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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
BOLT KILLS TWO AT FUNERAL.
strange Fatalities Attend Burial of
Woman in Cleveland.

Lightning struck down two men during
the funeral of a woman in Cleveland
While the minister was offering the final
prayer and just as he had uttered the
words, From lightning and tempest, and
from sudden death, o Lord, deliver u.s."
a bolt struck John Cylisky, driver of a
carriage in the funeral cortege, killing
him instantly, and also killing his horse.
a wild panic ensued among both the
mourners and the drivers. Order even
tually was restored and the procession
proceeded in the binding rain to the Gem
etery. After it had gone about half a
mile, and was nearing the gate of the
graveyard, a second bolt stunned Frank
Mum, another driver, and hurled him
senseless benea tn the feet of his horses.
The frightened animals trampled out what
life the lightning had left,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
COREYS DRIFT LEGALLY APART.

Wife OF Steel Magnate Gets Divorce
and Sons Custody.
Mrs. Corey, wife of William E. Corey
president of the United States Steel Cor.
poration, was granted a divorce in Reno
New, the other day on the ground of de.
sertion and was given the custody of then
16-year-oid son, Allan Corey No con.
test was made, although the defendant
was represented by counsel. A feature OF
the trial of the suit was the appearance
of Miss Addie Corey, sister of the defend
ant, who testified that wealthy New York
ers of a certain type We're unfit to have
the custody Of children and that her
brother was not a proper person to have
the custody of his son. Such being the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Crime as an Inheritance.

The plan of having the state take
charge of the children of defective par
ents, or logical elimination of such off
spring, is advocated by DIR. G. Frank
Lydston of the Chicago college of ply
sicians and surgeons. He takes the ground
that the children primarily have no NOR
al sense that they are little animals.
That any couple may get a marriage Ii
cense, without regard 10 mental or ply
steal condition, is, to his mind, the cause
OF our criminal tendencies. He proposes
that if the child of such a union becomes
a criminal or a degenerate, that society,
instead of Furnishing him or imprisoning
him, in the spirit of hate or revenge,
should undertake Systematically to edu-
cate and reform.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09

Negro Confesses to a Triple Murder
Near Canonsburg, Pa.

Coroner w. H. Sipe and Constable
John j. Miller of Canonsburg, Pa, drove
INTO town at 80 o'clock Monday with
Elmer Dempster, a 19-year-old negro, who
had been arrested for the murder of Mrs.
Samuel Pearce and two children and the
shooting of a third child. Dempster was
taken to the Washington County Jail at
Washington, Pa. While no blood stains
were found on the prisoner suspicion first
rested on him when it was learned that
he was the last person seen about the
house before the tragedy. Dempster was
a helper on the Pearce farm and after the
departure of Samuel Pearce with his sis
ter, Miss Fanny Pearce, for the Canons-
burg railroad station, Dempster is said
to have been at the scene of the tragedy
looking after the stock. He was taken
from his bed at 2 o'clock in the morning
and put through a course of sweating
which lasted until daylight, when, it is
alleged, he made complete confession.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
FRISCO CITY HALL UNSAFE.
Building Costing Seven Million Dol
lars Declared Dangerous

The San Francisco city hall, which
was ruined by earthquake and fire and
which cost 100000, was declared IN
safe at the meeting of the Board of
Public Works the other day, and notice
was served on the police department
that its station in the building must
find other quarters.
San Francisco's magnificent city hall,
first ruined by the earthquake, and then
its destruction completed by fire, was
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Divorce Ages Are 20 and 40.

Judge Willard McEwen of the Circuit
Court at Chicago, who has heard numer-
Gus divorce cases, says that the ages when
most divorces are sought are either 20 Or
10. In the course OF three weeks he
granted forty DEGREES, and of these only
two We're church marriages. Half of the
women and 20 per cent of the men were
church attendants. He thinks there should
be law To prevent the marriage of per-
sons twice divorced on the grounds that
they have proved their unftness. He
thinks that lack of companionsbip is by
far the greatest cause of divorce
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09

