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

Frances Under Secretary of State Sar-
raut fell dangerously wounded, with blood
gushing from deep sword thrust, in one
of Che mos: sensational duels in the his
tory Of that country Of duels. NJ. Pug
liesi Cont, a republican member of the
Chamber Of Deputies was Sarraut's OPP
ponent The cause of the encounter came
earlier in the day when NJ. Pugliesi-Conti,
assaiIing the government officials as
"scoundrels" for their action in the Drey-
fus case, was set upon by Sarraut and
punmo!ed to he floor Of the legislative
hall. The session of the deputies broke
up in pandemonium. Members met in the
center Of the House, fighting like demons
and raining blows to right and to left
with apparent indiscrimination. Men
distinguished in French craftsmanship
fought like a crowd of school boys. Pug
liesi-Conti and Sarraut withdrew from
the tumult and quickly dispatched seconds
to arrange a duel of honor. The scene
when the men faced each other was one
which viii long be remembered. 1t was
a yeritable combat between the govern
ment and the opposition. The prelimina-
ries arranged, the antagonists sprang to-
gether savagely The spectators were
flushed to silence. scarcely breathing as
the muscular little under secretary par
ried and thrust and thrust again, seeming
ly having a slight advantage over his
heavier opponent. But the duel was
quickly over, for suddenly NJ. Sarraut
left an opening and Pugliesi-Conti's blade
sprang in, inficting a dangerous wound.
Sarraut dropped his sword and fell back
into the arms of his seconds. 1t was re-
ported that his chance of recovery was
good.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
SLEEPING MEN SLAIN.
DiA9OLiCAL DYNAMITE PLOT
KILLS THREE.
stone Quarry SEanty Occupied by
30 Sleeping Italians Blown Up by
Observation-Disclosures Lay Outrage
TO SenGetta-News in Brief.

Three men We're instantly killed and
score of others were injured, several of
whom are expected TO die, shortly after
l a. m. Friday, when a shanty at the
CLoughlin Bros stone quarry, near Bell
wood, Ill, just west of Chicago, was
blown up by dynamite. The explosion
was the result of a deliberate attempt TO
Kill the occupants of the shed, laborers
employed in the quarry, according to en-
ployes. The dynamite store room, nearly
one mile away from the shed, was broken
into during the night and a large guam
tity of dynamite taken. This was carried
to the she'd where it was exploded. The
defamation shook buildings in the vicinity,
and when persons living nearby hurried
to the place they found the shed blown to
pieces and the body of one of the men
hanging in tree. 1t is believed that the
dynamiting of the shanty was the result
OF vendetta, the thirty men who were
sleeping in the building being all Italians.
The dynamite exploded with a tremendous
roar and the people of Bellwood rushed
from their homes in panic and the farm
ers for miles around as well as the resi-
dents of neighboring communities were
reused and made haste to hitch up and
go to the scene of the outrage. They all
had been used to the noise of the blasting,
but not in the middle of the night.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
oVERRUN BY BURGLARS.
Guaranty Company Gives Up New
York Business

Because of the rapidly increasing num-
Der OF burglars, sneak thieves and pick
pockets of a new class in New York, the
United States Fidelity and Guaranty
Company has abandoned its burglar in
surance business and will notify its pat
rons that upon the expiration of present
policies they will not be renewed, and
that no more insurance of this sort will
be written in New York City. All told
the premiums paid on burglar insurance
business in New York now amount to con-
slderably more than 100000 annually,
and 1t IS asserted by officers of various
companies that it is a losing undertaking.
1t is expected that several other concerns
may soon follow the course of the Fidel
lty and discontinue the burglary branch
OF insurance altogether. In making this
announcement officers of the Fidelity COM
pany said they would abandon burglar in
surance only in New York City. In 9TH
er cities they will continue writing poll
cies the same as before, because it is only
IN New York that the business of house
breaking and stealing has been developed
to point where losses are almost sure
to overbalance the premiums.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
The Cure of Graft.

