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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
OvercrOwded London Cemeteries.
London Daily News.

Though the leading example of over
crowding Hamlets cemetery, to which the
Rev. Mr.. Wilkins called attention recently,
the facts in regard to some of the other
burial places are sufficiently startling. At
Brompton more than 10000 bodies have
been laid in about % acres; at the Cam
berwell cemetery upward of $4,000 have
been inferred in ten or eleven acres; at
Lambeth the total is more than l09, 900 In
about twenty acres. and at the Padding,
ton cemetery the burials have numbered
more than $4,000 in about eight acres.
say 10000 to an acre. Ia twenty-one OF
the large London cemeteries more than
million and a quarter bodies have been
inferred during the last half-centurry in
less than 300 acres of ground. No doubt
during that time space has been fairly
available for use at two or three distinct
periods after being filed up and left for
ten or fifteen years-but burial reformers
are nevertheless able to make most shock
ing statements as to the condition of some
of our metropolitan burial place.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
SOURCES OF PLACER GOLD.
Where the Precious Metal Comes from
May Readily Be Found.

At Virginia City, Mont, says the Denver
Mining Industry, it is supposed that the
quartz vein which was the source of the
gold found in Alder gulch in the early
days has now been discovered That
gulch has yielded first and last over $780,
O0O,O 900 in placer cold. Somewhere to-
ward its head the guIch must have crossed
an Immensely rich vein of goldbearing
quartz. If the vein that threw off all the
millions of gold has not now been found,
it is pretty certain that it will some day
be discovered. The gravel washes to the
eastward of the Sierra Nevada mountains
are of a local character therefore they
may be traced throughout their whole
course and the spot whence they derived
their gold pretty correctly located.
On the west side of the Sierra Nevada
range it would be hopeless and a useless
task to attempt to trace to its course the
gold found in the channels of what are
called the dead rivers or that found in
the deep hydraulic diggings. Then the
gravel deposits are often hundreds of feet
in depth, and extend along the main
Sierra range for hundreds of miles. The
beds OF gravel there appear to have been
deposited by some general overflow of
water-were probably at one time under
the ocean. What are called the channels of
ancient rivers run north and south, the
same as the main range of the mountains
and some miners think that the source of
the gold found in them is somewhere in
the far north up toward the north
pole.
In California it is of little use to attempt
to trace up gold that is found in smoothly
washed gravel. Where the gold trough
and unwashed) is found among angular
fragments of quartz and country rock in
ravlne or on the slope of a rocky noun
TAIN California quartz miners are pretty
sure to soon find the lead which was its
source Between the Sierras and the
Rockies, where there has been no such
universal wash as is seen on the western
base of the Sierras persevering search
should discover the source of all the large
deposits of placer gold In the Great
Basin region all gravel deposits have been
formed by local washes; by water that is
flowing or has flowed in the gulches and
over the plants in and on which the auri-
ferrous gravel is found, not by any sea or
universal deuge. Outside of large rivers,
therefore, as the Colorado, the Snake Tin
Idaho), and some others in which placer
gold is found, it is not an impossible task
to trace to their source deposits of placer
gold. The source in all the regions be-
tween the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra
Nevada range is local, and eventually
rich veins of gold bearing quartz will be
found near where hive been mined large
deposits of placer gold.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

BY the explosion of a boiler in Frank
Gardeners stave mill at North Star, Mich,
three men were instantly killed and four
fatally injured.
MILWAUKEE, VISA special to the
Evening Wisconsin, from Racine, says it
is reported that the tug Welcome, of
Chicago, owned by Barry Brothers, In
dependent Tug line, was blown up and all
hands lost Wednesday morning, near
here.
THE strike on the Illinois Central Rail
road has been settled; and the men went
back to work Mr. Russell is to be re-
tanned by the company, but with lessened
power in the hiring and discharging of
employees.
In the accident on the Chicago and
Rock Island Railroad, near Joliet, ILL.,,
Saturday, two people were killed outright
and seven injured.
ST. LoU1s-There is practically no
change in the strike situation. The
strikers will not accept the compromise
terms offered. All freight houses were
open Saturday, but none of them had full
force, and the freight was handled slow ".
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
Bloody ARRAY in a Church.

CoNsTANTINOPLE. -Advices received
here from Erzeroum regarding the trouble
in that city state that detachment of
Turkish soldiers searched a church there
while services were being held, in the be-
lief that a quantity Of arms were secreted
in the building. The congregation re-
sented this indignity and opened fire with
revolvers upon the TURKS In the encoun-
ter which ensued, one Turkish officer. four
Armenians and eight Turks were killed
and many others on both sides were
wounded. A party of Musselmans suisse
Quently made a riotous demonstration
and stoned the british Consulate.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
CRIME.

