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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-27
ELECTRIC SPARKS,
Fires and Casualties.

Mrs. HAYES, wife of ex-President, has
been stricken with apople1y.
CONSIDERABLE damage was done by a
severe wind-storm which visited Peru,
Ind.
FIRE which originated in Cushing's
machine shops as Jersey City, n. j.,
caused loss of 100000.
KANSAS has been visited with dread
full storm. UDiontown village of about
600 inhabitants has been entirely des-
troyed.
Two brothers, Brack and Sheridan
Homes, were drowned Sun lay attempting
to ford the Big Canadian river at Cedar
vale Kas.
In hotel, at St. Paul, gasoline stove
exploded and fatally burned Misses Kate
Rynback and Kate Rynson.
SEVENTEEN workmen are entombed in a
mine at Newcastle, New South Wales,
and little hope is entertained of resculng
them alive.
Two MEN engaged at work near
the stone bridge at Joknstown will prob
ably lose their arms by blood poisoning.
The sun blistered them and the fetid
water poisoned them.
ROSTER, Mo.-Two children of Edward
Bachus went fishing early Sunday morn
ing and at night their bones were found
at the mouth of VOLTS Den The child
rem had been killed and eaten by wolves.
The food in the Upper Walnut Valley
in Kansas was very destructive. Mrs.
Graham and her babe were drowned near
Eldorado, and Mr.. o. Beaman persisted
at Cassidy.
TWENTY, building at Nashville, Ark, were
destroyed by fire Wednesday morning,
entailing loss of $4,000, WITH about
$4,000 insurance.
LANCASTER, Pa.-General Sin on Gamer
OIL has been Frustrated at his home at
Donegal Springs with paralysis of the
right arm and side. His condition is criti
cal.
NEAR Steubenville, Ohio, Wednesday
afternoon, mail train, west bound, ON
the Pan Handle Road, was wrecked. Two
postal clerks were killed, the conductor
and a brakeman were fatally hurt, and
half dozen other persons were injured.
A REPORT from Mason City, Iowa, says
that advices received from Western and
Southern Dakota are to the effect that
small grain will be an entire failure
owing 20 continued drought.
The freight depot of the New York
Central Railroad at Buffalo, N. Y, was
burned to the ground Wednesday morn
ing. There was but very little freight
stored there and the damage will not ex-
coed $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-27
Petroleum-Producing Strata.

The interesting fact appears to he now
well established that petroleum-produc
ing strata do not always belong to the
same geological period. Thus, in Ken
lucky and Tennessee the petroleum is
furnished by the lower silurian stratum
that is, by the most ancient stratlfied
rocks; in upper Canada if is found In the
lower Devonian, and In Pennsylvania IN
the upper Devonian. The springs of
western Virginia flow from the upper car
boniferous strata; in Connecticut and
North Carolina coal oil Is found in the
trails; in Colorado and Utah in the ligi-
mites of the cretaceous formation, while
oil producing regions of California be-
long to the tertiary period. 1t is stated
as remarkable fact that most of the de-
posits of the ancient world exist in COM
paratively recent tertiary formations, As,
for instance, those of the oil-im pregnat-
ed sands of Alsace, of the south of France,
and of Abruzzia, and Emilia in Italy.
There are numerous deposits in Gelicla
and the Dunubian provinces similarly
placed, while the strata that contain those
of the Urimee, the Caucasus, and the is
land of Teman are of nearly the same
geological epoch. Another fact stated 10
that the oils coming from the greatest
depth prove to be of the best quality,
those produced from nearer the surface
of the earth seeming to have lost some
of their volatile elements.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-27
Cable Flashes.