w. j. Client, the well-knoT Socialist
writer, presents, in the Independent, the
view of his party on this ever-present
question of graft. He says that the thick
and-thin defenders of the existing regime
are protesting against further mention of
this subject for fear that it will destroy
confidence in our institutions and leaders
and will shake the foundations of the re-
public. This silly optimism" he regards
as a reasoned form of the instinct of the
ostrich, and declares it will give no i'm
munity from harm. Public graft, he
thinks, is but the outcome of private graft
and the latter reveals itself in food adul-
teratiOn, the sophistication of all classes
of commodities and in various financial
manipulations. He does not say that all
men graft, but does assert that some men
in all classes of competitive occupations
do graft. Under these circumstances, the
exhortation to be good is of itself a bar
rem counsel of perfection given by those
who earn their living by uttering it." Alb
stractly, man may wish that all indj-
rection or deception might be abolished
by common consent, but in the needs of
his daily life he justifes the particular
graft which he is the beneficiary. By
this process of reasoning he reaches the
Socialist conclusion that grating can be
eliminated by merging the competing in
terests of mankind in common interest
and by producing commodities, not for
sale, but for use without profit.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
CHICAGO A HEALTHFUL TOWN.

Governments Mortality Figures on
Six Largest Cities.
Now comes the United States govern
ment and backs up Chicago il her
proud boast of being the healthiest city
in the country, and therefore, by infer
ence, in the world. The Chicago health
department, in its weekly bulletin, tells
of having received the special reports
of the federal census department These
reports are the mortality statistics for
1900-1904 inclusive, and their authority
is the highest obtainable.
The six most important cities in this
country-those with populations of
100000 or more-are dealt with in I'm
Gle Sans figures. The Chicago health
officials make this condensation of the
report:
'Chicago's annual death rate is more
than one-fifth (235 per cent? lower
than the average death rate of the
other five cities-the Chicago rate be-
Ing 14.61, and the average rate of the
other cities being 1911 per thousand
of the average population of the peri
cd.
1.-THE st. Louis rate (1S05) is 23.5
per cent higher than the Chicago rate.
The Philadelphia rae (1S.S2) is 2S.S
per cent higher. The Boston rate
1883 is 29.6 per cent higher The
New York rate (1964 is 34.4 per cent
higher. And the Baltimore rate (20O9)
is 3I.5 per cent higher than the Chicago
rate'
AS to the Chicago "pace," the bulletin
says:
Life is certainly strenuous enough
in Chicago. But the figures show that
the average Chicagoans can stand siren
uosity II per cent better than the New
Yorker, 20 per cent better than the Bos-
tonian, nearly % per cent better than
the st. Louisian, one-third better than
the Philadelphia aid nearly 40 per
cent better than the Baltimorean''
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
WINNING THEIR WAY.
Nearly 1000 WaGe-Earning Stu
dents in Minnesota University.

Nearly 1000 Wase-Earning Stu
dents in Minnesota University.
OF 1000 men in the University of Min
nesota, at Minneapolis, nearly one half
are helping themselves through college by
working in spare hours. This is the opin-
ion of university authorities who have
made a study of the situation and it
means that there are more men in the
University of Minnesota working their
way through college than in any other
institution of the kind in the country.
No exact estimate of the amount of
money earned by university students dur
ing the college year can be made, but that
the sum is a large one is shown by the
fact that more than $4,000 has been earn
ed this year by men who have secured
employment through the university Y NJ
c. A. They are waiting on tables, work
ing in Offices, singing in churches, reading
gas meters, clerking in hotels and acting
as janitors for buildings in the vicinity
of the campus, and they are filled with
one idea-tbat of getting a university ed
ucation.
Fifty students of the university are
acting as assistants in laboratories and
departments, and the university pay roll
Cor this year will show that nearly S1O,-
600 has been paid by the State to stu
dents. In the search for work there has
been no disposition to let pride interfere
with employment. Ten university stu
dents are washing dishes in east side res
taurants, four are acting as coachmen
for downtown families, more than 100 are
waiting on tables in boarding houses and
restaurants, and these men are among the
most popular in the university The pres
.dent of one of the academic classes last
year worked rs coachman throughout
mis- term of Office. Two academic students
are BARRIERS, and they work in shops near
the campus under an arrangement to
leave during class time.
Carrying paper routes is a favorite
mode of employment for the collegians.
and at one time one man had a syndicate
of three routes, from which he realized
more than $40 a month. Clerking in
stores is also popular with the students
and university men are employed in prac-
tically all the stores in the university
section. Tending furnace during the win
ter is the means whereby many students
earn the wherewithal to continue their
studies.
If a man has a trade when he comes
to the university he finds little trouble
in finding employment. Proprietors of
printing shops in the vicinity of the cam
pus are always on the lookout for student
printers, while the same thing applies TO
the other trades.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19

