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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
News of Minor Note.

Miss J. Loughborough, "A years old, OF
San Francisco, Cal, died in Rome.
The average price of wool in Arizona
this season is 20 cents, the highest ever
known there.
Mrs. Herman Oerichs sold a five-acre
tract of submerged land off Fort Mason,
Cal. to the government for a sum ex-
ceeding $250,0OO.
DR.. William F. Brooks, director of
Smith observatory, Geneva, \. Y, says
that his new comet was now moving to-
ward the southwest
The Viceroy of Foochow has been or
mob which wrecked the Catholic and Eng
lish missions a. Changpu.
Hundreds of persons are said to have
been killed by earthquakes in the prov
ince of EsmeraIdas, Ecuador. The village
of Pinguagi was inundated by tidal
wave.
The dead body of John Cameron,
sawmill proprietor at Hamilton, Ohio,
who was missing two days, was found in
the cellar of his house, the head badly
bruised.
Line udS d manu- III
the fight over a railroad right of way on
the Columbia river in Washington and
the Columbia Valley railroad may lose
its rights.
A. A. Wolf, ST., aged 70, member
of the Wolf & Marx Company, a dry
goods firm at San Antonio, Texas, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the head.
The London Times says the program
of the cabinet contemplates the paying
of the war debts of S911, 100000 by 1899
and the domestic debus Of $2S7 100000
by 1912.
The railroads and the Ohio Shippers
Association have agreed on measure for
the creation of a State railroad commits
sion with power to fix reasonable max
imum rate" subject to review by the
courts.
Because he resented a remark address
ed to his women friends, James E. Mars
is alleged to have struck down j. Brooks
of Lowell on a Boston street. Brooks
died later at a hospital and Mars was
arrested on the charge of murder.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
Black Potatoes.

The recent announcement that a
consignment of black potatoes had ar
rived in England may have struck some
people as being somewhat remarkable.
AS a matter Of fact, says the Pail Mall
Gazette, the so-caIled ''black" potato is
by no means a novelty, having been in
PRODUCED into England very many years
ago, but has never become very pop
ular
The more accurate description Of
these curious tubers would be purple
potatoes" for their outside color is
not a true black, and when washed
they are distinctly purple. They have
never been a success in England from
a market point of view, although in
taste and appearance, when cooked,
they much resemble the white variety.
But the look of vegetable in its raw
state has everything to do with it's
popularity, and the 'black" potato, as
it comes from the soil is not anything
better than a curiosity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
Partners In Guilt.

Not altogether without logical jusu-
fication is the following comment OF
an multiplication newspaper on the
Tree Trade excursion of January 10
by the allied forces of Republican Tar
if revisers and Democratic Tariff de-
stroyers:
The passage of the Philippine Tar
if bill is another black eye for the pau
per labor argument. One of Dingley's
most iterated Qualifications for his
monstrous Tariff taxes was the neces-
sity of protecting the American labor
er with his high standard of living
from the pauper labor of Europe. But
the poorest labor of Europe has
higher standard than the labor of the
Philippines; and yet we have this
week the spectacle of Republican
House opening our markets to the pau
per labor Of the Philippines. Lewis
ton (Me.) Sun.
Yes; that is what was done. But it
might be we'll to keep in mind that it
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
WILL DROWN A TOWN.
More Valuable for Storing Water
than for Housing PeOpIe

A lively little Colorado town has been
sentenced to death. 1t is to have four
years of grace. Then they are going to
drown it. Lyons is a fourishing village
of about 800 inhabitants, % miles from
Denver, with which it has direct railway
connection. 1t was started about % years
ago and seems good for ten times % years
to come. 1t is solidly built, with stone
church, stone houses and public build
ings. 1t has a fire department, tele-
phone system and is piped for water and
for acetylene gas, which it manufactures.
1t is in the center of a fertile valley,
raising big crops of alfalfa, wheat, corn
sugar beets and fruit. Four years from
now the whole place will be under 24O
feet of water.
There is only one chink in the hills
surrounding the basin where the town is
built. Through this chink flows the ST.
Vrain river. The thing is too tempting
A dam, 1000 feet long at the top and
$50 feet high at its greatest elevation.
will close that outlet and store up bill
ions of cubic feet of water. A company
to be capitalized at 100000 is getting
exceedingly busy and when they have re-
modelled that corner of Colorado it's own
Mother Nature won't know it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
BIGAMIST'S STRANGE DEFENSE.
Says He Forgot He Already Had
Wife When He Married Another

