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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-26
FIRES AND CASUALTIES

A PUBLIC school house at Kittaling,
Pa, valued at $50, 600, was destroyed by
| flames arising from natural gas.
IN coal mine near Pomeroy, Ohio, a
fall of slate Monday night killed two
men, and dangerously injured two 9th
ers.
ALDEN S. SANBoRE, judge of the pro-
bate court of Dane County, Wisconsin,
poisoned himself in the woods, while
deranged.
Thomas, at West Eaton, n. Y, has
been destroyed by fire; also warehouse
adjoining. Loss about $4,000
The Roman Catholic protectorae at
Glencoe, Mo-, burned Tuesday night.
Nine Christian brothers and eightyfiVe
boys were in the buildings, all of wlom
escaped. The loss is 100000 and iisur-
ance 5000.
EARLY Thursday morning g wlgon
containing five young people we're
overturned near Batavia, Ohio, The &C.
cupants falling into Stone Lick . ISIS
M, Regain, aged 18; Milton Regain, 10;
and Joseph Berkeley, %, were drowned.
The engine and cars of Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Indianapolis freight
train tumbled into a creek near Indian
apolis Wednesday morning and four
persons were injured, one fatally. To
clear the track it was found necessary
to burn the wreck, freight and all.
The city Of Galveston, Tex. had a
very disastrou! confagration Friday, a
large part of the residence portion of
the town being reduced to ashes. Sew
eral hundred houses were destroyed.
The total loss is about $780, 900, and
the total insurance is over 100000
WHILE repairing furnace at Johns
town, Pa, Monday night j. B. Smith,
being overcome by gas, fell into the red
hot re eeptacle. In attempting to rescue
seventeen men were rendered uncon-
scious by the gas and had to be dragged
away to places of safety. Smiths body
was finally recovered, but was horribly
charred and burned.
INFORMATION has been received of a
very disastrous prairie fire in Indian
Territory, especially in the section
lying north of Red River station. The
eastern limits of the fire are not known,
but it is believed that the fire belt is
from 40 to 60 miles wide The lvss to
cattlemen is placed as high as 100000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-26
WASEINGTON.

The old naval retiring board has
been dissolved and a new one formed,
composed of Rear Admiral John l..
Worden, Capt. w. A. Weaver. Medi-
cal Directors Thomas j. Turner and
William T. Hard, and Capt. Richard
w. Meade.
CAPTAIN LEE, in charge of the Chey-
enne and Arrapahoe Indians. telegraphs
Indian Commissioner Atkins that in
obedience to the Presidents proclama-
ton all the cattle have been removed
from the Cheyenne reservation, but
that Oklahoma territory is full of cattle
and boomers. He states that 100
boomers" have been arrested within
the past few days.
The first comptroller of the treasury
has decided that the law directing the
reissue Of mutllated, lost or destroyed
government bonds does not apply to a
detached coupon alleged to have been
lost or mutilated, and that a mutilated
coupon cannot be treated by treasury
officers as coming under the provisions
Of that statute.
SUPERINTENDENT BELL. of the foreign
mail Office of the postoffice department
to-day requested Surgeon General Ham
ilton, of the marine hospital service, to
hare all mail matter coming from Can
ada fumigated at the exchange points
on the Canadian frontier. This action
is taken because of the continued pre-
valence of smallpox in Canada.
GEN. SHERIDAN in his annual report
recommends that the Indian reserva-
lions be opened up, allowing each Indian
$50 acres, the remainder to be sold to
settlers, the money thus secured 60 be
invested in government bonds. With
the interest of this investment the In
dians could be supported. and cut off
the large annual appropriation made for
them.
IT is understood that the president
has made considerable progress with
his annual message to congress. Parts
Of it, it is said, have been copied on
typewriter and revised, and in the main
it will be ready for the printer in a
week or ten days time. Commercial
relations with foreign countries, the
steamship subsidy question, and new
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-26
LATEST T'ELEGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.

