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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26

Cady Canton is woman who goes to the
head
Holding small court of her own in a
corner is Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. the
same modest lady with the somewhat
wandering manner and gaze, the same
aristocratic tomas in her Bostonian voice,
the same dignity of bearing, as we re-
member her at the worlds fair at home.
1t vas wonderful gathering of reform
ers, leaders, politicians, cranks, women
with fads, women with hobbies, and it is
also gathering of extremely handsome
and intelligent women. Some wear
Quaker garh, two thirds are in decorous
black silks and velvets, and the rest are
IN iashlonable attire of the prettiest kind.
Ie" Gecaysd poets are present; among
these the Mrs. Kelly who has gravely pc
/ titioned congress to make her noet Is1re
ate with salary of 5000 q year.
| Ano now 1t Is midnight. In the room
| next mine can hear g soft-voiced Onak-
er lady pressing away with her "tbeesn and
| her "thous" to her roommate . bright
American girl, who has lust returned from
81 eight-years' course in medicine in
Paris. Across the hall somebody is hold
ing prayers, and through the window I
may look into auo her room where q dele.
gate Is trying on her speech before the
mirror, and an audience of three who sit
up In their chairs fast asleep.
| big hotel, crowded in corridor and
| closet, from roof TO basement with wo-
men, each one of whom represents some
organized work of women, some hobby,
some specially. 0, little mother, off by
| that far, sweet freside, with your pretty
head ignoraUt of suffrage and reforms,
and all these new problems thar vex ard
stir the soul, keep to your home and baby
and learn to at least respect the brains
aud endeavors and unselfish aim of those
who have ventured beyond the work for
the good of the world at large, and who
are trying 70 solve some of the problems
of deep and broad philanthropy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
INDIANANS AROUSED
Two Bad Men i'm Indiana Given a Ter
rible Whipping by white Caps"
They Are Tied to Trees, Their Clothing
Removed and 125 LaSheS Laid On.

New ALBANY, IND.-The Crawford
County "White Caps" were again on the
warpath last Tuesday night. Ten DAYS
ago they notified James Seekers. Robert
Broomfeld, and Mrs Nancy Wilson that
unless they ceased their bad practices, re-
formed, and went TO work within ten days
they would be given one hundred lashes
each. The notices were in writing and
left on the door-steps of the individuals
notified, together with bundle Of long
hickory switches. Broomfeld and See
bers treated the warnings with contempt,
swearing they would fill the bodies of the
"White CAPS" with bullets should they at
tempt to carry out their warming, and
vowing also TO defend Mrs. Wilson. These
persons all reside in the country few
miles distant from English, Crawford
county, and forty miles west of this city
They are all very tough characters, and
are charged by the people with number
of offenses.
About midnight of the 18th the ''White
Caps" fifty strong, rode up to Mrs. Viii
sons house, where Broomfeld and See
bers were spending the night. Both men
and the woman were seized, and in spite
of their piteous pleas not to be whipped,
taken to the woods, stripped, and tied to
trees. The men were given 125 lashes
each, the elastic switches cutting into the
flesh and drawing blood at every stroke
The men tainted several times, but water
was thrown upon them aid they were
resuscitated, only to be again dashed.
The woman, tied TO tree near by wit
messed all this and was terrified almost
into insensibility. She begged pitiously
| that she be spared, but the ''White Caps"
were mercyless. You have kept den
of thieves aud vagabonds and led life
Of harlotry," they answered, "and we will
make you suffer for it.'
At the end OF twenty-five lashes the
wretched woman vas apparently in dead
| faint, and she was spared further torture.
| When the victims were united they fell
| TO the ground and were left there. The
| "White Caps" then rode away to the resi-
dences of sevsral other discrepancies to
notify them 10 leave the country or take
the consequences.
Jack and Bill Wright, whom the "White
Caps" sought to hang on the Is inst, have
fed to Tennessee. Several other toughs
have taken refuge in Kentucky or Ten
nessee. Every one Of the Crawford coun-
ty men recently whipped by the "White
! Caps" was a desperate, and the Organiza-
ton is determined to rid the county of
| the last one Of these bad characters. The
organization is composed, it is under
stood, Of reputable farmers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
Queer Fits and Starts.

