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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-24
ghe Daily Eight.

Office No. 4 East Commerce Street.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
Fires and Casualties.

IMMENSE forest fires are raging near
Helena, Montana.
FIRE destroyed block of buildings at
Oakland, Cal, causing loss of about
$4,000.
CUTLER BRoTHKRs, creamery operators
of Southern Minnesota, have failed, with
liabilities amounting to $4,000; assets,
$4,000.
The assignee of Lewis Bros. d Co., of
New York, made statement on Friday
showing liabilities of $2,243,481. with
assets amounting to 1,329,079.
FRIDAY afternoon an explosion of hot
metal in the Homestead Steel Works Of
Carnegie, Phipps l. Co., at Pittsburg, Pa,
resulted in the instant killing of two men
and the serious burning of seven others.
In the Illinois Central yards at Water
loo, Iowa, a stock train was wrecked and
nearly two carloads of cattle killed.
Three train men were injured, but none
fatally.
WEDNESDAY night the match factory
belonging to Walter 81 Dane, at Portland,
Oregon, caught fire, and the building and
contents were almost totally destroyed.
Loss, $4,000; no insurance.
CHARLES SIMNs, parachute jumper, of
Peoria, Ill, had leg broken by striking
against a house in his descent from a
balloon, at county fair in Iowa.
FIVE men were killed and several 9th
ers injured by the explosion of e boiler
II the nail factory of Godcharles d Co.,
at South Towanda, Pa. Two of the i'll
jured will probably die.
gABoUr {, 25O,oO0 feet of lumber was de-
stroyed by fire in the lumber yard of B.
81 J. Godkin, near Tonawanda, n. Y. The
loss, which amounts to $4,000 was only
partly covered by insurance.
The Denver house, at Tacoma, W. T.,
large four-story lodging house,
occupied on the lower floor by merchants,
also the adjoining building, two-story
lodging house, and five or six residences
on each side, were destroyed by fire
Wednesday forenoon. Loss, 100000.
The vestibule train on the Santa Fe
route running between Kansas City and
Chicago, was derailed and thrown down
an embap kment of forty feet. Most of
the passengers were Grand Army veter-
ans, about fifty of whom were SO seri
ously injured that it feared they will die.
COLUMBUS, Ohio. The factory
building occupied by the Columbus
Chair company, the buildings occupied
by the Columbus Bolt works and a large
warehouse in the Ohio pennitentiary
burned Tuesday evening; loss, 800, 900. Or
account of a lack of water and high
wind, it seemed for time that the flames
would devastate the spaCe inside the prison
walls, which was crowded with factory
buildings.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
FATAL ENDING OF A RIOT.
Several Persons Killed in Little Rock, A
kansas Riot

Several Persons Killed in Little Rock, Ar
kansas Riot
LITTLE Rock, Ark. - Meagre news
OF a riot at Jordonville has just been
received. Several persons are said TO
have been shot to death and many are
reported wounded. The list of dead in
cIudes Joseph Jordon, VIM. Newcomb,
Frank Holt and Anderson Nicely. The
exact number of dead and wounded are
not known, but it is thought there are
many.
The riot occurred Sunday among the
negroes near Jordanbrook. For some
time the negroes of that country have
been spending Saturday nights In jubilee
in the woods and last Saturday night
great crowd was present and large
quantity of whisky consumed. At nine
O'Clock quarrel was started be-
tween Joseph Jordon and William
Newcomb and the latter was fatally shot.
A general fight ensued and confusion
prevailed, men firing at each other in
drunken frenzy without knowing whom
they wei e shooting at. 1t was impossible
to secure the names of ell the wound
ed and injured but it is known that
several are fatally hurt while
many are seriously wounded. Joseph
Jordon, Frank Holt and Anderson Neel
are known to have been killed. When
the posse of white meu arrived from
Locksburg the combatants had all scat
tered and little could be learned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
News in Briet.

