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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20
ELECTRIC SPARKS
Fires And Casualties.

HURRICANE at Havana, Cuba, Tuesday
did an immense amount Of damage, both
on sea and land.
The Grand opera house and adjacent
property at Syracuse, n. Y, were destroy
ed by fire. Loss, S2G8, 900.
The establishment of Second, Kehoe
& Sons, Boston, was damaged by fire to
the extent of from $4,000 to $4,000.
The Cleveland and Pittsburg railroad
freight depot, at Stubensville, Ohio,
burned. Loss $4,000.
The vessel Geo. NJ. Hatel, of New York
was lost in the Gulf Of Mexico and nine
sean en- were drowned. The loss to yes
sci and cargo is estimated at nearly ST.
100000.
AT Berne, Adams county, Ind, a plan
ing mill, saw mill, sorgum factory and
Touring mill were consumed. Loss $780,
900.
A FIRE at WashburD, Wis, on Friday
morning, destroyed property to the
amount of $4,000.
SEVERAL lives are reported lost by the
ex pIosioa Of Baltimore and Ohio loco
motive engine near Mansfield, Ohio, re
Gently.
FIRE at Dalles, Col, a village on the
Denver and Rio Grande Rrailroad, de-
stroyed the larger portion of the town
Loss, $4,000.
NJ. E. EDDs, cooper at Pekin, ILL.,,
assigned with liabilities of $2I,O00,-Rich
& Woodbury., shoe manufacturers at
Salem, Mass, failed, with liabilities OF
$4,000.
In consequence of heavy rain, parts of
Augusta, Ga, are submerged, and the
river is at the highest point ever record
ed and still raising. All the mills are
stopped on account of the high water.
FIRE in San Francisco Sunday after
noon destroyed property valued at ST.
100000. The burned district embraces
two whole blocks which were entirely
consumed and three blocks which are
almost a total loss.
FOREST fires in the vicinity of Bay City,
Mich. are beyond control and are doing
great damage. Buildings pine timber
and other property have already sue
cumbed. Two families are believed to
have persisted.
In the five weeks sence yellow fever
broke out at Jacksonville, 434 persons
have been stricken down, 56 of whom
have died. Efforts to depopulate the city
have failed because the people are IN
willing to leave and there is no law to
force them.
THE Crow, Sioux, Pigon, and Gros
Ventures Indians are preparing for war.
A party of Sioux have left the Poplar
river agency Oh raid to the Crow
agency. General Ruger has despatched
90 a troop Of cavalry in pursuit.
FIRE destroyed the entire business
portion OF the town of Harper, Keokuk
county, Iowa. Loss, $20,OOO-Prairie
fires are raging in the vicinity of Bis
marck, D. L. The grass there is consider
ably higher and drier at this time Of year
than ever before known.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20
News iG RrTaf.

THERE we're forty-nine new cases of
yellow fever in Jacksonville, Fla, Sunday.
The California grape crop has been
seriously IL jured by hot weather.
The Icelandic movement into Manitoba
continues. A party of Icelanders have
lately arrived in the county.
A KANSAS City judge has decided that
women can wear mems clothes in the state
of Missouri if they want TO.
No FEAR or apprehension is felt in New
York regarding the fatal case of yellow
fever.
MEMPHIS has quurantined against
Decaiur $50 miles east, owing to sup
posed case of yellow fever, and a second
case has developed.
The iron ore shipments from Escanaba
for the season to date aggregatirg 3l2,-
700 tons.
PRoF. R A. PRocToR, died of black
vomit, at New York, OF Wednesday eve
ming.
The condition OF Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe Is critical, but not considered hope
less.
FUNERAL services over the remains of
the late Lester Wallace were hello IN New
YorH Monday. The funeral took place in
Woodla@n cemetery.
Mrs. HENRY WARD BEECHER has aged
very rapidly OF late. she has made no
plans tor the winter, but is very anxious
to haze a home of her own again.
The island of Lacosti, on the Florida
coast. is being set out with cocoanut
trees so rapidly that it will soon be one
immense cocOanut grove.
THFRE was freezing weather in Mani
toba and northern Minnesota recently,
and rain and snow il the Lake Superior
region.
ABOUT 200 broad silk weavers of r. Il.
Adams Hamilton, n. Y. mill have struck
in consequence of proposed reduction
of their wages.
TIE Chaplin mine, Iron Mountain,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20
SHIPS LOST AT SEA.
Dozens Of Vessels Crippled or Sunk in the
Hurricane OF Last Week.