The fits and starts-using these words in their
literal meaning of the nervous people often
strike the beholder as ludicrous. The nerves OF
hearing of such unfortunates are painfully acute,
and impinged by abrupt, unexpected noises, lead
them sometimes to perform antics worthy OF g
iumping-j3ck. At the root of nervousness in
most instances is non assimilation of the food.
and consequently innutrition Of the nerves as of
the other tissues of the body. This prolonged is,
of course, productive Of serious nervous dis
ease. The remedy is Hostetter's Stomach Bit
lejs. that Jnvigoi ate the stomach and enables il
% perform its functions properly. Soon after
commencing a course of it, il will be foun that
the nerves grow more tranquil by day, nightly
repOse becomes less interrupted, and apr etite.
itial indications, followed by tine complete re
storation of nervous vigor. The Bitters also cure
fever and ague, liver complaint and constipation
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
FOREIGN.

The condition of the Emperor Freder-
lex of Germany is again reported worse.
WoRKINGMEN are arranging for gen
eraI strike Ill several German cities.
JOHN Barring, of the famous banking
house Of Barring Brothers, London, is
dead
The death of Emperor Frederick of
German may be looked for at any mo-
ment.
THE Independence Beige reports the
establishment OF regency for Belgium
S imminent.
The chief clerk of the Greek Treasury
has been arrested for embezzling public
funds, his accounts showing a deficit of
100000 frances.
EMPEROR Frederick desired to extend
amnesty to all socialists, but Bismarck
dissuaded him.
Mr.. GLADSTONE prides himself on his
excellent digestive powers. But he dare
not eat oysters or sweetbreads.
RIOTS in Roumania are spreading and
robbery, murder and other outrages are
being perpetrated. Troops have been
sent to thirty villages.
ANOTHER attempt was made to hold &n
OppOrGunlSV meeting ab BORDEAUX, out the
Boulangists again interfered and forced
the suspension or the gathering.
The London Times Vienna CORES
pondent says tee rumorS that the emper-
or of Brazil will ahdicate is denied. The
emperor will soon return TO Brazil.
MR. MATTHEW ARNOLD, the noted poet,
scholar, critic and theologi8n, whose
recent article on Civilization in the
United States attracted such marked at
tention, died suddenly in Liverpool from
heart disease, on Monday.
LoNDoN.-It is reported that Cham
berlain has decided TO permanently
seven his relations with the liberal party
and Will shortly accept position in the
cabinet.
BERLIN.-Mr. Pendle ton, the American
minister, while travelling to Wiesbaden
from Berlin, was Wednesday evening,
stricken with apoplexy. He was taken
10 the hospital at Wiesbaden, where he
now lies.
PARIs-The streets at noon on thurs
day were lined with police and bodies CT
troops were held under arms in order to
prevent any riotous demonstration upon
! the occasion OF Gen. Boulanger taking
his seat IN the chamber of deputies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26

dicted, charged with receiving brides in
liquor cases.
BURGLARS entered the dormitories at
the Shattuck School in Faribault, Mimi,
Sunday night, securing some $4,000 worth
of watches, jewelry and money. In ali,
twenty-three watches were taken.
JOHN BoGAaD, the youth who helped
murder and rob J. W. Webb in the rail
road station at Independence, Kansas,
last January pleaded guilty and has been
sentenced TO ue hanged June s.
STERLING railway laborers at CUmbeT-
land Gap, sIxty-fve miles north of Knox
vile, Tenn, made al attack with shot
guns aud revoiyers upon the men who
had taken their places, killing five out
right and seriously wounding several
Others.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
MARVEL CURES.
what an Eminent Physician Has to Say on the
Subject OF Miraculous Healing.

