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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

A Boston sign bears the artless inscrip-
ton, cigars and cigarettes sold on the
Sabbath for medical purposes only.
WILLIAM Thomson, of Bluefeld, Tenn.
probably leads all centenarians in this
country. He claims to be 127 years old,
and has records and documents to sub
stantiaie his claim.
A KANSAS City family consists of six
brothers, whose names are as follow: Jack
Frost Winter Frost, White Frost. Cold
Frost, Early Frost, and Snow Frost
NEWS from St. Louis is to the effect that
steps have been taken to form the National
Linseed Oil Trust into corporation, with
capital of S18,O0O000.
CHICAGO, Ill. = The will of the late
ex-Lieutenant Governor Bross, has
been probated. The deceased left his
estate about S475,000 bequeathed chiefly
to his widow, daughter and grand children.
BUSINESS is going forward as usual at
the Sixth National and Equitable banks, OF
New York, and there is no outward EVIL
dence of the trouble of last week. The
Lenox Hill Bank has not yet resumed.
AN English paper says that a syndicate
is being formed in that country for the
purchase from this Government of the
forest lands of Alaska.
SCRANTON, Pennsylvania = Powderly
instituted a suit for criminal ibel
against Edward Callaghan. The warrant
for Callaghan s arrest will be issued to-
morrow. The trouble grows out of mat
ter written by Callaghan during the recent
trouble with Powderly.
DTrRTNC a terrific Storm racontIv the
light house keeper at Tillamook Rock, on
the Pacific coast, says the spray was thrown
clear over the lamp chimney, $50 feet
above sea level, while piece of basalt, 81
pound weight was lodged on the roof Of
his house, 10 feet from the sea.
In the New York State Senate at Albany
Wednesday the Assembly World fair bill
was put upon its final passage, as amended
and, failing to receive the seventeen votes
necessary to its passage, was declared lost
A motion to reconsider was tabled, which
knocks out the bill beyond hope of resur
rection
THE remains of Mrs. Alice Coppinger
! eldest daughter of Secretary Blaine, were
inferred on Tuesday at Oak Hill Cemetery
| Washington. Brief services were held al
| the Blaine residence in Madison place
after which the body was taken to ST.
Matthews Catholic Church, where Carolina
Gibbons read the burial service in thu
presence of the deceased's relatives and {
numerous concourse of people, which In
Guided President and Mrs Harrison mem
bers of the Cabinet and their wives, thu
Diplomatic Corps and all the delegates t.
the International American Conference.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13
CRIME.

JAMES ]. WEST, ex-editor of the Chi
cago Times, under sentence of five years
imprisonment for over-issuing stock has
been released on $4,000 bail by order of
the Supreme Court, pending its hearing
of a writ of error.
PHILADELPHIA. Pa.-John McGet-
tigan, a letter carrier, Monday night
demonstrated the fact that he could rapid
ly deliver letters. The evening in question
according to the testimony before United
States Commissioner Bell he started
out with bag full of letters. He imbibed
quite freely and became so much intoxi-
Gated that he did not know what he was
doing. Finally he reached home with his
bag of letters, and to get rid of them
quickly he pushed bag and letters into the
stove The burning letters were seized
by a woman living in the house, but many
of them were beyond recognition, while
others were so badly injured that with
difficulty the superscription could be de-
ciphered In default of $1,000 bail he
was committed to prison to answer at
pOI1rt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13
Tennyson Forty-six Years Ago.

