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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17

stars and bars are to you memory, but
| to Us an inspiration we will vet redeem
| the lost cause of our fathers he thought
| it was time for every loyal man. whether
be fought for or against the union, TO rise
in condemnation. He had been accused
| Of being a politician. He was such in the
sense that he wanted to see the nation in
hands where it was safe.
| Speeches were also made by Secretary
| Cunning ham, Mayor Rogers, ex-senator
J. '. Quarles, Chaplain Mills. ECol. D. K.
Noyes, Mrs. Helen Puffer, Mrs. Charity
Rusk Craig, NJ. R. Doyon, Mrs. Louise G.
Williams, Chaplain Lozier and many
others. With the banquet which followed
| the eneampment closed
RELIEF CORPS.
The Woman Relief corps also met in
annual encampment simultane ously with
the other body. Reports showed that in
the Woman's Relief corps there are 4,OOS
members, a gain of 409 in the year.
Eighteen new corps have been organized
and one disbanded. The total number of
corps is now 1877. Nearly $4,000 was ex-
pended in charity the pas year.
| Thursday officers were elected as follows
! President Louise c. Williams, of
| Cconomowoc.
Senior vice-Mrs. Bell S. Hanover, of
Milwaukee.
Junior vice MRS. Elizabeth Skeels, of
Menomenie.
Treasurer-S Burchard, of Fl. Atkin-
son.
Chaplain-Eliza Strayway, of Lodi.
Chairman of council-Belle Chaplin, of
Milwaukee; second, Mrs. Joseph De
Groat, Of Fond du Lac; third, Mrs. M. F.
Coats, of Waukesha; fourth, Mrs. Hutch.
inson, of Waterloo.
Delegates to the national convention
were elected as follows:
At large-Mrs. Jennie E. Wyman, Of
Viroqua.
Mrs. Libbie G. Bare, Appleton.
| Mrs. H. McKennan, Baraboo.
| Mrs. Emily S. Abbott, Monroe.
Mrs. Ellen q. R. Sewell, Hudson.
Mrs. Anna E. Clark. Stevens Point.
Mrs. Anna E. Howard, Eau Claire.
Visiting committee to veterans home
Mrs. Charity Rusk Craig, Viroqua, and
Mrs Helen n. Pufer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
CRIME.

CHARLES WALL was hanged at Tunk-
hammock, Pa, Tuesday morning for the
murder of his wife.
RUFUS T. COLLINS has been convicted of
wife murder at Gordon, Ga. He paid a
negro $50 to shoot the woman.
FAMILIES of the italians lynched at
New Orleans are preparing to sue that
city for damages amounting to between
$3.50, 900 and 100000.
JOHN OIEs, an old citizen of Burling
ton, Iowa, hanged himself Wednesday
because of his poverty.
Dr. MCADAMs and William Barnett
have been indicted by the Grundy county,
III. grand jury for bank ROBBERY and MUIR
der, respectively.
Bob MUsGRAvE, the life insurance
swlndler, has been refused new trial by
the circuit court at Terre Haute and
sentenced to ten years in states prison.
WILLIAM BERAND, of Chicago, was
shot and killed by an unknown person in a
notorious dive in st. Louis Sunday
night.
WEBSTER c. HILL, son of wealthy
Chicago widow, has been arrested in New
York for stealing iewelry at a swell re,
ception
New YORK custom officers detected Ed
ward Hardt, Chicago jeweler. trying tc
smuggle lot of diamonds undar porou:
plaster on his back.
A NEW YORK burglar named Wilson
was shot and killed at Tampa, Fla, early
Saturday morning by Officer Raines. HI
had been trying to break into severa
houses.
THE murder of anoteer American sailor
Is charged to the CHILEAN police at Valpar
also. The victim was Carlos Carlson, {
native Of Sweden, and Consul NcCreary i
investigating the matter.
MRS. JENNIE McCRACKEN, wife OF {
Chicago business man, committed suicide
at Richmond, Ind, Sunday by taking
cyanite of potassium.
RICHARD ScANLAN, of New York City
found his wife In compromising situa
ton, and IL the quarrel which ensuee
threw lighted lamp at her, resulting il
her burning to death.
LIEUTENANT HETHERINGToN, how
shot his wife's English seducer at Yoka
hama, will be tried by the American con
sui there, with right of appeal to tn,
American minister and then to the United
States circuit court of California.
AT Newport, KY, William Sprott wa:
shot and instantly killed Sunday morning
The shooting was done by one of three
brothers named Coli. Sprott had incur.
red the anger of the Coli brothers, wht
were arrested,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
FOREIGN.
EMPEROR WILLIAM is said to have
threatened to ''pulverize Russia

