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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
TOBACCO TRUST m COURT.
Government Victorious in First Bout
with Big Corporation.

The contention of the government
that the American Tobacco Company,
the great corporation that practically
controls the trade of the world, is a
trust operating in restraint OF trade
and competition in violation OF the
Sherman antitrust law was sustained
in decisions handed down by Judges
Lacombe, Coke and Noyes in the Unit
ed States Circuit Court in New York.
Judge Ward handed down a dissenting
opinion.
In the suit against the American To-
bacco Company, which was prosecuted
by James c.. McReynolds and Edwin
P. GrOsvenor, special assistants Of the
United States Attorney General, the
government asked for an injunction
dissolving the combination of the Amer
lean Tobacco Company and its six sub
sidiary companies on the ground that
it was illegal in that it operated in re-
straint of trade and commerce. The
government also asked the United
States Circuit Court to appoint a re-
ceiver to wind up the affairs of the
allied corporations. The injunctions
are, however, stayed pending an appeal
to the United States Supreme Court.
The petition asking for the appointment
of a receiver to take charge of the
companies included in the combine was
refused, as being ''impracticable and
wholly unnecessary"
This important victory for the gov
eminent in its attempt to dissolve the
great corporation came after long con
sideration of the great volume of testi
mony taken in the many months since
the suit was begun
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
IN THE OLD HOUSE.

The fruits are stored the fields are bare,
The ground is hard the skies are gray
November's chill Is in the air;
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving day.
The farmhouse stands in sheltered nook,
It's walls are filed with warmth and
cheer;
It's fires shine out with friendly look
To welcome all who enter here
Since Arst this hearthstone's ruddy glow,
Fresh klndled, flung its light upon
Thanksgiving guests of long ago.
Long was the list of squires and damer;
From year to year how short 1t grew!
Read out the old, familiar names
They heard here when this house was
new.
Grandmother AYE, she went the first;
Grandfather by her side he rests;
The shade and sunlight, interspersed,
Have fallen long above their breasts.
Our aunts and uncles ?-sundered wide
Their graves lie east, their graves 'le
As veteran soldiers Scared and tried,
They fought their fight, they earned their
rest
Our father dear and gentle heart!
nature sweet, beloved By all;
How early turned his steps apart
To pass from human ken and call!
Our mother brisk and kindly soul
How brave she bore fate's every iro"h'
Nor rested till she reached the goa!
Where all must lay their burdens down
Our brother toward the setting sun,
From us remote. his home Is made,
And many a year its course has run
Since here his boyish sports were played
Put by the book Ny heart Is sore.
The night winds up the chtnAey fee,
The fires within CLEAN as before,
But none are here save you and me!
But, sigter, you and l again
VIII heap the hearth and spread the
board
And serve our kindred, now as then.
With all that home and hearts afford.
The scattered remnants of our line,
Well summon meath this roof once more,
And pledge, in rare affections wine
The memory Of those days Of yore.
God bless them all.-the fond and true!
God keep them all,-both here and there,
Until the Old becomes the New,
Forever, in His Mansions Fair
Youths Companion
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
1S-Year Typhoid Germs Active.

The result of an investigation of the
recent outbreak of typhoid fever in
Georgetown, d. c., by the officers of the
Marine hospital service disclosed the fact
that a woman mixer at neighboring
dairy who had typhoid eighteen years ago
still throws off in her disjecta virile ty-
phoid fever bacilli, and was the respon-
sible agent in spreading the disease. With
one exception this is the only case of a
considerable outbreak of typhoid in this
country traced through milk to such
carrier. The astounding feature of this
case is that the woman appeared to be
enjoying good health. Surgeon General
Wyman says that an important new
source of the disease has been developed
and that it establishes the fact that 9
per cent of all recovered cases of typhoid
become bacilli carriers for longer or
shorter period, even though appearing 9th
erwise well.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
BABE FATALLY BURNED BY GAS.
Family of Frederick Niebuhr Mar
rowIy Escapes AnnihiIation.

TOv1y Escapes AnnthtIattOn.
A little child burned beyond recognition,
three other members of the family seri-
ously burned, the hired man badly injured
and the farm home reduced to ashes, tells
the story of the explosion of an acetylene
gas plant at the home of Frederick Me
buhr in the town of Burke, near Madison.
That all but the babe escaped at all is
a miracle in view of the awful disaster
wrought The dead child was Frederick,
the 7-months-old son of Niebuhr. The
injured are: Frederick Niebuhr, ST., Mrs.
Niebuhr, Clarence, the 5-year-old son of
Frederick Niebuhr, and Erick johnson,
farm hand The accident occurred about
6 80 in the evening. Mr.. Niebuhr was
milking in the barn. One of the boys
came and told him the gas was leaking.
He went to the house and turned off a
valve and went back to the barn. Short
ly after he was called a second time This
time he took lantern with him. Open
ing the cellar door, he descended. lmme-
lately there was an explosion and mass
of flames enveloped him. The house was
burned to the ground and the rest of the
family except the babe escaped because
they were in another part of the house.
The child was directly over the place in
the basement where the gas had collected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
AN UNFORTUNATE.

