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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
CHICAGO

The highly sustained volume of conn
MERGE centerlng here is atteSted by aggre-
gate payments through the banks during
the past month and this week. which ex-
hibit striking gains over a year ago. Less
pressure for money and few business fail
ures make easier conditions for capital in
Vestment, and with continued profitable
returns for farm and range products the
indications appear brighter for a lower
ulScount rate to mercantile borrowers
1rade responds TO the better effect of
favorable developments. Preparations
reflect renewed confidence among the lead
ing producers and little capacity remains
10 De booked up for this quarter. New
demands equal expectations in iron. steel
anu railway equipment, and the orders
Tor future deliveries are satisfactory in
ioise WORK. machinery, heavy hardware,
wire products, furniture and footwear.
country merchants come from nearby
points IN increasing numbers and their
selections of fall and winter fares stimu-
late expanding activity in wholesale
branches. Shipping rooms work overtime
and the forwardings to the interior com
pare favorably in quantities with tbis
time last year.
Mercantile collections throughout the
West occasion little trouble, and, not
Wlthstanding tight money, the defaults
carry no special significance.
Bank clear.ngs. $263,309, 200, exceed
those of the corresponding week in 1906
by 10 per cent. Choice commercial pa
per is quoted at 61a per cent, and cur
rency Withdrawals to move crops make
a smaller total than last year. Failures
reported in the Chicago district numbered
-, against Is last week and % a year
ago. Failures with liabilities over So
600 numbered 4, against Z last year
Dun's Review of Trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
PRISON CONGRESS IN CHICAGO.
Annual Session of the National
Prison Association.

Prison AssOtsat1On.
The annual congress of the National
Prison Association attracted many prom
insnt officials and students Of criminol-
ogy to Chicago. The report of the COM
mittee of preventive and reformatory
work advocated a complete revision of
our criminal code. 1t is held that the
system of fees charged in the defense
and prosecution of criminals is wrong. A
wealthy criminal should not be permitted
to pay for his defense dollar more than
the State pays in defending a criminal
without financial backing. In The opinion
Of the committee one of the greatest So
cial evils of to-day is the privilege which
the rich have of escaping punishment for
their acts.
Warden butcher of the Colorado State
reformatory argued against having pris-
oners constantly watched by armed
guards. While admitting that in certain
cases it might be necessary, he thought
that the display of firearms in penal in
stitutions was fraught with grave dan
gers and with evil consequences. The re-
suit of this policy was inevitably TO mark
the criminal with ugliness and TO fill him
with resentment and hatred against all
who have part in the administration Of
the criminal law. Throughout all the
addresses at the congress the prevailing
tendency was in favor of those methods
which lead toward the reformation and
betterment of criminals rather than those
which are actuated by spirit OF revenge,
and much attention was paid to the asso-
Citations being formed throughout the
country for the purpose of helping ex-
convicts to their feet.
Attorney General Bonaparte, address,
ing the Prison Wardens' Association On
Wednesday, advocated the death penalty
for habitual criminals mad for attempts
to commit capital crimes. He argued that
the primary purpose Of punishment was
to assure obedience to the law, and that
in inf1icting punishment the Stale looks
not to the past and not to the Individual
who now suffers, but to all the ;n1ivid-
uals who may hereafter fear to disobey by
reason of the sufferings of the one now
punished. The habitual criminal, he said,
was a product of modern civilization, as
our ancestors would have hanged-him for
his first felony. He did not favor hang
ing men for trifing offenses, but lie would
have society cease to nourish and shell
ter its proved and inveterate enemies"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
Peace Conference Topics Again.

The question of the limitation of arma-
ments having been disposed of with the
mildest kind of resolution, suggesting that
the different governments consider the
matter The Hague conference entered
upon a new stage with British, American,
German and French delegations combin-
ing against Russia, Belgium and others
who are anxious to terminate the confer
ence. America, England and Germany
agreed on scheme for the establishment
of an international prize court, which
is also acceptable to France and certain
of adoption A new feature of this scheme
is that the prize court will be part OF
the permanent arbitration court, and
therefore does not presuppose the exist
ence of war This further strengthened
the case in behalf of a permanent court
by showing that it would have impor-
tant work to do.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
TELLS STRANGE TALE
MAN HAS EXPERIENCE LIKE
HERO OF FICTION.
Legacy Starts Train of Romantic
Events that Sound Almost Improb-
abIe-Maine People Abstain from
Meat on Account of ExtOrtiOn.

