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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
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CHICAGO.

In the disturbing developments OF the,
week. dearer money, weakness in the Sc
curity markets and the more embarraSs-
ing telegraphers' strike, there are rca.ons
for conservatism in business undertake
ings. Aside from these drawbacks trade
maintains steady course, with prepara-
tons for fall activity more in evidence,
new demands equaling expectations az this
time in the manufacturing branches and
the buying of general merchandise being
stronger. Crop reports carry additional
encouragement, seasonable weather having
Drought rapid progress in corn and spring
wheat growth, and this increases conf
dence among the agricultural interests.
transactions make a satisfactory ex-
hlblt IN the steel industry, especially for
rails, plates, wire and miscellaneous
shapes, while specifications cause further
pressure upon capacity of rolling mills.
furnace output is yet in rapid consump-
ton and bookings run we'll ahead in this
district, but commitments for the last
quarter show hesitancy, buyers awaiting
price concessions.
Some shs ding in quotations of iron for
future delivery is reported and copper is
easier without bringing out important
deals
Distribution of the necessaries and
heavy materials is seen to be remarkably
active and freight earnings of the Chi
cago roads surpass the high records made
year ago. Large numbers of interior
buyers crowd the wholesale market for
staple wares and the general buying
makes substantial gain in dry goods, cloth
ing, boots and shoes and food products.
The markets for live stock and provis-
ions touched the highest average values
recorded this year, owing mainly to small
er supplies of the former, but spot grain
and flour were in slow request.
The markets for live stock and provS-
ions touched the highest average values
recorded this year, owing mainly to small
er supplies of the former, but spot grain
and flour were in slow request.
Bank clearings, $221, $50, 16S, exceed
those of corresponding week in 1896 by
1874 per cent.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number %, against 30 last week and
"a year ago.-Dun's Review.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
THIRD BIG KEY STRIKE.
First, in 1869, and Second. in 1883
Lost rh. Qnerrfnrs

Lost by the Operators.
The present telegraphers' strike is the
third big one in the history of American
key manipulators The first two were
disastrous from the viewpoint of the oper-
ators.
1t was on the night of July 10, 1888,
that message was flashed over the West
ern Union wires of the country from the
office OF the grand chief of telegraphers in
Pittsburg. This message read: Gen
eral Grant is dead" 1t was the signal
to the key men to quit work and many
newspapers, failing to recognize its sig
nifcance. issued extras which We're cried
IN the streets announcing the death of
General Grant.
Prior to the strike much publicity had
been given to the grievances of the Broth
erhood, which was asking for an in
crease of 10 per cent in the wages and
public sympathy was largely with the
men. The companies had been preparing
for the strike for some weeks and when
the men were called out had force of
men, more or less experienced. to take
their places. Despite this fact the bust
ness of the country suffered heavily. Dis
patches accumulated in the offices of the
Western Union and in some instances
they were returned to the sender.
After the first trial of strength the
company gained daily on its operators.
Rumors of detection in various parts of
the country reached Chicago; the men
were without adequate funds to push
their controversy, and after the first week
their cause was as good as lost.
The strike was formally declared off
by John \. Campbell, grand chief teleg-
rapher, month after its inception. with
out gain to the operators. Many of them
We're refused, when they applied for their
old positions, on the ground that they
had fomented trouble and wages remain
ed at their former level
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
Told in a Few Liues.

