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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-15

cold, wet nose showed into my face.
There was big Newfoundland dog
wagging his tail as merrily as a buzz
saw cuts through soft wood. Well.
that dog ran first 70 the lighted Ian
tern on the floor, then back to me, and
then pretty soon I began to think
something was wrong. Up l got and
he led me all through the freighthouse,
up to the operators rooms and back to
the office, then calmly went to sleep
with one eye open and one ear pricked
up. l waited for the train, but before
| heard it he began to bark.
The next night the same perform
ance. Well, after that I used to go to
sleep and for the week l was there that
dog kept watch. You see, the regular
was fond of sleep ct night so he could
play poker all day. I never told on
him, but that was a vell-trained dog"
That's no experience" said Billy
Marshall. There was only half q
thrill in that. Why, in 1888, during
the blizzard, l was holding down a
night job in New jersey. 1t was the
dreariest spot that a railroad official
could pick out for a station. 1t was so
quiet in the daytime that you could
hear the sunlight CLINT and at night
the shadows fall. 7: was showing
when 1 went on at night and all trains
were blocked, and by morning I was
almost buried. Ny lunch was long ago
gone and felt like grinding my teeth
into some breakfast. Dinner time
came and went, supper hour passed
and no relief arrived. l chewed on
lead pencils and rubber bands until l
felt like a girl bookkeeper. l pulled
in my belt and nearly cut myself in
two, but the old hunger was there, just
the same. So l tried to sleep, but
there was no sleep in me with that
gnawing at my stomach.
''All at once [ saw three muskrats
come up through a hole in the floor
Muskrat was better than starvation, so
l made for them with poker, killed
one and the others got away to freeze
to death. SHINING that fellow and
dressing him didn't take long, and
with wire l rugged a broiler. You bet
your life the smell of that cooking rat
was just great joy, and I'm no chink,
either. 1t just tickled me so that fell
asleep and only woke up when he was
so burnt that the odor nearly choked
me-
THE snow pillow came along soon
however, and when I got filled up
aOain I of OloH 7 hadn't
down the old muskrat, after all. He
might not have agreed with me-
New York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-15

work. These changes effect more
than 1000 operatives.
Rev. F. L. Allen, for II years the
popular pastor of the Congregational
church at Henniker, N. H., has left
town with his family. He made a con-
fession to the church authorities, as
a result of which he was promptly
expelled. He is 40 years old and has
a wife and two children. The dis
grace is keenly felt by the church.
Word has been received by the peo-
pies party state committee of Massa-
chusetts that all of their candidates in
the disputed districts, the eighteenth,
the nineteenth and the twentieth con-
gressional districts, had sent in their
designations as candidates on the
ticket. This is in accordance with
the plan of fusion between the demo-
Gratis and the populists of the state
Mr.. Bryan travelled from Cincinnati
to st. Louis, speaking at many places
on the way. On his arrival at ST.
Louis he made public letter accept
ing the populist nomination for the
presidency. Subsequently he ad-
dressed the convention of the Nation
al Association of Democratic clubs
Then he went through Indiana and
Michigan. He will be in Wisconsin
the last of the month.
A dispatch from Valparaiso says:
The minister of finance held a long
conference with the managers of the
banks and the heads of important
business houses with a view of devils
ing means to stay the commercial
crisis which is imminent. They de-
clared that the only means of solving
the crisis was an announcement by
the government that it would main
tain the gold conversion law at all
hazards.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-15
AFFAIRS ABROAD.

