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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-03-07
NEW Works. TRADE WAR.
The West and South Rebel Against
Her Commercial Suzerainty.

If the United States were huge
funnel, with the smaller end at New
York, so that all things from all sec
tions could scramble in at one end
and land with a certainty at the other,
the business men of New York might
not be engaged, as they are at
present, in what threatens to be a
last struggle to prevent the general
trade center of America from clipping
to the interior of the continent.
Twenty or more years ago nearly
everything gravitated toward New
York, Boston, Philadelphia and other
cities Of the north Atlantic section.
The raw products Of every portion Of
the west. from Utica to Denver
tumbled over themselves. to reach the
manufactures of the east. The re-
tailers of the west, from the MOnon-
gahela to the north Platte and the
Sacramento, sent their orders for
pots, pans, hoe-handles, and groceries
to the jobbeTs of the Harlem and the
Schuyll6ill. The farmers Of the west
shipped their wheat and corn from the
Mississippi valley to the shores of the
Hudson and the Narragansett to pur-
chase their plows and their hay
rackes. But in the latter portion of
the seventies the process began to
stop, and 1t has been stopping ever
since. The food stuff and the raw
material Of the west have found that
home is good place to stay.
Grocers and furniture dealers and
clothiers and shOemakers think that
freight charges saved are better than
trademarks OF old firms on the
Atlantic.
Woods grown in the forests of the
northwest and the south are turned
| into harvesters and wagons and office
desks in the vicinities Of their birth.
The man in the west does his bust
ness in the west The man of the
south does his business in the south.
New York is simply submitting to a
law of geography. There are noun
tains and rivers between the west and
south and the north and east, and
commodities of trade, like human be-
ings, climb Or swim only for necessity
or for sport. Grain refuses to go I'D
the blue ridge in order to get down to
the Atlantic, because it can reach the
ocean at the gulf or the great lakes
with half the effort. Orders for metal
or cloth ballk at the mountains and the
distance to the east and north, be-
cause they have found that they can
get what they want in the nearer
fields of Birmingham and Superior AMI
North Carolina.
CAS- Col. J. NJ. Lowe, of Kansas
City put the thing rather aptly some
years ago in a speech made in reply
to a declaration by railroad managers
that the diversion of traffic to the gulf
was to be checked:
It's no use. The fiat has gone
forth and all the managers in creation
cannot stop it. Western grain will
not submit to climb the mountains
and be hauled 1900 miles down to a
seaport when it can reach deep water
On a down grade in half the distance
For quarter of a century the west,
like a gigantic Attorney COW, has
been standing, stretched across the
continent with her hind feet in the
east, and We are getting tired Of all
this and purpose to change ends"
Arthur |. Street in March Ainslee's.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-03-07

mitted report for the committee on
relations with Cuba, upon its lnVesti-
cation of the expenditures in Cuba.
A committee amendment was ciopted
permitting settlers to pasture live
stock upon forest reservations in
Colorado, Montana and Wyoming.
The appropriation of 100000 for
gauging the streams of the United
States and for the investigation of I'M
derground currents and artesian
wells in the arid and semi-arid sections
was agreed to and the provisions Of
the amendment were extended to POr-
to Rico. The conference report On
the Indian appropriation bill was
agreed to. An amendment was adopt
ed appropriating $4,000 for the edu-
cation of children in Alaska. The
last committee amendment was that
relating to the pan-American eXposi-
ton to be held in Buffalo. appropriate
ing 100000. Senator Morgan offered
an amendment authorizing the presi-
dent to acquire from Nicaragua and
Costa RIGA territory sufficient for the
construction of the Nicaragua canal
and appropriating $10,000,000 for thai
purpose. Senator Allison made the
point of order against the amendment
| that it was general legislation. The
point was sustained
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-03-07
Eoreinn,


