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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
FOREIGN.

DAVID EVANS has been elected lord
mayor of London.
The recent irish census show decrease
of IL per cent since 1881 in the popula-
ton.
THE premier of Bulgaria carries things
with high hand, and reign of terror
results.
GENERAN BoULANGER, the French poll
tical intriguer, committed suicide In Brus.
sells Wednesday.
BALMACEDA, the deposed president of
Chill, committed suicide In Valparaiso by
shooting.
The king of Servia has been be-
trothed to the Princess Helena, of Monte
negro.
DR.. JAMAs, ex-chairman Of the Yves
leyan conference, died suddenly at Ply
mouth, England, Sunday.
EIGHT miners were killed in a collery
accident in Wales Thursday by the falling
of hosting car.
ALL the Paris newspapers agree in ex-
pressing the opinion that the death OF
Boulanger will not affect the political situa-
ton.
MONTENEGRO is to have a small fl ,et of
war vessels in the Mediterranean, which
will be practically the property of Rus
STA.
IT is officially stated that only 600
buildings remain standing at Consuegra,
Spain. There were 2,100 before the
floods.
AN insane prisoner at Marseilles escap-
ed and killed one policeman and serl-
slyT ont txJn ms q
fatally.
COUNT ToLsToI, the great Russian nov
elist, will hereafter claim no copy
right on any of his works published since
1881.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch says the
revolt in Arabia against the Turkish au,
thCrities has ended in the submission of
the rebels.
The North German Lloyd Steamship
company has advertised for bids fer the
construction of several passenger and
freight steamships of the whaeback pat
tern of about 6 900 tons burden.
MUCH anxiety is felt in regard to Rus
sia's movements il Pamir, India. 1t is
rumored that Lieut.. Dawson, colleague
OF Capt. Younghusband, has been taken
prisoner.
GILLIAN soldiers at Santiago are re-
ported to have revolted against the iunta
AN attempt is said to have been made
Wednesday night to blow up bridge over
which the Emperor of Austria was about tc
pass in d railroad train. The would be.
assassins were seen by watchmen, and
their design frustrated. The emperor ar.
rived in safety at Prague Thursday morn.
ing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08

Ten prisoners escaped from the St
Louis jail Friday.
B. F. ADAMS of Elizabethtown. Ind.
suicided because his wife went to Colum
| bus without him to see circus.
| The mayor of Spartanburg, n. c., wa
murdered by negro, who will probabl,
be lynched
AT StillweIl, Col, two masked men heIt
up and robbed stage-c0ach. Very iittl'
| plumber was obtained
! AN oculist at Helena. Mont, horse
whips county official whom he accuse
of undue intimacy with the oculist'l
wife.
THE total shortage of ex-Treasure1
Woodruff. of Arkansas, has been ascertain
ed to be $4,000.
A Waco, Texas, dispatch says, P. w
Hotel, the messenger of the Pacific Elk
press company, is missing together
with two packages containing over S. 900
EMMETT B. STANLEY, superintendent Of
the money order department Of the Allan
ia (Ga.) postofice, has been arrested
charged with embezzling 81 500.
CoLoRED dock-laborer fatally stabbed
white man On the docks of the Westerr
transit company in Chicago, Monday.
GEORGE E. COCHRAN, of Mulberry
Grove, H., was shot and instantly killed
Monday at Alton. ILL.,, by Mrs. Celia E
Phillips.
STAND1FoRD Bros, bankers, of Girls.
man, ILL.,, have closed their doors and de-
parted, leaving liabilities of $4,000 due
depositors and others.
c. w. SPARKS, sheriff of Robertson
county, Ky, and the pretty wife of S. II
Betty, are missing. 1t is said that So, O0O
or $4,000 is also missing.
AT Clearfeld, Pa, President Dill, OF
The Clearfeld and Houtzdale banks, has
removed from his residence to Jail. Mrs
Dill accompanied her husband to Jail and
was given permission to stay with him all
night.
The jury in the case of Patrick Fitz-
patrick, charged with the murder of
Samuel Early on September 2, at Pitts
burg Pa, returned verdict Tuesday
finding Fitzpatrick guilty of murder in the
first degree.
FRED KAMMERER, who shot and killed
his wife last Thursday at Cleveland, O.,
hanged himself in the county Jail Monday
morning.
MR.. AND MRS. ADOLPH BAsDORF, llV-
ing on their farm near Oak Glen, H., a
suburb Of Chicago, were assaulted by a
farm hand Wednesday morning. and will
both probably die from the injuries re-
ceived.
In hazing scrape at Galesbure, LII
Wednesday, number of the boys were
trying to push Will Miller into the room
when Miller stabbed Stancllffe Fuller six
times with a sharp jack knife, inflict.
ing deep and dangerous wounds. Much
excitement prevails among the school
boys.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

