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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-12-05

UP from the band of reformers who
watch over cases OF his kind.
Beresheim is one type of the child
criminal The two boys in a suburb
of London who some months ago
killed their mother so that they might
obtain possession of her pocketbook
and spend the money as they pleased.
represent another type. They had
been nicely reared, but their minds
were poisoned by cheap literature.
They Toasted and lived in the same
house with their mothers body for
several days before the neighbors dis
covered the tragedy.
1t may be that young Beresheim will
be dealt with the same as Jesse Pom
eroy, who heads the list of American
child criminals For twenty years he
has been in solitary cOnfienment in
the Massachusetts, state prison, and
will probably end his days there. Bere-
sheim was made a murderer by acct
dent, but Pomeroy was a murderer by
choice.
Pomeroy was X years old when he
became the most noted murderer
of the day. At twelve years he start
ed his criminal career by torturing
seven little children. He would hold
the hands of Il small boy or girl on
the top of a hot stove or would thrust
a knife into a baby to see it suffer
Every possible effort was made to re-
form him, but it was useless. When
asked why he perpetrated these tor
lures he would say: Il couldn't help it.
He was placed in a reformat0ry and
released after a term of seventeen
months. During that time he had be
haved himself. The crime which led
to his life sentence was committed in
April of 1874.
A clam digger at his work on the
marshes on the shore of Dorchester
bay came upon the body of little f.
year-old Horace Millen, gashed as #
by the knives of tribe of cannibals.
The throat was cut from ear to ear, so
that the head was almost severed from
the body, and there were no less than
twenty-five stab wounds upon the
breast and over the heart, and in other
portions of the body were mutilations
too horrible to mention. Pomeroy had
tied him to a stake and then had
stabbed him to death. The last crime
was traced to this murderer, and he
then confessed to killing the Curran
girl. Both bodies were shockingly
mutilated. When asked why he killed
the Millen boy he said: 81 don't know;
something told me to do it,
when you started off to the flats
with the child did you intend to kill
him ?''he was asked.
II don't know" he replied. 81 think
| meant to stick knife into him, but
| don't know whether I intended tc
kill him or not
"How long have you known him ~
went on the remorseless questioner.
''I never saw him until I took him
down on the marsh.
Where did you see him first?"
HE was playing on one of the lots
near Dorchester avenue, South Bos-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-12-05
DUMAS IS NO MORE
THE YOUNGER OF THE GREAT
WRITERS DIES.
POEMS, NOVELS AND DRAMAS
HIS Works Commenced at An Early
Age and Covered Large Field
comments of son Upon the
Father and of Father Upon the
Son.

Paris, November 29.-Dumas, the
younger, died Wednesday even
ing, surrounded by his family.
While physicians and friends had be-
come convinced his case was hopeless
and death only question of time. it
was not expected that the end would
come so soon.
Alexander Dumas was bern in 1924
when his father was only q years of
age. The young Alexander published
his first work when he was in his sew
enteenth year; it was a volume of
poems, and called Les PeChes de
Jeunesse. His next appearance was
as novelist, in 1877 with a rather te-
dious romance, Four Women and a
Parott. In the following year he pub
lished LIE Roman dune Femme, Ce-
sarine and La Dame aux Camelias. all
marked with such dramatic power
that the authors success as a drama
list could be foreseen and foretold.
The triumph of La Dame aux
Camelias at the Vaudeville, with
Madame Doche and Fechter in the
as attractive as ever in the country.
He, was a remarkable example of in
heritance of talent Yet between the
author of La Dame aux Camelias and
the author of Les Trois Mosquetaires
there is as great a difference as be-
tween the Armand Duval of the
former and the D'Artagnan of the lat
ter. The son once attempted to ex-
plain this difference by saying: My
father was born in a poetic age, and
he is an idealist; | was born in a ma
terialistic age, and am a realist. My
father takes his subjects from dream
land; [ take mine from life. He works
with his eyes shut; | with mine open.
He starts from fact; from an idea"
The father, however, was nearer the
truth and systematically heater
when he summed up with the words:
He is photographers; l am q
painter" The father owed the larger
part of his success to mis- power as a
story-teller- in action,
splendid in color, full of life, gayety
and charm, always goodly and glad:
never sick and sorry. He was a
force of nature" said Michelet, land
like nature he had no theories. The
son, on the other hand, is for the
orizing, and never hesitates about
working the theories into paradox"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-12-05
THE DANISH WOMAN
Is at Home. in All Arts, Universities
and Professions