For the last three months the tropical
island of Jamaica. surrounded by warm
sea. where the evaporization is great has
suffered from drouth as severe as. any
which visit the inland deserts, far away
from any large body Of water.
Marcelin Albert, leader of the recent
revolt in the Midi France, who was re-
leased from Jail. received a cold welcome
upon arrival at Montpelier. His late ad-
mirers reproached him for not returning
sooner after his release and booted him
until he entered his house.
Edict of the archbishop of Toronto,
barring ''peek -a-boo" waists and short
sleeves from church, is accepted and will
be enforced in Roman Catholic churches
in the Kansas cities.
The Hampstead (London) borough
council has instructed committee to
draft bylaws dealing with street noises,
especially the intolerable nuisance Of
organ grinding and church BELLS
Sir Hiram Maxim, the great engineer
and inventor Of the automatic system of
firearms. has confessed that he was no
infant prodigy-in fact, he believes that
he was the most stupid and also the best
behaved pupil at his first school.
\ dumb tramp has been arrested in
Berlin for begging. He used phono-
graph, visiting private houses only. where
his machine poured out heartrending
tale of its owners misfortunes.
John Schaeffer of North Benton, Ohio,
has celebrated his 101st birthday. He is
the oldest clergyman in Ohio. and, posi-
bly,, in the United States. He preached
regularly for sixty years.
Bellevue hospital lost a patient who
had been there ten years when Alfred
Steward, % years old. died the other day.
Steward went to the hospital in 1897, suf-
fering from a lesion Of the spine. and
tsyenty-one house surgeons have been M
te-ested in his case.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
BIG STRIKE SPREADS.
TELEGRAPH KEYS IN MANY
CITIES ARE QUIET.
Suspension OF Wire mmunication
Affects All Lines of Business
Daily Newspapers and Market
Centers Are Hardest Hit.

With Chicago as the center, the strike
OF the commercial telegraphers had
spread to nearly every section Of the
country Sunday. The strike fever
seemed to run rampant, city following
city ia suffering isolation until the tele-
graph offices of thirty-five cities had
been deserted by the keymen. Chicago
was virtually isolated Although a few
leased wires were working when the
operators employed by the Western
Union Telegraph Company in Chicago
walked out on strike at midnight
Thursday the industry Of the entire
country was affected. The men quit
work after voting a sympathetic strike
to aid the Los Angeles operators, who
struck twenty-four hours earlier. Their
immediate reason was that the COM
pany officials insisted on their working
on Los Angeles wires with strike-break-
ing operators at the western end
Come from Other Cities.
Operators have been called in from
the smaller towns and cities and there
are many recruits also from the ranks
of graduates men and women who
have left the vocation and are IN other
lines of business.
New York sent many telegraphers to
Chicago and other eastern cities con-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
POLICE GuARDING Pos TAI OFFICES

The strike of 1869, which represented
he protest of a new union known as the
league, against an attempt to reduce
wages, proved abortive. The primitive
ondition of the telegraph business in
america at that time is well illustrated
~ the fact that strike had been de-
dared in San Francisco two days before
news of it reached Chicago.
Wages in those days ranged from 500
to $115 a month and the company, in an
attempt to curtail expenses decided to
dispense with the services of several oper-
ators in San Francisco. The determina
ton of the company precipitated trouble
and the entire San Francisco force walk
ed out
Two days later 100 operators in the
Chicago Office quit work and when the
grand chief operator heard of the dis
turbance he ordered a general strike, it
is said. without knowing the grounds of
the controversy. This strike lasted only
ten or twelve days, and was unsuccessful
so far as the operators were concerned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

what he can to prevent serious Interrupt
ton to the business of the country and
The government, but unfortunately the
situation is of a character that does not
admit of interference at this stage.
4 general strike would seriously embar-
rass the federal government. Operators
are employed In every executive depart
nent and bureau. while the weather and
crop reporting services depend in the main
IN regular and uninterrupted telegraphic
llvices 4 widespread walkOut of teleg-
raphers might result in disasters at sea,
especially as the hurricane season on
he Atlantic is approaching. Mariners
depend upon information furnished by
he government as to the state of weather.
This particular service depends upon ad-
vices from the interior, and any prolong-
ed interruption or suspension of tele-
graphic adv:ces from the various stations
Of the weather bureau might be serious
10 shipping and life at sea.
This is one feature of the condition that
might follow general strike of telegraph
ers that gives authorities great concern.
Already the weather bureau has felt the
force of the sporadic strikes. This is
about the time of year when frosts begin
to make an appearance in the wheat belt
Of the Northwest Prices of grains are
made in New York largely on the outlook
of the crop. The uncertainty as to actual
conditions in the field might have a ten
dency to send prices skyward. In any
event any failure of the government in
bringing crop reports out on time or as
completely as usual would tend to demon
alize trade in grains.
The strike in Chicago grows out of a
quarrel between telegraph operator in
Los Angeles and a woman telegraph op-
orator in Oakland, Cal. The operator in
Los Angeles was discharged. The men
in Los Angeles Office claimed that the dis
charge was grossly unjust, and demanded
his reinstatement The manager refused
10 reinstate the man and refused to treat
with the grievance committee. \ strike
was ordered.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
BODY OF MAN FOUND.
Skeleton Is Dug from Colorado Grave
Located by Steve Adams.


