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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-04-24
DISBURS EhENTS.

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Respectfully submitted,
(Signe0) GUY NASH,
Treasurer.
GRAND RAPIDS, Wis, March %, 1902.
The committee tq whom was refer
red the report of the school treasurer,
Mr. Guy Nash, herewith report that
they have checked up the orders with
the stubs and found the same to agree,
and have cancelled the stubs. All
accounts have been carefully footed
and found correct, as per treaSurer'S
report. Signed:
A, B. CRAWFORD,
H. II. VOSS.
L. M. NASH,
Committee.
The president of the school board
appointed the following committees
for the ensuing year.
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
[. P. Witter. chairman: A. L. Ridg-
man, W. ii. Reeves, A. G. Otto, E. r.
Griffith, A. n. Palmer.
TEACHERS AND TEXTS.
Guy Nash, chairman: 7. P. Witter.
E. p. Arpin, F. H. Pomainville,
superintendent.
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.
t. A. Taylor, chairman; J. P. Hor-
ton, t. A. Lipke, E. Roenius, E,
Oberbeck.
PURCHASING COMMITTEE.
A. L. Fontaine, chairman; Guy
Nash, T. A Taylor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-04-24

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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-04-24
Grand May Festival, Concert and Ball

Jacob Reuter-, the famous yiOlinist
will appear together with a select
company Of artists in his last concert
of the season followed by grand May
ball. to be given at an early dale in
May at the Grand Opera House.
(, b se who were fortunate enough to
a. MIR Reuter- i'm - p~"vioti> concert
are most enthusiastic over his reap
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vate shipbuilders, having contracts for naval vessels, from time to time during the year submitted plans for stan dard" fittings, and now forty-four types of ship fittings have been declared to be standard. The bureau has also pTepar- ed aype plans for ventilation and drain age for the vessels of the Virginia, Pennsylvania, St. Louis and Denver classes, and for the single turreted monitors.
 Admiral Bowles says there continues to be an urgent necessity for an in- crease in the number of officers of the construction corps. The principal navy yards, it is stated, have an insufficient number of officers for the performance of regular duties. This lack of officers is particularly hurtful just now in view of the construction of the battleship Connecticut at the New York navy yard. Rear Admiral Bowles renews his recommendation for an increase of his corps from forty to sixty members.
 The report says that the advantage of special instruction in naval archi- lecture and marine engineering in the United States became more evident last year.
 In contrast with the foreign technical schools to which students have been previously assigned and the limited op- portunities for practical work and ob- servation of actual construction which the position of the students and for eigners naturally subjected them to, the bureau of construction is now. enabled, by cooperation with the faculty of the Massachusetts, Institute of Technology, to regulate the technical education ap- propriately and to offer the students and their instructors constant oppor- tunities sor observation of the build ing and repair of all classes of vessels both at private shipyards and at the navy yards of the government.
 Admiral Bowles points cue that the policy of congress for some years past has been against the construction of new vessels in the navy yards, and as ! a result the development and improve ment of yards in matters such as quay walls, slips, location of buildings, etc, have not been generally directed to- | ward efficient arrangement for ship building. The admiral is of opinion that it should be the policy of the navy l department so to arrange the navy yard plants that they will be. efficient for shipbuilding which is in reality he says, one of the most important func- tions that they may be required to per l form.
 An interesting portion of the report is that in regard to the work of the ex.
 perimental model basin,. in which mini
 ature warships are tried, and it is stat
 ed that the basin has proved of great value to the construction bureau
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-13
The Strike im Franco.

