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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10

charged all the way from 81 to 50 y
head, ' lie on the down trip they
turned their signs over and offered
rides for 10 cents to the ferry.
In the afternoon, when the throng
of people began to return to Oakland,
Berkeley and Alameda, Sacramento
and other points necessary to reach by
use of the ferry to get across the bay.
they made the downtown trip from 81
to SO, or whatever they could get.
Carloads of clothing of every kind
of wearing apparel known to man and
woman were hauled away to the camps
by the wagon load. A town down the
coast sent a dozen barrels of clay pipes
and tobacco. Somebody shipped Il
whole carload of rubber coats and rub
Der boots evidently being touched by
the reports of suffering of the refugees
through the heavy rains. They reached
San Francisco when the sun was shin
ing and the day warm and clear as Il
crystal.
irsifn tahefiis ON the IN nlnS
Every other man and woman who
visited the stricken city carried a ko-
dak or camera. They were climbing
around like flies to find convenient
point from which to take a picture of
some particular ruin. In front of the
wreck of the City Hall, which is the
most picturesque wreck caused by the
earthquake alone. hundreds of camera
.fiends were in line The ruins of Ne
chanics' Pavilion was also another at
tractive spot, although there was moth
ing left there but a burned spot OF
bricks and ashes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
KILL 1000 HORSES.
Poisoners Organized to Stay Rival
Business Mems Steeds Exposed.

Poisoners Organized to Stay Rival
Business Mems Steeds Exposed.
Samuel Geller, leader of a band that
is said to have poisoned more than 1000
horses in Greater New York during the
last five years, has been sentenced to
serve year in the penitentiary. He is
30 years old and lived in Brooklyn. Gel
Ter was charged with having poisoned
seven horses by giving them arsenic
When the case was closed Supt Charles
II. Hankinson of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals told the
court that Gellers conviction was one of
the greatest victories in the interest of
dumb animals of which he ever knew
"Geller has been the head of a band that
has willfully destroyed hundreds and hun
dreds Of horses during the last five years,
said Hankinson. The members of the
band hire out to rival business men, and
by administering arsenic to the horses Of
one or the other reap a rich harvest. The
fortunes the poor beasts suffer in being
thus put to death is indescribable."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
CHICAGO.
Business generally de

Business generally de-
| UllclGO. rived further impetus,
t----l the seasonable weather
permitting some extension of activity,
consumption of commodities being on
an enormous scale, and new demands
making a satisfactory aggregate in both
the leading productive and distributing
branches. Aside from the purely con-
mercial progress, the week is note
worthy in the remarkably prompt and
liberal response made in aid of the
San Francisco sufferers and the dem
onstration of the city's ability TO fur
nish adequate supplies of food and
other necessarieS upon the shortest no.
tice
The markets FOR raw material have
shown no diminution in their high
volume of absorption and prices ex-
hibit ttrmness in the face of more lib
eral receipts. Heavy materials con-
tinue 90 provide an Unprecedented
freight tonnage for the railroads, while
lake carrying permits a large move
ment of grain, lumber and fuel.
Construction is favored by good
weather. this enabling more Roadway
to be made in new buildings, track and
bridge work and shipbuiIding. Whole
sale dealings present fair totals in
staple wares, shipments to the interior
indicating further repleniShmenb of
clothing and footwear stocks Late re-
ports show both local and country re-
tail sales advancing in lightweight APP
parel, victuals and household furnish
ings.
The total quantity of grain handled
at this port 7.437.934 bushels, com
pares with 7.615,2S2 bushels last week
and G,433, 76T bushels year ago.
The markets for primary foodstuffs
exhibited the best sustained activity in
coarse grains and hog products, no i'm
pavement having developed for -four
and wheat. Compared with the clos
ings week ago, prices are higher, in
oats Is cent per bushel. and in sheep,
cents hundredweight. but have de-
clined in wheat x cent. corn q cent,
lard ~ cents, ribs II cents, pork 80
cents, cattle ) cents and hogs 20 cents
Bank clearings, $2O1 90. T94. exceed
those of corresponding week in 1905 by
% per cent.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number %, against % last week
and "A year ago.-Dun's Review of
Trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10

fares and return by Market street. Out
Van Ness and Golden Gate avenues the
procession was simply one solid mass
of moving wagons, vans, buggies, auto
mobiles, equestrians as we'll as the peo-
pie on foot,
Railroads took advantage of the OPP
pOrtunity to get back some of the mon
ey lost through free transportation to
the refugees early in the week and the
week before They ran excursions from
all points and the trains were packed
There were no restrictions placed
upon the sightseers except as to loot
ing, but in many places this order was
disobeyed. Souvenirs of everything
movable were carried away. One man
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10

John r. Walsh Of Chicago waived ex-
animation ON charges of making false
bank reports and was held 10 the federal
grand jury under u $4,000 bond
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
WILSON SEES GOOD CROPS.
Secretary of Agriculture Says Con-
ditions Are Fine.

