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

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Eg XVI The following standing committees shall be appointed by
the committee on Finance consisting Of five members
C0mmiitee on EGna1"0n c0msin Of seven men6ers
Commitee on Delinquent Taxes consisting Of five members MEM
com 9f on Public Property consisting of three members
Committee bridges Agriculture
ffn t rG0r Farm and County Poor Accounts
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the public interest may rere not exceeding however two days
Of any committee unless directed 50 the County
book expense Of Wood coHny recorded therein
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as are prescribed 18TH law ON taxes shall have
claims made illegal sales reanding money
Ss XIV The COMMITTEES pnn and stationery shall have
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PrSperty
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9e XXyI The eonmj{tes roads bridges and ageGq shall
bridges under Upon applications for APPROXIMATIONS building
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com@dttes an, county, ,oo,
accounts charge such matters as may
committee carefully reports County
ne ana Te eoee en- general claims shall have referred
may re{sEred examination report
investigate matters Hvong legal questions Wien may
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time time by the board and shall such power and authority
Rule The county Wood hereby auth4ized
number rules, EXCEEDING two @ copies
eomttees Snail have been ap1oncd by the cana annually
8 css WSoa coan h eos a s coe Of &
the 2 sa BE nddga Gif the names of the
kue XSXII It shall be the duty Of the county e to take the
board on he hrs tuesday Of May in each year
any manner the resolution hereby repealed
and c from and after its passage and pbcaien sinai II"
City of Grand Rapids Wisconsin, this 18th day of Novem
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i The report OF the committee was adopted on
the following vote:
! AYEs-Arpin. E. P. Arpin A. L., Alexander
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-04
TO THE WATERS EDGE
The Pittsburg and Cincinnati Packet Iron Queen Burned Yesterday
 Mornng-One Life Lost.

PITTsBURa, April 3.-The Pittsburg and Cincinnati Packet company's steamer Iron Queen was burned this morning at Racine, O., in the Ohio river.
 She was lying at the wharf taking on freight when the fire broke out in the en. zine room. Capt. Thomas P. Calhoun ordered that the passengers be reused. All were gotten off the boat safely, with the exception of the chambermaid, Mrs. Martha Mosley of Cincinnati, who became frightened and jumped off the rail into the water and was drowned. Her body has not yet been recovered.
 In thres minutes from the time of the first alarm the boat was in flames from bow to stern, and in about fifteen min utes was total ruin. The vessel burned to the water line, the bow swinging into shore and the stern resting in 30 feet of water, in which position the boat now lies.
 There were on the steamer fifteen Pitts- burg passengers and crew of seventy peo- pie. Clerk Mccullough stated that he lost all his personal property to save Mrs. Low ell, Pittsburg passenger, who insisted on going back to her state room after her hat, and on this account also lost the greater part of the steamers books. The portage and freight books were saved, everything else being destroyed. 4s
 The Iron Queen left Cincinnati Tuesday. At the time of the disaster she had a large miscellaneous cargo.
 A new boat to take the placs of the Iron Queen will be built at once. The boat was valued at about s60, ,000, and insured for S30 00O.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-04
HIS WRATH EXPLODED.

AN IRATE FATHER LOOKING FOR RUM
 AWAY COUPLES FINALLY GIVES IN.
 WASHINGTON. April 3.-E. c. Jackson, a prominent tobacconist of Lynch burg, Va. arrived in Washington this morning look ing for his daughter, Elizabeth Payne Jackson, who eloped yesterday from Lynch burg with Robert A. Drom, a young man of that city. The chief of police of lynch burg had sent a telegra to Major Moore of tue WasHins stou police force telling him to look out for Jackson, as he had threatened to do harm 10 young Diram, so the officer station and escorted him to police head quarters, where it was found he was loaded with nothing more dangerous than intel- lectual dynamite.
 Young Dirom and Miss Jackson were married here last night. Dirom had been forbidden on Sunday to visit the young lady, who was 8 school girl, so they agreed to eiope. Dirom arrived ln Washington yesterday morning with his sister aud made arrangements for the wedding, and met the bride when she arrived from Lynchburg last night at 8 o'clock, accompanied by MT. Guy Langhorn of Lynchburg, friend of the groom. Miss Natalie Manson of Lynch burg and Miss Henderson, with whom she is visiting in Alexandria, Va, were also at the hotel where the ceremony took place soon after Miss Jackson's arrival.
 After leaving police headquarters Jack son started to look up his daughter aud son-in-law, resolving 10 make the best of the matter.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-04
THE ROBINSON CRusOE

