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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-30
BOER-BRITISH WAR.

The beers shelled Estcourt.
Poles offer TO volunteer for the Brit
iSh.
Fever threatens the Mafeking garri-
son.
Pietermaritzburg capital of Natal, is
threatened by beers.
The beers abandoned the attempt to
capture Ladysmith and moved south.
Fighting continues at Ladysmith, but
the garrison, it is reported, still holds
out
General Gatacre reported a boer up
rising in the northern part of Cape
Colony.
Report of British victories at Lady
smith are reported to have been over
drawn
The beers refused to allow the Amer
lean consul to represent England at
Pretoria.
The beers have hemmed in the Brit
ish force at Estcourt Natal, and an at
tack is mOmentarily expected.
The beers attacked the British camp
at Mool river, but were driven back.
An official statement from Pretoria
placed the total casualties of the beers
during the war as killed, 90; wounded,
200.
SO far 23,500 British troops have ar
rived at Capt Town as reinforcements,
and 1920 of them have been sent to
Durham
Conflicting news from the front as to
the disposition of British forces puz-
zle the English, who are confident,
nevertheless.
Lady White wife of Sir George Stew
art White, British commander at
Ladysmith, was received in audience
by the queen at Windsor castle.
The beers now have $4,000 British in
nesieged towns. Ladysmith has 5000
Estcourt 1900, Moot river 1000, Kim
berley 1000, Mafeking 900, and Plum
er's column in Rhodesia 1000.
The beers are in a strong position at
Mitchison. They blew up the culvert
cutting off the railway to Estcourt
Another party is south of Moot river
and others are within forty miles of
Pietermaritzburg.
Methun on his way to relieve Kim
berley, with 10000 men, attacked the
same number of beers at Belmont. His
report declares that he carried three
ridges Of a strong position in quick
succession, winning a complete victory
capturing forty prisoners and much
ammunition. The British lost SO killed
and 200 wounded. A heavy boer loss
reported. Methuen is seventy-two
miles from Kimberley.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-30
DOMESTIC.

Chicago, December wheat, 667s at
&C.
The paper trade is threatened with a
famine.
Magazine, Ark, was destroyed by a
cyclone.
The treasurer of Yankton county, S..
D., disappears.
The bank Of Milton, Wis, was robbed
by burglars.
Secretary Long says he has no inten-
ton Of resigning.
Omaha's expensive government
building is cracking.
Roosevelt, Grant and Root are most
discussed as candidates for vice-presi-
dent
Sac and Fox Indians in Iowa threaten
to go on the warpath.
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey retain
life interest in their home.
At st. Louis William Bull has been
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-30
SOUND PHILOSOPHY.

No profit grows where there is no
pleasure taken; in brief, sir, study
what you most affect.-Shakespe
A mans own good breeding is the
best security against other peoples
ll-manners.-Lord Chesterfield.
The heart of a loving woman is a
golden sanctuary where often there
reigns an idol Of clay.-Limayrac
A woman would be in despair if ma
ture had formed her as fashion makes
her appear.-Mille. de Lespinasse.
Though we travel the world over to
find the beautiful, we must carry it
with us or we find it not.-Proyerb.
Women complain Of the lack Of viz
tue in men and do not esteem those
who are too strictly virtuous.-Blon-
del.
The art of conversation consists less
in showing ones wit than in giving OPP
portunity for the display of wit of
Bruyere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-30

MADE COMMANDER OF NEW VET
ERANS' ORGANIZATION
HELEN M. GOULD SPONSOR
A Split Occurs in the First Organiza-
ton Formed Due to Fears That
Ohio Members Were Attempting to
Make. Political Capital Out of It
Officers Also Include Gov. Roosevelt.

