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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
WASHINGTON.

SOCIETY in Washington grows daily
more enthusiastic over the beauty and
talents of the presidents bride.
SECRETARY WHITNEY, yesterday, denied
that he had resigned, and stated that he
had no such intention.
THE president has signed the Dingley
shipping bill, and will recommend the
passage of another measure to clear up
ambiguties in section of the bill re-
specting the pay of the steamboat inspec-
tors.
In the house of representatives Mr.
Henley introduced resolution directing
the attorney general to prosecute all
officers of the Union Pacific Railroad
company responsible for issuing collateral
trust bonds, guaranteeing interest, and
paying dividends without the consent of
congress.
THE Alabama congressman are very
confident that Spencer Pratt, of Mobile
will be appointed minister to Persia. Mr..
Pratt is young man, unmarried, an &C
complished scholar, speaks several Ian
guages, was educated in Europe, and is
said to be we'll qualified for the place for
which he has applied.
The contract for supplying the post
Office department with official envelopes
and registered packages was, Friday
awarded under the reimbursement to the
Morgan Envelope Company and the
Pimpton Manufacturing Company, OF
Hartford, Conn, whose combined bid was
the lowest. The contract is for one year
and amounts to about $4,000.
THE question of the probable action OF
the senate and house on the presidential
vetoes of pension bills is becoming quite
an important one, and presents many EN-,
barrassments. Some members are of the
opinion that a large proportion of these
bills will be passed Notwithstanding the
presidents objections, while others enter
tain contrary views. So far as the feeling
can now be judged, the vetOes will be
sustained, save. perhaps, in few excep-
tlOnal cases, where a majority of both
branches consider themselves committed
beyond recall to the merits of such bills
In any event, the debate, if permitted
is likely to assume wide political pro
portions, and be acrimonious in the ex,
IRENE.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
FOREIGN.

A FIRE at Hamburg, Germany, swept
away the sugar and cotton warehouse of
Paul Jacobs, valued at $25O,000.
AT factory in Berlin daily trials of
electric street cars are being made, and
it is expected that they will soon be
adopted by the Berlin companies.
IT is reported from Cologne that two
imperial Rhine monitors were sold to
Holland under false pretenses and taken
over the frontier at night.
In the vicinity of Hirschberg and Wor-
brunn, Silesfa, terrible floods. caused by
cloud-bursts have inundated the country
and caused immense damage to proper
ty.
The German delegates sent to China re-
port that there will be no opportunity for
railroad building on a large scale until
the emperor attains his aiority. at the
close of next year.
The captains and ieutenants of the
English war-ships protecting the New
foundland fisheries have been commits
stoned justices of the peace.
HERR KRUPP, the famous cannon manu-
facturer, is preparing to establish new
works at Nikolaief, Russian naval station
at the junction or the Ingul and Bug
rivers.
OF the eleven members of the Chamber
of the French Deputies appointed as a
commission to examine and report upon
the Panama Lottery loan scheme eight
are hostile to it and three in its favor.
native of Madagascar who studied
medicine in Edinburgh, and returned
home, now has seven young men studying
under him, and a large class of women
whom he is training for nurses. He is in
great favor with his Queen, and is about
to marry the Prime Minister'S daughter.
The Japanese have not only nearly
three hun dred miles of railroad in opera
ton, but they make their own cars, and
the building of the line from Tsuruga to
Ogaki was conducted by young Japanese
engineers, whose task included two large
bridges and a tunnel mile long.
A COMMITTEE in the French senate has
reported favorably upon the bill to drive
the French princes from France. The
report says the bill is incompatible
with liberty and prejudicial to the exist
ence of cordially with foreign powers.
In the Spanish Congress Senator Mon
tore, supported by other Cuban deputies,
have presented a demand for the conces-
sion of home rule to Cuba, with a pro-
vinciaI parliament. The demand is re-
garded as step toward complete decen
tralzation.
The radicals of Birmingham, England,
have resolved to form guarantee fund of
e26.0O0. A new political club has been
organized in London to supply home rule
speakers. The democracy are to have
demonstration in Hyde park on Saturday.
Mr.. Parneu is to speak this week in Lon
don, Portsmouth, and Plymouth.
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FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

