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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-25
Cable Flashes.

GENERAL BoULANGER says that the state
ments made in the Indictment found
against him are tissue of lies.
THE English poor authorities are maxi
ing arrangements to send over TO Amer
ica 250 poor Irish families, who are uu-
able ID support themselves.
The name of the man who confessed
to the London poli-e that he was the
WhitechapeI murderer is William Brodie.
He was arranged before magistrate and
persisted that his confession was true.
The emperor of Brazil while leaving a
theater after attending the performance,
was fired upon by Portuguese. The bull
let missed the mark and the would-be as
sassin was arrested.
PARIs.-The chamber of deputies by a
vote of 461 to II approved the bill pro-
viding for a credit of 58,000,O00 francs
spread over five years for building of war
ships.
PARIs--A collision occurred at Gren-
oble on Monday between a passenger
train on the Paris, Lyons and Mediterra-
mean Railroad. Twenty persons were
| killed or injured.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE is now nearly 20
years of age, and although she has been
an invalid for a long time, she has never
allo we'd her interest in every good work
to drop of wiUher.
M. AMELIE OLIVIER, the French states
man, has published letter denouncing
the Indictment of General Boulanger as
base attempt to dishonor valiant
soldier.
The race for the Eclipse Stakes, which
are worth $4,000 TO the winner, was run
at Shutdown Park, England, on Friday,
and won by the Duke of Portland's bay
colt, Ayrshire. The Duke has won sever
al hundred thousand dollars on the turf
this year.
LoNDoN.-The community has been
greatly startled by another horrible muir
der, thought to have been committed by
the butcher of fallen women known as
"Jack the Ripper" The body of woman
mutilated III the usual frightful manner
has been found in the castle alley in the
White Chapel district.
LoNDoN.-At the inquest held
on the body of the woman found
murdered in the Whitechapel district
yesterday morning, the fact was devel-
oped that i'll addition to two large gashes,
there were fourteen other wounds on the
body. The greater number of wounds
however, we're only skin deep.
LoNDoN.-The prince of Wales has put
a veto upon the proposal to establish a
masonic lodge in connection with the
National Liberal Club. The grand master
is afraid of masonry becoming involved
in politics, and WIZ recently the Prim-
rose Club made a similar proposal he re-
fused to sanction it for the same reason.
The London police have another White
chapel horror on their hands. The body
of dIsreputable woman, terribly mutt
lated, has been found on the scene of
former awful Grimes committed by "Jack
the Ripper" The most extraordinary
feature of the occurrence is that the scene
of the murder was overrun with police
men and that several officers must have
been only a few rods distant when the
bloody deed was committed. There is no
clsw to the assassin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-25
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
Fires and Casualties.

The loss on the horse railroad stables at
Lowell, Mass, by fire was 100000.
HALF four story business block at
Columbus, Ohio, was burned early Thurs
day morning. Loss, $4,000 to $4,000.
The French brewery at Fl. Wayne, Ind,
was burned ION Tuesday. Loss about
S35OO00 With $4,000 insurance.
POLKA, Kas.-Addie and Kate Gordon
and Myrtle Grands, ranging in age from
IL to IA years were drowned in river
near here while bathing Tuesday last.
WELLINGTON, Kan.-Arrivals from the
Cherokee strip report fever is playing
havoc with the cattle there. Hundreds of
cattle are dying in Oklahoma.
JAS. A. PATTERSON, JR., of Waynesboro.
Va, made an assignment with assets
of over $50, 900 and debts of but $4,000.
He has left the country, and no cause is
assigned for his absence.
A STEEL exploded in mill at Jersey
City, in the chemical works of Dodges d
Ollcotts. The building and contents were
destroyed at loss of 100000.
LOWELL, Mass.-The large stable CO the
Lowell horse railroad has been burned,
together with 12O borses, 40 cars and
much grain. Loss about $150,OOO.
DUBUQUE.-A special to the Herald
from Shell Rock, Iowa, which was report
ed to be entirely destroyed by fire says
that seven business buildings were burned
Tuesday night. Loss $4,000, partly in
snred.
MILFORD, Mass.-Two sections of the
seats at Bristol's circus fell, throwing
600 people to the ground. Hundreds
were bruised, and some half dozen were
probably fatally injured. A panic fol
loved, in which many were trampled and
hurt.
Mrs. GEORGE Brown, of Mclean county
H., was struck by lightning about week
ago and rendered unconscious. Physi-
clans epdeavored to revive her, but with
out avail, and finally it was suggested tina
her body be placed in earth. The move
remedy was tried, and after passing sew
eral hours each day, during the past foul
days, in the earth, she has completely re-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-25
Criminal.

