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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04
CHAPTER Xvu.-A REVELATION.

Queen Nab evidently intended to be
obeyed; and as Toms craze and the chap
lain's narrative was no secret, and found
myself in the presence Of mystery which
l was as anxious to solve as herself, will
ingly complied with her rather peremptory
request.
do you happen to have that document
with you, Tom?'' l asked him.
mo; it is in my locker, aboard the 'D1-
ana
"Well, I have read it so carefully and SO
often that l know it nearly as well as
know 'Lloyd's Register So to begin at
the beginning"
And then told them of the elder Boise
yer finding the tin case at the Azores, and
gave almost as full an account of Mr..
Hare's diary as if I had read it alo>ld. Out
Of consideration for Toms feelings 1 said
no more about his craze than was neces-
sary, only that he was fully persuaded that
he should see the ''Santa Anna" before he
died, and find the treasure which he be-
ieved she contained. This remark con-
Guided my second narrative, to which all
had listened with bated breath.
"Mr. Bolsover has been cherish1ng an u
fusion, am sorry to say" said the queen,
after short silence, which she had obvi-
ously spent in deep thought. HE viii not
see the Santa Anna She persisted more
than a century ago; and as for the gold and
silver she had on board-well, the plates
of which you have Just dined, the goblets
out Of which you have drunk, and part OF
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

E. CUMMINGS 4 Co., leather dealers, of
Boston. have assigned, with liabilities es
timsted at 100000.
FIRE at Brazil, Ind, Monday, caused
loss of $4,000, which was partially COW
cred by insurance.
RING d BRADY's furniture factory eft
East Saginaw, Mich, was burned Fri
day. Loss, $4,000; insurance $4,000.
The foundry and machine shops ofMc-
IntOsh d Hempell, at Pittsbury, Pa, have
been burned. Loss, 100000.
THE rectifying house of the Dodsworth
Distiller company at Cincinnati, Ohio,
was destroyed by fire Monday. The loss
is estimated at from $4,000 to 5000,
with insurance of $12, 500.
A DIVIDEND of 2 per cent. has been de.
clared by the directors of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad, pay
able April 26.
The visible supply of wheat and corn is
bushels. Since the last report wheat de-
creased 94S $50 bushels, while corn in
creased 17,051, 473 bushes.
EARLY Thursday morning the livery and
sale stable of Thompson 4 Springer, at
jacksonville, H., was destroyed by fire.
Over fifty horses and mules were burned.
The loss is estimated at 10000, with an
| insurance ofS26,50
The hyd1ophobis epidemic in Orange
| county, Ind, still continues, and the ter
| rified citizens are slsug htering the CANNES
by dozens. Numerous horses, COWS and
sheep have gone mad, and have either
died or been killed.
BARABoo, Wis, A large frame build
| ing, owned by P. Pratt, was burned
Sunday night. The loss is S2O,O00; in
surance small. B. Tuzzi, a well-known
musician and cigar dealer, one of the
tenants, was stricken with apoplexy, and
died during the progress of the fire.
| B. f. WooD, who lives near Princeton,
KY, sent prescription, which he tJok
| from an old medical book, to Hopkins
vile to have it filled, and after giving 8
dose to each OF his three children, as q
warm medicine, two of them died and it
it thought that the other can not recover.
Two BOYS named Harvey johnson and
John Jones, of Sioux City, Iowa, found q
twelve pound key of powder, and after
making "divvy" repaired to their re-
spective back yards and touched the stuff
eff. johnson lost his sight and piece
of the can cut cash in his side which
exposed his bowels, and Jones was burn.
| ed nearly to death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04

THE president has granted pardon to
F. f. Bickael, convicted in Minnesota OF
abstractlng the funds of the national
bank while acting as messenger. He was
sentenced June s, 1888, to five years i'm
prisonment.
Hon. ROBERT I. LINCOLN, Of Chicago
was nOmin lated by President harrison on
Wednesday as United States Minister to
Great Britain. Other nominations sent
70 the senate we're Murat Halstead, OF
Ohio. Mnisted 20 Germany; Allen Thorn
dyke Rice, of New York, Minister to Rus
sia; Patrick Eagen, of Nebraska, Minis
to Chill; Thomas Ryan, of Kansas Minis
ter to Mexico.
THE Com missioner of the General L an
Office issued an order establishing two
land offices in the Oklahoma territory,
opened INN ediately by the president'e
proclamation. The land office for the
Western district is TO be located az King
fishers State Station and for the Eastern
district at Guthrie.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04
CRIME.

