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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-15
CRIME.

A. ELLwoOD LANCASTER, a young Phil
adelphia real estate dealer, has disappear
ed. He is charged with having ernbezzled
from $4,000 to $4,000 entrusted to
him ~ various confding persons for in
vestment.
FoXBoRo, Mass..-A man nam
ed Cromack today murdered his daughter
aged Is and then committed suicide by
shooting himself The tragedy was dis
covered by Cromack's son late Tuesday af-
ternoon when he returned from fishing
trip. Mrs. Cromack is employed in a
factory in the village. No cause is as
signed for the deed.
BOsTON. Mass.-James Dolan and Den
mis- 0 Hearn. burglars, have each been
sentenced to twenty-five years imprison-
ment under the Habitual criminal act
Dolan is the convict who, by eating soap.
simulated consumption and was pardoned
by Gov. Butler from state prison only
to renew his criminal career as soon as
liberated.
ALBANY, n. "a defalcation in the
City National bank amounting to nearly
$4,000 has been traced to George P. Whit.
ney, book-keeper who managed it through
the over-draft system in collision with 6
prominent Albany firm. An effect will be
made among the defaulter's friends to
settle the affair He has been in the bank
for years and occupied high social posi-
ton. Stock speculation is the cause.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-15
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

DR.. GATLING, the inventor of the gun
that bears his name, has invented a torpe
do-boat.
The Wisconsin Press Association have
decided to go to Yellowstone Park for
their annual outing. Superior will be the
point of gathering and the time set is July
23d.
ATTORNEY GENERAL Watson, of Ohio, has
commenced quo warranto proceedings In
the supreme court to annul the charter of
the Standard Oil company for its alleged
violation of state laws.
JAY GOULD's daily income has been esti-
mated recently at S7,446, Cornelius Van
derbilt's at SIS, 249, John D. Rockefeller
at $751; and William Waldorf Aston S
at S23, 593.
Hon. ANDREW SHUMAN, for thirty
three years editor of the Evening Journal
of Chicago, and for the past two years,
since he retired from active editorial work
the President of the Journal Company
died suddenly from appoplexy, in Chicago,
Tuesday night.
Ex-Governor J. Sterling Norton, of
Nebraska, father of the Arbor Day for
economic tree planting out that way, says
that more than 100000, 900 trees planted
by human hands, are growing in that
state.
JOHNsTowN, Penn. - Five addition
al bodies have been found by work
men. Two of them were a mother and
child clasped in each others arms The
force searching for the dead will be in.
creased,
HUDSON, S. D. - A dispatch from
Washington says parties in from the
Keller artesian well report that at depth
of $50 feet oil indications are very strong.
They are taking out oil at the present
time in greater quantities by 100 per cent
than was taken from the Washington
Mining company mill at the same depth.
THE body of woman, packed in char
coal and mutilated beyond recognition.
was found in pine box in the Union
depot at Kansas City, Saturday morning.
The box was checked through from st.
Louis over the Wabash railroad. There
Is no other clew to the CHASTITY mystery.
SPRINGFIELD, Ills. = Reports receiv-
ed by the state department of agricul-
ture from the most important wheat grow
ing counties of the state show that the area
of winter wheat destroyed will reach 50
per cent of that seeded last fall, and the
condition of that left standing for harvest
is not encouraging for more than Is per
cent. of the average yield. Taking the
state over, the condition of the crop is
nearly SIS per cent. short of the average on
May l.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-15
A Poets Strange Mistakes.
NoJes and Queries


