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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-31
GRIM
- J 49, 49,

THE postOffice at Louisiana, Mo, was
burglarized Of 500, and all the stamps
stolen.
DANIEL DONOVAN has been arrested
near Baltimore, and identified as the
person who heat Joseph RyHar to death
with billiard cue in a New York saloon.
HERMINA SCHLOPP suicided in Buff
falo, New York, by taking rat poison,
because his love for a young lady was
not reciprocated.
KATE GILLEAs, indicted for child
murder, pleaded guilty in court at Du-
buque. Her sentence has not yet been
pronounced.
WILLIAM WOODMAN under Indictment
at st. Louis for passing gilded nickels
for So pieces surrendered himself in
New York Saturday, and was sent to ST.
Louis.
MRS. MARY HUBBARD, an aged widow,
while out Of her mind. committed a ter
rible suicide near Baltimore. After sew
eral unsuccessful attempts at her home.
she went into the woods, and, making a
funeral pyre from some corded wood,
set fire to it and was cremated.
THE sheriff arrested and placed in Jail
at Youngstown, Ohio, William Cluse,
charged with setting fire to Noah Bios
St RS barn IN Beaver township. Thomas
Kelley, reliable citizee, says he saw
Cluse fire the barn. Cluse is one Of the
rioters whom Blosser recently testified
against in court. The citizens were re-
strained with difficulty by the sheriff
from hanging Cluse.
A COWBOY named Love, lady worst
ed III a rough and tum BILE fight with the
proprietor of saloon at Big Stone, Tex
went outside and commenced shooting
promiscously with pistol at the saloon
Charles Little, standing near the door,
was fatally wounded in the stomach
The sheriff was present, but the MUIR
derer escaped.
CAROLINE MULLIGAN, alias Jennie
Chamberlain, member of a minstrel
troupe, and Ida Curley were arrested in
New York on charge of stealing 1887
from Jane Benton. The three arrived
from Silver City, New Mexico a short
time ago. Mrs. Benton was taken sick
and said the accused drugged and robbed
her.
JACOB SHAFFNER of New York, while
on his way to Las Vegas, N. Mex, to
visit his brother George, on learning of
the latter's death became insane and
jumped from the train at Springer Sta
ton, n. Mex. He was found frozen by
parties from Las Wages.
l.. REEVES and L. O. Turner repre-
senting themselves as travelling DOCTORS
who have been IN Omaha ten days. were
arrested there on complaint of Sheriff
W. D. Cannon of Memphis, Tenn, for
obtaining money under false pretensts
from numerous parties III and around
Memphis, where they will be taken for
trial. They have been operating all
through the south. and are bold pair.
Able T. j. billiard. a Catholic mis-
sionary from the diocese OF Marquette,
was found in ala alley last Sunday night,
III one of the hard districts in the South
division of the city of Chicago, in the
grasp of a robber. He had large sum
of money on his person. The able was
placed in a cell for safe keeping, the
police stating that he was heavily under
the influence Of Liquor. Thc able was
arresJe under almost similar circum
stances month ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-31
Nightcaps.


An English physician asserts that
people of the present generation are
much more addicted to dreaming than
were their ancestors, and that people
often dream in cold weather who never
dream in warm weather. The reason
Is that we sleep with the head uncov-
cred. The cold night air chills the out
side of the head, driving the blood in
ward to the brain, and thus stimulat-
ing cerebral action.
There are various remedies which
might be suggested to persons who
cream to an undesirable extent. They
might reverse their usual position IN
BED, placing the feet on the pillow and
the head under the blankets This
would keep the head from becomjno,
chilled, and no matter how cold the
Ieet might be, their condition would
have no effect upon the BRAN.
The physicians remedy is not so
simple as this, as is probably less eff
caclous. He proposes that we should
assume the nlghtcap of our ancestors.
They all wore nightcaps, both men
and women, but it is alleged that in
our day even the feminine niphtcaD
has became obsolete. Those niohf
caps kept the head warm and the blood
near the surface; so that our ancestors
seldom dreamed, and were much less
liable to cerebral disorders than we
are.
1t is very doubtful if men and
women will consent to acquire immu-
NIFTY from dreams at the price of wear
no
have been the case in the last century.
no modern wife could respect q hus-
band in nightcap, and no husband
could long retain his affection for
wife in a nightcap. This may be all
wrong, but it is nevertheless true.
People who dream will probably adopt
the plan of sleeping with their feet on
the pillow, but they will never de
grade themselves by adopting night
caps.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-31

