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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-24

uld exuding from the remains. In an
inner room the coroner found q num-
Der of Chinese engaged in boiling
down the remains of other bodies
while other Chinese were engaged in
scraping the boiled bones and packing
them IN boxes for shipment to China.
1t is estimated that the cellar con-
tanned over three hundred dead bodies
winch had been taken secretly FROM
various cemeteries throughout the
state. As an instance OF Chinese in
genulty it's stated that those in charge
OF the operations, fearing that the
stencil from the boiling pots would be
so great as to attract attention on the
outside, procured two living skunks
so that tie odor of the latter might
overcome the former. The coroner
confscaIed all the remains.
Another dispatch from San Fran
cisco says: The discovery of
the horrible wholesale practice
which the Chinese have COM
mitted under the very noses of
the city authorities, has created a
deep and intense excite ment. The
knowledge that such mass of putri~N
ticatlon was lying exposed in the very
heart OF the city, while at the same
time the drainage and sewers of the
city are known to be unwholesome
and filthy, created a feeling of fear
for the health of the city after all the
boxes containing the remains of the
dead Cinnamon had been removed TO
the morgue.
The city coroner when interviewed
In regard to the matter, stated that
when he arrived at the cellar in which
the boxes were stored and the purified
remains which mad still to be boiled.
We're lying, he set to work with a
Ratchet to break open the boxes.
There were some so bodies in all.
Each Of them contained TIN case in
which were carefully rolled up In oiled
cloths a number of human bones;
smaller bones and long strips of skin
were wrapped up in separate parcel
and placed within the larger one.
On the outside of the box was a la
bel IN Chinese characters, indicating
the name of the person while living,
SO that the remains could be claimed
by relatives on arrival at China.
The most boxes containing remains
were on examination found to have
come from cities in the interior state.
The remains were shipped from there
to San Francisco in common lead
boxes. Those that come from the
interior are boiled and prepared be-
fore shipment, so that no odor is pre-
ceptible enroute. Only those remov-
ed from the San Francisco cemetery
have flesh still on them when
brought to the preparation cellar. 1t
was the intention to have shipped all
those on the steamer City of Picking
which sails Saturday next It is
rum0red that the Chinese companies
Will bring action against the coroner
for the removal of the boxes and re-
mains.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-24
Fires

FIRES
BURNING OF A NEW AND COSTLY PIER.
NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-The new and
costly covered pier of the ROYAL
Netherlands Mail Steamship company
at the foot of York street, Jersey City,
was partially destroyed by fire this
morning, involving a loss of 100000.
The steamship Macholton of the
Netherlands line was lying near the
pier with steam up, fortunately, pre-
paratory for departure for Amster-
dam. Great excitement prevailed
among the crew and passengers on
account of the great volume of smoke
podring across her decks from the
fire on the pier, but through good
management the big craft was drawn
away from its perilous position. The
entire fire department of Jersey City
responded to the alarm and many
tugs assisted in subduing the flames.
SOLDIERS GROVE BURNED.
BosCoBEL, Wis, Sept. 19.-The vii
lage of Soldiers Grove. in Crawford
county, was almost wiped out of exist
ence by fire Thursday morning, the
stores of FL. 0. Davidson, w. w.
Tate & Co., Mitchell & Galloway, 7.
3. Ward, and others being totally
consumed, with their contents. The
Odd Fellows hall is iR ruins, and
nothing remains but one or two small
stores and a mill. Loss, about 800, 900;
insurance, $4,000. The origin of the
fire is unknown.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-24
REL RESPITED.
Lieut.. Gov. Dewdney Instructed to
Await Further Orders.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Sept. IL
Information has been received from
Dewdney, lieutenant governor of the
Northwest territories, that Rel has
been indefinitely respited. He receiv-
ed instructions from Ottawa not to go
on with the hanging until further
orders There is great exultation
among the French here, and cores
ponding chagrin among the English,
who clamor for his life.
Riel is taking things coelly. He
appears to have no idea that he will
hang; that though the rope be placed
around his neck, before the awful
moment arrives divine interposition
will surely save him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-24

WOMEN can vote in Wyoming and
hold office, too. Mollie Hopkins is
the name of an ambitious politician
out there. She has seven husbands
living, from none of whomis she di-
vorced. Mollie is only 80 years old,
and if she lives long enough she hopes
to marry enough voters to carry her
district for any Office her ambitions
may yearn for. How would posi>
ton in the Agricultural board strike
her? She ought to know something
about hus bandry.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-24

