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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-30

HERR MosT, the New York Anarchist,
will have to serve his sentence of one
year for using incendiary language in
1887, his appeal being rejected.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-30

JUDGE MANIsTY, of the Queens Bench
division of the English High Court of
Justice, was stricken with paralysis while
presiding over a case recently.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-30
CURRENT COMMENT.

THE Delagoa railway has been COM
pleted to the frontier of the Transvaal.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-30

PRESIDENT HARRISON has ordered the
Immediate dismissal of a number of
land registers who show deficiencies in
their accounts.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-30

HIGH honors were paid in Rome to the
remains OF the late French Ambassador,
Marian, which were sent to Paris.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-30

JOSEPH HICKsoN, managing director of
the Grand Trunk railway of Canada, has
been gazetted Knight.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-30

A REPORT has come to Zanzibar from
the interior that DR.. Peters had arrived
safe and well at Subaki.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-30

THE two rival miners organizations
formed an alliance in their recent meet
ing at Columbus, o.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-30
EARTHQUAKE IN TENNESSEE

CAIRO, ILL.,, Jan. 27.-The officers OF
the steamer Baton Rouge, passing up
last evening, reported heavy schock OF
earthquake at Bellfont Lake, Tenn. A
veritable panic resulted among the in
habitants of the locality. who have not
forgotten the result of the great earth
quake of many years ago, when New
Madrid and much of the adjacent terri
tory sunk beneath the Mississippi, and
the bottomless Reelfoot lake was formed
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-30
A SHIP ON FIRE.

New YORK, Jan. 27.-Fire in the cargo
of the bark, Pythome, from Calcutta,
owned by Henry Furmiessons, of Liver
pool, and consigned to Charles p. Sum-
ner, of this city, caused loss of S25, 900
to cargo and vessel yesterday morning
Several of the crew were made uncon-
scious by the smoke and were taken out
with difficulty. To save the vessel it
was necessary to scuttle her, and she
now lies submerged to the water line at
Pierrepont Stores, Brooklyn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-21
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, D. c. - Mr.. Plat
has proposed an amendment to the def
cheney bill to pay to the state of South Da
kota Sl4, 059, being the amount disburseo
by that state in paying the expenses of the
constitutional convention in 1885.
Mr. BLAIR reported favorably from the
committee on education and labor joint
resolution, introduced by him, proposing an
amendment to the constitution, to forever
prohibit in the United States the manu-.
facture, importation, expectation, trans
portation and sale of all alcoholic liquors
used as beverages.
WASHINGTON, D. c. - The census
Office has practically computed the pop.
ulation of the United States. There are
however, about 1900 enumeration dis
tricts the returns from which have not
been received. In consequence of this
delay the announcement of the population
of several states cannot be made for some
time yet. The count up to this time
shows an aggregate of 62,595.955 and
when the entire count is finished the popu,
lation of the country will be about ga, 000,-
600 an increase of about thirty per cent
during the decade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-21
latest NEWS. CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

