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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-02
KILLED BY ELECTRICITY.
A 100000 Blaze at Fort Wayne, IND
Yesterday.

Fort Wayne, Ind, July 30-Bows
er's oil tank and Novelty WORKS were
destroyed by fire last evening. Loss
about 100000 Frank Wagnor. g Ia
borer, came in contact with a live
electric wire during the fire and was
instantly killed. The origin OF the fire
is unknown.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-02
CHANGE PASTORS.
Rev. W. B Gullis Succeeds Rev DIR.
Spencer

Racine, Wis, July 2S.-The Rev. DR..
Spencer, pastor of the First Baptist
church, who has been i'll at Atlantic
City, \. j., has resigned. Ipe tesigna-
tons was accepted at a meeung Of the
deacons Thursday night. ". B. Cullis.
the evangelist. who is now filing the
pulpit, will continue to occupy it for
the persent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-02
QUARREL OVER RENT.
J. H. Smith Murders J. Kirkenbaugh
at Farmer City.

Bloomington, ILL.,, July go Yesterday
at Farmer City, James Kirkenbaugh
was shot and killed by J. H. Smith. an
old and prominent citizen. The kill
ing was the result of a quarrel about
rent which Smith claimed Kirken-
baugh owed him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-02
STEAMSHIP SINKS.

London, July 2S.-The first act Of
war between Japan and China oc-
CURED Tuesday, when the Japanese
sunk the steamship Cow Shung. One
thousand Chinese soldiers are believed
to be drowned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-02

Ashland, Wis, July 30.-At Mason
the houses of the town proper are still
standing, but the loss will reach $780,
600 Trains on the Omaha ale headed
off at Mason by burning bridges and
all north-bound trains returned to
Spooner. Briefly summarized the fire
burned as follows: City Of Phillips, Ell
tirely burned out; Mason practically
destroyed, with the White river luIn-
Der company's 100000 feet of lum-
Der; headquarters of the Ashland lum-
Der company near Shores spring en-
tirely wiped out; a special train on
the Omaha consisting of sixteen cars
and a locomotive all burned, having
broken through a bridge near Ashland
Junction; camps of the Thompson
lumber company burned at White
River; two bridges on the main line
of the Omaha railroad, and two bridges
on the Wisconsin Central railroad,
both on the main line south Of Ash
land, burned.
Besides the above, the damage to
timber and logs scattered through the
NOodS, " 1uNllN luIStI anu Sb4AIh
property, to cut cord wood, ETC., will
swell the general damage to appalling
figures.
Several parties of berry pickers from
Ashland narrowly escaped with their
lives and it is almost certain some lone
homesteaders scattered through the
burning timber persisted in the flames
unless they in some manner escape5
through the suffocating flames ant
smoke Refugees have begun to arrive
at Ashland.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-02
HENDERSON RENOMINATE1,
An Iowa Man Who May Go Rack to
Congress.

Waterloo, Ia, July 27.-Col. T n.
Henderson, OF Dubuque was re-nomt-
mated for congress by reclamation at
the republican convention Of the third
district here yesterday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-02
WELLMAN NOT LOST
A NORWEGIAN SEALER BRINGS
THE GOOD NEWS.
THE ERLING SPEAKS TO THE
RAGNANALD JARL.

An Aruc Enthusiast Receives a Cheer
ing Telegram from the Captain of
the Erling-Wellman and Party
Must Now Be Near the North
Pole.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-02

William Holz, aged s years was
drowned IN the rl'er at Sheboygan
while bathing. His body was racov-
cred.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-02

New York Recorder: The prospect
for free sugar and free iron and coal
is dubious, but the outlook for free
fight is first-class.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-02
TRACK RECORD BROKEN.

Cleveland, July 2S-At Chenille to-
day the track record for PAGERS was
broken by Robert j, in 2:O5 81.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-02
DIRE DESTITUTIoN.
DESTROYED BY FIRE.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN FLEE TO
THE WOODS.

Phillips, a Town OF 1000 Inhabitants,
Wiped Out Of EXiStence-Shores
Crossing Totally Destroyed-Fifield
Probably Burning-F'reight Train
Devoured By the Flames.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-02
IN FOREIGN LANDS
GERMAN NEWSPAPERS DISCUSS
THE COREAN TROUBLE.
ANARCHISTS STILL CONTINUE
TO BOYCOTT BEER.

