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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22

Schemes of the Insurgents Give
Them Animals Free.

Some of the Cuban generals who have
been assisting the Americans in the eff
fort to disarm and send to their homes
the insurrectionists in the late reyolu
tlonary movement seem to have dignified
and legalized the crime OF horse stealing
in the most ingenious manner. according
TO reports that have reached the War
Department. in Washington. When the
rebel soldiers gave up their arms they
were told that they might keep their
horses until they could reach their homes.
These horses mostly had Deen stolen and
the individual soldier was told that he
must return the horse to its owner II the
latter could show that the animal was
registered according to the Cuban law.
Each Of the soldiers was given Il certlh-
cate describing the horse and the condi-
tons under which it might be returned
TO the real owner. Two facts made this
reclamation almost impossible in most in
stances. In the first place only small
proportion of the horses in Cuba were
registered, so that no matter how thor
oughLy farmer could identify his horse
IN the possession of one Of these rebels
he could not obtain possession Of the
animal for lack of a registration certlh-
cate. In the second place the disbanded
rebels took care before returning TO their
homes TO exchange horses, so that an ami
nal stolen in Santiago would not be re-
turned to that province, but would find
home in Pinar del Rio.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22
Ie1cgraphic Brevities.

SPANS military contingent for 1907
has been fixed at 100000 men.
The Avena Club of the Cleveland Y. NJ.
c. A. decided that a millionaire could
not be an honest man.
Frank Dorsey. a Brooklyn clerk, fired
four shots at Josephine Schmidt, who had
Tilted him. and then killed himself
The Hammond Packing Company of
Chicago was fined $1,000 in Arkansas
for violation of the Arkansas antitrust
law.
+. Reports as to stringent regulations at
the University Of Berlin intended to shut
out Americans are officially declared TO be
untrue.
Eduardo -Alonzo. newspaper man. and
Ramon Mendoza, member of the council
fought duel az Havana Botn were
wounded.
The stock in the wholesale drug house
of Berry, Demoville & Co.., on the public
square of Nashville, Tenn, was damage
$4,000 by fire.
Joseph Gardout, chef Of a Minneapolis
club, who was shot by highwayman on
the night of Oct Is because he ONLY
had $1.10, is dead.
The steamer Cumberland, which arrived
in Buffalo with iron ore, struck an old
bridge abutment in the harbor and sank,
blocking the channel.
NJ. Santos-Dumont won the Archdeacon
cup on the field at Bagatelle, France,
with his Bird of Prey, flying machine.
The prize was $4,000.
Robbers blew open the safe of the
State Bank of Sparks at Sparks, Okla,
$500 and escaping after ex-
changing 100 shots with citizens.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22
THE DIVORCED PAIR.

favor was the order that the countess
may not take the children from France
without their fathers consent. The
count appointed the president of the
chamber of notaries to liquidate the af-
fairs of the husband and wife. The
judgment was given with costs against
the count
Anna Gould, youngest daughter Of
the late Jay Gould, was married to
Count Ernest Boniface de Casteflane,
eldest son of the Marquis de Castellane,
at the New York home of her brother,
George J. Gould, March 4, 1895, the
late Archbishop Corrigan officiating.
Miss Gould's dowry was understood to
have been $1S,O0O,00O. and it was stated
that her income was 100000 a year.
Immediately after the marriage the
couple left the United States for
France, where the eXtravagant manner
in which they lived attracted atten-
ton. About five years after the mar
riage Count and Countess de Cdstellane
were reported to be financially embar-
raised it being alleged that the count
had sent about 100000 of his wife's
money. An adjustment of the affairs
of the couple became necessary and
considerable litigation followed, with
the result that the Gould family inter
vened and the income of the countess
was reduced to S2O0,OCO Feb. ) of the
present year Countess de Castellane en-
tered a plea for divorce. The three
children of the Castellanes are George,
Boni and Jay, the youngest being the
namesake of his mothers father
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22
u. S. FARM VALUES.
Prediction that Great Increase of
Past 5 Years VIII BE Maintained.