In the memoirs of William and Mary
Hewitt, recently published, occurs this
little glimpse of the laureate. The Hewitt
house in Clapton was a small literary
center. Among others ''the retiring and
meditative young poet Alfred Tennyson
visited us, and charmed our seclusion by
the recitation of his exquisite poetry. He
spent a Sunday night in our house, where
we sat talking until 3 in the morning. All
the next day he remained with US in con-
slant converse. We seemed to have known
him for years. So, in fact, we had, for his
poetry was himself. He hailed all at
tempts at heralding a grand, more liberal
state of public opinion, and consequently
sweeter, more noble mode of living. He
wished that we Englanders could dress up
our affections In little more poetical cos
tune; real warmth &C heart would lose
nothing. rather gain by it; as it was, our
manners were as cold as the walls of our
churches ="
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, Feb. 0.-Flour-Steady; winter wheat
2.0O@435; spring wheat, 11094.75; rye, 2.5O02.S5;
buckwheat, 125 @1.5O per cwt. Wheat-Steady;
76 for seller March; 1885 for seller May. Corn
Steady; 28as for seller February; 305s for seller
May. Oats-Steady; 201a for seller February; 22A
for seller May Rye 45 "A for seller May
Barley-Nothing doing Prime timothy-1.20.
Flax seed-1.38 for seller cash. Whiskey-1.02.
Pork-Steady; 975 for seller March, 1908
seller February; 5.971a for seller May
Shoulders, 4.2504.371a; short clear, 5OO05.05;
short ribs, 4.771a for seller February. Butter
Dull; creamery, 150261a; dairy, 70520. Cheese
Easy; full cream cheddars and flats, 81
@92l young Americas, 1O4@10A. Eggs-Steady:
fresh 13A@14. Enthusiastically; heavy and
light green sailed, 4A@41a ;salted bull, 81;
green sailed calf, 81: dry flint, car; dry sailed,
61a dry calf, 15@16, acons, 20 each. Tallow-
Steady; No. 1 solid packed, 4; No. 2, SA@3h.
Flour-Receipts, 5000; shipments, 10000.
Wheat-Receipts, 1900; shipments, 1000.
Corn-Receipts 10000: shipments, 10000
Oats-Receipts, 131 900; shipments, $4,000.
CHICAGO, Feb 10-The Droyers' Journal reports:
Cattle receipts, 1850; open, 10c higher: COM
mon steady; beeves, 4.00052O; steers, 3.0OGD4.50;
stockers and feeders, 2.4O0350 Texas corn fed
steers 3.OO03.50. Hogs-Receipts 1900; strong;
1Oc higher; mixed, 4S504.1O; heavy. 3.8C0410;
light, 3S504.15. Sheep Receips, $500; steady;
natives, 35O05.SO; western corn fed, 50O05.60;
Texans, g. 1880.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13
FRIDAY. FEB. z.
A PECULIAR CASE.
John Leona, a MouIder of Statues, Unable
to Give an Account of Himself.

CovINGToN, KY, Feb. 6.-John Leona,
the Frenchman whose skill In designing
and molding small statues and figures of
noted characters into groups from common
soap has astonished the hundreds who
have visited the mayors office the last
week, was placed on trial before the
mayor this morning to ascertain his mental
condition. 1t will be remembered he was
found wandering about the streets and
acting so strangely that he was taken in
charge and locked up for safe keeping.
He appeared bewildered and was unable
to give an intelligent account of himself
other than that parties brought him here
and then abandoned him. The officials
about the jail soon learned that he was a
man possessed of more than ordinary in
tellect, capable of convers ng fuently in
German, French. Italian, and English,
and he also soon made known his remark
able skill in an artistic way.
He stated to the court this morning that
he was born in the city of Ajaccio in
Corsica, the native place of the great
Napoleon His mother and sister are in
Chicago, but he does not want them to
know his whereabouts, else they might at
once place him in an asylum for his own
safety. He suffered an injury of his brain
many years ago and at a certain season of
the year he entirely loses his mental facul-
ties and while perfectly rational ten
months in the year he does not want to be
among lunatics the other two months. An
effort will be made to secure a room for
him to enable him to prove his skill
and thus aid him In securing hvell-
hood
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13
HELD CAPTIVE BY INDIANS.
The Government Seeking to Recover q
Child From the Canadian Blackfeet.

WINNIPEG, Man-When Lord Stanley
governor generaD and party visited the
Canadian Backfeet Indian reserve last
fall near Mcleod y very pretty little white
child of 5 or 6 years was noticed playing
about with the Indian children. On in
quiry 1t was learned from an interpreter
that the girl had been captured in the
United States during an Indian raid. Lord
Stanley tried to induce the Indians to part
with the child, but they would not. The
girls story got into the press and thus
reached the Washington government. Cor
respondence followed, and sufficient infor-
nation was obtained to make it apparent
that the little girl is the daughter of some
American officer who was killed in battle
with the Indians. Accordingly, the other
day United States officer arrived at Nc.
Leod under instructions to recover the
child at any cost. This may not be sim
pie operation, as the Indians will probably
refuse to give her up.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13

