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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

JOHN P. JONES and William H.
Palmer. of Bangor, Pa, blew out the
gas before going to bed in a hotel at Beth
lehem, Pa, and were found dead Thurs
day morning.
The Wabash Manufacturing Company,
large dealers in stationery, of Chicago,
have made an assignment. The liabilities
are said to be 5000, 900 and assets the same.
The failure grows out of the paper trade
troubles in the East.
WILMETTE, Ills. = Three persons lost
their lives in a railroad accident here
Tuesday night. They were J. D. Revell,
formerly station agent at Wilmette, and
his wife and child. While crossing the
tracks the three were struck by a passing
train.
Los ANGELES, California. The
food of the last few days has caused the
river to change its course a few miles be
low the city and cut a channel turning the
water on the fruit lands. The owners
claim the property is damaged to the ex-
tent of half a million dollars by bulkkead-
ing the stream and that the city of Los
Angeles is responsible.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
In the Blue Grass Region.
Rurdetta.

Judge BluecIay. Sheriff, convene the
cot. Where is the jury?"
Sherif.-''Back in the jail yard, your
honah. We happened to get three
Trenches and a couple Of Eversoles on it,
an they re fghtin' it out, if it please the
cot"
Jndge.-"Where is the prisoner in this
horse-stealing case?'
Sherif.-"The Barnard boys got him
out last evenin' while I was at supper and
hanged him"
J1dge.-"Strike it off, Mr.. Clerk. Are
the parties in the Salt Lick road case
ready to proceed?"
Sherif.-"It was settled early this morn
ing; they're gettin' the defendant ready
for burial now"
Judge.-'sWell, then, if the district at
torney is ready we will proceed with the
State VS.. Hiram Garrard."
Sherif.-"If it please the cot, the dis
trict attorney, is not ready, Garrard's
counsel carved him with a bowie knise
right after breakfast"
Judge wearily).-'Adjourn the cot"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
HIS GONE.
Death of the ex-Empress of Brazil, Wife of
Dom Pedro.

LISBON. A dispatch just received
from Oporto says that the ex-em-
press of Brazil, who was visiting that city
with Dom Pedro, died Saturday. 1t is be-
lieved that death resulted from heart dis
ease. The ex-empress, who was born
March IA, 1922, was the daughter of the
late King Francis l., of the two Sicilies.
She was a most worthy woman, simple
and domestic In her tastes, gentle and
sympathetic and much beloved, and was in
full accord with the progressive and liberal
views of her husband. She was married
September 4, 1943.
The illness of the ex-empress of Brazil
first assumed an alarming phase yesterday.
This morning Dom Pedro went out for a
promenade and visited the museum of fine
arts. He was found there by the Brazilian
consul, who had been dispatched to hasten
his return to the hotel because the condi-
ton of the empress had suddenly become
critical, but before Dom Pedro arrived the
empress was dead.
The municipal authorities of this city
returning from the celebration of the
kings proclamation in the cathedral, went
to the hotel of the ex-emperor to offer
condolences, but Dom Pedro was so over
come by the event he could not receive
them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
Saved by One Match.

