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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06
MAY REPLACE FRISCO.
Thousands Have FIoci<ed froIn
Stricken CITY 40 Seattle.

Thousands Have FIocl<ea from
Stricken City to Seattle.
Seattle is beginning to believe that it
is her destiny to become the greatest city
of the Pacific coast. After the destruc-
ton of San Francisco an invitation was
extended to the stricken people to come
and make their homes here until the de-
stroyed city could be rebuilt Transpor-
tation and temporary homes were furnish
ed for those who desired to come. The
result is entirely unexpected. Instead
cf making a temporary abiding place of
Seattle, the California people have be-
come enamored of that city and there
are hundreds of them who will never re-
turn to San Francisco.
This has resulted in great boom for
Seattle. The population is growing with
wonderful strides and the commercial
development is unprecedented. Many of
the great shipping interests of San Fran
cisco have transferred their headquarters
to Seattle and it is an actual fact that
the railroads, many of them, are quite
unable to handle the great volume of
business that has come to them.
The railroads are realizing that Sc
dlJlC Ids IL great IuluIt anu III eNlIcllIc
Of their faith is the big extensions that
are being made and the heavy purchases
in the open market of the necessary land
for terminal facilities.
Seattle people have had their troubles
with this unexpected boom. Hundreds
of the wealthy people of San Francisco,
who came to Seattle after the earthquake
and fire, Immediately set about procuring
homes for themselves and they have
bought houses that were always used for
renting purposes and have practically
forced the natives to make extraordinary
efforts to shift foc themselves. Rents
have almost doubled and it is next to
impossible to secure a house at all.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06
Mystery of n WOman's Voice.

The remarkable instance of a woman
possessing a mans baritone voice. with
all the masculine qualities is just now
attracting attention among psychological
and medical experts at New York. Miss
Edna Murray. whose home formerly was
Fort Worth, Texas, has come under the
observation of Prof Hyslop, the psychic
expert; DR.. G. w. Colby, throat spe-
cialist. and Albert Gerard Theirs. a voice
culturist. Miss Murray says that she
never sang a note up to the lime she was
20 and there was nothing peculiar or
nothing about her voice Different from
ordinary girls. She had learned, how
ever, to play the piano and was accom-
panying a young man with baritone
voice one day when the idea occurred to
her that she could sing the song in
lower voice than he could, and she did
to the astonishment of both. At the same
time she says that her handwriting chang
ed from a fine feminine hand to that of
a man. She still has a feminine talking
voice.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06

from the gallery. The colored people OF
Chicago had attempted to have the lee
ture called off because of the race preJu-
dice it might arouse.
The speaker argued that the fifteenth
amendment had not conferred suffrage on
the colored man, because it did not confer
it on the white man, declaring that 1t
simply prohibited any State from enact
ing a law discriminating on account OF
color. 80 the southern people are con-
fronted with a prohibition which says,
Make any rule you please, provided it
applies to both races alike.
Now, how many of you know that
there are 10000 more colored than white
people in the States of North Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Missis-
sippi? How many of you know that in
South Carolina there are 23O,OOO more
blacks than there are whites! South Car
DINA and Mississippi are swimming for
their lives.
You make up your minds that equality
before the law is right and should be en-
forced. notwithstanding it would result
in two States at least being absolutely
dominated by the negroes" He declared
the North was face to face with the prop
osition sin the near future, if not at this
time l have been charged with advo-
eating lynch law. l have justified lynch
law for one crime; that is all. don't
believe in lynch law"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06
TeIegraphic Brevities.

