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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-01
SHAFTER'S BLUNDER.
New Developments in Regard TO the
Cuban Campaign.

Washington Nov. 29.-The arrival
of General Garcia and the other Gu
ban commissioners who are in this
country to ascertain the purposes OF
the government at Washington con-
corning the establishment of stable
government in Cuba elected from an
army officer at the war department
the following statement:
General Garcia on the 9th and 18th
of June sent word to General Miles,
through several channels, that he re-
garded the suggestions Of the Amerl-
can general as commands; and stated
that he was ready to cooperate with
him cordially in a subordinate capac-
ity. Under the directions of Cen
eral Miles he at once proceeded to
prevent the arrival Of Spanish rein
forcements from Holguin TO Santiago,
and when Skaters army arrived
Garcia's forces were already in po-
sition all about Santiago, practically
encompassing that city and the Span
ish fleet within the harbor. He began
the beleagurement of the city and II
Shafter had followed his lead the city
could have been taken with the least
possible loss Of life. He sent 5000
Cubans to check 10000 Spaniards at
Holguin. He placed 1000 men across
the path which the 5000 Spaniards at
Guantanamo must follow to reach
Santiago He sent 1000 men to pre-
vent the 5000 Spaniards at Manzan-
lilo from marching to Santiago. The
Cubans under Garcia participated in
thirty skirmishes and engagements
They would have prevented the re-
enforcement of Santiago but for the
fact that General Shafter refused to
give the Cubans any assistance
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-01
OUR POSTAL SERVICE.
1t Followed the Army and Navy
Postmaster Generals Report.

Washington, Nov. 27.-The annual
report of Postmaster General Smith
presents an interesting review Of the
postal service owing to operations in
military and naval fields. Smith
says: The war entailed the necessity
Of military postal service and
prompt measures were required for
handling the mail of military men. A
large number of postoffices was crea-
ted at points of concentration, and
military forces in active operations in
the West Indies and Philippines had
constant postal communication,
clerks being detailed from available
points" Continuing the report says:
When our troops advanced into Cuba
the postal service advanced with them.
When Santiago surrendered United
States Postal Agent Brewer took pos
session Of the postoffice. He removed
the Spanish director and ten clerks.
The service now has been extended
into Santiago province. The postal
service accompanied the flag to Porto
Rico. There are now twelve military
postal stations there having connec-
tons with many smaller places. In
the Philippines two military postal
stations have been established at Man
liza and Cavite. Trained men from
the home service were detailed as
superintendent and agents and
placed in charge of the larger offices,
retaining such old employees as were
needed. There is already a great i'm
provement over the old Spanish serv-
ice, and the work has only begun. The
acquisition of Hawaii has not thus far
been followed by any change IN postal
relations with that country" Smith
said that the great value of the aid
contributed during the war by steam
ships employed in the mail service,
converted into cruisers, was recog-
niZed.
Report calls attention to the amaz-
ing growth OF the postal business in
all branches. In the last financial
year the gross revenue was $89,012,618
against $63,615,47s in 1880, and the
gross expenditures $9S,334, 523 against
$36, 542,SO4 in 1880. The number of
post Offices now Is $4,000 against $4,000
in 1880. Within this period the popu-
lation has increased about so per cent,
while the postal business has multi
piled nearly Lnree-fold. During the
fiscal year just closed there was an in
crease OF postal receipts of nearly
$6,5O0,000 over the aggregate of 1897.
Money orders increased 100000 in
number and 100000 in money, the
face value being 1904, 593.891. There
were IL, SOC, 202 pieces registered during
the year.
Among the recommendations for
legislation are those to make depreda-
tons of railway postal clerks con-
tinuous offense, to provide severe
penalty for employees embezzling or
destroying newspaper mail, and sever
er statutes covering green goods and
obscene matter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-01
TElECRAPHiC TICKS.

