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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
Writing on the Cars.

There are two ways of writing on a
train, says the Ladies Home Journal.
The first requires that the paper be laid
upon light board, perhaps eighteen
inches square; one end of this will rest
in your lap, and the end furthest from you
will be raised a few inches by cord which
passes around the neck. The whole af-
fords a sloping desk which moves with
the body and is fairly satisfactory. The
simpler and perhaps the better plan is to
place your tablet upon feather pillow IN
your lap, when you will find that the elias
ITCHY of the feathers reduces the motion to
a minimum, and makes writing easy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25

AMONG the recent arrivals at New York
are 1852 Danes, who will settle in Mary
land ana make dairy and truck farming a
specially. They are good, thrifty people
and the kind of foreigners whom it IS a
pleasure to have come to this country.
They are of the thrifty kind and would be
able to prosper on the deserted farms of
New England, which native-born Ameri-
cans desert rather than starve.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
BRIEFITEMS.

The effect of removing tassels from corn
is to turn the strength of the plant to
the ovaries, and so produce larger
amount of grain.
1t is a mistake to suppose that polar re-
search has cost enormously in human life.
Despite all the great disasters, ninety
seven out of every 100 explorers have re-
turned alive.
Every year layer of the sea fourteen
feet thick is taken up into tie clouds.
The winds bear their burden into the
land, and the water comes down in rain
upon the fields, to flow back again through
the rivers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
THE OLD MAN OF THE SKIFF
f One Loves Travelling and Doesn't Care
for style kiff is Place to Live in.

The following sketch from real life is
from the pen of Miss NJ. 0. Mathes,
daughter of Capt. ]. Harvey Mathes, of
the Dedger and a student at Vasscr:
1t was on Wolf river that we met, the
Old Man of the Skif and |. 1t was the
time of the overflow and the waters of that
small, slow river were hurrying swiftly
along to meet tie Mississippi. 1t was with
difficulty that propelled my frail dugout
Presently sound cane that was not the
fall of the water snake nor the tapping
of greedy water against the tree trunks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25

A MIS2EAPoLIs minister lately said
that tile parQnet seats in hell will likely
be reserved FOR newspaper men. Some
one will surely get a roasting if Old Nick
tries to palm of third gallery seats on the
members Of the craft
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25


nom de plume Nym Crinkle, has left the
New York World for the Morning Adver-
tiser. Mr.. Wheeler began his journalistic
career in Milwaukee nearly thlrty years
ago, and has won a front rank among
dramatic critics of the county.
***
Baron Hlrsch is the coming man IN
North Carolina. He has purchased 24O, 600
acres of land in that state and expects to
have $4,000 expatriated Russian Hebrews
upon it before the snow flies.
Augustus Harris has published a
HYMN of Praise to the prince of w ales.
If Albert Edward had been wise he would
have gagged Harris before he had a
chance to shoot off his little piece.
Mrs. Leslie Carter and David Belasco,
accompanied by Mrs. Carriers mother,
sailed for New York by the City of Paris
last Wednesday. Their business abroad
was completed with the most successful
results. While in Paris Mrs. Carter
portrait was painted by Emile Bourdelle
Who rron tbroo rrizps at the recent salon.
~**
Ex-senator Mcdonald is avery sick man
according to his own admission. he has
an affection of the stomach and kidneys
for which medical science seems to bring
no relief, and he is old enough to feel thai
his race of life is nearly run.
***
Prince Bismarck has the lumbago. 1t is
quite like the measIy lumbago to stab the
grand old hero in the back.
***
Ire ReV' Dr. Isaac l.. NlcnolSon' WIG
mas oeen electeu oIShop Oh MILWAUKEE, W
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
ABOUT PEOPLE.

A. C. Wheeler, better known by his
nom de plume Nym Crinkle, has left the
New York World for the Morning Adver-
tiser. Mr.. Wheeler began his journalistic
career in Milwaukee nearly thirty years
ago, and has won a front rank among
dramatic critics Of the county.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25

The works of watches are now plated
with palladium, which is a whittier, lighter
and more tusible metal than platinum.
About one-seventeenth of grain of pal
ladium will, by electrical deposition, coat
The works of an ordinary watch.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25

Baron Hlrsch is the coming man In
North Carolina. He has purchased FAC, 1000
acres of land in that state and expects to
have $4,000 expatriated Russian Hebrews
upon it before the snow flies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25

Horse thieve. returned stolen colt at
La Grange for fear of the vigilance COM
mittee.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25

Augustus Harris has published a
Hymn of Praise to the prince of Wales.
If Albert Edward had been wise he would
have gagged Harris before he had a
chance to shoot off his little piece.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25

A Missouri man was advised by his ply
sician to seek change of climate, and all
he did was to go home and wait for the
next day
The record-union., 1891-05-03
LABOR TROUBLES.
Turbulence Continues in tho Mining
Districts of France and Belgium.