1t is extraordinary that so fastidious
and careful a writer as Campbell, whose
painful slowness of composition gave
Theodore Hook his joke that the poet had
been safely delivered of a couplet this
morning should have been betrayed by
his ignorance of natural history into Ger
tain not very important, yet none the less
egregrlous, blunders concerning the fauna
and fora introduction into his tales. In
''the Pleasures of Hope and Gertrude of
Wyoming" we find The tiger stealing
along the banks of Lake Erie and the pam
Their domiciled in the woods of Ohio, while
the famingo disports itself on Pennsyl-
uania waters and the tropical aloe and
palm horish in the same northern latitude
by his friends, in order that he might rec
ti!fy them in later editions; but to revise
his work when once printed was always
an uncongenial task t. him. and. in de-
fance of the botanist and zoologist, the
anomalies were therefore allowed to re-
main in the text. Another and more par
donable error into which Campbell was led
in his chief narrative poem by trusting to
truction of Wyoming in 1778," was
NJ iOiiiS w llAlit LII fClf lullSC
and unexpected manner. Following the
authority just mentioned, he had denounc-
ed as the treacherous destroyer of Wyom-
ing a Mohawk chiet named Brandt
1.-The monster Brandt he called him in the
poem-and it might we'll have been sup
posed that, right or wrong, this poetical
account of so distant an event would have
passed unchallenged. But it was not so,
for fifteen years after the publication of
Gertrude of Wyoming" Campbell was
surprised by visit from Brandt's son, no
Mohawk in appearance, but "a fine young
man of gentlemanly manners" and a
lieutenant in the British service, who had
come to adduce proof of his fathers in
nocence. 1t appeared that Brandt, so far
from being the monster he was repres-
ented, had been civilized and phiIan-
thropic Indian, who had accustomed his
tribesman to peaceful habits, had built a
church, and translated one of the Gospels
into the Mohawk language! Campbell,
being thus placed in the awkward predica-
ment of libeling a red Indian, was COM
PEELED to do penance in the notes of suisse
quent editions; but even here he could not
be induced to introduce alterations into
the tpyt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-15
FOREIGN.

GOLD is said to have been discovered at
Dunnode, in the western part of Cork
county, Ireland.
BUENOs AYREs-Grave populations have
been discovered in the customs depart
ment here. The revenue lost by the gov
eminent by the entertainments is estimat-
ed to have reached the enormous sum of
$4,000, 900 annually.
PARIs.--Vioence is being resorted to
by the striking workingmen of the Iser
valley. In number of instances
factories have been attacked in that part
of Bohemia, and the MODS have not only
compelled the weavers to leave their home,
but have also smashed the machinery.
A NEW industry in Germany is the util-
ization of the young leaves OF the straw
berry plant as beverage. Having been
carefully dried they are used instead
of Chinese tea, which they closely APP
proach in taste
The German Reichstag was opened by
Emperor William in person Tuesday, In
his speech the Emperor declared himself
in favor of peace, expressing the convic-
ton that he would succeed in securing the
confidence of the powers in the pacific
policy of Germany. He counseed the pass
age of laws in protection of the interests
of the workingman.
ONE of the greatest hardships of the
grain growers of Russia is the want of adj
equate means for storing and transporting
their produce. At certain periods of the
year such quantities are brought to the
railways that sufficient number of wagons
for transport is not to be had, nor are the
railways prepared to receive it. Piled up
in sacks in the open, exposed to rain and
snow, much of it becomes damaged and
worthless
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-15
A NEEDED ACCOMPLISHED
The Value of the Art of Elocution in Con
versatiOn.

versation.
The gift of one good voice, clear enun.
citation, correct pronunciation in every
family would raise the enjoyment of home
| life fifty per cent, if such valuation could
be placed on so spiritual a family posses
sion; the gain that would result in the in
crease of general intelli gence to each fam
lily is incalcuable. 1t seems a pity that
when so much money is spent on accom-
plishments that really minister to the stu
dents development only, more attention is
not given to the very desirable accomplish
ments of elocution- that the student
may recite in public, but that he or she
may read in private for the common de-
velopment of the intelligence of the family
The Boston Traveller queries with wisdom
SIS reading, indeed, lost art, that we
must all flock to public hall, and be read
to at given price per hour? There seems
to be tendency in this direction. The
gTegarious reading is tie idol of the hour.
1t cannot be denied that to hear a great
play or poem read by one with whom ex-
preston is an art, whose Interpretation
vitalizes and WHITES each individuality
and lends color to a scene, is one of the
great artistic enjoyments; but this is the
exception and not the rule, and so one
still recurs to the question, is reading be-
coming lost art to the dwellers in the
cities?''
Talking not long since to a teacher of
elocution, the writer was struck with this
sentence: The art Of elocution has it's
true value in conversation. How often
bad infection, and wrong emphasis, COM
pletely hides, if it does not pervert, the
speakers meaning! Elocution is not a
superficial training, a mere effort at effect;
it is training of the perceptions Of intelli
gence: it is the effort to bring always the
true meaning by clear understanding of
what was meant by the declaration. the
sentiment No longer is elocution train
ing of one sense-that of speech: it recog-
nizes that gesture must bear its relation
to the thing said; it recognizes e that
perfect hal mony depends on perfect health,
and applies methods of training necessary
to physical development. 1--WE cannot
wear corsets. or high-heeled shoes, or
heavy skirts while taking our lessons,
writes one bright girl to another who was
making arrangements to take lessons with
her from teacher in elocution. 1t is this
recognition Of the dependence of the men
tai on the physical condition that makes
elocution so valuable part of the mental
training. And the healthy sentiment
which prevails, that it is no longer an
accomplishment for the platform only,
but for the home, for society, for the in
creasing of individual grace and power,
makes it as much part of every we'll
educated Individual as a knowledge of
literature, art or characterization
Union
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-15

