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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-25
Public Ownership the Remedy.

In paper by Henry Laurens Call, on
"The Concentration of Wealth." read at
q meeting of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science at Co
lumbia university, the speaker declared
that the modern corporation was respon-
sible for the concentration of the wealth
of the nation into a few hands. The cor
poration, he said was a monstrosity, and
IL wealth of Rockefeller and other enor-
mously rich men is the product of this
vicious institution. The remedy, accord
ing to Mr.. Call, was the public ownership
of public utilities. The law must correct
the conditions brought about by the cor
poration. 1t should be made cooperative
instead, as now, the instrument of private
greed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-25
COusumptiOn by Infection.

DR.. e. G.. Schroeder and W. E. Cotton
of the bureau of animal industry have
reported on their extensive experiments,
which tend to show that tuberculous may
develop in the lungs, no matter through
what channels the bacilli gain entrance
to the body, and that the location of le-
sions in the lungs can no longer be con-
sidered as evidence that infection entered
by means of respiration. They say that
too much Importance has been attached to
the agency of dried sputum and too little
to the danger from fresh or moist tubercu-
Ious material, which enters human food
in many ways, one of which is in the
milk of tuberculous cows. Cattle and
hogs were inoculated with tubercle bacilli
near the end of the tail, and died from
lung tuberculous in twenty-three days.
These experts believe that ingestion is
a greater danger than respiration.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-25
ITALIANS SAVE TRAIN
LABORERS PREVENT TERRIBLE
WRECK IN CONNECTICUT.
Flyer Is Stopped When Within Ten
Feet of Street OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Wealthy Men Convicted of Land
Frauds in Omaha.

The east-bound New York-Boston ex-
press on the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad narrowly escaped
plunging into a twenty-foot ditch while
passing through East Hartford, Conn,
only the timely warning of members of a
gang of Italian track laborers ayerting
the accident. The Main street grade
crossing is in process of elimination, the
tracks being raised ten feet and the
street lowered the same distance. The
east-bound tracks had been torn up at
this point and a fagman stationed there
to warn trains. He is said to have left
his post un uarded. The express was ap-
preaching at high speed when the Ital-
ians, becoming aS,are of the situation,
rushed down the track and tagged the
train, which was brought to a stop ten
feet from the excavation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-25
COMMERCE OF WORLD
UNITED STATES A PROMINENT
FACTOR IN TRADE.
This Country Provides ii Per Cent
of Imports of Other Nations
Chilean Volcano Spreads Ruin
Over Large District.

The international commerce of the
world now exceeds SIG, 900, 100000, of
which $4,000. 100000 is in imports and
So ,50O000,000 in exports, according to
a statement issued by the bureau of sta
tistics of the Department of Commerce
and Labor in Washington. OF the i'm
ports of countries other than the United
States, IA 1-3 per cent is drawn from
this country, and OF their exports 912
is sent here. These figures include only
domestic products exported, and not for
eign colonial merchandise brought into
the country and re-exported. Total i'm
ports of countries other than the United
States are given as S12,513, 143 900, and
the share of these imports drawn from
tie United States is S1,79S, 33S 900, or
14.3l per cent. Exports of countries 9th
er than the United States are given at
$40, 17S, 100000, and the share sent to
the United States at S1,031, 10000, or
9.51 per cent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-25
HEAVY SNOW is COSTLY.
Nebraska and Missouri Covered, and
Ruin of Fruit Crop Reported.

Five inches of snow fell Wednesday
night and continued during the following
forenoon. The fall was general over east
ern Nebraska and is the heaviest known
in April for many years. The extent of
damage is not known. In some counties
along the southern and central belts cher
ries, peaches, plums and berries are said
to have been ruined almost entirely, while
other growers and dealers report that
fruit was not far enough advanced to be-
come seriously endangered. In grain
circles it is believed the snow will kill all
the green bugs which have been threaten
ing the winter wheat crop and spreading
over the central portion of the State. A
Norfolk dispatch says northern Nebraska,
southern South Dakota, northeastern
Wyoming and the Black Hills are covered
with snow six inches deep on the level.
Snow fell in st. Joseph. Mo-. for several
hours. practically running such fruit as
had escaped the late freezes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-25

