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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-05-18

Let three women talk together, and
within I'VE minutes one OF them will
say that she doesn't intend TO work
herself 70 death for any man. "-Atch-
ison (Kan.) Globe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09

Spend Nearly Five Days in Under
ground Cell,

Taken from the dark recesses Of a coal
mine in which they had been imprisoned
longer than 100 hours, seven men res
cued from the Berwind- White shaft No.
50. at Foustwell, Pa, are in the Windber
hospital, exhausted and oblivious to all
around them. Immediately upon bring
taken out the men wished to go to their
homes and they were carried to the hos
pital under protest. No food was given
them at first, but stimulant was adj
ministered to all with the exception Of.
Michael Bolya. Soon after arriving at
the hospital the men were sound asleep,
and no communication vas allowed with
them. They are not disturbed except at
regular intervals. when the nurses adj
minister hot broths and nourishment. I'm
mediately after these treatments they
again drop to sleep. The hospital physi
clans say that the men will be able to
be about in a few days. Foreman Bolya
said; I'VE knew the men on the outside
were at work pumping out the water IN
an endeavor to release us. We kept a
careful watch and could note the water
going down inch by inch. We could hear
the tapping Of the pipe, and knew it
meant for US to keep up our courage. We
always signaled back when we heard the
tapping. All the men had full dinner
buckets when they went into the mine,
but the food soon was exhausted, and we
felt the pangs of hunger keenly. After
the third day l don't believe the men
ever expected to see their families again.
but the way they kept up their spirits was
admirable"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
NEW YORK.

UnSeasonably cold weather still ham,
perS trade and crop development. Retail
business has been chiefly affected so far.
but jobbers and wholesalers report that
April trade as a whole does not equal
that of April year ago. though the vol
ume of business for the four months pc
Rod is considerably in excess of 1906.
Collections are likewise showing some
effects of delayed trade, while improving
where weather conditions have been tenn
porarily favorable Reports as to adj
vance orders booked for fall are quite en-
couraging--in excess of this time a year
ago, in fact-though. a few lines note hest
tation as to booking far ahead. Indus
try as a whole is actively engaged: May
l strikes. largely confined to building
trades, 60 not appear nearly as serious
as in previous years.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending May number 1913,
against 157 last week and 100 in the like
week of 1906. Canadian failures for the
week number %, against % last week
and 20 in this week a year ago.
Wheat, including -four. exports from
the United States and Canada for the
week ending May 2 aggregated 2.234, 1876
bushels. against 2.5S0.242 last week and
2,104,14S this week last yee/; for the
past forty-four weeks of the fiscal year,
143,S0O.4S7 bushels, against 113.606, $40
in 1905-06. Corn exports for the week
were 1917. 500 bushels. against 1,611 OH
last week and 1.035.315 a year ago; for
the fiscal year to date, 81 .427.937 bushels,
against 1O3,S37,3 43 in 1GcJ-06.-Brad-
streets Commercial Report.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
CHICAGO

developments in commercial affairs
disclose sustained confidence in the ont
look. May payments through the hanks
usually are test of Soundness. and it is
notable that while much heavier this
month than heretofore. there is no special
pressure in money and defaults remain
remarkably small. Low temperature vet
delays a seaSonable activity in leading
retail lines, but less fear is felt as to the
crops. Transportation by rail and lake
reflects an enormous tonna ge movement
of freight, and new demands make con-
siderable addition to the assured period
of future employment ar the mills and
factories. although the upward trend of
costs and difficulty in getting necessary
supplies to some extent hinder operations
Shippers find railway facilities steadily
improving, and, with the water ways
fully opened up. the conditions become
more favorable for increasing movements
of ore. coal and forest products. The
markets for raw materials reflect rapid
consumption. Reports from the agricul-
tural districts show that farmers spend
literally for implements and improve
nentS, and seeding makes good progress
where adverse weather has not interfered.
Bank clearings. S26S. 100. 1866. exceed
those of the corresponding week in 1906
by 49, per cent.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict numbered II, against 10 last week
and SO year ago.-Dun's Review.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
INDUSTRIAL PEACE PREVAILS.
May Day Found Little Unrest Among
Workers of America