FL. B. CLAFLIN, the well-known dry
goods merchant Of New York, died at
his home at Fordham, of apoplexy.
BETWEEN the 9th inst. and the 2Sth
of DeceEaber eleven persons are to be
executed in Ontario and the Northwest
provinces.
MRS. SUSAN B. JORDAN, wife of
David Starr Jordan, president of the r.
diana State University, died st Bloom
ington, Ind, Sunday.
AT MILWAUKEE, Wednesday, Eugene
Taylor, stock raiser of Columbus
Wis, was fatally injured by jumping
from a train.
THE Illinois Grand Lodge, I. o. o. T.,
| Thursday elected the Hon. ]. p. Miller
Of Caseyville, az Grand Representative
to fill vacancy.
MERRITT F. PEAsE, of Des Moines
now claims to be the first inventor OF
the telephone, and states that he filed
ia the patent Office in 1857 method fo1
transmitting sound by means of electro
cal currents.
The Greek government has contract
ed for sixty Mitrellense guns and 40, 00C
ro'(nde Of ammunition at cost of $3.50,
900. The government has also contracted
with the national bank for loan OF
$3.50, 600.
REPORTS indicate the fall wheat sown
in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio is slight
Iv greater, and IN Illinois, Missouri, and
Kansas somewhat less than was sown
last autumn. Present prospects are
considered favorable.
THE number of houses destroyed by
the recent confagration in Galveston
was between five and six hundred, and
the total loss approximates So, 100000
Many of the unfortunate people arc in
need of outside help.
THE ninth animal convention of the
American Humane Society met in the
parlors of the Southern Hotel, in ST.
Louis. Delegates from all the principal
humane societies of the country were
present. The business of the meeting
consists of the disposal Of routlne mat
ters and the presentation of elaborate
papers upon humane subjects.
THERE is great rejoicing in San Di.
ego, CAL, over the completion of the
Southern California railroad TO that
place. This gives the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe system through trans
continental line. The festivities will
be continued three days. There is a
grand display of native fruits and flow
ers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-26

! in the woods with her throat cut and
her head nearly severed from her BODY.
A colored man named Cherry was ar
rested on suspicion for the murder.
JAMES R. WILLARD, an Erie stock
broker, who Is member of the Chicago
Board of Tfade, was arrested Monday
On a charge of EN- bezzlenent, the t-oub-
arising out of deal in futures. Mr..
Willard was formerly editor of the
Erie Daily Dispatch and collector of the
port.
ALLEN w. DORLEY and his wife were
arrested at Newport, R. L., Thursday.
charged with the murder of BENJAMIN
Burton, a well known colored man,
who, it was first reported, had killed
himself. A conspiracy is said to have
existed, in which q prominent physi-
clan of Philadelphia Is said to be in
volved.
BEING ordered to vacate leased land
In Edgefield couuty. South Carolina,
| Wednesday, for non-payment of rent,
Robert Jones shot dead Edward Pres
ley, aged 80, and his son Charles, and
n1ortally stabbed Edward, anotaer son.
Jones then went to the JAIN and surren-
dercd,
ANNIE LYONS, until recently cook in
the family of Charles w. Parker, at
Boston, was arrested Wednesday,
charged with putting arsenic in the
f1our-bar when she was discharged,
from the effects Of which the family
have been suffering for three weeks.
Enough arsenic was found in the flour
30 kill several persons.
The second trial Of Mrs. FL. D. Live
land, better known as franklin Morris,
for numbering her mother to secure in
surance money aggregating $4,000,
was begun Tuesday at Usage Mission,
Kan. At the former trial Mrs. Love
land was found guilty of murder in the
first degree, but new trial was grant
ed, and she was released in $25. 900 pail.
TWELVE years ago John Mccoy and
two others went to a farm house at
Russellville, Ark, to whip an old nan
who had accused them of stealing hogs.
He resisted, and was killed, and his
wife's arm shot off. One of the parties
was afterward killed in Calf .nia
Mccoy was arrested in Texas last um-
mer, and brought back. Saturday he
was convicted of murder, and sentenc-
ed to be hung i'll January.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-26

vessels for the navy are questions to
which considerable space in it will be
devoted.
A GENERAL order issued by the War
Department few days ago will great
ly reduce the amount expended annual
ly by the government for payment of
mileage to army officers for travel per-
formed under orders. The order forbids
all officers to issue any order to them
selves or subordinates requiring travel
beyond the limits of their mnand.
For many years, it is claimed, COM
handing officers have been issuing to
themselves orders requiring long
journeys, for which they received
mileage. The journeys were ostensibly
on business, but often on pleasure or
business of a private nature.
CHIEF ENGINEER LORING'S report of
the operations of the bureau of steam
engineering was made public Friday. The
appropriate for the last fiscal year
were 100000, and the expenditures
$947,910, leaving and unexpended bal
anoe of $72,0S9, the larger proportion
of which is. however, required to meet
outstanding obligations. He submits
estimates amounting to 81, SIT Sit for
the support Of the bureau during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1887. He
earnestly urges that provision be made
for building a new boiler shop at the
New York navy yard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-26
CkiQaZO Market

