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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05

which has been Investigating the
Observation-Disclosures case, has received a
formal application from ex-Attorney Gen
eral Garland, the attorney for Mr.. Breck-
enridge, for the p, olongation Of the inves-
tigation and examination of number of
witnesses
WAsHINGToN.-The report extensive
ly circulated that lawyer had IN
earthed a decision made by United
States supreme court few years ago in
which the court took exactly the opposite
ground to that held in the original pack
age decision turns out to be incorrect
There is a very obvious distinction be-
tween these two cases.
WAsHINGToN.-Maj Mckinley said:
II believe the silver bill will become
law by an act of this session.
although it is not a sure thing by
any means. There is demand for it from
every direction. do not think we ought
to adjourn before the silver bill is passed
The house will devote itself to the meas
ure within few days. Yes, this will be
long session. We will not adjourn, in
my Judgment, till late in August The
senate will talk tariff for a whole month
presume No, | don't believe we will
pass either the federal or anti-gerrymand
ering bill.
SUPERINTENDENT of Cersds Porter, is
sued an important order Tuesday to census
supervisors that they will instruct enum-
orators in cases where persons refuse to
answer questions on the population sched-
ule relating to physical and mental dis
abilities Or questions relating to farms,
homes and mortgages, to enter in the pro
per column the words, refused to an
swer. No further steps will be neces-
sary on the part of the supervisors. or emu
mer ators, as it is alleged that proceedings
will be instituted by the Washington office
through the department Of justice.
A GOOD deal of interest is felt among the
railway people of the northwest in the
light now regarding a bridge over the
Missouri river at Sioux City. The bill
was passed some time ago, but Major SUIT
Ter has reported against its being con-
structed as a low bridge, which more or
less interfere with the navigation. The
people of that section are flooding the
war department with kilograms, and the
secretary of war has finally consented to
approve the plans if they conform to the
law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
CRIME.

JOHN KEENAN,. a member OF New
York's doodle" Board of Alderman, who
has been missing since the exposures of
1884 has surrendered himself to the au-
thorities and was held for trial in bail of
$4,000
L1NcoLN.-W. D. Wyatt, ex-master of
chancery Of Logon county. who disappear
ed November. 1888, leaving shortages
amounting to $4,000 has been arrested at
New Orleans.
THE Chicago police have arrested
Joseph Kaiser, New York anarchist, on
suspicion of being connected with the at
tempt to destroy the Haymarket monu-
ment in that city with dynamite.
ST. LoUIs.-Mansfeld King. the man
who robbed President Moffatt, of the
Denver bank of $4,000, says he
has madea proposition in writing to the
bank officials to return the money and pay
all the expense they have incurred in the
matter providing they do not prosecute
him. Nothing has been heard from Den
yer in regard to the acceptance Of the
proposition as yet.
ASHLAND, Wis.-Phelps Perrin the
ex-bookkeeper of the sIron Exchange
Bank. must stand trial on the charge Of
embezzling the funds of the bank. The
charge of robbing the bank of S39, 900 is
also pending. PERKINS, examination IL
the embezzlement case was concluded Mon
day morning. and he was bound over to the
next term of the circuit court. Perrin /:
out on bail
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
valor and Skill in the Civil War.

