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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-13

great friend of Gladstone's, but now he
should like to see him hanged | learned
later that Mr.. Gladstone had at one time
spoken disrespectfully of the good doctor
literary ability.
THE ACRoPoLIs,
as it seems to me. is the finest ruin In
Europe, high above all, commanding,
alone with its broken temples in pathetic
grandeur, containing the most beautiful
remains of ancient architecture that CEN
turtles have spared. A visit to it by moon
light is indiscribably grand and impress
sive. 1t Is true that Greece has been plum
dered ON all sides, and London, Paris and
Rome contain more of Grecian sculpture
than Athens, but so long as the Acropolis
guards its present treasures, Athens is
rich. Rome has far more to see, just as
its power and resources were so much
greater than this little republic of let
tiers, but what remains here is of so fine a
quality that its superiority is confessed by
all. The temples of Jupiter and Theseus,
the Odeion and Theater of Dionysus, the
monument Of LysiHate and the Tower of
the Winds are some of the attractions
gathered around the base of the Acropolis.
A constant feeling of sadness comes over
one though as he sees Cd every hand
splendid relics of genius shattered by van
dial hands, and tries to fancy what the
complete original must have been. But
the literary associations can never perish.
and these constitute an unspeakable charm
of this once-favored land Here at
Eleusis Eschylus was born; ON this hill
PerlcleS and DemOsthenes often spoke; In
the old groves on the banks of the Ilisus,
near by, Plato had his academy, and just
above, on the olive-crowned slope, Soph-
ocles wrote his ''Edipus Coloneus. There
is still the same majestic simplicity Of
mountain and sea, with unclouded sky;
not warm and soft, but severe and strong,
like Greek character and art. The muses.
have gone, but Mount Parnassus still lifts
his lofty head; the oracle of Delphi is
silent, but its fountains still flow; still
Pentelicuc looks over toward the temple Of
the Virgin Goddess, and the bees yet bring
honey from the sweet-scented thyme-feldS
Of Mount Hymettus.
ARTHUR WOODCOCK.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-13
Abraham LINCOLN Dead.

LONDON Master Abraham Lincoln,
son of Robert Lincoln, the United States
Minister, who has been suffering for
long time from blood-poisoning, arising
from malignant carbuncle on the left side
below the armpit, died at seven minutes
after II o'clock Wednesday morning
During the morning the lad was in a
comatose condition. He was unable to re-
tain nourishment, and the doctors stated
definitely that his death was merely
question of few hours. He suffered
no pain. Mr.. Lincoln and his family
were at the bedside of the dying boy from
early morning until he died. He passed
away quietly.
Upon being informed of the death of
Master Lincoln, the Queen Immediately
sent message of sympathy to Mr.. Lin
coln
The body will be embalmed and sent
home for interment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-13
The Buccaneers of Old

Flaunted the skull and cross bones, their en- sign,
'efiantly at the masthead. Your modern pirate
not the high seas, but upon the high reputation
of standard remedies, skulks under various dis
guises. His hole and corner traffic has never to
any degree affected Hostetters Stomach Bitters
although that standard invigorant and corrective
has long been the shining mark at which his shafts
have been directed. Cheap local bitters, compos-
ed of fiery unrectifed stimulants, with an infusion
or extract possibly, of some tonic bark, still
sometimes recommended as Identical with or
similar to, or possessing virtues kindred to those
of Americas chosen family medicine. These
perish speedily, while the great subduer and pre-
overcoming malaria, dyspepsia, usness
kidney troubles, constipation and rheumatic all
ments, not only on this, but on many continents.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-13
WILL HAVE ENGLISH BUTTER.
A London Firm Secures Control of Mann
moth Creamery.

