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

state. Senator Allison was admitted
to the bar in 1850 and engaged in prac-
tice at Ashland, Ohio, where he was
married in 1852 to Miss Anna Carter
of Wooster, Ohio. He practiced law in
Ohio until 1857, when he moved to
Dubuque, Iowa. Here he entered poll
tics. Two years after moving to the
Hawkeye State he was delegate to
the Republican state convention.
Young Allison represented his con-
gressiOnal district at the Republican
national convention at Chicago in 1860.
1t was in that year that he was ap-
pointed a member of the governors
staff and as such engaged in raising
troops for the Civil War; He was
elected to Congress in 1868, represent
ing his district in the lower house at
Washington until 1871. He retired to
the practice Of law in 1871, but tired
Of private life and in 1873 made d
successful campaign for the United
States senatorship from his adopted
state. Senator Allison's term in the
Senate would have expired the day
after his eightieth year.
For more than three score years he
was actively engaged in public work.
He broke all records for mere length Of
service. On three occasions he de-
clined a cabinet portfolio, Presidents
Garfield, Harrison and Mckinley each
having rendered the place of secretary
of the treasury to the distinguished
Iowan in 1881, 1889 and 1897 respect
lively. He was in public life when
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated,
and he was delegate to the
famous convention at Chicago in
1860 which put Lincoln in NOM
ination. Passing through the recon-
struction time and following Grant
through all his troubled administra-
ton, the Iowa senator, almost at the
beginning of his career in the senate,
began to acquire a reputation as a
financier.
The local fame of Senator Allison as
an expert on monetary matters was ex-
tended to international confines when
in 1892 he was chairman of the Ameri-
can delegation of the international
monetary conference at Brussels. 1t
has been said that Senator Allison and
ual mechanism of the American gov
eminent than all the rest of Congress
put together.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

recalls the end of the French military
airship Patrie in December. 1907. which
was then considered the finest dirigible
balloon in existence. A sudden gust of
wind struck the airShip and the 200
men who were holding the guide ropes
were dragged for several hundred
yards. The balloon shot up to a great
height and disappeared. Five days later
the Patrie came down in Ireland
Count Zeppelin's record breaking voy-
age with his great airship surprises no
one familiar with the present state of
the art of aerial navigation. That a
modern motor balloon can be depended
upon to make voyages of from ole to
two thousand miles, under fairly favor
able conditions. has long been known to
men who are familiar with aeronautics.
Count Zeppelins success is epoch-mak-
ing in that it conviEces a skeptical
world of the practicability of airships
and of their utility as engines of war
and as instruments of exploration of
the upper air, as well as of parts of
the earth otherwise inaccessible, like
the great unknown area surrounding
the north pole. The recent demonstra-
ton. although it ended disastrously,
without doubt will assure the rapid
building of aerial navies by the chief
military powers. In fact Germany
France, Great Britain and the United
States are already moving in that di-
rectiOn. France has the Lebaudy and
La Republique already in commission,
and Zeppelin's ship it is understood.
is to be taken over for the German
army.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
NEW YORK.

Trade, crop and industrial reports show
little change from last week, but general
tendencies and certainly sentiment are in
the direction of moderate Improvement
Preparations for the opening of fall job
bling trade in the first week of August are
making at all cities, buyers are gathering
in large numbers and a full representa-
ton, with increased buying is looked for
In industry there are evidences of ex-
pansion in some lines and of contraction
in others. Factories generally are run
ming simply ION orders" In iron and
steel, orders and production of finished
lines are larger, but pig iron is easier.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending July 80 number 275,
against 263 last week, 142 in the like
week of 1907, 10 in 1906, 17S in 1905
and 10 in 1904. Canadian failures for
the same period were 80, against "a last
week and 16 in this week last year.
Bradstreet's Commercial Report.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
HOW TO RESTORE
A DROWNING MAN.