Two articles in the May Century discuss
the relative merits of the blue and the
gray in the trials of battle. General Theo-
dore A. Dodge writes to the question,
WAS either the better soldier?" and
Charles A. Patch asks, Which was the
better army?" In conclusion. General
Dodge says that his list of fifty battles
gives twenty victories to the Confederates,
an equal number to the Federals, and
leaves ten which may fairly be called
drawn. In these fifty battles, at the point
of fighting contact, the Confederates out
numbered the Federals by an average of
about two per cent.
LAS regards brilliant assaults upon regu-
lar works, the Confederates were never
called on to show such devotion as was
manifested by the Federals at Fredericks-
burg, the several assaults at Vicksburg and
Port Hudson. Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor,
and Petersburg. Few trials of fighting
qualities, In any war, 60 beyond some of
these
GAS will be seen from the table of forces.
after the winter of 1963-64 the Union
forces, so vastly outnumbered the Confed-
crate. that companion of the merits of
actual fighting becomes more difficult. We
can deduce little from the battles except
stanch purpose of the Federal, and brilliant
courage, coupled with marvelously able
military arrangement, on the Confederate
side. But if one will take the pains to
tabulate the number actually engaged dur
ing all but the last months of the crumbl-
ing away of the Confederate armies. there
appear plainly two facts; first, that the
Confederates, by superior management
and better position, opposed to the FEEDER
ate fully equal numbers at the point of
fighting contact; and secondly, that of the
combats during the entire struggle the
Federals have their full share of the vic
tories
1T is certain that the statistics of the
war rob the wearers of the blue and the
gray of the right to boast one at the ex-
pense of the other. Neither can claim
superiority in actual battle. The case
bears enough semblance to Greek meeting
Greak to satisfy the reasonable aspirations
of either 'Yank' or JOHNNY"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
BUDDHISM IN PARIS
1t Has $4,000 Disciples and its Feature Is
Fanaticiasm.

1t was recently stated that extraordinary
progress was being made by Buddhist
doctrines In Vienna and other towns of
Central Europe, says the London Tele-
graph. 1t is now said that a decided
move IN this direction is taking place in
Paris. This phenomenon is probably to
De accounted for by the fact that people
who have discarded Christianity find
themselves unable to get on after time
without some kind of religion or phlloso-
ply, and so turn their attention TO any
new thing in hope of filing up the
vacuum. NJ. Leon De Rosny, one of TIE
most popular of the Sorbonne professors.
has been occurring recently on Buddhism.
and says he could never have imagined
that 1t could have taken root in France
as 1t has done. He is of opinion that the
craving favor in which it is held is due
to the fact far from being in conflict with
modern science, it really contains the
principles of the truths expended by our
savants. Its disciples are most enthusiast
tic. and herein lies danger, for the COM
pllcate Buddhas pure philosophy with a
variety of supernatural theories and dab
ole In sprltualsm, hypnotism and other
uncanny practices In the forefront of which
magic may be placed; but NJ. Leon de
Rosny declares that the leaders of the
movement deplore this diversion, which is
at variance with Buddhist doctrines. and
proclaim that they have absolutely moth
ing to do with the occult sciences" He
fears, however, that the most ridiculous
extravagances will be INDUCED in, as no
conception can be formed of the amount of
fanaticism which is special feature of
the new school. Every day he receives
visits from distinguished persons who af-
tlrm that they are thorough-going Bud
dhlst, and one of them has just asserted
that he has at least $4,000 co-religionists
IN Paris. The vlce-president of the Acad-
envy of Medicine has entered their ranks.
and the captain of a French frigate who
returned from a cruise in Chinese waters
lately says that one-third of his crew has
commenced to embrace the doctrine of
Buddha.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05

who so foully murdered Exposition Conn
missioner Ross. who was seen ON late
train going to his home in Glendale. few
years ago. Nor has any one vet pubIiclv
given out a solution of the mystery of
Harry Baldwin, who was found dead some
eight years ago In an alley on Elm street
Along in the fifties George Cook. a
butcher, and others, got into fracas at
the Bringhton house, and one of his BROTH
ers and several others were arrested
While the trial was going on. a witness
named Blanchard was teStiying, and was
rather hard on Cooks brother. George
rushed In, and armed with a cleaver felled
him to the ground a corpse. Turning up
on the paralyzed crowd, he escaped from
the Justices office. and was never seen or
heard OF since. The grand jury indicted
him but no George Cook answered.
blddy Furry in early days Kept ranch
on the canal near Elm, and one night
Gteorge Tabor had quarrel there in rela-
ton to one of the girls. Taylor was stab
ped, and though there were several parties
IN the house, yet the assailant was I'M
Known, and, escaping. never was found.
Blddy went to Toledo and there murdered
some one, and was sent to the pen for
long term.
Perhaps the most thoroughly unsolved
mystery that this city ever had was in the
cholera year of 1S49. When the Miami
canal was being cleaned the corpse of
richly attired and beautiful woman was
found under the Vine street bridge i'm
beded IL the slime and mud of the canal.
She had on valuable jewelry Her body
had several fatal wounds Who she was,
where she came from or who murdered her
was never known and never will be. Such
are few of the many unsolved mysteries
of crime
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05

