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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-12
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further progress appears IN the effort
to place credit upon a satisfactory basis,
and the banking conditions reject distinct
advance toward resumption of cash pay
ments. Encouraging replies from the in
terror indicate a general desire to act
early in restoring the normal status, and
with this favorable tendency spreading
the monetary outlook assumes an encour-
aging aspect
Trade conditions reflect no notable de-
Velopment, but the tone is better, and
with the necessary adaptation to events it
Is expected that improving demand will
come in due course
Liquidation in securities and commodi-
ues is not yet at the point of exhaustion,
but this is not any longer disturbing
factor, and there are increasing currency
shipments to move crops and provisions
and more renewal of loans upon satisfac-
tory evidence of solvency. Defaults thus
far have not reached distressing proper
tons, nor has the stoppage of machinery
and reduction of workmen been as great
relatively as was feared.
Although the business indications may
~ ANooANSU as Improving. 10 sCb a.
very conservative feeling extant. New
enterprises and consequent increase of oh
legations are given little consideration
and contracts made at this time are con-
fined to absolute requirements.
Colder weather would stimulate a more
active movement of seasonaDle goods in
both retail and wholesale branches, but
the Thanksgiving trade here and at coun-
try stores has been equal to expectations.
Manufacturing discloSes no particular
change aside from slower demand for
furnace and finished products. Rail mills
have bookings assuring 8 work for
seven months ahead, and me wire mills
remain busy.
Leather remains in fair request for the
shoe factories, but hides are absorbed
slowly, Notwithstanding lower prices, and
dealings are more limited in lumber and
building material.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number %, against 36 last week and
p year ago. Those with liabilities over
$1,000 number 10, against IA last week
and 6 in 1906.-Dun's Review of Trade,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-12
IN TILE SPORTING WORLD.

The racing season at San Francisco
has opened.
Joe Cans attributed Battling Nelson's
refusal to meet him to fear.
Andrew Carnegie gave Pittsburg free
football game on Thanksgiving day.
Lean and Jevne fattened their aver
ages in the billiard tournament at st.
Louis.
Twenty runners contested for the Y.
NJ. C. A. Thanksgiving cross-country
event.
Fred Beck was elected captain of next
years Washington university football
eleven.
The Eastern Jockey Club announced
that it would materially increase the
value of next years stakes.
Indications were that there will be a
postponement of the Tommy Burns-"GuD-
ner'' Noir battle in London.
Rosimiro, at to 1, took the feature
race at Bennings on Tuesday, to the
great discomfort of form players
Attempts were made to arrange for a
big wrestling carnival at st. Louis, the
participation Of stars of the mat game
being sought.
So many entries were received for the
auto show that the st. Louis Automobile
Club will have to build temporary adj
dition to the Jai Alai building to hold its
exhibition.
a swimming carnival at the Central
Y. VI. c.. A. attracted unusual interest
because of the excellence of the events
Daily and De Orc scored victories IN
the ST. Louis talk-line billiard contest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-12
four HUNDRED ARE
ENTOMDED IN Mines
Narrowing Catastrophe Reported in
Shafts of the West Virginia
Coal Company.
HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE FEARED.
Earth Rent by Tremendous Shock
and Explosion Is Heard Eight
Miles Away.

Four hundred men were entombed as
the result of terrific explosions in mines
Nos. and s of the Consolidated Coal
Company at Monongah, W. Va. The
mine management did not know the
cause of the blast, but experienced min
ers declare it must have been dust.
Mine No. is ON the east side of the
Monongahela River and No. is on
the west side The blast was heard for
a distance of eight miles.
The first explosion occurred in mine
No. 6. 1t was followed by the blow
ing up of the boilerhouse in No. s. The
entry to No. is caved in and filed.
The two mines were connected with
each other. Immediately after receipt
of the news physicians and special cars
but the mine was too full of gas and
smoke for reScuers to go in.
The earth seemed to be rent at the
moment of the shock. and an idea of
the force of the explosion may be gain
ed from the fact that props from the
mine were not only blown out of the
entry, but were hurled across the west
fork of the Monongahela River.
Many Miners Are American.
The town of Monongah has a popu-
lation of about 5000 Although the min
ers are largely of foreign birth, there are
many American workmen. Probably the
largest steel tipple in the State is at
Monongah The mines are both shaft and
slope mines, being worked with the rope
and haulage system. They lie on both
sides of the West Fork River and are con-
nected by steel pier bridge owned and
operated by the coal company. Until
about ten years ago only American miners
were employed. At that time the miners
of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois and
Ohio were on strike.
The coal company is one of the largest
in the country and is capitalized at $780,
00O,00G 1t has upwards of 100 produc-
ing properties Clarence w. Watson is
the president, with headquarters at Balti-
more. Lee Malone is the superintendent
of the properties and is said to be one
Of the most careful men in the mining
industry.
No. s mine was opened only two years
ago and was considered the most modern
mine in central West Virginia. 1t was
equipped entirely with electricity and con-
sidered absolutely SAFE Electric motors
were used exclusively and the shaft
throughout was lighted by electricity.
Mining machines were used.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-12
To Fight Vivisection Farm.

