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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
DAMAGE EY STORM.
Lives Are Lost and Crops In Many
Places Are Ruined.

Places Are Ruined.
Twenty-Five lives are reported to
have been lost and property damaged to
the amount of 100000 in a tornado
which swept over the southern part of
Minnesota, northern Iowa. the south
western end Of Wisconsin and a part
OF Illinois. Dispatches tell of deaths
in almost every point where the tornado
struck.
farmer, his wife and son were kill
ed near Mason City. Iowa, their home
being destroyed over their heads while
Green Bay, Wis, passenger train were
thrown over an embankment near Wi
mona, MINI, and three men were Sc
verely injured. The wind reached a
velocity'bf about ninety miles an hour
and was accompanied by terrific rain
and lightning. The village of Joice,
Iowa, was wrecked by the wind and
one person killed and many injured.
Twenty or more buildings were IN
rooted. At Marshalltown sexere
Windstorm, accompanied by hail, lev
eled corr, blew down loaded fruit trees,
and did much other damage. Shipping
at Clear Lake and many cottages We're
destroyed. A half dozen barns and four
and the roof was blown from the Cath
oIic church at Rockwell Many houses
were destroyed in Winona and the rosfs
were torn off twenty large factory
buildings. The lighting plant was
wrecked, leaving the town in darkness.
The power house Of the local street
car company was put out of commits
sion. The cars in the streets We're over
turned, and one Of them was carried
against the side of a store. Fronts of
the stores were blown in and the wind
carried all kinds of stock from the
shelves and counters
a severe hailstorm practically devas-
tated the corn crop in the western
townships of Peoria county, ILL.,, and
the east tier of townships in Knox
county. HailStones twelve inches in
circumference cut the blades from the
corn as leenly as if the stalks had been
trimmed with a knife. Thirty thousand
acres of corn is completely ruined. The
loss is estimated at $1,000,0G0 to corn
alone in Peoria and Knox counties. A
fifty-tive mile an hour wind blew dur
ing the storm. The large hailstOnes
broke hundreds of windows and the
strong wind uprooted trees and moved
farm houses and barns from their
foundations.
At Havana, H., Miss Margaret Lem
niger, 16-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Leininger of Mason City,
is dead, the result of being struck by
lightning during the storm. At Pana,
ILL.,, lightning killed Franz derson
and Frank McMullen. ! ProS&NyWalued
ut $4,000 was destroyed. Corn was
stripped by the heavy hail, barns burn
ed, and hay stacks thrown over the
fields. 4 terrific electrical storm, &C.
companied by a cyclone, passed over
Litchfeld, ILL.,, uprOoting trees and
causing much damage to buildings and
crops
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
Tne Sedau-Chair.

Perhaps some expert in the Siamese
language will tell us what is its word
for ''sedan-chair." When the King of
Slams minister, protesting against his
majesty's favor toward motoring, sug-
gested recently that 1.-THE royal sedan
chair" was always at his disposal, it is
improbable that he used a word remi-
niscent of the French town. For it is
from the scene of Napoleon His col
lapse that the sedan-chair takes its
name, and perhaps remote posterity
will suppose that it had some connec-
ton with that event But Sedan first
produced these conveyances centuries
ago, and they were seen in England in
1881. One used by James rs Bucking-
ham provoked great popular outcry
against the employment of men as
beasts of burden. Sir S. Duncombe is
edited with having introduced them
to London in 1854 And Bath knows
the PickWickian sedan-chair to this day
London Chronicle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
Notes of Current Events.

