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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-06
FOREIGN.

QUEEN Tahiti arrived at Paris Wed.
nesday.
The advance of the English troops
on Teb commenced at day break We'd
nesday.
THE police authorities of Paris are
convinced that the Irish revolutionists
have made that city the headquarters in
Europe for the preparation Of their
dynamite schemes.
WILLIAM Fl. HUNT, United States
Minister to Russia, died Wednesday
morning.
ARTHUR WELLESLEY PEEL, was elected
speaker of the house of Commons Tues
day.
The military attache of the Russian
embassy at Berlin, visited Bismarck
Saturday, ana assured him of the
Cars warmest friendship for Germany
THE Gar of Russia has offered Gen
eral Ignatieff the civil governorship of
Turkestan, with charge of the admin
istration of all the Central Asian pro-
vinces.
THE Grand Duke Michael, of Russia,
arrived at Berlin, Tuesday, to congratu-
late the Emperor William on the seven
teenth anniversary of his entry into the
Russian order of st. George.
ADvICEs from Madagascar state that
the natives have succeeded ia landing a
number Of Krupp canon and other mu-
nitions of war. An English colonel has
obtained command of the Malagasy
army. and will soon attack the French
forces.
IT is reported that Ell Mahdi with the
main body of his army has left Ara and
is marching on to Khartoum via Duem.
General Stephenson telegraphed to Lon
don Sunday. advising an immediate ad-
vance from Trinkitat. The Secretary of
State for War ordered an immediate adj
vance.
A PASTORAL letter from Bishop Carr
was read in the Catholic churches Of the
diocese of Galway on Sunday, advising
people not to emigrate, aud calling at
tentiOn to the letter from the archbishop
OF Toronto, stating that there were in
Toronto emigrants from Connaught &C
tually starving.
THE German corvette Olga arrived at
Plymouth few days ago from a cruise
in the West Indies, with Prince Henry on
board. She suffered much damage in
the recent gales, and is now undergoing
repairs at DevOnpOrt. The prince is
visiting Queen Victoria at Windsor.
F'IFTY-o ONE thousand photographs of
Col Sudeikin's murderer have been cir
culated throughout Russia. A reward
of 10000 roubles is offered for his cap
ture, or 5000 roubles for information
leading to his arrest.
1T is stated that Russia has voluntarily
offered England a pledge to stop at
Merv and use her influence with the
khans of Bokonhara and Khiva to fa-
cilitate English commerce. 1t is also
stated that the Russian government has
invited England to join in the construe-
zion of a canal from Aral sea to the In
dian frontier.
Wash
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-06
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
WASHINGTON.

POSTOFFICES established: Wisconsin,
Bryant, Langlade county. Postma5ters
commissioned: Edmund K. Cavileer.
Pembina, Oak.
THE largest number of applications
ever received at the Patent Office III one
day was received on Saturday, being
25S
THE Comptroller of the Currency has
authorized the st. Paul National Bank,
of st. Paul, Neb., to commence business
with capital of $50,0U0.
THE house committee on invalid pen
sions agreed to report favorably Repre-
sentative Matson's bill increasing the
pension of widows and dependent
parents of deceased soldiers and sailors
from So to $12 per month.
MATT MILES of Austin, route agent
on the La Crosse and Sioux Falls run,
will be transferred to the Chicago and
Minneapolis run. w. w. Street of LIE
Roy will be appointed on the run from
La Crosse to Sioux Falls.
1T is believed the bill making an ap-
preparation for the construction of the
Hennepin canal will be passed if proper
attention is given to its passage by mem
bers whose constituencies are most
specially interested.
The Dakota people here propose to
have the name of the new capital of
that Territory changed from Bismarck
to Lasker, and Congressman Ochiltree
is very strongly in favor Of it.
LETTERS from New York state that
there is no likelihood for the restoration
of General Mackenzie. He has increas-
ed somewhat in weight, and his friends
are allowed to see him at intervals, but
there is little in his condition to Justify
| the favorable reports that have appeared
in some papers during the past week.
SECRETARY FoLGER will reply to a
resolution adopted by the house, asking
whether there would be any delay in
payment of the tobacco dealers claims
for rebate under the laws of last session,
that it would take the present force
at the disposal Of the department two
or three years tie pay the So, 900, 900
| claimed as rebate. He will ask for more
clerks.
THE senate in executive session has
confirmed the following nominations:
Horatien G.. Burchard, Illinois, Director
of the Mint; Eugene 0. Fechet, Michi-
gan, Consul at Paso Del Norte; Daniel
B. Dyer, of Kansas. agent for the
Cheyenne and Arrappahoe Indians in
Indian Territory; Henry M. Lawson,
Texas, agent of the Indians at Quapard
Agency, Indian Territory; postmasters,
j. F. Reiser, Upper Sandusky, Ohio;
VIM. III. James, Berea, Ohio; VIM. J.
Sullivan, Leon, Iowa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-06
GEN GRAL NOTES.