BELFAST, ireland, has sent 81, 800 by
cable to the Johnstown sufferers.
LoNDoN-The Montenegrin Govern
ment has demanded satisfaction from
Turkey for the raids on the Albanian from
tier.
Mr.. PARNELb's appeal against the post
ponement of his libel suit against the
London Times has been dismissed with
costs.
GORILLA in the Bombay geological
gardens takes a bar of iron two inches
thick and bends it double in his hand,
with one bite of his teeth he shivers a
mahoSany know into match wood.
DISASTROUS floods have occurred at the
town of Bar LIE Due, in the Department
of Meuse, France. The town is partly
submerged and many houses have been
swept away. Crops and vineyards in the
surrounding country have suffered.
VIENNA.-The striking miners at KIad-
no, Boheplis, have engaged in a riot.
The gehdarms fred on the rioters and
killed two of them and wounded twelve.
Further trouble is feared and three bat,
talions of troops have been sent to the
scene.
A DISPATCH from Belgrade to the Daily
News says: "The Sorvian regents reject
ed the Russian proposals for a military
convention on Austria's demanding an
explanation. The Servian cabinet has
decided not to allow the king to visit
Paris, fearing that his absence might en-
gender trouble"
PARIs.-The Soleil says that Germany
has made a demand upon France for
com pensation for the arrest of an alleged
spy named Lechmer, near Belfort, in the
frontier department of Haut Rhin on
Whitsunday. The French officials de-
clare that the documents found on Lech-
mer justified his arrest.
LoNDoN.-The Economist makes VIC
lent attack upon Mr.. Gladstone on account
of the speeches made by him on his west
ern trip. 1t says they are utterly un-
worthy of his reputation and position that
he has Intentionally substituted obscur
ity for clearness, thus artfully misleading
mems minds. The course pursued by
him, it adds, will cause the keenest apd
most unfeigned regret.
PABIs.-In the Chamber of Deputies
M. Roche moved that the house grant a
credit of $4,000 francs to com plete the
lrOncladS now In course OF construction.
Admirable Kradtz, Minister of Marine,
replied that the sum mentioned would
not be sufficient for the work. He said
that serious effort would be necessary in
order to bring Frances naval strength up
to proper standard. The government,
he said, would soon ask credit of Co.
100000 to 100000 francs for naval i'm
provements.
PRINCESS METTERIoH, of Austria, is re-
ceiving great attention in Paris. She is
the wittiest, most dangerous, brilliant,
sarcastic and fascinating women in
Europe. She does the most eccentric
things-to use a gentle adjectivs-and
society applauds. To her is due the in
PRODUCTION of the circus among people of
leisure. She is fond of smoking a pipe,
and as she increases in years is more and
more dependent on tobacco for consola-
ton. She speaks number of languages
auently, even the profane. Altogether
she is the most picturesque woman in
Europe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-27
AN INTERESTING CRUISE.

Ex-Governor A. P. SwiLeford, late
governor of Alaska, is giving IN the Sun-
day edition of the Detroit Free Press
an account of "The Cruise Of the Thetis
or Ten Thousand Miles along the Coast
and among the Islands of Alaska" 1t is
a captivating account of the governor
journey along the coast of shat vast and
wonderful region. To illustrate the
habits of the natives, whom he found al
Karluk, a fishing station on Kadiak
island, one of the numerous islands along
that wonderful coast, he says: "They are
Unfortunately fond of whisky, the quality
of which they judge by the amount of
ntoxication it will effect, and the nearer
II approaches to hell-fre the better they
like it. They will pay or pawn almost
anything they possess for enough of the
vilest liquor on earth to produce one
good, solid drunk, and when they can not
buy the article direct, they make for
themselves a villainous kind of beer
called 'gnass,' from sugar and -four, and
which is further distilled into a sort OF
whiskey which is warranted to knock g
white man silly at a distance of more
than forty rods. / found some of
them drunk, and on inquiry was told
that there had been a late brewing of
sQnass," and that both the torres sold
them sugar, knowing for what purpose it
was to be used, out only in sufficient
quantity to indulge in an occasional
spree"
Evidently the art of getting drunk is
one which the poor children of Adam
manage to learn and to find the materials
therefor in all conditions of civilization
The governors story will undoubtedly
appear in book form ere long. 1t is q
wonderful report of the resources of thi:
region and the northern sea with its
myriads of bays, islands, it's fish of inf
mite variety, abundance and size, Its
coal mines of camel coal of the best
quality, it's gold mines of inexhaustible
wealth. Few of our people have an ade
quate idea of the extent of our Alaskan
possessions or of the resources there
waiting development.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-27