OItIonS Are
Secretary Wilson, who had a talk with
the President the other day about some
routine matters in the Department of Ag-
riculture, said that reports from all parts
of the country indicated good crops. The
spring is late this year," said the Secre-
tary, mot only in Washington but
throughout the country. This is fine corn
weather, however. and everywhere the
crops are in excellent condition. In the
dry parts of the West there is plenty Of
moisture and all of the spring crops are
doing finely. Farming has been reduced
to a science and there is not the danger
now of absolute failure of crops in any
section that used to prevail. Throughout
the middle West and West l expect to
see bountiful crops this year. That will
be good for the people and good for the
government. We are all right"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10

The Scientific American supplement de-
scribes the new type of boiler invented nv
Chief Engineer Maurice of the French
navy, which is able TO keep on supplying
steam for several hours after the fire has
been extinguished. The storage consists
in the use of mixture of salts having
a great specific heat, and surrounding the
greater part of the tubular system. Fire
brings the temperature of these salts to
81 F., and this keeps up the production
of steam for long time after the fire
has ceased.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
RodN Eound in Old Weu

With his throat cut and the artery in
his right wrist severed the body of Alfred
Schubert was found in an ancient well
at Corona, n. Y. Many circumstances
indicate murder to the minds of the
Flushing police and of Coroner Amber,
who has charge of the investigation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
CROWDS SEE RUINS.
BAN ON SIGHTSEEING LIFTED
IN SAN FRANCISCO.
Trains Bring Thousands of Excur-
sionists from Outside - Great
Quantities of Relief SuppHeS-
Relic Hunters Barred

Fully 100000 persons crowded
cisco Sunday TO view a sight they prob
ably will never have the opportunity Of
witnessing again Owing to the con
fusion in Market street, where the
street cars were running for the first
time since the catastrophe, the police
and soldiers were finally compelled TO
turn the crowds down East street to
Mission and Seward streets and allow
the procession to enter the burnt bust
ness district through these thorough
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10

WESTERN LEAGUE.
HELD FOR SHOOTING LOVER.
Girl Is Arrested for Firing Shot that
May Prove Fatal.

At farmhouse four miles from Leb-
anon, y. H.. Jesse Barden. u years Of
age, was perhaps fatally shot, and the
authorities have arrested Ethel Sturte-
want II years old, for the crime. The
trouble occurred at the home of the young
woman. Charles Barden. we'll known in
Grange circles, is the victims father
Young Barden in deposition declared
thar the Sturtevant girl had shot him.
The young woman denies this. asserting
that the shot was fired by one of two
young men who were also at her home
that evening. 1t is alleged that Barden
had been paying the girl marked attention
for several months up to December last,
when these attentions suddenly ceased
When a search of the Sturtevant house
was made Il :}2-caliber revolver with one
chamber empty was found under pillow
on the bed in the girls room.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10

Pierced through the heart by a carving
knife, Il part of his table silver. which
for years he had carried each night to a
place out Of the reach of burglars. II. II.
Clifford wealthy resident of Ferguson,
Mo, was killed almost instantly. As he
was mounting the stairs from the dining
room. carrying the silver, he stumbled
and fell on the point of the blade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
FIRE IN STEEL PLANT.
Valuable Dies and Models Are De-
strOyed by Flames.

strOyed by Flames.
a fire apparently due to sparks from
an electric motor caused a loss of $780,
600 in the blacksmith shop of the Illinois
Steel Company's plant in South Chicago.
The private fire department or the com
pany proved insufficient to control the
flames, and fearing that the fire would
spread to other parts of the building the
South Chicago department was summon
ed. Sixty men were at work in the shop
when the fire started and were so busily
engaged that the flames had made consid-
cradle Roadway before discovered. Off
Gals of the company said the loss would
probably reach $4,000. Valuable dies
and models were destroyed or so badly
damaged that they would have TO be re-
placed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
Die, After ConfesS;np Theft

George G. Berry, loan clerk of w. j.
Hayes & Son, bankers in Cleveland, died
suddenly under mysterious circumstances.
He was confronted with proofs of misap-
plicstion of funds and was said to have
confessed. The shortage was $4,000. A
bottle that had contained wood alcohol
was found in his room. The coroner is
INVESTIGATING
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
pa;sir Combine n FaiIure

The California Raisin Growers Com
many. cooperative concern, which in
cluded a large number of raisin growers
under a capitalization of 100000. has
gone out of business, thus leaving the
packers free to regulate prices. The price
of raisins is now from 3 to 4 cents
Mound
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
Murderer Haush Not Insane.