The skeleton of W. j. Barney. the
timberman employed on the SmuSgler-
Union mine who mysteriously disappear
ed in the month of June, 1901, was eX-
humed the other day twelve miles from
Telluride. Colo, by Buckley Wells. man
ager of the Smuggler- Union Mining Com
pany. The location of the grave was
pointed out by Steve Adams, now in jail
in Idaho awaiting a second trial on the
charge of murder. He is alleged to have
confessed to the assassination of Arthur
Collins formerly general manager of the
Smuggler- Union mine, and also told how
Barney was murdered because he had
incurred the i'll will of the union. DR..
Lord. dentist, who had performed GER
tain dental work for Barney, was I'M
able to identify the skeleton from this.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
GOVERNMENT PERIL IN STRIKE.

Weather Bureau Crippled, Crop Re-
ports Affected, and Danger at Sea.
That part of the administration remain
ing in Washington is deeply concerned at
the growth of the telegra piers strike and
is hoping for Intervention by the Presi-
dent 1t has been advised of the Presi
dents concern and determination TO do
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

The most unusual method of delivering
mail doubtless is that employed by steam
ers passing the islands of the Tonga
group, in the Pacific. On account of many
reefs. landing is extremely dangerous. and
the few letters TO be delivered are at
tached to large skyrockets, which are fired
and reach the shore in safety.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
Ga. Trust Not a Monopoly.

The effort of Attorney General jackson
of New York to annul the charter and
corporate existence of the Consolidated
Gas Company Of New York City, known
as the gas trust. has been baked by the
decision of Justice Mccall, which holds
that the company is not monopoly in
the eyes Of the lay. BE regards the anti
trust laws az being little more than a
codifcation of the common law upon the
subject, and that there is nothing to pre-
vent one corporation from acquiring the
stock of another.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

Plans are said to have been completed
for the organization of a big cracker
bakery combine, which will be known as
the General Biscuit Company, and which
will take over about one hundred of the
leading independent cracker bakeries of
the country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
wtllfams DecInred Nominee.

John Sharp Williams was declared
the Democratic nominee for United States
Senator by the Mississippi Democratic
State executive committee. A canvass of
the returns showed a plurality of GAS
votes for Williams, his total being 80, 496,
to 5S,S4S for Eardaman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
SENATOR BEvERIDGE MARRIEs.
Is Welded Abroad to Katherine
Eddy, a Chicago Girl

The marriage Of United States Senator
Albert ]. Beverage of Indiana and Miss
Katherine Eddy was solemnized in Ber-
lin at the palatial residence of United
States Ambassador Tower Wednesday.
Extreme simplicity marked the ceremony
and the invitations We're limited. The
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus
n. Eddy of Chicago, and a small group of
relatives, members of the embassy staff
in Berlin, and a few intimate friends of
both families comprised the spectators.
There were no ushers and Miss Eddy had
no bridesmaids.
Several hundred congratulatory tele-
gram and cable messages were received,
including one from the mother of Mr..
Beveridge, from Champaign, Ill.,, and mes
sages from President Roosevelt, Senator
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
InaustriaI Peace Conference.