Eleven New Cases of Cholera the Past
Week-Germany Watching Tariff
Legislation in the United States
Emperor William Having Gay
Time-Deaths in China.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-02
THE BADGER BUDGET
WISCONSIN NEWS CONDENSED
FOR BUSY READERS.
DROWNINGS REPORTED FROM
MANY QUARTERS.

Especially Sad Tragedy at Green Lake
Harry Bell, Green Bay Boy.
Shot in the Abdomen-Mark Bar
mum Speaks on the ZoldoSki Case
Other News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-02

st. Paul, Mimi, July 2S.-Reports
from Ashland say forest fires have de
stroyed Phillips and Shores Crossing
and now threaten Fitield. Mason,
small town on the Omaha road is
now on fire. At last reports the White
River lumber company mills with for
~ million feet of lumber were burned.
Several railroad bridges have been
destroyed. The Omaha freight train
was ditched near Shores Crossing.
The engineer and fireman We're injur
ed. The brakeman is missing. The
loss at Mason is over ambition dollars.
A freight train with a cabooSe has
just arrived from Mason and the worst
reports of the fire there are confirmed.
The town is literally wiped out Of
existence. The fire started In the lum-
Der yard of the White River lumber
company from sparks from forest fires
and though hundreds of employees
worked nobly III defense OF their homes
the resistless flames swept through the
town.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-02
EIGHTEEN LIVES LOST.

Milwaukee, July 30.-A Phillips dis
patch to General Manager Whitcomb,
of the Central lines, yesterday after
noon says:
Seventeen persons are reported
drowned in trying to cross the lake in
boats. portion of the drowned are
children. One body has been found
in the burned district"
GOVERNOR APPEALED TO.
Gov. Peck received a telegram yes
terday from Clarence Snyder, of the
state board Of control, at Phillips. The
telegram stated that over 1000 per-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-02
OSHKOSH'S BIG BLAZE.

Oshkosh, Wis, July 30.-The lumber
district on the east side of the river
was threatened with total destruction
by fire Saturday afternoon. A strong
wind was blowing which started sew
eral new fires with burning ,cinders
Fortunately these were extinguished
The fire consumed about six million
feet of dry lumber and five tenement
houses. The Stanhelber and Amos
companv's loss is $4,000; fully insur-
ed. The Diamond Match Co.'S loss
$4,000; partially insured.
Chippewa Fails, Wis, guly 31.-This
city was filed with dense smoke all
yesterday afternoon frem forest fires
which are destroying timber in all di-
rectiOnS. Citizens were much concern
ed and the fire department. was called
out and kept close watch on the out
skirts. A number of people who have
arrived here from Phillips, tell fear
full stories of the disaster which over
took that town.
THE DANGER is PAST.
st. Paul, Mimi, July 31.-At the gen
eral offices of lines in the Wisconsin
forest fire district, it is reported that
the danger is past and fires are sub
dued to q point where they will not
cause any further damage.
NO TRAINS FOR THREE DAYS.
Washbuln, Wis, July 31.-Fires in
this vicinity are now under control,
but no trains viii run on this division
Of the Omaha for at least three days,
owing to burned bridges.
EAU CLAIRE ALARMED.
Eau Claire, Wis, July 31.-Consid-
cradle alarm existed here last night in
consequence Of the proximity Of for
est fires. Dense smoke filled the city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-02

Ashland, Wis, July 25.-Forest fires
are producing great suffering and loss
throughout this vicinity and railroad
companies never before experienced
such damage from fires. On the Wis
consin Central railroad it is impossible
to move trains. Phillips a manufac-
turing town Of 2 900 people was totally
destroyed by fire and only a few
buildings remain standing. A dispatch
received from Fiield, a few miles this
side of Phillips, says five hundred wo-
men and children from Phillips are
IN the woods there without shelter A
request for food and supplies was
made as the supply at Fifield is very
short Communication with Fifield
is now shut off and it is feared that
town is also on fire. Shores Crossing,
eight miles west, was destroyed Fri
day afternoon. Not building remains
standing and the homeless families
were brought to Ashland. Railroad
bridges near there were destroyed and
this afternoon the fast Omaha freight
and sixteen loaded cars were entirely
burned. Both the engineer and fire
man were injured and the brakeman
rs missing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-02

Grand Rapids, Wis, July 2S.-EXten-
sive fires are burning in the woods and
marshes north and west OF here. The
fire is very near the city of Cenualia
A great volume of smoke is rising on
a heavy wind. Thermometers indicat-
ed as high as 106 degrees in the shade
yesterday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-02
ARRIVED JUST IN TINE.