RECOGNITION is being made in a va
riety of directions of the principle
that the legal rules ordinarily applied
to strictly private enterprises and
properties are not applicable without
limitation to enterprises and proper
ties in the conduct of which the pub
lie has a more or less clearly defined
interest. For example. the right of a
party to a private suit to attach pas
senger train, thus causing inconven-
fence to numbers of persons not inter-
ested in the controversy, has been
limited by statute. A recent instance
of the recognition of the principle re-
ferred to is mentioned in a Boston
letter to the Albany Law Journal.
The forms of a newspaper were at
tached at the instance of an attorney
who considered himself aggrieved by
structures made in the proceeding issue
of the paper. The attachment was
made just before midnight, when it
was impossible to give bond to dis
solve the attachment; the officer re-
fused to allow the forms to be used.
and the result was that the paper was
distributed TO its patrons next morn
ing printed on one side only, one half
of the form having previously been
prepared and in the hands of the
printer before the attachment was
made. To provide against the recur-
renee of any such inconvenience as
was caused to the public in this ia
stance the last Legislature Of Massa-
chusetts passed an act providing that
no attachment can be made CT the
forms Of a newspaper when ready for
the press. This act does not do away
with the right of attachment against
the property of newspapers, but in>
PRODUCES the principle that such right
must not be so exercised as to work
avoidable inconvenience to the pablo.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-24

FLORIDA is perfect elys1um for the
fruit lovers, who may have an UNI
broken year of fresh varieties. Com
mencing with January they have
strawberries then until late in June.
Japan plums from February. Null
berries are ripe in April and last
until August. Pineapples ripen in
June and last nearly all the year.
They have guaves from July until
late next spring. Of the various ber>
ries - dewberries, blackberries and
huckleberries, almost any quantity,
Peaches from May 1 to July. Melons
from June until late IN the fall.
Oranges of the kind-from Oct.
until the next June, with lemons and
lines, LeConte pears, persimmons,
pomegranates, grapefruit, grapes,
shaddocks and a number of other
fruits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-24
In the Forest City.

Mr.. G.. E. Bryan, No. Isl Putnam
street, Cleveland, Ohio, has naturally
much experience in sickness,
family of seven children, and his doct-
ors' and druggists bills are heavy. He
states publicly that he has given Red
Star Cough Cure thorough trial in
his home, and finds it to be the best
remedy that he has ever used for coughs
or colds. 1t contains neither morphia
nor opium, and therefore leaves no de-
pressing effects.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-24
GRAND RAPIDS

Mr.. BURNETT has explained why
the eyes of animals shine in the dark.
1t is not due, he says, to phosphores-
cence, as has been commonly suppos-
e6, but to light reflected from the
bottom. of the eye, which light is diff
fused on accounted the hypermetropic
condition that is the rule in the low
er animals.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-24
BARNUM'S JUMBO KILLED.

The Famous Elephant Runs Into by
Freight Train i'm Canada.
ST. THOMAS, Ont, Sept. 19.-Junbo,
the $500, 900 elephant. was killed on
the railroad track half a mile east OF
here, last night. His keeper was
leading him along the track to load
him, when a freight train came up
behind unnotlced and ran him down.
He was injured so badly that he died
in thirty minutes. The trick, ele~
plant, Tom Thumb, was also injured,
his leg being broken.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-24

The forests of the United States are
disappearing at the rate of 10000 600
acres year, and there are AS, 100000
acres of forest IN the country. This
generation will not be out of timber,
but it is being cut away fast enough
to materially effect the flow of the
watercourses and the quantity of till
BILE land.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-24
REVOLVING DISCOVERY AT CHINA
TOWN.

Chinese Engaged In Boiling Human
Bodies and Packing the Bones for
Shipment to China.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. ia horri-
BILE discovery was made in Chinatown.
Information was given the city coro-
ner that frighftful stencil was being
emitted from cellar on Pacific street.
He went and forced his way in, and
found the floor covered with human
skulls and bones partially covered
with flesh, in the last stage of green
qualification. Among the decayed
mass worms were crawling, while the
floor was wet and Shiny with the liqs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-24

THE irrigation works of Colorado
are on a great scale. The Grand
River Ditch" in Western Colorado,
at the beginning, is thirty>fve feet
wide at the bottom, FIFTY feet wide at
the top, five feet deep for the first ten
miles, then diminishing until the last
two and a half miles are sixteen feet
wide at the bottom. with three feet
depth of water. The grade is little
over twenty-five inches to the mile,
which gives strong current. One
company engaged IN the lrrigating
business has constructed over 100
miles of canals In the Rio Grand VAL
ley at a cost of $750.000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-24

In his September report on the con-
dition of the crops, Statistican Dodge,
of the department of agriculture, pre-
sents some interesting facts in rela~
ton to the production of wheat for q
series of years past. Among other
things he shows that since 1850 the
production of wheat in this country
has increased twice as fast as the pop
ulation, and that last years crop
was five times as large as that of 1850.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-24

EARTHQUAKE shocks were felt IN
Jamaica Wednesday night.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-07-18
Ganeral Grant

MOUNT McGREGoR, N. Y, July 49,
General Grant slept less than usual last
night owing to the exceeding closeness of
the atmosphere, which rendered sleep well
nigh impossible for the members Of the
Generals family and others Oh the noun
tain. The patient was quiet and without
pain, and decd much of the time, but he
did net enjoy his sound sleep until late,
and then had about four hours of solid
sleep. His pulse this morning is about SO,
and although he is feeling listless, as re-
suit of a restless night, he shows little weak
Eess. This morning lie left his room at
about six o'clock and went to sit on the
verapda in the cool morning breeze. This
morning the sick man is trying to make up
for the night by doing in his room.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-07-18
The Russo-Afghan Boundary Question.

