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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-25
UNCLE SAM AFTER HIM.
Edmund Raymond to Be Arrested
When Released from Jail.

Milwaukee, Wis, Nov. 19.-United
States Commissioner Bloodgood,
Thursday issued warrant for the ar
rest of Edmund Raymond, who is con-
fined in Jail at Sheboygan and who will
be released in few days. Raymond
Is believed by the United States au-
thorlties to be the man who is wanted
by federal authorities in Cleveland,
Detroit and other towns upon a charge
OF 1mpersonating a United States Sc
cret service detective. He is also
charged with attempting to defraud
Sebastian Moersch and Jacob Gossert
of Plymouth, Wis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-25
REMEMBRANCE

This will ever be day to recount
the national mercies Of the past; to
remember the heroic figures that give
to our republic the best evidence of
the fruitfulness Of democracy; to re-
call Washington, Franklin, Jefferson,
Hamilton, Lincoln, Grant and a great
cloud Of other splendid witnesses to
the power of nationa life in its
poblest incarnations.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-25
GAINESVILLE FACTORY BURNS.
Fire Thought to Be Incendiary-Loss
About $4,000.

GAINESVILLE, Wis, Nov. 20.-An incen-
diary fire Friday destroyed the James
vile Plating company's factory, the
building being formerly known as the
Woodruff Buckle factory, located on
North Franklin street. The building
was furnace of flame when the fire
was discovered The loss on the
building, which is a three-story brick
structure, will be $4,000, insured for
$4,000; loss on machinery $4,000 in
sured for $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-25
FOR SECOND THORN TRIAL.
Slayer Of Guldensuppe Again to B
Arraigned

New York, Nov. 21.-District Attor-
ney Youngs of Queens county says
that everything is in readiness for the
resumption tomorrow OF the trial of
Martin Thorn, the alleged murderer
of W. A. Guldensuppe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-25
OLDEST MASON DEAD.
Joel Houghton Passes Away at His
Sons Residence.

milwaukee,, Nov. 21.-Joel Hough-
ton, the father of Wesley Houghton,
purchasing agent Of the Plankinton
Packing company, is dead at the res
idence of his son. Joel Houghton was
up to the date of his death the Oldest
living Mason in the United States
He was 81 years Of age and joined the
Masonic order in 1921. The funeral
and interment will take place at his
birthplace, Ogdensburg, N Y.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-25
HYMEN'S HARVEST.
Wisconsin Young People Join Hearts
and Hands.

Black River Falls, Wis, Nov. 10
Miss Alice Jones, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel P. Jones of this city
was married Thursday to John H,
Mills, cashier of the Jackson county
bank. A large reception followed.
Ripon, Wis, Nov. 19.-George M.
Phelps, a young business man Of this
place, and Miss Alice Robertson,
daughter Of David Robertson, were
married Thursday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-25
BIG SNOW AT HURLEY.

Hurley, Wis, Nov. 14.-Hurley Is
now enveloped in the first heavy snow
Of the season. Fully twelve inches of
the white subst ance covers the ground.
blocking street cars and otherwise
impeding traffic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-25

Lord Kelvin's town house is near
the laboratory of the university. When
he was offered a place in the peerage
six years ago he chose the title OF
Baron Kelvin Of Larga, taking the
name of the Kelvin, which flows
through the city of Glasgow, a very
beautiful and limpid stream few
miles out, but unfortunately polluted
by the great city through which it
flows. He is slightly lame from an
accident on the ice when he was
young, so that he cannot indulge in
golflng or any other distinctly Scotch
game, but he is the owner Of a yacht,
and in the long vacations which are
given him by the university he sails
the Lalla RoUkh up among the western
islands, to America or the Mediter-
ranean. wherever business or pleasure
may call him. He often has distin-
gujshed guests on his beat. and at
these times he permits no business to
be transacted.
Lord Kelvin is as absent-minded as
Newton, and is very apt to forget to
eat his dinner on time unless some
body reminds him to do so. He seems.
as one biographer says, not to acquire
knowledge "a other men do, by ardu-
Gus study, but to absorb it through the
pores of his skin, and to have at his
tongues end all the knowledge there
is upon any Of the natural sciences and
philosophy. But he has no use for
German metaphysics. He says it is
nothing but the foam On a glass of
beer, and that you have to blow it off
to get at the real thing. No one
knows whether he ever philosophers
about his existence or not His geo
logical conclusions ignore the theory
OF special creation. Among pure sci
entists he will easily rank with Cali
leo, Newton and Won Humboldt, and
in invention with Watt and Edison of
the preset day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-25

