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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.
MENAsHAN sare suff ering at the lands
of burglars and sneakt hieves.

MENAsHAN sare suff ering at the bands
of burglars and sneakt hieves.
The deficiency in the pension appro-
priation for the current fiscal year is s34,-
100000.
THE eighteenth annual Patriarch's ball,
the great social event Of New York city,
took place Monday night.
The supply of natural gas in central
Ohio is falling off, and the companies
are refusing to supply manufacturing con-
Germs.
Mr. PARNELL has declined an offer made
by Milwaukee parties of $4,000 for 100
lectures in America.
The hearing of evidence in the Petil-
lott murder case at Colum bus, Ind, was
finished Saturday.
HUGH PEOPLES, the earliest settler in
the Illinois lead miners, save one, died
Friday at his home in Galena, ILL.,, aged
80 years.
The liabilities of Written, Burdett &
Young of Boston are 81 OFT 900, and the
assets 81 ,091, 900.
The matters strike at Danbury, Conn,
which has lasted for several months, is
ended in a complete victory for the manu-
tacturers.
INp1ANA's state dept is S8,540,6 and
the state auditor reports deficit of $751;
$50 for the last fiscal year.
L. T. BRAULT, young gentleman re-
siding at Braultville, Wis.,, has. discovered
cure for consumption. The ingredients
of his remedy are secret and he says that
it is composed entirely of roots and herbs
possessing medicinal properties.
PROF. t. w. BANCROFT, of Brown
university, Providence, r. l., has been been
missing since Monday morning. He has
suffering from mental depression brought
on by an attack of la grippe.
SEVERAL million dollars in gold were
shipped from Liverpool to New York
Thursday.
IT took twenty-four shots, all delivered
in vital parts, to kill the big elephant that
broke loose at the Cincinnati geological
gardens.
A PLAsTERER of Long Island split open
an old family chest, and IN a false bottom
discovered twenty diamonds valued at SlO,-
900.
The police of Chicago have received in
Mr. CambelI, has been seen in Detroit, and
the clew indicates that he went on to Nj
agra Falls. The officers are working on
the case now.
OBITUARY: At Washington, Washing
ton Mclean, formerly proprietor of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, and father of the
present editor, aged seventy-four.-At
Akron, Ohio, Adm Thayer, of the Woo
Reaper Company, aged seventy-four.- "A
Bloomington, Ill, George Ames, aged sixty
At Nation, ILL.,, J. B. Hogue.-At Jack
sonville, Fla, Joseph Jackson, colored agec
one hundred and twelve.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
AN ExHAUSTLES TOPIC.
Throe Women Gossip Two Hours Abouta
Fourth Without Reaching the End.

Three Women Gossip Two Hours About .
Fourth Without Reaching the End.
Gossip about women as a commodity
Il in hot demand. An instance oc-
Cured the other dav. when thu ee
young women fell to discussing Mrs.
George Gould and comparing notes
about her. One had seen her while
summering near Rye, another stopped
in the same hotel with her up in the
third had seen her at her town house.
None Of these ladies had the slightest
acquaintance with Mrs. Edith Kingdom
Gould. and their gossip was in no
sense malicious, yet they talked for
two hours about the wife of the
famous millionaire, and covered nearly
everything conceivable in her physical
and mental makeup. 1t would seem
from their observation that Mrs. Gould
never uses powder in any form. and
that hence her face is somewhat Shiny
at times; that she drives pair in the
park with her hands down Just like q
mana difficult feat for a woman
and that when she lived in Westchester
County she was so fond Of Yachting
that she went aboard her husbands big
schooner every afternoon at o'clock
and waited till he came up from the
city, when he rowed out TO her from
shore. Three men would discuss, adj
just and dismiss the Gould family in
five minutes, but when the three pretty
gossipers tore themselves apart from
luncheon the other day it was with
the impression that they had still left
a great share of the important infor-
nation that they had gained about
Mrs, Gould untold.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
secured $50, 900 on forged drafts and then

