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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-28
RUN OUT SQUATTERs.
DRASTIC ACTION BY CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE.
Com mfttee Formed in Goldheld, New.
and Lot Jumpers Chased from
Town-Church and Two Storef
Blown Up in Indiana.

The chamber of commerce in Goldfield
New. the other day gave warning TO al
lot jumpers that they would have to ceass
operations or get out of town. At day
light squatters moved on a lot at the
corner of Main and Hall streets, where
the owner had already begun excayatins
for a four-story freproof building. A
cabin was hauled ON the ground and n
armed guard established TO keep off TIT
contractors. A fence was thrown aroune
the place. which cost the owner last weel
$4,000, and the jumpers asserted theil
right to $1,000 as the price of a compro
mise. An emergency meeting of the cham
Der of cammerce was called and at
O'Clock in the afternoon 200 members
marched to the corner under the leader
ship of Dick Colburn, first vice president
of the chamber. At the word of command
the entire body rushed at the jumpers
threw them into the muddy street and
then proceeded to relieve the lot of the
cabin. 10 by II structure, which was
rolled out into the street. The jumpers
were then lined up by the brokers and
told that if they attempted to repeat op-
erations they would be escorted down the
road and shown the trail across the des-
ert In the attacking force there were
ten millionaires. most of whom had suf
fered from some Matchmaking tactics. The
movement has the sympathy of the sheriff
and county constable. who watched the
proceedings. During the past week there
have been daily complaints of jumpers
who are taking advantage of the fact
that tho title IN tho TOWN site is in dis
pute. The vigilantes have issued an or
der that further attempts will meet with
drastic punishment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-28
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
S40O to 500; hogs prime heavy, 800
to $7.17; sheep. fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, 73c to 74c; corn,
No. 2. 42c to 43c oats, standard. SIC to
SOC; rye, No. 2, &c to Csc; hay, timo-
thy, $500 to $1,000; prairie, $500 to
S14.OO; butter, choice creamery, 2Sc to
33c; eggs, fresh, 23c to 21c; potatoes,
35c to Acc
Indanapois-Ca shipping. $500
to $500 hogs choice heavy, $500 to
S1.O5; sheep, common to prime. $3.50 to
1928; wheat, No. :, 13c to Toe; corn.
No. 9 white, 45c to 46c; oats, No. 2
white, 40c to 42c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to 1918;
hogs, $500 to $7.15; sheep, $3.50 to
1913; wheat, No. 2, TIC to 7Sc; corn,
No. 2, 42c to 44c; oats, No. 2, 39c to
41c; rye, No. 2, 64c to 65c.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 to 1913;
hogs, 800 to $7.15; sheep, $500 to
Sj.25: wheat, No. 2, 7Sc to Zoe; corn,
W. 2 mixed, 45c to acc; oats, No. 2
mixed, 41c to 43c; rye, No. .. tic to
73c.
$500 to S7.1O; sheep, $3.50 to 500;
wheat, No. 2, 76c to Tic; corn, No. 3
yellow, 45c to 47c; oats, No. 3 white,
42c to 43c; rye, No. 2 Csc to 69c.
Wheat, No. 2 northern,
TIC to soc; corn, No. 3, 41c to 42c;
oats. standard, Csc to 40c; rye, No. /,
&c to Csc; barley, standard, Gee to &c;
pork, mess, S16.90.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $615 hogs, fair to choice $500
to $780, sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $40; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $S.15.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $3.50:
hogs, $500 to $50; sheep, $500 to
5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, Sic to &c;
corn, No. 2, SIC to soc; oats, natural
white, Acc to sic; butter, creamery, 32c
to SAC; eggs, western, 23c to &c.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 75c to
Tic; corn. No. . mixed 44c to 45c;
oats. No ? mixed. 40c to 42c, rye. No.
9, 65c to &c; clover seed, prime, SS.22.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-28

