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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-03-25
Facts from Fargo.

factS IRON FARGO.
Delayed Correspondence.
Fargo is flourishing.
C.P. Farr, our live merchant, reports
business booming.
DR.. Coffee. of Forestville, n. Y. has
located here. lie is a frst-class physi
clan i'll every respect and is having
good practice.
Jas Rands has commenced building
a wagon and carriage shop together
with blacksmith shop which will be
when completed 25x50 feet.
Our shoemaker disappeared rather
mysteriously on the 18th inst. He took
about $95 of the citizens money with
him, c. u. Farr being the heaviest loser
He leaves a wife and three children be.
hind him.
f. Cough has left this place fol-
Brockway Centre to look after his in.
terests there.
Our school under the management OF
Miss Lura Potter, closed on the 18th.
Miss Mary Vogelei is the guest OF
Mrs. Jas. Rands for the present week
Ed. Stevens feels two thousand dollars
richer by being the father of pair OF
twins.
r. Sleeth is manufacturing the cele.
brated iron harrow to ship the coming
season.
Miss Rosa Lohr is recovering from q
severe illness.
The Misses Mary Martin and Elvia
Barry will attend the normal school al
Fort Gratiot next term.
Ernest HOOK, of Brockway Centre
has opened up g9ct store in the
Grange building.
The new NJ. p. church at this place
was dedicated on Sunday, Mar. Z. There
were . ministers present and $751 rails
ed. Had there been another minister
present they might possibly have reach
ed $500. SULLIVAN
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-03-25
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04
FOREIGN.

Two German spies have been arrested
in Paris. They admitted that they were
making plans of the forts and routes for
the German government.
ADvIoEs from Rangoon say that officials
of Burmah state that it will be impossi-
bic to subjugate that country under four
years, and that a large army will be need
ed to restore order.
A PROTOCOL has been signed renewing
diplomatic relations between Servia and
Bulgaria. It provides for a treaty of
commerce, and for the reference OF
several dispute to a joint commission.
The chief commissioner of police IN
London has issued orders fOrbidding a
procession of unemployed workingmen
simultaneously with the pageant of the
lord Mayor.
A telegram from Odessa says that the
Russian consul at Varna has asked for
the dispatch of a Russian war ship to
that place to protect the consulate and
Russian residents from the violence Of
the pOpulace.
The French vice consul at Montreal,
having lost heavily by the abscond1ng Of
ROthschild at Toronto, is an active advO-
cate of reform in the extradition system
between Canada and the United States.
The Herold, German paper published
in st. Petersburg, says that there are
four hundred troops on board the Russian
cruisers dispatched to Varna, and that
they have orders TO occupy that city if the
Russians who were illegally arrested are
not released.
The Paris Figaro says it is expected
that M. de Giers, Russian minister of
foreign affairs, will issue circular to
the powers declaring that active measure
are necessary to terminate the anarchy
prevailing in Bulgaria, on the ground
that it is dangerous to the peace of the
Balkan states and offensive to Russia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS
WASHINGTON.

ONE hotel in Washington is entertain
ing ten bridal couples, and another has
twenty in charge.
THE secretary of war has given orders
that Chief Mangus with two of his braves
be sent with Geronimo to Fort Pick
rms.
THE national supreme court has de-
cided that the law designed to regulate
the railroad charges can not apply
to the inter state traffic, as that would
tread upon the constitutional powers of
congress.
The secretary of the interior has de-
cided that the marriage Of single women
who had homestead entry will not de-
feat her right to make final proof and re
ceive title TO the land under the home
stead law.
THE President has presented a hand
some silver cup of nautical design to
Captain Frank NJ. Wallace, of the British
bark Monsita, for humane services in
rescuing the crew of the American schoon-
er Barnett Jones, in March last
The commissioner of internal revenue
has modified the regulations in regard to
the Oleomargarino law so as to make
them conform to the attorney general
that cOmpOnents of Oleomargarine are
subject to tax only when made in imita-
ton or substance of butter.
SUPERINTENDENT Jamison, of the rail
road mail service, has completed his an
nual report for the fiscal year ended June
80, last. From the report it appears that
at the close of the year the railwaysPost-
offices numbered ST., occupying 435 whole
cars and 1859 apartments in cars. The
aggregate length of railroad routes over
which these cars run is 110,672 miles
and the annual number of miles of rail
road service performed by clerks was 100
923.91O.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04