BUSINESS failures for the week number
2l1, against 206 last week, and 926 in the
corresponding period of 1888.
HISTORIAN BANCROFT is one of the few
living Americans VINO knew Goethe and
Byron.
GENERAL JOHN G. FREMONT is now 70
years old, and his friends say he looks
good for ten or fifteen years more.
HERDS of cattle in the pastures Of Kan
sas and Indian Territory have become
afflicted with Texas fever. Hundreds of
cattle are dyiag N the deids aes7 AzAan.
sas City.
A. G. ARMSTRONG, of Chicago, purchas-
ing agent of the Atohison, Topeka i
Santa Fe railroad, has resigned. His
successor will be VIM. G. Fuller, form erly
of the Erie road.
The WinDebago Indians in Nebraska
do not intend TO eat the bread of idleness.
They have just broken up 500 acres of
land on their reservation and plant ed
fax upon it. Previously they had plant
ed 100 acres of garden vegetables and
1000 acres OF corn.
A CORRESPONDENT remarks: Corporal
James Tanner rarely goes to bed before
ten o'clock in the morning. 1t is unusual
for him to get nights sleep. He is ac-
customed to sit up till thoroughly tired
out, then he is Obliged to lie down.
AT the business meeting of the Grand
Army of the Republic enoampment at
Mil waukee, Dr.. Horace P. Porter, of
Kansas, was chosen Surgeon General, w.
FL. Ohilders, of Kentucky, Chaplain, and
7. j. Lovett, of New Jersey, Senior Vice
Commander.
The Spring Valley Coal Company, of
Spring Valley, ILL.,, discharged their en-
tire general office force for an indefinite
period Wednesday. Every move that is
made is indicative of carrying out the
order of President Scott to close down
the mine for year or six months. The
town is fast becoming deserted.
OTTAWA, Ont--The last steamship ar
irving at Victoria, B. c., from Alaska,
brings word of the abandonment of the
great Bears Nest gold mine, recently
purchased by the duke of Sutherland and
an English syndicate, aud which has
| turned out TO be worthless. The loss to
the syndicate will be nearly $4,000, GOO. II
is said that several other mining proper
ties in Alaska for which high prices have
been paid are likely to prove failures.
NEXT winter a syndicate of Chicago
and Philadelphia fruit dealers will plant
at Pomona, Los Angeles county, the
largest fig orchard in the world. Two
hundred acres will be put into the choio-
est Smyrna and Syracuse figs. The syn
dictate expect to produce dried figs fully
equal to the best i'm ported varieties. The
fig grows in California, from Shasta
to San Diego, and generally produces two
crops year.
A PROFESSOR of the University of Cali
| fornia asserts that he has discovered a
process of tanning leather which viii
make it almost IL destructible. AS the
people of the United States expend
$500, 100000 yearly on shoe leather, this
is highly interesting news; but it is
doubtful if boot and shoe men will re
| joice to know that the product of their
factories can be made to wear indefinite
ly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
An AnecOdOte of Old Hickory,

Many years ago Edmond briggs, who
died recently, was q member of com
mittee sent from New York by the Demo
cratic leaders to get President Jackson to
remove Colonel Swartwout from the New
York Collectorship. Mr.. briggs often re-
lated their experience with Gold Hick-
Dry" They were received by the Gen
eral IN the library. He was seated in a
large arm oh Air, smoking clay pipe
with clay stem about two feet long.
His face like that of the pedagongue in
GoldsnIith's deserted Village" bespoke
the days disaster to the committee, but
chairman resolutely proceeded to state
his case. The president listened patiently
to the end, and then, after brief pause
in which the pipe was kept in vigorous
action, came the reply: Colonel Swart-
wout," said the president, twas a good
soldier (whiff, whiff); he shed his blood
for this country (whiff. whiff); he is q
personal friend of mine, (whiff, whif);
believe him to be perfectly honest man
(whiff, whif); and this with strong en-
phasis) he Will! not be removed from the
post of Collector of the port of New
York (whiff, Whit, whiff). Gentle men, I
shall be happy to continue the oonversa-
ton on any other topic" Of course
there was little more to be said. Colonel
Swartwout remained in office; but was
soon found to be a defaulter in a large
amount.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
The National Capitol.