Senators Call, M-rgan, Payne, Stewart
and Vest. Sen. Wilson Qowa) offered
substitute for Gray's amendment,
providing that liquors exported into
any state or territory for USE
consumption or sale Tor storage
shall on their arrival be subject
to the operation in effect OF the laws of
such state or territory enacted in exercise
of It's police power and shall not be ex-
empt therefrom by reason their being
introduced in original packages Wilson 5
substitute was adopted. The bill was
then passed, "a to 10. Sen. voorhees,
moved to amend the title by making
it read: "A bill to override the
decision of the supreme court of the United
States in its Interpretation and construc-
ton of the constitution on the subject of
commerce between the several states and
thereby relieve the state of Iowa from the
consequences of her own misguided legis-
lation.'' Rejected. The title was then
amended on motion of Sen. Wilson
(Iowa) to read: "A bill to limit and
effect the regulations of commerce be-
tween the several states and with foreign
countries, In certain cases. The river
and harbor bill was received from the
house and referred to the committee
on commerce. The senate adjourned until
Monday.
House-Mr. Payson, of Illinois, from
the committee on public lands, reported
back the senate bill with amendments
for general forfeiture of land grants
Ordered printed and recomitted. On mo-
ton of Mr.. Springer, of Illinois, a sem
ate bill was passed pensioning the widow
of rear admiral David McDougall
Mr.. Rowell Qll) gave notice that he
would on Tuesday next ask the house TO
consider the McDuffie-Turpie contested
election case. The house then went into
committee of the whole (Mr. Burrows, of
Michigan i'll the chair on public build
ings bills.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
Lean Men in the South.

1t is a remarkable fact that there are
fewer fat white men in the south than In
dny other section of the country. 1t IS a
positive relief to find a fat one. The
average of them runs to bone fiber and
eompaeted muscle. They are as slnewy
as q trained athlete: as restless and as
impetuous as the fierce sun that nurtures
them No race of men on the globe have
better physical control of themselves. They
are all brain and nerve tissue. They have
the lean and hungry look of Cassius.
They think too much and too intensely. 1t
is a rare thing to see one of them smile
unconstrainedly. Their sensitiveness Is
developed to highly abnormal state.
Good nature is seldom found among
them. Politics is their native, and their
only native element. When they 60 into
business it is from necessity, and not from
choice. The money-lenders, the shop
keepers, the manufacturers, the railroad
and hotel owners and managers | find are,
in the main, not southern, but northern
born men. They are not covetous of
wealth, but of power; and that they are
left to control the politics, let who will may
amass the wealth, which they are too i'm
patient and hostipable to hoard. They are
too lean; they think too much; they are
too sensitive, and are sV aged more by i'm
pulse and prejudice than by reason and
rehectiou.-T. Thomas Fortune, In the
New York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERA NOTES.

