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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
HIGH PRICES FOR COAL.
Car Scarcity May Make Cost of Fuel
In,

Car Scarcity May Make Cost of Fuel
Highest in Years.
The Pittsburg Coal Company, the Mo-
nongahela River Consolidated Coal and
Coke Company and the Pittsburg and
Buffalo Coal Company have refused to
accept an order from the Italian gov
eminent for 100000 tons Of coal, to be
shipped to Italy.
For some time past a representative of
the Italian government has been in this
country trying to obtain coal, first in the
anthracite field and afterward in Pitts
burg In both places he has been I'M
successful. The Pittsburg operators have
decided that it would be impossible to
fill the order because of the great home
demand for coal.
There is a shortage of miners at the
present time, and the car shortage is so
serious that it would be impossible to
get the coal to tidewater. Besides, there
are no boats available on which the coal
could be shipped.
According to the operators, there is
every reason to believe that the price OF
coal will be higher this winter than ever
before mainly through the car shortage.
The railroads entering Pittsburg have
served notice on the operators that here
after no cars will be allowed to be sent
off the lines owning them. This action
will prevent the shipment of thousands of
tons of coal until the order is rescinded,
which is not expected to happen until af-
ter the crop movement is completed. The
situation was never more serious than at
OrpSpnt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
A BATTLE ON KANSAS PLAINS.
American Artillery to Reproduce the
Great Mukden Conflict.

Out on a wide stretch of Kansas plain
the savage battle of Mukden is to be
fought again-a mimic struggle which for
ten smoke-blown days is to stagger over
$4,000 acres of government reservation.
There will be the crash of heavy siege
guns and the stencil of picric as the dis
rupting shells hurl earthworks and their
dummy defenders in the air.
The infantry, with its siege guns and
field artillery, will throw its strength
against the redoubts which the engineers
have constructed fortifcation which
duplicates as far as possible the one be-
hind which kuropatkin intrenched his
Russians at Mukden and over which the
little brown men swarmed after their
Shimose shells had blown great breaches
in the works.
1t is chiefly for the purpose of seeing
what American artillery can do under
identical circumstances that this mimic
battle is TO be fought. Dunnite is the ex-
plosive with which our shells are to be
charged, a picric compound which takes
its name from Major Beverly w. Dunn
of the United States Ordnance Corps.
The works which are to be attacked
by this shell were constructed by the
Third battalion of engineers, now station
ed at Fort Leavenworth. The redoubt
is so feet through at the base and II
feet at the top. 1t is rivetted with ia
cines, hurdles, brush and sod and is made
as strong as the nature of the soil and
subsoils of the region will allow. On the
inner face banquette tread, about four
and a half feet below the top, has been
constructed, and on this will be placed a
large number of dummy figures represent
ing men, to test shrapnel fire.
The work of making this redoubt has
occupied the engineers all summer and
they believe that it will put the artillery
to a stubborn test. 1t is practically the
strongest fertilization that modern mill
tary science could construct.
In all about 5000 men will be engaged
in the maneuvers at Fort Riley.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
NEW YORK.

Whether attributable to the improve
ment in the general financial situation or
because of favorable weather allowing Of
additional crop development, there is a
perceptibly better feeling in general in
commercial lines. Retail trade has hard
ly been as brisk as desired or expected,
because the warm weather while helping
crops, has not stimulated fall buying to
any great extent. Reports as to jobbing
trade so far this fall are, in the main.
favorable, though the undertone of con-
servatism is still perceptible.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending Sept. 10 number 40,
against 172 last week, III in the like
week of 1906, 173 in 1905, 203 in 1904
and 1S5 in 1903.
Canadian failures for the week number
forty, as against twenty-five last weef
and twenty-six in this week year ago.
Bradstreet's Report.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
WHY American marriages Fail.

