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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29
ATROCKAW
Fire Wipes Out the Main Portion
of the Famous Summer
Resort.
One Hundred and Sixty Acres in
RuinS-Origin of the Fire
Unknown.
Flames Have it Their Own Way
- Score Of Hotels
Destroyed.

Rockaway Beach, Sept. 2O.-The Iarg
est conf1agradon that ever occurred on
the Long island coast destroyed over a
hundred frame buildings here today
and left about 4 hundred and sixty
acres mass of ruins. The main pOr-
ton of this famous old summer resort
is completely wiped out.
The fire broke out about 1925 this
afternoon in the Seaside museum. A
high wind carried the flames across
Seaside avenue. Within five minutes
after the flames broke through the roof
of the museum, the fire was roaring on
both sides of the avenue, and, famed
by the wind, began to eat its way in all
directions.
In quick succession the flames at
tackled the hotels along the beach and
on both sides of Seaside avenue.
Among the principal buildings burned
were the Collins hotel, Grand Ocean
hotel, New York hotel, Patterson and
BarriS hotel, Meyers hotel, pavilion and
pier, Burchell's grocery store, r. Simp-
son hotel, Columbus hotel, Roach's an
AS-AS 4AA boo llOuSCs LII L ILL uIuS
Peterson's pool room and the Globe
hotel, the fire tower, electric light sta
ton and GarriSOn's hotel and On the
Beach hotel, Stuttgart Ocean house,
Columbia SchubertS hotel, Morrisons
hotel, Grand Republic hotel, Meissners
hotel, shooting gallery and carousal
Seaman's hotel, Hotel Albemarle and
st. James On-Boulevard.
Besides these buildings, all of large
size, a host of smaller buildings, occu-
pied by drug stores, cigar stores. ice
cream and candy stores, shooting gai-
leries and stores of such classes, were
destroyed. With them went the merry
gO-rounds, carOusals, tobaggan slides
and the many similar devices always
found at seaside resorts.
In vain the residents Of the beach,
aided by bOatmen, battled with the
flames. Their efforts were thrown
away. Aid was summoned, but it's az
rival made little difference. About 6:3O
p. m. the flames, after having practi-
cally burned themselves out for want of
immediate material upon which to feed
"ele drought ulluef conIfOl, out Ine lire
was still burning brightly at midnight.
How the flames started is unknown.
Mrs. Phillips, employed in the museum,
is the only person known to have lost
their lives in the cOnfiagratiOn A num-
Der of persons received burns and other
injuries while fighting the flames. 1t
is impossible tonight even to approx
mately estimate the amount of the
losses. By some it is estimated at over
100000, while others do not believe
the total will amount to one quarter
that amount. 1t is said that the in
surance policies will not more than half
cover the losses.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29
A GIRL SN AXE KILLER.

With Stick and Stone She Destroyed Five
Copperheads.
Clara Greth, a fifteen-year-old girl,
living with her parents on the outskirts
of Reading Pa, who had some thrill
ing experiences with rattlesnakes and
cOpperheads last summer, was sitting
on the front steps the other morning,
when she spied big copperhead SUM-
ping himself on the sloping bank oppo-
site the house.
She was plucky and self-reliant, and
without telling anybody she determined
to kill it. Taking UP a shovel from the
coal shed, she ran over to the bank,
where she found three copperheads in.
stead of one, and they all shwoed fight
She quickly dispatched two of them.
but the third and largest one repeated
~ leaped at her. After short strug-
gle, however, she succeeded in stretch
ing it out dead with its companions,
says the Cincinnati Commercial Ga
Zette.
As soon as she could recover her
breath she examined the ground care
FULLY and came to the conslusion that
the snakes must have come out of a
large hole beside an old fence post. So
she kept an eye on the place during
the rest of the morning, and late in
the afternoon was delighted to see a
big copperhead come up and coil him.
self in the sunshine near the post hole.
She crept up behind it noiselessly
and contrived to place herself between
it and the post hole before the reptile
wa, aware of her presence. She then
struck it with heavy stone, but miss
ed her mark, whereupon the snake
sprang wickedly at her bare feet She
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29
A Fathers Inhuman Act Com
mitted While in a Delirium
Caused by Fever.
Cuts His Babes Throat. Telling
it That it Would be an
Angel.
Washes in the Gore, Saying Jesus
Commanded Him to
Do So.

