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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09
CRIME.

SHERIFF WAKEFIELD, of Arkansas City,
is short S25 900 in his accounts.
Four prisoners escaped from the War
rem county jail Monday night
On Wednesday, Daniel Curtis killed
Morris Herzog with Ratchet al. Crawfords-
vile, Ind.
CHARLES F. UNDERHILL, president of
the Four City Life Association of Roches-
ter, N. Y, is under arrest for forgery.
AN attempt was made near Will
sons station to blow the Hartford Conn. J
express from the track with dynamite.
Royal. FRS, BY a resident of SparIand,
ILL.,, was shot dead by white CAPS for ruin
ing his step-daughter.
SEVERAL men we've killed at the Frank
lin coal mines in Washington during a
fight between strikers and non-union men.
A MEMPHIS dispatch says the verdict
of the jury in the trial of II. Clay King for
the killing of D. H. Poston, is murder in
the first degree.
AT New Bedford Mass, J. H. Doane,
a well known clothing dealer has left town
and is said to be forger to the extent of
$4,000.
THURSDAY afternoon George Jones and
William Newton, two well known farmers
of East Tennessee, shot duel on the state
line over piece OF property. Both were
killed, being shot to death.
ASA B. WATERMAN, the New York
theatrical manager, who was, convicted
last week of the murder of Peter Doran,
sixteen years.
JOHN RAUscH Tuesday morning shot
and killed his sweetheart, Marie Burkett,
and then killed himself in the same way.
Jealousy was the cause.
On Thursday, John Bardsley, the de-
faulting treasurer of Philadelphia, was
sentenced to fifteen years solitary conine-
ment in the penitentiary.
The striking stevedores in Chicago,
Thursday morning attacked the new men
employed to take the places they vacated
with the Anchor Line, but were repealed
by the police.
SIMON HERIsTEIN, a German peddler,
committed suicide Monday morning by
hanging himself at his house in New York
city. Dependency from business failure
was the cause.
LOUIS DILLIHGER, who is under sem
tence Of death for the murder committed
in Missouri, was captured in Chicago last
Monday night after desperate struggle
with the police.
WIN Ok and his wife Di Toyf cut their
tongues out in an underground den in the
Chinese quarter at San Francisco. Ok
bled to death, The woman will probably
die from her injuries. The pair were old
and poor and preferred death to hunger
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09
FOREIGN.

EXCESSIVE heat in hesssouth of Russia is
causing numerous deaths.
The new Russian tariff has been promul-
gated, and will go into effect July Is.
CAPTAIN SHAW, chief of the London fire
brigade, has resigned.
MORE heavy fighting in the CHILEAN
civil war is reported.
The Irish land bill has passed the COM
mittee stage In the house of lords.
SEVERAL persons have been poisoned in
London by eating salmon can-.ed by the
Columbia river canneries.
MANY missions are being burned by
the Chinese and occupants forced to flee
for their lives.
THE trial of ffty-one of the rioters
whose acts of of violence made May day
last day of terror in Italy began in Rome
Friday. There are 800 witnesses to be
examined
FIFTEEN houses were destroyed by fire
Wednesday at ChatiIlion, north Of Lake
Bourget, France. Several persons were
killed.
PROF. FAKKER, the redemptionist faith
CT who has devoted the last twenty years
10 nursing the lepers of Dutch Guiana,
has died of leprosy.
BALMACEDA candidate for president
of Chill was elected Saturday. His name
is Vicuna. Only the southern provinces OF
the county voted.
The price of bread is raising rapidly
in Russia because of the bad harvest pros
poets.
EMPEROR WILLIAM in an interview said
the triple alliance has been renewed for
six years.
The inhabitants of the province of We
roma, Italy, are alarmed at series of earth
quake shocks felt throughout the province
Monday night.
THE body of James McHenry, the Brit
lsh railway magnate, will be disinterred
and an examination will be made to de-
termine whether or not he was poisoned.
EX.PREsIDENT LEGITIME, with large
party of followers, has left Jamaica for
Turks Island, and is believed TO be en-
route to Hayti to make war on Hippolyte
Four FIFTHs of the tin-plate works in
South Wales closed their doors Saturday
for one month, throwing Is, 900 hands out
of employment for the time.
HIPPoLYTE,, ruler of Hayti, has incur
red such enmity through his manner of
squelching the recent rebellion that it is
said he must either resign or live in con-
slant dread of assassination.
BRITISH officers who have been engaged
in fighting tia slave trade in Elst Africa,
in submitting the reports of their opera
tons for the year 1890, declare that the
traffic is on its last legs. The action of the
Brussels conference will, they assert, kill
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09

