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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20
UNDER ONE MAGNATE
ALL ROADS IN WEST AND NORTH
WEST.
UNDER NEW YORK SWAY
Officers of Hartman and Hill Inter-
ests Both to be in Chicago-Mak-
ing of Rates to be One of Their
Observation-Disclosures and Others
Hold Conference on Subject.

Chicago. June 18.-The Tribune to-
day says: "All roads in the middle
west and northwest in which E. H
Hartman, J. P. Morgan, the Wander
bits and ]. Hill are interested will
hereafter be practically under one
manager. ]. c. Stubs, now third
vice president of the Southern Pacific,
will be traffic expert or manager for
the Hartman group Of roads, while
Darius Miller, second vice president of
the Great Northern, will occupy a
similar position for the Hill roads.
Both will probably have Offices in
Chicago and act in conjunction. The
making of rates will be in their hands
and they will act in unison On all
transcontinental and competitive traf-
fic matters. This is one result of the
conference held in Chicago Saturday
between Hartman and various rail
road men.
Stubs will have full charge of all
| traffic affairs of the Union Pacific,
| Southern Pacific, Oregon Short line
and Oregon Railway & Navigation
company He will also have charge of
the trans-continental traffic affairs of
the Northwestern, Alton, Illinois Cen
| trail, st. Paul and one or two other
| lines that may come under the Harri-
man control. Miller, who is one of
Hills trusted lieutenants, will be traf.
| fic expert for the Burlington, Great
Northern and Northern Pacific roads
| and to these may be added later on the
| Chicago & Great Western. Wisconsin
| Central, Indianapolis and St. Louis &
Iowa Central Miller, it is understood,
will also be made second vice presi-
dent Of the Burlington.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20
SCOFIELD A CANDIDATE.
May be New G. A. A. Department.
Commander. l.

Ex-Governor Edward Scofield may
return to Madison as department com
mander of the Grand Army of the
state. The election occurs at She
boygan next week when the state en-
campm ant is. held. His opponents are
H. b. De Croft of Buffalo and Fred
Copeland of La Crosse. De Croft
seems to be in the lead for the place.
Milwaukee has no candidate but is
after the encampment for next year.
Lucius Fairchild post will be well
at the encampment.
tomorrow nights meeting arrange
ments will be made for attending. The
following expect to go: Assistant Ad-
jutant General ]. c. McFarlin Assist
ant Quartermaster General F. A
Bird, Col c. B. Welton, Gen George
E. Bryant, Col. c. E. Morley, Major J.
w. Curran, James Gibson, John Gal
lagher, R. G. Luther, c. M. Palmer, H.
]. Spaulding and Capt. John O'Connell
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20
TELLS BIG GAME STORIES,
Commissioner From Uganda Sees
Marvellous Sights.

London, June 1S.-Sir Henry Ham
llton Johnston, special commissioner
for Uganda, protectorate, has returned
to London after an absence of two
years. He brings stories from Ugan-
da rivaling Henry M. Stanleys de-
scription in Darkest Africa.
Sir Henry relates that the country
surrounding Moantelgon is totally de-
populated as result of inter-tribal
wars and is consequently marvellous
ly stocked with big game as an Eng
fish park. Deer. zebras and antelopes
can be approached to within ten yards
and there is no sport in killing them
Elephants and rhinocerous are also
abundant according to Sir Harry. The
lions in Uganda are too busy eating 20
notice the passing caravan. A pre-
historic giraffe has been discovered
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20
CABLES WILL SURRENDER.
Prominent lnsurgent Ready to Give
up FiUht

Manila, June 1S.-Gen. Sumner has
returned here from Santa Cruz prov
ince where he has been negotiating
for the surrender of Gen. Cables. He
confirms the dispatch of Sunday an
nouncing that preliminaires of surren-
der of the insurgent leader had been
arranged. Cables is collecting his
scattering troops. Of these LAT will
surrender tomorrow, the rest will give
themselves up next Monday. Colonels
Gueverra and Infante, representatives
of Cables, assured Sumner that Gail
les is acting in good faith. There
have been several sharp skirmishes
in Bohol since the departure of the
44th regiment. Conditions in Cebu
are still backward 1t is officially re-
ported that insurgent bands, with
American deserters, are going to Min
doro.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20
TASTES TO HUSBANDS BEDSIDE.
Mrs. Pingree Leaves for London-Ex-
Governor Very Ill.

