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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-29
ROB IN OWNERS VIEW
BURGLARS MAKE GOOD HAUL OF
JEWELRY.
Barricade Door So That JeyyeIer Cam
not Get at Them and Then Break
Display Window-GasoIine ExpIo-
sfons Cause Pittsburg Fires.

Imprisoned in his own store while two
burglars looted the window of $1,000
worth of watches, rings and jewelry, A.
1oungerman, jeweler at 9019 CONNER
clal avenue, South Chicago, watched the
robbery, unable to stop the thieves or give
an alarm. The burglars laughed at
1oungerman's discontinue as they gath
cred the booty, grinned a farewell and de-
parted with the loot. The jeweler shout
ed for help, but the thieves escaped.
Youngerman sleeps in the rear of the
store, and was awakened early in the
day by the crash of the heavy plate win
dow, which was broken with a brick. He
rushed into the store. Outside he could
see the two men at work, reaching their
arms through the hole in the window for
the watches and jewelry. The marauders
saw him but made no move to stop their
work. With a cry for help Youngerman
leaped TO the door and unlocked it. to find
that the burglars had barred the door
from the outside with a heavy plank, and
he was unable to open it. While he tried
to open the door the burglars laughed and
pointed pistols at him. The police made
a search for the robbers, but were unable
to find any trace of them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-29
FIRES DESTROY FORESTS.
About $500 Acres of Timber De-
stroyed in New England.

Unusually dry conditions in the forests
throughout Massachusetts,, caused by the
absence of rain during the last month,
have been responsible to a large extent
for the great damage by forest fires, which
have swept through southeastern Worces-
ter county, across the Cape Cod district
and over Bristol and Plymouth counties.
About 1900 acres have been destroyed.
and in several cases the flames have not
been checked despite the fact that $500
men are engaged in fighting them.
The extensive fires whicl have devas-
tated the Cape Cod forests had their
origin in small hlazes caused by sparks
from locomotives, while various causes
have been responsible for the others.
Blackened trunks and s1noldering embers
are all that remain in many places where
formerly were forests of marketable tim
Der and heavy underbrush.
The most extensive fire is that raging
in the Douglas woods, one of the richest
areas of timberland in the State. The
flames there have devastated 5000 acres
in Massachusetts and have spread into
Connecticut, where the damage is believ
ed to be about one-ifth as great. Begin
ming in Douglas, the fire has eaten its
way through the forest land in the towns
of Sutton, East Douglas, Webster. Mill
bury, Oxford and Bridge, and is still
spreading.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-29
Odds and Ends.

Danish engineer discovers process by
which beer is made from tablets.
Last year 81 large steel vessels were
built for service on the great lakes.
Sweden is the most progressive coun-
try in Europe in use of the telephone.
Only 30 per cent of SPANS 100000
population are able to read and write.
German steamer lines threaten to stop
mail service on Atlantic unless paid more.
Elks parade in Philadelphia in hottest
day Of year; 4,430 persons were sun
struck.
William Abrams Martin, the solitary
survivor of the twelve men who convicted
John Brown, is still living in Virginia.
He has celebrated his seveuty-ffth ami
yersary.
The value of the india rubber imported
into the United States during the last
year in the crude form aggregated SjO,-
100000. Brazil is the chief source of
supply.
A Chinese merchant of Pekin who was
convicted of murder was sentenced to
death by being deprived of sleep. Four
warders kept watch over him to keep him
awake and on the tenth day he died.
Greece is said to be the poorest coun-
try of Europe Her total wealth amounts
to ,OOO.0OO,0OO, or about half that of
Switzerland.
4 japanese porter carries his teapot
with him when he goes to his days work,
as an American workman carries dinner
pail.
Mrs. Eddy, founder of Christian Sci
ence, is worth about 100000 and her
yearly income from the sale of her books
is not far from 100000.
Rock Island engineer went raying mad
on engine; train ran sixty miles at furi-
Gus speed before trainmen could over
power him.
Lieut.. Col Ayres, whose wife got into
difficulties with the officials of West
Point. makes a fight to keep from being
put on the retired list
Lost in the Australian bush, near Port
Darwin. for five days, Engineer-Com-
mander E. s. Silk was found alive and
well by black tracker.
Kaiser Wilhelm is having an antiq,a
sun dial set UP in the Imperial Park of
Charlottenhof bearing the inscription Il
count only happy hours"
The use of dog flesh as food appears
to have originated in Saxony, and it is in
that part of the empire that the consump-
ton is most noticeable.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-29
EDDY CASE is DROPPED.
Those Who Began Case Decide to
Dismiss 1t.

