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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-18
COAL TRUST EXPANDS
BITUMINOUS COMBINE BIGGER
THAN EVER EXPECTED.
BUYS CARRYING FACILITIES
Transporters Will Work in Perfect
Harmony With Producers-Fur-
Their Development of Western
Mines Said to be Contemplated
Big Underwriting Syndicate.

Cleveland, July 1.-THE Leader to-
day will say:
Owing to expansions of the original
plan having been agreed upon, the
formation of a soft coal trust may be
delayed to give time for working out
larger plans. The plan as now out
lined provides close harmony between
producing and transportation COM
panies. In the latter are to be in
cluded both lake and rail and ocean
facilities of the largest proportions.
1t now develops that the purchase
of the Ohio River railroad by the
Baltimore & Ohio was a part of this
big scheme and perfected the control
of soft coal carrying facilities for GER
tain parts of the Ohio, West Virginia
and Pittsburg district. The same in
terests now control, with the assist
ance of the Morgan holdings, all coal
carrying properties in this territory
that ship coal to the lakes or to the
east via Wheeling and Lake Erie. A
feet of ocean-going lake-traversing
Vessels Is W DS COllSClSu uuuSl tuC
guidance of the big combination
More of an endeavor is to be made to
sell the Pittsburg and West Virginia
steam Goals abroad than to put them
into competition in the northwest with
Goals of the same company, which are
mined in illinois and western Indiana
fields. The west being compelled to
provide largely for itself in the way
of coal production, the fields of Indi-
ana and Illinois will be developed and
mines recently discovered IN Indian
Territory and vicinity will be opened
to afford material for the western
part of this country.
1t is said the financial interests
which are behind the United States
Steel corporation are forming an I'M
derwriting syndicate to take care OF
the securities of the big combination,
that this organization will arrange for
the issue Of 100000, 900 of trust secur-
tiles. Western companies which are
to be purchased are the Illinois Coal
company. Hooking Coal company, MO-
nongahela Coal company, P1ttsburg
Coal company, Paramount Coal COM
pany and MassilliOn Coal Mining
company. There are rumors also that
the Flat Top coal company is to be
made a part of the large organization
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-18
MAY GUST
KITCHENER

London, July 14.-The Kitchener
Vladkfontein incident has come near
to spelling a Waterloo for the govern
ment.
For months past, public belief in and
admiration for Lord Kitchener has
been waning; now he is openly and Sc
verely criticised. Rumors, which can
not be substantiated, are current that
he shortly will be succeeded in COM
mand of the British forces in south
Africa by Gen. Sir Bindon Blood, who
has been operating in the eastern
Transvaal. Should this change occur,
it would probably be due to differences
of opinion existing between Lord Mil
ner of Capetown and Lord Kitchener,
and will be announced in the form of
a promotion, accompanied by a state
ment that the operations in south At
RIGA no longer justify the presence
there of an officer of the seniority of
Lord Kitchener.
There is little doubt that Lords Mil
ner and Kitchener have had several
dlsagreements, and the high commits
sioner does not want to return to south
Africa as long as the hard, high-handed
Kitchener remains in control there.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-18
NEWS IN NUTSHELL

Fire an Enid, Ok T., destroyed
property valued at 100000.
c. D. Graham made his fifth trip
through the Niagara rapids in a
barrel.
The sugar product of the Hawaiian
islands has increased 1000 per cent.
since it's free admission to the United
States.
Marion Absher was arrested at
Marion, ILL.,, for KIDNAPPING his own
daughter.
Bryanites in Ohio are to bolt the
regular democratic state ticket and put
up free silver candidates.
City Sealer James Quinn is said to
be planning to GUST Robert E. Burke as
democratic leader in Chicago.
A monument to commemorate Com
modore Perry's visit to Yokohama n
1853 was unveiled in that city.
Frank McCroy of Hallstead, Pa,
declares he has discovered the lost
Egyptian art of hardening copper
The king Of Italy has been forced
to adopt a socialistic plan Of rule to
prevent grave danger to the monarchy.
The anniversary OF the fall of the
bastile was celebrated at Paris and
throughout France with great
enthusiasm
A dog caused a bicycle rider to fall
at Galesburg, ILL.,, whose revolver was
accidentally discharged with probably
fatal result.
The parole Of a convict in the
Indiana penitentiary was postponed
because he chewed tobacco before the
pardon board.
An Epworth league party of twenty,
on its way to San Francisco, was
robbed of money and tickets at
Colorado Springs.
H. c. Hit, a Chicago lawyer, held
the police at bay in his fiat for several
hours when they tried to arrest him
for beating his wife.
The trial of Earl Russell for bigamy
by the British house of lords is to be
made social event Peeresses have
been invited to the hearing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-18
NEW NAME FOR AUTO.
AUX Suggested as an Appropriate
Designation.

