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The record-union., 1896-05-04

the eleventh article of the Constitution,
was proclaimed November 13 1856 The
provincial and municipal organs of the
colonies were made to conform with
those of the peninsula June p, 1878.
Reforms in the right of suffrage have
been difficult of accomplishment wher-
ever the negro race is in the majority,
but the law concerning voters in cleo
tions for Cuban representatives in the
Cortes, promulgated December 81, 1892
provides that every citizen of % years
of age, who pays the sum of So to the
State, shall have the right to vote, and
this right is enjoyed by negroes as well
as white persons in Cuba. In this law
are likewise provisions which secure
the representation of the majority. The
laws relative to education are also i'm
portant. AS long ago as 1880 autonomy
was granted to the University of Ha-
vana, and such ample provisions were
granted to it that but one university in
the peninsula Chat of Madrid) enjoys
privileges equally great.
High schools throughout the island
were organized in 1888, and finally in
1887 freedom of education was pro-
claimed to the same extent and manner
as in Spain.
The Cuban budget, it is shown, has
been reduced from SAC 100000 for the
fiscal year 1S7S-79, the closing. of the
last war, to a little more than $4,000
600 for 1898
The system of taxation in Cuba and
Spain, it is claimed could not be made
exactly alike because direct taxes are
repugnant to Cubans, especially the
tax on land, which is the basis of the
Spanish budget. The direct tax on
rural property in Cuba is 2 per cent,
while in Spain it ranges from II to 20
per cent. AS revenue had to be raised
in Cuba the income was sought from
customs duties. notwithstanding this,
in years when the greatest financial
distress prevailed, the Spanish Govern
ment did not hesitate to sacrifice that
income in order to meet the special
needs of Cuba's principal agricultural
product when the reciprocity treaty
was put into effect
Many Spanish industries had to be
sacrificed in order that Cuban sugar
could continue to find its chief market
in the United States. On the principle
of charge the other side this state
ment of Spanish reform legislation in
regard to Cuba is submitted for con-
sideration
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NOT OUT OF THE WOODS.
That is What Senator Tom Platt
Thinks of MCkinley'S Friends.

NEW YORK, May 3.-Ex-Senator
Thomas c. Platt made the following
statement tonight: THE Mckinley
followers are hurrahing before they are
out of the woods. If they are TO be be-
ieved the man from Ohio has already
secured delegates enough to nominate
him at st. Louis and the rest of the
proceedings are of no interest to them.
a glance at the actual state of affairs
shows that the contest for the Republi-
can nomination is still an open one,
with the chances in favor of one of Mr..
McKinley's opponents. Perhaps one of
the fairest and most reasonable of the
Mckinley organs is the Philadelphia
Press. 1t prints a table every day
giving its estimates of the strength of
the different candidates at the time.
It's table for the Sd instant shows that
I6S delegates have been chosen up to
the evening of Saturday, leaving 1913
to be elected 1t assigns 401 of the dele
gates chosen to Mckinley, 81 to Reed,
SO to Morton, II to Cullom ~ to Allison,
36 to Quay, 16 to Bradley and places 10
in the doubtful list.
TT is certain that not one of those
among the doubtful will vote for Nc
kinley. His managers have made an
aggressive fight in every State and in
every district, and where their men have
been beaten it is safe to say that the
successful candidate is not McKin-
ley delegate.
LAS for the 401 votes claimed for the
latest Napoleon the delegates assigned
to him from Alabama, Florida. Louisi-
ana, Georgia, Mississippi. South Caro-
lima and Texas, are contested and no
properly constituted body would think
for a moment of allowing their f1imsy
claims. The loss of these 80 votes re-
duces McKinley's strength at one blow
to 3D. votes, or 129 less than the number
required to nominate him. And there
remain among these 332 not fewer than
Is from Indiana, 4 from Tennessee, i
wrOngfully claimed from Maryland and
: WrOngfully claimed in Kentucky, 2S
in all, which will not be cast for the
Canton candidate. i is the most re-
markable case Of counting chickens be-
fore they are hatched that has ever yet
been known"
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ALLISON'S FRIENDS.
They VIII Go 1000 Strong to Boom
Him at St. Louis.

