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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22
NATIVES TO POLICE CUBA.
Miles and Corbin Before Senate Com
mittee on Appropriations.

Washington, Dec. 15.-The senate
committee on appropriations contin-
ued it's hearing on the army deficiency
bill yesterday, Gen. Miles being be-
fore the committee more than an hour.
The pending proposition is an amend
ment providing for the immediate
muster out of $4,000 volunteers. Gen.
Miles said that he thought $4,000 men
will be enough for Cuba. The island
must at an early day be policed by ma
tives, which should be recruited into
the army under American officers
Americans can not stand the climate
unless they are immunes. He thought
that the standing army should be in
creased to $4,000 men and at least some
of the volunteers should be continued
in service until the increase is made.
Owing to the opportunities of con
gressmen for the release of volunteers
Gen. Corbin made the following state
ment: THE department is disposed
to deal leniently as to letting off the
men who are needed at home. In
some cases colonels have been in
structed to reduce companies to SO
men so that men urgently needed at
home may be released. And even be-
low 80 we are making discharges on
satisfactory statements that the pres
ence Of the men is needed at home"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22
DARK FOR THE DEFENSE.

San Francisco, Dec. 16.-George
Haas, from whose store Mrs. Botkin
is alleged to have bought the candy she
sent to Mrs. Dunning, and two of his
employees, were on the witness stand in
the case yesterday. They were exam
ined regarding the manufacture of the
candies and the possibility OF poison
getting into the candy during the
course OF manufacture. Nothing very
satisfactory for the defense was ad-
duced. Mrs. Simpson, proprietor of
the Victoria hotel, when Mrs. Botkin
resided there, told of the emotions of
the woman when John P. Dunning
went to New York to accept an en-
gagement as Cuban war correspond
ent. Mrs. Simpson was positive that
there was nothing to criticise in Mrs.
Botkin's conduct while a resident of
the Victoria. John DUNCAN, mail
clerk at station D. positively asserted
that package similar to the one sent
to Mrs. Dunning passed through his
hands early in August.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22
NEW CUBAN TARIFF.
Will go into Effect the First of the
Year.

Washington, Dec. 17.-President Nc
Kinley, before leaving for the south
last Tuesday, signed an executive order
establishing a customs tariff for the
island Of Cuba, to go into effect Janu
airy / next. This tariff is based upon
the report and recommendations made
by Robert P. Porter, special commits
sioner of the United States, who was
sent to Cuba some months ago for the
special purpose of making an investi
cation of the subjects of revenue and
customs Of the island
In commenting upon the schedules,
Mr.. Porter says: In recommending
changes of rates in the several sched-
ules of the Cuban tariff now in force
ia Cuban ports in possession of the
United States, l have been guided by
the following considerations:
The necessities of obtaining suffi-
cient revenue to administer the affairs
of the island.
"A reduction OF duties in those cases
where Spain retained in the minimum
rate column eXorbitant rates because
she could not herself supply the COM
modify.
AN increase of duty in the schedule
relating to spirits, wine, and malt
liquors, in which the reduction by the
adoption of the minimum rate col
umn is altogether too great.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22

arsenic from him, though he said that
she was short and Stocky. This de-
scription fits Mrs. Botkin, but only to
limited extent. Miss Sylvia Heney,
saleswoman for George Haas & Sons,
candy manufacturers and retailers.
identified some candy sent Mrs. Dun
ming as being from the stock of her
employers. She identified the box and
admitted that she did not quite fill it
at the request Of the purchaser who
said that she wished to put something
else in the box. Miss Heney identifies
the seal used by the firm and said the
purchaser appeared extremely nervous
during the whole of the transaction
Miss Heney's Identification was no;
positive, but she qualified it by saying
that she believed Mrs. Botkin was the
person to whom she sold the candy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22
SOLD HER ARSENIC.
Says Mrs. Botkin Bought
Poison from Him.