THE Cartists have been checked for a
time by the recovery of the young king of
Spain from the grip. but it is not believed
that he will stand in anybody's way very
long. No one expects that he will attain
to manhood, and persons around him be-
lieve that it would be misfortune if he
grew up. He is the posthumous son of a
father who broke himself down with fast
living and died of consumption at the age
of twentysix. A London paper says that
''he has heshless little legs with bones no
thicker than a chickens. They bend I'M
der an abnormally big head, which points
to hydrocephalus. Altogether the confor-
nation of the little monarch is a thing
rather for an anatomical museum than to
bear the weighty trappings of regal state.
His mother is always within earshot of
him and the doctor handy to her. A cork
screw stair communicates with his and her
bedrooms, and there is a speaking-tube
close to his bed so that were anything the
matter with him the nurse could at once
tell her and the doctor" His eldest sister
stands in right of succession, but his death
would precipitate struggle among the
claimants of the throne, which might re-
suit In the elevation of someone else, or
even in the overthrow of the monarchy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13
Internal Ingenuity

Could scarcely devise more excruciating fortunes
than those of which you see the evidences in the
face Of rheumatic or neuralgia sufferer. The
agonies are the consequence of not checking a
rheumatic or neuralgia attack at the outset. Hos
letters Stomach Btters has been found by skillful
medical practitioners 20 possess not only remedi-
al. but defensive efficacy, where those diseases
exists or a tendency to them is exhibited Surely
this puissanI but safe botanic medicine, bearing,
too, such high specific sanction is better than the
poisous often employed, but most unsafe, not
only in continuance, but in isolated doses. The
blood is depurated thoroughly from the rheumatic
virus, and the nerves, slightly impurged upon,
saved from ultimate and direful throes by this
benign saving medicine, which likewise exhibits
marked efficacy for malaria, kidney complaints,
dyspepsia, constipation and liver complaint.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

AT Stevenson, Ala. Thursday night the
house of farmer named Roth was burned,
and he, his wife and four children persisted
in the flames.
Jos. BURT, Fred. Young and Frank
Chapman. all:residents Of Sombra, Ont,
were drowned by the capsizing of their
boat while returning home from Marine
City, Mich.
FIRE broke out at Belle PLANE, Ia, We'd
nesday morning and burned the Phoenix
opera house, the Belle PLANE bank, Rusk
Bros hardware store, Aliens grocery
store and Shible & Trumbull's bakery. The
oss is S25. 900, insurance. $4,000.
WATERLOO, Iowa.-The scaffold around
the new steel stand pipe which is being
erected here, broke on Thursday. Jack
Long and WILDER Bardon were pre-
cipitated to the bottom, distance of 50
feet. Long was instantly killed and Bar
don was terribly injured.
New YoRK-Joseph P Murphy, a
manufacturer of cotton and wooden goods
of Philadelphia, made an assignment In
this city Tuesday The liabilities are re-
ported to be upwards of $500, 900. The
assets are not exactly known but the mill
property and machinery are valued at
about a quarter of million.
BALTIMORE, Md.-A railroad ac-
cident is reported on the Chesapeake &
Ohio Railroad at the Big Pen Tunnel be
tween Hinton and Lowell, w. Va. A
freight train. which was approaching a
signal station, ran into switch which
had been left open. Before the engineer
could reverse his engine it had crashed in
to the signal, and pushed the station into
the New river, and then plunged in after
it. The tender followed the engine. In
the station was telegraph operator. He,
the engineer. and fireman were carried IN
to the river and drowned. The freight
cars were piled up all over the track.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13
BRIEF ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A big turkey broke out of its cage at
York, Pennsylvania, and tried to fly
through 500 plate glass window, which
was smashed TO pieces.
1t is said that the University of Michigan
is the only college In the United States in
which the principles of dramatic compo-
sition are taught.
Chinese physicians cannot practice in
New York without license, so says the
coroner 5 jury In the case of DR.. Nam, who
attended Chinaman who died recently.
The DIR, had left his diploma in China.
Cycling has become regularity part of
the British light infantry work at several
stations in England, and will be more
generally introduced.
1t is said that the members of the Par
nell commission have made up their re-
port in little conferences held evenings at
each Others houses.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13
A recent visitor to Mr.. Blaine tells this

