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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-04
REVOLT IN PORTUGAL
ONE HUNDRED ARE KILLED IN
RIOTS.
Mobs Fight to Dethrone King
Carlos, but Soldiers Cut Down
Hundreds-CfviIians HurI Bricks
and Boiling Water.

Six hundred rioters were shot and
perhaps 100 were killed in street con-
fiicts between mobs and government
troops in three northern towns of
Portugal. The dissatisfaction is spread
ing TO the army and reports from
Oporto advise the War Department of
the mutiny of six battalions of ar
tillery. Conflicts are numerous all
over the nation, and strenuous efforts
are being made by the authorities 10
quell the uprising against King Carlos.
Fired on by the troops. hunted down
like rabbits through the narrow streets,
and finally pursued by cavalry which
rode down men, women and children
tndiscriminately, many are dead and
wounded in the three northern towns
of Braga, Villa Real and Wanna Do
CASTILLO. The mobs paraded the streets
shouting Down with absolutism,' and
decrying King Carlos for his attempt
to rule the country without Parlia-
ment.
Soldiers sent to dispense the rioters
were attacked by stones, bricks and
other missiles. They replied with vol
leys which stretched scores of the riot
ers in the streets. This did not Quell
the mob entirely, however. Persons in
houses continued to lombard the troops
with stones, while hot water was poured
on them. Angered beyond all control,
the soldiers began firing again, shoot
Ing down persons like rabbits as they
fed. Cavalry rode down every person
who could be found
The large cities are practically under
martial law and armed bands of peas
ants and workmen parade the streets
fntimidating women and children and
attacking the police wherever they try
to offer any resistance to the progress
OF the rioters. The troops only are able
to awe the dissatisfied, and the indica-
tons that mutiny has honeycombed the
army with sedition and treason are be-
coming more evident every day.
King Carlos, surrounded by an army
of his most faithful followers. has
planned for a rapid escape in case the
crisis becomes too great, and steam is
kept up continually on the royal Yacht.
which is manned by English sailors
who are faithful to his cause.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-04

ship on our Pacific frontier, that at
P. l., which was towed from Solomon's
Island, Maryland, is still without shops
on shore sufficient for repairs and can
be used only for painting and scraping.
For some reason not easy for the
average citizen to discover there is
not an American battleship between
San Francisco and Manila. One by one
they have been withdrawn from Pacific
waters and Joined to the Atlantic fleet,
where they rendezvous at Newport and
Jamestown, until there remains in the
far east and on the Pacific coast only
light armored cruisers and second and
third class ships of the cruiser type,
any and all of which would be no more
than good target practice for a squad
ron of modern battleships.
It is privately admitted, according
to a Washington correspondent, that
the Navy Department hesitates to or
der battleships to the Pacific waters at
this time. While having every possible
right to do so without question, it is
we'll known that such a move would be
seized upon by the japanese as
an indication of hostile intent,
and it might easily be made the
subject of diplomatic inquiry-a thing
which would not for a moment be toll
Grated by our Secretary of State and
which might itself provoke a quarrel
The lack of proper coaling stations,
it is admitted by naval experts, would
be a serious handicap if we were
plunged into a war with Japan at this
time. Even GOLFERS are lacking in suf-
ficient numbers to properly coal the
feet. The only coaling stations in the
Pacific are at Cavite, 10000 tons ca
pacity; Guam, $500 tons; Samoa,
5000 tons: Hawaii, 10000 tons; Mare
Island, 10000; Puget Sound. 22,900 !;
Sitka, Alaska, 5000 tons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-04
SALOON NOT oUTLAwED.
Decision of Judge Christian Reversed
hX i sficas