FIFTY young women left London this
month to marry convicts in New Gale
donia.
REPORTS from the western cattle
ranges show that the average losses bv
the late storms will be 10 per cent.
THE Northwestern Road Tuesday de-
clared a quarterly dividend of per cent.
and ratified the impartite agreement.
GOLD has been discovered near Erin.
Tenn, and hundreds of miners and 9TH
ers are fiocking to that place. The dis
coverer has 5000 worth Of nuggets on
exhibition.
A WALLA WALLA dispatch says the
weather is mild where the snow has
gone off, and young wheat looks fine,
ADYICEs from North Louisiana re-
port the planters preparing for spring
crops, and that an increased acreage
will be planted in cotton. The only
drawback is the lack of laborers.
The government has put stop to the
gliding of the recent issue of the D.
cent nickel by cheap jewelry manufac-
lures.
AT Toledo, Ohio, Wednesday, Robert
Bailey (colored) was convicted of mar
rying white girl, contrary to the stat
ute of 1910, and was sentenced to three
months Imprisonment and 800 fine
the full penalty.
The roof of the Dunkard church at
Canton, Ohio, was blown off by the
wind-storm Thursday, and this led to
the finding of four kegs of powder in
the loft. By whom it was put there.
and for what purpose. is not known.
A Tennessee clergyman wrote to the
Postmaster of Springfield, Mass, a
few days ago, telling him that he had
been appealed TO decide whether that
city is the capital of the Bay State.
and asking a speedy reply that he
may give an authoritative decision.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-06
CRIME.

| PEDRO hONTALDo, professor of Span
ish at the Annapolis naval academy,
was found dead Saturday morning on
| the grounds of the academy.
JACOB BARTH, a patient in the Sis
ters hospital at Belleville, ILL.,, fired at
one of the sisters Saturday evening, the
ball making a scalp wound, and then
shot himself dead.
1t has been ascertained that Abbott,
the absconding cashier of the Union
Market bank, of Watertown, Mass, ab-
stracted 100000 instead of $4,000 as first
reported.
ALEXANDER MANN, a dry goods mer-
chant of Montreal, has entered action
against the Ontario bank for $3.50. Oc0
for the seizure before judgment of his
property, which was subsequently
quashed.
G.. w. WILSON, who, two months ago,
killed Policeman Billiard, of Detroit,
while resisting arrest, has been convict
ed OF murder in the second degree.
HARRY FUTILE, one of the men en-
gagged in the recent affray with deputy
marshals, was taken from the hospital
at Spearfsh, d. T., Tuesday night,
while in dying condition, and lynch
ed
r. BRYAN, correspondent of the Irish
World, was arrested at Winnipeg, Mani
toba, Wednesday for issuing a circular
calling for 500 recruits to do frontier SER
vice, to which he signed the Adjutant
Generals name.
In the United States court at Fargo,
D. T., w. E. Finch, ex-postmaster of
Glendale, pleaded guilty to charges
against him, and was sentenced to
two and ene-half years in the peniten-
tiary.
IN a beer saloon at Boston, Tuesday,
Col j. b. Fox, a wealthy but dissolute
New Yorker, married Hannah J. Siver-
EFT, an adventures. Both got drunk
after the ceremony, and all visitors to
the place were free to imbibe at the
bridegroom's expense.
THERE was an immense demonistra-
ton in Key West in celebration of the
release of Aguero. Eve thousand Gu
bans marched in torchlight procession,
accompanied by federal, state and
municipal officers.
j. M. RIPLEY, a vagabond negro iv-
ing IN East ST. Louis. while drunk quar-
relied with his family, between and s
o'clock Wednesday evening He COM
menced by beating one of his small
children. His son Joseph, aged 16, inter
fered, when the brutal father seized
big pistol and shot the boy twice, killing
him. The murderer fed, but viii, 10
doubt, be captured.
A DOUBLE tragedy occurred at Moran,
Kansas, Wednesday. James T. Har-
clerode and Robert Mcfarland were
shot by Hugh Guilland, assisted by his
three sons, Joseph, Ike and Andrew.
Harclerode was shot in the back and
instantly killed Mcfarland was shot
three times and his head crushed with
club. The murderers escaped, but be
ing closely pursued rode into Humbol 1t
and surrendered to officers. Tie town
is excited tonight and many armed men
are on the streets. The sheriff is here
with a strong posse. Trouble is feared
before morning. The dispute was over
land claimed by Gui7land, but owned by
Mrs. Halves. All the parties concerned
were land leaguers, but the organization
is blameless.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-06
Wonderful AutOmatOns.

