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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
EaCtS and Proof.

Hulett, Wyo., Dee. 4.-(Special.)-
An ounce of fact is worth ton of
theory and it is evidence founded on
facts that backs up every box Of
Dodd's Kidney Pills. The evidence. of
people who know what they do. Mrs
May Taber, highly esteemed resident
Of Hulett, says:
L know Dodd's Kidney Pills are a
valuable medicine because l have used
them. l took seven boxes and they
cured me of severe attack of Kidney
Trouble. They relieved me from the
nrst dose, and when l had finished
the last box l had no pain and my
hldneys are now acting properly"
Dodd's Kidney Pills are now recog-
nlzed all over the world as the great
est Kidney Remedy science has ever
produced. They cure Rheumatism,
Dropsy, Govt, Lumbago, Diabetes, Uri-
nary and Bladder Troubles, Bright's
Disease, and all disorders arising from
any form of Kidney Disease.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
ALLEGED ELOPERS MARRY,
George Barton, Briggsville, and Gertie
Corning, Lewiston, Go to Sioux
Falls, S. D.

SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Dec. 4-The
granting Of marriage license and a
marriage ceremony performed by Judge
Bailey are the latest developments in the
alleged elopement of George Barton of
Portage, Wis, and Miss Gertie Corning
of Lewiston. Barton gave his age as p,
and the girls as 10.
PORTAGE, Wis, Dec. 4.-The report
that George Barton of Briggsville and
Gertrude Corning of Lewiston had been
married at Sioux Falls, S. D., caused lit
tie surprise here. The couple have been
missing for a week. Barton is 10 years
old and Miss Corning is aged 16.
Before coming to Portage, young Bar
ton is alleged to have taken S175 from
his father. The couple hired a rig at a
local livery stable, and after short
drive to Baraboo are said to have aban-;
doned the horse and buggy. They are
also said to have left an unpaid hotel
bill.
The father of the girl objected to Bar
tons attentions to his daughter. A
search was made as soon as the couple
disappeared, but it was given up. The
impression here is that they will return
shortly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
GAME RIDERS TN
SIX-DAY STRUGGLE.
BICYCLE RACE IN NEW YORK
MARKED BY ACCIDENT,
NONE SERIOUS.
Thousands Stay Ali Night to See Dizzy
Whirl of Riders-Gougoltz in
Role of Pluck

NEW YORK, Dec 4.-The six-lay
bicycle race score at IL o'clock was IS
follows:
Dussot, SO: :. Trousslier- Decaup. '2 226: !.
it-Downey, 226; q Agraz- Castro, 226; I.
M Ma 226; I. Bedell-Bedell.
HOLSTER, 226 I. Achorn-Wilcox. 226; z.
krebs-Peterson. 226; 1. Galvin-McDonald,
ISL Isl; 6. D0Se-Se0'' 20 '""S0''A- 'an0H''
Soon afterward Kanoni and Gougoltz
withdrew their team, but Nanoni was
able to continue in the race under other
colors. Emil AgraZ, a member of the
Mexican team, fell and injured his knee
so badly that ne was obliged to retire.
Fred q. Castro, the remaining member
of the Mexican team. and Nanoni formed
a r@sE Mexican team. Under the rules
this eeam was allowed TO start with the
score which the old Mexican team had
made up.
At the start it was estimated that 49,,
600 persons were crowded around the
track. At 3 o'clock this morning no less
than $4,000 remained in their seats and
when daylight broke nearly half that
number still chung to their chairs Just
before o'clock seven riders became
tangled during a squirt around the dan
SeIOuS NtHl3 -SIAlu street luI IL anu ulCAi
and machines were sent flying down the
steep sides of the board track.
Luckily but one of them, Gougoltz of
the Swiss-Italian team. was hurt He
Immediately resumed the race. Other
riders saw that he was losing his
strength. Immediately they began to
squirt. The crowd howled disapproval.
Gougoltz kept up the unequal struggle
several minutes, losing two laps before
n ia WIN 10
bottom of the saucer track. 1t was then
found that he had broken rib.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
THE "coFFEE HEART"
1t In as Dangerous the Tobacco
or whisky Heart.

