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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
Runs Fast Train Through.

The first through crain to reach Supe-
rior over the Wisconsin Central road ar
rived there on a recent afternoon. bring
ing a party of railroad officials under the
guidance OF General Passenger Agent j.
c. Pond. The party visited the COM
pany's dock and the site of the new Uni
ted States Steel plant, and was enter
tanned by the Elks and by the CONNER
cial Club
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

There has been a decided improvement
in business conditions in Sheboygan.
Many of the plants which have been
working on short hours and with de-
creased force are planning to operate On
regular hours with full forces. The hotels
report that they are well filed up Nth
commercial travellers, which is an indica-
ton that business in general is improv-
ing throughout the country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
MIDNIGHT BLAZE DISCOVERED.
Sleeping Family Saved from Fire by
Crew of Train.

Mrs. J. NJ. Denney and her two chill
dren were rescued from their burning
home three miles north of Racine, shortly
after 2 o'clock on a recent morning by
Conductor John Lindhard and Motorman
John Billings of the Milwaukee Electric
Railway and Light Company, assisted by
thirty passengers, under exciting circum-
stances. The house was discovered to be
on fire by the crew of the incoming train.
Mrs. Denney and the children were asleep
in an upper room, and it was with great
difficulty that they We're awakened. When
awakened they became dazed. The crew
carried them through the smoke and
flames in their night clothes. During the
conflagration Conductor Lindhard and
Motorman Billings were burned on the
hands and face and their clothing was
scorched. Mr.. Denney was in Milwaukee
on buSiDess
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

The summer school at the school for
the blind in FaribauIt, Mimi, has opened.
There is an enrolment of fifteen men.
The work during the summer is Of an
industrial nature. such as hammock max
ing, carpet weaving and broom making.
This gives the men a self-supporting
troda
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
LONG MOURNED AS DEAD.

Henry Hoffman to Return to Mani
tOvOc after SO Years Absence.
Henry Hoffman, wealthy ranch owner
of Galata, Mont, will be one of the guests
of the homecoming week in Manitowoc
this month. Thirty-six years ago Mr.
Hoffman was reported as lost in a storm
on Lake Superior, and when he did not
return home his folks gave up all hope of
seeing him again. He was located through
nephew in San Francisco. While in
Manitowoc Mr. Hoffman will be the guest
Of his nephew, Edward Hoffman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
Fire Threatens Bank.

A loss of about $1,000 was caused by a
fire which destroyed the building and the
entire contents of the photograph gallery
owned by A. B. Dye on Oregon street,
Oshkosh. The State Bank of Oshkosh,
adjacent to the gallery, sustained a small
loss by smoke and the barber shop of
George Simpson & Son suffered loss of
about $50 by the burning of two bicycles
and some tools.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

State Geologist ID. w. Willard of the
North Dakota Agricultural college, re-
ports extensive work being done on the
soil surveys in the State this summer.
There are several parties engaged in the
work ander his direction and they are in
operation at differeot parts of the State.
Besides the work being done in the Red
River valley there are four crews at
Minot, Williston, Bismarck and Dickin-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
OPEN FIRE ON OFFICER.
Glen Flora Postmaster Fails to Com
ply with Black maiIers' Request.

Postmaster johnson at Glen Flora did
not deposit the $175 as he was directed
by the blackmailers, but instead a posse
started toward the place where he was
to deposit the money. A lantern was in
plain view as was promised, and some
body opened fire at the posse, which
returned the fire. No one was injured
and three suspicious looking characters
arraStpd
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
GETS BROTHERS FORTUNE.
John Hennessy Falls Heir to $4,000
at ST. CrOfx.

at st. CrOix.
John Hennessy of La Crosse has come
into the possession of $4,000 as a result
of an article which appeared in a news
paper. Hennessy left Ireland when he
was Is years old, following his brother
Timothy, who had come to this country
two years before. That was fifty-seven
years ago. John Hennessy never saw
his brother Timothy from the time he
left the old home, and not hearing from
him, gave him up as dead. Recently John
Hennessey noticed in the papers that law
yers were looking for the heirs of one
Timothy Hennessy. Entering into cor
respondence with the lawyers, Hennessy
learned that he was the only heir to $780,
600 His brother. Timothy Hennessy,
was a logger on the st. Croix river.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
New Style Apartment House.

