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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09
AFFAIRS ABROAD.

The report of the capture of Zeitoun
by the Turks is denied.
A Toronto judge decides that street
cars may run legally on Sunday.
The Cuban reyolutionists still adj
vance, and are within fifty miles of
Havana.
Alfred Austin was made. poet
laureate of England and Frederick
Leighton was knighted.
A force of the British South African
company invaded Transvaal territory
and was whipped by the Beers.
Germany is wrathy over the Eng
Iish invasion of the Transvaal. Eng
land repudiates DR.. Jamison's action.
President Dole, of Hawaii, says the
sole aim Of his government is to Sc
cure annexation to the United States.
The car of Russia has expressed
his conviction that no serious conflict
would take place between England
and the United States.
There is a better feeling in the Eng
lish stock markets than has prevailed
since President Cleveland issued his
Venezuelan message.
A company has been formed in
British Guiana for the purpose of
colonizing the land in dispute between
England and Venezuela.
A dispatch from Berlin says that no
negotiations have taken place with
Berlin banking houses with the object
of issuing the United States loan.
The Armenians in Zeitoun repulsed
the Turks, who bombarded and
stormed the town, after desperate
fighting. The losses on both sides
were heavy.
A dispatch from Caracas, Venezuela,
says that Garcia Gomez has been APP
pointed chief of the national guard.
All citizens between the ages of eigh-
teen and eighty will be enrolled in it.
A correspondent in Caracas, Vene-
zuela, sends word that a report is
current there that the British and
Spanish ministers have been expelled
from Bogota, the capital of Colombia
London press comments say that
the Venezuelan crisis is not passed
The Westminster Gazette advises that
the United States and England leave
the whole question to board of con-
Citation.
According to official advices re-
cieved in Berlin the United States
government will take steps against
German insurance companies operat-
ing in this country unless Prussia
rescinds the measures recently d.
rected against American insurance
companies operating in Prussia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09
SWALLOWED A SAFETY PIN.

Little Marguerite Freeman, the s.
year-old daughter of Harry T. Free
man of 80 Taylor street, Newark, SUI
fered for five weeks with what was
supposed to be membranous Group,
and even now it is said she really had
the disease. She got occasional relief
from the doctors treatment, but there
was 10 permanent improvement. The
last attack was so severe that yester-
day DR.. Joseph Fewsmith recon-
mended a resort to tracheotomy.
When the incision was made in the
throat the doctors found between the
trachea and vocal cords a large safety
pin, which was held in place by its
spring. It was quickly removed and
the aperture was closed. Last night
the child was reported to be doing
we'll, and it is believed that she will
recover rapidly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09

American and son of Moses Y. Beach,
is dead, aged 20.
Fitzsimmons played football at Ell
Paso, Tex, against an Indian school.
His side won.
A p. N. flyer" struck and hurled
two men IN a sleigh seventy feet and
killed them at ClaypoOl, Ind.
Washington is endeavoring to get
rid Of caterpillars. Prizes are offered
and one boy has collected $1,000 CO.
coons.
A thief ran away with a diamond
tray in indianapolis, but was over
taken. 1t was valued at S400
Rev. DR.. w. S. Rainsford (St
Georges EpiscopaD won the George J.
Gould golf cup in New York new
years day.
The Illinois Steel company has
closed its South Chicago plant for re-
pairs; 1000 men are idle and living on
credit at the merchants.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09
GIRLS DAY DREAMS.
They Come to Nothing, but the Other
Girls Believe Them

Il never hear a young girl say, as
young girls are fond of saying" OBJ
served an old lady on the summer
boarding house piazza, what sort Of
man she will marry, and what sort
only, that l do not think of certain
speeches l, myself, have listened to
from pretty lips before this. A school
friend of mine so held New Jersey in
detestatiOn that she tore it's map from
ner geography. She used to say that
nothing would induce her to marry
man who was widower, or wore a
wig, or lived in New Jersey; and the
man of her choice was guilty of all
these three enOrmities l used to talk
over my future with two cousins.
would not marry a business man,
said. Kate would not think of a
clergyman, or Carrie a farmer; and we
married respectively a business man,
a clergyman and farmer. 1t is all
like smart young American help in
my grandmother's kitchen, who was
wont to declalm to us children On the
scorn in which she held all men, al
ways winding up her denunciation Of
the sex by No, wouldn't marry any
man that walks on two legs And
she didn't. She married a one-legged
man."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09
UNDERGROUND TROLLEY.

