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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
Servant Girl Steals $4,000 I'm Gems.

Under the very eyes of her mistress,
who suspected nothing a clever servant
girl thief walked out of the house of John
E. Marsden in West Philadelphia with
an apronful of jewelry valued at $1,000.
Mrs Marsden noticed the apron tied in a
bundle when the girl was leaving the
house, and asked her where she was go
ing. The servant replied that she was
going to post a letter. She did not re-
tI1r0
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01

Prof. Hilbert Roth, State forester, who
has just returned to Ann Arbor from the
fire districts of northern Michigan, said
that 100000 acres of timber had been
burned. He estimated the loss ON stand
ing timber alone at $10,000,000 and said
additional losses on merchantable timber,
country residences and crops would run
the losses above $40000.00O.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
400 Cotton Mills Are Closed.

More than 400 cotton mills in Lanca-
shire, England, are idle as a result of the
dispute over wages between operatives
and employers. This means that 10000
600 spindles are wholly or partially stop
ped. that more than $2JOs00O,OO0 of capt.
tai is not bringing in any return, and
that 100000 operatives are without work
and losing something over 100000 in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
Sell Whisky Mt Monument.

The soldiers monument at East Liver
pool. Ohio. it is charged, is used by
''bootleggers'' to sell whisky. 1t is de-
clared that if % cents be left in the
mouth of the big cannon at the foot of
the monument and the one leaving it
walks around the monument, on his re-
turn he will find a half pint of whisky
in place of the coin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
CARS CRASH IN FOG; so INJURED
Heavy Casualties in Head-On Troll
ley Collision Near Philadelphia.


Fog was responsible for a head-on coils
ion between two trolley cars on the South
western Traction Company's line between
Philadelphia and Chester, in which about
fifty persons were injured, several proba-
bly, fatally. A car leaving Philadelphia
with workmen employed by the Baldwin
Locomotive Company at its out-of-town
plant and known as the Baldwin trip
per" was speeding along the single track
with seventy-two men on board, when
suddenly a car coming from Chester loom
ed up in the fog. Before brakes could
be applied there was an awful crash. Men
were hurled in every direction and both
cars were wrecked. The Baldwin tripper
had waited on the siding for the regular
Philadelphia-bound car to pass and then
proceeded toward the Baldwin works, the
crew unaware that an extra car was com
ing toward them on the same track.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
TYPHooN SWEEPS PHILIPPIEs.
Great Loss of Life and Property Is
Caused by Terrific Storm.


A typhoon of terrific velocity swept
through the central portion of the Philip
pine group, sweeping part of the Island
of Samar, northern Leyte, southeastern
Luzon, northern Panay, Masbate and part
of Romblon. The typhoon disappeared IN
the China sea, moving in a direction west
by northwest. Wires are Frustrated and
available details of the damage done are
meager. 1t is evident, however, that serl-
Gus disaster followed in the wake of the
sudden storm. A telegram from town
in Masbate reports that every building ID
the place was RACED with the single excep-
ton of the postal building. A dispatch
received from Romblon says that the ty-
phoon caused a great loss of property and
that undoubtedly many persons have been
killed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
BIG FIRE IN CHELSEA, MASS.
City Again Has Disastrous Confa-
sration-Five Plants Destroyed.

grntion-Five Plants Destroyed.
Fire destroyed the large box factory of
Atwood & McManus on Vale street in
Chelsea. Mass, and then spread to the
Hill-Rowland brass foundry on Fourth
street, destroying that plant. Shortly
after the fire started ten wooden tene-
ments were burning and the flames We're
sweeping unchecked toward Powder Horn
hill. The Chelsea bottling works and
Lee Bros shoe factory also caught fire.
At o 20 a. m. the large wooden building
occupied by the Eastern Storage Company
and situated near the Boston and Maine
tracks was in flames. At 1915 the fire
was practically under control. The loss
is estimated at 100000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
COLD Production Falls OF

According to the report of State Miner
aIogist Lewis Aubury, the mineral produc-
ton of California for the year 1907 was
ST.. 1891. 949. a gain OF nearly S9,00O000
over the previous year Petroleum has
advanced to first place on the list, sur
passing in value the gold output for the
FIRST time in the history OF the State.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
AID FOR WIVES WINS WICHITA.
Thirty-eight Stenographers Are VIII
ling to Wed Oklahoma Bachelors.


