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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-07
LATEST.

After a stormy session bootblacks
of Chicago formed union and elected
c.. Jefferson King president
Prince Phallas, Cornelius Sullivan's
trotting stallion, valued at $1,000, died
at Riverside Qll.) Stock Farm.
Peter Jackson has accepted the Lon
don Clubs offer of $4,000 for fight
with Champion Corbett.
In the Haggin yearling sale at New
York a Salvador colt sold for $1,000,
the best price of the day.
Captain Nathan Peters, the Oldest
free mason in the United States, died
at Amesbury, Mass, aged 81 years.
Officers dispersed strikers who were
terrorizing miners at work at Pana,
I'll. Many arrests were made.
Victoria A. Stein, of Chicago, has
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-07
HAVE A PORTABLE CHURCH.

San Francisco Examiner: Freeman,
Smith & Co. have been commissioned
by the Russian Sealskin company Of
st. Petersburg to have a church built
as far as possible in this city and
shipped to Petropolvsk, the capital of
Kamtschatka. From that point the
church will be sent to the Copper
islanu sealing station in the Behring
sch. The church is intended for the
use Of the Cossacks who guard the
sealing interests Of the island and for
the Eskimos.
Tie Gleek church is the universal
one in that country, and the edifice is
being built in accordance with the
requirements of that religion. The
cliGrcl. is being built in sections, so
that little labor will be required to put
it together. 1t will be 32x9! feet, ana
VIII accommodate 500 people. The
cost will be $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-07
A HARD-WORKING RICH WOMAN
Some Interesting Gossip About Mrs.
Paran Stevens of New York.

| In an interesting sketch Of Mrs.
Paran Stevens of New York, recently
published in a paper of that city,
some new side-lights are thrown on
the personality of a woman whom
| many think is the queen Of Gotham
society, despite the fact that she is no
longer young. Mrs. Stevens is a very
wealthy woman and she knows how
to manage her millions. In the beau
tiful home which she has just built
one of the most comfortable rooms is
the library, which she calls her work
shop and where every morning finds
her at half past going through her
vOluminOuS mail and attending to le-
gal matter both concerning her own
and her daughters, Mrs Arthur Pa
gets, home.
The library or workshop is finished
in mahogany and fold. Over the Of
flee table, which stands between the
two windows, looking on Fifth avenue,
there are two great candelabra sup
piled with gas candles that throw a
light over the desk as bright as the
best Wall street appliance for getting
light
Mrs. Stevens working dress is Pc
culiar. She does not believe in loose
gowns or anything on the wrapper"
order. as she says that such garments
as this are in place only for bathing
robes and for invalids. But she great
Iy favors g kind Of dress which is
draped in front over a tight-fttng
waist, like an empire dress.
The plainness Of this robe, for it
never has a particle of trimming, is
intensified by total lack Of jewelry.
Not even a ring is worn or an earring
Mrs. Stevens said she learned this
trick of going without jewelry during
the day fom titled English woman,
who said that never, until she adopted
this style, had she been able to change
her appearance wholly from a morning
to an evening effect From morning
until the lights are turned on there is
never the flash of a diamond in this
Fifth avenue house.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-07
IN OTHER LANDS.

