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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20

ton in law and politics. General Han
cock and Chief Justice Mercer We're
among the pall-bearers.
SIX of the men who defended Balti-
more in 1912. who have become too
feeble to march round the battle monu-
ment as ef wore. were Sunday taken in
carriages to church, under escort of
Wilson post of the Grand Army.
1t is announced from Newport that
Henry A. Herbert, a handsome member
of the British parliament, the owner of
the estate of MuchrOss and the Lakes of
Killarney, is engaged to Miss Rebecca
Williams, whose father is president of
of the Maryland senate and million
aire
HARRY HILL, the stakeholder for
Slade and Mitchell, decides that the fight
must take place October %, within enc
hundred miles of New Orleans.
JOHN JACOB ASTOR, of New \ DIRK, is
said to have decided to his only son, now
United States minister to Italy, property
valued at the lowest estimate at $50, OOO,-
900, subject to pension of 500, 900 per
annum. The object is believed to be the
cOncealment of the amount of the es-
tate.
ADvICEs from points in the corn belt
make it positive that frost has wrought
great destruction. Michigan seems to
have Jared lady Saturday night, nearly
everything in the vegetable liHe having
been killed at Battle Greek and Sauga-
tuck. Tobacco ia Dane and Rock coun-
ties, Wisconsin, was ruined with the
corn, and cranberries at Sturgeon Bay
got nipped.
SLoSSON, the billiardist, has challeng-
ed Schaefer to a contest at New York or
Chicago, within sixty days, for $500 and
the Balk-line championship. At Leaven-
worth, Schaefer made the remark that
Slosson was only bluffing.
THE Canadian government has notified
the promoters of the Ottawa and New
York road that it objects to the con-
structiOn of an international bridge
across the st. Lawrence at Ogden's
island, as it would interfere with navi-
CATION.
ENCAMPED at Fort Snellingare ninety
seven rihemen belonging to companies
in the department of DakatO, sixteen of
them being officers, preparing to COM
pete for places in the team.
THE funeral of Hugh J. Hactings was
held in New York on Saturday morning
Among the palI-bearers were President
Arthur, Secretary Folger, Roscoe Conk-
lin, w. II. Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Hugh
j. Jewett Samuel Sloan, General Eckert,
and Isaac w. England.
SINCE the death of Chief Detective
Helms, of Philadelphia, two letters writ
ten by the abductors Of Charlie Ross to
his father have been given to the public
and Mr.. Ross has only just learned of
their existence. They demanded $780,
600 on pain of numbering the lad TIE
money was to be paid in New York, No
vember a, 1874
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20
A Painful State Of Doubt.

A tramp sat on a door step in New
York tenderly holding his head in his
hands, wnen Eli Perkins came along.
What's the matter with you man :"
asked Eli.
I'm in doubt, sir; I'm in state of
doubt"
In doubt? what about?"
''Well, sir, [ went into that alley
gate up there to get suth'ng to eat; I
might a-knowed suth'ng :! happened,
for there was dead book agent layin'
on the flower bed and liniment man
with the side of his hea! all caved in,
leanin' up agin the peach tree"
'Well?"
''You see [ allus was ventursome; so
[ very politely stepped up and taking
off my hat asked a woman standin'
there, would she be kind enough to
give me berry pie and some breast of
chicken?"
"Well, what happened them"
''NoW, Mr. Perkins, that's what I'm
in doubt about I'm thinking it over
now. [ don't seem to remember wheth-
er | got the pie or the back porch fell
down on n.e, or perhaps [ fell asleep
under a pile driver. [ don't know any
thing about it, but, to give myself the
benefit of the doubt, I believe I'd
sooner work half an hour than go
into that yard again. wouldr'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20
CRIME.