BEGas has made three attempts to get
failed.
The American Express Office at Ocono-
mowoc was broken open Sunday night,
and robbed of about $500 worth of valu-
aoles.
Burglars entered the tewelry store of
II. S. Bo6well, at Lynn, Mass, and stole
$4,000 worth of jewelry.
THE highwayman shot and killed near
Washburn, Wis, has been identified as
John Kinney, woodsman. He was shot
by Maxon Lawrence.
ANToN1ro, Col.-Jose Abraham Ortez, q
Mexican, was hanged Tuesday for the
murder of minerinamed E. o. Leduc, last
March. The motive of the murder was
robbery.
TROUBLE arose over mining claim in
a camp at Prescott, Ariz., and A. W.
Colleen killed Byron Charles and Frank
Work with a revolver.
JAMES SYKES, dealer in grain and seed,
has been convicted at Chicago, of issuing
fraudulent warehouse receipts and was
sentenced to two years in the penitenti-
a-y. This was his third trial.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Arsenic was placed
in the food of four children of Joseph
Hunter, a planter living near Star City,
and three of them have died. The crimi
nal and his motive are unknown.
ALBERT BULow was hanged shortly be-
fore O'Clock Friday morning at Little
Falls, Mimi, for the murder of Frank
Eich in November last. The Minnesota
newspapers print elaborate accounts of
the affair, in ST lite of the new law, which
provides that they shall print only the
bare announcements of hangings.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-25
News in Brief.

PHILADELPHIA hotel men are said to
contemplate the formation of hotel
trust.
A GEORGIA man laughed himself to
death the other day. As he carried $685.
600 worth of life insurance it is his widows
turn to laugh now.
CHIoAGo.-It has been decided that the
next Sangerfest of Scandinavian singers
of America, should be held at Minnea-
polls.
DR. GATLINe, inventor of the famous
gun, is now II years old. He is a native
of North Carolina, and showed a genius
for invention when quite young.
THE salt trust will be organized with a
capital of $20,000,000 and will be gov
erned by the laws of New York. Mr..
Bust, of Michigan, will be first president.
English capitalists will hold $4,000
worth of stock.
A SCANDINAVIAN genius has invented q
universal language, which he thinks far
superior to Volapuk. Anybody who
know English, French, German, Italian
and Spanish can use it readily.
The lands of the Canadian Anthracits
Coal Company, owned principally by Wis
consin lumbermen, have been sold to an
English syndicate for $I,450,000. The
company will be stocked for $5,000,000.
NELSON DEWEY, the first governor of
Wisconsin, lies at the point of death at
Cursville, and his death is expected at
any time.
GOVERNOR Ross, formerly OF Kansas,
and one of the United States Senators who
stood by Andrew johnson in the i'm peach
ment proceedings, is now employed as a
printer in the office of the Santa Fe New
Mexican.
AN air ship controlled by z. D. Ho-
gan, an experienced @conaut, made an
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-25
Given Peace in Death.
WiScOnsin's Venerable First Governor
Gone TO His Last Resting
Place.
Ex-Governor Nelson Dewey Released
From His Cares.

Ex-Governor Dewey died at his home
&C Cassville at midnight Saturday, July
20. His funeral took place at Lancaster
Tuesday afternoon.
Gov. Hoard, at Madison, received tel
egram announcing the death of ex-Gov.
Dewey, and designated a committee OF
ex governors and prominent citizens to
attend the funeral.
Nelson Dewey was born in Hamilton,
n. Y, in 1914. He received collegiate
and legal education and came 10 Cass-
vile, Grant County, in June, 1886, where
he was clerk in the employ of the Den
nison j. Rrunson real estate company,
which failed a year later, and the future
governor, then % yearssold, became a
partner with the late j. Allen Barber III
the practices of law and real estate bust
ness at Lancaster. Mr.. Dewey soon be-
came prominent in political affairs. A
staunch democrat, he was elected by his
party to the Office of register of deeds of
Grant county in 1887. He was in the
second legislative assembly of Wisconsin
territory from 1888 to lS41, and in 1912
became q member of the territorial coun
Gil snd presided over its fonrth session
of thirty days. He became Wiscunsin's
governor in 1S4S, serving until 1852,
leaving a record of an honest, conscien-
tious administration. During his incum-
bency of the office of governor he married
Miss Catherine Dunn, daughter of Chief
Justice Dunn. In 1854, in evidence of his
faith that Cassville would yet become q
great metropolis, he built hundred
thousand dollar residence on large farm
adjoining the town site. But his fortunes
became misfortunes; the real estate boom
fizzled, his handsome house burned, and
family troubles eliminated in the separ-
alton of himself and wife. The latter is
now with her daughter in st. Louis, and a
son is living i'll the west. W. P. Dewey,
a citizen of Yankton, OAK, and a brother
of the governor was with him during his
Hines and at his death. His burial place,
at his request, will be in the old Episcopal
buryipg ground near the center of the
city of Lancaster, where are the graves of
many of the ex-governor's contempor-
aries. The land YVES formerly his prop
erty. His last days were spent in the
old Dennison house at Cassville, in which
he was interested fifty years ago. The
body will be escorted from there go Ian
caster, a distance of twenty miles, by
Gov. Hoard and staff and members of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-25
The National Capitol.

