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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26
YELLOW JACK AT SANTIAGO.
British Ship Arrives in Cuban Port
With Four Cases.

Santiago de Cuba, Sept. 22.-The
British steamer, Ethel Bryhta, from
Jacksonville, Sept. 4, for this port, ar.
rived here with three cases of vel
low fever on board. She left Pro
greso six weeks ago and arrived at
New York with a yellow fever case
on board. The man died in the har-
Dor and the ship was disinfected.
The captains wife died while the
steamer was on her way from New
York to Jacksonville. where she
loaded lumber for Santiago de Cuba.
One man died yesterday, and the au-
topsy showed plainly that he had been
suffering from yellow fever. The
crew of the Ethel Bryhta was removed
to the yellow fever hospital, which
is situated on an island two miles
from the city. The steamer was fu-
migated and is held in quarantine in
the lower bay. No cargo is allowed
to be landed from the vessel The
marine hospital authorities say there
is absolutely no danger to the city,
where there has been no yellow fever
for two years past.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26

their honeymoon. Senorita Alfonso
has little of the soft languor" appear
ance of the Spanish picture beauties
and does not wear a Inantilla or carry
fan. Her laugh is the hearty, genu-
Inc laugh of the American girl. She is
fairly tall and slender. Her hair is
Jet, her eyebrows and eyelashes heavy
and of the same color Her nose is
long and her mouth small. She re-
ceived $4,000 votes in the beauty con-
test, her nearest competitor receiving
5000 less. She is the daughter of one
Of the wealthiest planters in Cuba.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26
Big Fish Caught by Mrs. Barrett


The rod and reel deyotees of the
Pacific coast are excited. Mrs. Barrett,
wife of the adjutant general of Cali
forna and president of the Tuna club,
has taken a fish which probably gives
her the championship of the world.
She landed with the rod and reel. IN
aided a black sea bass weighing 416
pounds. All this with twenty-four
thread line and sixteen ounce rod.
Several hundred persons witnessed
the weighing, and when the weight
WAS announced-416 pounds; length,
seven feet-there was no end of con-
CALCULATIONS. The angler had beaten
every record. carried off all in honors
and was the champion of the world,
having taken. unaided, the largest
game fish ever caught with rod.
1t was no light undertaking. The
big fish fought for three and a half
hours. For all that time il was ques-
ton of the lady or the fish, with the
chances in favor of the fish But skill
and remarkable endurance won, and
Mrs. Barrett brought the monster to
gait unassisted, and it will find a home
in the Los Angeles Chamber of Com
merce, enduring testimony to the pluck
and skill of a California woman an
gler.-San Francisco ArgOnaut.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26
DOCTOR SET ASHORE.
Reported Peary Physician Was Ma
rooned by Commander,


rooned by Commander.
Boston, Sept. 22.-Dr. T. S. Died
rich of Brooklyn, the only physician
who accompanied the Peary expeii-
ton, according to a story told by Gus.
tavus Stats, chief engineer Of the
steamship Erick, who has arrived here
from Sydney, c. B., has been cast
adrift 200 miles from civilization.
Lieut.. Peary and DR.. Diedrich did not
live most amicably, says Stats, and
constant quarreling between the chief
of the expedition and the physician re-
suited in the doctors being abandoned
at Etah, Greenland, in latitude 1910
north at 2 o'clock in the morning Of
Aug. II last, without any food, and
only few guns and little ammuni-
ton to protect himself from the at
lacks of polar bears and other wild
animals of the north His only means
of procuring food will be shooting
walruS and seal. What his fate will
be is hard to imagine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26

