the animal fell upon
him, causing conclusion of the brain.
There is but little hope for his recovery.
A CYCLONE nearly wrecked the city of
Rochester, Minnesota. Twenty-four per-
sons were killed and over forty were
seriously injured. A passenger train on
the Northern road was blown form the
track between Rochester and Zumbrota,
and there is great loss of life thereby.
nj. Cole, a miller at Zumbrota, was kill
ed while at work. Five lives were lost
at Kasson, and horses and cattle are
found dead in all directions.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30

packing in Ireland, and of the reckless
desire of the government to procure
convictions for the purpose OF striking
terror among the people of the country
by the tyrannical use of the power of
secret inquiries.
THERE has been serious rioting be-
tween the Catholics and Orangemen of
Coatbridge, Scotland. Two policemen
received dangerous wounds. Disturban-
ces were renewed, when party of Cath
olics armed themselves with picks and
hammers, and paraded the main street
IN search of religious opponents. Mount
ed officers dispersed the mob and made
twenty arrests.
A DECIDED breeze has been generated
in Europe by recent article in The
North German Gazette declaring thai
France alone threatens the peace of the
continent. In addition to the political
excitement kindled by the editorial il
question, there was a marked fall il
prices on the bourses of Paris, Vienna
and Berlin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30
FOREIGN.

THE election in County Sligo, Ireland,
resulted in the return to parliament
of Nichols Lynch, the home-rule candi-
date.
AN American Jew, after astay of four
days in st. Petersburg, was recently ex-
PEELED, in accordance with law.
BRIGANDS have captured the governor
and several councillors of Florian, a
Turkish city, for whom a ransom of
100000 is demanded.
A BERLIN correspondent asserts that
the Chinese government is negotiating
with Germany for the purchase of 100,
900 rifles.
The deaths from cholera in Egypt.
Saturday, included 30 at Cairo and 80
at Alexandria. Another fatal case has
occurred at Beyrout, Syria.
KING ALPHONSO was warmly received
at Valencia, where he attended the ca
thedral and received the troops. He is
to visit Barcelona.
THE French Government has inform
ed the British Foreign Secretary that
Missionary Shaw was arrested in NADIA
gascar as a Hova dignitary and not as a
British subject.
THE Mexican secretary of the treas
ury has called conference of delegates
from the states, to discuss the modes of
abolishing the internal, custom-houses
and devising a more equitable tax.
PARNELL repeated the charges of jury
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
WASHINGTON.

THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the minis for the week ended Aug.
Is was $424, 499; for the corresponding
period last year $4,000
THE treasury department has received
1871, 800 bequeathed by the late J. B.
Gardner, of Boston, to aid in paying the
national debt.
A NOTED pension-sharp of Washing
ton, named Jenkins Fitzgerald. has
again been disbarred from practice for
extorting money from pensioners
by sending dunning letters by express
calling for small sums on delivery.
IT is understood that Lieut.. Col Ilges
and Lieut.. Robertson will be dismissed
for duplicating pay accounts. A strong
pressure will be brought to bear on the
president for pardon for Major Was
son.
THIRTY StereOtype-plates of the cata-
logue of the SurgeOn-Generafs office,
were stolen from the printing office last
week and found Saturday in some water
pipes lying in the street.
MAJOR KIRBY, of the railway mail di-
vision Of the pOstoff1ce department, has
been removed by Postmaster General
Gresham, on suspicion that he made ex-
cessive allowances to the publisher of
The Postal Guide.
THE commissioner of internal revenue
has decided that bitters sold in good
faith as ledecine, need not pay special
tax as a leverage. One specimen which
he caus i to be analysed, contained 80
per cen of ordinary whisky.
J. A.. Fitzgerald, the pension agent
recently diSbarred from practicing be-
fore the Interior Department, will be no
longer recognized as an attorney of the
Treasury Department.
PASSED Assistant Surgeon d. M. Cru
teraS, now on board the y nited States
steamer Swatara, has volunteered for
duty at the Pensacola Navy Yard. He
will be Immediately trans ferred to that
post, if he can be detached before the
sailing of the Swatara from New York.
LIEUT.. A. E. Wood, 18th cavalry, now
on leave of absence in Paris, has been
designated by the United States govern
ment to attend the military maneuverS
of the French army near Paris, in Sep
TENDER next, on the invitation of the
French government. Maj. E. Beaumont
9Th cavalry, heretofore designated for
this duty, has been relieved.
SOME time ago the secretary of the
treasury ordered the removal of Mr..
Broughton, keeper of the lighthouse at
ST. Joseph, Mich, and the appointment
of Mr.. Platt in his place. Well, Mr..
Broughton has justinformed the depart
ment that he is now in full possession of
the lighthouse, and does not propose to
allow anybody to take his place. The
officials are in quandary as to the best
means of securing possession for Mr..
Platt, and it looks as though the aid of
police will have to be invoked
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30
CRIME.

