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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-13
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY.
xENNEBEc VALLEY LODGE OF

perfection 40. A. A. S. r. Annual meet
sne of Kennebec Valley Lodge of Perfcc-
ton will be held in Masonic Temple, Au-
at 10 O'Clock p. NJ. Reports of secretary
and treasurer and election of officers for
- TREBY JOHNSON. T. p. G. NJ.
T. II. BODICE, CIR. Sec
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-13

HAVE YOU TRIED
the new Quick Desserts that grocers are
now selling1 They are justly termed
easy to Make" as Ill ingredients are in
the package. Three complete products
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-13
ODD FELLOWS HALL

JEPHTHA ENcAMPMENT, NO. 9
Meetings at o'clock every second and
coxrth Tuesday.
q. w. MERRILL, Scribe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-05
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The News -

The Douma now has both fists doubled
up.
The Gar is learning what it feels to
have a Congress on his hands.
There is very little waste in the con-
struction of the 1906 shirtwaist.
Against the perennial boat-rocker let
US array the champion fool-killer.
The japanese have put heavy spring
on the open door" in Manchuria.
The Beef Trust feels like it has been
put through the sausage machine.
Somebody is succeeding mighty well in
keeping the lid down on Prof. Gorky.
There is evidently no such word as
graft in President Cassatt's dictionary.
The Ellen Terry jubilee Melted her
$4,000. Something to be jubilant over.
If he is executed it will not be the first
time that Gen. Stoessel has lost his head.
Mrs. Longworth is Princess Alice. but
the Congressman is not yet Prince Nick.
A McAdoo (Pa.) cow ate a pound of
dynamite. Next thing milk will be going
up.
In Russia the supporters of the douma
are inclined to join in a bomb for the
Car.
The douma is certainly putting up to
the Gar a large number of long-felt
wants.
That ''long-expected Russian revolu-
ton" is again doing business at the old
stand.
The railway officials didn't object siren
stock.
We hope that Alfonso in making his
Princess a Queen will not make her a
high-Ena.
Commissioner Shonts keeps on going
around making a noise like a man build
ing a canal.
In Saving everything but the breath"
the Chicago packers were too saving for
their own good.
Another Englishman is to marry ten
more good American millions, with a
woman attached.
When they read the stories of railroad
graft the insurance men are astonished
at their own moderation.
The Grand Order of the INDICATED
should enroll Ida Tarbell and Upton Sin
clair as charter members.
There is some consolation that they
can't initiate terrapin and canvasback
duck in a packing factory.
The members of the Douma object to
being part of any ping-pong government
for the Car to play with.
Now that Secretary Taft has reduced
his weight So pounds, be can take his
seat with safety on the Supreme Court
bench.
During these days of turmoil over sau-
sage, it is up to the man who goes fish
ing to bring home some fish.
The war against tainted mea promises
TO be considerably more effective than the
war against tainted money.
Some unappreciative people would re-
| ioice to see the investigators knock the
halo off George f. Baer's head.
King Alfonso is determined to suppress
the anarchists. The anarchists have the
same intention regarding Alfonso.
How would you ike TO be a Pennsyl-
yania railroad official and have strangers
! walking up and handing you money just
| because they liked your looks:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-05
MILLIONAIRE A MURDERER.
Harry Thaw Kills Stanford White
in New York,