THREE thousand machinists at Pitts
burgh are on strike.
ROCKWELL & Co. s tannery at Warren,
Pa, has been damaged by fire to the extent
OF 100000.
The OCEAN steamer Teutonic, which
reached New York Wednesday, made the
run In five days, nineteen hours and five
minutes.
IT is said that there is room for just
100 more graves in Westminster Abbey
1t is interesting to speculate what Eng
land will do with her dead worthless when
the old abbey is full.
REPORTS from the various parts of Iowa
state that rains have fallen throughout
the state during the week, greatly improv-
ing crop prospects.
ONE of Horace Greeley's nephews bar
barber in little town in Warren county,
Pa. In personal ap pearance he is not I'M
like his distinguished uncle.
A BOSTON, boatman, who received a 50
cent piece as reward for saving four men
from drowning, has had the coin en-
graved; Reward of Merit-For Res
cuing Four Men From Drowning: 1919
Cents Apiece" He will wear the coin as
medal.
The citizens alliance. supplementary
to the tue farmers alliance and composed
of men engaged in other pursuits than
farming, but who hold the same political
beliefs as the farmers. met in state con-
vention Tuesday, and formed a state Or
ganization. This new alliance now
numbers 10000 members.
6THE general executive board of the
Knights of Labor suddenly resolved
to finish their labors in New York. and
started for that city Thursday night. In
a speech before an assemblage of Knights
of Labor this evening, Mr.. Powderly said
he and his comrades were going to New
York to demand arbitration in the matter
of the New York Central and Hudson
river strike.
DEFINITE announcement is made
that the main line of the Duluth,
South Shore & Atlantic Railway
will be extended to Ashland at an
early date The South Shore desires to
compete for the ore trade, and will tap
Bessemer, Hurley and Ironwood. The
scheme has been talked of ever since the
road built its line past Ashland but
now assurance is given that it will be
DONE
A HAsTY conference of original pack
age dealers of Mason City, Ia, Mon,
day, resulted in general agreement
that all would close up business AND
not attempt to contest the legality Of
the present statute prohibiting TIE
sale of intoxicating drinks in every
town and city in this section. Mon
day ended the existence Of the origina
package saloon. 1t is estimated that fully
| Is, 900 saloons in Iowa were in operation
Friday, and nine-tenths of these have now
closed up shop.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-21
CRIME.

HATTIE Town of Blaire, Nebraska.
was probably fatally wounded and her
father was instantly killed by Charles Pratt
near Kennard, Friday morning. Pratt,
who worked for Town and was discharged
for making love to Hattie, came to the
house this morning and shot and killed
Town and then shot the girl in the back.
Pratt is in jail Lynching is Threatened.
GRAY. the Lake Shore baggageman who
stole a $4,000 package consigned to the
Rhinel .nder bank. some three weeks ago,
and was arrested in Canada, has been
brought back Wednesday afternoon he
ex; ressed a willingness to plead guilty
and as soon as an indictment is filed will
do So The United States Express COM
pany received back from him 50, 1877 of the
stolen money. Gray served year in the
states prison from 1882 to 1888 for steal
ing watch.
Ex-LIEUT Gov. FIFIELD who, with Leon
ard Perrin, is on the bond of Phelps Perrin
now being tried for the Hurley bank rob
berry, have surrendered sthe defendant
to the sheriff and took an order off the
court releasing him from said bond. In
an interview Mr.. Fifeld said that he
pursued this course simply because he
wanted to be assured of protecting his
own interests. The trial progresses rap
idly, but no testimony materially differ
ent from that heretofore introduced has
been elected. The state has not finished
It's case
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-21

ing the accident which had befallen me
and locating as we'll as | could the cannon
IN which it had happened. enclosed this
note In piece of buckskin cut from nv
tobacco pouch and then with bit of wire
twisted from the ring of my RATA, bound
the little packet to Bobo's tail
drew the wire so tightly that it must
have cut into the flesh, for Bobo tried to
strike my hand, and Missed angrily. Salts
fed that the packet would not come off.
held the reptile against the wall and re-
leasedit. Quickly Bobo orawled to the top.
although somewhat hampered by the wired
on pocket, and was Off
1t seemed an eternity that night OF an
anxious suspense, but toward morning |
fell asleep, doubled up over the dead BODY
OF my horse. When | awoke the sun was
shining directly overhead. | had just
taken drink from my canteen when |
heard the clatter of hoofs and knew that re-
lief had come. pulled out my six-shooter
and blazed away at the WELL There was
a volley of answering shots, and presently
the boys were grouped around the edge of
the well, chatting me in a good-natured
way. A rope was lowered, and, after send
ing up my saddle, bride and rifle, was
hauled up, somewhat stiff and sore, but
about as thankful man as could be found.
Bobo had made straight for camp, and had
reached the ranch some time during the
night. 1t was not until morning, however.
that the packet bound to its tail was motto
ed. As soon as it was taken off and nv
message read a scout at once started out
after me-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-21
A Country Sittinr-ROOm.