WIS. Fin9Fee Leaves TOT LOnooh-6X.
Governor Very Ill.
London, June 1S.-Ex-Governor Pin
gree's physician left him at midnight
There is continued apprehension as to
his condition. The strongest drugs
have failed to check the dysentery
and the only hopeful symptom is that
the patient has been enabled freely to
partake of nourishment Mrs. Pin
gree sails for London tomorrow and
physicians hope Pingree may at least
be able to see his wife as he remains
perfectly rational.
Detroit, June 1S.-Frank G. Pingree,
brother of the ex-governor, left for
New York yesterday afternoon accom-
panied by Mrs. H. S. Pingree and her
daughter, Hazel The party will sail
for London tomorrow. Mrs. Pingree
is far from well, but is SO anxious
about her husbands condition that
she will cross the ocean to be with
him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20
May Return to Canton.

Washington, June 18.-Mrs. Mckin-
ley's condition continues to show
steady improvement She has now
progressed to a point where her
strength permits visits from few
friends. DR.. Rixey on leaving the
white house shortly after II last night
said Mrs Mckinley had passed an ex-
cellent day. He expressed with con
siderable confidence the belief that
she would be strong enough to go to
Canton by July 1.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20
TWO WIVES WANT DIVORCE.
Dual Suits for Separation Brought in
Same Court.

Topeka, Kan, June 14-J. D. Con-
lon of Atchison is being sued by two
women for divorce in the same court
Zoe Conlon of st. Louis, instituted
suit, claiming abandonment of COM
mon law marriage. Last fall Conlon
married Miss Harriet Smith of Atchi-
son, who is now with theatrical COM
pany. When she heard of the other
suit she Immediately filed one.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20
SECOND JURY SITS.
Another Chapter in Jessie Morrison's
Career Opens.

Another Chapter in Jessie Morrison's
Career Opens.
Eldorado, Kas., June 18.-The jury
to try Jessie Morrison the second time
for the murder of Mrs. DIN Castle
having been secured yesterday, a
number of witnesses for the prosecu-
ton testified. The state offered a
note written by Mrs. Castle as evil
dence, the defense Directing strongly.
The court admitted the paper. The
state offered a paper claimed to be
Mrs. Castles dying statement, which
Judge Shinn at the former trial adj
mitted only in part. Rev. H. G. Whar-
ton, DR.. Fullinwider and DR.. LOGGER
testified in regrad to the manner of
writing the dying statement.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20
VERY SMOOTH STRATEGY.
Invading Mosquitoes Worsted in an
Oily Campaign.

Baltimore, Md, June 1.-THE first
attatG of the mosquito army on old
Fort McHenry has been repulsed. The
sixty men of the historic post, under
the lead of Surgeon Alexander Stark.
have repealed the invasion. Millions
upon millions of the enemy were
slaughtered in single night. The
invaders tried to surprise the little
garrison, but were in turn trapped. In
three big incompleted magazines the
mosquito forces concentrated for the
attack. They never escaped alive.
Surgeon Stark had fought mosquitoes
in Cuba. He found it as easy as fight
ing Spaniards. Several gallons Of
petroleum were placed in each of the
magazines and the fumes overpow-
cred the mosquitoes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20

in this country by the commissioner
who proposes to mai-tcin the region
referred to as a national park. He
photographed a race of ape men N
the Congo forest differing entirely
from Stanley's pigmies and secured
phonograph records of their language
and music. Sir Harry says twelve va
rieties Of rubber trees are found n
this country in an inexhaustible sup
ply.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20

member of the staff of his father, Ma
jor General Charles Miller, command
er of the national guard of Pennsyl-
vania. Mrs Miller is a native of
Franklin and leader of the younger
element in society. She is a daughter
Of the late Frederick A Prentice and
was educated in New York city. She
is pretty and stylish.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20

When Miss Elizabeth Rend re-
ceived her diploma from the Visitation
Academy, Washington, D. c., recently
she also received a sealed envelope
from her father The envelope con-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20