Mrs. Spencer Waert, prominent mem
Der of the New Jersey Federation of
Women's Clubs, whose country home adj
joins the property recently bought to be
used by scientists in the employ of John
D. Rockefeller as a vivisection farm, has
begun a war upon the whole undertake
ing. She will enlist the various State and
national societies to protect animals. In
an interview she said: Stretch John d.
Rockefeller out on a table with his hands
and feet tied. Somebody take off the skin
of his head in order to find for the good
Of science why his hair doesn't grow.
Then he may decide to give his money
for better purpose than a vivisecting
farm. where poor animals are tortured
in a most agonizing manner"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-12
NEW WRINKLE IN GEM ROBBERY
While Women Engage JeweIer Goth
am Thieves Bore Through Floor.

w mic " Engage Je"cIeE oohh-
am Thieves Bore Through Floor.
new development in burglary was
displayed the other day when Abraham
Boilers jewelry store in West 10th
street, New York, was robbed of jewelry
said to be valued at $1,000, while Bobier
was in the store. Boiler had dressed his
show window by piling up a number of
boxes and covering them with black cloth.
On this cloth valuable jewelry was dis
played. Several times Boiler thought he
heard rats in the floor, but paid little at
tention to the scratching noise. Pres
emily, while he was waiting on customers
in the rear of the store, a friend came
in to ask why Boiler had removed the
jewelry from the window. The jeweler
rushed to the window. Almost every ar
ticle of value had disappeared. Investiga-
ton showed that the robbers had entered
the cellar under the store, cut a hole two
feet square in the floor under the boxes,
climbed up into one of the boxes by means
of ladder, cut a small hole through the
top of the box, slit the black cloth and
picked the pieces of jewelry out of the
window without difficulty. Two we'll
dressed women had been in the store a
short time before and had kept Boiler
engaged in the rear of the room for some
time, although they made no purchases.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-12

1l20-Prince William, son of Henry I. of
England, drowned in the White Ship.
l237-Frederick II. defeated the Milan
csc at Corte Nuova.
13S2-French defeated the Flemings at
Rosbecque.
14991Edward Plantagenet, Earl of War
wick, beheaded.
152O-Magellan enter the Pacific ocean.
162S-John FELTON,, assassin of the Duke
OF buckingham, executed.
1691-The French retook Acadia.
1703-England visited by one of the
worst storms ever recorded.
l7O6-Colonial assembly of North Caro-
lima repealed acts of intolerance.
116o-The landing of revenue stamps at
Brunswick, n. c., resisted.
Acknowledgements army occupied Treu-
ton.
111S-Washington went into winter quar-
tiers at Middebrook, n. j.
17S2-Franklin and his colleagues signed
a preliminary treaty of peace with
Great Britain
1SO2-Ohio admitted to the Union by
authority of Congress.
trial began of JUS
tice Samuel Chase of the United
States Supreme Court
1S0S-Sir Francis Nathaniel Burton
took Office as Lieutenant Governor OF
upper Canada.
1S14-Gen. Andrew Jackson defeated
the Creek Indians at Autosse, Ala.
The London Times used the first
rotary steam press.
1S24-Henrc Fauntleroy, a banker, exc
cuted in London for forgery.
1S30-Beginning of the Polish revolu-
ton.
1S32-First street railway car exhibited
and operated.
1S45-Brtish Parliament passed the
Aberdeen act, to enforce the observ-
ance of a convention made with Bra
I'll in 1926 to suppress the slave
trade. :. Famous Fleet prison, Lon
don, demolished, after nearly eight
hundred centuries existence.
1S54-Railway communication establish
ed between Montreal and Point Lewis,
Quebec.
1S55-Kars surrendered to the Russians
under Mouravieff
1S62-Gen. Grant started on his expedi-
ton into Mississippi.
1S63-Gen. Burnside defeated Gen.
Longstreet in an action south of The
Holston river. Gen. Longstreet
made a gallant but unsuccessful at
tack on Fort Sanders.
1SGS-Gen. Custer defeated the rebellious
Indians on the Wichita river.
1S73-The Hoosac tunnel completed
1S1S-Gov. jackson sent troops into
Breathitt county. Kentucky, to sup
press feud troubles.
1SS5-Hostilities ceased between Servia
and Bulgaria.
1SS9-Welland canal opened.
1S9S-Marshal Blanco resigned the Of
flee of captain general of Cuba.
1S99-Battle of Modder river
19O6-Samuel Spencer, president of the
Southern railway, killed in wreck.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-12
NO THIRD TERM, SAY SENATORS.
Two Call on Roosevelt and Are Con-
WINGED He Will Not RIM

