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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-09-05
BRAVE GIRL WAS SHE.
Heroic Rescue of a Companion by a
Young San Francisco Maiden.

/ Katie Y. O'Conneu is a heroine. and
as soon as an engrayer can finish the
work assigned to him by Chief Engi.
| neer Wasser of the steamer Tiburo1
she will be wearing a beautiful gold
medal. Katie is only ID years of age
and the deed for which she will get a
medal was performed at Tiburon yes
terday afternoon, when she plunged
into the bay and rescued the engi-
neer's baby daughter, Madge, who was
at the point of drowning.
| The Wasser family live about a hun
! dred feet from what is known as
Bakery Wharf," at Tiburon. Madge
who is just a little over years of age
escaped her mothers notice, and
toddled out to the end of the wharf
+ She leaned over the stringpiece to see
what was below. She lost her balance
and fell into the bay.
Pretty Kate O'Connell, who can pull
a boat as well as a man of wars man,
who can ride horseback like a jockey
| and who can swim with all the grace
of a professional, happened to be a
shOrI distance away. She saw the lit
tie tot tumble into the water and
started on a run for the end of the
wharf, calling loudly at the same time
for help. She did not wait to learn
Reaching the wharfs end she plunged
into the water to save the baby's
life.
Just as the child was going down
Katie clutched at her garments and
with a few vigorous strokes and kicks
reached one of the piles She chung
to the barnac1e-coated timber, raised
her burden well above the water and
called again for assistance. 1t was
fully two minutes before a baker.
named Paul, went to the rescue.
Katie's strength was giving out, but
upon seeing Paul she knew that the
child and herself would be saved, and
with renewed energy secured another
grip on the pile.
Paul could not swim. so he hurried
down the steps on the other side Of
the wharf, jumped into a skiff and
rOwed it to where Katie was holding
30 the child and dragged them into the
boat. The rescued child showed no
signs of life and the girl rescuer be-
gan to cry.
When Madge was carried into the
Wasser residence the mother became
hysterical A physician was called,
and by night succeeded in getting the
child ont of danger
! Katie romped home after Madge be-
gan to show signs of life and changed
her clothes. All afternoon and even
ing the residents of Tiburon visited
her fathers store near the water to
compliment her for her display of
, heroism. Katie blushed at the com
pliments and said what heroes and
heroines always say:
'I don't see anything to make fuss
over: anybody would do the same
thing if they saw a little girl fall into
| the water"-San Francisco Chronicle
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-09-05
O'CONNEL AS 4 CROSS-EZAM-
INER.

O'Conrel once defended a man of
the name of John Connor on a charge
of murder in Cork, and the principal
witness for the crown was a police
man who found the prisoners hat
which he left behind him in his flight
from the scene of his guilt After
travelling backward and forward. as
was his habit in crosS-eXamination
from the al-important question as to
the identity of the hat, he thus con-
tinued: Now, then, you swear that
the hat in my hands is the hat you
found-in every particular the same?"
Witness: I do O'Connell: And
inside the hat was written the pris-
onerS name" docking into the hat and
spelling the name very slowly,
John Common? Witness: Yes"
O'Connell (holding up the hat in tri-
umph to judge and jury: My lord,
and gentlemen of the jury, there is no
name in the hat at all" This made
sensation, and ultimately the prisoner
was acquitted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-09-05

denCe, OF course, but such bones as
have been found in this island and
elsewhere, which can probably be as
signed to the pre-Celtic era, are very
large for the most part. 1t is not dis
puted that the skeletons discovered by
NJ. NJ. Riviere at MentOne are pre-
Celtic: the females average feet and
the males are no less than gigantic.
The present Turanian race remain
ing in Europe is the Basque. and no.
body could assert that it is smaller
or less adapted. morally and phySi-
cally, for war than any existing.
Those who have campaigned in I'M
healthy lands perceive another cause
for the supremacy of the fair. They
are better fitted on the average to re-
sist disease and hardships. Negroes
of the west African coast declare that
a red-haired European is safe Oar
win did not overlook this assertion
and he questioned DR.. Danniell. who
had lived many years on the west
coast without Inconvenience. DR.. Dan
ieH was Every fair" An old negro
told him ON arriving, as a boy. that he
would escape. J. W. Harris in the
Anthropological Review declares that
if he had to choose men for service in
Africa he would have them all red
headed. The explanation is, no doubt.
that such are less subject to liver
complaints. And the deadliest ma1a-
dies of campaigning, such as dysen-
terry, are connected with the liver,
New York Times
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-09-05

