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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
TOLD IN a FEW LINES.

Busfs of Franklin and Washington
have been placed in the American en-
bassy in London.
Fire at the jamestown exposition
grounds destroyed the arts and crafts
village and other buildings.
The massacre of 1000 persons and the
pilIaging of thirty-six villages By Kurds
is reported from northern Persia.
A design has been selected for New
York City's skyscraper, in which are to
be housed most of the municipal depart
ments.
One man probably was fatally injured,
many were slightly hurt and traffic on
the Pennsylvania railroad was suspend
ed for several hours when a passenger
train collided with a freight near South
Elizabeth Station, n. j.
Despondent because the sale for his
oriental curios had fallen off, Long Wun-
do. a New York Chinaman, jumped from
the roof of six-story building and was
instantly killed.
John ID. Rockefeller has donated $500
70 enable the Fifth Avenue Baptist
church Of New York to cor%inue its cho-
ras This is his smallest church contri-
button.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
HOMES FOR POOR MEN.
Easy to Acquire Under the Opera
ton of the CAREY Act"

For the poor man the government
has provided plan under which land
can be homesteaded at practically no
cost. For the man who can arrange to
pay small sum each year in 10 an
nual installmentS there are great pro-
jects that have been undertaken by the
United States reclamation service. But
there is another large class OF those
who wish TO own a small section of
ground that they can call their own,
and this class is composed of men who
cannot afford to drop all of their pres
ent affairs and take up their residence
for five years in Il new country, as
would be necessary if they either ac-
quired a homestead on the prairie or
obtain land that is irrigated by the
government For all such there is what
is known as the Carey act" lands.
The Carey act provides for the seq
regation of 100000 acres of arid land
in State. This land is to be sold
for not to exceed 80 cents an acre and
is to be irrigated by private compa-
lltS III Olu ~ ODldln water
for this land it is necessary for the
settler to enter into contract with
the company that does the irrigating
and to agree to pay a certain amount
a year in easy installments. This is
from So to 81 a year for each acre. as
a rule. When the entire amount has
been paid the irrigating system passes
into the ownership of those who have
acquired the water rights.
One of the most interesting things
about the Carey act is that under it's
provisions only short residence is
necessary and a teacher, professional
man or capitalist can spend a short
vacation on the ground, make the
small payment required and obtain Ii
tie. In Wyoming. where the Big Horn
Basin Development Company has just
thrown open 245,000 acres for settle
ment. residence of 80 days is all that
is required.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.

The conferees on the bill to enlarge
homesteads from $50 acres to 800 acres
Old non-irrigable lands agreed to an amend
ed report striking from the bill the pro-
vision that this change should apply to
Idaho and California.
The Senate committee on public build
ings and grounds completed considera-
ton of the omnibus public buildings bill,
which has passed the House. The COM
nittee added about SS,000,000, bringing
the total carried by the measure to over
S30,000000.
A bill appropriating S5,000,000 ''for the
enlargement of the capitol grounds, and
to provide a site for a monument or
monumental memorial to Abraham Lin
coin and a dignified and adequate APP
proach to the capitol building, AMI for
the erection of a monument to Abraham
Lincoln" was introduced in the House
by Mr.. Mccall of Massachusetts, Chair
man of the committee on the library.
The bill passed by the House granting
certain employees of the government COM
pensation for injuries sustained in the
line of duty was reported to the Senate
favorably from the committee on jHdi-
ciary.
The Senate committee on immigration
ordered favorabIy reported the House bill
amending the laws in relation to the nat
urai zaf en- of aliens. The committee
amended the bill by increasing the fees
for naturalization from 50 to $40.
An unfavorable report was ordered by
the public lands committee of the House
on the Senate resolution providing for
the protection of innocent purchasers in
connection with prosecutions authorized
by this Congress and about to be begun
to recover for the government some mill
ions of acres of public lands in far west
ern States. which, it is alleged. have been
illegally administered by railroad COM
panies to whom they were granted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
coNFEssEs TRIPLE MURDER.
Zastera, Farm inland, Admits Killing
the Shepherds at Mafawan. n, j,


