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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-11-17
BUSINESS MEMS Politics.

The business men of Alabama met
in their several exchanges throughout
the State Wednesday and protested"
against the Alabama Legislatures con-
templated action, to enforce the laws of
that State against railroad and corpor-
ate violations thereof, and to provide
such penalties as the necessities Of the
hour demanded.
The business men" do not discuss or
deny that there are abuses and violations
of law, but they contend that to enforce
the law Or to engage in legislation look
ing to that end lust now" would fur
Their disturb business"
In Alabama the issue which prompted
the assembling Of that States Legisla
ture is that the State has no right to
legislate except by permission of GER
tain corporations, when that legislation
affects those corporations. As the Mont
gomery Journal remarks Oh this point:
1T presents another issue that these
corporations, whenever any legislation
Of the States is not satisfactory to them,
they will plunge the country into panic
unless they can force repeal of the OBJ
jectionabe laws If this be fact, and
they possess this power of working ruin
and disaster, then the sooner that issue
is INST and the remedy applied, the bet
ter. For if such theory becomes q
condition, then there IS no government
in this country except what the corpora
tons permit. There are two other issues
involved: The independence and SUI
premacy of the State within its own ter
ritoral limits, with respect to its local
or domestic affairs, and that obedience
to law is a duty of all, whether high OK
low, artificial or natural persons"
OF course business interests" So
called do not stop to consider these
things. Its representatives are even
now on pilgrimages to the Nations CAPT
tai inploring the President to cease try
ing to enforce the Ten Commandments.
and to give the country assurance that
no business scoundrel will be disturbed
no matter how nefarious his conduct.
The people of Alabama and the people
of the Nation are just what Louisian-
ians were when, at or near midnight of
the 18th Of September 1874, a commit
tee of business men, Of New Orleans
called upon General F. N. Ogden and
his officers and protested against any eff
fort to overthrow kellogg's niger gov
eminent next day, as it would disturb
business
What General Ogden said in reply is
not fit to print, but it was to the point
and altogether proper.
There was a battle next day, the 18th
of September
The result is historical
Had General Ogden of the White
Leaguers listened to the business inter
ests' the Kellogg niger government
would not have been disturbed. As it
was, white supremacy triumphed and
this is historical
And Alabama will pass all laws neces-
sary to insure justice, all protests to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
And the best and the only way of pro
tectng the business interests is to re
lieve all scoundrels from power and land
all thieves and swindlers in the peni-
tertiary
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-11-17
ESIRAY NOTICE

Taken up by NJ. c. Bagiey, six miles
east Of Spring Ridge in Sixth Ward, and
estrayed before me, the undersigned att
thority, one bay mare about IS hands
high ard 8 or 9 years old. wart on right
ear and old car on left side Of neck I'M
der name. Owner will come forward,
prove property and pay charges, or the
same will be sold at Spring Ridge, La,
on November 80, 1907, as the law di-
reefs. L. T. SYLVESTER,
Justice If the Peace, Sixth Ward Cad
do Parish, Louisiana.
Oct. Fl, 1907.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-11-17
SIS SHE THE LEAN ONE OR THE FAT ONE?

lis SHE THE LEAN ONE OR THE FAT ONE?
any one in the family to learn of my
destination. | wrote to the postmaster
asking If there was hotel in the place
or, if not. would some nice lady board
me over Sunday. He at once replied,
s'There is no hotel but q very nice
daddy will take you next Sunday"
Judging by the way he spelled. he
must have been born double jointed.
wrote to the very nice daddy"
Mrs. Sweet. and made arrangements
for my sojourn with her from Saturday
evening to Monday morning. AS luck
would have it Saturday was rainy. and
Lem dropped in at noon to beg me not
to imperiI my health by travelling; said
stay and help me. But | was deter
mined and managed the matter well,
getting him off without an linking as
to nv destination. Then | got myself
off.
At 6 o'clock the train left me at Skin
ner's Lake and moved on. Some way
when | looked around wanted to
move on with it. The depot is plat
form in the midst of a field. beside
water tank. A path led from it through
a lot where some cows were grazing
and every COW. observed. possessed
NO short horns which pointed straight
III me when she looked in my direc-
tion.
The sun was shining. but every tree
that hung over the platform contrib
uted its quota of recent rain to the I'M
doing Of my new brilliantine suit. so /!
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-11-17
a Coieful Pair.

