Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-12

OVER $67 100000 was invested in new
buildings in New York city last year-an
Increase of near 100000 over 1856 and
$20,O0O,O0O over 1885. Building in Bos-
ten was quite as large as ever before.
PHGBB CoUzEEs, former United States
marshal, announces herself an independ-
ent prohibition candidate for governor
of Missouri. This looks like an itching
for notoriety, and will dom uch to modify
popular regret over this bright young
PERSONS removal from Office.
THE British Government proposes to
refund its 3 per cent. consolidation into "
per cent. bonds, and will doubtless be sue
cessful in the attempt. Here is an exam
pie for the United States, and the change
would provide perpetual basis for ma
tionel banking that would be secure
beyond all peradventure or doubt.
JUDGE WATERMAN of Chicago did good
thing when he decided that doctor may
advertise if he chooses. He dealt blow
at the so-called ethics of the medical pro-
fession which cannot be repeated in the
courts too often. There is great deal
of bosh in medical ethics. If physicians
would pay less attention to old grannyish
questions of rules of the profession and
more to a study of the causes of diseases
they would do more good in tho com
munity.
YNEw political Issue is beginning to
force itself into popular notice in Mexi-
co-that of restricting immigration and
colonization from the United States. 1t
appears that Americans are rapidly popu-
lating and taking possession of Lower
California, on the Pacific coast of Mexico,
and some of the journals and politicians
of the country have sounded an alarm.
They point to the fact that Texas was
lost to Mexico by permitting it to be
oolonized and overrun by United States
people, and predict similar result in
Lower California. President Diaz and
his followers ridicule the idea.
A SINGULAR instance OF, probity and
good faith in business is mentioned by
the Financial Chronicle of New York.
Near the close of the paper era in 1873,
when failures were frequent and prices
were all at sea, the firm of R. L. Maitland
81 Co went down. The creditors were
settled with 30 cents on 81 and that was
supposed TO be the end of it. Now ct the
end of nine years the firm celebrates the
close Of 1887 by paying the remaining 60
per cent with interest at per cent. The
obligation had before been legally dis
charged not so the moral obligation
We hear very little of this last in these
speculative times. Competition is to
apt to blunt the moral sensibilities.
Born the depressed markets of Europe,
and the activity in military circles, make
the outlook still appear gloomy. Prince
Bismarck has evidently determined upon
either war or new congress for def
mite and radical settlement of the east
ern question. The National Zeitupg of
Berlin, speaking as by authority, says
that the chances are that peace will pre-
vail, "though this peace cannot be taken
as Synonymous with the restoration Of
European tranquility, fact for which
Russia must answer TO the world" This
is not the first indication that the great
chancellor has determined to make the
present tension the occasion of concerted
action by the powers and the calling of
Russia to account for her aggressions in
the Balkan peninsula.
THE late Judge Rapallo was son of
Anthony Rapallo, an italian linguist and
lawyer, who found success in New York
and married q sister of Hannah Gould
thu poet. He educated his son, who
never went to college, but was admitted
to the bar in 1914, when he was 81. He
was elected associate judge of the court
of appeals on the ticket with Chief
Judge Sanford f. Church in. 1870, and
was again elected in 1884. On the last
occasion there we're two judges to be
chosen, the democrats nominated Rapal-
Ioand the republicans Andrews, there
was no opposition, and Rapallo received
1,OSO,414 votes, Is more than his asso-
ciate. Judge Rapallo was not a politician
he was a learned jurist. Personally he
was warm hearted, social, and eminently
oclubable," being in fast a member of
several clubs. Gov. Hill has now to ap-
point his successor.
The situation IN the Cherokee nation
seems TO be IN fair way of peaceable
settlement, as the leaders of both parties
fully comprehend the necessity of order,
and have pledged themselves to preserve
it, aud Tahlequah is perfectly quiet. A
committee of the national party, repre-
senting the views of Principal Chief D.
w. Bushyhead and Assistant Chief Rabbit
Bunch, the dispossessed officials, propos-
ed arbitration by board OF arbitrators
chosen fron citizens of the Cherokee ma
ton; but committee on the part of the
Downing party declined the solution, or
the ground that Joel B. Mayes and Sam
uel Smith were elected principal and as
sistant chiefs respectively, in August, anG
are now in possession of the whole
machinery of government. In consequence
of this fiat opposition of the parties i
has been mutually agreed to await the