A recent visitor to Mr. Blaine tells this
story: He called upon the Secretary at
the State Department to consult with him
upon matter of business, of which they
had talked before in conjunction with
Walker Blaine The visitor resumed the
subject but after he had talked awhile he
noticed that Mr. Blaine was distract. The
visitor stopped. The cessation of talk
seemed to partially rouse Mr.. Blaine, and
he remarked: You will have to see
Walker about this. He has charge of it. -
The visitor gazed at Mr.. Blaine horror
stricken, unable to answer Then Mr..
Blaine recovered his recollection, and ris-
ing from his chair walked into the neyt
ro0m-the room that Walker Blaine used
to occupy-and closed the door behind
him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13
VanderbiIt's Southern Palace.

The palace to be erected by w. K Van
derbilt near Asheville, n c., on the SPLEEN
did estate he has recently purchased there
will be 300 feet long, and the superstruc-
ture will be Of Indian limestone, which is
of a beautiful fawn color. The founda-
lions will be taken out of Mr.. Vanderbilt s
own quarries. Also the material for the
walls of the esplanade or plateau, on which
the house will be built. will be obtained
from the same quarries. These walls will
be forty feet high in some places, and the
esplanade will extend some FIVE or six hun
bred feet in either direction, presenting the
point of the acknowledged plateau to
the French road This palace which is
to be built on this plateau will not be be-
gun until next spring. Then excavations
are to be begun and the foundations laid.
Two towers have already been erected on
the site of the house. These are just the
height of the first story of the building,
and by means of these can be seen what
the view VIII be from the house itself, and
the grading can be done accordingly. All
the forests which have been cut down will
be restored. The trees which will be plant
ed will be evergreens of various kinds,
mostly white pine. The idea is to afford a
pleasant winter view. 1t is intended ulti-
mately to have nursery, from which can
be supplied the trees needed ON the estate
The laying of the foundation for three
stables for cattle has commenced. They
will be arranged according to the latest
sanitary ideas, and the water will be led
to them by pipes. The cattle will be stall
fed. Altogether, Mr.. Vanderbilt's palace
and its surroundings promise to surpass
anything ever seen in the South.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13
WEDNESDAY. Feb. 3.

Senate.-A bill to provide a temporary
government for the territory of Oklahoma
was taken UP and the clerk commenced to
read the bill, but had not completed it
when at two clock the bill to aid in the
establishment and in the support of COM
mon schools, was taken up as unfinished
business. Sen. Blair after speaking a
few minutes in advocacy of it, temporor-
arily yielded the floor to Sherman,
who from the committee on foreign rela-
tons, reported the following joint resolu-
ton, which was placed on the calendar.
Congratulating the people of Brazil on
their adoption of republican form Of
government. Resolved, etc., That the
United States of America congratulates
the people OF Brazil on their just and
peaceful assumption of the powers, duties
and responsibilities of government,
based upon the free consent of the govern
ed and on their recent adoption of a re-
publican form of government. This Joint
resolution is reported as a substitute for
that of Morgan which was referred to the
committee on foreign relations. 1t omits
the words, expressed in their reputation
of monarchic rule" 1t also omits several
paragraphs declaring the recognition of
the United States of Brazil as the lawful
and rightful government, and directing
and requiring the people and officers of
the United States to recognize the flag of
the United States of Brazil as the flag of
a free, sovereign and independent state.
SEN Blair then resumed his argument.
He declared the constitutionality of the
bill was beyond question, and spoke at
some length in support of his favorite
measure. After executive session the
senate adjourned.
HOuSe.-A large number of members haY-
ing gone to attend the funeral of Mrs. and
Miss Tracy the clerk was permitted to read
the journal In its abridged form. On the
yeas and nays being demanded by the
democrats it was approved. The house
then, at 1915 adjourned.
THURSDAY, Feb. 6.
Senate.-In the senate to-day, the bills
authorizing the construction Of bridge
across the Detroit river at Detroit wore
reported adversely from the committee on
commerce. On motion of Sen. Allison,
the senate bill to amend and alter the act
of August 6, 1888, authorizing the con-
struction of railroad, wagon and foot
passenger bridge across the Mississippi
river at Burlington, Iowa, was taken from
the calendar and passed. 1t extends for
two years from the passage of this act the
time for beginning and finishing the
bridge. and makes others changes IN the
original bill Sen. Harris moved an adj
journment from to-day until Monday. 1t
was agreed to. The senate then took up
the bill to provide temporary govern
ment for Oklahoma, and the clerk continued
the reading Of the bill which had been be-
gun yesterday At o'clock the Oklahoma
bill went over and Senator Blair took the
floor to continue his speech On the educa-
tional bill. but. however, yielded to Spoon
er, on whose motion the house Joint resolu-
ton appropriating $4,000 fer the relief
of certain Chippewa Indians, at the La
Pointe agency in Wisconsin was
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13

