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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
Death Takes John A.. Mccall.

john =. Mccall, former president of
the New York Life Insurance Company.
died at Lakewood, \. j.. after an illness
brought on by the legislative inquiry.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
Sewer Gas ExpIodes in Tunnel

Two men were probably fatally hurt
and another was injured in an explosion
of gas in the bores of the city water de-
partment at Polk and Clark streets. Chi
cago. The men were working in the bore
Seventy-tive feet below the ground. The
eXplosion was caused hy sewer gas.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
raithIess Lover Causes Suicide.

Hearing her sweetheart telling a young
woman in another town, over the tele
phone, of his love for her, Miss Bessie
Frazier. telephone exchange operator at
Lampasas, Texas. shot and killed herself.
Miss Frazier CHANGED to make a connec-
ton on the line her sweetheart used in
calling up her rival, and listened to the
conversation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
100000 Fire in st. John. N. ID.

Fire that originated in the business
district of st. John, n. B., did 100000
damage. The flames started in the jew
elry store of ]. H. McDuffy and spread
to the stores of the American Clothing
Company and Brock & Patterson, whole
ca 10 millinprS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
Governor of Alaska Quits

President Roosevelt has received and
accepted the resignation of John G.
Brady as Governor of Alaska. The resig-
nation was presented by Judge Peele of
New York. No announcement of the sue
cessor TO Gov. Brady has been made
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
Smash Trains, No One Hurt.

4 west-bound express train on the
Pennsylvania railroad, made up of mail
and express cars, sideswiped a freight
train near Conestoga, Pa. Ten express
and five freight cars were wrecked, but
no one was hurt. The contents of the
cars were scattered over the tracks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22

Cahalis Pranckitis, a Russian, % years
old. was roasted to death IN a dry kiln
of piano factory in St. Charles. Ill.
Pranckitis left his lodgings and entered
the kiln TO warm himself, and was cooked
to death. He was known about town as
the Lonesome man.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22

rior. This result of a council FIRE held
on the Fort Sill reservation viii bring
about the end of the old Indian tribal
customs, and the new chief will make a
journey to Washington in an effort 70
obtain for his fellows a republican form
of government.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22

One man was killed, three fatally and
four seriously injured in dynamite ex-
plosion in the Illinois Steel works in
South Chicago. An excavation at the f<1t
of Eighty-third street was the scene. A
defective blast is blamed for the mishap.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
Murdercrs show Nerve.

Each carrying to the gallows the mem
DRY of a triple murder, John Mueller and
Robert Newcomb were hung at the Cook
county jail in Chicago Neither of the
men showed fear as he went to execution.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
Man Burned to Death,

Owen Ryan was burned to death in
fire which destroyed his home at Hallock.
MINI. His wife and five children escaped
by leaving the house in their night clothes
and going through the snow in their bare
feet to a neighbours.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
Susan's Ruling Passion.

Miss Susan B. Anthony, at the celebra-
ton in Washington of her eighty-sixth
birthday anniversary replied to a congrat-
ulatory letter from the President by saw
ing she would prefer a good word to Con
gress for woman's suffrage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22

The Senate Thursday began the consid
Grafton of the joint statehood bill and for
an hour and a half listened to a speech
by Mr.. Dick in support of the measure
as reported from the committee on terri
tories Mr.. Dick did not conclude his re-
marks. A bill prohibiting the unlawful
wearing of the insignia of the G. A. r.
and other soldier organizations was pass
ed. The House passed a bill to increase
to $4,000 a year the annual federal APP
preparation TO each State and territory
for the support of agricultural experiment
stations and another measure repeating
the present law granting American regis
ter to foreign ships wrecked and repaired
on the American coast, in the discretion
of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor,
and requiring a special act of Congress to
grant such register Mr.. Payne sought
to get through his bill for the consolida-
ton of customs collecting districts, but
furious opposition developed and by a
roll call large majority voted against
considering it. Both houses adjourned
until Monday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
Three Killed in Collision

Three persons were killed and several
injured in head-on collision between a
passenger and freight on the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad a mile south of
GAINESVILLE, Wis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
CHILDREN PERISH IN FIRE.
Two Cremated and Third Proba-
bly, Fatally Burned in Home.