respondent, there is no other page in
the history of Doodle so black as that
which Prosecuting Attorney Heney has
unfolded. Graft in the Golden Gate
City has been wholesale, limited by
nothing; it has included anything
and everything out of which a dol
lar could be squeezed. The grafters
overlooked nothing, spared nothing, ap-
parently feared nothing. From street
vendor to millionaire, from dive
keeper to corporation official, from the
brothel to the brownstone front-there
lay the course of graft. Nothing was
too little to be accepted rs tribute.
When Heney started on the trail of
corruption the first men to be indicted
were Schmitz and Reuf. Next came
Chief of Police Oman. and others who
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-25
MILLIONS ARE STARVING.
Famine Conditions in China Result
in Cannibalism

in Cannibalism.
kilograms from twenty points in the
famine district of China report that con-
dltlons are growing worse. Ten million
persons are suffering from lack of food
and are facing starvation Members of
the relief committee at the front report
that they find the bodies Of the sufferers
bloated and that their faces turn green
or black as the result of starvation. The
people are pulling up the growing crops
for Il cd. Whole families have been
found dead in their houses and corpses
are seen lying by the roadside. Probably
5000 persons are dying daily from star
walton. \ few cases of rioting for food
have occurred and cannbalism is begin
ming to be reported. Newly made graves
have been robbed of bodies and parents
are exchanging their children TO be eaten.
\ dollar. the relief committee reports,
will save one life until the harvest, June
-, and S10,000,000 is needed. The whole
amount cannot be raised in China. The
situation is desperate and Americans are
urged TO give SS.0O0.00O. The Chinese
government and people have contributed
more than S4.0O0.0O0 for relief, and the
sums received from all foreign sources
reach S500,000. including supplies on the
way from America.
Fifty missionaries are engaged with
the higher class of Chinese in overseeing
the relief distribution. Confucianists,
Catholics and Protestants are working
together. The telegraph officials are car
rying messages free to and from the re-
lief works. and the steamship companies
are furnishing transportation for supplies
of food, etc. for the sufferers. Twenty
thousand famine sufferers are employed
in building dams and canals to prevent
a recurrence of the floods.
kilograms received by the relief COM
mittee in Shanghai from a number of adj
ditional famine districts report that the
distress is growing worse. Some of the
sufferers are contending against fever or
smallpox in addition to lack of food
\ starving man choked himself to death
by swallowing almost whole a biscuit
which had been given 10 him by casual
visitor.
\ woman with three children was
found weeping on Il bridge where her
husband had fallen dead from starvation.
A husband wife and their five chill
dren were discovered in a house starving
to death. huddled together, clothed in
rags. The bark of trees had been their
only food
The gratitude of the poor people who
are given relief is very touching.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-25
Brief News Items.

Fire destroyed the Moore cotton mills
and gin at Mangum. Okla, with 1900
bales of unginned cotton. Loss S150,OOO
The nine men who were on coal barge
No. /, which vas lost in a storm off the
Florida coast, while being towed by the
naval collier Caesar, have been landed at
Galveston.
President f. d. p Glass announced at
Montgomery. Ala. that the fifth annual
meeting of the Newspapers and Publish
ers' Association will be held in Rich
= ond on May p and %.
The probating of the will of the late
Francis ?. Furnald disclosed the bequest
of 100000 to Columbia university, upon
the death of the widow. for the purpose
of erecting a dormitory to be known as
Furnald Hall. Also the Presbyterian hos
pital and other charities will receive
100000.
Former Congressman Galusha A. Grow,
who lately died at his home in Glen
wood, Pa, had a public service in the
House. although not a continuous one,
longer than that of any man who ever
sat in that body. In 1864 he came with
III one vote OL lHe lOE the vice
presidency in place of Andrew Johnson.
Driven from place to place by pro-
hibitive orders. the anarchists of Ger
many have at last managed to hold their
congress in the open fields near Mann
helm. They had previously tried to hold
their meeting in a hall at that place, but
all the delegates were put under arrest
and their pedigrees taken. After their
release they managed to evade the police
and get together in the open fields across
the river. The congress resolved to form a
national organization, with groups in
each State and headquarters in Berlin.
The Nebraska Legislature passed bill
providing for the taxation of terminals
OF railroads in the cities, in addition to
the regular mileage assessments.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-25
Sparks from the Wires,