The jury in the Mnacy inquest into
The sanity of DR.. Oliver c. laugh return
ed verdict il Dayton. Ohio declaring
him sane. Uaugh is under sentence to GO
to the electric chair having been convict
ed Of first degree murder of his father
mother and brother and the burning of
their home.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
Accuses Railroads and Standard on.

President Roosevelt in a message to
Congress accompanying the report of
Commissioner Garfield accused the Stand
ard Oil Company and the railroads of lille
gal acts in the manipulation of rebates
and secret rates to the destruction of in
dependent operators and the loss of mill
ions of dollars to the public, suggested
the probability of prosecutions and point
ed a legal remedy for the abuses.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
Try Again to Wreck Train

An effort 10 wreck a Lehigh Valley
train near Yatesville, Pa, where one was
dynamited week before, was made
again. A heavy rail, weighing several
hundred pounds. was wedged in the track
A train was tagged in the nick of time
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10

Advertise in this paper.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10

Jas H. "a RF LID. lation of the inter
state commerce law, and others. whether
technically illegal or not had the same
effect on competitors. On some State
business secret rates were applied by
means of rebates. These determinations
have been so long continued, so secret. so
ingeniously applied to new conditions of
trade and so large in amount as to make
1t certain that they were due to concert
ed action by the Standard and the rail
roads.-James r. Garfield, Commissioner
of Corporations.
Commissioned Garfield Finds:
The Standard Oil Company gets secret
rates and open advantages on practically
all lines.
Published tariffs from az to 2711a cents
lower from Standard refneries than from
those of the independents
Oil is from , TO ) cents a gallon higher
in fields where the Standard has mo-
nopoly.
The Independents have no chance in
New England, south of the Ohio river or
west of the Mississippi
Standards control extends from the
well of the producer to the doorstep of
the consumer.
The Rockefeller trust has had an i'm
portant voice in making published rates,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10

An improved smelling furnace recently
installed in foundry in Canada uses coal
instead of coke, at about one-haf the
cost. and when smelling the sulphide ores
the sulphur is used in combustion, making
a still further reduction in expenses. 1t
is stated that this furnace does not re-
ouire crushing and roasting of the ores,
which means a very considerable saving.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
Feud Freaks Ont Arain

The Breathitt County feud broke out
again in Kentucky the other day, Tom
Cockrell, Jake Noble and Tom Barnett
besieging Beach Hargis in the home of
Harrison Hall and shooting all the glass
out of the front portion of the house.
Hargis returned the fire and wounded
Barnett.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
Poison End to sick Woes.

Mrs. Robert H. Finch, wife of the for
mer Mayor of Toledo, Ohio. died from
carbolic acid poisoning. Mr. Finch miss
cd his wife when he awoke and found her
unconscious in lower room. III health
is given as the cause of her act.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
Father sees car Kin Child.

Hearing a child scream and seeing
limp form in the street, Cornelius Wett-
stein leaped from car in Toledo ran
back and picked up the body of his daugh-
ter. years old. The little girl had run
to meet her father when She saw him on
the car and had stumbled falling under
the rear trucks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
strike Ties Up Lake Tb.mc

\ strike that will paralyze lake COM
merce was begun when the union pilots.
firemen, water tenders and oilers went
out in response to orders. The struggle.
which promises to be bitter, is over the
question of recognition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
Tug Sinks and Three Drown

The tug Clipper belonging to the S. s.
Spanish Boom Company, sprang a leak
near Port Arthur, Ont, and sank a hun
dred yards from shore. Captain McIn-
tosh, Edward Flesher and man named
Johnson of Midland were drowned. A
fourth man swan ashore.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
Odd Theft at Pasadena.

Thieves stole the corner stone of the
North Pasadena, Cal, Methodist church.
The stone weighs about 800 pounds and
contained coins and other small vaIua-
bles, worth probably SO. The church
was completed few days ago, and is a
large and expensive edifce.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
win Solve by Compromise.

The insurance problem in San Fran
cisco is expected to be solved by a COM
promise. Insurants' talk is less radical
and company agents realize that caution
is necessary, as the insurance involved is
S19O.00O,OOO, or S15,OO0,0OO more than
the capital and surplus of the companies
concerned
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
Hear! of City Sinks Four Feet.

Two places in the heart of the city of
Wickliffe, KY, in extent about two acres,
have sunk more than four feet, and the
residents of that place are alarmed over
the phenomena. There has been no
earthquake, but the sunken territory has
every appearance of having been caused
by a seismic disturbance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
Police Fire on Rioters.

