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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
Does Plague Threaten America.

This question in all seriousness is an
swered in the affirmative by various sci
entiic authorities cited in an article for
Golfers by c. p. Connolly. The term
''bubonic" is used to distinguish the pop
ular disease from its less frequent forms.
The bubonic form attacks the Emphatic
glands and causes buboes or angry swell
ings mostly in the groin, often in the arm
pit and rarely in the neck. In some cases
these are intensely painful, in others not
at all so. Other forms are the pneumatic,
when the lungs are attacked, and the
septisemic when the blood current is the
seat of the disease. The plague has been
mistaken for all of the various common
contagious diseases, but it is the most
tenacious and insidiouS of all epidemic
diseases. It's death rate in San Francisco
has always been 30 per cent, in China
and India 80 per cent. The present pan
demic Ian epidemic whose feeding ground
may be universally began fourteen years
ago in southern China. where it caused a
frightful epidemic in Hongkong and then
moved to Bombay and other cities of In
dia. Last year 100000 cases were re-
corded in India, out of which 100000
survived North America. Australia nor
South Africa was ever known to have the
plague before the present outbreak. This
is due to the change in trade routes, as
the disease follows the highways OF COM
MERGE Although there has been no hui
man case of the plague in San Francisco
since Jan. 80 last, the authorities say that
the danger is not over, as the plague often
lies dormant long time before becoming
yirulent and active in s. given territory.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
.PUlPUCAxo.
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At the Northern German NJ. E. confer
ence at Fairfax, Mimi, a resolution was
passed by a unanimous vote condemning
the idea prevalent in some quarters that
all Germans were opposed to temperance
legislation.
Canon jeremiah c. Moynihan, probably
the oldest Catholic priest in the world
died in Chicago the other day. He was
100 years old May 8 last. Death was due
to old age. 1t was only two years ago
that he celebrated his last mass.
William e. Chandler, former Senator
from New Hampshire, has come into the
limelight again by advocating a new re-
ligious doctrine, namely, that after we
lay down our physical beings on this
earth our souls will go to some of the
stars, there to be reinvested with new
bodies and to have the same conscious
existence as here, only to greater perfec-
ton. He said in an interview that his
faith in a future life is stronger than
ever, but that it was only faith-that
we are not intended to have knowledge on
the subject.
War to the end on the evil of saloons
in Minneapolis being owned by brewing
companies is the determination of the
Civic Federation of the Mill City
1t is estimated that there are 10000
600 Protestants in the world. as COM
pared with 25O,OO0,OOO Catholics and
100000 adherents of the Greek and
oriental churches.
The Congregational church at Charles
Iou-a
versary with a program which included
addresses from the older members and
greetings from surviving members in dis
tant cities.
The Methodist Times, a British week
ly, divides its profits every year between
certain charities This year the aged min
listers and ministers widows fund got
s., 200.
The Lutheran Church of the Ascension
at Savannah gives q pin for each two
months perfect attendance at Sunday
school. one of solid gold being the reward
for a years regular attendance.
One of the Oldest colored churches in
the South is the Washington Avenue Pres
byterian of Macon, Ga. 1t was founded
ganization that believed it was time TO
do something for the slaves.
Rev. Henry c. Rose of Newark, \.
J.. declared from his pulpit that every
fault. sin or crime could be prevented
every bad habit cured by mental sugges,
ton given while the patient slept" He
explained that natural sleep is far more
preferable for this kind of work than
hypnotic sleep, and added that, although
the conscious self is slumbering, the sub
conscious self is most on the alert and
keenly susceptible to suggestion, and that
it will abide by such suggestion when the
conscious self is aroused. He cited cases
in which men had been cured of the
club habit. and recommended the treat
ment for extravagant wives and bad boys
and girls.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
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Chicago-Cattle. common to prime,
$500 to $500; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $3.50 sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $4S5; wheat, No. 2. $1.02 to $1.03;
corn, No. 2, 56c to 57c oats, standard
4Sc to 49c; rye, No. 2. Toe to &c; hay,
timothy, $500 to $1,000; prairie, $500
to $500; brttcr, choice creamery, 27c
to Doc; eggs. fresh pc to 29c; potatoes,
per bushel, soc to Toe.
Indianapolis-C shipping, $500
to 500; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $3.50; sheep, good to choice,
$3.50 to $500; wheat, No. 2, S1.03 to
S1O4: corn, No. 2 white, 59c to 60c;
oats. No white, 49c to sic.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50; hogs,
$4OO to $3.50; sheep, $500 to $425
wheat, No. ., $1.O7 to $1.0S; corn, No. =,
SIC to jSc: oats. No. 2, 4Sc to 49c; rye,
No. 2, 74c to 76c.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $500;
hogs, $500 to 1913; sheep. $500 to
$500; wheat. No. z. S1.O6 to $1.O7; corn,
No. 2 mixed, G0c to Gle; oats, No. 2
mixed, 51c to J2c: rye, No. 2, 7Sc to SOC.
Detroit-Cattle. $500 to $500; hogs,
$500 to 500: sheep, $50 to $3.50;
wheat, No. >, $1.O3 to S1.O4; corn, No. 3
yellow, 60c to 81; oats, No. 3 white,
SIC to 53c; rye, No. 2, Toe to nc.
Observation-Disclosures, No. northern,
S1.O5 to $10S; corn, No. 3, SIC to 59c;
oats, standard, sic to 52c; rye, No. l,
75c TO 76c: barley, No. /, 63c TO &C;
pork. mess, $14.G0.
Bufalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to SGD: hogs, fair to choice. $500
to $3.50; sheep. common to good mixed,
$500 to $40; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $7.75.
New York--Cattle, 500 to $500;
hogs, $3.50 to 5000: sheep. $500 to
S415: wheat. No. red. 81 LOG to $1.07
corn, No. ., 65c to CSC; oats, natural
white, soc to SIC; butter, creamery, 29c
to 32c; egcs. western, 2Sc to 3Oc.
Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed S1.O2 to
S1.O3 corn, No. mixed, Soc to 60c;
oats. No. 2 mixed sic to 53c: rye, No.
2, nc to 7Sc; clover seed, $3.50.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
CHICAGO.

