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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
FOREIGN.

PRINCE NAPOLEON is dying at Rome.
HEAVY snow storms are reported from
England and Scotland.
THREE hundred Chinese pirates and rob-
bers have been beheaded.
A SNOW STORM of almost unprecedented
violence is raging in England.
ROME dispatch says Prince Jerome
Napoleon Bonapart is dying.
PRINCE BISMARCK will re-enter politics,
being a candidate for election to the reich
stag.
THE duke of Marlborough has purchased
several valuable American trotting horses,
and will introduce the breed in England.
ESTHER SoLYMosIs, who was said to
have been murdered by the Jews at Tisza,
Hungary, has been found living in New
York under another name.
In discussion on Cuban affairs in the
Spanish cabinet the sale of that country
to the United States was considered. The
weight of opinion was decidedly averse to
any such negotiation.
OVER 100 persons, mostly children, were
recently crushed by the falling of syna-
gogue at Mcneil, Westphalia.
A cABLEGRAM from Chill received at
Hamburg, Germany, says President
Balmaceda has been murdered.
THE small warship Dryer, with twenty
four men on hoard, has gone down off
Portsmouth, on the Devonshire coast
Not one man on board the Inflated craft
was saved.
TIMOTHY HARRINGTON has published a
Dublin a letter denouncing the Irish Cath
Ollie bishops for their interference in poll
tics.
TUESDAY last the noted bandit Guerdo
Nevramont, who some time ago robbed a
iewelry store in chihuahua, after killing
the proprietor. was captured.
THE steamer Liverpool, was wrecked Oh
the southwestern coast of England during
the recent storm. Three of the crew
reached shore alive.
GUEsDA, The French socialist, who has
been in Brussels for some time past ar.
ranging plans for the May day celebration
has been warned to leave Belgium at his
earliest possible convenience.
The Paris Temps says that the negotia-
lions between France and England on the
Newfoundland question have resulted in an
agreement, which will be submitted to the
French and English parliaments at the enc
of the week.
The large tube heating apparatus in the
Blochairn Iron Works exploded Wednes
day, spreading death and destruction al
around. Four men were killed outright
their bodies being dr1adfully mutilated
Many others were seriously injured.
AN outbreak of fanatical cruelty is re
ported from Nabal, in Tunis, where
Arabs attacked Jewish family of fv,
persons, killing them one by one under
circumstances of the greatest atrocity
dragging the naked bodies through the
streets, and threw them into the sea
The hey of Tunis has ordered an investi
cation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
COOPERATION.

Cooperation has beer said to be the
solution of labor difficulties. This is the
idea of Mr.. Burns, the active English
leader. Sympathetic cooperation would
no doubt, reconcile every difference be-
tween the employed and the employer.
No practical experiment in this direction
has ever been disappointing. For instance,
the vice president of the Illinois steel COM
pany at Joliet a year ago inspired the
organization of a club to be made up of the
employees of that large concern. Recently
the anniversary of the organization was
held, and prominent residents of Chicago
were invited to participate In the enter
tainment. Over dozen miIIionaires were
present, mostly stockholders, and they sat
side by side with the brawny men of toll
and enjoyed the exercises. The establish
ment of mutual confidence between the
officers and the employees of the company
has been of untold value to both, and if
confidence is maintained such a thing as
a strike will be rendered impossible. It
is too often the case that no effort is made
to reconcile labor difficulties until the
contention has become so bitter and per.
sonal that all friendly offices are spurned
by both sides. A little of the spirit Of
humanity and sympathy at the outset
would often settle the most threatening
disagreement between an employer and
his employees.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.
FIRE destroyed property worth 5000, 90
at Chicago.