Women make big hit in Wisconsin as
real hired farm hands"
Secretary Cortelyou is at work pre-
pairing an authorized life of William Nc
Kinley.
New York surgeons restore the sense
of smell to patient by removing a piece
of the skull.
Clothes of some Americans at Ambas-
sador Reds reception aroused derision
of English tailors.
The tobacco plant has grown larger
and more profuse in the United States
than in any other country
Gov. Il. 3. Glenn of North Carolina is
to be one of the chief speakers at the an
nual dinner of the Brooklyn Democratic
Club at the Brighton Beach hotel on Aug
26.
Money is so plentiful in Chicago that
one man, arrested in Milwaukee. says he
picked up" $3.50 on the streets of that
city; another man strolls through the
levee with 1886 and is not molested.
In Texas a woman has the contract to
carry the mail from Kiffe to Siernal Hill.
and Georgia has a woman mail carrier
who travels 40-mile route tri-weekly,
besides managing large farm.
Nahum 2. Humphrey, 81 years old, OF
Springfield, Mass, claims to be the only
man now living who shook hands with
Gen. Lafayette when that worthy attend,
ed the dedication of the Bunker Hill
monument.
William L. King. western manager of
the Providence, Washington and presi-
dent of the Fire Underwriters Associa-
ton of the Northwest, died at Battle
Greek.
Rev. DR.. Charles Aked, pastor of John
d. Reckefeller's church in New York,
delighted in possession of his first citi-
zenship papers, scores England and COM
pares King Edward TO tomcat.
In a fight between men of the United
! tates battleship Maine and the conduc-
Tor of beach wagon" at Newport News,
Va, Garrett Walsh, fireman of the Maine,
wAs killed and Chief Master at Arms T.
+. Maddox and Chief Baker ]. Mackor-
man were injured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

The temperature of the atmosphere
cools on an average about 1 degree for
every 300 feet that we ascend or warns
at the same rate as we descend. The
mean temperature at the north pole is
0 and at the equator between so and
80 degrees. We can, therefore, get into
a temperature 1 degree colder for every
seventy or eighty miles that we travel
north and in a temperature 1 degree
warmer for every seventy or eighty
miles that we travel south.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
Press Opinions on
Standard Oil Fine

The one object Of the law under which
this fine is levied is to secure justice and
the protection of equal rights in transpor-
tation.-Philadelphia Press.
There IS at present no visible golden
lining to the cloud which seems to have
darkened the horizon of the Standard Oil
COMPREHENSIVE Plain Dealer.
Whether or not the Supreme Court sus-
tains the decision of Judge Lands in the
suit against the Standard Oil Company,
there can be no doubt that public opinion
viii sustain it.-Chicago Post.
The case was plainly enc in which, if
the law was to be upheld and punish
ment for its violation made deterrent, it
seemed necessary to resort to extreme
penalties Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Standard Oil Company, with its
practical monopoly of the market, has
only to raise the price of its commodity
a few cents a gallon, and the consumers
will pay the fne.-Detroit Free Press.
The people, intolerant of Furnishing by
method which inevitably reacts upon
themselves, will speedily see to it that
the individual criminals are punished by
incarceration.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The fine levied by Judge Lands will
have a valuable and far-reaching effect
in demonstrating the supremacy Of the
law over powerful and defiant aggrega-
tons of lawless wealth.-Chicag News.
The fact that the Standard Oil Com
pany finds itself face to face with a fine
sufficient to stagger any corporation must
have a SOLDERING and cleansing effect upon
the world of big business and high
finance. "-Cleveland Leader.
The most obvious comment on the bum
per fine imposed by Judge Lands on
the Standard Oil Company of Indiana is
that if the company deserves this maxi
mum penalty of the law, then there are
some of its officials or agents who de,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
Bad SYMPTOMS.