LESLIE j. PERRY, of Kansas, has been
appointed by the Secretary of War to
be one of the civilian experts of the
board TO edit the Rebellion Records pub
location.
HORACE A. TAYLOR, the recently ap-
pointed Commissioner of Railroads, has
taken the oath of office, and will enter
upon the discharge of his duties.
r. j. HEATMAN, of Findlay, Ohio has
been appointed Chief of the Division of
Accounts in the general land Office, vice
Fletcher Johnson, resigned.
WASHINGTON, DC. - Sir JulianPau-
ncetote, British minister to the United
States, sails from New York on the
Etruria for England. He will return TO
Washington in October, bringing his
family with him.
CONGRESSMAN RANDALL is very comfort
ably fixed in his quiet summer home
near Wallingford and his health is i'm
proving rapidly. At no time since his
serious illness one year ago has his con-
dition been so favorable as it is now.
II lis disease is under control, aud his en-
tire restoration to health is conf IDENTIFY
expected.
The surgeOn-generel has received no
official Information relative to yellow
fever at Colon. DR.. Combe of Browns
vile, Tex, has been retailed to make a
thorough investigation in Mexico as to
yellow fever there and report by telegraph
to the surgeon-gene1al.
PRESIDENT HARRISON plays fairly good
game of billiards. There is nothing
brilliant about it, and almost anybody in
regular practice could give him odds, bot
he has sufficient command OF the balls to
m ke very respectable score. He is
fond Of the game and expects to WELD
the cue very frequently this summer.
WAsHINGToN.-On Saturday the pres
ident appointed consuIs as follows:
Evans Bake, of Illinois, at Crefeld !;
Henry G. Fields, of Vermont, at st. Johns,
Ont; Jasper P. Bradley, of West Virginia,
at Southampton; Eugene o. Fechet, of
Michigan, at Piedras Negras; and Archi-
bald J. Sampson, of Indiana, at New
Castle. Emo.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-25

ascent from New York. When up some
distance the propeller fan fell 20 the
ground, and the air ship started on its
mad career Nothing has been seen of it.
CHARLIE, M-E5sE, of Hamburg, Pa, has
devised pretty combination of the forty
two stars for the national flag. 1t con-
sists of q circle of II stars, upon Uhicn
rest six points of five stars each, the
whole making q handsome six pointed
star.
On July 1. Gustav Napia, living at
Houghtor, Mich, was taken sick and vent
to see q friend. The friend took him to
barn and then vent on spree forget
ting the sick man. Napia lay unattended
uutil Friday night when he died Of star
walton.
The Oldest man in the world, in all
probability, is Macy Ference, of Barcs,
Hungary. He was born in Hedrahelz
121 years ago. Twenty years of his lie
he spent as a soldier and he fought
against the first Napoleon in several
famous battles.
THE police court jury, which tried
Moritz Eichmer for selling beer on Sun
day at Cincinnati, after hearing the
testimony from several witnesses that
they saw the law so violated by hin
brought in verdict of not guilty. This
is the third or fourth case where iuries
have wholly ignored the evidence and
the law.
The most valuable book in the world is
said to be Hebrew Bible at the Vatican
in Rome. In 1912, Pope Julius, then in
great inanciel straits, refused to sell il
to a syndicate of rich Venetian Jews for
its weight ia gold. The Bible weighs
more than 325 pounds, and is never car
ried by less than three men. The price
refused by Pope Julius was therefore
about $125 700, and that too, when gold
was worth at EAST thrice what it is now
worth.
NASHVILLE, Tenn.-The high schools
of the country were represented in the
meeting at McKendree's church a.
O'Clock July IS. At O'Clock the Polk
mansion was thrown open to a reception
of committee Of rs from the association
Mrs. Polk, still beautiful and strong in
her 87th year, stood in the west parlol
for an hour and received with a pleasant
word each guest as presented.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-25
LOOKS LIKE WAR.
Fears of Impending Trouble in Seryia--Ar-
rest of Russian Students.