1t In as Dangerous ms the Tobacco
or Whisky Heart.
Coffee heart" Is common to many
coffee users and is liable to send the
owner to his or her long home If the
drug is persisted in. You can run 30
or 40 yards and find out If your heart
is troubled. A lady who was once a
victim Of the coffee heart" writes
from Oregon:
81 have been a habitual user Of cof-
fee all my life and have suffered very
much in recent Years from ailments
which I became satisfied were directly
due to the poison in the beverage, such
as torpid liver and indigestion, which
in turn made my complexion Dlotchy
and muddy.
Then my heart became affected. It
would beat most rapidly just after l
drank my coffee, and go below nor
NAL as the coffee effect wore off. Some
times my pulse would go as high as
1877 beats to the minute. My family
were greatly alarmed at my condition
and at last mother persuaded me to be-
gin the use Of Postum Food Coffee.
II gave up the old coffee entirely
and absolutely, and made Postum my
sole table beverage. This was months
ago, and all my ills, the indigestion, in
active liver and rickety heart action,
have passed away, and my complex
ion has become clear and natural. The
improvement set in very soon after 1
made the change, just as soon as the
coffee poison had time to work out OF
ny system.
"My husband has also been greatly
benefited by the use Of Postum, and
we find that simple breakfast with
Postum, is as satisfying and more
strengthening than the old heavier
meal we used to have with the other
kind Of Coffee Name given by Pos
tum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason. Read the little
book, "The Road to MELVILLE in pkgs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
TO GAIN NEW MARKETS.
Senator Overman of North Carolina ia
Introduce Bill for Commission to
Make Inquiries.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dee. 4.-Sen-
;ator Overman of North Carolina prob
ably will introduce in the Senate this
week a bill providing for the establish
ment of Il commission to investigate
market conditions throughout the world
and make such recommendations as will
promote the export of American manu-
featured products. 1t provides for q
commission of five members and the en-
ployment of expert to last three years
and to cost not more than $500, 900. The
proposed commission is modelled some
what after British and German commits
sions that have made such inrestiga-
tians and have negotiated reciprocity
treaties.
Senator Overman said that he did not
intend that the commission should go
into the tariff problem, as it should be
non-partisan and for the benefit of al
manufacturers,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
The Bohemian.

Once upon a time there lived an artist.
He had lofty ideals in his brain and
yellow stains on his finger-nails. Be
sides, he lived ON his relations. He went
through three universities, and thence
post-graduated to Paris, whittier he
travelled to absorb some atmosphere.
He returned a finished artist He
must have been good, for, when he en-
tered a museum, he could tell at glance
where Raphael fell down. how bad
Velasquez really was, where Murillo was
weak, and why Rubens turned out so
much poor stuff. 1t was he who discov-
cred that the Brabizon school-he called
be, and that Sir Joshua Reynolds-he-
hailed him as Josh-was poor on brush
work.
Meanwhile he lived in a ballroom and
wore flowing neckties. His shoes were
of varying patterns and his clothes were
stylish-in 1868. He slept most of the
day and walked around all night. When
one inquired wherefore, he announced
proudly, II am 4 bohemian"
He ate sausages cooked over a candle
In plug hat, and slept under the carpet
near the floor. He enounced that all
marriage contracts should contain two
weeks clause, and that all property
should be divided among everybody. He
borrowed So from anybody who would
lend it to him; failing three, he borrowed
two, or even-from a stingy friend-10
cents. He paid no one and never in
Cured laundry bill. When one would
inquire wherefore, he announced proudly,
81 am a bohemian"
One day the artist arrived"
An editor saw promise i'll his work and
gave him a three years contract at $50
per week.
The next month he married and set
tied down. Before his contract expired
he had two children, savings bank ac-
count, and three life insurance policies.
He goes to bed each night at 8, and his
clothes are of the latest fashion. His
meals are served to the minute and he
stickles abjectly for the influence of the
home.
Moral: Bohemianism is only an ex-
cuse.-S. T. Stern in Smart Set.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
NO JURISDICTION IN
SALT REBATE CASES.
Judge Philips of Kansas City (Mo.)
Grants Motion to Quash Proceed
ings Against Railroads.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 4.-Judge
John f. Philips in the United States dis
trict court today held that his court was
without jurisdiction in the federal cases
charging the Missouri Pacific, the Santa
Fe and other railways with giving re-
bates on shipments of salt in Kansas
products in violation of the Elkins act
The motion to quash the proceedings
was granted
On March %, 1902, at the instigation
of the attorney generals office at Wash
ington, Judge Philips granted a tenn
porary order restraining the roads from
giving alleged rebates on various prod
ucts- Last summer NJ. d. Purdy, assist
ant attorney general, brought additional
proceeding citing the officials of the rail
ways named Tor contempt, on the al1ega-
ton that they had violated the courts or
der in continuing to give rebates.
1t is for the state authorities, says the
opinion. to determine whether the state
corporation is violating the law; that
Congress has never undertaken to deter
niue what is the reasonable or equitable
division of joint rates between two rail
road companies.
The government will never strike at
the root of the rebate evil until it goes
after the shipper as we'll as the railroad !;
that it is not fair play and "a square
deal'' that the railroads should first be
held up by the shipper and then pun
ished by the government for being held
up, while the shipper gets the rake
off" The court suggested in the opinion
the railroads could best assist in reliey-
ing themselves from such an attitude by
opening. rather than closing the mouths
of those under their control when their
evidence was needed TO get at the facts -
The court alluded to the fact that this
matter had attracted public attention
because of the sensa tional association OF
the names of President Ripley and the
then vice president. Paul Morton, with
the transaction. But tie record in the
case and the evidence taken before the
interstate commerce commission failed
to furnish any foundation for impuling
to those gentlemen any personal respon-
sibility
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
DEATH TRAP FOR FOES.
Hermit Arranges Dynamite Blast in
Home and Disappears-Two Mar
rowly Escape.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Dec. 2.-Threatened
with a suit to GUST him from house in
which he had lived as "a hermit for
years, John A. Thompson, "a miser of
the pronounced type, disappeared from
his home. near Hobart, Ind, two weeks
ago, leaving behind him cunningly de-
vised death trap for any one who
sought to enter the deserted building.
The trap was discovered by Fred Busse,
the village marshal, and Alvin Wild.
The two men We're about to hurl their
weight against the front door when
Busse exclaimed: This don't look right
to me, Al, and l think we ought to be
careful. Thompson may have put up
come kind of a game on US. Suppose
we take a look in the windows before
we go any further"
Raising a window, Busse and Wild
peered in and gasped. In the center of
the bare floor was so pounds of dyna-
mite so arranged that the opening of
either door would explode cartridges of
black powder.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
Mixed.

