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Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-02

Messrs. Smith and Martin. the lessees,
are drifting on the 100 and 2OO-foot levels
and stopping above the former. They raise
about ten tons Of ore per day, which mills
about so ounces in silver per ton. On No.
6, which Richard Davy has leased, the
runat 60 and 100 feet. He 10 stopping above
the two levels and milling about GO tons
of 5O-ounce per month. Job and Edwards
are working the west part Of the
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-02

Is producing enough ore from the levels and
slopes above the 6O0-foot station to sup
ply twenty stamps. The new Sturtevant
mill has proved a success at the first trial.
If it continues to do a. we'll ON regular
work Il will revolutionias the stamp mille.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
FOREIGN.

EIGHT thousand members of the civil
service in Ireland have a committee to
watch the progress of the home-rule bill
in parliament and secure a change favor
able to their interests.
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 Greek government has telegrphed
its representatives abroad that the powers
should demand no fresh assurances. But
it is rumOred that Greece will not disarm
n util the ultimatum of the great power
is withdrawn.
The cable reports the destruction by
fire of three-fourths of the Austrian town
of Lisko, and the confagraiion is still
raging.
AN Italian named Lorenzo Caponia was
arrested at st. Louis Saturday night for
passing counterfeit two-dollar notes. Two
hundred and fifty dollars in counterfeit
bills were found at his house.
The home-rule controversy still holds
the field in England and Ireland. At New
castle Lord Spencer, in his speech &C
quilted the Irish representatives of COM
plicity in crime, and said he believed the
new Irish Parliament will be true to its
mission.
News of wholesale confagrations comes
from several parts of Austria. The town
of Friedland, in Moravia, has been almost
totally destroyed by fire, during the prog
ress of which ten persons were killed.
The towns of Dobrowlaney, Bojaniec, and
ChyrOw have been completely DESTROYED,
and the town of Sanok has been greatly
damaged. At Chyrow man was caught
in the act of setting fire to building.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
Wisconsin Timber Lands.

WASHINGTON, April 24.-The Senate has
passed a bill authorizing the Sectary of the
Interior to sell timber upon the lands re-
served for the use of the Menominee tribe
of Indians in Wisconsin. The timber is to
be appraised by two disinterested apprais-
ers, to be appointed by the Secretary, in
eighty-acre lots, according to the public
survey. The appraisal shall state the guam
tity, quality, and value of pine timber grow
ing on each lot. The appraisers shall report
at the land office at Menasha, Wis, six days
before the day of sale, which shall be adver-
tised for two months in three papers in
Wisconsin. The sale shall be held at
auction, but the timber shall not be sold
for less than the appraised value and for
cash only. The purchasers may have five
years to remove the timber. If the Secre-
tary small deem it best for the Indians he
shall authorize the Indian Agent to employ
Indians to cut all or any part of said timber
into logs and haul the same to the bank OF
the river instead of selling it at auction, and
the logs shall then be sold to the highest
bidder for cash.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
STYLES In Headoear,

There are some most captivating little
Cigarettes for the hair-sOme composed of
a fluffy feather, with feathery spike ris-
ing from it, the stems of both being hid
den under a deft little bow of cOlored
ribbon. Some are pink, some blue, some
mauVe.
A handsome bonnet is made entirely of
jet, and trimmed with shaded velvet roses
in tints of red. Over these a veil of
thinnest red gauze is drawn, as well as
over great part of the jet. The effect
is inconceivably light and pretty, and ex-
tremely becoming.
A late fancy that is all the rage in New
York is the riding hat. 1t is shaped ex-
actly like gentleman's high hat, except
ing that the crown is not so tall 1t is
shown in blackssonly.
The Recamier style of dressing the
hair, arranging it in curls which are curls
and not fluff, seems to find favor with
London hair-dressers, but they do not
pretend to recommend it for home pro-
duction.
A gray bonnet composed of rows upon
rows of gray-tinted pearl beads had a
trimming of loops of gauze ribbon and a
sheaf of growing buds and strings of
gauZe ribbon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
GENERAL NOTES.