Col. FREQ GRANT has take nthe oath OF
Office as minister to Austria.
ROBERT sIeEL of New York, who i:
charged with pension forgeries has Waiv-
ed further examination, and has heer
held for trial, in default of $15, 900 bail
l.. s. BROWN, an old soldier, who i:
drawing pension, has been arrested al
Minneapolis, Mimi, for manufacturing
counterfeit silver dollars.
W. Fl. HARVEY killed his wife and two
daughters at Guelph, Ontario, yesterday
and afterwards went to Toronto and sent
a note to his son to meet him at hotel
telling the boy to come on certain side
of the street. He was arrested while
the crime is supposed to be insanity
caused by the exposure of his embeZzle-
ment of 81 600 from his employers.
JOHN MORRIS, of WilkeA barre, Pa, who
refused TO put 81 ,255, which he had say
ed, into the bank, and kept the money in
the house, was invited to the house of g
neigh5or named William Standish to
spend the evening, and while he was away
three masked men entered the house
and, after binding and gaggiug Mrs
Morris. stole the money and left. The
wife recognized Stanaish as one of the
robbers.
TeHPEM1NG, Mich.-Mr. Goldsworthy, OF
Hancock, for ten years a trested agent OF
the Standard oil company, has skipped to
Toronto By way of the 500. His short
age is estimated at $4,000. His debts
are even more. He leaves a wife and
family at Hancock almost destitute. II
is supposed that the recent drop in cop
per stocks cost him large sum and has
tened the ex posure.
FRIDAY morning, at Denver, Col, al
unknown well dressed man entered the
office of President Moffat, of the Denver
and Rio Grande railway, and informed
MIN that he had heard of a plot to rob
the First national bank, of which Mr.
Moffat is also president. The latter told
his visitor he was busy, but would see him
few hours later at the bank. The meet
ing took place in the presidents private
Office, the stranger showing a revolver and
telling Moffat that he must have $21, 0OC
or he would kill him and then blow Up
the institution with bottle of nitro
glycerine, which he pulled from his pock
ct. Thus menaced, Mr.. Moffat filed out
a check and had it cashed; and the I'M
known, taking the money, backed out to
the front door, raised his hat to his vic
tim, and disappeared.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04
The Negro in the North.
Atlanta Constitution.

After nearly three-quarters of centu-
ry of freedom the 900 blacks of New
York have relapsed into state of semi
barbarism. Ostraciscd and foroad down
ward by the aptipathy CT their white
neigboors, they form separate oommuni-
ties and go their way without word of
cheer or without helping hand.
The northern negroes are prevented, by
the prejudices of the whites, from learn
ing useful trades. Only the most mental
occupations are open to them. White
men will not work with them. People
treat them coldly and resent their appear
snce in pubic. They may vote; but that
is all. They do not ask for political
recognition. Generations of such treat
ment have made the blacks stupid and
british, and even in their amusements
they exhibit savagery never seen on a
southern plantation.
The southern negroes have never faced
such unfavorable conditions. Their lines
have beer cast in pleasant places. Sur
rounded by their old masters md their
children. they have, since their enamel
patton, leaned upon the tried and tested
friendship Of their white fellow citizens.
Here they have no unkind preiudices to
combat. White men work side by side
with them, and com petition has never yet
led to the race conflicts occasionally re-
ported from the Eastern and Middle
states.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04
Dancing at Eighty-Five.