Several lives were lost in the flood
in British Columbia.
The British board of trade is about
to take steps to prevent the racing Of
ocean steamers.
A great crowd witnessed the spring
review of the troops by Emperor Will
lam on Tempelhofer field in Berlin.
The Bulgarian ministry has resigned.
NJ. Grecoff has undertaken the fOrma-
ton Of a new cabinet.
! Germany has protested against the
AEglo-Belgian treaty, alleging it to
be violation of the international
African agreement.
A celebra ton of tie fourth OF July
is being arranged for by Brazil to show
her gratefulneSs to the United States
for support during the recent civil war.
! Assaulted by itinerant musicians in
| London, General John Thurston used
his umbrella so effectively that one
subsequently died.
A settlement of the dispute over the
Irish parliamentary fund is said to
have been reached and a decree will
soon be entered.
A cable despatch from Dunkirk says
that Tremblier, a Buenos Ayres muir
derer, has been captured by the French
police.
Prince Augustus of Coburg-
Gotha, a grandson of the late eX-em-
peror of Brazil and his cousin, the
Archduchess Carolina, were married
in Vienna.
Giuseppe de Felice, a member of the
! italian parliament, was sentenced to
eighteen years solitary confinement
for having melted disturbances in
Sicily.
Young Catholics objected to the in
/ scription on a wreath laid on the
statue of Joan of Arc by Paris masons
/ and a riot followed in which many per-
/ sons were injured.
/ Prince Charles of Hohenzollern-Sig-
maringen and Princess Josephine,
daughter Of the Count of Flanders and
niece of the king of the Belgians, have
been married in Brussels.
! Cable despatch from Paris, says that
! Turpin, the inventor of melinite, has
/ sold an electrical war chariot he has
/ just invented to Germany for 5,O0O,-
/ OOOf
| An Indignation meeting of the en-
! ployeS Of the Panama railroad has
| been called in Colon in order to pro-
/ test against a reduction in their pay
and to demand a reduction in their
/ hours of labor.
! In an address to a conference of the
/ Scottish chambers Of husbandry in
| Edinburgh, Henry Chaplin, eX-presi-
! dent of the board of agriculture, de-
| clared the fall in the prices of produce
was due to the depreciation in gold
/ following the decentralization Of silver.
/ NJ. Dupuy has succeeded in forming
/ a ministry for France with himself as
/ premier and minister of the interior
Minister of Finance Terry, of Argen-
tina, has directed that the custom
house at Rosario extend every facility
! for the shipment of wheat from that
! point.
In reply to a question the British
under foreign secretary has informed
/ the house of commons that no commu-
nication has been received from the
United States government intimating
! a desire to retire from the Berlin
agreement in regard to Samoa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-07
DEPOT DESTROYED.

Ablcman, May 31.-The freight de-
pot at this place was burned Wednes-
day morning, by what is though to
have been an incendiary fire.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-07

There is no fodder crop in the world
that will produce so much with so Ut
tie expense as corn. 1t is easily Gull
tivated, and will keep more stock to
the acre than anything else.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-07

Alexander Lindsay, his brother s
three children. and Mrs. William In
gram were drowned in Smith Bay,
Ontario, while fishing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-07

Jones and formally proposed the COM
promise amendment. The sugar SEIZED
ule, he said, was the interesting sched
ule of the bill. 1t contained both
sweetness and light. 1t seemed TO per
wade the whole bill. The bill could not
be touched without laying hands on
sugar. The senate had even departed
from the consideration of the bill to
make explorations in sugar, not in
the cane fields of Nebraska but in the
committee room.
The consumption of sugar in the
United States was enormous, he said
almost five billion pounds of raw ST.
gar had been consumed last year. rep
resenting, if grown and refined abroad,
total of S1S2, 0O0,0 to be paid to
foreigners. Free sugar would mean
the immediate destruction of the beet
sugar industry and the gradual extinc-
ton of cane sugar production.
If properly protected he prophesied
that before 1905 beet sugar would
have so developed in the north and
cane-Sugar in the south that the Unit
ed States could supply the full con-
sumption of the country. Was it any
| wonder that the farmers of the west
. wanted a continuation of the sugar
bounty? They were enthusiastic over
| the prospect.
! Mr.. Henderson denied that in foster
ing the growth of beet and cane sugar
any obligations existed to protect the
refinerieS. There was no connection,
/ he declared, between the sugar grower
and the odious sugar trust. He cared
! nothing for the one and everything
| for the other
Mr.. Henderson gave notice that at
/ the proper time he would offer as a
substitute for the sugar schedule the
| bounty provision of the Mckinley bill,
continuing it in force until July 1, 1895.
Mr.. PETER, who followed, proceeded
at great length to support the bounty
! instead of the duty on sugar. In the
course of his speech he drifted into
! a discussion of the silver question.
When Mr. PETER concluded. Mr..
! Harris, who is in charge Of the bill
moved that the senate proceed to a
j consideration of executive business.
He gave notice that after Monday he
would, if able, compel the senate to en-
dure longer hours until the bill is dis
posed Of.
After executive session the senate
adjourned.
Washington, June I'm the house
the senate bill for carrying out the
ton for protection of seals in Boring
sea was passed.
| The house then went into committee
! of the whole on the state bank bill.
Mr.. Brosius, of Pennsylvania, took the
| floor thereon and was followed by
! Messrs. Swanson, Henderson, Tucker
and Iselar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-07

