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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18
Her Mammals Fate
Chicago Herald.


Frank, said flushed wife as she
came into the room where he was
smoking and quietly putting cigar.
where's mammal"
Il threw her out of the window"
Wha-you-wh-what do you
mean?'
You will find your mamma, my
dear, under the back window in the
back yard. Now, don't annoy me any
more about your mamma
What do you mean by speaking
that way of her? Poor thing! and she
liked you well. She always spoke SO
highly of you. What makes you say
that?"
4" heard your mamma tell one of
the neighbors a while ago that she
had come up here to teach you how to
cook. Before we were married, Kitty,
| took dinner at your house. You
apologized then for the food by say
ing that your mother cooked it. Out
in the back yard-upder the third
story windo w-on the grass"
You are awful mean"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18
CABLEGRAMS s.

THE city of Glasgow, Scotland, was
the scene of great popular demonstra-
ton in favor of the Franchise bill, Sat-
urday. The procession was ten miles
long.
AUSTRIA is about to send some war
vessels arou d the world ia the hope
they may promote Austrian commercial
interests.
ADMIRAL COURBET has left Keeling
and j ineG the fleet in Min River, W .ere
he will await re-enforcements before at
tempting TO occupy Kee-Lung.
ANOTHER Danish polar expedition will
start for the frozen north next summer,
proceeding by way of Franz Josef Land
L will be under the leadership of Messrs.
How jaard and Camel.
The British military expedition UP
the river Nile, for the relief OF General
'Chlnese'' Gordon at Khartoua1, is
about starting.
A DISPATCH from Pekin, dat ed Sep
TENDER 5, to the Times. says: The Rus
sian fleet has left Cnefuo with excessive
supplies of provisions and bullion. It
is believed that Russia meditates blow
at the integrity of China while the lat
ter is seriously engaged with France.
A PETITION from railroad authorities
has been received at the treasury de-
partment. asking that the quarantine
on the Mexican border be raised. It's
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18
GRIM E.

A PORTION of the remains of John
Bellar. farmer, was found Wednesday
in a burnt log heap near Stratfor6,
g mn. His wife is suspected, as she has
been very intimate with her husbands
younger brother.
THE BODY of young man, whose
name is supposed 10 be j. G. Law, OF
Farfar, New Brunswick, YVES found
near the village of Union Mills. Ind &,
with bullet hole III his heart. He
came to Chicago from Toronto Canada.
TUESDAY morning and left the same
evening for Union Springs. and it is
supposed committed suicide thai night.
He had a bank check for over 5000 in
us possession and well dressed. From
letters found on his person he had ap-
parently been lately employed as clerk
in some Canadian bank.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18
FROM THE CAPITAL.

j. II. SQUIFR, the insolvent Washing
ton banker. killed hims Thursday
morting by cutting his throat.
IT is rumored here that tn President
has decided to appoint Gen. George II.
Sharpe Secretary of the Treasury. Gen.
Sharpe was recently appointed mem
Der or the commission to visit South
America.
ACTING Secretary of State Davis has
Sent the following cOmmei datOry letter
to Unite d States Consul Frank II. Ma
son, who has rem aimed at Marseilles du-
ring the cholera epelmic In that CITY
and Toulon: 81 take pleasure in ex-
pressing high appreciation of the de-
partment for the courage and devotion
you have evinced by continuing at your
post during the prevalence of the
scourgg which has visited those cities
on the face of danger which has sur
rounded you since its outbreak. Your
report is exceedingly interesting, and
the information IL conveys is or a use
full character"
The acting Commissioner of Pensions
has addressed a letter to the officers Of
the association of the Army of the Cum
berland asking that they furnish to he
Pension Office th- names and postoffice
address of every officer and enlisted man
attending the annual reunion this wear
who is not member of the G. A. r.
This is in accordance with the plan
adopted by tho Pension Office TO com
plete as far as may be roster of sur
viving soldiers of the war of the REBEL
ion, which viii aid applicants in obtain
ing proof to sustain their demands for
pension. The office has already roster
of over 800, 900 ex-officeIs and soldiers.
and expects to in crease the list 200, 900
more.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18