a petriffed human heart, taken from a
coffin in the cemetery at Troy Grove
The total number Of students in Har-
ward University this year is 1,077. The
freshman class list bears 279 names, the
largest on record. There are twenty
three Illinoisians in the college.
A WOODEN idol, four feet high, is being
erected as Middlebury, Connecticut, by
a wealthy farmer named Elisha Gedney
who is a Second Adventist. He insists
that the image is Daniel.
Mrs. CoRNELIA NJ. STEWART, widow of
the millionaire merchant, A. I. Stewart.
expired Monday morning in her marble
palace at Thirty-fourth street and Fifth
avenue, New York. She was nearly SIS years
of age.
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed for
unwilling Bartholdi's statute in New York.
Senator Evarts will make the presenta-
ton address and President Cleveland will
reply. Cbancey NJ. Depew will deliver
the Grafton and Bishop Potter the bene-
diction.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.

HENRY Fl. MEYER, of Memphis, has been
acquitted of the murder of W. B. D0nO-
van the debaucher of his wife. Meyer
will return to Germany with his children.
On the crow reservation, in Montana,
party of fifty Sioux made an attack on
Crow camp near the Sioux were driven
off with the loss of five warriors, who
were scalped.
GEORGE T. SETTER, ex-clerk of the Gin
cinnati bOrad of public works, has been
held in $4,000 for defrauding the city.
On his testimony James Morgan a mem
Der of the board was held in $4,000 for
certifying fraudulent vouchers.
SATURDAY night, at Rockford, H., Aug
ust Valentine, aged so, was set upon and
beaten by David Cregan. John Dixon and
John LAWN, young men, and died Mon
day from his wounds. Cregan and his
partners are in jail.
The recent dynamite explosion in the
house of Commissioner Collins, at Car
tersviue, Ga, has been followed by the,
Indictment for attempt to murder DR.. L.
FL. Baker, one of the foremost citizens
and his bro jher Gus.
MARTIN KELLEY, engineer of the wild
lOCOIuOI1NS Wu1Cu CotSS6u GuS uiSdSt6I otG
Pine Bluff, Wis, was arrested at Madison
on Thursday on charge of mauslaughter
and held in 81, 800 bonds. The persons
who were wounded are recovering.
FoTHERINGHAM, the express messenger
who was robbed on the San Francisco
road, says the perpetrator gave his name
as Jim Cummings, the last of the Jesse
James gang, a participant in the Blue cut
train robbery, which yielded him over
$500.
4 MAN whose name is alleged to be Al
G. Kerr, is in Jail at Springfield, charged
with participating in the murder of Sta
tion Agent Powers at Marshall ILL.,, last
September. The prisoner claims that
his name is Martin Crafty, and his home
is at Bloomington, Ill.
IT is believed that Henry Peters,
missing witness in HaddOck murder trial
at Sioux City, was killed by the assassins
to prevent his revealing their names. 4
decomposed body found on the 4th inst.
at Crescent, Iowa, and inferred in the
Potters' field at Council Bluffs, was ex-
humed Tuesday, and an examination of
the clothing led to the almost complete
identification of Peters.
The postofice inspectors engaged in
inspecting the accounts of Col. Bolton,
late superintendent of second class matter
IN the Chicago post Office, are prepared
to prove the embezzlement of S20,261,
but they estimate the total deficit at $32,
900, based on his average speculations
for three years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

