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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11
First Session First session

Grand total. -. $463, 1913, $40 $780, 1926, $50
This sum of s46o,OOO,OOO appropriated
at this session will ne increased approx
imately as follows:
Evening journal., 1892-10-19

the political situation in the Republican
nursery5 Il is entitled "a Cold Day and
Very Little Protection" Raum, Waua-
maker. Ell0ns and Reid are in bed with
nothing but the sheet of Republican cor
ruption fund TO partially cover their
political nakedness Upon their naked
feet their records as public men are
shown. Mother Harrison is administer
ing to her offspring political soothing
syrup, consisting Of large proportions OF
aqua pura and promises, but it does not
seem TO soothe.
DIR. S. S. Howell, of New York, one OF
the colored orators, said TO an EVENING
JOURNAL reporter this morning: "Mr
Dickey and Mr.. Salisbury had nothing
to do with my coming to this state; the
Morning News to the contrary notwith
standing. came here in the interest OF
national politics, aud was not a on
state issues: but ! fl condit MS
require that / shall ck the attitud OF
the Republican arty Of the stat to
wards the negro ! ind that or years
the Republicans h. bee 4siug the col
ored man as a political football, and it is
time they should know it. All tall
about me going to New York for cam
paign funds is equally false
Evening journal., 1892-10-19
HEALTH, WATER AND STREETS.
Routine Work of City Departments
Steel Contracts awarded.

Routine Work of City Departments.
steel Contracts Awarded.
Routine work was transacted at the
city departments meetings last night.
Two contracts were awarded by the
street and sewer commission.
One was awarded to William Simmons
for paving Lancaster avenue between
Clayton and DUPONT at 1S cents per
square yard and materials furnished
The other was for grading one or more
squares on Walnut street near Eleventh,
and was awarded to John Logue at 1S
cents per square yard
The balance in bank was reported at
$109, 6lS SO and the secretary's collections
1896 92 The weekly pay roll Of 81, 292
80 was passed.
A communication requesting that the
streets on the line of the Columbus Day
parade be cleaned was referred to the
street commissioner
At the meeting of the water commits
sion Chief Engineer Bond was ordered to
lay a six-inch main across the Christiana
at Market street bridge. The week
payroll, 1892. 50, was ordered paid. The
bank balance was reported to be $6S,
55O.32.
Considerable routine business was
transacted by the board of health. Many
nuisances were ordered abated The
city's sanitary condition was reported
good
Evening journal., 1892-10-19

Of the Santa Maria from the middle Of the
Atlantic ocean declared "the air to be as
sweet and fragrant as the April breeze in
Seville; funny fish sported in the smooth
sea, and pelican and duck were seen,
they and all other birds flying toward
the southwest, whereat there was great
rejoicing among the sailors.
We have such another day now. The
sky is calm and blue, neclSed with float
ing masses Of leecy clouds. The air is
sweet and exhilerating. Birds fly south
ward warned by Natures unerring
premonitions Of approaching winter
Nature smiles bountifully and be-
nefcently; the ocean rolls mag
nifcently, grandly, sometimes fear
fully, but everything else is changed
AS Columbus sailed slowly and timidly
in a fragile ship surrounded by ignorant
and mutinous sailors his great heart
must have been cheered by the smiles of
heaven; he must have been inspired by
new courage as he looked out upon the
trackless waste Of water and felt the
breeze Of a Saville morning upon his
cheeks and saw the pelican and the duck,
sure signs Of land.
We drop a tear as we picture him,
alone; the leader of an expedition to a
new world, more lonely still amid the
fearful expanse of chartless water
without soul to give him sympathy,
with many fierce and vindictive souls
ready to toss him overheard to the
sharks.
What a spectacle he must have pre-
sented TO himself as he marveled at his
temerity and stood aghast with horror
at it's possible outcomel What a spec.
tacle would be presented to him today
as a result Of his heroismll
Four hundred years ago, he saw a peli-
can and a duck today he would meet great
ships, forty times larger than his puny
crafts, steaming from continents, the
existence of which he suspected only,
containing 10O,OOO,OOO of people pos
sessing European civilization, support
ing splendid cities, all doing homage tC
his name and fame. It is pitiful to think
what that lion-hearted man accom-
plished and what he suffered. Today We
would honor the man who four hundred
years ago was cast into prison.
Doing our share of homage to tho
memory Of the man who proved the ex
istence of this hemisphere; who made il
possible to establish this glorious repub
lie, the model Of a republican world thar
is to follow, the EVENING JOURNAL will
take and give aholiday on Columbus Day
On Friday, we shall unite with the
civilized world in praise of The Discov
erer, the Hero Of the Western hemi
! sphere.
Evening journal., 1892-10-19
IN hands oF HIS FRIENDS.
Chief Supervisor Issues Additional In
structions to His Subordinates.

