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, 1889-09-01

The latest report concerning the Union
Pacific is to the effect that the company
proposes to make up another important
system similar to the Oregon Short Line
and Utah Northern, to include the fol
low ing collateral lines: Colorado Central,
Denver and Midland Park, Denver. Mar
hal and Boulder, Greeley, Salt Lake
and Pacific, Georgetown, Breckenridge
and Leadvi.le, and Colorado Central OF
Wyoming. The new company will be
called the Colorado Central railroad com
pany, and will probably also include the
new Union Pacific, Lincoln and Colorado.
, 1889-09-01

Governor Warren. who but recently re-
turned from Yellowstone park, emphat-
cally discredits rumors to the effect that
the military guards of the public pleasure
ground abuse their authority by extorting
money from tourists and c~iecting visitors
who fail to contribute to the nip" fund.
The governor says that on the contrary,
the park superintendent, an army cap
tain, is obliging in the extreme and that
the privates who guard the remarkable
formations are distinguished by courteous
demeanor and soldierly bearing. Com
slant watching is required to encompass
the vandals, but they are usually de-
feated. There is practically no law in the
park. but a movement is on foot to place
it in the jurisdiction Of some court.
, 1889-09-01
O YET RE1CHED.

When. oh when, will the bottom drop
out of the cattle supply OF the country
For over two years past we have heard it
predicted that the bottom had been
reached and statistics brought into play
to prove that the supply must infallibly
decrease. To prove this it was shown
that extraordinary drouths had prevailed
in Texas and several other of the cattle
raising states; hat many farmers in Kan
saS, Iowa, Missouri and other states, who
had gone heavily into the cattle raising
business, when there was great demand
for their cattle on the Western ranges,
had been forced out of the business by
the diminution in prices and the greatly
decreased demand, in proof of which it
was shown last year that these men were
sending in to market their young breed
ing stock. Added to these was the fur
Their fact that the cattle losses in Mon
tana three years q was rs per cent ard
in Wyoming so per cent.
But in face of the extraordinary losses
in cattle, the withdrawal of many small
dealers from the business and the narrow
ing of the foreign market for several
years, the receipts at the Chicago market
for the past month we're 10000, the
greatest ever known in its history. All Of
this goes to show either a miscouccption
of the stock our or the phenomenal
r.cnnarotiyn nnuars of tho hnsinass or
, 1889-09-01

A great amount of political engineer
ing will be done by friends of candidates
to secure for their man the first place on
the ticket, and the best man will proba.
bly, secure the coveted place. Then il
Endorsed by the majority of the people,
the election is assured. Electric Bitters
has been put to the front, its merits passed
upon, has been Endorsed, and unanimous
" given the first place, among remedies
peculiarly adapted to the relief and cure
of all diseases of kidneys, liver and stom'
ach. Electric Bitters, being guaranteed,
is a safe investment. Price SOC. and 81
per bottle p. DR.. w. N. Hunts drug
store,
, 1889-09-01

Job printing at tie Leader Office.
, 1889-09-01
RATES OF ADvEHTIsING.
ISo. r CARROLL EDITOR
CONTENTION.

The constitutional convention will con-
vene in this city tomorrow. Delegates
from abroad have already begin to arrive
hut the majority will not reach here before
the date set for the opening of the pro-
ceedings. 1t Is now thought the session
will occupy anywhere from two weeks to
thirty days. Most of those who come
here from abroad will be anxious to re-
turn to their homes and business as
speedy as possible.
This coupled with the further fact hat
the convention will have before it the
very latest and presumably the best efforts
in the line OF constitution making might
indicate a brief and harmonious session.
If the constitution makers do not usurp
the legislative functions and II there are
not too many experiments tried aud too
many members with crotchets the session
should not last longer than three weeks.
No provision has yet been made to
meet any of the necessary expenses ilci-
cident to the convention. IL is under
eAbhI NhhA Oht ~ u uln lhibko W ~
done Immediately after the organization
will be to appoint a committee on finance
to devise ways and means to raise an ab-
solutely necessary amount fcash. If the
members are so inclined the money will
be raised through personal endorsements
to a loca! bank, the endorsers trusting to
the legislature for reimbursement. There
will probably be but little objection made
to this procedure. the only point involved
being what will be considered absolutely
necessary expenses and the amount of the
same.
1t is TO be hoped hat the people
will have every reason to cordially endorse
the constitution made by the convention.
In the work which the delegates will to-
morrow undertake THE LEADER wishes
tn n God speed.
, 1889-09-01