Here is a simple and effective way to
restore drowning man:
The man should be stood on his head in
order that all the water possible be got
ten from his lungs. The old method of
rolling him on barrel is not a bad one
for the same purpose.
Then an effort should be made to in
duce artificial respiration. To this end
put the person fiat on his back and let
some one catch hold of his arms just be-
low the elbow
Then raise the arms above the head
and bring them down.
AS they reach the body, press in on the
ribs to force out the air gained by lift
ing the arms.
Keep this up at the rate of IS times a
minute.
Then try to get the heart to moving by
giving a stimulant like liquor or hypo-
dermic injection.
Sometimes a slight futtering of the
heart is sufficient to get back life.
Get physician as soon as possible.
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime.
$500 to $3.50; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $40; wheat, No. 2, 95c to 97c;
corn, No. q 7Sc to 79c: oats. standard.
49c to SOC; rye, No. 2, TIC to 7Sc: hay,
timothy, $500 to $500; prairie, $500
to 5000; butter, choice creamery, tic
to 10c; eggs, fresh, lie to zoe; potatoes,
new, per bushel, 73c to soc.
Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $500
to 1925; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to 500; sheep, common to prime,
$3.50 to $3.50; wheat, No 2. 93c to
94c; corn, No. white, 79c to SOC; oats,
No. white, SOC to 6Oc
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $40; hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep, $500 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, 95c to 97c; corn, No. .,
TIC TO 7Sc; oats, No. 2, 4Sc to 49c;
rye, No. 2, 75c to TIC.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 to $500:
hogs, $500 to 500; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, 93c to 94c; corn,
No. mixed, 76c to nc; oats, No 2
mixed, sic to j2c rye, No. 2, 7Sc to SOC.
Detroit-Cattle. 500 to 1923; hogs,
$500 to 1913; sheep, $3.50 to 800;
wheat, No. 2, 93c to 94c; corn, No. 3
yellow, Sic to SIC; oats, No. 3 white,
59c to 6Oc; rye, No. 2, Toe to &c.
Observation-Disclosures, No. northern,
S1.15 to SLY; corn, No. 3, 79c to SOC;
oats. standard, SIC to 5Sc; rye, No. /,
lie to 7Sc; barley, No. 2, 69c to Zoe;
pork, mess, S15.25.
Bufalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers
$500 to 1913; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to S7.25; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $500 lambs, fair to choice.
$500 to $50.
New York-Cattle. S4Oo to $3.50;
hogs. $3.50 to S7.15: sheep, $500 to
$47j; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.01 to $1.04
corn, No. 2, Soc to SEC; oats, natural
white, Gle to Gle; butter, creamery, 19c
to Ole: eggs, western, lie to 19c.
Toledo-Wheat, No. mixed. 94c to
95c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 79c to Sic;
oats, No. mixed, 4Sc to 49c; rye. No.
2, Toe to Tic; clover seed, October, SS.75.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
WOMAN FALLS goo FEET.
Horrifed Crowd Sees Aeronaut Drop
When Parachute Rope Snaps.

Dropped through the air 500 feet when
the rope attached 10 her parachute snap
ped, and caught in the branches of a tree
thirty feet from the ground, where sure
death awaited her had she landed, Mrs.
Eva Jones. woman balloonist for a car
nival company which was conducting a
street fair in Abbotsford, Wis, is still
alive Hundreds of people came from
Clark, Taylor and Marathon counties,
and the feature of one days entertain
ment was the balloon ascension. Mrs.
Jones made the flight upward in the bal
loon and when almost 1000 feet in the
air swung herself loose from the basket
to make her descent in the parachute.
The crowd assembled below was Mortified
to see the woman shoot downward
through the air. The rope on the para
chute had snapped, and though the wind
partially filed the silken bag, it was not
sufficient to check the downward rush of
the aeronaut's body. The crowd held it's
breath and turned away from the antici-
pated sight of seeing the woman dashed
to pieces beyond recognition on the pave
merits. When about thirty feet from the
ground the falling balloonist was caught
in the branches of an ash tree which
stopped the fall gradually. She was TAX
en- from the tree in an unconscious condi-
ton An examination showed that Mrs.
Jones was suffering from several broken
he
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
CHICAGO.