San Francisco, Dec. 15.-In the Bot
kin trial yesterday Frank Gray, a
pharmacist, testified that on the first
Of June Mrs. Botkin, whom he knew
slightly, called upon him for some
arsenic and averred that she wished it
for purpose of bleaching a straw hat.
Gray recommended several other med
icines but Mrs. Botkin said that she
was familiar with arsenic and pre-
ferred it. Gray made an entry on the
poison book of the store, Indicating
the use to which it was to be subject
ed. He entered the name on the book
as Mrs. Botkin." David Green, a
pharmacist employed at another store.
failed positively to identify Mrs. Bot
kin as the woman who purchased some
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22

Hot Springs, Ark, Dec. 15.-The
bones taken from the fireplace OF the
house of William Sheffield, brother Of
Hardy Sheffield who is accused of the
murder Of Mrs. Nellie j. Horne, lave
been pronounced by experts to be those
of a woman and beads, hatpins,
buckles and satchel frame have been
found in the ashes with the bones and
have been identified as those belonging
to the wearing apparel of Mrs. Horne.
Hardy Sheffield is under arrest and
closely guarded to prevent him from
committing suicide. Will Sheffield has
also been arrested as an accomplice to
the crime. Mrs. Horne came here a
few weeks ago from Texas. 1t is said
that she had about $1,000 with her.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22
F. S. ILSLEY DEAD.
Lived in Madison in the Early sos
Unmarried.

Milwaukee, Dec. 17.-Frederick S.
Ilsley, well-known broker, died yes
in-law, Mrs. Edward Ilsley. Mr.. Ilsley
had been i'll for some time with heart
disease. He was born in East Port,
Me-, in 1893. When he was 10 years of
age, he went with his parents to Mad
ison, Wis, where he resided until 1853,
when he came to Milwaukee. He en-
tered the employ of the Marshall &
Ilsley bank as clerk and there he re-
manned for several years, finally going
in business for himself.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22
REPORT NOT BELIEVED.

La Crosse, Wis, Dec. 13.-Nothing is
known here concerning the story sent
out from st. Paul to the effect that the
Sd Wisconsin volunteer infantry was to
be sent to occupy Fort Smelling, the
headquarters of the military depart
ment of the Dakotas. No one at the
regimental headquarters of the Sd Wis
consin in this city had heard of it until
the story made it's appearance in the
st. Paul dispatches. Col. M. T. Moore
says he has not heard of it. 1t is now
quite certain that the Sd will not be
mustered out at the expiration of it's
present sixty days furlough, Deem
Der 81.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22
SHEFFIELDS MAY BE LYNCHED.
Angry Neighbors Make Threats
Prisoners Heavily Guarded.

Hot Springs, Ark, Dec. 16.-Hardy
Sheffield was removed yesterday from
the Jail of this city to the county jail
at Malvern. William Sheffield, arrest
ed as an accomplice in the murder of
Mrs. Horne, is also in Jail at Malvern.
Excitement is at high pitch in the
community in which the Shefields live
and lynching is freely discussed. The
Jail at Malvern is heavily guarded 1t
developed yesterday that during the
mysteriously disappeared from the
Sheffield neighborhood and never re-
turned. The people now believe they
have been murdered by the SheffieIds
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22
GOVERNOR OF HAWAII.
Three Candidates in the Field-France
to Be Asked to Interfere.

San Francisco, Dec. 17.-Advices
from Honolulu, dated Dec 9, state that
three candidates are persistently men
toned for the governorship of the ISL
ands-S. M. Damon, Harold M Sewall
and President Dole. Each candidate
has host of supporters. A petition
has been circulated among the natives
praying Mckinley not to appoint as
governor any person connected with
the recent revolution in the island
Another petition is about to be circu-
lated asking France to interfere with
the present government and restore
the monarchy. Dole will soon leave
for Washington to be present when
the Hawaiian commission presents its
report to congress.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22
MILWAUKEE RoADBREAKsLoosE.

