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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-08

st. Louis, July 4.-The st. Louis
coal market was never in a more de-
moralized condition ard some of the
operators declare that they would well
come a strike as a means of leading
up to an adjustment of prices and
placing the market on a better basis.
1t is doubtful if the miners of the
Belleville district quit work in body.
They are poorly organized and have
gone through several disastrous
strikes, each leaving them in worse
condition than before. Many of them
are not making enough to live Oh, and
their faith in the strike is weak. A
mass meeting has been called for Tues
Cay in Belleville to consider the sit
uatiCn, until which nothing definite
will be done. =
Pittsburg, July 1.-The coal miners
of the Pittsburg district have decided
unanimously to comply with the order
of the national executive board to
strike.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-08

San Francisco Examiner: In con-
nection with the fact that American
manufacturers are sending steel rails
to India it would be interesting to
know at how much less they lay them
down there for than they do at home
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-08

There was a romantic wedding one
day last week in La Crosse in which
the bridal pair were reunited boy and
girl lovers of thirty years ego in Bos-
ton The bride was Mrs. Anna Moi
fet, widow Of Dr. James 3. Moffet, who
died in August, 1893, at Minneapolis,
leaving a large family of sons and
daughters. The bridegroom was J.
o. Paddock, manager of the La Crosse
Mutual Aid association. Mrs. 4uoffat
was left wealthy widow, and during
the four years of her widowhood knew
nothing of the wheT eabouts of her
cid lover until three months ago, when
she met him in La Crosse, where she
was visiting She had been twice
married, and Mr.. Paddock was a wild
over. He has five children, and she
has a family of two children and five
step children. The meeting Of the two
was quite accidental, as Mr.. Paddock
had not known of her presence until
they saw each Other after more than
thirty years. The wedding was happi-
ly celebrated and Mr.. Paddock Will in
trOdUce his bride 10 a beautiful home.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-08
CLEVER CLIPPINGS.

Cleveland Plain-Dealer:-J Bull
has time to turn from the serious bus
mess of the month Of jubilee in a char
acteristic bit of English humor. He
calls US land-grabbers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-08

Columbus, o., July President
Ratchford, of the United Mine Work
ers of America, says of the miners
strike: Our present suspension is
not out of choice; it is forced upon us
by the continuous reductions in wages
until the point was reached where liv-
ing by our industry was no longer
possible. Our miners throughout the
country are ready for it as last re-
sort. Reports from every mining sec
ton show cOnclusively that this move
ment must continue until living wages
are established. | an not fearful that
the miners will violate the law and the
order. This will be a peaceful con-
test. Public opinion is with us. Tele-
grams and letters from men in all
walks of life are pouring in endorsing
our actions. The great body of the
people are on our side We mean tC
retain their support by strict ad
herenCe to law and order.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-08

Miss Ellen Miller, only daughter of
Rear Admiral Miller, United
States navy, died in London
Sunday. She had been sick ever
since she landed and is believed TO
have contracted typhoid fever while on
the passage across the Atlantic. The
news Of her death reached the admiral
just as the United States cruiser.
Brooklyn, his flagship, was on the
point of sailing for home. The ad-
miral landed and took the first train
for London.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-08

Mrs. Frances Marie Norton, w4-o as
Mrs. Scoville, sister of Guiteau, once
came into very unpleasant notoriety, is
now very i'll at her home in Ravens
wood, Chicago. Mrs. Norton is a
splendid woman to whom her brothers
awful crime was fearful blow. She
of Sorosis, which was known as the
Woman's Mutual Protective league, in
1869. She also organized a society to
investigate the cause and for the pre-
vention of crime. She has written
several books. For five years she has
edited the Ravenswood News.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-18
HER LAST CRUISE.
THE FRlGATE YANTlC HAS EARNED An
HONORABLE RETIREMENT.