1T is a woman's privilege to have
the last word" said the cynic
Il know it," answered Mr.. Neekton.
''but there is no use of trying to get
her to hurry to it" Washington Star.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-11-17

The new law Of Pennsylvania reads
that on conviction for murder in the
second degree the convicted can be sent
to prison for not less than twenty year
81 for mot more than his nateral Life.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-11-17

Says the Kansas City Times: The
discovery by the treasury officials at
Washington that counterfeit $40 bank
note has been given wide circulation is
another argument against demanding
cash 'over the counter You might
get some Of that counterfeit money"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-25
ST. JOSEPH TORNADO.
WRECKS HOUSES AND CROPS
NEAR MISSOURI TOWN.
One Home Floats Away, Leaving Oc-
cupants in CeIIar-BoIt Hits Flu
neral Party-U. s. Mines Har-
bors of Pacific Prosecutions.

A tornado and tremendous rain did
heavy damage in St. Joseph Mo-, and
vicinity Thursday night Houses were
wrecked, street railway tracks torn out
and cellars flooded. The family of Dan
lei Riordan, one mile east of the city,
had remarkable escape from death. The
residence, two stories in height, was torn
from the foundation and demolished.
Riordan, his wife and three children had
taken refuge in the basement. They were
buried rslder debris, but the wind lifted
the house bodily from the foundation and
none of the heavy timbers fell on them.
Scores of houses were washed from their
foundations in the city by the rain,
which amounted to a cloudburst. st. Jo-
seph nestles in hills and the force of the
tornado was broken. Sewers could not
carry off the water and raging torrents
flowed through the outlying parts Of the
city. Adam Zihowski attempted TO wade
one of these torrents. He was swept
from his feet and carried toward the
Missouri river two blocks distant. He
caught telephone pole and chung there
twenty minutes until rescued by party
of men with ropes. In Brookdale, low
lying suburb, a score of families We're
driven from their homes by water, which
reached the windows on the first floor.
dozen residences were struck by light
ming, but no fatalities are reported. The
home of Fred Shoemaker, where funeral
party was caught by the storm, was
struck by lightning twice and several per-
sons stunned. Reports from farming sec
tons east of the city say crops were
leveled in the path of the storm and the
loss will be heavy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-25
A UNIFORM INDIAN RELIGION.
Indian to Be Given Instruction thai
Will Not BefuadIe Him.

Will Not Befuadle Him.
A form of Christian religion that will
not befuddle the Indian is being arranged
now by experts in the Indian Department
at Washington, and is to be introduced
in the government Indian schools through
out the United States. The Indian
bureau expects to have the form ready
for introduction by the commencement of
the autumn terms.
The new policy will bar sectarian in
fuences from Indian schools. At pres
ent ministers of all denominations are
allowed to practice their respective creeds
in the government schools, together with
a particular kind of teaching and prayers.
The result is that the Indian pupils be-
come confused. They find the Lords
prayer read and printed in different ways
and different constructions placed upon
some passages of the Scripture.
HencefOrward, however, after the uni
form religious code has been introduced,
only non-sectarian exercises will be per-
mitted. Each denomination, however,
will be allowed to instruct Indians who
desire to embrace a particular faith, but
there is to be no more competition among
denominations for converts.
All Indian tribes originally had form
of religious worship, which was adhered
to with surprising persistency. The at
tempts to convert the red man, however,
have been unceasing since the first dis
coveries of the American continent by
white men. The first white man to live
among the Indian tribes of this locality
was a Spanish priest, who, with the in
tention of converting the Indians, came
into this country with Coronado during
the seventeenth century and remained
with the Pawnees. Eventually he was
tortured and murdered by the people
whom he sought to convert.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-25
BILLEK is TO HANG.
CHICAGO WIZARD CONVICTED OF
KILLING MARY VRZAL.
Crime for Which He Will Pay PEN
atty with His Life Only One of
Jury.