CALIsToGA, Gala Three masked men
robbed the Harbon Springs stage Wednes-
day. installing it for stage carrying the
express. Twelve passengers were cleaned
out, the three highwaymen getting $500
and some jewelry.
Tue body of David Moore, a travelling
salesman. was found at Ottawa, ILL.,, Tues
day morning. He had evidently been
beaten to death His pockets were rihed.
Two men and woman are under arrest
on suspicion of having committed the
crime
JACKSON, Miss. = The jury in the
case of the State Treasurer Heming-
way, rendered verdict of guilty. The
court then passed sentence of five years
Imprisonment in the penitentiary.
THOMAS DAVIDSON was found guilty of
murder in the first degree at Columbia
City, Ind. Wednesday, and sentenced to life
imprisonment. Davidson got tired wait
ing for the death of his uncle. whose heir
he was, and killed him last November.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
WASHINGTON.

The House Committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures has decided, by a
vote of to 5, to recommend non-concur-
renee in the Senate amendments to the
Silver bill
A REPORT to the State Department from
Mayence. Germany, shows the unporta-
lions of American beef cattle have not been
a success. The prejudice against the beef
was strong, and it was everywhere declar-
ed too fat, too tough. of too dark color
and generally unsatisfactory.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03

THE New York Tribune is quite right
in saying that the first duty of republicans
in the house, as well as of all conservative
and right-thinking men, is to stand up for
honest money and prevent the mischief of
free coinage if they can; sit is not their
part to let mischief come now in the no
ton that it must come sooner or later. y
And is it any more their part to yield
clear to, if not actually over, the point OF
practical free coinage, In compromise
measures of the extreme character promul-
gated whose dangerous uncertainties all
admit? We cannot see that it is; at least
while there is assurance that the presl-
dentis on sound ground. What we need
is bold and plain speaking and voting
from men who are now destroying their
usefulness in timid concession and patch
ing up compromise, little if at all less
hurtful than free coinage itself.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03
Street Car Men Strike.

ployes here struck today for more
wages and shorter hours.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03

PRESIDENT DIAz, of Mexico, the dis
patches say, is becoming unpopular. The
dispatches should be received with due
allowance for infection. There has de-
veloped all along the Texas and Mexican
border certain activity In kilograms
which is known in newspaper offices and
which causes discount to be made on all
news from that region. President Diaz is
the most American of the Mexican presl-
dents. He has been much in the United
States, and by all odds is the most practi-
cal and modern of tle men who have filled
the position. He is shrewd and strong
He may be aiming at a dictatorship, but
those who know him we'll think him too wise
for the endeavOr He is not the man to
forget his surroundings. He is 'boss,
in the political sense of the word, and his
management of the affairs of the republic
of the south, while a good example OF
bossism, has not been bad. He is quite
able to care for himself.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03

II seems that Lord Salisbury has not been
so yielding as Mr.. Stanley feared. The dis
patches describing the probable boundary
lines between the English and German
spheres of influence in Central Africa indi-
Gates that England has at least held her
own in the division of territory. STAN
ley s anxiety was least Germany should be
allowed to come north of the Victoria
Nyanza. His warnings to the British
public and his criticisms upon Lord Sails
bury, have had this fear for their keynote
Whether all this has had an effect on stiff
fleming his lordship's attitude or not, the
fact remains that Germany is not to ex-
tend north of the Victoria. Her northern
boundary is to be the second degree of
south latitude. The parallel cuts off the
southern end of the Victoria, but leaves
the major portion of the lake in English
territory. The line between the German
and English spheres does not exactly fol-
low this second parallel, but bends a little
of the German territory, near the Congo
line. The bend is for the purpose of tax
ing into English territory the mountain
Gus country covered by Stanley's recent
treaties, and seems also to include practi-
cally tho whole of Uganda. The strip of
territory along England's southern line
,ol, 70 Cr1y
England little more sea-coast, but serves
its most useful purpose, in the present ne
gotiations, in Strengthening the line be-
tween the two spheres of influence. The
western boundary of the German sphere is,
OF course, the Congo state. South the line
is the stephenson road, the shortest and
most practicable way from South Africa to
he Nile valley. 1t leaves the coast at the
Zambesi river, thence up the Shire to
Lake Nyassa. thence across country to
Tanganika, then through the Nyanza lakes
to the Nile. As far as Tanganyika and
the Congo boundary, this rout is to be
Germany's line but the road itself is to be
Opcll W Oooil ueto1OiiS.
Had Germany annexed Uganda, this rout
would have been III der German control,
and might have easily been made blind
alley. Under the present conditions it
will remain the great highway through
Central Africa. England is left by this
division of territory practically supreme
over all Africa between the German sphere
and Egypt England also gains the SUI
pervision of Zanzibar, ammounting to an
exclusive protectorate. Germany in re-
turn gets all the African territory she has
ever really claimed, and Heligoland in
In the Baltic besides. She comedies an
important point in admitting that oceupa-
ton of the coast does not give control over
inland regions. The settlement appears
to be reasonably fair compromise. The
German press seen to accept the settle
ment with satisfaction, and so does the
English press, with one or two exceptions
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03

