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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-05
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime
$500 to $7.45; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $6.15; sheep, fair to choice, $500
corn, No. 2, &c to 69c; oats, standard,
46c to 47c; rye, No. 2, 74c to Toe; hay,
timothy, $500 to $500; prairie, $500
to SLIGO; butter, choice creamery, 23c
to 26c; eggs, fresh, 23c to 26c; potatoes,
per bushel Sc to 65c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to 81 40; hogs,
$500 to S6.10; sheep, $500 to $40;
wheat, No. 2, S101 to $1.03; corn, No. 2,
G3c to G5c; oats, No. 2, 45c to 47c; rye,
No. 2, 73c to 74c.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
1915; wheat, No. 2, $101 to $1.02 corn,
No. mixed, re to 73c; oats, No. 2
mixed. 47c to 4Sc; rye, No. 2, soc to S2c-
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to I4.5O; hogs,
$500 to $40; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, $1.O0 to $1.02; corn, No. 3
yellow, TIC to 79c; oats, No. white,
49c to 5Oc; rye, No. 2, 75c to 76c.
Wheat, No. 2 northern,
s1.O3 to S1.O5; corn, No. 3, &c to 69c;
oats, standard, Acc to soc; rye, No. l,
73c to 74c; barley, No. l, 63c to 64c;
pork, mess, S1400,
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to 1926; hogs, fair to choice, 500
to $3.50; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $4.75; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $3.50.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $3.50 to $685. sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2 red, S1.O7 to S1.O9;
corn, No 2, 76c to TIC; oats, natural
white, SOC to SIC; butter, creamery, 25c
to 27c: eggs, western, 24c to &c.
Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.OO to
81 OF; corn, No. 2 mixed, &c to Gle;
oats, No 2 mixed 4Sc to 49c; rye, No
2, TIC to 7Sc; clover seed, $40.
indianapolis shipping, $500
to 1918; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 TO $500; sheep, common to prime,
$3.50 to 1915; wheat, No. 2, S1.O0 to
81 OF; corn, No. 2 white, 76c to TIC; oats,
No. 2 white, 4Sc to 49c.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-05
Hedin's Greatest Discovery

A summary of the important discoveries
made by Sven Hedin, the Swedish explor-
er. during his latest journey into the for
hidden land of Tibet, according to a
Simla interview telegraphed to the Lon
don Times, is as follows: He found the
true sources of several important rivers,
including the Brahmaputra and Indus,
and twice crossed the Province of Bongba.
which had never before been visited by a
European. But his greatest discovery
was that of continuous mountain chain
which, taken as a whole, is the most mass
i've range on the earth's surface. AL
though its peaks are from 1900 to 5000
feet lower than Mount Everest its passes
average 5000 higher than those of the
Himalayan range. Not tree or bush
grows on this range and there are no
deep cut valleys, for rain is scanty. Hedin
proposes to call this range the Trans
Himalaya. At first the explorer tried to
conceal his identity from the Tibetan and
Chinese officials, but when discovered he
boldly dared them to harm him. at the
same time warning them that they would
be made to suffer if they did so.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-05
NEW YORK

Retail trade still reflects the influence
of warm weather and the approach of
election breeds conservatism as regards
heavy buying and the projection of new
enterprises. However, there is more do
ing and more confident buying of raw
material by manufacturers, who apparent
ly forecast a change for the better in the
latter part of this year or the early part
of next.
The large movement of wheat to mar
ket is responsible for the optimistic
tenor of reports from distrbutive CEN
tiers in the Northwest. Effects of the
drought are shown in almost total suspen-
sion of steamboat traffic on the Ohio
river and it's tributaries, the holding up
of large quantities of coal along that
stream, the prevalence of destructive for
est fires and the low stage of water sup
plies. Reports as to collections vary, be-
ing best in the Northwest and poorest in
the South.
The situation in textile lines is inter-
esting and not without encouragement.
While jobbing trade is confined largely to
small immediate shipment or flliug-iD
orders, there is fair activity in the Chi
cago district and farther west, where the
breaking of the, drought has helped senti-
ment.