I thought should tell him of the scene.
l never did. but hope somebody will tell
him now. When Mr.. Blight had finished,
we went upstairs. He carried Whittier
with him, and talked of him to the ladies
as he had talked to us; not, as I said be-
fore critically, but with deep feeling and
real appreciation of what is;best in him.
Nor did it end there. Mrs. Proctor, the
delightful young lady of so, as Mr.. Lowell
called her, was there; alert, fresh, ener-
getic, keen witted, as she always was.
think Whittier was knew to her; not ia
miliar, at any rate. She listend intently.
When company broke up she drove Mr..
Bright home gave HIM a lift is the
phrase here. saw her agsin not long
after, and she told me that he repeated
Whittier to her in the carriage all the
way to Piccadilly, and when they had ar
rived kept her standing minute or 30 IN
front of his door while he finished what
he had in hand.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-27
Criminal.

IT has come to light that Ben Miller,
the forger and jail breaker, committed
suicide, and did not die from exposure.
MARoNEY and Mcdonald, charged with
| being accessories to Cronin's murder,
have been liberated in New York, there
not being evidence enough to hold them.
LINCOLN, Neb.--Mr. and Mrs. j ohm Kea-
witt have been arrested charged with the
murder of their two daughters, near Ores
ham, on Sunday night. They are lodged
| in jail at Seward.
BURGLARS at Lincoln, Neb., Tuesday
night entered the house of M. D. WEIGH,
and secured money, notes, and silverware
aggregating several thousand dollars
They have not been arrested.
| In the trial of Clara Blatz for the muir
der of her lover at st. Paul, the jury,
after being out two days, were unable to
agree and new jury will have to be
Drawn.
WILLIAM E. HOWARD was sentenced at
| New York to nine years and ely ht months
imprisonment at Sing Sing, for compli-
city in the Electric Sugar Refining Com
| pany frauds.
SIX years ia the penitentiary was the
sentence of Cashier Voigt of the defunct
| Farmers and Mechanics bank of Pitts
| burg for embeZzlement.
A BIG pouch of mail matter, which left
the Nashville Post Office on May z, has
disappeared. 1t is impossible to learn
how much money was in the mail. 1t was
destined for large and important terri
tory, and the presumption is that the
pouch contained much valuable matter.
LINCOLN, Neb.-Last Sunday night
Elizabeth and Caroline Leavitt, aged Is
and years Of age, were found at their
home at Gresham. Seward county, with
| their tbroats out from ear to ear. Their
parents were away from home. No clue
to the murderers.
CANTON, Ohio.-Frank Saddle and
Frank Ryan, two young men, who
made two attempts month ago to wreck
the limited vestibule train on the Pitts
burg, Ft. Wayne il Chicago road, pleaded
| guilty today and were sentenced to Is
years in the penitentiary end pay a fine
of $500 each.
PARIS, Texas.-News was received at
| the United States marshaI's Office of a
sharp combat on TIE South Canadian
| IifCi Souuihoy O7pWoCa OoPupt
Marshal Rushing and posse and band of
Greek outlaws who were smuggling whis-
key into the Chickssaw nation. None of
the posse were injured, but it is thought
that the outlaw known as Black Tiger
was killed or badly wounded. One of
them was captured.
! KANSAS CITY.-A bold robbery was
perpetrated Saturday, and resulted in the
loss of $S.615 worth of bonds. A. n.
Waters, an investment broker, was LIE
gotiating the sale of the securities. and
during the conversation with his custom
er laid the bonds on his desk and retired
TO rear room. During his absence a
well-dressed stranger who had been stand
ing outside of the railing was seen by the
clerks to step TO Waters desk and then
leave the Office. On Waters return the
bonds had disappeared. Two detectives
have been working on the case, bat can
get no trace of the thief.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-27
NEARLY LOST A SPONGE
And the Patient Probably Had No Use for 1t

