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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
FOREIGN.

BERLIN floods in the River Fulda
at Cassel are subsiding.
LONDON, Eng.-It is reported that
the duke of Cambridge will resign the
position of commander-in-ch of the
British army in October, and be succeeded
by the duke of Connaught, the queen s
third son.
THE French government is said to be
greatly offended because the car has
granted commission in the Russian army
to Prince Louis Napoleon.
BERLIN continue in the
southwest and central Germany.
Much damage has been done to the forests
in those sections. A heavy snow storm
prevails in the Etzeberg mountains.
ZANZIBAR number of French priests
have arrived at Malindi They state that
they recently met DIR. Peters, the German
explorer, concerning whose death many
conflicting reports have been received at
Koki. He was in good health.
MADRID.-The Minister of Foreign
Affairs said the Chamber of Deputies.
at is absurd to suppose that Spain is
ready or is inclined to send an army to
establish the monarchy in Portugal if the
republic should be proclaimed there. "
VIENNA.-A daring robbery has been
perpetrated in this city. The thieves en-
tered the office of a navigation company
and, walking to the desk of the Cashier,
entered into conversation with him. Sud-
denly one of the men threw a quantity of
pepper into the Cashiers eyes, temporarily
binding him. They then seized upon a
sum of money lying upon the Cashier S
desk and made their escape.
VIENNA.-Five hundred glass-workers
who are on the strike at Gablonza, In
Bohemia, made an attack upon the fac
tory in which they had been employed,
and forcing an entrance into the building,
destroyed all the machinery. The police
attempted to quell the disturbance, where
upon the strikers turned on them and In
the conflict that followed two of the rioters
were killed by the police and many others
were severely wounded.
ST. PETERSBURG. = Advices from
Astrabad report Persian Khorassan
is ravaged by an intestinal disease of ex-
cessive fatality Three thousand deaths
are reported. At Moor, in Meshed, there
were 100 deaths daily. Owing to the
scarcity of doctors the nature of the disease
is unknown. As western Persia was raw
aged with cholera through the autumn,
and as thousands of people fed to the east
ward IN the hope to escape from the dis
ease, it is regarded as possible that they
carried it with them, and that this may
account for the trouble In Khorassan.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
CONGRESSIONAL.
TUESDAY, JAN. %.

Senate-Among the memorials pre-
sented and referred to-day, was one
from the Augusta (Maine) board of
trade, for the selection of New York as
site for the exposition of 1892; also one,
presented by Mr.. Chandler, for the estab-
Iishment of republican form of govern
ment in the state of Mississippi
The committee on public buildings and
grounds reported a bill appropriating
100000 for the public building at Kan
sas City, Mo-, and it was placed on the
calendar. Sen. Call offered an amend
ment calling on the attorney general
to report the hanging In effigy
of President Harrison in Indiana and
President Cleveland in Kansas. Without
action, pending amendments, the resolu-
ton went over. After an executive ses-
sion the senate adjourned.
House. The house passed a bill pro-
viding that in cases of pension claims
of dependent parents it shall be only
necessary to show to the pension office
that the parents are without other means
of support than manuals labor. E. B.
Taylor, of Ohio, called up the mo-
ton, made yesterday, to table the motion
to reconsider the vote by which the house
passed the bill providing for the erection
of three United States prisons. The mo-
ton . to table was agreed to, yeas, 1852;
nays, 112 Mr.. Peters introduced bill,
which was referred, setting apart certain
lands in No Mans Land, for the propo-
cation of buffalos. Adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 20.
House Mr.. Dalzell pa called up
the election case of Smith VS.. Jackson
from the 4th West Virginia district.
Mr.. Crisp Qa.) raised the question of
consideration On this vote the democrats,
with the exception of Messrs. Buckalew.
Covert and Cowles, refrained from voting.
While the clerk was calling the roll the
speaker was carefully noting the names
of those democrats who were present and
not voting. Before the announcement of
the vote Mr.. Rogers, of Arkansas, who
had inadvertently voted on the affirmative
side decided to withdraw his vote, but he
was met with strong objections from the
republican side Mr.. Rogers endeavOred
to secure a ruling from the speaker on
the question, but the speaker declined to
rule The speaker counted as present the
members refusing to vote and declared a
quorum present. The house twas immed-
lately In a great turmoil, but presently
quiet was restored and the speaker made
a long speech In justification of his course.
He quoted precedents to maintain the cor
rectness of his position, and his remarks
were from time to time applauded by
the republicans. The remainder OF the
day was consumed in a heated discussion
of the rules of the house.
THURSDAY. Jan. 30.
House-The galleries of the house
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
WASHINGTON.

