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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-29
GABLEGRAMS 6.

ABOUT 200 residents Of the County
Queen, Ireland, we've arrested for boy
coU5ing. They preferred TO go to jail to
giving bail, and the magistrate gave
tn.n a fortnight to consider the matter.
THE Abyssian expedition, marching
to the relief of the ka.s2la Garrison,
after severe battle. defeated large
force under Osman Digna, the latter
losing 3, 900 men in the encounter.
INCLUDED in the grand wedding out
fit OF Princess Marie o'Orleans of Paris
is pearl necklace pocketed by General
PaIikao during the war in Chin., valued
st SO 900.
Troops from Madras and Calcutta are
being concentrated at Rapgoon for the
invasion Of Burmah. King Theebaw is
rapidly preparing distinctions to their
advance.
THE trial of Mr.. Stead, editor of the
Pail Mall G4z9tte, for conspirs cy, grow
ing out of the expose of London scan
dal will begin this month and will cost
$4,000, Of which the Methodist church
has alre a4y raised $12, 500.
A SYNDICATE in Liverpool has offer
ed to START feet of packets to carry
cattle from Cork to England for the
nat.on9lists. Lords Bandon and Castle
ton and other prominent gentlemen of
London have formed committee to
assist people Of every class in Ireland
who have been boycotted.
The Balgarians are exasperated by
Servia's attitude. A cabinet council
was held TO consider the situation. The
militia continue drilling. The popula
ton dra preparing to resist violation
of the frontier Their anger is pres
ent diverted from Turkey to Servia.
The conflict in progress between the
king and parliament OF Denmark
threatens popular revolution in that
country. The KING has already called
the military into requisiticn In Copen-
hagen.
TIE people of the island of Crete,
now under Turkish rule are enthusi-
astically in favor of annexa ton to
Greece, and the warlike feeling in
Grace, against Turkey is now at fever
heat.
ADvICEs from Tonquin to the Temps
descrIb5 the situation as vary gloomy.
Since the beginning of the SUM mer
5000 Fcenchmen have died from chel-
era, and large numbers are daily sue
cumbing to the disease. The mortal
ity among the troops hinders the
progress of the campaign. The rein
forcenents that are sent frsn France
are scarcely sufficient 10 fill the gaps
made in the French ranks by the
plague,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-29
Cause For Rejoicing.

CINCINNATI The Tjmes-Star says:
ga remarkable discovery made last
winter, is attracting wide spread inter
est. AS 1t involves a most important
question, that of public health, it is
being discussed by eminent physicians
and public men. It Is shown conclu-
sively that throat and lung trou bles can
be cured without resorting to the use of
morphia or opium, Especially danger
Gus in the case of children as arresting
development, and poisoning their sys.
tenn. The Governor of Maryland and
all the officials of that state endorse
the remedy; the state chemist of D9la-
ware pronounces it the purest and most
effective, and hospitals and charitable
institutions in Philadelphia and other
cities use it with remarkable results.
TIE remedy which is only twenty-five
cents a bottle, is Red Star Cough Cure.
It is purely v egetable; it contains no
poison or narcotics, and is q positive
cure.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-29
LATEST q'ELE.erfkAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.

The people of Winnipeg aave con-
tributcd So 600 for a monument to the
volunteers killed in the Rel r. beilion,
to be placed in front of the city hall.
THERE are rumors that the Grand
Trunk conlp9. is about TO lease tbs
Portland and Ogdensburg road, which
is offered at an annual rental Of 800
600
The resolution Of the Montreal Board
of III alth calling npon the central board
to close the churches, is meeting with
great opposition, Catholic and Protes-
tant clergymen being opposed to Il.
MORMON elders operating IN Lawrence
county, Illinois, have induced thirteen
persons TO leave D9nnison TO vnship for
Salt Lake. The expense of the trip was
BETRAYED by a widow named d can who
sold her farm to carry out the transfer.
THERE is said to be an unprecedented
emigration TO the frontiers of Kansas
and Nebraska from the vicinity of Hills
boro, II inois, on account Of several
crop failures.
A FARMER near Wabash, Indiana,
took into a corn field a worthless dog
and a half pound Of dynamite, tied
them together, and fred th. fuse. The
remains Of the cur were scattered all
over the man, who nearly tainted from
fright.
a MOE Of fifty men, at 9 o'clock Tues
day morning, took from the Jail at Win.
chester, Illinois, f. FL. Holier, charged
with assaulting two ladies last June.
The men shot him in the arm, when he
escaped IN the darkness.
AT a meeting Of the directors of the
| Western Union Telegraph Company,
DR.. Norvin Green was reelected presi-
dent, and General T. L. E exert, general
manager, Colonel @. Clowry, of Chica-
go, was elected vice president, and
made member OF the Executive Conn
mittee
NEAR Osawkie, Kansas, farmer and
his family were driving home ward with
package of ten pounds IF powder in
the wagon. His wife attempted to
light pipe, and dropped spark. The
explosion which followed killed tie
woman and fatally injured the other
three persons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-29

