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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
Sharks from the Wires.

A severe earthquake in the Harpoot
district in eastern Turkey was reported
in cablegram received by the Ameri-
can Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions in Boston. Many are said to
have been made homeless and destitute
and relief is asked.
Manning G. Palmer was convicted Of
misapprOpriating the funds of the failed
American Exchange National Bank of
Syracuse, \. Y, and sentenced to five
years in prison.
The Importers National Association
closed its offices in New York after an
existence of two years. The organiza-
ton was formed to protect the trade
from unjust customs eXactions.
Martin Green Of Worcester, Mass,
who had charge of the Chicago River
tunnel plans, has announced his engage
ment to Mrs. Joseph Sampson, formerly
of Chicago and now of Wareham, Mass.
The Foreign Missionary Society of the
Christian Church received two Christmas
gifts amounting to $4,000 for missions.
The names of the men, who gave $10,-
600 and $4,000, are withheld.
Gibson Packer, former attorney for
the Carnegie Steel Company, who was
sued by Mrs. Mary L. Vetter, a Pittsburg
widow, for 100000 for breach of prom
Use, filed a plea of no Indebtedness.
The new school law forbidding the en-
plOyment of children under IA in mills,
factories and stores, which went into
effect in Massachusetts Jan. /, bars from
employment between 1000 and 5000
children.
Count Won Moltke, nephew of the
great commander of that name, viii soon
become field marshal of the German
army.
The officers of the Retail Coal Deal
ers' Association of Cleveland, indicted On
the charge of violating the antitrust
law by conspiring to raise the price of
coal, pleaded guilty and were fined $500
each.
The fifth trial of the suit of Receiver
Stevenson of the Indiana Banking Com
pany against John G. New and John G.
Wright to annul the sale to the latter
company of stock of the First National
Bank of Indianapolis, has resulted in a
verdict for the defendants.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18

Last Saturday morning his mind be-
came clouded and then Dr. Frank Bill
lings and DR.. Charles 2. Small, his at
tending physicians, informed the pa
tent that he had but very few more
days to live. With indomitable reso-
luton the dying educator occupied his
lucid and quiet moments in arranging
his and the university's affairs, and in
planning the details of his funeral.
In the death of DR.. Harper the Uni
versity of Chicago, the great city OF
which that institution has for years
been the pride, the whole educational
world of America and the cause of dis
interested, earnest scholarship have
sustained a severe loss. DR.. Harper
was wonderful organizer and admin
istrator, and his achievements in that
capacity have had ample recognition.
But he was also a true educator: he
had a passion for his profession and
for learning, and his ambition was to
make the University of Chicago not
merely one of the biggest but one of
the noblest, loftiest and most genuine
seats of culture
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
CASSIE Is IN PRISON.
MRS. CHADWICK RECEIVED AT
OHIO PENITENTlARY.
Begins TO Serve Ten-Year Term for
Conspiracy to Wreck Oberlin
Bank - Nearly $50 Armenians
Killed by Cars Cossacks.

Mrs. Cassie /. Chadwick arrived at
the penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio,
from Cleveland the other morning and
began her term Of ten years for conspir-
acy to wreck the Citizens National
Bank Of Oberlin. Her attorneys made
every effort to delay execution of the
sentence, even working all night without
success. The identification of Mrs.
Chadwick as Nine Deyere, who served
a term in the Lucas County penitentiary
in 1901, was made by woman who is
confined in the jail in Columbus, who
on seeing the new arrival unhesitatingly
confirmed the suspicious the police have
entertained for many months. Mrs.
Chadwick appeared to be in good health,
and the prison officials put little faith
in her alleged heart trouble. She will
be set at washing or some heavy work
if she is strong enough. AS she entered
the penitentiary she turned to bid good
by to the world, saying: Il shall try
to be brave and keep up to the last"
Later she broke down and was placed in
the prison hospital.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
PAY FOR FATHERS RUIN.
Jury Awards Children a Verdict o
S17,5OO Against IiuuOr Dealers

