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The Marshall republican., 1907-09-20
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SWEET SPRINGS

tnls place nelu their annual
Mission Festival at the
Springs grounds last Sunday.
The sermons were all preach.
ed by visiting ministers.
There was q large mum Der of
visitors present.
A. E. Smith, of Argentine,
Kansas, spent Sunday at home
with bis family.
Miss Myrtle Smith, of
Dunksburg was in Kansas
City the past week.
Mrs. Elizabeth Theis and
daughter, Mrs. VIM. Wolfrom
of near Concordia spent Sat-
urday and Sunday with G. A.
Asche and family.
Miss Eliza Fulkerson, of
near Mt. Leonard has return.
ed to her home after a weeks
visit with Mrs. August
Elsper.
Mrs. r. W. Burkhardt and
little daughter are visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. II.
G. Andrew.
W. p. Stallings sold his
interest in the store To his
partner, l.. W. Arnold.
Mrs. Shaw Jones, who has
been visiting at the home of
Mrs. r. j. Brady, returned
to Kansas City last Sunday.
Mrs. Harris is visiting her
sister, Mrs. j. Il. Wilson.
Mrs. G. E. Ferguson, who
has been studying music in
Kansas City for several
months, visited at home Sat-
urday and Sunday.
Mrs. j. H. Dooley, who
visited her father I, Postmaster
Smith, several days last week,
returned TO her home near
Lincoln, Mo-, accompanied by
Miss Ella Smith. Mrs.
Dooley and Miss Ella spent
Sunday in Sedalia with Mrs.
Geo. Bischel.
Mrs. Chas. Vogey, Of Kan
sas City, visited at G. E.
Ferguson's a few days last
week. :
The Festival Chorus com.
posed of about 90 of Sweet
Springs best vocalists will
repeat the program recently
given in Sweet Springs, ID
Marshall Friday night. Mr..
Railey Barbour conducts the
chorus.
Rev. Gresham, Of Excelsior
Springs, preached at the
Christian church Wednesday
and Thursday nights of this
week.
j. j. Smith spent part OF
the week 10 Kansas City.
Miss Harriet Smith, who
has been in Sweet Springs
for several weeks drinking
Sweet Springs water, return
ed to her home in New Berlin,
ILL.,. last Tuesday.
The carries on three Of the
rural routes are taking their
vacation and their substitutes
are. having a great time mix.
ing'' the mail.
Rev. S. G. Welbern, pastor
of the Methodist church, At.
tended conference in indie
pendence the past week. His
many friends here will tie
sorry TO know TINT Mr.. Wei.
born goes to Lamonte the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-11
RAILROAD WAR AVERTED.
Mediation Brings About Settlement
Between Roads and Men.

Mediation Brings About Settlement
Between Roads and Men.
Government mediation has proven
successful in preventing the long threat
ening strike of trainmen on forty-two
big Western railroads. affecting $4,000
employees, and endangering the CON-
merce of the entire country west Of
Chicago. 1t is the first time the Erd-
mann arbitration act has been called
into play, and it has proved a sue
cess.
Through the good offices of Chairman
Martin \. Knapp of the Interstate Com
merce Commission and Charles P.
Neil, United States Commissioner Of
Labor, the General Managers Commit
tee of the railroads and the Employees
Committee, representing the unions of
the trainmen and conductors, Thursday,
reached an agreement which removes
all possibility of the strike.
The general managers committee
granted a slight increase to fiagmen
and brakemen, and the employees made
y
tablish peace. The agreement goes into
effect as from April l. BY the offer Of
the managers committee made on Feb.
-, the employees receive an increase
amounting to $4,JQ0,000 annually. The
additional increase to the fiagmen and
brakemen amounts to 100000 a year.
Had the men accepted the terms of the
managers committee, effective on
March /. they would have received
$4j0,000 additional on their March pay.
The principal terms of settlement in
the threatened strike may be summar-
lied as follows:
IncreaSa in wages of passenger con-
ductors. so per month: baggagemen,
$50 1agmen and brakemen. $3.50.
Overtime in passenger service, on fff-
teen miles an hour basis, 81 cents an
hour for conductors, and % cents for
baggagemen, flagmen and brakemen.
Ten per cent increase for freight con-
ductors and brakemen.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-11
DUAL LIFE EXPOSED.
WIFE DISCOVERS DEAD HUS-
BAND WAS BIGAMlST.
Soldiers Second Marriage Revealed
by Claim for Pension-Lad of Nine
Years Has Led Life of Desperate
for Some Time.

