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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-18
Foreign.

An anti-British demonstration took
place in Berlin.
King Christian Of Denmark OBJ
served his eighty-third birthday.
a British garrison surrenders to a
superior force Of beers after a hard
fight.
lie Steele, the leading Dreyfustte
organ in Paris, was forced to suspend
for lack Of readers.
c. NJ Agnew returned to London
with the stolen Gainsborough portrait,
recovered in Chicago.
Botha reopened negotiations for
peace after learning from a personal
visit that Dewet is mentally irrespon-
sible.
Emperor William, in a speech at
Potsdam, is quoted as predicting that
troublous times are coming to Ger
many.
The car, in an Imperial receipt,
revision Of the Russian educational
system.
Ex-Governor Bradley OF Kentucky
revealed new feature of the Goeoel
assassination. His story involves w.
S. Taylor.
French, Italian. and Spanish war.
ships welcomed President Loubet tC
Toulon The Russian fleet welcomed
him at Villefranche.
The Hawaiian house of represen
tatives refused to receive a com
munication from Governor Dole be
cause not properly signed.
Adyices from Benghazi state that
the sultan of Wadai, finding himself
helpless against the rebellion, has
asked the assistance of the French
which has been promised.
Steamship Kaiser Wilhelm del
! Crosse arrived at Cherbourg with
three gold bars missing which are
valued at 100000. They were stolen
on the passage over.
The Sun state from the pope has ap
pointed Mgr. Reginald Pho de Ray
mond to bring the red beretta an6
! zuchetta for the elevation Of
Martinelli to the cardinalate.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-18
NEWS OF TIE WORLD.
[nsuiar Affairs.

Civil government in the Philippines
will be established about July 1.
Insurgent officers and $4,000 of the
Filipino war fund were captured by
American troops.
1t is believed in Manila that some
important fact concerning Aguinaldo
is being concealed.
Five hundred FiipinOs are to be en-
listed to man small gunbCats in
their native archipelago.
The cabinet decided that an i'm
mediate decrease in the army in the
Philippines is impTacticable.
The Cuban constitutional convention
revoked its resolution against sending
a commission to Washington.
The Cuban constitutional conven-
ton, by a vote of "a to 2, rejected a
motion to accept the Plat amendment.
The Japanese foreign Office is salts
fed with the cars pledges concern
ing Manchuria. The recent alarm is
ended.
Lieutenant James Mckinley, the
president nephew, returned from
Philippines with General Young, 10
whose staff he is attached.
Since the United States acquired
Porto Rico 5000 Of the islanders have
emigrated, two-thirds of them going
to Hawaiian sugar plantations.
Japan's reserve cruisers have been
commissioned for war and shipping
companies have been ordered to hold
their vessels ready for transport ser
vice.
Aguinaldo is to be removed to res
idence in the fashionable quarter 81
Manila His kind treatment is caus
ing anger among the Filipinos of the
city.
Lieut. J. D. Taylor, jr., by kindnes!
and the present of a cigar apiece
secured frJm seven Filipinos the IN
formation which led to the capture O.
Aguinaldo.
General Tung Flu Slang, with ar
army Of 10000 men, started a reVolu
ton in northern China. The province
of Shensi, where the court is now 10
Gated, is threatened by revolution.
An important feature in connection
with the establishment Of civil govern
ment in the Philippines will be the Sc
lection of an officer who will rank il
authority between the president ant
Governor Taft.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-18

in Ireland and while still boy came
to this country He was ordained at
81. Johns seminary ffty-three years
ago, and Tor forty-fve years mad
charge of ST. Mary's church, Port
Chester. a few years ago he began
to speculate in Wall street, and it
seemed that in every deal he came out
ahead. Father Bowling was a lover
Of fast horses and always drove 4
speedy one.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-18
MUZZLED DUCKS,
Not Because They Might Bite, But &c
Silence Their Quackinu.