KERR & Co.'S boarding stable at New
York, together with six racing horses val
ued at $4,000.
BARTLET's cattle sheds at ST. Louis were
burned Tuesday night, twenty-five COWS
persisted in the flames.
The boilers Of the international cotton
press at New Orleans exploded Wednes-
day morning, blowing out the Peters
street side of the building and killing two
employees.
CENTRAL Texas was the scene of a de-
structive wind-storm Saturday evening.
In Barker county alone the loss of prop
erty is estimated at 100000.
FRANK DoLLIvER, aged 25, killed him
self Sunday in Boston church, because
his proposal of marriage had been re-
jected by young woman.
AHAILsToRM Monday night in the south
ern portion of Eau Claire county, Wis,
seriously njured crops, wheat and potato
vines severely suffering.
A FREIGHT train on the Fort Wayne road
was wrecked, Tuesday, near Canton, Ohio.
A lad from Alliance, named Harley Har-
rington, was killed. Ten loaded refriger-
ator-cars were demolished
THE Excelsior block at CarlOtte Mich,
occupied by several firms, was destroyed
by fire Thursday night, entailing losses
aggregating $4,000. A man fell from
the third story window, and was Totally
hurt.
A BOILER exploded in mill near Atkins,
Ark, killing three men and wounding two
others. The men killed were I. r. Adams,
l.. n. Clark, and John Wilson.
A FIRE on the farm of William L. Scott,
near Erie, Pennsylvania, destroyed an i'm
mense circular barn at the training track.
Three imported stations were with diff
ficulty rescued.
The schooner NJ. Atwater was struck by
the steamer City Of Kingston off Fort
Montgomery on the Hudson River We'd
nesday night. Captain James Black and
the cook Richard Golden, of the sunken
schooner, were drowned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
CRIME.

In an ARRAY between prison guards and
soldiers al Bogota, United States of Col
ombia, onegeneral, several officers, and 80
soldiers were killed
DIR. RICHMOND, who killed Colonel Strong
at st. Joseph, Missouri, is still at his home
under the guard OF three policemen, and
knows nothing of his terrible deed.
A BOMB was exploded Tuesday night in
the yard of the residence of M. M. Secor,
at Racine, Wis, badly wounding John
Jamber, of Milwaukee, who is suspected
of causing the explosion. 1t is believed
that the murder of Mr.. Secor was in
tended.
In the Union depot at Pittsburgh, Mon
day, Dixey Dawson fired twice at his wife
sister-in-law, because Mrs. Dawson refused
to live with him.
BIRDIE MEADOWS is the name of a
young crook who was sentenced to the
penitentiary from Ottawa, Ill. This is
his third term, and he is only twenty
years old.
WILLIAM J. SANDERsoN, a Cincinnati
Justice of the peace who assaulted a wom-
an, was Tuesday sentence to two
months in the workhouse and fined 800.
ALDERMAN PALICA was arrested Wednes-
day at Racine, Wis, charged with being
implicated in the attempt to kill ex- May
or Secor by means of a bomb, his bond
being fixed at $4,000.
"REDDY" the gambler; who killed Off
Ger Convey, of Detroit, Mimi, Wednes-
day, was taken from jail the same night
and hanged by mob.
Mrs. f. CHAMBERS, widow of a former
cashier of the Bee Hive Bank at Chicago,
drowned herself in the lake this morning.
She was temporarily insane.
The postoffice at Mount Pleasant, Iowa,
was on Wednesday night entered by bur
glars, who drilled the safe and took 800
in money and 81, 200 in stamps.
PLOT for the escape of the prisoners
in the jail at Cincinnati has been discov-
cred. their friends on the outside being
ready to assist them in scaling the walls
Steel saws and other tools were found in
one of the cells.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
GENERAL NOTES.

