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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19

given By town, school district or church
officers to town insurance companies for
premium shall be binding upon the sue
cessors of these parties in Office: and
raising the age Of consent TO Is years.
Senator Greene introduced a measure re-
latlng to trustees of asyums for chronic
insane. 1t makes the trustees of county
asyiums ex-othclo trustees of poor-houses.
Another important bill relates to
the management of county asylums. 1t
empowers the trustees to appoint the visit
ing physician. and allows the supeperin-
the comfy treasurer is made treasurer of
the board of trustees; still another author
iZing the appointment of state bank ex-
amin0r. He is to be appointed by the
governor and hold office two years. He
must examine the condition of every bank
10 the state at least twice a year. His
salary is fixed at $500, and he is given
clerk at salary of not to exceed 81 200
| The bill making the homestead liable for
| the debt Of the deceased if it is 5illed to
other than direct heir was passed. Sem
| ator Mead from, the joint committee
on charities and penal inrtitutions, re-
ported back, with recommendations
/ OIIO plll dbOllSu1HS Tic STATE UOdIu Ol CHAR
tiles and reform and state board of super
visions and create the state board of con-
troll. Gov Peck announced the appoint
ment of Michael Kerwin, of Manitowoc:
Dennis J. Gardner, of Plattevilie. and Ira
A. Hill. of Sparta, members of the state
board of normal school regents. The APP
pointments were confirmed
Assembly.-The bill permitting sh.riffs
to offer rewards in cases of horse-steal-
ing was indefinitely postponed; also the
bill incorporating the city OF Phillips.
Bills were introduced appropriating 81
QUO annually for the care. maintainence
and improvement of the Wisconsin rife
range; authorizing the commissioners of
public land to loan the State Agricultural
| society $50, 900 at 4 per cent. for the pur-
chase of land and the construction of
buildings for state fair purposes; appro-
priating to Mrs. Louisa Melvin, of Shaw
ano. $4,000 damages for killing Of her
husband by the explosion of d cannon in
the city of Madison; limiting the time
that supervisor OF "a county may draw
pay to fifteen days each year, except when
they are serving on committees; prohibit
ing nonresident armed or unarmed men
from doing police duty in the state. and 70
prevent the smoking Of opium. Another
bill came in exempting sheritfs and their
deputies from liability i'll serving process
in good faith in civil cases. 1t does not
effect their liability in criminal proceed
ings where the officers act fraudulently or
in bad faith still another amends the law
in relation to pedders' license. 1t requires
itenerant peddlers or merchants to pay d
license and when they become permanent
residents of the state such license to be re-
| al
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE
TUESDAY. FEB. 10.

Senate-Bills were introduced: Provid-
ing facilities for physical training at the
Whitewater and Plat evile normal schools
and appropriating $4,000 to erect new
buildings for that purpose; providing that
superintendent of the poor may show the
court the condition of any person whom
they believe ought to be placed in the
poor house; regulating the the practice of
medicine and authorizing the governor
to appoint five reputable physicians as
board of examiners. The members ale to
hold office three years. The board shall
examine all applicants desiring admission
to the practice of medicine in the state
and issue license to such az pass. The
members of the board are to receive $40
per day and expenses while engaged in
the work, and a bill providing that an
agent of humane society may apply for
the admission of child to the state school
at Sparta. The senate bill was taken up
appropriating $4,000 to the Wisconsin
Veteran home at Waupaca and after some
debate it was passed.
Asscatbly-Tne bills presented were as
follows: Providing that property of TESLA
tor shall be liable tor expenses of last sick
ness, of funeral and cost of administration
it there is no widow or minor child: APP
propriating 5000. 900 for All exhibit at the
worlds fair and provide for a commission
composed # the presidents of various state
societies, and colleges. Increasing the ap-
propria ion Of the State Horticultural So
ciety from 81 600 to $1,000; to repeal sec
tion of chapter ALB of the laws of 1887
relating to the preservation game; to
amend the law relating to f>hways In
Rock river; permitting inmates of d state
rel ormatory institution to have any 1elig-
ious consolation they may desire or have
enjoyed previous to their incarceration, to
amend the law in relation to the propel-
ling of steam engines ON the highways Of
the towns OF the state; providing for fine
Of 500 or Imprisonment In the county Jail
Ter three mouths for any person who shall
deliberately attempt to defraud a livery
man In hiring a horse; providing for the
loan OF trust funds at rate of interest not
less than per cent; to incorporate the
city of Greenwood. Clark county; to extend
the lien law Of the state in relation to colts;
providing cor the issue Of certificates Of
stock CT agricultural societi In case OF
loss of certificates; to amend the laws
conce ruIng town Insurance companies by
increasing the board of directors from nine
to eleven members; allowing clinants who
failed TO file their claims with the secre-
ary of the Wisconsin Railroad Farm
Mortgage c. mpany to do 20 with . . secre.
arl OF state as required by section ? of
chapter $50. laws OF 1888. and to receive
pyo rata share q: the funds Of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19
CRIME.

