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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
CRIME WAVE AT BELOIT.
Six Little Children Assaulted There
Within a. Week.

Within a. Week.
The citizens of Beloit are aroused over
the number of assaults that have been
committed recently on young children. The
latest outrage was against Hazel Harvey,
the 6-year-old daughter of G. X. Harvey.
The other night she was attacked by an
Italian laborer near Turtle Creek. When
the little girl returned home she was cry
ing, but it was not until the following
day, when she was confined to her bed,
that she told the story to her mother. The
physician who attended the case says that
to his knowledge it is the sixth assault
on young children that has occurred in
Beloit this summer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
400 LOSE THEIR HOMES.


$500" Railway Secures Most of Com
nor's Point, Only Outlet to Duluth
By deeds filed the other day the holding
company of the 800" line has gained
possession of all the available land on
Connor's point, the only outlet from Su-
perior to Duluth. The point is now all
owned by railroads except the city dock
and the ground on which a public school
stands. A population of over 400 will
have to seek homes elsewhere. The Great
Northern and Northern Pacific roads own
the remainder of the land.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
FALL IN A FIGHT Is FATAL.

COmbntant Knocked Into Hold of n
Steamer-Adversary Arrested.
Joseph Krantz died at st. Francis hos
pital in Superior as the result of a fall
into the hold of the steamer Kensington,
on which he was a fireman. Krantz and
J. w. Brown, an oiler, of Sarnia, Ont,
engaged in a dispute and Brown strucl.
Krantz, knocking him into the hold.
Brown is under arrest and will be charg-
ed with manslaughter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19

pubics legislative
taken into account and the farrean enees OF
with and intelligent understanding OF the comPGauos m d
believe Will un lie
further prosperity The moment that investors nave e
will that road again with full pace But we are 10 &
theories which will amount the conhscaon OF properly rn I'VE e
thing wanted first and the OF the ana arr
believe possible that the whoe
structure be facing danger the proportion OF wcn
he exten of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19


establishments themselves Tue
industrial
view to securing control the inspection cae S
investigation OF soils IN
eral the and disposition uoe On
the few fancstoc the the making Of
the making cities and countries primary TOT s
testing of coal for ne nent VI
oil the Tree teSUng Oh ou,hs na
tea for the individuals contractors and e
that nonnav1gabe and where
Federal benefit OF prospective
business methods
viduas and other UNDERTAKINGS
do
Federal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
"A Great Timber
Famine is Imminent
By Clifford PinChot, Chief Fores
the United States
j eff Forester Of

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to appear a control OF
Of
SE31
gong o be o inb
profitable
effect President Roosevelt awake the situation
the benefit the people rather than all
needed and created million national forest
qun excessive price of lumber curious to find good honestly
say it raising the lumber the consumer It the general
this proved the fact
many.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
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Surrenders Of State Rights
IN the Federal Government
BY Hon. John A. Tawney Chairman
House Appropriations Com nittee,

He recent surrender southern States
eminent of the the right reserved to them by the
constitution control regulate local quarae'
of quarantine
ractica surrender State of Maryland OF sovereignty
over her oyster the State might be relieved OF
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
81 81 81
Prosperity Depends
Upon Sanity
By ce-President Vander1ip, Of the
National City Bank. New York.

inherent the conditions of agriculture
the United States that wE'uie
further disturbance and depression
that should lead toward con
tinued prosperity accomplishments Throughout
the fields of industry business of the coun
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
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Our Appalling
Industrial Death-Roll
Bv Edgar T, Davies, Chief Fs
spector of Chicago.

SPtCtOf
HE United States Justly the reproach of permitting
tho most reckless waste of human civilized country
in the world This is amply sustained by our own
statistics Other which have completely
orpped in the worlds business have considered
REGULATION of dangerous trades machinery positive
We have done practically noun
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19

that
conditions be public aroused ta proper
of with prom
United States somewhat inflated WIN an
times of to keep abreast OF n
according 10000 people than all VINO
civil
killing industrial accidents over I per
implements of death which modern INVENTION
has nducd
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
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Society Qn0 the Home.
BY Marv Stewart Cutting.