An English publication gives an in
teresting account of recent exhibition
o. women's work in Denmark, which
demonstrates the fact that Scandina-
Wan women are not behind their Eng
lish sisters in education and philan-
thropy, and progression in all the in
dustries, arts and sciences which are
open to women. Danish women are
welcomed without question to the uni
versity, every branch of learning is
within their reach, and they success
fully master mathematics, medicine,
or whatever they undertake, and
promptly turn their education to some
practical use. Teaching seems to be
the most universal employment for
women who must earn their living
Yet there are so many teachers and so
many daughters of rich families who
teach simply as a pastime, with no re-
Enumeration, that the pay is very SMALL
and not at all in proportion to the
services they give. They are we'll up
in the English literature of the day
distinguish themselves as artists, au-
thors and musicians, found schools for
various charities, and manage them as
successfully as the women in other
countries. Designing and painting pot
terry, WoOd-carving and burnt-Wood
work are among other accomplish
ments, and many women have taken
up photography and started out as
professionals
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-12-05
POTATOES AS A STOCK FOOD.

The unusually large potato crop
which will make merchantable pota
toes very low in price and will also
furnish large quantities of unmer-
charitable potatoes for which it is de-
sirab1e to find a profitable use, lends
a somewhat unusual interest to the
question of their feeding value as
stock food. A bulletin just issued by
the French minister of agriculture
gives an account of the second of a
series of experiments in fattening cat
tie and sheep mainly on potatoes last
winter. The cattle selected for the
trial were nine in number, of three
different French breeds. The animals
were nearly fat when the trial COM
menced, and it is intimated that their
approximate ripeness was disadvanta-
geous to the test. and that better re-
suits would have been secured had
they been leaner TO begin with Three
of the nine were fed under disadvan-
tageous circumstances, one because it
was quite fat, another because it was
so fatigued on its arrival at the exper-
iment grounds that it refused food a.
most entirely for ten days, and the
third for some other reason not stated
in the account before us. Uniform ra-
tons were fed consisting Of f1fty-fve
pounds of potatoes, steamed, an ounce
of salt, six and a half pounds of
chaffed hay and thirteen pounds OF
loose hay. AS has been said, this was
! the second trial of potatoes. In the
first, which took place the preceding
winter, the superiority of cooked over
raw potatoes had been so completely
demonstrated that no raw ones were
fed. The potatoes were so thoroughly
cooked that they fell to pieces when
taken out of the steamer. They were
placed in alternate layers with the
hay chaff in a tub, the mixture beine
we'll stirred and left for twenty
hours to ferment slightly. It was fec
three times a day, and the cattle were
finished exclusively on the ration de
scribed.
The different animals We're fed fol-
different lengths of time, six being fol
seventy-one days. one for sixtv-thret
days, one for eighty-fve days and on'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-12-05
A WOMAN'S BANK ACCOUNT.
And How 1t Bothered a Suburban
Bank Clerk.

