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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-12
FOREIGN

MILITARY circles at Paris believe Gen.
Campenon will soon succeed Thibaudin as
Minister of War.
WILLIAM REDMOND writes from Austria
liza 10 ParneIl that his efforts IN .rganiz-
ing land leagues there have been highly
successful.
A BRUSSELS stock broker named Van
Damme has embszz 100000 francs
left with him on deposit. He has been
TLu urTsoneu.
PRIEoE LOUIS FERDINAND, Of Bavaria,
and the Infanta Maria Della Paz were
married in the Palace at Madrid, yester-
day with state ceremonies.
THE London ,,olice have received let
ters threatening to bow up the central
telegraph Office if the PEonix Park assas-
sins are not released.
THE Danish King having requested the
Prince of Wales This son-in-law) to use
his good offices with tie Prussian Govern
ment for the amelioration of the griev-
ances of the Danes Schleswig, hos report
ed hat he prefers not to interfere.
LADY FLORENCE Dixie, who recently
IS allied the integrity of the trustees Of
ste land league funds. was assaulted at
Windsor Saturday afternoon by two men
dressed in female apparel. Two dagger
trusts penetrated her clothing, but a
steel corset rib and the guardianship of a
st. Bernard dog probably saved her life.
The lady swooned at the sight of the
immense knives. and the last thing she
remembers was one of the men filing her
mouth with mud. The palms of her
hands were cut across, the gloves being
severed, ana her clothing was rent in
many places.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-12
CRIME

NORMAN SWARTZSL, who committed
the murd erous assault upon farmer Nc
Gregory and his daughter in Ox.e county,
Illinois. last February, died Saturday in
the Jail at Oregon, of congestion of the
stomach.
SEVERAL years age, Cornelius Brinker-
hoff, OF New York, made a deed OF his
property to his wife, from whom he was
aferward divorced for drunkenness.
Having reformed lie now brings suit
against the former Mrs. Binkerhoff 10 re-
cover he property which is valued at
S118.G00
THE managers OF the Diamoad coal
mine at Braidwood have given notice
that they can no longer afford 10 pay the
wages of men to search the pit for the
bodies Of those who perished there in Feb.
The company will, if desired, furnish
steam power for operating the pumps and
csges; butif the explorations are contin-
ued, it must be by v.lunteers.
NINE THOUSAND dollars In gold certifi-
Gates is alleged 10 have been abstracted
from the cash room of the New York
custom house the II h of March. An in
vestigation is in progress. While Prest.
Arthur was collector at New York he
was subjected TO loss of IS 900 under
circumstances very similar to those of the
present case.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-12
TELEGRAPHIC.
News by Wire Reduced to
Close Quarters for Con-
venient Reference and
Easy Reading,
WASHINGTON.

Ex-senator Window is here in close
cossult alton with American and Mexican
directors of the TopolOvampo and Pacific
railway com pany now IN town. He pre-
poses to push the construction OF the
ro1d as rapidly as possible.
Senator Vest Is going 10 Missouri in a
day or Two. The .lnvestiga ating commit
fee of which he is cbairman will 90 to
Yellowstone Park in August next. Ru-
fus Hatch is now in Europe for the pur-
pose, il is said, of raising money for the
erection Of colossal hotel in the park.
EX-SENATOR MITCHELL, of Oregon, ap-
piled TO the secretary Of the interior to
have him withdraw forty-fve miles of
the grant OF the Oregon and California
railway from market.
SECRETARY FoLGER's health is much
improved in every respect, and all unia-
vorable symptoms have disappeared ex-
ceps d slight Inflammation above the
eyes. His appetite is good and his sleep
is sound aud refreshing. He has received
a number of visitors lately, including
several treasury departmet officials. 1t
is thought he will be able to start for
Bermuda in a few days provided the
weather is favorable.
EXAMINATION of the caah in the treas
ury Is progressing satisfactorially, There
are sixty persoDs including female count
ers engaged in this work under supervis-
ion of the general committee. The count
so far has shown deficit of five cents In
one bag of silver end an excess of six cents
in tae accounts of the interest teller. 1t
is supposed this discrepancy will be ex-
planned as the count progresses. The
cash is being counted twice, the first time
by the co mmittee and then by the repre-
sentatives Of the treasurer. 1t will re-
quire two or three weeks to complete the
examination.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-12
THE LEGISLATURE.
SATURDAY, March 81.
LAST DAY.

