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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-13
NEW YORK

Trade and financial developments have
been of a rather irregular character, but,
on the whole, in the direction of future
improvement at the larger centers. Con-
servativism in ordering is noted as a
countrywide condition, but recent price
reductions have unqueStionably stimulat-
ed interest. The suspension of four banks
at the metropolis was. after all, only neg
atively unfavorable, these being the after
math of last autumn's financial storm.
Underlying financial conditions are GER
tainly no less favorable, money shows in
creasing ease not only in this country,
but all over the world, and improvement
in collections, which are still slow as a
whole, is in many cases the result of cas-
ing money making it possible to remit on
past-due accounts. The weeks failure
total is the smallest for month past.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending Jan. 80 number so,
against 40S last week, 211 in the like
week of 1907. 22S in 1906, 239 in 1903
and 216 in 1904. There were forty-fcur
failures in Canada this week. against
fifty-one last week and twenty-six in this
week year ago.-Bradstreet' Report.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-13
Gas Electric Chr Tested.

On Wednesday at Schenectady, n. T.,
officials of the Delaware and Hudson
Company and the American Locomotive
Company made test Of the new gas cleo
trio car which is expected to revolution
ize railroading ON short lines. 1t COM
bines in one the power house. transmits
sion lines, substations and ali the benefits
of electric traction without the costly
and cumbersome features of the trolley.
\ powerful gas engine drives an electric
generator. The current obtained in this
way supplies power to the motors which
drive the car. The gas engine, which con-
sumes gasoline, runs very smoothly, and
the electrical equipment assures perfect
control of speed and as comfortable rid
ing as is enjoyed in the modern interur-
ban electric. The shape of the ends of
the car is parabolic, to reduce the air
resistance to a minimum when travelling
at high speed. The eight-cylinder gas
engine develops $50 horsepower, and is
coupled to 100 horsepower direct current
generator. The machinery worked finely
on all kinds of grades, and a speed of
over sixty miles an hour was made at
times. The car was especially designed
and constructed by the General Electric
Company for steam railroad work on the
Delaware and Hudson lines. and will be
used on several of its branch roads.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-13
Earrnan WinH Airahip Prize.

Henry Farman. the French aeronaut,
has won the Deutsche- prize
of $4,000 promised to the first person
who should make a circular kilometer in
an airship heavier than air. Mr.. Far
man did even better than the conditions
of the test required. His outer mark
was 512 meters from the start and his
curves were such that he actually covered
200 meters. Aeronauts consider this
exploit the greatest since VI. Santos-Du-
mont circumnavigated the Eiffel Tower in
a dirigible balloon, and as being of far
more prospective value than Santos-Du-
mont's performance. The aeroplane
weighs 300 pounds. \ framework of ash
and piano wires supports two horizontal
parallel planes of light sail cloth 30 feet
long A fifty horsepower motor is placed
Just behind and above the level of the
lower plane OF the forward set of sails.
With a preliminary run of hundred
yards over the ground. the aeroplanc had
risen to a height of - or 10 feet before
it reached the starting pole. Then, with
outstretched wings. it sailed out across
the field at a height of from % to 30
feet and at speed of twenty-five miles
an hour The test took place about FIVE
miles from Paris.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-13
SHORT NEWS NOTES.

Fire at Girard, Ga, resulted in the
death of DIR. J. c. Brigham, and caused
$4,000 loss.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Saline
River Lumber Company at Benton, Ark.
Loss $4,000. Insurance $4,000.
Sneaker Cannon greeted a delegation of
school girls in his room at the national
can;tol and told them he was opposed to
woman suffrage.
Fire destroyed thirteen buildings in the
town of Kimball, w. Va. The town was
without fire protection. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000.
David r. Fergan, president of the Ma
tional City Bank of Chicago. speaking at
the annual dinner of New York bankers.
said the country needs more, not less, ex-
tension of credit.
Gov Hughes, Lieut.. Gov. Chandler and
Joeeph II. Choate Wee speakers at a
meeting in Albany, \. Y. to devise meth
DDS of combating the spread of consump-
ton.
Kentucky heirs of Gen. Israel Putnam
have fled claim for an allotment of the
property of the estate in London now
held by a trustee and said 10 be worth
S20O00,Co0.
f. z. Earle, the New York artist, and
Julia kuttner. his affinity are TO be
married in Paris as soon as divorce is
granted freeing the artist from his wife,
which is expected in q few weeks. Each
Of the three parties to the unusual COM
pact is now in Paris.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-13
CHICAGO.