ST. PAULA big deal in creameries
is learned by the Pioneer Press and
greater developments will follow. G.
E. Marvin and Edward Cammack owned
an extensive line OF creameries in this
state. in fact their creamery business is
probably one of the largest in the world.
A company has been formed with "a paid
up capital of 100000, having among
their stockholders the big London firm of
Brown Bros. who paid 100000 for con-
troll of the company. Henry Willard also
purchased stock in the new company
which will be extended along the line of
the Northern Pacific to the Pacific coast
and also be firmly established in England.
Ex-Treasurer Coleman, who had been
convicted of the ENLIGHTENMENT of $4,000
at Lebanon, Ohio, was sentenced to pay
that amount. to pay the cost of prosecu-
ton and to be imprisoned in the peniten-
tiary for two years and half
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-13
The BuffaIO Is No More

In a recent publication Superintendent
Hornaday, of the National Geological Park,
at Washington, speaking of the extinction
of the buffalo and the proposed methods
for the multiplication of the remnants,
points out the danger of the utter extinc-
ton of the species by crossing and in
breedings The last bunch of this noble
animal over which the government has any
control is comprised in the band of 200
now protected in the Yellowstone Park.
In 1870, says Professor Hornaday, there
were at least6 100000 animals in the great
southern herd and twice as many in the
northern. Men poured cartridges into
Winchesters and dropped the unsuspecting
brutes by the 10000 To-day there are
less than 700 wild buffalo in existence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-13

In is proposed by the international
American Conference to connect the
United States with the nations of, Central
and South America by grand trunk line
of railroad, the line to be constructed at
the Joint expense of the countries interest
ed, under the direction of an international
Commission of Engineers, and to be for
ever neutral and have the advantage of en-
tire exemption from taxation. The Con-
ference recommends that so soon as the
Government of the United States shall re-
ceive notice of the acceptance of these
recommendations by the other Govern
ments it shall invite them to appoint the
commission of engineers, In order that it
may meet at the earliest possible date.
The grant of subsidies in aidof the project
is also recommended, this aid to be in
the form of money, cessions of land or
guarantee of minimum interest. The
Conference further suggests that the sal
aries of the commission, as well as the ex
pense incident to the preliminary and final
surveys, should be assumed by all the ma
tions accenting, in proportion to their re-
spective population according to the latest
official census, and, In default of census,
by agreement between their several gov
ernments, also, that the approval of the
surveys, the conditions of the proposals,
the prote ction of the concessionaires, the
inspection of the work, the legislation for
the line, the neutrality of the road and
the free passage of merchandise in tram
sit should be matter for special agree
ment between all the nations interested.
The de claration In favor of the scheme
was prepared and recommended by the
committee on railroads. consisting of
these delegates Juan Franco Velarde
of Bolivia, III. G. Davis of the United
States, E. A. Nexia of Mexico. Fernan-
do Cruz of Guatamaal, Jerodimo Zalaya
of Honduras, Jacinto Castellanos of
Salvador, Andrew Carnegie of the United
States, Carlos Martinez Silva of Colombia.
Jose Andrade of Venezuela, J. NJ. F.
Caamano of Ecuador. +. c. c. Zegaura, of
Peru, I. c. Varas of Chill, Manuel Quint-
ans of Argentine, J. g. Do Amarel Valente
of Brazil, Jose 5. Decoud of Paraguay,
and H. Guzman of Nicaragua The iron
horse is the great civilizer of the day.
The wilderness disappears as he cleaves it
IN twain; cities spring up along his course,
and human savagery succumbs to the re-
sistless forces of commerce. Isolation is
the handmade of ignorance and prejudice,
and it is these influences that have kept
the nations of this continent apart Let
the iron horse once trample them under
foot, and there is no reason why the peo-
pie of the American Republics should not
become one IN economic interest, and in a
feeling OF brotherhood thatwill make the
weakest of them secure from foreign ag-
gression.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-13
BACK FOR TRIAL.
After Sojourning in Liverpool a Forger is
Returned to this Country.