EMPEROR WILLIAM is said to have
threatened to ''pulverize Russia"
THOUSANDS of sheep have persisted in
the recent storms in Ireland.
GREAT distress prevails among the
working classes in Lisbon, and the situa-
ton grows worse daily.
IN the parliamentary election in the
Kirkcaldy district, England, Friday,
Dalzell, the Gladstonian candidate won.
Eight newspapers in Germany have
been seized for condemning the Emperor S
Brandenbure spe Oh.
ALL the Xeres anarchists under arrest
for melting a mob have been acquitted by
a court-martial.
IT is reported that the pope wishes to
revise the concordat in order to establish
better relations between France and the
vatican.
ENGLISH authors have taken up the
matter Of erecting a monument to James
Russell Lowell, and have appointed a
committee to raise private fund for that
purpose.
EVANS BROAD, Gladstonian, was on
Friday elected member of parliament from
South Derbyshire, to Fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Henry Wardle
ALL the coal miners in Cheshire and
Yorkshire Saturday stopped work for the
week, In order to force up prices and pre-
vent their employees from reducing their
wages.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17

Thus Characterizes Governor Peck on the
New York Senator.

| Milwaukee Sentinel The political
| methods of Senator Hill are burglarious,
as Gov. Peck says. There is nothing TO
be urged In defense Of the use he has made
| of the political machine in New York.
He is just as bad man as Peck says he is.
Yet there is nothing in his methods that
shocks Gov. Peck-mo Of the Cleveland
democrats could take him to their throb-
bling bosoms if he could be induced to make
dicker with Cleveland. After charac-
terizing Hill as burglar, attempting to
get into the white house with Jimmy"
Peck makes this charming confession:
eff he Hill were to turn his influence
at this time for Cleveland and then sit
still and wait for four years he would have
strong claims of being the candidate then. -
This is rich. The objection is not to
Hill as bold, bad burglar-with all his
burglarious methods he would be all right
as the democratic candidate in 1896 but
to the use of his Jimmy" to get into the
white house now, when Cleveland wants to
get in. Burglary is all right at the pro-
per time, but it is immoral ut this partic-
ular time unless Hill cons ats to turn the
plumber he has got over TO Cleveland.
How does Gov. Peck propose to get up
any Indignation by making clear to the
country the methods Of Hill'' when be
says In the next breath that Hill would be
all right in 1896 if he should use his ma.
chine influence for Cleveland nowP
Burglary is to be condoned provided the
burglar divides the spells with Cleveland.
This comes of allowing Gov Peck to go
off to New York alone. Here he is not al
lowed to talk for print. and therefore he
does TO harm to the Cleveland cause, If
that cause is still alive, when he is at
home.
However, Gov. Peck is not the only in
consistent person III the Cleveland ranks.
BIZ the entire Cleveland press Hill has
been for several years denounced as most
INSCRIPTIONS politician, man without a
known conviction as to any principle. a
high handed spokesman, and so on. Yet
when opposed to step from the executive
mansion at Albany into the United States
senate, all those who had condemned his
methods and his political character were
almost enthusiastic. Although he was I'M
scrupulous and without convictions, he
was all right for the senate-5ecause they
thought and they said that would take
him out of the presidential race, out of
Cleveand's way. 1t dicn't, and now
once more he is spoken Of as a burglar I'm
ft to be the president of the United States
that Is, before 1896.
Of course if Senator Hill is seeking"
as they say in The south; if there is any
hope that he is going to change his char
acter in the next four years. than it is
easy to understand why be will be fit in
1895 to ELI an Office for which ne ia unfit
in 1892. But Sam Jones is not at Wash
ington, and nc rival services are raw
aging the eommunitoy of politicians.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
THE PIANO.
The Origin of the Instrument Shrouded /,
Mystery

