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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-07
THE MARINE BANK.
Ii Is Declared Insolvent and It's Assets
Ordered Paid.

| Milwaukee, Aug. 31.-Some of the
depOSitOrS Of the Wisconsin Marine &
Fire bank have been growing FESTIVE
under the reports that the bank holds
a large amount of questionable paper.
When Receiver Becker's report was
filed last week and proved to be mere
statement of assets and liabilities
wholly lacking in information that
would throw any light ON the char
acter of the banks assets, there began
to be talk of forcing a more detailed
statement. Within the past few DAYS.
too, there has been a movement, said
to be instigated by one of the banks
large creditors, looking to a request
for the appointment of a cO-receiver
on the ground that the creditors should
have some one to look after their in
terests besides Mr.. Becker, a stock
holder in the bank and brOther-in-law
J. of Mr.. Mitchell. Receiver Beckers
reasons for not filing a detailed state
ment Of the securities held by the
bank are, it is understood, approved
! by many of the largest creditors.
Nothing possibly could be gained by
the publication, they say, and much in
l. jury might be done to individuals. Tt
! is also understood that any reasonable
information desired by the depositors
can be secured from the receiver.
However, in view Of the probability
of an appeal to the courts for such a
statement, it has been forestalled, and
in the case of Benjamin M. We'll vs.
the Wisconsin Marine & Fire Company
bank, Judge Johnson issued an order
declaring the bank insolvent, seques-
trating it's money, credits and effects,
and ordering the receiver to close I'D it's
business and distribute it's assets as
he shall from time to time be directed
by the court. The order is as follows:
Upon the complaint of the plaintiff
and the answer of the defendant, and
on motion of Benjamin X Miller, Jr,
attorney for the plaintiff, and George
T. Miller, attorney for the defendant,
Ordered, That the order made here
in on July %, 1893, appointing the re-
ceiver herein, and enjoining the parties
therein named as therein ordered. be
and the same is hereby amended and
extended by adding thereto the follow
ing:
"And it appearing satisfactory to the
court that the said bank is inso,vent as
charged in the complaint and admitted
in the answer it is further ordered,
adjudged and decreed that the defend
ant, the Wisconsin Marine & Fire In
surance Company bank, is insolvent,
and that all the stock, property,
franchises, things in action, money,
credits and effects of the said defend
ant be and they are hereby sequestrated
and the said receiver be and he is here
by ordered and directed to administer
the affairs of said bank and close UP
its business and distribute its assets
as he shall be from time to time here
after directed by order or decree of
this court.
Ordered, further, That said order of
July 25, 1898, be so amended and en-
larged, now for then, as of the date
Of said ORDER
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-07
TALKING WITH MONKEYS
An Old Frenchman Knew How to En-.

An Old Frenchman Knew How to En-.
/ gage the Animals in Conversation
In 1897 Jules Richard had occasion
to visit sick friend in a hospital,
where he made the acquaintance of an
old official of the institution from the
south Of France, who was exceedingly
fond of animals, his love Of them being
equaled only by his hatred of priests,
writes Professor z. p. Evans in the
Popular Science Monthly; he claimed
also to be perfectly familiar with the
languages of cats and dogs, and to
speak the language Of apes even better
than the apes themselves, Jules Rich
ard received this statement with an
incredulouS smile, whereupOn the old
man, whose pride was evidently touch
ed by such skepticism, invited him to
come the next morning to the zoologi-
cal garden.
Il met him at the appointed time
and place." says Mr.. Richard, ''and we
went together to the monkeys, cage,
where he leaned on the outer railing
and began to utter a succession of
cultural sounds, which alphabetical
signs are scarcely adequate to repre-
sent-'Kirrllu, kirrikiu, kuruki, kirikiu'
repeated with slight variations and
differences of accentuation. In a few
minutes the whole company of mon
keys, a dozen in number, assembled
and sat in rows before him with their
hands crossed in their laps or resting
on their knees, laughing, gesticulating
and answering"
The conversation continued for a full
quarter of an hour, to the intense de-
light of the monkeys, who took lively
part in it. AS their interlOcutOr was
about to go away they all became in
tensely excited, climbing up the balus
trade and uttering cries of lamentation;
when he finally departed and disap-
peared more and more from their view,
they ran up to the top Of the cage, and
clinging to the frieze made motions as
if they were bidding him good bye. 1t
seemed, adds Mr.. Richards, as though
they wished to say, we are sorry to
part, and hope to meet again, and if
you can't come, drop us line"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-07
DIVERS DREAM CAME TRUE.

