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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
NOTES OF CURRENT EVENTS.

Headed by Gov. Burke ard staff dele
CATION of 100 North Dakotans went to
: Quincy, Mass, to christen the new battle
ship North Dakota.
In the first day of the open game sea-
SON on Long Island fifty deer were killed
and more than 600 hunters were in the
field.
In special report filed by investigators
with Mayor Mcclellan, New York City
employees are charged with graft in issu-
ing show licenses. Already there have
been one suspension and two designations.
Chief Yeoman c.. A. Williams, for two
years at a New York naval recruiting sta
ton, has disappeared. His accounts are
said to be short.
New York's japanese colony celebrated
the anniversary of the birth of the Mi
kado with a meeting at Carnegie lyceum.
The actual date of the birthday is Nov.
3, but the celebration was postponed be-
cause of the election.
Refusal by the United States Supreme
Court to advance the case of the Noble
State Bank of Oklahoma against Gov.
Haskell and others, a test of the guaranty
law, is taken to show the tribunals dis
approval of bein" thought into politics.
The regular autumn maneuvers of the
Chinese army will be held this year in
November. Preparations for the evolu-
lions already are under way.
Charles A. Bridge, formerly night city
editor of the New York World and at
times connected with papers in Chicago,
Por+ou and RroolyIv0 iS doad ar his
Brooklyn home at the age of 81.
Mrs. Florence c. Erb, who is charged as
an accessory in the murder of her hus-
band, Captain j. Clayton Erb, a promi-
nent Philadelphia politician, has been re-
leased ON bail under a writ of habeas
corpus. Captain Erb was shot and killed
by Mrs. Erb's sister during quarrel be-
tween the trio.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
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S@O (0LLEGEs

Is there a school book trust? This
question has been raised by the recent
advance in the prices of certain standard
text books and school trustees at Chicago
have begun an investigation of the So
called book trust, or the American Book
Company. The latter concern has now
come out in the open with a long adver-
tisement in the leading daily and weekly
papers giving the statistics of the school
book publishing business. This asserts
that there are in this country now over
ITO Independent publishers of school
books and that open and unlimited compe-
tition still prevails. Figures are quoted
showing that there is now $42OOO.OOO
capital engaged in the school-book bust
ness and that out of that total no single
publisher has over SJ,000,00O The adj
vertisement says that the talk about
trust in this lire is merely an ogre con-
jured up by rival publishers to injure the
American Book Company in the public
mind Reference is also made to the
pending suit in Texas to determine wheth-
er this company is a trust or not, it being
said that the suit was inspired by the
thirty-six other houses competing for the
school patronage in that State.
In a signed statement Chancellor An
drews of the Nebraska State university
forbids class fights, kidnapings and sneak
days and night-gown parades. Chancellor
Andrews declares that any students par
ticipating in the forbidden exercises will
be expelled from the university.
Declaring that the sock rush is naugh-
ty, the faculty of Parsons college at Fair
field, Iowa, has forbidden the traditional
form of scrap between the freshmen and
sophomores this year. A revised form of
conflict is being invented by the profess
ors. and it will not contain the removal
of hosiery.
The new school of agriculture at the
South Dakota State college, Brookings.
has opened its first session with a good
attendance. The new school is designed
to offer a FIVE months term of instruc-
ton in agriculture to students who are
obliged to remain on the farms during the
busy season.
If present indications prove true, over
five hundred students of the University
of Minnesota will accompany the football
team to Chicago on Nov. 30, and do some
genuine roofing for the team. Leaders
of tie Rooters' League are making ar
rangements for special rates from the
railroads for the game.
Under the direction of Supt Cooley the
Chicago public schools are to have new
department known as the Continuation
Schools" 1t is an adaptation of the
German plan for giving boys and girls
who have to go to work for their living
a chance to go on with their study in
night classes 1t is planned TO give spe-
cial instruction TO 10000 working boys
and girls between the ages OF IA and IS
at the public expense. Only the English
speakine ones will be admitted to these
classes and the courses viii be directed to-
ward some practical trade.
From August. 1907. to August. 1908
2f2 cases of rabies were treated at the
Minnesota University Pasteur institute.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
WILHELM II. SAILS IN AIR.
kafser Takes Trip Above Berlin In
ZeppeIin's Aluminium Craft.