Susan Rooney. a nurse, is suing Henry
Bergh of New York, former president of
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, for $4,000 damages, alleg-
ing he dragged her downstairs and choked
her.
The flag rush is to be abolished at the
University of Cincinnati. A special COM
mittee has been appointed from the uni
versity faculty to devise a suitable sub
stitute for this strenuous annual struggle
between the freshman and the sophomore
classes.
The Arctic brotherhood has raised ST.
900 to send the crack Nome ALASKA
basket ball team on a tour Of the United
States.
The Gananoque inn, one of the best
known summer hotels in Canada, was
completely destroyed by fire. The loss is
$4,000.
Three men were instantly killed at
Hillsville, Pa, by the explosion of ton
of powder at the plant of the Burton
Powder Company.
Preceding the close of the Indiana
conference of the Evangelical Association
Rev. f. Stedkey of Celina, Ohio, was
again received into the conference.
Albert E. Thornton, president OF the
Atlanta (Ga.) National bank, and well
known throughout the South, died, aged
60 years.
Receivers of the Provident Securities
and Banking Company reported to the
Supreme Judicial Court in Boston that
+bo d;rao+orS IF tha conpanv had SutIarl-
dered 100000 of the concerns money.
Frederick G. Bourne has sold the plot
at the northeast corner of Fifth avenue
and Fifty-second street, New York, to
Edward 81. Hartman, who at present
occupies the residence at II East Sixty
second street, just off Fifth avenue. The
plot will be improved with a fine dwell
ing
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-25
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$4.00 to $6.10; hogs, prime heavy, S4.00
to $500; sheep. fair to choice, $500
to S6.25; wheat, No. 2, 76c to tic; corn,
No. 2, 45c to Acc; oats, standard. 41c to
42c; rye, No. >. Csc to zoe; hay, timo-
thy. $500 to $1,000; prairie, 500 Otto
$1,000; butter choice creamery, &c to
32c; eggs. fresh, He to lie; potatoes,
Soc to 4Sc.
Indianapois-Ca shipping, $500
to S615; hogs, choice heavy, S4.00 to
$3.50; sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to
$500; wheat, No. =. 15c to 76c; corn,
No. 2 white, 47c to 4Sc; oats, No. 2
white, 42c to 43c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50 !;
hogs. $500 to $665; sheep. $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. ,, tic to 79c; corn,
No. 2, 45c to 4Tc; oats, No. 2, Ale to
42c; rye, No. 2, &c to CSC.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to 500 );
hogs, $500 to $6.95; sheep, $500 to
S6.25; wheat, No. 2, TIC to 79c; corn,
No. = Mixed Acc to 47c; oats, No. 2
mixed, 42c to 43c; rye, No. 2, T3c to 74c.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $500; hogs,
$4OO to 1913: shee, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No 2, 7Sc to 79c; corn, No. 3
yellow, Acc to 47c; oats, No. 3 white,
45c to Ale; rye, No. 2, re to 14c.
Milwaukee-Wheat. No. 2 northern,
roc to SIC; corn. No. 3, 42c to 43c;
oats. standard. 42c to 43c: rye, No. 1,
zoe to re; barley, standard, I0c to re;
pork, mess, $3.50.
Buffalo-Cattle choice shipping steers,
$3.50 to 5000; hogs, fair to choice. $500
to S1.00; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $500.
New York-Cattle. $500 to $500 :;
hogs. $500 to S7.20; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2 red, SIC to SIC;
corn, No. 2, sc to 54c; oats, natural
white, 4Sc to soc; butter, creamery, 30c
to 32c; eggs, western, 15c to 1Sc.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 7Sc to
SOC: corn, No. 2 mixed, 45c to 47c;
oats, No 2 mixed, 44c to 46c; rye. Ma
9. CSC to 69c; clover seed, prime, 5000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-25
RoBs STAGE OF s2s, 900.
Lone Bandit Makes Rich Haul in
DesoIate Spot in Montana.