Again a woman is finding fault with
American wives and complaining of the
failure of American marriages. This time
it is Anna A. Rogers in the Atlantic
Monthly, who says that the excessive
education and excessive physical coddling
of young women and their devotion to
physical culture and sports, has evolved
a hybrid feminine who is a cross between
a magnifed, rather unmannerly boy and
a spoiled, exactirg creature who sincerely
loves herself alone Thus, explains this
socioIogist, "a slipshod, unchivalrous com
panionship' has grown up between the
sexes which after marriage is found to
be "a cause for tears or temper" One
contributory cause, she says, is the exist
ence of 1921 courts empowered to grant
dTV-orcoc
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
WORSE THAN BLACK PLAGUE.
Greatest Catastrophe World Ever
KneYy NnIK in Progress.

hneW NOW IN Progress.
The greatest catastrophe the world has
ever known is in progress at this present
moment and the world recks little or
nothing of it.
This is the plague epidemic in India,
which has now been raging for more than
eleven years, mad which, SO far from
showing any tendency to die out, keeps
steadily increasing in intensity. Thus,
during the six weeks ending May II last,
4S1, 1892 persons persisted from it, or at
the rate of over $4,000 deaths week.
Nothing approaching the appalling hor-
ror represented by these figures has ever
been recorded before. The nearest to it
was in 1905, when, during the last week
in March, the epidemic was responsible
for 1902 deaths.
No pestilence Of ancient or modern
times, of which we~have any knowledge,
has slain so many millions of people as
has this one and the end of which, mind,
is not yet.
The Great Plague" of London, for
example, about which everybody has
heard, killed at the outside some $4,000
people in seven months, or about as many
as are dying weekly in India from dis
ease which is Identical with it in every
respect.
The "Black Death" is said to have
slain one-third of the then population of
EngIand-say 100000 persons; but this
is doubtful. Even admitting the correct
ness of the estimate, however, the NOR
tally of the present epidemic in India
has already more than doubled this huge
total.
What will be the end no man can
foresee or venture to forecast 1t may
be that all that has gone before, and all
that is happening now, inexpressibly aw-
full though it is, is but the prelude of
worse to follow
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
CASSIE CHADWICK BLIND.
Suddenly Falls in Il Nervous Collapse
in OhiO Panifentinry.

Cassie Chadwick, the bank wrecker,
was suddenly stricken blind while having
an interview with her son in the Ohio
penitentiary, and now lies in the prison
hospital in a critical state. During
conversation with her son the former
witch of finance, who victimized dozens
of capitalists and bankers, fell into a
nervous collapse, which was at first mis-
taken for death. She was carried to the
hospital in the female department by her
son and female attendants, and DR.. Gar
rett, the day physician, was summoned.
When DR.. Garrett arrived she was con-
scious and quiet mentally, but her circu-
lation was almost stopped and she was
blind DR.. Garrett Immediately admins
tered nitroglycerin. Wild with anxiety,
her son, who had come from Cleveland,
stood over the bed, urging the physician
to do his best to save her. Cassie revived
within twenty minutes although she re-
manned weak and sightless. DR.. Hell
mick, the night physician at the peniten-
tiary, has been treating Mrs. Chadwick
for a nervous trouble. DR.. Garrett says
she is neurasthenic and that her nervous
system is in utter collapse. Her illness
is due to the strain she underwent during
her sons visit
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
Rricf fSeUs Tfeuna.

Chicago banks send millions of dollars
West to aid in crop movement.
Mayor Becker of Milwaukee intimates
that he will in a short time be a full
fedged candidate for Governor.
A strong sentiment favoring Roose-
welt for third Ferm as President is seen
by Secretary Straus during a trip.
During d reception at the Eagle Club
rooms in McKeesport, Pa, Louis Delo, a
well-known athlete, attempted to kill him
self by shooting. His condition is crit
ical.
The Panama canal cost the American
government SS4,z49, 900 up to Dec. 81,
1906, according 20 a statement of the
audited expenditures made as of that date
and just published.
Sherman Long, a carpenter, was shot
and killed at his home in Columbus, Ohio,
by Frank Miller, his brother-in-law, who
has had trouble with his wife, and went
20 Longs house in search of her.
Mrs. Carrie Meyers, a professional bal
loonist, fell 1000 feet from a parachute
at Allen, n. Y, and was instantly killed.
Eight Thousand persons saw the accident.
In automobile accidents Martin Kel-
logg. street commissioner of Norwalk,
Conn, and Edward FIuette of Marquette,
Mich, were killed, and Frank z. VIII
Eams, a Cleveland bank teller, was in
jured.
The body of L. u. Perkins Of Law
renee, Kan, whose death was followed by
charges by life insurance companies in
which he held policies that he committed
suicide with poison, will be exhumed for
examination.
Without warning the four-story build
ing of the Doban Shoe Company or Cen
tral avenue, Cincinnati, collapsed. One
unknown man and one womaH were kill
ed.
Suit for payment of a note for $4,000
has been begun against Mayor Reyburn
of Philadelphia by persons whose iden-
tity has not been disclosed. Mr.. Hepburn
iRtinated that the pote was a forgery.
George Warner, delegate from New
York, who was unseated by the interna-
tional convention OF machinists at st.
Louis, admitted that he had received &c.
600 a year from the Erie road, not as
bride to prevent strikes. but as a salary
for working against the Erie canal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
Notes of Current Evente.

