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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-02-16

governor or two-thirds of the legisla-
ture. Bills were introduced: By Mr..
orion, to amend the statutes relating
to the classification of cities: by Mr..
sheldon, to prohibit the licensing of
any saloon within $50 feet of anv
church or schoolhouse: by Mr.. Hoehle.
10 repeal the law relative to license
ices payable by street railway, electric
hgnt and power companies; by Mr..
Porter, to repeal all laws relating to
flshing in the Mississippi river and ad-
Jacent lakes, sloughs and ponds over
which the state has Jurisdiction; bv
Mr.. Sarau, to provide for separate as
sesSment OF land and buildings apG
improvements thereon: also, EXEMPT
ing certain personal property from
| taxation, not exceeding $500 when a
family IS dependent on owner: by Mr..
True, requiring the secretary of state
10 furnish assessment and tax rolls IN
county clerks and these to the town
clerks; by Mr.. Hall, making ASYLUM
trustees eX-Officio superintendent OF
poor, but county board may appoint
superintendent of poor outside of moor
house; also, a joint resolution propos-
ing an amendment to the constitution
permitting voting by machine; by Mr..
NJ. W. Ryan, memorial to congress
asking for the repeal of the duty on
hides; by Mr.. Wylie, requiring the
! election of city officers in cities of less
than 10000 inhabitants in the same
manner as town elections are held; by
Mr.. Holland, to confer the right OF
suffrage upon women in questions OF
granting liquor licenses; by Mr.. Bal
dock, changing the time of serving no.
tice Of elections from between July !
and Sept. l to from Sept. 20 to Oct. 1
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-02-16

is dead. He had been suffering from
chronic cerebral trouble
Count Won Caprivi, former chancel-
lor Of the German empire died at
Skiren, near Frankfort
Nine. Cosima Wagner, widow OF
the great composer, is dangerously
sick with pneumonia at Vienna.
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was
chosen leader of the liberals to sue
ceed Sir William Vernon Harcourt
The Spanish cortes is to be immedi-
ately convoked. Premier Sagasta ex-
poets majority of 80 for the treaty.
The FilipinOs are in full retreat and
the Americans in complete control
within a radius Of 10 miles of Manila
Government forces have subdued the
Colorados, who recently revolted
against Senior Gustos, provincial presi-
dent of Uruguay.
The January report Of the British
board Of trade shows increases of
f,2S7,30 pounds in imports and 1,155,-
500 pounds exports.
Rev. Julian Robinson Of London,
England, died, aged so years. During
the prince of Wales tour of India in
1876 he acted as the princes private
chaplain.
The Filipinos are found to be armed
Gen. Miller will take Iloilo and Gen.
Otis will move upon Malalos, the in
surgent capital.
The appeal in England for 100000
pounds ($11, 50O,OO0) in connection with
the Chinese imperial railway five per
cent. gold loan has been a phenomenal
success. It was applied for five times
over.
The Madrid government has issued a
red book on the war with the United
States. It is a bulky volume OF 522
pages, but it's contents are documents
and communications already made
public and now have only historical in
| terest.
At Havana the United States gun
boat Nashville, bearing the body OF
the late Gen. CaliXto Garcia, arrived
The remains were received by the city
council and will lie in the session room
of the council on public view, with q
guard of Cuban soldiers.
William Pritchard Morgan, M. P.
just from China, where he represented
English capitalists acting in partner
ship with an American syndicate anC
the Chinese authorities, confirms the
report of his securing from China con,
cessions giving his associates contro
of all mines and oil fields in the prov,
ince of Szechuan.
The British steamer Bothnia, Capt
War;, chartered for use as a Spanish
transport, arrived at the Azores from
Cienfuegos, Cuba, on her way to SPAR
with repatriated troops. Eight sol
diers died during the voyage and 5:
were dangerously i'll when the steamer
arrived here. She has been subjected
to a rigorous quarantine.
At the opening of the German reich
stag the president of that body, Coun
Won Ballenstein, paid a tribute to thc
memory of the late Won Caprivi, the
former imperial chancellor. He sai(
that while as statesman Caprivi die
not attain the greatness of his prede
cessor prince Bismarck) nevertheless
he promoted the welfare Of Germany
and was great in his answering de
the emperor and the fatherland an(
the honorable chivalrous feeling with
which he was animated"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-02-16
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