not probable that the request will be
granted during the prevalence of vel
low fever in Western Mexico.
IT is generally expected in political
circles that the principal topic which
will occupy the attention of the tire,
EmpcrorS of Russia, Germany and
Austria, at the approaching conference
will be the question as to what measures
shall be taken against the Anarchists
This discussion may lead to the adop.
tioa of stringent international meas
ures.
A NAPLES dispatch dated the 10Th.
says in this city during the past twenty
four hours, 966 fresh cases and 326 death
from cholera. In other parts of the
province, in the same time, nineteen
fresh cases and fourteen deaths are re-
ported. At Avellino, four fresh cases
and two deaths. At Bergamo. eleven
fresh cases and nine deaths. At Com
gobasso, three fresh casGs and two
de aths. At Cosria, thirteen fresh cases
and six Deaths At Cremona, two fresh
cases and three deaths. At Coneo.
twelve fresh cases, ten .eaths Genoa.
thirty-six fresh cases, twenty deaths.
Spezea, TWEEN ty-six fresh cases, seven
t. en- deaths. Carara, nine fresh cases,
two deaths. Reggie, two fresh cases,
ore death. At NOuarO, Potenzia and
Salfrno there has been one death in each
place.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18

THE Illinois Railroad and Ware
house Commissioners have received
the report of the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Railway for the
year ending June 80, 1884: It's capt
tai stock is $50, 600, 900; its total liabili-
ties are $50 400, 900; length of track
operated, /, 796 miles; locomotives 313 :;
cars of all classes, 8,G40. The total
number of men employed is 8,349,
who receive an aggregate salary of
$4,251, 152 1t carried 2,S06, 462 pas
sengers and 1891, 420 tons of freight
The income from the Passenger De
partment was So 659, $50 O5; from the
Freight Department it was IS ga,
3S0.38 The income from all sources
was 81, 637, 754 70. The operating
expenses and taxes were s., 458 207. %,
Net income, S., 179, 547 81 A divi-
depd of per cent. was declared dur
ing the year. Balance, $761, 106 so.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18

900 feet of lumber to the acre. The
red wood has been introduced both in
the Eastern States and England, and
wherever it has been used has found
favor III the eyes of housebuilders.
many of the almost regal residences
of the East having as an outside finish
the red wood in It's rich natural color.
At present the Only redwood shipped
East is that used for fishing purposes,
but 1T is only matter of lime when
its many advantages will become
known and it will be IN general de-
nyand
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18
All tie Way from ArkansaW.
Detroit Evening News

Restaurant proprietors are not al
ways bad masters. Here" called a
man, making an impatient gesture
which brought the negro waiter, this
is the worst piece of beei-steak ever
saw"
1" Whut's de matter wild it, boss2
Amt it healthy?"
Healthy why, it was fed on the
Bantlng system-all muscle and no
fat. Can't you bring me better
piece?'
mo, sab, dat's de bes' Yves got"
" | saw boy go through there
just now with the finest kind of a
steak"
- Yes, sab, bat dat was fur de
cook"
For the cooki'
Yes, sab We's sorter behind wild
de cooks wages. sab, an we has ter
feed him we'll ter keep him from leab-
in us ia de lurch. Come roun' some
time when we's squar' wild de genner-
man an We'll feed yer in great shape,
Sah.n
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18

THE complaint that there was gam
bling on an ocean steamer that recent
ly arrived in New York does not reveal
anything new. Probably there is not
a steamer crossing the ocean that does
not have more or less gambling on
board. Passengers who never think
of stalking money while ashore indulge
in it In mid-ocean to kill time 1t
seems as if they might invent a more
rational kind of amusement, but it is
PROBABLY that they do not care to tax
their INDECENT intellects to this ex-
tent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18
In the death of Jddge Folger the