After Long Service on the High Seas She
Goes to Detroit For Use as Training
Ship For the Naval Militia,
Every year the number of wooden
ships in our navy grows less, and with
the retirement of the frigate Yantic an.
other picturesque but practically useless
craft drops our of the line to be replaced
by modern fighting machine of steel.
Had it not been for the rumpus raised
by the Canadian jingoes the Yantio
would have been allowed to retire into
obscurity unnoticed AS it is, however,
even at the close of her career, she is a
subject for the exchange Of international
platitudes.
When the navy department was forced
to condemn the Yantio because it was
found that the expense Of repairing her
would be 20 per cent of her original cost,
it was decided to put her out Of com.
mission and hand her over to the Michi.
gan naval reserves to be used as q train.
ing ship. Upon hearing of this the Ca.
madam newspapers raised howl of pro-
test They declared that in sending a
warship into lake waters" the United
| States government was violating the
Rush. Bagot treaty, which has for years
been dead letter as far as its practical
effect goes.
This Rush. Bagot treaty was made
during President Monroes administra.
tion and was ian arrangement as to the
naval force to be respectively maintained
on the American lakes by Canada and
the United States 1t limited the vessels
to two each on the larger lakes and one
on the smaller the vessels not to exceed
| 100 tons each and their armament to
consist of one Is pound cannon apiece.
In how much respect this treaty is
held is shown by the fact that we have
now on the lakes, besides the antiquated
cruiser Michigan, several formidable
and well armed revenue cutters The
Gresham aid the Carlisle, for instance,
have rapid fire rifles, machine guns and
torpedo tubes, making them the superi.
ors in offensiveness Of several of the
professed fighting cruisers of our new
navy. The Canadians also have war.
ships on the lakes, but they disguise
them under the name of fisheries polio
ing boats. They have ram bows and nine
nordfelt guns apiece besides heavier
armament slowed below as ballast or
housed at convenient lake ports ready
for mounting
With l3 such vessels in the waters OF
the great lakes it is ridiculous for the
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-18

voices in which the goods were under.
valued, the imports being received by
the New York agents of the firm. The
substitution of specific for ad valorem
duties only changed the methods Of the
swindlers Collusion between the ship
ping firm and the scant salaried govern
ment agents at our ports has undoubted-
ly been practiced, and the complicated
system Of appraising has made detection
difficult
The result has been to put nine
tenths of the importing business in the
hands of foreign firms Not only has
the government been cheated out of its
just revenues, but American firms with
no foreign agents and no bribed officials
have not been able to compete with their
foreign rivals and have been compelled
to give up importing goods.
Mr. Ham is admirably equipped to
stop this national scandal From 1871
until 1886 he was appraiser of the port
of Chicago, and during that time he
thoroughly Investigated the customs
abuses. In 1889 he published a series of
articles on Fraudulent Valuations, "
which were recognized as of national
Importance The immediate result was
a change III the inefficient system of
merchant appraisers and the establish.
ment Of the general board at the head of
which Mr.. Ham has now been placed.
Besides being q customs expert Mr. Ham
is an authority on manual training.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-18

through his efforts and energy that the
United States government has been
forced to spend something like so, ,000,-
900 in earnest but generally fruitless at.
tempts to prevent the sending of arms
and supplies to the Cubans from our
ports Minister de LONE is credited
with having managed to keep the state
department at Washington excited all
the time" but he could never have
done it without the aid of DIR. Congos-
to, who, according to the Cuban junta,
seems to have eyes and ears in all places.
DIR. Congosto was born in Madrid, but
was educated in Paris with the late
king of Spain, Alfonso Ill, at the IA
nous college named after the militant
st. Stanislaus. Afterward he went to
the University Of Madrid for seven
years, going to England for the finish.
ing touches to his military education.
After some service in the foreign office
at Madrid he was sent as vice consul to
Portland, Me-, where he remained four
years. Later he served as consul at vari-
GUS French ports, and then was sent to
Philadelphia.
In spite Of his activity against fill
busters DIR. Congosto has become quite
popular in this country. Though his
long American residence has somewhat
modified his personal appearance he
still looks the pure Castilian. One Incl
dent which happened during his stay
in Philadelphia illustrates his true
Spanish gallantry. To oblige lady Of
his acquaintance who had been severely
burned he allowed number of strips
of skin to be taken from his person and
transplanted by the grating process.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-18
KEIURT COURTEOUS.
IT GETS MlSLAlD IN THE AUSTRIAN
RElCHSRATH.