ALL the planning mills at Milwaukee save
two, shut down Thursday, in preference
| to paying ten hours pay for eight hours
work.
II. F. HARMON, -four merchant in Bos-
ton, who is an uncle of Miss frankie Fol
som, authorizes the statement that she is
engaged to President Cleveland her faith
er's law partner.
The Union Pacific road will at once be-
gin the erection of a union depot at
Omaha, to cost 100000 A large freight
house will also be built.
SOLOMON L. WHITLEY, United States Dis
trict judge for the Western District of
Michigan, died Monday as San Diego,
Cal, aged Sc.
A COMPANY to build bridge across the
Mississippi at Venice, ILL.,, was licensed
Monday. The capital stock is placed at
100000.
TUESDAY, while prospecting for coal
oil and gas at Hillsboro, Ills, vein of
coal oil and gas at Hillsboro, Ills, vein
of coal five and one half feet thick was
struck
The schooner Stampede returned to
Charlevoix, Mich, Tuesday, having made
the round trip to Sheboygan in sixty
nine hours-the quickest on record.
The 9th anniversary of Oddfellowship
in America was celebrated by the mem
bers of the order in Chicago at Battery
d Thursday night. About 5000 people
were present.
GENERAL MILES, in letter to the war
department pOrtraying the unprotected
condition of the Mexican border from Ell
Paso to the Colorado river, urges the ap-
preparation by congress of 100000 to
strengthen the present forts Or establish
additional ones.
GOVERNOR MARMADUKE, of Missouri, rep
resents public sentiment in the nth
west as demanding that railway str1,o be
no longer disturbed by strikes. He holds
that arbitration is better than the bay
Onet.
MORE than half of the acreage of Da-
kota and Minnesota has already been
sown to spring wheat, and the favorable
weather enables many farmers in Iowa,
Wisconsin and Nebraska to seed their
lands. There are indications that winter
wheat in Kansas will not be much more
than half crop.
Mrs. RETTA M. STERRITT, and Lulu
Shields, the latter aged 10, recently dis
appeared from Carbon, Ind, and at the
same time Sames Bush, married man,
and William M. Stewart turned up miss
ing. 1t is stated that the quartet eloped,
and are now living in a mining town near
st. Louis. Mrs. Sterritt left husband
and three small children.
In the United States court at Indian
apolis Thursday, in a case involving the
fraudulent township warrants, Judge
| Woods ruled that in Older to recover
money paid for warrants it will be neces-
sary to bring suit upon each separate
warrant, and tt at recovery can not be had
unless it is shown that the township
was benefited by the issuance of the war
|
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS.
WASHINGTON.

The Secretary of the Navy has directed
the Commander of the Portsmouth Navy
Yard to admit the British vessel Enchant
ress to the dry dock for repairs.
In the house of representatives, Mr..
Springer introduced a bill to establish a
department of labor, with a commissioner
and two assistants, the expense not to ex-
coed 100000 per annum.
The house of representatives will soon
be called to act upon the petition of the
widow of Edmund Randolph, counsel for
the government in the New Almaden
mine suit, who asks $4,000 additional
compdnsation for the Iabors of her late
husband.
| In the house Mr.. Cobb, of Indiana, from
the committee on public lands, reported a
bill to forfeit the lands granted to the
| state of Michigan to aid in the construc-
ton of railroad from Marquette to On
| tonagOn. 1t was ordered placed on the
house calendar.
! THE house committee on foreign affairs
| at special meeting Friday afternoon,
| unanimously adopted the Belmont consul
| lar reorganization bill, with some slight
notifications. The house has assigned a
! special day for the consideration of bust
| mess of the foreign affairs committee,
| and this bill stands first on the list.
| The house committee on commerce re
| ported bill to equalize the salaries Of the
| local inspectors uf steam vessels in Mich
| igan, Superior and Puget sound district
and to establish new inspection district
| in Duluth. The passage of the bill is
| urged because of the rapid growth of COM
| merce on the great lakes and the Pacific
coast. The bill has the approval of the
treasury department.
The adjutant general of the army has
| received the following telegram from
Gen. Miles, dated at Tucson, Ariz. The
Apaches in small numbers have been COM
uniting serious depredations in the coun-
| try east and adjacent to the Sonora rail
road, from thirty to fifty miles south of
the boundary, and to-day april 27) killed
one man north of the line, near Calabasas
Ariz. Our troops and thirty men of the
Mexican troops, under Maj. Refs, have
been in active pursuit, both crossing the
line and following the raiding parties.
THE dairy interests OF all sections of
country were represented before the
Senate Committee on Agricultural We'd
nesday to advocate the placing of a tax
upon the manufacture and sale of oleo-
margarine and other limitations of butter.
Several representatives of the dairy in
terests made addresses, which were in the
nature of strong appeals to the committee
to pass the pending bill to prevent the
illegal sale of all limitations of dairy prod
ucts.
II is understood that Atty. Gen. Garland
has informed Dist. Atty. Tuthill that the
pardon granted some months ago to
George r. Sims, of Chicago, covers both
charges made against him in the United
States district court. Sims was sent to
the Chesterpennitentiary upon verdict
of guilty of the offence of uttering forged
pension vouchers. At the same time he
pleded guilty to a similar charge in
branch of the same case. Upon his re-
lease under the pardon Dist. Atty. Tuthill
caused his rearrest and Sims was held at
bail.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
Two Wives in One.