DES MONIES, May 3-AHfson' s
Iowa managers left Des Moines last
night for st, Louis. The party will
make arrangements for building
capable of accommodating 1000 Iowans
for the convention. The reports coming
from the smaller towns show that a
large number of Allison Clubs have
been formed, and that Iowa will be rep
re- ented as it rsStC has been before at
National Convention. The fact that
Mckinley carried the Springfield con-
vention is deterring the arrangements
in no way, and AIlison's Iowa friends
are working just as hard as ever to
make him the next President.
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Murder Through jealousy.

IRONTON Qowa), May 3.-Joseph
Beals. young molder, shot his wife
three times. mortally wounding her. at
noon to-day They had been out for a
walk and as they approached home on
their return he drew a revolver and
fred four shots at her, three taking
effect He then escaped. The shooting
took place on q street crowded with
Sunday strollers and created great ex-
citement. Beals and his wife had had a
Jealous quarrel
The record-union., 1896-05-04
Bisslop of South Dakota.

SIOUX FALLS Is. ID, May Bright
Rev. Thomas O'Gorman, formerly of the
Catholic University of the United
States, was to-day installed as Bishop
OF South Dakota, to succeed Bishop
Martin Marty. transferred to st. Cloud,
Minnesota. Archbishop Ireland Off
ciated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05
FOREIGN.

Cuban insurgents were discovered IN
force within ten miles of Havana.
Britain is reported to be negotiating
with France for the evacuation of
Egypt.
President Kruger's pet society
adopted belligerent resolutions de-
nouncing England.
A revolution has been proclaimed
in Nicaragua by agitators who accuse
President Zelaya's government of de-
signing to establish dictatorship.
At Ottawa, Ont, it is charged that
Sir Charles Upper corruptly obtained
$4,000 for his own use while premier
of Canada. The money was in the
form of bride.
A dispatch from London says that
DR.. Jameson and fourteen other of the
Transvaal raiders were arraigned in
the Bow street police court and were
held in $4,000 bail each.
A disturbance took place in front Of
the Office of the Petit Partisan. Paris,
growing out of the fact that the man
ayers of that paper hoisted the Cuban
flag. Many Spaniards objected.
A dispatch from Caracas, Vene-
zuela, says that President Crespo's
message to the congress was read. The
message referred with gratitude to the
action of the United States in the An
glo-Venezuelan boundary dispute.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05
BRAINS UNNECESSARY.

DR.. S. s. Koser of this city has made
wonderful discovery, which will be
theme for discussion among medical
men throughout the country. His
knife has revealed a medical wonder.
in which a man had unimpaired fac
ulties without brain. At the request
OF number of prominent physicians
of Philadelphia, Dr. KoscT, on Sunday
evening, held a postmortem examina-
ton of the remains of John Bly, of
Watsontown, who died Friday night.
Bly,, who was 20 years of age, for a
long time suffered with a tumor,
which grew into the very base of the
brain, and OccasiOned his death. The
growth had a visible effect upon his
brain, and the case became a curiosity
to the medical profession. The tumor
was imbedded too deeply into the
brain tissue to admit of an operation.
1t was found that the tumor was
nearly as large as a billiard ball 1t
was so located as to demoralize the
nerves of the sight center, and as a
consequence BLY, was blind for three
years.
The most singular fact develo0cd
was that the entire brain had been hol-
lowed out by the action of the tumOr.
The cavity was at least five inches in
length, and was filled with pus. All
that was left of the brain was a thin
shell, composed of the tougher tissues,
where the brain matter gathers into
nerves, which were less susceptible to
the process of decay. When an in
cisiOn was made in the shell the whole
mass collapsed. The circumstances
which made the case almost unprece-
dented in the annals of medical science
was the manner in which the patient
retained his nationality and faculties
under the circumstances. He had the
senses of touch, taste, hearing, and
SMELL had very tolerable control of his
locomotor muscles, could talk, and, in
fact, was comparatively disconnected
in no other way than by the loss of
vision. His retention of memory was
remarkable. He was able to memoir
ize poems up to within two weeks of
his ath.-Williamsport Pa) Core
spondence Philadelphia Ledger.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05