strayed away from their homes in Avery
vile, ILL.,, Monday, and although hum
dredss of men searched all day Tuesday
for them they have not been found. 1t is
feared they were drowned in a lake near
their home.
A FREIGHT train on the Omaha line
came in collision with a work train near
Mendoza, MINI. Thirty cars were de-
stroyed by fire. Several Of the trainnen
jumped into the mississippi river to es-
cape death. 1t was reported that three
tramps were burned to death. The loss to
the Omaha company is $4,000.
A NEWCASTLE. Pa, special says trac-
ton engine drawing shanty on wheels
went through a bridge in Wayne town.
ship Thursday night. John Byron. Chas
Newton and s. Shafer were caught in
the wreck and so badly scalded by the es
Gaping steam that they will hardly re-
cover.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09

ing through the breach in the first swanze.
and over the crest of the wall below. Il
"At the top OF the hill another deter
mined stand was made, but this time By
an UNNECESSARILY superior force. there be-
ing gathered there in opposition to the
attacking party the very flower of Nor
osl's garrison, and that redoubtable chief
himself taking very active part in the
proce edings. He had placed his women
and children IN the circle of tents at the
back of the plate au, and drawn his men
across the front of the mountain In such
way that our men as they gained foot
hold would be partly surrounded 1t was
quite evident to me that we must carry
ttat plateau by the point of the bayonet,
or have our best men in the front gradu-
ally picked off by their sharpshooters
while skirmishing on the tanks was going
forward.
1T was an exciting moment, the Zulu
arriors were yelling like demons, and
the air seemed literally black with as
segals, MANY of which fell and wounded
our men. They were just crazy for the
charge, and when the word was given
needed no second invitation. 1t was very
unequal contest as far as numbers were
for the soldiers in discipline or in staying
powers, and moreover, they were encum-
bered with their women anj Children. |
shall never forget that battle in the moon
light on the top of MoroSi's mountain
1t seemed as if we had been fighting for
hours, but really a few minutes would
have covered the period of the engage
ment. At last, hemmdin on all sides,
Morosi s men having no alienation but to
die or fight, for in that dreadful carnage
no quarter was given or asked for, were
driven struggling to the very verge of the
precipice. As The pressure from he front
became greater mans of the weak and ex-
hausted were forced over the cliff and
persisted miseraby on the rocks below
Among the Zulus who persisted in this
manner was Morcsi himself, who, seeing
all was lost retreated to the very verge of
the gulf, and with an insulting gesture,
threw up his hands and sprang from the
plateau, defiant to the last. Strange to
say unlike the other bodies which went
over the cliff, the body of Morosi stuck
half way down the mountain in some
bushes, and an adventurous fellow named
Roberts, of Sir Bartle Frere's contingent,
climbed down and brought back the head,
thus earning the re ward -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09
A Lesson From the Wrecks.
ANNA NJ. BERKLEY.

Returning from India during the south.
ives monsoon, we tossed twenty-six days
ON the Indian Ocean. Rain and wind
beat the steamer from side to side. Dur
ing those long days, nothing was to be
seen but clouds and the dark, raging sea.
The captain, one evening about five
o'clock, invited US to go with him to the
pilot bridge. Clinging to anything that
would give US support, we soon reached the
slender structure that spans the deck.
Just ahead we saw the French mail
steamer in as much trouble as ourselves;
sometimes high up on a wave and then
almost lost to view as she sank amid the
dark waters. We were near the Straits of
BAD Ell Mandeb. Suddenly the French
steamer lay quiet, and then vent steam
ing smoothly along, while we made an
other headlcng plunge.
Never mind, " said the captain, "that
is about the last one"
La few seconds our steamer shook
herself loose from the wave, gave shud-
der, and 10, we also were at rest, and On
water so smooth there vas not ripple.
We had turned from the Indian Ocean
into the quiet waters leading to the Red
Sea.
WELL said to the captain, 1--WE can
sleep in peace tonight He made no
answer, but entering the chart room be-
gan a careful study Of the channel. After
DALI Al hour of smooth sailing, ne touched
ing arm end said:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09
Into the Dark Tunnel.