The three members of the Filipino
junta who remain in Washington lear
arrest by government officials.
The war department cabled Gen.
Otis the full text OF the peace treaty
and he will publish it as a proclama-
ton.
The latest accounts of Sundays bat
tie at Manila bristle with new proofs
of the irresistible valor of American
troops
Gen. Eagan is suspended for six
years, when he will be retired. But he
will draw $500 year just the same
Admiral Dewey is reported 10 have
captured ship loaded with arms and
supplies for Aguinaldo's forces.
In an interview at Montreal Agon-
clio denied that he advised the attack
on Manila or had knowledge of what
was to occur.
The Kansas house passed a joint
resolution commencing Senators Har-
ris and Baker for their votes for the
ratification Of the peace treaty.
Agoncillo, the Philippine represen.
tative at Montreal, declares that his
people will fight to the death before
they will surrender to American con.
troll.
The owner of the vessel loaded with
arms and ammunition for the Fill
pinos, and which was seized by Admi
raj Dewey, is an American instead o.
a German.
The Philippine loss in the battle o
Saturday night and Sunday is place.
at 1000 killed and $500 wounded
while 5000 were taken prisoners. The
American loss was SO killed and 20!
wounded.
The United States transports Grant
Sherman, Sheridan and the hospita
ship Relief have been transferred Il
the California department and will b.
used to carry soldiers and supplies tt
the possessions of the United State:
lying in the Pacific ocean.
Private informa ton has been re
ceived in Washington that Duke
d'Arcos, formerly Spanish minister t
Mexico, is likely to be designated b.
the Madrid government as it's ministe
to Washington to exchange the ratifi
cations Of the treaty of Paris.
All the Madrid papers comment upoI
the events at Manila in tone I'M
friendly to the United States. Th'
impartial says that President McKin
ley must either abandon the enterprise
and cover himself with ridicule or I'm
dertake a war in the Philippines ant
thus pay for all the iniquity com
mitted against Spain.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-02-16
WHEN I AM DEAD.

When 1 am dead
Bring roses red,
And pOppies-blooms of rest
And heap them on my breast,
That may breathe their perfume deep
And sleep and sleep and sleep!
No flowers white,
For chill delight
Give me on that glad day,
But bend and smale and say
Bring blooms that burn and light and
She loved all warmth and color So
And all about my feet
Drop clovers pink and sweet.
Why should you lay those cold white
things
On the heart, where lie with folded
wings,
The cold, dead bird of song?
Dearest, the last night is so long
L pray you pile the peoples deep
Upon my breast that l may sleep.
When 1 am dead
Let the suns red
Strike through the uncurtained pane,
From off the singing main;
Yes, everything must sing that day
When l go on my glad new way,
And if there should be any tears,
Let them be for my wasted years
And not for nae. Throw all the win
dows wide
And let the strong surge of the tide
Come sounding once more up the hill,
And l shall hear it still!
And each Homecoming wave
shall say:
BE glad, be very glad today
And for the last time l shall hear!
But after that I would not hear,
For sweet as thought of hearing seems
Who hears must dream, and I would
have no dreamsi
So pile the crimson peoples deep
For a long, dreamless sleep!
Ella Higginson.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-02-16
PHOTOGRAPHING HIGH OBJECTS.

Officers of the Italian engineer corps
are making effective use of the tele-
scopic objective in taking photographs
of objects high above the ground.
Among other things they have been
enabled to discover French batteries
in the Alps which had not been known
to exist before that and to make pho
tographs of their external construc-
ton. The application of the telescope
lenses for such purposes was demon
strated for the first time when the
scaffoldlIS was built on top of the
dome of St Peters in Rome to repair
the lightning rod. Despite the great
height, an excellent photograph was
made of the scaffolding, showing a
man in clear detail at the top.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-02-16
WHEN A MANS MARRIED.