$50 you have been married twice." said
man to friend whom he had not seen for
several months.
| Eyes"
"Of course we can talk as many others
could not do, so tell me now which one of
| your wives you liked better"
mo difference"
"None whatever?"
''None in the least"
Like your second wife just as well as
you did the frst?"
Gust the same.''
"How long after your first wife died did
you waltz"
"She amt dead
"Ah, you were divorced?"
eyes"
'Where is she now?"
"At my house."
"What, do you allow her to remain
there?"
''Yes,'
.''What does your wife say?''
at is her choice
''Well, well, [ never heard of such an af-
fair. There, sir, is the foundation for a
novel"
''Oh, no, there is nothing strange about
it."
eyes, there is"
90 no; for, you see, shortly after being
divorsed from my wife, l married her
again"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
W0RKINGMEN IDLE,
Ten Thousand Recruits Added TO the
Number Of Unemployed Work
men.
Large Manufacturers Resolve to Stand
Together and Resist all Their
Mems Demands.

Regarding the united action of work
lngmen to enforce the eight hour system
Oh labor on the first of May, the Chicago
Times SAYS:
Ihe events of yesterday added from
seven TO nine thousand men to the army
OF Workmen which is now standing around
the streets and filling the saloons of Chi
cago, and 1t can be truthfully said that
$1,000 men, who two days ago were earn
ing wages and adding to the wealth of the
community, are now unemployed. and the
probability is that In about 10 per cent. of
the cases this condition will last for a wear
or more. The most notable strike YES
terday was with the railroads, all of the
twenty-five In Chicago being affected, with
the lone exception of the Baltimore and
ONO. That exception was, however. sim
ply social freak, and it will probably be
included IN the general roundup to-mor-
row. SO far only the freight handlers
nave gone out, but this means over 2. 600
men, with stoppage of freight business
until their places can be supplied and the
added fact that the attempt to suppIv
them will probably result in trouble, which
past experience has shown CHICAGO has
neither mayor or Illinois governor to
handle 1T. In addition to this the rail
roads are hampered with the fear that the
trouble may spread to other branches of
their service and thus further compIicate
matters. This is really the gravest side
to the situation, for a stoppape of rail-
ROAD business means paralysis of every
other trade except perhaps the street
fakir or the banana seller.
The lumber manufacturers made q not
able move IN getting together and plac-
ing their affairs in the hands of an execu-
tive committee, with full power to act
this initiating the furniture manufactur
ers, and practically forming union of
employers, to light union of EMPLOYEES.
contest of whose result there can be no
doubt. The boxmakers did the same
thing, and the iron manufacturers. while
having no association, are particularly
united so that the three largest interests
furniture, lumber, and iron-presented a
united front to the demands of these
men.
The packers have conceded in part
what was asked of them, and as their en-
Ployes are not any too anxious to strike,
there is little probability of trouble in the
town of Lake.
AS for the other industries affected. al
most all the concerns are fighting the mat
ter out, each for itself, and while in some
instances the demands of the men have
been yielded to, in the main thew have
been refused, and the prospect for a
speedy settlement of the trouble and a re-
v1val of business is by no means fatter-
ing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
CRIME.