secured $oU,UVV on forged drafts and then
fed.
JAMES CLAY, prisoner at the county
Jail at Decatur, H.. has made three I'M
successful ATTEMPTS to hang himself.
JOHN RYAN. convicted of breaking into
cigar store at Fond du Lac, was sentenc-
ed to prison for from one to FIVE years
LEWIS D. SANBoRN, of the lumber firm
of Brown & Sanborn, Saginaw. Mich, is
missing He is said to have left $50, 1000
of raised notes behind.
YESTERDAY at Grand Rapids, Mich.
Martin Devos was found guilty of attempt
ing to assault Nellie Leyone and was SEN
tened to seven years at Ionia.
In Memphis, Tenn, Miles Ogle, the
notorious counterfeiter, was convicted
yesterday of having in his possession and
passing counterfeit money and sentenced
to fifteen years in the penetentiary, in adj
dition to fine of S., ZOO.
The sum embezzIed by Joseph B. Alb
bolt, bookkeeper for Henry W. Sage &
Co., Albany, n. Y, lumber dealer who
committed suicide rather than stand trial,
will amount to about S200.000.::
AT Compton, Ala Monday James Bat
ley, a miner was shot and instantly
killed by woman with whom he
had been living with as his wife for sew
eral years.
AT Wellington, O., during a quarrel
about a woman David Hoke. an
old man, shot an fatally wounded L. S,
Sage, aged sixty, Hoke tnen shot and
killed himself
JOHN MARTIN, on trial charged with
tie killing of John Goggins at Omro last
February, wac discharged Wednesday, wit
nesses for the state having shown that the
killing was in self defense
The governor general, in council. has
decided to allow the law to take its course
in the case of Day. the wife murderer, who
is under sentence to be hanged at Welland,
Ont, Dec. Is.
MRS o. S. DACEY, of Wichitaw, Kan,
is evidently woman of nerve. Her hus-
band lost $3.50 in gambling house and
she called on the proprietor to refund the
money. He refused at first, but considered
his decision when Mrs Dacey pulled re-
volver and fired three shots at him.
CHARLES CRAIG, The wife slayer, was de-
clared guilty of murder in the first degree
by Judges MAXWELL and Schroeder Thurs
day moroing at Cincinnati, o., He will bt
sentenced Saturday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
Romance in Tennessee.

Wilmouth Williams took an unusual
procedure to secure husband. says
the Memphis Avalanche. The object
of her affections was one Henry
Williams, who ianguished in the work
house because he was unable 10 pro-
cure the $25 necessary to liquidate the
amount of his fine. Henry was cold
to the love that Wilmouth lavished
upon him, for he was smitten by
another's charms. Wilmouth had an
advantage over her rival that enabled
her to carry her point. She possessed
money. while the oh. ect of Henry's at
tentions was devoid OF monetary at
fractions. Wilmouth visited the work.
house and offered to furnish the
amount of her lovers tine on the con-
sideration that he would relinluish
her rival and lead her to the altar. To
this Henry consented and affixed his
signature to q contract to marry her
as soon as she got him out of prison.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
POISON IN HAT BANDS.
The Enameled Articles Should Not Be
Worn During the Hot Summer.

Worn During the Hot Summer.
"a good many sore faces" said .
well-known physician to a New York
Sun reporter, ARE caused every sum.
mer oy poisonous sweat bands in
hats. Some men always insist ON
buying Derby hats with enameled
sweat bands, and if they wear them
during the summer months mild
sort of blood poisoning is apt to re-
suit AS a mans head always per-
spires very freely under the sweat
band of his hat the poison in the en-
ameling composition is softened and
released. But its unpleasant effects
are seldom noticeable there. The very
fact that the perspiration is constantly
coming out OF those particular pores
prevents the poison from going in.
But as each little bead of perspira-
ton rolls down his face it is charged
with the poison, and if it happens to
run over a little pimple or place
where he has scratched his face or
cut it with a razor the result will
probably be unpleasant A dozen
tiny pimples will appear, and no mat
ter how many blood purifiers he
doses himself with, his face will be
dotted with little sores until he buys
hat with a good sweat band. Straw
hats are seldom made up with enam-
eled sweat bands, and that fact is
another reason why every man should
wear them in the summer. OF course
this warning does not apply to all
hats with enameled sweat bands.
Some of them are perfectly harmless,
but as it is impossible to tell which
are good and which are bad without
a chemical analysis, and as a chemi-
cal analysis would spoil the hat
enameled sweat bands are good things
to avoid in hot weather.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18