oI. Midsummer activity has
| UlllGdQU. reached proportions ex-
- ceeding all former expert
enee Pressure continues in the effort
to advance production, but capacity al
ready is being eXerted TO the limit in
most of the leading industries. The
iron and steel interests generally again
occupy an exceptionally strong basis,
prices being at the highest average this
year. Machinery, heavy hardware and
plumbing shops are well supplied with
forward work, while no diminution is
seen in the unprecedented absorption of
electrical, forge and planning mill prod
ucts. Building operations make sue
cessful Roadway, but Notwithstanding
the unusual amount completed the new
plans undertaken are greater than at
any time last year.
Underlying the confidence in the fu-
ture course of business are the magnif-
cent crop poSpects and the prosperous
agricultural interests. Raw materials
maintain their greatest strength in
prices and distribution.
Some increase is noted in the market
ing of cereals, especially wheat, but
holders are not evidently forced td sell
and stocks at interior points reflect no
severe reduction. The movement of
grain at this port, 7O3O.323 bushels,
compares with 6.672, 494 bushels last
week. Receipts increased All per cent
over the corresponding week of last
year. but owing to Il smaller Outgo of
corn the total shipments shrunk $50
per cent. Live stock receipts were 26S,-
666 head, against 297, $3.50 last week and
231351 head in 1905. Lumber receipts,
46,OS2,00 feet, compare with 52,47S,000
feet last week.
Bank clearings, 500, 193, 141. exceed
those of the corresponding week in 1905
by 15.5 per cent. Deposits have risen
and loanable funds are augmented, but
the discount rates for commercial
paper stand at 81 and 6 per cent.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number twenty four, against six
teen last week and eighteen a year ago.
-Dun's Review of Trade
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
NEW JAPANESE CHIEF OF STAFF
General Baron oku Has Made an
Excellent Record.

General Baron Oku, who has been ap-
pointed chief of the general staff OF the
japanese army, made a great military
record in the war against Russia 1t was
his second army that captured Kinchow
and Nanshan Hill, thus cutting off Port
Arthur; and subsequently he drove Sta
kelburg's army before him TO Liao-Yang,
defeating the Muscovites in a number of
fierce battles. Later he participated in
the Sha River fight and in the capture
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Constitution fer China

According to reports brought by the
steamer Empress of Japan, Prof. Hattori,
who has returned from Picking, says a
commission headed by Prince Su has un-
dertaken a translation of the constitu-
tions of the principal nations of the
world, with a view to compiling one for
China. The work is to be completed in
twelve years
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
John l.. TOOIe Is Dead

John Lawrence Toole, inc well-known
English comedian, is dead at his home in
Brighton, England. He started in life as
a wine merchants clerk at the age of 20
years. He was advised by Charles Dick
ems to adopt the stage as profession,
which he did, becoming the leading come
dian of his day in England.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Arizona to Fight Statehood.

The Republican and Democratic terri
torial committees met in Phoenix. Ariz.,
and combined by the appointment of a
joint committee against joint statehood.
This viii not interfere with the campaign
for delegates to Congress. The conven-
tons Of beth parties will be held at Bis
bee Sent. Z.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Risk Men s25.OoO.OoO Ahead.

1t is estimated that the insurance COM
panies will make a profit of S25.0OO00O
from the San Francisco policy holders in
salvage. Experts who covered the burned
area put the salvage total at SS,000,000,
yet the underwriters in discounting poll
cies have made the figures $33.000,000, or
a profit to themselves of S25000,00O.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Held for s1s2.72s Back T,xes

Back taxes to the amount of S1S2. 72S
must be paid by the Union Central Life
Insurance Company, if the Supreme
Court sustains the decision announced by
Judge Hofheimer of the Superior Court
in Cincinnati. The county treasurer sued
for between 100000 and 100000 in
hack faxes
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Plan New Electric Road

A syndicate of leading Cleveland bank
ers and traction men has been formed to
undertake the construction and equipment
of the Chicago, LAKE. Shore and South
Bend railway. They propose to have the
road completed and ready for operation
by Sept. l, 1908.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
AMERIcAN RESIGNATION.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
RUIN IN cL0UDBURsT's WAKE.
Hamburg, Pa. Inundated - OEe
Killed and Property Loss Big.

A terrific cloudburst struck the boz.
ough of Hamburg, Pa. y ten-foot flood
swept through the main portion of the
town, leaving in its wake ruin and dew :
tation. There are washouts in the
streets to the depth Of ten feet. AllC%
J. Romig. who was working in tin
smith shop, was drowned. The shop was
swept away. More than fifty dwellings
We're damaged. Many persons escaped
drowning by rushing to the upper floors
of their residences. The total loss will
amount to more than $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Dynamite in stove Wood.

4 stick of wood containing dynamite
caused an explosion in the home of Mrs.
Carl Ostman in Toledo. Ohio. and pieces
of the wrecked stove struck Mrs. Ostman
and her daughter, seriously injuring them.
The police believe the explosive was pur-
posely placed in the wood.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
L. $. Pays Samoan Debt.

The Samoan affair, which has been
dragging ever since 1899, has finally been
settled through the action of the United
States in paying its share of the $4,000
compensation awarded sufferers in the
Samoan disturbances of 1899. England
and Germany paid their money several
months ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Michigan Democratic Convention

Michigan Democrats. in convention
Thursday in Detroit, endorsed Bryan for
President in 1908, tabled a resolution to
investigate Chairman Taggart. and nomi-
mated a full State ticket, headed by
Charles III. Kimmerle of Cassopolis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09

Great Cracks Extend Throughout
Warrior Run and Houses Topple.

