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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
ASEINGToN.

THE treasury will suspend the issue of
81 and 50 notes, pending an appropri-
alton to enable the printing of more.
JOHN COBURN, of Indiana, has been
confirmed as associate justice of the su-
preme court of Montana.
BILLS will be reported favorably for
public building at La Crosse, Wis, and
for building in Chicago for the use Of
appraisers.
THE Treasury Department has been
notified that the Pre- sidenU of Mexico,
has issued a decree imposing an addi-
tional duty of ) per cent on all articles
imported into Mexico, commencing
May 10, next.
A GENTLEMAN claims to have stood at
the Western Union Telegraph office at
the Capitol for one hour the other day.
and during that time thirtythree United
States Senators sent messages, thirty
two using deadhead franks and one pay
ing the usual tariff. That looks encour-
az ng for a postal telegraph bill.
POSTOFFICES were establ shed last
week as follows: Indiana-Buhr, Alien
County; Genoda, Lawrence County.
P0stoffice name changed: MoOr's Prairie,
Jefferson County, to point one and a
quarter miles west. POstmasters COM
missiOned: Oliver III Conner, Friesland,
D. T John Dempsey, Kinsman, H.. /:
GranderSon Elkins, Evansville, Ind;
Charles Sykes, Peiro, Iowa; Thomas A.
Clarke, Goodhart, Mich.
THE following pOstmasteTs were COM
missiOned WedDesday-James Carney,
Deadwood, d. T.; VIM NJ. Chandler,
Grafton, D. T.; Barney c. Wilson, Wah-
peton. d. T.; Richard l.. Bigger, Lisbon,
d. r.; Lyman P. GoOdhue LarimOre, d.
T.; VIM. F. Hunter, Elgin, Ill; Willars
n. Smith, EnglewoOd, Ill. HIbben S.
Cerwin. Peru, Ill j. L. Sims, Edinburg,
Ind; Chas. II. Toll, Clinton, Ia; Taos.
f. Geris, Pontiac, Mich; VIM. 2. For
syth, Jefferson, Wis; VIM. Parks, Ooon-
omOwOc, Wis.
POSTOFFICES established - Dakota
Moltke, Burleigh county; Travare, Rob
erts county. IndIana-Lake Gage, Steu-
ben county. Iowa y Fifeld, Marion
county; Olds, Henry county. Minneso-
ta-Kragnes, Clay county. POstOffices
discontinued: ichigan-Edgell, Van
Buren, county. PO9tmasters commits
stoned: Ed o. Sheldon, Ashkum, Ill;
Jos. 3. Donoho, Hickory Hill, H.; Muir
lin l.. Marshall, Kingsley, Iowa; Hal
FOI ". IlOIluISs 16ilOW hl6uICII6, hI9u.
John P. Watts, Maple Grove, Wis.
The Committee on Expenditures in
the Department of Justice has deter
mined to begin March 3, md continue
from day to day until completed, exam
nation into the manner in which the
star-r0ute prosecutions have been and
are being conducted and into the con-
duct, efficiency and good faith of all the
officials or persons in the employ or pay
of the y. S., In connection with these
prosecutions. The committee will also
investigate whether or not the guilty
parties have been duly pros ecuted. All
participants ia the trials on the part of
the government or individuals will be
called to give testimony The invesi-
cation will begin with the appointment
of MacVeagh as Attorney General, and
James as Postmaster General. The ex-
am nation, it is believed by members
of the committee, will continue two
months.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28
MISSING LINKS.

One of the saddest features of the
OHIO floods is a poem by Will S.
Hays.
Governor Robinson could get three
square meals" a day gratis, if he
liked, for he is said to receive on an
average three invitations a day to pub
lie or private dinners.
Mrs. Joseph Cook has entered the
lecture field, taking for her theme
1.-THE Temples and Tombs of Hindo-
STAN" and illustrating her remarks
with ste1eoptican views.
Hon. g. Hilton Scribner, ex-secre-'
tary of state of New York, has pre-
sented to Gen. Carr, the present sec
rotary of state, the bedstead Aaron
Burr occupied while vice-president.
Chinese" Gordon, as is well known
is man of profound religious con
victions. and studies the Bible with an
enthusiasm that is usually supposed
to belong to the theologian more than
to the soldier.
Gen. Fitz John Porter, when stu
dent at Exeter academy, was a fine
scholar, the best swimmer, marble
player and athlete in the school. None
had higher reputation for honor, in
tegrity and character than he
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28