Abe, how it makes one shudder to observe
These sullen men who eye each other so
As though to estimate the strength and
nerve
That will result in giving blow for blow.
Thus did the gladiators of old Rome
Glare with exultant eyes upon their
foes
Which is the team belonging here at home ?
The game begins! He's got it. There
he goes:
o, brutal sport! Ten others pile on him
And bear him of a sudden TO the ground.
Good heavens ,s VIII they tear him limb
Hank to their cries What fiendish, curd-
ling sound
No. no. l cannot, will not look agin
To see the sacrifice that you call play,
To see the mangled forms OF sturdy men
Look there! o, can he kick itf Can he 4?
say!
Alas, in every man there turks the brute
l find that even I am strangely thrilled
And yield to cheers when l should be a
mute,
Am glad to see our foemen nearly killed
Hear now the rising tumult of the cheers
When from that savage conflict, blind,
insane,
There flies a cloud of fingers, hair, and
Get up, you dubs! You've got ten yards
to gain
What's that? o, some one STAY that ref
cree
Ofside? He's bughouse! Hit him in the
neck
He's been bought up, as any one can see
No matter. Do 'em, boys; don't leave a
speck
What is that yell? Here, let me get the
swing:
"Rah, rah, siss boom" Hi. Sock it to
them now.
Break ribs and arms and necks and any
thing
So that you make that touchdown. Wow !
Wow Wow Chicago Tribune
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
NARRIEs, BUT HIDES HUSBAND.
kenosha Hospital Head Quits and
Keeps Nuptial Details Secret.

kenosha Hospital Head Quits and
Keeps Nuptial Details Secret.
The Kenosha hospital, the pet charity
OF many of the society women of Kenosha,
IS discussing the mysterious resignation
of Mrs. Margaret HUT, who had been
superintendent of the hospital for two
years. Mrs. HUT gave no cause for her
resignation, but it has since been learned
that she was married in February of this
year and carefully kept the ceremony Sc
cret. Though Mrs. HUT has informed the
secretary of the board of directors of her
wedding, she has declined to give her hus-
bands name or to make any statement
as to where and when the wedding was
celebrated. Mrs. HUT was a graduate of
Mercy hospital of Chicago. She was a
general favorite in Kenosha society.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
HAD 90 DESCENDANTS.
Dies Leaving 10 Children and IS
Grand and -Grandc children.

AS the result of the death of Mrs. Anne
liza Bird, ten children have lost their
mother, forty-eight are mourning the death
of their grandmother, and forty children
the loss of their great-grandmother. 1t
is regarded as a peculiar coincidence that
the number of Mrs. Birds direct descend
ants is just the reverse of her age at the
time of her death. She was 80 years of
age and is survived by ninety-eight direct
descendants. Mrs. Bird was one of the
pioneer residents of Fond du Lac and died
at the home of one of her daughters. She
retained all of her mental ability to the
last and was regarded as an unusually in
tellgent old lady.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
CHINESE BOY ENRCLLs.
n. e. Yin, Son of Fond du Lac Lam
drymnn. Now q Pupil in schools.

For the first time in the history of
Fond du Lac Chinese boy is enrolled as
pupil in the public schools and has
attended school regularly since the open
ing OF the September term. The boy,
who Is attracting the attention of the
city IN general and the entire school fac
ulty, IS \. G. Ylu, the 12-year-old son
of Charley Him. local laundryman. The
teachers say that the lad is unusually
bright and has no difficulty in learning
the American language. He formerly lived
in California. A few years ago full
blooded African boy named David Wright
entered the public schools there and has
now become fully Americanized. Like n.
G. Ylu, the new pupil, David also at
tended Union school, which is gaining s.
reputation for foreign pupils.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
Won't Marry the Unfit.

Rev. Herbert S. Johnson of the Warren
Avenue Baptist church of Boston, Mass,
has announced publicly that he will re-
fuse henceforth to marry persons afflicted
with consumption or with any hereditary
or communicable disease if he has per-
sonal knowledge of the facts, and that he
will not marry divorced persons, except
the innocent party. He also is opposed
to marrying persons in poor circum-
stances, believing that a man should be
able to earn at least SIS a week before
undertaking the responsibility of a fam
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
John d, DEGREES Grabbing.