New YORK. March 8-Howard w.
Sterling, wanted in Detroit for forgery
committed two years ago, arrived from
Liverpool yesterday afternoon, ON the
steamship Celtic, and will start for De-
troit this morning in custody of Sheriff
Lewis B. Littlefeld His companion
ON his voyage to New York was his law
yer, E. w. Pendleton. He refused to say
anything to reporters, and would not
answer when he was asked if had volun-
tarily returned to the United States. He
has been living In Liverpool since his de-
parture from America, where for eighteen
months he has been employed in the in
surance business, going under the name
of Ross. He made many friends there,
and had become popular member of
society when the authorities learned Of his
He was arrested IN Liver
pool on January 9Th.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-13
A Bank Robber Shot Dead While Trying to
Pull His "Gun."

MERIDEN, saturday evening
man answering the description of
the man who robbed the Valley Falls
bank put up at a hotel here. He was iden-
titled by Telegraph operator from a tele-
grarhed description, and the officers were
informed. Yesterday morning two officers
armed with rifles, had the man called to the
hotel office. Although both rifles were
leveied at the mans head when called
on to surrender he reached for his revol-
vers. He was shot dead. the officers firing
simultaneously The day before he en-
tered Hicks & Gephart's bank, at Valley
Falls, and when the cashier passed into
the vault the robber covered him with
g, 800 In cash He then fed The off
GERS who shot the rnhher were eXonerate6
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-13
CRIME.

THREE large distilleries doing a moon
shine business were seized by U. S. Off
GERS in No-Man STAND, about 40 miles
from Clayton, n. Mex.
THE accounts of Town Collector John
Cbadbourne, of Oxford, Me-, have just
been examined by commission and found
to be $4,000 to 81, 900 short.
JEFFERSON CITY Mo-State Treasurer
holland handed written resignation to
Gov Francis but the governor has not
decided whether he will accept it..
Noland's bondsmen say his deficit is
S33, 718.
SPRINGFIELD, II.-John @. Downs,
who was sentenced to term of forty
years > in the penitentiary from Will
hanson county in 1884, for an assault
upon a girl 10 or II years of age, has been
pardoned by Gov Filler. The victim
has grown to womanhood and now makes
atfidavitl that Downs was not her assail-
ant.
DALLAS, Supt Fuller of the
Pacific Express company and the
father of F. H. Walton, the Ascending
agent, are here, and have secured from a
house of ill-fame package containing
SIS, $40, Walton left this package in the
woman's charge when he ran away. This
with the IS, 900 given up by the absconder
in New Brunswick. makes S24, $40 of the
original S35, 900 stolen.
BARBoURvILLE, Ky.-E. Messer, with
fifty armed men of the Slusher party
arrived from Flat Creek Wednesday
morning and caused a general alarm.
The circuit court being in session,
Judge Boyd placed a strong guard
around the court house, but notwith-
standing this the factions opened fire in
the court house yard, dangerously wound
ing VIM. Day. one of the Smith faction
The presence of the guards prevented
further trouble.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-13

WHILE New York still had hopes of the
world fair, John Jay addressed letter to
Mr. Depew in which he urged that if the
exposition is to succeed the national gov
eminent must be responsible for it, not on
account of the expense, but because for
eign nations will not accept an invitation
to display their own products at the fair
unless the invitation comes strictly from
the United States. When the Philadelphia
exposition was about to be held In 1876, an
invitation to attend it was sent to foreign
nations; but Russia, understanding that
it was to be under the management of a
private company and not of the govern
ment, rejected the invitation, and it was
not until our own government assumed a
more responsible attitude in the case that
she consented to accept. Mr.. Jays propo-
sition is undoubtedly sound and if pos
sible his argument has more force with the
fair in Chicago than if it were to be IN
New York Congress must face this truth,
as must Chicago, if there is to be any sub
stantial success.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-13
WASHINGTON.