Green were suffocated at Saratoga. New
York, Saturday, by the fumes of gaso-
line.
a MAN whose name was not learned.
was killed by falling embankment on
the Northern Pacific grade, near Supe-
rior Saturday.
REV. BARTON LOWE, an aged Metho-
dist minister of Winchester. Ohio. at
tempted to cross q room, fell into a FIRE
and burned his head and face until he
cannot survive.
WHILE a safe was being hoisted into
the second story of a building at Canton.
Ohio, the chains broke and the safe fell
crushing RenhOld Rockers and William
Miller, fatally injUring both.
A BOILER exploded at the Walker &
St. Louis Ice company's warehouses;,
at Depue. ILL.,, killing Charles Lyon and
badly injuring Patrick Kearney, labor
ers, aid the engineer. The boiler has
long been considered ensafe.
DELLA POPE, a colored woman who
was subject to epileptic fits, while alone
in her house in St. Louis, fell into the
burned to death, her face and the upper
part Of her body being roasted and char
red beyond recognition.
FIRE losses Wednesday were, E. L.
Schneider & Co.'S candle factory. Chi
cago-loss, $15O,O00; hotel at Paducah,
Ky.-Ioss, $4,000; twenty frame build
ings at Lowell, Mich.-loss, $4,000;
Haight's wooden mill at Newberry, n.
Y.-loss, $4,000; half the business por-
ton Of the village of Clio, Genesee
county, Mich.-loss, $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-31
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

AN engineer was burned to death in a
fire at Head House No. ?, Pietston, Pa.
WITHIN three weeks, Mr.. Kearney. of
Superior City, lost his wife and three
children by djphtheria.
ONE thousand one hundred and forty
five bales of cotton stored as Murrelfs
Point landing. Bay9n de Chine. La,
were burned Saturday. Loss, S53, 900.
No one was killed by the gas explosion
in Boston Friday night, but William
Conley and A. II. Blake were badly
hurt. The loss was $4,000.
ABOUT one-fourth of the business por-
ton of tht town Of Leipsic, Ohio, was
destroyed by fire Saturday. Total loss,
$4,000
A FREIGHT train was wrecked in
Kings tunnel, on the Cincinnati South
ern road. No lives were lost, so far as
known.
NATHAN d. MoREY and Lodewick E.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-31
Causes OF Nervousness.

The maIadies which above all others cause ncr-
-, H. 49,, II pc, - -; tiI -. "a
the epiga~triC region with the brain, IS al
ways injui-.IIsv affected if the stomach and bow
els are dsordered; a permanent arrangement Of
the functions OF those organs reacts by sympathy
upon the entire ner Gus system. HOStettpr'S
Stomach Bit ers, IN restoring tone and regula Fity
TO the digestive apparatus, and overcom NO CON
plants which originate in alimenfaIy we sllness
or distui Dances. They are the very best ner, inc
that can be used. By eradcatlng the exciting
causes of nervous weakness, they permanently
overcome the disability itself But this is not all
By checking the naladies which cause nervous
ness. they build up anew the system weakened
and Denoted by NERVOUS disease
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-31
LinceIE's LacOnic Reply.

