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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-04-17
FOREIGN.

LoNDoN.-It is stated that Minister
Lincoln sails for America next month, and
his son 8 remains will be shipped at the
same time for burial in the family vault
at Springfield, Ill.
LONDON = ladstones speech on the
Balfour land purchase bill fails to satisfy
the Irish party. t. P. O'Connor's paper,
the Star, this afternoon pronounces it dis
appointing. The moment has arrived,
the Star says, when the leader of the lib
eral party should declare clearly and ex-
plicity that the Balfour bill cannot be &C
copied.
LoNDoN.-The Herald prints an inter
view with Stanley, in which the latter
maintains that the Germans influ-
enced Emin while he was sick STAN
ley thinks the Germans intend to an
mex and will act on these plans
If Germany secures the lake regions, he
says, it will destroy the whole value of the
British coast possessions. The conquest
of Soudan would cost 93, 600, 900, and no
government in Europe has stamina to I'M
dertake it.
NEW YoRK-According to cable dis
patches received in this city a terrible
plague has swept over a large section of
southern Russia. Millions of feld-mice,
in such numbers as to be irresistible, have
overrun those provinces and are passing
northward. They have ruined cultivated
fields, completely Quilted granaries and
wheat-sacks, and killed and eaten several
hundred dogs. They swim rivers and
climb mountains, and there seems to be
no way either of DISCRIMINATING them or
of arresting their progress.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-04-17

derrick, which was being used
in repairing a railroad trestIe. broke.
Four workmen were precipitated l25 feet
into the gulch below and killed. Several
other men Were painfully hurt
EMPoRIA Kas-Friday a fierce prairie
fire swept across the divide between
and devastated three farms. All of the
barns and some OF the cattle were lost
Mrs. Wise was badly burned and is now
in prearious condition.
LEXINGTON, Ky Eleven cottages ten
anted by negroes and two fine stables
on the race course burned Monday
night The thoroughbreds in the stables
were gotten outsafely. Loss. $4,000.
BELvIDERE. n. AT Warren foun-
dry, Phillipsburg, last Wednesday while
men were running off the molten
iron, an immense ladle was upset and the
contents fell on the damp ground, causing
terrific explosion. Men were thrown in
every direction, and three were frightfully
burned.
ROANOKE, Wa tornado passed
over this section of the state Wednesday
evening. In this city the east house of the
Crozier Iron works was demolished, three
laborers killed and one fatally hurt
Nearly 100 buildings in course of con
struction were totally demolished and &
Salem furnace was blown down and one
man slightly hurt, The loss here will be
over 100000.
PlNEvILLE, La.-This place is much
excited over the desperate attempt
of Willie Talbot, 16-year-old boy, to xii
six young ladies and gentlemen On the
river Wednesday. The party had take1
unwittingly a skiff left in Talbot's charge
Seeing the party in the skiff on the river
he opened fire on them with shotgun
Miss Ella Hordee had one eye shot out anc
Miss Caddo had her face filed with shot
Two of the young men were wounded but
not seriously
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-04-17
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