Medford. Wis. July 2S.-What is
known as PowelPs mills, eight miles
west sent word asking for assistance
ON account of forest fires. A hand en-
gIne and 100 men went to the rescue
and arrived none too soon to save the
mill, and residents for the time being.
Small farmers in the vicinity have
moved their families and what little
they could gather on 4 wagon and
came to the mill site. For two hours
yesterday afternoon $50 men, women
and children were confined on five
acres of ground surrounded by seeth-
ing mass of flames. 1t was & case of
pump or take to the mill pond. Live
stock lyinS by the side Of the road
was burned to a crisp. Great fears
ERE entertained for a dozen farmers
who live northeast of pcweII's mills
whose one road or exit is surrounded
by fire Word was received here that
six families between Chelsea and Rib
Lake were burned out. The Wiscon-
sin Central mail train which arrived
here six hours late stopped here as
the railroad bridge between here and
Chelsea is burned.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-10-28
A Voice From Germany.
MONoNGAH, WEST VIRGINIA, !
October der 20.

FdfFmont Ipdsr.
MoNoNGAH, WEST VIRGINIA,
October der 20.
Mr.. EDITooR:-I haf been in dish
coundry more as 20 years unit haf al
ways voted dot RepoobIican dicket, but
Got in himmel nose l don't vote
no more ASH dot. Who vas der reasons?
Yoost listen. l oIblain, ven
come py dis coundry l leaf in New
York. Mire frendt, Carl Schmidt.
he say Schneider, you vote dot RepOo6-
lien dicket, you know dot Ingland how
she suffer NIT free trade. Vel, oos Re-
pooblicans vote America, not oder
coundries." He make me so full Of
scared ium dot DemokratiCk barty dot
vote RapoobIican all der dime. He
shpeak nit me OF Lincun, Grandt undt
all dose statesmen, dot get tam
obinon of dot Dimokral - barty.
tfnk py mineself "Got b.. Himmel,
der Dimokrats vas try 10 kill dis
coundry." Aboudt two weeks over,
hear one DImokratkick speech.
Dot shheaKer lock yoost as goot as Re
pooblican shpeaker. He talks yoost as
goot, only tam side gooter. He don't
talk aboudt statesmen vot vas deadt,
but he shpeak aboudt vot der peoples
need and want, ant asked der peoples 10
look out ant see der good evect Of dot
wilson Bill. haf bin vatchin, ant Mr..
Editoor, was alretty see dose bedder
dimes. Yacht me ant see dot der Dim
okratick bartv vas carry out vOt she
say she do, SO l call may wife, "Ka-
trina" ant say, katrina, l vas now one
Dimokrat; your Heinrich votes dis
dime for one life barty, and not for
some statesman vot vas dead" My
wife she plow her nose on her akron ant
oxclaim, Bully poy," ant den We boiler
Murray" dree dimes toogedder.
Mr.. Editoor, l am gladt vas turned
aroundt, and l feel like Bismarck saidt:
"better late den never"
MIR. Editoor, / make application right
away to carey der biggest banner vot
will be in dot celepration parade after
Novem Der g.
Yours Respectfully,
HEINRICH SCHNEIDER
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-10-28