There is nothing prettier in the country
sitting room than a few pieces of rattan
furniture, either in natural color with
cushions of India silk, or enamelled in
white and gold and fitted up with striped
tapestry. cretonne, or any artistic ma
terial the owner fancies. There are two
kinds of furniture classified under the
head of rattan-the genuine rattan and
the reed or wicker. The wicker chair is
less expensive than the rattan, but it is
not to be despised for this reason 1t
certainly possess one advantage over rattan
it cannot be twisted into such prepros-
terously ugly shapes as rattan has been by
some manufacturers. The nature of the
material prevents it being woven with
backs in the shape of Japanese fans and
various other styles which are parodies Of
Oriental art.
The Chinese chairs that come to this
country are combinations of rattan and
wicker work. If is difficulty to get these
chairs here in as fine quality as they are
made The American rattan work is
finer than anything that comes from China
but the shapes are far inferior to the
Chinese or English work The English
make delightful student chair in wicker
work, with basket at the side for papers
It has high square back, broad roomy
seat, and is made more comfortable by the
addition Of soft tufted cushions, which can
be removed when necessary to be beaten
1t is, altogether, an example OF the ex-
cellent effect of using material in a manner
adapted to its nature. York Tribune
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-21
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

The Kentucky distillery eompany's i'm
mense distillery at Louisville, was burned
on Thursday.
The Patton Paper mill at Appleton,
Wis, was totally destroyed by fire at D.
M, Saturday. The fire started in
the rag-cutting room. The mill was one
of the most complete and best equipped
print and book paper mills in the valley.
The building was three story brick, 260
by CO.. The less estimated at sl50,000.
The building and stock were insured for
about $4,000, with companies repre-
scented in the local agencies of Gilmore.
Conkey. Smith and Koffend. Rebuilding
will commence next week.
A TERRIFIC explosion with fatal
results occurred at the Illinois Steel
works at 2 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing. Blast furnace No. 2 sprung a leak
and the molten lead ran out and down
into the canal, generating steam which
caused the explosion. The metal was
blown in all directions tearing off the top
of the furnace and roof of the build
ing. John Novak and Oscar Sobwski,
employees, were blown out of existence,
and their remains have not yet been
: found Peter Schrier was so horribly
burned and cooked that he lived but
half an hour. Tim Mccarthy was burn
ed about the head and back and will die
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-21
FOREIGN.

MANY lives have been lost and houses
swept away by floods in Hungary.
MANY deaths from smallpox have oc-
Cured in the Guatelnalan army now on the
San Salvador frontier.
A FLOOD prevails on the Ganges. The
river has overfowed its banks and the sur
rounding country is inundated to an ex-
tent never before known. There has been
great loss of life
The Kurds and Armenians in Alashford
district have had further encounters. 1t is
reported that band of young Russo-Arme-
MAN volunteers, mounted and we'll armed,
have appeared at Erzeroum and are fast
recruiting adherents. This report has
caused panic among the Turkish author
tiles. The expulsion OF fifty Armenians
has been ordered by the governor of En-
zeroum. They are suspected OF having IN
cited the recent disturbance.
FURTHER conflicts have occurred be-
tween Kruds and Armenians in the Alash-
gerd district. 1t is reported that band
and we'll armed, has appeared at Erzeroum
and is recruiting adherents fast. The re-
port has caused panic among the Turk
ish authorities. The governor of Ere
roum has ordered the expulsion of fifty
Armenians suspected of having promoted
the recent disturbances.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY has surprised
Frenchmen by expressing an opinion
that Ribot made a good bargain in
the Anglo-French agreement. Stan
ley believes that had Salisbury known
Migritia better he would not
have signed the agreement. Stanley APP.
plauds the scheme for a trans-Saharar
railway and thinks the road will not cost
more than 200,O00,000 francs, and can be
built in ten years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-21
An AnecdOte of ChOate.

