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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
FOREIGN.

AT Berlin Gen. Won Schellendors, for
merly minister of war, died Tuesday.
The villages of Holzendorf and Werns,
dorf, Moravia, have been destroyed by
storms.
The London banking house of Murietta
& Co., which has been in financial
straights, has made arrangements so that
it will continue in business.
FOREIGN Minister Ribot has limited
Frances action in the case of Rigand, the
Frenchman recently killed in Hayti to a
demand that Hayti pay idemnity to
Rigand's family.
A Swiss passenger throws his child in
to the Atlantic from the deck of the La
Bretagne.
The disease known as pink eye is
very prevalent among the army horses at
YORK and other places.
MURIETTE & Co.. of London, have az
ranged their affairs so they will not be
compelled to go into liquidation.
A LONDON dispatch says the friends of
Mr.. Gladstone are alarmed at the state of
his health.
\ BRIT1sH force of native police near
Sierra Leona have met with a defeat at
the hands of the natives.
Four ,FIFTHs of the tin-plate works in
South Wales closed their doors Saturday
for one month, throwing Is, COO hands out
of employment for the time.
The Turkish government, according to
a Constantinople dispatch. will refuse to
give consent to the Russian Jews settling
in Palestine.
A TERRIBLE thunder storm passed over
the town of Jagelndorf, SiIesia, Thursday.
Three villages were set on fire by light
ming and three men and a number of
cattle killed.
The British steamship Clad was wreck
ed Tuesday off the French coast and the
third engineer and fireman were drown
ed. The remainder Of the crew have
reached Havre.
HE German government is consider
ing the question of abandoning the Ger
man possessions IL New Guinea and the
Bismarck archipelago, as those colonies
show no sign of becoming profitable.
A VIENNA dispatch says that very
bitter feeling exists in Hungary over the
government proposal to abolish the cleo
ton by the people of the chief officials of
each county and to make all such officials
appointive by the government.
MONDAY at Batonya, a town of Hun
gary, crowd of field laborers, melted by
socialist agitators, made an attack up
on the town hall. Had it not been for the
determined resistance offered small force
of policemen the mob would probably
have wrecked the building. The officers
killed four CT the mob and wounded seven
~ bo,-c
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
TROUBLE FOR TWO MEN.
Their Wives Compared Notes and Decided
That They Had Been Imposed On.

Their Wives Compared Notes and Decided
That They Had Been Imposed On.
There was a moments silence after the
introduction. Womanlike. each was mem
tally sizing the other up" Then one of
them spoke
my husband frequently speaks of you"
she said
Indeed" returned the other. Nv
husband thinks you are wonderfully
clever
Really? Why that's the wav nv bus-
band talks about you. He told me how YOU
resnapad and recovered that old parasol
and SO saved S.
''Paraso! Why | never touched il
until my husband had harped all one
day on your cleverness in upholstering
and refining baby carriage at saving
of S."
Nonsense. The thing that made me
do that was the way my husband talked
about that parasol. Then he got me to
liking over last years hat because you
were working over an old dress
but | never started in to do that
until my husband had told me FIVE times
about your hat. | wasn't going to ad-
NIT that you could be any more economical
than L.
why, really, my dear madam, heard
OF that dress twenty-four hours befor3
touched the hat
Impossible. IL
Then she stopped and her eyes began to
flash,
g! believe our husbands" she began
again.
81 believe they have" chimed in the
other, becoming exited also.
cts wicked shame!''
-, IAN outraged They've just tricked u.s.;
that's allr'
cit was regular plot And to think
how he's made me work! I'll get new
gown to-day"
And | a hat
Then two women went into dry goods
store and spent all the money they could,
scrape together. And two men got
mighty little for supper that night, and
when they complained they were promptly
convinced that they ought to have said
nothing
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

