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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-13
RIOTS AND BLO0DSHED.
The Police Believe the Leading InSti-
gators of the Recent Troubles are
Now all Lodged i'll Jail.
The Citizens OF Chicago Place Great
Confidence in the Ability OF the
Police to Preserve Peace.
THE SITUATION AT CHICAGO.

Confidence Expressed in the Otticials-Ihe Soc
ialiSts Headquarters raided-Ihe Condition
of the Wounded.
CHICAGO. May 9-There is great feel
ING of confidence apparent this morning
in the ability of the authorities to pre-
serve peace, though the outlook contin-
ues threatening in certain quarters, and
the police expect that they may be called
upon to dispense gatherings in certain
portions of the city. The arrest of few
anarchists yesterday has insured feel
that this element will no longer prove so
troublesome in view of the fact that
the police now believe all the leading
instigatOrs of the recent trouble
have been Gagged with the possible excest-
ion of one or two. The collecting
of evidence against the conspirators is
proceeding rapidly. The police raided
a hall of the anarchists at los north Wells
street this morning, and seized few
muskets found there. The police also
raided the socialistic headquarters at So
Claybourne avenue this morning but
nothing beyond red flags and incendiary
banners as found.
The four imprisoned anarchists, August
Spies, Chris Spies, Sam Fielden and
Michael Schwab, were photographed by
the police to-day.
The two Fort Wayne railroad switchmen
arrested yesterday, were taken before
Commissioner Hoyne this morning and
charged with delaying the United States
mails. The cases were continued until
Saturday next in $500 bonds each. The
detectives inspected the house at 322
Henry ST., and found fifty rounds of am
munition, two rifles, sword bayonet, re-
volver, billy and quantity of anarchis-
tic literature. The occupant of the house
Gustavo STANCE, is said by the officers
to be the moulder of the bombs. He was
arrested and taken up to the Central sta
ton.
The police made still another raid, this
afternoon, at II West Lake street, Selling
and carrying away lot of red flags and
banners. Some of them emblazoned with
most rabid threats against the constituted
authorities.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-13
FOREIGN.

A BERLIN correspondent says Turkey is
bankrupt and Russia has to borrow to pay
interest. Bulgaria is sound with unlimit
ed credit.
IT is officially announced that cholera
has appeared in Venice and Vicenza. Sew
eral cases and some deaths are reported
in these places daily.
The Spanish sanitary council has auth
orized the practice of innoculation dis
covered by DR.. Ferran in the event of a
recurrence of cholera in Spain.
The rebels against the British in Upper
Burmah have re-captured the city of Man
dalay and have destroyed a great portion
of it. Four thousand buildings are re-
ported burned.
The officials of the French New Hebri-
des company on Espiritu Santo island
have been massacred by party or natives
from Port Stanley. The governor of New
Caledonia has dispatched a transport
with troops to the island to render any
assistance that may be required.
RUSSIA will accept the reply of Greece
to the ultimatum of the powers. All Eu-
rope is discussing the trouble between
Greece and Turkey. There seems to be
an impression that the troubles have been
bridged over.
In the case of J. 7. Cluverius, convicted
at Richmond, Va, of the murder of Fanny
Lillian Madison, the supreme court of ap-
peals Thursday, decided against the pris-
oner, fully sustaining the Judgment of the
lower court. Unless thes governor inter
feres Cluverius will be hanged
GEORGE AND LOUIS Coz, brothers, dis
covered a burglar in school house at
Englewood, n. j., Wednesday night, and
attempted to capture him. The robber
shot George Coe twice, inficting fatal
wounds. Louis Coe then closed with the
murderer, beat him on the head with an
iron jimmy, and locked him in room
while he procured help, but the robber
escaped.
The value of landed property in France,
| as ascertained after four years patient
investigation by the government, is re-
ported to amount to as much as $1S,412,-
| 100000. This is exclusive of the value of
| the buildings, which if added to that of
the land, would probably increase the
! total to sum exceeding $27,571 100000.
The net revenue obtained from landed
property is $521, $40, 900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-13
GENERAL NOTES.