Ii Hung Chang has arrived at
Tientsin, China.
Paris made a gala day on the occa-
sion of the visit of the car.
Reports from Cuba by way of New
Orleans indicate important insurgent
successes.
Havana is reported to be hourly ex-
pecting to be attacked by Maceo's vic
torious army.
Mrs. Bernard-Beere, the celebrated
English actress is reported in london
to be dying.
1t is reported that the fire in Quay
aquil, Ecuador, destroyed fifteen
squares of buildings.
Reports from Spanish sources indi-
cate the defeat of the insurgents in
two engagements.
William Morris, the English design
er, poet and author, who some years
ago declared his belief in socialism,
is dead.
Over one hundred bodies of persons
been recovered in the state of Sinaloa
Mexico.
Lord Aberdeen said that an ami
cable settlement of the Manitoba
school question would shortly be ar
rived at.
Five white persons and many ma
tives were killed by the explosion of
a powder magazine at Buluwayo, in
Matabeland.
The Spanish supreme court at Mad
rid, after due consideration, has found
that the proceedings of the naval
court martial, which convicted the
prisoners taken from the schooner
Competitor of being filibusterers, and
sentenced them to death, was errone-
Gus.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, the
leader in the house of commons
called upon the government to grant
security and protection to the Ar
menians The Turks, he said, could
never be reformed until it ceased tc
exist.
The great fire at Guavaquil, Ecua-
dor, is believed to have been of incen-
| diary origin, and some arrests have
been made. Many people lost their
lives during the confagration and the
losses are now estimated at s54,400,-
900. The populace is furious and is
demanding the prompt punishment of
the guilty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-15
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

The newest etiquette of engagements
is for the head of the family formally,
by card, to announce to an interested
world that a marriage has been ar
ranged. This is done Immediately after
Edwin and Angela exchange their vows
and quite independently of the day fixed
for the marriage, of the wedding an
nouncement cards, and of invitations to
the ceremony itself. An engagement
announcement is engraved on a large,
white square of very thick, polished
bristol-board, and simply states that
"A marriage has been arranged be-
tween Edwin Beckwith, fourth son of
John H. Hamilton, Esq, of Westwood,
Duchess County, New York, and
Angela Dearborn, second daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas P. Nelson, of
East 9th Street, New York City, to
take place early in November"
In case, however, the engagement
after this should be broken, precedent
has already been established by one
fashionable pair Of parents who in
stantly issued formal cards saying that
the arrangement for the marriage of
their daughter had been indefinitely
postponed Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-15
HOW JUNGLE SAM" GOT HIS NAME.

Uncle Sam'as applied to the United
States government, was named after
Samuel Wilson, commonly called 'FUncle
SAM" who was a government inspector
SAM was a government inspector of
of beef and pork at Troy, n. Y, about
1912. A contractor, Gilbert Anderson,
purchased a quantity of provisions,
and the barrels were marked ''E. A."
Anderson's initials, and "U. So for
United States. The latter initials were
not familiar to Wilson'S workmen, who
inquired what they meant A facetious
fellow answered; Il don't know, unless
they mean Uncle Sam" A vast
amount OF property afterwards passed
through Wilson's hands marked in the
same manner, and he was often joked
upon the extent OF his possessions
The joke spread through all the depart
ments Of the government, and before
long the United States was popularity
to as Uncle Sam"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-15
A BRAVE BERLIN MAID.
She Actually Rode on Top of Tram
car Alone!

The new woman" of Germany is a
very harmless being, familiar to us now
for years at any rate, if she aspires no
! higher than the young lady whose do
ings are immortalized by the Jewish
Chronicle. A Berlin correspondent of
this paper writes: "On my way from
the LeipZiger Strasse to the Exhibition,
while sitting on the top of a tramcar
a young lady of some seventeen sum-
mers, with fine, intelligent and unmis-
takably Jewish face, came on and sa
as maiden never blushed before, an
my curiosity was aroused to it's highest
point when | noticed every person on
the car stare at her with a smile of
appreciation. Nay, more, on the route
people stopped and looked at her Men
raised their hats and women waved
their handkerchiefs. Indeed, children
looked through the windows and kept
their eyes on the top of my tram till
they could see it no more. What could
all this mean? That the young Jewess
a person whom all Berlin was idolizing,
thorough appreciation and heartfelt
gratitude, was patent to all who had
eyes to see. What, then was her heroic
deed? Why did every person on the
car say most cordially Ich gratuliere
linen, Fraulein, when the lady was
about to descend?
The solution of the mystery was as
singular as it was amusing. 1t had, by
the vigorous laws and customs of the
Teutons, been denied until the morning
in question to the fair sex to ascend
steps of an omnibus or tramcar
throughout the length and breadth of
Germany. But at length the ladies had
their way-as ladies always willard
the great privilege was reserved for me
to sit beside the young Jewess whose
name ought to be handed down to
posterity as most probably the first
female in Germany who was bold
enough to ascend the steps of a tram
car"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-15
OF PHOTOGRAPHERS.
Knights of the Key Are Sometimes
Placed in Peculiar Positions.

