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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-02-18
VISION SIN NEWS.

Two weeks ago while out target shoot
ing at Viola, Enoch Erickson and Louis
Marker were wrestling for the possession
Of gun, when it was accidentally dis
charged, the ball entering Erickson s
right arm below the elbow and leaving it
above, only penetrating the Aeshy part.
Inflammation has since set IN and the
doctors say the arm will have to be am
putated.
Sheriff Gallagher has arrested Charles
Larsellere, the defaulting treasurer of
Langlade county, at Johnstown, n D.,
and is awaiting requisition from Gov
Peck. 1t is reported that E. Daskam, one
Of the bondsmen, is to give 5000 for his
arrest, and Jesse Armstrong 800. The
other b0ndsmen are l.. Strasser, G. W.
Latta, George Wunderlich, A. B. Millar6,
A NJ Willard, Charles Leipner, n. Bangs
and Amos Baum.
Evangelist NJ. B. Williams, who has
met with phenomenal success as revival
list at Marinette, raised $500 for the
erection of a 7. NJ. G. A. building in one
night. He will endeavor to secure
$780, 900 and the building will undoubtedly
be erected in the spring
The students of Lawrence university at
Appleton, have been having considerable
trouble with the officers Of the faculty and
Y. NJ. c.. A. Three students were ex-
PEELED recently, aad their companions are
greatly worked up over the
affair and promise to make trouble for
some one.
Mike Lehner, Of Leroy, sent his hired
man recently for a load of wood; the man
misunderstood him and returned with a
load of bullheads. He was out al night
on the ice, and Mr.. Lahnr and crew were
looking for him in the woods.
Chester Bell, the second Of the three
prisoners who escaped from the Eau
Claire county Jail, was captured Sunday at
Winona and brought back to jail.
The work of putting in the electric
light plant at West Bend has progressed
so far that the light has been turned on
in portion Of the business places of the
city.
The Schuetzen Hall, Neenah's only play
house, burned. The fire was discovered
soon after minstrel performance that
was presented during the evening. The
origin of the fire is not known. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $500 The hall will
probably not be rebuilt.
The Fox River Paper company at Apple
ton will this year construct a new paper
mill. The capacity will be from eight to
ten tons daily This will max the third
mil Of this size owned by this company.
1t will be located adjoining the present
mills.
Mrs. D. w Rowlands, of Oshkosh, was
attacked py cat, which she was trying to
put out of the house. Her hands were
badly lacerated. She was bitten in ten or
eleven places, rendering her helpless. 1t
is feared blood poisoning Will set in.
The Dairymen's association at Oshkosh,
reelected officers: president, ex Gov.
Hoard; secretary, D. W. Curtis, Fort
Atkinson; treasurer, Fl. K. LoomiS, She
boygan.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-02-18
TIE GREAT AMERICAN DESERT.
This is One of the Strange Corners of Our
Country.

The Great American Desert was almost
better known generation ago than 1t Is
to day. Then thousands of the hardy Ar
gonauts on their way to California had
traversed that fearful waste on foot with
their dawdIing OK teams, and hundreds of
them left their bones to bleach in that
thirsty land. The survivors of those deadly
journey. bad a very vivid idea of what
that desert was; but now that we can roll
across it in less than day in Pullman
palace cars, its real-and still existing
horrors are largely forgotten. have
walked it's hldeous length alone and
wounded, and realize something more of
it from that than a great many railroad
journeys across it have told me. Now
every transcontinental railroad crosses the
great desert which stretches up and dawn
the ntinent, ives. of the Rocky mount
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-02-18

Another descendant of Lief. Bertel
Thor waldsen, the son of the poor Danish
wood-carver, who was born on ship
board between Ireland and Denmark
in ITO, became a famous sculptor.
He died in Copenhagen IN 1874. His
magnificent representation of the "Tri-
umphal Entry of Alexander into Baby
Ion" was executed for the great Napoleon.
His largest single work is the colossal
lion near Lucerne, Switzerland, commem-
orative of the Swiss guards who fell while
defending the Iuileries, Aug. 10, 1892
Thorwaldsen' s statute is soon to be erect
ed IN Central Park-Exchange
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-02-18
Boy Character.

