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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
LATEST NEWS OF THE GERMAN
EMPIRE.
BURIAL OF COUNSEL GENERAL
EDWARDS.
The Jesuit Question again Becomes
Proninent-King of Wurtembers
Openly Opposes the Policy of Re
admitting Jesuits-PruSsia Stands
Frm-Breweries Boycotted.

Berlin, May 19-The remains of the
late United States consul general, Will
liam Edwards, were buried this after
noon in the old cemetery at Potsdam
in the presence of a number of friends
and relatives.
The king Of Wurtemburg has caused a
sensation by coming out with an open
declaration against the policy of re-
admitting the members of the society
of JesuitS into Germany. 1t may be
added that Well-known Inhabitants
of the Duchy of SaXe-COburg- Gotha
Jesuit law, and it is believed that
Prussia's opinion remains the same
that the return Of the Jesuits is an inn
possibility. Bavaria is understood to
be of the same mind and several small
er states Of the German empire are
known to be pressing bills forbiding
the return of the Jesuits to their re-
spectiye territories.
An expert processes to have dis
covered the secret of the manufacture
of Herr Doves bullet proof coat. He
declares that it consists of Krupp's
steel plate, probably two centimetres
in thickness, protected by oakum stuff
fing.
The dismissal of 800 men who alb
scented themselves from work on May
day has led the social democrats to
boycott several large Berlin breweries.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
BIG LAND CASES.
DECISION IN A FAMOUS VISION
SIN CONTROVERSY.
Contest Dismissed in Ashland Cases
Involving the Right Of Entry-Fur-
Their Investigation.

Washington, May 21.-The decision
in the famous Ashland cases, of Wis
oonsin, which involve alleged extern
sive frauds in 1891 and 1892, was an
nounced by the secretary of the interi-
or today.
The cases involve the right of entry
to lands within the limits of the land
grants of the Chicago, st. Paul, Min
neapolis 4 Omaha railway and the
Wisconsin Central. In THE case of
England against Marinson, the con
test was dismissed.
In view. however, of the fact that a
report was made by q special agent,
supposedly by affidavits, charging that
the entry Of Martinson was made in
the interest of w. E. McCOrd, the
secretary decided that hearing be
ordered for investigation into the
charges. A similar order for a full
Investigation was made in other cases
in which the same charge is involved.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
SUPERIOR EXCITED.
THINKS THE NORMAL REGENTS
ACTION REVOLUTIONARY.
Council Unanimously Passes Resolu
tons Roasting the Members of
the State Board.

West Superior, Wis, May ia
special meeting of the council was
held last night to take action on the
normal school regents resolution not
to locate the seventh normal school
here. The preamble of the resolution
is extensive and sets forth the action
of the regents in accepting and re
tanning the $4,000 bonus, etc. The
following resolutions were passed:
"Resolved, By the mayor and com
mon council of the city of West SUI
periOr that we deem it our duty to pro-
claim to the people of Wisconsin that
a public outrage has been committed
by the said officers of the state upon
$4,000 citizens of the commonWeal
that we regard the action of the board
of regents of normal schools hereinbe-
fore set forth as violating the gravest
obligations morally, legally and pOlit-
ically; that we regard such action
as a public wrong; that we regard
such conduct as almost revolutionary
in that it will create a contempt in the
minds of the people for the official de
cisions of public officers and that such
action cannot wisely receive the ap-
probation of the court. So we believe
the fair name of the state Of WiscOn-
sin will be disgraced if the action
on the part of it's officers referred to
is not disapproved, and be it further
Resolved, That a committee be ap-
pointed, including the mayor, to have
charge Of the matter herein recited
that such committee in due time wait
upon or confer with said board of re-
gents of normal schools and properly
represent to said board the feeling of
the people of Superior in the premises,
and that committee be and they are
hereby instructed to request said board
to rescind the aforesaid action where
by the removal of said school from
this city is contemplated, and that
said board take action thereon imme-
diately or as soon as convenient and
proceed to a selection Of one of the
sites offered by this city,
The resolutions were passed unan-
imously.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
FOR CONTEMPT.
CHICAGO ELECTION COMMISSION
ERS FINED.
Punished by Judge Chetlain for Re
fuSing to Produce Ballots
in Court