by Supreme Justices.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has re-
yersed the decision in the ''Sopher case"
IN which Judge Ira Christian Of MOBILES
vile held that all the liquor laws of In
diana Were unconstitutional and that
saloon was a nuisance per sc. Judge Jor-
dan said, in deciding the case, that the
position of the State was wholly indefen-
sible. He went back to the common law
and showed that as early as 1888 the
English parliament had undertaken to IL
cense and control the liquor traffic. Com
ing down to Indiana he showed that as
early as 1907 a territorial law was passed
for the licensing Of taverns and dram
shops, and that this practice was contin-
ued under the first State constitution and
also under the second. While the over
throw of the statute of 1879" the decis-
ion continues, ''and the laws supplemental
thereto, such as the Nicholson law, the
Moore law, etc, on the peculiar and I'M
tenable doctrine advanced by counsel for
the State would no doubt be very crafty
ing to the latter and to those who con-
cur in their peculiar views, nevertheless,
it is manifest that such a result would
not conduce to the interest or furtherance
of the cause of temperance, for, as affirm
ed in Haggart VS.. Stehlin, it would oper-
ate to restore all persons to their unre-
stricted rights under the common law to
retail intoxicating liquors and all who
desire to engage in the traffic could do so
without regard to their fitness, or in
other words, absolutely unrestricted.
While all citizens of this State have a
perfect right to cry out or declare upon
the hastings or before the Legislature or
other assembled bodies that the liquor
traffic cannot be legalzed without commit
ting sin, and, while their arguments
might be sufficiently potent to persuade or
induce the Legislature absolutely to pro-
hibit the traffic, they could be of no avail
before a court which can neither make
nor unmake laws"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-04
Shark. from the Wires,

The Brazilian chamber has approved
the guarantee of the Sac Paulo coffee
loan of $15.000,000.
Advices from Washington, D. c., say
the prospects are that the treaty between
the United States of Colombia and the
Pepublic of Panama now being negotiat-
ed will not receive its final touches until
next autumn.
The plant of the Utica Drop Forge
and Tool Company Of Utica n. y, was
destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of
100000.
Gov. Blnly of Indiana addressed the
first synod of the West of the Young
Peoples Societies of the United Presby-
terian church at Pittsburg.
A plot to steal S50,000,000 from the
Russian government Office at Tschita,
where the money was kept for enterprises
in Siberia. has been discovered and thirty
Russians arrested. They had made tun-
mel 12O yards long from hotel to the
safe.
The Great Northern railroad at Duluth
has hung the last pockets on its rebuilt
No. 1 ore dock and has the largest ship
ping capacity of any ore port in the
world.
The entire saloon section of Morenci,
Ariz., was destroyed by fire. The loss ag-
gregates 100000. Twenty-seven build
ings were burned, with only $1,000 in
surance.
Fire at Christianburg, Va, destroyed
the foundry Of the Christianburg Chilled
Plow and Machine Company about 400,-
600 feet of lumber, the livery stable and
store of ]. S. Childress and two other
small buildings. Total loss $4,000.
Fire started in the Minnie Healy mine
at Butte, Mont, and the 800 miners en-
ployed there were got out with difficulty.
Bulkheads have been constructed TO keep
the fire from spreading.
Over 100000 was raised in Atlanta,
Ca, through the efforts of bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal church South, as a
nucleus for the erection of the Wesley
Memorial in that city.
A. V. Baunlann of Fremont, Ohio, and
A. H. Smith of Findlay, Ohio, began suit
in the Common Pleas Court at Findlay
to recover 100000 from w. E. Ma
thews and w. T. Picking of Bucyrus and
a dozen other parties, involving mining
deal in Parrol, n. NJ.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-04
pk,IICS%ak,
@PLITIeLANS