FIRE destroyed property worth 100000
at Chicago.
THREE. FOURTHs of the town of Yuma,
CAL, is under water, and the place is
threatened with destruction.
FIVE hundred people have been driven
from their homes at Nashville by the flood
In the Cumberland river.
Mrs. JANE SMITH, aged 70 years, put a
hot brick at her feet when she retired at
Weyauwega. Wis. The bed clothes igni5-
ed and the old lady was turned to a
crisp.
BARNEY BECKAM, William Weipenbach
and Gerhardt Eller were killed by the ex-
plosion of sawmill boiler, Wednesday at
Diedrice, Ill.
AT the Morris Ridge Collierv, near Cen
tralia, Pa, Samuel Coax and Thomas Cor
rican were crushed by the roof falling
upon them.
GEORGE CRAMER, farmer living four
miles northeast of Mishawaka, Ind, was
found dead in his barn Wednesday night,
March llth.
AT Cleveland, O., the electric wires start
ed a tife which almost completely destroyed
the wholesale clothing establishment Of
Klein, Goodhart & Kock. The loss is $780,
600.
A TRAIN load of passe1 gers has been
snow bound thirty miles west of Readvilie,
Colo, since last Monday morning and the
snow is still falling.
HE Penuolet cotton mills, at Pencolet,
S. c., were destroyed by an incendiary fire,
Wednes;!sy. The loss l. $4,000.
The CD.,mber of Commerce building
and the J. L. Weddin & Co., building at
Plttsburg, Pa. burned Wednesday night,
clnsing Il loss OF $500 900.
Miss LOUISE 'oNNfLLY and Henry c.
Lamar were drowned in a canal near
Augusta. Ga.
''YADDo,' the Saratoga residence of
banker Spencer Trask, OF New York ard
Boston, was burned Tuesday. Loss, $780,
600.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

Col. w. W. GATES, the oldest news
paper man in Tennessee, is dead.
MEMBERS Of the Arkansas legislature
threw spittoons at each other.
DUDLEY HALL & Co, Boston tea import
ers, have failed for 100000.
The Arkansas House has passed the
bill to punish and prohibit prize fighting.
PROF. ToMLINs will have charge of the
music at the opening Gel emonies of the
worlds fair.
Miss FULLER. daughter of Chief JUS
tice Fuller, will be married at Washing
ton on Easter Monday to Archibald Brown
of Chicago.
MRS. FRANK LESLIE proposes to leave
her fortune in trust for the establishment
of great institution for the higher edu-
cation of women.
Rev. B. II. PADDOCK, Episcopal Bishop
of Massachusetts,, died in Boston Friday
morning.
THE coke strike in Pennsylvania against
a reduction of ten per cent. has merged
into an additional demand for an eight
hour day.
THE heaviest snow-storm In three years
was experienced in Texas Thursday. 1t is
feared that it will be disastrous to the fruit
crop.
A DISPUTE between the clothiers
exchange and the cutters union at Roches
ter, n. Y, will throw $4,000 persons out
of work.
VAssAR college trustees agreed to pay
S146, 200 to settle the suit of the next-of-
kin heirs to break the will of John Guy
Vassar.
The bill making eight hours days.
labor in Pennsylvania, instituted under
the control of the state, passed finally il
the senate today.
THE Chicago graduates of West Point
military academy will celebrate the eighty
ninth anniversary of the founding of thai
institution by reunion at the Auditorium
hotel on March Is.
MORE than 100 days ago Capt. F. L
Norton sailed for Europe on a small steam
er of the same name, for which he claimed
the quality of being unsuitable by storm
OF flood. He has never been seen since.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19

THERE'S wise Judge of Des Moines. A
boy in that town dropped nickle in the
slot-a nickle with a string tied to it. He
got the article which the machine was reg
ulated to produce and then pulled out his
money, and repeated this interesting ma
nouever until intercepted by policeman.
At the police court he was charged with
theft, but this would not go with the
Judge. He held that the boy had merely
done what the machine had enjoined him
to dropped a nickle in the slot-and
that it was at fault for not further in
structing him to leave it there. AS far
as this wise judge is concerned, there will
be no wavering in the strict and literal In
terpretation of the Iowa laws.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19