The famous suit in equity brought
March 1 by George w. Glover, son of
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, and others
as next friends against Calvin S. Frye
and others for accounting of the property
of the aged head of the Christian Science
church, came to an abrupt end Wednes-
day.
Immediately after the opening of court
in the continued hearing regarding Mrs.
Eddy's competency before Judge Edgar
Aldrich and his comasters at Concord,
n. H, William E. Chandler, senior coun-
sci for the next friends announced that
he had fled with the clerk of the court a
motion for the dismissal of the suit.
Mr.. Chandler said that there were many
reasons for this action, but that the prin-
cipal one was 1.-The unproftableness of
any immediate result of a decision in our
favor upon the exact issue as now framed,
compared with the burdens and disadvan-
tages to be endured by us, both before and
after such a decision"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-29

terest of the public health, but differ
ences have arisen at each stage of the
attempt to frame regulations for the
government OF the export trade in such
commodities owing to honest difference
of opinion as to the proper definition of
adulteration.
Although taking an advanced position
in this matter as revealed in the strin-
gent legislation contained in the pure
food law, the government of the United
States has been obliged at times to take
sharp issue with some of the European
government officials as to the harmfulness
of certain ingredients of our food export
ed. Against purely technical objections
the Agricultural Department has been
contending with difficulty for long time.
But with the passage of the pure food
act, with therauthority contained therein
to apply it's provisions to imported food
and drugs and wines, the department finds
its hand much strengthened in dealing
with European governments, which are
now beginning to show very practical
interest in the inquiry which DIR. Wiley
is making into the nature of the ingredi-
ents of the great quantities of foreign
delicatessen and liquors that are lowing
into the United States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-29
STOLEN BOY RETURNS
HAS BEEN HELD AMONG GYP-
SIZES FOUR YEARS.
Walter Cutler, 10 Years Old, Finds
His Grandmother in South Chi
cago-Tranp Evil Is Costly BUSH
ness for Railroads.

With the exclamation. Don't you
know me, grandma?" Walter Cutler, 10
years old, missing for four years, appear
ed the other day at the home of his grand
mother, Mrs. Betcher, in South Chicago.
The boy arrived in a dirty, ragged condi-
ton, and told a story of being kidnapped
by gypsies from his home in South Bend,
Ind, four years ago. Since that time
he has been travelling with the gypsies
from one place to another. Last Monday
the gypsies camped at Roby, Ind, and the
lad, remembering that he had a grand
mother at South Chicago, made his es-
cape. Since Monday he roamed around
South Chicago until he located her. She
did not recognize him until she had wash
ed him up. The boys father, who still
resides in South Bend, has been notified.
The gypsy camp left Roby the same day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-29
HAZE AGAIN AT ANNAPOLIS.
Naval Cadets New Stunts Are Said
to Inclrde Elephant Dance.

Hazing or running of fourth-class
men has appeared again at the Naval
Academy in Annapolis, according to the
members of that class, who are the ones
against whom the practice always was di-
rected. At the Office of Captain Charles
j. Badger, superintendent of the institu-
ton, it was said that the new admins
tration had not discovered indications of
the practice, but that under the new haz-
ing laws little difficulty would be expert
enced in nipping it in the bud The
practice as now said to exist is mild. Be
sides some of the old features, the new
stunts" according to those who say they
experienced them, include the elephant
dance" and the relay pie race" In the
latter, which is said to take place in
the mess hall, relay teams" of fourth
class men are named and forced to run
a race in pie assimilation, runners" Nos.
1, =, 3 and being compelled tc wait
until the cadet started just before them
has finished his slice of pie so well as to
be able to talk again. The elephant
dance" also a new feature, consists of
making fourth-class men chase each other
around a table with slippers or similar
handy weapons of offense and score hits
on the fellow in front
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-29
MANY MOORS SLAIN.
sultan's Troops Defeat Large Force
of Moroccan Rebels

