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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22

the cOlored people are many worthless
and dangerous characters who are a
constant menace to the peace and
safety of the city. They maintain sew
eral low resorts where vile liquors are
dispensed, and where black loaferS,
thieves and thugs indulge in orgies
which are a disgrace and menace.
When Davis was mortally shot it was
into the quarter where these resorts
are located that the mob rushed, bent
upon cleaning out the "Jungles," as the
quarter is known. Mobilize, once the
torch was applied little discrimination
was shown. To meet destruction by the
craZed mass of men and boys it was
only necessary that building sheltered
negroes.
Several buildings were torn down
and the ruins piled i'll the street and
burned. Other houses were fired with
out any attempt at raZing them. Negro
men and women were chased through
the streets and scores fed from the
city. The local militia were not suffi-
GENTLY active to quell the disturbances
and it was not till several outside COM
panies were called in and many arrests
were made that order again prevailed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22
Unioue Monument in Kansas.

Having decided to celebrate the 50th
anniversary of Kansas in 1911 with an
exposition at Topeka, the citizens of the
city and of the State are also preparing
for the erection of a soldiers monument
near the State House. Capt. Z. H.
Coney, department commander of the
Kansas Grand Army of the Republic, is
at the head of the movement to honor the
veterans of the Civil War with a monu-
ment, which shall be second only to the
monument at Indianapolis, Ind.
The plans have not yet taken definite
shape, but it is proposed to raise the
money by popular subscription for the
erection of the shaft. Each child and
grandchild of the soldier of the Civil War
now living in Kansas will be asked to
contribute 81. Only dollar subscriptions
will be received. There are probably
more than a half million descendants of
soldiers living in the State.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22
SPRINGFIELD AGAIN QUIET.
Ohio City Has Recovered from It's
Rage Against Negroes.

Rage Against Negroes.
Springfield. Ohio. is once more quiet
The negotiating mobs which ragged
through the streets. burning negro dives
and negro homes and threatening to
take human life. melted away in the
presence of the militia. Save for the
blackened ruins of several buildings in
the negro quarter, there is at present
no indication of the raging fever which
pulsated through the VEINS of the city,
threatening disaster beyond reckoning.
The law-abiding citizens. business men
and those who take pride in the city
do not relish the unenviable netoriety
which these anti-negro outbreaks have
brought to Springfield. and they plead
in behalf of the fair name Of the city
that the mobs were in the main made
up of boys and irresponsible young
men.
A year ago Il negro named Dixon,
who shot and killed a policeman, was
taken out and lynched by a mob, which
afterward attacked the negro quarter,
setting fire to- several buildings. The
militia were called upon at the time,
and for week Springfield was under
martial law. 1t was hoped then that
there never would be Il repetition Of
those disgraceful scenes, but they have
been repeated, except for the taking of
human life.
The shameful outbreak of last week
was caused by the shooting of a white
railway brakeman named NJ X. Davis
by two negroes named Gadd and Dean.
Davis fingered several days before his
death. His assailants We're hurried to
Dayton for safety. This outrage was
the signal for raid on the negro quar-
ter of the city, and for several days
and nights the mob burned and demol-
ished negro buildings, despite the pres
ence of the militia.
The mere killing of Il white man by
a negro in Il northern city would not
seem to an outsider sufficient cause for
determined mob violence, but it must
be remembered that Springfield has a
large negro population. and that among
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22

Former Auditor of Indiana Convict
ed of Misuse of S127,O0O.

David Z. Sherrick, former Auditor Of
State, was found guilty of embezzlement
by jury in Indianapolis. Mr.. Sherrick
was tried on indictments charging him
with misuse Of $4,000 belonging to the
State. He resigned on the demand of
the Governor and the money has since
been paid back to the State treasury. The
penalty is from one to twenty-five years
in the penitentiary. The announcement
was followed by a motion for a new trial.
Pending decision Sherrick will be in
custody of the Sheriff. Sherrick was re-
elected Auditor of State in 1904 by a Re-
publican plurality of "a 900, the largest
ever given an official in Indiana. In Sep
TENDER, 1905, Governor Hanly learned
that Sherrick had loaned and invested
$4,000 of the States money. The Gov
ernor forced his immediate resignation.
Indictment by the grand jury speedily
followed. A week before his trial was
called Sherricks friends succeeded in pay
ing off all his Indebtedness to the State.
1t was hoped that this would prevent con-
viction. Sherrick held that it had been
the custom for Indiana State officials to
loan State money. Willard S. Wickard,
a lumber agent, is under indictment for
conspiracy with Sherrick to use State
money. 0herrick had made heavy loans
to Wickard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22

