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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12
THE STATUE OFLIBERTY.
MuItitudes of Birds Attracted to it by the
Electric Lights.

A few evenings ago took tn steamer,
with party of naturalists, to Bedloe's Is
land, as the electric lights at the top OF
the statue are known to attract multitudes
of birds every spring and fall There had
been cola weather for few days before.
and millions of birds were Fastening
south. We obtained q permit and went
up to the topmos5 gallery Of the statue,
and waited. The n ght had not far ad-
vanced when all the heavens seemed to BE-
come full of wings, which produced q
tempest Of whirring sound. Then came
the calls Of the leaders, and they rang out
SO clearly that they could be heard for half
mile throug h the storm. The responses
we; e fainter than the signalling cries, but
they were quite definite. The object of the
calls, of course, was to keep the hocks to-
gether, for, as could be seen through strong
glasses, birds OF hundre; species were
driving along on the breast Of the storm.
All that came near the statue lowered
around the light in large circles, but some
of them struck against the bronze Or stone.
There were .sand,,pipers of every kind
''peetiug, peeting," as they went; golden
loud ar rather hoarse cries; warbIers Of
CNCIy ulCII Idu
through wide gamut of sounds-thrushes,
robins, meadow larks, nuthatchers, and
congregations of bobolinks that filed the
air with hurricanes of lovely music as they
swept by. Sometimes huge black cloud
passed along, and tn, glasses showed that
they we're blackbirds. but they did not
chatter as they do on the edge of the for
est. The leaders made all the noise and
preserved order. | know not how many
focks went by of teal. wood duck, black
duck, mergansers, curlew, snipe, plover,
pewees, phebe- birds, and what not but
none could mistake the kin efshers as they
went, with their scolding laughter, thr ugh
the dark
We caught score or so of the birds in
nets and In our hats, and kept them till
the morning, after which we released
them. And all through the night bats
chased and feasted upon the silly moths
that gathered around the spikes of electric
fame
A large number Of birds lay dead upon
the grass Ia the morning, having struck
the statue. One morning shortly after the
statue " as put up, over thousand birds
were picked up; but latterly they seem to
be aware Of the danger, and not nearly 50
many are xii ed against this tall obstruc-
tion.-Edmund Collins, IN Harper's
Weekly
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12
ODDITIES.

ooh, mamma" cried Little Jimmie
seeing a flash of lightning for the first
time, ''the angels is scratchin' matches on
the sky
81 never pays no attention ter de man
dat talks loud and boisterous in an office. y
remarked the new Office boy. He only
acks dat way down town cause he dash t
at home.
Cloak Review: Wife-Ive got to go tc
a dress reform meeting tonight. You
won't oe lonesome, will you dear
Husbdnd-Oh, no indeed. | have sew.
eral buttons to sew on.
Harpers Bazaar: Did Bronson save
anything from the wreck of his for
tune?"
''Yes. Fortunately for him his wife
had been shopping the day before he
failed, and all the goods mad been sent
home"
Its a poor rule that dom work both
ways. Mind cure doctor: Make up your
mind there is no pain and there Is none
Five dollars. please.
Patient (moving toward the door,
Make up your mind there is no payin'
and there is none. Good morning.
Washington Star: "Do you think,
Mabel. that your father would ever help
me in business?''
I'm sure he would, George. He said
the other night he would have given 20 U
lift if you hadn't got away from the
front door So quickly
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12

key note of the highest university educa-
ZION for the people in contradistinction to
industrial and technical training. The
latter Is means of livelihood. University
education In the highest sense shoild be
an end IN itself, not simply mems of
money-ges'lng but of free and
noble intellectual life. vita power
70 enjoy and TO appreciate the
best which has been thought. SAIL or
done in the world. This is the highest
education, this is true culture. The stud.
les which contribute to it are rightly
called cultural. College men regard such
an education as liberalhumanizing When
student rightfully obtains the degree of
bachelor or master of arts, it is upon the
basis OF LIBERAL not of technical or profess
sional studies. These are both legitimate
and necessary. and have their proper place
In the higher education of the people: but
there are still higher intellectual interests
which need 60 DE fostered in every enlight-
ened system of state education
unlversi eextension prevails both in
the east and west and it only
remains for the people of every
community in the northwestern
states to write to the proper authorities to
have the university as it will, brought
right into their midst. Courses are offered
IN nearly all branches of education-in
history, English, Greek and Scandinavian
literature, economics, antiquity, bacteria
iogy' botany electricity, geology, etc.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12
CRIME.