The general state Of trade testities
10 well-sustained recovery, although
new demands in the heavy industries
dc not appear with the promptness eX-
pected. This delay does not detract
from the outlook, as the requirements
are known to be accommodating Trad
ing defaults again are large, but the
volume of payments through the banks
makes a gratifying exhibit. Retail ac-
tivity in Christmas and general mer-
chandise would be of ampler proper
ions were the weather more Seasonable.
Early buying, however, has been I'M
usually strong and the prospects
brighten for Il satisfactory aggregate.
Interior advices indicate that stocks an
lergo rapid depletion, and this has in
duced frequent recorders. Wholesale
lines have rather light house trade,
as expected at this time, and attention
is now given to Inventories Mail or
iers for spring and summer wares
show increases.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number Al, against 40 last week,
IS in 1907, and % in 1906. Those with
liabilities of more than $1,000 number
13, against Is last week, II in 1897,
and 8 in 1906.-Dun's Review of Trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24

G. j. BoNAPARTE. 1908, submitted to
Congress. In this connection he cites
the case of the reversal of the Standard
Oil fine of more than S29,0O0,000, in
which an application for writ of GER
tiorari has been made to the Supreme
Court
He holds that an amendment of the
present laws would be appropriate in
the case of all criminal proceedings, but
suggests that it would be especially so
in connection with prosecutions where
the wealth of the defendant usually
renders an appeal on his or its part
from any adverse judgment matter
of course
The Attorney Generals opinion is
that in such cases there is no question
of double jeopardy, as the appeal of
the defendant from the original cOnyic-
ton is recognized by the undoubted
weight of well-considered judicial au-
thority as waiver of his rights in
this respect and as in the absence of
some such provision of law as the At
torney General recommends guilty per-
sons may escape from just punishment
under the law as finally determined by
the court of last resort.
He declares that the consistent pol
icy of the Department of Justice during
the year in enforcing the statutes in
eign commerce of the country from
evils arising through combinations in
restraint of trade and attempts to Gre
ate monopoly, as we'll as discrimina-
lions and other illegal practices on the
part Of common carriers engaged in
such commerce. has been to investigate
carefully all complaints submitted to it,
whether by public authorities or by re-
sponsible private citizens, and to au-
thorize proceedings. whether civil or
criminal, only when such investigation
has shown the complaints to be serious
and well founded and that success
might be reasonably expected.
Mr.. Bonaparte reports that this pol
ICY was attended during the year by q
fair measure of success in the proceed
quence of decisions already obtained
or expected soon the statutes dealing
with such cases will soon be interpreted
so authoritatively that those seeking to
comply with the law will be relieved
from all uncertainty as to what the law
| really is. He says that serious obSta-
Giles have been encountered in enforcing
the statutes and that these may be with
advantage readily removed by further
| legislation.
.'The United States has had occasion
of late years. and will probably have
occasion in future he declared, Ito
prosecute criminally many corporations
or other artificial persons. AS such of
tenders cannot be physically arrested,
it is obviously desired that a simple
and convenient form of process shall be
prescribed by law to have the legal eff
feet of an actual arrest and removal TO
the trial district as in the case of a
natural person"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
JAPAN TO STOP EMIGRATION.
Last Possible Cause of Trouble Be-
tween Two Countries Disappears.