Edward 7. Clegg, 81 years old. at one
time a prominent and wealthy business
man of Amigo. was arrested in the Lex
ington hotel in Chicago by Detectives
Mullen and Burns ON a charge of bigamy.
Clegg left Amigo several months ago,
and after travelling around for some time
temporarily settled in Sumner, Iowa,
where he met Miss Jessie A. Woodruff,
daughter of an Episcopal minister, whom,
it is said, he married last October. Since
the first of the year they have occupied
suite of rooms at the Lexington hotel
in Chicago. Word that he had married
again reached the ears of the first Mrs.
Clegg recently. A warrant for his ar
rest was sworn out and he was traced to
his rooms. The second Mrs. Clegg was
out visiting when Clegg was arrested,
but she appeared at the police station
later and was informed of the charge
against the prisoner. The police say
Clegg admitted he was a bigamist. but
declared he was afflicted with aphasia at
the time of his second marriage that
when he recovered his senses he knew he
had done wrong, but he intended to main
tain the two homes as long as possible.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08

Any dairyman who has had expert
ences on both sides of the question will
say without hesitation that ventilation
in the COW stable means an added
profit to the dairy. Ventilation by no
means can be had through windows I'M
less they are skilfully placed, but even
this plan is much better than the prac-
tically closed room. While the best
system of ventilation is undoubtedly
thu one that admits the air from the
bottom. we have made the same plan
we use in the poultry houses work very
nicely In the stable containing six
teen cows we have three of these ven
tilators, which are simply hollow fun
nels a foot square running through
the roof, with holes eight inches square
on the sides at the top, and one board
cut out entirely at the end which rests
on the floor This board is cut out so
as to leave an opening just a foot
square. An excellent plan of window
ventilation is that described some
weeks since, with double window, one
of glass and one of muslin, the latter
to slip over the opening when the win
dow of glass is pulled aside. 1t is also
possible to provide ventilation without
drafts through windows by the use of
screens. That is, arrange a light board
screen on the side of the casing next
to the COWS, so that when the window
is opened the wind may be DETECTED
away from the animals. As a matter
of fact, any one with a little skill can
arrange a ventilation system, which,
while it may not be pretty nor the best
thing obtainable, will answer the pur-
pose admirably. Have some sort OF
ventilating system, then keep the cows
and the stables clean, and one will see
| decided increase in the profits from
the dairy.-Indianapoli News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
FIERCE RACE RIOT.
Mob in Springfield, o., Negro Quar-
ter Dispersed by Militia.


A white mob of several thousand
men attacked the negro quarter of
Springfield, o., known as the jung
les" Tuesday night and state troops
had to be called out to quell the riot
ing. The outbreak was the result of
attacks on two white men, Martin
Davis and Earl Sulkins, by Preston
Ladd and Edward Dean negroes.
For several hours. until after mid
night, the negro section was in a
state of terror, the police being pow
erless. The local militia was called
out by the mayor, but was slow to re-
spond
At midnight, however, eighty men
assembled at the armory and were sent
out to reinforce the police The eighty
militiamen and the police, however,
were unable to handle the mob, and it
was not until the arrival OF two COM
panies from Dayton and one from
Xenia soon after midnight that the
mob could be handled. Then, with the
butts of their rifles and without firing
shot the soldiers pushed the mob
back both ways in Columbia street,
east from Water street and west from
Foster street.
When dawn came quiet had been re-
stored in the negro section, with 1.-The
JungleS" still in charge of the militia.
No lives were lost in the riot. The re-
suit of the mob was the destruction of
six negro houses, one saloon and the
damaging of several others.
THE Jungles" is the name given to
East Columbia street, where a number
of notorious dives frequented by ne
groes and low whites are located. Six
or seven of these joints were wiped out
by the mob with the torch. The most
Infamous place was literally torn to
pieces and burned half down by the
rioters
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
State News in Brief.

