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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
PNEUMONIA.

Fresh Air Is the Best Cure as Well
as the Best Preventive.
The most effective weapon with
which to fight pneumonia is fresh air,
real fresh air, and lots of 1t.
The fact that pneumonia might be
called simply a shutting off Of oxygen
shows how important it is to give the
patient plenty of air. In one large New
York hospital sufferers from the dis
ease are carried to the roof and kept
there day and night. When your child
grows Ill, move 1t to the largest and
sunniest room in. the house and open
the windows. If it Is too cold for that,
have another room near by into which
the patient may be moved at least three
times day to permit thorough ven
essary furniture and all pictures, hang
ings and other lmpedimenta should be
taken out of both rooms.
An attack Of pneumonia begins In q
manner which suggests very bad cold.
The patient has a chill and a fever and
suffers from pains in the side. A cough
soon appears, and the breath becomes
short and quick. The valiant battle Of
the overworked heart is indicated by a
quick pulse and flushed cheeks Soon
there are signs Of great exhaustion,
with headache, sleeplessness and
(sometimes) delirium.
During all of this period the blood
is waging tremendous war upon the
invading germs. If it Is destined to
lose, the exhaustion will grow more and
more marked, and the patient will die.
But if it is destined to win there will
come a time-it will be between the
fifth and the tenth day-when the pa
tent will suddenly seem brighter. The
temperature will fall, the breathing will
be more regular, and the violent jump
ing Of the pulse will cease When this
happens, 1t is sign that the battle Is
won.-Delineator.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
New Picture Telegraphy.

How Edouard Belin, a French engi-
neer. has employed an entirely new princi-
pie for the successful transmission of pho
tographs 1000 miles over a telegraph
wire is told in the April Current Litera-
lures excerpt from London Engineering.
That principle is the effect of light rays
on bichromate gelatine-namely, that the
gelatine loses its capacity to swell when
immersed in water. When a picture is
printed on this the brightest portions are
the deepest cavities and the darkest the
highest projections. To transmit these
gradations to a corresponding surface at
a distance it is only necessary to produce
electric current oscillations corresponding
to the relief of the various portions of
the picture. and then to reconvert them
into light fluctuations.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21

1471-Edward, Prince of Wales. son of
Henry VI. of England. killed at the
battle of Tewkesbury.
1665-The principle of the appropriation
act adopted by the Commonwealth
and definitely established.
1147-William of Nassau appointed
Stakeholder of the Netherlands.
17T6-Rhode Island declared itself free
of Great Britain, the first of the
thirteen American colonies 10 take
such action.
1179-Norfolk, Va, occupied by the Brit
ish.
1I94-U. S. Postoffice Department estab-
lished by Congress.
1I99-Bonaparte defeated at st. Jean
D'Acre. .Seringapatam taken by
the British and the empire of lIyder
Ali extinguished by the death of
his son, Sultan Tippoo Sahib.
1S04-Dutch surrendered the island of
Surinam to the British
1SO6-Robert Morris. the financer of the
American revolution, died in Phila-
delphia.
lSl3-Americans evacuated York, Can
ada, after setting fire to the city.
1S14-Oswego. n. Y. taken by a COM
bined force of British and Canadian
troops.
Eugene of France
born in Granada.
Iol H., al. D,:I
Parliament.
1S40-Many lives and much property lost
by tornado in Adams county, Mis-
sissippi.
1S46-Gen. Taylor in command of the
army of occupation in Texas, march
ed to the relief of Fort Brown.
1S52-Charles Warren Fairbanks, Vice
President of the United States, born.
1S53-The Geneva, the first Atlantic
steamer at Quebec, arrived at that
port.
1S54-Sultan of Turkey gave banquet
in honor of Emperor Napoleon.
1S51-The Indian mutineers seized Delhi.
1S5S-Minnesota admitted to statehood.
1S64-Battle of the Wilderness began. BE-.
The Danes defeated the Allies in
naval battle off Heligoland.
1S65-Last fight in the Civil War at Pal
metto Rancho, Texas.
1S6S-Argument in the impeachment
trial of President Johnson closed.
1S76-The ironclad ship Ismeraire
launched.
1SS5-Battle at Batoche.
1SS6-Six policemen killed by anarchists
in the Haymarket riots in Chicago.
1900-Peary discovered the northern
coast of Greenland.
02-Revolutionists in San Domingo de-
posed President Jiminez.
1904-The japanese captured Fengwang-
cheng, the Russians retreating with
out giving battle.
1905-More than a score of lives lost in
tornado near Marquette, Kan.
1906-The Dominion government took
over the defenses at Esquimault.
1907-Ernest w. Huffcut. legal adviser
to the Governor of New York, com
mitted suicide. -. Gen. Kuroki Of
Japan and the Duke of Abruzzi Wis
tied Washington.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21

