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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

OF every million in the world 300 are
blind
EDISON s photographic doll now speaks
135 words. Formerly it could speak but
thirty.
CHICAGO is to have another hotel that
In It's magnitude will rival the auditorium.
GENERAL SHERMAN goes about New
York almost invariably IN the street cars.
As rule one Of his daughters accompan-
les him, anG the old warrior, in jumping
on and off the steps, is as young as many
men forty years his junior.
THE sheriff of Coffee county has
called on Governor Gordon for troops
to suppress the riot of the negroes
against the whites. Four men are said
to have been killed, but there are no par
ticulars.
The Farmers Review of Chicago, says:
"a careful examination of estimates
furnished by our correspondents reveals the
fact that the corn crop ii Michigon and
Wisconsin is larger than that of last year,
and the returns IN Minnesota and Dakota
are almost as large as In 1889.
The oldest man in the world is proba-
bly, Osman, Of Cavaliovit, Turkey. He
has lived $50 years, and has documents to
prove it. He is an Arabian widower, and
is supported by small pension from the
Sultan.
A FAMILY by the name of Perkins, con-
sisting of wife and four children, passed
through Atchison, Kas., the other ay,
bound for Brown county, Ill. The man
had lost one eye and left arm, the woman
was minus the left arm, one Of the child
rem had but one leg, another one was blind
and one sick. He had S. in cash, plug
of tobacco, a clay pipe, yellow dog, and
altogether was as happy and contented as if
he owned half the state.
= A BAND of Arizona Apaches, evidently
not more than four in number, have been
terrorizing the settlers along the Ari-
zona-New Mexico line for the past
six weeks in the western Sierra
and Grant counties; the cavalry has been
scouting for weeks without result Thus
far four persons have been murdered by
the gang. J. J. Barrira, a Mexican in
western Grant county, and his sor, are the
last victims
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
CRIME.

The American jewelry thieves who have
been operating in London. had confeder-
ates in New York, who handled the stolen
goods for them.
CHARLES w. ROBINSON, the wali-known
stock broker who has been doing business
through John Stetson's banking house in
Boston, is self confessed forger The
amount will not fall short of S85, 600
A SON of William Swader, a prosperous
farmer of Adams Corners, Mich, has been
placed in Jail, charged with the murder
of his father. The young man had the
idea that portion of the property would
become his should the father die without
will
A TERRIBLE crime was committed We'd
nesday night at Des PLANES, little
village several miles west of Chicago.
Michael Brazell, one of the Oldest and best
known residents, was found lying in his
yard with his skull split open with an
axe. His pockets had been slit with a
knife and all his valuables extracted,
showing that the motives of the assailants
was robbery. A large posse of citizens
are searching for the murderers, who are
supposed to be three tramps who had been
seen around the village for several days.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30

THIS is the point upon which the United
States circuit court at Topeka, Kan, bases
its decision that the enactment of the Will
son original package law by congress does
not give the prohibitory laws of Kansas
any greater power over the sale of import
ed LIQUORS than it did before: The pro-
bibitory law of the state of Kansas, where
If touched upon interstate commerce, was
nolaw at all at the time of It's enactment
or since. For it must be kept IN mind
that a legislative act in conflict with the
constitution is not only illegal or vo1daote,
but it is absolutely void. 1t is as If never
enacted, and no subsequent change OF the
constitution removing the restriction could
validate il or breathe into 1t the breath OF
life. Consequently the whole question IS
re.opened again if that decision is to stand,
and all prohibitory and license laws as
well must be re-enacted before liquor sell
ing in imported original packages can be
stoned. Already saloons of that charac-
ter are being eStaDllSheu III val lou0 pau 70
of Kansas, and the fact has given oppor-
tunity for the republican party of the
state to issue an appeal, that may prove
very effective, calling on prohlbltlonlsts
TO abandon their ticket and make possible
the election of a Legislature which re-enact
the prohibition statutes. Andapparently
4 MnG mat re
must also go through the dumb show OF
re-enacting our icence laws in order to
avert an unlicensed original package del
uge. And then the supreme court may
decide the Wilson law unconstitutional
and make the dumb show as useless as it
would now appear to the ordinary mind
The situation in this respect Is very much
mixed, indeed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
FOREIGN.