Winston Churchill announces that he
will not this year be a candidate for
Governor of New Hampshire.
Certain Wisconsin Republicans have
begun to organize with a view to present
ing Senator La Toilette to the national
convention as WiscoIsin's favorite son.
The two bills providing for a recan-
vass of the votes cast in the New York
mayoralty election in 1905, one of which
had been repassed by the Legislature, de-
spite Mayor McClellan's objections, and
the other passed to overcome some of his
objections by throwing upon the city the
cost of the recount IA districts suggested
by him, were signed by Gov. Hughes
with a notable memorandum. The Gov
ernor says that the failure to test the
correctness of this election canvass had
become a public scandal, and that wide
spread doubt existed as to the accuracy
of the count. He added that it must be
taken for granted that the ballots had
been preserved until shown otherwise. The
attorney for William r. Hearst, the con-
testing candidate, had already announced
that Mr.. Hearst would ask for a recount
in every election district in the city. The
canvass will be made under the authority
and direction of the Supreme Court.
} Senator Daniel of South Virginia says
that in his opinion geographical consid-
era lions ought to have nothing to do with
the selection of a presidential candidate.
His advice is to take the right man
from Anywhere-New England, the West,
the North, the South"
The public utilities bill has been signed
by Gov. Hughes of New York. This is
one of the most far-reaching reform
measures ever passed by an American
Legislature 1t places under direct State
control every public-service corporation
except the TELEGRAPH and the telephone.
The Endorsement of Senator Knox for
the presidency by the Harrisburg conven-
ton marks the organization Of Republic
can conservatives for the control Of the
national convention.
Pearl Wight of New Orleans, the Re
publican national committeeman of Lou
isiana, has accepted the position OF com
missioner of internal revenue, to become
effective On Dec. 1.
Representative John b. Bankhead OF
Alabama has been APPOINTED Dy Gov
Conner to the seat in tfe United States
Senate vacated by the Heath OF senator
Morgan, this to finish opt the unexplred
term until the Legislature meets.
President Roosevelt, referring TO the
rumor that he would becoItle the mead OF
Harvard University on bis retirement
from the presidency, recently SAID:
have no more idea of getting President
Eliot's place than 1 havd OF peing the
grand Llama of Tibet, or a, meoicine man
among the Apaches."
Washington rumors TO the effect that
Secretary Taft. on account of failing
health and overwork, was hoout 10 retire
from the presidential racet We're current
after the brief illness Of Il tie secretary az
st. Paul. They were not {conhrmed, now
ever and when Taft CAME up snlilns 20
continue his western touIS ne only smliaQ
when shown the reports3
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-04
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
NORTHERN NEGROES BARRED.
Nashville Trustees Declare "No-
tionso Unfit Them for Work.

A tacit conclusion has been reached by
the Nashville, Tenn, board of education
that only negroes born, bred and edu-
Gated in the South need apply for cleo
ton as teachers in the colored public
schools of the city. This action was
taken because negroes from the North
have motions" and "are not familiar with
southern traditions and sentiment" Man
ual training is to be introduced into the
negro schools, and among the applicants
for the position of supervisor were grad
yates of Harvard and other eastern uni
versities. One other applicant, big
southern-bred negro, was given the posi-
ton.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-04
FALLS; SEVEN DEAD.
Old building In New York Shaken
Down NV Subway Trains,

Old Building In New York Shaken
Down ny Subway Trains.
Seven persons, six of them members OF
one Italian family the Torchinos, were
killed in the collapse of a ramshackle ten
ement in the downtown Italian quarter in
New York. Three other members of the
same family, including the father and
mother, are in a hospital, painfully in
jured, but will recover. Cosmo Bellucci,
a ledger, was the seventh person killed.
There were some exciting scenes immedi-
ately following the accident, one of which
was the rescue of an old man from two
foot ledge forty feet from the ground,
this portion of the fallen building having
adhered to the adjoining structure long
enough to permit the firemen to get to
the scene, raise a ladder and take the
man, Jacob Reigler, safely to the ground.
Then it also fell into the ruins. The
collapsed building was four-story affair,
built over fifty years ago, and was at
Walker and Lafayette streets. 1t be-
longed to the Nose Taylor estate and for
some days has been in a dangerous con-
dition because of excavations for a new
building on the adjoining premises. 1t
had been shored up, but constant shaking
by subway trains a block away was too
much for it in it's weakened condition,
and it fell in.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-04
SUICIDES WIDOW CUTS THROAT.
Mother Perhaps Fatally Wounds
Bow and Girl,

Mrs. Peter johnson cut the threats of
her two children and her own in Formosa.
Kan. Her husband, wealthy stock and
grain dealer, killed himself three weeks
ago by drinking carbolic acid. She has
been acting strangely ever since. The
other morning she went into the kitchen
where her sister was getting breakfast.
Breakfast not being ready, she returned
to the bedroom, where her two children,
boy of 10 years and a girl of { years,
were asleep. Locking the door, she picked
up a water pitcher and struck the little
girl a blow on the head, breaking the
pitcher. Then taking a piece of the
broken pitcher, she cut each of the chill
dren across the throat. She then ran
upstairs and with piece of broken glass
cut her own throat, severing the wind
pipe. The children may recover, but she
will die.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-04
REDS HURL BOMBS,
Latest Outbreak of Russian Terror.
lists Occurs at Tihfs.