Paris, Oct 12-It now appears that only one man was killed during the en- counter at the Terre Noire coal field on October 10 between strikers and gen. darges, and that the victim was not connected with the strike. NeVerthe- less. the miners committee has issued a manifesto denouncing the killing of this man as murder and attacking the government for utilizing gendarmes and soldiers against the strikers. The fu- neral of the Terre Noire victim, which occurs tomorrow. may lead to trouble, as the strikers intend to demonstrate at the funeral and as the socialists declare they will carry red flags, which is pro- hibited.
 The principal feature in the strike sit uation to-day is the division which is forming in the ranks of the strikers. Those of the Pas de Calais district and the Department Du Nord, who are the most numerous, decline to mix the questions of an eight-hour day and old age pensions into the strike. as the cen- tral committee of the Federation of Miners decided to do, and declare they are striking purely for an increase of wages. The local committees of the miners in these districts have asked the prefects to intervene with the mine owners with a view of securing set | clement The central committee there upon issued a manifesto calling the Pas de Calais and Nord committees to obe-
 dience. This divergence is likely to in-
 f1uence the duration of the strike.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-13
DELAY ON WARSHIPS.
Progress sofConstructiou Unsatisfactory
 the Last Year

Washington, Oct 12.-"Progress up- on new vessels under construction dur
 ing the past year has not been satisfac-
 tory,' says Rear Admiral Bowles, chief of the naval bureau of construction in
 his annual report to the secretary of
 the navy. All the largest vessels, he
 says, have been delayed by non-deliv-
 cry of structural steel, while the vessels
 building at San Francisco were set
 back by the ten months strike and the
 hold out of the workmen at Seattle pre-
 vented any actual progress on the
 structure of the hull Of the battleslip
 Nebraska building there The delay in
 the deliveries of armor for the battle
 ships Maine Mississippi and Ohio and
 the monitors Arkansas, Florida, Nevada
 and Wyoming has retarded the comple-
 ton of these vessels concurrently with
 the causes The inability of ship buiId-
 CTS to obtain a sufficient force of skilled
 workers also has been in many cases an
 important factor in the slow progress of the vessels. A table is submitted showing in concise form how the work
 on vessels under construction has fall
 en behind. For instance, the battleship Ohio is shown to have been 29 months
 behind her contract on the first of July. This is not an isolated case. The bat tleship Missouri is over 20 months be- hind the ma jority of the battleships and cruisers are over 10 months behind and some of the torpedo craft are more than forty months behind the date of com pletion stipulated in their contracts
 However, Admiral BowIes says that the extensive delays on the torpedo boats
 are being terminated by the newly mod flied conditions for their delivery. The contractors delay in beginning the con-
 struction of the vessels of the Virginia, Pennsylvania and St. Louis class, the chief constructor points out, gave his
 bureau an opportunity to make a care-
 ful revision of the general plans of those war vessels, which he says, will result in considerable improvement in their military value and in their habit ability. The plans for the turrets of the Virginia class were developed in more detail. An entire encouragement of the scheme for the stowage of am munition was made and particular at- l tention was given to an efficient scheme for coaIing. A table is given showing the ships added to the navy during the past year. They were the battleship Illinois and the torpedo craft Decatur,
 Perry, Preble, Riddle, Thornton and Wilkes.
 Substantial and encouraging progress is reported in the standardization of tn form;ty in the innumerable types of ships parts which has long been fos- tered by the construction bureau. Pri-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-13
Funeral of Miss Quinlan

Naugatuck, Oct. 12.-The funeral of Miss Mamie Quinlan, the young lady who was killed in the railroad accident at Sandy Hook last Thursday night, was held this afternoon. St. Francis church, where the services took place, was crowded to the doors. Rev. Fath- CT Sheridan delivered g touching eulogy and many persons were moved to tears by the pastors words, Michael Malia, the young man who was engaged to marry Miss Quinlan on Thanksgiving day, was driven to the Quinlan home just before the body was taken to the church to take last look at the young lady who was to have been his wife. The young man himself showed the ef- fleets of the injuries he received.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-13

evident that there is some mistake. and that he does not care te call attention to it by discussing the matter.
 The talk of calling on the federal gov ernment for troops to assist the state militia is still heard. From conversa- tions with superintendents and military officers, the calling on the national au- thorities is a remote possibility. Ma tional guard officers do not take kind ly to the suggestion. and say the state guard should be tried out first before thinking about national soldiers. Brig adler General Gobin does not take much stock in the proposition. If it were to control the situation, he says he would favor recruiting the state force up to twice it's size, or to the number requir- ed to meet the situation, just as was done during the Spanish-Anerican war. He says the governor under the laws can do it, and if the governor came to him for his advice that he would sug- gest 1t.
 A great crowd to-day visited the camp of the soldiers in West Side park, across the Susuqehanna river from this city.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-13
HOWE & STETSON.
AMERICAN JOCKEYS EXPELLED
J. ReifY and Henry Excluded from
 Riding on French Rnce Courses.