A very large addition to the wealth of
the nation has been made during the past
five years from the rise in farm values.
According to circular issued by the
Department of Agriculture, based on A.
600 answers to its inquirers, it is esti-
mated that throughout the whole country
farm land has increased more than So per
cent in value since 1900. The last census
placed the total value of all farms in the
United States at S20,439, 100000, so that
the increase since then, if the estimate of
the Agricultural Department is correct, is
nearly eight billions Q. dollars.
Among the reasons given for the rise in
farm values are rural free delivery, cleo
trio railways, good roads, the movement
of townspeople to the country, better and
cheaper transportation and market facili-
ties, and better methods of farming. Most
or all of these conditions are likely to per-
sist. so that a continued increase in farm
lands from these influences may be safely
counted upon. Good crops, better prices
for farm products and investment in farm
lands by persons who are not farmers are
other causes for increase in the value of
the lands, but these are more or less fic-
titious and temporary. The past decade
has been a most bountiful period for the
farmers of the United States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22
ANNA GOULD DIVORCED.


count bOn1 Loses, and wife and For
tune Are Gone Forever.
Final separation from home and in
come is the cruel fate melted out by
French justice to Count Boni de Cas-
tellane, the wife-beating spendthrift
who had Won the affection and fortune
of Jay Gould's daughter and rapidly
diSsipated both. The decision, granting
a divorce without even an ''alimentary
allowance" handed down in Paris by
the Tribune of the First Instance of the
Seine, Judge Ditto presiding, gives
Countess de Castellane the custody OF
her children, who, however, may not be
taken from France without the con-
sent of their father.
The end of the famous case came
suddenly. The court brushed aside the
demand of the courts lawyers for an
examination of witnesses, and, as eX-
pected, the public prosecutor did not
even ask to be heard. In granting the
countess the custody of her children
the court allowed the count only the
usual rights to see them and share in
the control of their education, which
was not contested. The count is given
the right to see the children at stated
periods at the home of their grand
mother, and to keep them a month an
nually during the holidays.
Boni's demand for an "alimentary al
lowance of $4,000 annually" was pro-
nOunced by the court to be without
foundation in law and was rejected.
The only point decided in the husbands
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22
Prosperity of Steel Trusf.

The directors of the United States Steel
corporation, at their regular quarterly
meeting, continued the dividends on the
common stock at the annual rate of 2
per cent. They reported net earnings
greater than for any similar quarter in
the history of the company, and more
untitled orders on hand than ever before
The net earnings for the quarter were
$3S, 114,624, and the untitled orders were
for 7,936,SS4 tons. Chairman Gary said
that the company would begin steel man
ufacturing at the new town of Gary in
the spring of 1908. He said that the
plant at that point would cost S75,O00-
900, or so much more as may be neces
sary.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22
MEETS THE REPORTERS.
Mrs. Eddy Gives Formal Prear-
ranged Interview.


ranged Interview.
formal, prearranged interview was
given to eleven reporters from Boston
and New York by Mary Baker G. Eddy.
the venerable founder and leader of the
Christian Science church at Pleasant
View, her Concord On. HI home. for the
purpose of disproving recent statements
to the effect that she was totally incapaci-
tated by age or disease, or both. The
statement had been made that a Miss Pa
melia Leonard, a Brooklyn healer, had
been impersonating the Christian Sci
ence leader on her drives. Several cues
tons had been agreed upon to be put to
Mrs. Eddy, but the reports con1icted as
TO her hearing when these questions had
been put to her by the appointed spokes-
woman. To the first question, Are you
in perfect health?" Mrs. Eddy replied,
with bow, Indeed I ann speaking
in deep, level tone of voice, but with a
slight culver. To the next question.
Have you any other physician than
God?" she replied: mo physician but
God. His everlasting arms are about
me: that is enough AS she said this
she turned toward the door, in front of
which her carriage was waiting. In re-
ply to the question: 'Do you drive daily?"
she said simply, Yes" The fourth ques-
ton. Have you management of your own
afairs?" was unans wered. She walked
along the width of the piazza, but her
hands shook as with a slight palsy when
she was helped into the carriage. Ed
ward NJ. Pierson, secretary of state of
New Hampshire, was present with the
reporters to positively ssidentify Mrs.
Eddy, whom he had known for many
years. He issued statement that it
was Mrs. Eddy, and that she appeared
to keep her faculties. An official of the
household said that the gates of Pleasant
View henceforth would be closed to the
world forever. All agreed the aged wom-
an showed her sc years in marked de-
gree, and that she was extremely weak.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22