Washington, June 1.-After business
of minor Importance in the senate to-
day the tariff bill was taken up and
the battle over the sugar schedule be-
gun. The Mckinley law placed raw
sugars on the free list imposed II a
cent duty on refined sugar and gave a
bounty of cents to the sugar grower.
The house bill repealed the bounty
and placed all sugars, raw and re
fined. on the free list. The first bill
reported from the finance committee
of the senate gave a specific duty Of
from 1 cent to 1885 per pound accord
ing to polariscopic test.
The compromise amendment which
is the one now before the senate. made
the sugar schedule 60 into effect Jan.
1, 1895, the rates being 40 per cent.
ad valorem on all sugars, raw and re-
fined, Is of 1 cent additional on SUI
CARS above Is duties standard, with
an additional 10 of 1 cent pound on
sugars from countries paying export
bounties. 1t also continued the sugar
treaty with Hawaii The bill was de-
bated but no action was taken.
Washington, June LIN the house
the senate bill for carrying out the
award of the Paris tribunal of arbitra-
ton for protection Of seals in Bering
sea was passed.
The house then went into committee
of the whole or the state bank bill.
Mr. Brosius, of Pennsylvania, took the
floor thereon and was followed by
Messrs Swanson, Henderson, Tucker
and ISelar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-07
WEEKLY REPORT OF DUN & co.
AND BRADSTREET
SCARCITY OF COAL CAUSES
GREAT SUFFERING.
StoppaSe of Iron Furnaces Between
the Allegheny Mountains and Mis-
slssippi River olume of
Business Cannot Improye-Delay-
ing Tariff Legislation a Menace.

New York, June 1.-Dun X Co.'S re
view of the weeks trade says the stop
page Of the iron furnaces between the
Alleghaney mountains and the Miss
issippi river is complete, and a great
number of concerns for manufacturing
iron, and others requiring soft coal or
coke for fuel, have been forced to
stop.
Business cannot increase in volume
under such circumstances, and yet
payments through all the clearing
houses for the week show a decrease
of only POS per cent, compared with
last year.
The demand for products is not what
might be expected. Again the lowest
price ever recorded has been made for
cash wheat, 56 IA cents at New York
Corn is stronger with exports about
II as large as year ago.
The failures this week have been 1S3
in the United States against 23S last
year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-07

New York, June 1.-BradStreet'S re-
view says that Il decidedly unfayor
able condition of general trade CON
tinues without material improvement.
Continued delay in tariff legislation
proiongs the sitting effect of whole
sale business. More mills, factories
and furnaces have closed their doors
for want of fuel. The pig iron indus
try in the central and western states
is practically at a stand still for want
OF soft coal or coke. There are no
labor strikes of Importance, but al
most all of those previously reported
are still in existence. Favorable re
ports come from Duluth, Omaha. Au-
gusta, Ga, and Jacksonville. The
stimulation of trade at the Lake Supe-
rior port is largely due to the RAPID
shipments of HtuminouS coal which
had been accumulated.
At most of the western cities there
is practically no change from the de-
preSSi.n of last week. Concessions i'll
the prices of wool for future delivery
fail to secure purchases from New
England manufacturers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-07

Washington, June LATTER business
Of minor Importance in the senate.ato-
day the tariff bill was taken up and
the battle over the sugar schedule be-
gun. The Mckinley law placed raw
sugars on the free list, imposed II
cent duty on refined sugar and gave a
bounty Of cents to the sugar grower.
The house bill repealed the bounty
and placed all sugars, raw and re-
fined, on the free list The first bill
reported from the finance committee
o. the senate gave a specific duty of
from 1 cent to 1.2S5 per pound accord
ing to polariscopic test.
The compromise amendment which
is the one now before the senate, made
the sugar schedule go into effect Jan.
1, 1895, the rates being 40 per cent.
ad valorem on all sugars, raw and re-
fined, Is of 1 cent additional on su-
gars above 16 duties standard, with an
additional ITO of 1 cent pound on
sugars from countries paying export
bounties 1t also continued the sugar
treaty with Hawaii.
Mr.. Henderson took the floor as Mr..
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-29
Devotion to a Dog.

