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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
REGARD IT AS AN INSULT.
indianapolis Physicians Indignant at Cen
sus Takers Demands.

INDIANAPOLIS, June THE indigna-
ton of every reputable physician in this
city is resting on the sensus bureau in
general and upon the head of DR.. John
Billings in particular Billings is in
charge of vital statistics and statistics of
general classes, and has sent circular
letter to physicians here which they regard
as an insult. The circular asks the CO.
operation of the physicians in making the
reports of the cencus as complete as pos
sible in certain matters which are of inter-
est to the medical profession. 1t says that
many persons will refrain from giving the
census enumerators certain kinds of infor-
nation, and ask the doctors to fill out
these lists ''for the persons of your ac-
quaintance, or in those families you prac-
tice giving the names, etc., of those you
know to be insane, feeble-minded, idiotic,
deaf, or dumb, sick CRIPPLED, MANNED, de-
formed" The remote, direct and indirect
cause of all the ailments is asked for. It
is added: Cali information which you
furnish on these schedules will be consid-
cred and treated as confidential. No
names will be published and only the total
figures will be given to the press. - Some
thirty or more of the physicians have had
consultations upon the subject and have
unanimously determined not to pay any
to the circular. They regard
this attempt to pray into the secrets of
their patients as impairment and based
upon wrong conception of the obi
cation placed upon them by their pro-
essiOn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
AN OASIS IN THE SAHARA.
1t Is Very mall Spot with a Crowdt
Population.

DR. Jacquot describes the first oasis he
saw in the Sahara as "a little green corner.
fresh and shady, cheered by the song of
birds and enlivened by the murmur of
waters. The dates waved their elegant
plumes high in the air; the pomegrantes
and fig trees crowded between the columns
of the palms; the wheat and barley clothed
the soil with verdure; the water flowed in
every direction, and the humid vapors
vivifed the foliage. One could not help
trembling for the little spot, it seemed such
feeble thing in the immensely of the
desert, surrounded by desolate plains and
menaced by moving sand hills"
DIR. Jacquot's description is slightly err
roneous, says the Commonwealth; it may
do very well for poets, but as true descrip-
ton it is wrong. An oasis is not an i'm
mense wild garden, where numerous species
of fruits and flowers crowd each other in
wild confusion, but it is niggardly natur
cultivated almost to the extreme by human
industry, which refuses space to every
fruit or flower which does not aid to sustain
life. An oasis is usually about mile and
quarter in length and about ive-eighths of
a mile In breadth. In nearly every case it
occupies the bottom of some ravine, which
shelters it In every direction. 1t is inclosed
by mud or stone wall about eight feet In
height and about foot in thickness. At
regular intervals about this wall are round
stone towers; these are sentry boxes On the
fiat roofs Of which are stationed nightly
guards to protect the place from pillage.
The gardens Of the oasis lie against this
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
Greyhounds for Canadian Wolves.


It is officially estimated that no fewer
than ITO, 900 wolves are roaming at large
in Russia and the inhabitants of the
Vologda last year killed no fewer than 49,
900, and of the Casan district 81 900. In
the Canadian northwest there are also
wolves, but these are not, like the European
ones, of a very dangerous character. The
coyotes are, however, at times very trouble
some ON the plains, especially to focks of
sheep. Some time ago Sir John Lister
Kaye imported a number of Belgian and
French wolfhounds and Scotch deerhounds
for the purpose of hunting down these CO.
votes, while other breeds of dogs have been
tried with fair success. By means of
these the number of coyotes has been much
reduced, as many as seventeen having been
brought down in a single day on the
Cochrane ranch. The hounds are, how
ever, scarcely fast enough, and with a
view to giving them greater turn of
speed, Mr.. Dan Gordon, the veterinary
surgeon of Ottawa, Canada, has just i'm
ported two of the fastest and best-bred
greyhound sever shipped from England
namely, Justinian, by Cui Bona, out of
Sly ish Lady, and Jetsam, by Royal Stag,
out of Castaway.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

