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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
reIeeraphic Breyitics.

Capt. Henry Brown, a veteran of the
Mexican and Civil wars, and inventor of
the bell buoy, as now used at American
ports, died at Charleston, S. c., aged so
years. He served during the '60s under
Farragut and Porter.
By utilizing the principle of the farm
er's hotbed, exposing pipes of ether to
the rays of the sun under glass cases,
Frank Shuman, a Philadelphia engineer
| and chemist, claims to be able to turn
the suns rave directly into power, suffi-
Gent for commercial uses.
President Roosevelt is considering an
invitation to go bear hunting in the cane
brakes of Louisiana Immediately after his
forthcoming journey down the Mississippi
| river.
Two true bills have been found against
the Southern Railway Company by the
Pennsylvania county grand jury in North
Carolina. on account of the alleged dan
gerous condition of the roadbed.
The police of Paris sent to an infrm-
ary woman who says she is Miss Amy
Root of Rochester, y. Y, and who
claims to be cousin of Elihu Root. Her
mind was unbalanced and she would climb
On restaurant tables and sing and dance.
The mackerel feet of sixty-fve sail,
composed mostly of craft from Port
land. Me-, and Gloucester, Mass, reports
that in the aggregate the vessels have
stocked 100000 worth of fish.
In France all mechanics are required
to serve an apprenticeship of from two
to three years. During the half Of that
period they are required TO board them
selves and ara not paid any wages.
The Rapid Transit Company Of Phila-
delphia has proposed that it will inau-
gurate 4-cent fare on all lines, surface,
elevated and suburban, and that all free
transportation, transfers and tickets shall
be abolished. The announcement has
been made to test public sentiment
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
STEAMSHIPS FAST TRIP,
Lusitania Crosses the Atlantic In Five
Days and 81 Minutes.

After spectacular ocean race
against time, which held the attention
of the world for five days, the Lusi-
tania reached Sandy Hook lRghtship.
The giant turbine liner of the Cunard
Line made the voyage from Queens
town in days "a minutes.
The Lusitania beat the best time
ever made by her sister ship of the
Cunard Line, the Lucania-fve days,
seven hours and twenty-three minutes
by over six hours, but was thirty
five minutes behind the time set by the
Hamburg-American liner Deutschland.
Sixty-one years ago the little steam
| ship Europa of the Cunard Line, with
old-fashioned engines, crossed the At
lantic from Liverpool to New York in
eleven days and three hours, breaking
the worlds record at that time. Then
began the contest for supremacy of the
sea which led to the building of the
fleet Lusitania
The Lucania's record of five days,
seven hours and twenty-five minutes,
made from Queenstown to New York
in 1894, was at an average speed of
21.S1 knots over a course of 2,779
miles.
Then the North German Lloyd and
American lines began to battle for the
western record from Southampton to
New York. which was held between
1898 and 1896, by the steamships Paris,
New York and st. Paul of the Ameri-
can Line. The st. Paul in 1896 made
the voyage in six days and thirty-one
minutes
Then the North German Lloyd Com
pasy put over the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse, and the new vessel in 1897 be-
came the marine wonder of the world
when it hung up record of FIVE days,
twenty-five hours and thirty-fve min
utes from Southampton to New York.
The big Kaiser created a new record
in 1899, when it steamed from Cher
bourg to New York, distance of 1850
miles, in five days, eighteen hours and
fifteen minutes. This record was low
cred in the same year by the Kaiser
to five days, seventeen hours and thir-
ty-Seven minutes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
Told in a Few Lines.