"Just look at these" said a perturb-
ed woman as she rushed into my quiet
parlor, upsetting the baby, treading on
the kittens tail in her excitement, and
as she spoke extending her hands
filled with legal looking documents and
bank books.
These said I, appear to be evil
dences of your prosperity and I con-
graduate YOU But it seems they
were not, and while the baby and the
kitten endeavored to find surcease of
sorrow in each others woes, my friend
explained the cause of her emotion.
Ever since we came to live in your
horrid suburban town." she began, for
getful of the fact that she had pre-
CeGed me by some months, 1--WE have
been forced, for convenience, to keep
our bank accounts here, and as Ned
and the boys are never at home dur
ing banking hours, have made all de-
posits.. I have my own private account
as we'll, but when we lived in the city,
all [ had to do was to sign my mod
est checks and leave Ned to deposit
my quarterly allowance and see that
did not overdTaw my account I'm
agine my horror to be told this morn
ing that Ned's and each of the boys
accounts were OverdraWn. Three
checks had been protested and I had
to pay dollars and dollars for fees. In
vain | produced the books, showing
where recent deposits had been en-
tered on each. The ledgers were turn
ed to and it was found that while
their accounts had surprisingly dimin-
ished, mine had increased in an equal
ly remarkable manner.
''And how do you think it all came
about?" she went on, with breathless
indignation. 81 had made out the de-
post slips in my own name, and al
though the amounts had been entered
in the private book of the right per-
son, in the ledger those slips had been
posted up to me and how [ shall ever
face the boys I don't know. Ned will
only laugh, but the boys will tease me
numerically"
''But I don't see," I protested loyal
speeding the customs of banking can
be visited on the head Of this poor vii
lage."
why, in a city bank don't you sup
pose the discrepancy between the de-
post slips and the pass books would
have been noticed? But what can one
expect in a little one horse town?
And to cap the climax" she went on,
bridling anew, when | tried to put a
pleasant face on an unpleasant mat
ter, and said to the youthful cashier
that women would make funny bank
clerks, he had the conceit to reply, L
don't think they will ever get to be
bank clerks l determined that rep
artee would be useless to one so
wrapped up in a sense of his own pyg-
my Importance"
Then she kissed the baby and said
goodby, ard I reflected on all the new
woman" has to learn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-12-05

while its possessions are increased al
considerable cost yearly, the cost to
the lawyers, for whose especial benefit
it is, is nothing. The total expenses
are not more than $4,000 annually,
and this money is paid by the county
commissioners.
Ranged on the shelves are decisions
of the Indian court of appeals, and be-
low them are the deliverances Of the
erudite, bewigged and begowned jus
tees Of the courts of England, whence
all law comes. There are copies of the
reports of every state and territory,
and reviews of the important causes
which have been decided by the courts
of France. Most of the books are
printed in English, though some of
them are in French, German and
Latin. One volume from the supreme
court contains a daringly precise re-
cital of love case, which must have
excited statewide comment from the
fluent detail dealt out by the learned
and grave judges; the admiXture If
passion and pistol makes it a thrilling
story. 1t is soiled by the touch of
many thumbs and seems to have been
much read in preference to the dry
diagnoses of the technicalities OF suits
involving property rights.
There are some treasures in the IL
brary which are highly priced. The
Oldest book is a copy of the acts Of the
Scottish parliament from 1924 to 1923.
1t contains charters and seals that are
so yelloWed with age as to be in parts
undecipherable. Another revered vol
ume is Fitz Gibbons reports of the
cases argued at the kings bench in
Westminster, London, during the five
years of the reign of George II. This
book begins with the date of 1882, and
its leaves are eaten by worms. The
type is of a large German character.
This is probably the only copy in
America. The Scotch acts, from 1924
to 1921, contain the laws of parlia-
ments during the reigns of King
James and Queen Mary in one part,
and the acts during the reign of King
Charles |. and H., and the convention
of estates of Scotland in 1865, 1867 and
1878, in the other. The duke of York S
Book of Laws" of 1876 to 1852 has all
the autographs of the governors and
presidents of the councils Of Pennsy1-
vania during those years. The list in
cludes the flourished chirography of
William Penn. There is also a fac
smile of the charter granted nv King
Charles II. to Penn.-Pittsburg Times
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-12-05
MR.. CLEVELAND'S EARLY LIFE