The most trivial circumstance some
times changes the entire current of aman's
life. and often the lives of men are saved
by the merest chance.
Two gentlemen in this city know how
true this is, as one of them was saved
from a horrible death by a match. The
circumstance, as related by themselves,
happened in the following manne
One summer they concluded to devote
the whole of their attention t~oprospecting,
and started with pack animals for a section
of country in Garfield county that was at the
time creating considerable comment among
mining men. They left the city at the be-
ginning of summer, well-equipped with all
the necessaries required by prospectors.
The scene of action was reached without
incident worthy of any special mention,
except, perhaps, the loss of one of their
pack animals, which was drowned on the
Grand river while fording.
Several good prospects were struck and
the work done on them. 1t was now the
middle of October, and they concluded that
it was time to return home. The jacks
were packed and they started across the
country for home. The route that they
laid out took them over the fiat tops. as it
was the nearest road to Leadville.
The third day out they saw that a storm
was brewing, and, not wishing to be
caught on the fiat tops, they rushed their
animals through, but night came before
they reached a valley, and they were
obliged to camp on the high ground.
Everything was made snug for the night,
and, wishing that the storm would blow
over, they wrapped themselves in their
blankets and laid down to rest. About
midnight they were awakened from their
sleep by the bowling of kthe wind, which
whistled throughthe trees under which they
camped. The heavens were black, and the
two men knew that the storm would soon
descend. They had not long to wait be-
fore the first fake of snow fell, and the
storm broke with terrific force. No one
who has never spent a night on the fiat
tops during a snow-stOrm can form any
idea of the velocity at which the wind
travels. and how dreary and lonesome the
surrounding country becomes. The two men
were by this time thoroughly aroused to
the danger of their position and longed for
daylight to appear. By this time the now
was falling thickly, and was being whlrled
hither and thither by the ev~er-changlng
wind. Morning at last dawned, and they
started out In search of their animals IN
the face of the awful blizzard, determined
TO leave the country at all hazards. Their
progress was slow, as the snow had drifted
heavily, and when they came to where
they had turned their horses loose the pre-
vious evening the animals had left.
When the storm started the stock started
before it, and by the time the prospectors
reached where they should have been the
animals were some miles away. The men
kept on trailing them, and when evening
was approaching they were nearly played
out and made up their minds to camp. 1t
was a long and weary tramp, and when
half the distance was travelled they had to
give it up and made camp for the night
under a theltering pine tree.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

One OF the men was completely PLAYED
out and could not 60 a step farther. and.
although it was bitterly cold when the spot
to camp was selected, he stretched himself
out on the ground thoroughly exhausted
and cared not whether he died or lived.
HIS companion, being stronger, started to
get some wood together. and encouraged
his companion with cheering words. He
knew that if he did not get a fire started
pretty soon his partner would freeze to
death. 1t did not take long to collect the
hrewood, cut some Shavings. and have
everything In readiness to start the fire.
put his hand in his pocket, when. to his
horror the match-safe was gone.
Every pocket was searched. but not a
match could he find. He riled the pockets
or his friend with the same result. The
realization of the awful position he was
placed IN struck him, and he knew that
without a ire certain death stared his com
panlon in the face, if not himself. Once
more he searched. and, to his JOY. found
one solitary match in his vest pocket. The
wind was still blowing and NOW drifting.
Would he succeed in kindling the fire was
the question he asked himself.
Under a fallen log he found some dry,
w1thered grass and twigs, which he care
AuiS pun III MS Nat; he WnlCJied some
more shayings, procured more small twigs,
and; with a prayer on his lips, knelt down,
ut the match, applied it to the grass, saw
it suddenly blaze up, and as suddenly 90
out; but before it did one of the shavings
had ignited, the flame extended to the rest
and to the twigs.
When they blazed up he knew they were
saved. Logs were piled on, and the hardy
prospector turned his attention to his
friend, whom he lifted up and carried to
the fire. The warmth soon revived him,
and all that dreary night the two sat be-
fore the fire, every now and again throw
ing a fresh log on, afraid to sleep for fear
of being frozen. When morning came the
storm had passed, and they started out
after their stock, which, fortunately for
them, they found not far from their i'm
provised cabin. On returning to their
first camp they enjoyed a substantial meal,
and after bucking snow a whole after
noon they succeeded in getting off the fat
tops.
Their awful experience they never will
forget, and they are firmly convinced that
a match saved their ives.-Leadville Her
ald-Democrat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
FOREIGN.