IT begins to appear that the first excite
ment over the consumption cure of DIR.
Koch is coming to an end. The world
is waiting for new sensation, and the
scientists are setting down the belief that
further and calmer Investigations of the
matter is more called for than blind en-
thusiasm or blunt depreciation. This
will be to the ultimate advantage of the
discovery. There was really slight ground
for the extravaganza beliefs concerning the
scope and the efficiency of this new remedy.
Whatever of merit there is In it will
probably be fully discovered after longer
Investigations, and the calm that has
succeeded the excitement will be conduc
tive to an end.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
INTERRUPTED rHE EDITOR

Diversions of Journalism In the Interior
of Kentucky.
1 was sitting in the office of
Kentucky weekly paper, says New
York Sun correspondent and the
editor had just furnished proof OF the
fact that he was editor, printer, COM
position, pressman and small-ooy.
when shockheaded lad came in to
say:
Mr.. Laggers, he 'uns's waitin'
down thar for your
who's awaiting"
..kurnel Brill"
whats he 'un wantp"
Ter shute, reckon"
Con tell he 'un to wait till next
week; I'm too busy"
When the boy had gone the editor
turned to me with: ''Yoe kin see fur
yourself what's a-holdin' me down.
That kurnel Brill is no gentleman or
he wouldn't put in when he knows I'm
rushed"
The boy came back q moment later
to say:
He 'un can't walt"
'Why?"
Says he cum in ter shute, an has
got ter shute, an he will shute.''
''Dod rot sech man! reckon rll
hev to go down. Didn't like my leader
last week, ard wants to shute. He
'un's no gentleman, no gentleman.
FL be back in few minits stranger"
| sat there in the Office and heard
the reports of two pistols and l looked
out OF the window and saw crowd
and ten minutes later the editor came
in with his right ear split by bullet
and somewhat petulantly remarked:
land now thar'u be coroner's
inquest and I'll hev to lose at least
half a day! If the kurnel wanted to
pop at me, why couldn't he 'un hev
waited till some tramp printer cum
along to ease me off bitP He was no
gentleman-no gentleman"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
SuiphonaI to BE superceded,

The success which has attended tho
bringing out of new hypnotics L.
something remarka de. and now,
when sulphonal has scarcely estab-
lished itself in that line, it is succeed
ed by what is termed chloralamid, q
substance which in uheraputical action
has many resemblances to chloraI n.y.
drate, but has not the special infu-
ence on the circulation which is q
characteristic of the latter body. Ac-
cording To the practice at present mr.
sued it is administered in doses vary
ing for adults from fifteen to forty-fve
grains. 1t appears to have an ad-
vantage, of no slight Importance,
over choral Overwhelmingly, that it
does not taste at all unpleasant, and
1t is further superior to that article in
not being caustic. AS it is decom.
posed by alkalies it may not be pre-
scribed in alkaline solution.-a quail
ity that constitutes its chief drawback.
It is said to induce sound, healthy
sleep.
is.#rI- 'Griu' IN ID in Par:s sfyie.
BARRIERS on French steamers ar
irving at New York have regular pat
rons in that city, who visit the ves-
sells on every arrival in order to have
To cir boards trimmed in the ultra
fashions OF tha houlevards.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
the Decimal Point.

In France and Germany / reduced
to decimal is written 0, 70; in Eng
land it is written OBS: in the United
States is always written either OPS or
simply .25 without the naught, In
the first two countries the period is
never used, always the comma; while
English writer's use the period they
never put it at the bottom of the line
as we do, but always use it thus, OPS.
This style ia said to have been intro
duced by Sir Isaac Newton. who
placed it at the top OF the line to dis
anguish it from the punctuation mark.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
DUTY OF THE GOVERNMENT.

