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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19

The big elevator in Eau Claire belong
ing to the Northern Grain Company
burned Loss estimated at $4,000.
The 2-year-olG daughter of Joseph Med
echeck of Cudahy. suburb of Milwau-
kee, was gored to death by a vicious COW.
Near Brillion Mrs. Henry Plank, wife
of farmer. while assisting her husband
in hauling hay, fell from the load and
was killed.
At Beloit the New York Fair store was
burned. and other tenants in Unity block
suffered damage from smoke. The total
loss will be $4,000.
A. 4. Cutter, wealthy Eau Claire
shoe manufacturer. is dead of heart trou-
BILE at his summer home on Long Lake,
near New Auburn. He was - years old.
Campbell Lohst, who disappeared on
the day that his wife was murdered in
kewaunee, was found dead in the woods
near that city. Two bullet holes in his
heart told the manner of his DEATH His
suicide, the police say, may indicate that
he was the murderer of his wife.
Rev. Myron Brigham of Chiffon and
Miss Allie Rasmussen of Neenah were
drowned in BeaSley lake by the overturn-
ing of skiff. Both bodies were recov-
cred.
Attorney General Sturdeyant has de-
cided that a special election must be
held to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Congressman Adams. John NJ
Nelson of Madison is the only candidate
in the field.
At Racine a certificate of deposit for
$500 was stolen from Hubert Zenner, a
farmer, and was offered at the bank where
it had been issued and S400 was paid
to the holder after he had forged Mr.
Zenner's name.
The oldest Presbyterian minister in &C
tive service in the United States is a resi-
dent of Wisconsin, and despite he is some
months past 81 years he not only main
tains charge but two Sundays in each
month drives distance of eighteen miles
in order to supply a pulpit that otherwise
might be deserted. Rev. Jacob Patch oil
Stevens Point is the man who holds this
distinction, which was brought to the at
tertion of several hundred members OF
the Presbyterian church who recently as
sembled at the Patch residence to assist
the aged couple in the celebration of theii
sixtieth wedding anniversary. 1t is nearly
sixty-two years since Mr.. Patch preached
| his first sermon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19

The farmers of Kansas are threatening
boycotts on a number of towns because
Of the use of automobiles by business men.
Sedan, Winfield, Mcpherson and Abilene
are towns where the automobile is taking
the place of horses. Many runaways and
several serious accidents have occurred
to farmers and their families because of
the excursions of automobiles into the
country. The farmers horses refuse to
pass TIE big touring cars in the narrow
lanes.
This has led to a general agitation to
boycott the towns that permit automo-
bilists to tour the country around about
during the hours when farmers are com
ing to market or returning to their homes.
This plaza of getting even with the own
ers Of automobiles was suggested by the
action of several Missouri towns, espe-
cially Harrisonville, the county seat Of
Cas- county, where the farmers met and
agreed to throw their trade to Pleasant
Hill and other towns.
This action caused the merchants Of
Jacksonville to regulate the running
of automobiles into the country, so as to
avoid the farmers on their trips into the
town in the morning and their return in
the afternoon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
MAY IMPORT JAPANESE.
Colorado Fruit Men Unable to CO


toioEaHO Men Unable to Get
Needed Labor.
Shall Colorado labor be utilized in the
fruit belt of the State when the harvest
ing time comes, or shall the fruit growers
associations of the western slope be oblig-
ed to resort to the importation of jap
anese and other foreign labor in order
to care for the immense crop that is an
ticipated?
This is a question which the State
labor department has undertaken to solve
in favor of home workers. The deputy
State labor commissioner, Edwin V.
Brake, has just returned to Denver from
visit to the fruit section of the State,
where he learned of situation which, un-
less remedied, will mean that between 800
and 600 japanese laborers will have to be
imported to take care of the fruit crops
this fall. Indeed, the matter had gone
80 far that the Paonia Fruit Growers
Association had made arrangements al
ready to ship in these foreign laborers.
Mr.. Brake took the matter up with
President Hammond of the association,
together with several prominent packers,
and an agreement has been reached which,
it is hoped, will prevent the importation
of cheap laborers, many of whom would
remain to become permanent competitors
against Colorado laborers
Mr. Brake requested the fruit men to
submit to him a detailed statement of
the extra labor they would need, together
with the schedule of wages, etc. Upon re-
ceiving this statement Mr. Brake said he
would undertake to supply the men need
ed. The Paonia Fruit Growers Associa-
ton agreed to abarhon its plan of i'm
porting japanese labor if it could be as
sured of getting sufficient help during the
season. President Hammond stated that
he would get together for Mr.. Brake the
required data and then await develop
mentS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19