Chicago, Dec. 1.-THE Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul yesterday gave no
tice to. all lines of the Western Pas
senger association that it would act
Independently of the association and
make a rate Of one fare for the round
trip from all their stations to Sioux
Falls for the meeting Of the national
creamery butter-makers association,
to be held in Sioux Falls, Jan. %.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22

Changes of rates that have been
suggested, by the testimony taken, for
the purpose OF encouraging local in
dustry in Cuba.
Changes from specific duties to ad
valorem in cases where the former
method of levying duties resulted in
Inequalities and, in some cases, injus-
tice, alike to importer and consignee.
Changes in the line of additional
reductions, as in the case of 'aliment-
airy substances in which many of the
rates of duty now in force in Cuban
ports in the possession of the United
States were found to be unnecessarily
burdensome. In this case the aim has
been to make the specific rate OF duty
present market value of the imported
commodity.
In these changes of duty consider
alton has been given to the fact that
the Cuban customs, under American
administration, will be collected in
United States currency, whereas the
Spanish duties were collected in so per
COAL CpdAiSu SOIu, anu ~ pei cent.
Spanish silver; roundly speaking,
therefore, if the old Spanish duties
were left unchanged, it would practic-
ally mean an increase of 10 per cent.
in the tariff. 1t should, therefore, be
borne in mind that the reductions
made are in fact ten per cent. less than
the figures indicate. On the other
hand, however, the additional duties
exacted by the Spanish authorities,
levied as war tax since the signing Of
the protocol, more than counterfeit the
difference in currency.
with these general ideas in mind
and the testimony of large number of
witnesses, together with numerous
statements relating to the various
classes of the Cuban tariff, the several
schedules have been carefully exacn-
ined, and the general reasons for the
changes in rates, ETC., suggested, may
be found in the subjoined summary,
which has been arranged according to
the number of the schedule or class
which is the more literal translation
of the Cuban tariff
THE following table shows the aver
age per cent. of reduction in the sew
eral classes between the old Spanish
rate and the rate originally adopted by
the United States for all imports:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22
Mckinley IN MONTGOMERY.
Magnificent Welcome rendered Him ia
Confederacy's First Capital.

Montgomery, Ala, Dec. 17.-The
president and his party were given a
magnificent welcome in the confeder-
acy's first capital yesterday At the
union station the presidential party
was met by the governor, committees
of the assembly, mayor and city coun-
Gil and commercial and industrial as
sociations. Mayor Clisby received the
president with a well worded speech.
The whole party was then taken in
carriage through the leading business
and residence streets to the old confed-
crate capitol The president made a
happy speech.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22
BROTHER SLABS BROTHER.
Two Edgerton Boys Get Drunk and
Engage in Fatal Fight.

Edgerton, Wis, Dec. 1S.-George and
d. d. Hall, brothers, who reside at the
foot of Lake Koshkonong, came home
from GAINESVILLE in an intoxicated con-
dition and in a family row that fol-
lowed the younger son drew a knife
and cut a frightful cash across the
abdomen of George, almost disembow-
cling him. His condition is critical
and his brother has been placed under
arrest
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22
BURNS BUILDING AND SELF.
Doesn't Want Property to Fall Into Di-
vorced Wife's Hands.

Portage, Wis, Dec. 1S.-Gottlieb
Wagner, an old and wealthy farmer
living in the town of Shields, near
Monticello, set fire to all his farm build
ings, burning four horses and all his
grain and farm implements. His re-
mains were found in the ruins of the
barn. The cause of his act is supposed
to have been because a divorce was
procured by his wife. He destroyed
the property to prevent it falling into
her hands. Wagner kissed his chill
dren goodbye, gave each some money
and sent them to school. His wife left
him week ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22
A YOUNG MAN KILLED.

Grafton, Wis, Dec. 1S.-Martin Ell
bert, a young man of this place, while
drawing frewood fell from the wagon
and the load passed over his body. He
died an hour afterward.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22

DR.. Belle Gemmel, graduate of the
medical school of Michigan university,
is at present performing the duties of
county physician in Salt Lake, Utah.
Her father holds this Office, and she is
his assistant, practically conducting
the affairs of the Office.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22
SYBIL SANDERsoN A WIDOW

New York, Dec 15.-Dispalches re-
port the death at Paris of Antonio
Terry, the Cuban millionaire who re.
Gently married Sybil Sanderson, the
California prima donna.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22
Russians After Money.

