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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-06

Thirty miners at shaft No. 6 of the
Southwestern Development were overcome
by gas and poisonous air at Pttsburg,
Kan.
The oil carrier ". s. Porter, being built
by the Newport News Shipbuilding and
Dry Dock Company for the Associated Oil
Company of San Francisco. was launched
The Rhine and, Moselle Fire Insurance
Company has surrendered its business in
California as result of its decision not
TO pay losses due to the earthquake. 1t
will pay no attention to suits, holding
that they will not be recognized in Ger
many.
\ parcels post convention having been
concluded between the United States and
Denmark to take effect Oct. l next, pack
ages will be admitted to the mails on and
after that date. They must not weigh
more than four pounds and six ounces
and will be charged for at the rate of II
cents per pound.
Secretary of War Taft has declined TO
grant the application for clemency made
By Sidney S. Burbank, late first lieuten-
ant of the United States army now serv-
ing sentence of fifteen months in the
federal prison at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan. and who was dismissed from the
service for embezzlement and the i'll treat
ment Of his Filipino wife.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-06

those VINO were not deferred by the
adverse weather conditions gave an
enthusiastic spirit to the reception.
The home folks" were the most en-
thusiastic of ALL On two big tugboats
which journeyed down the bay side by
side they went % welcome their dis
tinguished neighbor
There was broad smile on Mr..
Bryan's face as he spied the foremost
Of the Nebraska tugs. and q broader
one when he'saw his old friend, Mayor
Jim Dahlman of Omaha. standing on
the ''niggerhead' of the tug. rope in
hand, ready to hurl it about the head
Of MIR. Bryan if he refused to come
peacefully aboard the craft.
Mayor Dahlman, who was for years
a sheriff in Dawes County, Nebraska,
when Sheriffs wore two revolvers and
carried Il cutlaSS and a billy" but
who had himself elected mayor of
Omaha on an open town" platform,
headed the delegation, but with him
were many prominent men in Nebraska
business and professional circles and
others known throughout the State for
their oratory and political records.
On spying Mayor Dahlman Mr..
Bryan laughed heartily, shook his head
at the coil of rope which the cowboy"
mayor held in his hand. and said: Il
guess you're going to get me. jim"
You're right we are, Will. We've
come a long way and we won't leave
without you"
You won't have to-" replied Mr..
Bryan.
With tumultuOuS cheers the Ne
braskans pulled up alongside the after
gangway of the big steamer and called
their greetings TO Mr.. Bryan, who
stood on the deck just above them and
smiled and waved his hat. Big boxes
of flowers We're tossed on board for
Mrs. Bryan. Then the Nebraska State
flag was flung TO the breeze and the
cheering was renewed
Usually Indifferent to all situations,
Mr.. Bryan displayed much emotion
when the two tugs bearing friends
and neighbors who had Travelled more
than LOO miles TO greet him, ranged
alongside the Princess Irene, with flags
flying, whistles footing and crowds
singing old-home melodies. and he spent
half hour among them, shaking hands
and asking in an earnest manner about
their wives and children, about 1.-The
folks across the street. and the po-
litical situations in the various sections
of the State. Mr.. Bryan talked to his
friends freely about his trip, which, he
said, had been one continuous round of
enjoyment and instruction. Songs
were sung and the cheering was
taken up, time and again, while Mr.
Bryan was going through the neces-
sary formalities of the customs insp9c-
ton laws.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-06
GREAT APPLE CROP,
Years Gigantic Yield to Break All
Former Records.

The apple crop this year will break all
former records for gigantic yields. Never
lefore in the history of the country has
tnerc been so great a crop. The record
for 1896, which was considered phenom-
eral, experts say, will be more than dou-
bled Not only is the yield the greatest
ever known, but the quality of the fruit
is likewise the best ever known. Prices
run from $3.50 to $3.50 a barrel for early
varieties, and by fall it is predicted that
choice grades will bring exceedingly low
prices.
Chicago, the greatest apple market in
the world, is on the verge of deluge of
the red and yellow fruit. Already early
shipments are pouring into South Water
street at the rate of 5000 barrels a day.
Trainloads are coming from the West,
and lake boats daily bring hundreds of
barrels from Michigan.
Illinois alone is sending from 5000 to
1000 barrels to Chicago every day. Along
the Illinois Central lines and in the south
ern tier of counties, apples form the main
articles of commerce just now. Every
farmer who has an apple orchard is rid
ing on a wave of prosperity. California
is also shipping to Chicago. The greatest
crop in fifteen years is reported from the
eastern belt.
An apple authority and member of the
National Apple Growers Association, has
just returned from a tour of the apple
districts of the United States He says
that the fall crop will be beyond compre-
henSiOn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-06