John d. Rockefeller, when Informed al
Compeigne, France, where he now is. that
prosecutions of Standard Oil officials
were under way, said that he knew moth
ing of the doings of the oil trust, as he
had been out of it for twelve years and
had not been in its offices in seven years
He said the only reason he dreaded to
testify in a court was because of the un.
pleasant notoriety.
Details of the prosecution to be brought
were gone over at Washington Tuesday,
when it was decided to prosecute the trust
under the discrimination clauses of the
Elkins law and an old statute aimed al
conspiracy to commit crime The bulk OF
the work for the present will be in the
courts of Buffalo and Cleveland.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
News OF Wisconsin
Seaman's Skull Is Trepanned 81
Times and He Lives.

Times ana He LIFeS'
John Rogers. seaman now at the ma
line hospital at Ashland, in the last SIX
years has had his skull trepanned SIX
times, and specimens of his brain are
displayed in bottles at as many places.
Rogers was a saltwater sailor. Six years
ago his ship touched at Brunswick, Ca,
and Rogers and his shipmates attended
dance. A row occurred, in which a
Georgia cracker shot at a rival, the bull
let striking Rogers in the forehead and
lodging in his brain. An unsuccessful
search was made for the bullet. He again
went before the mast. While at sea Rog-
ers was sent aloft to reef SAIL He
tainted and fell to the deck, fracturing his
skull lie was taken to New York, where
his skull was trepanned. Reshipping, he
sailed down the Atlantic coast, but was
frequently seized with epilepsy. BY a
curious coincidence, his vessel touched at
brunswick The surgeons, knowing of
his former trouble, decided to try again
to remove spIinters which apparently
caused the epilepsy An operation was
performed and in due time he arrived at
where a fourth opera ton was performed
At this time Rogers brother, who lives
at Syracuse, took his brother to Johns
Horl ms university. Here til bullet was
removed. From New York he drifted to
the great lakes. Two years ago he was
put off vessel at Ashland suffering from
brain trouble. He then entered the ma
rine hospital and was removed to the hos
pital at Chicago last fall, where he re-
manned unconscious for some time. and
when he recovered his senses he found
that his skull had been trepanned for the
sixth and, Mr.. Rogers hopes last time.
a week ago he began to suffer from head
aches, and fearing recurrence of his
former troubles, he left his boat at Du-
aGth for Ashland.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
LONG TRIP OF oRYDock ENDED.
The Dewey lowed to Philippines in
I13 Days

lob Days.
Just 1913 days after it sailed from
SOlomon's island. Chesapeake bay. the
great drydock Dewey arrived at Dion
sapo 2. l., having finished its perilous
voyage of more than 1900 miles with
an average speed of 100 miles a day for
the time it was In motion.
Twice the drydock was in serious
danger. Its first trouble was late in
February off the Canaries, where it
struck a storm and the hawsers con-
Meeting it with the towing feet were
broken, allowing the great hulk to go
adrift. Again in the Mediterranean,
not far from Malta, early in April, the
dock broke loose from its companions
and foundered about for a short time.
When the Dewey started from Solo
mons island it was accompanied by the
Golfers Caesar and Bruts, the tug Pc
tomac and the refrigerating ship Gla-
cier. The Potomac left the Dewey at
Suez and the other three ships made
up the docks escort until it reached
h1Ad5oIOACs W hCLC LnC w dlil pdluCfA JUL
ed the towing feet.
After leaving Solomon's island Dec.
%, 1905, the Dewey was first sighted
off the Bermudas on Jan. 5, 1906. 1t
reached Las Palmas, Canary islands, on
Feb. %, and had to remain there until
March IS because of damage done by
the storm which separated the dock
from its escort. The dock was sighted
off Gibraltar on March % and passed
Malta on April f. 1t reached Port Said
on April Is and was delayed several
days in getting through the Suez canal
by winds, which forced it against the
sides of the canal and made it impos-
sible to proceed until calm prevailed.
1t sailed from SueZ on May and pass
ed Colombo on June 5. Sabang was
passed June 13 and eight days later
Singapore was reached. The entire fleet
stopped there and then sailed for the
Philippines on June %.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
Short Personals