New York, Dec. 1S.-The emissaries
Of Russia have made careful survey
of the situation in this city and sound
ed nearly all Of the leading concerns
Their business has been conducted
quietly and so far nothing seems to
show that their overtures have met
with much announcement.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22
BONES OF A WOMAN
FOUND BEHIND A FIREPLACE IN
ARKANSAS.
MURDERED FOR HER MONEY

HARDY and William Sheffield Arrested
Tor the Crime-Victim Was From
Texas and Is Thought to Have Had
Sl,500 When She Was Killed and
Her Body Burned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22
BRICE PASSES AWAY
EX-SENATOR OF OHIO SUCCUMBS
TO PNEUMONIA.
CAPITALIST AND POLITICIAN

Had Many Business Interests at Time
of His Death-Leayes a Widow and
Several Grown Children-Has an
Interesting and Remarkable Career
-Amassed Big Fortune.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-01
WHAT IT WOULD MEAN


The success of the opposition to the Re-
would be regarded as rebuke of the adj
ministration of William Mckinley, which
has directed the second successful foreign
war in the lifetime of the Republic. Such a
success would be received by the govern
ments of Germany, France, Russia and
Spain, and even Great Britain, as a declara-
ton of the American people that they are
which, with the smallest loss of human
life. has accomplished greater results than
any war in modern times.
Moreover, such a success would be inter-
preted by European governments as dec
laration that the American people are OPP
posed to the policy of the President and will
encourage an interference already indicated
by the Germans in the Philippines. To the
Spaniards the election of House hostile to
the President would give aid and comfort
encouraging them to insist upon terms of
peace which the United States cannot hon.
orably entertain, and which might provoke
a renewal of hostiIities. Encouraged by
hostile governments in Europe, the treach-
erous and treaty breaking Spaniards might
refuse to observe the terms of the protocol
already signed for the evacuation of Cuba
and Porto Rico. With a large army yet in
Cuba, the Spanish authorities interpreting
a hostile House as condemnation of the
Presidents treaty and policy, might refuse
to evacuate the islands.
A House opposed to the President ard his
policy would defeat the efforts which are
now being made to tranquilze Cuba to the
END that its people may have a stable and
independent government.
There has been no loss of confidence in
William Mckinley by the people who
elected him. On the other hand, they know
that the policy he has adopted has given
the country prosperity, and that his states
manlike course up to the declaration of war
and his wise policy in directing the war
have increased the public confidence in his
patriotism and wisdom. The men who made
him President owe it to his administration
to go to the polls and indorse and approve
his action by their votes, because it is for
the good of the whole country and to Sc
cure the fruits of the victory achieved
under his direction. There should be no APP
athy. There will be none when the men
who elected William Mckinley realize, as
they WILL the great importance Of sustain
ing his administra ton
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-01
A DEADLY BLOW.

