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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-28
AN EXCITING NIGHT.

Great excitement down in our vii
lage," said the old gentleman with the
round face and kindly ways who is
visiting his stylish relatives in the
city. For about week things were
stirred up like they were in war
times. We had burglars three nights
in succession. In two cases the vic
TINS Weakened up and had to lay There
with revolvers being pointed at them
while their things were being stolen.
[ suppose you people in a big town
like this wouldn't think a second
time about such an affair, but we
Cidn't think or talk or about anything
else. It was a mighty serious thing
and lot of us that met in the post
office decided to have the streets pa
trolled. Not satisfied with this pre-
caution, some one in almost every
family was moving about all night
and I don't think any one but the ba-
bies slept well. In spite of these ar
rangements there was another house
robbed and about the whole town was
on guard.
1T was a Wednesday night of last
week about 1 a. N. that we had our
biggest excitement. L was sitting up
SO as to take an occasional peek
through the shutters, but must have
COED OFF, Your aunt was in bed with
her eyes wide open and Jim was oc-
cupying a bench on the stOOp. Every
thing was as still as Quaker meeUln'
when there was a shot that sounded
like cannon. Jim rolled off the bench
with whoop, aunt let out an awful
screech, the children screamed in
chorus, and I'll own l was SO skeered
that l just set still and had good
shiver afore | done anything else. By
that time the people were runnin' in
every direction, dogs was barkin', all
were shoutin' and half dozen pistols
seemed to be going off to once. While
we were running the thing down to see
just what had happened three men told
me about shoOtin' at burglars, two
boys declared they had been chased by
them and one fellow said he had been
knocked down by masked man when
about to grab him.
Come to find out it was the widow
Sims. She had rusty old horse
pistol left by her late husband and de-
cided to put it in shape for business.
She had set up good part of the
night rubin, oilin' and diggin' out
dirt. Then she loaded it as though it
was shot gun, opened her back door
about two inches and banged away
just to see if the thing would work
That's what started the whole racket
and we've had no burglars since
Detroit Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-28
CATHOLICS STIRRED UP.
Must Not Participate in Ceremonies
in Other Churches

KIM ston, Ont, Oct. 26.-Archpishop
Cleary has created a sensation by the
PRONUNCIATION of mandate read from
The pulpit Of st. Mary's cathedral, in
which he says: I'VE hereby declare,
with all the authority of the church
vested in us as archbishop of Kings
ton and your chief pastor, that any
Catholic in our metropolitan city or
diocese who shall hereafter presume
to enter any non-CathoIic edifce to
assist in what is termed a marriage
ceremony or service for the dead,
even though he should not take any
active part in the performance, rem
ders himself guilty Of mortal sin by
dishonoring the religion of his bap-
tism and defying the laws of the
holy church and giving public scandal
before society, and we furthermore re-
serve to ourselves alone the power to
absolve from this heinous sim The
occasion for this mandate was that
at recent marriage in a Congrega-
tional church Catholics were present
as witnesses.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-28
SPAIN is IMP0TENT
MINISTER SAYS SHE CAN'T
STOP CUBAN WAR.
PROBLEM TOO BIG FOR HER
H,.IAis Taylor, for Last Four Years
American Minister to Spain, Has
Prepared an Elaborate Communi-
cation to People on Cuban Question
Reply to Woodford's Note.

New York, Oct. 26.-Hannis Tay-
Tor, for the last four years American
minister to Spain and who has just
returned from Madrid is about to
address an elaborate communication to
the people of the United States on the
Cuban question. He has reached the
conviction that Spanish statesman
ship is impotent to solve this problem
and he feels it his duty to lay before
his countrymen his testimony on the
whole subject in the hope that it may
aid them in taking a wise and just
action. In the communication, which
will be published in the North Amer
lean Review he reviews the matter
from every standpoint, basing his
statements on the Spanish govern
ment. In summing up the situation
he suggests a plan whereby the
United States may speedily bring the
Cuban war to an end.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-28
IN NANSEN'S HONOR.

