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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-17
WAR ON DRUG TRUST.
Attorney General Moody Orders Ac-
ton begun at IudianannIis


Attorney General Moody has begun s
war of determination on the so-called
drug trust, as a result of investigations
by the Department of Justice at Wash
ington extending over several months
Acting under instructions from the At
torney General United States District At
torney Healing began in the United
States District Court at indianapolis be-
fore Judge A. B. Anderson, an action for
an injunction against the corporations
and individuals comprising the combina-
ton which, it is alleged, is debating the
price of drugs TO the American people.
The drug trade of the country, it is al
legged, is so organized that prices for all
articles are fixed by the parties to a con-
spiracy. No retail druggist can buy pro-
prietary medicines or other drugs unless
he is member of the National ASsocia-
ton of Retail Druggists, and in order TO
be member he must bind himself to sell
at the prices fixed by the manufacturers
and wholesalers in their several associa-
lions. The retail druggist who refuses to
be party TO the arrangement is black
listed and it becomes impossible for him
to purchase supplies except at list prices,
which are so far above the prices made
TO members as to make competition impoS-
sible.
The Department of Justice announces
its determination to prosecute the case
with vigor and to leave nothing undone to
destroy the combination and bring back
conditions of competition in the drug
trade.
Joseph E. Toms. secretary of the Ma
tional Wholesale Druggists Association,
denies the charges made by the govern
ment in calling the association an illegal
combination. Mr.. Toms said that such
charges as those fled in the federal court
have been made against the national or
ganization heretofore and always have
failed of conviction. The manufacturers
of proprietary medicines have been wont
for years TO fix both the wholesale and
retail prices at which their product shall
be sold, he said. These prices. he added,
are fixed by each company, independent
of any other organization or corporation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-17

through sheer terror. Few would have
seen this terror still lurking beneath
all the pOmp and flashing brillancy in
which the impressive scene was set
But it was there.
Fear Turks Beneath All.
Beneath all their brave finery lurked
the ever present fear that gripped the
hearts of emperor and prince. noble
and minister, councillor and military
chief. Evidences of it were easily
found in the minute, countless precau-
tons that were taken to guard the
ruler and his aids from revolutionary
asSassinS.
COrdOns of soldiers with menacing
bayonets, supplemented with Calling
guns, surrounded the building. Every
corridor and chamber of the building
swarmed with soldiers and secret po-
lice. Every member of the douma,
even, was under the watchful eye of
a member of the secret service. No
one was truSted-all were watched.
Men We're arrested by hundreds all
over the city on the least suspicion and
thrown into Jail.
Troops filled all the principal streets.
All working men were prevented from
assembling in the city. Gatherings
of people on the streets were promptly
dispersed and all loiterers arrested or
driven to their homes. Hundreds of
well-knOwn revolutioniSts and leaders
Of the workingmen were arrested in or
der to prevent the carrying out of any
assassination plot. Feverish energy
was displayed by both police and mil
itary authorities in this work After
the report of plot to kill the Emperor
in the very douma itself, their precau-
tionary efforts were redoubled.
After an imposing religious service,
celebrated by the primate of the Rus
sian church, Antonius. Emperor Mich
olas delivered the address from the
throne.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-17
PLAGUE IN MUMMIEs.
Scientist Says WrnppingS Are Alive
with TubercuIar BaciIli.