In the death of Jddge Folger the
country loses Secretary Of the
Treasury whose administration has
been always prudent, judiclous, and
above reproach, a jurist of ability
and integrity, and a citizen of ex
emplary and lrreproachable life. Mr..
Folger's abilities were not of the
snowy sort. He was a man of retir-
ing disposition and equable temper,
whose public honors were the spon-
taneous Offering of friends, and
neighbors, whose confidence he had
won by usefulness and fidelity to
every trust responded him. The
disaster which hesuffered IN the cam
paign against Governor Cleveland
was III no sense q personal defeat, but
rather a popular uprising against
political methods which had become
intoierable. Throughout the cam
paign no reproach was cast upon
Judge Folger as a man. The result
of the election could not be otherwise
than humilating to him, but the
popular verdict rightly interpreted,
was not that he was unworthy to be
Governor of New York, but that he
allowed himself to be placed in false
position by those with whose political
interests he was identified. His con-
duct after this trying ordeal was dis
Greet and Gignifed. He applied HIM
self with renewed diligence, and
perhaps too much labor, to his duties
as the head of the most important
branch of the public service. There
he remained until falling health adj
monished him to take a period of
rest. His death was unexpected,
and will be regarded everywhere as a
public calamity, and especially by
the business community, whose con-
fidence in his wisdom and caution
has grown from day to day ever since
he entered the Cabinet of President
Arthur.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18
I'm Passing Through Some Fertile
Valley,

Or riding along The banks of some beautiful
river. whose shores Were rich in evidence of lux
uriant vegetation, did you ever in the early morn
ing or the evening" notice a mist h, ming like
pail over the circumjacent land, and then were
you surprised to learn that malaria was rife in
that locality? IF so, you were wofully ignorant
of the nature and effects of masma. Against the
effect of that feverbreedng vapOr there is safety,
however. HoStetter's Stomach BitterS furnishes
that safety as the dweIlers of such regions know
by experience. Not only on this continent, but
in the fever-plagUed regions of the tropics, this
sterling safeguard affords exemption from mala-
rial diseases to thousands Nor is it less success
full in remedying and preventing disorder of the
stomach, liver aud bowels, specially vIrulent
wherever the suns rays possess greatest power.
Disorders of the bladder and kidney, rheumatic
ailments, nervousness and want of vigor, are also
among the troubles to the relief of which it is
adanfad
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18

ACCORDING to the Massachusetts,
Bureau of Labor Statistics among the
women laborers of that state are 100
BARRIERS and hairdressers, bar
keepers, 3 bill posters. 9 commercial
travellers, bank officials, 2 pawn
brokers, teamsters, 2 sailors, 1 gun
and locksmith, rs bakers, IS shoe
makers, 6 carpenters, 2 door, sash
and blind makers, l3 masons, paper
hanger, 1 plumber and gasftter, 2
carriage makers, 16 watch and clock
reparers, 10 cabinet makers, 7 ma
chinists, blacksmiths, 235 printers,
2 stone cutters, 4 coopers, 295 labor
ers, and five engine rs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18

According to John Ruskin the mod
ern tendency to city life is an Infect
Gus insanity for Capitalization, which
collects al the vicious element of any
country's life into one mephitic cancer
In its center"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18
The Right Train.
Philadelphia Call.

Farmer John-There, the letter is
done at last. I s'pose our city cousins
will turn up their noses at my writin',
but they h'aint no right to, consider
in they've worried me into invitin'
them to the farm for hull month.
Mrs. John-Oh, they won't mind
the writing if tGey can get board free,
you may be sure Where is the let
ter?
Here it is; read it.
"Why, see here, John, you tell
them TO take the early morning ex-
press !"
Yes"
But that train don't stop here"
mo, thank the stars. 1t don't stop
anywhere this side of Chicago"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18
The Peculiarities Of Redwood
San Francisco Chronic lie.

California is natures great and only
storehouse of the useful and orna-
mental wood, which grows here IN
immense quantities, covering the
earth's surface so densely that the
suns rays never reach the ground
and furnish to the millmen 100, 600,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18

AtaAurora, Ind, a chicken, ABOUT
half grown. swallowed a honey oes.
For ten minutes the poor fowl heW
about the dooryard ia frantic man
ner. 1t squatted upon the ground,
turned over. and died.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18

The spelling book is creating great
havoc with religious and political
bigotry and superstition in France.
At the close of the Second Empire.
fewer than 40 per cent of the popula
ton could read and write. Now rs
per cent. of the population practice
these useful accomplishments The
40 900 school houses built in COM
p,iance with the recent law will still
further Diminish the remaining litter
acY.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18

