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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-02-22

peal. A boy with a wretched memory
for participles and irregular verbs may
be deft enough if saw and plane are
put into his hands, and a girl who at
first shows little talent in drawing may
develop a more valuable gift in design
ing new and pretty patterns. All of
this has a direct bearing on the prime
question of education, which is: How
can the most and best be made out Of
this particular boy or girl? When an
all-around test of faculty has brought
out the strong and weak points of a
child, there can be intelligent choice
of the life-work and preparation for
it, with cultivation. too, of that versa
tnty which is most desirable in this
day Of the constant -dispossession of
the handic1aft by the all-conuuerins
inventor. And where bread and butter
are no the chief consideration. the
more various the work a man or wo.
man can do the better and the fuller
of resource will be the life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-02-22
WELLEsLEY's LATE PRESIDENT.

The death of Miss Helen Shafer has
brought to the cause of education In
general and the education of women in.
particular an almost irreparable loss.
Immediately after receiving her degree
from Oberlin, Miss Shafer entered the
ranks of the teachers and up to the
time of her last illness all her heart
and soul We're in the work. In the
very beginning Of her career-aS head Of
the department of mathematics in the
st. Louis high school-Miss Shafer had
the good fortune to be associated with
Professor William T. Harris and other
wellknown educators and at 4 time
when great activity was displayed and
great advances were made in educa-
tiOnal thought and in the science of
pedagogy. AS president Of Wellesley
she not only displayed great executive
ability but h secured the Warmest
attachment from the students, upon
whom her influence was always most
healthful. She was admirably fitted
for her duties as president by natural
gifts, experience and training. She had.
known the college from the third year
of its existence. She was acquainted.
thoroughly with every phase of it's de-
velopment and with all the elements
which entered into its life. During her
administration the number Of students
increased from 62S to 757, and seventy
seven new courses of study were added
to the curriculum. Wood Cottage and
the Farnsworth Art School were.
opened to the college. Both In the gov
eminent of the college and in the de-
of the curriculum her aim
was to secure to students the ampless
freedom socially and from an educa-
tional standpoint. The new course OF
study accepted by the trustees last year
may be regarded as a special achieve
ment of her administration.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-02-22
FOREIGN FLASHES.

OntarlOs parliament was opened by
a colorless speech from the throne.
Da CANA, the Brazilian insurgent
admiral, received two wounds in battle.
All the officers and men of the
wrecked corvette Kearsage reached
Colon in good health.
The Turkish government released
two ArmenianS, American citizens. on
demand Of the United States minister.
There is nothing to confirm the re
ported laundering of the steamships
Augusta Victoria and OLDHAM.
On account of the ineficiency of her
crew the Brazilian dynamite cruiser
NictherOy returned to Pernambuco.
Judges at Prague find great difficulty
in trying the Omladina prisoners on
account of their demonstrations.
1t is reported from Berlin that the
Emperor William and the duke of
Cumberland have come to an under
standing in regard to the Brunswick
succession.
Threats to assaSsinate President
Carnot are contained in anarchist man
ifestos circulated in Paris and Algiers.
Payment of members Of parliament
and the abolition of rating qualifica-
tons are advocated by the British
liberal federation.
Servian reserves have been sum
moned for a three weeks drill. It is
believed a coup d'etat is being az
ranged for March 6.
A discharged waiter threw a bomb
in a Paris cafe, wounding fifteen peo-
pie. and afterward shot several peo-
pie, killing one. He says he did the
work to avenge the death Of Valiant.
Private letters from Yokohcma bring
news that GeneralPaymaster II. r..
Smith of the United States ship Con
cord was to be tried by a court-martial
January % for absence without leave
and conduct unbecOming an officer and
gentleman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-02-22
THE LATEST.