LAST DAY.
Se1lGte-This being the last day fer do
ing business, but few members were pres
ent, and but little business was done. The
following bills were passed:
To enable the citizens of JanesyiIle to
erect water-works; to change tne boun-
dairy lines of Langlade county and 10 at
tach certain territory thereto; for the ap-
pointment Of registers in probate; to legal
ize certain acknowledgements of deeds and
other instruments; relating to the mee;-
ings of county boards; to amend the char
ter of the city of Chippewa Falls; to in
crease the state tax for the support of the
state university from 10 TO of mill
per cent, for the purpose of establishing
chair of pharmacy and materia medica
IN said university. Adjourned sifoe de.
LAST DAY.
AS8enb6y-The business of the assembly
on the lasL day, was of desultory char
acter, there not being a quorum present
half of the time. Among other things
done, the following bills were passed:
As,nras.-iai:..f--9o 90 600 =.
Industrial School for Girls. Ayes 65, noes
2; providing for the printing and distri-
button of the reports of the state officers,
departments and institutions; to fix the
minimum prices of all public lands which
have not been offered for sale, at public
sale, at the sum of $3 per acre; sppropri-
ating $4,000 for additional i'm rovem ents
to the capitol extension, to include one or
more passenger elevators; creating the
fourteenth judicial circuit, ayes 81, noes
30: to provide for the payment of IL
cense fee of foor per cent. on gross earn
ipgs by the owners of palace drawing
room and sleeping car companies, Ad-
iourued sine die,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-12
FIR Els AND CASUALTIES

ALL the Apaches have been hunted out
OF Sonora into Arizona ard New Mexico
The IIdisns are said to number about
Two hundred. Generals Crook and Carlo
will cooperate in the campaign against
them.
The discovery of thirteen more bodies
IN the Diamond coaI nine al Braidwood
were reported Saturday, making forty.two
found hus far of the eighty-iwo who per-
ished by the flooding of the mina six weeks
ago. The feeling in favor of prosecuting
the search until the remains of all the
victims OF the disaster shall have been re-
covered Is gaining strength.
AN epidemic OF smallpox exists in the
southern part of 81. Louis. Sixteen
pupils In the catholic school of SIS. Peter
and Paul. where the malady first appeared,
have been taken with the disease, and
several havs died. Eatire families have
been taken to the small .pox hospital, and
tie corps of nrrses there is altogether in
ad, quate TO properly care for the inyalids.
At Nashville, Tennessee, there is fear
OF smallpox epidemic. The efforts of
the leaith authorities have failed to
check the spread of The disease. Il is
proposed 10 close several of the public
sch ools in the infected localities.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-12
Floating Fun.


