davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Morris tribune., 1897-03-10

per year the county attorney to
make contract therefor.
The bonds of N. R. Spur and Fl .
L. Hulburd which we're returned for
correction of names, were approved.
Adjourned to 10 a. m. Tuesday
Tuesday 10 O'Clock a. m. board met
as per adjournment.
The matter of furnishing seed grain
to farmers for the season of 1897,
under the recently enacted law, was
taken under consideration. After
considerable discussion the matter
was, by motion, indefinitely post
poned.
The petition OF G. w. Johnson to
be set off from school district No 9
and attached to district No %, put
over to the next meeting.
The bond Of Helen T. Stevens as
publisher of the official paper of the
county in the sum Of $1,000, with
William 2. Fowler and Arthur Nc
Conville as sureties, was approved.
Annual reports from the following
county officers we're presented and
ordered fled &. HI. Munro, sheriff;
Thos. Thomasson, clerk of court; Ed. i
j. Lehman, register of deeds; N. R.
Spur, auditor; and Carl Buckentin,
treasurer.
The following bills were allowed as
audited by the finance committee:
Morris tribune., 1897-03-10
H r FDny
Attest:

ii. II. EDDY,
Attest: Chairman,
N. R. SPUR,
Auditor.
Morris tribune., 1897-03-10

$25,G46O2 $25,646O2
N. r. SPURR,
CARL BUoKENT1N, Co. Auditor.
Go. Treasurer.
Morris tribune., 1897-03-10

Ripans Tabules cure fatulence.
Morris tribune., 1897-03-10

prenne court,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23
THE SHELTERS FAULT.

We quarreled for that refused to kill
A bold mosquito that had ta'en his fill
Upon her soft and luscious cheek, for
No reason saw why he, poor chap,
should die
For merely doing that which I would
give
My life to do, and so let him live.
Tis well, quoth she. majestic in her
scorn,
AS with head high she left me all
forlorn,
That 1 should learn before it is too
late
The kind of man reserved for me by
fate.
The fair that fellow ever Ill deserves
Who'd let another feed on his pre-
serves;
And if you truly loved me well, I know
You'd jealousy have laid that skeeter
low!"
And then, alas, that insect bold came
back,
And on her cheek renewed his vile
attack,
And 10 needless wight-all hope did
wreck;
| whacked so hard nearly broke her
neck!
-Harper's Bazaar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23

in alternate sides of the box, SO that
when it is opened they lie in opposite
rows, crossing each other at right
angles, thus making eacn one easily
removable without interfering with
the others.
To enable ships to cross harbor bars
when the water is not high enough to
clear them, pontoons are rugged on
opposite sides of the ship, with cables
running under the keel, and air-pumps
to increase their buoyancy by dis
charging the water from the tanks,
when the cables are wound up on the
shafts to lift the ship.
When a newly designed lamp is &C
cidentally upset it is prevented from
exploding by means of weight set in
the base, with a chain running to the
extinguisher, the device being rendered
inopehteive when carrying the lamp by
grasping the chain when lifting the
lamp by the hand, and the lamp is
protected from fracture by pneumatic
tubes.
A new potato digging machine has
steel pointed scoop to raise the po-
tatoes and earth on a slotted elevator
over which a cylinder brush is revolv.
ing to separate the potatoes from the
dirt after which the tubers are carried
to screen, which allows the small po-
tatces to fall into one box and carries
the large ones into another box.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23
EPISCOPAL BRETHREN ACCUSED.
Farmer Declares Brothers of Naza-
reth Stole His Family

