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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES S.

IN a family dispute at Pipe Stone,
Mich, Wednesday, Mary Delaney shot
her step-father, Michael Cul1aninC, in
flicting a serious wound.
AT the wedding Of Mr.. G. II. Worth
ington t. Miss S. NJ. Ingman. at Madi-
son, Wis, Wednesday, Mr. r. S. Gar
lick, an intimate friend, fell dead Of
heart disease while rendering his con-
gratulatiOns.
Mrs. A. z. GREEN, mother Of Con
gresham j. Wharton Green, OF North
Carolina died Wednesday at the home
Of her niece, Mrs. Sen. David Davis, at
Bloomington, Ill.
LEE PETTIS, one Of the Inen acquitted
of the assault on Emma Bond, was mar
ried recently The father Of Pettis'
wife killed himself a year ago because
of his daughters affection for Pettis.
GEORGE OHRMER, Of Dayton, who
went out to Turtle Mountain a few
weeks ago in search of his brother,
Michael Ohrmer, whose trouble with the
Indians has been reported in these dis
patches, returned this evening, and states
that his brother is safe now, but trouble is
anticipated as Indians have been rein
forced by large band from across the
boundary line under chief Little Shell.
Indians refuse to allow settlers upon
that portion Of their reservation which
has just been thrown open by the inte-
rior department. The Indians have not
yet killed any one, but they destroy ali
machinery and kill cattle belonging to
settlers. They are increasing in bold
ness every day. Trouble is feared, as
the settlers are too few to protect them
selves.
A DISPATCH from Silverton, Col, of
the 18th says that to-day the first train
OF cars that we have had since February
Sd arrived, to the joy and relief Of our
citizens, bringing large amount of
supplies Of all kinds. This has been
much the hardest winter our San Juan
country has been subjected to since it's
settlement, and yet there has been more
mining going OIL than any other win
ter, and the prospects are very t1atter-
ing for a prosperous season. While
there, has been no real suffering, yet our
people have been obliged to economic
closely during the last two months, and
the cost of living has been greater than
usual.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24
against the order of Freemasons and

against the order of Freemasons and
other secret societies.
A DISPATCH to London from Paris
says the belief in the existence of n
group Of foreign Anarchies, including
Germans, connected with the avna-
miters in England and Ireland IS con
firmed
THERE was a Free-Thought festival at
the College of France, in Paris. Monday.
when medalian portraits of Ouinet,
Michelet and 1[ickiewiez Were 11nveil-
eel. Renan paid an elegant trihI1te 10
the memory OF the three ilIustrious
te5eherc
EARL GRANVILLE is preparing q circu-
lar to the powers declaring that Eng
land is DESTROYS Of renewing q definite
understanding in regard to Egypt and
of establishing future relations on an
international basis.
The Spanish war department reports
that the revolutionary force OF General
Aguero in Cuba is J, 400 strong, and is
making for the mountains of Las Tunas.
A band of torty-twO insurgents under
Duran, who intended joining Aguero,
We're attacked by troops and thirty light
men killed.
The Porte having decided to put d
new tariff into execution Sune 9Th, the
governments Of England, France. Ger
many, Russia, Belgium and the United
States have Informed the Porte that
they will not consent to the abolition Of
their commercial rights under the cap
itulations.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