with TubercuIar BaciIIi.
"EgyptoIogy Versus Health" was the
title OF monograph received at the head
quarters of the Tuberculosis Institute of
Chicago the other day, in which it was al
legged that the great spread of tubercu-
Iosis in Europe and America in the last
100 years found its causation in the dis
intermcnt and shipment broadcast over
the land of the mummieS which had re-
posed 50 long in the tombs OF the Pha-
raohs The monograph was written by
DIR. Rafaelle Sorgnac, one of the lectur-
crs at the Sorbonne in Paris, who was an
interested visitor at the recent tubercu-
lOsis exhibit in this city. That the dis
inferred mummieS started the spread of
the tuberculosis germs in Egypt cannot be
doubted says DR.. SOrgnac in his mono
graph. "ChampOllion did much for the
world when he discovered the key to the
hieroglyphs, but looSed death on t o
world when he caused the mummies to he
disentombed. The tuberculosis germs live
for thousands of years, as has easily been
proven, and the eXhumation of the bodies,
even the well-preserved ones, caused an
epidemic Of consumption among the work
men and scholars who first exhumed the
cases. 1t is also we'll known that the
keepers Of the mummy cases have been
subject TO the disease. The start of tu-
berculosiS in France in a serious sense
may be traced to the great importation of
mummies and mummy cases ut the time
of the Napoeonic invasion of Egypt and
this start gave the disease its first great
fo0thold in EurOpe, whence it has SDread
all over the western world
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-17
National CanitaI Notes.

Viscount Aoki, recently appointed first
ambassador of Japan to the United
States, has been presented formally tc
the President.
4 trademark treaty between the United
States and Roumania has been ordered
favorably reported by the Senate commit
tee on foreign relations.
Lieut.. Leigh G. Palmer, attached to the
battleship Missouri, has been selected tc
represent the navy at the nuptials of
King Alfonso at Madrid in June. Lieut..
L. S. Grant Ill, corps of engineers, had
been previously selected to represent the
United States army at The same occasion.
The House committee on territories de-
cided to make a favorable report on two
bills by Representative Cushman of Wash
ington. regulating fishing in Alaska. One
bill prevents aliens from fishing in Alas
kan waters, and is said to be aimed espe-
cially at the japanese.
President Roosevelt has signed the bills
passed by Congress making an extra APP
nropriation of 100000 for Mare Island
navy yard, at San Francisco, and making
an appropriation of $4,000 to meet ener
3plcIeS IN lie 1OSlOIHCe department III
the State of California.
At the late session of the Playground
Association of America President ROOse-
Welt. who recently was chosen first vice
president was unanimously elected honor
airy president of the organization.
The Senate committee on postoffices
and postroads voted to report favorably
the nomination of Benjamin f. Barnes,
assistant secretary to President Roosevelt.
TO be postmaster Of Washington.
4 resolution extending the thanks of
the country TO Gen. Horace Porter, for
mer ambassador to Paris, for his enter
prise in securing the body of John Paul
Jones, was presented to the House by
Representative William Alden Smith of
Michigan.
Postmaster General Cortelyou has sub
mitted to the postofice committee of the
Senate and House at Washington a bill
providing for issuing postal notes at all
money order and many smaller Offices
from denominations ranging from l cent
to $50.
Secretary Shaw conferred with mem
hers of the Senate committee on finance
concerning a measure he desires Congress
to enact at this session permitting the
Treasury Department to hold in reserve
500 100000 in gold bullion instead of
S50.000O00 as provided by the present
law. The purpose is one Of convenience
and to give greater elasticity in the hand
ling Of reserve funds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-17
Short News Notes,

The German steamer Mariechen wreck
ed at False bay, Alaska, last February.
has been foated.
All sections of the country were repre-
sented at the opening in Boston of the
seventeenth annual congress of the Ma
tional Society of the Sons of the Amer
lean Revolution.
President Hieronymus of Eureka Col
lege, at the opening session of the Illinois
Federation of Colleges at Galesburg. ap-
pealed TO rich men to endow American
colleges sufficiently to allow them to DO
their best work.
Prof Smaller Mathews of the Univer-
sity of Chicago, addressing the Eyangel-
ical Alliance at St. Louis, declared that
theology is shifting with the times, and
urged his hearers to follow the truth
wherever it may lead.
". II. Maxwell superintendent of
Gotham's schools has a new cure for
curvature of the spiae. Pupils must car
ry their books on their right and left sides
on alternate days.
A New Jersey Central train, on which
John d. Rockefeller was passenger, had
a narrow escape from a serious accident,
when the cylinder head of the locomotive
was blown out and the piston rod broken.
Roy d. Tremain, 81. Louis bank
injury to his hand received during,
baseball game a few days ago.
Forty cadets at the New Mexico Mill
tary Academy mutinieG and for time
threatened violence. Nine were expelled.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-17
DIVERTING IMMIGRATION.
German Company Intends to Open
Port in Southwest.