6. W., g. B. and T. A. Delameter, the
alleged Meadville, Pa, bank wreckers,
have been indicted for embezzlement.
Mrs. WILLIAM HAYES LAIRD, promi-
nent lady of Winona, Mimi, killed herself
because OF scandalous gossip about her.
RICHARD MANDLEBAUM. a liquor mer-
chant of San Francisco, left the town sud-
denly, leaving deficit of 100000.
CHARLES RITTER, teller of the First Ma
tlonal bank of Evansville, Ind, has been
found $50 600 short in his accounts. Rit-
ter has confessed.
At Columbus, Kan, on Monday, Louis.
5. Holsey, of Arizona, shot and danger
Ously wounded his wife and then fatally
shot himself. He died in few minutes.
A BURGLARY at the wholesale notion
house of Joseph A. Bigel & Co.. of Gin
cinnati, O., is reported where silks and
velvets valued at $500 were stolen.
MRS. EMILY HARDY, poor woman of
Chicago. who has been deserted by her
husband, took her owr life Tuesday night
HARRY NJ. FLEHL1Ne borrowed much
money, marrieda handsome girl and stole
watches at Chelsea, Mass, while pretend
ing to be the son of President Bliss Of the
Boston & Albany railroad.
GEORGE J. GIBSON, the secretary of the
Whisky Trust, was arrested Wednesday
morning. He is charged with conspiring
to blow up Chicago distillerJ that is
outside the trust, and with trying to bride
government officer.
AT Nashville, Tenn, the grand jury
bas returned true bills against John
Moran, charging him with murder in the
first degree, and l.. Miss Agnes Phillips as
being an accessory to the murder of Miss
Mamie Dolan the adopted daughter of
Moran.
ELRoY AVERY, a prominent citizen of
Cleveland, O., has been arrested for steal
ing watch from H. c. Spauiding, of
Monroe, Mich, during the war, but A very
says that by order Of his colonel be took
the watch from Spaulding, who had stolen
it from a southerner.
JOHN Brown and C. H. Wyatt have
pe,n accused for the murder of State Sen
ator D. B. Gillian al Alton, last March
Wyatt has made confession duplicating
Brown and a fellow named George Star
Key.
MRS. VANDERvER, who was arrested
some days ago at Poplar Bluff, Mo-,
charged with numbering her husband,
has made confession that one Marion
Long shot her husband, and that it was a
plot between them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19
TOLSTOI AND AGRICULTURE.

The doctrines OF Tolstoi are undoubted-
ly making an impression upon the popular
thought. The later books OF this almost
unique thinker have rePched an enormous
circulation in all civiIIz ed countries, and
it would be strange if they failed to make
many converts to the Tost Dian theories.
One of the Cutcomes of the Russian rea-
soning about the vanity of earthly great
ness and the peIniciousness of what we call
civilization, is the belief that every able
bodied man should labor with his own
hands, and 'ir the sweat Of his brow to
produce his own living direct from the
soil Tolstoi dignifes agriculture above
all other means of getting living, and
would have the artificial employments
abandoned Back 20 the land" is the
Cy of his followers. Accordingly the
count himself gees daily TO the fields and
works with the peasants holding the plough
and welding the loe and the hayfork. If
Tolstian ideas continue 10 gain ground we
may hope 10 see agriculture looked upon
with more favor, and the unhealthy rush
to the cities in a measure checked Per,
hars Tolstoi S disciples NAV yet solve the
problem of New England's deserted farms
who knows?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19
WASHINGTON.