Unmasked highwaymen robbed a
Newcastle, Pa, man of 2,100 and two
of them are captured
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20

taind a check for $4,000, and was a
reward for her success in winning two
gold medals for excellence in music
md general scholarship. Miss Rend
who is Is years old. is the daughter
of Colonel and Mrs. w. P Rend,
Chicago. After preparatory work at
st. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Ind,
she entered the Visitation Academy
three years ago. and has made a
record of scholarship equaled by few
students in that institution. Her
parents went to Washington to attend
the commencement exercises.
Colonel Rend was so delighted with
his daughters work that he not only
gave her the check but promised to
send her abroad during the summer to
study music and French in Paris
Mrs. Clara B. Newberry, a daughter
of Andrew D. White, ambassador to
Germany, has entered suit in the
courts at Sandusky, Ohio, against her
husband, S. S. Newberry, president CT
the Diamond Portland Cement COM
pan of Clevelend, for alimony and an
injunction. Mr.. Newberry was for
merly professor Of chemistry in
Cornell university. He married the
ambassadors daughter when Mr..
White was president of Cornell, and
the wedding was a memorable one n
social annals of Ithaca. Mrs. New
berry makes a statutory charge
against her husband and mentions
several names in this connection.
The allegations are sensational The
Newberrys lived in the most aristo-
cratic section of Sandusky. They
have two children, both boys, the
eldest, Andrew. is Is and is now with
Ambassador White in Germany. The
younger is with his mother Mrs
Newberry separated from her husband
after stormy scene. She was
granted temporary restraining order,
enjoying the Moss National bank of
Sandusky and the Society for Savings
of Cleveland from paying over any
money pending the suit Ambassador
White has been notified of the
trouble. Mrs. Newberry is a beautiful
woman and a social favorite New
berry is noted for his Chesterfieldian
bearing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20

Mrs. Frederick Prentice Miller Of
Franklin, Pa, has the distinction of
being the wife of the youngest major
in any city in the country. Her hus-
band, Major Charles ]. S. Miller, is a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

When a writer barely 20 years of
age produces book of sufficient merit
to attract so conservative publishing
firm as the Harpers it is not too full
some credit to say she has achieved
a distinct succeSS-a success OF which
her native city may justly be proud.
This distinction has been earned by
Miss Margaret Horton Potter with her
third novel, The House of De Mailly.
Potter of Chicago, and was born in
that city in 1881. Her sister, Mrs.
Gertrude Potter Daniels, has also pub
lished two successful books. Miss
Potter has acquired most of her
education through travel and reading
She prepared for Bryn Mawr at the
Chicago preparatory school, but i'll
health prevented her from attending
college, She has since made. how
even, postgraduate studies in Latin,
Greek, English, history, and
philosophy under private tutor.
Miss Potter's last trip abroad included
considerable stay in a remote vii
IaSe III SICILY; Cnere Sne secured mucn
of the material woven into her last
novel. the scenes If which are laid
in the court of Louis XIV. Miss
Potter's first book was called A
Social Lion and her second I'M
canonized. Miss Potter is spending
the summer at Lake Geneva.
Mrs. Elizabeth Burr Hamilton. said
to be the last member of the seventh
generation of the Burr family, who
died recently at Bridgeport, Conn, at
the age of 80, was the fifth cousin of
Aaron Burr, the third vice president of
the United States. who killed Alexan-
der Hamilton, the lawyer and states
man, in a duel in 1904. Her death
recalls the fact that. though the
families of Burr and Hamilton were
the most bitter enemies at the begin
ming of the last century, love found
way thirty-two years after the famous
duel to bring the families togethe"
again by the marriage of Elizabeth
Burr and Alexander Hamilton in 1886
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20

CHICAGO MARKETS.
The following table shows the open
ing, highest, lowest and closing prices
of produce yesterday at Chicago:
Evening star., 1901-04-30
Pride of Ancestry.
From Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly.