Norristown, Pa, Sept. 22.-In a de-
Airium caused by typhoid fever, VIII
liam Loeb today cut the throat of his
siXteen-months-old baby, telling it as
he did so that it would be an angel.
He afterwards bathed Lis face in the
llOod OF the child.
" theses We're poWeriess 10 prevent The
tragedy.
Tuesday last, while delirious, Lock
sprang from his bed and going to the
room of his aged mother began to beat
her over the head and shoulders with
a club. Neighbors attracted by her
screams rushed in and oyerpOWered The
frantic man.
The old lady was badly cut and bruised
and her arm was broken in two
places. Physicians fear she will not live
long.
A male nurse was then procured to
watch Lock, but his murderOus instinct
seemed to have left him. Last night,
AAS"NfS4S uullIS I41C SIDSChCS VI Ll1C
nurse, he went out on the porch and
entered the room occupied by his wife
and two small children.
Selling his babe and taking a razor
frOm the mantle, he walked out again
on the porch roof. Holding the child
up in the air, he cried:
eff [ cut your throat you'll be an
angel; Jesus has commanded me to
wash my face in your blood"
The shrieks of the agonized mother
aroused the household and neighbors
but they could not get to the porch in
time to save the child. Lock cut it's
throat from ear to ear, then laying the
bleeding form on the porch he plunged
his hands into the warm blood and
washed his face in the crimson fluid.
Lock was taken to jail, where he will be
held to await the action of the author
tiles
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29
FORCES OF NATURE

The Great Problem OF the Day is How to
Utilize Them.
r. II. HunSton, in September Forum:
The greatest of all our problems to-
day is the making of the utilization
of the forces of nature more general,
| more efficient, and more fruitful. Could
the engineer find a way of producing
steam power at a fraction of it's pres
ent cost; could he transform heat en-
ergy directly and without waste into
dynamic; could he find a method of
evolution of light without that enor
NOUS loss now inevitable in the form
of accompanying heat; could he direct,
ly produce electricity, without other
and lost energy, from the combustion
of fuel-cOuld he do these things to-
day, the growth of ALL that is desirable
to mankind and the advancement Of
all the interests and powers of the race
would be incOnceivably accelerated.
Every animate animal is machine
of enormously higher efficiency as Il
dynamic engine than his most elabor-
ate construction as illustrated in the
10000 horsepower engines of the leu
tonic or the City of Paris or in the most
powerful locomotive. Every gymnotus
living in the mud of a tropical stream
puts to shame mans best effort in the
production of electricity; and the min
ute insect that flashes across his lawn
on summer evening, or the worm
that lights his path in the garden, eX-
hibitS a system of illumination incom-
parably superior to his most perfect
electric lights. Here is natures chaI-
lenge to man! Man wastes One-fOurth
of all the heat of his fuel as utilized
in his steam boiler, and often ninety
per cent. as used in his open fire-placeS;
nature, in the animal system, utilizes
substantially all. He produces light by
candle, oil lamp or electricity, but sub
mitS to a loss of from One-fifth to more
than nine-tenths of all his stock of
available energy as heat; she in the
glOW-WOrm and FREELY, produces a
lovelier light without waste measurable
by our most delicate Instruments He
throws aside as loss nine-tenths of his
potential energy when attempting to
develop mechanical power; she is vast
ly more economical. But in all cases
her methods are radically different
from his, though they are as yet Oh
SCure. Nature converts available forms
of energy into precisely those other
forms which are needed for her pur-
poses, in exactly the right quantity,
and never wastes, as does invariably
the engineer, a large part of the i'll
itial stock by the production of ener-
gies that she does not want and can
not utilize. She gees directly to her
goal. Why should not man? He has
but to initiate her processes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29
ACCIDENT INSURANCE.
Statistics Show that "a Man is Less Liable
Accidents After lie is Insured.