Paris, Sept. 21.-One of the greatest
mimic battles ever seen was fought
yesterday for the benefit of the car
on vast plain near Rheims. Ons
hundred and fifty thousand French
soldiers fired millions Of rounds Of
ammunition; hundreds of field cannon
roared, while the great guns of three
nonading.
Amid this thunder, often between
the lines of fire, where there was dan
ger at any minute of a chance bail
cartridge among the blanks, the car
rode with a freedom never known in
Russia, the czarina driving in a car
riage along the nearest roads.
Frequently the car was ahead OF
his escort, riding at full gallop alone,
the highest generals in France endeaV-
oring to keep up, the squadron Of
cavalry left behind. The czarina rode
with Nine. Loubet, escorted by cav
alrymen, revolver in hand, ready 20
shoot on the slightest suspicion.
Twice the car acknowledged sa-
lutes from an American, while the
czarina smilingly called the attention
of the ladies of her escort to the dash
ing automobile that disdained roads
and carried over the toughest country
the only civilians on the active part Of
the battlefield.
Coming from the Chateau de Com
piegne, thirty miles away, by train,
the car arrived on the battlefield at
10 o'clock dressed in a simple blue uni
form, white cap and top boots, mount
ed on beautiful bay horse. He rode
like Cossack, better than any of the
French generals who formed his gilt
tering bodyguard.
The car spent yesterday morning
in his study working upon an accum-
ulation of official papers. He then
lunched in his own apartments with
the empress, after which he had long
confidential interview with President
Loubet upon matters of importance,
which it is hoped will tighten the alIi-
ance between France and Russia.
An amusing incident occurred during
the cars visit to the Rheims cathe-
dral Thursday. The archbishop, be-
cause he was not allowed to make d
speech, provided only two chairs, one
for the czar and one for the czarina, as
he expected President Loubet would
be compelled to stand The czar,
however when he saw the situation,
himself remained standing.
Senators Complain.
Paris, Sept. 21-The French sena-
tors and deputies are on war dance
because of the way they were treated
at Dunkirk at the time of the cars ar-
rival. They were put aboard dirty
naval tenders, which were minus seats
or even decent accommoda-
lions. AS result double row of the
most dignified men of France hung
over the railing deadly i'll for hours
1t was a spectacle for the gods. The
enraged men threaten to call the min
listers to account when the chambers
meet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26

wnetner or not the ciubwcman is too
serious and the clubman too social; but,
at any rate, something is needed in this
country to counterfeit the enlargement
In social interest between the sexes. 1t
is fact frequently commented upon
by foreigners. Hall Game put 1t this
way. Your American women are given
to culture and your American men to
commercialism."
Such mixed clubs abound In Lon
don and are for the most part social
In character. The charitable work Is
done in entirely separate organizations
that is. usually. If John Bull and his
wife find pleasure in mixed clubs, why
cannot Americans do the same?-Pil-
grim.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26
WORLD OF WIRE SILENT.
Not Sounder Clicks While Mckinley
Is Buried

Chicago, Sept. 20.-The entire tele-
graph system of the United States was
hushed for five minutes at 2:30 p. n.
yesterday, the hour set for lowering
the presidents body into the grave.
That moment on a huge network If
wires, from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
not 'sounder' gave a single tick.
and the great ocean cables were pulse
less. 1t is estimated that fully 100,
900 operators thus simultaneously paid
homage to the memory Of Mckinley.
The miles Of wire affected were up
wards of a million and quarter IN
the Western Union Chicago Office hun
dreds of operators arose at their desks
when the moment came and joining
their voices sang with deep feeling the
presidents hymn, Nearer, My God, I'D
Thee. The wires of the Associated
Press, Postal Telegraph and North
American and all similar organizations
were included in the general stoppage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26
A PetticOat For Use and Orna

A petticoat Of fine white alpaca,
much frilled, is a useful garment for
wear with the light colored frocks SO
much worn just now. White linen pet
ticoats lose their freshness when worn
once, and white silk petticoats are lux
uries few can afford for ordinary occa-
siOnS.
A managing" woman who has more
ingenuity than money made herself a
set of cambria petticOats which she
wore under light dress skirts all sum-
mer. One of the petticoats was dotted
and hemmed with black. The second
was edged with turquoise blue, the
third had a fOunce of pink, and the
fourth was hemmed with scarlet. They
washed like the proverbial rag and had
no lace or insertion to Succumb to
country wear,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26
Frenchwomen Forsake Kitchen.


