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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
Rockefeller Raps University.

The faculty and students of the Uni
versity of Chicago have been much stir
red up by the reported criticism made
by John D. Rockefeller while he was in
Chicago to attend court as a witness. In
reply to a question as to what he thought
of the universities work, the oil king is
reported as saying: 1.-THE only regret 1
have concerning the university is that
there are not as many men as successful
as l hoped there would be after their
schooling there. But l am advised by
some of my friends that the future may
show better results than the present. If
the future will show that it was a wise
undertaking, 1 shall be satisfied In
reply to these remarks, the members of
the faculty are disposed to question the
Interpretation which Mr.. Rockefeller
makes of the word success. If he means
the ability to make money, they admit
that not so many of the graduates have
been successful as might be desired. But
they maintain that making money does
not necessarily mean success. The i'm
preston prevails among the student body
that the founder and benefactor of the
great institution has been displeased by
numerous radical doctrines preached by
certain members of the faculty, it being
recalled that frequently monopolies like
the Standard Oil Company have been as
sailed w.ph impunity in the class rooms.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
Report on City Ownership.

The investigation of public ownership
of public utilities in Europe and this
country by the National Civic Fedora
tons commission has resulted in two re-
ports, one by Prof. John r. Commons of
Wisconsin university favorable to the
proposition and the other by ]. w. Sulli-
van of the Clothing Trades Bulletin dis
approving. Prof. Commons says they
found the privately owned utilities in
England dividing surplus for civic bet
terments because of the prevailing ten
dency toward public ownership and its
example in cities where it had been
adopted. Many have shrewdly arranged
copartnership plans and have recognized
the labor unions. He is convinced that
the recognition of the unions is the safe
guard against political corruption in pub
lie ownership and that private ownership
offers no escape from politics. Editor
Sullivan says that in all but the most
poorly paid forms of labor public owner
ship has not raised or improved condi-
tons of work. He contends that in Eng
land no street car business has ever been
a private enterprise, in the sense that the
word is used in this country, thus making
comparison with American conditions I'M
fair. Taking Syracuse. Allegheny and
Wheeling as the best samples of Ameri-
can municipalization offered, they found
conclusive evidence of political rotten
ness in each case. He regards it as "a
project to restrict men in their activi-
ties by methods foreign to the American
oeniuS''
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
FIGHT OVER ESTATE.
MRS. LILLIAN RAND IN SENSA-
TIONAL WILL CONTEST.
Prize at Stake Is Fortune of More
than 100000 Left by Hiram
Higgins, Her Father-Haa Holy
Grail Been Found.

Mrs. Lillian Cora Rand. widow Of
Burlington, Iowa, millionaire, and who
has been staying at the Holland House
in New York, has left for Los Angeles
to engage in what promises to be one of
the most sensational will contests in the
history of California. The prize at stake
is fortune of more than 100000, left
By the late Hiram Higgins, who made his
money in the Chicago wheat pit and in
grain ventures throughout the Northwest
Such is the bitterness existing between
Mrs. Rand and her mother and brother
that the former has decided to institute
suits for 100000 damages each for de-
famation of character against Mrs. Emma
G. Higgins, her mother, and William r.
Higgins, her brother. Mrs. Rand is the
widow of the late Charles Wellington
Rand. She is well known at Newport
and in Boston society. Her striking
beauty and charm of manner have won
devoted attention from many prominent
club men. At the present time it is stat
ed that Gen. Otis, Z. S. A, retired, has
exhibited romantic attachment for the
charming widow.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to S7.35; hogs prime heavy, $500
to $685.; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $685.; wheat, No. 2, Soc to soc;
corn, No. 2, 53c to 54c; oats, standard,
43c to 44c; rye, No. 2, S5c to SIC; hay,
timothy, $14.00 to $1,000; prairie, $500
to $500; butter. choice creamery, 21c
to 24c; eggs, fresh, 12c to Ice; potatoes,
new, per bushel, 7Sc to S3c.