Herman Billek, self-admitted faker
and mixer Of mysterious potions, was
found guilty Of numbering Mary Vrzal,
20 years old, by arsenical poisoning.
and his punishment fixed at death. by
jury in Judge Barnes court in Chi
cago.
-Four other members of the Vrzal
family net death by poisoning. They
We're Martin, the father, Tillie, IS years
old, Rosie, IA years old, and Ella, u
years old. Five indictments were re-
turned against Billek, and this was
the first case to be tried.
When the verdict was read, BilIek.
who was standing against a wall near
the jury box, staggered and put his
hand against pillar for support. After
the usual motion for a new trial was
entered the prisoner was led from the
court room to Jail. He refused to make
a statement.
When the verdict was read Edna Bill
lex, 8 years old, daughter of the con-
victed man, between sobs exclaimed:
''They have beaded my papa!'
Mrs. Billek tainted and was escorted
from the court room by her sons, Frank
and Herman.
On the other side of the court room
Mrs. Emma Vrzal Niemann, the eldest
NrZal child. stood with Jerry and Ber-
tina Vrzal. They cried when the verdict
was read.
History of the Crimes.
Martin VrZal was a milk vender, iiv-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-25

ing with his family at CIT West 10Th
street. When he met Billek in the
summer of 1904 Billek informed Vrzal
that a rival milk vender was his enemy
and offered to cast a spell that would
protect VrZal from harm. VrZal agreed,
and potion of white fluid was brewed
on the Vrzal stove and strewn across
the gateway of the Donosky home
across the way. For this service Billek
accepted loan.
Shortly afterward Vrzal became i'll
and Billek administered medicine to
him. Vrzal suffered from symptoms re-
sembling the effects of arsenic poison
ing and died in a few days.
In July, 1905, Mary Vrzal, the eldest
daughter, and for whose murder Billek
was convicted, visited Billek and told
him she was i'll. He gave her medicine
and she died from arsenic poison. In
rapid succession the deaths of other
members of the family followed.
Charged by her neighbors with a
guilty knowledge of the manner of the
deaths, Mrs Vrzal swallowed chloro-
form and died Dec. 5, I9O6.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-25
LOSS ON CRIMINALS.
LAWBREAKERs CAUSE EXPENSE
81, 200 A YEAR EACH.
Caring for Vicious and Pauper
Glasses Costs More than Nations
Wealth Grovys-New York Muir
Geress Is Liberated.

"This country spends S6,0O0.oO0000
annually on the criminal. pauper and
vicious classes, and the annual increase
of wealth is only $5.O0O,O0O,0OO. Does
not that look as if the public were bank
rupt?" This statement was made in
lecture by DR.. Charles j. Bushnell, who
is conducting a model public playground
in Washington. He is a graduate of
Heidelberg university and an authority
on civic matters. DR.. Bushnelps figures
are taken, he says, from reliable sources
and represent years of careful study. He
challenges anyone to disprOve their &C
curacy. He and his wife have made
special study of what they call the social
illness" of the United States. Continuing,
DIR. Bushnell said: why, the $6,00O,oo0,-
600 that this nation spends every year on
its criminal cases equals the amount spent
on all churches, public libraries, the
Young Mems Christian Association, the
Salvation Army, public hospitals, asylums
for the insane and all benevolent institu-
tions. The average factory hand earns
$40 a year, while it is estimated that the
average criminal costs the public at least
$1,000 a year"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-25
TeIcyrap hic Breyitiex.

In the population of New York City
there are $4,000 persons of German par
entage, $4,000 of Irish, 10000 of Rus
sian and $4,000 of Italian.
The Catholic Educational Association
of the United States chooses Cardinal
Gibbons for honosry president and urges
greater effort in building up colleges.
Working women in the fruit fields of
California will henceforward work only
eight hours a day instead of working
from sunrise to sunset, as they have hith-
erto done.
The board of managers of the Baptist
Young Peoples Union, in session in
Spokane Wash, selected Cleveland. Ohio,
as the place for holding the seventeenth
annual convention next July.
Announcement is made that the famous
likeness of George Washington by Gilbert
Stuart. known as the Gibbs Claiming
Avery portrait, has been acquired by the
New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The house in Lirchfeld, Conn, in which
Judge Tappan Reeve started the first
law school in this country in 1774, has
just been sold at auction to parties who
will see that it is preserved for its his
torical value.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Berlin says that Major Won Grossi's
dirigibIe balloon for the German army has
made some highly successful trials at
night recently for the purposes Of secrecy.
The balloon, it is stated, easily maintain
ed a speed of thirty lies an hour
Prof. Berg, in Buenos Ayres. reports
that he has discovered spider which
practices fishing at times. In shallow
places it spins between stones two
winged, conical net, on which it runs on
the water and captures small fish, tad
poles, etc. That it understands its work
well is shown by the numerous shriveled
skins of little creatures that lie about
In the web net.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-25