Turbulence Continues in tho Mining.
Districts of France ana Belgium.
LONDON, May 2.-Turbulence contin-
ues in the mining districts of France and
Belgium. In Saring and Liege, in Bel
GUM, determined attempts were made by
strikers to prevent any men who refused
to join their ranks from working. When
the non-strikers attempted to commence
work they were attacked by strikers with
stones and other missiles. The GEN
darmes were compelled to envoke the
military.
During the riot on Friday at Bekes,
Hungary, Il number of enraged peasants
made a savage attack and severely in
jured the Chief Magistrate OF the place for
prohibiting May Day demonstrations.
Upon the military coming to the rescue,
a sharp affray took place, and many riot
ers We're wounded. The fighting caused
the greatest excitement, and the authori-
ties were compelled to declare the place
in a state of siege. All shops are closed,
and the latest reports say the people are
still wildly excited.
BRUSSELS, May I'm spite of the man
ifesto issued by the council of the work
ingmen's party urging the workmen
not to go out on strike pending a decis-
ion of the Chamber in regard to the de-
mands being made throughout Belgium
for universal suffrage, 10000 miners and
1000 iron workers in CharIeroy district
have struck work.
The record-union., 1891-05-03
CANADA'S PARLIAMENT.
The Government Arraigned for It's
Epithets Toward America.

The Government Arraigned for Its
Epithets Toward America.
OTTAWA (Ont.l, May I'm the
House yesterday Laurier of the OPPOSE
ton arraigned the Government for the
insulting epithets which Sir John Mac
donald and other members of the Cabi-
net had showered upon the United States
during the recent campaign. The result
of the recent elections, he held, was a
practical victory for the Liberal party
and their policy of unrestricted reciproc-
ity.
Sir John in reply said the Government
had every reason to congratulate them
selve for the manner in which the country
had repudiated the Liberal party and
their policy of annexation. He regretted
the loss Of several of his supporters who
had fallen in battle, but the defeat was
due to the Mckinley bill and not to any
charges that could be directly brought
against the Government.
Cartwright characterized the whole
course of the Government as one calcu-
lated TO eXasperate and irritate the
United States against Canada, and he re-
GREETED that Sir John had not seen fit to
withdraw the unfriendly references he
had made to that great republic, in the
place of saying that he would stand by
what he had said. The conduct of the
Canadian Government in 1886 had almost
drawn the United States into CONNER
cial war against the Dominion as suisse
quently had been pointed out by Topper.
The Liberal party had repeatedly urged
the adoption of some measure that would
lead to the freest possible commercial in
tercOurSe between Canada and the United
States. There is one of few things GER
tain to occur. Free trade with the United
States or the practical suspension of all
commercial intercourse with the Repub-
lie. By their attitude toward the United
States, the insults they had heaped upon
IS, 100000 people of the great Republic to
the south of the Dominion, the Govern
ment had aroused a spirit Of hostility to-
ward Canada instiIe United states, whose
influence President Harrison or Secre-
tary Blame could not ignore Sir John
Macdonald has denounced every one who
voted for the Liberal party and unre-
stricted reciprocity as annexationists.
and, according to this theory and the re-
suit of the recent elections, over one-half
OF the population of Canada are in favor
Of political alliance with the United
States. If annexation ever became a live
issue in Canada it would be through the
acts of the present Administrator, who
had precipitated such a state Of affairs in
the country.
Minister of Finance. Foster was not
in condition to define the Governments
position in regard to the pending nego-
tiatiOns at Washington, but would ask
the House to wait patiently until the cor
respondence in the case was brought
down, when it would be seen that they
had acted in the best interests of the
country. He would say, however, that
the Government considered the treaty of
1854 fair treaty alike to Canada and the
United States.
The record-union., 1891-05-03
The Negroes Hold the Fort.

KANSAS CITY, May News late to-
night from the two seats of war in Indian
Territory, where the full-bloods are max
ing campaign against the negro in
truders, state that at Gooseneck Bend the
negroes still hold the fort at the muzzles of
Winchester rifles and brass cannon.
The Cherokees up to this evening had not
attacked them. 1t is reported that the
Cherokee Government will call for vol
unteers TO drive the negroes Oft, or fight
them.
The difficulty at Lanapat it is feared
will result in a serious outbreak. The
negroes are still in possession of the town,
but the Sheriff left Tahlequah to-day with
a posse to reinforce the authorities.
The record-union., 1891-05-03
TURF TOPICS.
Racing Events at Nashville, Washing
ton and Lexington.

