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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-03-23
FIXED WHILE YOU WAIT.
Have Your Friends Skeleton Made Dec
oratiye and Useful.

Orative and Useful.
There lives in Philadelphia an old
Frenchman who, according to Lippin
colts Magazine, for over quarter of a
century has followed the profession of
''articulator of human bones" The
sign board over his door bears the SIM
pie legend M de Blanque, Parfu
merle" He runs the little shop simply
as decoy, for he has found it neces-
sary to ply his queer trade ION the
quiet" In rear room the walls are
decorated with skeletons in all sorts of
grotesque positions. Four hideous
skulls grin from the posts of the bed,
and close by stands skeleton with arms
outstretched, doing duty as a clothes
rack. the room being lit by lamp made
of a skull, which is suspended from the
ceiling with thongs of tanned human
hide
When the Knights of Pythias were
organized some years ago, the demand
for skeletons increased, as they were
used to great extent in the lodge
rooms. De Blanque prospered as con-
sequence. The price of skeletons varies
according to their degree of hardness
and whiteness. The genuine imported
article costs anywhere from thirty to
thirty-fve dollars, and the domestic
twenty dollars, but the trade is about
lost to this country, because they can
set up a skeleton so much cheaper in
France.
There are old-teeth dealers who sell
the product of many aching jaws to
these articulators for as much as dol
lar quart. They have often to buy
more than this to get tooth to suit,
for a skeleton with full set of teeth
is worth half again its value otherwise.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-03-23
Pelican Pouches.

The best tobacco bags are made not
of leather or rubber, but of the pouch
of pelican The monstrous membrane
which fills out the lower bill of the pei
lean is soft and thin, of very fine tex
ture, easily tanned, and, when dressed,
beautiful article of leather, pos
sessing the quality of being as i'm
pervious to water as india rubber To-
bacco kept in it will never become dry,
but retains its sweetness and aroma
even longer than when preserved in tin
foil. In the southern seaboard states
its value IS well understood and tobacco
nnuches made of it are VIEW common
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-03-23

Miss May Busch, formerly Beriln
girl, was married to George W. Hughes
at GibbonsvilIe, Idaho.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-30
A DYNAMITE BOMB.

1t Is Thrown Into Sailors Boarding
House in san Francisco-The Building
Wrecked and Five Inmates Killed-An-
other Badly Hurt.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25.-One of the
worst crimes in the annals of this city,
resulting from long-standing feud be-
tween union and non-union sailors, was
perpetrated Saturday night. Shortly
after midnight the southern part of the
city was shaken by a terrific explosion.
A dynamite bomb had been fred in
front of waterfront boarding house
filed with non-union sailors.
The front of the building was blown
to atoms Six of the inmates were hor-
ribly mangled, two of these instantly
killed and three others died from their
wounds. BY whom the bomb was
fred is not definitely known, but the
owners directly charge the deed upon
some members of the Seamens union.
One of the union men by the name of
John Terrell has been arrested.
The boarding house was kept by
John Curtin. 1t was Curtin's custom
to secure berths for his patrons on ships
employing non-union men. In this
way he incurred the enmity of
the sailors union. Less than a
week ago his place was entered by
a crowd of union men led by John
Terrell Curtin was threatened, and
when the men left his house they told
him the house had only short time to
exist Saturday night all the inmates
had retired as usual and the house was
quiet when the explosion occurred,
shaking the city for blocks. The en-
tire front of the boarding house was
torn away, carrying the front of an
adjacent structure with it.
Men We're thrown from their beds
across the street. The room where the
explosion took place was ripped to
atoms A black hole with smoldering
beams about it showed where the bomb
had torn its way. Four groaning VIC
Tins lay in the street near by Beside
| them lay two corpses stripped of nearly
every bit of clothing. An ambulance
was soon on the scene and the victims
were quickly rescued from the debris
and taken to the hospital Three oi
! the men who were wounded died Sun
/ day, making the total fatalities five.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-30
LEFT THE STRIP.
Thousands of People Have Abandoned the
Land of Promise.

