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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28
WILL NOT BECOME A LAW.
Billy Mason Thinks the Opposition to tn,
Lard Bill Too Great

WASHINGTON, Aug 23.-Representa-
tive Mason of Chicago, who is leading the
opposition TO the Conger compound-lard
bill now under consideration in the house,
is quite confident that the bill will not be-
come law He says he believes that the
opponents of the bill will be able to defeat
it outright IN the house, and, if they
should fail in so doing, the substitute he
offered, in the shape of the senate commit
tees comprehensive pure-food bill, will
be accepted. Owing to the interjection
of the conference report on the river
and harbor bill into the time set apart for
the consideration of the lard bill the latter
will 60 over into the time set apart under
the special order for the Butterworth OPP
ton bill. It is intimated that the Butter
worth bill will not be taken up after the
compound lard bill has been disposed of,
On the ground that the time allowed for its
consideration has expired, but if it should
come up Representative Butterworth has
ready for presentation substitute which
is intended TO protect Legitimate dealers
on boards of trade while shutting out the
operations Of bucket-shops.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28
Chicago 81 arkct.

CHICAGO, Aug. H.-Flour-Unchange Wheat
Easy; 1042s for seller cash; III for seller May.
Corn-Easy; 4S4@4S5s for seller cash: 52A for
seller May Oats-Easy; 1864 for seller cash; Sc
@5618 for seller September; 80 for seller May.
Rye-Steady, Sc. Barley-Easy; 70. Prime
timothy seed Easy; 1891. 80. Flax seed
Easy; 1864. Whlskev--113. Pork-Dull; HOO
for seller cash; 10 for seller September;
1850 for seller January. Lard-Dull; go for
seller cash: 6 25 for seller September; 6.85 for
seller January Shoulders 5.75@5. S71a; short
clear, 5 65Q5.75; short ribs, 5.2505 35. Butter
Firm for fancy; creamery, 14Q22: dairy,
n@I7. Cheese-Firm;. full cream ched-
OARS, 7A@72l; flats, 724@SA; young Americas,
9@94. Eggs-FIrm; fresh 1916 Hides
Unchanged; heavy and light green salted,
s; sailed bull, 6; green sailed calf, 8;
dry flint $685. dry salted hides, :; dry calf, S99;
deacons, 80 cents. Talow-Unchanged No.
l. solid packed, 4, No. ?, 31a cake, As.
Flour-Receipts, 14,OO0: shipments, $4,000
Wheat-Receipts, 50 0O0 shipments, 1S3,uO0,
Corn-Recetpts, $4,000; shipments. 100000.
Oats-Raceipts, 24S GC; shipments, 270.0Oo.
CHICAGO. Aug. 25.-lThe Drovers' Journai re-
ports: Cattle - Receipts, 1900; steady to
native butchers stock, .5G@3 90. Hogs-Re-
ceIp;s IS, 000 market lower; rough and common,
B. 6Ot03. 20; mikes, 3.S0@3,90; prime assorted
heavy and butchers weights 4 .00@4 Is; light. lie
@4.20. Sheep-Receipts, 4,500; shipments, 1000;
steady; stockers, 8. 70Q3 80; natives, 4.00@5.50;
texans 41O14.20: lambs, 5.2545.55.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28
SUCCESS AT ST. LOUIS.
Mrs. Woodward the Trance Evangelist
Has Many Followers at Sleepy Hollow.