G.. C. Gillett, the Kansas stockman
who failed for over 100000, IS
thought to have gone to Spain.
Rev. Lyman Abbott has announced
his intention to resign the Passionate
of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, which
he has filled for ten years. He sue
ceeded Beecher.
Frederick Stearns, a Detroit mi
lionaire, has presented 10 the Uniyei
slty of Michigan his unique collection
of musical instruments, numbering
nearly one thousand pieces and valued
at S25, 200.
The second-class protected cruise
kasaigi, built by the Cramps for thu
Japanese government, sustained con
siderable Injury by eolfiding with ans
damaging a bridge abutment at New
castle, Pa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-01

boxes and a quantity of household
goods and several trunks. Sargent
and his sister located at Rockford, H.,
about three years ago, and started
millinery establishment under the
name of The Partisan Palace" the
billheads Of which proclaim that
Charles Sargent and Nine. Winlake"
were the proprietors. For two years
they bought goods on strictly cash
basis, it is said, and established line
of credit that afterwards stood them in
good stead. IN Rockford they flew
high. hey drove a team of cream
white horses TO an English drag, and
Mime. Winlake," the French milliner,
was the envy of all swelldom with her
team, gowns and toilets, which We're
the SWEETEST in the town.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-01
ACCUSEk BREAKS DOWN.
States Main Witness in Michigan's
Alleged Murder Case Weeps.

Battle Creek, Mich, Nov. 26.-1 he
examination Of Mrs. Rudolphus sand
erson, who was Mary Butter
field, of Baraboo, Wis, on the
charge of placing ground glass in
the food OF, her aged husband, causing
his death, was resumed Friday. Marie
Robertson, the servant girl who
claims to have been a witness to the
administering of the glass, was cross
examined. She was very nervous, and
when asked questions regarding her
former actions, suddenly lost her
memory. She finally broke down and
wept copiously. 1t is evident that the
defense has witnesses from the former
home of the servant girl who will
swear that she is not person to be
believed. Public sentiment is fast
turning toward the fair prisoner.
Three of Mrs. Sanderson's sisters are
in attendance at the examination.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-01
COMMISSIONS ISSUED.

Ralph II. Chandler has been COM
missioned by the governor assistant
surgeon of battery A. LIST light artil-
lery of the Wisconsin national
guard; Charles E. Buffers of
Tomah, chaplain of the third regi-
ment; Frank L. French, captain OF Co.
l., Sparta; John B. Sneller, first lieu
tenant of Sparta company, and Milo
R, Could, second lieutenant 'of that
company The following were COM
missioned officers of the La Crosse
company: Eugene II. Chamberlain
captain, George Ripple first lieuten-
ant and Frank H. Fowler second lieu
tenant.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-01
SAYS GERMANY'S FRIENDLY.
Kaiser's Representative Reassures
Our State Department.

Washington, Nov. 29.-BarOn Speck
Won Sternberg, charge d'affaires of
Germany, called at the state depart
ment yesterday. and had a conference
with Secretary Hay on current topics.
particularly on those growing out of
the late war, in the course Of which
Baron Speck took occasion to ex-
press the most friendly sentiments OF
the German government concerning
the present status of affairs. The call
was chiefly significant as an evidence
that the German officials desire to
counteract the reports that Germany
is about to assume an attitude of pro-
test and lay claim to the Sulu archi-
pelago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-01
NO USE FOR BICYCLES.

One city has been found in which
there is no bicycle craze, and never
will be. 1t is Alden, on the Red Sea.
A Chicago maker having written to
the consul there, asking a statement
of the conditions and chances, has
been told that the roads are hilly and
quilted; it is always too hot to ride in
the daytime; the natives are all too
poor to own wheels; there are not
more than % bicycles in the four
towns of Alden, Little Alden, Steamer
Point and Shail-Othman; there Is no
demand for any more; there is no de-
mand for repairs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-01

rider were required to have a num-
Der attached to his wheel, and a
record of these numbers kept at the
city hall, then wheelmen could be
easily identified. It would entail an
additional expenditure for clerk to
look after the work. BY making a
nominal charge of about % cents for
registration this could be raised"
The alderman said he did not know
that similar ordinance was in eff
feet in any city in the United States
In most OF the countries of Europe
wheelmen are licensed and cycling
closely regulated by law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-01
SIX KILLED.
Fatal Boiler Explosion ON a Boat at
Stockton, Cal.

