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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-21

Ex-King Milan of Servia died in
Vienna.
Colombian rebels are again pressing
toward Panama and Colon.
Cries of Long live the republic!"
are beginning to be heard in Spain.
The high court at Madrid ordered
the release of Sonora Ubao's daughter
from a convent.
A London city analyst found 800
pounds of arsenic in a weeks supply
of beer for Liverpool.
Professor Max Won Pettenkofer, the
distinguished German chemist, COM
mitted suicide in Berlin by shooting
himself in a fit Of depression. He was
born December 3, 1918.
The princess OF the Asturias and
Prince Charles of Bourbon were mar
ried in Madrid while the city is under
martial law and the populace is held
in restraint by the army.
In the German reichstag Baron Won
Thielmann, secretary of the imperial
treasury, announced that the prelimi-
naries of the proposed new customs
tariff will very shortly be concluded
He hoped soon to submit the draft to
the bundesrath.
Edward VII, accompanied by the
queen, rode in state from st. James
to Westminster Thursday and opened
parliament, reading his speech from
the throne in the house of lords. The
splendor of the ceremonies are I'M
rivaled in the modern history of Lon
don.
In the French senate a member
asked M. Delcasse, minister of for
eign affairs, to affirm the rights of
France in Newfoundland, in order to
reassure the maritime population. M
Delcasse replied that the French
rights had never been contested and
the government fully appreciated their
value. This statement was greeted
with cheers
A Parliamentary paper, complies
with the house of commons request
of December IA, for the American and
British bids for thirty bridges on the
Uganda railroad. An American COM
pany agreed to erect the bridges in
forty-six weeks. The lowest English
bid for the delivery of the material On
board ship at London was sixty weeks. !
The American company offered to lay
down the material at any British port
for five guineas less than the average
price of the British companies de-
livery in London. The American com
pany agreed to erect the bridges for T
SIS per ton, only ss2 los. more than
the average British price for delivery |
in London.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-21
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURES,

Madison, Feb. 12.-In the senate
Senator III cutter introduced a bill to
establish and maintain county train
ing schools for teachers in the COM
mon schools. By this provision any
county where there is not a normal
school may establish and appropriate
money for the maintenance of one of
these training schools. Senator
Reynolds introduced bill to regulate
the sale and analysis of concentrated
food stuffs. A bill was passed sim
pilfying the manner of changing
names.
The assembly became gravely
agitated over the transportation of
corpses and finally decided to bury
the subject. Il all came about when
Assemblyman Keene's BILL drafted by
the state board of health. and drawing
much more rigIdly the rules relative
to the carriage on cars of the bodies
OF people who have died from con-
tagious diseases came up for third
reading. Judge Orion began a speedy
dissection with the scalpel of his
sarcasm. He cut with a recklessness
which the desperation of the case
seemed to warrant, demanding to
know what business it was of the
state board Of health to seek to pre-
scribe, for instance, that bodies could
be shipped only on first class tickets.
A dead man might want to go second
class, who knows? At any rate It
was the railways business to fix
rates. Then the bill required bodies
to be wrapped in medicated cotton,
like an Egyptian mummy's, and the
embalming demanded was so eIabor-
ate that the average undertaken with
an old pair of horses and a hearse
could not do it. He wanted due care
exercised in the shipment of bodies. |
but the present law was quite enough. |
Mr.. keene thought Mr.. Orion had
evolved a mole hill into a mountain. |
The bill was what the national associ- |
alton OF baggage masters demanded |
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-21