celebrity with which they moved men,
food, ordnance, ammunition and horses
to strategic points was unequaled since
the great Napoleon's time. With this
advantage was coupled dash and pa
triOtiSm to which the Russians are
strangers and which added immensely
to the morale of the Asiatic soldiery.
Their superior intelligence also count
ed at every shift in the field The
craftsmanship of the Japanese was
wonderful and their utter disregard of
death another attribute.
When the carnage was fearful at
Liaoyung, where much depended upon
the SteadinesS of the Russians, Il charge
by the Japanese against Gen. Orlcff's
corps of 10000 men sent them flying
long before the brown men got within
bayonet range and this turned into a
complete rout, the Russians throwing
their rifles and accOutrements away in
mad stampede to get to safety. Not
in any war in which Russia has en-.
gagged did her soldiers show the timid-
ity they did in this.
Then the general complains of the
lack of obedience on the part of officers
and men. Generals of divisions refused
to obey his orders at times, and this
was followed down the successive
grades to the private, the reasons as
signed being that the changing of the
columns of the enemy rendered the or
der abortive when it reached them. On
the japanese side the discipline was of
the highest, about perfection, and it is
unrecorded where officer or private, no
matter how desperate the task, ever
baked in its execution. He places ia
pan far ahead of any other nation in
her SOldiery and, on equal terms as to
numbers, superior to that of any other
nation.
The general closes his survey of the
cause of the defeat of the Russians
with the pathetic reflection that if Rus
STA had been united and ready to make
the sacrifices necessary to safeguard
her dignity and integrity, the valiant
Russian army would have striven till
the foe was Subdued"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-28
NEW YORK.

Actual trade and industrial develop
ments are quite generally favorable, bet
ter weather conditions and the easing of
the railroad blockades being largely in
Strumental in this direction. Jobbing
trade in the spring and summer fabrics
has expanded at the East. at leading
southwestern centers and at prominent
southern markets. Better reports also
come from the Northwest, where the rail
roads are winning out of the snow block
AIDES, and on the North Pacific coast.
where the car congestion is less acute and
preparations for spring trade are noted.
Collections are still irregular. but tend
to slowness, as retail trade in winter
goods is largely over and spring business
has hardly begun. Retail stocks of win
ter goods have been well reduced, how
ever.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending Feb. 20 number III.
against 204 last week 1876 in the like
week of 1906 go in 1905, 300 in 1904
and 1Sj in 1903
Wheat. including flour, exports from
the United States and Canada for the
five days ending Feb 20 aggregated
2.932, 491 bushels. against $500. 139 last
week, 1851 ,O6S this week last
year, 923,022 in 1905 and 5000, 49, in
1902. For the last thirty-four weeks of
the fiscal year the exports are 11S.S16, 100
bushels, against 92.27S. 1876 in 1906, A.
800, 4SO 10 1904-5 and 17S.195, 104 in
1902. Corn exports for the week are
1,6SS,63S bushels, against 1,997.720 last
week, 4,4O3.OO1 a year ago and 1897 ,0S1
in 1903. For the fiscal year to date the
exports are 39.3231 100 bushels. against
S0,635,655 in 1906 and 42,2O1 1852 in
Observation-Disclosures Report.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-28

ed until she broke in two and every
soul on board was carried down. The
steamer apparently struck about arid
ships, as her forepart broke off and
sunk Immediately, while her afterpart
could be seen for a considerable period
of time afterward.
The waterway in which the disaster
occurred is new one On the north side
of which is the pier and railroad sta
ton. The steamer must have been
within a few minutes of tying up after
her rough passage across the North
Sea when she was overtaken by the dis
aster. Land was but a few yards away
and except in the toughest weather
those on board the Berlin could have
been rescued without difficulty, especial
ly as the waterway is navigable at all
tides.
The Berlin was steel steamer, only
twelve years old, and popular with
travellers to the north of Europe. In
summer she usually was crowded with
passengers, but at this time of the year
her average was about as it was We'd
nesday night, the number being equally
divided between first and second class.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-28
WHY WAR WAS LOST.
KourOpakin BIames His Generals for
B1unders In Every Crisis


Blunders In Every Crisis.
General Kuropatkin's History Of the
Russo-Japanese War which was con-
fiscated by the Russian government. has
at last become accessible despite the
most extreme precautions to prevent
this CALLING official Indictment from
reaching the public.
AS the commander-in-chief of the
Russian armies in this encounter he
claims he was hampered by the CLIQUE
in st. Petersburg which insisted on
their own plans being followed though
they were 5000 miles away from the
firing line and not we'll posted as TO
the movements of the enemy until dis
aster played havoc with their Soldiery.
KurOpatkin says the Russians were
poorly prepared for war. In armament.
food and medicines. they We're deficient
Then the source of supply, the Siberian
railroad, was totally inadequate to the
needs of the army. Instead of the war
department moving twelve trains day
four We're more often the number and
some days only one or two. And this
for a host which at one time numbered
100000. On the other hand the Japa
nese were in perfect condition for fight
ing when hostilities began and the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-28
Mrs. Sare,s First Big Gifts.

