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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-07-16
The Home Market and the Farmer.

The home market, created by
increased manufactures, encour-
aged by a Protective Tariff, has
changed the condition of the agri-
culturists of the country to their
advantage and profit. This system
has given to the farmers Of this
country, whether they grow cotton
or corn, wheat or wool, the best
domestic market anywhere offered;
has given to our people a diver
sity Of employments, to our
industries wider range, and to our
labor better wages, than can be
found elsewhere. Aside from the
men who labor in shop or mine,
no class Of our citizens today are
so deeply interested in the main
tenance Of a Protective system as
the farmers. They sell 8 per
cent, Of all their products at home,
and every mile of transportation
saved is money earned. There is
no portion of our people, except
labor, which would be so serious
ly affected in income and profits
from the policy of Free-Trade as
the farmers. The recent census
shows the remarkable growth Of
agriculture in the last ten years
under Protection. In one depart
ment, that of truck-farming, the
progress was almost phenomenal.
Upward of SICo,OOo,oCo are
invested in this industry, the
annual products reaching a value
Of S76,5I5I55 on farms, after pay
ing freights and commissions.
There are employed in this
industry 2I6,765 men, 1854
women, and 1854 children,
aided by 1886 horses and mules,
and $8,70I,2O7 worth Of imple-
ments. This vast industry could
not be possible except with a home
market. The products are perish
able; would not stand long
shipments; must be consumed
when ripe, and are Of little value
except to home consumers.
Nothing could be so disastrous to
the American farmer as the sur
render of the home market for the
foreign. The value of every farm
is increased by its nearness to a
manufacturing center, which is a
home consumer. The farmer wants
more mouths to feed, more men
who do not produce from the soil,
but who earn money in the shop,
and he wants them as near,hiS field
OF production as he can get them.
The closer you can bring the field
of production to the field of con-
sumption the better it will be for
the producer and the consumer;
and that is exactly what, under
Protection, our home market has
done, Ask the farmer whether he
would rather have another farm or
a factory beside him, and he will
take the factory William,
Mckinley.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-07-16
SINGS BASS.

The role taken by Paulus in
chairman Coles. side show, sug-
gests that of a jackass at camp
meeting. He isn't expected to
convert sinners, but to sing bass.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-07-16
EMPLOYMENT OF IDLE MONEY.

Gentlemen, the employment OF
our idle money, the idle money
that we already have in gainful
pursuits, will put every idle man
in the country at work, and when
there is work, there is wages,
there are consumers who consti-
tute best market for the products
of our soil. Having destroyed
business and confidence by free
trade policy, it is now proposed to
make things still worse by enter
ing upon an era Of deprecated
currency. Not content with the
Inauguration Of the ruinous policy
which has brought down the
wages Of the laborer and the price
of farm products.
It's advocates now offer a new
policy which will diminish the
value of the money in which
wages and products are paid.
[Applause.] Against both Of
these, we stand opposed. Our
creed embraces an honest dollar,
an untarnished national credit,
adequate revenues for the uses Of
the government, protection to
labor and industry, preservation
of the home market, and recipro-
city which will extend our foreign
markets. Upon this platform we
stand, and submit its declarations
to the sober and considerate
judgment of the American people
[Great applause.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-07-16
SAVE NATIONAL HONOR.
Importance of the Pending PoIiti=
cal Contest.

