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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20
No OTHER '' ,,,'a. IN s''

has i'll so short period gained the repu-
tation and popularity enjoyed by the
WISCONSIN CENTRAL LINE. From &
com paratively unknown factor in the
commercial world, it has been trans
formed TO an independent, influential,
grand Through Route, With mag
nifcent depots, superb equipment and
ansn- passed terminal facilities. Through
careful catering to details it has Won for
itself reputation for solidity, safety.
convenience and attention to it's patrons,
second to no railroad in the country.
Pullman sleepers, models of pnlatial
omfort, dining cars in which the cuisine
and general appointments are up to the
highest standard, and coaches especially
built for this route, are among the chief
elements which have contributed to-
wards catering successfully TO a dis
terminating public. Located directly Cd
its line, between Chicago and Milwaukee.
and st. Paul and Minneapolis, and
Chicago and Ashland and Duluth, are
The following thriving cities of Wiscon
sin and Michigan: Burlington, Wauke-
sha, Fond du Lac. Oshkosh, Neenah,
Menasha, Stevens Point, Chippewa
Falls, E9d Claire, New Richmond,
Hurley, Wis, Ir0nWO0d, Mich, and
Bessemer, Mich.
For details, information, low
est current rates, berths, etc., via
this route, to any point in the
Northwest, apply to nearest
Ticket Agent, or address
WINS. MELLEN, JAMES BARKER,
General MANAGER Gent Passr & Tkt Agt
MILWAUKEE.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20
A TERRIBLE MURDER.

A Feud Between Two Men Over Woman
Leads the Son of One to blow the Others
Brains Out.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 8.-A Republic Texar-
kama, Ark, special says: A most sensa-
tional and deplorable murder occurred
this evening, son of A. L Spear. kill
ey-Mayor Beidler on the street. -Four
years ago Beidier separated from his wife
charging her with intimacy with Spear.
six months ago Mrs. Beidler died and
Beidler set ugly rumors afoat about
Spear. The matter was carried on until
today, when Spear became enraged al
some new story. He assailed Beidlel
and gave him terrible beating with q
club. Later in the day Beidlei
retaliated by giving Spear 6
fearful beating. short time afterward
as Beidler was walking leisureiy up the
street nineteen-year-o son of Spears
walked up behind him and placed the
muzzle of shot gun behind his ear and
blew the top of his head off. Young
Spear is in Jail.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20
GaribaldI as a Leader.

Tt was as popular soldier that Carl
baldi won his fame, and as such he has
had no equal. The forces he capitalized
were insignificant in numbers conn pared
with the great ornaments of modern
times. His tactics were those of the Rio
Grande guerriIlas; nevertheless his sue
cess was astonishing, because he was pc
culiarly adapted TO lead revolutionary
uprising like the Italian. From the
minuteness with which he describes the
plans of his campaigns and the dlspo-
sition of his troops in each battle, and
from the copiousp ess of the military pre-
cepts which he sprinkles over his me
moirs, it is evident that he deemed himself
a master OF the art of war; but the cap
tains of the future will not turn TO him
for instruction in tactics or strategy.
His strength lay in his personal valor,
and in the unbounded confidence and de-
votion which he ms pire in his comrades;
and these are qualities without which ex-
ceEence of discipline, or numbers, or
technical skill can win victories. His
favorite dream, that Italians could -man
cipate themselves without foreign assist
ance, by rising en- masse and arming
themselves with a million muskets, was
impractible for two reasons, which he
ought TO have understood: first, the peas
antry Gas he states many tin es) were too
subservient TO the priests to be easily
aroused; and, second, a multitude of raw
volunteers could not have overthrow the
trained armies of Austria. The god of
battles decided for justice and patrio-
tism, provided they marshall the best
regiments.
When we have stripped from Garibaldi
his eceentricities and flaws, transient IN
their nature, when we look into the heart
OF the man and contemplate his achieve
ments, We behold hero of the HomerIc
blood. We are again in the presence of
man of few simple but elemental
q ualities, brave, disinterested, and out
spoken, whose habit it was to exhibit
his passions without that reserve which
belongs to our latter, sophisticated age.
Like Achilles, he did not disguise his
feelings; he wept when he was moved,
sulked when he was angry. He was in
spired by two ideals, and those two the
noblest-love of liberty and love of his
fellow men; ideals which he might not
cherish in secret, but which he must pro-
claim before a hostile world; ideals for
which he endured poverty, exile, fatigues,
and the perils of battle. lie believed
that in every man there dwells aeon
seriousness of right which needs only to
be quickeped IN order TO produce
righteous acts. His career, which typI-
fies in the large that OF thousands OF his
: contemporaries coDfoUnds those
materialists who assert that the age OF
emotions, of high souled unselfshness, of
romance, CT true tragedy, has been left
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20