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rights in winch
certain justice seems
to deathdealng to
itself ON the
all social life
in the
No who to such house gets e
There nothing to geoq could get the same b IN naot
which shows to be the real thing and powa
family generate some spiritual g M
because she is deghu
home Harpers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20

crats are as inthrested in tn control iv this gover'mint as we are, though no5 to be trusted with it, in openin
 this campaign fir me retiremint, 1t gives me gr-reat pleasure to see such a magnificent an enthusyastic assim- blaze. It shows that Ye'er ready to begin tn fight that l hope will end next Noyimber in me triumphant ellie tion 1ong an continyued cheering) as prisidint iy De Paw university (laugh- ter). Forchnitely, we have eXcillint prisidintyal timber in tn republican party. There's me Sicrety iv State, MT. E. Root. (Groans.) We will neft pass lightly on to w. Taft. He's an eXcillint good fellow, Bill Taft. Ye must know that or l wud niver have made him me sicrety iv war an give him letter to carry to me impeeryal brother, tn Mikydoo There's two I've named. There are many others. 1 can't recall thim, but there are. There's Fairbanks. Disturbance in the au- ieence.) He's been our vice-prisidint fir four years, an good kind, funny looking poor old thing he is, too. He has a failing, as ye all know. But there are few iv us perfect. Tn
 throuble with him is that tn very smallest amount goes to-but why mention 1t. I wasn't aware iv it whin l lunched with him an see him shaking mixer of cocktails in each hand like minsthrel performer play in tn bones. He says now I made tn iniquitous but agreeable bev'rage. I don't blame him. Poor fellow, he f'rgits. But I wish to say to me tim prance frinds here assimbled that if Chuckling Charley Fairbanks shud be ilivated to tn prisidincy we will all turn in an do our best to keep him away firm that pernicious fluid that biteth like an asp and stingeth like an adder those that don't take it. If nic- issry secret sarvice officers cud be kept in tn white house an whin he begins to take cough medicine or cal isaya, lock him up till tn craving has past Indeed. I have great hopes that he may masther tn habit yet
 "I have now given ye ivry reason know why ye shud cast ye'er impeer- val suffrage fir amy iv these men. will now speak g wurrud iv advice to ye. To tn mimbers iv tn grand army iv tn raypublic befure me I say don't pc co" iuo, "edhlH6S dn HlllhsopS. If l had had weaklinks with me at San Joon hill, tn first great military ac- tion iy our counthry's histhry, how few wud've come up an jined me on tn
 top iv that mim'rable hump. To tn
 mothers befure me I say bring up yeer boys to keep on a fighting edge don't mean tn kind iy fighting edge boy cud get at Charley Fairbanks house, but that kind iv sober, pru. dent, sane, ay-another-wurrud- I'll-giye-y -whacki -the-eye attichood that with tn other things I have been able to do in too-imited pee ryod has made Us tn nation we are. I now arrive aat tn main point iv me argymint, an ask ye to give me ye'er
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
''There's Fafrbanks-a good, Kind. fnnny-look ing poo, old thing he is, too-he has a
 fafLfn', as ye all knoqu-But
quhy mention ft2'