When a man marries the glamour
that had surrounded him is dispelled
and people begin to look at him criti-
cally. Let two men do a heroic act
and the unmarried man gets the great
er credit from the world. If Hobson
were married, does any one suppose
that silly women would press up to
kiss him? The fact that he is single
and has his choosing before him
makes him hero to most women.
Had married man sunk the Merri-
mac his moustache would never be
disarranged, not even by his wife
Atchison Globe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-02-16
FOREIGN.

Paris has a report that a vessel has
been sent to DEVILS island to transport
Dreyfus to France.
William Laird of the famous ship
building firm of Laird Bros. at Birken-
head, England, is dead.
The Manitoba hotel at Winnipeg
was burned. It was the largest hotel
in the Canadian west.
Prince Alfred Of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-02-16
DOMESTIC.

Duluth went republican.
Chicago May wheat, 71B072c.
Banana dealers are now said to be
forming a trust.
Warsaw, Ind, was shaken by an
earthquake yesterday morning.
Seven of the Rockefeller companies
held their annual meetings in Duluth.
Carolus Duran, portrait artist, and
Alvarez, the tenor, arrived from Eu-
rope.
The steamer st. Louis sailing for
Europe took out 426,000 ounces of sill
err.
Andrew Carnegie has offered At
lanta, G., 100000 for free public IL
brary.
Over 10000 cans of bad beef, in
tended for Havana poor, were sunk in
the sea.
At Milwaukee the twelfth annual
convention of the National Association
of Builders met.
Judge Glaspell of North Dakota
asked the legislature to investigate the
charges against him.
The controller has issued a call for
reports of all national banks at the
close Of Feb. 4.
2.eech Lake Indians seem to be invit-
ing more trouble. They badly beat
two white men.
A bill to create Irvine plant at the
penitentiary was killed by the South
Dakota legislature.
At Columbus, O., the annual conven-
ton of the National Carriagemakers
association opened.
Mrs. Barbara Ebinger, of Niles, H.,
died, aged 81. She was the widow Of
Rev. Christian Ebinger.
Senator White introduced in the
New York Legislature the civil service
bill Endorsed by Gov. Roosevelt.
The strike among the cloakmakers,
owing to cut OF 50 per cent. in wages,
spread rapidly in New York.
Edwin l.. PrickeCt, of Mount Holly,
n. Y. who said he had been promised
recovery by an angel, died
Theodore A. Havemeyer, Jr., is serv-
ing on a petit jury at New York, Re
c0rder Golf refusing to excuse him.
The senate committee on finance
held its first meeting under the chair
manship of Senator Aldrich yesterday.
The naval committee Of the house
has agreed upon twelve new warships
ana three more are under considera-
ton
Senator G. P. Wetmore of Rhode Is
land, who has been i'll in New York
city for some weeks past, is conyal-
escent
Wall steeet bulls sustained the mar
ket with buying orders, and when the
peace treaty was signed they cheered
At Cincinnati the 18th annual con-
vention of the National Association of
House Painters and Decorators began
its session.
The American Car and Foundry
company will soon be incorporated
under New Jersey laws, with a capital
stock of S60,000,00O
Ore assaying 20 to 80 per cent. cop
per and $50 ounces of silver to the ton
is reported to have been found in Mon
trose county Colorado
The repeal of the last remnant of
disqualification against ex-confederates
will be recommended by the judiciary
committee of the house
Plymouth church trustees, Chicago,
have decided to release DR.. F. w.
Gunsaulus so he may accept the pas
torate OF Central church.
Thirty jewellers in Milwaukee have
agreed to close their places of business
Wednesday and Friday nights at
o'clock, beginning Feb. Is.
Postmaster Hutchinson of Oak Park, |
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-02-16
COMPULSORY.

Mistress-Why are you SO very un-
tidy? Why don't you follow the ex-
ample of your friend Mary, over the
way? Her mistress tells me that she
washes her face three times day.
Domestic daresay she does, con-
sidering her sweetheart is sweepi-
Tit-Bits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-02-16
DIRT DEALS FALL OFF.

The total real estate transfers in
Dane county for 1898 show a slight
falling off from 1897 They amounted
to s2,616,307 in 1893 and s2,7O9,324 in
1897. In Madison and suburbs the
transfers during the past year aggre-
gated s833,734, as against s725,791 in
1897.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-02-16
WILLING TO FOLLOW.