DesoIate Spot in Montana.
The stage running between Malta and
Zortman, Mont, was held up the other
night by a lone bandit and a sum esti-
mated at about $4,000 is said to have
been secured. The robbery was commit
CURED just north of Zortman and
was entering the Little Rockies with a
consignment of money to pay the wages OF
the miners at the Zortman mines The
robber obtained FIVE or six hours start
of posse, mounted upon the fastest
horses TO be had, which left Malta imme-
diately upon receipt of word of the hold
up. The location is in a particularly
lonely spot in the mountains, affording
every opportunity for the shelter and
escape of the bandit. One man command
ing the trail there could almost hold
halt-dozen men at bay for hours. Some
member of Kid Curry's gang of train
robbers and horse thieves is suspected of
the hold-up. Six years ago the Curry
gang held up a Great Northern train in
the vicinity of Malta, securing $4,000.
Many of the associates of Curry still live
in northern Montana.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-25
All Around the Globe.

On the petition of the creditors Walter
h. Sharfer of Chambersburg. Pa. was
appointed receiver for the Wolf Manu-
featuring Company. near Chambersburg.
The liabilities, it is said, will reach near
ly 100000.
Nathan Loeser of Cleveland, Ohio. was
appointed trustee of the effects of o. L..
HAYS. the defaulting president of the
GALLON. Ohio, national bank. Voluntary
bankruptcy proceedings were begun by
Hays in the United States District Court.
recently.
The interstate commerce commission at
Topeka named June as the date of
hearing at Washington the complaints
regarding alleged discrimination in grain
rates against Kansas shippers.
The United States cruiser Washington,
lying at League Island navy yard, was
presented with handsome silver service
by Col. y. F. Lindsay of Spokane on be-
half of the State of Washington.
Joseh Varroi, a master mechanic EN-
loved by the contractors who are digging
the Pennsylvania railroad tunnel under
the East river from Manhattan to Long
Island CITY, was crushed 10 dedIn III
stone crusher.
The C. C. White Memorial building of
the Nebraska Wesleyan university was
dedicated in the presence of a distinguish
ed company. The dedicatory address was
by Gov. Henry A. Buchtel of Colorado.
Fire destroyed the piano and music
store of the Smith & Nixon Company at
Louisville, with a loss of about $780,
600. The fire was fought in the face OF
a blizzard which ragged for two hours.
Unable to agree upon a verdict, the
jury in the case of Corporal William b.
Wineberger, charged with the killing of
Private Frederick Geeney Jan. 26, was
discharged. Both men belonged to an
artillery company stationed at Fort
Washington, Md.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-25
DEATH TRAIL GROWS.
Mexican Earthquake known to HRv
Affected Wide Territory


Affected Wide Territory.
Late news from the area of destruction
in the recent Mexican earthquake shows
that the devastation wrought was greater
than at first supposed. Besides the de-
struction of the cities of Chiipancingo
and Chilapa it is now reported that the
city of Tixtla, between the two cities
above named and containing about the
same population as Chilpancingo, was
also leveled to the ground, and messen-
gers from the coast who have reached
Chilpancingo say that the towns of Ayut-
Ia and Ometepec have been wiped off the
map. Ayutla is one of the most historic
towns in the republic.
Ometepec is farther south. near the
boundary line of the States of Fuerrero
and Oaxaca. 1t is a town of about 1000
inhabitants and it is feared that the loss
of life here may be, heavier than at
Ayutla. Tlapa, a town eighty miles west
Of Chilpancingo and near the border line
of the State of Oaxaca, is also reported
to have been wiped out. The report from
Chilpancing0 says that the whole of the
west coast from Acapulco south to Salina
Cruz, the Pacific terminal of the Tehuan-
tepec National railway. Mexico's new
transcontinental road, which was opened
with elaborate ceremonies last January
by President Diaz, has been badly dam
aged.
1t is reported that Acapulco is partly
submerged from the great waves which
dashed over the breakwaters. Although
no breath of wind was stirring on the
night of the first shock, when the earth
began to tremble. the sea was dashed into
fury and as the shocks continued the
harbor look on the appearance Of ty-
phoon- swept ocean.
Devastation wrought by the earth
quakes is much greater than at first re-
ported. Many more than 500 are believ-
ed to be dead. Reports summarize the
damage as follows:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-25
LIGHTS BAD; GUNS ARE USELESS.
Coast Defenses InadequateIy Equip
ped, Says Army Man.