NOT WRECKED, SAYS RELIABLE AUTHOR ITY-THoUGHT TO BE AN APRIL FOOL JOKE.
 JACKSONVILLE, Fla, April 3.-The re- port current at Palm Beach yesterday that the 5loop Robinson Crusoe, chartered by Messrs. Zeigler and Wells of New York fnE . pleasure cruise, had been wrecked eff Key Largo, seems to havo been without founda- tion. Mir. O.. M. Gardner, correspondent for the Times Union and editor of tho Gaseteer at Palm Beach, wires that there IS nothing in the story. Mir. Gardner ia c trustworthy man, and his statement may be relied upon. How the rumor origi- hated IS not known, as no one can be found who will assume responsibility for 1t.
 Il. w. Merrill, manager of the Royal Poinciana hotel at Palm Beach, also wires that there is nothing in the story. Mir. and Mrs. Ashby Jones of Richmond, Va., were not on the sloop. Messrs. Zeigler mad Wells of New York are said to have besa the only persons on board save the crew.
 Because the sloop had not been beard from recently, it is thought some corre- spondent concluded there was chance Tor a sensation. The rumor was first cirsu- lated on April 1.
 At5 o'clock tonight the Times Union re- ceved the following from it's correspond. ept from Point Beach:
 trhere is absolutely nothing in the re- port of the wreck of the Robinson Crusoe. 1t was started by correspondent of paper here and Is an absolute lie out of whole cloth. The Times Union's correspondent has talked with the people and the captain of the sloop and they laugh at the story. The news teegraphed to New York is from the same source, and there is nothing in it from beginning to end.
 c. NJ. GARDNER,
 Editor Gazeter.p telegram has been received here from Manager Merrill Of the Poinciana hotel, where Mrs. Zsigler and children are stop ping, stating that the lady is not at all alarmed about her husband.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-04
Are Preparing for More Thorough
 and Rigid Discipline
TO KEEP org YELLOW FEVER
The Port : .uese Prince Turned Bacs : at New York-AlI
 : Eyes On Cuba.

W.S .1NGToN, April 3.-The authorities chf d with conducting the quarantine matters and general supervision of public health are keeping sharp lookout to pre- vent the importation of yellow fever into the United States. The care thnt is being exercised by all quarantine officers Is illus trated by the action of the New York off. cials Sunday in ordering the Portuguese Prince back to quarantine for disirf lection because fireman had died under suspicious circumstances before the vessel touched at Santos. This, too, in the face of a clean bill of health by the quarantine officials of that port and the United States consul.
 The regular quarantine season begins the 1st of May. All quarantine stations arc being thoroughly equipped, and each of the three ports of refuge for stricken ves- sells are under the charge of physicians of experience and an assisting force that has dealt with the fever In the past. The three large quarantine stations are as follows: south Atlantic station at Black kbeard's island, sapello sound, near Aberdeen, Ga.; Gulf station at Ship island, of Biloxi, Miss, and Key West station at Dry Tor tuaas. There is also very complete sta- tion at Brunswick, Ga., but it does not compare in point of equipment and ability 10 care for yellow fever ships, with tho three just named.
 The insurrection in Cuba causes the con. dition of affairs to be unpleasant for health officials to consider. Marine hospital off, cials declare that the shipment Of several thousands of new Spanish troops into Cuoa at this season of the year, non -acclimated, is bound to precipitate an epidemic of yell low fever, the ill efforts of which must, in a degree more or less severe, be felt in this country. They also fear that Cuban towns, especially Havana, will be overrun with country people seeking to escape the con- tending forces engaged in continuing or suppressing the insurrection, and that as d consequence the sanitary precautions must be even more looked after than befors. Plans are being perfected by Surgeon Gen. eral Wyman to meet any contingency.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-04
!. M. GARDNER,
GIVEN A LIFE SENTENCE.

