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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-10

and Great Britain to a treaty of arbi-
tration. The conditions of affairs In
Turkey will be discussed in detail,
and the president will be abe to show
that the ordinary diplomatic agencies
have sufficed for the protection OF
American life and property in the
Turkish empire during the Armenian
troubles.
Mr.. Cleveland, it is said, will give
an elaborate discussion of financial
and revenue legislation. Secrc taTy
Carlisle has prepared data looking to
a recommendation for increacing the
revenue Of the government by impOs-
ing revenue duties on tea and coffee
and by increasing the internal rev.
enue tax on beer. The president will
doubtless express his approval Of these
recommendations. The financial re-
form recommendation of the message
will be along the lines of Mr.. Cleve-
lands former recommendations and
will have as their basis the advocacy
Of the single gold standard as the
foundation of the monetary system OF
the country and of the retirement OF
the greenbacks and the Sherman notes
so as to take the government entirely
out of the business of issuing prom
issory notes. Banking reform will be
recommended to enable the banks OF
the country to issue circulating notes.
Realizing that business is on very
precarious basis and that any tamper~
ing with the tariff or currency may
bring ON another panic Of 1898, the
would like to have things
go along as they are till next spring
when Major Mckinley will take the
chair, but they are confronted with
the dread that present conditions may
result in a decreased gold reserve and
the necessity of bond issues. Nelson
Dingley of Maine, chairman of the
ways and means committee of the
house. frankly admits that he cannot
tell what will be done as to the tariff.
Here is the situation approximately: !
The republicans have a majority in !
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-10

Brest, Dec. 6.-Serious riots oc-
cnrred here at the festival of the ar
fillerymen. There were many con-
Eicts in the streets which scared mer-
chants so that they closed their shops,
and non-commissioned officers and
priyates paraded the streets with
drawn swords. The soldiers threat
sned the civilians they met in the
streets and after they lad turned Jh
the gas supply enc hundred marine
gunners made ali attempt to storm
Abeville barracks, where the fifteenth
battalion Of artillery is quartered.
Captain Frixon, with a squad of armed
men, defended the gate of the bar
racks. The assailanbs showered
stones upon the defending force and
the police who attempted to
uuell the disturbance were
forced to retire. The Infatuated
guners pursued the police to the doors
of their stations threatening them with
death. A number of people were
wounded during the rioting. A ser
geant of the marines had his head
split open and is in a critical condi-
ton. Several arrests were made and
military authorities are preparing TO
take severe measures against the in
stigators of the riot.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-10
TEACHING HISTORY.
Wisconsin Educators to Take Part In
a Big Meeting.

Teachers of history are looking for
the twelfth annual meeting of the
American Historical Association, a.
Columbia University, New York, Oh
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
during Christmas week. This asso-
ciationL which is national in scope,
numbering ga members, with 100 life
members, was organized at Saratoga in
1884. 1t includes many of the fore
most teachers of history, whose utter
ance will illuminate the deliberation
of the coming convention The morn
ing and evening sessions with one eX
ceptiOn will be held at Columbia uni
Versity. The inaugural address of DR..
Richard S. Storrs, president of the as
scciation, will be given in the hall OF
the New York Academy of Medicine, Il
West Forty-third street.
Among those who are announced to
speak are DR.. E. D. Warfeld, president
Of Lafayette College; DR.. David Muir
ray, of New Brunswick, N. j.; Profess
sor G. H. Haynes, of Worcester Poly
technic Institute; Charles Henry Hart,
of Philadelphia; Professor J. w. BuH-
CESS, Columbia university; Professor
E. G. Bourne, Professor G. B. dams, OF
Yale university; General J. G. Wilson,
of New York; Professor F. J. Turner,
DR.. o. G. Libby and Professor C.. H.
Haskins, of the University of Wiscon-
sin; Theodore Roosevelt, J. M. Gala
han, Johns Hopkins university; Miss
Louise P. Haskell, Radcliffe College:
Professor ]. F. Jemeson and E. G.
Burnett, Brown university.
An Interesting feature will be con-
ference on the teaching of history, at
which Professor H. B. Adams, Johns
Hopkins university; E. EmertOn, Har-
ward university, and J. B. McMaste',
University Of Pennsylvania will speak.
President and Mrs. Lo''' will give
reception to the ASSOCIATE at 80 East
SiXty-fourth street, Tues ay, Deem
Der 90, from to O'Clock. Mrs. CLAIR
ence w. Bowen will receive at her
home. 8 East Tenth stree, from to g
O'Clock Thursday, December 81.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-10