ANNAPOLIS, Md Governor Jackson has
signed the Australian ballot bill.
GENERAL FREMONT is quite i'll with
the grip at his home in New York
ALONG with his other Affections, the
Gar of Russia has lost nearly all his
teeth.
The master plumbers have effected a
compromise with their striking workmen
in Chicago, and the strike is off -
Journeymen have consented to a cut of
10 cents day in wages, while the pay of
other classes is to be raised about Is cents
a day.
BosToN.-Nine hours without reduc-
ton in wages have been granted to
1900 workmen employed in twenty-five of
the marble factories of Boston. There re-
main three firms that have not yet COM
piled with the demands of the men.
THE traveller and ethnologist, Tushkuroff
points out the fact that there are 400, 900
heathens and $4,000 Mohammedans in the
Russian army, the latter forming Is per
cent. of the Cossack regiments, and also
declares that Christianity is dying out In
Southern Russia.
New YORK, n. Y.-The Methodist
Episcopal conference has petitioned con-
gress to continue educational aid to such
states as will accept it. Complete legal
prohibition was endorsed. The conference
endorsed the establishment of Methodist
university, in order to counteract the am
bilious enterprise of the papal aggrandize-
ment in Washington.
SAN FRANcIsco.-The prohibition
&c ToI,fo,.o1o oIo,,toI la+f
denouncing high license; denouncing
wine making; expressing distrust of the
old parties; favoring government owner
ship of telegraphs and railroads; demand
ing woman suffrage and more rigid Sun
day laws. Gen. John Bidwell was nomi-
mated for governor.
2 PHILADELPHIA.-R. E. Adams, Jr.,
United States minister to Brazil.
arrived at his home here Friday. He
says that he was instructed by Secretary
Blaine onsNov 16, the day after the Brazil
ian revolution, to recognize the pro-
visional government. This was the first
recognition accorded the new government
by any nation.
PINEvILLE, Ky.-At Harlan court
house, forty miles from here, there is
great excitement over the trial of Outlaw
jennings Guards have been placed at
every entrance to the town, and all corners
are searched for weapons. Judge Boyd
is continually under the protection of arm
ed soldiers. Jennings friends say that
in case he is convicted they will not
allow the troops to take him away, while
his enemies have sworn in case he is
cleared, to kill him before he leaves the
town. Judge Boyd has received letters
threatening him with death if he passes
sentence on the outlaw, and it now looks
as though there would be bloodsbed if
either party is defeated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-04-17

THE terrible destruction wrought by the
tornado in Louisville and other places
and by the floods along the Lower Missis
sippi furnishes another impressive illus
tration of the feebleness of man in the
presence of the familiar forces of nature.
Theoretically he holds complete and undls-
puted possession on the earth. He aSplres
to harness the lightning, to impress the
waters into his service, and to compel the
winds and tides to do his bidding. Ordi-
narily his dominion over them is unques-
toned and supreme. A time comes, how
ever. when his boasted mastery of the uni
verse is proven to be illusory and vain
When least expected his authority is re-
jected, his yoke is contemptuously cast
aside, and the latent strength and fury of
the elements rise up and assert themselves.
The volcano, the It'd ave and the earth
quake overwhelm the cities he has spen
centuries in rearing, the lightning destroys
his strongest and costliest edifces, the
in which he sought to confne them, and
the winds toy with and blot out his handi-
work 1t is an impressive and depressing
fact that the disasters wrought by wind
and flood are not only the commonest of all
the calamities which we have mentioned
but they are, like the others, to a large
extent unpreventable. Volcanoes, earth
ouakes and tidal waves, in their more de-
structive manifestation, are comparatively
rare occurrences outside the Asiatic coun-
tries and portions of South America, while
the damage done by lightning, although
often inflicted, is never so serious or SO
widespread as that which winds and
water cause. Nearly every year the Mis-
sissippi or some of its tributaries sweep
through or over their banks and inundate
hundreds of square miles of SURF ounding
country, while the st. Cloud, Mimi, the
Mount Vernon, H., the Louisville and the
dozens of other disasters of that class
which have occurred between the first and
the last here referred to show the fire.
quency and the distructiveness of the tor
nado's visits. A day will come, it may
be, when the elements will actually as well
as nominally and theoretically acknow-
ledge human mastery, although this, of
course, must remain, for the time, largely
a matter of conjecture. Meanwhile calam-
tiles like that which has just occurred at
Louisville will in reminding man of his
littleness and impotency, render service
like that performed by the slave in the
days of imperial Rome, who was employ
ed, at the bs .quets and fetes held in honor
of the victorious armies of the empire, to
whisper in the monarch's ear, at the mo-
ment of his greatest triumph, Caesar too,
is mortal"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-04-17
CRIME.

