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The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-07-10
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UNDER Law which went into effect
on the I'd life Imprisonment is now the
penalty OF reporting Canadian fortifica-
tions or armament to other powers:
A NUMBER Of gambling house pro-
prietors were on the I'd sentenced in st:
Petersburg to exile in Siberia Tor five
years.
IT was said on the Sd that England
would give France an island in the
Caribbean sea and recognize the French
protcctorate over Madagascar.
A SYNDICATE OF English noblemen
was organized in London on the Sd with
capital of $1,000. 900 to acquire the
phosphate fields of the United States
and Canada,
TIE announcement on the Sd that
the law providing for the forthcoming
census in England requires the religious
belief of every individual to be recorded
has evoked strong opposition.
A NEW Cabinet was formed in Spain
on the 5th with Senior Canovas del Cas-
tillo as Prime Minister.
+ ADvIcEs OF the 5th stated that the
famine in the Soudan was increasing
rapidly. Thousands Of natives were
without food Of any kind, and the deaths
from starvation were many. 1t was said
that large numbers of men, women and
children were delibera tely put to death
that they might serve as food for theft
frenzied companions.
The cholera returns from Valencia,
Spain, show total of thirty-one deaths
during the twenty-four hours ended on
the 9th.
ADvIcEs of the 5th say that near Tam
pico, Mex, 10000 cattle had died on
account of drought,
COLONEL MARTINovIcs, cousin and
chief body-guard of Prince Nicholas, OF
Montenegro, was murdered on the 7th
by personal enemy and the murderer
was Immediately lynched
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-07-10
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

In the Twenty-fifth Pennsylvania dis
trict the Democrats on the Sd nomi-
mated Alex NJ. Mcdowell for Congress,
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-07-10

THE Maine Democrats in convention
on the I'd at Augusta nominated VIII
lam p Thompson, Of Belfast, for Gov:
ernor.
RoBERT Z. PATTIsoN was nominated
for, Governor Of Pennsylvania on the
I'd by the DEMOCRATS IN convention at
Scranton.
Mrs. GEORGE HULsE MCLEOD, lady
we'll known in literary and temperance
circles, died at Baltimore, Md, on the
I'd at the age of 81 years.
THE Republicans of the Seventeeth
district of Illinois on the I'd nominated
+, II. Chapman for Congress, and Walter
/. Hayes was fenoninated by tho Sec
6nd Iowa district Democrats,
hENEiiAI 9niiAE MARstoS died a.
his home in Exeter; N. H., on the Sd,
aged 10 years. He was d member ct
Congress for several terms.
PRESIDENT HARRISON joined his FAM
lily at Cape May, N. j., on the Sd, where
he would remain for several days.
TVS Union Labor party Of Ohio met
at Columbus on tie 4tb and nominated
a State ticket with Ezekiel I. Curtis, oil
Pennington, for Secret tary of State.
THE Republicans of the Seventh Iowa
district on the Sd nominated j. A. 7.
Hull for Congress. In the Nineteenth
illinois district tho Democrats renomt.
mated james R. Williams.
Mrs. EVA HIATT, Who had reached the
age Of 113 years, was buried az Cicero
Center, n. Y, on the 5th.
THE State Prohibition Committee met
at Birmingham, Ala, on the 9Th and
nominated Rev. S. L. RUSSELL OF Chero
kee, for Governor.
JAMES MEntiS, bf Concord, N. H., q
war veteran, portions Of whose BODY
had become ossified within few years
and for whom a pension Of S10O month
had been specially granted by Con-
gress, died on the 5th.
THE Republicans Of Wisconsin will
meet in State convention at Madison or
the goth Of August next
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-27
FOREIGN.