Two Call on Roosevelt and Are Con-
WINGED He VIII Not Rum.
Senators Aldrich and Crane, after
call on President Roosevelt Tuesday
night, are convinced that he will not &C
cept the nomination for President for
third term. Senator Aldrich of Rhode
Island and Senator Crane of Massachu-
setts are the two strongest Republicans in
the Senate from the Eastern States. Like
most of the other Senators they have been
of the impression either that the Presi-
dent was conniving at his own nomination
or at least that he was weakening in his
determination to decline the honor. The
conference convinced them that he would
not be a candidate. and, although there
was no direct quotation of the President,
and it was not intimated that he had re-
iterated his famous declaration made on
election night in 1904, the word was pass
ed around the Senate that Aldrich and
Crane had sounded the President sue
cessfully and were convinced that he
would not run under any circumstances.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-12
Attack on GomDers Renewed.

American Industries, the organ of the
National Manufacturers Association, in
its issue of Nov. 10 renews its attack on
the activities of the American Federation
of Labor as directed by President Samuel
Gompers. 1t publishes the report of a
firm of public accountants which it had
employed to examine the monthly reports
of the federation, as published in the
American Federationist. The findings of
these accountants is supposed to reflect
seriously on the management of the af-
fairs of the federation, particularly in
connection with its organ, the Fedora
zionist. At the convention of the fedora
ton in Norfolk, Mr.. Gompers, who pre-
sided, asked for permission to reply to
these attacks on the following day. This
was granted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-12

New York prohibitionists are planning
crusade to move the State into the
"dry" column. A State ticket will be
put into the field.
A conference between Roger Sullivan,
Bryan's openly avowed enemy, in control
of the Illinois Democratic organization;
Tom Taggart of Indiana and Leader Muir
ply Of New York City's Tammany Hall
at Mount Clemens, Mich, was generally
understood to be the first open effort to
bring the anti-Bryan forces of the party
into effective action.
Mayor and Mayor-elect Tom L. John
son of Cleveland announced that under
no circumstances will he be a candidate
for the presidency" and that Cleveland
is the sphere of his duty at this time
He will consider nothing but the issue Of
3-cent fares for that city. He has
fused all invitations to speak at party
gatherings or banquets.
In a letter sent to the heads of the
various governmental departments, Presi-
dent Roosevelt has made known his I'M
willingness to have his candidacy forced
upon the next presidential convention
through the political activities of men
holding official position This letter. the
substance of which has been made pub
lie, states that it has been called to III
Presidents attention that certain offic
holders in each of the departments havt
been proposing to obtain election as dee
gates to the national convention with III,
intention Of advocating his renominatio-
Or his endorsement by State conventions
Representative Charles y. Fowler,
chairman of the House Committee on
banking and currency, in a recent state
ment criticised the action of the govern
ment in its attempts to relieve the fnan-
cial crisis; especially did he deprecate the
issuing of the Understanding certificates
He thought there was no necessity for
such a course and that it would prove a
disturbing factor in the future, increas-
ing. as it did, the government interest
bearing debt when there was already
s240,OO0,000 in the treasury. Further
more, he said he was not aware of any
statute by which these certificates could
be construed to be lawful basis for bank
note circulation.
The two United States Senator's from
South Dakota, having come to deadlock
as to the nominations for federal officers
in that State, President Roosevelt, when
the two Senators were together in his
office recently, solved the difficulty by hav-
ing them draw cuts" as to the order of
choice. using first pieces of paper, and
when these were exhausted he resorted TO
the common practice of Tipping a coin
The result was that the choice of nomina-
tions was apportioned almost equally be-
tween the two men and the Presidents
embarrassment was much relieved, al
tho igh there may be struggle when the
nominations come in the Senate for ratih-
eaton.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-12