MAJOR HURLOCK, q mill-Owner OF
Trinity, Texas, and his young son were
mOrtally wounded in an atfray with an
employe named ROseman.
w. J. MONTGOMERY, one Of the men
arrested for completely in the outrage
on Emma Bond, at Taylorville, Illinois,
died Wednesday Of consumption. State
Attorney brennan says he has new evi-
!dence making a strong case against the
others implicated.
A. B. SKINNER, postmaster at Wind
sOr, Ohio, has been held to bail in Cleye-
land for paying 50 worth of postage
stamps for corn, thereby increasing his
salary by charging his commissions.
The members Of the sophomore class
at Lehigh university, on a hazing eXposi-
ton, visited the room Of young man
named Collins, who sprang from a
window eighteen feet TIC the ground, and
received such injuries that he will not
be able to resume his studies for some
time.
EDWARD d. COwAN, city editor of The
Leadville Herald, was attacked by Alder
man Joy, who knocked him down and
Jumped on his face with heavy boots,
keeping the crowd at bay with a revol-
yer. Joy fled to the mountains. Cowan
will hardly survive his wounds.
BURGLARS at Meriden, Connecticut,
cut a safe to pieces in Mathcr's jewelry
store and carried away one hundred
gold and silver watches
A DEsERTER from the United States
army, formerly peddler at Harrisburg,
was being taken back to the Governors
I'll l. CI~ +
his request his handouts were removed
in the car, when he leaped feet foremost
through the window and ran into the
woods near Emaus, Pennsylvania.
JOHN OPELA, farmer near Alton,
Illinois, missed his wife and young
daughter on Tuesday. After prolonged
search their bodies were found in a
small shed near the house, firmly tied
together by the necks with a rope.
There seems to be no reason to suspect
the mother of murder and suicide.
CLARENCE HITE, one of the Missouri
train-robbers, made confession just be-
fore his death, which has been publish
ed by Police Commissioner Craig, of
Kansas City. 1t fully confirms the tes-
timony given by Dick Liddell, in the
recent trial at Gallatin, that Frank
James participated III the Blue-cut and
Winston rObberies.
NEAR Liletown, in Green county, Ken
lucky, Joe Bagby was shot and mortal
ty wounded at the same spot where his
brother was killed some two months
ago. A deadly feud has existed between
George Edwards and Bagby on one side
and James Owens, Dode Dowell and
Mike Rogers on the other. Joe Bagby
was shot from ambush, the ball appar-
emily being from Spencer rifle. Mike
Rogers has been arrested. The others are
still at large.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20

Miss AGGIE HILL, of Nevada, well
known in social circles in San Francis
60, caused the arrest of ex-senator
Sharon, last Saturday, on charge of
adultery. She claims to have been en-
gagged in marriage to him, and states
that she loaned him 500, 600, of which
he had repaid SIS, 900. He paid the
balance when arrested, and gave
bonds toanswer the charge The affair
is openly pronounced as a miserable
case of Matchmaking
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
WA SHiNGTON.

A STATEMENT prepared at the money
order office, based upon returns for one
week from 100 of the smaller money
order Offices, show 40 per cent. of the
money transmitted by the money-order
service was in postal notes.
THE total number of pension claims
of all kinds pending in the Pension
office the Both Of June, 1888, was PA, sos,
and of this number AS, 813 involve ar
rearS.
SECRETARY LINCOLN says that Mrs
Lincoln, who has been an invalid for
several years past, has much improved
in health this fall. She is still with her
children visiting her fathe~, ex-Secretarv
of the Interior Harlan of Iowa.
THE postal-money order convention
between the United States and the
Hawaiian islands asbeen signed by Post
master General Gresham and the Ha-
waiian minister. 1t will 90 into effect
Jan. /.
A REGISTER Of the interior department.
at Washington has been prepared for
the blue book There are 3,091 persons
on the rolls, Of whom 621 are women,
and 204 negroes. Seventy-one clerks
receive salaries ranging from 1920 to
$1,000. One lady from Illinois drawing
81, 600.
THE records of the postoffice depart
ment show that Paul VandervOOrt, late
chief clerk Of the railway mail service
at Omaha has been absent from his
post 265 days during the past year, and
his duties have been almost entirely
neglected for the business of the Grand
Army. Of which he was commander
He intends to appeal to the president for
reinstatement.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has decided to ap-
point a commission to examine all con-
ditIOns Of hog-raising, to settle the
rumOrS of disease among American
swine The president will choose one
man, the Chicago board of trade one,
and the agricultural department two
The New York chamber of commerce
was requested to name a member, and
Professor c.. F. Chandler was selected.
No compensation can be promised to the
commissioners.
JAY GOULD appeared before the senate
subcommittee on education and labor to
present the claims of his railway and
telegraph schemes upon public conf
dence. He stated that he was born III
ROXbury, New York, in 1886, and was
clerk IN store when Il years Oh age.
His object in securing control of the tel
egraph facilities of the country was to
give General Eckert the management.
He did not look with favor upon the
governmental control of the telegraph,
but would not object to its taking the
Western Union lines at fair appraisal,
SURGEON GENERAL HAMILTON, of the
marine hospital service, says that since
the recent repairs and extensive altera
tions the Chicago marine hospital is in
Just the condition he wants it. He re-
CARDS it now as the best building of its
kind. in the country. But while he is
satisfied with the building, he is dissatis-
fed with the ground. He wants that
graded and turfed. The lake is washing
away the shore at the rate Of ten or
fifteen feet year, and congress will not
make an appropriation for protecting
the shore.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20
FOREIGN.

