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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-22
Pacific Coast Wheat Exports.
Wall Street Investigator.

The wheat market continues in very
artificial and abnormal condition, and
Bradstreet's says the exceptional condi-
tions affecting it at Chicago, Minneape-
lis, Duluth, St. Louis and at the larger
ports have practically stopped export of
that cereal from the cas- tern seaboard,
only about 10000 bushels going abroad
for the six days ending on Friday
from Baltimore, Philadelphia, Newport
Boston and Montreal. Not a busheI of
wheat was sent abroad from the port of
New York last week, and only $4,000
bushels in the previous week. This is
due to the unwillingness of European
buyers to accept the current Chicago
DulUth-New York view of the situation.
In other words, Europe believes that
American wheat growers and de-ler5 east
of the Rocky mountains have put the
price OF that cereal up too high. To
show that Europe knows where TO get
wheat in large quantities when wanted, If
is only necessary TO say that nearly $685.
900 bushels of wheat we're exported from
San Francisco and from Portland. Ore,
within six days exclusive of our gross ex-
ports of wheat and -four growing less
week by week, the loss Of shipments by
way of the Atlantic segboard has been
more than offset by increased ex ports on
the Pacific coast, and the aggregate ex-
ports of flour and) wheat from the Unit
ed States for the past week is 1887, 916
bushels, against 1882 bushels in the
previous week and 1857 ,619 bushels the
week before.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-22
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

NEARLY. 10000 men have been natural
lied in New York city this year.
FRIENDS of Mrs. Gen. Sheridan are rails
ing a.furd of 100000 for her.
THE Pennsylvania supreme court has
decided that the mechanics' lien Law is
unconstitutional.
The heaviest snow storm ever known
at this season of the year prevailed
throughout Kansas Friday.
IKE Norris mine in Michigan is the
greatest mine in the world, the output
being 100000 tons SO far this season.
OVER two feet of snow has fallen along
the lower st. Lawrence. Serious loss of
life is feared.
PRAIRIE fires are raging west and south
west of Aberdeen, Dakota, doing extern
siVe damage.
TWELVE more bodies were found in the
ruins of the burned factory at Rochester,
New York.
Gov. SWINEFoRD's report on the condi-
tion of Alaska has been made public. 1t
estimates the population of the territory
at 1850.
THE latest estimate of TIE Southern cot
ton crop of 1888 places the aggregate at
1854, 1888 bales.
--LATEST returns indicate that the repub-
licans will certainly have majority of
twelve more in the House of Representa-
tives of the next Congress.
STEVE BRoDIE jumped eff the new
bridge at Poughkeepsie, Friday morning,
and may die from the injuries received.
The wager was $500 and $500 medal.
A SYNDICATE of forty Chicago capital
lists has purchased all the street railway
lines Of the city of Los Angeles, Col.
paying 100000 for the same.
DANIEL HANDS noble gift of 100000
| for the education of the colored people
| in the south will educate five hundred pu
| pills year.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers have formally adopted cooper
alive plan of assisting kindred organlza
tions.
THE result of the election held by the
Oklahomites in No Mans land was largely
in favor of territorial government and
for Springer Oklahoma bill. 0. G.
Chase is elected delegate to congress.
THE red headed have been favored
again. Some Jacksonville physicians de
clare that in no instance has the yellow
fever been known to attack parsons with
red hair.
THOMAS A. EDISON still works as hare
and as industriously as though he was
just beginning his career, and any day
he may be found at his bench at his shop
in Orange, N. j., hard at work in his shirt
sleeves, making with his own hands
models he considers too delicate to trust
to another.
| MRS. HARRIET BEEoHER STOWE has made
the most remarkable recovery her physici,
ans have ever witnessed. When she left
Sag Harbor it was believed that she could
not live to reach Hartford. Now, how
ever, she is better than she has been fol
some years, and is able to walk with the
| aid of cane.
New YoRK.-The Herald prints three
columns charging that the Kings county
insane asylum is overcrowded and tina
the inmates are in horrible condition
It describes dreadful scenes of misery in
noisome cellars, where the atmosphere is
laden with pestilence and characterized
it as chamber of horrors. The writer
ascribes the frightful condition of affairs
to politics.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-22
The Conscience of the yIytb Century