stood as the friend of Spain. Those
who know the presidents disinclina-
ton to retreat under fire expect little
from his hands now in favor of Cuba.
The message in general will be, in
sense his farewell to the American
people, and there is little doubt that
he will embrace the opportunity TO
mark out the course he believes ought
to be followed by the national govern
ment for the maintenance and ad
vancement of the honor and prosperity
of the country. Outside of Cuba, for
e;g1 affairs will naturally claim con-
siderable attention and the president
will have AN opportunity to congratu-
late congress and the country upon the
solution of the Venezuelan boundary
controversy in a manner honorable
and satisfactory alike to the United
States and to Great Britain and Vene-
zuela. The report Of the Venezuela
commission being completed, there Is
no reason to doubt that it's decision
will be on the merits of England's
claim to the disputed territory in Vene-
zuela. The message may announce
also the agreement of the United States
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-10

Milwaukee, Dec. 5.-An attempt at
wholesale poisoning, in large meas
ure successful, was reported to the
health department yesterday. when
information was given of the sudden
and serious illness of about one hun
dred families, numbering between five
and six hundred persons, living in the
northwestern part of the city. The
cause Of the sickness was traced to
bread sold at bakery owned by Otto
Figlesthaler. Last night an analysis
CT the bread showed that it contained
arsenic. The six hundred persons
poisoned are living, hut large num-
her of the cases are considered serious
If not critical. The first intimation
the health department had of the
poisoning was the notification by d..
Weber that family named Herzb berg
had been i'll and the symptoms were
those of poisoning. Later Dr.. Shear
er notified Secretary knott of the de-
partment OF another case. Then for
ten hours case after case came in until
one hundred families were reported as
suffering from symptoms of acute
poisoning. The health officers
say it was evidently a case of arsenical
poisoning. The symptoms were excess
slFe vomiting, accompanied by pains
in the stomach severe headache and
chills. DR.. Kempster stated that ne
had been notified of the condition OF
affairs and had ordered a complete it,
vestigation. Mrs. FIglesthaleT. wife
of the baker, says she thinks some one
deliberately put poison into the box
containing the flour from which the
bread was made. 1t has been the GUS
tom of the baker to keep the -four in
a cellar, from which there are two
flights of stairs that lead directly to
the garnet. 1t is claimed by the
woman who lives above the bakery
that she heard some one moving about
in the garnet early in the night before
the bread was made, but as she
thought it was one of the Fig esthaler
family she said nothing about il until
she found out the next morning that
none of the family had been near the
garnet the night before. The police
are convinced from their investi cation
that arsenic was placed in the bread
with the intention o. causing death
or serious illness to Figlesthaler's GUS
toners with the object of running his
business. Some arrests will be
made today.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-10

Europe his name is a. household word
in cycledom. He is a brother of
Arthur Linton, who died last summer
from excessive road-racing. Tom has
the honor Of being the first man to
ride thirty-one miles in the hour. He
did this few weeks ago. He had no
sooner done il than J. W. Stocks went
him few yards better, going 81 miles,
4S yards. Then Linton went at the rec
ord again and managed to top Stocks
record, putting the hour figures where
they now stand, at 81 miles. $50 yards.
Platt-Betts is by odds the fastest
dash" rider in England AS a goer
against the watch, he is about such a
flier as John S. Johnson Chase is one
OF the crack long-distance men of
Europe. There are only two others
il the class with him. They are
Stocks and Constant Huret of France.
Stocks and Chase have been having it
back and forth the last summer as
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-10