STANFORD Bros, bankers at Chrisman,
ILL.,, have failed.
Ex-PREs1DENT and Mrs. Cleveland had
a daughter born to them on Satulday.
IN Shelbyville, Ind, 17-year-old youth
has just marrIei Is year old girl.
The western sugar factories expect tc
make fully q 900, 900 pounds of sugar this
year.
The Minnesota supreme court has de-
clded that contracts for grain futures are
not valid.
The Canadian house of commons has
adopted an address to her majesty asking
for home rule and copyright.
THOMAS MCGREEvY, implicated in the
Doodle scandals, has been expelled from
the Canadian house of commons.
A RECENTLY bored oil we'll eighteen
miles west of Pittsburg, Pa, is yielding
an average of 10000 barrels per day.
The Southern Interstate exposition was
opened with imposing ceremonies at
Raleigh, N. c., Thursday.
The John Seller brewing company of
Covington, KY. has made an assignment.
The assets are 81, 100000, with liabilities
Of about $4,000.
JOHN S. SINCLAIR, a North Dakota
farmer, has just learned that he is heir to
the title and estate of the Scotch earl of
Caithness.
THE Chilian junta is making war on
United States Minister Egan and demands
his recall.
So great is the diphtheria epidemic in
Lafayette, Ind, that the public schools
have been closed indefinitely.
AN Oklahoma judge decides that Indian
children cannot be kept in school against
the wishes of their parents.
THREE hundred job printers and press
men struck at Pittsburg Thursday against
the wage scale submitted by the proprie-
tors. Nearly every Office In the city is
closed in consequence.
The American sealing schooner j.
Hamilton Lewis has been seized by a Rus
sian man ofwu for poaching in the Rus
sian waters of Behring sea.
FRANK MELBOURNE, it is said, sue
ceeded in producing a light rain at Good
land, Kan, Friday, by his mysterious
process.
A Texas judge has refused to natnralize
an applicant for American citizenship who
is socialist. The judge says the princi-
Piles of socialism are not in harmony with
the constitution of the United States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
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STARING AT A LADY.
Tie Lady Confused and Embarrassed by the
Persistent Stare.

Persistent Stare.
A comely young woman. stylishly
dressed, with a very pretty face and fully
rounded figure, entered a Brooklyn bridge
car, says Sun reporter, accompanied by
/. well-bullt, muscular young fellow ap-
parently her husband. She was woman
| upon whom no man could look but
| with admiration, and she attracted uni
versal attention as the pair passed
! through the cars and finally took seats
| together.
Opposite to them sat well-dressed,
middle-aged man, evidently man of the
world in comfortable circumstances, who
| at once fixed MS gaze upon the face of
| the lady and continued to stare at her
| with such a persistent scrutiny as to
attract attention from every one in tue
| vicinity The lady soon became conscious
of the stare, and was evidently confused
| and embarrassed at its continuance. 1t
is true that the middle-aged man did not
make any sign or offer any advances or
betray any Of those attempts at familiar
| ity that are practiced by ogiers. He simply
| looked and kept looking. not turning away
his face once, and making but brief
answers to remarks by young man who
was with him.
Meanwhile the husband of the lady had
been gradually worked up to pitch of
great indignation at the action of the I'M
warrantable starer. The lady spoke to
him quietly, and was evidently DESTROYS of
avoiding scene, and made little start
to restrain him as he rose from his seat.
| The husband. however, was now infuri ated,
for, in spite of the lady's discontinue and
the husband s ire, the cold, unimpassioned,
| but persistent stare was continued. The
passengers became interested, and it was
| obvious that something exciting would
soon occur The husband got up, white
with Indignation, and stepped across the
aisle and put his hand on the shoulder of
| the middie-aged man, and in a straight
forward, manly way said this:
''Sir, you have been staring at that lady
long enough You have not taken YOUR
eyes from her face since she entered this
car. Your staring is not only an imperti.
nence, but it Is insulting, and you must
stop it"
OF course the other passengers expected
a row at once. The lady was in evident
trepldation, and it was evident that for
| her sake. if not for the sake of d4cency,
the young husband would have plenty Of
help should he need to deal with the offan-
der. But there was a sudden, and. indeed,
dramatic revulsiOn OF feeling when the
middle-aged man, instead of showing
tfght. said this:
Really, beg your pardon, sir. / had
no intention Ct annoying the lady. !
assure you did not know what was do
ing. could not see Der. for | am totally
blind, as this young man who has charge
of me will tell you.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT.
Total Cash in the Treasury Over $40
100000.

