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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-09-28

then walked over to Benedict and the three
men went into an adjoining room. Here
Reese and Mayer begged Benedict not t. ex-
pose them and offered him twenty five dol
lars as hush money. He Indignantly refused
and going before the assembled gentlemen
duplicated the performance-dupliosted it
first rapidly and then slowly-and showed
Reese up as q fakir to the fall satisfaction Of
all present. At this the pair jumped into
their buggy and drove away without even
leaving date behind.
Next morning Benedict came up from La
Sale and registered at the Clifton House -
| "Chas. D. Benedict, Mind Reader" II vss
too much for Mayer-he became very angry.
Later, Benedict was introduced to Rose, who
has been acting here as sponsor for the pair,
who remarked:
$50 you are the man who thought you
exposed the Professor at La Sale, are ysu?'
apm the man who exposed what the PRO
lessor did at La Salle!"
"But you thousand dollars you DIDN'T"
"Dene.'
They went into the National City Bank
and Rose was drawing his check (phew)
when his hand became cramped and he was
forced to wait. In the interval Mayer ex-
citedly remarked:
"Donr bet that way! Bet him that he
can't do all the tricks that the Professor can
| dol"
But Roses hand was still cramped!
Then Mayer abused Benedict roundly and
threatened TO shave him licked" when he
came out Of the bank. Benedict thereupon
swore out complaint and Mayer was taken
before Weeks for trial. He took change
of venue to Larkin, and after considerable
parley plead gully AMI was fined three doll
lars and costs-$l0.65.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-18
The East and the West.

Brander Matthews tells coed story of
the ethical influence of the east on the
wild AND woody west, says the Washing ton
post. A young Bostonian, reared ben cath
the brow Of Beacon hill and educated at
Harvard, went to Texas and turned cow
boy. He rapidly caught the spirit of the
country and as rapidly shook off the out
ward semblances of tenderfooted eastern
habit. Rough bearded, ieather-clad,
sombrero as wide as the widest, AZ caliber
Colts on his hips, he was wild as the wild
est. Yet within his bosom still pdrned
the fame of Boston culture and refine
ment.
One day he was riding with q stranger
across the prairie. Turning his head
suddenly Che was slightly ahead) he saw
his companion make suspicious motion
toward his hip pocket. Without hesita-
tion he drew his revolver and shot him.
The stranger dropped like dog. The
cowboy dismounted and looked at the
body of his victim.
II wonder if it was really going to shoot
me?" he soliloq used. "I'll see."
Turning the body over he discovered
flask of whiskey protruding from the
pocket.
"Poor fellow!" said he in tone of re-
greet. "rve made mistake. I've killed
an innocent man and gentleman at that.
He wasn't going to shoot nae; he was
going to invite me TO have drink. Well"
he sighed, drawing his sleeve across his
mouth, "the last wishes Of the deceased
shall be respected"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-18
Cable Flashes.

LoNDoN.-The queen has donated $50
to the sufferers by the railroad accident
near Armagh, Ireland, recently.
IT is rumored that Hippolyte and Legi-
time both favor arbitration, with the
United States as mediator.
BUoHAREsr.-A passenger train collided
with freight train near Ciulnita and
fifteen persons were killed and many in
jured.
PANAMA advices state that the steamer
Rapel, belonging to a Valparaiso line,
has been lost, with eleven of her crew,
TWENTY FIVE more bodies have been
taken from the coal pit at st. Etiene,
France, when the explosion occurred last
week.
IT is reported from Port Au Prince
that everything is quiet at Hayti and
that no fighting is going on.
The Dowager Empress Frederick of
Germany enjoys an income from all sour
ces of about $35o,OOO year.
GLAsGow.-The striking riveters in the
the Clyde ship yards have made a com :
promise with their employers, and the
lockout gainst them has been withdrawn
LEEDs.-The corn millers' association
here has made further advance of one
shilling a sack to the price of -four. This
action has been taken on ACCOUNT of bad
reports of the crops in Russia com oined
with decrease in foreign arrivals
In Warasdin, Croatia, a mother of III
years gave away her maiden daughter of
81 TO trainway conductor of 46. The
elder lady of the two was in an ecstacy
of delight at having lived to see her child
married.
VIENNA Four thousand weavers at
Jaegernsdorf have struck work. Al
official proclamation has been issued
warning the strikers against commit ting
excesses.
CAIRo.-The Egyptian troops under
Colonel Wodehouse have occupied Abu-
Simbel Pass, and checked the march of
the dervishes. The dervishes are mass
ing and making preparations to attack
the Egyptians. General Grenfell has
gone to Abu-Simbel.
VIENNA.-Tt is reported here that fifty
Russian officers have passed Braila
Roumania, on their way to Servia.
There are also rumors that the Russian
Government has been senoing material of
war aud pontoons TO REM, in Bessara-
bia, apd to the mouths Of the Danube.
CAIRo.-A dispatch from the scene of
hostilities between the Egyptians and
dervishes states that a force of Egyp-
tians cut off sixty dervishes from the
main body to which they belonged, and
in the fight which followed all the der
wishes thus cut off were killed. Two
hundred and fifty dervish prisoners have
arrived at Shellal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-18
The National Capitol.