nile the month just closed was CON
SpicuouS for drastic measures in restoring
credlt and reducing merchandise TO safe
proportions, the process of readjuStment
has been attended with less trouble than
feared and conditions generally now make
a better basis for future operations in
commerce. The week has seen new de-
mands IN manufacturing come forward
slowly, but the exhibir is an improving
one, and there is broader activity in the
distributive lines. Low temperature aug
mented the buying in leading retail lines.
particularly of heavyweight apparel and
household furnishings. Interior buyers
appeared in greater numbers.
Advices indicate seasonable Roadway in
disposing of country stocks, these being
now brought down comfortably. and road
statesmen report less difficulty in booking
orders for forward delivery.
Improved financial conditions are re-
fiected in a wider circulation of currency
throughout the agricultural sections, and
this has made mercantile collections
easier. although more than a normal num-
Der of trading defaults is again in evil
dence and extensions are frequently ask
ed. The banking position shows steady
recovery, there being increase in both de-
poslts and discount operations, with
money cheaper, although not yet suff-
GENTLY inviting to attract new enterprises.
Production i'll the leading industries is
not expected to disclose notable changes,
but there is moderate increase over n
month ago in iron, steel. wood and leath-
er working, and idle forces are smaller
than in last week. Important considera-
tons as to costs of supplies and labor
and the vet limited flow of fresh orders
prolong the feeling of caution which pre-
walls in many quarters. Some factory
outputs still lag and only slightly renew
ed activity may appear in these branches
before the spring months. Receipts of
the raw materials continue restricted in
lumber. wool and in minor metals, but
have gained over last year in hides and
live stock.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number 81. against 30 last week and
26 year ago. Those with liabilities over
$1,000 number 10, against 16 last week
and Is in 1907.-Dun's Review of
Trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-13
BIG FIRE AT RACINE, WIS.
Block Containing Club and Several
Stores DestroyeG.

Five fremen were injured and a loss
of $4,000 was caused by a fire which
broke out in the rooms of the Racine Club,
in the Alschuler block on Main street. Ra-
cine, Wis. at 4 O'Clock THURSDAY morning.
The injured Captain John Diedish. scalp
cut and overcome by smoke; Fireman
Peter Joachim. three ribs broken and in
jured internally; James Bruce, ribs brok-
en- and bruised on head and body: John
Stripple. injured on the legs: Charles
Jcnista. severely bruised. The fire was
caused by a defective electric wire in an
elevator. Eight men were on the ladders
against the south wall of the structure
when it fell. James Bruce went over
into the burning building. and it was be-
lieved he was lost His comrades threw
a stream of water on him and he man
aged TO crawl into 8 hallway and was
rescued. The other men fell to the roof
of an adjoining building. The Dan and
Sol Clothing Company. the Harbridge
Grocery Company. the Racine Club and
the Zahn Dry Goods Company, all occu-
pants of the AIschuler building, suffered
most of the loss
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-13
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500, -A2e2S~