Fire which broke out in the Newtonian
hotel at Somerset, KY. destroyed the
hotel and two stores. The loss was from
$4,000 to 100000.
Arrangements have been made by the
NiIes-BementPond Company of New
York for the acquisition of the Ridgway
Machine Tool Company of Ridgway, Pa
The 'eventh biennial convention of the
Luther League of America held a three
days session in Canton, Ohio with 500
delegates from all sections of the United
States.
The first of the supits to be entered
against the Pullman Palace Car Com
pany on the charge of selling adulterated
milk on dining cars has been filed at AL
toona. Pa.
Charles Frazier, the oldest engineer
of the Erie railroad, is dead at his home
in Paterson, y. j., aged ~ years. He
had been in the employ of the company
for ffty-six years.
The Circuit Court at Cleveland. Ohio
handed down a decision that County
Treasurer Madigan cannot enforce his
announced intention of collecting a pen
aiIl ou dil tdAtS uol pdiu pIioI " Dtt-.
20 next.
Quarantine restrictions imposed by the
Louisiana State board of health have
ceased and all medical inspectors employ
ed by the board in Central American
ports are being recalled.
The grand jury at Boston returned
mo bill'' in the case of Shaun Kelley
of Harvard University, charged with as
saulting a policeman. Kelley was with
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., ar the time of
the alleged assault.
Special Commissioner W. s. Flournoy,
appointed to take testimony in the suit
against eight ice companies at Kansas
City, charged with forming an unlawful
combination, reported to the Circuit
Court there that no trust existed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06
Interesting News Items.

Bids for s15.000,000 worth of isthmian
canal contracts will be opened in Wash
irgton on Dec. II.
Ina Williams, ID years old, was drown
ed in the Harlem river, New York, try
ing to escape from Randalls island re-
fornatory.
Employees of the Berkshire Cotton Com
pany, numbering $500, at Adams, Mass,
have received per cent increase in
wages.
A British court martial sentenced
s.oker named Moody, leader of a mutiny
in the naval barracks, to five years penal
scrvitude.
The suggestion that Eugene Higgins OF
New York was the fance of Emma Calve,
the singer, is denied emphatically by Mr..
Higgins himself.
Over S1.OO0,0O0 worth of granite, dress
ed and underessed, awaits shipment from
Vermont quarries, held on account OF
scarcity of freight cars.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06
BLOW Up BANK AND FLEE
Robbers Wreck Institution at Men
don, Ohio with NitrogIycerfn.

Robbers Wreck Institution at Men
don, Ohio with NftrogIycerfn.
A desperate but unsuccessful effort
was made early Wednesday to blow open
the safe and vault of the Mendon bank,
Mendon, Ohio, in which more than SD
600 was deposited. Three charges Of
nitroglycerin were exploded, and the in
terror of the bank was wrecked. The de-
donation aroused the citizens and the
three masked men fed, followed by
posses. A back door of the bank was
forced in, and heavy charge of explo-
sive was placed in one of the brick walls
built around the safe. A hole big enough
for a man to crawl through was made,
and the men placed another charge OF
explosive in the floor of the vault and
blew it off. A confederate then entered
the vault. A third charge was exploded
i'll the door of the inner vault, but though
the safe was practically ruined it with
stood the explosion, and the robbers es-
capped without booty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06
G99YMAYMEERCIN
l.. - i 81 ::i.lktAn
S.ssHi AND ass. ~
~ ~ysssStIss'S=E Ss
4'FNKNCA
CHICAGO.

In the aggregate of bank exchanges
fo~ both the week and month just end
ed substantial gains appear over those
OF last year, indicating that expansion
10 business generally is yet making pro-
sreSs. Heavy orders continue 10 he
entered by the leading industries for
delivery at distant dates, and consider
ing the rapid absorption of the unpTe-
ceGented outputs of furnaces and fac
tories, it is clear that consumption has
established new high level.
More concern is expressed as to the
future productions of finished materials
owing TO the difficulties presented by
cost of supplies aud labor and the in
ability of railroads TO provide satisfac-
tory transportation. These considera-
tons are becoming more widespread,
but for the present they cause no halt
ing in the efforts to obtain the best
results.
1t is noted that iron and steel prices
exhibit no further marking up, but
there is an advancing tendency in hard
woods and slightly higher quotations i'll
copper, hides and leather.
Thanksgiving trade made an improv-
ed volume of retail dealings and, al
though jobbers are seaSonably quiet
in the staples, the demand is we'll main
tanned for holiday goods. Wholesale
houses find Il satisfactory demand for
spring wares, particularly in the tex
tiles, footwear, carpets and furniture.
Interior advices testify to gratifying
Roadway in the reductions of winter
lines and the outlook is bright for
heavy Christmas business. A healthy
indication is found in an increased dis
counting of bills, and western collec-
tons average up well.
Manufacturing operations reflect sus-
tanned pressure upon facilities and
greater outputs of finished products.
Recent specifications for additional
railroad equipment add to the forward
period of activity in iron and steel and
car building. Other producers have
much work to keep forces busy, and
there is steadiness IN demand for nipple
ments, heavy machinery, brass and
wood working.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
tr.ct numbered %, against 26 last
week and 22 a year ago.-Dun's Re
view of Trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06
SEAS HEAVY DEATH TOLL.
Over Fifty Lives Lost This season
on st. Lawrence Reefs