Thousands of People Have Abandoned the
Land of Promise.
GUTHRIE, o. T., Sept. 26.-The Chero-
l<ee strip has been settled week and
things are getting down to a business
basis. OF the 100000 people who en-
tered the land on the 10Th over half have
left. The population of new towns
Is now about. as follows: Pawnee,
1000; Kirk, 5000; Kildare, 100;
Ponca, 1000; Enid, 5000; Pond Creek,
1000; Alva, 1000; Woodward, 1000;
Perry, $4,000. Perry is destined to be
the leading town of the strip, and the
governor has issued his proclamation
declaring it to be city of the first class
Many capitalists and town boomers
have located there in the last week and
will make an effort to start a second
Wichita boom. Work was begun Mon
day on depot and over 800 buildings
are going up. One contractor has con-
tracted to put up seveuty-five buildings
and is importing carpenters by the
hundred. Sunday night three more
dead bodies were found east of Perry,
two of them indicating murders.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-30
HELD FOR MURDER.
Fourteen Leading Citizens of Kingston,
Ill, Must Answer for the Killing of $.
T.. Bradshaw.

Fourteen Leading Citizens of Kingston,
Ill, Must Answer for the Killing of s.
p. Bradshaw.
QUINCY, H., Sept. 23.-The grand
jury has returned indictments for will
full and malicious murder against
George w. Nations, George Daugherty,
P. Henry Kistner, George Kistner,
John Tomlin, John M. Moore, Alex
ander M. Sims, Edward Lutener,
George Callahan, William Camp
bell, Daniel Beltz, William Beltz,
John w. Bowman and o. p. Buff
ington, fourteen prominent farm
ers and residents of Kingston, who
went to the home of Mrs. Kittie Breck-
inridge on the night of July 10, dis
guised as white caps, and shot and
killed Solomon p. Bradshaw, travel
ing man of Quincy who was spending
the night at the breckenridge house.
There has been a strong effort to
turn public sentiment in favor of the
white caps and the board of supervisors
refused to assist the states attorney in
prosecuting the case. The men are all
indicted however, and Attorney General
Maloney has said that he would appear
and help prosecute. Gov. Altgeld Of
fered 5000 reward for the arrest and
conviction of each member of the mob.
Ten of the most prominent attorneys of
the district have been engaged to de-
fend the murderers. The case will be
tried at the present term of court and
promises to be famous one.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-30
HOKE COMPLAINS.
The Secretary Says He Has Been Woe
fully Misrepresented He Ia Not Opposed
to Pensions, But Is Determined to Purge
the List OF Fraudulent Claimants.

The Secretary Says He Has Been Woe
fully Misrepresented- He Is Not Opposed
to Pensions, But Is Determined to Purge
the List OF Fraudulent Claimants.
WAsHINeToN Sept. 25. - Secretary
Hoke Smith has made u statement re-
garding his position upon the pension
question. He says he has often been
grossly misrepresented in this mat
ter and held responsible for acts
about which he knew nothing
until they had been committed; and he
makes particular mention of the case
of Charles T. Bennett, a private in Com
pahy +, Thirteenth Indiana volunteers,
upon which an important order was
issued and about which so much has
been SAID
Mr. Smith says it is wrong to sup
pose he is common Snemy to pensions.
He conscientiously believes there have
crept upon the pension rolls, through
one avenue or another, the names
of an enormous number of per-
sons who are not entitled to PEN
sions. These are the ones am ;.fter,"
declared the secretary, "and they are
the ones l intend to weed out of the
pension list, if they reduce the total
number of pensioners one-half."
Referring to the order of Commits
sioner Lochren, that pensioners whose
claims were not good upon the pre-
sentation made should be dropped from
the rolls for a period of sixty days,
when they must make their claims
good or suffer permanent suspension.
SecretarySmith says that this action was
taken when he was absent from Wash
ington, and that it did not meet his APP
proval. He believed that a pensioner,
after being once placed upon the
rolls, should have notice before
being dropped. Secretary Smith states
| that his original idea in hav-
| ing the list of suspects" pre-
pared was to have stricken from the
rolls those who had failed to present
prima facie evidence that they were
entitled to pensions. He believes that
investigation into all these cases will
lead to the discovery of much fraud,
and that fully half of those who have
not made prima facie cases will fail
in their efforts to show that they were
entitled to pensions.
Many of those who were being mott
fled that they must furnish new evi
dence had so little to stand upon thai
they would make no effort whatever
The secretary says it is great mistake
to suppose that he intended to de
crease pension expenditures by de
priving those who were entitled to pen
sions under the law of their just re
wards. Referring to the fact tina
quite a number of pensioners who wer,
dropped from the rolls We're being re
instated, the secretary said that al
of them had furnished the required evi
dence
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-30
nuckshot Tor Bandlts.

