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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12

Chicago Tribune.

Toledo was an example of what rig
orOus enforcement of law and the edu-
cation of its citizens can accomplish.
For days Mayor Whitlock preached
sanity, and the result was that only
two persons were injured, one of them
being in a runaway.
The fool with revolver, or other
firearm, was the cause of the most pro-
life slaughter, the STRAY bullet being
particularly destructive. The deadly
toy pistol followed as the instrument
of death, but its harvest simply was
sown, and will be reaped from lock-
jaw.
The cities where lives were taken are
as follows:
Chicago ........2 Grand Falls, n. d.
Cincinnati ...... ] Jersey City. ..... 1
CatsEiI, Y. Y. / New York .......2
Elkhart. Ind. -. / Negaunee, Mich. 2
Fall River, Mass. / Niagara Falls. IL
Kenosha ..... / Pittsburg ........1
Memphis ....... / South Bend ......1
Newton, Iowa IL Wanamie, Pa. %
New Bedford, Mass.1 Springfield, Mass. i
Oswego, n. Il Fond du Lac, Wis.
Clevelvnd / New Albany, Ind. L
GAINESVILLE, Ore. 1 Stevens PINT, Wis.
Fulton. n. Y....1 Vincennes, Ind 80. i
The publication of the lists of persons
injured by the use of powder in various
forms has proved an effective force
toward ultimately gaining the object
desired, the elimination of the useless
waste of life and limb. The figures
presented merely are a suggestion OF
the total of such accidents. In every
community a small proportion reach
publicity, especially in cases which at
first appear of minor Importance, in
juries from the use of toy pistols. These
are the most prolific cause Of subse-
quent tetanus which yearly costs 400 or
more lives.
The array, small as it is by compari-
son with the real total, is a sad one
when it is considered that each death
or injury has been useless and born OF
an almost criminal license granted to q
mistaken exhibition of patriotism. 1t
becomes more startling, however, when
month later the returns of dead be
gin to swell and the extent of the
slaughter becomes apparent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12

health resorts many women in fashionable
attire were at play, while the children
were counting the goddess of chance at
the slot machines. One guest jumped
through a second-stOry window, but was
captured by the deputy sheriffs who sur
rounded the buildings. None but the at
PENDANTS We're arrested, but the gambling
machinery, valued at thousands of dol
lars, was confiscated.
While the raids were in progress, the
State of Indiana, through the Attorney
General and on instructions from Gov.
Hanly, filed quo warranto proceedings in
the Orange County Circuit Court against
the French Lick Springs Company, ask
ing that their charters as corporations be
revoked, that they be enjoned from per-
hitting gambling on their property, that
receivers be appointed, and that admin
istration of the assets be made among the
defendants and their creditors. The suits
and the raids are the result of a long
standing campaign of She women of In
diana
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12
TeIexra phic Brevities.

Willis Miller was found guilty in Up
.er Sandusky, Ohio, of numbering Celery
slag Johnston. The jury recommended
mercy.
Gov. Frantz of Oklahoma paroIed Ira
O. Terrill, serving a twelve years SEN.
tence in the Kansas penitentiary for
murder.
Police of Jersey City, Y. J., are in
vestigating the death of Clark Rice, a
son of wealthy Kansas City manufac-
furer. and it is believed the young man
was murdered.
Charles Campbell, under Indictment
with two others for the murder of Henry
Raisch in Cincinnati. pleaded Guilty to,
murder in the second degree and was Civ.
en- life sentence.
The Supreme Court of Nebraska has;
decided that fraternal beneficiary associa-
lions. conducted for the mutual benefit of
members, are not charitable institutions
and therefore not exempt from taxation.
James J. Hill has bought for about
100000 the Bliss residence at 8 East
9th street, New York. He will divide.
his time between St. Paul, Mimi. and
New York. Heretofore he has made his;
home when in New York at the Savoy
hotel.
Alexander Mcintosh, a half-breed. and
Max Leclair, a guide, were shot and kill
ed at Hazleton, Il. G. Simon Johnson.
an Indian of the Kipscrex tribe, is ac-
cused. He is still at large
Lafayette McMahon was arrested at
Uniontown, Pa, charged with killing Clio
yani Desisto and wounding Nicola Ruz-
zio and Julio Rossi. McAIahon's only
reason for attacking the Italians, he says,
was because he wanted to-
The will of the late Senator Arthur
P. German OF Maryland, filed for pro-
bate in Baltimore, leaves the estate, the
value of which is not given, in trust for
the six children, the widoy receiving a
life interest in his X ;1,ale
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12

