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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-12
COMMODORE WHITING DEAD.
Sketch Of His Honorable Career in the
Naval Service.

Commodore William D. Whiting, re-
tired, of the United States navy, died
March 10 at his residence. 80 West
Thlrty-fOurth street. New York city.
His illness was the result of shock
from an accident which befell him
several weeks ago. Commodore Whit
ing was blind. He began to lose his
the navy. AS the result Of an eXamin-
atom of his eyes he was retired Octo-
Der II, 1881. In moving about the
city he was generally accompanied by
his wife, who acted as his GUIDE. The
couple were familiar objects to the
residents of Thirtyfourth street,
where. every day when the weather
was fine, they enjoyed the fresh air.
The commodore attempted to cross
Broadway at Thirty-fOurth street one
blustery day in January. His wife
was by his side as usual, keeping a
sharp lookout that no passing car or
carriage should run them down. The
cable cars were most to be dreaded,
and both tracks were crossed in safe
ty. Just as they stepped from behind
a passing car a gust of wind whipped
Mrs. Writings veil across her eyes,
temporarily obstructing her sight At
that instant a cab dashed upon them.
The driver, in his effort to stop his
horse, drew the animal back on it's
launcheS. The frantic attempt proved
n vain. Commodore Whiting was |
thrown to the pavement with sufficient |
sorce to break his hip bone His wife |
vas also knocked down, but fortu-
lately escaped with few bruises. The
injuries were complicated
With Bright's disease and he had not
'ufficient strength to combat the two.
Commodore William Danforth Whit
ne was born in Boston May 81, 1923.
lie entered the navy as a midshipman
1arch 1, 1871, and served in the sloop
4eVant 1867, at the capture of Mon
Grey, Cal, when the American flag
vas first hoisted on that shore, July
1916. He attended the naval academy
1 1878, was graduated and became
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-12
FOREIGN.

A new Panama Canal company is
being organized in Paris.
Peru is in the hands of two presi
dents and a dictator.
Prof Brown-Sequard, the distin
guished physician, died in Paris.
A bomb was exploded in a restaur-
ant in Paris near the senate chamber
injuring two persons. The dynamite1
is captured.
S. n. Parent was elected mayor of
Quebec by II votes in a council com
posed Of 80 members.
The pope has had a fainting spell
which lasted half an hour. His re
covery was complete, however, and he
showed no signs of weakness there
after.
The British house of commons de-
clared in favor of the establishment
of a Scottish parliament to deal with
purely local measures.
Because students suspected of nj
hiliSm were expelled from the univer-
sity at Warsaw, Russia, their com
paniOnS started a riot and the uniyer-
sity has been closed by the police.
The English liberals won another
parliamentary victory in the contest
for representative for the North or
Winsbeech division of Cambridgeshire.
The result of the poll was as follows:
A. Brand, liberal, 1853. Mr.. Sack
vile, conservative, 1927. Liberal ma
jority, 1876.
G. A. Delgado consul of Costa Rica
in New York city, has received cable
advices that the recent election in
Costa Rica, which took place, was
perfectly peaceful, and resulted in the
election as president of Senior Yglesias,
the present secretary of state.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-12
A POOR MANS LIFE INSURANCE.

Pittsburg DiSpatch:-Life insurance
companies report that the late Louis
Morris of Oil City, who was drowned
early in the week at Mayville, had the
largest insurance ever carried by a
man of his means. The amount now
known exceeds S205, 900. Morris was
man of great physical strength and
size, active and self-reliant. In early
manhood he entered the merchant
marine service, and in the course Of
his experience had been a resident of
Rome, was a boatnan on the River
Nile, and for fifteen years was a sailor
before the mast. 1t was his boast that
he had no peer in swimming. One
story of his prOwesS that he was fond
of relating was repeated yesterday. In
Rio Janeiro Bay Morris had committed
breach of discipline. He went over
the ships side, dressed in sailors
clothing, and struck out for shore,
three miles away. He was missed
from the ship, and a boat containing
a crew of foJn. Portuguese sailors was
sent in pursuit. He had the start of
them, but they gained on him so rap
idly that he changed his course and
headed for ship that lay half mile
from that from which he had taken his
unceremonious leave. He reached the
ship and chung to the rudder until the
crew passed aud returned to their own
ship to report him drowned He then
continued his swim to shore more
leisrrely.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-12