as Order No. II, which was a com
on canvas Of military order
issued at that time which drove many
southern people out of the state. The
artist was also politician and If
not he was once a member of
congress, but for the life of me l
cannot recall his name
He painted an oil from the colored
plate of Queen Victoria That was
probably the first canvas Of the queen
ever turned out so far West. The
painting attracted c<tention and was
for awhile on exhibition.
In the civil war my father was a
confederate soldier. 1t was the Gus
tom for union soldiers to visit the
houses Of southern sympathizers in
search of conuaband articles. A
squad went to my fathers house. The
young officer in command saw the
painting of the queen and took off his
cap to it. He asked my mother If
she was an English subject An eva
siye reply was made. and the young
officer politely begged pardon and said
that his mother was an English wO,
man and that picture of her queen
in any house meant protection to that
house so far as he was concerned.
With that he ordered his squad
away.
cat the close of the war a number
| of confederates preferred TO go to
Mexico, and, as you may know, more
than a thousand, nearly all of whom
| had been officers in the confederacy,
crossed the border and offered their
| services to Macmillan. My father
| was one of the number
| Macmillan did not accept the ser
vice Of the eX-confederates, and each
was left to decide his own Destiny
Some remained in Mexico, and did
well. My father purchased a planta-
ton near the capital. One day severqI
hunters stopped at his place and had
dinner. They were foreigners, and by
their bearing proclaimed high birth.
Zone of them became interested in
the painting of Victoria and bought it.
The family was loath to part with it,
but the purchaser offered a price Ear
beyond it's value. Besides, he said he
wished it for his wife a few days
later the painting was sent for.
Its destination at the time was not
known. But some time after a former
Confederate visited my father and in
formed him that his painting of Queen
Victoria hung in the room of the EN-
press Carlotta, and that her husband,
Macmillan, was the purchaser. He
was one of the party who had visited
my fathers plantation. Of the subse-
quent history of the painting | know
nothing. l would give any reason
able sum to get it."-New York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-21

to keep them from going to heaven.
Afterward he tried to burn himself to
death.
Miss SlagIe, the pretty girl whose
name has been connected with the
Day-Hamilton murder, refused to tes-
tifv because her evidence would tend
to criminate her.
It is reported IN Washington that
it was the desire in certain quarters
to have General Miles retire and pe
succeeded by Generals Brooke, O.5s
and Corbin in turn.
One hundred and fifty thousand men
in the Pittsburg section will go on
strike this spring if the demands OF
various trades unions for wage in
I creases are not granted.
Congress made an official canvass
I of the electoral vote for president and
vice president, declaring Mckinley
and Roosevelt elected by 252 votes,
against 155 for Bryan and Stevenson.
Miss Mary Condit-Smith, who was IN
Pekin during tn siege, was married
AT WASHINGTON to Lieut.. Hooker, OF
the marine corps. At the request OF
the state department she will not pub
fish her story Of the siege.
II. w. Schmidt. superintendent OF
the III IL Southern railroad, died al
Spa, III. His son Harry died just
bf .. and Mrs. Schmidt is not ex
,octed to live. 1t is supposed they
were poisoned by eating corned beef.
Mrs. Reeder. wife Of Commander
William H. Reeder. United States
navy, commanding the schoolship st
Mary's, now at the Brooklyn nayy
yard, died aboard that vessel. She
was a daughter of the late Rear AID
miral Clarke Wells.
a spirited contest for the pre6idenc,
Of the new Morgan steel combine ha
: been begun by Henry C. Frick an
Charles M. Schwab of the Carnegi
, company. The capital Of the consOl
dated company, it was said, would b
$3.50, 100000, with $300000,000 il
bonds.
Alexander Mckenzie was sentences
by the United States court of appeal
at San Francisco to one years in
: prisonment for contempt in connee
ton with the Alaska mining cor
S troversy and the court censure
S Judge A. H. Noyes for alleged con
plicity.
d General John Ramsay, of Jerse
G City, is dead of gastritis. In tn
e civil war he commanded the eight
res iment, New Jersey volunteers
Q He was said to be the younges
t brigaG,er general in the union arm!
t During President Harrison's az
ministration he was collector of tn
?, port of New York
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-21