Samantha f. Pearson Of Hazleton,
Ind, who has been seeking a pension be-
cause her husband was veteran Of the
Civil War, was discovered that a second
wife of Pearson has been drawing the
pension for years. Charles Z. Pearson,
on whose account the pension was issued,
has been dead seven years. He was mar
ried in Omaha, AMI his second wife has
resided there since their marriage. Mrs.
Pearson No. 2 was unknown to the first
wife, who says she was never divorced
from her husband. 1t was when she
made application for pension and began
to search the records of the District
Court in Omaha that she learned of her
husbands alleged dual life. Now Mrs.
Pearson No. l is taking legal steps to
secure what she claims belongs to her,
and her attorneys will ask the pension
bureau to discontinue the pension to
Parsons second wife. The two women
have not met each other, but considera-
BILE litigation is expected. Pearson was
a member Of an Indiana regiment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-11

President Roosevelt emphatically de-
MED the statement contained in a let
ter published in New York purporting
to have been written by E. H. Harri-
man to Sidney Webster of New York
in the latter part of December last. In
the letter the statement is made that
at the request of Roosevelt he (Harri-
MANI assisted in raising q fund of
S250,0O0 to be used in carrying New
York for the Republican party at the
election which was then approaching.
This statement the President charac-
terizes as deliberate and wilful IN
truth-by right it should be character
lied by an even shorter and more ugly
word. I never requested Hartman to
raise a dollar for the presidential cam
paign in 1904"
With the full knowledge and consent
Of the President, details were given out
at the White House of the amazing
combine which the President says eX-
lists among the Hartman interests to
defeat any candidate for the presiden-
tial nomination who bears the indorse-
ment of Roosevelt. The President now
claims that not only his candidate for
the Presidency, but his policies. will be
attacked by the men, who have pledged
a 100000 fund to carry out their
scheme.
e. II. Hartman declined absolutely
to talk about the report from Wash
ingtOn that a fund of 100000 had
been raised to prevent the nomination
for President of a man Of President
Rooseyelt's choosing in 1908.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-11
1T PERISH IN FLAMES.
Men and Women Cremated in San
Francisco HosteIry.

At least seventeen persons, possibly
more, were killed in fire which destroy
ed two hotels in San Francisco at 1
a. m. Thursday. More than a score were
hurt, several of whom will die. Seven
teen persons are missing, among them the
wife of the proprietor of the hotel and
several other women. The most of those
who persisted were roasted to death as
they slept. The actual number of the
dead is not known. The fire started in
the kitchen of the Geneva hotel, in which
more than 100 persons were sleeping, and
soon spread to smaller adjoining hotel,
in which forty-fvs were asleep. 1t is be-
lieved that all those in the smaller hotel
escaped. So rapidly did the fire spread
that it was impossible to do much in the
way of rescue, and even when the fire de-
partment arrived the blaze was so fierce
that the hremen were hardly able to place
ladders against the walls. They did, how
ever, manage to save a number of per-
sons on the top story. In the work of
rescue w. A Cole, a fireman, fell from
ladder and, it is believed, was fatally
injured. The majority of the injured
were hurt in leaping from the upper win
dows. A number of women are reported
to have been in the building mad all Of
them are thought to have persisted. Men
and women appeared at the windows in
night clothes and their appeals for aid
were pitiful. Many persons gathered at
the fire, but could do nothing to aid the
imperiIed inmates of the doomed build
ing. As the fire spread those in the win
dows jumped to the ground to escape GER
tain death in the flames. In a very
short time the walls collapsed, burying
nearly a score of victims. Teams were
hurriedly harnessed and automobiles
brought into service and the injured were
rushed to the Potrero emergency hospital,
where several died while awaiting treat
ment. The small wards of the Potrer0
hospital were soon filled with the victims
of the fire. The scene was terrible. But
in the midst of the suffering, the surgeons
worked calmly and swiftly over the vic
Tins. The property loss is estimated
at $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-11
ANXIOUS ABOUT CUBA
EUROPEAN NATIONS FEAR Re-
ESTABLISHMENT OF REPUBLIC.
France and England Said to Be Con-
cerned to Protection of Their
Dash for Pole.