August Knoop, aged s., was killed
while going to church at North Freedom.
He stepped in front of a train in the
double track.
Homer Curtis Hart, founder of the II.
C. Hart Implements works and a La
Crosse manufacturer since 1860, died the
other day, aged ga.
Douglas Reinolsen, aged ) years. fell
into a tank of boiling water at the Amer
lean Mailing plant in Milwaukee and
was fatally scalded.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court render
ed a decision by which Milwaukee county
is permitted to issue $4500O0 in bonds
for a bridge in the city of Milwaukee.
The purchase of the BrownCorliss
Manufacturing plant at Milwaukee by
eastern parties is 10 end the strike of the
machinists, which has existed at he plant
for almost year.
The members of the La Crosse high
school faculty, assisted by the superin-
tendent and board of education. have be-
gun a systematic effort to eradicate haz-
ing. Letters have been sent to the par
ents of students asking them to lend aid
and influence.
The Wisconsin United Commercial
Travellers convention will be held in La
Crosse on June 10 and 10.
August knoch. a farmer. was struck
by a Chicago and Northwestern train
near North Freedom and instantly killed.
The WilIiamson-Libbey Lumber Com
pany manufacturers of sash. doors and
blinds and organized in 1866. has gone
into liquidatio in Oshkosh. Its liabili-
ties are about 100000. These liabilities
will. however, be paid in full, the heirs
of the late D. L. Libbey, founder Of the
company. having agreed to pool their as
sets and take up the claims.
In the campaign being waged by the
State dairy and food department several
milkmen in La Crosse have been arrest
ed and fined for selling milk below stand
ard.
Attorney Olaf l. Rove of Milwaukee
has received the appointment of vice con-
sui of the new kingdom of Norway for
the State of Wisconsin. thus changing
the headquarters of the vice consulate
from Madison to Milwaukee.
The Salmon Brothers gave dinner to
about 100 Of the city officials of Beloit
since 1888. The Salmons have owned the
water works for twenty-three years and
have lately sold the plant to the new
water. gas and electric light company.
Edward Glantz of West Bend, one of
the two United States deputy marshals,
has been appointed chief deputy to sue
coed the late Albion Johnston. William
Guy. an old-time conductor on the North
western road, has been chosen TO the po-
sition made vacant by Glantz's promotion.
The board of commissioners appointed
by the Circuit Court in kenosha decided
that the Chicago and Milwaukee Electric
Railway Company must pay the Thomas
b. Jeffrey Automobile Company $50,j0S
for a little over two acres of land needed
for the right of way Of the company to
Milwaukee. The Jeffery company de-
manded 100000, claiming it intended to
use the land for factory purposes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
Our Trade with China Gone.

r. 2. Schwerin, vice president of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, who
has gone to Washington to testify con-
corning the Chinese exclusion legislation,
said in an interview that the Chinese
boycott had practically wiped out Amer
lean trade with the Flowery Kingdom.
Besides this, his information from trade
agents in China led him to believe that
the lives of all Caucasian missionaries
are in the greatest danger.
He says that the native chambers of
commerce, finally aroused by the harsh
application Of our exclusion law, have ap-
piled our own weapon, the boycott. He
says the awakening is due largely to the
work of the Chinese empire reform asso-
citation, a new organization, whose OBJ
jects are neither anti-foreign nor revo-
lutionary, but the reorganization of the
empire on modern lines and the adapta-
ton of western methods of industry
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08

What causes Il rattling in the throats
OF fowls that seem all right otherwise?
Probably draft and wet have given
them ratarrh or cold" When you
hear that 'rattling" clean up generally,
scald all vessels, and in each quart of
drinking water put tablet of anti
mony and arsenite, one-thousandth of a
grain, or n teaspoonful of kerosene.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08

meeting heavy naval expenditures a-so
the cost of current operations at Pan
anna and setting apart for irrigation
the money received from land sales
in the arid states and territories As
the treasury is almost balanced in in
come and Outgo, the pressure for Tar
if revision can only be explained as
the same old Free Trade racket. That
it should present itself under various
DISCUSSES is an acknowledgment that
it knows itself to be justly discredited,
and that its Identification with hard
nit of it offering itself simply and
candidly On its merits.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
About the Stable.