James Dwyer, a house-painter Of
New York, was one of the Workmen OH
building ut 81 South street. Before
he climbed out upon the scaffold DWyer
stopped TO examine the support and re-
marked that it was risky. The other
men laughed. Then he said:
THE fact Of the matter is, boys, that
had an ugly dream about this scafold
last night. / dreamed that three men,
you two and l, were painting upon it,
and that just as l reached in my pocket
for my pipe the whole thing gave
way"
Then what?" asked Simon.
Il woke up"
The other two laughed at him about
his dream and started to work. In a
moment he joined them, but let himself
out of the window upon the platform
very cautiously. At 500 the dream
came true The support broke loose,
and it, with the platform and the
three men, shot down together. They
fell from the fifth story to the second;
| they broke through the thick plate glass
| and tie galvanized iron supports of the
skylight to the ground floor, and landed
on the floor beneath.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-07

Latest reports show the Atlantic
first stated Hundreds of lives are said
to have been lost, the casualties being
greatest ON Sullivan's island, off the
Georgia coast.
The steamship City of Savannah,
from Boston for Savannah, is ashore
on the South Carolina coast. She was
badly damaged in the recent gale and
the captain beached her in order to
avoid sinking in deep water. The pas
sengers and crew were saved.
The statement of the receivers Of the
American Tube and iron company
shows assets Of $2,624, S41.10 and liza
bilities of $1,376, $500, leaving net
surplus Of $1,247, $500. The sum of
S56, 654. O3 doubtful accounts is not in
Guided in the assets.
A. Scholl, president Of the Olympic
club, was shot and probably fatal
wounded at New Orleans by Bernard
KlotZ, the cracker manufactures. SchOll
was formerly Klotzs manager, and the
trouble is the result of the latter'S war
on the cracker trust.
Obituary: At Heron, Iowa, State
Treasurer j. Wilson Williams, aged
seventy Seven.-At Dubuque, Iowa.
James Reynolds, aged ninetysix-At
Evansville, Ind, North Storms, aged
| nifty one.-At Peekskill, n. Y, Edward
B. Finch, formerly of Chicago.
The Nicaragua Canal Construction
company has been placed in the hands
Of a receiver, because it was not able
to raise money to pay its floating debt.
President Warner Miller says the Mari
time Canal company, which holds the
parent company, is unimpaired.
The official count of the treasury
concessions for the canal and is the
cash beginning May 81 last, necessi-
tated by the transfer of the office OF
treasurer of the United States from
E. III. Nebeker to d. \. Jordan, having
been completed, Treasurer Jordan Oh
Tuesday signed a receipt in favor of
E. II. Nebeker for $40, ST., 419.TS
and two thirds, and by this act Mr.
Nebeker's bond was released and MI
Jodan's bond became effective. The
weight of coin counted was about 3,
600 tons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-07