When Fred c. Doorway. late Of Sud
bury, Ont, arrived at the Palmer House
in Chicago the other day, swathed in a
black frock coat Of clerical cut and wear
ing a mild manner and a pair of eye
glasses, he brought story with him which
he didn't expect many people to believe.
The plot centers about an inheritance OF
$1S0,0O0 left hfn by a benevolent old
woman, one Mrs. J. II. James, Woo died
about two years ago in New York. lie
succored her in a train wreck at Ioose
Jaw, a small station near Rush Lake,
Manitoba, where, he said, he was sta
toned in the winter Of 1905 as chief
train dispatcher for the Canadian Pacific
railroad. Her entertainment cost HIM
SO. He sent her bill after her return
to New York Inside Of a month l
received a letter from some New York
lawyer telling me that she had left Inc
S1S0,OO0 Right there my troubles be-
gam" he explained. Doorway said that
he procured the services of a lawyer nam
ed ]. ]. Dunlop at Kansas City and met
him later by arrangement at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel in New York. Here a
stranger called on him one nigat and
offered him a box of chocolates. 4 am
not a drinking man." said Mr.. Doorway,
but | do like chocolates. | ate one and
fell from my chair l do not know what
happened Immediately after that" When
he came to himself, he heard the waves
sIapping against the side of a vessel, he
says For about eleven months, as near
ly as he could gauge, he stayed in the
hold Of the vessel, not knowing whittier
it was bound. One morning he k ocked
over a few of his guards and escaped ut
a port From the conversation Of the
natives, who wore black skins, ne inferred
that he was in Mexico, and at Vera Cruz.
After divers and trying experiences he
walked from Vera Cruz to Za2ltccas,
where he took a ship for San francisco.
After working as a telegraph operator IN
San Francisco and Salt Lake, he reached
Chicago, where he met his wife by APP
ToiptInpDt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
PIRATES USE MOTOR BOAT.
Many Long Island Mansions Plum
dered by Up-to-Date Thieves.

dered by Up-to-Date Thieves.
Discounting the audacious performances
of Captain Kidd and other rovers Of the
dead past, the performances of Long
Islands motor boat pirates have furnish
ed the State police with mysteries and
work for the past several days. Within
this time dozen of the magnificent man
sions on Long Island sound have been
plundered of rich loot. No one has seen
the gang, but that it is probably led by
a woman has been ascertained. Imprlnts
of a woman's shoes in the sand, leading
from the beach to a residence from which
$1,000 worth of plate was stolen, gave
the first clew to the police that woman
was one of the gang. Later it became
known that an automobile boat of great
speed had been dimly seen in the sound
about an hour or so before the residence
of John Alvin Young had been rifed. And
the man who saw the boat declares it pa
troled up and down the sound near
Young's house, while indistinctly a wom-
ans voice, apparently issuing orders,
could be heard over the water. The police
have worked like beavers, but without
result. District Attorney Soles has Of
fered a reward of $1,000 for the arrest
of the woman pirate and her accom-
plices. That the burglaries continue in
the face of precautions marks the woman
leader as a person of extreme GOODNESS
and daring. In conception and eXecu-
ton, the crimes rank among the classics
of the criminal bureau of the metropolitan
police department.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
YeIeorsDhic Brevities.

