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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28
NOT a SURE SUCCESS.
Experts Experiments Not Favorable t
Compressed Air for Power


Compressed Air for Power
Experts who have most closely studied
the subject of compressed air for power
are not sanguine Gifts success, but, on the
contrary, are inclined to look upon it as
still being too much of an experiment. to
warrant Its acceptance ss an engineering
fact.
"A series of exhaustive experiments
were recently made upon the Popp system
IN Paris. witch is to-day the only system
OF power transmission by compressed air
IN the world that any where near approach
es success, and which system is utiliz ID
prlnclp ally for running pneumatic clocks.
sewing machines, fans, and various other
appliances for small and light work, the
heaviest motor supplied being only about
100 horsepower. These experiments
gave very low efficiency as a system
l. is well-known fact that in compress
ing air a vast amount of heat is generated
| In the compressors which can not be used;
| therefore, the power spent in the COM
pressor in making that heat is power lost.
Some exhaustive experiments m lde on the
Popp system recently by Professor Ken.
needy, +. r. s., show that one indicated
| horsepower at the central station gave
OS45 lEdic tied horsepower in the com
| pressors, which with that efficiency would
deliver as much air as would do 50 indi-
Gated horse-p wer after the air bad fallen
| to the normal temperature of the mains
Subsequent experiments showed that al
lowing for other conditions, for one horse
power of work done there was required tc
be generated In round numbers four-horse
power at tie Central Station.
| Some of those who have expressed opin-
ions upon tie advantages of a oppressed
air system have diated upon its absolute
safety. Perhaps they are not aware tina,
air is an expansive gas, like steam, anc
when confined under press ure, again like
steam, is constantly seeking an escape
An opening, no matter how small, is al
readily availed of by compressed air as by
steam, anu the results of the bursting of {
compressed air receiver are equally a
disastrous as those occasioned by tn,
bursting of steam boiler.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

The Cumberland Spoke company's fac
tory at Burnside, Ky, burned Sunday
night.
JCBN CHAMBERS was accidently shot
and killed Sunday at Bloomington, Ind.
by William Doub.
Mrs. JANE HANSEN, aged IS years and
living at Franklin Grove, ILL.,, was killed
by train.
MRS. JULIA BRUssr. of West Bay City
Mich, while IN sklff in the tow of the
steamer Atlantic, Monday, on Clinton
River, became frightened, fell verboard.
and was drowned.
HE Forclte powder works, on Lake
Hoplaconga, N. Z, exploded Monday af-
ternoon. Several are reported killed.
CLEARWATER. village near Longvi1w
Tex, was struck by cyclone Wednesday
morning. Several houses were wrecked
two persons killed and several injured. tt
A MAN named KELSEY was fatally in
Jured at Iowa Falls, Iowa, tuesday even
ing by being caught in a cog wheel at the
tile works. The engine could not be stop
ped in time.
The yarn mill of E. B. Woodwork, at
Orlskany Falls, n. Y, was destroyed by
flre Tues day night. Loss, $4,000.
FIVE buildings belonging to the Staten
Island dyeing works, at West New bright.
L. L., we're burned Tuesday morning
Loss, 100000; insurance, $4,000.
AN accident occurred at Y. M. c. A.
corner. stone laying at Holyoke, Mass,
whereby one man was killed and d score or
more of people were badly injured.
THREE men were instantly killed and
four I'M ured, three probably fatally, by the
collapse Of a forty foot brick wall in the
county court house at Jonesboro, Tenn,
Friday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28
FOREIGN.