wards invented instruments for meas
uring electrical forces, both static and
dynamic. To illustrate his humor,
Lord Kelvin has compared the two
types Of electrical energy to the con-
servative and liberal parties; the
one representing energy at rest, and
the other energy in motion; his SYM
pathies naturally being with the static
party, which he says is always the
unknown quantity, not easily aroused,
ard whose force is not to be calculated
He has devised several forms of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-25
LANDT ENUMERATED.
Adams County Board Directs District
Attorney to Dismiss His Cases.

Friendship, Wis, Nov. 19.-The re-
port Of the committee appointed by
the county board to investigate the
charges made against Supt. Landt Of
the Sparta industrial school, while
treasurer Of Adams county, exOnerated
Mr.. Lan1t from all fraudulent intent
in the alleged shortage Of his accounts.
The county board thereupon requested
the district attorney to dismiss all
suits brought against Mr.. Landt and
not require him to furnish bonds to the
county against costs arising there
from.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-25

Lord Kelvin, or Sir William
Thompson, as he is more widely
known since he was raised to the
reerage only six years ago, was born
at Belfast, Ireland, in 1922, ard is
descendant Of a Scotch family Of VI
ster. His politics is, therefore con-
SENTATIVE and it is stated that he re-
sents being called the grand old man
Of science, because he does not ap-
prove Of Gladstone. He appreciates
most the designation Of dean Of nat
ural philosophy, using the old classical
term that was good enough for New
ton, Davy and Won Humboldt, rather
than the modern form Of scientist. HIS
father was professor of mathematics
in Dublin and in the old college OF
Glasgow, which stood on historic
spot. This has been merged into the
Glasgow university, and it is said that
William Thompson as a lad Of s years
played for the first time in the ply
seal laboratory of the university
where three years later he was en-
tered as a student and where, at the
age of %, he returned to the chair of
natural philosophy. The extreme
youth Of the professor would not, per-
haps, be remarked in this country and
III this decade, but in England, and
especially in Scotland, where a man is
never spoken of as promising young
man until he reaches the age Of so or
Whereabouts, there must have been a
great deal of prejudice to combat IN
taking the chair. There are many
stories told CT the turbulence of the
back benches in the class room when
the young professor was giving some
Of his famous definitions, which were
as original in matter and form as any
twisted and convoluted sentence that
the sage of Chelsea ever wrote. For
instance, his fayorite definition of an
ideal magnet as IAN infinitely long.
infinitely thin, uniform and uniformly
and longitudinously magnetized bar
YVES invariably received with stamping
of feet. When Lord Kelvin was only
about so years Of age Cyrus Field was
laying his cable across the Atlantic.
ard the first serious condition that
threatened to make the whole scheme
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-25

voltaic battery, as well as a large, dry
cell and a dynamo.
Electricity, however, is only one
field of activity in which he has dis
played his genius, and he Of all men
was the one to whom the world had a
right to look for such startling dis
closures relating to geology, to which
he has applied the laws of mathe-
matics. He is eminent in the science
of molecular physics, Of heat, OF dy-
namics, Of magnetism, and in hydro
states, and he is the author of several
classics.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-25

great engineer. His discoveries in
the dynamics of light in ether and
crystals; his inventions that made
practicable the submarine cables; his
instruments for the measurement OF
tides; his marine compasses; his
delicate machines for measuring cleo
tricity, and his laboratories fer the OBJ
servation Of atmospheric electricity
and electrical engineering, are OF
worldwide fame. The humility with
which he confesses his failure to pen
citrate the mystery of matter and ether
is a reproof to those Of lesser knOwl-
edge and greater pTetensions.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-25