The following anecdote of Presi-
dent Lincoln is related By General
Badeau in his article on General
Sheridan" which is an interesting
feature of the February Century.
Sheridan started before day break
in pursuit of what was left of Lees
army. He sent word to Grant: If
the thing is pressed, [ thlnk that Lee
will surrender Grant forwarded the
dispatch and al account of the vic
tory to Lincoln, at City Point, and
the President replied: Let the thing
be pressed -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-31

THERE was a terrible scene last Fri
day morning, when the steamer City
of Columbus went to pieces amid the
rocks and breakers off Martha's Vine
yard, and one hundred human beings
lost their lives in the bitter cold and
freezing brine. No terror named by
Dante in the frozen circles of the In
ferno, none that cold or ice would add
to the pitiless waves, that in them
selves were death, seemed lacking
But it was soon over. That much, at
least appears from the report of TWEEN
ty five or thirty saved, among whoa
there is no name of woman or child.
The story of Mr.. Farnsworth, pas
senger, that the disaster was caused
by the pilot flashing the wheel and
going to the. smokestack to warm him
self. is incredible. 10 the brave men
who hold the throttle-valves of loco
motives on land and the helms of
ships at sea, absolute fidelity to duty
is a habitude they cannot break from
There is absolutely no instance on
record of one of either class leaving
his post in time of danger, or even
what wsuld be equivalent breach of
disciplin in time OF no danger Be
sides the stroy is impossible, because
no sea-going steamer has less than
two men night and day at
her wheel-house; and to send a
steamer to sea IN winter on the
New England coasts without a
stove in the pilot house. would be to
disable both wheelsmen and to set the
ship adrift. 1t is inevitable that some
passenger, crazed by the horrors he
has gone through, will make some
such statement as this, after every
disaster. Later came the letters to
newspapers from a valuable body of
men, who cannot, by any possibility,
achieve the conception that sailors are
better sailors than landsmen; or that
railroad men are, as a rule, more COM
petent as to railroads than those who
never saw one These letter writers
always know exactly what the trouble
was, and exactly how it could have
been avoided. They will appear later
in the present case to tell us how the
sea is to be robbed of its perils and
steam traffic of its trifing percentage
of risk. This last dismal sea picture
is lighted up by the magnificent cour-
age of Lieut.. Rhodes, of the revenue
service, and of Capt. Wright, who
would not leave his breaking ship un-
til told that the two passengers left in
the riggings were frozen and could
not be rescued first. Such heroism
makes ones blood glow with admira-
ton of his race.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-31

The politicians of both parties in
Indiana are getting into ferment
over candidates for governor at next
falls election. Senator Dan Voorhees,
and Congressman Holman are the
democratic favorites, as far as heard
from, and the republicans appear to
be divided between Postmaster Gener-
al Gresham, Pension Con missioner
Dudley, and General A D. Straight.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-31
A Lucky Fisherman.

In tn: vast amount OF business trans
acted at the Baltimore, Md, Postoffice,
Mr.. NJ. V. Bailey, Superintendent of the
Mails, is kept exceedingly busy, but
somehow he finds a spare hour or day to
go fishing, and from his exper ence he
gives his testimony, that st. Jacobs OIL
is the best remedy in the world for rheu-
matism, sprains, sore feet and joints,
bruises, etc. Il is the remedy for fisher
men and gunuers, who should always
keep bottle on hand.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-31
A COLLEGE souabble has Just beer

A COLLEGE squabble has just been
settled in a Chicago court. In 1878
the Northwestern university at
Evanston, ILL.,, contracted with Prof
Mayo to run the musical department
for ten years for three-fourths of the
receipts. The authorities discharged
him in 1877 and the court yesterday
assessed him 81. 200 damages.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-31

LATEST advices state that there were
129 persons on board the lost steam
ship City of Columbus, of whom 81
were passengers and As officers and
crew. The number lost was 81. Ten
additional dead bodies have been re
covered
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-31

THE question of the location of the
Democratic National Convention is
apparently narrowed down to Chi
cago and st. Louis, and the chances
are believed to be in favor of the for
NOR
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-31
Some Exploits of EngeIke's Pet Crow.
From the Savannah News.