PRINCE GEORGE and Princess Mary
Victoria Of Teck are betrothed
SNowsToRMs ara raging in the Alps,
and many towns in Austria and the Tyrol
are snOwb0und.
FIRE in a st. Petersburg tenement
house WedneS day resulted In the death OF
at least nine persons, and many more are
missing.
ELABORATE preparations are being
made at Madrid to celebrate the 400th
ann versary of the discovery of America
b7 Columbus.
PRESIDENT DIAz has been unanimously
elected a candidate for reelection by the
liberal party of Mexico.
MARSHAL Joveller Sober. president of
the supreme council of war and marine, Of
Spain, died Saturday.
1T is rumored that the second daughter
Of the duke of Edinburgh is betrothed tc
the grand duke of Here.
THE Russian nihilists are reported te
have emphatically It jecied anarchist over
lures for an alliance of forces.
RUSSIA has loaned Persia 50, $780, coo at
per cent. This is in order to counteract
British influence in Persia.
The Ru sian government has determin
ed to continue the prohibitions against
the export of wheat and I'VE until Septic N
Der l.
ON Saturday, Major General Sir Levi.
Fe u, M. P, VINO took an important par
In the settlement of the Afghan fficultie.
in 1875, died, at the ,e OF 81 years.
A VERY virutnt epidemic of cholera il
raging at B-nares, India. Yesterday
there We're 1870 new cases and 135 deaths
reported. he epidemic is result Of al
utter disregard of all sanitary precautions
LARGE numbers of distressed Russian
peasants are gathered on the German
frontier, and are trying 10 enter tina
country in spite of the guards.
THE death is announced of Henri d,
Kock, the French play wright and novelist
| He was born in Paris in 1921, and was
son of the great novelist, Paul de Kock.
The Cadiz authorities made furthe
| discovery OF secreted dynamite, and mucl
| alarm prevails among the inhabitants.
is feared that the May day demonstra
tions at Cddiz will be marked by 6yna
mite outrages.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28
WISCONSIN NEWS.

A northern Wisconsin trotting cir.
cult has been arranged to
include Waupun, Green Bay,
Fond du Lac, K ,ukauna, New1 London.
Osonto, Marinette, Shawano and probably
Amigo and Wau.au. The clrcnlt starts
at Wanpan June l and 2.
The r zor suits, which have been pend
ing for 1eariy two years past. between
Lonis R zor, Sr and Rome township, for
il i1rie. elaine to have been received by
Mrs. Rszor through defective culvert.
and for loss of her time while laid up
with SAID i, nries, amounting to 81 0)0 or
more. have been settled by the town
board of supervisors for 1900, at the
proposition Of the plaintiff.
John Halbeck committed suicide by
shooting bia:self in the head at his home,
80 Third street, Milwaukee. HsIbeck was
married mar, having family of seven
chit 'ran. He had been working at Hecht
& Zimmach's wholesale house, but was
discharged last Friday. 1t is supposed
that this preyed On his mind and led him
10 take his life.
A co lision between passenger train
and switch engine on the Milwaukee,
Lake Shore & Western road near Besse-
mer resulted in the death of Fireman
Fowler and the serious injury Of Engineer
Hoover
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28
CONGRESS.
MONDAY. April Is.

SENATE Tine attention of the senate
was called to an alleged discrimination
made by the United States q Brazilian
steamship company against the merchants
and produce dealers of the south and west,
by refusal to land at the port of Newport
News coffee shipped from Brazil. A bill
and resolutions bearing on the subject
were referred to the committee on COM
merce. The vote whereby the senate
passed the bill to amend the act of 1890 to
establish the ciicuit court of appeals, and
to define and regulate the jurisdiction OF
the courts of the United States, was taken
up and after some amendments was again
passed The bill to facilitate the DISPOSE
tion of cases in the court of claims, wa
taken up and passed. The president sent
a message 10 the senate on the Berlng Sea
modus vivendi, which was referred to the
committee on foreign relations.
HoUsk.-Mr. McRae. Of Arkansas, call
ed up the bill TO adjust swamp land grants
and fix a limitation for the fling of claims
there under. After considerable discussion
the bill was lost by a vote of lib 70 Is.
The naval appropriation bill was then
taken up in committee of the whole. and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28