she publicly gave her last words to the
cause to which her life was devoted
With the exception Of Julia Ward
Howe, she was the sole survivor Of
the early suffrage advocates who took
part In the movement inaugurated at
the famous convention held in Seneca
Falls in 1S4S, which was the first wom-
the equal property rights of women
were first advocated there.
First Suffrage Convention.
In 1867 Miss Anthony made her first
notable woman suffrage crusade in the
West. George Francis Train was
rich man then, eccentric, but shrewd.
He proposed to pay all expenses and to
start suffrage paper in the East if
Mrs. Stanton and Nffss Anthony would
take a speech making trip through the
West. The tour began at Omaha and
finally extended to st. Louis, Chicago,
Louisville, Cincinnati, and other cites,
ending with a big meeting in Steinway
Hall, New York. Train engaged the
most elegant suites OF rooms in the
best hotels for Miss Anthony and Mrs
Stanton, secured the best halls by tele-
graph. On one occasion there was a
wreck on the road, and in order to
keep the lecture engagement at Louis
vile Train chartered a special car for
them at a cost of $4,000.
In 1868, with the cooperation of
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Parker
Pillsbury, and assisted by George
Francis Train, Miss Anthony began in
New York City the publication of a
weekly paper called the Revolutionist,
devoted to the emancipation of women.
In 1872 Miss Anthony performed the
most sensational act Of her career. She
registered and swore in her vote at
Rochester, n. Y, and was duly arrest
ed and tried for it. About two weeks
after the election a deputy United
States marshal arrested her, blushing
and apologizing for his unpleasant
duty. She asked permission to change
her dress, and the officer waited pa
tiently until she reappeared and asked
II lie WOuluu ike W put HdHuCuuS Ou
her.
Miss Anthony claimed the right to
vote under the fourteenth amendment
to the constitution, and was defended
by Judges Selden and Van Voorhis of
Rochester, with the advice of Benja-
min F. Butler. Miss Anthony was SEN
fenced to pay fine of 500.
In Her Declining Years.
In 1896 Miss 1Anthony was elected
president of the National Woman's
Suffrage Association, a position which
she held continuously until she retired
on her eightieth birthday in 1900. In
that capacity she conducted campaigns
for the adoption of a woman's suffrage
amendment in severa; States, notably
in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and New
York. Two years ago she was one Of
the American delegates to the Interna-
tional Woman's Suffrage convention at
Berlin and was the central figure in
that gathering in spite of her advanced
age Since then she has beer living
quietly at her home N Rochester, en-
Toying good health up to the time she
was stricken with the Illness which
proved fatal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22
"a he g. Side
( 9(a%g%{ r.
Jhe News y