Fifty persons were killed and forty
more injured, some fatally, in a head
on collision between Baltimore & Ohio
passenger train and freight train
near Woodville, Ind, early Monday
morning. Six passenger coaches and
number of freight cars were burned,
and many of the victims were cremated
before the reScuers could drag them
from the wreckage, The disaster was
caused by some ones blunder.
The crash, when the two trains came
together, was heard long distance,
and the inhabitants of WoOdville
and the neighboring towns hurried to
the scene and began the work of res
cue. The darkness added to the horror
of the scene. The fitful faring of the
flames as the i.fiammable parts of the
shattered trains began to burn sooh
lighted up the wreck. The cold made
the work of the first rescuers more diff
cult. Doctors We're hurriedly sent for
and a score of them from near at hand
responded. The rescuers worked fran
tically with axes and whatever other
tools were ready at hand to free the
imprisoned injured before the flames
should reach them.
AS fast as the injured could be at
tended by the physicians they were
made comfortable on the train that
bore the hospital cots. This train was
loaded with as many of the hurt as
could be accommodated and started to
Chicago.
The trains that came together were
the fast freight, known technically as
first 9S," driven by Engineer Burke
and in charge of Conductor MoSte, and
the second section of express and pas
senged train No. Al, driven by En-
gineer Reneman and in charge of Con-
ductOr Brooks. The passenger train
was from Locust Point, Baltimore, Md,
and carried 1877 passenger, nearly all
immigrants, made up of Russians, Ser
vians and Poles, according to an Asso-
ciated Press dispatch.
At $40 a. M. the freight train backed
into siding at Babcock, Ind, to allow
the first section of the express to pass
For some reason the freight pulled out
again and continued on its way east.
1t met the siX-coach express train at
WOodville, station four miles from
Laporte. Both trains were running at
high speed They crashed together on
curve. The engineer of the freight
train had only time to reverse his lev
ers, shout to his fireman and leap from
the cab. The engineer and fireman of
the express train did not know of
their danger soon enough to make any
effort to save their lives.
The two engines were shattered and
the heavy freight train plowed part
way through the lighter passenger and
express. The cars of the latter train
crashed together and piled up in mass
of splintered wood, twisted steel and
shrieling humanity. Three of the fore
most cars of the freight train were
added to the pile and the engines and
tenders We're in the center of it. Fire
from the fireboxes of the engines soon
communicated itself to the shattered
cars.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22
9a n 25s ,,,is Side
x. OF a.
The News ~
is for the open school door.

Japan is for the open school door.
That S75OO0,OOO soap trust sounds
like a bubble.
Ohio has knocked the piers from under
the Bridge Trust.
They will have to stop making currant
jelly out of COWS hoofs.
Cuba wakes up with headache, empty
pockets and owing money.
What we really need is government
ownership of Congressman.
Philadelphia INDUCES in the kind of
dramatic criticism the hens lay.
Gov. Magoon is going to clean Cuba
up if the cyclone don't do it for him.
The wild automobile is one thing that
doesn't discriminate in favor of the mill
ionaire.
Killing a general in Russia is becoming
so common that experts can 10 it at the
first shot.
Added to her other proofs of acquiring
ports deficit.
A man with a wife like Senator Bur
toms comes mighty near deserving a fair
share of sympathy.
Germany ate 1.56S dogs and S1,312
horses last year. This is enough to give
Chicago a jealous fit.
The skeleton of horse 40 feet high has
been found in Wyoming. They'd be won
ders in a steeplechase.
Washington viii now begin to get
excited over Miss Ethel's new hair ribbon
and Arches sore toe.
Burglars stole $4,000 from a Stand
ard Oil Office in New York. The people
are gradually getting even.
Over 500 fossil skeletons have been
found in the Rocky Mountains. Wait till
they begin to unearth Congress!
Gorky has gone to Italy to write book
on America, but that is about as near as
he got to this country, anyway.
The new magazine is militant week
~. for God and country but the sub
scriptions are payable in advance
As long as we get over million irami-
grants a year the race suicide movement
doesn seriously affect the census re-
turns.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22
FRISCO MONEY Is STOLEN.
Million Dollars for Relief Never
Reached Cn0lmiffc


