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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

The Amador Mining and Development
Company of Montana, a S1O,OOO,OOO cor
poration with headquarters at Chicago,
has collapsed. Letters informed | 400
stockholders that the copper-gold mine in
which they have sunk $560,000 is worth
less. The mine is located near Amador,
Missoula county, Mont.
The fercest battle witnessed on the
Chicago board of trade in a long time was
that between J. A. Patten ana j. Ogden
Armour. Patten had corn cornered and
Armour tried to break the corner having
been caught short. Armour failed in his
purpose and corn went to 81 cents. In
the meantime Armour was holding wheat
as firmly as Patten held corn.
The United States Steel Corporation is
negotiating with the Russian government
for one of the largest steel rail contracts
ever made. According to the reports the
steel company will provide rails for re-
laying practically the entire track of the
Siberian railway.
J. J. Hill has announced to the asso-
ciated boards of trade of Saskatchewan
that as soon as the gaps in British Co
lumbia are closed and the line built to
Calgary, it is his intention to extend the
Great Northern system from Winnipeg to
Calgary, and through northern Saskatche-
wan and Alberta.
The hearing on the reasonableness of
the maximum coal rate law, which was
passed at the last session of the North
Dakota. Legislature, has been postponed.
The Northern Pacific Great Northern
and 500 roads have questioned the rea-
sonabIeness of the rates established by
the law.
President J. T. Harahan Of the illinois
Central railroad has sailed for Europe on
trip which is intended to bring about
friendlier relations between the Illinois
Central management and some of its
stockholders, among whom an anti-Harri-
man campaign was waged during the con-
test over the last annual election.
According to reports, William Mont
gomery, former cashier Of the defunct Al
legheny National bank of Pittsburg, who
is in Jail charged with the msapplication
of over 100000 of the banks funds, has
broken his sphinx-like silence and made
a statement to Robert Lyons, receiver Of
the institution. 1t is said the statement
reveals stocks which will pay the debts
of the bank in full, with the addition OF
a small assessment on stockholders.
The South Dakota Central is raising
fund of S1.O01CG0 for Improvements
through trust deed given to Z trust and
sayings company. ard Frank II. Jones Of
Chicago. trustees. TO secare tae ISSUANCE
Of ) per cent bonds running twenty years
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The Great Northern has placed its or
der for 10000 tons of steel rails for
which it was in the market some time
ago. Ii amounts, in all, to about 40
miles of track.
Western transcontinental roads threat
en- to abandon oriental business rather
than publish rates showing proportion
paid by inland shippers as ordered by in
terstate commerce commission.
Arrangements have been made with j.
Z. Morgan & Co. to meet the interest
charges on the Erie bond issues, so that
the entire earnings of the road may be
devoted to the completion of improvements
which will increase ITS earning power.
The Pennsylvania railroad continues to
reduce its working force, and it is said
that by May / the number will have
reached $4,000. 1t is understood that
this step is in preparation for a reduc-
ton in wages after the first of next
month. The cause of the last lay-off was
the dissatisfaction felt by old employees,
who had been working on half time since
last fall. These have been put on full
time and the difference made up by dis
charging newer hands.
Of the 100000 miles of railway in the
world only about 10 per cent are found
in strictly tropical territory, ard no more
than - per cent within what would be
termed tropical and sub-tropical areas.
Tracks abound in the temperate zone.
The Public Service Commission of New
York City issued an order requiring the
street car companies to provide sufficient
cars and the right conditions for seating
all of their passengers. An exception is
made during rush hours. The minimum
number Of cars to pass on busy streets IN
each fifteen minutes, it is thought, will
have to be twenty-five.
That the proposed general freight rate
advance by the eastern railroads, effective
Oct. /, is in reality above the announced
10 per cent is the contention of traffic
managers of large industries. Since the
roads have announced the advance officials
of manufacturing plants have traced the
effect on their particular lines of industry.
They find that in some cases the increase
is as high as - per cent.
At Lansing, Mich, it was learned that
the rates on Pullman cars in the State
are to be advanced to half cent mile,
instead of on the trip basis as at present,
and the mileage basis will soon be ex-
tended over the country.
J. S. Newman. Montana sheep man,
got $500 damages from the Great North
ern railway because a shipment Of his
sheep were starved in the cars until they
''ate the wool off each others backs"
The penalty clause and other features
of the Alabama railroad rate acts have
been declared invalid by Judge Thomas
G. Jones at Montgomery. The decision
does not, however. pass on the reasonable
ness of the rates themselves, but does
express the opinion that the roads should
have s per cent interest on fair valua-
ton of the property within the State.
The effect is to continue the injunction
against all parties until the reasonable
ness Of the rates shall be determined.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02
sojourn in the South improved his
health considerably.