A Seattle man who was in Victoria a
few days ago said: 81 went to a con-
cert in Victoria given by the band of the
Royal Irish Guards, household troops,
just from London, and heard them play
a Sousa march under the name of '"The
Blue Jackets PATROL Columbia, the
Gem of the Ocean, in an alleged Irish
medley, and 'Hiawatha' in still another
medley under an Irish name. Yet some
people think the British don't fake!
When the band lit into that Columbia
a funny thing happened. All the Amer
leans in the house, and there were
lot of them, got up and cheered like mad,
and the British are still wondering
y."-Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
ROOSEVELT DIsPLEAsEs LANDMEN.
Oregonians Indicted in Fraud Connection
Are Removed by President.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 2.-Pres-
sdent Roosevelt has removed J. T.
Bridges, registrar of the land office ct
Roseburg, Ore, and ]. H. Booth re,
ceiver of public moneys at the same
place and appointed Benjamin L. Eddy
of Tillamoak and j. NJ. Lawrence of
Bend to take their places. Bridges and
Booth were indicted in connection with
the Oregon land frauds and District At
torrey Hall was accused of affording
Tberas protection.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
ILL: HIRE SPECIAL TRAIN
Baraga (Mich.) Millionaire Relapses from
Typhoid-Is Taken to Chicago
on Record Time

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Dec. Ain the hope
of saving his life, John hester, mil
lionaire lumber dealer of Baraga Mich.
was hurried to Chicago Sunday on a spe-
cial train. suffering from a complicatio
of ailments following typhoid fever. An
operation seems imperative. hester was
hurried to Mercy hospital.
The run over the Duluth & Atlantic
line to the junction with the M:!wau-
kee system was the fastest ever made on
that road. The track was cleared from
the junction to Milwaukee and the spe-
cial reached Milwaukee at ) O'Clock. The
train came down the last stretch i'll the
race OH the fast mail schedule rolling
into the union depot few minutes be-
fore I o'clock.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
MILWAUKEE sToCKYARDs REPORT