ST.. LOUIS, Aug. 22.-The strange
scenes in the woodward gospel tent on
Jefferson avenue are again attracting the
attention Of religious people. Mrs. Wood
ward excites her hearers TO such degree
that at Yesterdays meeting there were as
many as forty people lying in an uncon-
scious condition ON the platform and
benches at one time. They lay on their
backs, some with their arms stretched out
as though in entreaty, others peacefully,
while some had their hands cIasped and
their lips moved occasionally as though in
prayer. Several little grls lay as though
conscious testify to visions and manifesto
tons, and claim to see angels. Rev. E.
NJ. c. Belterill, who at present is filing
the pulpit of Rev. Dr. Brooks of Compton
Avenue Church, was an interested spectator
at the meeting. He is the state evange-
list for the Y. NC. A., and is used to
attending such meetings, and said he
never saw anything like 1t.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28
TO PROTECT BRAKEMEN.
The Introduction of a Timely Bill Into
Congress-.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-Representa-
tive Caldwell, from the committee on rail
roads and canals today reported to the
house bill agreed upon by the committee
to compel the railroad companies engaged
in the interstate commerce, within a
reasonable time, to equip their cars with
such safety or automatic safety couples as
will not require train men to go between
tie ends of cars to couple Or to uncouple
them and with automatic brakes so that
the speed of the train can be controlled by
the engineer.
The report submitted by the bill points
out the fearful loss of life and limb oecas-
Toned by the keeping in use of link and
pin coupling and the hand break on fret ght
cars. and say from the statistics of rail
road accidents of this nature, 1--WE have
the terrible intimation that 10000 young
men in the nation suffer painful or fatal
accidents from these NO causes annually.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28
MYSTERY AT OSHKOSH.
A Woman Found Hanging in Her Own
House.

OSHKOSH, Aug Is. - Mrs. Phoebe
Wright, an old and respected lady resid
ing at 232 New York avenue, was found
hanging in her woodshed yesterday after
noon. The moose was slipped on her
neck and the rope had been thrown over
the rafters in the she'd. 1t was thought
she had committed suicide, but relatives
scott this idea, and claim that the woman
was murdered. Her house was
found to have been completely ran
sacked, and her pocketbooB was dis
covered on the floor 1t is thought
that If she was murdered she discovered
burglars in the house and started to give
the alarm, when they stopped her and
placed a handkerchief over her mouth and
thus caused her death; and to cover up the
crime they placed her in the position in
which she was found 4 handkerchief
was discovered in her mouth when the
body was cut down. The lady was rs
years old and leaves four children. The
police are certain she suicided, out many
citizens are firm in the belief that she was
murdered
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28
CANDIDATE TO GET MARRIED.
Arthur s. Fisher is Elected to Fill an Hon
OrabIe Position.

ROCKFORD, ILL.,, Aug. 25.-Attolney
Arthur S. Fisher is candidate for matri-
monial honors. He is member of the
Owl club, society of Ogle county bache-
lors, and his doom was sealed at its picnic
Aug. Is. During the day came the cleo
ton of officers. Among the Offices is one
called The $4,000 Beauty of the Club, ;"
and he who is elected to this Office must
get married within year and Withdraw
from the society. The charm has
never failed to work yet, and every man
who has been elected to the office has been
married within year. Every other
officer is elected by reclamation, but this
one is elected by solemn and secret ballot.
" hen the ballots were counted it was
found that Mr.. Fisher was the doomed
man. The good-natured attorney made a
pleasant speech and tried in MS clever way
to turn it off as joke The sequel has
never failed to occur.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28
WORK ON THE MIDLAND.
A Gang of Men Begin Grading at Fond du
Lac.

FOND DU LAC, Wis, Aug. 21-The
work of constructing the line OF the Wis
cousin Midland Railway was begun today.
A crew of twenty men commenced grading
for the tracks through this city, and the
force will be increased as soon as men can
be brought from Chicago. Col Boardman
said today that the Midland will make
full traffic arrangements with the Chicago
Milwaukee & st. Paul, and that the latter
company will use the MidIand's tracks in
the city to reach the large manufacturing
concerns.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28
COLBY IN FERME EMF.

Ears of Gold Set the People to Thinking.
COLBY, Wis, Aug. 22.-The Phono-
graph devotes two columns to a story
about three men who were in the city re-
Gently trying to sell gold bar which they
bad in their possession. Citizens are
specializing as to whether it W as really
good or whether the scheme was to have
the money brought to the outskirts of the
town where the woud-be purchaser would
be robbed. The description of the men
tailies with that furnished from other 10
calities, but the police can get no trace of
them
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28
WISHES TO BE DIVORCED.
The Wife of Captain Moore Makes Sensa-
tional Charges.