The latest fad of the feminine eman-
cipatiOn women in France is that the
fair sex should no longer supervise
what goes on in the household kitchen.
This campaign against home cookery
is led by Nine. Seminal, who contends
that cookery should in the present age
of progress be the work of specialists.
Trained cooks, it is proposed, outside
the domestic circle might prepare the
various meals, and women, thus re-
lieved OF their duties as mistress of
the house, would have more leisure to
devote to higher pursuits. Washing
such is the arguments rarely done
at home in France, or mending or
dressmaking. Why should not the
kitchen be suppressed and with it the
daily drudgery Of marketing or prepar-
| ing meals? Nine. Seminal appears to
J believe that matters would be excel
lently arranged by the foundation of
culinary walters, to which families
would subscribe so much per month
and in return be provided with their
daily food. The ambition of home
life in France, particularly in Paris.
we are all we'll aware, differs essential
ly from the noIions on the subject in
England. 1t may be doubted, how
ever, whether the average Frenchwo-
man of the period would be happier
! were she relieved of one of the most
| important of her domestic functions
| Messenger
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26
MOnume to an Actress.

Mile. Clarion, the ira gedienne Of the
| eighteenth century, is to have a monu-
ment. The little town Of CondesurEs-
cant, where Claire Lerys, daughter of
sergeant, was born, has just witnessed
the unwilling Of bust of the woman
whom Voltare called the divine
| Clarion" and Diderot styled 1.-The
unique" The inscription on the monu-
ment is simplicity itself-"A Clarion.
| 1928 1903" is all. Yet what a career is
there underlined. She was the first to
rebel against stage conventions and ap-
pear dressed for her part in appropriate
attire.
She was also the first to revolt
against the treatment of actors and
actresses as social pariahs. The people
used to shout. "Viye lie roi ct Mile.
Clairon" when she appeared at the
theater. Her numerous love affairs
only increased this popularity. At
comparatively early age she forSOOk
her profession to become the ASpasia of
the court of Anspach. Many years
later, when the last century was young,
an old. wizened, starving. barefoOted
charwoman died in Partisan garnet.
1t was the Clarion
Believers in omens may hold up the
actress earliest experience. Neither
her mother nor her grandmother
thought the baby would survive her
natal day. She was therefore hurried
to church for baptism. But the clergy
| were spending carnival in time hOnOred
dances and feasting. When the priest
was at length found. he had on
| testers dress. and the curate wore
clowns attire. Grandmamma was,
however, III such hurry that the
rites had to be performed there and
then without change of costume.-Pall
| Mall Gazette
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26
WOMAN'S WORLD.
FROM NURSE IN BOER WAR TO LON
OON'S SOCIAL LEADERSHIP.

Women Lawyers Depreciated-AIex-
andra's hfndness-Men and Women
In Clubs-Monumentt to an Actress.
FrencbwOmen Forsake Kitchen
Lady Dickson-Poynder, who as q
poor relation of several titled English
families went to the Boer war as a
nurse and in South Africa married
Major Dickson Poynder after nursing
him back to life. only to lose him by a
Boer bullet shortly after their mar
riage. is the newest social light in Eng
land. She returned to London shortly
after the death of her husband. There
her romantic marriage on the battle
ground and her great personal charms,
added to title and riches, attracted
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26
PETTlGREW BOUNCED.
Son of Dakota ex-senator Shut Out Of
Beloit.

6eiott.
Beloit, Wis, Sept. 22.-Albert Petit
grew, the 1S-year-old son of ex-senator
Pettigrew Of South Dakota, has been
refused admittance to the preparatory
department Of the college because lie
is alleged to have been influenced W
fraternity men to break a contract for
board and room at the home of c. A.
Emerson, one of the trustees of the
college. Pettigrew was persuaded t.
give up the room he had engaged be.
cause the fraternity to which he be-
ionged feared the surroundings would
not be friendly to the secret organiza-
ton.
In denying admission to young Pet
tlgrew, Principal A. w. Burr of the
preparatory school gave him to under
stand that it was his actions. not his
fathers name, which would determine
the kind of treatment he would be ac-
corded at the educational institution.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26
MRS. BOTkIN APPEALS
Famous Poisoning Case Taken up at
WASHINGTON.