One million dollars raised in various
States for the relief OF San Francisco
after the earthquake fire is said to have
been stolen. A new inves; igatlon is be-
ing made in the graft scandal, and It ap-
pears that sums of money. large and
small, which were sent from different
States for the relief of the sufferers IN
the April calamity never reached the re-
lief committee. F. J. Heney. Detective
William Burns and about 100 government
agents have been making the investlsa-
ton. President Roosevelt is said to be
the moving spirit behind the inquiry. The
cases come within the jurisdiction OF the
Federal authorities because The mails are
involved. 4 considerable sum Of money
also was sent through the express COM
panies. which are Investigating the dis
appearance of $4,000 sent in one pack
age by the citizens of Searchlight. New,
which the relief committee says it never
received. and which the company says
was delivered to the representative OF the
committee to whom it was addressed.
Forgery is said to have been committed
by the raiders of relief contributions.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22

Boston Boy Prodigy Is Linguist and
Fine Mathematician.

A little lad, puny and stoop-shouldered
and wearing double-lens glasses. aston
ished the pupils of the Brookline high
school near Boston the other day when
he entered the institution and coolly took
a seat in the freshman class. The boys
about him tower above him in height and
otherwise physically are Brobdignagians
as compared with the new pupil. But,
intellectually, the newcomer is the giant
of the assemblage, as a statement of his
varied accomplishments will show. He
speaks four languages fluentiy. He is an
expert in mathematics and algebra and
his knowledge of physics is almost equal
to that of a college professor. And the
wonder of it all is that he is but years
of age. The new student and scholastic
prodigy is William James Sidis, son of
DIR. Boris Sidis German physician.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22
200 SQUARE MILES ARE FLOODED
Widespread Damage Is Caused in
Vicinity of Seattle and Tacoma.

As the result of the recent foods at Sc
attic 200 square miles of territory are
under water. This includes practically
every acre of lowland lying back of the
eastern shore of Puget Sound and extend
ing from Seattle to Tacoma. These low
lands are thickly occupied by small
towns, hop fields and dairy farms. Seat
ties milk supply comes from them, so
that city has been without milk for days.
The power plant at Electrihe is submerg-
ed and Seattle and Tacoma are depend
ent on their local auxiliary stations for
power to move street cars and provide
electric lights. Six persons have been
drowned and the total loss will reach
almost S1.OO00OO
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22
ReaI Estate Trust ReOpened.

The Real Estate Trust Company of
Philadelphia which was wrecked last
August through misvse of funds by it's
president, Frank X. Nipple, who after
ward committed suicide. was opened
Thursday with George II. Earl. Jr., at
its head, he having served as receiver. In
stead of an expected run, the books on
the first days showed a large balance of
deposits. The reopening was made pos
sible by the depositors agreeing to let
two-thirds of their S6.OO0,O0O remain as
preferred stock, and by the directors
making good S2,J0OOOO.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22
GENERAL SKATER DEAD,
Soldier of Spanish War Fame Dies
of Pneumonia

&c
of Pneumonia
Gen. William r. Shafter. retired.
who had been Ill for more than a
week with pneumonia, died Monday
afternoon at the ranch of his son-in-
law, Capt. ". III. Mckittrick. twenty
miles from Bakersfield. Cal. At his
bedside when the end came were Cap
tain and Mrs. Mckittrick, Miss Carrie
Redmond, Mrs. COPYRIGHT and Capt.
James W. Shafter
William Rufus Shafter was born at.
Galesburg, Mich, on Oct. Is. 1885. His
father was d farmer Shaftar taught
school three years before the outbreak
Of the Civil War. Then he entered the
Seventh Michigan Volunteers as first
lieutenant He was consecutiyelv ma
jor Of the Nineteenth Michigan Infan-
try, lieutenant colonel of the Seven
tenth United States negro regiment
and brevet brigadier general. He en-
tered the regular army as lieutenant
colonel in January, 1866. In March,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22
MORE WAGES ARE RAISED.
American Express Company Orders
Ten Per Cent Increase.