The gift of $1,O0O.0OO to the Emma
Willard seminary, and $1,OOO,0OO to the
Rensselaer, Polytechnic institute, both of
Troy, n. Y, and also S250,OOO to the ma
tional committee of the Young Mems
Christian Association. have been announc
ed The gift to the Emma Willard semi
nary is due to the fact that Mrs. Sage
finished her education there, and has been
for years one of the most enthusiastic
alumna. In a letter to President Rick
ettS of the Polytechnic, Mrs. Sage says
that no conditions are attached to the
gift, and that it was made because of Mr..
Sage's personal relation to and interest
in the school. of which he was a trustee.
Neither of these gifts imply that Mrs.
Sage expects to specialize her charity in
educational lines. 1t is understood that
the money given to the Y. NJ. c. A. will
be used to erect a building for the execu-
tive offices of the committee in Twenty
ninth street, near Lexington avenue, New
York CITY.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-28

story on direct examination and by far
the greater part of her answers were
in words, Il don't remember" With
the exception of these oft-repeated adj
missions her story was not shaken.
The District Attorney brought out the
fact that in 1902 Stanford White depos-
tied $3.50 with instructions that it be
paid to Evelyn Nesbit at the rate of
$50 week under certain conditions.
Mr.. Jerome sought to show that these
conditions were that the girl was to get
the money when she was out of work
on the stage or was ill., This she would
not admit, and though the questioner
tried for hours by every vile known to
him to make her admit the conditions,
the most satisfactory answer he got
was: Il don't remember
The District Attorney delved into the
witness past life with a familiarity as
to details and a store of general knowl-
edge which at times seemed to amaze
all who heard, not excepting the de-
PENDANTS counsel themselves. Mr.. Je-
lOIc lIluiCdlcu carly III HIS QueStiOU-
ing that he had no disposition to spare
Mrs. Thaw's feelings. He questioned
the witness about her manner of pos
ing for artists, and he did not mince
words. Many photographs of Mrs
Thaw were introduced in evidence.
Mr.. Jerome piled the young woman
with questions as to what disposition
she had made of the letters written to
her by Stanford White. Some, she
said, had been destroyed and some she
had given to her husband.
Mr.. Jerome was assisted materially
in his cross-eXamination by typewriter
statements made by Mrs. Thaw's moth
er and by Howard Nesbit. her brother.
He consulted the statements from time
to time and jumped about from one
part of Mrs. Thaw's story and one
period of her life 10 another, taking
every advantage of the ruling which
allowed him wide latitude in testing
the credibility of the witness. Mr.. Del
mas. contrary to expectations, inter
posed few objections.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-28
All Around the Globe.

When fire broke out in the Richard coal
mine near Dover. y. Y, 80 men in the
pit narrowly escaped. All got out in
safety.
Charles McGill of the defunct Ontario
bank pleaded guilty to having signed false
returns and was sentenced to five years
Imprisonment.
Seven companies dealing in naval stores
and officers of the companies were indict-
ed in the United States Court at Savan-
nah. Ga. for violation of the antitrust
law.
The Paris police arrested the ringleader
of a gang of fifty criminals, who have
terrorized the department of Pas-deCalais
and the Belgian frontier for two years,
committing many robberies and murders
The Mikado has proposed to decorate
Robert :. Mccormick and George V. l..
Meyer, former ambassadors to Russia
Spencer +. Eddy and other Americans
for their services to Japan during the
Russo-Japanese war.
The council of the English Hackney
Horse Society has resolved to offer to the
New York horse show as mark of the
friendly feeling of the English breeders
challenge cup valued at 500.
Dr. James w. Simpson, the dentist who
was acquitted at Riverhead, L. l., of the
charge of having murdered his father-in-
law, BARLEY L. Horner, said he would
establish dental Office and win success
yet.
The German government is expelling
aliens who aided socialist candidates in
the recent elections. The chief offenders
were Russian students with revolutionary
proclivities. who made speeches in behalf
of the socialists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-28
PNTIC &c
@PLITIelANS