York woman on the smoking subject
aud did more to remove the idea OF
odium from the cause than the proteSta-
tions o. thousand women less impor-
tant in society. Mrs. Hartman has al
ways been looked up to as charmingiy
domestic woman aud one OF whom II
has been written, mot even OF the
Four Hundred, but OF the Hundred and
Fifty"
Mrs Mary Nevins-Bull has q hand
some Oriental smoking room fitted up
with every detail conducive TO smoking.
Dr.. Bulls being professional home, he
does not want the cigarette all over It,
so Mr.. Bulls friends smoke here.
That's the worst about women smoE-
Ing" remarked . man about town yes
terday; they'd like TO begin in the cell
lar and end with the attic. They smoke
everywhere. a man never knows when
he may lay his hat 10 a pile OF
cigarette ashes, or when, II be
leaves his desk open for y
second, his papers msyn't be burned
by his wiie's lighted cigarette thrown
on them. Why, as 3 matter OF fact,
the other day swell woman looked
round her In a fit OF abstraction holding
her cigarette alooi, and finally knocked
the ashes of OIL the breast Of my over
coat"
The Aston family are avsrse to smok-
Ing, although It is wei known that Mrs.
William Astor's structures could not
prevent Mrs. Coleman DraytOn from
pursuing the habit The Moorish
smoking room at No. ga Fifth avenue
has seen more swell women initiated IN
the practice than possibly any other
apartment In town.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-10-28

Mrs. Professor Doremus has beauti-
full foot, which is q fitting counterpart
of her lovely hand, reproduced in marble
by famous European Sculptor.
One of the first things you notice
about the Marquise de Lama is her ex-
tremely pretty foot. 1t is exquisite in
outline, and Nine. Lama might well
take it as a subject in fame OF her
writings.
Mrs. Burke Roche and Mrs. Cooper
Hewitt both possess feet lovely enough
to inspire poets, They have exQuisitely
arCbed insteps.
Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt has a
short foot, but extremely pretty in out
line; the foot Of Mrs Arthur NJ. Dodge
is beautifully shaped, and Mrs. Paran
Stevens may justly be proud Of that
aristecratic little member which she
covers with such stylish slippers, boots
and ties.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-10-28

The desire among our aristocrats to
be spoken OF as the owners OF prettiIy
shaped feet has been increasing for the
last few years. When a woman realizes
that she eau wear an "a" shoe In width
or a one and half in length she then
begins 10 think about the contour OF her
foot and Immediately seeks TO remove
all blemishes that will disfgure II in
any way. She visits her particular
chiropodist as reigiously as her dentist
or manicure, and from him learns the
proper method OF preserving the beauty
and softness OF skin. Following out her
foot doctors orders infinitely and being
particular about the make and cut OF
her shoe, there is no reason why
the majority of women who have
time and leaSure should no be blessed
with as artistic pedal eXtremites
as those of Mrs Secretary Belknap,
whom they used TO say invariably at
tracted a gryup Of admirers, who gath
cred to gaze at her dainty and dimIy
clad feet whenever she stepped into her
carriage.
MANY OF our we'll known New York
society women can boast of extremely
aristocratic feet. Mrs. Z. Marcy Ray
mond, OF Fifth avenue, has noticeably
pretty foot, the artistic contour OF
which IS enhanced by the delicate soft
grays and ian suede she wears. Mrs.
Edwin Gould's foot is thoroughly char
actersstic OF the charming DISPOSE
ton Of its pretty owner, and Mrs.
Theodore Sutro's foot is always encased
in shoes that not only match each cos
tune, but fit to perfection at every
point The lines in Mrs. Sutro's foot
indicate q purely artistic and musical
nature, with high Intellectual endow-
ments.
MRS. LESLIE WEARS ZONES"
Mrs. Frank Leslie can be happy In
the knowledge that she is one Of the
few women whose boot number only
reaches to the height Of "one," and
whose width does not exceed that OF
child. The lines in this foot, as read by
an expert, denote great power, indi-
Gated by the noticeable rise of the big
toe, unusual executive ability, keen
intellect, charm OF manner, versatility
and high breeding.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-10-28
CHARACTER RBADNEEBT.
THEY ARE As CERTAIN INDICATORS OF PER-
SONALITY,
Artists Say as the Hands-How Fashion Dlsiors
Na.urs-b is Fad Now Among Society
Women 10 Fave Ihsir Feet Modelled BY
ScalptorS