Ten Per Cent Increase.
Wages of employees of the American
Express Company who are paid less than
5000 a month were increased 10 per cent
Thursday. Announcement of the in
crease was made at the Office of the COM
pany in New York. 1t was authorized
by vote of the board of directors. An
official of the company said that the reso
luton passed by the board of directors
provided that the increase should be paid
to all employees who had been in the SER
vice longer than a year whose wages had
not been increased within twelve months
and who were not already paid 5000
month. The increase, the officer said, af
fects 5000 to 10000 men throughout the
country. 1t will take about 100000 to
100000 to pay the advance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22
I,n.Ieayfnr Hawaii.

Acting Gov. Atkinson of Hawail, who
is now at Washington, says that the
japanese problem is solving itself by
gradual emigration to the States. Already
several thousand have left. He says that
the territory is enjoying an era OF pros
neritv and that the crops are excellent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22

1867, he received congressional medal
of honor for bravery at the battle of
Fair Oaks He was assigned to the
Twenty-fourth Infantry as its colonel
in 1869.
He became brigadier general in 1897
and was assigned to command the De-
partment of California. When war
with Spain came Gen. Shafter was
made major general of volunteers and
sent to Cuba to command the American
forces. He was retired June 30 1901.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22
BATTLE WITH ROBBERS.
One Of Bandits Is Killed and Patron
of Saloon Is Murdered.

ohc Oh b0nultS ahu
of Saloon Is Murdered.
Two men are dead, two others dying
and another seriously injured as the re-
suit of a pistol battle in the attempted
holdup of the saloon of George O'Connell,
at Sixth and Brannan streets, San Fran
cisco. All complied with the order to
hold up their hands except George O'Con-
nell, a retired policeman. who shot at one
robber. Both thieves then began firing.
When the smoke of the battle cleared
away, four men were lying on the floor
of the saloon-O'Connell with two bal
let's in his chest: Stephen Lynch, shot
twice in the abdomen; Louis Delatour
with his jaw torn away by bullet, and
Michael Kennedy, shot in the ear. On
the sidewalk opposite the saloon the body
of one of the robbers was found and
identified as that of Frank Burke, an
eX-cOnVict
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22
Ship Crashes Into Bridge

The brig steel steamer James E. David
son. Captain Albert Reed, of the Tom
linson fleet. c0lliGed with the Northern
Pacific Rice point bridge across the Du-
luth- Superior harbor. took out one of the
abutments and tumbleG a rafting span
165 feet in length into the water.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22

Louis w. Kirkland. aged 33. had his
skull ground off by being caught in fly
wheel in pittsburg, and died almost in
stantly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22
Mayor johnson in Contempt.

The Cleveland Electric Railway Com
pany has petitioned the Supreme Court
at Washington to restrain Mayor john
son and other Cleveland officials from
interfering with the operation of one of
its lines pending the decision of the Su-
preme Court of an appeal now before it.
Johnson had contended that the COM
pany's franchise on certain streets expir-
ed in 1905, while the company held that
they ran until 1914 Subsequently it
was that the Mayor had ordered the DO
lice to prevent the company running cars
on these streets.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22
PEARY,s SHIP DAMAGED.
Message from Explorer Says Pro-
peiIer and Rudder Are Injured.

peiler and RUdder Are Injured.
A message has been received from Com
mander Robert Peary, the arctic explorer,
by a firm OF shipwrights, stating that his
steamer, the Roosevelt, has been damaged
considerably. The message came from
Battle Harbor, where the Roosevelt was
reported last, and where she lay a few
days ago. One blade of the propeller is
gone and the rudder was damaged as a
result of the battle with the ice foes. As
the Roosevelt on her trial trip averaged
only ten knots an hour, it is believed
these accidents will slow her down to
about three or four knots. Battle Har
Dor is about 40 miles from Sydney, n.
S. Mrs. Peary, the explorers wife. and
NJ. 5. Quigley, representing the Peary
Arctic Club, are there, awaiting the
Roosevelts arrival