Stock ton, Cal, Nov. pa part of
one of the boilers of the river steamer
T. G.. Walker was blown out on the
Fourteen Mile slough near here, kill
ing six and seriously wounding ten
persons. Twenty others were some
what hurt. The t. c. Walker was
owned by the California Navigation
and Improvement company and ran
between San Francisco and Stockton
The dead are: John Tulan, captain of
the Walker; w. A. Blunt, beet sugar
agent; Watson Henry, Stockton, en-
gineer of the Walker; Mrs. Watson
Henry; Jerry DAILY, fireman; and Fer
dinand Law, passenger, Seattle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-01
SPAIN
GIVES IN.
She Reluctantly Accepts
American Peace
Conditions.
United States Gets Cuba,
Porto Rico, Guam, Phil
ippines and Sulus.
Work of Commission At
Paris Will Now
Soon End.

Paris, Nov. 29.-Spain has accepted
the United States offer of $20,000,00o.
and at joint session of che peace
commission Monday consented with
out condition to relinquish Cuba and
eede Porto Rico, Guam and the Phil
ippines, together with the Sulu ISL
ands, to the Americans. The Spanish
note containing the acceptance says
that in her desire for peace, Spain pro-
posed certain compromises, which the
Americans always rejected. Spain also
attempted, she further asserts, to have
submitted to arbitration some ma
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-01

ADllne, Kan, Nov. ga failure
involving cattle interests throughout
the southwest was precipitated acre
FRIDAY when an attachment suit for
$4,000 was filed against Grant c. Gil
lette Of Woodbine by the Gillespie
Commission company of Kansas City.
Gillette controls thousands of cattle
on the southernweStern ranges and his
liabilities are believed to be over
Sl,000,000. 1t is now known that last
Monday Gillette made an assignment
and deed of trust of all of his holdi ags
TO d. w. Naill. Gillette at once de-
parted for Texas. NALL, however, re-
fused to accept the trusteeship and The
papers were not filed. This condition
Of affairs becoming noised about, GIL
lette's creditors came down upon him
in droves. Men representing rs COM
mission firms in Kansas City arri ed
at Woodbine Friday on a special ram
and Immediately began searching
for Gillette cattle, which are ranging
over central and western Kansas, IN
dian Territory, Oklahoma and Texas.
How many there are none If
the creditors seems TO know,
but it is stated that there are about
5000 head at Gillette's Woodbine
ranch. Some idea of the extent OF
Giilette's liabilities was gained at the
county registers Office here where
fully $l,000,O00 of his paper is record
ed. The career of Gillette has been
OF the sky-rocket order He is but 81
years OF age, and his operations
startled the more conservative stock
men. Four years ago he lived on
rlortgaged quarter section of land
near Woodbine, where he began his
cattle trade by feeding steers for
others. In this he was successful and
on his little ranch he laid the ground
work of the business which enabled
him to handle over 100000 cattle
within these years. He seemed to
have unlimited credit He bought
great droves of cattle in Texas and
brought them north for sale and feed
ing. He was also the organizer of the
celebrated Cowboy" band, composed
of plainsmen in his employ. Gillette
is said to have recently taken out
S237 900 life insurance, and 100000 of
accident insurance
Kansas City Victims.
Kansas City, Nov. 26.-It Is stated
that over 100000 of Gillette's paper
Is held in Kansas City, distributed
among score or more of commission
firms. Through these firms some OF
this paper has reached local banks,
but as to the amount Of holdings OF
any OF the firms or banks no definite
information can be obtained.
Gillette has not gone from Abiliae
to Texas as supposed in Abiline. He
was in Kansas City yesterday and met
creditors at a hotel. 1t is said to be
the desire of the men who hold Gll-
lette's paper to combine their interests
and carry the cattle until they are in
marketable condition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-01
LA TOILETTE AND BRYANT.
Both Are Well on the Road to
Recovery.
Madison, Nov. %.

Madison, Nov. %.
Dr. Phil. Fox says that r. NJ. La
Toilette is gradually recovering from
his severe siege of sickness and is
now able to take more substantial
nourishment than at any time since
he has been i'll. While Mr.. La Fol-
lette is we'll on the road TO recovery,
he is still too weak to be able to sit
up long at time. After he RECEIVERS
he expects to transact some urgent
business that has been pressing for
consideration for some time and then
take an extensive trip south.
Gen. George E. Bryant, assembly
man-elect of this district, is now so
far recovered from his recent illness
as to be able to be UP and about his
home, though he isn't allowed yet TO
go out doors.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-01

A box of dynamite exploded in Ha-
vana, killing and injuring 40 persons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-01
FAILS FOR A MILLION
PROMINENT STOCKMAN GOES TO
THE WALL
HIS SKY ROCKET CAREER

Frank e. Gillette Began Business OnU
-Four Years Ago on Mortgased
Quarter Section of Land and No
Leaves Monumental De3ts-Hs In
Only 81.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-01

Maj. Esterhazy, involved in the
Dreyfus case. has sailed for the United
States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-09
Boycottfng Pullman Cars.

