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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
STATEHOOD BILL CUT,
SENATE PASSES HALF AND AID
MITS OKLAHOMA.
Indian Territory Is Merged Into
New State-Arizona and New Mex
leo Are Left Out-Measure Now
Goes Back TO House.

The statehood bill. with Arizona and
New Mexico eliminated. passed the
Senate Friday evening by a vote of 81
to 35. Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory are to be admitted into the Union
as single State,to be known as Okla
homa, under the provisions of the
emasculated measure, which now goes
back to the House for concurrence or
inconvenience Thus has ended, as
far as the upper branch of Congress is
concerned, one of the last of the nota-
BILE fights over making States out of
territories that ever will agitate the
country.
Previous to the adoption of the
amendment removing the Arizona-New
Mexico joint statehood feature, the
Foraker amendment providing for the
referendum as to those territories had
been adopted by a vote of IL to %.
All the Democrats with the exception
of Senator Clarke of Arkansas, who
was paired against the position of his
party, voted to strike from the bill as
it came from the House all reference
to Arizona and New Mexico. The Re-
publicans who voted with the Demo-
Gratis were Alger and Burrows of Michi-
gan, Buckley of Connecticut, Carter Of
Montana, Flint and Perkins of Cali
fornia, Foraker of Ohio, Gallinger Of
New Hampshire. Hansbrough of North
Dakota, Hepburn of Idaho, Scott of
West Virginia and Spooner of WiscOn-
sin, twelve in all.
For the second time within the last
two years the Senate refused to follow
the lead set by the House in enacting
statehood legislation recommended by
the President. Last session when the
joint statehood bill was passed by the
Senate it provided for the admission of
Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one
State and of New Mexico as another,
the Senate striking from the bill at
that time all reference to Arizona. The
bill went back to the House, where it
remained until IDe adjournment VI
Congress without any action being TAX
en- upon it,
The bill passed by the Senate goes to
the House, where the insurgents will
make an effort to have rne Senate
amendments agreed to without the ref
erence of the bill to committee. They
fear that should the bill reach the COM
mittee on territories it will be kept
there until the end of this Congress a
year hence, rather than risk a fight
with the Senate. The insurgents claim
that if the House is given an opportuni-
ty to vote on the Senate amendments
they will be accepted.
The passage of the bill by the Senate
does not end the fight. Statehood con-
tests are always important and hard
fought Few bills have been before
Congress in recent years which have
awakened the degree of interest shown
In this measure. The debates in both
houses on the subject filled the CALLER
les, and few absentees were recorded
when the votes were taken.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
From Far ard Near,

The Central California Raisin Grow
ers' Company disbanded at Fresno.
Fire damaged the building of the Equit-
able Life Assurance Society at Memphis
to the extent of 100000.
President Roosevelt will be invited to
address the national convention of the
Travellers Protective Association in Buff
falo next June on The American Drum
mer"
Frederick W. Seward, 20 years old.
third assistant Secretary of State I'M
der President Garfield, was knocked down
and injured by an automobile in New
York.
President Watts of the Toledo, Ohio,
school board, charged that attempts had
been made to bride him by agents of pub
fishers when new books were bought for
the schools recently.
Mrs Sylvia L. Durham died at South
ington, Conn, aged 105 years. She was
the second oldest person in the State,
Mrs. Debora Silliman of Easton being
Jog.
4 tornado in Hattiesburg. Miss. de-
molished the home of Mrs. NJ z. Dear
mond. Fences and houses over a con-
were pulled up by the roots and twisted
into splinters.
Horace G. Mckinley, wanted by the
government in connection with the Ore
gon land frauds, is reported from La
Crosse, Wis, TO have fed to Shanghai
with a San Francisco variety actress
known as Little Egypt
The C. H. Geist Company of Chicago
and Philadelphia has completed deal
for the purchase of the Pulaski Gas
Light Company of Little Rock, Ark.
from the Dawes syndicate of Chicago.
Conductor Hough and Brakeman Simp-
son were killed and Engineers Keevar
and Reuche and two fremen seriously in
jured in a collision on the Southern rail-
way. near Asheville, y. c.
The body of well-dressed woman. with
the head severed, was found beside the
New York Central tracks near Ossining.
\. Y. There is no clew to her identity.
NJ. A. de Speyer, the Russian minister
at Teheran, Persia, has been relieved of
bis post on the ground of III health.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15

Issues Edict Charging Officials to
Protect All Foreigners.