A few days ago had occasion to travel
On one of the great railroads, and was re-
minded of all incident that occurred some
years before, when, for the first time, |
made the same Journey. While sitting in
the waiting-room, waiting for the starting
of the train, | observed party consisting
of gentleman and lady, two little girls
and nurse. They were evidently a
family, well dressed, and of such appear
ance and manners as denoted cultured,
wcI-to-do people. | wondered who they
were, but never found out.
When we had taker our places in the
car, the nurse and the children were seat.
ed directly behind the parents. Very soon
after starting, the mother turned round,
took hold Of the younger child, and lifted
her on her lap, with her face 10 her own,
raised the little girls arms and brought
them round her neck, and placed her own
around the child's body, holding her close
in her embrace. Not knowing what was
before US, was kept in wonder as to what
these movements all meant; but as soon as
darkness covered US, then Light flashed out
Of darkness, and | understood. The dear
mother feared that the child would be
frightened, and so she took her in her
arms; nor did the child by sound or
movement show that she felt alarm. That
warm, protecting embrace killed all fear of
evil; how could harm reach her?
How could the thought of God hiding
some beloved soul, in time of trouble, in
his pavilion, in the secret of his presence,
be kept from ones reflections? Has not
one Of our old English devotional writers,
Baxter or Dodridge, said that when God
forsees great trials for believer, he takes
care to prepare that one by gracious mani
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09
CHE SHATTERED MIRROR.
One ogHermanns Most Famous Tricks

one o. deTflanHS ID OSC FAMOUS ITiCkS.
People have repeatedly asked me which
of my tricks have pleased me the most,
and which ! take the most delight III per-
forming. | consider the trick of restor-
ing the shattered mirror as my most ia
NOUS one. This | had the honor of per-
forming before the car of Russia upon
al invitation to give an exhibition at his
court. it was done Unexpectedly to the
spectators, and was not down on the regu-
lar bill. While playing billiards with the
attaches of the court after the performance,
the car being present in the saloon,
shot ball with all my strength against
plateglass mirror extending from floor to
ceiling. 1t was shivered into fifty pieces.
CONSERVATION was depicted on every coun-
tenance; on none more plainly than my
own. While the car courteously waived
my apology, considering the destruction
of the mirror as triAing and ordered the
game to proceed, | could easily see that
my supposed awkwardness made a disa-
greeable impression With the car S per-
mission examined the mirror to estimate
the damage done and the possibility of.re-
pairing it. While so engaged one of the
suite playfally challenged me to exercise
my art and make the mirror whole again,
never dreaming that his challenge was the
very cue wanted. and rot considering the
successful acceptance of it as possible, [
hesitated an instant and then ordered the
mirror to be covered with cloth entirely
concealing it from view. On the removal
of the cloth, after ten 5mintes, the mirror
was found without flaw, and as perfect
as before the damage. will leave it to
my reader imagination TO decide how
that trick was done.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09
A PRETTY GIRL.
Badly Disfgured After Ride in a Street,
Car.

