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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.


The grip is causing great mortality in
West Virginia.
OF the 1884 immigrants who landed at
New York city on Sunday 600 were
Italians.
THE sum of $4,000 in gold has been
taken at the sub-tre ury for export to
Berlin.
Jay GOULD is worth about $3.50, 900, 900,
and has two beautiful little grandchildren
that he values as highly
HIRAM W. BLANCHARD, the we'll known
aboliti onist, died at his home in Boston,
Tuesday, aged 80.
DIR. julius S. TAYLOR, a well-known
geologist, died at Kankakee, Ill.
A. FRIENDLY, Chicago travelling man,
died at Milwaukee after taking an over
dose of medicine for the grip.
THE Wakefield syndicate, of Chicago
has purchased the Llano iron-coal fields In
Texas for $500, 900.
AFTER 155 ballots Thomas F. Upton
was nominated fer judge of Mclean coun-
ty, Ill.
THE wholesale grocers and refners of
| the United States are said to have formed
a combine to boycott foreign refined sugar.
INDIANS in Idaho have begun depreda-
lions on settlers and general uprising is
feared.
SECRETARY BLAINE has finished his re-
ply to the last note from the Italian
government and it has been transmitted
to Rome.
WARNER MILLER, who is at Greytown
inspecting the Nicaragua canal, is pleased
with the progress Of the work and pro-
| phesies a great future for Central Amer
lea.
SCHoFF, FAIRCEILD & Co., wool mer.
chants of New York, it is reported have
been compelled to offer settlement with
their creditors on the basis of so cents on
the dollar. Liabilities, 100000
The New York Court of Appeals has
set aside the will of the late John Guy
Vassar, which left all his estate to various
institutions, and has awarded $50, 900 each
to sixteen of his collateral heirs. Vassar
College will receive about $500, 900.
gress assembled at Kansas City, Tuesday.
Congressman Crisp, Breckenridge, Tarns-
ney, Torrey, Simpson and Davis were
among those present.
A STRONG flow of natural gas has
been struck at Peasanton, CAL, by work
men who were bearing a we'll in Odd
Fellows cemetery. The gas was struck at
depth of 100 feet.
A BILL appropriating $4,000 for the
state exhibit at the worlds fair has pass
ed both branches of the Minnesota leg,
islature.
The remains of Mrs. E. W. Halford
wife of President Harrison S private secret,
airy were inferred at indianapolis, Ind.
IT is estimated at Boston that New Eng.
land business men will lose 100000 by
the failure Of the Winner Investment com.
pany at Kansas City.
DR.. SHARP, of Stockton, Ill, who had
expressed his approval of the lynching Of
the Italians at New Orleans, has received
letters signed by the Malta threatening
him with death.
The jury in the S25, 900 suit brought by
Henry Baus, carpenter of Wood Haven,
n. Y, against AIoysius Stefens, pastor Of
st. Joseph's Roman catholic church in
that village, for alleged alienation of his
wife's affections, awarded the plaintiff
81 900 damages.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
CANTRACT LABOR LAW.

A strict Interpretation of the contract
labor law would probably exclude the en-
poyes of foreign exhibitors at the Chicago
worlds fair in 1898. This is the view
taken by the London Economist and some
other foreign newspapers which are asking
what they propose to do under the circum-
stances. There need be no worry over this
matter on the part of intending foreign ex-
hibitor, as the law will probably be
amended to put employees of foreign ex-
hibitors upon the same footing as the
goods brought to he exhibited. All such
goods are allowed to come in duty free
except in case they are sold or retained
in this country, and employees coming here
for a temporary purpose can be safely ex-
empted from the prohibition of the con-
tract labor law. 1t might be advls-
able, if this anxiety manifested by the
Economist is at all widespread, for the
proper officials, either the directors of the
fair or the treasury department, to init
mate as formally as may be that the law
not be held to include such employees, and
so preventing any i'll effects this fear may
have in preventing proposed exhibits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23