Richard Burton in his Boston lecture
on G. Bernard Shaw said ''He is really
a serious thinker, who puts on the mask
of the fool and humorist but underlying
his cap and bells are really thought and
serious purpose"
Prof. Angelo Heilprin, author of ''Tow-
er of Pelee." Mont Pelee~ and editor of
"Lippincott's New Gazetteer" is lust
completing a series of paintings in oil
to illustrate the features and phenomena
of the eruption of Mont Pelee. which are
to be exhibited publicly.
The venerable Prof Alexander Ste
phens, NJ. D., of the New York College
of Physicians and Surgeons, said recent
ly in a lecture to his class: The older
physicians grow the more skeptical they
become of the virtues of medicine and the
more they are disposed to trust to the
powers of nature"
Murray Carson, the actor, tells a story
which might have changed the history of
England. He was playing Zazzulc in
.The Red Lamp" at Birmingham, and
in the final act was trying to stab the
hero, when the knife slipped and was
buried in the partition between the or
chestra and the stalls, missing Mr.. Cham
berlain by two feet
Saint-Saens. the French comr oser, is a
many sided man. He writes the librettos
for his operas, dabbles in astronomy, 20
ology, and botany, and has published q
pamphlet on the relation of plants TO ami
mails, the results of his original investi-
cations.
A story of England's favorits. Dan
Leno, the actor: Soon after his aonfine-
ment in a private asylum he GOT up an
argument with one of the attendants
about the correctness Of the clock. THAT
clocks wrong" he said. No. sir: the
clock is quite right Il tell you Its
wrong" No, sir; it's quite right. .
Then, if its right, what's i. doing
here?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19

1415-John Huss burned.
156S-France declared war against Eng
land.
160S-Quebec. Canada, founded
16S5-Battle of Sedgemoor.
16S6-League of Augsburg formed
against France.
1734-Dantzic surrendered to the Rus
SLAMS.
1154-Washingto defeated at battle of
Fort Necessity, Pa.
1755-Gen. Braddock's expedition against
the French in Canada defeated.
1T5S-Clement XIII. became Pope.
1762-Peter III. of Russia deposed and
succeeded by Catherine IL.
1764-Ivan VI. of Russia assassinated.
1770-Turzish fleet burned n Cheemeh
Bay.
1775-Washington took command of the
army at Cambridge.
1776-virginia adopted State constitu-
ton.
1777-Americans abandoned Fort TIcon-
deroga.
17S1-Engagement at Kings Bridge,
n. Y.
17S5-Standard OF American dollar es-
tablished.
1792-Francis II. elected Emperor.
1S09-Battle of Wagram.
1S14-Americans captured Fort Erie.
1S27-kingdom of Greece erected by
treaty of London.
1S2S-Daniel O'Connell, elected member
of Parliament, refused to take the
oath.
1S33-Dom Miguel's squadron captured
by Admiral Napier.
1S39-First normal school organized at
Lexington, now Pennington, Mass.
1S49-Rome capitulated to the French.
1S52-United States mint established at
San Francisco.
1S55-First publication of the Kansas
Freeman at Topeka.
1S6O-Prince of Wales sailed for Amer
lea.
1S10-France protested against choice of
Prince Leopold for King of Spain.
lSiZ-lnIer0aUlOnal prison reform con-
gress met in London.
1SS0-Bi-centenary of the discovery of
st. Anthony Falls celebrated in Min
nesota.
1SS3-Steamer Daphne capsized while be
ing launched on the Clyde. One hun
dred and fifty drowned.
1SS9-Two thousand laborers on strike
in Duluth, MINI.
1S91-Four condemned murderers execut-
ed by electricity in Sing Sing prison
-. Park theater, st. Paul, burned.
1S92--Business portion of San Jose, CAL,
burned.
1S93-Silver purchase suspended by Sec
rotary of the Treasury Carlisle. -.
Marriage of Duke of York, heir to
British throne, and Princess Mary
of Teck
1S94The Falcon, with the Peary aux
iliary expedition, sailed from st.
Johns, n. F.. Federal troops or
dered to Chicago to enforce United
States laws.
1S9S-President Mckinley signed reso-
luton to annex Hawaii. . . Exchange
of Spanish prisoners of war for Hob
sor and his comrades.
19O4-Alton B. Parker nominated for
President by Democratic convention
at st. Louis. Thomas T.. Watson
of Georgia nominated for President
by the Peoples party.
19O5-Elihu Root appointed Secretary of
State in succession to John Hay.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
Inaiana's Political Millennium.