ling to Wed Oklahoma Bachelors.
Thirty-eight girl stenographers of Wi
chita, Kan. have answered an advertise
ment for wives sent out by the Bachelors
Club of Randlett, Okla, and have ex-
pressed a willingness to marry if they
can get the right men. 1t was not intend
ed that this should be made public, but
Walter Barney, the secretary and exam
iner' of the Randlett Club, came to WI
chita for the purpose of learning some
thing of the girls who had answered the
advertisement. Mr.. Barney stated that
the Randlett Club has thirty members,
who all live in or near the town. All OF
them are eligible bachelors and they all
mean business. 1t is not the business OF
Mr. Barney to talk to any of the young
women. He simply learns what he can
about those whose letters and photographs
have made an impression on the members
of the club.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
Lumber Fire in Quincy, Ill.

Fire destroyed the city yards and sheds
of the MolIer & Vandenboom Lum-
Der Company at Quincy, H., including
1000. 600 feet of dressed lumber The
flames also partly destroyed the ware
house of the Williamson Produce Com
pany and burned several dwellings and
stables. The damage is $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01

Gov. Hoke Smith of Georgia has signed
the convict lease bill, which hereafter
prohibits the leasing of felons except by
the consent of the Governor and prison
commission. The bill was passed by the
Legislature after $4,000 had been spent
in an extra session and nearly a month
used in discussing the legislation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
suicide Adds to Mystery.

Mai. Gen. Charles Edward I.uard. re-
tired. whose wife was mySteriously MUIR
dered near London Aug. y, committed
suicide by throwing himself in front of a
train. His body was found near a rail
road crossing not far from Wateringbury,
England
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
]. Young. Charles Kemp and Henry

J. Young, Charles Kemp and Henry c..
Shuette are dead as a result of the care
lessness of Mary Arthur, a 19-year-old
nurse at the county hospital in San
Diego, Cal. A. Paisler is not expected
to live, and Captain \. Paulsen, B. lis
Ter, George King and Mr.. Peny are seri-
ously i'll. All were taken sick one after
noon and evidence of poison was so great
that an investigation was started, ending
finally in a confession by Miss Arthur
that she had neglected to throw out some
water in which there was a quantity of
atropine, and that her patients had got
ten hold of it for their medicine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01

law SLudtHI " ALL
the late r. A. Al
ger, when the civil
war broke out. He
enlisted from his
state, was promot-
ed to a commission
with the Seventh
Michigan cavalry.
He lost an arm in
front of Fort Ste
yens. He has been
department COM
mander for New
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01

merry. He has a
farm of 800 acres
at South Poland
that is one of the
finest in the East,
and lives ON it be-
cause he prefers it
to a city home.
Born on a farm.
he has lived on
one all his life.
Mr.. Fernald is 90
years old. He has
served in the leg
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
Baby browns i'm MILK Bucket.

The 10-months-old daughter of S. o.
Middlemas. a farmer near Springfield,
Mo, fell into a bucket of milk and was
drowned before her parents found her.
The bucket was on the ground near the
back porch of the house and the child
tumbled into it from the porch.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01

rial demanding that he make the Kali
Ser's letter public. The other English
newspapers followed suit, and every
body began to want to know what bust
ness it was of the KaiSer's what En-
gland did about her navy, and why he
dared to write Lord Tweedmouth about
it, and how it could have happened
that Lord Tweedmouth forgot himself
so far as to reply TO such a letter. and
why Lord Tweedmouth couldn't let ev-
erybody know what was in the letter.
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One of the cleverest cracksmen that
ever operated in London has been ar
rested in the person of John Frederick
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
mir Guu Bursts: Thirteen Killed

During gunnery drill at Toulon one of
the big turret guns on the French ar
mored cruiser Latouche Treville exploded
with terrific violence. completely wrecking
the after turret and killing outright the
entire gun crew of thirteen men. A num-
Der of men We're seriously injured, one of
them probably fatally.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01

lumbia university, New York, taking
the degree of doctor of philosophy at
Columbia. Since 1895 he has been
active in newspaper work, being the
managing editor of the Bee from that
year until the death of his father in
August, 1906, when he succeeded to
editorship of the paper.
-
Bert NJ, Fernald, who has been elect
ed Governor of Maine, is a wealthy
farmer and proprietor OF a large can
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
..Drx" Wave Hurts Crane Nc,

