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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
NO MORE WHITE SUGAR.
View Pure Food Law Will Knock Ont
the Highly BIeached Article.

the Highly bleachcd Article.
The pure food law that goes into effect
Jan. 1 is far reaching in is provisions.
but if carried out viii without doubt
result in much good to the community
and will probably lessen in a measure
the stomach troubles SO prevalent. There
will be no more white sugar offered for
sale after the new law becomes opera
tive. There will be loaf and granulat-
ed sugars as at present, but the color
will be a dull yellowish white, not very
attractive to the eye, but much more
healthful than the article known to trade
for fifty years or more as white sugar.
Washing bluing is used to Impart the
snow white color and Uncle Sam has
decided that it is better for the health
of the country to put aside the washing
bluing and get back TO first principles.
Timed vegetables, notably tomatoes,
green peas, and some kinds of string
beans will not have the appearance of
having been so freshly picked as for
merly. but the coloring will be natural.
No effects in c~oloring will be permitted.
except that provided by nature. Mar
malades and preserves, that tempt the
eye before the palate, will not be quite
so attractive, and if there is a slight
scum on the jar, skim it of and say
nothing. 1t is simply proof that pre-
~servatives have not been used.
Mustard, which generations of the
people have come to regard as yellow
never having seen any that was not
adulterated-will be gray and butter
will be nearly white.
Timed meats will probably lose their
popularity, for it is expected the prices
will be about doubled. Some of the So
called timed meats and game offered are
made of a combination or corn meal and
condiments that look inviting, but have
very little food value. They are PIT ND
at small cost, have a delicious flavor. but
they are not meats and game. and If is
not expected h~ousekeepers will buy tin
ned cornmeal when they know just what
it is as told by the label on the can.
The new law makes no reference TO
eggs and the cold storage brand can be
disposed of as the integrity OF the dealer
decides. Refrigerated meats and bread
are not mentioned in the law.
After Jan. 1 all goods shipped from
factories will go out with d guarantee
that they are as represented; that there
Is no false labelling. The penalty for
violating a law is not more than one wear
in a federal prison or $500 fine or both.
and for a second offense the DenaItv is
doubled.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
CHICAGO.

Business generally exhibits no loss of
strength. although the period has ar
rived when a falling off in new de-
mands is natural. That the volume of
production and distribution sustains
an unprecedented aggregate is affirmed
by continued gains i'll freight earnings
and by Il total of bank exchanges this
week establishing Il higher record than
any heretofore. Eastern demand for
accommodation is responsible for the
prevailing firm discount rate, but the
return of currency from the interior
soon may make easier conditions in
money. 1t is noted that local offerings
of commercial paper have moderated,
indicating that financial requirements
are mainly provided for until the turn
of the year.
Some heavy consumers find it more
difficult TO obtain necessary supplies
and difficulties in transportation have
extended, making deliveries within a
reasonable time almost impossible.
Railroad efforts to relieve the conges-
~ "lS h"ilulCdIIcu W the severe
weather in some sections, yet it is seen
that new equipment is coming forward
more extensively and tends to make
the outlook less diScouraging to ship
perS.
Retail activity is much stimulated
by the presence of many visitors and
the demand for seasonable and Christ
mas goods steadily expands. Whole
sale orders for spring lines compare ia
vorably with those of this time last
year, and country advices testify to an
enhanced buying power and gratifying
Roadway in sales of winter merchan-
disc. Manufacturing operations meet
with no impediments. except such as
arise from scarcity of labor and ma
terialS.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number twenty-siX. against TWEEN
ty-two last week and thirty-four a year
ago.-Dun's Review of Trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