MOBILE, April 3.-John Murphy was convicted yesterday at Daphne, Baldwin county, Ala, of the murder of Ed Cam eron, and his punishment placed at lfs Imprisonment. In May of 1884, at lum- Der camp on the Styx river, Ed Cameron was shot down by an unknown party. It was believed that he was mistaken for his trouble with some of the rough characters of the neighborhood. Three men were ar- rested and tried, and they were acquitted. Murphy had made admissions which pointed to him as the assassin, but having until this term of court that he was brought to trial. What saved him from the death sentence was the belief of some of the jnry that be had been dominated by an older man, one Jim Early, since dead, and used as tool by Early in an attempt to kill old man Cameron,
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-04
OF COURSE THEY WERE.
the Reception Accorded Them by Southerners.

CHARLOTTE, N. O., April 3.-Tbe Massa- chusetts mill men who are travelling in the south are being utterly astonished by the manifestations ofgood will being made to them by southern people.
 MT. D.. A. Tompkins, under whose di- rection the tripis being made receives each day thirty to forty kilograms from southern cities, inviting the party to visit them. The trip is the outcome of the agitation in New England and especially in Massachu- setts of the matter of competition of south ern mills in the textile manufactures. Various laws bearing upon this subject were under consideration before the com mittee on mercantile aff lirs of the Massa- chusetts legislature. *s
 Mir. Lovering made an argument in which he set up southern com petltion as one reason why the Massachusetts legisla- ture should go slow in making any laws that might have tendency to drive New England capital to the south. A few weeks ago he wrotefof the Manufacturers Record special article on the subject which brought him into correspondence, through the editor, with MT. D. A. Tomp- kins of Charlotte, N. c. Mir. Tompkins invited MT. Lowering to make trip south. In speaking of this invitation to Mir. E. 8. St. John, vice. president of the Seaboard Air line, the latter amplifed it to be one from the Seaboard Air line to MT. Lowering and several friends he might select, the party to become the guest of MT. St. Jonn's road. While these arran gements were per- fecting the committee. ,on mercan ntile af- fairs concluded also to mase trip to the south. The legislative committee's trip was completed about two weeks ago..
 The impression produced on the minds of these men (Mr. Lovering's party) will probably determine the e.direction of invest 'ment of much capital. So far the mill men are we'll pleased They find advantages greater than they had expected. While position, yet the number of invitations they are getting produces very pleasant impression, and will dissipate the slightest msgivings they might have had about the character of reception New Englaud mill men would receivyin coming south.
 After inspectinne of the Henrietta mills today, the visitors returned to Charlotte to- night and left via the Southern railway for mill points in South Carolina.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-04
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
A Bank Cashier, Who Had the Full Confidence of His Employers.
 Goes Wrong.

CHICAGO, April 3.-Assistant Cashier Frederick w. Griffin of the Northwestern National bank walked into the vault where the money is kept Saturday morn- ing and took therefrom package contain ing SEQ 900 in currency. Another employe saw him come out and noticed he was ill at ease. After thinking the matter over all night he went to Vice. President Dummers' residence Saturday morning aud related what he bad seen On being qut stioned about the matter Griffin made full confession, although there was at that time not the slightest particle of evidence against fim beyond the suspicious Of his fellow clerk. Bank Examiner McKeefe was at once called in and an investigation showed the books had been tempered with so ss to cover the amount missing, the speculations extend- ing over a period of six months.
 Grffin took the money in a vain endeavor 10 conceal his crime from the bank officials. He secured a draft from another Chicago bank with the s5o, ,000 abstracted and placed the draft to the credit of the United Staies National bank of Omaha. This blnk, as. the Omaha correspondent of the North western, had originally $S0, ,000 to it's credit in the Chicago institution. Commencing his stealings with the accounts of other banks, Griffin finally mulcted this one also His system was to put in false tickets for telegraphic transfers of money. When the Omaha bank at last called for settlement he saw the case was hopeless and requiring desperate remedy, forgetting thai while his plan made the Omaha account all strjght it left the Chicago institution s cash account short to the amount taken.
 Unfortunate speculation in stocks was the cause of hIs downfall. Aside from these acts the life he ie1 was an exemplary one. He had the entire confidence of the officials, and did not even give bond when he took the position. He is 36 years old, has wife and two children, and had been in the employ of the bank ever since he was 16 years of age. He was arrested last night, and has been in the custody of the marshal ever since. At o'clock this afternoon he was brought before United States Commissioner Humphreys, whocon- tinued the case in $15 1000 bonds until to- morrow. No bond will be given until after the hearing, when there will be no trouble in finding bondsmen.
 Griffin recently resigned the presidency of the Ashland club. He was prominent in North side society circles, and declares that he will live down his disgrace. The bank officials will be as lenient with him as pos sible. His father lives in Florida.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-04
MAkYLANp7 Pol.ITIcs.