The conflict in New York between the
Democratic leaders who controlled the
state convention and the 16-to-1 element
that bolted the convention and threaten a
Chicago platform ticket is one which must
seriously affect the Bryan party whatever
may be done. If the boilers, when they get
together lose heart and do not put ticket
in nomination after having announced that
Chairman Jones, of the national Demo-
cratic committee, had assured them that
their organization would be recognized as
the Democratic party, they will confess to
the country tina, they have not the follow
ing to justify boiling ticket. If, on the
other hand, the 16-to-1 leaders put a ticket
in the field, which, in the election, receives
but a small part of the Democratic vote
polled, they will demonstrate to the coun-
try that but a small part of the Democratic
voters of New York are in favor of the in
dependent free coinage of silver. So it APP
pears that if the Bryanites do or do not
put Bryan ticket in the field they are in
the unhappy situation of the man who was
damned if he did and alike damned if he
did not
1t has been asserted that Ex-Governor
Stone of Missouri, who has assumed to be
one of the dictators of the Chicago plat
form party, went to New York during the
summer and had a conference with the
Tammany and other leaders, during which
he informed them that if they did not in
dorse the Chicago platform in the state
convention they would not be recognized
as the Democratic party of New York in
the next Democratic national convention.
The magnates received the Stone pronun-
ciamento civilly, but made light of his pre-
tensions. 1t is very evident that the threat
has not had its desired effect. The Demo-
cratic machine which coldly Endorsed Mr..
Bryan in 1896 and was beaten in the DEM
ocratic stronghold of New York city OPEN
ly defies the Bryan national committee and
practically condemns the Chicago platform
by ignoring it.
The Bryan leaders may refuse to recog-
nize the fact, but those who will consider
the matter in all its bearings must realize
that the cause of is to l has received a
blow in the action of the Democratic con-
ventions in the States of Connecticut, New
York and New Jersey from which it cannot
recover. 1t not only means that the ma
jority of the Democratic voters in those
States are opposed to the free-silver heresy,
but that a growing. if silent. element in
other States is weary of it. The reckless
Bryan leaders may nominate him in 1890,
but only to be more hopelessly defeated
fhan he u,ac In 1905
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-01
CHANGING HER TRUMPETS.
Spain Orders BugIes of the Same Key
as Those Used by Americans.

NEW YORK, Sept. 30.--Spain has appar-
emily become convinced that there is some
thing magnetic in the bugle used by the
American army, for orders have been is
sued to discard the Anticipated instruments
used by the Spanish forces in the late war
and to replace them with trumpets of the
regulation pattern adopted by the United
States some years ago. A firm doing BUSH
ness in New York and Paris which has just
delivered two thousand trumpets contracted
for by Quartermaster General Luddington
pets of the same size. style and key for the
use of the Spanish army. The New York
agent of the firm received notice that the
order had been placed in France. The
trumpet used here is Of a pattern adopted
May 2, 1892 and is described as follows:
Each trumpet is built in the key of G.,
the slide to draw to F and marked and
stamped with the letter F. at the correct
point to produce the key of f.
The bugle calls of Skaters army are said
to have been plainly heard by the spanish
troops in their intrenchments at Santiago
long before the American troops were WISH
BILE 1t is said that the use of trumpets or
the same key by opposition armies might
lead to confusion. In the early days OF the
Cuban conflict with Spain captured trum-
lead the Spaniards into ambush and on one
occasion a Cuban bugler concealed in the
bushes succeeded in causing two Spanish
columns to fire upon each other, No ObJec-
ton was offered by the officers at the army
building here when they were Informed of
Spaln's order, the only comment being a
remark that Spain had apparently begun
the equipment of her army.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-01
WHY GERMANY sULNs.

The interview in another column with
Professor Wiley of the United States Agri-
cultural Department, throws into clear re-
lief a cause for Germany's recent unfriend-
illness to this country which has hitherto
been but vaguely limited at. This is the
destruction of the German beet-sugar i'm
dustrY through the acquisition by the
United States of Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines This country has been great
sugar market. but with these islands under
its control and the business in the hands Of
enterprising Americans the home product
so TO speak. will not only supply the wants
of its own people but will leave a margin
for other markets The figures given by
Professor Wiley show the extent to which
American colonial sugar making will prob
ably grow and the consequent injury to the
industry in Germany. In that country the
making of beet sugar has become great
and profitable business, and dissatisfaction
with conditions likely TO damage it cannot
be wondered at. Such conditions. or their
nossib,litv. hardly excuse semi-hostile off,
ciai demonstrations, but do account reason
ably enough for a national sulkiness. The
conditions that promise to interfere with
German interests will also put an end to
beet sugar growing in this country-a mat
ter of comparatively small consequence,
however. since 1t is little more than an ex-
pertinent SO far But 1t is folly for Ger-
many to resent the effects Of the unexpected
competition. Il was only question % ne