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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
News of Minor Note.

Roy Ferguson, IS years old, of Candy,
MINI, committed suicide at Sioux Falls,
S. D.
Brooklyn, y. Y, is to have $1,000
600 Roman Catholic cathedral after the
general style of Notre Dame de Rouen,
France.
District Attorney Jerome of New York.
in a Georgia address, scored the action Of
President Roosevelt in criticising a fed
eral judge.
A scarcity of Autographs * threatened.
as the $4,000 photographers of the country
may strike if their demands for shorter
hours are refused.
The battleship Rhode Island, which was
in collision with steamer at Norfolk
Va, was only slightly injured. Two guns
and their mounts were damaged.
Joseph Vargo was shot and killed after
leavi, a Buffalo, n. Y. saloon. and
William F!c34ingston, Joliet. H.. and
Samuel Price, the bartender, were de-
tanned.
Male Spencer Willard wife Of Rev.
Earle S. Willard and daughter of Prof.
l.. r. Spencer, the originator of the Spen-
ccrian style of penmaaship, was granted
an absolute divorce on the ground of cru
city at Newport News. Va.
The president of the Independent To-
bacco Company filed charges with Com
missioner Garfield in Norfolk, Va, in
which it is alleged that the American Tc-
bacco Company is guilty of gross discrim-
iDation against The Southern States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09

one of the artistically classic structures
in the stricken city. About twenty years
were spent in its erection, and the cost
when completed was close to 100000.
The building covered nearly three acres,
its dome stood 335 feet above the level
Of the sidewalk, and this majestic piece
of architecture was crowned by no.
bic figure of Progress. A subordinate
dome over the semi-detached hall had
been praised by critics for its symmet-
rical grandeur. The great towering
dome is seen standing supported by the
iron structural columns. This is a most
interesting picture of the disaster at
San Francisco, as showing the effects
Of both earthquake and fire.
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The reduction in western passenger
fares from to cents has caused re
duction in rates from Chicago to Colo
RADIO common points from $29.50 to
S2S.6J.
The Appellate Court at Indianapolis
upheld the right of appeal from the rail
road commission, and refused to dismiss
an appeal taken by the Monon railroad
from an order of the commission. The
court called on the Attorney General to
defend the law.
The passenger department Of the St.
Paul road has issued an attractive Grand
Army pamphlet, which is being distributed
throughout the entire country. 1t is en-
graved in colors, and gives illustrations
of the scenery which can be enjoyed en-
route to the Twin Cities.
The Southern Pacific is taking novel
way to advertise the Shasta route. Half
tone panoramic views of Lake Tahoe, in
California, and of Mount Shasta
are being sent broadcast. The pictures
are of lars4 size. and suitable for framing
and placing on the walls of the home.
Col. A. J. Smith. general passenger and
ticket agent of the Lake Shore and Michi-
gan Southern Railway, died at Harrietts-
town. y. Y, in the Adirondack Noun
tains. after an fitness of several weeks
Smith was 66 years of age. An attack
of pneumonia early this spring was fol-
lowed by an abscess on the lungs, which
was the direct cause of death. Smith was
ono of tbe best known railway men in
the country, beginning his railway career
m 1866. His rise was rapid. In 1888 he
was appointed general passenger and tick
ct agent by the Lake Shore.
The board of directors of the Illinois
Central railroad has approved the officers
recommended tions for general expenditures
for the coming fiscal year. The budget
calls for a total outlay of S1,217, 264 and
covers improvements in track, shops and
new equipment. Nearly every mile of the
entire system is to receive a share of the
money voted.
The management of the Wabash road
has nlaced orders for new equipment to
cost about S6,SOO,OOO The orders in
clude 1000 forty-foot box cars, each of
forty tons capacity; 1000 steel under
frame coal cars, each of fifty tons capac-
ity: sixty freight and twenty switch en-
gines of the heaviest type.
Though gravel is conceded to make the
easiest riding roadbed, its dust feature
has made it a nuisance to the travelling
public. General Manager Rawn of the
Illineis Central and his assistant Mr..
Fritch. have made a find" in the way of
dustless gravel. Recently the company
began taking gravel out of the Mississippi
river at the Memphis bars. 1t is taken
out with a centrifugal pump at the ratio
of about sixty carloads every ten hours
The gravel, being washed for centuries, is
free from soil, the only thing on it IS
sand and all but % per cent of this is
washed off after it Is taken from the river.
The first of this new ballast is being used
On the Yazoo Valley line.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
FLYER ENGINE IN RIVER.
New York Central Pacific Express
Wrecked by Landslide.

