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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16
NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

In New York state last year 49, $50 men
were convicted and 1914 women.
The widow of Jefferson Davis will
shortly go to Kansas to live with her mar
ried daughter.
JUDGE William D.. Kelley, the oldest
member of the House died at Washington
on Thursday evening.
SOME remarkable caves have been dis
covered in West Australia Two of them
would afford accommodations for 100000
men each.
TORONTO, Can.-Railway travel in Cana.
da is delayed by snow. The mercury on
Saturday reported from various points as
ranging from 30 below zero.
CHICAGo.@The annual report of the
National W. C. 7. q. shows a total mem
bership for 1889 of 142, 343. a gain of g.
821 over the paid membership of 1888.
CUBA's total sugar crop for 1889 was
487, 34 tons; that for 1878, 649.308 tons.
Local consumption in 1889, $4,000.
ONE of the crack hotels at Pasadena,
Cal, has proved so poor an investment
that the owner has turned it into a storage
warehouse.
Mrs. HANNAH B. SoUTHwoRTH, who
shot and killed Stephen L. Pettus last
November, died IN her cell in the Tombs
Prison, at New York, early Tuesday morn,
ing.
JERSEY CITY.-At a mass meeting un.
der the aupsices of the African American
League Tuesday night, Thomas Fortune
the founder of the league, made a conser
vative address In which he urged his race
to get down to business and stop wishing
for what they could never attain.
OAKLAND, Cal, claims to have the
youngest soldier who enlisted in the late
war. He is J. J. Hannah, residing at &c
18th avenue, East Oakland He claims tc
have proof to show that he enlisted Sept.
q, 1861, in the 1st New York marine ar
tillery, being but Is years | month and
days old.-San Francisco Chronicle.
THE late Henry w. Grady was a great
raconteur. He was a master of dialect
and was never afraid of giving a good
story plenty of coloring. 1t was consider.
ed a remarkable thing in the office of the
Atlanta Constitution if a week went by
without a new yarn from Grady. His
stories were always witty but never vul.
gar.
c AT Auburn, Cal, a woman was watch.
ing her hens, which were scratching in the
garden, when she saw them unearth g
bright object and try their bills upon it,
She took it into the house, and it proved
to be a chunk Of gold worth $57.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16
JOSH BILLINGS PHILOSOPHY.
New York Weekly.

The. snobs are all either half-breeds or
dunghills.
Forms and c~erenonys are just az necess-
arv In the church az uniforms are in the
field; strip an army ov its cockades and
brass buttons, and it would bekum a mob.
Ill bred people are alwus the most ceri-
monius; the kitchen alwus beats the porlor
in punktillio.
We admire modesty in the woman for
the same reason that we admire the
bravery in man.
Genuine grief IL like the penitence, not
Humorous but subdued. Sorrow from the
hous tops and penitence in a market place
show more ambushun than piety.
About the best thing that experience
kan do for US IL few learn Is how to enjoy
mizery.
1t IL a graf art tew know how tew
.'gather figs from thistles, but philosophy
teaches it.
The reason viii so phew people are happy
in this world IL bekauze they mistake
their boddys for their souls.
We are poor, not for what we need, but
from what we want; necesitys are not only
~natral, but cheap.
This world IL phull ov heros and hero
ines, and the reason viii so menny ov them
live unnoticed IL bekauze they adorn every
day life and not an ockashun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16
CONGRESSIONAL.
TUESDAY, Jan. z.