Chief Supervisor Issues Additional In
structioRs to His Subordinates.
Chief Supervisor Macallister seems TO
be in the hands of his friends. He has
issued additional instructions to the
Federal supervisors Of registration and
election which, if carried out, will make
them simply the tools Of the corruption
hall officials.
These instructions require the super
vsors to take the numbers stamped
upon each tax receipt, the day and date
of its issue and the initials Of thu col
lector who issued it, They also authorize
the supervisors Ito challenge any vote
they please.
In speaking of these instructives this
afternoon, a prominent Democrat said
1T was that Mr.. Macallister is trying
to have the superiors made inspectors of
registration and election and that their
supervisors will be furnished with lists
of Democrats who MIR Bach with his
lieutenants, consider deficient in the
qualification of an elector, and that they
viii do all in their power to prevent a
| fair ballot and fair cOuut
Evening journal., 1892-10-19
PROTEST AGAINST IMMORTALITY.

PROTEST AGAINST IMMORTALITY.
HERE is another Rev. George S.
Rainsford, rector of st. Georges Epis
copal church at Steuyvesant park, New
York city, one Of the largest and richest
parishes in the country, has taken the
stump for Cleveland. DR.. Rainsford is a
large, handsome man, who has always
been prominent in doing eve rything in
his power for the elevation of laboring
men and his influence with the laboring
classes, in and out Of his church, is very
great In giving his reasons for sup
porting the Democratic candidate, Dr.
Rainsford says:
tariff TO foster special industries is
wrong, and IL needs large fortunes which
furnish funds that can be used i'm bribery
TO continue its existence. There are
thousands of honest Republicans, but
thousands of immigrants, ignorant Of
suffrage, and, alas. many venal Ameri
cans and large campaign funds furnish
temptation to bribe, which is immoral,
and |, as a clergyman, must protest
against any system that can build up a
corruption fund. / also admire the
Democratic candidate. know personally
that he gives no opinion until he studies
question thoroughly and then he
speaks truly. The woods are full of
public men, but we need true men as
leaders, and the country demands Cleve
land as leader in this educational cam
paign.
From a moral standpoint, DR.. Rains
ford takes the same view of the tariff
monopoly and the corruption which it
induces, as Beecher and thousands of
preachers all over the North took of
slavery The shareholders were en-
trenched behind precisely the same argu-
ments that the protection robbers use
They urged that slavery was beneficial
TO the negroes; that they would starve
if left to themselves to get a livelihood
that freedom to them would be
calamity The protectionist robber
says the workingman is the same
impotent and senseless crea-
ture that the negro slave was aud
if he is not maintained in this modern
slavery by the monopolist he too will per
ish.
To enable the charitable and noble
monopolist TO exercise his benefcent
plans Of redemption on the workingmen
slaves he must have the privilege OF
corraling the home market and forcing
consumers to pay a higher price for his
goods than they are worth. DR.. Rains
ford thinks that is wrong. unjust and
cruel and that it leads toa wholesale
bribery of the suffrage, which as a min
lister, he must avert, if possible.
Evening journal., 1892-10-19
Kew York Markets.

IBy Telegraph to the Evening Journal
NEW YORK. Oct. l9.-CottOn spot lots duil;
middling uplands, 3. Futures steady ''os
Oct; 7.92 Nov.
Flour more active with prices STEADY; nne'
1.GJ02 10; superfine llC02.asi city mn extras
l2In4S5 for West Indies;
Wheat opened steady at unchanged prices,
hut de, lined 4 by noon. k' ceipls' i5',a<s
bush; shipments. 51,Hii bush: so. req
Winter 7sm7S3l cash; IS Oct.i 'o1a NoV'i az
Dec; s03s May. , ,..,,...,
Corn was weak throughout ana declined
q bv noOn.. Receipts SO,tO bush shipments
lO4 2ls bush. No. mixed. 50 cash; lu34 NoF
30 "a Dec: tO3{ Jan; 5ll6 May.
Oats opened weak and occnneu "A ~ noon
Receipts. 1ls.GO0 bush.; shipments - Dush
Ne 2 mixed, 81 cash; and Octi si3s Nov
Rive aud barley neglected, -
Molasses neglected. New Orleans Il05,.
Sugar. refined, quiet. ana STEADY; cut loel
and crushed, o 5-ldM5 y; granulated, 4 l5-h
as: cubes, 1918 651a; mould "A" bd5 S-lo.
Cones, quiet; Ne. Z, Rio i61s0l61s
PORK steady: mess y 0. O.Sl2.25 for old.
lard Quiet. $50 bid Nov; $50 Dec.
Butter strong with good demand; creamery
state extras. 27l6: Western separator extra. =
Cheese dull and barely steady; state factorl
full cream fancy. white. lOi4MlO3s.
Eggs easier and moderately active stat
new laid choice "a; Western, &5aG@j 10
prime.
Turpentine. strong at 50lE03l.
Rosin dull, strained TO good, l.22lh0l.2i1s.
| TallOw dull. prime city, ~.
| Petroleum nominal.
| Freights firm, grain to Glasgow 3Ad.
Evening journal., 1892-10-19