behind, and that we have entered the
Sahara of egotism and commonplace.
In the history of modern Europe, which
is the history of reconstruction of
society upon princip pies of nationality,
political equality, and commercial equity,
feudalism having crumbled into ruins,
there is no nobler chapter than that in
which the uniication of Italy is told.
Garibaldi was the popular hero of that
episode. The race whose heart beat true
in Garibaldi, and whose head thought
wisely in Cavour, if its character weakens
not, will contribute generally to the
civilization of the future
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20
DIED on THE GALLONS.
Young Hawkins Executed at River Head for
the Murder of His Mother.

the Murder of His Mother.
RIVER HEAD, L. I.-Frsncis Asbury
Hawkins, who murdered his mother while
out riding with her, was hanged in the
jail yard here. He bore up well and met
his fate with apparent Indifference.
Hawkins embraced the Catholic faith q
month ago and was visited by the priest
before the execution.
The crime for which Hawkins suffered
the death penalty was committed Oct. 2,
1887. His trial took place Dec. 6, 1887
He was convicted ana sentenced to be
| hanged. He made the following confession:
"Hard feelings had grown up between
myself and mother because of her inter
ference between myself and Miss Hattie
| Shrek, to whom [ was engaged to be
married and whom intended TO marry
| last summer. One night I hired a horse
and started for the house, it was about 10
O'Clock. I told mother that [ wanted her
to go ont with me where We could talk
over the trouble between Us. I don't
know that had fully determined to kill
! her if she did not consent to the mar
riage, but [ was desperate. After talk
ing little while we both became excited,
and mother applied vile name TO Ey
intended, and in rage I shot her in the
right temple. We were then in front of
my aunt's house, Mrs. Emma Smith. She
laid back in the corner Of the wagon and
groaned. l drove back to Bay Shore.
Mother was alive when we got there, and
shot her again in the head, I was fren-
zied. [ drove north on the Brentwood
road, and occasionally mother gasped,
and I knew she was not dead, so just after
crossing the railroad track [ shot her the
third time, and, stopping the wagon,
dragged her out and left her in the bushes,
where she vas found.
Asbury Hawkins was the youngest son
of Capt. Franklin Hawkins, of Islip. His
mothers name was Clock. Both the
Hawkinses and the Clocks were leaders
in the social and business circles of the
south side of Long Island. When Ash
bury was born, his nurse, who was a
superstitious old woman. noticed as the
babe lay ia her lap birthmark-a brown
mole-whioh disfgured the right cheek,
and she exclaimed:
"That is the murderer's mark. This
babe, if he lives, Will make trouble for
his family and friends"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20
neroifully scored those roads that had

meTcifully scored those roads that had
been guilty of discrimination in passen-
ger rates By dealing secretly with scalp
ers. He mentioned no names but he
gave them to understand that he knew
which were the guilty ones and that he
had sufficient evidence in his possession
to convict them of frequent violations
of the law. He told them the pernicious
practice would have TO be stopped at
once or the offenders would be prosecut-
ed. Mr.. Cooley talked for nearly an
hour and at the close of his speech, Col
Morrison made few remarks on the
same subject. Immediately after the
adjournment of the meeting the agents
convened and talked over the situation
The lines between Chicago and st. Paul
and those between Chicago and Omaha
agreed to give tbs necessary ten days
notice Of the restoration OF the passenger
rates between those points.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20
WHITE CAPS IN KANSAS.
Washing Dirty Farmer and Whipping An
Otker Man.