The Chinese government is greatly per-
turbed by the reports of anti-foreign
movements printed in the American and
European press, and particularly by the
dispatches announcing Americas prepare
tons for a military expedition in case Of
need. These reports, it is alleged, tend
to embarrass the foreign ministers and
create strained relations between them
and the officials in Pekin. A long edict
published in the Official Gazette, after re-
ferring to the warlike reports, declares
that they are circulated by traitors who
wish to separate China from her friends.
The cdict points out the great difficulties
which confront China at present and the
strong need for maintaining friendly rela-
tons with the powers. 1t reproves the
Chinese students for meddling with poll
tics and charges the officials high and low,
to protect the lives and property Of for
eigners, specifying the missions, under
pain Of the most severe punishment. A
strong force of the troops of Yuan Shi-
kai has been sent to the southern part
Of the province of Chilli, where the people
have been threatening the Christians.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
Cannon on state Powers.

A strong protest was made by Speaker
Cannon in his address to the Philadelphia
Union League Club against the present
tendency to seek federal legislation for
evils that the States have power to rem
edy. He referred particularly to the re-
cent appeal of Gov. Dawson of West
Virginia to Senator Tillman, saying that
his State was powerless to compel proper
facilities from the railways within its
border. I'VE are all sovereign men," said
the speaker, with the power to assert
our rights, yet sometimes we sit supinely
down and cry to the national government
to help u.s. When they came to him
with such plea. he told them to go back,
for they had the necessary power. He
spoke of the / 800 bills introduced in the
present Congress. which it would take
ten years of constant work TO enact.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime.
$500 to $685.; hogs, prime heavy, $4.0O
to $6.4O; sheep. fair TO choice. $500 to
1928; wheat. No. 2 TIC to Use; corn,
No. 2, 40c to Ale; oats, standard, 2Sc to
zoe; rye, No. 2 63c to Coo; hay, timo-
thy, $3.50 to $3.50; prairie. $500 q
$1,000; butter choice creamery. 23c to
26c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c: potatoes,
40c 10 SOC.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $500; hogs,
$500 to $6.10; sheep, $3.50 to $500 :;
wheat No. 2, Sic 10 82c; corn, No. ,
yellow, 42c to 44c; oats, No. 3 white,
Gle to 32c; rye, No. ., G4c to G5c.
Mi!vaukee-Wheat. No. . northern,
14c to nc; corn, No. 3, 3Sc to 4Oc;
oats, standard 30c to 32c; rye, No l.
Gle 10 62c; barley, No. ?. 53c to dc;
pork, mess, $3.50.
Toledo-Wheat, No. mixed, SEC to
SIC; corn, No. 2 mixed, 44c to 4jc
oats, No. 2 mixed, Bic to 33c; rye. No,
2, &C. to &c; clover seed, prime, $3.50.
BufraIo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to S5.1O; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $500 sheep, common to good mixed,
s4OO to 1913; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to 1925.
New York-Cattle. $500 to 1851;
hogs. $500 to $G.75; sheep, $500 to
$3.50: wheat, No. 2 red, 83c to SIC;
corn. No. 9, 46c to 4Sc; oats, natural
whit, 35c to 3Gc; butter, creamery, 24c
to &c, eggs, western, 13c to 15c.
indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $500
to 1878; hogs, choice heavy, $500 70
S6.45; sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, SIC to S3c: corn.
No. white, 40c to 42c; oe =. No. .
white 29c to gle.
st. Louis-Cattle, $40 20 $500.
hogs. $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 TO
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, sec to Sc: corn.
No. =, CSC to 39c; oats, No. 2, pc to
zoe: rye, No. 2, &c to CSC.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $4.0O to S5.3j:
hogs. $500 to s6.45; sheep. $500 To-
1913: wheat, No. 2, SIC to SIC: corn.
No. = mixed, Ale to 43c; oats, No. 2
mixed, SIC to 32e; rye, No. =, Csc 10
zoe
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
BILLBoARDs FOR RELIGION.
Churches of Colorado Are Adver.
Using ElaborareIy,