Iuo SOustltHCc VI Inc AlAIn century.
From DR.. Lyman Abbott's article on
"The New Reformation" in the November
Century We quote the following: Ger
tainly the conscience of the American
people. I should rather say of the Anglo
Saxon people, never has been so sensitive
and never so resolute il dealing with
practical life. If the most Trustworthy
expressions of religious feeling are those
uttered in devotional meetings, private
journals, and religious biography, it is
quite possible that what the theologians
call conviction of sin" was more
poignant il the last century than in this;
but if the most trustworthy expressions
of religious feeling are those embodied in
life, the sense of sin and the purpose of
reformation have been far more effective
~ expressed in this century than in the
last. Then millions of slayes were held
IN bondage IN America, and other
millions under the British flag in its
colonies, with only feeble and wholly
Ineffective protest. Drunkenness did not
lead to social disrepute either in Old or
in New England. Churches paid for
drinks on occasions of dedications and
ordinations, and the minister's sideboard
took on the aspect of public bar. The
conscience of England abolished slavery
IN all English doHliniops in 1888; that OF
The United States, moving more slowly
and having a more onerous task, accom-
plished it's work thirty years later and at
an awful cost. But the task was accom-
plished. Almost on the very spot where
in the first half OF this century North
ern missionary was publicly whipped on
the bare back, not for circulating anti
slavery tracts, but for having one in his
possession, now stand the buildings of
the Fisk University, dedicated to the
education Of the emgncipated negro. If
drinking has not been diminished, upon
that question social statisticians are not
agreed, -drunkenness certainly has
decreased. both in England and in the
United States; and the conscience of the
people, awakened to the enormity Of 8
social crime which costs more il both
men and money than either war or pes
thence, is seeking to find way to bring
the destruction of this enemy to per-
petual end. 1t has not yet found sthe
way; but it has found, or is fast finding,
the will. And where there is a sill there
is a way"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-22
CHINESE PEDAGOGUES.
Glad Enough of the Money of Foreign Pupils,
But Ashamed of the Pupiis


But Ashamed of the Pupils.
All of Us have our experiences of the
invinclble contempt in which we are held
by our stolid mentors, says the Chimes
Times, who accept our presents with the
air of chief ievying tribute from his re-
tainers. Amusing indeed are the ways in
which the frowsy old pedagogues betray
their feelings, and childishly ingenious
the devices to which they have recourse
in order to preserve their assumption of
superiority before their countrymen
while Disgusting 1t before the foreigner.
Chinese etiquette helps them, for they
can put it on and off at pleasure. and
trust TO the foreigner not being cute
enough TO follow it's ramifcations. But
sometimes even the ceremonial forms are
snare TO them. One who was in the
habit of heing reverentlally bowed out of
the house after each days session, and
stopped at the threshold 10 return the
obaisances of his pupils, found on one
occasion a sudden necessity for adjust
ing his dress aud in doing SO omitted the
customary formality.
Struck by the singuiarity of the pro-
ceeding, the foreigner had the curiosity
to follow the teacher into the street, and
there saw pass ng a Chinese Ting ch'al
in whose presence the old teacher would
not demean himself by doing reverence
to the foreigner.
Another kindly disposed scholar in
duced his teacher to dine and accompany
him to the theatre. Unpleasant as it is
to sit near well-nourished Chinese dur
ing the time while his thoracic air pas
sage is charged with explosiveness, it
must be allowed that the courtesy of the
Western pupil was commendable. But
the guest felt fdgety, not withstanding
the sedative effect of pork and beans, and
soon found an excuse for leaving his for
eign friend. He could not, in fact, en-
dare being publicly seen in the company
of a foreigner. Needless to say that in
the street your well-bred Chinese walk,
like the Levite, on the other side when
they see their foreign acquaintance APP
preaching.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-22
Right to Use of Water.