The red man Is only playing 'possum. He
has by no means giving up his idea of hos
tilities. Settlers along the line of
the Cheynne river are in imminent
danger, for little army Of four thousand
redskins is out for scalps and have begun
to stea., ponies and run off cattle as pre-
iminaries to other and more deadly work.
The ghost dance is still kept up and seems
incite the braves to fury. 1t is TIE gov
ernment's duty to make short work of
this budding war. There is no excuse to-
day for allowing defenceless settlers to be
robbed and murdered by marauding saw
ages who are government wards. Force
enough should be employed at the outset
to prevent those dreadful calamites which
have often occurred on our frontiers, even
in recent times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
B~#rI- Trin,m.d in Part. <:yfe.
An Equivalent for Suicide.

If we allow our bodily infrmities to make away
with US through neglect, have we such an i'm
mense moral advantage over the deliberate sui
eide? Scarcely. For example, the deadly progress
of Bright's disease, diabetes, acute nephitis and
gravel is sure-often terribly swift in the catas-
trophe. Most people of average information
know that this is the simple, unvarnished truth
in regard to those widely prevalent malades- To
delay judiciOus medication is specially suicidal in
such cases. The means of restraint is to ba found
in Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Give IN impetus
to the action of the kidneys with this safe and
reliable diuretic, and the infant complaint is
shorn at its birth of the power for evil. Allow it
to grow, and anticipate the worst. The Btters,
which annihilates these growing troubles, also
eradicates dyspepsia, rheumatism, malaria and
liver complaints. Appetite, sleep. and vigor are
also promoted by it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
INTERSTATE COMMERCE. ACT.

AS amended, the interstate commerce
act makes shippers jointly liable with
railway officials manipulation of rates,
and in the course of its Investigations into
alleged secret rate discrimination the fed
eral grand jury at Chicago summoned
Charles Councilman. grain shipper sus-
pectcd of having beed unlawfully favored
by certain roads, to testify about his bust
ness. Counselman refused on the ground
that he might thereby criminate himself,
and was fined. His case will be appealed.
if necessary, to the highest court. The
federal authorities are inhibited by the
5th amendment to the constitution for COM
pelling any person in a criminal case to
be a witness against himself, and Counsel
man evidently has good case. But as
secret rate-cutting, rebates and other I'M
lawful determinations in behalf of
favored shippers are generally made only
with the knowle lge of the railway of
fetal and the shipper, how are convictions
possible under the law? The shipper cam
not be compelled to testify against himself;
neither can the official, and certain knowl-
edge Of the guilty act is confined to those
two. The general opinion seems to be
that this amendment to the act making
the shipper liable as well as the railroad
official renders it impossible to convict
any one of the violation of the law Mean
while these secret determinations in rates
flourish about as abundantIy as before the
law was passed, and the interstate COM
merce commission seems helpless to keep
within lawful bonuds, the enormous and
generally INSCRIPTIONS interests inrusted
to its supervision.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
He Wanted TO lie Understood.


A little American boy, who has
German governess, committed to
memory, at her request, a German
evening PRAYER. When he went 20
bed at night he folded his lands and
repeated the prayer. adding after the
..Amen," ''Das ist Deutsche, iieber
Co&Sn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
BRAND RAPIDS,

THE reports of starvation in North Da-
kota are Indignantly repudiated by various
boards of trade and business organiza-
tions.
In India surgeon major has been ex-
perimenting with vaccine lymph obtained
from donkeys instead of calves, but some
of the natives there look upon the donkey
as an unclean animal or as the goddess OF
Ill luck, and so vaccination from the
donkey is very unpopular.
Mr. FRANK M. IRIoN, of Birmingham,
Ala, has been sentenced to two years in
the penitentiary for making way with
S2O, 600. Alabama, it seems, pays her con-
victs $4,000 year-twice as much as her
congressman receive.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
WASHINGTON.