The collection Of large groups of
facts about accidents which has been
made necessary by the development Of
accident insurance, has made a con-
tributiOn to one department Of social
science that is by no means uninterest-
ing. For instance, says writer in the
Forum, it is a curious fact that a man
is much more likely to lose his left
hand than his right hand, or his left
eye than his right eye. Statistics show,
too, that when a man inSures himself
against accidents he thereby greatly
diminiShes the risk of accident-and
this is probably explained in this way:
When a mans attention is called to
danger he fixes his mind on it, and
thereby consciously or Unconsciously
makes Unusual effort to avert it. 1t
therefore often happens that man
is more likely to be a victim to an ac-
Cident of a kind that he never thought
Of than of the kind against which he
mSures himself. A man, for instance,
who handles sharp tools will insure
himself against an accident from the
use of them, and the first thing he
knows he will be drawing pay from
an Insurance company for an injury
done by getting a cinder in his eye
Not only are such odd and curious
facts brought to light by the develop
ment Of accident insurance, but
great many important groups of facts
which bear upon the habits of men
and the development of civilization.
For instance, accidents are much more
common in sparsely settled portions Of
the country than in densely settled
portions, and they happen more fire.
quently in the middle of the winter
and in the middle of summer than
in the other seasons Of the year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29

The Boston Herald, possibly for tho
reason that little has been heard about
it recently, thinks the Nicaragua canal
must be in bad way. 1t says: ''The
contractors have evidently met with
unforeseen obstacles. The probability
is that the estimates of the engineers
Of the company have been largely ex-
ceeded." At last accounts only mile
Of the canal had been dug. That the
most competent engineer can not tell
what obstacles will be encountered in
making an excavation many miles
long and through land whose charae-
ter is unknown, was shown in the Suez
and Panama canals. The history of
those undertakings also shows that the
persons in charge Of them kept back
unwelcome facts as long as possible
so as to secure more capital
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29
Bitter O. IL A. III. Cnntasi

EAsToN, Pa, Sept 22.-The State
Council Junior Order United American
mechanics had a session last night. A
second ballot for the remaining two
national representatives resulted in
the choice of T. T. Wobensmith of
Philadelphia and II. \. Mills of Read
ing. The contest was bitter one be-
tween the east and west ends Of the
State 4 second ballot for place
holding the next council was won by
Johnstown. The Plttsburg and Phila-
delphia winners paraded the streets at
midnight with bands of music. The
session to-day was devoted to the con-
sideration of proposed amendments to
the constitution and the question of
establishing coordinate body COM
posed of colored men.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29
ROCK ISLAND WRECK.
Passenger and Freight Trains Co.If1
at Farnum, Iowa-Fifteen Injured.

Passenger and Freight Trains Collide
at Farnum, Iowa-Fifteen Injured.
DAVENPORT, Iowa, Sept. 22.-As the
Rock Island passenger and mail train
No. from the west was approaching
the side track at Farnum, seven miles
west of here, a little before o'clock
this morning, it crashed into heavily
loaded freight pulling from the
main line onto side track. The engine
struck the freight squarely in the center
spllnterlng eight freight cars. Engi-
neer Thompson Of the passenger es-
capped by jumping, but Fireman
Maroney was caught and badly in
jurcd The engine was completely
skinned, while the postal car, the only
one saved in the Blue Island wreck,
was demolished. The postal clerks
miraculously escaped injury. The
baggage and smoking cars were
ditched. No passengers were injured.
The wreck will cost the Rock Island
road in the neigh borhood of $50, 900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29
Holding Immigrants at Quebec.

QUEBEC, Sept. 2S.-Several hundred
inn igrants, lately arrived by the
ste amer Sandman and other steamers.
having through tickets for the Unit, d
States, are held here awaiting the dc
cision of the United States government
as to whether they will be allowed 10
enter the United States after having
been duly disinfected at Crosse Isle
and by the railway companies. The
condition of these people is deplorable
many of them not having a cent where
with to obtain either shelter or food.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29
Plan of Federation.