The Chinese emperor has called for
the return of the exiled reformers.
1t is reported that Russia has as
sumed a protectorate over Mongolia.
Three condemned Chinese officials
have refused to obey the emperors
command to commit suicide.
Count Won Waldersee is displeased
because the French troops declare
they will seize the Chinese province
of Shan-si.
The Chinese emperor is reported to
have offered a choice of methods Of
suicide to those whose punishment
the allies demanded.
The St Petersburg Bourse Gazette,
in advocating an alliance between
France, Russia, America and Japan, 10
offset the Anglo-German alliance,
which a portion of the press persists
in believing real, says the other three
powers should accept Russia's leader
ship and make peace with China,
without delay, regardless of the
Anglo-Germans.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-21
NOT THE ENEMY HE FEARED.
Department Chief Fled From Messen
ger Bearing Check


The chief of one OF the bureaus in a
certain department has been beset re-
Gently by newspaper men DESTROYS OF
interviewing him concerning a subject
upon which he will soon be compelled
to act. So assiduous were they that
the poor chief, made desperate by the
pursuit of him, resorted to every pos
sible subterfuge to avoid them. For
weeks he arose with the sun and
slipped out of the back door, the front
door even at that early hour being in
state Of siege. At the department his
his prosecutors, whom he managed to
escape in the Afternoon by driving far
into the country.
But one pursuer, more PERSISTENT
than the rest, was not to be outd6pe.
and followed on horseback. Hearing
horse galloping behind his victoria
the other day the hunted chief looked
back and saw man following him at
a furious pace, waving paper above
his head and shrieking to him to stop.
Drive on" he ordered; don't let
that man overtake us; drive for your
life
wait, wait a moment" screamed
the man on horseback. 1--WE got some
thing for you"
But the victoria bowled On at all pos
sible speed, the rider following fast
behind. The chase was long and
hft
equestrian.
How do you do, Mr.. X?" he asked
when he came up to the carriage.
What are you running away from me
for?''
Because l am tired of you Internal
newspaper people," he replied, ''and |
won't give you a bit of information
until | render my decision, so that's
all you've got for your race"
Newspaper people?" queried the
rider. I'm not news
paper man. Pm clerk to the law firm
of B. & B."
'And what do you want of me?"
asked the chief with sickly smile.
You grub staked a man to go to the
hlond1ke two or three years ago,
didn't your"
Yes" responded the chief, what
about it,"
We'll, he struck pay dirt and sent
rs check for you covering the stake,
with interest, and including a hand
some bonus, with the request that it
should be delivered in person. I've
'een about two weeks trying to get at
you and almost lost my position be-
cause did not succeed. Today Mr..
8. told me that if l could not give you
hat check he guessed 1 was too slow
or them and l need not come back.
80 mere am and here's the check.
lease give me receipt"
Since this incident the chief has
.bandoned his habit of early rising
or fear he ma miss some other
Lebtor DESTROYS of paying up.-New
FORK Tribune
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-21
NEWS OF TIE WORLD.
spanish-American Islands.

General Macarthur hopes for early
suspension Of hostilities in Philip
pines.
The Cuban constitution has been
finished except one article.
Army officers IN the Philippines are
at odds with the Taft commission.
The Philippine commissioners be
gan d tour OF Luzon to organize pro
yincial governments.
The supreme court may announce
ts decision in the Porto Rico and
Philippine cases Feb. Is.
The government is preparing evil
dence at Havana against c. f. W.
Nicely, the alleged embezzler.
Senior Buencamino presided at a
meeting in Manila. at which it was
decll9L to organize an evangelical
church
The calling OF a special session OF
congress depends on what action the
Cubans ,ake regarding their relation,
with the United States. Several s.
ators are convinced that an extra
session Is inevitable.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-21
A PORTRAIT OF VICTORIA.
The Picture Sold by Confederate
Exile to Macmillan in Mexico.