Danbury Comm Cor. Boston Globe.
Very many of the tiny screws used
in this country in matchmaking are
turned out in three little automatic
machines in this place. One of them
while turning out a perfect screw at q
fair rate Of speed, is considerably inn
proved on by its companions. The ma
chine takes up but little room. a man
could carry it under his arm without
much difficulty. A wire is FED through
a tube into the machine. 1t is carried
forward by revolving teeth. As it ap-
pears knife cuts away the surplus
metal to make the stem for the thread,
just at the chisel operates at the lathe
of the wood turner. AS this is finished
a small tube, in which the thread is
formed, advances and clasps the stem,
forms the thread at lightning speed,
and falls back. AS this is done two
knives cut that portion of the wire off,
and the completed screw falls down.
The wire again advances and the pro
cess is repeated. The marvel of the
machine is best grasped when the size
of the screw formed is understood.
This week the largest size is being
made They are an eighth of an inch
In length, and it would require two
hundred of them to weigh an ounce.
The thread on the stem is SO small
that it is scarcely discernible to the
naked eye. Each machine will make
five thousand screws a day. The ma
chimes have been at work but little
more than a month, and are the result
of years of patient investigation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-06

THE Mennonites who recently set
tied in Nebraska now occupy three
whole counties, and, besides, are
good farmers and hard workers, and
extremely economical. A recent
traveller says of their habits: "When
it comes to economy they are right
there, early and late. What can't be
sold off their farms they feed to the
pigs, and what the pigs won't eat,
they eat themselves. I know family
of father, mother, five children, and
grown relative; eight of 'em in all,
and their grocery bill doesn't aver
age so cents week. And why should
it? They don't use sugar, nor tea,
nor baking powder, nor anything of
that kind. They make their own but
ter, and use Drowned barley for cof-
fee. They go to bed nightly soon
after shutdown to save oil, and never
buy any coal, but make the children
carry corn-stalks and such things to
burn. Everything they buy-har-
nesses, tools, and lumber, etc,-is
bought at wholesale in Chicago and
then parceled out around at cost.
Most of the time they ship their grain
to Chicago themselves.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-06
VARIOUS MATTERS.

There is an old man in Clay Coun-
ty, North Carolina, who has borne
through ninety-two years the burden
of the name of Alexander Gumbleton
Ruffieton Scuffieton Oberda Whittle-
ton Southenhall Benjamin Franklin
Squires.
Eighty-three per cent of the popu-
lation of the United States is compos-
ed of white natives and the immigrants
from Germany and Great Britain,
leaving per cent from other coun-
tries and 13 per cent for those of Afri-
can descent.
A San Francisco man was recently
found with a bottle Of water clutched
in his nervous hand It is supposed
that some prominent citizen, finding
the man dead, had swallowed the
original contents of the bottle and
then filled it with water.
Archdeacon Kirby, now preaching
in Boston, was for more than twenty
seven years missionary in Canada.
During this time he crossed on foot
almost from ocean to ocean, and four
times crossed the Rocky Mountains to
preach to tribes IN Alaska.
Among the many cranky" inven
tons on record in the Patent Office is
one styled life-saving coffin, which
is so arranged thatany motion on the
part of person a ,cidentally buried
alive is registered above ground.
The permanent part of Montreal
ends at high water mark Below that
point the construction is such that
the entire area may be swept with
impunity, and after the food is over
the piers are quite as serviceable as
they were before.
An account-bOok seized by the
police of st. Louis in a poker-room
raided by them few days ago, showed
that the clear profit over expenses to
the proprietor from the percentage on
the games played in the month of
January was 81, 1867.
A Rochester physician examined a
letter carrier and found that one of
bis shoulders was three inches lower
than the other one, and that one lung
was compressed. This was due to the
crushing weight of the delivery pouch
bearing on the one shoulder for
months.
In connection with the "Cape Cod
Folks" matter, it is said that certain
popular author made a pilgrimage to
the scene of that story under pretense
of selling Autographs to the inhablt..
ants, but with the real purpose OF
connecting a magazine article descrlp-
tive of the neighborhood. His pres
ence gave rise to such serious saspl-
cions that he felt obliged to leave the
place precipitately.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-06