Jury Awards Children a Verdict of
S13,oOO Against Liquor Dealers.
Finding that the father was ruined by
drink, jury in Judge Tuthill's court in
chicago returned a verdict of ST 800 in
favor OF the five children of John He'd
lund, against three saloonkeepers. Ac-
cordlng to the story told in court, He'd
lund and his family were happy until
I'VE years ago, when he is said to have
begun the use of intoxicating liquors. At
that time the father was employed as a
carpenter with good income. The chill
dren: Mary, IS years old; Esther, IL
years old; Gunner, years old; Waldo,
D years old, and Carl, years old, were
provided with a comfortable home, the
older ones attending school regularly.
One evening the father failed to return
Tor supper, and when he appeared sew
eral hours later he staggered. Tie
younger children cried with fright, while
Mary, the oldest, set her lips, and assist
ed the man upstairs. From that time the
carpenter is said to have continued his
absolute habits. Hedlund soon lost his
employment, and the children, neglected
oy their father, were brought to the at
tention of Miss Caroline Blinn, a proba-
ton officer. She appealed to the saloon
men, begging them to desist from selling
liquor to the carpenter or to the children,
who are said to have been compelled by
their father to purchase beer for him.
threats and warnings, the jury was told,
were without avail
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
National Capital Notes.

The President has nominated A. O..
Marsh as pension agent at Indianapolis.
The State Department has received q
cablegram from Nicaragua announcing
that the Albers brothers. who have been
in prison there, have been pardoned by
the Nicaraguan government.
President Roosevelt, in a letter to Con-
gress transmitting the annual reports of
the isthmian canal commission and the
Panama Railroad Company, praised the
work being done on the big ditch and
replied in a vigorous manner to hostile
critics.
Among the nominations sent to the
Senate the other day was that of Logan
Tucker of Illinois, to be lieutenant in
the marine corps. He is a son of Lieut..
Col. W. Z. Tucker of the pay corps,
U. S. A, and a grandson of Gen: John
A. Logan.
Representative Fowler CNew Jersey.
chairman of the House committee on
banking and currency, has introduced a
bill providing for the current deposit
of public moneys with national banking
associations at per cent a year in
amounts not exceeding 80 per cent of the
paid up and unimpaired capital of the
banks. The bill also provides that any
national bank may issue an amount of
national bank notes not exceeding 80 per
cent of its unimpaired capital without de-
hosting United States bonds.
Secretary Wilson of the Department
of Agriculture has asked Congress for
an appropriation of $135,00 for addi-
tional inspectors and microscopes to ia
cilitate increased exports of pork to meet
the growing demand abroad.
The State Department has received
news from San Domingo that ex-Presi-
dent Morales has offered to resign if he
will be allowed to leave the country in
safety This proposition. it is under
stood, will be accepted. The Dominican
congress has temporarily suspended the
constitutional guarantees throughout the
republic.
Representative John Sharp Williams,
minority leader of the House, has re-
turned to Washington from his home in
Mississippi, where he was called by the
serious illness of his daughter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
| New York.

IT W w II unreasonable
NPY YORK. weather adversely affects
retail trade and recorders
from wholesalers it at the same time
highly favors the leading industries
and outdoor activities and facilitates
railway transport. Spring trade real
ly shows rather more than usual life,
requests for prompt shipments being
in evidence earlier than usual. Clear
ance sales are a feature of retail lines
and the season as a whole in heavy
wearing apparel has Dean so far dis
appointing. Collections North and
West feel this influence likewise Bank
clearfngs break all records for a holi-
day period, rejecting heavy end of the
year disbursements and stock specula-
ton. December was perhaps the best
month of 1905 for the railways, with
an indicated gain of II per cent over
December, 1904
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending Jan. 4,
1906, number 900, against PIP last
week, 27S in the like week of 1905, 262
in. 1904, 1856 in 1903 and 346 in 1902.
In Canada failures for the week num-
her %, as against Is last week and 40
In this week a year ago-Bradstree
Commercial Report.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18