The existing japanese treaty expires
March u. President Roosevelt is prepar-
ing the way for new treaty and has
already had conferences with the Califor-
mia delegation.
Harry T. New of Indiana. acting chair
man, and Elmer Dover, secretary of the
Republican National Committee. have an
nounced that the Office of chairman Will
be filled at a meeting next December
Philippe BunauVarilla. formerly MN
lister OF the Panama republic to the Unit
ed States, predicts catastrophe for the
Panama canal. He says: If the Ameri-
can persiss in fighting against nature the
world will be deprived of perfect high
way for commerce and obtain. after many
years of blind and useless work. an expen-
sive and unsafe high level lock canal. the
keystone of which. the Gatun Dam. will
be washed out at the first earthquake,
perhaps even before its Inauguration
President Roosevelt attended banquet
of the foreign commerce convention dele
gates and spoke of the governments eff
fort to develop trade relations with the
countries south of us. He also urged the
necessity of a ship subsidy bill.
Sheffield Ingalls, of Atchison, Kan, son
of the late Senator ingalls,, is now a
member of the Kansas Legislature. There
was a tie vote in the election and the two
contestants agreed to draw straws for
the office. and ingalls, won. The young
man looks very much as his father did,
is said to have brilliant gifts, and is
Republican.
Representative Nicholas Longworth has
failed in his effort to provide more suit
able remuneration for American repre-
sentatives abroad. his motion being lost
upon a point of order. Selecting the case
of the British Ambassador as an exam
pie. Mr. Longworth said When we COM
pare the compensation of the British am
bassador here with that of our ambassa-
dor to England. who is paid $1,000 a
year. with no other allowances whatever,
the comparison becomes utterly and out
rageously absurd and simply brings us TO
the fact that under our system no one
but a man of great wealth can represent
this government in high diplomatic Office"
The Texas House OF Representatives
passed a resolution calling on the At
torney General to submit all documentary
evidence duplicating Senator Bailey in
dealing with the Standard Oil people.
Nevertheless, the friends OF Bailey pass
ed a substitute resolution in the Senate,
IS to i, calling for a committee of seven
Senator's to investigate the charges
gainst Bailey if such an investigation is
deemed advisable. This was thought to
have the effect of tabling the whole mat
ter
The French battleship Brennus broke
fro<a her moorings during severe storm
and grounded near Hyeres. Later she
was foated much damaged.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-28
MANY DIE IN WRECK.
DISASTER ON THE COAST OF
HOLLAND
English Steamer Berlin Driven
Ashore by Gale, Strikes Sandbank
Near Hook of Holland, Break. in
Two and Sinks Immediately

A disastrous steamship wreck attend
Thursday off the Hook of Holland
when the Great Eastern Railway Com
pany's steamer Berlin. bound from Har-
wich, England, to the Hook of Hol-
land, was lost. OF those on board. 141
persons in all, of whom ninety-one were
passengers, all but one We're drowned.
The wreck occurred off the north pier
OF the Hook of Holland.
The agents of the wrecked steamer
say that although they are not positive
the vessel carried 120 passengers and a
crew of sixty officers and men.
The wreck occurred at o'clock in
the morning, during a terrific south
westerly gale. The steamer struck the
north jetty, while trying to enter the
new waterway at the Hook of Holland.
She broke in two the forward part i'm
mediately sinking, while the passengers
and crew gathered on the stern. where
they yainly attempted to use the life
boats
The Berlin left Harwich at 10
O'Clock Wednesday night, upon the ar
rival there of the London train with
the greater number of passengers who
subsequently lost their lives The
steamer should have reached the Hook
of Holland at 6 o'clock Thursday morn
ing and would have then proceeded for
Rotterdam.
A great gale was blowing in the
North Sea when the Berlin started. AS
the Berlin was entering the waterway
at the entrance of the River Mas, how
ever she apparently became unmanage-
able on account of the force of the wind
and was driven ashore
The alarm was given and lifeboats
from the shore went to the assistance
of the stricken steamer, but the seas
were so heavy that the boats were I'M
able to approach the Berlin close
enough to take off any of the passen-
gers or crew and the lifeboat men had
to sit helpless while the steamer pound
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-28
Short News Notes.

