Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 4, 1899, Page 8

j City and. Vicinity. NOTES OF NEWS AND PERSONAL. Capt. James Murchie was a Glad- atone guest this week. Attorney Price transacted business | in St. Paul this week. James Gunn, _ brother of D, M. is here on a visit from Superior. Mrs. L. L. Anderson is on a visit to her son, Editor D. C. Anderson of the Carlton Vidette, County Commissioner Warren Ever- ton of Deer River was doing business at the hub yesterday. There will be services at St. Joseph’s Catholic church tomorrow at the usual hour. Ex-Representative Gunn returned from St. Paul yesterday, where he spent a few days keeping tab on the doings of legislators. : Senator McCarthy was expected home today but he failed to appear. The senaterhas remained in the capital city since the opening of the Jegislature. Tom Mccabe came up frath Swan | River today with a badly butchered | face, the result of a fracus that took place lastevening. ‘The injured man went to the hospital. | Margaret Grace, the two-and-a-half years old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. | W.E. Myers, died on Tuesday morn- | ing. The funeral took place Thurs- | day, interment being being made in Itasca cemetery. | O. S. Hill, traveling auditor for the Eastern Minnesota railway, “visited | this station ‘yesterday, inspecting the agent’s books. Maximiljan Ponti, the fruit and confectionary merchant, who has been representing Grand Rapidsin) Ttaly during the past two months, was expected to arrive home today, but it seems that he missed connec- tions. Sheriff’ Tyndall has been confined | to his room this week with an attack of the ever pcpular grip. He 1s re- covering, howeyer, and will be as robust as usual in a few days, | Watch losseLady’s black enamel | watch, open face, either between the residences of F. A. King and Charles Kearney or between Mr. King’s home and Geo. Sawyer’s. Finder please return to office of Kremer & King and be suitably rewarded. Assistant Superintendent G. T. ‘eminently satisfactory to the electors of the’ Millage. "Peealdetit ‘Trainor, Recorder King and Ttustee O’Con- nell would find little opposition if they would accept a renomination. ‘The Herald Review is pleased ro report tnat the recent difference of opinion between the Deer River vil- lage council and Messrs. Coffron and Sullivan have been amicably adjusted, as appears from notices published else- where in this issue. Deer River is made up,of as good a lot of fellows as could be got together, and they should live together in perpetual peace and harmony. It was only a question as to the proper time to date liquor licenses from, and when the matter was properly considered it was a very easy problem to solve. Some of J. J. McDonald’s friends have been mean enongh to report that he caused the burning up of Swan River for the purpose of getting nd ofa few “Michigan stiffs.” But that isn’t doing Mac justice. It was going his limit when he gave a’check for five millions t2 pay for the Wright -Davis interests in railroads and iron mines 1n_ this section in order to give the Michigan boys no excuse to re- main longer. Dr. Gilbert’s residence narrowly es- caped destruction by fire on Tuesday. It was only by chance that the doctor arrived home at an opportune mo- ment to discover a well developed blaze that was rapidly gaining head- way in the frontroom. By prompt action the medecine man got the fire under control before the department hadtime to respond. .The destruc. tion ofa chimney was the only damage aside from that done with water, Chas. H. McCord arrived in Grand Rapids. from Arizona this week. Since leaving here two years ago Mr. McCord has been in the service of the territory as superintendent of the state penitentiary at Yuma. Ex-Gov- ernor McCord, father of C. H., re- signed the governorship to raise a company of volunteers for service in the late war with Spain. He was made colonel by President McKinley. A muster-out order has_ been issued for his command, and it is not unlike- ly that he will be reappointed to the governorship, if he desires it. Mrs. G.H. MeCord is now visiting friends in