The Origin of the Instrument Shrouded In
Mystery
The piano-forte was invented by Bar.
tolommeo Cristofori, a harpsichord.
maker of Padua, Italy, who exhibited
four instruments in 1909 The honor was
formerly claimed for Marius, a French
maker, who produced piano in 1716;
while German writer's maintained that
Schroeder, Of Dresden, was the initiator
of the instrument. The earliest date as
cribed to the latters achievement, how.
ever, is Ill. During the present century,
however, an Italian document was dis.
covered, written by Marchese, Scipione
Maffei, a Forentine scholar. in I'LL,
which testifes that Bartolommeo Cristo-
fori of that city, exhibited four pianos
in 1909, which statement was originally
published in the Giornale in that year,
accompanied by diagram of Cristofori s
action principle, employing hammers,
which constituted the chief difference
between the harpsichord and the piano.
In Matfel's writings Cristofori's name is
given as "Cristofali, but this is proved
to be an error, because inscrI ptions upon
existing piano-fortes give the name as
"Cristofori. Father Wood, an English
monk, living at Rome, is said to have
made a piano. forte similar to Cristofori s
in I'LL, which he exhibited in England,
where it attracted much notice.
Cristofori did not remain idle after in
PRODUCING his first instrumant. He be-
came prominently known as maker, but
died in 1871, comparatively poor. Two
piano-fortes by Cristofori. at present in
Florence, dated 1920 and 1926, show that
he anticipated the principles of an i'm
proved action, and many other points of
equal importance in the structure and
acoustics of the instrument. All author
tiles admit that he was a great figure
and genius of no common order Pop
ular Science Monthly
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
AGRICULTURE.
1t Is Being Greatly Developed under Gov.
eminent encouragement.

One of the departments of the govern
ment which is coming to the front as a
promotion Of the general interests OF the
people Of the department of agriculture
1t had been objected by those who opposed
the creation of cabiuet officer in charge
of the department of agriculture, that the
tendency of tie new departure would be
to identify the management of the de-
partment more ana more with politics,
and that agricultural interests, pure and
simple. would be liable to suffer from toe
identification of department especially
entrusted with the supervision and ex-
tension of our agricultural interests, with
the political machinery, inseparable as
some people alleged it TO be, from the ad
miration of ore of the executive depart
ments of the government. The grange.
which had persisted for many years in
demanding such a recognition of the i'm
portance of the agricultural interests,
awaited with natural anxiety the results
1t was not very long, however, before
this body. one of the most influential of
the representative agricultural organize
lions, showed its satisfaction with the
conduct of the department under Secre-
tdTy IGuSa, anu at tue jdst HeeIlug OF the
national gran ge it adopted resolutions in
dicative of It's cordial sympathy with the
efforts undertaken by Secretary Rusk to
extend then the work of the department,
and to direct it in all things for the bene-
fit of its special constituents-the farm
ers. Resolutions were adopted indicating
special approval of the efforts of the secre-
tary of agriculture to extend foreign
markets for American agricultural pro-
ducts, and authorizing the executive com
mettee to confer with the Secretary with
a view to a further enlargement OF the
work undertaken by him in this direc-
ton.
In his annual address to the officers and
members of the Wisconsin state grange,
Secretary Rusk's own state, Master Car
spoke as follows:
Among the earlier objects set forth by
Secretary Kelly and Worthy Master
Saunders. two of the founders of our order
was the aim to bring American agricul-
ture to the front, to elevate the Agricui-
ture department then but little more than
clerkship in the patent Office to cabi-
net position with its chief member of
the presidents political family. The
order demanded increased appropriations
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17

night laid waste the whole south side of
the pubic square. causing damage amount
ing to 100000
THREE children of William Brlscoe s
were drowned in thr Red river, in Texas,
while the father was trying to drive across
the river with them.
AT mine near Aurora, No, as J. Fl.
Daughtery, one of the owners, descended
the shaft, an unexploded shot went off,
blowing him to pieces.
On Thursday morning, Conductor Nc
Gill and Brakeman Myers were instantly
killed LII collision on the Big -Four rail-
road, near Acton, Ind.
FIRE destroyed six-story building in
Chicago Wednt sday, causing loss OF
1926, 600. Among the principal firms oc-
cupying the building were the Chicago
Paste company, the American Fruit COM
pany and the Costello company
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
TO TERMINATE THE TRUST.
Ohio Supreme Court Decision Scares tn
Standard Oil People.