Washington, D. c., Oct. ga great
reception will be given to DR.. Nan
sen at the Arlington hotel this even
ing, under the auspices of the Nation
al Geographic society of which he
is an honorary member The recep-
ton committee consists of the vice
president, the secretary Of state, the
secretary and assistant secretary of
the navy, the charge d'affaires of the
legation of Sweden and Norway, the
presidents of Johns Hopkins, Column
bian, the Methodist and Catholic uni
versities; Admiral Walker, General
John NJ. Wilson, chief Of engineers of
the army; Captain Schley, leader of
the Greedy relief expedition; Engi-
neer-in-Chief Melville of the Jeanette
expedition; eX-Secretary Of State
Foster, J. Addison Porter, secretary
to the president, and Morris K. Jes-
sup of New York. Dr. hansen is to
make a brief address.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-28

The Wisconsin trans Mississippi ex-
position commission, which embraces
John C. Koch, chairman, August III
hlein, John E. Hansen, A. c.. Clas, J
A. WatrOus, Ferdinand Kieckhefer and
Mrs Caroline H. Bell of Milwaukee,
E. E. Bryant, R. G. Thwaites of
Madison, John Hicks of Oshkosh,
Walter Alexander of Wausau, w. T.
Lewis of Racine, Isaac Stephenson Of
Marinette, j. H. Stout of Menomonie,
j. B. Treat of Monroe, Charles H
Baxter of Lancaster, Thomas M
BlaCEstOck and F. A bennett of She
EOygan, H. ID. Fisher of Florence, Err
nest Funk and Mrs. r. B. Goodrich
of Oconto, Mrs. Angus Cameron of
La Crosse, Mrs. Leonard Lottridge Of
West Salem, Mrs John Winans of
GAINESVILLE and Miss Ella Roberts of
Waukesha, has just issued an appeal
for aid in which it says it purposes to
raise by individual substitution the
money necessary to erect and maintain
a Wisconsin state building at the ex-
position next year. The building and
its maintenance will cost from S15-
600 to $1,000 and the commission has
decided to appeal to patriotic citizens
10 contribute to this fund according to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-28
Nominal. bid.
4 MILITARY GOVERNMENT
Capt. Ray Recommends One fol
Northern Alaska.

Washington, Oct. 26.-The war de
paTtment has just received a most in
teresting report from Captain Ray on
the condition of affairs in the gold re-
giOG as he found them from ST
Michael's to Fort yukon, supplement-
ed by accounts from the most reliable
persons that he could communicate
with as to the state Of affairs in the
Klondike region and neigkborhood.
The officer, who was sent especially
for the purpose of making recommen-
datiCns for the betterment OF affairs
there, has some radical suggestions to
make. Among them he urges a divi-
ion Of Alaska into two districts, the
southern district to remain under the
present jurisdiction, while the north
ern district, including the gold region,
is to be placed under form of mill
tary government until congress can
make other provisions. The place Sc
lected by the captain for a military
post is near Rapid City, $50 miles be-
low Dawson.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-28
GENERAL NOTES.

The report that coal of excellent
quality has been discovered in New
foundland is confirmed.
Prof. Royce of Harvard University
is to be the next Clifford lecturer at
Aberdeen.
Pasteur is to have public statue
III Paris. f12,C00 have already been
collected for this purpose.
Canadian farmers report that the
hay crop is the heaviest this season .
that it has been for many years.
King Alexander of Servia will, in
the course of this year, pay his long
planned visit to the English court.
There are no courts in Klondike,
and consequently no law. A man
caught stealing is shot right off.
American newspapers say that the
coal miners strike in the United
States is proving a good thing for the
Nova Scotia mines.
Another of a series Of Tobberies that
have made householders in Pretoria
feel uncomfortable took place there the
other night. A house was entered and
the bedrooms ransacked while the oc-
cupants were asleep, the only traces Of
the thief being trail Of candle grease
from one room to the other and tOpsy-
turvy chests OF drawers. Clothes and
small things were taken. In all these
cases it was very plain that the occU-
pants were drugged.
A correspondent writes to the Spec
tator:-The throne of great Britain
and Ireland is occupied by a sovereign
descended from an Irish race. Without
doubt our queens pedigree carries US
back to long line of Irish kings,
who, one thousand four hundred years
ago, inaugurated the Scottish and
English chain of descent, and it is
plain that the reigning dynasty of to
day was Irish at one epoch of it's ex-
istence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-28