With view to carrying out plan de-
visGd by one of the large German steam
ship companies to lessen the congestion of
European immigrants in the large cities
of this country, and distribute them over
the rural districts, particularly the agri-
cultural sections of the Southwest, Fred
erick Won Pills, an authority on immi-
grafton in Europe, has spent the past
three weeks in this country.
Mr.. Pills has just returned from trip
through the Southwest, stopping in Wash
ington on his way back to confer with
leading officials there
The plan of the steamship company is
to establish, as soon as possible, a line
from Bremen to one of the southern
ports. They will try to persuade emf
grants from southern Russia, Bulgaria,
Hungary and Roumania to go to that
part of the United States, where it is
believed they will prove desirable factor
in the development of the country.
I'VE rather favor Galveston as our
port in the Southwest" Mr.. Won Pills
said, because of its superiority as
harbOr, and also because it is less liable
TO quarantine restrictions. If we do go
there, the commissioner Of immigration
assured me that the government would
probably erect a landing station at that
point which would greatly facilitate the
work of distribution"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-17
From Far and Near.

r. C. Lehman, the English Journalist
and oarsman, who is well known in this
country, is a member of the new English
Parliament, representing the south or
Market Scarborough division of Leicester
shire in the Liberal interest.
Winston Churchill, the celebrated Eng
lish author, has just brought upon him
self much amused criticism by a ponder
Gus, ii courteous, phrase which he used
in political argument. lie referred to
the untruthful statement of an opponent
as a archaeological inexactitude"
Sir Harry Johnston, speaking at a pub
lie meeting in London, said he had trav-
eled extensively in Africa for the pur-
pose of putting down the slave trade and
thai it was his experience that there
was more misery and restitution in Lon
don than in any one separate part of AZ
RIGA.
The armOred cruiser Washington re-
turned to the yards Of the New York
Sbipbuilding Company at Camden, \. J..
after a successful trial trip off the Maine
coast. The cruiser attained speed of
OF knots an hour, little more than
quarter of a knot in excess OF the govern
ment requirements.
Sir William Harcourt was entertaining
Mr. Chamberlain at Malwood while fhe
home rule controversy was on in the
House of Parliament. 4 cynical hunorist
commented on the fact as PLEASING
phase of political controversy. oh re-.
piled Sir William. Joe and / are almost
like brothers" Yes" responded the cvn-
ical one, 80 were Cain and Abel
Chaplain of the Senate Edward Evara++
Hale is 81 years old The Rev. Mr.
Hale attributes his excellent health TO tba
serenity with which he takes life. He
sleeps nine hours very night
Daniel Jones, the last survivor but ona
of the detail of twenty Union soldiers
which captured JEFF Davis in 1866. died
recently at Kokomo. Ind He was a
member of the Seyenty-second Indiana
mounted infantry.
2. b. Thompson, registering from Mil
waukee, was found dead in his room at
the Jefferson hotel, st. Louis. He was
connected with the Pioneer Suspender
Company of Philadelphia 1t is stated
his death was from a natural cause.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-17
Interesting News Items.

