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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
CHICAGO

The effort to strengthen credit in
TINS center makes satisfactory head
way and with less difficulty than was
feared. Protective measures enforced
by the banks have won public co-opera-
ton, and it is clear that unprecedented
gold importations pointed this way and
substantial additions to circulation by
most of the local national Institutions
must materially assist in relieving the
strlnsency in money and permit an
early resumption of normal conditions,
considering the disadvantages which
trade mas experienced. ii is not surpris-
ing TO ind recessions in new demands
anu some decline in prices in primary
markets. That business is vet at n
hlsh level is evidenced by payments
through the banks in excess of those in
the same week last year. although un-
der the total last week.
Iron and steel contracts keep the
furnaces and mills busy, and heavy de-
IlVerles continue of furnace product,
rails, structural shapes and factory out
puts. Activity is well sustained in
forge and foundry work, heavy hard
wear, machinery, furniture and foot
wear, and the absorption of raw mate
rial generally is undated, except lum-
Der, which feels effect of lessened
building demand
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trlct number 81, against 2S last week
and 22 a year ago.-Dun's Review of
Trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
Milk Congress HonOrs Straus.

The International Pure Milk Congress
held at Brussels put itself on record as
against the use Of raw milk, advising all
mothers to give their infants milk brought
to the boiling point, pasteurized or steril-
lied. This action, following upon the
address of Nathan Straus of New York
telling of his efforts toward pasteuriza-
ton. was in the nature of an indorse-
ment. 1t was announced that Mr.. Straus
would give a complete pasteurizing plant
to the city of Brussels. The Straus plan.
which was first put into operation IN New
York City fifteen years ago, has now been
adopted in nearly 400 cities in all parts
of the world. and the United States gov
eminent has Endorsed pasteurization as
the proper way to make milk safe and TO
stop the spread of tuberculosis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
PALMA FOR AMERICA.
HE FAVORS UNITED STATES
RULE IN CUBA.
Thinks Dependence Better than
Freedom with Periodical Civil
Standardization Is that Rail-

Tomas Estrada Palma. formerly Presi-
dent of Cuba. has authorized the publica-
ton of his opinion regarding American
intervention He declares in favor OF
United States control in Cuba. 1T is
enough to satisfy my conscience he says,
this conviction of having saved my be-
loved country from anarchy and its nat
ural results of plumber and ruin. If l
did right or wrong time will say. That
my attitude was Immediately justified is
proved by the sudden re-establishment
of peace through the moral and material
influence of the Americans. l do not
hesitate 10 declare that it is hundred
times better for our beloved Cuba to be
in dependent political situation, in
which liberty is prevailing, than in re-
public Independent of a sovereign, but dis
credited and ruined by blasting periodical
civil strifes" The letter is considered
important, as Palma still has great indu-
ence with a large number of Cubans.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
CABINET MAN TALKS.
PcSTMASTER-G ENERAL G. Won
L. MEYER IN CHICAGO.
FayOrs Extension of Parcel Post
Service and Establishment of
Postal Savings Banks-Russians

Extension of the parcel-pOst service
and the establishing of pOStal-savings
banks under the fostering care of the gov
eminent were given a long boost forward
by George Won /. Meyer, Postmaster
General, Thursday night when he had fin
ished his address before the Industrial
Club and it's guests at the Auditorium
hotel in Chicago. Referring to postal
savings Mr.. Meyer said: During the
fiscal year ended on June 80, 1907, the
postoffice Department sent TO Europe
money Of the immigrants to the extent Of
ST. 100000, of which S19,0OO,000 went
10 Italy (sent by more than $4,000
money orders, averaging 81 each), So
$4,000 to Hungary, S7,GOO,OOO to Aus
tria, S7,23OO00 to Russia and $11 ,5S2, 900
to Great Britain. This merely represents
d slight portion of their savings, because
1t is human nature to give away but a
small part. Such money, while it was
accommodating, might have been put into
the postal savings banks" On the sub
ject of the parcel post the Postmaster
General said I'VE have to-day parcel
post conventions with thirty-lwo foreign
countries. The rate to each of these
countries is II cents a pound. What l
desire to call wildly to your attention
is the fact that if any one in Chicago
goes to the postoffice with two parcels
of four pounds each, one addressed to
New York and the other addressed to
some friend in a foreign country, the rate
on the one to New York will be Is cents
a pound or GA cents, while on the one to
the foreign country the rate will be II
cents a pound, or 4S cents. Should each
parcel weigh four pounds and two ounces,
the parcel addressed to New York would
not be accepted, while that addressed to
the foreigner in another country would go
10 New York and on TO its destination at
the rate Of Il cents a pound. This APP
pears to me to be an injustice to our
people-in fact, an un-American practice.
Therefore, the department will recon-
mend the same rate and the same limit of
weight for parcels, whether intended for
delivery in this country or abroad, which
means a reduction in the rate of 4 cents
a pound and an increase in the weight OF
seven pounds, eleven pounds being the
weight limit to foreign countries. This
is only equitable"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14