THE Wheat crop in Southwest Virginia,
now being harvested, is reported UMPIRE
cedented.
A LUMBER firm of East Saginaw has
sold $4,000 acres of pine land on the head
waters of the Peshtigo river for $4,000,
the purchaser being S. j. Murphy, of De-
troit.
The supreme court of Iowa has decided
that $4,000 must be paid by the bonds
men of W. R. Ruggles, the defaulting
treasurer of Carroll county.
OWING to the dougth, the corn crop of
Louisiana will be 80 per cent. less than
last year, and the oat crop rs per cent.
less.
IT is firmly believed by many good au-
thorities that there are not now more
than from 80 to 100 buffaloes in the whole
of Montana, outside of the National park
where there are probably from 200 to 800
head.
GAUL, the Sioux chief who was in COM
mand at the massacre of General Custer
and his soldiers, has agreed to go to the
battlefield on the tenth anniversary and
describe to a party of army officers the
chief features Of the affair.
The committee representing anthracite
coal companies has agreed that the July
output shall be 100000 tons, against
100000 for July, 1885. This is an in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01

crease of 100 900 tons over the output for
the present month.
The seventh annual convention of pio-
tographers was opened Tuesday at st.
Louis with 1000 delegates present. The
exhibition of views is said to be the most
creditable display.
A CARLOAD of fine watermelons from
southern Georgia arrived in Chicago
Tuesday morning, and sold readily at 30
cents each. The first muskmellons of
the season were received from New Or
leans.
DR.. MURPHY has submitted a bill of
over $4,000 for treating the officers
wounded by the explosion of the bomb at
the Hay Market riot in Chicago, H.. on
May 4. His bill is made out at the regu-
lar rate of 81 visit, with no reductions
although many of his patients were lying
in beds side by side in the county hospital
He made special charges for taking pieces
of bones from the limbs, and SO to S25
for each operation in which he assisted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01

The duration of life in some of the
well known creatures is as follows: Ele-
plant, 100 years and upward; rhinoceros,
camel, 100; lion, 25 to 20; tigers, Loop
ards, jaguars and hyenas in confinement,
about %; beaver, so; deer, 20; wolf 20;
Iamas, 10; channels, %; monkeys and
balloons, 16 to Is; hare, s; squirrel, 4;
swine, %; stag, under so; horse, 80; ass,
80; sheep, under 10; COW, 20; OK, so;
swans, parrots and ravens, 200; eagle,
100: geese, so; hens and pigeons, 10 to
Is; hawks, 80 to 40; crane, "a; blackbird
10 to 10; peacock, 20; pelican, 40 to so;
thrush, S to 10; wren, ? to 8; nightingale,
10; blackcup, Is; linnet, II to %; gold
finch, 20 to "a; redbrest 10 to u; skylark,
10 60 80; titlark, to 6; chaff1nch, 20 to
%; startling, 10 to II; carp, 20 to $50;
pike, 80 to 40; salmon, 10; Goldfish, Il to
II; eel, 10; crocodile, 100; tortoise, 100
to 200; whale, estimated 1000; queen bees
live 4 years; drones, 4 months; worker
bees, months.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01

The great seal of England has only
three times been Iost-twice tenn orarily
and once permanently. James II, on
leaving the kingdom on his abdication,
threw the seal into the Thames, whence,
however, it was next morning fshed up
and brought to the Whitehall. Lord Ell
don buried it in his garden in Queen
Square during one night when his house
caught fire, and he thought in the con-
fusion it might be stolen. and" writes
the chancellor in his diary, ''wben the fire
was extinguished I quite forgot in the
morning where l had buried it, and while
the carriage waited to take me to court
my lady and I and all the household were
digging with pieces of stick till we luckily
found it." Lord Thurlow who always
held it during the night in his bedroom,
had it actually carried off by burglars,
from whom it was never recovered. 4
privy council was called the next day, a
new seal was rapidly made, and during
the remainder of his continuance in
Office Lord Thurlow invariably deposited
it of night under his pillow.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01