A plan which has already been agreed
to by five counties Of Indiana is designed
to dispense altogether with the merce-
nary worker and the yenal voter in the
coming fall elections. The leaders ON
both sides have pledged their words as
friends and neighbors not to spend dol
lar for such purp ses. 1t is agreed that
there shall be employed no man who is
known to be purchasable, and the custom
of keeping hangers-on at headquarters
SHALL be abandoned. 1t is also provided
that no money shall be paid out for tax
ing thirty-day and sixty-day polls, and
where it is necessary to employ labor
both sides shall pay the same wages and
employ no man to whom the other would
object Inspectors and judges of cleo
tions are to be selected entirely outside Of
those who serve the campaign committee,
and, if possible, business men of known
integrity are to be chosen. The plan vas
formulated by leading Democrats, and has
met with the approval of their political
adyersaries. Neither the State nor the
county committees will pay the expenses
Of stump speakers except in the case OF
men called from other States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19

took 2 deep interest in that cult. This
interest has grown since Mrs. Cages
deayh.
Even so far back as 1892, when he
was one of the great directing forces Of
the worlds fair in Chicago, Mr.. Gage
gave much thought to theosophy. In
personal talk with a correspondent, he
said at that time that he believed the
osophy explained many things that all
other religions and even science left i'll
darkness. He spoke of Madame Bla-
vatsky, and while he refused to give
her his personal Endorsement or conf
dence, he declared his belief that she
was endowed with remarkable powers.
From the mysterious abilities he ac-
klOwledged in the then foremost the
osophlst of the West he argued the
truth of its beliefs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
Farmers Are Benefi Charles.

Among farmers one does not hear
the demand for tariff revision that was
heard the last time there was an agi-
tation for reduction of tariff. That
was in 1S9O-1S92 The Farmers ALI
ance at that time voiced the demand
and politicians took up the cry for the
purpose of riding into office on the
crest Of the popular wave. The result
was that there was a change and the
farmer got the worst of the deal At
this time the politicians lead the de
mand for revision. They must have an
issue and have to fan life into the old
revision idea, thinking that the farm
ers will tumble all over themselves for
the benefit Of the politicians. But they
don't enthuse very hard. OF course, a
Democratic farmer enthuses. but he
does it because of his party principles.
Republican farmers recognize that they
are the benefciaries Of the sound eco
nomic system maintained by the Re
publican party.-Slayton (Minn.) Ga
zette
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
@NHAH


John d. Rockefeller was offered $1,000
for ffteen-minute conversation by the
Paris Matin.
George Westinghouse, the inventor OF
the air brake, has been described as "a
hundred horse power man"
Mayor Ekers of Montreal is addressed
personally as your worship" and in
the third person as his worship"
DIR. Francis 2. Kinnicut of Nev York
has been elected president of the As
ISOLATION of American Physicians.
Senior Casasus, the ambassador of Mex
leo TO the United States has gone to
Europe on account of i'll health, and will
not return until fall.
Prince Khilkoff, formerly minister of
railroads in Russia, and builder of the
Trans Siberian road intends to make a
tour of inspection of the railroads of this
country.
There are TRIO Blacks in the new Brit
ISL House of Parliament with the same
initials-A. w. Black, the member for
Biggleswade, who is lace manufacturer
from Nottingham, and A. W. Black. the
member for Banfshire, who is writer
TO the Signet," in Edinburgh.
James A. Garfield Of New York has
purchased big farm house on Prudence
island, in Narragansett bay, where he
will establish a hospital for crippled chill
dren.
James B. Reynolds of Boston hes been
assistant secretary of the United States
treasury fifteen months and has signed his
name somewhere close to 100000 times.
As rule be uses up three fountain pens
a week.
Andrew Carnegie. at Grayesend, wheE
he was the first distinguished stranger to
receive the freedom of the borough. said
that he only understood one maclrioe-
the human one-and lie always patted il
on the back.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
JOINS THE ThEoscFHIsTs.
Lyman j. Gage, Former Secretary Of
Treasury. Goes to California.

