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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-30
A DENVER ROMANCE.

You see that woman going along
there:" said Il welLknown mining man,
whose office is in the Mining Exchange
Building, to Il friend with whom he
was talking yesterday, says the Denver
Times. The friend nodded inquirinSly
We'll, that woman was at one time
my wife" responded the first speaker
Most people think | am a bachelor
but | will say to you confidently that
l am Il sort of a widower The pecu-
liar part of it is that there were three
of lis yoCnS fellows who all courted
the same girl back in our little country
town. but | was fortunate Or IN
Acknowledgement to marry the girl.
We'll, we lived together about three
weeks. when the woman frankly ad
mitted to me that she loved Frank, one
of the other admirers, better than she
did me. There was no quarrel, and al
though l naturally felt agSrieved we
concluded TO separate. At first | refuS
ed to givea divorce, but after Il years
separation | though better of the mat
ter. and the separation was IegaliZed.
Il socn came west, and shortly after
my departure l learned that She had
married my rival. She lived With him
only Il year when he died, and in less
than Is months afterward she married
the third one of the lovers who had
cOurted her when she was girl, and
she is now living with him on Capitol
hill. in this city.
I'VE are all good friends now, and
have dined in their house several
times. The first time l called at the
house the situation was somewhat en-
barrassing, but no mention was made
of our former relations the woman
treating me as she would any other
friend.
Now, l would not tell this to every
one. In fact, l never told it before -
said the mining man, but it's a fact,
and / suppose unless you make known
the story [ will always be known as a
bachelor, for [ will never marry again
Women are too much Of a riddle for
me-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-30
FELL ILL.

Speaker Crisp WAS 6, poor young law
yer about the close Of the war, trying
to make both ends meet while porting
over Blackstone in the little village of
IIllaville. Ga. But it was pretty hard
work; the only brightness in life was
the smile of Clara Burton, whose par
, ents opposed the match. But people
can't live on smiles, and the bare room
of the poor fellow offered no hopes for
the future, but Il few pieces of shabby
! furniture and Il few dog-eared books.
OF course poverty didn't affect their
coultShip. In fact, the lower the
, money got in the slender purse the
higher rose the mercury in loves
; thermometer. Then suddenly young
Crisp fell i'll, so ill that his physician
despslired of his life. On hearing this
Clara Immediately declared that if
he We're in need of her nursing, she
would have the marriage ceremony
performed, so that she could take her
place Of watching at his bedside.
Crisp was just about as blue il
spirits and i'll in body as a poor, young
hOpelessly in love fellow can Well be,
and his despair seriously retarded any
Improvement, but when the doctor re-
turned with CIara'S message he felt in
Spired by such Il proof Of affection.
/, and declared that he intended to get
well, marry her in spite of his poverty
and make for her 4 name of which she
should one day be proud, And he has
kept his word faithfully. Unfortunate
~ for the devoted wife, she was soon
after her marriage attacked with
rheumatic govt, which has ever since
kept her in ilI-health. Yet there was
no southern home more beautifully
kept than that of Mrs. Crisp. Her
chief amusement is writing to absent
friends and reading the papers, while
much Of her pleasure consists in col
lecting and pastfng in a scrap book all
the papers say of her husband.
Mrs. Crisp has had seven children,
only four of whom are now living. The
eldest daughter is married, the oldest
boy, Charles Crisp, Jr., is clerk to his
father, While the two youngest, Freder-
lex and Bertha, are yet in their early
teens. The children's love clusters
about their invalid mother, while she
returns to them and their father the
fu,lness of the deep affection that en-
slrines all her family in her heart
And while her delicate health will
prevent her taking part in the socil
duties of Washington society, there viii
be no happier family than that of
Speaker Crisp in all the nations cap
itaI.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-30
A BABY SMOKER.
The Most PrecociOus -Four Year-OId
Urch1n in Maine.