LONDON has $4,000 families that live in
cellars.
The English shipping interests are
temporarily departed by the hostile at
tltude of the sailors.
The discoveries made by Stanley show
that the Nile is the longest river In 5he
world. being at least 4, 100 miles in
length.
PRINCE MAMMALIAN, nephew of the
Grand Duke of Baden, will shortly be be-
trOthed to Prince Victoria Louisa Schlas-
g-Holstein-S onderbourg- gesteborg.
A VESSEL with a cargo OF gun cotton
has sailed from Brest for Russian port.
The gun-cotton is for the use of the Rus
sian government and was sent from a
French government powder factory.
The government commission has de-
cided that all future treaties of commerce
concluded by Spain shall have minimum
of five and maximum of ten years dura-
ton, and that the maximum concession
be Is per cent. of duties under the tariff of
1877.
The governor of Armenia has stationed
troops in the Christian quarters of the city
of Erzroum to protect the residents, who
fear the Moslems intend to conduct an
| organized piilage of the quarter. Six
| MOslems have been arrested on suspicion
Of being implicated in plot to rob the
| Christians.
THE Neuvieme Sirle of Paris publishes
Boulanger's account of his per-
sonal expenses. After declaring that he
lost the whole of his savings after paying
his fathers debt, besides 100000 francs
for his book Invasion of Germany" he
says he sacrificed the retiring pension and
the offer of 100000 francs for a lecture
tour in America. He denies that he APP
piled to the Duchess d Uzes or Baron
Mackau for money, but is vague as to the
origin of his resources.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
Still Rolling.

1t has recently been demonstrated that
some articles of merchandise, which have
been before the public of England for the
last half century, are nine times more used
there than all other principal patent medi-
cines put together. We refer to Beecham's
Pills, which in order to meet the wishes
and requirements expressed by Americans,
many of whom already know their value,
are now introduced in such thorough man.
ner that no home need be without them in
America. We believe this shrewd and dis
corning people will soon join in the univer-
sal testimony that they "are worth guinea
box" although they can be purchased of
druggists for but twenty-five cents. These
pills are round and will therefore roll. They
have already rolled into every English
speaking country in the world, and they are
still rolling. All suffering from indigestion,
fatuency, constipation, and all other forms
of stomach and liver troubles, have now
this famous and inexpensive remedy within
their reach; but should they find, upon in
quiry, that their druggist does not keep
Beecham's Pills, they can send twenty-five
cents to the General Agents for the United
States, B. f. Allen & Co. 365 Canal Street,
New York City, who will promptly mail
them to any address
Mackinaw Island, Mich, he's some queer
people. Enias PelOtte is eighty-six years
old, was born on the island and has never
seen a locomotive or railroad car. Rosa
Louisignaw is also eighty-six years old and
for sixty years never left the island, breaking
her record last year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30

THE advance of its rate of discount to ) .
per cent by the bank of Germany, indicates
a delicate financial situation abroad, and Il
the bank of England should feel compelled
to follow suit at the meeting of its directors
the strain upon credit will be
intensified. The general feeling abroad is
very uneasy. And it has communicated
itself to Wall street. In the present state
of the market, foreign crisis of even
small proportions will be acutely fe,t here.
Farm AND FIREsIDE notes that like
he InGian and the buffalo range cattle
are becoming thing of the past. The
census returns show this, and the fact may
otherwise be regarded as natural ac-
compartment to the spread of settlement
westward. The springlng up of mining
towns and cities here and there on the
areas which few years ago were open to
range" by the cowboy and his herds
NAV have increased the actual cOnsump-
ton Of meat in that region, but 1t cuts
down the possibilities of occupancy under
Che free pasture system in which the brand
-ead of the landmark was the deciding
test in question of ownership. The far
mers are pushing out farther west, and
with them carry the older plan of caring
for live stock in small lunches, and dis
placinC what had been the intermediate
phase between savagry and civilization.
Hence the change is for the better, and all
the more so as it tends directly to do
away with the irregularities of supply in
the market which have done so much to
depress the selling prices of cattle in the
last few years
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

A PORTION of the Youngstown Ohio
rolling mill plant was burned Saturday
night. The loss is 500, 00o.
FIRE at East Pepperell, Mass. early
Friday morning, destroyed property worth
100000. Several hundred persons are
thrown out of employment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
A Disease Unaccoumtabiy Prevalent.

The prevalence of ailments attributable 10 MAS
matte poison in the air that people breathe, and
the water they drink, is well nigh unaccountable.
Not alone in pestilential swamps, badly drained
suburban districts, and marshes exposed to the
suns rays by the recedng tide, ia this scourge of
humanity found. Even in great cities, BEAUTIFULLY
every respect in a sanitary way, we find malaria.
Its presence is often inexplicable, but its attacks
are always preventable The protector is Hostel
ter's Stomach Bnters. The eradcator bears the
same name--a uame known to thou ands through
out our broad land and elsewhere a synonym
of relief prevention and cure of the insidous dis
orders i'll Its abomnable phases-chills and fever,
bilious remittent, dumb ague and aguc cake, as
well as others. Nor is the Btters less elective
for indigestion, kidney complalnt - BUSINESS
and rheuu1tism.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
KILLED IN A RUNAWAY.
Joseph Burnett of GAINESVILLE Loses III
Life in an 4 ccideut

Life in an Accident
EVANSVILLE, Wis, Oct. 23.-Joseph
BURNETT aged 80 years. was killed by
falling from his wagon while his team was
running away this morning. He was
thrown out and dragged some distance
and most of his clothing was stripped from
his body. He leaves a wife and two
children, who reside near this city, and
one son hv- in Milwaukee The acct
dent happene,- one mile west of this
city
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
Earthquake in Missouri.