George r. Young of Mount Holly, n
j., who, it is said, was wanted in ST.
Louis for embezzl, ment, committed sui
eide at Mount Holly.
Six bridge companies are declared to be
in default for failing to file answers by
May 1, as required in the custer suits
brought against them by Attorney Gen
eral Ellis of Ohio.
Secretary Taft in Torrington, Conn,
spoke in favor of a contract-built lock
canal across Panama.
Secret service men seized half ton of
Honduras lottery tickets and $1,000
worth of engraved plates in a raid in
New York.
A bill has been introduced in the Eng
lish House of Commons prohibiting plural
voting and limiting a man to one con-
stituency.
A benefit performance planned to take
place in the Presbyterian building. New
York, in which girl was to dance in her
bare feet has been barred.
Several persons were injured by the de-
railing of Santa Fe passenger train No
81, at Horse Shoe Bend, Orange county,
California.
DR.. Hansteen of Sweden, declares that
moss is destined to become the popular
food of the Masses owing to its cheap
ness and nutrition.
John B. Brosseau, so years old, for
years an employe of Tiffany & Co, New
York, is under arrest charged with thefts
that may reach $4,000.
Frank o. Stevens of Millersburg. Ohio,
convicted of killing Joseph Burke, was de-
MED new trial by Judge Harter and was
sentenced to the penitentiary for life
Secretary Taft, when in New Haven,
Conn, was presented with a huge bang
er,'' or cane, which ne had carried when
at Yale.
Baron Kronpensky of the Russian en-
bassy in Berlin, will be councillor of the
embassy in Washington, new position.
He viii rank next TO the ambassador.
4 ten weeks test on nine Yale students
who were allowed TO follcw their appe-
tiles dictates showed less flesh food CON
sumed and greater average endurance.
China has taken a stand against for
eigners holding property and the first na-
ton struck at is America, which is seek
ing to buy ground for eonsulates in Man
churia-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-17
Labor troubles and a
relatively large number Of
CHICAGO.

------J commercial defaults are
the unfavorabie developments of the
week. Against these there is no dimin-
utiOn in new demands for future eXecu-
ton, while current consumption is seen
to maintain its high level and money
movements have turned for the better
after the strain of heavy Withdrawals
from local bank deposits for San Fran
ciSco'S account.
Notwithstanding the interruption due
to the strikes confidence in the bust
ness outlook has not been lessened and
the main industries make good pro-
gresS. More support is furnished by
liberal buying of pig iron and finished
steel.
Hides and leather acquired further
hrmness in prices and more placing of
orders for fall goods adds to activity
at footwear, harness, and betting fac
tories.
Board of trade dealings, in view of
the May deliveries, indicated a steady
tone in the principal grains.
Bank clearings, $236, S9O.S54. exceed
those Of the corresponding week in 1905
by 5.S per cent Dividend payments
were of large aggregate ana added to
the supply of loanabIe funds. but the
discount rate for choice commercial pa.
per was unchanged at 5la per cent.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number SO, against % last week
and 10 year ago.-Dun's Review of
Trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-17
WOULD SAVE NIAGARA.
President Recommends Restriction
of Water Diversion. .

President Roosevelt Monday sent to
Congress the report of the international
waterways commission on the preserva-
ton OF Niagara falls. The report con-
tains recommendations for the restriction
of the amount of water to be diverted for
power purposes and suggests that the
amount OF water to be diverted be limited
either by treaty or legislation. The lin
Itation is placed at $4,000 cubic feet per
second from the Canadian side and 49,
800 cubic feet per second from the Amer
lean side, in addition to 10000 cubic feet
a second authorized for the Chicago drain
age canal. The effect of the diversion of
water by the Chicago drainage canal upon
the general navigation in this section of
the great lakes system will be considered
in separate report. The American mem
bers are of the opinion that the enuncia-
ton of principles to govern the making of
general treaty is not within the scope
of their functions; moreover, the juris-
diction of the American members of the
commission is restricted to the great lakes
system.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-17
OUR PROSPERITY GROWS.
Alien Critic Reviews United States
Industrial Operations.