The SOjOurnei. at the hOted at Coop
ers Mills, Me, will probably expert
ence considerable aStonshment when
Jud Alden comes up to him and
calculates: Give me a smoke" says
the Lewiston Journal. Now, Jud is
less than years old, and he is about
half as large as he ought to be. The
man who laughs at this precocious
younster's imperative demand will re-
ceive a look of rebellious wrath.
Don't you believe I kin smoke !
Gimme me cents and see
The w1.iter-may the patron saint
of children forgive him-gave this
diminuive Jud a nickel. Two minutes
Later the yOunster came out of a
grocery store with a cigar that looked
10 feet long clinched between his teeth.
Under his arm was his primer, and
away he trudged to school. This
yOunSter has smoked for a year or
more, and has chewed tobacco for a
longer time. About his mouth was the
deep stain Of tobacco, and his little
calico waist looked Ike war map.
When he was Il baby creeping about
the house he appeared to crave tobacco.
and if he found any scraps he would
chew them with curious relish.
His parents have endeavored to
break him of this habit, but be persists
in smoking and chewing. At the time
Of the recent railroad meeting at
Cooper's Mills, Jud stuck big cigar
in his mouth and led the band through
the streets. 1t is not unlikely that his
propensity was due to Some parental
influence. He smokes as constantly as
man, if he can procure the tobacco,
and he seems to thrive in spite of the
practice that would Kill most toddlers
Of his age.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-30

Columbus, O., Nov. 24-About :
O'Clock this evening us the orchestra
was playing the opening overture for
the Henrietta theatre for the opening
play by the Felix Morris company,
the manager announced that there
was Il fire III the rear of the building
and requested the audience to quietly
retire. All passed out in good order.
The fire originated in an uncompleted
portion of the auditorium structure
and communicated to the theatre prop
er. Within two hours the whole quar-
ter block had burned.
The loss is estimated at $500. 900 to
$4,000. The building is a total loss.
estimated at 100000. 1t was owned
by ii. L. Chittenden, who did not
carry more than $4,000 insurance
Tie Hotel Chlttenden company's loss
Is 100000 in furniture alone. Dixon
" Talbot, indianapolis, are lessees of
the Henrietta. They are also lessees
OF the Park theater in the same block
consumed. The Loss to Dickson 4
Talbot is between $4,000 and 500
900. The loss to the Felix Morris COM
pany is about $1,000 on wardrobes
Columbus loses its beSts theater. best
hotel and a number of ,tiourishing
business enterprises. One man burned
III the Henrietta. His name has not
yet been learned
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-30
GIRDLING THE HOLY LAND WITH
RAILS.

There is now a great railway sys-
TEN in the course of construction which
will girdle the Holy Land from one END
to the other. A French company has
secured a concession for a line from
Beyrouth to Damascus and has already
commenced work on narrow gauge
road. An English syndicate is now
building a railway from Halfa to Da
mascus which will be about 40 miles
long, stating from Halfa, finding its
way along the northern base of the
range Of Carmel to the plain of Eshrari-
ON, through the valley east cf Nazareth.
Leaving Mount Tabor il will cross
the River Jordan on a trestle AID then
to the point known as Majemeh, where
the Little Jordan joins the great riv-
ers. At this point the road will bor-
der on the southern shore of GaElee
and almost without a curve along
the famous wheat region, bibllcaNy
known as the plains Of Bashan, thence
to the southern gate of Damascus
ST. Louis Republic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-30
ENGRAVED DIAMONDS 4 NEW
EXTRAVAGANCE

AS this is an age of novelties, and
foreign designers are struggling to pro
duce striking effects, you may re-
ceive a shock by hearing that engraved
diamonds are to be a fayorite wrinkle
among people to whom precious stones
are drug. Marie Antoinette had her
name engraved on a diamond set in a
ring which is now for sale in London.
This rim was among the late French
crown jewels, and it has given leading
jewelers. an idea that is likely to bear
fruit over here, where fair women de-
ny themselves nothing their husbands
and sweethearts choose to give them.
Boston Herald
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-30
LIFE ON THE PLANET VENTS
SpecuiatOns of Science as to What
Sort of Il Time They Have.

