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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-07
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LANCASTER.

Doctor +. f.. STRONG. Lancaster. Wis
consin. Phye.ciah and Surgeon. ONCE over
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Chnroh Directory.

HuaA SocGerY. Meets 1T and 30 Tues
days il each month ia Dr. j Reeds office ut
1.3D p. III.
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Doctor "A Il BARBER, Lancaster, Wis.
ONCE in the jon ~ block. Hours 10 a. m.
to p. m,
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RATES or SUBSCRIPTION
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HofTnung Lodge, meets every Friday, al
IA in Odd Fellows Han. Maple street.
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Abstract Office -JoHs CARTHFw (sutces-
soI 10 Book Il ScLreIEtr). Real Estate, Abstracts
OF Title and Insurance Lancaster Wis.
Gtf
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Cary cot NcfL Meets st Tue day IN each
Month ID ~. City Clcrss Office over state
Bank
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Toae1x Po.r. 80. ~, 6 \. X. Meets ever
.ee1nd aud folrfn Sttgrtly NIGHTS OF eaen mort
On Btxferts Bipck.
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t'frf i5RKARt Court House Open WedLes-
ing.
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FIDELITY LopGE A. q. y. " Meet lrst ap
bird Mondays of each north in haHter
Block At Z 30 D IA.
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tamDafl o o. r. meets LET and 81 MONDAY
in each month, IT 1890 r IN. in Old Feilow7
~ u, Mapla street.
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nyhe's oesn4 aousa. Corner Madison IA
Cherry STIR cts.
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MISSISSIPPI NALLgY I.oD6s !. - r. Met
ev, ~ Wednesday al s.;Gp N. in Odd Feilo'
Ha Maple street
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srARof tn West Eneampment NO. ~
III 1st ard ,d Mondays in each month, AT
p. n. in cd Fellow, Halt
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SYGvAs rAMp. NJ w. ~ 4 Meets II and ~
Fndays 81 eieh n Dath IN Baxter bio'A a.
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&R.gr cnAprEa. ROYAL ARCH MAsoss. Reg.
mar convention second and fourth Tuesday OF
ea i mont ID :. .. IN. iii their Hall IN the
Sh )waitcrl uldhg.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-06
Cable Flashes

ENORMOUS deposits of copper have been
found in the State of Ohiapa, near the
City of Mexico.
WORD from London has been received
to the effect that the assembly of the
island of Crete has adopted resolutions
favoring the annexation of Greece.
ALL members of the committee ap-
lointed to represent the striking miners
at Bohemia, have been arrested and their
papers seized.
IT is said that the French government
has decided to interfere in the Haytian
civil war, and that Secretary Blaine will
oppose such a violation of the Monroe
doctrine.
storms at Huejutla Gave, has caused the
river to inundate that town, drowning
many persons and cattle, washing away
many houses and destroying crops.
A HURRICANE at Sydney, N. s. W., has
prevailed for the past four days, the
railroad traffic has has been suspended,
many land slides have occurred and q
number of lives lost.
LHE Land League books, about which
so much have been made by the London
Times, has been produced before the Par
nell Commission by Mr.. Parne ll's counsel.
The Commission will adjourn on Friday
until June Is.
OTTAWA, Ont.-Reports received here
state that the Mormon influx into the
Northwest continues. Though mounted
police are in the vicinity of Tees Greek,
no proof has been obtained that the new
arrivals, who already form considerable
colony, are given to the practice of polyg-
amy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-06

THE three electrical machines with
which the State of New York will execute
the murderers will cost So, 100. They will
do their work very expeditiously, mas
much as the death stroke is administered
in the 150th part of a second, too soon
for a man to know what killed him or to
feel any pain. current of 1900 volts
VIII be used, which is five times as many
as are required And although it takes
only the 15Oth part of second for the
current to kill a man, it will be kept on
from fifteen to thirty seconds, to do the
work absolutely beyond peradventure and
TO prevent reflex action, which follows the
rigidity resulting from first application
of the electric current. Nobody, of course,
can tell from their own experience which
is the more painful, death on the gallows
or in electric chair; but if science is good
for anything - cannot be wrong in assert
ing that such :. death as this by electric
ity is painless.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-06
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
Fires and Casualties.