The prosecutor of Monmouth county,
n. J., announces that Frank Zastera, the
Polish farm hand, has made a confession
that he killed Mr.. and Mrs. William Is.
Shepherd and their domestic, Miss Jennie
Bendy, who were found murdered in Mr..
Shepherds farmhouse Saturday morning.
Zastera's statement is TO the effect that
he killed Mr.. and Mrs. Shepherd to get
their money. Zastera says he waited in
the parlor of the house Saturday morning
until Mrs. Shepherd came downstairs to
warm bottle of milk for her baby and,
as she was returning upstairs with the
milk, shot her in the side of the head with
her husbands shotgun. At the sound of
the shot Shepherd ran downstairs. Zas-
terra was standing in the hall with the
gun and when Shepherd was half way
down fired at him. Shepherd dropped on
the stairs and his body fell upon that OF
his wife. Zastera, according to his re-
ported confession, then entered the kitch-
en- with the gun and, meeting Jennie
Bendy, shot her in the breast. All three
were instantly killed. Zastera then went
IN search of Shepherds money, ransack-
ing the farmers clothing and the bureau
drawers of the house Zastera is said to
have told the authorities that he hid the
money somewhere about the house or
grounds
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime.
$500 to S7.35; hogs, prime heavy, $400
to $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $500; wheat, No. 2, $1.O1 to S103;
| corn, No. 2, Toe to Tic; oats, standard,
53c to soc: rye, No. ., SIC to Sic; hay,
| timothy. $3.50 to $3.50; prairie. $500
to $500; butter, choice creamery, lie
| to DC; eggs, fresh, 12c to lie; potatoes
per bushel, Coo to G5c.
Indianapolis-Cat shipping, $500
to 500; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $3.50; sheep, common to prime,
$500 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, 99c to
500; corn, No. 2 white, o3c to 65c; oats,
No. 2 white, sic to 52c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to S7.15: hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to $500:
wheat, No. 2, $1.02 to $1O4; corn, No. 2,
Tic to 73c; oats, No. 2, Ole to 52c; rye,
No. 2, SOC to SEC.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $G7J;
hogs, $500 to $5.75; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, 99c to $1.OO; corn,
No. 2 mixed, 74c to 75c; oats, No 2
mixed, 53c to 54c; rye, No. 2, S3c to Soc.
DeJfUC-1dllle, SfpD 10 NO.bt, nOgS,
$500 to $40; sheep, $3.50 to $4.75;
wheat, No. 2, 99c to $1OO; corn, No 3
yellow, 76c to nc; oats, No. 2 white,
54c to SIC; rye, No. 2, SIC to Soc.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $500;
hogs, $3.50 to 5000; sheep, $500 to
$3.50: wheat, No. 2 red, S1.03 to $104
corn, No 2, 74c to 76c; oats, natural
white, SIC to 5Sc; butter, creamery, 21c
to 23c; eggs, western, 13c to lie.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. northern.
SLOT 70 S1.09; corn, No. 3, Toe to 7Gc;
oats, standard, J4c to soc; rye No. /,
S3c to SIC; barley, No. 2, 74c TO Toe;
pork, mess, S13.35.
Bufalo-Cattle, choice shippiDs; steers,
$500 to S7.0J hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $50; sheep common to good mixed,
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $3.50.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 9Gc TO
97c; corn, No. mixed, 75c to I6c;
oats, No. 2 mixed, SIC to 53c; rye, No.
2, SOC to Sic; clover seed, prime, 1890.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
CHICAGO.