New YORK, March 10.-An evening
paper says special meeting of the stock
holders of the Standard Oil company is
called for March q. The meeting is
called to vote upon the resolu-
ton passed today by the board
Of directors to terminate the trust.
The steps are supposed TO be taken
on account of the recent Ohio supreme
court decision declaring the trust illegal.
While the decision Of the meeting is in
suspense there is little doubt that the
trust viii dissolve but although the
trust dies there will be no sacrifice
Of the interests of the certificate holders
and the great aggregation Of capital will
still be managed by the same means and
will retain control of the refining and
transportation Of petroleum.
S. c Todd, solicitor of the organization,
said: The cause of the proposed dlsso'
luton is the public outcry against trusts,
supplemented by the recent decision of the
Ohio supreme court that the Standard Oil
company is a monopoly and n violation
of law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
OLD AUNT PEGGY.
She Was Never Going to Quit her Goot
Old Master.

She Was Never Going to Quit her Good
Old Master.
When the war was over, old Aunt Peg.
gy went to Monsieur, and said:
"Massa, amt never gwine to quit yer
I'm gittin' ole an feeble, an my days is
few in dis heah Ian O. sorrow an sin
Ali | axes is lille co'ner whar | ken set
down an wait peaceful flu de 'en."
Monsieur and madame were very much
touched at this mark Of affection and
fidelity from Aunt Peggy. So, in thu
general reconstruction of the plantation
which immediately followed the surrender
a nice cabin, pleasantly appointed, was
set apart for the old woman Madame
did not even forget the very comfortable
rcckjng-chair in which Aunt Peggy might
''set down." as she herself expressed it,
IAN wait flu de en-
She has been rocking ever since.
At intervals of about two years Aunt
Peggy hobbies up to the house, and de-
liyers the stereotyped address which has
become more than familiar:
"Mistress, Is come to take las look
at you all. Le' me look at you good. Lee
me look at de chiIlun-de big chilun an
de lille chillun. Lee me look at de picters
an de photographs an de piany an
'ything TO its too late. One eye is
done gone, an de u5der's agwine fas' &.
Any mo'nin' yo' pc ole Aunt Peggy
gwine wake up an fin herself stone
bline"
After such a visit Aunt Peggy invaria-
bly, returns to her cabin with generously
filed apron.
The scruple which monsieur one time
felt in supporting woman for so many
years in idIeness has entirely disappeared.
OF late his attitude towards Aunt Peggy
is simply one of profound establishment
wonder at the surprising age which an
old black woman may attain when she sets
her mind to it, Tor Aunt Peggy is a hum
dred and twenty-five, so she says.
1t may no. be true, however. Possibly
she is older-Harper Young People
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17

DURING the recent trial of the tenton
gun of the Miantonomoh, in Gardner s
bay, several of the officers were rendered
deaf by the conclusion, bursting their ear
drums. The old rule for preserving the
drum of tie ear intact during the firing of
heavy guns seems to have been forgotten.
The rule was keep the mouth slightly
open, or the lips apart, during firing, so
that there may be equal pressure on each
side of the ear-drum." A ruptured ear
drum is more than temporary accident,
which time, pain and patience will cure;
it is a lifelong calamity that can and
should be guarded against.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17

Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, has just
caught his first tarpon in Flori Ia waters,
and the local papers contain jocular refer
ences TO his previous success as fisher of
men. The bishop is one of the most pop
ular of western churchmen, modified
edition of Bishop Brooks in mental and
physical girth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
Womeniu Sweden,

The jgher education Of women is max
ing great progress in Sweden. The
number of women students in the univer-
sites there is now larger and is constant
ly increasing. There are eighteen women
students IN the Upsala University, thirteen
in Lund, and eight women are studying
medicine in the Carolinsk.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17

