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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
Criminal.

GILL" GoLDEN's dance den at Hurley,
Wis, was raided by the police Wednesday
morning and the proprietor arrested.
OK Wednesday morning at Epson, Wis,
Joseph Brogan murd ered his wife aud
two little boys and then killed himself.
The cause was drunkenness, as usual.
PETE and Tim Barrett have been SEN
fenced TO he hanged at Minneapolis on
March %, for the murder of street car
driver Tollefson, year ago.
IGNATz LEGLER, collector of Blooming
ton Township, ILL.,, and his deputy, Harry
Nj. Loehr, were arrested Monday on the
charge of classifying their books and
oyercharging taxpayers. An oTercharge
of 81 800 is alleged.
NASHVILLE, TENN.-George Dunaway, OF
Rutherford county, this state, murdered
his uncle, fatally shot his aunt, and
cruelty beat his cousin whom he had been
counting. The cause of this action is
unknown. He is still at large.
Two masked men, one of them minus
an arm, entered store at Toyah, Tex,
overawed its seven occupants with their
rifles, looted the safe of $4,000, marched
their prisoners out into the roadway,
mounted their horses and galloped off,
firing yolley as they went.
HANS KUEHNI, the young Swiss who
murdered his fellow boarder, William
Christen, near Madison, Wis, arrived
from London, England, in chargs of Uni
ted States Agent Estes Monday. He was
greatly agitated on nearing the scene of
his crime, and was apparently afraid Of
being lynched.
PRINCE GEORGE ERIsToFF DE GoURIE,
the distinguished Russian whom New
York society has been feteing for the last
season, has been arrested, charged with
having bought q $500 seal overcoat on
credit and subsequently, pawning it for
500.
INDIANAPOLIs.-Depu United States
marshals returned from several coun ties
and reported the following arrests
| Frank Reeder and Oscar Bishop, Ran
dolph county; W. W. Payton, Jay; Sam
uel Morton, Madison; George Arnold and
Charles Walters, Marion. The trial eases
of election law violation will begin
March II.
| ST. LoUIs.-Word has been received
here from the Choctaw patton, Indian
territory, that John Pickett and his wife
were taken from their cabin at Lyon
Creek by party of men on Feb. Is and
hanged to tree. Puckett's stepson was
severely whipped and left tied 80 tree
for 4S hours before he was discovered
The Pucketts were half breeds, and were
| charged with numerous crimes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
Some Defeated Presidential Candidates.

Henry Clay had one disqualification
that neutralized all the possibilities of
good which he possessed. For many of
the best years of his life his brain was al
ways suffused, like Bismarck's, with the
alcoholic poison. The history of parties,
from Alexander the Greats time to this,
will disclose to any investigator that, of
ali known disqualifcations for Offices of
trust and difficulty, this the most entire
ly fatal, because it disturbs the iudg-
ment while infaming all the passions
and propensities which constitute the
task Of the judgment. Nine-tenths of a
presidents fitness is judgment.
James G. Birney, of Kentucky, the can
didate of the AboIitionists in 1910 and
1874, was veritable king of men, a per-
son of the highest type of character
known among US. His life was series
of the noblest actions, performed for
the noblest reasons. He was brave,
steadfast, and gentle, of gracious and
dignified presence, asking nothing from
his cOuntrymen except to turn them
from what he conceived to be their err
rors. In 1910 he received 1859 votes; in
1914, 81, 263 votes. No patriotic son of
Kentucky could do better service to his
countrymen than to make this Admirable
man familiarly known to them.
Horace Greeley bore his character in
his face-kalf baby, half philosopher.
The sweetest child that ever looked into
its mothers eyes had not a more benevo-
lent expression than his countenanee
habitually wore. The worst portrait does
not quite obliterate it; the best renders it
imperfeotly. The politician who said,
ga man who would hurt Horace Greeley
would strike his own mother" roughly
expressed the feeling which the childIike
part of his face often excited. His voice,
too, was the pipe of a child. But aboye
the eyes there was such noble dome
of head that Greek sculptor would have
been glad to take it for the model of
benevolent wisdom. His demeanor
showed similar contrasts. From that
baby face what torrents of bad words
would come, with no more malice behind
them than there is behind a child's vehe-
ment crying when some one has broken
its toy. With pen in his hand and a
subject before him suited to his talents
and disposition, as well as TO the momsn-
tary needs of the "Tribune," what editor
ever wrote more effectiveIyf
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
EDUCATION AND MANUAL LABOR.
From the Memphis Avalanche.