sojourn in the South improved his
health considerably.
Early last year he had repetition of
the attack Of indigestion and for some
weeks his condition was such that his
life was despaired of. Mr.. Cleveland
made a splendid fight for life and won.
In February last diabetes began to
make itself felt aga and Mr.. Cleve-
land became subject TO spells of I'M
consciousness, coupled again with in
ability to assimilate food. Death final
ly came at 40 a. m. Wednesday.
Life of Cleveland a Busy One.
Grover Cleveland, the twenty-second
and twenty7fourth President of the Unit
ed States. was born March 10, 1887, in
Caldwell. n. Y. In 1S41 the Cleveland
family removed to Fayetteville, n. Y,
where young Grover received his first
schooling, and where later at an early age
he served as a clerk in a small country
store. Still later, when his parents set
tied in Clinton, \. Y, he pursued his
studies further, and when only II he was
appointed assistant teacher in the New
York institution for the blind. In 1856
Cleveland served a clerkship with the law
firm of Rogers, Bowen & Rogers at Buff
falo 1t was in that Office that Cleve-
land began to read law. He was admit
ted to the New York bar in 1859. Mr..
Cleveland received his first public Office
when appointed assistant district attor-
ney of Erie county. In 1869 he Joined
the firm of tanning, Cleveland & Folsom.
In 1881 be was nominated as the Demo
cratic candidate for Mayor of Buffalo and
was elected by the largest majority ever
given in that city, although the Repub
lican State ticket was carried. In 1882
Mr.. Cleveland ran for Governor of New
York against Charles ]. Folger, then
United States Secretary of the Treasury
and won by plurality of nearly 100000
His administration was notable for the
simple and transformations way in which
he conducted the business of the State.
At the Democratic national convention
held in Chicago in July, 1884, Cleveland
was nominated by his party as its candi-
date for the presidency of the United
States and at the election in the follow
ing November was chosen to that Office
1t was during his first term that Cleve-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02
BIG SLASH IN WAGES.
Republic Steel Company Takes
Action that May Close Mills.

The Republic Iron and Steel Company
in Pittsburg has served notice on its thou
sands of Amalgamated Association en-
ployes that unless they accept a cut of
great proportions-said to be SO 1-3 per
cent-the union will be thrown out of
all the mills, beginning July 1. The work
men, who were ready to accept cut of
20 per cent, have refused to agree to so
large a cut, and the announcement is made
that the mills will close June 80, the ex-
piration of the scale year. and that when
they reopen the owners will deal with the
workmen as individuals, and not as union
men. Officers of the Amalgamated As
ISOLATION admit that efforts to arrange a
schedule with the Republic interests for
the ensuing year have failed, and that
they can not accept the great cut in
wages demanded. 1t is declared by the
workmen that the Republic sought. only
to drive organized labor from the mills
entirely when the cut was proposed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02
MRS. GROVER CLEVELAND.

of friends, many unknown personally to
her, who were made in every State
while she was in the public eye as wife
of the President
Mrs. Cleveland is the daughter of
Oscar and Emma G. Folsom, and her
father was the law partner Of Mr..
Cleevland in Buffalo, where she was
born July q, 1864.
Miss Folsom became the wife of
President Cleveland on June 2, 1886,
the wedding ceremony being performed
in the Blue Room at the White House
in the midst of a brilliant assemblage
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02
Things that Cleveland Said.