Racing Events at Nashville, Washing
ton and Lexington.
NASHVILLE, May 2.-Tha track was
fast. First race, two-year-olds, four fur
longs, Maggie Sebus won, Xantippe sec
ond, Henry Jenkins third. Time, :501.
Three-year-olds and upward, one mile,
Bertha won, Blue Veil second, Red Sign
third. Time, 1:429.
Blue Wing handicap, three-year-olds
and upward, six furlongs, BRACES won,
Philora second, Wild Rose third. Time,
lis.
Three-year-olds and upward. one mile,
Bonnie Bird won, Ida Pickwick second
Chimes third. Time, l:43I.
Two-year-olds, nine-sixteenths of a
mile, Tom Paxton won, Come There sec
ond, Elsie S. third. Time, 0:574.
AT WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, May 2.-Six furlongs,
King Alta won, Geo. III. second, Rustic
third. Time, LII.
Six furlongs, III Wind won. Recess sec
ond, Minnie third. Time, lila
one mile, Kitty I. won, Tally Hoo sec
ond, Sequence Colt third. Time, las.
Mile and q sixteenth, Eleve won, GYPSY
Queen second, Longshot third. Time,
I:52.
Mile Steeplechase, Pat Oakley won,
Stonewall second, Delaware third. Time,
3:51.
AT LEXINGTON.
LEXINGTON, May 2.-Three-year-olds
and upward, seven furlongs, Eugenia
won. Portland second, Happiness third.
Time, 1:29.
Two-year-old maidens, four furlonps.
Strathmaid won, Greenwich second,
Ranger third. Time. :5l.
Three-vear-old tillieS six furlOpps
Hawkins third. Time, 1:I54.
Thfee-year- Odds, one mile, Hueneme
won, Mirabeau second, Brookwood
third. Time, 1:453.
Two-year-olds, nine-sixteenths of a
mile, Lord Clifton won, Content second,
Jack Richelieu third. Time, :571.
The record-union., 1891-05-03
A Murderer's Attempted Escape.

KANSAS CITY, May 2. Jefferson
Hughes, who kicked his wife to death in
a quarrel, escaped easily to-day. Judge
White directed the jury to bring in a
verdict of manslaughter in the second
degree, because Hughes committed the
crime in the heat of passion. The Jury
found as instructed, and Judge White
sentenced Hughes to five years. When
being taken TO the jail, he slipped the
handouts and made a break for liberty.
The deputies fired at HIM and brought
him down with bullet in his shoulder.
The record-union., 1891-05-03

don't want any reduction in the present
duties upon that article, but the members
supporting the Government say the cost
must be reduced to the consumer in some
way, unless they are to be annihilated at
the polls. Bremmer, Inspector OF Sugar
Refneries, has made report upon the
whole question, and it is said he recon-
mends the abolition of the duty on raw
sugar, keeping up the duty on refined.
The Nova Scotia members propose ask
ing the Government this session to in
crease the duty on American soft and
hard coal
The record-union., 1891-05-03
POPE LEO AND LABOR.
The PapaI Encyclical on the Labor
Question Delayed.

The Papa1 Encyclfcal on the Labor
Question Delayed.
LONDON, May cardinal Manning
says the PRONUNCIATION of the Papal En-
cyclical on the labor question has been
delayed by the condition of the Popes
health and other impediments, and
would probably not be made before the
end of the present month. The Cardinal
admitted that he had been permitted to
read in advance a draft of the compost
ton substantially as it will be laid before
the public. lie could confidently declare
II To be one of the most important docu-
mentS ever issued from the Vatican. 1t
is of great length, and discusses all phases
of the labor problem. The tone is sym.
pathetic and temperate.
Cardinal Manning expresses his con-
viction that it will prove to be n beacon
of hope, not only TO the Catholic work
ingmen and their employers, but to the
masses at large, irrespective of sect or
creed. The Cardinal, in abiding to the
Royal Labor Commission. which held its
first session yesterday, rejoiced in the OPP
portunity afforded through this body of
obtaining the practical recommendations
of the leading representatives of capital
and labor, which could not fail to result
in the benefit of ali interested in a salts
factory solution of the all-absorbing
problem.
Sugar and Coal Duties.
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Fighting Il Trust.