A New York realty company has ac-
cepted plans for the biggest apartment
house on record on a novel plan. 1t is to
occupy one whole city block, and will
have an interior court, fitted up as
summer garden or green, for the common
use of all the tenants. All the sleeping
rooms will face into this court.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
Thermometer Injuries Ewes.

The bursting of a Thermometer which
he was examining to determine the inten-
sity of the heat, and in which the mer-
curry scared TO the top under the suns
rays, injured both of Otto Smiths eyes
in Neenah. The sight of one may be de-
stroyed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
QUIET WEDDING AT APPLETON

Bride, Groom, Attendants and Min
lister All Are Denf-Mutes.
Henry Berholt of Appleton and Miss
Bessie Kress of Black Wolk, ldeaf-mutes,
were married at the Grace Lutheran
Church in Oshkosh by Rev. NJ. Wanderin
of Milwaukee, also a deaf-mute, Gustav
Leingerer of Appleton and Miss Amy
Schmidt of Black Creek. also deaf-mutes,
attended the wedding pair. Rev. Mr.
Wanderin has a deaf and dump pastorate
at Milwaukee. and breaches through the
Fox River Valley monthly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
ONLY SEVENTEEN GET THROUGH.
Large Percentage Fails to Pass Bar
Examination.

Only seventeen of the forty-fve men
who took the State examination for adj
mission to the bar in Madison passed.
They are: A. W. Foster, Michael Levin
l.. B. Lamfrom, A. NJ. Newald, Otto c..
Schumacher and L. J. Zimmerman, all of
Milwaukee; c. e. Marks, Madison H. j.
Bohn, Limeridge; A. L. Ballas, New
Richmond; Edgar Ewers, Richland Cen
ter; r. A. Goodell, Platteville; W. D.
Keeton, Florence; W. J. Morgan, Clark
Mills; r. A. Mauer, Sheboygan; A. c..
Rudolph, Menomonee Falls; A. H. Sclfu-
bert, La Crosse, and W. T. Door, New
Richmond
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

T. f. Weyerhauser, son of Frederick
Weyerhauser of st. Paul, is now at the
head Of big lumber merger being organ
lied at st. Louis, with a capital of $780,
100000, by 100 dealers of the middle
West
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

might have shown that the word Of the Master
the vague expression of His highly complex emotions
Of the attributes God the projections
which contemplate in ideas Of him. that there
is opposition in His will and His vision between the
impulses Of His nature and the events of His life This
is what we commonly designate omnipotence and
alton.
In the contemplation Of beauty faculties of percep
ton have the perfecton it is indeed, the
perence Of beauty and happiness from the occasional
harmony between nature and environment that
draw conception of the Divine life There is,
then, real prOprety in calling beauty manifestation
Of God to the Senses since in the region sense the
perception Of beauty exemplifes that adequacy and
lection which in general objectify Of God
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
school Principal browns.

Miss Clara McNown. assistant princi-
pal the last two years in the training
school In Rice Lake. drowned. She took
a boat on the lake. Wednesday night and
parties have been searching for her body,
but without success.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

edence OF the quality Of brain which the worker
sesses 1t reflects the faculties which education and
perience have developed tremendously. Without this
power OF concentration every of these faculties must
prove poor, broken reed instead lever that might
world
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
Child Falls from Bridge.

Gustave Gauger Jr.. years of age,
was drowned when he fell from a bridge
into the river at Oshkosh.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
WANDERs, INSANE, WITH $50, 900
Milwaukee Man Forgets Name and
Strays with Big sum in SatcheI.