PRESIDENT HARRISON made the follow
ing appointments at Deer Park: Gen.
James M. Warner, postmaster at Albany,
n. Y, and James M. Bailey, surveyor of
the port of Albany, N. Y.
The Department of Agriculture at
Washington is advised by its European
agent in London that the International
Grain Market, now in session at Vienna,
estimates the European wheat crop to be
lower than was expected.
The Treasury Department has sent out
to United States Shipping Commission
ers and others a circular reciting the
recent decision of an Oregon court in the
case of the ship T. f. Cakes, where the
court upheld the action of the master of
the vessel in docking the seamen for
time when they had mutinously refused
to perform their duty.
The weather during the past week has
been unusually warm and dry through
out the corn belt and the extreme north
west, causing corn to mature rapidly, but
the crop is much in need of rain in some
localities. The hot winds and drouth
have caused some damage to crops in
Dakota, Illinois and Mississippi. Early
corn was much improved by the hot
weather
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
TAKING A w0MAN's ADVICE.

Poor George Was Bound to Be in Het Water
Whatever He Did.
The New Haven Palladium relates this
little incident: 1.-THE other morning
while the circus parade was going up
Elm street near Church, the advance en-
cOuntered countryman with two-seat-
ed carriage. In the rear seat were his
wife Rnd another lady. The wagon was
almost in the center of the street, and the
marshal told him he had better drive up
or down Church street, as he was in the
way and his horse might become fright
ehed. The wife spoke up, saying, "Don't
move, George; here is a good place to see
the parade"
Another moment later an attache on
horseback preceding the elephants gave
warning in a stentorian voice: Look out
for your horses!' The countryman'e
horse grew FESTIVE at the music, and
George had TO aiIght and hold Che horse
by the bits. WheE the elephants neared
him it took two men to hold him, but
when the steam calliope appeared the
operator put on the loud pedal aud the
horse kicked and reared furiously,
although three men volunteered their
services to keep him quiet. Then the
wife remarked: George, l never saw
such man as you are for driving into
dangerous places. 1 think you are trying
to kill u.s. Then George drove away from
tho dangerous place."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
Cable Flashes,

The British Parliament has been pro-
rogued till November 16.
DESPATCH from ST. Petersburg says
that half the town of Dubno was destroy
ed and the loss is enormous.
LoNDoN.-Mrs. Maybrick will shortly
be removed to the convict prison al
Working, in Surrey. Her friends Cal
visit her there once every two months.
PARIs.-GeneraI Boulenger publishes 6
l'st of forty -one candidates who will con-
test in his interest for seats in the Cham
Der of Deputies from The Department OF
the Seine.
LoNDoN.-Mrs. Maybrick was removed
to Working prison Wednesday. She was
compelled to wear the prison garb during
her journey. She looked well.
JAPAN will shortly become entirely in
dependent of other countries as regards
it's coal supply, since vast coal fields have
been recently discovered in the islands OF
Kinslu and Yesso.
LORD JOHN HUBBARD ADDINGToN died
suddenly in London Wednesday night,
aged "a. He was director in the Bank
of England and an author of works on
financial subjects. He had held several
government positions of trust and honor.
GEO. KERR, the champion tennis player
Of ireland, defeated Tom Petit, the
American professional at Newport, r. l.,
before large number of spectators.
PARIs.-The Greek COVER nment has
placed two floating batteries armed with
Krupp guns at the harbor of Spezzia and
torpedoes have been submerged for addi-
tionaI defense.
LONDON. = Advices from Yokohama
state that disastrous storms have recently
occurred in Wakayama. Ten thousand
persons persisted in the foods following
the storms and 10000 were rendered
homeless. The loss of property was
enormous.
ATHENS Chakir Pasha, the governor
of Crete, has Issued proclamation an
nouncing that the Turks have occupied
the whole island for the purpose of re-
storing ocder, and that any person guilty
of resisting the Turkish authorities will
be severely punished.
The number of striking workmen in
London, Eng, has reached 10000. Trade
of all sorts is blocked and men In all lines
of business are constantly joining the
strikers. Shipping is stagnant and many
cargoes of perishable freight are in dan
ger of being wasted. It is believed the
dock companies will yield to the demands
of the employees.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
Criminal.

