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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-31
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.


B. T. BABBITT, the great soap man of
New York died last Saturday.
THEsUniversity of Pennsylvania is about
to provide for the education of women, on
the same terms as men.
IN the future every troop of British
cavalry will be equipped with machine
gun.
TwENTy-sEvEN sailors were rescued
from the schooner Ironton and tug Protec-
ton, which went ashore at Cross Point,
Lake Michigan, by the life-saving crew at
Evanston.
THE English postofice department does
the express business in Great Britain, car
ries parcels at an average cost of IL cents
each, and makes profit of 81, 100000 a
year.
THE announcement is made that a New
York syndicate has secured control of the
G. C. Washburn milling plant at Mime
apolis, and that the bulk of the stock will
be held in this country and the balance in
England.
GEN. HIPPOLYTE was inaugurated as
President of Hayti on the 18th instant,
with great pomp and amid general enthu-
siasm.
FIVE hundred men employed by the
firms composing the Chicago Diapers and
Tailors' Exchange, quit work under orders
from the Tailors Union. The case as
signed is the refusal of a member of the
Exchange to discharge a foreman whom
his workmen don't like.
DR.. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEw is not at all
afraid that this country will be overcrowd-
ed through the rush of immigration. He
says that the area of arabic in the United
States is 20 per cent. larger that that of
China, which supports a population of
nearly 100000, 600"
HELENA, Month his annual report
Gov. White estimates the white population
of Montana at 10000 and the Indians at
5000 The total wealth of the territory
is given at $4,000 900. The territory as
counties have an aggregate Indebtedness
of about 81 100000.
PITTsBURG - Enthusiasm again pre-
walls at the pretoleum exchange. Satur-
day oil reached the highest price since
June 10, 1885, and as advanced point by
point, bulls made the exchange ring. The
highest reached to-day was 107 3-8. The
lowest this month was on the seventh when
it reached 50 3-8 making the range for the
month nine cents. The market fell again
this afternoon and finally closed at 106.
THE rumor that the Prince of Wales is
suffering from Bright's disease seems to
be confirmed There is no doubt that the
English royal family is plunged in gloom,
and that Victoria is worried about the
succession According to the latest re-
ports, the Prince physicians have inform
ed him that he has not more than two
years of life His trip to Egypt will be
undertaken to relieve, if possible, his mind
of its present despairing tone. He has
always had presentiment that he would
never be King of England, and he is now
convinced that his forebodings were cor
rect.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-31
WORDS OF GLADSTONE.
Delivers an Address at Southport Where
He Was Warmly Welcomed.

LONDON. - Gladstone, who deliver
ed an address at Southport Wednesday eve
ming, was enthusiastically welcomed. He
reviewed the work of the liberal party
during the past twenty-one years He
paid tribute to the laudabe anxiety of the
powers to postpone European crisis. He
referred to the retain question as for
midable menace to the peace of Europe.
He criticised at length the government
work and claimed that all it's useful
measures were liberal. The speech was
short and somewhat disappointing. Glad
stone made point by declaring that the
principles of the dock strikers applied
to the tenants in Ireland would have
been penal. He was touched by
the election gains, and believed that if they
could end the septennial act and appeal to
the people tomorrow, the verdict would be
in favor Of the liberals and justice to Ire
land. The bulk of his speech was devoted
to Irish grievances. He said the necessity
of the continued proclaiming of new dis
tricts was evidence of the failure of the
coercion policy, and declared that the crime
rate was now the same as in 1884, when, In
order to secure the support of the Parnell-
ties, the tories declared coercion no longer
necessary.
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to administer nourishment only at irregu-