AT Tacoma, Wash, Mortimer Lewis fa-
tally shot his wife and then blev out his
own brains. Drink was the cause.
The body of Mrs. Catharina Biever, of
Buffalo, n. Y, was found 10 bed with the
head crushed in by an Ak. Her husband
had committed the murder.
WILLIAM E. WOODRUFF, ex-state
treasurer Of Arkansas, charged with en-
bezzing state funds, has been acquitted
by jury.
A. NJ. HEAToN, teacher in the primary
department of the public schools at Fair
view, ILL.,, committed suicide Saturday
morning by shooting himself through the
right temple.
WHILE Bishop Perry was preaching at
the Episcopal church in Dubuque, Iowa,
Sunday night pickpockets worked the
throngs which filed the aisles, but got
little wealth.
A NEGRO robber in Mississippi was
pursued to the mountains. When brought
to day he killed one of mis- pursuers and
gave tbs other two a terrible fight before
he was finally captured.
CHARLES BLACKMAN, a cattle thief who
for five years has eluded officers of the
law, has been captured and placed in Jail
at Custom, Iowa. There are several In
dictments pending against him for whole
sale cattle stealing.
AT Traverse City, Mich, Maynard
Baird, single man, % years cid, cut
his throat with razor Saturday morning.
He cannot live. Dependency was the
cause.
The collector Of customs at Port Town
send, Wash, has Sc zad the steamer Mich
igan, which plies along the coast.
Five thousand dollars worth of con-
traband opium on the vessel has been
seized
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28
NICARAGUA CANAL.
A Committee From California Calls for a
Convention


SAN FRANCISCO, April 25.-An address
to the American people has been prepared
by committee appointed by the state
Nicaragua canal convention to arrange
for national convention at 81. Louis,
next June. 1t submits that in
this age Of commercial activity the
United States must push its trade and
commerce or lose foreign markets and
suffer financial depression. Statistics are
given to show what benefit to the union
the canal will be, saying 1t will open COM
merce of the Pacific With the
valley of the Mississippi. The gulf
states and far west will feel the
vitalizing forces of new and better markets
for the products Of the soil, while the
north ard east will grow strong under the
increased demand for Amer
lean shipping. The defense of the
Pacific coast states In time of war
should also demand the thoughtful, patri-
otto consideration of the whole country.
Let congress aid in this work, not as
menace 10 foreign nations, but for protec-
tion for ourselves and blessings TO others.
When completed it will unite by ties of
Commercial interest all the American re-
publcs, giving greater stability and re-
newed pros periy to each, inspiring conf
dence and ins1rlng perpetual peace among
rhen, al ~
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28
Three Imporrant MEETINGS.

HELENA, Mont, April 2O-The Su.
preme Lodge, A. o. U. w, meets in this
City June 18Th, for which occasion the
Great Northern makes rate of $40, from
St. Paul and Minneapolis with choice OF
four routes returning. The same rate
will al,o be made for the Mining Congress,
July IL b, and ths National Encampment
Cf the Sons of Veterans and Ladies Aid
Society, August 8.h, both to be held here
Helena extends cordial Invitation fol
members and friends of these Orders tc
come, for there will be ample entertain
ment md accommodation for all.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28
CRIME.

FIRE bugs are operating at San Antonio
Tex, causing much exc tement and terror.
A GRAND FORKS bank cashier emb. z
zIes. He attribute, his downfall to gamo
ing.
EUGENE KAUFMAN, postmaster at
ReIsel, Texas, was a>sassindred by two
negroes who were trying to roo his sto:e,
A MICRO doctor near Q iincy, ILL.,, killed
a man for refusing to pay him for treat
ing his mother for cancer, having failed
TO cure her.
Two New York bank robbers were cap
tu,ed in Copenhagen, Denmark, after a
lively pursuit in row boat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28
The Tadpoie,

"What becomes o. the tail of tadpole
when the animal becomes frog?" Prof.
Bickmore explains that the gradual for
nation of the legs is accompanied by a
corresponding de crease in the size cf the
tail and Wh.n the legs are sufficiently
grown to enable the young frog to climb
out Of the water the tail has been absorbed
into the rest of the hOdy
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28
Low Rate to the Pacific Coast

ST. PAUL, Mimi Aprii 81 -Oa account
OF the PIesby terian General Assembly,
which meets in Portland, O-eg,n. May
18th, the Great Northern Runway has
made half rate fare. or $50, for the
round trip from St. Paul, MINNEAPOLIS,
Dul1th and Superior, with choice OF var
ious routes returning.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28