cal Contest.
Canton, O., July lit was
less than al hour after the
adjournment Of the Chicago con-
vention when the Thirty-Second
Ward Foraker club of Cleveland
arrived in Canton, 500 strong,
with their wives and daughters.
They marched at once to Gov.
McKinley's residence. After
President D. H. Lucas had made a
presentation address, Gov. McKin-
ley said:
1t gives me very great pleasure
to welcome you to my home city
and to my home, and l appreciate
more than | can find words to
express the honor and the COM
pliment of this call. l thank you
for your congratulations and the
assurances of support which you
make for the great principles for
which this year the Republican
party stands. Applause. |
congratulate you upon having for
your name one of the most
lllustrious of our statesmen in
Ohio, Joseph Benson Foraker.
Applause.
A CONTEST TO SAVE OUR MONEY.
My fellow citizens, recent events
have imposed upon the patriotic
people ofthis country response
bility greater than the civil war.
Then it was struggle to preserve
the government Of the United
States; now it is struggle to
to preserve the honor of the
government. Cries Of Eyes" and
applause. Then it was a contest
to save the Union; now it is a con-
test to save spotIess its credit.
[ Great applause. Then, section
was arrayed against section; now
men of all sections can unite and
will unite to rebuke the repudi-
alton of our obligations and the
debasement Of our currency.
Applause. In this contest pa
triotism is above party and
national honor is dearer than any
party name.
The currency and credit Of our
government are good now, and
must be kept good forever. Our
trouble is not with the character
of the money that we have, but
with the threat to debase. We
have the same currency that we
had in I892-good the world over
and unquestioned by people.
Then, too, we had unexampled
credit and prosperity. Our
difficulty now is to get that money
in circulation and invested in
productive enterprises which
furnish employment to American
labor. Great applause.] This is
impossible with the distrust that
hangs over the country at the
present time, and every effort to
make our dollars, or any one of
them, worth less than 100 cents
each, only serve to increase the
distrust. What we want is a
sound policy, financial and indus
trial, which will give courage and
confidence to all, for when that
is done, the money now unem-
ployed because Of fear for the
future and lack of confidence in
investment, will quickly appear in
the channels of trade. Cries of
"You are right, Major" and
applause.
ENfpT OvNrENT 0E TTOT Z MONEY!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-07-16

Insure your property against loss by
Wind. 80 cts. per hundred for yrs.
Taylor & Scott agts. Grand Rapids and
Centralia, Wis. June1Sm3
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-07-16
Tornado Insurance.

l year 20 cents per 500.
) years 80 cents per 500.
> years 50 cents per 500.
In first-class company. forty-five
rears old. with more than One Million
Dollars cash capital.
GEO. n. WooD, Agt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-07-16
Notice Of General Election.
OFFICE OF COUNTY CLERK,


UFIIIE OF IUI Ny tLEKh, -
Wood County, Wisconsin. So
Pursuant to the following notice from the
Secretary of State, notice is hereby given that at
the general election to be held in the several
towns, wards and villages in Wood County, Wis
consin, the Tuesday succeeding the first
Monday, being the 3rd day of November, A. d.
1896, the following officers are to be elected:
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-28
A TERRIFIC TORNADO
A Destructive Storm Passes
Over the Northwest.
MANY STATES LAID WASTE
Loss of Life and Great Destruc-
tion Of Property.
SEVERAL PERSONS DROWNED
The Greatest Damage to Property Was
at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
Where Three Lives
Were Lost.