ROBERT FOWLER, who murdered a young
woman, was hanged Friday a t Morgan
field, Ky.
AT Caledonia, Wis, an aged farmer,
named Joseph Uhir shot his wife and kill
ed himself with revolver, on account of
her suit for divorce.
JOHN FLEETWOOD voluntarily returned
from Kansas to Mattoon, ILL.,, and surren-
dered to the authorities. He is charged
with completely in the murder of his par
ents.
THIRTY persons engaged in boycotting a
certain clothing firm were arrested at New
York Tuesday morning on charges of
conspiracy and coercion.
In a labor dispute at st. Louis on
! Wednesday evening John Gibbons, strik-
er, assaulted William E. Withers, a scab
The latter then drew his revolver and shot
| Gibbons dead.
| A JURY in the criminal court at St
Louis convicted Missouri Pacific striker
named John Holland of assaulting a
| brakeman, and a punishment of thirty
| days in jail was fixed.
| d. w. PURDAM, of Manchester. Tenn.
/ while lying in bed at midnight Sunday
was suddenly confronted by masked men
| who opened fire with revolvers. He rous-
! ed himself and shot two or more of his
assailants, one of them fatally. The crime
was due to his testimony against Illicit
liquor-sellers.
Col. E. W. DENNIsoN, who formerly
kept the fremont House in Washington
was arrested at Baltimore on a charge OF
having forged notes to the amount OF
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

BIZ the explosion of an oil can. five
children were fatally burned at Taylor,
Tex.
AT Graham Lake, Mimi, lad named
BOrland wascut open by pillow until his
lungs and intestines protruded. He is
now in a fair way to recover.
The Oleson House, at Berlin, Wis, was
burned early Friday morning, the guests
escaping in their night clothes and losing
all their property. A dwelling adjoining
the hotel was also destroyed.
NEAR Libertad, San Salvador, Sunday
morning, the steamship Honduras, valued
at $4,000 was wrecked. The passengers
baggage and 10000 bags of coffee were
lost.
Dates flour mill, ten miles north of
Portage, Wis, was burned Monday morn
ing, together with 1,2O0 barrels of -four
and feed. Loss, $4,000.
; A FRAME hotel at Butte, NJ. T., was
burned Monday night. a little boy per-
ished in the flames. A robber who set the
fire robbed the mother of the little VIC
tim of 5000.
AN incendiary fire at Manistee, Michi-
gan, destroyed the Union school and its
library, the loss being $4,000. Six hun
dred pupils will be accommodated in the
skating Rink aud Methodist church.
AT II o'clock Thursday night fire was
discovered in the elevator at Boswell,
Ind, a station on the Lake Erie and
Western railroad, which spread rapidly,
and soon destroyed the entire building.
Three freight cars standing near the eie-
vator were also destroyed. About 1000
bushels of grain were stored in the ele-
vator. Loss about $4,000; insurance, ST.
ZOO
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06

The Railroad Gazette's summary of
train accidents during March shows that
there were in all 81 accidents, ii which
40 persons were killed and 131 injured. AS
compared with March of last year there
was decrease of five accidents but an
increase of 30 killed and AZ injured. The
three months of the current year to the
end of March show total of 273 acct
dents, Ill killed and 376 hurt; an aver
age per month of 81 accidents, 81 killed
and 126 injured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06

DURING the first nine months of the
present fiscal year, ending J une Both next
there was an increase of over 100000
eminent as compared with the correspond
Ing period last year; and the expenditures
for the first nine months of this year were
over $l6,OOO,OOO, less than the expenditures
for the same period of last year making
net gain of over $23,OOOOOO.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06