Lyman D. cage, FORMER Secretary OF
Treasury. Goes to California.
Lyman j. Gage, former Secretary Of
the Treasury, has given up financial
life, in which he had been most prom
Eent figure in Chicago, Washington and
New York for many years, and las
taken up a residence. which he expects
will be permanent, with the colony of
theosophistS at Point Iona. Cal, of
which Madame Tingley is the high
priestess. Mr.. Gage says that this final
step in direction he has long been in
ciinej is the result of a vision and that
during his sleep he was commanded to
Join the Point Iona colony
While the news of Mr.. Cages action
comes as surprise to the financial
world to those who have been thrown
into intimate personal contact with the
iirancier his leaning toward theosophy
has long been known. Even before the
Death of his wife. which occurred while
he was Secretary of the Treasury, dur
ing the Mckinley regime, Mr. Gage
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
How to Beat Bryan in 1905.

Evidence comes from all over the
country, in the action of conventions,
the utterances of local leaders, ard the
manifest drift of the body of the party,
that Mr.. Bryan is still the one national
leader of the Democracy.
There is little doubt that in 1908 Mr..
Bryan will still lead the Democracy,
probably as its candidate. Therefore
the practical problem for the Republi-
can party is likely to be "How to beat
Bryan"
Evidently he cannot be beaten by
trying to be more radical than he Is.
None is more expert than he to trim
his sails to all the new winds of doc
trine.
Evidently he cannot be beaten by be-
ing just as radical. He would still be
the original Jacobs" and no public
personality of the day is more winning
than his.
Evidently he cannot be beaten by
merely going half way with him. Re-
cent experiments on that line have
strengthened him and weakened Re
publicanism. Furthermore, such pol
| icy would not conciliate those who
wish to go all the way with him and
would ALLEVIATE those who will not go
with him at all.
What, then, remains for the Repub-
lican party to do? Simply to stand
fast in its historic position-to refuse
to be stampeded into either radicalism
or reaction-to stand fast for the in
terests of all the American people, and
especially for the material welfare of
the nation.
To some material prosperity may
seem base and sordid issue. Yet no
great moral question, such as slavery
in 1860, or national honor in 1898, con-
fronts us now.
Furthermore, the safety and comfort
of the people are, after all, the daily
business of government and politics,
and nation must be prosperous before
it can be anything else Chicago Inter
Ocean
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
MANY RirthS Mt NPenab

There is no race suicide in Neenah.
According to the eaport of City Physi-
clan [. E. Ozanne the number of births
shows an increase of 5.33 per cent over
the first six months of last year, while
Menasha has an increase of 27.2 per cent
over the same period. A remarkable fea-
ture has come to notice in this connection
in that during the first three months of
the year S47 per cent of the births were
males, while during the second quarter
81 per cent of the new arrivals have been
of the gentler sex. At Menasha IS per
cent of the births have been females
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
HOUSER HELD NOT GUILTY.
Secretary of State Is Acquitted of
Bribery Charge.

Walter l.. Houser, Secretary of State,
was acquitted of the charge of having at
tempted to bride Zeno NJ. Host, State com
missioner Of insurance, three years ago.
According to the complaint, Houser told
Host that if he would render a certain
decision favoring the Equitable Life As
surance Society, copy of which Houser
gave the insurance commissioner, the
Equitable Society would contribute So
0O0 toward the State campaign fund. In
surance Commissioner Host, who signed
the bribery complaint against Secretary
of State Houser, issued a signed state
ment denying that there was a political
conspiracy in bringing the charge against
Mr.. IIouser. Mr.. Host says he expected
the verdict of acquittal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
ASKS DOCTOR TO KILL BABY.
Milwaukee Woman Offers Him $50
to Remove SicLIx Child

well-known Milwaukee woman re-
Gently asked her physician, he says, to
kill her 6months-oId baby. She offered
him $50, he declared if he would end its
life with a drug, though insisting that
the death should be painless. The physi-
clan said he must take time to decide,
and informed the police. The woman was
taken to the central police station, where
to Chief Jansen she admitted having
made the proposition. She said the
baby was sickly and she felt it would be
a blessing to save it from suffering. When
told that what she wanted done was muir
der the woman for the first time appear
ed to realize what it was she proposed.
She promised to abandon her criminal in
tent and was released. The woman's
husband was warned to watch his wife.