Washington, Dec. 6.-The opening
Of congress will present a spectacle
heretofore unknown in even the varied
and changeful political situations of
the United States. For the first time
in the history of the country, a presl-
dent .repudiated by his own party is
inclined to favor the victorious oppO-
site party and to pave the way for the
political success Of the president who
is to succeed him. President Cleve-
land will not send his message to in
different ears. There is a wide and
general expectancy relative to the ad-
ministration's attitude toward Cuba.
Affairs in the island are admittedly at
crucial point, where a hostile breath
from even a moribund presidential
regime might blow over SPANS house
of cards in the West Indies. The
chances are all against the president
taking such a stand. Ever since the
beginning Of the Cuban war he has
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-10
AN EXTRA eEe SION.
BABCOCK, FRESH FROM CANTON
SAYS SO.
The President Elect Wants New
Tariff Bill Quick and That Settles
the Whole Matter.

Washington, Dec. 5.-"It would be
difficult tC say what we did not discuss
at Canton" said Congressman BabcOck,
''for I believe President-elect McIEin-
ley and myself talked about everything
in the range of personal and political
affairs during my visit. One thing
may be set down as certain, there viii
be an extra session of congress and
new tariff bill 1t is the desire of the
president-elect that this course shall
be pursued, and naturally enough his
wishes will be deferred to. In regard
TO the continuance Of headquarters at
Washington. that depends in a meas
ure on the wishes of the national com
mittee. AS soon as congress meets our
committee will be called together FOR
a conference with the members of the
national body, so that our actions may
be harmonious. There seems to be
necessity for a continuance of the
work which we began at st. Louis, and
in all probability the campaign of
education will be continued throughout
the ensuing administration.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-10
WORK FOR CONGRESS.
Old Bills That Will Call for Considera-
ton.

Washin gton, Dec 6-It is not
of congress can dispose Of much of the
proposed legislation which encumbers
it's calendar. Little is usually accomp-
lished at the short session beyond the
passage of the regular supply bills.
Still, the house, with it's instrumental
titles for the expedition of business, can
accomplish a great deal in a brief
time. The question of legislation for
additional revenues for the government
will depend on the senate, to which
body the house sent the Dingley bill
almost year ago. Should it be i'm
possible or be deemed inexpedient to
press that measure through the senate
there is, of course, a possibility that
the proposal to increase the revenues
by an additional tax on beer or the
imposition Of a duty on tea, coffee, ETC.,
may take tangible form, and if so, such
legislation must originate, under the
constitution, in the lower branch of
congress.
There are on the several calendars
OF the house !, 460 bills reported from
the various committees, and the pro-
portion which will pass at the coming
session must be, necessarily almost
iEfnitesimal. Most of them are, of
course, private bills, of which there are
LOO, but there are also 256 bills on
the calendar on the state of the Union
and SO public bills on the regular
house calendar. Some Of these are OF
very great public Importance, and
those interested will no doubt do all
in their power to secure action upon
them.
The powers lodged in the hands OF !
the committee on rules, which give the !
members Of that committee control of |
the house programme, will make that |
committee the practical arbiter of what |
shall be submitted to the house for |
its action. That committee is COM
posed, as at present constituted, of the |
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-10

they cut the worlds mile-tandem rec
ord of McGregor and Nelson from
1:5C IL to las 1-5, and lowered the
five-mile figures to 9:23, or 3-5 sec
conds inside the previous best worlds
n cord.
The racing carnival began Saturday
evening, with number of short
events for professionals and amateurs.
and ended with a one-hour- paced con-
test between J. F. Starbuck and
James Michael. The track in Madison
Square garden is ten laps to the
mile. Although the corners are
banked high, the smallness of the
track is likely to prevent the men do
ing their best in the sprints.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-10