st. Louis is to be given a fair test of
an underground trolley system. The
Peoples line will be the pioneer in this
movement. Mr.. Green, president of the
Peoples Railway Company, attended
the recent meeting of street railway
officials in Montreal and afterwards
went to Washington, D. c., to look into
the underground system. He was very
much pleased and says that he shall
begin work next spring making the
change The Peoples is one of the
longest roads in the city, and difficult
ties will confront it that neither New
York nor Washington managers en-
counter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09

Senator Lodge delivered a speech
in which he insisted that the Monroe
doctrine applied in the present dispute
between Venezuela and Great Britain
Peter Graham and Fred Hosbach,
twelve-year-old boys, were sentenced
to the reform school at Bridgeport,
Conn, for attempting to wreck a
train.
1t is reported that Denmark is will
ing to sell it's West Indian possessions
and it is suggested that the United
States needs st. Thomas for a coaling
station.
Republican assemblymen, in caucus
at Albany, voted to support Hamilton
Fish for speaker. The democrats
united on John B. Stanchfeld, Of
Chemung.
Rev. c. o. Brown, pastor of the
First Congregational church of San
Francisco, caused the arrest of Mrs.
Mary A. Davidson on a charge OF
blackmail.
William S. Jewett, of Lawrence,
Mass, was before a United States com
missioner in Boston on charge of
embezzling all the property of a bank
in Wolfboro, n. H.
Great Indignation prevails at Du-
Iuth toward the officers of the gas ana
water company, who may be indicted
for criminal neglect which caused the
typhoid fever epidemic.
The New York supreme court re-
versed the conviction of eXPolice
Captain Stephenson, who was SEN
fenced to imprisonment and fine for
accepting a bribe.
A mob in Marion county, KY, set
fire to the house of Mrs Thomas ].
West, and she was burned to death.
William DeVeTs, her lover, was shot
and killed While attempting to escape.
Platt's bill for a greater New York
is said to provide for a commission Of
five to take charge of every depart
ment of the new city. 1t is opposed
by the Brooklyn legislature delega-
ton.
Additional particulars concerning
the testimony given in the investiga-
ton of Lord Dunraven's yachting
charges made it still more apparent
that they were utterly without foun-
datiOn.
Edward HalIenbacn, who shot Will
liam T. Robinson in New York ito
aVenge his family honor, as is be-
Iieved, is still reticent as to the cause
of the shooting, and Robinson is re-
covering.
Real Estate Agent Nellis, in front
of whose house Mrs. Runnett was
found dead in New York, was arrested
yesterday and held in $4,000 bonds.
He is suspected of being concerned
in the wOmans DEATH.
Maria Barberi, who is under SEN
tence of death in New York for kill
ing her faithless sweetheart, has
learned to speak and write the Eng
lish language. She sends a letter Of
thanks to her lawyers, who are work.
ing to get her free.
A correspondent in Georgetown,
British Guiana, sends word that
CabraI, the self-constituted ruler of
Amapa, will resist all French claims
to the contested territory. He con-
tinues to commit atrOciOus crueltieS
upon French subjects.
Under a decree of foreclosure held
by the Mercantile trust company, the
Portland orr consolidated street rail
way system was sold at auction.
There was but one bid, that of the
Rollins banking company of Boston,
to whom the property was knocked
down for 100000
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09
JUSTIFIED.

WiIkins-I wrote my wife that l
would meet her at the station, and
she would know me by a red carnation
in my buttonhole.
Bilkins-Good heavens! She hasn't
been away two months even.
Wilkins-No; but you see | have
done ali my own cooking while she
has been gone
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09
A GREAT CLOCK.

The ancient city of Rouen, France,
owns the very earliest specimen Of
the larger varieties Of the ancient
clock-makers' triumphs. It was made
by Jehan De Felains, and was finished
and set going in September, 1889. So
perfect in construction is this ancient
time recording machine that, although
it has been regularly striking the
hours, halves and quarters for more
than a half thousar d years, it is still
as much to be depended upon as when
it was first made.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09
ROUND WAISTS NOT FAVORED.