fighting this thing, not the employees of
the Lake Shore road alone"
On the other hand the railroad officials
are no less determined. il was stated
that if the situation became at all serious
the meetings of the general managers
would be resumed, the organization hav-
ing been continued since the freight
handlers strike. call for session was
issued yesterday, and the managers, to-
gether with the general superintendent,
will hold a conference. 1t is also under
stood that a different policy will be pur-
sued in confronting the present trouble
than was taken when the Lake Shore strike
was first precipitated. Then the chief
anxiety of the several roads was TO keep
clear of the difficulty. and not In any way
to become involved, and as a Consequence
the Lake Shore received neither moral
nor material aid from its brethren. Now,
it is the intention to ignore the fact that
the Lake Shore switchmen are on a strike
and to transfer all freight to that road
the same as if the trouble did not exist.
In other words, the switchmen will not be
called upon to do anything more, nor will
they be allowed to do anything less than
their ordinary duties. Whenever the
Lake Shore officials announce to connect
ing lines that they are ready to receive
cars consigned over that line. the cars
will be switched over to them. Should
the switchmen refuse to perform their
duty, upon them will fall the responsible
ty of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01

THE largest shipment of Spanish pig
metal which ever came to this country Is
now being unIoaded at Philadelphia. 1t
comes from Bilboa, Spain, and amounts
to 10000 tons. 1t was consigned to the
various Bessemer steel companies of
Pennsylvania, though the largest lot is
for Pittsburgh. Some of it is for expert
ment, and the whole lot comprises about
67,OOO,OOO pounds. The metal is said to
be n-phosphoritic, and will be used
largely in making steel rails.
A DOG owned by New London, Conn,
woman should be in the employ Of Henry
Bergh. On a recent day this model canine
sat in its mistress lap on the front seat
of a street car. The horses were lazy, and
the driver began laying on his whip. The
dog watched him closely, and each time
he struck the weary steeds, howled dis
malIy in sympathy with the suffering ami
mails. He kept it up so vigorously that,
for peace sake, the driver had to put up
the whip, and then the pug seemed quite
relieved.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
FORCING THE ISSUE,

and the respective roads will be ready to
meet it acting as unit. 1t is evident
that the managers consider the times as
propitious, and would rather try conclus-
ions now than have the matter threaten
ing to come up at some future date. Yes
terday the prevailing opinion was that
the trouble would spread until all of the
Chicaao roads were involved, and it was
also the belief, Notwithstanding the dis
avowals, that the union was behind the
strike. As one of the managers put it,
not more than half of the members of the
union are employed, and they want those
eight places on the Lake Shore, and all
others where non-union men are at work.
That is the only principle involved in
the strike" The absence of Sheriff Han
chett just at this emergency is severely
commented on in railroad circles, the
officials not hesitating to express the OPP
inion that his vacation was fastened by
the occurrence of the strike. The union
being back of the move, there is every
prospect of a trial of endurance between
it and the railroads, and in the present
temper of the latter there is but little
chance of concession being made by the
men.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01

ABOUT a mile below the city of Macon,
Ga, is an ozier willow farm. The willow
switches at the end of two years, are
from four to seven inches long, and are
out and gathered into punclIOo like
sheaves of wheat. They are stepped in
water and the bark at the larger end
IOosened for a couple of inches by ma
chinery. The leaves and bark are re-
moved by a little machine, and the
switches are placed in the mechanical
stripper, and with a pair of pliers are
pulled through with a sudden jerk.
They are then wiped off with wooden
cloth, bundled and laid away to dry. All
the leaves and barks are dried and bailed.
They are used for medicinal purposes,
and command a price of twenty-five
cents per pound. The average yield is
a ton to the acre, When dry the willows
command 5000 per ton, and find ready
market.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01

the question as to the proper punishment
of wife heaters. The Brooklyn women
have perhaps reached as good solution
of the problem as anybody can. Having
husbands who made regular practice of
INDUCING in this sort of domestic past
time, the women, at an agreed hour Of the
night, turned upon their natural protec-
tors and beat them so mercilessly that the
fellows had to be carried to the hospital
for repairs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
Jube Early's Niger Joe.

