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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-13
Toledo.

WHEAT-No. 2 cash and April, 7314c;
May, 1880; July, 76c; August, 76Bc.
Corn-No 2 cash and May, 4112c. Oats
No. 2 cash, 34c bid; No. 2 white, 36c bid
Rye-Cash, 55c bid Glow erseed-Prime
cash, IS. 80 bid
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-13
Fatal RunawaY Accident.

MAscoUTAH, ILL.,. April 1O-Daniel
Rentchler of Rentchler Station, a
wealthy and leading ssfarmer of St.
Clair county, aged about 50, died this
morning from injuries sustained in
runaway accident several days ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-13
SIGNS BY GROVER.

Washington, April 10.-A Virginian
who has been keeping his eyes wide
open since the grand tussle for offices
commenced here on March 5, thinks he
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-13
ST, TOUiS,

ST. LOUIS, April lO.--CArTLE--Receipts,
1900 head; market steady to strong.
HoGs-Receipts, $500 head; market Ice
higher; heavy, So 90@7 25; mixed, $500
no; light $4,000 80. SHEEP-Receipts,
800 head; market firm.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-13

For ladies, the best and pureSt tonic
is Angostura Bitters. 1t effectually
cures dyspepsia, and tones up the sys-
tenn. DR.. J. G. Is. Siegert & Sens,
Mfrs. At druggists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-13

A Further Squeeze in May and the
Price Up 81 Cents-Big Slump in
Provisions Chicago Live Stock
Report Closing Quotations of Wall
Street.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-13
Peoria,

PEORIA, H., April CoRN-No. 2,3916c;
No. 3, 39c. OATs-No.2 white, 33@34c;
No. white, 314@3214c. RYE-No. 2, 50
951c. WHISKY = Wines, s115; spirits,
81 II
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-13

Complexion powder is an absolute
necessity of the refined toilet in this
climate Pozonni's combines every ele-
ment of beauty and purity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-13
RIGID LAWS NEEDED
HEALTH BOARDS UNANIMOUS on
THIS POINT.
AS TO THE NATIONAL GOVERN
MENTS RESPONSIBILITY.

Separate Action of Mississippi Yalle.
States VIII be Carried Outflow the
Notification System VIII Operate
Immigrants Can Be Followed to
Their Destinations.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-13
Prosecuting the Christians.

CONsTANTTNOPLE. April 10.-The
condition OF affairs in Armenia is be-
coming more serious daily. Constant
arrests of Armenians are reported in
private letters. 1t is estimated that
between 800 and 1000 Christians arc
now in Turkish dungeons The re-
cent announcement that the Sultan
had proclaimed general pardon of
Armenian prisoners was mere hum
bug
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-13

The barn of III. G. Wood, four miles
west of Plainfeld, was struck by light
oing and destroyed The loss will BIO
about $500.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-13
COMBINES STATUE.
Not Good Enough For Union Square,
New York.

New York, April 10 A statute Of
Roscoe Conlkling isn't worthy of a
place in Union square, Commissioners
Gray, Tappen and Straus, of the Park
Board, think. President Dana doesn't
say what he thinks about it,
Mayor Gilroy forwarded to the park
board the following letter from eX-Vice
President Levi P. Morton and c a.
Seward
Dear Sir-Certain of the friends of
the late Roscoe Conkling have procured
his statue to be made in bronze by Mr..
J. Q. A Ward. They desire to present
it as a gift to the city and, if proper,
to have it placed in permanent position
i'll Union square, opposite the south
west corner Of Sixteenth street at its
junction with Broadway. This location
is selected because it was the scene of
Mr.. Conl1ling's last struggle with the
March y, 1888.
LAS the Chef Magistrate Of this city
will you kindly advise us whether the
gift viii be acceptable and permission &C
corded for the placing of the statute
in the designated locality?
every respectfully, your obedient
servants,
sc. a. Seward.
Levi P. Morton"
81 Go not think that Mr. ConkIing's
statue should be placed at one of the
corners of Union square, said MI.
Gray, after Secretary Burns had read
the letter. ''The four corners of the
square have been reserved for the great
est Americans. LincOln's on one, Wash
toms equestrian statue on another. Mr..
COnklings / think, should be put some
where else. He was great man, but
not great enough to stand with Wash
ington and Lincoln"
Mr.. Straus and Mr.. Tappen assent
ed to Mr.. Gray's comment. The letter
was referred to Henry G.. MarQuand,
Napoleon LIE Brun and Thomas w.
Wood, the art committee of the board,
with directions for them to report on
the artistic merits of the statue.
President Dana was not present at
the meeting while the Conkling statue
was spoken of. But at his office he
said:
THE GREATNESS Of men to whom stat
ues have been erected has never been
the controlling principle in locating
statues"
The movement to erect a statue to
Roscoe Conkling originated among a
few prominent downtown bushes men
nearly two years ago. At meeting
called for the purpose a committee
consisting of Levi p Morton, then Vice
President of the United States; Clarence
A. Seward, G. p Huntington, Henry
Willard and the late August Belmont.
was appointed to chose a sculptor and
pass upon the model for the statue.
Sculptor Ward, who was chosen to
make the statue, at once began work
on the model. 1t was finished a few
months ago. The committee was great
~ pleased with the model and ordered
it cast in bronze. The statue was ex-
hibited to representatives Of the press
today It is a handsome piece Of work.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-13
Village TumbIed Into Ruins.