New York Sept. 4.-Dun's report says
that the money marketSe throughout
the country are more healthy, failures
diminish in number and the resumption
by a number of banks and other eStab-
lishments Illustrate the general ten
dency toward Il revival of confidence
Manufacturers do not as yet feel the
upward impulse. The record of the
week has been mainly one of satisfac-
tory progress toward recovery. The in
duStrial situation mends but little.
The signs of improvement observed a
week ago are scarcely sustained, for,
While II textile and 13 iron and steel
concerns have resumed after Stoppage,
90 textile and II iron and steel concerns
have stopped. In addition 13 other
have reduced their working time and
several have reduced thier working
including most Of them at Fall River,
have reduced wages from 10 to 20 per
cent. A more cheerful tone is seen
in the iron and steel markets but
nevertheless prices do not improve,
nor are orders sufficient to cause a
general resumption of work. The sales
of wool at the three chief markets last
week We're only 1,446,721 pounds
against G,295,2O for the corresponding
week last year. The decrease of sales
since the new wool began to come for
ward is about IS per cent. Anxiety
about money is greatly relieved, and
scarcely any premium is now paid for
currency. The decrease in imports at
New York in August was about 80 per-
cent, while in exports from this city
there was the small increase of 3 per
cent. The failures reported during the
past week in the United States is 35G
against 14S for The same week last
year, and in Canada % against 3
last year. But of firms failing in the
United States only ten were employ
ing capital exceeding 100000 each,
and only 81 others exceeding 100000
each.
Bradstreets says that the cloud over
the general business situation through
out the country continued to break
away through the second week in which
actual improvement is recorded, as in
Dictated by an increase in the volume
and distribution of merchandise re-
ported at Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chi
cago, st. Louis, Kansas City and Oma-
ha. More travellers have been sent out
from these and other points and the
manufacturing industries there, as
well as at the larger eastern centers
have in a number of instances begul-
starting up, some without special OF
ders. At cities other than those spec
flied, with few exceptions, there is an
improvement in feeling among mer-
chants and bankers as to the prospects
for fall trade, and at all points, with
a few exceptions, there is a growth of
confidence in a revival Of demand dur
ing the autumn months. Bankers at
Chicago and other points, to which
some Of the more important agricul-
tural regions is tributary, have arrang-
ed to provide funds as needed to move
the staple crops.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-07
ARE FACING A FAMINE.
Many Families in Northwestern Wis
consn Without Food.

west Superior, Sept. 4.-ENtreme
desutution exists among the Finnish
settlers around Brule, forty miles east
of West Superior. Nine heads of fam
lies visited Poor Commissioner Ken.
nedy Of Superior yesterday beseecbinp
aid for their starving families They
had walked all the way on foot
through a rough forest country and
were pitiable objects of suffering when
they arrived.
The poor commissioner provided
all Of them with orders for
-four and they will be given
work as soon as possible upon
the new country roads Outside the
meager crops from their clearings they
have depended upon that kind of work
for subsistence. That having failed
they were entirely without food, ex-
cept such as they could Gull from thu
woo DIS and scraggy gardens.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-07
WHEAT AGAIN LOWER.
No Cash Demand at Present Prices
Strength ON Wall Street.

Chicago, Sept. 4-The edge was off
days advance in September was lost.
December suffered more serious de-
cline, amounting to about 1 3-Sc. The
difference between the loss in Sep
TENDER and December is 5-Sc and repre-
seDts just SO much reduction in the
carrying charge since yesterday. 1t
amounts now to only 1-Sc between
September and December.
Corn was heavy and closed at a de
cline of 1-2c perbu. Provisions still
dragged its sluggish material through
another weary day.
New York, Sept. 1.-The stock mar
ket developed considerable strength i'll
the early dealings and prices improved
materially. The denial of the reports
rejecting upon the condition of the
General Electric company sent the
shorts to cover, and the price was
marked up rapidly 11-2 points. At
the advance considerable stock was
pressed for sale, principally for Boston
account. The other industrials were
notably Sugar Refining.
The fact that the stories about Gen
eral Electric were believed to be I'M
true did more to send prices up sharp
than any other cause this morning.
One reason assigned to the strength
tation of a favorable bank statement
tomorrow. The statement, it is be-
lieved, will show a large increase in
reserve and especially in legal tenders.
Money on call is easy at 3G4; prime
paper, Sa12 per cent; sterl-
ing exchange is quiet and steady, with
actual business in bankers bills at
4S2G4S2 IL for siXty-day bills and 1856
04S6 II for demand; posted rates,
1872 1-2G4S7. Commercial bills, 4S4 II
a4S5 Ii. Bar silver, IS IA. Govern
ment bonds steady. State bonds dull.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-07
CONEY ISLAND HAS A GHOST.