WILLIAM BENDER, accused of wife
murder, is placed on trial al Little Falls,
MINI.
"NoT guilty" is the verdict in the case
of Rev. W. E, Clifford tried at Milkank,
S. D.. on the charge of adultery.
AT Piainville, Mass, the body of Mrs
Nellie Holmes was found buried in the
cellar. She had been brutally murdered
Her husband has been arrested.
MRS CHARLES REARIcK, tried at Woon
socket, S. D.. for killing her husband. is
convicted of murder in the second de.
gree.
In New York Wednesday, John Kra
mer, aborer, shot and probably fatally
injured his wife and then hanged him
self.
THE Kansas City express on the Mis-
souri, Pacific was held up by masked men
near Omaha Wednesday night. They broke
open the express safe and got away with
$500
MAYOR RAesDALE, Of Mobelly, Mo-.
has sued justice Robertson of that city fol
$4,000 for Islander in charging that the
mayor waylaid and shot a councilman.
CHINESE highbinders have again begun
operations in San Francisco. Three
Cinnamon have been found murdered there
within the last twenty. four hours.
LIEUT.. DODGE, an army officer, has
been arrested at Hannibal, Mo, fol-
burglary.
ERNEST SCHROEDER, the murderer Of
Annie Bree, committed suicide, in Novtt
st. Paul by shooting to avoid arrest.
MRS. BFARDsLEY, who committed sui
eide in the Dixon Jail Thursday night, left
letter for her children, in which she pro-
tested her innocence of the theft fo1
which she was arrested.
The mayor and city treasurer of Huron
S. D., are enjoined from paying warrants
and bonds said to have been illegally is,
sued, and the county treasurer is enjoined
from selling property for taxes illegally
assessed.
THE young Texas negro who murdered
his employers wife and child, was chained
to a tree and burned alive by mixed
assemblage of whites and blacks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

THE steam barge Sovereign foundered
on Lake Superior.
FIRE in the London residence of the
prince of Wales caused a loss of 5000
THE Russian government has assigned
another $4,000 roubles to the distress
fund.
A NUMBER of business blocks in North
Baltimore, Ohio, have been burned. Loss,
$500, 900.
THE explosion Of natural gas in build
! ing In Allegheny, Pa, Tuesday morning
injured five persons, one of them fatally
SEVERAL men were killed and Others
injured by a thresher boiler explosion in
Dakota.
AT Chicago August Gotke was killed
while at work in Armour's glue fac
tory Wedn esday morning by falling tim
Der.
AT Martins Ferry, Ohio, fire destroyed
Mears barrel factory, warehouse, out.
buildings, two frame dwellings and a
railroad trestle. Loss, 800, 600; fully in.
sured.
WILLIAM Cox, aged fifty, and his son
William, % years, who lived near Wan.
pella, H., we're suffocated 5y gas
struck IN deepening well, and both are
dead.
A LAW went into effect in Paraguay
Saturday imposing an import duty of 1C
per cent. on the tariff valuation of f ur
and increasing the duty on imports 20 pei
cent.
THOMAS FLYNN, of Chicago, while eat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

