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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-05
CRIME.

Six persons in the jail at at VandaIia,
H., overpowered the sheriff and escaped
Monday night.
GEORGE J. KREBs, the sb5conding post
master of Fremont. Ohio, was captured
In an adjoining town.
RICHARD INGoLD, desperate, while
evading arrest, was shot fatally by COR
stable at Goodin, Mo.
VIM. A. STEVENS, a hardware salesman
from Decatur, ILL.,, drowned himself in
the river at San Antonio, Tuesday.
The husband cf the woman Lottie
Chisholm, shot last Saturday in Newark.
n, J., has been held for murder.
ALDERMAN Kelly. of Cincinnati, DELHI
erately shot a wag named James Toal for
exchanging hats with him at a 6re-engine
house.
MCLEAN, assistant postmaster at Wood
vile, Mont, arrested for robbing the
mails, has been held for trial IN $1,000
bonds, and in default of which has gone
to Jail.
The second trial of Charles Bach for
the murder of his wife In October, 1881,
at Toledo, has resulted in his conviction.
and he has been sentenced to be hanged
October II.
ONE 4hOOSANO SEIplOy SS u IlS steel
works at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. have
struck for an increase of wages, to equaIize
their pay with that Of other mills in the
same region.
CoUNT DRMoREs. who recently expended
81 GOO, 900 in Dakota in founding cattle
and sheep ranch, had some words with the
leader of band of outlaws, who threaten
ed to kill him on sight, and the sheriff has
left Bismarck for the scene Of trouble with
a large posse.
RAILWAY travellers in Europe have a
new sensation in the attempt made last
night, IN a carriage running between
Calais and Paris, to kill and rob an Eng
lish clergyman named Witchborne. The
assailant was also an Englishman, and
after stabbing his victim five times with
a chisel he made an attempt to escape
from the train at Amiens, bat was cap
tured.
No LESS than 300 persons out of car 90
of immigrants who landed Tuesday a. New
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-05
FIRES AND CASUALTIES

ROBERT n. PARKS & Co., bankers, of
New York. fled an assignment, giving
preferences for 1908, GOO.
The stove factory of Mcmillan Broth
ers, at Meanwhile, Wisconsin,, was burned
Saturday night, and q young Polander
persisted in the flames.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, lad of Is years
fell several hundred feet down shaft in
the Enterprise coIliery, Wednesday, his
Injuries proving fatal.
A BOILER in the saw-mill of IvaS & Hale
at Wittlesey, Wisconsin, exploded Satur-
day afternoon, killing three men.
The yellow fever now raging at Vera
Cruz is of terribly fatal type, the NOR
tality averaging six out of every seven
attacked. 1t is again asserted that the
deaths number 10 per day.
A FAST TRAIN on the New York, PENS
sylvania q Ohio railway struck buggy
containing three people two miles north of
Mansfield, Ohio. William Walford and
wife were severely and a child fatally in
iured.
AT the freight yards of Altoona, three
miles east of Eau Claire, an emplove of
the railroad company named A. Fried
miller had one Of his feet crushed under
the wheel Of an engine, necessitating am
putation.
AT Trepassy, n. B., Monday evening, a
large fishing boat went down and six men
were drowned. Out Of a crew of seven
only one was saved. 1t is supposed the
boat was overloaded.
The commissioners of Immigration at
New York furnished Collector Robertson
with the names of twenty-eight new arri-
walls who are unable to support themselves.
The collector sent the list to the Office of
the Anchor line. with request that the
immigrants be taken back 10 Ireland.
Tar Mississippi has flooded the levee
at st. Louis and reached the lower stories
of buildings. At Venice forty-fve dwell
lngs and two elevators are surrounded by
water. Three-fourths of the people at East
Carondelet have taken refuge on a ridge
along the railroad, and twenty thousand
acres OF wheat and corn are overlooked.
HE largest cotton-seed oil mill in the
world, located at Algeria, louisiana. was
struck by lightning, last Wednesday even
ing, and totally destroyed. Five fremen
were slightly scslded by the explosion of
a tank. The loss aggregates 81, 100000.
RAINS overfowed the Big Nemaha river
in Nebraska to such degree that thous-
ands of hogs and cattle were drowned, in
ficting loss of 100000. The town of
Tecumseh, with population OF two
thousand, is bare of groceries and -four.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-05
Iowa RennHlic2n.