anu the Patient Probably Had No Use for 1t
Whatever.
observation-disclosures Is less excusable in
doctor then in any one else. The fol-
lowing story from the New York Mercury
SHOWS how lady physician came near
losing 65-cent sponge through this very
faliing. The patient was a girl under
treatment Tor tumor in the stomach,
After several months of fruitless medical
treatment the female physician in charge
oecloed TO resort to the knife. Accord
ingly the victim was placed under the
influence of anssthetics, laid ont on q
slab IN the presence OF numerous doctors
aid nurses of the female persuasion and
the carving began. The maiden wa.
opened in scientific style and the tumor
successfully removed, as were also several
large antlseplc sponges which had been
placed IN the abdominal cavity to absorb
the blood during the operation.
Then the ipcision was neatly stitched
with silver wire, the boss surgeon had
rolled down her sleeves and was receiving
congratulations, when a young doctress,
who had taken the precaution to count
the sponges before and after using,
suddenly exclaimed: sob, doctor, you
have left sponge inside the patients
At first the doctor secuted the idea that
she could possibly make such a blunder,
but one of the sponges was missing,
which careful search of the room failed
to discover, thought perhaps it might
have gotlo in the shuttle. Th- stitches
were removed, and sure enough there lay
a sponge as big as a half grown mud
turtle snugly reposing among the Latin
arrangements of the young woman. The
sponge was rescued, and she surgeon was
sewing the girl together again she calmly
remarked: "I'm glad my attention was
called to the matter, as that sponge is
worth sixty-hye centsn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-27
A STRIKE IMMINENT.
Laborers at Johnstown Dissatisfied With the
Scarcity of Food.

Laborers at JOhnstOwn Dissatisfied With the
Scarcity of Food.
JoHNsTowN.-The local committee
presented lists of their wants and
after canvassing the demands the COM
mission authorized the immediate pur-
chase of 500 Chicago ready made houses
on it's account ano also the erection of all
store buildings that may be ask d for by
local merchants. Morgue reports to-day
show twelve bodies recovered. They were
unidentified.
A strike is imminent among the labor
ers employed on the public works here.
Trouble has been brewing for several
days in consequence; not only for q
scarity of the food supply, but of the poor
quality of rations furnished as we'll
rs dissatisfaction with the pay. This
trouble eliminated tonight et g
meeting of the Booth and Finn
men. who are especially
dissatisfied. They appointed commit
tee which waited upon General Hastings
and requested his good offices ID their
behalf. Gen. Hastings promised to
bring the matter to the attention of the
contractors, but told them that was all he
could do. 1t is generally believed that
the matter will end in general strike.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-27
Gigantic Ghost In White.

It is said that ghost has been seen in
ridges of Walker county, Ga, the other
night by some parties returning from
church. 1t appeared in the road as near as
they could guess, 100 yards ahead Of them.
Il was in the shape of human being
when first seen--eyes looked like two great
balls of fire, teeth as white as snow,
hair almost trailing on the ground. As
they neared the object it appeared as a
women dressed, of giant size. The party
became scared, and, but for fear of being
laughed at, weuld have turned and run.
few moments consultation with renewed
energy caused them to advance. Iney
had moved but few steps when the ghost
commenced moving backward, all the
time appearing larger to the frightened
party. 1t moved on about 200 yards,
when very suddenly it appeared to e1-
pIode and throw it's fragments in every
direction resembling the explosion of a
lamp. Every fellow made for his respec-
tive home, scared within an inch of his
life. No explanation of the apparition
has been offered.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-27
Women's Advancement.