The Legal Adviser gives to its readers
some information respecting water rights.
which has been source of great trouble
and much litigation. 1t is y generous
principles says the writer, that every own
er of land upon natural stream of water
has g right to use the water for any reas-
enable purpose not inconsistent with q
similar right 10 the owners of the land
above, below and opposite to him. He
may take the water to supply his dwell
ing, to irrigate his land, or TO qGench the
thirst of his cattle; TO use it for manu-
featuring purposes, such as the supplying
of steam boilers or the running of water
wheels or other hydraulic works, so long
as such use does not sensibly and iDiuri-
ously effect its volume. But this is a
mere privilege running with the land, not
q property in the water itself.
Where the stream is small, and does not
supply water more than sufficient to an
swer the wants OF the different proprie-
tors living on the stream, none of the
proprietors can use the water for either
irrigation or manufacturing, but for do
mestic purposes and watering stock one
proprietor will be justified in consuming
all the water.
Twenty years use adverse 10 the right
of another will give the person so using
the stream the right to continue the use,
regardless of the others rights.
And as to the division of water, every
one who owns land situated upon a stream
has the following rights:
l. To the natural flow of the stream.
2. That il shall continue to run in its
accustomed channels.
3. That it shall flow upon his land in
its usual quantity, natural place and usual
height.
4. That it shall flow off his land upon
the land of his neighbor below, in ao-
customed place and at the usual level.
These rights he has as an incident to
the property In his land, and he can not
be deprived Of it by grant or description.
If any ore shall make any change in
the natural flow of stream, to the
material injury of any owner situated up
on it, or by any interference shall prevent
the stream from flowing as it ives wont to
dow, he is res ponsible for the damage he
may occasion These rights are subject
TO the privilege of each one to make a
reasonable use OF the water upon his own
land while it is passing along the same.
1t matters not what the source of the
water may be, whether it be back water or
the fowage of the same, or the water of
another stream. STILL the division of a
stream may be made by anyone, if it be
returned to it's natural channel before it
leaves the premises.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-22

AUSTRIA is being alarmed with the be-
ginning of what may lead to serious in
ternal trouble. The Austrian Czechs arc
about to enter upon struggle for auton-
omy similar to that enjoyed by Hun
gary. They wish to have their Emperor
crowned King of Bohemia, as he is now
crowned King of Hungary. The Hun
garians are opposed 20 this idea, being
unwilling to have another separate
Austrian nationality advanced to the dig
nifty of theirs. The Poles also talk of
obtaining special recognition by having
the Emperor crowned King of Galicia
The German element sides with Hungar-
ians, wishing to preserve the monarchy
in its present state. The Czechs and
Poles together make formidable power
and the opinion is freely entertained that
unless Francis Joseph accepts the pro.
gramme Bohemia will be permanently
disatfected with strong leanings toward
Russia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-22
CRIME.

AN election judge was killed at Sar
Rafael, N. NJ, while trying to protect the
poll books from mob.
WILLIAM SHOWERS, who brutally muir.
dered his 1--WE grandchildren last May, was
hanged at Lebanon, Pa, on Wednesday
THE Whiteehapei murders still eontin.
ue to be an apparently unsolvabie mys-
terry.
The down stage was stopped by sin
gle highwayman near Downieville, CAL
yesterday, and $4,000 in cash and valu-
able mail stolen.
ANOTHER murder more horrible than the
White Chapel murders has been perpe-
trated in London. The victim was a
prostitute. Bloodhounds could not track
the murderer.
A MAN was arrested at Laporte, Ind,
while trying TO sell lot of postage
stamps, and in his satchel was found a
full kit of burglars tools. He refuses to
give his name.
WHILE riding through the woods IN
breckenridge, KY, Buck MoCombs and
Fulton French were shot dead by persons
unknown. French was the leader OF the
faction against the Eversole gang.
PEINEAs ROGERS, of fredericksburg, Pa,
arrested on the charge of arson, has con-
fessed to being the leader of gang that
had set IRE to three factories, causing a
total loss of 100000.
CENTRALIA, Il.-During family
quarrel Friday afternoon, George Briden-
baker, farmer living four miles north
west of here, became crezed with rage,
aud shot his wife and two children. Mrs.
Briedenbacker received a dangerous
wound in the abdomen, and will probably
die. A little daughter of the frenzied
man crught one of the bullets in her arm:
which was badly shattered, and his son
was badly wounded in one hand.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-22