MAYOR sCHMITZ. who will receive a
salary of $1,000 year. DR.. Devine, of
the Red Cross, will select one, Mayor
SchmitZ the other and the third will
be selected by the Finance Committee,
and will be a man familiar with the
commercial, industrial and business in
terests of the city.
The great concern of the San Fran
cisco authorities just now is how to
care for the refugees now encamped in
the parks, when the bluStery winter
weather comes on, and how to provide
houses for the thousands of workmen
who will come to San Francisco as soon
as building operations are well under
way. There are 25.500 people living in
tents at the present time, for whom
concern about the winter is imperative.
Assuming that $4,000 persons have left
San Francisco permanently, that 100,-
600 will double up in the residence sec
ton that escaped the flames, and that
$4,000 will be provided for by private
enterprise, about $4,000 remain out of
the 225,000 rendered homeless by the
ire to be cared for. 1t means virtually
the building of Il good-Sized city within
Il few weeks if these unfortunates are
to be properly housed.
Capt. w. w. Harris, United States
engineer, has prepared plans for tenn
porary houses to be placed in the parks
and public squares. These will be two
and four-room cottages, and the de-
signs afford better hygienic conditions
than the ordinary city tenement. The
Red Cross Society has plan to use its
surplus in building temporary homes
for all who cannot find houses already
built 1t is proposed to rent these
houses at rates varying from 81 to Sc
per month. To the destitute no rent
will be charged. The Red Cross will
also extend the helping hand to work
ing men who own land and wish to
erect permanent homes and will lend
them money at a low rate of interest
Portable houses that can be put to-
gether while you wait" are also to be
had in emergencies. Barracks will be
built if the influx of working men bur
rying to the city for the good wages
that await them is realized.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
CANAL LABOR ZIG PROBLEM.
Secretary Taft Discusses Panama
Affairs Before Ohio Lawyers.


fairs Before Ohio Lawyers.
Secretary of War Taft in his speech be-
for the State Bar Association at Putin
Bay, after expressing his pleasure in
again appearing before an Ohio aud ance
and apologizing for not having selected d
legal subject, began his address upon the
Panama canal by giving reasons for the
selection by the government of the Pan
anna route and explaining the apparent
delay in the actual work of excavation.
The necessity of improved sanitary con
ditions being established before the ac-
tual work of construction was actively
commenced was strongly emphasized and
1t was shown that the nearly 25,000 en-
ployes had in reality accomplished more
than any one realized in the building and
equipment Of railroads, the construction
OF a water supply and building of thou
sands Of homes for those engaged ia the
work 1t was pointed out that the actual
excavation was much less of a problem
than what to do. with the material
when 1t was taken out, much of which
had to be carried fifteen miles, requiring
the building of over 300 miles of spur
tracks. The question of obtaining suffi-
Gent labor was shown to be a serious one
and 1t mad been necessary TO employ large
numbers Of natives and Cinnamon, three
OF whom would do less than an average
American workman. The estimated cost
OF the Panama route was placed at $780,
100000 and the time of completion about
seven years, as against a cost of $780,
100000 and seventeen years for the COM
pletion OF the work had the Nicaragua
route been chosen. The speaker said that
the American people We're disposed to be
IN too big hurry to .'have the dirt fly"
and that it had been necessary for those
in charge to Withstand a great deal of po-
Htlcal stress while carrying out the pre-
iminary work
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
HIGH TIDE IN CROPS.
GREAT RICHES FOR THE AMERI
CAN FARMER.
Grains This Year Bid Fair 10 FcIipse
Record-Total Yield of billions
Wheat of Best QuaIity-Corn Pros
poets Brilliant.
Bushels.