Nehemiah Boynton of Detroit, DR..
Michael Burnham of st. Louis, DR..
Arthur Little of Boston, DR.. H. G..
lde of Milwaukee, DR.. Don Bradley of
Grand Rapids, DR.. G. r. Merrill of
Minneapolis, DR.. j. T. Blanchard of
Aurora, H.; DR.. w. A. Waterman,
Rev. j. B. Wilcox, Dr.. Phillip Krohn
and DR.. G. R. Wallace of Chicago.
The council is to consider the COM
plant of DR.. C. O. Brown, late OF
San Francisco, against the lay confer
ence, which, he charges, injured and
Wronged him in suspending him with
cut proper grounds and by improper
methods after the council had acquft-
ted him of charges of immortality. DR..
Brown viii be assisted by Rev. J. A.
Adams of Chicago and the Ray con-
ference will be represented by Dr. j l..
X. Mclean, DR.. G. B. Hatch and
Rev. C. Il. Brown.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-28
FIVE BODIES STOLEN
Ihey Are Snatched from Chicago's
Morgue at Night.

Chicago, Oct. 26.-Five dead bodies
four men and one woman, were stolen
Sunday night frorm the morgue at
Dunning. The corpses were stolen bv
men who forced open the doors of the
norgue, The bodies were those of
paupers at the county asylum. The
robbery, from all indications. had been
carefully planned and done in most
deliberate way. The Yale lock on the
ucor was broken and the windows
covered with strawboard to conceal
those working inside. Superintendent
Lang is confident that some or all of
nose connected with the affair We're
lamlllar with their SURROUNDINGS. The
u 'des were undoubtedly wanted for
medical purposes, as of the twelve
corpses in the morgue at the time, onlv
nose were taken in which consumD-
ION had been the cause of death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-28
TElEGRAPHlC TICKS,

Two hunters were drowned at Man.
dan, N. D.
4! Several vessels foundered OF the
great lakes.
Burglars dynamited bank at
harrisburg, Iowa, and got $4,000.
Clifford, by BrambIe-Duchess. YVES
sold in New York Monday for $1,000.
Father Malone at Denver delivered
a powerful address against socialism.
The new city directory of La Crosse
just out gives La Crosse a population
of $4,000.
Francis Turner Palgrave. aged rs
years, the poet and essayist, is dead
in London.
Charles E. Adams, who mysterious
~ disappeared from La Crosse a week
ago, suicided at Aurora, Ill.
Cardinal Rampolli authorizes a de-
NAL of papal intervention in the case
OF Prof. Schroeder of the Catholic
university at Washington and states
hat the case is entirely in the hands
Over $4,000 Of alleged fraudulent
warrants OH the United States treas
ury in connection with the payment
OF the Creek Indian national debts
have been discovered.
The trial of Federico Mora and
Ricardo de Requesens and their al
legged confederates charged with MAX
ing and issuing counterfeit notes of
the government Of Cosa RIGA to the
amount of $1.00G,000, has begun in
York.
Menominee CMich.) is becoming
great center for the marketing of |
potatoes. One buyer has already
shipped 5000 bushels to eastern points,
and he has tubers stored at various
places which he will hold for higher
market. Prices average all the wav
from 40 to 60 cents.
The big cranberry marsh between
farinette and Peshtigo has this wear
1elded 500 bushels, and the crop is OF
very choice variety The marsh
consists of l 200 acres, but not all I'm.
er cultivation, however AS cranber-
les wholesale for about 1926 per
'ushel the crop will come to over
i 1875.
Joseph Bunge, a farm hand, recent
y in the employ of George Sanford.
wealthy farmer south of Kenosha,
Wis, has been arrested on the double /
barge Of burglary and criminal as {
ault. Bunge is charged with going to I
he home Of A. J. Forester, a farm /
: who lives some eight miles south s
est of Kenosha, while Forester was
1 Waukegan, H., and breaking into |
nd ransacking the building, and
riminally assaulting Mrs Forr eater
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-28

