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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
JOHN BROWNS FAMILY.

Time is removing the eight children
-four sons and four daughters-who
survived their fathers death on the
scaffold in Virginia. The four children
of the second rriage-Salmon, Anne
Mrs Adams, Sarah and Ellen Mrs.
Fablinger, of Saratoga, Cal)-are all
living, and all but Salmon are in Cal
ifornia, to which they removed with
their mother in 1864. Salmon has re-
moved of late years to the state of
Washington, his sheep farming in
northern California having been fail
ure. Mrs. Adams lives with her seven
children at Petrolla, on the Mendocino
river, and Sarah, unmarried, is an art
teacher at San Jose, not far from her
sister Ellen, who has a fruit farm at
Saratoga and several children. Of the
children of the first marriage of John
Brown, only two are living-Jason, of
Akron, Ohio. who once lived with his
brother, Owen, on a hill near Pasadena,
Cal, and Ruth (Irs. Henry Thompson),
who has long lived in the town of Pasa-
dena, with her husband, children and
grandchildren. She is 81 years old, and
in very feeble health. Her unmarried
daughter, May, lives with her parents,
and a granddaughter not far away.
Jason is 70 years old; his eldest
brother, John, Jr., who had lived for
more than thirty years on Put-in-Bay
island, in Lake Erie, died there in tie
early spring of last year. The family
Of John Brown. Jr., have decided to Of
fer for sale his large collection Of geo.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20

woman who is already so cents in debt
your purchases pay 20 cents for my
says: Mary, when you are paying for
haf-pound of candy. 1t will save time
and confusion, and l have no small
change. | will settle with you when
we reach home" Mary carefully pays
the amount: and her unbusinesslike
friend never thinks of the 20 cents
again. This is also the woman who
will write a business letter to an &C
quaintance requesting an answer by re-
turn mail, and will never think of in
closing a stamp with a reply. She vir-
tually asks her correspondent 10 give
her not only the time and the work re-
CURED to write the letter, but also to
make her present of ? cents.
These seem little things, but it is
such trifies that win for women the IN
enviable reputation of careIessness in
business affairs. -Harper's Bazaar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
IN OTHER LANDS.

William Hale John Charles, third
earl of Limerick, is dead.
Ii Hung Chang continues to be the
lion of the season in London.
Andree's balloon is reported to have
been sighted in British Columbia.
Lady Tennyson, widow of the Eng
lish poet laureate, died in England.
The total eclipse of the sun was OBJ
served successfully in Norway and
Japan.
Robert Fo1s yth, marble dealer and
cutter at Montreal, assigned, with La
Eilities of $4,000.
The report that Prince Hohenlohe,
imperial chancellor of Germany, had
resigned is denied.
1t is reported that England has
seized the Mexican island of Clarion
for a coaling station.
The new commercial treaty between
Germany and Japan has been affirmed
by the Japanese priyy council.
The car of Russia is reported to be
in hourly dread of his life owing to the
discovery Of renewed Eihilist activity.
The Standard Bank of Toronto an
nounces that American 81 bills or sill
yer certificates will be discounted at the
rate of 10 per cent.
Clouds Obscured the observations of
the total eclipse of the sun at Vadso, On
the west coast of Nova Zembla, and at
St. Petersburg, Russia.
Miss Clara Barton, president of the
Red Cross society of America, has
started on her return from Armenia,
where she went TO distribute relief.
George H. Murray, premier and pro-
vincial secretary, and = w. Longley,
attorney general, were elected to the
Nova Scotia asst mbly without oppo5i-
ton
Rear Admiral Thomas o. Selfridge
and other American naval officers paid
an official visit to the United States en-
bassy and the British admiralty in
London.
The returns issued by the London
board of trade for July show that i'm
ports increased E7S0,000 during that
month, as compared with July last
year.
One hundred and seventy games of
the international chess tournament
have been finished. i. Lasker won the
first prize, Maroczy the second, Pills
bury is sure of tying for third and
fourth. JanOwsli wins the fifth. Stein
itz the sixth and Schlachter and Wal
brodt divide the seventh prize.
Among the passengers sailing from
Liverpool for New York on the Cunard
line steamer Umbria are Lord Russell
of Killowen, lord chief justice Of Eng
land, and Sir Frank Lockwood, member
of parliament, queens counsel, formerly
solicitor general, who are going to
America to attend the meeting Of the
American bar association at Saratoga.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
NO HORSELESS CARRIAGES YET.
Barriers Against Them in England
Enthusiasm in Paris.