folk, Va, shows 1885 colored and ?, 922
white voters.
The Hartford Fire Insurance company
has received through the Rev. F. Tang
way. pastor Of ST. Mary's church of
Appleton, Wis, $150 of conscience
money.
SCARLET fever in the janitor's family
living in the German English school,
New Haven, has dismissed the 200 pu-
pills. The fever is now raging in the
city.
Two Hamilton college students were
suspended. when the whole class with
drew. The trouble was a refusal to al
low holiday for Prof. North'S funeral.
The United States imported 44S, 93S
pounds of opium in ten months up to
October 81, 1883. In the same time in
1882 tho importation was but $4,000
pounds.
BARNUM has built hall 215 feet long
and II feet wide, and given it to Bridge
port, Conn. 1t accommodates 5000
people.
A FIRM of ice machine makers in
Fulton street, \. Y, exhibit large blocks
of artifcialice with fish and gamefrOzen
into them.
ADVICES from North LOUISIANA re-
port the planters preparing for spring
crops, and that an increased acrt age
will be planted in cotton. The only
drawback is the lack Of laborers.
WHILE out trapping near Bridgman,
Michigan, William Williams caught an
eagle that measured nine feet from tip to
tip of his wings. The eagle was not seri-
ously injured by the trap.
WORK has been suspended on the In
dian industrial schools at Lawrence,
KAN, because the government refuses
to pay the contractors. By the omis-
sion of semicolon III bill appropria-
ting $3.50 600, passed at the last session
Of congress. and drawn up by Senators
Plumb, of Kansas, and Dawes, of Massa-
chusetts, it was made to read for repairs
on Indian schools and not for erection.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28
GEN EPAL NOTES.

SOAP BUBBLE parties are the latest in
New York.
FISHERMEN lost 900 rets in the storm
last month.
AUGUSTA, Mo-, felt an earthquake
shock last week.
EVERY saloonkeeper in Boulder, Col,
has been indicted.
RUSSELL SAGE'S twin brother Is dead,
at Joliet ILL.,
THE rice planters of Georgia are clam
orlng for protection.
A CAR load of Mor,nons left Chatta-
nooga last week for Utah.
MARYLAND has abolished the S45B
marriage license fee
A STATE labor conven ton will be held
in Chicago, March Is, to discuss convict
prison labor.
A REUNION of the army of the Poto
mac is TO be held in Brooklyn on June
II and r.
The new registration of voters of Nor
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28

Carlisle, Pa, killing two men named
Ridenbaugh and Buckmaster, and
severely wOunding several others.
A SNOW plow on the Chicago & North
western road was thrown from the track
about mile west of Rochester. Four
passenger trains were delayed several
hours in consequence, until the track
could be cleared.
The relief steamers in the flooded dis
tricts report that the seventies of the
flood are felt more now than ever. Even
people with money say they cannot buy.
for there is nothing to purchase.
A TERRIBLE cyclone visited the neigh
borhood of Austin. Texas. recently.
Every house in its path was crushe d INTO
splinters. Not fence and hardly tree
is left standing in the track of the whirl-
wind. No one was seriously injured.
BRADLEY, late collector of customs at
Emerson, Man has been succeeded by
a Mr.. Phillips. from St. Johns n. B. and
Mr. Mingave has been transferred from
Winnepeg to Emerson.
The steamer. Britannia, FROM Liver
pool, brought the body of Richard Camp
bell, who died on the passage home. He
bell & Smith. Two years ago he was
married to the only daughter of the late
Charles A. Coles, who bequeathed her a
fortune estimated at So, 600. 600.
GABRIEL ERB, a widower, aged go, was
found drunk in field near Hubbard.
Ohio, Saturday night, with his hands
face and feet frozen, and died Sunday.
Erb was lately sued for breach of prom
Use by his housekeeper. Since the suit
begun be had been drinking hard. He
was wealthy.
SUNDAY night an engine and tender
on plug train on the NorthW estern road
from La Crosse and Onalaska, left the
the track on the State street crossing and
went bottom up in ditch, being badly
wrecked. The cars did not leave the
track. The engineer and fireman jump
ed and escaped uninjured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28
What He Was Afraid of.
Cincinnati Enquirer.