to administer nourishment only at irregu
lar intervals.
The German forces In East Africa have
had battle with the natives: IN which
300 of the latter were killed or wounded.
The Germans lost seven men.
STUTTGART-The man VINO ATTEMPTED
to assassinate Prince William of Wurtem
burg on Sunday is a varnish-maker named
Martin Muller Muller's fellow workmen
say that at various times he has shown
signs CT insanity.
TURKISH officials in Constantinople have
been thrown into a fever of excitement by
the discovery that Russian agents have
beeen at work for over three months in
Armenia.
LONDON. The two companies of indus
try and detachment of $50 police have
been ordered to Limerick to assist IN ex-
tensive evictions about TO be undertaken
there.
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany is hav-
ing two new crowns made for himself and
the Empress. His will weigh three pounds
have a large sapphire at the top and glisten
with 100 diamonds. His wife's crown is
to contain 1.500 diamonds and eleven large
pearls.
THE Parnell Commission met again in
London Thursday, and after Mr.. Bigger
had testified briefly Michael Davit made a
long speech to the commission IN which he
reviewed his career In politics In behalf of
freedom for Ireland and expressed his
opinions regarding the course of sue
cessive English governments in that coun-
try.
LONDON While the unionist candidate
was addressing meeting at Camborne he
was assaulted with stones and bad eggs and
finally driven from the platform. The mob
then 'reorganized" the meeting and unani-
mously adopteda resolution that the con-
stituency was satisfied with the record of
Mr. Coneybeare, the liberal member for
that district.
The socialists in the German reichstag
have moved for the abolition of duties on
all provisions 1t is thought there is abund-
ant proof of the terrible pressure on the
poor caused by the existing tariffs, it is
improbable that the reichstag will grant
relief though it is certain the food ques-
ton will be prominent factor in the
coming election. A section of national
liberals support the progressist demand for
abolition of pork duties.
LoNDON.-The wool market at Glasgow
and number of lodging houses adjoining
have burned. The thousands of inmates of
the lodging houses were panic stricken and
at least three hundred persons rushed into
the street clad only in their night clothing
and without saving any of their effects. A
number of the fugitives were more or less
bruised and hurt, but no serious calamity
is reported The loss on the market build
ing and dwellings is heavy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-31

An analysis of the financial reports
shows that the money in circulation in the
United States increased from October l,
1888, to October i, 1889, the amount of
s20,677,720 The change is principally in
silver certificates, of which the amount on
the date last named was S28, 058, ia greater
than a year ago. National bank circula-
ton has been reduced s37, 799, 225 in the
same period Gold certificates in circula-
ton have decreased the amount of Sl8, 628,
84l In United States notes the amount
is 19.458, 705 greater than it was year
ago. There is about half a million less of
silver dollars in circulation and nearly a
million dollars more of subsidiary silver
coins than there was October Last year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-31