Habeas corpus proceedings have
been Instituted by John TazeweIl of
Millbrook, near Poughkeepsie, n. Y,
against the Brothers of Nazareth,
whom he charges with abducting his
wife, Linda, his daughter, Gladia E..
is years old, and his son, Littleton L..
years old.
The Brothers of Nazareth maintain
Priory Farm, near Verbank, Duchess
county. This is a religious order of
the Episcopal church, the obie1t of
which is to care for wayward boys
and give them a religious education.
They also maintain a hospital for
consumptives. They dress like monks
and live a monastic life.
Tazewell is a farmer who lives six
miles from Priory farm. He declares
that he was away from home part of
last Tuesday, and that when he re-
turned he found that his wife and
children were gone. A neighbor told
HIM that Brother Gilbert, the head of
the order, and two other brothers had
called at the Tazewell home, and, after
an hour, had departed, taking Mrs.
TaZewell, her daughter and son with
them.
Tazewell says his wife and son OBJ
jected to leaving home, but his daugh-
ter was more easily influenced, and
aided the brothers in inducing her
mother to go. The Tazewells were
driven away in the direction CT Priory
farm
Tazewel went to the farm and de-
manded of Brother Gilbert the privi-
lege of seeing his wife and children.
but was told they were not there. He
says the brothers declined to give him
any information of their whereabouts.
He then obtained a writ of habeas
corpus from Justice Barnard, requiring
the Brothers of Nazareth to produce
Mrs. Tazewell, her son and daughter
in court on Wednesday next
Tazewell alleges in his petition that
the cause of his wife's and children
restraint is to compel them to accept
the religious belief and become mem
bers Of the society.
1t is said that Mrs. Tazewell and
her daughter were active Episcopalians
and were in sympathy with the Broth
ers of Nazareth.
Tazewell threatens to sue the
brothers for damages. -New York Her.
aid
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23
| STAY OF PROCEEDINGS.

There is a Kentuckian enjoying the
attractions off Detroit as a summer
resort, who tells this:
cat brief intervals you heas from
people who profess to have found the
champion mean man, and they turn
UP some very bad specimens. l have
the record of one that comes pretty
not make any attempt at conceal
near being a winner.
II had the good fortune to discover
ar improvement in the process of
ripening whiskey by substituting wood
for metal at certain stage. 1t was in
the good old days when we were max
ment or keep it secret. One day an
acquaintance was passing the distillery
and | called him in, explained the
changes [ had made and showed him
now valuable they were to an estab-
lishment like mine. 1t wasn't long till
[ was served with legal notice of the
fact that he had sued me for damages
in q large sum. The rascal had adopt
&c my process in his own distillery,
haC it patented and was proceeding
against me for an infringement My
first impulse was to shoot him on
sight but | concluded to let matters
take their course up to a certain point
When the fellow found that [ paid
no attention to his action, he came to
me with the assurance that he would
get judgment by default and that the
sum allowed him would be large one
I declined to appear interested, telling
him that he would never collect dam
ages from me. My apparent indiffer-
ence bothered him and he kept call
ing, his evident purpose being to have
me compromise. One day he was so
persistent in explaining how he
would win the case that I admitted he
would have no trouble in securing a
judgment. Then he was anxious to
kEoW what [ meant by saying he
would never collect any damages. |
replied that as soon as there was anv
attempt made to collect l would load
both barrels of my shotgun with buck
shot, walk the streets till I found him
and then shoot his head off at the
shoulders. [ am known down there
as aman Of my word and the case was
promptly withdrawn Detroit Free
Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23
WHY HE MARRIED.

Answers: In the north of England,
where rabbit-coursing is most in vogue,
swift, well-trained dogs often win
large sums in prizes. 1t is therefore
little to be wondered at that the own
erG of these animals should bestow so
much attention on them
An old Yorkshire collier, well-known
for his success in the coursing field,
recently surprised all his mates by
marrying very unprepossessing pau
per-woman. He had always been
reckoned a confirmed hater of the
other sex.
why has ia gone and got sp1iced,
lad, at thy age?" one of his friends
asked him
ooh, that's not much of a tale"
answered the old man stolidIy. Il
agree wi ye at Betsy yonder is no
beauty-if she had been I shouldn't
have wed her. But that there dog O.
mine he was simply pinin' for some
body to look after him while | was
away at t. pit. I couldn't bear to leave
him in the house by hissen, so I
hit On the idea O. marryin' Betsy.
She's not handsome, but she's mighty
good company for the dogl" #
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23
A GOOD SAMARITAN'S REWARD.
In Trying to Save a Hog He Gets Wet
and a Policeman Abuses Him.