New York, July 14.-Marius G..
Krarup, associate editor of Auto
mobile Topics, New York publica-
ton, has an ambition to eliminate the
word automobile from the English
language, and substitute therefor the
briefer word AUX He has written an
editorial leader on the subject, and has
launched a vigorous campaign in be-
half of the suggested word. for which
he has reached back into antiquity
Of course, the chauffeur" as the
operator of machine is known today,
would under the new plan be called an
auker, whether he liked it or not.
AUX sounds strange, and one might
think the editor of Automobile Topics
was trying joke on his clientele if it
were not that he writes so seriously
nd SO learnedly about words in general
and frankly tells how he fetched aux
out of the misty, mythical ages to do
duty in the future of the twentieth cen
fury.
He declares that the present nomen-
clature is " awkward and pompously
pretentious, clashing, as it were, with
a light and tripping style of writing
''NOw there is" he writes. IAN old
Anglo-SaXon word which meant to
drive vehicle It is found in the
mythology appended to the name of
Thor, the god of war, who drove his
bucks over the rainbow with the noise
of thunder and the flash of lightning
as accompaniment. in this capacity
he was called Auka-Thor. A trace is
left of this verb auka in one of the
Morse languages, but it's sense has
been changed into that of ito ride in
a vehicle, which some one else drives
it.
by eliminating the final "a the word
would seem to fit well with other |
English sounds. Perhaps the circum-
stance that it commences with au, |
ike automobile would facilitate it's |
We should then have !
aux for an automobile, steam-auk
gas-auk, and perhaps aux unadorned |
or the electric vehicle"
A local automobilist, when asked |
What he thought of the new name,
laid he thought it "a deucedly aux
ward term, which would never go,
wen with steam, gasoline and
electricity to help it along"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-18
FREEDOM AND A BRIDE.
Governor Savage Of Nebraska Makes
Prisoner Happy.

Omaha, Neb., July 14.-Benjamin ].
Valek, serving a sentence of seven
years for perjury, has been paroled
by Governor Savage on condition
that the Bohemian marry rich widow
and leads a better life. The prisoner
was accordingly welded to Mrs. Marie
Hlavatla in the governors persence
and has gone to his brides farm in
Dawson county. Mrs. Valek's differ
ent properties are valued at $4,000.
During her lovers captivity of a
year and five months, Mrs. Hlavatla
was beset by as many suitors as the
wife of Ulysses, but was equally as
successful in holding them at arm S
length. Valek had gotten into trouble
by testifying falsely for the sake of a
friend, and the widow proposed to
stand by him. She laid the case
getting the promise of parole when
the minimum time for the offense had
been served.
The happy issue of the convict S
service was not confined to him until
he was ushered into the governors
office. 1t was laid down as a con-
dition that he must marry the widow,
who stood blushing in the background
This was exactly what the young
Bohemian had been longing to do for
many months and once more justice
seemed to him sweet and easy thing.
The ceremony was pronounced. Valek
is 20 years old and his bride is two
years his junior
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-18
HINSEY RESIGNS
PYTHIAN RANK

Chicago, July 14.-John A. Hinsey,
imperial prince of the dramatic order
Of Knights of Khorassan, a pleasure
seeking branch of the Knights of
Pythias, resigned his position yester-
day. He stated the action was taken
to relieve the order of any embarrass-
ment from the publicity given the at
tacks made on him in connection with
the endowment rank matters. Officers
of the organization in special session
last night accepted the resignation.
AS a result Frank w. Clarke of De-
troit becomes imperial prince and he
appointed John H. Holmes of st. Louis
imperial basha.
TO Prosecute Pythians.
Chicago, July 1.-THE board Of con-
troll of the endowment rank Of the
knights of Pythias, to which was re-
ferred the prosecution of those respon-
sible for the financial troubles of the
order, has adopted a resolution pledg-
ing itself to push the work as fast as
possible in the civil and criminal
courts and in the Pythian tribunals.
Prosecutions may be begun next week
the members say.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-18

Expe rinent Station Willing to Sug-
gest a Remedy.