HOGS-Receipts, ? cars; market lower;
idiums, 4.S0Q495; rough packers, ASCOT Is;
pigs, so TO 10 lbs, 4.4094.75; coarse stays,
i4.00d4.25.
CATTLE-Receipts, none; steady; calves
STEADY; butchers steers, medium to good,
1850 to 1900 lbs, 4.2594.75; fair to me-
Idium, $50 to 1850 lbs. 3.25@3.75; heifers.
icommon, 2.5002.75: good, 30003.75; cows,
cutters, 2O0@2 40; bulls, common, $3.50
go; choice. 2.5003. %; feeders, 800 TO $50
lbs, .3,o0d3.5o; stockers, 500 to $50 lbs. 2.25
i02.15; val calves, common to choice, 6.000
iers-Common sell for Gamers, choice 5000
$4,000.
SHEEP-Receipts, none; steady, 350@
300; bucks, 2.75q350; lambs, steady, $500
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07

Mob law Follows Act Of Grief Over
Japanese Protectorate in
Korea.

CHE Foe, Dec. 1.-Delayed. )-Pri-
vate letters from Korea confirm reports
that the Emperor was forced at the
point of a bayonet into an agreement
with Japan. Ills seal was affixed by
others, resulting in a panic in the palace
and the suicide of some of the officials.
The palace has been under increased
japanese surveillance for the last two
weeks.
Well-known Diplomats End.
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 2.-Grieved By
the establishment of Japan's protec-
torate over Korea, Min Iung Whan, Il
personal aide to the Emperor and u
cousin of the late Queen, committed sui
eide. He was q special envoy from
Korea to Queen Nictoria's jubilee and
the coronation of Emperor Nicholas H.
of Russia. A riot followed the suicide
and public feeling is high.
Formerly at Washington.
Min Yung Whan was also formerly
Korean minister to the United States,
succeeding Chin Pom Ye, when the lat
Ter was transferred to Russia. He was
a first cousin to the King.
Within the past few days Min 1unS
Whan headed a body of 200 officials who
gathered first at the palace and later at
the supreme court to protest against
the Japanese protectorate. The En-
peror ordered them to leave both places
and dispense.
Sees Cause Is Hopeless. .
Realizing the hopelessness of his
cause Min Yung Whan went early to
the house of an old retainer and cut his
own throat He was popular with for
eigners and natives and his suicide has
greatly affected local sentiment
Mob Law Breaks Loose.
Gendarmes soon were forced to fire on
n mob. One japanese officer and Il po-
lceman have been seriously wounded.
In endeayoring to stop an incendiary
speech, the police and gendarmes We're
set upon by the mob, chased and forced
70 take refuge in the shops. They raj
lied and fired over the crowd. Upon be-
ing reinforced they succeeded in arrest
ing 100 of the mob.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
REFUSES TO SURRENDER
Woman Who Went Insane ON Frisco
Train Barricaded in Car on
Sidetrack

GIRARD, Kan, Dec. Airs. Berry,
who went insane while travelling on u
Frisco train Saturday, is still barricaded
in the ladies' toilet room of the car,
which was sidetracked here.
Just before daylight Sunday dummy
was pushed toward the room where the
woman was. Its approach was met with
a bullet from her revolver. All sorts of
persuasion have been used, but the wom-
an refuses to yield.
Mrs. Berry has been forty-eight hours
without food or heat. A message was
received from Vancouver, Wash, ex-
pressing the belief that she is the daugh-
ter of Col Bainbridge of Vancouver.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
DOWIE GROWING WEAKER
Nearly Collapses Sunday and breaches
from Chair-Had Setback in
Mexican WiIds

WAUKEGAN, ILL.,, Dec 4.-Sitting in
his chair and speaking in tones inaudible
to persons sitting in the center of Shiloh
tabernacle, at Zion City, John Alexander
Dowie presented anything but the same
personality that has made him famous
Sunday. At the beginning of his sermon
he stood in the center of the platform, he
apparently became weak, tottered and
walked backward to his chair, his voice
growing weaker and more inaudible. His
audience feared another paralytic stroke
However, Dowie kept on talking in an
effort to- reassure them, and he pulled his
chair near the front of the platform,
where he explained that the cold he en-
countered in the Mexican mountains had
caused q setback
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
CUBAN REVOLT A FARCE.
Rebels Give Up When Hope for American
Intervention Is Dashed-Palma
in Danger?