BERNE, Switzerland. - The Ital-
ian anarchists posted placards in Lugano
calling upon the Italians to follow the ex-
ample of Brazil and overthrow the mon
archy.
The University of Odessa, Russia, has
been closed, owing to the discovery that
a number of the students were nihilists
and actually engaged in spreading propo-
ganda.
BUENos AYREs. Private tele-
grams from Montevidio confirm the news
of the recent disorder and riots in Brazil.
They also state hat the situation of the
present Brazilian government is very crit
ical.
G PARIS. - The epidemic reigns and
RACES. The conference of lawyers
which was to have convened yesterday, did
not, because a majority of the speakers
were i'll. Reports from Berlin are to the
effect that there is no abatement. In
Brunswick it has assumed a malignant
type and there has been many deaths. At
Frankfort it is increasing. Trainways
ceased operations because the employees
are all i'll at Antwerp. The disease is in
creasing, but it is diminishing among
both the garrison and people at Amster-
dam. 1t has appeared at DOrdrecht among
the soldiers and sailors and in the factor
les. 1t is very serious in the barracks at
Brussels and half the carabiners and
.grenadiers of the Corps DIES Guides are i'll.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
Power of the DeYiI-Eish.

A few days ago at the end of the Naples
wharf, says the Fort Meyers Press, a forty
two foot pile of about one foot diameter
loosely tied with 100 feet of cable.
The hands suddenly noticed the cable rum
ming from the coil, and before any one
could secure it both pile and cable were
moving rapidly to sea. A devil-fsh had
got entangled in the cable. Boats were at
once secured and started in pursuit, and
after a two-mile race they captured the
line and log, the monster having become
loosened, which fact accounts for them
being able to overtake it. When we con
slider that this species of ray attains
a weight of 5000 to 5000 pounds, with
strength to correspond, this is not aston
ing.
Some months ago the passengers of the
steamer Fearless harpooned one of these
fish near San Carlos Bay. and, after towing
the steamer for some time, the engine
being reversed and pulling against
him, they were compelled to cut the line
to prevent being carried on the Sannibel
bar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
INDIANS GET THEIR GUNS
Prevent Squatters Founding a New
Town Site.

PIERRE, South Dakota.-Great excite
ment prevails here because of a discovery
this morning that a band of about seven
ty-ive settlers had assembled to found a
town site at the mouth of the Bad river. It
is learned that the scheme has been in en-
bryo for several weeks, and that a number
of prominent residents of East Pierre were
concerned in it. Work commenced Friday
night, and all night thereafter men with
teams and loads of lumber were crossing
and ~re-crossing the river, the
people of Pierre being entirely
unconscious of what was going on. All
went well until about 5 a. M, when a half
breed, who farms land wherein the squat
tiers had located, discovered them. Secur-
ing a band of followers he attacked the
squatters with guns, pistols and lassoes.
They lassoed the boss carpenter and Sc
verely injured several of the homeseekers.
Finally, the latter took refuge in fight,
being unable to hold out in battle. To add
to their dismay a rain storm set In
and, one by one, they came struggling
across the river drenched, almost frozen,
and a number of them bleeding from
bruises and wounds. The half breeds
secured some lumber, piled it up and set
fire to it, and now all that mark the pro-
spective town site is a vast column of
flame and smoke visible here, while yells
Of the victorious half breeds, mingled
with pistol shots, can plainly be heard on
This side
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
WASHINGTON.

The contractors of the constructor of the
new cruiser Baltimore having notified the
navy department that the vessel was COM
Sec. Tracy formally instructed
Schuyler to accept her.
Secretary Tracy has adopted a new de-
sign for the flag of the nav 1t consists
of a rectangular arrangement of the forty
two stars and will be applied to the union
Jack on July4. 1891.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

or paddock, is sure to bring Ill luck And.
on the other hand, there are men whom it
is considered lucky to follow.
Money carried for three days in a mans
shoe or a woman's stocking is invested
with absolute confidence in its winning
powers.
Some men never back a horse except at
odds of 6to ) or 8 to 5. They assert that
they always win at those andlose at others.
Of course most race-goers have lucky days.
Some win Tuesday, some Thursday,
some Saturday and some lose every day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN,.

