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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11
HOLDS HER GROUND
MRS. EDDY DENIES EMERSON AU-
THORSHIP.
CLAIMS SHE WROTE ALONE
Issues Public Answer to the Charge
That Others Than She May Have
Originated Christian Science
Shows How She Is Rated as Eighth
in Foremost Living Authors.

Concord, N. H, June 9.-Mrs Mary
Baker G. Eddy, in a printed statement
addressed To Whom 1t May Concern,
made answer to the recent claims that
Ralph Waldo Emerson was the author
Of christian science as follows
I'm 1883 l started the Christian Sci
ence Journal and for several years was
the proprietor and sole editor of that
journal In 1898 Judge S. J. Hanna
became editor Of the journal, and for
ten subsequent years he knew my abil-
ity as an editor. In his recent lecture
at Chicago he said: Mrs. Eddy is,
from every point of view, woman of
sound education and liberal culture
''The first attack upon me was, Mrs.
Eddy misinterprets the scriptures;
second, She has stolen the contents of
her book, Science and Health, with
Key to the Scriptures, from P. M
Quimby ian obscure, uneducated mani
c11lu liz IL Tic 1OuuuSI VI
Science'
Failing in these attempts, the cal
umniator has resorted to Ralph Waldo
Emerson's philosophy as the authority
for Christian Science! Lastly, the de-
famer will declare as honestly CD 4
have always known it.
Il am the author of the Christian
Science book, Science and Health,
With Key to the Scriptures, and the
demand for this book increases. It is
already in its 274 edition of 100000
copies each. I am rated in the National
magazine as standing eighth in a list
of twenty-five of the foremost leading
authors.
81 claim no special merit of any
kind. All that I am in reality God has
made me. l still wait at the cross to
learn definitely more from my great
master, but not Of the Greek nor of the
Roman schools-simply how to do
His deeds.'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11
CHAOS At ST. LOUIS
ESTIMATES OF LOSS OF LIFE AND
PROPERTY UNRELIABLE.
TWENTY PERSONS DEAD
Thousands of People Homeless, Mil
lions of Dollars in Losses, Cities
Under Water and Havoc Prevails
GeneraIIy-SpeciaI Session of Kan
sas Legislature to Supply Aid.

st. Louis, June 9. So great an ex-
tent Of territory is covered by the
flood, so constantly changing are the
conditions as the water creeps higher
and higher and renders the situation
more chaotic, so unreliable are the
various rumors of the devastation that
a substantiated summary Of the losses
of lives and of property cannot be OBJ
tanned, but up to o'clock last night
information from apparently reliable
sources showed the situation 10 be:
Twenty lives are known to have
been lost.
Over 100000 acres of rich farming
lands are under water.
All of Venice and the greater parts
of Madison and Granite City are under
water
twenty-five thousand people are
homeless.
Freight traffic is completely para
LIKED and passenger traffic practically
So
The shipping and manufacturing dis
trict of East ST. Louis for three miles
along the river front is under two to
eight feet of water.
Hundreds and probably thousands
of head of stock are drowned.
East st. Louis is threatened with
complete destruction.
ST. Louis is flooded only along the
water front.
The property loss is estimated at
$3,0O0,00O.
Special Session of Legislature.
Topeka, June Sit is practically
certain there will be a special session
of the legislature within two weeks to
make an appropriation and repair
some of the damage caused by the
flood. The governor is not in favor of
an appropriation for the indiscriminate
relief of sufferers, but favors an appro-
priation for the rebuilding of bridges
and similar work.
Louisiana Cut Off.
Louisiana, Mo-, June 9.-The Missis-
sippi here is still rising and is now is
as high as before the break in the Sny
1evee. All trains have been annulled
and Louisiana is cut off from the world
except for one wire.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11