The study which Choate made of words,
the wonderful richness of his vocabulary,
while it had much to do with his power
over a jury, had fantastic side to it
which naturally gave point to sarcas n.
Thus Mr.. Justice Wilde of the supreme
court of Massachusetts, comments in his
dry way on the passion of the great advo-
cate for adding to his verbal equipment.
And when member of the bar happened
to ask the judge if he had heard that
Worcester had just published new edi-
ton of his dictionary, with q great num-
Der of additional words, Wilde answered:
No, had not heard of it; but for God 5
sake, don't tell Choate." No doubt
Choate himself would have appreciated
the point of this sally, for no one was
more conscious of the exuberant prodigal-
ity of his utterances, which, however, the
judge himself would probably have been
as unwilling as anybody to restrain. The
torrent of his speech bore down upon its
resistless flow the fact and argument of
opposing counsel, but yet this was not due
so much after ali, to the flow of his elo-
quence as to the skill with which he laid
bare the weak points of his adversary,
and the imaginative ingenuity that put
the case in a new and totally unexpected
light.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-21
LAZINESS DON'T PAY.
The Most Important Results Are Acco
plished by excepting Always at It."

The Most Important Results Are Accom- :
plished by Excepting Always at 1t"
The sun never stops in his course. Light
is constantly streaming over the earth. In
the great workshop of the universe nature
is ever busy with those processes which are
to robe the earth with her carpet of green,
and fill the air with odors of flowers. With
out activity there would soon be trouble
and death
In life, too, one secret of success is
found in activity. mot a day without a
line" was motto of great reformer
one of the grandest men our civilization
has known Eight times did the greatest
of Grecian orators copy the history of Thu
cydides to perfect himself in that great
master style. Franklin laid the fou,da-
ton of his greatness by using the little
bits of leisure time which he could save at
dinnenhours and evenings while working
as printer boy.
Kirk White learned Greek as he walked
from his lodgings to the lawyers office
where he was employed as clerk. Penn
sylvania's greatest astronomer learned to
calculate eclip ses by using the bits of time
when, as pillow boy his horses rested, and
by figuring out his problems on his pillow
handles Elihu Burritt achieved wonders
in the fields of learning by gathering up
bits of knowledge as he stood by his forge
with an open book before him, while he
rested from severe bodily toll
The French have proverb which says,
Step by step one goes very far In our
tongue we have a saying Constant
dripping will wear away a stone. -
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton declared
what men want is not talent, out pur-
pose; not power to achieve, but the will to
labor"
Boys, do you see the moral? asks the
Evansville Journal It's work that tells.
Whether with the hands or with the brain
there no success without work. Don t
be lazy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-21
encouragement for the Feeble.

So long as the falling embers of vitality are
capable of being re-kindled into warm and
genial glow, just so long there is hope for the
weak and emaciated invalid. Let him not, there
fore, despond, but derive encouragement from
this and from the further fact that there is re-
storative most potent in renewing the dilapiaateG
powers of broken down system Yes thanA- 20
its uneXampled tonic virtues. Hostetters Stom
ach Bters is daily reviving strength in the bodies
Appetite, refreshing sleep, the acquisition of flesh
and color, are blessings attendant upon the repair
alive processes which this priceless invigorant
clusion. Digestion is restored the blood fertlized
and sustenance afforded TO each DEMONSTRATING
organ by the Bitters, which is inoffensive even to
the feminine palate, vegetable in composition.
and thoroughly safe. Use it, and regain vigor
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-21
CONGRESSIONAL.
TUESDAY, Aug. II.