In addition to the u~nequalled dining car
service between Council Bluffs and Den
yer, the Union Pacific, THE Overland
Route will on Sunday, Aug. Is. and
daily thereafter, run dining cars between
Council Bluffs and Portland, Ore. on
The Overland Flyer" leaving Council
Bluffs at 1855 p. M. Omaha S:l5 p. m.
These cars are models Of excellence, and
the best meals the market affords will be
furnished at IS cents.
, 1889-09-01

WITH a million and a half dollars add.
ed to the public debt during August
Democrats have no reason to shun com
parsons with the present Republican ad
mi~nistration. At the present rate OF
diminution the surplus will be a sick
looking institution at the close of the
Harrison administration.
, 1889-09-01

I ne largest stock of fine brandies. old
whiskies, choice hqueurs and superfine
cigars at George Masten's well known
house, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
streets.
, 1889-09-01

As Will. be observed by this mornings
dispatches THE LEADERS tip of several
weeks ago was a straight one. Willis
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-16
She National CapjeaA

HATTIE BLAINE, youngest daughter of
Secr.taly Blaine, was recently confirmed
at st. Johns Episcopal Church, Washing
ton.
WAsHrNGroN.-The attorney general has
received the resignation of William E.
Purcell, United States attorney for the
district of Dakota.
The United States Government is a
triple trinity of powers and liberties-the
Nation, the State and the Individual
existence; the executive, legislative and
judicial power; civil, religious and intel
lectual liberty.
Or all the war vessels of the Unite
States the largest and most powerful will
be the Maine. She will be 80 feet long,
with breadth of 81 feec, dis placement
of 6,648 tons and a horse power of 5000.
She will have two batteries, and her ar
Inour will BIZ IL inches thick. She will be
very ugly customer for any hostile yes
sci to attack.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER has purchased of
Judge Andrew Wylte, the Iatter's resi-
dence property on Fourteenth street.
fronting Thomas Circle, between Yer
mont avenue and M street, for 100000
The chief will take possession next aut-
umn.
3ss GEN. WILLIAM WARNER, of Missouri, and
ex Gov. Charles Foster, of Ohio, two
members of the commission appointed
by the president to treat with the Sionx
com mission for their lands, met Secre-
tary Noble at the interior department
Monday, and after conference on the
subject, decided to meet at Chicago, May
81, where Gen. Crook, the third member
of the commission, will join them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-16
A HUNDRED YEARS HENCE

1t Is an interesting study suggested by
the centennial celebration to consider
what will be the character of the secoud
celebration, a hundred years heUce. fit
were possible to believe that the progress
of science, of discovery and of invention
rould continue for that period in the
ratio that it developed within the las
fifty years, then there is no Imagination
vivid enough to frame probable picture
of what nIay be the character and CON
dition of the world hundred years from
now. Nearly all the great forces in our
social and business lire to day-the abso-
Lutte necessities of existence, as we have
learned TO look upon tkem-are all the
product OF she last fifty years, excepting
only the steamboat. Railroads, tele-
graphs, telephones, photographs or any
form of sun picture, were as absolutely
unknown fifty years ago as they we're III
the med eval ages. Washington made
his journey FROM Mt. Vernon in coach,
which had been the style of carriage down
Almost from the Phsraohs. There had
been no such inventive genius in all the
years before, that developed since 1880.
Printing, gunpOwder, steam, all did their
work in lame kin d of way hundred
years ago or more, but they can hardly
now be recognized as even kindred TO the
greatest ty pes u the same line which the
last half hundred years have develop d.
It is probably not too extravaganza 70 say
that at the next centennial OF Washing
tons innaug arsl, we shall travel by air
machines; That We shall run over TO Lon
don or Rome as now we ruu down to New
York, ia a few hours, and for only a few
hours stay merely to see a friend; that
we shall have seventy-tve story houses;
that there will be a new legislative APP
portionment, and that Albany merchants
will cease throwing their rubbish on the
streets. These are possibly violent s1g
gestiOns, but since Edison is still alive
sad active, nothing can be impossible.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-16
The Ancient Battering-Rams.