CINCIN } Ohio, Sept. 23.-One Of
the last acts of the convention of
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
before adjournment was adoption of a
plan of federation of all the railway
brotherhoods. The meat of this plan
is the establishment of an executive
board consisting OF three members
from each brotherhood. This execu-
tive board will be high court of ap-
peals with final jurisdiction in all
cases of grievances.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29
KILLED HIS SWEETHEART.
Young Kentucky Girl Murdered by a
Disappointed Lover

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. ga disap-
pointed lover murdered his sweetheart
at o'clock last evening on farm near
independence, Ky, fourteen miles
south of Covington.
The victim was Amanda Cain, farm
er's daughter, Is years of age. The
murderer was Arthur Watson, a young
farmer % years old. He wanted to
marry Miss Cain. Her parents OBJ
jected. Watson yesterday afternoon
found Miss Cain working in the garden
and spoke to her. She would not
recognize him. He jumped over into
the garden and stabbed her to death.
He may be lynched.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29
SEAL POACHERS CAPTURED.
Russia Claims Extensive Jurisdiction
Over the Boring Sea

VANCOUVER, B. c., Sept 23.-Capt.
Copp, master of the sealing schooner
Vancouver Belle, which was seized by
Russians, arrived in the schooner
Prize, formerly the Rosie Olsen, of
Victoria, which had been seized by
Russians. The Vancouver Belle was
captured by the Russian man-of-war
Zabiaka, twenty-five miles off Copper
Island, July u. She had nearly 700
skins aboard, and after that days seal
ing Capt. Cobb intended starting home.
He expostulated, but the commander
told him the Russians claimed juris-
diction of 100 miles around the islands.
Cobb and his men were conveyed to
Petropoloski, a prize crew being placed
on the Vancouver Belle, where they
were confined some time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Paul Kobash, workman in the Pho
neer hat factory at Wabash, Ind, fell
into a vat of boiling dye stuff and was
cooked to death.
Senator Cullom addressed two large
meetings at Mt. Carroll, Ill.
Harrisburg, Pa, is the next meeting
place of the Brotherhood Of Locomo-
tive Firemen.
Gov Hogg of Texas issued a procla-
nation quarantining against New York
and other places where cholera pre-
walls.
At the business meeting of the
Grand Army of the Republic Indian
apolis was selected as the place of
meeting of the encampment next year.
The saloon license of the City of
Sullivan, ILL.,, has been raised from
$3.50 to $1,000 per annum by the city
council.
The jury in the first of the Madison,
Ind, liquor cases to be tried were I'M
able to agree and were discharged
after twenty-one hours deliberation
Wyoming's Peoples party conven-
ton at Douglass was not disposed to
ratify a Democratic fusion deal, but
the manipulators will probably carry
their scheme
Mrs. S. o. Stillman and Mrs. Jesse
Crooks of Galena, Ill, were thrown
from buggy by a runaway horse and
fatally injured. The women were
found in the road at the foot of Gaff-
ney's Hill, both unconscious.
A disease is prevailing among horses
in the southern part of 10 Daviess
county. 1t resembles distemper, but
is more fatal and causes more sudden
deaths. Several horses died last week
and other cases have been reported.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29

1t is probable that the Austro-Hun-
garian government will adopt pure
nickel for it's currency. The alleged
coin generally used, containing only
% per cent of nickel combined with
20 per cent. of copper, possesses, it is
considered, numerous disadvantages,
while the favorable points of the pure
hickel-piece are that Notwithstanding
its hardness, it can easily be coined,
shat it has the quality of extraordinary
durability, loss by wear and tear be-
ing reduced to minimum, that it is
preserved clean i'll circulation, and that
no oxidation worth mentioning sets
in.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29
Students Spirited Away.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, Sept. 22-Saturdav
and Sunday last 1900 students were
arrested in this city and placed abo; d
two steamers in the Golden Horn and
these vessels sailed away on Sunday
night with secret orders An official
announcement has been made to the
effect that this action OF the part of
the authorities is due to desire to re-
Eeve the pressure of students in the
I ub ic schools
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29