oI. Trade returns indicate
Oll6d1U. that the turn into the
new year was made with
little interference to production. An
nual balances and repairs have been
well advanced with brief loss of time,
and the activities generally progress
under the encoura ging influence of a
promising outlook. Prices of all raw
material sustain the high level recent
~ attained, and bid fair to maintain
continued firmness. Important COM
m1tments already have been closed in
manufacturing branches and new bust
ness structures, while inquiries show
that heavy orders impend in iron and
steel departments, rolling stock and
railroad construction.
Wholesale lines have accumulated
bookings of spring staples, which COM
pare favorably with the aggregate
year ago, especially in best grades of
dry goods, clothing, footwear and
household needs. Interior advices re-
fleet enlarged sales last year, and sat
lsfactory reduction of stocks, suggest
ing that replenishment will be upon
liberal scale.
Retail dealings now are mainly con-
fined TO clearances, the more winter
like weather inducing a fuller dispo-
sition of warm apparel Mercantile
collections continue to show up we'll,
heavy defaults being unusually small
in number.
January interest disbursements
reached the largest total hitherto
known, and this created much activity
in banking circles. The payments re-
leased a considerable volume of funds.
With this also appears increasing re-
turns from the agricultural sections.
These features favor increasing depos-
Its here but the demand for money
has not subsidized, and the discount rate
for all desirable loans is unchanged at
6 per cent, long datings being prefer
red
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number twenty-five, against nine
teen last week and twenty seven
year agO.-Dun's Review of Trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
DR.. HARPER is DEAD.
President of University of Chicago
Succumbs to Long Illness.

William Rainey Harper, president
of the University of Chicago, is dead.
His long struggle against the ravages
of an intestinal cancer-a terrible, ira
glc, losing fight of nearly twelve
months duration-ended Wednesday
afternoon, when, exhausted by suffer
ing and wasted from lack of nourish-
ment, his life slowly fickered out. His
last words, before he passed into the
final coma from which he never awoke,
were murmured, half-incoherent mes
sages of farewell to the members Of
his family, all of whom wero at the
bedside. The sentence, God always
helps was repeated often by the dy-
ing man.
Six weeks ago it became apparent
to DR.. Harper's physicians that the
sands of his life were almost run. His
friends, his wife and children, and
even the patient himself, recognized
that the end was at hand.
His strength failed rapidly, and the
pain that tortured him became so ex-
IRENE that opiates were administered
constantly by hypodermic injection.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18

Lacks Standing In Court Because He
COndOned Wife's Alleged Offenses,

The Williams divorce case, in which
the pastor of the Welsh church sued his
wife, making sensational allegations, was
concluded in Jackson, Ohio, the result
being a complete victory for the wife.
Mrs. Williams was given the custody of
their two children and the minister was
denied divorce. The court held that as
the husband had condoned his wife's al
legged offenses by living with her after
they were discovered he had no standing
in court
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
Losses of Dead Broker Large.

L. w. Prior, the broker who killed
himself at the Hollenden hotel in Cleve-
land, upset Clevelands spectators and
many of their financial leaders before
taking his life. The brokers' system
of doing business resulted in losses run
ming up into the hundreds of thousands.
He could not face the men to whom he
had brought disaster, and chose death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
FATED SHIP PURSUED BY DEATH.
Vessel Storm-Tossed, Crew Decimat-
ed by Scurvy, Reaches Port.

Vessel Storm-Tossed, Crew Decimat-
ed by Scurvy, Reaches Port.
A story of death and disaster reaches
San Francisco from the German bark
Alsternie, just arrived at the port of
Santa Rosalia in the Gulf of California
after an eventful passage of over six
months from Hamburg. The vessel arriv-
ed in charge of her first officer, with
fifteen men confined to their hunks with
scurvy, leaving less than half a dozen
complaining men to work on the vessel
While far to the southwark Mate Asch-
man reports that Captain Anhagen died
in the height of storm and shortly af-
terward Miller, the second mate, fell
overheard and was drowned. From then
on until her arrival in port the ship,
short-handed and delayed by light and
varying winds, crept slowly over leagues
of sea to her destination with the men
falling one by one, victims of scurvy.
That she ever made port at all under
such adverse conditions is considered in
the light of almost a miracle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
Steel Works Are Burned.