The island of Nantucket is off the
track of the moderh world. The people
and their customs are very unlike those
in any other part of the world-the "off-
island part" as the Nantucketers are
wont to call it.
Old fashioned customs and habits
prevail. They know but little about the
new-fangled manners and methods of
modern social life. They follow the
beaten paths of a century ago, live sim
pie, thrifty, laborious lives, and furnish
little business for the doctors.
They thrive financially and physically
A visitor at an evening gathering on
the island, not long since, tells how one
lady, aged rinety-one, presided at the
piano, and another, aged eighty-fve,
danced. "And you may take my word
for it," adds the visitor, ''that the dan
cling was sure-enough dancing, if one
might judge from the lady's swapping
eyes, nervous speech and decisive char
acter"
Locality and climate would seem to
have comparatively little effect on
health and longevity if people lived simp-
iy, as nature dictates, and when ailing
built up with natures simple remedies
like Warmers Log Cabin Sarsaparilla.
instead of pulling kown the system by
using poisonous mineral drugs.
People who hasten to the physician
every time they have headache, or ex-
perience any of the minor evidences of
natures sure revolt against disobedience
of her laws, will not be found dancing
at eighty-five. The mineral poisons of
the apothecary lead to early physical
decay.
The long-lived, rugged, Nantucketers,
who enjoy life's pleasures when octo-
genarians, illustrate what the "off-
island" portion of the world may ex-
perience if they live by natures law and
use old fashioned log-cabin remedies of
roots and herbs for the ordinary ills
that flesh is heir to.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04
To be continued.
The New Penal Bin Attacked.

COLOGNE, March 25 The Gsz site, in
commenting on the new penal bill, says
it must refuse to believe that the national
liberals, who, upon the occasion of the
last prolongation of the period of the
operation of the anti socialist law, de-
manded the settlement of the matter by
the com plet ion of the penal code, will
decide to limit popular rights, as pro-
posed in the bill, and especially to render
worse the position OF the press by giving
the government terrible weapon with
which it can attack all the democratic
freeasinigs and altramontane papers.
The Gazette's article has caused much
comment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04
The Sfnmach Qistils Acids

These. if existent in a natural quantity, and
unvitiated by bile, play their part in the func-
tions Of digestion and assimilation. But the ar
tifcial acid resulting from the inability OF the
stomach to convert food received by it into sus-
tenance, Is the producer Of fatulence and heart
burn which are the most harras sing symptoms
of dyspepsia The best carminatiye IS Hostetter
Stomach Bitters. Far more effective is it than
carbonate of soda, magnesia or other alkaline
salts. These invariably weaken the stomach
without PRODUCING permanent benefit. No man
or woman chemically dyspeptic, and conseq lent
Iy nervous can be in possession OF the full meas
IRE of yfgor allowed by nature. Therefore, in
vigorate and regulate the system, and by so doing
protect it from malaria, rheumatism and other
aariaus rnalaGiea
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04
Murdered Her Child.

JACKSON, Mo-, April sheriff Husky, OF
Bollinger county, has placed in jail
Amanda Lasater, charged with murder,
and her husband, Monroe, as accessory.
The husband recently became religious
lunatic, claiming to have received from
God to preach, but first to offer his four
teen months child as a sacrifice. He
made his wife strangle the infant, claim
ing that the Almighty had promised to
resurrect the child on the third day
When Lasater was arrested he had been
carrying the dead child In his arms
for two days.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04
WASHINGTON.

SENATORS Sherman, Dawes. Allison,
Cullom, Hampton, Eustis, Colquitt, and
Ingalls, have been appointed a commit
tee to represent the senate at the centen-
NAL celebration at New York.
IT is stated at Washington that the
German Government has made formal
request for the arrest of Correspondent
Klein and his return to Apia, in order
that he may be tried before the Ameri-
can Consul there for alleged murderons
assault.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04
Had No Plan Outlined

WASHINGTON, March 27-Attorney Gen.
eral Miller said today, in answer TO an in
quiTy on the subject, that he had not out
lined any general plan or policy ie regard
TO marshals and district attorneys ap-
pointed by the last administration. So
far as ne was concerned, each case would
be considered on its own merits. He did
not look On partisanship as very serious
thing in itself, provided the official was
efficient and gentlemanly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04
No Extension of Time will be Granted.