Fears of Impending Trouble in Seryia--Ar-
rest OF Russian Students.
IONDoN.-The news from the Falkan
peninsula is anything but reassur-
ing. Russian officers are inspecting the
Servian fortresses. The Australia tur-
reted monitor Maros, under instructions
from Vienna, quietly left that city yes
terday and steamed down the river to
Semlin, where her guns are within easy
reach Of Belgrade, only three miles
distant The proximity of an
armored Austrian war vessel as formida-
bic as the MarOs, to the Servian capital
at this critical juncture cannot fail to
have a diequieting influence. From
Berlin, too, comes news which must be
regarded as significant. The authorities
there have begun systematic espionage
upon all the Russian students residing in
Berlin, and several of them have been
marched off to prison without being in
formed as to the charges against them.
A Desperate Battle Between Two Southern
Families.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. = Bor several years
a feud has existed between the fam
lilies of Simpson and Howton of this
county. lJ began by Tou Simpson kill :
ing one Of the Howton's. Simpson was
released on bail which he subsequently,
forfeited. A reward of 5000 was offered
for mis- arrest. The next tragedy was the
death Of another Howton by a shot from
ambush as he was riding along the road.
Recently an officer of the law has
been trying to arrest Tom Simpson
who was known to be in the vicinity.
Last Thursday night Sheri6s Greeu,
Scroggins and ". B. Morgan, with che
assistance of the Howtons surrounded
Simpson in gin house near Mud Greek,
where he was with two other men at day
light. He came out, looking around and was
prom pity ordered by Scroggins to throw
a his hands apd surrender. Instead Of
doing so he rushed around the house with
a bullet from Scroggins' pistol whistling
after him, and was met by bullet from
J. B. Howton's gun and fell dead.
Almost at the same instant two guns were
fred from the house, killing Deputy
Morgan and fatally wounding j. B. How
ton. The inmates of the gi? house who
ever they are have bar
ricaded the house and Gefy arrest.
J. G. BoTton at once came to Birming-
ham for assistance, leaving Scroggi-s on
guard. The sheriff here at once dis
patched seven deputies to the scene of
the dificuity
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-25

ing" was the answer. "Ssep to this win
dow, look in the conservatory and see for
yourself"
did so. There, sitting alone on one of
the rustic benches in the flower house,
vas small elderly lady. Keeping time
with the first finger of the right hand, as
II with 4 baton, she was slightly swaying
ner frail body as she sang, softly yet
s"eetiy, Charles Westley's hymn, "Jesus,
Lover of Ny SoUl,n and Sarah Flower
Adams Nearer, My God, to Thee"
But the singer was not domestic. Il
was Harriet Beecher Stowe! There sat
the once brilliant authoress like q child
crOOalng a fayorite air
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-25
SARAH ALTHEA NOT A WIFE.
The California Supreme Court Reyerses ind,
Sg!liyan's Decision.

The California Supreme Court Reverses Judge
Salliyan's Decision
SAN FRANOIsoo.-The notorious Sharon
divorce case was probably ended on We'd
nesday by the state Supreme Court deci-
sion reversing Judge Sullivan's ruling.
granting Sarah Althea rights and pro-
perty of wife and ordering a new trial of
the case. This is the second decision of
the state Supreme Court. 1t first affirm
ed Sulliyan's decision on the findings in
the case. Then the Sharon heirs appeal
ed on the grounds that the findings were
not warranted by the evidence, aud on
this ground to-day the Supreme Court
upheld their appeal. There are sixty
pages of legal verbiage, which may be
condensed into ten lines. The court
holds that there is no evidence that the
parties lived together as usual with mar
ried people. On the contary their marr1
age was secret, and the relations SUSTAIN
ed py Sarah toward Sharon were those of
mistress or concubine, and not of
wife. Such relations do not show con-
summation of marriage. Consent TO mar
rlage Is not sufficient under the code. 1t
must De followed by the solemnization or
mutual assumption of marital rights and
duties. This is the gist of the decision
which gives the death blow to secret mar
riages not solemnized by state or church.
The best lawyers here believe this decis-
ION ends Sarah's case, as she would have
a new trial to prove that the marriage
with Sharon was known TO the public,
which would be impossible. Nearly all
her best witnesses have also gone back on
her. Sharon's estate when Sullivan gaze
his decision in her favor was worth $15,-
100000. She would have secured half
that If she could have secured the ap-
proval of this decision. Now, after six
years litigation, she gets nothing. The
case has been a costly one for Sharon and
his heirs, as they have spent no less than
three-quarters of million in fighting
Sarah.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-25
WHAT ENDED CARNEGIE'S STRIKE.