New N0rk Central Pacific Express
Wrecked by Landslide.
\ landslide one mile south of New
Hamburg, n. Y, caused the wreck of tn,
New York Central Pacific express trail
at II 80 o'clock Sunday night, killing Ed
ward Wells of Albany, the engineer, ant
Edward Warren of New York, the fire
man. About dozen passengers were in
jured, none of them fatally. The engin,
jumped over the embankment into tn,
Hudson River, while the cars were hurlet
into a tangled mass and the three track
were torn up for over 100 feet, complete
" blocking traffic.
The wreck was the worst that has oc
Cured ON the Hudson River division sine,
the New York tunnel disaster. 1t seem!
miraculous that there was no fatalities o.
serious injuries among the passengers, es
pecially among the twenty or more mel
who were in the combination smoking ana
baggage car, which, when the locomotive
turned over after blowing for forty fee
into the great heap of gravel which had
fallen down upon the track, shot upward
and then turning almost at right angles
came down with a crash across all three
tracks.
Fireman Warren was dead when he
and the engineer were lifted out of the
locomotive, which TUNED at right angles
from the train, darted across the track
and. turning on its side, lay on the en-
bankment with the front of the boiler in
the river. The engineer died three hours
later.
slightly telescoped, but of the eight cars
that composed the train only the first
three left the rails. although the track
was so badly twisted under some of the
others that the cars inclined to one side
and the panic among the 100 passengers
was at first general throughout the train.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
PAY 2,e23,o67 FOR FIRE.
Amount Represents Actual 1nsur.
ance Loss at Frisco.

State superintendent of Insurance
Otto Kelsey Of New York has made
public the results of his investigation
as to the losses of fire insurance COM
panies in the San Francisco disaster.
All joint stock fire and inland ma
rine insurance companies transacting
business in the State We're called on
for a sworn statement as to their losses
in California. The companies were
asked for the gross amount of insur-
ance involved in risks destroyed or
damaged, the deduction for amount to
be recovered from the reinsurance, the
deduction for estimated salvage, the
total deduction and the net amount Of
loss as shown by the records June 80,
1906.
The New York State companies, for
ty-seven in number, show the gross
amount of insurance involved as SAL
110,0G9; the reinsurance to be recov-
cred, $1G,S34, 195: the estimated sal
wage, $7,137,1S3, and the actual amount
of loss, $23, 13S,00O.
Returns from other joint stock fire
and fire marine insurance companies,
eighty-fOur in number, snow gross
amount of insurance, $50, 423. 104; rein
surance to be recovered, So. 100. 167: es-
timated salvage, $11,3JS, 42J; actual
amount of loss, sol, 1853, III
The foreign companies, thirty-two in
number, made these returns: Gross in.
surance involved, S1O1, 302, j33; reinsur-
ance to be recovered, $50 30, sos; est.
mated salvage. $15,31S,S59. and actual
loss $57,701 ,S56. The gross amount of
insurance involved by all companies
wasS222. S3G,307 the reinsurance, $50.
240.771; salvage. So, S14, 46S, and act.
ual loss S132, S27 ,067.
The company with the largest loss is
the Hartford Fire Of Connecticut, ac-
cording to the report Its loss is Sc,
1856, 701.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
DOUMA LEADERS HIT.
ACTION STARTED AGAINST SIGN
Frs OF VIBORG MANIFESTO.
Members of Late Popular Legislative
Body May Be Sent to Mines or
Immured in Prison-RebelIion
Among Troops.

