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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-10
DRYING Apples.

An Australian method of drying apples
is thus described: There is no doubt that
the artificial process of drying apples is
the most expeditions and makes the best
color where little sui phur is used. but at
the same time the ndrled apples have
the best flavor, and are best for home use
on that account The apparatus is simply
an ordinary table II feet long (out it can
be made of any size) and 4 feet wide. The
side boards are put on nearly flush with
top. One feature of the arrangement is
that from the two ends you can draw out
two long trays OF the whole length of the
table, with legs at the end to support them,
thus increasing the surface to nearly three
times. Around the top of each tray or
drawer is small ledge, tackled on to keep
the slices from falling off. Over the top
arc few light movable rafters and ridge
pole, and there is a light drilling cover
which fits over them and ties around the
table under the drawers, so as to cover up
all secure at night or if shower comes On.
Two other drawers could be made If re-
quired, to pull out sideways. With the
aid CT a corer, parer and slicer, you>can
get through great many apples IN short
time, and the cores and skins can be
dropped into the bucket and fed to the
pigs; or they will make excellent jelly if
YOU are so disposed. The slices must be
stirred pretty often and when quite dry
hung in scrim bags for a month or more,
when you can press them into dry casks or
boxes, ard you have then a good store of
wholesome food for home use. Care must
be taken against rain or damp, as in not
weather fruit is more apt to spoil than in
the cooler and more breezy atmosphere Of
the following months; and you will find
the morning the best time to gather and
slice the apples, as those cut in the after
noon are more apt to spoil. Apples should
not be too green when sliced, as they are
apt to be very acid and require more sugar
as well and they should not be too ripe or
they will spoil, nor should they have any
bruises on them. Perfect apples. just ap-
preaching ripe are best, but fair samples
can be made out of windfalls.-C. J.
Farmer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-10
CRIME.

In flight among drunken negroes in
Alabama ten Of the mum Der were killed.
Two men were arrested in st. Louis on
suspicion of being connected with the
Glendale express ROBBERY.
AN Oregon editor was murdered by a
railroad section boss, who promptly Kills
himself.
JOHN MCMANUs was hanged Thursday
morning in Pennsylvania, for the murder
of Eugene McGinnis, Feb. 81, 1890.
The wife of Capt. Mckinney of Cairo,
Ill, who attempted suicide few weeks
ago by shooting herself, has been declared
insane and placed in the asylum at Alma.
A MAN named Jones, Of Springfield, S.
D., was hanged by cowboys near Cherry
Creek, on the Cheyenne river, for stealing
cattle.
ROBBERS bound and gagged Mrs ELIZA
beth Timmons, 70 years old, of Tranquil
lily, Ohio, and stole $1,000 secreted in her
house.
The chief of police of West Duluth and
the sergeant of police of Ashland were ar
rested at West Superior, accused of as
saulting and robbing Chinaman.
SPECIFICATIONS have been filed by the
Shoe and Leather Bank of Auburn, Mo-,
in its suit against the bondsmen of ex-
Cashier Percival, showing that Percival' s
stealings amounted to S197, ASS.
THREE men have been arrested at Cen
tralia, ILL.,. charged with burning four
barns and two houses. One of the men is
J. T. McKibben, an alliance man.
GEORGE E. BARR, proprietor of the
hotel Warwick, at Springfield, Mass,
shot and killed his wife sometime Mon
day night and killed himself.
CHARLES BIssow, convicted of felonious
assault, narrowly escaped lynching by a
mob in Indianapolis Monday night. Tues
day be was sentenced to twenty-one years
in the penitentiary.
The Belle Center Ohio bank safe was
blown open with dynamite Friday nigat.
The burglars secured $1,000 in bills and
$500 in silver.
AT Greenfield, Teen, as result Of an
old feud, Green Gill shot and killed Bob
James and then fed. An officer overtak-
ing Gill was captured by the latter at the
muzzle of pistol and his horse appropri-
ated by Gill. who escaped.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-10
WISCONSIN NEWS.