Tacoma, Washington, 1t is really amusing to read the lit- tle political squibs that appear ia the Magnet with a weekly regularity that never misses. fire apent the “Demo- Paps.” [bis the better appreciated by bhoso Who know that the nominal editor of that paper -was a radical Demo-Pop up to the time that he tell ifto the bad habit of writing vad grammar for the Magnet. Ross and General Roadmaster J. Motypapp or MINNESOTA, Hurley of the Great Northern, made a tour of inspection over this-division® on Tuesday in their private ear. Itasca Hive Ladies of the Macca- bees, will give a card party Friday evening next at K. P. Hall. A gen- eral invitation is extended to their friends. Lunch will be served. I. H. Mathews, of the logging firm of Johnson & Mathews, has been atthe Pokegama since ‘Thursday. He says that work is progressing very satisfactorjly and that his firm will get all the logs they went after at the be- ginning of the season. R.S. MeDonald, the enterprising superintendent = of E.. W, Backus & Co.’s logging opeations, was in town this week, but had: little time ta tarry for talk. He remarked, however, that work was being pushed along at a rapid rate in the woods and that he anticipated a good season's harvest of timber for his firm. Auditor Frank’ Hixon of the D. M. R. & N., with headquarters at Missis- sipp landing, died this week at St, Mary’s hospital in. Duluth of pneumo- nia. Mr. Hixon was quite well known to many Grand Rapids people having formerly been traveling audit: ar for the South Shore when that ‘ompany had control of the Duiyth & Winnepeg. A bill was introdyced in the house of the state legislature the, other day |, to appropriate $3,500 for the: sustain- ance of the Northeast -Agticultural Experiment Station at Grand Rapids: Senator “ McCarthy. should. see toiit that,the amount js raised ‘to at least 5000, and we rather think he will, By reports appearing in our daily exchanges it is to be inierred that Embassador Bernard, extraordinary} tepresentative from Walker, Cass sounty, Minnesota, at Washington, BD: C.; was not very. successful.in his yaission-to retain the Indian ageney at the county seat of Cass, After a litte more experience the people of Cass gounty will‘take a tumble to. the in €apacity of the Moose. 4 There has been very little said up ta date regarding the coming spring election. Candidates are not numer- ous, apparently, but whent he political kettle begins. to stew jt may be ex- ed that the usual interest will de- yelop. The only name thus far nien-: ‘tioned that the Herald-Review ‘has heard of for alderman 1s, that of John Hepfel. John is one of those indepen- dent ‘sortof fellows that will.maké no hustle for election and if he should be chosen it: will. be;: because the:people* want. him. The present council is Hore, county of Itasca. Vilhige of Deer River. “Worwe is hereby given, that appli- cations have been made in writing to the Council of said Village of Deer River and filed in my office, praying for license to sell intoxicating liquors forthe term eommencing on Februa- ry 1st 1899, and terminating on Jan- uary 3lst- 1900, by the following per- sons, and at the following places, as stated in said applications, respec- tively, to-wit: Robert Coftron-& Ca,’ in the front room on the ground fjoor of the two story frame building situated on lot No 14 bluck No. 12 Itasca city addi- tion to Deer River and James K. Sul- livau, in’ the front room on the ground floor of the two story frame building situated on lots 23 and 24 in ; block No. 14 Ltasea City addition to . Deer River. Said applications will be heard and determived by said Council of the Village of Deer River at the Council Chambers in the Hotel DeerRiver in said Village of Deer River in Itasga county and state of Minnesota, on the [4 day-of February A. D. 1899 at 8 o’clock pi m-, of that day. Witness - my hand and seal of Deer River this 27 day of January A. D. 1899 Cc: W, ROBINSON : Recorder, Mrs. M. Perreault «is» prepared ta give Medicated Vapor baths to Jadies any afternoon or evening: . The ladies of Grand’ Repids are invited to call. -For_colds, ‘gtippe or rheumatism ‘there’ ‘is “nothing ““so sure to bring speedy relief .as a Medicated baths. A rt Come,in:and get Particulars, $2.00:per, Cord f. 0.