lOESDA1. JdI. q,
Senate.-Sen. Morgan proceeded to adj
dress the senate on the subject of a bill
heretofore introduced by Sen. Butler to
provide for the emigration of persons of
color from the Southern states. He had
reached the conclusion that there was a
natural ~incongruity and irrepresslble con-
fict between the races. The return of the
negro race to Africa was the only solution
of the problem. It was undeniable that
the aversion between the two races had
greatly increased since slavery was abol-
ished andit would insrease so long as a
large portion of the population was of
African race. Experience would not per-
nit the statement that such a feeling of
aversion existed only / n the south. 1t was
not so intense in the south as it was in
the north. 1t was not so strong between
the negro and his former master as 1t was
between the negro and those who never
owned a slave. The separation of the
races was the only thing that would ex-
tinguish race aversions. In Africa the
negro could grow up to the full measures
of his destiny. Slavery Morgan said)
would be abolished In Central Africa. If
the work was left to the whites it would
be a slow process; but the American negro
could accomplish it if he dwelt among
these people. In summing up his speech,
Morgan pointed to the fact that the ne
groes had no chance to rise in this country.
Political influence would never lift the
negro race in this country above its present
level. On the contrary, the friction and
collision caused by the negroes use of the
ballot would create more envy against the
negro race. He (Morgan) looked forward
to the establishment of a free republican
government in the Congo region by the in
fuence of America or American negroes,
who would thus be redeemers and regen-
orators of this fatherland. A message
came to the president in relation to the
claim of the widow of John Paul, a Ger
man. the subject arising out of his death
at Wilmington, n. c., and recommending
the appropriation of S., ZOO was presented
to the senate and referred. After execu-
tive session the senate adjourned.
House.-A skirmish on party lines about
the rules of the house and the ruling of
the speaker was all that transpired to-day.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. s.
Senate.-The day was consumed in a
discussion between Senators Voorhees,
and Edmnnds on the celebrated Dudley let
ter relating to ''blocks of FIVE"
House.-After some routine business the
house went into a committee of the whole
for the further consideration of the Dis
trict of Columbia appropriation bill.
After striking out a couple of clauses in
the bill the committee rose and the bill
was passed. Adjourned until Friday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16
WASHINGTON.

REPRESENTATIVES, OF many OF the lead
ing cut tobacco manufacturers of the
country met at Washington Wednesday
and organized a trade mark association,
having for its object the protection of its
members in the use of Legitimate trade
marks.
BEFORE the ways and means committee
on Saturday, Alexander Wedburn, of Al
exandria, Va, appeared as the representa-
tive Of the Legislative committee of the
national grange and the Virginia state
grange, to demand the equal protection of
the farmer with the steel, iron and wool
manufacturer. He wanted equal legisla-
ton and the protection of farmers by
means of bounties.
THE president has sent the following
nominations to the senate: Treasury
George Finler, to be Surveyor of Customs
at Dubuque, Iowa. Justice David B.
Miller, Of Iowa, to be United States Mar
shall for the Southern District Of Iowa Ito
correct error. Interior = Otis II. Culver,
to be Register of the Land Office at Ceour
d'Alene, Idaho; J. Walfrid, to be Receiver
of Public Moneys at Taylor's Falls, Mimi. ;
Everett w. Foster, to be Agent for the
Indians of the Yankton Agency, South
Dakota.
WAsHINGToN.-A count just complete d
shows that there are now 460, SIG unadjudi-
Gated and pending claims on file in the
pension office, classified as follows: Invalid
claims, 1872, 955; widows claims 1870;
invalid increase claims, 100. 776; widows
increase and accrued claims, GALS. Of
these cases 25, $40 have been placed on the
list of completed files" for immediate con-
sideration and the entire adjudicating
force of the bureau Will devote five days in
each week to the consideration of these
completed cases until the entire list is dis
posed of.
WAsHINGToN.-The committee that was
appointed to investigate the Silcott defal-
cation has decided upon the character of
its reports and will take the ground that
the sergeant-at-arms is an agent of the
government, and therefore the United
States is responsible for any ENFORCEMENT
that HAY occur under his administration.
A bill will therefore be drafted and sub
mitted to the house providing for the APP
preparation of sum sufficient to reim-
burse those who lost their salaries by Sill
colts populations, but those who made a
banker of the sergeant-at-arms and de-
posted their private means with him for
convenience will not be reimbursed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16

