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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23
Notwithstanding a Republican
Legislature His Credit
able Career.

Bismarck, n. D., Feb. 2O.-William
n. Roach, Democrat, of Grand Forks,
was elected United States Senator on
the sixty-first ballot.
This is the result or the tedious fight,
and is remarkable considering the fact
that the republicans have a healthy ma
joriy in the legislature.
The election was effected by a COM
bination of pOpuliSts, democrats and
boiling republicans. Mr.. Roach sue
ceeds Senator Casey, republican.
The election of a democrat and the
outcome in Wyoming by which the ap-
pointment of senator falls in the hands
of the democratic governor through the
adjournment of the legislature without
that the republicans have healthy ma
jority in the legislature.
w. n. Roach has been resident Of
Dakota for the past thirteen years, com
ing to Grand Forks county from the
District Of Columbia. He was born in
Loudon county, Virginia, and is now
So years of age. He has a family OF
four children and is now a widOwer.
Mr.. Roach has stood for his party as its
candidate for governor on two different
occasions, being defeated both times.
He is an extensive wheat grower.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23
THE M'FETRIDGE BILL.
John JOhnston Thinks 1t Should Pass
Interest of the State

Milwaukee Journal: What do L
think of Mr.. McFetridge's bill?' said
Mr.. Johnston today. ''Well, during the
heat of the campaign, and under the
taunts of the Republican papers,
was formerly opposed to the rebate
of one cent, but as the aSperitieS of
the contest are being wiped out by the
hand of time my judgment as a bus
mess man is asserting itself.
''When | consider that only one of
the eX-treasurerS will be able to pay
the judgment himself, and that in some
cases the bondsmen will be ruined
some Of whom knew little or nothing
of the law or the practical ask myself,
is it not enough that the principle adj
vocated by our party has been vindi-
Gated by the people and the courts, and
should not justice be tempered with
mercy? Suppose the statN sells out
Mr.. McFetridge's property under the
Judgment for half it's price, and
banI1rupts several of the bonds
men of the other heasurers in
their old age, the state may thereby
get the ltSC uOlldf, anu Inlay not, Out tlle
result would be like the work of him
who made solitude and called it
peace Up to this time the conduct of
this whole matter has been satisfactory
to the people Of the state, and [ trust
1t may be carried through to the end i'll
in such a way that in after years we
can look back on the whole history of the
case, from beginning to end, with serene
satisfaction.
81 have not examined the details of
the bill, but l favor the three per cent.
proposition. L was pleased to see that
Mr. Wall takes the same view of it,
and | am told Mr. Villas also fayors such
a settlement If this bank were the
creditor instead Of the state | would not
hesitate to settle on such basis. The
state will get as much on the three pei
cent basis as it would have got had the
treasurer turned the interest over tC
the state at first"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23
Live Stock.

CHICAGO, Feb. 20.--CATTLE-Receipts q, COO
Sellers OF steer cattle had to accept lower
prices than ruled at the close of last week. It
would not have been at ali out of the ordinary
had the shrinkage in values been greater than
l0115c per 100 lbs, but those figures fully GOV.
cred it. Such cattle as sold at So. rs J4S5 on
Friday last were slow TO-DAY at s.. 6004.75 and
cattle that were salable q: 55.2506. 10 Were to-
day quoted at IS 10000. In the kinds that
are usually taken by local Gamers and butch
ers there was less change; in fact they sold
about as well as before, though the feeling was
weak in sympathy. The market was slow all
day and weak at the decline.
HoGs-Receipts $1,000. Good hogs, whether
light or heavy, were steadily held Only a
small part of the receipts graded above com
mon,'' and as the inquiry was generally for
something better the market for ''of grades
was lower-5010c lower than Saturday
There was nothing here good enough to bring
more than IS so and only here and there was
there sale at better than IS 35 From So 90 to
So 35 took the largest part, Hghtwelghts sell
ing principally at sT.a51S 10 and from s. 10 to
s8.3a buying most Of the mixed and medium
SHEEP-Receipts, 1900. The sheep and
lamb markets were active and firmer. Good
sheep generally sold 5110c higher than at the
close of last week, and the advance in lambs
was even more marked. The receipts. which
early were estimated at u. ZOO, were pared
down to 900 later in the forenoon, and the
Nose therefore was quite strong. Choice to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23
FIGHT WITH A LUNATIC.
Young Woman from Oklahoma At
tempts to Jump from Train.