Using EIaborateIy.
The use of the bill board, the poster
and the placard TO advertise religious SER
vices is coming into favor in Denver. 1t
was begun by Rev. Christian F. Reisner,
pastor of Grace Methodist Episcopal
church, and if the present rivalry among
congregations in the matter of the con-
spicuous display of their advertisements
is not soon abated theater manag gers, who
in the past enjoyed a practical monopoly
of the bill board privileges, may be called
on to pay an advance in the price of
space on the boards. Not only are the
churches doing more advertising than ever
before, but there is keen rivalry in the
wording of the advert sements.
This activity dates from last spring,
when Rev. Billy Sunday, the ex-ball play
er evangelist, held meetings in the Colo
RADIO gold CAMPS. &c caused all the coun-
ty seat towns in the neighborhood of the
places where he conducted revivals to be
placarded, and families drove for miles
and travelled across the mountains to hear
his sermons.
Sunday introduced what to Colorado
was an innovation, in the form of stick
CAS, DSdI4HS the leSe1u, yet night W I'm
God" These were pasted on sidewalks,
on lamp posts, on the windows of street
cars-in every place where they would
attract attention. One religious cam
paigner slipped into a fashionable hotel
at Colorado Springs one night and pasted
a ''sticker" on the bands of all the hats
he could find while the owners were at
dinner.
The Denver Young Mems Christian
Association has adopted modern methods
in raising money for a new building. 1t
has set out to collect 100000 in one
month. The organization has rented a
large storeroom on a prominent down
town corner and there has established
headquarters, much after the manner of
a political campaign headquarters. A
chairman receives reports hourly from his
lieutenants, who have certain districts in
charge, like precinct captains. New sub
scriptions are indicated on a large clock
dial placed high outside the building in
plain view from two streets.
The spirit of rivalry has spread to the
Sunday schools, and school cries have
been adopted by the children. When par
ties of pupils from different Sunday
schools meet they give voice to their
cheers with all the enthusiasm of students
of rival colleges
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15

Fireman Loses Life in Fight on
Board Steamer Msssachusetts.

A mutiny in which one life was lost
occurred on board the steamer Massa-
chusetts, which was lying at her do-k at
Brooklyn, n. Y. James Slocum, a fire.
man, was killed in a revolver battle on
the decks, in which the fremen were
ranged on one side and the ships Off
GERS and members of the crew on the
other. Sounds of the fighting caused a
reserve of police to be hurried TO the
steamer, but the fremen, who had start
ed the trouble, had been subjugated be-
fore the police arrived. Six members Of
the crew were arrested, as were First
Office Albert j. Evans and Fourth Off
Ger Elmer II. Kerwin. The mutiny had
been brewing, according to the officers Of
the Massachusetts. ever since the steamer
left Cardiff, Wales, Feb. 5. The fremen
were the chief disturbers, it was alleg-
ed, making continual complaints about
their food. The crew, however, sides with
the officers. During the voyage there
was almost daily fist fights on the steam
er, all growing out of the surly tempers
of the opposing factions. The wrangling
continued after the Massachusetts arriv-
ed in Brooklyn several days ago. Some
Of tn iremen spent the night in the city
and The quarrel began Immediately upon
their return to the vessel. The Massachu-
setts was expected to sail the day of the
trouble for San Francisco.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
Short News Nnfes.