A Hindoo prince is a candidate for the
football team at Cornell.
Hetty Green's son has become a lead
ing oil operator in Texas and proposes to
be known hereafter as E. II. K. Green
The Morning Sun of Cambridge, Ohio,
William ]. Bryan will make speech
making tour of New York under the aus
pieces of the Progressive Democratic
League.
started last June by Senator Foraker to
advocate his policies, has been forced to
suspend
Fire in the Parker block in New Ia-
ven. Conn, caused loss of 100000. The
fire was started by rats getting into
case Of matches.
An attack on the Roman Catholic
church made by L. J. King, a street
preacher, in st. Louis, led to riot in
which several persons were injured.
Rev. William b. King, on trial before
the East Ohio Methodist Episcopal con
ference charged with lying defamation
of character and chewing tobacco, was
found guilty on the second count and pub
EcIy reprimanded by the bishop.
Four Of the fifty workmen at the pipe
works at Washington, Pa, who are said
to have initiated" Henry Perry when he
obtained place at the works by swing
ing him over a furnace, were arrested.
Perry, though badly burned, may recover.
Attorney Woodward, for North Caro-
lima, made the charge in the rate hearing
in Washington that the Southern railway
paid the brother of a representative 3d..
600 year for lobbying at Raleigh. The
court ordered that the State be gigen ac-
cess to the company's books.
Since last December there has been an
average fall of prices of stocks equal to
over $40 a share in the case Of railroad
shares and Of S27 in the case of industrial
shares Apply this to the entire capital
ization Of stocks and bonds Of the rail-
road and industrial corporations of the
country, and the apparent depreciation
in prices amounts to about five billions OF
dollars.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
AT PANAMA.
Work Progressing on the Big Dam
m T,Sx

sth0 Main Features.
The work on the locks and dams at
Panama has taken such shape that it
is now possible to see something of
their form. It is believed that the
actual masonry work can be COM
menced at the Gatun locks within eight
cen months. Four steam shovels are
now digging out the sites for the locks.
and construction can be begun after the
excavation for the top lock of the flight
is completed. Two steam shovels are
preparing the site for the erection of
the spillway works of the Gatun dam.
Railroad trestles are being erected
across the line that viii mark the in
side and outside boundaries of the big
dam, and from one of these dirt trains
are now dumping dirt upon the site Of
the dam.
Preparatory to the installation OF
pipeline dredges, by which more rapid
Charges River has been diverted from
its main channel and damned. The
pipeline dredges should be installed by
January 1, when the work at Gatun
will be as actively in progress as that
at Culebra. Suitable sand and rock for
the big masonry locks have been To-
Gated, and, what is equally interesting
to the engineers, material for the man.
ufacture of all the necessary cement
has been located on the 1sthmus. 1t is
hoped, however, that cement can be
secured for such a price in the United
States as to make it more advisable to
procure the needed supply there in
stead of manufacturing it on the 18th
mus.
The general features, designs and de-
tails of the Gatun and other locks have
been worked out, together with the
general type and number Of lock gates
to be used. The survey of all the coun-
try to be converted into the great Ga
tun lake has been completed and fin
ished reports show that the area will
be III square miles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
Cost of Living in 1906.