-b. Cai Must be delivered: within 30 day: ‘ TASCA MERCANTILE CO, there is nothing noteworthy about this “Vfact except that the decree conférring | found -his talent in the ORIGIN OF THE BICYCLE, esis waa i - It May Be Traced ag Far Back Nineteenth Centurv. seis It often been said that “to trace the origin of the bicycle we must’ g back to the beginning of the century: and as thig has not been denied it is probably true. ments in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and that the Celerifere, first’ invented in 1690, was the earliest form} of the “safety” pf today. The first at+/ tempts to ride wheels date back as) far as the fifteenth century, True, the, machines then made were crude, clumsy, and imperfect; yet they de~ serve mention, for they were a dis- tinet Step in the history of the wheel. The first of these was a heavy carriage driven by means of. ropes attached to and wound round its axletree. To the other end of the ropes a pole was tied, and this pole was used as a lever in front of the vehicle; and by this means it was slowly drawn forward. Little was done in the century following; yet in the “Memoirs of Henry Fether- stone” it is told that a Jesuit mission- ary named Ricius, who was traveling down the Ganges, having missed a boat that plied at regular intervals between: points he was to visit in his journey, made up for lost time by building g } small carriage propelled by levers. Ber. cause so few details are told, the truth of the author’s account has been doubt- ed or discredited by many. In one/of* England’s older churches—St. Giles’,; at Stoke Pogis—is a window of stained) glass on which may be seen a chert! astride of @ hobby horse, or wooden “wheel.” At the sides, in separate pan~ els, as if to fix the date of the design, stand two young men attired in puri- tan dress, one playing the violin, the other, with hands in his pockets, smok~ ing a pipe. Is it from this design that the first thought of the hebby horse of other days was taken? Before the Royal Academy of Sciences, in 1693, Ozanam read a paper describing a vehi- cle driven by the pedaling of a foot- man, who stood in a box behind, and rested his hands on a bar, level. with his chin, attached to the back of an awning above the rider in the con- veyance, This may prove that Fether- stone’s account was not. untrue, Oza- nam’s vehicle was followed by © an- other, built on a somewhat similar plan, by an Englishman named Oven- den, about 1761, for a description of the machine then appeared in the Uni- versal Magazine. The vehicle was said to be “the best that has hitherto been invented.” The distance covered “with ease” by this rude vehicle is stated to have been six miles an hour; with a “peculiar exertion,” nine or ten miles. The steering was done with a pair of reins.—St. Nicholas, MOSQUITOES WHICH KILL BEAR Yukon Insects Force Deer to Fiee to the Snow Line. From the Denver Times: Not only do the Yukon mosquitoes attack men and overwhelm them, but they drive the moose, deer and caribou up the mountains to the snow line, where these animals would prefer not tobe in berry ‘time. They, kill doge, “aid even the big brown bear, that is often miscalled a grizzly, has succumbed to them. Bears come down to the river from the hillside in the early fall to get some of the salmon that are often thrown upon the banks when the “run” is heavy, It bruin rung foul of a swarm of mosquitoes and has not his wits.about him his day has come. The insects will alight all over him. His fur pro- tects his body, but his eyes, ears and nose will soon be swollen up'and. bleed- ing, and unless he gets into a river or a@ strong wind he will be driven mad and blind, to wander about hopelessly until he starves to death. Although the Alaska . summer.’ is, short, two broods of mosquitoes» hateh' out each year, and are ready for busi- ness from one to ten seconds after’ they leave the water. It rains a good: deal along the Yukon, and rain is welcomed, for it drives the mosquitoes to cover. They hide under leaves and branches until the shower is over; then they come out boiling with rage at the time they have been forced to spend in idleness, and the miner has a harder time than ever after his respite. Mosquitoes and snowflakes are not. contemporaries in the states, but in Alaska it is different. Snow does not bother them:so much as rain, and an early snow may fall while they are still on the wing. Fog does not choke them, either. They appear to like it. They float about in it as in ambush, and take the unwary prospector hy syr- Jules Verje its ap officer oF-tho: Legion’of “Honor. Tiere” aré ‘many others who wear this distinctlon;-and the honor tpon him was signed’ only two hours before the fall of the’ em- | sing: (if any. sich exist): to take, pire. His well-known book, ““* the World in Eighty Days, ‘| brought his ‘publishers about $2,000,000 and to himself a goodly share of the From Stenographer to Premier. Like many ‘anothér successful man, Bir John Gordon Sprigg went to the Cape in hig youth because he was too delicate to live conifortably in Eng- land, ‘His occupation + “that of a shorthand-writer, but ‘politics ' serviceable, “A French officer has invented a |e»: yuld invent Doiselese* pugilist Cleveland Plain-Deajey.. =i ov) | ig y ete., 3° shillings; farmers and trades q ze diret! Bure at starting cdn ig Ti | Population of "500, J I shall try to show |.” that the bicycle grew from experi-° ‘a ‘ preciated. Our Grocery Dep’t! Here ts always found the Largest. Choicest and UR DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT is ever P repleat ,with a -magnificiént. line of Dress : Patterns and Trimmings, which for texture and cheapness of price cannot be excelled in Tn selecting our stock we _ aimed tosecure the best the markets afforded, anc bought in such large quantities that we forced the manufacturers down to ‘‘bed-rock” figures, and thus we are enabled to offer the ladies of-Grand Rapids a-superb line of Dry Goods at prices that cannot be duplicated west of Chicago. Hosiery. is complete. every heart’s desire. ren’s Underwear is ‘A thing of beauty and a joy for- ever.” This department must be seen to be fully ap- We most cordially invite an inspection. Lt. isa pleasure for us to show thege goods, the Northwest. Our stock of Ladies’ and Our Laidies’, Misses’ and berece2 _. CLOTHING! HERE is positively ni when clothing can ask for our suits an have suits from $3.00 up, and can give you a ‘ Our mammoth stock embraces a select assortment of most durable dress, business and working suits, overcoats, fur-lined waist coats, etc. perfect fit. In Gent's and Boy’s Furnish cow plete line in stock. In the Glove line will be found Come, in and see our goods, Misses’ Child- oexcuse for slovingness be had at the price we d wearing apparel. We ings we always have a i i } i Freshest i Od h Stat ~ Goods. ‘BECKFELT & MATHER. TESS MO SO POCRBPRS GMS: FF We handle: Everything. NURSING THE POOR. A Scheme Which has Met with Great Suecess in England. The Wiltshire Telegraph gives an ac- | eount of a scheme which has met with great success. The writer says: A branch of the Holt Ockley system for providing cottage nurses for the sick poor in their own homes has late- ly been’ formed for the villages of ‘Bourn, Caxton, Papworth, Everard, Eltisley, Croxton, Waresley and the }two:Gransdens in.Cambridgeshire. Two \(murses have been trained at Plaistow and Wootten and ere now at work and a third one will be sent to Plaistow “a soom as there is a vacancy for train- ing. Two or three other villages will | then be added to the above. Each vil- | lage guarantees from £5 to £10 a year, | according to its population. The asso- ciation is really a nursing benefit club, in which there are four classes of pay- ments—namely, laborers, 2 shillings a year; ‘upper servants, small artisans, people, 5 shillings, and gentry, 10 shil- lings. Subscribers of these amounts can have nurseg for 2, 3, 5.and:10 shil- _lings a week, respectively? and, if it is ‘the mother who is ill, the nurse will, sneak sie 2, do everything re- qui ‘or the family, except washing: “SHO willlive.asa member. of : the, family and if there is no sleeping