fall in, and no wall crack or break.
Upon another part of the same square
carriages, old chests. sheets fastened
upon poles, and what not, served as
improviSed quarters to motley
crowd. Here could be seen the gov
elnor of the province, with his family,
camping side by side with some la
borerS. Terror struck them all alike,
and, when it is considered that ninety
eight out of every 100 houses suf-
fered more or less, and that more
than 20 per cent. of all former habita-
tions are now condemned and must
be pulled down, it will be realized
how great the calamity of Laibach
really was and still is.-New York Re
corder.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-09-05
FORCE OF THE HUMAN JAW.

DR.. J. V. Black, a dentist of Jack
sonville, Fla, has made some expert
mentS as to the force eXerted by the
human jaw in chewing food. He says
that the amount of pressure recorded
in a single bite varies from 80 to 270
pounds. This maximum record, it is
interesting to note, was made by a
physician. The crushing force neces-
sary to masticate ordinary beefsteak,
DIR. Black says, is only 40 to 40
pounds. He says thai usually a good
deal more force is applied than is nee
essary, viz, from GO to so pounds, and
he laments somewhat this waste of
energy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-09-05
AN HONORABL SCAR.

The following story is told to &C
count for the late Sir Robert Peei's
habit Of wearing his hat at rakish
angle: Sir Robert while on board a
steamboat in Table bay many years
ago jumped overheard to save a
drowning man and was struck on the
head by one of the paddlewheels. The
blow left a wound on one side Of hif
head. and thereafter Sir Robert could
never bear the weight Of any thing
upon the scar, which he carried to the
end Of his life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-09-05
WANTED A RETURN FAVOR.
Kullak, the ANGUS pianist, was on

Kullak, the famous pianist, was once
invited to dinner by a wealthy Ber-
liner, who was the owner of a large
boot mandatory and had been
shoemaker in his time. After the re-
past, Kullak was requested to play
something, and he consented. Not
long afterward, the virtuoso invited
the boot manufacturer and after din
ner handed him a pair Of old boots.
"What am I to do with theseE' in
uuired the rich man. With a genial
smile, Kullak replied: why, the
other day you asked me after dinner
to make a little music for you, and
now ask you to mend these boots for
me. Each to his trade"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-09-05
HISTORICAL BUILDINGS DE
CLINE.

A writer who has been visiting Tells
chapel, in Switzerland, states that the
condition of the building is a great
scandal. The walls for the most part
are riven, there are clefts between the
windows and the walls, portions of
the turrets and the roof have fallen,
the pictures are half obliterated, and,
in fact, this monument of an antique
past presents a sorry sight.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-09-05
CURIOUS POINT OF pHILOLOGY

1t has been found in the case Of
primitive river names in the old world
that a syllable meaning water occurs
once at least and in many instances
several times in the same name. From
this philologists have been able to
trace successive conQuests as each con-
quering tribe added its own name for
water or river to the syllables already
forming the names of streams within
the conquered district. The same
thing has happened in this country,
as the whites have lacked the word
river to many Indian names already
including the word.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-09-05
A PENCIL SHARPENER.

a bright boy in the wholesale dry
good district of New York has long
list Of customers whose pencils he
keeps sharpened, and who also patron
ize him for new pencils. He has a
patent sharpener and goes from store
to store and Office to Office, and he
makes between s. and 81 week
working four or five hours day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-09-05
A QUESTION.