AT Washington, Secretary Blaine rises
early. and reads the morning papers and
attends to all his private and a good deal
of public correspondence before lie goes
TO his Office, which he reaches at 10
O'Clock.
The attorney general has appointed
John Wise Stone, of Iowa, now attorney
general of the state, assistant attorney
general, aud authorized him to bring suit
to quiz the title of the Des Moines river
lanos, which have been subjects of
congressional legislation for twenty
years.
AMONG the passengers Oh the French
steamer La Bretagne, which left early
Saturday morning, were the Hon. Hadii
Hassan Ghooiy Khan, Persisn Minister to
the United States, and his Private Sec
retaries Mira Mahmond Khan and Abul
Ali Khan.
The local courts have again laid down
the principle that the fact that soldier
was Mirror at the time OF enlistment,
works sn absolute and immediate dis
charge, no matter what charges may be
preferred against the soldier by the army
authorities. An enlisted man undergo
ing court martial sentence has just been
ordered dismissed from the army by the
courts because he had enlisted as q minor.
The president has made the following
appoint ments: To be Probate Judges in
Utah-Daniel Page, of Utah, in Iron
County; james McGarry, of Utah. of
Otah, in Beaver County; Isaac Burton, of
Utah, in Uintah County; George G. Vlele,
of Utah, in MiIlard County. Thomas H.
Oayenah, of Olympia, W. T., to be Survey
or General of Washington Territory.
Themes &. Foulconer, of Sheridan, Ore
gon, to be agent for the Indians of the
Grande Ronde Agency, vice JohnssB. Nc
elaine, resigned. Bernard Kelly, of EN-
poria, Kas., to be Pension Agent at To-
peka, KAu., vice George W. Click. Thorn
as V. Cooper, to be collector of Customs
for the district of Philadelphia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-18
Peasant Proprietors in Russia.

The peasant proprietors can neither
pay the money owing to the government
for their land nor even the state and
communal taxes, and are logged by hun
dreds for non-payment. In one district
of Novgorod 1,5C0 peasants were thus
condemned in 1887; $50 had already been
logged, when the inspector interceded
for the remainder. Widespread famine
is found over great part of the country
usurer, the bane of peasant proprietors
in all countries, are in possession of the
situation the Koulaks and Jew "Mir-eat-
ers" supply money on mortgage, then
foreclose, and when the land is in their
possession get the work done up for moth
ing as interest. These bondage laborers as
they are called, are in fact slaves, and
are nearly starved, while the small pieces
of land are often reunited into consider
able estates, and their new owners con-
slider they have only rig BITS and no duties.
Meantime, as forced labor if at an end,
and free labor is Of the worst possible
kind, the old land owners can get nothing
done; they have tried to EN- loy machines,
bought by borrowing through the banks,
and are now unable TO repay the money.
The upper class has been ruined, with no
advantage to the peasant.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-18
EulogY ON the Hired Girl.

The time is at hand when the domes-
tic servant shall command her place in
the columns of the daily paper alongside
of the prominent citizen. This is how
an Iowa paper speaks of one who had
moved to another town: "Well done,
thou good and faithful servant! Her
services in this city, covering a period
of many years, were confined to two
families. She was master of her art in
all its branches, and it is said she could
manage large house without fuss, wor-
rying or apparent effort. BY her sup
erior talent she was able to have every
department. running smoothly without
clash or friction, and the mistress of
the house was made to feel
that ease, security ard comfort
which well paid domestics should provide.
For perfect neatness, austere cleanliness
and quiet dignity in her place, this young
woman was model many, even house"
wives, might pattern after. Never a
queen on her throne or belle in the ball
room more becomingly conducted herself,
Or was more perfectly master of tho sit
uation, than was this young girl co be
honored and respected by all who knew
her in our CITY"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-18
A Live Question at thu so.tb