To make President Bartols case worse,
he is mean enough to say that he knows
at least dozen members Of the Union
League club, Of Philadelphia. who feel
as he does and will renounce the Repub-
lican party and support Cleveland. What
the Harrisonized editors like and what
they especially recommend is that those
men who cannot swallow Harrison's civil
service record, the Mckinley bill, and
approve of wholesale corruption shall go
out quietly and not say anything to
make those who stay in feel ashamed OF
their cowardice and Of their company.
Evening journal., 1892-10-19
KENTUCKY FAMILIES AT wAR.
The skaggs and the Underwoods Thirst
for the Blood Of the Ships.

ior the BLOOD OF the shipps.
[By Telegraph 20 the Evening Journall
LEBANON, KY, Oct. 10. The town of
Scott's Ridge, fifteen miles west of this
city, is in a perfect state Of insurrection,
and desperate battle is looked for at
any moment between the Ships on one
side and the Skaggs and Underwoods on
the other.
Each side numbers about twenty five
heavily armed menand the death of dozen
or more at any time will be no surprise.
Citizens have been warned, and travel
through that section has entirely ceased.
The trouble all grew out of three men
outraging Shake Ships wife several
weeks ago. Burly Skaggs and a man
named Underwood were arrested charged
with the crime, but were finally released.
The latter now threaten to wipe out the
Ships. Two years ago Bob Shipp killed
Bud Burress and badly wounded his
brother Tom, in a shooting scrape on the
ground now occupied by the warning
factions
Evening journal., 1892-10-19
A LITTLE 100 SMART.

That message-letter of President
Harrison was full Of smartness. It was
intended to be a smart document and it
was a smart document. But was it not
just little too smart to be dignifed or
efiective2
1t surely did not create any conster-
nation In the opposite parties; whether
it stimulated any enthusiasm in the
presidents own party or not we do not
know. No enthusiasm is apparent to
the public. The campaign was fat and
dead to begin with; it is fiat and dead
now, except in regard to the collection
and distribution of money. That de-
partment Of the party is vigor Gus and
lively.
That message-letter contained many
points Mr.. Harrison undertook the
task Of fixing the high lights of the
campaign He used the Peck figures
which have since been put into disgrace
with the bribed author Of them. Thai
might have been considered smart" fol
a foreign -missioned editor, but thos,
laborious and insincere sentences of tn,
too.anxious candidate do not read wei
now. The author of them was "toC
smart"
Then there is the Minor law in Michi
gan, proposing TO elect the presidentia
electors by congressional districts anC
two from the state at large Mr.. Harri
son did not like the probable effect o
that law in giving Cleveland six, If no
all, Of the electoral votes Of Michigan
Mr.. Harrison took strong grounds ol
that law and rebuked it sternly in tn
turgid and pious sentences Of his smar
letter as unconstitutional. That
also, was "too smart
Though the law has been stubbornly
fought by the Republicans, it wa
unanimously sustained by the Su
! preme Court Of Michigan, two Demo
Gratis and three Republicans bein
j on the bench; and, when an appeal wa
Z taken. and under this great constitu
tional lawyers supervision, argued i
the Supreme Court of the United States
the opinion was sustained there.
: Thus on two important points in this
s many pointed letter the writer's positio
has been knocked silly; and, he, himsel
$ has been left in position that a petit
j Jogging lawyer sometimes gets into, an
y into position which a wise, dignife
" and thoroughly self-respecting ma
S avoids.
e It is humiliating to say such thing
t the president Of the United States, wi
e ought to be our president and not simp
l. Republican partisan, but Candida
Il Harrison has been a little "too smart
It His position in regard to the Peck fguru
d is silly; his position in regard to Il
o Minor law of Michigan is ignorant.
Evening journal., 1892-10-19