speaker, Mr.. Henderson of Iowa. Mr..
DalZen of Pennsylvania and Mr.. Nc
Millin of Tennessee. The death OF
Crisp creates a vacancy a,
the head of the minority of the COM
mittee, which must be filed by the
speaker. The names principally men
toned in connection with the vacancy
are Bailey of Texas, Catchings of MS
sis sippi, Turner of Georgia, Richardson
of Tennessee and Dockery of Missouri.
The bill which, in many respects, is
fraught at this time with most interest
and which will press hardest for con-
sideration is the Pacific railroad fund
ing bill. The bonds guaranteed by
the government are payable early in
the coming year and either an extern
sion or a foreclosure stares the roads
in the face. For eight years funding
bills have occupied a good share of the
attention of congress. The present
bill, of which Mr.. Powers of Virginia
is the author, was reported shortly
before the close of the last session.
Everything will be done by those in
terested in it to secure consideration.
The friends of the Nicaragua canal are
also energetic TO secure action on
the bill reported by Mr.. Doolittle,
which provides for a guarantee by the
United States of 100000 600 of bonds
for the construction Of the canal.
The war claims committee, which
showed fight on several occasions 10
the last session, promises to renew
their aggressiveness this winter, es-
pecially for the passage of the claims
awarded under the Bowman act and
the French spoliation claims. These
cla ms, the former amounting to $685.
459 and the latter to S2,70S, 1876, were
put on the sundry civil bill at the last
session as a rider of the senate, but
the bill was vetoed by the president
and they were then dropped. Mr.. Ma
hon, who is chairman OF the war
claims com mittee, will also press the
Pennsylvania border claims, which
have been pending in congress for
years
The Loud bill to cure the abuses of
the law relating to second class mat
ter, under which newspaper matter is
transmitted at l cent per pound and
which has been the subject of much
criticism of the pOstoffice department
because of the advantage taken of the
law in various ways for the transmits
sion of books and pamphlets, will also
be pressed as will the Picker service
fusion bill, which is in a favorable
position on the calendar as a priv
LEGGED report.
Among the other bills are the Wads-
worth bill for the creation of bureau
of animal industry, for the inspection
of meat and the regulation of the
transportation of live stock, the i'm
migration BILL the Chickering bill for
ascertaining the feasibility and cost
of a ship canal from the great lakes
to the Hudson, several important pub
lie land bills, the bills for the admis
sion of the territories and many other
sion of the territories and many others
Of special interest to particular local
tiles. There are also several import
ant measures in the senate which might
come up in the house for considera-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-10

entered but the interest centers in the
world heaters from Europe. These
include such men as William Lumsden,
champion of. Scotland who has beaten
Jimmy Michael several times; Tom
Linton, who holds the worlds hour
record; w. Chapple, former amateur
champion; ]. Platt-Betts, holder of the
English record at one mile and the in
ternational one-mile record in COM
petition made at Copenhagen a few
months ago, and A. A. Chase, cham
pion of the world at sixty-two miles.
and his brother. Tom Chase.
Linton is one of the greatest, middle
d1stanceriders of the world. In
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-10
NEW GUNBOATS LAUNCHED.

Bath, Me-, Dec. 6.-The new gun
boats, Vicksburg and Newport, were
launched from the yards of the
Bath Iron works Saturday afternoon
before an immense crowd. The
Nicksburg went into the wafer at
1886 o'clock and the Newport followed
twenty minutes later, The launching
was successful in every respect.
The gunboats, Vicksburg and New
port, are vessels Of an entirely new
type, so far as our navy is concerned, in
that they are of composite construc-
ton, all of the framing being of STEEL,
but planks of Georgia pine being
worked on the frames below the water
line. secured by composition bolts IN
such manner as to prevent galVaElc ac-
ton and being then covered with cop
per. This will make the vessels large
~ independent Of docking facilities
and economical in the use of fuel, as
the exposure of the copper causes the
barnacles and sea grass to fall off as
soon as the ship moves, this keeping
her bottom clean, and insuring the
maintenance of full speed with min
imum coal consumption. Another
feature Of these vessels that dlstin-
tinguishes them from other naval
ships is the use Of the full sail power
in addition to steam. They are
rugged as barketines and are able to
sail twelve knots an hour without US
Ing their engines, so that they Will
prove most economical cruisers for
foreign stations. The Vicksburg ana
Newport are sister ships of 1000 tons
displacement, drawing y feet of water,
1913 feet long by So feet beam and will
cost 1929, 400 each.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-10
A QUEER VERDICT.