Chicago, May 17.-Judge Chetlain to-
day found Election Commissioners w.
A. Hutchins, Henry Schooner and 2. II.
Keenan, guilty of contempt of court
in refusing to produce ballots as or
dered by the court He fined them
$1,000 each, and ordered them com
mitted to jail until the fine should be
paid, and deputy sheriffs were ordered
to serve the WritS.
Papers were prepared in habeas cor
pus proceedings and applications for a
writ were made.
The court had ordered the comission,
ers to produce, for the special grand
jury now investigating alleged election
frauds, the ballots cast at the last cleo
ton. Acting under legal advice, the
commissioners refused and the con
tempt proceedings resulted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
REPORTS OF DUN & co. AND
BRADSTREET.

New York, May 1S.-Dun & Co.'S re.
port of the weeks trade says that the
obstacles to improve do not lessen
yet the recuperative force Of the coun-
try is so great that observers are con.
stantly amazed at the volume Of bust
ness transacted, and the general sound
ness of trade, Notwithstanding the in
f1uences which in any other land would
produce dire disaster.
Soundness in the commercial world
of failures. Failures for the week
numbered 22O in the United States
against PAT last year.
New York, May 1S.-Bradstreets re-
port says that this is the third week
in succession in which there has been
no material gain in the volume of bust
ness and practically no improvement
in prospect. The continued uncertainty
regarding the effect of legislation re-
stricts trading in all staple lines.
The net railway earnings for March
are found to reflect heavy decreases.
The movement of available stocks of
wheat from all sources shows a de-
crease of about II 100000 bushels dur
ing the past six weeks. Exports Of
wheat have decreased, the total from
both coasts of the United States and
Canada amounting to 2,420,O00 bush
els, against 3,SS5,OOO bushels a year
ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
NEW GOVERNMENT ABOUT TO
BE BORN
CONSTITUTIONAL. CONVENTION
IN HONOLULU NAY SO.
Constitution TO Be Presented for Ap-
proyal-EXecutive Power Vested III
President-Cabinet of Five-Leg
islature Of Two Branches-OtheI
Provisions of the Document

Honolulu, May 10, Via San Francis
CO. May 21.-Per Steamer Gaelic.-The
constitutional convention, the members
Of which were elected May 3 meets
May 80. A new constitution will be
presented to the convention for ap-
prevail. The Associated Press has
been able to obtain copy Of portions Of
it.
The new government is to be call
ecutive power will be vested in a presi-
dent. The executive council will con-
sist of five members.
The upper house will consist of fif-
teen senators. The lower house is to
consist Of fifteen members, six from the
Island Oahu and three each from
Hawaii, Maui and Kauai. They will
serve for two years only. The meet
ings Of the legislature are to be held
every two years. The president will
have the power to veto, which can be
overruled by a two-thirds vote of both
houses.
1t is the present intention to have
President Dole re-appointed for a
term Of two years, probably six, after
which the offices will be filled by regu-
lar elections. 1t is more likely that the
present ministers will be retained for
a year as their appointment rests with
the president.
The claim is now made that when
the republic is declared the natives
will make the looked for uprising. The
royalist leaders says that they are only
restrained by the expressed wish Of the
ex-queen, who still has great faith in
the United States
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
A WOMAN FOR DEAN.
Miss Emily Smith, of the University
of Chicago, Chosen.