Silence Their Quacking.
A baggage man on the Santa Fe
who runs into Kansas City from out
in the western part of Kansas has lost
lots OF sleep. 1t is doubtful if he can
ever catch up with it. He leaves
Hutchinson at night and reaches Kan
sas City in the morning Nearly every
night he brings in his car two or three
coops of live domestic ducks. During
the night, when he has no baggage to
deliver at small stations, it has been
his habit and privilege to lie down on
an improvised couch and doze. With
the advent of the ducks the doing
stopped. The almost constant quack-
ing Of the ducks, who could not under
stand their strange environment,
would not permit of sleep.
For many nights as he lay awake he
planned relief. He thought of strangl-
ing the ducks or chloroforming them.
But neither eXpedient seemed good.
One night a bright idea came to him.
After he had put it into execution the
ducks We're silent
hO ilCAI AlSoAI uC Aclu t"O COOpS vi
unusually vociferous ducks. AS soon
as it came time for sleep he wrenched
a Stat from one OF the coops, reached
in and pulled out a duck. From his
pocket he took small rubber band,
which he slipped over the ducks bill
just back Of the nostrils. The duck
tried to quack, but the rubber. band,
while 1t stretched little, would not
permit the duck to open its bill far
to use its tongue. Only a
came from it. One by one
the ducks were muzzled, and the bag
gage man rested comfortably
The commission men were surprised
next morning when they received lot
Of ducks with rubber bands around
their bills, and when the bands were
removed the shouts Of protest from
the ducks were observation-disclosures
City Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-18
VANISHING CAYUSE.
And Now the Jack Rabbit is Going
Too.


Too.
Twenty years ago, or even ten or
| five years since, the mustang and the
| jack rabbit were two of the common
est pests in the west. On every plain
and mesa, in each spot where a par
ticle of green feed found a livelihood,
beneath the shelter of dusty sage
brush or thorned mesquite, the little
hardy, shaggy cayuse and the long
cared, alert and rapid jack rabbit
browsed in peace and quietude A
rider across the arid wilds of the great
southwest could count, if he desired,
hundreds and thousands Of the Wiry,
wild horses, and from every bush jack
hurried away from the path Of the
traveller, a gray streak, scurrying over
the sand and gracefully sailing over
obstucting brush-the kangaroos Of
America.
Now not a mustang can be found in
a days travel, or weeks, and only
an infrequent jack breaks in On the
monotony of desert ride. Ten years
ago 100000 mustangs were scattered
over the ranges in Texas, New Mexico
and Arizona. AS the bicycle grew in
favor the horse decreased In value,
and the mustang became an outcast
and an outlaw. He intruded on the
cattle ranges and was shot for his
pains, the cowmen intent on The saw
ing of feed for their stock. He ven
cured amid the sheep f1ocks and the
coyotes Toasted on his carcass. Every
where he was worthless reprobate,
an interloper, and valuable only as a
target for the revolver of the vaquero.
By inbreeding the species grew small
er, and the mustangs finish was per-
ceivable. The extremely low price
of high-grade eastern horses put the
cayuse out of service, and his only
haven Of refuge was among the In
dams. The red men harbored him,
fed him and tanned him, and today on
the reservations can be found the last
of his race, disappearing as did the
buffalo, but from a different cause.
His determination was rapid and
somewhat of a mystery. Many stock
men attribute it merely to degenera-
ton, but closer observers assert that
many thousands of the ponies of the
desert were eptitiously converted
into canned beef, and are even now be-
ng served over eastern tables and
army messes as select product Of the
cattle range. AS to that other pest,
he jack rabbit his extinction is only a
natter Of nc great length Of time.
ic crowdinp him ont ana
he aborigine is slaughtering him,
md between two fires he cannot last
ong.-Arizona Republican.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-18

After five hours of debate the SEN
ate last night killed the Stevens bill,
and the stalwarts, by a solid vote that
was broken only by Senator Mosher's
supporting the Hatton and Miller
amendments, carried everything be-
fore them without faltering. The
only time they were at all discomfort
ed was when Senator Miller offered
his amendment carrying the referen.
dunn clause. But when the
recognized representative OF the
administration said the friends
of primary elections were not
afraid of the people, the spectators
held their breath and felt that surely
this was the crisis, but when the vote
was taken no one of the stalwarts had
deserted. Then it was known that
the Hagemeister bill would go to the
assembly with no change in it except
the one making it optional with coun-
ties. 1t is not thought that the as
sembly will accept it.
The debate, which was upon the
Stevens bill, began at 1870 and con-
tinued till 10 o'clock, Senators Arson,
Martin, Fearne and McGillivray speak
ing for the measure and Senators
Kreutzer, Riordan and Whitehead
against it. Senator Arson reviewed
the workings Of the makeshift primary
election held in nominating the alder
men and the delegates to the conven-
lions in Milwaukee, saying that it had
proved to be only a slight improve
ment over the caucus methods, but he
was confident that an actual primary
election would be success.
Senator Kreutzer, after asking for
consent to withdraw his
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-18
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

Madison, April 9.-In the upper
house, Senator Stout's marriage bill
was killed by vote of II to 16, and
Senator Hatton's measure providing
a course of study IN agriculture for
was also Roehr's giving county boards
the power to fix the salary Of sheriffs.
Two substitutes to the primary bill
were introduced. One is by Senator
providing primary cleo
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-18
Domestic.