BALTIMoRH5. sA priiss 3. .AEhe. Democratic State Central 60 omff ttce today decided to hold the statecenYen ton in this city on Wednesday,, ! ply s8ts large number of politicians from all paris of the state con- gregated in the Uarfoilton hotel before the meeting was called flo order and fingered long after it's adjournment discussing gub- ernatorial np1a1Retiona. A majority of those present were pficeholders. Even Washington Officials were represented, notwithstanding Pfeaident Cleveland B or ders. Senator German and Senator Gibson were among the early arrivals and, with fixed u D the resolutions, which were later on presented to thecommittee and adopted.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-04
By the Baltimore Conference of the
 M. E. Church, South.
A RESOLUTION OF THANKS
Voted Down by a Rising Vote. Closing Hours of the
 Conference.

WAsHINGToN, April 3.-The one hund- red and eleventh annual session of the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. south, closed at noon today with the announcement of the assign ment of pastors fer the ensuing year. The report of the statistical secretary was pre- sented at the session today. There are A, ,S73 church members in this conference, an increase of 1194 over last year. The mum per oi lo,il preachers is 125, being nine more than before. Washington district heads the list with a membership of 7sN. and twenty preachers.
 In the proceedings today came 0 sequel to au incident of last W eek, when Rev. Dr. Tongue objected to the conference calling upon Presidt nS Cleveland, full account of which appeared in all the loca! papers at the time.
 It has been customary in the past history of the conference, it was stated, to thank those institutions and people who they felt had benefited the organization. Dr. Stanton was granted the floor and he made the m otion that the city post, fiice officials and the newspapers that had beea faithlu lully representing the sessions be extended a vote ot thanks.
 Half Il dozen clergymen at once demanded division of the resolution and the passage Of the first hall only. This was agreed to, whereupon Dr. Stanton renewed his mo- tion with regard to the press in the lace of violent opposition on the part of R4v. pr. R. Smithsop, presiding elder of Washing ton district, who could see nothing in the objections of the press in representing the Conference. number of clergymen de- bated the proposition with zeal but Bishop Granbery cut short the flow of eioquence by putting the question. A vociferous major ity tabled the motion.
 Rev. w. r. Hammer arose and with a kindly expression announced that the con- ference had "made a wholesale slaughter of the reporters" and though some inac- curacies in reports had been noticed he moved the passage of Ia resolution of thanks to those papers that had made &C., cufate reports of the conference.''
 Dr. Hyde of the Valley Female college gave the motion hearty second. voice suggested that each paper would consider itself one of the sheets referred to, aud that the scheme would be failure. The bishop entered time.y suggestion that the con. ference was but making news now for the papers.
 A rising vote was called for and Dr. Hammers resolution was lost by a vote Of "A to 61.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-04
AN AFFECTING SCENE.