1t serves as parlor, dining room, sit
ting room and library. The kitchen
adJoins it on one side and the captain
bed room on the other. The upper
floor is one large room fitted with
sleeping booths for the men.
Some of the most important stations
have a horse. This is a recent acoui-
sition, but necessary one. At times
when a vessel had gone ashore a. cou-
pie of miles from the station it was
found impossible to move the lifeboat
on the sand cart up to the point of
danger. The horse now does the work
in a few minutes where it formerly
took hours.
No means have yet been discovered
by which the lifeboat can be launched
when the surf is running very high
Experiments have been made with a
tower-like structure erected as close
to the water as possible, and with a
set OF tracks running from the top
into the water The lifeboat rests on
a platform with wheels. The platform
totoggans down the tracks with a
momentum sufficient to send it into
deep water. This combination has
worked satisfactorily in some places in
Europe, but on the Atlantic or Pacific
coast it is at disadvantage, because
a vessel does not select its precise To-
cality when she is blown ashore. AS
the structure must be firmly erected,
it is not possible to move it from one
place to another.
The breeches buoy has largely done
away with the need of the lifeboat,
however, except in cases where a YES
sci goes ashore too far out 10 be
reached by the life line. Much of the
efficient work of the department is due
to the adoption of the international
code of signals. BY these the men on
shore tell the people on the stranded
vessel exactly what to do and how to
do it. This code embraces only eigh-
teen different flags, but $4,000 distinct
messages can be sent by them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05

been made, but it will take a most
tiiligenr search of the records to I'M
earth them.
The life of the coast guard is not eX-
citing. 1t is dreary and monotonous.
He almost welcomes a shiDwreck be-
cause it gives hirn something to do
and breaks into The lonely routine of
his cherries labor. For seven months
in the year he is almost as lonely as a
hermit or castaway on a desert is
land. He is paid $50 a month by the
government, and the hardships of his
work incapacitate him at a compare
lively early age. rheumatism, and its
kindred ailments, due to exposure,
make a wreck of his hardy constitu-
ton, and when he is worn out the gov
ernmCnt casts him aside as farmer
throws away a toothless rake. No pen
sion awaits him either. No provision
is made for the life saver in his old
age, although he is certainly the equal
of the soldier and risks his life and
health in the public cause ostener.
Many times efforts have been made
in Washington tC provide pension for
the life savers and to give them work
twelve mOrths in the year, but without
result. Economy has always been the
cry, but when a popular senator dies
J four Or five thousand dollars are freely
voted for a fine congressional funeral
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05
TO REMOVE CANDLE CREASE.

Candle grease is hard to remove, but
the stains can be taken out by holding
a red-hot poker over the mark, not
close enough to scorch it, and placing
a piece of bIotting paper underneath to
absorb the wax it melts. When the
material is not very delicate put a
piece of plotting paper over the spot
and iron it until all the grease is out.
A few seconds will suffice. Then rub
the spot with some tissue paper.
Grease spots on velvet or cloth can be
removed by dropping a little turpen-
tine over the place and rubbing it dry
with piece of clean flannel. Continue
this until the grease has vanished. If
the nap of the velvet has become fiat
tened raise it by damping the wrong
side, stretching it out and ironing it on
the wrong side. This is best done by
standing the iron on end and passing
the velvet over it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05