Colonel w. F. Randolph was ap-
pointed chief of artillery. Miles can
didate was turned down.
E. b. Whitcomb, for twenty years
editor of the Des Moines Mail and
Times, died, aged Sc years.
Husbands were picked out for 800
indian maidens at an Easter sacrifice
dance in Darlington, Okla.
Mrs. Susan A. Harding, widow of
General Abner G, Harding, died at
Monmouth, H., aged Sc years.
The government April wheat report
indicated crop of 444, 312,16 bushels,
114,0000000 in excess Of last year.
The details of drygoods combine
were announced by J. p Morgan & Co.
1t will take in stores in many cities.
l.. z. Letter sold his controlling in
terest in the First National Bank of
Topeka TO G. j. Deylin for $136,000
Colonies Barr and CIous are making
hard fight to succeed Judge Advo-
cate General Lieber, who retires May
81
EX-RepreSentative d. J. Hammond
of Pontiac, Mich, was convicted of
seeking a bride while in the legisla-
ture.
Bishop Henry NJ Turner of the
African Methodist church advocates
the Punishment of negro criminals to
Africa.
George P. Match, eastern agent for
the st. Paul and Tacoma Lumber
company, formerly of Chicago, died at
Dubuque.
Charles Wellender, city treasurer of
Pfliiipsburg, Mont, has been arrested
charged with embezzling $4,000 of pub
sic funds.
Mayor Harrison of Chicago took the
oath of Office for his third term. The
council was organized on a non-par-
tisan basis.
A restaurant ut Battle Creek was
wrecked by employees of the owner
OF the site. who took this means to
Gust tenant.
Congressman Hull's departure for
Conger is not a candidate for ~gov-
ernor Of Iowa.
= New York jury decided that
Broker Henry Ivison must pay
$1,000 gambling debt to John Bradley,
a southern sport.
viii Black and Henry Wilson,
negroes, were hanged at Magnolia,
Ark, for the murder of Ivy Young near
Buckaer, Columbia county.
Frank Magee Ogden, last surviving
brother of Mrs. p. D. Armour, widow
OF the late millionaire pork packer of
Chicago, is dead at Cincinnati.
Benjamin Forst, a member of the
New York Consolidated Exchange,
committed suicide in Hoffman house
because of losses in Wall street.
At Wichita, Kansas, Edward Sine
was shot and fatally wounded while
preparing to retire. T. J. Robinson
has been arrested on suspicion.
Conrad krug, salesman for the Hut
dg-Aoss Manufacturing company, ST.
Joseph, Mo, accidentally shot himself
while pursuing a burglar. He died.
W syndicate has been formed to
control the five leading wire glass
companies in the United States The
combined capital represents $1,000
oOe.
A resolution introduced in the Min
nesota senate directed the attorney
general to prevent consolidation of
properties of the steel trust in that
state.
A young man supposed to be Will
liam Ryan of Erie, Pa, threw himself
on the track in front of a Lake Shore
freight train near North Amherst, O.,
and was killed
An injunction restraining the Peoples
Gas Light and Coke company from
charging more than 72 cents per 1000
cubic feet for gas was dissolved by the
Chicago appellate court.
Newton Chisnell, an actor prom
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-18
Diplomacy.