Jewelry valued at $4,000 was stolen
from case belonging TO some Niennese
merchants at the Earl's Court exhibition
at London.
Argentina is stirred over the announce
ment that Brazil will reduce tariff on
american -four. 4 reduction OF 20 per
cent tariff on Brazilian products is pro
posed.
The Navy Department has been inform
ed by cable that the floating dry dock
Dewey was utilized at Olongapo, Manila
Bay, for the first time when the army
transport Meade was locked there the
other day.
The crop report OF the ministry Of ag-
riculture estimates that this yearis Hun
garian harvest viii exceed those of the
last twenty-five years.
The freight blockade in Oakland, Cal,
is at an end ard wholesalers are shipping
freely into the interior, 300 cars leaving
San Francisco daily.
Ferdinand Saar, the author and mem
Der of the upper house of the Austrian
Reichsrath, shot himself at his residence
in Dobling, a suburb of Vienna.
Forest fires are raging in the Canadian
provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec.
St. Charles de Captain and another small
village in Quebec have been destroyed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-06
BrOokIyn's DOubIe-Fare Riots.

In rendering a decision in a habeas cor
pus proceeding brought by a man arrested
for refusing to pay the second fare on
the Coney Island lines of the Brooklyn
rapid transit system, Justice Gaynor of
the Supreme Court said that a passenger
had a right to refuse to pay the second
fare. This question had been in dispute
before and different court decisions had
been rendered, but the crowds which
started for Coney Island last Sunday
acted on Gaynor's suggestion with the
result that thousands were forcibly eject
ed. Several lines were put out of commits
SIGN and crowds of angry citizens threat
ened violence against the employees and
property of the company. Numerous
suits for damages were filed and this
condition of affairs went on for several
days. the police taking one side and the
sheriff another until the company accepted
the suggestion of Acting Mayor MCGOWAN
to give all passengers a rebate check for
the second fare pending decision of the
matter by the higher court.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-06
BIG RAILROAD OUTLAWS.
Three Lines Are Spending 100000
900 In New York.


More than $120,0O0,000 is being expend-
ed in the borough of Manhattan for the
New York Central, the New York, New
Haven and Hartford, and the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company. 1t is estimated
that thu final station plans of the Penn
sylvania will require an outlay of 500
100000. Up to date the plans Of the
New. York Central for terminal for it
self and the New Haven road will cost
S5O,000,000, and along with the New
York Centrals ''electrifcation" Of its
rails, S1O,O00,000.
Four hundred buildings had to be de-
molished for the Pennsylvania site. For
the station and yards of the New York
Central six additional blocks will be tax
en- between 42d and 18th streets.
Contrary to the general impression, that
which the New York Central is carrying
on. so far as the excavating is concerned,
is of greater difficulty and dimensions
ti,at what the Pennsylvania is doing near
Herald square. There is TO be double
deck system of tracks-one below for the
suburban and one above for the through
express service. In the deepest part this
plan has required the excavation of rock
TO a depth of 20 feet. Before the whole
excavation is done 100000 cubic yards
Of rock and earth will have to be re-
moved.
This is the fourth time in 46 years
that the Grand Central station has had
to be enlarged and reconstructed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-06
PROMOTIONS IN ARMY.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SOON TO
TAKE MATTER UP.
1t Is said that Macarthur Will Sue
ceed Lieutenant General COrbfn
In September River Steamer
Burns at Brownsville, Mimi.