daughter of the President and wife of
the member from the Cincinnati dis
trict, and the new Persian minister in
his variegated uniform.
The scenes on the floor were inter-
esting. Such veterans as Serene Payne,
the floor leader; John Dalzell, w. P.
Hepburn, James S. Sherman and
James A. Tawney congregated in little
groups to exchange greetings. Speaker
Cannon held an informal reception in
his private room, Republicans and Dem
ocrats calling to pay their respects.
There was an absence of floral trib-
utes on the floor. These hitherto had
been a feature of the opening of Con-
gress, but rule of the House, adopted
at the last session, forbade such tokens.
New Members Interested.
Although the veterans of the House
were perfectly at home, the 121 new
members evinced deep interest in ev-
erything They arrived early and at
once set about making acquaintances.
The absence of old war horses, such as
General Charles III. Grosvenor and Rep
resentative Babcock, who went down
to defeat in the last elections, was
commented upon, and their familiar
figures were missed.
The biennial lottery for seats was
conducted in the usual way. As has
been the custom for years, Representa-
tive Bingham of Philadelphia, father
of the House. was allowed to retain
his seat, which is directly in front of
the Speakers desk. John Sharp Will
Jams. the minority leader. also was
given the privilege of choosing his
place on the Democratic side. Both
he and Speaker Cannon were given
ovations when they made their appear
ance in the chamber, but the occupants
of the galleries did not confine their
applause to these two men.
Those who expected that the Presi-
dents message would be read Monday
were disappointed. The fact that the
Senate adjourned Immediately after
converting out of respect to the mem
DRY of Senators Pettus and Morgan of
Alabama, who died during the recess,
prevented the presentation of the COM
munication from the chief executive.
The House, too, mourned two of its
members. and adjournment was taken
until Tuesday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-12
SHOOTS HIS WIFE IN CAR.
n. u. Nethaway Then Ends His Own
Life in Nearby Elevator.

N. B. Nethaway, a well-known trap
shooter shot and killed his wife on a
train at Norfolk, Neb., causing panic
among the passengers. He then jumped
off the train and killed himself few
minutes later. Mrs. Nethaway had board
ed the train to go to the county seat,
where her application for divorce was to
have been heard. Nethaway appeared in
the car door armed with a shotgun. He
called to his wife at the opposite end Of
the coach to prepare to die" and then
fred both barrels at her with fatal pre-
cision. He next addressed the frightened
passengers, mostly men, many Of whom
had scrambled under the seats or tried to
climb through the windows. "Good-by.
boys" he said. Il am sorry that l had
to do this, but | will do the same thing
for myself" After calling up his mother
by telephone and telling her what he had
done and how he was going to complete
the tragedy, he asked her to care for his
daughter, now in a convent. lie then
went to a grain elevator near by, where
he put bullet into his brain.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-12
MRS, BRADLEY SET FREE.
Jury Holds Her Not Guilty of MUIR
der of Ex-senator.


der of Ex-senator.
Not guilty was the verdict rendered
by the jury in Washington in the case
of Mrs. Annie NJ. Bradley, charged with
the murder of former Senator Arthur NJ.
Brown, of Utah, at a hotel in that city
Dec. s, 1906. Amid the applause of
crowd that filled the courtroom, Mrs.
Bradley, her eyes tear-dimmed, was dis
charged from custody. Throughout its
deliberations the jury, into whose hands
the case was given by Justice Stafford in
United States Criminal Court, stood IL
to l for acquittal. On the final ballot
Juror Julius H. Prigg, who was holding
out for some punishment, yielded. The
judge thanked the jury for the manner
in which it had performed its duty and
the jury through its foreman expressed to
the court and counsel it's thanks for the
consideration and courtesy shown. The
jury was then discharged. Mrs. Bradley
expressed gratitude over the outcome of
the trial. and when asked what plans she
had, replied that there was little mapped
out.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-12
Federation Defends Boycott.