DoYLEsTowN, Pennsylvania - James
Monroe Shellenberger, a member of the
board of charities, is missing, and it is
charged his accounts are $50, 900 short.
SPOKANE TALKS, Wash - Nineteen
prisoners escaped form the county jail here
early Monday morning. While the jailer
was making his rounds he was seized,
bound and gagged by four of the prisoners
who liberated the remainder by unlocking
the cells. A posse has gone in pursuit.
WAYNEsBURG, Pa.-Zach Taylor, con-
demned for the murder of VIM. McCaus-
land, an Allegheny drover, was hanged
at Hip Wednesday. On the scaffold he
reiterated his innocence of the crime.
SUPERIOR, Wis.-Sheriff Wickstrom
has returned from Lapointe, Mimi,
with John Nelson, wanted for the murder
of Nels Nelson in November last.
The Swedes here are greatly excited and
threaten to lynch Nelson.
SACRAMENTO, Cal. = The stage from
Ichigan Bluff to Auburn was stopped by
two masked men Monday, and about
thirty dollars was secured from the pas
sengers. The express box contained no
valuables VIM Muir, one of the passen-
gers, advanced on the robbers and defed
them to shoot and succeeded in fright
ening them away although unarmed him
self.
ELLSWORTH, Kas.-Miss Myrtle Hill,
teacher in a country school about eight
miles from here, was bIutally assaulted
Saturday morning by one white and
two colored tramps. She was fearfully
maltreated Her assailants filled her
mouth with acid so as to
prevent her cutlery. During the struggle
with her assailants three of her ribs were
broken When discovered she was in an
unconscious condition and it is feared she
may die Hundreds of men are now
searching the country for the tramps and
if found they will be lynched.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-04-17

PERSONS outside of the valley of the
lower Mississippi have little idea of the de-
vastation wrought by breaks in the levees.
In 1882 thousands of farm animals perish
ed from drowning and starvation, and
millions of dollars worth of crops were
swept away At one point the river was
sixty miles wide. When the woods are
flooded with water the wild animals are
driven out of their lairs. Hundreds of
starving deer walked boldly about the
streets of ilIages and into farm yards.
They lost their terror of man In the great
er dread of food and hunger. Millions OF
buffalo gnats appear at such times and
sting to death the farmers live stock.
When the first break in the levees oc-
Cured in Louisiana this spring some
southern newspapers were inclined to
blame those in Louisiana on the rice
fumes, which are openings to food the
rice plantations from the Mississippi. But
the great river, which man has been try
ing for hundred years to pen, would
have asserted itself in any case. The
foods in the lower Mississippi will
probably never cease till the river has over
flowed its banks so often that the sediment
deposited will have raised the whole sur
face of the ground many feet higher than
its present level The trouble with this
region is that it was settled 800 years too
soon, said the state geologist of Louisi-
ana in 1882 The suffering and destruc
ton this year will probably be not less
than they were in 1882. Meantime let
us not forget that all Americans are broth
ers Let US send help to the suffering
even as we would have it sent to US in
need,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-04-17

The empress of Austria has caused her
wedding dress to be cut up and made INTO
a set of vestments for the church OF st.
Matthew in Pesth. The dress was OF white
brocade with silver threads. embroidered
all over with beautiful garlands or roses
in silver. He bridal wreath enclrcles an
embroidered picture of the virgin, which
is to be hung up in the Loretto Chapel of
the same church, which the empress selects
for her devotions. The vestments will be
used for the service i'll honor Of the virgin
Mary in May.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-04-17
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

THE Manhattan Bank, of Manhattan,
Kas., closed its doors Tuesday morning.
OsHKosH.-The Beckwith block occupied
by several firms, was burned Wednesday.
Loss. $4,000.
The O'Brien Wagon Works at Tifin,
Ohio, we're burned early Saturday morning
Loss, S0.000; insurance, S32, 1000.
DECATUR, Ala.-Nearly all the United
States Rolling Stock company plant was
destroyed by fire Wednesday night, entail
ing a loss of S200,000
THE village of Highland Park, H., was
wrecked by tornado last Tuesday night.
The damage is $4,000. No lives were
lost.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.-Near West Point
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-04-17