Pittsburg, Pa, July 27.--A wind and
rain storm of unusual ferceness visi-
ted here at 4:30 o'clock, causing the
loss of at least three lives and doing
immense damage to property.
Several dwellings were completely
demolished and others partially
wrecked. Eight or ten churches had
their roofs blown off and were other
wise damaged. Telegraph, telephone
and electric light poles were snapped
like pipe stems, mixing the wires in an
inextricable mass in the streets, maxi
ing travel in many sections of the city
impossible Fierce lightning and high
wind accompanied the storm or rather
two storms, for Pittsburg and Allegha-
ny was the meeting place of one storm
from the West which came up the Ohio
Valley, and another from the East,
which followed the course of the Ale
cheney river. Such a battle of the
element is rarely witnessed.
In East Pittsburg and Wilmerding,
hail fell in large quantities, some of
the stones being quite large. In the
first five minutes of the storm SO of
an inch of water fell and the wind
reached a velocity of thirty miles an
hour. At p. IN. another storm almost
as fierce as the first one, came up and
0.68 of an inch of rain fell, making a
total of 1873. The rivers are now rising
and another flood is expected
Among the casualties reported is'an
accident to the camp of the eighth
ward Hunting and Fishing Club of AL
legheny. The club was at it's camp in
Sugar Grove, about four miles up the
Allegheny river when the storm came
up. The members say it was genuine
cyclone. The trees in the grove were
broken and twisted as though they
We're weeds and one large sycamour,
thirty feet in circumference, was snap
ped off near the ground and fell upon
the tent of the campers, killing almost
instantly John Figus, breaking the
back of George Miller, who will die, an
seriously injuring Thomas 0'Connell,
Charles Kosack, Jacob Metse, Frank
OFT and Harry Haddle.
In Sharpsburg w. L. Norr was killed
by the roof of house being blown onto
him.
At McKees Rocks, where Prof. Gero-
dete, curator of Carnegie Museum, had
a gang of men at work digging an old
Indian mound in the interest of
science, lightning struck the shed un-
der which the party had taken refuge,
shocking one of the laborers into un-
consciousness, also a young man by
the name of Pool, son of college pro-
fessor, both of whom will probably die.
The result of the storm in property
damage has not all been gathered at
midnight, but it is known that all
through Allegheny and the East End,
many houses were unroofed, signs
blown down and windows broken
Along Pennsylvania avenue, toward
Homewood, where many fine mansions
are located, the splendid lawns are
completely destroyed and the beautiful
shade and ornamental trees ruined. 1t
is estimated that 100000 will hardly
cover the loss in this locality.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-28
An Insane Son Cuts the Throats
of His Aged Parents.
THEN GASHES HIS OWN
The Would-Be Suicide and His
Victims Still Living.
THOUGH ALL OF THEM MAY DIE
Before Attacking His Parents the Lu-
natic Built Fire in Or
der to Burn Their
Dead Bodies.

Iowa Falls, Iowa, July 27.-Franl1
Pierson, in fit of insanity, cut the
throats of his aged father and mother
and then attempted suicide in this
city early this morning.
Before beginning his work the man
lac had started a fire in a trunk filled
with conbustibles, in his room up
stairs, with the evident intention of
cremating the bodies of his intended
victims.
The weapon was a razor, with which
he first stabbed his father, but only
succeeded in inficting a slight flesh
wound. He then caught his mother
with his left hand and drew the razor
across her neck, cutting a deep cash
from the ear to the middle of the neck.
The lunatic then cut his own throat
from ear to ear, partially seyering the
wind-pipe. but strange to say, is still
living, although the surgeon considers
his recovery doubtful.
The mother is in precarious condi-
tion through loss of blood and nervous
prostration, but hopes are entertained
of her recovery.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-28
GOLD euGeERs SHOULD RESIGN
Senator Pettigrew Sets Noble Exam
pie for All t4onest Men.

Washington. July 27.- Senator Petit
grew, of South Dakota, who followed
Senator Teller in his bolt from the
Republican National convention at st.
Louis, has resigned as member of the
Republican Congressional committee
The vacancy has not yet been filled.
There are number of avowed advo-
Gates of the gold standard on the Dem
ocratic Congressionl committee, stand
ing practically as much in opposition
ito the platform and ticket as Senator
Pettigrew did, but no designations have
been reported up to date from the
Democratic committee.
1t is said that when the Democratic
National committee open headquarters
a few days hence, one Of the first sub
jects to be taken up will be the atti-
tude of certain men towards the Ma
ltional platform and ticket, who, hav-
ing been nominated as Presidential
electors on the Democratic ticket prior
to the Chicago convention, have since
that thine repudiated both the platform
and ticket, and are publicly credited
with the intention of voting for Nc
KinleV.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-28
THEY DIED AN AWFUL DEATH.
Two Men Perish on Their Trip Across
the Colorado Desert.