Mr. MOODY, the evangelist, has been at
work for some time establishing school
at Chicago for the training of men and wo-
men to lead in the work of evangelization
among the poor and neglected of the cities.
With an endowment fund of S150,000 to
start with he has already prepared one
building for women, and In two months
another will be ready for the accommoda-
ton of 100 men, with lecture-room and
classroom ample enough for greater num-
Der, Tuition will be free, and all expens-
es as low as possible. The teachers will be
drawn largely at first from Mr.. Moody's
assistants at Mortified, and men and wo-
men, educated or uneducated who are
competent and willing to carry the gospel
10 the poor and friendless of the cities and
work among the classes without the in
fuenceS of the churches, are invited to a
course of preparation at this new school,
The invitation is to life and work of con-
tinued self-denial and no particular material
reward; and it is extended in behalf of a
class of the community from which the
church has been too much drifting away
Here and there within a few years have
been projected half-dozen schools of this
character, whose. results have yet to be
manifested, but whose significance is readi-
" apparent. The acknowledgment is
freely made, by the established churches,
ministry and all the religious propaganda
themselves, that the classes of society with
which the Savior chiefly identified himself
are not with them or they with these class
es so much as ought to be. The drift of
development has been rather away from
the streets into the temple where the doc
tors dispute. Mr.. Moody and his co-work-
ers in these uncultivated fields of labor raise
no question as to the efficiency of the pres
ent methods of organized Christianity; they
simply recognize a lack, and In seeking
to make it good have the hearty sympathy
and assistance of the churches. But the
question arises, for all that, whether the
competitive, individualized polity of a
large part of the Protestant church, so far
as it tends to invite depletion of the poo
er-paid pulpits and to make of the Christian
ministry an attractive material reward, is
not in a measure at fault and in need of a
revision As it is, neither the poorer COM
nunities of the country nor the masses of
ihe cities receive in the regular course of
ministration the attention which is most
certainly their due. Mr.. Moody is strik-
ing out In the right direction. 1t belongs
to the church as now established to prune
away all hindrances of polity and methods
that stand in the way of cordial and eff
fective cooperation to that end
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a Venetian whom he had known. Some
time ago Signor Salvini wrote: 1.-The name
OF the man about whom you ask was Lu-
chm. He died few years ago in Venice
at an advanced age, but up to the last pre-
served much of his extraordinary strength
ne was by trade a mason. and though not
rlcn, was always In comfortable circum-
stances his strength was allied to won
derful presence of mind and GOODNESS under
Trying circumstances. Once. for instance,
ne was carrying out toa villa he was build
ing, some miles from Venice, a large sum
OF money with which to pay off his work
men. he carried the money, which was in
silver com, IN bag over his shoulder.
though 1t would have taken two ordinary
men to lift 1t. At night he found himself
some distance from the destination and so
was obliged to put up at a small inn He
went to bed early, placing the bag of silver
IN the bottom cir wer of a small chest of
drawers In the bedroom. About midnight
he was awakened by rough shake of the
shoulder, and opening his eyes saw by the
light of a small oil lamp two of his own
workmen, each of whom had In his hand
stilletto, the uncomfortable sharp points
of which were pressed against either side
of his throat.
''Luchini grasped the situation instantly
and saw that he was In a position where
his enormous strength availed him but lit
tie, so he coolly said, What do you want?'
The money, was the answer. Where is
it?' Take it, said Luehini, it is in that
drawer, and he pointed to the chest of
drawers One of the rufians remained
to guard the recumbent Luchini. while the
other went to the drawer indicated and
tried to open it. 1t would not bulge.
Give me the key, he growled 1T is not
locked, announced Luchini. Open it.
then, said the robber, and still with the
stilletto at his throat Luchini rose. and
with one hand pulled open the drawer the
other could not even bulge with all his
strength. At the mems bidding he then
pulled out the bag of money and threw it
ON the floor. One of the thieves then be-
gan to fill his pockets with lose coin so as
to tighten somewhat the weight of the bag.
At the sight of the glittering coin the
others avarice outstripped his prudence.
Withdrawing his poniard from Luchini's
throat, he bent down and burrowed with
his hands In the pile of money and began
to follow his comrades example.
1.-THE looked for opportunity had come
for Luchini. He calmly stopped forward,
grasped one of the robbers by the hair in
either hand and then spreading out his
arms and bringing them together again
with incredible force, he crushed the two
mems skulls as if they had been egg-shells.
They were dead without groan Hearing
a noise at the window Luchini then looked
out and saw that third scoundrel was
keeping watch outside. Taking up one
of the dead men in one hand he opened the
easement and calling out, There's some
thing for you, he pitched the dead robber
at the living with such force that the man
below was not only scared almost to death,
but was seriously hurt, and ran off as fast
as his fractured leg would allow him to.
Luchini went back to bed and calmly
slept till morning
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-31
sALvINrs GREAT STRENGTH.
And His Tale of Another and Stronger Man

And His Tale of Another and Stronger Man.
A writer in the New York Tribune, apro-
pos of the coming of Salvini to this coun-
try again, relates this incident of the &C
tors bOvhood: When he was a student at
college there was, as Is often the case IN
other countries besides Italy, constant
warfare waged between the students and
the tOwns-people At one time the lads
had arrayed against them, on account of
some real or fancied insult. all the butchers
and butcher lads Of the place. The latter
were not allowed by the authorities to
carry knives or stilettos, so they sharpened
their whetting-steels at the point until
they made of them most formidable wea-
pons. Armed with these, they one even
inc attacked body of students, among
whom was the youthful Salvini who did
veoman's work for his comrades, and
bowled over with his fists one butcher lad
after another. At length he found him
self face to face with the leader. and the
others paused for moment to watch the
result Of what was IN reality a duel be-
tween the champions of the respective
parties. SalEini, after few passes, aimed
a tremendous blow with his clinched fist at
his adversary s head; the latter at the same
moment struck upward with the murder
Gus steel; the weapon, needle-pointed,
passed clear through Salvini's wrist, and
stuck irremovably in bone and muscle.
But this did not seem to stop the down
ward sweep of the youngster' arm. The
mighty fist descended, carrying with it the
steel, and struck the butcher so terrible a
blow that he was knocked senseless, and
had to be carried to the hospital. The
trace of the wound can be seen In Salvini s
wrist to-day.
Like most strong men, Salvini is fond of
recounting the feats of strength performed
by others, and especially he used to diiate
on the extraordinary strength and nerve of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-31