a doctor is called to attend the sor
OF business man. He writes a pre-
scrlption that the family hastens tc
nave tliled. On the following day be
returns to see his patient, and finds the
family IN tears. "Alas!', sighed the
mother, 81 did not believe the measles
could Kill my poor boy" The measlesl'
exclaimed the doctor. "He had the
measles and you didn't tell mer'
"Ah! George, isn't it delightful that
We are to be married SO soon? To be
sure, we are not rich in this worlds
goods: but with sucn love as ours we
can almost live on bread ard water
Can't we dea1" Easily" said George.
with great emotion. 'You furnish the
bread, love, and / will skirp1ish around
and find the water"
In answer to the question, "Can q
man marry on SO week." some one
8ssfafts;s fafts b 6 Ga9pQt if the girls aware
Clara asks: "What disease is most
frequently transmitted by kissine?" A
wise editor replies: "Palpitation of the
heart, We believe
'Oh, yes" said madame, after the
usual domestic racket had got well
under way: 'oh, yes, you gentlemen
want your wives to be angels!" "Not
at ALL" replied Mr.. Dusenb2rry, wip-
ing the dish-water from his head and
face; mot at all; we don't want them
to be angels at all; we want them to be
ladies'" And then the row began all
over again, and the cat crawled softly
into the cellar to drop anchor until the
storm should be over.
Mary, my love, do you remember
thst text this morning?" "No, papa, /
never remember the text. I've such
bad memory" "Mary," said her moth
err "did you notice Susan Brown" "Oh,
yes. What fright! She had on her
last years bonnet done up, pea green
silk, black lace mantilla, brown gait
ers, an imitation Honiton collar, lava
bracelet, her cid ear-drops, and such a
fan!'
A day or two since q Duluth lady
was passing along the street when
some fiend in an upper window threw
out a bucket of slops, deluging her from
head to foot. Wiping the greasy stuff
from her face and neck, she turned to
crowd Of men, and with clenched
teeth said: "Oh, goodness! Won't one
of you gentlemen please swear for me?
Oh, please dol"
"Betie" is scrutinizing intently busi-
ness card. Underneath the name is in-
scribed: gu. S. Marine Corps" "Mam-
ma," she says suddenly, "Does Col. B.
make cOrpses?' 81 suppOse so. dear"
says mamma, "when he goes to war;"
"That's the reason he has corpses on
his card. It'a his business card: l see"
and Bette is satisfied.
She said that she wanted ticket to
Wyandotte and return, and the pale,
gentlemanly agent with the dark mus
tache asked, as he took up the paste
board, 'Single?" at amt any of your
business, as [ know of" she answered
tartly: II might have been married
dozen times if I'd felt like providin' for
some poor, shiftless wreck of mani
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-12
Cure for Catarrh.
New York Sun.

Two citizens of Williamsburg refer
red dispute about the efficacy of va
por of burning sulphur in catarrhal
affections to the police of Flushing
avenue station for a decision. Near
the police station are large sui lphur
works, and the one who held that the
vapor was eficacious had been unwilling
to ask the opinion of physicians. He
contended that the police could and
would give more valuable opinion
one not based on theory, but on facts.
81 contend" he said to a tribunal of
policemen in the waiting room, that
this statement is true," and then he
translated the following from Ger
man publication: "In all catarrhal
affections the simple inhaling of sui
phurous acid soon effects cure. The
acid kills the parasites that have en-
tered and caused the inflammation,
whereupon the pituitous glands are
opened and the phlegm is expelled
without difficulty. The discovery Of
bacteria in the lungs of consumptives
also proves that consumption is caused
by microscopic animalcules which in
fest and consume the lungs"
81 guess that's So" said Cne police
man. ri know this, that you won't
find many people about here with the
catarrh, I've heard it was the sulphur
that keeps them things away"
every one knows that" said an
other. "You 60 to the works, and the
bosses will tell you that is just what
it does, believe thcm for [ used to
have the catarrh, and used all sorts of
remedies, but they didn't do me any
good. I'm not bothered with the Ca
tarrh now, and why? Because
my beat for time was about the
works. Yes, you are right about the
sulphur"
1--WE heard" said a third policeman,
that good many folks come to the
place just to sniff the sulphur, and I've
seen people walking about the works
for hours. You can get just as good a
sniff outside as in.
''Then this proves just what say"
said the man who had translated the
German. ga Mr.. Kircher, the pro
prietor of works in New Orleans in
which a good deal of sulphur is used,
wrote this to periodical in Germany.
He says that some of his men who
were suffering with consumption when
they came to his works were cured,
any one, ne says, who is afflicted can
cure himself by simply taking one or
two drams of sulphur, burning it and
inhaling the Vapor."
It was decided that the vapor of
burning sulphur was efficacious for
the cure of catarrh,and consumption.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-12
GENERAL NOTES.