The public prosecutor in St Peters
burg has started proceedings against
the members Of the lower house of par
Lament who signed the yiborg mani
feSto.
The charge under which the signers
of the manifesto will be brought to
trial is a violation of article 129 Of
the criminal code, which provides for
attempts to overthrow the existing
government" This is virtually high
treason. The maximum pena'ty is hard
labor in the mines.
No arrests yet have been reported,
and the constitutional Democrats do
not anticipate anything approaching
punishment of their representatives. 1t
is understood that the arrested will be
admitted to bail pending trial. The
constitutional Democrats are chiefly ap-
prehensive that the possibility of pros
ecutiOn held over the heads of their
leaders will render them ineligible for
reelection, in the same manner that
Prof. Milukoff and NJ. Hessel and 9th
ers were excluded from the last lower
house.
Socialist and radical members of the
late house may have to cool their heels
in cells for a long time and thus be
prevented from continuing the full
f1edged revolutionary agitation upon
which they now are embarked. Many
of these eX-members now are living I'M
der cover in the houses of friends in
st. Petersburg or have gone into hid
ing in the provinces.
Governments Action No" planned
The motives of the government for
abandoning its attitude not to prose
cute the signers of the Viborg mani
festo, as set forth recently by Premier
Stolypin in an interview, is not stated,
but evidently it was influenced by the
need of doing something to counteract
the effect of the Viborg address This
has attained an enormous circulation in
the provinces, in spite of the greatest
efforts on the part of the administra-
ton to prevent its publication.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
Shaw's Financial Move.

Secretary Shaw has designated a num-
Der of national banks as government de-
positOries and notified them that the bonds
to secure deposits should be placed with
the government at once. At the same time
he has called the loan made to various in
stitutions with State and municipal bonds
as security to the amount of S10,OO0,O0O
This had TO be paid in on or before the
10th. the date of sale of the new Panama
bonds. The treasury will leave on deposit
with the banks at least ona-thRd OF
amount of the Panama issue.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
SAVED FROM THE SEA.
TWO MEN AND BOY TAKEN
FROM WRECKED VESSEL.
Had Been CIinginc to Ships Bottom
for Two Days and Were stark
Mad-Havoc by CIOudburst ia
Hamburg Pa.

Raying. stark mad. after having cluns
10 the bottom Of a fishing schooner for
TWO days after being shipwrecked, two
men and a boy were rescued from Pamlico
sound. off The Virginia coast. Two wOm-
en- who were on the vessel are missing.
Those saved are l. y. Balance, Charles
Foster and Bonnie Jcnnett, the last nam
eG being a mere lad. The women missing
are Mrs. 5. A. Johnson and Mss Jennie
BnrruS Of Middleton, y. c. The crew
of the schooner Annie Farrow were the
rescuers. and the wrecked vessel was tn,
luther r. May. The rescuers saw the
schooner floating bottom upwards. life
boat was sent out. and the men and boy
We're taken Of. They had been without
food or water for two days, since the YES
sci was overturned in a gale. The two
women were in the cabin when the vessel
was wrecked and had no chance Of escape.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
TELLS OF HIS wANDERINGs.
Alleged EmbezzIer Has Been in
Nearly Every State In Union.

Nearly Every State In Union.
Former Mayor William e. Belcher, of
Paterson, \. J., who surrendered himself
at the county Jail in that city the other
day, after having been fugitive from
justice for about a year, told the story
of his wanderings. He said he went to
Bartlett \. H., to recover from rheu-
matism end stopped there for a time IN
der an assumed name. Il have been in
Boston and in the White mountains" he
said. Only once l left the country for
a short trip to Canada. | have been IN
nearly every State in the Union since
went away. l have not seen face l
knew since l left Paterson. | am glad to
be here, although l am a prisoner.
What have you done with the money
you got?" he was asked. That's sub
ject of which l am not willing to speak
at this time" replied Belcher. IF the
100000 is gone, some one else must have
got it and blamed it on me; but | shall
implicate no one in what | did. | shall
stand alone. The stories that | am going
to implicate several officers in the city
government are false" A dozen indict-
ments have been found against Belcher,
in which he is accused of embezziing
about S1jO.OOO The Manchester Build
ing and Loan Association, of which he
was president, was forced to go into bank
ruDtcV
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09