near Addison, W. Va. They were cross
ing the swollen stream on a footlog, when
1t turned ana all were precipitated into the
water.
FRANK SHELPER, of Peoria, H., while
testing for a leak in the gas mains, Was
blown clear through a heavy door and
the skin and flesh on his arms was COM
pletely stripped off.
By the falling of wall in Cincinnati
Saturday, Frank Glenn, age Is, and
William Gibson, stonemason, were kill
ed and thirteen others injured, but not
seriously.
THE Arcade building, the finest in
Elizabeth, n. j.. burned Tuesday. 1t con-
tains the postofice, district court, First
National bank and many offices. The loss
is 100000
WHILE twelve boys were crossing the
river at st. Louis In a skiff Sunday after
noon, the current carried them into
strong eddy on the Illinois side; the
skif capsized, and five of them were
drowned.
1.-THE house of Maj Edward Paul at
Sorel, Que. was burned and his youngest
daughter. 6 years of age, persisted.
Madame Paul and two other children were
seriously burned, and may die.
AT Clifford, Con-, Mrs Emma Leete,
aged IS years, was uampled to death Mon
day afternoon by a vicious horse. She
was holding the horse by the bride when
he reared and threw her to the ground.
ADvIcEs from Port Huron, Mich, says
the Grand Trunk ferry boat Huron has
been stuck in the ice with two train loads
of western-bound passengers since 10
o'clock tuesday night. A tug boat
managed to get close enough to her
Wednesday morning to deliver feed to the
half famished victims.
A TEEsvILLE, Mo-, woman was sitting
in wagon watching her son cut down a
tree. The tree fell toward the wagon and
the boy called to his mother to get out of
way. She seemed unable to move. The
tree crashed down just behind the wagon
without touching Mrs. Trollinger, but she
fell over dead.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
Novel Uses for Old Papers.

Most Eousekeepers know how invaluable
newspapers are for packing away the
winterclothing, the printing acting as a
defiance to the soutest moth as successful
y as camphor or tar paper. For this rea-
son newspapers are invaluable under the
carpet, laid over the regular carpet paper.
The most valuable quality of newspapers in
the kitchen, however, is their ability to
keep out air. 1t is we'll known that ice
completely enveloped in newspapers, so
that all air is shut out, will keep longer
time than under other conditions, and that
aspitcher of ice water laid in newspaper,
with ends of the paper twisted together to
exclude the air, will remain all night in any
summer room with scarcely any percept-
ibe melting of the ice. These facts should
be utilized oftener than they are in the
care of the sick at right. In freezing ice
cream, when the ice is scarce, pack the
freezer only three quarter full of ice and
salt, and finish with newspapers, and the
difference in the time of freezing and
quality of the cream is not perceptible
from the results where the freezer is
packed full of ice. After removing the
dasher, it is better to cork up the cream
and cover it tightly with package of
newspaper than to use more ice. The
newspaper retains the cold already in the
ice better than a packing of cracked ice
and salt, which must have crevices to adj
nit the air
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
THE NEW IMMIGRATION LAW.

Col. Webster, superintendent of lmml-
grafton at New York, is enforcing the re-
strictive clauses of the new law concerning
Immigrants in a way to convince the
steamboat companies that they cannot af-
ford to disobey it. The representatives of
these companies have virtually admitted
that it is practicable for them to determine
in the people they bring over here; it
makes some trouble to do it, but can be
done. Secretary Foster and CO... Weber say
that IL must be done, and they intend to
collect the full penalty under the law from
the Burmuda and the Iniziatiza, whose
officers allowed immigrants to escape who
were returned on board these ships to be
taken back to Italy. 1t will cost the
Burgundia's owners $500, and those of
the Iniziatiz 5000 for this carelessness or
open neglect of the law. 1t is feared,
however. that this undesirable class of i'm
migrants will be sent to Canada, whence
unhindered This is the case now to an
alarming degree, and the hospitals and
poor houses Of New York are said to be
burdened with sick and poor foreigners
who have reached their haven of rest
In these institutions via Canada. 1t is a
difficult thing to protect the frontier with
efficient quarantine against these corners,
but it must be done if the necessary
policy of exclusion is to be effectually APP
piled. Some idea of the number of i'm
migrants who come to this country by
way of Canada may be obtained from the
fact that 1888 came into Canada last
year, while only 75,067 became actual
settlers there, leaving ever 100000 to be
accounted for. Probably most of these
came to the United Safes, and there is
no knowing how many of them were pau
pers or worse.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
FIRES AND CASUALTIES