The round waist and fancy bodice
has but small place in the styles now
offered for elegant dresses, but fash
ions don't change completely all at
once, and the dainty waists women
have been wearing are not to be abso-
lutely discarded. They cannot but
look pretty, at any rate, for the house
for many a long day yet. Designers
Of costumes made from warm stuffs
know this; and many Of the wooden
house dresses are cut and adorned in
close resemblance to fancy waist
styles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09

Molly think young Browny is
working on some air machine or other.
Polly-What makes you think so?
MolIy-Every time he calls on me he
says he'd fly to the utmost parts of
the earth for me.
Boom!
All was excitement. The citizens
stood on the streets, some talking loud
ly, some in whispers. The faces of all
were pale and strange, wild glitter
was in their eyes
Boom.
Men hurried to end fro. Vans were
filed with household goods. Men cursed
their fate. There was danger in the
land
Boom,
1t is said that thousands who failed
to sell their town lots during the
boom were ruined for life, and that
the city never was again the proud
metropolis it once was.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09
THE PREACHER RESIGNED.
Kenosha Pastor Gets Ahead of His
Flock.

Kenosha, Wis, Jan. IA sensation
was sprung in the First Baptist church
here Sunday morning by the announce
ment of it's pastor, Rev. r. P. Lips
comb, that he had resigned his posit
ion, the resignation to take effect Feb
ruary l. About half an hour before
the announcement was made a meet
ing CT few of the active members OF
the church was held for the purpose of
selecting a committee to cal on the
pastor for his resignation before next
Wednesday, but they expected to meet
with refusal. Mr.. Liscombe has been
here a trife over a year and has been
so pronounced in his sensational
preaching that the feeling soon ran
high against him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09
THE NEW TRACK.
H. W. Battin to Have Charge of the
Work.

Baraboo, Wis, Jan. I'll. w. Bat
tin has been relieved of his duties as
division engineer in charge of the
Northwestern lines in Wisconsin, Min
nesOta and Dakota. His headquar
ters have been at Winona, Mimi. but
will now come here when he will
have the special duty as engineer of
the second track which is to be con-
structed from Madison to Baraboo, a
distance of about forty miles. The
work will require a full year and the
expenditure will be up in the millions.
The grading is to be done by Winston
Bros, of Minneapolis, and they will
begin work at once on the rock Sec
tons at DEVILS lake and the Devils
nose, where the task of laying a
double track will be no easy one.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09
A BARGAIN.

What is that English Earl WORTH"
The question was asked by the beau
tiful daughter of a wealthy Chicago
pork packer.
Zone million dollars. But we have a
German Count marked down to nine
hundred and ninety-nine thousand
nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars
and ninety-nine cents"
you may wrap him up"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09

ident to conclude negotiations with
Great Britain, Russia and Japan for
the appointment Of a joint commission
to investigate the questions affecting
the fur seal herd in the north Pacific
ocean and the Boring sea and con-
slider and report what further regula-
tons are necessary for its preserva-
ton
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09
LATEST,

Visitors have spent $5,OOO,OOO IN At
lanta. The exposition cost the city
100000.
Thus far Paredewski's total receipts
for twenty-eight performances, have
reached $50, Alb.
At Oakville, Mich, a double we'd
ding united widow and widower and
their children
Afford E. Beach, editor of Scientific
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09
A FIT AT LAST.

Mrs. De Crisscross (who has come to
talk about an unsatisfactory gown
Is Nine. FroufrOu Voulezvous in?
Modistes Assistant-NO; Madame is
i'll with apopleXy.
Mrs. De Crisscross Indeed! Then
she has a fit at last
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09

Curate-So sorry to hear your hus-
bands met with an accident, Mrs.
Shape.
Mrs. Snape-Yes, sir, 'e's very bad,
pore man! E wur workin' on the rail-
way line tn other day an a engine
come along an run clean over is pore
leg; an now ell be laid up abed for
weeks It's what I b'lieve the doctors
calls locomotive attacks We!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09

What a paltry thing love is" said
the wife of the stingy man, who had
refused her first request of the season
for a sealskin coat
IF I took your view Of it I should
call it a paltry thing" said the stingy
man, adding to his cruelty by having
the last word.-Detroit Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09
FRICKE IS UPHELD.
Important Discussion In a Milwaukee
Insurance Case.