Young Woman from Oklahoma At
tempts to Jump from a Train.
WICHITA, Kan, Feb. 2O.-Hester
Watts, 2O-year-oId daughter of a
merchant at Edmunds, Ok, got on the
Santa Fe train at Edmunde with a
ticket to Atchison. She was goinfi to
visit relatives at Pawnee, Neb. Miss
Watts acted queerly and before the
train reached Wichita she made an at
tempt to leap from the platform. Con-
ductor Glazier seized her and a des-
perate struggle for life ensued while
the train was going at the rate of
forty miles an hour. In the struggle
the crazed girl produced knife and
slashed at the conductor At this
Juncture commercial traveller came
to the rescue, and with difficulty the
young woman was taken into the cur
She was taken from the train and held
until her father arrived The cause of
her sudden alteration is not known.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23
dern TOurnRY.

A Pennsylvania girl refereed a
prize fight between her two lovers
the other day, kissed the winner and
will marry him. She liked both of
the young men so we'll that she could
not decide between them, so they
resorted to the test of physical
strength, skill and endurance to set
tie the matter. The girl went along
to see that each had fair show, and,
fearing partially in referee, she
performed that function in person, to
the eminent satisfaction of everybody
except the fellow who was beaten.
The fight was twenty-one round
mill with bare knuckles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23
FACTS ABOUT THE EARTH
Feculiarities Of the sphere Which We
Inhabit.

Feculiarities Of the sphere Which We
Inhabit.
The existence of volcanoes. geysers
and hot springs irregularly scattered
over the whole surface of the globe
and continually eiecting molten rock,
ashes, mud. steam or hot water is an
obvious indication OF some very wide
spread source of heat within the
earth, but Of the nature or origin OF
that heat they give little positive in
formation.
The heat thus indicated has been
supposed to be due to many causes.
such as the pressure and friction
caused by contraction of the cooling
crust, chemical action at great depths
beneath the surface, isolated lakes of
molten rock due to these or to I'M
known causes, or to molten interior,
or at least general substratum OF
moltenmatter between the crust and
possibly solid interior.
The two first causes are now GEN
orally admitted to be inadequate, and
our choice is practically limited to
one of the latter, according to the
Fortnightly Review.
There are also very important evil
dences of internal heat derived from
the universal phenomenon OF a fairly
uniform increase of temperature in all
deep wells, mines, behring's and tun-
nels. The increase has been usually
reckoned as one degree Fahrenheit
for each sixty feet of descent, but a
recent very careful estimate by Pro-
fessor Prestwitch, derived from the
whole available data. gives one de-
gree Fahrenheit for every 47.5 feet Of
descent.
1t is a curious Indication of the
universally of this increase that
even in the coolest parts OF Siberia,
where the soil is frozen to a depth of
625 feet, there is a steady increase in
the temperature of this frozen soil
from the surface downward.
Much has been made by some writ
ers Of the local differences of the rate
of increase, varying from one degree
In twenty-eight 3 one degree in
ninety-fve, and also of the fact that
in some places the rate Of increase
diminishes as the depth becomes
greater.
But when we consider that springs
often bring up heated water to the
surface in countries far removed from
any seat of volcanic action, and the
extent TO which water permeates the
rocks at all depths reached by man,
such Emergencies are exactly what
we might expect.
Now, this average rate of increase,
if continued downward, would imply
a temperature capable of melting
less.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23
Peter Grubcr's Unique Garb.