More interest has been developed in the
iron and steel market, and considerable
new business has been done in the East
in basic pig.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending Oct. % number 231,
against pa last week, 220 in the like
week of 1907, 1874 in 1906, 17S in 1905
and $50 in 1904. Business failures in
Canada for the week ending with Oct.
% number 81, which compares with 20
last week and 80 in this week last year
-Bradstreet's Commercial Report.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-05
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1t has just been learned that twenty
two members of the ''Ilchinhoi," the pro-
japanese organization of Korea, were
killed by japanese gendarmes at Korea,
Cholado, Korea, few days ago. The
affair has been kept quiet
During the sessions of the British
Church Congress at London Socialism
was the leading topic of discussion and
the trend of the talk was distinctly fay-
orable. The archbishop of Melbourne
told of the good effects of colectivist
legislation in Australia and the Rev. Al
gernon West declared that since Social
ism was bound to come it would be so
much the worse for the church and the
nation if Socialism came without the
church.
Zia Bey, former head of the Turkish
secret service, who was known as the
butcher of Sultan Abdul Hamid, has sue
ceeded in escaping the vengeance of the
new regime, and is safe in London. He
brags of the numbers of high officials
who were excepted by his orders. He says
he wishes the new regime well, and re-
grets that his record forbids hope of for
giveness. Izzet Pasha, the fallen minis
ter of the Sultan, is also safe in London,
but most of the officials of the old regime
are now in prison at Constantinople.
Marius Frdnzini, who was at one time
minister of war for Portugal, made an
unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide.
Senior Franzini is a prominent progress
sive, and his attempt TO kill himself has
created much speculation in political cir
cles
Emanuel Lasker. of New York. retains
his title as chess champion of the world
At Munich he won with surprising RAJ
pidity the sixteenth and last game of his
contest against DIR. Tarrasch, of Nurem-
burg. OF the sixteen games played Tar
rasch won three, and five games were
drawn.
The whole island of Cuba has been
swept by a semi-cyclonic wave which has
been accompanied by torrential rains
with floods at many places. Much dam
age has been done TO crops and buildings.
John Henniker Eeaton, member of Par
lament, 1.-The father of penny postage"
in a telegram to a Dublin paper says
that his joy at the establishment of
penny postage with the United States
is increased by the knowledge that Ire
land will benefit greatly in small money
orders. The sum of SI,JOO,OO0 was sent
from the United States to Ireland last
year. and this amount is likely to be in
creased this year.
1t is feared that pestilence will follow
the floods that have occurred in the Hy-
derbad and Deecan districts of India as a
result of the unprecedented rainfall of
the past few weeks. The waters have
subsidized and the country Is strewn with |
unburied bodies, estimated to number not |
less than 1000. Most of the corpses are
those of women and children
The Irish Gazette contains proclama- |
ion bringing the new university act into |
operation. The central idea of this meas
Ire is the establishment of two new uni
7ersities in Ireland, with headquarters at
Dublin and Belfast. The new Dublin col
eye under national control viii be organ
zed Immediately.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-05

Albany labor unions have erected and
opened tuberculosis pavilion.
The linen industry in Ireland gives en-
ployment to about 10000 people.
During August 800 people were injured
in industrial accidents in Canada, and 11J
died.
At Lethbridge. Canada, with a popula-
ton of 1000. there are 1000 members of
trades unions
Yorkshire (Engiand) Miners Fedora
ton is continuing its crusade against non
union workers in the collieries.
Boston (Mass.) Cigar Makers Union
has levied an assessment of s. on each
member to advertise the blue label.
Delegates from the Bricklayers' and
Stonemasons' unions met at Guelph, Can
ada, to form a provincial association.
In 1893 there were only thirty-seven
labor unions in New Zealand. now there
are 80 with total membership of A.
1853.
The International Brotherhood of
Transfers has rejected the Overtures for
amalgamation of the United Transfers of
America.
The American section of the boot and
shoe workers international body now has
more than 100000 in its emergency fund,
according TO report.
Union men of Walla Walla Wash, will
ask the Board of Education to submit to
the people at the next election the propo-
sition of free text books.
A maritime federation. which will en-
brace about twenty different unions en-
gagged in the shipping industry of Aus
tralia, is in process of formation in Sgd
ney.