Gus Long Island sands near
the Fire Island light. 1t was
due to the clever work of the
life savers near the latter place that
the twenty souls in the Harrington
were saved. Not only dir they bring
the men safely ashore, tuG they also
rescued a little Spanish .,ony from the
steamer by the aid Of the breaches
buoy. Had it not been for the yigi-
a danger signal, the Cunarder Cam
pania would have gone ashore in the
fog at the same time the ST. Paul
struck her unlucky nose against New
Jersey. The Cunard company was
saved something between 100000 and
100000 by the red light thrown out
by the life savers. This is the kind of
work the coast guards are doing all
the time, but unless there is actually
a disaster no record of it appears in
statistics gathered in Washington.
But even taking those statistics. the
record Of the service is a fine one
The department year does not end I'M
til June 30, and taking the completed
records for the year ending June 80,
1895, some idea of the work accom-
plished by these men can be obtained.
There were 4S3 disasters in that year
on the coast, and the amount of prop
erty involved was S10,647 ,235. Owing
to the life savers, of this vast sum
s9,145,085 was saved, leaving s1,502,
$50 which was lost. By the 483 dis
asters the lives of 5,402 persons were
placed in jeopardy and all but twenty
of them were saved. The number of
vessels totally lost was seventy-three.
At the various life saving stations the
unfortunates who suffered by the ship
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05

Uncle Sam has something like 1900
men to guard 10000 miles of sea and
lake coast from the dangers of gale
and storm. The figures of the former
seem away out of proportion to those
of the latter, yet from the official rec
ords at Washington property and life
which have been placed in jeopardy
have been ably protected. This is a
tribute to the men who make up the
life saving corps, particularly as the
parsimony of the government only al
lows of their employment from Oct. l
10 May l. The lest of the time the I'M
fortunates who may be caught in a
wreck are supposed to shift for them
selves or depend upon the efforts Of
unorganized aid ashore.
But the men in charge of the life
saving department at Washington have
made the most of the slim means at
their disposal. Complete protection
has been given the coast near the i'm
portant harbors of the country, but
thousands of miles have been left I'M
covered The life saving service is a
part of the treasury department and
Sumner [. Kimball is the general su-
perintendent The establishment en-
braces 251 stations. The average sta
ton is composed of six men and each
station is held responsible for the care
of a certain number of miles of the
coast. On the Atlantic coast there are
1874 stations, while there are but thir-
teen on the Pacific coast. Of course
the amount of ocean traffic on the At
lantic is many times greater than that
on the Pacific, to say nothing of the
large number of important harbors to
be protected. On the great lakes there
are fifty-three stations, and Louisville,
KY, stands unique among the inland
titles because it boasts of a life say
ing station at the falls of the Ohio
river.
Within the past month some thrill
ing examples have been given of the
efficiency of the life savers, notably
when the great American liner ST.
Paul ran ashore at Long Branch, and
again when the tramp steamer Lam
ington was driven upon the treacher-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05

In summer time the life saver sup
ports himself and family by fishing, by
sailing pleasure craft or by working at
in the employ of the government he
is absolutely cut off from his family
He must be on duty twenty-four hours
a day and seven days in the week. Six
or seven men compose the average
station. One of the number is the
captain. He is held responsible for
the work of the men.
The hardest work they have to do
is to patrol the beach at night time
Any one who has walked on a fiat
sandy beach in the winter, with the
wind blowing a gale and hurting salt
spray with the force Of gun shot hun
dreds Of feet, knows what the work of
the coast guard is He has no shelter,
as the beach is as fiat as a billiard
table, and when a heavy snowstorm is
on the work is infinitely worse.
Each man must cover a patrol of
six miles during the night. He walks
three miles in either direction from
the station and then back. Unlike the
policeman he never loiters. He has to
keep moving all tie time or it would
be the last Of him. 1t is not necessary
70 have any one out to see that he at
tends to his patrol because there is no
place where he can seek shelter. The
stations are placed only in exposed
places, where pecDle don't live in win
ter time. When it is possible the sta
lions are connected with each other by
telephone. The little houses are well
bIilr and have many small comforts.
Nearly all of them have small libraries.
The principal room is the mess room.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05
A LOVING KING AND QUEEN.