A FRESH expulsion of anarchists from
! Switzerland is imminent.
REV. DR. ADAM, leader of the free
church of Scotland is dead.
The financial panic which prevailed at
Montevideo has subsidized.
An English syndicate will invest $40,
100000 in phosphate lands in South Caro-
lima.
AUSTRIA and Germany have agreed up
on the conditions of the tariffs of the res
pective countries.
IT is thought III London that Dillon will
be asked to succeed Parnell as the leader OF
the Irish party.
THREE hundred and fifty shipwrights
employed at Harvey ship yards at Hayle
have struck for change In their hours OF
labor.
LADY ROsEBERY, wife of Lord Rose
berry, the well-known liberal statesman.
died at 6 clock on the 18th. She had
been i'll for some time.
Mr.. HENNEssEY has been selected to
succeed to the late Edward Marum as
member of parliament for the northern
division Of Kilkenny.
RUSSIA has established a government
factory with capacity to produce $50, 600
pools OF sulphur1c ACID per year. The acid
Is for the use IN military operations, par
ticuiarly in the manufacture Of smokeless
powder.
A TERRIBLE tragedy has come to light in
a town IN ElsasS. A woman, fearing that
she and her family would starvp to death
cut the throats of her FIVE children and
then killed herself.
The Seamen' s and Firemen 5 union has
resolved to boycott the boarding houses
IN Cardiff and other places where the mas
tiers are engaged In organizing free labor
associations.
The British steamer LIaudaff City,
Captain Fit, tor Bristol. passed Browhead
Nov. Is. She had on boa1 d the crew of
the bark Charger, Captain Brown, for
Belfast, from Dalhousle, Ocv Is. The
Charger had been abandoned.
b. M. WARNER & Co., the sewing-ma-
chime manufactures, with headquarters at
Hamilton, Ontario, have called meeting
Of their creditors. Their liabilities are
estimated at 100000.
GEN. SELEvERsTRoFF, formerly chief
of the Russian gendarmery and head OF
the department of political police, who
HE evidence of the O'Shea trial has
been brought to the attention of the pope
by churchmen near the vatican who are
opposed to the Irish party. it is not
thought probable that any action will be
taken by the holy see, as Parnell being a
protestant, outside the jurisdiction of the
church
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-27
Beets as Food for Cows.

A bulletin of the Ohio agricultural eX-
perimental station gives the results of an
experiment in feeding sugar beets TO mich
COWS, made during the past winter, to-
gether with a summary of two similar eX-
| ppriments, one made by the station in
| 1889 ard one by the farm department of
the Ohio state university IN 1879.
| la the last named experiment eight COWS
were kept under test for eleven weeks; in
| 1889 twelve COWS for eight weeks, and in
| 1890 twelve COWS for nine weeks, the COWS
in each case being weighed daily, as well
as their feed and milk.
| In each of the three experiments the
COWS ate more hay and more total dry mat
ter when feeding on beets than on other
foods (hay, meal and bran in 1879, corn
silage in 1889 and 1890 and in each case
more milk was given from the beets than
from the other foods, but it is not yet de-
monstrated that the increase of milk
was produced economically.
For twelve years records have been kept
on the farm now occupied by the station,
which shows that the average yield of beets
over this period has been nearly sixteen
tons per acre, against an annual yield of
about fifty-fve bushels of shelied corn per
acre.
But crop of ffty-fve bushels of shelled
corn with its fodder, will contain nearly
twice as much dry matter as sixteen tons
of beets and these experiments indicate
that, whether fed dry as cornmeal and
dry fodder, or as corn ensilage, the dry
matter of the corn crop will be found
about as effective, pound for pound, as the
dry matter of the beet crop.
1t lis possible to raise more than sixteen
tons of beets to the acre. One CROP of two
acres is reported at thirty-seven and one
half tons per acre. and smaller areas have
given still larger yields, but such crops re-
quire very rich land and thorough culture.
Whether it is possible to produce a pound
of dry matter in beets as economically as it
can be done in corn is not yet definitely
settled, but the probabilities are against
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-27

White House to protest as Kansans against
such an outrage as paldo1ing the leader
In the Lawrence massacre, Sidney Clarke
did most of the talking, which was rather
exciting. He had his own experience with
Quantrlll. The guerrilla went after him on
one occasion and Clarke escaped in his
shit, jumping from the window, hurrving
out OF town, and only coming back after he
had procured some clean clothing and a
gun, and had aroused the Free State men.
Something that was said to the Pres
ident was construed by the latter as
threat.
:" Suppose do choose to pardon this
man?' Mr.. Johnson inquired, throwing
back his head.
BY, sir, Clarke Numbered, If you
do, I'll shoot him at your feet.
well, Colonel Hinton resumed. after
that interview with Johnson. we went in
search of the supposed Quantrill in earnest.
Our intention was to make him prisoner
and take him back to Lawrence to answer
for that crime. 1t WAS three or four DAYS
before we got on the trail The fellow was
on spree and had gone off to a place of
hiding. We rounded him up one night.
Blunt, Clarke and other Kansans were in
party. The man was about over his de
bauch, and when he found himself in our
hands ne was badly frightened He at
once denied that lie was Quantrill Some
OF our party thought he was the guerrilla
The resemblance was striking But on
looking closely we saw that the drocp OF
one eye, which WIS characteristic of Guam
trill. was wanting in the man. After
awhile the prisoner was told that he could
go, and became communicative He was
Mississippian, and an ex-rebel, of course
He knew of his resemblance to Quantrill
and had assumed Quantril's name as an act
of drunken deviltry- When he found him
self out of the scrape he said to us:
Il can tell you where the real Quantril is
He is in hospital at Louisville under an
as 'umed name, and is dying"
General Blunt" Colonel Hinton went
on, had become greatly interested. The
recollections of the outrage rad returned
to us all most wildly in the search we haG
been making. Blunt thought that the
story of the Mississippian was worthy of at
tention. Without any delay he got on the
train and went to Louisville After con
siderable search he found and fully identif
ed Quantrill, who died just about that time
| Blunt came back and told Us of the result
There has never been any doubt in ou
minds that the man whom Blunt found wa
the leader who planned, ordered and par
tlcipated In the massacre of 260 unarmeC
| Uni On men at Lawrence on the 18Th O
August, 1868. | believe that the hospita
records will show that Identification a
Louisville
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-27
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