The Industrial Peace Conference, en-
dowed by President Roosevelt With S4O,-
600, received by him as part of the Nobel
peace prize, has begun its first meeting
at San Francisco by excluding from Its
deliberations Patrick Calhoun, president
of the United Railroads, because he Is
under indictment under charges OF brIb-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
Orders CEf i'm Wheat Rate

Commissioner Harlan of the interstate
commerce commission has issued an order
directing that, beginning on Sept. 10 next,
the through rate on wheat from points
in Nebraska to Pacific coast terminals
should be not more than 90 cents per 100
pounds
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
Big Stock of Gold.

Retiring director of the mint George
E. Roberts gives it as his conclusion that
the amount Of gold coin and bullion
now in the United States Treasury and
the banks and in circulation amounts to
81 .464, S45,2S0.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
MANS HEARING RESTORED.
Hurled Fifty Feet by Bolt of Light

IA"FIeI FiIty FeeI ny bOIt OF Ilsht-
ming, Defective Sense Is Cured.
A stroke of lightning has restored the
hearing of William l., Chase of Dead
wood, S. D.. who has been stone deaf for
seventeen years. Chase was out in the
hills when a fearful storm arose. He
ran for the shelter of tree. which he
reached just as lightning struck it, tear
ing it TO pieces. The man was thrown
fifty feet. and when he was picked up he
remarked in a dazed sort of way: Say
l heard that crash all right Guess l
can hear anything now He was cor
rect in his guess for later he could hear
the faintest whisper twenty feet away.
Doctors say his hearing has been COM
pletely restored, and that he never will
be deaf again.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
Orders His Leg Cut Of.

His leg pinned under the engine, Chas.
Shudley, a brakeman on the New York,
New Haven and Hartford road. gave or
ders to have it cut off so that he could
be liberated from his perilous position.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

State Superintendent ]. L. McBrien of
Nebraska issued proclamation designat-
ing Aug. % as 'housecleaning day" for
the schools of the Stat@ He asked all
school officers and teachers to help clean
school buildings for the beginning of the
school wear.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
Generals GrandchiId Clones.

Julia jackson Christian of Atlanta, a
granddaughter of Gen. "Stonewall'' Jack
son, eloped with w. j. Alexander, a
young lawyer of Charlotte, n. c.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
New Postal Card Is Issued

A new postal card has been issued by
the government. 1t will be known as the
Mckinley card. for it bears picture of
the martyred President in a wreath on
which are inscribed the date of his birth
and death-1S43-19O
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
Result of French Elections.

Reports Of the recent French elections
for membership in the general councils
indicate a decided loss on the part of
Progressives and Reactionaries, with a
corresponding gain for the Republicans
aad Soci-H-+s
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

AS
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tributed a quota to the strike-bound
municipalities of the West.
Up to Monday the East remained
nearly free from inconvenience. The
brunt of the striking taking place in
the middle West far West and the
South The 5000 telegraphers in New
York delayed a walk-out until Friday,
at the request of the National Civic
Federation, to give time for an attempt
to end the strike by conciliation
The following cities, aside from Chi
cago, were then reported strike-bound /:
Memphis. Milwaukee.
Minneapolis. Houston, Texas.
Oklahoma City. Sedalia. Mo.
Dallas. Columbus, Ohio.
New Orleans. st. Louis.
Topeka. Jackson, Miss.
Pueblo. Augusta.
ST. Paul. Omaha.
Knoxville. Council Bluffs.
Sioux City. Helena.
Meridian. Miss. Kansas City.
Birmingham. Los Angeles.
Salt Lake City. Spokane.
Colorado Springs. Butte.
Ell Paso. Denver.
Nashville. Charleston, S. c.
Little Rock, Ark. Beaumont, Texas.
Galveston.
Messages to the union chiefs indi-
Gated that the men were Straining at
the leash and eager for Il trivial excuse
to plunge into the combat More trou-
BILE was added to the many complica-
lions besetting operators at work by
the tacit connivance of railroad tele-
graphers at the strike of the CONNER
cial men. At points where there are
switchboards controlling the CONNER
cial wires the railroad men pull out
the plugs. interfering with the working
of the wire. Eagerness to join in the
tumult. with or without excuse. seems
the paramount desire of each tele-
grapher. Only the admonitions of the
union officials. it is declared. have thus
far restrained the men who still are
working the telegraph keys in many of
the cities unaffected by the strike wave.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany in Chicago alone employs about
$500 men. women and children. The
company has $4,000 offices in the United
States In all the Offices in the larger
cities there are many members of the
Commercial Telegraphers' Union. The re-
mainder of the Offices are manned by OPP
orators who are both agents for the West
ern Union and agents for the railroads.
The Headquarters of the Western Union
Telegraph Company are in New York.
The president and general manager is
Robert Clowry, formerly of Chicago. The
headquarters of the Commercial Teleg-
raphers' Union is in Chicago
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
Name Filipino Babies.