The new steam fire engine for Omro has
arrived. Quite an agitation in opposition
to the purchase Of the apparatus is in
vogue, and there is considerable talk of
an injunction against the payment by the
urer. The stipulated price for the whole
outfit is So, 200.
Work has begun on the construction Of
the new iron bridge at Black River Falls
by the Omaha Railway company to take
the place of the part wooden structure now
used.
The Rev. Father Tierney, of Kendall,
Monroe county, was very seriously burn
ed about the head and face by the explo-
sion of kerosene lamp which he was
carrying.
DR.. A. II. Hoy, of Racine, has been ap-
pointed member of the United States
Pension board, in place of DR.. c. n. Pal
mer, the Raymond physician who was sent
to Waupun for one year. DR.. Charles
Egan was appointed president; DR.. F. R.
Garlock, secretary, and DR.. A. H. Hoy,
treasurer.
Daniel thinner, father of the sheriff of
Iowa county, died at Cobb, ten miles west
OF Dodgeville.
Capt. Richtman, of Alma, Buff 10
county. has made arrangements for the
construction of sawmill on his planta-
ton at Woodville, for which operations
have already been begun. Dressendorfer
& Liver will set up the machinery.
An Omro merchant gets the pennies out
of the village by selling them at 10 per
cent. discount to persons who are going
out Of town and will not use the pennies
till they get to their destination.
The 10-year-old son of Patrick Smith,
residing in the town of Rock, near James
vile, had his leg broken by kick from a
COW.
Miss Charlotte Sandel, Of Rockville,
Grant county, was married to Louis Hen
schel, of Elkhart Lake.
A man named Prahl, of Chiffon, while
in saloon was robbed of so.
Early Thursday morning two freight
trains on the Central road colIideded at
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-10
FOREIGN.

The vatican is making overtures to the
powers to protect Christians In China.
NJ. LEMoNIER. president Of the Inter
national League of Peace, is dead in Paris.
Dom PEDRO, the deposed emperor of
Brazil, is seriously iii in Paris.
THE commercial treaty between Ger
many and Belgium has been concluded.
A DISPATCH from Sunderland states that
fire in the drinking shop there Thursday
burned three women to death.
FRANCE, in view of the situation in
China, has urged the powers to take
immediate united action.
The Standard bank, al Melbourne, Aus
tralia, with a capital of $1,000 900, sus-
pended Friday.
REBELS in the province of JehoI, China,
massacre between 800 and 500 Christians.
Government troops march upon and defeat
the rebels.
ANOTHER report has reached Germany
that Emin Pasha is marching toward
Khartoum with an army of 5000 natives.
INFLUENZA is spreading rapidly
throughout France and Germany. The
death rate at Hamburg is 2SO above the
weekly average.
A TRAIN on the Orelgrais9 line in
Russia was derailed on bridge and four
cars were hurled into the river below,
killing twenty-three persons.
CHINESE rebels massacred 800 Chris
tians. A general massacre of foreign
residents is apprehended.
The suit of Lady Russell for a judicial
separation from Earl Russell, opened
Tuesday in her majesty's high court of
Justice
ADvIcEs from Pekin state that the rebel
forces have defeated the imperial troops
and are now marching on to the city of
Pekin
Two Berlin bankers, partners. who
filled because of the failure of F1iedlander
& Sommerfeid, committed suicide, follow
ing the example Of the Sommerfeids.
Nj. DE LA HAYE, the political economist,
is authority for the statement that 100, 600
operatives in Paris will be without work
during the present winter.
ARCHDUKE HENRY, of Austria, died
in Vienna Monday morning from jn1am-
nation of the lungs, closely following his
morganatic wife. tie Baroness Hoffman,,
whose death occurred Sunday.
A MYSTERIOUS explosion occurred in the
market at Blackburn, Eng, a place thirty
miles from Manchester, Monday morning,
by which three buildings were completely
demolished. 1t is feared that at least
twenty persons were killed.
The secret consistory is fixed by the
pope for December IA, and the public con-
sistory for the 18th. The pope's decision
to create two cardinals was quite unex-
pected. Mgr Sepiacci is to be one of the
new cardinals
THE McCarthyities have decided to take
decisive steps to secure the Paris fund.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-10
GA RICH JOKE
But 1T Was One that Did Not Pan Out as
"Smarty" Expected.