II
of Moroccan Rebels.
The Sultan's troops are reported to
have defeated again a large force of the
knass tribesmen, in whose territory Caid
Sir Harry MacLean has been held cap
tive. Six hundred Moors were killed and
several of their villages were burned.
In Paris the Moroccan situation is re-
garded as having assumed a distinctly
more serious aspect. The ferment in the
interior Of Morocco, the proclamation Of
AIulai Hafz, the Sultan's brother, as sui
tan by a section of the rebels, and the
appearance Of a new Moorish army before
Casablanca have created fear that the
whole country soon will be ablaze with
fanaticism.
More than 1000 colonial infantry, cav
airy and troops of other arms have been
modified at Oran and are ready to en-
bark on board transports, and other trans
ports and warships are in readiness at
Mediterranean ports to sail for Morocco.
Public sentiment is becoming stronger
against the halfway measures, which, it
is feared, will lead to disaster. The Paris
papers assert that the world must sup
port France if it is decided to send
military expedition to Fee, as in no other
way, the newspapers say, can the state
of anarchy in Morocco be ended. The
government, however, is resisting this
pressure, desiring to keep within the
bounds of the Algeciras convention, and
reports that negotiations are under way
for an enlargement of the mandate of the
powers are emphatically denied. Never
theless it is admitted, even in official cir
cles, that something might happen which
would place an entirely new complexion
on the situation and compel France, in
the name of the powers, to chastise Mo
rocco
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-29
@AxMsERCAL
l.. lE= II :t.kiA
@sss.lEEiAnD IN &la
H~Sssg1Ea <s*sEs
aENKNCH
CHICAGO.

Another notable increase in the volume
of payments through the banks testifies to.
sustained activity in commerce. and the
defaults reported are remarkably low.
There is, however, evidence of heavy
speculative operations in securities and
grain, and this interferes with more gem
eral confidence in the trade outlook. Other
adverse developments of recent origin i'm
press more conservatism in large enter
priSeS, and the position of money offers
no encoura cement. Notwithstanding the
drawbacks, demands are found equaling
expectations in the leading industries, and
there is no perceptible recession in pro-
duction and distribution.
Heavy shipments of currency to move
crops draw sharply upon deposits, and
the discount rate is firm at the highest
quotation this year, but reserves are well
maintained and most mercantile interests
are provided with requirements at this
time. Country banks have absorbed con-
siderable commercial paper, and the indi-
cations are good that western resources
Will be found ample to satisfy legitimate
financial needs during the next few
months of pressure
Crop reports reflect seasonable head
way in harvesting. and the condition of
corn in Illinois and Iowa steadily i'm
proves.
Visiting buyers from the West and
South arrive in the greatest numbers this
season and are active in selecting fall and
winter requirements. Demands compare
favorably with this time last year in sales
6
and food products
Bank clearings, 1921. 1868, exceed
those of corresponding week in 1906 by
1876 per cent.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict numbered ii, against 22 last week
and ID a year ago.-Dun's Review.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-29
Brief News Iteus,

Party of Russian Jews on way to.
America waylaid and twenty-five were
slain.
Theodore Roosevelt is not the first to
give Oyster Bay presidential distinction.
George Washington once spent two days
there.
Prof. z. Clayton WIand of the school
for the deaf in Frederick, Nd, himself a
mute, is the first person so afflicted to be
admitted to membership into the Knights
of Pythias. He is a member of Lodge 20,
and it was necessary for the initiating
committee to learn the sign language.
If the rate of consumption in 1905 were
maintained indefinitely without change,
our coal would last approximately 1000
years. but if the constantly increasing
rate which has marked The consumption
during the last ninety years be maintain
ed. our coal supply will practically be ex-
hausted within 100 years.
The Salvation army is establis he'd in,
ffty-two countries and colonies and.
breaches the gospel in thirty-one Ian
guages.
Annual reports Of the Union and
Southern RACINE lNdIlIOdG
show phenomenal earnings, which are
largely in excess Of the dividend require
ments.
There are $50 camps and roadhouses-
in Alaska provided with telephones, in
addition to many business houses, resi-
dences and cabins situated within the
limits of the larger camps. The main
exchange is at Nome. Skagway and
Whitehorse are connected by telephone.
William Z. Curtis interviews Mrs
Mary G. Baker Eddy, aged leader Of
Christian Science faith, and finds her
mentally and physically vigorous, without
sign of ''senile debility"
~ sea level water boils at 212 de-
grees F.; at height of 10000 feet at
1913 degrees T. When Darwin crossed the
Andes. in 1895, he boiled potatoes for
three hours without making them soft.
Nine inches of dogs leg bone inserted
in the leg of Danny Buck. 8 years old,
of Los Angeles, has proved a success in
surgery after nearly years work. The
doctors have pronounced the healing pro-
cess complete and have given the boy
permission TO throw away his crutches.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-29
NEW YORK.