The manager of the Burlington lines
has notified all clerks, s~tenographers and
technical workers that if they join a union
they will be discharged.
An official of the Pennsylvania railroad
announces that work will soon be started
on a great power plant and dam, just
west of Harrisburg, on the Susquehanna,
to electrify the Pennsylvania railroad be-
tween Philadelphia and Pittsburg.
The demand Of the trainmen on the
Reading railway for a ten-hour day was
rejected by General Superintendent Tice.
The men were told that as an increase
in wages had been granted nothing more
could be expected fer the present.
President Earring of the st. Paul road
confirms the report that his company is
to build a cutoff between the northern
division and the valley division, thereby
shortening the line to the northern PENN
sula, by way of Star Lake, by more than
fifty miles.
The ruling of the interstate
commission that a railroad may not issue
transportation in exchange for advertising
in newspapers is to have a legal test
IuIOuSu IL CdSt DIOuSnI ny bIc IIODOll.
President McDoel has ordered the con-
~tinuance of contracts for transportation
in payment for advertising.
The fremen and engineers of the New
York Central ines have reached a settle
ment with the officials by which all will
get a substantial increase in wages and
a ten-hour work day for all branches of
the service. A similar advance in other
branches of he service was expected.
At the close of the fftieth year of con-
s~ecutive payments of dividends the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company placed it's
stock upon a Z. per cent basis, which is 1
per cent higher than had been paid since
1900. As the capital of the company has
grown the number of stockholders has in
creased to about $4,000.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern railroad has given an order for three
locomotives which will be as big again
as the largest now in service. These
monsters are to have sixteen driving
wheels and will haul a train of 80 load
ed cars over steep grades.
The general strike Of switchmen on all
of the twenty-three railroads entering
Chicago, which was threatened, was cali
ed off pending further negotiations be-
tween the union and managers. The union
leaders later accepted the offer of 3 cents
an hour advance and left the remaining 3
cents asked for to be decided by arbi-
~tration.
In the election of James T. Harahan
as president of the Illinois Central rail-
way by a vote of 8 to 4 in a special meet
ing of the directors at New York the
other day, came the climax of the fnan-
cial rivalry etween E. H.. Hartman and ,
Stuyvesant Fish thus Hartman realized |
his ambition to control a transcontinental
system, the Illipois Central be-
ing the one missing link in making such
a system profitable.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
1EE lGAR1ETS
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $7.45; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $500; sheep, fair TO choice. $500
to $500; wheat, No. =, 74c to Toe; corn,
No. 2, 43c to 45c; oats, standard, 32c to
33c; rye, No. =, 6Jc to Csc; hay, timo-
thy, $1,000 to $1,000; prairie, 5000 to
$1,000; butter, choice creamery, 24c to
zoe; eggs, fresh, 29c to soc; potatoes,
30c to 43c.
Indianapolis-CattIe, shipping, $500
to 500; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to
$6.45; sheep, common to prime. $3.50 to
$3.50; wheat, No. ., 73c to 75c; corn,
No. 2 white, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2
white, 33c to 35c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to 500;
hogs, $400 to $G.40; sheep, $3.50 to
$40; wheat, No. 2, Toe to 7Gc; corn,
No. 2, 42c to 43c; oats. No. 2, 33c to
35c; rye, No. =, Gle to 63c.
Cincinnati-CattIe, $4.OO to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$40; wheat, No. 2. 7Jc to 1Gc; corn,
No. 2 mixed. 42c to 44c: oats, No. 2
mixed, 35c to 36c; rye, No. 2, roc to
re.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to 5000: hogs,
$500 to $6.12; sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. 2, 76c TO 78c; corn, No. 3
yellow, doc to 4Gc; oats, No. 3 white,
35c to 3Gc; rye. No. ., G9c to roc.
Milwaukee-Wheat. No. 2 northern,
TIC to Sic; corn, No. 3, 42c to 43c;
oats, standard, 33c to 35c; rye, No. l,
&c to Csc; barley. standard, 54c to soc;
pork, mess, $3.50.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $6.25; hogs, fair to choice, 800
to $500; sheep. common to good mixed,
$500 to 1913; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $3.50.
Toledo-Wheat. No. 2 mixed, 74c to
76c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 42c to 43c;
oats, No. 2 mixed, SAC to Soc; rye, No.
2, Coo to &c; clover seed, prime, $S.2j.
New York-Cattle, $500 to SG.1O:
hog. $500 to 1913; sheep. $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 7Sc to SOC;
corn, No. ., 53c to 54c; oats, natural
white, 3Sc to 39c; butter, creamery, 25c
to 32c; eggs, western, 30c to 35c.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Trail of Big Grain Poal.