Indications that American farmers
TINS year will harvest the largest grain
crops in the history Of the country are
given in the government report on
condition as of July /, and nothing
now seems in the way of unprecedent-
ed prosperity throughout the farming
regions.
Not only is the prospect for a boun-
tiful harvest most bright, but market
quotations show that the farmer will
get a fair price for his grain, While
reports from Europe are that the
wheat crop will be 15O,OOO,0OO bushels
short of that of 1905, Indicating that
the export demand will be large. and
that America will have to fill good
share of it.
1t was thought when last years
bountiful crops were harvested that
the high-water mark for production
In the United States had been reach
ed. The percentage estimates of con-
dition of the Department of Agricul-
ture this year, however, indicate that
even that record will be surpassed in
spite of the fact that the oats crop
bids fair to fall short by S0,OOO.0OO
bushels.
Crops Up in Billions.
The total crop of all grains this
year promises to be 1921 Az. 600 bush
els, using the July 1 condition as a
basis of calculations. This is about
100000 bushels above the Indication
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
LEPER WOULD LIVE.
millionaire Having Disease seeks
to PrOIong Living Death.

travelling in a special train because his
disease prohibits him from procuring ac-
commodations with other passengers, ].
NJ. Bringas, a millionaire of Guayamas,
Mexico, passed through Ell Paso, Texas,
the other day on his way to Europe, seek
ing relief from leprosy, the disease that
is eating away his life. He is dying
gradually and knows it. To prolong his
living death as long as he can he is now
seeking the European specialists, those
OF his own country having failed. To
get to Vera Cruz, where he will take a
European steamer, he had to pass through
Arizona and New Mexico, re-entering his
own country at Ell Paso, and he had to
make special arrangements with the ma
rine hospital service representatives, one
of whom travelled on his train and guard
ed him as he passed through the United
States. Senior Bringas' family is with
him. He wears rubber gloves to handle
things about the car, and none of his
family can touch him, or anything he uses,
unless he wears these gloves.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
RoJESTvENskY is FREE.
Russian Admiral Acquitted by Court
Martial for Surren tering to Japs.


Martial for Surren Iering to Jams.
Admiral Rojestvensky, whose trial on
the charge of surrendering to the enc
my sfter the battle of the Sea of japan
was held before court-martial at
Kronstadt, Russia, was acquitted after
the court had deliberated for nearly ten
hours.
Four officers of the torpedo boat de-
stroyer Bedovi, who were placed on
trial with the Admiral. were found
guilty Of having premeditatively sur
rendered the Bedovi and all four were
condemned to death by shooting.
But, on account of extenuating cir
cumstHnces, the Emperor will be re-
quested to commute the sentences of
the four officers to dismissal from the
service and to be deprived of certain
rights which they would otherwise en-
joy.
The battle of the Sea of Japan. which
decided the Russo-Japanese war. was
fought May % and %, 1895. on Tsu
Island, in the eastern channel of Korea
strait. Russia's feet was commanded
by Admiral Rojestyensky and Japan's
by Admiral Togo.
At the beginning of the fight Togo
signaled to his ships: "The destiny of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19

our empire depends on this action.
You are all expected to do your ut
most"
Rojestvensky's faulty disposition of
his ships in double line, with his cruiS
ers between his battleships and the
enemy, was a disastrous error. The
Russians, seeing they would be beaten,
tried to escape. The fight and pursuit
lasted all of the afternoon of May q
and all day May %. 1t resulted in the
humiliation of the Russian sea force.
Three vessels of the line-the Aurora,
OleG and Zemchug-under Admiral En-
quist-escaped and reached Manila.
All the others were destroyed or cap
tured, except two crippled vessels that
reached VladivoStok.
Russia's losses in men were 1900
killed and 1000 prisoners. Japan's
losses in ships were three torpedo boats
and in men the total casualties were
about 1000. That ended Russias hopes
of victory and a few weeks later the
negotiations were opened which result
ed in the treaty Of Portsmouth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
TE5 llAE'[3;21%E7S
'R1 gdC~

