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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-06-15
DOMESTIC.

California had an earthquake.
Agricultural implement prices are
to rise.
Both factions in Samoa are sur
rendering their weapons.
The Maccabees held their biennial
convention in Duluth.
Bishop and Mrs. John F. Hurst have
agreed upon separation.
Nebraska officers exchanged shots
with fugitive train robbers.
Admiral Kautz leaves Samoa.
Chicago July wheat, 76%c.
Union Pacific train robbers fatally
wounded a sheri : in battle.
Mrs. Thomas F. Gilroy, wife Of the
former New York mayor, is dead.
Due D'Arcos, the Spanish minister,
and his wife called upon Mrs. McKin-
ley.
A large quantity of bogus Arkan-
sas state bonds were floated in the
east.
Ellsworth Benham, the well known
Duluth attorney, is mysteriously miss
ing.
The tax-rate for 1899 in New York
will be $3.50, according to an experts
statement.
Harvard and Yale accepted the Ok
Cambridge challenge for an ath-
letic contest.
A test of dairy COWS at Chicago
= stock-yards showed tuberculosis IN
virulent form.
Hopkins of Illinois withdrew from
the race for the speakership in favor
of Henderson.
Testimony before the pure food com
mission in Chicago revealed many
authorizations of foods.
Debts aggregating S57000,000 are
said TO have been wiped out under the
federal bankruptcy law.
d. B. Henderson's election for
speaker on the first ballot seems Ger
tain. He is an Iowan.
Gov. Savers Of Texas issued a call
for his antitrust convention, to be
held at st. Louis Sept. 20.
Mrs. Sam T. Jack has decided not to
marry her dead husbands brother,
as requested in the will.
Our government tries to effect a
modus vivendi with Great Britain re-
garding the Alaska boundary.
A Union Pacific train was robbed.
The Ohio republicans nominated
George X. Nash for governor
AT the international gathering of
Christian Scientists in Boston $500
new members were admitted.
Negotiations on the three new re-
ciprocity treaties for the British West
Indies are proceeding rapidly.
Miss Susan Leroy Dresser, sister,
in-law of George Vanderbilt, is to
marry Vicomte Roman d'Osmoy.
The -four trust is reported about to
acquire three more mills-one in
Minneapolis and two in Milwaukee,
Major-General Merritt's nephew
failed to pass the physical examination
at West Point because of his eyes.
Bills taxin,, express companies per
cent. and telegraph and telephone
companies per cent. on their gross
earnings, and joint resolution permit
ting the taxing of corporate property
on its cash value, passed the Michigan
house.
A steamer was burned at Bayfield,,
Wis, and one man was drowned. The
passengers and crew had a narrow es-
cape.
Baron and Baroness de Barra were
found guilty by Chicago jury of US
ing the mails for fraudulent pur-
poses.
The National Civil-Service Reform
league issued a statement denouncing
the presidents recent civil-service
order.
Mrs. Johanna Schilling, after a quar-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-06-15

J. ". Alfred Cluett of Troy, N. Y,
died in New York City of heart
disease.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-06-15

in the country.
At Philadelphia, Judge Mcpherson
filed an opinion in the United States
circuit court adverse to Mrs. Emily V.
Hopkins, in her suit against the North
western Life Insurance company, of
Chicago, brought to recover $4,000
insurance on the life of her husband,
John S. Hopkins, the former cashier of
the Peoples bank, who committed
suicide over year ago.
At Maysville, KY, thirty-eight men
were armed with Winchester rifles and
sent to the toll gates on the three
turnpikes in this county. The men
were sworn in and instructed to pro-
tect the gates at all hazards. The
ing with Gov. Bradley to send the
militia into this county if men cannot
be found to protect the gates.
Articles of Incorporation of the
American Chicle Co were filed with
the secretary of state at Trenton, n
j., with an authorized capital of So
900, 900. One-third of the stock with
6 per cent. cumulative dividend The
incorporators are Samuel B. Lawrence,
John B. Summerfield, Henry c.. Ever
dell, Armitage Matthews of New York
and j. c. Young of Jersey City.
A Missouri delegation appointed by
the state republican committee called
on the president and Director Mer-
RAM Of the census bureau and pro-
tested against the method of appor-
tioning the census supervisors for
Missouri equally among democrats
and republicans. 1t is understood
that there will be no change in the
plan of division originally made.
Harry Thurman, a farmer living
near London Mills, H., killed Alex
Hammond, farmer, whose land ad-
joins, with a blow of a spade. Both
men were digging trenches to let the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-23
Personal.

