davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-24
Eight exchange and teIegraphic transfers on
New York. Chicago, St. Paul. San Fran
cisco, Portland aud various points
in washington. Oregon aud
British Columbia

Sight bills Of exchange on London available
else Vhere in Europe.
Collections made ct al points on favorable
terms.
Bonds. stocks and other valuables received
on deposit for safe keeping
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-24

81
York
clal
oRAr,
Rarrs
Rank
csspas
That q
tacies
. FasA
NA. Jun
! the ~
I. b str
~ Of q
fally %
4 the 6rs
the deciz
that IL
Clock. b
y had b
His a
pscrtant
the cou
" the ios
ecision
The ID
Is one q
eafed q
oke<i Re
Tive
j. the d
sed IL
sxeesn
the p
- beccs
bination
ntroi q
NEE and
The q
{ to nal
'er 10 N
{ has b
Il has
y o.
pom the
Y approx
: earnir
! In ths
to shart
ders. VII
a return
bio TO Z
snefit a
onlng b
other q
| by tho
eision,
q Of tht
" prove
registei
OK IN
shatses
to Be a
he deie
Illegal
LEVIED.
y dol
In q
iompcls
ruycd /
orporat
sital = I
"a capa
inG fos
ship en-
y al ~
~ csUol
sens a.
1 cennh
u6t
alreadJ
IL md I
lions, u
any POI
he sta>
an com
llusions
on hes
rmAnco
respect
judgme
. eneb
| be 10
II ceyp
through
sousoltd
afutofy
nufacta
several
10 stat
fIirmcd
10 Cour
ion. sai
ken GrG
+ which
of trus'
NEE -
streets
In trust
concerto
y the I
{ will &
siness {
CAN
to We
1ish
lAxcrsca
l. g. Il
. has Be
rial in I
ch casei
tEgiing
! are sso
,ra. {
sitients.
on r.
. poasit
% line,
80 nan
found 1
Ion OF
70 keep
this 10
hsexe
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04
FOREIGN.

FIFTEEN persons persisted in a burning
building at Mejoe Kerestze, a village in
Hungary, Saturday.
ToLsToI has nine children, the eldest of
whom, a pretty girl of seventeen, is de-
voted disciple of her father.
The town of Tokay, in Hungary, Gel
ebrated for the manufacture of the wine
of that name, has been almost demolished
by fire.
The Tageblatt says that the car has re-
fused to give his consent to the proposal
made by Emperor William that the force
of Russia, Austria and Germany, station
ed along the boundary lines between the
three countries, be withdrawn.
THE British war ship Buzzard
arrived here Tuesday from Jamaica
with yellow fever on board,
having been ordered to Halifax on account
of the fever breaking out among the crew.
There were nineteen cases on board at one
time, and one of the victims died at Port
Royal and was buried there. All others
have recovered except one.
The heavy rains continue in Switzer-
land, causing floods in the rivers. Many
bridges have been carried away. Postal
communication with the canton of Girls
ons has been cut off by high water, and
communication between various places in
the Arleberg mountains has stopped owing
to the same cause. A landslide has oc-
Cured in St. Gothard pass.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04

THERE is a certain grim justice in hav-
ing the first case of Asiatic cholera, re-
ported this year in London, emanate from
India, the home of the dread disease,
rather than from afflicted Spain or any of
the ports of the Mediterranean sea. The
English in India have never grappled as
they ought with the sanitary conditions
which breed these terrible epidemics that
continually find their way unchallenged
through southern Europe. The Iberian
peninsula furnishes ready prey to the
scourge on account of its lack of the con-
ditions of healthful living III its cities and
towns; yet the epidemics that rage there
are largely generated in Asia under
the British flag. The present epidemic
in eastern Spain still shows a formidable
front, and 1888 deaths out of 1000 cases of
cholera were reported up to the 18th of
this month. Thus far. however, severe
guarantees have kept the disease within
comparatively narrow limits, and isolated
cases, like that found this week in London,
are unlikely to cause wider circle of in
lection in countries whose sanitary condi-
tions are kept relatively good.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04
| LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTEHS.