The woman who has periodical head
aches, backache, sees imaginary dark
spots or specks floating or dancing before
her eyes, has~gnawing distress or heavy
full feeling H stomach, faint spells, drag.
ging down feeling in lower abdominal or
pelvic region, easily startled or excited,
irregular or painful periods, with or with
out HIlvic cata9rh, is suffering from
weaknesses Heterogeneous that should
have edTy attention. Not all of above
symptoms aye likely to be present in any
case at one <ime.
Neglected or badly treated and such
cases bttkn run into maladies which de-
mana the surgeons knife II they do not
resItfatally.
No medicine ex.ant has such a long
and NUMEROUS -racQEdx OF cures IN SUCH
Gases as DR.. Heroes EaYQrife -RIescrll;
u294-- NO. medlelne has such strong
neutrality-suspicious. -lnnIte than any
11LQleE Of -QEqlnaEX nQQ,prQleSs lanal les:
UWOnIals. The very best ingredients
known TO medical science for the cure Of
woman's peculiar ailments enter into it's
composition. No alcohol, harmful, or
habit-forming drug is to be found in the
list of its ingredients printed on each
bottle wrapper and attested under oath.
In any condition of the female system,
DR.. Pisrce's Fayorite Prescription can do
only good-never harm. It's whole effect
is to strengthen, invigcrate and regulate
the whole female system and especially
the pelvic organs. When these are de-
ranged in function or affected by disease,
the stomach and other organs of digestion
become sympathetically deranged, the
nerves are weakened, and a long list of
bad, unpleasant sym ptorls follow. Too
much must not be expected of this va
vorite Prescription" 1t will not perform
miracles; will not cure tIfmors-no, med
icine will. 1t aO&LL often prevent them, II
taken in time, and thus the operating
table and the surgeons knife may be
avoided.
Women suffering from diseases of long
standing, are invited to consult Doctor
Pierce by letter, free. All correspondence
is held as strictly private and sacredly
confidential. Address DR.. r. V. Pierce,
Buffalo, N. Y.
DR.. Pierce's Medical Adviser 1000 pages)
is sent free on receipt of 81 ,one-cent
stamps for paper covered, or 81 stamps
for cloth bound copy. Address as above.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
NO RELIEF FROM ECZEMA

For Over Two Years-Patent Medi-
cines, Qunck Cures and Doctors
Fail-Cuticurn Succeeds.
Il was very badly afflicted with ecze-
ma for more than two years. The
parts affected were my limbs below
the knees. | tried all the physicians
in the town and some in the surround
ing towns, and l also tried all the pat
ent remedies that / heard of, besides
ak the cures advised by old women and
quacks, and found no relief whatever
until | commenced using the Cuticura
Soap, Cuticura Ointment, and Cuticura
Resolvent In the Cuticura Remedies
/ found immediate relief, and was soon
sound and WELL c. V. Beltz, Tippe-
canoe, Ind, Nov. 10, 1905"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
Correcting His Geography.

In the absence of the information edi-
tor, who was away on his vacation, this
question was referred to the manager OF
the country circulation department:
who wrote How Big Was Alexander,
PAP"
Il don't know" he said; ''but whoever
did it was away off in his geography
There's an Alexander in Illinois, one in
Iowa one in Kansas, others in Maine,
New York, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Texas, West Virginia, and Wyom-
ing, but if there's an Alexander in Penn
sylvania, by George, it isn't in the post
office directory"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

The minister's children were out in
the field one day, while visiting on 4
farm, when suddenly q ram came to-
ward them all ready to butt in" Lit
tie Arthur, aged 3, said to Dorothy,
aged 3, ooh, Dorothy, say your pray
ers,"
She said, 81 can't think of any," so
her brother told her to say any one
that she heard their father say. The
ram was getting closer, and in her
fright she said the only one she could
think Of.
20 Lord, help us to be thankful for
what we are about to receive
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
The Amateur Detective.

Said the man in the restaurant to
the other across the table:
"Ill bet you are a druggist"
"No; you're wrong"
"a chemist, then?"
Wrong again"
"a photographer?
This time you're right. How did you
guess it,"
ut was simple enough" was the an
swer. Il guessed it from the way you
held the vinegar cruet in making your
salad. You placed your little finger at
the bottom of the bottle. No one but
a man accustomed to measuring out
graduated and exact quantities does
that."-New York Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

For miles and miles the through pas
senger train has plodded along in tn
wake Of the slow freight The traveller
grow irksome and even petulant.
Conductor" says one of the bodies
of them, Why do you not get that freigh
to take siding while we go by it,"
Under the new Hepburn law" ex
plains the conductor sadly, 1--WE are no
allowed to pass anything. success Mag
azine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
The RetOrt Susanic.