Washing a Dirty Farmer and Whipping An
other Nan.
KANSAS Cry, Mo.-Six months age
three southern Indiana families moved to
the neighborhood of Agra, Kansas. A
"White Cap" society vas soon formed
and about month ago several people re-
ceived notices warning them TO mend
their ways. No attention was paid, and
two weeks ago missives with red finger
marks ana signed kansas Division White
Caps" were received. Wednesday night
a farmer noted for his slovenly appear
ance was taken from his home and
doused with twenty buckets of water
Monday night a citizen of Agra, named
Mcdonald, accused of cruelty TO his wife,
was seized, bound to a telegraph pole,
and given at least sixty iashes with cat
o'nine-tails. Steps have been taken to
arrest the regulators.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20
Queer System of Bookkeeping.

A little man who runs a prosperous
drug store on Cottage Grove avenue has
a system of bookkeeping that is probably
without duplicate from one end of the
city to the other. His distinguishing
trait is az inability TO remember names.
He has a score of customers whom he
traded with for years, whom he knows by
sight as we'll as he does his own brother,
but whose names he could not call off to
save himself from hanging. The conse-
ouence is that when three or four of
these customers have called in one even
ing and have made small purchases which
they wished chalked up, his little book
contains entries something like this:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20

will fill pipe of one-inch bore will be
sufficient TO irrigate an eighth of an acre
of beds. If plants cultivated in this
manner are not allowed to flower, they
will furnish an abundant supply of young
tops for the market throughout the
spring, summer and autumn. All that is
required for their successful growth is
occasionally replanting and keeping the
beds from mud and weeds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20
UNMERCIFULLY SCORED.

Judge Cooley Talks to the Discriminating
Railroads.
CH1oAGo-Ju5ge Cooley laid cow the
avs 20 the managers and general pas
senger agents of the various railroads on
tuesday. About 200 officials assembled
in the committe rooms OF the central
trsffic ASSOCIATION 20 hear what the chair
man of the interstate commerce COM
mission had to say. The judge un-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20

Fast Mall Line with vestfbuled Trains be,
tween Chicago, Milwaukee, ST. Paul anu
Minneapolis.
Trans Continental Route between chicago,
Council Bluffs, Omaha and the Pacific Coast
Great National Route between Chicago, Kan
sas City and st. Joseph, BIO.
800 Miles of Road reaching all principal
points in II inois Wisconsin, Minnesota Iowa,
Missouri and Dakota.
For maps, time tables, rates Of passage and
freight etc Apply u The nearest station agent OF
the CHICAGO Milwaukee & ST. paul. RAILWAY,
or to any Railroad Agent anywhere in the World
BOSWELL MILLER, Az. H. CARPENTER
General Manager. Gen'l Pass and Tiki Agt
ES-For information in reference TO Lands and
Towns owned by the CBICAGo, MILWAUKEE & ST,
Paul RAILWAY COMPANY. write to B. G. HAUGAB,
Land Commissioner. Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20

The Milwaukee, Lake Shore l. Western
Railway has been well named the Fishing
and Hunting Line of Wisconsin, passing,
as it does, through thousands of acres of
but partially explore woods and within
easy reaching distance of lakes and
streams that have never been fished by
white men, ell well stocked with the game
fish for which Northern Wisconsin waters
are noted. The woods ABOUND with game;
deer, bear, wolf, mink, beaver, pheasanS
and other game are quite plentiful.
THE ONLY LINE
From Milwaukee to the new Iron Mining
District in Wisconsin and Michigan that
reaches ALL of the developed Mining
towns; GOGEBIC, WAKEFIELD, BES-
SEMER, IRONWOOD AND HURLEY.
Direct line to ASHLAND and DULUTH
Sleeping cars between Inland and
CHICAGO.
The GUIDE Book, and other descripsrv>
matter, containing full information, maps
and engrayings of the country traversed
by the line, will be sent to any address or
application to the General Passenger
Agent.
CHAs L. RYDER Gen1 Agt. ia Clark ST.,
E. VLIET, City P. & T. Agt. CHICAGO
Mil,Ualtkee Office, 95 Wisconsin st.
H.F. WHITCOMB. GEO. S. MARSH,
Gen1 Manager. Gen'l Pass & Tiki. Agt.
MTLWA UKEE, WIS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20