Emperor William made a successful
ascent in the Zeppelin airship at Berlin.
The airship is as long as many an ocean
going steamer and the biggest aerial craft
ever built. 1t is the fifth of the monster
Zeppelin skybeats. Count Zeppelin is one
of the oldest, but most indefatigable aero
nauts in Germany. He is an advocate OF
bigness in airships. His earlier creations
were sharply criticised by the other ex-
perts, both private and of the army, but
they made good. This vessel surpasses
them all in size. 1t is 40 feet long, has
a diameter of 1917 feet. has three 40
horsepower motors and is built for speed
of fifty or more miles an hour. The best
any of his earlier machines recorded was
thirty-one miles. 1t is fitted with wire
less telegraphy apparatus, powerful
searchlight, and cost 100000. 1t car
ries sufficient fuel to permit its remain
ing in the air 100 hours, sleeping &C
commodations being provided for the
crew. A condition of the building con-
tract was that the ship be able to ma
neuver at an altitude of 1000 feet. 1t
has lifting capacity of sixteen tons and
carries two tons of ballast.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
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Five Thousand New Homes


Once more the country has witnessed
perhaps for the last time-a scene
which has been typical of life in the
United States-the opening of a new era
of government land to settlers.
|. The scene this time was in South Da-
kota, and the area the Rosebud Indian
reservation, eight hundred and twenty
eight thousand acres, a large portion of
which is valued at twenty-five dollars an
acre. 1t was distributed, in quarter sec
tons of one hundred and sixty acres each,
among the somewhat more than five thou
sand fortunate applicants.
A great chapter of American history is
closing, for the upbuilding of the West
has been largely due to the free land pol
icy of the government, and that policy is
now perforce losing its former significance,
owing to the rapidly decreasing amount
Of arabic public domain.
The change in times and conditions was
also well marked by this latest distribu-
ton of land. In pioneer days the home
steaders' placed their families in ''prai-
RE schooners," and behind the plodding
oxen made their way slowly to the prom
ised land. Later, as in the Oklahoma
opening, they Travelled, by rail to the near
est station, and then, on horseback or
in light buggies, made a breakneck dash
for the coveted land. In the opening Of
the Rosebud reservation it was the auto
mobile which furnished the most conspic-
uous means of transportation.
The methods of distributing government
land have been and are open to serious
criticism. Formerly it was "irst come,
first served but as the crush and bru-
talities of the Oklahoma dash" were in
tolerable, a system of distribution by lot
was adopted.
For the somewhat more than five thou
sand lots just distributed, there were two
hundred thousand registrations.-You
Companion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
NEW YORK.