J. Reir and Henry Excluded from
 Riding on French Rnce Courses.
 Paris, Oct. 12.-Le soir announces to- night that the Jockey club to-day with drew the licenses of the American jockeys Milton Henry and J. Reiff, ex-s cluding them from riding on any French race course. .
 This action is an outcome, says the paper, of very carerul investigation made by the detective department, which secured proofs that Henry and Reiff, upon several occasions, have pre-. vented favorites from winning. The owners of the horses in question are in-3 nocent of any part in the transactions. The detective department is powerless to interfere with Jockeys for such of lenses, and therefore put the matter in the hands of the Jockey club.
 Le Soir adds that the action of Jockey club will be welcomed by every one and that it will put an end to the suspicion involving all American jockeys in France, among whom there are several honest men. To-day's action by the club, continues the paper, will serve as lesson to those jockeys "who still fre-5 quent night saloons surrounded by. shady racing characters"
 'The only regret which might be as-. sociated with this measure of the Jock ey club,' says Le Soir, "is that we are to be deprived of two incomparable artists who often gave spectacle of palpitating struggles in which shrewd-l ness and skill had replaced the brutal methods of former tines.''
 Milton Henry and J Reiff have been the most successful jockeys on French race courses this season. Henry head- ed the list of winners; not 8 day passed without his securing several wins and places, J. Reiff to-day got two flrsts out of four mounts at the Bois de Bou- lonnge, while Henry got 8 first and two seconds out of five mounts. Reiff got 8 first and second out of four mounts at Maisons Laffitte Friday, while Henry got two f1rsts and one sec- ond out of six mounts at the same meet- ing.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-13
CRUCIAL TEST FOR OPERATORS
This Week the One for Them to Keep
 Their Promise.

Scranton, Pa., Oct. 12-This is the be- ginning of a week which it is generally believed will put to a test the claim of the operators that they will be enabled to start up their collieries if given pro- lection and the counter-claim of the United Mine Workers organization, as expressed in Wednesdays resolutions, that the strikers will not return to work without concessions, even though the entire military force of the United States should be here to protect them. With determination to prove their claim the operators have been for the
 past week making a supreme effort to secure men. That they have succeeded to some extent is evidenced by an-
 nouncements, made with some positive ness, that various collieries will resume operations in the course of few days.
 The Delaware and Hudson company | will make start tomorrow morning
 at the Bellevue. The Green Ridge Coal
 company will open up its Green Ridge colliery, probably tomorrow or the next day.
 Other companies say they are figur-
 ing on resumption at certain collieries,
 but decline to give their location. Claim
 is also made on the presidents side that
 the forces at collieries already working
 are to be largely increased during the | week.
 1 The United Mine Workers leaders
 continue to assert that the military car
 do nothing towards inducing men to re-
 turn to work, and that all the men who could be induced to go back to work without concessions are already back. Strike disorder is now almost wholly | wanting. During the past two days the
 soldiers have had nothing to do further than their regular patrol duty, not a
 single call having come to any of the
 three regiments in this county to dea with disorder or threatened disorder.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-13
Foreign Notes.

Paris, Oct 12.-As the result of a mistake made by motorman one electric street car ran at full speed into another in the Ave nue De La Republlque this evening. Both cars were crowded Thirty nine persons were more or less seriously injured. Sever al were taken to hospital They had sus- tained broken limbs or had been cut by glass or splintars.
 Christiania. Norway, Oct 12-Emperor William has bestowed the decoration of the Prussian Royal Order of the Grown of the first class upon Captain Sverdup, the Arctic the Grand Cross of St. Olaf on Captain Serdup last week.
 Dublin, Oct. 12--The tenth annual pill grlpage to the grave of Charles s. PnrneIl occurred today. For the first time the lord mayor and corporation of Dublin did not participate in the ceremony. The attend ance was smaller than in previous years.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-13
ANOTHER CONFERENCE
Thought to Have Been Held on Mor
 gan's Yacht Yeaterday.