Supreme Court of the District of Column
bia has been made in the case brought by
the Buck Stove and Range Company of
st. Louis for an injunction to restrain the
American Federation of Labor from boy
cotting the firms products. The tenure
of the argument for the defense was to
ask the court to judge the acts of trades
unions on the principles of common law,
whereas the plaintiff has invoked the
Sherman antitrust law, holding that the
boycott is conspiracy and combination
in restraint of trade Counsel held that
the federation had right to do in COM
bination what an individual might do,
namely, urge others not to buy particu-
lar product.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-12
PoPULIST CONVENTION.
Banks and Stock Jobbers Condemned
by National Chairman Ferriss.


Chairman James II. Ferriss of the Pop
ulist national committee has issued call
for the Populist national convention to be
held in st. Louis April 2, 1908. The ba-
sis of representation will be two dele
gates for each congressional district and
four delegates at large for each state and
territory, besides one delegate-at-large for
each 5000 votes or majority fraction
thereof cast for the Peoples party ma
tional ticket at the election of 1901. The
call says: IAN independent party, free
from predatory affiliations, becomes neces-
sary if the power of monopoly and priv
ilege is to be taken from the banks and
stock jobbers; if the rule of the people is
to be restored in our time. The peoples
party opposes any system permitting any
class of citizens to paralyze the indus
tries and bankrupt the industrious mil
lions"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-12
STATE TREASURER FAILS.
Frank II. GIazier, Michigan Official,
Is In Trouble,

1t is announced by his creditors that
Frank z. Glazier, State Treasurer OF
Michigan, president of the Chelsea Stove
Company and the Chelsea Savings Bank
both of Chelsea, Mich, had failed. His
liabilities are $1.000,O00. 1t is estimat-
ed the assets will not cover one-fourth
of the liabilities. The stove company is
capitalized at 100000 and the bank at
100000. State Banking Commissioner
Zimmerman has closed the bank. Glazier
had deposited in the bank approximately
S6S4.000 of the funds of the State of
Michigan. Attorney General Bird said
that the State is protected by the State
Treasurers bond of $150,000 and rhe
banks bond of 100000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-12
Finds Ten in Murder Plot.

The Denver News says that Chief Will
kie of the United States secret service is
in possession of evidence to show that
ten men are involved in the alleged con-
spiracy to murder United States Secret
Service Agent Joseph Walker, who was
killed at the Hesperus mine near Duran
go. Colo. recently by a miner named
Tanderweide
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-12
CACTUS LATE DIET
Scientist Trying 1t and Declares 1t
Is Great Fruit.

In an effort to prove that thornless
cactus, as an article of diet, contains prop
critics sufficient to enable man to con-
tinue working eighteen hours a day, DR..
Leon Ebert Londone of Los Angeles,
Cal, well known as a scientific lecturer,
has been for several days subsisting ex-
clusively upon cactus, supplemented by
few nuts and small quantity of celery
The leaves of the plant are eaten as
green's or fried and the fruit is raw or
cooked. A stenographer and secretary,
with DR.. Londone, constitute a cactus
squad" which will continue on this novel
diet for period of two weeks. Because
oe the scarcity of thornless cactus the
common species of the plant will be large
ly employed in the test.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-12
Find Missing Cashiers Body,

The body of David r. Rankin, the
missing cashier of the Merchants and
Planters Bank of Lawton, Okla, which
recently failed, was found by a Comanche
Indian boy in Cache Greek, two miles
north of Lawton, where it had remained
since the evening of Nov. S. the day of his
disappearance. He is believed to have
committed suicide. Rankin owed he
bank $500 and his accounts were $3.50
short