A manifesto to the peasants OF RuS-
STA has been issued in the joint names
of all the various labor, socialist, and
revolutionary organizations, including
the representatives of these organiza-
tons in the defunct lower house. This
manifesto declares that the hopes re-
posed in the lower house Of parliament
have been blasted by the diabolical de-
signs of the crowd Of grand dukes,
courtiers, and wealthy land proprietorS
assembled around the Emperor, whose
only purpose can be the maintenance of
their power over tno people. By dis
persing the elected representatives of
the people and arresting and imprison-
ing them the government has declared
war on the nation, and a struggle is be-
ginning in which rivers of blood will
flow and for which the criminal gov
eminent is responsible. The people
must not spare the government.
Alleges Betrayal of People.
This manifesto further accuses the
government of betraying the fatherland
by invoking the aid of German and
Austrian troops. The people therefore
are urged to remove the local author
ity everywhere, to replace it with men
elected by themselves and to contiscate
all state funds. The troops also must
conform to the orders Of those elected
by the people. The workmen in the
towns, the peasantry, and all toilers
must, in conjunction with the troops,
seize the liberty and take the land
which the government has denied them.
The land thus possessed must be hand
ed over to the popularity elected local
authorities pending the elaboration of
a new land law.
Rebellion Breaks Out Among Troops
From POltava was reported the first
serious revolutionary outbreak involv-
ing the army. The outbreak followed
the arrest of several soldiers discovered
in a house known to be a meeting place
of the revolutionaries. After the ar
rests the entire first battalion, accom-
panied by a large crowd, paraded the
streets in defiance of the military au-
tborities. The soldiers proceeded to
the military barracks, where they seiz-
ed several guns and marched with them
to the prison the political prisoners
are confined in. At this stage all the
remainder of the Poltaya garrison were
called out.
A dispatch from HelsingfOrs, Fin
land. says that a portion of the garri-
son of Sveaborg Finland, mutined and
that a long and sanguinary struggle
took place between the nlutineers and
the loyal troops, in which the rebels
are said to have been victorious. The
mutineers, it is added, are now in pos
session of the fortress. Many were
killed or wounded during the fighting.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $640; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $500 sheep, fair to choice, $500 to
$500; wheat, No 2, lie to re; corn,
No. 2, 49c to soc; oats, standard, 34c to
35c; rye, No. =, soc to SIC; hay. limo
thy, $1,000 to $500; prairie, $500 to
$500; butter, choice creamery, 1Sc to
Ole; eggs, fresh, 15c 10 10c; potatoes,
new, 4Sc to 53c.
apolis-Cattle, shipping, $500
to 5000; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 TO
$500; sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to
$3.50; wheat, No. ., 70c to lie; corn,
No. = white, 52c to 53c; oats, No. 2
white, &c to 34c.
St. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to 5000;
hogs, $500 to $G.35; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, 69c to roc; corn,
No. 2, 4Sc to Soc oats. No. 2, 29c TO
30c; rye, No. .. G3c to Gle
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to 1923;
hogs, $4OO to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$50: wheat, No. 2, 74c to Zoe; corn,
No. mixed, 54c to soc: oats, No.
mixed, 36c to SIC; rye, No. =, GOc to
62c.
Detroit-Cattlc, $4O0 to $500; hogs,
$4OO to $7.1O; sheep, $3.50 to $45O;
wheat No. ,, 74c to Toe; corn. No 3
yellow, ode to 5Jc; oats. No. 3 white,
SIC to 30c: rye, No. ,, 5Sc to J0c
Observation-Disclosures. No. northern,
76c to lie; corn, No. 3, 4Sc to 49c;
oats, standard, 34c to Soc; rye, No. /,
59c to 60c; barley, standard, J3c to ole;
pork, mess, $1G.40.
Bufalo-Cattlc, choice shipping steers,
$500 to 5000: hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $500; sheep common to good mixed,
$500 to 500; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to S7.75.
New York-Cattle. $500 to $40;
hogs, $500 to $40; sheep. $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2 red nc to 7Sc;
corn. No. 2, SOC to SIC; oats. natural
white, CSC to 39c; butter, creamery, lie
to 21c; eggs, western, 15c to 1Sc.
Toledo-Wheat, No, 2 mixed, 76c to
7Sc; corn, No. mixed, &c to dc;
oats. No mixed 38c 70 30c; rye No.
2, 5Sc to SOC; clover seed, prime, $685..
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
EXPLOSION KILLS AND INJURIES.
Disaster in Indiana Throws Boiler
Agninst Historic Mansion.