!Senate.-The senate got down to bust
ness this morning without the pro
ceeding unusually necessary to compel
the attendance of quorum. Mr..
Hale reported back the house bill to extend
the census law so as to require information
to be obtained from unincorporated express
companies, and it passed.
Mr.. Edmunds, from the judiciary COM
mittee, reported an amendment to be
offered to the river and harbor bill, and
explained that its purpose was to make it
unlawful to obstruct the navigation of any
of the navigable waters of the United
States. The amendment was laid on the
table and ordered printed.
Mr.. Edmunds presented a motion for a
change of rules by limiting the debate on
the tariff bill. which he had offered at the
time of adjournment yesterday, and it
was laid on the table and ordered printed.
Mr. Blair also offered a resolution for
such change in the rules as would permit
the previous question to be moved after
the proposition had been considered two
days, and the same disposition was made
of it.
Mr. Frye asked unanimous consent to
have the senate bill t, ken up and passed
which authorizes the secretary of the
treasury to settle the Indebtedness to the
government of the Sioux City q Pacific
railroad company 1t was objected to.
The tariff bill was then taken up, and
Mr.. Morgan resumed his argument on
the Increase of the duty provided for tin
plate.
House.-In the house today, Mr.
Cannon, of Illinois, from the COM
mittee on appropriations, reported a
joint resolution extending temporarily,
until Aug. %, the appropriations for the
support of the government not already pro-
vided for in the general appropriation
bills already passed, and it was passed.
Before the passage of the restitution Mr..
Cannon explained the appropriation items
of the sundry civil bill that had been
agreed to. The only matter upon which
there was still a disagreement was the
item of legislation placed upon 1t by the
senate which covered the land and 1rr1-
cation system in nearly one half OF the
territory of the United States. This lagls-
lation was far from reaching Importance,
and did not belong upon the appropria-
ton bill 1t was this legislation that had
delayed the passage of the sundry civil bill
and rendered necessary further extension
of appropriation.
On motion of Mr.. Cutcheon the senate
amendment was non-concurred In to the
house bill for the establishment of nat
ional park at the battlefield OF Chlcamau-
qua, and conference was appointed.
On a motion made by Mr.. Rogers the
quorum disappeared and call of the house
failed to disclose one.
On motion of Mr.. Dingley, the resolu-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-21
Several other employees received slight

Several other employees received slight
burns.
Ten persons were badly and two of
them fatally burned Thursday morning in
an explosion at the large soap factory of
the Kendall Manufacturing company
at Providence, R. |. About seventy
of the operatives were at work on the floor
where the explosion occurred. Men and
boys came out with limbs and faces
burned, blinded and staggering, and one
or two of the more severely wounded as if
in a trance with blistered flesh peeling
from their bodies The explosion was
caused by the escape Of gas from the
furnaces
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-21

For person to have potion that he
is an heir of the late A. T. Stewart and
entitled to slice of his estate is fast COM
ing to be recognized as distinct form of
insanity. Already, according to the estl-
mate of the lawyers who were concerned
in the Stewart litigation, which was
brought to a peaceful conclusion some
time ago, nearly two thousand cousins
have turned up to claim relationship and
money, while the number of more remote
kindred is past computation. ! As the pro-
perty has been divided among the heirs
recognized by the court, the chance OF
future claimants, cousins or otherwise, is
is exclusively small.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-21

THE success chat has attended the cul-
tivation of the rubber plant in this coun-
try for purposes of household decoration,
and the knowledge of its peculiarities and
needs that has thus been obtained, have
led 20 the conclusion that, within the
limits of the United States, the rubber
tree might be proftably cultivated for Its
yield of gum. The requirements are
absence of frost and an abundance of water,
not less than the amount represented by
two hundred inches of rainfall per annum.
Safety from frost can be secured IN south
ern Florida, in southern California, and
possibly in other parts of the country, and
lack of rain can easily be offset by irrlga-
ton. 1t is said that the plant, under
these conditions, grows with great rapid
ity, that tapping may begin at the end
Of the third year, and that the flow OF sap
Dr milk, which becomes rubber upon
the application of heat, increases year after
wear.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-21

If the Emperor William can keep his
pace he will soon be able to tire out his
brother monarchs of Europe with his
interminable activity. He dashed about
England last week in a way that astonish-
ed his royal cousins, and is now off
for fresh worlds to conquer. To what ex-
tent he will be able to permanently impress
his influence upon European affairs re-
mains to be seen but he will not fail from
any underconfdence or lack of energy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-21

DARIUS L. Core, Rhode Island man,
has invented an electrical clock which
never runs down, and does besides many
wonderful things, such as lighting the
gas, awakening the servants, ringing the
breakfast bell, etc. If Mr.. Gcff would
now only apply his inventive genius in the
manufacture of similarly useful messen-
ger boy!