that he has always been regarded as an
official debtor to the government to the
amount of $4,000 The other day Gen.
Fremont called at the Office of the second
comptroller of the treasury and at his re-
gust that official investigated his accounts
Greately TO the comptroller surprise he
discovered that instead Of Gen. Fremont
being debtor to the United States, the
government had actually owed him for
over forty years $4,000. 1t was proven
beyond doubt that through mistake in
bookkeeping Lieutenant Fremont had
been charged with $4,000, for which
voucher was on file, and that by another
clerical error he had rot been credited
with $4,000, which he expended under
the direction of the war department.
Gen. Fremont was so u1prepared for the
glad news that he tainted. Yesterday a
warrant for the amount due him was made
out, dull y approved and signed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-15
FIRES AND CASUALTIES,

The town CT Latham, few miles west
of Monticello, ILL.,, was almost destroyed
by fire recently.
SCRANTON, Pa.-The loss by Wednesday
| nights fire will probably reach 100000;
partially covered by insurance.
The Chenango County Poor House and
Insane Asylum, at Preston, n. Y, was
burned Wednesday night. Nine insane
persons are known to have persisted and
others are missing.
ALLENTOWN. Pain a collision be-
tween a New Jersey Central express train
and a Lehigh Valley New York passen-
ger train here Wednesday morning. Miss
Emma Hall, a passenger on the latter,
was killed and five or six others were in
jured. Among those injured were John
Schirey. of Decatur, ILL.,, who had his knee
and hip hurt.
UTICA, n. Y.-The Chenango county
poor house and insane asylum. located at
Preston, six miles west of Norwich, were
entirel consumed Wednesday night. The
fire was discovered about II clock, In the
north wing of the poor house building
where the idiots were kept. There was no
means for extiuguishing the flames. The
keepers and neighbors gave their attention
to getting out the 125 paupers and insane,
and let the building burn. Eleven idiots
are missing. Six bodies can be seen
slowly burning. The other five are sup
posed to be covered up.
SCRANTON, Pa.-The entire plant of
the Consumers Powder company, located
near Winton, was destroyed Saturday
morning by an explosion and fire. The
force of the explosion was terrific and was
felt in this city. The workmen had no
opportunity to escape. and three are re-
ported to have been instantly killed and
several others badly injured. All buildings
in the vicinity of the works were partially
destroyed and some of the families In
them had narrow escapes.
ELIZABETH, n. 1.-The Singer Sewing
machine factory was discovered on fire late
Tuesday-night The entire fire depart
ment responded, but their work so far had
little effect, At midnight ii was feared
that the main building. which covers many
acres of ground, would be destroyed. The
works employ $500 persons. At 2
a. m. the main bulldog was near
ly destroyed, and the fire is spreading
rapidly 1t is likely that the entire fac
tory will go, in which case the loss will
amount to several million dollars. Great
excitement prevails in the city, and
thousands of people are viewing the fire.
SCRANTON, Pa Wednesday evening
a fire broke out in Bloom carriage man
ufactory ON Eighth street. The fire
spread rapidly to the adjoining property
and destroyed eighteen private dwellings.
the pattern shop and boiler house of Finch's
foundry and the screen works of Brock
& Ross For two hours the fire ragged
with great fury. Most of the furniture in
the burning dwellings was removed and
their effects The loss will reach $780,
600, only part of which is covered by
insurance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-15
OUR NEXT CENSUS.