One of the best known characters IN
Lynchburg, Va, is Cube Early's niger
joe" Joe is an old negro with all the
dignity of a body servant of the slavery
days, and his affection for the General
amounts to worship. Jube owned Joe
before the war, and owns him still, Joe
never having been freed, scorning to ac-
cept what he says does not belong to him,
and saying as long as Mass Jube was
alive Joe is his slave. Early is very fond
of his slave, and would shoot quicker in
defense of the negro than anybody else.
He has given Joe carte blanche to buy
what he likes in the town, and has in
structed storekeepers, no matter what
Joe wants, or how much it will cost, to
give it to him and send the bill to his
master. Sometimes Early gets rather the
worse for whisky, and then comical sight
IS seen. Joe follows him like dog, and
when the General gets very drunk Joe
will say:
Mass Jube, you mus come home.
why, you black rascal, what DO you
mean? I'm your master"
Eyes. Mass Jube, when you'se sober;
when you'se drunk Use massa."
''Wel, 1 reckon you are right, old man,
I'll go with YOU"
There is said to be an organized system
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01

The officers of the Irish National
league of America have issued call for
a general convention to be held in Chi
cago August Is and 10. Every local
league will be entitled to representa-
tive on the basis of one delegate to svery
dfty members.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01

One among the many eminent church
dignitaries who have given their public
endorsement to the wonderful efficacy of
st. Jacobs Oil, in case of rheumatism and
other painful ailments, is the Right Rev
erend Rishon Gilmour. Cleveland Ohio
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01

THE word graduate has come to have
a different meaning of late years. 1t
used to be applied exclusively to the end
OF the college course, and-then it was
employed to SIGNIFY the termination of
the school studies. Now children are
said to graduate from their several classes
and it will not be long before little tots
will graduate from the Kindergarten. 1t
will then only remain to speak of babies
graduating from their cradles. So our
noble English language improves day
after day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01

The only cough mixture before the peo-
pie, that contains no opiates or narcotics,
is Red Star Cough Cure. Price, twenty
five cents.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01

The pen is mightier than the sword,
but the pistol is mightier than either of
them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01

There is said to be an organized system
of swindling by post traders at Indian
agencies. and a congressional investiga-
ton Is threatened.
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NOT ONLY EXTEND IT

to every road entering into Chicago, but
that we will call off the men In Buffalo.
Detroit, Cleveland and Toledo, and make
the fight wherever we can. The union IL
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01

The Springfield Republican says that
F. W. Booth, of Essex Junction, Vt. will
put down 10000 dozen eggs this season"
Mr.. Booth is not a professional egg swal-
lower. He is simply large dealer in
lined eggs for the winter market.
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An important Function Stimulated

The kidneys exercise most important functions
which are so wearisome that they tax to the ut
most the strength and endurance of these busy
little organs. Every breath, every puIsation of
the heart, every movement of a limb. every
thought, makes waste and neceSSitates the devel
opment of new atoms. The used up particles
in the blood are sifted from it and dissolved in
watery fluid by the kidneys, which then dis
charge this fluid into the bladder. a train of dis
asters to the system would follow if these ashes
SO to speak, were not thoroughly strained off and
discharged. This is the case when the kidneys
become inactive. Hostetters Stomach Bitters by
restoring their activity, not only keeps open a
most important outlet for impurities, but pre-
vents diseases OF the kidneys themselves, which
betes, Bright's disease, nephits, albumenuria and
other maladies specially incident to them which
although not specially rapid in their progression
are particularly obstinate and fatal
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