THENew York presbytery has dismissed
charges of heresy against DR.. Briggs.
THE report that two Americans were
executed in Mexico was erroneous.
II. A. 2. CARTER, so long Hawaiian
minister to the United States, died Ii
New York.
, SNOW storms are reported in Minnesota,
delaying threshing and farm work gener-
ally.
Elk GOVERNOR ALBERT S. MARK, of
Tennessee, died Tuesday morning, aged
sixty three years.
HE money for Minnesota's exhibit at
the worlds fair will be secured without
difficulty.
CORA NEEsE, Lebar on, Ind, girl, has
just died from the effects of two weeks
cigarette smoking.
SEVENTY thousand acres of land on the
Fort Assinaboine reservation In Montana
are opened to settlement.
The cIearings of tie Chicago banks for
the week ending Saturday were sos. $685.
533.
A New YORK negro has recovered $3.50
from saloon keeper who refused TO sell
him glass of beer.
A SPECIAL train of fifteen cars contain
ing dried fruit and consigned to Chicago,
has been started from Vaclville, Cal.
A DISEASE as fatal as Asiatic cholera
appears in Indiana. It is thought to be
what is known as the Asiatic BLACK tongue
A RICH gold find has been made near
Llano, Texas, and the prospectors think il
| the bonanza worked by the Spaniards two
centuries ago.
THE commission on the Minnesota CAPT
tol met in st. Paul and decided that the
state should have a new capitol of granite
upon the site of the present building,
A BITTER war Of peculiar origin is
| threatened between the Y. M. G. A. and
the Catholic church at Fort Dodge, Iowa
THE president Saturday appointed Fen
ton r. McCreery, of Michigan, to be sec
rotary of the legation at Santiago, Chill
PRESIDENT Thomas W. Palmer of the
worlds fair will erect a manual training
scheme on the site OF his childhood's home
near Detroit.
OBITUARY.: At Lockpert, H., Robert
Milne, aged eighty. six.-At Americas
Ga, Walter Crisp, son of Congressman
| Od., OOlOuci
E. Chalfn, of New York.
GOVERNOR PAGE, of Vermont. has is
sued reclamation formally announcing
the appointment of Redfeld Proctor as
| United States senator to succeed George
f. Edmunds
The following Mexican consuls were
recognized by the president Wednesday
Salvador F. Maillefert at Eagle Pass
Texas; Carlos Fernandazy Pasaloguo
Deming, N. M; Rafael G. Acosta, Phil
adelphia.
SECRETARY TRACY has disposed of the
case of the wrecked Dispatch, by approx
ing the conclusion of the court of inquiry
that no one attached to the vessel could be
held accountable for it.
THE comptroller of the currency has de-
clared final dividend of 555 per cent. in
favor of the creditors of the California Ma
tional bank, Of San Franc SEQ. This
makes in all 100 per cent. and interest in
full to Oct. Z 1891, on claims proved
amounting to S456, 66745.
The postmaster general has appointed
| the following postmasters for Wisconsin
F, Becker, of Briorton, Shawano county
vice G. H. Goldrick, resigned; S. ]. SulIi
van, at Thompson, Washington county
vice G. }. Garvey, resig ned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12
Observation-Disclosures
An official Report saws $4,000 Were
Killed.

WARRINGTON, Nov. IA telegram
from che japanese government to latino,
the Japanese minister In this city, gives
an authentic report Of the recent earth
quake. The report states that the earth
quake was confined In the damage done to
the procedures Of Aichi and Gefa NAyoya.
The chief city in he former prefecture has
a population Of 10000. According to
the report $500 persons were killed, 5000
injured $4,000 houses were totally de-
stroyed and IL, 800 badly damaged.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12
Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep

Sounds nice, don't its But o, how fast and furi.
Gus are the rocking in rough weatherl The in
testinal warfare begotten in your vitals by the
seas commotion beggars description. What's
the proper caper under these circumstances
Take Hostetter's Stomach Bitters Nothing com
parable to it for remedyng sea sickness or the
kindred nausea from which many delicate land
travellers suffer. Dyspepsia, cramps, constipation
and biliousness also are invariably aud promptly
remedied by the Bitters Exposure in rough
wealth IL often productive of hurifui conse-
quences, which may, however be aVerted by tile
timely use of the Bitters, which diTases an agree
able warmth through the system, and promotes
an active circulation of the blood in the exlrem-
tiles when benumbed and chilled. MalarIa
kidney trouble, rheumatism and debility are III.
edisd BY the Bitters
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12
SHE CONSEN TED.
Beauty of Face and Perfection of Figur
Cause Her to Yield.

Beauty of Face and Perfection of Figure
Cause Her to Yield.
"Will you be mine?''
Can you afford to dress me we'll if
marry you?''
sit depends upon what you consider be-
ing dressed well. Ii you mean Worth
dresses from Paris, can't afford them;
nor 10 you need them
Il don't
"No. Your beauty needs no adornment,
and it will always eclipse any dress you
wear, no matter how fine or how expen-
sive it may be. No one that looks at you
sees your dress. The beauty of face and
perfection of figure only are noted. All
fnery sinks into insi gnifcance beside
them. What satin is there like your skin I?
What silk like your hair? What color
to compare with your lips, cheeks and
eyes?'
John, l am yours. = Philadelphia
Press,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12
JUMPED THE TRACK.
Fatal Accident on Mount Penn Gravity
Railroad.