The man in this country with the most
brains is undoubtedly Professor Burt G
Wilder, of Cornell University. To be sure,
the brains in his possession are not all his
own. though this is MOTTO say that he is not
literally endowed with cerebral matter and
tissues. They consist of the brains OF an
imals and human beings, and of such
brains the professor probably has the larg-
est collection in the world. Brains for
many years have been his fad. While
other connoisseurs have been collecting
works of art. rare books bric-a brac, pos
tage stamps and coins, the professor has
been as industriously collecting brains.
Like collectors in these lines, he is fairly
crazy in his speciality. He will travel
hundreds of miles to obtain the brain of
corpse. and man whose failing health i'm
plies that he is pretty nearly done with
his brain excites his deepest interest, He
has now the brains of 1000 animals and of
700 human beings The latter he is study
ING with the closest care in order to in
crease the knowledge of brain structure
and obtain new light if possible on the
nature of mental diseases. Several of the
professors of the university have bequeath
ed their brains to him, and he would I'M
doubtedly take it as an encouraging mark
of interest in his work if other people, par
ticularly the old and ailing, would do like
wise
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-03

And here feel tempted to tell story,
very appropriate at this juncture. AS a
certain devotee, on Holy Thursday, forebore
from weeping during the sermon of the
Passion, a sorely-affiicted and weeping
companion asked to know the reason of
such Indifference He replied: Il know
that the Lord is to rise from the dead on
the morrow
Once again we must take the hackney
ed remark that where Bismarck is there
also is the head of Germany. 1t is iu1pos-
sible for the inexperienced, the hare brain
ed William to stand alone so long as his
master lives. His imperial fancy oscillates
between the anti-Jewish creeds and the
dreams of collectivism; he breaches now a
Lutheran sermon and anon an atheistic
doctrine. his imagination leads him to i'm
personate now John of Leyden and pres
emily Frederick Redbears; his arbitrary
habits of mind and his untried youth lead
him to exaggerlte all things and to think
all things feasible. Amidst the brusque
change of his moral temperature one never
Knows whether he means to lead US to
European war or to revolutionary COM
mune. In Denmark he shows like Con-
radin, equally disposed to show irreverence
to the Pope as to effect compromises with
the Jesuits. As favorable to apocalyptic
communion as to anti-sociallst laws. Will
lam can never be detached from Bismarck
unit 1.-The day when implacabls Death shall
call away the statesman.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-26
A Brooklyn correspondent makes this plea
for rnn sleinnn, In nArnnA nnlnlmrA.

A Brooklyn correspondent makes this plea
for consistency in street nomenclature:
Speaking OF a certain church YOU say Its prop
erty In the fifth avenue 10 valuable This may be
typographical error; but II not why do you not also
say the Thirty eighth or the Twenty frst street
why not use the article tho describing the numbered
streets as well as the numbered avenues' think
have noticed this peculiarly before when speak
ing OF Fifth avenue and have curiosity to knowt
is according to any rule or merely an accident"
1t is n question OF habit and custom. Some
people always say in Central Park, and some
say in the Central Park some say Riverside
drive. and some tho riverside drive. Some
speak OF the noble stream which flows between
this town and Jersey as Hudson River and
some MS the Hudson River Tho addition OF
the article sounds odd or natural according to
the education OF tho ear. Nevertheless. the
fact remains that OF ul Fifth avenues our Fifth
avenue Is the Fifth avenue.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-26

Mr., MURRAY, the Census Supervisor in this
town, Is reported by the Nem lOrh Tribune
as saying:
The enumerators are sworn officials of the Govern.
menI and as such must extract from the citizens the
information required by the census sheets"
How does Mr.. MURRAY propose to have
his enumeratOrs extract from citizens ill.,
formation which the Government has no
right to demand. aud which the citizen may
very properly decline to communicate? BY
squeezing the citizens thumbs with thumb
screws BY pulling ont the citizens teeth
one 10y one until lie tells?
MI MURRAY proceeds to say: Arrange
ments have been made with the Police De-
partment of this city TO and in the proper
enforcement of the law"
This Is pure humbug As our readers A.
ready know MI MURRAY besought the
Police Commissioners to promise him the
support and protection Of the department in
carrying on the proposed inqustion and
he was Informed that the department would
do all 1t lawfully may under the statute"
that Is, the New York statute which per.
mlts policeman TO arrest any person whom
he may see kicking or otherwise assailinR an
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-26