business activity gives further evidence
OF recuperaton. The monthly total Of
payments through the banks again ex-
ceeds the billion dollar mark and COM
merclal defaults this week have fallen be-
low those reported year ago, both in
numbers and liabilities.
Production in leading industries stead
lily rises and preparations for increasing
machinery and labor employed testify to
the encouragement which manufacturers
draw from the improving outlook
Crop conditions generally maintain a
high position. Harvesting extends north
ward earlier than was anticipated, re-
suits compare favorably with former
years, and, together with the high prices
current, the prospects are more decided
ly favorable to investment of capital and
trade
New demands are notably stronger in
pig iron, steel, lumber and other lines,
although no contracts stand out conspic-
uously large.
FACTORY work reflects recovery in out
puts OF electric goods, wire, furniture and
heavy machinery, and easier costs slim
uiate construction and new buildings.
rermlts during July for business struc-
lures and improvements very closely APP
proach the high total value of July, 1907.
Mercantlle collections throughout the
central West have become desirably
prompt. High temperatures here and at
interior points stimulated absorption in
the principal retail lines, and the July
sales were successful in reducing mer-
ChandlSp lie To
Wholesale operations begin their reac
ton from the midsummer quiet, and the
advance arrivals of August buyers al
ready is large
The markets for grain, live stock and
provisions remain fairly active but the
course of prices tended lower. The total
movement of grain at this port, 6.972,-
5J7 bushels, compares with 5,74S,S65
bushels year ago. Compared with 1907
there is increase in receipts of 34.7 per
cent and decrease in shipments of % per
cent. Live stock receipts were only
229,S4I head. against 265,152 head last
week and 249,51S head in 1907
Bank clearings, 5000, 235, 252, are ia
per cent under those of the corresponding
week in 1907, which included two days OF
He"'S august settlements. Money is quot
ed at 3M to AZ per cent for choice COM
mercial paper. Discounts have increased
moderately in the aggregate, but currency
shipments to move crops have become
heavier
Failures reported in the Chicago dis.
trict number %. against 81 last week and
30 year ago. Those with liabilities over
$1,000 number D. against last week and
III 19OI.-Dun's Review of Trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
NEWS OF MINOR NOTE.

To prevent his marriage to 13-year-
old girl William Williams, GA years old,
was murdered and his body hanged to a
tree near Marydel, Maryland.
S. L. Crum, a Seattle business man,
accidentally shot and instantly killed AL
bert Moody, close personal friend. re-
siding at Virginia City, Mont. with
whom he was hunting ground squirrels
near that place.
Henry Jones, one of the pioneers of
Minnesota, who built the first cabin on
the site where the village of st. Peter
now stands, died recently at his home in
Franklin Heights, Minneapolis, at the age
of 70 years.
Recently a little frame building on
Third street, near Market, in st. Paul,
burned. 1t was the building in which, in
September, 1861, Charles Eichler, the
first volunteer Union soldier of the Civil
War, was mustered in.
A national referendum in Switzerland
on the question of prohibiting the manu-
facture and sale of absinthe resulted in a
majority of $4,000 in favor of the pro-
hibition. This will mean a loss to the
government revenues. as the most famous
brands of absinthe are made in Svitzer-
land.
A terrific earthquake occurred in the
province of Tacna and africa. in Chile.
the southern part of Peru and Bolivia.
Considerable destruction of property. but
no loss of life, is reported. The cable
between africa and Lima has been broken
and the telegraph lines to Bolivia are
damaged.
The British proposals concerning mill
tary questions in Macedonia will be ex-
amined by the German foreign Office in
connection with Russia's plans for Judi
cial and financial reforms in that coun-
try, and the British and Russian notes
regarding Macedonia will be treated by
Germany as a whole.
The climax in the British naval ma
neuvers in the North Sea was reported
when the 315 warships comprising the
largest single fleet ever gathered entered
upon the stage of a theoretical war. one
section representing the enemy making an
attack. The new feature of the practice
was the entire control of the defensive
feet from the admiralty Office in London
by means of wireless messages.
TIE Right Rev. William Awdry, An
glican bishop of South Toxic, in a long
letter 10 the London Times, repudiates
the idea that the japanese have any ag-
gressive intentions towards the United
States or elsewhere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
DEATH TAKES u. S.
SENATOR ". B. ALLISON
Noted Statesman Succumbs to At.
tack of Heart Failure at His
Home in Dubuque.
FIGURE IN IOWA POLITICAL WAR.
Public Career Covering More Than
Three-Score Years Breaks All
Records for Length.
i States Senator William r.