Pomona, Cal, July 27.-Edward M.
Clark and Harry Sanford, who started
to drive across the Colorado desert
from Panning, Cal, to Yuma, Ariz.,
six weeks ago, have undoubtedly been
lost on the desert. They went on a
mining and prospecting tour along the
Colorado river from Volcano Springs.
From Volcano Springs, Calrll wrote
that their suffering on the desert had
been fearful. They were almost out
of provisions, but pushed on to Yuma,
eighty miles distant. They had en-
countered fearful heat and deserts and
storms.
Last night prospector named Hig-
gins sent word that he found two
bodies answering the description of
Clark and Sanford on the desert,
twenty-five miles from Volcano
Springs. The bodies were decomposed,
but the clothing was Identified and two
miles distant a dead horse was found
with wagon, answering the descrip-
tion of their vehicle. No one doubts
the bodies are those of Clark and San
ford.
Clark was a nephew of Ex-Governor
Myron I'll. Clark, of Canandaigua, n Y,
and was a cousin of State Treasurer
Colvin, of Glen Falls, n. Y. He came
here to California two years ago, with
an invalid wife. He was unfortunate
in mining speculations. Sanford has
a wife and four children living at
Columbus, Mo.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-28
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

The French schooner, Anna Marie,
sunk in a collision off the coast OF New
foundland and 21 lives lost.
4 despatch from CaptetoWn reports
the Matabeles as again massing around
BuIuwago for another attack.
Walter Winans, the American pistol
shot who has held the revolver cham
pionship for eight years, won three
first prizes in the revolver competition
at London.
Insurgents in Santiago de Cuba have
prohibited farmers from preparing for
export of sugar cane.
The International Socialist, Labor
and Trade Union Congress met yester-
day morning in London.
The Harland & Wolf, and Workman
& Clarke shipbuilding shops at Belfast,
England, have been almost wiped out
by fire, the shops and yards being dam
aged to the amount of 81, 100000.
The trial of DR.. jameson and his
associates in the Transvaal raid, now
in progress in London, will be conclud-
ed to-day, and the case given to the
Jury.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-28
eRYANs SUPPRESSED MESSAGE
Said He Would Discuss Only the Issues
Put Forth at Chicago.

Chicago, July 27--Among those who
returned from st. Louis was a gentle
man who saw and read the suppressed
dispatch from Mr. Bryan to Senator
Jones, chairman of the Democratic Ma
tional committee. He possesses a fair
ly good memory, and gives the follow
ing as the substance of the document
about which there was so much talk
and excitement during the last day of
the PopuIist convention. What is sub
joined may be relied upon as being.
substantially correct:
considering all the circumstances
and conditions" wired Mr.. BRYAN"
II have concluded that the Populist
convention should not consider my
name for the Presidency, but if it de
termines to nominate me notwith-
standing this declaration, that there
may be no misunderstanding / desire
in advance to say | shall not during the
campaign discuss any other issues
than those outlined in the Chicago
platform. | desire above everything
else to be instrumental in having en-
acted into laws of the United States the
free and unlimited coinage of gold and
silver at the present ratio of 16 to /,
without awaiting the consent of any
er country.
THE Republican platform adopted
at St. Louis asserts that the bi-metalIic
system should be restored but that the
people are helpless to bring about bi-
metallism for themselves until other
rations are willing Mo assist. The
American people cannot afford to sur
render the right to legislate for them
selves on all questions. and so long as
the right is disputed it SurpasSes all
others i'm Importance.
THE Populist platform presents
several new issues, to discuss which
during this campaign Will, in my iudg-
ment, endanger the success of our
cause. / am not willing to be a party
to anything which viii divert atten-
tfOn from the money question. Nor
am | willing to be placed in the atti-
tude OF securing help from other poIit-
ical organizations by sacrificing my
associate upon the ticket He is as
squareiy upon the Chicago platform as
| am myself, and he has defended the
cause of bi-metallism against much
greater opposition than have the men
of the West and South / desire to be
left free to support Sewall during the
campaign.
ut is due to myself and the Popu-
list convention that there should be
the most outspoken frankness between
u.s.
To this dispatch the gentleman said
there was attached a postscript, re-
questing that the statement be read to
tn convention before the balloting was
commenced.
Why the dispatch was not read and
the reasons for the objections of Sena-
tor Allen, chairman of the convention,
TO it's reading having been given in the
dispatches from st. Louis.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-28
THE KANSAS FUSION PLAN.
PETER Says Nothing Can Prevent BrSar
Carrying the South.

