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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-04-12
100000 JAPS STARVING.
Famine in Island Empire Reported
Growing Daily.

The New York State branch of the
American National Red Cross has issued
a statement as to famine conditions in
Japan.
The famine in Japan the statement
says, which has been considered for some
time moderately serious, is now known,
as the result of reliable private adyices
received by the New York State Red
Cross, to be one of the most terrible star
walton emergencies of modern times.
THE failure of rice crops, which at one
time was believed to be limited to certain
classes only, in the northern provinces,
has been found to be general in those parts
of Japan, and conservative estimates place
the number of starving japanese at from
100000 to 100000 persons. For those,
owing to extended rains last summer
which have ruined the rice and other food
crops, there is absolutely no relief in sight
until next October, when a new harvest
will be available.
LAS if this were not bad enough, the
present winter has been one of the most
severe in Japan in many years. The sum
of $16,000000 will be required to save the
japanese country people. This is esti-
mated by allowing for a cost of ten cents
per person per day."
A special meeting of the Japanese fam
inc committee has been called for Mon
day. The committee is now considering
whether it is wise to undertake the collec-
ton and transportation of food as well as
money. Already two food experts from
Japan have been asked to prepare a food
list showing what American staples can
be used.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-04-12

which was ordered in imperative Ian
guage. This, sent from Mexico, pre-
cipitated the revolutionary uprising
which brought upon him his own down.
fall and sealed his career as the ruler
of the religion he founded.
Overseer Voliva, after long confer
ence over the orders from Dowie with
the elders and Mrs. DoWie, publicly
fiayed the First Apostle, exposed his
financial shortcomings and when he haC
concluded his arraignment he asked the
people of Zion to support him in the
rehabilitation of Zion Five thousand
people rose in response to his appeal
Five thousand threats chOruSed an ap
prevail of his reform policy and pledged
him support. In the thrOng was Jane
Dowie, wife of the deposed First Apos
tie, who, with tears streaming down heI
cheeks, made a pathetic address to the
excited multitude.
Overseer Voliva publicly reinstateG
Deacon Speicher to office and refused
to obey other commands of the Firs
Apostle. In the yitriolic exposure OF
| Dowie which followed the reading OF
the First Apostles letter, Voliva minced
no words. He as much as accused Dowit
of dishonesty and insincerity Deacon
Speicher openly declared he oftentimes
believed Dowie to be an insane man.
AS to the future Of Zion itself, its
| affairs are to be recognized. The prop
erty, held in Dowie's name, may be
cleared as to title, and this may involve
| placing the deposed leader in the Gus
tody of a guardian.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-04-12
SOME STRIKE STATISTICS.

Statisticians on both sides have made
some estimates of the effect OF a general
suspension of coal mining. They figure
thar there now are about 10000 union
miners and mine laborers. and 10000
Of them are estimated TO be in the hard
coal field. This altogether would mean
strike conditions to about 100000 per-
sons.
Estimating the average miners wages
at St25 year. the miners loss in wages
would be S2,500,000 a week. 1t has been
estimated that the reduction Of go per
cent in wages accepted by the miners two
wears ago reduced their aggregate annual
wages S1S,000,000 or 20,00o.000 a year.
The great 1862 anthracite strike was
declared May II and it ended Oct. %.
The estimated loss of receipts by the
operators was 100000. the loss in
wages to mine employees was SO, 100000.
There was a decrease in freight receipts
of transportation companies amounting
to $2S.000000, and incidental losses added
many millions more, bringing the aggre-
gate loss far above S100,000,000.
The miners at this time have approx
mately 100000 in their national treasury
and have 100000 in district, sub-dis-
trict and local treasures. There is a lit
tie more than 100000 in hard cash
available for a suspension. The fully
paid-up membership is 325, 600 men. The
per capita defense fund in all these treas
uries is a little less than SO to the man.
However, these funds are not evenly
distributed. More than 100000 of the
money is in the Illinois district treasury,
and it belongs to the Illinois miners alb
solutely. Ohio has approximately $780,
600 in its district treasury, the two In
diana districts an aggregate of S125,000,
but many of the improvident districts
have practically no district funds on hand.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-04-12
Short Personals.

