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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
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AT Lima Ohio, Eve prisoners escsped
by prylng up the floor above their cells
FRANK BENNETT, who is supposed TO be
one or gang of counterfeiters was ar
rested at Epworth, Iowa.
SAM PATTERSON, colored man nos
shot aud fatally injured, at Kansas Citv,
oy h. Nj. Adams, colored deputy.
MASKED men have driven E. ]. jordan
from Durham, n. c., on account of his
political sentiments. Mr.. Jordan was
formerly resident of Eau Claire, Wis.
AT Mora, MINI, William Mating, who
was under the influence of liquor, shot
and fatally wounded Mrs. G. A. Harrison
and Jacob Hanson.
THREE colored murderers were hanged
at Arkqdelphia, Ark, for the murder of a
negro preacher of the same place, on
May 81, 1888.
DANIEL RIToHIE and Louis Burk. who
were held for murder, ars five other
criminals, escaped from the Jail at Ash
land, Wis, after having knocked the Jail
or senseless.
THE Rev. Joseph Bloom, until recently
pastor of the Free Will Baptist church,
at OwegO, N Y, is under arrest on charge
of horse stealing. He is a young Eng
lishman.
a PROBABLY fatal quarrel occurred Mon
day at Dickey sville, Wis, between John
Daniels, man IS years old, and his son.
High words arose between the two, and
the old man stabbed his son several times
with pocket-knife. The young man
can not recover.
BIsMARK, Dak.-The jury in the case of
Curran, the opium smuggler, disagreed.
The case against him was then dismissed
On his agreeing to turn states evidence
and expose tho opium ring, VT ose steal
ings amount to millions
AT italian Canyon, New, Thursday,
Samuel Rumble killed his father-in-law,
George HOskings, with a shotgun, and
then shot Mrs. Hoskings and himself with
pistol. The killing was the result of a
division of property and family troubles.
"BoBBY" ADAMS, a notorious burglar,
and one of the Minneapolis postoffice
robbers, serving six years term at JOLT
ct, was released last week on pardon is
sued by Grover Cleveland. He turned
states evidence, and his aocomplices are
nov under arrest.
The Homestake train robbers, Dough
erty and Wilson, and cattle thief named
Charles Stewart, escaped from the Jail at
Deadwood, d. T., by filing through the
bars. DoUgherty left note to the jail
or, saying that he lad gone after witness
es, and to tell his attorney to postpone
his trial until he got back.
THEE men walked into the store of 8.
A. Young, at Forbes, a little town near st.
Joseph, Mo-, Saturday night, and after
ordering the crowd of about twenty men,
who had congregated in the store, TO hold
up their hands, they went through the
pockets of the crowd and then robbed the
till and ordered the clerk to open the safe,
but as burglars had destroyed the lock the
night before, in attempting to blow it
open, this could not be done, and the rob-
bers secured only about $50.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
To be continued.
Did it Elect Harrison?

The following appeared in Minnesota
paper: members of the Democratic
party have been using all subterfuges to
account for their overwhelming defeat,
and numerous are the causes alleged.
Il was talking with several of the van
pushed on Fourth Street the other day,
opposite bill board, and one of the
party exclaimed: IF it had not been
for the closeness Of the National Com
mittee in the expenditure Of money, we
would have elected our man. The Re
publicans advertised their man like a
circus" Several of the party remarked
that no advertising was done except
small announcements in the papers, and
Il few hangers on the dead walls
"Hangers?" said our informant. "What
DO you call that but circus poster"
pointing to a twelve-sheet medicine
poster on the bill board, bearing the
cuts Of Gen. Harrison and his grand
father.
''If the Democrats had advertised like
hat, Cleveland would have been re-
elected.
The rHster referred to was one of the
familiar black and white Log Cabin
oarsaparilla posters sent out by an en-
terprising firm engaged in the manu-
facture of old log cabin home-cures,
under the name of Warmers Log Cabin
Remedies, and among other equally
valuable articles includes the famous
Log Cabin Sarsaparilla, which is every
where recognized as the best of all
spring medicines and stands without
rival for the cure of all disorders which
are the results of impure blood.
The spring time of the year is the sea-
har ba
the long winter has caused the blood to
become filed with impurities.
There exists no better means to aid
and strengthen the system at such an
urgent period than the use of Warmers
Log Cabin Sarsaparilla, which speedily
restores the blood to pure and healthy
state, which insures health and hap
pness.
The reputation of the firm putting out
the medicine is above reproach, and is
:he same firm which manufactures
Warmers Safe Cure the standard remedy
or the cure of all those diseases peculiar
the kidneys as well as those which
ure the results of disease in those or
gans, and which has met with such
phenomenal success for the past ten
years.
We understand that the posters re-
.erred to made their appearance in many
parts of the country sometime prior to
the Chicago Convention which nominal
I'd Gen. Harrison as a candidate for the
Presidency-hencet the use made Of the
PORTRAITS Of the Harrisons, father and
erandson-was either the result Of re-
narkable political foresight or in accord
ance with the historical association Of
the old Log Cabin with the name of
Harrison.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
The National Capital