The eight-hOur movement was not SO
general as was anticipated. Only a few
of the larger cities have been affected by
it.
The labor troubles in Chicago have re-
suited in virtual suspension of business
at Muskegon, from which port there was
but one clearance Tuesday.
A NUMBER of men left GAINESVILLE, Wis.
Wednesday night for Chicago, to take the
places of strikers in the Northwestern
freight houses.
The American medical Association be-
gan its seventh annual convention Tues
day at st. Louis, with a very large attend
ance of delegates.
The harbor of Duluth is still obstruct-
ed by ice. Five steamers are in the off
ing, making slow progress toward the
open water in front Of the canal.
THE ship-owners, ship-builders and
lumber dealers of the Pacific coast have
memoralized congress asking that recip-
rocity with the Hawaiian Islands be not
abrogated.
The commissioners who were appointed
to locate the new Iowa State Soldiers
Home authorized to be established by an
act of the Legislature, have voted to locate
it at the city of Marshaltown. The city
offered for the home 100 acres of land and
a cash donation of $4,000.
THOUSANDS of cattle and horses are be-
ing dispatched from Galveston, Texas,
daily for Dakota and Kansas. Cattle
from Western Texas, owing to the
drought, are going to market in poor
condition.
JEFF DAVIS trip from Atlanta to Savan-
nah, Sunday, was a continuous ovation.
At every station along the route crowds
Davis was called upon for speech. Upon
the arrival of the party at Savannah they
were received by fifteen military COM
panies and vast concourse Of enthusiast
tic citizens.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-13
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

The Elkhart paper pail factory at Elk
hart, Ind, was fatally destroyed by fire
Monday night. The loss is estimated at
$4,000; the insurance is $4,000.
AT Bay City, Mich, Wednesday morn
ing, the steam barge Alvira Turner, ran
into and wrecked the east span of the
Michigan Central railroad bridge.
AN Alton freight train of twenty-five
cars broke in two at Delavan, Illinois,
morning. Nine lumber-cars were thrown
down an enbankment, by which four men
were instantly killed.
A BLOCK of buildings owned by J. D.
and II. D. Carpenter, at Oberlin, Ohio,
was entirely destroyed by fire Sunday
morning, causing loss of $4,000 to the
tradesmen occupying the block. The
buildings were valued at $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-13
A QUEER GENIUS.
An Artist who Sketched with His Month

A dispatch from Lunenburg, Mass.
says: Percy w. Hastings, who won fame
as an artist, although completely paralyz
ed below the neck, died to-day. He at
tended school at Ashburnham six wears
ago, where he fell from a trapese STRIKING
on his back. 1t was two months before he
could be removed to his fathers shouse
here. Since the accident June 30 1880
Percy Hastings has had 40 use of his
body below the neck, as a result of the
fracture Of the third vertebra. To amuse
himself, Percy learned to hold a pen in
his mouth. He soon succeeded in writing
good business hand. Sketching was
next in order. An easel was next attached
to his reclining chair and placed but few
inches from his face. In sketching Percy
met with such signal success that he tried
painting In water colors, and made good
progress. An attendent would prepare
his paints and place the brush in Percy's
mouth. The principal work has been the
painting of flowers from nature. The
work has been on exhibition many times
and has received much praise The gen
eral size of paintings has been six by six,
the extent of the area that could be cover
ed by the motion of the head Of these
paintings many readily sold for from IS
to So each. Many persons are on record
as having been able TO produce almost
phenomenal results by the use of the
mouth, but only with the use of other por-
lions of the body. Lunenburg's Young
artist is the first illustration of what there
can be accomplished with the mouth
alone,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-13
Had a Remarkable Neck.
New Orlea MS Chronicle