The subject of education, especially the
education of the masses, is everywhere
matter of earnest discussion. Teachers
editors, candidates for Office, preachers,
FARMERS, mechanics, white and black
people, all classes, are discussing the sub
lsct. How widespread this awakening
has been is illustrated by the interest
shown in the subject by the country
press. When a southern country town
weekly, depending for life chiefly on
county advertising, takes an abiding in
terest In matter of general concern, it
is proof that the people are beginning to
be aroused. The south i. beginning to
awake to the perils that lie but partially
concealed In the ignvrant classes, both
white and black, that makes up so large a
part of the population. 1t is time to
awake; there is reason to be ashamed
when the tenth census reports in the
twelve states under consideration ia this
paper 49,, 733 white voters and $50. 9s5
negro voters as ''uH able to write" If in
a union OF states like ours, which binds
Gil INTO one, this alarm should not extend
TO states more fortunate then these twelve
southern states, it would indicate an in
difference to common interests and COM
mon dangers more alarming than ignor-
ance itself. Revelations G. Haygood, D.
D., l.. l.. D., IL Harper's Magazine for
July
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-18
HE WAS CONVINCED.
How Chauncy NJ. Depew Won Vote in the
Last Camnaion

How Chauncy NJ. Depew Won Vote in the
Last Campaign.
Ohauncy Depew spoke one evening
during the last campaign ct town in
the interior of New York State which it
is not necessary to name. Tue next
morning the chairman of the local com
mittee took him in his carriags for a
ride about the place. They had reached
the suburbs and were admiring bit of
scenery when a man wearing a blue shirt
and earring long whip on his shoulder
approached from where he had been
plotting an OK team along the middle of
the street and said:
"You're the man that made the rattlin'
speech up at the hall last night, I
guess?"
Mr.. Depew modestly admitted that he
had INDUCED in some talk at the time
and place specified.
didn't you have what you said writ
out?" went On the man.
"No," replied the orator.
You don't mean to say you made that
all right up as you went along"
eyes"
"Jess hoped right up there, took q
drink of water out Of the pitcher, hit the
table a whack and waded in without
think1ugr
"Well, suppose you might put it that
wayY"
''WeIl, that beats me. You'll excuse me
for stoppin' you, but what L wanted to
say was that your speaoh convinced me,
though L knowed ali the time it was the
peskiest lie that was ever told. I made
up my mind to vote your ticket, but I'd
"a been willin' to bet a peck o. red ap-
pies that no man could stand up and tell
me such blamed convincin' lies without
haviI' 'em writ out. You must "a had an
awful lot o. practice"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-18
SPARKS.
Fires and Casualties.

Four young men took a yacht from
Buffalo and started for Dunkirk. Since
then nothing has been heard of them and
it is supposed they are lost.
Two MIN were killed Monday morning
by the falling of trestle in the power
house OF the Milwaukee avenue cable
railway ct Chicago.
PORTIONS OF the state of New York
were visited by fearful storm on Tues
day, many lives and much property have
been destroyed.
About fifteen persons were killed Ia a
collision at WIlmending, Pa. Half the
number have been recovered.
HALF a block of business buildings at
Fresno, CAL, were burned Friday morn
ing, entailing loss of 100000. The
insurance aggregated 100000.
EDNBURG, Ind. = An incendiary
fire early Saturday morning, destroyed
two livery stables, and several stores and
residences. The losses aggregate $780,
600; with light insurance.
APPLETON, WIs.-Three barns, with
machinery, hay and grain, belonging to
W. B. Clark, burned early Tuesday morn
ing. Loss, $4,000, insurance $1,000
They are thought to have been fired by
| tramps.
81. A. PEARsoNs, an Idaho millionaire
who has been living in Chicago since Nov
ember, last, was drowned in the lake
while bathing off the foot of Thirty first
street Sunday night.
A LOSS of over 100000 has been
caused by fire at Bakersfield, the county
seat of Karn county, Gal, The whole
business portion of the town was de-
stroyed.
| PITTsBURG.-The strikers intimidated 6
number of non union men, who went &c
Homestead Thursday TO work in the
Carnegie steel plant, and nearly all OF
them ran away. ALI Is quiet. No further
attempt has been made to bring nor
| union men to the steel works.
KILBoURNE CITY, Wis.-Emil Plettil
and Gus John, of Chicago, accompanied
| by guide, attem pied to run the dam il
row boat Tuesday morning. Plettie
and John were drowned by the capsizine
of the boat. The guide escaped by swim
ming ashore. The bodies have not beer
| found.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-18
Criminal.