From Ancient and Modern Artillery bv Lieu.
tenant W. R. Hamilton, in st. Nicholas for
April.
They exerted greater power than any
gun or cannon invented up to the year
1850. These battering-rams were probab-
ly as effective in knocking down a wall or
stavipg in the side of ship as the best
modern cannon, but for making breach,
the guns are far superior. Snch was the
solidity and thickness of the walls of
Jerusalem that, Josephus tells us, it took
all of one night for an enormous batter
ingram to dislodge four stones!
Vitruvius has lef. Us the description of
ram weighing 100000 pounds; but
probably the most celebrated of all the
ancient moving tower rams was that con-
structed by Dsmetrius Poliorcetes at the
siege of Rhodes. The base of the tower
was seventy five feet square. The ram
itself was an assembly of large square
beams resting on wheels ID size proper
toned to weight of the structure, and
all riveted together with iron. The fell
Oes of the wheels were three feev thick
and strengthened with il on plates. From
each of tho four angles of the tower
large pillar of wood was carried up to
heigh OF $50 feet, and these pillars were
inclined toward one another. The tower
had three stories, communicated by two
staircases each. Three sides of the ma
chine were plated with iron TO protect
them against fire. In front of each story
there were loo p-holes, screened by leather
| curtains, TO keep out darts, arrows, etc.
Each story was provided with machines
for throwing large stones and darts; and
| in the lower story was the ram itself,
| thirty fathoms long, and fashioned at
| the end into an iron beak, or PROV. The
entire machine was moved forward by
$500 soldiers.
But it can easily be understood that
among so many men some must be more
or less exposed 10 the enemy's darts and
arrows; and SO, to drive the enemy from
the wallis and open places, to break the
roofs of his houses, and otherwise annoy
him, machines were necessary for throw
| ing missiles, from small darts up To huge
| BIO NldeYs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-16
THE POLICE OF RUSSIA.
A Mighty Power Which Supervises Ever
Petty Detail Of tho RnSSiar1fS Life

Mighty Power Which Supervises Every
Petty Detail of the Russians Life.
There is probably no country in the
world where the public power occupies a
wider field. plays more i'm porsant part,
or touches the private personal life of
the citizen at more points than it does in
Russia. Ia a country like England or
the United States, where the people are
the governing power, the functions of
the police are simple and clearly defined,
and are limited, for the most part, to the
prevention or the detepti of crime, and
the maintenance of order in public places.
In Russia, however, where the people are
not the governing power, but hold TO that
power the relation Of an infant ward to
guardian, the police occupy a very
different and much more important posi-
ton.
The theory upon which the govern
ment of Russia proceeds is that the citi-
zen not Only is incapable of taking part
in the management of the affairs IN his
country, his province, Or his district, but
1s Incompetent to manage even the at
fairs of his own household; and that,
from the time he leaves his cradle and
begins the struggle of life down to the
time when his weary gray head Is finally
laid under the sod, he must be guided,
instructed, restrained, depressed, reguiat
ed, fenced in. fenced out, braced up, kept
down, and made to do generally what
somebody else thinks is best for him.
The natural outcome of this paternal
theory of government is the concentra-
ton of all administrative authority
the hands of few high officials andI
enormous extension OF the police poxe.
Matters that in other countries arel 81
to the discretion of the Individual citizen
or to the Judgment of small group OF
citizens, are regulated in Russia by the
minister of the interior through the i'm
perial police. If you are Russian, says
George KEENAN, in the Century, and wish
TO establish newspaper, you must ask
the permission Of the minister Of the il
terror. Ii you wish to open Sunday
school or any other sort of school,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-16
The End of the World,