4 meeting Of the National TrOttlnS
association was held in New York.
Stark county. Ohio, has decided to
issue $4,000 bonds to aid the poor and
to complete the hospital.
G. L. Ricker's second attempt for an
injunction against Secretary Carlisle'S
issuing bonds was unsuccessful.
Two hundred delegates attended the
Iowa convention of the Young Mems
Christian association at Davenport.
Edward James, once partner of S. ?.
Rounds and ruined financially by the
great fire, died at his Chicago home.
Friends Of Knox College, at Gales
burg, Ill, celebrated the ffty-seventh
anniversary Of it's founding.
Cornerstone of the courthouse at
Monmouth. Ill. about which there has
been trouble, was finally laid.
Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, is i'm
proved in health and appeared upon
the streets of Hot Springs, Ark.
Colonel Clark refused to testify in
the roster case at GAINESVILLE, and de-
fed the court commissioner.
Ohio's senate passed a bill requiring
that all physicians must be examined
and providing a board for the purpose.
Conrad Burkhardt is in Jail at Chi
cago awaiting transportation to
LangenSelbold, Germany, to answer for
forgery.
Christopher Thilmant,l of Chicago,
who got his start twenty-five years
ago pegging shoes, leaves an estate
worth $15O,O0O
Labor chiefs requested Judge jenkins,
at Milwaukee, to modify his order re-
straining Northern Pacific employees
from striking.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-02-22
DEVELOP THE INDIVIDUAL.
Responsibility of Teachers for Dull
and Stupid Men and Women.

New York S~un-PreSident G.. Stanley
Hall of Clark university estimates that
in a visit of a few days to the country
a city child receives as much benefit
as in two terms at school. In his little
book on The Contents of Children's
Minds on Entering School" he cites
children who supposed that wool grew
on hens and hams grew on trees. while
from the accident in size pictorial illus
trations another child imagined a COW,
with it's hide, meat, horns and hoofs
to be nc bigger than a mouse. Thun-
der was taken to be God rolling bar
rels about, or having Goals run in.
Clearly any teacher who assumes that
his pupils know what they do not know
is building instruction on sand. In
the light of the new spirit of inquiry
abroad among the teachers of teachers
it begins to look az if the charge OF
stupidity that many, in time coming De
laid upon man or woman shall be
shifted to the shoulders of the edu-
Gator who. in the plastic pears Of
childhood, neglected to draw out DOR
mant faculty by the right kind of ap-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-02-22
y DUU = DL.>NLE.

The appetite enjoyed by a dog owned.
W John AnoN, Il WHII-hnoWn farIler
vi est AIaua Sunh, Is u matter OF
pride 10 Tile natives Of that suburb.
1t is a Newfoundland dog OF more than
average Intelligence auu rare digestive
powers. Yesterday he started his lunch
on Il . Of axle greaSe Then he eu-
tered the blacksmith shop of Samuel
StulSlS and ate with evident relish
two pounus OF putty. A visit To " euh-
erhiLIs grocery store yielded him three
pounds OF tallow candles, which he
With great greed. Needing
exercise after this, he ran over Q
Rgan's quarry, where his attention
was attracted TO a stick Of dynamite
that was being thaWed out near a
stove. Tile explosive seem 10 suit his
taste, and he promptly began to crunch
1t. a stampede OF the men followed.
They were afraid 10 kick the dog away
from his meal for fear OF an explosion,
so he ~leiSurely consumed the stick
and then Joined The frightened work
men, who for the rest of the day
treated him with marked consideration.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-02-22
MISCELLANEOUS MISHAPS.

Thirteen men were killed by being
buried in a Pennsylvania mine.
The mansion of l.. A. Lebaurgeais
was burned nea Hester, La, with q
loss Of $1,000
Robert Perry and his little sister
died at Galiopolis, Ohio, from eating
wild parsnip root.
Lewis Hunter, a brakeman, was
killed in a collision at T~exarkana, Ark.
-Four persons and fifteen dogs were
bitten at Napervile, ILL.,, by a rabid dog.
Gray wolves have killed a number of
sheep in the vicinity OF Blooming.
ton, LII.
While the county treasurer at Rock
Island, H., was at dinner burglars stole
S239 from his office.
james Douglas 3-year-old daughter
was fatally scalded by falling into u
tub Of boiling water at Elwood, Ind.
Several men were run down by a
train on a bridge at Eufala, Ala. John
Davis was killed and William Green
was fatally hurt.
Fire in the building occupied by the
Calumet Paper company and the Toy
and Fancy Goods company, Chicago,
did $4,000 damage.
Two locomotives and ten freight car
were wrecked by a cow On the Chicago
Il Alton track at CarlinvLlle. Fireman
Henry was seriously hurt.
one OF the dormitories Of the Indian
school at Rosebud agency, s. D.,
burned. Loss, $4,000. Several OF the
children narrowly escaped death.
Escaping steam from a burst pipe
filed the Kalamazoo House at Kalama-
ZOO, Mich, and caused a small panic
among the guests who thought there
was a fire.
A big tannery at the village Of Sand
bank, Oswego county, \. Y, was
burned, causing j loss OF 100000. II
was owned by Lane Bros. of Boston
and employed 100 men.
Over One-half of the business part Of
Genoa, o., was destroyed by fire. The
loss will be about 100000. Two sa-
looms, several shoe stores, n butch
shop, u tobacco store and many smaller
buildings, offices and residences were
destroyed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-02-22
ONE WISE MOTHER.
No Social Duties Allowed to Interfere
With the Care Of Her Children.