Not long since an acquaintance of mine
said to me, with an air of pride, L can
trace back my ancestry to my great-great-
graEdfather's great eat-grandfather. He
was a cavalier, and fought under Charles
II "And what does that amount top 1
answered him. That was the eighth gen.
Grafton before you, and in that generation
you had 12S forefathers and 12S foremoth-
ers, and you can account, for but one of
them, just 1-256 of your ancestry in that
generation. Among the 127 men Of whom
you have never heard there may have
been several who were hanged for murder
burglary or sheep stealing, for all that
you know or can ever hope to know. Nor
can you tell how many disreputable char
acterS there may have been among the 12S
women. And you must remember, too
that you had sixty-four foremothers in the
seventh generation, and thirty-twO in the
hfth all OF them nearer to you than that
cavalier. You must account for them as
WELL
Yet. of course, one should be glad that
his near lineal and collateral kin have
been and are honest men and virtuous wo-
men, but line mast be drawn somewhere
and that not ma9y generations back, be-
birth or bad BIRTH. because it is all both
good and bad. When 6any one begins to
boast that he comes of "a long line of
proud ancestry he can be contradicted at
once, because there is no such thing as "a
long line of ANCESTRY Ones ancestry
cannot be represented by a line" but by
an inverted pyramid. Every one Of us
comes not of one, but of many hundreds
and thousands of long lines of ancestry,
some of them proud, perhaps. and others
with no cause for pride, but rather the re-
verse. 1t will not do to try to follow them
all too far back. Some one of the many
viii! surely lead to a dungeon of the New
gate prison. or it mayobe to the Tyburn
galloWs tree. We cannot pin our faith to
the one cavalier and ignore all the others,
as my friend was trying to do. because it
is natures plan that all the good and all
the bad of the race should be mixed up in
each one of us.
Evening star., 1901-04-30

How about the selection and granting
of coaling stations?"
LAS to thessrI cannot say. Such q,ies-
tions will be left to the constitutional con-
vention at Havana"
Are you sure, then, that the United
States} will grant Cuba its. desired indie
pehdence?"
Evening star., 1901-04-30
m the Chicago Tribune.


Still, muttered Moll Pitcher at the bat
tie of Monmouth, as, she took her place at
the cannon and rammed the charge home
amid the cheers of the soldiers, II don't
suppose I'd be eligible for membership
either in the Society of the Colonial Danes
or the Daughters Of the American Revo-
luton. I'm only a washer woman-and.
besides. they'd never forgive me for car
rying that water myself instead of hiring a
boy to do itr'
Evening star., 1901-04-30

If you want work read the want columns
of The Star,
Washington telegraph., 1901-04-12
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
That Contain Mercury.

as mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole sys.
TEN when entering it through the mucous
surfaces. Such articles should never be used
physicians, as the damage they will do is
often ten fold to the good you can possibly
derive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo,
o., contains no mercury, and is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the gen
Hine., It is taken 4 i93teGTPPally, GPy, and made in
monials free.
Sold by Druggists, price 75e per bottle.
HALLS Family Pills are the best
Washington telegraph., 1901-04-12

New York, April IA special to the
Tribune from Washington says:
Important developments in the
Oberlin NJ. Carter case are likely to
occur within a few days. Carter is
now serving a sentence of five years.
Imprisonment in the government pen
itentiary at Leavenworth, Kas.,
charged with gigantic swindling op-
erations against the government. Up
to the time he was convicted, Carter
was under the jurisdiction of, and was
prosecuted by the war department.
Since then the civil authorities of the
government, acting through the de-
partment of justice, have been qui-
city, but vigorously and relentlessly,
tracing, step by step, the money Car
ter stole, and now have the great
bulk of it located, and are about
ready to recover it and turn it back
into the treasury.
The department of justice has dis
covered that Carter's profits from the
shrewd swindling scheme, which he
worked successfully for so long a
time, were $722 900. The government
detectives, who for three years have
been ON the ex-army officers
trail have located nearly ey-
cry cent OF this money, and
as soon as certain unimportant
details are completed the legal steps
necessary to recover it will be taken
by Che department of justice. Attach
ments will be sworn out by United
States district attorneys in New York
city, in Savannah, Ga, and at other
places where Carter invested the
money, and it is not impossible
that, as a result of these proceedings,
the arrest of two or three well-known
men, charged with knowingly taking
part in protecting Carter's stealings.
will follow.
lt has been learned that Carter in
vested the money in gilt-edged seeuri-
ties and real estate in and around
New York
Washington telegraph., 1901-04-12
Importance of Hair.