What an Eminent Physician Has to Say on the
Subject OF Miraculous Healing.
DR.. Meredith Clymer, il the April
Forum, says: All the miracles of healing
in ancient and modern times seem to be
explained by the triad, expectation, sug-
gestiOn, faith. The quack says his medi-
cine will cure and it is taken with this
assurance. There is no doubt on the
patient. Full confidence is first secured,
and the cure may follow. And SO it is
with the mind cure, suggestive medicine,
mesmerism, magnets, metals, and the
we'll of Lourdes. Quite recently, in New
Jersey, girl, after an attack Of measles,
lost her voice. Her parents had heard
Of the cures of like cases effected by visit
ing a certain chapel in Ireland. They
were too poor to take her there, but they
procured some of the plaster from the
wall of the chapel, and the child drank of
the water in which it had been soaked
and her voice immediately came back.
DR.. Bernheim mentions the case of an
hysterical girl who came to his clinic with
loss of voice. He told the students that
such cases were often successfully treated
by electricity. Before it, however, he
applied his hand ove~ the larynx, saying,
you will now be able to speak," and the
voice returned.
Whatever may ba the successes of sug-
gestion as healing agent, it eau never
become remedy of general application.
It's Limitation is distinct. ImpressibIe
natured only, whether hypnotized or in
waking state. can be brought under its
influence. When any evidence of its
having cured organic disease is present
ed it will be time enough seriously to
consider its merits. When it reno YES
a cancer, arrests pneumonia or typhoid
fever, its claimed as mode of healing
may receive attention. Lord Bacon tells
Us that "the mind of man is full of super
stition and i'm posture" and that il is con
sOnant to its nature 'ifor the Affirmative
or active to effect more than the mega
tive or privative. s. that few times
hitting a presence countervAils ofttimes
failing or absence" When Diagoras was
Shown, in the temple of Neptune, the vo-
tive offerings of those who had escaped
shipwreck, and were asked if it were folly
30 invoke the god in a tempest, he re-
piled: "Where are they painted who
were drOwned?" When the event answers
expectation it is registered, but the moro
numerous failures are passed by.
Tho history of all marvel cures tells
the same tale. Each healing epidemic
has its period of birth, development,
decay, extinction, and their sun often
goes down while it is yet day. They are
pitiful evidences of the infrmity Of the
human msnd, so readil- moved by novel
ty, so credUlous of wonders,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
IN GENERAL.

Time Set for Receiving Proposals for the Sale
of Bonds.
WAsHINGToN.-Secre Fairchid has
given notice this afternoon that
Monday, April %, and daily thereafter al
noon, until further notice, proposals will
be received in the Office of the secretary
of the treasury for the sale to the govern
ment of the United States, bonds of the
acts of July IA, 1870, and Jan. 20, 1871
The proposals should state the specific
character of the bonds offered, whether
coupon or registered. and must be for
the sale of bonds with accrued interest
to and including the date of sale. The
right is reserved tC reject any and all
proposals for the sale Of bonds, if it IS
thought to be for the interest of the
government to do SO.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
Nichols Gets There by $4,000 Majority

NEW ORLEANs.-OficiaI returns and
estimates give Nichols in this city 81
600 votes and Warmoth 10000. Shake
speare's majority over Davey for
mayor is about 5000. The balance of the
Young Mems Democratic ticket is elected
by 5000 or 5000 majority. The Times
Democrat estimates Nichols majority in
the state at 5000. As far as heard from,
Gov. Warmoth carried but two parishes
with majorit1es as follows East Baton
Rouge 592, and IberviIle, 500.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26

Ex-senator Bruce is at Washington
preparing a new lecture. He says he
likes lecturing better than officehoIdipg,
and expects to devote the rest of his life
TO it. It was Henry Ward Beecher who
first advised him TO Lecture.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26

THE sudden death of Mr.. Matthew Ar
mold, the English scholar, poet, essayist
and critic, will excite more attention in
this country than it might have done a
month since for the reason that he has
been much discussed in the newspapers
during the past few days. The discus
sion was called out by an article Of Mr..
Arnold's ia the Nineteenth Century for
the current month on Civilization in the
United States" and much of it has been
far frou fattering to the writer. His
death viii! probably have the effect of
tonina down any further discussion that
may be INDUCED in and bringing more
prominently forward those characters
tics of his which Americans respect and
admire. Spite of the insularity to which
exception has so justly been taken, Mr..
Arnold was not only a profound scholar
out brilliant and versatile as we'll. He is
chiefly known here as an essayist and
lecturer, though his poems have also at
tracted attention-by the intent rather
than the execution. His name will al
ways occupy an exalted position in the
of writer's of the Victorian era.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
a Story of Berry.