THE powers that would probably be
involved in the event of hostilities in
the East could put the following
forces in the field at once: Turkey,
284, 900; Roumania, $4,000; Servia,
$4,000; Bulgaria, ~, 600; Greece, 61,-
900: East Roumelia, $4,000; Mon,
tenegro, $4,000. The maxium avail
able strength of the great po wers for
warlike opcretions in European Tur-
key within three months of the out
break of hostilities would be: Russia,
$1,000; Germany, 100000; France,
100000; Austria Hungary, 800, 900;
Italy. 2O7, 900, and Great Britain, 80,
600
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-29
W SHlNGTCN.

THE contract for stone masonry OF
federal building at Louisville, KY, has
been awarded to Oman &c Stewart, Of
Nashville, Tenn, at $43; 107.
THE remains OF the Hon. Malcolm
Hay were privately inferred at Pitts
burg Thursday. First Assistant Post
master General Stevenson attended i'll
behalf of the president and Postmaster
General Villas.
AN official of the treasury department
declares the Chicago custom-house the
worst lighted public building he ever
saw. He recommends the exten fion
of the electric light plant, which can
now be maintained at daily cost of
$7e As.
TIE district attorney of Boston has
brought suits for $4,000 against George
B. Loring, late commissioner of agri-
culture, and hif sureties, 1t being al
leg ed that the defendant applied over
$4,000 30 purposes not provided by
law.
TIE Myrick claim has been sent to
the special commissioners to take new
evidence. If the disallownd items are
restored it will bring the total amount
to DC paid Mr.. Nyrick up 60 about $14,-
900.
AMONG the latest contributions to the
coast survey scandal is the rumor that
charges of smuggling may be preferred
against employees who have sold to the
survey, ORA wing materials, ETC., which
they brought into the country as person
al properly. One theory of the delay
in appointing a new periRtendent, is
president desires to have bureau legis-
lated eff existence, the survey of the
coast intrusted to the navy department,
and the geedetic survey transferred to
the interior department.
The secretary Of war has issued tn
following general order, which will
henceforth be an additional army regu-
lation: In times Of peace detail OF
not less than one officer and three en-
listed men viii be kept constantly under
instruction and practice in military
signaling at each post in the United
States until the officers and all the men
who have sufficient Intelligence and
proficient in the code OF signaling by
flag, torch, and heliograph and homeo-
graphic code with disks. The post
commander will detail an acting signal
officer at each post to give the leces-
sary instruction and supervise field
practice. The monthly report Of l.
structions and practice will be rendered
to the chief signal officer through de-
D2rtment commanders.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-29
FIRES AND CASUALTIES