adjoining baths and public wash
houses, a technical school and a free
circulating library, on which there
Will be a saving of four to five thou
sand dollars per annum for fuel alone.
The price for electric current will be
cents per unit during the day, anu
cents per unit at night, with the ex-
ccption of the first two hours CT
darkness, during which II cents per
unit will be charged
Not content with having helpcl
solve this new problem Of CONVEX ting
the refuse into heat and light, LORI
Kelvin has just confounded the
biologists, who have based many OF
their calculations upon the hitherto in
cCntrovertible premises that there was
an unlimited bank of time to draw
upon in estimating the period of geo
logical formations and organic lite Oh
the globe. Lord Kelvin has been MAX
ing calculations for years, and now
states that the earth is not so old as
has generally been supposed. In sup
port of his statement he reviews the
doctrine of uniformity in geology witt
its accompanying proof, and calculates
that il heat had been uniformly taken
out Of the earth at its present yearly
rate, the globe 20,000,000 years ago
would have been a molten, If not a
gaseous mass. The earth, as he proves,
loses heat and velocity in decreas-
ing ratio as it becomes more solid ana
grows colder. To judge by the prop
critics Of rocks and by underground
temperatures, the date Of the solidifi-
cation of the earth was most probably,
he says, from 20 000, 900 to 10000 600
years ago. In his lecture he discusses
vegetable life, sunlight and heat, the
production of the ocean depths and the
eminenceS of the continents, and the
changes in density by cryStalliZatiOn.
This is rather discouraging to geolo-
gists who want time to find inverte-
bate ancestors for Vertebrates on the
Cambrian rocks, and will compel them
TO fight their battles out on another
line. Each new thing with which the
name OF Lord Kelvin is associated
nxes him more firmly in the place OF
being the Newton of the Victorian era,
and of sharing with Baron Won Helm
holz the honor of being the greatest
scientist of the century. But he IS
also one of the greatest inventors of
the age.
Lord Kelvin is now 70 years old.
Two years ago the jubilee of his pro-
fessorship of natural philosophy in
the Glasgow university was celebrated,
and there, before an assembIage Of del
egates, each of whom was celebrated
in some special field OF discovery and
invention, Lord Kelvin declared that
he knew no more of electricity, that is,
of it's constituents, than be did fifty
years before. He said that much had
been discovered concerning its mani
festations, its properties and it's chem
ical actions, but that as to what cleo
tricity itself was he know no more
than did Farraday. He said, very
quantity that if Franklin had known
as much about electricity as we do to-
day he would not have tried his little
tricks with kite-1ying. Though there
be electricians in this land of ours who
will very glibly define the subtle fluid
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-25
GLADSTONE FAILING|
ALARMING RUMOR REGARDING
HIS HEALTH
BODILY POWERS WANING

Heart Weak and He Suffers from
Shortness Of Breath-Now Leads
Sedentary Life-London Much Con-
cerned over Report That Famous
Old Mans in Bad Way.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-11
DANGERS OF THE GRIP.

The greatest danger of la grippe is
of it's resulting in pneumonia. If rea-
sonable care is used, however, and
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is ia
ken, all danger is avoided. Among
the tens of thousands who have used
this remedy for la grippe, we have yet
to learn of a single case having result
ted in pneumonia, which shows con-
clusively that this remedy is a certain
preventative of that dread disease. 1t
will effect a permanent cure in less
time than any other treatment. The
% and 80 cent sizes for sale by all
druggists.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-11
FREIGHT TIED ZIP

Milwaukee, Wis, March 11.-Gen.
Freight Agent Johnson, of the Wis
consin Central line, states if it is
found that Flint and Pere Mar
quette steamer line cannot ahandle
the traffic at Manitwoc offered by the
Central, the freight will be delivered
over other lines. The Flint and Pere
Marquette is still struggling with an
unfortunate strike Of freight handlers
at the Ludington. The Central has
between 500 and 1000 cars of -four
and other freight scattered along the
road
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-11
LEGISLATIVE.
NATIONAL.

In the L. S. Senate the credentials
of Wood, appointed from Kentucky,
were presented and referred to COM
mittee.
HOar introduces an amendment to
the rules of the Senate, providing for
closing debate upon any question af-
ter it has been discussed one day. if
the majority vote Of the Snatte or
ders.
Senate adjourned after recinding its
motion to recOnvene on Monday, and
is adjourned sine die.
Bailey and McMillen are candidates
for the Democratic nomination to the
speakership.
President Mckinley announces his
hours for receiving members of Con-
gress, other business and those who
simply pay their respects.
Tariff committee finishes its sugar
business and takes up the wool.
Postmaster General Gary has an
nounced no policy.
TEXAS.
Senate passes House bill creating a
new civil district court for Harris
county; House bill diminishing Grim
4Hdl anu civil jurisdiction of Marion
county; and relating to construction of
Union depots.
Senate cOncurs in House resolu.
ton empowering governor to call a
cotton growers convention at Calves.
ton.
Senate passes House bills to nav
teachers salaries in Greer county. and
increasing penalties for sale of LIQUOR
to minors.
Senate passes bill making it a mis-
demeanor to gather pecans on the lan(
of another.
Bill passes authorizing the board OF
pardons TO sit 300 days in a year a.
81 per diem.
House passes bill relating to issuin.
license TO practice law; chins over tn,
text book bill and assigns the morn
ing hour after this week for appro
priation bills.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-11
FUNERAL NOTICE.