Election results and the advent of more
seasonable weather in some sections of
the country were helpful to trade this
week, and except in parts of the South,
where the holding of cotton interfered,
collections also have shown improvement.
In wholesale and manufacturing lines the
tone of business shows most marked inn
provement. Orders which were condition
ed on election results have been confirmed,
and many new ones placed, the net result
being an enlargement of the volume of
business at first hands over recently pre-
ceding weeks.
Many industrial concerns have announc-
ed an Icrease of capacity and of running
time, and sales of pig iron, structural
material, cotton goods for spring and re-
orders for fall and spring wear woolens,
shoes and other lines have been enlarged.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending Nov. number 300,
against 241 last week, 226 in the like
week of 1907, 146 in 1906, 166 in 1905
and 1874 in 1904.
Business failures in Canada for the
week number SO, as against 81 last week
and "a in the corresponding week of 1907.
-Bradstreet's Commercial Report.
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Chicago-Cattle, common TO prime,
$500 to $7.75; hogs, prime heavy, S4.GO
to $6.10; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $4.60; wheat No. 2, $1.02 to $1.04;
corn, No. 2, 60c to 62c; oats, standard,
sic to SEE rye, No. 2, 73c to 74c; hay,
timothy, $500 to $1400; prairie, $500
to $3.50; butter, choice creamery, 25c
TO 2Sc; eggs, fresh. 25c to 2Sc; potatoes,
per bushel, 60c to zoe.
Indanapolis-Ca shipping, $500
to 500; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $500; sheen, common to prime,
$3.50 to 1913; wheat, No. 2, $1.00 to
$1.O1; corn No white, Gle to 62c; oats,
No. white, 49c to SOC.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $7.75; hogs,
$500 to $6O5; sheep, $500 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, $1.O6 to $1.OS; corn, No. 2,
Gle to 63c; oats, No. 2, Acc to soc; rye,
No. 2, 73c to 74c.
Cincinnati-Ca Cattle, $500 to 1925;
hogs, $4OO to 5000; sheep. $500 to
1915: wheat, No. 2, $1.05 to S1.06; corn,
No. 2 mixed, 63c to &c; oats, No. 2
mixed, SOC to sic; rye, No. 2, 7Sc to soc.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $500; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. 2, .$1.03 to $1.05; corn, No
yellow. &c to Goo; oats, No. 3 white,
sic to SIC: rye, No. 2, Toe to 76c.
Miwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern,
S1.O1 to S1O4; corn, No. 3, Coo to Gle;
oats, standard, SOC to SIC; rye, No. /,
73c to Toe; barley, No. l, 65c to 66c;
pork, mess, $14.62.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
S4.OO to 1913; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $500; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $4.75; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $3.50.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $685.;
hogs. $3.50 to 5000; sheep, $500 to
$500: wheat, No. 2 red Sill to S1.13:
corn, No. 2, 69c to roc; oats, natural
white. sic to SIC; butter, creamery, 25c
to soc; eggs. western, 29c to 33c.
ToIedo-Wheat, No. mixed, $1.02 to
s1.0: corn, No. 2 mixed, Coo to Gle;
oats. No. 2 mixed, 50c to sic; rye, No.
. 77c TO 7Sc: clover seed, $3.50
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CHICAGO.

The Weekly Review of Chicago Trade,
published by r. G. Dun & Co., says:
Commercial defaults again furnish a
gratifying decrease, and it is notable that
business activity, as measured by the vol
ume OF payments through the banks, is
now above that of the corresponding
weeks in 1907 and 1906.
a healthy sentiment finds general ac-
ceptance and prevailing conditions derive
strength from the improving outlook, al
though election interest caused some tenn
porary recession in distributive channels
and transportation. Prospects in the
main widen confidence in manufactures,
and preparations indicate an early in
crease in the active machinery and labor.
Iron and steel industries have conSid-
cradle new demands in sight, while there
is more actual buying of railway equip
ment and supplies.
Building operations within the city
limits compare favorably in value with
year ago. Unusual quantities of materials
are now required and, while competitive
bidding is keen, there is more frmness
IN quotations of quarry products and lum-
Der, although cost averages are less than
at this time last year.
Deliveries of commodities exhibit
smaller aggregate and lake traffic is rath-
er night, but the earnings of Chicago
steam roads continue their recovery.
FEWER buyers, as expected, appeared In
the wholesale markets and house trade
was limited, yet mail orders reached an
encouraging total for dry goods, boots and
shoes, food products and Christmas wares.
Bank clearings-$226, $40, 314-are 1O.1
per cent over those of corresponding week
in 1907 and compare with $212, 454 ,SS1 in
1906.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number "A, against As last week, 81
in 1907 snd 10 in 1906. Those with liza
bilities over 5000 number Z, against Is
last week, 10 in 1907 and in 1906.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
NEW MURDER FARM FOUND.
Rich Farmer Under Arrest as Slayer
and Horse Thief.

In the belief that many bodies will be
found buried on a farm near Marengo.
H., and that series of murders SINH
lar to those in the Guinness case may be
brought to light, the sheriff of McHerry
county and a force of workmen have be-
gun to dig up the chicken lot of John
Bedford, a wealthy farmer, in the search
for further evidence against the man, who
is under arrest. The body of Oscar Ho-
ganson, a wealthy farmer whose estate
adjoined that of Bedford and who dis
appeared two weeks ago, has already been
dug up in the poultry yard. John Bel
mont. another farmer, and an unidenti-
fed farm hand employed on the Bedford
place have disappeared. 1t is the theory
of the police that they were murdered
and buried en- the farm. William Evans,
who lives at Marengo, spent the night at
the farm short time before the disap-
pearance of Bedford, who has been ar
rested in Nebraska. He charges that
while at the farm he was assaulted and
robbed and had to fight for his life. Bet
ford has been arrested at the home of
relatives in Beatrice, Neb. Requisition
papers for his return to Illinois for trial
for murder have been obtained and a dep
uty, sheriff is in the western city to bring
him back
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