Poison Found in Stomach of Man
Who Carried 100000 Policies.

That there was enough morphine poi
son to kill a man in the stomach of l.. IL.
Perkins of Lawrence, Kan, who died af-
ter falling from the roof of his home,
was the statement of DR.. Walter NJ.
Crosse, city chemist of Kansas City,
member of the expert commission APP
pointed by the federal court at Topeka to
ascertain whether Perkins had taken poi
son. Perkins life was insured for $780,
200, and some of the companies protested
the payment of their policies on the
ground that Perkins had committed sui
eide. At the hearing in the federal court
evidence was introduced to prove that
Perkins had purchased morphine the day
of his death. 1t was also shown that he
had correspondent with members of the
faculty of Michigan university to dis
cover the effect of certain poisons on the
human system,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
From Far and Near

People of China are pleased by assur-
ances given them by Secretary Taft.
European military engineers are work
ing on form of automobile to draw ar
tillery.
The floor space of st. Peters, Rome, is
227 600 square feet, the greatest of any
cathedral in the world.
Three big life insurance companies of
New York returned to the State $61, 1851
on account of illegal rebates.
The newest Mills hotel has just been
thrown open in New York. 1t cost ST.
100000. has 1875 rooms, the highest
priced of which are 40 cents day, and is
equipped with all modern improvements
Several millions of American capital
are invested in the copper fields of Gen.
trail Chill the gold fields of the extreme
south and the nitrate fields of the north
The best of feeling prevails toward Amer
leans and American goods.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
WILL ORDER MANY RAILS.
Developments Predicted to Help
Steel Industry.

Predictions are made in Pittsburg that
the delay of the railroads in placing or
ders for steel rails will be ended within
thirty days. when, it is expected. upward
of 2,0000O0 to 100000 tons will be or
dered. The Importance of this business
to the iron and steel trade of Pittsburs is
hard to overestimate. The vast tonnage
amounting at least to $56,OO0,0O0, will
place the trade on its normal basis and
strengthen every other branch of tle steel
industry. Recently it was announced
that seventeen steel corporation furnaces
had been blown out. One result of the
new orders would be the forcing of a
ma jority of these furnaces to resume OPP
erationS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
SOLD SECRETS OF COURTS.
Discovery that Papers Were StoIen
Opens I'D Far-Reacbinr Plot

DiScOVery mat Papers Were Stolen
Opens Up Far-ReachinE Plot.
Secret service operatives are working
in Chicago to determine to what extent
government secrets in recent cases Of
national Importance have been sold by
Miss Eta Mclean and Alexander B..
Gordee, who were held in $1,000 bonds
TO the grand jury on charges of con-
spiracy and the theft of papers in the
John r. Walsh case.
Discovery of papers relating TO the
Standard Oil trial in the room of Miss
Mclean has led to the suspicion that
she and her confederate may have dis
closed government plans not only in the
Walsh case, but in the cases against
the Standard Oil, the Chicago and AL
ton railway, and the school book com-
bine.
Miss McLean's position as stenog-
rapher in District Attorney Sims Of
ice, which she held since April, gave
her ample opportunity to obtain copies
of the most valuable papers in all these
cases. The fact that GOrdee, her sweet
heart, was able to live in idleness, din
ing at expensive restaurants, for the
past six months has made it apparent
he had some secret source of income.
While the government officials feel
confident they have unearthed a far
reaching conspiracy, they have yet to
learn its magnitude or to what extent
its operations have injured government
prosecutions. In the prosecution of the
Standard Oil, the Alton, and the book
combine it was apparent at every turn
that the defendants knew in advance
the governments moves, no matter how
secretly planned. The arrest of the
couple, it is believed, has solved this
enigma
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
ss,ooo,ooo ON SEA LINER.
New York Banks Receive Gold from
Eurnnn-Pennla Huy Checks.