on st. Lawrence Reefs.
Over fifty lives were lost and nearly
score of vessels were swept to de-
struction on treacherous reefs and
sandbars of the gulf and River st.
Lawrence during the season of naviga-
ton now closed. OF sixty persons who
persisted in these waters within the
last year nearly fifty met death during
November, the most disastrous to ship
ping in the st. Lawrence in dozen
years. The financial losses aggregated
S2500Oo.
The majority of those who persisted
were lost from Square-rigged vessels
of foreign register. The most thrilling
wreck during the month was that of
the Russian full-rigged iron ship Sovin-
to of Helsingfors, which struck on a
bar off Priests Pond, 2. E. l., during
furious northeast gale, While on
voyage from Dalhousie, n. B., for Mel
bourne. Australia, with a cargo of
lumber Several of the crew were
killed by the falling spars. The big
snip pIOht III tNO SOou dIISI' dtu anu
ten of the Sovinto's men persisted.
Another disastrous wreck was that
of the Norwegian bark Adeona of Aren-
dal, which was driven ashore by the
same storm at Richibucto. Capt. johann
sen and crew of ten men, one of them
a German student, after remaining on
board two days, evidently feared that
the great seas which were constantly
dashing over the vessel would smash
her to pieces, and during the height
of the gale they launched boat and
attempted to reach land. The boat
was capsized by comber ard the en-
tire crew was drowned. The maSts of
the vessel went by the board and ev-
erything movable was swept into the
sea. The crew would have been saved
had they remained aboard ship, as the
hull withstood the tremendous seas for
ten days. When it was possible for
life-saving crew to reach the derelict
the ships cat was found alive in the
forecastle. The Adeona was bound
from Sexton for Preston, England,
with lumber.
Another Norwegian bark, supposed ia
be the Magda, bound from Riviere Du
LOup, Quebec, for Buenos Ayres, was
lost with all on board. The vessel
struck on Red Island reef and found
cred 1t is thought that the captain,
his pilot and twelve men were lost.
Half a dozen lives have been lost in
the wrecks of schooners during the
fall but only four on board the dozen
steamers stranded were drowned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06
TG4z ElA@22sS}5lS
.l.z4sslSy sSsAs Il !eS&A GN-
6Ggg3[ $3.50
~~%o~-~~~~~~

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, prime heavy, S4Oo
to $500; sheep, fair to choice, $3.oo
to $3.50: wheat, No. 2, TIC to 73c; corn,
No. 9. 43c to 44c; oats, standard, 33c to
Sac; rye, No. 2. &c to CSC; hay, hmo-
tby. $1,000 to $3.50; prairie, $500 to
S14.5O; butter, choice creamery, 24c to
29c: eggs, fresh, 27c to 32c; potatoes,
SOC to 43c.
Indiauapolis-Ca shipping, $500
to S6.4O; hogs, choice heavy, S4.00 to
S6.32: sheep, common to prime, S2.oO to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, re to 74c; corn,
No. white, 43c to 44c; oats, No.
white, 33c to Soc.
St Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $500;
hogs. $500 to S6.25; sheep, $3.50 to
1925; wheat, No. 2, 74c to Toe; corn,
No. 2, 41c to 43c; oats, No. 2, BIC to
33c: rye, No. 2, Gle to 63c.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs. $500 to $685.; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, Toe to Tie; corn,
No. 2 mixed, 47c to 4Sc; oats, No.
mixed, 35c to 36c; rye, No. 2, roc to
re.
lDetTOlL-1dlllts .-scN " tD''.VO hVSo,
$500 to $6.12 sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. 9, 76c to Tie; ocrn, No. 3
yellow. 4Sc to 49c; oats, No. 3 white,
35c to 36c; rye, No. 2, 69c to roc.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern,
TIC to soc; corn, No. 3, 43c to 44c;
oats, standard, 33c to 34c; rye, No. ],
Csc to soc; barley, standard, SAC to SOC;
rorl, rnocs S14 20
Bnffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $500; hogs, fair to choice, $500
TO $3.50; sheep, common to good mixed,
"a 90 to 1913; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to ss.25.
New York-Cattle, $500 to 500;
hogs $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
s5'25; wheat, No. 2 red, 79c to soc;
corn. No. 2, 53c to 54c; oats, natural
White CSC to 39c; butter, creamery, zoe
to 27c: eggs, western, &c to Doc.
Toledo-Wheat, No. mixed, 74c to
7ec. corn. No. 2 mixed, 42c to 43c;
oats. No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; rye, No.
2. CSC TO &c; clover seed, prime, $S.25.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06
CHILD SLAVES IN NEBRASKA.
State Official Says Children Are Sold
at S25 Per Head.


