Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-05

be so profitable an occupation that even
at this high figure fortunes are made IN
THE policy of the Salisbury govern
ment for fortnight back has been clear
ly one of mastery surrender, They have
allowed a radical like Bradlaugh TO push
through a bill abolishing the religious
test oath, and a motion looking to the
reform of the pension list. They have
backed ~ Mr.. Goschen in his refunding
scheme, which is based upon old-time
Gladstonian ideas and now receives
Gla6stone's commentator. They have
committed themselves to local govern
ment bill for England ard Wales, so
radical in it's provisions that all the
liberals could do was to wonder whether
their ears were not deceiving them. Even
the principal argument used against
Mr.. Parnelrs arrears bill was that if the
tenants were to have their debts reduced
other classes of debtors should be given a
like boon. The motto seems TO be now:
Anything to put home rule to sleep.
THAT murder will out and that its per
petrators are punished sooner or later Is
generally accepted article of belief. An
instance OF Justice long delayed but fin
ally triumphant is afforded in the conVic-
ton of Stain ana Cromwell for the muir
der of Cashier j. w. Barron, of the Dex-
ter, Me-, Savings Bank, more than ten
years ago. The crime was committed
Feb. %, 1873. Cashier Barron did not
return home at the usual time and search
was made for him at the bank. He was
found locked in the vault, handcuffed
and gagged, with rope about his neck.
de was taken out unconscious and died
early the next morning. For some unac-
eountabIe reason the bank officials
adopted the strange theory that Barron
had put the gag in his own month, the
handouts on his own hands aid the rope
around his own neck after which he had
locked himself in the vault and inflicted
the fatal wounds on himself. Ridiculous
as this theory was it prevented any deter
mined attempt to bring the guilty men
to Justice. It was not until nearly nine
years later that a real clue was obtained
when Frank Stain, a son of one of the
men just convicted, made confession
duplicating his father. Even then, the
authorities would not proceed to investi-
Al 4ha Work World
offered to ad vance the money to pay all
expenses and send a skilled reporter
along with the officers to aid in the work.
The arrest and trial of Stain and Crom-
well folio we'd promptly on the heels of
this investigation resulting in the convic
ton of the two men, who will be SEN
fenced to imprisonment for life. stain
has thus been removed from the memory
of faithful fficial and a widow who has
suffered both reproach and ostracism be-
cause of the unjust aspersion cast upon
her dead husbands name rejoices after
ten long years that his innocence has
been established beyond doubt. The
conviction of Barron's murderers adds
another to the many instances in which
progressive and wide awake newspapers
have given invaluable assistance to the
cause of Justice.
INTRIGU AT THE GERMAN COURT.
Philadelphia Times.
While Queen Victoria throughout her
long reign has done everything in her
power to care for and pamper her German
relations in England, she cannot fail to
note the Enthusiastically hostile sentiment
to her daughter, the Empress Victoria, IN
Germany. That the masses of the Ger
man people sympathize with this narrow
and cruel persecution OF the faithful wife
of their Emperor is not likely. 1t would
be unworthy of their manhood, as it is of
their nationality. There is no reason why
hey should hasten to bring her into sub
ordination to an ungrateful son. At the
same time it is not improbable that the
reports CT the intrigues now going on at
the German court are exaggerated. The
reporters for the American press are not
in position to know the exact truth,
either in regard to the Emperors condi
ton or the intrigues affecting the En-
press, and so the rumors may be set down
as merely shrewd guesses with very an
cient flavor.
Whether guesses or not, and however
much exaggerated, these rumors have an
element of truth at bottom. The empress
never has been popular in Germany. The
Emperor Frederick, when he was young
man, offended the German nobility by
going to England for wife. There
were many petty prlncesses near the
petty thrones of the Germany of 1858 who
looked forward to the possibility Of some
day becoming Queen OF Prussia. The
English marriage dissipated the hopes of
al these and angered not only their sisters
and their cousins and their aunts, but all
of their male relations. 1t is only natural
that now they should seek for their re-
venge. They have forgiven their EN-
peror, but they never will forgive his
wife. Therefore they plot to render the
Empress as uncomfortable as possible
but that the intrigues go to the length of
seeking to set up a regency for her hui
initiation is highly improbable.
With regard to the Crown Prince any
thing is impossible. Ee has an unsayorv