! New York, May ia new dean Of
Barnard College has been appointed
and confirmed in the person of Miss
Emily Jane Smith, daughter of
Judge James c.. Smith, of Canaan
daigua, who was for nearly thirty
years on the supreme bench Of this
state. Miss Smith now holds the
Greek fellowship at the University Of
Chicago. After leaving Harvard an
mex she entered Bryn Mawr, from
which she was graduated in 1889 with
the degree Of A. B. Miss Smith spent
the year 1SS9-90 as a student at Girten
college, England, with Professor Jebb,
and upon returning to this country &C
cepted the Greek chair in Packer in
stitute, Brooklyn. She remained there
two years, and last spring resigned to
go to Chicago. Her deansnip begins
next October In 1892 Miss Smith had
published her Selections From Lucian,
which were greatly commended.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
BABY RUTH.
THE LITTLE ONE SAID TO BE
SADLY AFFLICTED.
And Her Mother Is Naturally Very
Unhappy-The Child Unable to
Articulate.

New York, May 19.-Unless current
report, Endorsed by the strongest cor
roboratve evidence, is misleading a
few nationally famous New Workers,
Mrs. Grover Cleveland is today the
most unhappy woman to be found in
all this republic. This state Of things
is due to the fact that she is the
mother of a little girl whose reason is
a blank.
Baby Ruth, the pride of so many
households, suffers from one of baby
hoods weirdeSt maladies. Her brain
will not deyelope. At this moment the
famous infant is being reared in what
may be termed practical seclusiOn, as
all visitors to Washington who have
tried to see the child know but too
well. 1t is the reason for this reluc-
lance on the part of the parents to have
the child seen and spoken to which
has been obscure to many.
Very naturally the very existence
of young Ruth's affiiction has given
1ise to endless speculation and exag-
geration on the part Of the few who
have been permitted to learn the
truth. And, of course, it is through
the servants that the most important
particulars have leaked out, notwith-
standing the really frantic efforts
at .concealment made by one famed
physician in New York Some of the
rumors-for instance, that the child
cannot prattle at all and is in constant
pain-are doubtless rather reckless.
The substantiated fact is that since it
finally dawned upon the family that
an extraordinary backward mind was
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
MANCHESTER A SEAPORT.
Queen Formally Opens the Ship Canal
to Commerce.

Manchester, May 21.-The queen
stopped here this afternoon on her
way to Scotland to formally open the
new ship canal. The town was profuse-
ly decorated in honor of the occasion,
as was the shipping at Liverpool.
The queen drove through the princi-
pal thoroughfares, and then proceeded
on the royal yacht thorough the canal,
declaring it open for commerce. She
was the recipient of several addresses,
and was received by the populace with
much enthusiasm. Tonight all the
towns along the line of the canal were
brilliantly Illuminated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
WAGES FOR LABOR.
Rates Workingmen Are now Getting
in the Cream City.

Milwaukee, May 19.-The wages of
the sewer diggers are S1.25 this year,
against S1.50 last year. The plumbers
pay the same to their men for making
house connections, except that the man
who lays the pipe receives thirteen
shillings a day. When they started
in this year they paid eleven shillings
to the workers in the trenches, but
they cut it down to ten shillingS not
long ago. Some men. of course, are
hired for a dollar. The Gas company
pays S125 to its men straight through,
the pipe layers receiving a tritle more.
The union carpenters are receiving
% ID an hour as the lowest wage,
while the nOn-union men are working
for what they can get down to S1.25.
The plaSterer bosses take jobs at
10, 20 and p cents a yard, which is
) cents less than last year. The big
gest part of the cents is taken off
the mems wages, of course.
81 haven't secured a contract this
year" said a builder at the Builders
exchange, although [ figured every
thing at cost without a dollar of profit.
Some other contractor invariably bid
lower. It must be that they intend to
use poorer material and pay less to
their men than I. There are ISL mem
bers in the exchange half of whom
manage to keep busy. A portion of
the rest get occasional jobs, while fully
Onp-piphth of the entire number ere
in the same fix as T.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
AS IF 'TWERE HOT.
Southern Presby End Consid
Grafton of a Breckenridge Roast

Nashville, May 1S.-The general as
sembly of the southern Presbyterians
re-assembIed today. There was pre-
scented memorial from the National
Christian league for the promotion of
social purity. an appeal that the as
sembly recognize in w. c. 2. Brock
inridge an enemy Of the church, the
home, the state and society at large.
The memorial was laid on the table
as soon as it's purport was understood
and without its reading being con-
Guided.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24