on'y beat him enough to show him he's in counthry now where tn state is supeeryor to tn church, he says. He ixpicted to see stout man with a pink face an side whiskers, wearin' knee brooches an an apron; but, instead iV that, a tall, nimble athlete jumped over tn fence, flung his cassock an beretta in a corner iv tn yard, haanded his crozier to Sicrety Loeb, an cried: Come on, an tn divvle take-I mane Hiven detind tn right
 Well, can't give ye all tn details iv tn bloodthirsty encounter, as l read thim in tn pa-aper. I'm not up on lawn tennis There hasn't been a tennis coort used in Arehey Road since I don't know whin. We have thim, iv coorse, but no wan uses thim. They're always full iv tn weeks washin', or somebody is beatin' carpets in thim, or tn COW is lyin' down in thim. In this part iv tn wurruld lawn tennis wudden't be recreation fir us afther tn
 labors iv tn week. Afther jugglin' steel girders f'r six days a man needs a hard days rest, an he gets it be run min two-mie races, playin' futball fir four hours at time or hoistin' eights iv beer with wan hand. But lawn ten his must be a grand tough sport or Tiddy Rosenfelt wudden't like it. I'm | goin' to advise tn young hammer toss CTS an shot putters in this spoortin' neighborhood to whitewash their over alls an take it up. It must be a good healthy exercise whin mans thurly tired out, an if yeer opponents game don't suit ye, tn net is niver so high that ye can't jump over it. Tn way it is played is that wan man in white flannel pants knocks a ball at another man in white flannel pants. an tn other man tor lady) knocks it back. an Clarence sinds it over again an Perry returns it to him. an so on till 'tis time f'r dish iy tea. That's all l know about it, but it sounds ex- citing. Annyhow, in this here test iv brute strength, manly courage an
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
OPINIONS OF THE HOTEL CLERK


, fiectively "as long as he wears the honored but inexpensive uniform of our republic he has almost unparallel- ed opportunities for being insulted by large numbers of people who would treat him very kindly if he only had on overalls or plush vest or one of those classy London-made tweed suits that never touches the wearer any where except when he sits down and then only in one place"
 q think we ought allus to show proper respeck for the uniform" said the House Detective, just to make con versation.
 "So do I. if it's policeman that's wearing it." said Mclean. T know
 better than not to. A policeman al most invariably has the advantage in
 repartee in this town. A man who doesn't think so and goes out to prove it is generally found with his nose cooked jauntily over the left ear and his scalp slipping down in his eyes, riding to Bellevue in one of those i wagons that has light-hearted young man in a white suit sitting in the back end picking his teeth with a scalpel
 "On the whole it seems to me the populace remains ca'mmer in the pres ence of a uniform than it used to.
 Maybe that's because they're com- moner now than they were when the standing army consisted of Winfield Scott and two regiments, and was so called because the lnjuns on the from tier never gave it chance to sit down. But at present they're abolish ing uniform in penitentiaries and
 adopting em everywhere else. You meet young half-portion of under
 done yeal that's all garnished up with brass mushrooms and gold-plated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20

swallow Of sc.nething out of a da, k complected boltle that will bring out the precipitation on him almost instant ly. This s.stcm has proved so sue cessfuI that in some places tn ,yve utilized the site where the cauteen used to stand fci an addition to the guard house.
 His superior officer is likewise striving constantly to keep him from breeding and idleness. When he isn't occupied with strictly military duties, like currying the colonel's horse, he finds that his thoughtful commander has kindly arranged on his behalf a series of congenial diversions suitable for willing away the leisure hour, such as carrying out ashes and minding the kitchen stove and neiping with the wash of a Monday morning, and may be taking the second lieutenant's baby out in it's perambulator when the hired girl has an afternoon off. Once or twice year he is given treat in the shape of trip.
 He is equipped with a nine-pound gun and blanket and rubber sheet and part of a tent and a small portable range and a pic kand shovel and two weeks rations and a couple of thousand rounds of ammunition and few other trihing knick-knacks of that descrip- tion, the whole making a neat load that a humane man would hesitate to put on a mule And then he is allowed to march about 30 miles day while his officer rides alongside of him on a eommodious horse and encourages him to step lively. He returns from this pleasant outing with the bottoms of his feet looking like the stops of an organ, refreshed and invigorated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20

strips of fried tripe, and you don't know whether it's paymaster of state militia, wearing an undress uniform that was designed by Gen. Nelson A. Miles, or the third deputy second man at the Millionaires' club. A truly gorgeous creature in robins egg blue confection, spangled with silver, and epaulettes like pair of Christmas gift hair brushes and cooked hat suf fering from parrot-cage rash. which is an eruption of red tail feathers, may be either a member of the governors staff or an outside puller-in for pain less dentist down in Fourteenth street So you cant be too careful.
 Anyway, l think maybe it's the rank that counts. Almost any little boy up at West Point is apt to be popular with fair sex because it's an open secret that if he passes the final examinations in hazing and tight-lac- ing and learns how to insult civilian properly he will some day be handed commission entitling him to almost as much salary as bricklayer's help gets. But have you ever heard that the letter carrier had to ask for police pfotectlOH IrOm young WoHlen diOnS the route who was fascinated by the sight of his natty gray regalia? And if any of the society girls have been halting street car to beg the motor man for somme of his brass buttons to wear on their bangle bracelets it has entirely escaped my attention"
 You was talllin' about young men soin' in the army" prompted the House Detective.
 50 I was said the Hotel Clerk What made vou interrupt me? As was about to say. strong efforts are being made to induce the nativeborn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20