SSSh q ftSliiSbys
The agricultural experiment sta
ton desires to secure from farmers
information relative to the damage to
oats the present season by smut In
vestigations show that in many fields
in Dane county the loss through smut
the present season will amount to
from 10 to % per cent. of the total
crop. In some cases the farmers were
not aware of the presence of smut in
their fields until it was shown them by
R. A. Moore Of the experiment sta
ton. Farmers are apt to be misled be-
cause the smutted oat stems do not
grow to full height and so the affected
heads are not readily seen.
The farmer can determine, says Mr..
Moore, the percentage loss of his crop
though smut by counting the oat heads
on a given area. To accomplish this
take an ordinary barrel hoop to the
cat field and throw it over the stand
ing grain. Then count the number of
smutted and normal oat heads within
the hoop. Make several counts and
average the result. Farmers doing
this are uged to send report of their
findings to the undersigned.
The experiment station offers to all,
for the asking, a simple, inexpensive
and effective method of preventing
oat smut. Address Mr., Moore.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-18
FARMERS OPPOSE RAISE.
And Prosecutions Under Assessment
Law Talked Of.

New Richmond, Wis, July 14-As
consequence of the strenuous instruc-
tions issued some months ago by the
state tax commission. there are eXcit-
ing times in Star Prairie. one Of he
oldest and wealthiest towns in ST.
Croix county. The trouble is between
the board of review and a lot of
wealthy farmers who are fighting Wig
orously an attempt to raise their taxes
Under the old plan of turning in to the
assessor only a portion of their proper
ty, which was then valued at only 40
or so per cent of the actual cash valu-
alton, it was not difficult to evade the
tax, or large portion of it. But this
year very strict orders were issued to
assess everything at it's full market
value. This raised the difficulty.
Many wealthy farmers turned in sworn
statements that were proven false,
and now prosecutions are talked OF.
The state board have given strict or
1ers that all violations Of law and all
attempts to evade taxes must be prose
cuted, and it is expected there will be
lively times ahead.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-18
from the state board Of health and the

from the state board Of health and the
governor to this effect The attorney
general says, however, that the state
cannot reimburse for moneys spent,
but can pay to help stamp out the
disease in the future 1t is expected
the board will come here at once and
look the ground over with a view 10
taking it's share upon itself.
City officials feel that the state can
be made to come to time. The city
can take the patients who come from
outside points and send them back to
the places from which they came, and
this is likely to be the policy.
Superior has had in the neighbor-
hood of APO cases in the last eight
months or so and is now making an
state. If the disease grows worse, as
every physician in the country be-
lieves it will, it is feared the town will
be quarantined.
There seems to be no doubt that the
disease is growing worse. In one
house at South Superior six people,
the entire family, have it, while the
isolation hospital is well filled all OF
the time. Pictures have been taken
of different patients at the pest house
and these show that the latest patients
have been affected much worse than
others. A general run in a deadly
form is expected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-18
emit " .$108, 722, 674
STILL I'M PRISON.
Younger Brothers Follow the Usual
Daily Routine.