An endowment of S125,000 to the New
York Metropolitan museum of art by
George A. Hearn is announced.
J. I. HARRISON remarked his divorced
wife at Youngstown, Ohio. HARRISON
some time ago killed L. V. Bergman
whom he found in his wife's room, and
was acquitted
Robert J. Thompson of Chicago, secre-
tary of the Lafayette memorial commits
sion, has written to Washington setting
Oct 10 as the date for the dedication OF
the Paris monument.
William NJ WINS charges District At
torney Jerome of New York with having
received a large slice of his 100000 cam
paign fund from the Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company.
Surgeon General Nicholas Sem of Chi
cago has been appointed a member of a
committee from the Medico-Legal Society
to secure papers TO be read at the inter-
national medical congress in Lisbon,
April 10.
Friends of Ellis Wainwright, the veal
thy brewer, expect him to return TO st.
Louis from his European exile, as it is
declared that the death Of Charles IL.
Turner has removed the principal witness
in the Doodle case.
The Greenwood Lake division of the
Erie railroad was blocked by 300 tons of
rock near Hewitt, n. J. Passengers were
transferred around the landslide.
4 New York scientist paid $4,000 for
the Willamette meteorite in Oregon. He
will present the ffteenton mass to the
American Museum of Natural History.
Union and non-union printers clashed
at the Knickerbocker Press, New Ro-
cheIle, n. Y. The police called on the
sheriff for aid to Suppress the trouble.
First Lieut.. Arthur II. Freshwater,
Twenty-ninth infantry has been dropped
from the rolls of the army by direction
of the President for desertion. having
been absent without leave three months.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15

ing that the confession was eXtorted
from him by the ''sWeat box" process of
the police. The court overruled the OBJ
lection.
Franklin c. HOLSTER, husband of
Mrs HOLSTER, was put on the stand.
He said he last saw his wife alive the
morning of Jan. u, before he started
to work. The next day he identified
her body at an undertaking establish
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
Steel Trust Opposes Strike,

President Corey of the United States
Steel Corporation has brought to bear
all the influence of that great enterprise,
including his twenty-fve-year contract
with the Pittsburg Coal Company, in
favor of granting an advance to the coal
miners if necessary to avoid a strike. This
he did in a talk with President Robbins
of the Pittsburg Coal Company, Tues
day, saying that the steel trust would
not stand for any strike that would cause
his steel mills to shut down for a single
day for lack of coal. At the same time
George j. Gould, representing interests
in the Wes- and South, has told the bitu-
minous operators that they must prevent
a strike at all hazards. To this end, a
meeting of the operators was held at Pitts
burg
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
KIDNAPPED BOY ESCAPES.
Says ct Point of Revolver He Wrote
Demanding $4,000 Ransom.

Demanding $4,000 Ransom.
Antonio BoZzufh, the 14-year-old New
York boy who was kidnapped the other
day and held for $4,000 ransom, has re-
turned alone TO his home. He had es
capped from his captors, he said, by steal
ing out OF a room above a saloon in 18th
street, while one of his captors who had
been left alone to guard him turned his
back for moment. The BOY says that it
took him but a second to spring beyond
the mans reach and get downstairs to the
street, where no attempt was made to
pursue him. He told how he was terror
lied into writing a letter to his father,
John Bozzufi, an east side banker, in
forming him that $4,000 must be paid
and that if the police were informed his
life would be taken. He was induced TO
enter the saloon by two Italians who told
him they wished him to do some inter-
preting in English, which they did not
speak. Taken to the upstairs room, he
says he was at first bound and handker-
chief was forced into his mouth. Three
men wearing black masks then entered
the room. One of them, the boy said,
pressed a revolver against his head and
commanded him to write the letter to his
father. After this episode, according to
the boys story, he was treated kindly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
Commerce Commission Reversed.

Another decision of the Supreme Court
bearing upon the interstate commerce
law was rendered recently as to what
constitutes illegal pooling of freight traf-
fc By railroads. The case was brought
abouy five years ago by the California
citrus fruit growers association against
the Southern Pacific and Atchison lines
on the charge that there existed a pool
ing arrangement by which the fruit traffic
for the East was apportioned among 1913
railroads. and by which joint rates were
fixed The interstate commerce commits
sion ordered that shippers might decide
on the route for their consignments. But
the railroads refused to obey, and the case
was carried to the higher courts. The
decision reverses the commerce commits
sion'S order by affirming the practice of
Joint tariffs. If a railroad agrees to trans
port beyond it's own lines, it might choose
by what route the goods shall be for
wardad. The court is also of the opinion
that the routing arrangement tended to
break up the practice of rebating. The
court also decided that the roads party
to this agreement are not competing roads
within the meaning of the law. At the
same time that it stopped rebating, the
effect was to end active competition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
QUARREL WITH CUBA LIKELY.
Palma Stirs Storm by AnnuIling
lnrnnaaso..