A correspondent who saw the Duke Of
Orleans at his trial thus speaks of the
young rretender: THE ladies thought
him charming; the few republicans near
me said that he struck them as brainless
masher If dressed as girl, though he is
81, he would have looked girlish and pref
ty, with fine figure. But, as man, he
struck me unfavorably. There is great
narrowness of mind and hardness of tenn
perment betrayed in the countenance
The complexion is fresh. the features are
neatly cut, little like Queen Victoria S on
her early coins, but the jaw is set and the
triangular small eyes are sunk close to-
gether. furtive, and have no message to
the world from such soul as there is behind
them"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-04-17
Mr.. and Mrs. NewIand Formerly Residents
of Wisconsin,.

TREMPEALEAU, Wis. = The terrible
poisoning case at Chicago of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Newland excites special interest In
and throws a cloud of sorrow over this
place. 1t was in this picturesque village
that Mrs. Newland spent her childhood
days, and as Miss Betsy Batchelder she
was the belle of the village. Here she
married Frank Newland, who was at that
time assistant state treasurer of Wiscon-
sin under Samuel D. Hastings. From here
they removed to Chicago. The announce
ment of their deaths was made from the
pulpits OF the Baptist and Congregational
churches, and they were most touchinglyy
spoken of. 1t was in the last named church
that Mrs. Newland first took the vows of
christianity, and in which she was a most
valued member for many years. Her father
and mother are buried here. The sad
event is the only topic of conversation
heard upon the streets.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-04-17
RICH IN RUBBER.
Stanley Talks on the Resources of the
African Forests

African Forests.
BRINDIsI, ltaly.-Henry M. Stanley
has arrived here from Cairo enroute to
Brussels
Speaking of Emin Pasha, Stanley said
he did not believe he would attempt to re
conquer the equatorial province. An i'm
mense effort, he declared, would be neces
sary to eject the maddists who have over
run the province. With reference to the
claim made by Germans to territory IN At
RIGA, Stanley said he was astonished at their
pretensions. They apparently claimed the
whole of the country, Stanley also stated
that the Aru-whimi forest, which belongs
to the Congo free state, was enormously
rich, especially with rubber trees, richer
than the Amazon forests. This section of
Africa, he declared, would be the rubber
reservoir Of the universe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-04-17
GRAND RAPIDS,

KELLAR, the magician, saw trick a
Calcutta which, he confesses baffied him.
he was in a long vacant room with four
friends, and they were allowed to examine
it thoroughly. There were four fakirs
present. The party took seats on the
bench midway Of the room. The fakiTs
lighted censor, from which exuded a
sickly, sweetisb smoke, filing the entire
room. The fakirs then began wild
whirling dance, all the while chanting, and
beating tom-toms, when suddenly the
dancers appeared to increase in number
until full dozen were dancing and whirl-
ing about. These then decreased until but
one dancer remained, an old man with
flowing beard. What became of the other
dancers Kellar could not tell, though he
tried by another search of the room to
discover the secret.
In Zurich, Switzerland, the other day
one of the law courts closed a novel case.
A beggar who opened the garden gate In
front of house where he intended to ask
for relief was attacked by watch dog and
bittin in the left arm. Soon after
ward he commenced suit against the owner
of the place, calling for heavy damages, on
the ground that the wound he had received
rendered him permanently unable to earn
his living The defense was that he could
beg Just as well as ever, and that the in
jury in question, far from being a disad-
vantage, only increased his chances in his
profession. But the court held that the
proprietor Of a house is responsible for the
security of the people who come to visit
him, even when the object of the visit is
to make an appeal to his generosity. So
the beggar won the suit.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-04-17

aud | want as far as possible to get used
to my future surroundings. Oh said
she, and the result was we bought the
dishes
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-04-17
DIFFERS WITH THE COURT.
The New York M. E. Conference Repudi-
ated the Decision of the Wisconsin SUI
preme Court.