WASH INGToN, March 29.-Secretary
Tracy has finally negatively acted upon
application of the Columbian Iron works
of Baltimore for al extention of time for
ompleting their contract for construc-
ton of the gun boat Petrol. He refers
rhe contractors to congress for relief.
By such an extension the contractor would
be ralieved in part of the forfeitures TO
the government from delay in com plst-
inc the yesgel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04
Four Indictments Against Cashier.

PITTsBURG, March 27.-The grand jury
this afternoon returned true bills against
ex Cashier Voight, of the defunct south
side Farmers and Mechanics bank, on
four indictments. The first indictmen
charges Voight with making false entries
in the books, the second with Dutilating
the books, the third with embezzIing,
being employed as an official, and TIE
fourth with perjury.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04
To Honor the Base BalIist Is.

PHILADELPHIA, March 26.-The initia-
tory steps were taken here today for the
entertainment and reception of the base
ball tourists, during their visit to this
city April IL. Reach and Rogers, of the
Philadelphia base ball club will tender
the reception. The programme is ar
ranged, which includes a drive through
the city ard trip down the Delaware
river to Gloucester, n. j., where a plank
ed shad lunch will be discussed. The
party will return from Gloucester early
il the evening in time to attend the bar
quet to be given at the hotel in honor of
the "Around-the-world" party.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04

RUSSIAN officials have tested and re-
ported favorably upon Russian inven-
ton for applying the revolver principle
to the barrels of Borden rifles. By this
arrangement machine gun is obtained
which will fire 48O shots minute.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04

MORMON Bishop Andrew Cahoon, now
serving a sentence in Salt Lake City eeni-
sentiar, has written letter announcing
that he "has done with Mormonism." We
have expected to see the abandonment of
the church by prominent Mormons be-
fore this. 1t is not possible for any re-
Iigious sect to assume a dishonest posi-
tion and escape the consequences. Either
the promise of the abandonment of po-
lygamy in return for statehood is ipsin-
cere, or else they do not believe that
revelation. The general practice of
polygamous Mormons in taxing the anti
polygamy test oath for voters is also very
demoralizing, as it degrades personal
honor at the diotasion of the church
authorities.
REFINED sugar on the eastern sea board,
whose production is controlled By trust,
mas advanced in price some three fourths
of cent pound on the average within a
few days. The rise may be due to causes
beyond the control of the combined re-
finers and it may not. The chances are
that it is not. The ring has an enormous
ly inflated capital on which to make re-
turns, its certificates are now actively
bought and sold in the markets, and it has
complete control of production and prices
It is the best established trust in the field
aside from the Standard.On Company.
The people must pay the increased prices
and the millions of surplus profits yielded
trusting solely in the honor of the ring
not to extort too much. They are wholly
Mt its mercy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04

The Ohio Legislature, which started
out TO reform the railroads with about a
dozen two-cent fare bills, has found the
corporations too powerful. The last of
the measures has been buried through the
Influences of the lobby.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04

BALLOT reform is meeting with much
favor in the Missouri Legislature. A bill
comprising the essential features of the
Australian system has been favorably re-
ported to the senate, and will probably be
adopted by both branches,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04

The catch of seals this year has been
so enormous that the-e is grave fear for
the welfare of the purely American ami
NAL whose perfume has made it wide
reputation. Two hundred thousand
skins have already reached st. Johns, and
the take of the year is expected to reach
Zoo OOO
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04
Omen For Homestead Entry,

WASHINGTON, March 2S.-It is said at
The int erior department that the presi-
dents proclamation. issued yesterday,
will throw open to homestead entry about
100000 &C
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04