Taxation reform is the chief question
before the next Ohio legislature. Henry
George and Thomas G. Shearman of New
York will address that body January 9, IN
behalf of the land tax, and at the same
time the advocates of that nystem In
Ohio, quite large and influential body
will hold q convention at COluLhbus.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20

Man with the black whiskers, cigars,
cents; "The short-necked man, pare
goric, 10 cents; ''The handsome man
with the gray dilldalls, so cents worth of
Jamaica ginger" and so on. This is the
only set of bookkeeping that the little
drug store man INDUCES in, and he says
ms creditors are all good and never let
MIN lose money by it. But it would be
interesting to know, how he'd address
bis envelopes if any of his debtors let their
accounts run long enough to necessitate
the sending out of bills.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20

GAN assemblage of incapables" is the
breezy way Gen. Boulanger describes the
French Chamber of Deputies. If he is
not elected to that body about once u
month he gets uneasy. He takes great
delight in being deputy, and then re-
signing. He announces this week that
he will be a candidate for the department
of the Nord, and that he will consequent
Iy resign his present seat. If members
resign or die off fast enough, the doughty
leader of the revisionists will make a tour
of all the departments and make his call
ing and election sure from one end of
France to the other.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20

Talemaque L. Timavenis, g former
Harvard professor and author of "The
Original Mr.. Jacobs" and "The American
Jew," has been arrested for extensive
embe ZZlement
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20

We have in this department complete line
of job Material and Type for doing irst-cIasl
lob sork on short notice and at the lowast
living prices. We do all kinds Of Pamphlet
and Law Brief work known to the trade.
Call in and get prices.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20

The idea of the actuality is conveyed in
the letter in terms which correspond
nearly to those in the rythmic expression
The 'which is" is certainly a confrma-
ton of the state, "surest of the surest, >
and the lasting "for cons upon cons
finds its counterpart in "Eonian music
If Tennyson has never been connected in
any way with physchic science or spirit
ualism, the letter, not to mention the now
clearer reading of the poem, will Greats
not q little surprise.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20

If Nevada is not a pocket State 1t is hard
to tell what name to give it. The total vote
for President at the late election was but
1928, as against 1877 in 1884 and 49,
S45 in 1880. The census of 1880 showed
the population of the State to be but g.
266, and the shrinkage in the vote since
that time indicates population of about
10000, or less than that of an average
Pennsylvania county. To give 10000
people one representative in Congress is
an unfair and absurd discrimination
against the States and communities that
are really populated. But Nevada was
made State and there is no way of un-
making 1T.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20
in stock.
JOB DEPARTMENT

We propose to keep ell blanks used in Cireui
Court. Justices Court and those of miscelia
peous character as noted above.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20

The finance committee of the presl
Dental Inauguration think it will take
about $4,000 to do the thing up prop
erly. GarfeId's inauguration cost about
$4,000 and Cleveland's something like
$4,000 more, but the present commit
tee want the Harrison ceremonies to be
the finest ever witnessed. Col. Lemon,
chairman of the committee, Is disguised
because as yet only 325 men in Washing
ton have been 'public-spi-ited and liber-
al enough to put their names on the, list. J"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20

I. C. WHITE, professor of geology in
the university of West Virginia, cheers
the hearts of the people in the natural
gas regions by the statement that there
supply. Indeed he believes that more
gas will be produced in the next few
years than ever before. There is an i'm
mence stretch of territory that has hard
ly been touched as yet, and even after all
the gas from the present strata of rock
has been exhausted, the wells can be
drilled and another abundant supply OBJ
tanned,
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-10
Emperor William's Diary.