Washington Capital-A certain west
ern senator had two sons. little fellows
8 and IL years of age, when he came
to the capital two OF three years ago,
Their mother had devoted herself to
their education and pleasure almost ex-
clusively; but she found that the de-
mands Of society would not permit her
to give quite so much time to them. So
they We're sent to school, and often
they had to so to bed without the
pretty story.
One evening the mother noticed that
the older boy seemed unusually grave.
She was making preparations to go out
to dinner. He said:
Mamma, you are going out again %
yes, my dear; mamma has to go.
She dislikas to leave you so much, but
papa wants her. Go to bed, my dears,
and to sleep; you won't miss me then"
Mamma" said he, with all the gray
ity of a full-grown man taxed to the
limit of his patience. Mamma, how
much longer is this thing going to last?
What is to become of us if you neglect
us SOP"
The mother did not go out to dinner
that night. She stayed at home, told
and read stories to the boys and petted
them. The result was, and is still,
that the mother devOtes her Saturdays
to the Youngsters. They visit the art
gallery, the museum, the capitol, the
old houses and the 400"
Il enjoy it," she says, "as much as
they do
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-02-22

Miss Elizabeth Marter Dalzell,
of Pennsylvania, was married at Wash
ington, D. c., to George Dunn.
-Four boys, members of a London
~bellringers company, injured in the
Wabash wreck at Kingsbury, Ind, set
tied their claims against the railroad
at Peru. Ind, for $3.50.
Elmer Olmstead sued his. employer,
Richard Askin, at Columbus, Ind, for
$4,000 for false imprisonment. Ohm,
stead was charged with theft, and was
kept III Jail for thirty days and finally
discharged without trial.
The Santa Fee railroad rendered its
check for $5,53S.74 to Lyons county,
Kas., in full OF the first half years
taxes due. The county claims
$6,S40.95 with five per cent. penalty.
The legality Of the tax will be tested
in the courts.
The Hall signal company has just
received orders to put its system of
automatic electric blocks ON the Morris
and Essex division of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western railroad ON
which the recent terrible disaster took
place.
Police Commissioner Leonard r.
Welles of Brooklyn ordered the cap
tains Of precincts to make a census of
the unemployed of the city. Each
patrolman will be ordered to take the
census. The names and ages of all
those unemployed will be taken, and
the lists compiled by the captains.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-02-22
KILOGRAMS In BRIEF.
CAPITAL AND POLITICAL.

In a st. Louis street car collision
three women were mangled.
The lust in the streets Of Portland,
Ind, assays $3S in gold and $4S in sill
Yer per ton.
VIM. AshWorth, a London manufac-
turer, is under arrest for embezzling
100000.
The house Judiciary committee de-
cided to investigate Judge Jenkins for
his antistTike order.
Wilson's tariff bill will be modified
considerably, but not on Walker tariff
lines, by the senate committee.
Acting Governor Gill, ILL.,, appointed
S. II. Johnson and James Mcneil fish
wardens for CaSs and Lake counties,
respectively.
Young democrats of Wisconsin have
started a boom for Adjutant General
Otto II. Falk for governor.
Lincoln league clubs, in session at
indianapolis, praised the last and de-
pounced the present administration.
Senator Villas will defend Judge
Jenkins if the injunction matter comes
before the senate in any shape.
An attempt is being made to ecure
d modification of the Bering sea argu-
ment, which is unsatisfactory On both
sides.
Congressman Tawney Of Minnesota
introduced Il resolution i'll the house
which payes the way to an inquiry in
to the administration of pension laws.
President Cleveland and cabinet are
likely to make a tour of the lakes and
the twin cities next summer, on invi-
tation of James J. Hill and Cap. Nc
Dougall.
Senator and Mrs. Brice gave a dinner
party at Washington, d. c., to twenty
four guests, including Secretary Hoke
Smith, Speaker and Mrs. Crisp, and
the French ambassador.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-02-22