HORACE BoIEs has been renominated
for governor Of Iowa.
REV. D. D. WILLIAMS, of Chicago, has
been elected president of Yankton Is. D.
college.
BISHOP PIERCE, of the Nazareth Meth
odist Episcopal church died at Camden,
n. J.
ELIZABETH MCVEY has just died at
Rose Hill, Ill after a fast of forty three
days.
EMILE MARQUEE & Co., wholesale
boot and shoe dealers of New Orleans and
Boston have failed.
A NATIONAL bank examiner has closed
the doors of the Red Cloud (Neb.) Nation
al bank.
OBITUARY: At Columbus, Ind, ex-
Judge Beatty McClelland, aged seventy
four.-At independence, Iowa, Ann Il
Trask, aged sixty-fve.
JOHN B. ALLEY, of Lynn, Mass, has as
signed. as a result of the recent failure Of
Alley Bros. & Place, the Boston leather
dealers, to whom he owed between $780,
900 and 100000.
A DECREE Of foreclosure has been en-
tered in Indiana, against the old Indian
apolis, Dextor 4 Western railroad to sat-
isfy mortgage OF 81 100000.
THREE solid trains of bullion were on
Tuesday shipped from the City of Mexico
to Newark, n. j., smelling works.
The steamer Fuerst Bismarck, which
sailed from New York June 18th made the
fastest eastern TRIP recorded.
Two HUNDRED and fifty-four students
were graduated from the different depart
ments of the northwestern university at
Evanston on Thursday.
SENATOR FARwELL's scheme of explod
ing balloons was tried near Washington
dnesday-successfull SO far as the ex-
plosion went, but no rain fell.
MORMON leaders declare that their
church has gone out of politics and that
the members will hereafter act with the
two national parties.
Col. JOHN B. WEBER, superintendent
of immi grafton at New York, has been ap-
pointed chairman of the immigration COM
mittee that is going TO Europe.
A PITTsBURG, Mass, school ma am ha s
caused stir by refusing to allow a boy to
attend school in knickerbockers with bare
legs AMI feet. She considered it indeli-
cate.
Two men in Clyde, Mich, have been
paying taxes ON the same piece of land for
the past seven years. The wrong man is
now trying to find out how to get his
money back.
IT has been discovered that valuable
papers belonging to the achives of the
state of New York have been INSTRUCTED
from the office of the secretary of state.
The full extent of the losses are not yet
known.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
FIRES AND CASUA LTIES.

A DANvERs. Mass, horse tipped bee
hive over and was stung to death.
A SLIGHT earthquake shock was felt
at Charleston, S. c., at IL :27 Monday
night.
The Beaver Company's oil refinery,
near Washington. Pa, was DESTROYED by
fire Tuesday morning. Loss, 100000
AT Jefferson, Texas, fire destroyed a
business block causing a loss of SIS, 600,
on which there is s35 ,0O0 insurance.
SEVERAL persons were killed and much
property destroyed by the cloud bursts
In northwestern Iowa, Tuesday.
At ANTON, H., Frank, the infant son
of E. johnson, was fatally burned by eat
ing concentrated I've.
S. JOHNSON, who fell from amast while
he was scrapirg on tie steamer Sc. Moore,
at Chicago, last week, died at the county
hospital Monday.
A WRECK on the Nickel Plate line near
Dover, O., resulted in the death of enc
man and the serious injury of thirty other
passengers.
The New York seventy-frst regiment
almory building was burned Saturday
morning. Loss, 5000, 0OO, insurance $780,
!OOO.
FRED SMITH, of Mounds Junction, ILL.,,
brakeman, fell asleep while tagging
near Makanda and was killed by pas
senger train.
The Northern Pacific sleeper was de-
rallied by washout hear Rosebud, Mont,
and plunged into the Yellowstone river.
Among the passengers injured were Fran
| els Murphy, the Temperance orator, and H..
Benughoven, of Chicago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02

and begin ingratiating overtures. was tbe.
work of an instant. o
TODD morning." said the renentant
one, taking off his hat with more than
ordinary difference. "What a lovely Javi
l m sure you've been shopping"
The lady only looked at him. but her
silence hardly surprised her companion, so
ABSORBED was he In zelous effort.
Ladies are such privileged beings he
went on: Think how charming it is to
go about buying silks and ribbons. instead
OF sitting all day in stutfy office like us
humdsum men,
1he lady moved as far from him as con-
Venlence would admit, but still she did
not speak.
Il saw your husband this morning, ="
volunteered Mr.. Gilbert.
coldly. ~ ''''lo ~ 0oo
He looked her full in the face.
Bless mel! gasped he, II guess YOU are
cot Mrs. Miles after allr'
II certainly am not
Mr. Gilbert apologized and left the car
at the next corner. There, face TO face
he met lady who looked so familiar that
IN pure despair, he took off his hat to her.
only TO be requited by surprised and dis
,,,, That was mistake too, groaned he
Evidently | didn't know her, and She
thinks | meant to be impairment.
He rushed on to seek the shelter of his
own walls and as he entered the gate
lady passed by on the cther side of the
street.
- declare, Harry, this is too badl''
called his sister, before he reached the
piazza where she was sitting, ''you have
actually cut Mrs. Miles again! There She
goes down the street and you had all the
chance IN the world to bsw, or even run
over to her and apollo size.
Susan said Mr.. Gilbert, transfxinx
her with a desperate glance, "never dare
to mention Mrs. Miles name to me
againr'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
CRIME.