Youths Companion:-It will be re-
lhempered that about two years ago
the famous Italian astronomer, Schiapa
relh, announced that he had discovered
that Venus, which is world very
slightly smaller than ours, makes only
one turn on its axis in going once
around the sun. 1t would follow from
this that on Venus there is no sue
cesslon OF days and nights us upon
the earth, but that perpetual day
reigns ON one side of the planet and
perpetual night ON the other. In other
words, if Schiparelli is right, Venus
always presents the same face to the
sun just us the moon forever turns
the same hemisphere toward the earth,
| The inhabitants of the sunward side
Of Venus, then-if there be any-neyer
see the sun set, White the Inhabitants
OF the other side never see the sun
at all, unless they visit the opposite
hemisphere of the globe.
Of course, no one knows whether
there are inhabitants upon Venus or
not, but we do know that Venus has
an atmosphere, and that in it's at
| nlosphere Watery vapOr exists and
clouds float, and that upon the sur
face of the planet the force of crawl
tHtion is not very different from that
which it manifeSts ON the surface of
| the earth. Accordingly, there are
some reasons to be urged in behalf
of the opinion that Venus may be
an inhabited world
! But if One-half of Venus be buried
in endless night while the ether half
| lies glaring beneath neyer-setting
sun, it is evident that the inhabitants
| of the planet must have experiences
that would be most strange and trying
to us. SO the question whether Venus
really does rotate on its axis once
in 225 days, the period of it's revolu-
tion around the sun, derives an added
interest from the consideration that
the planet possibly has inha bitants
The older observations indicated that
Venus rotated in between twenty three
and twentyfour hours, giving it days
and nights about equal to those Of
the earth. In order to settle the ques-
ton it has recently been proposed to
apply the spectroscOpe. 1t is known
that in the spectrum of a celestial
body which is rapidly approaching the
earth the spectroscopic lines are shift
ed toward the blue, while in the spec
trum of a fast retreating body the
lines are shifted toward the red.
The principle has been used in meas
uring the rate Of the suns rotation.
The lines are shifted toward the blue
on the eastern and toward the red
on the western edge of the sun, and
by measuring the amount Of shifting
the rate Of rotation is found. 1T IS
easy to see that the same method
may be applied to find out how fast
Venus revolveS on it's axis.
Every ono who watches the glorious
evening star growing brighter and
brighter in the sunset sky during the
coming months will certainly be eager
to hear the latest news from the as
trOnomers who are trying to find out
whether Venus has successive days
and nights like the earth or has only
day side and a night side.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-30
R-~1NE YOUNG MAN KILLED.

Racine, Wis, Nov. 23.-The mangled
body Of an unknown man was found
on the Chicago & Northwestern track
near Racine Junction. This afternoon
the remains We're identified as those
Of Hans Nelson, a prominent young
Norwegian Of this city, aged "a years.
1t appears that Nelson wanted to show
some companions how to board 4
freight train, but slipped and was
dragged along some distance. His
friends supposed that he had got
aboard the train and gone to his home
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-30

The report that Robert Garrett, Of
Baltimore, is critically i'll is untrue
Mr. Garrett is convalescng rapidly
from the severe cold he caught az
Chicago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-30

William Hohl, a switchman employed
in the ST. Paul yards at La Crosse, fell
off a freight car aud broke both his
arms
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-30
FIRE IN A THEATRE
COLUMBUS, OHIO, SUSTAINS 4
GREAT LOSS.
AUDIENCE DISPERSES ALSO
LUTELI WITHOUT PANIC.

Manager Announces That The Build
ing Is Atire and Requests the Audi
ence to Leave Orderly-Tho Felix
Morris Company Was the Attrac>
ion-Property Loss Nearly 500. 900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-30
PEOPLEPAY TRIBUTE
ASSEMBLY CHAMBER CROWDED
BY SORROWING CITIZENS.
HONOR To THE MEMORY OF
JER EMIAH NJ. RUSK.

Chairman Ii. A. Taylor Urges the
Many Gentlemen Students Present
TO Take the Late General for an
Example of Sympathy.
Speeches by Prominent Citizens.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-30

COuIdlEuS O,UOU SOlu uOudFS.
DR.. G. e. Roynton writes from Buena
Vista, Oregon, denying the story that
he was arrested at Rio Janeir0 while,
trying to blow up a Brazilian gunboat.
He says he has not been outside the
United States for several years.
An important work which has been
published in Edinburg contains some
personal letters written by Sir Walter
Scott and has been reviewed by all
the daily newspapers. Commenting
on these letters the Times says that
they will contribute 10 broaden as well
as to perpetuate the great fame of the
novelist.
Five men attempted to kidnap the
twelve-year-old daughter of Joe H.
kraft at New Albany and hold her for
a ransom. Kraft had been informed
Of the plot and with a half-dozen well
armed friends gave the would-be kid
napers a hot reception. Stephen Whit
man was killed and two others of the
gang, Mason Whitman and Charles
Compton, were captured
General Joseph B. Doe of GAINESVILLE.
adjutant general of Wisconsin, will be-
come assistant secretary of war, at
Washington, upon the retirement of
General L. A. Grant, December Is.
After this change the assistant secre-
tary will practically relieve Dan La
mont of all the military routine work
of the office.
DIR. Charles F. Deems, widely known
for many years as pastor of the Church
Of the Strangers in New York city, is
dead, aged 73. He was connected with
The herald., 1893-05-26
LONG BEACH.
Final Preparations for tae wharf CeIe-
bration-Notes.