Famine is driving Italian peasants
to revolt.
A British force in east Africa was
attacked by Somoalis and lost seven
teen men
The student disturbances in Russia
are regarded as symptoms of general
political unrest.
Public subscriptions are to be
opened in London for the monument
to Queen Victoria
King Edward VII arrived at Cron-
berg, Germany, and visited Dowager
Empress Frederick.
The formation of the American
steel trusts has excited fears of com
petition in England.
The Venezuelan press is making
violent attacks on Americans at the
irstigation of high officials.
Denmark is about to make a new
offer to the United States for the sale
of the Danish West Indies.
The duke of ORLEANS denied De
roulede's story of on intended coup d.
etat at the Neuilly barracks.
The French chamber of deputies,
while debating the proposed law of
associations, was plunged into an
uproar.
The census of the German empire
shows a population of $685.. 041.
Thirty-three of the largest towns have
over 100000 inhabitants each.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-03-07

Madison, Feb. 27.-The committee
on claims reported the Kreutzer bill
increasing the salaries Of the supreme
court justices for passage. Original
ly, the bill called for an increase OF
the salaries of the judges OF the SUI
preme court from $4,000 to $1,000 a
year and Of the circuit judges from
$500 to $4,000. As amended it gives
the supreme judges $4,000 a year and
the circuit judges $4,000 with $500 q
year for travelling expenses, as here
tofore. A resolution asking for a con-
stitutional amendment permitting
state aid in the construction of good
roads, was reported back without
recommendation and was referred to
the committee on roads and bridges.
The following bills we're ordered to
third reading: Prohibiting the insur-
ance Of state property and requiring
three years study before admission
to the bar. The Smith bill for the re-
turn to the capitol of the battleiags
from the new historical building,
whittier they were recently removed
and for the creation of permanent G.
A. R. headquarters in the state house
brought on lively charge from the
old soldiers. The measure was on
the calendar for third reading, having
been favOrably reported by the mill
tary committee. Mr.. Keene opposed
I,
urged that he was as loyal to the G.
A. r. as any one, but their battlefiags
belonged to posterity. They were
now in a place of perfect safety but if
returned to the capitol they would be
in a fire-trap. Then the soldiers
formed in solid phalanx, metaphor
ically speaking, and closed in on the
valiant Keene. David Evans, Jr., who
fought with the 10th Wisconsin volun-
teeTs and has been all over creation
since in gunboats and the like, led
the assault, declaring that those old
flags were for the living, not for the
dead. Mr.. Henry exclaimed that the
old soldiers asked to have them re-
stored, and that was enough for him
Mr.. Coapman spoke eloquently, saying
the young men as we'll as the old
soldiers wanted the flags returned.
In the rotunda Of the capitol they
were seen by many and were an in
SEPARATION to all. Then Mr.. Keene
capitulated. The bill involves an ap-
preparation of $1,000 to fit up rooms in
the capitol for the headquarters and
so had to go to the claims COM
mittee, but it will pass the lower
house with hurrah when it comes
back and then Stebbins and his heroic
cohorts will of course see that it has
easy sailing in the senate Perhaps
the most important episode in the
assembly was the submission by the
committee on privileges and elections
of a favorable report on Mr.. Halls
bill for an amendment to the constitu-
ton permitting the use of voting
machines. A senate bill has passed
enabling icenUates to soIemniZe mar
riages.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-03-07
HAVE YOU TALENT?
1t is Difficult to Discover for What
One has a Natural Aptitude

1t is Difficult to Discover for What
One has a Natural Aptitude
zone good way, think, to judge
whether we have talent for anything
Or not is to watch the motive that
draws us toward doing a thing"
writes Helen Watterson Moody, in
the Ladies' Home Journal 'If we dc
it because it is the fashion, or because
other girls are doing it, or because we
have to do. it for some useful purpose,
it is not probable that we have a real
talent for it; but if we find ourselves
doing it just because we really love
it, and would rather do it than not; il
it is doing the thing itself that attracts
us, and not the eclat it is going to give
us in the eyes Of others-why then I
think we may reasonably conclude
that God has given us a real talent
for that particular sort of thing"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-03-07
Domestic.