CHICAGO, Sept. 26.-The Michigan
Central has begun TO arm the trainmen
of all trains carrying American express
or mail cars, and other railroads in
tend to soon follow suit The en-
ployes have been supplied with Win
chester repeating shotguns loaded with
buckshot and additional employees
similarly armed have been put on,
so that there will be ut least
ten fully armed men on each
express and mail train, which
force is amply sufficient to cope with
any band of train robbers no matter
how well organized.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-30
A BOMB THRowER'S WORK.

He Attempts to Kill Gen. Campos, Spain's
Famous Commander, But Only Wounds
Him-A Bystander Killed and Several
Others Hurt
BARCELONA, Sept. 26.-An anarchist
tried to kill Capt. Gen. Martinez de
Campos Saturday with a bomb. There
had been review of all the troops in
this district early in the morning
Shortly before noon the captain
general and his staff took their
places on one side of the Leig square
near the middle of the city, and the
march past began. A large crowd had
gathered near the officers, but, as no
trouble was sthoughtprobable while the
military filed the streets only four
gendarmes were at hand to preserve
order.
The head of the column had hardly
passed the captain-general when
bomb was thrown from the crowd.
1t struck near the captain-gen-
eral and exploded with tremen-
dous force. A soldier of the civic
guard was killed instantly and five
others were wounded so severely by
pieces of she'll that they probably vii
die. Martinez de Campos was thrown
to the ground by the shock. He was
picked up by officers of the staff and
carried to his house. Aside from a
wound in his arm and few bruises he
was found to be unin iured.
The man who threw the bomb was
caught by the crowd and delivered to
the police He is said to have con-
fessed. He belongs to the gang of an
archists who have caused many eX-
plosions here in the last year, and
gIories in his deed. His name is Pallas,
and he says he intended to kill Martinez
de Campos and his whole staff. He
will be court-marshaled and shot
at once. In his house the police found
great quantity of the most violent
revolutionary literal ature. Two men
who had lived with him and evidently
had helped make the bombs have been
arrested. Each of the bombs thrown
was hollow iron sphere charged with
| dynamite. All the windows near the
scene of the explosion We're shattered
and large holes were dug in the GROUND
where the bombs struck
1t is learned that Gen. Bustos anC
Gen. Molins, who were with the cap
tain generals staff, received serious in
juries. The names of five spectators
who were wounded by fragments o
the bombs have also been reported
The city is intensely excited and mil
itary patrol the streets.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-30

HoUGHToN, Mich, Sept. 23.-The ex-
animation of prisoners suspected of the
robbery of the Mineral Range train
week ago, which was set for Friday
afternoon, has been again postponed.
No definite date for the examination
was fixed. This would indicate that
the Pinkerton men have not got the
case against the prisoners they claim.
In fact, it is believed that the stories of
confessions by the prisoners and of the
recovery of the stolen money were sim.
DIV bluffs.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-30
DIES FROM FRIGHT.
Death of an Adrian Girl Whose Lover
Killed Himself in Her Presence.