The United States Senate, in executive
session, confirmed the nomination of John
NJ. Clark to be collector of the Port of Chi
cago.
WAsHINGToN.-Th secretary of the
on the national bank repositories for the
reduction of public balances held by them,
on or before March LIST. The call is for
about the same amount as the first.
ASSISTANT Secretary Bussey has rem
dered decision in the pension claim OF
Isaac S. Yarmouth, sergeant of Co. F, Sd
Illinois, Mexican war The widow is
granted pension of IS per month to date
from 1857, Yarmouth was the father OF
Ex-Governor Yarmouth, of Louisiana.
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A STORY OF DOM PEDRO.
How He Saw the Philadelphia Exhibitio

How He Saw the Philadelphia Exhibition.
A story is told of the ex Emperor which
well illustrates bis character. When, with
the Empress he visited the Centennial Elk
hibition in Philadelphia and attempted to
examine the exhibits, he was wedged in
immovably by gaping, excited, but good
natured mob. He bore this in patience
for two days. On the third day he re-
solved upon bold change.
II shall see nothing, " he said to his Sec
rotary; 81 must be incognito. Procure
me some disguise"
The next day stout farmer, with a
coat not of the newest, his wife on his arm
in a rather shabby merino gown, should
cred his way through the gates and spent
the day in a close study of the educational
systems Of different countries. They thus
quietly and unnoticed continued their OBJ
servations for week One day they met
a group of twenty Brazilian civil Ell
glneers, students from a great POLYTECHNIC
school, The young men stopped, hesitated
in amazement, and then. with loud cheers
and wild excitement, saluted the farmer
and his wife, bowling to the ground and
kissing their hands.
at is the Emperor" one of them ex-
planned, with tears in his eyes to a by
stander. He is more than our king; he
is the father of the people! Out of his own
scanty purse he supports me and nine
other orphan boys in colleges and univer-
stiles that they may bring knowledge of
all arts and sciences to Brazil. He has
just made tour of Europe, and he comes
here to find new inventions and ideas that
may be useful to his people
The boys gathered closely around Dom
Pedro, while he asked each as to his health
and success. He knew each of This boys
personally and was loved by them with
deep, grateful affection.-The Church
man.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
LEPROSY,
How 1t Ragged in Europe During the Mid
die Ages.

How lit Ragged in Europe During the Mid
die Ages.
We have no certain knowledge as to the
manner in which leprosy was conveyed in
to Europe, says the Fortnightly Review,
but there is evidence to the effect that in
the last century before Christ it had es-
tablished itself in the Roman Empire. It's
subsequent spread throughout Europe can
easily be accounted for; wherever the
Roman eagles went the germs of the dis
ease would necessarily accompany them
From this source Spain, France and Ger
many sooner or later became infected. and
although there are no records which en-
able US to trace the progress of the malady
in Europe during several hundreds of
years afterward. the steps that were taken
to check its spread in the seventh and fol-
lowing centuries sufficiently indicate the
alarming frequency of the disease and
the virulent character it had assumed.
Leper hospitals would appear to have
been established IN Norway somewhat
later than III other European countries.
History tells us that In the Frankish king
dom these institutions were founded in the
eighth and ninth centuries, in Ireland
about the year 500, in Spain in 1907. in
England in the eleventh century, in Scot
land and the Netherlands in the twelfth,
and In Norway in the thirteenth century.
During and after the crusades leprosy
spread with extraordinary rapidity, and
leper hospitals were rapidly multiplied all
over Europe. 1t is estimated that in the
twelfth century there were 1000 such hos
pitfalls in France alone and $4,000 in the
whole Christendom So terrible were the
ravages of the disease that it seemed as
though some altogether new plague had
II
some historians nave asserted that leprosY
of the middle ages was introduced for the
first time from the east by those who re-
tured from the crusades. As a matter of
fact however, leper hospitals existed in
England some years before any of the cru
saders reraced their steps westward. The
soldiers of the cross doubtless brought with
them many cases of severe leprosy, and an
extremely virulent form thus became in
grated upon the disease already prevalent
throughout Europe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
Witness and Judge.

An amusing scene was recently enacted
In a country courtroom In Maine. The
trial justice, big, pompous official with
voice like a trombone, took it upon him
self to examine witness, a little, withered
old man whose face was as red and wrink-
led as a smoked herring.
what is your name?' asked the justice.
why squire, F" said the astonished wit
ness, you know my name as well as know
yourn.
Never you mind what | know or what |
don't know, was the caution given with
magistrial severity. Il ask the question
in my official capacity, and your e bound to
answer under oath.
with contemptuous snort the wit
ness gave his name and the questions pro-
ceeded.
Where do you ive?"
wal. snum!" calculated the old man
''Why, he continued, appealing to the
laughing listeners. l have lived in this
town all my life, and SOS he, pointing to
the justice, AN b'gosh, to hear. him go on
you d think"
'sSilence!' Numbered the irate magis-
trate, Answer my question OF I'll fine
you for contempt of court =
Alarmed by the threat, the witness
named his place of residence and the ex-
animation went on.
What is your occupation?''
''Huh?"
''What do you do for living?"
''Oh, get out, squirrel Jest as if you don t
know that tend gardens in the summer
season an saw wood winters.
''As private citizen | do know it, but
as the court I know nothing about you, y
'Wal, squire, remarked the puzzled
witness, IF you know sometin' outside the
you d better get out an let somebody try
this case that's got boss sense.
The advice may have been well meant,
but it cost the witness Subdivision
Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
How to Buy Buppies.