= ATTORNEY JOSHUA GUEST, recently of
Chicago, killed himself at Akron. Ohio.
GIRL Is years old, of St. Paul has
been found in the woods strangled to
death.
EDWARD A. FULLER, employed in the
New York office of the Chicago Century
Publishing company, has run away with
1851 of the company money.
A DETECTIVE attempted to arrest man
at Spring Like. n. j., whom he says was
Gildon W. Marsh, and was probably fat
ally injured.
AN unknown woman, supposed to be
insane, jumped into the lake at Wash
burn MINI. She was pulled out by an
elevator inspector.
AT Fosterville, Tenn, Jim Holden and
of cards Holden was fatally stabbed.
but shot and killed his antagonist.
WILLIAM JACKSON, a burglar, tried be-
fore Juoge Baker of Chicago, under the
habitual criminal act has been sentenced
to life Imprisonment.
J. ARTHUR STAFFORD, known on the
stage as Jack Arthur, charged with the
theft of 81 900 at Columbus, Ohio, was
on Wednesday morning turned over to Col
umbus officers at New York.
PROF. ABANDON of Drury college at
Springfield, Mo-, has absconded after
securing endorsements for about 81 800 by
his fellow professors. Nearly every mem
Der of the faculty ha sheen victimized.
ONE of IKE foremost men of western
Kansas, Colonel N S. Wood, was shot at
h. h
shooting was the result of the county seat
war between Hugoton and Woodsdae.
ANTON KARL, an old and trusted dis
bursting officer of the government survey,
has been arrested for embezzling $1,000 of
the government funds. He confessed his
guilt.
MRS. BARBARA WEIDEMAN, the hand
some young widow of the Chicago tobac-
conist, is under arrest ON the charge Of
having poisoned her husband, who died
in May last with all the symptoms of
arsenical poisoning.
AT baseball game Monday, at Dowing,
Kan, Frank Burton, a bystander, found
fault with the decisions of the umpire,
and finally fought with him, getting the
worst of it. Later while Umpire House
was busy watching the game Burton stole
up behind him and felled him with bat
inficting fatal I'M uries.
The prisoners at convict camp, twelve
miles from Chattanooga, Tenn, attempted
to escape Monday morning. and in the
melee that followed two guards and two
convicts were killed.
Two indictments for forgery have been
returned against Emory Fl. Merriam, a
well known Asheville, N. G. lawyer. Drink
brought him to his present condition He
is brother of the chief justice Of the
state supreme court.
AT late hour Friday night Mrs. Mary
Ryan was shot and perhaps fatally injured
by her husband Dennis Ryan, in a drunken
fight They quarreled about some money
which Ryan mad. Five shots were fired,
of which two took effect, one in the left
breast and the other in the head. Ryan
was captured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
Secretary Foster Reports on the
Laws Regarding the Coinage
of Silver.
Large Amount of Trade Dollar
Bullion Will Soon be
Recoined.
fractional Pieces Will Also b
Struck to Meet Great
Demand.