PRESIDENT HARRISON vetoed a bill for
100000 federal building at Dallas, Tex;
congress yesterday passed the bill over the
veto.
TREASURY agents report that pirates are
slaughtering seals in Alaska, and recon-
mended that the department protect the
rookeries IN order to prevent the extermi-
nation of the animals.
The house of representatives on Tuesday
passed over the presidents veto the bill
appropriating 100000 for the extension
of the public building at Dallas, Tex.
CHIEF CLERK Fl. George, of the Ogden
post office is charged with the embezzle-
ment of $1,000, a registered package sent
on January 10th last from Sacramento.
Cal. to Omaha. The money was recov-
cred
By direction of the president, Col. w
!. Forsyth; who was suspended by Gen.
Miles for his conduct in the fight at
Wounded Knee, was on Thursday restored
to his command. This action was taken
as a result of the investigation of the
Wounded Knee fight.
A REPORT received at the state depart
ment from Mr.. Dingley, special statstician
of immigration, gave some interesting
points as what Wisconsin has been re-
ceiving IN the past ten years as immigra-
ton from Germany that decidedly affects
the character of the state making it in
fact more German state than any other
! in the Union.
THE treasury department has decided
that tobacco imported and entered for
| purchase prior to Oct. l. 1890, and now in
! bonded warehouse is dutiable BIZ WEIGHT
at the time of its withdrawal for consump-
ton; also that seed wheat is dutiabe and
that mahogany and ebony imported
in the log, rough or hewn," is free of
duty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19
FIRES AND CASUALTIES,

The old Case wagon company's build.
ing and contents were destroyed by fire
Monday morning at Wonewoc.
Two brakemeu were killed by an acct
dent on the Wabash, near ST. Louis, Mo-,
Tuesday.
AN old g. A. r. man named Herman
living OH homestead twenty miles from
Hong hton, Mich, was found frozen tC
death in his cabin Tuesday night. 1t Wa:
not known how long he was dead.
IT is reported that large iron steamer
while being towed from jersey CRY. tip
ped over onto the tugs and sunk them
Ten men are reported drowned.
The north bound passenger train on the
Burlington Cedar Rapios 4 Northern was
derailed near Randalia. iowa. Monday
afternoon Three cars went down the
embankment.
FEE Thursday morning in the business
portion of Aurora. ILL.,, caused damage tc
the extent of Sl05,000.
john TIERNEY. until recently south
side saloonkeeper at Chicago was accident
ally shot and instantly killed by Michael
Cashln Tuesday morning.
The Altonez Mine Rock house. al
Houghton, Mich. has been destroyed 10y
lire. 1t will close down the stamp mill.
AT Mahoning City. Pa, Tuesday morn
ing whale "a number of school children
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

BOYD BROTHERS, drygoods dealers OF
Toronto, have failed for 800, 600.
STocKs of wheat in northwestern ele-
vators at Chicago, ale estimated at q, 397, :
867 bushels.
THE house on Tuesday passed bill APP
propriating $4,000 for Oregon's exhibit
at the world fair.
JAMES REDPATH. the American jour
nalist and Irish nationalist, died in New
York Tuesday morning.
SEVERAL gambling houses at Ashland
were, Wednesday night, raided by the
police.
THOMAS LOWRY, of Minnesota. is being
urged as a successor for the late Secretary
of the Treasury Window.
GENERAL WILLIAM TECUMsEH SHEER
MAN breatbed his last at 80 O'Clock Sat.
urday afternoon.
THE city of St. Paul has defaulted on
$4,000 of board of education certlfi-
Gates.
THE sale of 300 pictures of the Seney
collection at New York realized 1904 600.
A BILL has been introduced in the
Michigan legislature providing fer cap
ital punishment by electricity.
THE excitement over the gold discovery
at Florissant, Colo, has been greatly IN
creased by an assay of dirt showing a
yield of $4,000 ton.
AT Cortandt, n Y, Elk. Con gresham
R. Fl. DUEL died Wednesday, aged sixty
six years.
The Missouri court of appeals has decid-
ed that clubs cannot sell liquor without a
dramshop license.
CHICAGO. St. Louis and New York cap
itaists have organized company with
SIS 100000 capital to control the San
Miguel mining claims.
AT Sacramento, CAL, on Tuesday the
house passed bill appropriating $500, 900
for the California exhibit at the world S
fair by a vote of As to %.
A BLIZZARD and snow storm is forcing
the suspension of traffic in South Dakota,
Iowa and Minnesota.
JACOB NEssLY MCCULLOUGH, vice
president of the PENNSYLVANIA railroad,
died Yesterday at Pittsburg, leaving an es-
tate worth Sl4,000,000.
A PARSONS, KAN. man has patented
an artlHClal egg. lie Chains tnaC he Can
manufacture carload a day at an ex-
pense of three cents dozen with a plant
worth $500, and that they cannot be dis
tinguished from the natural product.
The faith cure craze at Mount Pulaski,
H., has reached such pass that children
go into frances during school hours. The
chief disciple has been threatened with q
dose cf rotten eggs If he does not stor
his revival meetings.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19
DECISION IN TIE CASE.