Public Office is a public trust.
After an existence of nearly twenty
years of almost innocuous desuetude these
laws are brought forth.
1t is a condition which confronts US
not a theory.
Party honesty is party expediency.
If the wind is in the south or west so
much the better, but let's go fishing, wher-
ever the wind may be.
Don't give your friend wild duck
cooked unless his wife knows how to
cook it; the gift will be discredited in the
eating.
would not have our people sober; but
! would have them thoughtful and pat
riotic.
The duck hunter is born-not made.
| do not believe that nations any more
than in individuals can violate the rules
of honesty and fair dealing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02
GROVER CLEVELAND
IS CALLED BY DEATH
Only Surviving Ex=President of the
United States SuCCumbs to
Long Illness.
END COMES UNEXPECTEDLY.
Country Shocked by News of Demise
of Democratic Leader Twice
Elected President.

Grover Cleveland, the only surviving
suddenly Wednesday morning at his
home in Princeton, n. J. While it was
known that Mr.. Cleveland had for the
past three months been suffering from
a severe attack of rheumatic govt and
acute Indigestion, his death came as a
complete surprise to the country.
He had been a sufferer from govt and
diabetes for more than two years. Early
IN 1906 he was stricken with an attack
of indigestion, the result of diabetes.
and for weeks was unable to partake
of any except liquid nourishment. A
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02
Carte Id,s Order Reversed.

The recent disbarment by Secretary of
the Interior Garfield of Attorneys James
n. and Edward Spalding, Milo B. Ste
vens & Co. and Edgar t. Gaddis on the
charge that they traficked in land bounty
warrants, was declared unconstitutional
and therefore null and void by Justice
Wright of the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict of Columbia. The attorneys COM
planned that they had been disbarred
practically without a hearing and that
their disbarment would tie up nearly a
hundred thousand pension and patent
cases which they were prosecuting for
Dersons all over the country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02
GUINNESS VICTIMS POISONED.
Arsenic and Strychnine Found In
the Stomach of HeIgeIein.

the Stomach of Helge1ein.
The first positive information on the
manner in which Mrs. Belle Guinness OF
Laporte, Ind, who is credited with at
least ten victims, disposed of the persons
whose bodies were found in her private
cemetery, was obtained when DR.. Walter
Haynes of Chicago reported informally
to Coroner Mack that he had found traces
of arsenic and strychnine in the stomach
of Andrew Helgelein of Aberdeen, 5. d.,
whose dismembered body was the first
found after the fire which caused the
death of Mrs Guinness and her three chill
dren. II. W. Worden, attorney for Ray
Iamphere, indicted for the murder OF
Mrs. Guinness, her children and Andrew
Helgelein, in a formal statement, scored
the county authorities for THEN actions
and also made a public appeal for sub
scriptions for a fund to be used as re-
ward for the apprehension of Mrs. Gun
ness. One thing that prompted Mr.. Wor-
den to the action was the receipt OF IN
formation from a Missouri man, who de-
clares that if the reward holds good he
will produce Mrs. Guinness at any time
at some place seventy miles from where
he lives.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02
UNION LAW COST $5o,ooo,ooo?

Apprentice Rule Said TO Have Lost
Americans brazilian Contract.
Because the labor unions will not let
a skilled workman teach his trade to his
own son, is tine reason the United States
lost the $5O,O00.O0O contract for ships for
the Brazilian navy" said Rear Admiral
George w Melville in Philadelphia. He
continued: I'VE have the best steel and
iron in the world right here. We have
the timber which England must import.
hut because the labor unions have put
their restriction on the number of appren-
1ices skilled labor has become so scarce in
the United States that it costs 40 per
cent more to build ship in America
than it does in Great Britain or Ger
many"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02
TORNADO PANIC AVERTED.
Hundreds in Hall When Wind
storm Hits Town.