Residents Of Coney Island are talking
about a ghost which has been prowling
around for the past few nights. Early
in the morning Officer Michael Tansey
saw the apparitiOn and pursued it. He
followed it to a clump of beach plum
bushes and there lost sight of it. He
described the ghost as that of woman,
rather tall and slender, dressed IN
white He. feet We're bare and her
black hair streamed far below her
waist. When Officer Tansey told the
story at Coney Island police mead
quaters he was laughed at, but he in
sisted that he had seen the same ghost
twice before. It always started from
Surf avenue, near the ice plant, and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-07
OIL ON ROUGH WATER
No Longer Any Doubt That Few
Quarts of Oil May Save a Vessel.

Captain Bowers, while on a voyage
from New York to the Mediterranean
last December in the steamship POnca,
encountered strong gale with very
high seas. He says:
The vessel was deeply laden with
grain and became unmanageable We
were running before the seas and ship
ping large quantities of water, until
two small bags filled With COLA oil
were put over on each side of the
bridge. This oil was found to be too
light and of little use; but after olive
oil was put in the bags no more water
was shipped and the deck became al
most as dry as in fine weather, al
though the gale continued for two
days. The vessel was drawing 26 and
one half feet of water, and, if we had
not used oil, I do not think she could
have withstood the storm"
Captain William Peake, master of the
schooner J. F. Krantz, while making a
passage from Port Spain, Trinidad. to
Boston, met terrific gale off Cape
Hatteras and had the following ex-
away, men washed from the pumps,
and boats and other things above the
deck wrecked by the heavy seas.
was compelled to head southwark and
and Scud under bare poles. Then l
thought of oil, and determined to see
what effect it would have on the sea-
Two wooden, ten-gallon kegs, contain
ing boiled linSeed oil, We're dashed to
the vessel. The oil was allowed to OOze
out through two small holes in the
heads of the kegs. The effect was all
that could be desired. After the oil
had spread, no water came on board,
the men returned to the pumps, the
vessel was pumped out, and the decks
were cleaned up. During the sixteen
hours in which oil was used eight gal
Ions were expended"
An examination of thousands of re-
ports like the preceding, says the Pop
ular Science Monthly, demonstrates
that a small quantity. say two quarts
per hour, of the thick and heavy quarts
per hour, of the thick and heavy oils,
those Of animal and vege-
table origin, when allowed to drop into
the sea soon spreads over its surface,
forming an oily layer within the area
of which the waves, instead of bank
ing, becomes huge rollers upon which
the vessels rise and fall without shocks
and without shipping any water.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-07
THE FOUNTAIN HOUSE.

1t Becomes the Property of an Eastern
Sporting Man.
Waukesha, Wis, Aug. 3.-The con-
summation of a deal which has been on
tht tapis for some weeks and is of the
utmost interest to the entire village,
viz, the transfer of the Fountain
House to Michael Dwyer, the noted
turfman of New York City, was con-
summated yesterday. The consideration
was $35O,OOO. AS Mr.. Dwyer is the
owner of some of the most valuable
racing stock in the country there is
every reason to believe that the change
of ownership Of the big hotel will
transform Waukesha into an important
racing center.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-07

Henry A. Adams, assistant minister
of the church of the Redeemer, New
York City, has become a Roman Catho-
lie and has been deposed from the
ministry of the Protestant Episcopal
church by Bishop Potter. NJ Adams,
in letter just published, says that
for some time past he has been in q
state of uncertainty. He speaks of the
miserable tiasco" of the 'parochial
and institutional existence of the
Protestant Episcopal church, and says
that is the most stupendouS and ridicu-
lous monstrosity in Christendom. 1t
is said to have been only a few weeks
since Mr. Adams from the pulpit de
nCunced the Church of Rome.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-07
ROAD RESI ABILITY

Hungry Hanks pard, where did
you git thin dimes and quarters?
Mouldy Mike-Out of a feller's
pocket.
"Pard, I'm ashamed of We Gimme
half. The idee of gentlemen travellers
like you an me turnin' footpads It's
enough to make me blush"
Il wasn't no footpad. The Teller
tainted, and these sort O. dropped out
of his pocket
We'll, that's different Found 'em
That's respectable. How came he to
faint?"
Il told him we wanted work, and
was willin' to take pay in soap. New
York Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-07