Final Preparations for tae Wharf CsIe-
bration-Notss.
Lone BEACH, May 25.-Final arrange
ments have been made by the commit.
tee in charge of the wharf celebration.
The beautiful steamer Rosalie will be at
the wharf at a. M, decorated with Mp
propriate flags and bunting, and will
take the arriving guests on free excur-
sion around the bay. Mueic will be in
attendance, and oil other tnings will be
provided to make Up grand good time.
Special trains will be run from all points
at excursion retea.
Everybody ia invited to come and par
ticipate in the festivities, see the sights,
enjoy free boat ride, and take plunge
infthe euff, which will be found excel
lent. Don't forget the date Saturday,
May 9th.
Il. II Dorm Of Los Angeles, brother
in-law Of our popular physician, Or.
Wood, has taken the Williams cottage
for the season.
Mrs. Cahuue OF Santa Ana hae taken
the Boynton cottage for the eeason.
Mrs. John J. Harvie of Pasadena is
visiting her cousin, J. NJ. Armasrong.
w. A. Schilling, eon OF Wm. Schilling.
our populsr PiHe-atfeet merchant, has
arrived and will take charge of his fs.
theirs store.
MIR. Wright of Les Angeles is building
q cozy cottage on American avenue.
The herald., 1893-05-26
SANTA MONICA.
Coast steamers to Touch at the Big
Wbarf-Notss.


Coast Steamers to Touch at the Big
Wbarf-Notes.
SANTA MONICA, May 25.-The vessels
OF the Pacific Coast Steamship company
viii touch at Santa Monica wharf on and
after June 1st. The next will be those
OF the Pacific Mail, and then the various
lines TO China, Japan, etc.
Tuesday horse whipping, Wednesday
general melee, and today verita-
BILE bull in china shop row was the re-
eult OF too much ealoric, engendered by
too much Hbo0ze," and two customers
OF restaurant got qusrreling about
whether they had mutton or pork chops,
and the dishes began to move at lively
rate about the room, with the knives.
forks, etc., following after.
The Southern Pacific company will
run special on Memorial day, leaving
the Arcade depot at 9:l5, for the accom-
modstion of those wishing to visit the
Soldiers home. After touching at the
home the train will proceed to the wharf
Saturday night the Southern Pacific
will run q special to the tug of war at
Los Angeles.
Lots are going as fast as pancakes be-
fore hungry man in the Santa Monica
tract, it looks to casual onlooker as
if the whole of sunlsnd wanted home
at the beach. During the past two days
there were 18 sales at the branch Office
alone.
The schooner yacht Tugo, Captain
Flynn, has arrived at the wharf. where
she will remain and be used for parties
wishing to enjoy sail for few hours
or longer.
Among yesterdays arrivals at the
Hotel jackson were: Howard Huggins,
George B. Switzerland. O. I'll. Plummer,
B. P. Green, H. @. Carlton, o. L. Neer,
Mrs. Katie Lord Taylor, Miss Jennie
Bigler, b. K. Brant, o. F. Brant, Mrs. d.
T. Wyant, Los Angeles; 9. B. Appleton,
S. B. Hendrick, J. Dsvis, San Francisco !;
J. Holman, New York; Joe Thomas,
Gold Hill, New. Mr.. and Mrs. II. Hill,
Son Bernardino; Mr.. and Mrs. 0. B..
Austin, Marvel, GAL. O. II. Russell, St.
Paul.
The herald., 1893-05-26
California Patents.

Messrs. Hazard & Townsend furnish
us the following complete Iist OF all the
patents iseued to residents of California
for the week ending Tuesday, May 10Th
Refrigerator car. Percy W. Ross, Los
Angeles; shirt, Charles w. Prentiss, San
Francisco; parlor game, James Z.
Phelps, San Franeifco; railway snow
hanser, George II. Johnson, Sisson
travelling thrasheF. christopher Grettan,
assignor to Stockton Combined Harvest
er and Agricultural works, Stockton
fruit-pitting machine, Willism A. Doble,
Alameda, asaignor TO Will & Fink, San
Francisco; ean-iabeling machine, Parker
Crittenden and II. w. Pease, Chicago,
ILL.,, assignors to Pacific Labelling COM
pany, San francisco; 6plint basket and
basket-hamper, Gustave II. Carlson,
assignor OF one-hali TO G. W. Weston,
San Francisco; overflow. waste and trap
for basins, baths, ETC., Edward /. Bur
goin, Los Angeles; feed apparatus, Mark
s. Burdick, Alamada fauset for oil cans,
George w. Arper, Oakland faucet for
oil cana, George W. Arper. Oakland.
The herald., 1893-05-26
ARIZONA.
News Notes from th- sun-Kissed Terri
tory,