One OF the objections now and then
made to the levy of tax sufficient TO
bring this public schools of Memphis and
Of other cities up TO the highest standard
known in private schools, is that it has a
tendency to take young men and women
out OF she field of manual labor. 1t IS in
sisted that young man who has received
a high school education is lost to the
trades. This was the theme of an able
discourse delivered last week before the
national association of builders, at Phil
sdelphia, where the master builders have
undertaken to bring into the trades the
young men who graduate from the pub
lie and private schools. He declared that
the fault was rather with the trades than
with the young men. Master mechanics,
he said, sent their sons to the New York
trade schools from all parts of the United
States. They wish them to be mechan-
les, but they also intend that they shall
nrst have had what all Americans need, q
good education, which, if they entered
the shops as boys, they could not get. If
an errand boy is wanted, hire one, teach
him a trade, help him when he
has learned it, but do not say
that noue but errand boys shall become
mechanics. If labor is to be held in
honor, it must be educated labor. a
Sc Icfy 60 he alr
cation of those who follow it. The man
makes the calling respectable far more
than the calling dignifies the man. Trade
schools, it was pointed out, although q
France, as the speaker went on to show,
owes much of her wealth to her indus
trial schools, Germany has wrested con-
siderable portion of the American trade
from England by her trade schools,
and the London Guilds are now expepd-
ing their accumulated wealth in the es-
Establishment of similar schools through
out England. The foreign trade schools
are of two kinds, those where q trade is
learned during the four or five years re-
CURED to obtain good education, and
schools where young men employed in
shops can learn what the workshop
does not teach. It will not be disputed
that the steadiest employment is given
and the beet wages paid in this country.
in nearly every trade to persons of for
eign birth and training-a fact which ia
itself an argument in favor of the edu-
cation of those who intend to earn their
living by their skill in laboring with their
hands.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
The National Capi6saA

The President has signed the Nicara-
qua Canal bill.
The Des Moines land bill has received
the presidents veto.
THE National House of Representatives
adopted the conference report on the
Territorial bill without division.
The National House of representatives.
has passed the senate bill to pension the
widow of Gen. Sheridan, with an amend
nent fixing the pension at s., 300 per an
num.
TIE bill admitting Washington, Mon
tana, North Dakota and South Dakota has
been signed by the president.
The house committee on military af-
fairs has decided to recommend the ap-
pointment of W. 81. Markham, of Passa-
dena, CAL, as manager of the Pacific
Coast Home for Volunteer Soldiers. Mr..
Markham Yves a member of the 47th COL
gress.
THK secretary of the navy has contract
ed with M. G. Pickering i Co., Of New
York, for the delivery of 1000 tons of
coal at the ooal1ng station at Apia, Sa-
moa, at the rate of $13.25 per ton. 1t is
expected that the voyage will take about
four months. The shipment will cost the
government all together about $50, $50.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28

came out when ordered and one of the
robbers entered the car while the other
held the fireman, engineer and messenger
under cover, meanwhile Brakeman Gabert
came up one side of the car and Bently
came up on the other to see the cause of
the delay. When approaching, one rob
Der exclaimed, ''stop!' and fired. Gabert
received heavy load of buckshot in the
heart and head, killing him instantly.
bently was struck by several shot ia the
aooomen and right arm. The robbers
then marched three men upon the engine
and disappeared in the darkness. The
robbers secured only four hundred dol
lars. Armed parties are securing the
country for the robbers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
VICIOUS TRAIN ROBBERS.
Masked Men Board Train in California and |
do Much Damage.