The patriotic feeling is reaching such a
phase that some of the Pullman cars which
Miss Pullman christened with Spanish
names are boycotted. In commenting on
this condition of things with the Pullman
company the Pittsburg Post says: THE
managers of the Pullman Palace Car Com
pany have discovered that the high tenn
pered patriotism of the American travelling
public is in state of ebullition that threat
ems to make it necessary to send many of
the cars to the shops In naming the
sleepers the classical and poetical Spanish
appellauons were freely made use Of, and
now such cars as the CadiZ, Blanco Cas-
tile, Seville, Mercedes, Morena. Lustania
and Andalusia are being boycotted by the
patrons of the different roads. Rather than
take the CASTLE a traveller on a Pittsburg
line yesterday preferred a day coach, and
said it was the first time he had ever trav-
Blanco was pelted with stones and mud on
the Erie Railroad and the Mercedes was
boycotted on the Panhandle west and the
porter said: Il tell you, sab. these Spanish
names are too high falutin for Yankee
blood when it begins to BOIL The porters
came in minus passengers and tips and
were diSconSoiate. To make matters worse
on the CASTLE, they had CASTLE soap, and
this capped the climax of patriotic resent
ment and the car was deprived of ali
patronage. If the war lasts two years, as
many predict, the company will have to
hire Miss Pullman to suggest some new
names, and in the meantime the mud-be-
spattered and hooded cars will be
Shopped."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-09
AN INCREASE IN TONNAGE
LAST WEEKS LOADED-CAR MOVE
MENT EXCEEDED ALL RECORDS.
Pullman Cars Bearing Spanish Names
Stoned and BoycOfted by Passen-
gers-PersOnaI Mention.

The train records show that the loaded
car movement continues heavy beyond
precedent, as has been the case for the last
four months. In the first week of May g.
622 cars were received and forwarded, % 1874
being loaded, $500 more than We're handled
at indianapolis in the corresponding week
of 1897, 1914 more than in 1896, 5919 more
than in 1885, 1852 more than in 1894, 6464
more than in 1888 and 1880 more than in the
corresponding week of 1892 This large in
crease is the more striking from the fact
that the volume OF business in May is usu-
ally as heavy as any month, unless it be
the later fall months. The large gains in
the loaded car movement were made chiefly
by the Big Four and the Pennsylvania lines.
the Vandalia and the Cincinnati Hamilton
& Dayton, the Vandalia handling at Indian
apolis more loaded cars than at any period
in its history. This is also true of the Pam
handle, and the demand for cars indicates
that present conditions will continue for
some weeks to come. East bound shipments
of grain and provisions are heavy beyond
precedent, and in other lines such as hides,
Veneering and produce, the volume keeps
pace with former years. Much to the sur
prise Of freight men, the east-bound tom
mage has largely increased, which is thought
to be due to the fact that coast steamship
lines are being withdrawn. Southern lines
are handling great deal of government
business. The Panhandle, for instance,
brought in last week 1,025 and forwarded
1880 loaded cars, and the business of the
other east-and-west lines showed that east
bound business was not more than Is per
cent. in excess of west-bound traffic. The
north-and-south lines are doing a much
heavier business than at the corresponding
period last year and this business also is
quite equally divided. The Louisville divi-
SION OF the Pennsylvania last week brought
into indianapolis 573 and sent South 500
Loaded cars. This road is bringing North
large quantities of Southern fruits and veg
etables, cement and Southern pine and hard
wood lumber for the car works, and ship
ping South large quantities of provisions.
cereallne products and war material. Local
business IS very active. Platforms at the
city freight depots are loaded with incom-
ing and outgoing freights, and on the bulk
tracks business is unusually heavy The
stcrkyards, the horse sale stables and the
pa King houses are doing more than ever
before In spring month. But for the de-
moralizatlon in rates the roads would now
be showing much the largest earnings ever
known, and traffic is so heavy and moved so
economically that the net earnings are quite
satisfactory. Below is given the car move
ment for the week ending May and for
the corresponding weeks of 1897 and 1896:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-09
BIG PILES OF FREIGHT
LOTS OF MANUFACTURING PRODUCTS
SHIPPED FROM THIS CITY.
Flour Going Up>vard-F'inc Carriages
in Demand-NOtes from
the Factories.