According to Cardinal Nicolas de Cusa.
this should have occurred In 1904. He
demonstrates il thus: The deluge hap
pened in the thirty fourth jubilee of
fifty years from the creation Ca. M. 1700)
and therefore the end of the world should
occur on the thirty fourth year Of the
Christian era, or A. d. 1904. The four
grace years are added to com pensate for
the blunder of chropolOgists respecting
the first year of grace.
The most popular dates for the end of
the world, or what is practically the same
thing, the millennium, are the following:
1857, Swedenborg; 1886, johann Albrecht
Bengel; 1843, VIM. Miller, of America;
1866, DR.. Ohm Cummings: 1881, Mother
Shlpton. L. was very generally believed
IN France that the end of the world would
happeL in the thous andth year after
Christ; therefore much of the land re-
NAMED uncultivated, and general fam
ine ensueo. Luckily it was not agreed
whether the thousand years should date
from the birth or death Gf Christ, or the
desolation wOlld have been much greater.
Many charters began with these words:
"As the world Is now drawing TO It's
close" Another Hypothesis is this: As
one day with God equals 1000 years
psalm xc., a. and God labored in orea-
lion six days, therefore the world ia TO
labor 5000 years and then TO rest. Ac-
cording TO this theory the end of the
world ought to occur A. M. 5000, or A. D.
1896 (sUpposing the world to have been
create 1904 years before the birth of
CHRISTI. This hypothesis, which is WIDE
ly accepted, is quite safe for another CEN
tUrY at least.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-16

Francisco schools, succeeded in retain
her marriage secret for five years, when
il was revealed by divorce suit.
A GIRL who has been editing a paper at
Lane, Kas., for some time fell sick the
other day and her sister took charge. The
following editorial paragraph from her
trenchent pen is encouraging: "The
people are invited to call at our Office.
We are somewhat older than our sister,
but We are just as pretty."
CHAMBERLAIN, Dak.-The bluffs along
The Missouri are becoming covered with
white prairie schooners and tents of
farmers from Iowa and other eastern
states, who have cast their tents in an
| ticipation OF the speedy opening of the
! Sioux reservation. It Is believed that the
rush to the reservation, when finally open
ed for settlement, will ress Ii ole the ia
nous Oklahoma rush.
LANSING, Mich.-The senate has passed
a bill prohibiting the sale of tobacco to
minors under IL years Of ege, and at
Jackson bill prohibiting the manufac
| ture and sale of cigarettes. Both these
bills passed the house and only require
the sig nature Of the governor to become
| laws.
The stampede for Dakota has com
menced. A good sized caravan of Okla
homa boomers arrived at Pierre today
| fresh from Oklahoma. They had with
them wagons, horses, and plenty of stock
They coRld not get land in Oklahoma
and will remain in Pierre until the Sioux
reservation opens, which it is believed
will be within sixty days, when they will
locate claims. They report large num-
bers of boomers who were crowded out
of Oklahoma headed for Pierre and the
| Sioux reservation.
TUESDAY morning, as Daniel Button
was approaching PacOusset pond, netl
Portland, Me-, large gray eagle sxooped
down and tried to SEIZE HIM rs prey. The
eagle fastened its beak and talons in his
arm, and Button grabbed the birds neck
at the same time yelling loudly for help
A neighbor and his son came to the res
cue, and after severe tus5le, the eagle
was overpowered and taken to Button''
house. The biped measured nearly
feet from tip 70 zip and thirty inches IL
height. 1t was lean and hungry, and evil
IDENTIFY intended to breakfast eff Baton
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-16
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Sir Spencer S.. John, the British
minister Ia Mexico, has returned to Lon
don after an absence of forty-One years
He is one of the lions OF the present
season.
Already great deal of diplomacy and
IL trigne Is said to be on foot in order to
get the pos of poet laureate when Tenny
son dies. The salary is e72 year.
The fact that Henry IrvIng's real name
is lot "Irving" proves tbs absurdity of
the rumor that he was to be knighted by
Queen Victoria. He could only be admit
ted into an order of chivalry by his own
name and under no circumstances under
al alias.
In describing Mr.. Parnel while ia the
witness box, cable CORES pOndent
writes as follow: "His figure was tall
and slender, dressed IN q neatly fitting
suit of black. The face was pale, finely
cut, with delicate but finely moulded
features, a face that would be remarked
anywhere with It's light brown beard,
neatly but not closely trimmed. Many
persons upon a first view of the face
remarked a resemblance to pictures IF
the man of N1zareth, and this resem-
blanc, marked as it IL, was even more
striking before the late recess OF The
courf, when his hair WAS long and beard
struggling.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-16
WORDS OF COL TANNER
He Addresses the ScOtch-TriSh C0nYen-
ton at Columbia. Tenn.
A Cyclone Visits New York and Does
Considerable Damage.
A Stampede in Barnum's Circus and
Several Persons Injured.