THE new railroad bridge across the
Colorado river at Yuma, Arizona. which
cost 5000 600, was totally destroyed by
fire Sunday.
AN explosion in the Racsoon colliery.
twenty five miles from Richmond,
Virginia, Thursday morning, killed enc
man and wounded three others.
j. +. STRAIT & Co.'s Touring mill at
Shakopae, Mimi, was burned Monday.
The insurance amounts to about $37,
900.
A FIRE in ST.. Louis consumed five
story building on Market street occu-
pied by Holman Brothers paper box
factory, frem which rs girls were res
cucd after francing madly about on the
roof
The -four and saw mills of Kyle &
Mustard, at Egnondville, Ontario, were
burned Tuesday. Loss, $50, 900, par
TALLY insured.
THREE kegs of gunpowder myster-
iously exploded in a grocery store al
Mexico, Missouri, bringing about the
destruction Of property valued at $780,
900.
A FIRE Tuesday night at Pensacola
Fla, consumed the entire block in
which the city buildings were located.
Heavy winds prevailed, but the public
plaza north of the block assisted the
firemen to confine the conf1agration.
The loss exceeds $4,000
WILLIAN M. MARTIN, farmer
wheat-aealer, and postmaster of Martin
station, Ind, on the Evansville and
Indianapolis railroad, was knocked
from freight Car at that place and
killed, the Car and engine passing over
the bsdy. He leaves wife and son.
He was one of the wealthiest men in
the county.
AN Express train on the Pennsylvan-
ia road, at 8 o'clock Sunday evening,
ran into a detached emigrant car thir-
teen miles outside of Jersey City, kill.
ing nine persons therein and mutilat
ingthree others. Soon afterward LIE.
high Valley train dashed into the wreck
killing the engineer and fatally injur-
ing its fireman.
AT Nielsville, Wis.,, Saturday after
noon fire started in the barn of the
Central house hotel, and consumed the
hotel and outlaying buildings. Several
horses were burned, and J. E. Breed
was frightfully burned while trying to
rescue his horses. He lies at the Delan
Hotel in a precarious condition. The
residence of F. E. Darling was slightly
damaged. The hotel was valued at
SIS 600, and not insured.
A MINER who carried naked lamp
into dangerous section of No. 2 slope
of the Delaware a-d Hudson mine at
Plymouth, Pa, Wednesday morning
caused two explosions of gas and FIRE
damp, sending a aaale of fire through
the mine, SCATTERING the houses at the
opening of the shaft, and driving the
debris hundreds of feet upwark, All
the persons in the mine were dashed to
the ground by the force of the shock,
four being illad aid twelve wounded {.
Many of the injured, who are shocking
ly burned and also inhaled the flames,
can not recover. The man who caused
the disaster had all his clothing, save
his boots, torn off, anL also lost his hair,
bat was otherwise uninjured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-29

The widest game in the world is the
Rocky Mountaion ram. The animal
IS more like the channels than any
other creature. In Colorado law
has just gone into force prohibiting
the killing of rams for ten years to
come.
The largest and probably the oldest
fig tree in the world, standing In the
garden of the Capucin Monastery at
Roscof, is about to be sold 1t was
planted in 1921 It's branches cover
a space of 484 meters-sufficient to
shelter 200 persons.
A twelve-year old Dakota girl, tax
en- up into the air ny a cyclone, carried
out of sight, and brought easily down
in a field a quarter of mile away,
describes her sensation while in trans
sit as that of being rapidly and con-
staItly pricked by thousands of nee.
dies. Since her experience she has
been affected similar to a person with
ST. Vitus' dance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-29
Counting the Votes.
THE CANVASS OF THE VOTE IN EAMIL,
TON COUNTY IS CONPI FTED

THE CANVASS OF THE VOTE IN EAMIL,
TON COUNTY IS COMPLETED.
CINCINNATI, Oct. "a The canvass
Of the vote in Hamilton county was
completed this morning, aud the total
footings (unoficiaD including precinct
E, of the Eighteenth ward, show that
Hoadly received "a 526 and Foraker
80, 027; Hoadly's nsj ority 529. The
highest vote received by the repubh-
can senator was 80 less than the low.
est or the democratic list, and $40 less
than the highest. The vote for the
representatives is still closer. but no
footing has yet been completed. The
democratic county officers are electe d
except Kuke, for commissioner. The
republican attorneysthIs morning filed
a petition in the circuit court asking
a mandamus directing its officer, the
clerk, how to proceed with the count
by instructing him what are and
what are not legal returns. The hear
ing of the petition is filed for two
O'Clock this afternoon.
In the meantime if the restraining
order issued last night should be dis
solved, tae clerk might complete his
work before two o'clock, and the iur-
isdictioA of the court would be gone
After considerable talk the argument
before Judge Buckwalter upon the
motion to dissolve the restraining
order and also to open q demurrer to
the petition proceeded. 1t is expected
the argument will occupy the time
until 2 o'clock when the mandamus
proceedings will operate to hold the
clerk until it can be determined.
THE PURITY OF THE BALLOT MUST BE
PROTECTED.
CINCINNATI, Oct. "a The commit
tee of one hundred recently organized
to detect and punish violations of the
registry and election laws mad pub
lie meeting this afternoon at the cham
Der of commerce, which had 6 full
attendance. A permanent organiza-
tioa was effected. providing for large
membership, with an initiation fee of
So 90, and the same annual dues The
officers and other members of the as
ISOLATION to bring the number up to
one hundred constitute an executive
committee. 1t was agreed that no
partisan test for membership should
be applied, and that no Office holder
should serve on the executive commit
tee. The object of the association is
to protect the purity of the ballot.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-29
CRIME,