An eight-story building occupied by
Lewis De Croft & Son, wholesale grocers,
of New York, was destroyed by fire. Loss
$25O,OO0.
The second annual interstate live stock
and horse show at the South st. Joseph
(Mo.1 stockyards closed recently. Twelve
thousand dollars il prizes were paid.
Investigation of an alleged effort to
smuggle $4,000 worth of pearls is under
way by the customs officials at New York
The pearls are the property of Cali
fornia dealer.
Federal laws to guarantee the purity
of dairy products entering interstate com
merce probably will be recommended to
Congress by the President as a result Of
recent Investigations made by the Depart
ment Of Agriculture.
Postmaster General Meyer is seeking
the support of postmasters throughout
the country for his proposed recommends
tions to Congress in behalf of the postal
savings scheme and parcels post.
High officials of the Persian army have
signed a document presented to the Shah
saving that unless full acceptance is Civ
en- to their demands fer a constitutional
government they viii resign in body.
The Emperor of Germany made po-
litico-religious speech at the unwilling Of
the monument at Mcneil, in which he as
cribed the progress Of Germany in the last
hundred years to the religious awakening
of the people, which began about 1907.
Harry Stone, alias Harry Wulle, Sec
ond-terTner serving five years in the Ohio
penitentiary, has been declared, according
to Pittsburg advices, as the murderer OF
Contractor Samuel T. Ferguson, who was
killed Sept. %, 1903, at West MidGetown,
Pa, and robbed of $4,000. Stone was
sent up last year for counterfeiting. 1t
is reported that Stones mother at Ben
wood. near Pittshurg, confessed that he
killed Ferguson.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
AUTOMOBILE ON THE FARM.
1t Has Become a Common Thing in
Nebraska and Kansas.

Nebraska and Kansas.
Western agents of automobile factories
assert that if the machines could be Sc
cured hundreds of autos could be sold this
summer to the farnlIs E Nebraska and
Kansas. As it is the residents of country
towns and the farmers are buying more
of the benzine buggies than the cities,
and there is scarcely country town in
Nebraska in which there are not more
automobiles in proportion to population
than in Lincoln or Omaha.
The prosperity of western farmers has
become an old story, and this prosperity
is going to be augmented this year By an
other big crop of wheat and corn and
oats. Most of the farmers in the State
could buy medium priced machine just
as luxury if they wanted to, but the
manner in which they have amassed their
money does not lead to extravagances of
that kind.
When a Nebraska agriculturist adds to
his machinery collections he buys only
that which viii be of use. That is why
he is just now turning to the automobile.
The favorite farm type is the runabout,
largely because of its low first cost. The
prudent farmer figures that with good
carriage horse bringing $3.50 to $3.50 each
On the market he is foolish TO utilize
them in his pleasure jaunts and his jour
neyings to and from church. If he uses
his work horses to go to town or about
the country he deducts just that much
from their working capacity on the farm.
By using an auto he saves the horses
fresh for the farm work, he can trans
act his business quicker and get back to
the farm in a short time, to his financial
betterment.
The employment of the gasoline engine
on farms in the pumping of water for
stock and in running threshing machinery
and grinders and shelters has familiarized
him with this type Of power and he takes
hold of an automobile proposition with
interest and enthusiasm.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
REV. JAMES NJ. KING DEAD.
Head of Methodist Episcopal Board
of Missions and Church Extension.

of Missions and Church Extension.
Rev. James NJ. King, LII. D., executive
head of the board of home missions and
church extension of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, and known throughout the
world of Methodism, died at his home in
Philadelphia. Dr. King, who was elected
to his Office in 1889, was born at Girard,
Pa, in 1889, and was graduated from the
Wesleyan university. For six years he
was professor of natural science in the
Collegiate institute at Fort Edward, n.
Y. He joined the Troy conference in
1868, and erected a beautiful church at
Saratoga Springs. In 1873 he was trans
ferred to the New York conference, and
was pastor successfully Of Washington
Square, st. James, Eighteenth Street,
Park Avenue, st. Johns, and Union
Methodist churches in New York. His
pastoral life was unique in that, although
coming directly under the itinerant rule Of
the Methodist church, he had not been re-
moved out of New York for more than
twenty years. DR.. King was more widely
known outside of his own denomination
than probably any other preacher. He
was a frst-class pulpit orator and fine
parliamentarian.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
Children Killed by Mother.