News Notes from ths Sun-Kissed Terri
tory.
prescott Courier, May o.
Priyste adsices from Ash Fork are to
the effect that at 10 O'Clock last Sunday
night John Foster shot and killed a
well known white sheep herder and
shesrer named Gus Zilliman, who came
into Fosters saloon in an intoxicated
condition and went behind the bar,
when Foster fred FIVE shots ct him.
1t Is reported that the Southern Pa
ciic will begin the construction OF the
Black Canon line, surveyed over year
ago, to connect the Maricops and Phe-
nix line with the bullock road. dis
tance of 110 miles. from Phenix to
Prescott. Recent estimates show thst
three-fourths OF the freight and passen-
gers coming into Phoenix now paes over
the Santa Fe line to Deming, most OF
which will come from the north when
the new line is completed.
Captain Buchanan, U. 8. A., now sta
toned at Washington, has asked to be
transferred to Whipple. He wiehes his
sick wife TO be benefited by our health
giving climate, and will arrive here
with her soon.
The herald., 1893-05-26
ANAHEIM.
Modj eska TO Arrive Teday-Fews and
Personal Matters

Modi eska TO Arrive T0day-News ana
Personal Matters
ANAHE1M, May 25.--Mme. Modjesks
and Count Bogenta, her husband, are
expected to arrive from the east tomor-
row.
The Anaheimers have always felt a
great interest in Nine. Modjeeks, as che
passed several years here before she
went on the stage, and Is well remem-
bered by the older settlers.
Nine. Modieeka will probably be in
Anaheim next week, the guest OF Mr..
and Mrs. II. Lsngenberger.
Mrs. d. w. Hunt is in Los Angeles,
attending the mseting OF the w. @.
T. U.
Yesterday the jury in the case Of the
Peopis We. Puarcells returned verdict
of guilty. The case will be appealed to
the superior court.
|. V. Alhertson, who has been visit
ing friends in New Jersey and taking in
the worlds fair, is expected to return
home next week.
Alb King, Celestial, who has until
recently been employed in the Del
Campo hotel, was arrested yesterday on
a charge OF disturbing the peace. and is
being tried by jury, in Justice Pierce's
court this afternoon.
A number Of our local sports left this
afternoon for Los Angeles, to attend the
tug Of war, and "size up" ths two big
teams. We have great team in Ana
helm, aud understand thaS they will
challengs the winners Of the Los Ange-
les pull.
The herald., 1893-05-26
POMONA.


street Pavements the Next Improve
ment-News Matters.
POMONA, May 25.--Now that the city
trustees have settled the saloon question
IN sense, perhaps they will in the near
future turn their attention to the sub
ject OF street paving, at least so far ss
Second street is concerned. before an
other rainy season puts in its appear
ance; for during the dry months is the
me in which to properly, az well as
economically, execute euch work. Po-
mona ia o fair little city, with very cred
liable general appearance, lovely eur
voundings in fact, everything
gees to show a plucky, wide-awake
population within and adjoining its linn
its; and it looks little bad to see oul
principal business thorougfare so dfsa-
greeably muddy as Ii sometimes becomes
during the winter. 1t must at least
puzzle the tourist to understand why
such pnshing, thriving community, In
such q favored locality, in one OF the
loyeliest as we'll as finest valleys to be
found in any region on the surface OF
Gods green earth.
MIR. Charles f. Sumner of North Po-
mona shook us by the hand yesterday.
He is stronger and in better health than
he has been for years. He reports gem
eral good health and prosperity in his
immediate vicinity.
The reporter dropped in to see Mr..
Pearl Saciay, who has been confined to
his bed for some fourteen weeks, and re-
grets to say that he is still no better. !.
Mr.. J. N. league of Pomona, well
knoyn in this town and county, 10 quite
sick, being confined to his bed at his
beautiful home on North Ellen street.
Mr.. M. J. Simpson, who has been on
the invalid list for quite q while, is
slowly recovering. and it is hoped Will
soon be able to report for duty.