Perry Patettic-This here paper says
that Gladstone would quit his work
any time to lay down and sleep.
Wayworn Watson-They is only one
thing keeps me from folIerin' that
plan, an that is, I don't work.-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-02-16

Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim Jeffries
signed articles for a fight some time
between April and May &C. before the
club offering the largest purse.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-02-16

Washington, Feb. 14.-At no time
quorum present, a majority of the
members being snoWDOund at their
homes. A debate over the unanimous
consent for the agreement reached Sat
urday afternoon for vote on the Nc
Emery resolution this afternoon was
precipitated early in the session. Some
feeling was manifest by the senators
who object to the adoption of the reso-
lutiOns, Messrs. Plat Comm and
HaWley favOring resembling the agree
ment, while Senators Hoard and Nc
Laurin spoke in opposition. The agri-
cultural appropriation bill was passed
with only a few unimportant amend
ments. The senate passed the bill
creating an admiral of the navy, il
being the intention that Rear Admiral
Dewey should get the Office. The SEN
ate nOn-concurred in the house amend
ments to the bills granting pensions to
Mrs. Semple, daughter of President
Tyler, and to Gen. John NJ. Palmer,
and sent them to conference. Senator
on immigration, reported back to the
senate a bill extending the anti-con-
tract labor laws of the United STATES
to Hawaii, with amendments making
the bill cover all immigration ques-
tions. The amendments specifically
include the Chinese exclusion acts.
Washington, Feb. 1.-THE raging
blizzard caused practically a suspen-
sion of business at the house. Speaker
Reed did not appear at the caption,
but sent word that in his opinion !,
was inadvisable to hold a session. A |
short session was held, however. AT
1905 Clerk Mcdowell called the house |
to order, and on motion of Mr.. Gros- |
Tenor rep, o. Mr.. Payne (O) was
elected speaker pro tenn. amid an out
BURST Of applause. The house then |
vent into committee of the whole and |
'esumed consideration of the civil ap-
bill.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-02-16

Washington, Feb. 12.-After a spir-
tied debate of more than two hours, by
unanimous consent, an agreement was
made by the senate yesterday to vote
Tuesday afternoon upon the resolu-
ton of Mr.. McEnery (dem., Ala.) de-
claratory of the policy OF the United
States as to the Philippine islands.
The legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill was passed. The
bill to amend the act to reimburse the
governors of states and territories for
expenses incurred by them in aiding
the United States to raise, organize,
supply and equip the volunteer army
in the war with Spain was passed
Washington, Feb. 12.-The time of
the house was devoted to the deliver
ing of eulogies on the late Representa-
tive Dingley Of Maine.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-28
FINANCIAL CRISIS.

Minneapolis Journal And the slot
meter with it's joshing clothes on, can
turn some aWfully embarrassing tricks.
Now there is a young man living in a
nice little flat not far from Park avenue,
and he had one of the slot meters put in
because he holds that it is better to pay
for everything as you go and then you
know where you stand For a Month
past the young man has been %running
close to the wind, financially, and econ
omy of the strictest sort has been his
w~atchword. Also the young mans wife,
being a woman of understanding, has cut
expenses down to the minimum. Last
Friday the young man expected to make
a raise down town during the day, but
the man he expected to meet ~diSappOint-
ed him so he went home without a cent
in his clothes, and, to make matters
| worse, there was no money in the house.
Nothing of the financial crisis in this
household appeared or the surface, how
| ever, The flat is handsomely furnished.
| and when some friends to the number Of
| half a dozen called Friday evening,
everything looked prosperous. The host
| and hostess We're both smiling, as young
folks will smile through adversely, and
matters We're drifting along right mefrlly
until the gas went out.
At that instant the young man realized
with horror that there wasn't a penny in
the house and that the sum of 25 cents
wherewith to propitiate the god of the
! gas-house was an imperative necessity.
My dear" he said, tremulously-"er-
have you a quarter in changer
Good gracious, Charlie" gasped the
lady, somewhat Historically, but still
with great presence of mind-'There isn't
a thing in the house but a $40 bill"
1--WE got some change said one of
the visitors forking out a handful of sill
| Yer.
A right" said the young man-"IH
skin out and get the ten broken after a
while" The borrowed quarter went into
the slot, the gas burned once more, and,
in the hilarity that ensued further refer
l~ence'to that quarter was studiously ia
booed.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-28
REFLECTIONS OF A sCOFFER.