In Il battle between riotous Italian
strikers and the police in PaSsaic. y. J.
four Of the rioters were shot and a mum
Der of the policemen injured. One of the
men shot may die. Thirty-two men were
arrested by the police.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10

discovered ny the
bureau a. corpora
tons, and, of course,
there may be other
secret rates which
the bureau has not
discovered. Z h i S
amount represents
the difference be
tween the open rates
and the rates actual
ly paid. Many of
these determinations
We're clearly in vio-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
Abner MCKINLEY Estate ImsoIvent

1t developed at a court hearing in SOM
erset, Pa. that the estate of Abner Nc
kiuley is insolvent and can only pay ~
PER cent on the dollar. Attorney John r.
Scott for the creditors petitioned for a
subpoena for Mrs. Annie f. Mckinley,
the eXecutriN. alleging that she has re-
manned in Florida to evade exceptions to
her account
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
VII Ncrcnt 1905 scn1e.

Union miners in convention at Scran-
ton, Pa, voted against a strike in the
anthracite coal field. deciding to accept
the scale of 1903 if all the men now idle
are given their places. Cost of suspension
10 The anthracite miners of Pennsylvania
is estimated at $S.12000O.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
Corner Made in Hon C-on

There IS a corner in the remainder of
the 1905 hop crop. Three firms. taking
advantage of the heavy destruction of
hops in the California disaster. secretly
had their buyers purchase all but 400 of
the 1000 bales remaining
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
Eight Hurt in "a Tunnel

Eight unconscious men were taken out
of the McAdoo tunnel under the Hudson
river, connecting Jersey City and Man
haitian Island, after an explosion in the
depths of the tunnel. Four of them are
not expected to recover. The explosion
is supposed to have been caused by gas.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
View six-Inch Gun REGARD

The cruiser PENNSYLVANIA has establish
ed new record with her 6-inch guns The
battery under the command Of Lieut..
Brady hit the target seventeen times in
ninety seconds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10

from the worlds fair grounds at a cost OF
s., 600, it crumbled into dust without any
apparent cause. Carl Bitter. the sc'Ilp-
tor. said it would last ten years, but it
did not last ten minutes after dissolution
began.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10

The trustees of Columbia university
have nominated, and the Prussian min
istry of education has confirmed, Presi-
dent Arthur I. Hadley of Yale to be
Roosevelt professor of American history
and instruction in the University of Ber-
lin for the academic year of 1907-S.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
Forest Fires Rage i'm East

The fercest woods fire of the year is
raging in the pine belt east of Vineland.
| \. J. At night the town is lighted. al
| though the flames were several miles
away All the valuable timber around
| Hance's and Benefits mills is DESTROYED.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10

Every building of the dynamite factory
near Vinterviken, Sweden belonging to
the Nitroglycerine Company, was destroy
ed and four men were killed by an explo-
sion, the cause of which is not known.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
Demands that Turkish Troops Go.

An ultimatum to the Sultan of Turkey,
ordering him to withdraw his troops from
Egypt within ten days. has been delivered
by Great Britain, which viii make a
naval demonstration against Turkey IN
less the demand is complied with.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
Court Lasbes Mrs DrLo

The James B. Duke divorce case came
to an end Unexpectedly in Newark, y. J..
with a decree in favor of the tobacco mill
ionaire granted by the aged Vice Chan
cellor Pitney in a decision scoring the
wife. Lillian y. Duke.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
strike on Chicago Buildings.

Steel constru, lion on Chicago's sky
scrapers has been brought TO halt by a
strike of bridge and structural iron work
ers, and contractors regard the situation
as the most serious since 1900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
slide for Home Causes Death.

while sliding for home in a baseball game.
caused the death from lockjaw of Roy
d. Trcmain, clerk At the National Bank
Of Commercc in St Louis
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10
|. New York.

| " AN'tt, ihAlutlIS iipuly
NUN lUlh, exports from the United
States and Canada for the
week ending April 26 are 2.149,6S4
bushes. against 1,S44,79S bushels last
week 1,260,316 bushels this week last
year. 1,010,S50 bushels in 1904 and
3.41S2S9 bushels in 1908. From July L
to date the exports are 111,501. 3C1
bushels. against j2,313,2 bushels last
year. 121, 1884 bushels in 1904, and
1877, 0SS,4S2 bushels in 1908
Corn exports for the week are ,42S,-
921 bushels, against 1,673972 bushels
fast week, 1885, 766 bushels a year ago.
1,190, 1913 bushels in 1904, and 2,210, 100
bushels in 1903. From July to date
the exports of corn are 102. 902, 032
bushels, against 81 ,263, 430 in 1905, At
935, 400 bushels in 1904, and j5.314064
bushels in 03.-Bradstreet's CONNER
cial Report.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-10

Vassar College celebrated the birthday
of Mathew Vassar, Founders day." with
President Hadley of Yale University as
the guest of honor.