Last Possible Cause of Trouble Be-
tween Two Countries Disappears.
All japanese emigration to the Unit
ed States is to be stopped by the Jap
anese government, writes a prominent
Washington correspondent. When the
Japanese Diet meets a few weeks hence
Baron komura. Minister of Foreign
Affairs, will make official announcement
that the government has decided to pro-
hihit all emigration to the United
States after a given date. Thus will
disappear the last remaining difference
or possible cause of trouble between the
United States and Japan.
Japanese prohibition of emigration is
the greatest triumph Elihu Root has
achieved in the State Department 1t
was Secretary Root who induced the
japanese government to take this step.
and, though the announcement in To
kio may be made upon the assumption
that the japanese government has vol
utarily decided upon this course, as a
matter of fact the decision was reached
through Il lonS series OF negotiations pe-
tween Secretary Root and Baron Taxa
hira, the Japanese ambassador to the
United States. The order of the Japan
csc government will prohibit all emf
grafton, but viii, of course, leave travel
free, so that merchants, students and
tourists from Japan may visit America
at will under the passport agreement
with the United States government.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
HUMOROUS NEWS NOTES.
Many SILVER, but few are frozen.

Many ShlVer, Dut rev are IroZen
The emperor business is not what 1t
once was.
The benevolent Mr.. Rockefeller is too
full of oil 70 take water.
Down in Panama they not only have to
dig but prop up the canal.
Japan is afraid to kick China while the
other nations are looking?
Some people can get more money on a
bad check than others can on good one.
Several prominent bank wreckers will
spend the winter season in the peniten-
tiary.
The German Emperor can go off behind
the barn and talk to himself as much as
he likes.
And after a while the independents"
also 90 off together and form trust of
their own.
Indiana has produced a 12-year-old au-
thoress. Aren't even the babes in the
cradles safe?
With cattle it is the foot-and-mouth dis
ease, and with statesmen the foot-in-
mouth disease.
An automoDlllst VINO IS not nne0 now
and then considers that - might as well
not have a machine.
These are the days when it is unsafe to
take TO the woods. The amateur hunter
;s abroad. He is dangerous
China is getting so liberal it won't be
long before you can slap the Emperor on
the back and call him old boy.
A man on trial for murder and convict
ed of arson, is almost as bad as the Irish
magistrate who found the man who stole
two mules guilty of bigamy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