The reL srted agreement between the
Northern Pacific and Wisconsin Central
railroads is neither a lease nor consOli-
dation, but simply traffic arrangement,
whereby the cars of the former company
can be run through Chicago over the
tracks of the latter. This will result in
the diversion of the entire through traffic
If the Northern Pacific IfIou the other
northwestern lines centering in Chicago
to the Wisconsin Central. The latter
possessed the bulk of trade before, but
now it gets the whole by giving to the
Northern Pacific Chicago terminus
which that transcontin entail line has
heretofore lacked.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04

TEE New York Sun says that laws in
tended to check the use of tobacco by
children are we'll meant, but Intellectual
and that "only the establishment of pub
lie sand the multiplication Of private
spankeries" will accomplish anything
The shingIe is a noble instrument, which
narries conviction with it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04

The railroads have got into the Mime
sofa Legislature on questions of addition
al privileges, and the lobby is swarming
with men of money. One senator claims
to have been offered $4,000 to absent
himself and lose his vote on certain
bill, and it is charged that some mem
bers were actually paid $4,000 for their
votes. Senator Pope declared in the de-
bate of last week that the question seem
ed to him TO be mot are there any who
sell their votes, but are there any here
who do not sell their votes"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04

LAST st. Patrick's day, says Chauncsy
NJ. Depew, we adopted a new signal on
the trains of the New York Central road
by putting two green lanterns on the end
of each train. 1t was an unconscious
tribute TO st. Patrick not intended by the
management. But as train after train
went out of the depot young Ireland in
the yard stopped work, ct our expense,
and gazed. At last the son of Erin found
an explanation. He said: 'I'll tell you
what it il, boys. The boss is putting the
flag of Ireland On every train. He's
going to run for president"
THERE was never so great interest in
the industrial renaissance of the south,
as is now shown, and there is every 1ndl-
cation that flood of immigration and
vast money investments will result. The
national Importance of this movement
cannot be exaggerated, as from it is likely
TO come the solution of many of the seri
Gus problems which are now exercising
the publioists of the United States. There
is no cure for race jealousies and ira
ditional enmities, so prompt and com
plete as is general prosperity, which
creates a common interest in the mainte-
nance of harmony.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04
CHAPTER xvIH.-DENzIL FAME.

Learned much about the queer race
from the Santa Anna's' log-books and
the other books to which Mr.. Field, by his
mistress command, gave me access; by
reading between the lines, by conversation
with that gentleman and with others, and
from my own observation, l learned even
more. The gist of this Information / pro-
pose to embody in the present chapter, for
it is essential, not only to right under
standing of the people among whom
found myself, but of the events that af-
terward came to pass, as also of my own
personal narrative, which 1 shall presently
resume.
1t will be remembered that when Mr..
Hare, the chaplain, threw his diary into
the sea, he thought he was like to die, and
shat his companions would not long out
live him. As the reader already knows,
the anticipations were not realized. Mr..
Hare lived good deal longer than he e1-
pected, and only proportion of the ships
company-the sick, the wounded, and
nearly all the Spanish prisoners-suc-
cumbed The fttest survived, In fact; but
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-04

SOME of the papers have been making
q great outcry against the green postage
stamp, but the color of the United
States postage stamps is less objection
able than their form. They are all I'M
necessarily large. The small square
stamps of England and France are apret-
tier and more convenient. If Mr.. Wanna
maker would give us something on this
model he would gain the appreciation es-
pe:ially OF womankind. The fashionable
handwriting of the period leaves no space
on the envelop for Washington's portrait
at full length.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-01-17

The cry for a free ballot and
fair count should and will be kept
up until every State in the Union
enacts laws to carry out that idea.
The new law which goes into ef-
feet in Massachusetts this year, is
a good start in the direction of re-
form. 1t is the system in use in
Australia and provides that the
State print all the ballots for State
offices and the cities and towns
for municipal and town office, and
the names of all the candidates be
on one ballot. The ballots are
given to voters by the precinct
officers. The voter takes his bal
lot into private room and marks
the names which he wants to vote
for. He will be fined if he shows
his marked ballot to any one, and
a fine is levied on a person who
attempts to find out for whom a
vote is cast.