An English view of American prosper
ity is presented in Report on the trade
of the United States for the year 1905"
by British Commercial Agent Bell. A
copy of the report, made to the British
foreign office, has reached the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor. The report
refers to the absorption of more than
100000 immigrants without affecting
the labor market and the increase of
money in circulation. In dealing with
the exports from the Unit I'd States during
1903" says the report, 1.-The first thing
that strikes one is the fact that notwith-
standing the enormous volume of home
trade the value of manufactured articles
exported should have increased to such an
extent. If this is possible during such
times as these, when every industry is
fully occupied, it is not difficult to mag
inc what will be the result when the home
demand slackens and when the manufac-
turers who have so greatly enlarged and
extended their works to meet the extra
demand for their products are obliged to
look for extended markets outside the
United States in order to keep their mills
and factories fully employed. When it is
remembered that it is only by keeping
their works running to the fullest extent
and thus keeping down expenses to the
lowest point that renders it possible for
the majority of the manufacturers in this
country to compete in foreign markets,
one can realize how essential it is that
they find neutral markets where their
surplus products can be disposed of so as
to avoid accumulation of stocks. There
are no signs at present of this great ac-
tivity decreasing. On the contrary, there
is every indication that the present year
will be quite as prosperous as the last or
more so. The country was never more
prospe: Gus than at present. Industrial
operations are conducted on a larger scale
than ever
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-17
Lolita Armour Not Cured.

The return of the little daughter of j.
Ogden Armour, Lolita, for the second time
to the Vienna hospital of Prof Lorenz
gives color to the report that the famous
operation performed in this country in
1903, which made so much talk about
bloodless surgery, has not turned out sue
cessfully. DR.. Shaffer of the Cornell med
ical school, who was with Lorenz in this
country, now admits as much. Neverthe-
less, he says, this is no criterion of the
Lorenz method, for, to his personal knowl-
edge, three operations performed that
year have given the patients complete re-
lief. Statistics indicate that the cures
have been about 20 per cent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-17
Row IN TIE SENATE
Triangular Question of Verscit,
Stirs the Upper House.


Documentary charges by Senator
Tillman that President Roosevelt had
betrayed the Democratic friends of eff
fective rate legislation by surrender to
railroad influence ana a statement
from President Roosevelt branding as a
deliberate falSehood Il portion of these
charges--a statement teIephoned from
the White House to be read on the floor
Of the Senate before adjournment
brought the sensations of the present
session of Congress to a climax Satur-
day afternoon.
Previous to this the Senate had been
deeply stirred by a speech by Senator
Bailey i'll which the President was de-
clared to have changed front ON rail
road and tariff legislation and bowed
to the leaders of the Republican nartv
and the railroads. A man of clay"
Senator Bailey exclaimed.
Mr.. Tillman asserted that the Prcsi-
dent had entered into an agreement
with the Democrats on the terms of
the rate bill, through which their TWEEN
ty-SiX votes were to be added to the
twenty-five votes the Republican
friends Of the measure could muster,
thus insuring its passage. Then he in
tfmated that the Republicans, seeing
the political effect Of such Il combina-
ton, had hurriedly settled their differ
enceS and. with the Presidents con-
sent agreed to the Allison compromise,
making the railroad issue strictly Re
publican. As if to bear out Mr.. Till
mans assertion every Democratic
amendment to the rate bill so far has
been consigned to the scrap heap.
AS result of the days developments
President Roosevelt. Senator Tillman,
who is in charge of the Hepburn bill
in the upper branch of Congress. and
former Senator William +. Chandler of
New Hampshire, now chairman of the
Spanish claims commission. became in
volyed in a triangular question of YER
acity arising under unprecedented cir
cumstances. Senator Lodge, rs the
LIISlu VI lIie IeSluent. Drought Ille Sil-
uation to a head by getting into tele-
phonic communication with the execu-
tive, who passed the lie back in time
to catch the Senate still embroled in
one of the bitterest political and fsc-
tiOnal controversies of years. Senator
Bailey and Attorney General Moody
were only a little less spectacularly
concerned in the affair, which promises
sional and national campaigns