The correct way to buy goods of any kind
is from the manufacturer when possible.
For sixteen years the Elkhart Carriage and
Harness Manufacturing Company, of Elk
hart, Ind, have sold direct to the consumer
at wholesale prices, saving their customers
where, with privilege to examine before
paying, and pay all charges if not satisfac-
tory, the buyer runs no risk. See their adj
vertisement, and send for catalogue.
An Indianapolis girl, while suffering from
la grippe, sneezed almost steadily for forty
eight hours.
1t is stated that sixty thousand people at
tended the funeral of socialist editor at
Hau nbI1rO Ia
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
Progress.

1t Is very important In this age OF vast
material progress that remedy be pleasing
to the taste and to the eye. easily taken. ac-
ceptable to the stomach and healthy in its
nature and effects. Possessing these quail
tiles. Syrup Of Figs is the one perfect laxa-
tive and most gentle diuretic known.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06

THE New Pork Presbytery has been en-
gagged of late in an exceedingly interesting
discussion. A special committee made a
report the other day recommending the ex-
ision of five things from the confession
amely, the doctrine of reprobation, the
damnation of infants, the damnation of
the entire heather world, the reference to
Papists as idolators, and to the Pope as
the anti-Christ. Some of the members in
sisted that the points were not a part of
Calvanism, but were excrescences, another
insisted that the Church had believed in
them, and one difficulty in the way of re-
vision was the fact that large gifts of mon
ey had been received by the Church with
the express understanding that they were
to be used to propagate the doctrines of
confession. One live young pastor threw
a bombshell into the Presbytery by telling
a story. He had been engaged, he said.
In expounding the principles of the West
minister confession to a congregation of
Young men. One evening he noticed the
attendance was small, and discovered the
reason to be that Ingersoll was speaking
in the neighborhood. The greater part of
his congregation was listening to the great
infdel's impious attack upon the doctrines
of reprobation. He admitted that his
treatment was mastery, and was obliged
to confess it was unanswerable. Il don't
hesitate to say, he continued. THAT Inger
soil has had more to do with bringing up
this subject of revision than any Presby-
terrain minister in the country. He's on
the side of revision, and I know of no
brother on this side except him whom |
don't respect" 1t is the strongest pos
sible indication of the increasing liberality
and breadth of the Church that it is adj
mitted in meeting of ministers that a
man may be an unbeliever and yet capable
} reasoning on matters of faith.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06

New JERSEY negro visited a chicken
-souse and grain shed recently and stole
thirty-one chickens, eighteen bushels of
corn, two bags of corn meal, three bags of
rye in the grains That New Jersey far
mer should thank his stars that he was
left the chicken house and grain shed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
Value of the Parents.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, JAN 30.-The Chicago &
Northwestern railroad has granted s10,-
600 to Oracle Taylor, whose parents, Fred
erick Payne and his wife. Rosa Payne.
were killed in the railroad accident at
Rose Hill.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06

OKLAHOMA seems to have greater at
fractions for the negro as an emigration
field than the banks of the Congo. There
are already $4,000 colored people there,
and by the middle of spring this number
ill be doubled
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06

EDISON, the inventor, IS busily engaged
in pushing forward to completion an cleo
trio moter for street railway cars. His
idea dispenses with the overhead high
tension wires and also with the storage
battery In a few weeks Mr.. Edison ex-
poets to give his invention a public trial
on one of the street railroads in Orange.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06

The longest freight train ever handled on
the Baltimore q Ohio was brought INTO
Grafton, W. Va, last week with one engine,
in charge of Engineer Mat Frazer, OF heyser.
There were ninety-eight freight cars and
caboose. and the train was few feet over
mile LONG
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06

The project of tunneling the English Chan
nel is still cherished by company of Brit
ish capitalists, who have expended S4OO, 900
comDIeted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06

A Zoe. Cigar in quality, but only &C..
cigar in nrice is ssTansilPs Punch"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
FATAL EXPEDITION.
Railroad Exploring Parties Meet Death in
the CanOns.