Labor conditions in Chicago and
throughout the entire country were more
peaceful May / than has been the case
in years. While May 1 is cerebrated in
this country only by the socialists. it has
in past years been a day Of industrial
unrest because many wage contracts ex-
pire at chat time and strikes are common
before agreements are renewed.
In Chicago, a dispatch says, there is
not Il strike of consequence. In the
building industry, which gives employ
ment TO 10000, wage agreements in every
craft have been renewed. Nearly all
branches OF the building trades have Sc
cured wage advances this year. either I'M
der new agreements which have been
made or through the terms of existing
contracts which run for another year.
While there was a general Stacking up
OF work reported a few weeks ago, which
made it necessary to reduce working
forces in some large plants. business is
again reported brisk and labor is almost
as well employed as it was Il year ago.
Reports from various cities show sim
liar conditions prevailing throughout the
country. In New York labor, skilled and
unskiled, is well employed. The build
ing trades in that city are especially pros
porous. and there are only few sporadic
strikes. In st. Louis the situation is
better than in years. In Boston the only
serious break in the labor field is a strike
of transfers. which has been in progress
for a month. In Philadelphia carpenters
and painters are after a wage increase,
but most of the employers have already
conceded the demands. The machinists
in Pittsburg are On strike for increased
wages.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
MANY CHINESE DEAD
EXPLOSION IN CANTON SPREADS
DESTRUCTION.
Hundreds Of Persons Killed and In
ju-ed and Fifteen Buildings Razed
Boy Supposed Kidnapped Found
Murdered

Great destruction Of life and property
was caused at Canton, China, by the ex-
plosion OF gunpowder magazine. Tween
ty-one bodies have been taken from the
ruins, and hundreds OF persons were in
Jured. Fifteen buildings were RACED and
more than hundred were seriously dam
aged section 200 feet long from the
massive city wall was thrown down. The
historic nine-story pagoda escaped with
slight injuries. In the Shamien suburb,
where the foreigners live. a terrific shock
was caused by the explosion, but the resi-
dents were unframed A conception of
the force of the explosion may be OBJ
tanned from the fact that the roofs of
houses a mile from the exploded magazine
were blown off. \ number of important
Chinese and foreign mercantile establish
ments We're demolished. The officer in
charge Of the magazine was among those
killed, and when his body was recovered
a pipe was found clutched in his hand,
which suggests the possible cause of the
explosion. Canton is about six miles in
circumference and is inclosed by walls
twenty feet thick and from twenty-five to
forty feet high. There are sixteen gates
into the city, besides two water gates.
The famous nine-storied pagoda, dating
from the beginning of the middle ages. is
III the western part of what is known
as the odd city The foreigners reside
in the Shamien suburb. founded in 1859
on an artificial island on the Honan side
OF the river.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
The Real Rooter.
As n Little Child.

Bellevue hospital, New York City, has
a most interesting patient in the person
of Timothy Kane, whose trouble began
three years ago, when blow on the head
produced a lesion of the brain. Since
that time he has suffered intensely from
epilepsy, paralysis, motor aphasia and loss
of speech, with progressive impairment
of the intellectual perceptions. Several
delicate and unusual operations were per-
formed, consisting of a removal of sec
tions of the skull and portions of the
brain. He is now on the road to recov-
cry, but while retaining some knowledge
of things has absolutely lost the power
to transmute his power into words, and
the educative process has commenced pre-
cisely the same as with child, the train
ing being similar to that employed in a
kindergarten, with alphabetical blocks,
picture books etc.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
LIVING COST is HIGHER.
Government Report Says Wholesale
Prices Are Advancing.

The bureau of labor has taken an
other look into the cost of living and
it finds it is still Increasing. It's latest
examination had to do with wholesale
prices only. 1t is now making a study
of retail prices. The bulletin just is
sued shows that wholesale prices. con-
sidering 2JS commodities as u whole,
reached a higher level in 1906 than ut
any other time during the seventeen
year period covered. The average for
the year 1906 was 90 per cent higher
than for 1905, 800 per cent higher
than for 1897, the year of lowest prices
during the seventeen-year period, and
22.4 per cent higher than the average
for the ten years from 1890 to 1899.
Prices reached their highest point
during the seventeen-year period in
December, 1906, the average for that
month being IL per cent higher than
the average for the year 1906. and 60
per cent higher than the average for
December, 1905.
The average price for 1906 of farm
products, taken as Il whole, differs but
little from that of 1905. a decrease OF
only One-half' Of l per cent being shown.
Food as whole increased SO per cent
in average price for 1906. as compared
with 1905. The principal articles Show
ing an increase were cheese, fish, fruit,
hog products, milk, rice and vegetables.
No change took place in the price of
bread. y slight decrease in the whole
sale cost of coffee, eggs, wheat. -four,
corn meal, beef, sugar and tea is
shown.
OF the seventy-five articles included
under clothes and clothing. sixty-six
showed an increase in price, five show
ed no change, and only four showed a
decrease. In the group, as a whole.
there was an average increase of rs
per cent in price. In fuel and lighting.
as a group, there was an increase in
price of ) per cent
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
@a I5e So Side
:. GeggFf ~
The News Y