in New York.
Stanford White well-knOwn New
York architect, member of exclusive
clubs and prominent in society, was
shot and instantly killed by Harry Ken
dali Thaw, member of the Pittsburg
family of millionaires and husband of
Evelyn Nesbit, the actress, at the Madi-
son Square Roof Garden Monday night
Mr.. White was an old friend of the
Nesbit family and was instrumental in
procuring a position on the stage for
Evelyn, when she came to New York
years ago and served for some time as
an artists model.
1t was near the close of ''Mamselle
Champagne" musical comedy, with
which the garden was opened, that
Thaw approached the table at which
White was seated with another man
and fired three shots from an automatic
revolver into the breast of the archi-
test.
Thaw was arrested without making
any resistance after he had dramati-
cally assured the terrified audience by
gesture that he would shoot no more
and had emptied his weapon of car
tridges. He was locked in the West
Both street police station, where he
made statement that the death of
White was deserved for many reasons.
There is no doubt that jealousy,
amounting almost to an insane hatred.
was responsible for the deed. In his
statement Thaw mentioned several
times the name of his wife, coupling
this with characteriZations of White
that he was a bldckguard and a scoUn-
drel. Mrs. Thaw was on the roof at the
time of the tragedy. She had only time
to rush out as the special policeman
was leading her husband away a pris-
oner and throw her arms around his
neck, crying Historically, "Oh, Harry ).
Harry! Harry" when she collapsed
and was taken away by friends.
The throng in the theater was near
a panic That there was no disaster
was due to the scene that was then on
the stage, to the GOODNESS of Lionel
Lawrence, the stage manager, to several
men in the audience and to attaches.
The Iimelight of the scene prevented
all from seeing the tragedy. The de-
tonating reports of the revolver so
much resembled a firecracker that few
received the first alarm. Then it was
that Mr.. Lawrence and the others.
springing up everywhere, called upon
all to remain in their seats, as there
was no danger, while others covered the
body of White with their coats and
clothes. The performance was at once
concluded, but the audience passed out
without giving evidence of great excite
ment.
The tragedy, while a shock to the
friends of both men, was not altogether
surprise to them. They knew, and
have known for several years, that
against the architect Thaw had the
most bitter feeling.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-05

During the first half Of 1906 a total Of
about 2.2JS miles Of railroad were con-
Structed. which fact leads the Railway
Age TO declare that the record for the
year will exceed that made either in 1902
or 1903. These figures indicate that the
total railway construction for the year
will approximate 5000 miles. The record
for 1903 was 5.7SG miles and for 1902
1854 miles. With the exception Of 1902,
the record FOR the half-year exceeds any
made in the last fifteen years. In the
first half Of 1902 2.314 miles Of track
were completed. In a recent issue Of the
Railway Age it was stated that there
were fully 1900 niles of railway under
construction in the United States. 1t is
now stated that additional contracts have
beer let which will add many hundred
miles to that total. Although there are
several extensions under construction in
the New England States, no track has yet
been laid in that section of the country,
and but no miles Of new line have been
completed in the Middle States, which in
clude New York, New jersey, Pennsyi-
vania, Delaware and Maryland. In 9TH
or groups Of States the track laid is as
IOiIOWS. central No iHFLH SNidltS' H.
miles south Atlantic States. 234 miles /;
gulf and Mississippi valley States, 332
miles Southwestern States, 600 miles;
Northwestern States, 352 miles; Pacific
States, 497 miles. In the States south
of the Ohio river and east of the Missis-
sippi the new mileage aggregates All
miles, and in the States west of the Mis-
sissippi river 1,591 miles. Texas shows
a larger new mileage than any other
State with go miles of track laid. Ne
vada is second with 227 miles, Wyoming
third with 1872 miles and Louisiana fourth
with 14S miles The only other States
showing more than 100 miles each are
Mississippi with 10 miles and California
with los miles
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-05
PRESIDENT TO SEE CANAL.
Fall Trip to Panama VIII Replace
Proposed Western Tour.