THE Democrats of Idaho, Lave nominat-
ed Benjamin Wilson for Governor.
TWELVE persons wers killed, many
injured and much property destroyed by a
cyclon at Wikesbarre Pa, on Tuesday last
The Wis, democratic state convention
at Milwaukee elected Geo. W. Peck In
nomination for Governor and Carl Jonas
for Lieutenant Governor.
II was announced in Boston recently,
that English capitalists were negotiat-
ing for the Menhaden fisheries of this
country.
GROSS earnings of the Union Pacific for
July amounted to So, 837, 1862, an in
crease of 1858, 734. For the seven months
ending July 81, the gross earnings were
500, 739, Iii, an increase Of 50, 26l ,137.
THE Presbyterians of Spokane recently
sold their church to a man who at once
started a saloon In the basement, and now
there is seen a beer sign on the corner of a
fine structure with a tall church steeple
on it,
In the way of tersf, epigrammatic al
liberation Joseph Cook never said nything
more characteristic than the following
description of life from one of his works
Mans life means tender teens, teachable
twenties, tireless thirties, fiery forties for
chile ffties, serious sixties, sacred seven
ties, aching eighties, shortening breath,
death, the sod, Godl'
The New England Homestead's care
fully prepared report of the hop crop Of
the country shows that there is consider
able shortage, particularly in New York
State. The average yield of all the grow
ing territory will fall 20 per cent under
full crop. In New York State only
three-fourths of an average crop Will be
few hops, will have Is per cent of full
crop; Maine, 80 per cent; Vermont, full
crop; Wisconsin, 60 per cent; California,
80 per cent. Prices have reached 40 cents
a pound in New York 3712 cents in Cali
fornla.
The Democratic State ticket is as fol-
lows:
For Governor-George w Peck, of Mil
waukee.
For Lieutenant Governor Carl Jonas,
of Racine.
For Secretary of State-Thomas J. Gun
ningham, Of Chippewa Falls.
For State IreaSurer-JOhn Hummer, of
Eau Claire.
For AttorneyGeneral-J. L. O'Connor,
of Madison.
For Superintendent of Public Instruc.
tion-O. E. Wells, of Kaukanna.
For Railroad Commissioner-Thom
Thompson, of Trempeleau.
For insurance Commissioner M.
Root, of Sheboygan.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04
WASHINGTON.

THE president has approved the sundry
Civil Appropriation bill, the act providing
for additional clerical force to carry into eff
feet the Dependent Pension bill, the Meat
Inspection bill, and the Agricultural Col
lege bill.
The State Department at Washington is
in receipt of advices from Minister Miner,
at Guatemala, saying that both Guatemala
and Salvador have signed the peace treaty
and agreed to reduce their armies to a peace
footing within eight days.
The Congor Lard bill passed the lower
house of congress of vote of 1875 to 81.
The National Transit company has no
titled its customers that hereafter but 20
cents per barrel premium will be paid
producers on Washington oil instead of
Is cents as heretofore In some other
fields the premium was reduced from 20
to Is cent per barrel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04
POISON IN LIQUORS.
Noxious Impurities That Are Put in the
"Beer of the Millions"

NoX1ous Impurities That Are Put in the
"Beer of the Millions
Not drunk but poisoned, is the proper
diagnosis of the condition of the majority
of the men who may be seen staggering
along the streets of the city at all hours of
the night and very often in the daytime on
Sundays. So says awell known physician.
The provisions of the licensing laws now
in force have caused Philadelphia to be
Hooded with a perfect sea of adulterated
and poisonous liquors, which not only in
creases the thirst of the drinker, but in
flames his brain until he is in state of
lunacy.
According to the highest medical au-
thorities, two ounces of alcohol dag can
be taken by a fairly healthy man without
doing him any harm or IN any way excit-
ing his nerves To imbibe this quantity
of alcohol man must pour into his
stomach four ounces or a quarter OF a pint
OF brandy, or sixteen ounces of sherry,
twenty-eight ounces of champagne, thirty
two ounces of claret, or thirty-six ounces
making over a quart--of bottled beer.
Now. according to this, people of to-day
get Intoxicated very easily. A man will
go into a saloon and take perhaps three
small nips of brandy or half a dozen
glasses of beer, and he comes out reeiing,
with flushed face and his brain en- fire.
The man has not absorbed nearly enough
alcohol to mako him drunk, and vet he
DEVELOPS symptoms of acute intoXication.
The truth is he is not intoxicated, he
is suffering from toxic poisoning The
liquor he has swallowed is, in most cases,
q connection of poisonous drugs. The
brandy, whisky or beer is adulterated with
cheap chemicals. which are mixed up with
alcohol to make them look like the partic-
ular drink asked for, and the alcohol is
harmless In the face of the deleterious com
pound with which it is mixed
The reeling, apparently drunken man is
poisoned by the adulteration of the man.
ufacturer his brain is on fire, he suffers
from an uncomfortable thirst, and, if he
can get it, he goes on pouring more poison
down his throat and winds up in a hospit-
al. where the learned doctors decide, with
a wise nod of the head, that he is suffering
from alcoholism
The law and order people, In their an1i
ETY. after the sobriety of the masses, might
begin at the alienation end of the matter
and have all whisky, brandy. rum and
be er carefully analysed. When the liquor
dealer is compelled to sell pure and una
dulterated liquors there will be less oc-
casion to place restrictions on the sale of
such articles and less cases of misery, de-
bauchery and crime for the temperance
people to hold up their hands in holy hor
ror at.
Drunkenness is as much misnomer
as is the favorite verdict Of
coroners' juries: death from heart fail
ure." A man to get alcoholic drunk on
beer must be abnormally made to hold a
sufficient quantity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04