"Smarty" Expected
A young man about twenty-five years
old was sitting In the waiting room of the
Erie depot the other day with year old
baby on his knee, and his alarm and help
lessness when the young UNI suddenly
began to howl was so marked as to attract
attention. Bye and bye a waiting passen-
ger walked over to him with a smile of
pity on his face and queried:
"A woman gave you that baby to hold
while she went out to see about her bag
gage, didn't she?'
Yes
'Ha! Ha! Ha! | tumbled to the fact
as soon as | saw you. You expect her back,
| suppose?"
"Of course
"Ha! Ha! Ha! This is rich. Look
ing for her every blessed minute, amt
you?"
81 think she Il come back"
''Well, this makes me laugh-ha! ha!
on me in a Chicago depot once, but no
stuck. You're stuck. You've been
played for hay seed. Better turn the
thing over to a policeman and make
skip before some reporter gets on to
you.
ooh, she'll come back" replied the
young man, as be looked anxiously all
around
"She will, Ell? ha! ha! ha! Joke grows
richer and richer. What makes you think
she'll come back?'
Because she's my wife and this is or
first baby"
"Oh-um-I see, muttered the fat man,
who got over feeling tickled at once, and
in his vexation be crossed the room and
kicked dog viii h farmer had tied to
one of the seats with piece of clothes
linen. Y. World.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-10
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

NINE business tlocks were burned at
Middlebury, VT, Sunday night.
MANY hundred tons of coal were destroy
ed by fire in dock at Duluth.
Four men were killed in railroad ac-
cident in New York city.
Two scows were lost on Lake Michigan,
and eighteen men are thought to have
persisted.
THE Spies wagon works at Sterling,
H., were burned Tuesday night, causing
a loss of 100000.
The steamer Eastern Oregon was de-
stroyed by fire while on the dry docks at
OLYMPIA, Washington; loss $3.50, 900.
FIRE destroyed seven buildings in the
business portion of Blair, Feb, Friday,
causing loss of SIS, 1000.
BUILDINGS at Muskegon Heights, Mich,
were unroofed Friday by cyclone. The
damage is estimated at $4,000.
The Des MONIES cotton mill burned Sat
urday Tho mill employed $50 hands.
value of the property is about $3.50, 600,
largely covered by insurance.
The entire plant of the Lincoln Paint
and Oil company of Lincoln, Neb., was
burned Tuesday night. The loss is $780,
600, fully covered by insurance.
The Graud hotel, at Leadville, COL,
was burned Tuesday, sick guest named
Matthews perishing in the flames. It is
believed that the fire was incendiary.
The greater portion Of the village Of
Tracy, Mimi, was burned Sunday night,
causing loss Of 100000.
SIX business blocks in the village OF
Winnebago, ILL.,, were destroyed by fire
Sunday.
THE Western Normal college burned
Thursday, at shenandoah, Ia; loss $780,.
900; insurance 1913, 900.
FIVE men were blown to atoms and
several buildings wrecked by dynamite
explosion in New York.
THREE colored children were burned
alive near Kosciusko, Miss. Their mother
left them in the cabin and was in the field
picking cotton.
NINE men working On a bridge near
Helena, Mont, were carried down by the
collapse of the structure, and three were
killed.
The United States mail-car No. l ,318
caught fire Monday morning in the North
western yards at Chicago. The interior
of the car was totally destroyed with all
its contents. The mail matter had been
distributed and was all ready to be for
warded along the North western road.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-10
CYRUS w. FIELD.

One of the most pathetic spectacles
which the American people are called upon
to behold today is that in which the
venerab BILE Cyrus w. Field is the principal
figure. The father of the Atlantic cable,
the progenitor of elevated railway traffic,
man whose glorious enterprises will
make his name forever honored, has been
lying very, very low broken-hearted,
penniless and longing for rest in the
silent grave.
A week or two ago he was prosperous,
well and happy. The bride of his youth
was by his side to comfort and
earess; his children were, as he
supposed, in joyous circumstances,
and he himself felt secure in the possession
of great wealth, and was deeply grateful
for the blessings and honors which had so
long been his. In the short time since
that period Of happiness was upon him,
his loving wife, the tender and faithful
companion of fifty years, has passed away;
his eldest son, the fathers pride and hope,
has gone down in the maelstrom of stock
speculation carrying his own and his
fathers fortune with him and himself be-
come insane, and his daughter and
daughter-in. law, the latter the wife of
the ruined son, are supposedly
on beds from which they can
never again arise in life Crushing and
terrible have been the domestic affections
which have thus with overwhelming swift
ness and in stunning succession come upon
this old man, forcing him into condition
of prostration from which If seems very
uuuoUruT II he can ever rally.
Pitiful indeed is the fate of the good old
man, whose life has been one of the great
est honor, whose genius and perseverance
have given to the world more than one
benefcent enterprise and whose whole
career has been marked by the broadest
humanity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-10