The railway rate bill is lucky not to be
able to hear all that is said about it in
Congress.
The Mormon "oath of vengeance" does
not read like the highest form OF patri-
otto devotion.
After all, those balloon expeditions to
the poles probably will have to be rescued
in the same old way.
A Pennsylvania man burned dynamite
in the CRATE to see if it would explode.
Guess the answer
The more you study the Town Topics
case the more you wonder why Col. Mann
ever lugged it into court.
John D. Rockefeller has dumped an
other installment of tainted money on
the Chicago university. See market page
in day or two for revised price list on
OIL
The names of Uncle Russell Sage and
Hetty Green seem to be missing from the
list of distinguished Wall street charac-
tiers who took an interest" in Col.
Mann's Town Topics.
1t was a fine example of love of peace
and humanity that was set by the Ameri-
can and English delegates to the Algeciras
conference when they declined to go with
the rest to the bull fights.
There We're only seven regular train
rObberies in the country the last year.
When man wants to rob railroad
now he pursues a safer method and gets
more money by the Wall street system.
Whatever may be said OF King Chris
tian's reign, he was an unqualified BIC
ce-s as a royal shatchen.
Morocco's door is to be left open, out
neither Germany nor France has decided
who is to furnish the prop that holds it
there.
Chief Crazy Snake had no difficulty in
getting an audience with the President.
Having just become a Red Man himself,
the President could not refuse pow-wow
to a distinguished brother.
No doubt the reason Arizona and New
Mexico do not want to be joined together
in the holy bonds of statehood is that
each thinks the other unfit But if the
rest OF US can stand it, they should.
1t is declared that money was respon-
sible for the separation of the CasteI-
lanes. Money was also responsible fe.
the marriage.
Talk about the call of the wild, Eu-
rope seems to be Turing the former life
insurance magnates with irresistible force.
The Educational Improvement Commits
sion of Kentucky is preparing large bal
letin containing a large amount of 81
formation and statistics with regard to
the Kentucky school system az comnarn5
with that of other States. Copies may
be obtained from President NJ. o. Win
frey, Middleboro, Ky.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22
TcIegraphic Brevities.

William J. O'Connell, a Middletown,
Ohio, sporting man who was shot by a
private detective in raid on O'ConnelPs
crap game, is dead.
David Tennyson, wealthy farmer near
Frankfort, Kan, was shot and killed as
he sat close to his wife in his home The
murderer fired through the window.
Mrs. Florence Adele Burden and her
father, W. .. Sloane. ask an injunction
in New York to restrain Andrew Carnegie
from selling certain real estate adjoining
their property.
Efforts will be made by the convention
of the Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers in Cincinnati,
to sign a union agreement.
W. J. O'Connor, Middletown, Ohio,
saloonkeeper, was probably fatally shot by
Charles Cav, Cincinnati private detec-
tive who had been employed to assist the
Middletown police in breaking up gam
bling.
Twenty persons were injured by the
wreck of passenger train on the Coal
and Coke railroad near Elkhurst, w. Va.
Mail Clerk Lewis Milan. Engineer Geo.
Elswick and Conductor Ray McConihay
were fatally hurt.
John D. Rockefeller is said to have
evaded process services in New York
by using a secret passage between his
residence and that of his son-in-law.
Bishop Blenk of Porto Rico was decid-
ed on for recommendation to the Pope
as the successor of the late Archbishop
Cb,raIJa of Now ORLEANS hv +ha con GRO.
CATION of the propaganda in Rome.
Eight men were killed by the explosion
in the Little Cahaba Coal Company's
mine at Piper, Ala, the victims being
Louis Yanco, Peter Costello, Mathew
Elps, John Stone, Stephen Nemeth, Will
liam Meade, Richard Smith and Ward
Moss. The disaster was caused By
windy shot"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22
@AAM,E!|;::1RCLAL-
l.. e. :ftA
9& AND kHla..sa IN
HS-sSa1lsE s&
7ENKNC>,XL
Commercial
Chicago.