The Nachrichten, q German, newspaper.
referring to the arrest of Prof Geffcken, says
that the first steps-the discovery and
arrest of the divulger of Emperor Frederick's
diary-Were left to the prosecutor at Berlin,
and that the affair is now RENTED to the
chief prosecutor at Lepsic. The Vossiche
Zeitung contends that an action for breach
of copyright could legally be taken by the
heirs OF Frederick against the German pa
pers which published the diary, and that, under
existing copyright conventions, an action
could also be brought against foreign journal
lists for the same ofense. The Reichsbote pub
fishes an extract from the diary written by
Emperor Frederick in Ii $50, during his travels
IN the East, in which he treats of his visit to
Jerusalem. Portions of Emperor Fredericks
Eastern diary were published in July last in
the Darmstadt military journal, and in
August in the magazine Won Fels Yum
Nicer, without evoking comment Prof.
Gefcken states that he had the en-
peror's permission to publish the diary
months after his death. The examination
of Prof Geffchen lasted seven hours He was
calm. His wife, the daughter of the Poet
Immermann, was much affected by the i'm
prisonment of her husband The Prussian
government is negotiating with the free city
OF Hamburg for the extradition of Prof
Geffcken. The Berlin Post recounts the an
ecdotes of Prof. Gefcken for the purpose of
showing that he has always been system
attic and persistent adversary of Bismarck
and the Bismarckian policy. The Krenz
Zeitung says that Geffcken is a decided free
trader.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-10
Nuggets of Foreign News.

The lord mayor of London has offered $500
reward for the arrest of the Whitechapel MUIR
,derer DIR. Forbes Winslow and Sir Risdon
Bennett and othermedical experts themselves
as more than ever convinced that the per-
petrator of the crimes is homicidal lunatic.
The trial of Prof Geffcken at Hamburg has
closed. The case was RENTED to the
supreme court at Leipsic Bail was refused
for Geffcken. His letters are detained in the
Hamburg post Office. 1t is stated that upon
searching Prof. Geffcken's house letters were
found from Mr.. Gladstone, DR.. Mackenzie and
prominent French statesmen, the contents of
which are not disclosed.
Itis>stated by the Independence Beige that
in the book which DR.. Mackenzie will shortly
publish in reply to the German doctors who
attended the late Emperor Frederick, the
English physician will show how he could
have prolonged the emperor's life twenty
months if he had had sole charge of the case
from the beginning DR.. Mackenzie will also
show that DR.. Gerhardt produced cancer.
A cablegram received at Detroit states that
Charles w. Waldron, the Hillsdale bank
er who converted all his assets into cash and
eloped with Mrs. Bidwell, of Quincy, is in
London, and announces Waldron's intention
to return here,soon and straighten out mat
tiers. The gentleman who received this cable
has also received a letter from Waldron,
mailed from Berlin, on Sept. Is, in which
w aldron explains why he went away. lie
says he had family troubles which induced
him to leave home The Bidwell woman
wanted to go, he says, and he took her as
far as Montreal, where he gave her small
sum Of money and told her to go. He con-
tinued his journey and went directly to Ber-
lin. In the letter Waldron says the money
he raised was obtained in perfectly legiti-
mate way on good securities, and that after
paying it all back which he says he will do,
he will have a quarter of a million dollars
left unincumbered.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-10

the state. The last time he was heard fremi
he was near Stevens Point, Wis. as STATION
agent for the Wisconsin Central. He changed
his name to ". j. Ford and wentto Jackson
vile to act as an operator when the fever
broke out. He had the fever and died from
relapse just before dying he made known
his identity and the news was sent to his
uncle at Bay City, Mich, and then sent to
Fergus Falls, to his father, q. 81. Turner
T. F. Cakes, who was elected president of
the Northern Pacific Railroad company, re-
turned from New York, accompanied by N.
G. Thrall, his private secretary. Mr.. Cakes
was the recipient of hearty congratulations
from his many friends in ST. Paul on his pro-
motion, which he has earned by hard work.
He said that he felt very much gratifed at
the pleasure expressed by his ST Paul friends
over his promotion. He was asked if his
being made president would cause any
changes at the general Offices and he replied
that it would not; that he should continue to
discharge the duties of general manager of
the road, and should make his permanent
home in st. Paul.