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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-06-05

Commenting on a recent lecture by
Oscar Wilde, the Pail Mall Gazette says:
'.Mr. Wilde has clearly taken a good
deal by his lecturing tour in America.
For one thing. he has found the tongue
of an audible lecturer; and for another,
he has brought back new setting for
many excellent old stories His appro-
priation of our old friend, the American
who was indignant at being supplied
with a cast of Venus of Milo without
arms, was as amusing as it was auda-
cious."
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-06-05

buffalo has woman's union, to
advance the interests of the sex in gen.
eraL There are classes for instruction.
IN which women may learn penman.
ship, ,ype-writing. and book keeping
buffalo Erpr, IS.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-06-05

"A deed registered in Wyandotte,
Kan, called for the transfer OF a Ger.
tain lot o one William Henry Harri
son Tyler Tippecaloe Coon"
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-06-05

"Marion Harland's'' husband gets
$1,000 a year as pastor Of . Brooklyn
church.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21
GENERAL NOTES.

BALTIMORE builta2 362 new buildings
last year for 100000.
CARPENTERING is being taught sue
cessfully in Cleveland schools.
OyR highest postal rate is 81 cents-to
the island Of ST Helena.
MICHIGAN prohibitionists have raised
$4,000 to start newspaper.
''THE Ace Cf Clubs is the name Of a
new play just brought out in Boston.
PICKETT. a notorious Cincinnati
saloon-keeper, has joined the eh eli
MARINE City, Mich, shipped sixty
five tons Of limburger cheese last sea
sen.
MRS. Tom THUMB is going to run a
museum of her own in the Bowery.
A STATE labor conven ton will be held
in Chicago, March Is, to discuss convict
prison labor.
THE San Francisco Journeymen Tail
ors union has a membership of 250 and
fund of $1,000
SIMON HOWARD, a wealthy MERCHANT
Of EganvilIe, Ont, was arrested on his
bridal tour by Ann B. Howard, owhom
he had been engaged since 1875.
CONNOR. in jail at Waterloo, Iowa, for
cattle thieving, has been attacked with
hydrophobia.
FIFTY cartridges Gagged in Charles
ton, S. c., restaurant window are a con-
slant nuisance to hunting dogs, who
stop and point" the birds, ard bump
the window glass when they try to
flush them.
SCARLET fever in the janit0rs family
living in the German English school,
New Haven, has disnrssed the 200 pu-
pills. The fever is how raging in the
city.
The Fail River mills are taking out
''mule'' looms and putting in ring
frames which dispenses with men alto
gether, and requires boys and girls only.
This will kill the strike.
A TRAIN of lumber hauled on a side
track at Buffalo, to protect adjoining
tracks from the high breakers, is a solid
wall of ice. None Of the cars are visi-
BILE.
THE Denver Tribune was sold recently
to a syndicate of New York gentlemen
for 100000 O. FL. Roth@cker co.. tinues
editor-in-chief, and f. J. Y. Sklff mana
ger.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21
Assisting Nature.

It is of no use attempting to force Nature. She
won't stand it, and rebels. She MIST be coaKed,
as it we t, not driven. For instance, in attempt
ng to overcome constipation or indigestion. vio-
heroic trratmen, is sure TO defeat the purpose
in view, which is, should be. to permanently
remedy the evil The use of drastic cathartics is
especially to be deprecated, for although t1ey
temporarily overcome costiveuess, yet The intsst-
ines are SO weakened and infaned by them as to
be rendered unfit TO perform the elective function
properly. How much better to assist Nature in
such a case with such mild and salut ~ aperent
as Host tiers Stomach BitteS winch Strengthen
at the same time that they relieve the bowels. Not
OILY is this result a hieved by their use but the
activity of Ehe torpid liver is restored the stSm
ach inVigorated, and the entire systom greatly
benefited
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21
Borrowed Jewels.