little legacy of 100000 in England that
needs his Immediate attention.
CARL ScHURz will leave Hamburg for
| America on the steamer Harmonic, which
will leave for New York Sunday next.
KING OTTo, the insane ruler of Bavaria
imagines that he is a cat and spends most
of his time trying to catch mice
II is rumored that an attempt has been
made to assassinete Prince FerdiL and
ruler Of Bulgaria.
The heavy rains of the last few days
have caused floods in many districts OF
England.
The Russian agent in Bokhara reports
that Ishak Khan, the leader of the recent
Afgahn rebellion, has returned TO Afghan.
istan.
GIN. WAsTEN, chief of the London
Metropolitan police has resigned owing
TO criticism regarding the Whiteohapel
murders.
BEN. JOHNSON, of Racine, used kerosene
to kindle fire. The explosion which
followed wrecked the building and badly
shattered the furniture.
TIE Roumanism parliament was open
ed by King Charles Ia person. In his ad
dress his majesty said that the govern
ment's foreign relations were absolutely
satisfactory.
The governments of Italy and China
| have agreed that henceforth Italian mis-
sionaries in China shall carry Italian in
stead of French passports.
zLoNDoN.--It is now learned shat the
collision between the Nantes and Theor'
dore Rugger resulted in the drowning OF
twenty-five of the steamers crew and
twelve Of the crew Of the German vessel
TIE Prince of Wales will meet his sis
| ter, the ex-empress of Germany, al
Flushing on the 18th inst, and will es-
| cort her to Windsor castle to visit Queen
| Victoria.
| LONDON. The police are confident
| they are on the right track in their
search for the Whitechapel murderer
! Two persons have been found who saw
| the man who accompanied the last victim
to her room on the night she was muir
dered. Their descriptions of the man
tally IN every respect.
Ten men in jolly boat belonging &c
| the British steamer Saxmundham, before
reported sunk in collision with the Nor
wegian bark Nor, have been rescued
The remaining twelve Of the crew are
| probably lost.
UNDER the title Of the Omitted Ger
man Left" the German Austrian and Ger
man clubs have united in the basis of the
guarding Of the unity Of the state, the
protection Of German nationality, anG
the legitimate positions of Germans II
Austria, and the maintenance and devel
opment of liberal constitutional princi
pies.
LONDON Demonstrations against TIN
conservatives, of one of which Sen0
| Canova del Castillo was a victim in Mad
rid, have been made iu other Spanish
cities and are increasing in number ana
violence. Senior del Castillo declares tn
movement is directed against the monar
chy. The latest advioes say that all i
quist in Madrid at present, bat there is
profound feeling of unrest and uneas1nes
The revolutionary spirit is up and tn
government is unable to cope with it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-22
In GENERAL.
DEATH IN 4 COAL PIT.
Kansas Adds Mine Horror to the List of Dis
aSterS.

Kansas Adds q Mine Horror to the List Of Dis
asters.
KANSAS C1TY.-The Journal special from
Pittsburg, Kansas, says: The most dread
full disaster in the history of Kansas oc-
Cured at O'Clock Friday morning.
When the men were preparing toleaye off
their work at shaft No. 2 at Frontenac a
suburb of Pittsburg, terrible explosion
was heard that shook the earth for great
distance and completely shattered the
shaft. Upon investigation, it was found
that one hundred and sixty men were
within the mine at the tine of the explos-
ion. Being 112 feet below the surface, it
is almost certain that all are dead at this
writing. The only two exceptions were
two men who were in tie car coming up
and being near the top of the shaft, man
aged to escape. Pittsburg is in the
center of the coal mines Of southeastern
Kansas and is about 100 miles south OF
Kansas City on the Fort Scott and Gulf
railroad.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-22

recent inaugural address to the College
OF State Medicine. Every case of fever,
no calculated, cost the ommunity 81; the
reduction in the annual death rate from
fever to 4S4 per million from the 1851 so
rate of 9oS million represented total
saving of $500, 900, "but of this no ore
seemed conscious" while the annual cost
of scarlet fever at the present time was
100000 year. If, therefore, we could
trace scarlet fever to definite cause, as
bovine disease, communicable by milk,
We could adopt precautions which s'would
save the country every year somewhere
about half as much money as the recent
conversion of stocks, besides much
misery" Here is new light pon disease.
1t is increasingly preventable, and as we
reduce Its Virulence and range we save
money.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-22
HOW SHALL WE USE OUR VICTORY