Pawnbrokers of Grand Forks are max
ing a fight against an ordinance pending
in the city council, in which it is re-
ouired that daily report of transactions
shall be filed with the chief of police.
II is drafted from the ordinance in force
in Minneapolis. A similar ordinance is
in effect in Fargo. The pawnbrokers OPP
nose the passage of the ordinance ON the
ground that they will be obliged to di-
vulre business that many of their pat
rons. thoroughly honest, would rather not
have conveyed to a third party.
snectacular fire broke out at the
Co,+or nlant of the Standard Oil Com
INV short distance beyond the eastern
LITE of Baltimore, and it was not until
ea,r bours later that it was under con-
tnoI The loss is estimated at 100000.
rho Giving of a contract for dirigible
ho1loon TO cost about $1,000 to Can't.
Thomas s. Baldwin, inventor and builder
Of tbe dirigible balloon recently sold to
the United States government, marks the
first step taken by the Aerial Navigation
Company since the company was incorpo-
rated some months ago for the purpose OF
operating an aerial freight and passen-
pes line to New York.
The Illinois and Wisconsin congress
sionaI delegations and the mayors OF
towns along the Rock river will assem-
bic in Chicago to consider plans for max
ing the Rock river navigable from its
source in Wisconsin to the MISSISSIPPI,
thus opening a new waterway from north
orr yy;sconsir TO the Gulf of Mexico.
The proposed improvement inciudes the
building of number OF power Dams along
the river. sites for nlneteeh Oh WINCH
have ALREADY been secured.
On account of the danger from forest
frs. northern Michigan loggers have de-
cided to delay opening their camps until
snow flies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
ACCUSED OF EMBEZZLEMENT.
Wall Street Speculation Is Declared
to Have Been the Cause.

wall street Speculation ls declared
to Have Been the Cause.
Charles r. Jones, cashier of the First
National Bank Of Seabright, N. j., was
arrested Thursday by United States
Marshal Thomas J. Alcott on the charge
Of embezzling $4,000 from the institu-
ton by classifying accounts. He was
placed under $4,000 bail to await the
action of the federal grand jury. The
government authorities kept the arrest a
secret until it leaked out several days
later. A United States bank examiner
made the complaint against Jones. The
officials are now investigating how he dis
posed OF the money. Jones operates the
Globe hotel at Red Bank and is well
known in that section of the State. When
questioned United States Attorney John
B. Vreeland declared that the abstracting
of funds from the bank would not result
in any serious harm to the institution.
He admitted the evidence pointed to Jones
as a dabbler in Wall street, but beyond
this would make no further statement
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
MARK TWAIN's ROBBERS GUILTY
Court Sentences Burglars Whom

Court Sentences Burglars Whom
Humorist Made Notorious.
When the trial of Henry Williams and
Charles Hoffman, accused of breaking
into the Italian villa of Samuel L. Glenn
ems ('Mark Twain") at Redding, Conn,
several weeks ago, was resumed in the
Superior Court both men changed their
pleas of not guilty to guilty. The court
sentenced Hoffman to not less than three
nor more than five years in State prison.
On the charge of burglary Williams was
given not less than five nor more than
six years in State prison, and on the
charge of assault with intent to kill, to
which he also pleaded guilty, not more
than four years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
Finds Three Rivers in Alaska,

Ernest Lefingwell, geologist and ex-
plorer, who was with Ejnar Mikkelsen
on the expedition to the arctic in the
schooner Duchess of Bedford, which was
wrecked in 1907, arrived at San Fran
cisco Saturday from Point Barrow on
the whaling vessel Narwhal. Leffingwell
is said to have discovered and mapped
out three rivers in the extreme northern
part of Alaska emptying into the Arctic
OCEAN
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
BROOKLYN THEATER BURNED.
Firemen Save Hyde q Behman's,
Adjoining, in Eastern City.