Property Mani am in despair.
The star is in tearing rage because
the dressing room Of the leader of the
ballet is twelve inches wider than
hers.
Manag er-That's all right. Tell her
that the leader Of the ballet is twelve
inches wider than she is.-Harper's
Bazaar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-18

The Hagemeister substitute, which
allows the primary election law to ap-
ply to counties if counties want it, on
county and town officers alone, was
passed, 10 to II.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-18

The Miller amendment to the Hag.-
meister substitute, which was in sub
stance the Stevens bill with a referen-
dunn clause attached, was voted down,
10 to IA.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-18
Hageneister Substitute Is
Passed by 70 to Il.
HattOn and r1iller Amend=
n1ents Turned Down.
Madison, April, II

MadlSOn, ApTlI, II.
ne Stevens bill was non-concurre5
in by the senate last night by vote
of 20 to 10.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-18

Madison, April 12.-Gov. La Toilette
sent another veto to the senate this
morning, returning without approval
Senator Whitehead's bill providing
that when proceedings for the leasing,
mortgaging or sale Of property Of
minors or other persons under
guardianship are taken in any county
court, the Judge shall be allowed fee
of $3.50 for recording the papers, to
be chargeable to the estate. This
fee, the governor said, was the only
object of the bill, and was merely a
devious way of increasing the judges
salary.
There was a temperance furry in
the assembly this morning over Roe
bill, defining an intoXicant as drink
containing one per cent. or more OF
alcohol. The committee amended by
increasing per cent. from one to two
two per cent, but reported the bill
without recommendation Messrs.
Spratt, linn and Willott spoke against
the bill and Messrs. Roe and Dahl for
it, the latter saying it was meant to
put an end to temperance drinks that
intoxicated and was calculated to
make prohibition effective where the
people SO voted. The bill was ad-
to third reading, SO to So.
The Overlook bill putting an export
duty OF loo ton on ice was ordered |
engrossed, although Judge Orion de-
clared it unconstitutional as interior
worth said the Knickerbocker cut |
half million tons of ice in Wisconsin |
every year and left 100000 in the
state, all Of which would be lost if the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-18

The Hatton amendment, which
would make primary elections apply to
the nomination of memers of the leg
isIature as well as to county officers,
was also turned down, 10 to IA.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-18

The vote on the Stevens bill was as
follows:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-18

and was On his way to Hastings,
Mimi, when he became unconsc' Gus
on the train. His widow lives in La
Crosse. Mr.. Thurber was SO years OF
age.
Major George H. Palmer, retired
died suddenly at his home lear
Durand, Ill. He was a veteran of civil
regular army twenty-five years AMI
was in the sixteenth infantry at Boise
city at the outbreak of the Cuban
war. Two of his sons are now in tho
service, and two daughters are mar
ried to army officers. Major Palmer
was 81 years old.
DR.. William Jay Youmans, for many
years editor of the Popular Science
Monthly, is dead at his home in Mount
Vernon, N. Y, of typhoid fever. He
was deeply attached to a handsome
farm possessed by him among the
hills near Saratoga, N. Y, where he
was born Oct. IA, 1888, and near which
he began his education in a dist let
school. DR.. Youmans graduated in
medicine from New York university
with degree in 1865. He established
the Popular Science Monthly IN 1872
and had been its sole editor since the
death of his brother.
Rev. Martin H. Bowling of Port
Chester, N. Y, died, He leaves a
fortune estimated at 100000, all of
which was made during the last few
years through speculation in Wall
street. Most of it, it is said, is left
to charity. Father Bowling was born
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-04-04

of Mrs. Ellegood, said be ate apple
sauce and drank coffee aud became
sick. He did not have any beans, and
this leads to the belief that the coffee
and sauce were also doctored, and an
analysis OF the cotfee aud sauce will
probably be made.
Mrs. Ellegtod testified thpt after
Duttonl had his supper on Tuesday
night be went out, hut returned about
0 O'Clock and she did not know what
happened after that
Officer 0illing, one OF the men who
has been working on the case, testified
to taking pork and leans to Chief
Massey and the latter gave the samples
to Cant. Kane, who had an analysis
made by DIR. Frank r. Smith.
DR.. Smith testified that he ade the
analysis of the meat and heans and
found arsenic in considerable quanti-
ties, enough TO cause death if retained
in the stomach.
Harry Stradley, druggist at DR.. M.
Ostro's store, Sixth and Pine streets,
swore that Dutton purchased Rough
on Rats from him at the store some
time before $50 o'clock last Tuesday
night. The box probably contained an
ounce of the poison. Witness said
| Dutton told him he had rats 10 the
house and he wanted to get rid of them.
DIR. Smith said Rough on Rats con-
tanned Arsenic such as he found IN
| analyzing the food. E
| Dr.. j. w. l'astian, who attended the
men sent to the hospitals, raid thesmer
showed symptoms Of poisoning. Gibbs,
the man who is still at the hospital, is
improving. but not out of danger. He
lie very weak. The doctor said death
results from such poisoning sometimes
a week or two after being administered.
/ Chief saassey said Button told hir
he was the last person in the house t.
60. to bed on Tuesday night.
Detective Witsil, who has been work
ing on the case and assisted material,
in obtaining the most damaging evi
denoe, was not called to the stand,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-04-04
A DIARY OF MAJOR ANDRE
Discovered by Lord Grey. the
Other Day, With Old Papers
of His Grandfather.
HAD NOT BEEN SEEN FOR YEARS
No Doubt About the Anthem
ITCHY of the Diary--lt Is In
teresting but Throws No
New Light on His Case.