Dies MONIES, Iowa. June 27.-The
Republican State convention met at IL
o'clock. Temporary officers were cleo
ted, as follows: Chairman, the Hon. J.
A. Kasson; Secre taries, Col. Manning,
of Walpelia, A. f. Shaw, of Jackson.
William A. Gardner of Lyo on County.
The Committee on Permanent 0 gani-
zation reported as follows: Chairman,
Col. D. B. Henderson,, Dubuque; Sec
rotary, Calvin Monroe; vice president
from each Congressional district, and
one assistant secretary from each Con
gressional distijt. The report was I'M
animously adopted.
THE PLATF ORM
was reported through Senator Wilson.
1t is quite lengthy.
The first resolution reviews the past
record of the party. Temperance is
dealt with in the following two planks:
2. That while We extend our earnest
sympathy to the people Of all countries
who are struggling for their rights in
opposition to oppressive laws and sys-
TENS, we also plant ourselves on the
side of the homes of our own people
in their contest against saloon. That
when the republican party of Iowa
pledged itself in 1879 to give to the
people at special, non-partisan cleo
ton an opportunity to vote on prop
osition to so amend the constitution of
the state as to prohibit the manufac-
ture and sale, as a beverage, of intoxi-
eating liquors, it acted in good faith,
and the special election OF June q,
1882, evidences the redemption of the
pledge so given, and we now declare
that we accept the result of the cleo
ton, with its maj ority of % 974 votes
in favor of the adoption Of the amend
ment so voted on as to The verdict of
the people in favor of constitutional
and statutory, and without making any
new test of party fealty, We recognize
the 10 oral and political obligation which
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GENERAL NO HMS.

THERE is no quorum In either house OF
the New Hamp hire Legislature, but q
vote for senator will be taken daily. Bng-
ham, democrat, leads the list with 1l3;
Rollins. republican, has SO supporters.
THE expenses Of the Tewksbury investi-
cation have reached $8,757.
UNDERTAKERs are holding convention
at Cincinnati this week.
The apnual meeting of the Hudson Bay
Company has been held and a dividend
declared.
SHAMEFUL cruelties are alleged against
the management of the Soldiers and Sail
ors' Home at Bath, n. Y.
RECEIVER BBNsLBY reports the liabili-
ties of McGeoch, Everingham & Co. in
excess of Sc, 100000, with assets Of about
$4,000.
DENNIS KEAENRY, the San Francisco
drayman, is on his way to Chicago to at
tend the anti-monopoly convention, July
4th.
The Massachusetts Senate defeated the
House resolution providing for the proro-
cation Of the Legislature to Aug. 25. The
bill Incorporating the Cape Cod Ship
Canal Company was enacted.
b. M. AYLsWoRTH, formerly of New
York City, employed as stenographer
in the Louisville e Nashville office az
Cleveland, wound up debauch day by
taking an overdose of choral and was
found dead in his bedroom. He has a
young wife in New York.
A FARMER near South Bend, Ind. found
standing In ditch. stark naked, Ger
man who claims to have made $4,000
specializing in butter and lard in Chicago
which he lost in endeavoring to establish
grocery business.
THE republicans of Minnesota renomi-
mated Governor Hubbard, and placed @.
A. Gilman on the ticket for lieutenant
governor and Fred Won Baumbach for sec
retary of state. Kittlesons for treasurer,
and Bokeifer RY. commissioner.
THE Iowa republican state convention
chose as temporary president Hon. John
A. Kssson, who proclaimed the harmony
of the party In oDposi ion TO free trade
and free alcohol. Governor Sherman
and Lieutenant Governor Manning were
renominated. Judge Reed, OF Council
Bluff, was placed on the ticket for the
supreme bench, and John w. Atkins for
superintendent of public instr uction.
SEVEN bishops oficiated Sunday at the
conservation of Rev. Joseph r idemacher
as bishop of Nashville. Sixty visiting
priests were entertained by the new bieh-
op, on which occasion the latter was pre-.
sented with purse Of gold coin from
former practitioners at Fort Wayne
Father Durbin, of Bardst0wn, Kentucky,
who has been priest for sixty two years
attended the coosecration.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-05
TELEGRAPHIC.
News by Wire Reduced to
Close Quarters for Con-
venient Reference and
Easy Reading.
WASHINGTON.