1t is said by prominent artists and
we'll known chiropodists that truly
perfect foot, from an artistic stand
point, is as rare nowadays as blackbirds
10 May. When we remember the fam
Gus beauties of olden times, whose feet
we're tenderiy cared for and eXquisitely
shaped, this appears truly deplOrable.
There was no question in those art
loving days OF what kind Of shoes TO
buy so that ones foot would show of 10
the best advantage. Helen OF Troy, to
whose beautiful and Shapely foot son
nets innumerable were written, would
have been Mortified at the sight OF the
average modern foot, and would prob
ably have been thrown into commissions
70 hear the amount spent each week at
tho chir0UodiSt's.
That our women OF the better class
are paying more attention TO the care OF
the feet than formerly is an indiSputa-
BILE fact. A prominent society women
on her return from Paris several months
ago exhibited 10 a room full OF admir-
ing friends the sweetest, daintest little
plaster cast of foot, which, she de-
clared, was a counterpart Of her own,
made by a ptOr OF world wide fame.
She was at that moment having life
size one carved 10 marble 20 be mounted
on cerise velvet, and several small ones,
one-ha,f the size, struck of ia different
shades OF pale pink, blue and Old rose.
IL was quite a fad across the sea, so
she said, 10 have your foot photograph
ed as well as your hand or face-thsJ is,
II you we're lucky enough TO possess one
blessed with artistic curves aud out.
lines.
INDICATIVE OF CHARACTER.
The secret Of all this is that persons
are beginning 20 find out that sculptors
have known all along, namely, what a
foot is as much Indicative of personality
aud character as any other active mem
Der Of the human form, and after being
made aware of what delightful and
characteristic charms a graceful, poetic
foot indicates, the majority OF fashion
able women are supremacy anxious TO
preserve the model by statuary or pic
lures
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-10-28
TURKEYS on ORUToHEG
Kew a shasta Farmer treated HIS Sore
Legged GObblora

Kew shasta Farmer treated HIS Bors-
Legged Gobbiera
San FraHefseo call.
Captain Bridge, Of Shasta county. who
has an extensive reputation in that ais
trict as cultiyatOr OF hlgh-class poul
try. has developed a very PHILANTHROPY
spirit toward his wards.
Recently be noticed q peculiar did
ease spreading among the turkeys
exhibited Itself by q gradual swelling
the legs from the thigh,
tlme-honored and much-respected.
drum stick" 40 popular among young
sters about Thanksgiving time. 10
spread down the legs and In few days
the turkey unfortunate enough 90 DO
afflicted was unable 70 walk with that
proud aud naughty step so frequently
employed by this royal bird.
The captain found that By regular
bot water applications the swelling
could DO reduced, but this manner Of
treating was 20 slow that the patient
was compelled 20 lead life OF idleness,
much % his disgust. At times the cap
tain would have several Of his fattsst
birds in the hospital, and IL required
almost all OF his attention 20 give them
the hot water treatment. This state
affairs went on for some time, when hnl.
ally he was inspired TO Introduce LITTLE,
Yankee ingenuity into the flock. and,
being rather handy with bis pocket
knife, he fashioned a crude pair Of
crutcbes about seven inches IN
length, and secured them un-
der the turkeys wings. They
were Just = fraction longer than the
birds legs. and every time the rheu-
matte woaid take step forward The
crutches would DO brought into play,
and progress instead Of being torture.
was pleasure.
10 few hours the cripples be-
familiar with the new order OF
and were able 20 hobbls around
a. a more rapid RalL
Almost any tlms during damp
when the rheumatism Is on, one ca
half dozen turkeys on crutcbd
Captain BRIDGES farm. They are
Ing some new tricks Of late, nut
are not sufficiently expert % H.
light on the fence.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-10-28

August s, than it was when Brighton
started on July 9. From August to
October IS it has won $500, and the
early average had suffered. However,
as a scheme for beating the races for a
total Of s., $50, clear of all expenses, In
five months, it hasn't worked so badly. "
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-10-28
An unlnekY Nan.

SonsrUiIle Journal.
SchoeppenstedG 81 90 ink that
Bjenkins Is the most unluJ y man 1
ever knew
Mrs. ScAoeppenstedt: sis b b"
SchoepeAstedt: Eyes. WI II that
man should get 3 mascot l eve he'd
fall over Il and break his leg 3 before
be could 7at is home."