-Koloman Sze.l, the new Hungarian pre-
mier is So, a man of urbane manners and
benevolent disposition, but a fervent poll
tician He belongs to the Hungarian
aristocracy and is one of the Oldest mem
bers of the Hungarian Chamber of Depu-
ties.
1t is the general belief among lawyers
and friends that Mr.. ChOate's departure
for England marks his permanent retire
ment from his profession. 1t is believed
that he viii not resume the practice of
law after his term of service as ambassa-
dor to England shall have expired.
Madeline Bouton, the actress, is not
only married 10 Baron Guido Nimptsch.
but has been for nearly two years, though
the fact is only now made public. When
their engagement was announced three
years ago the Baron denied it with heat.
The Baroness has retired from the stage
permanently.
-Amesbury, Mass, at its recent meet
ing chose for selectman Jason Spofford,
an avowed Social Democrat and the only
man of that political faith to hold such a
position in the United States. He received
about one-third of the total vote cast.
Mr.. Spofford is employed in carriage
building establishment.
Sixty Leftist members of the Storting,
the Legislative Assembly of Norway, have
declined an invitation TO dine with the
Swedish Crown Prince Gustaf, who is act
ing as regent of Sweden and Norway dur
ing the absence of King Oscar II, and who
a few nights ago was hooted and pelted
with snoWballs. The Norwegian papers
tp-ati IL arin in
Il as in any event a purely personal Incl
dent, but it is believed to be a part of
Norways expression of a desire for the
dissolution of her union with Sweden.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-23
A Sun-DiaI story.

The new Town clock, now running on full
time in the be.fry of the renovated court
house. is the first public timekeeper Easton
has had since the Spencer sun-dial, says
the Easton (Md.) correspondence of the
Baltimore Sun, which was for
many years on the south wal
of the old brick hotel, and
removed by the improvements made in the
building in 1870. This sun-dial was con-
sIructed by Prof. Matthew Spencer, princi'
pal of the old Easton Academy. Mr.
Spencer was a man of remarkable versa
tility and Brilliant originality. Ills sun
dial attracted far more attention in his day
than half a dozen town clocks would now
In connection with this sun-dial a true
story is told by a man who was one OF
Prof. Speneer's pupils at me time The
story is as follows;
I'm 1854, a few years after the erection
of the sun-dial, Illuminating gas was in
trOduced into Easton. Guests at the brick
hotel We're summoned to the o'clock am
ner by metallic gong beaten with Steel
bar and when wei laid on its resonance
could be heard as far afield as the strokes
of the present town clock are heard
Among the permanent residents at the ho-
tel was the late DR.. Eleazer Berries, who
was somewhat of a good-natured wag.
way of Dover Bridge, a young man from
rural Caroline county, carrying a jug. He
told people in the street that he was to
be married that night, and hearing there
was lightin' gas in Easton he had come
over 10 get jugful to light up the meet
in house with. He was referred to DR..
Berries at the hotel, who politely told him;
Yes, indeed, you can get joyful, or sew
eral jugfuls if you want them. For we'd
dings We make no charge for gas. But
the jug gas does not come on until l
o'clock. Put your jug down with the
stopper out under that tmepiece pointing
to the Spencer sun-dial-'and when it
strikes l the gas will fill the jug imme-
diately.'
"Rusticus did as directed, and took a
seat on the top rail of the court house
fence opposite to walt for the sun-dial to
strike l o'clock. And his patience was
rewarded At 1 O'Clock the head waiter
came to the front door and thrashed the
gong with more than his usual vehemence.
There, she's struck at lastr eXclaim-
ed the patient watcher who jumped from
the fence, ran to his jug, jammed a corn
cob stopper into its neck and made a bee
line for Dover Bridge. Many people as
sembled at the meeting house to see the
wedding and the new-fangled light with
which the proud bridegroom was to treat
the occasion. When he found he could
not light it, he was shrewd enough to stop
the jeering of the crowd by the exclama-
ton, "B goshl l forgot to fetch the right
kind of matchesr There are yet quite
a number of persons in Easton who re-
member this comical occurrence"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-23
LILLE INsURGENT ARMY.