The stable should have some means
by which the foul air can be taken
away, but not by letting the cold air
directly down upon the animals. In
the middle of bright days a door or
window may be opened, the width de-
pending on the temperature outside.
Nothing gives the animals more COM
fort or Is more economical than a lib
eral supply of bedding. Sawdust and
machine shavings are clean, easily han
died, good absorbents, but possess it
tie manurial value. Hay, straw or
leaves, however, add much of value to
the compost pile when saturated NOR:
or less with the moisture of the stable
and will be needed for the garden or
shrubs and lawn next spring. 1t Is
economy to blanket the horses, wheth,,r
the stable be cold or not. In cold
stable a thick blanket should be used,
while in warm one thin one of bur
lap or other like material will suffice.
Aside from the warmth it gives, the
blanket keeps the coat smooth and
Cleans. T. Maynard in Suburban
Life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
Living by Eggs Alone.

The other day a number Of persons
attending meeting Of pure food advo-
Gates in New York made the announce
ment that the only really pure food is
the fresh egg. Luigi Cornaro the fam
Gus Italian of some centuries back,
who, at the age Of 40, with his constitu-
ton apparently ruined through ex-
cesses, adopted a regimen that enabled
him to live as long as he wanted to
live, and died Of ennui on the threshold
Of his hundredth year, set great store
by the egg. 1t was this interesting
gentleman who reduced his diet by de-
grees until he sustained himself in
serenity and comfort on a single egg
day
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
VIII Not Go Democratic.

Mr.. Guild, recently elected governor
by the Republicans of Massachusetts,,
says the party would have been over
whelmingly defeated, but for conces-
sions on tariff revision. Mr.. Guild al
lows himself to be unduly alarmed. 1t
is a large pot of beans to half a dough
nut that the state will support protec-
ton in the future as steadily as in the
past, and the fewer the weakened ad,
visers the bigger the majority. Repub,
lican national platforms have always
been winners in Massachusetts, st.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08

trees in winter, and even in the North
the practice will be profitable. The
San Jose scale is the worst of all the
scales. In the Southern states it is
particularly destructive because of its
long breeding period, the young appear
ing In May and being produced until
the following January.
This scale chooses the valuable
fruits for its victims-peach, plum,
cherry. pear and apple, in the order
named-and devours many ornamentals
and the useful currant beside.-Garden
Magazine
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
OWEN MILWAUKEE POSTMASTER
Appointment by President Ends
Hard Political Struggle.

The appointment of David c. Owen as
postmaster of Milwaukee, which President
Roosevelt sent to the Senate Wednesday,
ends one of the hottest fights for that
position in many years. There were six
candidates for the position, and the Mil
waukee Congressman became badly mixed
over the situation. Finally Postmaster
General Cortelyou made the decision for
himself, picking Mr.. Owen. When the
Congressman later united on W. l. Greene
Mr.. CortelyOu refused to recede.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
ELOPES ON WEDDING EVE.
HilIsborough Bride Then Buys OFF
Man Whom She Disappointed.

Edward Coon and Miss Annie Bauer,
both of Hillsborough, were to have been
married in GAINESVILLE the other day. Coon
gave his prospective bride $50 to buy
her wedding outfit in GAINESVILLE, but soon
after her arrival she lost her heart to
Richard Luloff, a shoe clerk, and they
fled to Rockford and were married. Coon
demanded a settlement for his broken
heart and was given his $50 engagement
ring and a note for 500.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
Feeding Calves in Winter.