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime
$500 to $500; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to S6.92; sheep, fair to choice, $500 to-
5000; wheat, No. =, 7Sc to 79c; corn,
No. ,, 51c to 52c: oats, standard, &c to-
3Sc; rye, No. =, Gle to Gle; hay, timo-
thy, $3.50 to $1,000; prairie, $500 to-
$500; butter choice creamery, Ice to
19c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 1Sc; potatoes,
new, zoe to 7Sc.
indianapolis shipping. $500
to $3.50: hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to.
$500; sheep, common to prime. $3.50 to,
$3.50 wheat, No. 2, 74c to re; corn,
No. 2 white, sic to j3c; oats, No. 2,
white. CSC to 39c.
st. Louis-Cattle. $40 to 5000;
hogs, 500 to $500; sheep, 800 to-
5000: wheat, No. 2, 74c to 75c; corn,
No. 2, Bic to 53c, oats. No. 2, 36c to-
Csc rye, No. 2, 63c to 64c.
Cincinnati-Cattle, 800 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to $685.: sheep, $500 to-
S4.G0: wheat, No. =. 75c to TIC: corn,
No. 2 mixed, 54c to 55c6 oats, No. 2;
mixed, 39c to 4Oc; rye, 10 2, 63c to.
64c.
Detroit-Cattle, 500 TO $3.50; hogs,
$500 to 800; sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. 2, 79c to soc; corn, No. 3:
yellow, 54c to SIC: oats No white,
40c to 41c; rye. No. q 65c to Gee
MiIwaukee-Wheat. No. northern,
Sic to S3c; corn, No. 3, ole to 53c;.
oats, standard, $50 to 39c: rye, No /,
G2c to G3c; barley, standard, sc to 54c;.
pork. mess. $3.50.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 76c to-
7Sc; corn. No. 2 mixed, :j2c to 54c;-
oats, No. 2 mixed, 39c to Ale; rye. No.
9, 59c to 60c; clover seed prime, $500.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers.
500 to $500; hogs, fair TO choice, $500
to $6.95; sheep, common 10 good mixed.
$500 to $5.75; lambs, fair to choice.
$500 to $3.50.
New York-Cattle, S4.OO TO $685..
hogs, $500 TO 1925; sheep. $500 to,
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, S2c to SIC:
corn, No. 2, 5Sc to 59c; oats. natural
white, 42c to 44c; butter, creamery, tic.
to zoe; eggs, western, 14c to lie.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
POSTAL RECEIPTS GAIN.
Aggregate Increased, but Washing
toms shows Retrogression.

Notwithstanding Congress was in ses-
sion during the entire month of June this
year and was not in session at all last
June, the monthly statement of postal
receipts shows a falling off for the CAPT
tai city of about 213 per cent, the receipts
for the month in 1906 being $S4, 553 as
compared with $S6,64S in 1905. There
was decrease of over 81 per cent in San
Francisco, which was due to the fire and
earthquake, the receipts for June. 1906,
being S100,S2S as compared with S147,-
800 for June last year. The statement
covers the five largest cities in the United
States and shows total collection for
June of $6,421, 31S, net gain of S15 per
cent
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19

at this time last year, but 211 100000
below the final figures. The weather
ia all the great grain-producing States,
however, since July 1 has been all
poets are that the final figures will be
as much, if not more, above the July
promise this year as they were last.
The fields upon which these inn
mense crops are growing, or from
which they already have been harvest
ed in some instances, aggregate more
than 100000 acres. The follow
ing table shows the number of acres
devoted to each grain, with compari-
sons with last year.