SEVERAL persons were fatally injured
by the burning of the Paxon hotel at
Omaha.
HALF dozen houses at Beatrice, Neb.,
were destroyed by tornado Monda
night.
1HE schooner Highland Maid caught
fire in the Chicago basin Sunday and
So, 600 worth of property was destroyed.
THREE trainmen were killed in a rail
road accident on the Maryland Central
railroad near Baltimore Thursday morn
ing.
A PORTION of the Shoreham Hotel at
Washington collapsed, the guests narrow
ly escaping death.
W. W. SIGLER was fatally scalded and
Jake Wentz severely injured by the explo-
sion of a saw-mill boiler near Lima, O.,
Friday.
The mill of the Norwich Falls Cotton
Manufacturing company at Norwich, Ct,
burned Friday, loss, $3.50, 600; covered by
insurance.
FIVE men-four Americans and one
ltalian-were drowned in Laurel creek
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23

the fear of death and the natural clinging
to life. turn many working women to the
path of shame"
Mrs Woodbridge further adds THAT in
Paris it is an understood fact that women
who are employed in shops cannot exist
without assistance from other question
able sources. and, she continues, unless
something is done at once. this must also
become the case in our land, where we
pride ourselves on our respect for honest
toll. " Few problems transcend this ques-
ton In vital consequences. In spite of
the degradation of manhood. which a
double standard of morality has brought
about, womanhood has as a whole re-
manned pure.
The fabric of femenine character has
withstood in marvellous degree the
pressure of seductive temptation. If it
ever gives way, our civilization will share
the fate of Greece and Rome. Justice and
morality are the bed rocks upon which
civilization rests; when they yield, the
soul of the unfortunate nation dies-B.
0. Flower in April Arena
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23

THE coal miners can throw great many
people besides themselves out of employ
ment and cause themselves and others con-
siderable expense and suffering by striking
for an eight-hour day on May l, as they
threaten to do. The record of all strikes
proves this much, but it does not offer
much encouragement that they can do
more than this; on the contrary, expert
ence is against the probability OF carrying
their point. But if they do, it is doubtful
if they gain enough by it in the end to
pay for what it costs them, for the victory
they win will be likely to be temporary
one. The eight-hour day and the increas-
ed wages they demand would be theirs
only until it were possible for the operat-
ors to find other men who would work
at old wages and old hours, and that time,
with the flood of immigrants coming into
the country, would not be far off. Strikes
for higher wages and shorter hours in such
an industry as mining are only sure of
permanent success when the strikers can
corner the labor market-which never yet
has been accomplished in this country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
AN ELEPHANT HUNT IN SIAM.
How Tame Animals Are Used to Decoy the
Big Game from the Luneles