If we are to Judge by the claims made
on poor little Chill for damages, the crew
of the Baltimore must contain some highly
valuable specimens of humanity. The
papers that have been filed in the state de-
partment at Washington asking for repa-
ration include claims aggregatlng
s2,605, 600. The claims are as follows
False imprisc nment and assault, John
NcAdam, 800 1000; John Dowley, $50, 600
Andy Borile, $4,000; o. Welland
$4,000. Very grave injuries: jeremiah
Anderson, $4,000; John Hamilton
s150,OO0; George Painter, $4,000
Seriously injured: Joseph Quigley
100000; John Mcbride, 100000
William Lacey, 100000; M. Houlehan
SIS, 900; William Caulfeld, $4,000; P
McAdams, $4,000; James III. johnson
$4,000; John Rooney, $4,000; jane
Gillen, 100000; F. Clifford, 100000; N
D. w. Fredericks, 100000; F. H. Smith
100000; Warren Brown, $4,000; R. J
Hodges, $4,000; John Butler, $50, 900; c
C. Williams, $4,000. False imprison
ment and light assault: John W. Greese
$4,000; John Gallagher, $4,000; c. H
Guthe, $4,000; W. Sullivan, $4,000
Andrew Gibson, $4,000; S. w. Cook
$4,000; Michael Cunningham, $4,000
Peter O'Neill, $4,000; Peter Johnson
$4,000; Alfred Pfeffer, $4,000; Adolpl
Swanson, $4,000 If these worthless CAL
only make Chill appreciate their import
ance, they will be able to throw up theil
present jobs of "S15 a month and found ;
and live in ease the remainder of theil
days.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17

BACHELOR ROBINSON harmless fir
tation" with married woman at Yoke
hama might with much truth and greater
alleteration be termed a fatal Irritation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

NELLIE CURRAN, of Aurora, H., while
on her way to work Saturday morn
ing, was killed by a Northwestern en-
CINE.
A FIRE in Bloomfield, Iowa, Friday
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17

Guet or U. .. Grant post G. A. H., WHICH
will be given on Wednesday, April 81, in
commemoration of the birthday of General
Brooklyn.
Governor and Mrs. Peck are at the Ed.
bitt house, Washington. After few days
they will 60 on to Fortress Monroe. They
are travelling for the benefit of Mrs. Peck s
health
An Easter wedding in WASH ngton will
be that of Miss Eta Brewer daughter of
Associate Justice Brewer, of the supreme
urt, with James Karrick, of Boston.
-
The public portrits of Mrs. Deacon, the
unhappy heroine of the Cannes tragedy
recall in striking way the pictures of
Baroness Vecsera, whose love for the
Crown Prince Rudolph caused her death.
There is noteworthy resemblance in the
shape of the head, the arrangement of the
hair, the eyes and the curl of the eye
ashes.
The Grand Duke of Hesse, the queen s
on.in-law, who is reported to be dying,
made sensation in 1884, by marrying
Nine Kalomine, the beautiful divorced
wife of a Russian secretary of legation
stationed at the Hessian capital. Two
months afterward the marriage was dis
solved 10y divorce and Nine Kalomine
was citated Countess Won Romrod, re.
ceiving also gift of 100000 and the
assurance of an annual pension of SIS 900
William Writ Henry, Of Richmond, is
said to be a grandson, though it would
.em as if he must be great-grandson, OF
rAtrick Henry. He is a lawyer and al
authority on all matters pertaining to the
history of Virginia.
The world would perhaps after all bt
just as happy if its various parts were a
widely separated as in the good old days
prior to the telegraph, the lightning ex
press and the swift-speeding steamer
From all quarters of the globe come almos
in conjunction two tales of woman in6del
ity, and of bloody homicide by an out
ragged husband. 1t was but few day
ago that an American killed French gal
liant in his wife's chamber at foreign
fashion resort, aud now comes the story .
the shooting of an English swell in far of
Japan by another American whose homo
had been insulted. Scarcely day passe
when this old species of crime is not re
ported here, there or elsewhere; and whel
it is not of this peculiar nature, the hor
ror Of a hanging, the burning of a rapis
at the stake, the midnight murder by tn
surprised house breaker, infanUicide b,
the ''loyely woman who stoops to folly,
or the shocking recital of the blood
events of the prize ring are subjects tn
news of which is flashed from every par
Of the globe. The world may not b
growing more wicked, but the characte
of the press of the present day is neverthe
ess enough to make one believe it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17

Governor and Mrs Peck are at the Eb-
bitt house, Washington. After few days
they will go on to Fortress Monroe. They
are travelling for the benefit of Mrs. Peck S
health.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
PERSONAL ALLUSIONS.

President Harrison is to attend the ban
Guet of U. S. Grant post G. A. r., which
will be given on Wednesday, April o. in
commemoration of the birthday of General
U. S. Grant, at the Union League club
Brooklyn.