sons to rally round the flag. But num- Great concern is being felt at Wash ington because so many privates have fallen into the deplorable habit of stepping off the reservation for a min nte on a dark r,eht and forgetting to come back for two or three years. A commission headed by General Gree ley, who once started for the north pole but was detailed has been Investigating the matter. The other day this commission filed a condensed report of 10000 words and then sprinkled fresh moth balls on itself and climbed back to it's niche in one of the bureaus Of the war department or maybe it was a campi, or chest-and instantly fell asleep again.
 Heavens knows what it is that in- spires these ungrateful young men to go off so often that way and fail to leave word where they may be reach ed Everything hss been done for them. A lot Of kind-hearted ladies took away from them the horrible temptatioi of the still more hOrr olc cautcen so that they could no longer spend their tv, Il g.s in frightf1l co- bauchery. st rl,times drinking as h leh ,s two glasses of beer and often play ing the loathsome game of seven up for five cents corner, until as late IS 9:3o o'clock Under the new ar ,ange- mcnt the enlisted man has the option ot sitting alongside his bunk n tie cosy barracks and playing Simon .say.s- wig.wag with hs toes, or. if he see's like he needs exercise, he can sin away to the snug little retreat V hich is now 10 he found nestling in the shadow of every army post and set a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
DISCUSSES ARMY SITUATION


gallant private called upon his regi- mental commander to receive a hero's reward. Did he get it? He did The colonel looked him over and then he said to him:
 My good man, the cruel war is over. You have done well. I may say that I have done well, tco. The hon. ors of the campaign have been proper ly divided. l have been moved up nine points and some day when all the family doctors that served in the Rough Riders have been provided for, I'll be brigadier, while you have a touch of Cuban .janders and Mauser button hole through one of your shoul- der blades. Tomorrow we return to barracks. You will kindly surrender that bayonet and those cartridges be- cause you won't be needing them any more where you're going. You will take your orders in future from my wifes cook. Tell me, do you know anything about the care of young chill dren?-mine is a growing household. And have you much experience in clear starching? I hope you d opiain sewing If not, I'll have you excused from drill until you learn.
 We'll don't private get his $l4 a month whether he works or not? ask ed the House Detective.
 Somewhere around that gratifylnsI sum-" said the Hotel Clerk. lie ought to be satisfied, pampered crea- ture that he is. but have theory or my own that the ratio of desertionsl will be kept up as long as the privatel soldier knows that under the present| things for private family in nat. II he can get s25 month doing the sameI scale of wages for domestic servants.|
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
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Mr. D00ley's Philosophy
Mir. DOOIey on the Presidents Activities