A FIRE at Pennington, Me-, destroyed
thirty-three dwellings, nineteen stores and
three churches, valued at 100000.
The Davis malt house at Watkins, n.
Y, with a large amount of barley and
malt, Sunday night. The loss is about
100000.
MONDAY evening, at Mendon, Mich, five
buildings were burned. The insurance
foots up $4,000.
The Jordan block, at Murfesboro,
Tenn, was destroyed by fire, Tuesday
morning, causing a total loss Of 100000;
insuran about one-half
PENOYAR Bios saw mill, at Oscoday,
Mich, burned Tuesday, midnight. Loss,
$40, 1000; insurance, $4,000.
THE fire in the mountains near Read
ing, Pa, has been extinguished, after
5000 acres of valuable timber land had
been burned over. A number of cattle
persisted in the flames.
By the caving in of a tunnel along the
new CrOton aqueduct, near New York, the
Chicago firm of Brown, Howard & Co.,
suffered loss of $4,000.
Al LoG-CABIN near Flat Rock, Knox
County KY, was burned Tuesday night,
the wife and five children of William Poe,
and Misses Alice Barnes and Sallie Adams
persisted in the flames.
Two freight trains on the st. Paul road
we're in collision, Monday morning, at
FrankviIle, Wis. The engines were de-
molished and the wreck caught fire, a
dozen cars laden with lumber and barley
being consumed.
D. L. JoHNsoN's large Touring mill at
Yorkville, Mich, was burned, Monday
morning about l o'clock. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $4,000. The fire was caused
by Overheated journals.
AT ChebOygnn, Mich, W.T.. Smiths mill
was destroyed by fire, Sunday morning
Loss, 5000; insured for 81 900. Being
out of reach of the fire department it
was pOWerIess to render help. The lum-
Der was all saved.
SIXTEEN structures, including two hotel
and the principal business houses, at
POcahontos, Va, were destroyed Wednes
day by an incendiary fire. One man
persisted in the flames and other per-
sons are reported missing. The financial
loss is placed at $4,000.
The limited express train on the st.
Paul road which left Chicago Wednesday
evening ran into an open switch at Rio;
Wisconsin, and was derailed. The cars
at once took fire, and the injured passen-
gers were roasted. It is believed that at
least thirteen lives were lost. Bishop
Whipple and wife, of Minnesota, who
were on board, have arrived at st. Paul
The School of Applied Science, erect
ed in Cleveland with funds left by the
late Leonard Case, was early Wednesday
morning destroyed by fire, followed by
explosions in the laboratory. The loss
is about 100000, and the insurance $l5,-
900. Flames also wired out the JoTdon
block at Nashville Tennessee, valued at
100000; sixteen buildinge at Pocahon-
tas, Virginia, and q rolling mill of the
Old Colony works at East Taunton Mass
ackusetts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04
The Recruit Recovered His Gum.
Atlanta Constitution.

A good story is told on a young recruit
who recently enlisted at Camp Hancock,
near Atlanta. The young fellow joined
the army while the country was threaten
ing war with Mexico and he intended to
make good soldier. One day he was on
guard duty and was slowly stepping
along when an officer approached. After
the usual salute the officer said:
''Let me see your gun"
The raw recruit handed over his Spring
field rife and a pleased expression stole
over his face.
AS the officer received the gun he said
in tone of deepest disgust:
you're a fine soldier! You've given
up your gun, and now what are you 60
ing to do?"
The young Albanian turned pale and,
reaching for his pocket, drew big six
shooter, and, preparing for business,
said in voice that could not be mis-
understood:
Gimme that gun or I'll blow hole
through you in pair of minutes"
The officer decided not to monkey
any further with the raw recruit, and the
gun was promptly surrendered.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04
Blondes and BrunetS.
London Standard.

The business of examining the hair,
eyes and skin of 6,868, 1927 pupils is not
holiday task to be lightly undertaken on
spare afternoon. How long it occupies
is not stated, but examination of this
number of little boys and girls has been
made in Germany by Prof. Virchow; but
it is not very evident that his industrious
anthrOpologistic labors are rewarded by
results. He has only found out that what
g toIerably Observant traveller might have
discovered for himself; and the precise
figures he gives are of little or no prac-
tical value. 1t appears that 43 236 per
cent. of children in North Germany are
blondes, 80 5-26 per cent. are blondes in
Middle Germany, and "a 5-28 per cent.
in the South. The River Main, it is point
ed out, thus becomes an anthropOlogical
line of significance. In general, the
further south one goes the more brunets
one meets-South Bavaria mastering but
IA per cent. of blondes. Among 1896
Hebrew children another table of figures
shows the pure brunets Outnumbered the
pure blondes threefold. Whereas the re-
lation of the blondes to the brunets
among the Jewish children is 11.29 to ~.
The tolerably observant traveller afore-
said would have-indeed, he often has
noted that blondes predominote to the
north and brunets to the south; also that
Jews are generally dark haired-as a rule
Orientials and people of Oriental descent
are so. The professors discoveries lack
novelty
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04
FancieS in Fans.
Toledo Blade.