YOU LOOK LIKE MAN FROM AMERIKY."
briefly assured the good woman that
had frequently travelled that road. The
rich and melodious sound of church bells
now broke on our ears. Away In the dis
lance and gradually coming into view were
two cathedrals, the Protestant and Roman
Catholic. the former carrying one back in
thought to the opening years of the fifth
century. 1t seemed as if my fellow trav-
eler to the city of st. Patrick wished to
talk about the good old saint and his holy
labors, and though | was very far from
being indifferent to the enjoyment
should derive from a conversation about
the man whose heroic exertions marked a
new era In the triumphant march of
Chrl tanlty not onl Y In Ireland but in
many parts of Europe, yet at that particu-
lar time wished to talk about something
else. "How does farming pay. and what
are the prospects for farmers?" This
question of mine was a quick transition
from medieval times to those closing years
OF the nineteenth century. That
BASKET OF BUTTER
In your hand, sir, and there is not better
IN the country, will only bring me about six
pence pound. The time was when
could have got for it shilling or fifteen
pence. Wheat and oats are selling for
half the price of former years. We used
to make good deal of money from fax
There is almost none sown now. The
linen trade that used to benefit us poor
folks Is of little service to US now. The
sound of shuttle is not often heard now
Stock, she last two or three years. pays
well. and SO does fruit, especially goose
berries" She told me that the farms
were gradually becoming large, that the
population was decreasing, that the con-
dition of farm laborers was decidedly bet
ter than it was a few years ago. and
that she expected good days would soon
come TO the farmers
When we reached the city she accosted
me thus: And now, sir, if you would
not think me inquisitive, where are YOU
from and what do you do?" | cold her
that my home was in Chicago and that |
was a Methodist minister. If Bishop
Merrill could have heard the good things
that this woman then said about the Meth
odlsts he would have been both delighted
and amused. 1t was good thing, how
ever, that she was not carrying basket of
eggs when | made known to her what nv
calling was. If she had | believe she
would have dropped them. "A clergy
man. she exclaimed, carrying a basket
of butter for me! Whoever heard the like
of it! Give me the basket. We are now
IN the city, and it would not do for you to
be seen carrying it now" | told her that
we we're some distance from the butter
market, and that | would carry it little
further for her
Back in the past, the prevailing opinion
is, lie Ireland's darkest days. A future
bright with promise awaits her, and in that
future she is destined, in the best sense, to
become
Great. glorious. and free,
First flower of the earth, and first gem of
the sea- JOHN LEE.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04
A City EuII of Mon kaYS.