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$40O to $3.50; hogs. prime heavy, $i.O0
to $4G5; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $500 wheat. No. =, 93ce to 96c;
corn, No. ., Sc to 59c; oats, standard,
49c to soc; rye, No. ., soc to S2c; hay,
timothy, $3.50 to $500; prairie, $500
to $3.50; butter, choice creamery, PC
to 33c; eggs. fresh, pc to 26c; potatoes,
per bushel, &c TO 73c.
Indianapolis-Ca shipping, $500
to 1913; hogs, good TO choice heavy,
$3.50 to $i.60; sheep, common to prime,
$500 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, 94c to 95c;
corn, No. white 54c to 55c; oats, No. =
white, 51c to sc.
ST. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to 5000 hogs,
$500 to $4.J5: sheep, $500 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, CSC to S100; corn, No. 2,
I5c to SIC; oats, No. ., 4Sc to soc; rye,
No. ., Sic to SIC.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 to $3.50;
hogs. $500 to $4.65; sheep. $500 10
$500: wheat, No. 2, Csc to 09c; corn,
No. mixed, 55c to SIC; oats, No. =
mixed. SOC to ole; rye, No. 2, SIC to SOC.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $500: hogs,
$500 to S4.25; sheep, $3.50 to $500:
wheat, No. ., 94c to 95c; corn, No. 3
yellow, soc TO SIC; oats, No. = white,
52c to J4c; rye, No. ., Sic to SIC.
Observation-Disclosures, No. . northern,
Sf.OJ to $1.07 corn, No. 8, J4c to SIC;
oats. standard, J2c to DC; rye, No. !,
Sic to S3c; barley, No ., 99c to $1.01
pork, mess, $3.50.
Buffalo-Cattle choice shipping steers.
$500 to 5000; hogs fair to choice, $3.50
to $3.50; sheep. common to good mixed,
$500 to 1925; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $3.50.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $3.50:
hogs. $3.50 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. red, 9Sc to $1.OO;
corn, No. .. &c TO G3c; oats, natural
white. j6c to Sc; butter, creamery, 2Sc
to BE; eggs, western, pc to DC
Toledo-Wheat, No. mixed, &c TO
Ole: corn. No. 2 mixed, J9c to 60c;
oats. No. mixed, 49c to ole; rye. No.
>. 7Sc to 19c; clover seed, prime, $1l3J.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-13
KARG|S SLAIN BY SON.
Breathitt County, Kentucky, Terror
Shot Down While Busy in
His Store.
QUARREL BEFORE TRAGEDY.
Long and Deadly Struggle of Two
Factions of Mountaineers
Recalled.

Former County Judge James Hargis,
notorious Kentucky feud leader, prac-
teal dictator of Breathitt county, and
accused of completely in many murders,
was shot and instantly killed in his
general store at Jackson by his son,
Beach Hargis. The son fired five shots
in rapid succession, four of which took
effect i'll his fathers body.
The exact cause of the quarrel which
resulted in Judge Hargis death is IN
known. 1t is supposed, however, that
the killing was the result of an old
grudge between father and son, which
had been infiamed of late by the young
mans dissolute habits. The two men
are said to have had an alteration
several nights before, during which the
father was compelled to resort to vio-
lence to restrain his son.
Beach, who is reported to have been
drinking heavily of late, entered his
fathers general store in the middle of
the afternoon. Judge Hargis was stand
ing behind the counter in the rear of
the place and several customers were
grouped in the front. Young Hargis,
who was apparently under the influence
of liquor at the time, walked toward
his father, who is said to have remon-
strated with him. A quarrel started,
which attracted the attention Of the
customers. Young Hargis then joined
his father behind the counter, and af-
ter few moments conversation drew
a revolver and fired three shots at
point blank range.
Mercy Mercy! You've killed me-"
appealed the elder man as he lay on
the floor. Young Hargis' answer was
to fire two more bullets into his par
ent's PROSTATE body.
\ panic enSued during which the
store was emptied and Town Marshal
Goran Smith notified Smith. with
Grover Blanton, placed young Hargis
under arrest after a desperate struggle,
during which he raved like a mailman.
He was removed to the county Jail,
fighting every inch of the way with his
captors.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-13
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

Dr. Henry Gibbons. Jr., dean of the
Cooper Medical College, was badly inJur-
ed in street car accident in San Fran
cisco.
Latest information indicates that more
than a score of persons were killed in the
cyclone that swept the region tbout Ha-
zelhurst, Miss. Friday.
Five persons were burned to death and
others seriously injured by the burning of
a three-story rooming house at ZIG Wy
andotte street, Kansas City.
Thousands of people in Columbus, o.,
suffered from the cold on account of a
shortage in the supply of natural gas,
which was said to be due to the breaking
of pump.
Gov. Hughes of New York, speaking at
a mass meeting at the Majestic theater,
BROOKLYN. made strong plea for the
abolition of racetrack gambling in the
State
President Roosevelt will touch button
which will open the tunnel under the
Hudson river between New York and New
Jersey Feb. -. Cows. Hughes and Fort
will shake hands at the State line 100
feet below the surface of the river.
New York at last has a real solendon.
The solendon is an insect-eating beast
from Hayti. 1t was presented to the
American Museum of Natural History by
the late Morris X. Jesup.
Vella Wiley, II years old daughter of
Rev. and Mrs. r. c. Wiley of Wilkins
burg, Pa. and Robert Patterson, % years
old. of New Alexandria. Pa, were drown
ed while skating on the Beaver river, near
Beaver Falls, Pa.
John T. Wilson, international presi-
dent of the Brotherhood of Maintenance
of Way Employees of Railroads, while
fighting with his wife in their home in
st. Louis, was probably fatally shot by
Frank G. Engleman, his brotherin-law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-13
JUDGE SENDS HIMSELF TO JAIL.
Toledo Magistrate Learns How 1t
Feels TO BE Prisoner.