QUARANTINE along the Suez canal has
been abolished. and the British troons
are returning to Cairo.
DABULAMANzI. a brother of Catewayo,
reported killed in the rebellion in Zu-
luiand, has made his appearance in
Natal.
THE police of Paris claim to have frrl-
strated plot to assassinate King Alton
so in that city.
MICHAEL DAvITT is so i'll with inflam-
nation of the lungs that his engagements
for league meetings in Ireland has been
Cancelled.
GREAT alarm is felt in England over
the spread of the cattle disease, and in
some sections nothing but American
beef can be purchased.
A RIOT lasting several hours broke out
at Canton, and the rioters were dispersed
by Chinese troops. The disorders were
begun for the purpose of plumber, and
had for excuse the murder Of a China
man by Portuguese sailors
THE Swiss government refuses to eX-
tradite an American student, named
Leunig, who killed a schOolmate in a
duel in Germany, as dueling is not NAM
ed in the treaty.
RIOTING has been renewed at Agram,
Crotia, where 1t crowd smashed the win
dOws of houses occupied by Jews. The
infantry fired two volleys at the mob
A BERLIN cablegram states that under
no conditions will Germany consent to
act as arbitrator between France and
China. Marquis Tseng says his govern
ment will not give up the suzerainty
over Anam.
ENGLISH and American diplomatic
representatives in Paris agree that negO-
tiatiOns in regard to Tonquin are being
conducted by France and China with a
sincere desire for peace.
THE emperor of Austria and the king
Of Spain laid the last stone of the new
town hall at Vienna, and then went to
Moravia to witness the animal li+ary
maneuVerS.
THE sum Of $4,000 guilders was sub
scribed at The Hague for the sufferers
by earthquake at Batavia, and the
Dutch government will probably ex-
empt the people of Bantam and Lam
pong from taxation for several years.
IT is stated that the Marquis Tseng has
telegraphed to Pekin for further consid-
Grafton of the basis proposed by him for
a settlement of the Tonquin question.
The German admiralty has ordered its
eastern squadron to concentrate ct Hong
Kong and proceed to the different treaty
ports of China.
THE viceroy of southern China says no
troops have been ordered to cross the
frontier of Tonquin, but declares that
China will never sanction the Hue treaty
and that France must make a proper ar
rangement with the Marquis Tseng or
accept war.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

