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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
THINK CUBAN UPRISING NEAR.
Outbreak in Pinar del Rio Rumor
Says LIS Set for October.


Says LIS Set for October.
The agitation in the province of Pinar
del Rio, Cuba, is evidently nearing its
elimination. There is full and open talk
of an uprising early in October. 1t is
difficult to satisfactorily diagnose the sit
uation. There is constant talk, especially
among the lower classes, of an open out
break. 1t is known that some of the
worst men in the province are implicated
in the agitation, but so far the officials
have been unable to discover who are the
real hackers or who is furnishing the
money. Some say that certain Americans
are at the bottom of the trouble, while
others claim that Spanish business men
are responsible, they wishing to strike a
blow against the prestige the Americans
have gained through their continued occu,
patton of the island. Neither OF these
views, however, got much substantiatlon,
and the most peculiar feature is that no
reasonable motive shows itself. The ma
tive frequently shows distinct hostility to
the Americans, at least antagonism. An
investigation which Col. Parker of the
Eleventh cavalry is conducting shows that
there are between 1900 and 1000 guns
in the province, divided between individ-
ual owners, and quantities of guns,
amunting perhaps to several hundred, are
hidden in various places. But the otf-
Gals cannot locate them. \ close watch
of the north and south coasts fails to re-
veal importations. 1t has been learned,
however, that ammunition is reaching the
province from Havana.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
MILLIONS ARE SAVED.
Federal Scientists Do Not Patent
Their Inventions.