The Secretary of the Carnegie Compan
Charged vii III Riot aut, Assault

The Secretary of the Carnegie Compan>
Charged with Riot and Assault
PITTsBURG, Pa, Sept. 22.-Secreia Y
Lovejoy, of the Carnegie Steel CO
pany, was arrested this afternoon /
Constable Walls on warruI
issued by Alderman King
charging him with % :
v4ted riot and assault and battery. N.
Lovejov el tered il at the alder
Office in the sum of 50, 900 for CO..,
Thomas Mellon, the banker, went
his bond.
The charges against Lovely W re
made by Burgess McLuckie of Hon
stead. Informations of the sam,
~harges have been made against Messr. .
Frick, Leishman, Curry, Potter and
Child~. 1t is expected that they will
sun en- Ter themselves this afternoon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29

A Chicago physician has proven by
experiments in Russia, it is said, that
the internal application of common
soapsuds is a sure specific for cholera.
But then it would take the cars whole
standing army to enforce the submis.
sion of the Russians IN general to the
application Of soapsuds externally, let
alone internally SO the plague will
probably continue to IA &c in the land
Of the tartar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29

PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 22.-In the
competitive drill for cantous of the
Patriarchs Militant at the armory last
night Sacramento. CAL. won the first
prize Of $500 for the best drilled canton.
Santa Eosa. Cal, received the second
prize of $500, and Baker City, Oregon,
The third prize of 500. Only three
cantons competed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29

Some Of the statistics of Irish emil
grafton, which a recent census blue
book contains. are interesting 1t seems
that almost as many people, three
quarters as many at least, as Ireland
NOW contains have left that country
for this one in the last 40 years Ire
Hand has now a population Of 4,704,-
$50, and has lost since the famine
3,415, 400 by emigration alone in the
same period. Another striking fact is
that five-sevenths of these emigrants
have been young persons between the
ages of 20 and 45. 1t appears also
hat this rate Of emigration of the
young Irish stock is still kept up.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29

Some recently discovered manuscripts
IN the cellars of the Wesleyan confer
ence book-room, in London, contain
some hymns and poems of Charles
Wesleyan in his own handwriting. A
volume Of poems by Samuel Wesley
was also found.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29
To Comfort an Invalid.

Good Housekeeping: Look hopefnl
never despairing.
When requested to read the news,
omit the death list.
Tell only the pleasant tidings; there
is no fear Of forgetting the evil
Sigh, if you must, after leaving tho
sick-room, not in the presence of the
sufferer.
Refrain from telling about a similar
case in which the invalid died a shock
ing death.
Let every article Of food be delicate
ly dished, taking only small, tempting
quantities.
Make the most of the luXuries at
hand without expatiating upon the
charms OF the unattainable.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29
A Deaf and Dumb Society,

One of the strange things in Paris
is a club composed entirely of deaf
and dumb men. The servants, too,
cannot hear nor speak. The president
of the club is an old man who fought
in the Indian wars in America and
whose tongue was cut off by an Indian
who once took him captive.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29
Nav Close American Mission Schools

CoN.TANTINoPLE, Sept. 22'- The
porte has revived the question of clos
ing tie American mission schools in
the Turkish dominion unless they are
controlled by Turkish officials
Gen. Brialmont of the French army.
who has been inspecting the Turkish
Notifications on the Dardanelles, ha
made report to the sultan, The sc :
eral declares that the fort works ar
utterly valueless, and that the recon
struction will involve an expenditure
of 92, 600, coo, including the cost of $50
heavy guns
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29
The Largest Tuning Fork.

The largest tuning-fork ever manu-
featured was one recently made at
Hanau for the Physiological institute
at Leipsic, and weighs twenty-seven
kilogrammes, or a little over seventy
two pounds, and gives fourteen double
oscillations a second.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29

The international peace congress, at
its recent session in Berne, Switzer-
land, decided unanimously to hold its
next meeting in Chicago at the time OF
the worlds fair.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29

The advocates of Il monarchical form
of government as the most stable find
their greatest stmbing-blOck when the
expenditures of such a government ara
considered in detail. The car of Rus
sia, for instance, has Il personal revenue
which is more than $6,O00,000 i'll excess
of what Russia eXpends annually for
common schools. This single exhibit
is enough for an American.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29

The central Sahara registers a mean
temperature of 81 degrees in July.
Central Australia boasts of 81 degrees
an january mean which is attained
In South Carolina and inner Arabia in
midsummer.