Washington, Sept. 22-The record
in the case of Mrs. Cordelia Botkin
has been filed in the United States
supreme court. She is under sentence
of life imprisonment in San Fran
cisco for the murder of Mrs. J. P
Dunning of Delaware, four years ago,
by sending to her box of poisoned
candy. The present proceeding origi-
mated in a petition for a writ OF
habeas corpus, based upon the plea
that her trial should have taken place
in Delaware, where Mrs. Dunning died
and not in California. The petition
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26

society and caused her to be much
sought after. King Edward became
interested and is said to have helped
her into the best circles. Predictions
are being made that she will outshine
all others in the great revival which is
TO follow the coronation. Lady Dick
son-Poynder is niece of Lord Napier
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26
Women wen Luncheon Wagons.

The plan of running luncheon wag-
on as a means OF livelihood has recent
ly been adopted by some Syracuse wo-
men and has thus far proved success
full The expense of the wagon is not
heavy, these young proprietors say, and
they do not have to wait long for re-
turns from the money invested. Three
women now in the business IN that city
report an average Of from 2Co TO 800
customers served with coffee. pie and
sandwiches between 8 O'Clock in the
evening and in the morning.
,aerSssAh. a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26
CRESCEUS WINS ONCE MORE

ReaGyille, Mass, Sept. 22.-Tha
great stallion Cresceus obtained firm
er grasp on the crown Of the king of
trotters by defeating his only rival,
The Abbott, on the Readville track
yesterday in three out of four heats
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26

A prize Of $1,000 is offered the wom-
en- students of the University of Penn
sylvania by the American Woman's
table at the geological station at
Naples. The prize is for the best the
sis on any scientific subject embodying
results of independent research.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26

A distinguished Irish archaologist
and antiquary was Miss Margaret
Stokes. who recently died in Dublin.
Her father. DR.. William Stokes. was
former president of the Royal Irish
academy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26
NeN York Fed ion

The seventh annual convention Of the
New York State Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs will be held at the Pan
American. The general place of meet
ing will be the Delaware Avenue Bap-
fist church, which is between Bryant
and Utica streets. The sessions will
eover three days Oct. 6, 8 and 10.
A mass meeting will be held in the
Temple of Music on the exhibition
grounds in the afternoon of Oct. 8. The
speakers will be Mrs. William 4. Mont
gomery of Rochester, Mrs. H. j. Tans-
ley of New York, Mrs. Charles o. II.
Craigie of Brooklyn, Mrs. Charles NJ.
Dow of jamestown and Mrs. George
w. Townsend of Buffalo.
After the mass meeting the board OF
women managers Of the Pan-American
will entertain the delegates at after
noon tea. For Tuesday evening, Oct. 3.
reception TO the visitors has been ar
ranged by the Women's Educational
and Industrial union Of Buffalo.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26
"QUEEN OF BEAUTY"
Lovely Cuban Who Was Chosen In
This Years Beauty Contest

Senorita Silvia Alfonso, who recent
ly was voted queen of beauty" in a
Havana contest in which nearly 1OO.-
900 votes were cast, is visiting in New
York. She is chaperoned by Sonora
PuiidO. who won in a similar contest
four years ago and is visiting the
United States with her husband on
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26

The daughter of wealthy Buffalo
man. Miss Ionia Roe. aged twenty-four,
has creditably passed the government
examinations for steamboat pilots Ii
cense. Having accompanied her father
on many yachting tours. she can boast
sixteen years service at the wheel.
The license was granted in Virginia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26
SILK Sheets.