The taking of the 18th census of the
United States will begin June 2 and will
end in the towns within Is days and in
the rural districts within 80 days. Some
time in August, if Superintendent Port
ers's new electrical calculating machines
work well, the people may expect to hear
announced in round numbers the popula-
ton of the country. What was 1929, GA
in 1890 will probably be about $4,000
in 1890, or a gain of 100000 during
the last decade The increase will be dis
tributed of course throughout the states,
but In various ratios. 1t has been estimat-
ed that the New England states will show
a population of 4,500,000; the middle
states, 100000 the western states, in
Guiding the Pacific and Rocky mountain
groups, 23,500000; and the southern
states, 100000. These figures would
indicate that while New England has
gained since 1880 about one-eighth and
the middle group One-ffth, the western
states have increased by two-ffths, and the
southern states by one-third. The center
of population, therefore, which in 1880 was
found at point in the state of Kentucky,
eight miles west by south of the heart of
the ity of Cincinnati, will doubtless now
be located number of leagues nearer the
Mississippi river, possibly in southern
NJ &C
all Americans live west of the Appalach-
an range; and the great heart of political
power in the popular branch of Congress
and in the electoral college after the next
apportionment will be found thlobbing
still nearer the heart of the continent. The
star of empire persists in its occidental
flight. The census of 1900 may be the
first to note its pause Although the only
authority for a census enumeration is
found in the provision of section two of
article one of the federal constitution, re-
quiring decennial counting of noses for
the specified purposes of congressional APP
portionment and levying of direct taxes
among the states, the scope of the inquiry
has grown to such vast proportions from
decade to decade that in the present in
stance the 80 distinct questions to be asked
by the canvassers seem to some people to
reach the extreme of impracticabiIity if
not of absurdity. The large proportion
of the questions, however all of which
must be truthfully answered under penalty
of not less than $50 fine, are proper and
necessary. If any are not absolutely es-
sential to a national census, they are those
relating to private, acute and chronic dis
eases and various physical and mental de-
fects, concerning which at the best many
people would not hesitate to prevaricate
in a manner prejudicial to their hope for
salvation. Still another set of new aues-
tions which have been criticised as i'm
pertinent. concern membranes and
mortgages on homes and farms. But
there is real need for trustworthy figures
of this nature. For instance, two current
tables of farm mortgage statistics in Hi
nois are said to differ in their totals by
about ss00,00C,0OO
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-15
WASHINGTON.

LEXINGTON, Ky.-Ex-speaker Car
Isle has declared his candidacy for the
seat made vacant by the death of Senator
Beck
SENATOR CULLoM has introduced a bill
amending the interstate law so as to per-
NIT railroads to give reduced rates to COM
mercial travellers.
WASHINGTON, D. CA bill to pro-
hibit the transportation of intoxicating
liquors from any state or territory of the
tory laws are in force, will be called up in
the house at the first opportunity.
The members of the senate naval COM
mittee have been taken down the Potomac
on board the new torpedo boat Cush-
ing. She ran at the rate of q miles per
hour, reversed at Is miles, and turned
within her own length.
WHEN General John c. Fremont was
holding the territory that is now Cali
fornia his accounts got into such shape
that the books indicated Indebtedness to
the government on his part of $4,000.
The amount was never paid. General
Fremont who is very old man and In
rath~r Strengthened circumstances, was IN
Washington the other day to see about the
matter, and all the documents We're over
hauled. 1t was then discovered that in
stead of owing the government &c., 900, the
government owed General Fremont ST..
900. The error was due to poor book
keeping. General Fremont has received a
voucher for the money.
WAsHINGToN.-The President on
Thursday sent to the Senate the following
nominations: George W. Steel of Indi-
ana, to be Governor of the Territory of
Oklahoma. Robert Martin, of Oklahoma,
Secretary of the Territory of Oklahoma
Supreme Court officials of the Territory OF
Oklahoma-B. Green of Illinois, Chief
Justice; Abraham J. Seay, of Missouri, and
John g. Clark, of Wisconsin, Associate
Justices; Warren S. Lurty, of Virginia
United States Marshal. Horace Speed, Of
Oklahoma, United States Attorney, Al.
bert H. Jones to be United States Marsha
of Colorado. Postmasters- Pennsylvania
David L. S. Nicely, Sewicklew; Edwin
Soies. McKeespOrt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-15
When on the High Seas.