the state department will have sonon
pertinent facts to present which -.
oflclals believe will COMPLETELY alton
ate from Spain any symnatbv sho NOV
nave attracted from other European
nations on that score. It is asserted
positively that in no single case where
the Spanish authorities have hrouoht
10 the attention of our government
the TACT that an illegal expedition VS.
about to start from orr shores for
Cuha mas it neglected to use all the
means permitted by law to prevent
the vessel from starting. It has been
so lndulgent in this respect as IN
accept statements from Spanish Of
Meals not accompanied by proofs of
the facts alleged but mere suggestions
that they had reason to believe that
an expedition was formed. In cases
our government proceeded to sucb
length in the restraint of American
commerce on insufficient evidence fur
hlSned by the Spanish government
That it resulted in the preference nj
large claims from American shin
owners for illegal dentention of their
SHIPS Then the expense of maintain
ing patrols along the Atlantic and
gull coasts has been very heavy. One
ofhclal estimated the EXPENSE tho
United States has been put to TO nro-
tect the Cuban coast for Spain of
about S2,O00,000 This is probably
large estimate, but one naval officer
who is thoroughly cog~izant Of the
strain put upon the department nv
the patrol stated that it would really
be cheaper for the United States tn
send a fleet to Cuba and blockade the
coast there against incoming fiIibus-
terS than to try to stop them on orr
own extensive coast line. Altogether
the officials here are confident of their
ABILITY to show that the government
mas more than complied with the re-
quirements of international law which
as laid down in the Alabama arbitra
tlon simply demands that the nation
use due diligence" to prevent the de-
parture Of hostile expeditions. In TO
the close of Office hours Monday
SPANS reply on the Cuban question
had not reached the president or the
state department. It is also stated in
other quarters by those in a position
to know what has occurred at Madrid
that the answer has been approved
by the cabinet and is to be communi-
Gated to Woodford today. As init
nations have been made that the in
stTuctions to Woodfcrd would be
made public at Madrid the statement
is made by officials here that no pub
LEGATION of the instructions before the
assemblage of congress will be ap-
proved by the United States and with
out this approval it would be contrary
to the usage of diplomacy for the
Madrid authorities to make public the
correspondence
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-28

ty. The torch will be 17S feet above
the ground. The side sections, which
are separated from the central por-
ton by colonnades connecting with
the agriculture building on one side
and the auditorium on the other, each
has g frontage of 148 feet and is 100
feet deep; height, A feet TO top of
balustrade This makes the total
length of the building 5O4 feet, and
height at pinnacle 178 feet. The floor
space devoted to exhibits will ap-
proximate $4,000 square feet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-28
BIG BLOW IN EAST
HIGH TIDES AND WINDS Do
MUCH DAMAGE.
VILLAGES UNDER WATER
At Melville and Seaside, n. j., Boats
Are Necessary to Enable One
to Move Around-Buildings Along
the Coast Blown to Pieces and
Carried to Sea.

New York, Oct. 26.-High tides and
higher winds that drive the sea in
land caused an immense amount of
damage along the New Jersey and
Long Island coasts the past 81 hours.
Many buildings erected on the sand
at summer resorts have been knocked
TO pieces and carried out to sea, and
the coast line Of railways has suffered
much loss and delay as result of
the storm. The highest tides in years.
supplemented by a wind which blew
from 80 to so miles an hour, prevailed
Monday and when high water reaches
It's maximum this evening greater
damage is expected unless the gale
abates.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-28
VERMCNT's QUEER TOWN,
Its Population Has Been Declining for
Over 100 Years.

In Windsor county, Vermont is
aoout as queer town as there is in
the United States, says the Boston
transcript. It's name is Baltimore
and 1t possesses little of interest save
a history in which none of its inhab-
ltants express the slightest pride. Bal
tlmore is fairly old, as American towns
go, having been set off from Caven.
dish and organized in 1893. 1t then
had 275 presumably ambitious and
hopeful inhabitants, but every census
taken since then has revealed a steady
gToWth-dOWnWard. In 1900 the place
mad lost one citizen, and the subse.
quent record stands as follows: In
1910, 207 inhabitants; 1920, 204: 1880
l79; 1910, 15S; 1885, 1884, 1860, 116;
1870, SO; 1881, II; 1890, 81. Today the
number is SO, and one of the SO spends
his winters in the soldiers home al
Brattleboro. Nothing has ever hap
pened in the town, not even a crime
and it has no distinguished sons OF
daughters. The houses are scattered
over the territory included within
Baltimore's limits, nowhere forming
like a village, and there Is
no store, no church, no postoffice, not
even a cider mill. The people are
enough, as Vermont farm,
ers define prosperity, but they keep
moving away whenever opportunity
offers, and nobody ever moves in. II.
is 20 wears since a wedding took Mace
there.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-28
COLLEGE WOMEN AS WIVES.
What An Unmarried Woman Said to
Class of Misses.