VIII Love a-riding seem the same
When horseless buggies come
And we change Pete's-the coachman's
name
To plain Petroleum
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-02
WILL CARRY 1T TO CONGRESS.
Banks are Up in Arms gainst the Rise in
Express Money Rates

New York, Nov. IA large increase
in the rates for transporting money by
express order went into effect today
This increase is said to average % per
cent between points east Of Chicago and
even more to points west Of that place.
This increase of rates is regarded as
another blow in the warfare Waged for
sometime past between the express com
panies and the state and national banks
throughout the country, and which, it
is said, will be carried to congress by
the banks The conflict was precipitat
ed last winter when the companies rails
ed the rates on money shipped from
bank to bank.
The State Bank associations have pre-
pared bills which, it is stated, will be
introduced into congress next month
placing the express companies under
the provision of the interstate COM
merce act as common carriers.
The bankers are endeaYoring to per-
feet system which shall make the
bank draft supplement the express
money order. 1t viii require co-opera-
ton between the several state associa-
tons and the establishment of state
clearing houses 30 accomplish this. The
banks are sending money by registered
mail and insuring the registered pack
ages, and from as far away as Buffalo
messengers are sent to New York with
satchels full of greenbacks to be de-
livered to the city banks in order to
meet drafts,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-02
PARKHURr EXHoRrs TO FUSION
He Issues an Address to the Voters for the
Soue' ching of Tammany.

New York, Nov. Rev. DR.. Park
hurst tonight sent 70 the press very
lengthy statement, urging the voters or
New York City to vote the fusion ticket.
He denounced Tammany and in conclu-
sion says:
"Is the hard work that has been done
TO be undone? Has il got TO be done
over again? Is the city prepared TO set
tie back into the old slough of degreda-
ton? Does the decent people in this
city really think it pays to be decent?
Hundred of cities incur country have
been moved TO better things by the eX-
ample of New York City. Supposing
Now New York City is seen TO waver
and by its half-heartedness TO repeal
the effects of it's decision and heroism
of a year ago; compute the dishearten-
ment that will accrue to the hundreds
of thousands of every political, reltgi-
GUS and national stripe throughout the
Union, who have learned to believe in
better things because they have seen
this city achieve them. This, then,
may I be permitted TO say in closing.
is at once the obligation and privilege
of the hour About a great many de-
tails we may differ, but when we look
our immediate enemy in the face we are
one and if we continue one and stand
as one on the day of election we shall
double the victory of 1894, quadruple
the ground of mutual congratulation
and devout thanksgiving and communi-
cate a new impulse to all our country
men everywhere who are seeking 10
raise their city from dishonor and TO
liberate it from bondage.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-02
BIG PROFITS ON PENNIES.
Government Make Money On Thsn-uArs
WORK TO supply The DEMAND.

Government Mskes Money On Thsn-uArs
Work TO supply the Demand.
Gold is coined in Philadelphia and
San Francisco. Not enough Of II comes
into the mint at New Orleans % make
the coinage of il there worth while
All three mints make every denomins.
ton of silver pieces The minor coins
OF base metal, cents and nickels, are
all minted In Philadelphis, where near
ly one hundred Thousand pennies are
turned out annually. says the New York
World.
Cents. being Of email value. are ear~s
lessly handled and are lost IN such
great numbers that the treasury has
20 work hard to maintain the supply.
The profit TO the government on thslf
manufacture - large, however. inss,
much as the blanks for them are pur,
chased for one dollar per one thousand
from q firm in Connecticut that pro.
duces them by contract.
Blanks for nickess are obtained 81
the same way. costing Uncle Sam only
q cent and half apiece.
Gold piece are the only ecins of the
United States which are worth their
face value inirinsicaily. Adouble eagle
contains Twenty-Five dollars worth OF
gold. without counting The one-tentk
part Of copper.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-02

OF course. says the London News,
engagements are broken of in
France as well as in England. but 10
is only in England that heavier dam.
ages are awarded for broken heart
than for broken leg.
The offense is all but unknown in tha
French law courts. whether Il is that
Frenchmen are less inclined to IL. or
that the French girl dislikes bringing
her sentimental troubles into court
A young French lady who attempted
TO turn her wounded feelings into cash
would De regarded as only . degree
less mean than the faithless man.
One day recently, however, an cotton
for breach of promise PAnglaise was
brought into the third Paris police
court The lady and her father. -
nearest friend, produced a bill showing
that they were two hundred and fifty
dollars out of pocket for the broksa
engagement. They might have had
this but. badly advised, they put on an.
other item Of sixteen hundred and
fifty dollars for the moral prejudice.
The French judge did not understand
this and he dismissed the case
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-02
SWEDEN'S ROYAL PALACE.
Some of the Striking Features of King
sigurd's Favorite Residence