The most certain sigh of wisdom is
perpetual cheerfulness.
Happiness consists, not in having
much, but IN being contented with lit
tie.
The person who tells you the faults
of others intends to tell others of
your faults. Have a care how you
listen.
1t is emily from those who have
themselves suffered that we may ex-
pect sympathy or consolation in our
distress. A heart that has bled for it's
own sorrows can seldom be hardened
to anOthers woe.
When the veil of death has been
drawn between US and the objects of
our regard, how qdick-sighted do we
become to their merits, and how bitter
ly do we then remember words or looks
OF unklnc ness which may have escap-
ed US in our intercourse with them
How careful should such thoughts
render US IN the ful6llment of hose
Offices of affection which it may yet be
In our power to perform for who can
tell how soon the moment may arrive
when repentance cannot be followed
by feparatlOn?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21
CRIME.

FORD KNOX, the negro outlaw who
fatally hot Will Durant on Monday al
Fort Mills, S. c., is being hunted by a
large party of armed men with pack
Of bloodhounds.
BRIGET EGAN, the young woman who
was shot in Milwaukee Sunday, by her
lover, died IN the wOman's ward at
the central police station the same
night.
GEORGE and John Stevenson. half
Breeds were hanged at Regina, n. W
T., Thursday, for the murder of Nc
earthly. The governor general has de
clined to interfere.
DEXTER KNAPP, San Francisco. used
intelligence in a private dispatch to
further a stock speculation of his own
and has been arrested for it.
J. NJ. RIPLEY, vagabond negro iv-
ing IN East st. Louis. while drunk quar-
relied with his family, between ami
o'clock Wednesday evening. He COM
menced by beating one of his small
children. His con Joseph, aged 16. inter
fered, when the brutal father seized a
big pistol and shot TIE boy twice. KLINE
him. The murderer fled, but will. no
doubt, be captured.
5JAsPER SHEARIN, was shot and killed
by his cousin and hrother-in-law Geo.
W. Rawley. in Boyle county, Ky. The
killing originated in family feud. and
was done in self-defense. Rawley's
father killed Shearin's brother a wear
ago, and on Wednesday they met. Al af-
fray ensued, in which Shearln waskilIed,
The Rawley family for the past thirty
years have figured in bloody affairs. in
which no less than ten men have been
killed.
AT Hot Springs, Ark, Saturday morn
ing, while the three Flynn brothers were
proceeding homeward in hack. party
OF seven men, led by S. A. Doran, open
ed fire on them with ehotguns and rifles.
Jack Flynn was killed, VIM. Flynn was
M rally, and Frank Flynn slightly
wounded. The hickman died IAN hour,
aud two citizens were accidentally fatal
ly shot. 1t is understood that Doran, who
IS a desperate, is simply the tool of
James Lane, a gambler, whom Frank
Flynn drove out of the business in Hot
Springs, and who swore vengeance in
consequence. Thrt ats of lynching are
being made against the prisoners.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21
Remarkable Rabbit Story.
New York Times.

Near Macon, Ga, recently Tommy
Downs, lad Is years old, went into
the woods to gather faggots. He saw
a rabbit go into hollow tree and pro-
ceeded to get him out. Not beng
able to reach the little animal up he
hollow, he climbed six feet from he
ground and thrust his arm down into
a small hole past the elbow. When
the boy attempted to free his arm he
could not do so, and after struggling
desperately for some time he hung
helplessly by tsat member. After a
while the lad deliberately took his
pocket-knife and began to cut off his
arm above the elbow. When he had
cut to the bone half around, the flesh
slipped down over the elbow Joint.
the arm came out of the hole. and the
boy fell to the ground.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21
LATEST TELEGgAMS.
W SHtNGTSR.