Mrs. W. B. Turner of Kansas City
sued Hahnemann Medical College of that
city for $4,000 damages, charging that it
had wrongfully obtained the body of her
late husband for dissection and had lost
the head.
The failure of the Boice Grogan Lum-
Der Company at Lexington, KY, has
brought about the failure of four other
smaller lumber companies. The COM
panies involved are Clearfeld Lumber
Company OF Clearfeld, the FincastIe
Lumber Company, Tuthill & Patterson
Manufacturing Company and the Cypress
Lumber Company of Cincinnati.
Gov. Guild of Massachusetts, was ask
ed by the American Society for the Pro-
motion of Prison Reform to end the soli-
tary confinement of Jesse Pomeroy, a
murderer who has served thirty years in
solitary confinement.
Thirty "undeclared'' trunks were seized
at New York when the liner LaSavoie ar
rived. Nine. Hughes, dressmaker, was
submitted to an inspection and it was
found she had $500 worth of fine lace
wrapped about her person. Another dress
maker. Nine. KiIganuo 20 have
cut ell the labels of Is
she brought in. The q
On her Derson.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
VACATIONIsTS IMPORT TYPHOID
Physicians Declare Them RESPONSE
BILE for Spreading Disease.

BILE for Spreading Disease.
If Chicago people had stayed at home
during their vacations this summer and
drank good lake water, the health de-
partment would not be coping with nearly
200 cases of typhoid, as is the case at
present. This is the conclusion of the
health officers, who have made an exhaus-
tive investigation of the situation. They
wondered what was causing so much tS
phoid, as the city itself is healthy enough.
Calling for facts from attending physi-
clans, the guardians of Chicago's sanitary
welfare found that 51.9 per cent of the
total number of typhoid were contracted
outside the city. This figuring was made
on the basis of known cases. There may
be many other cases in the city for all
the Board of Health knows, as a number
of otherwise careful doctors have habit
of keeping the news to themselves when
they are treating disease which should
be reported to the department. The num-
Der of typhoid cases directly traceable to
the outside vacation habit is much larger
than last year, when the percentage was
placed at 33.
The beautiful sparkling spring water"
which many a resort prospectus tells
about is good enough to swim in, but the
Chicago health department would advise
the seeker after country joys to take
along a cask of the real thing taken from
Lake Michigan for drinking purposes. The
doctors think some way that man is
more apt to take typhoid when travelling
than when at home attending to his bust
ess They do not wish to be understood
as knocking" on the vacation habit, Of
course. They merely want to warn peo-
pie so that vacations may be taken on
an intelligent basis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
CHICAGO MAN LOSES SAVINGS.
Thieves Torture Him in Home and
Get Seven Hundred Dollars.

Thieves Torture Him in Home and
Get Seven Hundred Dollars.
Two masked robbers invaded the home
of Isaac Chaley, 30 years old, $50 Sanga-
mon street, Chicago, tortured the man
until he revealed the hiding place of his
valuables, and then escaped with 500,
the savings of a lifetime. Chaley, after
he had been kicked and beaten, visited the
police station and told of his loss. The
victim of the robbery was badly injured
and almost crazed with grief over the loss
of his property. Chaley said that he was
awakened by a noise and saw a man
crawling through a window of the room
in which he slept. A second man follow
ed and both seized him before he could
make an cutlery. They pointed revolvers
at him and demanded his money. When
he declared he had no valuables they seiz-
ed him by the throat and dragged him
from the bed. They continued to beat
him and threaten to burn him. One of
them held a lighted match to Chaley's
bare foot and then Chaley revealed the
hiding place of his money. With tears
streaming down his face Chaley watched
the robbers rip open a mattress and Sc
cure the money, 1925 in gold and silver
and S415 in bills, which he had concealed.
When he pleaded with the men to leave
him an amount to pay his rent, which
was overdue, they struck him in the face
and laughed at him as they escaped
through the window.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
A Rate Law Test Case.

That State control of interstate rail-
roads has ceased by virtue of the Hep
burn rate law is the broad ground of an
appeal to the federal courts now made
by the Missouri Pacific railroad from a
writ issued by the Supreme Court of
Kansas. The writ was issued in favor of
the Larrabee Milling Company of Stat
ford, Kan, to compel the Missouri Pacific
to continue the practice of delivering cars
to the mill over Santa Fe tracks, which
cross at that point, at the old rate of 50
a car. 1t was conceded that three-ffths
OF the mills business was interstate. The
defendant railroad now asserts that the
State court has no jurisdiction, and that
the road is wholly under the control Of
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
WELLNAN POLAR TRIP FAILS.
Airship Is Wrecked and Plan to Seek
Pole Abandoned for This Year