now believed that six or seven persons
persisted.
A FALSE alarm of fire in the ROYAL
tneater at Montreal, Tuesday afternoon
caused a panic, in which several women
tainted, were trampled on, and serious
~ injured.
il. OsBoURNE & Cos butter and egg
house, the st. Charles Hotel, and MANY
small residences at Lincoln, Neb.. burn
ed Wednesday evening, involving a loss
of SIS, 900.
THE blizzard in Dakota and Minneso-
ia, is the fiercest of the season in some
sections. Passenger trains, if not en-
tireiy stopped, are running ON slow
time, and freights have been abandoned
until the weather moderates.
AT St. Paul, Sunday afternoon. the
large four-story wareh ouse occupied by
Mast, Buford & Co.. dealers in agricuI-
tural implements; the stove store of
Brand & Co., and Glidden, Griggs & Co.,
by fire. The loss is 1926, 900; insurance.
$4,000.
FIRE destroyed the National and Nash
vile hottest, two small frame buildings
on the corner of Nineteenth and Wazee
streets, occupied as lodging houses by
railroad laborers, in Denver Wednesday.
Four men named Whalen, Mcguire, Sui
Ivan and one unknown persisted. and
their bodies were burned to cinders.
The other occupants of the building. in
Guiding several women and children,
barely escaped with their lives, some of
them leaping from the second story
windows. The fire is thought to have
originated in the kitchen Of the Nash
vile house. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-06

THE bill now before Congress for
the admission of Southern Dakota as
a state is in most of its features like
ordinary enabling acts" and pro
vides for the organization of state,
to be known as Dakota, from that part
of the territory of that name south
of the forty-sixth parallel. A consti-
tutional convention is to be held on
the second Tuesday of December, the
delegates to be elected November Il,
NEXT This convention is to include
100 delegates, the unusually large
number being required to fully repre-
sent the people of the embryo state.
Delegates are to be elected from sin
gle districts, the usual grants of pub
lie lands for educational purposes
made, and a provision included re-
curing the new state to assume the
debts incurred for the erection of such
public buildings as are located within
its limits. The bill leaves the north
ern part of the territory with ter
ritor1al organization, but it's name has
not yet been agreed upon. Pembina,
North Dakota, Mandan and other
names have been urged upon the
committee, but no selection has been
yoada
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-06
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

MRS. JONES of Willimantic, Conn. is
eighty-four, but she caught the measels
last week.
JOHN O'SULLIvAN, a ST. Louis lumber
merchant, assigned. Assets, $4,000;
liabilities not known.
SISTER ANGELA, of ST. Francis convent
at Dubuque, died recently of consump-
ton. She was one of the original found
ers of the order in this country.
AT Charlottesville, Ind, JEFF Smith,
leg muscles contracted in spasm so as
to break his thigh bone.
IN train collision on the St. Louis Air
Line, near Louisville, Tuesday, both en-
gines were wrecked, and several passen-
gers were bruised.
THREE charred bodies and number
of bones were taken from the ruins of
the jackson, Mich, fire Tuesday. 1t is
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-06
A TELEGRAM from from Alton, Ill,

A TELEGRAM from from Alton, Ill,
reports that Gov. Hamilton intends to
investigate further the story of the
convict Donneliy that he knows
where Charley Ross is concealed. 1t
is said that Donnelly has made a
written statement of the matter,
which is in the hands of Sheriff Hotz,
and in which he says that he was &C
quainted with colored woman nam
ed Lucy Scott, who married a Ger
man named Richards. The latter told
him that he knew where Charley
Ross was, and offered to deliver up
the boy and divide the reward. Rick
arts said he was afraid that he would
be arrested if he delivered the boy
to the authorities. He and Donnelly
went to negro cabin about mile
east of Fosterburg, Madison county,
H., and Donnelly asserts that he saw
Charley Ross there. He says that he
intended to rescue the boy, but his
arrest prevented it. The matter was
investigated by Charley Ross's father
last fall, and nothing came of it
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-06