THE Pension Department at Washing
ton has upon its rolls the names of twenty
seven widows of revolutionary soldiers who
have been regularly paid pensions up to
the present time. Three of them are 81
years of age and two are Sc The young
est is II.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
LAND BILL.
The New Measure Computed-Some I'm
nortaut Provisions

portant Provisions.
LONDON. = 1t is stated by those
who are supposed to be learned in govern
ment movements that the Irish land bill
has reached the final stage of preparation.
1t has been confidently asserted in many
quarters that the bill is only to apply to
the disaffected districts in Ireland, but
the authority that announced the bills
completion says that this view is incorrect.
The governments proposals go a
great deal further than this and will en-
able the tenant farmers of Kerry equally
with those of Ulster, to purchase their
land if their landlords are willing to sell.
AS to the financial aspects of the scheme,
the principles of the Ashborne act, will, it
is believed, be reproducedin the new legis-
%lation, but there is a strong impression
that they will be supplemented by ma
chinery which will enable the whole bur-
den of the scheme to be cast eventually
upon the shoulders of the local authorities.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

In Mexico. funerals are conducted in
street cars, a black one made for the pur-
pose. doing the duty for hearse, and ordl-
nary cars serving for the mourners. This
use of street cars Is not confined to the
poor. and when eight horses are used for
the black car it is quite expensive. Smok-
ing is so universal that except perhaps at
funerals the car conductors smoke as they
collect the fares, and even shopmen when
selling goods. Even the tramps smoke,
and most of the women. Cigarettes are
smoked more than cigars.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

THE latest electric device is for detect
ing fires. When the temperature of a
room reaches a dangerous point the COM
position in the little button starts the bell
to ringing and indicates the number of the
room in the office. The alarm is kept up
until the temperature of the room is re-
duced to below the danger point.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
THE DEAD ALIVE.
Restoration of a Man Who Was About to
be Buried.

SPRINGFIELD. Chio.-Captain Jacob
Carrot received a telegram last Satur-
day night announcing the sudden
death of his father at Sandusky. Arriving
at the capital city he and other relatives
received the body which had been ships ed
In care of relatives. The casket was
opened for a last look and signs of life
perceived. Restoratives were brought,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

IT is said that the first thing that the
new government of Brazil did was to send
a telegram to the Rothschilds asking for
their continued financial support and the
reply received was favorable, and I'M
doubtedly did much toward s%olidifying the
new government.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

a physician was summoned, and in Ia
short time the supposed dead man was
able to speak. He wa removed to bed
and his relatives are not without hope
that he NAV vet recover.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

THERE is a newspaper in Philadelphia
engaged in gettingt the ''bottom-fact" opin-
ion Of the clergy of that city, as to the To-
cation of heaven and hell. The paper
evidently means to consider the question
geographically; and may get out a map to
illustrate the situation, most expeditions
and convenient route, etc.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

Mr.. Joseph Pulitzer of the New York
World has ordered piece of s|tatuary which
is to be presented to the city of Paris in
return for the Statue of Liberty. 1t is, to
cost $50, 900, and it is to be executed by
Bartholdi himself. 1t will commemorate
Frances aid to America in the war of in
dependence. The chief figures will be
Washington and Lafayette clasping hands.
These are things which Justify the success
of Mr.. Pulitzer in newspaper life. His
wonderful success has called many a snap
per and snarler about his heels, but he has
done many thing which it pleases
Americans to have done. He makes his
money like a merchant prince, he spends
it like a prince imperial. May he move
on a dozen decades, and may his shadow
never grow less as he moves.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

THE action of the special House COM
mittee of the Silcott theft gives ominous
indication of a tendency to evade response
bility and, if possible, find some means of
r~eimbursing the defrauded Representa-
lives from the public treasury. Such a
course should not be considered for a mo-
ment. Those who favor it should read the
history of those who were responsible for
the salary grab and learn wisdom. To
take one cent of the peoples money to
make up for private losses made possible
by the s%lovenly business methods of its
members would be nothing but bare theft,
and its %iniquity would be remembered
against every participant.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