Harry Borders and LATE Lichey were
killed and over twenty were injured by
the explosion of a boiler at the plant of
the Vincennes Paper Mills Company in
Vincennes, Ind. The property loss is
$4,000. The worst injuries to the sur
Vlvors were suffered by Charles Connors,
who was blown fifty feet through the air
The boiler house was destroyed. The
boiler was hurled through the roof over
the main building 100 feet distant, tore
down a tree and badly damaged the Har-
rison mansion, which was the home of
William Henry Harrison, when he was
Governor of the Northwest Territory
Mrs. Edward Shepard, wife of one of the
p1Oprietors, who lives in tie mansion, was
slightly injured. ~...s
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
DYNAMITE SUICIDE FOR LOVER.
Youth, Thyvarted, Ties Explosive
About Neck and ExpIodes 1t.


About Neck and ExpIodes 1t.
On Washington avenue the main thor
oughfare of Wellington, Kan, in front of
the Wellington National Bank, Graham
Dibbs, a young railroad clerk, blew him
self into eternity with dynamite. Love
for Rosa Bonhetz, a beautiful girl who
did not return his affection, prompted the
deed. Dibbs told a friend with whom he
roomed that he was going to kill himself !;
the friend thought he was joking. Dibbs
bought quantity of dynamite, placed 1t
in sack, tied it around his neck, and set
fire to a fuse attached. Spectators were
Mortified by the impending tragedy, but
were helpless to prevent it. From safe
distance they watched the fire creep closer
and closer to the fatal bag. Then, as the
young man, seeming to realize his fate at
the last moment desperately strOve to tear
the bag off and throw it from him, there
was terrific explosion and the unfortu-
nate young man was blown into atoms.
Where he stood there was grewsome, gap
ing hole in the street, but not a piece of
his body was recovered. So terrific was
the force of the explosion that windows
were broken block away.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
TRUSTS IN PANAMA FOOD.
| Prices Have Been Increased 100
| Per Cent on Isthmus.


Per Cent on Isthmus.
Trusts and combinations in the 18TH
milan canal zone succeeded in increasing
the price of meats, vegetables and fruits
more than 100 per cent and forced the
Panama commission to pass a resolution
recent meeting enabling its agents to
buy supplies in the open market and with
out advertising for bids. Members of the
commission say they discovered that all
the dealers in provisions who had sufi
Gent capital to furnish the bond required
of bidders on supplies had pooled their
interests and cornered the contracts for
vegetables, meat and fruit required for the
hotels and messes The combination was
IL position to demand prohibitive prices,
and the commission was forced to change
its methods and enable small dealers and
producers to compete for the business. As
a safeguard the commission has decided
that not more than $500 worth of supplies
is TO be bought daily in the open market
without asking for bids. This limits pur
chases to perishable provisions.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
OHIO OFFICIAL SHORT S272,454.
Summit County Treasurer Oyerdraft
of Nearly Million Decreased.

Examiners Poulson and Raley filed
their report of the examination of the
Summit county treasury with Judge Par
dee in Akron, Ohio. 1t shows that there
is a deficit in the treasury of 1912, 454
The examiners say this deficit was 1892,
154 at the time the examination was be-
gun, but that since then a large amount
Of borrowed money has been returned.
The report says that a large part of the
loans are unsecured and that a consid-
cradle part of the securities representing
loans of the public funds are renewals of
obligations taken by former treasurers
and carried by the present treasurer, Fred
Z, Smith. Smith declares that the vault
in the court house is unsafe for public
funds and that the cost of his bonds,
100000 in all, is so high and his salary
so low that he had to lend money to keep
ahead.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09
! New York.

Trade, industrial and
NUN lGlk. crop developments are gen
orally favorable. Fair ac-
tivity for a vacation period IS witnessed
in trade circles in which the usual
preparations for fall trade are max
ing, with a more than ordinary Opt
mistic feeling visible as regards fall
and winter business. In the leading
industries more than seasOnable activity
rules, with the iron and steel trades
leading in volume of demand and out
put. Building continues active, and
materials move well, though easiness
in Southern yellow pine is expected to
last until autumn. The crop situation
seems to lose nothing as the growing
season advances.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ended July 26 num-
Der III, against 1SS last week, 1917 in
the like week of 1908. III in 1904, 100
in 1903, and 16S in 1902
In Canada failures number twenty
four, as against eighteen last week and
twenty-eight in this week a year ago
Bradstreet's Commercial Report