Mrs FRNCH SHELDON, the woman ex-
plorer of Africa, spent many months in the
dark continent, the companion of natives
and surrounded 10y Wild beasts and great
serpants without any show Of fear. She
MAS named 'the Master woman" by the
native chiefs, who we're ever reaedy TO do
hsr bidding. She returned from Africa
with many trophies of her hunting expe-
ditions where she faced tigers and escaped
the coils of pythons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28

QUKRN VICToRIA's crown, made in
1883, contains 5000 precious stones, and
is valued at 81 100000. i've sixths of the
stones are diamonds. THE lower part of
the band is a row of 1919 pearls, the upper
part of 112. It also contains saprhires,
emfralds aud rubies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28

THE Massachusetts legislature has kill
ed a resolution in favor of shutting up the
worlds fair Sundays. The New York APP
propriotion provides for Sunday closing
in the department of the fair from that
state.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28

THE new voting machine that was
rested at Lockport, N. Y, the other day,
ought to make its inventor rich man if
&c can do right along what they say it did
at Lockport. About 400 votes were cast,
and within FIVE minutes after the closing
of the poles the result. was announced in
all its completeness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28

The little ten year old daughter of
Professor Hudson has created great sur
prise in England. She has rewritten TIE
book of Elclid, added original exampl es,
and every one of her propositions.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28

THE king Of Siam possesses one of the
finest collection of jewels in the world. He
has determined to sell a part of it, and
has sent an agent to Paris to dispose of a
quantity of superb diamonds and unset
fubiPs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28

THE world has cause to regret the death
Of that talanted lady Dr.. Amelia B. E l.
wards, authoIess and Psychologist. She
was attacked by la-grlppe during her tour
in this country IN 1889, and never fully
recovered
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28

EBONY is said to be so abundant in
some parts of Mexico that il is used as
iewcod by the people and as fuel by the
railways.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28
HIGH PRICES FOR PAINTINGS.

HIGH PRICES FOR PAIN l1N6S.
An auction sale of foreign paintings be-
longing to the Robert l.. Cutting estate,
held at Chickering hall in New York, re-
sently, resulted in good prices, notwith,
s ding that good many pictures nc
doubt brought | 8, than they cost, being
reduced to their real value. A fine speci
men Of z ,macois, The r eturn to the Con.
vent, was the sui Jet of lively bidding
and was bought by Boussod, Valadon &
Co., fer $4,000 Bat two other works
exceeded SIS 000,-"Coming out q
Church., by Madcszr, $500, aud Cows
in Pool" by E. Van Maicke, s7,100
"WaterJng Sheep ly Jaoq1e, brought
81, 225; Normandy Cliffs" by Troyon
81 600; Pool in the Meadow" by Jules
Dnpre, So 825; ''Saeep Pasture" by
Augaste B nheur, So $50; Italian Mother
and Chile" by Bouguereau, So 400; and
for over $1,000, paintings BY Corot, Vol
Ion, RICO, Fortuny, Fromentin, DIaz'
the famous French artists were nearly all
represented, many of the modern spanish
school and several celebrated Dutchmen
TO show how high technic is valued, TIE
price (s2, S75) for ''still life by Vollon
may b.. cited. The sale as whole testi'
fees once mole to the endur ing value of the
work of great artists, simply as invest
ments.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28

The nearest living relative of Shakes
peare is probably Thomas Hart, resident
of Australia, who is eighth in descent
from Shakespeare's sister Joan.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28

THE first steamship of the new line be-
tween the United States and Mexico has
made her first voy age from Philadelphia
to Vera Cruz. This steamship was built
in British shipyard by British firm,
though The Mexican American company
might have got better steamships built in
American shipyards by American firms.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28

The Silk association of America and
the Silk Industry association have decid-
ed to combine in making the finest posi-
BILE exhibit of silk goods and products at
tie worlds fair
miss VIOLA GRILwoLD, the only woman
in a class of forty-eight men at the Col
lege of Pharmacy, Northwestern Univer-
atty, carried eff the first prize.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28
INSULTS RAILROAD MEN.
Indignation at the Action of the 70
Dodge, Iowa Council