Domestic.
Mrs NJ Deckard of ElnOra. Ind,
smashed her husbands saloon.
Three miners were killed in an eX-
plosion at South McAllister, I. T.
A negro tied and attempted to burn
a white woman at Atlanta, Ga.
Thirty-fve men persisted in a fire in
a coal mine at Diamondville. Wyo.'
Brigadier General Wade will be pro-
NOTED to the vacant major general
ship.
Clothing manufacturers say con-
ditions will soon break the WOODEN
trust.
George Duerstein was convicted of
attempting to murder a girl at Ga
lena, H.
The will of P. D. Armour, disposing
of ST., 100000 estate was admitted to
probate.
The available cash balances in the
national treasury are $145,556 ,552;
gold $7S,342 900.
The treasury department will take
radical steps to stop smuggling by
ocean tourists.
The Cripple Creek gold output for
February was $2O5S,0O0; for the fis-
cal year, $23 PAT 900.
Edward st. John, an editor for
Appleton & Co. has brought silt for
divorce in New York
J. p. Morgan is said to be back Of
the projected coal road between
Wheeling and Cleveland
Edmond Palmer, banker, who risk
ed deposits in liquefed air, was ar
rested at Desplaines, Ill.
The Grand Trunk is arranging for
weekly ocean service between Port
land, Me. and Glasgow.
The name of Major Lowering, 18th
infantry was sent to the senate for
promotion to lieutenant colonel.
William Claybots, West Superior,
Wis, assaulted hts son in court, after
being sentenced for wife murder.
Two girls were burned to death in a
fire caused by the careless use of a
match in 4 factory at Waukegan.
The Michigan supreme court decid-
ed assessment on outside railroad
stock held by residents is legal.
The marine engineers ordered q
general strike on the great lakes.
which may tie up the ore fleet.
Monkeys are in demand for pets
and consignment of them valued at
$3.50 arrived in Chicago from Ant
werp
The executive board of the General
Federation Of Women's Clubs decided
to hold the biennial convention at Los
Angeles.
NJ. D. Bearden, citizen of Banner
Springs, Kas., was arrested on charge
of attempting to extort money by
threats.
Johnston Miller, a Creek Indian ac-
cused of three murders, was shot to
death by masked mob, near Holden
vile, I. t.
]. P. Morgan made a statement Civ.
ing some details of the United States
Steel company, which has a capital of
$1,100 100000.
A bill passed the Indiana legislature
and was signed by the governor pro
hibiting the sale Of bogls flaxseed and
inseed oils.
Conger's refusal to be a candidate
for the republican nomination for the
Iowa gOvernorship relieved the minds
Of aspirants.
William NJ. Evarts, eX-United States
senator attorney general, secretary of
state, and noted lawyer, died, aged SO,
in New York
The Indiana legislature killed q bin
for ship canal from Lake Michigan
to the Calumet river which was
fought by the railroads.
George Ward, the negro who killed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-03-07

The horses stamp and champ their
oats
Down in the stall below,
And through the open haymow door
The swallows COME and go.
The sun is very bright outside;
The men shout far away;
And in the NOW the children climb
And play among the hay.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-03-07

Ida Finkalstein at Terre Haute, Ind,
was taken from jail, beaten, shot,
hanged, and the body burned.
representative Griffith introduced a
bill appropriating $4,000 to pay for
losses caused by John Morgan's raid
into Indiana IN the civil war.
Rear Admiral Crowninshield sus-
poets that Gunner Morgan gave the
Sampson letter to the newspapers and
threatens him with court-martial.
Citizens of Matawan. \. J.. twice
strung up Charles Herbert to make
him confess that he was firebug
He was taken to the Freehold jail.
Representative Hearn of the Della
ware house named Representative
Reese Layton as the man who offered
him a bribe Layton denied the
charge.
In --icago J. z. Mclaughlin filed
petition to have Naugle. Holcomb &
Co, railroad contractors, declared
bankrupt The petitioner claims
$3.50
E. D. Peake, jamestown, Wis, says
there are eleven townships (250,O00
acres) on the borders of Michigan and
Visions n not included in the survey
Of either state.
The United States circuit court de.
cided against the Berliner telegraph
patent, declaring the invention not
new. The American Bell company
will appeal.
An east train on the Wabash went
over an embankment near Benton
Ind. Thirty-eight passengers were in
iured. seven being Chicagoans. Si1
of the injured may die.
Despite Admiral Simpsons opposi
ton to appointing naval officers from
the crews, Secretary Long has placed
/ Gunner Morgan in the way of promo
ton.
Henry S. Van Schaick, clubman an
Rough Rider, shot himself in The
presence of his bride Of one month il
Red Bank, New York. His brothe
says it was an accident.
The liner Teutonic, which arrived
in New York was struck by tida
wave, supposedly Of volcanic origin
that damaged it's upper works and in
jured many Of the passengers AM
crew.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-03-07