J~effersonyille, Ind, Feb. Johannes
b. Stone uled for his crime
on the sallowS III the prison
here at 12:uS this morning. The
sextuple murderer kept up an air OF
DraVado until the last
His spiritual adviser attempted to
bring him to Il realization of his near
approach to Judgment, but, in the
language OF b warden, he tried to
the last TO bluff God Almighty and
everybody else"
Stone walked to the galIows without
IA uremor and met his doom withour
4 word of GUS for his horrible crime
His neck was broken by the fall and
there was no movement of the body
after he passed through the trap.
The crime for which j.. h. or Bud"
Stone, was convicted was the pecu-
LARRY atrocious and bloody murder OF
Mrs. Elizabeth Wratten, her sou Deni-
son Mratten M his wife and three
children, at Washington, Ind, last
September.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-02-22
A VARIETY.
destroyed.

Coal has been discovered near Stay
ton, Mimi.
The trans-Mississippi congress was
held in San Francisco.
Capt. r. S. Van SAINT Of Winona was
chosen commander Of the Minnesota
G.. A. Il.
Dixon and Rockford, H., are to be
connected by an electric road, articles
for which have been filed.
Milwaukee lake front watchers
shouted for JOY when they found
twenty-five men at b crib hau
Weathered the storm.
Senator Amos Z. BoSford, 80 years
old, is at the point Of death at Moncton,
n. b.
North Dakota wool growers met at
Bismarck and protested against free
wool as contemplated by the tariff bill.
The national liberal federation
adopted strong resolutions against the
house of lords.
Flaws i'll the Bering sea agreement
are causing the United States and
England SOme concern.
The man who drove the white horse
on the night Dr.. Cronin was murdered
is said to be in Minneapolis.
Should Duluth fail to secur the Ma
tiOnal Teachers association the conYen-
ton will be held at Portland, Me.
Reports from all parts OF the coun-
try show the recent storm to be one
Of the worst OF recent years.
Dairymen of Wisconsin held their
twenty-second annual convention at
Neenah, presided over by Ex-Governor
Hoard.
Pioneer lawmakers Of Iowa held
their annual reunion at Des Moines.
All have been notable in the states
history.
In the master builders convention
at Boston, Mr.. Gindele said arbitration
had done away with strikes and lock,
outs in Chicago.
Retail grocers of Illinois ended their
convention at Peoria with a banquet.
G. A. Sehrer was elected president and
j. r. LangtOn SECRETARY.
There will be reported to the state
senate "A bill for greater New York
differing materially from the assembly
bill.
Agricultural implement dealers me-
and objected to the feature of the tar
Tiff bill making their wares free.
Earnings OF the New York Biscuit
company last year We're equal to AS
per cent. after deducting all charges.
Instead of receiving the dividend
they looked for, stockholders Of Linseed
Oil asked to subscribe to $3,0O0,00(
bonds.
The father and wife of r. w. Smith
who absconded from Kalamazoo, Mich.
have become insane.
Saloonkeepers at Piqua, O., have
been notified to keep all the doors Of
their places closed on Sunday.
Owing to the competition Of a Rock
ford firm, the price of bread at Mar
engo, ILL.,, has been reduced to 2 cents
a loaf.
The jury at Anderson, lnd., rendered
a verdict of $4,000 in favor Of the
plaintiffs in the celebrated Vermillior
case.
Annie Pixley Fulford's will was flee
In Philadelphia. Her husband is made
sole legatee in case he survive the
testatrix.
Because a juror was drunk during tht
first trial. the case of Cyrus Brown
wife murderer, was appealed to the
Indiana supreme court
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-02-22
THE DEAD.