Prosperity seems to be moulting few
feathers.
1t will cost you SO per cent more now
to telegraph your baby
All the railroads are ready to adopt
the legislative block system.
They are building San Francisco this
time with the graft attachments removed.
Japan has launched the biggest battle
ship in the world, but it doesn't interest
Russia.
The season of severe mortality among
Office boys grandmothers has once more
set in.
The human mind is singularly addicted
to the diversion afforded the world by
baseball.
Silent Smith didn't have to talk. His
SJ0,OO0000 of money talked enough for
any man.
The early settlers are the people who
pay for their rooms in advance down at
jamestown.
They say Paris eats 10000 horses a
year. No wonder there are so many
horseless carriages there.
There hasn't been a rainstorm in Cuba
for six months. No wonder Cuban pat
riotism is drying up.
In South America they have discovered
tree that gives milk. Maybe it was
just good old wooden pump.
The Tilted girl in Wyoming who hasn't
spoken to a man for - years ought to
encouraged to keep it up.
IF tha rlI.ica of UrocnTiac yrould only 90
down like the price of stocks, the house
holder would long for a panic.
Since the free pass was amputated, the
average Legislatures have not been blind
to the faults of the railroads.
Why should Anna Gould Castellane
pay $4,000 for divorce in Paris when
she can get one just as good in Chicago
for S2,97?
This thing of burning ashes after a
treatment with salt is likely to be taken
by most people with grain or two Of
that article.
1t cost the former Countess. de Castel-
lane $4,000 to get rid of Boni, which
shows that bargains are never the cheap
est in the end.
A North Carolina clergyman asserts
that st. Patrick was a Presbyterian. And
that just as the peace movement was get
ting along so well.
A negro has won the Rhodes scholar
ship from Pennsylvania, which will add
a bit of ebony to the variegated collection
at Oxford university.
4 little discrepancy of 100000 has
been found in the accounts of the Uni
yersity of Wisconsin. Better repair the
chair of mathematics.
Pennsylvania paid $1,000 for a 800
bootblacking stand in the new State
House. Must have been cutting up high
shines at Harrisburg.
The Philadelphia man charged with
marrying 80 women is conclusive evil
dence that neither the fools nor the
martyrs are all dead yet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
To Promote Church HARMONY

The perplexing question of securing
harmony and cooperation between Catho-
lies and ProtestantS was recently dis
cussed in public address by Prof. Adolf
Harnack of Berlin. \ better understand
ing, or m0dus vivendi. ne thinks, is not
to be brought about by Catholics becom-
ing Protestants, or vice versa. hope that
even the dreamer cannot entertain. He
would, however. attain the desired end by
ID having religion and the church alb
solutely divorced from politics; CO let
the State do full justice without prefer
ence or interference with the internal
affairs of the churches; CD let all I'M
necessary controversies between the lead
ers of the different churches be avoided,
and let all past sins and controversies be
buried: ca let the leaders of both
churches try TO understand each other
and appreciate the good things in the OPP
posing church. and to this end he would
have the theologians of each branch at,
tend the lectures in the church.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
1429-Siege of Orleans relieved.