. HAVANA, Dec. 4.-The collapse of
the Liberal revolution against the Cuban
government appears to have been due
primarily to the conviction of the leaders
that the United States would not take a
joke. Persons prominent in the councils
of the Liberal party consulted an Amer
lean official to find out if, after the agi-
tation reached certain point, the Unit
ed States would send troops to preserve
peace He was informed that in the
event of a real revolution there might be
real intervention.
Another discouraging point to the
would-be reyolutionists was that all the
suspected here were watched so closely
that they could do little. President Pal
mas life has been threatened in several
letters.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
HEARST GAINS BY COUNT.
Opening of New York Ballot Boxes Re
veals Frauds Which May
Change Result.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-Four ballot
boxes were opened and the votes recount
ed with net gain of seventeen for Will
liam r. Hearst. Seven votes were add
ed to the Hearst total while Mcclellan
lost ten. In the four boxes were found
many ballots such as Justice Giegerich
has ruled out as spoiled votes. Every
one of these will be contested by the
Hearst council. Under the changed or
der of Justice Amend the ballots had to
remain as originally counted by the in
spectors.
1t was evident that there are in all
probability many more than enough of
them to change the entire result of the
election. The result shows q gain of
four and one-quarter votes to the cleo
ton district.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
BALFOUR TENDERS
HIS RESIGNATION ?
Premier Visits King Edward at Bucking-
ham and Sir Henry Campbell-Ban-
herman Is Summoned.

LONDON, Dec. 4.-5o5 p. H.
Premier Balfour visited King Edward
at Buckingham palace this afternoon
and, it is understood, rendered his resig-
nation from the cabinet.
Sir Henry mphell-Bannerman has
been summoned to an interview with the
King forthwith. 1t is expected that an
official announcement of the resignation
of the ministry and the Kings accept
ance of the resignation will be published
fooipht
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
AID VALOREM TAX
SUITS ADVANCED.
United States Supreme Court Will Hear
Michigan Cases on February 10
Noted Decision Expected.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. A.
The supreme court of the United States
today entered an order advancing the
argument in the twenty-eignt cases be-
fore the court involving the application
Of the Michigan ld valorem tax cases to
the railroads or that state and set the
hearing fer February IS next.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
THE GRAFT SEASON.

The English folk are taken just for what
they are.
Americans for Just what they have got:
This oft repeated statement brings 4 swift
conclusive jar,
Approaching to the realms of tommN-rot.
The gentleman responsible for it is much
mistaken
At present we are being ges. alas, for what
we're taken Town Topics.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
LAND SWINDLE is HUGE.
No Limit, 1t Is Said, Will Be Found in
Portland Investigation.

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 4.-Only
when all persons holding certificates for
school lands in this state have sent their
certificates to Salem to have them exam
ined will it be possible to make an esti-
mate of the gigantic swindles allegedly
perpetrated on fasteners by land
operators.
Gov Chamberlain stated today that
there is no limit to the number of forged
checks which could have been made The
heaviest losers known to the officials so
far are P. Goddard of La Crosse, Wis,
George Baldwin of Appleton. Wis, and
III. M. Delaittre of Minneapolis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
THREE DEAD IN TUNNEL.
Laborers Caught by Incoming Flyer at
Jersey City-Watchman Said
to Be Responsible.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-Three laborers
were killed and four others seriously hurt
today in the Erie railroad tunnel at Jer-
sey City. They were struck by the
Western Flyer, which rounded a curve
short distance from them and was en-
the little party before they had time to
step off the track. One man was instant
~ killed and two others died a short time
nfterward
The train was behind time and was
running at high speed when it entered
the tunnel. The foreman of the laborers
said that the Waterman he posted to
warn his men did not give the signal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
PERKINS WILL RESIGN.
J. P Morgan's Suggestion as Regards
Formers Offices in New York Life
to Be Followed

! NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-George w
Perkins will resign as vice president of
the New York Life and chairman of the
finance committee at the suggestion Of
J. P Morgan, Of whose firm be is a
statements from Mr.. Perkins friends.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-12-07
laps Trade in South America

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dee. A.
The Togo kisen Kaisha Steamship com
pany will inaugurate its service between
Japan and South America on the sixth
of this month, when the steamer Glen
farg is scheduled to leave Yokohama for
Callao. The departure of this steamer
marks the entrance of the japanese COM
pany in the South American trade.