Thomas Hardy, the novelist, spent his
carly life in an architects office.
Frederick w. Mon ) of New York re-
ooo+1v purchased in Boston four folios of
Shakespeare for $3.50. They were print
ed in London some time between 1923
and 1856.
The $4,000 down which Mr.. Winston
Churchill is said to have received for the
life of his father figures out at the rate
Of - cents word. John Morley receiv-
ed 10000 for his Life of Gladstone
James w. EIdredge of Hartford,
Cam. has one Of the finest collections
of war relics in the country. and G. A.
r. men Of his State are trying to Sc
cure It for Connecticut. There are more
than $500 different articles in the COL
lection.
Sergt. Frank Warner of Battery A,
in TIE Missouri National Guard, is said
to be almost an exact double of Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
Harmsworth, the noted newspaper
owner. who was recently created a peer,
has adopted two rolls of paper as his
arms. A London paper, commenting on
the choice, says ''the selection of them be-
trays cynical humor."
Capt. James Moorhead of Brooklyn,
who has followed the sea for forty years,
has fitted up unique room in his home
in fac smile of a ships cabin. In no
one particular does the cabin differ
from the cabin ON any of the full rugged
clipper ships he SO long commanded.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-04-12
OHIO LEGISLATURE ADJoURNs.
Many Important Reform Measures
Passed During the Session.

Passed During the Session.
The Ohio Legislature adjourned Mon
day afternoon, TO meet again next jan
uary. Among the important bills passed
are the following Two-cent railway fare !;
increase of liquor tax to $1,000; inherit
anca tax law repealed; Cincinnati and
Hamilton county Lexow investigation in
augurated; enactment of Dever law,
which makes possible successful prosecu-
tons for violations of Valentine antitrust
law; State regulation and supervision of
railroad freight and passenger rates pro-
videi for; search and seizure law to pre-
vent the illegal sale of liquor enacted. The
Pollock bill TO give interurban railways
right of way into and out of city, for
terminal purposes only was passed by the
House Monday. The bill gives the COM
panles the power, with consent of the city
councils, to condemn a right of way over
existing tracks of other companies. An
amendment to the effect that the law
should not be construed as giving an inter
urban road the right to operate as a city
line was carried. The Senate had re-
ferred the bill to a joint committee, which
restored the registration feature. 1t was
a compromise between the Huffman and
Bronson ideas, slightly in favor of the
thomson bill. When the report of the
conference was made Senator II gman op-
pe sed it because it compelled voters to
Indicate their politics at registration. Sen
ator Howe said this was necessary to pre-
vent members of one party plugging" in
on another party's nomination. The re-
port was not agreed to, this disposing Of
the measure.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-04-12
Causes of Failures.

Some interesting figures have recently
been published in Bradstreet's showing
the number of business failures last yea
in the United States and the causes t
which they are attributable. 1t is stated
that there were 1,201, 1862 concerns en-
gagged in business in 1901, and that o
these 10,64S failed, or considerably les
than ! per cent of the whole, lower per
centage than has occurred in any yea
since 1882, save in the year 1900.
Bradstreet's Classics the causes of fail
ures under eleven heads, and gives alst
the number which it regards as attribute
bic to each cause. Of the eleven, "lacl
of capital takes the lead as most pro
life in inducing failures, those ascribeC
to it numbering 1898. Incompetence
comes next on the list, and is made ac
countable for 2,023, and then 'specif'
conditions" by which is meant such thing
as strikes, the corn crop failure, the as
sassination of President Mckinley, thu
lowered price of cotton at the South ant
similar events of a disastrous tendency
To these 1,7j5 business failures are trac
ed. Next in number were failures arts
ing from fraudulent disposition of prop
erty" and amounting to 1,154.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-04-12
DoWIE is DEPosED.
Whole Church in Outbreak of Rage
Turns on Aged Chief