THE Ohio Central Coal Company's
mines will be closed Wednesday,
owing to the unsettled condition of
trade, and will not be reopened until
mining rates have been permanently
settled
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18

PAPER is made 10 France from the
hop vine, and it is claimed that the
fiber secured is the best substitute for
rags yet obtained, as it possesses great
length, strength, fexibility and
deilcacy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18

THE Emrerors of Germany, Austria
and Russia are about TO meet for a
conference.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18

1t is reported That the government
is ABOUT to sell the old arsenal prop
erty at Harper's Ferry The ruins
there are just as they were lett by the
John Brown raid.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18
Blue Grass Breeders.

Mr.. r. S. Withers of Fairlawn
Stock Farm, Lexington, Ky, writes
~ have such confidence IN st. Jacobs
Oil, the great paln-cure, that | use it
on everything; myself, my horses,
my negroes. Every body and every
horse, for all kinds of aches and pains,
believe in it's sovereignty as a cure
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18

In the literary as we'll as military
world, most powerful abilities will
often be found concealed under rus
cit garb.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18
LATER REPORTS.

EAU CLAIRE, Sept. 13.-Thc flood
reached its maXiaaum limit at 3 O'Clock
yeStey G!ay afternoon, ami then began to
recede nearly as rapidly as it came on,
the first hour showing a fall of eight
inches. The city has been almost entire
ly cut off fl ON communication with the
outside world. Nothing but private dis
patches could be sent out, thu telegraph,
the telephone and even the electric light
wires being utterly demoraljz When
night closed in upon the city, the flood
was about one mile i'll width. Many of
The people were compelled to sleep in
tents and temporary sheds.
At Chippew+ Falls the damage is terri
bic. All over the low flats, covered
with cultivated farms, between that
city aud Wabasha, hundreds of farmers
are desolate and their farms sea of
wat.r Many of them can get from
their houses Only on rude RATS. No
estimate can be made of the amount of
stock drowned and strayed away. Two
hundred and fifty t. ousand doll tra'
worth Of bridges alone have already
fioated away. Only one or two lives
have been lost so far.
The Eau Claire Pulp and Paper COM
pany's loss is comparatively sE1all.
The water was to the second step
leading to the Eau Claire house at a.
m. and people on sections of sidewalk
were riding up ard down Barstow
street. the leading thoroughfare Of the
city.
The streets were filed with teams
fl ,undering in one and two feet of
water engaged in removing goods from
stores.
AS q saloon went floating down the
river a rumOr was current that a man
was in the buildiRg.
A ferry will be started as soon as the
current of the river will permit, to con-
meet the two principal down-t o wn
streets.
1920 P. M-The river has gone down
four feet since midnight. Large pieces
of booms and tramways, and parts of
buildings continue 70 float by, and du-
ring the night what remains of two
whole blocks at the west approach to
Kelsey-street bridge were swept away.
The sun has risen clear and bright,
hooking the ruin which il brings to
light. The fire of 1880 dId not do half
the damage already done by this flood.
A rough estimate for Chippewa valley
is: Dam and mill property, $500, 900;
bridges. 5000, 900; real estate 100000;
CITY of Eau Claire, private, etc, 5000, 900;
total, 81, 40O,000 This is very low es-
innate,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18
THE FLOODS.
Four Hundred Houses Float
Away from Eau Claire.
Millions of Dollars Worth Of Prop
erty Destroyed by the
Water.
The Flood at Eau Claire.