Indianapolis shipping, $500
to $685.; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to
$GO5; sheep, common to prime, $500 to
$475; wheat, No. 2, SIC to SEC; corn,
No. 2 white, sic to see; oats, No. 2
white, 45c to 46c.
st Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $7.35;
hogs, $500 to $6.40; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, SIC to soc; corn.
No. 2, Sic to SIC; oats, No. 2, 4oc to
47c; rye, No. 2, SIC to Sac.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $685.;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$475; wheat, No. 2, 9Oc to Ole; corn,
No. mixed, SOC to SIC; oats, No. 2
mixed, 45c to Ace; rye, No. 2, SEC to SSc.
>Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No 2, Ole to 92c; corn, No 3,
yellow, SEC to 5Sc; oats, No. 3 white,
46c to 4Sc; rye, No. 2, 79c to soc.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern,
CSC to $1.O0; corn, No. 3, 53c to ode;
oats, standard, 44c to 45c; rye, No. l.,
Soc to SIC; barley, standard, SOC to roc;
pork, mess, 1898.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, fair to choice, 800
to $685.; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $500; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $3.50.
New York-Cattle, $500 to 500;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2 red, 96c to CSC;
corn, No. 2, SOC to 60c; oats, natural
white sic to SIC; butter, creamery, &c
to 25c; eggs, western, 16c to 19c.
Toledo-Wheat, No. mixed, SOC to,
91c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 54c to soc =;
oats, No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45c; rye, No.
2, 76c to 78c; clover seed, prime, $3.50.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
CHICAGO.

Despite the hot weather business activ-
ity is undiminished and production in the
heavy industries is without abatement.
A satisfactory demand continues in lead
ing retail lines, removing anxiety as TO
the stocks TO be carried over Demand
ali through July was exceptionally good
and the usual clearance sales have made
the preparation of impending inventories
easier. Country merchants entertain
confidence as TO the outlook. their opin-
ions being supported by demands which
show healthy expansion among the pros
porous farming communities. Increasing
acceSSions appear in the numbers of Wis
ltlns buyers and their operations in sta
pies compare favorably with year ago.
Notwithstanding the increased failures
III this district, mercantile collections in
the western states leave little room for
complaint and credits generally maintain
a satisfactory position. Crop conditions
Great favorable impression.
Bank clearings, $3.50. 259. 1877. exceed
those of corresponding week in 1906 by
ia per cent.
Failures reported in Chicago district
number %, against p last week and "a
a year ago.-Dun's Review of Trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
BIG BUILDING FALLS.
s1x-sfory Double Brick Structure
in Chicago CoIlapses.

With a crash that was heard for blocks
a slx-story double brick building at 800
~ Franklin street, Chicago, occupied by
the Swigart Paper Company, collapsed at
40 Tuesday morning, partly wrecking
another building at 11S Franklin street,
occupied by Goodhart- Hartman & Co.,
liquor importers. No one was injured.
The structure was valued at between
$4,000 and $4,000. The exact cause
of the collapse is not known, but
1t is thought the main supports Of
the second floor broke under the strain
OF many tons of paper. The four
upper floors were stored throughout with
tons Of roll and bulk paper, and this stock
was precipitated into the alley. Nothing
except the WALL of the first floor of the
building withstood the crash. The fact
that the accident occurred so early in
the morning undoubtedly averted great
loss of life. More than thirty men and
number of women are employed by the
Swlgart Paper Company. These appeared
az the building for work three-quarters
of an hour after the collapse. None of
the employees of the Goodhart- Hartman
Company was in the building at the time
of the accident. The Goodhart- Hartman
building was damaged to the extent of
about $1,000. The loss on the stock of
liquor was about $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
UNCLE SAM NOTICES.
ATTENTION ATTRACTED BY
WORDS OF FILIPINO.