In the second installment of his "Remi
niscences'' for the Worlds Work. John
.. Rockefeller says he knows 'of moth
ing more dispicable and pathetic than
the man who devotes all the waking hours
of the day to making money for moneys
sake" but that his business associations
We're always joy, and that he would 20
into it again if he were younger. He
pays a high tribute to John d. Arch
bold and other old friends. and tells how
they aided him. He gives to Henry NJ.
Flagler. the Florida railroad man, the
credit for making the Standard Oil Com
pany success.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
WAGE WAR ON DISEASE.
meteorological Department OF Uni
versfty to Make Systematic Fight.

A systematic campaign against I'M
healthy conditions in the university at
Madison will be made by the department
of bacteriology, according to the plans
laid by DR.. NJ. p. Ravenel, head of the
department. In the fight for improved
sanitary conditions, DR.. Ravenel will be
assisted by the University of Wisconsin
medical board. AS a preliminary warfare
against disease, contracts have been let
for the installation of two vacuum clean
ers in Chadburn hall and the university
gymnasium. Within recent years there
has been considerable complaint about
the condition of the gymnasium and for
that reason the start will be made there.
Efforts will also be made to instruct Mad
ison people in hygiene by bringing sew
eral well known speakers there during the
winter
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
MAN AT "a KILLS WIFE OF 80.
Jealousy of Farm Hand Motive Given
for Aged Mans Double Crime.

for Aged Mans Double Crime.
In fit of jealousy S4-year-old Elond
Olson killed his wife, one year his junior,
and then attempted suicide in their home
on a farm, near Esofea. The old man
is not expected to live. Olson had up
braided his wife, claiming she was re-
ceiving attentions from a farm hand.
Mrs. Olson resented the charge, and quar-
rels were often and heated The other
morning Olson sent his son to the village
store. When he returned he found his
mother lying in her blood with a cash in
the back of the head. She had been
struck with an AK, which lay close by.
In another room he found his father hang
ing by a rope with blood flowing from a
cut that laid bare his intestines. The
mother died an hour after discovery.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
Barry Line Steamers Sold.

An order for the sale of the Barry Line
of steamers to f. G. Reynolds of Mil
waukee and Gus Kitzinger of Manistee,
officials of the Pere Marquette Line, was
signed by Judge Turner in Milwaukee
after an agreement had been reached Dy
the various parties concerned. The pur-
chase price of the line was $50, 100. OF
this amount $4,000 was paid in cash and
the remainder represents debts of the Bar
ry Company which will be assumed by tie
,oar
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
MAD DOG SCARES TOWN.


e. ID. Goes Prize Boston Bull Runs
Am1ck on Streets of Whitewater.
Whitewater has a mad dog scare. e.
D. Goes prize Boston bull dog went mad
the other day and before disappearing had
bitten from a dozen to twenty dogs and
one horse The mad animal started for
the country, swapping at teams, cattle and
dogs. after it had done all the harm it
could in the city, and was found dead
three miles from town. The bitten dogs
are being killed as fast as found and the
Mayor has ordered that all dogs be muz-
zled. The next morning small school chill
dren were accompanied by parents or big
brothers armed with clubs or revolvers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
RAILWAY DEPOT BURNS.
Station on New Milwaukee d ST.
Paul Road DESTROYED.

At 3:10 o'clock the other morning the
handsome new station of the Chicago and
Milwaukee Electric Railroad Company,
located at Mound cemetery, Racine, was
totally destroyed by fire, involving loss
OF $4,000 to the railroad company and
$1,000 to Harry Oelander, who had
concession stand in the building. The
whole loss is covered by insurance. The
fire started from the furnace. Officials
stated that a large new brick structure,
modern in every way, will be built in its
place. The burning of the station does
nor in any way interfere with the running
OF the trains. The fact that the affairs
of the company are in the hands of re-
ceiver will not interfere with the rebuild
ing of new depot at once.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
Identified by Finger Prints.

Robert T. Borton, sentenced in Mil
waukee to Waupun for fifteen years for
a holdup, was identified by the finger
print system as Elmer Mcdonald, paroled
last July from the Pontiac, ILL.,, reforma-
tory Borton's finger prints were sent
to the Chicago bureau of Identification,
and there it was learned he was an Illi-
nois burglar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
AL wnnnn Killed BY Car.

Mrs. Catherine Sheppard, aged 50,
resident of the town of Algoma, was kill
ed at II o'clock the other morning by
being run over by en- interurban car on
the Oshkosh Omro extension line which
belongs to the Wisconsin Electric Rail
way Company. Her head was almost
completely severed from her body.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
HUNTING TRIP rs FATAL.
Valentine CzapIicki Killed by Com
paniOn Near Superior.