n, Commercial develop
ODl6duU. ments reflect sustained
----'c confidence in the general
outlook, the fall in values of bread
stuffs causing no hestancy. Distribu-
ton of staple merchandise has reached
an exceptionally high volume, while
wholesale bookings made further accu-
mutation in dry goods, footwear, mems
furnishings, food products and clothing.
Purchasers for the interior run ahead
OF all former aggregates for spring de-
livery.
The markets are attended by increas-
ing numbers of visiting buyers and their
free manner in making selections is
based upon the satisfactory conditions
which prevail throughout the Western
country. The demand for hardware.
sporting goods and vehicles is brisk,
and heavy shipments are made of wire
and other material for farm improve
ments. Retail trade generally has
broadened, indicating that consumption
Is expanding, and business is much inn
proved in furniture, carpets and house
hold utensils.
Agricultural work has been COM
menced in various sections. Drepara-
lions pointing to an increased acreage
i'll corn and spring wheat. Reports
as to The growing grains are most en-
couraging, particularly in the South
west Mercantile collections in this dis
trict are found to be reasonably prompt
Manufacturing and outdoor construc-
ton are stimulated by favorable wealth
er and activity is gradually spreading
in both these important branches. The
demand for raw material is unabated,
especially for factory use, and prices re-
main steady. Pig iron output exceeds
that of year ago and current deal
ings are satisfactory both as to book
ings and inquiries, local prices holding
drm. The production of steel is under
unusual pressure, this permitting larger
deliveries to be made of rails, structur-
al shapes, plates and wire. Lumber and
other building material are eagerly Sc
cured and bring high prices. Factory
work has lined in farm implements,
heavy hardware, machinery and plumb
ing supplies, while the demand is of I'M
precedented force for heavy electrical
power and supplies.
Railroad earnings command attention
because of the notable gains made over
those of last year, Chicago roads shar-
ing in the splendid showing.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number %, against % of last week
and 20 a year ago.-Dun's Review Of
Trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22
SON GONE NINE YEARS.
Sailor Boy Was Prisoner During the
Russo-Japanese War.

Mrs. Martha Ludwick of Connersville,
Ind, is in receipt of a letter from her son
Bert, who has for the last nine years
been a seaman on the Pacific Ocean. The
letter was mailed from Honolulu. 1t is
the first word the aged mother has heard
from her son in five years. Ludwick
writes his mother that he has had stir
ring times for the last two years, espe-
cially when prisoner of war in the Rus
so-Jap hostilities. He was taken prisoner
while serving on the steamship Australia,
while it was running a blockade near
Petropavlovsk, Siberia. From there, in
company with the other seamen and sol
diers, he was carried to Osaka, Japan,
where they endured awful privations.
Much hardship was experienced before
they succeeded in getting their releases.
Since Ludwick has left the Orient en-
route to America he expects to sever his
connection with the Pacific Steamship
Company and return to Connersville.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22

Susan B. Anthony died in Rochester,
n. Y, at u 40 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing. Her long and eventful life-she
had lived eighty-six years, sixty of
which had been devoted to the cause
of woman suffrage ended serenely.
For twenty-four hours she had been
unconscious, and death came as she
slept.
Miss Anthony died of heart failure,
induced by double pneumonia. She
had had serious yalvular heart trou-
BILE for the last six or seven years. Her
lungs were practically clear, and the
pneumonia had yielded to treatment,
but the weakness of her heart prevent
ed her recovery.
Miss Anthony's last public appear.
ance, which was at the national wom-
an suffrage convention in Baltimore q
few weeks ago, was really the begin
ring Of the end of the great suffragist's
career. 1t was at this convention that
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22
Spring jobbing is as ac-
| New York.

|
Nun IUlh, tive as ever, exceeding last
year at nearly all mar
kets; winter wheat crop reports are eX-
cellent; prices, except of some country
produce, wheat and -four among bread
stuffs, and bleached cotton goods, show
notable strength, and building activity,
which is of large volume, goes on with
out break, offering an opening for la
Dor employment rarely if ever before
witnessed. Industry is active, and
mills, furnaces and factories are all
pushed to fill deliveries, but new bust
ness for far-off accounts, say next fan
and spring of next year, is rather slow,
to present itself pending future trade
and crop development. Money is rather
firm as a whole, demand being more ac-
tive in regular trade lines. Collections
are irregular; backward in the South
because of cotton holding and fair to
good in the North and West. Clearings
heavily exceed year ago, itself a per-
iod of large trade. All signs point to Il
large retail business for spring and
summer, developing earlier than usual
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending March number
1T, against $50 last week, 40 in the
like week of 1905, 200 in 1904, 176 in
1903 and 224 in 1902. Failures in Can
ada for the week numbered twenty -four,
against thirty last week and forty in
this week year ago.-Bradstreet
Commercial Report
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22
MISS ANTHONY DEAD.
LONG CAREER OF NOTED SUI.
FRAGIST ENDED.

Gave Her Life Struggling for the
Rights of Her Sex-End Comes
Peacefully After an Illness of a
Few Weeks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22
MANY PERILED BY sNowsLIDEs.
Miners Cut OF. One Is Killed and
Others May Have Met Death.