Martha and Catherine, infant children
of Mrs. Catherine Thomas, an inmate of
the Cambria county almshouse at Johns
town, Pa. were found dead in their beds,
having been strangled. Finger marks
were found on the children's threats. Mrs.
Thomas is said to have confessed to the
deed, saying she was afraid her husband
would take them from her.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
Mob wounds Forty Policemen.

SeditiouS agitation led to serious riot
ing in Calcutta, in which forty policemen
were wounded. A meeting was being
held in honor of the students recently
punished for assaulting the police, and
harangues We're delivered advocating the
establishment of self-government, the
meeting of opposition by force, etc. These
speeches worked on the crowd.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10

At Danville. Wash, an angry mob
drove a small party of Hindoos across
the line into Canada. sending a shower of
missiles after them. 4 few shots wee
discharged at the trespasserS. but none
was injured, it is believed. The Hindoos
had found shelter in a cabin ut Danville
following their escape from Canada.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
Robbers Kill Alabama officer.

One of the most daring and successful
crimes ever recorded in the South was
committed in Seldom, Alao Saturday
night when four masked robbers looted
the First National Bank of S5T5,525,
murdered Sheriff John Williams. who
was endeavoring to stop them, and es-
capped with their booty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
Must Hang Man; Judge Faints.

When about to sentence Peter Mathie-
son, who had been found guilty of murder
On the first degree, Judge McCIenahan
collapsed and was carried from the court
room in Bemidji, MINI. He revived with
in few minutes, however, returned to
the court room and sentenced the man to
hang within ninety days.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
sIexicans Held as Witnesses.

Five Mexicans are being detained at
Tucson, ArizoIa, as witnesses in the case
pending. against the Duquesne Mining
Company, charged with violating the alien
labor contract law. The company is
charged with importing twenty-nine Mex
lean laborers and conviction means fine
Of 600 600
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
500. 600 Goes to Poor Nurse.

Mrs Samuel Horn of Lincoln, Neb,
who had been married FIVE times and who
died several days ago, left 100000 near
ly all her estate, to Mrs. Alpha NJ. Sheva-
lier, a poor widow, who nursed her
through her last illness. Mrs. Horn dis
Inherited her sister, Mrs. Mary Nicholas
of Washington, D. c., because she had
opposed her fifth marriage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
Negro Admits Double Murder.

Layton Hines, negro, arrested on sus-
picion of being connected with the murder
of Anna Markowitz of Covington, Ky.
and Abe Cohen of Indianapolis, Ind, in
Dayton, Ohio, near McCabe's park, Aug.
t last, has made a full confession, accord
ing to Sheriff Boes He is said to have
confessed that he shot Cohen and then
strangled the girl to death
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
LegIess Man n Prize Dancer.

A buck and wing dancing contest for
the local championship and $50 in gold
was the feature of the ball of the Fourth
Ward Club in Bayonne, n. J. The con-
test was won by Henry Blaire, a legless
painter, who carves his own legs and
wears shoes He introduced steps his
competitors never had seen.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
Cruiser Has High Sueed

The new second-class German turbine
cruiser Stettin attained a speed of 25.S
knots an hour in her trial. which is con-
siderably above the contract require
ments. The Stettin is of 1850 tons dis
placement, is 354114 feet long, and has
541a feet beam. She was built at the
Vulcan works at Stettin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
Falls on Fence; Heart Is Hit.

Mrs. Hannah Hahn, 50 years old, met
horrible death at her home, the Clarissa
apartment house, Seventh avenue and
140th street, New York. She had been
i'll, and either fell or jumped from the
bedroom of her apartments on the fourth
floor, and her body was impaled on one of
the pickets of a fence, the iron spike
piercing her heart.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
Once Wealthy; Dies Poor.

The newspapers report the death and
burial of William Francis Carey, who
was a wealthy Wall street operator until
the recent slump in stocks. Mr.. Carey,
who at one time had home on Madison
avenue New York, where he entertained
extensively, ended his days in poor lodg
ings and in poverty, it is stated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
Treads on Toes and Is Shot.