ndSKeu men bOdfu q Train LII CdlllOIuld anu
do Much Damage.
DELANo, Cal.-As train No. II left
PixLey Friday evening five masked men
boarded it. Two went on the engine and
covered the engineer and firemen with re-
volvers. When about two miles from the
station the train was brought to stop
and the other three men entered the e1-
press car and ordered the messenger TO
open the box, covering him with revol-
vers. Dynamite bombs were exploded
under the car. During tbs excitement
several of the passengers ran toward the
front, and two of them were shot. E. s.
Bentley, of Modesto, was probably fatally
wounded, and Charles Gabert, of Poso,
was killed instantly. sThe train ran back to
Pixley, where the news was left. The
passenger coaches were not molested.
LATER-The coroner held an in
quest over the body of Charles F. Gabert.
The testimony given byEugene Boiger,and
Fireman Aid er showed that when leaving
Pixley, two masked mel boarded the en-
CINE with shot gun and, when two miles
out, ordered the engineer to slow down,
then the engineer and fireman
were taken back by the robbie rs TO the
express car and bomb was thrown nm
der the car, the explosion which nearly
turned the car over. The messenger
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
THE NILE CRIER.
Men Paid to Announce the Progress of the
Rise Ofthe River.
sLondon It'd Bits

kLondon It'd Bits.
When the in1ndation approaches the
oapital-usual4y at the end of June or the
beginning of July the Nile criers begin
their work.
These oriers are men whose business il
is to call out, or rather to recite, before
the houses of those who wish it, how
much the Nile has risen during the last
twenty four hours.
The Oriental does everything, no mat
ter what it is, gravely, slowly, with much
dignity and verbosity, and is never chary
OF his time or breath. Even the form of
his greeting in the street is complicat-
ed ceremony of words and motions,
which usually takes some minutes to per-
form. And in the same way this an
nouncement of the rivers rise, which
seems to US such a simple matter, is q
most serious affair.
The day before the crier begins his
talk, he goes through the streets, ac-
companied by a boy, whose part is to act
as chorus, and to sing the responses at
the propsr moment. The crier sings:
God has looked graciously upon the fields"
ReSpouSe-'Oh! day of glad tidings"
Tomorrow begins the announcement"
Responsibility it be followed by success"
Before the crier proceeds to give the
information so much desired, he intones
with the boy lengthy, alternating chant
in which he praises God, imploring bies-
sings on the prophet and all believers,
and on the master of the house and all
his children.
Not until this has been carefully gone
through does he proceed TO say the Nile
has risen so many inches.
This ceremony is carried on until the
month of September, when the river has
reached its eliminating point, and the
crier, as bringer of good news, never
fails TO claim his "baksheesh," or drink
money-someti.nes humbly and some
times, too, very imperilously.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
Henry CIay's Voice.
ChautauQuan.

Said one who heard it: "Mr. Clay's
voice has prodigious power, compass and
richness; all its variations are captivat-
ing, but some of its bass notes thrill ones
whole frame. To one who has never
heard the living melody no verbal de-
scription can convey an adequate idea of
the diversified effect of those intonations
which in one strain of sentiment fall in
whispering gentleness 1iBe the first
words of love upon maiden's lips and
anon, in its sterner utterances, ring with
the ma5dening music of the main
When Randolph Clay's enemy, passed
through Washington to his Philadelphia
deathbed. he demanded to be carried 10
his senate chamber. THAT voice, that
voicer he cried; Il want to hear Clay's
voice once more before l die"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
THURSDAY Feb 21.