Our old friend the prize prevaricator,
has been off on a tour recently, and this
morning he returned and stepped into
the sanctum with fresh yarn. Here is
what he said:
A few years ago I kept country store
in the pine woods of Maine. The town
was strict prohibition and we kept bar
rel down celia for the faithful who could
be trusted to divulge nothing. We had
had also in the cellar an old gray owl, and
it became byword when the boys wanted
liquor to say they were going to see the
owl" We used to put him on top of a
barrel in the center of the room, and one
man advancing to within a few feet of
the owl, proceeded to walk around the
barrel, always keeping his eyes fastened
upon the owl as though trying to stare
him out of cOuntenance. Around and
around the barrel the man would glide,
the owl intently watching him, turning
his head around and never moving its
body from its first position. When his
neck was as we called it wound up" the
man would suddenly drop to the floor
and the owl would begin to unwind, slow
ly at first then more rapidly, until it ac-
quired rapidity making it impossible to
distinguish his head from a
a buzz ssaw, slowing up as it began to
reach its normal position. I've seen that
owl wind his head around as often as 200
times before he weakened. Some of the
boys lost wagers on $50 timer. But he
had not acquired that much skill as a
contOrtiOnist.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-13

jamin W. Burton, well-known colored
man.
ANOTHER attack by rioters Wednesday
on the rolling mills at Bay View, Wis, was
repulsed by the militia, who fired at the
mob. Two persons were shot dead, and
four others, one boy of IA, received
mortal wounds. One of the victims was
feeding chickens in his yard at the time
he was shot.
The Rev. William Hammond, recently
pastor of the Baptist Church at Frank
lin, n. H., who robbed his wife. restored
the money, and then eloped to Canada, is
suspected of having murdered his first
wife, and of having burned his house at
Wolf Lake, Ind, to get the insurance. It
is known that he was warned to quit Lii
gonier, Ind, und that he bore an unsavory
reputation as a travelling quack.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-13

THE biggest diamond in the world,' if
it be diamond, is the Braganza which
forms a part of the Portuguese crown
Jewels. 1t weighs 1860 carats. However,
not little doubt exists of its being a
diamond as the government never allowed
it to be tested. It was found in Brazil in
1741. The larges tested, but uncut, dia-
mond is the Manhattan, belonging to the
Raiah of Nathan in Borneo. It is of
pure water weighs 267 carats and is of
dear shape, indented at the thick end. 1t
was found about 1850 at Landark in Bor-
neo. It has been the cause of a sanguin-
ary war Before it was cut the Kohinoor,
which is one of the English crown jewels,
was the largest tested diamond. 1t then
weighed 1913 carats. When in possession
of the Emperor Aurengzebe it was re-
duced by uuskillful cutting to 1876 carats.
During the Sikh mutiny it was captured
by British troops and presented to Queen
Victoria 1t was re-cut and now weighs
106 1t carats.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-13
4 Dental Surgeon Called.
New York Herald.


He looked haggard and careworn as he
came out of the Castle garden gate and
listlessly took his seat on bench near
the sea-wall. The little box on his knees
was half open, and the glitter of pol
ished steel weapon reflected the rays of
the son from beneath the lid.
"It was an awful job said he to the
man who sat on the seat beside him; ''but
I got 'em Strengthened out You see, the
clerk who rolls out the names of the pas
sengers got his jaw out of joint, and his
assistant he got his jaw out of joint, and
the third clerk he got in the same fix. 1t
looked as if it was going to be, rs the
poet says, jaw forever out of Joint for
all Castle garden.
"What happened?" nervously inquired
the stranger.
ooh, Capt. Stevenson arrived from
Hamburg to-day with his Hammonia, and
he brought a lot of families along with
him, not his own. Now, I'm dental sur
geOn."
"Well?"
''Well, was called in by telephone with
this box of instruments, and you ought
to see me yank those fellows around: but
[ got 'em all right. There's a fellow get
ting through with his work now splen-
didly.''
"What's the matter with their jaws?''
capt. Schwensen's responsible. His
families are a terror. Here's a few of
them: Bella, Bertha, Emma, and Marga
Schwedersky; Franz, Karl, Marie, Anna
Wyskocil Vincent, Catha, Bronislawn
lawn Pigstowski; Franz, Marie, Sophie,
Anne, Jacob, Susanna Tacsynsdi, and
Heinz, Trina, Herm, Elisabeth, Dorothea,
and Ndolf Nieschulz. They are all going
to be set to music when the German opera
gets back
S'ThOse are nice names"
eyes. But the clerk broke down when
they called Peter, Anna and Marie Quist."
"But who's the fellow that's doing so
splendidly?"
They sent for him up in Greenwich
street. He is a Bohemian. His name is
INSTRUMENTATION Observation-Disclosures
XII"
'He's doing splendidly, is he?"
eyes, the clerks say he he knows all
about Schwensen's passengers, and as he's
slow writer [ thought I'd come out here
for an hour or two and rest while he was
signing his name. He had just begun
before I left
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-13