Announcement of President Roose-
velt's intention to visit the Isthmus of
Panama next fall and personally inves-
tigate the work Of construction on the
great waterway came as a surprise
from the White House, a Washington
correspondent says. incidentally it was
also given out that Mr.. Roosevelt would
not make the proposed trip to San
Francisco in the fall nor the tour of
the Middle West which he had con-
templated for next spring. In May,
1907, however, he will take a run into
Michigan, stopping at Lansing for the
agricultural college celebration.
1t is expected the President will
leave Washington for Panama the lat
ter part of next October or in the early
days Of November. He will be absent
about three weeks. The trip probably
will be made on one of the big cruisers
Of the navy, but what vessel will carry
the President and his party is yet not
known.
None of the details of the trip has
yet been worked out. Beyond the bare
decision to make the trip the President
has reached practically no conclusions.
1t is likely he will be accompanied on
the journey by Secretary Taft and
Chairman Shonts of the Panama Canal
Commission. but even this has not been
determined definitely.
The President has long desired per-
sonally to inspect the route of the canal
and to make himself personally famil-
lar with the great undertaking of con-
structing the water way. The decision
that he will visit the American zone
OH the ISthmuS of Panama was not
reached hastily, but has been under
consideration for considerable time.
1t is the expectation that the President
will be able to spend at least a week
on the canal zone and in that time he
will familiarize himself with the situa-
ton by study of it at close range. A
personal visit to the canal zone will
enable him to handle with an absolute
knowledge of the situation the great
problems which constantly will be aris-
ing in connection with the work of
canal construction and administration.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-05
Oposonic Consumption Remedy.

A treatment for tuberculosis, based
upon the known function of white blood
corpuscles, namely, their power to assimi-
late and carry away disease bacilli, has
been recently investigated with consider
able success in London hospital. 1t is
found that if certain organisms, termed
opsonins, are not present in sufficient
strength, the white corpuscles are unable
to do their duty, and the disease makes
Roadway rapidly. If an examination Of
the patient shows a shortage of opson-
ms, a serum made of dead bacteria OF the
same variety as those causing the dis
ease. is injected. The patients own body
then stimulates the production of the de-
sired organisms. This condition may be
preserved by daily tests until the disease
is expelled. The most notable successes
have been obtained in cases of lupus, the
bacillis of which is identified with that
of tuberculosis, only that the former at
fackS the skin
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-05
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Herr Louis Kuhn of the Deutschen
theater, the oldest German actor, recently
celebrated his ninetieth birthday.
Henry p. Adams, the veteran cashier
of the Boston postal district, has just
completed sixty years in the United States
service.
Tolstoi is reported to be in excellent
health. He reads less than formerly, but
his reading now consists of English and
American works on labor questions.
L. B. Abrahams, head master of the
Jews free school at Spitalields, England,
has retired after ifty-three years of SER
vice. He is 81 years old and Israel Fang
will was once his pupil.
Miss Una Taylor has the distinction of
being the youngest exhibitor at the Royal
Academy this year. She is the daughter
of King Edwards popular foreign SER
vice messenger" Her exhibit is a bronze
statue of the god of sleep. She passed
the Royal College of Art examination at
the age of u, and has studied five years
under Prof. Lanteri.
Dr. Edward Everett Hale attributes his
excellent health at the age of 81 to the
serenity with which he takes life, sleep
ing nine hours night and always keep
ing his mind occupied.
Gen. o. o. Howard, retired, and Lieut..
Gen. Stephen ID. Lee, G. s. A, are the
surviving army commanders of the North
and South, respectively. They graduated
from West Point in 1854.
Major Oswald Ames, VINO was the tall
est officer in the British army, retired
recently after twenty-five years service
in the Second life guards. He is feet
inches in his stocking feet.
Warren Belcher, for ffty-three years
postmaster at Winthrop, Mass, has re-
signed to be succeeded by his son, David
Belcher. In time of service he was the
Oldest postmaster in the United States.
Charles HAYNES Hasweii of New York,
81 years old this month, is a practicing
engineer and was an interesting figure at
the laying of the new Engineers club
house corner stone by Mrs Carnegie the
other day.
1t is said that George Fletcher, who
lives in Kiley, near Pomeroy, County Ty-
rome, is the oldest subject of King Ed
ward. He has recently attained his 18th
year and ought TO be the Oldest man in
the world.
George Irving, the last survivor Of
Washington Irving, marvelousIy hale and
active at the age of 81, is living in New
York City. He is engaged in writing a
history of the Irving family, of which
he is practically the sole remaining mem
Der of that branch.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-05
Is RECOVERING FAST.
CALIFORNIA MAKING RECORD IN
REcUPERATIoN.
Bank CIearings of San Francisco
Show Decrease of Only 8 per Cent
Compared with Same Month Last
Year-May Build Rival Canal.