Total Cash in the Treasury Over $780,
100000.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-The public debt
statement shows that the interest bearing
debt decreased s25 ,504, 700, and the debt
on which interest has ceased since
maturity increased S7,515, $50 during the
month of September The total cash In
the treasury is SAL ,668, 200 49,.
Following is recapitulation:
Interest bearing debt. $685., 024, 720; Gle
crease during month, $25, 504, 700.
Debt on which interest ceased since ma
turity, s9,127, 290; increase, 81 SIS 500
Debt bearing no interest, 1890, 1S3, 493
decrease, 1888, 058.
Aggregate interest and non-interpst
bearing debt, 1884, 1885,, SOB; decrease, SIS,
! 1872, 23S
Aggregate debt including certificates
and treasury notes, 81 ,534 l42, Psi,
The cash in the treasury Is as follows
Gold coin and bars, s244 974, 100.
Silver dollars, subsidiary bars and
trade dollar bars. s4O9, l63, 1926; paper,
SS5, 993 $50.
Bonds, coin disbursing officers balance,
deposits in national banks. etc., S21, 593, =
1888; aggregate, S741 ,699, 200.
Demand liabilities are as follows: gold
ana silver anG currency cert11cateS ana
treasury notes, S64,25l, 100; disbursine
officers balances, fund for redemption OF
uncurrent bank notes, drafts, etc., $46,-
973, 1893.
Gold reserve. 500, 100000; net cash
balance, s44, 987, 968.6l; aggregate, S741,-
66S, 209.
Cash balance in treasury August 3lst,
$50 274 1894; cash balance Sept. Both,
Sl44 967. 968. Decrease during month,
ST.. 2S6. 426.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08

throw stone violently into still water? If
go, he must admit tkat it was much more
than ten seconds before everything was ex-
actiy as it was before, and the atmosphere
is much more elastic than water.
Professor Newcomb adds:
1t may be asked whether, if clouds are
already formed. something may not be
done to accelerate their condensation into
raindrops large enough to fall to the
ground. This also may be the subject of
experiment. Let US stand In the steam
escaping from a kettle and clap our hands
We shall see whether the steam condenses
into drops. | am sure the experiment
will be a failure; and no other conclusion
Is possible than that the production of
rain by sounds or explosions is out of the
question.
IL must, however, be added that the
laws under which the impalpable parti-
Giles of water in clouds agelomerate into
drops of rain are not yet understood, and
that opinions differ ON this subject. Ex-
reriments to decide the question are
needed, and it is to be hoped that the
weather bureau will undertake them. For
anything we know to the contrary, the
agglomeTation may be facilitated by
smoke in the air. If it be really true that
rains have been produced by great battles,
we may say with confidence that they were
produced by the smoke from the burning
powder rising into the clouds and forming
nuclei for the agglomeration into drops,
and not by the mere explosion. If this pe
the case, it was the smoke and not the
sound that brought the rain.
In conclusion Prof. Newcomb declares
that, if we ever do learn to make rain, it
will be by accepting and applying laws
governing heat, force and vapor as laid
down by science rather than in ignoring
them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
WISCONSIN NEWS