How Tame Animals Are Used to Decoy the
Big Game from the Jungles.
One scorching morning in April, 1870, a
small party OF Europeans left the city of
Bangkok, the present capital of the King
dom of Siam, for Ayuthia, the old seat of
government, sixty miles northward up the
River Menam. A hunt mad been appoint
ed by the King, and the elephants were to
be brought III through the country border
ing the ancient ruins.
On the second day we arrived at Ayu-
thla and set UP our screens and hung our
mosquito bars In a sala, or rest house, by
the riverside
arrived. Just outside the city, and over
looking plain extending to the horizon,
was high platform, mounted by stone
steps, and covered with tiled roof sup
ported by pillars. On this, screened from
the sun, and with a broad outlook over the
rice fields that had lately been shorn of
few native mobiles, and the foreign
guests
Other spectators perched in trees or
found standing room wherever the view
was most attractive. Immediately before
the platform was the stockade, made by
setting deep into the ground teak logs two
yards in girth and twenty feet in length.
These logs were so arranged as to leave
interspaces of about one foot in width.
They inclosed half acre of level ground,
ana extended out, at the side opposite the
platform. into funnel-shaped entrance,
only wide enough, where it joined
the stockade, for the passing of single
elephant.
Gazing far across the stubbly plain, we
saw the troop of elephants encompassed by
the many hunters who had been sent
months before into the wilderness to en-
tice the wild animals toward a rendezvous.
The families scattered in the jungles, for
aging among the luxuriant heritage, had
been separately entered bv tame decoy
elephants under the direction of willy
hunters and one had followed another in
to captivity. Two hundred and eighty
elephants had thus been brought together.
The sound of their roaring was like that
of distant thunder; and as they approach
ed, the earth seemed to shake under their
tread.
By a skillful combination of leading
and driving they were slowl y urged along
toward the stockade. Foremost We're the
decoys, trained to their work which they
do with complicated discretion. they were
ridden by experts in elephant training,
and followed by the wild herds, in which
were elephants of all ages. Hemming in
the assemblage on the sides and in the
rear, many other tanned elephants, di~
rected by their riders urged on the lag
glers into place.
Occasionally huge fellow becoming
conscious of being directed by will not his
own, wo@ld rear, trumpet protest, colt
through the Gordon OF sentinels and gal-
lop through the distant woods But these
fugitives were quickly chased by three
or four trained beasts, and were soon
brought back to the ranks. Only one.
majestic creature of enormous snowy
tusks, distanced his pursue,s and regained
freedom in the bush.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
SATURDAY, April IS.

Senote.-The resolution looking to the
permit sheriffs to be eligible to reelection
was killed. The bill to appropriate $3.50,
600 for worlds fair exhibit came up for
engrossment. An amendment making the
sum 100000 was offered and adopted and
the bill passed. The bill appropriating
50, 100 to Senator Fetzer for contested seat
purposes was passed. Senate bills were
killed providing fo- the appointment as
brevet lieutenants in the national guard
of meritorious students who have COM
pleted the full military course
in the state univereity and
relating to the transportation of grain.
Assembly bills were killed providing for
the severer punishment of vagabonds and
trdmps and establishing municipal court
in the city of Oconomowoc. Assembly bills
were concurred in permitting the city of
Eau Claire to purchase and operate sys-
TEN Of water works; amending the charter
of the city of Whitewater providing for
the opening of the polls at six clock in
the morning in cities having over 10000
inhab ,tants; providing for the better pres
ervation of game and charging costs of ar
resting and furnishing tramps to the city
Assembly-Mr. Hall offered a joint
resolution empowering the governor to
appoint a committee of three to deter
mine the value of the railroad property
in the state, with view to ascertain
ing the proper amount of taxes
the corporations should pay The
resolution rather carried the impression
that the companies were evading taxation.
1t was killed. An assembly bill was passed
forbidding the employment of Pinker-
tons in the state Senate bills were killed
forbidding supervisors to be eligible to
election as asylum trustees, and requiring
the laws to be published in weekly papers
in numerical order and that they shall be
accompanied by an index. Assembly bills
were indefinitely postponed excluding
from the assessed valuation of property
the amount of mortgages thereon;
providing that any company building
railroad 5000 feet long or longer in Mil
waukee shall be liable for damages to all
property injured by such road; forbidding
the interruption of traffic ON the St. Croix
river; and amending the law governing the
rights of the owners of property abutting
ON highways.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURES.
TUESDAY. April IA.


Senate.-Blls were passed as follows
To punish fraud in the sale of wearing ap-
perel at public or private sale; to suppress
foul brood among bees; providing for d
state foul brood Inspector and appropriate
ing $500 for the purpose; providing for
the publication of laws in newspapers in
numerical order; relating to the terms of
court in the sixth judicial circuit. Senators
Conner, Kroeger, Lees. Voss and Yahr
voted against the bill providing for a
state foul brood inspector. The bill pro-
viding for an intermediate prison and ap-
propriating $4,000 for its construction,
was passed by vote of Is to 13-the
democrats voting against it, but. as FIVE
were absent, the republicans had a ma
jority. When the bill app1opriating
money for the purpose of constructing fire
escapes ON the hospitals for the insane
came up upon It's passage. Senator Conner
opposed it on the ground that
every institution was calling for
special appropriations. Senator Lees
also antagcnized it, but Senators
Mead, Clawson and Bechtner favored it
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23