CINCINNATI, May 1.-The Sportsman
Shot Company of this city asks for
restraining order against a com bination
known as the American Shot and Lead
Company, which, it asserts, it was induced
to enter by fraudulent representations,
and which now is about to damage plain
tiff's business. The appointment of
receiver was asked for, and also the can
collation. ofdeeds transferring it's property
to the Trust. Judge Saylor granted a
temporary injunction.
The record-union., 1891-05-03
Chilean Insurgents

PARIS, May 2.-The Chilean insurgent
party has issued 4 notification which has
been presented to the French Govern
ment, to the effect that q provisional
Government, with Ministers and Con-
gressmen who are opposed to President
Balmaceda, has been established for the
administration of affairs i'll eight of the
Chilean provinces which are now in the
hands OF the insurgents.
The record-union., 1891-05-03
Death of a Chico Citizen.

CHICO Cali May. 2.-George w. Dorm
died at O'Clock this morning of stomach
trouble. He was aged fifty-four years.
Deceased was Treasurer of Esmeralda
merchant here the past twenty years, and
Superintendent of the Gas and Water
Company for the past six years, up to
his death. He leaves a wife and five
children
The record-union., 1891-05-03
Coke strikers CeIebratfng.

ScoTTDALE (Pa.), May 2.-Srikers are
celebrating tonight over the withdrawal
OF at least 500 men from the various
plants. This was brought about by the
free disbursement of money. Their
funds are improving, Clearfield and other
regions having voted to make an assess
ment on the coal mined for their benefit.
The operators are not idle, however, and
labor is being steadily imported to take
the places of the deserters.
The record-union., 1891-05-03
Poor Crons In Kansas.

KANSAS City, May 2.--Reports from
sixteen principal wheat-growing counties
of Kansas say that wheat is turning yell
low from some unknown cause, and
those counties will not yield more than
half to two-thirds of a crop, Reno
county reports much damage from the
Hessian fly. The bug appears in several
Counties where wheat is turning yellow.
Several counties reported damage from
HrOupht
The record-union., 1891-05-03

machinery of the s.. e if he can. The
Republicans are protIy sure to elect the
Legislature, and that will add to his en-
barrassment."
do you think Cleveland can get the
New York delegation at the Democratic
National Convention 2"
Hill undoubtedly has control of the
Democratic machinery in the State, and
it is impossible to tell what may happen.
One thing is certain, that Hill is in a
hole"
How does New York stand on the
question of the Republican nomination.
II think Harrison is Strengthening him-
self. think his speeches on this trip
have done him good. The New York
delegation at the next Republican Con-
vention will be for him, l think, and he
will be renOminated -
The record-union., 1891-05-03
A Political Economists Funeral.

ST. PETERSBURG, May 2.-The funeral.
to-day of Schelgounow, the well-known
Russian political economist, was made
the occasion of great demonstration.
Students of both sexes marched through
the main thoroughlares in defiance of the
police, and many were later arrested. Re-
ports are received here that riotous and
revolutionary meetings have been held at
Warsaw, the capital of Russian Poland.
The record-union., 1891-05-03
DR.. Boutwell, Growing Worse.

NEW YORK, May Rev. Dr.. Boutwell,
passed night of feverish delirium. He
rallied this morning and sank into a
peaceful sleep. His wife sat by his bed
side all night. III the deiirium he imag-
ined himself at home and laughed and
jolxed with the children. Symptoms of
pneumonia are developing, and all efforts
to remove tho cork are abandoned for the
T1nSpDt
The record-union., 1891-05-03
DESTRUCTIVE FLAMES.
The Business Portion of a Mime
sofa Town in Ruins.
FOREST FIRES RAGING IN NEW
JERSEY.

4ittle Hope Held Ont by the Physi-
clans for the Recovery of Rev, DR..
Boutwell, His Condition Growing
Rapidly Worse-Two Outlaws Settle
Feud With Pistols, Which Ter1nI-
mated TN Both Being Fatally Shot
New York Charities Association.
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WITH GREAT CEREMONY.
Formal Opening of the Naval Elk
hibitiOn at Chelsea.
MANY INTERESTING EXHIBITS PRE-
SENTED.

Many People Wounded In a Riot in
Boxes, Hungary-The City Declared
in State of Siege-Thirty Thou
sand Miners and Four Thousand
Charleroy District, Belgium - In
fiuenza Is Rapidly Spreading in
London.
The record-union., 1891-05-03
An Overflow Threatened,

STOCKTON, May 2.-Reports from
Lockeford, in the northeastern part of
this county, say that the late warm
weather has melted the snow and caused
large rise in the Mokelumne River,
which threatens to overflow the grain
lands along the river bottoms. No heavy
damage is feared
The record-union., 1891-05-03
New York Charities Association.

