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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Free Employment Agencies,

The Massachusetts Labor Bulletin. as
digested in American Industries, shows
that fifteen States now have free public
employment agencies in operation, as fol-
lows: California, Connecticut, Illinois,
Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michi-
gan, Minnesota. Missouri, Montana, Ne
braska, Ohio, Washington, West Virginia
and Wisconsin. Eleven of these have
State systems, with twenty eight Offices in
twenty-six cities, and five States have
eight municipal Offices. The motives ad-
vanced to justify these agencies are the
belief that State competition would drive
INSCRIPTIONS private agencies out of busj-
ness, the need of assisting the unemployed,
and the bringing together of laborer and
employer with the result of reducing the
army Of unemployed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
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CHICAGO.

Another notable increase in the volume
of payments through the banks testifes to
sustained activity in commerce, and the
defaults reported are remarkably low.
There is, however, evidence of heavy
speculative operations in securities and
grain, and this interferes with more gen.
eral confidence in the trade outlook. Other
adverse Developments of recent origin i'm
press more conservatism in large enter
pT1seS and the position of money offers
no encoura cement Notwithstanding the
drawbacks, demands are found equaling
expectations in the leading industries, and
Chere Is no perceptible recession in pro-
auction and distribution.
Heavy shipments of currency to move
crops draw sharply upon deposits, and
lhe discount rate is firm at the highest
quotation this year, but reserves are well
maintained and most mercantile interests
are provided with requirements at this
time. Country banks have absorbed con-
SIDERABLE commercial paper, and the indi-
cations are good that western resources
Will be found ample to satisfy legitimate
financial needs during the next few
months of pressure.
Sfop reports reflect seasonable head
way in harvesting, and the condition of
corn in Illinois and Iowa steadily i'm
proves
Visiting buyers from the West and
South arrive in the greatest numbers this
season and are active in selecting fall and
winter requirements. Demands compare
favorably with this time last year in sales
OF dry goods, millinery, clothing, footwear
and food products.
Bank clearings SOL, 123,655, exceed
those of corresponding week in 1906 by
13.6 per cent
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trlct numbered IA, against % last week
and ID year ago.-Dun's Review.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
NELSON MORRIS DIES.
Pioneer Chicago Packer and Million
aire PASSES AUay

Nelson Morris, pioneer Chicago packer
and multimillionaire, died Tuesday. Nell
son Morris was the third member of the
famous big four" packers. Philip D.
Armour and GuStavus T. Swift preceded
him TO the grave. and Michael Cudahy
is the only survivor of the city's pioneers
in the packing industry. Mr.. Morris
death was due 10 chronic affection of the
heart, with kidney complication, which
had its origin some time ago.
Nelson Morris was born in the Black
Forest, Germany. Jan. 4, 1910. His faith
er originally was a wealthy cattle dealer,
but he became reduced TO poverty after
joining the revolutionary movement 10
unite the Black Forest TO Switzerland.
The father was an exile until the son
paid his ransom twenty years ago. Carl
Schurz was a fellow exile of young Nor
ris, who, when he landed in Philadelphia
penniless was II years old.
The young man walked to New York,
where he hired out to haul charcoal in
Lakeville, Conn, for s. a month and
board. Later he worked his way On
canalboat TO Buffalo, thence walking to
Chicago. Here he went to work in the
old stockyards. Five dollars a month
was his salary the first year, increased
to $40 the second year. All he
saved from his earnings he sent to his
relatives across the ocean. He began 10
buy hogs when he was 10, making enough
to start himself in the cattle business
year later. The packer used to tell how
at first he killed and dressed his own
cattle. He slept on the slaughter house
floor at night in order to be on hand early
in the morning with his beef and pork.
His first financial reverse came when he
was IS years old. When he was % years
old Morris suffered another reverse. He
Endorsed papers for creditors who went
back on him. Within a year, however,
he had recovered from his loss
He started his packing house in 1862
and during the latter part of the war sup
piled the army of the West with beef.
Mr. Morris was the first to export live
cattle from this country to Europe. He
received the first contract ever given to
supply Government with beef. He OBJ
tanned is portant and profitable contracts
with France, England and Germany.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
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ssszal s:ssS<I|'.is5saN g.
5000