"One of the pretties fans introduced
this season. said Toledo dealer in la
dies articles this morning, lis called the
Cleveland and consists of either three
or five long ostrich feathers and few
tips with handles of amber Or mother
of pearl. It is very expensive. costing
from So to S3O-a bow of ribbon with
very large ends is tied around the handle.
It is pretty and the name makes it fash
ionabie.
The largest and most expensive fans
are those of white or natural ostrich
feathers with tortoise shell sticks. These
cost $50. Very beautiful are some of the
hand-painted silk gauze, but even these
usually have border of ostrich or mara
bout feathers. France and Spain manu-
facture most of the fans which are ured
both in England and America. As far
back as the eighteenth century there
were more than 500 manufactures of fans
in Paris alone. At that time the fan
makers formed into guild Ike the guilds
of other trades and petitioned for privil-
eyes, which were willingly granted Them
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04

A RECENT issue of the Electric Review
gives the details of an invention that is
destined to work radical change in the
hotel system of waking guests. 1t is an
electrical annunciator, working both ways
from rooms to office as well as Office to
rooms, and is particularly acceptable as
by its means one guest may be awakened
in the morning without arousing every
one else on the floor. An instantaneous
alarm can also be sounded by it in every
room in the hotel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04

THE new "brown" or 'cocoa" powder is
a departure in military affairs. Wood
charcoal has given piece to new mater
iaI, and the proportion of saltpeter and
and sulphur has been changed. The new
powder makes less smoke and is slower to
explode when not confined. 1t has prov
ed its efficiency in the artillery, provid-
ed always that the guns are breech-load-
ers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04

THERE is a curious custom among the
negroes of Washington, d. c., of having
burial societies; organizations for the eA
elusive purpose of making a display at
the funerals of those who belong to them.
The average colored man will contem-
plate the hereafter with much less dread
if he is certain that his moral part will be
conducted to the grave by long process
sion of his friends and brass band and
this characteristic of the race has led to
the organization of number of societies
among which there is considerable rival
~ as to the demonstrations made at the
funerals of their respective members.
They are incorporated under such lugu-
brious and fine sounding titles as "The
sons and daughters of Gethsemane, y
"The ancient and honorable order of the
Gallilean Fisherman" The most devoted
bretheren and sisters of the star of Beth
ehem,' and others of similar sort.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04

RUSSIA is going to have railroad tun-
mel three miles long, at the cost of $780,
900. She has $1,000 miles of railway, but
her only tunnel is 700 miles long. More
great works of this kind are contemplat-
ed, and as Russian engineers areignorant
of tunnel making, there is demand for
foreign skill.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04

BEES in their search for honey visit
only one kind of flowers on the same trip.
This is not accidental, but it is wise pro-
vision for preventing Adjudication of
different varieties from the pollen which
bees always distribute in their journeys
from flower to flower
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04

the exception of the last sleeper, which
was cut away from the flaming pile. All
the bodies of the victims were burned in
tho urnnL
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04
Michael StroeoR."

Mr.. G. G. Staley, while playing the lead
ing part in "Michael Strogof," at YAK
land, CAL, became so hoarse from a Sc
we're cold that he despaired of being aole
to continue his part Two bottles OF Keo
Star Cough Cure entirely cured hlm.
Does not nauseate.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04

Lawrence Barrett last week visited
John E. Owens at the latter's home, near
Baltimore, and found him much improved
III health.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04
GENERAL NOTES.

DANIEL CARR, a farmer in the vicinity
of Mendoza, H., has what he claims to be
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04

Father Damon, Catholic priest who
has devoted himself to and lived among
the lepers of Molokai, the island upon
which are collected the lepers of the
Sandwich Island group, has himself be-
come victim of leprosy; but he is calm
and resigned to his fate, and considers it
the will of God. Perhaps it is, but it is
equally the result of circumstances which
tend to show that the disease is contag-
lOus.-FrOnl DIR. Foote's Health MoathLY.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04

CURIOUS feature in the National Mu
scum in Washington is the geological sec
ton, of the department devoted to birds
eggs. 1t has about $4,000 birds eggs
packed away in little trays placed in
cases along the walls of the building. The
eggs in the collection vary in size from
the tiniest humming bird to the giant bird
of Madagascar. There is little egg of
tiny humming bird lying in a diminu-
tive nest. The humming bird that made
the nest and laid the egg is the smallest
bird in the world. The little egg has a
length or long diameter Of three-tenths
of an inch and short diameter of three
hundreths of an inch. The nest is one
twentieth of an inch across one way and
92-100 the other.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04

The small boy who plays circus with
the trick-goat' in the back yard should
see that the st. Jacobs Oil bottle is not
eIupty
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04

Two heads is better than one when. ex-
cept when there is but one pillow
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04

The reports from all over the country
show an increase in the general amount
of business done, and a feeling
of encouragement for the business future
The feeling of encouragement has evil
IDENTIFY come to stay. It was with us last
fall and in the winter, and would have
received no encouragement had it not
been for the unsettled feeling that grew
out of the labor strikes and the agita-
ton of the eight-hour question. Now
these questions are practically settled,
business seems to be reviving and the
outlook is hopeful.