Kansas City, Mo, July 27-Relative
to fusion in Kansas of the Democrats
and Populists, ex-Congressman VIM.
A. Harris, Populist, says:
'The Kansas plan is for the Populists
in their State convention, August s.,
to endorse the Bryan and Sewall cleo
tors whom the Democrats will name
at Hutchison the preceding day. Flu
sion is in the air. We will nominate
our candidates for State officers and
telegraph the Democrats the result
They viii endorse our nominee and we
will endorse theirs"
EX-Congressman Jerry Simpson, of
Kansas, who was present during the
interview, is quoted as saying there
was nothing else to do but accept the
plan, and ex-Congressman Jeff Hud-
son voiced the same sentiment.
EX-United States Senator John Mar
tin, approves of the plan as far as it
goes. lie, however, would have con-
ference committees appointed by The
Hutchison and Abilene conventions 10
arrange the details.
Populist Ex-Governor Llewelling, of
Kansas, in a published interview also
approves of the plan of fusion.
Unlteu states oendtOF w. ~. IeHtf,
passed through this city en- route for
his home from the st. Louis conyen-
ton, and he said: "The mass of the
Populist party wishes to see VIM. y.
Bryan, the next President, and no mat
ter what differences of opinion may
arise, nothing can prevent him from
carrying every Southern State. He
will also carry every Western St1te.'
He added slowly, "He will carry
Kansas by $4,000 majority"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-28
AN OUTRAGE AT CUMNOCK.
A Miner Shot in Cold Blood by the
Boss of the Hands.

Sandford, n. c., July 27-( Especial -.
\ miner was shot at Cumnock last
Saturday night by Davis, boss of the
hands in the coal mines. The particu-
lars of the unfortunate affair are
about as follows:
Lynn Barbee missed some money,
and the man who now lies suffering
with a pistol shot wound was suspi-
cioned of having taken it. About a
dozen miners dubbed up and took
the supposed thief out and searched
him. After finding no money on his
person Davis forced him to l1neel down
and shot him in the mouth with a
pistol.
The ball shattered his jaw-bone and
was found in his tongue. A doctor
removed the pieces of bone and it is
thought the man will recover.
Davis took the train here last night
and skipped out.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-28
1T MUST BE BRYAN AND sEWALL.
Senator Mantle and Congressman Hart
man Think Watson Will Withdraw.

Butte, Mon, July 27.- Senator Man
tie and Congressman Hartman have
arrived here. Both say they will sup
port Bryan because he is a bi-metallist
and not because he is a Democrat.
When the question is settled, they will
be Republicans in all things once more.
''While l deplore that the Populists
put up another ticket" said Mr.. Hart
man, yet l think that in thirty days
there will be Dut one bi-metalic ticket
III the field. think Watson will allow
his name to be withdrawn. The ticket
from point of good politics must be
Bryan and Sewall On second thought.
Watson and the men who nominated
him must concede this"
Mr.. Mantle said: Il regard the action
of placing an independent ticket in
the field by the Populists as very bad
politics, as the Populst party has been
crying for free coinage so many years,
louder than the others. 1t is one of
the cardinal principles of their faith.
believe the vast majority of the Pop
ulist party is honest and sincere in the
advocacy of bi-metallism, consequently
believe influence Will be brought to
bear to get Watson to Withdraw"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-28
THE CLEVELAND STRIKE ENDED.

Cleveland, Ohio, July 27.-The long
drawn out strike of the employees of
the Brown Hosting and Conveying
Works, which was inaugurated nine
weeks ago and has resulted in a series
of bloody riots, is at an end, salts
factory settlement between the COM
pany and Representatives of the en-
ployes having been reached today. The
company agrees to receive grievance
committees from the employees and
grant half holiday on Saturday. All
old employees are to be reinstated re-
gardless of any part they took in the
strike. The men will return to work
tomorrow morning.