Ten bombs were hurled in Erivap
square, in Tifis, Trans Caucasia, explod-
ing with terrific force. Many persons
were killed and injured and the houses
over large area in the neighborhood
were shattered. The bomb horror is bur
another evidence of the growth of the
Russian revolution. Tifis is in the ex-
IRENE southern portion of the Russian
empire, not great distance from Baku.
on the Caspian Sea, the scene of the oil
riots, when many were killed, few years
ago.
There had been no signs of an outbreak
and the police and troops were taken
wholly by surprise. 1t was undoubtedly
the work of the terrorists, whose plots
and intentions were unlocked for.
Shortly after daybreak a crowd col
lected in Grivan square, apparently with
out cause. When commanded by the sol
diers to dispense there was no response
except the sudden reports OF the exploding
bombs. The noise was deafening. It was
more than an hour before the terrified
troops could be induced to return to the
square to begin the work of removing the
injured. The exact number of dead will
probably never be known, as many per-
sons were blown to such fragments they
can never be identified.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-04
All Around the Globe.

Charles Z. Nogt, local manager Tor the
American Tobacco Company, committed
suicide at Louisville, Ky. III health was
the cause.
Five men were killed by an explosion
in the plant of the Siflnemahoning Pow
der Manufacturing Company at SHINE
mahoning, Pa.
Alleging misapplication of funds, for-
mer State Senator T. W. Dallinger of
Cambridge, who is receiver for the Amer
lean Birth Insurance Company, brought
equity action in the Superior Court in
Boston against the officers of the COM
pany.
The government and the railroads are
West and Northwest next winter, by lay
ing in a large supply of coal at an early
date.
The jury in the case of the Uncle Sam
Oil Company, in which H. II. Tucker,
Jr., sought to have the receiver removed,
decided against Tucker at Leavenworth,
Kan.
The State Department has decided to
find another post for John Jenkins,
American consul at San Salvador, and
will send Samuel E. Magill, present con-
sui at Tampico, Mexico, to San Salvador.
4 receiver was appointed at Omaha
for the O'Donohue-Redwo Normile Dry
Goods Company. Marshall Field & Co.,
Pitkin & Brooks and Butler Brothers Of
Chicago are the largest creditors.
The jewel case lost by the dowager
Duchess of Roxburghe during a railway
Journey from London to Doncaster, Eng
land, June 10, was found intact in the
car where it had been mislaid.
John W. Yerkes of Danville, KY, who
recently resigned as commissioner Of in
ternal revenue of the United States, seri-
ously strained the hgaments Of his right
knee and sprained his right ankle at Gin
cinnati by slipping on stairway.
Sandy Edwards, Kansas City's boss
negro gambler, died at the city hospital
there from shots received in a quarrel
with Leon Jordan, a negro political boss.
Advices from Japan say that work has
been commenced at Kobe to construct
four great wharves, each 1,200 feet long
and 300 feet wide, with a space OF 420
feet between each. Nineteen large steam
ers will be able to berth at one time
The allegation that an agreement ex-
lists between the railroads carrying pas
sengers westward from New York to ex-
ercise unjust and unreasonable discrimi-
nation in Iares quoted to immigrants will
be investigated in New York City by the
interstate commerce commission.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-04
FINDS ROTTEN TIES.
KANSAS RAILROAD COMMISSION
Err MAKES INSPECTION.
Personally Walks over Stretches OF
Missouri Pacific Tracks and An
nounces Discoveries - Northern

Railroad Commissioner Charles A.
Ryker of Atchison, Kan, and a repre-
sentative of the press walked over the
Missouri Pacific tracks between Hutchin-
son and Yaggy, the first station west OF
there. In one mile, between mile posts
Nos 4S and 40, S07 rotten, broken and
weakened ties were found in the track.
In one rail length there were nine bad
ties out of seventeen, and hundreds of
spikes could be pulled out on mile of
track. Commissioner Ryker walked over
some of the Missouri Pacific tracks near
Anthony ON the Kiowa division and found
conditions worse than on the Hutchinson
division-two or three ties out of five
being bad. Ryker says the roadbeds of
both this and the Kiowa divisions are
very unsafe for heavy tonnage or for
rapid movement Of trains.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-04
Cincinnati Post.
UNPREPARED FOR WAR.
In Conflict with Japan Uncle sam
Might Lose Islands and Alaska.