Strays with Big sum in SatcheI.
His mind unbalanced by work and
heat, Norman c. Bassett, aged so, man
ager of a department of the Allis-Chal-
mers plant, wandered for several hours
about Milwaukee the other night until
a patrolman took him TO the police sta
ton. He carried a satchel which was
found to contain $4,000 in money, bonds
and other negotiable paper when opened
at Emergency hospital. Bassett talked
incoherently, was unable to tell the police
anything about himself, even his name,
and imagined he was in a foreign city,
pursued by thieves. He is being kept at
the hospital until relatives in New Eng
land are heard from. Bassett is a bach
elor, an enthusiastic golfer and man of
means.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

Under the provisions Of the Aldrieh-
Vreeland currency bill the Atlanta Ma
tional Currency Association was organ
lied by eighteen North Georgia banks,
having a capitalization Of $S,J00,0O0.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
schoors Fiftteth Anniversarx.

The Old White School Alumni Asso-
citation met the other day at Stevens
Point, Wis, to celebrate the fftieth an
niversary of the founding of the school,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

Mrs. Mathew Cullen, Middleton. was
instantly killed and her 4-year-old daugh-
ter fatally injured in a grade crossing
accident on the Milwaukee road eight
miles vest of Madison.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
TRAINING THE FACULTIES FOR SUCCESS.
By John A. Rowland.

Concentration of mind in harmonious rela-
ton with bodily activity is the greatest active
force in civilization. There are human activi-
ties which are effective without concentration
In the mind, but somewhere in the Harvesting
Of this force some broad scheme has been
evoly ed without which this aimess force In
the individual would be wasted. COncentra-
ton Of mind Is not faculty; it is an acquired
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
Girl Resorter Is Drowned.

Bessie Grossie of Milwaukee was
drowned at Lapointe summer resort on
Madeiain Island near Bayfield,. She
was in a rowboat washing a hammock
and fell out She was spending the sum-
mer at the Grossie cottage
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
FIRE LOSS AT OSHKOSH.
IcehOuses, Owned by Consolidated
Co., and Residences Destroyed.

Co., and ReSidences DESTROYED.
A loss of about $4,000 was entailed
by a destructive fire in the ice houses
belonging 70 the Cooperative Coal and
Ice Company in Oshkosh. Two build
ings containing large quantities of ice
were destroyed along with much of Sie
ice, a residence owned by the company,
another occupied by Gustave Kieckhefer
and family and that occupied by Charles
Willis. The loss on the Kieckhefer home
is about $500, fully insured. The loss
on the Willis home is about 5000
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
HURT WHILE AUTOING.
Machine Is Struck at Grade Crossing
In PorterviIIe.

In PorterviIIe.
G.. G.. Carter and wife of Eau Claire
and G.. z. Kent, a resident of Rock Creek,
in coming to Eau Claire in an automobile,
colided with a Milwaukee and ST. Paul
freight train at the grade crossing at
Porterville. Mrs. Carter jumped to safe
ty, but Mr.. Carter sustained serious in
jury by being thrown against the train.
The automobile was completely demol-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
ENJOY BEAUTY WITHOUT ANALyZING IT.
By q. SaHfayana

To feel beauty is 4 better thing than to IN
derstand how We come to feel it. To have i'm
agination and taste, TO love the best, to be car
ried by the contemplation Of nature to a vivid
faith in the ideal, all this is more, great deal
more, than any science can hope to be.
When a man tells you that beauty is the
manifestation Of God to the senses you wish
you might understand him. Yet reflection
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

The talk Of a good many people
sounds as if they had begun In the
middle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
QUIT AUTO AND 1T EXPLoDES.
Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard Carpenter
Have Narrow Escape.