Island Youth at Cornell Reported
to Have Remarked that Philip
pines Would Welcome Japanese
Invasion.

Romarica Ageaoili, a government stu
dent at Cornell University from Laoag,
Philippine Islands, received a letter from
the United States War Department the
othre morning threatening to have him
removed from the university on account
of his reported public utterances against
the American rule in the Philippines. The
War Department demanded that he for
ward them a copy of his speech and
full explanation The speech referred to
stated that the Filipino colony at the
Cornell summer school is considerably agi-
tated over what some members of the
colony describe as unrest among the peo-
pie of the Philippines, not unlike the
dissatisfaction that preceded the outbreak
of hoStilities against Spain, they say.
According to these natives Of the ORR
entail islands, their countrymen are quite
miserable under the protection Of the
Stars and Stripes. look back longingly to
the days Of Spanish rule, and would well
come a japanese invasion that might free
them from America" The meeting at
which these utterances were reported to
have been made was held last Thursday
night in Barnes Hall. the largest audi
torium on the Cornell campus. Several
hundred students. members of the facuI-
ty, and number of japanese students
were present. The meeting was one of
the formal rational entertainments of
the Cosmopolitan Club Of the university,
in whose membership some twenty-five
countries are represented. According to
the testimony Of many persons present.
during the evening and their own state
ments. no Indication was given by them
er intimated in their speeches which
could have warranted the report that
tLey prefer japanese to American rule"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
ROBBERS RAID CAR BARNS.
Four Men Put to Flight When Cash.
Ter Gives Alarm.

Ter Gives Alarm.
-Four armed robbers entered the Offices
Of the Chicago Union Traction Company
In the car barns at West Madison street
and Fortieth avenue at o'clock Wednes-
day morning and attempted TO hold up
Fred e. Feuhnfeir, 35 years old, the
cashier. Feuhnfeir placed his foot on an
automatic burglar alarm while the robbers
were brandishing their revolvers and
threatening him and notified the police OF
the West Lake street station. One of the
robbers saw the act and becoming fright
ened, the four ran into West Madison
street. Feuhnfeir fred three shots at
them through q window. The robbers
were pursued for a block by policeman,
but escaped. Fehnfeir was alone in the
the men entered with drawn revolvers.
As the cashier turned about in his chair
and faced the robbers one of them hello
revolver to his head and told him to
hold up his hands. 1t was at this juno
ture that Feuhnfeir put out his foot to
touch the alarm under his desk and the
thieves fed. Several policemen of the
West Lake street station went to the car
barns in a patrol wagon when the alarm
was received. They searched in the
aeighborhood for more than an hour, but
were unable to find any trace OF the rob
bers. All the robbers were young and
fairly well dressed. It is believed that
the bandits 1--we in the neighborhood of The
car barns and are familiar with the burg
lar alarms in the offices.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
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\ 40 orr Of a.
The News ~
~~~~~NN~~>

Government and trusts are approaching
what looks like a showdown.
Be sure you get your share of the new
issue of $40 gold certificates.
This country is now due for a terrible
outbreak of the fishing fever.
A Jap is so little that it doesn't take
much to get him excited all over.
Summer, summer, you're a hummer,
though you were right late conner.
That sunspot $1,000 miles long is
enough to cast some of us in the shade.
Don't get mad if some dozen or more
persons ask you, rs it hot enough for
you?"
While posing as injured innocence
Mayor Schmitz is not cutting a very
heroic figure.
Some young men think that a pink
hatband and a pair of yellow shoes con-
stitute a summer vacation.
Airships will never be an entire sue
cess until they have attachments that
will enable them to crawl or swim.
Of course the ships are going to the
Pacific for a practice cruise-not speci-
flying what kind of practice, either.
As soon as a woman finishes cleaning
house she begins to put up preserves. and
then it'll be time to clean house again.
4 young couple found starving in Phil
adelphia on their honeymoon, and every
body thought love could live on air,
4 New York groom Tilted the bride
elect just because she was not like her
photograph. If this were a just cause,
the country would be full OF broken
matches.