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
A.0O to $50; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00
to 500; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to 1913; wheat, No. 2, soc TO 90c;
corn, No. 2, 5Sc to 59c; oats, standard,
4Sc to 49c; rye, No. 2, Sic to S2c; hay,
timothy, $14.0O to $21.50; prairie, $500
to 26c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 19c; potatoes,
per bushel, sc to CSC.
anapolis-CattIe, shipping, $500
to $7.15; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to
S6.40; sheep, common to prime, $500
S475; wheat, No. 2, Sic to Soc; corn,
No. white, SIC to SIC; oats, No. 2
white, 45c to 46c.
St Louis-CattIe, $3.50 to $71O;
hogs, $500 to 500; sheep, $500 to.
1915; wheat, No 2, 9Oc to Ole; corn,
No 2, sc TO SIC; oats, No. 2, 44c to
46c; rye, No. 2, 76c to 7Sc.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to 5000;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, Sc to soc; corn,
No. mixed, Gle to &c; oats, No. 2
mixed, &c to 47c; rye, No. 2, 79c to Sic.
Detroit-Cattle, s. 90 to So 90; hogs,
S4DO 10 900; Sheep, 9Z.oO 10 pf.iO
wheat, No. 2, SOC to Ole; corn, No. 3
yellow, &c to &c; oats, No. 3 white,
soc to sc; rye, No. 2, SOC to SIC.
Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern,
Doc to $1.03; corn, No. 3, Coo to Gle;
oats, standard, SOC to sc; rye, No. l.,
Soc TO SIC; barley, standard, SIC to Soc +;
pork, mess, S15.T.
Buffalo-CattIe, choice shipping steers,
800 to 1915; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to 500; sheep, common to good mixed,
800 to $3.50; lambs, fair TO choice,
$500 to $7.75.
Now York-Cattle, $500 to $685.;
hogs, 500 to S7.25; sheep, $500 to
1926; wheat, No. 2 red, &c to Csc;
corn, No. 2, &c to 69c; oats, natural
white, 0Gc to &c; butter, creamery, 22c
to 26c; eggs, western, tic to 21c.
Toledo-Wbeat, No. mixed, SOC to
Die; corn, No. 2 mixed, 63c to 6fc;
oats, No. 2 mixed, Acc to sic; rye, No.
2, 75c to 77c clover seed, prime, $1,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Language of SeasuIls Found.

John B. Watson, professor of psyrhol-
ogy in the University Of Chicago, has
just returned from the Dry Tortugas
Islands, off tia lower coast of Florida,
where he carried on Investigations at the
Andrew Carnegie station He says that
he has found that the sea gulls have
language OF their own which can be imi
tated by a human being. He finds that
they live in family groups IN houses con-
sciously built for their purpose, and he
believes that they have politics in their
governmental affairs For several months
Prof. Watson has lived in hut of boughs
on these tropical islands, tanning the great
ocean birds and getting close to them.
He thinks that these birds converse with
each other by means Of the volume tone
and duration Of their vocal sounds
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
BOY STABBED BY FATHER.
Interferes When Parents Quarrel
and Is Slain by Frenzied Sire.

While his mother, in whose defense he
gave his life, wept Historically at his
bedside, John Oster, Jr., % years old,
died in Mascoutah, H., early Wednesday
from knife wounds inflicted by his father,
60 years old, at the family home daring
the night. The elder Oster is a man of
violent temper and during a quarrel with
his wife struck her violently in the face.
The son rushed TO his mothers assistance
and was attacked by the father. During
a struggle the old man drew knife and
stabbed his son repeatedly in the body.
The wounded boy fled from the house
pursued by his frenzied father The lat
ter is lame, but kept up the chase until
the son collapsed near the home of a
neighbor, who saved him from further
injury. Young Oster was carried into the
house and attended by a physician, but
he had lost so much blood during the pur-
suit that he was unable to rally. He
died a few hours later. The mother is
broken-hearted, and demands the prose
cution of her husband, who has been ar
rested.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
U. S. CASH TO AID CROP MOVING.
Secretary of the Treasury COrteIyou
VIII Relieve Money Market.

| Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou,
according to the New York Times, has de-
cided again to come to the relief of the
money market and distribute government
funds to aid the movement of crops this
year.
The plan pursued last year is to be fol-
lowed with some notifications, but in
general it will be that adopted by Secre-
tary Shaw in his regime. One of the
ideas in the minds of the officers of the
Treasury Department is that the govern
ment should place its funds in the banks
subject to withdrawal by check.
1t is not expected that anything like
the amount needed last year will be called
for this season. If it is the treasury will
be in better shape to meet the call, as
under an act of the last Congress customs
receipts may be deposited in the banks.
Under the new method the customs re-
ceipts will be used for the relief of the
smaller institutions, while the larger fund
will be sent to the centers of distribution.
New York will, as in the past, get large
share of the amount to be released.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
CARS CRASH; SCORE HURT.
Fast Chicago Train Smashes Trolley
Coach Crowded with People.

A score Of persons were injured, one
dangerously, in a terrific smashup on the
St. Paul railroad in La Crosse, Wis. A
fast Chicago passenger train ran into a
street car which was crowded with pas
sengers. The heavy train remained on
the track and the passengers in its coaches
We're uninjured except for a severe shock.
The engine was badly wrecked, however,
and it was two hours before the track
was cleared and a new engine obtained
TO continue the journey. The train was
due in North La Crosse at 7:15 a. m,
but was late. At the grade crossing the
motorman did not see the approaching en-
CINE, which was going unusually fast for
a train entering the city. 1t is regarded
as miraculous that all the passengers on
the crowded street car were not killed
outright. The street car contained sixty
five persons. A great panic ensued among
the passengers, and for a time it was
feared that many had been killed, and am
balances and a corps of physicians were
hastily dispatched to the scene. James
Gaskell, aged so, had both legs broken
and crushed and was taken to a hospital
in a serious condition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
NEBRASKA MOB LYNCHEs MAN.
Hangs Laborer Who Killed Farmer
and Wife Last Spring.

Loris Higgins, who murdered W. L.
Couple, a farmer, and his wife, near
Resale, Neb., May u, was lynched at
Bancroft Monday. Sheriff Young of
ThurstOn county went to Omaha Sunday
night to get his prisoner, who had been in
the Douglas county Jail since his capture,
and took him to Bancroft on train
which arrived there about s o'clock in
the morning Twenty men took Higgins
from the sheriff, hauled him off in dray
and hung him to q tree. When the sheriff
left for Omaha Sunday he was accosted
by citizens at Bancroft, who asked him
what he would do if they should attempt
to lynch Higgins. Shoot the first man
who tries it," he said. well, we just
wanted to know. Chances are you will
have some shooting to do" Higgins
crime was a wanton one. He had worked
on the Couple farm and had some trivial
dispute with Mr.. Couple. Anger over this
is the only suggestion of reason for the
murder of the farmer and his wife. He
killed both in the barnyard with gun.
He was young man, and after his ar
rest become radically religious, participant
ing in every service held at the Jail.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
line between Washington and Balti-
mora costinor 600 600

line between Washington and Balti-
more, costing $4,000.
Two years later, under a notion of
economy, it was turned over to pri-
yate ownership. Among the public
statesmen who protested against this
course were Henry Clay and Cave
johnson. Prof. s. f. B. Morse also
prophesied the evils OF private owner
ship.
Justice Brown, OF the United States
Supreme Court, has said: IF the gov
eminent may be safely intrusted with
the transmission of our letters and pa
pers, 1 see no reason why it should not
also be intr,lsted with the transmits
sion of our kilograms, as is almost uni
versally the case In Europe"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
STEAMER SUNK IN CRASH.
Isaac l.. Elyvood Goes Down in Col
lision with Brewer.