The decision redertd ly Judge Scales,
of the Cook county court, in the case of
S. A. kean & Co., Tuesday, is highly i'm
portant in its IN medal rIdical bearing
and on general principles. The point
raised vas The deposiIurs whose deposits
had been made within thirty days flhe
failure were entitledto a preference in
.he settlement. This singular claim was
BASED mainly upon the law which makes
the receiving of deposits by banks any
time during the thirty days Immediately
prior to the failure f the bank presump-
tive evidt nee of fraud. The law itself is
sell evident absurdity. The moment q
b. nix eases to take deposits it ceases to do
business as a laI4k, and in eject serves no.
ti,e on tie public that it has gone from
baking TO bankruptcy. No other inter
prttatCn could lie put on the matter To
make use Of the statute to create pre-
ferCrerce amopg creditors would be a
papable pelversion. The only excuse for
The act at all is that it may be a good idea
10 deprive an insolNent banker of the pre-
sumption Of innocence, and throw upon
him tie eslonsihiIity of proving that he
had not teen getting norey under false
pretense. Such a reversal of the common
rule is justified by the peculiar fduciary
natl re of he business, and the fixing of an
arbitrary date simply puts the matter in
shape. An appeal has been taken, but it
is not expected 10 lie pushed. The pros
Ieot is that tie thirty day depositers will
jolnwith lie lest in accepting the com.
promise offered ~ Mr. ke. ms friends,
SIS cents on tie dollar. His wife turns in
real estate bot le2al V liabe ter the bank $
debts. but morally liable as, sic believes,
making, IT Is Ii ought, Is Ter cent. more,
or SO per cent III all. If tie creditors get
that much they may well feel much as St.
Paul said he did " her he saw The sign of
three tsvelnS. 1t Is the common experience
OF creditors lhlt prompt settlements on
what set MS hberable basis of discount
Is prefer able to ii oe,ayed settlement The
first fer Is generally tie best, and the
generous creo,tor generally comes out
ahead of the ra6grild who is bent on
squet zirS out he last cent. Time seems
to IL II powerful factor in the hrnkage of
assets Ia the Insolvency.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19

children are denied school privileges. No
relief can be obtained by sending their
children to school in other places, where
the number of resident Jews does not
come up to the ten per cent limit. because
the law expressly declares that children of
Jewish parents are allowed to attend
school only in the place where their bar
ents live. II brief. this is compulsory
non-attendance at school. Moreover. the
higher semlnarleS, music and art schools.
etc, are found only in three or fou of the
chief cities.
Such thing as sending a Jewish child
from the province to study music or art
at ST. Petersburg is absolutely prohibited
In domestic affairs if wife or husband
is converted to Christianity. she or he is,
by that fact, divorced from the other who
remains jew; and the convert may mar
ry again but the Jew must remain single.
II one parent be converted all the children
of the same sex must also be baptised as
Christians. Moreover, reward from $40
$50 Is offered to any one who will renounce
Judaism for Christianity, and many
dlssentlons naturally follow. As 10 re-
llglous worship, it is Absolutely forbidden
In private houses, except by special per-
mission. That is, every Jew must secure
a license to hold family prayers, or even 70
pray In private in his own bed chamber.
Public worship in synagogue is only per-
united IN places having eighty or more
Jewish houses. So, in places with less
than eighty Jewish houses. religious wor-
ship by Jews is totally forbidden.
But are these laws actually enforced.
Certainly, to the very letter, and more.
1t is an every day occurance for Jews to be
arrested fined and Imprisoned for praying
without licenses. Children of hayward
habits are bribel to profess Christianity
and then to betray their parents in their
religious observances. Moreover, the farm,
ing out Of the tax gatheringing works
great hardships. For instan Z, a "box-
tax of $4,000 is levied on the Jews bv
the provincial governor. The local tax
gatherer thereupon increases it to SIS 900
in order to pull S., 900 in his own pocket.
The soubordinate collectors in the various
wards CT the town follow his example, in
order to fiji, their own pockets. The re-
suit is that the original levy is about
doubled. 1t is now rumored that more
stringent laws still are to be promulgated;
and that the only question seems to be,
how far will it be possible for unbridled
and brutal tyranny to go?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19
Changes OF Climate