1t is little surprising that we do not
hear more Of the horseless carriage in
this country; but the outdoor season is
young yet, and this novelty in locomo-
ton may presently be taken up with
something of the enthusiasm that is
being shown for it in Paris, where hun
dreds of these vehicles, some driven by
petroleum motors and some by cleo
trio storage batteries, are plying in
the streets, and are for hire at the pub
lie carriage stands.
1t is recalled by a writer in the cur
rent Casters magazine that as far
back as 1854 a horselesS carriage was
invented and successfully propelled by
steam power by Mr.. Murdoch, a
Britisher, in the town of Redruth. The
progress of the carriage along the
highway created great terror among
the townspeople, and the vicar of the
parish was especially alarmed, believ-
ing that the Kissing, splitting little
concern was an embodiment of the evil
one himself.
1t was in 1862 that Sir Richard Tan
eye, noted manufacturer of Birming-
ham, England, made a successful ex-
pertinent in light, highspeed road loco
motives for carrying passengers along
country roads to connect with the
main railway line in that section OF
England A Lorseless carriage Of this
class travelled hundreds of miles and
carried thousands of passengers at that
time.
The total weight of the locomotive
was twenty-seVen hundredWeight
The machinery was simple and COM
pact, and the whole outfit occupied no
more space than an ordinary phaetoI
1t was capable of carrying ten persons.
The greatest speed obtained was over
twenty miles an hour, and the engine
was under perfect control.
1t soon became evident that there
was an opening for considerable
business in these engines, but the
wisdom" of parliament made it i'm
possible. The SquireS became alarmed
lest their horses should take fright; and
; an act was passed, therefore, providing
that no locomotive should travel at
more than four miles an hour on the
public roads, and that they should ell
be preceded by man carrying a red
flag.
thus was the horseless carriage in
novatiOn suppressed thirty-1our years
ago in Great britain, sUrangled in It's
cradle, while, Without doubt. more
/ horses have been frightened by the red
nag than would have been by the loco
motives. Tins act Of parliament still
blocks the way to its introduction on
/ me highways of that country.
BUT we have no sucn barrier here
against their use, ana we snail no
doubt see plenty OF Inem on our roads
DIS soon as a practicable type or motor
carriage has been built at a reasonable
cost and adapted to our thoroughfares,
on which the light and elegant style or
/ vehicle used in Paris and It's well-kept
suburbs would be quite unserviceable. =
new York Recorder.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
HOW PUSS REGARDS MAN.

The cat was a solitary roamer, whose
companion were the trees of its native
forests. 1t found a home in the hollow
trunks and safety among the branches.
How do We know that the cats ances-
tors were jewellers in the forest? Be
cause every kitten takes to a tree as
readily as duck to water. Also be-
cause nearly all forest jewellers are
notified in color, so that they may not
be conspicuous among the light and
shadows beneath the trees. While I
was considering what was the probable
view held by cats about human beings,
it was suggested by one ingenious
friend that probably they regard a
man as a kind of locomotive tree, pleas
ant to rub against, the lower limbs of
which afford a comfortable seat, and
from whose upper branches occasion
ally drop tid-bits of mutton and other
luscious fruits. We may laugh at the
theory, but it has quite a respectable
string of facts behind it to back it up.
If the Kanakas argued from the pig to
the horse, why should the cat not pass
from the familiar tree to the unfamiliar
organism called man?
The cat, in spite of the domestic
character it has acquired, is in reality
the least tame of our animal servants.
AS far as it's duties are concerned man
has taught it practically nothing. Its
methods of pursuing rats, mice, and
birds are all entirely it's own 1t is in
deed rather a wild animal which has
taken up it's residence in our houses for
it's own purposes rather than a servant
or a slave-Louis Robinson in North
American Review for August.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
STEALING OF PET ANIMALS.