Lond on Daily News.
A touching proof of devotion to a
dumb animal has been given by an old
maid lataly residing in the Rue de YOU
girard, in Paris. She was we'll known
in the neighborhood as ''la vielle Philo-
mene." that being her Christian name,
and she walked out every day ACCOM-
panied by hideously ugly bulldog.
Mischievous boys made butt of her,
and some of them made quite little
income by stealing the dog and taking
him back to his mistress, who always
rewarded them with a franc piece,
Some time ago the animal disappeared
for good, and his mistress became a prey
to melancholia. At length she has con-
mitted suicide by suffocating herself
with charcoal fumes. A note in her
handwriting was found, in which it was
stated that she could not bear to live
without her dear "boule."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-29
Sl.416,745 46 $3.50, 723 81
| Balance in favor of Democratic ad-
miuistratiOn S;;}3 or 90

1t turns out. then, that it cost the
administration of much-vaunted reform
to carry on the city government for one
year under the Bell charter $50. 977.90
more than it cost the last Democratic
administration to carry it on for the
same length of time under the same
charter. 1t is quite true that the Re-
publican administration has carried
into effect number of economies. 1t
has cut down the street force and some
of the office forces of the city to the
great permanent injury of our streets.
at least, and to the infinite suffering of
many faithful servants of the city, thus
deprived of employment at a time
when lack of work meant want to the
verge of starvation. But the money
thus saved has been SO magniiicently
spent in the famous Hill celebration, i'm
futile Investigations for political effect,
aud in other similar ways. that the
mean economies that have been prac-
ticed have been more than offset by the
reckless extravagances of the Repub-
lican regime. When we reflect upon
that the tax rate tor the city proper Ia
slowly and surely increasing the
tax levy of 1892 having been 13.42,
and that of 1898 1875 mills) a
few questions become pertinent
and imperatively demand answers,
What, then. does Republican reform
amount to? Wind, gentlemen, wind
that winnows no corn" What is Re-
publican economy? Simply gross favor
itism in the choice of objects for which
the public money shall be expended.
What should be the natural conse-
quence? The defeat ard humiliating
retirement of the Republican pretenders
who have mlsgOverned US for two years
and now are trying to mislead us.
Respectfully submitted.
f. w. NJ. CUTCHEoN,
SWAN PONTHAN,
JACOB F. FRANZEN,
Cnmmittea
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-29
to it by the Democratic ad-
ministration Observation-Disclosures. S9,217 90
In all of money provided
or turned over by the
last Democratic admin

iStratiOn. ...............S $685., 0S3 6S
This leaves only $40, 1856 of the total
amount of the betterment of the city
finances for which the present admins
tration is entitled to credit, as against
S3S2.000 in round numbers for which
credit must be given to the last Demo
cratic administration.
8. Now as to the Republican claim
that the reduction in the city's debt
and the increase of its cash balance
have been due to Repu blican economy.
There is no economy, of course, in max
ing tax levies. In all truth. the levy of
taxes OF any kind upon population SO
hard driven as has been that of this city
for eighteen months past would seem to.
the-ordinary mind to be subject for
apology rather than self-congratulatiou
But the Bell charter required tax leyles
during the years prior 20 and includ ing
1894 for the purpose of paying certain
portion of the city debt, and for the
levies of this kind that have been made
neither the Democratic administration
nor the Republican administration is
entitled to any credit or subject to any
censure. Now 1t seems literally true
that substantially every dollar which
has been paid or has accumulated to
better the financial condition Of the
city, as above related Except the $4,000
stolen from the school fund.-, has been
derived from taxes levied and collected
for the purpose.
In what way have our Republican
friends practiced economy? There is
but one way in which any municipal
administration can practice it, and that
is in cutting down the expenses of oper-
ating the different departments of the
city government and in curtailing the
miscellaneous items of expense which,
in one form and another, are each year
incurred by it. The plain fact is that,
so far from any new economy being
practiced in these matters, it is costing
the Republican administration more to
carry ON the city government for year
under the Bell charter than it cost the
last Democratic administration to carry
1t on under the same charter for the
same length of time.
Let us look at the figures. The
Democratic party was in pc wer for
tritie over year after the Bell charter
went into effect, going out of power
June 6. 1892. The Republican party has
been in power Tor one entire fiscal year.
1898. We will compare the expense Of
carrying on the municipal government
for the year from June 6, 1891, to June
6, 1892. the last year of Democratic con-
troll, and the only year of such control
under the provisions of the Bell charter.
with the expense of carrying on the
same government under Republican
control for the fiscal year 1898; and in
observing the results of this comparison
it should be remembered that during
the year 1898! labor and materials were
cheaper and municipal activity at a
lower ebb than during the year lS9l-92
Here then is the comparison:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-29