South Australian harvest returns show
that abont 1,95OOO6 acres have been sown
with wheat, being 1000 acres more than
in the preceding season. Of this quantity
100000 acres were not reaped-that is to
say, there were nothing to reap, or what
crop there was was mown for hay. This
reduces the area actually stripped for
wheat to 100000 acres. From this area
the estimated average yield is 3 bushels 10
pounds per acre, which makes the total
production 5,161, 666 bushels.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-13

By means of the proposed tunnel from
the Canadian mainland to Prince Edwards
Isle, it is believed that steam communica-
ton may be carried on all the year round,
as is the case now in the Clyde, Severn,
and Thames system. The total distance
from Cape Tormentine to Cape Traverse,
the two terminal points, is eight and one
half miles, and between these two points
are the Straits of Northumberland. The
plan is to run tunnel composed of metal
cylinders three-eights inches thick. fifteen
feet in diameter, lined with concrete two
and one half feet thick, giving a clear
passageway of ten feet, through which
cars may be drawn by 6reless engines,
also to run piers out from the mainland
on the New Brunswick side ten thousand
feet, and from Prince Edwards side four
thousand feet. To reach the bottom of
the straits which at the end of these piers
is twenty feet pelow water level a cylender
will run down gradual incline. Venti-
lation of the whole will be secured by
means of a shaft about half way across
the straits, at which point the water is
ninety feet deep.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-13
A MINNEAPOLIS ACCIDENT.
Thirteen Persons Crushed by the Fall
OF the Wall of a Building at Mime
apolis.
Five of the Number Dead and Several
Others Supposed to be MortaIly In
iured.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, May 7:--ShortIy after
O'Clock this afternoon one of the walls
or Bracket block, Minneapolis. a five
story building to which an addition was
oelng made, fell out and crashed into the
basement, which had been excavated for
the new portion, burying dozen work
men beneath the ruins. Eleven have
been taken out; four of whom are dead
and the others more or less seriously in
jured Of the dead, at this hour. but
two have been identified: J. Conneu, I'M
married, and John Janisch. with wife
and six children. Fire and police alarms
brought a force of rescuers to the scene
and the work of recovery was prosecuted
under the direction of Mayor Ames. Be
sides the killed mentioned above, others
in the ruins are S. Arverson, J. Carlson,
j. Polum, Erwin S. Erickson, O. Wick
strund, Ole Erickson, A. Jufrene, c. Blair,
and Boswell.
of these the two Others killed have not
been Unidentified. Most of the injured
will recover. The building was located on
the northeast corner of Second street and
First avenue south. 1t was composed of
retaining walls with floors supported by
two parable rows of heavy wooden columns
resting upon large square timbers running
Here IN this woodwork was the weak spot.
There were no cross-ties and when the
| inner wall was removed the weight of the
accumulated material on the floors caused
them to sag outward until they literally
pulled out and tOppled over into the ad-
Joining hole, roof and floors with their
burden of brick. Concerning the re-
sponslbility for the accident, Building
Inspector Pardee says permit to build
an addition was refused April 10. on &C
count of objections to removing fire walls.
Later on objections were made as tothe
manner in which the walls were being taken
down. They were excavating and tearing
out the wall without a permit. It is a
questionable proceeding to take the wall
down IN that manner. Z. D. Orff, archi-
tect, says he thinks the fall was caused by
workmen digging under one of the lines
of wooden supports, which were put up as
fast as the wall was taken out. WOrkmen
also used battering ram in removing the
stone wall in the basement, and this is
thought TO have Jared the building. st
is also true" Mr.. Orff continued THAT
the men loaded more brick on the roof of
the building than they should, thus push
ing the roof and causing the fall of the
whole wall. George A. Bracket, owner of
the building, comedies with the architect
in regard to the cause of the accident
The damage to the structure is about
$4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-13