A SPECIAL to the POst-Dispatch from
Marshall Mo-, says: GA fire destroyed
ten frame business buildings this mora.
ing. Loss, 100000; insurance, $1,000.
GEYNOR'S glass Works at Salem, n. Y,
and two buildings of VIM. Weeks oil
cloth works, were burned Monday night.
Three other buildings were damaged
Loss to tie oil cloth works, $75, 200; in
surance, $50, 900. Loss to the glass works
900. Several firemen were injured
About 100 men are thrown out of en-
ployment.
PARTICULARS OF the burning of the
Town Of Wadsworth, New, are as fol
lows: The FIRE started under the plat
form of the railroad depot. A high wind
was flowing, and in two hours the
whole town, excepting a few private
dwellings, was destroyed. The losses
are $50, 600; the insurance will not ex-
oeed 5000.
THE boiler in the drill-house OF Dol
sen & Chaplin, Salt Block, at Bay City,
Mich, exploded with fearful force about
5 o'clock Wednesday evening, shatter-
ing the building and hurting bricks and
pieces of boiler hundred feet, killing
outright VIM. McCauley and Xaviel
Souly, laborcrs, and fatally injuring
John Connolly, John Kelly and John
Lafountaine. Anton Ellslae, Elijah
Keifer, John Findlaux and Thomas Ma
honey, badly injured. The shock was
felt long distance. The. cause of the
explosion is unknown.
A FIRE started in the main factory OF
the CelIuloid Brush Company, en- the
eastern verge of Newark, n. J., and in
half an hour all the buildings were liz
ruins. The damage is probably $780,
000 The insurance has not been ascer-
tanned. The fire started in the comb
room, where few men and boys were
| doing overworl1, and was caused by s
small piece of celluIoid flying from an
emery-wheel into the gas and then drop
ping into the scrapings on the floor. As
it burned the celluloid emitted a gas
which frequently exploded without
much noise, but with force that shool
| down the walls. The following EN-
| ployes of the factory were seriously in
jured: Rudolph Scrack, aged 10, whC
will probably die; Travers KenworthY
aged 90; James Rankin, aged Is, asC
John Riley, boy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24

WITHIN the last month departure
from the old and clerical system Of
instruction has been adopted at Yale
Instead Of formal rec;tations and the
dubious system Of marking, instruc-
lion is to be given to the Senior class
wholly by lectures. Lessons are as
signed in the textbooks as usual,
with such outside auxiliary reading
as the instructor deems fit. Especial
lvin the mode of conducting examina-
tons is there radical change. There
will be in the future, as Professor
Wheeler Las announced, no attempt
to spy the men at examinations. II
the student wishes to use any unfair
means. no effort will be made to de.
tect him, nor will any punishment
follow open wrong, doing, except the
loss of the students own self respect
and his instructors confidence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24

was deepest. Some of the bees cult
him as he left the bank, while Others
were carried with him
INTO THE FLOOD
and doubtless drowned The writer
followed the other frogs and saw
them seek the moist margin of the
stream, where they We're soon Joined
by the leader
Then a singular scene was witness
ed. The heroes comrades appeared
to caress him and manifest every SEN
tlment of gratitude and admiration
for his self-sacrifice and bravery. In
turn he fed sumptuously off the honey
with which the other frogs were Gov
ereel. While the watchers leaned
over the pank and gazed upon this
strange scene, some gravel was loos-
ened and fell into the water with p
splash. In an instant two score of
black bodies disappeared in the water
with a splash. If the question arises
how the frogs escaped death from the
stngs OF the bees, all the writer can
say is that that has always puzzled
him. Father Wells said that no
sting could enter the hide of full
gro "n frog, but whether he was an
authority TO be relied on the writer
knoweth not.
While on the subject of frogs anoth-
er story may be told. For wears a
community of frogs resided near 4
brook which flowed net far from the
early home of the writer. They were
regularl y fed and would follow the
children along the walk and would
suffer them TO handle them, lying fiat
on their bellies when stroEed and
blinking their eyes in apparent enjoy
ment. On one occasion one Of these
pets was caught in a rat-trap. set
treacherously near a q rabbit hutch to
receive any vermin that might come
there to modest the inmates. The
writer was present when the freq was
released with badly fractured leg.
which dropped off when the poor
creature was lifted from the ground.
He was laid on the grass, near his
dwellings by the brook. Presently
the members of his tribe gathered
around him and seemed greatly dis
tressed at his inability TO hop He
tried hard to get along, but could not
manage it. Two hours later he was
gone and was discovered on the edge
of the brook with his friends, not far
| off. OF course it is not known positive
~ how he got there, but the belief
was that some member of the frater-
nifty carried him on his back. Stranger
things have happened.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24
CRIME.