Fort DODGE, April 25. - The city
council, refusing to rescind its action
taxing a'chos of railroad men, passed a
resolution Offering to release any one
If. ced from paying the nifty cents by
making fiddvtt that it was too heavy a
burd; n The railroad men consider this
action an insult, and are highly indig-
nant
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28

woman pameu kruz, convicted of the
murder of her husband, and her elder
son Wilhelm, who was her accomplice in
the murder, were executed at Dortmund,
Germany.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28
The Trial of RavachOl, the Partisan
Anarchist is to Begin
Today.
Restaurant Of VI. Very. Who Deliver
ed Him Into Custody Destroy
ed by Dynamite.
The Proprietor So Severely Injured
that He Dies Soon
After.

rARIs, April 25.-Much interest is
manifested in the trial of the anarchist
Ravachol, who is charged with having
caused the explosions at the residence
OF Judge Bcnoit, who presided at the
trial Of anarchists at the Seine AssiZcs.
April IS, 1901, and at the residence of NJ.
BulOt, who conducted the prosecution on
that occasion. The trial is fixed for to-
morrow, and the demand for tickets of
admission to the court room has been
very active. The desire to hear the
proceedings has been somewhat damp
ened, however, by Il statement that APP
pcarcd yesterday that friends of
Ravachol were plotting to prevent any
sentence the court might impose upon
him from being carried out It is not
known what course the anarchists will
purSne, but it is feared that some of
them may in some way gain admission
to the courtroom and throw bomb.
An Explosion.
The restaurant of M. Very, who on
March 80 delivered Ravacho, the anarch.
ist, into the hands of the police, was ut-
terry wrecked tonight by a bomb exolo-
sion. The POLICE on entering found Very
lying on the floor in the midst of heaps
of debris. One of his legs were broken
and had to be amputated. The grand
daughter of Very was also
Injured and two ladies living
over the restaurant we're badly shaken
and bruised. Verys wife was not in
jured but she has lost her senses owing to
the shock she suffered and is raving. At
1870 this afternoon the freD,en were
clearing away the ruins. Fortunately the
damage done is almost entirely confined to
the building in which the restaurant is
located. 1t Is the general opinion that the
explosion was perpetrated mainly to terror
lie the Jurgmen who were on duty at Rava-
chols trial. Three persons were arrested.
One of them shouted 1--WE l'anarch;e,
on being taken into custody. News of
the explosion quickly spread throughout
the city, creating CONSERVATION, especially
on the boulevard, where exaggerated re-
ports of the affair we're current.
Later.
Very died soon after the amputation of
his leg.
The cafe is an utter wreck and the pave
mept in the vicinity is complety strewn
with debris of furniture and the front of
the building. A waiter named SherOt
escaped with slight bruise, but is suf-
fering from the effects of a great shock.
Several persons riding in tram car
passing the building when the
explosion occurred were injured
by being struck by pieces of flying glass.
The explosion has terrorized the jury
selected to try r tvachol and the officials
connected in any way with the trial.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28

TIE wooded island in the exposition
grounds is beginning to assume the char
acter which in great part it will have dur
ing the fair that of gigantic flower
garden. Already the Horticultural depart
ment has received $1,000 rose bushes ard
other plants, several thousand of which
came from abroad. These are being
transplanted on the island.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28

IN South Ainca nature furnishes ready
60 hand substitute for the fly paper
Americans have SO patiently TO prepare
in the shape of plant botanica!ly roridula
dentata. 1t grows several feet high, and
is hung in rooms of the colonists to catch
flies just as the artificial article is here
1t is closely allied to the Droseras- the
Sun-cews of our swamps-made so mem
cradle by Mr.. Drawin's works, in which
he shows that these plants catch insects
fer the direct purpose of ealing them
that they are really oarnivorous plants.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28
Sw ISIS Pudding.

One cup bread crambs, two cups milk
three eggs, one TABLESPOON butter, melted
one half teaspoon salt, one half saltspoon
pepper, one half pound cheese, grated
Soak the crumbs in the milk. add the
other Ingredients, cover with dry crumbs
and bake in a quick oven till Drowned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28

The society of the army Of the Cumber-
land has chang d the date of its re union
to be held on the battlefield at Chicka-
manga, September q and o, in order not
to interfere with the annual encampment
of the grand army of the republic.