CHICAGO Nov. 1.-Flour-Neglected and I'M
changed Wheat-Dull and weak; opened 800
nc lower; advanced &c; weakened and closed
PC under yesterday; SS150685s for seller cash;
S815 for seller November; 69@891S for seller De-
cember; 89150S95S for seller January; 90090H
for seller February; 95@955s for seller May; No.
2 red, 9216. Corn-Yery quiet and easier, clos
ing A01a lower than yesterday; 4334044for sell
Ter cash; 431a for seller November; 41M0416
for seller December and the year; 3814438sS for
seller January; 391403938 for seller May. Oats
Dull, easier and 1s0Ac lower; % for seller cash;
2816 for seller November and December; 311s for
seller May. Rye-Quet at GO. Barley-Quiet
at 67. Timothy-Tame and easier; prime 67G
80 Flax seed-QUict and easier: No. 113.
Pork-Slightly easier and quiet; declined 1O015c
early; rallied 719010c and closed steady; $3.50
500 for seller cash; 895 for seller November and
December; 5000 9215 for seller January; 1OO216
@1OO5 for seller February; Lard-Quiet; ruled
21a05c lower and closed steady at els for seller
cash and November; 6.1506. 1719 for seller De
cember; G. 221506 IS for seller January; 1890
6.35 for seller February. Shoulders-88OQ-
3.85; short clear. 5.2O@525; short ribs, 49O@5,Oo.
Whiskey-1.15
CHICAGO, Nov. 21.-Tbe Drovers' Journal re-
ports: Cattle-Receipts, 5000; slow and weaker;
shipping steers, 1905 so; stockers and feed
ers, 2.4O0390; COWS, bulls and mixed, 1908 20;
through Texans steady, 2.50G4 65; western
rangers nominal; natives and half breeds, 3.75
94.4O; cows, 2. 9O03 p. Hogs-Receipts, $4,000;
active but sc lower; rough and mixed, 3300365;
packing and shipping, 36O03.gO; skips. 2.6O0
3.25; only 10000 unsold Sheep-Reeeipts 1, 400
steady; natives, 1.750345; Texans, 1882 IS;
Iambs3. 750450.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-26
PAID THE PENALTY DE HIS
CRIME.

Louis RieI Executed at RegIna-Few
People witness the Performance.
Louis David Rel was executed on the
scaffold at the barracks of the mount
ed police force, near this city, for high
treason against The Queen Of Great
Britain at S:23 o'clock Monday morn
ing, mountain time. Beyond the pre-
late who visited him It was the fate Of
RieI that there was none of his former
companions, either from political or
personal fear, that found their way TO
his cell, and beyond the announce
ment of the results of the various
stages of his trial he had no knowledge
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-26

RIGHT views as to the prison ques-
ton appear to be gaining ground. So
long as the care of convicts was gen
orally regarded as profit making en-
terprise by the state rational views of
the subject came into view slowly.
Certain journals have freely set forth
the statistics of profits of the New
York state prisoners in past years as
proving the wisdom OF the policy par
sued. Nothing could be IA ,re enron
eous in principle. The convict should
In all cases be made to work, and, SO
far as is consistent with reformatory
methods, money, should be earned.
So far as the mere mercantile test IS
applied to prison management all
progress toward a right solution of
the momentous question involved
is made impossible. Advices from
Auburn are that the account system
of work by the convicts is meeting
with great success. Under this plan
instead of the old contract system
some measure of individual treatment
with reformatory end can be given
to the convicts. For once, at least,
the emergency Of the hour and the
scientific judgement came together in
the law, putting an end to the con-
tract system In the prisons of New
York state. Gradually progress will
now be made toward a maximum re
formatory effect.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-26
CRIME.

ALE LITTLE, noted desperate was
sentenced at Louisville 10 sixteen years
in the pentitentiary for forging pension
papers.
PATRICK JOHNSON Icelored was ar
rested at Adrian, Mich, Monday morn
ing, charged with having murdered the
infant twins of his mistress, Nov. 6.
ALICE POWELL, Il years old, Of
Kenpsville, Va, was found murdered
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-26
growers.