The cOtton-press at Alexandria, Egypt,
was damaged $50, 900 by fire.
EARLY on Sunday morning the new
city hall at Charlton, Iowa, which cost
$4,000, was destroyed by fire.
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 pine board through
the trunk of a maple tree.
DR.. BOSSO, who claimed to be almost
Invaluable in the treatment of yellow
fever, died Monday of that disease in the
Pensacola navy-yard.
ABOUT midnight fire destroyed st. Jo-
seph's Passionate mOnastry, four miles
outside of Baltimore, valued at $780,
900.
THE furniture factory of Smith & Co.,
on Canton street, Boston, was reduced
to ashes, the loss being $4,000.
ONE death of yellow fever and sixnew
cases are reported at the Pensacola navy
yard. The prevalence Of the epidemic at
Gnaymas and HermOsillO, Mexico, is full
ly confirmed.
AT colored celebration in Beaufort
county, South Carolina, boiled shrimps
were freely dispensed. Three negroes
have died from their effects, and seven
others are not expected to live.
GEORGE WILLIAMS, a colored porter
in the First National bank at Las Vegas,
suddenly became demented. He took a
gun and compelled the clerical force
to stand in a row and go through mill
tary drill. Outsiders came in and cap
tured him.
PART of the Highland mine, at Dead
wood, caved in Saturday evening, i'm
prisoning three workmen behind one
his way out through eighty feet of ore
by using giant-pOwder. The cOrpses of
his comrades were recovered.
A FIRE originated in the cattle-sheds
of the Wabash division, at the Chicago
stockyards, swept over two and half
acres, roasting alive forty steers,
eight COWS, and four ponies. Over fif-
teen hundred head of cattle were res
cued from the flames. The buildings
destroyed were worth $50, 900.
YELLOW fever has become epidemic
at HermosillO, Guaymas, and MaZatlan,
Mexico. There were sixteen deaths at
Guaymas last week, and six soldiers eX-
pired from black vomit in one day at
Hermosillo. People are fleeing from the
pestilence.
G.. A. WARNER made balloon ascen-
sion at Pittsburgh, sitting on trapeze
bar below the basket. He states that
when about eight thousand feet above
the ground the canvas suddenly col
lapsed. He gathered the cordage and
converted the balloon into umbrella
shape, descending unhurt in nine min
utGS.
WHILE painting The Highland house
tramway at Cincinnati, James B. COvalt
saw the cars of the inclined plane ap-
preaching. and laid down between the
tracks. His head was torn off, and his
body mashed into pulp. This is the first
fatal accident which has occurred in
that city on the inclined planes.
KATE COTTON, a colored girl of Cairo,
poisoned the coffee in the house of Alf
Miller, who had refused to marry her.
One of the family died and three others
are dangerously i'll. When taken to Jail
Kate took poison, and will hardly sur
vive it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20
An Indian Fight.

We clip the following from The
Chronicles of the Yellowstone now
being printed in the Bozeman Chroni-
Gle. Just after the last expedition left
for the Black Hills, Gin 1876, Hubble
and Charley Cooke started towards
the Big Horn country on quest for
beaver. At Pryor creek they found
some wolf and beaver signs, and con-
cluded to camp and trap for few
days. Twas about four in the after
noon when they unpacked, and soon
afterward Hubble went up the creek
with a few traps and Cooke went
down When about mile from camp
Hubble !saw in the hills a little band
of buffaloes, and being short of meat
he left his traps, and going out killed
one, and dressing it took small piece,
and going on set his traps and rsturn-
ed to camp.
The next morning he looked at his
traps, and in returning went by the
dressed buffalo, with the intention of
cutting off more meat to take to camp.
When at the carcass he found that all
of the choice meat had been cut off
and taken away. When leaving the
agency he had been told that the Grows
were on Pryor creek, and he natural
" supposed that the meat had been
taken by those Indians; so he turned
back to camp to save his things, for
friendly or hostile, it is the Indian
creedsto steal at every opportunity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20

A GENERAL order has been issued by
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany increasing the hours of the night
force in the city offices thirty minutes
per night, and providing that hereaf-
ter all Sunday service performed by
night operators shall receive extra
pay at the rate of one-seventh of a
days pay for each extra hour, and
that on this account a days pay shall
be determined by the number ofwork
ing days in month, and not as here
tofore by the actual number of days
in the month
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20

SAYS the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Those who think the Cinnamon live
on rice and rats should take notes as
John perambulates South Water
street. No one knows better how to
select choice melons and peaches, nor
is q better judge of prairie chickens
and other luXuries. He buys the best,
and dickers for the lowest prices in q
way which would make a own-east
Yankee blush.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20
GENERAL NOTES.

ATNarragansett park, J. S. Campbell
drove the PAGERS Richball and Westmont
to beat the time of Maud S. and Aldine
They made q half mile in ITO, but on
the last quarter Richbalfs girth snapped
short.
THE Georgia Pacific track has been
laid from Atlanta to Birmingham, 142
miles, but several bridges and tunnels
remain to be completed.
HENRY WILLARD and his guests ar
rived Tuesday evening at Portland,
Oregon, which they found handsomely
decorated.
EDWARD STABLER died at Sandy
Springs, Maryland, in the house in
which he was born in 1894. He has
been postmaster of the town since 1880.
THE funeral of Judge Jere S. Black
was the largest ever held in York. and
was attended by many men of distinc-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20