Ten minutes after the last of the
Ten minutes after the last of the mat
inee crowd had left the Park Theater
in Brooklyn Thursday afternoon a fire
was discovered burning in the rear of the
family circle, and in little over half an
hour Brooklyn's oldest theater had been
ruined by the flames. Four alarms were
sent in by Deputy Chief Lally because of
danger to adjoining buildings, Hyde &
Behman's theater being only one door
away, but the fire was confined to the
theater it started in after some hard work
by the fremen. The fire, which practical
ly destroyed the old playhouse where
many famous stage people have appeared,
drew a tremendous crowd and blocked
some of Brooklyn's main lines of travel
right at the busiest time. With the
building went all the scenery it contained.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
GAS KILLS A BRIDEGROOM.
Young Wife Also May Die Result
of an Accident.

William Coil, % years old, is dead,
and his wife is in serious condition in
a hospital, as the result of being over
come by gas in their fat at 25S North
Clark street, Chicago. Cohl and his wife,
who is q years old; were married last
week, and had occupied the fiat but four
days The man had been employed as a
teamster. Mrs. Amelia Calhoun, an oc-
cupant of the building, was passing the
Coil apartments when she detected the
odor of gas. With the assistance of sew
eral other persons she forced open the
door and discovered Mrs. Coil uncon-
scious on the floor. Her husband was I'M
conscious in bed. Coil died early the
next morning
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
Murder Escapes Lynchfng.

Several hundred employees, many of
them young women. witnessed the killing
of Francis Embriana by Pietro Discount.
near a large factory in Harrison, n. J.,
and instantly pursued the slayer, whom
they captured and were about to lynch
when an officer interfered. 1t was said
that the men had quarreled over a small
sum of money
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
LiIiuokaIani in New Appeal.

Former Queen Liliuokalani has deter
mined to go to Washington. d. c.. per-
sonally to urge the recognition of her
claims to the lands in the Hawaiian
group which were formerly held by the
crown. A mortgage deed for $4,000 was
placed on record in Honolulu Wednesday
by the former queen, the deed being ex-
ecuted in favor of Claus Spreckels and
w G. Irwin
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19

Convicted on eleven charges of burg
larry. John Loar, leader of band of ne
gro burglars and highwaymen, was SEN
fenced in ,Pittsburg to serve thirty-six
years in the western penitentiary 1t is
believed he was concerned in the death of
Harry Firth Smith. who was murdered
in a duel with a burglar at his home
two wears ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19

w. Harry Schmick, former cashier of
the First National Bank of Leetonia, O.,
who was indicted with his father, G. N.
Schmick, president of the bank, on
charges of embezzlement and making false
entries, was sentenced to prison for five
years by Judge Taylor in the Federal
Court in Cleveland. The father was set
free
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
October Business Failures

Dun's Review gives the number of COM
mercial failures for October as 1857, in
volving S15,S9S, 66S, a slight increase over
the number and amount for the same
month last year. The Review says that
there is much in the statistics of insol-
vency to indicate substantial progress to-
ward recovery from the panic which had
it's beginning in October of last year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
How Kills Playmate In Fight.

John Bushway, Jr., The 10-year-old
son of John Rushaway of West Brainerd,
Mimi, was instantly killed by Ralph
Murray, the 11-year-old son of a neigh
Dor. The boys had quarreled and young
Murray and a companion went to the
house and got a rifle belonging to Muir
rays father. Young Murray loaded the
gun and shot Bushaway in the throat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
OIL We'll Fire Conauers Man

After an outlay of between 100000
and 100000 in a vain eudeavor to con-
troll the burning Dos Bocas oil wells.
Pearson & Sons of Mexico City have de-
cided to abandon the attempt. The oil
is flowing at the rate of 100000 gal
Inns day
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
Mig Fire i'm benton Harbor.

Fire Friday threatened the destruction
of the business district of Benton Har-
Dor, Mich, and did damage estimated at
about $125,000 The blaze started in the
feed store of II. Z. Boehm and spread to
the four-story Morrill, & Horley building.
Both were destroyed, together with the
Haas livery barn and a residence.