Germany has passed law to muzzle
the snapshot photographers. But the
American citizen will still be compelled to
dodge.
The high-salaried men of the Panama
Canal Commission are now classed as
$4,000 beauties But Taft thinks that
handsome is as handsome does.
4 petition signed By 2.099.020 Anc7i
cans was presented to The Hague Peace
Conference. An American will sign most
anything for the sake Of peace.
Another American girl married to a
member OF the highest nobility has jump
ed her JOB. American husbands viii be
above par before very long if this sort
OF thing keeps on.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
NEW YORK

High temperatures have stimulated
crop development as a whole, helped re-
tail trade in light summer wear goods and
improved recorder business for tie latter
with jobbers, all these influences favor
ing some growth of the feeling that early
poor starts in crops and trade have been
largely made up for. There is about the
usual midsummer quiet in future trade
lines, but fall samples are prepared, low
rate excursions begin next month, ship
mentS of fall goods are increasing and
collections have improved at various mar
kets. Industry exhibits a lull in some
lines, notably iron and steel in it's cruder
forms, though the immediate effect of the
strike of iron ore miners in Minnesota
has been to stimulate, temporarily at
least, the demand for pig iron at all
markets.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending July - number 100,
against III last week, III in the like
week of 1906, 1877 in 1908, ia in 1904
and 100 in 1903. Canadian failures for
the week number 81, as against 26 last
week and "a in this week year ago.
Wheat, including -four, exports from
the United States and Canada for the
week ending July % aggregated 2,376,543
bushels, against 2,210,770 last week,
1,70S,705 this week last year and 6,974,-
526 in 1901. For the first four weeks of
the fiscal year the exports are 9,950,931
bushels, against 6.942, $50 in 1906-07 and
q 900, 1914 in 19O1-O2.
Corn exports for the week are / $3.50, oh
bushels, against 2,066,96 last week and
539,073 in 1906. For the fiscal year to
date the exports are 6554.490 bushels,
against 2,662, 553 in 19O6-07.-Brad-
streets Commercial Report.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01

parentace and blood when she married
the millionaire in 1874. They declare
that the ex-Congressman's charges are
false, and that Mrs. Warner ant her
two daughters will sue him for libel.
Mr.. Warmers allegations against his
stepmother and half-sisters, Mrs. Ara
bella Warner Bell and Mrs Minnie
Warner Mettler, were made under oath
in the contest against his fathers will
brought by Mrs. Warner.
Mrs. Warner began the fight to Sc
cure her widows share of the 81 ESQ.,
600 estate of the banker, who died in
1903, refusing to abide by the terms
of an antenuptial contract which gave
her an annuity of $500 and $4,000
She declared that her husband had in
duced her to sign this agreement by
fraud and by grossly misrepresenting
the amount of his property. Hence she
contends that the agreement is void.
The widows claim is considered so
strong that she is said to have been
offered 100000 by Vespasian Warner,
executor of the will, and his sister,
Flora Warner McDermott. She refused
the offer, it is declared, and the
charges followed in an amendment to
the executors answer to the widows
petition.
This amendment argues that since
Mrs. Robinson deceived her husband,
the amounts provided for her in the
ante-nuptial contract are all she should
have.
Mr.. Warner affir1ns that Isabella
Warner is the daughter of Stephen
Robinson, an Ohio negro. The Commits
sioner of Pensions claims he has
searched the country for affidavits
bearing out his claim. Most of them
were secured in Norwatk, Ohio, former
home of Stephen Robinson.
The Warner will case has been the
talk of the countryside for months for
the family founded by John Warner,
farmer and former head of John War
ner & Co., bankers, OF Clinton, ILL.,, is
the most prominent in a social and
business way in the county. Vespasian
Warner was a member Of Congress for
twenty years.