JOHN KELLEY convicted of numbering
Eleanor O'Shea, near Geneva, n. Y, in
1888, was hanged at Canadigua, N. Y,
at noon on Wednesday.
The argument in the case of Martin
Burke, arrested at Winnipeg for comp
licity in the Uronin murder, were concIud-
ed today. and Judge Balm signed an
order for the prisoners extradition.
FRED CoNKLIN, son OF prominent
business man of Adrian, Mich, went west
about four weeks ago, but returned Tues
day night and stole $6,250 from his faith
er's safe. of which he knew the combina-
ton. He was arrested as he was leaving
town.
JUDGE LoNGKNEoKER denies the report
that there is danger of the release of
Martin Burke, the man held at Winni
peg on suspicion of completely in the
murder of Dr.. Cronin, and says that
there is clear and strong case against
him.
ADMIRAL GHERARDI advises the State
Department at Washington, that com
parative quiet reigns in Hayti. LeSi-
time continues to hold Port-au-Prince,
while Hippolyte remains camped with
his army on the outskirts of the city. No
fighting OF any consequence has taken
place since Admiral Gherardi's arrival.
NEAR Oathe, Kan, early tuesday morn
ing John Chambers and John Chesser,
Kansas City BURGLARS, entered the farm
house of Ed. Hyatt. The latter fred
three shots; each bullet Embedding itself
in Chambers anatomy, but the robber
secured the weapon and was about to gre
of HxJ.tT hor t-nI
down with stick. Chambers died a few
hours later, and Chesser was captured.
AT Sommerv1ile, Mass, early Saturday
morning, Augustus Rosenberg shot and
killed Mrs. Smith, a woman with whom he
had been living, and her IA year old son
Thomas. He also shot the two other
children, aged and 5 years respectively,
but their wounds are not fatal. In trying
to escape, the assassin fell from a fence
near the house into a pile of railroad
sleepers ard struck his head on spike,
which fractured his skull and killed him
instantly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-18
Hadn't the Better Part of Valor.

"Sure an Nan was wan Of the best goats,
but her judgment were bad" said Mott
Haven woman, who lived in one of the
small houses founded on a rock. "She
were good mixer an want afeared of
nothing, but her judgment want right
uohow."
"What was the matter with her judg-
ment?" asked the do 5tor.
"She were of that quick temper that
she were never easy unless she were in a
fight wild somethin'. An she had not the
Taste judgment in selectin' the things to be
jumpin' on"
"But her Judgment was poori"
"Quite poor, tank ye, or she would
never attacked the Hoodson river pas
senger train, which don't stop between
Chicagy an the Grand Cintral. 1t were
the last of Nan. She was roight that the
dhirty train had no business to come
poofin' along and disturb her sleepin'
PEACEFUL an harmless loike on the track,
but she niver orter backed off an run for
it an tried to be buttin' the round glass
windy ahead of the engine below where
the smoke is afther coomin' out. It were
Mans good grit but bad judgment again,
for the ingine never stopped tall, but
t'rswed her trough the one side of Mrs.
Obtaining JAMS house an upset the sthove
onto the fur, and when We were after
pick1n' her up she were that dead that
you'd "a fought so see her she had niver
been alive atall. 1t we're all her poor
judgment, as | were tellin's ye, an when
[ gifts enough money to buy me another
its afther her judgment I'll be inquirin'
instead of whether she'll drink dish
water. It's ~aore | know Of goats than I
did vance"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-18
News in Brief.