Peter Gruber, the Rattlesnake
King, of Fenango c2-nty, has made
the most unique costume any man
ever wore. 1t consists of coat, vest,
trousers, hat, shoes and shirt, and is
made entirely of the skins of rattle
snakes.
Seven hundred snakes, all caught
and skinned by Gruber during the
past five years, provided the material
for this novel costume. To preserve
the fexibility of the skins to the
greatest possible degree, the snakes
were skinned alive, first being made
unconscious by chloroform.
They were then tanned by q
method peculiar to Gruber, and are
as soft and elastic as wooden goods.
The different articles for this outfit
were made by Oil City tailors, shoe
makers and matters, and the costume
Is valued at $1,000.-New York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23

LONDON, Feb. 2O.-The News THU
morning maintains that nearly nine
tenths of the difficulties raised in de-
bate by the opponents of the home
rule bill have been removed by publ
cation of the text of that measure.
The News discusses the financial
clauses of the measure at great length,
pointing out the immense cost of the
troops and armed police in Ireland
which will be saved to the British tax
payers if the bill becomes law.
The Telegraph says that the meas
ure is even more recklessly perilous to
the peace and safety of the empire and
more fruitful of difficulty and compli-
cation in details than the bill of 1885,
The Post says that the bill is essen
TALLY framed to catch, by it's brilliant
vagueness, the vote of all who might
sickle over it were it's lines more pre-
else
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23
Oh, Ipa~o BOARD of Trade

CHICAGO Feb. 20 There was good acuon in
the wheat market this morning. The price
Jumped at once q from the opening, going a
fraction under the low point of last week. This
was followed by quick rally of about 1c. The
greater part of this advance was as quickly
lost and the price rested within small frac
ton Of the Saturday closing figure. May sold
764 TO 761a to 771s 10 1880: July
sold 1884 to 10 to 75K to 75Mc,
At the opening the selling pres
sure Of last week WAS renewed. AS the visible
report came in the indica ton was for de-
crease instead of an increase. On this the ~
prices were helped up nc to sc from the bot
tom figures The final figures on the visible
supply give a decrease of 759 0O0 bu. On this
the market advanced another &c quickly to
the high figure. Finally the market fell back
&c from the best point. very dull market
followed
There was a continuation of the bearish feel
ing in corn during the early trading. The
heaviness resulted in a break OF about q
from the Saturday closing prices. The de-
cline was in keeping with the weaker wheat
market the first hour, and when wheat made a
quick rally and the local stocks OF
corn did not increase as much as
expected the corn market made a
sharp upturn, also completely regaining
the early loss. On the later business prices
ruled about y under the close last week. May
sales were at 441sc to 1890 to 44sc to 437B be-
fore o'clock. July Sold 442sc TO 44G9441sc to
443sc holding 44Ac. At o'clock May corn was
44Hc or hc lower than the Saturday closing.
Corn closed heavy at Ac decline from Satur-
day at 1890 May and 4414c July. Accepted es-
innate for Tuesday, $50 cars.
There wasEless force than usual to the pro
vision trade. In lard the public and the general
trade keep out. May lard was quoted around
S12 80 and Sl2 90 and neglected. Business in
September lard was between S12. 10 and S12 20.
rib 1uipt with 1oio
for May at $40 25, the high point at SlO3j.
Pork was more active. The opening for
May was on break Of zoe from Saturday at
$40 80 This was on the drop of sc to 1Oc in
hogs at the yards. The early heaviness put the
price to $40 .22h. On some good buying tarted
bv Morris & Co. and Swift & Co. the price was
run up to 19.471a. second decline OF zoe fol
lowed before 1 O'Clock Hogs were posted at
$4,000. The estimate for Tuesday was light at
IS 900 and helped to rally the pork market
May prices of products at the close were 5000
pork $12. 12Ia lard, and S10.271a ribs.
Closing quotations were:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23
FOR A SILVER COraPROMISE
Important Conference Said to Have Been
Held at MI CarIisle's.