Child slavery is being practiced IN Ne
braska according to the statements OF
Miss Cora CARRIER, one of the employees
in the State land commissioners Office
Proof has been obtained, she asserts, that
one private institution in the State mas
been importing children from Germany
for the purpose of selling them at so per
head. A bill is to be introduced at the
next Legislature, says Miss CARRIER, when
will place every child in the State under
tn" protection of the juvenile court law.
At present the law is so worded that the
courts have no right to enter private IN
situations to inquire into the condition OF
children. This provision, Miss CARRIER
says, was slipped into the law by the
managers of these institutions in order
to exempt them from legal investigation
and for this reason the juvenile court
law is unconstitutional. Miss CARRIER
refused to give the name either of her
informants or of the suspected .institu-
lions, but said that all would be made
public in due time and that the work OF
the ''venders in little human beings"
would be summarily stopped and the gull
~ persons punished.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06
ISLANDS IN GOOD CONDITION.
Or. Barroyys Reports Philippines
We'll Goyerned-No Sugar Market.

ell SugaE
DR.. D. p Barrows, director Of edu-
alton of the Philippines, was a passen-
ger on the steamer Siberia, arriving at
San Francisco from the Orient the other
day. IN speaking of the condition of the
islands DR.. Barrows said: The islands
are in good condition, generally speak
ing. The political situation there at the
present time is the best it has ever been.
The provincial government is in good
hands. There are about forty native gov
ernors for as many different provinces.
They are serious and intelligent men and
at the recent conference held in Manila
they showed themselves to understand the
situation in the islands and TO fully ap-
preciate the attitude of the United States
While all these governors but one are
natives, they all speak and understand
English From an economic standpoint,
however, the islands are not in what L
would call a good condition. This is
caused by the fact that there is no market
for their sugar and tobacco. These, OF
course, are their principal staples. They,
however, have good market for copra
and abaka and from these they gain their
main revenue"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06
Women in Clerical Ranks.

Rev. Daniel Steel, referring to the
statistics published in the Wesleyan
Alumni Record, showing the gain in the
membership of all professions excepting
the ministers, proposes that the Method
ist denomination shall have a ministry
recruited by ordained women. He says
the bishops may be authorized by general
conference to do at home what they al
ready do in the foreign missions /. e.,
appoint women to the various fields OF
Christian labor. He would cave the
sphere of deaconesses enlarged, so as to
include preaching and pastoral care and
the administration of the sacraments
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06
oil Trust Rival Blooms.

Secretary of Interior Hitchcock gave
his official Endorsement of the project of
Mellon & Co. of Pittsburg for construct
ing a 100000 pipe line from Bartels-
Vile. 1. T, to Port Arthur, Texas. for
the purpose of competing with the Stand
ard Oil Company in the Southwest. W.
7. Mellon of Pittsburg, head of the con-
Germ. said the public might rest assured
that the Standard Oil Company would
have nothing TO do with the new pipe
line. He said the ultimate object was to
get at the Indian Territory oil, which has
been found to be almost as good as the
PENNSYLVANIA product.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06
Homes for Millions.

Farming opportunities are still open
to millions in the Southwest. For in
stance, Texas has 172,000,O00 acres, while
only 100000 acres are under cultiva-
ton. Of 100000 acres of available
farming land in the Indian Territory,
only 100000 are under cultivation.
Arkansas has %, 100000 acres of farm
ing land, while only 100000 acres are
under cultivation.
Missouri, which was admitted to the
Union nearly century ago, still has
100000 acres of land in the south
western part of the State which is not
in cultivation, and which can be puc-
chased at a moderate price
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06
CALLS HUSBAND TOO COLD.
Army Mans Wife Says spouse Isn't
as Kind aS First HeIDmeef.