The mortality in business now shows
less than year ago, but the volume of
payments through the banks again fur
nlshes an unfavorable comparison, and
the State bank exhibits reflect further
plhng up of deposits and unemployed
FUNDS. The latter conditions appear as q
natural result of curtailed commercial
operations and are less disturbing than
the spread of labor troubles in the coal
fields and the purpose to advance rail-
road freight tariffs.
The situation in the leading industrial
branches has become no worse. but the
uncertainty as to the trend OF costs and
the paucity of demands for finished pro-
ducts add to the hesitation in making i'm
portant contracts.
Weather conditions continued mostly
adverse to seaSonable activity in distribu-
tive dealings and local retail trade was
ilAegular. More favorable reports as to
the consumption of general merchandise
come from the interior and buying would
be even better were the rush of delayed
farm work less pressing.
Visiting buyers in the wholesale dis
trlct are not pow expected in large num-
oerS, as necessaries have been obtained or
provided for, but the current buying is
yet good in staples, although confined to-
absolute needs. Mail advices Indicate
that road statesmen meet with less diff
Guilty i'll securing substantial orders in
fall and winter goods. Continued ease
IN money is making collections generally
prompt.
Transportation returns testify to fur
Their falling off in the offerings of freight
by both rail and lake. Local building
operations steadily extend and there is.
more heavy construction being planned.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number "A, against SO last week and
26l year ago. Those with liabilities
over $1,000 number {, against 8 last week
and in 1901-Dun's Review of Trade
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
WORK OF
CONGRESS
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A Democratic speech prepared for cir
culation in the coming campaign was de-
livered Tuesday by Senator Taylor of
Tennessee. Mr.. Taylor devoted his at
tention chiefly to the tariff and currency
policies of the Republican party. The
Senate agreed TO the conference report
on the agricultural bill carrying a total
OF Sl1,6l2, LOG. The conference report
on the legislative appropriation bill was
agreed to in the House; conference re-
ports on the agricultural and Notifications
appropriation bills were received: the bill
making an appropriation of S1.500,O00 for
representation by the United States at
the Toxic exposition in 1912 was passed,
as were also two omnibus bills embodying
forty separate measures, having to do
with public lands and matters in the ter
ritories. Pending a vote on a bill pro-
viding for the issuance of leases of pub
lie lands in the Panama canal zone.
recess was taken until IL O'Clock Wednes-
day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
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Calvin Demarest of Chicago, national
amateur billiard champion, added the in
ternational title to his list when he de-
feated Lucien Rerolle.
VIM. II. Hendrickson of Belle Meade,
is trying to arrange a three-cornereJ
match race to decide the much-disputel
question as to which horse was the bes.
in central New Jersey.
Announcement is made that the Eng
lish polo team that was making arrange
ments to play a series of matches at New
port, Meadowbrook Rockaway and other
places in this country cannot come this
year.
Through the efforts of Coach John F.
Moakley of the Cornell track team a
rural school track athletic association has
been formed in Tompkins county, New
York. by the various teachers of the
country school, and Cornell College of Ag-
riculture.
Stone Street, the bay colt from the
Hamilton stable. won the Kentucky
Derby at Louisville under lowering skies
and over a track that was ankle deep in
mud, coming home with his ears pricked
up and without urging. two lengths and
one-half in front of a tired field.
Cold, cloudy, with a strong wind, were
the conditions which faced the hundred
trap shooters in the annual western tour
nament at Omaha. r. r. Barber of Pau
lima, Iowa, broke 10 targets without
miss. but a Milwaukee man, J. NJ
Hughes, was high gun for the day with
1913 out of a possible 200. Barber with
1872 and George Maxwell of Hastings,
Neb, and Chris Gottlieb of Kansas City,
who were tied with 100, were the other
high professionals.
King Cobalt won the Dunton stakes ct
Jamaica, n. Y, easily, going the six
furlongs in 1 - 1-5.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
WRECKED BY DYNAMlTERS.
Bridge on New Haven Road Blown
Up After Threats.