G.. STRONG, formerly clerk of Butle
county, Kansas, who forged warrants
and fled with young woman, leaving
a wife and two children almost penn
less, lies in Jail at st. Paul for lack Of
81, 900 bail.
[. M. HAVEN, eX-treasurer of the Ru-
land railroad, was arrested for signing
and issuing 4,717 false shares of stock.
and gave bail in $4,000.
AT a colored camp-meeting on the
outskirts of Nashville, the religions fer
vOr Of the negroes caused white specta-
tors is fire twelve shots into the people,
one white man being killed an( eight
negroes wounded.
M. aaPOPF, residing near Carollton,
Illinois, finding that his wife had
brought suit for divorce, firel shot
at her, which made only a feshwound
on her cheek, and then killed himself.
F. NJ, FITCH, the defaulting cashier of
the Second National bank of Warren
Ohio. has fled. 1t is believed thai he has
gone to Canada, and in female costume,
as his father was seen driving aw,y with
closely-veiled figure.
WILLIAM HEYDT, who served through
the war as an officer of the 106th Ohio
volunteers, was assaulted in from of a
hotel in Baltimore by Hugh RosborDugh,
and SO badly beaten that he soon died of
his injuries.
In disreputable house in Cincinnati,
Burt Scheible killed Josie Stupp and
himself with a revolver Both belonged
in Dayton, where the man was charged
with embezzlement from an insurance
company.
WHILE the ferry steamer Pope was
crossing Detroit river, bartender nam
ed Luke Phipps shot his wife dead, from
jealousy. The passengers overpowered
him and delivered him to the Canadian
authorities at Windsor. He had recent
ly commenced suit for divorce.
GEORGE BEATTIE, who had been en-
ployed by Noremac, the pedestrian, as
bartender in a New York saloon, killed
Mrs. Normac, in her rooms in Eighth
avenue, and then took his own life He
was found lying across her corpse. 1t is
believed the deed was committed in e
venge for being discharged.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30

The strike at the Bethlehem Pa.)
Iron Works, where three thousand
men have been out for six weeks,
owing to the action of the company,
resulted in their returning to work in
body on Wednesday, after first re
nouncing their connection with the
Amalgamated Association. The Beth
Iehem members complain that the
Pittsburg members, whose delegates
TO the general convention number
nearly ninety, or two-thirds of the
whole body, have controlled the or
ganization In the Pittsburg interest,
and that the Bethlehem strikers did
not get the funds they were entitled
to to enable them to hold out in the
strike. They say that during the
strike of 1882 at Pittsburg, the strikers
were assisted by $4,000 contribution
from the west end of the state, and
hat when the time came to return the
favor it was not returned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30

THE Knights Templars, or rather
those who have been attracted by their
presence in San Francisco to that city,
are beginning to experience some of
the discomforts of those who visited
Chicago on a similar occasion three
years ago. There was a terrible crush
at the pavilion on the occasion of the
religious services Sunday Many per-
sons were taken out insensible. The
weather is very fine, however, and
with the exception of the crowding
alluded to, there have not been many
causes of complaint.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30
THAT Cattara11ous County

THAT Cattaraugus County crank,
Captain Rhodes, insists that he will
yet shoot Niagara, although poor
Webb never came back to answer
Carlyle's question, after Niagara,
What" The authorities ought to in
1erpose. The Canadians will not let
him leap in from their side, and in
New York attempting to commit sui
eide is a crime Rhodes ought to be
prosecuted Hereunder, if he persists
in his insane and deadly folly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30

THE people of Texas have a great
dread of yellow-fever In conse-
quence of the report of a case of yell
1ow-fever in New Orleans, Gov. Ire
land ordered the quarantine physi
clan at Galveston, not to permit any
of the ships of the Morgan Line of
New Orleans to enter port, until the
report referred to had been investiga-
ted and proved untrue. It turns out
that the reports had no foundation in
fact.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30
GENERAL NOTES.