Washington, Nov. PA split has
occurred in the organization of the
Spanish war veterans and rival body
was formed friday to be known as the
Spanish-American War Veterans. Last
week tie original organization held a
protracted meeting in this city and
perfected an organization. Fridays
meeting was held in response to the ur-
gent call of Acknowledgement Liller
who gives as the reason tor the split
general dissatisfaction, and an attempt
to place the organization in the hands
OF the Ohio representative, making it
appear as move for political purposes.
All who served in the regular or volun-
teer army, navy, or marine corps dur
ing the Spanish-American war and
those now serving in the present Phil
ippine war are eligible to membership
provided they can show an honorable
discharge. A constitution and bylaws
were adopted and the units of organ
izatiOn are to be local, with camps, de-
partments and a national association.
The officers chosen are: Commander
in-chief, Admiral George Dewey; SEN
ior vice-commander,- in-chief, Col.
Theodore Roosevelt of New York; jun
ior vice commander-in-chief, Brig. Gen.
Irving Hale of Colorado; adjutant gen.
eral William Christopher Liller of
Pennsylvania; quartermaster-g general,
Col. William P. Lane of Maryland;
surgeon general, Maj. Edward G. Da-
Wis of Georgia; commissary general,
Col. James B. Coryen of Pennsylvania;
inspector general, Col. George w. Tay-
lor of Virginia; judge advocate general,
Col. James H. Tillman of South Car
DINA; chief signal officer, Col. James
Pfyffe of Tennessee; chaplain general,
Captain Charles III. Jones of New Jer-
sey; sponsor, Miss Helen M. Gould
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-30

flock. The herders were warned not to (
bring any more sheep into Colorado
and were released.
Second Assistant Secretary of State /
Adee sustained a painful though not |
serious injury through a fall from his |
bicycle. He sustained a severe dis |
location Of the left shoulder, which |
will confine him to his home for a
fortnight at least.
The report of the commissioner of
immigration shows that for the
months ofJuly August and September of
this year the number of immigrants
admitted into the United States was
| 1856, which is an increase of 1908
over the same months of last year
| The carriage spring and axle manu-
facturers are preparing to consolidate
as the American Spring and Axle COM
pany, which will be capitalized at S12,-
100000, of which s6,50000O will be
bonds. Forty concerns, controlling IS
per cent. of the trade, will join the
combination.
The wreck of the undertaken bark
entine Jane A. Falkenberg of San
Francisco was found by the tug Lorne
off Cape Flattery, and has been towed
into Esquimault harbor. A black
cat was the only living thing found on
board. The officers and crew were
picked up by the steamer Walla Walla
Francois Book said to be a jeweier
of Providence, r. l., is in custody il
: New York charged with smuggling. He
5 was arrested on the arrival of the
r steamer La Bretagne, on which he was
a passenger. On each of the shoes IL
l Books baggage, which were tied Il
e pairs, were found at least ten package:
/ of whole and half pearls, and among
: his other baggage was found a large
parcel measuring fully two quarts.
< Charles Richards Dodge, director 0
?, agriculture and representative of tht
= secretary Of agriculture, is in Chicago
e considering, with Commissioner Gen
eral Peck, the plans for the weathe
: bureau exhibit at the Paris exposition
: This exhibit will occupy One-half OF
S special building now being cOnstructe;
e near the river Seine, the other half O
the building to be devoted to the eX
S hibit Of the United States postoffice de
b partment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-30
YELEURAMS IN BRIEF.
sPANIsH-AMERICAN ISLANDS.