Secretary Wilson of the Department of
Agriculture gave out the statement re-
Gently that millions of dollars are saved
each year by scientists in the employ of
the United States government. This fact
alone. he maintains. should show the pub
lie the value of the experiments being
conducted each day. If the scientists pat
ented their inventions, they might become
wealthy, but all they get for their reward
is the passing fame attained by reporting
valuable finds.
Among the patents which have attract
ed national attention are in relation to
the labelling of fresh meats that have
passed government inspection. the use of
fieldspathic rocks as fertilizers and the
prevention of corosion of fence wire and
rusting of iron and steel generally.
Secretary Wilson estimated that the
discovery of an ink which may be used
in stamping carcasses and which will not
stain. spread or penetrate the meat, will
in itself save the government between
100000 and 100000 next year.
Marion Dorsett, acting chief OF the bio
chemic division of the department, made
the discovery. but all he received from the
government was an advance in salary
amounting to about $1,000 year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to 1925; hogs, prime heavy, S4.OO
to $685.; sheep fair to choice, $500
to $3.50: wheat No. 2, 9Gc to 9Ic;
corn, No 2, 62c to 63c; oats, standard,
SOC to 52c; rye, No 2, S9c to 9Oc; hay,
timothy, $500 to $500; prairie, $500
to $500; butter, choice creamery, 23c
to Csc; eggs, fresh, 1Sc to dc; potatoes,
per bushel, 55c to Coo.
anapolis-Cattle, shipping, $500
to $500; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to
$685.; sheep, common to prime, $500
to S4.75; wheat, No. 2, 93c to Doc; corn,
No. 2 white, Gle to 62c; oats, No.
white, 49c to SOC.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to S720;
hogs, S4OO to 500; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.0O to S1.01; corn,
No 2, &c to 63c; oats, No. 2, 47c to
4Sc; rye, No. 2, SIC to SIC.
Cincinnati-Ca Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to $6.95; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, 98c to 99c; corn,
No. 2 mixed 64c to Coo; oats, No. z
mixed, SOC to sic; rye, No. 2, $50 TO 90c.
Detroit-Cattle $500 to $40; hogs,
s4.OO to $645; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50;
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yellow. CSC to 69c; oats, No. 3 white,
SIC to 53c; rye, No. 2, Sc to SOC.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern,
81 .OS to S1.1O; corn, No. 3, Gle to &c;
oats, standard, sic to 52c; rye, No. 1,
S9c to 9Oc; barley standard, 99c to $l.Ol;
pork, mess, $3.50.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $3.50: hogs, fair TO choice, $500
to 800; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to 1925; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to 1926.
New York-Cattle, $500 to S6.45;
hogs, $500 to 500; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, S104 to $1.O6;
corn, No. 2, TIC to 79c; oats, natural
white. sc to Sc; butter, creamery, 23c
to 2Sc; eggs, western, 1Sc to 23c.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 97c to
CSC; corn, No. 2 mixed, 64c to Coo;
oats, No. 2 mixed, 51c to Sc; rye, No.
2, SIC to $50; clover seed, prime, 5000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
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Freight traffic is reported to be increas-
ing at an abnormal rate in New Eng
land.
Reports from California state that the
Southern Pacific road is preparing to run
its trains in that State by electricity.
The fortieth annual number of Poor's
Manual, recently issued, places the gross
earnings of the railroads of the United
States during 1906 at $1,124, 500,390, an
increase of 1924, 442,5 over 1905, in
spite of increased wages and cost of ma
terials There were S15,774, 118 passen-
gers carried last year, and 10000, 800
tons Of freight moved. The average re-
ceipts per passenger per mile was 2.011
cents, as against 2.02S in 1905. The
average revenue per ton per mile on
freight decreased from 1874 cents to 1855
cents. The total assets of all the rail
roads amounted to ST, J34, 3S1 ,633. The
total funded debt of the roads is 1851, :
1O7 IT'S, being a slight increase over the
| previous year. The increase in capital
stock was 1854, AZ, 151, the total now be-
ing S7,1O6, 4OS,976. The total increase
of liabilities Of all kinds was 81, 199,615,-
367. The construction of new road dur
ing the year was 5,516 miles, making a
| total at the end of 1906 of DDS, 635 miles.
The Erie railroad has received an all
steel passenger coach, witch is practically
non wreckabIe and will not burn. There
is less than 800 pounds of wood OF other
| infammable material used in it's construc-
ton and all of that has been treated
with a preparation which, it is claimed,
| renders it immune to an ordinary degree
of heat. The car looks like the standard
| passenger coach in general use, but lis
weight is much in excess Of the wooden
car, being nearly 100000 pounds. The
| car is so strongly built and so well riveted
and bolted that it will stand almost any
shock that railroad service will give i.
A new railroad has been projected to
run from Denver to Seattle, through Colo
RADIO. Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon and Wash
| ington.
1t is announced that the Pennsylvania
road has resumed its aggressive construc-
ton and improvement operations on all
| parts of its system.
As a test of long-distance speed en-
durance, Union Pacific motor car No. II
has made a continuous run from Omaha
| to Denver in 16 hours 81 minutes.
A company has been organized to build
railroad from the Tygart valley in West
Virginia to Pittsburg. 1t is to be known
as the Fairmont and Southern road
The trains in the electrical zone of the
New York Centrafs SYSTEM at New York
City have been shifted from the left to
the right-hand tracks. The left-hand
system had been in vogue on this line
ever since it was established by Comno-
dore Vanderbilt, who believed that pas
sengers would get a better view of the
scenery of the Hudson by that plan. The
change resulted in the shattering Of
schedules for days.
Contracts have been let by the South
ern Paciic road for the building of a
rifed oil pipe line, 256 miles in length
from its oil properties in Kern county,
Southern California, to tide water on San
Francisco bay.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03