DAVID B. KNOWLTON.
Died, this morning at 10 a. m. at
his residence, 305 Wilson street, David
D. KnOwlton, in the 9th year of his
age. His funeral will take place this
afternoon at 3 o'clock from the resi-
dence of deceased.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-11
A VALUABLE PRESCRIPTION.

Editor Morrison, of Worthington,
Ind, Sum-" writes: You have a val
uabel prescription in Electric Bitters,
and can cheerfully recommend it for
Constipation and Sick Headache, and
as a general system tonic it has no
equal" Mrs. Annie Stehle, 1925 Cot
tage Grove avenue, Chicago, was all
run down, could not eat nor digest
food, had a backache which never left
her and felt tired and weary, bit six
bottles of Electric Bitters restored her
health and renewed her strength. Price
so cents and 81. Get a bottle at F.
Kalteyer & Sons drug store.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-11
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
LATEST OFF THE WIRES FROM
OVER THE WORLD.
A Complete EpitOme of the Days Happen
ings, Briefed and Boiled Down, up
to Time of Going to Press

Ex-United States Senator Dolph, of
Oregon, is dead.
New trotting horse association or
ganiZed at Chicago.
Mount Morris dam near Rochester
breaks, submerging some farm lands.
| Leon Kahn, largest shoe man in
Dallas, fails. Liabilities about $751;
600.
California Mortgage Loan and Trust
| Co., fails at Fresno. Assets will pay
all liabilities.
The Monitor Puritan is off Hattteras
making signals of distress.
Spain proposes autonomy to Sivera,
but they are dismissed.
Gomez orders all bearers of propo-
Sitions to the Cubans, otherwise than
those who offer independence, to be
shot.
Spanish residents in Mexico are Gre
ating ill feeling against Spain by their
demands.
Cuban sentiment in Mexico denOun-
ces strongly the attempt of Spaniards
to influence DiaZ.
Train held up at Calara., Ala, and
robbed of $1,000. Through express
safe unopened.
President Mckinley goes to hoSpit
al to call on an old comrade disabled
there.
Cotton Growers association at Mem
phiS urge planters to experiment in
sugar beets.
River is rising slowly at Mem
phis and is likely to for several days.
w. r. Jewell. appointed postmaster
at Danville. Ind, to fill vacancy, is the
first appointed.
Vasso's troops in Crete are suffering
for want of food.
Insurgents cut off water from the
belleagured fortress at IzZedin, and
the Turks are thirsty.
Bulgarian metropolitan offers pray
er for the Car and creates sensa-
ton.
Queen Victoria has left England for
the Mediterranean. Will stay near
Nice.
Arkansas House passes the Federal
debt resolution over the governors
veto. Senate had passed.
Trial for conspiracy to murder
Sheriff Shelel, of Starr county, is on
at Edinburg.
The Interstate Cotton Growers con-
ventiOn is coming into shape.
Telephone line will be extended
from Taylor to Yoakum via Smith
vile.
The missing steamer Auriana ar
rives safe at New York.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-11
PROSPEROUS KANSAS.
Mortgage Bonds Decrease Almost 80
Per Cent in Seven Years.