J. G. COTTON, cashier Of The Newton
Gowa) ban k, is reported to have abscond-
ed. and h, accounts show a shortage Of
large an CUNT.
MICHAl MOONEY, the Joliet convict
murdere, was sentenced by Judge Up
ton at W sukegan Saturday to be hanged
May %. Christ Rubbing, for killing AL
bert Lucia, was sentenced at Sterling,
ILL.,, to be executed May 16.
ALBERT L. WEED, the well-knOwn
shirt manufacturer Of Baltimore, is
wanted for bigamy, his legal wife hav-
ing entered suit for divorce on this
ground. A week ago Weed married q
Miss Eva Newkirk, and now has disap-
peared, having disposed Of all her prop
erty to arelative.
AN unsuccessful attempt to break jail
at Milwaukee, Sunday. by fifteen pris-
Oners was prevented bv the Jailer's wife,
who, hearing the disturbance, notified
the police. JaiIer Walsh received Sc
we're injuries.
EIGHT prisoners confined in the jail
at Gainesville, Green county, Ark, es-
capped Saturday night, having overpow-
cred the Jailer. A posse of citizens
started in pursuit. One Of the prisoners,
burglar, named Breckmann, was
killed, and three were secured after they
had been severely wounded. The Jailer
was dangerously wounded by his assail-
ants.
On Sunday morning Humphrey Bunch
and Jesse Glover, farmers residing in
the northwestern part of Carroll county
Mo-, quarrelled because Bunch, who was
an uncle of Glover, refused to allow the
latter's cattle to feed on his pasture
Glover went away, but returned shortly
and shot the top of his uncle's head of.
The murderer fled. but is hotly pursued
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24

II. G. ATKINS, assistant general
superintendent Of the st. Paul Road
who was stricken with paralysis at
La Crosse, Wis, Thursday, died early
Sunday morning. His remains have
been taken to Milwaukee, where tuner
al was he'd Wednesday afternoon. Mr.,
Atkins was one of the oldest employees
of the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul Road With the exception Of a
short season spent with the Winona
and st. Peter railway, he had been in
the service of the company for nearly
thirty years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24

VICTOR HUGO has received the
medal struck by the French Republic
to commemorate his SD birthday,
but which was not ready for presen-
tation on February &c. NJ. Fallieres
in making the official speech of pres
entation, said: I'm the name of the
republic 1 offer you this medal, the
work of an eminent artist, which rep
resents on one side your Iineaments,
and on the other a star, the symbol Of
your genius, which irradiates the
world"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24
Dickens Children.
Manhattan for May.

Dickens children are innumerable,
and not all of them grow up" in his
books or are studied for the sake of
their later selves. But some of the
most famous like Little Nell and Pau
and Smike and the Artful Dodge
are pathetic phantasms rather tia
true children truly painted. Others,
however, are eminently natural and
human, whether they be char ming or
repulsive. Whole families and troops
of them fit into the vast mosaic of
Dickens backgrounds. He is alone
in many ways, perhaps, among En-
glish novelIsts. So palpable an ex
ception is he, indeed, that his single
aame does not, I think, greatly In
validate the rule am trying to ex-
plain. And even in Dickens treat
ment of children there is one thing.
wanting.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24

a. SUBMARINE boat which ought to
be able to destroy the navies of the
world has been made at Stockholm.
1t was tried on the Malar Lake, and
will shortly be brought overto France.
The boat has the shape of cigar, is
81 feet long, feet wide, and has an
engine of 30-horse power. It is said
that it can be navigated under water,
goes at the speed Of ten nautical miles
an hour, and that four persons can,
without any danger, remain in it for
six hours running. The funnel
shaped cylinder is the only part of the
boat which is visible. A winding stair
leads to the boat, which is steered from
the top of the cylinder, where a glass
roof enables the man at the wheel to
see the surface of the water and direct
the course of his strange submarine
engine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24

The newsboys III Detroit arr threat
ening to get up a riot. About two
weeks ago several little girls appear
ed on the street corners selling papers.
The boys laughed at them at first, but
when they discovered they sold more
papers and got bigger prices than even
the favorite boys, they changed their
tune. Threats were made against
them, but the factory boys took the
girls side, and promised to clean out
the whole lot of newsies if they laid a
finger on the girls. The boys then
appealed to the proprietors of the
papers for protection, but found the
sympathy was all on the other side.
Now they have concluded the best
thing they can do is to get up riot
and burn a railroad bridge or some
thing that would be of no use or in
jury to the girls. Newsboys in Detroit
are licensed, and the city attorney has
decided that a girl cannot be a news
boy, consequently cannot get license.
They are selling without any, and no
one has yet been found mean enough
to bring action against them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24
Death From a Monkeys Bite.
London Times.