Messrs. Lane and Prouty of the inter
state commission have got on
the track or a secret combine of 900
northwestern grain elevators, which. up
10 the first of this year, dominated the
grain market of the country. They have
the testimony of agents of the elevator
companies which took part in this agree
ment. The pool was headless, being with
out president or secretary, OF any regular
officer. but a system of penalties was rig
idly enforced when n member violated
tie rules of the central council. but all
witnesses said that No such agreement
existed at the present time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Estimates Appropriations
Tor 1908. for 1907.
Grand totals. ses9, o2s,453 SOL, 551, 5et

Thu annual report of the bureau of in
sular affairs of the War Department
emphasizes two legislative matters before
Congress, on which it says depend to a
lalse extent he future prosperity of the
Philippine Islands. One is the bill reduc-
ing the tariff on Philippine products to %
per cent of the Dingley rates for sugar
and tobacco and making all other articles
free, and the ether is a measure provid-
ing for the establishment of an agricul-
tural bank in the islands.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
DIR. Crapsey Formally Ousted.

Bishop Walker of the Protestant Epis-
cOpal diocese OF western New York has
formally deposed the Rev. Algernon S.
Crapsey, rector of St. Andrews Church,
Rochester, n. Y, from the ministry of
the Episcopal Church. The ceremony
took place in st. Johns Episcopal
Church, and was witnessed by Rev.
Cameron ]. Davis, Rev. G. w. s.. Ayres
and the Rev. Thomas 3. Berry, as wit
neSSeS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
$4,000 BUILDINGS BURNED.
San Francisco Fire After EarthquaS
Caused Loss of O.OOO.OOO,

San Francisco Fire After Earthquake
Caused Loss of $35O,OOO,OOO.
The report of the special committee of
the trustees of the San Francisco Cham
Der of Commerce on insurance settlements
after the big fire says: THE total area
burned was about 5000 acres, containing
$40 blocks and about $4,000 buildings 4;
one-half of these were residences. The
amount of insurance was approximately
$3.50, 100000. The value of buildings
and contents destroyed in the fire must
have been about $3.50, 100000. An i'm
mense sum of insurance money has been
paid into this city. The companies will
finally nave paid undoubtedly in the
neighborhood of so per cent of the amount
of insurance involved"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Night Firyes Cost 100000.

Flames ragged in three sections of Chi
Il the other night. causing Il loss of
about 100000 and imperiling lives of
persons in the buildings attacked. Two
hook and ladder trucks were wrecked in
collisions with street cars. and firemen
hurt. \ boy was pushed into the river
from the Van Buren, street bridge while
watching a disastrous blaze at Market
and Van Buren, streets and was drowned.
Dozens of girls We're rescued from n
flaming building at Both and Morgan
StrpprS-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Prison Term for Mining Fraud.

Charles Whitney Norton pleaded guilty
in Toledo to the charge of using the
United States mails to promote a scheme
70 defraud, and was sentenced to the
Ohio penitentiary for eighteen months
and to pay a fine of 500. Norton had
operated in various parts of the country,
his speciality being mining stocks, and
was known under the name of Wells.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
.sQH Ereipht Shed Rurns.

Handicapped on every side by moving
freight and passenger trains and cropping
their way in a network of tracks, Chi
cago firemen fought a stubborn blaze
which practically destroyed the immense
brick shed known as the incoming freight
house No. 3 of the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy Railway Company, causing a
loss estimated at 100000. Two men
were injured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Candle Starts Fatal Blast.