Two children were cremated and
third child was probably fatally burned
in a fire which destroyed the farm house
of Joseph Rods, three miles from Sum
NIT City, Mich. Mr.. Rods was working
in the woods when the fire occurred and
the children's mother was busy in the
barn. When she discovered the flames,
she rushed back to the house and sue
ceeded in rescuing her 2-year-old child
from the blazing Kitchen terribly burned,
but was not able to save the other ywo,
aged years and 10 months.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
Another Chicago Bank Fails.

The Bank of America. organized in
Chicago in December, and of which for
mer Judge Abner Smith is president, has
been placed in the hands of a receiver,
grave charges being made against Mr.
Smith and others.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
End of Great Conner W.,

Seven years legal war between Heinze
and the Amalgamated, involving $780,
100000, was ended by the formal trans
fer of the Heinze properties in Montana
to a trustee, a step in the formation of
the new giant trust.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
Six Rutland Blocks Burned.

Six large brick blocks in the business
section of Rutland, VT, occupied by near
~ score of firms and many smaller ten
ants, were destroyed by fire. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22

The ship subsidy bill has been passed
by the Senate by vote of 50 to 81. all
favoring the measure being Republicans.
Preceding the ballot the bill was attack
ed vigorously by its opponents.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
singing Evangelist Dies.

Mrs Clara Wilson, sister of the late
p. p Bliss and a singing evangelist wide
ly known in this country and Great
Britain, died in Towanda. Pa, of heart
disease. Mrs. Wilson was ssociated
with Francis Murphy in temperance work
for several years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22

A detailed report of the affairs of the
Tennent Shoe Company of St Louis
shows that in addition to the losses of
the creditors the preferred stockholders.
numbering forty persons, will lose their
entire investment, about 100000. The
report also shows that the company has
carried on its books fictitious assets
amounting to S617 ,446.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
Roosevelt PardOns a "Middy.u

Midshipman Minor Meriwether, Jr., of
Louisiana, member of the third class of
the Annapolis naval academy, convicted
and sentenced to dismissal for hazing,
has been pardoned by the President.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
Powder Mill ENnIodeS

The Cornell powder mills, near Shame
kin. Pa. blew up from an unknown
cause killing Henry Fetter, an employe,
of Trevorten, and seriously burning Supt.
Robert Kidd of Shamokin. The loss on
the plant is estimated at $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
Oil Inquiry on in Iowa,

Attorney General Hadley of Missouri
arrived in Des Moines the other day to
take dispositions in regard to alleged I'M
fair competition in the sale of oil by the
Standard Oil Company in Iowa. Deputy
Attorney General Rush Lake will assist
him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
ANTICIPATING THE CENSUS.
Forecast ef the Population of Lead
ing American Cities in 1910.

An expert statistician who has done
work for the census bureau at Washing
ton has figured out the population Of
American cities in 1910, basing his esti-
mates upon past growth, building stats
tics, city directories and local censuses.
The result with gains in ten years for
the seven cities at the head of his list
is here presented
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
| New York

New YORK. jobbing trade are of a
L-------I very favorable character
and more seasonable weather has slim
ulated some lines of retail trade. Ship
ments of finished products of manu-
facture are of enormous volume and
mills are still pushed to fill orders pre-
viously booked. Railroad earning re-
turns indicate that January was the
most active month ever experienced by
the companies, gross receipts showing
a gain of 20 per cent over last year.
Reports as to winter wheat are salts
factory as a whole. Against these ia
vorable features are to be cited the dis
quoting influences of predictions and
preparations for a general coal strike,
possibly involving 100000 men. 1t is
also to be noted that the mild weather
has caused an accumulation of retail
stocks of heavy clothing, shoes and
kindred products and eliminated reor-
der business from jobbing hands,
though western reports speak of pos
sible carried-over stocks being quite
well reduced, considering weather con-
ditions.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending Feb s num-
Der 204, against 228 last week, 207 in
the like week of 1905, 2O2 in 1904, 217
in 1903 and 265 in 1902. In Canada
failures for the week number 81, as
against 81 last week and 26 in this
week a year ago.-Bradstreet's Com
mercial Report.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22

81; st. Louis, Go; Cleveland, 4S. 1t
would require a larger survey to get at
the significance of the factor, in the cal
culations and also very careful ANALYSIS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
Passed over Mayors veto

In the face of a veto by Mayor Dunno
the S5-cent gas ordinance was passed by
the Chicago City Council by vote of 81
to 10. Three members were absent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22