TEE president vetoed the direct tax bill
on Saturday.
JUDGE CAREY, Solicitor, and Mr.. E. B.
Youmans, Chief Clerk of the Treasury
Department, at Washingt ton, have handed
In their resignation.
WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS, John A. Kas-
son and Geo. H. Bates, have been appoint
ed to represent the United States in the
conference at Berlin on Samoan matters.
ORDERS have been given from Wash
ington TO prepare the Adams at Mare
island, California, for years cruise, and
the Iroquois, AZ the same yard, for a
three years. cruise.
THE report of the Department of Agri
culture for March shows the proportion
of merchantable wheat and corn averages
81 per cent, which is less than in 1884
86-87, and the lowest State percentages
are in the principal wheat-growing
States.
The President sent the following nom
nations to the Senate: Thomas w. Pal
mer, of Michigan, to be Minister to Spain;
John f. Swift, of California, to Japan;
John d. Washburn, of Massachusetts,, to
Switzerland; George Tichenor, of Illinois,
10 be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
POSTMASTER General Wanamaker has
purchased from the Frelinghuysen estate
the elegant residence which has been IN
til recently the home of Secretary Whit
ney. The price paid for the house and a
part of the furniture is understood to
have been $4,000.
AMONG the nominations sent to the SEN
ate Thursday by President Harrison were
the following: James 8. Clarkson, of
Iowa, to be first assistant postmaster gen
eral; Lewis Wolhey, to be governor of
Arizona. A number of postmasterships
were filed, the Indianapolis office going
to William Wallace.
THE president has sent the following
nominations to the senate: Eugene 2.
Schuyler, of New York, to be assistant
secretary of state, vice Geo. L. Riyes, re-
signed; Walker Blaine, OF Maine, TO be
an examiner of claims for the depart
ment of state, vice Wharton, deceased.
Cyrus Bussey, of New York city, to be
assistant secretary of the interior, vice
David l.. Hawkins, resigned.
THE secretary of the navy has under
consideration numerous appeals from
prominent citizens of this country TO fur
nish naval vessel to convey the remains
of the late John Ericsson to his native
land, in recognition of his distinguished
services in producing the Monitor, which
rendered ssch valuable service to the
government in critical moment.
The cabinet, on Friday had under dis
c1ssion the opening of Oklahoma, or at
least portion of the territory included
within its limits. The president is auth
orized by the terms of the recent legisla-
tion to open to settlement about 100000
acres of land, and the opinion prevails
that he will shortly issue bis proclama-
tion adding that acreage to the public
domain
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
News In Brief.