There have ben very bitter COM
plants in many portions of the coun-
try about the stealing of domestic and
pet animals by gangs of organized
thieves who carry off these creatures
in the hope of reward for their return.
That they work under a thorough sys-
tenn is clearly evident from the fact
that animals carried a, long distance
have been stolen within six hours of
their arrival, making it plain that word
was sent on ahead and that confeder-
ates were on the lookout. In several
instances these pets have been found
dead within a short distance of their
owners house; the thieves, having
failed to get as large rewards as they
thought they ought to get, killed the
animals and placed them near their
homes as warning to other families of
what might be expected in the future.
1t is bad enough to have ones pets
stolen without suffering the additional
distress Of feeling that they will De
certainly killed if not redeemed at an
extortionate price.-New York Ledger.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20

logical specimens, domestic and for
eign, which he made during many
years, and his surveying instruments,
one Of which was his fathers compass,
used by John Brown in Pennsylvania,
Ohio, North Ef0a and Kansas, particu-
larly at Ossawatomie and along the
Pottawatomie Greek, near which is laid
the scene of Arthur Patterson's novel,
For Her Sake, of which Brown is the
hero, now publishing in the weekly edi-
ton OF the London Times. Other ar
ticles Of value will be sold by Mrs.
Brown, whose address is Put-in-Bay.
Ohio. This is an opportunity of which
collectors in Kansas and elsewhere
should avail themselves. The children
Of John Brown, Jr., are two-John and
Mrs. T. B. AleXander-both living with
their mother at n-Bay.-Spring-
field Republican.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20

ton and the late Mrs. James r. Roose-
welt; Mr. Roosevelt is now secretary
to the. United States legation at Lon
don. -.
When Mr.. Van Allen returned to this
country with his children he at npee
became a leading figure in swelldon.
The breach between the Astors and the
Van Aliens ended with the death of
William Aston some four years ago.
and now there is nothing but harmony
Mr.. Van Allen took a prominent part
in the Decentralization campaign of
1892, and it was said contributed $50
900 to the democratic national cam
paign fund. After his election Mr.
Cleveland appointed Mr.. Van Allen
hue and cry raised that Mr.. Van Allen
declined.
The young duke of Manchester will
not be twenty-one until March 8, 1898.
His full name is William Angus Drogo
MOntagu, and he has been in posses
sion of his title for four years, his
father having died in 1892 He was
educated at Elton. If the family ex-
chequer had been more robust he would
have been sent to Oxford, where there
are many fine opportunities for a
young man of his standing to pile up
debts at a terrific pace He has three
family seats, but none of the estates
are remunerative. They are Kimbol-
ton castle and Brampton park in Hunt
ingtonshire and Tanderagee castle
county Armagh, Ireland.
The pedigree of the young duke is
distinguished. 1t practically begins
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
GOOD SAMARITAN.

He gazed down at the gutter.
Poor old soakr' he said HAS it
come to this?"
A food Of "reminiscences seemed to
pour upon him.
Il knew you in your swelling pride"
he murmured. "Ah, how puffed up you
were! Water was good enough for you
then, but now-what pity! Shall
leave you here the butt of every passer
by? No, for old times sake I'll make
one more effort to redeem you"
And, STOPPING over the curb, he
lifted the ancient bath sponge and bore
it aWay.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
MAY WE'D THE DUKE
DUCHESS OF MANCHESTER?
NEAPORT'S GOSSIP BUSY
James J. Van Aliens Attentions TO
Ducal Visitors Said to Portend An
other international Marriage-The
Mother of the Duke Once Caused a
vanderbilt Family Row.

Newport, Aug. 10.-If Dame Rumor
knows what she is talking about, the
next international marriage of note Will
be between Miss May Van Allen, daugh-
ter Of James J. Van Allen, and the
young duke of Manchester, who has
not yet seen his twentieth birthday
Six months ago it was said that TIE
duchess of Manchester would BRING
her son here this summer for the par
ticular purpose of marrying him to an
American girl Of wealth. The young
man las not been married yet, but it
looks as if the news of six months ago
were true. 1t seems to be so generally
understood that the duchess is hunting
for rich wife for her boy that It oc-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
NAPOLEON'S TITLE TO NOBILITY.