IT is estimated that New York, Brook
lyn, ond Jersey City together consume
over 100000 tons of ice per annum.
Bishop James O'Connor of
the Catholic dioces of Omaha, died Tues
day morning. aged Sc.
The steamer Circussian, from Liver
pool, reports that many passengers were
injured by the severe storms encountered
on the voyage.
MANY thousands of acres of cultivated
land in California have been injured by
overlooked creeks and rivers.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. - Shaefer con-
tinued his great run Friday night in the
billiard match with McClery and ran an
other 200 points in ffty-three minutes
McClery did not get shot
LONDON, Eng. = Henry M. Stanley
will come to America in the autumn. He
proposes to lecture in most of the principal
cities of the United States.
LONDON, Eng. = The Bey of Tunis
has decreed that every negro slave of his
dominions be given a certificate OF free
dom, and employers who do not comply
with this regulation will be fined.
EDWIN BooTH' friends agree in saying
that he is very lazy in private life. He
cannot walk six blocks without being
tired. He and Lawrence Barrett will
summer at Cohasset and spend much time
Watching.
ANN ARBoR, Mich.-During the per.
Torrance of circus here last Tuesday
800 students from the state university had
a fight with the shoemen, during which
several among them received broken heads.
In the melee several pistols shot were fired
and one circus man was shot in the
sholder. Ten students and as many of their
opponents are in the hands of physicians.
Several arrests of both parties have been
made and intense excitement prevails,
None of the injuries are supposed to be
fatal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05

She Will Belong to Combinations to Raise
the Price of Her Labor

Combination among skilled women
workers, says the English Illustrated Mag
azine, is increasing every day, though
slowly, for women are naturally conserva-
tive, and they do not readily accept the
principle Of unionism They have many
of them, suffered sorely from the effect of
strikes, and though they realize that pro-
longed combination, if carried out consis-
tently, must improve their position and in
the long run raise their wages, never lose
sight of the long period during which
their employment must cease till their ulti-
mate demands are conceded. Added to
which they do not forget the bitter feel
lngs aroused-the breach between employ
er and servant, and above all, that in a
struggle such as long strike must always
be is only the strong who win; the weak
ones go to the wall.
All these things make women shy; and
slow to join trade union, while the intro
duction of foreign labor in England and
the increasing demand on account of their
cheapness, for foreign goods have made a
much deeper impression on their minds
than is generally admitted. The skilled
woman worker has. however, the security
of knowing that she can take up her stand
with greater chance of success, for with
the best woman workers, as with the men
the supply is rarely in excess of the de
mand. And were technical instruction
given to women a good deal of the better
class work they cannot do would be car
ried out in England, instead of being exc
cuted by French women, who are trained
for it in the many technical schools which
exist for woman in France.
In Scotland the question has been warm
ly espoused by the women who work III
Glasgow and Dundee, and the prospect of
combining for the unskilled as we'll as the
skilled workers is very much more promis-
ing than in England. Scotch women are
much more independent and self-reliant,
added to which, though the pay is bad,
their furpoundings are less deteriorating
than those of the London women, and
their dwellings are better and their rents
lower.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
WORK OF A DEVIL.
Thousands of People Homeless-Au TIL,
Work of an Incendiary.

MIDDLELBoRoUGH, Ky-Saturday fore
noon an incendiary started fire in the
rear of Highlands grocery store on Cum
berland avenue. The flames were soon
beyond control and spread rapidly.
The fire ragged several hours and when
finally subdued four squares
containing the best buildings of the city
as well as great number of residences,
were destroyed. The loss will amount to
$3.50, 900, with about 1926, 900 insurance.
Several persons were badly burned but
none will die. Two thousand
people are homeless, and not only only
their houses but i'll the majority of cases,
all household effects are gone When the
fire started it was found that the town fire
engine had been tempered with, and made
it practically useless There is no clue to
the miscreant.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
HEROIC DEED OF AN EN-CONVICT
An S-Year-Old Boy the Eleventh Person
Saved From Drowning by David Barrett

New YoRK.-David Barret an ex-con-
Wet, aged 20, saved Charles O'Con-
nor, a lad of s, from drowning today at
the imminent risk of his life. The boy
was brought up from under barge by
Barrett, while a 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
ten years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05

buffalo Of America. Within the memory
of many persons lions were common
enough in Rajputana, and even now roar
may be heard occasionally in the widest
parts of central India, but new railway
from Nagpur is being built through this
country. and that will drive out the few
remaining lions in the central provinces.
Practically the only lions remaining are
said to be the race existing IN kattywar.
Their number remains, it is believed, pref
t. stationary. They are specially pre-
served for royal sport, but even they are
regarded as doomed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
The Preventive of Terrible Disease.