Telegraph operators have queer ex-
periences at times, especially at the
lonely railroad stations where travel is
light, hours long and the work is done
at night. An experience meeting Of
sailors, so far as yarn spinning is con-
cerned, is as mild compared to a tele-
graphers' social session as milk is to a
tars shore leave Several knights of
the key were sitting about table
downtown after hours recently when
the tongues began to wag about exper-
fences. Gil Bradley started the ball.
Il was sent one night to sub on the
Texas and Pacific at a little station
called Gordon he said. There was
one hotel Of four rooms a mile from the
telegraph station, and two or three
cabins about the same distance off.
The regular operator had his rooms
over the station and freighthouse,
where supplies were received for the
coal mines, several miles away. 1t
was the loneliest place [ ever struck,
but l had to work After fixing things
l lay down on a bench to wait for the
next freight. l suppose l dozed, for 1
Jumped up with a start at feeling a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-15
BANDITS ON WHEELS
DARE DEVILS ROB A BANK AND
ESCAPE ON BICYCLES.
TWO MEN WANTCNLY SLAIN
The Bold Act Takes Place at Sher-
burne, Mimi Recalls the North
field Raids Of the Past-One Woman
the Only Witness in Hot
Pursuit-Capture Expected.

FairmOnt, Mimi, Oct. S.-TWo masked
and bicycle-mounted robbers swept into
the little town Of Sherburne, IA miles
from here yesterday, dashed into the
bank Of Sherburne, murdered the
cashier and a bystander, and securing
200 from the cash tray, mounted their
wheels and escaped before the very
eyes Of the startled villagers. The af-
fair was conducted with all the BRAY
ado of a border drama and the killing
of the two men, one of whom died in
stantly, was purely wanton as neither
made any resistance. The dead are:
Olaf j. Oestern, travelling agent of Wal
ter A. Wood Harvester company, shot
through the heart, and Assistant
Cashier George Thorborn, bank of
Sherburne, shot in the head.
The crime is paralleled only by the
raid of Jesses James and the Younger
boys when they sWooped down upon
the little town of Mortified, few
miles north Of the scene of yesterday
crime, shot the cashier of the bank of
Mortified down and decamped with
large amount of money. In that in
stance the robbers departed on horses
whereas yesterdays criminals, in
keeping with the times, used
bicycles in escaping from the
enraged citizens of Sherburne
At 100 two masked men walked
through the front entrance of the bank
to the cashiers box and without a
word whipped out revolvers and lev
eled them at Assistant Cashier Thor
born. The latter did lot move, but
the next minute the report of two
Tevolvers rang out and the cashier fell
at his desk. At another desk in the
bank stood Oestern, a travelling man.
He was the only immediate bar to the
ends which the robbers sought to gain
and as Thorborn fell to the floor, they
turned ON him and shot him dead. AS
rapidly as possible they leaped over the
railing which separated them from the
cashiers desk and secured a thou
sand dollars in cash. They then ran
for the back door Of the bank, where
they had taken the precaution to leave
their bicycles, mounted them and rode
away. 1t all happened inside of two
minutes, the only witness to the deed
being a woman who stood across the
street and who was attracted by the
report of the reyolvers. AS soon as
possible she gave the alarm and in five
minutes the little town of Sherburne
was i'm state of excitement such as
never before has been seen there.
Thorborn, it was found, was not dead
Oestern, however, was shot through
the heart and had apparently been in
stantly killed. Thorborn lived two
hours. Sherburne contains scarcely a
score more than 800 inhabitants but
inside of ten minutes several posses
formed and a search was at once insti-
tuted. Every town and village where
there was the slightest possibility OF
the robbers visiting in their efforts tt
escape has been warned and Their cap.
ture is expec ed at any momeEt. Wher
last heard from they were near En-
metsburg, Iowa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-15