States W ould b e
col N a n d ed by
G. e n e raj Leonard
W o o d, the COM
mander Of the army
in the Philippines.
General Wood is
not a West Point
graduate. His mill
tary training was
s e ure e d through
fpb tiur Indians on
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
Found Not Guilty of Murder

In Marietta, Ohio, verdict of not
guilty was brought in in the trial of Ed
gar Uhl on a charge of numbering his
father last June.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
Apaches Choose Younm Cbfef

Geronimo has been deposed as chief of
the Apaches. Asa Deluxe, young scout,
has been chosen to succeed the old war
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22

Director North of the census bureau
said he was tired of criticism by cotton
growers of the South directed against his
cotton reports. He hoped Congress would
relieve him of further work on cotton
statistics.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22

Clement Armand FalliereS has taken
the oath of office as President of France
and Lonhet retires to private life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
6&0SS&SlsSGS92S2H
. CONGRESS-

,SS2SSsS5Ss3S&2SS2!S

The Senate Monday adopted a joint
resolution reported by Mr.. Tiliman from
the Senate committee on Interstate COM
merce, directing the Interstate commerce
commission to investigate the charges of
discrimination and combination in re-
stralnt of trade which have been made
against the coal roads by the independent
mine owners. Senator Tillman spoke in
favor of the measure. Senator Lodge
spoke at length on the railroad question,
favoring government regulation of rates,
but counseling against radical action
Speaker Cannon, in opening the session,
dedicated a new gavel to the memory of
Abraham Lincoln, and the martyred Pres
ident was remembered in the prayer of
the chaplain. The House had sport with
the District of Columbia whipping-post
bill for wife beaters and laid it on the
table by a vote of 153 to 90 in spite of
serious speeches in its favor by Con-
gresham Adams of Pennsylvania, bach
elor, and Congressman Hepburn of Iowa.
The drastic anti-rebate bill introduced
by Mr.. Parker of New Jersey was pass
ed. A bill prohibiting the sale of CO.
caine in the District of Columbia was
passed.
-
In the Senate Tuesday Mr.. Hale, rep
resenting the committee on naval affairs,
reported the bill prescribing the method
of procedure in regard to hazing at the
naval academy and gave notice that he
would ask its consideration at an early
date. The remainder of the day was de-
voted to the shipping bill, Senators
Spooner and Allison criticising various
features and offering amendments, and
Mr.. Gallinger championing the measure
strongly. Senator Elkins introduced his
railway rate bill. Mr.. Hepburn asked
and obtained the consent of the Senate TO
take a vote on the pure food bill Feb. 81.
Several bills authorizing bridges in the
South were passed by the House without
discussion. Mr.. Gillespie of Texas made
a statement of the grievances of the coal
operators and shippers of Pennsylvania.
At / o'clock the House took up the for
tifcations appropriation bill, carrying
S4,S3S, 993, which provoked debate, espe-
cially in regard to Notifications in the
Philippines. Mr.. Smith of Iowa urged
greater activity on the part of commit
tees supervising appropriations to check
bureaucracy. The proposed $15,000,000
naval station in Subig Bay was strongly
opposed.
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22

The Senate Wednesday passed the ship
subsidy bill by a vote of 3S to q. All
the votes for the bill were by Republi-
cans, and five members of this party join
ed with the Democrats in opposition. The
statehood bill was made unfinished bust
ness. The House passed the Notifications
appropriation bill, which carries 100000
to be divided between the Philippines and
Hawaii out of a total of $4,3S3,993. No
changes were made in the measure, all
amendments being voted down. The dis
cussion preceding the vote developed into
a partisan debate on the policy to be pur-
sued with regard to the future of the
islands.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-18
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-18
FIRE REAL SHOT
In SHAM A I. BATTLE B: TT
! : 17i-N' TT w ~. :
Grundy Center Young Men Punish
Visiting Guardsmen for Flirt-
ing with sweethearts.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Omaha, Sept. l9.-Central Iowa is
excited over the details which have just
leaked out Of sham battle at Grundy
Center, Iowa, last week in which four
teen soldiers from Vinton and Cedar
Rapids were shot by. society men from
Grundy Center, who were jealous of
the attention paid the soldiers by their
sweethearts. H..
The Grundy Center young men got
even with the visitors in the sham bat
tie by firing shot instead Of blank car
tridges The visiting militiamen had
been in Grundy Center during the fair
and had captured the. hearts Of the
local girls, to the exclusion Of the home
boys. .e ...
The morning Of the battle it was
found there were not enough militia
men and several home boys offered to
enter the fight, furnishing their own
guns and ammunition.
When the battle began the fair.
grounds were crowded: After the
fight had ragged few minutes Captain
| on his face showed he had been
wounded. Before the hospital corps
could carry him from the field Lieu:
tenant Saunders went down. Corporal
Clark quickly followed and then pri'
Yates on all parts Of the field began
dropping. ..,.-
The Commandment ordered firing tt
cease, but the Grundy Center contin:
gent kept popping away until forced
to desist. When firing ceased it was
found that fourteen Of the militiamer
; had been wounded, altho only three
were badly hurt Thousands witnessed
the fght and it was believed the
wounded was only shamming.
| The fair officials made every effort
to keep the facts. secret, but the
wounded have made such complaint
that an official investigation is prom
iseI
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-18
SANE WOMAN IN ASYLUM?
Pretty BiGamist, in New York Prison,
Denies She Is Lunatic.