ucation, knowledge of the science of
government, arbitration as a substitute
for war, appreciation of the dignity of
labor and high conception of life. He
styled as false that conception of inter
national politics which made the pros
perity of one nation depend upon the
exploitation of another.
President Roosevelt and King Ed
ward were praised by Mr.. Bryan for
their influence in behalf of peace and
the cause of arbitration.
Mr.. Bryan declared the Odium which
rests upon the work of the hand has
eXerted a baneful inf 4ence on the
world and this theory, he said, was
largely responsible for the creation of
an almost impossible gulf between the
leisure classes and those who support
them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12
Deadly Slaughter Is Less FrfpbffuI
than in Previous Years, but SIS
Are Dead and 2,-S9 Hurt-Record
of ssPatriotism.'

The immediate Fourth of July death
roll is smaller this year than that of a
year ago, but unfortunately the thirty
eight slain by fireworks will be but an
infnitesimal part of those who will
lose their lives because of the orgy of
power and noise. Last year forty-twO
persons were killed outright, but when
lockjaw and other diseases induced by
injuries had completed their work over
400 lives had been sacrificed to patriotic
idiocy.
The number of injured, 7S9-fs in
agencies by which these injuries were
inflicted, as compared with last years
record, are as follows:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12
ONE DEAD, NINE HURT IN RIOT.
Mine Guards in Ohio Drink Liquor
and Sfnrf Gam Battle.

One mai is dead, two were fatally in
jured and seven were seriously wounded
in a mine lot at Bradley, Ohio. AT noon
the other day twenty guards employed at
Plum RIM marched into Bradley and en-
gagged in blinking at one Of the company
houses. subsequently five of them came
out and fred their guns in the air. The
guard stationed across the ravine imag-
ined that miners were attacking the
guards and fired upon the strikers, where
upon, as a matter of defense, the strikers
retaliated. Firing continued for nearly
three hours. All but two houses in the
settlement were struck with bullets from
the guards Winchesters and the only
store not controlled by the coal company
was almost shot to pieces. The wives
and children of the strikers fed from their
homes to the cellar and the unarmed min
ers took refuge behind the building. The
guards then crossed the ravine and at
tackled the strikers, with fearful results.
Farmers near Bradley appealed TO Sher-
if Voorhees, for protection against the
guards, declaring that their stock IS shot
down and other depredations committed
by the non-residents. The situation IS
worse than at any time since the strike
was inaugUrated
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12

Ex-Head of Animal Bureau viii
Work for Southern Republic.


DR.. D. E. Salmon, former chief OF the
bureau Of animal industry, has been ad-
vised by the Uruguayan government Of
the acceptance of his offer to organize
a bureau of animal industry for that gov
eminent at salary of $4,000 annually in
gold and all of his living expenses. DIR.
Salmon was rendered this position nearly
a year ago, but the Uruguayan govern
ment wanted to pay only $4,000 year
and the contract just closed had been in
progress ever since. He will start for
South America about Dec. / next. He
IS now engaged in scientific work in Mon
tana in connection with suits brought by
cattle men of that State against the smelt-
ing trust. The suits are for damages on
account of injury to crops and cattle by
reason of arsenic rising from the smelt-
ers and falling on the crops. When cattle
eat food thus poisoned they sicken and
thousands have died. DR.. Salmon is max
ing post-mortem examinations of the af-
fected animals and will be an expert wit
ness in the litigation. One of the first
things DR. Salmon will do in Uruguay
will be to draft a number of United States
cattle experts as assistants.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12