In May, 1913, the Emperor Francis,
anxious to salve the lacerated pride OF
the Hapsburgs, produced a bundle of
papers purporting to prove that the
Bonapartes had once been ruling
princes at Treyiso MY nobility"
was Napoleon's singing reply, "daIes
that when the battle should be fought
that would undo Marengo, his nobility
would end. In other words, without
solid French support he was nothing
and that support he was fully aware
he could never have as king of France.
Prof. Sloane in the August Century.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20

How glorious to be rocked in the
cradle of the deep! Don't you think so
Mr.. Duzenberry?"
"Um-well, I don't know. 1t would
be all right if the deep wasn't inclined
to be too ambitious in the matter Of
rocking the cradle"
'Ah, but think of the sensations.
That's just what I'm thinking Of"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
BEATS HIM TO DEATH.

Did you ever see anything lie deeper
than the snow this winter?" the pas
senger from Canada was saying.
The passenger from Maine toyed re-
f1ectively with the corkscrew in his
pocket.
mot unless we except the oldest in
habitant," he replied, after a thought
full pause-New York World
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
GREAT DISCOVERY.

General Weyler now thinks he could
subdue the Cuban insurgents if he
could prevent them from getting any
thing to eat.-New York Press
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
REAL POVERTY.

rs she really so poor?"
Poor! Why, it's one Of the most
Ditiful cases 1 ever heard Of She's too
poor even to own bicycle"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-04
THE JAILs NEW TOWER.
Plans Approved, But the Tower Will
Not he Built This Year.

The county commissioners have accept
ed Architect A. s. Eichberg's plans for a
new tower to be put on the county jail in
the place Of that which was destroyed by
the storm Of Sept. 20. Mr.. Eichberg drew
several plans for tower, from which the
board has selected one that will add great
ly to the appearance OF the building.
II is to be a round tower of the Venetian
Gothic style and the top Of It will be just
100 feet from the ground. 1t will be built
OF brick, stone and terra Gotta, with a
framework OF wrought iron, and there viii
be wrought iron balconies al each Of the
four windows. The tower to be put on the
building as It stands at present will bs
about fifty feet high. 1t " estimated
roughly that IL viii cost about 200.
owing to the fact that there Is no money
IN the treasury for this purpose the tower
will not be built this year, but it is likely
that bids Will be advertised for next year,
and that the amount necessary VIII go into
next years budget. The tower when con-
structed Will add greatly to the general
appearance Of the building.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-04
loss or THE HITS.
Herr Liebnecht Tries to Cast a sIur
ON the sailors.

ON the sailors.
Berlin, Dec. BIN the Reichstag to-day
in the course of the discussion of the budg-
et Herr Liebknecht, socialist, severely
criticized the remar ks OF Admiral Won Holl-
man, the secretary of the navy, concern
ing the conduct of the sailors Of the Ger
man cruiser Itis, who eheered for the
kaiser as the ship went went down, with
nearly all hands, off the coast of China.
The speaker declared that the Hits was
unseaworthy and that the sailors who
were lost showed no more courage than
thousands of miners in the course of their
work.
The president rebuked Herr Liebknecht
for his remark detracting from the
bravery Of the sailors.
Herr Liebknecht said that he had heard
threats that the Reichstag might be dis
solved if the naval estimates were not
passed. There was a certain person behind
that threat, he said, who would do one
thing to-day and another tomorrow, no
body knowing what he might take in his
head to-day. This condition of things was
unworthy of the Reichstag.
The president again called the speaker
to order.
Resuming his remarks, Herr Liebknecht
declared that the trial OF the editors now
In progress for alleged libel against Baron
Marschal Won Bierberstein and others
showed that base intrigues were on foot
in the higher circles. Concluding, he said
that the socialists would vote neither men
nor money for militarism or navalism.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-04
POPE LEO AND THE rRELATEs.
No Measure TO BE Taken Against
leading American Churchmen.