In its monthly bulletin of progress the
California promotion committee says that
commercial conditions throughout Cali
fornia are unprecedented in the history OF
recuperations from disaster, and that the
financial Institutions of the State are on
a sound basis, with plenty of funds. The
clearings Of San Francisco for the month
showed a decrease of only about 8 per
cent from those of the same period IN
1905. Clearings for June, 1906, amount
ed to $121,677 ,692, against 1874, S36,632
in June, 1905. Nearly $4,000 skilled la
borers are employed in reconstruction
work, between 1000 and 5000 temporary
houses having been erected since the fire.
During June $50 building permits were
issued. There is a strong demand for la
Dor throughout the State, with good crops
of all products except apricots. Travel
westward over railroads entering the
State shows little decrease compared with
previous years. The tonnage of foreign
vessels entering the port of San Fran
cisco during June amounted to 60.13S.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-05


of its plant at the stock yards. Mr.. Ar
mour said:
The entire export trade of this coun-
try has been badly damaged. To esti-
mate the total loss now would be merely
guess work. 1t may run into hundreds of
millions. When the American industries
are slandered by persons who pretend to
speak as americans it is TO be expected
that the foreign competitors will take ad
vantage of it.
The public has been ignorantly or ma
liciously misinformed on the two most
important phases of the whole question
namely, the character of the meat inspec-
ton as it is and has been and the atti-
tude of the large packers toward the pro-
posed legislation.
The inspection now in force in all of
the larger packing houses makes the sale
of diseased meats from such houses i'm
possible. The government, which is re-
sponsible for the inspection, has failed to
state the facts about it.
1.-The large packers believe in govern
ment inspection They asked for it in
the first place. They want it continued
and improved, if it can be improved. Ger
tain minor features of the proposed leg
islation, as first presented, were objec-
tionable. They apparently were put into
the bill by persons who had not any
knowledge of or regard for the practical
side of any business. But l believe all of
the large packers heartily favor the pur-
pose which the pending bill is intended to
accompIish-namely:
Thorough inspection of all animals be-
fore slaughter.
Thorough inspection of all animals af-
ter slaughter.
Thorough inspection of the sanitary
conditions in the packing houses.
Thorough inspection of the products
that go to the consumer in forms other
than in bulk.
I'VE are able to say, with exact truth,
that every pound of meat in our plants.
for local as we'll as for export, is inspect
ed and passed in accordance with the full
regulations of the Department of Agri-
culture and the bureau of animal indus
try. Unprejudiced men and scientists,
who have exact knowledge, will agree that
these regulations are the strictest in the
world. Every day carcasses and meats
that would be passed for food in Germany
and other foreign countries are condemned
in our houses and converted into grease
and fertilizer"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-05
MILLION ALIENS IN A YEAR.
I'm mi sra ton Figures for 19O5-19O6
to Break Record.


to Break Record.
The year closing June 80, 1905, saw
1,026, 400 immigrants enter all the ports
of the nation, but this year promises for
the port of New York alone to equal the
total last year for the whole United
States. Up to June 1 this year a total
of $4,000 aliens had been received at
Ellis Island. BY the end of the month
enough more are expected to bring tine
total to 100000, perhaps even to 1,200,-
600. The immigrants are from every
country in Europe, the Austro-Hunga-
Iians predominating. Next comes the
Italians, of whom 100000 came to the
United States in 1905. Next in numbers
come the Russians, followed by the
Scotch, Irish, English, French, Span
iards, Portuguese, Germans, Armenians,
Turks, Greeks, Dutch, Swedes, Norwe-
gians, Danes, Roumanians, Bulgarians
and Swiss.
The number of excluded immigrants in
May last exceeded all records by 600.
The total excluded was 1,1J3. OF this
immigration 81 per cent settled in the
State of New York, principally in New
York City; 20 per cent in Pennsylvania,
3 per cent in Illinois and Massachusetts
and so each in New Jersey and Ohio.
In these six States settled 76 per cent
of the entire immigration.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-05
KILLS HIS BRIDE TO BE.
Tragedy Takes Place as Couple Are
About to Be Married.