Henry Ford, head of one of the lead
ing automobile firms, predicts that free
alcohol will work a revelation in our in
dustrial situation. He says that an alco-
hOl motor tractor will soon be perfected
so as TO be used for all manner of farm
work. 1t viii have speed of six miles
an hour, with forty initial horse power.
While alcohol may be made fnm every
vegetable and grain, the original product
retains its market or food value after the
alcohol has been extracted. He predicts
that every farmers silo will become an
alcohol distillery by the simple addition
tents.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12
Curved Spines and Eyestrain

During the discussion on headaches,
DR.. George NJ Gould of Philadelphia air
ed his theory that nine-tenths of all head
aches are attributable TO eye strain. Be
sides this, he thought that eye strain caus-
ed many gastric disturbances and asserted
that about 100000 persons in this
country, or one-ffth of the population,
are suffering from lateral curvature of
the spine, due to the same cause. The
obvious and only remedy, in his opinion,
is a properly fitted pair of glasses.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12
Big Crowd Sees a Suicide.

Corporal I. Redder of the Thirteenth
cavalry, stationed at Fort Riley, commit
ted suicide in Junction City, Kan. With
a party of soldiers he came to town to
hear the band concert. During the last
selection he excused himself from his
comrades, walked up near the band stand
in front of the large crowd and blew out
his brains.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12
Parental influence Ridicu1ed.

During the final session of the Ameri
can Medical Association at Boston. DR.
Edwin T. Shelley of Atchison. Kan.
speaking of diseases of children, said that
the popular belief that any unusual ex-
perience of woman shortly before child
birth, is reflected in the offspring. is
simply superstition, and that thousands
of women endure all kinds of frights and
bear normal children.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
WESTERN LEAGUE,
JAIL LIFE arENACEs MAYOR.
Kansas city, Kan, Executive Is
Fined 1000 for Contempt.

Kansas city, Kan, Executive is
Fined $1,000 for Contempt.
The Kansas State Supreme Court has
handed down a decision holding Mayor w.
w Rose of Kansas City, Kan, in con-
tempt for having assumed the office of
Mayor after the court had ousted him
for the non-enforcement of the prohibition
law and the law against gambling. In
the order Mayor Rose is ordered to re-
linquish the Office and is fined 1000 for
contempt The court further orders. if
Mayor Rose fails to pay the fine within
twenty days, he Shall be committed TO
Jail until such time as it is paid Mayor
Roses attorneys Immediately filed a writ
of error. If this is not granted the case
will he appealed to the United States
Supreme Court. After being ousted last
January Rose was reelected at a special
election.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12
NOTED CHURCH RAZED BY FIRE.
Great Tower of st. Michael, Ham
burg, FalIs-Four Men Killed.

The great church of st. Michael. at
Hamburg, with its tower and spire 426
feet high. was destroyed by fire Tuesday.
The tower in falling crushed several
neighborins houses and they caught fire.
Four wOrkmen who were repairing the
church We're killed. Later the fire spread
and rows of buildings on Englischeplank
Boemische and Kraienkampf streets were
burned
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12
Row Eighty Miles To Land.

The Boston schooner Mary Powers,
Captain O'Neill, foundered off the Grand
Banks and the members of the crew man
aged to reach st. Johns, n. F., in dories.
They had rowed eighty miles to land
bringing as many of their effects as
it was possible to save. The small boats
narrowly escaped being swamped several
times
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12
presiaent Chooses canal Rnard.

Because of the failure of the Senate to
confirm the iSthmian canal commission
President Roosevelt has named a new
board, consisting of Theodore P. Shonts,
chairman; John F. Stevens, Gov. Charles
E. Magoon, Brig. Gen. Peter c. Haines,
q. s. \. (retired; Mordecai Endicott,
civil engineer, U. S. N; Benjamin NJ.
Harrod.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12
Packing Products Wholesome.