Reports from the Lake Erie grape
growing islands tell of the losses to grow
ers there through the prohibition move
ment in the South. 1t is said the grapes
are left hanging on the vines because the
present price would not pay for the pick
inv
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01

William January, alias Charles ". An
derson. alias John ". Smith, who was
once pardoned by President Roosevelt
from the prison at Fort Leavenworth.
failed to appear in police court in Kan
sas City, to answer a charge of gambling
and forfeited his cash bail bond of S51.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
Army Surgeon Put in Prison.

As a result of a difference of opinion
with his commanding officer regarding or
ders to ''clean up the prison hospital,
Major John II. Stone, chief surgeon at
the military prison. is under arrest in his
quarters at Fort Leavenworth, where he
is awaiting trial by court-martial.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
BIeachers Collapse; 20 Hurt.

Twenty-Five persons We're injured on
the Roanoke, Va. fair grounds when the
bleachers collapsed with more than a
thousand men. women and children.
Twenty thousand spectators were on the
ground at the time and a panic prevailed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01

Dashing through space for a distance
of fifty feet, James Richardson of Gar
denville, Mimi, and James Patterson of
Minneapolis, both carpenters, missed a
pile of lumber and landed on soft sod.
miraculously escaping with their lives,
although both were injured, but neither
scriously
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
Wants Divorce from MAXINE

Nathaniel G. Goodwin, the noted actor
and mining promoter, has filed a sealed
complaint for divorce against his wife,
Bessie Hall Goodwin. more Familiarity
known as Maxine Elliott, considered one
of the handsomest actresses on the stage
to-day
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
Big Rail Bridge Falls.

The eastern span of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad bridge over the Susquehan-
ma river at Perryville. Nd, collapsed
while a freight train was passing over it
and twelve cars dashed 20 the river below.
William Wilson. Waterman. was fatally
injured The bridge is said to have been
- r,a,,nrCd with
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01

criticised the Brit
ish naval program.
1t was only a per-
sonal letter and
L ord Tweedmouth
replied. To his hor-
ror, the next thing
was the publication
in the Times. En-
g ! a Il d 5 greatest
newspaper, of a
sensational article
and q hiffpr adirp-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
Negro Admits killing,

Walter Ledbetter. a negro tramp. was
arrested by Sheriff Bowden at the settle
ment of Marietta, Fla, and confessed
killing Mrs. Norman and her daughter
there Saturday. \ speedy trial is now
being arranged for the negro.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
Slayer of Three Is HANGED

\ special from Kingston, Mo-, says
Albert Filley, the triple murderer, was
hanged there at 6 :02 O'Clock Monday
morning. Filley killed his wife, his
brother and his baby at their farm home
a wear ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01

islature and two years ago sought the
Republican nomination for Governor,
but was defeated.
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Lady Dorothy Howard, to whom
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill,
the Young EngliSl statesman is SHid
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
Eootbau PLAYER Is ParnIyzed.

Wilfred Balthazer Martin, halfback of
the Waterbury. Conn. high school foot
ball team. is in a serious condition as the
result Of an injury to his spinal column
during a practice game of football. The
body is paralyzed from the shoulders
down.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
Insane Mother Kills Her Child.

Mrs. John Dalton. living three miles
south of Elkhart, became insane and
choked her baby TO death. There was no
one at the house ut the time except Mrs.
Dalton and the child.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
Kills in Fight over Nickel,

A dispute which arose over nickel
during the progress of a dice game culmi-
mated in the shooting and instant killing
of Clabe Payne by Brack johnson near
Maysville, Ky. johnson escaped.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01

committee. is
i native of Omaha,
where he was born in
1871, the year the
Bee was established
by his father, the
late Edward Rose,
water. Mr.. ROsewa-
tier was educated At
the public schools III
Johns Hop
tkins university, at
L
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01

ga lOollidll, 10 Srtlb
to be engaged, is
the fifth daughter
of the Earl of Car
Isle and 26 years
old. She is said to
be the keenest pol
itician in a large
family that is en-
Enthusiastically de-
voted to politics
and has IN a d e
speeches at street
corner meetings in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01

Helen Maloncy Of Philadelphia has been
granted a decree q annuiment from Ar
thur Herbert Osborne and says she went
through the marriage ceremony with him
TO keep her Parents from forcing her to
marry 4 titled foreigner.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
Failing. seizes Laborer: Both Die.