AS a business point railway officials look
upon indianapolis as being i'll the lead in
proportion to the size of the city. In speak
ing of this matter Saturday railway Of
fetal of long experience said he had given
the matter considerable attention. and had
found that in tonnage in rates received In
dianapolis ranked among the best, and the
same remark would apply to passenger bust
ness.
Indianapolis is so centrally Ioated that
business both freight and passenger, nat
urally drifts here, and for that reason there
are but few points that are visited by
travelling freight and passenger agents Of
foreign lines more frequently than is In
dianapolis. Representatives of Eastern and
Western and of Northern and Southern
lines are here frequently and seldom go
away without getting some good business.
A point like Indianapolis, where from 20 900
to 23,OO0 loaded cars are handled weekly,
and about one-third of it strictly local,
means good deal of traffic per day
Persons who chance to be at the city
freight depots in the afternoon are greatly
surprised at the immense piles of freight to
be shipped. Indianapolis has 265 private
switches leading to the various industries,
several of which load from ten to thirty-one
carloads of freight daily Added to this Is
the large business done at the stock yards
and the horse auction sale stables. This
immense trarnc is. done IN such manner
that but few comprehend what Indianapolis
is as a freight cenLer. AS a passenger point
the volume is much more easily known, as
at the Union Station some idea OF the bust
ness can be formed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-09

Ditmire & Adamson. Lake Maxinkuckee,
IND; complete outfit for a seventy-five-
barrel Touring mill, fifty-horse power en-
CINE and sixty-horse power Economic"
boiler, pumps, heater, etc, for the Bloom
field roller mills. Bloomfield KY; $50
barrel Touring mill and 1,200-bushel meal
mill for j. G. Rea & Co.. Florence, Ala. !;
hfty-barrel Touring mill and water wheel to
drive same, for j. NJ. Archuleta, Lumber
ten, n. NJ; complete forty-barrel Touring
mill and rye and buckwheat outfit, to
Samuel Koontz, Walkerton, Ind; sixty
barrel Touring mill to Huckins Brothers,
rochester, Ind, all on the Alfree system,
besides quite a number of orders for spe-
clal machines. In the engine department
they have orders from the Pennsylvania
Machine Company, Philadelphia, Pa, for
seventy-five-horse power high-grade center
crank engine: Michigan Alkah Company
Wyandotte, Mich, one .eighty-five-
and all connections; American Electric
Company, Detroit, Mich. one forty-horse
power high-grade center-crank engine; Ma
rietta boiler works, Marietta. O., one fifty
horse power side-crank engine; S. r.
Hawkes. & Co, Dedmcn, Tenn, one sixty
Bloomfield Roller Mill Company, Bloom
field. Ind. one flfty-horse power side-crank
glrder-beG engine and one sixty-horse
power Economic boiler, pumps, heater and
connections; Triumph Electric Company
Cincinnati, o.. for the c., II. & ID. shops,
Lima o.. one seventy-tve-horse power di-
rect connected hgh-grade electric engine;
Western Electric Company. two forty-horse
power center-crank high-grade engines for
Clayton, N. NJ; Western Electric Com
pany. Chicago ILL.,, one fifty-horse power
center-crank direct connected electric en-
CINE for the Hull House, Chicago; Dickey
Clay Manufacturing Company. one forty
horse power center-crank engine for Deep
water, Mo-; Schnull & Co., city. one. sew
enty-fve-horse power center-crank direct
connected engine. for lighting and heating
their store building; Nekoosa Paper Com
pany, Nekoosa, Wis, one sxty-horse power
side-crank trade engine; city of Gallatin
Mo. one hundred horse power center
crank electric highgrade, for lighting the
ILL.,. three seventy horse power high
grade center-crank electrical engines for st.
Louis Mo.