Justin Mccarthy and Timothy Healy have
begun action against Munroe. the banker
who holds the funds, to decide the owner
ship thereof.
The strike of miners In the Pas de Cal
las district of France, involving 10000
men, is over. The men agree to return to
work, pending arbitration Of the matter
in dispute.
The supreme court judges of Chill
have unoffcially notified the government
that the constitution does not countenarce
the prosecution of the civil suits against
the ministers of Balmaceda's cabinet and
the members of his congress. =
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-10
NATION AL FLORAL EMBLEMS.
How the Burly Thistle of Scotland was
Adopted.

The origin of England's floral emblem,
the rose, that of the heuer-de-lis of France,
and the shamrock Of Ireland, are all better
known than
sThe emblem grand of bonny Scotland,
The bold and burly thistle"
About the -Liddle of the fifteenth CEN
tury, Oh the eve of St. Giles day, and
within the wall of the old council chamber
of Edinburg, number of Scotch mobiles
AID Highland gentlemen met in solemn
conclave to deliberate On the desirableness
of placing the thistle upon their banners
instead of the figure of st. Giles, which
they had hitherto used. They are de-
scribed as "brawny," big-bearded men,
dressed in Highland costume, and, as was
the fashion OF the day, with swords and
dirks
Long before this the thistle had been
the recognized badge of the house of
Stuart; and this fact, III connection with
an older one that warning was once given
f a night attack in progress by the Danes
on a Scotch camp by one Ct the enemy ae-
cidentIy putting bis foot on the thistle,
which made him cry out, was probably The
chief reason Of its choice instead Of the
heather. At any rate, it was chosen at
that coupci' as Scotland's floral emblem
Erelong America may also boast Of her
national flower, and
To the feuer-de-lis and shamrock,
The thistle AM The rose,
Add the bright Yankee goldAn-rod,
TIE bravest flower that grows,
as embIemalic OF this rich tree country.
for it is not only native of the soil, but
grows in every state in the Union, and in
one or more of them is in bloom the year
round. it means according to the Ian
guaee Of flowers. ''encoura cement. =
Harper's Young People.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-10
Personal POINTS.

Aneez Muscalem, an Ottoman subject of
Mount Lebanon, Syria, has presented to
Mrs. Harrison a picture of tine president
painted on silk and framed in native
wood, inland with mother of pearl.
X
Mrs. A. J. Smell, widow of the Chicago
capitalist whose murder caused such a
profound mystery, is lying in precarious
condition at her home on Washington
boulevard.
The Bonaparte who has just died in
Italy, Louis Lucien, vas a quiet person
who spent his life in the study OF phi
lology. He was the second son OF Lucien,
one of the great Napoleon's brothers, who
was excluded from the succession by the
emperor's will. The elder Lucien had
two wives-Christine Boyer, an innkeep-
er's daughter, and Marie de Bleschampe,
the widow of a Paris banker. All his
sons were the children of his second wife
The one who has just died was born in
England in 1918. He was an uncle of
Cardinal Lucien Louis and brother of
Pierre Napoleon, who killed Victor Noir,
the Partisan journalist.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-10
BURIED ALIVE.
Strange Power of Indians TO Stimulate
Death.