Railroad.
READING, Pa, Nov. 6.-While a train
of two cars was coming down the Mount
Penn Gravity railroad this afternoon the
rails were so slippery. the c2rs could not
be held and while rounding
a curve they jumped the track,
dashlng into an embankment.
c IRWIN Houck, conductor, was killed.
Anthony keeiey, brakem IN. was fatally
injured. George Johnson, the only other
passenger, jumped while the train was
going twenty miles al hour and escaped
uninjured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12
Get Ready for Winter.

Look out we'll now for young cattle,
colts and sheep. Don't wait until the
snow flies before you get ready for the
young things and be obliged to nearly
freeze yourself while mailing up place
the very cold day they want to be taken
finally to winter quarters. but commences
to use boards and nails, putty and glass
just as soon as your crops are harvested,
Then you Gamble preparing your winter fire
wood in the woods, or making logging
roads and skidways, when these days
come
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12

Inc many CnlcagO IrleHuS OI MIS-. .. ".
Griggs, Jr., daughter of Rev. DR.. George
G.. Lorimer, the former pastor of the
Emmanuel Baptist church of that city, will
be surprised to learn of her marriage
Thursday, at the residence of DR.. Lorimer,
in Boston. She was married to Edward
o. Russell, an attorney of Chicago.
Saturday at her home in Evanston Mrs.
Jenness Miller gave birth to a lO-pound
baby girl. 1t has been claimed that by
ner method Of dress reform but one day OF
confinement after giving birth is neces-
sary, that mother of a single day may go
about her duties as if nothing had hap
pened, but Mrs. Miller has not as yet been
able to see any one but her Immediate at
tendants.
Chief Justice Fu.er's daughter, Miss
Mary Fuller, will soon return to Germany
to resume her musical studies. She takes
a younger sister with her. Miss Fuller
devotes six or seven hours a day. to her
piano practice.
According to Danish papers, Baron
Rosenhorn Lehn, minister of foreign
affairs, intends to resign MS Office because
of his advanced age. Among those men
toned as his successor are Count Moltke
Huitfeldt, Danish minister at Paris, and
Count Ahleteldt Lanervigen, the richest
landed proprietor in Denmark.
X
John Howard Parnell. brother of the
Irish leader, runs small fruit farm in
Georgia. He is described as q seedy-
looking man of AZ, who has not met with
great success in this country. 1t is
thought that he may inherit what remains
of the estate in Ireland
Ex-Queen Natalie, of Servia, is at Bar
ritz Sorrow has not made her fade away,
and she is getting to be as plump as a
partridge.
eff" says Labouchere of the emperor of
Germany, that young man is not sooner
or later the cause of a European conflagra-
ton | shall be greatly mistaken. He is
as dangerous on a great military throne
as a lunatic would be in a powder maya
kline with lighted cigar in his mounth -
Lord Hawke, the cricketer, made a good
bonmot in Philadelphia. 1t will be re.
membered that the week the cricketers
were there the weather was decidedly
varied. When asked what he thought of
American weather he replied: "Weath-
ar? My dear boy, we haven't seen any
weather yet-only sawmples, don't you
know"
The late William Henry Fitzhugh Lee
the seventh member of the forty-second
congress, by the way, to die before the
first session opened-was greatly given to
presenting his friends in the house with
roses from his Virginia green houses.
The flowers were brought to the cloak
room, Washln gton correspondent says.
by the barrellul, and as a large proportion
of them were a deep red, the house would
in an hour or two assume rarmine hue
from the decorations on desks and coat
lapels.
The CHILEAN minister in Washington,
Don Pedro Montt, is described as a rich.
dapper and band boxlike gentleman. He
is small and delicate, and doesn't care
much about discussing international mat
tiers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12
ST. PAUL TRAGEDY
Girl Shot While Washing Dishes, Probably
by Her Lover.