Two HUNDRED girls employed il a
clothing factory at Toledo are out on a
strike for an advance in wages.
POTATOES throughout western New
York have been attacked by black rust,
and the entire crop of that region is in
peril.
ONE mILLIoN acres of public lands are
being sold at auction by the registrar at
st. Cloud, Minnesota. the average price
being $685. per acre.
MICHAEL F. WELSH, who has but one
foot, defeated Captain Williams in a
swimming contest in the Ohio river at
Cincinnati, and lays claim to the cham
piOnsh1p.
HILARIO BALSO, a noted French swim
mer has arrived in New York, with the
intention of going through the whirl-
pool at Niagara OF reaching a better
land.
SLADE, the Maori, who appeared so in
different to the results of visit from
one Of Governor Crittenden'S marshals,
has gathered up his dumb-bells, sand
bags, and trainer, and left Independence
for some unknown part.
The funeral of Judge Jere S. Black
was the largest ever held in York, and
was attended by many men of distinc-
ton in law and politics. General Han
cock and Chief Justice Mercer were
among the pall-bearers.
MATCHES are imported from Sweden
to New York in great quantities, paying
a duty Of 80 cent. American manufact-
urers now seek to have duty levied on
the white wooden boxes in which the
Swedish goods arrive, which would stop
the trade.
COLONEL HOWARD and nine other
members of the American rifle team
have arrived in New York, and state
that they were overwhelmed by courte-
sizes in England.
FOUR THOUSAND Sir Knights, repre-
senting every state and territory, para
ded the streets of San Francisco. Three
color bearers tainted on the march, and
an aide to the grand commander had
both legs broken by fall from his
horse.
The board of health at Pensacola re
ports that city in healthy condition,
with a Gordon of seventeen miles, pro-
tected by swamps and water. Thirteen
arrests were made in one day for en-
deavoring to break the lines.
A CLOSE inspection of houses at Pen
sacola developed two cases of yellow
fever in a sailors boarding house on the
wharf at Palafax street. The Surgeon
general ordered the patients removed to
Santa Rosa island, their bedding and
clothing destroyed, and the building fu-
migated and guarded.
A FEW miles west of the Mullen tun-
mel. in Montana, the tracks of the Nor
thern Pacific road, from the Mississippi
to the Pacific ocean, was finished at 3
o'clock on the 22d inst, ten miles of rail
having been laid during the day. Henry
Willard and Jay Cooke will drive the
golden spike September s.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30
blood Injected with ,EalarIai virus.

Is more efectually purified by Hostetter's Stom
ach BiJte-S than by any other depurent 1t expelS
mated with it. ard for the reason that it gives 4,
vigorous impulse to all those functions whose reg
l2cty is essential to health, it Is frSt-rate pre-
Yenti3e of malarial and bilious endeTnicS 1t pro-
NOTES regularity in the bie-secreting process, is
the best auxiliary of enfeebled digestion enriches
the circulation. and inparts TO fiaccid attenuated
and enfeebed frames an amount of vigor which
ordinary medication fails to yield Since it is well
known that persons of bilious tendency, irregu
ar digestion and a conStipated habit of body
are the best subjects for malaria, the wisdom of
using this fine protective agent in time viii be az
preciated. 1t diffuseS genial warmth through
the system. which counteracts the effects of damp
tive of rheumatism, kidney troubles and other
serious maladies
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30

MANY Of the striking telegraphers
are being re-employed by the West
ern Union Company at New York, but
the applications of all the striking
'1inemen" for reinstatement are re-
iactpd
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30

HORSE-FLESH has been indicated
Mr.. Daggett, a New York sport, is
now happy. Some months ago his
good steed Boston was beaten in the
race to Stony Creek by a catamaran,
but the other day he tried it once
again and this time won. It would
be no disgrace to equine speed to be
distanced by any ordinary sailer, but
to be distanced by anything known
by such an outlandish name as a cata-
maran was too much.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30

IT has turned out that the farmers
daughter in Cass county, Iowa, whose
supposed abduction caused much ex-
element in that region last week, ran
away from home. She has been found
few miles distant, working in ia
milY as domestic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30

MEssRs. T. P. O'CoNNOR, Thomas
Sexton, and 7. M. Healy will visit the
United States after the adjournment
of Parliament, in the interest of the
Irish Land-League movement. Mr.
Parnell may come also, but it is not
probable that he will
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30

A ST. JOSEPH (Mo.) hotel keeper has
been fined $50 for keeping his bar
room open Sundays. He has taken
an appeal, with the intention of test
ing the Downing License law, under
which he was prosecuted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30

A PARTY of tourists, among whom
were several ladies, enjoyed July
sleigh ride on the slopes of Mt. Hand,
Washington Territory. They were
70. $50 feet above the sea level.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30

The Standard Oil Company, one of
the greatest and wealthiest monopolies
in the United States, has bought up
its only existing competitor, the Tide
water Pipe Line of Pennsylvania.
This virtually gives the Standard Oil
Company absolute possession of the
petroleum trade of the country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30

SAN FRANCISCO rejoices in the pros
pect of the best private residence in
America. 1t will cost So, 500, 600, and
is to be built for fifty-millionaire
Flood
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30
GRAND RAPIDS

ALFONSO is swinging round the
circle in Spain The reports say that
he is being enthusiastically received.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30

Nervousness, debility and exhausted NltaliIS
cured by using Browns Iron Bitters.
MILWAUKEE is full of interest for an
exposition this autumn. 49,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30

Pug dogs are going out of fashion as
ladies' pets, and young women who
have stock of these CANNES ON hand,
and can't afford to invest IN the new
fashion, will have to treat their pugs
as thoy do their last years dresses
turn them, let out the tucks, shirr the
skirt, and brighten then up with bow
of ribbon here and there. There are
more ways than one to keep up with
the fashions.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-23
An cIa.Tlmer,s Noiss.