THE Treasury Department on Tuesday
purchased So, los, 200, per cent bonds at
prices ranging from 1913 to 1881.
IN the House Tuesday, the Senate re-
solution providing for the removal of Gen
eral Grants remains from New York to
the National Cemetery at Arlington, was
defeated by vote Of 153 to 90.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18

NEW YORK states total gain in popu'a-
ton in the past 10 years was $685. 1858, and
the figures relating TO the towns and
cities above 1000 show a growth of $780,
1856, These larger places thus absorbed
the whole population increase, and drew
10000 more people from the rural sections.
But the FIVE cities of New Yoak, Brooklyn,
Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse gained
altogether over 721 900, or nearly the
whole total increase for the state We
can get from these facts some idea of the
enormous attractive power the larger city
has come to possess in the republic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18

IT is great pity that the poor redskins
should be stricken with the religious man
la. What with the Indian agents, the
"Squaw-men, the bad whisky, and the
sickly policy pursued towards them by the
government, the Lord knows that they
have enough to enduce and to answer for.
This messiah" racket will have to be
dealt with carefully to prevent serious
trouble, and the Indians should be placed
in the position of Independent and re-
sponsible citizens as soon as possible.
They cannot improve while the tribal re-
lation is maintained.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
CRIME.

DAY, who pushed his wife over Niagara
Falls, will be hanged in Ottawa, Dec IS.
LOUIS D. SANBoRN of Siganaw, Mich,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18

DIR. NORMAN KERR, of London, while
accepting hypnotic phenomena as facts,
strongly urges against the employment OF
hypnotism on the ground that the after eff
feet upon the subject is disturbance to
mental balance and a dissipation of
strength, for its frequent repetition is
likely to cause intellectual impairment and
mental pervertion, that the hypnotic state
is disease or state of jelly fish slavery,
without mental or moral backbone and
that it is not desirable that the control OF
any ones thoughts and actions should be
in the keeping of fallible fellow mortal,
He looks upon public mesmerlsm as de-
grading and disgusting and thinks physi-
clans should not countenance it,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
A New Idea In JeweIry.

A new idea in jewelry is the imita-
ton of grapes, both green and purple,
in sardonyx sub ected to different de-
grees of heat until they take on the
different hues of the green and ripe
fruit. These grapes are prettily
mounted as sleeve links, with a heavy
gold chain connecting the fruit, or set
in diamond hoop or with diamond
tendrilss for brooches. Long sleeves
give little opportunity for displaying
bracelets and they are little worn just
now. The latest articles in commem-
orative jewelry, surprising the Eiffel
tower designs, are the Jeanne d'Aro
brooches, in all grades of elegance
from the oxidized silver effigies to the
handsome enamels representing the
peasant heroine in blue gown, sit
ting on horseback, with the crimson
orifamme in her hand, the whole sci
round in diamonds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
Tight Place for q Detective.

"You must sometimes get into
pretty tight places" l said, by way OF
drawing him on.
''Yes, I've had my share of close
calls. l was playing poker once with
a man that we were after for murder,
and man came in that knew me. He
gave the whole thing away, and the
way the pistols came out would have
made your blood run cold. / thought
my goose was cooked that time"
"What did you do"
"OwneC up on the spot that he was
right, and then l told them that was
kicked out of the service for helping
a man get off. l was never so scared
in ali my life. and believe was never
30 cool. | knew L had TO have all my
wits about me if l expected to get my
carcass out whole"
And they believed yOu?"
They swallowed the whole story.
They would have sold out themselves
If they had been In the service so, il
seemed the natural thing to do. And
what is more, my man came to me
afterward and asked my advice how to
get the detectives OF his track; so
that in the end really caught him on
the deal that | thought was going to
make an end of me-"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18

Cheap and simple Remedy for Asthma
After being victim to asthma for
over ten years | have hit on a remedy
so cheap and simple that can't help
Dragging about it. says a writer in the
st. Louis Giobe-Democrat My treat
ment is to stuff a pillow with yellow
inc shavings and to change the stuff
ing frequently. Since | have substi-
tuted shayings for feathers | have
been able to sleep eight hours night
whereas before L could seldom lie
down half an hour at stretch. ]
need to sympathize with asthmatical
victims. but shan't feel like doing 50
any more, because the remedy e
within the reach OF all