A MONUMENT to Lieutenant De Long
and his Inflated companions of the
Jeanette is to be erected at Annapolis,
Mary land.
EX-SENATOR MCDONALD, of Indiana
who is now conceded to be the leading
candidate for the Presidency on the
democratic ticket. was on. the floor of
the house Thursday and congratulated
upon his prospects.
MORE than 4, 500 bills, mostly of pri-
vate nature, have been introduced in
the house the present session. Less than
200 have been acted upon by the com
mittees and reported to the house.
THE latest applicant for the Judge
ship of the eighth judicial circait, IN
place of McCrary, is Judge Brewer, as
sociate judge of the supreme bench of
Kansas He is backed by the Kansas
delegation and is spoken of favorably
by western members of the bar.
THE Public Lands Committee expects
to take action this week on bills TO rrO-
vide for the forfeiting of portions of the
land grants of the Northern Pacific and
Atlantic & Pacific Roads
The Commissioner of the General
Land Officu says his recent decision
that clerks of the District Count is
in some counties of Dakota were not
authorized, under certain circumstances,
to take final homestead and pre-emption
affidavits will net be regarded as re-
trOacdve.
WITH a view to decorating the hitherto
bare walls of the senate cham Der, two
portraits have been hung on the vacant
panels on either side of the vice-presI-
dents chair On the right is a well-ex-
ecuted bust of Washington, and ON the
left one of John Adams. 1t is designed
eventually to fill the panels Of the cham
Der with portraits by eminent artists of
representative Americans.
THE naval court-martial at Annapolis,
began Saturday. Cadet Fred Parker
filed a statement that the acts commit
ted by him were without generalization.
and expressed regret. He pleaded
guilty. Cadet JOstrOnski, of the first
class, made objections to members Of the
court. The objections were sustained
and Lieut. Porter substituted for Lieut..
Horn.
On Wednesday the senate confirmed
the following nominations that had been
made by the president: Henry d. Ly-
man, Ohio second assistant pOstma ster
general; William Christy Wilson, La -,
assayer of the mint, New Orleans;
Thomas B. Knapp, postmaster, Iowa
Falls, Iowa.
Register of Land Oficee-Myrou H
McCord, Wausau, Wis; Henry Esper-
son, La Crosse, Wis; B. n johnson Fer
gus Falls, Mimi. Henry W. Lord, Creels-
burg, Oak.
Carrie G. Bell, receiver of public
moneys, Bayfield,, Wis.
The president also sent in the follow
ing nomina ions; Henry NJ. Lawson,
Texas, agent Quapaw ag' ney, Ind an
Cheyenne band, Arapah0e agency, In
dian Territory; James II. Stewart, post
master, CharletOn, Iowa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21

ONE who mas given some study to
the subject Of the great floods IN
the east, suggests that the best use of
the convicts of the United States
is to set them at work at an early day
building walls along the great rivers
which overflow their banks period
cally, and thus assure the savings of
millions of property every year.
Another, who heard the suggestion,
remarked: 'The better way would be
to take the convicts to these rivers
and drown them"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21

THE locomotive engineers of tn
Mexican National Railway threaten
to resign in body if some of their
number continue to be arrested for
running over Mexicans who deliber-
ately get on the track and refuse to
be warned off, The Greasers, it APP
pears, sometimes place themselves in
the way OF the locomotives out of
sheer meanness. The engineers think
it unfair that they should suffer on
account of such perverse cussedness
and stupidity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

THE steamship State of Nebraska ar
rived at New York Sunday from Glas-
gov, having on board Captain Bennett
and crew of the steamer Nottinghall,
which fOundered at sea.
THE oyster pirates in Chesapeake Bay
lost two vessels by capture Sunday.
200 crafts were blockaded by the
police boats, and an attack on the fleet
will be made Monday.
AT2 A. NJ Monday, the water at Gin
cinnati registered 65 feet 81 inches, and
rising half an inch an hour. No change
in the situation at LaWreuceburg. The
Mississippi is rising in the vicinity of
Vicksburg.
THE steamer. Britannia, FROM Liver
pool, brought the body of Richard Camp
bell. who died on the passage home. He
was member of the paper firm of Camp
bell & Smith. Two years ago he was
married to the only daughter of the late
Charles A. Coles, who bpqueathed her a
fortune estimated at So 600 600.
VIM. JANSEN, a boy of IA was coasting
on a street III q retired portion of Dav-
enpcrt, iowa, yesterday, ana ran into a
team. The horses trampled upon and
crushed him in shocking manner, his
skull being laid open and seven ribs
broken. He will die.
FRED PIBHL, a section boss on the st.
Paul road, was run over and killed IN
Milwaukee. He was on top of a car that
WAS being backed, slipped on the icy
surface and rolled under the wheels.
He was 45 years Of age and leaves a
large family.
A PAINFUL accident occurred to an
employee of Hershhermer's piow factory,
La Crosse, named Louis Krambe. He
is a filter and while at work trimming
moldboard, piece of steel about the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21