Although the reigning family OF
Sweden is far from rich, owing TO the
late king having bequesthed every YES
tlge of property that he could dispose
of TO his only daughter. now crown
princess of Denmark, yet there are few
more magnificent abodes in the old
world. says the Chicago Tribune 1t
is the favorite residence of the crown
prince during the summer, and may
he said 10 have been erected absolutely
Regardless OF cost, that is 70 say, in its
present form, for the oldest part Of the
castle dates back TO the year 100, when,
according 10 the Scandinavian sages.
Dit was the stronghold and home OF the
famous King Sigurd.
One of the features is the winter gar
den, the glass roof of which rests on
sixteen marble columns, each Of which
cost over forty thousand dollars. II
is situated on the very edge of the cliff
overlooking the sea. while from the
land side the view stretches over hill
and forest for many long mile. One
sonew hat amusing feature in eonnec-
ton with TINS palace Is the so-caiied
Isle OF EIba that lies within o stones
throw OF the palace, and which owes
is name 70 the fact that when in 1914
the arst Napoleon was deported 20 Elba
TIE Princess sophie Aiberfine. who re-
earded ham L. the light Of a bugbsar.
caused one Of the lar.sesi eagles 20 be
moved from the sviary Of the castle
and 10 De conveyed 20 this little island,
y herr II was shut Up IN . cage a. a
l:Bd0f memorial 20 tie fallen emperor
rs q strange cOincidence which cannot
be explained the eagle managed 20 -
cape on the very day that the frst
Nayoleon sailed from Elba or that last
journey which ended II Waterloo and
-. Helena
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-02
MEN OF STONE.
Queer Figures Seen Upon the superstitioua
Mountains.


Among the natural wonders of the
southwestern portion of this country
are the Superstitious mountains, which
loom up from the arid desert 10 the east
of the Salt river valley.
These mountains, says Golden Days,
are so curious that, as long as Arizona
has been settled, the Indians will have
nothing TO do with them. In conse-
quence they are full of deer, bear and
other big game. The Superstitious
mountains rise out of the level surface
of the desert like the pyramids of
Egypt.
On the crest of this unique range, and
in full view of the rarified atmosphere
for an immense distance from the
plain, are hundreds of queer figures,
representing men in all attitudes.
When you look first You are sure they
are men, and when you turn your gaze
again TO them, you are as absolutely
certain of it as you can be of anything.
They represent ball throwers, out
looks, mere viewers of the country
round about, men recumbent and con-
templatiye, others starting on foot
race, and in every conceivable posture
and position. They are not real flesh
and blood men, however-nothing but
stone syenite-yet nothing can con-
vince the Indians and some white men
that they are not genuine. They say
they are real mortals turned to stone.
petrified by the peculiar condition or
the air on the mountains.
This belief has grown out of an
Apache legend, handed down for hun
,dreds of years. They have it that an
ancient chief, who had learned of the
curious character of the Superstitious
mountains, forbade any of his people to
go there. A large band. however, one
day discovered way TO get in by pre-
cipitous route, and finally reached the
top. 1t resulted as the chief had said.
and they never got down alive.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-02
FRAKER's HEIRS WILL SETTLE
They Agree to Pay Back TO the Insurance
Companies the Insurance Money.

Kansas City, Nov. IA settlement
has been effected here which will re-
suit in the withdrawal from the United
States circuit court of the case involv
ing the S35, 900 paid 10 eX-Juoge James
+. Lincoln as a result of the DIR. Fra
ker insurance swindle. The money
was paid to Judge Lincoln as trustee
of the supposed heirs of Fraker. Judge
Lincoln and the relatives of Fraker
who would be benefited through the
swindle have diSclaimed any desire to
profit by the fraud of Fraker and have
offered TO surrender all Of the $50, 900
save a few thousand dollars which has
been paid out as Incidental expenses
in settling the estate. This offer has
been accepted and the five insurance
companies VIII be paid back at least 50
per cent of the money. The companies
interested are the Kansas Mutual Life.
of Topeka. Kan: the Hartford Life and
Annuity. the Provident Savings of Pro-
violence. Il. l., and the Knights of Pyth-
las and Modern Woodmen.
The Equitable Life association. which
also paid $40. goo 10 the Fraker heirs. is
not included in the settlement.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-02
LATE NEWS BY WIFE.
Items of General Interest From All OE
the Universe.