The cost of rare drugs is something
astonishing to the uninitiated. A three
pound bottle of alkaloid of aconotine costs
four hundred and eighty FIVE dollars. Co.
caine, the great local anasthetic, is worth
commercially one hundred and twenty dol
lars pound. Papayotin, a solvent for
diphtheretic membrane, comes in thirteen
ounce bottles at cost of one hundred and
eighty-nine dollars each. Still more ex-
pensive are various preparations of the
calakar bean, used in optical diseases.
They range from one hundred and thirty
seven dollars for a single ounce to the almost
incredible price of half million dol
lars for the same small quantity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
WASHINGTON.

E. II. NEBEKER, of Indiana, has been
appointed United States treasurer to sue
coed ]. N. Huston.
The president has recognized Ii Yung
Yew as CONSUL general of the Chinese EN-
pire at the port of San Francisco.
THE amount of silver offered for sale to
the treasury department Monday was $50,
600 ounces and the amount purchased
252, 900 ounces ar 09S.
SECRETARY PROCTOR has submitted to
an interview, in which he says he has no
intention of resigning, but if the Vermont
senatorship should be offered him he
would feel hat it was his duty to accept.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23

SOME one asks what colors in wall pa
per, carpets, upholstery and drapery con-
tain most arsenic, and are therefore best
to avoid. We reply that little or nothing
can be inferred from the color. If you
cannot afford to employ chemist you
must take your chances. Very likely there
is no arsenic in the things you have or
you may be one of those not liable tc
arsenic poisoning.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
sPOKANE's BUSINESS WOMEN.
Mrs. Houghton, Who Has Made $25O,OO0
in Three Years.

"What woman can do is fairly we'll
exemplifed by the career of Mrs. Alice
Houghton, who was at the Palmer house
recently, says the Chicago Tribune.
: Mrs. Houghton is a tall, handsome
woman, with the rapid, brusque manner
of one who knows the business methods
of the big, booming west. She ought to-
know them, too, for the same methods
have made for Mrs. Houghton over $780,
600 in three years.
She is the real estate queen of the state
of Washington, and she handles property
whose value would take away the breath
of the real agent estate even in Chicago.
81 believe woman can do anything
she takes a mind to- said Mrs. Hough-
tom 81 started out with lucky specu-
lation in real estate aG Spokane Falls, by
which I made $4,000. | didn't put it
in safety-depos1t vault. | invested 1t
and made more.
Then hired an office and began COM
mission deals. | have done a business
since which las run up occasionally to
the amount of 100000 week.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23

IT is pleasant to report that a shortage
of only | cent was found when the cash in
the Texas treasury was counted a few days
ago. So many state treasurers had gone
wrong that the people of Texas awaited
the result of the counting with some ap-
prehension lest the prevailing epidemic
had reached their strong box.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23

MICA. which stands unique among min
erals as an Insulating substance, is destin-
ed to become one of ConnecticuG's leading
products. Three new mines have recently
been discovered in that state.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23

THERE were IA young women among
the graduates of the university of New
York law school Friday night, one of the
number being Mrs. G. B. Mcclellan,
daughter in-law of Gen. Mcclellan.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
Struggling Up Life's Rugged Hill

With youth, vigor, ambition and an indolnitabs
will to help US, is no such grievous matter, but
lettering down again, afflicted by the ailments
which beset old age-our backs bent with lumbago,
our elastic muscles and joints stiff and painful, is
woeful piece of business For the infrmties
which the decline of life too often brings, Hos
tetters's Stomach Bitters is benefcent source of
relief, mitigating solace always to be depended
upon. No regulating tonic evolved by botanic
medical discovery is so well calculated, so thor
oughly able, but without undue stimulative effect,
TO help the aged the delicate and the convalescent
to resuscitate the vitality of frame which time
and physical decline have impaired as this. Kid
ney and bladder weakness and disorder, costive-
ness, malerial complaints, dyspepsia and rheu-
matism are among the bodily affections which
this sterling recuperant and regulator overcomes.
There is not a man without some duly