The strike or lockout of the man in
the employ of Carnegie, Phipps d Co., of
the Homestead steel works, was ended or
Sunday last, by the substantial conces-
sion of the employers TO the demands of
the workingmen. What ended this strike
SO sommarily? The managers of the
Homestead works are better able to stand
ga fight 30 finish" with there employees
than nine-tenths of the other employers
of the country, and they are men of ripe
business experience. They had fully de-
oided to fight the battle out of the bitter
end; they had advertised in all the great
industrial oeutres for new men to take
the places of their old employees; they
had a strong and well armed force of
Pinkerton's men to protect the new la
borers; but the special detectives and
their Winchester rifles MADE only one ap-
paarance, after which they were hidden
from view and conference and concession
began. While there were strong business
reasons for starting the Homestead works
to fill passing orders, they had been fully
considered before the Carnegie managers
made their stand. They were not i'll
error in the calculation that, with the
tens of thousands of workingmen made
idle by multiplied trusts AMI reduction
of wages, they could readily man their
entire works; but they he'd overlooked
one factor in the struggle that had never
resolutely asserted itself in the past.
They saw, for the first time, that the or
ganized steel employee of Pittsburg
had decided to make common cause with
the Homestead strikers, and that thous-
ands of determined men were ready TO
fellow workers to exterminate the armed
Pinkerton force and to make the admIs-
sion of non union men to the works alb
solutely impossible. II became an issue
of surrender Or bloody conflict, and the
Carnegie managers wisely surrendered.
That they decided wisely does not admit
VI aOuOty 1OI IAC ICodSbAOA VI
wages by the most profitable Industry in
the country-an industry that has made
more million aires in proportion to its
capitalists than any other-presented
last ditch in which organized labor could
make a stand for Justice. 1t was choice
between fair wages or the bloodiest labor
issue of modern times, and fair wages
won.
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He WAS A COOL ONE.
4 Murderer Takes Another Nap Before the
Time for the Hanging.

BELvIDERE, N. J.-Michael Bolak, was
hanged in the Jail here at 1852 Tues
day morning, 1or the murder of
Michael Bollinsnire. When he retired he
gave his last package of cigarettes TO
Hays, saying in broken English: "You
take; Bolak smoke no more" 1t 4:30 g.
N. he awoke and enquired the time, and
then said he would take another nap. An
hour later be arose and made his additions,
and carefully dressed himself in black
suit with black cravat. Bolak talked
cheerfully, although he exhibited some
nervousness. He exclaimed just before
the weight fell: 81 am not guilty, God"
Death was instantaneous. The motive
of Bolak's crime was robbery.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-25
A Cav Young jews Elopement.

NV YORK, Jul. %. Tony Cohen, a
young clerk employed at A. ID. kings
clothing store at 627 Broadway, Wnen
sent 70 the bank on last Friday TO deposit
about 81, 900 for the firm, forged the entry
in the bank book and pocketed the money.
The same night he eloped with frieda
Siegel, cash girl in restaurant on
Houston street. The couple were seen to
cross the Desbrosses street 1erry and
board Pennsylvania railroad train.
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A Sea Lion in Wisconsin.

MENAsHA, July 22.-For some time past
fishermen and boatmen have told large
stories about huge fish or whale being
seen in Lake Winnebago, and the guests
ct BrIghton's beach have been highly en-
tertained thereby. Saturday the monster
was seen and captured and proved to be
sea lion weighing 400 pounds, watch
had escaped from Forepaugh's circus
four years ago. The lion was shipped to
Fore paugh's headquarters at Philsdel-
mia