Europe-PeOp1e Buy Checks.
With 100000 in gold coin and bull
lion being carted to New York banks and
s10,OO0,O00 more approaching port, conf
lence in the financial situation was in
creased the other day. The SS,000.000
arrived on the steamship Kronprinzessin
Cecilie, and was part of the food of gold
on the way to America from Europe. The
kronprinzessin came from Bremen. Fol-
lowing almost in its wake is the Cunarder
Lusitania, from Liverpool. with $4,000
300 stored in it's strong boxes for the re-
lief of moneyfamished New Workers.
There is practically no danger nowadays
in shipping such vast amounts of trasure
across the sea. The great vessels are the
acme of safety. Their strong boxes are
equal in security to the best of safe de-
post vaults Currency of all denomina-
tons and in varying stages of crispness
poured into the offices of several broker
age houses in Wall street from all the
hooks and crannies of New York. Hear
ing that 214 and 21a per cent premium
was being paid for ready money, men,
women and boys brought t Ieir savings to
the financial district and exchanged them
for certified checks with the premium in
crease, which they deposited forthwith
in their banks. In the Offices of Mann,
Bill & Ware. SO Wall street, one of the
firms that led in the premium paying,
there was never-ending line Of assorted
personalities. They came from the east
side principally and carried their savings,
which ranged all the way from 500 to
$1,000, or $4,000, in pasteboard shoe
boxes, in toy banks, in old socks tied with
a bit of cord, and in one case in a derby
nat. In one of the brokerage Offices a
lad appeared with $500, his savings from
the sale of newspapers for three years.
This he exchanged for a certified check,
including the premium.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
BANDITS GET $4,000.
While Two Blow Safe, Five Others
Stand Guard in Canoyer, s. ID.


Seven armed bandits blew open the
safe in the Interstate bank in Canover,
S. D., tcrrorized the town for an hour,
riddled a hotel and several private resi-
dences with bullets, and finally escaped
with $1,000, leaving no clew to their
identity. Two of the robbers did the
work of blowing open the safe. while the
others guarded the nearby alleys and
streets. The first charge of dynamite
awakened occupants of the hotel across
the street, but the moment lights appear
ed in the windows the bandits opened fire,
and the men in the hotel We're afraid to
venture out Nearly every window in the
building was shattered. Wherever a light
showed in a private residence it was fired
on, and the whole town covered in terror
while the robbers exploded another charge
of explosive, which blew the big steel door
of the safe from its hinges and prac-
tically wrecked the interior of the bank
building. Every cent of money in the
safe was taken except $1,000, which had
been placed in a secret compartment and
was overlooked. The robbers, it is
thought, escaped on handcar
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14

Mrs. MedilI Mccormick, formerly Ruth
Hanna and daughter of the late Senator
from Ohio, and whose husband IS the
owner and editor of the Chicago Tribune,
has left her palatial residence on the
Lake Shore drive and made her home in
that part of the stock yards occupied by
the University settlement. Mrs McCor-
mick heretofore has been prominent in
the millionaire set, but appears to have
tired of society's inanities and to be anx-
ioHs to do something useful with her time
and resources. She will work under the
direction of DIR. Mary Mcdowell. Her
part;cnlar aia, is TO ameliorate the condi-
ton of tha Ghetto children.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
4 New Diamond Maker.