Boston Herald: There's no danger
that the millions Of gold that are car
ried to and fro between Europe and
America in the ocean steamships will
ever be disturbed by anybody not hold
ing the key. These vaults are always
at the bottom of the ship, below every
thing else, and practically right on
the keel. The room is generally some
eight or ten feet square and high, and
built Of iron plates three or four inches
thick, and it is furnished with such a
formidable array of locks, bolts and
bars as to strike dismay to the hearts
of even the deftest and most expert
enced burglars should they feel dis
posed to tap them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-07
CHOLERA IN ENGLAND.
The Scourge Epidemic Now at

The Scourge Epidemic Now at the
Seaport Town of Grimsby.
London, Aug. 31.-The epidemic in
the Lincolnshire seaport, Grimsby, has
been declared officially to be Asiatic
cholera. The last victim was a woman
who died last Tuesday. Several other
cases before hers had ended fatally.
The authorities believe that the
cholera was brought to the city by i'm
migrants from Antwerp and Rotter-
dam. Yesterday seaman died from
cholera aboard Il Grimsby steamer in
the harbOr of StromneSs, Scotland.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-07

There is a training school for native
evangelists at Depok, Java. The school
was opened in 1873, and already there
have been Il graduates. of whom %
were Battaks from Sumatra. 10 Dyaks
from BOrneo, 9 Sangirese, 8 Alfoors
from Almaheira, s Javanese. Z Sundan-
csc from West Java and 2 Papuans
from Dutch New Guinea. Malay is
the language used, and in spite of the
differences Of race a brotherly feeling
exists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-07

glided into the bushes and disappeared.
The ghost wrung its hands continually.
but made nc noise The officer thought
it woman who was waiting for some
one, until it would glide away at his
near approach. DR.. John Fleischhauer.
manager of the Coney Island pharmacy,
told reporter that he had seen the
Shost three times. Lawyer Eldridge
has also seen it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-07
JUDGE COOLEY CHOSEN.
President of the American Bar Associa-
tion-Other Officers.

Milwaukee, Sept. 4.-Judge Thomas
NJ. Cooley, of Michigan, chairman of
the interstate commerce commission,
was elected president Of the American
Bar association today at th closing
session of the associations annual
The new officers of the association
are:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-07

In the commons Dillon declared the
home rule bill was bound to become a
law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-07
MONEY IS EASIER
BUT INDUSTRIES ARE YET IN 4
BAD WAY.
WARD IMPULSE.

Dun's Report Shows an Enormous In
crease in Imports-Failures Contin-
lie Many and Frequent Bradsreets
Pictures a Very Measuring Situa-
tion-GOod Fall Trade
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-07-03
P0nularitY of New Medicines.

From time to time some form Of treat
ment for disease or some medicine be-
comes suddenly popular. Physicians Of
repute give their testimony and record
their belief in the new specific, and tins
patients who have been benefited mani
fest that strange enthusiasm to get 9TH
ers into trying their remedy which is sc
marked a characteristic of the average
man and woman. The newspapers find
out the latest craze, and reporters he
come learned in many long words tech
nically descriptive of various parts OF
the body or of the action on these of the
new treatment.
For time he who reads or listens &c
the talk Of others would believe that the
elixir has been found at last-that eli--ir
of which Pythagoras dreamed and which
Lord Bacon thought might exist. the
wonderful cure all which is to vanquish
every disease-and then. within six
months, q year, two years at most, the
new remedy has been forgotten or has
sunk into a modest place in the pharma-
copoeia, and the new treatment is old
and of small respect. The part which
medical men play in putting these fads
into prominence and repute is a most
important one. Without their counte-
nance and Endorsement nothing could be
done. That they SO countenance and in
dorse them may be attributed to several
causes, some inherent in medical science,
others rejecting the highest praise Oh the
physicians themselves, and then, again,
others which may only be condemned
Cyrus Edison, M. D., in North American
Review.