After the Ball, Ben Miller was prob
ably fatally stabbed by William
Dierkes, a Quincy, Ill, saloonkeeper.
Non-union dyers in Paterson, n. J.,
were waylaid and badly beaten by
armed strikers.
Augusta Schmidt was found guilty
Of killing Oscar Walton in Kokomo,
Ind, and sentenced to term of ten
years in the penitentiary.
Mrs. Kate Speaker, who shot her
lover. Alexander Kirchner, last June
in Brooklyn, has pleaded guilty of
manslaughter in the first degree.
Burglars attempted to rob the store
of George Weirick at Palestine, Ind.
He killed two of them and wounded
a third.
Damaging evidence was given
against Mrs Bennett, on trial for the
murder Of Anna Weise, at MARSHALL
town. Iowa.
Holland English was taken IN
the jail at Bakersville, \. u, and
hanged by a mob for the murder of
his wife.
Fatal election riots occurred in Chi
cago and Kansas City, the war be-
, tween Catholics and the a. 2. A. be
ing the cause of trouble in the latter
city.
Union grain shovelers at Buffalo
won a fight with Italians and Poles
in which many Of the latter were
seriously injured.
r. McManus, at Livingston, Mont.
shot and killed his wife and then cut
| his own throat with a razor, both
dying The couple had not lived hap
PLY together.
More indictments were found against
ex-President Kortgaard, of the State
bank, Minneapolis, charging him with
stealing large amounts.
Wife murderer Robinson, who was
sentenced to be hanged a few weeks
ago, is dying in jail in New Bedford
Mass. He is subsisting entirely on
milk.
An innocent man, it is found, is serv-
ing a life sentence in the Montana
penitentiary for murder. The man
supposed to have been murdered is on
his way from South Dakota to secure
the release of the convict.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-12
ODDS AND ENDS.

The Iowa legislature killed the LIQUOR
manufacturing bill.
Corbett will demand Jackson's S1O,-
600 as a forfeit if the negro refuses to
fight in America.
Captain Arson refused to trade any
of his men for Pitcher Stratton, of the
Louisville baseball club.
Coxey's army marched from Sewick-
ley to Allegheny City, Pa, where it
was received by 100000 people and
loudly cheered.
Over 5000 Chicago painters have
been locked out by their employers
because Of demand for higher wages
and threatened strike.
The Atlantic and Danville railroad
was sold in Norfolk, Va, under order
of the United States court, for S1,1O5,-
600 to B. Newgass and associates.
Secretary Gerard, of the Illinois
board of agriculture and Editor Glen
DENIM, of the State Register, came
to blows while discussing politics in
Springfield
fed to copying letters sent to the
plaintiff by Colonel Breckenridge. The
prosecution announced a new line of
attack for Wednesday.
A match game Of pool was played
at Havana between Manning and De
Orc. The game was won by Manning
by a score of $50 to 1874. The game
abounded in brilliant plays.
The three principal cold storage
companies of Chicago-the Western
Retrlgerating company, the Produce
Cold Storage company and the Union
Cold Storage and Warehouse company
have been consolidated into one con-
Germ, known as the Western Union
Cold Storage company. The capital
stock Of the new company is $500, 900. |
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-12