explained his flight by the fear that he
would never be able to prove his limo
cence-by the panic that seized him
when he realized how all the circum-
stances pointed against him.
The story was lucid enough, but Con-
stantine made a poor impression as a
witness. He contradicted himself sew
eral times as to dates, seemed greatly
i'll at ease at moments and was seldom
convincing. A bootblack, as he adj
mitted himself to be, he still protested
from the witness stand that the blood
Of royalty in his veins.
And thus the curtain is drawn upon
a tragedy the like of which Chicago
has not chronicled in many a year. 1t
was one of such brutality as to shock
and awe society. Constantine, almost
member of the Gentry family, who
had represented himself to be the son
of a millionaire in New York when as
q matter of fact he was profligate
ex-bootblack, deliberately slashed to
death the woman who had befriended
him and who had housed him and lent
him money. Then he fed.
A.It was long and persistent hunt. Fl
nally he was captured when about to
sail for Italy, the home of his ances-
tors, where he claims some of them
were members of the royal family. He
had gone to Italy Immediately after
the commission of the crime, had been
swept by the winds of idleness and the
remorselessness of ghosts into other
lands, and finally, impelled by that in
tangible instinct that belongs to all
criminals. had to return to the country
of his crime.
Finding the police determined to
have him, that the memory of that
tragic January day had not been for
gotten, fearful lest he be unprecedented
and brought back to the bar of justice
he was about to sail away again, when
he was arrested.
Brought to trial, in an effort to gain
his liberty, he DETAINED the character
of his victim. a bride Of six months.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03

petite for candy are fundamentally the
same, the choice of one or the other in
diligence being determined by the temper
ament of the individual" In support Of
this, the fact is cited that there has been
a falling off in the amount of alcohol
consumed per capita during the past few
years, and a material increase in the con-
sumption of sugar in its various forms.
1t is further stated that chemically sugar
and alcohol are similar, and their physio-
logical action is in part, the same, and
both to some extent supply the demand
for a concentrated and quick acting fuel
for the body. Much of the prejudice
which formerly existed against the use
of candy has disappeared, and it is now
used, especially in the form of chocolates,
by exhausted business men, and even by
soldiers on the eve of battle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03

Rey, Castle of Chapultepec, Vera Cruz,
and last the City of Mexico. The total
American loss was 3,2O4, equal to one
half of the army that captured the City
of Mexico.
"By the treaty that closed the Mexican
war, territory over 700 miles north and
south and 900 miles east and west, or
100000 square miles, were ceded to the
United States, California, Nevada. Utah.,
Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and New
Mexico were added to our national do
main and California saved from becoming
a British province, by sale for $50,0OO,-
600 to pay the Mexican debt.
For these reasons as well as others
the $40 survivors of the Mexican war
celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the
GROWING victory of our arms directed by
our matchless general, Winfield Scott, I'M
der whom we fought and achieved such
glorious results
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
BIG CORN SHOW.
More than 10000 Entries for the
Exposition to BE Held in Chicago.

More than 10000 Entries for the
Exposition to BE Held in Chicago.
That there will be more than 10000
entries for the National Corn Exposition
which is to be held in the Coliseum at
Chicago, is the confident belief held by
the management, based on the hearty re-
spouse that met the first appeal to the
farmers in the corn belt. Within a few
days after sending out the list of the
classiications for the entry of corn to
contest for the $4,000 cash prizes and
the $4,000 in special premiums offered,
application for LOO entries were made.
Quite apart from the educational end of
the exposition, it will be especially strong
in attractive show features. While the
most striking of these doubtless will be
the lavish decorative scheme which has
been completed at an expenditure of $780,
600, a number of specialties have been
arranged.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03

between capital and labor can be adjudi-
Gated.
1.-THE Importance of establishing good
relations between capital and labor" he
says, ''is recognized in all civilized lands.
Economic conditions within a country,
especially such as arise between indus
trial forces, have far reaching effect and
are often the cause of embarrassing inter-
national relations. More than one-half
of the troubles in this world arise from
misunderstanding. Especially IS that
true when classes are concerned, such as
are brought about through labor disturb
ances growing out of disagreements be
tween employers and wage earners. No
one has recognized the Importance of pro-
noting industrial peace, both with a view
of preserving continued peace at home
and avoiding conflicts abroad, better than
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
KILLS HERSELF WITH ACID.
Columbus Woman Ends Life as Did
Infatuated Youth