Washington, Dec. S.-The flood of gossip
following the deposition of Bishop Keane
from the rectorship of the Catholic Uni
versity of America appearing in the news
papers has reached Rome and has result
ed in the cardinal secretary of state send
ing the following cablegram, received this
afternoon at the apostolic legation here:
Rome, Dec. 3, 1896. -Monsignor Martinelli
Apostolic Delegate, Washington, D. c., u.
s. A: The holy father has learned with
great sorrow of the agitation created in
the United States by pretended CORE
spondence and kilograms from Rome an
nouneing measures soon to be taken
against eminent American prelates and
distinguished professors of the Catholic
University. Your excenency will authori-
tatively deny all such falsehoods, which
are the product of reprehensible machina-
tons. M. Cardinal RamnoIla
A Catholic churchman, well-versed with
all the steps leading up to Bishop Keane's
removal said tonight that the action Of
the holy father in sending the cablegram
above should put stop to all further gos-
sip on the subject. Il was wei. unders God,
he said, in church circles, that Bishop
Keanes removal was brought about by
| German ecclesiastic influence, and it was
hoped by the same influence that further
changes in the same direction and follow
ing the same lines would follow. While
he deprecated sensational newspaper talk,
| in this instance it seemed to him to have
had an excellent effect, as it had reached
the ears of Rome, which had called a halt
on the assaults being made by the German
ecclesiastcs on the American party of the
Catholic church in America. The Ameri-
can party, he said had not lifted finger
to repel such assaults, nor had it sent tales
to Rome but simply abided its time, with
the result that the holy faher had now
taken the matter in his own hands.
1t is stated here tonight that Father
Mackin and Gloyd of this city, warm
friends of Bishop Keane, will accompany
him on his visit to the Eternal city.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-04
NEW YORK's GOLD DEMOCRATS
A Meeting Held For the Purpose of
formulating Plans.

Formulating Plans.
New York. Dec. IA meeting Of the ma
tional democracy-gold democrats-was
held tonight in the ball room Of the Hoff-
man house. About 125 prominent mem
bers of the party we're present.
Francis NJ Scott called the meeting to
order, and in doing so stated that the
meeting was called for the purpose of
formulating plans for increasing the MEN,
bership and perfecting the organization Of
the party. I'VE want an organization"
said he, "that Will maintain the true prin-
ciples Of democracy In the state and ma
ton so that the great mass Of voters will
realize that we are right and those who
have gone away from our standard are
wrong"
Wheeler III. Peckham said that he be-
heved that party can be formed in this
state and city that will supersede the
present democratic organization.
Robert d. Roosevelt offered resolution
providing that the chair should appoint
a committee of fifteen to act with the
chair In formulating plans for perfecting
and increasing the organization. II was
adopted unanimously. Former governor
OF South Carolina, Hugh s. Thompson,
spoke I'm favor of the new party being
fully organized, and said: The south Is
a fruitful field for such a party as you
propose 70 organize. II has been a ques-
ton OF races in the south, but I believe
the time has come when we will vote for
principles and not on account OF the
races"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-04
GERMAN EDITORS IN THE DOCK.
Prince HOhenIOhe and Baron Won
Bieberstein as Witnesses.

Bieberstein as Witnesses.
Berlin, Dec. S.-The trial of the five edi-
tors, Baron Won Luetzow and Herren Foell-
mar, Leckert, Plovitz and Berger, charged
with Hbelling Count Won Gutenberg Fret
herr Marschal Won Bieberstein and Prince
Alexander Won Hohenlohe, was continued
to-day.
Prince Hohenlohe, on the stand, said that
the assertion that the defendant Leckert
had interviewed him meant nothing at all
Under. the pretence that he had an import
ant communication to make, Leckert had
forced his way into the official ante-cham-
Der at Breslau and accosted him prince
Hohenlohe) at the door, asking question
upon some matter or other of a wholly
trifing nature. 1t was possible, he said
that Leckert had asked if Count Kapnist
would succeed Pince Lobanoff as Russian
minister of foreign affairs, to which ques-
ton he received the answer that the wit
ness knew nothing about Prince Lobanotf's
successor and had no time to waste. The
whole incident, he added, was utterly in
significant.
Baron Marsehal Won Bieberstein was
called to the stand. He said he was not
acquainted with either Baron Won Luet-
zoW or Herr Leckert. Under the suppo-
sition that he had been approached by a
reporter at Breslau, who was unable to
take notes in French, he said he had writ
ten out the cars toast for him, which
was verified by a Russian official. The
wrong version of the toast, he said, was
due to a mistake of the reporter. Alter
wards it appeared that Baron Won Luet-
zow was the author of the assertion that
the false report had emanated from the
foreign office.