CAHE GIRADEAU, No., Oct. 23.-Two
shocks of earthquake cecurred here at Clio
this morning. The buildings, furniture,
crockery. etc., were visibly affected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
Bursting of a Glacier Dam.

The Marjelen lake, which lies at the
foot of the Eggischhorn, in the upper
Valais, had burst the glacier dam which
lay across the valley, and spreading over
the glacier poured black mass of mud,
stones and broken ice into the Rhone be-
low. Fortunately there was little water
in the river at the time, otherwise the
consequences might have been calamitous
for the people of the upper Vaais. A
peasant who was close to the Luke at the
time delares that the scene was most ter
rible and indescribable. When the ice
dam gave away the vast mass of water
came tumbling out, sweeping away the
huge fragments of the glacier, with the
rocks upon it, tumbling into the crvices,
bursting them in twain, nd rising over the
glacier in gigantic waves, again to carry
ali before it.
Just at the end of the glacier the valley
had narrowed into little defle, while
the face Of the glacier was some hundreds
of feet high. The water seemed to have
tunneed under the ice, which, attacked
above and below, gave away at last with a
deafening crash. while the food hurried
down the mountain side into the Rhone.
The lake was nearly 5000 feet .above the
sea level, and usually discharged its sur
plus water by subterranean channels. oc-
casionaliy bursting It's ice barriers, as on
the present occasion. The cantonal gov
eminent are constructing an overflow
canal which it is hoped will put and end 10
those npriOdical Outh1rStS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30

WAsHrseToN. Oct. 22-The secretary
of the treasury has awarded gold medals
to tie members of the Evanston Oils
life saving crew for their herolsm in
rescuing shipwrecked seamen last year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
Making Tobacco Harm less.

Very few smokers realize the extent of
the damage done to the mouth, heart and
neves by tobacco" says a we'll known
physician in the Philadelphia Inquirer
who had Just returned from the Berlin
medical congress. when in Europe |
learned simple and effective method Of
rendering tobacco entirely harmless with
out destroying irs aroma. The method
was discovered by DR.. Gantrelet of Vichy
and it should be regarded as a priceless
boon to smokers. 1t consists of a small
piece of cotton wool steepe,. in 5 or 10
per cent. solution Of pyrogallic acid. insert
ed in pipe or cigar holder. This will
neutralize any possible i'll effects of the
nicotine In this way not only may the
generally admitted evils of smoking be
overcome. but cirrosts of the liver, which
is sometimes caused by tobacco, and the
lighter effects of over indulgence, such as
headache and Turing of the tongue, may
be avoided. Citric acid, which was recon-
mended by Vigier for the same purpose,
has the serious disadvantage Of spelling
the taste Of the tobacco -
In Many Forms.
Scrofula taiuts the blood of almost every
one, and it is the cause of much of our
health. II it attacks the breathing or
gans, the issue is consumption; if the di-
gestive apparatus. the issue is dyspepsia
and debility; if the muscles, the issue is
rheumatism; if the nerves, the issue is
paralysis; if the glandular system, the
issue is in boils, and other superficial ex-
hibitions Of corruption. It Is a mistake
to characterize it as unseen. What fes-
tiers your skin on every little abrasion?
Scrofula. What gives that hack to your
cough on exposure to the slightest damp
and cold? Scrofula. What makes your
food an oppression? Scrofuia. What
racks and twists the bones and sinews, as
you grow old? Scrofula. 1t operates by
withholding nutrition and defeating all
efforts toward nourishment, life becomes
burden, and the victim knows not the
blessings and happiness of health. 1t is
your duty to yourself, your family, and
your race, to manfully oppose and dislc DE
this demon. How? We can only say,
that others, who were afflicted as you are,
have found relief and cure in a moderate
use of Hoods Sarsaparilla, that compound
in which the skill of the modern pharma-
cist and the science of the most advanced
medical knowledge unite for the benefit
of suffering humanity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
The Bai Ties OI enc a uLurs.
American Nachinest.