For thirty years Mrs. Isabella War
ner has been a leader of the De Witt
County, Illinois, society. OF fine fea-
lures and gray hair, cultured and at
tractive in dress and manners, no one
ever has breathed a whisper of sus-
picion against her name or blood.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
Short NeNa Notea.

The Russian minister of railways has
established direct trains between st. Pc
tersburg and Vladivostok. They will run
once every two weeks by way of Viatka,
Perm and Toheliabirsk without touching
at Moscow.
The foreign-born Bohemians in the
United States in 1906 are estimated to
have numbered 517,3 300, of which 10000
are in New York, $4,000 in Texas and
the remainder scattered throughout the
West and Southwest. One-half are in the
large cities.
Pennsylvania is the greatest building
and land association State i'll this coun-
try. 1t has 1851 organizations at last
reports and over 800, S52 members. Ohio
comes second with GA associations and
over 29O,904 members.
Judge Pritchard, in the Circuit Court
of Appeals at Richmond, has denied the
Injunction against the enforcement of
the 2-cent railroad rate promulgated by
the Virginia Corporation Commission.
The judge holds that the commission was
exercising improperly a legislative func-
ton by this fixing of railroad rates, and
that hence the lower court had Jur1Sdlc-
ton.
Under the recent law passed by the
Storthing women have been granted the
parliamentary franchise on the same con-
dition that it was previously granted to
them in municipal elections; that is, to
every woman % years old who is taxed
On an income OF S113 in cities or of $S4
in rural districts. This practically as
sures the attainment of universal suffrage
by adult representatives of the female
seq in the course of a few years. The
new law will give full suffrage to about
100000 women.
In Russia the postofhce IS part Of the
military system, and the postman, there
fore, is under a discipline as strict az
army rule.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
POSToFFiCE CUTS PAY.
Government Orders Reduction in
Charge for Hauling Mails

Charge for Hauling Mails
A general order has been issued bv the
Postofice Department which will result
in reducing the compensation enjoyed
by the railroads for carrying the mails
by at least S1.000,G00 annually. In CON
nection with the order it is limited that
there may be a scandal if all the facts
which made the issuance of the order a
necessity become known.
The order in question affects several
hundred mail routes in the country and
is TO the effect that on these routes the
mail can be carried in smaller cars than
the railroads are using. 1t is therefore
ordered that a reduction either be made
in the size of the cars or If the railroads
choose to continue their use they will get
paid for the size of cars actually needed.
On the other hand, the railroads insist
that it is the province of the Postoffice
Department to designate the cars which
shall be used on the mail routes and that
the roads are now using such cars as
were actually ordered by the department.
Department officials admit that this is
true, but insist that more space is being
paid for by the department than is actu-
ally needed in the transportation of the
mails, but it is not stated whether this
condition is tie result of poor judgment
or otherwise. The new order is the re-
suit of the work of 125 private detectives
which the Postofice Department placed
On the work about six months ago. Their
reports show that in hundreds of cases
the government was paying for more
space than is necessary and the Postmas-
ter General therefore ordered reduction.
Besides the regular compensation based
upon tonnage which the railroads receive
for transporting the mails they also re-
ceive car mileage for cars over thirty
feet in length.
The Postofice Department has decided
to begin weighing the mail on all routes
in the country early in October with a
view of furnishing Congress with data
asked for. In order to do so the govern
ment will have to provide thousands of
additional scales
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
Oil Trust Denies Consniracv

The Standard Oil Company has entered
a general denial to the charges of con-
spiracy, sitting competition and accept
ing rebates preferred by the Federal De-
partment of Justice in ST. Louis last
November. The contention is made that
operations prior to 1899, when the parent
company of New Jersey was formed,
should not be made the subject of exam
nation. Specific denial is made. how
ever, that the company in 1876 had spe-
cial rates from the Erie and New York
Central, and that a monopoly of pipe
lines from Western Pennsylvania enabled
it to fix rates for transportation on the
railroad