In the northern part of Madagascar
is the most remarkable natural for
tress in the world. 1t is occupied by
wild tribe, who call themselves the
people Of the rocks. The fortress is
a lofty and precipitous rock of enor-
nous size, 1000 feet high and eight
square miles in area. It's sides are so
steep that it cannot be climbed without
artificial means. Within it is hollow,
and the only entrance is by subter-
ranean passage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-15
CHINESE CANDOR.

The greatest puzzle Ii Hung Chang
finds in Western civilization is the ur-
women. He takes it for grant
ed that every woman he meets has en-
tered state of matrimony, and invari
ably asks her how many children she
has. In China woman who is not
and the mother of children
can scarcely be said to move in good
society.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-15

Sherburne, Mimi, Oct. 1O.-A tele-
gram was received yesterday afternoon
by President Brown of the robbed
bank, saying that one of the robbers
and murderers had been taken dead af-
ter hard fight. The dead bandit had
a roll of the stolen bills on his person.
The marshal of Bancroft, Ia, was
killed in the fight. No one else was
hurt although the fight was a fierce
one. The dead body of the robber
will be brought here.
A later dispatch says the dead ban
dit instead of being killed as at first
reported committed suicide after being
tracked down. He was traced to a de-
serted house by Deputy Sheriff Ward
and Tom. Gallien marshal, of Ban
croft. AS the latter approached the
fugitive sprang out and levelling his
revolver shot Gallien dead. He then
mounted his wheel and started off but
after going four miles his tire col
lapsed and he fed ON foot to a neigh
boring corn field. A bullet from
Wards revolver winged him and as the
posse came laundering UP he turned
his weapon and sent ball crashing
through his own brain. His evident
fear Of being lynched was well-ground-
ed. The dead man is the larger of the
robbers He had a large amount of
money on his person.
According to a Paramount CMinn.),
account the other is said to be sur
rounded in the woods between Forest
City and Albert Lea, MIMI, and mis-
capture is considered certain.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-15

Between Carthage and Stislingville,
in Jefferson county, New York, there
is stretch of country where the sand
drifts like snow, making great banks.
and binding the eyes of those who
look up-wind. 1t is desolate, barren
region, where the soil is only as deep
as the roots of the grass.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-15

The children of the Anois, people
living in northern Japan, do not re-
ceiye their name until after they are
5 years old. It is the father who then
chooses the name by which the child
IS afterward called.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-15


Miss Clara Barton, president of the
American National Red Cross society,
and the members of her staff who re-
Gently arrived in New York from Tur-
key, arrived in Washington and re-
opened the Red Cross headquarters,
the house having been closed during
Miss Barton's absence
At the conference of the Mormon
church all the authorities of the
church were sustained with the ex-
ception of Apostle Moses Thatcher.
whose name was omitted from the list
The action against Thatcher was for
failing to take counsel before accept
ing nomination for political office.
The president has appointed Will
liam H. White of Virginia to be United
States attorney for the eastern dis
trict of Virginia, to succeed Francis
R. Lasiter, whose participation in old
dominion politics drew forth a letter
from Attorney General Harmon
against judicial officers participating
in politics.
A convention of blind people is in
session in ST. Louis with forty persons
present, some Of them from other
states. E. B. West of Iowa, president
of the national association Of colleges
for the blind, presides; Miss Lima A
Owens serves as recording secretary,
and Miss Barbara of Windsor, Mo-, as
corresponding secretary.
At Lawrence. Mass, the Everett
mills have started up in all depart
ments after shut down of more than
two months. The running time for
the present will be forty hours week.
At the Arlington mills an increased
number of operatives were put to
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-21