OF the three gunboats of modern build
which our navy now possesses, the latest,
the Bennington, appears 70 be the most
satisfactory of ALL The result Of the Off
cial trial recently made shows a horse
power in excess of the contract require
ments and in excess of that attained by
either the Yorktown or the Concord. Her
hardness was also thoroughly demon
strated-a quality which is of the utmost
importance in vessels of her class. For one
hour she maintained a speed of l7.2
knots, and for three succeeding hours, In
the face of head wind and heavy sea.
only fell to an average of 16 knots. This
is a really remarkable showing for ship
of this type.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19

LARGE deposits of onyx have been found
In the Ozark mountains, only short dis
lance from st. Louis. The only onyx In
the market has hitherto come from Pueblo,
Mexico, so the discovery of this new vein
is of considerable commercial Importance.
Onyx is very valuable, selling for from
three to fifteen dollars a cubic foot, the
buyer taking the risk of possible flaws be-
low the surface. In mining it no powder
can be used, so holes are drilled in rows
and wooden plugs inserted. These are
then caused to swell by soaking in warm
water, and a solid mass of the desired size
is thus separated without danger. The
onyx is reached through a wide-mouthed
cave in the mountain-side. so it can be
marked at very slight expense.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
HRf ND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN

The Maritime Alps, small depart
ment in southern France blessed with an
exceptionally mild climate, makes spe-
ciality of growing flowers, particularly in
the winter season. The product has be-
come really astonishing, reaching an an
nual total of $685. 900 Kilograms (nearly
1890, OO0 pounds, having a value of about
$1,000, 600 francs. This includes 1850, 900
Kilograms of orange blossoms, the chief
crop; 100000 Kilograms of roses; 157, 900
Kilograms of violets: 147 900 Kilograms of
Jasmine, $4,000 Kilograms Of tuberoses;
$4,000 Kilograms of ionquils; and 10000
Kilograms of migonette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
WASHIN4 TON.

THE president has refused to pardon
John c. Emo, Of New York, who was con-
victed Of bank wrecking.
THE president, on Tuesday, appointed
Thomas A. Clesgarde, of Fargy, N. D.,
register of the land Office at Minot, N. D.
JOHN c. ROBINSON, of Kingston, Ind,
is appointed special agent for the allot-
dians of Oklahoma.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
THE ZANZIBAKI.
Kind Words for the Much-Abused Zanzi-
baris.

| cannot speak gratefully enough of the
conduct Of our faithful Zanzibaris at this
period. On them we are entirely depend
ent for such food as we are able to scrape
together The Zanzibar, it is true, will
lie and thieve-most untaught negroes
will-but the white man with whom he
has worked, whom he respects and has
confidence in, though starving himself, he
will share his last crust.
1t was often pitiful to see a man who
was scarcely more than skin and bone,
and who was half mad with hunger him
self, bringing us little store of toad
stools and laying it before us, say,
master, take your share, God is good. "
There was something childlike and SIM
pie about these Zanzibaris which always
appealed strongly to our sympathy. At
work you may be as severe as you please;
you may fog him when he does wrong, so
long as when work is done you relax, and
gossip and talk with him. His quaint re-
marks upon people and things are always
entertaining, and often instructive. You
listen to his stories about his wife or
mother, his sister or friend, about his
home in Zanzibar, and his little plot of
land; in fact you make him feel, that
though you will force him to do his full
share Of work, at the same time you SYM
pathize with him in his troubles and are
really his friend. If you do this he will
work for you and follow you with a dog
like fidelity. | have often seen Zanzibar
who had laid himself open to punishment,
lie down and take his fifteen or twenty
strokes of the cane. and after he has re-
ceived them get up, and raising his hands
above his head say, Hand ell Allah"
(Thank Cod. by which he means he has
done wrong, he has received his punish
ment. and now he and the world are even.
If punished justly. this child of nature
never bears malice; but injustice, want of
sympathy, or cruelty will transform him
into sulen, mutinous devil, with whom
nothing can be done. OF course these are
times when the Zanzibar is mot trouble
some and has to be treated with great Sc
verify, but when once he understands that
a man Is his friend and master, these ebul
htions are not of frequent occurrence.
This From Louisiana.
brakes Magazine.
Say, dad, hear that Deacon Strait has
just been raising Cain in this neighbor-
hood this summer"
Tommy! NJ. Strait is fine man, and
if hear you talk thus again I'll give you
a whipping
''It's so all the same reiterated the
hopeful. quickly. He's been raisin' cane,
an haulin it to the sorghum mill"
tommy got the licking. anyhow, just as
he richly merited.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
TUESDAY. March 10.