EAU oLA1RE OSp. Ill ne t'eOil Oh
Point creek, ii tributary of the Chippewa
river went out last night and the water
in the Chippewa rose rapidly. This
with the floating logs carried away the
upper bridge of the Wisconsin Central
railroad at Chippewa Falls, and also the
lower bridge between there and this city.
The Chicago. Milwaukee & ST. Paul
bridge and all the city bridges at Chip
pewa Falls were carried away.
The ST. Paul & Omaha bridge at the
latter place has not yet gone, but there
is no telling what may happen as the
water continually gets higher. The st.
Paul & Omaha railroad banks are badly
washed. The water is flooding the
streets of this city, doing greet damage.
The Eau Claire and Chippewa rivers are
higher than ever known before. The
wafer is flowing ever the principal
streets. Many buildings on the lower
streets are floating away. Half NIL
lion feet of logs have broken from the
boom near the Eddy mills anu are float
ing down the stream.
The Eau Claire Gas company lose $50
tons Of coal and all buildings, valued at
$4,000. Business houses on all sides of
the two rivers are submerged. Great
water recedes the foundations may be
SO much impaired as to crumI lie the
walls. In tins city over 400 houses
have heen swept away. Orly one life
lost so far as heard from While these
dispatches are being written three
buildings on Bridge street, on the west
Fred BonnelI A. d. Caippell and J. F.
Ewing.
EAU CLAIRE, Wis, Sept 11.-The
water in the Chippewa river has fallen
about three feet since noon. Itreached
the height of four feet and seven inches
higher han the great flood of 1880. All
tho low portions Of the city have been
flooded. Nea ly 400 dwellings have
people are depending upon the neigh
bors who live out upon the high ground
for shelter aad food. Tonight relief
committees have been organized
and hundreds of people are being
fed at the court house and gospel tent
Of the Y. M. G. A, while the most
destitute are being taken care of in pri-
Vate houses. The east and west sides of
the Chippewa. which divide the city, are
entirely cut off from communication
with each other, except by way of the
Omaha railway iron bridge, which ad
mits passage of lost passengers. It is
situated far up the river, that walk of
four miles is necessary in reaching the
business portion of the east side. AL
most every family in the city loses
something. The Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul r. R. Co.'S loss in the
Chippewa valley is not less than half a
million dollars. Lumber companies all
lose very heavily, but the heaviest loses
are suffered by the poor people, who
have had Their homes swept away. TIE
newspaper offices have all teen flooded
and no paper has been issued to-day or
will be tomorrow, except the Leader,
which was issued on small sheet print
ed on a job press instead of the ocular
s'ze. Only one life has been lost III the
flood here. A mn named Epler was
drowned while trying to rescue his sick
wife.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-28
wisconsin Militia and Veterans.


MILWAUKEE, April 27.-The election of
Capt. Mower as major of the Fifth battalion
Wisconsin National guards, has infused new
life into military affairs here. Major Mower
served five years in the army and since the
close of the war has been iu the engineer
corps till his resignation few weeks ago.
He is regarded, with one or two exceptions,
as the best discipliharian and tactician
among the military men of the state
Col. A. E. Calkins, Vice commander of
the Wisconsin encampment of the G. A. R.,
will go to Minneapolis during the COM
ing week to attenc to arrange
ments connected with the entertainment
Of the Wisconsin veterans on the occasion
of the approaching national encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic. Over two
hundred ex-soldiers from this city, and about
three thousand from the state, will attend the
meeting.
Preparations are making for the reunion of
the survivors of the Iron Brigade at Madifon
during the coming summer.
The two local posts of the G.. A. R. and the
post at the Soldiers Home are arranging for
the observation of memorial day on a more
complete scale than ever before.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-28
DR.. Newman Enjoined.

New YORK, April 27.-Application was
made yesterday for a temporary injunction
restraining Rev. j. P. Newman, of the Madi-
son avenue Congregational church and the
the board Of trustees of the church, from per-
forming any duties whatever pertaining to
the church and from interfering with the
rights of members of the church. The in
junction applied for restrained Dr. Newman
from acting as pastor in any way, and the
church or trustees from recognizing him as
such. 1t restrained him from presiding at
any meeting, from voting and from
drawing his salary It restrained the trus-
tees from calling any meeting and from
proceeding with the reorganization of the
church. The trustees were especially en-
joined from recognizing or employing DR..
Newman as pastor, and from paying him
any salary as pastor from March 18th, the
date OF his dismissal by the Howard rooms
meeting of church members. Judge Sedge-
wick grants temporary injunction covering q
all these points, excepting that he allows the
trustees to call meetings but requires them to
adjourn at once without transacting busi-
ness,