WASHINGTON, June 26.-After the cab
met meeting today Secretary Foster made
a statement in regard to to the silver
question. After full and careful considera-
ton of the law relating to the coinage of
silver, Secretary Foster finds that the act
OF March 3, requires that the secretary of
the treasury shall as soon as practicable
coin trade dollar bars into silver dollars"
He also finds that $3.50, 900 has been appro-
prlated for the re-coinage of
subsidiary silver coin into such
denominations as will best serve to give if
circulation. There is a constant demand
for small coins principally dimes. which
the minis have not been able to supply.
The secretary of the treasury has decided
that ms nrsG duty in the matter is to obey
the direction Of congress. Congress has
ordered the coinage of trade dollar bars
into standard silver dollars. The coinage
of trade dollar bars in this manner
Will transform what cost S., 0S7. 795 into
80, l55.2o worth of standard dollars. The
secretary finds it will require perhaps
four months to perform the work of coin
ing trade dollar bars into standard dol
lars and recoining subsidiary silver.
Therefore the question of the continued
coinage of silver dollars is not practical
one at present.
The trade dollar bullion which is to be
coined into silver standard dollars is
stored IN the minis at Philadelphia and
New Orleans. 1t results from the melting
into bars of trade dollars redeemed at
their face value under the act of
March 3, 1887. Total number redeemed
was 81, 660936 ;portion of which has already
been coined into subsidiary coin. The act
of March 3, 1891, provided, however, that
the balance should be coined into stand
ard silver dollars only. The amount
stoeed at Philadelphia is 1885, 425 fine
ounces, and the amount now stored
at New Orleans is 3,039, 876 fine ounces,
This will make in all about S5,148, 281 in
standard silver dollar, net profit above
its cost of over S600,000 A large amount
of subsidiary silver and mint coins will
have to be recoined at Philadelphia dur
ing the same period.
The demand for dimes is greatest and
these coirs will be supplied first.
BY the law the coinage of minor coins
one cent and FIVE cent pieces-is
confined to the mint at PHILADELPHIA.
This coinage has been very heavy for
several years past. During the
last three years the coinage has been very
heavy, that of 5 cent pieces amounting to
81, O93, ISL and of one cent pieces 81, $685.
1854. This hos all been absorbed by the
public and thee is every indication that
the demand for these coins will
continue large for months to
come and add much to the
work at the Philadelphia mint. Coinage
at the minis at San Francisco and Carson
City after July l will be confined to gold |
pieces and such re-coinage of subsidiary
silver coins as may be required on the Pa
,ifc coast
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02

The Allan line steamer Montivedean,
now in port at Quebec, caught fire in one
of her holds On ner way up the Gulf OF St.
Lawrence. The damage to her largo by
water and smoke is serious.
HAMILMoN SPENCER. the venerable
Bloomington lawyer VINO was struck by
grip car at LaSalIe and Madison streets,
Chicago, on tuesday, died al the county
hospital
AT New York Frederic Brokaw. son of
Isaac Brokaw the & IA of B ok Nv Bros. =,
was drowned at Long Branch Wednesday
while trying to rescue a girl vino was
caught IN the undertow. The girl also
was drowned.
AT Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the baby car
riage factory of the Chapman Reed and
Rattan company was entirely destroy
ed by FIRE, causing a loss of SAC, 900 with
partial insurance. Spontaneous combus-
ton caused the fire. Henry Veley. the
fireman, was seriously injured by the ex-
plosion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
KEEP COOL.