Pole Abandoned for This Year.
Walter Wellman on Friday arrived
at Tromsoe, Norway, on board the
Frithjof from Spitzbergen on his way
home. He announced that he had def
nitely abandoned for this year, after a
disastrous trial of his airship, the pro-
posed attempt TO reach the North Pole
Worldwide interest had been e1cit-
ed in Wellman's proposed trip. Mr.
Wellman's plans were as simple as they
were spectacular and scientific. With
two picked companions he purposed to
sail in his airship from SpitZbergen
to the North Pole, a distance as the
crow flies of 61S miles.
The airship was dirigible balloon,
modelled on the best lines known to
French balloon makers. 1t bore steel
car 115 feet long, which would contain
the three explorers, their outfit of me-
neurological and navigation instruments
and a kennel of Twenty-Five Alaskan
sledge dogs with sledges. In case of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $3.50; hogs prime heavy, S4Oo
to S6.35; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, 93c TO 94c ;,
corn, No. 2, &c to 63c; oats, standard,
52c to 53c rye, No. 2, SOC to 9Oc; hay
timothy, $140o to $1,000; prairie, 5000
to $500; butter choice creamery, BIC
to 27c; eggs, fresh, 15c to zoe; potatoes,
per bushel DOC to 62c.
Indianapolis shipping, $500
to $500; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to-
$6.45; sheep, common to prime, $500
to $40; wheat, No. 3 90c to Ole; corn,.
No. white, SOC to Gle; oats, No. 2
white, Acc to 4Sc.
ST. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $40;
hogs, $500 to $500; sheep, $500 to.
500; wheat, No. 2 Ole to 92c corn,
No. 2, Gle to &c; oats, No. 2, 47c to
4Sc; rye, No. 2, Soc to sc.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to $685.; sheep, $500 to-
$500; wheat, No. 2, 92c to 93c; corn,
No. mixed, 63c to Goo; oats, No.
mixed, SOC to sic; rye, No 2, SAC to Soc.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to 5000; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to S475;
wheat, No. 2, 93c to Ole; corn, No. g.
yellow, &c to Csc; oats, No. white,
sic to SIC; rye, No. 2, SIC to Soc.
Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern,
S104 to $1.06; corn, No. 3, 63c to Goo;
oats, standard, sic to SIC; rye, No. 1,
SOC to 90c; barley, standard, 93c to 94c;
pork, mess, $3.50.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers
$500 to $685.; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to 500; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to 1925; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $50.
New York-Cattle, $500 to 500;
hogs, $500 to 500; sheep, $500 to,
$3.50 wheat, No. red, $1.00 to $102;
corn, No. 2, 74c to 75c; oats, natural
white, sc to &c; butter, creamery, &c,
to &c; eggs, western, lie to 21c.
Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 93c to
95c; corn, No. 2 Mixed 65c to &c;
oats, No. mixed, SOC to ole; rye, No.
2, 79c to Sic; clover Seed prime, 1915
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
PUPILS SHOW DEFECTS.
0ne-Third of School Children of
Nation Physically AfIfng.


Nation Physically AiIing.
That about one-third Of all the school
children in the United States, or about
100000 boys and girls, are behind
their proper grades because Of physical
defects that could be remedied is the gist
Of report made by a committee of prom
inent educators, headed by Charles c..
Birmingham, formerly of the board of ed
ucation of New York City. This COM
mttee has investigated conditions among
school children, not only in New York,
but in Boston, Chicago and other cities.
BASED on the physical defects and home
conditions of 400 school children Of New
York City," says the report, st is esti-
mated that 100000 Of the children of
the United States have physical defects
attention from parents and physicians.
If the percentages recorded by the board
Of health in New York should be main
tanned throughout the country, and it
seems likely that they would be, as ade-
noids and impaired vision, malnutrition
and defective breathing are found in rural
as well as urban schools, there must be
], 10000 ill-nourished children. 5,615,OOO
with enlarged glands and 6,925,0O0 with
defective breathing in the United States.
In New York City the estimated figures
are: Malnutrition, $4,000; enlarged
glands, $4,000 and defective breathing,
23O, SOO-a total of 49,, 800"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
FIND RICH VEIN OF GOLD.
Indians Make Discovery and KIOn-
dixie Fever Breaks Out Again.