Have Narrow Escape.
As Mr.. and Mrs. Hubbard Carpenter
Of Chicago were returning to their summer
home on Lake Geneva from a visit to Mr.
and Mrs. e. c. Simmons at Oconomowoc
near Summit, they noticed something
wrong with the engine of their large tour
ing car and shortly after they alighted
an explosion occurred, the machine took
fire and was entirely destroyed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

The corner stone of Milwaukee's $780,
600 auditorium was laid Sunday amid the
greatest celebration in the history of the
civ
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
No Share in the Fun

"What are you crying for, my little
boyr'
"Boo-hoo. Pa fell downstairs.-
Don't take on so. He'll get better
soon.-
SISTER saw him fall all the way. 1
never saw muffin ANSWERS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

Fire destroyed the entire row of bust
ness structures in a vhole block of the
business part of Herrick, S. D., entailing
q loss of $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

Very few people reach forty without
wishing they had been more careful
with their health.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

has right to assume the role of dictator, vic
the manhood of elected officials parade them be
fore the people subject to his domination
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
CITIES BURN; 200 DIE;
BIG AREA F|RE-SWEpT.
Forest Land in Kootenay Valley
Is Devastated by Sea of
Flame.
THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS.
Many Towns Are in Path of the De-
stroyer and Residents Flee
in Panic.

At least 200 lives are known to have
been lost as the result of bush fires,
which have swept over ali area of one
hundred square miles in the east Koo-
tenay country, Manitoba. Whole cities
and towns have been laid low and the
loss in property is estimated at more
than S10,0000o0, and this may be
swelled enormously.
Among the towns destroyed or in
the path of the flames are the follow
ing:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

upon only skilled mechanics for mechanics pay. Let it
consider interests the business and how
them Let it compel it's wage not ba excluding those
who choose to work less TO work when the union
will not work, but by furnishing the highest type
of man and workman, so that business will say
III you want the skilled and reliable mechanic or
iaborer you must get them from the union They will
have no one in the union but trst-class man"
Let the union have clubrooms, and discuss thrift and
temperance and home sanitation and ways and means
Of getting home and furnishing books and
periodicals for mental improvement, and spend of
time in amusements and healthy games spent in
the saloons Let the energy being put into opposi
capital be used in sefimprovement and furnish
ing higher class of mechanic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
THE IDEAL LABOR UNION.


There might be union of great help to its
membership and to business. | believe in Ia
Dor organizations as l believe in corporations
But let it be union upon principles of mutual
benefit and heIpfulness both TO the laborer
and to the manufacturer, both to the work
ingman and to the contractor.
Let it be for the purpose of securing to the
employer the greatest proficiency, insisting
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

Observation-Disclosures
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-02
TO Fight TUBERCULOSIS
Great Consumption Fighters Of
World Meet in Washington.
WELCOMED BY CORTELYOU
Secretary Of Treasury Speaks for Presi-
dent RooseveIt---SessionM Marked
by Simple Ceremonies.