Only the GOODNESS of those in charge
of the closing exercises of the local paro-
chial school at Sabel's hall in Adams,
Mimi, prevented a panic with disastrous
results, when a tornado struck the vii
lage. There were several hundred people
in the hall and a rush for the exits be-
gan. The children yielded readily to an
order to resume their seats and their par
ents, seeing the danger of jam at the
exits, also sat down. The band struck
up a tune and order was restored. Sew
eral buildings were destroyed and two
persons hurt. ]. f. Majerus was closing
his barn door, when the barn was lifted
and carried over his head. A flying piece
of lumber struck and severely injured him.
Peter Heimer was badly cut by flying
glass. Several dwellings and a number
of outbuildings have been blown down and
several orchards leveled by tornado at
Wilson, MINI. Near Galesville, Wis.,, the
storm demolished several barns and out
buildings.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02
w. 3. LEEDS is DEAD.
Wen Known Railroad Man and Cap
ifaIfsf Passes AWAY i'm Paris

ftaIfst Passes Away in Paris.
W. B. Leeds died suddenly at the Ritz
hotel in Paris Tuesday morning. Mrs.
Leeds was with him. He was a railroad
man nearly all his life. When only %
years of age he was employed as helper
with an engineering corps in the field
for the Pennsylvania railroad and al
though he was not especially fond of this
branch of railroading, he realized that
it was an important factor in the making
of railroad Official His work in the
field led to higher and morn responsible
positions and in two years mis- efficiency
and devotion to duty secured for him pro-
motion to the post of assistant engineer
on the Columbus division of the Pennsyl-
vania system. A year later Mr.. Leeds
was placed in the construction department
Of the Cincinnati and Richmond road and
a few years later was made engineer OF
maintenance of way of the Pennsylvania
road and afterward a division suPerin-
tendent While serving as a division
superintendent Mr.. Leeds demonstrated
his abilities as an organizer, which result
ed in the forming of the American lin
Plate Company. The business of the tin
plate company became so extensive tnat
Mr.. Leeds was obliged to resign from
his railroad work and take charge of the
concern. The American Tin Plate Com
pany was later merged into a larger COM
pany and Mr.. Leeds was chosen chairman
of its board of directors and later the
company was made a part of the United
States Steel Corporation. Mr.. Leeds and
some of his associates formed other large
steel companies which were also made a
part of the steel combine. He invested
heavily in the stock of the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific railroad, and upon the
retirement of Mr.. Purdy, a former presi-
dent of the road, was chosen his sue
cessor. Dec. u, 1901. In 1903 Mr.. Leeds
was succeeded as president by B. L. Win
chcll, who now holds the Office.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02
VISITED BY CHOLERA SCoURGE.
Three Scouts and One Civilian Dead

Three Scouts and One Civilian Dead
Two Officers Stricken.
Cholera has broken out among the
troops at Camp Gregg, near Manila.
Three scouts and one civilian have died,
and the camp has been placed under quar-
antine. Lieut. Jones of the First cavalry
and Lieut.. Muldoon of the Philippine
scouts have been stricken. Muldoon is a
New York man. The situation with re-
gard to the cholera outbreak in the prov
ince of Pangasinan. on the Island of Luz
zon, is serious. Ninety-three cases have
been reported in the last twenty-four
hours, sixty of which have been fatal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02
TRIES TO MAKE GOOD BIG LOSS.
POstofiice Empioye Explains Short
age with Remarkable story.


age with Remarkable Story.
The Pittsburg postoffice money order
department the other day wO found to
be 1851 short, and Frank L. McCabe,
superintendent of the department, was
placed under arrest, charged with embez-
Element. He tells a remarkable story and
so far as the case has been investigated
McCabe's dates and figures have been
verified McCabe says that four years
ago he went to the postofice on a Sunday
afternoon to discover a shortage of a
few dollars that appeared in his accounts.
He placed box with $4,000 on the ia
BILE while at work and few minutes later
when fire engines rushed by he went to
the front of the office. When he came
back, he says, the box with the $4,000
was missing. He was so frightened that
he did not notify the proper authorities
and started in to pay the money back at
the rate of $500 a year out of his $1,000
salary
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02
IMMIGRANTS TO BE TRACED.
Government VIII Find Out What
Becomes of Horde of Aliens.