Judge Johnson, of Milwaukee, has
refused to grant an injunction restrain
ing Insurance Commissioner Fricke
from annulling the license of the
Wisconsin Mutual Live Stock Insur-
ance company.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09
AS 1T IS IN sWAGGER SOCIETY.

Mrs. Day-What do you consider the
most trying time of life?
Mrs. Bay-That short and terrible
Period between marriage and divorce,
at least for the most of us society
women.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09

do you think" the aspiring young
woman eagerly inqui: ed, that I can
ever become a great actress?''
Il don't know replied the manager,
thoughtfully, "who is your dress
maker?'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09

Old George, I've just
sent a dollar to the Veterans Home"
His Only Son and Heir-A dollar,
father? Why, I've sent more than
that, out of my miserable half-pay!
o. Nah, but you've got great ex-
pectations, George. I've got none!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09

Emperor William recently practiced
a great deal on bicycle in the new
palace grounds and he had three
hour ride on Tuesday on a machine
specially built for him by a Frank
furt engineer, and having some unique
The herald., 1896-05-01

thing else not raised in California. OF
course in the cigar line am practically
shut out, but l push the sale of native
wines on every occasion. A few weeks
ago / entered at the custome house in
san Francisco what l am told is the
largest importation Of foreign red and
white wines ever brought to this coun-
try in one shipment. 1t amounts to over
$4,000, and / regretted very much to
have to send that money abroad, but the
very high grades of white wines that cost
more than champagne cannot be had in
this country. In time our wine growers
will go into the fine wine trade, but it
will take time and experience for them
to do this. A great many foreigners
visit the Orpheum in San Francisco ana
call for expensive wines. l always sell
the California product If can. but when
a man wants to pay IS or $40 for bottle
OF white wine I have to give him the inn
ported article and brands with which
they are familiar. Many of the most eN-
rensive foreign wines of famous brand
are from vineyards of limited area. l
believe that il would be well for our
grape raisers to look into this matter, for
the big profit is not in the cheap wines.
but the more expensive grades. OF
course all this would take time, and few
Americans nowadays care to plan so
far ahead and to wait so long for re-
turns. So far we, as Californians, have
been content to talk the good qualities
of California wines in general, but it will
not be long before we will be, each of us,
shouting the praises of our favorite spe-
cial brand"
The herald., 1896-05-01
DESPONDENCY AND SUICIDE
A Young Invalid, Despairing Of Relief,
Seeks Refuge 10 Death
II. q. KeIton Stands In Front Of Mirror and
Sends Q Bullet Through His Brain.
Came From rlchgan

At S:35 yesterday morning II. G. Kel-
ton, a young man about 80 years or age,
committed suicide at S11 South Main
street by sending a bullet through his
brain. Kelton had been stopping with
a Mrs. Tuttle in a cottage at the above
number for two or three weeks, and
was in a very low state of health. he
came here from Michigan, where his
parents reside, at West Bay City, ana
was here in the hope of recovering his
lost health. He has been very de-
spondent for some time past and only
a few days ago told Mrs. Tuttle that he
had concluded to go home and die.
Acting on this line he had his trunl,
sent to the depot and started Off
The next morning the baggage was
back upon the front porch and kelton
came back. having changed his mind
about returning. Wednesday evening
he felt very i'll and lay on a lounge in
the sitting room. but when Mrs. Tuttle
wished to send for doctor he demurred,
saying a physician could do him no
good, that he was going to die. Early
yesterday morning Mrs. Tuttle had just
taken a chair to read a letter which had
been handed her by her daughter, Mrs.
Shotwell when she heard the report of
a revolver in the next room, occupied by
Kelton, and the sound of heavy body
falling to the floor.
Instantly suspecting what had hap
pened, she opened the door and saw
young Kelton lying on the floor with the
blood oozing from wound in the right
temple and forming pool upon the car
pet. The police We're notified but upon
arrival found nothing to do. as the man
was dead, the shot having done its work
instantly and effectively. Coroner
Campbell was called and the body re-
moved to the undertaking rooms of
Orr G. Hines on South Broadway, where
an inquest was held at o'clock in the
afternoon.
From the position in which the body
lay it was evident that Kelton had stood
before the mirror, placing the revolver
against his temple, his knees braced
against the bureau. and sent the bullet
into his brain with fatal effeN, Let
ters found in his pocket revealed the fact
that his father was John M.kelton, pro-
prietor Of the Standard Hoop company
of West Bay City, Mich, and that his
son had been sent out here in the hope
that he might recuperate his exhausted
energies.
The testimony of various witnesses
was heard. but resulted in little being
ascertained. Kelton was of a retiring
and reticent disposition and had made
no confidants of his troubles. The mo-
tive for suicide was undoubtedly his
poor health, he being afflicted with some
stomach trouble or Brights disease,
and being very much emaciated. A ver-
dict of suicide in accordance with eS-
tablshed facts was rendered.
A telegram was sent to his father and
a reply received asking that the body
be enabalmed and prepared for shipment
and sent to his old home in Michigan by
express for interment
The herald., 1896-05-01
RUPTURE