mental cunning, tn pa-apers say Tiddy Rosenfelt was no match fir tn bishop. His grace give him his blessing an half-fifteen, whativer that is, an bate him till he was black an blue, ac- cordin' to tn pa-apers.
 But don't believe it. It ain't thrue. 'Tis a device iv tn plutocratic press to discredit our foremost athlete, not barrin Jeffreys. No man will convince me that Thaydore Rosenfelt isn't tn greatest all-round, give-or-take-ten- pounds lawn tennis warryor iv tn wurruld. He cud ba1c all the bishops between here an Connought an throw in tn college iv cardinals with thim. II cant be thrue. Who iver heerd iy a bishop playin' tennis, annyhow? I'd as lave believe that wan iv thim was seen goin' down to tn cathedral on a motor cycle or that his grace iv New York had won tn hundherd-yaard dash at tn Gallic-American games. There must be some place where we'll have tn best iv tn clargy. If they're goin' to join in our sinful spoorts, an bate us at thim at that, where do we stand as sinners? If they're goin' to come down an teach Us tn evil iv our ways iv lobbin', what are we goin' to get out iv life, says I. How am I goin' to be sorry fir things I do, if they're right? No, sir, it ain't thrue. Tiddy Rosen- felt is still champeen lawn tennis player, an I'm goin' to post twinty-fiye dollars with tn spoortin' iditor iv me fayrite journal that he can bate tn Archbishop iv Canterbury in limited number iv rounds, or to a finish, pray CTS fir success not barred
 If he'd been beat at lawn tennis he'd be in retiremint now an his res ignation wud be in tn hands iv Con- gross. Instead iv that, he is out west sayin' last fond farewell to his fel- low citizens. A few months firm now he'll retire to tn peace an quiet iv domestic life. An to cillybrate his re. tiremint he's made a hundherd ringin' speeches, shook hands with five hun dherd thousand citizens an kissed a millyon babies. An whin Thaydore Rosenfelt kisses a baby, thousands iv mothers in all corners iv tn land hear tn report an tn baby knows it's been kissed an bears tn hon'rable scaar through life. Twinty years firm now tn counthry will be full iv young fel- lows lookin' as though they'd grajated firm German college.
 ''It's been a sad occasion this lave tallin' iv faithful servant to his sub ticks. At tin o'clock tn prisidintyal thrain comes in to tn deepo, where a vast assimblage iv sorrowin' people are gathered. They show their grief be sobbin': Good boy Tiddy.' We want ye again Down with tn thrusts,' an other signs iv grief As he steps off tn thrain a band plays: T cannot make me eyes behave, an a crowd iv sym pathetic citizens take tn horses off square. where he makes pathetic speech: Fellow citizens, fellow ray publicans, fellow dimmycrats. f'r bar none in me sympathies, an dimmy-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20

, for the calesthenic exercises necessary
 to chopping the adjutant's fire wood l for the winter
 Larry, if they'd only come to me could have given General Greeley the ] proper steer. I would have told him , that to make the enlisted man content ed with his lot he ought to get up a 1 little war for him every now and then.
 Tn times of war we all think well of the common soldier. He marches
 away under triumphant arches of nod 1 ding flowers. To be sure, we leave i the arch there after the flowers fade
 so we'll have something handy to lynch
 him on if he should have the bad taste to come limping home at the close Of 1 the hostilities nursing selfish ambl- | ton to get his name on the pension
 roll But While the war lasts he's l hero.
 You remember how it was the year
 we committed breach of the peace with Spain. Nothing was too good 1 for the private soldier then. The em- balmed beef inquiry showed that. | Every girl felt it her patriotic duty to strip him of his brass buttons for the I front of her shirt waist until the sane l and conservative safety pin got to be a part of the regalia of every soldier | hurrying to the front That was the i only summer can recall when the l raw-rawraw boy had to wear his own fraternity pin. all during vacation But one day the news came that 1 Spain's seasoned veterans had sur rendered and would go back home and re-enter the Boys High school. Cuba was free at last, and as you may have
 noticed she's been pretty free ever since, at times almost insultingly so. l The next day or the day after the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20

a Monday morning there is someth g humorous in being soaked for $29,- 000, ,000 He realizes if MT. Rockefeller
 can neither stay" ,nor pay" his fine that it will take him seven thousand years to Hay" it out. And that's d long time on the stone pile.
 Mir. Rock efeller himself proves his real Americanism by seeing the humor of the situation and by being able to get from 1t lesson with general ap- plication. On next Sunday morning, 1t is said, he will talk to his Bible class- the biggest, we believe, in the United States-on The Moral Value of Little Things" using for his text the old adage, Large fines from little rebates grow"
 Judge Landis, on the other hand, be- lieves that oil men were created evil. and that to the maximum trust belongs the maximum fine. He has certainly done his work well, for, no matter what tse supreme court may one day declare, rebating is hardly likely to be display ed among the popular fall styles