THE General Luthern Conference opened
at Milwaukee Wednesday morning.
Speeches were made and resolutions passed
denouncingt the Bennett law.
PORTLAND, Me.-The republicans of
the first district have re-nominated the
Hon. Thomas B. Reed for congress by
reclamation.
In the stomach of an alligator that was
shot near Palatka Fla, was found human
skull, well preserved, and a gold watch
marked with the initials sc. L. t.
The Canadian Indians hang their dead
in large trees. The Slwash tribe had 800
ancestors hung up. Hunters set the for
est ON fire ard the bodies, dried by years of
exposure, burned like tar barrels. Among
the Indians there is uncomfortable grief
and they threaten vengeance.
LoNDoN,-The car has issued a ukase
ordering the abandonment of the Russian
anti-Jewish policy for one year. This
measure is understood to have been taken
In Difference to numerous protests against
the recent wholesale expulsion of Hebrews
from different parts of the empire. and is
merely tentative.
NIAGRIA FALLs.-It is announced that
John L. Soules, of Muskegon, Mich,
and Samuel Smith, of Lewistown,
have arranged for a race through the
dangerous whirlpool rapids on July 4.
They will ride as far as possible in the
same boat and then swim, the one leading
at the whirlpool first to be the winner of
the race.
of the Western Beef company, with capt.
to1 c4oo1- &c c1S 000 000 hoe how, GIo
with the secretary OF state to-day. The
company is a consolidation of all the prin-
cipaI stock interests of Colorado, Wyom-
ing, New Mexico and Texas.
ST. LOUISA dispatch from Mason
City, Iowa, says the agents there
have been instructed to sell binding Irvine
of various kinds at an average of 4 cents
below the prices of last year. This is be-
| lieved to indicate that the binding Irvine
| trust, which has imposed such burdens on
the farmers of this and other states, has
been broken. This reduction in prices
will save many thousands of dollars to Iowa
farmers alone.
| DENvER-J. H. Holt, purchasing
agent for an importing cattle company Of
| Wyoming, arrived here Thursday and Civ.
es brief account of an Indian massacre
which occurred in the upper Green rive,
country several days ago. He says
a party of drunken Indians came
to the camp of the govern
ment surveyors and demanded more fire
water. 1t being refused the Indians at
tackled the party. killing Chief Engineer
Crittenden and Chain Bearers Timberlake
Woods and Overmeyer. Assistant Engi-
neer Lee was seriously wounded.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
Baby's Mysterious Disappearance.
Buffalo Courier .

Charles. have you seen anything of the
baby!'' asked distracted woman about
noon, last Thursday.
mo. How n thunder can l take care
of baby and see that this crockery is
put On the wagon without being smashed
to finders?"
But I'm sure | hear the darling cry
ing somewhere. Are you sure she is not
in the clothes-basket with the preserves %
"No, she amt, How d'you s'pose
she d get in there?''
But hear her just as plain as can be-
Why, Charles Smith, l do believe she's
in this roll of carpetr'
1t was true. The baby had been left in
the middle Of the sitting-room floor, and
the men who took up the carpet tossed a
breadth over her without observing her,
rolled her up in it, and stood the carpet
up in the hail. The child when rescued
was punctured here and there with rusty
tacks and its mouth was partly stuffed
with carpet dust, but otherwise it was
quite hearty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12

THOSE to whom their religion is thing
sacred and beautiful, thing to be kept
apart from the strife and contentious of
lite, not to be proclaimed from the house
tops nor sounded through the streets, nor
to be brought down to the level of barter
and trade, nor promoted by the methods of
the huckster or the sideshow- man, cannot
repress feeling of Indignation when they
read, as did many in the New York papers
of Tuesday, Revival Meeting adver-
tisement announcing " a perfect cyclone of
salvation, and calling upon all to ''start
for heaven early tonight" 1t is well to
carry religion and its teachings into bust
ness and all the affairs of life, but clap
trap methods that would disgrace any
reputable business are sadly out of
place in promoting a religious undertake
ing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12