A penitent burglar has returned $3.50 of
$500 haul made from the sore of NJ. V
Harrington & Son at Dakota village over
a year ago.
Richard Hawks, proprietor of the
Frawley house az Eau Claire, was arrested
for Incorporating S227 left with him
by guests.
The body of Mederic Robaige, Cana.
dian Frenchnan, who DISAPPEARED Sunday
night, was taken out of the Wisconsin
River, at Tomahawk.
Over l 900 bushels OF cucumbers have
been shipped fro IL Palmyra to the Milwau-
kee factory, representing a good profit to
grower and dealer.
Thieves entered Barbin & Nelh's gents
furnishing goods store at Kllbourn getting
away with about 500 dollars worth OF
cothing.
WeIcher and Lettin, two prisoners who
escaped from the county jail, at Wausau,
last Sunday night by means of lead kew
this city. They made a desperate at
surrender or stand the chance of being
shot.
A RPedsburg BOY about 9 years of age
AauiSu lsOpSI dutiCh, lell HUH Jue rail-
road bridge about 10 feet on to some sharp
rocks. His head had two large holes cut
in it, and he was cut badly about the
arms and legs.
Property valued at $4,000 has been
given to Milwaukee college by E. D.
Holton, on condition that the deed shall
pass when The endowment fund is increas-
ed to S75, 1000.
Tobias Hamni, of Milwaukee, died
Wednesday, at the age of II years. He
was born in Rhenish Prussia and settled
on farm near Rich6eld in 1848. In 1874
he came to Milwaukee.
Dyer & Martin, of Stevens Point have
taken contract to bank between &c, 000,-
900 and 100000 feet of logs for Laird
& Norton, of Winona. The contract
amounts to between $500, 900 and $3.50, 900
S. A. Cameron, freight conductor on
the Omaha road, was knocked insensibIe
on freight train at Hudson, by low
bridge. He was unconscious for two days
His I'M uries are not fatal.
A shanty fifteen miles north f Thorpe
occupied by q. Il. Bentley and G. D. Hart
hunters from Freeport, ILL.,, caught fire
and the occupants narrowly escaped death.
They escaped naked, all their clothing and
guns having been burned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

Two Boston children were cremated in
their home during fire.
FIRE Destroyed the Cedar Beach Hotel
at Lake Wawassee, Ind, Monday.
FIFTY houses were wrecked at Butte,
Mont, Friday night by an explosion Of
giant powder.
EARTHQUAKES occurred Saturday night
in six states-lowa, Missouri. Illinois, In.
diana, Kentucky and Tennessee.
A PECULIAR railroad collision ACQUIRED
in North Dakota and an engineer and fire,
man were burned to death.
FIRE in Carwell's storehouse, at Terrell
Texas, Sunday, destroyed 500 bales of cot
on valued at 2,OO0.
AN immense prairie-6re destroyed herd,
of cattle. horses and farm buildings il
North Dakota.
Four persons were killed and thirty in
! jured by collision on the New York
| Pennsy ivania and Ohio, near Kent, Ohio
| Wednesday morning.
! A STORM destroyed la1 re amount o.
timber between Grand Rapids Mimi
aGd the Manitoba boundary. Loss of lii,
! Is feared.
| A FREIGHT train on the Lake Shore
railroad ran into the New Orleans limited
! on the Illinois Central Saturday. Thomas
] G. Lee, the nail clerk, was seriously in
jured.
A TRAIN loaded with workmen wa
wrecked Lear Jay Gould house at Irving
ton, on the New York Central Thursda,
morning by a broken axle. No one wa
hurt.
SIXTY SEVEN shipwrecked sailors ar
rived III New York Wednesday. They ar,
the crews of the British steamer Califor
MIA, the British ship Falls OF Earn and tn
British schooner Liltle Wonder.
| CALIsHA ELLIS, a farmer living nea
Windsor, Ill.,, was struck on the head b.
| limb from dead tree and rendered un
conscious. He fell into brush fire he wa
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08