4 VOTING MACHINE has been introduced
into Detroit which successfully registers
the ayes and nays and counts them by
machinery.
WILLIAM BURGESS, Gamer at Mimico,
Ontario, disappeared Monday, leaving
Liabilities estimated at $4,000.
DUR1Ne the past six weeks six deaths
have occurred at Belvidere, ILL.,, from the
effects of liquor.
BUSINESS failures for last week number
261, against 281 the previous week, and
228 in the corresponding week of 1888.
OMAaA.-Mayor Broatch has issued an
order for the strict enforcement of the
Sunday saloon closing law. The saloons
have always been kept open on Sunday
heretofore.
W. J. JoICE was convicted Wednesday
in the District Court at Seneca, Kan, of
selling Jamaica ginger in violation of the
prohibItory law.
The contest between homesteaders and
script owners opened at Marquette. Mich,
Monday. It promises to be the most bit
ter fight en- record.
A BILL providing for the Australian
system of voting in the larger cities of
the state has been passed by the Nebras-
ka house.
TIE passenger boom caused By the in
auguration has, it is reported, brought in
$500, 900 for the Pennsylvania railroad
com any.
Elk GovKRNoR WATERMAN, of California,
is reported to have recently refused an
offer of 100000, made by Chicago
capitalists, for his Stonewall mine.
A FARMER in Nee York county, Maine,
recently shipped twenty barrels of apples
TO Liverpool. After freight charges and
other expenses were deducted he found
his fruit had netted him cents barrel.
The Paradise Club of Anglers, of New
York, have just decided to purchase TO-
900 acres of forest and fifty trout lakes in
various parts of the country. This will
make the largest fish and game preserve
in the world.
ST. PAUL, Minn.-The 500" road has
made cut In -four rates from the I win
Cities to seaboard points, and in order to
meet it the other roads will have to make
the rates on ~ cents from ST. Paul to
Chicago.
NEW YoRK-The steamer William Col
man from Gonaives, Hayti, has arrived.
She brings news that the town was bonn
barded Feb. % by Legitime's man of war
Dessalines. During the battle the Dessa- !
lines was sunk.
The South Birmingham (Ala.) Coal and
Coke Company was organized Thursday
with a capital of 100000. 1t owns
5000 acres Of coal land near Birmingham,
and will build at once 100 coke ovens and |
a furnace.
The annual report of the Board of
Emigration Com at New York,
shows that during 1888 the total number
of emigrants landed at Castle Garden was |
37o,822, of whom 44,3OO were Irish, |
80 1855 were English, 1915 were German,
5000 were French, 33,052 wers Russian,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
Fires And Casualties.

A PRAIRIE fire has done great damage to
settlers near Huron, D. x.
The grain elevator of Finch Il Hay
wood, of Davenport, Iowa, burned with
contents. Loss $4,000, and insurance
$4,000.
CRLEY BROTHERS warehouse at Green
vile, S. c., was burned. 1t contained
$4,000 bales of cotton, which were ell de-
stroyed. Insurance, $4,000.
An epidemic of dyptheria is reported
at Galitzin, Pa, over hundred deaths
having occurred from the disease in the
last four months in population of 1900.
CLIFTON HALL, winter resort at Lake
wood, n. j., was burned. DR.. Wallace, of
Philadelphia, had one of his legs broken
IN jumping from a window, but all of the
other guests escaped without inju Loss,
$31, 600.
MI CARMEL, Pa.-Iutense excitement
prevails at the Black Diamond colliery,
where by running of the pillars six
miners were closed in. Workmen are
driving headings for the purpose of
liberating their imprisoned companions,
but several hours must elapse before it
can be ascertained whether they are alive.
By the explosion of an underground
trap at the Standard Oil Refinery at
Lima, Ohio, Wednesday, John Cushing a
laborer, was literally annihila ted. He
was standing on the trap at the time OF
the explosion, AID has not been seen
since.
HoLroR Rock, Tenn.-The house of
William Flowers was burned and Flowers,
his wife, and two children persisted in
the flames. Neighbors saw the fire but
arrived too late to be any assistance.
Not single occupant of the house was
left to tell how the fire occurred. The
bodies have been found, charred and
burned horribly. The prevailing idea is
that robbery and murder were committed
and the house fired TO conceal the crime.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21

1884 were Swedish, 43 927 Italians, Is
we're Australians, and 5 were Chinese:
o',5lo were under 15 years of age.
Los ANGELES, Cal.-The excitement
mere over the gold fields of lower Cali
Iornia has somewhat subsidized. Reports
that gold discoveries were started in the
interests or land com panies are frequent
ly circulated A firm here received q
telegram from their foreman, who has
Jus. returned from the mining district
s a9o Is now In San Diego, which says:
are SELL"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
THE DECAY OF THE LIGHTNING ROD MAN.