ST. PAUL, Nov T. Tonight, while
Annie Bree, aged q, who works for An
drew Kohler, was washing dishes, she was
shot and killed. The shot was fred
through window, close to which she was,
working. 1t is believed that Ernst Schroeder
an unsuccessful sutton of the girl is the
murderer. When last seen last night hs
was fighting drunk and had just quarreled
with the girl H. cannot be found and il
is suspected that he may have committed
suicide.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12
ROW IN PARLIAME NT,

Expected Result of Refittins st. James
Palace.
LONDON, Nov. 7.-St. James palace has
been r-f5ted for a residence for the duke
of Clarence and Avsn2aIe at the expense of
the treasury The cost greatly exceeds
the estimate and will cause row in par
Lament.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12

The Arizona territorial Legislature at its
last session passed an act exempting all
land used in the cultivation Of sugar beets,
as well as the plant and machinery EN-
sugar, from taxati on for 10 years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12

A jeweler who knows says that at a
drawing room Queen Victoria wears at
least S7OO, 900 worth of iewelry.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12

Nr. Spu-geor, TIE eminent London
preacher, is making rapid recovery to
health. He Is at Mentone, France
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12

Dean Hoffman, of the General Theo-
logical seminary in New York, is said to
have a fortune of $1,000. coo.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12

WAS there no rainy Saturday
during October in Boston? 1t was on
such a day that the dress reform
movement was to be inaugurated. We
doubted all the time whether Rusk would
give his tacit approval to such startling
innovation by vouchsafing favorable wealth
er for its practical operation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12
THE GOOD YOUNG WIFE.
Was She Vassar a Cornell OF a WelIes-
lev Girl?

w as she Sassar or a cornell OF a w Giles.
ley Girl?
There is young married woman of my
acqualntsnce whose first witely experience
with the needle resulted in capital joke
on her. She found what appeared to be
two immense rips On the inside Of the
tails OF her husbands frock coat, and
while he was down town she carefully
sewed them up. When the young man
came home to lunch his wife met him,
coat in hand.
I've just mended it," she said; ''there
were two awful rips in the tails of it..
LET me see," said the husband of the
industrious young woman. Il dldn t
know there was tear in it."
Yes, there was; right there
But those are the"
The young man caught the look OF In.
nocent doubt on his wife's face and stop.
ped
Yes, those were fearful rips; things
were getting IN them al the time"
AND the young man Went down to his
Office and picked out the threads in order
10 get at his bank book and few letters
that he had in those tail pockets.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12
Too Ab.ent-nirded.

Citizen-''I never see Capt. Magood
around any mere"
Policeman-He's not on the force any
more. Got put out.
Wei Well! What for?'
''Absint uoindedness
"A bsent minded. was hep
'-Yls, sor He raided a gamblin' din
an arristed whole crowd of city off
c ais
But they shouldn't have been there
''Av cocrse not He WAS so absint-
moinded he foGgo. to give them notice. y
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12
PERSONAL POINTS.

The many Chicago friends of Mrs. S. c.
Griggs, Jr., daughter of Rev. DR.. George
G.. Lorimer, the former pastor of the
Emmanuel Baptist church of that city, will
be surprised to learn OF her marriage
Thursday, at the residence of DR.. Lorimer,
in Boston. She was married to Edward
0. Russell, an attorney of Chicago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12

A few days ago seventeen trunks full OF
silken tights were held at the collector
office in New York, and pretty Agnes
Huntington, the consignee, was notified
that they were dutiable and that she owed
Uncle Sans treasury good round sum
for hnyinp her costumes abroad. Miss
Huntington herself laid siege TO the col
lector's Office. She made spirited APP
peal to the board of appraisers
and explained that she was an
American GIRL that she proposed to wear
the diaphanous costumes herself, and that
the action of the board was directly OPP
posed to the interests of the public which
demanded high art and high heels behind
the footlights. The board listened and
was taken captive. The tights were ad-
mitted duty free under the classification of
"tools."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12

A DISCOVERY more important than that
Of Aristotle's treatise on the cons titution OF
Athens has been made in one of the British
museum Job lots of Greek manuscripts.
This is papyrus containing number OF
short dramatic sketches in verse by one
Heradas, writer in Ionic dialect of the
same group as Iheoceitus. This, says the
Saturday Review, sis literature, and that
of a high Glass;" Aristotle's recovered
treatise is dull and not much of it new,
but the sketches of Horodas, while not at
all poetical, are vivid and realistic. The
Alexandrian would seem to have been a
sort of Howelif of his day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-12

The Chilian minister in Washington,
Don Pedro Mont, is described as rich,
dapper and band boxlike gentleman. He
is small and delicate, and doesn't care
much about discussing international mat
tiers.