Six hundred men at various mines with
in "A radius of twenty miles of Ouray,
Colo. have been cut off from the outside
world by the snowsldeS. which are contin-
uing frequently. One is known to have
been killed and it is feared that many
others have met death. Reports from sew
eraI mining towns indicate that the death
list will be large. Fifty miners at the
Camp Bird mill suffered from hunger, and
communication has been cut off by a sec
ond snowslide. The first slide destroyed
the provision house. Snow carried away
the mill and a part of the library at the
Camp Bird. the property which made
Thomas Walsh a millionaire. The Liber-
ty Bell mine was damaged badly by a
slide. The property loss is great. proba-
bly, between 100000 and 81 100000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22
MANY LIVES IN PERIL.
Colorado Mining Camps Visited by
Scores of AyaIanches.

Ouray, Durango, Silverton, Leadville,
Aspen and other smaller Colorado mining
camps have been visited with snowslides.
Hairbreadth escapes from the snow which
thunders down the steep sides of the
mountains are reported from every min
ing camp, and grave fears are entertained
for scores of daring prospectors and min
ers who are cut off from the outside
world in their lonely cabins far up in the
hills. One slide at Silverton struck the
edge of the town, doing considerable dam
age. The railroads in the San Juan re-
gion were blockaded. The South Park
road was blockaded by a slide near Lead
vile. The mines around Crested Butte
were completely cut off from transporta-
ton.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22
FIREMEN DIE AT POST
THREE PERISH UNDER FALLING
ROOF OF ARMORY.
Nine Others Are Hurt i'm Fire In
Camden, v. j., but Manage to Es-
cape to Safety-WOman wears
Husband Was Bandit.

Three fremen were killed and nine
others injured at a fire which destroyed
the old Sixth Regiment ArmOry at Bridge
and West streets in Camden, y. J. About
a dozen fremen were ordered into the
burning building with a line of hose
when they were warned that the roof
was giving way. Before they could es-
cape the great eXpanse of roof fell,
burying several under it. George W.
Shields, William Hillman and William
Jobes were crushed to death, but the
others managed to follow the line of the
hose and escaped after most of them had
been seriously lacerated and burned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22
City Ownership Is Upheld

A victory for municipal ownership was
won in the San Francisco courts when
Judge Murasky handed down an opinion
in the suit brought by l. Strassburger to
prevent the city from buying the Geary
street road. Strassburger brought suit as
n taxpayer to prevent the Board of Super
visors from expanding the money appro-
priated for acquiring the municipal rail-
roo1
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22
SAYS HUSBAND Is BANDIT.
Confessed to Membership in James
Gang.

In the divorce suit of Alfred Duncan
against Jennie Duncan in Findlay, Ohio,
the defendant took the witness stand and
declared that her husband about year
ago while he was desperately i'll con-
fessed to her that he had been a member
of the Jesse James gang. She said that
lie told her that he was Frank Shoe
maker and that Duncan was an assumed
name. Mrs. Duncan also told on the
witness stand that he detailed to her
how the james boys committed many
robberies and how he shared in the divis-
ion of the booty. Duncan is So years
old and n ppnSionpr
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22

Milton p. Anderson, head of the Mid
land, Mich, Exchange Bank, which failed
recently, was shot and probably fatally
wounded at his home under mysterious
circumstances. He says he was awak-
ened by a burglar, armed himself with
a cane, and was about to strike the in
truder when the latter shot him. Mr.. An
derson is 60 years old.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22

Priest and Sexton, Directed by
Voice, Find Dynamite in Candle.

That st. Johns Roman Catholic
Church, in the heart Of Philadelphia, was
saved from destruction by dynamite by n
miracle is the belief of the sexton and
Father Fisher. The sexton, in making
his rounds, says he heard a mysterious
voice commanding him to extinguish the
candles in front of the altar. He sought
out the pastor, and they returned togeth-
er, extinguishing all the lights but one.
Don't let that one burn" they heard the
mysterious voice say. They extinguished
it and later found enough dynamite in it
to destroy the church.