The northern Wisconsin, train robber
and murderer has been arrested at Re-
public, Mich. His name is Holiday.
The parties to the Cronin murder case
have agreed upon an immediate trial, and
the bailiffs are now at work summoning a
special venire of talesmen from which to
choose jury.
RENO, New The stage from Bidwell
was stopped by highwaymap and Wells,
Fargo il Co.'s treasure box secured. The
robber escaped with his booty. The
amount obtained is not known.
TOPEKA, Information has been
received here that D. B. Russell, treasurer
of school district No. II in Kearney Co.,
Kas., is in default to the amount of
$500.
SHELByvILLE, Ind.-Michael Posse, the
county treasurer, has notified his bonds
men that he is short about SIS 900 and
offered to turn over real estate valued at
$4,000. The shortage was caused by
paying debts contracted before he went
into Office.
ST.. JOSEPH, Mo.-The deputy q. s
marshal on Wednesday arrested afarmer.
named Robinson for disposing of coun
terfeit money. He confessed that be was
one of gang of agents for the counter
feiters raided near Dayton. He stated
$4,000 in counterfeit SO bills been dis
tributed among agents around st. Joe.
Later in the day the deputy arrested two
other persons Implicated. More arrests
are expected TO follow tomorrow.
PosToFFICE INSPECTOR WooD arrested
W. E. Sillenent, general delivery clerk at
the ST. Paul, Mimi, postoffioe since 1877,
Thursday morning. He is charged with
stealing letters addressed to the New
Orleans lottery. He was caught with de-
coy letters in his pocket, and taken be-
fore the United States commissioner,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05

ever know a man who simpered and
giggled like girl who wasn't sneak in
his hearth And, on the contrary, did you
ever know fellow who laughed seuarely
out with good honest roar who wasn't
the prince of good fellows?
A shrill laugh is indicative of deceit,
and deep chuckie proves sincerity and
good nature. By this don't mean thai
a man with tenor voice can't laugh as
though ne was honest or one with bass
voise cover his insincerity with a mere
elbow. It's ring that talks. IF the laugh
has no ring In 1t you can put the fellow
down as a half-hearted cuss, no matter If
his laugh is loud enough to lift the roof
of the auditorium. Stand 20 men up in
row before me and do something TO set
them all laughing, and I'll separate the
good fellows from the Miss Nancies
about as quickly as you could get outside
of beefsteak after years famine.
Seer"
[ said I saw, and made successful dive
for liberty
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
The Grand Prerequisite of Yigor.

The dual operation Of digestion and assimila-
ton is the grand prerequisite Of vigor. To insure
the conversion of food into rich nutritious
blood, 1t Is only necessary to use with perss-
tence and systematically Hostetters Stomach
Bitters. The fountain head of supply in the ami
NAL economy is the stomach To regulate, to
gestive and assimativs processes, should be the
chief aim OF those troubled with deficit Of
stamina. Nervousness, insomnia, feeble appe-
ute-these are usually traceabe to impaired di
gestion. Overcome this and you Of necessity
dismiss its nultifarious, perplexing and har-
assing symptoms. The emaciated can never hope
to gain flesh 50 long as assimilation is imperfect
The Bitters surmounts the only obstacle to an
increase not only OF vigor, but Of bodily sub
stance. Conquer also with the Bitters malaria,
it's effectx
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
THE MODERN MARVEL.