In the house Of commons the bill to
carry out the provisions of the Bering
sea treaty was passed.
President Cleveland is quoted as be-
ing favorable to change in the cur
rency laws at this session of congress.
Rev. George W. Patrick, an \. P. A
enthusiast of Kaukauna, Wis, was
fined for using abusive language.
Arbitrators have dismissed the case
against the Burlington for alleged
cutting of passenger rates to scalpers
Governor Tillman has issued a pro-
lamation announcing that the South
Carolina instruction is at an end.
Lasker adopted the French defense
in the eighth of the chess games.
which was adjourned after forty-siN
moves.
Col Breckenridge formally closed
his defense in the Pollard case. The
rebuttal testimony was very damaging
to him.
Judge CaldwelFs decision in the
Union Pacific wage conference at
Omaha favors the employees at every
point.
General Frye's army of common
wealers is stranded in East st. Louis,
the railroads refusing to furnish free
transportation.
Impeachment proceedings have been
commenced against Judge Talley, of
Alabama, charging him with failure
to prevent a murder.
Coxey's army fought its way out of
Allegheny City, Pa, and marched to
Homestead where it camped in an
icehouse. 1t now numbers 600 men,
Wisconsin's new law, now effective.
abolishes the customary three days
grace on notes. Commercial paper
must be met on the day it falls due
Mrs. Sarah Norris, of Indiana.
whose husband and child were MUIR
dered by Indians, has sued them
through the United States government
for $4,000
Secretary Hoke Smiths nephew is
charged with being employed by cat
tie men to secure postponement or de-
feat of the Kiowa treaty.
Father James A Walter, the best
known clergyman in Washington,
dropped dead while preparing to an
swer a sick CALL
Loren A. Thurston, Hawaiian minis
ter to the United Sta tes, and Miss
Harriet Potter were married at ST..
Joseph, Mich
By decision Of the League of
American Wheelmen racing board
there will be no distinction between
classes A and B in road contests.
Baseball games resulted: University
OF pennsylvania II, Philadelphians S.;
Princetons Z, Columbus f; Bostons 16.
Brown Universitys 4; New Yorks 9.
Murray Hills 0; Brooklyns "A, St
Johns 6.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-12
MAKE A BATH ROOM CHEERFUL
1t Should Be Attractive and Not a
Gloomy Hole.

Perhaps it is because cleanliness is
next to gOdliness that it is made in
some houses as unatuactive as re-
Hglon is in some churches. The bath
room is frequently a dark, chilly look
ing place, which in itself is enough
to inculcate a hatred of additions, and
quite often it is a stOre-roOm for odds
and ends that add further to it's IN
inviting appearance.
! The papering is usually dingy and
the tub one of those discOlored zinc
affairs which no amount Of scrubbing
can make bright. The clothes-hamper
is frequently idless and there is some
times a dilapidated chest Of drawers.
on the top Of which ancient books are
piled, which materially help on the
gloomy appearance of the place.
That chest Of drawers is not neces-
sarily an evil. In one Of the drawers
can always be stored piles of clean
towels and wash-rags The box of
almond meal and the cakes of soap
which have not yet been removed
from their wrappings, an extra bot
tie or two of toothpowder and other
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-12
WASHINGTON.

By a vote of s to the house COM
mittee on banking and currency de-
cided to report in favor of subject
ing greenbacks to state and municipal
taxation.
Representative Caminetti, of Cali
fornia, introduced a resolution for the
holding of a conference of nations Of
the western hemisphere to draft
treaties looking to reconciliation of
silver.
The board of directors of the Cen
trail Pacific railroad company has
elected Isaac L. Pequa to fill the po-
sition of president made vacant by
the resignat ton of Mr.. Huntington.
The navy department is making an
effort to recover the plate OF the
wrecked Kearsarge, which are sup
posed to have been carried to New
Providence or Kingston, Jamaica, by
the native wreckers. At the instance
of Acting Secretary McAdOo the
state department has cabled the
United States consul at Kingston to
endeavor to recover these things as
historical relics of the famous old
ship.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-12

passed midshipman August IN 1sa7
ne was promoted to master May /.
1919, ana TO lieutenant September Il
1919, ana was attached to the steam
II igate Niagara when the first Allan
tic cable was laid in 1857. On tho
outbreak of the civil war he was tho
executive Of the Sloop VandaHa and
did notable service at the caDture of
Port Royal in 1861. He commanded
the steamer Wyandotte on the South
Atlantic blockade and on the Potomac
tfotilla. Lieutenant Whiting was pro-
NOTED to lieutenant commander Julv
10, 1867, and in the gunboat Ottawa
participated in the attacks on the
defenses of Charleston. engaged Bat
terry Gregg and Fort Wagner. and as
sisted in the capture of the lower end
OF Morris island in 1864 In 1865
ne commanded the Savannah in the
eastern gulf station. He was com
mlssloned a commander July %. 1866.
and commanded the steam sloop Wor-
ceSter, flagship of the North Atlantic
squadron. in 1878.
IN the first year of that cruise he
took out contributions of food and
clothing from the American people for
the relief of the French sufferers in
the FrancO-Prussian war. He was
present at New Orleans during the
political excitement owing to the over
throw of the Packard government.
and won the confidence of the citizens
by wise measures contributing to al
lay the excitement On Julie IL. 1873
he was appointed chief of bureau
OF navigation and office of detail,
with the rank of commodore. Failing
health and almost total blindness, re
sultlng from exposure incidental to
the service, compelled him to be re-
heVed from this duty October II, 1881
from which date he was placed on
the retired list, with the rank of com.
modore by special act of congress,
Commodore Whiting was one of the
officers connected with Commodore
Perry's expedition to Japan, and was
the first officer in the fleet to set foot
on Japanese soil. In 1879, two wears
before his retirement, he proposed a
plan for the reorganization of the
navy which provoked considerable dis
cussion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-12
MISCELLANEOUS MISHAPS.