A statement from the commander of
the artillery district Of Boston that night
exercises in connection with the ap-
preaching joint drills of the Massachu-
sets and the regular coast artillery men
next July will be impossible for lack of
searchlights, has caused something of q
sensation in military circles in Washing
ton. 1t appears that the success of the
defensive work of the great Notifications
in Boston harbor is entirely dependent
upon the operation of three searchlights
two being twenty-four inches and one
thirty-siI inches in diameter These lights
are declared by artillerymen at the War
Department to be ridiculously inadequate
in view of the fact that the present
standard coast defense searchlight is sixty
inches in diameter. Gen. Murray, chief
of artillery, estimates that at the present
rate of equipment, more than seventeen
years must elapse before all our coast de-
lenses can be supplied with enough Of
the sixty-inch lights to comply with the
demands of modern military and naval
defense
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-25
Ir the Sporting World.

The Brooklyns did so well in the exhi-
bition games in the South that their adj
mirers look to see them make fine start
in the pennant race.
Emanuel Lasker won the chess match
for the championship of the world in
New York Monday, when he defeated
Frank j. Marshall for the eighth time.
Mcguire. the former national amateur
champion oarsman of several years ago,
when Whitehead. Edward Hanlan and
Ten Eyck were contenders, has decided
to enter the game again.
1t is probably not known to the gem
erality of people that of the last six an
piyersaries of the great English Derby
FIVE have been won by jockeys from
America and though on none of these
occasions has the finish been of an abso-
lutely hair-raising nature, still on the
other hand, not one of these races has
been so easily won but that it required
all the skill Of a most accomplished rider
to bring about the result
Barney Dreyfus considers Pittsburg's
staff of pitchers the best in the National
League, with the possible exception of
Chicago. Many OF the critics seriously
question Barney's claim.
Fielder Jones, manager of the Chicago
White Sox, says of this years American
League pennant race: Il believe the team
that wins the pennant this year will have
to make the hardest fight ever known in
baseball. The eight clubs are so excep-
tionally strong in pitchers that no matter
which team is in front at any time it
will have to battle with every bit of its
energy for every game it wins. The
White Sox have royal chance to repeat
their pennant winning performance of last
season"
Bernard J. Wefers, the former cham
pion sprinter. has been engaged as coach
for the Williams College track team al
Willianstown, Mass.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-25
Rv means of the most rigornns M,

By means of the most rigorous meas
ures on the part of the government with
the whole military force securing the
country and shooting on sight persons
suspected of connection with the peasant
riots, Roumania has been able to resume
an outward appearance of order again.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-25
Heart Movements PHOTOGRAPHIC

A report from London states that sci
entists have succeeded, by the combined
use of the Y rays and cinematograph. in
taking photographs of the actual move
ments of the internal organs, like the
heart and lungs. and these movements
can be reproduced on screen after the
manner of moving pictures. Medical men
believe that this will prove of great value
in diagnosing doubtful cases of lung and
heart disease.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-25
MasI>et Bandit Gets $4,000.

One of the boldest and most successful
robberies in st. Paul for many years oc-
CURED Tuesday night. when a clerk in
the Union depot Office of the Northern
Express Company was held up at the
point of a pistol. compelled to open the
safe and take therefrom a package con-
tanning $4,000 in currency, with which
the robber made his escape
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-25
DEATH ENTANGLEs PROPERTY.
Litigation Probable Over BohrbauGh
Estate at Ottawa, Kan.

Col. S. B. Bohrbaugh, one of the
wealthiest citizens of Ottawa, Kan, died
at Excelsior Springs, Mo. The death
raises the question of what disposition
will be made of his estate as proceed
ings are pending to decide whether or
not Col Bohrbaugh was of sound mind
He left will in which large requests
are given to Baker university, Baldwin,
Kan. Bethany hospital and the First
Methodist church of Ottawa, but after
the execution of the will he decided prac-
tically all of his property to members of
the family of his sister-in-law, Mrs. E. 2.
Hubbard.