New YORK, May "A public meeting
of the State Charities Aid Association was
held tonight to commemorate the
removal of two thousand insane
persons from the poorhouses of the State
and the completion of legislation in their
behalf, whereby, after contest of four
years, the poorhouse system of caring FOR
the insane has been abolished, and the
State has assumed entire charge and
maintenance Of dependent insane.
Ex-Pyesident Cleveland spoke on Tho
Duty of the Citizen in Relation to Public
Charities" He advocated frequent in
spection by authorized societies in civil
life of insane asylums, public and private,
to prevent any restraint of sane persons
therein.
The record-union., 1891-05-03
End OF Two Notorious outlaws.

MIDDLEsBoRo Ky.), May I'm Wal
nut Hill, Va, yesterday, Jim Jackson,
alias Chicken Eater and Jim Crabtree,
alias "Big Bulldog" two notorious out
laws, between whom feud has long ex-
listed, met. Crabtrce shot Jackson in the
heart, and ball from Jackson's revolver
penetrated Crabtree's brain. Both men
died instantly.
The record-union., 1891-05-03
POLITICAL PRATTLE.
DickinsOn'S Scheme for Capturing
Presidential Electors.
1T DOES NOT MEET THE APPROVAL
OF CHAIRMAN BRICB.

Governor Hill, of New York, Said to
Have Gotten Himself in Hole, Po-
1itically Speaking-The Republicans
Confident of Winning the Next
observation-disclosures Current That
President Harrison Intends to APP
point Several Democrats to Circuit
JudgeShipS.
The record-union., 1891-05-03
Influenza Spreadipo Popid1v

LONDON, May 2.-Inhuenza is spread
ing rapidly in England. In London
many barristers, officials of the law
courts and members OF the Lords and
Commons are suffering. At the Wool
witch arsenal so many workmen are laid
up that work is interfered with.
The record-union., 1891-05-03
Prince Napoleon,s place of Rnrtol.

PARIS, May 1.-The French Govern
ment has refused the demand of the
executors of the will Of the late Prince
Napoleon in regard to the latter's final
place of burial The executors ask that,
according to the terms Of the Princes
will, his body should be inferred on the
Isle OF Sanguinaitres, near Ajaccio, Cor
The record-union., 1891-05-03
THR new JUDGEsHIPs.

WASHINGTON, May 2.-The Star says
1t IS reported that President Harrison has
indicated disposition not to regard the
new positions of United States Circuit
Judges, of which nine are to be filled
when Congress meets, as party patronage,
but to give some Of the appointments to
Democrats, holding That the bench ought
not to be constructed on a pronounced
political basis The Democrats, hereto
fore acting upon the. assumption that the
President, being strong partisan, would
appoint all Republicans to the positions,
have not brought forward any candidates,
except that it has been said if any Demo
Gratis were to be appointed, Culberson, Of
Texas, would probably be one of those
selected. 1t is now stated that probably
three or four of the nine Judges will be
Democrats, unless the President has
changed his mind recently.
The record-union., 1891-05-03
Negro Lynched.

COLUMBUS (Miss.), May 2.-Monroe
Waters (coIored), the ringleader in an
attempt to poison Captain Barrentine,
when on his way here from Birmingham,
Alabama, was seized by mob at Hudson
and lynched.
The record-union., 1891-05-03
Injunction Against Stock Yards.

OMAHA, May 1.-The commission firm
of Johnson, Higgins & Co. to-day secured
an injunction against the South Omaha
Stock Yards Company, restraining the
management from discriminating against
the plaintiff. They allege that they have
been notified by the stock yards company
that they must pay in advance the switch
ing charges freight charges, and for all
hay and grain fed to cattle. The case will
be argued on May 9th for permanent in
junction.
The record-union., 1891-05-03
Fatal Runaway Accident.

MODESTO, May Frank Pache was
thrown out of a buggy this evening by
runaway horse and fractured his skull,
and died three hours later. He was the
proprietor Of the French Gardens, near
this city, for fifteen years.
The record-union., 1891-05-03
His Condition Improving.

SAN DIEGO, May 2.-For several days
Judge Alphouso Taft has been quite i'll at
his home in this city. His physician re-
ports him much improved this evening.
The Judges illness is the result of infirm-
tiles brought on by years of very active
life.