No disorders, excepting the most deadly forms
of lung disease. involve such tremendous de
strrcton of organic tissue as those which fasten
upon the kidneys Such maladies, when they
become chronic-and none are so liable to assume
that phase completely wreck the system; To
prevent this terrible disease, recourse should De
had upon the first manifestation OF trouble, to
Hostetter-s Stomach Bitters, which experience has
proved TO be highly effective as means OF lmpart-
as well as to the liver, stomach and bowels
Another beneficial result of this medicine. natu
ally consequent upon its diuretic action, Is Il e
beget rheumatism. neuralgia, govt, dropsy Z. Z
other maladies. BY increasing the activity of / Z
kidneys. it augments the depuratlve efficiency
for the escape of such impurities.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
Her Test of Nationality.
Boston Journal,

A few days since a gang of workmen
were put to work on railroad near the
residence of lady, who was curious to
know their nationality. A bright thought
struck her. She gathered twigs of white
lilac and sent her little boy to distribute
them among the workmen at noon time.
She watched the result. Many of them
put their flowers in their hats, while 9th
ers laid them near their dinner pals. The
decorated men were Italians
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN.

DURING the American revolution an
English magazine published an estimate of
the future population of North American
colonies. Placing the population then at
double itself every twenty-five years, the
writer estimated that in the year 1890 the
number would have increased to $4,000
900. AS matter of fact this is near the
present estimated population of the Unit
ed States
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05

A VAST amount of time and money is
expended IN collecting and compiling
statistics of labor, but the lesson which
they teach seems to have but little effect.
During the last five years, according to the
reports of the New York Bureau of Labor
Statistics, the wages of employees in that
state lost through strikes amount to over
eight million dollars, while the loss to en-
ployers was something over five millions.
The disparity is greater than it seems, for
the employers could far better afford to
lose than could the wage earners. Bul
dispute the fact, proven over and over
again, that strikes do the most injury to
the strikers, workmen continue to resort
10 them in season and out of season. Per-
haps this tendency is to be accounted for
by remark made not long since by a
prominent workingman: when nations
want justice they arbitrate; when they
want the most that they can get; they go
to war" Men who strike virtually de-
clare war, and they must abide the issue
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
WASHINGTON.

Ex-SPEAKER John G. Carlisle took
the oath of office and his seat Monday as
United States Senator from Kentucky to
succeed the late Senator Beck.
WAsHINGToN.- The subcommittee
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05

In Pennsylvania, not ong since, a pas
senger who had bought an ordinary rail
way ticket insisted that it entitled him to
ride on a limited train, and boarded one
accordingly. He was elected, of course,
and then he went to law about it, The
judge ruled that it is the business of a
passenger to see that he has the right sort
of ticket, and that, as this passenger was
not 50 provided he had no right on the
limited train. The business of the coun-
try requires especially fast trains, they are
far more expensive than those which run
at ordinary speed, and it is perfectly right
that only those who pay an extra price
should be permitted to ride in them.
Every man may select the method of tray
Ell that best suits him, and having paid for
it is entitled to that and that only. 1t is
a matter of contract,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05

The celebrated German remedy for
burns consists Of fifteen ounces of the best
white glue, broken into small pieces in
two pints of water and allowed to become
soft; then dissolve by means of water
bath and add two ounces of glycerine and
six drains of carbolic acid, continue the
neat until thoroughly dissolved. On cool,
ing this hardens to an elastic moss covered
with a shining, parchment-lllke SKIN and
may be kept for any length OF time.
When required for a use Il hath mt; su t
ientlv LIQUID, and applied by means of a
broad brush. 1t forms in about two
minutes shining, smooth, flexible and
nearly transparent skin.