MisadVenturca OF u Wet Night at the
National Capital

| From tie Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. Mny 1s.-Gronps OF Congress.
the streets to-day discussed the numerous
scenes which were presented by them at the
il rained a nerfect t torrent and the circus
tent was pitched on square OF ground almost
hai nile norh ana east Of the sa fro
provcrhially great circus town. and notwith;
standing the dowmn9nr OF rain, and the mud
tent tent it VS. Is estimated that twenty thou
pay not only fifty cents admission, but from
90 cents TO So for reserved seats. About live
minutes before the time when the grand ,d6 entire
track lust outside the ropes from the reserved
seats. At intervals OF twenty or thirty feet the
rain ,streamed through the canvas and made
puddles OF mud and water. which. in places
crowd of tent men undertook TO clear the race
track Of humanity, 80 tha no one would be-
We're several Senstors and Probaby dozen
congressman some Of them accompanied by
their wives and children.
souri, and Don Cameron OF Pennsylvania an
reared on the scene: Cameron wore large
his ears. SO as to disguise himself az much as
possible. He Wore short coat and carried his
hands away ,YS- down in his pockets; Vest wore .
SLOUGH hat. which was pulled over his ears and
came down ON his coat collar. Senator, Vest
hs inserted bis arm almost to the Show
couple OF "toughs, evidently bent upon
full disguise from. their friends
and determined to have as much
fun as possible out of the show Finally they
petched themselves upon a row OF reserved
seats, and sat there during the. entire per-
who GENERALLY hang around the circus to ride
the trick mule. Those OF their friends who
passed by and recognized them yelled out ia
mlllar pet names. but the Senators pretended
not to hear them. and let their legs hang over
the broad benches and bangle their feet down
swishing about.
When finally The tentmen found some diff
Guilty in clearing the track. they began to use
torclble means. They pushed number OF
congressman around like African slaves. and
actually kicked one Western Repl o. ntative
III the resound from his pantaloons could
have been heard halt way across the tent.
and there was no resistance. Senator Eustis
OF Alabama had a row with negro at the
entrance to the tent which resulted in
having the Afr can placed under arrest. and
the next morning fined in the police court
Tor assau Il. Two congressman from Missouri
or an adjoining State approached the tent
with their families: and were recognized by a
citizen who knew the ticket taker and, think
ing to play a practical Joke handed back to
them two checks for reserved seats in the cir
Gus ana two checks for seats In one OF the the
aires In place OF the four coupons upon their
circus tickets. The Congressman went into
reserved seats were ridiculei and leered.
Ihev returned to the ticket taker. and were
about to have him arrested when the citizen
lrlend put In IN appearance ard handed over
thelr reserved coupons with the remark that
everything goes at u circus"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-26

wide, belongs to Great Britain, why should
not the 3O-mile strait just mentioned be the
| Joint property OF the United States and
Russia ? But, OF course, the vital question
| is, not what England is estoppcd from say
ing, but what Is the accepted principle Of in
| ternational law
| II is amusing to run over Prof. GEFFCKEN'S
| list OF objections to the annexation of Can
ada. Why he asks should Canadians de-
sire annexation to the United States, by
which they would be "split up into several
States and drawn into the party strife OF
American elections ~ They would be no
more split up rs States than they now are as
provinces, and party strife Is as fcrvcnt on
one side of the border as the other. Then he
proceeds to assert that, If Quebec were adj
mitted to the Union rs State, tho rights Of
French-spcaking Canadians would be swal-
lowed up like those of the French in Louisi
ana" The French are an insignificant
minority Of the population Of Louisiana,
whereas in Quebec they constitute nm over
whelmng majority, and would therefore
shape its State Constitution as they plcased
subject only to the provisions OF the Federal
organic law. Not quite satisfied with these
objections on the Canadian side, Prof
GEFFCKEN insists that the addition Of an
immense territory of 3,47O,OOO square miles
would disorganize the whole internal policy
OF tho United States" The more
we ponder over that sentence, the
more inscrutable it seems. The provinces
of British Columbia, Manitoba Ontario,
Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and
Prince Edward Island would, of course, en-
ter the Union as States. About all the rest
of the Dominion fit for human habitation is
contained in the Territories of AssinibOa
and Alberta How could the
placing of three of these districts under our
federal form OF territorial government
" disorganiHc the whole internal policy of
the United States?
Prof. GEFFCKEN's notions Of our internal
policy" are hazy and defective, and he was |
i'll advised in passing from the text books, of |
which he is master, into Il discussionof
political questions.