GAINESVILLE, Wis, Dec. SIN the
case of William Carls, an infant, vs..
Fairbanks, Morse & Co. of Beloit, the
Jury i'm the circuit court found for the
defendant. Carls is 16 years old.
About a year ago while in the employ
of the company he lost a portion Of
two fingers of his right hand in a ma
chine at which he was at work. He
brought suit to recover $4,000 dam
ages. The jury brought in a special
verdict in which it held that the ma
chinery was in a safe and proper con-
dition for use; that the plaintiff was
not injured by any defect of the same,
but by his own negligence, but that ne
suffered damage to the extent of 81 900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-10
WAY-UP ARCHITECTURE
Towering Building Planned in the
Metropolis.

New York, Dec. 8.-Plans are now
drawn and negotiations we'll under
way for the erection here of an office
building SO stories high. English
capitalists headed by Jacques and
Welton of Lancashire, who are said
to have diverted vast sums Of English
money towards American investments,
are backing the scheme, it is said, and
in this case they say no less than $780,
600, 900 will be expended. 1t will be
built at Fourth avenue and Twenty
fifth street. In addition to the So
stories there are to be seven subcellars
and six stories in the cupola, so the
total number of floors in the building
will be II. The building is to be 108
feet square and 900 feet high, with
large central court, and there are to
be $500 rooms and five large stores On
the ground floor
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-10
IN MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND,

Richfeld Springs, N. Y, Dec. 8.-A
memorial organ, presented to the First
Presbyterian church by Mrs. Emmons
Blaine, was dedicated. Walter Dam
rosch, brother-in-law of Mrs. Blaine,
was the organist. The choir was COM
posed of New York singers. Rev. Geo.
Reynolds, the pastor, accepted the gift.
In addition to the organ Mrs Blaine
has had the church deliberately decor
ried, and the organ is a memorial of
that event. Mrs. Blaine was a Miss
Mccormick of Chicago. Her husband
lived in Baltimore at the time of his
marriage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-10

There is a general belief that caucus
action more than ever before will de-
termine the work of congress. The
senatorial caucuses will be spit up as
they never have been before. The
boiling republicans will caucus by
themselves. The boiling democrats
will probably not be admitted to the
democratic caucus, and will therefore
have to caucus by themselves. They
will be nearly stand off in numbers
The democrats and populists will eau
Gus separately. Under this confusing
state Of affairs the republicans Will
find it difficult to decide on a policy
which contemplates action at this ses-
sion.
Senators Villas, Caffery, Palmer and
Gray will MT, it is said, be admitted
to the democratic caucus. 1t is eX-
pected that in some matters they will
cooperate, as an Independent faction,
with the republicans. They will, it is
said, act with the republicans on the
floor if the republican caucus decides
to authorize short time loan, as sug-
gested by Senator Chandler and also
in the matter of re-organiZlng the
finance committee. The attitude that
will be assumed by Hill and Smith is a
matter of doubt. 1t is uncertain
whether they will participate in the
democratic caucus, though they have
not forfeited their right to do so. The
other gold democrats who did not re-
fuse to support Bryan will participate
actively in the party councils and the
party management.
The boiling silver republicans,
though maintaining an Independent
attitude, are more closely allied with
the silver democrats than are the four
gold democrats with the republicans.
The gold democrats are embarrassed
by the tariff. The democrats and sill
yer republicans propose to waive that
question. In fact, the three silver
factions intend to act together uni
formly In opposition to the repub
licans. The leaders are already in
communication on the subject, and
though they will caucus separately,
they contemplate adopting a co-opera-
tive policy. There will probably be a
secret steering committee, on which
the democrats, populists and silver re-
publicans will all be represented.
On account of the probability of the
Cuban war being brought up in the
open house, next to Speaker Reed and
Chairman Dingley, stands R. R. Hit
of Illinois, chairman of the committee
on foreign affairs Cuban sympa-
thizers recall that he is aggressively
American" with a strong leaning to-
ward jingoism.
In addition to foreign revenue and
financial legislation there is every
prospect of some attempt at dealing
with the immigration question in an eff
fective way.