Whole Church in Outbreak of Rage
Turns Aged Chief.
John Alexander Dowie and Zion
came to a parting of the ways Sunday.
Dowie was repudiated, exposed as a
sQuanderer of lions money, rebelled
against by his people, and criticised by
his wife. His autocratic domination of
Zion was ended by decision of the
Zion council of overseers and ac-
quiesced in by popular approval of the
people.
In the dramatic climax of the revo-
lutionary policy that has been growing
at Zion since the arrival of Deputy
General O1erseer Voliva, Shiloh Taber-
nacle, in Zion City, near Chicago. rang
with cheers of delight for the new
leader Voliva, who was elevated to the
succession in leadership and hailed as
the Moses come to lead the people out
of a wilderness of business abuse and
misrepresentation.
Dowie, in an S00-word telegram, cost.
ing 500, rebuked Voliva and gave a
score of commands, the execution OF
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-04-12
KILLED IN HOTEL CRASH.
German Inn CoIIapses, Carrying
Fcte Day Crowd with 1T.

German Inr CoIIapses, Carrying
Fcte Day Crowd with 1t.
large hall attached to the Hotel
Black Stag, in Nagold South Germany,
collapsed Thursday while the place was
crowded with members of local associa-
tons who were celebrating an annual fete.
All were buried beneath a heap Of ruins.
Estimates regarding the number killed
vary from 100 to 300. Many corpses have
been extricated from the ruins. The
death list, it is believed, will approx
mate 200. So great was the crush OF
the crowds about the ruins within ten
minutes after the catastrophe that police
re-enforcements were wholly inadequate
TO keep order so that any one could WORK
effectively. Troops were summoned IN
haste. The crowd was forced back and
organized squads of fremen and police
were set TO work on the debris. Mean
time the cries of many of the victims who
escaped death but were pinioned under
the wreckage of the hall almost drove the
rescuers mad. Men and women who had
dressed IN their best to participate IN the
fete swarmed about the heaps of shat
tered timbers under which many living
but injured victims were pinioned. As
the firemen and police chopped away
beams that held down the injured the
wreckage was handed over to the crowd
Both men and women assisted in remov-
ing it far enough so that it would not
interfere with further work of rescue. Am
balances and wagons from the morgues
proved wholly inadequate to care for the
victims. Truck wagons and even auto
mobiles were pressed into service. Doc
tors were rushed to the scene from all
quarters, but they could do little good.
The cause of the collapse is being inves-
tigated by authorities who can take no
part in the rescue work. The hall was
supposed to be a staunch structure. 1t is
pointed out it was built with no idea of
holding the enormous throng that crowded
into it just before the fatal collapse.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-04-12
FLOODS DEMoLIsH BIG DAM.
Irrigation Enterprise in Wyoming
Nearly Ruined.

The great diversion dam at Alcova.
Wyo., erected by the reclamation service
as temporary structure to divert the
waters of the rivers while the Pathfinder
dam is being built, has been washed away.
When the waters swept through the i'm
mense masonry many workmen barely es-
capped with their lives. The dam had been
built at a cost of nearly 100000. Small
cabins and barns fioated down on the
swollen stream, which, spreading over the
lowlands, caused great loss to stockmen
and ranchmen. Miles of the lowlands are
flooded.
The food is the worst in recent years
The Platte river from the Colorado line
to Nebraska, a distance of 500 miles, is
running over its banks and flooding the
adjacent country Nearly all of the
streams in the State are in food Reports
of missing ranchmen, damage TO ranch
and other property and drowning of live
stock are being received. The railroads
are having difficulty in traversing the
flooded territory. The floods are due ia
melting snow.
A report from Lander says that 5000
sheep belonging to Charles Souther, which
were housed in large shed, were
drowned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-04-12
N~-~NO~-~-%~~~