A report from Paris tells OF a discOv-
cry in the direction of artificial diamond
making which is distinct advance upon
Mosson crystal carbon making. The new
method is credited by the Academy of
Science to Aristide Charette, a chemist,
hitherto unknown. He says he has form
ed minute diamonds by passing feeble
electric current through a tube contain
ing sulphuret of carbon and metals like
iron The academy has undertaken TO
confirm this
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
QUASHES ROCKEFELLER WRIT.
Ohio Jurist Also Rules in Proceed
inGs Against Companies.

Judge Duncan, in Common Pleas Court
in Findlay, Ohio, quashed the summons
served upon John d. Rockefeller in
Cleveland last summer. His opinion is
that Mr.. Rockefeller represents foreign
corporation that is not doing business in
the State of Ohio and that Mr.. Rookie
feller's visit to the State was purely
personal one and not for the transaction
Of any business. The motion to quash
the summons served on the Solar Refining
Company of Lima. Ohio, is overruled.
Motions made by the Buckeye Pipe Line
Company, the Ohio Oil Company and the
Standard Oil Company to strike out GER
tain allegations in the petition are also
pverruled. The decisions deny an indi
vidual the right to bring quo warranto
proceedings and say that can only be done
by the Attorney General or a prescott
ing attorney in the Supreme or Circuit
Curt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
APPLE YIELD Is SMALL.
Total Crop Is Estimated Mt Twenty
Four Million Barrels.

The apple crop of the United States
in 1907, as estimated by the American
Agriculturist in it's report, is 24OO0,000
barrels. which is much less than the yield
of last year What is of great impor
lance is the shortage in such commercial
orchard sections as western New York,
nearly all of Michigan and the entire
Southwest. An absolute failure is noted
in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. New
York State has many apples, but they
will be needed, and, for that matter, the
total is only about one-fourth to one
third of a full yield. Pennsylvania has
fairly abundant crop. New England
has more apples than last year, owing to
the fact that Maine had a good crop.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
Told in a Few Lines.

Strict enforcement of contract labor
law will be more serious blow to South
than at first supposed.
Speaker Cannon, addressing the Illinois
Bankers Association at Moline, opposed
State ownership of railroads
An average of 800 persons are killed
in the United States each year by light
ming. This means one in every 100000.
Steel box cars have been built recently
which will weigh about 1900 pounds less
than wooden cars of the same size and
capacity.
Trial marriage among the Eskimos of
Alaska is complete success and family
discord is unknown, says V. Stefanson,.
an explorer who arrived in Washington
from the north
On the occa sion of the Austrian Ean-
peror's Jubilee next year special jubilee
coinage will be issued, including, particu--
iarIy. silver fve-crown pieces and gold
hundred-crown pieces.
Twenty billion pins and FIVE billion but
tons were produced by American factories
in 1905 The United States also produc-
ed in that year 200,O0OOO0 needles, near
" 4OO,0OOO00 safety pins and 10000
coo hairpins.
CLASHES goggles for drivers of motor
vehicles have thin steel plates in place
of the usual lenses. There is nothing
brittle to break, endangering the eyes,
and three ingeniousy arranged Sits en-
able the wearer to see everything in front
of him.
4 Goldfeld millionaire miner has had
all the hardware used on the doors and
windows Of his new residence near Los
Angeles quadruple plated with gold from
his own mines. This beats Senator
Clark of Montana, who, having made his
fortune in copper, bought bronze foun-
dry to make the decorations with which
his New York Fifth avenue mansion is
.opper-lined.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
Niltionaire'S BODY Is Eouad

The body of Gustave Lehman, ST.,
millionaire merchant. who drowned him
self several days ago because OF worry
following the action of Mrs Helen Flor
ence Hahn Lehman of Chicago in bring
ing suit for 100000 against tie mer-
rhant for spiriting her husband, Joseph
Lehman. out of the country in an effort
to break the marriage. was found in the
Mississippi river at New Orleans. Leh-
mann carried 100000 life insurance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14

The strike of commercial ieIegra piers
virtually is at an end. Chicago local No.
/, the strongest union in the country, has
acknowledged defeat after three months
of as bitterly contested a struggle as is
recorded in the annals of organized labor.
BY an overwhelming majority the Chi
cago operators decided by secret ballot to
recommend to the international board the
suspension of the present strike pending
further developments.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
Kills Wife and Himself.

