Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-14
GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN

many to stand his trial on the charge of
having used seditious and reasonable
language regarding the Emperor William.
He was arrested in Berlin last spring and
released on bail. II cough at the Emper-
OF" is what he is alleged to have said.
This sounds to American ears more like
rudeness than treason. But the young
monarch has frequently shown that he is
very sensitive person.
The census attempt to obtain complete
directory OF the living veterans of the war
is said to be a partial failure. All the
names are recorded, but i'll has been i'm
possible in thousands of cases to get infOr-
nation as to the time of service and the
brigades and regiments where performed,
through the inability of soldiers to recall
The facts. This will be disappointment
to the Grand Army, which was especially
anxious that the work be done.
A WRITER in the last number of the
Arena gives a dismal forecast of mundane
affairs during the next quarter of a CEN
fury He predicts revolutions all over
Europe, and a social upheaval followed by
a war lasting from 1906, to 1926, in the
United States But antedating that event
there will be a great tidal wave that will
submerge the Atlantic coast from New Or
leans to New York Ali the great sea-
board cities will be engufed. This will
Certainly be a heavy calamity. But its
horrors will be measurably mitigated by
the reflection that the Arena writer and a
great many other cranks and dreamers
will join McGin when the catastrophe
comes
A WRITER in the last number of the
Arena gives dismal forecast Of mundane
affairs during the next quarter of a century.
He predicts revolutions all over Europe,
and a social upheavaI followed by a war
lasting from 1906 to 1916, in the United
States But antedating that event there
will be great earthquake and tidal
wave that will submerge the Atlantic coast
from New Orleans to New York. All the
great seaboard cities will be engulfed.
This will certainly be heavy calamity.
But IT'S horrors ~il be measurably miti-
gated by the reflection that the Arena
writer and great many other cranks and
dreamers will join McGinty when the
catastrophe comes.
The indications are that the authorities
in Cuba are using greater efforts to sup
press information concerning the extent
and seriousness of the epidemic of yellow
fever now prevailing there than to eradl-
cate, or at least prevent, the spread OF
the disease itself At Cientnegos, accord
ing to private advices received IN New York
by commercial houses, all the hospitals are
full. and special buildings have been fitted
up for the care of new patients, while IN
Havana from forty to fifty new cases are
reported daily. The local press is practical
ly muzzled, and speaks very guardedly on
the subject. The disease seems to be of
bad type, and many deaths are reported.
tiles are fully cognizant of all the facts in
the case. and that steps will promptly be
taken to prevent the introduction of the
epidemic into this country. Here in the
north we are comparatively safe, but the
cities of the south are especially exposed,
and the governmint owes 1t to them to
leave nothing undone that will protect
them. Prevention is a thousand times
better than cure, and the time to set up
the most rigid safeguards is now
CANADA is becoming pretty thoroughly
Americanized in the matter of monopolies,
trusts combinations and kindred organ
izations for private gain at the public ex-
pense About year ago four large dis
tilleries, controlled by capitalists in On
tario, formed trust, and demanded of
that all whisky distilled within the Do
minion should be stored for two years be-
fore being offered for sale at home or being
shipped to a foreign market. This at
once shut off the competition of all smaller
distileries that could not command I'M
limited capital. In the course of the year
the great trust of four secured control of
the whisky in store in the Dominion. and
a few days ago raised the price 10 cents a
gallon. One individual holding stock
representing 1000, 900 gallons, sold out at
once and pocketed 100000 over and
above the commercial value of the whisky.
If our American trust had been handling
that whisky it would have slapped on 100
cents instead of 10 cents a gallon. Our
monopolists don't take things on INSTALL
ments-they take it all at once. But the
Canadians are advancing.
THAT the proposed anti-lottery bill now
before Congress will be in a large measure
effective if passed, is confessed by the
angry protest against it by the lottery
mouthpiece, the Times-Democrat of New
Orleans According to that newspaper
this Bingham bill for dissolving the part
nership now existing between the lottery
companies and the postoffice is measure
of ''frst-class despotislh;" 1T seeks to
override the rights of citizens and of cor
porations as such;" it is ''sheer despotism
and the grossest invasion of individual and
corporate rights and more of the same
sort A II this means that the lottery ne0-