The latest fad of a woman who likes
to be different is to have silk sheets.
The design for one pair is to be dainti-
~ embroidered with violets in floss
silks. The accompanying coverlet is Of
pale violet satin filled with violet scent
ed eiderdown. Another set is of white
silk powdered with rosebuds and per-
fumed with white rose.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26

was denied by the state courts of Cal
ifornia, and Mrs. Botkin brings the
case to the supreme court on a writ
of error.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26

were wasted in electioneering. and
that Lord Kitchener has not been sup
piled with the requisites.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26

The two fastest trotters in the world
raced for $4,000, offered by Thomas
W. Lawson, and the money which
twelve thousand people paid to see the
event went to charity. The wealth 9r
was perfect, but the track heavy, so
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26
SEES MIMIC BATTLE
CAR VIEWS GREAT TOURNEY
AT RHEIMS.
RIDES BETWEEN LINES

Great Festivities Held in Honor of the
Russian Autocrat and Czarina-
Senators and Deputies Angry at
lnattentions Shown Them at Dun
kirk.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26
The Best Dressed Girl In London

The Candid Friend has this to say
concerning Miss May Bentinck and her
mother. Mrs. George Cavendish Ben
timex: Miss May Bentinck is the elder
daughter of Mrs. George Cavendish
Bentinck, the head of the collateral
branch of the house of Portland. Her
mother was Miss Livingston, who rep
resented one of the oldest aristocratic
or Knickerbocker families of the state
Of New York The Livingston family
possess a charter from King George IL
giving them the possession of Il proper
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-11
Patriotism China's Best Hope.

THE two Cinnamon who were be-
headed at Pekin on Tuesday had used
their official positions" says the New
York Times, ito break the faith Of
their government and to Cypress those
whom they were officially bound to
protect. Yet" observes the Times.
there is food for reflection in the re-
ported last words of one of them
Chi-Hsin, the former Grand Secre-
tary: I do not know what l have done
to make me deserving of death, but if
beheading me will make the foreign
troops evacuate Pekin and my EN-
speror return, [ am satisfied to die.
will die patriot This Is new
Chinese note 1t is news to US that
they have even the name Of patriot,
they have so little of the thing. True.
Sir Robert Hart has warned us that
the boxer movement was, in it's ill.,
ception, a patriotic movement 1t is
the one sign of civic virtue or public
spirit that we have had from China.
The existence of these invaluable
qualities, even when misdirected, is
the foundation of all hopes for the
future of China. The fact should
make US proceed, even in our neces-
sary punishment of official Cinnamon,
with great circumspection."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-11
China.

Russia virtually threatened China
with war unless the Manchurlan
treaty is signed.
A majority of the ministers decided
to lessen their demands for the eX-
ecution of officials involved in the
boxer uprising.
China was held back from signing
the Manchurian convention owing to
the pugnacious attitude Of Japan
toward Russia.
Commissioner Rockhill is trying to
get China's emperor to abolish
the ceremony of kotOw when recelV-
ing foreign representatives.
Twenty eight victims of the boxers
hitherto unaccounted for were burned
to death in a church at Houpec, in
which they had sought refuge.
General Chaffee was ordered by the
president to take part in razing the
Chinese forts and establishing chain
Of fortified posts from Pekin to the
coast as planned by the powers.
The Chinese government notified
Russia that it could not sign the
Manchurian convention because of the
protests of the powers. Russians are
reported to be preparing to give
tangible proof of their dominance in
Manchuria.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-11

and York be created prince of Aus
tralia.
French scientists have separated
new phosphorescent gas from radium
and produced X-ravs without cleo
tricity.
A dispatch from Kieff, Russia.
states that an unsuccessful attempt to
kill the car wa made by an officer
of his household.
The Danes at Copenhagen cele-
brated the Tooth anniversary Of the
naval battle with the British off that
port.
Count -Bninski and Moritz
Won Oppenfeld, an estate owner, have
been appointed by Emperor William
as members of the house of lords.
Foreign Minister NJ. V. Veniselos
| was dismissed by Prince George, high
| commissioner of the powers, for say
| ing that Crete hould be independ-
ent.
Tolstoi in a magazine article,
pointed out the root Of evil in the So
cial system. He declared the inequali-
ties OF life due to degeneration OF
Christianity A false faith is taught.
Twelve Bulgarians, tried at Mona
stir for the murder Of a priest at
Stavro and for other revolutionary
acts, have been sentenced, one to
death. three to Imprisonment for life
and the others to Imprisonment fol
terms "arying from two to ten years