IT is an acknowledged fact that there
are no such big red apples nowadays as we
used to have. There are peaches and
grapes and apricots and oranges and straw
berries all the year round, but One of
these d~ainties give the same pleasure that
the big red apple gave when it was the
best winter fruit. In a somewhat similar
way the reader of to-day turns from the
luxury and abundance of modern books to
recall the plain and solid literature that
fourished in his youth, or the play
goer would give up all the sumptuous
splendor of the contemporary stage if he
could but be stirred again as he was by one
of the old artificial dramas that are now
seen no more. They have gone with
the big red apples. A generation or
so back, books were written for the few.
There were not so very many of them, be-
cause an author was addressing a small
audience of educated people audit was al
ways easy for him to get a hearing. If a
book made any success at all, it was like
ly to hold its prominence for some time,
and it thus very often acquired a lasting
literary difnity out of proportion to its
merit. But while the select were reading
more or less famous and more or less dull
books, the great mass of people were not
reading anything at all, except a few
tracts and some very bad stories. Now,
on the other hand, books, magazines and
newspapers pour from the press in such
numbers that no n can keep count Of
them. What one person has read, every
person may read, and success depends up
on the appreciation not of the few but of
the many. The quiet reader grows weary
of it all and turns for relief to the red APP
Piles of his childhood; yet with all this
plethora of production, the average of lit
erary execution to- day is certainly higher
than it was a generation or two back. On
ly the mountains do not stand so high
above the plains.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16

people have not quit naming their bows.
after the illustrious men to this dav.
For instance, here is the name of w.
H. Johnson-William Henry Harrison was
elected president in 1886, consequently.
Mr.. Johnson is about 80 years old. Here
is ". Scott Smith-Winfeld Scott ran for
president in 1852. Smith is therefore
about 81 years old. The next name ON the
list Is A. L North-Abraham Lincoln was
elected president in 1860. Mr.. North Is
therefore about q years of age. Now take
the next-M. f. Smathers. Willard Fill.
more was a candidate for president in
1856. NJ. F. Smathers is therefore. in all
probability, about 80 years old. And so
on. By studying the Christian names of
men you can figure out the ages of many
of them very closely. "-Punxsutawney
PA \ Shirt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16
CRIME.

E. T. LOwEREE, formerly b0ok-keeper
for Allen & Co., at Cincinnati, has been
arrested for embezzling SIS, 900. He stood
high in the business and social circles.
TRENTON, n. J.-Dr. Knifin and Miss
Purcell have been released on a writ of
habeas corpus issued by Chief Justice
Beasely. The bail was 500, 900 in each
case and was furnished by % prominent
citizens.
ST. LOUIS, Mo.-The Post-Dispatch
tonight contains another expose of hood
ling in the city government. This time
the claim is made that S4, 900 were paid for
passing the Union Market arcade bill
through the house of delegates. The grand
jury will investigate the charges.
AT Boston Monday night five burglars
fastened the door of Charles A. Keene's
jewelry store with a bar of wood, smashed
in a window, and gathered up about 81 600
worth of watches, jewelry, etc, and sue
ceeded in escaping before the people in the
store could get outside.
CHICAGO.-While walking along the
street Saturday night with John Baines,
James Prenderghast suddenly turned and
plunged a knife into his companions
heart. He coolly withdrew the weapon,
remarking. There; I guess that went
through him." He ran away, but was
captured in a short time. The two men
had been rivals for three years for the fa-
vor of a woman.
P1NEvILLE, Ky.-Seven prisoners con
fined in the county jail here made their
escape last Wednesday evening. The
turnkey had just placed the key into the
jail lock when a ''trusty" prisoner who
was by seized and disarmed him, threw
open the door and babe his companions
come on. Among the escaped were two
of the famous Turner gang of Yellow
Creek, charged with shooting Crow Carr
in marlborough on Christmas day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16
Do the Dying Suffer Pain?