THE DECAY OF THE LIGHTNING ROD MAN.
A Chicago newspaper has discovered
that there are only four lightning rod
factories in the United States, in place of
nearly one hundred twenty years ago. 1t
jumps to the rash conclusion that people
have come to regard the lightning rod as
a humbug. This conclusion is entirely
unwsrrsnted. While it is true that nearly
one hundred factories OF twenty years
ago have been consolidated into four the
four turn out more rods than the one
hundred did. A Pittsburg factory sold
100000 feet of lightning rods last year,
and there are enough rods manufactured
each year to girdle the globe and leave a
surplus sufficient to make submarine
cable across the Atlantic. But while
lightning rods have not gone out of
fashion the lightning rod agent has. He
was once considered equally with the blue
oird aud robin q hsrbinger of spring. He
has been voted a humbug, his long wagon
hnc 1oAiSh AhhO 1hhOSuouS oSouSbuuc dHu
his lying tongue is engaged in some other
form of deception. lightning rods are
kept in stock by the regular hardware
dealers, and the farmer who wants electric
conductors measures his buildings and
orders the exact number of feet he wants
The gli0-tongued rascals who bargainsd
to sell hundred feet of lightning rod
and invariably brought in bill for twice
that amount when the rods were up is
only to be found III the spsrsely settled
districts of the West and South, where
railways are rare and newspapers come
but once week. 1t is probable that the
disappearance of the lightning rod agent
has done more to create the impression
that the lightning rod was falling into
disuse than anything else. But trip
through the country will show that few
buildings of any value in the small vii
lagos and on the farms are without them
The people do not believe that Franklin
was humbug or that his lightning con
ductor was a delusion and q snare. They
simply buy their rods of reputable local
callers instead of the itinerant liars Who
furnished them formerly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21

WASHINGTON, d. C.-The signal Offices
crop report says: There is deficiency
of moisture in the wheat region of the
central valleys. In Ohio Indiana, Illinois,
and southern Michigan about go per
per cent. of the normal rainfall is report
ed. Throughout the central valleys and
southern states the season is well ad-
vanced and farm work is in progress in
Minnesota and Dakota. Notwithstanding
the deficiency of moisture in the winter
wheat region the reports indicate that
the weather IN the section has affected
the crop fevorably. In the spring-Wheat
section the ground is reported IN fine
condition and sowing is in progress IN
Dakota and Nebraska.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
D1sarm1np An Unseen roe.

Nfhis sometime paradox" as Hamlet
says. Since, however, the people Of America
and other lands have been enabled to pit Hos
letters Stomach Bitters against that unseen foe,
malaria, it is no longer a paradox, but an easy
possibility. Wherever malaria evolves its misty
venom to poison the air, and decaying unwhole-
some vegetation impregnates the water. there. IN
the very stronghold Of miasma- IS the auxiliary
potent to disarm the foe and assure efficient pro-
lection Fever and ague, bilious remittent, dumb
ague and ague cake, no matter how tenaciously
they have fastened their clutch on the system.
are first forced TO relax their grasp and eventu-
ally to abandon it altogether But it is its pre-
ventive force that should chiefly recommend the
Bitters to persons dwelling in malaria-cursed
localities for it is a certain buckler of defrnt q
against which the enemy is powerIess. Cures,
likewise, dyspepsia, rheumatism, kidney and
bilious ailments.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21

AN effort is being made in Tennessee
to secure legislation so that Andrew Jack
sons homestead may be preserved as q
national memorial, upon the same plan
as that whereby Mt. Vernon is main
tanned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21