The first hunting accident of the season
in Douglas county has occurred and has
cost the life of Valentine Czaplicki, lad
20 years of age, and resident of Supe-
rior. Valentine, with Joseph Ignasiak,
was returning from a hunting trip. The
boy was walking behind his companion.
For some reason Ignasiak stopped to put
a bullet in his Winchester and while doing
so the hammer fell, discharging the rife
The cartridge entered the boys left side,
breaking a rib which pierced the lining of
the abdominal cavity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
First IJIneas Final to Pioneer,

The first illness which he experienced
in long life of 50 years proved fatal to
Peter Miller, a pioneer settler of Manito-
voc county. who died at Meme Mr..
Miller came to the county thirty-seven
years ago and declared that up to within
i week he had never been forced to con-
suit a physician or that he had never
been ill one day in his life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
BROTHERS ACCUSED OF ARSON.


Joseph and Henry Hartnen Said to
Have Tried to Destroy Village.
Joseph and Henry Hartnell of Salem
are under arrest at Kenosha. charged
with arson. 1t is said they attempted to
burn up the village in which they live.
Henry Hartnell is about is years old.
He was arrested several days ago and con-
fessed that he and his brother had set
fire to a lumber yard ''just for excite
ment.' The elder brother was arrested
later and he at once filed an application
to have the boy who had confessed declar-
ed insane. The boy was examined and
found to be mentally sound.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
CITY Clerk Secretly Married.

Society circles of Manitowoc were sur
prised by the announcement of the mar
riage of City Clerk Arthur Reichert and
Miss Elizabeth Seidl. The ceremony was
performed under a special dispensation
and the wedding had been maintained as
a secret by the couple and did not become
known for four days.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
ExnIoaiop Wrecks Home.

4 little child burned beyond recognition,
three other members of the family seri-
ously burned and injured, the hired man
badly injured and the farm home reduced
to ashes tells the story of the explosion
Of gas plant at the home of Frederick
Niebuhr, in the town of Burke, near
Madison. Sunday night.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19

The arrest of four sailors of the liner
Adriatic, which arrived in New York
from Southampton, is believed by the po-
lice to have solved the mystery attending
the disappearance OF $1,000 worth of
wearing apparel uad jewelry belonging to
messengers arriving on the steamer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19

Seven Southern States We're represent
ed at the opening session in Memphis,
Tenn. of the conference of growers, mer-
chants and others whose interests are
allied with the growth and marketing Of
cotton. called by President Harvie Jordan
of the Southern Cotton Association.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
Big Funding Company Fails,

The Fidelity Funding Company of New
York. organized in 1898, to lend money
on the property of Catholic institutions
throughout the country, has gone into the
hands of receiver, with liabilities of 3d.
81. 027, and assets of S3,579,515. The
receiver appointed finds that the failure
was due TO the panic, and the consequent
impossibility of turning the properties
into cash.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
ser;o1s Accident Near Ladysmith

Roy Malone met with serious acct
dent near Barron. While lighting his
pipe and standing on a log he leaned his
gun against his leg, and in some way it
was discharged, the bullet entering his leg,
going through the feshy part and into his
left arm. SCATTERING the bone.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19

The project of digging a canal across
Georgia fror' the Atlantic to the gulf
coast to cost $j0,00o,00O was the chief
topic considered at the convention of the
Gulf Coast Inland Water Ways Associa.
ton at Columbus. Ga.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
NAV Have Been Murdered.

The Sawyer county authorities are in
vestigating the death of Louis Johnson,
who was found dead in his cabin, near
Winter, with his head blown off. He had
drawn a large sum of money and it is
gone
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
Farm Buildings Burned.

Seven frame buildings owned by j. D..
Ball in Chippewa Falls were destroyed
by fire believed to be of incendiary origin.
Three boys were burned to death. The
loss was $1,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
Rural Carrier Dies.

Hugh BENJAMIN. rural mail carrier on
route No. 8. Osceola, died at his home
in that village of pneumonia, aged 33.
Mr. Benjamin was a member OF the Ma
sonic lodge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19

President Roosevelt as playwright is
the next possibility, according to the state
rnent made by him that he might write a
play embodying his ideas.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19

Prince Helie de Sagan, husband of the
former Miss Anna Gould, must pay ST.
800 on protested notes given in Paris
in part payment for souvenirs of Gen.
Marcus, according to court decision.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19

The trial OF ex-Congressman Binger
Hermann. indicted ii connection with the
Oregon land frauds. has been postponed
indefinitely at Portland.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19

"a prominent politician" of New York
is accused by New York judge with
having engaged in white slave" traffic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
Run Down by Freight Train.

Louis Boyle, aged 80, of Prentice, was
killed by a through freight train while
walking on the track on his way to a
lumber camp few miles south of Phil
lips. The body was terribly mangled.
Boyle leaves a wife and family in Prem
tice.
Adolph Miller of Tomahawk was acct
dentaIly shot while rabbit hunting. He
was standing on log and his rifle slip
ped from his grasp. The trigger struck
the log, discharging the gun The bullet
pierced his left hand, coursed along his
chest and lodged in the left shoulder. He
will recover