HALF century ago Rowland Hill, the
son of Birmingham schoolmaster, began
movement which resulted in the estab-
lishment of penny postage in England.
The friends of universal penny postage
in the British empire made the jubilee of
penny postage, which occurred in May,
the occasion for renewing their efforts to
bring about uniform penny postage, but
without success. The postmaster general
stated that the present loss ON the foreign
and colonial mail service was e293, 900 an
nual Y, and that if no license in the mail
matter occurred the introduction of penny
postage would add at least 100000 to
the deficit. This deficit, however, judg-
ing from the experience in the United
Suites when postage was reduced to cents
and the postal card was introduced, would
be largely made up in the greater number
of letters that would be sent. This has
been the experience in every country dur
ing the last half century, and even if a
small deficit should occur it would be the
best investment government could make.
The minimum of cost in the matter of
communication, whether by letter, tele
gram, telephone or newspaper, is always
followed by the maximum of business in
that line, and the lettering of all facili-
ties for intercourse in the United States
or in the British empire, or throughout
the world, means very much more in the
rapid blending and Matchmaking of in
fluences than results from all other causes
combined.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12

THERE is no longer any doubt about the
temporary success, at least, of the German
emperor's labor schemes. The two leading
recommendations of the Berlin labor con-
ference-a Sunday rest for workingmen
and the restriction of the hours of labor of
women and children-were ordered into
Immediate operation by the emperor in al
mines and factories owned by the state
They have now been introduced into the
Reichstag in the form of laws certain of
passage, with the addition of another
that workmen shall not be discharged
without sufficient cause. The emperor is
carrying out his main idea-that "a sover-
eign may be we'll nigh absolute even in
modern Europe, if only he will recognize
the tendencies of the times and place him
self at the head of the movements. The
desire of workingmen, that is, of the ar
tisan class, to improve their condition, is
the strongest tendency of the times, and
the emperor preceives that to regu-
late and control it, he must win by popu-
lar approval the right to lead it. He has
ACCORDINGLY decided that the condition OF
the workman must be bettered and his
family protected from toll too severe, and
so is pushing his labor scheme with the
usual energy. The workingmen have been
quick to recognize his sympathy, not only
because he is their sovereign, but because
his attitude is certain to be followed by the
official classes and the nobility. They
have, therefore, warned their representa-
tives that there must be no decided oppo-
sition to the labor bills, and that, in re,
turn for such concessions, the emperor
must lave his military bills also. The
military bills will largely increase expense,
and will take $4,000 men from industrial
pursuits, but the workingmen have been
captured by the emperor's sympathy, and
he is to be real ruler. Of course there is
danger in all this, for success is certain to
increase the emperor's self-con6dence, and
besides, the permanent conditions of labor
cannot be changed at the will of sover-
eign He cannot satisfy all the demands
of workers, and wages and hours must
still depend on industrial competition,
and when that is clearly perceived reaction
is inevitable. But it will not be perceived
at once, and in the meantime the reforms
he is furthering are sensible reforms, and
he sympathy els showing for them has
so delighted workmen that even If they
fail they are likely to attribute the fail
ure to other causes. For the present, at
least, the emperor will lead, with the sup
port of the people, and having that he will
egulate and forbid as well.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
SPIRIT MEDIUM EXPOSED.
Two Naughty Reporters, with Secretet
Electric Lights, Make sensation.