The Klondike gold fever has broken out
anew at Sitka, Alaska, according to Brig.
Gen. George T. Elliott, commandant of
the United States marine corps, who has
just returned from a trip of inspection
in the Northwest. Gen. Elliott says a
rich vein of quartz has recently been I'M
covered on an island forty-ive miles from
Sitka which yields heavy percentage of
leaf gold. The story of the discovery, as
told to Gen. Elliott, is that two Indians
while fishing noticed particles of gold.
They told the news to Presbyterian eler
gyman at Sitka. A company opened the
vein and succeeded in mining and trans
porting to Sitka in canoes ninety tons of
ore. This one shipment yielded after
payment of freight more than $4,000
The knowledge of the find soon spread,
and the island now is practically all
staked out by gold seekers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
MANY CHILDREN ARE AFFLICTED
Epidemic of Infanti1e Paralysis
Spreads In New York City.

spreads Ne" Ork S1ty.
The epidemic Of infantile paralysis in
New York City is assuming alarming
proportions, according to the reports Of
hospital physicians who have the disease
under observation in the hope of discover
ing the germ which is supposed to be re-
sponsible for the infection. There are
now under treatment in various hospitals
between 300 and 400 children who have
the disease we'll developed and most of
them will be hopeless cripples for the rest
of their lives. The hunt of the infantile
paralysis germ, led by DR.. J. f. Terri
berry, chief neurologist of the hospital
for ruptured and crippled staff, began
several weeks ago when the present cpl
demic was in its earlier stages, and is still
in progress. But in spite of the fact that
several hundred afflicted children have
been examined the trail of the germ is no
more clear than it was at first. The pres
ent epidemic began about the middle of
the summer and has grown steadily. Neu-
rologists say it is probably at its height
and that the approach of cooler weather
will gradually lessen its ravages.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
SEE DANGER OF COAL FAMINE.
Pennsylvania Operators Predict
Shortage Before Mid-winter.

Operators say that the coal situation is
growing serious throughout Pennsylvania,
and it is freely predicted that before
midwinter there will be a famine in many
sizes. The supply of water has already
become serious problem in the anthra-
cite region. The Reading company is
compelled to send between thirty-fve and
forty tank cars of water to its collieries
daily to keep them in operation. Both
anthracite and bituminous operators are
selling coal from stored stocks to supply
the demand
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
Cifyyyard Trend of Negroes

In the concluding installment of Ray
Stannard Bakers series ,on the color line
in the American Magazine, an explana-
ton is given why the negroes of the
South are drifting so rapidly to the cities.
1t is that they feel the lack of schooling
for their children in the country and the
lack of police protection. The difficulty
of keeping a supply of good labor is caus-
ing the owners of the big plantations to
sell off small farms to the more thrifty
negroes. - -. = - ~. -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
Possible Arfzona-Nevada Union

Since the proposition for joint state
hood with New Mexico has been reject
ed by the people of Arizona it has been
suggested that in case Congress shows a
disposition to withhold statehood honors
from Arizona separately a move might
be made toward a union of that territory
with Nevada. Such measure, it is said
will be strongly supported by the very
people who have opposed the union with
New Mexico. ... es.i -: .ss.-.es
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
FINDS LOST CHILD IN CHICAGO.
Woman Succeeds in Hunt for Daugh-
ter After Many Years.