Grafton, N. D., Record:-A Grafton
man shipped two car loads of choice
North Dakota cattle to Superior the
other day and, while they were being
Watered and refreshed with a few
forks full of hay, the Grafton man
looked around. He hadn't looked long
before he found something to do. A
hog jumped out of car and ran into
a swamp near by. The owner of the
hog wasn't around and the Grafton
man, not wishing to see a good fat
hog go to waste, went after it. He
didn't have any time to burn, as the
hog was fast disappearing, and he fol-
lowed it into the water without any
preparations. After chasing it around
for half an hour, he got the pig back
on to the hog train. Then it occurred
to him that he was wet to his neck
ard he took off part of his clothes and
hung them up on some logs to dry,
and, with a few remnants left on him,
he lay down in the sun to dry him
self, and being y.eary, fell asleep. He
slept soundly and did not hear a big
Duluth policeman come his way. The
policeman raped few times on him
with his club, but he didn't seem to
belong to his lodge and received no
answer; then he pounded harder, and
the Grafton man turned over. The
policeman gave him a cross look and
told him to get up and get out of
town. The Grafton man tried to ex-
plain, but the policeman told him to
hurry up, the rest of the gang were
already moving and he wanted him
to get a going. ''All right" said the
man from Grafton, Ebut 1 have drove
of cattle in the yard over there that
| will have to take with me-" Then
the policeman fell harder than a bod
full of bricks, and opened up a fresh
can of apologies and hurried away for
fear he would try to arrest a cattle
car next
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23

Pestilence is likewise predicted, but
there some good luck for the emperor
OF Germany. Il must go and help
the emperor says Mile Couedon, for
he is not going to make a laughing
stock of himself like his enemies on
this side" Her object, however, in
going to Germany is apparently patrio-
tic. She wants to discover a future
Henri v, and she says: "4is geneal-
ogy is in a foreign country, and it
will only be revealed to a prominent
person, whose name is on the lips of
all men" Now this prominent person
is William H.
President Faure's approaching jour
ney to Russia is causing Mile. Couedon
much uneasiness. She says: His
journey will be successful but this
success will not last long. He is a
predestined being He has triumphed
over everything, but his fail will come.
His lot is about to change. The an
noyances which he has experienced
will be ne al The campa'gn
against him will begin afresh. Much
money will be spent while he is in
a foreign country. [ see a change of
government, and that this triumphant
journey of President Faure will surely
be his last They are already tegin-
ming to conspire against him. Even
at this very hour a plot is being pre-
pared against him.-New York Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23
FLORENCE MAVERICK.
No Hope for the Prisoner at Working
Until Death Sets Her Free.

UnIll Death Sets Her Free.
Again word of hope has arisen
with clarion note in the world and
sounded along until a faint echoing
whisper has borne to bent old wo-
man in Working prison; and again the
note has a. away into silence, and
tie prisoners haggard eyes have taken
on another shadow of despair.
Another effort to free Florence
Elizabeth Maybrick has proved futile,
and now her strong, uIfaltering friends
In this country are wondering what
bear upon the home secretary of the
English government to induce him %
lei the American woman go free
The new plea has been for mercy,
rot because of unconventional
many believe her absolutely free from
guilt-but because she is woman and
has suffered much because she is a
mother who has not seen the faces of
her little ores for 10 years; because
she is dying, and would like to send
her last faint breath out on the wings
OF Gods free air.
She is no longer the beautiful young
southerner whose lovely face and lively
ways are so we'll remembered by the
people of Mobile, of Macon and New
York. She is dull-eyed, trer bling
woman, upon whose white, thin locks
may have rested, from her looks, the
storms of 80 years.
The weak hands of her country wo-
men have beaten against her prison
bars; statesmen and legal authorities
have arrayed themselves upon her
side, demanding that her case should
be reOpened and the evidence sifted
anew; appeals signed by names honor
ed throughout the world have been
sent to her majesty, the queen, for
this one poor woman's liberty: but all
in vain. Under an English sky, three
children play, unconscious of the
| fact that the same sky frowns upon the
| prison where the one who gave them
birth waits for the angel Death to set
her free And in the south of France,
Florence Maybrick's mother. the one
OF whom the greatest sorrow falls,
| perhaps, of all weeps like another Ris-
| pah, and can not be cOmforted But
| it is the last chapter, and at it's end
the prisoner will have her chance be-
fore a higher court than British JUS
tice knows.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23
FRENCH PROPHECIES.
Mile Couedon Makes Curious Predic
tons for Prominent Personages.