NEW YoRK.-Before the wondering
eyes of twenty-five witnesses and aided by
the glare of two powerful electric lights,
an alleged spiritualistic medium was ex-
posed fully and completely Saturday after
noon in the city of Brooklyn. The pre-
tended spirit of dead woman was seized,
held and exhibited to the dupes who, up to
that moment, had believed firmly and sin
cerely that they were face to face with the
materialized form of one returned from the
great beyond. So overwhelming was the
evidence of the fraud that the assemblage
was not only thoroughly convinced, but
half dozen of the frmest believers were
ready to invoke the aid of the law to pun
ish the wretched creature. Two storage
batteries carried in the hip pockets OF two
reporters and connected with incandescent
lamps of ten candle power each, concealed
in inner vest pockets, furnished the light
that was flashed in the face of the bogus
ghost, and revealed the covering medium
as the personator. Her shame and morti-
fcation were so complete that for pure
PHYS sake she was permitted to return to
the cabinet, where, II. anguish of spirit,
she threw aside her spiritual" toggery.
dressed herself in everyday attire, and
.sobbed and cried and raved because she
had been detected. The name of this So
called medium is Mrs Caldwell.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
Wherever Malaria Exists,

The bilious its certain prey. In intermittent
and remittent fever, dumb ague and ague cake,
the liver is always seriously affected, and the
blood contaminated with bile. One of the chief
reasons why Hostetters Stomach Bitters is such a
sure defense against chills and fever and every
form of malarial disease, is, that it does away
with liability to the disease, by reforming irregu-
rival of the season when the disease is prevalent.
There is no finer terrifying preParative for those
about visiting or emigrating to locality where
The miasma-taint exists There is no certain i'm
Inunity from disease in an endemic or epidemic
form, to be secured by the use of the average
tonics and anti-spasmodics But where quinine
fails the Bitters succeeds both in preventing and
dyspepsia, and overcomes constipation, rheuma-
tism, inactivity of the kidneys and bladder, and
tranqullizes and strengthens the nervous system.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
WASHINGTON.

SAN FRANcIsCo.-The steamship
Alameda arrived here Saturday from
Sydney and Honolulu. The United States
steamship Charleston arrived at Honolulu
May g. The Hawaiian Legislative assem-,
bly, opened May 81, by the king. There
was no disturbance The rational reform
party secured the control and organization
of the house.
Political news being
rather dull. somebody has Matched
up rumor that Mr.. Blaine intends to re-
tire from politics in order to become presi-
dent of the new International American
bank, for the incorporation of which the
president last week sent to congress the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

The storm of Monday night last did
much damage throughout Iowa, Nebraska
and Wisconsin.
A powder house at Mansfield, Ohio, was
struck by lightning Tuesday afternoon
and the explosion that followed wrecked
two residences, damaged several other
buildings and killed woman and two
children.
LINCOLN, Nebr.-But little can be
learned of the wind storm at Brad
shaw as the telegraph wires are all down.
From passenger on a morning train it
is learned that but one person was killed.
a child. Two houses only are left standing
in the village.
Z WATER VALLEY, Miss.-Three freight
trains on the Illinois Central railway,
were badly wrecked, yesterday, at
Springdale, causing great damage to the
road but no loss of life. The accident
was caused by Conductor Rufin, of the
north-bound train, misreading his orders.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN.

HIGH license as an effective curb to the
saloon tarific has just received another
illustration in Baltimore. Of the $500
saloons of Baltimore only abont half the
rumber complied with the requirements,
and the remainder, including all the low
doggeries, have closed up their business.
High license has the advantage Of being a
method of suppressing the liquor traffic
that provides in itself for its execution ac-
cording to business principles accepted by
all mon without question.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
The RiZzle as a ReStorer.
Chatter.

Do you rizzie every day? Do you know
how to rizzle? One of the swell doctors
in town says that it is the most wonderful
aid to perfect health
i masticate my food very thoroughly
at dinner, he says, land make sure to
have my family or friends entertain me
with bright talk and plenty of fun. After
dinner it is understood that | am going to
rizz lie. How do do it? | retire to my
study, and having darkened the room, I
light cigar, sit down and perform the
operation.
How to describe it don't know, but
it is condition as nearly like sleep as
sleep is like death. 1t consists in doing
absolutely nothing. l close my eyes and
try to stop all action of the brain. I think
of nothing. 1t only takes little practice
to be able to absolutely stihe the brain.
I'm that delightful condition l remain
at least ten minutes, sometimes twenty.
That is the condition most helpful to
digestion, and it is that which accounts
for the habit animals have of sleeping
after eating. would rather miss fat fee
than that ten minutes rizzle every day."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
A YOUNG HERO.
The Devilish Plot of Train Wreckers
Fooled by a Boy.