OF the 37,167 persons arrested in
Chicago last year, Is, 722 are reported
as having mo occupation" The fig
ures are formidable and suggestive.
Persons with mo occupation" are DOT
a class very advantageous to the re-
public. They are found in large mum
bers IN all our large cities, and every
country town has its little group of
them. People without occupation fall
into mischief and crime. From their
ranks are drawn the recruits of the
army of criminals. They should prop
erly be treated as Migrants and be sub
jected to vagrant laws. Each one of
the 1922 persons of mo occupation"
arrested ia Chicago last year for crime,
cost the tax payers not less than SIS
or $50 mo occupation" means idle
ness, crime and taxation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21

THOSE engaged in the cattle trade at
the Chicago Union Live Stock Yards,
and western cattle men generally, are
strongly opposed to the passage of the
pending bureau" bill in congress,
which is ostensibly designed to sup
press cattle diseases, which is in fact
scheme for creating new salaried
offices for the benefit of the men who
have concocted the measure and who
are trying to lobby it through CON
gress.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21

IT is a question for Congress and
the country to consider whether it is
within the range of possibilities to
devise plans by which effectually to
confne the waters of our rivers with
In their banks during such sudden
and tremendous foods as those which
are now raging in the Ohio and the
Mississippi and their tributaries. All
the moAey that can be gathered into
the Governments treasury and all
the engineering and constructive
skill of the world may by devoted to
''river improvements, and yet, after
such terrible flood, the very best
works that could be constructed for
protection would be found to be as
weak as a rope of sand-utterly use
less. Such a food as that now wash
ing over the banks of the Ohio would
undermine and sweep away the
strongest walls that engineer skill
could devise or expert masonry CON
struct There is no natural force be-
fore which human effort is so i'm
potent as that of raging waters. The
suppression of confagration is pos
sible, but no human power can sue
cessfully resist a flood.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21
FOREIGN.

MOUNT Etna is in state of eruption.
UNITED STATES Minister Hunt is ser
iously III at st. Petersburg.
ADMIRAL CALDER, the commander of
the French forces at Madagascar has
been recalled.
ANOTHER police officer has been shot
and dangerously wounded in Vienna
The assassin escaped.
6 THE French Minister of Marine oppos-
es the projected elevated railroad across
the straits of Dover.
THE Gladstone Cabinet anticipate
majority of fifty on the vote to censure
them for their Egyptian policy.
A SERIOUS revolt has broken out in
Crete, and the Porte has dispatched
large force to the scene to suppress the
instruction.
A MOB at San Juan, Argentine Repub-
lie, Friday night. killed the Governor
and wounded many persons. Senator
Gomez was found murdered in the bush.
WILLIAM MACKENZIE, a ScOtchman,
and land inspector for the Corbin Mort
gage company, of New York. was thrown
out of his buggy Wednesday, near Col
umbia, South Carolina and killed. He
was soon to be married in Brooklyn.
WHILE a wedding party was crossing
the river Thesis, near Dumrad, Au~ tria,
Wednesday, the ice bl oke and thirty
five members of the party were drown
ed. The party occupied seven carriages.
The vehicles followed each other TOO
closely, and tie ice gave way enguIfing
the whole party. There were numbers of
witnesses on each bank but unable to
render assistance. The screams of the
victims were heard for some mo-
ments as the carriages sank into the
water.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21

A BAND of 800 Indians recently at
tackled and murdered most of the
principal inhabitants of Omitlan in
one of the southernmost provinces of
Mexico. The stores and dwellings
were plundered and the women
subjected to brutal outrages. A large
force of Mexican soldiers has been
dispatched to quell the outrages. An
attempt of civil force to PIT down the
revolutionary mob was defeated with
a loss of twenty-five men killed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21

ANOTHER Prohibition member of
the Iowa legislature has been disabled,
by an accidental fall on the ice, which,
with one vacancy and sick member
leaves the house with anti-Prohibi-
ton majority.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21
river.