Grover Cleveland was born in Cald-
we'll, n. J., March IS, 1887, his father
Presbyterian clergyman. When the
future president was four years old
his father removed to Fayetteville,
n Y. Here the lad found employment
in the general store" at $50 a year,
sweeping and cleaning out, opening
and closing the store, and waiting on
customers. Young Cleyeland's educa-
ton, so far as it went, was completed
at Clinton, n. Y. In his seventeenth
year he became a clerk and an assist
ant teacher in the New York institu-
ton for the blind. In 1855 he started
west to secure more lucrative employ
ment, but was induced to stop at Buff
falo. He was soon at work in a law
office there, as clerk and copyist, at
81 pei week. Two years later he was
admitted to the bar, retaining for
some time his clerkship, first at $500
a year, then at $1,000 In 1863 he was
chosen assistant district attorney of
Erie county, in 1870 sheriff of the
county. IN 1881. by a union of repub-
licans, democrats, independents, and
"Teformers,' he was elected mayor Of
Buffalo.-Pres. E. BENZ. Andrews, in
Scribner's.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-12-05
BUSINESS TROUBLES.
Single Days Record in the
Metropolis.

New York, Nov. 30-Joseph Salz-
man and Louis Reiter, composing the
firm of J. Salzman & Co., manufact-
urers of shirts, at No. 27 Walker
street, made an assignment yesterday
to Moses Greenbaum, without prefer
ence. They claimed capital of 49,
O0O
George Lewis Shearer has been ap-
pointed receiver for the National
Health company, of No. Sc West Fiji
tieth street, On the application Of
judgment creditor, FOR $187, for adver-
Using. 1t was stated by the attorneys
that they believed the company is in
solvent. The company was formed by
M. L. Roeder, Edwin Rothbent and
others, who came here from the west,
for the treatment Of the opium habit,
and was incorporated Sept. "a, 1894,
with an authorized capital stock of
100000.
Deputy Sheriff Williams has closed
up the store of Cohen Bros, COM
posed of Louis S. and Isaac Cohen,
grocers, at 70 Mulberry street, on a
claim of $426 in favor of Edward A.
Hahn, on notes.
Judgment for s3,699 was obtained
against Charles Markers, Of Buffalo,
in favor Of Emil CaIman & Co., of
this city on two promissory notes.
Transcript Of judgment from SYRIA
cuse, n. Y, was entered here yester-
day against Henry Edwards, manager
and attorney in fact of the Imperial
Lloyds, of New York, for S3,167, in
favor of S. B. Rowe & Co.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-12-05

ton, and 1 asked him to come with
| me-"
"And how did you get him to GO
down on the marsh?"
Il told him I'd show him some
thing"
In addition Pomeroy made the fright
full disclosure that he had about three
weeks before killed Kittie Curran, a
little girl five or six years old, and
that her body would be found buried
under the stairs in his mothers cellar.
Mrs. Pomeroy, it seems, had left Jesse
temporarily in charge of the store, and
the little girl coming in to buy candy,
had been invited downstairs to see
some kittens. At the bottom of the
stairs the boy clutched her by the
hair and, pulling her head violently
back, cut her throat. Then he buried
He was seventeen when he was COM
mitted; he is thirty-six now. Yet it
is strange, despite these weary years
Of solitary confinement, how the boy
ish immature look clings to him. His
salloW cheeks may have gained an
added pallor, few pounds have been
added to his lanky five feet nine, but
a thin mustache is the principal thing
that distinguishes the boy from the
convict. His disposition has not i'm
proved much under discipline. He
has read and studied enough to be a
learned man, and has suffered enough
to be a wise one, but he is still rebel
lious, still restless, unable to accept
the inevitable as final
His mind is alert and keen and his
seems to have become acclimated to
his strange life. He was the first
person in the state to be sentenced to
solitary confinement for life. He was
first sentenced to be hanged, but his
extreme youth and the evidence that
he was born with a tendency to be
cruel Influenced Governor CASTOR to
commute the sentence. There was a
loud protest against this show of
clemency.
oIueIoy 10 always Trying 10 escape.
His ingenuity in getting and hiding
things which can assist him in dig
ging up the floors and walls of his
cell is marvellous. No one sees him eX-
cept his mother, brother, a young
niece and the prison officials, yet the
most surprising things are found in
his possession. In 1887 he made a
saw out of a piece of steel and cut off
the bars of his cell. He in some way
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-12-05
WHAT CALVES TO SELECT.