Washington, D. C.-This city wit
messed one of the most notable gath
erings ever assembled in the national
I capital when medical scientists rep
resenting every civilized nation united
with their brothers in America in an
effort to solve the problem of how best
to cope with tuberculosis. The great
auditorium of the new national muse
UNI was filled with men who haveN con-
secrated their best talents to the study
OF tuberculosis, representatives OF the
sovereigns Of foreign countries. high
officials OF government. The keynote
of every utterance reflected the hope
that the day is not far distant when
medical science shall triumph over the
great scourge.
: When Secretary of the Treasury Cor
telyou, as the personal representative
of the United States, officially declar-
ed the congress opened there were
grouped on the platform such distin-
guished men as DR.. Robert Koch, the
discoYerer of the tubercle ibacili; DR..
A. Calmette of Paris; Professor Ber-
nard Bang Of London; DR.. G. D. Sims
Z Woodhead Of Cambridge, England DR..
Clemens Won >Pirquet, DR.. r.. w. Phil
. ip of Edinburgh, founder of the first
tuberculosis dispensary; Professor L.
L. Landousey, DR.. N. Tendeloo of Lon
don; Dr.. Simon Won Unterburger, hon
orary physician to his majesty's court
of st. Petersburg; Dr. Camilo Callaja
Of Madrid and many Others Among
the members of the diplomatic corps
present was WI Ting Fang, the Chi
nsse minister
1.-THE official welcome on behalf of
the United States government was ex-
tended by Secretary Cortelyou. Then
followed the responses of the official
representatives of thirty foreign eoun-
tries.
When DR.. Koch arose to respond in
behalf of s1e German government there
was remarkable demonstration in his
honor, men and women waving hats
and handkerchiefs for nearly five min
utes.
Or. Jee, the Chinese delegate, declar-
ed that Notwithstanding tuberculosis
has a strong hold upon his country,
This government is doing little for the
4ApreventfoiEof this disease. He express
: ca the 'hoRe:}that the next congress
J N86uldsbe heM in China.
! Ns,e11A 81 conclusion of the responses
to SeETetaryi Cortelyou's addresses the
congress adjourned, and will not again
meet in general session until October
Bird.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-02
POLITICS CAUSE RIOTS Ti;'|
Cuban Liberals Break Up Meet
ing Of Conservative Party.
GENERAL MENOCA[ ATIACKED
Candidate for Presidency Central Figure
in the Rotor Man Killed and
Many Others Injured.

Havana, Cuba. ~ Political disturb
ances have begun to assume some
gravity in Cuba. A conservative
meeting at Sancti Spirit,ls was the
occasion of riot, at which.anany were
injured, and in Havana a, meeting of
the new party, headed by General Es-
teroz, was broken UP by liberals Sane
ii Spiritus is the home of General
Jose Miguel Gomez, the former COVER
nor Of the province anda the present
candidate of the Miguelistas and the
Zayistas for the presidency.
The mayor of the town and the po-
lice are members of the liberal party.
General A&-..ie .Menocal, former lib
eral, but recently nominated by. the
conservatives for the presidency, ar
rived here on special train accom-
pnaied by large number of follow
ers. Thousands Of men, many Of
them on horseback, met the conserv-
alive leaders, and it was estimated
from the start that trouble was brew
ing. The police approached General
Menocal, and demanded that he give
UP his pistol which he was presumed
to carry. AS he had license to car
ry pistol which he showed, he re-
fused to be searched. Within brief
period the fight became general and
one of the conservatives was portal.
ly wounded by policeman Many of
the members of both sides suffered
from wounds from knives and clubs,
and it was a long time before order
was restored.
Conservative leaders Of Santci Spir.
titus recently sent a request to Cover
nor Magoon at Havana to put the ru
raj governor in charge Of the meeting
for fear trouble would be caused by
the police on account of their political
affiliations. Before the riot was quell-
ed the rural guard had to take con
troll of the situation
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-02
WARSHIPS' VISIT POSTPONED.
on Account of Cholera Fleet Will Not
Visit Manila.

Manila, P. 1.-The effect of Secreta-
ry of the Navy Metcalfs order, that
in view of the presence Of oholera+in
Manila no shore leave was to be grant
ed or visitors from shore allowed on
board the battleships when the Allan.
tic feet arrived, has been largely dis
counted by the realization that it
would be impossible. to cleanse the
city before the arrival of the feet
about october 1. People fully realize
the necessity of the situation, but'they
are bitterly disappointed at the out
come.
Thousands of dollars have been
spent in preparing for the reception
and entertainment Of the officers and
men. The decorations have been prac-
tically completed The majority OF
the sentiment now faTors a months
postponement of the programme, OF
until the return of the feet from Ja-
pan
The only criticism heard of Secre-
tary MetcaIfs order is his inclusion
of officers in the embargo against
landing. It is pointed out that they
run no danger providing they exercise
ordinary care in what they eat and
drink