Kill more p'o lie than Is generally known. Pa
i,cularly is this he case in instances where the
constitution is delicate, and among our immigrant
population seeking homes in those portions
Of the vest, and where maiarai and typhoid
fever- prevail at certain seasons Of the year The
best preparatiye for chsngs of climate. or oil
diet and wafer which that change necessi ates, is
Hosietters Stomach Bitters, which not only forli-
fes the system against malaria variable TEN
perature, damp, and the debiliating effects of
tropical heat, bur is also the leading remedy TO
constipation, dyspepsia, liver complain, bodily
troubles specially apt to attack emigrants and
visitors 70 regions near the equator, mariners
and tourists wheih-r used A. safeguard bv -ea
cnlinriris In newiv populated Districts, this fns
specific has elected The most favorable testimony
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19

congregated about the ruins of the New
Boston Breaker that burned Monday night,
the chimney fell over, killing one and l.
juring two other children.
The boiler of Churchill & Owsley' S
Touring mill at Winsor, Mo-. exploded
Friday. killing Walter Beaman. engineer;
Chas. Sturdivant, an employee of the mill
and H. L. Smith and Tom Tillberry,
boilermakers IF SPdalia
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19

AMONG The many anecdotes of the late
DR.. Schliemann now going the rounds
there is one OF superior merit. The archie
ologist was locturing at Asses. After the
lecture a student approached him and
pointed out an error he had made. You
are right, young man, you are right, y
burst forth the great man. land | will i'm
mortalize you en- the foot-note.'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19

Two Harlem doctors have discovered a
lymph that they declare is better than
KocI,'s. They have tried it on forty five
consumptives in fremont hospital, and
the patients are all doing we'll, while those
who were inocu ated with the Koch article
are languishing. This is only proof of
the greatness of America.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19

PRESIDENT ANGEL, of Michigan uni
versity spoke against the founding of any
more colleges ard universities in an address
at Chicago the other day. He says there
were enough colleges already established
between Lake Erie and the Rocky noun
tains to meet all requirements for fifty
years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19

Governor Markham, of California, is IN
poor health and for nearly week has
been unable to attend to any official bust
ness. He went to his Inauguration from
sick bed and he does not seem to regain
strerg 9Th.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19

The Berlin gold beaters at the Aars
exhibition showed gold so thin that it
would require $4,000 to produce the
thickness of an inch, yet each leef was so
perfect and free from holes as to be i'm
penetratable by the strongest electric light
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19
years

Lady Colin Campbell, who is still one of
the most noticeable women in London
society, wore at a recent fashionable
reception a perfectly pain gown of pale
blue satin hrocaded with groups of shaded
tulips
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19
Keeping His Credit Good
Detroit Free Press.

Littleshort-Let me have $40 this morn
ing. will you. Wally?
Wally (hand over an X)-Yes, but
Llttleshort Glands it back There, that
pay up FOR the one had last year. try
and make it point not to let these things
run too long.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19

AL of the post-Ofices in Italy receive
money on deposit, allowing interest Tat
the rate of 81 per cent. per annum,
and dividend being paid every five
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19

WITHIN sixty-two years Mexico has
had fifty-four presidents, one regency and
one empire.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19

David Dudley Field has passed his 86th
birthday. and is as clipper as if he had a
rejuvenated thinking apparatus.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19
THE CROP REDUCED.
The People of Buenos <yres Will be Re-
duced to Want.

LONDON, Feb. IA dispatch from
Buenos Ayres, says information re-
ceived from the Rio De La plata district
shows that Iocusts ard drought have re-
duced the maize crop to quarter cf wha.
the crop was in 1890.