LONDON, July 1S.-A cabinet council was
held this afternoon. The Russo-Afghan
boundary question was the subject OF the
cabinets consideration. A dispatch from
Paris says the French foreign office has re.
csived information which shows that the
Russians are determined on Selling Herat
and that the massiug of Russian troops now
going on near Zulfcar Pass is for that pur-
pose. The proclamation of the Ameer of
Afghanis,an announcing the receipt by him
Of the decoration. of the Star of India and
declaring that he was now entitled to aid
from the Indian army, if necessary, was is.
sued at Herat. The Ameer in his procla-
nation ordered the illumination of Herat to
celebrate his invcstiture with the order.
A dispatch from Paris TO the Exchange
Telegraph Company says that the French
ambassador at st. Petersburg, who was
about to leave the Russian capital on fur
Tough to enjoy vacation, has been ordered
to remain at his post because of tho gravity
of the Afghan difficulty.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-07-18
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Fires.


PHILA DELPHIA, Pa, July 1S.-Fire broke
out about o'clock this morning in the OPP
Grating room Of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, on the fourth floor of the
Mutual Life Insurance building Tenth and
Chestnut streets. In comparatively short
time the entire room was Quilted out, chairs,
tables and instruments, including duplex
and quadruplex instruments of considerable
value, being destroyed. The fire is sup
posed to have been caused by an electric
spark carried into the office OIL wire,which
had come in contact with an electric light
wire.
JOLIET, H., July lS.-The store house of
Winterbotham & Son, coopers, inside OF the
State prison, burned last night. Loss 81 ,0OO.
Very few of the conyicts knew OF the fire,
and there was no disturbance whatever.
VINcENNEs, Ind, July 1S.--Tbe Monitor
Touring mill of M. A Seabren in Petersburg
burned yesterday. Loss IS 900; no insurance.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-07-18

A COMET THAT IS TO CoME.-"Eou may
look out for brilliant comet in the south.
western heavens early in August or the lat
ter part of July" said Prof. ]. NJ. Klein,
kontucky's astronomer.
"Upon what theory do you base such a
prediction ?"
"Well, the fact of the matter is that
have noticed for several nights the unmi5-
taxable path or orbit of the comet. Look.
Do you see that great streak in the heavens
resembling somewhat the milky way? 1t
is the path or orbit Of great comet, and
that great streak Of light is the gaseous
matter that follows in the wake of a comet.
1t is impossible TO SEQ it at present, as it
travels in the orbit of the sun, whose bril-
liant light during the day prevents the hu.
man eye from gazing at it. The detection
by the latter part of July or August will,
however, bring it above the horizon during
the early evening hours, when it will be
plainly visible, and when it will be of the
first magnitude"
As Prof. Klein has heretofore predicted
and discovered comets with unfailing accu-
racy, the fulflment of this prediction will
be looked forward to with interest by the
scientific world generally .-LouisriUe CoUr
Ter Journal.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-07-18
Railroad Accident.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July 1S.--The ex.
press train from Atlantic City, on the West
Jersey railroad, ran off the track at New
field Station this morning. The engine was
demolished, and Engineer George Murphy,
residing in Camden, received Injuries from
Der of passengers were slightly injured. The
engineer was married man and leaves a
family. II is stated that his brave conduct
in remaining al his post averted more disas-
trous results The accident was caused by
misplaced switch.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-07-18
LINcoLN's ECONOMY Lincoln,

LINCoLN's ECoNoMY.-President Lincoln,
reared in the lap of poverty, was very eco
nomical. When he came to Washington he
had saved from his professional earnings
$40, 900, and he did not owe dime. During
his Presidential term he saved from his sal
airy of $25 900 per year $50 900, which Henry
D. Cook invested for him in government Sc
cuTities. He was not slovenly man, but
he bought cheap clothes, and cared little
whether they fitted him or not. After he
came to Washington Mrs. Lincoln used to
see that he was always presentable, but he
often rebelled, and regarded white kid
gloves as an unmitigated nuisance. While
clothes were to Mr.. Lincoln only something
to cover him up, he only ate because it was
his duty, and did not know what was good
to eat any more than he did what was good
to wear. He never drank Intoxicating
liquors or used tobacco in any form. Meth
er did he know how to play any game re-
specially well. His Illinois friends said
that it was as good as q circus to- see
him play game of billiards. While
he occasionally told stories which were "ofi
color" no one ever charged him with an
immoral act, and The most accomplished
sirens Of The capital failed in their attempts
to beguile him-BoSton Budget.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-07-18