Cleveland has been a favorite with
many for years, but faith in that team
has been shaken considerably by its fail
ure to land the American League pennant
year after year.
University of Michigan students are
mourning the loss of Boss Weeks, cap
tain of the football team of 1902. Weeks
died only a short time ago of typhoid
fever. He was considered the greatest
field general that Michigan ever had, and
he was immensely popular with the stu
dents at the institution.
The great success of the American
League in baseball has been due largely
to the uncertainty that has attended the
championship struggle ever since its cir
cult included eastern clubs. In five
campaigns, three clubs have won pen
nants, the Chicago White Sox once, the
Bostons twice and the Athletics of Phila
delphia twice. In the National League,
in this period, the result has been fairly
discounted each year. The New Yorks
and Pittsburgs are so strong that they
have had a monopoly Of the honors.
Athletic affairs at the University o.
Wisconsin are in a state of complete
chaos and the condition is held to be a
direct result of hasty action against foot
ball. Wisconsin in the West, like Column
bia in the East, was the first college to
take the plunge and abolish football. Ac-
ton along this line was taken before it
was known at all what the other colleges
would do. Then Wisconsin was forced
TO wait for the others and in the mean
time so great was the uncertainty as to
the future of sport at Wisconsin that o
state amounting to panic was engendered
As a result, athletes are deserving in
numbers and all team trainers have plac-
ed their designations in the hands Of the
authorities.
The value of eggs in athletic training
has aroused a warm discussion in Eng.
lands rowing circles. Oxford oarsmen
have been inclined to taboo the egg as an
article of diet, but the Cambridge uni.
versity crew recently made a record
time row in a practice trial. The crew
which was supposed to be an inferior one,
had been largely dieted On eggs. 1t is
safe to say that the Cambridge men will
now stick to the product of the hen, nc
matter what their Oxford brethren may
say to the contrary.
The ST. Louis Americans have passed
I'D brown as a color and. are seeking
substitute for the hoodoo name Of
Browns.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-04-12
DE[5 lxLA2c$[gRS
sS laSss - e 81.
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
S4.OG ito $500; hogs, prime heavy $500
10 S6.45; sheep, fair to choice, $500 to
S640; wheat, No. ., SIC to S5c; corn,
No 2, 42c to 44c; oats, standard soc to
Bic; rye, No. 2, Gle to 63c; hay, timo
thy, $3.50 to $3.50; prairie, $500 to
$1,000; butter, choice creamery, dc to
23c eggs, fresh, 1Jc to lie; potatoes,
roc to 63c.
Indanapolis-Ca shipping $500
10 1910; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to
SG.65; sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to
$500: wheat, No. 3 SIC to Soc; corn,
No. 2 white, 44c to 4Jc; oats, No. 2
white, 3Oc - &c.
St. Louis-Cattie, $3.50 to 5000;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$3.50: wheat, No. ., SIC to 92c; corn,
No. 2, 41c to 43c; oats, No. >, 3Oc to
;;2c; rye, No. 2, G3c to &c.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $4.G0 to $685.
hogs, $500 to $500 sheep. $500 to
$3.50: wheat, No. =, SIC to SSc corn,
No. 2 mixed, 4Jc to 47c; oats, No. 2
mixed. Bic to 33c; rye, No. =, Csc to
Toe.
Detroit-Cattle, 500 to $500; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat. No. 2, SIC to Soc; corn, No. 3
yellow, 46c to 48c; oats, No. , white,
32c to 34c; rye, No. 2, &c to 65c.
Milwaukee-Wheat. No. > northern,
nc to 79c; corn, No. 3, 42c to 44c;
cats. standard, 3Oc to 32c; rye, No. /,
G3c to 64c; barley, standard, 52c to 54c;
pork, mess, S16.2J.
ToIedo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, SIC TO
Soc; corn. No 2 mixed, 44c to acc;
cats. No. . mixed, 31c to BE; rye, No.
.. SIC to SIC; clover seed, prime, SIP.
RuffaIo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $3.50 hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to 800.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $685.;
hogs. $500 to $3.50; sheep. $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2 red, SIC to SIC;
corn. No. 9, sic to 53c; oats, natural
white. 36c to $50; butter, creamery, &c
TO 25c; eggs, western, 15c to lie.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-04-12
FORCED TO SEE MOTHER BURN.
Boy Reports His Insane Father Pre-
vented Dying Woman's Rescue.