A NEW sect known as the Pilgrims
has been organized in Schuyler
County Illinois, at a small town
named Erwin, and are introducing
practices, which arouse a decided OPP
position among the law-abiding peo-
pie. The chief objection to them is
the practice of polygamy, in which,
as in other points of alleged belief,
they initiate the Mormons. Their
temple" was blown up by giant
powder early Saturday morning, and
their leader and organizer who lodged
within its walls narrowly escaped
death. A repetition of the Nauvoo
excitement is scarcely possible, and
the people who are committing out
RACES upon the members of the new
sect, had much better appeal to the
courts than use lynch law and dyna-
mite.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20
IN the month

The plans for the four new cruisers
about to be built by the United States
Government are now in the Office of
the Secretary of the Navy. The
largest will be called the Chicago. It
will be 324 feet 4 inches long over all,
"a feet inches deep, As feet q inches
wide, and have displacement of
4, 500 TONS Her estimated speed is
sixteen miles an hour. Two others,
the Boston and Atlantic, will be
built after the general plan of the
Chicago, but smaller. They will be
of steel, and be heavily armored, and
armed with formidable battery of
guns.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20


The American Bible Society in or
der to keep up with the demand caus-
ed by its general canvass of the coun-
try is turning out more books than ev-
er before, the number being not less
than 1000 day. 1t has printed $50,
600 of its popular 25-cent Bibles and
1850, 600 of its scent Testament. The
society has now 34S colporteurs in
thirty-four..States and Territories, en-
gagged in this resupply of the country.
About one family in six on the aver
age isfound destitute of the Scriptures,
the largest restitution being in the
Southern States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20

Hicks PAsHA, with 5000 troops,
started from Khartoum on Sunday,
along the left bank of the White Nile
on campaign against the False
Prophet. The latter is reported reSo-
lutte, and decisive fighting is expected
by the end of the month. The rebels
have crossed the road from Berbcr to
Snakim.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20

The late Horace Greeley's Chappa-
qua farm Of seventy-eight acres, which
originally cost $4,000, was sold
Saturday under a court decree, his
youngest daughter, Gabrielle, being
the purchaser at $4,000. Other
parties present refused to bid against
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20

Rev. 7. A. Oakley, a delivery clerk
in the Cleveland Post Office, has been
been arrested for selling stamps which
he had removed from packages de-
Iivered, and has confessed his
crime. lie is 70 years of age and
pleads poverty, as he received only
500 a year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20
HOLLOW Checks.

A pale fabby skin and limbs i'll clothed with flesh
indicate poverty of the blood. The speediest and
surest way to increase its multiplying properties,
to impart vigOr and compensate for undue waste
of bodily tissue, is to use, with persistence and
regularity, the Incompatible vtalizer and aid to
digestion, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. A wine
glaSSful of this agreeable medicinal exer three
times day soon manifest its beneficent action in
an Improvement of appetite, sleep and spirits,
increased bodily substance, and the return of
color and rOundnesS to haggard, wasted cheeks.
This supreme preventive cOunteracts the effects
of severe mental labor and bodily toll, anxiety of
mind, exposure in rough weather. miasma in air
or water, and tropical heat. 1t is reliable safe
guard against fever and ague and remittant feb
rile disease and OvercOmes constipation, indiges-
ton, liver complaint, rheumatism and other all
mentS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20

THERE was a hod-carrying contes
near Washington a few days ago be
tween an expert of the city and one
from Baltimore. The washington
man won by filing and carrying
your hods a certain distance while his
competitor was disposing of two.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20

A young man who plays on a cornet
Was terribly stung by hornet.
He was stung in both eyes,
Which swelled to such size
That he could net see straight through lorg
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20

A NORTHWESTERN paper kindly
warns Mr.. Wizards Eastern and For
eign guests, that cowboys have an I'M
dying dislike for eyeglasses, and that
large cemeteries may be found along
the road filled with the late wearers
of those ornamental articles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20

A good story is told about Mr. w.
w. Aston, our Minister to Rome.
When he introduced his wife to King
Humbert, that royal parsonage COM
plimented him upon the beauty of the
lady, to which Mr. Astor replied, with
the utmost modesty: Isl, Majesti, 81. "
Mr.. Aston is now spoken of every
where as Isl. Maiesti. ST