A NUMBER OF business men and public
officials at Shelbyville, Ill, were in
dicted Wedne sday for gambling.
AT Pleasanton, Texas, Walter Mari,
brother of District Judge Mari, was
shot and instantly killed by John Yates,
a well-known citizen of Pleasaeton.
Cause of the killing unknown.
w. a. SPAULDING, on pleading guilty
co the embezzlement of So 900 from tbs
Racine Wagon cIm pany, was sentenc-
ed to three wears and six months at
Waupun.
CHARLEY ROSE, the desparado who
stole pay Car few months ago, was
convicted of burglary in Atlanta, Ga,
Thursday, and will go TO states prison
for twenty years.
IN the criminal court at Indianapolis
a colored man named Harrison Tasker
was arraigned for criminal assault
upon German domestic named Helen
Huendling. As the prisoner was icing
led out in front, he was fatally shot by
a young brother of the wroHged girl.
MONDAY night eight or ten men sup
posed to be strikers attacked Washing.
ton avenue street car IN st. Louis, beat
the driver and conductor, and fred
several Shots Oae of tie bullets struck
an old coIored woman in the thigh, in
flicting painful wound,
MRS. JOHN CONWAY and her daughter
Katie were found dead in their dwelling
in Kansas City Wednesday afternoon,
having been murdered by AID unknown
person, who crushed their skulls with a
coupling pin. Thirty dollars in money
was carried off by the assassin.
OFFICIALS of the Union Pacific road
have learned that at II o'clock Wednes-
day night mob of white men attacked
a section house a6 Rock Springs. occu-
pied by so Cinnamon. Revolvers were
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-29
Another Ship Canal.
Boston Beacon

The last obstacle to uniting Delaware
and Chesapeake bays by a ship canal
has been put in the way of removal by
the appointing of commissioners to
condemn lands through which the pro,
posed canal is to pass. The estimated
cost of constructing the canal COM
pleteis IS, 45S, zee. The Sassafras route
has been selected. It is seventeen
miles long, fifteen of which are in
Delaware. The terminal points of the
canal will be the mouth of the Sassa-
fras river, in Chesapeake Bay, and
near Listens Point, in the Delaware,
and it's dimensions will be as follows
One hundred feet wide, 26 feet at low
water, side slopes Il to foot, with
BERNIE on one side Il feet wide and sc
feet above bottom.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-29
A Colliery Horror
Fifteen Men Burned to Death
in the Delaware Conn
pany's Mines Near
Plymouth, Pa.
Heart Rending Scenes and In.
cidents-Large Families
Left Penniless.

WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Oct, "a AT
o'clock this morning an explosion of
gas occurred in No. shaft of the
Delaware 6 Hudson company's mines,
near Plymouth, by which fifteen
workmen lost their lives. Dennis III
tus, miner, was killed outright, and
sixteen others were shockingly scald~
ed. Life Was in the injured naen, but
that was all. Their blackened, quiz
erlng bodies were taken from the pit,
and within few moments after they
had reached the surface fourteen of
them expired. 1t is doubtful whether
anything can be done 20 save the lives
of the other two victims.
Eleven of the unfortunate meB who
persisted left large families, and the
greatest excitement prevails in the
vicinity of Plymouth over the disaster.
When rumors of the calamity spread
abroad hundreds of people. chiefly
women and children, gathered at the
mouth of the pit. Everybody was
moved TO tears by the lamentations of
the wives of the victims. The scene
was heartrendering.
FURTHER DETAILS OF THE DISASTER.
WILKRsBARRE, Oct 24.-The man
who went into The abandoned opening
and fred the gas that caused the ex>
plosions at No. 2 shaft was Peter Z5l-
milky. There were two explosion.
The first was that of the gas, which
was soon followed by another, sweep
ing everything before it, sending a
fame of fire up the slope and above
the fan house, and sending the shin
giles and timbers from the bruker fly
ing 40p feet above the earth. Z9lintzky
was not killed, and was removed from
the slope with only his boots on, and
no hair on his head. He was other
wise uniDj ured.
The scene which ensued was terri
| BILE. Tae victims of the disaster lay
IN every direction. Titus was IN
stantly killed, and when found lay
200 feet away from his kit of tools,
| which he was examining at the time
of the explosion. When the gas was
ignited all the men Ia the slope were
violently thrown to the ground er
against the cars Or ribs Of the gang
way. The lights on their heads were
eXtinguished by the shock of the sec
ond explosion and all were Ia confus-
ion making their way through the
flames, and managing with great diff
ficulty, to reach a place of safety.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-29