1t Is becoming more and more apparent
that the battles of the future, whether on
land or sea. will be largely contests Of ma
chimes with machines The development
of modern weapons has gone on at such a
pace that it seems not unreasonable to
predict that before long what will be re-
quired of men to fight battles will be, more
than anything else, thorough knowledge
of mechanism in short, they will be, to a
great extent, mechanics and engineers.
Already the modern naval vessel has De-
come what may be called simply fighting
machine, all its space not required for the
men and officers being taken up with in
ing things which in the old days were
done by the man, or left undone. Indeed,
the moiern war ship has grown so COM
plicated, and done it so rapidly, that it is
said many of the oldest officers Of the navy
are meeting with considerable difficulty in
keeping abreast of the improvements, and
that the younger men, fresh from the
study of science, and with more ambition
to stir them on TO further study, are COM
ing rapidly to the front In consequence. 1t
seems that future naval victories are to be
won not by the side that has the strongest
and bravest men necessarily, but by the
side which has its men best protected
from the machines of the enemy, and it
self provided with superior machines.
ALI this, of course. will inevitably bring
more and more into prominence the ma
chinist and engineer, and it is beginning
to be recognized tina additional eff
fort must be made to sec ure the best of
both on war vessels
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30

The number of electrical Appliances for
wearing upon the human body, in the
efficacy of which people are deluded into
believing is legion, and, notwithstand-
ing all the warnings that have been given
and the exposes that have been made of
these fragrant frauds, there are many who
will imagine that electrical belts, brushes,
combs, ETC., have strong curative power.
In the same line with these decisions is
that of the man, now every day met with,
who carries in his pocl ct bit of electric
arc-light carbon, so that some of the
lingering electricity may soak into his
body and drive away his rheumatic
twinges. All these notions have not the
least foundation. A person may stand
close to the most powerful magnet and
never feel the slightest magnetism, and
prevalent theory that the magnetism at
tracts the iron In the blood and thus IN
duces more vigorous circulation is
absolutely fallacious. There is a great
deal i'll the use and abuse IF imagination,
and it has been said that people who are
taken violently Ill after riding few blocks
on the electric cars are ready to be rated as
irst-class crauks. 50 far as imagination Is
concerned. A current Of electricity, prop
erly adjusted as to strength and duration;
may be very advantageously passed
through the body under certain conditions,
but magnetism has no effect whatever up
On the human system.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
STAND ASIDE AND SUFFER,

not only the men who lay down their lives,
but the women who lay down their hearts
on the battle field. Twenty Years had
softened every harshness; the old guide
was calm. and made happy by a few
francs: tie air blew sweet, the grass shone
green. the flowers bloomed over the sod
which had been Redeemed by the blood of
two great nations. took the path to the
village cemetery. The fields bore no mark
OF the contest and carnage; the hills at a
little distance, then bristling with guns
and muskets, now were shaded by leafy
trees. Nature had with her kindly, heal
ing indifference, obliterated all signs of
the terrible struggle which score of years
ago convnlsed mid-Europe. made
friends with young woman who opened
for me the grille of the cemetery It Is the
burying place Of the village. narrow.
peaceful SPOT, where the gravel path is
bordered by the simple graves OF the neigh
boring peasants. decorated, as Is usual IN
France, with iron crosses and bead
wreaths. Yet flowers were not wanting;
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-19
A GOOD STORY.

A well-known statesman whom | met at
the Fifth Avenue hotel recently told the
following story: Y LIS
"a few days before the adjournment of
congress. Senators Plumb, ingalls,, Wilson
Of Iowa, Pierce, Casey, Moody, Pettigrew,
Paddock, Davis, and Powers, ten in all, met
in caucus and solemnly resolved that they
would never. never, never vote for the
tariff bill so long as it imposed any duty on
binding Irvine. When the bill came up for
passage little later only one of the ten
voted against it, and when the final actio 1
(the adoption of the conference report) was
taken, all but three of The ten voted for the
bill, though it did not put binding Irvine on
the free list.
after the close of the session Senator Ed
munds, in leaving the chamber fell in with
two of the senators who had thus '6unked,
and taking each by lapel of his coat, told
them the following story:
Years ago used TO do my own market
ing, and | traded with very independent
sort of German butcher. One morni z
asked him why he always charged me IS
cents for certain kind of meat when the
butcher down the street a little way charged
only 10 cents.
"'Vel,' said he, IF he will sell 1t to you
for fufteen cent Wy you don't puy it of
him, ehf
81 explained that had intended to buy it
of him that morning. buc he didn't happen
to have any on hand just then.
"'Oh, HOP said my butcher. Well, you
come aroundt here sometime ven ] don'd
got any und will sell him to you for fuf-
teen cents, too"
THE listening senators laughed rather
heartily at the story. Then after moment
of silence Senator Edmunds added:
You two gentlemen remind me of that
butcher"
How so?n they asked.
"Why, when there is no voting to do you
vote against the bill"
"The two senator's laughed again, but not
quite SO heartily"