Of the house, thanking the members
for their cooperation through the
busy and eyentfuI session. He con
Guided at Has and announced the
sessions of the house for the fifty
sixth congress adjourned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-03-07
Wishin' 1t Was Spring.

Jes' a-pinin' fer tn spring,
Take it altogether,
Hain't got any use nohow,
Fer this winter weather.
Jes' a-pinin' fer tn spring,
An tn sunshine lurkin'
Round tn trail, an onct agin
All tn birds a-chirkin'.
Jes' a-pinin' fer tn spring,
Amos gettin' sickly,
Hopin' that tn time'u fly
Can't go none too quickly.
Jes' a-pinin' fer tn spring,
Hopin' fer tn thawin'.
Shaw! she'll come when she is due,
What's tn use O. jawin'.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-03-07
FEDERAL LAW MAKERS.

Washington, Feb. 25.-The real strug-
sic for insular legislation at this ses-
sion began in the senate. The army
appropriation bill was under consider
! alton and the Philippine amendment
was reached. IN addition the Cuba
amendment was offered and a general
debate on these propositions began.
Sharp opposition to the Philippine
amendment developed on the
democratic side, beginning with
a point of order which
the senate overruled, followed with
speeches by Senators Tillman, Raw
Inns, Caffery, Bacon and Morgan. The
amendment was defended by it's
author, Senator Spooner, who pointed
out the necessity for legislation. Sen
ator Tillman vigorously opposed the
amendment. He declared it was
bold, naked proposition to invest the
president with plenary power to gov
ern the Philippine archipelago in
civil way. He declared the enactment
of the proposition into a law, together
with the granting of certain requests
OF the Taft commission to sell public
lands and lease mines, would open to
the people of the Philippines all the
dangers of carpet-bag government.
At great length Senator Morgan dis
cussed the constitutional phases of the
Philippine question He insisted there
was no war in the Philippine islands.
In the course Of his discussion of the
Philippine question, Senator Morgan
referred in terms of high praise to
the work of the Taft commission and
to the government which had been es-
tablished in the islands
The house jettisoned authorizations
for two battleships and two cruisers
which were in the naval appropriation
bill as it passed that body. The senate
had rejected the proposition and.
against the appeals of the house con-
ferees. the house voted by a big ma
jority to agree to the senate amend
ment striking out the authorizations.
The house agreed to the conference
report of the bill to create a commits
sion of five to adjudicate the claims
of United States citizens against
Spain assumed by the United States
under the treaty of Paris
Washington, Feb. 26.-An important
amendment to the Philippine amend
ment to the army appropriation bill
was agreed to in the senate. It was
an amplifcation of the amendment
previously offered by Senator Hoar.
laying restrictions upon the sale OF
public lands and granting franchises
and concessions in the Philippines.
Senator Morgan of Alabama occupied
the floor during the greater part Of
the day, having discussed compre-
hensively both the Philippine and the
Cuban amendments. Senator Allen
severely arranged Rear Admiral
Sampson for some endorsements he IS
alleged to have made upon the ap-
plication of Gunner Charles Morgan
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-03-07
Besfed BN Pneumonia

Chicago, March Sammy Harris,
the well known featherweight boxer,
is dead of pneumonia
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-03-07

Washington, March 1.-During the
greater part of the long and tiresome
session of the senate the sundry civil
bill was under con
slderation. It was finally passed.
Senator Plat of Connecticut sub
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-03-07