Dozens Of Vessels Crippled or Sunk in the
Hurricane OF Last week.
NORFOLK, Va.-The damage done to
shipping along the southern coast by the
hurricane thai has ragged for the past
week IN that vicinity is beginning to
manifest itself as vessels witch were
caught in it arrive in port. The steamer
Etnelbaid, from Jamaica, bound for
Philadelphia, reports that on Sept. 2,
while off Castle island, she encountered
terrific gale blowing from north north
west, lasting ten hours, during which the
VI ssel was hove to. The seas smashed
nor steering gear, stove in her deck
houses, carried away her boats. and in
iured several OF the crew. The bark
Nora Virgins was blown ashore at Sagua,
and is total loss, with portion of the
crew missing. The brig G. s. Packard
sank at her wharf at the game place dur
ing the hurricane. the crew barely having
time to escape with their lives. The
vessel and cargo will prove d total loss.
Another large, three masted schooner
went to pieces on Frying-Pan shoals.
Her name is unknown. The schooner
Esk, from Maracaibo for New York, has
gone ashore near Watcha preague and
broken up, and her cargo is scattered
along he coast. The reports at present
are meager, as those most injured are
sailing vessels, and il will be some time
before they reach port. The loss at
present is i'm possible TO estimate, but will
pr badly reach 81 100000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20

Mich, which discharged 400 men four
months ago, is now looking for miners,
who are rather scarce.
THE parade of the Grand Army of the
Republic, whose annual national encamp-
ment opened at Columbus, Ohio, Cd
Tuesday, was one OF the most Imposing
in the post war history of the organ'za>
ton.
TIE renegade Ute Indians in the Lgsal
Mountains, Colorado, had q battle few
days ago with some Agency Piute Indians,
and II is said that when the fight ended
there were nearly 100 dead Indians. The
renegade Utes have never been under
control of any agency.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20
WASHBURN'S HEAVY LOSS,

Who the Losers Are and What They Suffered
d ASHLAND, Sept. IA fire which start
ed IL barn at Washburn. just ecross the
bay, at 2:10 O'Clock this morning destroy
ed 200 buildings, all III one block. The
total less in $1A3,30O as follows: Anne
i Oberdy, opera honse block, SIS coo;
Insurance, $4,000. D. Corning, stock of
groceries, $1,000; INSURANCE, So 900. W. 81.
DUnnigan, news stand; $500, no insur-
surance. NJ. Dacabe, building occu pied
BY Donohue d ORourke: So 600, no in
surance. Donohue & O'Rourke, liquor and
saloon fixtures; $4,000, no insurance.
Charles FurlOtt, barber shop and fixtures,
$1,000, 10 Insurance. NJ. Duoabe, vacant
building, $1,000, no Insurance; Charles
Flynn, saloon and fixtures, So COO; lnsuc-
ance, 81 000. John A Jacobs, confec ion
airy, $4,000; insurance, $1,000. S. A,
Yates, iewery, So 600; 40 Insurance.
Fred. +. Yates, proprietor Washburn
News, 1900; no insurance. Northwes tern
Fuel Co, $3.50; no insurance. R. Green
wood, butcher shop, 81 500; no insurance.
msrlcan Express com pany, $500; no in
surauce. Peter Nelson, Nelson block,
$4,000; hard ware stock, $4,000; total
NJ. Warden, law Office, $500; 10
insurance. Lundberg & Johnson,
millinery, $500 insurance. f. J. Meehan,
clothing, $4,000; Insurance $4,000. James
Hickey, Odd Fellows block, $4,000; no
insurance. A. Iverson, boarding house,
$1,000; no insurance. n. n. Hanson,
boarding house and saloon, $4,000; in
sursnce $1,000. Johnson Bros, black
smith shop and building, $4,000; Bar
ager Bros, propriet0rs OF The Wash
burn Itemizor, printing outfit, LOCO; no
insurance. Sam Lee Lang, Chinese laun-
dry, $500; no insurance. John Starr,
boarding house, $1,000; no insurance
Wm. Ferguson, hotel and saloon, S. 600;
insurance, $4,000. w. A. FItz patrick,
blacksmith shop and building $500; no
insurance. J. Dickson RuggLes, build
ing, $500; no insurance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20
Criminal.