BELGRADE, April 1o.-A severe earth
quake was felt in many parts of Servia
yesterday. The village of Vetiki Pop
ovitch was tumbled into ruins and sew
eral inhabitants were killed. Death in
wrecked houses are reported from
other villages in the kingdom.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-13
Another Chicago applicant.

WASHINGTON, April 1O.-The applica-
ton was filed in the Treasury Depart
ment to, day, by Mr.. Thomas Kehns OF
Chicago, for appointment as Assistant
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-13
Married at Her Fathers Bedside.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, April lO.-Miss
Minnie Fish. an instructor of vocal
music at the Tuorgee Conservatory in
Chicago, and Bennett Griffin, a violin
list at the same place, We're married
here yesterday afternoon at the home
of the brides parents, No. SIS Second
Street. The young couple had been
engaged for some time. but the we'd
ding day had not been set. Prof. S. l..
Fish, the father of Miss Fish, is criti-
cally i'll, and it was his desire that his
daughter marry before he died, The
ceremony took place at his bedside.
Prof. Fish is well known in musical
circles in this city and abroad. For
three years he was professor of music
at the Wesleyan Conservatory at
Bloomington. Ill.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-13
OUR FISH SLIP AWAY
WISCONSIN WORLDS FAIR En-
HIBIT SUSTAINS GREAT LOSS.

TWENTY THOUSAND OF THE FIN
NY TRIBE ESCAPE.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-13
0IhEEI CARS COLLIDE.
Eight Persons Seriously Injured by an
Accident ut ST. Louis

Eight Persons Seriously Injured by an
Accident ut St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, April 1O.-In a street car
collision this morning at the corner OF
Tenth and Wash street half dozen
people were seriously injured. Two
electric cars on the Benton and Belle
Fontaine road crashed into a horse car
of the Northern Central line and the
following were badly injured;
John Doyi, Joseph DENIM, Frank
Lemgusa, Salvador Lanargo, Vim
cent rDeblos, Antonio Gardu, Jo-
seph Sausi, Nicholas Lagusa. All the
injured are Italians. John Doyli and
Salvador Lanargo We're badly injured
about the head and shoulders They
We're taken to the hospital. The 9th
ers were only slightly injured and
were removed to their homes. The ac-
cident was caused by the neglect of
the motorman on the Belle Fontaine
car to apply the brakes promptly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-13

CROP REPORT.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-13

SPECTATORS ARE UNLOADING
WHEAT AT CHICAGO.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-08-15
PLUTOCRATIC SENSATIONAL
lists.

Since the respectable element in Kan
sas has secured control of the State
politically and otherwise-wrenched it
from the boodlers, as it were, pluto
cratic sensationalists have tried to
bring reproach upon the good name of
the State by all sorts of stories Just
now corresp 5ndents of certain New
York papers are writing that the peo
pie of Kansas are sleeping over a
volcano;" that the Populists are in
creasing the military in the State.
secretly drilling men, and that soon
every neighborhood in the State will
be reeking with blood" They declare
that Governor Lewelling is pandering
to the vicious people of the State.
We get papers from Kansas, all sorts
OF them, and they say nothing about
suo1 state of affairs The Press cor
respondents, in the employ of pluto
Gratis, are manufacturing all this stuff
for a purpose at so much per column.
Last winter they told the same thing
when a row was imminent over the
legality of the Republican Or Populist
legislature The Republicans and a
few Democrats precipitated that
trouble, and even the New York Her.
aid declared that the Populists acted
wisely and prevented bloodshed. In
stead of increasing the State Guard,
Kansas papers show that it has been
decreased for the sake of economy and
because it is not needed. If the good
people of Kansas would ferret out and
horsewhip tho lying newspaper cores
pondents and then give them twenty
four hours to get out of the State, they
would do the whole country great
servica
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-08-15

caused the low price received by pro-
ducers. They have a hand in the low
prices of everything raised on the farm.
The conspiracy into which the bank,
ers and brokers of the United States
and Europe against the masses of this
country, have entered, is the blacklist
and most heartless that was ever con-
ceIved by men or fiends With the
products of the farm selling at ruinous
prices, and with the streets and roads
OF the mining States filled with the
unemployed and hungry, the cold
blooded financial vampires are sitting
upon their filed money casks and do
ing their utmost to make money even
scarcer than it if. The price Of wheat
and cotton is down to bed rock in con
sequence and only in consequence of
this financial crime against our indus
tries. The time has come when the
farmer, the mechanic, the Iaborer and
the merchant must win the victory in
this long drawn out contest between
them and the money sellers, or the
masses of the proud American Repub-
lie will be forever enslaved.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-08-15
GOVERNOR ALrGELD's DEFENSE