According to a Havana dispatch, the
American government sooner or later will
meet with pressure from abroad regard
ing the Cuban situation. The French
minister is said to have informed his
government that there will be no certain
ty of the protection of property if the
republic is re-established and the Cubans
are placed in control. at is learned fur
ther,' the dispatch continues, that GER
tain powerful British interests recently
asked the foreign Office in London to re-
guest permission from the United States
to station three British warships in Cuba
waters when the Americans leave. Amer
lean officials here. however, do not be-
ieve that Great Britain will make any
such embarrassing request, because the
answer would probably be that America
will be able to tend to her own affairs and,
being responsible for Cuba's conduct, she
would preserve order and protect property
as at present. However, these two in
stances show the feeling of disquietude."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-11
NEW YORK.

Trade responds to seaSonable weather
distribution of spring merchandise. fully
equaling sanguine expectations and coun-
try merchants purchase literally from
wholesalers at leading centerS Reports
from principal cities are uniformly favor
able, active business being accompanied
by further improvement in collections
Leading industries are fully occupied and
no strikes of more than local significance
have materialized Manufacturers are
busy on goods for early shipment and
sample business for later seasons promises.
continued activity. Improved traffic con-
iitionS make deliveries more prompt. Few
lines of finished steel can be delivered
promptly. mills averaging four to six
months capacity engaged, and quotations
are consequently well maintained. Pri-
mary markets for textiles are more quiet
bur there is no diminution in the output
OF mills except where labor cannot be-
secured. Commodity exchanges have re-
sumed normal conditions and prices show
some recovery from the unsettled position
after the Easter holiday. which was pro-
longed abroad.-Duns Review.
Despite some croSS-currents in demand.
due mainly to the withdrawal of the.
Easter stimulus TO trade and a succeed
ing spell of cold weather. the Develop
| ments of the week have been mainly
| favorable. Chief, perhaps, of these is the
final satisfactory settlement of the west
ern railway mems demands by arhitra-
fticn. All reports as to trade in wholesale
and johbing circles in the first quarter are
in a high. degree favorable, and failure,
returns conffrU the smallest number Of
casualties for a geReration past. Reports
from most leading Industries are still OF
full order books and of backward deliv-
cries. There is. however. Slightly more
manifest disposition to move more con-
servatively as regards distant positions,
some easing of metal quotations and a
softenng of asking prices for various pro-
ducts, and the jewelry, shoe, leather and
wool trades note quiet, pending a clearer
view of later developments. Business
failures in the United States for the week
ending April number 1871, against 1865.
last week and 151 in the like week of
1906. Canadian failures for the week
number %, against p last week and IL
in this week a year ago.-Bradstreet's
Report.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-11
TORNADO KILLS TWENTY.
Terrific Windstorm Demolisf,es Alex
andFia. Ia.

Terrific NindstGrD Demons hes Alex
andria, Ia.
A cyclone occurred at Alexandria,
La, Friday, in which at least twenty
persons were killed and more than 100
injured. The storm is reported to have
been one of the worst ever seen in that
section of the State and wrought APP
palling havoc. A great part of the
town is in ruins. Fifty houses have
been torn to bits and several stores and
factory buildings demolished, while
scores of other buildings were badly
shattered. Alexandria is located near
the center of the State and is an i'm
portant railroad and commercial city,
with a population of about 1000.
a wide swath was cut by the cyclone
through the town, extending for miles
through rich and populous farming
district. The damage to buildings and
crops will amount to millions. Ac-
cording to reports the cyclone struck
the town about O'Clock in the morn
ing. 1t came with scarcely a warning
note. The sleeping citizens were
aroused by a tremendous, terrifying
roar of wind that was scarcely heard
before it seemed to fill the whole air
Of the town with deafening crash.
Houses toppled down like cards or
We're lifted completely from their foun-
dations and dropped many yards away
a shapeless mass of timbers with their
occupants crushed in the ruins. Roofs
were torn off and went sailing through
the air like huge kites. Trees were
uproOted and tossed q hundred feet
into the air, and some of them were
carried miles away. The air was fill
ed with flying timbers and many per-
sons were struck by these as they
rushed from their lettering homes
Men, women and children and animals
were caught up by the mighty current
Of wind and some of them were carried
a block in the air. The storm was over
in a few minutes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-11
Sharks from the Wires.