The lockout at the Vulcan Shipbuilding
yards at Stettin, Germany. ended by the
return of the 5000 riveters, the men hav-
ing agreed upon the compromise PROPOSE
lions.
The book and job scale Of the San
Francisco Typographical Union has been
increased from $22 to $24 a week. All
employers have accepted the new scale
under an agreement.
The Massachusetts State executive
board of the Steam Engineers Union de-
cided upon Lowell as the place, and Sun
day, Dec. 10, as the date for the engi
neers' annual State convention.
The International Cotton Spinners'
Union has recently presented Samuel Ross
of New Bedford Mass, its veteran secre-
tary, with a silver service containing
fifty pieces, as token of appreciation of
his faithful services.
Payment of old age pensions of mem
bers of the International Typographical
Union whose claims have been approved
began on Aug. %. About $50 applica-
lions have been made so far from various
parts of the country.
Millinery ranks fourteenth among the
pursuits in which women are engaged as
breadwinners in America. 1t is distinctly
a woman's occupation and it is estimated
that 94.4 per cent of all milliners in the
United States are women.
The Oklahoma mining law has gone
into effect, and is a measure to safeguard
life and property. This measure, which
is the direct result of the efforts of the
mine workers union, is said to be the best
law of its kind in any State of the Union.
Under the new law, which went into
effect on Oct 1, the authority to enforce
the child labor law in mercantile estab
lishments in cities of the first class in
New York was transferred from the local
health authorities to the State depart
ment of labor, acting through its bureau
of mercantile inspection.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-05
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An Iowa woman insists that heaven
IS filed with pianos. 1t will be noted
that the mechanical players are not in
cluded.-New York World
| When the wireless telephone comes
into general use Central can put
| away forever that tiresome old chest
nut, THE line is busy. Boston Globe.
Pugiiist Nelson got only s7.56S for
whipping another man. However. there
really are people who habitually do use
ful things and don't get so much in a
year.-Philadelphia Ledger.
| Somebody has started a new religion
and reduced the Ten Comma ndments to
seven. Before we pass Judgment ON his
religion we want TO see which of the
ten the man cut out.-Cleveland Plain
| Dealer
Birthday celebrations in honor of
Tolstoi are discouraged by the Car.
The literary man in politics does not
| find anything like the encouragement in
Russia that he enjoys in this country
Washington Cd. CO Star.
A lady novelist writing a political
| story wants information as to how a
| political convention is conducted Cen
orally speaking the convention is opened
| with prayer and conducted with five
| aces and a raZor.-Louisville Courier
Journal
1t has been said that there are no
baldheaded men in the asylums for the
Insane. We suspect this is true: at
least, save for rare and unimpOrtant
exceptions. This is an important thing
for the anti-baldheads to speculate up-
on; it may well furnish them food for
serious and earnest thought-Washing
ton Cd. CO Herald.
1t has been for many years notorious
that modern chemistry has been prosti-
tuted to the service of adulteration.
May not an appeal be made to the more
conscientious professors of one of the
greatest modern sciences, and may they
not be asked to bring their learning and
their proficiency into the field for the
assistance of honesty and fair dealing?
London Times.
1t is unfortunate that there should be
an election for State, county or mu-
nicipal offices in any State the day, or
even the year. of a Presidential election
or congressional election. These offices
have to do with the nation, and the
public mind should contemplate the is
sues presented untrammeled by the
chickering's, the iealousies and the fac
tons of local politics. Cd.
CO. Post.
The influence of the temperance cam
paign in Great Britain has been greater
than anyone could have imagined. The
average consumption of beer in ten
years has fallen from thirty-two to
:wenty-seven gallons per head. while the
consumption of distilled liquors has de-
creased to less than one-half. While
the population increased 100000 con-
sumption fell off 100000 gallons.-fhe
Independent.
One of the latest arrivals home from
Europe reports that in all his numerous
tours abroad he has never noted such a
dearth of travellers from the United
States. Many of the largest hotels in
France, Switzerland and Italy have re-
NAMED practically empty ali summer
The testimony of travellers is somewhat
conflicting on this subject, but the
weight of the evidence indicates an off
season for tourists abroad. We've been
economizing.-Bos Herald
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-05
TWG PACIFIC PIRATES.