As soon as the naval maneuvers are
over at Oyster Bay it is expected that
President Roosevelt will take up the mat
ter Of filling important vacancies that are
to occur in the army. Lieut.. Gen. Corbin
will retire Sept. 1G, and it is known that
he is TO be succeeded by Major Gen. Mac
Arthur, now commanding the Pacific di-
vision. The vacancy in the list of major
generals will be filled by the promotion of
Brig Gen. Jesse VI. Lee. There has been
n warm contest over the succession TO the
brigadier generals vacancy. Capt. John
j. Pershing, military attache at the en-
5assy in Japan, is among those mentioned
in this connection. Paymaster General
Dodge will retire Sept. II. Col. TOwar,
who is senior colonel of the pay corps,
will waive his rights in favor of Col.
Snffin for the paymaster generalship if
assured that it will not prejudice his
chances when Col. Sniffin reaches the re-
firing stage. Col. Snifin was private sec
rotary to President Grant, who appointed
him major in the pay corps. Other Off
GERS have friends who have urged their
selection.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-06

has been the exact parallel of this
event in honor of a man who holds no
office; is the hero of no war-on the
contrary, a champion of world arbitra-
ton and world peace-and who alone
arises a giant figure in the nations
politics midway between the years of
national election and the foreordained
standard bearer in the next great cor
test.
In his speech at Madison Square Gar
Gen. after advocating an Anglo-American
treaty for arbitration and indorsing the
Drago doctrine forbidding the collection
of private debts by ornaments of war,
Mr.. Bryan declared that the ownership of
the Philippines renders American princi-
pies a laughing stock in the eyes of the
world and denies the Declaration CT indie
pendence; demanded that Congress be
made more responsive to the will of the
people by the immediate seating Of Rep
reseHtatives and popular election of Sen
ators. calling the Senate as at present
constituted d ''bulwark of wealth." He
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-06
WELCOME TO BRYAN.
DEMOCRATIC LEADER RECEIVED
ENTHUSIASTICALLY.
Greeted with Noise and Cordially
On Return from His .Round-the-
World Tcur-New York Bay Re-
New York correspondence

New York correspondence
William j. Bryan is home again.
Bronzed by travel by land and sea,
cheerful, and apparently physically fit
for campaign two years long, he lit
orally fell into tine arms OF huZzahing
hundreds of his fellow countrymep
when the steamship Princess Irene en-
tered the harbor of New York Wednes-
day afternoon. A band on one of the
welcoming tugs played Hands Across
the Sea-" whistles and sirens Screeched
and humans shouted. All this was pre-
paratory to the big demonstration to
take place at Madison Square Garden
Thursday night, when thousands of
Democrats from all over the country
gathered to pay their homage to the
great cOmmoner.
Clashes between rival welcoming
committees. composed respectively of
the New York plan and scope organ
izatiOn and the Nebraska "home folks"
each of which was determined to take
possession of the returning leader,
were happily averted by the action of
Mr.. Bryan himself when the Princess
Irene reached quarantine. Instead of
choosing between the yacht of his
friend, Mr.. Goltra of st. Louis, with
the local committee on board, and the
government tug bearing the people of
his own State, Mr.. Bryan elected to
spend the night on land.
The scene down the bay rs the Prin-
Zess Irene came to anchor in quaran-
tine established precedent as cele-
bration of the homecoming of a plain
American citizen. The news that the
steamer bearing Mr.. Bryan had been
sighted off Fire Island just before
noon, and that she would be at anchor
for the formal medical inspection by
3 O'Clock, was the signal for wild
rush of specially chartered boats and
pleasure craft down the harbor. The
lowering skies and frequent rain
squalls served to keep many away, but
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-06
All Around the Globe.

SLOGAN City. b. c., has been seized by
the sheriff in its entirety.
The Iron Trades Council of San Fran
cisco has decided, TO take a stand for AZ
eight-hour day.
The Bank of Mentor. MINI. was rob
bed The robbers blew open the safe with
nitroglycerin, secured $1,000 in cash and
escaped.
Sam Q. Sewer. sheriff of Ouachita
county, Arkansas. and president of the
Arkansas State Sunday School Associa-
ton. attempted suicide at his home in
Camden by taking morphine.
Crazed by the heat, James Lupo, New
York tailor, shot and killed his wife and
then sent a bullet through his own brain,
inficting probably mortal wound
Mrs. Gus Harndt and two daughters,
Ella and Ida, aged and years, were
run down on trestle by a Rock Island
train near White, y. D., and killed.
Twenty-Five hundred girls employed in
a Philadelphia shirtwaist factory have
struck because Of the presence of a num-
Der of employees distasteful to them.
Peter Wylie, a Scotch immigrant, shot
and killed the 13-year-old daughter of J.
Swackhanner, his employer, at Guelph,
Ont. His attentions caused the trouble.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-06
RAISES ANTITRUST WAR CRY.
Public Ownership of railroads and
End of Tariff Privileges.