A spark from a candle carried by a
laborer dropped into a can of giant pow
Ger and caused an explosion among a
gang of worknen in the Pennsylvania rail
road tunnel under the East River. New
York. Three men We're killed outright
and a fourth is dying. OF twelve Others
less seriously hurt two required hospital
treatment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Steals Car; Collects NickeIs,

The police of East Liverpool, Ohio, are
looking for : stranger who stole a street
car the other night, ran it four miles, col
lected fare from all passengers, and then
%decamped. Conductor Deitz was at a
pump getting a drink, when the thief
stepped aboard and gave the starting sig
nal. The fellow managed the business so
we'll that the motorman. %curtained on ac-
count of rain, suspected nothing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
BANK ROBBED; ONE KILLED.
Chicago Youth with Revolver Over
powers Cashier.

thfeAED Outh with HeNOtNer over
powers Cashier.
A beardless youth of 20, who claims he
came from Chicago, walked into the j.
V. Brinkman bank in Great Bend, Kan,
the other morning. stopped before the win
dow Of the cashier, cOolly took a gun
from his hip pocket, and, aiming it direct
ly at the head of Cashier A. Il. Taylor,
ordered him to hand over all the money
on his desk and then throw up his hands.
The cashier complied, handing over $3.50
IN bills and the burglar ran from the
building. Dashing up an alley near to
the bank, the robber made for the build
ing of the Wells-f'argo Express Company,
and running up stairs FABRICATED himself
in a room. For more than an hour he
fought off a posse of citizens who were
bent on lynching him, and then surren-
dered to the officers. Many shots were
interchanged, during which Bud West
fall. an employee of the Wells-Fargo Elk
press Company. was instantly killed and
several were wounded, but not seriously.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
To Build Costly Cathedral

4 Catholic cathedral for the diocese of
Cincinnati, costing more than $1,0o0.000,
is the central one of half a dozen fine
buildings to be erected within ten or ff-
teen years, according to the plan mapped
out by the diocesan building committee of
that church.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Dayton Building Falls.

street, within a dozen feet of the City
Hall, collapsed in Dayton, Ohio, and five
men, one of wnom was crushed to death,
were caught in the debris. The upper
floors were used by Sam Wagner for res
taurant purposes and the lower floors
were undergoing changes, when the sup
pCrtS gave way.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

The sensational trial of Albert Lewis,
Charles A. Hill and f. NJ. Howard. ac-
cused of scuttling the American ship
Agenor in order to secure the insurance
money, is still in progress in Yokohama.
Counter suits for heavy damages have
been hrought.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Miss AnthOny's Home Burned.

The Susan b. Anthony house was de-
stroyed by fire in Adams, Mass, causing
a loss of about $4,000. The woman suf-
frage leader lived for many years in this
dwelling, part of which was built by her
grandfather. Humphrey Anthony. about
100 years ago, and part by his rather-in-
law. Joshua Lapham, fifty years prior to
tbof
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Man Sold as vagrnnt for SO.

Dock Aubu:y, who was convicted of
vagrancy and who was ordered sold into
servitude for nine months, according to
the law of the State, was disposed of at
public auction in Elizabethtown, Ky. to
j. johnson, a farmer, for the sum of SO.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Deadly Combat in phiIipniues.

A column of constabular troops en-
countered a band of Pulajanes between
La Paz and Terragona, on the Island of
Leyte, 2. l., Dec. 5. In the battle that
followed four soldiers were killed and
eight were wounded. Thirty Pulajanes
were killed and many were wounded and
captured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Two Die in Mine ExnIoxio.

In an explosion of gas in the Baltimore
mine of the Parrish Coal Companv
Wilkesbarre, Pa, two men were killed
and five injured. Five other men were
in that part of the mine where the explo-
sion occurred, but they escaped. As vet
it is not known what caused the accident
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Takes Schools from Poland.

Dnevnik, the official newspaper of
Warsaw, announced that the University
of Warsaw would be removed to Saratov
and the Warsaw Polytechnic School to
R~ostov-on-Don. This will leave Russian
Poland without a single university. The
authorities refuse to explain or discuss
this measure.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

Robbers are believed TO nave murdered
Miss Sarah Wiley, a lifelong invalid. and
then set her home on fire to hide their
crime. The house was burned and the
woman's body incinerated. Miss Wiley
WA - years old and lived with her
mother near New Bedford, Ohio.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
1000 EWES TO HAVE NO ADAM.
Chicago Woman Plans Refuge 70
Sisters Who VIII Work on Ranch.