By an unexplained explosion the
house of Joseph Kallas in Oil City
Pa, was demolished. Kallas. his
wife and three children were killed.
-Four children of Frank Bilski, an
Indiana farmer, were poisoned by
eating poke roots. One has died and
the others are in a critical condition.
While fighting imaginary thieves in
his sleep Elmer Mitchell, of Crosby,
Texas, seized a revolver and killed
his roommate.
While trying to force a passage
through the straits Of Mackinac the
steamer Minneapolis, loaded with 49,
SIT bushels of wheat, went down.
BY the explosion of a lamp in the
house of Edward Price at Calumet
Pit, Ind, three children were burned
to death and the house destroyed
A boiler exploded in Monroe county,
KY, instantly killing Alexander Ritter,
owner of a saw-mill, and two brothers
named Fowler. Two or three other
persons were seriously injured.
Marvin Smith, 80, negro war vet
cram of Willimantic, Ct, was struck
by an express train on the Providence
division while sleeping on the track
He died three hours later
The Hotel Belvidere at Montrose,
Cal, was burned to the ground, build
ing and contents being a total loss
The loss is fully 100000; insurance,
$4,000. Adjoining buildings were
saved with difficulty. All the inmates
escaped in safety.
The breaker at Park colliery, No. 2,
situated at Park place, Ashland. Pa,
and operated by Lentz, Lilly & Co.,
was destroyed by fire The breaker
employed 700 men and boys The loss
is S150,OOO, partly covered by insur-
ance.
Two great copper scales filled with
wheat fell through the ninth floor of
the Chicago dock company's ware
house in Chicago. The mass stopped
at the sixth floor, but not before
Thomas Keller and Peter Thompson
were killed. Many others had narrow
escapes.
Fire at Frankfort destroyed the
upper portion of a house, formerly
the Britannia hotel, near the central
station. During the panic which fol-
lowed the discovery that the building
was on tire, number of inmates
jumped from the windows. Three of
them were killed and several severely
injured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-12
NATE FIELDS POSITION
She lens OF Her Troubles With
Bottle of Iowa Brandy.

L have never cared TO diScuSs nrn
hibition publicly, because in so dninq
hho" should antagonize many good
men and women. Hence this arg,,-
ment against it is an unpleasant s,r-
prise to myself. 1t is the uneynactad
result of buying half a pint of al
legged brandy in the prohibition state
OF Iowa." said Kate Field in an adj
dress at Washington "Being there
on lecturing tour several wears ago
L needed to fill my flask with the only
medicine with which I travel. and
bought half a pint of what was called
the very best California brandy. 7
paid at the rate of So a bottle. On
tasting it | felt as though l had swal-
lowed a torchlight procession. Care
fully preserving this poison. [ had il
analysed on my return to Washington
ana was told by an expert that it
was made up of fusil oil and spirits
OF wine, with not one drop of grape
juice
"A reporter happened to call on me
about that time, and in my indigna
tlon L told this story, which he turned
to professional account Certain pro-
hlb1honists rose in their might to de-
nounce me, arguing that if I knew
Iowa brandy to be vile stuff [ must
drink it and if I drank it I was not
a proper person to lecture for them
on any subject
An agent wrote that this remark
was being widely circulated, that it
would injure me professionally and
that L ought to contradict it. I replied
by reiterating my previous statement,
adding that for prohibitionists to take
me to task for buying brandy-me
whose perennial beverage is hot water
was as impertinent as it was lu-
dlcrous. Later I read that I was not
only addicted to strong drink, but
that [ chewed tobacco. This outrage
converted me from Indifference to in
vestigation.''
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-12