1429-Siege of Orleans relieved.
lo4I-CharleS V. defeated the Protest
ants at Muhlberg.
1626-Wallensten defeated Mansfield at
DeSSau.
1629-Peace treaty signed at Susa, end
ing war between France and Eng
land.
1662-Connecticut's famous charter
granted.
1665-Great plague of London began.
17O4-First issue of the Boston News
Letter, first American newspaper.
17O7-French and Spanish defeated the
English Dutch and Portuguese
forces at the battle of Almanac,
Spain.
171G-British Parliament passed the
Septennial act.
1763-WiEes committed to the Tower of
London.
1902 Pelletier. a highway robber, first
executed by the guillotine.
1S49-Poitical riots in Toronto and
Montreal over the rebellion losses
bill.
1S51-Postage stamps first issued in
Canada.
1S54-Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus
tria, married to Princess Elizabeth
of Bavaria.
1S62-Confederate forces withdrew from
New Orleans.
1S7-War began between Russia and
Turkey
1SI9-Prince Alexander Joseph of Bat
tenberg elected Prince of Bulgaria.
1SS4-Fire destroyed the great mercan-
tile establishment of Messrs. White
ley in London.
1SS9-New York City began a three days
celebration Of the centennial of
President Washington's Inauguration.
1S91-Dr. Talmage's new tabernacle in
Brooklyn formally opened.
1S92-Hurricane at Nautilus destroyed
1000 lives.
1S94-Coxey's army arrived at Washing
ton, ID. c.. earthquake near Athens,
Greece; 227 lives lost.
1S95-Russian, German and French gov
QUESTION of Chinese territory by
Japan. The Alliance affair with
Spain settled by the latter giving
ample satisfaction.
1S97-Princess Victoria, daughter of the
Prince and Princess of Wales, born
-. Log of the Mayhower transfer
red from British possession to the
American ambassador at London.
1S99-Miners' riots at Occur d'Alene,
Idaho.
19O0-Unted States Senate denied ad-
mission to Matthew Quay, who had
been appointed by the Governor of
Pennsylvania. Hull and a part of
Ottawa, Canada, destroyed by fire.
1901-President Mckinley received the
Cuban commissioners.
1903-Andrew Carnegie donated 100000
to Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
1904-Labor party came into power in
Australia.
international exhibition opened at
Milan, Italy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09

street rejoices over those facts. Wall
street insists that the father and son
are quitting losers in a sliding sum of
from $10,00O,0O0 to 100000.
The notice of the dissolution of the
firm of Charles G. Gates & Co. started
all the reports about the financial de-
cline of the family. That was the firm
through which the great plunger
traded, and it was brought into exist
ence to enable him to plunge as he
pleased. Son Charley" headed it, but
father was in reality the firm.
The so-called ''rich mans panic that
reached its climax March Is was de-
clared to have been the cause of the
downfall of the Gateses. Consistent
bulls always, they are reported to have
been caught heavily in that terrible
slump of stocks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09