New York, Oct. 12.-Developments in the coal strike situation were lacking here to-day. J. P. Morgan spent the day on board his yacht, the Corsair, ly- ing in North river, and the visit of two men during the afternoon gave rise to the report that another important con- ference was being held but the identity of MT. Morgan's visitors could not be discovered and it is not known if their presence had any connection with the coal strike It was reported that George F. Baer was one of the two men who left the yacht in a launch about ten o'clock tonight. This could not be yer flied, however. Mr. Morgan himself did not leave the yacht tonight.
 Other than an interview with John Markle the operators gave out nothing of moment and Mr. Markle simply reit- erated that no settlement was in sight and there could be no settlement except by the miners going to work independ- ently ''The situation is unchanged '' he said, except that conditions are i'm proving in the coal regions
 Mir. Markle would not comment on the visit of Secretary Root yesterday or on his own conference with MT. Mor- gan yesterday evening. Other opera tors said they had assurances from the coal fields that large numbers of men were ready to go to work"
 In a number of the churches the ser mons dwelt with different phases of the coal strike Senator Platt declined tc say anything bearing on the situation Governor Odell spent the day at his home in Newburg. He is expected tc return to New York tomorrow morning and be in Brooklyn tonight.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-13
NEW ORLEANS STRIKE SETTLED
Trolley strikers Vote to Accept the
 Governor's UItsmatmm

New Orleans, Oct. 12,-The street car strike begun by the dissatisfied em- ployes of the New Orleans Street Rail- way company was settled to-day, the Carmen's union on a secret ballot unanimously accepting the governors s ultimatum.
 The basis of settlement is that the men will go back to work in the morn- ing at 20 cents, ten hours to be days work with minimum of seven and a half hours 9 day, no discrimination to be made against any of the men under charges and as many to be taken back as are needed for the operation of the company's lines.
 There is widespread rejoicing in the city over the settlement of the strike, which began Sunday morning two weeks ago and has been the most ef- fective tieup attempted in this city. Not single passeinger has been carried on car since it began and not a passen- ger car has gotten more than five blocks from a barn.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-13
SOLDIERS NOT NEEDED,
Not One Sent Ont from Wiikesbarre-
 Hope of Settlement

Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct 12.-Nothing that is new developed in the strike sit uation here to-day. Not one soldier was sent out from the camp located in this city There are rumors in circula- tion that an extraordinary effort will be made this week to start the col 1ieries, but no information to tis effect can be learned from the company's off, cials here. The strikers and citizens generally are not expecting any to de- velop in the strike affected territory but are eagerly following events in New York and Washington
 There is a feeling, which is growing quite general that some development in the direction of a settlement is near at hand. Tonight it looks as though there will be very little or no increase in the production of coal during the next week. The miners are as firm to- day in their declarations not to return to work until they get some concessions as they have been heretofore.
 The appeal issued yesterday by the American Federation of Labor was re- ceived with considerable satisfaction by the strikers, but there was considerable discussion over the paragraph in the appeal which asserted that the miners were willing to leave their case in the hands of J. Pierpont Morgan. When MT. Mitchell's attention was called to 1t last night, he said it was an error. To-day he refused to discuss it. It is
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-13
RAGING AT TArLsBURG.
Lawson Wins Ten-N:iie Handicap
 Kramer's Tire Gave Out.