A SYNDICATE of New York capital
lists is said to have made an offer to
the Dominion Government to take the
Canadian Pacific Railroad off its
hands and complete it without further
Government aid.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21

size of a pea, struck off with the chisel,
entered the white of his eye and bedded
itself firmly A doctor removed it and
the pupil and inner substance of the
eyebau protruded from the wound. The
sight is permanently destroyed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21

THE Committee on Appropriations
of the House of Representatives at
Washington recommended a special
appropriation of $780, 900 for the re
lief of the ood-sufferers on the Ohio
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21

Miss Susan Fenimere Cooger, a
daughter of the novelist, IS conduct
ing a noble work in Cooperstown, in
educating orphan children in in dus-
trial occupations. One hundred chill
dren are inmates Of the home.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21

The greatest previous flood IN the
Ohio river was in 1882. The present
one exceeds it in depth Of water by
two feet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21

Guilliame Kensans, who loaned the
Mexican National Construction COM
pany S25, 900 which it refused to pay,
obtained an attachment against the
Concern at New York.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21
LAURENCEBURG, IND.

The mayor for the first time to-day
asked for help from abroad. People
are removing from the second floors
and Abandoning their goods be, aus
they have no place to take them an |
the current is so swift that the foollug
is dangerous. A family was rescued
TO day from the second story, where
the water had reached a depth of four
inches.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21


Lawrenceburg was good news. Great
fears existed last night that the wind
storm would bring disaster to that
town; nothing was heard from there
till to-day, when the News Journal
special tells us t.e wind had no special
disa strous effect, though last night
and to-day has been a period of great
anxiety. The river rose last night -
to IA inches, and houses still continue
to float from their foundations Gov
ernor Porter's visit, to day, was cheer
ing. Provisions are arriving hourly
and gladly received.
The telephone exchanges in the
city are in submerged part and the
operators are taken into the office by
boats. Among the methods of pro
curing relief IS the issuance of an
appeal to the news papers of the
country by one newspaper advertis
ing agency asking them to organize
relief funds and send them te Henry
G. UrHer, chairman of the cham Der
of commerce relief committee. Ac-
cOrding t q resolution of this com
mittee all such funds will be dis
trlbuted TO points outside of Cincin-
natl.
A private dispatch from Ashland
KY, asks that the public be notified
that business is entirely suspened at
Cattletsburg. No mails for six DAYS.
There are 10 feet of water in the Cat
tletsburg national bank. Money and
books are all brought to the Ashland
national bank for safety. 1t is thought
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-21

The river rose five inches lastnight,
came to a stand this morning 1t has
since fallen three inches. Fifteen hun
dred people are homeless.
AT ASHLAND.
Great suffering is here because of the
many employees in the iron works who
were thrown out of employment some
time ago ~ the burning of the Norton
Iron works. Now the flood has driven
them from their homes. The river is
receding.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-07
FOrty-Eighth Congress.

TUESDAY, April 29-The senate passed the
pleuro-pneumonia bill. E. Nearly the entire
session of the house was consumed in discuss
ing the tariff bill. The army appropriation
bill was reported and appropriately referred.
WEDNESDAY, April 30--The senate discussed
the Frye shipping bill, Messrs. Beck and Frye
making speeches. The Indian appropriation
bill was reported. The house continued the
debate on the tariff bill, Messrs. Hewitt and
Dingley making the principal speeches. bill
for securing cheaper telegraphic correspondence
WAS reported from the post-office committee.
THURSDAY, May LIN the senate the bill to
release the members Of the Fitz-John Porter
court-martial from the obligation of secrecy, so
far a. relates to the votes of the members, was
indefinitely postponed. The shipping bill was
further discussed, Messrs. Frye and Vest max
ing speeches. -. The house agreed to close the
tariff debate on Tuesday next at four clock,
and notice was given that at the conclusion OF
the general debate motion would be made to
strike out the enacting clause of the measure.
Messrs Dorsheimer, Eaton, Brumm aud others
made speeches.
FRIDAY, May 1.-THE senate was engaged
principally in discussing the shipping bill. -.
The entire time OF the house up to the recess
was devoted to the tariff debate and at the.even-
ing session thirteen pension bills were passed
SATURDAY, May 3.-The house, after pro-
tracted DISCUSSION, passed, by vote OF one hun
dred and eighty-four to thirteen, the bill re-
Gently reported from the foreign affairs COM
mittee providing for more rigid exclusion of
Chinese immigrants from this country.
MONDAY, May 5.-The senate was occupied
chiefly in discussing the Dngley shipping bill.
49, The house considered the contested election
case OF O'Perrell u.s. Paul, from the seventh
Virginia district, finally voting to seat O'Fer-
rell. At the evening session twenty members
made speeches on the tariff bill.