Fire, starting from an explosion, de-
stroyed the works of the Carnegie Steel
Company in Greenville, Pa, entailing a
loss of between 100000 and 100000.
Two men were burned, but not fatally.
A flue in the boiler of a heating furnace
blew out, deluging the furnace below,
which exploded, scattering fire in all di-
rectionS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
Money SntcheI Disappenrs.

\ daring robbery took place in the
National Banking Company's offices in
Newark, n. j., when n satchel contain
ing several thousands of dollars disap-
peared from the counter while a man
who had just drawn the money turned
for minute to speak with friend.
Both he and his friend say they saw no
one approach the spot where the satchel
had been nlnced.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18

John NJ. Pattison of Cincinnati. who
was inaugurated Governor of Ohio Mon
day, in his inaugural address commended
President Roosevelt's efforts for national
supervision of insurance companies. He
also urged the Legislature to pass no
partisan laws, said the Sunday closing
law should be enforced throughout the
State, and declared in favor of local op-
lion
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
Cnmcrn COSTS Loh al Twenty.

BY the aid of camera the Louisville
and Nashville road has been enabled to
prove that some twenty of its employees
ut Corbin, Ky. had been visiting saloons
in violation of a rule which prohibits
their frequenting such places ut any
time, and they were dismissed from tSx
service of the company.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
PANAMA TRIBE WAR DANCING.
RebeIIiOus Indians on Isthmus TAX
ing Stems for HnStiIifies.

President Amador of Panama will
send the gunboat Oriente with a request
to Chief Inannaquina to come to Panama
for conference. President Amador
says jealousy between Inannaquina'
tribe and that headed by Chief Henry
Clay, who remains friendly to Panama,
is one of the causes of the secession of
the former. 1t is alleged that a Colon
bian general visited Chief Imam aquina
and proposed that he go to Bogota to
make arrangements for arms and fnan-
cial help, in order to resist or make an
attack. The Panamanian big chichi, or
war dance, is said to be in progress in
the villages on Sarsadi bay, headquarters
of Chief Inannaquina's tribe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
Indicted on HoId-TTu Charoa

Pat Grove was indicted in Council
Bluffs, Iowa, by the Pottawatomie coun-
ty grand jury for alleged completely in a
street car holdup on July ., 1905, when
about $50 was secured from two conduc-
tors and Il motorman. Arthur Levi. a
younger man, is indicted on the same
charge with Grove
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
PopIe Are All Alike.

Society men and women and inhabit-
ants of tenement houses are all alike,
the only observable difference being that
there is more music and less air at ex-
elusive functions, said Mrs. J. G. Phelps
Stokes of New York, the former cigar
maker, on being introduced to New
York's 400
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
Rough Rider Recommended.

President Roosevelt has given Joseph
II. Proctor, Il former rough rider from
Oklahoma, now an Omaha street car
conductor, letter of recommendation
to United States Marshal Warner for
an appointment as deputy marshal.
Proctor and the President are warm
friends
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
Ohio Bankers SON Found Dead.

The mystery of the disappearance of
Wallace Noble Herbert in San Fran
cisco, Cal, Dec. ~ was cleared the other
day when his dead body was found in
room at 347 Sixth street. Herbert is
said to be Il son of the vice president of
the First National bank of Niles. Ohio.
He was 3S years old and a craftsman
and an expert accountant.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18

| of the flagship Brooklyn and the other
vessels Of the third division. The squad
| ron encountered exceedingly rough
weather on the trip over and during
gale the Brooklyn, whose davits are
| quite low, suffered some damage TO her
boats, which are rugged close to the side.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
Powder Explosion Kills Two.