FREEMAsoNRY AND AGNosTICIsM.-It has
been the habit of the Roman Catholic
church and OF various Protestant churches
to denounce the Freemasons as worse than
infidels. The Freemasons are now in fair
way to refute this charge. A Canadian
lodge has expelled a member for the Of
Tense Of agnosticism, and the Grand Lodge
of Canada, to which the expelled member
appealed, confirms the sentence. In spite
Of the action of European democrats, Who
have occasionally made Freemasonry the
cloak of their political and religious radi-
calsm, the fraternity is distinctly conserv-
alive force. 1t is based wholly upon tradi-
ton and q reverence for landmarks" and
radicaism in Freemasonry is contradiction
in terms. Moreover, Freemasonry exacts as q
condition precedent to membership that the
candidate must believe in the existence of a
personal God. No agnostic could be receiv.
ed into Masonic lodge in this country or
in England, and when the French Freemas-
ons recently abolished this condition they
were straightway cut offfrom Masonic inter
course with the American and English
brethren. Freemasonry may have many
forms that are silly and useless, but among
the English speaking races it is hostile to
agnosticism. As such it seems as tilt would
BIO the part of wisdom for Christian bodies
to recognize it as an ally in the struggle
against unbelief, but we can hardly expect
that churches that have solemnly and re-
peatedy denounced Freemasonry will
change their traditional attitude and hostil.
ity to it.--N 7. Times.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-07-18

PURITAN LovEMAKINci.-Lovcm was not
az easy in the days of the Puritan fathers and
mothers as it is now. Winning the affections OF a
maiden without the consen. OF her parents was, as
late a' 1869, in tho Connecticut colony, punisha-
bile by fne for the first and second offenses, and
for subsequent transgression corporal chastise-
ment and imprisonment we're inflicted. In May
of that year it is recorded that "Jacobeth Murtine
and Sarah futile were prosecuted for sitting down
on chestle together, his arms around her Waste,
and her arme upon his shoulder about his neck,
and continuing in that sinful posture about halle
an hour, in which time he kissed her and she
kyssed him. or they kissed one another, as ye
witness testified" Kissing WAS serious matter
in those days.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-07-18
Appointments IS.

WASHINGTON, July 1S.-The President
TO day appointed VIM. H. Black, Of Iowa,
to be Agent for the Indians of the Sac and
Fox Agency in Iowa.
The Secretary of the Interior has appoint
ell Samuel n. Holiday, jr., of st. Louis, and
VIM. r. Henderson, of Martinsvilc, Ind.,
assistant supderintendents Of the Yellow.
stone National Park. Allen M. Esterly, OF
Montana, John A. Gum, of Indiana, Hugh
C. Quigley, of Ohio, Nathan B. Wharton, of
Ohio, James n. Mithie, Of Arkansas, and
John Jones, of New York, have been ap
painted special agents of the General Land
Otlico.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-07-18
Wife Murder.

JERSEY CITY, N. j., July lS.-Mrs. Emma
Grant was murdered by her husband, John
Grant, at their home No. 134 Garden street,
Hoboken Ell, at o'clock this morning. Grant
is an Englishman, 81 years Of age, and was
intoxicated at the time. His wife refused
to occupy the same bed with him, and he
stabbed her in the neck and side with q
large butcher knife She died an hour lat
er. Mrs. Grant was 45 years of age. The
couple mad been married 30 years, and had
five children. Grant is under arrest.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-07-18
Local ODtiou.

ATLANTA, Ga, July 1S.-The House of
Representatives today passed, by vote
of III to 90, general local option
law for the counties in Georgia which
have not already adopted prohibition.
The bill provides that on petition every
two years elections may be held in coun-
ties where Intoxicating drinks are sod
until the county goes for prohibition, when
no more elections can be held. The bill
now Goes to the Senate for final passage.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-07-18

THE MORNING republican organ OF wash
ington says the recent Malone convention
in Richmond was fairly representative
BODY. Why, of course it was. There Is
nothing truer than the assertion that IN
representative governments, representatives
always fairly represent their constituents.
But this truth is rough on The Virginia re-
publicaps, Tor even in the State conventions
during the evil times of the carpet baggers,
there never were more disgraceful proceed
ings than these of the convention referred
to. which was characterized by yells, curses,
tumults and 6s,icuils, and whirh wound up
with a protesque husgiDg and kissing scene,
in which the com batants took part.