Belgian and Boy Forced Captain and
Mate to Walk the Plank.

q. c. Alexander, acting Attorney
General for the Fiji Islands, is on his
way to Callao, Peru, where he expects
to dig up story of piracy that will
rival the daring deeds ON the Spanish
Main. Two men, j. Mortelmans, a
Belgian, and Z. Skerrett, are being held
in Servia on the UNUSUAL charge of pira-
cy, and it is alleged they forced the
captain and mate of the schooner Neu-
vre Tigre to walk the plank. Then they
changed the name of the vessel to
White Rose and sailed the South Seas
until they We're washed on a reef on
Anampama Lagoon, in the Gilbert Orel-
lis group, where the stolen ship now
lies, high and dry.
According to the story the ship sailed
from Callao last November with crew
CT four men, the captain and the mate
being Italians. Skerret, who seeks to
throw the blame on his companion. SAYS
that after two days out Mortelmans at
tackled the Italians with a meat chop
per and chased them to the rigging.
Then he threatened to shoot unless they
would jump overheard. This they did
and being far from land it is certain
they were drowned
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-05
CHICAGO
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The Weekly Review of Chicago Trade,
published by R. G. Dun & Co., says:
Statistical comparisons now begin with
the week year ago when the depression
started. Further evidence of sustained
recovery is furnished by increasing pay
ments through the banks and CONNER
cial mortality which is lower than the
corresponding weeks of 1907 and 1906.
Distribution of finished products and
general merchandise exhibits wider vol
ume although variable weather retards
a seasonable absorption in leading retail
branches here and at the interior. Ag-
rlcultural reports are more gratifying,
corn being in good condition and rains
ample for the completion of winter wheat
seeding.
The markets for the principal grains
show decline in values and the aggregate
movement here is smaller. but -four sales
remain exceptionally heavy, and there is
strong buying of both provisions and live
stock on improved supplies.
Wholesale markets disclose a lighter
attendance of outside buyers and house
ueahhgs IN the staples are less active,
aithough the comparison with this time
last year is not unfavorable in textiles
ana fabrics, clothing and footwear
Manufacturing generally advances as
well as expected, especially in iron and
metal working, but the underlying condi-
lions form q healthy basis for improve
ment in the near future
Delayed contracts were closed this
week for considerable tonnage of struc-
tural steel and rails. Rolling stock is
now in better request, more cars being
requisite to meet the expanding freight
offerings
Money is in abundant supply and rates
for commercial paper average about Az
per cent for choice needs. The outgo of
currency to move crops has slackened,
and there is quiet in investment opera
tons, commitments being mainly sus-
pended until the election is over.
Bank clearings, $25O,O23,5 74, are 6.5
per cent under those of corresponding
week in 1907. Failures reported in Chi
cago district number IS, against 21 last
week, % year ago and u in 1906
Those with liabilities over 5000 number
., against 2 last week, 6 year ago and
{ in 1906
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-05
PLAGUE OF LOCUsTs.
Vast Areas in South America Are
Being Ravaged by Them.


Being Ravaged by Them.
Vast regions in South America are
being devastated by locusts. This is
the third successive season in which
they have appeared in countless swarms
and every vestige of vegetation or
which cattle and sheep subsist is being
destroyed. The countries chiefly affect
ed are Argentina, Bolivia, southern
Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. In
these countries the swarmS have been
steadily increasing for a number OF
years They are supposed to originate
in the southerly part of the Amazon
basin and in the Chaco of Bolivia and
of northern Argentina. They had come
from the north in clouds that sometimes
| darken the sun and some of the swarms
| have been estimated to be 60 miles
/ long and from II to 10 miles wide. But
these billions of flying insects are only
| the forerunners of the greater mischief
| TO come.