According to Edward Box the lead
ing magazines, particularly Harper's
and The Century, will not admit to
their columns any story, essay or other
article containing references to wine
drinking, says the New York World.
Edward will observe that Harper's has
made notable exception to this rule
in the case Of Du Maurier's remark
ably clever and interesting story
"Trilby," now in course Of publication
serially. Various persons Of that
Latin Quarter drama get befuddled
with pleasing regularity, and sing bac-
chanalian songs as they lie reclining
on doorsteps unable to discover the
keyhole. Further, according to Mr..
Box, at a dinner in New York where
twenty-five magazine men We're pres
ent only two had their wine glasses re-
filled and more than one-third turned
their glasses down
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-12
THE IDEAL KITCHEN
Some of the Things Which Contribute
to Make It Such.

CheerfulnesS and cleanliness are he
TWO great requisites for the ideal
Kitchen, and that woman is wise who
even though she may not do hel. own
cooking, sees to it that the room in
which it is done, is a bright, pleasant
place, the very look of which will do
a great deal toward keeping the affec-
ton of the cook, since it is too often
the only place which the latter has
IN Which to receive her friends. If
one cannot afford to have tiled walls.
good substitute is oilcloth in blue and
white squares, put on with it's width
for the width of the dado, a small
pine moulding separating it from the
washable paper which covers the wall
above. Every ideal kitchen should
nave, too. vegetab BILE table sink which
should be Of white enameled iron. In
it vegetables should be washed and
prepared, and never by any chance
should it be used for the ordinary sink
purposes. Before both of the sinks a
gOod-sized cork mat should be placed
to save the floor a periodical deluge.
A kitchen safe with glass doors, and
bright kitchen china to hang from it's
hooks and pile on it's shelves, will
reconcile maid to various little in
in her position. The
homely kitchen utensils should BE-
neatly arranged in closets where they
need not offend her eyes after her
days work is over. A window shelf
Of flowers, dainty, easily washed cur
tains, and rush bottomed rocker and
a bright carpet mat will finish the ap-
Of quite cheerful little
room.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-12
A GAME FOR BEDTIME.
A Quiet Way for the Children to In
dulge Their Love of Fun.

Mock hide-and-seek is a quiet bed
time game that mothers will be glad
to have their children substitute for
the usual boisterous romp. It is
played in this way: The one who is
to hide thinks Of some good place, then
when she says ready" the other
guesses where she is Next the one
who hid is the one to do the find
ing or guessing, and so they quietly
play from half hour to an hour at
time, each one alternately doing the
hiding, which is in reality much more
fun than actual hiding, for more places
can be utilized in Imagination than in
reality.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-12
THE GORILLA TONGUE

Prof Gamers acquisition of knowl-
edge concerning the tongue spoken by
the gOrillaS does not seem to be very
large, according to the reports in the
daily papers; but then it should be re-
membered that Mr.. Garner is cautious.
and is aVOWedly saving his most yalu-
able information for magazine articles
and general treatises on monkey Ian
guage, which he will issue in a few
months, says the New York Sun. 1t is
believed that he told only half of the
story to the reporters when he said
that he had learned a few sounds Of
the gorilla dialect. He knew a num-
Der OF sounds before his last expert
ments were made, which were intelli-
gible to the monkeys. He could, for
instance, go to a cage of monkeys and
utter series Of apparently blasphe-
nous consonants which evidently
meant, in the language of the mon
keys, that it was raining. Upon
hearing the sounds the monkeys would
all rush chattering to the window,
and look up at the sky. When they
found that it was not raining they
would rush back to the dark end of
the cage, and abuse the professor in
a way that was unmistakable even to
people who had no knowledge of
monkey dialect 1t can easily be I'M
derstood that Prof. Gamers theory
that there are various dialects in
monkeydom complexities the case. Any
VIII ho1 ct, iO1 oh,
language and who should hear the
conversation Of Virginia planter, and
then suddenly encounter a genuine
Ybrkshireman, would have very good
reason to doubt whether the Virginian
and the Yorkshireman spoke the same
language.