Held at Mr CarliSle'S.
New YORK. Feb. 20.-According to a
Washington special an important step
toward the re-opening of the silver
question before this Congress expires
has been advised at secret conference
held at the residence of Mr.. Carlisle,
the next Secretary of the Treasury.
Representatives of both the free-sil-
yer and anti-free silver factions were
present and free expression of views
as to the possibility of passing a COM
promise bill was held. A proposition,
which did not come from the anti-free
silver men, was finally settled upon.
This scheme is to suspend the silver
purchases under the Sherman act un-
til the seigniorage silver shall be
coined at the rate of IS, 100000 a
month.
Mr.. Carlisle took no side in the con-
ference, it is said, but simply explained
the effects Of the propositions on the
treasury. Before the conference closed
Mr.. Cox Of Tennessee. speaking for the
silver men present, said that while he
was not strongly in favor of the propo-
sition he thought, perhaps, it was the
wisest action that could be taken with
so little time intervening between now
and the close of the session.
1t is understood that bill carrying
out the compromise will be introduced
to-day by Mr.. Livingston and it looks
as # an attempt would be made this
week to get the bill through the house.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Black Hills National Bank of
Rapid City, S. D, which suspended re-
Gently, has made arrangements to re-
sumo business.
Joe Smith, colored, aged 35 years,
was accidentally shot and killed in
Brazil, Ind. A revolver dropped from
his pocket while he was dancing.
Charles Henry George, 35 years old
of Syracuse, N. Y, nephew of Henry
George, was struck by train in Rah-
way, n. j., andsinstantly killed.
John A. Best was run over by a
Michigan Central freight train near
Buchanan, Mich, and killed. The
team of horses he was driving was also
killed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23
NUT OF THE DEVIL DANCES.
An Insect Within Causes 1t to Move
About Mysteriousiy.

An Insect Within Causes 1t to Move
About Mysteriousiy.
A remarkable curiosity is nut
which grows at Hermosillo, Sonora,
Old Mexico, says the Pioneer Press
means the nut of the devil. Saturday
afternoon Major Davis, who is Just
now holding down Colonel Rarber's
chair as adjutant general in the de-
partment of Dakota, was sitting in
his easy chair contemplating a half
dozen of the meats of these nuts
which had just been sent North by an
officer of the regular army who is
now in Mexico.
The meats were dancing about in q
very mysterious way, and the report
err and several others who were
watching the strange performance
were completely mystifed.
"I'll tell yor what is the matter
with those meats" said the major.
'I'm not going to give away my trick.
When man learns a good sleight-of-
hand performance is he going to give
1t away for nothing? I guess not
The nuts continued to dance and
Lieutenant Sturgis, who was as much
in the dark as the reporter began a
critical examination of the crazy OBJ
jects supposed to be inanimate.
"Oh, yes, think have the trick. :"
said the lieutenant. There is some-
thing alive in these meats. There is
strange throbbing in them"
The reporter picked up one of the
meats, and, surely enough, there was
very peculiar throbbing sensation
in it,
The major was SO thoroughly
amused by this time that he could
not longer withhold the secret. It
seems that worm is born on the in
side of the meat of this nut and that
it lives there for some weeks and
dies without seeing the light of day.
The worm eats out the inside of the
meat, then becomes FESTIVE and moves
about a great deal. 1t is in this
period that the nuts become appar-
emily animate. The moving of the
worm causes the nut to turn about.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23
Two Hours Trade in aReading
Exceeds All Preci-
dent.
Wheat Closes Firm and Higher
On the Chicago
Board.
Corn and Provisions Show Some
Weakness General
Markets.

NEW YORK. Feb. 20.-Money on call is easy
al 80 per cent Prime mercantile paper . .
90 Sterling exchange is quiet and steady
with actual business IN bankers bill at 1861 2
1861 for sixty days and 4S8. G@4oS24 Tor demans.
Posted rates 1914 q lS9 >. Government bonds
have been dull and steady. Railroad bonds
have been very quiet and steady but with great
activity and weakness in the Readings. There
was no diminution in the stock market after
II o'clock, but the Improvement in values made
no further progress. The trading in Reading
was unusually heavy. the record for the two
hours exceeding anything else ever known on
the exchange At noon the market was active
and heavy at or near the lowest prices.
Closing oUOtatiOnS were:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23
NEW MOVE FOR TAMM MANY.
Messrs. Gilroy and Cochran Think thu
State Machile Should Be Dropped.