Messrs Nixon & Zimmerman. in ad-
dition to their seven theaters in Phila-
delphia, two in Pittsburg, two in
Baltimore and one in WASHINGTON,
will next season present no less than
one dozen musical shows on the road.
Those being under the seal of success
of the Nixon & Zimmerman enter
prises are Willard Spencer's Miss Bob
White, Francis Wilson with an all-star
cast in Erminie, and The Little Cor
poral, Marguerite Sylvia in new
romantic opera by young Wash
ingtonian, and the latest triumphant
success, The Sweet Girl, a translation
from the reigning German musical
success, Toreador, in which Wilson
scored so heavily last season; the
Strollers, the delightful Englander-
Smith opera bouffe, adopted from the
German Der Landstreicher; A Chinese
Honeymoon, in which there will be no
less than three distinct all-star COM
panies, the latest Casino success,
The Runaways, with company of
12O, Miss Fay Templeton in Clyde
Fitch's new musical comedy, The
Infant Prodigy, the music of which
was written by Reginald DeKoven,
Harry B. Smiths latest musical de-
light, The Girl from, DeXie, in which
Irene Bentley will be featured, the
latest London Strand success, The
West End. by the author of The
Chinese Honeymoon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11
Wisconsin Brevities

At Watertown George M. Fitzgerald
of Davenport, Ia, the chandelier man
with Gentry Brothers circus, was
struck by a Northwestern train and is
in a dying condition. He is unmarried
and 20 years old.
At Fond du Lac Charles E. Opdike
of Geneva, N. Y, who with his wife
has been visiting at the home of MI.
and Mrs. G. r. Harrison, dropped dead.
Heart disease is supposed to have
been the cause Of death.
Every possible effort is being made
by some members Of the school board
of Racine to GUST George Bell as SUI
perintendent of public schools. The
board tried for three hours Saturday
to elect someone and failed.
No light was thrown on the identity
of the assailant of Herman thinner
man, who died at GAINESVILLE Wednes-
day as the result of injuries mysteri-
ousIy received ten days previous, at
the inquest The verdict was that he
died from a blow from a blunt instru
ment in the hands OF an unknown per
son.
There still fingers in the minds Of
old residents of Door county and East
Marinette the impression formed up
on reports of three decades ago that
pirate buried on the east shores of
the bay near Deaths Door several
thousand dollars in gold, and parties
are considering the advisability of a
search.
At La Crosse Anton Piesche, who
committed suicide, made careful prepa-
rations for death. He dressed himself
in his best clothes and white dress
shirt, collar and necktie, and then, re-
clining On his bed, killed himself with
a 22-caliber rife. No cause is as
signed, unless it be that he brooded
over the strange disappearance Of G.
+. Segelke, his employer, who is sup
posed to have been drowned last fall.
He was AZ years old.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11
PREACHER
URGES A
CHURCH TRUST

New York June 9.-Taking as his
topic Christ's Ideas on the Unity of
Man and of the Church, the Rev. DR..
Newell Dwight Hills preached a SER
mon in Plymouth Church in which he
favored a religious combination after
the style of business trusts. He said:
"One problem of the church in the
next twenty years will be the organiza-
ton and combination of churches like
the organization AMI combination eff
fected in the steel business and other
industries.
Some of the many churches in the
west which depend on eastern money
to support separate organization in
the same town should be starved in
to a sense of their fooIishness. The
cry of the christian within the next
twenty years in this country will have
to be unity and corporate manage
ment in the $4,000 or more communi-
ties. Instead of 1877 sects we must
have organization and unity"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11
CONTEST UNCLE'S WILL
Adopted Daughter Asserts Wealthy
Farmer Had Senile Dementa.

Ripon, Wis, June 9.-George L.
Sherwood of Woodstock, H., viii con-
test the probate of the alleged will Of
his uncle, Charles L. Sherwood,
wealthy farmer who died here in Janu-
airy. The deceased was survived by
brothers and sisters and one who
claims to be an adopted daughter, but
no nearer heirs. The estate is esti-
mated at $4,000 to $4,000, nearly all
OF which is left by will to George W.
Field, president Of the First National
Dank, who Of late has been Mr.. Sher-
woods confidential adviser.
1t is claimed that the deceased for
several years, since the death Of his
wife, has been afflicted with senile de-
mentia, and that the date of the will
was incompetent and susceptible to
undue influence. A vigorous contest
is predicted on the part of the adopted
daughter as well as by the heirs by
blood relationship.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11
GAMBLERS IN A NET
FEDERAL DETECTIVES AFTER
SWINDlING AGENTS.
AKRON A RICH FIELD
Get-Rich-Quick Concerns of Chicago
Fleece People of Ohio City to sx-
tent of o,0oo-Secret Service
Men Trace One Of the Gang to Mil
Waukee.