Death of an Adrian Girl Whose Lover
Killed Himself in Her Presence.
ADRIAN, Mich, Sept. 26. = Nelson
Kinney, aged % years, while out driv-
ing with his sweetheart Miss Maud
Brainerd, Sunday night, attempted
to shoot her, and failing in the
attempt fred a shot into his own
head and died almost instantly. The
girl was so frightened that she died in
in a few hours, it is said, from the re-
suit of her experience. She said that
without warning Kinney drew a revolver
and pointed it at her. He pulled the
trigger, but the cartridge did not ex-
plode. She threw the laprobe over his
hand, and although the horse was on a
run jumped out of the buggy. Kinney
also jumped out and dragged the girl
back to the buggy and again attempted
to use the revolver. A passer-by
interfered and the girl again broke
away. Then Kinney placed the
revolver to his own head and
fred. He died almost Instantly. After
the shooting Miss Brainerd passed a
restless night, vomiting and purging
Early in the morning she was seized
with sinking spell and before help
could reach her she died. There is no
doubt that her death was the result of
fright from her awful experience with
KuueV
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-30
KiIled a sleepinr Brother.

? BLOOMINGTON, H., Sept. 25.-Two
brothers named Outer were playing at
their home Sunday night. One of
them, aged II, playfully threw at the
other short stick with a bent wire in
the end of it. contrivance used for
cleaning out an organ. He missed his
aim and the sharp hook-shaped wire
was imbedded in the throat of Arnold
Duter, the 9-months-old brother of the
boys, lying in u cradle by his mothers
side. The wire severed the carotid
artery and jugular vein and also the
wind pipe. The child was dead in less
than minute.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-30

CHICAGO, Sept. 2S.-Sugar is scarce.
Two weeks ago the supply began to
dwindle. 1t kept growing shorter rap
idly, and the first of this week candy
factories began closing for want of
sugar. Wholesale sugar dealers re-
duced the amount they would sell
to any retailers, who in turn les
sened the amount they would sell to
customers. One thousand persons have
been thrown out of employment within
the last week by the shutting down Of
the establishments of four wholesale
manufacturing confectioners, all be.
cause of the scarcity of sugar, the basis
of candies.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-30

permit tariff bill to pass the senate. He
urged that there ought to be no attack
upon the industries OF one state sec
tion for II this was insisted upon the
result would DE situation In which
there could be no legislation in the senate
without unanimous consent In concluding his
remarks, Mr.. Cameron said: "My propositions
are these: propose gold loan of so many
hundred million dollars as congress may de-
eide to be bought at the market rate and held
in the treasury Us the gold reserve is held in
the bank of France and by the governments Of
the Latin union. 1 propose TO open our mints
to the free coinage of American silver, impos-
ing duty on the import of foreign silver.
II propose, further, to repeal the tax on state
bank circulation. l would also press once more
for action in favor OF our shipping. To meet in
part the deficit in our income tax for next year
/ would reimpose the duty OF two cents pound
on sugar and repeal the bounty. Then would
wait year to see how the system worked and
how far we were affected by foreign influence" :"
Mr.. Bate dem, Tenn.) denied the claim that
the Sherman law was responsible for the
stringency, and said that the real cause Of the
trouble was the republican tariff. That was
the real issue OF the last national campaign,
and the democrats had made mistake in not
pushing tariff reform with the same vigor
they had manifested to repeal the silver pur-
chase law.
Mr. stewart again took the floor. He criti-
cised the use of the word "intrinsic' as applied
by the president to the value of gold and silver,
and said that the president did not know what
he was talking about He read from news
papers various articles as to the attitude OF the
president, finally coming TO the published tele-
gram from the president to Chairman Wilson,
of the ways and means committee, congratu-
lating him on the passage through the
house of the repeal bill In the hundred odd
years of American independence, said Mr..
Stewart there was no precedence for such
| ,.,1, a
that the president regarded congress as his
servant, and was thanking it AS u good and
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-30

CASEY, ILL.,, Sept. 25.-lnformation
was received here at a early hour sun
day morning of horrible cutting af-
fray, resulting in murder, that took
plnce during quarrel Saturday night
at country dance at the farmhouse of
Mass Fritz near Union Center, 6 miles
northwest of this city. George Me-
Mechan received wounds which re-
suited fatally from Il dirk knife in the
hands of Charles Carpenter, son of Com
stable Carpenter. He died in u few
moments without word A man
named Berry, of Janesville, and two
others whose names are not known re-
ceiyed fatal wounds. Carpenter escaped
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-30
ROB A BANK I'M DAYLIGHT.
Two Men Secure 500 at Carlton, Mimi.
and Overlook $4,000.