1t is the creates. deIusisn In the world
for boy to get the idea that his life is of
no consequence, and that the character of
it will SHINE like a star in any conmun-
ity. A boy may possess as much of noble
character as a man. He may SO speak
and live the truth that there shall be no
discount on his word. And there are
suca noble, Christian boys, and wider and
deeper than they are apt to think is their
influence. They are the king boys among
their fellows, having an immense infiu-
ence for good, and loved and respected
because of the simple fact of living the
truth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-02-18
SUCCESS Is GENUINE.
1t Requires ii Peculiar and Distinct Indi.
viduality.

1t Re qutres II Peculiar and Distinct IDdi-
viduality.
1t seems as if success were talent in
itself, dependent, it is true, on other
qualities in greater or less degree, but
having, nevertheless, separate and dis
tinct individuality. Some people quite
wrongfully call this quality luck" 1t is
quite unjust, however, for although of
course in many instances fortuitous
chain of circumstances may make or mar
a man, as a rule the successful person gen.
orally owes his or her position to some in
trinsic merit-to the talent, in short, of
'getting on.
1t is not cleverness only; it is certainly
not genius; it is not even perseverance,
necessary as that quality may be,
although any or all Of these properties
may be found in a successful man or
woman. 1t is perhaps the happy faculty
of Selling the right moment, of striking
when the iron is hot, or that we'll known
attribute which is generally ascribed to
the English, but which Americans Ger
tainly have their full share CT, the rour-
age that ''does not know when it is
beaten
However we may try to discover its
component paris, this subtle q1aIity
defes analysis, and can never be either
taught or learned, and we try in vain to
solve the mystery OF why some people sue.
coed in everything they undertake and
others fail.-New York Tribune.
SALEM XVII(uES
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-02-18
SALEM WITCHES.
Strange Ideas About Them in the Good
Old DAYS.

Old Days.
"One of the theories of the age was that
the devil set his mark upon each of his
servants and that witches were all
Marked" says Winfield S. Nevins in the
New England Magaziner. "A jury Of the
sex of the accused was appointed to exam
inc the body for such marks. 1t often
happened that some excresence of flesh
common to old people, or one explainable
by natural causes was found One such
was found ON the body of Goody Nurse,
and reported to the court, all but one of the
jnry agreeing to the report. Rabecca
Preston and Mary Tarbell knew that the
mark was from natural causes. The
prisoner stated to the court that the
dissenting woman of the jury Of ex-
animation was one of the most
ancient, skillful and prudent, and
farther declared, Il there rendered
a sufficient known reason of the NOV ing
cause thereof" She asked for the ap-
pointment of another jury to inquire into
the case and exanin, the marks found on
her person. The jury of trials returned a
verdict of not guilty. Thereupon all the
accusers In court cried out with renewed
vigor and were taken in the most violent
fits, rolling and tumbling about, creating
scene of the widest confusion. The
judges told the jurymen that they had not
carefully considered one expression of the
pri- oner, namely, that one Hobbs, con-
fessing witch, was brought in as evidence
against her, she said What, do You
bring her? She is one of u.s. The jury
retired tor further consultation. Even
then they could not agree upon a verdict
of guilty. They returned to the courtroom
and desired that the accused explain the
remark. She made no response, and the
jury returned a verdict o. guilty"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-02-18
CRIME.

The officers of the Louisiana Lottery
company have been indicted by fedora
grand jury at Boston, and deputy United
States marshal has started for New Or.
leans TO serve the warrant.
MAYOR JAMES g. WYMAN, of Ale
gheny, Pa, has been declared guilty of ex
tortion and will be deposed from Office
Other city officials are still to be tried or
similar charges.
AN insolvent firms treasurer is arrested
in Minneapolis on the charge of embez
element.
MARION C. HEDsRETH, the alleged
leader of the gang that robbed railway
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-02-18

Bernhard astonished TIE people Of Ma
con. Ga. by spending S47.75 for cable
gram to relatives in Cairo, Egypt, inform
ing them OF the state of her precious
health.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-02-18
Talm age on Novels,