RoBT. MCLEOD, dealer in engineers and
mschinists supplies at Chicago, assigned
with liabilities of $4,000.
THE disaster at Johnstown Penn, is
the most appalling ever known On this
continent.
The rains have caused a flood at
Charleston, w. Va. Owing to the de-
struction of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad bridge, over Cabin Creek, timber,
lumber, and ties, valued at over $1,000
600, were swept away.
The firm of G. S. Wormer i Sons,
machinery commission men, doing bust
ness in Chicago, st. Louis AMI Detroit,
assigned. The liabilities OF the Chicago
branch are $57, 900; assets, $12, 140.
INDA1NAPoLIs.-The American Starch
Manufacturing company, located at Col
umbus, has made an assignment for the
benefit of creditors. Liabilities are stated
at 100000 which are covered by assets.
Two freight trains on the Housatonic
Road collided early Tuesday morning
near Bridgeport, CT. Two train hands
were killed outright and two others ser
iously injured. Both engines and trains
were totally wrecked.
LIMA, GA south-bound passenger
train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton IL Day
ton road, was wrecked at Perrysburg
Thursday morning by an open switch
Several passengers were slightly bruised
and cut, but no one was seriously in
jured.
In De Sofa Parish, La, Wednesday,
the wind blew down large tree which fell
on the cabin of Joe Rafael, crushing it
Raffael's wife and four children were in
stantly killed, and the only other child
was slightly wounded. Rafael himself
escaped uninjured.
DANvILLE, Va,-A terrible accident oc-
Cured here on Thursday. j. G. Penn
was building large brick tobacco fac
tory nearly two hundred feet long and
six stories high. The walls had been com
pleted and the carpenters were at work
on it. The wind was blowing hard and
on Thursday afternoon the entire build
ing came down with a crash. Robert
Hooper and D. N. Collins were killed
Henry Oaks will die and six others are
badly injured. Several men were buried
in the ruins and considerable time elapsed
before they were extricated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-06
News in Brief.

ALL the ore handlers at Marquette,
Mich, are on 9 strike for higher wages.
WALT WHITMAN, the poet, celebrated his
10th birthday, Friday, in his home at Cam
den, n. j.
AN English syndicate has recently paid
81, 100000 for 100000 acres of yellow pine
land, thirty-six miles of railroad, and four
saw mills and three planning mills, in
Baldwin county, Ala, and Escambia
county, Fla,
THERE are more paper mills running
more machines in the United States than
in any other country in the world. Ger
many has nearly as many, but no other
country has half as many.
AN English syndicate has purchased
the largest brewery in Detroit for s. ,000,-
600. Edward w. Voigt, from whom it is
purchased, will act as manager.
MILwAUKEE.-N News reached here Mon
day afternoon from Oak Greek, twelve
miles from Milwaukee, that big flow of
natur al gas was struck there to day. The
flow is sufficient to blow stones, sticks and
mud to an altitude of 200 feet.
AN unknown woman about % years of
age, richly dressed, while walking in ap
aristocratic part of Wichita, Kan, was
seized by two men, bound and gagged,
and taken away in closed carriage.
Nothing further has been heard of her.
The presence of the state guards at
Braidwood, ILL.,, has had the salutary eff
feet of depressing any attempts at inter
ference on the part of the Italian strikers
at the mines, and everything is quiet at
the scene of the late disturbance. It is
not believed that any violence will be Of
fered now, even when the new hands pro-
coed to work in the shaft.
PROMINENT citizen of Parsans, Kas.,
determined TO sup with party of friends
against the will of his wife. He was re-
solved that he would, and she that ne
should not 20. He did not 60. His
frieuds missed him and found him ana
bis wife sitting in their chairs fast asleep.
He had given her an opiate that he might
slip away, and she had given him one
that he might not.
OooNTo, Wis.-The frosts of Tuesday
night did great damage to fruits of all
kinds, especially to apples, strawberries
and blue berries. The frequent rains we
have had for the past week had thorough
ly soaked the ground, and therefore the
fir, ST did more damage than it would
have done if it were dry.
DETROIT, Mich.-The heavy fall OF snow
for this season of the year is reported
from several parts of tbs state. At
SchooIcraft the snow is four inches deep,
while at Portland and Flint the average
depth is two inches, but owing to the
heavy wind it has drifted to much great
CT depth. Damage to crops is very great.
BARABoo, Wis.-The hardest frost of
the prevailing cold spell fell here We'd
nesday night, and reports from different
sections show that the corn and grain
crop is entirely ruined. The tender vege-
tation was all cut down, and in some local
tiles ice formed one-eighth of an inch
thick.
ASHLAND, Wis.-The Ashland Press,
which has been run as a weekly news
paper by ex-Lieut. Governor Fifeld, for
seventeen years, has been sold to J. ID.
Chapple, who will assume charge to-mor-
row. Chapple is said to be financially
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-06

