Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-03

man who had his spinal column broken
in runaway accident. They have
tied him to board and suspended him
from the ceiling by a strap passed I'M
der both arms. He will hang in this
position two days. This method Of
treatment is done to keep the pressure
of the broken vertebrae from the spi-
nal cord.
Chicago: Contracts for over 3,000,-
900 worth Of new vessels for the lakes
have been closed here since election
and employment given to $500 men.
A Cleveland man has ordered the larg-
est steel schooner ever built on the
| lakes Dime lsi0ns: keel, $40 feet:
beam, IS feet; depth, 26 feet. With
the completion of the twenty-foot chan
mel she will carry considerably in ex-
cess of 5000 tons.
| A Mexico, Mo-, man who already has
taken out 10 patents for different
| things now has an X ray egg tester.
You can look through a dozen eggs
| at once and tell if they are good Or
| bad. Il expect" says the inventor
ito have the machine SO perfect that
[ can tell whether an egg will hatch
a hen or rooster, and what color the
! chicken will be-"
WI Ting Fang, the new Chinese
minister to Washington, is a man of
about so. He spent considerable time
in England where he studied law and
was admitted as a barrister. He had
previously been educated at Hong
Kong, where he acted as police magis-
trate. He is a government director Of
the railroad building Of the Tien Tsin.
The new minister to England for some
time past has acted in the capacity Of
private secretary to Viceroy Ii Hung
Chang, and was with that dignitary on
his recent tour of America and Europe
Chicago Street Foreman Antonio
Constantine, naturalized American
called on United States Commissioner
Foote to learn whether his passport
protected his wife and children in Italy.
About three months ago Constantine
visited Italy, his native land, taking
with him his family. There he was
impressed into the army, the authori-
or naturalization papers. He was grant
ed a furlough, and Immediately re
turned to America. He will ask the
state department to look into the mat
ter.
Montpelier, Vt.-The special commit
tee which was appointed some time
ago to investigate the management of
the institution for insane at Water
bury made its report to the legislature.
1t severely scores the state supervis-
ors Of the insane, DR.. w. H. Giddings,
the superintendent of the asylum and
others. The report finds that Dr..
Giddings himself strapped and choked
patients. It further finds that patients
were kept in nude condition in rooms
barren of furniture and having cement
floors. These patients were allowed
no rugs, and the rooms, the report
charges, were unheated in cold weather.
Obituary: At Parma, Italy, Italo
Campanini, the famous tenor, 50.-At
| Brooklyn, n. Y, Martin Luther Ste
gens, 60.-At New York, William A
Bigelow At Cleveland, Ohio, Milo B
Stevens, Sat- Charleston, H., Rev
j. F. Mccain, 80.-At Reseburg, Ore
gon, ex-Congressman Lafayette Lane.
At Greensburg, Ind, Matthew Old
ham, 76.-At Elkhart, Ind, Michael
Spangler, 81.-At Brooklyn, n. Y, ex-
/ Judge Thomas J. White, 92.-At Pitts
burg, George w. G. Ferris, designer
and builder of the Ferris wheel, DO
At New York, William A. Mestayer,
the comedian. At Washington, Col
onel Franklin Tenny, Sat Jeffer-
son, Iowa, Isaac Tucker, 95.-At Ma
poleon, Ohio, DR.. Hazzet B. Powell,
60.-At Racine, Wis, Mrs. Sarah Full
Ter, IS.