Bridge on New Haven Road Blown
Up After Threats.
A bridge under construction on the
Harlem branch of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad at Bay
chester, y. Y, was wrecked by dynamit-
ers. Fifty pounds of the explosive was
discharged under the first span, twisting
the huge girders. This outrage followed
an unsuccessful attempt to wreck a bridge
on the same railroad over the Harlem
river the previous day. The bridge was
a modern steel structure over the tracks
gear the Baychester station for foot and
vehicle traffic. 1t was built by the Schu-
macker company of Philadelphia and for
many months had been the scene of al
most constant labor troubles. 1t is al
legged that striking workmen made fire.
quent threats to blow up the bridge I'M
less their grievances We're adjusted, and
as a result two watchmen were on guard
every night
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
BRIDE DRIVES MAN TO DEATH.
Indiana Political Leader Kills Him
self on Account of Graft Charges.

John McGaughey. former county COM
missioner, killed himself with a revolver
on account of scandals growing out Of
graft charges against the board of county
commissioners in Indianapolis. He had
been prominent in Republican politics.
The grand jury recently returned an in
dictment against one member of the pres
ent board. but McGaughey had not been
indicted. Ned McGaughey, the dead mans
son, said his father had been threatening
for a month to kill himself because of de-
spondency growing out of the board of
commissioners scandal. McGaughey' s
term as commissioner expired Jan 1,
1907. The Snly instance IN which his
name had been connected with the grow
ing scandal in the commissioners office
is in a deal where the Atlas Engine works
is charged with paying bride Of $500
to the commissioners. Emmett Higgins,
former bailiff, in his confession told that
he gave Thomas Spafford, commissioner,
$500 of the $500 to be given by Spaford
to McGaughey. McGaughey denied re-
ceiving such a sum or knowing anything
about it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
TIES BRokEN; DUAL TRAGEDY.
Rich Drug Man Slain by Son-Latter
Then Ends Life.

Then Ends Life.
George E. Sterry, the millionaire presi-
dent of the Weaver & Sterry Company,
Limited, 20 Pine street and 166 Pearl
street, New York, drug importers and
wholesalers, was shot and instantly kill
ed by his eldest son, George E. Sterry,
Jr., who then shot and killed himself.
The murder and suicide grew out of the
intention of the elder Sterry, who was
widower, u years old, to marry Miss Ra-
chel Blake, aged So, a school teacher of
East Orange, y. j. The two bodies were
found seated in chairs in Mr.. Sterry's
private office-the father leaning over his
own desk with a bullet hole in his right
temple and the son sitting in a chair
three feet away with "a bullet hole in his
temple and the revolver on the floor where
he had dropped it. There was no wit
ness to the crime. George e. Sterry was
a member of the board of managers of the
American Bible Society and the Ameri-
can Tract Society. He was director of
the Princeton Theological Seminary. He
was supposed to be worth S2,OOO,OO0.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Rain and Winds Destroy CrOps.

A severe storm passed over eastern
Ohio and the West Virginia panhandle.
The storm, which included a downpour of
rain, hail and wind, first appeared in the
vicinity of Adena, Ohio, on the Wheeling
and Lake Erie railroad. Here the rising
waters washed out a number of houses,
carried away quantities of ties and lum-
Der, destroyed telephone and telegraph
lines, washed out highways and did dam
age estimated at $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Knocks Ont Texas Tax Law.

In the case of the Galveston and San
Antonio Railway Company versus the
State of Texas, involving taxes, the Su-
preme Court of the United States held
unconstitutional the Texas law Of 1905,
fixing the tax rate on railroads equal to
l per cent on their gross earnings when
they lie wholly within the State and a
proportionate sum when they lie partly
within the State. The opinion was de-
livered by Justice Holmes, who held that
the law is an effort to regulate interstate
commerce
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
BOMB ENDANGERS MANY.
Explosion i'm New York Tenement
House Injuries Four Persons.