In Columbus, Ohio, Mrs. Lucy Kelly,
AZ, for love of whom Howard Rhodes, p,
killed himself with carbolic acid at her
apartments the other night, has joined
him in death, using the same deadly poi
son. She ended her life in tie undertake
ing rooms where Rhodes body lay, as she
stood looking down at the corpse, weeping
bitterly. The suicide was committed in
the presence of Rhodes father, who grant
ed the womans request to take last look
at the body; her sister, Flora Kittrell,
who saw Rhodes kill himself, and Lille
Schille The women were watching Ler
closely, as she had threatened to kill her
self, but she escaped their vigilance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
OIL EXPLOSION FATAL TO THREE
Men Filling SprinI<Iing Cart for
Race Track the Victims.

Men Filling SprinLHng Cart for
Race Track the Victims.
Three men were killed instantly by the
explosion of an oil tank in the Bronx,
New York, from which they were draw
ing crude petroleum into a sprinkling
cart for use on the Morris Park race
track, where a 24-hour automobile race
was to be held The victims of the ex-
plosion were: James Copper, James Reil-
ly and Richard Smith. 1t is supposed
that a lantern carried by one of the men
ignited some loose oil under the tank.
The explosion which followed tore off the
top of the tank and hurled it into the
yard of the Catholic protectory near by,
alarming the fifteen boys therein, and
shattered many of the windows of the
OrOtec
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Company Accepts Cut Fares.

Announcement has been made by the
Lincoln (Neb.l Traction Company that
it will comply with the order of the State
Railway Commission that it sell six fares
for % cents to adults and ten fares to
school children for p cents, to be used
during certain hours of the day. The
commissions recent ruling places a val
uation on the plant of the traction COM
pany and the Citizens Railway Company
and limits their earning accordingly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
BASE BALL STANDINGS.
Games Won and Lost by Clubs in
Principal Leagues.
Meat Must BE Full weight.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Food Commissioner Johnson of Ne
braska has announced that packages of
meat must hereafter have the net weight
stamped upon them. TO start his cam
paign johnson ordered the county attor-
ney of Douglas county to institute pro-
cecdings against the South Omaha pack
ing houses, where it is found that pack
ages of bacon and ham are wrapped with
paper and cloth until or 6 per cent of
the stamped weight is thus accounted for.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03

President Roosevelt, who devoted the
worlds peace prize awarded him last year
for the promotion of industrial peace
Secretary Straus believes the trouble
between Japan and America on the Pa
cific to be more economic than racial. He
says that what might be called Japan
csc situation does not exist.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Many Lives Sacrificed.

Hundreds of houses and many boats
and pontoons were destroyed by fire at
Wuchow, China. 1t is feared that the
loss of life was heavy. The confasration
is said to have been due to incendiarism
growing out of the recent establishment
of a new interior customs station at WI
chow. the inhabitants of which are bitter
~ opposed to any extra taxation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
n,xo Arc slain in Race Riot

In race riot at a street fair in
Hartshorne, /. T., young white man
named Johnson was killed instantly by
a negro and a young negro from Tisho-
mingo, an innocent bystander, was killed
by a white man.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Rail Building stopped-HilI.

Addressing the inland waterways COM
mission in Minneapolis James ]. Hill
said the period had arrived at which rail
way building in the country had stopped,
because the companies have not the funds
with which to carry forward planned i'm
proVementS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
WAR VETERANS CELEBRATE.
Only $50 of Gen. Scott's Mexican
War Soldiers Are still Alive

There are in the entire country just
$40 veterans of the Mexican war, and
these recently celebrated the sixtieth an
niversary of the fall of the City of Mex
leo in San Francisco. On that occasion
the grizzled warriors recalled the TRACE
dies that gave to the United States a vast
portion of her territory.
Major Edwin A Sherman of Oakland,
Cal, is the president of the veterans as
ISOLATION. In speaking of the Mexican
war Major Sherman said:
Gen. Winfield Scott, the American
commander, fought and won the battles
Of Contreras, Churubusco, Ell Moline de
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
NInch nnmnge i'm Wisconsin.