CARLTON, Mimi, Sept. 25.-About
o'clock Saturday a bold robbery was
committed here by two men who
entered the Carlton county bank
and held up the assistant cashier,
who was alone. The men were
dressed as woodsmen, One COW
cred the cashier with gun and the
other secured S7OO. He overlooked
S., 900 in the cash drawer against which
the assistant cashier was standing.
Hearing footsteps the robbers ran to
the woods without completing their
work. The sheriff and posse are in
pursuit
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-30
THEY GOT AWAY.
Surrounded in Swamp, Brutal Murder
ers Manage to Escape.

WASHINGTON, Ind, Sept. 25,-Thc
murderers of the Wratten family were
traced to swamp in Dubois county,
known as Lenin's wood, which con-
tains about eighty acres of under
growth The officers, accompanied by
hundreds of men, surrounded the wood,
but the murderers succeeded in escap-
ing. They were discovered by the
neighbors who saw man taking food
into the thicket and the officers were
informed at once. Ethel Wratten, the
12-year-old daughter whom the murder
ers failed TO kill on the spot, died Sat
urday night and was buried beside the
other members of the family. Intense
excitement prevails and it is not likely
the murderers would receive much
mercy if caught.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-30
Broke His Neck.

MAscouTAH, ILL.,, Sept 26. William
Vottschoemer, prominent farmer re-
siding near st. Library, fell from his
porch Sunday while talking to his
family. His neck was broken by the
fall, but the coroner's investigation de-
veloped the fact that death was caused
by heart disease and that the man was
dead before his neck was broken. He
was an old settler, aged rs.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-30

A large area of ground over the Sails
bury mine at lshpeming, Mich, caved
in Sunday, narrowly missing taking
down the main engine house, which is
now on the brink of the pit, some 90
feet deep.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-30

The commissioner enumerates the
various reforms inaugurated-t aban-
donment of the completed files system
and the modification of order 164 of
October 15 1890, as to disability pen
sions, etc. He says on this latter
point
ut Is perfectly clear that under this order
l64, in granting pensions under the act of June
90, 1890, the act itself was set aside and disre-
garded, with the result of granting pensions not
authorized by any law"
The board of revision is now dispos-
ing of an average of about 900 cases
per week of those suspended under the
recent orders of the bureau. At this
rate it is estimated that practically
all of those heretofore suspended will
be disposed of by October TO- 1t is also
estimated that at least 75 per cent. of
those suspended will be retained on the
rolls, though not all of them at their
old rates of pension.
In regard to the temporary suspension
of order 1854 he says:
"In cases where it was believed that PEN
sion could not be sustained and another
medical examination was thought neces.
sary the payment of the pension was
ordered to be suspended pending in
of the bureau from the beginning:
and at the proper time the usual sixty
day notice given to the pensioner with
in which he could ask for u medical exam
ination or supply further evidence of his
right to his pension. This practice of the
bureau, always followed, is the correct
practice 1t is not the withdrawal or
taking away of a pension, but the tenn
porary Withholding of its payment where il
appears to be unlawful, pending proper in
quiry. Upon your suggestion that even this
temporary Withholding might work hardship
where, upon the face of the papers. il appears
that the pensioner is entitled 10 at least some
less rating, the practice has been modified and
| changed as to the cases under this act so far
| that suspensions of payment pending the sixty
| days are only ordered when on the face OF
! the papers it appears prima facie thai
| the pensioner is not entitled TO any pension.
| The sixty day notice in suspending pensioners
! was not for the purpose of Withdrawing pen
| sion, but temporarily withholding it, where il
| appears to be unlawful, pending inquiry Spe
| cial examiners are now investigating wholesale
frauds in New Mexico and Iowa.
The commissioner recommends q
codification of pension laws, with few
changes; that promotions be made with
regard to merit alone, and in utter dis
regard of influences; and the repeal OF
the act of congress providing thai
no pension shall be paid to {
nonresident who is not citizer
of the United States, except for actua
disabilities incurred in the service
Commissioner Lochren concludes as fol
lows: Il recognize to the fullest ex
tent that my sole duty is to execut,
and administer the laws as they are en-
acted, fairly and honestly interpreted.