Mrs. Martin Vanthof was burned to
death in Grand Rapids, Mich. Fer has
oand is held at the county Jail pending
the order of Coroner Leroy. The L.
year-old son of the couple was aroused by
his mothers cry and rushed downstairs
to find her body on the floor surrounded
by flames and his father running around
the room apparently demented. He says
thai his father held him and would not
let him go to his mothers assistance.
Vanthof has spent some time in an insane
asylum and is said to have shown signs
of mental trouble recently. When the
neighbors reached the house, attracted by
the boys screams and the fire, Vanthof
was running up and down in front of the
house half clad, shouting, Il told you I'd
bum her up! Hurrah for the Stars AMI
Stripes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-04-12
ChiClqO.

| UUlbCuU. herent strength or trade 1t
-' is remarkable that in
both new demands and distribution
there is no evidence of diminution, not
withstanding the expected shutdown Of
coal mines. Available supplies here
have been augmented and. the heavy
consumers of fuel being provided for,
the operation of plants will suffer no
immediate hindrance.
Neather conditions do not impede
construction, but lack the seasonable
quality necessary to advance activity
in the leading retail lines. Wholesale
dealings, however, remain of large ag-
gregate and heavy shipments continue
to the interior OF the principal staples,
While there is a good demand for farm
implements, vehicles. hardware and
sporting goods. Reports show a re-
sumption of spring work on the farms,
growing grains we'll protected by late
snowfall and the outlook encouraging
in the dispersion of country store mer-
chandiSe.
Visiting buyers here are placing lib
eral orders, prompt shipment being re-
quired, and some recorders have appear
ed in dry goods. Mercantile collections
throughout the tributary regions make
a good showing and the commercial
mortality is ut the lowest point of any
week this year.
Production of the principal industries
is sustained at the greatest aggregate
known and the work ahead in some de-
partments runs into next year. The
raw material markets indicate no de-
cline in the absorption, prices being I'M
usually strong in the metals lumber
and leather. Pig iron is seen to be in
steady request and additional inquiries
suggest an extending need for rails,
cars and motive power.
Failures reported in Chicago district
number 20. against so last week, and %
year ago-Dun's Review of Trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-04-12
- Cross currents are visi-
| NPW IlIk. BILE in the business situa-
i----- tipn ITnSott1oJ Xuaotha1

Cross currents are visi-
NEW IUIk. BILE in the business situa-
ton. Unsettled weather,
making for bad roads, has been check
to consumptive spring demand, which
also feels the influence of the impending
coal strike. The advent of springlike
weather, accompanying the former de-
velopment, is, however, favorable to i'm
provement later on, and the hope is still
expressed that the coal strike will be
localized to some extent, and will not
materially interfere with industry,
which seems fairly well supplied with
fuel. Beneath the surface happenings
of the week are to be discerned the
steady advance OF spring trade. the con-
tinuance of the immense activity in
building, with collateral heavy dealings
in all kinds of lumber and material,
and the underlying confidence in a
heavy years turnover in all lines. Mon
ey is strong and in active demand
throughout the country. Business fail
ures in the United States for the week
ending March % numbered 100, against
10 last week, 227 in the like week of
1905, 212 in 1904, 145 in 1908 and 10
in 1902; for tie week in Canada, eight
cen, as against twenty nine last week
and Twenty-Five in this week a year
ACCOMPLISHMENTS Commercial Report.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-04-12
APACHE CAPTIVES ARE ANGRY
Governments Refusal to Let Them
Rejoin Show Causes Trouble.

The nature of the trouble that has been
brewing among the Apache captives at
Fort Sill, incident to which is the threat
of the Indians forcibly to break away
from the post, is explained at the War
Department in Washington as the result
of the refusal of the authorities to let the
Indians go on the road with a wild west
show. These Indians under their old chief
Geronimo have been technical captives at
the army post for many years past. Last
year many of the Indians were permitted
to join a wild west show which travelled
over the country. When they came back
to the post it was found that many of
them had learned to gamble and had
picked up other bad habits. This year
permits were refused except in the case Of
Geronimo himself
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-04-12
Illinois Miners Cult,

Without demonstration of any kind.
but quietly as for holiday, $50 coal
mines in Illinois closed down. The
$4,000 miners employed in the shafts
remained at their homes in pursuance
of the strike Instructions issued from
the Springfield headquarters. Coal dig
ging came to an abrupt standstill prac.
tically throughout the State.
At the outset of the strike at least,
violence is not expected. Neither min
ers nor operators have given much con-
sideration to possibilities along this
line. Later, especially if attempt is
made to run the mines with nonunion
crews, rioting and vandalism may de-
velop.