fHE hat factories at Danbury, Conn,
shut down Monday, throwing 5000 people
out of work.
GEN. MILLS says the greatest danger
from Indians is at Pine Ridge, S. D., and
troops will be sent thither.
MAYOR PECK, of Milwaukee, has resign
ed, preparatory to assuming the office OF
governor. A special election to choose
his successor will be called Dec. 2.
THE largest iron furnace IN the world,
with capacity of 200 tons in twentyfour
hours, was put in operation Nov. 18th at
Etna, Pa.
The Rockefellers have secured control of
the Northern Pacific railroad, which will
result In the ousting of Henry Willard.
OVER two thousand miners are now idle
IN the Brazil, Ind, district, and general
shutdown is feared.
ANOTHER attempt is being made TO
break the will of A. T. Stewart by the
Irish relatives.
BENJAMIN P. SHILLABAR (''Mrs. Part
ington J, the humorous writer, is dam
gerously i'll at Boston.
MARIA L. PERRY, who for twenty years
lived with Lucy A. Lobdell as man and
wife, died Friday at Boston.
r. F. ToB1N, national vice commander
of the grand army of the republic died at
Boston, Saturday of Bright's disease.
Col. BEVERLY kENNoN, inventor Of the
circular fort recently adopted by the
United States, died Saturday at New York.
Mrs. POTTER PALMER has been unan-
| imouslv elected president of the board Of
women managers of the worlds fair.
The financial panic has reached the
working people in New York and severa
savings banks have been compelled to
stand a severe run.
THE steamer Normandle, which reached
| New York Monday, is detained at quar-
antine, owing to the prevalence of small,
pox among the $50 Storage passengers she
brought over.
THE new cruiser Maine was launched at
New York Tuesday, In the presence Of
Secretary Tracy and many invited guests
Miss Wilmerdirg, a niece Ct the secretary
christened the big ship as she slid into
the waves to accompanying thunder Of
cannon.
Gov. STEELs of Oklahoma vetoed the
Kingfsher capital bill, which actor
leaves the capital at Guthrie.
R. NJ. KING Of Obion, Tenn, a seventh
day adventist, who was sent to Jail fol
blowing Sunday, has appealed to the
federal courts.
JOSEPH F. BECKER, dealer in teas ant
coffees, who has stores on Eighth avenue
Fulton and Front streets, Chicago, ha
made an assignment to John 6. Quinlan
without preferences.
CHARLES JACOB, JR., & Co., pork an(
beef packers. of Cincinnati, made an as
signment Thursday morning, with esti
mated liabilities of $4,000; assets, $40,
000
Four Pittsburg young men who believe
that Stanley has maginfed the hardships O
his journey through Africa will start Nov
oath, to 90 over the ground covered by the
explorer. They also expect to find evidence
that Stanley has misstated the Barttelo
matter
EX-POsTMAsTER THOMAS JONES, JR.
died on the 18th of injuries received Mon
day night by falling into the basement Of
new building. He was brother t.
United States Senator Jones, of Nevada
and had for many years been prominent il
local politics.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-27
Warm Water for Cows,