Some curious prophecies have been
made recently by Mile Couedon, the
French prophecies, who claims to act
under the inspiration of the Angel
Gabriel. CT ampions of the fieur-de-lis
will be glad to read these lines by
her:
We must return to our favorite
flower
1 see before me fields of lilies
And they spring up like the grass.
When the signal is given
They will cover us with sweet per-
fume.
Gabriel however, does not say whom
the lilies represent, whether Don Car
los or the Duke of Anjou or the Duke
of Orleans. All we are told is that
the lilies are about to flourish and that
there will soon be a king of France.
That Queen Victoria will soon die
is very evident to Mile Couedon. eve
should pray for her, she says, ''for
| see that within a very short time
she will bid farewell to this world.
She will be maligned, for some utterly
unsuspected secret will be brought to
light. Moreover, her pleasant strait
will be taken away from her."
The pleasant strait is supposed to
be Gibraltar. This is bad news for
England, but then did not the prophe-
tess recently predict that India would
soon be lost to Great Britain? After
a blow like that England can sand
anything.
In reference to the approaching war,
which she has often announced, the
prophecies assures us that it will be
terrible, and that it will break at a
moment when no one is expecting it.
L see three nations in arms, she adds,
'tand all are ready to fight to the ut
most" The French, she explains, will
be the cause of the war, and they
will be caught unawares. Moreover,
they cannot count on help from Rus
Sa, and all their hopes in this direction
will prove illusions.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23
SPIRIT OF THE YOUNG MIND.

My fathers a policeman" boosted
a little boy of Allegheny.
Pooh, that's nothing!'' replied an
other little fellow, my fathers a
newspaper reporter"
We'll, my aunt is going to be mar
ried next week." said the first boy,
returning to the attack.
One Of my sisters was married week
before last, and my oldest sister has
twins" was the triumphant reply
His victory was short, however. The
other boy meditated for half a minute.
and then said, conclusively:
My uncle takes up the fare In
church on Sundays"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23
MEXICAN BOUNDARY LINE.

The fixing of the boundary line be-
tween the United States and Mexico
has been a difficult proposition, but
the work is now nearing successful
close. While the action of the COM
mission is final in all cases, the river
is continually furnishing new causes
for arbitration, and the commission is
practically a permanent institution.
Very few monuments are established
by the commission. 1t has set them
on all of the international bridges
directly over the middle of the chan
mel of the stream, and the same style
of monuments are used as have been
sete on the land boundary between the
river and the Pacific coast.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23
NOTES OF THE DAY.

A dental instrument designed to adj
just itself automatically to the shape
of a tooth to be extracted consists of
a serrated stationary gripping member
attached to head and a swinging
member with serrated edges, the two
parts engaging the tooth so firmly
that slipping is impossible. 1t can be
adjusted to either side of the mouth
and the grippers are made of various
sizes, so that any tooth may be fitted
The worlds largest flume is that at
San Diego, Cal. 1t waters a large ter
rlcory, which previous to its construc-
ton was sin ply an arid sand plain,
unsuitable for cultivation and in
capable of sustaining even a small
population. In the course of the work
there are 315 trestles, the most notable
of which is LOO feet in length and
eighty-five feet high, known as the
Los CcchOs trestle, its construction
requiring 100000 feet of lumber.
Another proposed wonder for the
Paris exhibition Of 1900 is an immense
Dussand microphonCgraph. 1t is
said to be now in course of construc-
ton, and is expected to make the voice
heard by 10000 persons. This form of
apparatus is claimed to be especially
favorable for the deaf, and for the
study of the feeble sounds given out by
the organs of the body in health and
disease, magnifying the voice much as
a lens magnifies objects to the eye.
A Maine guide, while working on
a log-drive, fell into the water. He
struggled at the bottom for while,
and finally got up, and, grasping big
log, held on for life The current was
SO swift that it carried his body under
the log, and his feet stuck out of the
water on the other side. Just as a
cOmrade was about to grasp him by
the shoulders, he gasped, looked at his
own feet pityingly, and said to his
rescuer: Don't mind me; save the fell
low that's in head-first."
About thirty years ago the Mont
Gents tunnel, nearly eight miles long,
" 40 COHoCl uCtSu DIT the IdIe VI one
kilometer per year, and each kiiometer
cost S1,200,000 Nearly ten years
later the st. Gotthard tunnel, nine and
one-fourth miles long, was constructed
at the rate of two kilometers a year,
and cost 100000 per kilometer. The
Simplon tunnel, which when completed
will be the third to perforate the Alps,
is to be twelve and a quarter miles
long, will advance four. kilometers a
year, and cost but 100000 per kilome-
ter
The first steps toward the organiza-
ton of the Victoria Gold Mining and
Milling Company of Atlanta, Ga, have
been taken, and the deeds to Bishop
Hugh Miller Thompson's property in
Macon and Jackson counties, North
Carolina, and to the property of his
son. Chaplain Frank Thompson, U. S.
n, adjoining the property of the
bishop, have been turned over to the
company and the stock issued therefor.
This property of the bishops runs
down to the Georgia state line, and is
what is known at the 'tDahlongea
belt" where gold has been mined at
great profit for many years. In fact,
until the discovery of gold in Califor-
MIA in '49, all of the gold mined in the
United States came from this region.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23
A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.
4 German Surgeon Saves a Man who
was Stabbed in the Heart.