Buyers excursions have been feature.
OF the week, and the leading primary mar
kets of the country have been filled with
country merchants. AS a result house
trade has been stimulated and orders for
dry goods clothing and shoes show CON
siderable improvement. Fall business, ex-
cept at a few centers, is said to equal
year ago at this date the volume being
made up of numerous orders rather than
by any new interest or of heavy business.
In fact, many merchants display dispo-
sition TO go slow, fearing that orders may
fall off, not because of a decline in con-
sumption, but more particularly of tight
ness of money.
Business failures for the week ending
Aug. % number 1913, against 1876 last
week, 155 in the like week of 1906, 176
in 1903, 1S5 in 1904 and 142 in 1908
Canadian failures for the week number
ID, as against 80 last week and 10-in this
week year ago.-Bradstreet' Report.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-29
TALK BY TAFT.
Would Revise Tariff and Put Big
N1OIatOrS of Inv m Prison.

Vfolators Of Law I'm Prison.
William Howard Taft, Secretary of
War, and the administrators candi-
date for the Republican presidential
nomination, at Columbus detailed his
views on pressing public questions be-
fore the Buckeye Republican Club. Sec
rotary Taft was received with enthusi-
asm, every person present rising and
cheering him vigorously.
The Secretary's address was the first
and most important of a series to be
made at various points in the West
prior to his sailing for the Philippines
and Japan on the 10th of September.
From a political standpoint it was
noted that Secretary Taft laid down
his opinions in such way that there
was no mistaking his candidacy and
hardly any doubt, also, that he expects
to have as his chief opponent on the
Democratic ticket William Jennings
Bryan. Mr.. Taft singled Mr.. Bryan
out repeatedly in discussing public
questions and the views of other indi-
viduals.
The salient features of the Secre-
tary's address were:
He favors additional railroad rate leg
islation, notably an increase of power to
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
He favors changes in the antitrust
law which will more clearly define it.
He believes there can be such thing
as a lawful trust, but emphasizes the
danger of unlawful monopolies.
He does not agree with Mr.. Bryan as
to the trust license plan and as to what
should be done with the trusts"
He is in favor of remedying the 'swol-
len fortune" evil and suggests State leg
islation.
He believes that the graduated inherit
ance and income tax might be properly
resorted to by the government in case
Of financial emergency.
He denies that Roosevelt's policies are
socialistic and that the President was re-
sponsible for State legislation reducing
railroad passenger rates or for Wall street
furries.
He designated Mr.. Bryan's scheme of
government as "nerveless" and denies the
practicability of national referendum.
He comes out squarely against govern
ment ownership of railroads.
He announces that he is against free
trade, but favors tariff revision and be-
Iieves there should be no tariff tinkering
until after the next presidential election.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-29
RIDGWAY, PA, STRICKEN.
Has Ninety Cases of Typhoid Fever
and Sixteen of InfantiIe Paralysis.