The senate confirmed Henry Caldwell
to be judge of the United States court for
the eighth district.
SECY. WINDOW has ordered the estab-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-13

IT is said that the English police are
still in pursuit of Jack the Ripper, and
that one Of the best known of their detect
i've inspectors devotes his whole time to
she case.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-13

Ex-Emperor Pedro has expressed an
intention of returning to Brazil, prepare
tory to which he will renounce the throne.
He wants to die In private life ON his
native soil. The poor old storm-wrecked
ex-monarch should have his wishes graft
fed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-13

THE debt of France is increasing about
ten times as rapidly as its population.
The tendency offers far more danger to the
republic than all its Bourbon, Bonapartist
and Boulangist foes taken together.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-13

THERE is an exciting race just now be-
tween Idaho and Wyoming as to which
shall secure admission to Statehood the
earlier. The chances seem to be slightly
in Idaho's favor, yet Wyoming will I'M
doubtedly come in also this session.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-13
A CALL ON DIR. sCHLIEMANN,

the modern hero of Troy, who has large
and elegant mansion and is very hospitable
to strangers. The doctor is short, rath-
er stout, with marked German features,
and while an enthusiast In Greek and a
most successful discoverer of buried cities.
is not by any means savant or man of
very thorough culture. He showed Us his
museum, his splendid library, invited US
to take coffee with him, and just before
we left he took Us out on a porch to show
US quite a remarkable profile of Gladstone
on the east end of the Acropolis. The
general resemblance was striking, especi-
ally the Gladstonian nose. The doctor re-
marked incidently that once he was a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-13

EMPEROR WILLIAM has outlined the
work of the Berlin labor conference as
follows: The regulation of mine work so
far as it relates to the labor of women and
children underground, the shortening OF
hours in unhealthy mines, and the adop-
tor Of international rules that may insure
a regular output of coal. Sunday labor
and the employment of women and children
will also be considered by the conference.
Jules Simon will have nothing to do with
the project, as in his opinion it is founded
in socialism So it is, and the young en-
peror has entered upon course that
promises to mark a new era in European
affairs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-13

An English syndicate is negotiating for
the purchase of nearly IS per cent. of the
oyster and fruit packing houses of Balti-
more.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-13
CONGRESSIONAL.

ARTHUR WOODCoCK.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-13

THE Canadian objection to annexation IS
nc based entirely upon sentiment, but
the an undoubted opposition to the
use Z, that word. Why not change it?
Amalgamation or consolidation would
spare the pride of our neighbors and
would, after all, describe exactly the same
thine
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-16

that before any others could escape they
were all drowned. The workmen at the
pumps at late hour tonight, however,
think there is q chance that some of the i'm
prisoned workmen are still alive. The air
gauge on the engine which pumps air into
the caissOn shows a strong and steady
pressure of air in the air shaft and caisson,
andit is thought possible that the com
pressed air in the caisson will be sufficient
to keep the water from rising to the top and
that some Of the men may be able to keep
their heads above water until relieved.
AT a. m. the outer chamber of the Gals
sion was reached and three bodies were
found. All of the men in the caisson
proper are known to be dead. Messrs
Sooy, Smith & Co. of New York are the CON
tracing engineers in charge of the caisson.
work; the Phoenix Bridge company, a
pennsylvania corporation, have the con-
tract for the construction of the bridge.
The engineers theory of the accident.
which is partially supported by facts
obtained from the workmen who
escaped, is that the foreman, who,
it is alleged, had been drinking, while
to reduce the air pressure turned
the valve of the supply pipe too far, and
the pressure on the interior of the caisson
became so low that the caision settled in
the mud of its own weight, at the same tlhsst
admitting the water.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-16
FOREIGN FLASHES.