AN attempt hes been made to steal the
remains Of Maxwell, the St. Louis muir
dereC.
". Fl. LYONS of Minneapolis, it is re-
ported has swindled real estate people
out of $4,000 worth of property By forg-
ing transfer deeds.
two professional counterfeiters of
silver dollars, having their headquarters
at Nj. Carol, Ill, were captured by the
authorities, together with their outfit.
They will be held to await the action of
the grand jury.
SAN Francisco. Alexander Golden
son, boy Of vicious habits, who
shot and killed a fourteen-y ear old school
girl named Mamie Kelley in November
1886, was hanged in the county jail few
minutes after noon to-day.
WILLIAM ORoUrr, of Iowa City, Iowa,
was arrested on the charge of tempting
to wreck train on the Rock Island Road,
near that place, year ago. He confess
ed the c:ime.
THE body of j. G. TrebouI, a contractor
at Wichita, Kas., who disappeared two
months ago, was found in thioket near
that city. It is thought he was murdered
and robbed.
New YORK is flooded with counterfeit
S. and 81 silver certificates. The guam
tity OF these bills circulated leads to the
belief that an expert gang of counter
feiters are at work, and that they are has
tily SHOWING the queer" to get rid Of as
much Of it as possible before detection.
The fineness of the work shows thao they
are no novices.
PRESCOTT, Ari 1.-THE west bound ex-
press train was stopped by three men at
Parker's Mills Sunday night. They did
has been offered for their capture, and
Wells, Fargo & Co. will increase the
amount.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20
THE FLORIDA EPIDEMIC.

The situation at Jacksonville is very
serious. It is evident that the epidemic
has got beyond the control of the local
health board, and the appeal for money
and medical aid sent out to the general
public on Wednesday does not cover the
whole case. Signs of panic among the
people have been multiplying for week,
and the alarming part of it Is that the
want of harmony between the city and
federal authorities has become more pro
nounced. Hundreds of people who are
ready TO leave the city find that they can
not do so without submitting to quaran-
tine regulations, which they dislike. The
meeting between Surgeon General Ham
ilton ana the citizens committee at Camp
Perry on Tuesday, appears from al ac-
counts to have been very unsatisfactory
affair. DR.. Hamiltoa had gone down
there not in the b ST of humor, one might
Imagine, because Of the newspaper attacks
upon him forsputting Jacksonville under
q strict quarantine. For some time, 1T
may be added, the Jacksonville people,
and indeed the health boards of
several counties, had resented the
official reports ISSUED by DR. Ham
ilton concerning infection and disease IN
that state. When the first symptoms of
the yellow jack appeared DR.. Hamilton
gsve warming of the danger, but there
came prompt denials that the plague ex
listed at all. This dispute probably lead
to failure to report yellow fever cases
when it was well known in Jacksonville
that the disease had broken out. DR..
Hamilton would have been justified in
cutting off the approaches to the city
long before he did. At the conference
between him and the Jacksonville com
mittee at Camp Perry, the surgeon gen
eral announced that the only way for per
sons wishing to leave was to remain at
Camp Perry for ten days, and then Ger
tifcates of thorough fumigation would be
issued, provided the authorities where the
fugitives wished to go would agree to
take them. The chairman of the citizens
committee said that many persons would
refuse TO submit to the Camp Perry
regulations. But DR.. Hamilton will
not retreat from his position and
thus the matter rests. There will
be no disposition to fad fault
with the distressed people Of Jackson
Vile, aut on the other hand, if DR.. Hamil
ton is blamed in this matter, it will be
because he delayed cutting off thecity toe
long. The administrative machinery for
coping with the plague is singularly de-
fective. No state fund is available IN
this emergency, nor is there even 8 state
board of health to appeal to. The result
is that the moment panic starts all the
county boards belittle or suppress all in
formation that will discredit their lOoa
communities, and attempt to throw the
blame upon other counties. Having
therefore escaped state supervision the
county boards found themselves con
front ID by United States officer. 1t Is
bad situation, and it is 10 be hoped
that the good sense of the people viii
prevail, and that ali the authorities will
now work for the common safety without
unnecessary friction.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20
4 Hint t0 PuDy ppOD1a