L bet man here, not long ago, a
barrel of flour, to go to the Orphan
Asylum, that we had hundred ladies
in this town handsomer than Lang
try. [ was to write them In a Lexing-
ton newspaper, and the public was to
decide who should pay for the barrel
Of -four. 1t was a draw bet. I wrote
out a list of an even hundred, with
some Introductory remarks, and
handed it to an editor here. He look
ed at it and inquired if that was all of
my list. [ said yes, and to my dis
gust he said he would not publish that
list for 800. [ wanted to know
why, and he replied that he would
get killed for 1t; he amplifed to the
effect that his hide would be as full
of thirty-two caliber holes before
night as a piece of sheet iron at an ex-
position washer cutter. [ told him [
could certainly see nothing but COM
pliment aud gentlemaniy gallantry
in it, and was sure that nobody could
be offended for having a name APP
pear IN such connection. You
didn't see my idea," he said; they
are not these that you have got that I
am afraid of, but they are those that
are left out "
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28
FEARFUL EXPLOSION.
Another HideOus Mine Horror
in Pennsylvania---Large
Number of Miners
Killed.
Another Mine Horror,

CONNELLsyILLE, Pa, Feb. 2O.-At six
o'clock this morning one of the most
terrible explosions that was ever
known in this vicinity occurred at the
West Leisening shaft few miles
from here resulting in a frightful loss
of life. The particulars are so meagre
that nothing definite is known as to
what caused the disaster. The latest
report received here at noon was to
the effect that some rs persons were
at work In the mine at the time of the
explosion, and that out of thatnumber
twenty-nine persons are known to
have met with death, that many dead
bodies have already been taken out.
Twelve were rescued, several of whorI
are so badly injured that they will
die. Every effort is being made to
get at those who are yet in the mine,
and to learn the full extent of the
frightful accident. 1t is thought at
least fifty persons out of seventy-fve
IN the mine are killed, or so badly in
jured that Chey will die. Particulars
later
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28
FIRES AND CASUALTIES,

MILLER, an old German, shot himself
in st. Louis, and nearly froze to death
A ste RM has washed a mass of CLAIMS
five fee deep and half a mile long on
the beaC a midway between Atlanta City
and Ca May.
AT J fferson, Tex, the district attor-
ney dis missed all of the celebrated Mar
ion county election cases. The reason is
not made public.
JOHN MORRISON, an old settler, was
killed at Monmouth, Man., Saturday by
a tree falling on him. He came from
Prince Edward Island, where his parents
and family live.
IN the two poisoned beer cases at
Ithaca one coroner's jury found death
caused by natural causes, the other from
poisoning. The evidence was the same
in both cases.
A SAW mill boiler exploded at West
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28
The Wrong side of the We rfdfan

On the down hill side of lif,, which an old med
ical writer quantity terms "the wrong side of the
meridian. when the functions decay and the
frame gradually bends under the weight of years.
the system requires to be sustained under the bu,
den imposed upon it. Innumerable physical all
ments aud infirmitieS then press upon it. to which
it had been in ear Ter life a stranger The su. est
and pleasanteSt support aud SOlace of declining
years is found in Hostetter'S Stomach Bitters,
long recognized as the most wholesome and agree
able Of dirfusible StimuantS. the most potent of
tonicS and Alternatives The aged and inf-n
may pla e implicit confidence in this invigorat
ing elixir. which not only checks those malades
20 which eldery persons are peculiarly subject,
but in measure retards the encroachment of
time upon the co ,sitUtiIn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28
THE floods Of 1884 have produced