I'll. G. Forsyth, an attorney at Viroqua,
pleaded guilty to forgery on his arraign-
ment before the circuit court. He had
victimized a number of farmers. Sentence
was deferred
THE trial of five of the men accused of
the murder of DIR. Cronin was formally be-
gun at Chicago on Thursday, States At
tornsy Longenecker making the opening
speech for the prosecution. The men on
trial ARE Coughlin, O Sullivan, Beggs, Burke
and Kunze. Woodruff is to be tried sep
arately.
MONTICELLO. Ill.-The scourge of diph-
liberia has made its appearance at Cisco,
in this county, and throughout central
Illinois. At Illiapolis the public schools
have been closed on account of the disease
and several deaths are reported.
New YORK. - Charles McTlvaine
10 years old, who murdered Christian W.
Luca, while committing a burglary on the
night of August 21-22 last, has been SEN
fenced by Judge Moore in the Kings Coun-
ty court Of sessions, to death by
electricity at Sing Sing prison in the week
beginning December 9.
WATERFOWL, n. "A large portion
of Port Leydon, Lewis county has been
burned. The Douglass house, the opera
house, eight stores, the postoffice, and sew
eral dwellings were destroyed. Fifteen
families lost their homes and much of
their possessions. The flames spread so
rapidly that people had little time to save
anything The loss is estimated at $780,
600; insurance, 100000.
Tucson, Ari.-George H. Stevens, treas
urer of the penitentiary board, has de-
camped. He failed to put in an appear
ance at the quarterly meeting of the board
and, it is said, was found to be short over
$4,000 in his accounts. Diligent inquiries
for two weeks have failed to discover his
whereabouts. When last heard from he
was at Tacoma, Wash. T.
NEWARK, n. J. = Two well dressed
men and a woman drove up to the Shurrey
German savings bank Wednesday after
noon. The men entered the bank and told
the cashier that the lady was unable to
walk and desired to speak to him. One
of the men and the cashier went out and
held brief conversation about bank bust
ness. after which all three of the strangers
drove away Soon after it was discovered
that 81. $50 had been stolen from behind
the railing The thief entered the enclo-
sure, apparently, through the gate which
the cashier had left open. He overlooked
package of s., 900 In bills.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-31
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Secretary Blaine
began a hearing of the .. S. consul
to Morocco, Lewis, in the charges
made against him by merchant of Fee
The inquiry will be continued next week
ATTORNEY GENERAL MILLER has re-
ceived the designations of W. c. Perry, ..
S. attorney for the dis tict of Kansas, and
Eugene Hogan, assistant for the same dis
trict.
CALEB F. DAVIS, of Keokuk, Iowa, has
been appointed special inspector of the
public land service, vice John A. Pick
Ter, who was recently elected a repres-
entative in congress from South Dakota.
The cost of repairs upon the Nipsic, the
sole survivor of the Samoan cyclone, was
S27, 900, and the navy department officials
say she is good for two-years' lease of
life without further repairs.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Secretary Tracy
has awarded the contract for build
ing two of the 1000 ton cruisers to
the Columbian Iron Works, Baltimore, for
the sum of 81, 225, 900. Contract for the
third one will be awarded either to Har-
rison Loring of Boston, or n F. Palmer
& Co., n. Y, each of whom bid 500, 900.
IT is reported here that the president
has for some time had his eye on Judge
Cooleyas likely candidate for the vacancy
on the Supreme bench. Judge Cooley has
said that he prefers hispresent place ON the
interstate commerce commission, but his
friends assert that his ambition has always
been to sit upon the bench of the Supreme
court. His illness has caused considerable
alarm, notwithstanding the favorable re-
port from his home at Ann Arbor 1t is
not so much the present attack that gives
his friends such great uneasiness as the
fact that his health breaks down so fire.
quently of late Nervous prostration is
his ailment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-31