The devotion of the venerable king
and queen of Denmark for each other
is described as positively touching.
During the time Of the queens illness,
which lasted something like three
months, no one about the court was
allowed to see her save her husband,
lady in waiting and the physician in
ordinary. The king was ceaseless in
his devotion. He rarely went out save
when duty compelled, abandoned his
customary exercise and passed hours
every day reading to his wife or play
ing cards and chess with her and tell
ing her what was going on in the
world outside
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05

wrecks were cared for, and the num-
gregates 1882. Yet the total annual
cost OF the department is less than
s1.950,000
Thee are dry statistics, but they tell
the story convincingly. By the ex-
penditure OF s1,350,0 hundreds OF
lives were saved and many times that
amount OF property rescued from de-
struction. Better investments by the
government for the public welfare have
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05

Medical Director P. S. Walsh, have been
placed on the retired list. AS a result
of Admiral Carpenters retirement Com
modore T. o. Selfridge will become an
admiral, thus presenting the unusual
spectacle of father and son both hold
ing that high rank simultaneously, al
though the father holds the rank on
the retired list.
Mr. Lester, who has been in Cincin-
natl Under instructions from Governor
Bradley investigating the Pearl Bryan
murder, has notified the officers of
Campbell County that the governor is
not convinced the murder was COM
mitted in Kentucky, and therefore the
payment of the reward will be with
held
Funeral services over the remains OF
Edgar W. Nye were conducted by Rec
tor Phelps and the Rev Thomas c.
Wetmore, at Calvary Episcopal church
Fletcher, N. c. The people of the COM
munity turned out en- masse to pay
their last earthly tribute to their dis
tinguished and warm hearted neighbor
The casket was covered with flowers
! The grave had been decorated by
women of the community.
! A fatal crossing accident occurred
in Stelton, N. J., in which Laura
/ Childs lost her life and three other
people were badly injured. Two OF
them may die. A carriage containing
four persons, Laura Childs, aged II
years, and Bertha Childs, aged 1f
years, daughters of Milton Childs, OF
Newmarket, and the two sons of Milk
man Dunbar, aged about p and "a
years. A heavy freight train bound for
Philadelphia and running at high rate
of speed struck the vehicle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05
Professor Adler, in an address upo1

marriage, said that one of its very
great advantages is that it makes you
fully known to some human being
just as you are Another of his OBJ
servations was that conjugal peace is
likely to be disturbed if any other
consideration than love and affection,
respect and confidence induce the mar
riage. Marrying for money, he said, is
a dangerous business; and, as he
added, the practice is not confined to
"plutocratic society"
Robert Burns, fourth, the great
grandson of the poet, died recently at
Blachal, near Edinburgh, and by his
death, which happened exactly 100
years after the decease of the Ayrshire
bard, the direct male line of Burns
has come to an end. The deceased
was born in 1874; his father was
schoolmaster, from whom he received
a good education, but, being OF row
ing disposition, Robert Burns the
fourth enlisted before he was out Of
his teens in the Scots Fusilier guards.
After serving as a soldier for seven
years he engaged in various employ
ments and was for some time rail-
way employee, and finally a gardener.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05
TARTAN MUCH USED IN FRANCE.

Tartan, particularly in France, is
much admired, and when deity
blended with plain material certainly
gives variety. These plaids are used
Tor bodices for slender women, the
trimmings being Of plain goods, but
the stouter sisters are obliged to con-
tent themselves with plain bodices
and trimmings and sleeves of tartan.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05
COLORADO COAL.

Some idea of the magnitude of the
coal resources of Huerfano county, Col
orado, may be formed when it is
known that there are about 100000
acres, and each acre contains 100000
tons, or a total of 100000 900 tons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05
CAME BACK AGAIN.

Neenah, Wis, March Martin Mag
nus, the alderman reported missing,
has returned home and was very much
surprised at the fuss that had been
made over his absence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05

Paul Frances and Gilbert Frances
were 1ynched in front of the court
house in New Orleans yesterday. They
were III Jail for burglary and assault.
Lord Dunraver has been gaZetted
lord lieutenant of Limerick.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05
IT'S A LIFE OF PERIL
ARDUOUS WORK OF UNCLE SANS
COAST GUARDS.
BIG COST OF THE SERVICE

But Property Worth Many Times he
Yearly Outlay Is Saved, to Say
Nothing Of Hundreds Of Lives
Methods of Operating in Times OF
Danger.