PeoLle constantly write to me and ask:
DO you believe in women reading
novels? p Ny friends it all depends upon
the novel, writes T. De Witt Talmage, in
his department in the January Ladies'
Home Journal" Some novels are ex-
hilerating, bat a greater percentage of
them seem to me to belong more to the
literary men and women of the past than
Of the preset Some of our modern
novels are appalling in their influence
But as one young girl writes me: "The
heroes are SO adroitly knavisb, and the
persons so bewitchingly untrue, and the
turn of the story SO exquisite, and all the
characters so enrapturing, | can't quit
them Ny sister, you can find styles of
literature just as charming that will ell e.
vate ana purify, and enoble, and Chritian-
ize while they please. The devil does not
own all the honey. There is a wealth of
good books coming forth from our pub
fishing houses that leaves no excuse for
the choice of that which is debauching to
the body, nina and soul. Go to some
intelligent man or woman and ask for
list of books that will be strengthening
to your mental and moral condition
Life is so short and your time for improve
ment SC abbreviated, that you can not
afford to fill up with husks, and cinders
and debris.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-02-18

Douglas Tilden, the American deaf
mute sculptor, is winning valuable lan-
rels in Paris. His Base Ball Player" IN
plaster, which was sent to the salon of
1889, was most favorably criticised.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-02-18
EIGHTEEN PERISH.
Passengers Locked in Railway Carriags
Are Roasted to Death.

BUCHAREST, Feb. 8.-A newspaper Of
this city reports that first
class carriage attached to an
express train bound for BraiLa was
burned and eighteen passengers asleep
when the fire broke out persisted in the
flames, the doors of the carriage Being
ocked.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-02-18

Though Victor Hugo's Hermann has
oeen ruled out of public school as unfit
for children to read, a scene from that his
toric drama figures very extensively In
Mrs. Wards The History of David
Grieve
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-02-18

Lord Alfred Churchill, brother of the
duke of Marlborough, and uncle of Lord
Randolph Churchill, is in Boston, accom-
panied by Lady Churchill and their
daughter. He is a conservativ in nolitics
and is 68 years of age.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-02-18

A scientific journal states tnat little
sugar put on the hands with soap will
greatly increase its lather and cleansing
power, and will -emove dirt. chemical
stains, ETC.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-02-18
BITS OF HISTORY
Row Certain Customs of Society Came
Into Use.

There are a number of societies in the
world that bear strange names, but
probably one of the most curious was q
club founded in 1885 by an English actor.
1t was called 1.-The Sublime Society OF
Bsefsteaks, and had among its members
the Prince OF Wales and other royal per
sonages. They met In the painting room
OF the Covent Garden Tbeater, and dined
upon beefsteak. The club was in exis-
tence for more than hundred years, and
became q1lte noted because of its odd
customs. Another strange name was
that of the ''Scriblerus Club" which
Swift founded in IVA, and to which
Pope, Gay, and other literary men be
longed.
Sedan chairs were first used in England
by the DIXIE of Buckingham during the
reign OF James |. The first chair aroused
much indignation among the people,
who said that men were being used TO do
the work of beasts, but later on they
became very fashionable.
The fashion of saying God bless youi"
after sneezing originated with the an
clients. These people believed that some
danger attended sneezing, so they gener-
ally made short prayer, such as Jupiter
help mel 1t has been found to be she
ustom among savages to do the same,
and Jewish rabbis al. make mention
of the fact. An old Roman writer
says that the custom originated during
d plague, when people who were seem
ingly in good health sneezed and fell
down dead
Bagpipes are generally ascribed to
Scotland, where they have been in use
fer long time, but, according to Har,
per's Young People, it was an instr
ment upon which the ancient Greeks and
Romans played. Nero is said to have
performed upon it, and an old piece of
Grecian sculpture represents a player
on the bagpipe dressed In the fashion
that is known to-day as the His bland
costume
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-02-18

A NEW automatic scale is SO arranged
with an automatic attachment that cars
can be weighed while passing over thetrack
at the rate of four miles an hour. Five
or sin cars can be WEIGHED per minute.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-02-18