COLUMBUS, 0. April 3.-,The bodies of the two Williams. children found murdered at the Park h otei Monday were taken. from the morgue this morning and buried in Greenlawn cefnetery. Williams, the fat her, and Annie, the surviving slaughter, were present. The father was deeply affected, but Annie seeinedysntirsIy uninoved. Four carriages followed the hearse to the grave, where a few waE1sswere said by Rev. J. c.
 Bright of IhsSpufh High Street Congrega- tional church he two children were placed in cpfiiu and buried, clasped in each other sax9psa Mrs. Williams asked to be permitted tosAttend the funeral, but was refused. shswas placed in the county
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-04
PHILADELPHIA, 8; pETERsBU .a,
WINTER AND SPRING.

LYNcHBURe, Va, April 3.--Yesterday Dr. George w. Carter of Portsmouth, a well known minister, aged about 75 years, and Miss Virginia Etatham, daughter of MT. Thomas 8. Statham of this city, about zi years oio, went to washington on the afternoon train with the avowed purpose of getting married. Application was made here to two Methodist ministers to officiate but on account of an ecclesiastical bar they were compelled to decline. It is this dis parity of age that has occasioned great sur prise among the friends of both parties to the affair. Unless some unforeseen incident has happened to prevent, it is very likely that the couple are now married,
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-04
WILL BE TWO REPORTS.

NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 3.-The Forty. ninth general assembly reconvened yester. day, the forty days' recess taken for the investigation of charges of fraud in the cleo. tion for governor in November last having expired. The committee on governsr's election will begin the preparation of their report this week. There will no doubt be . majority and minority report, the former submitted by the democratic majority of seven and the latter by the republican mi. nority of five members. The majority report, it is thought, will claim plurality of between 5000 and 4000 for Turney, demo- crat, for governor, while the minority will governor.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-04
,s KNOXVILLE ENTHUSIASTIC
OVER PROPOSED OPENING FOR HER COAL

OVER PROPOSED OPENING FOX HEX COAL
 FIELDS TO THE sEABoARD.
 KNOXVILLE, Tenn, April 3.-A large and enthusiastic meeting was held today in the interest of a railroad from the East Tennessee coal fields to the Atlantic sea- board at either Charleston or Port Royal. Representatives were present from Ken lucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
 In the forenoon there was an informal reception and conference at the Imperial hotel, attended by 150 leading business men of Knoxville, besides representatives from the states mentioned.s
 The afternoon meeting was held at the public hall of the courthouse, which was packed, and hundreds could not get seats or standing room. Judge 8. T. Logan of Knoxville presided, and speeches were made by P. K. McCully of Anderson, Major Whitner, Major Lee and L. w. Per rim of Greenwood, J. H. Harrison of Wali-
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-04

eral falling of in the democratic vote of about 40 per cent. The vote was exceed ingly light, but Lippett, republican, for governor, is elected by largely increased majority. The entire republican state ticket is elected. The democrats will retain at least their present representatives of fivein the legislature. In two or three towns there was some interest, owing to the cou- tests on local issues, but apathy was shown in most instance. East Providence and Pawtucket voted license after hard fight. and Coventry for the first time in its his- tory voted to be bibulous.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-04
THE TIME WILL COME,

LONDON, April 3.-Mr. Arthur J. Hai- four, member of parliament, in an address before the Bimetailic league at the Mapsioa house today, said that the time was not far distant when men of all parties would agree to introduce into international tran saciions some medium of exchange less hurtfui to industry than the present absurd system.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-04
TUSCANY SHAKEN UP.

ROME, April 3.=Tuscany has been shaken up by earthquakes several times this week. At Tredisco a dozen houses collapsed. Seven dead bodies have beeu removed from the ruins, and eight persons are missing. At Monte Pulciano, in central Italy, roofs were shakenIdown and three buildings were wrecked. Two persons were killed and ten or twelve injured; The earthquakes have been accompanied by heavy rains. The government has senta a geologist to visit the places where the shocks were most violent.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-04
THE WOMAN IDENTIFIEI

NEW YORK, April 8.-Eight persons this morning positively identified the body of the woman found at Sixth avenue and Waverly street last Sunday morning as that of the wife of Thomas s. Martin, a West Indian negro. She had been living with William Cesar, negro, at No. 150 West Twenty sixth street as his wife.