There is a quite prevalent opinion
among a good many of our best dairy
men to the effect that, other things
being equal, the fall calf makes the
best milk COW if good winter care is
given. The spring calf at a critical
period in it's life is exposed to heat
and flies, which annoy and form an
obstacle to its development at a time
when it is least prepared to bear it.
The fall calf with good winter care
gathers q reserved force of vigor and
energy. which enables it to withstand
this annoyance by the time it is
obliged to pass through summer and
fly time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-12-05
FOWLS DIGESTION.

Fowls swallow their food, broken or
not, and it enters the crop or first
stomach and remains in it until it has
become softened more or less, when, a
small quantity at time, just as grain
runs into a grist mill, is forced into
the gizzard among the grit. The giz-
zard is a strong, muscular stomach,
and it is at work night and day when
there is a grist to grind, similar to
bellows, contracting and expanding
and thus forcing the grist into the
grain and triturating the whole mass,
after which it is in a suitable condi-
ton to be quickly digested.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-12-05
THE MURDERER INSANE.

Freeport, ILL.,, Nov. 3O.-A sensation
was created here yesterday when DR..
Mcfarland, an expert of Jacksonville,
decided that murderer Frank w. Har-
ris is insane and that he believes he
will recommend to the governor that
a commission be appointed to examine
him. He believes that when they re-
port sentence will be communted to
life Imprisonment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-12-05

for fifty days. The average gains
made per head per day were 2.23
pounds for the lowest, and ASS pounds
for the highest, the average for the
nine animals being 81 pounds. These
are very remarkable results, and all
the more so when it is remembered
that the highest gain above stated was
for two months and three days, with
cattle nearly fat when the trial be-
gan. The variety of potatoes used was
not a specially nutritious one, it be-
ing Richter's Imperator, a heavy yield
ing variety, grown in a wet season
and not up to the usual standard OF
quality.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-12-05
BALFOUR GUILTY
Verdict Against Another of the Eng
lish Swindlers.

London. Nov. 2S.-Jabez S. Balfour
was found guilty in the queens bench
division of the high court of justice,
charged with frauds in connection
with the land investment trust, an
other of the concerns which formed
part of the notorious Liberators' group
Of companies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-12-05
IN HIS APARTMENTS.
Mccormick III, but the Marriage
Comes Off.

New York, Nov 26.-The marriage
of Miss Edith Rockefeller to Harold
Mccormick will take place today in
the apartments Of Mr.. Mccormick.
John D. Rockefeller, the father of the
bride, announced this fact last night.
The change from the church to Mr..
McCormick's apartments, he said, was
owing to the illness of Mr.. Mccormick
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-12-05
PITTSBURG'S LAW LIBRARY.
Contains Acts of Scottish Parliament
and Valuable Reference Books.

The Allegheny county law library in
Pittsburg is the pride Of the judges
and the lawyers and the constant ref
eTenCe for all of them. 1t contains
28,500 volumes and embraces the dect-
sions of the superior courts Of every
nation where jurisprudence is known
and practiced. 1t had a slender be-
ginning. but wise providers, and now,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-12-05
SUSPENDED FOR LIFE.

Philadelphia, Nov 28.-Chairman
Gideon, of the L. A. W., says that
cyclists Cabanne, Titus and Murphy,
VINO were temporarily suspended for
alleged crooked racing in the class B
race at St. Louis, August II, have
been suspended for life by the racing
board.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-12-05
CRIMES IN CHILDREN
REMARKABLE CASES OF BERES-
Helm AND POMEROY.
TYPES OF BOY MURDERERS

Ona Man Slayer by Accident, The
Other by Choice Pomeroy's Sol
itary Life in the Massachusetts
State Prison-Awful Confession
Made by Him.