In It's Absence UnseemIy Epithets Are Ban
died About and Pandemouium Reigns.
President Kathrein Had to Resign. and
n Crisis Confronts the Country.
We Americans seem to think that our
legislative bodies, state aud national,
are often lacking in dignity and parlia-
mentary repose AS a matter of fact our
lawmakers are remarkably we'll behaved
individuals when contrasted with MEM
bers of similar bodies in other countries
Our noisy house of representatives is
deaf mute convention compared with
the Austrian parliament, which after
months of riotous sessions has resolved
itself into little more than a bowling
mob at whose disgraceful conduct all
Europe holds up its hands in astonish.
ment
For months no member of that poly
glot assemblage has been able to make a
connected speech, and the debates have
been of the same order as those engaged
in between opposing members of two
rival baseball mines when the umpire
has made close decision at a critical
point in the game The retort courteous
has been abandoned for the vivid per-
sonalities which might be exchanged be-
tween the drivers of two colhding trucks
in New York street.
When few years ago two congress
men INDUCED in little squabble in
capitol committee room, the nation
rang with accounts of what was termed
"disgraceful scene " In the reichs.
rath not one but dozens Of personal en-.
counters are constantly occurring Desk
tops, bulky government reports and fists
are used with much freedom The hon
orable deputies go home from the ses-
sions with their coats dusty and torn,
with blood from their noses incarnadin-
ing their shirt fronts and with their
hats crushed and eyes blackened
The strain of trying to preside during
such scenes as these has led Herr Thorn.
as Kathrein, president Of the lower
branch of the reichsrath, to resign, not
for political reasons, but because he
could not stand the intense nervous
strain. On many occasions he has stood
for hours ringing his bell and shouting
for order, only to give it up and sink
into chair white with passion and ex.
citement and ON the verge of nervous
prostration.
Here is a fragment from stenograph-
10 record Of recent session in which
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-18
A Builders Experience.
A USEFUL LIFE Renewed
In A REMARKABLE MANNER.
Udney Y. Wilson Was Near Deaths Door. Docters
Failed to Help Aim-A Nome Remedy Sue
ceeded in Saving His Life.
From ne Evening New,, Detroit, Mich.

Udney Y. Wilson, contractor and builder,
living in Detroit, Mich, at 81 High Street,
West, said regarding DR.. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People: "tor years have
been out Of doors in all kinds of bad weather,
looking after my building contracts. have
worked many days in the rain and cold to
complete some building. About two years
ago / noticed I could not get around as
should, and commenced to have severe pain
in my back. tried the usual remedies with
out getting any relief, and for nearly year
suffered intensely. kept up as long as
could, as had several contracts for buildings
that had TO be completed.
"At night could not sleep. Ny physi-
clan said il was my kidneys and every day
went out doors they would cep me awake
nearly all the following night. Instead of
getting better / became worse, and worried
q great deal about my work. The doctor
said / must quit work and go to bed, or he
would not be responsible for my life.
"All the medicines / took only helped
me temporarily. Some days / would feel
better and 90 out day only to be again con-
fined to my bed for weeks at a time. One
day my wife suggested that j try DIR. vii.
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and
laughed at the idea.
FINALLY when got into such condition
that / would take almost anything in the
hope Of relief, tried the pills. They helped
me from the start, but would not acknowl
edge II and said II was the other medicines
that Ind just commenced to work. dislikeo
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-18
PUBLIC BUILDING BOSS.
James Knox Taylor. the New Supervising
Architect of the Treasury.