One OF the wise poets, whose exact
words we do not recall, says in substance
that courage and conduct in the doubtful
field of battle are not SO rare as that
greater talent which knows how to garner
mp the fruits of victory and make a
proper use of them. The republicans
have abundant reason to rejoice over tue
splendid victory they won at the recent
election; they will have yet greater reason
to rejoice if the opportunity it gives
them is judiciously employed. We hear
it said that now the republican party has
the certainty of holding control of the
government for q long succession of
years, but this is an error. 1t hes the op-
portunity but not the certainty. Every
thing depends upon the wise, moderate
and statesmanlike use of the victory that
has been won. Emphatic as the success
of the party has been, it is everywhere
confronted by powerful minority. A
change of a few votes in each precinct
would reverse the majorities gained in
almost every northern .tate. It is curl
Gus, and, in one view of the subject
rather discouFaging to consider that,
while one or the other of The two parties
must represent the true policy which the
country should adopt on the chief issue
of the recent canvass, the decision, after
all, rests upon very narrow popular ma
jority, and that almost ope-half of the
people are either mistaken in judgment
or that great numbers voted through
party bias and prejudice contrary to their
convictions respecting that issue. In
another view, this result is not Que TO
be deploreG. Il warns the successful
party to be on its good behavior. The
country will not be satisfied with fine
promises and virtuous professions by the
republicans. 1t is no longer ready to
accept them as current coin. 1t demands
performance. 1t has declared in favor of
protection, but it expects prompt re-
duction Of the revenue and revision of
the tariff made in harmony with the prin-
ciples of protection and with that fair
ness towards all parts of the country
which will relieve it OF the charge OF sec
tionalism. It wants s liberal and Just
policy adopted toward Union soldiers in
he matter of pensions, but not an indis-
eriminate award of pensions to every
claimant no matter how unworthy or
fraudulent the claim. Il wants honest
and competent officials in the civil ser
vice who will attend to their official duties
and leave campaign politics to be attend
cd to by the people at large, il short an
honest, clean and competent administra-
tion of public affairs, such as will rely
on commencing itself not by the abund-
anoe of its professions of ''buslness eth
DDS" but by the actual accom- plishmeDt
of businesslike results. We have much
faith that Ge Harrison viii give Us such
an administration. He is said to be a
''cold man." We hope the charge is true
We need an honest, clear-headed, "colo"
man in the White house, to resist the
Establishments of the hot-biooded, emo
tional crsnks and self seekers who might
1wise unduly influence him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-22
WASHINGTON.

The court of claims reassembled in
Washington Monday for the winter ses-
sim.
LORD SAoKvILLE and his daughters sro
just as popular i'll Washington society a.
they were before the President ''sent him
his passports"
THE Supreme court rendered q decision
in the case of Judge Terry, the husband
of Sarah Althea Hill, for contempt of
court, which was appealed from the San
Francisco court. The motion for a writ
of habeas corpus was denied.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-22
Republicans Talk of Special Session of Con
gress to Rush Through Tariff Bill.

WASHINGTON, D.. C.-It now ap-
pears probable that Gen. Harrison will,
imm ediately upon his induction into
Office, cali the members of the Fifty first
Congress together. His motive for this
will be to arrange some plan for the
reduction of taxation. There is no
reasonable ground for the belief that any
concurrent action upon the matter
will be had at the session be-
ginning in December next To
wait until the regular assem-
bling of the Fifty first Congress,
which will be republican in both branch
es, would be to postpone the subject an
til the session was well under way. In
other words, year and half from the
present time would necessarily elapse be-
fore tariff bill acceptable to the ad
ministrstion could be passed. Gen. Har
rison's friends say he will be unwilling to
wait eighteen months before moving in
matter SO important, and that the out
look therefore for an extra session is one
which may be clessed among the strong
probabilities of the near future,