United States Senator William r.
Allison dropped dead at DubuQL
Iowa, Tuesday Of heart failure. The
senior senator's decrase comes on the
eve of his reelection TO another term
in the upper house, where he had been
leader for years. His death will per-
haps throw Iowa politics into turmoil
again.
William Boyd Allison was born In
Perry, Ohio, March 2, 1929 He passed
his boyhood days on the farm, securing
his preliminary education at the coun.
try schools, and graduating from the
Western Reserve College in his native
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
DIES TO SAVE SONS LIFE.
New York Driver browns Rather
than IraperiI His Boy.

To few men does fate offer an oppor-
tunity for such heroism as she gave James
Farrell a driver, in New York. His body
now lies in the front room of his home,
and on the wall hangs the blue ribbon
awarded him by the Society for the Pre-
rention of Cruelty to Animals May / last
for being the most careful driver in New
York. Farrell, who is 45 years old,
was swimming with his 17-year-old son
Arthur off the pier at the foot Of West
sd street when he was overcome with
weakness. His son swan to him and
threw his arms around his fathers neck
TO hold him up The father, with the in
stinct of a drowning man, threw his hands
around his sons neck, but realizing that
be would drag the boy to the same death
ne was facing, he released his hold and
sank. Young Farrell, on getting his
breath, dived after his father, and Robert
Graham. who was standing on the pier,
jumped into the water fully clothed. Two
young friends of the boy. who had gone
swimming with the Farrells, also tried to
rescue Mr.. Farrell. After several attempts
Graham brought the body to the surface
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A delegation of French leather workers
is making tour of American factories.
Hebrew painters and paperhangers of
Boston, Mass, are reforming their old
union.
San Francisco (Cal.) Building Trades
Council has organized an athletic asso-
citation.
Carpenters of the City of Mexico have
organized a labor union affiliated with
the A. T. of L.
More union car men are wearing the
union button in Chicago to-day than ever
before in the history of the organization.
White and negro longshoremen at New
Orleans, La, have signed a fve-year con-
tract with the stevedores and steamship
agents.
A seeding organization from the Broth
erhood of Railroad Employees has taken
the name of Brotherhood of Railroad
Station Employees.
The railway trackmen are planning for
the establishment of a home for their
aged and INDECENT members. 1t is pro-
posed to acquire tract of 800 acres near
Fort Scott, Kan, as the location for the
institution.
st. Paul Typographical Union has de-
cided to make a label exhibit at the Min
nesota State fair, and will ask the Mime
apolis union to join with it. Last year
the st. Paul men made a label display
which was very creditable.
In New York State bill which takes
from the health boards of the first-class
cities the inspection of mercantile estab-
ishments and places it in the hands of
the responsible labor department was
passed at the extraordinary session of
the Legislature and will go into effect on
Oct. l.
The next convention of the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Bookbinders will
be held during the. second week in June,
1910, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Cleveland England ironstone miners
have decided to press for a II o'clock
Saturday; that is, that operations shall
cease at the mines at II o'clock on
Saturdays instead of / o'clock, but no
stoppage of work is likely to result if the
masters refuse to make this alteration.
There has been no general strike of the
Cleveland ironstone miners for more than
thirty years.
Initial steps are being taken by the Ca
madam Pacific toward securing the army
of harvest laborers that is called for from
the West every year. Advices from Mon
treal indicate that $4,000 men will be
needed. Large crops are indicated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
PLAYWRIGHT HOWARD DEAD.
Author of Systematically and Other
Dramatic Successes Expires.

Author of "Shenandoah'' and Other
Dramatic Successes Expires.
Bronson Howard, dramatist and au-
thor, writer of several famous plays, died
of heart failure at Avon-by-the-Sea, n. j.,
after an illness of about a year. His
funeral took place at Avon Thursday,
and the body was removed for interment
to Detroit. where Mr.. Howard was born
sixty-eight years ago. Mr.. Howard be-
gan his journalistic career in 1889. He
retired from newspaper work in 1872,
devoting himself largely thereafter to
dramatic work. As a dramatist Mr.. How
ard was best known by reason of The
successes of Saratoga The Bankers
Daughter" 'OId Love Letters Young
Mrs. Winthrop" THE Henrietta,
SHENANDOAH and ''Aristocracy." In
1880 Mr.. Howard married Miss Wynd-
ham, sister of Charles Wyndham, the
English comedian.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