The acknowledgements of women is Oh e
immediate purpose announced by the suf-
frege association, but it naturally covers
far wider field in the coming destiny of
the other half of human society.
The great respect and interest mani
Tested in all schemes for women's ad-
vancemept in the country is caught up in
the old world, and nerves progressive
women in rradition-ridden countries to
aspire and labor for their natural rights
as human beings too.
At this moment the French women are
making heroic attempts to enter the
learned professic rs. A few weeks ago a
Brussels woman made application for ad-
mission to the bar, after having taken her
degree in law, and the denial of her ap-
plication by the court stirred up good
deal of discussion in the French journals.
Not long ago Mile Schultze, very attrac-
tive and intelligent young lady, read
thesis before the medical school in Paris
on the practice of medicine by women.
The distinguished DR.. Charnot was called
upon to answer positions, and tried to
cover up his inability to do so by the
rather tame French ruse of compliment
ing her on her beauty.
Even the Gar is unable to head off the
ambition of the Russian woman to excel
in letters and the learned profession, In
spite of his cruel resort of Punishment.
The German women are making great
strides in the professions, in the face of
that widespread prejudice which holds
woman to be the mere ward and servant
of her husband. A bill is now pending
before the French Chambers giving wo
men at the head of business houses the
right TO vote for Judges of the tribunal
of commerce.
Thus does the seed scattered in the land
of the free speech and free mental &C
tivity take root in the old conservative
countries and promise fruits even more
far-reaching in their ultimate effects than
the mere local privilege of casting bal
lot for Smith as against Jones.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-27

is attributed to the cold weather. Corn
is good and clear, but the growth is
slow.
The presioen t has laid down the policy
that democratic postmas.ers shall hold
off sc four years from the time of their
first appointment Heretofore it has
been supposed that they would hold till
the expiration of their commissions, that
is, four years rom the date of confrma-
ton. The period of those who were ap-
pointed in the recess of the senate, and
afterward confirmed and commissioned
will be very much shortened by this de-
cisiOn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-27
HER TERRIBLE CONFESSION.
An Aged Woman Tells How She Murdered + r
Hrnch n.,

An Aged Woman Tells How She Murdered Ter
Husband.
On November 12, 1888, Richard o. Al
len, an aged farmer living five miles
south vest of Washington, Ind. was found
tied to tree near his house with his
throat cut from ear to ear. The death
was thought to be a case of suicide and
no inquiry was made. few days ago,
while laborlng under religious excitement,
Mrs. Charlotte Allen, the 70-year-old
widow of the dead man, con fesssd to two
colored servants that she committed the
crime. she said that she and her hus-
band had trouble as the ownership of the
farm, and IN order 70 settle the dispute
she gave her husband morphine in his tea.
Alien fell asleep in the garden. She then
procured tableknife and rope, and
tied the rope around his body; and max
ing several slashes at his throat, half
severed the head from the neck. She
then dragged the body to tree and tied
it there.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-27
Circumstances the Test of Men-Grant, Lin
coin, Cromwell.
Scribner's Magazine

Ihe nature OF every man Is so myster1-
Gus, so Unreasonable Ind unfathomable,
that what seems TO others the narrowest
mental organization may contain within
itself uneX pected resources. This is the
hidden cause of the invariable appearance
of great men in times of national trial
and disturbance, At such times, quite
unpretending individuals come to the
front by the forces of nature that form
erly lay concealed within them, and they
win fame, perhaps immortal fame, like
Cromwell, Grant, Lincoln, for qualities
that would scarcely have attracted notice
IN common life and in ordinary times.
The fact of such appearances of great
men ought to warn Us all against the pre-
sumption of setting bounds TO the future
of anyone, except in matters where tech
nical excellence is necessity. If man
cannot play the fiddle at thirty years of
age we may safely predict that he will
never become an accom- plished violinist,
but when there is no technical obstacle
the limits cannot be ixed. SCOTT fell in
to novel-writing accidently, and very
trivial circumstance Ia search for fishing
tackle that made him stumble upon the
unfinished manuscript of "Waverly")
caused him to resume it after first
abandonment. George Eliot spent her
time in translating German philosophical
books, not at all suspecting sae existence
of her own gifts as novelist, until Lswes
urged her 80 make experiments. A pos
sible external cause in either of these
cases would have left the gift dormant
forever. If Byron had not appeared
Scott would have remained the first poet,
so that he would not have turned to prose;
for Shelley and Keats counted for hardly
anything in those days, and Wordsworth
was unpopular. If Miss Evans had mar
ried rioh ordinary man the intellectual
side of her nature would have overshadow-
ed the artistic, and she would never have
been anything more than student and
expounder of philosophy.
Unthinking people express an aston
ishment at examples of this kind which
is in itself unreasonable. They think 1t
very surprising that anyone should sue
coed in pursuit for which he has not
been trained, but that never happens.