In saying that Il believe that the Re.
publican party has not lived up TO it's
professions" Mr.. Bartol president Of the
Bourse in Philadelphia, seems not TO
have a proper regard for the efforts Of
our Presbyterian elder president TO en-
force the civil service law and the zeal
Of the pious Sunday school superin-
tendent TO make things holy and profit
able. and at the same time acquire a
social position on earth that will not in
jure his prospects in heaven st. Peter
is a moss backed old guy, anyhow, and
he will not know enough TO stop men at
the gates who assisted the Bardsleys and
Quays. and the Dudleys and the hoaters,
provided they are sanctimonious and
thrifty, and keep up fair show Of sen
sational public religion.
Evening journal., 1892-10-19

WHAT is this from General Daniel e.
Sicklesg We were told that he had gone
over to the enemy; that he was an offset
to Judges Gresham, Hare and Cooley, and
a sort of hostage for the good behavior
Of Wayne MacVeagh But now he has
been nominated for congress by Tam.
many Hall, and on receiving the delega
tion to notify him he says:
am especially glad that you have
not been misled by the persistent efforts
of our adversaries to represent me as
hostile TO the election Of the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency. Mr..
Cleveland was not my choice for the
nomination. Associated with the dele
/ cation from the State of New York to the
| Chicago convention, il seemed to be our
duty TO support earnestly and heartily
another candidate for that high Office.
We did our duty TO the best of our
ability, and l have nothing TO regret OF
recall as to what we did at Chicago.
| Applause. / was, however. a delegate
TO Chicago, and / unite with my col
leagues Of the delegation, and with the
great organization 20 which you and
belong, in their earnest and honest
efforts to restore the executive and legis
lative branches of the government t,
the control of the Democratic party
lGreat applause.
Really that is strangel Comparing
what General Sickles says with what tn
Harrisonized papers have said he said
produces the same impression that a maj
gets from learning the facts after reading
the faneies Of the tin plate artists of by
perbole
Evening journal., 1892-10-19

In speech in Newark, n j., General
Hensel, Of Pennsylvania, declared that
-four years ago Benjamin Harrison per
sonally superintended the purchase of
5000 votes in Indiana He said that
he would be glad to have an Indictment
laid against him in New Jersey for max
ing the statement, in order that he might
have an opportunity TO prove it. AS the
EVENING JOURNAL remarked last week,
General Harrison was at the Republican
headquarters in indianapolis every day,
except Sunday, during Dudley's "blocks-
of-fve' campaign, and that if he did not
know Of the wholesale bribery that was
perpetrated then and there, he lacks
sufficient intelligence and shrewdness to
be exposed TO the arts and wiles OF the
Washington lobbyists.
Evening journal., 1892-10-19
smokes From the Hub.

w. H. Francis, A. D. Peck, Mrs L. A,
Karcher and Miss J. Keeming, of the
Massachusetts, Bicycle club, Of Boston,
arrived in this city yesterday afternoon
and registered at the Clayton House.
They left Boston on Saturday week and
spent two days in New York and one day
and-a-half in Philadelphia. The run
made was 800 miles. From here they
will go to New York and Hartford,
Conn, Springfield, Worcester and
Boston. The women stood the trip re-
markably we'll
Evening journal., 1892-10-19
Ashurv,s Anniversnrv.

Another Of those pleasant services
marking Asbury's 103rd anniversary was
held last night. Rev. John f. Crouch,
pastor Of Union NJ E. church, Philadel-
phia, preached to an enthusiastic audi
ence The power of God was manifest
as he spoke from Jonah iii, 5, 80 the
people Of Nineveh believed God" To-
night Rev. Theodore Stevens, ID. D.,
pastor of St. Johns NJ. E. church, Phila-
delphia, will preach. DIR. Stevens is
well known as a man of power in the
pulpit, and large audience will greet
him
Evening journal., 1892-10-19
rootbnll ON columbns pax.

The Warren Athletic club football team
will meet the strong team of the Athletic
club of the Schuykill Navy at Riverview
park on the morning of Columbus Day.
Game will be called promptly at 1890,
and it will be over in time to see the
parade in the afternoon. Last year S
game between these two teams resulted
in the close score of 10 to G, in favor Of
the Navy, and the Warren team will try
to reverse the eresult on Friday.
Evening journal., 1892-10-19

PERHAPS the most philosophic apology
for the general apathy which distresses
the Republican cause is this of a faith
ful foreign missioned organ which says
that lit 10 increase the sense Of individ-
ual responsibility. and TO compel every
Republican voter to do his full duty.
That full duty, II it continues in this
extravagantly apathetic state, will induce
many Of them TO stay al
home because they distrust the
sneaking arts Of the little man and ad
mire the bold manliness of the real
man. Feeling the insuficiency of that
excuse himself, the foreign-missioned
editor, wet his whistle and blew again tC
the effect that "even il the apathy bC
as great as it is represented, it is surpris
ing that these same friends the
enemy have nothing TO say about general
Evening journal., 1892-10-19