Susan B. Anthony had addressed the
New York Constitutional Convention
in Albany in 1867, aad offered to an
swer questions.
you know the bullet and the bal
lot 90 together" drawled Mr.. Greeley.
"If you vote are you ready to fight?''
Yes, Mr.. Greeley" she replied.
Just as you fought in the late war
at the end of a goose-quilk'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

run down from $50 to 125 pounds.
was having terrible pain in the kid
neys, and the secretions passed almost
involuntarily. My left leg swelled I'M
til it was "a inches around, and the
doctor tapped it night and morning I'M
til l could no longer stand it, and then
he advised amputation. 1 refused, and
began using Doan's Kidney Pills. The
swelling subsidized gradually, the urine
became natural and all my pains and
aches disappeared. / have been well
now for nine years since using Doan's
Kidney Pills"
For sale by all dealers. so cents a
box. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, n. Y.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
Hotel KEYS.

81 suppose" said a guest, "a good
many forgetful people go off with hotel
keys?"
This will show YOU" said the clerk
And he took from a drawer the fol
lowing printed slip:
1.-THE manager of the Blank Hotel ac-
knowledges with thanks the return OF
key No. =, which Mr.. -, by oversight
carried away on departure"
SO many keys, the young man ex-
planned, were mailed by forgetful
guests it had been deemed advisable, as
Il time saving device, to have key ac-
acknowledgement printed.-New Orleans
Times Democrat
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
Greek-American Steamship Line.

The establishment of the first steam
ship line operating between Greece and
the United States was signalized by the
recent arrival in New York harbor of the
Greek ship Moraitis of the Hellenic
Trans Atlantic line. She is said to be
the first passenger steamship to visit
New York. and, incidentally, is the larg-
est merchantmen under Grecian colors.
She has cabin accommodations for 100
passengers and steerage quarters for
1000. Her capacity is 5000 tons and
her speed about fourteen knots. The
intention is to add two more vessels to
the line so as to give ten-day sailing
service in the near future.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

Owing TO its inability to obtain sufi-
Gent ships of American registry to han
die the heavy freight and passenger traffic
to the Isthmus of Panama, the United
States government has been obliged to
lease the British steamer Dunottar Cas-
tie for service in connection with the
Panama Railway and Steamship Com
many
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
New Homes An the West.

Send for free copy Of pamphlet con-
tanning synopsis of thea United States
homestead laws and information how
to secure quarter section of splendid
farming or grazing land free along the
new railway lines of the Chicago &
Northwestern Ry. In South Dakota,
Wyoming and other States. Special
excursion rates to homeseekers. Full
information on request to w. B. Knis-
kern, Passenger Traffic Manager, G. &
n. w. Ry, Chicago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
The Render Who skins.

a good work of fiction, whether in
prose or in verse-we are here speak
ing only of good works-is a work of
art and can be rightly enjoyed only by
entering into sympathy with the art
lists mind and accepting his work ac-
cording to his intention In a perfect
poem the place of every word, in a per-
feet novel the place, if not of every
word, of every episode and of every
paragraph, is important, and the reader
who skips throws away the pleasure
he has meant to derive from the har-
mony of composition, in which very
possibly the beauty of the whole may
chiefly consist, and despises the best
part of the artists labor. lie might as
we'll go to see a good play and then
willfully miss every alternate scene.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

forces organized against him and declar-
ed he would abandon Zion City and estab-
lish a colony of his own elsewhere.
Il shall abandon the old hulk and
she can sink for all of me-" declared
Yoliva as he was leaving the court after
his petition had been denied and the sale
Of the lace factory had been ordered.
1T is my purpose now to gather my
followers about me as soon as possible
and leave. When l go 1 will take big
following along to establish a new col
opvr
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15


says: Il had been
showing symptoms of
kidney trouble from
the time l was mus
tered out Of the ar
my, but in all my life
l never suffered as in
1897. Headaches, dir
Aness and sleepless-
ness, first, and then
dropsy. l was weak
and HELPLESS having
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

of ore handlers, will bring about far
reaching shortage of fuel at upper lake
points.
With the best of fortune and if all the
hopes of vessel men are fulfilled the re-
gion beyond the upper lakes will have a
shortage of from 100000 to 100000
tons of coal, according to estimates by
prominent shippers. Ohio shippers are
rushing fuel to upper lake ports in every
vessel they can charter. Since the open
ing of navigation shipments to the head
of the lakes have been considerably great
er than they We're wear ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