The Picture Sold by Confederate
Exile to Macmillan in Mexico.
"The first pictures 1 can remember
were of Queen Victoria and Henry
Clay" said man who is now so and
is taking his ease in New York "The
picture Of the Queen was a cOlored
plate, a copy of the painting by
Thomas Sully. How it ever got where
| saw it | don't know.
1T hung in the home of my father.
who was living on the border. There
wasn't white settlement 10 miles
west of his place. Indians used to
come to his house to swap their work
for anything they could get, and one
of my recollections is their fondness
for the queens picture. One of them
tried to steal it.
"The picture had quite a history
later on. My father moved away from
the border and went to ST. Louis.
Soon after a young artist came to our
house to live. He became a celebrity.
He painted the Country Election, and |
during the civil war he painted the |
picture known in Missouri
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-21

After twenty-five years of faithful
and effective service as a member of
the board of education of Kansas Civ
seventeen years of that time as presi
dent of the board, R. L. Yeager has re-
signed. When he became a member
of the board in 1879 the city en-
ployed f1fty-one teachers, while now
there are 600 Bonds of the school
board at that time drew 10 per cent.
interest and were selling at 2 dis
count, while at the present time the
BOARD can borrow all the money it
needs at 31a per cent and sell IFS
bonds at a premium.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-21
FEDERALLA MAKERS.

Washington, Feb. 12-During the en-
tire session of the senate the agricultu-
raj appropriation bill was under consid-
Grafton. The house passed the army
appropriation bill and entered upon
the consideration of the sundry civil
bill, the last but one of the big money
bills. The debate on the army bill
was confined largely to a discussion of
the question OF passing bills to remove
the charge of desertion against SOL
dlers. 1t was made notable by a state
ment of Mr.. Mcclellan IN. " COM
pairing the cost of a soldier in Euro
pean armies with the cost in the United
States. Previous to the consideration
OF the appropriation bills a letter re-
Hecting upon Perry S. Heath which
Mr.. Sulzer introduced into the pro-
ceedlngs Monday was expunged from
the record.
Washington, Feb. 13.-During the
greater part of the day the senate
was engaged in executive session and
counting the electoral vote ofpresident
and vice president. A consideration
of the agricultural appropriation bill
was resumed, but little progress was
made. The house counted the cleo
toral vote. Then general debate upon
the civil sundry bill was completed
but little actual progress in the bill
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-21
Domestic.

Alexander Longfeld, brother Of
the poet, died at Portland, Me-, aged
Sc
Frank Hamilton testified in his own
defense at Minneapolis, swearing he
did not kill Leonard Day.
Orders are issued for the organiza-
ton of ten additional regiments under
the army reorganization law.
Captain ]. II. Mccoy, a forty
miner" and first mayor of Japlin, Mo,
died at Atlanta. from apoplexy.
Over 220 candidates will be eX-
amined March l for admission to the
West Point military academy.
It is said the house conferees are
determined the senate shall yield on
the war revenue reduction bill.
George w. Reeder, prominent
business man of Neville, Pa. died of
typhoid pneumonia, As years of age.
Twenty-Five alleged ''repeaters"
We're arrested in ST. Louis, where, it is
asserted they intended to do business.
Hutchinson Sherman, one of the
most prominent characters in Long
Branch, died from pneumonia, aged
65.
A Chicago man testified at Min
aeapolis that Frank Hamilton was
not in the scuffle in which Day was
killed.
?. A. Rockefeller, second son of
William Rockefeller, will marry Miss
isabel S. StiIlman of New York, on
April %.
A Cincinnati judge issued a per-
manent injunction against the JEFF
ffies-Ruhlin fight, and the match was
called off.
Representative Albert D. Shaw of
WatertoWn, n. Y. and former COM
mander-inchief of the G. A. r.. was
found dead of apoplexy in a Washing
4on hotel
In duel at Rainy Lake City Frank
Sullivan, a desperate, was killed and
Randolph perhaps fatally
At a mass-meeting held in Topeka.
Kan, 5000 men issued an uItimatum !
declaring the "joints" must close or |
be smashed.
Lille Devine. alias Lille Vail, was |
arrested by Chicago detectives as
the mysterious woman in the Cudahy |
case. |
The senate military affairs COM
mittee decided to report favorably |
the nominations of Brigadier Generals |
Wood, Grant and Bell
Richard P. Henderson. prominent
and wealthy grain dealer, died sud-
denly at his home in Carlisle. Pa, of
paralysis, aged Sc years.
Mrs. F. H. Osgood, wife of the
president of Seattle and Renton rail
road, was robbed of $4,000 worth of
in a sleeping car.
The Oregon Legislature has declared
in favor of the repeal of the clause of
the State constitution forbidding
negroes to live in the state.
The retirement of Generals Wilson
and Lee will take effect Immediately |
after the confirmation of their nomi-
nations as brigadier-generals.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, the Kansas w.
G. T. U. crusader. met a cool recep-
ton in Chicago and her lecture was
delivered to a small audience.
The body of ]. c. Loomilter. blind
man who made a fortune in Okla
homa, was found near Hazleton. Ind.
Murder and robbery are suspected.
According to report Ambassador
Choate is disinclined to accept the
office of attorney general. preferring
to remain at the court of ST. James.
II. Harris. for the past quarter of
century proprietor of numerous low
priced circuses. and widely known
among showmen. is dead at Chicago
Old DOC" Petrie, a Maryland noun
5aineer, killed his wife and their cook
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-21
Africa.