THE floods Of 1884 have produced
more distressing results than did those
Of 1888. The value of property de-
stroyed in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky
and West Virginia, reaches well up
among the millions. Tie loss of life
has been greater than it was last year,
and there is far more suffering. Re
lief is pouring in from all parts of the
country. Congress wisely approprIa-
ted 5000, 900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28


Patrick Kennedy, Irishman 20 years, burned on
the face unmari led; the only child of a widow.
James Il acA lrIShman 10 years, badly burned
on the face and body; single.
James Baker Irishman 81 years terribly burned
on the face; leaves wife and two children
David Lloyd Weishman p years. turned on
the head and face; unmarried.
marks.
Thomas McGarry Irish, SIS years, badly bnrn-
ed; wife and three children in Cumberland coun-
ty. England
John Hart, American, a5 years, single; no
Michael Ripko, Hungarian. s. years, wife and ?
George Calls, Hungarian IS years, wife in old
country.
Daniel Buckner, colored, wife and two chill
John Murray, Irish, 81 years, had been in Amer
I lJ4 SINCE May last wife came in August, one
Peter Waters, Irish, 81 years. single.
-; nrolheT OF Mrs Murray, William Staring, ma
i've, aged about IS, wife and four children.
zoe baKoS, Hungarian, . years wife
.Ahuy Narmn, German, so wears single. sent
ms wages % ms mother in Germany every month
,: 5Lolo9 \. Hackney, of this county, SIS wears,
Garry T. Mair-uothino known obo,,+ HI, -
cept that he was Fl ON Maryland
Most of the above bore no marks of
violence, but had died of suffocation
THEIR FACES,
generally were very black, smoke and
dust having been blown into their
SKIN. The last man taken out alive
was Henry Wilson, who managed 10
subslst on air in the very bottom of
the mine till rescued. He was almost
gone. Those who were in other parts
OF the mine suffered severely. Dick
BalSeIy reports that the men acted
much like horses In a burning stable:
they were bewildered and not know
ing which way to 90, refused to 90 In
any direction. Some of them were so
burned that
FLESH DROPPED OFF THEM
in places when removed. The scene
of the afflicted homes, tonight is
heartrending beyond description. In
Hackney,s house lie two corpses, him
self aud MAR. In the house of the
Hungarian, Ripko, perhaps, is the
saddest sight. This family seem adj
vanced far beyond their average
in civilization and a
home cheerful and attractive. The
dead husband and father lies upon
the bed and his weeping wife sits at
his head
KISSING AND CARESSING HIM,
while two little children stand bv
and call him in vaiu The party who
went out from here were so affected
at this scene as they watched the in
quest that that they took up a collec-
ton for the widow and two children.
The neighbors who come in to view
the scenes turn away in sorrow. After
identifying the bodies the coroner adj
Journed the inquest until Saturday,
morning. The company will bear all
the expenses of the funerals, which
will take place tomorrow and next
day. The accumulation of so mach
gas in this mine and as to the cause
of such explosion is matter of much
as 30 accident has ever be-
fore occurred here and it was regard
ed as q very safe mine. The fire boss
with a lamp made his usual examina-
ton last night and pronounced every
thing all right The men had left the
other mines that were regarded I'M
safe and had gone here to work be-
cause there was no danger felt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28

NOTHING so terrible in this way as
the present freshet in the Ohio river
has ever occurred in the United
States. It is impossible to imagine
the horrors which surround and
threaten the unfortunate people whose
homes lie within the danger lines"
along the swollen stream. The water
is now several feet higher at Cincin-
natl than ever before within recorded
history, and the prospect is that it
will be worse before it is better. The
sufferers in Cincinnati are to be
pitied, but their misfortune is mild
when compared with the lot of their
fellow unfOrtunates who have lost
their all in the small towns and the
farming regions, beyond the reach
Of immediate relief. Congress has
already voted 100000 for the subsist-
ence and shelter of the sufferers, and
private subscriptions are pouring ia
from all quarters; but it is a most
difficult thing to bring the relief thus
volunteered to those whose need is
greatest. 1t is probable that the
lower Mississippi will also suffer an
unprecedented rise shortly, and it
may be that the misery which began
at Wheeling a week ago will work its
way to the Gulf before its fury is ex-
hausted. People who are fond of
being critical often waste their sense
less sarcasm on the common practice
Of discussing weather, but what
greater mystery can most of us find
t., cup
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28