Washington, March 4.-Dne of the
most notable occurrences in the his
tory of congressional legislation
marked the closing hours of the last
session Of the senate Of the fifty-sixth
congress. Senator Carter of Montana
signalized his retirement from the
senate after six years of brilliant ser
vice by talking the river and harbor
bill. carrying $50000,000, to death. He
occupied the floor for nearly thirteen
consecutive hours, although about
three hours of that time was devoted
to other business. Senator Allison
submitted a further disagreement on
the sundry civil bill, the item in con-
tention being the appropriation for
the three expositions. From this the
senate receded and then passed the
st. Louis exposition bill Senator Till
man, who championed the appropria-
ton for Charleston, made final an.
peal to save the Charleston item, but
he realized the Missouri senator's
were more powerful than he. By a
vote of 80 to 10, the senate receded
from the Charleston appropriation.
The bill was then passed. At the con-
clusiOn of the session Vice President
Roosevelt was sworn in and immedi.
ateiy called the senate Of the fifty
seventh congress to order It was
simple but beautiful and impressive
ceremony. New senators were sworn
in in groups of four. At the conclu-
sion of this proceeding the senate at
tended the inauguration of the presi-
dent on the east front Of the capitol
The house closed its session at
11:45 yesterday amid demonstrations
from its members following the deliv-
cry OF an impressive valedictory by
Speaker Henderson. For an hour tho
body had been in the throes Of disso.
luton with little business to perform.
The galleries were almost empty. fol.
there were too many sights and
scenes without the building and toe
many restrictions on admission to per.
nit an overfOwing assemblage. Here
and there on the desks of members
were great clusters of flowers, paying
tribute to their services.
before the closing hour. Mr..
Richardson of Tennessee. the minor.
lily leader, presented resolutions testi
Tying to the high regard of the house
for the able, impartial and dignifed
manner in which Speaker Henderson
mad administered the duties Of presid.
ing omcer. Coming from the minor
lty, there was added significance in |
the tribute. The resolutions were
unanimously adopted by a rising vote.
! hen the speaker, in slow and impress
s1ye tones. delivered the closing words
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-03-07

Madison, Feb. 28:-In the senate the
good roads resolution calling for a
constitutional amendment was laid
over until March on motion of Sen
atOT Stout. A senate bill was passed
reducing the limit of population for
cities Of the second class from 40 1000
to 10000. A vote that may be very
highly significant was cast in the as
sembly when the bill to give Dairy and
Food Commissioner Adams two as
sistants was killed t'Politics did it."
declared a friend of the meaure init
mating that, as Adams was very close
TO the administration, the anti-primary
election element had lined I'D against
him. Speeches for the bill were made
by Messrs. Frost, Gilman, Thomas and
Root and against it by Messrs. Cady.
Spratt, SilkwOrth and Dodge. The
vote to kill was 50 to AZ. But whether
politics did it or not, a number of
La Toilette men voted against the
measure. The Hall joint resolution
for constitutional amendment per-
hitting the use of voting machines
was ordered to a third reading. It
will take four years to get the con-
stItutiOn amended. The committee on
federal relations made a report in
favor Of the state acceeding to Column
bla county's plea for help in rebuild
ing and Strengthening the dikes at
Portage. The Improvements will cost
some $4,000. A bill was passed to
prohibit the forging or counterfeiting
OF railroad tickets and passes, while
among the measures killed were
these: Orton's permitting officers or
guards of the state prison or the state
reformatory to kill if necessary to pre-
vent escapes or the commission of
by inmates of those institu- |
tons, and Henry's to prohibit the |
and sale of beer and in |
-oxicating liquors within certain areas
about the capitol and school buildings. |
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-03-07
China.

Two Chinese officials were executed
at Pekin according to the demands Of
the powers.
The British forces in China are
ready to move if the pledges are not
carried out
w w Rockhtll took charge Of the
American Legation at Pekin, succeed
ing Minister Conger.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-03-07
With the Beers.

London is cheered by the bOer losses
reported by General French
1t is rumored in Cape Town that De
wet has escaped, but that his force is
scattered.
London is waiting for confirmation
Of the report of Bothas surrender to
Lord Kitchener.
General Dewet remains south Of
the Orange river and has recrossed
the Cape Town railroad.
Ten British army officers in south
Africa have been dismissed, War Sec
rotary Broderick told parliament.