What has become of the great insurgent
army of Cuba? If we are not mistaken
Gen. Lee reported that it was $1,000 strong
just before he left Havana, prior to the
declaration of war with SPAIN OF course
his information came from insurgent
sources. Gen. Gomez stated that 1t con-
sisted of about AZ 900 men when the propo-
sition was made to him that it be dis
banded on the payment to it of 50 ,0O0 900.
Our dispatches yesterday contained the in
formation that only 1929 privates and
non-commissoned officers can be ac-
counted for. IT will turn out probably
that even that number will not be able
to turn in guns as required by the agree
ment under which the money is 90 be paid
TO them
II looks very much as if Gen. Gomez
had no reliable information as to the num-
Der of men in the army which he com
manded. Judging from the kind of war
fare which the insurgents conducted
against the Spanlards, there never was
time when their forces numbered 1900
effective fighting men. 1t is a question
whether there was ever half that num-
Der. There were plenty of ofiicers-about
one officer to every man in the ranks.
our government is pursuing the right
course in requiring the soldiers to give up
their arms before the money they are to
get from the United States is paid to
them. We believe that Maj. Gordon. an
interview with whom appeared in the
Morning News yesterday, is right in the
opinion that If our troops were withdrawn
from Cuba there would be civil war there
in less than two months Take the guns
away from the mustered-out soldiers and
there will be less danger of civil war and
of the country being Overrun with brig
ands and bandits. Without guns the mus
tered-out soldiers will be more likely to
go to work and earn a living for them
selves and families,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-23
BRIGHT BITS.

If our children are delicate, we have
their health 10 worry about; if not, then
their table manners.-Puck.
Benevolent Old Gentleman: My good
man. are you looking for work?
Tramp: Not if I can find anything else
TO do.-Tit-Bits.
what are you doing, Tommy"
"standin' before the iookin' glass;" said
Tommy; 81 wanted 20 see how I would
look if 1 was twins "-Tit-Bits.
Little Mike Gin the midst of his read
ing): Feyther, how d'yez pronounce
I-l-o-i-l-o?
McLubberty: Pronounce ut? Begarra! !
did yez niver hear turnkey gobble?--
Puck.
She: Go way, dirty tramp! What do
you want here?
The Tramp: fought you might be one
o them new ladies. mum, what's inter-
ested in studin types.-Phiiadelphi North
American.
How does it happen that the Croesus
girl has left her husband the Count?
Everybody said her father bought him for
her"
Evidently it was a mistake. He only
had him sent up to the house on appro-
val. Chicago Evening Post.
Going Slow With Jim.-"And you have
made Jim jackson a deacon in your
church?"
Yes, sab. Dat is, he's brevet deacon,
sah."
"And what's a brevet deacon, George?"
Hes a deacon dat don't handle no
money, ,sah."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
what" exclaimed the surprised trav-
eler in florida, you want me to pay 50
for riding half a mile in your old car
riage?"
Certainly" replied the native with ewes
wide OPEN yer don't think I'm like YOU
other jays-down here for my health do
Yer?'-Yonkers Statesman.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-23
HOPE FOR ORANGE chowERs.

A couple Of weeks ago WI published an
interesting article, based IN Information
obtained from the agricuf ural depart
ment. giving an account Of a new. hardy
orange called The JAPANESE trlfohate with
which the department had been expert
menting. A dispatch fre,m New Orleans
contains an account OF experiments with
this orange in Louisiana II is said that
the orange Is fully as hne as the best
Florida orange, and will sltand very severe
cold. In the freeze lait winter pretty
nearly all of the orange Fees in Louisiana
were killed-that is, thp sweet orange
trees and those known as the sour-sweet
orange trees. The latter are the result
of grating the sweet orange on The stock
of the sour orange, the sour orange tree
being much harder than the sweet orange.
A year or so ago quite a number Of
orange growers set out, as an experiment,
a great many of the Japan trifolate trees.
The cold of last winter, although the Sc
verest ever known in Louisiana, did not
hurt them in the least The Louisiana
orange growers are confident, therefore,
that en- orange tree has been found that
will btand any degree of cold that Louis
iapfa is likely to have. Would not Il be
wen for the orange growers of Florida to
Z give some attention to this new kind of
orange? If Florida is 20 remain an orange
growing state a harder orange will have
to be found than those which are now
grown there
We are not prepared 10 say in what re-
spect this new orange differs from the
japanese orange trees which were plant
ed in this section number of years ago,
and we do not know that the new orange
is as good as the oranges which are now
grown in Florida. Our only information
about it is contained in the article We
published, and the New orleans dispatch
to which We now call attention. But it
seems to us that there is enough known
about it 10 justify the orange growers of
Florida TO make inquiries about it, If they
have not already done So II may be that
some of them are acquainted with 1t. and
have even experimental with it, 1t would
not be surprising if such were the case,
because the orange growers of Florida
are. as a rule, well acquainted with ev-
erythiney connected with the orange indus
Try. If there are any of the Florida
growers who have experimental with this
orange they ought to publish the results
of their experiments for the benefit Of 9TH
err growers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-23
Hotel Life in Washington.