On the rail, On steamboat, aboard a fishing
smack, or yachting ON the coast IIostefters Stom-
ach Bitters will be found reliable means of
averting and relieving ailments to which travellers,
mariners and emigrants are peculiarly subject.
Sea captains, ship doctors voyagers or sojourners
in the tropics, and all about TO encounter unac-
climated an unaccustomed or dangerous Climate,
should not neglect to avail themselves OF This
safeguard of well ascertalned and long tried
merit. Constipation, biliousness, malaria fever,
indigestion, rheumatism and affections of the
bladder and kidneys are among the ailments which
il eradicates, and it may be resorted TO not oniy
with confidence in Its remedial efficacy, but also in
its perfect freedom from every Objectionable in
gredient, since it is derived from the purest and
most salutary sources. 1t counteracts the effects
of unwholesome food and water.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-15
THE RAPID INCREASE OF SOUTH
ERN PROSPERITY.


ERN PROSPERITY.
The cost of the war to the southern
states, through the decrease in the assess
ed value of property between 1860 and
1870, was S2,100,000,000. Up to 1876
there was no marked recovery from the
loss. In 1880 some improvement was
visible and from that time on the advance
has been surprising. The Manufacturers
Record of Baltimore has just issued d
pamphlet summarizing this advance. The
war was the first quickner of industrial
energy in the South, but not until after
the new conditions following reconstruc-
tion had become at least partially harmon
lied did this new energy accomplish
much. Since 1880 the Southern people
have worked hard and earned money. 1t
has begun to draw on its abundant miner
al resources, to market its lumber and to
increase its growth of cotton and tobacco
and corn and even of rice and sugar.
Since 1880 the gain in the assessed value
of property in the South has been 81, 3O6,
729. 927. The growth of manufacturing is
large also. There were 161 cotton mills In
1880, 355 IN 1890, with 2,035, 268 spindles.
OF pig-iron the output in 1889 was l $50,
TOP tons, or more than one-third the out
put of the whole country; some 80 more
furnaces with an output of 100 tons day
are now being constructed. Foundries,
rolling mills and machine shops are null
tiplying rapidly. Nearly 20,000,0O0 tons
of coal were mined last year, over 1000,
900 bales of cotton sold, $50, 291 900 bush
els of grain (corn, wheat and OATS raised.
In nine years since 1880, 10000 miles of
railroad have been built The foreign
commerce has grown to 5000, $40, 206, and
the banking capital to SIC, 454, So There
are 213 cotton-seed oil-mills, and the
money now invested in timber lands and
saw mills is at least $100,O00,000. The
mining of phosphate rock and the raising
OF fruits and vegetables are adding hun
dreds of thousands of dollars to the wealth
of the South every year. The Record
while saying that wealth and men of enter
prise are seeking the South, yet Southern
energy and enterprise are mainly entitled
to the credit for what has been accomplish.
ed"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-15

ROCHESTER,, n. Y. May 9.-Thomas
Lynch. one of the Rochester detective
force and a man named Stoddard had a
dispute over line board fence yesterday.
This evening the dispute ended in a bloody
tragedy. Lynch shot and killed Stoddard
and his wife. Lynch gave himself up and
is now at police headquarters. He pleads
self defense
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-15
GRAND RAPIDS,
WISCONSIN.

THE difference between the Unitarians
and the UEiversaIists has been thus neatly
defined: The Unlversalists think God Is too
good to damn them, and the Unitarjans
think they are too good for God to damn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-15

Private Richardson, the only Manches
ert man now surviving of the Gallant Six
Hundred, served twelve years, has no
pension, is nearly blind and drifts from
workhouse to workhouse. A dozen other
survivors of Balaklava are paupers either
in or out of warehouses.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-15

THE recent arrest of three newsboys In
Chicago at their own request, who desired
TO be sent to the Bridewell that they might
learn trades and that they could learn no
where else, is an illustration of the diff
Guilty that confronts the American boy who
wants to learn trade.