Chicago Woman Plans Refuge for
Sisters Who VIII Work on Ranch.
An Adamless Eden in Texas is the
dream of Mary f. Hayden, the Chicago
novelist, who is arranging to establish a
colony of 1000 women in Refugio coun-
ty, Texas. She has acquired title to
5000 acres and is at work on the plans
for her colony. Woman colonists may
have husbands if that condition cannot
be avoided, but the males must be a
mere notch on a stick so far as the af-
fairs of the colony are concerned. The
founder will endeavor to procure from
the Texas Legislature permission for
women to exercise the right of suffrage
i'll her colony, and all homes must be in
the name of the wife. Everything that
usually is undertaken on Texas farms
will be attempted, truck farming, fruit
raising, beekeeping. dairying. poultry
raising and other kindred farm and ranch
~DurSuitS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

probably fatally, in the wreck of an ex-
press train due to spreading rails. on the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Grassy Point,
New jersey.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
A 100000; FEARED POVERTY.
Why Ex-Judge Weber of Minnesota
Took His Life by Hanging.

Took His Life by Hanging.
Ex-Judge B. f. Weber, twenty-four
years on the bench of that district, COM
mitted suicide yesterday by hanging in
New Ulm, MINI. Fear of the poor
house, although his wealth was estimated
at 100000, drove the jurist to take his
life. Large medical bills for the treat
ment of his wife, who has been a para
lytic for years, led the former judge to
believe that his accumulations of years
of arduous work on the bench and at the
bar would be dissipated shortly. Mr..
Weber was to have been the guest of
honor at a banquet rendered him by the
Brown County Bar Association, in honor
OF his long service on the woolsack, from
which he resigned only a few weeks ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Drown in Sight of Home

Six Indians of the Cape Creeker re-
serve were drowned in McGregor har-
Tor. Ontario, almost within sight of their
homes. They were returning from the
lumber works near Sydney Bay when
their boat was capsized by a squall.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Doctors to BE Photographed.

The Pennsylvania medical board here
after will require every applicant for a
LICENSE to practice medicine to present a
photograph of himself. certified by the
dean of the college from which be was
graduated and signed by himself. This
will no become operative until the ex-
aninations next June
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

Four students of Cornell university.
among them w. III. Nichols of Chicago.
and three fremen lost their lives in a fire
which destroyed the Fiske-McGraw Man
sion at Ithaca, n. Y, used as the chapter
house of Chi Psi fraternity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
HITS Girl AGENT WITH SPOKE.
Bandit Then Robs the Santa Fee Rail-
way Station at De Soto, Kan.

A robber early Thursday made Miss
IONA Heckert, night operator at De Soto,
Kan, on the San Fe road, unconscious
with a blow from a wagon spoke, robbed
the money drawer of what small change
it contained and escaped. Miss Heckert
was found lying near the station. There
were three cuts on her head, and her arm
had been broken in three places. A
bloody spoke was found near by. She
recovered consciousness later, and said
her assailant was a white man, about %
years old. The description fits that of
Leonard D.. Connor, a private in Com
pany l, Engineer Corps, who escaped the
previous day from the federal military
prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Confesses Crime After CAPTURE.

The man who on Thanksgiving day en-
tered the store of W. p. Dilworth. a
hardware merchant in Oklahoma City. for
the purpose of robbery and fatally shot
the latter, vas captured a mile from the
city. He confessed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Ex-Conyict Kills Constable

Lorenzo Dow Short. a former convict,
shot and instantly killed Constable NJ. NJ
Singes at Proctorville, Ohio, when the
officer attempted to arrest him for lar
opnV-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
Bullets for Former senator,

Arthur NJ. Brown, a former United
States Senator from Utah. is cuffering
from what may prove fatal wounds after
being found in a room in a Washington
hotel. where he had been shot twice in
the abdomen, and Mrs. Anna NJ. Bradley
is being held by the police.