Saltwater, Mimi, July IA. H.
Schumacher of st. Paul, manager of
the wagon factory which has offered
employment to the Youngers, was at
the prison yesterday, and had a talk
with Cole and Jim and the warden.
| The meeting was believed to have
| some connection with the wagon peo-
pies proposition, but Mr.. Schumacher
| said this was not the case. and that
he came to Saltwater simply to pay
the Youngers friendly visit. e he
| spoke of his proposition at all, moth
ing is known on the outside as to how
it was received Or what will eventual
ly be done. Nearly everybody pre-
diets, however. that neither this offer
nor the one made by the Minneapolis
Threshing Machine company will be
accepted by the authorities. 1t is felt
that the environment in neither case IS
what the state is seeking for its
charges. AS to when the paroled men
will be removed from prison walls is
not known. They are at work, as
usual, and the action of the state board
lco III CuduSC WHICH, 10 yCL dp-
parent. The Youngers themselves are
in doubt when they are to go, and it is
not known definitely that Warden
Wolfer has selected the time and man
ner. Several correspondents and
others interested are keeping a close
watch, and VOW they will remain until
the end.
It would be a comparatively easy |
matter for the warden to take his pris- |
oners out by rail- and this plan may be
decided upon. At this time of year the
prison is heavy shipper, and it would |
not be difficult for the warden to put |
his wards in box car and send them
flying out of the reach Of those who
would Intercept them. There are other
feasible plans, any one of which may
be adopted with good chances Of sue
cess
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-18

was Endorsed and the association de-
so it would have jurisdiction over edu-
cational matters in all the new posses
sions. Compulsory educational laws
and consolidation of rural schools
were Endorsed and state support OF in
situations for the training of teachers
recommended.
The most notable of the department.
al meetings yesterday was that Of the
department of higher education in the
high school, before which papers were
read by President Faunce of Brown
university and William E. Chancellor
of Bloomington, III. Faunce advo-
Gated properly conducted athletic con-
tests in college schools. The follow
ing departmental elections were held:
Normal schools-President, ]. F.
Millspaugh, Winona, Mimi; secretary,
j. R. Kirk, Kirksyille, Maine.
Science-President, Franklin M.
Barrows, Buffalo, vice president, w.
H. Norton, Mount Vernon, Iowa; sec
rotary, W. S. Blatchley, Indianapolis.
Elementary Standardization
R. A. Ogg, Kokomo, Ind; secretary,
Miss AIDA P. Wertz, Carbonate, Ill.
Business education-Presiden l. o.
Crissy, Albany; secretary, Templeton
P. Twiggs, Detroit
Library tment-President J.
II. Canheld, New York; secretary,
Miss Mary E. Ahern, Chicago
Department of higher education
President, W. H. P. Faunce, Provi-
dence; secretary, Prof. John w. Per-
rim, Cleveland.
National council of education-Pres-
ident, j. w. Phillips, Alabama; secre-
tary, j. F. Millspaugh, Winona, MINI.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-18
GERMAN POLISH
STUDENTS PULLED

Berlin, July 14.-In the complete alb
sencc of other political interests last
week, the arrest at Posen of thirteen
Polish students charged with belong
ing to secret political societies at var
ious German universities and orgau-
lied to promote the national aspirA-
lions of Poland, has attracted much at
ention. The examination of the &C
cused students has not, up to the pres
ent time, developed any sensational
features. They all deny the charges
of participation, knowingly, in illegal
socities. The most sensational feature
of the trial, so far, has been the throw
ing up of their briefs by leading law
yers for the defense, protesting against
rigid limitations prescribed for them
by the court.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-18

There are number of people who
claim to know that ]. S. Rogers, who
left S7,O00,000 to the Metropolitan
museum of art, had a romance in
France. Charles A. Shriner, editor Of
the Paterson Chronicle, says that dur
ing the panic of 1873 and for about ten
years thereafter Mr.. Rogers spent his
time in charming villa in southern
France. He did not accupy the man
sion by himself. but few knew who his
partner was. Perhaps no one knows
in this country. 1t is known that a
bright little girl was the result, a child
to whom all of Mr.. Rogers heart went
out. Whether he loved the mother or
not is not known. He certainly be-
came estranged from her after some
years of intimacy. He then attempted
to gain control of the child and spent
large sums of money with that end in
view. He fought the case through sew
eral courts and until there was no
longer any hope for him. His lawyers
argued that the child would be better
situated with her father. who would
/, bring her up in luxury and make her
heir to all his possessions, but all these
arguments failed to overcome the
French law, which gives an illegiti-
mate child to the mother without ad-
hitting any claim on the part of the
father. Convinced that the aim of his
life could not be reached. Mr.. Rogers
returned to New York and his friends
never heard what became of the child
or it's mother. 1t would seem that the
ch.-d in France can have no claim
whatever on the fortune of The locomo-
tive builder nor any standing in court
to break the will. By the law of New
| Jersey and probably that Of France an
| Legitimate child has no father recog-
| nized by the law
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-18
DAPPRlCH MADE HEAD OF
GERMAN-AMSRi TEACHERS