Professor Joseph Fandrey, European
specialist, formerly of Berlin. Germany
now permanently located at S21 South
Broadway, Los Angeles, is practical
rupture specialist and manufactures
the latest patent trusses (his own in
yention) for curing rupture; also cor
sets for curvature of the spine. female
supporters. etc. Each case will be made
to fit. Over forty almost helpless cases
of from two to twenty years standing,
some twice broken, are today cured and
have no more use for truss. Patients
from two to seventy-flve years of age.
Information and testimonials will be
sent on applicatiOn.
The herald., 1896-05-01

Fmhef zoos subscribers
ntnne
oneo H
MHERMDB Bt best
unparalleled
The herald., 1896-05-01
A BIG WINE ORDER
Gustav Walter Talks Interestingly OF the
Merits of California Wines

Yesterday Gustav Walter. director of
the Orpheum circuit, who is now in this
city, placed an order for Southern Cali
fornia wines that amounts well I'D in
the tens of thousands of dollars. The
wines are to be used in the new annex
to the Orpheum in San Francisco, and
in the Chutes Orpheun1, the pleasure
palace he is building at Recreation park
In speaking of the order he had Just
D1aced, Mr. Walter said: II am a be-
1ever in home products, and, if l could
would sell neither wines, cigars nor any,
The herald., 1896-05-01
IL Would Be ApDrec;ated

A copy of The Herald's Fiesta edition
is a valuable and an appropriate sou
venir to mail to distant friends. 1t tells
all about the great festivities as well as
Southern California and Los Angeles.
Single copies cents. Postage cents.
AS the edition is limited, orders should
be sent in without delaN
The herald., 1896-05-01
Thew are superior to All Others

That is the unanimous verdict of the
public regarding the famous Glenwood
stove. which is the favorite because in
every detail it eXcels any other made.
1t will save you in fuel alone 40 per cent.
Examine them before purchasing any
other Once you use them you will rec
ommend them TO your friends. To he
had only of the sole agents, the w. G.
Furrey company, 1916 North Spring
The herald., 1896-05-01
Licensed to Wed

The following marriage licenses were
issued by the county clerk yesterday:
James Wilkinson, native of Michi-
gan. aged % years, and Susie Chappell,
a native of California, aged Is years,
both residents of Los Angeles.
Hermann Scheller, aged 80 years, and
Anna Deutschmann, aged 40 years,
both natives of Germany and residents
Of Los Angeles.
The herald., 1896-05-01
Rules Governing
Competitors

Any one who desires to compete for these prizes
be supplied with suitable blanks, and leave their
name and address land also have the of thes school
they are attending or which they have attended at
any time during the past year, entered in the COM
petitors book
Subscriptions must be left at the business office
of THE HERALD on the same day they are taken.
The herald., 1896-05-01
New Trial Denied

In the United States district court
yesterday, Judge Wellborn denied the
motion for a new trial in the case of
Capt. j. F. James, convicted of sending
obscene matHr through the mails. He
will be sentenced today.
The herald., 1896-05-01
Assignee Apnninted

In the matter of Edward Kilham VS..
his creditors before Judge York yester-
day, Orson Moore was appointed assig-
nee, with bond fixed at 5000.