Germany alone sends to London an
nually 20,000,O00 feathers of birds for
millinery purposes.
President Henry Hopkins Of Williams
college is to retire and Prof. Harry A.
Garfield of Princeton. son of the late.
President Garfield, has been chosen to-
succeed him.
The largest plow ever built has been
successfully used On Texas ranch. The.
implement clears a strip of ground seven.
feet wide.
Responsible heads Of lawless corpora
lions should be placed in prison, as the
present system of fning the corporations
is useless and absurd says Woodrow
Wilson, president of Princeton university,
in a speech at the jamestown exposition
Reinforced cement is now the favorite
material with British builders of large
chimneys. One already completed in
London is 2j0 feet high with base 90
feet in diameter, with a foundation IS
feet square.
One of the best architects in the world
is the oriole. Its graceful nest contains.
four to six whitish eggs, marked with
black and brown.
Major General 1. Franklin Bell, chief
of staff Of the army, explained at Leaven-
worth, Kan, that the something wrong
in the army" to which he recently re-
ferred, was inadequate pay and INSULT
Gent number of officers"
A movement is on foot among Ameri
cans in Paris to purchase the house in
which Benjamin Franklin lived while
there and make it museum. The house
bears on its front Franklin's name, sur
mounted by medallion portrait of him. !
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-25
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Chicago-Cattle, common 10 prime,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, prime heavy, $4.O0
to $685.; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $500; wheat, No 2, soc to Ole
corn, No. 2, sc to 53c; oats, Standard
42c to ABE; rye, No. 2, Soc to SIC; hay,
timothy, $14.O0 to $1,000; prairie, $500
to $500; butter, choice creamery, 10c
to 25c; eggs, fresh, 12c to Ice; potatoes,
new, per bushel, 7Sc to S2c.
Indianapolis-Ca shipping $500
to $685.; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to.
5000; sheep, common to prime, $500 to
$500: wheat, No. 2, SIC to SSc; corn,
No. 2 white, sc to 54c; oats, No. 2
white, 45c to 46c.
st. Louis-CattIe, $3.50 to S7.35;
hogs, $500 to S5.95; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, soc to 9Oc; corn,
No 9, SIC to 53c; oats, No. 2, 43c to,
45c; rye, No. 2, SIC to Sac.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to 5000
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to.
S4.75: wheat, No. 2, 92c to 93c; corn,
No 2 mixed, soc to SIC; oats, No. 2
mixed, 46c to 47c; rye, No. 2, SC to Sc.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $500; hogs
$500 to 5000; sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. 2, Ole to 93c; corn, No. 3
yellow, soc to SIC; oats, No. 3 white.
Acc to 47c; rye, No. 2, 79c to SOC.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. northern.
CSC to STOP; corn, No. 3, SIC to 53c;
oats, standard 45c to 46c; rye, No. l..
Soc to SIC; barley, standard, 69c to roc :;
pork, mess, S16.12.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers.
$500 to $3.50; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to 1925; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to 1925; lambs, fair to choice.
$500 to $3.50.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $500;
hogs, $500 to $500; sheep, $500 to.
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 96c to 97c;
corn, No. 2, 59c to G0c; oats, natural
white, sic to SIC; butter, creamery, pc
to 25c; eggs, western. loo to 1Sc.
Toledo-Wheat, No. mixed, 9Oc to,
Ole; corn, No. 2 mixed, 54c to SIC ;.
oats, No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45c; rye, No.
2, 79c to soc; clover seed, prime 1892.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-25
NEW YORK.