! They make deSolate the area in
which they settle. but often jump wide
| areas in their flight Before they take
| to the wing they lay billions of eggs in
| the warm earth which in a few weeks
become hoppers. 1t is this young, vora-
| cious brood, before it can fly, that ut
| terly strips the land of everything
| over
All the governments are fighting the
evil. Two years ago the Argentine gov
| eminent organized commission for
the destruction of the locust. Last
year the Argentine Congress placed S4,-
100000 at the disposal of this commits
sion. subcommittee represent the
general commission in every depart
ment exposed to these invasions and
they extend from the northern limit of
agriculture in the republic to the Neu-
quen river, almost to Patagonia. Ev-
erything possible is done to minimize
the damage
A fine of 100 pesos is imposed upon
any settler failing to report to the sub
committee in his district the presence
of locust Swarms or hopper eggs on his
land. An organized service embracing
thousands of men is in readiness at any
moment to send force to any place
where danger is reported. The most
effective war is waged against the
young hoppers.
The official report is that as many as
$1,000 hopper eggs have been counted
in a space less than three and half
feet square. A prodigious number of
the young insects are destroyed soon
after Matching by means of sprinkling
carts filled with arsenic water or other
poisonous liquids. Still many of them
escape and the country they cover is
too vast to be entirely treated with the
Sprinkling process. Fortunately the
young hoppers have habit that facili-
t1tes the destruction of millions more
of them. By the time they are two
weeks old they have developed an enor-
nous appetite. But they do not set
out to eat up the world in thin array
or scattered detachments They collect
here and there in compact masses to
move forward on the food, and when
an army of hoppers advances from one
space to another there is nothing left
to eat on the ground they have de-
serted. They cannot fly, they move
forward only from 400 to 600 feet
day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-05
HEAD OF THE w. c. T. u.
Delegates to National Convention in
Denver A gain Choose Mrs. Stevens.

Delegates to National Convention I'm
Denver gain Choose Mrs. Stevens.
In Denver Mrs. Lillian NJ. y. Stevens
of Portland. Me-, was unanimously re-
elected president of the National Wom-
ems Christian Temperance Union. 9th
,r officers were elected as follows: Vice
president at large, Miss Anna A. Cor
don, Illinois, reelected; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. Francis P. Parks, West
Virginia; recording secretary, Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Preston Anderson, North Dakota,
reelected: treasurer, Mrs. E. P. Hutchin
son, Kansas; general branch secretaries,
Miss Rhena E. G. Mosher, New York ire
elected). Loyal Temperance League
branch-Miss Margaret Wintringer, Hi
nois (re-elected). Thanking the conven-
ton for the confidence in her shown by
her reelection, President Stevens said
L will bear the torch of the ". G. T. [.
since you have chosen me. It's the torch
OF God-given truth and | will try to keep
it burning SO brightly and hold it so
high that the w G.. I. q. will be high
over everything" Mrs. Elizabeth Pres
ton Anderson reappointed Mrs. Sarah FL.
lloge of Lincoln, Va, assistant recording
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-05
ROOSEVELT AIDS HEALTH MOVE.
President Promises to Make Recon-
mendation in Next Message.


That President Roosevelt has agreed
TO recommend to Congress in his next
message the passage of a law to con-
serve the public health, similar to the
one proposed by the American Medical
Association, was the statement made in
an address before the New York Acad-
envy OF Medicine by DIR. Charles A. l..
keed OF Cincinnati. chairman of the
associations committee on national
medical legislation. In speaking on the
campaign for national health laws. Dr.
Reed said:
On the heels Of the various stems
forward l am gratified to be able 70
assure you that the President has an
thorized the statement that he will for
mulate definite proposals and transmit
them with his Endorsement to the newt
Congress 1t now devOlves unon +ba
$4,000 doctors in the United States NOT
only to back the President in his work.
but to anticipate those actions by per
slstent campaign in behalf of this fun
famental feature of the public welfare"
Speaking of the pollution of streams.
DR.. Reed referred to the Ohio water
shed as thousand miles Of river and
a thousand miles of typhoid"
Over 10000 persons die every year
OF cancer he said, and the death rate
from that cause is increasing by leaps
and bounds.
II only one-half of the persons who
die or are incapacitated as a result of
tuberculosis and typhoid were saved.
Dr Reed declared, it would mean a
saving in money sufficient to maintain
"a national board of health, pay for
the army and navy, fortify our coasts,
duplicate our armament on the seas.
deepen our internal waterways and in
ten years pay for the Panama canal
and wipe out the national debt"