During a quarrel in a liquor store at
Youngstown. Ohio. William Price shot
and almost instantly killed Tom White
head. Price was captured.
Gov. Folk has granted a respite of
sixty days to William Spaugh, Jr.. SEN
fenced to be hanged for the murder of
Sheriff Polk of Iron county, Mo.
Announcement was made that the gem
eral conference of American Friends will
be held in Richmond. Ind, opening on
Oct. u. Canada. Cuba and Mexico will
be represented.
An involuntary petition in bankruptcy
was filed for the Cleveland, Ohio, Win
dow Glass Company in the United States
District Court. The liabilities are given
as $4,000.
The Marblehead life-saving crew res
cued three men adrift on a scOw which
became separated from the tug Pankrantz
during a heavy storm. The men spent a
wild night on Lake Erie.
Michael Mcnamara was convicted at
st. Louis of murder in the second de-
gree. Mcnamara killed his wife while
she was with another man in a hotel
last August He is yet TO be tried Tor
killing the man at the same time.
The auxiliary gasoline sloop-yacht j.
Daggit. owned By Captain James HaYity
oe Miami. Fla. was burned in Albemarle
sound North Carolina, following the ex,
plosion Of a gasoline tank.
Capt. y. I. Smith. the veteran treas
urer of the Southern Pacific Railway
Company. died at his home at San Carlos.
San Mateo county. Cal. Pneumonia, COM
bined with paralysis, caused death.
Senator Ellis Of st. John, \. B.,
smoke strongly against the increase in
hostage on newspapers to the United
States. He said it was not in the in
terest of Canada. as many Canadians liv-
Ing in the United States would be depriv-
ed of home news
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
DEE5 lA(S21;Ss{[[5RS
.s.sst:;s3sIsS sIsS elRS$@- as.
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$4.00 to S6.40; hogs prime heavy, S4.0O
to S6J7; sheep, fair to choice $500
to $500; wheat, No. ,, Sic to see; corn,
No. >. 4Sc to soc: oats, standard, 43c to
45c; rye, No. ,. Tic TO 73c; hay, timo-
thy, $1,000 to $500; prairie, 5000 to
S14.OO: butter. choice creamery, 23c to
2Jc: eggs. fresh, lie to Ice; potatoes,
40c to 59c.
dianapols-Cattle, shipping, $500
to $6.15; hogs choice heavy, $4O0 to
$3.50: sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to
500; wheat, No. =, 79c to SOC; corn,
No. = white. 49c 10 ole; oats, No.
white, 43c to 44c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50 :;
hogs. $500 to $500; sheep, $500 to
$6.25; wheat, No. ., soc to S2c; corn,
No. >. SOC to 51c; oats, No >, 41c to
43c; rye No. =, &c to Csc.
Cincinnati-Cattle. 500 to 500 :;
hogs. $4OO to 500 sheep, $500 to
$3.50: wheat No. ,, SIC to S3c; corn,
No. . mixed, 51c to 53c; oats, No. 2
mixed. 4}c to Ale; rye. No. =, 73c to 1Jc.
Detroit-Cattle. 800 to $500; hogs,
S4.O0 to S6.75; sheep, $50 to 5000 :;
wheat, No =, Sic to S3c; corn, No. 3
yellow, 51c to 53c: oats. No. white,
4Jc to Acc: rye, No. ,. re to 74c.
Wheat, No. 2 northern,
Sic to Sic corn. No. 3. 47c to 49c :;
oats. standard. 42c to Ale: rye, No. J.,
Tic to 73c; barley. standard, 73c to Toe :;
pork. mess, $3.50.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers.
$3.50 to $500; hogs. fair to choice. 900
to $3.50; sheep. common to good mixed
$4.00 to $3.50 lambs fair to choice,
$500 to $3.50.
New York-Cattle, 500 to $6.05 !;
hogs. S4OO to S7.2O: sheep. $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. , red, SSc to 89c:
corn. No. =. JJc to sc; oats, natural
white. 4Sc to 49c: butter, creamery. BIC
to &c: eggs. western, 1Jc to lie.
Toledo-Wheat No. ? mixed, soc to
SIC: corn. No mixed. 49c to dc;
oats. No. . mixed. fJc to 47c; rye. No.
.. Csc to zoe; clover seed, prime, 1923.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09

FORTY MEN ARE BURIED AND
TWENTY SUCCUMB.
Falling Masonry and Liberated Wa
ter Also Injure Scores of Others
Government to AIIOt Montana
Farms on Lottery Plan.

One Of the great walls of the Chu-
Yiscar dam near Chihuahua, Mexico, sud
denly gave way, engulfng nearly forty
men under the enormous weight of ma
sonry and water. Between fifteen and
twenty of the workmen are dead, thirteen
injured and several others unaccounted
for. Some Of the injured will die. The
disaster is the last of a large number
which have recently claimed nearly 200
victims, mostly in the neighborhood of
Chihuahua. The authorities are making
a thorough investigation into the present
catastrophe and will severely punish
those upon whom they place the blame.
The dam was being put in for irrigation
and stock-watering purposes and was
large enterprise. The loss will be heavy.
All the victims are Mexicans.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
CLOUDBURST; SEVEN MISSING.
Canadian River at Oklahoma City,
o. T., on Rampage.

cloudburst over Capital Hill, a sub
urb of Oklahoma City, o. T.. just south
OF the Canadian River. flooded that place.
Seven persons are missing and reported
drowned. Many camped on the lowlands
near the river were caught unawares and
had little time to make their escape. The
river is bankful, and it will be some
time before it can be determined if any
lives We're really lost. There was an
other heavy rainfall the next morning,
which caused a further rise of the river,
endangering property in the lowlands,
Three thousand people live in Capital
HILL which lies south of the Canadian
River. opposite Oklahoma City. The hill
IS drained into a small stream called
Lightning Greek, which enters the river
just below Oklahoma City. The water
came down the creek and covered the
lowlands in such volume as to force out
people living in tents. shanties and small
houses on the low ground. An area COW
ering several square miles has been flood
ed. causing thousands of dollars of dam
age to railway and farm property. Rail-
way traffic is paralyzed. One mile of
Santa Fe tracks out of Oklahoma City
have been washed out.