A cooie riot occurred at Port of Spain
Trinidad. during which the manager of an
estate was killed.
Former President Cleveland was pre-
sented with a silver loving cup by the
entire undergraduate body of Princeton
university in honor of his SEVENTEEN birth
day.
The RothschiIds have purchased for
S5.OOOOOO the famous Beatson group OF
copper mines on La Touche Island,
Prince William Sound, Alaska, according
to reports received in Seattle
certificate of incorporation Of the
Toledo. Wabash and st. Louis Railroad
Companv was recorded at Augusta, Me-.
The capital is $6,O00.000.
The manifest of the German steamship
Arabia. which arrived at Portland, Ore.,-
from Hongkong and japanese ports,
shows 2S.S4J cases of frecrackers. des-
tined for forty-six cities of the United
States.
The Indictment of the Cincinnati Trac-
tion Company and its officials is declared
to be called for, according TO questions
submitted by the grand jury at Cincin-
natl in connection with the investigation
into an accident last December.
Jesse F. Welborn has been chosen by
the board of directors of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company to succeed the
late Frank ]. Hearne as president Of that
company.
Gov. Vardaman announced at Jackson.
Miss, that he would appoint Assistant
Attorney General r. V. Fletcher as At
torney General to succeed William Will
liams, deceased.
The court martial in the case of Second
Lieut.. Morris G. Foote. Twenty eighth in
fantry, stationed in Cuba, has convicted
him of financial Irregularities. A similar
result has followed the court martial of
First Lieut.. Eugene z. Crowne, Twenty
ninth infantry.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-11

Save Lives in New York While En-
compassed by Flames.

save Lives in New York While En-
comprised by Flames.
Fire caused by a spark from one of
the boiler rooms in the excavation for
the McAdoo tunnel terminal at Dey, Full
ton and Church streets, New York, did
damage estimated at $4,000. and a delay
of thirty days in the completion of the
work on the huge terminal buildings will
result. Five men were injured during
the progress of the fire by being caught
in one of the deep caissons, two of them
so severely that il was necessary to take
them to a hospital. There were many
thrilling rescues and several instances of
personal bravery during the progress of
the fire. Deep down under the ground in
the 100 and more caissons which are be-
ing sunk for the foundations of the big
terminal buildings to rest upon were be-
tween 800 and GOO men at work When
it was seen that there was danger of the
fire spreading to all of the engine houses
south of Dey street, shutting off the sup
ply of air, the pressure of which enabled
the men to work under ground and the
withdrawal of which would mean serious
danger, If not death, to many of them,
the danger signal was given and the
buckets lowered into the caissons to bring
the tunnel workers to the surface.
Around some of the derricks used to low
er and hoist the buckets the flames ragged
fiercely, and in two instances the men in
charge of the donkey hosting engines lost
their nerve and deserted their posts, leav
ing the men eighty feet beneath the sur
face of the ground to their fate The
dserted hoists We're quickly renamed by
volunteers, however, and the new men
stuck TO their posts with the flames roar
ing around them until the last one of the
tunnel workers was brought up to safety.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-11
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Chica go-Cattle, common to prime,
300 to $G.65; hogs, prime heavy, $400
to $500; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to 5000; wheat, No. >, TIC to 7Gc; corn,
No. ,, 42c to 44c; oats. standard, 40c to
43c; rye, No. =, Csc to G9c; hay. timo-
thy, $500 to $500; prairie, 5000 to,
$500; butter, choice creamery, PC to
30c; eggs. fresh, BE to 1jc; potatoes.
zoe to 4Sc.
napolis-Cattle shipping. $500
to $3.50; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to,
SG.95; sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, 74c to 76c; corn,
No. 2 white, 45c to 4Gc; oats, No.
white, 42c to 44c.
st. Louis-Ce tie. $3.50 to $3.50;
hogs, S40O to $3.50; sheep, $500 to-
$6.1O; wheat, No. ?, 76c to Tie; corn,
No. 2, 42c to 43c; OATS No. 2, 40c to
41c rye, No. ., &c to Csc.
CINCINNATI Cattle, $500 to $500;
hogs, $500 to 5000; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, TIC to 79c; corn,
No. . mixed, Acc to 47c; oats, No. ,
mixed, 43c to 44c; rye, No. ., 73c to 74c.
Detroit-Cattle, $4.0O to 1925; hogs,
$40O to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, 75c to nc; corn, No. 3.
yellow, Acc to 47c; oats, No. 3 white,
43c to Ace; rye, No. ., Toe to lie.
Milwaukee-Wheat. No. 2 northern,
7Sc to SIC; corn, No. 3, 40c TO 41c;
oats, standard, 41c to 42c; rye, No. J.,
CSC to 69c; barley, standard, zoe to Tic;
pork, mess, $1,000
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
S4.OO to 5000; hogs, fair to choice, S4.00'
to S7.15; sheep. common to good mixed,
$500 to $40; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $3.50.
New York-Cattle $500 to $3.50;
hogs. S4.OO to $720 sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. = red, soc to SIC;
corn. No. 2, 53c to ole; oats, natural
white. 47c to 49c; butter, creamery, 29c
to sic; eggs, western, 15c to tic.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 76c to-
7Sc: corn, No. mixed, 45c to Acc;
oats. No. 2 mixed, 42c. to 44c; rye No.
9, Csc to CSC; clover seed, prime, $3.50.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-11
CONSTANTINE is CAUGHT.
Alleged Slayer of Mrs. Gentry Taken
After Long Chase.