From their arrival on this planet to their usu-
ally early depagture from it. people of weak
constitutions and angular physiques pass q sort
IF half existence Like dormice they burrow in
their home retreats afraid of heat, afraid OF
I, Id. constantly afraid that the shadow of the
,ireai reaper will materiaze and exact the for
felt which he demands from all. sooner or later
W finer med cinaI assurance of comparative
ci-or for the feeble exists than that afforded bg
Bo>tetterS stomach BltterS. Used with persist
ence-nut with spurts and SpaSmS this genial
and professional ly commended tonic Will DO
much toward In using strength into puny >ys-
lem and rounding off scrawdy angles in The
human figure. Appetite, nerve tranquility and
nightly repose are encouraged by it, aud ma
iarial. rheumatic, bilious tendency overcome. 1t
re establishes digestion and prevents kidney
troubles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20
Substitute for Jute Bagging

NEW YoRK-The emergency forced
upon the SOU hern planters by the exac-
fiols of the bagging trust he's resulted in
new substitute fore iute bagging for
bales, specimens of which were recently
submitted to the Inspection of members
of the cotton exchange. Mr.. E. Il. Levy
sent in the sam pie, accom- panied with q
letter in which be says: The material
being made Of the very commopest cot
ton 1t can be sold at price lower than
the ordinary jute oagging. The manu-
factUre OF these goods opens up new
AID enlarged scope of usefulness to our
cotton mills nor and south, besides
creating another factor in com putting the
cOnsGm ption of the sta pie.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20
LUTHERAN GENERAL COUNCIL.
Proceeding of the minneapolis Con7entic

PrOceeuIng OF the MInnneap0IIs JOnYeRtIOn
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 1.-THE morning
session OF the Lutheran general council
was devoted 10 q report of the church
book committee. Dr.. B. u. Su-hmuck-
er, of Pottstown, Pa, presented IN print
IN English aGd German, orders for vista
ton of the sick. communion OF sick, COM
mendation of dying. and burial of dead.
In the afternoon the council in body at
tended the celebration of the 25Oth ami
veTsary of the first Swedish settlement IN
America. IL the evening popular meet
iugs for discussion OF home missions were
held.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20
HOW TO OVERCOME THE DANGERS OF
EXPOSURE

Francis O'Reilly, the well known livery
man of No. Is Prince street, New York,
says of ALLcocK's Porous PLAsTERs:
"For the last forty 20 years ] have
been engaged IL the livery and hacking
business. L am greatly aided by my four
boys. We are much exposed to the
weather, and We have found ALLcooKs
PLAsTEBs OF very great service. We use
hem as chest protectors, placing one on
the chest and one on the pit of the stom-
sch. They not only ward of the cold,
but act as tonic.
We are frequently affected with rheum-
atism, kinks in the back, and pains IN the
side; but one or two of ALLcocKs PLAs-
TERs quickly cure us. Ny wife and
daughter have been using ALLCoCKS
PLAsTERs for weak back and think the
world of them. / have now been using
them for twenty yeare, and always have q
box in the house."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20

THE Attorney General of New York re-
Gently filed a bill of complaint against
the New York corporations composing
sG.s ar trust, asking that their charters be
forfeited on the ground that they had ex-
ceeded their chartered powers and engag-
ed in a combination antagonistic to the
Interests of the public. The sugar re-
fining companies have fled their answer,
IN which they deHy every allegation made
IN the Attorney Generals bill. The plea
declares that the combining companies
have not entered into any conspiracy or
combination or agreement of any kind;
that they have not transferred any stock
to any trust or trustees nor received IN
return any trust certificates. The first
impulse is to exclaim: Chow these trusts
are given to lying" But the rejoiner
leaves a loo ohole for the conscienoes of
the members Of the trust by admitting
that the individual stockholders have
done the things charged and claiming
that as Individuals they have legal right
to do so. In other words, the sugar
trust, through its lawyers, ask the pub
lie the question once pronounced by
Tweed. 1t now remains TO be seen
whether the State of New York can do
anything about it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20
IN GEN ERAL,
TO BLEED THE FARMERS.