Yesterday DR.. George Danford
Thomas held an inquest at University
College Hospital on the body of Cap
tain George Butler, aged g. Quarter
master of the Seventeenth North Mid
dlesex Rifle Volunteers. Mrs Eleanor
Frances Butler, widow of the deceas-
ed, deposed that her husband had a
pet monkey which he frequently took
upon his knees and played with. On
the morning. of the 9TH instant the
monkey seemed rather restive and at
tempted to bite the witness. Her hus-
band said, Come, none of that,
and, as she supposed, either held the
animal by the shoulders or shook it.
The monkey Immediately turned and
bit him, first on the left hand and
then on the right. between the thumb
and the forefinger, and the blood
flowed. Captain Butler had the
wound cauterized, and subsequently,
went to the hospital On Tuesday
evening he became insensible and died
on the following morning. Mr. Albert
Richard Spencer, resident medical
officer, said the deceased was received
there with a wound on the back Of
the right thumb IN gangrenous state,
and smaller wound on the othe
hand. He went ON fairly for the frs
two days, and then became weak and
drowsy owing to tho suppuration Of
the wound. In answer to the coroner
the witness said that the bite from a
monkey would not necessarily pro
duce rabies, but the deceased's ccnsti-
tuition was in such a state that any
thing might produce the same effect.
The cause of death was blood poison
ing from the bite of the monkey, &C
tolerated by severe diabetes. The
jury returned q verdict in accordance
with the medical evidence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24

ALEXANDER L. SPEAR, Of Baltimore,
Md, has been appointed Grand Treas
urer of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of
Odd Follows, to fill the vacancy oc-
casioned by the death of Joshu Van
SAINT Mr.. Spear is a leading jeweler
Of Baltimore, is about so years of age,
and prominent IN the order.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24

The following table, complied from
the census Of 1880 shows the illitera
cy in the United States and territories.
1t will constitute the basis upon which
the $77, C00,0 Of the educational
bill will be distributed il that bill be-
comes a law in tAe form in which it
passed the senate, except that the ter
ritories will not share in the fund:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24

THE most crushing object thus Jar
recorded to the scheme for converting
the Sahara into a sea has just dropped
from the pen Of statistician, who
calculates that canal 100 feet wide
and 25 feet deep, with flow Of four
miles an hour, would require several
thousand years to flood the desert.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24

It is stated that at the annual meet
ing of the Standard Oil company last
week, a report was submitted showing
that the profits of the company last
year were $12,OOO,OOO, against $14,
0O0,O 900 for the previous year, includ-
ing $4,000, 900 invested in an addition
al plant. This years dividend was 6
per cant. on 100000 600, which the
rs per cent. paid for the stock at the
time of it's increase to $40, 900, 900 two
years ago, yields S'per cent. interest.
If this is a correct report of the fnan-
ces of the company, then it must be
adding $1,000, 600 annually to its al
ready enormous capital, or it must be
diverted to other secret purposes,
which the stockholders are not per
mitted to know.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24
ELEPHANTS AT LARGE.