The Charleston is reported hopeless
wreck.
Aguinaldo, it seems likely, will soon
be captured.
Houses in Santiago, Cuba, were dam
aged by an earthquake.
Aguinaldo is evidently hard pressed
by the American forces.
The Filipino junta at HOngkOng is
sued an appeal for independence.
Large Filipino forces are reported to
be massing near Tarlac near Angeles.
Gov Leary forcibly imposed good
government upon the natives of Guam.
The Asiatic squadron is now, by far,
the largest squadron in the American
navy.
Havana merchants are beginning a
movement to improve the harbor of
that city.
Sailors of the gunboat Castine have
occupied Zamboanga, on the island OF
Mindanao
The war department has bestowed
500 brevets, but some of those honored
did not fight.
The battleship Kentucky will bring
the bodies of the Maine victims to the
United States from Havana.
General Macarthur has occupied
Dagupan, thus completing the seizure
of the acknowledgement railroad.
General Brooke has named Senol
Zanetti as the representative of Cuba
at the Paris exposition in 1900 He lief
Havana on Saturday for New York, eX
pecting to sail for Europe by thu
French steamer Aquietane.
The interment of the remains o
Creci of the revolutionary army Wht
is described as the initiator of so
cialsm in Cuba" took place Saturday
The police would not permit Faleo, tn
Italian socialist, to deliver the funera
grafton.
Carpenter and Hughes drove the in
surgents before them in the north
Aguinaldo is reported in full flight
FilipinOs may make a stand at Mon
talbon, which they believe impregna
BILE Macarthur made Tarlac his head
quarters.
Gen. Wheeler says it is the sacre
duty of congress, on the first day of tn
session, to adopt resolution declarin
that the sovereignty of the Unite
States in the Philippines will b
maintained. Bengaet is said to be tn
present rebel capital.
Cuban wreckers who have been en-
ployed during the last six months
stripping the Spanish war vessel
destroyed by the Americans in the bal
tie off Santiago are reported to haV
found $4,000 in Spanish gold in tn
criser Almirante Oquendo.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-30
MANY VIEW HOBART'S REMAINS.
A Number of Women Faint in the
Great Throng.

New York, Nov. 25.-The funeral of
Vice President Hobart will take place
today at Paterson, services first being
held at Carroll hall, the Hobart home,
and after that at the church of the Re-
deemer. The scenes at Carroll hall
when the remains were lying in state
were exciting and pathetic. Long be
fore the time announced for the
opening of the doors of the Hobart
home to the public the crowd began to
assemble and when the first rush to-
ward the main entrance began fully
5 700 persons were crowded into Eli
son and Carroll streets. Women were
largely in a majority and many carried
infants. AS the throng filed into the hall
excitement increased and women faint
ed on the porch, at one time a half
dozen lying insensible on the lawn. At
the coffin there was fainting scene, a
woman about twenty years old gazing
in the face of the dead vice president
stood at The coffin as though trans
formed. Then she screamed and fell
forward into the arms of a policeman.
1t was estimated fully $4,000 persons
saw the remains in the four hours they
we're exposed to view.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-30
FOREIGN.