an alarm to-day that resulted in the cap
ture of two desperate daylight burglars.
Early in the afternoon Miss Shorey saw
two men in the grounds of the house of ].
I. Agard at $40 Seventeenth street. She
watched them ring the bell, and after re-
ceiving TO answer they went around to the
back OF the house and were lost 20 sight
behind the lattice work. She at once
went to her father and told him of what
she had seen. He went to the rear of the
house and found the two men at work
They had broken open q window and were
in the house.
AS soon as they saw the detective they
attempted to run, but Shorey held them
both. He was attempting to put hand
cuffs on them when one, named joe Nc
Cullough, broke away.
DR.. @. T. Rodolph had seen the deteo-
tive going around the house, and when he
saw Mccullough rush onto the lawn
through window 10 the basement he at
once attempted to stop him. A desperate
struggle on the lawn followed. The doc
tor is powerful man and so is the bur-
glar. They rolled over and over and Nc
Cullough made several attempts to
draw his revolver, while DR.. Rodolph
directed his efforts toward preventing
him.
Seeing her husband engaged in
struggle for his life Mrs. Rodoiph, whose
house is quite near to that of Mr.. Agard.
blew a police whistle and help quickly
came. DR.. Rodolph, however, had mis-
man on the ground and was sitting on
him after taking two guns from his
pockets before he received aid.
Meanwhile Detective Shorey was en-
gagged in fight with the other man,
whose name is Charles Hetherstone. TIE
detective had a hard struggle, but he
He then went ana ironed the burglar on
whom Dr.. Rodolph was sitting on the
lawn.
Just after the two burglars were locked
up f. r. Chadwick, teller of the Donohoe-
Kelly bank of San Francisco, who resides
at 953 Chestnut street, telephoned to the
station that his home had been robbed at
! o'clock. II was discovered that the
house had been torcibly enter d, window
having been broken open by Jimmy
Silyer-plate and jeweiry were stolen
returned from church.
An inspection of the basement of the
Agard house showed that the burglars
were the same who had just ransacked the
Chadwick house, as ali the property stolen
from the latter's place was in the base
ment. Mr. Chadwick identified it at once.
Within three hours both burglaries had
been committed and tine men landed in
Jail This is the most desperate daylight
burglary that has been carried out in this
city for several yeers.
Both men were armed and jimmy was
found on each OF them. Before Shorey
succeeded in subduing Hetherstone he
had nearly choked the burglar into insen-
sibility.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-21
News Notes of Interest.

BERKELEY, CAL, Sept. 2O-Tt is expected
that plans ior the eight-room school building
to be erected on Dwight way at q cost OF
$4,000 will be opened at the regular meeting
OF the Board OF Education tomorrow evening
w. L; Mecum, deputy high ranger OF the In
for the purpose of establishing local court Of
the order.
Rev. G. C. Harriet, who recently came to
san francisco for the purpose OF establishing
Bible seminary, preached this morning at
the South Berkeley Presbyterian Church.
A protest against the laying of cement
sidewalk on Shattuck avenue, between Vine
and virginia streets. has been filed with the
Town Clerk.
ment at the State University has arranged to
have the battalion go through the ceremony
OF guard mount next Tuesday and THURSDAY
afternoons. Lieutenant Case will be officer Of
the day.
Professor Edward Bull Clapp, of the depart
ment OF Greek at the State University, gave
the second OF his lectures on the "Greek New
Testament at the First CONGREGATIONAL
Church to-day.
The gold Democrats at the State University
are preparing to organize club. The matter
is in the hands of RaineY 9S and Bush '98.
Judge C. r. Lord, one Of the present Justices
OF the Peace in Berkeley, has announced him
self es q candidate for reelection to represent
the East End. and Judge s. A. Pennell is a
candidate for the West End Justiceship.
The electric lights of Berkeley will be run
ming ali night b. October /, when the oak
land circuit will be extended TO the university
town.
The faculty OF the university have recon-
mended TO the committee of the Regents on
buildings and grounds that three tents with a
sesting capacity OF 600 each be erected near