DR.. Arthur B. Moulton, assistant chief
medical inspector of the Pennsylvania de-
partment of health, who is at Ridgway,
reported to Health Commissioner Dixon
IN Harrisburg that there are ninety cases
of typhoid fever, twelve cases of epidemic
cerebro-spinal meningitis and sixteen
cases of infantile paralysis in the town.
The source of the typhoid infection,
case of the fever on the watershed, has
been found, and everything possible is be-
ing done to prevent spread of the dis
ease. Placards warning citizens to boil
the water have been posted all over the
town, and circulars printed in different
languages have been distributed inform
ing residents what precautions to observe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-29
FIERCE FIRES IN PITTSBURG.
Gasoline Explosions Mark Two
Blazes-Damage $250,0O0.


Two fires caused by the explosion of
gasoline in clothes pressing establishments
caused damage estimated at S250,000, and
for a time threatened the entire east end
section of Pittsburg. The first started
shortly before noon in the Club Pressing
and Cleaning Company at $3.50 Penn ave-
nue.. The building was destroyed and
fourteen employees were rescued from the
windows by firemen. The second fire was
more serious, and before it was con-
trolled seven buildings were wiped out.
The blaze started in the Enterprise
Pressing Company's shop at 1915
Center avenue about 2 O'Clock, and
spread with great rapidity east and
west. A number of automobile
garages near the burned area were saved
from destruction after a hard fight. Short
ly after the fire started 200-gallon tank
of gasoline in the American Automobile
Company building exploded, scattering
the burning fluid in all directions and
causing a stampede of the immense crowd
of onlookers. No injuries were reported.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-29
MOTHER-IN-LAW CHOP WOOD:
Redsl>in Commits Suicide Because
Brides Parent Refuses to Work.

Because his mother-in-law would not
share her home with him and his bride
and chop all the wood, Sioux warrior
named Red Shirt, who resided in the ex-
IRENE northern portion of the Rosebud
reservation, South Dakota, near White
river, committed suicide by shooting. 1t
is one of the few cases on record of a
Sioux Indian ending his own life. Red
Shirt was we'll known among the whites
residing in the southern part of Lyman
county, adjacent to the reservation. He
always had been accounted a jovial In
dian
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-29
s1.ooo.oOo Fire in Cincinnati

Fire which threatened the block bound
ed by Hunt, Broadway and East Court
streets in Cincinnati caused damage esti-
mated at $1,000,0O0. The fire started at
the plant of the Eagle White Lead Com
pany at 1890 Broadway street, and
spread rapidly to adjoining buildings.
Among the buildings destroyed were the
b. III. Krenger grocery warehouse, Edna
Smelling Company Morrison & Snodgrass
Planning Company, and L. Roberts Lum-
her (yOmnonv
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-29
American Rush to Canada.

Prof. jeremiah W. jerks of Cornell, a
member of the United States Immigra-
ton Commission, is on tour of the Ca
madam Northwest, investigating the mat
ter of American immigration into Can
ada. He is also looking into the move
ment of Asiatics to British Columbia.
1t is said to be his purpose to devise some
scheme to turn the American current
back to the States. He is expected to
make a confidential report to the Presi-
dent on the results of his trip.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-29
Government Best Ship Builder,

The battleship Connecticut, the first
of its class to be built by the government
instead of by private contract, in series
of runs over measured course off the
Maine coast has proved herself better
than her sister ship, the Louisiana, built
by the Newport News Company. The
Connecticut made an average speed of
1913 knots for her five best runs, and
her fastest mile was 1901, not allowing
for tidal corrections. The best average
of the Louisiana was 1889 for FIVE runs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-29

Government Asked to Protect Mus
sells from Unchecked Raids.

sells from Unchecked Raids.
Pearl dealers of the Maiden Lane dis
trict in New York are starting a move
ment to save the Western pearl fisheries
from destruction that is threatened be-
cause there is no restriction on the work
of fishermen, who are taking from the
rivers tons of mussels from which only
a few pearls are obtained. A petition
was recently sent TO Washington asking
for an investigation of the present con-
ditions affecting the mussels of the West
ern rivers and the feasibility of estab-
fishing hatcheries in which the mussel
may be propagated. The men in the
movement have received assurances that
an investigation is already under way.
Dealers agree that, although 1000 or
1000 men are daily looking for pearls in
the upper Mississippi and the Wabash
rivers, now the most promising fishing
grounds, yet fewer round pearls are be-
ing received in New York than in any
preceding year.