The head centre of all monkeydom is the
holy city of Muttra, or Mathura, a sort OF
supplementary Benares, ON the river
Jumna. Here we find another species, the
same | think, from which the organ
grinder generally selects his partner The
principal care In life of the citizens is to
protect themselves and their property from
depredations of this privileged class, for,
as they are sacred-and what animal Is
not in Hindoo-land ?-they cannot be kill
ed or molested in any manner.
Every window In the town is barred
with lattices, as not even the highest Is
out of their reach, for they could give
points to the best gymnast that ever swung
on a trapeze Along the underslde of the
highest balconies they follow one another
in single file, leaping past intervening
brackets, or with one bound they clear the
street, and swinging from the pendent
branches of a banyan-tree, In they go at
some small opening left for moment un
guarded, lured lly the sight Of bowl of
milk on the sill and when they ere chased
out again at the point of broomstick,
they go and console themselves among the
stalls of the fruit sellers In the bazaar. But
their chief field of action is along the
''glats, where stone steps descended to
the frst-howing Jumna. Here at intervals
are octagonal stone towers separating the
different bathing-places, often surmount-
ed by domes resting on slender columns,
A tall sculptured tower of red sandstone
rises straight from the brink among
group of time-worn temples. This tower
seems to be tenanted only by monkeys.
There still remain few stone gargoyles,
but the animated gargoyles are even more
interesting. At small square window
sits a mother monkey with her infant,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04
CRIME.

CHARLES N. NICHOLS, president and
cashier of the Nichols Bank, of
Kansas City Missouri, which failed
about a week ago, was arrested Friday on
the charge of receiving money for deposit
when he knew that the bank was i'll a fail
ing condition. This is the second time
he has been arrested on the same charge.
EMIL HOLSTER who was arrested in
Philadelphia was charged with en-
5ezzling $1,000 from NUM- er of
societies in Minneapolis, of which he was
treasurer. At a hearing this afternoon
the prisoner acknowledged being an en-
bezzler. but claimed the amount taken was
only $4,000.
HoLzHAY. the bandit of the northern
woods, made another unsuccessful attempt
to commit suicide in the prison at Mar
quette Sunday night. He was found lay
ing in his cell in an unconscious condition
from loss of blood, he having severed the
arteries of his wrist with silver of tin,
secured from slop bucket. HIS scalp and
the top of his head was also reduced to
pulp from attempts to dask out his brains
on the prison walls. Holzhay now lies in
a straight Jacket.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04
American Love OF Titles.

1t is very curious fact that, with all
our boasted free and equal superiority
over the communities of the Old World,
our people have the most enormous app
elite for Old World titles of distinction.
Sir Michael and Sir Hans belong to one of
the most extended of the aristocratic Or
ders. But we have also knight and La
dies of Honor, and. what is still grander
Royal Conc,ave of Knights and Ladies, :"
Royal Arcanum' and Royal Society of
Good Fellows" Supreme Council, :"
Imperial Court, Grand Protector and
Grand Dictator" and so on. Nothing
less than Grand and Supreme is
good enough for the dignitaries of our
associations of citizens. Where does all
this ambition for names without realities
come from? Because knight of the Gar
ter wears golden star, why does the wor
thy cordwainer, who mends the shoes of
his fellow-citizens, want to wear tin star
and take a name that had a meaning as
used by the representatives of ancient fam
lilies, or men who had made themselves
illustrious by their achievements?
1t appears to be a peculiarly American
weakness The French republicans of the
earlier period thought the term citizen was
good enough for anybody. At later pc
Rod, lie Roi Citoyen'' the citizen king
was common title given to Louis Philippe
But nothing is too grand for the Ame1i-
can, in the way Of titles. The proudest of
them all signify absolutely nothing. They
do not stand for ability, for public service,
for social Importance, for large possessions !:
but, on the contrary, are oftenest found in
connection with personalities to which
they are supremacy inappIicable. We
can hardly afford to quarrel with a nat
ional habit which, if lightly handled, may
involve US in serious domestic difficulties.
The Right Worshipful'' functionary
whose equipage stops at my back gate,
and whose services are indispensable to the
health and comfort of my household is a
dignitary whom [ must not offend. must
speak with proper Difference to the lady
who is scrubbing my floors, when | re-
member that her husband, who saws my
wood, carries string of high-sounding
titles which would satisfy a Spanish
nohleman
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04
RECOVERED THE LOST.
Alfred Lamoreaux had been Missing Since
His Third Year.