A negro national fair will be held in
Mobile, Ala. in November. 1907. The
President will be asked to visit the expo
sition.
Fire destroyed the Townsend block, one
of the most substantial structures in
Princeton. Mimi, causing a loss estimated
at 100000.
Two hundred striking Italian laborers
threatened violence at the General Elec-
trio Signal Company's buildings at Roch-
ester, \. Y, but the police prevented a
clash.
The California Bankers Association
is looking earnestly for a man named O.
T. Mott, who is alleged to have forged
securities of a trust company.
John H. Quirk. convicted of manslaugh-
ter for killing W. A. Dowell, Minneapo-
lis newspaper man. was sentenced to if
teen years in States prison.
The health authorities of Havana are
having difficulty keeping confined resi-
dents of the zone surrounding Las Animas
hospital, where the smallpox is raging.
A night bank will be started soon by
the City Bank and Trust Company of
New Orleans The bank will be open
continuously from 10 a. N. until midnight.
George Wiley. for the last four years
treasurer of Contra Costa county. Califor-
MIA shot and killed himself in his home.
He told his wife before he died that the
shooting was accidental.
Five attachment suits, involving s.. 200
have been filed against James McCaus-
land. secretary of the McGrew Comput-
ing Scale Company of St Louis. by cred
itors who claim that he has been away
from ST. Louis since Jan. 2.
The factory of the Boston and Lock
port Block Company at Boston. manufac-
turers of marine pumps and blocks 100
Condor street. East Boston. was partially
destroyed by fire. Four fremen we're
slightly hurt. The loss is 100000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-28
RELIGIOUS TRUST Is ADVOCATED.

Secretary Shaw Declares that All
Churches Should Consolidate.
The organization of a religious trust
was advocated the other night by Secre-
tary of the Treasury Leslie NJ. Shaw, in
an address at the annual banquet of the
lnterdenominational Social Union at the
Auditorium hotel in Chicago. He said
that organization was the keynote of sue
cess in all great movements and the great
commercial trusts have taught a lesson
which modern religious denominations
might do well to study. Secretary Shaw
came out fatty in favor of the union of
all the denominations, to put it in his
own words, whether Catholic or Protest
ant, whether Armenian or Calvinist." Il
have never been an officer of, counsel for
nor stakeholder in an industrial or COM
mercial trust" he said, 'but l have some
times thought l would like to help organ
lie a great religious trust into which
every needy soul should be invited, and
through which the gospel could be preach
ed to every one who would hear it at the
least possible expense"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-28
STICKS TO HER STORY.
Evelyn Thav Does Not Falter Under
Merciless Cross Questioning.

Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, young wife of
the slayer of Stanford White, under
went a merciless cross-eXamination at
the hands of District Attorney Jerome.
The District Attorney insinuated, ca
joled and at times stormed at the wit
ness. She met his every mood. When
he spoke softly her answers We're soft ::
when he tried sarcasm she in turn was
sarcastic, and when he ragged her an
swers came sharp and defiant. And
through it all the witness told just
what she wanted to tell and no more.
When cornered her unfailing refuge
was, Il don't remember"
Mrs. Thaw's memory seemed to have
suffered relapse since she told her
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-28
RESCUER LOSES LIFE
WOMAN DIES WITH CHILDREN
SHE TRIES TO SAVE.
auadrupIe Tragedy Occurs in Creek
at Entrance to Delaware Park,
BufaIo-Largest FuIIer's Earth
Factory In World Near Mobile.

Mrs. William III. Drummer sacrificed
her life in vain effort to rescue three
children. all four drowning together in
Sea jaquada creek, at the Elmwood avenue
entrance 70 Delaware Park, in Buffalo.
The dead are: Mrs. William III. Drum
mer, % years old; Anthony Better, 13
years old Richard Better. y years old,
Anthony's brother; Ruth Drummer, IA
years old, Mrs. Drummer's stepdaughter.
Mrs. Drummer, with several children,
vas walking on the ice toward Delaware
Park. At the Elmwood avenue viaduct
over the creek the ice suddenly gave way
under Ruth and the two Better boys,
throwing them into the water. Mrs.
Drummer was about twenty feet away
with her 4-year-old son. Walter. She ran
20 the rescue of the three children. In
her efforts to save them she broke through
the ice, and little Walter. who had tod
died after his mother, fell in after her.
Walter chung to the edge of the ice and
racnlta1