The Pride of the Menagerie Causes a
Comm OtiOn in a London suburb.
Considerable excitement was Occas-
ioned recently at Kentish- town and
Upper Holloway by the breaking loose
of two elephants from the yard of the
Midland railway station, Kentish
town, where four elephants belong
ing to Messrs. Sanger & Co., had been
conveyed preparatory to being moved
to Gospel Oak, for circus Between
3 and o'clock two of the animals
broke the gates of the Enclosure and
made their way toward the Archway
tavern, and eventually found them
selves in a cul-de-sac, known as Fran
ces-t terrace, Junction road, Upper Hol-
loway At the bottom of Frances ter
race they broke down a wooden gate,
which thus gave them access to a mar
row passage between two houses.
Passing through the opening the fore
most animal slipped upon a coal eel
lar, the crown Of which gave way
beneath its weight, and it was precip-
itated to the bottom, the second ami
nal falling upon its companion. Here
che ANIMALS remained imprisoned for
about all hour and d half, till the keep
ers arrived with the other two ele-
plants. Chains were attached to the
imprisoned ANIMALS and they were
hauled out of the cellar. and the four
elephants, chained together, were then
conducted to Gospel Oak, A child
was knocked down by one of the ami
mails in Kentish-town soon after its es-
cape, and keeper had his collar bone
broken by being thrown heavily 10
the ground as the animals at first
made their escape.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24

There was intense interest mani
tested in the roll-cal1. At the conclu-
sion of the first call there appeared a
majority of one in favor of the meas
ure. The house then went on the
second call and the members crowded
around any one of their colleagues
who was keeping tally, earnestly list
ening for response, the result being
so close until the final announcement
that nobody was quite sure how the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24

WILD dogs are terrorizing the coun-
try about Ccdarville, Kansas. They
are more ferocious and more difficult
to kill than wolves. They have re
Gently killed two large steers, nearly
destroyed three focks of sheep, and
eaten two Filters of pigs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24

The Washington correspon dent of
the Pittsburg Dispatch denies that the
national capital is necessarily an ex-
pensive city to livein. He says that
rents in Washington are from 40 to
SO per cent. cheaper than in Pittsburg,
and taxes from 60 to 70 per cent less
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24

THERE are but fourteen American
exhibitors at the Calcutta Worlds
Fair, and six OF these are manufac-
thrers of patent medicines and three
manufacturers of sewing machines.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24

THE bursting of boiler in q flour
ing mill near Ford, Warren county,
Iowa, killed Henry Spencer and fatal
ly wounded his brother, David Spen-
Ger. and bow named CIeghorn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24

VICTOR w. CLoUGH, Of Genesee,
Ill, made 100 miles on roller skates in
five minutes less than ten hours.
When he left the track the muscles Of
his legs were swollen and numb
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24
FOREIGN.

ADvICEs FROM Suakin state it is ru-
mored that Khartoum has fallen and
that Gen. Gordon is prisoner.
THE Paris Gaulois says the Pope is
a strong encyclical letter
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24
He Was Already Confirmed.

Johnny, was you confirmed yester-
day| asked one youngster of another.
last Monday.
Nav" replied Johnny with a
snarl. Dad said t'want no use.
He did, Ell? What did he mean?''
"Why, he said I was confirmed
idiot already and it wasn't right to
confirm a boy twice. See?"
''Y-a-a-s"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24

Texas farmers have finished plant
ing corn. The spring has been favor
able in the entire southwest, and
the crops have been pat in Ia good
shape
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24

IT is estimated that the fences OF
Great Britain are worth $3.50, O00,0 600,
and that it costs $32, 600, 600 year to
keep them in repair.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-24

vote stood, but upon its announce
ment there was a round of applause
from the democratic side. The com
mittee then resumed It's sitting and
Morrison opened the debate in sup
port of the bill.
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 16.
Sendte-The senate proceeded with
the consideration of the bankruptcy
bill. Amendments were made by
Messrs. George, Hoar, Ingalls,, Wilson.
Pike, Harrison, Garland and Call, tho
Glost of which were agreed 20. The bill
was read 10 the end and substantially
agreed to; several amendments, how
ever, being indicated to be made, when
the bill was reported from the commit
tee of the whole, and several sections
being meanwhile agreed to merely pro
forma. The senate then went into ex-
ecutive session and adjourned.
H0uSe-The house gave the day to de-
bate on the tariff bill. Russell, BlOuat,
Chase and Jones Of Ark, addressed the
house on the bill.