In the wreck of an excursion train at
Isle Station. about ten miles from But
Ter. Pa. on the Allegheny and Western
road, three persons were killed and over
a score more or less seriously injured.
A broken rail was the cause of the disas-
for
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

many of them were killed or wounded.
The CasabIanca battery joined in the
firing on the foreign warships, where
upon the guns of the French and Span
ish cruisers were turned on the battery,
which soon caused the Moorish COM
mander to send a messenger to the
French admiral requesting his pardon.
This was refused, and the admiral sent
a peremptory order to the Moorish
commander to surrender himself to the
French consul.
Morocco has warned all foreigners
to leave Rabat, the seaport on it's west
coast, as massacre is believed to be
i1nminent Europeans are terror
stricken because of the threat of the
Nfoors that all Christians are to be
massacred in what is believed will be
the greatest holy war in the worlds
history.
Orgies In Holy War.
The declaration of holy war such as
has just broken out in Casablanca, Mo-
rocco, with the murder and torture of a
number of Christians, or Nazarenes, as
the Mohammedans derisively call the
whites, is a periodical event in northern
Africa.
1t is always attended with fanatical
orgies of the widest kind, and the life
of Christian failing into the hands
of the religions crazed mob is not worth
q straw. Death is not enough, either,
and the most atrocious indignjties are Wis
tied upon the bodies of the ''infdel.''
Travellers who have witnessed the be-
sinnings of holy wars" say that the
scenes attending them are weird and
thEilling. The wlrite-robed fanatics with
coal black faces, blazing eyes and barred,
white teeth, dash hither and thither
through the narrow streets, sometimes
shrieking curses at Christians and their
religion, changing to a chant of passages
from the koran and finally throwing them,
selves 20 the ground with their faces to
the east, and praying to Allah and Mo
manned his prophet.
In these frenzies there is no deed that
they will not perform; holy war enthu
siast would alone charge a regiment of
white soldiers and die with a smile of
JOYOUS happiness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
Got Mixed.

Alice-She's angry. Kate-Why
Alice-He asked her for a lock of her
hair. Kate-Well? Alice1Then, aft
erwaTd, she asked him to send it back
to her. Kate-Well? Alice-And he
sent her lock that wasn't the right
color.-Somerville Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

The most difficult part of the coal
dust problem is to discover what ele-
ments must necessarily be present NJ
a coal to make the dust dangerous.
Some experiments have been carried
on with this end in view, but the re
suits obtained have not been particu-
larry enlightening
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
Railroad Death List.

According to the accident bulletin re-
Gently issued by the Interstate Commerce
Commission 621 passengers and employees
were killed in train accidents on the rail
roads of the United States during che
three months ending March 81.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
Clever Scheme

my new play is sure to make hit, -
said the popular actress. 1T gives me
an opportunity to display twenty new
gowns"
My" exclaimed her friend. How
many acts?"
only four, but in one Of .hem the
scene is at the lressmaker's. The Cath
Ollie Standard and Times
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

Charles Bradley, 80 years old, met
death while stealing a ride on Lehigh
Valley freight train at York, Pa. His
clothes ignited from a spark from the To-
connective. He fell between the cars and
was crushed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
VOLIVA TO LEAVE ZION.

Says VIII Take Big Following and
Build n New City.
Refused the granting of his petition
that he be appointed by Judge Lands of
the United States District Court a CO.
receiver with John c.. Hately, now in
charge of Zion City property, and I'M
needed in his protests against the sale of
Zion City lace industry, Overseer Wilbur
Glenn Voliva, who usurped John Alexan-
der Dowie, asserted his defiance of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

81 told her her bulldog was the most
what did she say?"
''She said l wouldn't say that If her
husband was present"-Houston Post
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

District Attorney Jerome of New York,
who is suing W. r. Hearst for S250,00o
for libel, refused in court to reveal the
names of the contributors to his cam
paign fund in 1905.