4 summary of the report just sent to
the printer by the United States Bureau
of Labor, of which Charles p. Neill is
the head, covering the year 1906, shows
that the prices of food were generally
higher during every month of that year
than in the corresponding month of 1905.
The price in December was S-1Oths per
cent higher than the average for the year
1906, and the year as a whole showed a
higher average than any since 1890, the
period covered by the bureaus investiga-
ton. The increase of last year applied
unequally to twenty-five of the thirty ar
ticles showing the greatest advance were
lard, evaporated apples, pork, bacon, ham,
fish, mutton and butter. The retail prices
of food were 2 9-10ths per cent higher
than in the previous year.
The report deals also with the question
of wages for manual workers, and gives
figures showing that the advance in wages
per hour over the preceding year was
greater than the advance in the rerai
prices Of food. That is to say, the pur-
chasing power of an hours wages as
measured by food was greater last year
than the year before. The increase in
this purchasing power was 1 4-10ths per
cent As compared with the ten years
average from 1890 to 1899, the wages per
hour were a 2-10ths per cent higher, and
the number of employees ~ 9-10thS per
cent greater, and the average hours of
labor a week Cloths per cent lower. In
the principal manufacturing industries of
the country the average wages were
5-10ths per cent higher than in 1905.
The greatest increase was in the manu-
facture of cotton goods, where the wages
were II 2-10ths per cent higher, and in
only one industry, that of paper and
wood pulp, was there a decrease, namely
l 1-10th per cent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
OKLAHOMA GOES DRY.
Election Returns from New State
Indicate Success OF Prohibition


Oklahoma has ratified the enabling act
and become a State SO far as Oklahoma
and Indian Territory are concerned. Re
turns from the largest cities and coun-
ties of Oklahoma and Indian Territory
up to midnight Tuesday indicated that
the constitution OF the proposed new
State has been adopted by large major
ity; that the prohibition clause OF the
constitution has been adopted and that
the Democratic State ticket, headed by
c. y. Haskell OF Muskogee for Gov
ernor, has been elected over Frank
Frantz, the present territorial governor
of Oklahoma, who was the Republican
nominee In the enabling act Congress
provided for prohibition in Indian Terri
tory for twenty-one years from Jan. /,
1906. The prohibition clause voted on
applies the same provision TO the Okla
homa side OF the new State.
All of the elements of a national cam
paign were at hand in the canvass. Secre-
tary of War Taft was the chief represent
alive of the Republican side and William
J. Bryan was brought IN to answer Sec
rotary Taft and to lead the Democratic
fight for the constitution and the Demo
cratic ticket.
The election was held under the terms
of the act of Congress granting joint
statehood to Indian Territory and Okla
homa Territory. The statehood bill was
passed at Washington after strenuous
fight which was carried through several
sessions of Congress. President Roose-
welt interviewed on behalf of the people
of the territories, and, while each terri
tory was anxious for separate statehood,
a compromise was affected by which the
friends of statehood accepted the joint
bill rather than have none at all. Imme-
diately after the statehood bill was sign
ed by the President the battle for the po-
litical control of the new State opened.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
From Far and Near.

A thousand dock laborers are on strike
at Galveston, Texas. Traffic on the
Southern Pacific is tied UP.
Miss Helen Williams of Allegheny, Pa,
was killed and four other persons were
injured in an automobile accident in
Pittsburg.
William 4. Cup, aged q, awaiting
trial for the death Of his brother, Floyd
C. Culp, last July at Turtle Creek, Pa,
committed suicide in the county jail at
Pittsburg by hanging himself. using his
suspenders as a rope.
DR.. Longstaffe, who is mountaineering
in the Himalayas with two guides and q
Gtuk officer has reached the summit
of Trisul. %. 4O6 feet. This is The record
fo- the Himalayas.
More persons crossed the Atlantic ocean
from this side during the first six months
of the present year than during any other
similar period. There were 81 900 steer
age passengers in that time.
The latest figures available, those for
June. show that the gross earnings OF
railroads operating over $500 miles
amounted in that month TO S2,0J6,3JO,
the gain over June. 1906, being S9,IO0,-
423, or 1874 per cent.
Where the trouble is physical, such as
failure of an organ, indigestion, conges-
ton or the liver and 50 on, strong, hr1n,
martial music win give best results, ac-
cording to DIR. Latson, editor OF Health
Culture. For this class Of treatment the
key of C major is particularly recon-
mended.
Gcra.any's war in southwest Africa has
cost SJO,OOO,0O0, which has been spent
overcoming the resistance Of one or two
native tribes. Eighty-si1 commissioned
officers were killed and the non-commis-
stoned officers numbered 229; rank and
file, 1,167; total, 1,4S2. Among the colo
riai troops 16 officers and i95 men FER
ished.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
BLAST ON JAPANESE SHIP.
Tyenty-Seyen Men Killed by EX-
pIosion on the Nashina.