OMAHA.-The heroism of boy named
Mike Haley prevented the wreck
of the Union Pacific flyer between here
and South Omaha at a place called Summit
Young Haley saw two men unlock switch
and turn it. He ran to South Omaha and
notified the train men, just as the train,
which consisted of twelve coaches, was
pulling out. There was an unusually large
number of passengers On board, and had
not the plot been discovered the loss of life
must have been great.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12

Towns and cities receive annually from
liquor licenses about 81 $50, 900. while over
s27 100000 is paid into saloons by the
people. For every dollar paid in for license
about twenty-one dollars are paid out by
the people. The saloon antagonizes all
good government and all educational in
huences.-Carroll D. Wright.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
HEROIC DEED OF AN Ex-CONvICT
An S-Year-Old Boy the Eleventh Person
Saved From Drowning by David Barrel.

NEW YoRK-David Barret ali ex-con-
Wet, aged 90, saved Charles O'Con-
nor, a lad of 8, from drowning today at
the imminent risk of his life. The boy
was brought up from under barge by
Barrett, while score or more of men.were
looking at the little fellow drown. Barrett
grasped the boys coat-collar with his teeth
and brought him thus to shore. This is
the eleventh person whom Barrett has
saved from drowning He was so exhaus
ted on reaching the pier that he was sent
to the hospital Barrett has served two
terms in the state prison, the last one of
fen wears.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12

Aiming Guns at Night by Electric Light.
Some interesting experiments have been
made in Toulon to ascertain the accuracy
of aim when the electric light is used for
night attacks. A large gun was mounted
OF q revolving platform, which also car
ried an electrical protector. The mark to
be hit was a mile distant. and the only
light was that of the protector. 1t was
found that the gun could be discharged
with as great rapidity and precision as
was attained in daylight.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
CRIME.

SAN FRANCIsCo.-The coroner's jury
has returned a verdict in the bridge
railroad disaster at Oakland, stat
ing that the passengers came to their
deaths through the negligence of Engi-
neer Dunn, and finding him guilty CT man
slaughter.
MAYOR JAMES S. WYMAN, of Allie
gheny City, Pa, has given 81 900 bail to
appear for trial Saturday on charges of
perjury and of contributing money to Sc
cure his nomination and election.
ERIE, Pa.-The fishermen along this
coast have been having a hard fight
with the pirates. On Sunday J. A. Darle
went out with one assistant to watch the
nets, and when they bore down on a boat
containing three pirates they were fred
upon. Darle and his man returned, and
ia ling his steam yacht, gave chase and
. ertook the pirates and after desperate
fight, in which knives, pistols and axes
played part, they got the pirates fast and
made port with them They proved to be
three well-to-do farmers. Charles Smith,
William Thompson. and James Niece, of
Fairview. They were jailed on a charge
of ATTEMPTING to kill.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12

The tales to the effect that the Russian
army is ''spoiling' for a fight are un-
doubtedly false except in narrow and re-
stricted sense Many of the officers would
be glad to have a foreign war come for
the chances of promotion which it would
bring them But 999 out of every 1000
that is to say, all of the privates and most
of the minor oficers-are probably salts
fed to endure peace just as long as it is
allowed them. The same is true of stand
ing armies everywhere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
Back at Washington.

WASHINGTON, D. c., June 9.-The
president and family returned to Washing
ton on the United States steamer Despatch
at noon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12

outlines of a bill and the names of the
coml issioners on the part of the Uuited
States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12

neighbor engages two servants, one for
herself end one for the woman next door. |
or moves, or dies, and the woman next
door orders Grape for the funeral and has
the parcel delivered at the house of mourn
ing. The woman next door must 60.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12

Where General Toombs Encountered the
Son of DANIEL Webster in Bloody
Fight.