Lawson "lns Ten-NIo Rfahuicap-
 Kramer's Tire Gave Out.
 Newark, N. J., October 12.--At the vailsburg bicycle races to-day the ten mile professional event proved to be the most interesting. Kramer's tire went flat in the ninth mile, putting him out of It. The men were divided into three punches, scratch, 150 yards and 300 yards, and they did not get together in one bunch until the fifth mile. McFar- land, Lawson and J. Bedell were in front at the bell and they mad the finish to themselves Lawson sprinted in fine style in the stretch and won by a length with, Bedell half a length before Mc- Farland. s KY
 Tn the quarter mile for professionals Lawson won by a length from Kible, who had a fight for the place with Krebs. Kramer was shut out in his preliminary heat, finishing third. In the half mile handicap for amateurs Root of Boston showed plenty Of speed and won with something to spare. In the five mile handicap for amateurs Schlee won after being practically out of 1t. Attendance $500. Summarizes:
 Half mile handicap (amateur)-Won by F. F. Root Boston (scratch); Michael Cof- fey, Newark, (20 yards) second; Edwin Bailey, New York, (3o yards) third. Time. TOT 2-5. .....s>
 Quarter mile handicap (professionall- Won by Iver Lawson. Salt Lake City t(10 yards); Owen S. Klmble, Louisville Q5 yards), second; Floyd Krebs, Newark, (20 yards) third Time, :29 2-5.
 Ten mile handicap (professionaD-Wo by Iver Lawson, Salt Lake City (scratch); John Floyd Mcfarland. San Jose (scratch), third. Time. 22:24.
 | Five mile handicap (amateur)-Won by Charles Schlee, Newark (50 yards); B. F.
 Dor hdson e9S5o1 So ards1 thir r Time Winner of lap prize, Edwin Goodwin, New l York
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-13
morrow.
MASS MEETING FOR STRIKERS.
Held om American League Baseball
 Grounds tn Boston.


 Doston, Oct. 12-An open air mass meeting in aid of the caol mine strikers was held on the American league ball grounds this afternoon. Two district presidents, Thomas D. Nichols and John D. Fahy, came on from Wilkes barre and both spoke. MT. Nichols ex- plained with great celarness the strik- CTS side of the controversy. Short speeches also were made by Mrs. Mar tha Moore Avery, David Goldst ein, George E. McNeil and James F. Carey, we'll known socialist leaders, and Harry D. Lloyd. Torrey E. Wardner presided and a substantial sum was raised by charging a small admission to the grounds. The district presidents were met at the railroad station by com- mittee and were escorted to the ball grounds by several hundred members of local unions. Arriving there the speak CTS were escorted to a temporary stand, and MT. Wardner at once called the attention of the assemblage to the object of the demonstration. The speeches followed.
 MT. Nichols said he was willing to ad- init that there had been some disorder here and there, but that these disorders had been greatly exaggerated. He claimed, also. that the union miners those on strike, were not responsible for these disorders.
 Every mention of MT. Mitchelrs name brought forth applause. At the close T-k.- ing the strike were adopted. Both MT Nichols and MT. Fany left for New York tonight.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-13
S2,5GO Raised for Miners

New York, Oct. PA benefit enter tainment for the benefit of the striking miners was given under the auspices of the Central Federated union to-day at West Farms. It is estimated that about $2,500 was realized. Twenty-four thou sand tickets at ten cents each were sold by the labor unions of the city. The secretary of the Cntral Federated union said tonight that because of the failure of the recent conference to bring about some settlement of the strike the assess ments on the local union members would be doubled.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-13
TOrnntao Strikes Quincv.fii.

Quincy, H., Oct. 12.-A tornado struck this city early this morning, sweeping in northeasterly direction and de- stroying much property in the city and the county A large number of houses and barns were destroyed and great damage was done to orchards and standing corn. One man at Camppoint was killed. The smoke stacks of the electric light power house were blown down and the city is in darkness.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-13
Counterfeit American Dollars.

Manila, Oct. 12.-Counterfeit Ameri- can silver dollars are being made in China and circulated here extensively. The suspicion is held that some of this money was shipped from San Francisco. The dollars are of silver and of stand ard weight. They have been detected through the improper stamping of the word Liberty" on the goddess. The low price of silver insured to the mak- CTS of this counterfeit money profit of one hundred per cent. American silver circulates as gold in the Philippines.