AT breakfast last Friday, says the wash
ington Post, Washington young woman
found little note at her plate saying that
her aunt had arrived from the East the
night before, and was at a well-known
hotel About 9 o'clock she went to the
hotel indicated and asked the clerk wheth-
er the newcomer had been down to break
fast vet. The clerk informed her that he
did not believe she had been down, and
offered to send up a card.
"Oh. never mind doing that" she replied.
"You just tell me the number of her room
and I win go up"
mo. -" promptly replied the clerk;
and the young woman took The elevator.
Upon arriving at the"door of No. -,
instead of rapping, she softly put her ear
to the door and listened, in order that she
might not disturb her aunt if she were
asleep. She heard no noise, and so took
out one of her cards and after writing,
VIII come again at 10, Jane" she tied a
little bunch of flowers 10 it and left it on
the knob, where it would fall into the door
way when the door was opened.
At 10 o'clock she came again. The clerk
had not seen her aunt, and did not believe
that she had left her room. So, after
looking about the parlors in vain, she
went to the door~of No. - and softly
tapped.
"Who is it?" came a gruff voice, and at
the same time a man opened the door and
stepped out into the hall.
"Oh, you are the party who was COM
ing again at 10 are you?" continued the
man smilingly. 'Well, what can do for
your
Nothing. thank YOU" she replied, 'un-
less YOU come down stairs and help me
thrash that hotel clerk"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-23
NOT nENOCRATse

Hon. Perry Belmont and Mr. Croker will
likely raise their eyebrows in surprise
when they read some of the interviews
with Col Bryan at Chattanooga. Among
other things, Col. Bryan is quoted as say
ing: q do not consider Mr. Belmont and
the gentlemen who are engineering the
jefferson day banquet Democrats. 1t GER
tainly requires a great deal of effrontery
and gall for Mr.. Belmont and those gentle
men who have always fought us, and
who are stin our enemies, to celebrate the
birthday of Thomas Jefferson"
The Hon Perry Belmont and Mr.. Croker
have been read out of the party, as far
as Col Bryan can read them out. viii
Mr.. Belmont and Mr.. Croker and those
who win meet at the Democratic Club
dinner on the anniversary OF the birth
day of Thomas jefferson attempt to show
that Col. Bryan is wrong, and that they
are just as good Democrats as he is?
1t may be that they will undertake to
prove that Col. Bryan is not a Demo-
crat 1t is impossible to predict with any
degree of certainty what they will do. 1t
is certain, however, that Col Bryan has
created a stir in their camp, which will
not be queted for a good long time. They
don't like the idea of being read out of
the party. The country win ask; If Mr..
Belmont and Mr. Croker are not Demo-
Gratis, is Tammany a Democratic organiza-
ton? That question will have 20 be set
tied before Tammany can take part in
the convention that will be called to elect
delegates from New York to the Demo-
cratic national convention. Perhaps Col.
Bryan has arranged with the dollar din
ner organization to choose a delegation
from New York to the national convention.
There are lively times ahead among the
Democrats of New York
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-23
A Story OF Sam Houston.