JEFFERSON DAVIS has received an offer
from a northern publisher TO write a
history of the confederate states.
LEalr1ME is getting desperate in Hayti
He is arming the women and placing them
IN the ranks and doing everything posi-
BILE TO strengthen his army.
DR. JOSEPH PARKER, the famous Londou
preacher, is talking of soon resigning his
passionate of the city temple.
BUFFALO BILL has been engaged by the
French Government to teach one handred
cavalry officsrs ito ride III the American
style.
BUSINESS failures for the week number
209, against POP last week, and 240 in the
corresponding week of 1888.
The OTIS Iron and steel Company, of
Cleveland, has been sold TO an English
syndicate for S4,5O0,000 and its stock
offered for sale on the London market.
In the United States Court for the Dis
trict of Kansas Judge Foster OF Friday
decided that inasmuch as Oklahoma was
uuder the jurisdiction of no court, its
officials have no legal authority to arrest
or inprison offenders of the law.
LA CROSSE. Luthern College Iocat-
ing committee came TO a conclusion Sat-
urday afternoon in favor of st. Paul.
The offer is thirty acres of land for the
site, and $4,000 with 100 acres in differ
ent parts of the city guaranteed to yield
$4,000 within five years.
The run Of salmon in Alaskan waters
this year Is only about third what it was
last. Certain fishing stations which last
year sent 22,OCO cases to market have
packed only 5000 so far this season.
STARTLING SIS it may seem, it is said
there is claim in the patent Office for a
patent on the Lords Prayer, the specif-
cations being that the repetition of the
same rapidly in loud tons of voice"
will cure stammering.
Ar Kansas City during q reception after
the marriage of Miss Virginia Riddle to
Ethelbert Allen, a prominent society man,
Sherif's deputy served the groom with
papers in $4,000 breach of promise suit,
the complainant in which is Laura Y.
Ash6own.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-18

GEORGE G. Min the actor preacher,
formerly of Chicago, is now playing a
profitable Shakspearian season III Aus
tralia, and is in fair way TO make his
fortune. At Melbourne his hox-ofhce
receipts for two weeks of "Hamlet" were
$4,000.
On July L, Gustav Nspia, living q.
Houghton, Mich, was taken sick and went
to see friend. The friend took him to
barn aud then vent on spree forget
ting the sick man. Napia lay unattended
until FRIDAY night when he died of star
walton.
CANTON, O.-Si1 officials of the Cleve-
land, Canton 4 Southern railroad have
been arrested here by Cleveland detee-
tive charged with Systematically robbing
the company. They have confessed their
guilt. The officials here are reticsnt
about the matter, but it is known the
amount lost is quite large. The robbery
has been going on for years.
FEANK G. CARPENTER, the traveller and
newspaper correspondent, is home from
a trip around the world. He is described
as an odd looking chap, as slim as a
fence rail, with somewhat ungainly figure
startling red hair and mustache and
homely face. He Is persistent and
voluminous writer and rapid talker. He
lives IN Washington, where he has de-
lightful home, and makes $4,000 &c
$4,000 year.
RICHMOND, Va.-Mrs. Tyler's remains have
been buried5n Hollywood cemetry oetweer
the graves of her husband ex Presiden
Tyler, and her daughter Mrs. W. II. Spen
Ger. Amony the honorary pail bearers
are Gov. Fitzhugh Lee, Mayor 81. Tyler
Ellyson, Speaker Caldwell, of the house
of representatives and the judges OF the
city courts.
DULUTH was the scene of bloody en-
counter on Saturday between the polio,
| and mob of strikers who were at worl
on the public improvem ents, and who had
| quit work upon the refusal of the con-
tractors to raise their wages from $3.50 tt
$1.75 day. The fighting lasted for hal
an hour, when the rioters were inall,
driven from the streets. One of then
was killed, and a large number of mel
were wounded. Several of the ringlea6
ers have been arrested. Several house
were riddled with bullets and somt
packages of dynamite were found.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-18
PrOper Length of a Mans Legs,

Talking about John Hay, formerly pri-
vate secretary TO President Lincoln, the
New York Graphic tells this new story of
the latter: Stephen &. Douglas, short and
stout, and Owen Lovejoy, of medium size,
were once gossipinR together in Lincoln's
presence upon the proper length of
mans legs. "Now," saio Lovejoy, "Abe's
legs are altogether too long, and yours,
Douglas, think are little short. Let's
ask Ace what he thinks of it," The con-
versation had been carried on with a view
to Lincoln's overhearing it, and they
closed it by saying: "Abe, what do you
about?" Mr.. Lincoln had a far away
look as he sat with one leg twisted around
the other, but he responded to the ques-
ton: "Think of whatf' swell, we're
talking about the proper length of
mans legs. We think yours are too long
and Douglass too short, and we'd like to
know what you think is the proper
length" "Weii," said Mr.. Lincoln, "that's
matter that I've never given much
thought to, so of course 1 may be mis-
taken; but my first impression is that
q mans legs ought to be long enough to
reach his body 70 the QPo-nd"