"afrlor KUN and Houses Iopple.
The town OF Warrior Run, near Wilkes
barre, Pa, was badly damaged by cave
in in the Warrior Run mine One man
and young woman were killed and three
houses burned. There is great fear that
the cayein may extend and do further
damage. A large portion of the colliery IS
affected. The workings are so near the
surface that in numerous places large
cracks appeared. These cut up the streets
Of the town, shattered the foundations of
houses, broke water mains and caused
considerable damage. X volume of gas
was released in the mine by the cavein.
John Shoemaker was killed by the ex-
plosion which came when it was ignited
by his lamp. On the surface Elizabeth
Williams went into her cellar to see what
damage was done. Gas from the mine
filled the cellar and she was killed by the
explosion. Her house was burned down
and two other houses were badly damaged
by the fire.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09

Judge Olmstead Of New York rules that
women have a right to work in factories
at night if they want to, holding that the
need of earning a living is more pressing
than that of insuring better health to flu
ture generations, especially as society
women ARE not forbidden to keep late
haurS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Novel Neckwear Strike.

Because the employer in a neckwear
factory of New York was alleged to have
slapped a girl worker and refused 10 pay
a fine of SO imposed by the union, a
strike has been declared.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09

cago, has been released b the police OF
the Eastern city. A ". Gentry, hus-
band of the woman VINO was murdered,
and George Scott, who was a fellow room
er at the Gentry fat when the crime was
committed, both failed to identify the
prisoner as Frank J. Constantine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09

That an alarming percentage of the
young men of the South are unfit to enter
the army owing to cigarette smoking, late
hours and other bad habits, is the state
ment of Lieut.. W. f. Bennett. Jr. in
charge of the New Orleans recruiting
affipn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
To divert Rivers for Canal

divert Rainy River and other northern
Minnesota streams to Lake Superior for
the benefit of the Chicago drainage canal.
Leading engineers regard the project as
feasible and one which will send great
volume of water into the great lakes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Kills Wife over savings

Following protracted contention over
5000 which they got a few days ago as
damages for the killing of their son by
nitroglycerin explosion, Samuel Demont
of Union City, Ind. cripple, shot his
wife through the heart and head. killing
In, instantly
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Trnmps Kill a brakeman.

C. S. Carr, brakeman on Northern
Pacific freight train, was killed during a
fight with four tramps in a box car near
Gladstone, n. D. Carr and another
brakeman, it is supposed. went into the
car to expel the tramps. The second
brakeman was badly injured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Victory for Cunn,ins

Albert B, Cummins was nominated for
Governor of Iowa by the Republican con-
vention at Des Moines. the ''stapd-pat-
tiers" were put to rout, the3power of Sec
rotary Shaw was overthrowp. and Senator
Allison's toga was endangered.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Red Guard Leader Arrested.

The Russian government aimed a blow
at Finnish liberty by causing the arres>
Of Captain Kock, leader of the Red
Guard. after the governor general of Fin
land refused to act. The strike in Russia
Is spreading rapidly, and a provisional
government is planned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Arrested for Playing Burglar.

While J. H. Brady, president of the
Standard Rubber Company, was playing
burglar in Trenton, n. j., to scare Karl
c. Roebling, a friend, he ran into a DO
liceman, who arrested him, and only the
intervention of friends saved him from
going to jail.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Ex-Mayor Gets Prison Term.

William H. Belcher, who while Mayor
of Paterson, \. j., absconded a year ago
and who surrendered himself a few days
ago, has been sentenced to twelve years
Imprisonment in the State prison at Tren
ton on charge of embezzlement.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09

DIR. Charles NJ. Shoman of North Balti-
more. Ohio, was drowned in the Maumee
river He was in the act Of stepping
from the bank TO boat and fell in, never
coming TO the surface He was we'll
known throughout northwestern Ohio.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09