The first killing frost of the season
formed over western Wisconsin and
southern Minnesota the other day, doing
great damage to all crops over ground
and unharvested. Heavy loss was pro-
duced to the cranberry crop in western
Wisconsin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Factories Ruy Up More Cotton

The census bureau reports that for the
wear ended Aug. 81 last 5,296,1S run
ming bales of cotton were taken by all
American manufacturers, compared with
4S2O,99O for last year. and 4,9S7,021
bales consumed, compared with 1908, 40
for last year. The manufacturers stock
at the close of the year was 996,2I9
bales compared with 6SS,312 last year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Girls Body in n Trunk.

The body of an unidentified girl about
IS years old was found in trunk on
the beach about two miles south of
Elliot Bay. near Seattle, Wash. In the
trunk were two letters, one of which may
lead to Identification. This letter was
written on letter head of J. 3. Coving-
ton. St. Paul, and yss signed Edith
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Children Killed by Mother.

Martha and Catherine, infant children
of Mrs Catherine Thomas, an inmate of
the Cambria county almshouse at Johns
town, Pa. were found dead in their beds,
having been strangled. Finger marks
were found on the chldren's threats. Mrs.
Thomas is said to have confessed to the
deed. saying she was afraid her husband
would take them from her.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Aeronaut Is Drowned.

Arthur Traynor, an aeronaut living at
Minneapolis, was drowned in Lake Pepin
while making a balloon ascension. Tray
nor assembled in his balloon to a height
of several hundred feet. The balloon
drifted toward the lake. and the aeronaut,
seeing his danger, released the parachute.
The wind carried the parachute directly
over the lake. .sa.fs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Ends Life i'm wife,s Arms.

DR.. Peyton Randolph Henderson, a
prominent physician and member of an
old Kentucky family, committed suicide
in Louisville by shooting himself through
the head. His wife, attracted by the
shots, opened the door just in time to
catch her husbands body in her arms as
he fell. No motive for the suicide is
known
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Rescued from the Earth.

Word from Chisholm, Mimi, on the
range. says that Paul Meliege, 40 years
old, was rescued from a mine chamber
90 feet below the surface of the earth,
upon which there had been sudden
sinking depression of 10 feet. When he
was dragged out by other miners, Meliege
tainted from exhaustion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03

Fair shakeAGirl with a chill.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03

strike, but he ex-
presses b i'm S e / f
plainly as not re-
garding compulsory
arbitration as the
solution of difficult
ties between capital
and labor. He be-
lyieves that differ
ent cases require
different remedies,
and that there is
no hard and fast
rule by which diff
ferences that arise
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
s Er,nc,sco Br;ber Convicted.

President Lewis Glass of the Pacific
States Telephone Company has been con-
victed of bribing the city supervisors to
grant his company franchises. This is
the first conviction of wealthy bride
giver in San Francisco. The trials of
President Calhoun of the United Rail-
ways and of other officials are to follow.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Mother and Son Are Held.

Mrs. Sarah Eichenlaub and her son
Russell. 30. were committed to prison in
Philadelphia by the coroner charged with
numbering Mrs. Mary E. Eichenlaug, p,
the six weeks bride of young Eichenlaub.
1t is charged she was poisoned by cyanide
of potassium June %.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
uome Rurps: Family Perishex.

Early Monday morning the home of
James Dossett near Oakland City, Ind.
was burned. DoSSett's months old
child persisted in the flames. Dossett and
his wife were carried from the building
badly burned and died later. The three
will be buried in one grave.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
To Prosecute Thirty-Seven Railroads

United States district attorneys in va
rious parts of the country have been in
structed by Attorney General Bonaparte
to institute suits against thirty-seven
railroad companies to recover penalties
incurred by them for alleged violations
of the safety appliance law. The number
of alleged violations aggregates PSI.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03

An advance of 10 cents a ton on coal
is made by the operators of the Hooking
valley in the October price list. Heavy
demand and the shortage of cars are said
to be the reasons for the advance.