The steel freighters A. G. Brewer, up
bound, and Isaac L. Elwood down bound,
collided off Bar Point in Lake Erie the
other night, and the Elwood went to the
bottom with a large hole amidships. The
Brewer is of 1852 tons, $40 feet long,
was built in 1902 and is owned by the
United States Transportation Company.
Her bow is stove in and her forward
bulkhead full of water. The Elwood, of
5,904 tons, 47S feet over all. and built
in 1900, is owned by the Pittsburg Steam
ship Company. The Elwood WIS drawing
twenty feet and now lies in twenty-five
feet. her decks awash amidships but the
deckhouses we'll out of the water. Neither
boat is in the way of navigation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
CATASTROPHE ON INTERURBAN.
Cnrs Meet in Head-On Collision Near
Charleston, III.

Thirteen persons were killed and sew
enty-six injured so badly that their recov-
cry is not expected, in head-on collision
between a train, consisting of a motor
car and trailer, and an empty express car
on the Charleston and Nation interur
ban line at 10 30 o'clock Friday morning
one mile west of Charleston, Ill. Both
cars We're running at high speed and met
as they were rounding a sharp curve. The
impact was deafening. The train was
telescoped by the express car and both
were reduced to a tangled mass of wood
and iron The passengers had not mo-
ment's warning of danger and were killed
or injured without opportunity to save
themselves. The scene of suffering and
death that followed was appalling. The
dead and dying were damned together in
a mass. while many less seriously injured
lay near by. A confusion of orders re-
ceived over the telephone is said to be
responsible for the catastrophe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Convicted of Mine Frauds.

The jury in the federal court in Denver
brought in a verdict in the lost Bullion
Spanish mine case. The verdict was
mixed one, on two of the counts charging
fraudulent use Of the mails all defendants
being found guilty, two being recommend
ed to clemency. On three other counts
charging conspiracy to defraud by the use
of the mails all but two were found
guilty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Restricted Birth Rate Desirable.

Prof. Edward A. Ross. head of the So
GEOLOGY Department of the University Of
Wisconsin. in a lecture to the students,
said that restriction in the birth rate is
a movement which at the bottom is sal
utary, and the evils in its train appear to
be minor or transient or self-limiting or
curable," thus taking direct issue with
President Roosevelt's well-known idea as
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Murder Laid to CIairyoyant.

1t is believed the mysterious death of
John Prowant, whose body was found
with bullet hole in the head in the
Auglaize river, near Dupont, Ohio, has
been solved in Lima. Prowant was muir
dered, it is alleged, on the advice. of
Lima clairvoyant. who informed firebugs
that a young man stood in their way.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Doctor by Day, Thief by Night.

In West Chester, Pa, Judge Butler
sentenced DR.. Benjamin Holbrook, who
was convicted of robbing school houses
and railway stations, to five years i'm
prisonment DR.. Holbrook by day was
well-bred. courteous physician. By night
the doctor became an audacious burglar,
footing railway stations for miles around
CoateSville
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
TICKLE WITH POISON RAPIERS.
Government Asked to Suppress Night
Raiders in PnrnN. y. L.

Night raiders, who steal upon their
sleeping victims dwellings with poisoned
rapiers, and, inserting them through
cracks in the floor or walls. sting the
sleepers TO death, are causing terror in
the Province of Antique, Island of Panay,
=. l. The points of the instruments
make no perceptible wound, and only
wake the victims by Il tickling sensation.
In a few days the victim dies. SO fire.
quent have deaths resulted that the mill
tnry and civic authorities have been call
ed upon to suppress the raiders. People
have been advised to stuff up the cracks
in the floors or to sleep high. The au-
thorities are doing everything in their
power to capture the gang.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Enur Burned to Death.