The wife of Premier Salisbury is
dead.
The Czechs will oppose the Austrian
ministry.
A Jewish synagogue is to be built
in Rome.
to surrender.
The anti-strike bill was rejected by
the German reichstag.
The kaiser took lunch with the
duchess of Marlborough.
Austrians regard German control of
Asia Minors trade assured.
France favors a tunnel railroad I'M
der Gibraltar straits to Morocco.
New South Wales wheat yield will
be double that of last year.
Major Schiemangk, accused OF
swindling, was arrested in Berlin.
Austria and Hungary reached an
agreement as to the quota of expenses
Beer and umbrellas were the chief
articles sold in Samoa by the Germans
last year.
French officers will wear the same
uniforms as privates to dodge sharp
| shooters.
A Paris paper says that complica-
| tons are threatened between Japan
and America.
There is famine in Finland, due &C
floods, causing great suffering and
many deaths.
A school of morality is to be opened
in Paris under the patronage Of the So
cialist deputies.
Dixon Kent, the English yacht de-
signer, yachting editor of Field, died
aged 81 years.
The French foreign Office favors the
open door in China, and will not strug-
gle for territory.
Polizzolo, member Of the Italian
chamber of deputies, was discovered tc
be head of the Malta.
Princess Amelie of Leiningen, sister
of the grand duke of Baden, died in
her sixty-ninth year.
The marquis of Salisbury is SUFFERING
from an attack of influenza and is un-
able to attend to public business.
In London official quarters it is de-
MED there is any hitch in the final set
Element of the Samoan agreement
A special dispatch from Vienna re-
iterates the report, which was denied
last week, that the Russians had occu-
pied Herat
President Loubet unveiled in the
Place de la Nation a statue symbolic
ing the triumph of the republic.
Sir William Dawson the welI-known
Canadian educator and geolog1st, late
principal of McGill college, is dead.
Wingate with an Egyptian force at
tackled $500 dervishes at Abu Adj,
killing 400. No Egyptians were killed.
Friendly relations between the car
and kaiser had been strained by the
peace conference, but the Potsdam in
terview healed the breach.
De White, Russian minister of finance,
is said to have attempted suicide upon
the discovery that he had manipulated
the bourse for his private advantage.
Emperor William of Germany, ac-
companied by the empress and their
two sons, arrived in England and was
received at Windsor by Queen Victoria
DR.. Heiliginstadt, national liberal
and director of the Prussian central
bonossen kasse, has been appointed
president Of the seehandlung, the Of
fee having been made vacant by the
removal of Herr Zeslitz on account of
the latters opposition to the midland
canal proposal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-30
TAPPERS OF RACETRACK WIRES.
Losses of Poolrooms Small Because the
Sharpers Are Clumsy.

1.-The race track wire-tappers always
overreach themselves in exactly the
same gross and clumsy fashion," con-
tinued the speaker. ''They cut in
somewhere on the lee side Of a pool
room and in their anxiety to pull off
long shot give the race to some i'm
possible old hack that every bOotblack
knows couldn't win in a thousand
years. If they don't do that, they may
be depended upon to betray themselves
by their foolish eagerness to get down
their money The success of such
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-30
A SEAL.

See, children, the Fur-bear-ing Seal;
Observe his mis-di-rect-ed zeal:
He dimes with most ab-ste-mi-ous care
On Fish, Ice Water, and Fresh Air,
condiments or spice,
For fear his Fur should not be nice
And fine and smooth and soft and meet
For Broadway or for Regent Street;
And yet somehow I often feel
(Though for the kind Fur-bearing
Seal
har-bor Respect Pro-found)
He runs Fur-bear-ance in the ground.
Oliver Herford, in Century.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-30
MILWAUKEE, TELEGRAPH ENDS.

Milwaukee, Nov. 2.-The Milwaukee
Telegraph, Col. ]. A. Watrous' paper,
has ceased publication, it's owner say
ing it could not meet the competition
of the daily press. War and G. A. r.
matters were features of the sheet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-30

London, Nov. 26-The funeral or
Lady Salisbury, who died Nov. 20, was
held Saturday. Lord Salisbury was
not present at the public service, owing
to illness but attended the services at
the house.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-30

Benjamin Goble of Milan, who is
nearly So years old, claims to be the
oldest living native resident of Illinois
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-30
WORK OF TORPEDOES
NEW EVIDENCE REGARDING DE-
STRUCTION OF MAINE.
GUNcoTToN FROM SPAIN

government Officials Find That Two
Torpedoes Were Anchored Near the
vessel and Were Exploded by Com
ing IN Contact With the Keel-More
Evidence May Be Found.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-30