a STRIKE of brieslsyer is threatened in
Chicago if employers do not concede an
increase Of wages.
TIE amount RENTED to Germany from
the United States Tor the relief of sufferers
by the Rhine foods is $152. .376.
THE outlook for the harvest in Great
Britain is more favorable than it Las been
at any previous time the current year.
Ex-PosTMAsTER WARLE, of Cincinnati,
who sued The Gazette of that city for $50
600 damages for libel, has been awarded
$5 by jury.
The Rev. Isaac l. Nicholson, D. D.. of
Philadelphia, who was elected to The
bishopriG of Indiana by the Protestant
Episcopal diocesan convention early last
month, has declined The office.
CHARLES F. KBING, of st. Louis. the
murderer of Dora Broemser, has b2en
granted a new trial, which will be his
seventh. The crime was committed six
years ago. and the murderer has been
thrice sentenced to death. Kring's i'm
prisonment has broken down his health.
and a few months eiuce the Jail officials,
in order 10 give him more liberty and
mental occupation, appointed him prison
librarian.
POLK CITY, Iowa, contributed $4,000
toward the construction Of the narrow
guage railroad from Des Moines to Ames
conditioned upon Polk City being made
station, which condition was complied
with until the road passed into the hands
of the Chicago and Northwes; ern Railway
company, when he guage was ordered to
the standard, ana, in order to avoid the
heavy grade approaching Polk City,
cutoff was constructed. which leaves the
city two miles from the railroad Suit is
about TO be begun 10 compel the North
western company 10 fulfill the agreement
made by the narrow guage company.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-12
HON. TIMOTHY o. HOWE'S BUSY
LIFE ENDED.
The Pos stniaster General Passes Away
Peacefully at KenOsha. visa
sketch Of His Career

The Postmaster GeEeraI Passes Away
Peacefully at KenOsha. WIs-A
Sketch Of His Career.
Timothy o. Howe, Postmaster Gen
eral of the United States, died at the
residence of his nephew, Col. James
IL. Howe, in Kenosha, Wis, at twenty
minutes after two Sunday afternoon.
He contracted severe cold about a
week before, while at Green Bay, and
returned to Kenosha feeling quite ILL,
and was Immediately taken sick with
pneumonia. He was considered dan
gerously i'll up to Saturday morning,
when there seemed to be decided
improvem ent, and his friends felt quite
hopeful, but on Saturday night he was
taken worse and continued to sink
rapidly, passing away very quietly and
peacefully Sunday afternoon.
A BUSY CAREER.
In Wisconsin, where Postmaster Gen
eral Howe is best known, the news of
his death caused a general gloom. Thc
postmaster general has had a kusy
life. He was born in Livermore. Ok
ford county, Maine, February Z, 1916
His academic education was obtained
in the Readfeld Seminary, and in 1889
he was admitted to the bar and began
practice at Readfeld. As a devoted
admirer of Henry Clay, he was elected
by the wings to the Maine legislature
in 1915. Removing to Green Bay,
Wis, the latter part of the same year,
he was defeated as q whig candidate
for congress in 1S4S, the same year the
state was admitted into the union. In
1850 he was elected a circuit Judge,
which office he held until 1866, at one
time being chief justice of the supreme
court. Upon the organization of the
republican party in Wisconsin in 1854
he declared himself in sympathy with
is platform, and in 1867, two years
after retiring from the bench, he was
announced as a candidate for United
States senator, but he failed to receive
the nomination because he refused to
subscribe to certain state rights views
then popular in Wisconsin. But in
1851 be was elected TO the senate, and
was reelected in 1867 for the term end
ing in 1873, and again for the term end
ing in 1879.
During his terms in the United States
senate he was member of many i'm
portant committees, and in 1866 was q
delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists
convention. He was one of the earliest
advocates of emancipation, universal
suffrage. and the right and expediency
Of establishing territorial governments
In the south: He took an active part
in the opposition TO President John
sons policy, and one of his most mark
ed speeches during his last term was
an attack upon President Hayes poll
cy of conciliation. He was selected by
President Garfield as a member of the
commission to Paris monetary confer
ence, and On Decem Der 20, 1881, he
was appointed postmaster general. He
married Miss L A. Haynes in 1e4l,
who died recently.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-12
High Priced Seats,