James Knox Taylor, the New Supervising
Architect of the Treasury.
The appointment of James Knox Tay-
lor as supervising architect of the treas
ury department is most important
one, for the incumbent of the position
has general direction over the work of
erecting all new public buildings, and
as new postoffices are continually being
built in many cities of the Union his
influence on architectural matters will
be widely felt. American architects
have been fighting for years against the
system by which the government main
tains force of artists to draw plans for
public buildings. They claim that too
much dependence is placed ON the ar
chitectural taste and ability of an Off
cial who may have secured his place
through political influence in spite Of
his incompetency. Naturally the ar.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-18

to own up that Or. Williams Pink PILLS
helped me, as / had no confidence in them.
When / could not carry on the imposition
any farther, | told my wife that the pills
were helping me. l took three boxes before
/ was entirely cured, and we now keep them
in the house all the time.
81 am not prepared to say that DR.. VIII
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People will cure
everything, but / know they will cure kidney
troubles and general muscular weakness, a.
they cured me.
"I now recommend them to everyone In
my neighborbood, where l formerly made
sport of all proprietary remedies"
Subscribed and sworn to before me, a Not.
ary Public, this fourth day Of March, 1897.
ROBERT L. HULL, JR., Notary Public,
Wayne County, Michigan.
An analysis Of DR.. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People shows that they contain, in con.
densed form all the elements necessary TO give
new life and richness to the blood and restore
shattered nerves. They are an unfailing spe.
cific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia par
tal paralysis st. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neural.
gia, rheumatism, nervous headache the after
effects Of Ia grippe palpitation Of the heart,
pale and sallow compilations, all forms Of
weakness either in male or female, and all
diseases resulting from vitiated humors in the
blood. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or
will be sent post paid ON receipt Of price, 30
cents box, or six boxes for $2.50--(they are
never sold In bulk OF by the 1907 by address.
ing DR.. Williams Medicine Company, schs.
nectady, N. Y.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-18
UNITED STATES FRIGATE YANT1c


Canadians to object to our sending
through their canals the poor old Van.
tic, whose wooden hull has been patched
until it will stand patching no longer,
whose engines are worth no more than
the junkman would give for them and
whose smooth bore guns now lie rust.
ing in Charlestown navy yard.
But in her day the Yantic was not q
craft to be sneered at. When she was
launched from the Philadelphia navy
yard in 1864, she was as trim a little
frigate for her size as we possessed. Her
first assignment was to cruise along the
Atlantic coast and sink the commerce
destroyers Tallahassee and Chickamauga,
but after vain hunt of two months
she joined the blockading fleets. She
was active in the two attacks on Fort
Fisher and helped in the capture of
Fort Anderson. After the war she spent
year or two on the drydock being re-
paired, and then she was assigned to
the work of finding and blowing up
derelicts. She made q cruise on the
Asiatic station, and when she came
j.
three years the ship carpenters tinkered
with her and made her as good as new.
For the next ten years the Yantic was
one of the north Atlantic squadron, and
in May, 1889, had the most exciting eX,
perience of her entire career. She was
800 miles out in the Atlantic hunting
for derelicts when she encountered a
terrific hurricane. For days she strug.
gled gallantly with the storm. At one
time her foremast had to be cut away
to prevent her going to the bottom
While wallowing in giant seas her en-
gine room filled with water and the hot
ashes heated it almost to the boiling
point. In this uncomfortable condition
of affairs the engineers nobly stuck to
their post, half drowned and half boil
ed, The Yantic finally got out of the
storm center and was limping back to
New York when she was struck by an.
other gale, which almost finished her
She was almost wreck when she final.
ly did tie up at Brooklyn navy yard,
but was repaired and put in commission
again.
In 1888 the Yantic accompanied the
Galena to Haiti to rescue an American
steamship which had been seized by lie.
gitime, the dictator, In 1892 she was
sent to the south Atlantic station, but
for months she was only kept from sink
ing because her keel rested ON the mud
of the La Plata river bottom. Last
summer she was brolght back home,
inspected and condemned, and at De-
troit she will end her days by furnish.
ing offshore quarters for amateur fresh
water tars JOHN II. WILLoUGHBY.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-18