Indianapolis, July 1.-THE thirty
first annual convention of the German
American Teachers association con-
Guided its business yesterday by Sc
lecting Detroit as the next meeting
place and electing the following Off
GERS:
President-Emil Dapprich, Mflwau
kee.
Secretary-Emil Kramer, Cincinnati.
Assistant Secretary-Anna Hohgref,
Milwaukee.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-18
SUCKER CENSUS STATISTICS.
Figures For Illinois Population Issued
by Bureau.

Washington, July 1.-THE census
bureau issued a bulletin yesterday on
the population by sexes, general nativ-
ity and color in 1900. of Illinois, as
follows: Males, 2,472,7S2; females,
2,S4S,76S; native born, 3,S54,S03; for
eign born, 966,747; total white, 4,734,-
S73; native white, 3,770,23S; foreign
parents, 1,49S,473; foreign white, 1884,
635; total colored, S6,677. Foreign
white persons and native white per-
sons of foreign parentage represent
little over one-half of the entire popu-
lation. Of the total population SO per
cent is white.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-18

Albion academy, which is to be con-
verified into a Norwegian Lutheran
college, deserves a place in the early
history Of educational institutions of
our state. Thirty years ago schools of
its character were few and it was do
ing a work that has since bore fruit.
Here it was that Senator Knute Nelson
Of Minnesota, ex-State Supt Emery,
ex-Gov. Adams of Colorado. Justice c.
V. Bardeen of the supreme court. and
many other people who have made
their mark in life got their education.
Later years when the educational faci-
lities were more abundant the school
has had precarious existence, a few
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-18
SUPERIOR'S LOSS.
Smallpox Bills Which this State
Refuses TO Foot

West Superior, Wis, July 14-By
the decision Of Attorney General Hicks
and Governor La Toilette in regard to
the contingency fund for smallpox
epidemics, Superior is out almos::
$4,000 spent in taking care of patients
that came to this city from outside
points. The city took care of the
patients in the belief that the state
would help it out and had assurances
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-18
DISGRACE AND DEATH.
Harm of Ute, Iowa, Principal in a
Scandal, Kills Himself.

Ute, Iowa, July 14.-Chris Harm,
well-to-do merchant who figured in
recent scandal, committed suicide. He
had suit for $4,000 filed against him
for alternating the affections of the,
wife of ex-Banker Palmer, who, in ad-,
dition, preferred charges that Harm
intended to abscond and derfaud his
creditors. He was found maintaining
improper relations with Mrs. Palmer
on the night of June 21 The people
are all of high staining.
The suicide will prove solution of
the scandal. Harms act is regarded
as conclusive of his guilt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-18
NEW CYCLING
INDOOR RECORD

New York, July 16.-All previous in
door cycling records from one to fif-
teen miles were smashed by Will Stin-
son of Cambridge, Mass, on a ten-lap
night. Stinson defeated Nelson of
Chicago in a fifteen-miIe motor-paced
race by nearly 700 yards, in 25:32 20.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-18
CAN'T GO TO BUFFALO.
Governor La Toilette Unable to See
Exposition July 27.

Madison, July &c.,
Gov. La Toilette will not be a mem
Der of the party to go to the pan
American exposition Wisconsin day.
July II. DR.. Fox, his physician, says
the governor is progressing steadily
toward recovery, but that it would be
unwise for him to make the trip.
Lieut.. Gov. Jesse Stone will probably
represent Gov. La Toilette at the cere-
monies connected with the transfer of
the state building.
Willett M. Spooner, in behalf of the
commission, will present the building
to the governor, who, in turn, in behalf
OF the state, will hand it over to the
pan-American directors at Buffalo, one
of their number to make the sreech Of
acceptance.