Seaate.-Senator Greene offered-a res
olution permitting Senator Falconer to
introduce two bills: Permitting the town
of Newport, Columbia county, to build
levees and dams along and across theWis-
consin river, authorizing the city of Kill
burn to use the Wisconsin river for power
for waterworks. A senate bill was passed
a. propriating to the state public school
$50, 900 for the building of at state public
school of cottage, building for kit
chen and dining room, building for
school rooms and to convert other rooms
now used for these purposes
into employees quarters. Assembly
bills were concurred in as fol-
lows Relating to the register of probate
for Rock county; relating to the powers
and acts of guardians. The assembly
joint resolution allowing Assemblyman L.
II. Mead to introduce bill to amend
the relating to the municipal court for
Douglas county was concur1ed in.
Assembly. the senate bill ap-
propriating s5O,5OO to the veterans home
at Waupaca came up for engrossment and
third reading, it was made a special
order for Thursday morning.
Twenty-Five bills we're killed among
them half dozen educational measures;
one repeating the charter of the Cedar
burg Plank Road company; to prevent the
scaling Ct logs by non-residents, and MAX
ing s per cent. the maxum rate of interest.
Bills were passed amending the charter
of Mineral Point; authorizing each
of the cities of Mineral Point and Mantle
woo to borrow $4,000; authorizing the
governor to restore any convict dIscharg-
ed from prison his civil rights if he COM
mits no crime within five years after his
discharge.
WEDNESDAY, March IL.
Sendte.-Senate bills were..passed as fol-
lows: Amending the charter OF the city
of Oshkosh; providing for the purchase of
Simmons Wisconsin digest; vacatlng Elm
street in the city of West Bend; permit
ting the sentence to state prison for year
of persons convicted of the larceny Of prop
erty valued at more than S2O and less than
800; extending and preserving certain
system Of drainage in Racine and Wau-
kesha counties; providing that no account
ing in the county court shall be necessary be-
fore beginning an action against suretles,
when the guardian shall die or remove out
of the jurisdiction of the court appointing
such guardlrn.
assembly Nearly the entire session
was given up to Mr. Williams bill grant
ing to all persons civil and legal rights. 1t
came before the house for engrossment
and third reading with an amendment
proposed by the judiciary committee, strik
ing out certain provisions which practical
" makes the measure of little import, and
leaves the colored man in the enjoyment
of all the rights he at present enjoys. Mr..
Williams, the author of the bill, opened
the discussion. He first offered an amend
ment to the amendment, making it apply
to all citizens" rather than persons. He
then went on to say that Michigan,
Minnesota, Illinois, and others
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
SATURN'S RINGS.
They Will Almost E2ti rely Disappear for a
While During This Year.


An event of rare and great interest to
astronomers, the disappearance OF Saturn S
rings will take place this year. Ever
since the discovery of his rings Saturn
has held a prominent place among the
marvels of the heavens. A body 700 times
greater than the earth, attended by eight
moons, and encircled by three-foId ring,
must prove very interesting. What these
rings are las long been d pulling
question to astronomers. The theory now
most generally accepted is that they are
composed of crowds of satellites, too small
to be seen separately. On September %,
the plane of the rings will pass through
the eartn At that time mundane beings
will see them edgewise, if at all, and
as seen through powerful telescopes they
will present the appearance of a straight
line of light. Between September % and
October 80 they will almost en- 'irely dis
appear, as the sun and the earth will
be on opposite sides of the plane of
rings. After October 80 they will reap
pear, the sun again shining on the same
side presented to the earth
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
Keeping Away from 13.
nanyap Tinaz