IIOLLI III0 S1FdLndn NEWS
Engelke's pet crow at Lula stole
Colonel Higgins pocket-knlfe and
buried it IN the ground near his store.
To recover his property he gave the
bird fnger-ring and By watching
where it carried the same found his
k life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-31

The New York Legislature seriously
proposes to submit to vote of the
people of that state prohibitory
amendment to the constitution.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-31

money is in West Bend Wis, claiming
she owns the town. Her costume is a
nlghtgown and fur cape. She is thought
to be from Milwaukee.
The iron manufacturers of Portland,
Oregon, have been given notice of re-
ducton of 121 per cent. in wages 1t is
believed that the majority will accept.
It affects 420 men.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-31

THE latest big failure is Guion, OF
fast steamer fame. He goes to the
wall for want of 81. 900 600.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-31

THERE are now stored IN Chicago
elevators and on vessels in the river
90, 628, 087 bushels of grain, being
about double the quantity of a year
agO.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-31
SCENE MOST HEARTRENDING.

It is said that at the time of the ex-
plosion there were 10 kegs of blast
powder in chambers where there were
men working and where the explo-
sion is supposed to have taken place.
The mine has three miles of drifting,
and so it is impossible to definitely 10
cate the accident until the rescuing
parties can gain admittance.
The mine had long been considered
dangerous by those acquainted with it.
while it was one of the best prOduc-
ing mines in the country. Its opera
ton has always been attended with
more or less apprehension and real
danger.
1T is a fire damp NINE" said Su-
perintendent Cameron, now IN Den
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-31

Many of these are married men,
and leave families, many living here.
At this hour everything is in such
confusion that it is impossible to give
details
A special train left Gunnison City
at 2 o'clock this afternoon with sur
geons and a large number of citizens
to render all the aid possible. The
town of Crested Butte is in mourning.
Crowds of women cluster about the
entrance of the mine praying, wiring
ing their hands, and crying piteously,
presenting q
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-31

unODtalnaDl6:
Henry Anderson, Jim McCourt,
John Williams, Fred Brecht,
NJ 7. Stewart, Iber King,
John Martin, Joseph Weisenberg,
Thos. Rogers, III. Donagan,
James O'NeI, Richard James,
Jacob Laut, David Hughes,
John Anderson, P. NJ. McNann,
James Walsh, W. T. King,
Peter Baker, John Creelman,
VIM. Davidson, John Keilor,
Carl Rodenwald, Thos Williams
Charles Sterling, john Shune
Thomas Roberts, Patrick Barrett,
Jno McGregor, G. B. McHalson,
Jno Myers, VIM Maroney,
Joseph Kraust, Nick Probst,
Jas. f. Stewart, Jr., Thos. Laffey,
VIM. Meath, John Prince,
Major Meath, jas. Driscoll.
Thos. Clancy, Jas. CoughIin.
John Rutherford, Henry Stewart
VIM McCowitt, B. Keffron,
A NJ. GOdfred. L, P. Hebron,
Dan Mcdonald, w. L. Jones,
T. W. Smith, John D nnelly,
VIM Duberry, Benz Jeffers,
ThOS Stewart
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1884-10-24
The Grit that Conauers.