Shot and mortally wounded after he
had accidentally trodden on the toes of
bootblack on the Long Island ferryboat
Hudson City, Robert Baine, 40 years DID,
chief engineer of the Far Rockaway water
works. is in Bellevue hospital. His as
sailant, John Barberi, is locked up in
police headquarters.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10

MRS. CdADW1Ch. d past anu d Gull
science can suffer. She is woman after
all. Even her jailers are treating her
with that Difference due to her sex, forget
ting her crimes. Absolutely dependent
upon her keepers for her every want,
Mrs. Chadwick is more than likely to end
her days in darkness, surrounded by foes,
while the last sad rites will be admin
istered by those who in a perfunctory
sort of way do it because it is part of
their duty,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
FIFTEEN ESCAPE DEATH.
Trolley Pole Stops Car on Edge OF
Hundred-Foot Abyss.

Fifteen passengers, including several
women and a motorman and conductor,
had narrow escape late Thursday night
from pIunging to their death from the
Ashtabula and Pennsylvania Electric
railroad viaduct to the Ashtabula river,
100 feet below. The passengers were in a
panic and several We're injured by flying
glass. The car was saved by a trolley
pole from making the plunge. The body
of the coach left the tracks and one end
hung suspended over the river. The acct
dent happened about mile from the
Lake Shore bridge, where the Ashtabula
(Ohio) horror occurred thirty years ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
One ki1led inn nrotor Car CRASH.

In Rapid City, s. D., in a collision be-
tween a motor car loaded with passengers
and freight train Mary Platt, aged 9,
was killed: her brother George. aged 8.
was badly injured internally, and suffered
a leg broken, and four others were less
seriously injured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
Confesscs He Killed Fourteen Men.

D. D. Edwards, on trial in Chatta-
nooga for the murder of Sam Brooks, a
negro. when asked under cross-examina-
ton if he had killed any one previous to
the shooting of Brooks, admitted that he
had killed fourteen men in the Kentucky
mountains and during labor strikes in
Chicago Edwards is a Kentucky feudist.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
Jury Holds Wife for Murder

In Sioux Falls, s. D.. the coroner's
jury summoned to investigate the mys-
FERROUS murder of John VI. O'Grady. an
aged pioneer. returned a verdict holding
Mrs. O'Grady responsible for the death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
MEAT UP; PEOPLE TO STRIKE,
Rise i'm Prices in Augusta Starts
Plans for 10 Big Revolt.

Rise in Prices in Augusta Starts
Plans for ~ Big Revolt.
A novel effect of the rise in the price
of food stuffs. particularly meat, is tax
ing place at Augusta, Me. Nearly 1,2O0
people of Kennebec county are in open re-
volt against the high prices demanded for
meat and have pledged themselves to abb
stain from all meat for ten days. 1t is
hoped by this method to force prices
down. The date on which the strike will
become effective has not yet been an
nounced, but the fasting will begin in
Augusta, Gardner, Halowell, Winthrop
and several of the smaller towns at the
same time,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10

produced. lncarcer-
ated in the State
prison at Columbus,
Ohio, serving a 10
year sentence, this
remarkable woman,
W b o S e meSIneric
pow er compelled
some of the shrewd-
est bankers in the
United States to do
her bidding, is shut
out from the world
around her by an
affection from which
she will never re-
cover. The attic
ton came upon her
suddenly and the
doctors say it is in
durable. There has
been a complete ply
steal breakdown.
Practically alone
in the world, de-
serted by those who
had in the days of
her amuence been
proud to call her
friend, the DR..
Jekyll OF her past
always before her,
she is suffering as
only a woman with
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
President Delivers Address.

President Roosevelt delivered the adj
dress of the day at the unwilling of the
Mckinley memorial at Canton, Ohio,
drawing the lesson from life of the mar
tyred executive that class hatred should
be abolished
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
Waterways to Curb Railroads,

President Roosevelt, in his speech at
Keokuk, Iowa, before starting down the
Mississippi, declared for the Improvement
of inland water ways as a curb on ex-
cessive freight charges by the railroads.