The hot weather is now here and people
should heed the fact. For the next two
months care is necessary to avert the evils
that lurk in high temperature. While
it is cool in the northwest in comparison
with the conditions prevailing in the south
and southeast, torrid wave occasionally
passes over us that is alike dangerous to
life and health. 1t does net do to trltle
with nature, and there SHOULD be a strict
avoidance of all excitement as we'll as an
aban comment to as great an extent
as possible of all arduous physi
cal duties during the continuance
of the torrid periods. Ice water, ice
cream and ices generally should be used
sparingly when a person is very VAIN.
The stomach is perhaps better off withcu
them entirely; but of course far the create st
harm from their enjoy ment comes when
the blood courses through the body the
fastest as result of heated conditions.
Some people have acquired the blessed
privilege of being philosophical in warm
weather. They face the hot, sweltering
morning serenely, dress comfortably, eat
sparingy, drink mole sparingly than
they eat, and go about their business with
deliberate care. They never fume or fret;
never fuss and waltz around and thus
strike a temperature ten or twenty de-
grees above the thermometer, aud they set
aside for a cooler season ali oppressive
llbors that can be postponed. Their
philosophy renders life tolerabIe, and re-
lieves the hot weather of half its terrors.
OF course, there are n any persons who
must expose themselves to the heat even
when it is the most intense. Laborers,
builders and others whose occupations
must be conducted under the blazing sun,
can greatly mitigate the serious effects of
excessive heat by temperance In all things
in labor, in drink, in food and above
all temperance in temper. Roofers and
others working on buildings should avoid
work if possible in severe hot spells. If
they must work they should protect their
heads by damp cloths or a fresh cabba &c
leaf, on the head under the hat, and they
should at once stop work when they feel
dizziness or nausea at the stomach, fol
they are danger signals that all should
respect.
1t has been estimated by competent
authority that at least two-thirds of all the
serious suffer ing from hot spells come:
from people fooling with the heat. II
tropical climes, where our hottest spells
would be temperate summer weather, The
people suffer less from heat than do the
people of our generally comfortable eli
mate. They never fool with the heat
they adjust themselves to it; they regu
late their diet, drink, apparel and exer
else to the situation; they shut themselve
up in the heat of the day and enjoy TIT
mornings and evenings, which are devoted
to labor or pleasure. But here, where ex
cesslve heat is the exec ption, We suffe
needlessly, foolishly simply because W
persistently fool with the head an
aggravate its results. A valuable lessor
for warm weather might be learned by u
in the indoent tropics. But if the weather
is too hot even to learn, let's do the mex
best thing and keep-cool.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
A NEW KIND OF CLOVER.
Introduction of an Italian Variety of Great
Promise Into This Country.

1HJO his country.
A new kind OF clover growing on the
farm of John Wilson in a Philadelphia
suburb is the object of much local interest.
An account of it is thus given by the
Times of that city: The seed from which
came from the southern part of Italy, and
has hitherto been unknown in this country,
and was planted by Mr.. Wilson as an ex-
pertinent. The experiment has proved to
be complete success, and it is anticipated
that the Italian clover will ere long com
pletely revolutlonize the system of raising
cloverfields in this country, and that Ital.
ian clover will become the rage among
clover growers.
The great regularity of this new clover
is its graceful shape and very rich color.
1t is not globular in form like ordinary
but the flower is elongated in shape, and
tapers to a point something like an ear OF
wheat, while the color, when the clover is
at its best, is a deep and brilliant red, and
when the entire field il covered with these
rich-looking flowers the effect is beautiful,
for the Italian clover grows very close and
the stalks are longer than ordinary clover,
and if the leaves were taken away and
nothing seen but the flower, a field of Ital-
ian clover would look as though it had a
carpet of bright vermillion. In addition
to its far greater beauty, the Italian clov-
er grows much faster than ordinary clover,
and the great popularity is the fact that
the clover goes to seed at the first planting,
while the clover now in use does not run
to seed until the second crop. The new
clover grows with such rapidity that Mr.
Wilson was surprised after first planting
the seed to see a small field of beautiful
clover so soon afterwards.
The raising of the new clover 10y Mr..
Wilson waslan accidental experiment. He
happened to enter a market-street store
one day when a package of clover seed was
handed him, which had been sent to the
store by some unknown parties and Mr..
Wilson was asked to try it and see if it
was any good. He planted a little Of it
and that might be called the introduction
of the Italian dover in this country. The
new clover attracts so much atten-
ton from those interested that parties
drive down In carriages to Mr.. Wilson S
farm from all around Philadelphia to ex-
anime it and it has even Eeen found neces-
sary to guard the spot where the Italian
clover grows.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
A Foreign Invasion.

Terrible winters throughout Europe brought
forth bitter fruits that ripened in America. "Ls
Grippe" with varying violence broke forth here
and the mortality lists show its shocking ravages
In aggravated cases. An alcoholic principle en-
bodied as medicated stimuant in the form of
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters has and will ever
prove the best specific. Leading continental and
American physicians declare that medicine with
a sprituous basis such as this, affords the surest
guaranty against the tremendous inroads OF this
Shocking malady. When consider that
slight change of weather is apt to renew it, that
it attacks those easily vulnerable organs, the
lungs, that its progress is tremendously swift ard
destructive, we must admit the necessity OF re-
pelllng it at the outset with 3 sure preventive.
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is also . safeguard
against malaria, dyspepsia, rheumatism, liver and
kidney complaints.