Searching for an exit from the death
trap that confronted them, and hemmed
in on all sides, four persons were burned
to death in fire on East Grand avenue,
Oklahoma City. The dead: Lillian Raye,
Vergie Wallace, Sadie Ward and Walter
Ward. The fire is believed to have been
of incendiasy origin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05

Nelson Morris, the third member of the
famous big four Chicago big packers,
died Tuesday morning at his home in that
city, in his 6Sth year. Philip D. Armour
and Gustavus f. Swift preceded him to
the grave, and Michael Cudahy is the
only survivor of the city's pioneers in the
packing industry.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05

to race suicide. Prof. Ross says he is
with those who hate famine, war, saber-
toothed competition, class antagonism,
degradation of the masses, wasting of
children, dwarfng of women and cheap
ening of men," and asks if the time viii
come when the mother of more than three
is regarded as a public benefactor and
placed on the pay roll of the State"
Prof. Ross himself is the father of three
childron
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
90 Hurt in Western Wreck.

Twenty persons suffered injuries when
Denver and Rio Grande passenger train
No. 5, west bound was wrecked at Fern
leaf, about twenty-five miles west of
Pueblo, Colo. Among the hurt were Alice
S. Coleman, Ann Arbor. Mich. D. D.
Sturgis, Chicago; S. o. Greiner, Evans
Vile Ind
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05

After long search through adj the hos
pitfalls of Philadelphia, W. 4. Wright, a
young artist of Dallas, Texas, who had
been missing for several weeks, was found
by his father in the hospital ar the naval
home. He went to Philadelphia and at
last, driven desperate by hunger, enlisted
70 the marine corps.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Two-Year-OId Boy Is Acquitted,

Il will not hold this defendant on cir
cumstantial evidence alone He is there
fore discharged and the prosecutor will
pay the costs" There was a wild shout
of applause from 800 spectators. 1t was
the case of Frank d. Fisher of Halle
wood against George Wilson Shaffer, aged
, years, and the hearing was before Mag
istrate w. 2. Armstrong in Pittsburg
The charge was malicious mischief, Fish
err saying the child had dug a hole in his
10
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Rig Nevspaper Plant Burns.

The Courier Journal building, at
Fourth and Green streets, Louisville, in
which are located the plants of the Cou-
rier-Journal and Evening Times, was de-
stroyed by fire. The fire started at the
top of an elevator shaft, supposedly from
defective insulation of electric wires.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Mutfny on U. s. warship.

The officers and men of the United
States cruiser Raleigh, at Honolulu, COM
plain of having no shore leave for the last
two months. As result there has been
almost a mutiny on board. The coaling
of the cruiser has been delayed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Hoard Fayors Oc<upus.

The Naval Submarine Board. which
conducted competitive tests at Newport,
has reported unanimously that the Octu-
pus is the superior Of the boats tested and
the equal Of the best DOW owned by the
United States o. under contract. The
opinion is also expressed that boat SINH
lar to the Octupua- but larger. would De a
superior naval weapon
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Brother of Secretary Root Dies.

Oren Root, brother of Secretary of
State Elihu Root, and professor of math-
ematics and natural sciences at Hamilton
college for twenty-seven years, succeeding
his father, died at his home in Clinton,
n. Y. He had been i'll for about year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
To Fetlerate the Employers.

Delegates from various employers as
sociations have been in conference at
New York for the purpose of forming a
national federation in the hope Of pre-
serving peace in the industrial world.
The meeting was called and presided o3er
by President Van Cleaye of the Manu-
facturers' Association. No final action
was taken, but one month was allowed
to permit the delegates to consult with
their respective organizations.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Death List of Fourth.

One hundred and sixty-four killed and
4.249 injured is the Independence day
record of casualties, according to the re-
port of the Journal of the American Med
ieal Association. In 1906 there were
5.3OS killed and injured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05

At the business meeting at Colorado
Springs of the Imperial Palace Dramatic
order, Knights of Khorassan Of the
World. Seattle was selected as the meet
ing place for 1909. Daniel Z. Summer,
Charlotte, n. c., was elected imperial
prince.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05

The auditors report of the condition of
the Exchange Bank of Macon, Ga, which
recently went into the hands of receiver,
shows that the entire capital and surplus
had disappeared and there was an actual
deficit Of $500.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Farmers Plan Rig Mer~er

A big merger of farmers elevators in
Minnesota is to be formed. The plan is
to secure the cooperation of 200 farmers
elevators in one central organization. 1t
is estimated fully 10000 farmers will be
represented.