HENRY WATTERsoN apprehends that
he cannot think of enough TO say about
Columbus in six days He might take
in the seven birthplaces, Ferdinand and
Isabella, the Indians, the seven different
styles of faces that the portraits give
the discoverer and then travel around
loosely and voluminously with Balboa.
Cabot. Vespucius aud Magellan We
are astonished that Henry does not
think he will have enough TO say or that
he will be able to say it in a thrilling
and spectacular ilmanner. Perhaps
Henry thinks he intends to try TO tell
the real truth about Columbus. Certainly
the Chicago people don't expect that.
They don't care about Columbus or the
truth either; it is the crowd and the
crowds money they are after
Evening journal., 1892-10-19

THE supreme court of the United
States has gone wrong in unani-
mously affirming the judgment Of the
supreme court of Michigan to the
effect that the Minor law, so called, is
constitutional This is the law which
provides for the choice OF one presidential
elector in each congressional district in
stead Of all electors on a general ticket
Even friend, favorite and beneficiary
Miller, the United States attorney gen
eral who was requested by Candidate
Harrison, whose interests were in
jeopardy, could not prevent the calamity.
One half, perhaps all Of the electoral votes
of Michigan, will 60, where the voters
wish them to go-to the Democratic
party Mr. Harrison wishes the entire
electoral vote of Michigan regardless Of
the wishes of the people.
Evening journal., 1892-10-19
Welded AT CLAYTON.
Richa ard Rowland, OF This City, Selects
Kent County Bride.

keht County Bride.
Miss Nettie. daughter of Mrs Mar.
garet Meredith, of Clayton, and Richard
Nowland, Of this city, were married at
the home Of the brides mother yester-
day afternoon by Rev. R. X. Stephenson.
Miss Annie Meredith was bridesmaid and
William Clement was best man.
The bride wore a travelling dress of
light tan henrietta, with hat and gloves
to match. The groom wore black. The
happy couple stood under a floral arch
and horse shoe.
A reception and wedding supper sue
ceeded the nuptials The bridal party
took the 5.53 train for this city, which
will be their future home.
Among the Wilmingtonians who
witnessed the ceremony were Mrs Isaac
Nowland, Mrs. Austin Brown and Mrs.
Elias RhOades
Evening journal., 1892-10-19

prosperity, which is tending powerfully
TO promote the interests of the party
now in power. Judged by any tests, and
from every point Of view. this prosperity
Is unmistakable and phenomenal" Thus
there are two reasons, and the
reader may take his choice
General apathy may result from
the fact that the Republicans are
getting to feel their own personal re-
sponsibility for the election Of Mr.. Har-
rison or they are too prosperous to care
whether Cleveland gets in or not. Per
haps they apprehend that the country
will be as safe under Cleveland, who
went out Of Office leaving 800, 900, 600
surplus in the treasury, as under Harri-
son, who squandered that and ran a
Billion Dollar congress besides. People
might think that of course There are
good reasons for it.
Evening journal., 1892-10-19
A. q. u. w. to Celebrate and Parade.

Wilmington Lodge, No. /, A. o. U. W..
has arranged to take part in the COlum
bus Day parade and has engaged the
WeccacOe band of Philadelphia for the
occasion. Members of the other lodges
of the order are invited to join with them.
All members have been requested to
meet at A. o. U. w. hall at 1890 p. m.
on Friday. October 81. The. dress will
be dark suit, dark derby hat, cane and
gloves. Regulation gloves will be furn-
ished at the hall.
Evening journal., 1892-10-19
indians oniet M Pine ridge.

lBy Telegraph to the Evening Journal
PINE RIDGE, S. D., Oct. 19.-The
rumors Of an Indian outbreak here from
time to time arose from some pranks of
those Indians who were extremely hos
tile during the last trouble, but there
has been no trouble of serious nature
nor is any likely to occur.
Evening journal., 1892-10-19

SENATOR EDMuNDs has been induced
to venture into the chill of this campaign
Of political apathy" to say; that the
third party is dangerous; that the Force
bill is a hoodoo; that there is no signif-
canoe in the Vermont slump. Mr.. Ed.
munds failed to say what marvellous in
auence the maple sugar bounty was
having on the prosperity Of the Green
Mountain farmers. Senator Edmunds was
great man once when he associated with
Bayard and was friendly with the Grand