Daniel +. Wesson, pistol manufac-
turer of the firm of Smith & WesSon. died
in Springfield, Mass. leaving an estate
worth $5O.000000. death having been
Fastened by fear of blackmailerS who
threatened TO dynamite his home.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09

testimony the court acknowledged Mrs.
COrey's plea.
No scandal crept into the hearing. The
name of the show girl, Maybelle Gilman,
of whom it was said Corey was enamored,
was not mentioned. However, there was
pathetic incident when Mrs. Corey, after
reciting the story of her marriage in 1888,
broke into tears, and then related the
chapter covering her husbands desertion
of her last year and of her subsequent eff
forts to win him back to her home.
1t is understood Corey has set aside a
heavy competence for the use of his wife,
who is of a domestic turn, while he has
a weakness for social life of the glittering
sort.
DIR. Abbott HeraIds Socialism.
DIR. Lyman Abbott, in delivering the
baccalaurate sermon at Harvard created
quite a stir among his audience by an
nouncing that the age of socialism was
surely coming. The proper term was, he
added, fraternalism. He said that there
had been three conceptions of human re-
lations, and that we were about to enter
upon the third. He used as texts ex-
tIoCLS rum Ilt 'oNlI pLulFS W SuDpOIL HIS
statement, as follows: "a few wise. good
men shall be selected to rule over the
race" Let every man be free to do as
he pleases," and ''The organization of
society on a basis of mutual service and
helpfulness." These, he said, represented
the dead ages of autocracy, the present
order of indiyidualism and the coming age
OF fraternalism. In the future, he said
we would no longer honor mere wealth :;
that accumulation was already on trial ::
but that we would think first Of the good
we could do while getting it. The one
remedy was to consider society as a unit.
Fraternalism, he concluded, would be felt
in the church. in the uniting of all creeds,
and scots into one church of God
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
want $4,000 Harvest Hands

Fifteen thousand men are needed in
Minnesota. Iowa and the two Dakotas to
harvest the crop. and about Il thousand
are available. The wages offered by the
farmers range from $1.15 to So a day
and board, but the jobs 90 begging
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Aeronaut Is Fatally Hurt

Joseph McAlann, an aeronaut from a
small town near Des Moines, Iowa. prob
ably will die as the result of fall at
the salt palace, Salt Lake City, Utah.
The aeronaut dropped $50 feet Both
ankles were broken and he was injured
internally.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Ell Gage Commits sufc;d.

Eli A. Gage, son of Lyman J. Gage
former Secretary of the Treasury. com
mitted suicide in hotel at Seattle while
his wife was searching the city with de
tectives for him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
L. s.-Japanese Cable Omen.

A new telegraph cable, via BONN,
which establishes direct Communication
between Japan and the United States,
has been opened to the public. BONN
is on a group of islands off the coast of
Japan.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Fire Loss Is 100000.

The Coonshore Building at West New
ton. Pa, was destroyed by fire and an
adjoining building was crushed by falling
walls. At least one person is buried in
the ruins. The loss is 100000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
400 Lost OF spanish Coast.

Three hundred persons, mostly Italian
emigrants bound for South America. were
drowned when the steamer Sirio struck a
reef and sank off the Spanish coast and
the captain of the vessel. attributing the
disaster to his own imprudence commit
ted suicide
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Safe blown by Cracksmen.

The postofice at Greenfield. Ohio. was
entered by burglars who secured $4,000 in
stamps and 81, 800 in cash The locks
were blown from the heavy vault doors
and the big iron safe was reduced to
scrap iron.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Killed in Naqui War.

The hottest Indian battle that has
taken place in Sonora. Mexico for months
has been fought in a remote mountain
section back of Las GuaSimaS. Seven
Mexican soldiers were slain in the two
days battle The YaquiS left behind a
score of dead
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Erasure May Cause TroubI

Three strokes of a pen, erasing date
in the Sage will. may tie up the vast es-
tate ia years of litigation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09

of Mukden. General Oku's first military
experience was acquired in the imperial
army during the japanese rebellion OF
1877. His defense of the castle of Ku
mamota, besieged by the rebels was mas
terly, and compelled the abandonment Of
the siege. He also won distinction in the
war with China. He is 80 years old.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
strung Up in short Order.

4 negro who attacked white woman
was tried and hanged in fifty minutes in
Maylield. Ky, after he was rescued from
a mob by State troops.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Warner Renominated i'm ,,,o,.

Michigan Republicans named State
ticket headed by the present Governor
Fred NJ. Warner, indorsed President
Roosevelt and declared for direct nomina
ton of United States Senators.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09

Rear Admiral Charles J. Train. COM
mander-in-chief Of the United States feet
ON the Asiatic station, died at Chcfoo, of
urpmia
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
GAIN IN INTERNAL REVENUE.
Receipts for Year Ending june Are
9,1O2,73S.

The commissioner of internal revenue
in Washington, D. c., has issued pre-
liminary report of the operations of his
bureau for the year ended June 80, 1906.
1t shows the receipts from all sources for
the year aggregated $249, 1913, which
is an increase as compared with last year
of $14,914,7 61. The expenses of collec-
tons for the year were about S4,720, 76S.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09

Charles A. Justus, aged 80. and three
children of his sister, Mrs. Samuel Moudy
were burned 70 death az the family home
stead. four miles east Of Middleton, Mont.