only part of the debate was in Ian.
guage fit to print:
The Hon. Deputy Schrammel, Social Demo
crat, was trying for the ninty ninth time to
make a speech concerning the moral obliquity
Of about everybody and everything official in
the monarchy. In the third or fourth SEN
tence he trod on the feelings Of the corpulent
and bellicose young Czech leader DIR. Gre
gorig, who at once drowned the speaker 5
voice with howls and epithets.
Schrammel ito Gregorigl-You have not
grown fat off your own labor, but off that Of
poor workingmenI
Chorus of Christian Sociaists-He is too lazy
to work. He lives by the sweat of his work
ingmenl
Berner-He is a loaferi
Gregorig-You are a Jewi Shut upl
Verkauf-Your manners, Gregorig. do not
qualify you for parliament
Gregorig-You live from the blood Of your
worlSingmeni
verkauf-You are an ignorant, low minded
creature
Iro-why can't you stop calling namesP
Verkauf-When Gregorig is around, you have
to call namesl
Gregorig-Miserable fellowl GLong contin.
ued uproar; hundred deputies try to talk at
once; nobody can be understood
Wolf-Mr President, why don't you close
the sitting2
Schrammel without noticing the president,
whose voice he browns out)-No decent man
would try to argue with creature like Gre
gorigi
Biehololavek- Democracy is the acme
of human stupidity
Schrammel-But only among those who are
descended from apesi
Gregorig-Now, infamous creature there il
only one more lntamyI Tell US about your
theory of free love
Iro-Yes, tell us about the Hon. Deputy
Gregorig and little soda water treat at Vim.
berg's "a scandal in which Gregorig was con
spicuous).
Gregorlg-Cowardi Dare to say that againl
You infamous craven slanderer You-you-
What is the cause of the uproar only
skilled European diplomatist could
explain in detail, but the general prov.
ocation of the hostilities is the opposi.
tion of the German deputies to the at
tempts of Premier Badeni to make Czech
the official language Of Bohemia. If he
does not stick to this policy, the Bohe-
mians have threatened to separate from
the empire and as long as he does the
Germans have sworn to continue their
obstructive tactics. Added to this prob
lem are dozen complications involv.
ing racial hatred, religious feuds and
antagonistic elements of various sorts,
just now it is monkey and parrot
time with all that this implies, and the
end is not in sight s q. SCHENcK.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-18
NOT ALWAYS UNDERSTOOD.

"A fact often overlooked or not alwavs
understood is that won en- 81 fer as much
from distressing kidney and ,blAdder
troubles rs The men. The womb is
situated back Of and very ose to the
bladder end for tbatTeg sen any distress.
disease or incon, enietce mar iiesttd in
the kidneys, hack, btdder or urinary
! ASST ge is often, y II istskp, attributed
to female WeakIe ess Or womb trouble Of
some sort.
The error is easily mPde and ss efsily
avoided by settiTg urine aside for
twenty four hours; a sediment or settling
IS evidence that your kidneys and bIad.
der need doctoring. If you have pain or
dull aching in the back, pass water too
frequently, or sCanty supply, with
smartirg or burning, thee ere also con-
vincing proofs Of kidney trouble. If
you have doCtored without renefit, irv
DIR. KiImer's Swamp. Root, the gre at hid
ney remedy. The mild and extraordin.
ary effects will surprise you. ltstands the
highest Tor its wonderful cures. If YOU
take medicine you should take the best.
AT druggists fifty cents and one dollar
You may have a sample bottle and
phamphlet, both sent free by mail.
Mention News-DemoCrat and send your
address to DR.. kilmer Il Co., BIZ CHAM
ton, N. Y, The prOprietors Of this paper
guarantee the genuineness of this Caer.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-18
HE STARTED PULLMAN.
Simeon Mayo Is stin In the Lumber
Business.

Simeon Mayo Is stin In the Lumber
Business.
The man who gave the late George
M. Pullman his first start on the road
to fortune is now conducting lumber
yard in East st Louis and is in only
moderate circumstances His name is
Simeon Mayo, and he is nearly n years
old
1t was early in the sixties that Mr..
Mayo first met Pullman. At that time
the former was wealthy man, with
lumber yards in Chicago and various
cities of the west. Pullman was a clerk
in the employ of a prominent building
raiser in Chicago George impressed
me favorably the first time saw him, 4"
says Mr. Mayo, land said many times
that he was going to make something
out of himself When he first thought
Of his sleeping car, he showed me his
plans and talked the matter over with