ONE of the New York city newspapers
recently printed Yarn" about sailor
who was lost overheard just as whale
was struck with a harpoon by whaling
grew in the Pacific ocean, and who was
supposed to have been drowned. The
whale, however, was captured, and when
cut up, the missing man, almost dead,
was found in its stomach. He recovered
and lived to tell the tale of his adventure.
This is sensational story enough, but is
cruelty ripped into shreds by the Albany
Times, which at the same time disposeS of
The antique myth about Jonah. 1t de-
clares that "a whale has not throat large
nough to swallow cdild, much less
swallow man, and although wounded
whale in lis agony might fatally crush d
man between its jaws, it could not pass
him down, dead or alive, into its stom-
ach" Tie fellow who had told the orig,
inal yarn given in the New York paper
endeavored to fortify his story by citing TIE
prophet Jonah's experience, which he con-
sidered similar. But" says the Times,
'.Tonah was not swallowed by whale,
There are no whales in the Mediterranean
or even IN the Red sea; and besides, the
Bible says that Jonah was swallowed by a
great fish. Now whale is no more a fish
than cow is. A whale is Warm
b!ooded animal, and Jonah was swallowed
by cold bIooded animal, fish. So much
or that story"
Fourteen Buildings Eurned and Family
Perishes.
PARIS. Oct 1.--Fourteen houses were
destroyed by fire at Puy laurens, in the de-
partment of Tarn, today. A family o.
six persons persisted in The flames.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08

JAMES FL. MEAD is name that will be
cherished in Sheboygan through all time
TO come, because associated with an act of
the purest philanthropy. The will of the
dead banker, just probated, discloses the
fact that s20,CC0 is left for a public Ii
brary and $1,000 for an amusement hal
for boys. Both requests are in the inter
est of noble objects, and they reveal to the
world the true character of the public ben
efactor, whose career in life was marked
by modest demeanor, calm and mag
unanimous spirit and a manifestation of
the other attributes which go to make
the good and honest man and the best cit
izen
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08

]. D. MILAN, ex- county treasurer, has
been On trial at Kountze, Texas, charged
with misapplyirg funds to the amount OF
$4,000, but Judge Hightower ordered the
jury to acquit him, charging that the lie,
gal definition of money is legal tender
DIN, and that bonds are not money
Judge Hightower, who is recognized as
one of the highest, brightest iurists, holds
that no official can be indicted under the
present state law unless he steals actual
cash.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08

THE stick has fallen. The Boulange1
sky-rocket went up some time since in a
halo of brilliancy, but having dazzed the
world for moment, it spent its force and
the simple framework again comes back to
alth. A few years ago France had no
title occasion to fear a repetition of the
Napoleonic coup d'etat from no
less person than General Boulanger.
A fine soldier, dashing and adventurous,
he was immensely popular with the army,
which, in the zenith of his glory, could
easily have been led by him upon the
Elysee. But at the critical moment his
infatuation for beautiful woman
restrained his ambition, and
the opportunity of his life was
gone. Thus easily did the dictatorship
slip from his grasp. Now be rounds out
his pyrotechnic career by romantic sui
eide on the grave Of the fair creature for
whom he sacrificed so much and yet
whose ample means sought in vain to do so
much for him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08

Ex- Congressman Morrow, recently ap-
pointed to a California judgeship, had
once the chance to become king Of Samoa.
He declined the preferred honor because
he did not want to cut loose entirely from
civilization.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08

The wharf strike at Savannah, Ga. is
gradually extending to all branches of
colo1ei labor. Business is at stand
still.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-08

'OLD ANsE' is in the soup. He has
lost the ball pennant, and Chicago sports
are IN mourning. But that his fate is due
GA conspiracy among the eastern clubs
looks extremely probable. Arson Is not
popular with ball players in general
because he is an advocate of reasonable
but not excessive salaries In the
profession This is enough to discredit
him with the men, But Arson remains
the greatest trainer in America, and
though The championship is gone, he yet
has the satifaction of knowing that, with
a club composed largely of raw recruits, he
has bested every nine in the country
save that from Bost' III. The latter s
pheacmenal series of nearly a score of
Ndories without break looks nightly
"a. isopponents, in New York notably,
had of late purpose, y thrown games to 1t
for the sole purpose of discomfting the
western giants.