MARQUETT, Mich, Aug 23.-Mrs.
Sedate Moore this morning filed an APP
plication for absolute divorce from her
husband Capt. Smith Moore, upon the
ground of adultery, naming Nancy Howard
a milliner, of this city, as correspondent.
She also alleges cruelty and desertion
Capt. Moore is one of the most prominent
citizens of this city, and is well-known
along the entire chain of Great Laks as a
veteran vessel master, in which business,
with mining and real estate investments,
he accumulated large fortune. He offers
to settle with his wife by giving her S.
900 and valuable real estate in this city
and Cleveland if she will enter no evidence
of adultery and confne the complaint to
desertion and cruelty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28

The expressions of grief and of praise
Incidented on the dearh of John Boyle
O'ReiiIy have been of so extraordinary ma
lure all over tbs county as to testify to
lhe rare character and Importance of the
man There has not been Earring note
in the estimate of this splendid Irish
American. He had his faults, and these
have been recognized as 1.-The defects IN
ais qualities. springing from his impul-
awe Celtic temper; but he always rang
true on every issue of human rights as
opposed to those of privilege, the concrete
selfshneSs of untrenched classes, whether
IF rank money or political boss-ship,
Everywhere his vigorous Americanism has
been emphasized as the quality that gave
aim his transcendent influence among the
PEOPLE of his race, and his warm accept
aace with Americans of older lineage. He
was Irish in every fibre of his nature, but
he valued the heritage of the Pill
grim and the Puritan. The tory
press of England cannot understand
this great and universal American
tribute to man who in the annals of the
British empire is only recorded as INC
9S43," an Australian convict, yet unpar
aoned for his Irish patriotism. But the
English tories know very little even about
America, and less about the Irish exiles
who have fought in the armies of tn
Union and have become component par
of our national life. John Boyle O'Reill,
was so thorough an American that we arr
sure he would not desire that his bod,
shoald be buried in Ireland, as John Dill
ION and Michael Davitt suggest. He be
longs to America which is proud Of him
and cannot surrender his grave even t
IRELAND.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28

The Representative From Pennsylvania
Expires From Heart Disease.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25-Representative
Lewis f. Watson, Of Penpsylv ania, died
very suddenly, this morning, in this city.
He was about to enter his Garage at the
Shoreham hotel to drive to the capitol, at
about II o'clock, when he was suddenly
overcome by an attack of heart disease,
and died soon after being carried into the
hotel. Mr.. Watson represented the
twenthy-seventh Pennsylvania district,
and his death makes the third which has
taken place in the ranks of the Pennsyl-
vania- delegation this sess ion. He was an
elderly man, and has been in feeble health
for some time past. The Pennsylvania
delegation will be called together this
afternoon, to take suitable action and
adopt appropriate resolutions respecting
the death of their colleague
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28
FAILED TO SETTLE THE STRIKE.
Commissioner Donovan Makes Many Flu
tile Efforts for Settlement

tile Efforts for Settlement.
ALBANY, Aug. %. = Superintendent
Hammond returned from Green Island
this afternoon. He said the strike was
confined to the yard brakemen only in the
yards at the Green Island and Church
street yards of this city. in al about
seventy five men being out He did not
know whether the strike would extend.
In any event he would abide by his decis-
ion In reference to handling transfer
freight to and from the Central. No
freight has been moved in these three yards
since early this morning. A delegate who
represented the Railroad Mems Protective
union, at a conference of railroad leaders
IN Troy, said today that the tieing up of
the Boston & Albany and Fl chburg roads
may be looked for any day now.
At meeting or the state board of medi-
alton and arbitration today, Commits
sioner Donovan made a report of repeated
but futile efforts to bring about a settle
ment of the strike.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28

OKLAHOMA was delusion and a snare.
It is only little over year since there
vas grand rush to pre-empt land there,
and people tramped over each other in their
haste for possession. Now the governor
of the territory announces that the IN
habitants are in danger of starving, and
That the territory is so poor that it cannot
provide means for its own sufferers. Sc
lie United States is called upon to come
to the rescue. No one will begrudge the
ae'p that is extended to these unfcrtunates
but it is sufficient comm entary upon the
reckless enthusiasm of uneasy settlers tc
note how soon Oklahoma has been turned
fom a land of milk and honey into pau
per establishment on big scale.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28
WILL GO TO ROME.
Rumored That Archbishop Fabre VIII be
Raised to Cardinal.