In the current Fortnightly Review there
is a stirring article by Gen. Wolsely on
the value and pleasures of soldiers life,
which contains these pregnant sentences:
ssThe mad and reckless longing for
wealth at any price, and for the luxury
wealth can purchase, is eating away the
manly heart of the English nation. 1t
has become religion with it's apostles
and its writers, aye, even with It's poets.
A specious rhetoric tries to blind men to
the effeminancy its teaching engenders
but seeks to hide. It derides the lessons
which the history of the rise and fall of
the great nations of antiquity conveys.
It's one great commandment is, BE
rich.'"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-06
Criminal.

THE jury in the case of John Bird,
charged with murder at Prairie du CHEN,
Wis.,, returned verdict Saturday of muir
der in the first degree. A motion for
stay of sentence and new trial was
made by his attorney.
SOMERSET, Pa.-The jury in the case Of
the McCleIlandtown bandits charged with
torturing an old man named Yoder and
family, returned a verdict of guilty,
against Louis Wasker apd two Sullivans.
The prisoners were remanded to jail for
sentance.
FRANK BEAN, 14-year-old boy living
near Van Horne, Iowa, quarreled with a
neighbours wife a week ago. She attack
him with pitchfork and he knocked her
down. Tuesday night White Caps 'caH-
ed on" him at his home. He met them at
the head of the stairs, and, one after an
other, knocked six down with an iron bar.
The rest left, taking their wounded COM
panions with them.
NEBRASKA CRY, Neb.-Ben Hayden, the
murderer Of Richard Branhall, at Red
Gap, Iowa, seven years ago, has been
captured bere. He was found living in a
hidden cave in the river bank. He shot
Branhall during a quarrel and then
buried an axe in his brain He also shot
Mrs. Branhall and escaped until captured
Thursday.
IT is reported that band of masked
men attacked preacher named Nelson
at Tuscola, ILL.,, with the evident inten-
t1on of either killing him or giving him
a sound beating. He escaped and took
the first train out of town. Nelson is
believed to be Mormon missionary and
has broken up many families by Undue
ing people to join the church and desert
their families.
AT 2 O'Clock Mondav morning a mob
of masked men entered the jail at Port
Huron, Mich, took out mulatto named
Martin and hanged him to bridge, sfCer
dragging him through the streets with a
rope around his neck. Martin was await
ing trial for cruel and villainous assault
committed by him two weeks ago on the
wife of a weil-to-do farmer living in the
neighborhood. His victim is not expect
ed to live.
ERIE, Pa.-Erie has loLg been infested
with gangsof most persistent 1and sue
cessful car robbers. The latest exploit of
the thieves is the breaking into and rob
bling of twenty-one freight cars of the
Pennsylvania company that came here
over the Philadelphia d Erie line Friday
night. Valuable property to a large
amount is reported lost, but no exact
figures are given. This is said by the
railroad officials to be the greatest steal
of the kind on record.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-06