End of Tariff Privileges.
William Jennings Bryan, American
citizen. formally welcomed home from
his world wandarings by Il mighty
concourse of his fellow countrymen
amid the spectacular settings of Madi-
son Square Garden Thursday night
buried his cross of gold in sea of
tumultuous applause and cheering and
struck out to lead Democracy in a new
battle with a new paramount issue.
Bryan. the former silver advocate at
the ratio of 1G TO :. is now Bryan the
trust-breaker. The humiliation. not
the mere restraint of the trusts, is his
battle cry for 1908. The money ques-
ton, he declared, has been removed
from the field of political controversy
by changes in conditions since 1896
and 1900. The gold men, he proclaim
ed, have won their point in retaining
gold as the standard of monetary
value, and the bimetallists have gained
the contention for enlarged monetary
circulation. They break even, says
William J. Bryan-now for the slaugh-
ter of the OctOpi
Into the trust question the foremost
leader of the Democratic forces of to-
day bracketed the tariff. with a de-
mand for revision; socialism, with a
declaration that Socialists are wrong
in their logic. but to be reasoned with
and not denounced: government owner
ship and operation of railroads, with
Il proclamation that permanent relief
from present evils must be reached
ultimately through this means, adding
the admission that perhaps public SEN
timent is not yet ready for this radical
application of paternalism.
Outside of its political features the
welcome extended to Mr.. Bryan Thurs
day night and the ovation that greeted
him, mere private citizen, from the
time he set foot on Manhattan Isle in
the afternoon until he left Madison
Square Garden late at night, will stand
out in history as something remark
able. There may have been greater
demonstrations in New York over men.
There may have been bigger crowds
and louder cheers. But there never
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-06
YOUTH KILLS FATHER
PALTRY $500 is PRICE OF PAR
RiCIDE.
Sidney Sloane. in Spokane, Wash,
Then Carts Body Out and Dumps
1t I'm AIley-Huge Irrigation Prof.
ect in Colorado.

The body Of James F. Sloane. a pioneer
merchant of Spokane, Wash, was found
behind a pile of rocks in an alley near
his home. There were great gashes IN
his head and trail of blood led from the
alley to Sloane's home. Investigation
proved that he was murdered in his room
shortly after midnight, mis- body being
loaded into a NheelbaTow, trundled TO the
alley and dumped against the rocks. Sid
ney Sloane, the 17-year-old son of the
murdered man, was taken into custody by
the police shortly after the body was dis
covered. At first he protested his inno-
cence, but later broke down and confessed.
He said he slew his father with an ak,
in the hope of getting $500 which ne
thought his father carried, Mr.. Sloane
had been one of Spokane's leading mer-
chants for years. He was the senior
member of the Sloane-Paine Company.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-06
SAVED FROM BURNING BOAT.
Steamer Charles A. Eddy Destroyed
in Lake Huron.


The steamer Charles A. Eddy of Cleve-
land, bound down from Ashland, Wis, to
Cleveland. caught fire about 2 a. m. off
Port Sanilac, Lake Huron. She blew sig
mails of distress and three steamers went
to her rescue, one of which was the City
Of Mackinac. The Eddy was making for
Port Sanilac. Mich, and the Mackinac
took off her passengers and crew and pro-
ceeded on to Detroit. No lives were lost.
The flames mounted to a great height and
made a spectacle that was seen for miles
out on the lake and up and down the
shore. The Eddy is an ore carrier and is
PSI feet long and forty feet beam. She
is 2,015 tonnage, and was built in 1889.
The Eddy was owned by the Gilchrist
Transportation Company of Cleveland.
Twenty-one persons, including the cap
tain's wife and two little children, were
rescsed from the burning steamer. The
Eddy was destroyed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-06
LETS TWO FRIENDS DROWN.
Boy Stands Silent on Bank of Mis-
sissippi as Comrades Sink.