Minneapolis, May 21.-The bloomer
costume has won the fight among the
female cyclists of this city. At a meet
ing of the Young Women's Christian
association a bicycle club was organ
lied. with a membership of seventeen.
Then vote was taken upon costumes
and it was announced that by general
consent the members of the cycling
club would appear in boomers at each
club run.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
WHAT LAW MAY DO.
MAY SAVE SITS LIFE
FOR ONE THING.
Series of Continuances of Mayor Har-
rison's Murderer's Case Planned
Another LOOphole.

Chicago, May 21.-The case of Prem
dergast, the assassin Of Mayor Harri-
son, which was set for trial before
Judge Chetlain today, was continued
until tomorrow. 1t is said that the
prosecution will ask for a continuance
from time to time until June 4, when
another judge will succeed Chetlain.
Should Chetlain refuse to continue it
is probable that the states attorney
will withdraw from the case, leaving
no prosecutor in court.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
A. j. GRAHAM DEAD.

New York, May 21.-Andrew J. Ora
ham, author Of the system of short
hand which bears his name, died Satur-
day of Brights disease at Orange, n.
j. He was in his 64th year. He was
born in Green Creek township. San
dusky county, o., August 20, 1880.
While he was an infant his parents
moved to st. Joseph county, Mich,
and he grew up there.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
SEVEN DIE.
ANARCHISTS KILLED BY BULLET
AND KNIFE.
Suffer the Death Penalty for Using
Bombs-TLey Cheer for the
Cause.

Barcelona, May 21.-The six anar-
chists, Codina, Cerezuela, Sogas, Ber-
nat Villarubia and Mir, sentenced to
completely in the attempt of Pallas to
assassinate Captain General Martinez
Campos and of being concerned in the
Liceo theater bomb outrage, were exc
cuted at 4 o'clock this morning, out
side the citadel of Mont Juich.
The prisoners passed the night pre-
vious in the chapel of the fortress, af-
ter force had been used to compel
them to do so. Rain was falling heav-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
APPEALS TO PATRIOTS.

Washington, May oil. S. Coxey
has issued bulletin No. to the Amer
lean Patriots of 1894" in which he
gives a highly colored account of his
arrest and the conviction of the lead
ers in Washington. The bulletin con-
cludes with an appeal for money and
supplies and urges his followers to
hold more meetings and in every way
to urge senators and congressman to
vote for the COXey bill.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
A CANOE CLUB.
Seminary Girls Who Can Swim Form
One

Auburndale, Mass, May 21.-Lasell
seminary girls have taken to canoeing
in addition to Homer, Beethoven
breadmaking, and tennis. and two
crews have been organized, only such
girls as can swim being eligible for
membership. They have a big white
canvas canoe which carries eight girls,
and tha!r uniform is a blue skirt, white
cap, and a White sweater, upon the
breast of which is an L in light blue,
the seminary color. In the crews the
western girls are: Nellie WILDER of
Peoria, Greta Steans of Cincinnati,
Harriet Noble, Tiffin, O.; Alice Andree-
son, Omaha; and Bertha Lilibridge of
Minneapolis. In the fall the club will
probably build a boat-house and will
fly the flag Of the American Canoe
club.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
IN JAIL TWENTY DAYS.
CONEY, BROWNE AND JONES
SENTENCED.
Their Crimes Consisted of Carrying
Banner-Further Punishment for
Walking on Grass.

Washington, May 21.-Judge Miller,
in the police court today, sentenced
Coxey, Browne and Christopher Col
umbus Jones to twenty days impris-
onment in jail for displaying a banner
in the capitol grounds on the occa-
sion of the May day demonstration.
Coxey and Browne were also SEN
fenced to So fine or ten days imprison-
ment for trespassing on the capitol
grass.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
EDMUND YATES DEAD.