The following extracts are from an
address made by Miss Clara Bostwick,
teacher at the Elms school in
Springfield, Mass:
What is the college woman's prob
ability of happiness in marriage COM
pared with that of her highly educat-
ed sister? She chooses her husband
later. She is more developed; she
knows better what she is going to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-28
NEW TRIPLE CENTURY RECORD

Chicago, Oct. 26.-Emil Schiller of
the Morse Cycling club, has lowered
the triple century record made recent
~ by j. Hoffbauer by 16 minutes, fin.
ishing strong. Schuler's actual riding
time for the 300 miles was % hours
and So minutes, and his total time. "a
hours and is minutes. Schiller is onlv
IS years old.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-28
ALMOST \ PANIC IN STOCKS.
Fear of Trouble with Spain Causes
Big Fall in Prices.


New York, Oct. 26.-The fear of a
rupture between Spain and the United
States caused a big fall in prices on
the stock exchange Monday. The fall
reached sensational proportions dur
ing the first two hours OF trading. The
course of things was foreshadoWed by
early advices from London showing
sharp declines for American securities
on the London exchange There is
apparently a strong conviction in Lon
den, reflected in the press and more
fOrcibly by the stock market, that re-
lations between the United States and
Spain are in imminent danger of a
rupture over the Cuban question
Spanish As fell Il to 597s on the Lon
don exchange. At the opening of the
stock market here there was a rush
to liquidate all around the room, the
struggle at some of the posts show
ing fierce contests among brokers to
be the first to unload their holdings
Soon, after the opening the level of
the whole market had fallen fully a
point below Saturdays close, practic-
ely every active stock in the list
showing declines OF from one to two
points. The announcement that the
government had determined to apply
for a postronment of Union Pacific
and Kansas Pacific foreclosure sales
until Dec. Is gives definite basis for
the numerous rumOrs of the fOrma-
tion of an opposition syndicate to bid
at the sale. The success of such a
syndicate would mean the failure of
the reorganization plan On which the
active speculation of the Union Pacific
has been based. Enormous blocks OF
this stock were thrown upon the
market and the price was carried down
All points before it steadied. Large
blocks of sugar stock were also thrown
over. New York Central suffered
sharply from the sentimental effect Of
the disaster en- it's line and the allied
| property, Cleveland, c. c., and ST,
Louis, fell an equal amount in price
which was two points.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-28
GIVEN UP FOR LOST.
NO Trace of $4,000 Package Sent
by Mail Can Be Found

Chicago, Oct. 26.-The $4,000 pack
age sent by registered mail to the
State Savings bank at Butte, Mont
mas been given up for lost. The Ma
rlne insurance company of New York
with which the package was insured
has notified the bank that if wou1d
pay the loss. The company has no
resource the government accepting
no responsibility.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-28
RAILROAD HORROR IN EAST.
Thirty Persons Hurled to a Watery
Grave

Garrison, n. Y, Get. 26.-As a re-
suit OF the frightful railway disaster
in which a train with it's sleeping oc-
cupants plunged from a New York
Central bridge early Sunday morning
about thirty people were killed
The dead are: Thomas Riley, St.
Louis, Mo-; w. H. G. Myers, Passaic,
\. J.; E. A. Green, Chicago: Guisep-
Re Paduano, New York; W. S. Beck
er. New York; Samuel Williams, Buff
falo, n. Y; A. G. Mckay, private
secretary to General Superintendent
Van Etten; John Foy1e, engineer. East
Albany; John @. Tompkins, fireman,
East Albany; Mrs. ebert H. Linds-
nan, Utica, N. Y; Chin Lee Song,
San Francisco; Chin Fong Hop, San
Francisco; Chin Ouong Hong, New
York; Hoo Wuh, New York; Lee
Tong Sing, New York, merchant; uni
Identified woman, about "a years old,
said to be from Hudson, n. Y The
bodies of the engineer and fireman
and Superintendent Van Etten's clerk.
Mckay, have not yet been found. The
diver says that he could find no trace
OF the missing men. He thinks that
the rush of water through the cab was
so fierce that it fairly swept them out
OF it and drowned them quickly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-28
SHOT BY A SALESMAN

Kansas City, Oct. 26.-William NJ
Allen, manager of the Kansas branch
Of the Kelley institute at Kansas City,
Kan, was shot and perhaps fatally
wounded by C. E. Riley, travelling
salesman. Riley's action was prompt
ed by the belief that Allen had alien
ated his wife's affections. Riley is
under arrest.