After two weeks exhaustive investiga-
ton of the packing plants and stock
yards the committee of experts represent
ing the Chicago Commercial Association
and the Illinois Manufacturers Associa-
ton have made public their report, and
declare the product of the packing plants
is wholesome, the yards generally clean
and the inspection efficient.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12
Salvador and Guatemala out.

Duncan Bankhart, consul general of
Salvador in the City of Mexico, says that
all relations between Salvador and Guate-
mala have ceased. He says Sslvadoreans
are to a man in favor of the Guatemalan
revolution. The trouble results from the
military attache of Salvador at Guatemala
City being insulted and put out of Presi-
dent Cabrera's house
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12
GIVEN 1850 DAYS, $3.50 FINE.
Oregon Land CRATER Gets Extreme
Sentence in Federal Court

Henry Medium. former United States
surveyor general for the district of Ore
ron, was sentenced to pay a fine of So
go and to serve 1850 days in the federal
penitentiary at McSeil's Island, Wash,
for conspiracy 10 defraud the government
in connection with land deals in Oregon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12
Priest Forhids Peek-a-Rno Waist.

Women who wear short sleeved, low
necked. or openwork waists will not be
permitted at the communion rail of st.
Ignatius Catholic church at Kingston.
Pa. according TO the directions of the
Rev. NJ. +. Lynott, pastor of the church,
who has told the women of his consre-
CATION that he thinks such waists are
immodeSt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12
BRYAN FOR OPPRESSED.
Outlines Duty of Nations I'm Londol

Outlines Duty of Nations in London
Address.
William Jennings Bryan, fresh from
his tour of the Orient, was the orator
at the Independence day dinner of the
American society at the Hotel Cecil in
London and expressed his conviction
that on the United States and England
devolves the mission of diffusing edu-
cation and political freedom throughout
the benighted lands. He took Kipling's
poem, The White Mans Burden" as
his text and declared that now, as new
er before. the Christian nations are
working to spread civilization and up
lift others, rather than to exploit their
weaker brethren.
Nearly 500 members and guests sur
rounded the society's board and cheered
patriotic sentiments with the peculiar
zest born of exile. Ambassador White
law Reid and Mr.. Bryan engaged in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12

David I. Clough, aged 90, of Cleve-
land. an uncle OF j. G. Gilchrist of the
Gilchrist Transportation Company. COM
mitted suicide by hanging on the Gilchrist
steamer Ireland. The body was found in
stateroom on the steamers arrival in
Milwaukee.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12

ton law. In Chi
cago, where he viii
go first, he has
plans made to con-
vene the managers
of packing plants.
heads of concerns
and their immediate
executive Subordi-
mates and give them
n lecture on living
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12
ENDS LIFE WITH DYNAMITE.

Aged Man Places Explosive on
Chest and Then Lights Ease.
After lighting a fuse twenty feet long
Ebert Olson of Roubaix, S. D., lay down
on the ground placed five sticks of giant
powder on his chest, attached the other
end of the fuse to the powder and waited
for the end. He had driven all the mem
bers of his sons family, with whom he
lived, from the house before attempting
suicide. His body was horribly mangled.
He was &c years old.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12
The Earth a SeIf-Heater

Prof. Charles Thwing announces, as a
result of his researches at the Western
Reserve university, that the common met
ais and rocks of which the earth is con-
stituted have the internal temperature
due to radio-activity. He estimates that
the heat thus constantly generated will
maintain the earth at its present tempera-
ture for many millions of years. and he
concludes that at least a part of the suns
heat is due to the same principle within
itself.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12
Conservation Sees Two Drown.

John and Sophia Lasmewiski, brother
and sister. 20 and IS years old, respec-
lively, were drowned at Allegheny, Pa,
while attending a church picnic. Fully
800 members of the congregation saw the
young folks go to their death through the
overturning of a skiff in which they had
been riding with some companions on the
lake
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12
.JniI for Rich Scnrcher.

Automobile scorching in Minneapolis is
to be broken up by sending reckless dry
ers to the workhouse. John H Queal,
Jr., son of a millionaire and one of the
most prominent citizens of Minneapolis,
and his chauffeur, George z. Heaton,
were sentenced by Judge c. L. Smith in
the Municipal Court to serve five days
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12
Poisoned by Pressed Chicken.