ac- commodation for her the committee lady. will .obtain aroom in a house ‘npat op.jend her a chair bed. _In case ‘all the nurses should \be engaged and® assistance cannot be obtained from a eighboring. branch, arrangements are 2#iade:with.one or more women in each village: who know something. of -nur- er- <pency cases, 80..a8 "not to: disappoint subscribers. Where it is found ane sthle to provide a.nurse the year’s sub- -Seription is,.returned and the weekly fee is allowed till convalese ora nurse is found. Although this branch of the “Affiliated Benefit, Nursing asso- ciation” only started to work foyr months ago it has already above 160 subscribers, more than a hundred’ of them being In the laborers’ ‘and small .A@rtigans” classes, Experience has prov- |ippi exposition, second oply to the] ° filckly |-€4. that a der the Holt Ockley system ‘ look after a & year or ‘two, 00" ein be acne ear or two, 1,100 : sufficient. An Association, epiploying three of four or more nurses Works ‘niuch’ better than a one-nurse ch. NOTICE. Grand Rapids, Minn., January 27, To the Public: z On February 1, 1899, the Western Union Telegraph com) ny will as- sume contre] of the t kyrsph lines now operated by the Fisicin Railway Company of Minnesota There will be a material reduction in tolis to all points. * LL. W. HuUSTLEY, Manager, Remember that yuu will receive prompt attention at the Medicated bath rooms. M. Perreault, Change of Time on Swan River Road To the Public: The Duluth, Mississidp: River & Northern’ Ry. will -only make one round trip a day between Swan River and Hibbing. Persons wishing to go to ‘Hibbing will be compelled to stay in Swan River oyer night, and pas- sengers from ,Hibbing to Grand Rapids. will: also have to stop over night’jn Swan,River unless the local! .west-bound freight on the Easteru| STATE OF Mion. is lat. L. W. Huntrey. — 1899, M. PERREAULT JR, & GO UNDERTAKERS, Funeral Directors and Etmbalmers. Complete Line of; Coffins, Caskéts, Robes, Etes-.-~ Painters Paper Hangers. Work Promtly Attended to. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Grand Rapids, - Minn. a nd tat emer Liquor License. “ MINNESOTA, A fe County of Itasca. Village of Grand Rapids, Notice is hereby. given, that cath been made-in’ writ ing. “Vers ene gh 2b Ae 452 have “Vill: > Old hats made new: at Dye Works, | Counetl of Grand Rapids,und fied tn-riy oie ee e. praying for license to selb ietoxicating liquors the following persons, for the | terms following and at the following places, “I can say for one that [ called on] as ics Ana in said applications respectively, Mr. Perreault and received only a few of his medicated vapor baths and was] for or the ‘two-story: frame completely cured of a severe attack of orininal pise rheymatism.,.I was a - great. sufferer ing twenty days after ¥ from this disease, but today I feel like a new man, and do not hesitate to heartily recommend the baths to any; one suffertg from rheumatism.” —< James Hovmgs. There is only one ‘railroad from Duluth to Omaha, operating trains!’ - over its own track all the way, the “Northwestern Line’ (Omaba rail- way). Visit the great Trans-Missis- World's fair. Very low rate excur- sion tickets on sale daily. Call on 0- Wit: 2 Logan. & Spillan, .successot : Doyle, in the tr¢ it room the pt s term commencing ember 4, 1008, and tenmjnat- “the next arnual lage election. | re } Jacob | Mohr, ‘in the nortli room’on the ee aoe Bf shettrabdlng. rie, lot 0. lock No._ riginal plat of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, for. cher Coen, & imenc- 8g y pids, fo) ing an the 18th day -¢ en. nd, ter- ating 20. ‘days Paae th oe taeal * s 13], bo heard and deter- mined by said villa; t the:council atk vil halon Tuesday, Fobrus ary 7, = Hildea Wanted.” Highest.cash price pad for’ beef, your local agent for Information or | horse andall kinds of“liides and; fur address B. W. Summers, agent, 405 West Superior street, Dulpth.. Ladies’, Misse ,and Childrens fascipators. =F i * “Gall'aiid see us. ee gan Houso.: pelts. Call and see me. before” you ‘sell elsowhere. Next door to ‘Michi- uso.) Wats Waren. , CAP as tala - ery [ = | 1 i ; j i