Hans Won Bulow, the great pianist,
died in Egypt.
Sister Mary Albina Humwest died at
the Chicago pesthouse from smallpox,
contracted while nursing patients suf-
fering from the disease.
Mrs. Elizabeth Norris Carey died at
the Chicago residence of her daughter.
She was 20 years old,
Homer Ramsdell, a leading citizen of
Newburg, n. y, died in his SD year.
He was born at Warren, Mass, August
u, 1910.
Mrs. Myra Bradwell, the first wo-
nan to be admitted to the bar in the
United States, died in Chicago. She
was born in Vermont in 1881.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-02-22
MOVE TO MODIFY.
JUDGE JENKINS INJUNCTION
MAY BE ALTERED.
Motion by Employees to Strike out
Parts Restraining Employees from
Striking.

Milwaukee, Feb. 15.-Application
was made in the United States court
this afternoon by the employees of the
Northern Pacific road through the
union leaders for a modification of the
famous injunction issued by Judge
jenkins restraining the men from leay-
ing the employ Of the road as such
action would hinder the operation of
the road, and thus preventing the men
from striking.
Judge Jenkins set February 23rd for
a hearing Of the motion. 1t is moved
to strike out all that part of the in
junction issued December 10 and a
second supplement Injunction issued
December %, which restrained the en-
ployes from striking Or preparing to
strike.
The attorneys for the plaintiffs said
today thai the object of the motion
was to bring to a direct issue before
the court the question of whether the
courts can grant ~injunctiOns to restrain
the employees from striking. 1t will be
a test case and of vital importance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-02-22

examiner, who. with John Munsinger,
was indicted for his connection with
the alleged Matchmaking of Lucy Nc
Carthy, was arrested at New York.
He was made a prisoner in the office
of his lawyer, D. Frank Ford, at
10 Broadway, on a bench warrant,
charging him with grand larceny.
Later he was released on giving
$4,000.
In the trial of John Y. McKane at
Brooklyn, after the testimony had all
been taken, Justice Bartlett announced
that he would give the prosecution four
hours to present their case to the jury
and then the defense four hours. He
charged the jury. After a recess ex-
Judge Troy began summing UP for the
defense. Conviction followed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-02-22
SPORTING.

Jim Hart is in California looking
about for training quarters for his
team of Chicago baseball players.
Thatcher defeated Capron in the
shorts top billiard tourney. He made
200 while the Canadian was piling $50.
Dan Creedon has decided to accept
Brooklyn Jimmy" Carrolls challenge,
now that FitZsimmons declines to no
tice him, if Carroll posts the proper for
felt.
John Collins. section foreman at
What Cheer, Iowa, says he is prepared
10 meet any man in his state at his
weight Q37 pounds) and age (62 years.
for $500 to $1,000, with Queensberry
rules to govern.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-02-22
BOSTON OLDEST CLUB.
Famous Men Who Have Been It's
Members and It's Guests.

Boston Traveller:-The Mercantile
Library association was formed at a
meeting Of merchants clerks and others
on March II, 1920. The better in
~tellectual and moral condition of young
men was the object of the gathering
at this time. A curious rule regarding
the election of officers was that "cre
of the directors should be n the CHI
ploy of a dry goods merchant. The
library was formally opened in Mer-
chants hall, corner of Congress and
Water streets, on the Oath day of April,
1920. After moving six times, the
house at GA fremont street was taken
during the presidency of Hon Jonathan
A. Lane. AS this building Is the
property of the association, and well
adapted to the needs Of the ,'ambers,
it is likely to be the quarters of tie
club for many years.
Among the distinguished orators who
have delivered the anniversary ad-
dresses are Hon. Daniel Webster, Hon.
Robert C. Winthrop, Hon. Rufus
Choate, Hon. George S. Hillard n
Hon. Horace Mann; while DR.. OhVer
Wendell Homes, John G. SAKE n
James T. Fields have shone brilliantly
as poets before the association.
Among the valuable works OF art
which adorn the reception oom are a
bust of Edward Everett, presented by
himself: busts of Amos Lawrence and
Abbott Lawrence. portraits of George
Washington, Alexander Hamilton,
Daniel Webster, John Hancock, David
Sears. Robert G. Shaw, the prince of
merchants: Nathaniel Goddard, Joshua
Bates, and many other famous men.
Membership to the club is obtainable
by election, and any man Of good
character is eligible. The initiation
fee and annual dues are moderate, the
association being on the very best
financial footing.