The rule is that unconsciousness, no pain,
attends the final act. A natural death is
not more painful than birth. Palnlessly
we come: whence we know not. Painless
ly we go; where we know not. Nature
kindly provides an anastnetic for the body
when the spirit leaves it. Previous to that
moment, and in preparationfor it, respira-
ton becomes feeble, generally slow and
short, often accompanied by long inspira-
ions, and short, sudden ~expirations, so
that the bloodis steadily less and less oxy-
genated. At the same time the heart acts
with corresponding debility, producing a
short, feeble, and often irregular pulse. As
this process goes on the blood is not only
driven to the head in diminished force and
in less quantity, but what flows there is
loaded with carbonic acid gas, a powerful
anesthetic, the am as derived from char
coal. Subjected to the influence of this
gas the nerve centers lose consciousness
and sensibillity, apparent sleep creeps over
the system: then comes stupor and then
the end.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16
To Tell the Ages of Strangers.

Give me a list of the names Of the men
in any city or town in this country and,
without ever having seen or heard ofthem,
l viii tell you half their ages, said a
prominent citizen recently.
How can you do that?'' asked an in
credulous bystander.
Simply by the initials of their names.
In the first place you must remember that
about half of the male population of this
country have been named after presidents
of the United States or candidates for
president, and all you have to do is to
know when these presidential candidates
were at the zenith of their popularity. Of
course exceptions must be made of George
Washington and Andrew Jackson, for
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16
DIR. KNlFFEN AND MISS PURCELL
Held for the Foul Murder of DR.. Knifen's
Wife

Wife.
TRENTON, New Jersey.-At the coro-
ner's inquest in the Knifen murder case
taday, DIR. Shannon, DIR. Kniffen's partner,
told of finding Miss Purcell lying on the
floor on her stomach. Her clothing was
not disarranged. When he picked her up
she said: Let me go, let me go" adding:
run Myra, run" Mrs. Kniffen,
DR.. Shannon said, was lying on the bed.
The bed clothing was not d~isarranged.
Knifin always treatedhi j wife well. Wit
ness said he heard of q~uarrels between the
doctor and Mrs. Knifin but was reluctant
to tell them and was not pressed. Miss
Purcell was put on the stand but by in
struction of her counsel she refused to ans
wer questions. Her counsel explained
that while she had not been arrested, yet
ever since the murder was committed she
had been under surveillance and prac-
tically a prisoner.
She was then conducted down stairs
from the jury room and DIR. Knifin
brought over from his home, when the po-
lice justice read the complaint, charging
Miss Purcell and DR.. Knifin with being
principals or accessories to the murder
of Mrs. Kniffin. After consultation of
the counsel the formal plea of not guilty
was entered with respect to both and the
examination was waived. Commitment
was at once drawn and the pair was taken
downstairs and placed in separate cells.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16
A BIGAMIsT FROM CHICAGO.
Although Having a Wife in This City He
Marries a Girl in Wisconsin.

MANITowAc, Wis.-Tuesday of last
week a daughter of Patrick Donahoe was
married at the Catholic church in Meme,
to a man named Joseph Byrnes of Chicago.
Byrnes had told the girl he was a widower,
but a day or two after the wedding it was
learned that he had a wife and family in
Chicago. When Byrnes was confronted
with the Chicago wife's marriage certif-
cate he attempted to commit suicide. A
warrant was Immediately secured from
Justice O'Neil, and the bigamist now
languishes in the county Jail. Miss Dona-
hoe is very respectable and quite a hand
some young woman. The community is
very indignant at the wrong done her. 1t
is now said that the fellow has two wives
living in Chicago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16
ODDITIES OF
How One Must Act at Certain Times in
Other Nations.