BOY Stands Silent on Bank of Mis-
sissippi as Comrades Sink.
Dewey Stanford, of st. Louis, years
cid, stood and watched his two compan-
ions, George and Ralph Gross, drown,
without calling for help, fearing that if it
became known that he had been in the
river he would receive a whipping.
George Gross was L years old and his
brother 9. They went in swimming at
the foot of Angelica street. Ralph dived
into the deep water and came up strug-
Cling. George went out to his assistance,
but was unable to bring him in, and the
two, after a brief struggle, went down.
Dewey watched their struggles and then
ran home. Two laborers, both good
swimmers, were at work 100 feet above
the SPOT where the Doys were in swim
ming and could easily have saved them.
Dewey ran home and said nothing of the
drowning. When darkness came and he
was asked by Mrs. Gross where her two
boys were he said they had gone to the
river. 1t was only after much question
ing that he told of the drowning.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-06
eRraphic Rreyities.

Plans are being drawn by the govern
ment architect for the improvement of the
Ellis Island immigrant station in New
York bay.
John NJ. Speyer, convicted in Kansas
City of killing his son, has been denied
a new trial and sentenced to be hanged
Sept. 81.
The Hamburg American line denies the
report current in Belfast, Ireland, that it
had ordered a steamer of Harland & Wolf
exceeding in size the Lusitania of the Gu
nard line.
Carmelo Grillo. who was arrested in
Messina. Sicily, in 1905, charged with
murder committed near Johnstown, Pa.
was discharged from custody, having es-
tablished an alib.
\ man supposed TO be J. II. Oehrle Of
AIonongahela. Pa, who went to Denver,
with the Elks, was found demented two
miles east of that city and died shortly
after, supposedly from exhaustion.
W. 4. Miller, assistant foreman Of
bindery in the government printing office
who was suspended by the public printer
on July q for characterization and inso-
lence. has been dismissed from the GOV
eminent service.
Abous 10000 members of the Knights
of Columbus, representing many States
of the Union. attended the eighth annual
embarkation day reunion at Atlantic CITY
New Jersey.
Asoerry Spieer, witness against ex-
Judge Hargis in recent murder trial
growing out of the Breathitt county feud
in Kentucky, was shot in the back b
a man in ambush. He will recover.
NJ. Schneider, an electrician of
third class attached to the conv'
yacht Wasp. has equipped that shik
a wireless telegraph outfit at his o
pense, which sends messages thiI'
miles and has received messages
distance of thirty miles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-06
LIGHTNING's QUEER CAPERs.
Second Bolt Kills Husband and In
lures Wife and Child.

While lacking down a carpet and talk
ing of a happy future with his wife and
baby in their new home, near Larue, Ohio,
Houswer Denman. aged %, was para
lyzed by a thunderbolt which descended
the chimney. Mrs. Denman and her 2
year-old girl were also knocked down, but
not badly hurt. For Gods sake. save me
If you can" gasped Denman to his wife.
She struggled TO her feet and crossed the
room with the child toddling behind her.
With supreme effort the brave woman
raised her stricken husband to his feet
and half dragged and half carried him to
the doorway, where she thought the fresh
air night revive him. Il feel better
now" Denman muttered, when a second
bolt crashed through the roof of the little
home, striking him dead in his wife's
arms. Mrs. Denman was rendered I'M
conscious by the shock and the BABY girl
who had followed the staggering parents
across the room crying piteously for
mamma was hurled twenty feet in
corner behind the stove. When Mrs. Den
man came to she found her husband dead
in her arms. The mother and child will
recover
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-06
Our New Volcanic Island.

Capt. Hamlet of the revenue cutter
Thetis reports that new island of vol
canic origin has appeared in Bering sea
within American boundaries. 1t is one of
the Bogaslof group, and is still so warm
that no one has been able to make a care
full inspection of it, although the erup-
ton which threw it up occurred July TO-
1t is estimated to be 600 feet high, and
is situated about 155 miles west of Una
iaSt1
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-06
Alabama Miners Give I'D.

The result of the referendum vote or
6ered by President Mitchell for the union
miners in Alabama is the decision to call
OF their strike on the Tennessee Coal and
Iron Company and other coal companies
which has been in progress for over two
years. This means that the men will re-
t,Irn to work, although the mines con-
earned have been placed on the open-shop
basis. The strike involves 6,0OO workers
and cost the national organization more
than 100000.