IL is not generally known that the duke
of Clarence was not the first son lost by
the princess of Wales. Over twenty years
ago they were bereaved of a son whose re-
mains are inferred in Sandringham church
yard. The child was born on April g.,
1871, hagtiIy baptized that evening, re-
ceiving the name of Charles Albert, and
died the next day. The funeral was at
tended by all the village children.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-02-18

Lady Brooke may be as fllrty as sh6 IS
beautiful, but she doesn't allow her vanity
or love of admiration to interfere with her
duties as the "Laiy BountifuI" of the
district in which she resides, and in dis
tributing brandy as a grip medicine,
founding a successful school of needlework
and in generally looking after the poor
md sick has earned herself local char
acter which does her honor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-02-18

DR.. Carl Herslow, president Of the lower
house of the Swedish parliament, is edi-
tor in-chief Of the Sydsvenka Daybladet,
an influential organ of King Oscar's dc
main. The doctor has long been an &C
tive member of the reichstag, and the
leader of part of the center. He is an
excellent speaker and, being a trained
journalist, is one of the strongest and
most logical debaters in the parliament.
The record-union., 1892-01-16

and snow in the Lower Lake region and
on the Middle and North Atlantic Coasts.
The temperature has risen in the South
west and extreme Northwest and gen.
orally fallen elsewhere. Snow hurries
may be expected in the extreme North
west, and snow on the Middle and North
Atlantic Coasts. The temperature will
gradual y rise in the Mississippi Valley
and westward, and will fall in the At
lantic States.
The last very cold winter was four years
ago, when the great Dakota blizzard
caused over 200 deaths; but during that
memorable January the worst thing
about the weather was the cutting winds
that blinded those who were out doors, so
that many lost their way and were frozen
10 death. 1t is very noticeable in the
present cold snap that no lives have yet
been reported lost. There is little or no
snow in this section. Last night was
PROBABLY the coolest of the season. The
mercury went down until it froze in
many localities.
All through the northern part of Min
nesota, III Manitoba, North Dakota and
the Canadian northwest the temperature
ranged from 3O' to 33o below zero in spirit
thermometers. At 9 this morning it was
As below at Pembina, North Dakota.
FERGUS Falls, Mimi, reports 300 below,
TINS being the sixteenth consecutive
morning with the mercury below zero.
Bismarck reports 240, st. Vincent 4O0,
Moorehead 280 and Winnipeg 400 below.
heavy snowstorm is reported at Elk
Point, S. d.
SNoWSTORM IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Jan. ia severe snow
storm ragged throughout this section of
the country to-day. Trains are somewhat
delayed.
The record-union., 1892-01-16
MURDER OF MRS. BARSABY.
An Endeavor Being Made to Save
Graves From Hanging.

An Endeavor Being Made to Save
Graves From Hanging.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. Is. - Detective
Woods of Denver is in this city claiming
that he has been employed by friends of
DR.. Graves, now under sentence of death
at Denver for the murder of Mrs. Barn
ably. He says that he has thirty affidavits
from people in this city showing that
Mrs. Barnaby was not poisoned by DR..
Graves. These affidavits, while not max
ing direct charges, insinuate that Mrs.
Worrell, Mrs. Barnaby's nurse, did the
poisoning; that Mrs. Worrell is known to
have purchased poison here.
Detective Woods further says that he
has discovered that the strychnine was
purchased here, ostensibly for Mrs. Barn
ably, the purchaser stating that it was
wanted to poison rats. AS Mrs. Barnaby
boarded at the hotels ali the time she was
here, it is not probable that she would
use strychnine for such purpose. The
detective claims that he knows the party
who purchased this poison.
Another affidavit is from servant at
the Arrowhead Springs Hotel, San Ber-
nardino County, where Mrs. Barnaby
stopped. 1t is stated that the servant
heard Mrs. Worrell say she wished that
Mrs. Barnaby would die; that she was a
great trouble to her, and that the only
reason she stayed with her was the hope
that Mrs. Barnaby would leave her some
money in her will.
The record-union., 1892-01-16
HOLMAN CARRIES HIS POINT.
BOTH OF HIS RESOLUTIONS
ADOPTED IN THE HOUSE.
Representative Alexander's Bill ReIat-
ing to Gambling in Agricultural
Products.
Special to the RrcoRp-uS1ox.