After Long Chase.
Accused of the murder of Mrs. Louise
Hughes Gentry, Frank Constantine ad-
mitted to the New York police that he
is the man whom the Chicago authori-
ties have sought for fifteen months.
Since the murder of the woman on
Jan. 6, 1906. Constantine, who admits
he was with her at the time of her
death, has been a fugitive. fleeing from
the police first to Italy, then back to the
United States, to South America, and
back to the United States again. He
was about to embark for a second trip
to Italy when he was caught. He claims
the woman committed suicide and says
that he fed because he was afraid he
would be accused of the crime and
would be unable to prove his innocence.
The murder of Mrs. Gentry was par
ticularly brutal, her head being almost
severed from her body by a razor
slash. Constantine had been a ledger
at the Gentry home several weeks. He
posed as a man of wealth. He said
that he was the son of Frank J. Con-
stantine, the wealthy real estate man
of New York Mrs. Gentry had been
Miss Louise Hughes an artist of some
prominence. She had been married to
Gentry about one year, Once, it was
reported, she told the wife Of the jani-
tor that she was afraid she would be
killed. She gave no explanation for
this assertion.
After Constantine's disappearance a
number of suspects were arrested in
different parts of the continent
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-11
STAYS WIFE WITH AK.
Woman's Skull Crushed While Chill
dren Sleep in Room Adjoining.

Woman's Skull Crushed While Chill
dren Sleep in Room Adjoining.
Charles Graft of Chicago crushed his
wife's skull with an ak, killing her in
stantly early the other morning, while
their five children were asleep in an ad-
joining room. He fed after the murder,
but was captured by detectives in a sa-
loon at 90 West Harrison street. He
had given note to the bartender to be
delivered to the proprietor, Fred Abeel,
who was absent 1t read: Dear Fred
l killed my wife last night. l can't write
just now. Keep papers that l gave you
and say nothing, and come, please, and
see me-" The murder was committed at
446 West Harrison street, where the cou-
pie lived. Graft narrated how he had
killed his wife when questioned at the
police station, but insisted that he acted
in self-defense. II was awakened shortly
after midnight" he declared by her lean
ing over me. She had a razor. l jumped
out of bed and ran to the kitchen. | got
the ak. She was pursuing me, waving
the razor, and | had to kill her" Crafts
confession was made only after he had
been shown the bloody ak, which had
His story is not borne out by the state
ments of his children. They told the po-
lice that they heard their mother and
father quarreling violently after they re-
tired their father particularly seeming in
a rage. The quarreling continued until
the children fell asleep. They said also
that their father was intoxicated when he
returned home Sunday night. The police
believe that he killed his wife while she
slept. The tragedy was discovered by
William Graft, IS years old, one of the
sons. Arising at o'clock and finding no
fire in the kitchen stove, he went to arouse
his mother. She was on the bed dead.
The other children are: Henry, IA years
DID, Anthony, %; August, 8, and Char
lotte, named after her mother, u years
old