London, Eng, Nov. Peter Robin
son, the well known dry goods mer-
chant of this city, is dead
Washington, Nov. 1.-The United
States supreme court, after sitting for
three weeks, today took recess until
Monday, the 18th inst.
Seville. Spain. Nov. cardinal Ban
ito Sanzy Fores. archbishop of Seville.
is dead He was born in 1928 and was
created cardinal in 1898.
ST. Petersburg, Nov. IA Vladivos-
took correspondent says the Japanese
have captured the inland town OF
Katchi, island of Formosa.
London, Nov. 1.-The daily News an
nounces this morning that a Tynslde
firm has Just received a japanese or
der to build three pew battleships.
Monmouth, ILL.,. Nov. 1.-Willie Mitch
ell, aged ID, while hallow 'eening. was
shot in the back by George Canning,
aged 20. Mitchell will probably die.
London. Eng. Nov. 1.-Antoinette
Sterling (Mrs. John Mackinlay). the
we'll known contralto. viii sail on the
American steamer New York tomor'
row.
Washington, Nav 1.-Captain Isaac
Bassett, the veteran doorkeeper OF the
senate, is suffering from stomach trou-
BILE, but his physician states that he is
not dangerously i'll. Bassett is 76 years
of age.
Hamburg. Nov. 1.-The report that
the Hamburg-AmericanS steamships Will
hereafter call at Plymouth, Eng, on
their eastward journey, instead OF Sout-
hampton. thus saving twelve hours, 1t
is claimed. is confirmed.
London, Eng, Nov. 1.-The duke OF
Cambridge, upon his retirement from
the post of commander-in-chief of the
forces has been gaZetted chief personal
aide-de-camp to the queen, and honor
airy colonel-in-chief OF the forces.
Paris, Nov. 1.-Vigus has the portfo-
lilo of the minister of husbandry and
only the office of the minister for for
eign affairs, said to have been rendered
TO Baron De Courcel, the French am
bassador to London remains 10 be filled
The cabinet does not seem TO please any
body very much.
Tacoma. Wash. Nov. 1.-Ex-City
Treasurer James McAuley, who was re-
moved from office on Monday for inabil-
ity to give 100000 additional bonds de-
Inanded by the city council, was arrest
ed today on the charge OF having loan
ed 81 900 of city money for his personal
profit contrary to law.
Leominster, Mass, Nov. Moses /.
Lowering. a wealthy retired farmer OF
this place, aged 81 years. committed sui
eide this morning by strangling himself
with a towel Coverings wife died
Wednesday and grief on account OF her
death. together with dependency at his
own poor health. is said to have been the
cause.
London Depot. KY, Nov. lin Leslie
county Wednesday night, Hon. ". p.
Bentley, who was a member Of the leg
islature in 1850, and one of the most
prominent men in Leslie county, fought
a duel 20 the death with Bige Hign3ie,
a man Of very bad reputation who had
killed his brother about a year ago.
Hignite died Immediately. Bentley
lived ahout eight hours.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-02
MULES EYE IeaT L GOOD.
After Ten Years .'>f. Johu-' Is Taken from
the Coal Mine

Leavenworth. Kan. Nov Some
idea Of the vitality q q mule can b.
CLEANED from story told by Warden
Lynch OF the state peniIeatIary yes
teTday- The warden Vas il the city
visiting friends. ard during a converse
ten about the state mine h was asked
what the average lie % q Enuie was
IN tae mine. be said he could not tell
out that a few days SS1 a mule Xas
taken Out OF the mine that was put 10
wo-k there when -. John vas governor
81 Kansas. Thai was over ten years
ago. -. John the name the mule
was known by having been named az
ter the prohibition governor by the pris-
oneTs. never saw daylight from the time
be vas taken down the shaft unsn he
he Evas taken cut one day last week The
animal vas "a good condition. c5nsid-
erlHS alS age. - the warden says. and
did not show The wear and tear any
more than the mules AROUND the farm
They kept 81 John IN q DARK stable
for txo days and ciindfol5s3 him for 4
slIae.so thaI the ilEhi would not sfee,