Badly Disf1gured After Ride in a Street,
Car.
She was a pertty girl and pleasant
thing to see on rainy day She got into
an electric car short time since on
Madison avenue, during the shower. Her
| tailor made costume was natty A soft
hat showed a curly baag, and veil skirt
ed the top of her delicate nose. Sling
from her arm she carried promenade
satchel, and In one hand sllver-mounted
umbrella. The car was crowed and the
passengers moved up when a dapper gem
tleman yielded his place; so that the girl
squeezed into a narrow space and sat at
the edge of the seat at that. Her get-up
was gentlemaniy, but her pocket was hard
to find, and dragging her purse she spilled
her handkerchief. She and the gentle.
man opposite bent simultaneously to pick
| it up. Their heads bent in contact and
the girls hat was punched in and pushed
to one side. She thanked the gentleman
for her handkerchief. The jog her hat
got had loosed her veil, Reach
ing up to rearrange both she bust the rim
that held one cuff. This made her ner-
vous aud the veil was not straight by any
means, while the hat was pinned at a
| distinctly rakish angle, and so far back
that the bang were pulled out of sight
When she took her arms down the cuff
fell over her knuckies. she could not
manage the pin, which being bent, was
was hurting her dainty wrist so she bar
ed one hand of its glove. Shes tried to
straighten the pin and lost it, Then she
pushed the cuff up and began to look
severe, At this point her umbrella fell
with a bang Of the silver handle. Stoop-
ing for it snshe left her "gripsack' ! drag
along the dirty. floor, and that was muddled
as well as the, umbrella. She forgot that her
handkerchief mad been in the same place,
and she wiped her mouth as a girl will do
when she IS nervous. The gave her a
smudge on her chin. Then she suddenly
discovered that Pearl street was at hand
And, Oh! what a sadly different girl it
was who got out to do her shopping.
One hand ungoved, the other cuff hanging
losse, umbrella, ''valise' and FACE muddy,
4 soft hat tipped on the back of her head
and punched out of shape, veil aslant
across one cheek, and alas! no bang, no
hanCr 1T oil
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09
To BE More Beautiful.

Among the higher races of mankind the
female sex has become the fair sex simply
because men have combined TO make it the
fairer. Wherever possible highly clviiiz-
ed races have sought to relieve women Of
hard labor. Fashionable women have be
come mere human butterflies, fitting from
flower to flower, with no more exercise
than sufficient to enable them to sip in
quickest succession The sweets of life
That this is not best for their best good,
says DR.. Schumacher without some ballast
for their airy flight through life is net the
question here; it certainly is conducive
to beauty. Fresh air, exercise, the best
food, ard the revivifying influence of CON
slant change they have; and while these
directly promote beauty, the absence
of care is the greatest cosmetic in the
world.
In this complexity of conditions repre-
scented by the highest civilization, the pure
and sir1pl7 attraction of the sexes for each
other is dominated by many causes known
in but slight degree, if at all, to primitive
men.
Even in the United States the condi
lions of sexual relations are becoming more
and mora complex, as time goes On and
the country natures.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

SIMON GAM was drowned in st. Joe
river at Fort Wayne, Ind.
Ar Lebanon, Ind, Otto Montgomery,
aged II years, was drowned while bath
ing.
DURING a thunderstorm at Auline,
Hans. Miss Pinkie Cochran was killed
by lightning.
FIVE persons were injured and team
killed in a railway crossing accident at
Fort Worth Monday.
CYCLONE IL Audubon county, Iowa,
Wednesday leveled many buildings, dam
aged crops and killed man.
IhE bodies of the nineteen sailors who
were drowned in the great storm at
Samoa were buried at Mare island, Cali
fornia, Saturday.
SEVERAL persons were killsd and much
property destroyed by the cloud bursts
ia northwestern Iowa, Tuesday.
The New York seventv-frsJ regiment
armory building was burned Saturday
morning. Loss, 100000, insurance 500,
600.
WHILE walking On a highway in War
saw, Mipn., 10 thunder shower, Andrew
Ranstad was struck By lightning and in
stantly killed
THREE children, aged 9, s, and years,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09
A Fragile Structure,

system which chronic indigestion has depict
ed and rendered nervous and feeble, Is indeed
very fragile structure, tenement fast topping
into irretrievabls decay. Excessive irritability
of temper abnormal and causeles anxiety, hypo-
crondria, hysteria and sleeplessness-these are
some of the Manifestations of nervousness. That
grand invigorating nervine, Hostetter's Stomach
Bi.ters, tranquilizes by strengthening the nerves
accomplishing the double result through The
medium of renewed digestion and assimilation.
No tonic in existence exhibits such thoroughness.
produces such speedily appreciable effects as The
BiIiers. Ii is . perfectly reliable safeguard
g g,4lnst malaria and dangerous kidney trouble
NV and dIsord,r. Nervous inyaiids sboniJ Nv,
fail TO fortify their systems with this benign pro
lectiye, which we'll nasrtts persistent trial
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09
HARVEST HANDS WANTED.