An experiment to determine whether it is
profitable 10 give mich COWS warm water
instead of cold water has been made at the
Wisconsin experiment station. Such work
as this Is directly In the line of the practi-
cal requirements of the farmer, and more
tests of the same sort should be undertake
Ell. The result in this case was not up to
our expectations and not so good as many
farmers believe they have personally pro-
cured: but 1t has the advantage of being
test under more exact conditions than the
farmer can usually procure, and, if repeat
ell with a result approximately the same
should be accepted as nearly conclusive.
To summarize the results briefly, we may
state that the gain in milk produced by
giving water heated to 70 degrees was a
trltie over one pound each day, or equal to
about Ga cent. increase upon ithe former
daily average of 10 pounds more of water
per day when 1t was given warm, and that
the increase In the yield of milk was coin
cldent with an increase In the amount of
water drank. whether it was taken warm
or cold, so that if by any other method the
COWS were induced to drink more there
would follow the same relative gain of
one pound of milk for each additional 10
! pounds of water. There was slightly
greater consumption of food while drink
ing warm water The testimony regard
ing the relative increase of weight is not
| all conclusive, but seems rather in ia Jor of
cold water. Naturally, when the milk
flow is stimulated by such a purely arti6-
cial means increase of weight could not be
expected. The conclusions are as follows:
With butter at 20 cents per pound, skim
milk at 25 cents per hundred, corn fodder
at SIS per ton, and the cost of warming
water for forty COWS 120 days at SIS. the
results obtained from the COWS In the fore
going expert ent indicate that a net gain
of S2l Sc would be realized on herd of 40
cows averaging l6 pounds of milk per co
per day, and at least $40 on herd of 20
and S. on herd of 10 cows. An addition
al cost for fodder would rapidly reduce
the gain. Aswe have said, the result does
not seem as good as that obtained by in
dividual farmers. The reason may be
that when the farmer or dairyman warns
the water for his COWS he also does several
other things, such as making their quar-
tiers warmer, paying closer attention to
feeding, etc. When one pays strict at
tention to one detail other Improvements
in methods are apt to follow, and thus re-
suits are gained that would not be pro-
duced by any single item. We hope the
experiment at the Wisconsin station will
be repeated under as nearly the same con-
| ditions as is possible.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-27
FIRES AND CASUALTIES,

A WINNIPEG alderman and his wife are
drowned.
In fire at Charlottesville, Va, Edwin
0 Hara an agent of John Wanamaker
was burned to death.
The large flour mill and elevator of Viii
liam Peter at ColunIblavi,Ie were burned
Wednesday night. Loss. $4,000.
The tug Alert of San Francisco and a
lighter went ashsre at Catalina island on
the 14rh during gale. Both vessels are
total wrecks A sailor named William
O Neil was drowned.
Two men have been killed and fifty
more injured by the fall of a scatfold at
Lima, O.
FIRE at Evanston. H., Wednesday de-
stroved Turner'S livery stable. causing d
loss of $4,000. Seventeen horses were
burned to death.
A BOILER at the Marbehead pumping
station exploded Wednesday, killing John
Dunn, engineer, and seriously injuring
four others.
DAVID STILES, an old resident of Ire.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-27
CRIME.

MAYOR A. E. STEELE, of Marion, Ind,
is short in his accounts 81, 800 and has left
the city.
THE St. Louis grand jury has indicted
George W. Harris, of Chicago, charged
with robbing registered mail pouches on
the Chicago & Alton railroad.
TAB PRYOR, an ex-poliCeman is arrest
ed for alleged completely in the mysterious
murder of Mead, the Waupaca wis bank
er, in 1882.
JOHN MCNAB, a prominent hotel pro-
prietor and hOrseman, of Scranton, Pa,
has been arrested for d shocking criminal
assault upon young girl. When he
was lodged in the Jail here he wept like a
child.
A GANG of would-be lynchers undertook
to take murderer out of the Huntington
Tenn jail last Friday night. The pris-
oner somehow got hold of revolver and
drove them away after wounding two OF
the leaders.
A LETTER has been received from DR.
Congdon, the missing La Porte physician,
saying that ne is en- route for Europe. II
is limited that there is some irregularity
in the management of an estate lntrusted
to his care.
FERDINAND TRoTz, a Milwaukee shoe
maker, has confessed that he deliberately
tried to burn little Friede Hunger and her
mother, with whom he had been intimate
in order to cover up previous crime.
DR.. HERMAN, an expert on insanity,
was assaulted with rotten egg by John
Feeney while trying to testify as TO the
latter's mental condition in Chicago
Thursday.
JOHN KELLER, the millionaire and reaI
estate dealer of Chicago, was robbed
Thursday morning of a tin box, contain
ing notes, deeds, etc., amounting tc
over 100000.
JOHN I. DAVIS, a lunatic. shot Miss
Gladys Price, organist at the Mariner
temple, New York, and said he had IN
tended to kill ex-Fresident Cleveland.
HENRY c. MEREDITH, aged %, employ
ed In the registry department of the pos
office in Chicago, has been arrested fol-
rifling registered letters. He was detected
by Inspector W. c. Baird, of Chattanooga
and confessed his guilt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-27
Mans Idea of Perfect Woman