TIE treasury department has purchased
1927, 900 ounces of silver for delivery at
the New Orleans, San Francisco and Phil
adelphia minis.
TIE president has appointed Frank L.
at New Orleans, vice M. T Bonzano, sus-
pended, and Benjamin T. Taylor sssayer
OF the mint at New Orleans. vice Joseph
,Albrecht, suspended.
81 CRETARY TRLLFR is Investigate ing the
charge that some registers Of land offices
ia Nebraska use their position TO force
advertisements into certain ne yspapers
at the expense Of the settlers.
ACTING Assistant Surgeon w. H.
Hawkes., q. S. A., has resigned to take
effect the Both inst. DR.. Hawkes. was the
private tutor of the late President Gar,
fields CONS. He will practice his profess
sion in Chicago.
a RUMoR from across the sea is to the
effect that Mr.. Ernest Brulatour, our first
secretary of legation at Paris, is about to
marry Miss Mackey, daughter of the
California Mackey. Mr.. Brulatour, who
is the son of a rich old New Orleans wine
merchant, has ably seconded Minister
M0rton'5 efforts to make our legation in
Paris famous for elegant hospitality.
TIE Solicitor Of the Treasury has still
under consideration offers of comprom-
ise In the case Of Thomas Ochiltree, for
merly Uaited States marshal for Texas.
The amount of Judgment in the case is
$4,000, and the amount offered In COM
promise $500. The Solicitor he's received
a letter from gentleman not party to
the case, Offering to buy the Government, 8
claim against Ochiltree for $4,000.
THE president has ordered the internal
~evenue collection districts reduced from
1875 to 81, to take effect July 1. In Illinois,
the Sterling and Aurora districts have
been given to Lucien B. Croker, at
Aurora, while the Champaign and Spring
field districts will be placed in the hands
Johe w. Hill. Michigan is divided be-
tween James Fl. Stone, at Detroit, ard
Charles w. Watkins, at Graud Rapids.
Wisconsin is giving to living NJ. Bean, at
Milwaukee, and Leonard Lottridge.
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed
between the Postoffice Department and
the Republic of Mexico for the overland
exchange of mails between the offices of
San Diego, CAL, and Tijuana, Mex, to
commence July 1. The exchange for the
present will be semi-monthly, and mails
sent from San Diego should include all
correspondence for Tijuana and ReaIdel,
Castillo, and that for other destinations
in Lower California may also be forward
ed in this exchange if specially addressed
to 60 via San Diego, Cal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-05

SPEAKING of the new Nordenskjold
expedition to the regions of ice, The
New York Herald says. "While there
are several highly interesting problems
which the new expedition may solve in
the interest of science, the most attrac-
tive feature of Baron Nordenskjold's
undertaking is the promise of bringing
the East Greenland tribes into contact
with civilization. The population along
the east coast between ATTITUDES &C and
65 was found by Graah in 1880 to num-
Der over FIVE hundred souls; and that
explorer describes the Esquimaux here
SIS better and higher race, in all re-
spects, than those of the west coast, the
men being of large stature and the NO.
man of good forms, with agreeable fea-
lures In the interest of humanity it
is to be hoped they may be reached
and some of them removed from their
dreary abodes."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-05