Pocahontas, jamestown Pacific and
Patrick Henry Bryan are the names con-
ferred on three Filipino babies at the
jamestown exposition and under which
they will Stagger tor the rest of their
IiH-nS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
PUBLIC DEBT s1,27s,275,342.
Monthly Statement shows n De-
crease of Nearly S24,OOO.OOO.

Monthly Statement Shows De-
crease of Nearly $24,OOO,OOO.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of business
on July 81, 1907, the debt amounted to
$1,273, 275,342, which was decrease for
the month of nearly 24,000000, which
is due to the redemption of per cent
bonds which matured on July 1. Pay
ments on this and other accounts reduced
the amount of cash on hand by a little
over S30,000,0O0 The debt is recapitu-
lated as follows:
Interest bearing debt .......S S5S,6S5,51
Debt on which interest has
ceased since maturity 1861 35
Debt bearing no interest 80. 401,026,696
Total 81, Pa, 5,342
This amount, however, does not in
clude $1,174SS9, 1863 in certificates and
treasury notes outstanding, which are off
set by an equal amount of cash held for
their redemption.
The cash in the treasury is classified as
follows:
Gold reserve fund .........s 150000,000
trust IunuS ii 4,SSD,SOJ
General fund .............. 1913, 472, 091
In international bank deposit
taries ............... 15699O, 2O4
In Philippine treasury ...... 4,2536S7
Total 81 1854, sos. $40
Against which there are demand la
bilities outstanding to $1,296,O31 ,654,
which leaves a cash balance on hand of
1888, 574. 1873.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
Toadstoots EatnI Food.
Cracker Men TO Combine

One dead and four dying is the result
of a family party eating toadstools for
mushrooms at Deep Valley, w. Va.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

J. O'Sullivan Edward Addicks. the gas
magnate, who made so many futile at
tempts TO be selected United States SEN
ator from Delaware, is said to be ruined
financially and is about to be sued for
divorce by his third wife.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

Sam Fessenden, for more than thirty
years a controlling factor in Connecticut
politics. has announced his retirement
from active political life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

Michele Berardinelle of New York. spe-
cial agent of the Department of Justice.
has begun an investigation of Italian
peonage in St. Lonis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

Government will seek to restrain Eng
lish purchases from tobacco trust in effort
to dissolve American Tobacco Company.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15

H B. Krumholz of Atlanta, Ga. shot
and killed his wife, whom he took for a
burglar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-15
CAN FIND TUBERCULOSIS GERM.
Method Discovered for Ascertainins
p-aScnca of niSe,Sa

Method Discovered for AscertaininS
Presence of Disease.
A method by which the presence of
tuberculosis can be detected has been
made known to the French Academic DIES
Sciences in Paris. According to advices
received at the State Department. it con-
sists in inoculating the patient with a
few drops of the tuberculin of Koch. If
tuberculosis does not exist the little in
cision heals rapidly. but if the patient is
affected the incision rubbed with the tu-
berculin becomes inhamed and pustule
similar to that of vaccine appears.