Thirty-two persons who ate pressed
chicken sandwiches at the Ladies' Aid So
ciety picnic at Jerome, Ohio, were saved
by doctors from Marysville and Jerome,
who WORKED over them for several hours
with stomach pumps. The chicken was
allowed to stand for two days in tin re-
ceptacles before it was eaten.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12
| New York.

nation history mus Idrr
and optimism is so general throughout
the commercial world that the next
twelvemonth period promises to carry
the high water mark still higher. With
few exceptions the crops are making
good progress, and the new year will
| start with more business on the books
of manufacturing concerns and greater
enterprises and undertakings in con-
temptation than on any previous July l.
Trade reports for the week indicate Il
seasonable disposition to curtail whole
sale business, but even this summer in
tiuence is less dsquieting than usual
Railway earnings in three weeks of June
were 1913 per cent larger than in 1905,
and disbursements for interest and divi-
dends at this center next month are es~
timated at $1G0,000,000, which is about
S20,000,000 larger than year ago.
Failures this week were POI in the
United States, against 249 last year,
and 27 in Canada, compared with 16 "a
year ago.-Dun's Review of Trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12

By the premature explosion of guam
tity of fireworks in Excelsior. Mimi,
Louis A. Dix and E. ID. Thompson were
injured, and in the panic among the 5000
people gathered to witness the display at
the Casino, Teddy Montgomery, II years
old. was trampled upon and badly hurt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12
LOSE TO WIRE TAPPERs.
Race Results Are Changed and
Whole Country SwtndIed.

A gang of wire tappers cut in ON the
Windsor (Ont.) race track wire Thurs
day and intercepted and changed the re-
suit of the second race. Confederates in
Cincinnati, Chicago. Louisville and other
cities all over the country won large sums
of money on the horse sent over the wires
as the winner of the race. An attempt
to make another haul on the third race
was frustrated by the operator at the
race track who discovered that some one
had tempered with the wire.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12

ohiGdgU commerce in very sound
------ position and the outlook
becoming more encouraging. Figures
Indicate that the total movement Of
grain for the crop year just ended has
been shared in by this city TO an I'M
precedented extent, the gain over the
previous year being fully 10 per cent
Comparisons in other lines are similar
~ satisfactory, and those of bank clear
hgs exhibit Il growth for the six
months of 50 per cent, the total being
III excess of $5,439, 10000, against 3d.
w ,030,9S for the corresponding months
of 1905.
This weeks developments indicate no
material change in the volume of new
demands and production. Warmer
weather has not interrupted operations.
Retail trade has benefited from the
not wave, and reflects steady advance
III sales of seasonable lines The job
Olng branches report increasing orders
lof tall delivery, bookings being active
IN the textiles, footwear, hardware and
food products. Country stocks of mer-
chandise are reported under rapid de-
| pletion.
The total quantity of grain handled
at this port was 7,030,T9S bushels,
against S,650,419 bushels last week.
Lumber receipts, 45.72000O feet, COM
pared with 561S2,00O feet last week.
Hides received were 2,09O,201 pounds.
against 200S,S53 pounds last week. Live
stock receipts, 301 ,067 head, compared
with 307,994 head last week and 2J2,-
064 head a year ago.
Bank clearings, 500, 050,021, exceed
those of corresponding week in 1905 by
10.2 per cent
Failures reported in Chicago district
number 10, against p last week and
81 year ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12

Cablegrams received in New Orleans
reported the destruction of Sagua la
Grande town Of about 1900 inhabit-
ants in Santa Clara province, Cuba. One
message said the town had been flooded
and the other that it had been wiped out
nv
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-12

Mrs. Martha Smith, wife of Oliver
Smith, recently sentenced by the District
Court of Shawnee county, Kansas, to be
hanged, has brought suit against the
Schlitz and Blatz brewing companies and
retail liquor dealers for $4,000 damages,
charging them with being responsible for
ner husbands crime.