York were found to be assisted. Several
have been inmates of workhouse in the
County Kerry. The commissioners of
Castle Garden will take steps to at once
send some of the party back, under the
law forbidding the landing of paupers
BELLE HARRIS, polygamous wife of
Salt Lake, was two months ago committed
10 ] all for refusing to give the grand Jury
the name of the father of her babe. Her
case was taken to the territorial upreme
court, which decided Thursday that she
must remain in prison or answer the cues
ton. The fair polygamist announces her
intention TO live forever behind the bars.
A MAN named Edward Turner. settler.
was shot and killed at Vanderbilt. new
settlement l25 miles souih of Mandan, on
Tuesday. Turner, the murdered man,
had piece of land surveyed and took up
a claim upon it. He then went down the
river to purchase logs and lumber, with
which to build house, and when he re-
turned ne found that another man had
jumped his claim. A dispute Immediate
y arose as to the land, during which
Turner was shot and killed by the Jumper.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-05
4 Romantic EIOpement and a Happy
DenOuement.
Exchange.

Last week Mr.. w. c. Watson, of
Houston, Texas, who bad two charm
ing daughters at the George Female
Institute, near Lagrange, in that state,
received q telegram to come on at
once, as the youngest, Alice, about six
teen, was i'll. Both ne and bis wife set
out instanter. The idea Of the elder
sister was to hasten the parents to pre-
vent marriage between the son of
banker, Robert Abrams, and Alice.
The young fellow had asked her hand
in marriage by letter, and was refused,
and found himself opposed at home,
also. Fortunately for the lovers, the
elder sister informed the younger of
the precise time when Mr.. and Mrs.
Watson would arrive In Lagrange.
This set on foot a. strategem to foil the
superintendent of the school, who was
watching for the levers, and who re-
lieved the elder sister IN the watch.
Young Abrams hired all the horses and
buggies in town, and got the superin-
tendent out of the way by sending him
under pretense Of business. TO see the
banker. Miss Alice had that day been
excused from school on g. plea of sick
ness, and her sister detailed as a nurse.
At the appointed hour the young man
drove to the institute and gave the sig
nal, whereupon Alice bounded out and,
bare-headed, leaped into the buggy,
and the pair went flying toward Frank
lin, Alabama. In half hour the su-
perintendent returned, amazed at the
elopement. He could hire neither
horse nor buggy, as strict orders had
been given by the lover that no one
should have either without orders from
him. It was twenty miles to franklin,
and the superintendent, who had Dor
rowed horse from neighbor, found
that at the end of ten miles, while he
was nearly exhausted, Abrams had
prearranged for fresh steed and could
not be overtaken. The runaways went
to Franklin and were married, and, re.
turning, picked up the worn out super
intendent and tenderly bore him home.
The Watsons arrived only to see their
daughter married, and like sensible
folks the two families got together and
blessed the clippers. The young lover
deserved the girl. The race reminds
one Of Gretna Green.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-05
Changes Of Climate

kill more people than is generally known. Pare
ticularly is this the case in instances where TIL
constitution is delicate, and among our immigrant
population seeking new homes in those portions os
the west, and where malarial and typhoid fevert
prevail at certain seasons of the year. The best
preparative for change of climate, or of die
and water which that change necessities is Hostel
ers Stomach Bitters, which not only fortifes the
system against malaria, a variable temperature
damp and the facilitating effects of tropical heat
but is also the leading remedy for constipation
dysper sia, liver complaint. bodily troubles spec
tally apt to attack emigrants and visitors to re-
gions near the equator, mariners and tourists.
Whether used as safeguard by sea voyagers,
travellers by land, miners, or of agficulturists
in newly populated districts, this fine specific has
elected the most favorable testimony.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-05
FOREIGN.