The national immigration commission
is taking steps to obtain an elaborate
compilation of statistics which will show
the kind of citizens this country is getting
each year by adoption. 1t is proposed to
follow the careers of immigrants from the
time they step ashore at Ellis Island until
they are assimilated into the great mass
of American citizenship, and to ascertain
also what becomes of the children they
bring with them and those born here. To
this end school teachers and hospital ply
sicians in New York and other points
where immigrants land and associated
charity officials elsewhere will be asked
in a short time to furnish such data as
comes in their power to produce.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
WESTERN LEAGTE.
100000 FIRE AT DULUTH.
Elevator and Docks Burn. Impcr-
Hing the Entire Bay Front.


Over million dollars in property was
consumed within couple of hours Friday
on Rice'S Point, at Duluth. by a fire
which RACED Elevator ID of the CONSOLE
dated Elevator Company TO the waters
edge, destroyed the dock and sheds of the
Northern Pacific and imperiIed surround
ing property valued at another million.
Valiant work by a dozen tug boats which
aided the fire department is probably all
that saved the bay front at that point
from being entirely swept away. \ small
explosion which cannot be accounted for
was quickly followed by the bursting of
the flames through the elevator roof. and
before the department arrived the building
was a veritable volcano. The losses are
estimated as follows: Elevator ID, 5000,
600; wheat. 37T,O00 bushels. S403.390;
fax 217. 900 bushels, S214.610; barley,
1000 bushels. S336O; Northern Pacifio
Dock No. 1, $4,000; total, $1,011,4
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02

Mrs. James Comstock of Sunbury,
twenty miles north of Columbus, Ohio,
on the Cleveland. Akron and Columbus
railway. threw herself in front of a fast
train and was decapitated. Her head
lodged on the trucks of the tender and
was carried $40 miles before it was found.
Mrs. Comstock was about 80 years of age.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02

S. c. Knepper, cashier of a Belle Cen
ter. Ohio, bank, and his young bride were
playfully throwing water on each other on
the lawn at their home Mr.. Knepper
picked up a cup of liquid which he
thought was water and dashed in the face
of his wife. The cup contained I've. One
of the brides eyes was destroyed, the
other injured, and her face SCARED for
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02
100000 for Insane Clinic.

For the Establishment of psychiatric
clinic. dealing with the insane at Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore. Henry
Phipps of Pittsburg hes given 100000.
1t will be the first of its kind with ade-
quate equipment in connection with a
large university and hospital in this coun-
try. The new hospital will take both pub
lie apd Joriyatn DatipntS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02
nd married in the White House Miss

land married in the White House Miss
Frances Folsom. June ., 1886. She was
a daughter Of his former law partner
In 1888 he was a candidate for a sec
ond term, but was defeated in the election
of that year by Benjamin Harrison. After
his retirement from public life he settled
in New York city. At the national Dem
ocratic convention held in Chicago in
June, 1892. he was for the third time
named as his party's candidate for the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02

Thirty towns of New York State are
under quarantine for rabies, or hydropho-
bia. according to Raymond \. Pearson,
State commissioner of agriculture. off
cias of the department" Mr.. Pearson
said, have never known of such a serious
outbreak of rabies as at present Similar
conditions exist in other parts of the
,.nmntrY' =
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02
peunsyIyania Mine ExpIodes.

As the result of an explosion in Ellis
worth mine No. l, at Monongahela, Pa,
three miners are dead, two are fatally
burned. and fifteen others wer. entombed
and subsequently rescued. Little is known
as to the cause of the explosion. 1t oc-
Cured when all but thirty miners work
ing on the day shift had left the work
ingS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02
Paper Trust Men Fined.

Twentyfour companies manufacturing
manila wrapping paper We're fined $1,000
each by Judge Hough in the United
States Circuit Court in New York. They
pleaded guilty to maintaining an illegal
combination in restraint of trade. They
were members of the Manila and Fiber
Association.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02

One man was killed and many are re-
ported to have been injured by an explo-
sion that blew up the Du Pont Powder
Companys neutralizing plant at Louviers,
twenty miles south of Denver, Colo. Sew
eral persons also are reported missing.