Akron, O., June 9.-Chicago men
are involved in the investigations
being made here by federal authorities
into the manner in which several hun
dred Akronites and citizens of neigh
boring Ohio towns were f1eeced out of
100000 through the operations of
Chicago get-rich-quick swindlers.
The investigation has been going on
quietly for some time, and evidence
that has accumulated is soon to be
presented to the federal and grand
jury here. The evidence incriminates
H. Brolaski and E. H Arnold, with
several Chicago gamblers, in deals by
which the Akronites were parted from
their cash.
Efforts are at present being made
to locate in Chicago DR.. Newton
Nipple. who acted as the agent of Bro
laski and his crowd in Akron. Nipple
disappeared from Akron shortly after
the explosion of the Brolaski and Ar
mold quick get-rich bubble. He boast
ed before leaving here that he had
made nearly $4,000 in commissions
alone through his dealings with Bro
laSki.
Secret service detectives have been
in Chicago for some time gathering
the eidence by which it is hoped to
convict Brolaski and his crew It is
said the hiding place of Brolaski is i'll
Milwaukee and that he is in daily
communication with his Chicago asso.
ciates. Nipple is expected to tell the
federal inquisitorial body here how
the scheme by which the Akronites
and people of North Baltimore, Bowl
ing Green, Dayton Toledo and many
other Ohio cities were swindled, was
| worked in Chicago. The part played
| by the Long Beach pool room, under
the management of Perry and Smith,
the Chicago gamblers in the deals, has
already been published.
At least three hundred persons in
Akron alone will tell of the manner
| in which their cash went into the
pockets of the Chicago gamblers.
Agents from Chicago have been here
seeking to stop the tide of exposure,
but the Akronites are determined to
| get back at least a portion of their
| losses and also to see justice melted
out to the swindlers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11

of production would lot exceed sc
cents. In fixing the increase the com
pany takes everything into consider
alton. In the whole history of com
merce, he said, there never was any
thing as ignorant and stupid as the
way the coal business had been con-
Quoted, considering the usefulness and
necessity of coal and its limited
supply.
Adelbert Mootof, counsel for the
Erie system, protested that the com
mission has no jurisdiction in any
matter that concerns the price of coal.
The commission decided it could con-
slider the prices realized for a product
to arrive at the reasonablness of the
freight rates.
Judge Campbell, the legal represen-
tative Of the Reading system, declared
his clients ready to concede that the
price is about S. q ton and that the
price will increase until $3.50 is
resched.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11
INDICT TWO
MORE IN
POSTAL PLOT

Washington, June 9.-The federal
grand jury has voted to indict Samuel
A. and Diller B. Croft for conspiracy
to defraud the government in collision
with August w. Machen, former SUI
perintendent of the free delivery divi-
sion OF the postofice department.
The Groffs are p1oprietors of the pat
ent mail box fasteners, from the sale
OF which Machen is said to have prof
tied to the extent of $4,000 in the
last few years, having collected from
the Colts 10 per cent. rake off, on
moneys received by them from the
government.
The grand jury regarded the testi-
mony taken in the Machen hearing as
sufficient on which to base an indict-
ment against the Groffs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11