Journal Sneclal Service.
Rochester, N. Y, Sept. 19.-Lawyer
John Mead, attorney for Myrtle Lapp,
"a years old and beautiful, who was
sent to Auburn prison for two years
and half for blgamy, got into Mat
tewan asylum for the criminal insane
the other day and talked with Miss
Lapp, who had been transferred there
from Auburn.
Mead says that Miss Lapp told him
shocking stories Of brutal treat
ment at the hands of the asylum at
PENDANTS. Mead says she is sane and
that he. will get her out. She was pro-
nounced sane in this city.
Miss Lapp said she was tied down
in bare room and left all day, and
when she cried for water the attend
ants laughed at her and used vile and
insulting language. She said when she
protested against the i'll treatment,
they threw her down, jumped on her
and injected drugs until she became
miserable. She says the treatment at
the asylum makes inmates insane, if
they do not happen to be so when they
arrive there
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-18
FARMER PAYS BILL
SAYS! PEAVEY Man
Fixed Charges in Grain Shipment
Met by Producer, Wit
ness Declares.
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service.
Chicago, Sept. l8.-t' The farmer is
the man who pays the bills,'' is the
way that Frank Heffelinger, member
of the grain firm Of f. III. Peavey & CO..
put the proposition of elevator charges
in the hearing of the Peavey case be-
fore the Interstate Commerce commits
sion in Chicago.
Mr.. Heffelfnger was called as the first
witness in the case brought by the
Great Western railroad against the
road is paying rebates to the Peavey
Elevator company in the form Of allow
ances for elevation at the Missouri river
on grain shipped by the Peavey Gem
pany. Mr.. Hefelfnger was asked abnut
! this apportionment of expenses and de-
clared that it was in the last instance
footed by the farmer who sold the
"The price on grain paid to the
market price at point of consumption:
minus the charges necessary to get it
to that point,' said Mr.. Heffei1inger
in the course Of his examination. "ihis
means that the farmer is the man who
ultimately pays the fixed charges and
the price paid to him will depend in a
large measure upon the amount OF these
fixed charges" TIA. ''-. ..' .-.'
Suspects Grain Trust.
In the course of the hearing John
| Marvel, one Of the attorneys Tor the
commission, propounded to Mr.. Hcffel-
finger a few questions which indicated
that the government suspects the exist
ence of grain trust which fixes the
price of grain. He was disappointed in
getting from Mr.. Heffelfnger The an
swer that he had expected but obtained
admission which may lead to further
developments.
a conference among themselves, fix the
prices that are to be paid for grain -
asked Mr.. Marvel:
least such has not been the case during
the last few years. It may have been
so few years ago.
Quarrel Of Roads.
A peculiar state Of affairs was pre-
sented in the hearing, whihc, it is said
was never presented before. The hear
ing was practically quarrel between
the railroads with the Great Western
Santa Fe and Burlington on one side
and the Union Pacific on the other
And vet the interstate commerce cJm.
mission, clothed with it's new judicial
power, was compelled to sit as a court
to adjudicate between the parties to tic
:, fight.
s Several shippers and interested ele
5 vator concerns, it is said, will appear tC
:. testify that the advantage given tho
E Peavey company results in hardship
) to them. This will bring the case up il
a new light before the commission aent
-, may result in much different ruling
u than was given in the former case.