REPORTS from Oaio. Indiana, Hi
nois, Michigan, Kansas and Missouri,
show that the winter wheat area sown
this fall will not equal that sown last
fall, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio re
port small increase, while Missouri,
Kansas and Illinois show a decreas e.
The present prospects are generally
fayOrab BILE.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-26

The common impression That the
Turkish empire is weak, and falling
rapidly to decay, seemed to be emphati-
cally contradicted by the celebrity with
which the Porte has put an enormous
army into the field. The available
force now on foot amounts to $50, 900
men. of whom $50, 600 are ready for
service in Europe. While this does
not look much as if the Ottoman Em-
pire was decaying, it should not be
forgotten that the method OF raising
an army il Turkey is very simple,
consisting merely in sending out re
cruiting officers with a guard and
conscripting every man they can find,
AS men are still plentiful in Asia
Minor, a considerable force may easily
be gathered after this fashion, and
since even the regulars are quite poor
ly drilled, the new recruits are about
as seryiceahle as the veterans.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-26
From the National Capital.

The Washington Post says: We ad-
mire the stand taken by numerous
eminent physicians in changing the
mode of treatment of coughs and colds,
and publicly endorsing Red S5ar Cough
Cure because it is emc acious, free from
danSerous ingredients and without
morphia or opium. This excellent
remedy costs but twenty-five cents.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-26

The Journal of the Society OF Arts
gives an account of Prof. Frankland's
series of experiments in removing
micro organisms from water by means
of liberation. The materials used
were green sand, silver sand, powder
ed glass, brickdust, coke, animal char
coal, and-spongy iron, all of them be
ing previously passed through sieve
of forty meshes to the inch. Only
green sand, coke, animal charcoal,
and spongy iron removes the organ
isms, and even these would not act
longer than one month. Thus the
production Of sterilized potable water
in large qualities is matter OF diff
Guilty and requires constant renewal
of materials. But coke and spongy
iron Will act well for a long time in
removing large proportions Of the or
ganisms and rendering the water at
least fit for drinking
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-26

VEsUvIUs is again IN state of erup
ton. The lava is streaming down
on the west side Of the mountains,
and some alarm is expresses, as the
observatory authorities believe that
the eruption will become more seriou
than II Is at present.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-26

Cloak clasps are in the most ele
giant designs, souas being made from
the teeth of antediluvian animals.
Four are required for one set, they be-
ing about three inches long. They
are also mounted singly as brooches.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-26

AN investigation of Sunday labor
by Carroll Wright shows that while
the dispIacemento of rest by recreation
has vastly increased in America, thus
making work for those concerned in
transit and other means Of pleasure,
no fact can be produced to support
the statement that the mere toll for
wealth occupies any more time on
Sundays than it did century ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-26

a VERY simple, though somewhat
expensive, arrangement of telephone
wires has been introduced IN p Glas-
Cow merchants Office, by which, it is
stated, the annoyances of induction
are prevented. The Office is connect
ed with the proprietor's dwelling
house, some thirty miles distant, by a
private line. To prevent disturba nee
from the induction of other wires, he
employs q return wire, and the wires
are simply arranged in spiral or
helieal ferm, as follows: Suppose
each post to be provided with four IN
sulators, arranged at the four angles
of a square, the sending wire is at
tached to lnsulator on the first post,
3 on the second, 3 on the third, 4 on
fourth, 1 on the fifth, and so on. The
return wire is attached to the insula
tors at the opposite corners OF the
square, or what would correspond to
that position, thus forming the helix
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-26
Milwaukee Marker.