California is a fruitful land, and not in
wheat and metals alone is its productive
capabliity worthy to remark. In the
year 1885 there were sent to market by
that State 100000 pounds of prunes, l.
$4,000 pounds of apples, 100000 pounds
of peaches, 1,139,OOO pounds of plums,
$4,000 pounds of apricots, 2,25O,OOO
pounds of honey, 100000 pounds of wal
nuts, and 100000 pounds of almond
The production of raisins for that year
aeached 100000 pounds, being nearly
three times as great as in 1884.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-13
A Happy Chinaman.
Sar Francisco Chronicle.

In Folsom prison the other day visi-
tor saw a Chinaman walking up and
down quite cheerful and happy. He did
not seem to have anything on his mind
at all, and he was indeed in excellent spir-
its. The visitor went up to him.
"Hello, John; are you prisoners"
eyes. Me in jail allo right"
"What are you in for?"
"Killum Chinaman."
GLOW long have you got?"
''Oh, allo time, allo time
'He was imprisoned for life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-13
THE Watch on the Rhine"
Paris Register.

Among the papers left by a friend re-
Gently deceased in the little Swiss village
of Burgdorf-in the cemetery of which
repose for now thirty-six years the re-
mains of Max Schneckenburger, the poet
and composer of "The Watch on the
Rhine''-the original manuscript of this
patriotic war song has been found. 1t is
again proposed to erect monument to
him, larger and more imposing than the
one set up in Schmalkalden some years
ago, and committee has been formed in
Tuttlingen and Thalheim (the latter being
the poets native place. to that end, and
an appeal to the nation at large has been
made. With the consent of the poets
widow and son a request was addressed to
the municipality of Burgdorf for permits
sion to remove his remains to Thalheim,
which was granted at once, and thus be-
fore many days the ashes of the German
songster will be deposited in German soil.
The funds for the monument will not be
long in collecting.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-13

Considerable interest attaches to the re-
suits attained by various American and
foreign scientists in their attempts to as
certain, by careful and prolonged obser
yations, the daily increase of the earth's
mass from the falling upon it of meteors
and cosmical dust. Briefly, these observa-
tions indicate the above four hundred and
fifty thousand meteors fall upon the sur
face of the whole earth every hour, the
average weight of these bodies being
about five grains each, the total represent
ing nearly five thousand pounds per hour,
or a fraction short of sixty tons every
twenty-four hours. It is remarkable that
such an amount of material falling thus
daily is certainly no small increase to the
earth's mass, and for this increase the
earths attraction is considered RESPONSE
BILE to the extent of twenty per cent; the
balance of eighty per cent, it is alleged,
would be increased each hour by globe
the size of the earth, even if it had no at
traction.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-13
To Digest VuIeanfts,

Requires acids more potent than the solvent
juices of the human stomach. And yet, in the
form Of medicine intended to reform the very evil
they aggravate, to-wt., dyspepsia solids and
fluids, irreconcilable in their constituents that
have no chemical affinity with the other, are
introduced into it. Are these so-called remedies
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, on the other hand, q
a simple medicine, harmonious in it's composition
and readibly assimilabfe, is active. and produces
marked as well as speedily appreciable effects.
because it is a rationable remedy suited to the
stomach 1t is tonic in the true sense, because
it harmonizes and insures regularity OF the oper-
atoms of digestion. Not the least Of the benefits
which it confers is thorough reQajr Of the dam
age inflicted the sbhEnaeA by A-cAoseA remed-
plants, rheumatism and kidney troubles, it Is
0ke invaluable.