under General r. E. Lee and a resi-
dent of st. Paul, Mimi, for nearly
thirty years, died at his home there of
heart trouble, aged SO years.
The United States supreme court re-
fused to grant writ of certiorari in
the proceedings again Joseph Wilkins,
a dealer in oleomargarine, and his
clerk, Howard Butler, for removing the
labels OF oieumargarine packages.
The commissioner of internal rev.
enue has decided that an executor or
on life interests or interests for given
time annually. The whole tax on such
interests must be paid at one time
Secretary T. F. Lovejoy of the Car
negie Steel company said that there
was no word of truth in the report
from Waukegan, Ill, that the Carnegie
company proposed erecting a great
iron works and building a new town
there.
Rev. James w. Burney, well known
throughout the west and in Washing
ton as a Presbyterian clergyman and
physician, died, aged Il years. DR..
Webster Prentiss, well-known physi-
clan and naturalist, died Saturday,
aged 56.
The day laborers in the block coal
mines in the eighth district, Terre
Haute, Ind, have struck, demanding
an advance from S1.75 to $500 per day.
The operators say the advance will not
be granted. The strike throws 1000
men out Of work
Last week 5000 sheep belonging to
the Geddes Sheep company, were
driven from Wyoming into Routt
county, Colorado, to the range, 10 miles
northwest Of Craig. Last Saturday
fifty masked men captured the nerders
and then proceeded to kill the entire
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1899-12-07
CHAPTER TX.

THE AWAKENING OF PAUL PREOBEsLAS.
The sentry in the courtyard kept to
his ceaseless trampings. His thoughts
were in the guardroom at the far cor
ner of the buildings, where fire made
light and warmth. He shivered in
the cold moonlight and longed for the
appointed end of his vigil, yet two
good hours away. He envied furious
ly his comrades stretched at length
on the truckle bedsteads among warm
layers Of straw.
Suddenly out of the emptiness of the
barn behind him resounded clatter
and the ring of <on. He stopped,
swung upon his heel and looked across
at the building gapingly. He swore
with great evaporation. 1.-THE devil
take all cats" he muttered, 'and burn
all Kittens But l suppose l must ex-
anime"
He strobe across to the door, fun
bling at his keys. He leaned his rifle
against the wall and inserted the key
in the rusty wards. Slowly he pushed
back the nail studded panels. Holding
his lantern above his head, he entered
From behind the door dark figure
rose silently and with terrific force
Gashed an iron bar upon his head The
unfortunate soldier dropped like a
stone, a grunt as of a felled bullock
issuing from between his half closed
| lips. The lamp clattered to the stones
and was eXtinguished in a moment.
Then silently and carefully the Goor
was closed upon the PROSTATE victim
and his assailant.
For another half hour quiet reigned
in the courtyard Then noiselessly the
barn door opened. and a soldier came
out. He picked up the rifle which still
leaned against the wall and swinging
his keys in his hand, strobe steadily
up the yard and staid and listened at
another door in the end of the same
building. He stopped to the keyhole.
A sound of measured breathing came
from within and an audible snore here
and there broke the silence. He took
his keys and tried IL EN- one by one at
the lock. 1t was not till the fifth or
sixth attempt that one fitted and work
cd easily through the wards He push
ed the door from him and entered.
His lantern showed a bare, mud
foored room. and lying about it in va
rious attitudes of uneasy rest were 80
men, bound. draggled and filthy With
one exception they slept the sleep of
hunger and utter exhaustion. Bound
hand and foot leaning his back
against the wall, was Colonel Probes
las. blinking YEARLY at him in the dim
light. his eyes peering out suspiciously
from under his shaggy eyebrows.
courses be yours felloww he said in
Russian. Cant we get any sleep
without being reused up and stared at
every half hour Of the nightY
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1899-12-07
Notice to Creditors.

Is THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE STATE OF IDA
no. IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF WASHINGTON.
In the matter OF the estate OF MICHAEL SKEF-
FISGToS. deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned ad-
ministrat OF the estate OF MICHAEL SkEFfING-
TON decea sed 10 the creditors or and all per-
sons having claims against said deceased. 70
present them. with the necessary vouchers with
In ten months after the first publication OF this
notice to said administrator at the Office OF
AYERS Varian x Rhea in Weiser, Washington
county Idaho the same being the place for the
transaction OF the business OF said estate
EDWARD SKBFFINGT0E,
Administrator.
JOHN W AYERS,
Attorney for Estate.
Dated Dec 7th 1892 Ia