MILWAUKEE, Nov. 2t.-Wheat-Weak; $3.50 for
seller cash; 8S34 for seller December; 951s for sell
Ter May. Corn-!Quiet; No. 2, "a. oats-Steady;
No. 2, 2s. Bye Steady; No. 1, 611@. Barley
Dull; No. 2, "a. Provisions-Steady; Mess pork,
COS for cash and old, and 1906 for new.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-26

The Wisconsin cranberry crop is
large this year, and sales rapid, but
the prices prevailing are such as to
materially reduce the profits Of the
growers
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-26

Farmer Dalrymple, Of Dakota, har-
vested 100000 bushels of wheat this
year.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-01-15
A Gushing Oil Well

Titusyille, Pa, Special:-The histo-
ry of petroleum affords no parallel to
the Developments of this day in the
Thorn creek oil field. The Armstrong
we'll, which was practically abandoned
as being through the sand and hope
quarts Of nitro glyceriiiet To the sur
prise OF all the explosion was followed
lessly dry, was recently torpedoed by
its owners, as an experiment, with fifty
by an immense discharge of oil,-iDdeed
such as has never been Witnessed here
or elsewhere. A solid column Of oil
was thrown above the top of the derrick
and q stream as large as q mans body
| began the descent of the hill, and emp.
tied itself into Thorn creek, which
flows below. There was no easinghead
on the hole, at the time, which conclus
siyely proves that the proprietor had
little hope of getting anything. aud
eompletely silences assertions that they
have been playing q smart game. OF
course, the first hours production was
lost. In response to al offer OF $500, n
crew of men went to work, and o'clock
had the immense flow Of oil completely
under control. The oil was turned In
to the gss-tank and, Notwithstanding
there were seven two-inch lead pipes,
the flows of oil was so great that the
liquid was forced out Of joints of the
casing fully thirty feetinto the air. Good
judges estimate that the well is doing
over 5000 barrels a de-, which puts
anything in the history of the oil trade
completely out of sight. The Fisher
we'll No. l also struck sand to-day, and,
though IL is inst north c. Fisher No. 10,
is a very small affair, but has the show
ing of a large well. With the drill but
two feet in the sand, the hole was filed
up for fourhundred feet with oil, and
soon began flowing freely.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-01-15
How They Run Ocean Steamers

Some idea OF how they manage on one Of the
great ocean steamers can be had from the fol-
lowing: EEaE14u
The new steamship Oregon, which last week
ran to Queenstown in six and a half days, and
which in April beat all previous records in
crossing the Atlantic ocean-her actual time
being sIx days, I ten hours and eight min
utes from Queenstown, Ireland, 70 Sandy
Hook-has engines Of the ordinary compound
vertical inverted type, three cylinders being
used standing in line above the main shaft
The high-pressure cylinder, which IL IN the
middle, is seventy inches diameter, and the
low-pressure cylinders are each lO4 inches di-
ameter, all having a sti oke Of six feet The high
pressure cylinder receives the steam direct
from the boiler, aud exhausts it into the casing,
whence il is taxed INTO the low pressure cylin.
ders. Piston. valves are used on ali the cyiin
derr for distributing the steam a bai.t g2
cruc!ble steel crank is used, and all the cranks
are counter balanced All mi2or parts OF the
engines, like the major parts of the engines,
are atted with every modern Improvement cal
culsted TO secure efficacy.
Steam Is generated by nine double-ended
boilers, with corrugated furnaces. There arr
seventy-two furnaces, all told.
Dnring the trip the engines are reported &c
have Indicated an high az 1900 horse power.
As near ~ learned the power was maintained
with a coal consumption that reached the
neighborhood of % pounds PEI indicated
horse power per hour. The daily ~expenditare
OF coal was 800 long tons ahich would indicate
that the sycrage horse power was about sl2s.
COO
The crew that ran the engines consisted OF
10 engineers and no fremen and eoai trim
mers. The chief engineer Keeps watch, but
has continual supervision OF oil the machinery
on board The second, third and fourth en-
gineers take charge OF the engines in turns OF
four hours on aud eight hours on The hfth,
sixth and seventh engineers attended 70 the
stoke holes snd boilers m turns, their watches
also lasted four hours For attending 20 the
bilge- pumps and similar work M eighth and
ninth engineers take alternate watches At six
hours, and the teuth engineer attends TO the
deck m~acainary. The greasers hremen and
coal trimmers markin wstohsss0f Hour nouir
on and eight hours of duty. There are no
illers among this crew, the demand for the
enormous power requiring hard work aud close
s~ttention 70 the snArhmeryyBN
The oregon's best days run on her fast voy.
ace waste miles and her poorest was ~
miles. The average wac about no miles 3 day,
or nearly ~ miles an hour To be exact her
average was 1861 miles an hour, and on her
last day she made nearly 20 miles an hour.
The ofegon's IreigAt-carTying cspacitytsshrul
1850 tons