Senator Berry, of Arkansas, tells his
friends of trial for assault in his state,
in the course of which club, a rail, an
ak handle, knife and a shotgun were
exhibited as ''the instruments with which
the deed was DONE" But Il was also
shown that the assaulted man defended
himself with a revolver, scythe, bitch
fork, chisel, hand-saw az q dog. The
jury, Mr.. Berry says, came to the con-
clusion that they'd have given dollar
apiece to have seer the fight.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
GRAND RAPIDS WISCONSIN.

ENGLISH temperance reformers are
watching the experiment of high license
in American neighborhoods and are much
impressed By its success where it has
been fairly tried. The English reformers
are on the right track.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
THE ROUMANIAN TROUBLE.

Property of Land Owners and Farmers De-
stroyed by Insurgents-TrOOps do Bloc d V
Work.
6 BUCHAREsT.-Details OF the uprisip g
of peasants which have reached this
city describe the revolt as wide
spread, aud peasants destroying houses
and property in most villages. Houses
of land owners and farmers have been
sacked and wrecked, graneries pillaged
and local officials barbarUusly treated, a
number of them having been kill
ed. The territorial troops Joined
in the piilage and fred upon the troops
of the line. Since instructions were sent
to the troops to adopt severe measures
for the suppression of the revolt a host
OF insurgents have been killed, wounded,
or taken prisoners. The prisons are
crowded. and fugitives continue to pour
into Bucharest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26

GEN BoULANGER is said to bear on his
countenance no evidence of kneekness-
on the contrary, it looks weary, sleepy,
overburdened. That was the way with
Louis Napoleon, who nevertheless ruined
France for twenty years. Danger signals
are not alpays hung out by realm wreck
ers.
TIE effects of the United States supreme
court decision on the Iowa prOhibitory
law have begun to make themselves un-
pleasantly noticeable at Sioux City, where
tho saloon keepers are organized and are
preparing to sell original packages OF
liquor shipped from Canada and from
other states. The local attorney for the
law and order league saws that Canada
liquors can undoubtedly be sold in thi;
way; but asserts that there can be nc
traffic in liquor from the other states.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
FRANCEIN A FERMENT.
Gen. BOulangers Election Causes Widespread
CONSERVATION and AnnrehensiOns.

Gen. BOuangers Election Causes Widespread
CONSERVATION and Approximations.
PARIS. The victory of Gen. Boulanger
Is overwhelming; his friends claim his
majority is far beyond their expectations.
The opportunist journals admit their de-
feat. La Republique Franchise says;
madness is in the air, but we do not
despair, and will continue to fight our
battle" La Petit Journal, with circula
ton of million, admonished. the govern
ment to attach proper significance to
this great demonstration of universal
suffrage. La Radical publishes the FOL
lowing extraordinary report, for which it
vouches: "Gen. Boulanger agreed last
February to begin an agitation with the
object of setting up a government and
pla cling Prince Victor, the eldest son
of Prince Napoleon (Plon-Ploa), at the
head of it. Should the latter paIt of this
scheme be imprecticable the general was
TO take the position of chief of executive
power himself. To carry the plot into
effect the garrison of Paris had been
worked round to support the general in
anything be might undertake. For this
service Bonapartists were furnishing
funds for the election in the north, and
they continue to supply them for the
wholesale seduction of the army in order
to carry out the cons piracy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26

THREE constables in Des Moines are in.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
America Will Recipocrate the Statue of Lib
erty Spirit of France.