On returning 10 Kansas after six
years absence, the writer ia impressed
by the great progress evinced on every
hand.
Shade trees and good walks. One
can walk miles under Overhanging
shade trees and on good walks, when
before all was the bright glare Of the
sun and offensive dust.
OF fruit not much has yet come
under observation, but the reports are
Of a great yield.
AS to wheat and corn nowhere
along the journey from the east has
there been such as In Kansas. The
wheat Of Ohio IL far below the average,
while corn there and IN all the states
between, gives but poor promise.
The dwellers In Saline county now
have a very different lot from that of
those in 1S6T-lsT4. Now no grass
hOppers, no such excessive droughts.
1.-The desert blossoms as the rose"
The future Os Kansas h well defined.
IL Is TO have a place among the great
grain producing states Of eur grert
land. It will abound In fruit. IL will
be q land Of beauty aud Of plenty.
The progressive spirit Of the people
will assert itself in advanced schools,
enlightened legislation, and In an en-
larged spirit Of human sympathy.
AS 10 prohibition the sympathies Of
the writer are all with the maintain
ance Of the constitution as &C now Is.
It cannot be difficult to carry out this
provision In Kansas. There is an alb
seHce OF large cities with those influ-
ences which tend 10 defeat Temperance
legislation. IL will take time to pro-
duce a full concurrence In the law,
but will do it. Through all the states
there Is a movement-nOrth, south,
e { and west There Is need Of great
reform. IL must come. There may
be notifications OF the present law,
but the saloon Is destined 10 lose its
power over society and its power over
Law. A generation Is rising trained TO
temperance. Twenty years hence
men will wonder that saloons had
such influence that men hesitated 10
help suppress the dram shop"
But this is q digressiOn from the
thoughts with which the writer be.
gan. What he wishes to impress is
the progress Of the country, and the
duty Ofall 20 help on that progress, in
agriculture, social life and religion.
New church edifiees are ''gOOd
investments,H even financially. No
man wants to bring up q family In =
lsnd where christianity IL not hon.
ored-where churches are deserted.
To descend 70 smaller matters, it
seems 10 the writer that all can help
the country by planting trees. Keep
on planting trees. The despised "eot-
ton WOodn hns shown is power 10
ornament and beautify lands 50 ns to
add f0urfOld % their commercial value.
Plant peach stones every year tili the
country is q vast peach orchard Cul-
tivate the blackberry and raspberry.
We little think how much the health
Of people is benefited By an abun-
dance Of fruits In their season.
Let man not live too much in the
past uCT yet In the present. Let them
also live In the bud for the future. He
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-23

THE North american Review for
September is an admirably constituted
number, whether we regard the time
illness and Importance Of the subjects
presented, or the eminent competence
Of the authors chosen for their discus
sion. First comes "State Regulation
OF Corporate Profits" by ChiefJustiee
r. M. Cooley, OF Michigan, showing
how far, by wise legislation and by
applying In the spirit Of enlightened
Jurisprudence the principles Of the
common law, the narrowing exactions
Of corporate companies and mOnopO-
lies in general may be restrained and
the interests Of the people effectually
conserved. John A. KassOn, NJ. c.,
writes on Municipal Reform" !" and
offers suggestions for the abatement Of
the evils Of misgOvernment In our
great municipalities that will COM
mand the earnest interest Of all good
citizens without respect to party
AktCuhIu OIauk W ultG AIE1Ae VI Otuss
Distinction In the United States,n
subject that Is destined to occupy
more and more the attention OF the
American people as great fortunes in
crease. Shooting at Sight" is the
subject Of some pertinent reflections
by James Jackson, Chisf-Justice OF
the State Of Georgia. In Facts about
the Caucus and the Primary" George
Walton Green unveils the tricks prae-
ticed by political managers in large
cities. The well-knOwn English es-
sayist, w. H. MallOek, contributes
Conversations with a Solitary" i'm
which he sets forth with much inge-
nuity the arguments adverse TO POpu-
lar government. The Rev. DR.. Phe-
Ian contributes an article sparkling
with epigrams, on the Limitations Of
Freethinking." Finally Grant Allen,
the most charming ofall living writers
on natural history, diseOurses on IAN
Wild Flower" Published
at 80 Lafayette Place, New York, and
for sale by booksellers generally.