Probably few people are aware of the
extent to which the ''l3" superstition is
carried out of this country. Many Of the
prominent hotels have no room with that
number, while large number of the Of
flee skip the same or mark the rooms on
the first floor by the letters of the alhpa-
bet, beginning the numbers on the second
floor at 200, the third floor at 300, and SO
on up in regular succession. Owners OF
buildings where that number Is on an Of
fee find it difficult to rent the room In con-
sonI1inca
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19

A Coneordia, Kan, preacher had valu-
able horse blanket stolen during the pro-
Dress of series of revival meetings. In
q few DAYS the thief was converted by the
nreacber's words, and the next day re-
turned the stolen blanket and confessed
his sin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
The Western Settlers Chosen Specific.

With every advance of emigration into the far
West, new demand is created for Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters. Newly peopled regions are fire.
4uently less salubrious that older settled local.
tiles. on account of the miasma which rises from
recently cleared land particularly along the banks
of rivers that are subject to freshets. The agri-
cultural or mining emigrant soon learns, when he
does not already know, that the Bitters afford the
only sure protection against malaria, and those
disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels, to
which climatic changes. exposure, and unaccus.
toned or unhealthy water or diet subject him.
Consequently. he places an estimate upon this
great household specific and preventive common
surae with its intrinsic merits and is careful to
health 80 implicitly to be relied upon In time Of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19

Strange how much more pride a man
takes in having lived long than in hav-
ing lived well.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-03
A FOREIGNERS FEUD
RESULTS IN A FURIOUS RIOT AT WEST
QVERTON MINES

| Italians Raid a Hungarian Settlement, and
Clubs, Knives and Revolvers Are Freely
Used-At Least Two Combatants Fa-
tally Wounded.
SCoTTDALE, PA, Nov. 2.-[Specid. i
This afternoon meager reports reached
here of terrible riot at West Overton last
night Telephone messages also asked that
officers be sent, and three special officers
started at once from here. Late tonight
the police returned with several italian
prisoners They were employees of the
Stark Brothers, building the water works
there, and were at once bailed out by their
employers.
A fight had taken place between Italians
on one side and Hungarians on the other.
Sticks and stones were used at first, but as
the battle became warmer several Italians
drew their knives and this was a signal for
the infuriated Hungsrians to begin shoot
ing. Two of the Italians are fatally shot,
and were taken away by their friends. They
refused to give their names. Police officers
who were at the scene state that the Ital-
ians, who had been drinking, made raid
through q Hungarian settlement at West
Overton, and began yelling at the women,
and finally threw stones into the houses. A
gang of Hungarians formed and made dash
for the Italians
Over 80 shots were fired, while each man
who had no pistol was armed with knife
When the two Italians fell mortally
wounded, there was a cessation in the strug-
gle long enough to enable two officers to
break up the riot. Hardly / man out of
the 40 in the fight escaped without severe
wounds, and it is thought of the wounded
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-03

at such depth that it was considered inn
possible for bricks to be buried they were
laughed at, but the men insisted that bricks
were at the bottom of the we'll
As there were no brick houses in the town
and there had never been it could not be
believed but that the strong assertions of
the drillers induced many people to visit
the place, and while quite a crowd was
around the we'll hole the men brought up to
the surface lot of mud from the bottom
and examined it, as they had done from the
time they found the brick residue.
In the mass of mud was small piece Of
metal, which was cleaned off, and was found
to be a piece of money. 1t was octagonal in
shape, and had hieroglyphics on it which
could not be deciphered, but which evident
ly were meant to represent the value of the
piece. 1t was totally different from any
thing ever seen in this neighborhood, and
the piece was brought to this city, where it
was shown to numismatics, but all agreed in
pronouncing it as something beyond their
knowledge
1t is claimed by antiquarians here that
bricks and coin are the relicso prehis-
toric race which lived here many years be-
fore the Indians, and who built the pave
ments and roads which were discovered at
Memphis on the other side of the river
above here The coin will be sent to the
Smithsonian Institution for examination,
but the owner says it will take large
amount of money to buy it, as he thinks it
is worth fOrtue to someone.