WASHINGTON, Jan. l5.-The House Of
Representatives of the Fifty-second Con-
gress has declared emphatic hostility to
subsidies, bounties and land grants, and
pronounced in favor of rigid retrench-
ment in appropriations. Holman's reso-
luton in its entirety was to-day adopted
by the House, but not until after its
author consented that it should be inter-
preted in a sense "broad enough to per-
nit all appropriate and legitimate legis-
lation.'
When the resolutions were reached in
the order of unfinished business, it was
generally expected that Holman would
consent to an amendment modifying the
sweeping character of the resolution.
But he surprised all but few confidants
by refusing to do anything of the kind.
By unanimous consent, he withdrew his
motion of last evening TO reconsider the
vote by which the previous question was
ordered, and said he had come to the con-
clusion that the resolutions were broad
enough to permit any and all appropriate
legislation.
The question was then taken on the
first resolution, relating to bounties and
subsidies. 1t was adopted-ayes 227,
noes IL.
The question was then taken on the
second resolution, referring to the limita-
ton of expenditures, Lying of Wiscon-
sin making vain effort to present a sub
stitute. 1t was agreed to-ayes l64, noes
90.
An Associated Press reporter asked
Holman whether he considered his reso-
luton would preclude an appropriation
or loan for the benefit of the Worlds
Columbian Exposition at Chicago. "rhat
will depend" said he, upon the con-
struction placed upon the legislation that
we have already had in regard to the
Worlds Fair. Appropriations can be
made fora public object, and the World
Fair appropriation will depend upon
preceding legislation"
Representative Alexander to-day intro
duced in the House a bill relating to
gambling in agricultural products. 1t
excludes from mails any letters, postal
cards or circulars concerning such gam
bling; also, newspapers, circulars,
pamphlets, or publications of any kind
containing advertisements, Geographic
reports, or other articles giving quota
tons of the market relating to gambling
in agricultural products. A tax of 81 per
word should be levied on each interstate
telegraph or telephone message used for
or III aid of the gambling referred to in
the Act.
Members of the House Committee on
Rivers and Harbors say it is safe to as
sumo that the river and harbor bill will
be considerable less than at last Congress,
and no new improvements be recon-
mended unless of exceptional merit.
Delegate Smith, Arizona, to-day intro
duced a bill providing for the admission
of Arizona into the Union, in accordance
with the Constitution heretofore ratified
and adopted by the people of the Terri
tory.
President Harrison has issued procla-
nation reserving from entry or settlement
the Pecos River forest reserve, in New
Mexico, and making it public forest
reservation.
The record-union., 1892-01-16
IRRIGATION OF ARID LANDS.
The House Committee Examining the
Various Bills Introduced.

The House Committee Examining the
Various Bills Introduced.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-The House
Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands
had meeting yesterday and made a
superficial examination of the various
irrigation bills that have been introduced.
The committee will meet again in about
two weeks. They expected to make
some Roadway yesterday, but were disap-
pointed in not having the necessary and
expected data before them. The memo
rial prepared by the Irrigation Conven-
ton at Salt Lake City is considered to be
Invaluable, as it contains much data that
would be of aid to the committee. No
one knew what had become ofthis memo
rial. A committee of the convention had
been appointed and had prepared it and
were directed to send it to Congress.
Hon. John L. Game, Delegate in Con-
gress from Utah, telegraphed yesterday
TO Governor Thomas as to the disposition
of this memorial and the latter replied he
thought that the President of the Salt
Lake Irrigation Convention had it. This
gentleman is now in Montana. He will
be asked to submit the memorial to Con-
gress. Chairman Lanham of the House
Irrigation Committee says he believes the
tendency in this Congress will be to cede
arid lands to the several States and Terri
tories and allow them to provide their
own irrigation machinery.
The Census Bureau has issued a bulle-
tin upon the subject of irrigation in
Montana. 1t is shown that in that State