William Frederick John. a contracting
stonecutter, shot and killed his wife,
Grace. and himself at their home in
Brooklyn. The man was so Years of age
and his wife &c. They have been mar
RED seven years and had two daughters,
one years and the other years of age.
The Johns had determined to separate.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
SUPERIOR HAS s2,5OO,OOO FIRE.
Great Grain Elevator and Surround
Ing Structures Are Burned.

Fire of an unknown origin caused the
destruction of the Great Northern eleva-
tor "A" in Superior, Wis, together with
100000 bushels of grain, principally
wheat, all of which was fully covered by
insurance The elevator was owned by
the Great Northern railroad, but was
leased to the \. ID. Thompson Grain Com
pany of Duluth. The sparks ignited the
Grand Republic mill on Tower Bay Slip,
the Great Lakes Dredge and Rock Com
pany dock and the Duluth-Superior Stor-
age Company. which contained the finish
ing plant of the Webster Chair Company.
The fire entailed an estimated loss of S.
GOO 600
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
Anti-erormon. I'm pig yictory.

Municipal candidates of the American
(antiMormon) party will have the larg-
est plurality ever given in Salt Lake City,
Utah. Brandsford for Mayor will have
from 1000 to 10000 plurality ever Plum
mer. Republican, and Morris, Democrat,
whose strength is very evenly divided
The Americans will control the council.
They have been in power for the past
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
Heart Of Victim Exposed.

A most remarkable case is under treat
ment in Thrall hospital, Middletown. \.
7. George Jones, a negro. is suffering
from stab wounds received during fight
with William Mason. His whole left side
was laid open SO that the heart was ex-
posed and its pulsations could be seen
by the doctors.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
Bank Cashier Ends His Life.

Yielding to the strain under which he
had labored for ten days, James r.
Boyd, cashier of the Huntsville (Ala.)
Bank and Trust Company, killed himself
in the dining room at his home, firing
bullet through his brain. He was dead
when his wife reached him. Intimate
friends say that he feared that a run
would be made on his bank
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14

Alleging that owing TO the financial
crisis it was impossible to renew matured
obligations. the Arnold Print works at
North Adams, Mass, was placed in the
hands of receiver. The Arnold Print
works is one of the largest textile manu-
featuring plants in the State, its EN-
ployes numbering approximately 5000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
LEAVE BOAT IN DISTRESS.
Two Men Make PeriIous Trip Ashore
in storm on Lake NIichisau

in storm on Lake Michigan.
The steamer Carrie 4. Ryerson, bound
from Sturgeon Bay to Muskegon, was
disabled the other night in Lake Michi-
gan off Little Point Sable by the break
ing of the propeller shaft \ northwest
gale was blowing. with a heavy sea, and
the boat was in danger of destruction.
Two of the crew of seven made a peril
Gus trip ashore in a yawl and gave the
alarm TO the Whitehall (Mich.) life
saving station. TIL crew went out and
took off the five men remaining ON the
boat. Later the steamer Lizzie WEIGH
picked up the abandoned steamer, bring
ing it into Whitehall.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
Minneapolis Mills Close.

Owing to financial conditions which
prevent the placing of advance orders,
the Minneapolis -four mills are closing
down. The Consolidated Milling Com
pany has closed four mills. the Northwest
ern Milling Company and the Pillsbury-
Washburn company have closed several
of their plants. Several hundred men
are idle because of the decision.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
Numerous spots on the Sun.

Prof. John Brashear of Pittsburg re-
ports that the surface of the sun has
been literally covered with spots for the
last week or two. several Of which could
be seen with the naked eye. Five groups
extended TO the equatorial region, where
they do not usually occur, and one OF
these was estimated to cover 100000
snuare miles
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14

Minister Of State Jonkheer van PAN
hugs, his brother, Mayor Leek. and their
wives were drowned while driving. their
carriage falling into the canal at Hook
kerk, Holland during a dense fog.