The refusal of wealthy Italian ply
stefan to comply with the demands of
BLACK Hand" members placed the lives
of hundred persons in danger in New
York when bomb was exploded in the
tenement house at 316 East Eleventh
street. Four persons were injured. The
other occupants rushed into the street as
the doors and beams which had been
twisted by the explosion tumbled around
them. The lower part of the house was
wrecked. None of the injured persons
was dangerously hurt except Tony Lam
barro, who was crushed by falling tim
bers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Box Factory Burns,

Three men are missing, believed to be
dead. and nineteen were injured in a fire
which burned the building occupied by the
J. c. Wintermeyer box factory and the
SueSs Ornamental Glass Company at 100
Throop street, Chicago. The building
and adjoining lumber kilns was owned by
the T. Wilce Lumber Company. The fire
spread and covered half a city block. The
loss is estimated at about 100000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
GarrnfpI and KnhhCI.

Robert {. l.. Holmes. - years old, pur-
chasing agent of the Commonwealth-F,d i-
son Electric Company. and one of the
leading figures iii the Chicago electrical
world, was found dead in an alley in the
rear of Lyon X IIealy'S music store, his
face black from strangulatiop and bearing
every evidence of having been brutally
murdered by iendS, who had stripped his
body of every article of value.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Unions Win Butte Strike.

The Bell Telephone Company at Butte,
Mont, has settled the strike of the line
men and operators which started fifteen
months ago, by conceding nearly every
point in dispute. even having dismissed
some of the injunction suits under which
labor leaders had been sent to Jail. The
company had been completely paralyzed
by the boycott, despite the injunctions,
as the merchants had not dared to use
the phones for fear of losing trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Finds EanIphere Indicfmcnts

Ray Lamphere must answer to the
charge of murder and arson The grand
jury which has been investigating the
Guinness house near Laporte, Ind. and
its tragedies returned three indictments.
Lamphere is charged with arson in Set
ting fire to the home of Mrs. Guinness on
the morning of April IS. lie is charged
also with being both principal and an
accessory after the fact in the murder of
Andrew lIelgelein OF Aberdeen, s. D.. and
with the murder of Mrs. Guinness and her
three children.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Death in Kansas Tornadoes.

At least six persons were killed and
many were injured by tornadoes in Ran
sas Wednesday night. At Green. near
Clay Center, there were three fatalities,
but wires are down and details are inca
ger The two children of Mrs. Becker
were killed near Lynn, Washington
county Mrs. Fred Grothe was killed at
Lincoln, northwest of Salina The prop
erty loss will be enormous.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28

After a conf erence between members of
the Association of Duck Manufacturers
and the selling agents from the principal
cities. at ST. Louis, it was decided to
close the nineteen factories making this
grade of duck goods at once. and it was
expected that all would follow suit. More
than 25,o00 employees will be made idle
by this action. The cause is said TO be
simply the failure to sell at pr,it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28

Senator Rayner again Wednesday made
an appeal for a vote on a resolution "au-
thorizing and requesting" the President to
appoint a court of inquiry to investigate
charges against Col William +. Stewart,
coast artillery. stationed at Fort Grant
Arizona Objection being made, furthe.
consideration of the resolution was post
poned. The omnibus public buildings bill
was passed. 1t carries appropriations ag-
gregating $35.000.000. 4 bill to prevent
the dissertation of the flag of the United
States, was passed. The conference re-
port on the Notifications appropriation
bill was adopted and a partial agreement
on the sundry civil bill was reported and
approved. The conclusions of the special
committee on the charges of Representa-
tive Lilley that members of the House
had been improperly influenced in con-
nection with submarine torpedo boat leg
islation. and the charges that Mr.. Lilley
had violated his obligations as member
and had acted in bad faith with the COM
mittee and in contempt of the House, were
sustained by the House by vote of 157
to s.. The partial conference report on
the sundry civil appropriation bill occa-
stoned a lively debate. 1t was adopted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Kills Husband TO Save Children

Fearing for the safety of her three
small children. Mrs. Bessie Ellis Deeson
shot and probably fatally wounded her
husband Hardiman S. Deeson, at their
home in Bartlett county, Tenn. Deeson
is said to have established himself in the
yard of the home and fired shots in the
direction of the home. He is said to have
been intoxicated.