Mortgage Bonds Decrease Almost 90
Per Cent in Seven Years.
Topeka, Has, March 1.-THE To-
peka Capital publishes an elaborate
statement of the reduction of mort
gage Indebtedness in Kansas during
the past seven years, showing a de-
crease of 45 per cent, or over $780,
100000 since January 1, 1890. The
comparison is drawn between the fig
ure of the Federal census of 1890 and
reports to the Capital from the regis
trar of deeds of SO counties, showing
the recorded mortgage Indebtedness
on January l, 1897. In 1890 these
counties had mortgage Indebtedness
of 500, los, 631, and on 1897, ON the
same basis, S34, $40, 1873, or a net re-
duction in the seven years of SIS, 53S,-
493-Over 46 per cent. If the same
percentage holds good for the entire
state, which the Capital figures show
to be true, the total reduction in Kan
sas for the seven years amounts to
sos, 96S, POS.
This reduction is very much great
err if settlements by deed and fore
closure in the western third of the
state is considered.
Careful estimates of the same fig
ures show that only $40,000,000 of
Kansas mortgage debt is held by
persons outside the state. OF this 49,
100000 is held by insurance compa-
MES doing business in Kansas and
therefore, but $50, 100000 by individ
ual foreign creditors, as compared
with $S5,000,000 in 1890.
In 1890 the total mortgage debt of
the state on farms and lots was re-
ported by the census to be 81 per cent
of the actual value of all taxed real
estate.
Today it does not exceed IL per
cent. The statement shows that Kan
sas has been diligently and success
fully paying out and is today prOba-
bly, freer of debt than any of West
ern states. 1t could pay its foreign
obligations of $25,0O0,000 from the
proceeds of a single crop.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-11
A TESTIMONIAL BENEFIT.

a number of friends of Frank ReXO
will tender him a testimonial benefit
at the Grand Opera house Monday
night. Mr.. ReXO has been here for
several months for the benefit of his
health. He first came to this city two
years ago, when he appeared here
with "Black Crook" doing a tramp
turn with George Reno. ReXo has
been on the stage the past fourteen
years and was to fill an engagement
this season with Hanlon's "Superba,"
but his voice has failed him. He ex-
poets to go on the stage again next
season.
A number of professionals will vol
unteer their services for the event,
and it promises to be a success, at
least from an artistic standpoint.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-11
ONLY FOUR VICTIMS.

Evansville, Ind, March 11.-If cor
robOrative testimony is worth any
thing only four lives were lost in the
Evansville and Terre Haute wreck
near Hazelton. The dead are George
A. Sers. of Terre Haute, conductor;
Joseph BOleman, of Evansville, fire
man; Hervert Allen, of Evansville,
Ind. late dOOrkeeper of the Indiana
Legislature. and one passenger whose
name is unknown, but who is suppos,
ed to be q drummer.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-11
SUCCESSFUL INDIAN SCHOOL

Carlisle, Pa, March 1.-THE advis-
DRY exercises of the Indian school in
this town were attended by the larg-
est number of people that have came
here since the school was instituted.
Capt. Robert Pratt, superintendent of
the school, says the children at school
are from sixty different tribes. The
number of pupils under his care for
some portion of last year were 1893 and
the average attendance was 100.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-11
FROM CRIPPLE CREEK.

After the big fire in Cripple Greek,
l took a very severe cold and tried
many remedies without help, the cold
only becoming more settled. After
using threee small bottles Of Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy, both the cold
and cough left me, and in this high al
titude it takes a meritorious cough
remedy to do any good.-G. B. Hen
dersOn, editor Daily Advertiser. For
sale by all druggists.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-11
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Caroline E. Scraton to Hans Brian,
lot 8, corner Newton and Centre
streets; 5000.
Paul Meerscheidt to Mrs. Kate
Wurzbach, 1874 acres out of the II.
Mendoza survey of 1880 acres, about
II miles northeast of San Antonio;
800.
Kate WurZbach to Sturmius Sauer,
bond for title, 1874 acres out of the
II. Mendoza survey of 1880 acres, 3O1s
acres out of survey 1913, all about u
miles northeast of San Antonio; ST.
800.
San Antonio Real Estate Building
and Loan Association to Julia p. AL
ling, lot 20, block 6, on south side of
North street; $3.50.
Augustin Mechler, ST., and wife to
Louis Mechler, 100 acres out of sur
vey IA. originally granted w. Richard
son; 500.
Augustin Mechler, ST., and wife to
Emil Mechler, 1O6 acres out of same
survey; $500.
Augustin Mechler, ST., and wife to
John NJ. Mechler, 106 acres out Of
same survey; $500.
Augustin Mechler. ST., and wife to
Andreas Mechler, JOG acres out of the
same survey; $500.
Axel Meerscheidt to Mrs. Annie
Philbrick, lot 4, block l, original city
lot 127; $3.50.
Lander Cleveland and wife to w.
4. WurZbach and C. A. GOeth, trus-
tees deed one-fifth interest in survey
81, section 2, on Medina river; 5000.