"It's wonderful" says Uncle Jasper,
"what a little bit of hair will do for a per-
son. Now, there was Hank Ridley. When
Hank was young feller he was the most
gawky lookin' chap | ever saw. His hair
growed away down nearly to his eyebrows,
and they want nothin' much but kind of
a hollow place where you'd natehelly 'spose
his chin ought to been. Well, Hanks kind
OF bald-headed now, and since he's raised
whiskers you can't see but what he's got
just as much chin as the next man. Five
years ago, before his hair began to fall out,
and when the barber never thought of askin'
him if he wanted a shave, Hank was workin'
for $40 month in railroad office and get
tin looked down on by everybody around
the place. Now, where do you 'spose he is !?
By gum! he's general manager of the road,
and there amt a more businesslike-lookin'
feller in our hull county. Talk about split
tin hairs! | tell you, there's more in it
than most people think fer and it makes
lot of difference sometimes whether feller
has 'em on top of his head or the lower end
of his face. st. Louis Republic.
Washington telegraph., 1901-04-12
GOLF AS A TEMPER TEST.
A LuckIess Player Demonstrates
How Easy 1t Is to Control
One's Self.

A golf story which should certainly be
added to the already excellent number to
which the game has given birth possesses
an advantage which cannot be claimed for
all of them, that of being absolutely ly authen-
tic. An enthusiast, who was somewhat of a
tyro at golf, though of great distinction at
other forms of athletics, had series of mis-
fortunes with which most people can sympa-
thize. He was playing against man whose
opinion he valued and he consistently topped
his ball, sliced it, pulled it, lifted It into a
tree, played a fine cleek stroke into a bunker,
and made extraordinary straight long-dis-
tance puts in which the ball hoped genially
across the hole into the long grass which
skirted the green.
At first the players demeanor was omi-
nously sweet; he seemed positively to enjoy
his strokes; then he grew mad; then he grew
apparently careless, though his eaddie no.
ticed the carelessless was only assumed, as
he was pressing horribly. The worst of golf
IS that you can never deceive either your
caddie or your ball. At last, at the seventh
hole, he grew wonderfully calm, and marched
off to the next teeing ground, remarking to
his trembling caddie that he would not
trouble to hole out. After an easy prelim-
mary swing or two he topped his ball, which
trickied away about 20 yards to the right.
Then the man took all his clubs and broke
them one by one across his knee, remarking
quietly to his opponent that ''it is better to
break your internal clubs than to lose your
Internal temper. London Telegraph.
Washington telegraph., 1901-04-12
BOLD DASH FOR LIBERTY.
Attempt of Prentice Tiller and n Fellow
Prisoner to Escape From U. S.
onlcers at Chicago.

Chicago, April S.-Prentice Tiller
and J. II. Grant, alias A. B. Chase,
alias A. f. Martin, who were recently
arrested in Nebrask ka, and who were
wanted by the federal authorities i'll
Cincinnati and other cities forrobbing
the United States mails, made a sem
satlonal dash for liberty in the
Union station last evening. Grant
made his escape from the officers who
had the two men in charge and is still
at large. Tiller was recaptured.
When they made their break for
freedom they had just arrived in Chi
cago in charge of Deputy United
States Marshal j. o. Moore and Ser
geant Michael Dempsey, of Omaha.
Before leaving the train the leg irons
on the prisoners were changed to
handcuffs SO they could go up the
stairway to the dining room for break
fast.
During the change one of the pris-
oners in some way got possession OF
the key to the handouts. Sergeant
Dempsey missed the key as soon as
they had reached the waiting room
and, leaving the prisoners in charge
of Deputy Moore, he returned to the
car to search for it. With Deputy
Moore sitting directly in front of
them TilIer fumbled with the hand
cuffs as il they were chafing his
wrists and succeeded in opening the
lock.
Grant, the moment he was released,
sprang upon Deputy Moore, and, PIN
Joining his arms, told Tiller to run.
Titler scrambled to his feet and start
ed for the door, while the deputy
mashal struggled with Grant and
frlntically shouted an alarm to the
startled passengers in the waiting
room, directing them to catch TiIler.
Grant informed the excited crowd
that began to gather that Moore was
a crazy man and told them not to pay
any attention to his rawlings. In re-
sponse to the demands of the deputy
some of the bystanders interfered.
Moore left Grant in their charge and
gave chase after Tiller.
When moore returned TO tne station
with Tiller in handouts, he asked for
Grant, and was told by some of the by
ISLANDERS that he had gone away. The
police started on his trail, but lost
trace of him a few blocks from the
depot.
Tiller was talsen to Cincinnati last
night Up to a late hour the police
had not succeeded in locating Grant.