The plutocratic newspapers and indi
viduals have raised such row since
the Governor of Illinois pardoned three
so called anarchists confined in the
penitentiary, that the Governor has
made public statement of the whole
affair and his reasons for granting the
pardon. It seems that several thou
sand prominent citizens, including
merchants, bankers, judges and law
yers signed the petition, and that the
Governor knew what he was doing.
It will be remem bered that a work
ingman'S meeting was held one night
and squad of policemen, acting under
plutocratic orders, no doubt, charged
upon them. A bomb was thrown and
six or eight policemen were killed and
many wounded. Pinkerton men ar
rested several of the leaders of the
labor organization and they were con
victed, though it was never proven
that they threw the bomb, or that any
particular person threw it. Some have
limited that plutocrats threw the bomb
in order to bring repro1ch upon labor
organizations and break them up, and
that the jury and witnesses were
bribed. Be that as it may, the men
were convicted. One of them com
mitted suicide, three were hung and
three have been serving terms in the
penitentiary.
Governor Altgeld publishes affdavits
showing much dirty work done in the
plutocratic court and in summoniDg
the packed" jury, which consisted of
the lowest element of that wicked city
men who would convict an innocent
man for $40 any day. He proves by
atfidavits from good citizens that the
bailiff who summoned the jury boasted
that ''he was running the business"
and would convict the prisoners no
matter what happened. The whole
affair shows the hand that plutocracy
and hired buns played.
At the time of the occurrence the
daily press in the North had the public
fired up and made to believe that every
honest laborer who wanted justice was
an anarchist Gust as they have tried
to do in regard to the Alliance) but
since that the people have learned bet
ter, hence the change of sentiment and
the strong petitions in favor of the
pardon. Plutocracy is on it's last legs
in America.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-08-15
TWO PAPERS ARE RIGHT.

The New Berne Journal and the VII
son Mirror are the only two party
organs that have not left their con-
stituents to do plutocratic rainbow
chasing according to Wall street and
London rules. The last issue of the
Mirror said:
''The ably edited Roanoke Ne1CS says
that the Sherman law ought to be re-
pealed, but simply to repeal it and do
nothing else would not bring much re-
lief, so far as we can see, except to the
bankers and those who want the single
gold standard in all it's full force. The
supply of gold in the world has in
creased but little, while business has
doubled and quadrupled everywhere,
and there is not gold enough for bust
ness purposes. There must then be
some other basis, and that basis must
be silver. If the present ratio between
the two metals is not equal there ought
to be brains enough in this country to
devise practical plan for making them
equal, so that the country could have
double standard for the convenience
of business. The trouble is that there
is large number of people, and they
are among the most Influential in the
country, who are in favor of single
gold standard and will do all they can
to have the Sherman act repealed and
prevent any further action by Con-
gress. These are the same people who
some years ago induced Congress to
make government bonds which were
payable in either gold or silver payable
in gold alon9."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-08-15
BAD TIMES IN THE WEST.

Rev. N. R. Pittman, of the Central
Baptist, st. Louis, writes to the Lum-
berton RObeSOniGn as follows:
Business is depressed in the West.
Many banks have failed. Bankruptcy
is abroad. Thousands of men are with
out work. Western cities grew too
fast. Booming is boomerang. It hits
back. Kansas City went low. At one
time Kansas City had thousands of
empty dwelling houses. Great bust
ness blocks, six and seven stories high,
are now empty from cellar to garrett.
ST. Joseph, Omaha, Sioux City, Dem
yer, Salt Lake City have suffered ter
ribly. We fancy that we have now
reached the bottom. We. are gong
forward little. Chicago Is booming
now. When the big show closes, Chr
cago viii have the blues. Already
thousands ofworkmen roam the streets
and want to get away. The winters
are hard in Chicago. If the workmen
who have not enough to carry them
through the winter don't leave the city
before the snow falls, the whole coun-
try will have to help Chicago take care
of her poor.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-08-15
C-A-L-A.M- vi

We understand that the banks In
New York have sent out petitions for
the townspeople in the provinces to
sign, and it seems that they are being
signed We have heard it said that q
man once took a petition around and
cot it signed to have very respectable
and highly esteemed citizen hanged.
The petition sent out from New York,
unless we are in error. is to the effect
that the Sherman act be repealed and
that nothing more be done. We have
frequently said that the fight was on
between Gotham and the people. These
resolutions mean demonetization OF
silver. r.-NeoCs and Observer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-08-15
EDITORIAL SUGGESTIONS.