Prof Hiram Corson, of Cornell Univer-
sty. who used to be a reporter for the
United States Senate, tells this story
about Sam Houston: I'VE reporters took
turn and turn about each for an hour.
One day l was sitting idly in the report
ers' gallery, waiting my turn and look
ing on. Presently my attention was
drawn by Senator Houston. Huge of
frame, he was particularly huge of feet,
and those eXtremities were rendered the
more conspicuous in those days of boots
by being encased in laced shoes. On this
occasion there seemed to be an amount
of pain in those feet proportionate 10 their
size. The senator kept one upon his knee
rubbing it, with an anguished express
ion, and periodically exchanging for the
other foot. After awhile he unlaced his
shoes and drew them off. Then the nurs-
ing of his aching toes continued for a
time as before. But no relief came and
at last. 10 my utter amazement and amuse-
ment. he slowly Invested himself of a
long blue woolen stocking, and, taking
the huge jackknife with which he was
wont to pass the time whiting, he pro-
ceeded deliberately to pare his corns in
the Senate of the United states.'
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-23
NEW YoRK's AMBITION.

New York would ike to have the entire
commerce Of the country. The fact that
She Is losing a great deal of her export
business alarms her She is afraid that she
may lose so much of this trade that her
prosperity will be seriously affected. There
is some cause for her alarm. If the move
ment of exports through other ports be-
comes steady throughout the year New
York may lose a part of her import trade.
At present the movement of exports
through most Of the Southern ports is only
for about six months of the year-the ar
ticle exported being cotton. Therefore reg
ular lines of steamers cannot be maintain
ed If the bulk of the products of the West
passed through them TO foreign markets,
cargoes for European ports could be OBJ
talned at South Atlantic ports all the year
around. In that event 1t would not be long
before capital would be invested in the
business of importing through Southern
ports, Notwithstanding the fact that about
all Of the great importing houses are 10
Gated in New York.
New York of course sees that If she re-
tains the greater part of the foreign com
merce of the country she will have 10
work for it,. The deepening of her harbor
is a part of her plan to hold on to her com
merce. The harbor Improvement plans
which have been adopted call for a cham
mel to the sea of depth of 40 feet. With
a channel of that depth she expects to
accommodate ships which cannot enter
any other harbor of the country. And with
such enormous ships she will, it is expect
ed, be able to carry freights at lower rates
than they can be carried from any other
port
Within the last few years Baltimore.
Norfolk and New Orleans have obtained
which used to go to the foreign markets
by way Of New York, and it will not be
loAg, in all probability, before Savannah
will be a shipping point for Western pro-
ducts. 1t is not surprising when all of the
facts are considered that New York is
getting uneasy respecting the loss of her
commerce. She has got to offer better in
ducements or else the products of the
West, as well as those of the South will
be shipped to their final destinations
through Southern ports. At the dinner
which is to be given to Senator Frye by
leading New York merchants at an early
day, these matters viii no doubt be fully
discussed. The dinner is given to the SEN
ator as an acknowledgement that it was
mainly through his efforts that the $500
900 for 4O-foot channel in New York har-
Dor was obtained
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-23
An AmbassadoriaI IdyII.

It was past midnight in the heart Of
London, says the New York Sun.
London. the mighty city; London, the
mysterious mistress of the night; London,
the millioned minioned metropolis; Lon
don, the merciless.
The restless rush and roar of the day
had hidden in the shadows of the night
TO wait the coming of another sun, and
by a pillar in a great square stood man,
alone.
Alone in London.
Perhaps somewhere some one awaited his
coming; perhaps somewhere light shOne
in the window for him. perhaps some-
where loving hands were stretched out to
welcome him when he came; perhaps
somewhere shelter and comfort and hap
by fireside were his.
But not here; not here. Here there were
but footsoreness and the WEAKNESS of
flesh that passeth healing.
All dav he had wandered; all day he
had sought the home that should be his;
all day and into the night he had sought
and found not.
Homeless and hopeless he leaned upon
the cold stone and turned his back upon
the stars.
Thus a policeman found him.
What are you doing here?" inquired
the official, not unkindiy, as he touched
him on the shoulder
The wanderer aroused himself and look
ed YEARLY at the intruder.
Il say" said the policeman. don't you
know it's time for you to go homer"
That word touched a responsive chord
In the lone ones heart.
Homer" he repeated, bitterly. but sor-
rowfully; "home? Great Scot, man. I've
got no home! I'm the American ambassa-
DOR