Death.
London Times.
The powers of the fakirs, or faqueers, of
India and Persia of stimulating death are
marvellous and almost incredible. Several
sects In these countries regard the art of
apparent death as part of their religious
ritual, and practice it assiduously. In their
ancient books it is described as purana-
yam, or stopping the death. Many cases
in which these Indians fakirs have allowed
themselves to be buried alive for long
periods have been verified by British
officials In India, and attested by evidence
which dispels all donbt of their truth
This impersonation continues for as long
as six, and even ten months. The way the
fakirs go to work to produce this condi-
ton IS to have the little ligature under
the tongue cut, whereby they are enabled
to stretch this organ out to great length
Then they turn it back, inserting the end
in the throat, and, closing up at the same
time the inner nasal apertureS. The ex-
ternal apertures of the nose and ears are
closed with wax and the eyes covered to
exclude the light.
Long preliminary practice is however,
needed in holding the breath and long
course of fasting before burial. The fakir
then sinks into a condition resembling
death, and the body is wrapped in linen,
placed in box and buried. When the
box is taken up, at the expiration of the
long continued. death-like sleep, and
opened, the fakir is found cold and stiff;
no pulsation can be fell; the heart, the
wrist, the temples are still; the body is not
cold as corpse would be, but is colder
than that OF the living man, except over
the seat of the brain As all the secre-
tions are fully stopped; the nails, hair
and beard have ceased growth. After
being resuscitated the fakir feels great
dizziness and for few hours cannot stand
up without support, but gradually he re-
covers strength and enjoys amazingly the
wonder he has excited.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-10
A MOTHERS CRY FOR HELP.
Pathetic Scene at a Depot in Which the
Mother Wins.
Nant olza

At the Pennsy lvania passenger station
in this town on recent Saturday evening,
those waiting for the up 732 train were
startled by the cries of woman with a
babe in her arms, who screamed with all
her vocal power:
This is my chlld!'
''This is my child!'
And she repeated the claim with in
creased vigor and desperation every mo-
ment.
She was Mrs. F. G. Forchner, and her
husband was endeavoring to wrest the
babe from her arms. But the woman held
on with the grip of frenzy, and all the
while screaming at the top of her voice:
''This is my child"
OF course the sympathy of every by
stander was with the woman, but not one
had the courage to interfere until, as she
thought she was about to have the child
taken from her, she screamed:
What! Are you all cowards?" Help!
Help!
At this big, hard-handed son of toll,
with determination blended with bene-
Violence in every feature, approached the
pair and in firm voice said:
"Whose child is this?'
Its mine," said the man.
'1'm it's mother" said the woman.
And with this the questioner grasped
the husband by tie neck and tore him
away from the wife, and she at once
boarded the train, which was just starting
for Wilkesbarre.
1t is said that Forchner and his wife
have been living unhappily for some time,
and one day last week he advertised her as
having left his bed and board without just
cause or provocation.
When the woman arrived in Wilkes
barre it was discovered that her brother
was with her, and they lost no time in
boarding the first train for the home Of
their parents, in small town in New
York state.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-10
A Chamber of Horrors.

The apartment to which the unhappy wretch
is confined by infammatory rheumatism is indeed
q chamber of horrors Appalling are the tortures
inflicted by this agoniZing complaint, and those
endured by persons suffering from milder forms
Of it are severe enough Obstinate as it is In its
mature development, it is surely remediabe at the
outset with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, an in
finitely safer as well as more effective remedy
than the poisons often used to subdue It.
Always should it be borne in mind by those
seeking relief from rheumatism, that though
comparable in the incipient stage, it is not only
stubborn but dangerous when fully developed, On
account of its tendency to attack the vital parts
This consideration should lead to the early adop-
ton of curative measures. The Bitters Will
overcome malarial, kidney, dyspeptic and bilious
trouble.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-10


peared together.
HE STUDIED NATURE.
My next labor was to discover some
system Of preventives which would obviate
this inexplicable and disastrous evapora-
ton of that which | had obtained from
my plants with such unremittent toll. One
year and half ago | succeeded in this
endeavol, now ! have enough of this
power obtained from my plants properly
mixed with the Ignite to produce mil
lion tons of coal at an average cost of 81 a
ton
The matter | obtain from the plants |
reduced to pulp, which. after having had
all the moisture extracted from it by being
placed in number Of revolving boilers. is
again taken in hand, and, after being
hardened, is reduced to the power and
mixed with the powdered Ignite. The
process includes method BY which the
chemical compound and the Ignite are
submitted to a process of $50 degrees
Fahrenheit in large ROOM"
Mr.. Edelmann claims to have already
purchased a large track Of land in Texas
comprising six hundred acres, which he
says is rich in Ignite, and 10 have receiv-
ed an offer for his invention from one COR
poration there which agrees to take 300.-
600 tons a year off his hands.-N. Y.
Herald