above the sidewalk. 1t will be twice as
high as the Flatiron and just a few
feet shorter than the Singer building
The New York hall will house prac-
tically all the city departments and
leave % floors to be rented by the city
as offices. 1t is expected they will bring
in 100000 in rentals annually. French
renaissance is the type, with exterior
columns. Steel and stone is to be the
construction. A peculiar feature of the
building will be that all the rooms will
be outside rooms and no interior light
court will be needed.
New 1ork's municipal sllyscraper
will differ from the ordinary ones in
that it will not depend upon its tower
for its great height. The height to the
roof of the main structure is to be 340
feet. From the roof to the head of the
figure on the tower is a distance of 30
feet s inches. The figure will be "A
feet high and the diameter of the clock
face is to be % feet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
A COmDOSite AirShin.

NJ. Malcot, French aeronaut, has de-
veloped a new kind of air craft, which
combines the principles of the balloon and
the aeroplane. The directing part is the
aeroplane of triangular shape. 1t is 81
feet long, with a surface of 400 square
feet and made of bamboo and aluminium.
In its center are the car and the appara-
tus for propelling and steering the whole.
A twenty-eight horsepower motor drives
a screw fan of walnut wood ten feet long
and giving 1900 revolutions a minute.
The while weight of aeroplane and ma
chinery is attached to a cigar-shaped bal
loon 100 feet long and % feet wide, which
is designed to give additional safety and
buoyancy to the whole.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
Women After Lnwmaker.

Representative Glenn, who recently in
PRODUCED into the Georgia Legislature a
bill to invalidate a marriage contract bas-
ed upon false appearances of the woman
due to the use of pads, stays, crimps,
paints or other artificial devices, has
asked the protection of the State owing
to the large number of threatening letters
he has received from women in all parts
of the country. He says he takes it that
the allegations must have some truth or
the women would not be so angry.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
Storm Grips Airship.

At 8 O'Clock in the afternoon, while the
repair work was still in progress,
fierce thunderstorm swept down from
the Alps and seized the huge air flyer
in its grip. The wind upset a quantity
Of benZine which lay around the ma
chine. In a moment the fluid blazed
up. the flames reached the gas bag float
ing aloft, and there was a tremendous
explosion.
simultaneously the hurricane tore the
balloon from its anchorage and hurled
il, fiery mass, in a southeasterly Grec-
ton for fifty yards Then the rear end
of the great fabric dropped, the motors
and frames attached TO the under side
crashed to the earth, knocking down
several bystanders, and all that re-
manned of the great airship floated
away on the gale, mass of blazing
cordage and material
The accident to the Zeppelin airship
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DYNAMITE A NEW |. C. BRIDGE.
Chicago Structure Damaged-Explo-
sion Lnid to Labor Troubles.

sion LH1d 10 LABOR IrouDlc1.
The new Illinois Central railroad
bridge over the Calumet river at 133d
street Chicago was partly wrecked by an
explosion OF dynamite at a. N. the other
day. The bridge was almost completed,
but was not yet in service. Lieut.. Moore
Of the East Side station started to work
on the theory that labor troubles were
responsible for the explosion. He was
told by employees that fifty non-union men
had worked recently on the bridge. The
detonation was caused either by a bomb
or stick of dynamite to which a time
fuse had been attached. The explosion
wrecked a portion of the south end of the
structure and threw three men who were
sleeping in a shanty nearby from the
beds. The men were employed as watch
men by the American Bridge Company
in charge of the construction work. Po-
iceman Stanier reported that he had
seen three suspicious looking men loiter-
ing about the bridge the night before and
had threatened TO arrest them. They
hurried away. D<lage to the structure
will not amount TO more than $500.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
HIGHEST CITY HALL.

New York 20 Have 34-Story Munic-
ipal Building Costing $1,000 900
The New York board of estimates and
Mayor Mcclellan are now passing final
ly on plans for the highest city hall in
the world. This 34-story building, to
cost 100000, will stand in the TRAN
gle OF Park Row, Center and Duane
streets, and tower $50 feet s inches