Bank Superintendent Schaefer of Min
nesota asks for two additional examiners
at a cost of $1,000 a year.
The Southern States Association of
Commissioners of Agriculture has united
with the manufacturers and feed dealers
70 secure uniform laws governing stock
foods.
Seventy-ive of the principal theaters
between Chicago and San Francisco have
now been brought into the theatrical syn
dicate controlled by Klaw & Erlanger.
The city council of Marshalltown, Iowa,
has taken up the war begun some time
ago by Mayor Ingledue on the local light
company and has under considerable an
ordinance reducing the price of gas to
81 per thousand feet.
The Leonidas, new mine near Eve
leth, has begun shipping ore, twenty-six
cars having been sent out The amount
of ore in prospect in this mine, as report
ed by its owners to the State tax commits
sion, is 1924, 3S2 tons.
The First National and National City
banks of New York, the former controll-
ed by Morgan and the latter by Rookie
Teller, are to be associated in the public
Offering of S75,OOO0O0 Brazilian loan,
to finance the coffee valorization scheme
projected by the State of Saopaulo OF
Brazil. As security, 100000 bags of
coffee stored here and abroad, worth ST.
100000, will be named. Saopaulo agreed
to engage in no further coffee corners
during the life of the bonds, which extend
TO 1919. bearing interest at per cent.
Comptroller of the Currency Murray,
in his annual report says that the bank
ing power of the United States is ST.
542, 7O5,274
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
HOLD TWO JOBS? NO.
Pay Roll Patriot Gets Blow When
Chytraus Decides Galpin Case.

A smashing blow to the pay roll pa
triot was administered by Judge Axel
Chytraus Of the Appellate Court i'll
Chicago when he handed down deep
deIving decision holding that no per-
son can draw two salaries from the
public treasury simultaneously.
The decision came in the case of Her
man 3. Meyer against County Clerk JO-
seph +. Haas. an affair of two years
standing in the court records Of Cook
County and involving the right of
Homer X. Galpin. chief clerk of the Chi
cagO Municipal Court, to sit in the
State Senate. representing the Second
District. Galpin's term as Senator is
officially waning. and for all practical
purposes has expired. Judge Clifford
refused to issue a writ of mandamus
to County Clerk Haas on the petition
of Herman b. Meyer. who had sought
Galpin's seat in the Senate. County
Clerk Haas in turn had refused to no.
tify Governor Deneen officially that d
vacancy existed in the Senate from the
Galpin district following Galpin's cleo
ton as chief clerk of the Municipal
Court Judge Chytraus and the Ap-
pellate bench now hold that Judge Cliff
ford was in error and that Galpin had
no right to Il seat in the Senate dur
ing the last two years.
The point of interest to politicians
generally. but most specifically unpleas-
ant to more than thirty members-elect
of the incoming Illinois General Assem-
bly,. is that the common law is against
two salaries going into the pockets Of
one man at the same time from the
public treasures. and specifically that
State legislator under the cOnstitu
ton is forbidden to hold any other re-
munerative office under the United
States or State government.
1t is known within legislative circles
ana among politicians that a large per-
centage Of the personnel of the Cook
| County delegation in the Legislature
has an intimate acquaintance with some
public pay roll. There are examples
Of the same situation with regard to
| some of the dOwn-State members of the
| General Assembly. Federal. State. city
and Sanitary District employees. who
are drawing pay now. will be noted on
the official roll call of the Legislature.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
BIG STICK" FOR PULITZER
Roosevelt in Message, Calls New
York Worlds Charges False.

York Worlds Charges False.
President Roosevelt on Tuesday sent
to the senate a special message on the
purchase of the Panama canal prop
erty by the United States, de-
nouncing in strong language the
charges that there was anything wrong
in the acquisition by the United States
of the canal property.
These stories," he declares, were
first brought to my attentions as pub
lished in paper in Indianapolis, called
the News, edited by Delavan Smith.
The stories were scurrilous and libel
Gus in character and false in every
essential particular. Mr.. Smith shell
tiers himself behind the excuse that he
merely accepted the statements which
had appeared in paper published i'll
New York, the World, owned by 10
seph Pulitzer.
1T is idle to say that the known
character of Mr.. Pulitzer and his news
paper are such that the statements
body; unfortunately, thousands of per-
sons are i'll informed in this respect
and believe the statements they see in
print, even though they appear in
newspaper published by Mr.. Pulitzer"
Summarizing charges made in this
connection, the president says: "These
statements sometimes appeared in the
editorials, sometimes in the news col
umns, sometimes in the shape of con-
tr1Outions. They are false in every
particular from beginning to end.
while the criminal offense of which
Mr.. Pulitzer has been guilty is in form a
libel upon individuals, the great injury
done is in blackening the good name of
the American people. 1t should not be
left to a private citizen to sue Mr.. Pulit-
ger for libel. He should be prosecuted
for libel by the governmental authorities.
In point of encouragement of iniquity, in
point of infamy, of wrong doing, there is
nothing to choose between a public ser
| want who betrays his trust, a public ser
want who is guilty of blackmail, or theft,
or financial dishonesty of any kind, and
a man guilty as Mr.. Joseph Pulitzer has
been guilty in this instance. 1t is there
fore high national duty to bring to JUS
| tice this vilifier of the American people,
this man who wantonly and wickedly and
without one shadow of justification, seeks
| to blacken the character of reputable pr-
vate citizens and to convict the govern
| ment of his own country in the eyes of
the civilized world of wrong-doing Of
the basest and foulest kind, when he has
| not one shadow of justification of any sort
or description for the charge he has made.
The Attorney General has under consid-
| GRAFTON the form in which the proceedings
against Mr.. Pulitzer shall be brought
The reply of Joseph Pulitzer, editor of
| the New York World, to President Roose-
| velt's special message to Congress attack
| ing Pulitzer's charges of misconduct in
the Panama sale, is savage. Among 9th
er things, Mr.. Pulitzer calls the President
''the most reckless, INSCRIPTIONS dema-
gogue whom the American people ever
trusted with great power and authority"
| The World editorially states that no
amount of criminal action by President
| Roosevelt will silence it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
HOUSE SLABS AT ROOSEVELT.
Calls on Him to Tell on What He
Bases Secret Service Charges.