backed by syndicate of local repubii-
cans. The Press has also heene published
as an afternoon daily for fifteen months.
Fifeld will retire from active newspaper
work.
IT was long thought that blood oranges
were produced by grating an orange
tree with pomagranite slip, bat it is
now said that there is not the slightest
foundation for this belief. The blood
orange, which is merely a variety of the
sweet orange obtained by cultivation, was
first raised by the Spanish gardeners in
the Philippine Islands. When it was
first seen in Europe it created a sensation
among the superstitious, who saw all
sorts of disasters foretold by the bloody
frHit. In the last century blood orange
trees brought exceedingly large prices.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-06
The National Capitol.

WAsH1NGToN.-Dorus M. Fox, of Des
Moines, Iowa, has been appointed by the
president this evening to be register of
the land Office at Des Moines.
ADJT. GEN. DRUM has been formally re-
tired from active service in the regular
army and the assistant adiutant general
will ill the position until another ap-
pointment.
The resident has appointed John B.
Cotton, of Lewiston, Me-, as assistant
attorney general, vice Robert A. Howard,
of Arkansas, resigned. He will have
charge of all government business before
the court of claims.
The Presidents recognition of Malone
as the boss spokesman in Virginia has
created a great commotion in the anti
Malone camp. They have sent delega-
tio1 to the president with their griev-
ahces.
ORLow W. CHAPMAN, of New York, has
been appointed by the President as So
licitor General, and John B. Cotton, of
Lewiston, Me-, has received the appoint
ment of Assistant Solicitor General.
The president has sent a telegram to
the mayor of Johnstown, Pa, expressing
his sympathy for the people of that city
in their recent calamity and saying that
the secretary of war is considering means
for their relief. He also made contri :
button to the relief fund.
A CERTIFICATE for pension has been
granted to Phillip Flood, formerly
a private in Company E, 42d Ohio
Vol. Inf. The amount of arrears al
lowed by the pension Office in his case
is $15,2S9, his disability dating back
to November IA, 1862. This is the largest
first payment on record in the pension
Office.
WASHINGTON. d. c., gentleman
named II. G. Dodge, of Bar Harbor, Me-,
while waiting in Halford's room for a
chance to see the president Thursday was
taken sick and fell to the floor il faint.
Assistance was rendered him and when
sufficiently recovered he was removed to
his rooms. It is understood he left a
sick bed to GO to the White House, and
when informed the president was too
much engaged to grant him an interview
to, day, the shock was SO great that he
fell in fit.
WASHINGTON advices credit Mr.. Blaine
with al intention to strictly enforce
American rights in Behring Sea this sun-
mer. The contention is made that the
United States acquired supreme rights
in the seal fisheries by the purchase of
Alaska, and should England persist in
protecting with her warships the Canadi-
an fishermen poaching on these preserves,
grave international complications may
result.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-06
Yesterdays DISPATCHES CONDENSED.

Adjt. Gen. Drum was formally retired
from active service in the regular army
and the assistant adjutant general Will
FIJI the position until another appoint
ment.
An unknown woman about % years of
age, richly dressed, while walking in an
aristocratic part of Wichita, Kan, was
seized by two men, bound and gagged,
and taken away in a closed carriage.
Nothing further has been heard of her.
The light house keeper at Point Peter
light house, OHt., reports that three
lumber barques are ashore and are rap
idly going to pieces. 1t is feared the
crew will be lost. Assistance is asked
from the life saving crew at Wilmington.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-06
To be continued
He Kicked Thrice.
New York Sun.