At Berlin a day or two ago Herr Re-
lin, of Frankfort-on-the-M Main, aston
ished the members of the Surgical
Congress by recOunting his experiences
in the treatment of wounded hearts.
1t has always been held that 80 per
cent. of such cases must prove fatal,
death being caused either by shock or
by the flow of blood into the pericar-
dial cavity, whereby the hearts action
is gradually brought to a standstill.
Hitherto no serious attempts have been
made to save the patients life. Herr
Relin, however, conceived the daring
idea OF applying precisely the same
treatment that would be used in the
case of an external wound A man was
brought into the hospital dying from a
stab in the heart. He laid bare the
organ, and succeeded in checking the
hemOrrhage by means of suture The
patient made a capital recovery, and
was produced before the congress alive
and we'll
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23
STORY OF A WAR SONG.
The Composer of the Music I'VE Are
Coming, Father Abraham"

New York Suns Window (Minn. }
Special: 1.-The man who composed the
music for Whittier's song, I'VE Are
Coming, Father Abraham, Three Huh
dred Thousand Strong" is an old and
somewhat decrepit piano tuner, who
carries en- his business in this part of
Minnesota. His name is A B. Irving.
One day soon after Lincoln's call for
O,OOO more men, Irving, then a young
man, was on his way to Defiance, O.,
from Fort Wayne for the purpose of
singing at political and loyal meet
ing. He had considerable reputation
as a composer and singer and the
republicans had asked him to come and
help them. On the way he read the
poem which had just been published.
Irving studied it, formulated a tune
hummed it, and got the rhythm, and
that evening, at the Defarte meeting
he sang the song for the first time
When ne had finished and the last
their chairs with wild enthusiasm,
swung their hats and broke loose in
cheers that rang with feeling. He
sang it again and again and they
would scarcely let him rest. The next
night he sang the song at Fort Wayne
and again aroused the same enthusi-
asm. He wrote out the music and
sent it to the publisher who had
handled what he had oomp0cad wit n
instructions to publish it on his usual
terms of royalty. 1t was published,
and inside of a month more than 40 600
copies had been sold In a few days
the publisher failed, and Irving never
received a dollar for the music.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23
when did you move away?"
about nine years ago"
SOME NEW INVENTIONS.

A newly designed wrench, which can
be used for pipes as we'll as nuts, has
rigid V-shaped jaws, mounted on the
handle with the gripping surface of
one jaw supporting a rectangular steel
device which is toothed inside and
slides along the jaw until the right
size is obtained.
A recently designed cigarette case
has the box hinged in the center of the
bottom with sockets for the cigarettes
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23

She-Harry you said something last
evening that made me feel SO bad
He-What was it, dearest?
She-You said 1 was one of the
sweetest girls in all the world.
He-And aren't you, darling?
She-You said lone Of the sweetest"
On, Harry, to think 1 should live to
know that I have to share your love
with another!-Boston Transcript