Carrying out his promise, Police Judge
James Austin, Jr., known as 1.-The golden
rule justice" had himself incarcerated
in the Toledo workhouse and held under
the same orders as are those sentenced
there by his court. With the judge were
Police Prosecutor Frank Boyer and sew
eral reporters. The judge and those with
him were duly brought to the clerk for
papers, were then shackled and hand
cuffed and delivered to the lieutenant in
charge, who in turn had them carried
and dragged to the patrol wagon. Upon
arrival at the workhoust they were forced
to eat the prison fare, don prison clothes,
be measured and searched just as any
prisoner. Then they were forced to go
out with the gang and cut ice. After
the day was over and they had been re-
leased Judge Austin said: That's the
hardest day | ever spent in my life. l
know now what it is to do time in the
workhouse. No, | haven't made up my
mind how it is going to affect me, nor
am l ready to say what l think of work
house sentences. I'll talk of that after
| have had a chance to think it over"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-13
Indian Veterans Protest.

1t is reported from Johannesburg,
Transvaal. that 116 Indian ex-soldiers
who acted as hospital bearers and the
like during the Boer war have sent
petition TO the Earl of Elgin, Englands
secretary of state for the colonies, pro-
testing against the gross insult to them
in the Identification measures adopted by
the Transvaal government, which they de-
clare infringe upon their religion The
petition further says that if the imperial
government is unable to protect them
they will pray the king to order that they
be shot on one of the South African bat
tlefelds on which they served. The of
fensive regulation referred to was one
compelling natives of India to furnish fin
ger prints and other means of identified.
ton as a condition of remaining in the
colony. Several prominent Indian natives
have been sentenced to two and three
months imprisonment for refusing to
comply with the requirements of the law
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-13
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@OLITIeLANS

That there is no possibility of a war
with Japan and that the sailing of the
feet to the Pacific is not threat to any
nation were the opinions expressed by
Secretary Taft at the banquet of the
Ohio Society at Philadelphia. But he
added that it was sometimes helpful to
have it understood that you can back up
what you say. The influence of the navy
in the Orient could not but be of great
benefit.
The next day after the formal an
nouncement of Gov. Hughes that he
would not object to a unanimous express
sion of the Republican party in New
York favorable to his nomination for the
presidency Secretary of War Taft made
public his letter to Chairman Parsons of
the New York county committee. In which
he said that friends of his should not
attempt to divide in his interest the dele
CATION from any State which has a can
didate of its own.
Secretary Dover of the Republican Ma
tional Committee, who submitted to a
committee of three lawyers the question
of the legality of the proposed primaries
in Ohio for the choice of delegates to the
districts, as advocated by the Taft follow
ers. now reports their decision as being
unfavorable to that plan. While the
opinion is not binding on either the COM
mittee or the convention, it is taken by
the Forakerites to be a victory for them.
In reply to the opposition of some
Democratic leaders through the East and
South to the candidacy of W. J. Bryan
for the presidential nomination, Mr.. Bry-
an is reported as having sent word to
prominent Democrats at Washington that
if they can show him that any consid-
cradle number of earnest, real and reliable
Democrats believe that his candidacy will
prove detrimental to the best interests of
the party he will refuse to accept the
nomination. He has further said that he
will give his support to any one of these
three Democrats, Gov. Johnson of Min
nesota, Gov. Hoke Smith of Georgia or
Senator Culberson of Texas. but ne has
declared with emphasis that he cannot
be expected to stand for another cam
paign such as was made for Alton 3.
Parker. He will not relinquish his own
ambitions in order to turn the Demo
cratic party over the the conservative ele-
ment.
In view of the remarks made by Secre-
tary Taft at a semi-political gathering
lately, in which he refused to agree to
the harmony arrangements proposed by
Senator Crane. Senator Foraker has ex-
pressed himself as very doubtful about
any adjustment of the political rivalry
between the two Ohio men. 1T may be
regarded as settled that the contest will
be fought out to the end" was his COM
ment on the situation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-13
Charles " MORSE