WASHINGTON. In reply to a letter
from the prominent ladies interested
in the promotion of a plan to present
statue of General Washington 10 the
French republic and asking his endorse
ment and attendance at a benefit per
formance toward that object, President
Cleveland has written aletter stating that
the project has his hearty commendation.
He and Mrs. Cleveland will with much
pleasure attend the presentation to be
given in Washington OH the 26th inst,
and he expresses his utmost interest in
the success of the plan.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26

WHATEVER duiiness may have developed
il other branches of business activity
since the beginning of 1888, railway
building has not partaken of it. The
Railway Age furnishes the statistics OF
railway building during the first three
months of the new year. This shows that
1895 miles of new road have been laid on
ffty -four different lines in twenty eight
states, as against ,O4O miles on forty-nine
roads in twenty-five States during the
same period in 1887. Nearly $4,000 miles
of new railway were built during 1887 and
if the work of the first three months of
the present year can be accepted as an in
dication the addition to the railway mile
age of the country in 1883 will be even
greater than the unprecedented addition
of 1887. Taking the most conservative
view of the matter possible there Is good
promise that the end of the year will wit
ness the construction of at least from
5000 to 10000 miles of new railway.
This means reasonably busy season for
blast furnaces and rolling mills.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
The Great Montezuma Irrigation Tunnel Com.
pleted.

DURANGO, Cal. - The great Montezu
ma irrigating tunnel has been com
pleted. This tunnel is over one hund.
red miles long, and runs under one
of tbs range of mountains composing
the Rockies, and with fifty miles
of canal will convey the water of the
D2lorst river over rich agricultural val
ley in Colorado. Over two hundred thou
sand acres of land will be reclaimed by
this great enterprise,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26

CALIFORNIA pagers claim that the State
has nov population of not less than
1850, 900, and that it will easily reach
100000 by the time the United States
census is taken in 1890. As has been Of
ten remarked, however, the census is a
.reat puncterer of population claims, and
we shall not be surprised If California
falls considerably short of the estimate.
Still the State is certain to improve in its
rank as shown by the tenth census, out
stripping four or five which took preced-
ence of it IN 1880. Michigan will also
probably move up notch. Texas is the
only State with less population than
Michigan in 1880, while Kentucky will
step aside for Michigan and Massachu-
setts may be compelled to do likewise.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26

Mrs. MATILDA B. CARsE, president of
the woman's Christian Tenn perance Union,
says she has secured $250,000 worth OF
snbscric tions for the proposed temper
ance temple" at Chicago. The plans for
the structure are vague and grand. 1t
viii be u stories high with a tower on
one corner surmounted by q statue of the
Sistine Madonna. hall in which 1000
1eopIe can be seated will take up the first
DOR, and will be named In honor of
Frances e. Willard. The total cost will
De $8OO,OOO and it is hoped that the
cornerstone can be laid by year from
May l.
SOME interesting statistics, showing
the expenditure per head for liquor in
the various states, have recently been
published by the Voice, the temperance
organ. The figures show the expendi
ture for liquor to drink to be, in Tenpes-
see 81; Ohio, S17.81; Arkansas 81 So;
Massachusetts, $I4 "a; Alabama, $247;
Pennsy Ivania, $1478; South Carolina,
S3O6; Wisconsin, $1474. From these
figures it will be seen that the popular
theory that the Southern people drink
mo~e Whiskey than any other inhabitants
of the globe is not correct, but that the
good old down East Yankee gets there
with frequency shat is astonishing.
If the United States has no navy to
speak of, it is getting ready to create q
havoc among other peoples navies. A
new dynamite cruiser called the York
town is nearing completion at PhiIadel-
phia, and is to be launched next week
Saturday IN the presence of Secretary
Whitney. It will carry four pneumatic
guns throwing dynamite projectiles
mile. The guns ara of 10 inch caliber,
rnd the shells contain six hundred pounds
4 explosive gelatine, equal in force and
destructiveness to 943 pounds of gun cot
ton. Such shell exploding under water
line will knock to pieces the heaviest ar
mored ship ahoat.