CINCINNATI, April 4.--The auction
sale OF choice of season reserved seats
for the dramatic festival began this
morning at collage hall. The place
was crowded and bidding unusually
lively. The boxes sold for premiums
in addition to the regular price for
season tickets as follows: First choice,
Albert Mitchell, $500; second, Chas. P.
Taft. Times star, 5000; third, r. E.
]. Miles, dramatic director of the festi-
val. 1925, fourth, J. D. Samuelaon,
S11O; fifth, Gen. E F. Noyes, president
OF the festival and association, $50,
aud 80 cn down to twenty dollars.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-12


WRITERS upon hygiene find danger
lurking in so many places where it
hitherto was unsupported in the air
we breathe, the water we drink, the
food we eat and the clothes we wear
that the average reader is tempted al
most to despair of attaining any sani-
tary security, and to take his chances
in the oldfashloned way. Nearly ev-
erything about our ordinary schools
has long since been shown TO be obnox-
ious, and now the Massachusetts Board
of Health has discovered poison in that
modern paradise of babies, the kinder
garten. This is not a mares nest; the
poison does exist. The board has had
an ANALYSIS made of eigtty four SAM
Piles of the colored paper used in the
kindergarten weaving, with result OF
showing arsenic to be present III con
siderable quantity in large number
of the papers, and in eight of them to
q dangerous degree. In ore case the
dealers frankly stated that the papers
contain arsenic and that the brightest
green's aud reds cannot be made from
other than arsenic col)rs, bnt they
think that Z" a child old enougs to use
me paper material should be too old tc
put such things in its mouth" This is
e
an unsafe assumption, and seven if il
We're always true it would not remove
the danger. Kindergarten teachers
should have their attention drawn tc
this matter and ban ish the arsenic eel
ers altogether.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-12

The girls employed IL a shoe factory
at Allentown have gone on strike be-
cause of the troubles between their en-
ployers and the male shoemakers. 1t
would seem from this that a woman
will make herself even ridiculous to
please her friends.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-12

THE Government and local author
ties in London receive frequent letters
threatening assassination and arson,
and increased precaations are being
adopted against dynamite workers and
other public enemies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-12

A tourist leaning out of q nook,
Fell on his head hear brook.
The hurt be received.
St. Jacots Oh relieved,
Ard he says il cured like q book"
Great oaks from little acorns spring,
Great aches the little toe-corns bring;
But for every corn,
That ever was born,
st. jacobs Oil is just the thing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-12
A POmOlOgical MOnstr0sity.
From the Saline ObserYer.

a peculiar freak Or monstrosity OF
nature is exhibited in an apple brought
to cur Office yesterday by our genial
farmer friend, Ed. Depuy. It is a per-
fectlY formed apple, one-half being a
russell, and the other half bellfoWer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-12
NAVIGATION is open on the Missouri
river as far up as Pierre, Dakota.

ANY man IN Ireland or Russia found
carrying watch larger than the regu-
lation bulls eye size is now looked upon.
as a suspicious character. This is at,
least the semblance of Justice.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-12

a PR MINENT s,ock-broker of the city
{ Brussels, Belgium, has been arrested
2or having embezzIed million of francs
hat had been intrusted to him for in
yestment
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-12

Ex-Vice President William A. Wheel
er is now recovering from severe at
tack of inflammation OF the eyes. He
has been under an occulist's treatment
for several weeks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-12

II is said that a doctor in Merce
county lost half his patronage by ad-
vising young women troubled with ca
tarIh TO work st the family washing
There is such a thing as disturbing a
young womau's most sensitive feelings
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-12

WAR is iminent between Montenegro
and Albania, in southeastern Elrope.
twenty-five Aibanians were recently
murdered by Monteneg1ins on Lake
SnllfAri
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-12

On November 13, 1858, an employe
of the Adams Express Company, in
Hartford, Conn, sent letter TO q
friend in San Francisco, Cal 1t was re-
turned to him recently, it being impos-
sible to find the person to whom it was
addressed. The letter had been wan
dering fourteen years four months and
four days.