The tramp has no excuse for his exist
ence just now above all times. Work in
plenty is oper to hil if he will only take
it. The season has opened during which
farmers will need helpers fer three
months to come. The northwest is one
great field for the labor of the harvesters.
In Minnesota thousands upon thousands
of men are wanted on the farms and the
wages offered are high-at least so
cent. better than the metropolitan laborer
can command. Harvesting wages raj ge
from s175 to IS per day. Haying and
threshing pay is from S125 to S175 day
ara board A reliable hand can get an
average of $3.50 a day and board from
July to October through haying, har-
vesS and threshing.
Actual distress for help to gather in the
bounteous harvest is felt in lower Mime
sofa, and the demand for it is also strong
IL Iowa and the Dakotas, and will soon
be even stronger.
Then what excuse is there for the tramp?
Absolutely none; and the fellow who ad-
1lits he is enc admits that he is too lazy
to work On such a man no sympathy
Should be wasted. Courts should treat
him with sternness and jailors with diet
so crude ana course and meager as to
drive him from his mean and wretched
occupation. He is pest, and worse than
The ordinary kind. because he possesses
intelligence and reason and is reckone1 in
the class which represents the highest
grade Of animal life. To him the harvest
hela, with It's sharp work and active COM
petition In the line of binders to keep
w" with tie rugged and wholesome diet
Of tie farm, with the knowledge of hon
est labor performed in the sweat of the
brow, ought to open a new
life, and if the miserable habits of
the homeless vagabond are only freshly
fastened upon HIM, it would probably do
SO. In that event the hundred dollars
which he might easily save from his three
months ordeal IN the path Of salvation
would form nice haginn,-g for hank
account which, once started, is IL itself Il
stimulus to thrifty action.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09

Que of the most interesting women in
Kentucky is Mrs. Gratz, of Lexington, the
aged mother of Gen. ]. 0. Shelby.
Though 81 years old, she is bright end
active and shows no sign of physical OF
mental decrepitude. Mrs. Gratz reared
and educated Gov. B. Gratz Brown, Of
Missouri, and Col Frank B. Blair. 1t is
somewhat singular that these two men,
who owed their training to her, became
union leaders when the var broke out.
while her own son joined the confederate
cause.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09

AN expedition to determine the exact
spot where Columbus landed in the West
Indies on his first voyage of discovery has
sailed from New York under the patron
age of the Chicago Herald. The place has
never been located with precision by the
modern geographers, and these latter day
voyasers will try to follow the course of
Columbus in so far as it is possible to de-
termine it 10y such evidence as is available
at the present time. 1t is probable that
the Herald men will find some spot, at any
rate, whereon to place the handsome mon
ument already provided for.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09
Look yonder.n

Look yonder.''
| looked toward the African coast. AID
saw fine steamer at rest.
1T is wreck, said he, surprised.
| answered: 1T looks all right ~
Yes; but it is a lost ship
In an hour we passed seven wrecks.
How was it they got into trouble in these
quiet waters?' asked.
;, They did not study their chart, but
followed false lights along the shore. or
IN wake of steamers they thought to be
right" he answered.
Let US learn lesson from these wrecks.
As we sail over the ocean of time, LET us
not follow others, or false lights. but study
our chant, the Bible, and be guided by
him who said, 81 am the way, the truth,
and the light"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09
MEMORIAL TO BROkAW.
An Athletic Field to he Established
AT Princeton COilene.

New YORK, July 2.-It is now de-
cided that instead of a monument to
commemorate the heroism of young
Frederick Brokaw, who lost his life in
a gallant effort to rescue two women at
Elberon, \. j., the large field outh Of
the presidents house at Princeton col
lege will be thoroughly equipped as an
athletic field, and a memorial gate
erected, bearing a properly inscribed
tablet. At meeting of some of the
classmates and friends held here yes
terday an organization was effected
with this object in view.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09
MINERAL PRODUCTS.
The United States is the Greatest
Mining Country.

WASHINGTON, d. c., July 2.-The last
volume on mines and mining census
shows the total value of the mineral
products of the United States amounted
at the time of the census to $3.50, 9Ss,-
$50, which is the greatest total ever re-
ported for any country. It far outstrips
the product of Great Britain. The to-
tai number of industrial mining estab-
lishments is 10000; persons employed,
sig, ia; annual wages, 1912, 400, 500, and
and capital employed, $1,173 100000.