In Sweden if you address the poorest
person ON the street you must lift your hat,
saws London Wit and Wisdom. The
same courtesy is insisted If you pass a
lady on the stairway. To enter a reading
room or a bank with ones hat on is re-
garded as a bad breach of manners. To
place your hand ON the arm of of lady is
a grave and Objectionable familiarity.
Never touch the person: 1t Is sacred, Is
one of their proverbs. In Holland a lady
is expected to retire preclpitately II she
should enter a store or restaurant where
men are congregated. She waits until
they have transacted their business and
departed. Ladies seldom rise In Spain to
receive a male visitor, and they rarely ac-
company him to the door. For a Spaniard
to give a lady (even his wife) his arm when
out walking is looked upon as a decided
violation of propriety.
In Persia. among the aristocracy, a visi-
tor sends notice an hour or two before call
ing and gives a days notice if the visit IS
one of great Importance. He Is met by
servants before he reaches the house and
other considerations are shown him ac-
cording to relative rank. The left, and
no the right, is considered the post of
honor. No Turk will enter a sitting-Ioom
with dirty shoes. The upper classes wear
tight-ftting shoes with goloshes over them.
The latter, which receive all the dirt and
dust. and are left outside the door. The
Turk never washes in dirty water. Water
is poured over his hands, so that when
polluted it runs away.
In Syria the people never take off their
caps or turbans when entering the house or
visiting a friend, but they always leave
their shoes at the door. There are no mats
or scrapers outside and the floors inside are
covered with expensive rugs, kept very
clean In moslem houses and used to kneel
upon while saying prayers.
At the democratic caucus at Annapolis
Gan Wilson was u-nanin1OuSlv Nominated
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16
FIRES AND

THREE workmen were crushed to death
at Long Island City Tuesday morning by
the caving in of one of the walls of the
Long Island railroad machine shops.
MALCoM f. Mcleod, a mail carrier, was
frozen to death while carrying mail and
express to Washington, eight miles from
Nevada, Col.
SENERToN, Col.-The block buildings
on Green street, was the exception of three
stores, burned Saturday morning. Loss.
10000.
FIRE in the stables of Macy Brothers, at
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16
A Family Gathering.

Have you a father? Have you a mother
Have you a son or daughter, sister or a
brother who has not yet taken Kemp's Bal
teed remedy for the cure of Coughs. Colds,
Asthma, Group and all Throat and Lung
Troubles? If so, why, when a sample bottle
is gladly given to you free by any druggist,
and the large size costs only SOC. and 500?
Thirty years ago Daniel Harris took up a
claim in Oregon and farmed it until last
year. Then he laid out the town of Fair
haven, which now has stores, residences,
wharves, hotels, schools, and is disputing
with Seattle and Tacoma as to which is the
best port for shipping. 4
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16
THEY WILL ASSIST PARNELL.
Mr.. Moran Says the Irish in America Will
Furnish Money to Fight O'Shea.

PITTsBURG, Pa.-William John Moran
of Chicago and one of the prominent Irish
leaders of the West was in Pittsburg
recently en- route to Washington. Mr..
Moran says a meeting of Irish leaders will
be held in New York to take steps toward
assisting Parnell in his recent trouble.
1.-The charges made against Mr.. Parnell by
Capt. O'Shea in the divorce suit are
false" said Mr.. Moran, land it is ashame
that the Irish leader should be given this
unpleasant notoriety. His friends in this
country sympathize with him and at u
meeting in New York, at which several
questions relative to home rule in Ireland
will be discussed; this matter into which
Parnell is dragged will receive special at
t%ention. We will not only forward
him sympathy, but we will forward
him a sum of money to be used in his
defense. Such villainy will only react and
in the end do Mr.. Parnell more good than
harm"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16
The Men Ordered Back.

WoBURN, Mass, Jan. 10.-At a meet
ing of the striking workingmen tonight
Grand Master Workman Moreland an
nounced that the strike lockout In the
leather industry was practically ended and
the men were ordered back to work next
Monday. Both sides agreed to submit
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16
Walked Up EfeetualIy.

A lethargic, dormant condition of the liver is
hardly TO be overcome with drastic cathartics and
nauseous cholagogues. A gentler, pleasanter and
far more effective means exists of arousing the
organ when somnolent. This is Hostetter
Stomach Bitters, vouched for by the medical fra
ternity, tested by the public for many years. A
resumption by the hillary organ Of Its s%ecretive
function. with the activity attendant upon health,
a return to regularity of the bowels, and q renewal
of digestion, are the no less happy and certain
results of using the Bitters systemaucaliy- It's
tendency being rather to perpetuate regularity
than to produce a copious action. Malaria. nery-
BUSINESS, debility, kidney troubles and neuralgia 1t
subdues efectually.