Mike Ostroski, miner near Steuben-
vile, Ohio, went to pour one can of
powder into another can and took a lamp
with him to the cellar of his home, car
rying his baby in his arms. An explosion
followed and he was fatally burned. The
baby's clothing caught fire and it was
burned to death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
May Have Persisted In Fire.

James +. Bennett, City Attorney of
ST. Cloud, Mimi, and one of the most
prominent lawyers of that part of the
State, has disappeared. Bennett was
last seen in Minneapolis the night be-
fore the West Hotel fire. 1t was feared
he had persisted in the fire.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18

RevoIutioni%ts Killed or Injured in
Seminary by CossacIxs.

Nearly $50 persons were killed or in
jGred in an attack by Cossacks on the
Armenian seminary in Tifis, Caucasia,
following the throwing of two bombs
from that institution at passing patrol.
-Four Cossacks were wounded and boy
was killed by the explosion of the
bombs. Artillery was called up and the
seminary was surrounded and shelled.
The building soon was in flames, and the
bombs and cartridges stored therein eX-
ploded. Thirty-three persons persisted in
the flames, while 300 were injured by
fire Or wounded by shells. The troops
subsequently shelled another Armenian
house, where bombs and weapons were
hidden, and Killed eight revolutionists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
Former Premier Defeated.

4. ]. Balfour. former British prime
minister, was defeated for reelection to
the House of Commons, being beaten in
the eastern district Of Manchester by
r. q. IIorridge Il liberal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18

On the charge preferred by ]. H.
Williamson that he borrowed SO two
years ago, and that he had paid SAL in
interest and still owed $50 F. ]. Hughes.
Il Kansas City money lender. was con
victed of usury and sentenced to thirty
days in Jail and to pay fine of 500.
the minimum penalty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
BLOODY DAY IN OKLAHOMA.
series of Deaths by Fire and ViO-
Icnce Stirs the Territory.

series of Deaths by Fire and ViO-
Ience Stirs the Territory.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Stanton were seri-
ously burned and a brother and sister
of Mr.. Stanton were killed in fire
which destroyed their home near Pauls
Valley, Okla. John Starr, a Cheyenne
Indian, was burned to death in his te-
pee near Geary; Samuel Gabbert, Il
ranchman, was shot and killed by his
son-in-law while hunting; Dennis Jordan
was killed i'll runaway near Jones
City, and Charles II. Johnston of Cleve-
land was found dead in a hotel, COM
plotting the remarkable record of fatali-
ties for one day in the territory.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
Passengers aud Crew Rescued.

Drawing a gale which for two days
dehed the government life savers. Cap
tain Caste and Il picked crew in Il sail
ing yacht reached the steamer Cherokee.
stranded near Atlantic City, and res
cued the passengers and crew, sixty in
number.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18

A large Pittsburg house, which runs
a gasoline delivery wagon system and
keeps accurate data of the expenses
connected with the service, announces
that the average cost per package for
delivery is .00S3 per cent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
To Build Steel Plant.

Plans have been made by the Crucible
Steel Company of America for the cree
ton of Il large new steel plant ut Pitts
burg. Phe new plant will contain sew
enty-fve pudding furnaces and will give
emploNment to 1000 men.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18
sennte to Hedge i'm Roose,e1t.

Members of the Senate plan to curb
the President, who, they declare. has
invaded the prerogatives of the upper
house. An investigation into Panama
affairs, especially with regard to the
monetary agreement made by Secretary
Taft. will be the first step.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18

Emerson Hall, the W home of the
philosophical department of Harvard
University, was dedicated the other day.
1t was named in honor of Ralph Waldo
Emerson. The ceremonies were attended
by members of the American Philosoph-
Zeal Association and the American Psy-
Geological Association, which began their
annual conventions at Cambridge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-18

Commission a n d
of the president of
the Panama Rail-
road company, to-
gether with the re-
ports, were receiv-
ed by the two
houses Of Con-
gress. The report
of the canal COM
mission has been
made public. Sec
rotary Taft in his
loftar o5viSa5 tho