EDWARD BELLAMY is young
Boston author who has rapidly risen to
prominence. To-day he is one of the best
known of the younger writer's of this eoun-
try. He was formerly lawyer, but his
practice has been entirely abandoned and
his time is now exclusively given to litera-
ture. His great work, the one which has
brought him recognition, is, of course,
that book which is on everybody's lips,
Looking Backward : 1t is one of the
most successful novels published in years.
Mr.. Bellamy resides very quietly at Chico
pee, where he works hard and steadily
He is man of very quiet disposition, car
ing nothing for society. He will be hard
man, therefore, for society to lionize, if it
wants to. He is fne-looking gentleman,
with deep, penetrating eyes, and we'll
formed features. He wears mustache
which Is rather heavy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-31
GUATEMALA.

Dr. Fernando Cruz represents Guate-
mala for long time, and is one of the
foremost literary men of South America.
For years he was Professor of Law at the
University at Guatemala, and has since
been a member of Congress, Secretary of
Foreign Affairs, Secretary Of Public In
struction, and Secretary of State. It is
largely to the efforts of Senior Cruz that
the completeness of the present Congress
is due. Senior Cruz is a remarkable man,
and largely so on account of his wonder
full ability as linguist. 1t is told of him
that in proposing the health of the Presi-
dent of the United States. at the banquet
given by the South American Commission,
he spoke in the language of every guest
nreSent
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ury under Juarez. but came back In 1884
at the request of President Diaz. Senior
Romero s wife was a Miss Allen. of Phila-
delphia. and through her he has made
many warm friends In this country.
DIR. Navarro is also well-known. having
been the Mexican Consul General at New
York for years
The only stranger is Senior Limantour,
a cultured man of French descent who
spends much of his time in Paris study
ing plans for the advancement of Mexi-
co. In many Of which he has been success
full.
All of these gentlemen are expected to
join the party here before Its departure for
the west.
NICARAGUA.
The mueh-talked-about canal across
Nicaragua has given North America a
new interest in that Central state, and it is
taken as friendly omen that the delegate
Is DR.. Horacio Guzman, the Nicaraguan
Minister at Washington. Dr. Guzman
comes pretty near being a good United
States man. He is In favor of the canal :;
he studied medicine and graduated from
a Philadelphia college, was educated at
Georgetown, and, better still, married a
charming American girl
PERU.
The Peruvian Minister to the United
States, DIR. F. G. c. Zegarra, represents
Peru In the congress. Like DR.. Guzman,
he Is almost ito the manor born. DIR.
Zegarra studied while a mere lad in Wash
ington, and then went to college at
Georgetown, where he graduated with high
honors.
URUGUAY.
One of the youngest men in the con-
gress is DIR. Alberto Min, the delegate
from Uruguay He is but 80 years of age,
having been born in Montevideo in 1851.
He is hustler in the real sense of the
word. When he was % years old he was
made Professor of the Penal Law and still
holds the chair. He is a leader In the
progressive party, and has accomplished
many reforms Mr. Min is the Apollo OF
the party.
VENEZUELA.
General Nicanor Bolet Peraza, the dele
gate from Venezuela, is a retired army
officer, and has lived in the United States
for many years. He is a distinguished
man in the literary line, and is now the
editor of Spanish paper In New FORK and
correspondent of many of the leading
papers in South America.
Besides these gentlemen there are a
large number of attaches, each delegation
having at least one Secretary and some of
them two. The United States delegation,
Messrs. Charles R. Flint and Glenn Stude-
baker, are also accompanied by alargeret-
niue.