liner, as receiver of the National Bank
Of North America, which Morse con-
trolled. In the papers on which the at
tachment was granted it was stated
that Morse had left for Europe.
Morse has had a meteoric career He
organized, consolidated and fOated one
enterprise after another. At one time
he controlled banks, trust companies,
insurance companies, steamship compa-
lilies and other corporations of aggre-
gate resources valued at more than
$3OO,OCOOOO. Morse's fortune several
years ago was estimated at S20,0O0O00.
Three months ago lie displayed quaint
ties of securities and claimed to be
worth S11.OO0,000
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-13
1000 IDLE MEN PUT TO WORK.
Pennsylvania Steel Company Gets
Rush Orders, Increasing Force

Pennsylvania Steel Company Gets
Rush Orders, Increasing Force.
One thousand men formerly employed
by the Pennsylvania Steel Company at
Steelton, Pa, have been called back to
work after an enforced idleness of more
than month. Rush orders from New
York for structural material for munich
pal buildings and an order for rails from
the New York City Railway Company
warranted the company in increasing its
present force to 300 men, or about 40
per cent of the normal force. Ten thou
sand men have been laid off since De
cember by the Baldwin locomotive works
of Philadelphia because of lack of or
ders for engines. Samuel NJ. Vauclain,
a member of the firm, in speaking of the
conditions at the works, said Whereas
we were formerly turning out about sixty
locomotives a week, we are now turning
out only twenty. Our full working force
is about 10000"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-13
Five Are Injured I'm Fire.

Five persons were injured, one fatally,
in a fire which destroyed Lands court, a
three-Story apartment house on the West
Side in Kansas City. Mrs. Hilda Holm
quist's leg and Grm were broken: Mrs.
Frank Allen and her mother-in-law were
seriously burned and Mr.. and Mrs Mitch
ell bruised and slightly burned. Mrs
Holmquist jumped from the third story
when all other means of escape had been
cut off
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-13
Women In n Mob OF Lynchers.

Near Oak Grove, La, a mob of mors
than four hundred persons, including
many women. overpowered a deputy sher-
iff having in custody Robert Mitchell, a
negro, who shot and killed Lon Threlkeld
of Harrisburg, ILL.,, and hanged the pris-
oner from railroad water tank Threl-
keld had charge of some work and had
discharged Mitchell from his employ.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-13
MORSE IN FINANCIAL STRAITS.
Former Great Financier's Property
of All Kinds Is Attached.

Charles w. Morse, organizer of the
ice combine and of the Consolidated
Steamship Company. and few months
ago regarded as one of the greatest
financiers in America, recently dsap-
peared from New York His creditors
attached all his property in that city,
including his residence at 72S Fifth ave
nue., in suit for S243,321 begun by
Charles A. Hanna, national bank exam
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-13
Murdered by .sBluck Hands,.

4 band of six Italian members of the
Black Hand made an unsuccessful at
tempt upon the life of Antonio de Salvo,
wealthy contractor in Pottsville Pa
They surrounded his home, armed with
shotguns, and were forcing in the door
when Joseph Riotto, neighbor, fred on
them. He fired two shots and was re-
loading his gun when a volley was fired
by the agents of the Black Hand, and he
was Inortally wounded.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-13
BivaIyes VIII he Scarce

Incoming steamers report the worst
freeze of the winter in the Chesapeake
bay. with ice formations extending from
Sandy Point to the Susquehanna. On
the eastern shore ice has massed and
tied up things generally. The oyster
business is crippled and the bivalves will
be scarce on the market until there is a
thaw-out