cen. Dewet invades Cape Colony
and fears Of an uprising are renewed.
Sir Edward Clarke, formerly solicit
tor-general Of Great Britain, advises
Offering honorable terms to the beers.
The British have occupied Ermelo,
In the Transyaal, and General Dewet
has won a success southeast of Bloem-
fOntein.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-21

Madison, Feb. 1S.-Of the 43 bills
introduced in the senate the educa-
tional bills of Senator Stout were per-
haps the most important He pre-
scented one authorizing any county
superintendent to issue third grade
certificate to any graduate Of a coun-
try training school and also making
the same provisions regarding per
sons VINO have completed the one
year course for teachers of the COM
mon school in any normal school.
Another Of his bills authorizes cities
whose schools are not under the SUI
pervision of county superintendent
to elect a city superintendent who
shall not be a member of the board of
education and who shall have all the
POWER usually bestowed upon county
superintendents He had also an
other providing for q commission of
members constituting Wisconsin
state board of managers for the ST.
Louis worlds fair. The COM
missioners are to be appointed by the
governor The bill carries an ap-
preparation of S25, 600. Other bills in
troduced were: By Sentaor Gaveney
Ton requesD charging all firms doing
a mail order business in the state d
license fee of Il per cent. on all bust
ness done; by Senator Roehr CON
polling solicitors of fire and casualty
insurance to pay license; by Sena-
tor Mills, providing two clerks for the
railroad commissioners office. one at
a salary of $1,000 year and another
at $1,000; also providing that bills
may be introduced between sessions
of the legislature by filing the same
with the secretary of state and pro-
vlding that the legislature shall here
after adjourn on the first Thursday
Of February until after the first
Thursday in March; by Senator Willy
fixing the rate of interest or tax
certificates at II per cent; by Sena-
tor McGillivray, to authorize the or
gan1zation of districts for pleasure
drives in non-municipal territory, and
wage Of 81 and expenses
for each day the commissioners
work; also by Senator ONeil, provid- !
ing for the sale of timber on public |
land which has been damaged by fire |
Upon the motion of Senator kreutzer
he bill increasing the salaries of SUI
preme court justices to $1,000 was re- /
tered to the committee on claims.
That the season for the introduc- |
lion of bills in the legislature is
rapidly drawing to a close was eyi- |
1enced last night by the flood Of |
measures that came into both houses,
Il III the assembly and As in the SEN
lte- Among the important bills that
came in was one by Mr. Cady declar-
ng marriages between white persons
md negroes or mulattoes illegal; one
~ Mr.. Barker providing for the reg
stration Of voters by streets and
numbers instead Of alphabetically,
md one by Mr.. Stevens making
the right OF students to
'ote where they attend school
)ther bills of interest were: By Mr..
-homas, creating the Office of county
supervisor of assessment to supervise
nd investigate the work of all super
-isors; by Mr. Whitson, making in
anity for five years ground for
ivorce; by Mr.. Owen, to label prison
GODS; by Mr. Overlook, prohibiting
lot gambling machines; by Mr. An
reWs, for the licensing of bill posters
y common councils; by Mr.. Galway,
double-headed trains. {