Such details of the revolution in Brazil
as the mails are now bringing do not in
crease confidence in the new republic,
although they give confirmation to thebe-
lief that the monarchy is at an end. 1t is
evident that the disposition of Dom Pedro
was not the deliberate action of the people
or their representatives nor the immediate
result of republican convictions. 1t was
really a military revolt. The army had
been insubordinate and the government
had undertaken to weaken its power for
mischief by scattering it. Some of
the officers rebelled against this and scat
tered the government. But that they
were able to do so by a mere p~ronuncia-
mento shows clearly how little hold the
monarchy had upon popular support and
how ready public opinion was for such a
change. 1t was generally felt TINT the I'M
perial Government would hardly outlast
the life of Dom Pedro, and when the
change was made abruptly it seems to
have been generally acquiesced in, with
the feeling that the question might as
well be met now as at any other time. 1t
Is nevertheless clear that Brazil has not
got a republican government by merely de-
posing the Emperor. A self-constituted
committee of soldiers and editors have
substituted their arbitrary will for the
carefully regulated Will of a constitu-
tional monarch, and nobody has the slight
est idea what they are going to do with it.
The government of the United States
grew naturally out of the union of a num-
Der of well-established and self-governing
Commonwealth. The likeness between
the Brazilian provinces and the North
American States is very slight, and even
if a paper constitution for Brazil can be
formulated upon our model, it will be
another thing to get it in to operation. 1t
is not strange, under existing circum,
stances, that the European powers are
caution about too prompt recognition Of
the United States of Brazil.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

A writer in Murray's Magazine eu-
logizes the intelligence and amiability of
the elephant, which, he says, has a heart,
though the way to that organ may be
through the stomach, and it's affection de-
pendent on offerings of oranges, pine
apple rinds and other refuse of fruit. An
elephant employed in Ceylon, in building
a huge stone dam, to close up a river and
thus form a lake, was one of the sights of
the place. He first of all drew from the
quarry the huge stone which was to be
used; he then undid the chain by which
he had drawn it. He next proceeded to
roll it with his forehead along the narrow
st~one-wall, or embankment, until he
fitted it exactly into its place. On the one
side of this wall was a precipice, on the
other a deep lake. AS the stone was push
ed by his forehead, it would at one time
incline to the lake, at another over the
precipice, but he Immediately made it
straight again with his foot. He was
doing the work of ten men and with the
accuracy of a skilled mason. One day.
when he was at work, a by-stander asked
if he would takeu up a large sledge-hammer.
lying on the ground, and break an
enormous rock close to it. The officer In
charge of the work said this was asking
too much, but the Mahout who heard the
conversation replied, gravely: "Bombera
can and will do everything he is asked"
He then said something to the elephant,
who took up the sledge as if it were a
feather and knocked the stone to pieces.
''Now take your pipe and smoke it," said
the Mahout, upon which the animal stuck
the sIedge in his mouth and walked off
with it. Another elephant, also employed
in moving stones, performed, of his own
accord, a most intelligent act. He was
carrying a large and heavy stone down a
steep declivity, and, as the chain was
somewhat long, the stone struck repeatedly
against his knees, he stopped, made
what the sailors call a blight of the chain,
and, having thus shortened it, carried the
stone to its destination without further
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

IN 1872 Gen. Garfield, when chairman
of the committee on appropriations, said
in regard to pensions: Wemay reasonably
expect that the expenditures for pensions
will hereafter steadily decrease unless our
legislation should be unwarrantably ex-
travagant." The decrease of which he
spoke was from the $34, AS, 1874 appropriat
ed from pensions the year before. And
Gen. Garfield was supposed to be friendly
to soldiers, he had been a soldier himself.
Now, seventeen years have rolled by and
the secretary of the interior wants S97,-
600, 900 to pay pensions. Would Garfield
now say we had been fundamentally ex-
travagant?"