Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16

to the left of the Chief Justice.
There is a probability that the
race question in the South will
shortly become one of international
Importance. An English subject,
a minister of the gospel, has pre-
sented a petition to Sir Julian
Paunceforte, the British minister,
asking redress for injuries received
by himself and wife at the hands
of a mob in North Carolina. He
claims to be a missionary, and
that he and his wife have been
preaching to the negroes and
teaching a negro school, and that
for this offense a mob of white
men broke into his house, after
firing a volley through the door,
wounding him, and beating his
wife. The preacher and his wife
are now in Washington, and the
British minister is engaged in
investigating their statements. If
found true redress will be demand
ed of this Government.
Sunday Telegraph: An ex-
change predicts hat this will be a
prosperous year. 1t depends
upon individuals and communities
whether it is a prosperous year or
not. If a large number of semi
drones in each community devote
a considerable share of their time
to fault-fnding, lamenting their
mi%sfortunes, crying down this
enterprise, this man or that man
and do not bend their energies to
help make the times prosperous,
and if these undesirable fellows in
any community exert a consider
able influence over their fellow
citizens, it will not be a prosper
Gus year; But if every citizen is
hopeful, ceases to find fault and
goes to work with energy to
accomplish something for himself
and his community, then the year
will be a prosperous one.
One of the democratic hold
over officials in the General Land
office has got himself into trouble
by hurrying through, out of its
turn, a patent for lands valued at
81 100000, against the issuance of
which there we're strong protests,
which were not even given a hear
ing, what makes the trouble
worse is the fact that the patent
cannot be cancelled without the
assistance of the courts. Nothing
can be done t. the official, except
to dismiss him, as it would be
next to impossible to convict him
of anything worse than careless
ness, though there is little doubt
that his action deserves to be
called by a much harsher term.
We wonder if that wretch,
George Handler, of Merrill, who
killed one man and tried to kill
two others, had known that the
gallows or death by electricity
awaited him, would have shot to
kill. The miserable, worthless
fellow knew that the worst that
could come to him was a life term
in states prison, where he would
have plenty of good food to eat
and comfortable clothes to wear,
and not be obliged to work any
harder than was good for his
health. Who believes that there
would have been one third the
number of cold blooded murders
in Wisconsin that have been the
past twenty-five years had the
state a law which provides for the
hanging of the men guilty of that
most horrible crime? Let US
have capital punishment. Let us
do something to really punish the
man who kills his brother. Don't
let US give him a prize package
with a guarantee of good living
and comfortable clothing the bal
ance of his life at the expense of
the tax payers, the fathers,
brothers and neighbors, even, of
the murderers victims. HANG FOR