The mention of that distinguished
educator Rev. DR.. Lemuel Mosg. Presi-
dent OF the State University 81 Bloom
lngton, recalls very interesting story
OF ms early struggles 10 obtain an edti-
cation. Our informant was a promi-
nent church worker Of this CITY. who
was well acquainted with Moss wbile
they were members Of the First Baptist
church at Cincinnati, about thirty
year ago. Moss was then cub in
q printing Office, but he felt he had n
hlgher call The church had quite a
handsome educational fund on hand at
thc time, and his means being small.
ne made application to the pastor Of his
church for admission 10 the theological
seminary at Rochester. n. Y. The pas
tor didn seem TO take TO the idea. and
lhe ambitious young man was kindly
informed That there wasn't enough i'm
him for a preacher. They didn't think
he had enough education TO enter col
lege. But the rebuff only nerved
young Moss 10 seek another plan. He
wrote 20 DR.. Robinson. then President
Of the college, 10 know II he could OBJ
tain the scxtOnship Of one of the
churches in Rochester The rood doc
tor offered him every kind Of epcour-
agement, and the coveted position was
secured BY doing little chores about
the church and college, and with the
help Of his young wife, he was enabled
10 work his way through the college
and secure good education Two years
after be entered the college the faculty
took the pains 20 write back TO The
church people al Cincinnati. telling
them what mistake they had made:
that The young man in whom they had
JAILED 10 discover anything that would
make minister Of the Gospel was des-
tined 10 become one Of the greatest in
the land Lcmuel Moss Is to-day rec
oRnized ~ ono Of the most profound
thinkers, and a. one o. our most thor-
Ough scholars sclfmade man In alt
tho word implies and it is Use selG
made man we admire above al thinea
InataaQDoia Sentinel
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1884-10-24
HONE, Farm AND GARDks.


Egg shells clear coffee as well as
ihe egg itself II Cincinnati TINES.
Don't waste your time securing
your bread-pans; bread never bakeS as
well in bright tin. Indeed. the best
bread-pans-if one can afford to have
them iiiadc are obl5ng ones made VI
Russia sheet-irol. Boston Gio6c.
To pack string beans for winter
use-thc beans should be taken from n
late crop planted for this purpose and
only the most tender used. Lay them
down in brittle and when wanted 10
soak in clean water until the salt is
washed off and then boil and season
as in summer. - Detroit Post.
--Poached Eggs: Nearly fill frying
pan with boiling water Add little
salt and vinegar. Break your eggs one
Mt a time into a wet saucer, and slip
from this upon the surface OF the water.
Cool slowly three minutes. take up with
perforated skinner add 10y carefully
upon rounds of buttered toast. The
household.
The disease called mango Is the re.
suit OF filth, and having hogs sleep in
rotten, dirty straw. II ls an insect,
very inintite, which burrows under tho
skin. To cure IL give pigs first good
washing in warm soapsuds, Using car
bolic-acid soap, and selecting a warm
dry day. Then grease the skin with
lard, to which has been added little
coal oil. and clean 0ut the pen and
quarters. Troy Time.
The demand for mutton ~ an
agreeable and cheap food h steadily
increasing. The markets OF New York
alone require more than million
sheep annually. Farmers, too, who
once used only bacon and pork, are be.
coming mutton eaters. The conven.
fence of few sheep on every farm 10
furnish tho family with good, whole.
some food, is now appreciated more
than few years since. M Y. Times.
"A correspondent of the New York
Tribune says: ''If any one has pear
tree that bears spotted or cracked fruit
let him sprinkle wood ashes freely over
the soil, beneath the tree, rs far in di-
ameter as the branches extend-not q
light sprinkle, either. but n liberal
dressing. Then wash the bark thor
oughly with strong soap-suds Gold.
fashioned soft-soap preferrcd) with the
addition of lIme-water and little flow
ers of sulphur"
The following remedy Is recon-
mended for horse having scratches:
Put his feet and legs in bran poultccs
for thirty-siX hours, then wash clean
with warm water and CASTLE soap, and
when dry rub the pits of his heels with
the following: Take Goulard's extract
and olive oil, equal parts, mixed. Do
not allow them to get wet after The first
washing, but keep them clean by rub
bling well with coarse cloth. Give
tho following powders night and morn
ing in his feed Take nitrate of potash,
five ounces; pulverized resin, one ounce;
mix; make into twelve powders; give
regular daily exercise. --Prarie FARM
err.