Here is a mans idea of what the perfect
woman should be, for some sweet girl to
cut out and paste IN her scrapbook:
First of all, because he is a man, he IN
sists that the perfect woman shall al ways be
we'll dressed, In as much taste as the silly
fashion of the day will allow, and in such
a way as Ito set off her beauty when she is
young, to make her seem still beautiful
when she is past her youth, and to hide the
ravages of time when she is Old"
Next, she must know something about
art of all kinds -art in painting, scul pture,
poetry, literature, music, and must have
trained her eve so that she knows good
work, and is not carried away with shams
and humbugs.
Above all, she must be sympathetic, and
not talk so as to show how clever she is,
but to bring out the best points to the man
she is talking to-
She must be intelligent and gracious, as
well as sympathetic, anu always a wo-
mans woman, of whom other women
think and speak well.
She must love everything that is heauti-
full and good, and hate everything that is
coarse and ugly.
And the man who has set forth this COM
prehevsive little gospel Of womanhood,
which every girl, would do we'll to read
mark and inwardly digest, is no other than
Walter Besant.
Ruskin gives dressing, also, as one of
the cardinal virtues which every young
womanly woman must possess, and says
every woman should dress beautifully,
not finely unless on occasion, and then
very finely and beautifully too It
would appear that, in consideration of re-
fined men, true women are queens of the
realm by right divine, and lose something
of their high prerogative when their robes
of state are shabby and crumpled.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-27
Regulating the Quantity of Food

The arithmetic of the hen business. as
applied to her expense account, by the
Farm and Fireside:
A hen is said to consume five pecks of
grain food i'll one year, or forty quarts
Hence. if one hen eats forty quarts of food
III 365 days, the 365 hens should eat forty
quarts in one day, or about one quarts to
nine hens. 1t has always been the rule
that one quart of corn is the proper allow
ance for ten hens in one day, giving pint
IN the morning and pint at night. This,
however, is the estimate of the quantity
of food required. If green food or meat is
given, the amount Of corn must be reduc-
ed proportionately. How can this be DONE
as 1t requires very nice calculation to
equalize the difference between a pint of
corn and head of cabbage, there being
no standard by which the two foods can
be compared, to say nothing of the fact
that in some Rocks one hen will eat more
than another, and one will eat largely of
one kind of food while another hen will
prefer some other kind. It's wise poul-
lyman who can estimate in advance the
exact quantity to give, as the hen may eat
more today and less tomorrow
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-27
AN EDUCATED TARANTULA.
The Strange Pet Trained by a Half Breed
Mexican Bow

Ahc Trained DIV Breed
Mexican Boy.
A Eaff-breed boy of Mexican and Indian
blood recently attracted much attention at
Wlnslow, Ari., by tie performances of an
educated tarantula he owns. He carries
the big, formidablelooking insect in a
large wooden box slung about his neck,
which, when exhibiting his pet he places
on the ground as a sort of stage. At the
command of Its master the tarantula
mounted a small ladder, rung bell. and
performed on a miniature trapeze Then,
to the humping of a tambourine in the
hands of the boy, it proceeded to revolve
slowly about, as If waltzing. and when it
had finished saluted the crowd by lifting
one leg three times.
After the performance was over it
crawled to It's masters shoulder. where it
sat, occasionally running around MS neck
or down into his bosom. The boys say ne
tanned the spider when it was young, first
by feeding it every day until it grew ac-
customed to him. then gradually taught it
the tricks it knows He declares that it is
much more Intelligent than any dog, and
! very tractable, though uncompromising in
its enmity to any one but himself It is
as large as silver dollar when curled up.
though its legs are two or three inches
long.
The body is an ugly dull brown, covered
with short, coarse, black hair, which also
covers the limbs, but is very sparse and
bristly. The eyes are small and CLEAN
like diamond points, while the mouth is
furnished with slender, overlapping fangs
| The power of spring in these creatures is
said to be something incredible, leap OF
ten feet being no tremendous exertion
The boy, who owns the only one which
has ever made friends with any other liv-
ing creature, is from the Mogollon noun,
tains, lying south of Winslow, Ari., six
miles