London, May 21-Edmund Hodgson
Yates, editor and proprietor of The
World, died yesterday. Mr.. Yates
was the son of the well known actor.
He was a theatrical critic on The
Daily News for six years and was
himself the author of several dramas
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
KIRKLAND A CANDIDATE.
The Jefferson Man Is After Congress
man BarWig'S Seat.

Jefferson, Wis, May 21.-Robert B.
kirkland, of this city, who has been
long known as Il staunch and ardent
supporter of democratic principles, has
announced himself as a candidate for
the congressional nomination in the
second district, which is at present
represented by Charles Barwig.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
PROF. DANA RETIRES.

New Haven, Conn, May 21.-The
retirement Of Prof. James A. Dana,
the oldest professor connected with
Yale university, and one of the fore
most American scientists, is an
nOunced
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
ONCE IN WIsCONsIN's PRISON.

Chicago, May 1S.-Julius Schwartz
who with two companions robbed the
Greenburg pawn shop Of $4,000 worth
of jewelry, was sentenced to five years
in prison. He has done time in the
Wisconsin penitentiary.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24

Philadelphia, Pa, May 21.-At mid
night adyices from the flooded dis
tricts Of the state indicate that the
storm has spent its fury and that the
waters have begun to fall in those To-
calities where the danger seemed
greatest. In other places, further
down, the swollen streams threaten
but the worst is probably known.
Sudbury is threatened with com
plete inundation, as the water there is
rising very fast.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
TO REPORT FAVORABLY.

Washington, May 21.-The proposed
congressional investigation of the
Carnegie armor plate frauds will be re-
ported favorably by Representative
Cultivate, of the house rules COM
mittee, tomorrow.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
MUST GO DRY.

Eau Claire, Wis, May 21.-The po-
lice are enforcing strict Sunday clos
ing of saloons Four saloon keepers
were arrested today; also a man who
had pushed a baby carriage up to a
brewery and loaded up a key.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
PENSION RAISE IN PROSPECT.

Washington, May 15.-The house
committee on pensions voted to re-
port favorably the house bill increas-
ing. all Mexican and Indian war pen
sioners from So to So per month.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
STRIKERS DISCOURAGED.

Uniontown, Pa, May 21.-The coke
strikers attempted to rally today in the
rain, but it was a failure, and they
seem to have given up the fight. All
plants are running with increased
forces
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24

Paris, May 21-The anarchist Emile
Henry was guillotined this morning.
He cried give Fanarchie'' as the
knife fell. There was a crowd pres
ent, but no disturbance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24

WilIiamsport. Pa, May 21.-As dark
ness settled down, the terrOrS Of the
food increased. Cut off from the rest
of the world save for the slender wire
over which this message is speeding,
surrounded on every side by the slow
ly rising destroyer which has already
swept away $1,000,O00 worth of prop
erty, the condition of Williamsport is
indeed pitiable.
Every foot of ground in the city is at
least four feet under water and much
of it is fifteen feet below the surface
of the stream. Many families are home
less. Hundreds more expect to be
driven from their houses in the second
stories of which they have already
found refuge, before day.
The city is without light and every
one is desperate, terror stricken and
discouraged. The water appears to be
at a standstill but there are grave
fears that the end Of the rise is not
yet reached.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24

Kansas City Journal: Congress is tax
ing q turn at reforming the courts
If the courts could reciprocate and do
some reforming on congress we might
be happy yet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24

Bethlehem, Pa, May 21.-The Lehigh
and Monocacy rivers are higher than
during the great flood of 1889. People
are moving out of the second stories
The rivers are still rising and it con-
tinues to rain.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24

Reading, Pa, May 21.-The railroad
bridges AT Stony Creek and Dauphin
on the Pine Grove division of the Phil
adelphia & Reading road were carried
away by the flood. Many coIleries are
reported flooded in the Schuylkill re
gions and it is feared that some
bridges spanning the Susquehanna
river above Sunburry may be carried
away.
This afternoon the people in the low
er section of the city along the-Schuyl-
kill river banks left their homes.