SENATE.-Just as soon as the senate
could take fresh breath, after tie pray
er by the chaplain, joint resolution of
the assembly for an adjournment until
Monday evening next, was conourred in.
Twenty-seven petitions for the passage
of the county option law were presented.
There were three petitions in favor of the
Taylor railroad bill, and one remon-
STRANGE against. Ii was ordered, on
motion, that all dead head bills be fled
out and reported back as early es March
10th. The following assembly bills were
concurred in: To incorporate the city of
Mondovi. To amend the charter IF the
city of Merrill. To restore persons ad-
judged 20 be insane to their civic rights.
The following bills were passed: Author
Izing circuit judges TO subscribe for
state law reports. Amending the charter
of the city of Alma. Authorizing county
boards to pay the expenses of county
superintendent OF schools TO the amount
of not exceeding $500. The senate bill
providing for the Iegalizing of secular
business done by religious societies on
Sundy, was indefinitely postponed. The
senate adjourned until Monday evening
at 7:30 O'Clock, the 25th inst.
ASSEMBLY, Members appeared to be
somewhat tired after the large batch of
bills that was presented Wednesday, and
business was somewhat dun. Petitions
were presented favoring the employment
of arbitration in disputes.arising between
the people and the railroads; favoriug a
change in the exemption law; favoring
local option; favoring a state law supple
mentary to the Interstate railway act;
favoring the enactment of laws enabling
the collection of honest debts, and favor
ing better laws for the regulation OF
medical practice, while several remon-
strances were submitted opposing any
change in the excise laws. Resolutions
considered: Mr.. Caldwell's joint resolu
ton, which provides for the throwing
open of the state treasury doors to the
general public, was referred TO the COM
mittee on agriculture. The senate john
resolution, requiring an itemized account
of the expenses of conducting farm insti
tutes to be made TO the legislature, wa:
ooncurred in. The following senate bill:
were o0ncurred in: Requiring county
clerks, within thirty days after publica-
ton, TO forward TO the State Historical
society, copy of the proceeds of the
county board of their respective counties
To perfect the titles of the state and its
grantees in lands heretofore conveyed bJ
the county of Marathon to the state in
satisfaction of Indebtedness due from
the county to the state. On motion OF
Mr.. McElroy, the assembly resolved itself
into g committee of the whole, on the
general file, with Mr.. Whelsn in the chair
After going through with the file tbs
committee arose and reported progress
A considerable number of bills were in
definitely postponed, when the assembly
adjourned until Monday evening at 7:30
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN

IF the Arkansas legislature would pass
fewer Immigration resolutions and more
measures that would make tragedies like
the Clayton assassination a rare occur
renee, the state would stand better
ohance of increasing in population.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28

RUmoR has it that Mrs. Cleveland viii
make mild venture into magazine liter
allure soon after her retirement TO private
life, and that the readers of the Century
need not be surprised to find it in one of
their forthcoming numbers. Richard
Watson Glider, the Century's editor, is
friend of the CleveIands.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28

Mrs. BooTH, wife of the commander-in
chief of the salvation army, has been
quite successful, it is reported, in secur-
ing the interest of a number of women of
wealth and social position in the work of
the army.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
Imp0rtant Notice.

When you visit New York stop at Taylor's
Hotel, opposite Pennsylvania railroad depot,
Jersey City. European plan. Elegantly furn-
ished rooms 81 per day and upwards. First-class
restaurant ia connect on at moderate prices.
Only IS minutes from Wall street City Hall and
business centers of New York. Baggage taken
to and from the depot free of charge. Ferry 10
and from New YORK every few minutes day and
rio
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28

Il is matter Of history that once, here In
RostOu, says the Post, venerable man turned
some strangers out Of pew which he supposed
to be his own, and then after they had taken
refuge in the one Immediately behind it, got up
and turned them out of that, having discovered
in the meantime that he had made mistake, his
own pew being that last mentioned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
HOW'S THIS.
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case of Catarrh that can not be cured by taking
Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. j. CHENEY & co. Props, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known F. j.
Cheney for the last Is years and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business tranactions,
and financially able to carry out any obligations
made by their firm.
West & Traux, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
Ohio
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Drug
gists Toledo, Ohio
E. H. Van Hoesen, Cashier, Toledo National
Bank, Toledo, Ohio
Halls Catarrh Cure il taken internally acting
directly upon the blood and mucus surfaces Of
the system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28