COLUMBIA, Tenn, May, 10.-The
Scogch-IrIsh convention today listened
TO number of addresses by prominent
persons, Commissioner of Pensions
Tanner, spoke at some length and in the
course of his speech said: "For long
years | have had one conscientious con-
victlon in my heart which is stronger to-
day than ever before, naeniy, that it is
the bounden duty of this great republic
to see to 1t that no man VINO wore the
blue and laid it off in honor, shall ever
feel the necessity of, or be permitted TO
crawl under the roof OF an slmshouse for
shelter. The wolf of want must in COM
mon decency be driven from the door of
mai--ed Or diseased veterans and of wild
ows and orphans of those who have al
ready laid down their lives. After giving
some statistics showing number of pen
slOners resolving different rates,
from one dollar per month up TO So IS
month, The commissioner said: For
twenty years, and under varying circum-
stances, 1 have plead the canse of my
comrades who wore the blue. For TWEEN
ty years l have been able only to plead,
but now | am thankful that at these
finger tips there rests some power, and
as that power is mine broadly say that
propose just as soon as
possible to call in every one OF the GER
tiicates of pensions, the figures of which
have named, and reissue them on basis
of the truth, that no man ought to be
down ON the pension roll of the Upited
States for less than the miserable pittance
of 81 per week, though l may wiring from
the hearts of some the prayer-God save
the surplus" This and some
other things too numerous to
go into detail about what / propose to
do. if my life be spared and my of1icia.
existence be not cut short. am clearly
of the opinion that I voice the senti-
ments, the dominent sentiment of this
country when 1 unhesitatinglY declare
| that a wise policy will demand that in
treating with those who have claims before
this country, | should cease to hunt fol
technical reasons with which to defeat
those claims and to devote a little of our
time at least to helping those claimant s
who, IN the past, did not hesitate TO help
the country In the hour of dire peril"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-16
TERRIFIC STORM.
New York is Visited With Terrific Wind
Storm, Doing Much Damage.


New YORK, May 1O.-The weather to-
day was intensely hot, the mercury
reaching 80 in the shade. At four O'Clock
In the afternoon clouds began to gather
in the western sky and soon swept on to-
wards Jersey and New York. trs-
mendous gale of wind developed and
much damage was done at Burlington,
NJ. While sweeping over the face of
that state, the gale was blowing so miles
an hour, and whirled up volumes of gray
dust from the soil, which was carried be-
fore the storm. When it at last swooped
down on jersey City, about sunset, the
sky assumed brassy hue and the Jersey
shore was soon lost sight of. The storm
quickly swept over the bay and river ana
was upon this city licking the street,
clear of dust in a moment. The men
women and children on the streets,
blinded by the sand. CROPPED for trees or
oluug to fences, unable and afraid to
move. The tall Tribune and Times
buildings on one side of Park Row veres
not visible from the other side. Wagons
and cars were overturned, street car win
dows broken, and over ali continued the
terrific roar of the cyclonic tem pest.
The storm confined in this city
for nearly half an hour, when
rain began TO fall, the atmosphere
was cleared and the wind GAINED down,
Reports of the damage are pouring in
now. The area covered by the reports
| in southern New York, eastern Pennsyl-
vania, Mary iand, Delaware, Connecticut
and Massachusetts. No deaths are re-
ported in this city, but many painful
casualties.
At Fair Haven, Conn.,, several men
were buried in the wreckage of new
house, while % working outside were
hurled through the air, with fatal result to
some and severe injury to all.
At Point of Rocks, Nd, twenty five
men who we're at work on a railroad trus.
tie over the river at that point were swept
off into the water sixty feet below, and
at Palmyra, Pa, many houses were in
ruins and the inmates are homeless if
alive.
At Williamsport, Pa, Barnum's show
was STAN peeled. There WAS panic of
cages of animals were overturned, an an
telope was killed, and the trumpeting of
the elephants caught under the failing
canvas caused intense fright aud con-
fusion among many of the performers;
men and women were shockingly hurt.
There are many stories of barns wrecked
| by lightning. and great number of ami
mails killed. Several churches in the
| trail of the storm have been ruined.