His Third Year.
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich, Aug. 2S.-
Eighteen years ago there lived. with mis-
wife and family, within few miles of
Ont, on the road now
leading to the postal village Of Randolph,
a French-Canadian named Alfred Lamo-
reaux. One day the 3-year-old child
was missing. It was thought he
had wandered off into the
woods. A thorough and systematic
search was kept up for several days. but
no trace of the lost child could be discov-
cred. 1t was feared that bear had car
ried off the boy, md his parents mourned
him as dead. Years passed away, but
nothing more was seen or heard Of the
lost child, and the parents moved away
from that part Of the province and went
back to near Montreal.
Not long since priest, who had charge
of a nilsson near here, was told by an
Indian on his death-bed that he had,
eighteen years before, stolen little
child from its home near Penetanguishene.
The priest communicated with Rev.
Father Laboureau about the matter
Father Laboureau made inquiries, heard
the story of Lamoreaux's child, communi-
Gated with the parents, and the old
couple are now on their way here to meet
their son-lost to them as mere baby,
sorrowed for as one dead, and to be re-
stored to them when they are old and he
M an grown
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04
SATURDAY. Aug. 80.

Senate-In the senate to-day Mr.. Nor
gan presented the resolutions of a
colored mass meeting held in Birning-
ham. Ala, against the passage
of the federal election bill. The
tariff bill was then taken up, the
pending question being on Mr.. Carlisle's
motion to strike out the wool paragraphs
SO as TO place wool on the free list. The
amendment was rejected = yeas. II;
nays, q. The next paragraph to which an
amendment was offered was the one
relating to wooden and worsted yarns,
worth less than 20 cents a pound. The
finance committee reported an amend
ment increasing the rate per pound from
two to two and a half times the duty per
pound on unwarranted wool IF the first
class
House.-'The house met at II o'clock
today and the frst hour was taken up with
a debate on the bill for the adjustment of
accounts of laborers, workmen and me-
chanics arising under the eight-hour law
Mr., Brewer offered an amendment. pro-
viding that this act shall find that the
claimant performed service under any con-
tract, express or implied, or has been paid
the amount agreed upon. The amend
ment was agreed to and the bill passed.
The house then proceeded to the consid-
Grafton of the bill amending the alien
contract law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

MCVICKER's theater at Chicago was
burned on Tuesday morning. Loss two hum
bred thousand.
YATES & BAYS saw mill at Bay City,
Michigan, was burned Thursday night.
Loss. 100000.
THE Lake View House at Elkhart, Wis,
was burned Friday.
REINEHARDT SCHNEIDER, Patrick
Dooley and Michael Daley, of Cleveland,
Ohio, the first two employees of a brewery
and the last named foreman of the nation
al carbon works. were instantly killed this
evening by the Lake Shore express. The
three men were crossing the track on a
beer wagon when the train struck them.
CoNERESSIoNAI,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04

southern war claim BILL Mr.. Thomas
wis who had objected to its passage on
the grounds of one of the elirnants whose
claims were covered, were disloyal. offered
a substitute striking out the Objectionable
feature, and by unanimous consent. it was
agreed to. The bill carries about $780,
600. The committee arose, TIE bill passed
and committee resumed Its session. When
the committe again rose half dozen priv
ate bills passed. On motion of Mr.. Smith
iIllinoise) the senate bill passed, constitut-
ing Cairo, ILL.,, port of delivery The
house took recess, the evening session 70 be
for the consideration of private pension
bills
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04

In discussion that has lately been car
ried on in Europe as to the distance at
which large objects on the earth's surface
were visible, it was stated that the
Himalaya Mountains have appeared to
view from the great distance of 224 miles
nd Mount Blanc 210 miles
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04

MARTIN Irons was once name to con-
jure with. Then he was leader in the
great St. Louis strike, which brought sor-
row, want and suffering into the home of
many a working man. Now the honor
able but inglorious occupation of peanut
selling engages his time and thoughts.
Then he led men to starvation-now he
seeks, with filling but innocuous peanuts,
to stay their stomachs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04

THE cyclone at Wilkesbarre appears to
have been quite as destructive as those
which have at times desolated the west,
and equal in fury to that which recently
rendered a portion of Lynn, Mass, heap
of ruins. The wide area over which these
violent atmospheric disturbances manifest
themselves, extending from the eastern
slope OF the Rocky Mountains to the coast
Of New England, shows that the American
cyclone is neither respecter of persons
nor locality, and that no place or individ-
ual is safe from its dread visitation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04
CONGRESSIONAL.
MONDAY, Aug. Is.

Senatc-In the senate this morning.
Mr.. Aldrich asked unanimous consent
that the general debate on the tariff
bill shall close on September 3,
that the debate on the amendments con-