Brig. Gen. Charles f. Robe, retired,
now living 1T San Diego, Cal. is de-
fondant in a divorce suit in which Mrs.
Mary II. Robe charges extreme cruelty
because her husband was cold and I'M
sympathetic, and extended her less con-
sideration than did her former spouse
Charles Kendall. They we're married in
Chicago last year. In Grand Rapids, she
alleges Robe bought theater tickets for
them and her daughter. but omitted her
sister, who was hurt by his inattentiOn.
Once when she tainted on the street
Robe, she says, offered her no assistance,
allowing her sister to support her. In
registering at Il hotel, she declares. Robe
omitted her name. Even when she had
an liberated tooth ne sympathy was of
fercd.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06
namp Winds Aid Consumption

In the current number of the British
Medical Journal. Drs. Gordon and Har-
ner present statistics of consumption in
North Devonshire for forty-tour years.
From these it appears that the important
consideration in the relative distribution
of the disease is the presence or absence
of strong. persistent, rain-laden winds.
Tho deaths from phthisis in the districts
where the damp winds blew most fire.
ouently were 500 per 1000, as against
1.39 elsewhere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06
WiIxnn,a RnIY DiSInfarred

The body of James Wilson, a signer
of the Declaration of Independence and
one of the trainers of the federal consti-
tuition. after lying for 10S years in
cemetery at Edenton, y. c., has been
placed opposite those of his wife in the
graveyard of Old Christ church, Phila-
delphia A wreath on the coffin wa; sent
by President Roosevelt. Among the speak
ers in connection with the ceremony were
Messrs. Andrew Carnegie, DR.. S. Weir
Mitchell, Alton 3. Parker and Attorney
General Moody.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06

There. for the ben
eft of the Chicago
Union hospital, the
statesman and lee
turer from South
Carolina delved into
the heart of the
race question. In
dramatic answers
to in t e + + u p t
ing questions he
predicted war be-
tween the black and
white races within
ten years. Two dis
turbers, one a col
ored man and the
other a Russian
sympathizer, were
arrested and taken
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06
BROTHERS HEIR TO $4,000, 600.
Fortune Made in Australian Gold
Mines Left 10 Americans.

Thomas MCCARTHY, a clerk in a New
castle. Pa, hotel. and his brother, Mi
chael Mccarthy of Wampum, a suburb,
have received word that an uncle, limo
thy Mccarthy. has died in Australia,
leaving them The sole heirs to fortune of
S3.000.000 The brothers said their I'M
Gle went to Australia twenty years ago
and had made his fortune in gold mines.
They are making preparations to go to
Australia and claim the money.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06

A plea of not guilty was entered by
Mrs Emma Kaufman, wife of the
wealthy brewer, Moses Kaufman, when
she was arraigned before Judge Jones in
the State Circuit Court in Sioux Falls,
s. D., on a charge of numbering Miss
Agnes Polreis. a 16-year-old domestic
who was in Mrs. Kaufmanns employ.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06
Gonzales, Famed Bandit. Slain.

Catarino Gonzales, the most notorious
desperate in Mexico, at last has fallen
n victim of rural guard going by his
own family name. Catarino Gonzales,
after a running fight, was slain by Pedro
Gonzales, who picked off the outlaw with
his rifle. but not until the fugitive had
shot and killed four of the pursuers. He
had killed seventeen men in recent years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06
SSybx of CnfHu KiIIs Mn,

Overcome at the sight of the coffin in
which was the body of his friend and
neighbor, Louis Wetzel. who was shot
while hunting, James McKenna, 40 years
old, a veteran of the Civil War, dropped
dead at his home in Pittsburg as the I'M
dertaker's wagon bearing Wetzels body
passed in the street.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-06
Otto YOunG Is DenI.

Otto Young, one of Chicago's greatest
merchants, died at his Lake Geneva home
after an illness that kept him confined
to his bed for six weeks. Several hours
before his death he realized that the end
was near and called the members of his
family to his bedside, one at a time, to
bid them good-by. He left an estate
variously estimated at from $12,000,000
to $4,000 900.