WASHINGTON swarms with Dako-
tians now, One set urges the neces-
sity of opening the Sioux reservation
to give railway facilities to the Black
Hill settlers. Another clique wants
the territory admitted as state. Sew
eral more advocate the division of the
territory on the forty-sixGh parallel,
which would give the north part 70.
600 square miles and the south part
$1,000 The total area is 149, 100 square
miles, which is equal to the combined
areas of New England, New York,
New Jersey, Maryland, and one-third
Of Pennsylvania. The census Of 1880
gives Dakota only 135, 176 inhabitants
but from the number of pre-, emptions
and homestead claims, and from other
estimates, it is believed that the nBm-
Der now is nearly 100000. Popula-
ton is pouring in, and enthusiastic
Dakotians say that before the next
session of congress the territory will
have 600, 900 inhabitants.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-06

THE outlook is for campaign in
Egypt, Judging from the invitations
of bids at Alexandria for furnishing
stores and provisions for the British
army for twelve months, commencing
with April.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-06

AND now it is proposed to harrow
up the soul of the great Chancellor by
changing the name of Dakota's CAPT
tai from Bismarck to Lascar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-06

NATIONAL CONVENTION of wool
growers has been called to meet at
Chicago on the 9TH of May.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-06
Endorsements of the Peoples REM

When skiIful and cautious medical men give
over their own signatures favorable opinion of
the soothing and vitaliZng effects of a prepare
tion the public does not hesitate to believe them.
The voluminous and emphatic professional testi-
mony in favor of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, as
a specific for all disorders of the stomach and
bowels, for liver complaint, intermittent and re-
mittent fevers, and the thousand ills that wait
upon dyspepsia, must convince the most skeptical.
Aside, however, from the testimony of the facul-
ty there is large mass of evidence from patients
in every walk of life, all hJwing that this great
preventive and restorative is of inestimable value
to the sick and the debilitated. The Bitters are
suited to all climates and universally endorsed
as preventive of of disorders caused by miasma
and impure water.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-06

England bought 166, 600, 900 bushels
of wheat during the last crop year,
but she only took one-thira of it from
the United States.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-05-02
THE TARIFF DEBATE
The Adoption Of Morrison's Motion Clos
Ing Debate Tuesday Causing Great
Dissatisfaction Among
Pretectiesist Democrats and Republi-
cans-Randall Still Confident of
Defeating fhe Bill,
Public Debt Statement = Rivers and
Harbcrs-Kellogg Aceuitted-C0n-
gressiOnal-Capital Briefs.
THE MORRISON BILL.

Effect OF NorrisOn's Motion Closing
General Debate Tuesday.
Special TO the Appeal
WAsHINGToN, May 1.-The adoption of
Morrison's motion fixing Tuesday at 4
o'clock p. IN. as the limit for debate on the
tariff bill creates dissatisfaction among the
protection Democrats and the Republi-
cans. They charge that Morrison and his
followers have deliberately resolved to
staye off debate on an important issue that
deserves an exhaustive hearing before the
public. The tariff reformers affirm
that there has been ample time
for discussion, and that the four
days o. the day and night sessions
still left will give all an opportunity. 1t
is quite certain, however, that the adop-
ton of the motion will have the effect of
nipping in the bud the maiden efforts OF a
host Of young members who were anxious
10 air their eloauence on the subject.
Though Randall still claims that there
will be forty-seven Democratic votes
against the bill, enough to defeat it, the
tariff reformers are more confident than
at any time since the introduction Of
the bill. 1t is plain, also, that large
part of Randall's followers do not share
his enthusiasm. There is also manifest
disposition to-day among several protec.
ton Democrats to sacrifice individual
opinion for the sake of harmony in the
party. Mr.. Morrison said tonight that
his bill would not only be adopted in the
House by good majority, but that the
country need not be surprised to see it
pass the Senate, as there are number of
Republican Senators committed to tariff
revision.