Palma Stirs Storm by AnnuIling
Concession to Americans.
An American corporation, backed by
New York capitalists, is in a controversy
with the Cuban government and interna-
tional complications may break out be-
tween The United States and Cuba. Presi-
dent Palma has annulled the 99-year con-
Cession of the Havana Subway Company,
which was acquired in 1908, and which
allowed the company to lay conduits I'M
der the streets of Havana for the purpose
of renting them to any company wishing
to lay underground wires. Mr.. Blundell,
president of the company, said: Our
losses are very heavy" George NJ. Pain
ter of Chicago has the contract for the
subway.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
Minnesota bonds Held Wild.

The Minnesota Supreme Court has de-
clared the 100000 school bond issue
valid. The issue failed to secure the
necessary two-thirds of all the votes cast
in the election of 1904 and the comp
trollcr declined to issue the bonds. Last
year a curative act was passed by the
legislature, but this also the comptroller
declined to accept, and the question was
referred to the Supreme Court.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
TAKES MUCILAGE FOR POISON.
Humorous Error ReconciIes Penn
syIvamtan to Life and Wife.

Following a quarrel with his wife in
Shamckin, Pa, Albert de Long, Jr., swal-
lowed what he thought was poison. The
bottle contained mucilage, which stuck in
his throat and almost smothered him. For
the time his jaws were locked fast. When
his wife learned the state of affairs she
Ia gheG at him. He tried to chide her,
but bis tongue was pasted fast to the
rooe of his mouth. The pair later be-
ca me recOnciled
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
Senators by Direct Vote.

The Senate of Ohio adopted joint
resolution requesting Congress to call a
convention of the various States for the
purpose of submitting an amendment to
the federal constitution providing for the
election of the United States Senators by
direct vote of the people.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
lVENS ON TRIAL.
Chicago Youth Charged with the
Murder of Mrs HoIIister

Chicago Youth Charged with the
Murder of Mrs. HOLSTER.
Richard Glines Ivens, who was placed
on trial in Chicago Wednesday before
Judge Smith for the murder of Mrs.
Franklin HOLSTER, is "a years old. His
father is a carpenter and the boy had
no bad reputation until he confessed his
crime. In many ways the appearance
of the youth is not unfavorable. 1t
was on Jan. II that he attacked the
woman at the rear of his fathers barn
at 43S Belden avenue. Mrs. HOLSTER
was a church worker and a choir sing
er at Wesley Methodist Church.
The first shot by the defense in the
trial was a vigorous objection to the
admission of any reference to Ivens'
confession, the prisoners lawyer claim
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
large Is Burued at Sen

The barge Hamilton Fish, owned by the
c. Durham Nephew Company of New
York, was destroyed by fire at sea
four miles off the Barnegat life-saving
station. The captain and crew were TAX
en- off by the tug which had the barge in
tow. The vessel was left burning and the
tug proceeded up the coast.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
Eight Guilty of Race Riots.

Eight were found guilty of rioting by
a jury in Springfield, Ohio as the result
of the race war there a few days ago.
Those convicted were Harry CARRIER,
John Pierpont, George Epprecht, Carl
Kloehfer, Glen Johnson, Frank Young,
Carl Wise and Kemp Reeder. Leniency
was recommended and the court was
asked not to impose a workhouse SEN
tence. None of those found guilty is
over % wears old.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
Gypsy Loses Life Saving Baby.

]. w. Tarbell, a wealthy young man
of Cincinnati. ran over and killed Mrs
Mary Johns gypsy woman belonging to
a wandering band camping near Carthage.
The woman was carrying baby when the
machine struck her, but she threw the
little one aside, and it was not injured.
Tarbell was arrested on a charge of man
Slo,1oh+ar
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15

An important action between American
forces and hostile Moros has taken place
near Jolo, 7. |. Fifteen enlisted men
were killed, Il commissioned officer was
wounded, four enlisted men were wounded
and naval contingent operating with the
military sustained thirty-two casualties.
The Moros lost 600 men killed