The war-like attitude of Japan is
causing considerable anxiety among
officials Of the government and officers
of the navy who are familiar with the
absolute lack of adequate preparation
on the part of the United States for
hostilities.
1t is said that a declaration Of war
by Japan would be followed by the i'm
mediate loss of our Philippine posses
sions, Guam, Hawaii, Alaska and the
menacing of our Pacific coast.
The United States is to-day less pre-
pared to meet Japan in the Pacific
waters than Spain was on 1898 to meet
the United States. All the strength
of our fleet is at present in Atlantic
waters, and the small ships in the far
east would be as junk to the powerful
and well concentrated japanese navy.
The story is summed up In the bare
statement that to-day there is but one
drydock of capacity to dock battle
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-04
LAW IMPERILS CROPS
KANSAS PROTESTS TO INTER
STATE COMMISSION.
Railroads Do Not Now Make Favor
able Rates for Importation of Har-
vest Hands-Woman SIashes Sis

I. 3. Gerow, director of the free en-
ployment bureau of Kansas, has sent a
letter to E. E. Clark, a member OF the
interstate commerce commission. protest
ing against the manner in which he as
serts the Hepburn law interfered with the
sending Of harvest hands into Kansas.
Heretofore we have been able to send
five men in party at a low rate" wrote
Mr.. Gerow. Now we must have party
Of fifteen. Further than that. pay agents
are sending them from stations to places
where they are not wanted. Farmers are
telegraphing me about the trouble in get
ting men. We cannot afford to have our
wheat crop destroyed in this manner. /
wish to make my protest now"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-04
LONGEST STEEL BRIDGE.
New Hell Gate Structure to ID,
Three Miles Long.

Three Miles Long.
Another step in the progress of the
Pennsylvania railroads New York tunnel
extension was taken recently when plans
for the East river bridge of the New
York connecting railroad were submitted
to the municipal art commission for its
approval. This bridge will form part of
a steel viaduct more than three miles
long, connecting the New York, New Ha-
ven and Hartford railroad system in the
Bronx with the Long Island and the
Pennsylvania. 1t will be the longest and
heaviest steel bridge in the world Eighty
thousand tons of steel will be used in
it's construction. 1t will carry four rail-
road tracks imbedded in stone ballast so
as to render the structure noiseless.
Plans for the bridge over the waters of
the Hell gate show a steel arch span of
1000 feet between abutments. These
abutments are stone towers dividing the
arch bridge proper from the steel viaducts
that form approaches to it. The towers
will rise to a height of 200 feet and will
contain rooms needed for railroad opera
ton. The tracks themselves will be 40
feet above the water.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-04
AN UNDERGROUND GARDEN.
Indiana Man Proposes to Make Coal
Mine Produce Vegetables.

Mine Produce Vegetables.
Col. Frank B. Posey, who during last
winter experimental with an underground
garden in an abandoned coal mine near
Boonville, Ind, says that before another
winters winds blow he will have his gar
den producing radishes. onions, tulips,
habiscus and numerous other vegetables
and flowers.
He declares that he has already dem
onstrated that his underground garden is
success and not merely a dream. This
fall he will begin developing his plan on
a large scale and proposes to have gar
den truck" for his own table and the
tables of his neighbors and friends all
to be taken from the mine garden.
The plan of this garden presented it
self to Col. Posey two years ago when
he, together with Attorney W. z. Ben
nett of Boonville, bought up several hun
dred acres of hilly and broken land near
the little town of Yankeetown. 1t is on
this land that the mine is located He
believed that plant life would thrive I'M
der artificial light, and said so. Then
he proceeded to prove his theory and did
it by producing tulips and carnations,
which fourished and bloomed in the gar
den he laid out in the old mine.
In one of the old rooms of this aban-
doned mine Col. Posey arranged a bed
for the plants. The plants needed light,
so he arranged a small acetylene gas lamp
so its rays would fail evenly over the
bed Within a short time flowers were
growing rapidly, and in less than half
the time usually required for such vegeta-
ton to bloom, Col. Posey's dream" was
realized, and he was giving away flowers
to his friends in midwinter
An acetylene gas plant large enough
to supply light for an ordinary dwelling
will be installed in the mine and the
lights so arranged that they will distrib-
ute their rays equally over the ground in
which the plants are growing. Mr.. Posey
says that he will raise radishes, onions,
lettuce and other vegetables and various
kinds of flowers during the next winter.