of the two which expire at the time
there is another place to fill, that of
the vacancy caused by the death of
Mai. R. N. Roberts of Waupaca since
the last encampment. The trustees
filed the vacancy temporarily by the
appointment of Gen. B. F. Bryant of
La Crosse, who was one Of the
original trustees, and who has been
member of the board most of the
time since then. The election of three
new men on the board would give half
the board to the reform element if it
should prevail; and If it should at the
same time elect a department COM
mander who is in accord with the de-
mand that the methods of the in
stitution be overhauled and amended,
his vote would make a majority in
favor OF that proposition. This being
the case, the fight for the control of
the home will be a hard one, and if
the reformers are not well organized
and united they stand in grave danger
OF defeat, for the present board Of
trustees is a powerful combination.
Col. Gray viii Be Missed.
One remarkable figure of the Grand
Army will be missed at the encamp-
ment this year. Col. E. B. Gray, who
has been department commander and
who has also filed the position OF as
sistant adjutant general many years
in the past, will not be with his old
failed since the last encampment, and
for months he has been on the verge
Of the grave. His friends have been
expecting to hear of his death every
day for some time, feeling that the
end was near at hand. He will prob
ably be missed more than any other
man in the department, for he has al
ways been a prominent figure at the
encampments. Col. Gray has also had
national honors, having served as
adjutant general under Commanders
Fairchild and Weissert. He went out
in the first year of the war as a cap
tain il the Fourth Wisconsin, leaving
his position as principal of the public
schools of Sheboygan Falls to raise a
company in 1861. In the fall of 1862
he was commissioned major of the
Twenty-eighth Wisconsin, and rose to
the rank of the colonel, being in COM
mand of the regiment during the lat
ter part of his service. He is now
nearly 80 years old, but up to a year
ago was as erect and soldierly in ap-
peaTance as ever.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11
DEATH LIST GROWS
MANY BELIEVE 200 PERSONS
PERISH.
THIEVES LOOTING HOUSES
Dwellings Deserted by Owners Be-
come Easy Prey for Wretches Who
Work Where 1t Is Impossible to
Maintain the Patrol Lines-Levee
Breakers Also Feared.

ST. Louis, June 9.-The work of
rescuing refugees from floating or
flooded houses continued all day and
into the night. They are pouring into
the city by hundreds.
The estimate of 20 lives lost is
probably far below the actual number.
There are those who believe the list
will reach 200.
John Arnold, who escaped from
North Venice, brought report that
house containing 80 occupants was
swept away and all were drowned.
Thieves Loot Houses.
River thieves are footing the vacant
houses. Men in skiffs have been seen
to enter half-submerged houses in
Venice, Madison and Granite City and
carry away everything of value.
Armed men patrol the flooded dis
trict to protect the entertainments from
levee breakers and the property from
thieves. The robbers, however,
operate at some distance from the
patrolled territory.
Use Sand Bags for Protection.
In Last st. Louis hundreds Of
citizens labored al day piling bags of
sand upon the Ievees and last night
the protection was many inches above
the flood.
In st. Louis the damage is material.
y increased and the flood in the
buildings along the river front con-
tlnues to rise.
Below Eads bridge IS moored the
steamer Dubuque, which came down
the river from st. Paul. So swift was
the current and so high the stage of
the river that the Dubuque was carried
under Merchants bridge at high
speed and both smokestacks were
swept to the decks. The steamer will
remain in dock until the floods sub
side.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11
Emma Briggs, Twice Married to
Edgar G. EIdridge, Gets Divorce

Neenah, Wis, June 9.-Miss Emma
Briggs has twice found matrimony a
failure, being granted a divorce for
the second time from Edgar G. FL
bridge and allowed to resume her
maiden name. The defendant did not
contest the suit. The couple was
granted divorce in 1898 and three
months ago were remarked. Then
Charles ]. Schumann of this city be-
gan breach of promise action against
her, followed by suit by Mrs. Ell
bridge to recover several horses which
she alleged Schumann bought with
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11
DEATH A MYSTERY.
Body of Katherine p. Wood Found
With Skull Crushed.

Cambria, Wis, June 9.-The death
of Mrs. Katarina D. Wood, aged IS
years, who figured in divorce suit
brought against her husband on
charges of cruelty last December,
which she withdrew after the trial had
been begun in Portage, is surrounded
with mystery. The body of Mrs. Wood
was found near her home with the
skull crushed, evidently by a blunt in
strument. The coroner called a jury,
which returned verdict Of murder.
The woman's husband proved to the
jury that he was at work on a farm
three miles away from the scene Of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11
CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT
ON PHILIPPINE SITUATION

Washington, June 9.-Secretary
Root had a long conference with
President Roosevelt yesterday. The
secretary arrived at the executive of
fee about 1 o'clock and took luncheon
with the PRESIDENT. They discussed at
length the developments in the Philip,
pine situation, the secretary having
with him a bundle of documents bear,
ing on the various phases of the
question, as we'll as upon other mat,
tiers concerning his department.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11
COWBOYS
GATHER
TO FIGHT