Mrs. James Wicksen of Fairhaven,
Conn, received news the other day from
the police of Chicago that her daughter,
Miss Eleanor Wicksell, whom she has not
seen for more than forty years, is alive
in that city. When Eleanor was years
old, forty-two years ago, Gustave Wick
sell and mis- wife separated. He took the
little girl and went West. Mrs. Wicksell
later learned that her husband had died
and began a search for her daughter. She
obtained trace of her in Rochester and
followed it to Chicago. Being a poor
woman, she could not make search in
person, and wrote to the Chicago police,
and they helped her. Mrs. Wickseli is
planning either to visit her daughter or
to have Miss Wicksell journey to Fair
haven.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
rrse of Seismorraph i'm War,

According to dispatches from Vienna
some important experiments were made
during the recent Ostend gunnery trials
by Prof Belar, director of the Lalbach
earthquake observatory. who used the
seismographic apparatus to see If it was
possible to calculate scientifically by the
vibrations of the earth the location and
direction of distant artillery fire. The
experiments were satisfactory, and they
will be continued during the coming au.
tumn artillery maneuvers in the Kara
Wanken hills.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
TRACK WALKER RUN DOWN.
Gives Life to Save Those Aboard
Chicago Limited.

francesca Levita, a track walker of the
Pennsylvania railroad, gave his life to
save those of several score of passengers
on the Chicago limited the other night
and brought to the notice of the railroad
the fact that train wreckers, who terror
lied the road in the spring, are at work
again. Levita discovered that the spikes
and fishplates of a section of the track at
Arda, Pa, had been removed. He knew
that the express was almost due. With
the tools he carried Levita drove the
spikes again and replaced the fishplates.
just as the was putting the last bolt in
the last plate the express rounded the
curve. So intent was he on his work that
he did not notice it and the engine threw
him down the embankment. He died in
the hospital.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
Gives Up for This Year,

Walter Wellman has been forced by
adverse winds to abandon his daring plan
to reach the north pole by the use of a
huge airship. After two years of prepar-
alton and the expenditure of a large sum
of money his lopes have been disappoint-
ed. and the announcement has been re-
ceived that he will give up the attempt
for this year and return home.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
Street-Car Riot in Frisco,

A serious riot took place early We'd
nesdat morning at Twentyfourth and
Utah streets. San Francisco. A number
OF employees, while running a car OF the
United Railroads into the barn at this
point. were attacked. During the fight
five carmen were wounded, one of them,
it is believed, fatally.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19

On Sept the International Harvester
Company of Wisconsin pleaded guilty
at Austin, Texas, in the antitrust suits
instituted against it by the State of Tex
as and paid the fine of $4,000 imposed
by the court. The company also sub
scribed to the perpetual injunction for
biddir from operating in any way in
Texa
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
100000 of Taxes Is Stolen.

A 100000 shortage was discovered in
the accounts of the State tax commission
er in New Orleans. The police are
searching for Charles E. Letten, chief
clerk of State Collector Fitzpatrick, who
is charged with the defalcation This is
the third defalcation in six months in the
State tax department.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
To Be Named New York.

1t is announced from Washington that
the President and the Navy Department
have reached a decision to name one of
the two 20,OO0-ton battleships authorized
by the last session of Congress the New
York The armored cruiser now bearing
that name will be rechristened Saratoga
to perpetuate the name in the navy of
the historic old vessel with that title,
which has been condemned and is about
to be broken up. The other of the two
giant battleships authorized has been
named Delaware.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
LonE-Lost Wreck Found.

While lifting his nets off Van Zuren
Point in Lake Erie, Gus Ormsby, fisher
man, discovered the wreck of the pro-
peller Dean Richmond, which was lost
with all on board in a storm in October,
1898. The Dean Richmond carried
cargo of lead and copper ore valued at
100000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
INCREASE FARMERS EARNINGS.
Big Gain for Year Due to Higher
Prices of Products.

Prices OF PRODUCTS.
According to a preliminary report on
crops, published in the American Agricul-
turist, the American farmers earnings are
$1,OOO,O0O,000 greater this year than last.
This big gain will be entirely due tostha
increased prices of farm products, asrthe
production in general will be fully 10 per
cent less in quantity than in 1906, which
was the bumper year.
1.-THE farmer was never in so healthy a
position as he is to-day-fnancially, So
cially, politically, mentally and spiritu-
ally" says the report. 1.-THE increase in
the value of his real estate has been pro-
digious. He owes less money than ever
before. He has greater assets than ever.
Again, the farmers wants are greater. He
is in the market for more and better
breeding stock, farm implements, house
hold goods and other merchandise"