DENVER information received
here it appears that the second
exploring party which left here Nov
ember Is, to survey the railroad line
through Grand Canon. also met with a
fatal accident. F. A. Minis, photographer
for the expedition was badly injured in
Marble Canon three weeks ago and nearly
killed and three of the other men were
killed. In the first expedition which left
January %, 1885, under the command of
Frank NJ. Brown, the latter with two
men were drowned twenty miles below Los
Ferry, where boat capsized in the rapids
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
A Haunted House.

This body of ours has been likened to a tene
ment. 1t often has a haunted apartment the
stomach. Scared by the eldrich sprite, dyspepsia,
digestion flies and refuses to return. What cam
break the spell. what can raise the ban laid upon
the unhappy organs? We answer unhesitatingiy,
uostetter's Stomach Bitters, and we are warranted
III the response by the recorded testimony OF
my-iads, covering a period of over third of
century. course of the Bitters, begun in any
stage Of the affection, and persistently followed,
wil: terminate in cure positive, not partial. The
Biters restores tone to the epigastric nerve, re-
news and purifes the juices exuding from the eel
lular tissue that act upon the food digestiyey ex-
pels bile from the stomach and the blood. and pro-
notes regular habit of body. Malaria, kidney
complaint, nervousness, rheumatism and neural gia
give way to this medicine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06

ADD the Indiana railway horror of the
9th to the list and it makes eleven rail
road accidents in which lives have been
sacrificed since the first. Every one of
these have been due to careIessness, and
the crowning horror is no exception.
There can be no broken rails where track
is properly looked after.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06

THERE is slowing up on immigra-
ton to this country. The Argentine Repub-
icand other parts of the world are offering
inducements, so that we are not likely for
some years hence to add a half million a
year Or more to our population by new
Corners from abroad
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
The Remedy for the influenza.

A remedy recommended for patients af-
ficted with the influenza is Kemp's Balsam,
the specific for coughs and colds, which is
especially adapted to diseases of the throat
and lungs. Do not wait for the first symp-
toms Of the disease before securing the rem
edy, but get bottle and keep it on hand for
use the moment it is needed. If neglected
the influenza has tendency to bring on
pneumonia All druggists sell the Balsam.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06

The Russian government will begin next
spring to build a, 500-mile railroad across
Siberia. This is big undertaking, and its
estimated cost is 1920 600 600
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House.-The galleries of the house
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InfernnI IngennifY

Could scarcely devise more excruciating
tortures than those of which you see the
evidences in the face of rheumatic or
nenralgic sufferer. The agonies are the
consequence of not checking rheumatic
or neuralgia attack at the outset. Hos
letters Stomach Bitters has been found
by skillful medical practitioners to pos
sess not only remedial, but defensive
efficacy, where those diseases exists, or
a tendency to them is exhibited. Sure
ly this puissant but safe botanic medi-
cine, bearing, toe, such high specific
sanction, is better than the poisons 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, slight
~ impurged upon, saved from ultimate
and direful throes by this benign, saving
medicine, which likewise exhibits mark
ed efficacy for malaria, kidney COM
plants, dyspepsia, constipation and
liver complaint.
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Each and every article qnoted
here we cheerfully recommend as
being first-class, or money refunded.
Our "Pride" Bed Sets, full size,
Nottingham Lace, tapped all around,
beautiful designs, each set contains
one lace spread, one pair of pillow
shams, to match. These goods are
really worth SO; our price s1.5O.-
Nottingham Lace Curtains, 3 yards
long, taped all around, handsome
designs; big bargain, zoe. per pair.
Lace Pillow Shams, large size, ex-
ira fine, worth so and soc. per pair;
our price 40 and so cents. Bed
Spreads, largest sizes, best in the
market for the money, really worth
Sl.25 a piece; our price Use. Blea-
ched Linen Towels, rich, fancy bor-
ders 20x36, worth 90 cents per pair;
our price 3Oc. Fine Gros Grain
Silk 20 yds to pattern, worth S1.25;
our price 75c. We have also an ell
egant line of Spring and Summer
Dress Goods, Notions, etc. We very
frankly ask you to drop in.
o. B. HARPER.
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wish to announce to my friends
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where / am prepared to give salts
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can give the best of reference as to
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! cordially invite all persons wish
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Among my numerous patrons, 1
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cob Riggs, Eureka, Ohio; Edmund
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II. Hogg, Pleasant Flats, w. Va;
Capt. f. A. Barrows, Buffalo, w. Va /;
Jas. N. Gamble, proctor & Gamble)
Cincinnati, o.
For particulars address
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Epoch.

The transition from long, lingering
and painful sickness to robust health
marks an epoch in the life of an individ-
ual. Such aremarkableeventis treasur-
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is greatfully blessed. Hence it is that
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troubled with any disease of Kidneys,
Liver or Stomach, of long or short stand
ing you will surely find relief by use of
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per bottle at, Van elders Drugstore.