"A crusty old bachelor remarks:
Be happy, and you can pose as being
good.
Women aren't any more of a mystery
to a man than their clothes are.
~ woman is bound to have trouble; II
1t isn't servants, or mumps, she goes to
house-cleaning.
There is no place where a woman can
have such a good cry as sitting down on
the floor
There is one thing a woman can't for
| give in her husband: it's to have him
come home on time, when she has
thought up a lot of heart-breaking re-
marks about his staying out late.
The queerest thing is the new idea a
girl gets about modesty after she is mar
Tied.
/ A woman's logic is all right; it's her
| way of treating it as if it were a stom-
achache.
Half the time when a woman pretends
she is jealous about you, it's because she
is mad because you aren't jealous ABOUT
her.
| When a woman gets an invitation TO
go on a visit, the first thing she does pc
fore accepting it is to sort out all her
stockings.
When a man gets up in the night, he
would rather step IN tacks than have ms
wife tell him to put on his slippers or ne
! will catch cold. .. .-,. ~
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-28
IN EMBRYO.

Two girls attired in their matinee cos
tunes were h%urrying eastward for theiy
car, says the Tacoma Ledger. They We're
ing eagerly, both at once. One of them,
in pulling her handkerchief from her
shopping bag, tumbled a big, square LETT
ter out onto the muddy pavement. She
did not notice her loss, but a small news
boy did. He was selling a PAPER at the
time, but he left his customer instantly,
swooped down on the letter, and scam
pered at the top of his speed after the
girls.
Hi, LADY," he called. "Youse dropped
somethin'.'
The girl in the dark-blue costume, who
carried the shopping bag, turned, and
the boy held out the letter, but, suddenly
noticing that it was muddy, he drew 1T
quickly back and wiped it carefully on
the inside of his ragged little jacket; then
he let the girl have it.
If the man who wrote the bold super
scription on the muddy envelope ever got
a sweeter smile from the girl in blue than
she bestowed on the little neWSbOy, he is
to be enVied.
Thank you very much" she said. I'm
very, very much obliged to you"
The boy grinned broadly and somewhat
sheepishly, made a fumbling attempt on
the peak of his cap, and backed off until
he collided with another youngster who
had been looking OF cynically.
"Tryin' to make a mash?' asked the
cynic, between puffs of a cigarette end.
"Doin' the dood act? How much did she
give yer, Brassey?"
Brassey made no reply for a moment
He was looking after the girls, who had
| nearly reached the street corner, and he
had a remnant of the grin still lingering
about his dirty face. At the corner the
| girl in blue turned, nodded, and waved
her hand, and Brassey waved a paper
back at her. When she and her COM
panion got into their car, Brassey turned
to his Notwithstanding colleague. /
Didn't give me nawthin'," he said.
"What'd she give me anythin' fer?' go
The cynic snorted. Gee! you're q
dead one," he remarked. You'd ought
to KEEP the letter. You'd got a quarter,
if you'd worked it right
"Brassey looked at him with sovereign
contempt. You're a cheap skate" he
| said, deliberately.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-28
UNION.

The following conservative rules have
been adopted by the New York Servant
Girls Union
'Work to commence at $50 a. M, and
to end at 9 y. m.
One afternoon free each week, and
the whole of Sunday every alternate
week.
Light, warm, and w~ell-ventilated
rooms.
Each servant to have her own bed"
In Duluth, and in other cities where
there are no servant-girl unions, the
rules are as follows:
Work to begin when Bridget wakes
up, and to continue until she gets tired.
"One afternoon free each week, every
Sunday, and as many more y and
evenings as possible; depending on the
awe in which Bridget is held by her mis-
treSs.
Cut glass and crockery o k to be
charged to profit and loss.
Kitchen the exclusive property OF
Bridget every evening, to entertain her
young man in.
"Pienty of cake, maple syrup, and other