Fattening stock will do we'll under
favorable conditions, to the first of
September on pasture alone. Then the
pasture should be supplemented with
oats peas, sweet corn, millet, etc.
Now is the proper time to prepare
or the next wheat crop Every day
@hen the ground is wet enough ought
o be utilized. If you put this off until
erae1nber you will lose much by the
tal5y.
Dead men tell no tales. Dead men
oay . bribes. Perhaps that is the
reason Jay Gould only paid tax on
$500, 900 while he lived and now his
family pay on 81, 600, ,OOC, or about one
ninth Of what his estate is worth.
Just now some leading agricultural
Journals, which are ever ready to serve
Wall street, are writing editorials to
show that gold basis does not neces
8arlly stop the coinage of silver. Watch
such plutocratic utterances, for they
are dangerous.
The failure Of the hay and fodder
crops IN many European countries
may cause a demand for American
nay and fodder. At any rate there is
no danger thatyou will have too much.
Save every blade of fodder and grass
you possibly can this fall.
A law has been passed in the State
oL Chihuahua, Mexico, that any one
caught stealing cattle shall be shot on
Vne spot. Any one caught gambling
III Iarm products in America ought to
Oe treated the same way, or else
whipped with raw hide.
u Is simple plan to take down care
Lul notes, 1t occupies but little time
ana gives but little trouble, but when
'Ie notes are compared it is easy to see
"nat can be done best with the ma.
Serlal at hand, where failures have
UVen made IN the past and should be
avoided in the future.
People who sold their potatoes fou
@lnost an nothing last year probably were
"O.u that 1t was overproduction. Thre G
ullllon bushels of potatoes were i'm,
pOI'ea TO this country. Crop gamblers
-N ulshlonest commission merchants
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-08-15
THEY CAN'T "FELLOWSHIP"
WITH HIM.

A gentleman, Democrat, said to us
on last Saturday morning "Have you
seen Vance's letter9" We told him we
had. Then he said: ."Well, it seems
that he has gone over to you all and
joined the Peoples party" We told
him that he was very severe on his
own party, if he accused every man
of joining the Peoples party who had
enough manhood to express his honest
convictions and stand by them. Colds
bOTO Caucasian.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-08-15

farmer; he goes alone by himself, and
the world f9eces him All other trades
can be held together by a community
OF interest, save the farmer. They each
one think they are the smartest men in
the world, and each one has an idea
that he calls my way" and that he
follows on to the bitter end.
The world robs the weak, tits human
nature, and custom has legitimiz9d the
robbery. So 1 suppose it is all right;
he who can protect himself and won't
doit, deserves to be robbed.
A man in Wall street, New York,
said of the Grange movement, that
the farmers had not sense enough to
combine, and that if it required dol
lar from each one to carry into effect
any movement that would benefit the
whole fraternity they would not give
it" Brother farmers, did he speak
the truth or Hot9 Can you lay down
your petty jealousies and combine for
the good of all, or will you go on each
one for himself, and live and die the
heW ers of wood and draw ers of water?
You have strength enough to make the
world respect you if ycu will use it.
You can make a good living, and have
some Of the comforts of life, if you will
use the brains God has given you
Barney LiIIard, IN Home and Farm
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-08-15
THE POLK MEMORIAL FUND.

GoLDsBORO, N. O., June %, 1898
Hon. O. II. Ellington, Thompson, Ga. :
DEAR SIR AND Bro. Il have been
thinking of writing you for several
weeks with reference to the Polk Me-
mortal Fund. And as date this let
ter, am reminded that it was exactly
one year ago to day June 23d, 1892
that the Polk Memorial Association
was organized at Raleigh, N. 9. How
ever, but very little has been accom-
plished as yet. This is not due, I am
sure, to the want Of love and admira-
ton for the lamented Colonel L L
Polk, but rather to the temporary
oversight, due to the excitement of the
political campaign, and other causes.
Not only as an Allianceman, but as q
North Carolinian, greatly desire to
see a plain, but massive and elegant
shaft, erected in memory of our late
friend, and distinguished fellow citizen.
But he was loved and admired not only
by North Carolinians, but by host of
Alliancemen and reformers from ocean
to ocean, and from lakes to gulf. We
all should feel a common pride i'll do,
ing honor to his memory. Therefore
as President of the Memorial Associa-
tion, appeal to you to bring the mat
ter before the brethren of your State
feeling sure that they will do their
share, and contribute to that end. You
might receive contributions or dona,
tions, have the amount published in
one or more of your State papers, and
then turn over to our Association the
sum total as one time
Yours fraternally,
MARION BUTLER