HoHse-In the house Hall gave notice
that he would call up the Campbell Weaver
election case Tuesday next. The COM
mittee on coinage, weights and measures
reported the bill for the retirement and
recoinage of trade dollars. Placed on
house calendar. 1t provides theat for six
months after its passage trade dollars
shall be received at their face value for the
payment of all dues to the United States.
and shall not be again paid out or
issued in any other manner. The house
then went into committee of the whole.
Mr.. Wellborn in the chair, on the river
and harbor appropriation bill. The pend
ing amendment, being one providing for
the appropriation for the Missouri river,
to be expended under the direction of the
secretary of war without the intervention
of the Missouri river commission, was re-
Jected, but 1t was agreed that a vote
should be allowed on it in the house. The
paragraph making an appropriation of
$2,25O,00O for the improvement of the
lower Mississippi having been reached,
the committee rose. Mr.. Van Eaton, from
the committee on public lands, reported
the bill to grant the right of way through
public lands any canal or ditch company
formed for the purpose of irrigation.
The house adjourned.
FRIDAY, April 80.
Sendte-The conference report on the
Indian appropriation bill was submitted
by Sen. Dawes, and cOncurred in by the SEN
ate. After the passage of several private
bills, the post Office appropriation bill
was taken up, and Sen. Hale resumed his
remarks on it. A running debate fol-
lowed, during which the question was
discussed from a tariff point of view.
Sen. Plumb finally secured an under
standing that general debate on the bill
should close at o'clock Monday. The
senate adjourned.
House-Mr. Hatch, on behalf of
the committee on agriculture, called
up the resolution setting apart May Ii
tn, for a reconsideration of the bus
mess presented by that committee
The house then went into committee of
the whole, Mr.. Mills in the chair, on the
river and harbor bill. Mr.. Warner, of
Ohio, offered an amendment providing
that the appropriation for the improve
ment of the Mississippi river be expended
under the direction of the secretary of
war, instead of the Mississippi river com
mission. Mr.. Hepburn, of Iowa, thought
the Mississippi river commission had
wasted enough money, and it was now
time for congress to retrace its steps
Mr.. Warmers and various other amend
ments were rejected. A number of
amendments were agreed to increasing
the number of places where preliminary
surveys may be made, and then Mr.. La
Toilette, of Wisconsin, moved to strike
out the entire section having reference to
this subject No quorum voting, the com
mittee rose, and the house adjourned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06

$4,000. He consented to return to Wash
ington, and is said to have confessed the
crime.
AT negro festival in Brainwell, West
Virginia on Saturday evening, fight
occurred between people of two races,
the result being the killing of colored
man and the wounding of several others.
The grand jury at st. Louis indicted
nine boycotting bakers who are charged
with conspiracy, blackmail, and robbery
nine deputy sheriffs for manslaughter in
killing Thompson on the Mississippi
bridge. and a commission merchant nam
ed Charles E. Hoffman for selling bogus
butter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06

The Oldest man in New England is said
to be Chesley Heal, of Searsmont, Me-.
who is 107 years old. 1t is recorded that
he has been married three times, twice to
the same woman; that he has chewed
tobacco 100 years and drank New Eng
land rum for nearly as long time; that
he voted for Jefferson the first time he
was presidential candidate, and has been
a democrat from that day to this, and
that he can and does read the newspapers
without spectacles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06

AN Italian claims to have invented
luminous printing ink which will make it
possible to read newspapers or books in
the dark.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06

Society is compared to pie. There is
an upper and lower crust. but the real
strength and substance lies between
them. This gastronomic Righteousness
should be credited to the New Haven
News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06

THE New York market is now being
supplied with Florida watermelons,
which retail all the way from $3.50 to 81
each.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06

The legality of the vote adopting the
prohibition amendment in Rhode Island
is to be tested by the opponents of the
amendment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06

Statistics show that during the last 1876
Gears 632 theatres have been destroyed by
fire, and the number of people burned to
death in these fires is 6,573, or an average
of As year. Of these 632 theatres ia
have been burned during the last five
years, fact which shows that such
casualties are rapidly increasing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06

A RECORD kept in Que of the central
counties of Dakota shows but thirty three
days when the thermometer was at zero
or below. The winter before had fifty-two
cold days, the one before that fifty, and
that of 188O-81 had ninety-one days.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06

The value of the hardware produced in
the United States each year is now about
$6O,0O0,O00, and nearly half of it is made
in Connecticut.