Weather conditions still favor season
able trade and crops, and there is no more
than ordinary quiet noted in wholesale
lines as a result of midsummer conditions
and the reign of the vacation season. Re
tail trade especially is turning out rather
better than anticipated. One favorable
development certainly calling for notice
is the continuance of good reports as to-
collections. Fair activity with firm
prices. is noted in wool. Large sales are
few. Conservative buying of shoes and
leather is noted in leading markets.
In the leading industries there are some
cross-currents. Iron and steel are quieter
as a whole, with prices tending to ease,
while copper is lower and stocks reported
accommodating. In the shoe trade business
is moderate. In the cotton goods industry
production is of record proportions, but
still insufficient to meet demand.
Business failures in the United States.
for the week ending July Is number III,
against 49, last week, 1873 in the like
week of 1906. 16J in 1905, 100 in 1904
and 1873 in 1908. Canadian failures for
the week number 26, as against 2S last
week and IS in this week a year ago.
Bradstreet's Commercial Report.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-25
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
WESTERN IEAGUE.
HELPED KILL GULDENSUPPE.

New York Authorities Release Mrs.
Mack After Nine Years in Prison.
Mrs. Augusta Mack, who was impli-
Gated in the murder of William Gulden-
suppe in New York in 1897, for which
Martin Thorn was put to death, was re-
leased from Auburn prison the other day.
She had served nine years and five months
in prison. Mrs. Mack, together with Mar
tin Thorn, barber, was charged with the
murdSr of William Guldensuppe on June
-, 1897, in a cottage at Woodside, L. l.
Mrs. Mack turned States evidence and
confessed all the grewsome details of the
crime which she and her sweetheart,
Thorn, had perpetrated. The murder
was a most brutal affair, the victims
body having been dismembered, the parts
wrapped in oilcloth, and disposed of at
various points.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-25
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The bald-headed mans annual quar-
rel with the house fly has begun
Washington Post.
The summer girls campaign has be-
Well, watch her.-Philadelphia In
quirer.
DR.. Wiley says it is not the pie, but
the filling that one should be afraid
of, as pies go these days.-Washingt
Herald.
Boston has put up the price of pie,
from going down in that town-Wash-
ington Herald.
After the Meat Trust has been broken
up by everybody refusing to eat meat,
everybody will go barefooted to bust
the Shoe Trust, of course.-Philadel-
phia Press.
Pittsburg suggests automobile STREET
sprinklers. Well, there really ought
to be a closer relation between the
automobile and the water wagon
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The fning of jamestown EXPOSE
ton visitor $40 for kissing a Norfolk
girl has been quite generally denounc-
ed. but as Exposition prices go the
amount is not high-Philadelphia
Press
London eXperimenters find that mo-
toring enriches the blood and gives
good sleep. The tests were applied to
those who ride, not to the man who
gets in front of the motor.-New York
World.
From the amount of heat Old Sol
has been giving out lately he has evil
IDENTIFY had those spotss removed from
his face.-Washingto Post.
For an impressive Illustration of the
meaning of the phrase making up for
lost time" just note what the weather
is doing.-New York Tribune.
1t is strange to hear that the mos
quitoes are annoying the President at
Sycamore Hill. What are the Secret
Service men up o?-Philadelphia
Press.
J. P. Morgan is dickering for a
100000 art collection. He can afford
it. He could buy Il quarter of beef if
he liked-Nashville American.
Snake bite is said to kill some % 900
persons in India every year. In this
country millions resort to the cure be-
fore they are bitten.-Washingto Post.
The New England man who has
given $50 to the Hartford Theological
Seminary to be kept in savings bank
until it becomes S1.O00.O00 is a believer
in long-range generosity.-New York
Tribune.
Half the college girls. according to
President G. Stanley Hall, of Clark
University. fail to marry. But consider
their usefulness as advisers of their
married sisters and as authorities on
social science applied to matrimony +!
Shall not their contributions to the
theory of marriage offset their short
comings in its practice?-New York
World
If the japanese are really going to
insist upon a scrimmage with this coun-
try. they must not expect to borrow
the money of US to pay their part Of
the expenses OF it.-New York Mail.