In the presence of the assembled we'd
ding guests the other evening at the home
of Miss Ernestine Kutzer in Comfort,
Texas, his intended bride, Joe Reinhardt,
the man who was to have been married
to her, shot and instantly killed her and
then shot himself, with probably fatal re-
suits. The tragedy was as terrible as it
was unexpected. The hour for the cere-
mony was at hand and the guests were as
sembled in the parlor of the home of the
brides father. Young Reinhardt walked
into the room where Miss Kutzer and the
guests were assembled and drew a pistol
from his pocket, leveling it at his sweet
heart. She threw up her hand as If to
ward off the danger and three shots were
fired at her in rapid succession at close
range. The first bullet entered her heart,
killing her instantly. Reinhardt then
turned the pistol upon himself and fired
two bullets into his own breast. One of
them entered the left and the other the
right side. He is not expected to survive.
The cause of the tragedy is not known.
The relations between the sweethearts have
been typical of lovers and the marriage
was expected to be happy. The theory
of the neighbors is that the young man
was excited and temporarily irresponsi-
bic. Families of both parties are among
the best in the county and the young peo-
pie were highly respected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-05
All Around the Globe.

The plant of the West Virginia Brew
ing Company at Huntington. w. Va, was
burned. Loss 100000.
The Farmers and Merchants Savings
bank in Roseville, Musk ingum county,
Ohio, has closed its doors.
B. f. Yoakum of the Rock Island d.
rectorate has bought a New York resi-
dence, paying $250,O00 for it.
Over forty military eonvicts will be
transferred from Governors Island, N
Y. to the prison at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan.
Dr Richard Burton, the Boston pro-
fossor and lecturer, will return to Min
rosetta 70 take the chair of English at
the university
The boiler in the sawmill of the Lyons
Connanv. near Frenchburg, Ohio, blew
IN Killing three men and perhaps fatally.
iniuring three others.
THE Rt. Rev. john b. Delany, Roman
Catholic bishop of the diocese of Man
chester. died at the Sacred Heart hos
pitaI in Manchester, y. ii.
william WardIow and Jesse Heating.
convicts. died in the Wyoming peniten-
fiary from the eHecIS Oh WooQ alcOhOi
taken from a shellac bottle.
A movement was launched the other
day at meeting of the Denver conven-
ton league to bring both OF. the great
national conventions to that city two
years hence.
Assemblyman Max Eckman of New
York pleaded guilty to stuffing a petit
ton nominating him as a municipal own
ership candidate. Four notaries also
pleaded guilty.
Prosecuting Attorney l. B. KimbreIl of
Kansas City has announced that if the
grand jury fails to indicr the members
of the alleged ice trust in that city he
will begin proceedings similar to those
Instituted by Attorney General Hadleys
sgainst the Standard Oil Company.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-05
DESTROY KANSAS CITY BARS.
Authorities Wreck Saloons ana
Throw Liquor Into Streets.

Authorities Wreck Saloons and
Throw Liquor Into Streets.
The anti-saloon crusade in Kansas City,
Kan, has been renewed with increased
vigor. In addition to destroying stocks
of liquor and bar fixtures, c. W. Trick
EFT, the assistant Attorney General ap-
pointed by Gov. Hoch to enforce the pro-
hibition law, threatened to demolish sa-
loon buildings if the owners persisted in
renting their places to Joint keepers.
Many of these buildings are owned by
brewing companies. This is to notify
you" reads the warning, that if you
permit said premises to be again used for
the sale of intoxicating liquors, so as to
make necessary the issuance of a second
writ of abatement, I shall order the prem
Uses sufficiently demolished, so that no
third trip will be necessary, and in addi-
ton will cite you for contempt of court
in aiding and assisting in violating the
order of the court" There are about 100
saloons in Kansas City, Kan, about fifty
of which have been closed. The liquors
and fixtures in fifteen of these had been
seized by the county officials up to this
date. The officials continue to spill liquor
and break up costly bars, tables and other
furniture already brought in, and to
search for still more