MoNTkEL, Que, Aug. 22-Archbishor
Fabre will leave Montreal on Wednesday
next, en- route for Rome, accompanied by
his private secretary Prayers for the
safety of the archbishop will be offered
in the churches on Sunday It is
rumored that the visit of the
archbishop to Rome has to do with the
ANAL gamation of the Victoria and Laval
medical schools and with the Tongue
Pointe asylum contract with the nuns. 1t
is also reported that the archbishop will
be raised to the cardinalate before his re
turn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28
BLOODSHED In CINCINNATI,
Many AtrOciOuS Crimes Committed in
the Last Twenty four Hours
in POrkOpOlis.
Three Men Murdered and Two Others
Fatally Wounded by Sets
of HoOdlumS.
Hatchets, Razors and ShOtguns
PrOmiscuOusly Used by vii
famous Thugs.

CINCINNATI, O., Aug. 25.-Within
four hours, from 9 o'clock last night to
l o'clock this morning, there were in
Cincinnati and its immediate outskirts
three murders and two murderous assaults
one at least of which will terminate the
victims live and make the assailant a
murderer. At o'clock in the western
part of the city, in Vandorn alley,
near Cutter street, Bob Burley
had his throat cut from ear to ear by
Charles White Both were colored labor
ers in Bodman's tobacco house, and they
lived In the same house. The murder,
which was instantaneous, was over SIS
account. Both were drunk The weapon
was a razor. White was arrested 1t was
on Abigail street, last Tuesday, that Ed.
Mccarthy, paroled convict from the pen
him and got badly beaten blythe crowd he
a revolver and patrolled the alleys and
streets in that neighborhood. At nearly
10 o'clock last night he asked Tim Fla
herty and Charles Nedderman to walk
across the street to where he was standing.
Flaherty, followed by Nedderman, went
over, Mccarthy fired, Flaherty lodged and
Nedderman fell dead shot in the forehead.
Mccarthy ran, and meeting Charley
Nutshell near Broadway shot him in the
throat and then escaped. He has not been
arrested
At half past II this morning, at Trout
mans station, on the Big -Four road, just
outside the city limits in a saloon, Gus
Raube shot George Ogden in bed, using
both barrels of double barreled shotgun.
Rnube IS imprisoned as a murderer, but he
AYERS the shooting was accidental He
was Ogden's roommate and the deed was
done in their bed room.
About 10 o'clock last night, on Walnut
Hills, James Gregory cut Richard Reed,
colored tenant OF Gregory's, in the head
with Ratchet in a quarrel about rent. 1t
Is thouoht Reed will die
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28

The North andSouth Dakota Laws Declared
Unconstitutional

JAMESTOWN, n. D., Aug. 22.-Judge
Rose fled his decision today in the Barnes
county original package case, which was
argued last week. In view of the prob
ability that the original package business
will continue until the next legislature
meets. in both Dakotas, the decision is
of great interest to the northwest
inasmuch as it defines under what re-
strictions the original package business
might be carried on prior to the passage
of the Wilson original package bill The
title Of the case is the state against John
Bergreen. The defendant is an original
package dealer in Valley City. The COM
plant alleges he sold liquor in violation of
section IS of the prohibition law in selling
in original packages, and that under said
law his place was nuisance. An order
was therefore asked restraing him from
further selling. The defense contended
that the statute prohibiting the sale of
liquor in original packages was unconsti-
tutional when it was enacted and is still a
nullity Judge Rose holds that the law,
when enacted was unconstitutional, saying
that congress has the sole power to regu-
late commence and has not delegated the
power to the state.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28
BELOIT COLLEGE FORTUNATE.
MIR. ScOville Offers to Furnish the Hall Do
mated by Him.

BELoIT, Wis, Aug %. Mr.. Scoville,
of Oak Park, ILL.,, has offered to furnish
Scoville Hall. the new college academy
building. This means gift of 81, 800 in
addition to that given by him on the
building itself. A Milwaukee gentleman
has also given 800 towards the equip
ment of the manual training room in the
building.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28
FIRE AT MAZOMANIE.
The Carlisle House is Raced to the Ground
by Flames,

MAzoMANIE, Aug. 25.-At about four
o'clock this morning the citizens of this
quiet place were reused out of their
slumoers by the alarm of fire. The largest
hotel of the village was in a blaze, and
before the fire department could arrive on
the scene of action the Carlisle house was
completely wrapped in flames. Although
great efforts were made to save it,
it was all the fire department could do to
keep the flames from spreading to other
buildings in the vicinity.
The Carlisle house was fine two story
and half brick structure located near the
depot.
The loss is estimated at about IS 900,
and the cause of the fire is unknown.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28

Election of American Bar Association OF
ficers at Saratoga.