pIosion on the hashinla.
Twenty-seven of the crew were killed
and many were injured on the japanese
battleship Kashima by the explosion of
powder after target practice near Kure.
The Kashima, under command Of Captain
Koizumi, went to Kure, where the wound
ed were placed in the hospital. The dead
included a lieutenant, two cadets and one
staff officer.
Details regarding the effects of the AZ
plosion are lacking, but it was terrific and
the ship was severely damaged. The blast
followed an attempt to remove an une1-
ploded shell from the gun. A majority of
the bystanders were fearfully mutilated.
The explosion is under investigation.
1t occurred inside of the shield of the
starboard after ten-inch gun. 1t was not
the shell which exploded, but powder,
which evidently caught fire from the gas
emitted from the breech when opened to
reload the gun. The hull Of the kashima
is not damag
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
TORTURE TO DEATH
WCMAN'S BONES BROKEN BY
RELIGIOUS FANATICS.
Five ParI.araItes Under Murder
CHARGES in zion City, III-JoIln
Dietz wins His Long Fight with
Rich Lamber Company.

Disclosure of one of the most horrible
murders in the history Of northern Hi
nois came to light Friday at Zion City.
An aged woman, sufferer for years from
rheumatism, was killed by a religious
sect, which believed it could cure her Of
the disease by casting out devils" The
woman's legs, arms, neck and ribs were
broken, and she was strangled The vic
tim is Mrs. Letitia Greenhaulgh of Zion
City. The disclosure OF the murder was
made after a midnight inquest held at the
dead woman's home by the coroner of
Lake county. The case is almost with
out parallel in the history of religious be
liefs. Five persons are being held on the
charge Of manslaughter, two as principals.
Those held are: Harold Mitchell, Mrs
Harold Mitchell, Jennie Greenhaulgh,
Walter Greenhaulgh. Mrs. Emma Smith.
The Mitchells, declared to be the ring
leaders, were held as principals by the
coroner's jury which made the midnight
investigation. Two women are raving
maniacs at Zion City, it is declared, as
result of the religious murder. They are
Miss Roxie Corl.att and Miss Lucy Tyne.
Roy Neal, also a ''Parhamite," is declar-
ed to have attempted to commit suicide.
He was found in Shiloh park with hand
kerchief bound about his .south. Zion
City is stirred over the revelation of the
brutal murder. The death is laid direct
ly at the door of the religious zeal Of a
new sect in Zion City called 'Parham-
ties" Its creed proclaims that all disease
is devil, and to effect cure the devil
must be cast from the body. In casting
the devil" from Mrs. Greenhaulgh's body
she was killed. Mrs. Greenhaulgh died
Wednesday noon. For hours the members
of her family believed that instead of dy-
ing she had been cured and that a resur-
rnc+inrn r,-n1,Il fnllnrr-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
Farmers to Fight Grain Trust.

Open war has broken out between the
so-called grain trust and the farmers of
the Middle West. The farmers say they
have paid 100000 a year tribute to the
grain trust, and have been organizing, I'M
til now cooperative elevators are in or
Grafton all over Iowa and are being ex-
tended into Minnesota and Nebraska.
Their organization possesses a $0O,OOG,-
600 reserve fund, while back of the trust
sands the wealth of the ArmOurs AMI
other millionaire capitalists. The co OPP
erative elevators will get all of the grain
of their own members, but, in order to
win, must also get some of the grain
from outsiders, thus Gripping the trust.
There are now 10 farmers cooperative
societies in Iowa alone, with a total men,
bership of $4,000, operating go elevators.
Also, the merchants of the Northwest
are organizing a cooperative association
to combat the mail order houses, the ner-
chants so organized agreeing to advertise
under one management, in order 20 lessen
the expense and secure an expert man
ager. This movement is of great econom-
ic Importance.