CONGRESSMAN WILLIS urges in sup
port of his bill for national aid to ed
ucation, the facts that in fourteen
northern and in all the southern states
-lliteracy holds the balances of power;
that there are in the the thirty eight
states ], 871,217 illiterate voters; that
only one voter in five can write his
name
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28

An agrarian agitatio,a is being car
ried on in Southern and Western Rus
sia, and the Governors Of the prov
inces in those regions are appealing
for military re-enforcements in order
to protect the landlords from the as
saults of the peasants.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28

THERE are indications that Congress
will refuse to make appropriations for
printing 81 and s. grecnbacks. This
course will be for the purpose Of fore
ing silver dollars into circulation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28

WITNESSES summoned to appear in
the inquisition Ia connection with the
Crouch murder, near Jackson, Mich,
refuse to oaey the summons, and the
excitement surrounding that bloody
mystery increases.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28

IT is the general opinion among
English officials at Cairo that the
Egyptian army is not only useless,
but dangerous, and ought to be dis
banded. Gen. Wood family expresses
the Egyptians.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28

UNDER the New Jersey law, all state
officers are entitled to ride free over
all railroads in the state. This is not
by virtue of passes issued to members,
but by virtue of the standing of indi-
vidual members. The speaker of the
house Of assembly, Capt. Stoney, has
had an unfortunate and trying exper-
jence while testing the value of his of
fetal prerogative. He took passage
Oh one of the trains of the numerous
roads that are leased by or are tribu-
tary to the Pennsylvania Railroad.
He showed variety of free passes, all
OF which were refused by the conduc-
tor, who, after disagreeable alterca-
ton, ostentatiously and Extensively
raid from his own pocket the fare of
the speaker Of the New Jersey house
of assembly. The railway official
publicly announced his intention of
putting the speaker off the train when
next he travelled that way unless he
paid his fare or showed a satisfactory
free pass. The speaker is so large a
man that he rather invites a personal
encounter, and dares any one or two
men to put him from the train But
the majesty of tae sovereign state Of
New Jersey, one must suppose, would
shrink from personal encounter
with any railway official whatever.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28

At public meetingat Youngstown,
Ohio, a committee was appointed to
proceed TO New York to welcome
Lieut.. HARDER, who brings home the
bodies or the Jeanette crew. Youngs-
town is Harher's home.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28

THE Lower Ohio aid Mississippi
rivers continue rising. At Louisville
and Cincinnati and above it continues
To fall.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28

THE Kentucky legislature has ap-
propriated $25, 900 for the flood suffer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28

TIE Ohio river is now slowly reced-
ing at points in Kentucky and indiana,
but IS still RISING at Cairo.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28

a noteworthy poker player was
lost to the game when Edward Neider-
er died in Memphis. He led an event
full life In many ways as Nicaraguan
adventurer, as chief of the Confeder
acy's secret service, and as a grog
gerry keeper; but at ali times he was
heavy gamester, and on one occasion
he won big pot by betting $4,000
on a worthless hand. He was regard
ed as extremely lucky, but apparently
he did not hold that opinion of him
self, very confidently, for he left
life insurance policy of $50. 600.
The man that has an ear bit off IN
a carouse can never explain how he
lost IT,; there's always something
m'SSid ear i.us about it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28

had been carried out. The company's
books were then examined and the
roll called and it was at once ascer-
tanned that all the men were account
ed for. The work proceeded quietly
and with order, amid sobs and sub
dued weeping of the stricken fami-
lies The bodies were taken to their
homes near by and laid out. Coroner
Barton, of this place, with many clti-
zeus, went from here, and the inquest
will begin at o'clock. No testimony
has been taken except that which
identified the dead, the list of whom
is as fellows:
Micha-l H-ffern, Irishman % years burned on
the face: leaves wife and six children.
John Buckley, ITishman 80 ye rs. unmarried; ;
no visible injury