THIS is great nation. The next CEN
sus will tell story Of development that
will sound like a tale of fairylan6. Con
gresham Cox, who took the last census,
and has just succeeded in engineering
the bill through for the census of 1890
thinks it will show the population of the
United States at that time to be not less
64,0OG,000. Few people realize what an
enormous task the taking of a national
census is. No less than $4,000 enumera-
tors will be employed, besides hundred
state and district supe visors, thousands
of special agents, experts, chiefs of
division and clerks, all working under the
supervision of the Census Commissioner.
On the first Monday in June of next
year about $4,000 men will start out in
quest Of information. They will knock
at the door of every habitation in the
United States during the month, the en-
umerators in cites being required to
com plete their labors IN half that time
Mr.. Cox estimates that when all these
reports on population come in they will
exceed in bulk 1900 merchants Iedgers,
and that the reports on other subjects
such as taxation, schools, etc., would
make a stack, if piled one above the
other, twice as high as Washington's
monument. The cost will be about &c.
100000, or a little less than ten cents for
zach inhabitant, big and iittls, of the
country. The greatest gains will be in
the West, but the South will show to
better advantage in point of per cent.
increase in both wealth and population
than the East
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN

The Pacific railroads have finally driven
some of the California shippers into
rebellion against the rates, which have
long been oppressive and exorbitant.
After protesting in vain against recent
advance in rates on canned goods, the
shippers of this product have planned to
send 300 car loads by vessel to New York,
and thence to Chicago, at rs cents per
100 pounds or about half what the rail
roads demanded for direct transporta-
ton from San Francisco to Chicago. 1t
would appear from this that the trans
continental lines have been triae too
exactjng.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21

'Starboard! Hard starhoardl For
Gods sake starboard your heImP'
AS whirled round the wheel the fog
rolled back ana revealed a scene the like
of which had never before beheld. or even
imagined, and old Tom came down on the
deck with run.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21

paper read before tAe Historical So
ciety OF New York states that there are
8 $50 lawyers in New York.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21

The appearance Of Lord Randolph
Churchill in the House of Commons at
he present time is quite as significant
as his recent sojourn in Italy and France
He may be likened to a heaAiiy armed
cruiser coasting about with sealed orders
The collapse of the London Times case
haze vidently brought him back to London,
and his first step Is an attack upon the
governments navy estimates. The polit-
ical situation in London is that of an
armed truce. The Parneu commission
has adjourned until Tuesday at the re-
quest of the Times, and the Gladstonians
seem disposed to delay their attack up
on the government until the final verdict
of the commission is handed down, I'M
less the navy estimates preoipitate party
struggle. The fight over home rule is
now virtually transferred to the Hobbies
of the House of Commons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21

LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL follows up
his speech in the British House of Com
mons against the naval proposals of the
government, by writing letter to the
London Times breathing threatenings
and slaughter, and talking about ''long
and weary fight" at every stage Of the bill.
In private Lord Churchill denOunces Bal
fourism, and those who remember his
speeches in various parts of the kingdom
since his retirement as leader in the
House of Commons, proelaiming the
doctrine OF the new tories, will readily IN
derstand that he has not entered upon his
present course without considering the
possibility of Salisbury'S downfall. That
Churchill believes in some measure Of
ooal government for Ireland is beyond
dispute, and his advanced view as to do
mestio legislation generally in but re-
move from the regular liberal platform
Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-27
A TREMENDOUS CRASH.

Shore Towns Shaken Up Last Evening A Big Explosion of Gun Powder at
 LeeIess IsIand-One of Beatty's Sheds
 Full of Powder Burned and Blown
 Up-NO Lives Lost.
 A tremendous explosion occurred last eve- ming at minutes alter g. The force of the crash and concussion were plainly felt all over Branford, Stony Creek, East Haven, ,Guilford, Madison, Clinton, the Thimble Islands, West Haven and Weodmont. Great inquiry was at once made over the telephone wires in all those places.
 The explosion was at Leete's Island. One of Beatty's sheds was set on fire and blown up. In it were seventy-fve kegs of powder, each containing twenty-five pounds. After the explosion it was found that it had been set on fire by means of slow fuse. There are twenty-five small dwellings in the vicinity occupied by Beatty's quarrymen. The glass in the windows of all these dwellings was smashed and terrible excitement prevailed for time. Many panes of glass were broken or cracked in Branford and Stony Creek. Reports came in that powder ship had been blown to pieces on the Sound and various other theories were preached. The light oi the burning shed was visible for long dis tance. No one was injured as far as known J. G. Clark. the conveyancer, of this city. who was at his shore cottage at Savin Rock, telephoned into the city to inquire the cause of the explosion and so did residents of varl- ous other towns.