The British ship Nye Shaw was wrecked of
the coast of China and Mate Briggs and sis
men are missing.
Henry NJ Stanley has accepted the offer O
banquet in his honor, to be given by Amer
! leans IN London, but says he cannot definite.
| ly fix the date.
private dispatch from Winnipeg June
tion states that Northern Pacific Engineer
George Shaw. of Brai nerd, died there of la
| grippe.
/ small republican band in Spain has cut
/ the railroad at Nenta Cardenas in the pro.
vince OF 'Iaen. The band is being pursued by
the civil guard
Ihe German steamer Duburg which left
Singapore Oct. 25 with 400 Chinese passen-
gers for Annoy via Hong Kong, undoubted-
" toundered in the great typboon of Novem-
ber
Gen. Louis La Due, aide-de-camp to Louis
Napoleon inthc siege ofRome, and ambassa-
dor to Africa during the war, died of heart
disease near ChenOa, ILL.,, where he had lived
over twenty years.
Fifty thousand coal miners are on a strike
in the Durham (England) district for an ad-
vance OF Is per cent in wages. The price of
coal is rapidly advancing in England and it
Is oeileVed that the miners will gain their
point
La grippe has gotten a firm grip on peopIe
at Winnipeg large percentage OF the popu-
latlon being down with the maIady. At the
reopenlng OF the schools after the HOLIDAYS.
1T was found that 40 per cent. of the pupils
anu big percentage of teachers were absent
owing to the Illness. The 6r4t F>t~' 1usUanN
succombed to the disease. Forty men of the
Canadian Pacific railroad were laid off with
the distemper, and so many members of the
local stock dramatic company are suffering
from it that the company has been forced to
cancel its cngagemsnts. The STATS of many
stores and warehouses are completely demor-
allied -
Madrid was kept in a ferment ofexcitement
all day Saturday by repeated rumors ofthe
young kings death. Many believed that the
monarch had really passed away, and that
the announcement of the fact was being con-
ceaIed for state reasons. Such things are
not unknown to history, and if ever govern
ment was justified by the situation in hesita-
ting to proclaim the demise of ruler, the
present regime in Spain is certainly in such q
position. The reports Of hostile coalitions
and plots are almost too numerous to be
counted and weighed. The Republicans,
though as a matter Of fact they are lsss act
i've than the partisans of Don Carlos, are
bearing the brunt of general suspicion.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-16
A Tree That Yields Milk,

The COW tree, that botanical curl.
osity of South America, grows on the
broad, barren plains of Venezuela,
where it would be next to impossible
to find food to slack one s thirst were
it not for this wise provision of ma
in looks and taste. A slight balsam
ic taste has been imported by some
naturalists who have drank OF the
strange liquid; otherwise it was said
to "have the flavor otrich cream and
to be very wholesome and nourish-
ing"
The tree itself frequently attains a
height of 100 to 125 feet, it being
not unusual to see a trunk of this
species seventy to eighty feet, perfect
~ smooth and without limb. A
hole bored into or O wound made in
the bark of this wonderful tree is al
most Immediately filled with a lac
teal like fluid, which continues IS
ff0w 16it 1f5 some de IS, S. GT s." until It CO.
agulates at the mouth of the wound
and forms a waxy mass, which stops
further flow.
Humboldt, the first to givea scien-
tific description of the baobad tree of
Africa, was the first to tell of the
wonders of the COW tree, as it was
called in his time.-St. Louis Repub
lie
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-16

had paid the bill in venison. He was there
upon arrested on his own evidence on q
charge of killing deer out OF season.
Mrs Jerry O'Neil, of Mt. Sterling. Grant
County, who was sho t by her husband while
asleep in bed, has since died from the effects
Her husband who afterwards attempted
suicide, seems in fair way to recover.
Charles Morris, Chippewa Falls bar ten.
der, was 8 entenced to Waupun for one year
for stealing $40 check. 1t was handed
him to get cashed at the bank, but ON going
out he failed to return.
Racine burglars entered the residence oi
james BeauGrand and took some clothing
and a small sum of cash. They also entered
the resinencs of Henry Mohr and several
other places, but did not secu re much value.
The continued absence OF Bruce Harrison,
William j. Chorters, and George Adesy, aged
about 1S, who left Ashland for three days
hunt the night before Christmas, near Marin.
go, caused their relatives much uneasiness.
The missing boys were finally found, snow.
bound in lumber camp.
The annual meeting OF the State Dairy.
men 3 association will be held at Columbus,
February -, 13 and next. Arrangements
are being made bv the Business Mems asso-
citation, OF Columbus, for the entertainment
of $50 leading dairymen from this and
other states, and it is expe cted that no Less
than 500 farmers will be in attendance.