Topeka, June 9.-Reports were re-
ceived here last night of large bodies
of armed men assembling at Goodland,
st. Francis and the Berry ranch in
Cheyenne county. The gatherings are
considered hostile demonstrations
against Chauncey Dewey and his two
cowboys, now being escorted to St.
Francis by company of militia. Since
the Berrys were murdered last week
there has been much resentment
against the cowmen of the district and
it is feared other fights will break out,
no matter what may be the outcome of
the movement against Dewey.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11

Racine, Wis, June 9.-Rev. Henry
D. Robinson, warden of Racine col
lege, will make an interesting report
to the trustees at their meeting We'd
nesday. 1t will state Frank K. Bull,
Richard T. Robinson and Frederick
Robinson of the J. I. Case Threshing
Machine company will give $4,000 10
the college, provided that the college
can raise $4,000 more, the whole to
be used for the erection of a new
building.
This building will contain a first
class and modern gymnasium and ma
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11
Drinks Acid and Ends Life
Because Of Family Troubles

Fond du Lac, June 9.-No relatives
of the late Charles Koning are now
expected to arrive in the city and the
body of the young suicide will prob
ably be shipped to his home in Cleve-
land, 0.
Koning drank quantity of carbolic
acid and died at the home of his cous-
in, Mrs. Frank Audit, 155 Third street.
A series of family troubles is said to
have been the cause of his death He
left his wife some time ago at Cleve-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11
PEASANTS BENT ON
JEW-BAlTING AT FAIR

Berlin, June 9.-According to a dis
patch from Lemberg. the papers of
that town publish an account of the
renewal of w-baiting at BorestechkO,
Russia Galicia. Twenty thousand pea
SAINTS assembled at the annual fair
and threatened to massacre the Jews
who, panic stricken, closed their
houses and stores and telegraphed the
governor for protection.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11

land and came here upon the advice of
relatives. He obtained work as a
laborer, but instead of attending to it
Saturday he got drunk so when he
was discovered apparently asleep in
back shed it caused little alarm. 1t
was later seen that he had taken pois-
on and he died from the effects Of it.
He had been acting queerly for the
past week, his relatives say, and all
boat liveries had been requested not
to loan him boat for fear he might
drown himself. He was q years old.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11

her money. Both cases were dropped.
Miss Briggs testified that since her
marriage on March y last her hus-
band had done no work mad that he
relied on her to support him, as she
had been left $4,000 by her father.
When she refused him money, she
said, he used profane and abusive Ian
guage and once he struck her. Miss
Briggs is the woman who last fall re-
ported that she had been robbed of
$4,000 in securities on Northwestern
train en- route to Oshkosh. The
purse was later found with contents
intact in the station here.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11
BOAT TURNES OVER;
FIVE MEN DROWN

Frazer, Ia, June S.-Five lost their
lives here yesterday in the Des Moines
river. The dead are: Thomas Cole
man, Andrew MarcOna, Steve Gonna
dine, Carrie Megatina and Nicolas
Grometine. The men we're drowned
by the capsizing of the boat in which
they were crossing the river.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11
Racine College to Receive Gift Of
$4,000 From Thresher Company

tatorium; also a central heating and
electric light plant. The offer Of
Messrs. Bull and the Robinsons will
probably be accepted and action taken
to raise the $4,000.
At present the college is in better
condition than at any time in recent
years. There are about $50 students
a military company and brass band
have been added; a fine library
equipped, interior of the building re-
built, and grounds beautifed, while
the chapel has been made one of the
handsomest in the southern part of
the state.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11

Mr. B. Lenske, La Crosse mer-
chant. has received news that the
Jews at Mean, Russia, where his fam
lily still lives, are living in daily ex-
pectation of a massacre. Mr.. Lenske
sent for his wife and children, but they
have not dared to leave.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11
HUNDRED
DROWN IN
COLLISION

MarseilIes, Jun cit is still I'M
known here how many were drowned
in the sinking of the French steamer
Liban which foundered off this port
Sunday after being in collision with
the steamer Insulacc. The number Of
drowned certainly exceeds 100.