DENMARK IS only a small country,
having about Ia 900 square miles OF
territory, less than one-fourth the
size of Missouri, tut the enterprising
little state is large enough to have a
''crisis" Of its own, and its I, 700, 900
population talk about the probability
of revolution as gravely as if they
lived in France, where a revolution is
an everyday affair. The Danish
parliament is not altogether satisfied
with its royal family and with the
manner in which the affairs of state
have been managed, and, although
Scions Of the Danish stock are engraft-
ed on almost every royal line of Eu-
rope, the Danish people are discern
tented and unhappy. There IS nc
danger, however, OF any revolution IL
Denmark. Its aged monarch has 9
very long head, and is not likely tc
compromise himself with his subjects
on a mere minor matter of admins
tration.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-29

THE people of Iowa await with much
interest decision soon to be made by
the United States supreme court, in,
volving the constitutionality of the
prohibition law of that state. The
case is a suit brought by brewers at
MarshalItown, Iowa, against the Chi
cago 6 Northwestern railway COM
p4ny for refusing to transport a guam
tity of beer from Chicago to Marshall
town. The company declined the
shipment on the ground that it would
be liable to heavy fine under Ger
tain section of the prohibition laws OF
Iowa. The brewers claim the section
referred to exceeds the authority OF
states and is therefore unconstitu-
tional.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-29
HePaid.
Detroit Free Press.

It notice by the papers," he said,
as he waited for the froth on his beer
to settle, that a man in Chicago
saloon fell dead just, as be had
finished drinking glass of beer"
Il see dot same thing In der papers
too, replied the saloonist.
"Curious, wasn't it2"
''Vhell, don't think so. You see,
he drank oop dot beer und said,
'Sharge it to mel und der bartender
he brings out his, club and taps him
on the head. 1t was almost eafery
day semebody drops deadt hers!"
He. laid a hickory club on the bar
and looked the man full Ia the eye,
and the beer was hardly down before
it was paid for.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-29
AT the Acknowledged congress

AT the Anthropologieal congress.
which is soon to be held Ia Rome,
there will be collection Of 700 skulls
of criminals, with the photographs OF
5000 convicts and the brains Of more
than $50 convicts, beside thousands
of autographs, poems, sketches and
special instruments, the work of Grim
iuals, with an album containing the
record Of 700 observations, physical
and moral, on SO criminals and on
500 ordinary men. There will also be
graphic maps of crime In Europe with
reference to meteorology, food, insti>
tutions, suicide, etc., and tables of the
stature of criminals in relation to the
length of the arms and of crime in
town compared with that in the coun
try. Photographs OF Russian politi
cal and other criminals, especially of
those from Moscow, and wax masks
of a large number of celebrated crim-
mails will likewise be exhibited. Per-
sons prominent IN criminal anthro-
pology are expected to take part in the
congress.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-29
A Typical Texas Landlord.
Texas Siftings.

On the first of the month Jim Muir,
ry, an Austin landlord, called on Hos
letter McGinnis for the rent
'Mr Murry, I don't think you
ought to charge nae $40 a month for
the rent of this room. When it rains
the water runs right into the room
through the roof, it leaks So"
"What! There is running water On
the premises? You will have 10 pay
So extra for that. How long have you
been enjoJi ing the water privileges at
my expense?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-29

box. They claim that Mr.. Dexter
committed perjury in swearing to
this. Mr.. Dexter has subscribed $500
to the committees fund for carrying
on the investigation.
The case of Col. Hudson, Chief of
police. for dereliction of duty, ETC., ia
not arresting men charged with vio>
lation of the registeay law. was con
tinued until next Monday. The cas-
es of the others charged with viola~
tod of the registry law were also con-
tlnued, to enable their attorneys to
argue demurrcrs which are based on
the unconstitutionality of the law,
the point being that it applies only
to Clip "innati aud Clevelaud.