If the calf IS to be wintered In order
to market to the best advantage in the
spring it must have good rations from
now on; not necessarily expensive
grains and roughage, but those which
will enable it to make the greatest gain.
Such q ration would be found in corn
and oats fed at the rate of five pounds
a day for six-months-old calves, and
mixed in equal quantities this ration
is given on the basis of having an
abundance of good clover hay to
feed as roughage, giving them all CT
the hay they will eat clean. Such a
ration would not be expensive and
would leave the calf In good condition
to market In the spring or to turn out
to pasture and be marketed in the fall.
If, however, the calf is to be raised
better ration would be a little less
roughage, about One-third more grain,
making the addition in the form Of
bran, and adding to the ration a lib
eral feed of roots twice week for the
benefit of the digestive organs. Then
the calf should have exercise daily,
outdoors when the weather will permit,
and under a large shed when the
weather is too cold for outdoor eXer-
else. Comfortable beds and clean body
and stable with the rations suggested
Will make the calf grow wonderfully
well.-EXchange
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
Free-Trade Strategy.

1t must be apparent to intelligent
observers that the noise about Tariff
revision is in substance and purpose
a piece of Democratic Free Trade
strategy. The Dingley Tariff contin-
ues to work we'll. Customs receipts
are increasing. The Government rev
enue this month exceeds expenditures
by several millions. Probably there
Will be small deficit again this year
but no occasion exists for far-reach-
ing legislation on that point. The
treasury has kept nearly even, though
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
Wedges.

The Republican party is split, almos,
splintered-Burlingto IN. j. Amer
lean.
The entering wedge was the Cuban
reciprocity blunder. The next bigger
wedge is the Philippine Free Trade
bill. Two more wedges will complete
the splitting and the splintering: Tar
if revision and reciprocity in coupe
titive products. Next! - American
Economist
The Hawaiian Islands were discov-
cred by Gaetano, a Spanish navigator,
1912 The indeI Evidence of these
islands was recognized by the United
States in 1929, and more formally in
1S43, by Belgium in 1874, and by Eng
land and France later in the same
year.
1t is thought that the game of whist
was first played in the time of King
Henry VIII. of England.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
SNyIIzcrInnd,s Eine CnNS.

The little republic of Switzerland
has 100000 cows. all mixers. They
average 5000 pounds of milk a year
per COW, with total valuation of
S44.000.0O0 Forty-two per cen. is used
for home consumption and the rest for
condensed milk, cheese and butter
The cheese is made in some 1000 small
creameries, some of them cooperative
The average price of cheese in 1908
was Is cents per pound, of which the
United States imported $1,300O0t
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
To Dust Chicago Phones

Under the decision of the Illinois Su-
preme Court the city of Chicago has be-
gun action to forfeit the franchise of the
Chicago Telephone Company, to GUST it
from the use of the city streets. The
city holds that the company has no long
o. rights under the ordinance Of 1889.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
Aged Woman Fights Fire Alone.

With a brisk blaze which every moment
threatened to destroy her home in La
Crosse, Mrs Anna Johnson, aged 50,
bravely fought the flames and succeeded
in smothering them alone, without raising
an alarm On account of the severe ex-
ertion and exposure Mrs. johnson is i'll.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
Industrial Invasion of Canada.

At Winnipeg, Manitoba, it is reported
that land agents within two months have
sold 10000 acres of land in the Cana
dian Northwest to prospective New Eng
land settlers, and that $1,000 settlers are
expected from New York and Ohio this
spring. This movement probably accounts
for the large number of farms for sale
in the Eastern States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
CORSET STEEL SAVES WOMAN.
Defects Shot Fired by Jealous Man,
Who Later Commits Suicide.

James McGraw shot and killed I'D.
Cameron, a saloonkeeper in Spooner, af-
ter which he went to Mrs. McGraw's room
and shot her. Her corset steel detected
the bullet and saved her life. McGraw
escaped and an hour later appeared at the
home of Winsor Pleine, on the outskirts
of town, and asked permission to warm
himself, secured butcher knife and stab
bed himself in the neck, causing instant
death.