l.
ated the Decision of the Wisconsin SUI
preme Court.
New YoRK.-The committee of the
NJ. E. conference, in its report, repu-
dated the recent decision of the supreme
court of Wisconsin, regarding the read
ing of the Bible in public schools. It is
''lmAmerican and pagan, and a menace to
the perpetuation of our institutions, ii
was held it was the duty of every Christian
citizen to deny the Bible was sectarian,
and to claim for it a place wherever the
state attempts to educate for the duties Of
citizenship. At the conference Missionary
Foster, of South Dakota, spoke Of the work
accomplished by the prohibition party in
that section.
The rat plague in Lincolnshire, Eng,
continues in spite of the enormous destruc-
ton of the animals by the farmers during
the past few months. One farmer who
scattered poisoned barley about his yards
every night gathered a crop of l 300 rats in
one day. Where they came from seems
to be mystery.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-04-17
A Necessity of Health.

1t is prime necessity of health that the action
of the bowels should be kept regular. But the
way TO overcome a temporary fit of constipation
or TO remedy chronic costiveness is not to deluge
the stomach and drench the bowels with purgal
tives of violent and painful action. The happy
medium between an imperative and violent
cathartic is Hostetters Stomach Bitters, which
acts just sufficiently upon the bowels to relax
them. without pain, and which being wholesome
tonic, as we'll as aperient. has the effect of
strengthening both them and the stomach, and
promoting the well being of the whole internal
economy. The removal of bile from the blood.
increased activity of the liver. usually dormant in
cases OF costiveneSs, and sound digestion follows
the Use OF this benefcent medicine, az thorough
and genial in Its effects il Is safe and pure IN
It's composition. rheumatism, fever and ague,
kidney troubles and debility are also remedied
by it
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-04-17

One of tire leading churches of Minneap.
oils has adopted novel method of in
creasing its attendance. Each Saturday
evening a committee of gentlemen visit
the hotels and take off list of the guests
who are domiciled there over Sunday
Neatly printed invitations to attend ser.
vices in the church are inclosed in en-.
velopes, sealed up and directed to the
guests. They are left with the clerk with
directions to piece them in the boxes IN
the morning As each man comes down
to breakfast Sunday morning he finds q
letter for himself. Opening it he discovers
the invitation. 1t excites his curiosity
and in many cases the invitation is ac
copied The plan has been in operation g
short time only, but thus far has beer
foupd to u,orE r-alI
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-10
RIGHT ON THE ROCK.
CLUBS OF HRIN's POLICE.
Dillon Protests Against Their Actio
at Proclaimed Meetings.

Dillon Protests Against Their Action
at Proclaimed Meetings.
LONDON, June 9.--In the House of Com
mons to-day Mr.. Dillon moved to adjourn
in order to call attention to the danger to
the public peace arising from the violent
and unconstitutional action Of the magis-
trates and police Of Cashel and Tipperary.
He challenged Mr.. Balfour to give the rea-
sons why the Tipperary meeting was pro-
claimed. He avowed his intention to
address all the proclaimed meetings he
possibly could. If the forces against them
were too strong, he would advise the people
to disperse and avoid bloodshed. He de-
nourced the police for attacking peaceful
meeting, even if it had been proclaimed,
without giving due warning to enable those
present to escape.
Secretary Balfour said that an adequate
force had been sent to Tipperary TO preserve
order. If anything serious happened the
blame would rest upon those who defled the
proclamation.
Mr.. Gladstone supported Mr.. Dillon's
motion. He contended that the charges
had not been answered. The motion was
negatived by a vote of 281 to 220.
The house then formally entered into
committee on the land purchase bill, but
Immediately reported progress.