London, Eng, March 3o.-The diary
of Major Andre, after lying hidden for
hundred years, has been discovered in
England. This interesting find was
made by Lord Grey, the other day,
while he was going over lot of old
family papers that probably had not
been disturbed since the conclusion of
the American War of the Revolution.
Lord Grey's sreat-Rrandfather was a
commander Of British troops in America
at that time, and Andre served on his
stall. This accounts 70, the diary being
in the possession of the present peer. !
The diary is apparently the original,
but in order to make sure TINT it is
not copy, Lord Grey is sending over
to the United States to secure samples
of Andre handwriting, none of which
can be obtained here.
The diary is story of the campaign,
day by day, during the years l777-1778..
1t is simply, but Interestingly, told
from the soldiers standpoint, and is
accompanied by maps, apparently drawn
by Andre himself, and with skill that
would make him the equal of any mill
tary photographer of today.
The diary ceases too early to throw
new light upon the motives which
prompted the tragic ending of his
career, but it gives Interesting glimpses
of the personality Of one of the his
torioal figures Of the American Revolu'
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-04-04
ARGUMENT IN LIBEL SUIT.

Discussion on the Point AS to Whether
Boardinghouse Keepers Can be Paid
seamen's Wages by Masters.
Before Judge Bradford, in the United
States CourtFriday argument was heard
in the libel suit of Chambers vs.. the
British steamship Kestor. The attor-
neys 10 the case are j. II. Brinton of
Philadelphia, and Robert Pennington
and Charles NJ. Curtis of this city.
This il the final argument in the
case upon point which is important.
1t is that Of whether or not ships
master has right to advance any part
Of seaman's wages to clearinghouse
proprietor. The latter secures seamen
for ships and in some instances receives
part of their wages.
The Kestor was libelled about, IS
monthsgaeo off the mouth of the Chris
tiana River. The captain came back
on the tug to telephone to the ships
agents. To get to his boat he went out
to the W. & N. pier on an engine and
the latter jumped the track and he
fell and broke his leg.
Judge Bradford took the papers and
reserved his decision.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-04-04

New York, March 80. Mrs. Esther
Cohen and two Of her children, Ben
jamin, aged Eve, and Sophia, one year
old, persisted by the burning of FIVE
story tenement house at Delaney and
Norfolk streets, early today.
In the panic which occurred, mothers
lost their reason and threw their
children from the windows and fire
escapes to the street below. That 81
were caught by police and firemen and
escaped serious injury, seems almost
a miracle Following is the list of the
injured:
Max Salisbury, aged go, burned about
face. hands and body.
John j. Reardon, detective, cut ON
hands and face by falling glass.
Michael oesteld, suffering from shook
and Commissions.
There we're IL families in the house.
The FIRE was disooyerd at 3, 80 o'clock
by the wife Of the janitor,who aroused
her husband, and together they went
to the front Of the house giving the
alarm.
On the top floor of the tenement
lived Morris Cohen, his wife and their
children, Sophia, Harry and Benjamin.
The flames were already through the
roof when they were awakened. Escape
by the hallway WAS cut off. Cropping
their way through the smoke to the
window, Cohen picked up the. boy
Harry and, calling to bis wife to follow,
got out Gu the FIRE escape and started
10 descend. Mrs. Cohen carried the
baby in her arms and the boy Ben
jamin followed. Out on the fire escape
the flames and smoke which burst
from the windows below them separated
the members OF the family and only
Cohen and the boy reached the street.
When the tiremen were finally able to
reach the top floor, they found the
bodies of Mrs. Cohen and the other
two children, blackened and burned,
lying on the fire escape landing.
The damage by the fire is estimated
| at $4,000.