Joseph Wakefield, colored hodcarrier,
falling from scaffold six stories high in
Cincinnati. caught hold of William Nal
field bricklayer. and dragged him down
with him. They died shortly afterward.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
Killed in Duel with Knives.

In duel with ordinary pocket knives
Charles Dunfeld of Pennsylvania was
killed in Hot Springs, Ark. by sam W.
Ray of Tennessee. as the elimination of
q quarrel between former friends Ray
escaped.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
Cholera Horror Increasing.

The cholera epidemic in st. Petersburg
has taken on virulent form which kills
in fifteen minutes and may get beyond
control of the authorities.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
surrasses His BROTHERS, REGARD.

Wilbur Wright at lie Mans, France.
SET a new worlds aeroplane record and
was publicly congratulated by tie Arleri-
can ambassador in the presence Of Io,0oo
persons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
Wrecked Crew Rescued.

The captain and FIVE seamen of the
schooner Mary B. Judge were rescued at
sea and taken to Porto Rico after being
dashed six days to the wreck.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
Change in Chinese Ministers.

WI Ting Fang, Chinese minister at
Washington, is to be replaced by Chung
Men Yew. who has left Pekin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
GOV. Haskell Resigns.

Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma has ten
dered his resignation as treasurer of the
Democratic national committee.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01

Seven men were injured and a boy was
killed in an explosion in the factory of
the Ideal Comb Company in Cambridge,
Mass. The plant was burned at a loss of
$4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01

favor of the liberal licensing bill. Her
father, the earl, is a unionist aid the
ninth of the title, which is one of the
oldest in Great Britain.
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Henry VI. Nevius, who has been made
commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., is
a native Of New Jersey. He was a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01

Lord Tweedmouth, first lord Of the
British admiralty, is in j. beastly fix"
The Kaiser wrote him a letter and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
NoiscIess Maxim Gun Tested.

That the device for rendering the dis
charge of firearms practically silent, the
invention of which by Hiram Percy Max
i'm was recently announced, will do what
he claimed for it was demonstrated be-
fore a committee of United States army
officers at Springfield, Mass, recently.
Both in the armory and in the open field
the tests were satisfactory. First, one
of the soldiers fired a regular army rife,
and the report was heard above the din
of the machinery in the factory. Then
Maxim adjusted the device to that same
gun and the firing was not audible $50
feet away, and was only like the snap
ping of the fingers from points neaEr
the position of the shooter. What the
officers heard at $50 feet was not the ex-
plosion, but the striking of the hammer.
Neither smoke nor fire was visible at the
muzzle of the gun as shot after shot was
fired straight at a target. From calcula-
tions, it was estimated that the gun is
IA per cent noiseless. Forty grains of
smokeless powder were used in the cart
ridges, a charge capable of hurting bull
let over 1000 yards with fatal results.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
CHOLERA GRIPS ST. PETERSBURG
Great Alarm in Russian Capital
Over Spread of the Disease.

st. Petersburg is in the grasp of the
Asiatic cholera, which already has ex-
ceeded in severity and the numbers of
victim the visitation of 1893 The
disease is increasing daily at an alarm
ing rate and unless the authorities
show in the future a much greater de-
gree of ability to cope with the situa-
ton than they have in the past there
is every reason to fear that it will get
out of hand.
The situation, which always has been
serious since the first case was report
ed, has assumed a graver aspect from
the appearance of a virulent type of
the disease, in two cases of which
death followed within fifteen minutes
of the first symptoms.
Germany has become alarmed over
the spread of the disease, and the Ger
man authorities have taken precau-
ton to prevent its crossing the. from
tier. Austria has done the same thing
Sweden and other nearby countries
have declared quarantine against
Russia and France is ready to meet
any eXigencies that may arise.
The civil commission, summoaed in
special session by Governor General
Smith in the Philippines to deal with
the epidemic of cholera, decided to or
der 200 members of the constabulary
into Manila to assist the health in
spectors in their campaign against the
plague.