AID. VIM. MEAGHER has been elected
lord mayor Of Dublin.
An explosion occurred in the colliery
near Cardiff, Eng. Twelve persons were
killed, and twelve injured.
THE statement of the Imperial bank of
Germany shows decrease in specie of
$500 marks.
THE Carlist organ Cahecilla, in Madrid.
has been sentenced to suspension of pub
LEGATION for forty weeks for publishing
the libel against the queen.
A SHANGHAI dispatch says that tele-
gram couched in language of a very pa
cifc nature has been received from
France.
LYNCH. alias Norman, the informer
against the dynamite eonspirators, was
released Monday as reward for his SER
vices.
POLITICAL and other persons at Tomsk,
Siberia, numbering Thousands. are dying
rapidly from typhoid diphtheria, the di.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-05

sease first appearing IN vessels which
brought convicts to the place.
The American minister to China is
doing his best TO effect a settlem ent be-
tween France aud China, but his personal
influence is slight.
AN Austrian staff officer has been ar
rested near Warsaw. He had in his DOS
session str agetic plans of Russian rivers
NEGOTIATIONS between the porte and
the German and American ministers in
regard to treaties of commerce with their
governments continue. 1t is hoped in
official circles at ConstantinopIe that the
results will be favorable to Turkey.
MARQUIS TsENG denies that an agree
meDt has been reached between the
French minister at Shanghai and the
Chinese commander. The marquis re-
afirms the statement that Chinese troops
are massing on the borders of Tonquin.
THERE was excitement at Queenstown
Thursday on reports that James Carey
the informer, was among some passengers
for America. The rumor could net b.
verified
TREvELYN, the Irish Chief Secretary,
denied in the House Of CommoBs Thurs
day that any paupers had been shipped to
those sent by the Commissioners had been
supplied with fuads.
On the train from Calais to Paris Wee
nesday an attempt was made to murder
and rob the Rev. Mr.. Witchborne, an Eng
lishran. The latter was stabbed five times
with chiseI, and may not survive. The
assailap,t an Englishman, was arrested al
Amiens after desperate attempts 10 es-
cape.
OF forty-two deaths at Damietta, Egypt,
Monday, twenty-eight are known to be
from cholera. The rest, it is suspected,
were from the same malady. The Goc-
tors of Damietta refuse to inform the for
eign consuls of the numbe. of deaths
there. Steamers from Alexandra Tues
day were crowded with refugees from
Damitta. All the steamer berths for a
week 10 come are engaged.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-05

WITHIN the past six months nine
ocean steamers have grounded hard on
the bar which obstructs the entrance to
New York Bay. The Times urges that
a general survey of the harbor be
speedily made and suggested that ''such
a survey would astorish, if not alarm,
the people who have unquestioningly
rested in the belief that the harbor of
New York is one of the finest in the
world, and practically indestructible."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-05
Eating With a Knife.
New York Commercial Advertiser.

4 point in etiquette recently decided
a law suit in queer way. A Garman
traveller on railroad train attempted
to eat lunch while on the journey.
While putting g. piece of bologna sau-
sage IN his mouth the train stopped
suddenly, causing his cheek to be bad
ly cut on the edge of his knife, which
he was using. He sued the company
for damages, but his claim was not sus-
tanned, on the ground that it is breach
Of etiquette to eat with knife. If he
had been eating with a fork and be-
came lmpaled upon its prongs the COM
pany would have claimed that he ought
to have bitten off the bologna with MS
teeth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-05

HE enormous rains OF the past month
are doing vast damage in Nebraska,
Kansas, Missouri and Southern Illinois.
The Widely-known American bottoms
IN the Prairie State above and below
st. Louis are flooded, and as the wheat
and other crops were nearly ready for
the harvest, the loss On them will be
great. The drowning of live stock al
SO constitutes a considerable item, so
We do not think 100000 will cover
the losses on the American bottom.
Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri will al
so suffer to the extent of hundreds o
thousands of dollars.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-05

The law repeating the stamp tax on
bank checks and drafts goes into effect
on the 1st of July. The banks of the
country have transmitted the stamps
IN their possession to the internal reve-
nue. bureau at Washington for re demp-
ton and cancellation. The labor nee
essary is considerable, SIS the word
Cancelled" must be printed on every
stamp.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-05

GEN. Crook is en- route to Washing
ton and is expected to arrive there to-
morrow. He has been summoned by
the department of the interior, to ex-
plain why he did not allow the hostiles
to slaughter his command according to
established precedents.