THERE is sound religion as well as
sound sense in the decision of the United
States Supreme Court, denying habeas
corpus to a Mormon who plead the rules
of his church in bar of a prosecution for
bigamy. The court holds that polygamy
is a crime, and that the constitutional pro-
vision guaranteeing freedom of religion
is not intended to prevent the punishment
of any person who, in the name
of religion, commits a crime in the eyes
of the law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13

effect an escape, they shall be beheaded, no
matter what their previous otfense may
have been
These are but few samples of the
Chinese laws, the whole code of China
being brief and to the point The trials
there before magistrates, and decision is
final, no opportunity for appeal being pro-
vided for. As a rule punishment follows
conviction within a very few days
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13
Suicide of a Druggist.

Fox LAKE, Feb. 1O.-R. |. Parker, a
druggist of this village, shot himself it is
claimed by accident about II o'clock on
Saturday evening. The ball from a q.
caliber revolver passed within an inch of
his heart, and clear through the body.
He is about AZ years of age. He was a
member of the Forty-eighth Wisconsin
Infantry during the war, and was at one
time a leading Mason.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13
Tried to Murder His Brother-in-Law.

CHICAGO, Feb 8.-A sensational atfray
occurred on Clark treet. near Madison,
this evening, VIM. B. Belden and his
brother-in-law, J. H. Wing, quarreling
over Belden' s divorce suit. Wing suddenly
drew knife and ripped a cash
in Belden's throat and then cut him a
severe cash in the back before the bystand-
ers could interfere. The street was crowd
ed with people and the bloody act caused
several ladies to faint. Belden may pos
sibly recover.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13

A STRANGER stopped over in kentucky
town on Thursday last, long enough to
work the local banks for S13, 500 by means
of forged checks. An honest wayfarel
with genuine check for $50 would have
gone hungry for lack of some one to iden
tify him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-13
WASHINGTON.

/ COLLECTOR ERHART has received a
communication from the secretary of the
| treasury, in which it was stated that
Governors island had been decided upon
as a landing depot for immigrants
CastleGarden will now be abandoned.
OWING to the deplorable calamites which
have befallen the households of the Sec
rotary of State and the Secretary of the
| Navy, large number invitations for re-
ceptions. dinners and dancing parties to
have been given during the present week
| by prominent society people have been re-
called.
ACoMMITTEE from the equal rights
convention called on the president Satur-
day and presented an address adopted
| by the convention. The president express
| ed sympathy with the movement.
and assured the committee he would do all
he could with the law to ameliorate the
condition Of the people.
The President on Thursday sent to the
| senate the following nominations: Paris
| Kilbourne, to be Surveyor of Customs at
| San Francisco. To be Collector of Gus
toms: Allanson Bard, District of Boston
and Charlestown, Mass. Frank A. Vaughan
at Saluria, Tex. James W. Remick, to be
| United States Attorney for the District of
New Hampshire.
The rumor current on Wednesday that
a dynamite bomb was found in
the capitol proves to have but
slight foundation A small oval shaped tin
box was found in one of the spittons in the
rotunda. The chief of the capitol police
examined it and found several grains of a
substance resembling salt petre and a
small quantity Of something that looked
like punk. He found the latter would
burn. He concluded the box was rail
road torpedo. but to settle the matter he
has sent it to the district chemist for
| ANALYSIS.