Electricity is rapidly coming to the
front as the controlling motor force OF
the industrial world, as well as occupying
places of pre-eminence in various other
Those who are given to speculative phil
osophy, a decade ago began TO speculate
upon possible substitute for coal and
its products as fuel and lighting material
for future generations when the present
visible supply should be exhausted, as it
had become TN apparent sine qui non to
prevent civilization and industrial insti-
buttons. There has been for years past
a quite general disposition to look toward
electricity, in rather nebulous and IN
defined estimate of its powers and availa-
bility for practical use, as the most prob
able solution of the problem, though
until very recent years the specific meth
DDS of utilizing its recognized force we're
not at all clearly conceived. IIatteriy,
however, and mainly through the inven-
tive genius of one man, Prof. Ellison,
whom Providence seems to have confer
red upon the world at this particular
juncture for that special purpose, many
practical methods have been devised by
which the inconoeivable forces embodied
in the subtle fluid, called electricity, have
been utilized for mans convenience in a
ne a ~
world is looking to this powerful agent
for vast and novel developme nts, without
the power TO even conf the
charscter which those developments may
assume, but only recognizing the i'm
measurable capabilities and possibili-
ties embodied in the name electricity.
And now there has arisen prophet in
remote region of Texas, where, at times,
the rains which in more favored localities
fall alike upon the just ard unjust, for
get to fall upon either for long periods
to the great discomfort and incon-
venienoe of both classes of people. The
above mentioned prophet, by name Prof.
Tracy, who makes pretentions TO being a
scientist, announces with ooldness and
apparent confidence that through the
agency of electricity he will, when his
present series of experiments have Gull
minated, be able to produce rain at Will
even in the most arid deserts. His theory
SO far as he has disclosed it, is that all
rain clouds are created through electrical
force; that the atmosphere, even of the
driest regions and during the most sultry
weather, is heavily charged with vspor-
lied moisture, in a latent state, so TO
speak, las evidenced by the heavy dews
that fall at night, and the fast that under
such conditions pitcher of ice water
will in short time be covered with beads
of moisture, although very little atmos-
phere can come in contact with its sur
face. He proposes to create rain clouds
at will by dischsrging electrical currents
in the air by suitable appliances, which
will produce detonations similar TO thun-
der, but on smaller scale, and thereby
precipitate the latent moisture IL the
form of rain. The scheme may appear
to be extremely chimerical, but with the
wonderful disclosures in philosophical
phenomena which have already been
made, who will dare to pronounce this an
absGrdity?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
A SUBSTITUTEFOR GLASS.
An English Invention Which Permits the
Passagezof Light

IL is impossible to conceive of anything
that could supersede glass in the matter
of transparency, but in respect of brittle
ness and rigidity it is very far from being
perfect material, says the Pail Mall
Gazette. A substitute is now proposed,
which if it lacks from transparency is
free from the defects mentioned. To de-
scribe it briefly it is very fine wire net
ting covered with "a prepared varnish
which permits the light to pass through
as freely as glass of the variety known as
cath edraI. 1t is almost as flexible as a
sheet of canvass and is absolutely air
tight and water tight. DR.. Ford, the in
ventor, has been working at the problem
for years, and after experimenting with
many products he found that he could, by
passing the wire netting through series
OF baths of linseed oil chemically prepared
produce material with the properties of
amber. It is at once tough and elastic,
and can not be broken even by consid-
cradle weight falling upon 1t.
The London company that is working
the patent displayed in the Royal aqueri-
um recently a number of productions in
which the new material is utilized, but
perhaps the most striking of all was the
ones attention was directed to the roof
of the building it would never strike the
visitor that the dome was not covered
with glass, but with the new transparent
material. In their last report the direct
ors of tbs aquarium state that the change
has effected a saving of over e2OO year
in glass and labor, that there is now no
danger of falling glass and that the in
surance rate has been reduced by % per
cent. The material is made in sheets 10
feet by feet, and by the use or varnish
on the overlapping edges they are prac-
tically connected into one great covering.
It is unaffected by heat up TO 230 degrees
and is non-conduotor. The initisl cost
is perhaps greater than cheap glass, but
the new material compares favorably
with the dearer qualities, aud its durabili-
ty must, of course, be taken into consid-
Grafton. coarser material, termed car
boline, is being utilized for the roofs and
walls of soldiers buts, and we are inform
ed that the government has given orders
for its use. Experiments are being made
in garden forcing houses, and if the ex
clusion of the suns rays is no draw
back then the gain in durability will be
very great.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
THE SUSPECTS TRIAL.

Arguments Made for Special Trials for
Cronin's Alleged Murderers.
CHICAGO, Ill.--The Cronin case was re-
sumed Wednesday morning before Judge
Mcconnell in the criminal court with the
hearing of arguments of counsel on the
motions of the defendants CoughIin,
Burke. O'Sullivan and Woodruff for
separate trials, and of Kunze for
an order on the states attorney
compelling him to give him copy
of the evidence before the grand jury on
which he was indicted, and list of the
witnesses who testified against him.
The arguments covered about the same
ground as was covered in the atidavits
on Monday: and were to the general eff
feet that the cases of the various defend
ants in whose behalf the arguments were
made would be preiudiced by trial con-
Jointly With the others.