SARATOGA, N. Y, Aug. 22.-At the
American Bar association meeting, this
morning, officers were elected as follows:
President, Simeon E. Baldwin, of New
Haven; secretary, Edward Otis Hinckley,
of Baltimore; treasurer, Francis Rawlings,
of Philadelphia; executive committee,
the president, secretary, treasurer, Henry
Georgia; VIM. ?. Wells, of Michigan,
and Alfred Hemenway, of Massachusetts.
A vice-president for each state, and a local
council for each state. were also made.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28
KILLED HIS OFFSPRING
A Father Shoots His Own Daughter by
Mistake.

HAzARDv1LLE, Pa, Aug. 22-Mamie
Hogan, aged 20, is dying at her home here
from pistol shot wound received at the
hands of her father between and so clock
yesterday morning. The young lady had
clandestinely left her bedroom after
her parents had retired for the night
and gone to a ball with young
man with whom she had been forbidden
to keep company She returned home
after two O'Clock and attempted to enter
the house without being heard. Her
father awoke, however. and mistaking
her for burglar fired ON her with fatal
result. The fcther is frenzied with grief
over the tragedy
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28

Captain WetheriR, of the Sea Wing, to be
Prosecuted.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 25.-Inspector
General Dumont received report of the
of the local inspectors who investigated
the case of the steamer Sea Wing, which
capsized in lake Pepin with such fatal re-
suits. They find Captain Wetherin VIC
lated the ordinance by starting out, as he
did in the face of the approaching storm.
They therefore revoke his licence and re-
port the case to the United States attorney
for prosecution
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28
DOWN A FRIGHTFUL GRADE.
Four People Killed and Several Others In
tjured.

EMIeRANT GAP, Cal, Aug, 22.-This
morning at Cascade the air brakes of a
train standing at the summit leaked and
the train consisting of a caboose and sew
eral cars started down the grade. At the
base the train crashed into freight, kill
ing the conductors Kinsley and Connolly
and the b1akemen, Beaver and Lewis, and
badly injuring couple of others. The
Cascade station was thrown down the
precipice and it and seventeen cars were
piled up in a mass. The Atlantic express
and Overland flyer were warned in time
to avert frightfuI disaster.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28
A MILWAUKEE MAN MURDERED.
The Whole Affair Shrouded in the Darkest


MINSEAPoL1s, Aug. pa Milwaukee
man named E. II. Zeise, of 950 Teutonia
street, has been frightfully stabbed, and
perhaps murdered here, The circumstan-
ces surrounding the deed. including his
whereabouts, whether alive or dead, are
shrouded in mystery. Two men named
Robert Marshall, an expressman, and
Jack O'Brien, a tough. are held by the
police for completely in the affair. Mar
shal's wife was witness of the affair
which took place in their shanty on the
river flats. and it is suspected that Zeise
and Marshall quarreled over the woman
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28

Money is Easier Again Wall STREE
TODAY

WALL STREET, Aug. 23.-12 NJ
Money has been easy at 3 to 4 per cent,
and closed at 3. The stock market opened
irreguler at changes from last nights clos
ing figures ranging up to = per cent. in
either direction. Considerable weakness
soon developed, but by II o'clock frmer
tone set set in and continued until the
bank statement was made public, when
the whole list again weakened and the
market closed dull and heavy at fractions
under opening figures.
The weekly statement of the associated
banks shows the following chanoeS:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28
SHOT BY AN ITALIAN.
A Detroit Newspaper Man Killed by
Fruit Eender.

DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 21.-Fred J.
Crimmins. assistant city editor cf the
Evening Sun, was fatally shot by Anthony
Manill. an Italian fruit yender, last even
ing. Crimmins. who was . years old,
a graduate of the Ann Arbor law school,
and a we'll known newspaper man,
stopped at the dago's stand to
purchase fruit. The Italian accused Grim
minis of taking one more plum than ne
paid for. Crimmins laughingly denied