Money Kings Scheming to Corner the Wheat
Markets.
FARGO, Dak.-A gigantic wheat trust,
backed by unlimited millions is being
formed in the northwest, the field
of it's operations being Minnesota and
Dakota, and only the higher grades of
This cereal are taken. Theplan of this
combination is to purchase as near AS
possible all wheat delivered for storage
at any elevator on a railroad. The or
ganization comprises some of the leading
moneyed men of st. PAM, MINNEAPOLIS,
Brainerd, Duluth, Fargo and Grand
Forks. All together thirty capitalists are
IN the pool, individual amounts ranging
from $40 900 to $1,000,00O. Prices are
paid at slight advance on the market
quotations for present or future de-
livery.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20

THE preface of Gen. Sheridan's me-
moir, which has just been made public,
was revised and signed by the general at
Nonquitt just three days before mis-
death. In it he says that the greatest
difficulty which confronted him was that
of recounting his share in the events
treated Of, without entering too fully in
TO the history of those years and at the
same time without giving to his own acts
an unmirited prominence. The work Is
dedicated to his comrades IN arms, and
left as be ritage to his children.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20
Ine National Capital,

TEE public debt was reduced about
98,000,000 during August,
CONGRESS has appropriated 100000
for the suppression of yellow fever and
to protect Interstate commerce from its
ravages.
Ex-CoNeREssMAN j. Randolph Tucker of
Virginia, is spoken Of as probable minis
ter to Spain to Succeed j, L. M. Curry,
recently resigned. A report that Daniel
Lockwood, of Buffalo, is to succeed Curry
is denied at the white house.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20

THE cities and towns of central New
York have regular tramp invasion dur
ng the hop picking season, and . judge
at Utica has taken heroic measures with
IS of the Migrants. They were sleeping
peacefully in q barn when the police
raided them, handouffed them and march
ed them to the police station. Then they
were severally sentenced to three months
in jail.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20

III DO not believe" remarks William
Nc D0ugal, the noted Dominion con-
stitutional lawyer, 'our industrious peace
able and for the most part coutented
Canadians, are anxious to engage in a
war of retition, much less in a war of
carnage with the great nation of our
southern border, because their govern.
men5 demands reciprocity in commerce
and navigation, and threatens to treat
rs as We are treating them in case of re-
fusaI.n
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20

It is astonishing what rich jokes the
people expect from huDnorist who ia re-
ce1ving So a week.
Before arithmetic was invented people
multiplied on the face of the earth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20

Josef Holman, the musical prodigy,
Is on mis- return to this country. fully re-
covered and ready TO invade the peoples
sur plus.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20

NEW YoRK.-A new and dangerous
counterfeit standard silver dollar Is in
circulation here, several having been
passed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20
HARRISON ACCEPTS.

Gen. Barris0n's Letter to the Repub-
lican National Committee.
Receiving Visiting Delegations Pre-
vented Earlier PRONUNCIATION.
He Reviews the Tariff Question After
the Republican Method.
Trusts, Pension, Civil Service and
Fisheries Questions Considered.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20
TIE TRUSTS.

The declarations of the convention
against sell combinations of capital Or
gauized in trusts or otherwise TO control
arbitrarily the condition of trade among
our citizens is in harmony with the
views entertained and publicly expressed
by me, long before the assembling of the
convention. Ordinarily capital shares
the losses OF idlensss with labor:
but under the operation of the
trust, in some of its forms, he
wage worker alone suffers loss, while die
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20
APPROPRIATIONS FOB EDUCATION.

The nation, not less than the states, is
dependent for prosperity and secu ity
upon the intelligence and morality of the
people. This common interest very early
suggested national aid in the establi-h
ment and endowment of schools and coll
iege5 in the new states. There is l be-
Iievo at present an exigency that calls for
still more liberal and direct approprie
lions in aid of common school education
ID tbs state.
THE TERRITORIAL FORM OF GOVERNMENT
is tenn porary expedIent, not a perman-
ent civil COL Edition. L. is adapted to the
ex1gency that suggested it, but becomes
Inadequate and even oppressive, Whsn
applied to fixed and populous commun-
es. Several territories are well able 10
bear the burdens and discharge the du
ties of free commonwealth in the Ameri
can union. To exclude them is 20 deny
the just rights of their people and may
well excite their indignant protest. No
question of the political prefe renee of
ne people of a territory should close
against them the hoap1fable door which
hes opened 70 two thirds of the existing
states. But admission should b. reso-
Iutely refused TO any territory = majority
of whose people cherish institutions that
are repugnant to our civilization or in
con sistant with a republican form of
govern ment.