eyes, we met with all sorts of people
here" answered the railroad conductor,
as he sat down in the smoker after MAX
ing his rounds. cit is great place in
which to study human nature"
aren't there good many kickers
among travelersS"
"Pienty of them. I could have a fight
every hour in the day if l wanted 60 talk
back. There is one in the third sect
ahead now. He lives at B, and he
never comes or goes without trying to
KICK up row."
"He seems quiet enough"
"But he only seems. I'm expecting
every inmate to hear his war-whoop. 1t
lie Just an hours run to B, and I'll
bet he makes three kicks in that time"
"Tll GO you box of ciga
"Done, old felloww
They were shaking hands on it when
the man rose up and went TO the water
cooler. He took two or three sips of
wafer and walked back to the conductor
and said:
"When you get ready to clean the drugs
and chemicals out of that cooler please
let me know. Perhaps can bay ton
of coppers at wholesale figures"
"That's one" said the conductor, as the
kicker took his seat.
"The train stopped and another round
was made, and the official had scarcely
taken his seat when the kicker came over
and said:
IF there is a window in this coach
which can be raised [ wish you would
label it for mel"
"rhat's two," whispered the conductor,
land we've got sixteen miles to go yet"
The kicker sat down to his newspaper,
and he was 80 quiet for time that the
drummer began to have hopes Eight
ten-twelve miles rooled behind the train,
and he seemed deeply interested In an
article, when he suddenly bobbed up and
came over to the conduct
sI'Il bet five to one there are teas in
this coach! I've just been bitten by
something mighty like one, and Pm going
to send in a complaint to headquarters"
care you eatis6ed?" asked the conduc-
tor after the kicker had taken mis- seat,
give got to be. And that ID his usual
practice, is it?
'Oh, he's let me off light today"
sWell, it's worth box of cigars to see
into human nature in this way" said the
drummer as the train drew up at R.
The kicker and the conductor got off
together, and the forme- softly queried:
"Was it three kicks, TomS"
eyes"
Sand the bet?"
A box of cigars"
"All right. Bring my half down to-
night. I'll be going up again tomorrow,
and you see if you can't make it six kicks
and two boxesf"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-06
Z CORRUPT POLITICAL METHODS.
Madison DemOprat


Senator Edmunds contributes an in
teresting article to the June number of
the Forum, one of the best magazines of
the day, upon the subject of corrupt po-
litical methods. He expresses the be-
lief that large sum "was spent for pur-
poses which both the laws and ger eral
moral sense of the nation condemn" He
think that these things should
rouse lie great body of citizens, to what
ever party they may belong, to more
earnest study of the causes that lead to
such events, and more earnest and per-
sistent efforts to eradicate them" He
admits that in the close and doubtful
states there Is apurohasable element,
not embarrassed with the possession of
sny particular principles" that this
element can be purchased and that the
election may and sometimes does turn on
the purchased vote of this class. He
thinks that "the corruption of the fran
chise can much more largely be repress-
DID," The methods he suggests are SINH
lar TO those which the DEMOCRAT has sug-
gested, as far as they 60. They are:
/. Improved registration laws, administered
by intelligent, reputable and responsible men
taken from all parties.
,. The elections to be conducted by officers of
the highest character and ability, taken from all
parties. under provisions which shall secure the
privacy of the vote and the secrecy of his ballot,
and at the same time shall secure truth, equal
ity and justice in the conduct of the election
officers.
8. The public canvass of the votes witnessed by
representations of all parties. and publication
of full accounts of election expenses
A. The final return to be canvassed in the same
way.
5, Provision for the prompt hearing and de-
cisien of disputed questions by the courts.
g. The punishment of false and illegal regis
tlation bribery in connection with registrations
or elections aiding or abetting bribery. or
attempting or conSpirng TO bride, or to register
or to vote Illegally.
z. More stringent qualifications of jurors.
s. Oaths by all persons proposing to register,
all voters at election and all persons elected or
claiming election, that they have not been guilty
of, aided in any way in, false or Illegal regis
tration or; voting, bribery, or attempting to or
conspiring to bride. or making false canvasses or
returns.
9. A large limitation of the influx of foreign
ers and of the naturalization thereof, and more
perfect scrutiny in admitting to naturalization.
In addition the senator suggests in
general terms better education of the
voter. to teach him that his own opinion,
the best effort of his heart and mind, is
his sole guide.