The House of Representatives Thurs
day, by unanimous vote, adopted a res
oiutiOn requesting the President to sup
ply it with any evidence that may be
in his possession that will justify the
statement in his last annual message in
relation to the attitude of members of
Congress toward appropriations for the
secret service of the government.
Mr.. Perkins, chairman of the special
committee charged to investigate the
allegations made in the Presidents mes
sage, and John Sharp Williams of Mis-
sissippi both stated on the floor that
it was the desire of the special commit
tee to be just toward the President in
allowing him to submit any evidence he
may have. and both declared that the
committee would give it full and i'm
partial consideration. Mr.. Perkins said
the committee would continue in SEES
sion during the Christmas holidays so
that it might receive such evidence from
the President promptly and proceed to
consider it,
Both the resolution and all of the
preamble, except that part of the latter
interpreting the meaning of the Presi-
dents message in relation to the secret
service, were adopted unanimously by
a viva voce vote. Mr.. Bennett of New
York demanded a division on the pre-
amble provision stating the commit
tees Interpretation of the Presidents
structures upon Congress, but before
the division was entered upon endeav-
ored to withdraw his motion. Mr.. Will
Jams insisted that this could not be
done. and, the vote being taken, 270
members voted aye and IA no on this
part of the preamble.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

4 London traveller has figured out that
President Roosevelt's hunting expedition
in Africa will cost $2S,O5O.
Fruit growers of California have ship
ped 12,917 cars of fruit out of the State
during the season just closed.
Rear Admiral Robley d. Evans. re-
tired, has refused proposition to make
him present of home in Los Angeles
Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson Mariani. dauch-
ter of Mayor Tom L. Johnson of CIeve-
land. has been granted divorce in a
Cleveland court.
Reports that the opposition to the
liquor trade is dying out throughout the
country were made by State organizations
at the closing session of the National
Liquor League in Washington.
\ second attempt TO burn the residence
in Jersey City of William c. Hpppen-
heimer. president of the Trust Company
of New Jersey and of the Bergen and
Lafayette Trust Company. was frustrated.
An anonymous donor has given an aero
plane and dirigibe balloon to Columbia
university for experimental purposes and
an Aero club is TO be formed. Jay Gould.
son of George Gould, will be one of its
leaders.
As a result of operations to recover a
set of false teeth supposed to have been
swallowed, the surgeons who treated Jesse
r. Wingheld at Topeka, Kan. have been
sued for $4,000 damages by his widow.
Fire in Boston damaged fve-storv
brick building occupied by the Patterson
Sergeant Company of New York. Cleye-
land and Chicago, manufacturers of paint
and varnish, and other firms. Loss SO
600.
Vito Pulero. laborer. II years old. was
found murdered in New York. He was
going to Italy to pass the remainder of
his life on his savings. Dominica Pulero,
his son, has been arrested on suspicion
of having slain him.