NOTE. During the year 1889 the record for
msnslaughter in st. Paul was largely in ex-
cess Of previous years owing to the fact that
one or two men, occurred in the place known
as Bohemian fats. Ten persons were arrest.
ed and, Of course. they could not all be, OF,
rather, were not convicted, but the charge
makes the record larger than 1t really ought
to be. $50 IN
The appended note explains the APP
parentiy large number Of commitments
or manslaughter. With regard to every
other Item. 1t will be observed that.
while the number of men on the police
force in st. Paul is much smaller in
proportion to population than In any
other city covered by the table, the
breaches of public order are far more
infrequent and less serious in character.
1t may be added to this that the bien-
NAL report Of the prison inspectors of
Minnesota shows that, while Hsnnepin
county furnished 10 convicts in the year
1887. and 70 In 1888. Ramsey county Is
credited with but 10 in the first year
and 20 in the second, Statistics con firm
the general opinion that law and order
are maintained In this city at less cost
and to a greater degree than In any
other city OF its size in the country.
One of the questions which the people
are to answer at the polls todays Is
whether they wish to have this admir-
able system Of police control over
thrown for political aud personal ends,
and the security of person and property
placed in the keeping of raw recruits
and inefficient personal followers of the
candidate for mayor who has made his
campaign on abundant promises. Of
place on the police force.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-29

twltter of little birds or the soul-rayis-
ing notes of the nightingale. | have
sent for twelve bar'ls of saki.
ana yet all the Chinese nose-paint
cannot be of this ecstatic cbaracta,.
otherwise. what occasion for their con,
densed history of imbibation? "First a,
man takes drink the drink takes
dFs9k-then the drink takes the MANI
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-29
Antony and Cleopatra.

Detroit Free Press.
The golden barge of the mighty
queen floated softly down the beautiful
and mysterious river. and Cleopatra
enhancing scene to Antony.
20 king" she murmured, .'is there
in all the world sight so beautiful?"
Thou art more beautiful, queen of
my heart" he whispered, touching her
hand with his lips. aS
Those VICTORIOUS eyes Of hers closed
lang Ildly and the long lashes lay al rest
upon the rich red olive of her cheeks.
"Tony," she sighted rapturously,
''you are corker and no mistake"
And shs golden barge agatsa On.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-29
MORE PROOF POSITIVE
That Mayor Smith Gave Pros
lection to the People.
The PIONEER PRESS SAID so,
And Demonstrated It by ABB
Solute Statistics.
WHY so BAD At THIS TINE
When He Was Correct While
Holding Mayoralty?
DECIDED GEM IN ITS WAX
WHY so BAD At THIS TINE
DECIDED GEM IN ITS wax

The GLOBE yesterday morning gave
an extract from the Pioneer Press Of
May 4, 1890. highly commendatory of
Mayor Robert A. Smith. who was
candidate for re-election(and victorious),
and his police administration. Two days
latter-May 6. 1890 = lest some one
might think it had not spoken by the
card it Published the following article
to demonstrate the efficiency Of the
police under Mayor Smith:
From the Pioneer Press, May 6. 1890.
49,, A REMARKABLE SHOWING.
An article in the Pioneer Press touch
Ing the adeq uacy Of police protection in
st. Paul, has called out the following
presentationof statistics of the cost and
work of the department. We think that
the comparative showing. taking into
account the relative population OF the
several cities, is the most remarkable
testimony that could be given to the
efficienev Of our uolice ServiCa:S r1t 8
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-29

OF money collected under the
Democratic administration
for the purpose of liquidat-
ing city indebtedness .S212, S66 IS
OF money levied by that ad-
fninistration, but not col.
lected. ........... .......... $4,000 90
Of money belonging to the
school fund and turned oyer