Messrs. Gilroy and Cochran Think the
State Machioe Should Be Dropped.
New YORK, Feb. 2O.-A Washington
special to the Herald says: 1.-THE time
has come for Tammany Hall to with
draw from the State machine" said
Mayor Gilroy to Tammyny Congress-
man before leaving here for New York
Mayor Gilroy came here on Friday
with a party of friends. He said that
he simply made the trip for the sake
of a change and to secure a much,
needed rest While this was undoubt-
eddy true, the Mayor wanted to get
away from the political atmosphere of
New York and to the. seat of ma
tional politics and think calmly
over The crisis that has been
reached in the condition of the New
York State Democratic ''machine. He
also wished to counsel with Burke
Cochran upon the subject. Although
these two gentlemen are supposed to
have represented two different factions
in Tammany hall, it is known that
Gilroy and Cochran have been of the
same mind in regard to the position OF
Tammany affecting National affairs.
Both these gentlemen are said to firmly
believe that it is the present duty OF
Tammany to cut loose from the State
machine and hereafter act as a sort
of arbitrator between the different
factions of the State Democracy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23
Can't Get Enough Cars.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. a0.-The car
shortage is as bad as ever. The west
ern roads are cramped for transporta-
ton facilities because of the ARBITRARY
action of the Eastern lines in holding
airs from the West. Eastern roads
lave been using these cars for storage
purposes, and in many cases are usin,
aem for local business. The shortag.
mounting up ra pidly- Western roao
e short about 800 cars day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23
For Testing TOrpedOes.

NEWPORT, K. l., Feb. 2O.-For a
twelve-mOnth now the official naval
board for testing torpedoes has been
quietly on the lookout for suitable
location to be definitely decided upon
as official proving grounds" 1t has
just leaked out that Tiverton Bay is
considered most desirable spot and
an official survey will soon be made in
that vicinity. Tiverton is about
twelve miles above Newport on the
east shore of the island, and is the
most importont fishing center in the
State.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23
Left a y, ~ bMr 40 H<opertY.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Feb. 2O.-Probably
the only will every offered for probate
in which the testator announces that
he has no property to bequeath was
that of Dr. Walter Hay, leading ply
stefan, which was read here Saturday.
The testator says: ':In order to avoid
any litigation after my death L pub
lish this testament. [ do not own, di-
rectly or Indirectly, any estate or prop
erty of any kind or description what
ever, nor do owe any debt or obi "a
ton
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23
Poor Spanish Professors.

The professors in the colleges of
Spain are miserably underpaid, often
receiving no more than 5000 per year.
They endeavor to make small profit
out of their text books, each requir-
ing his own book to be used. These
books are frequently in manuscript.
or, if printed, are sold at unusual
prices. The students, also poor, re-
sort in lsequence to secondhand
shops and the annual fair, where a
speciality is made of collegiate text
books
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23
ALASKA TOWN BURNED.
Residents of New Metankanta Suffering
for Food and Shelter.

SEATTLE, Wash. Feb. 2O.-A letter
has been received from New Metakante
Alaska, known as s'Father Dunk n
Mission" giving particulars of a fire
there Feb in which twenty-eight
houses We're destroyed in two hours.
The people are suffering for want of
clothing and shelter. The fire des-
troyed about a quarter of the town,
entailing a loss of So, 900. Requests
for aid have resulted in $500 being sub
scribed in this city SO far, and more
will be Forthcoming.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23
Big Wall-Paper Factory Burne /

NEW YORK. Feb. 20.-The National
Wallpaper Companys factory at 425
West Thirtythird Street, consisting of
six floors packed with stock, was
burned to the ground early this morn
ing. The loss on the stock is estimated
at $3.50, 900 and on the building at $50
900. The damage to surrounding build
ings by falling walls is about $4,000
No one was injured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23
His Simple Epitaph.

The following is the simple inscrip-
ton upon tomb in quiet corner OF
the cathedral at Carthage, which has
lately received the illustrious occu-
pant for whom it was intended: ssHere
Yes he who was Cardinal Lavigerie,
and who now is nothing but dust.
Prsy for him"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23

other Death Due to Cigarette-Smoking
New YORK. Feb. COW. T. Lewis,
years of age, of Brooklyn, died yes
rday morning. His death is due, in
lie opinion of the physicians who
Gated him, to the almost continuous
se of cigarettes. He smoked at all
lmes except when he slept
The cholera Is not the worst we have
. dread the coming seasC-. The
rinoline Is coming too!