The New York Sun, in speaking of
venerable New Workers, calls attention
to the following remarkable old men:
David Dudley Field, the iurist, who,
though almost So, is still in legal practice;
Capt. John Ericsson the engineer, Sc
years old, and yet busy with inventions
that promise TO increase his renown;
Wilson G. Hunt, the merchant, on the
verge of 81 and yet hale and hearty; Rev.
DIR. Thomas E. Yermilye, who enters his
S7th year this month, still full of the
qualities thet gave him his high rank in
in the pulpit; Prof. Robert W. Weir, the
artist, who, in his 87th year, keeps his
brush and palette ready for service.
A sHEoIAL committee of the Ohio legis-
lature, which has occupied year in the
investigation of trade combinations, re-
ports the discovery of any number of
trusts and pools in coal production, oil
school-booke, matches, straw-board,
wooden screws, -four sacks, oordage, oat-
meal and many other articles of trade. It
rejects with some derision the argument
shat these combinations can affect greater
economy IN production than small cap
ital, and are therefore in accord with q
natural law; and recommends legislation
forbidding any union of competing con-
Germs for the purpose of fixing prices
and regulating production. A forfeiture
of corporate charters, the committee
thinks, would provide only partial rem
edy, as it would leave untouched private
concerns to which the corporate property
would doubtless revert in case such action
was taken.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28

At the recent engagement Of Booth and Bar
rett in Boston, party of Harvard College stu
dents undertook to help the tragedians out. They
formed the Roman mob in Julius Caesar, and,
during the speech between Brutus and Cassus,
the word to cheer was given by the stage man
ager. The boys responded with a will, with the
familiar Rail- Rail- Rail- Harvardf' 1t was
the only cheer they knew, but the noble Roman
failed to appreciate it. less patriotic mob was
engaged next night
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
Badly Frozen AT Attire.

WARREN, Pa, Feb. 23.-At fire here
today, which caused loss of $4,000, two
firemen we're severely frozen, one of
whom is not expected to recover.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
was taken.

IF is now substant TALLY assured that the
areation OF four new states-North and
South Dakota, Washington and Montana
will be authorized by the present con
gress The Dakotas and Washington
should have been admitted before. The
exigenCies of partisan politics alone ex-
oluded them until il became apparent
that further exclusion would be impossi-
BILE. Representative Cox deserves great
credit for having refused further to take
a partisan view of the case and for in
uisting that the application of the terri
tories for admission should be considered
entirely on their merits. Congress is as
fully justified in excluding Utah and New
Mexico from admission as states as it is
in admitting the others. Utah is still
dominated by polygamy and New Mexioo
is more Spanish than American. Until
polygamy is torn up by the roots in one
and Americans predominant i'll the other,
both should be compelled to remaia under
territorial governments.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
Jay G0uld's Baked Potatoes.
Philadelphia Times.

Jay Gould is particularly fond of baked
potatoes and says that the simpler his
food is the better it Is for his head. 81
find my time filled up pretty much with
business" he once said, "and l certainly
find l can get along better when my food
is the plainest of the plain. 1 do not
mean to cay that do not like some of
the dishes which [ cannot eat, but FORUM
ately am not sufficiently fond of them
TO make it any sacrifice to give them up.
Your complex dishes of high fiavors are
very good, but they are not business"
Fire in Topeka, Kas., destroyed five
story building belonging to the Cram
Publishing Go. Loss TO stock and build
ing will reacn over a quarter of a million
dollars.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28

very lovely woman was talking politics re-
Gently in Paris, and among her auditors was q
member Of the academy. Am not right, my
dear sir?'' "Ah'' said the non-committal acad-
epician Il cannot look at you and listen to you
af he same time
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28

For Coughs and Throat Disorders Use
Browns BRONCHIAL TPocHEs. -" Have never
changed my mind respecting them, except think
better of that which began thinking well Of
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Sold only in boxes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28

Miss Louisa VAIL, of Milwaukee, has
renOunced the Lutheran faith and Joined
the Jewish church.