me In little snack? Six o'clock in the
morning is funny time for a meal,
but believe in eating when you are
hungry. There, now. You take the
head Of the table, as BELTS you. Come
"a toast! You won't refuse that, will
you? To my wife,
He held out his glass toward the por-
ter of the mantelpiece. With fierce eyes
Tom looked at the picture of a gentle
lady sitting enthroned as happy moth
err with her two children, one standing
by her side, the other nesting in her
arms.
''That-your wife!'' said Tom. Amaze
ment was followed by a quick CLEAN
of hope. "You told me that you mar
ried Miss Arley!'
$50 1 did" LionePs eyes twinkled.
"a health! To my wife!'
Your wife, and wonderingly Tom
drank the toast. Lionel kept his broth
er served with the simple meal, and
under the influence Of his surroundings
and the badly needed food, Tom seemed
to forget everything else but to satisfy
the craving of his hunger.
Lionel went to a desk, unlocked it and
took out square, blue envolpe, sealed
and addressed in a firm, clerky hand,
to my Son Thomas" Handing it to
Tom, he said:
'Now, I'll leave you for minute or
two while you read your epistie. 1
sha'n't be long away"
Softly closing the door, he crept up
stairs, chuckling to himself at every
step.
What lark! Poor old Tom"
Tom waited till his brother had closed
the door, and then ripped open the en-
velope and took out the letter:
"My Son-You and parted in anger
You have gone away, know not where,
leaving your father and your brother
without goodbye. You have not writ
ten, and now in my last days 1 find
myself cut off from communication with
my eldest son. But before die I wish
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21

where their mother had kept their stock
shoes, and other trifles Of fond remem-
brance. Tom unlocked the chest and
with trembling hands drew out the
clothes that he had left behind in his
hurried departure from his home some
years before. Then, after Tubing, he
dressed himself and waited.
The gong sounded. Lionel appeared
and led the way downstairs to the
breakfast room. A pleasant faced lady
there was introduced as Lionels wife.
With womanly intuition she greeted
him as If he were an old acQuaint-
ance, and busted herself attending to
the wants of little boy and girl who
were clamoring for Aunt Bessie"
Tom WINGED at the name.
do you take tea or coffee?" asked
his hostess but she received no reply.
Her brOther-in-law had half risen from
his chair, his eyes riveted on a lady
who stood in the doorway, her hands
pressed to her breast, her lissom, gray
tldu oulllutu dSdlllSL Lie uOOl
dark background, and swaying with
agitation. For a moment a dead 81
lence fell on the room. Then, with a
glad cry, Tom broke the spell of as
constituent which EMBODIED him, and
rose up In his place.
Bessie"
Tom"
He strobe up to her.
you waited for me. then-through
all these years?"
Eyes, Tom. would have waited for
ever"
The simple words went home. He
drew her to him, till her head sank
upon his breast. Brokenly he murmur-
ed:
This is too much happiness 1 am
not deserving"
Lionel, who was almost choking him.
self In his efforts to continue his break
fast, at last cried out:
"Come along. you two! Breakfast
Is getting cold."-London Tit-Bits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
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Roseben, once a peerless sprinter was
badly beaten at the Aqueduct track in
his first start this season.
The two Cornell four-oared Shells
crashed into each other on the river and
both were put out of commission.
There seems to be every probability
that an English lawn tennis team will
play in America during the coming sum-
mer.
Many turfmen believe that hard fight
will be made in the Tennessee Legisla-
ture next winter to repeal the anti-pool
selling laws.
The farmers at Ames, in their track
squad, are developing some men in the
weight events who may make a showing
in the conference meet in Chicago.
Tom Jones leads the first basemen Of
the American League with .991; Williams
leads the second basemen with 1000;
Lord leads the third basemen with 1000,
and Wagner of Boston the Shortstops
with 1000.
Notwithstanding the anti-race track
laws enacted in the last Legislature in
Tennessee, Montgomery Park and Bill
ings Park, respectively, the homes for run
ming and trotting horses at Memphis, will
remain open as homes for the horses.
Indiana university is to have another
worlds champion if present prospects
prove a success. Long John" Miller,
the varsity high jumper, bids fair to win
as much fame as LIE Roy Samse, who be-
came the worlds champion pole yaulter
while a student there two years ago. Mil
Ter recently cleared the bar in the high
jump at feet inches.
Lucen Lyme, who rode Wyeth to vic
tory in the American Derby of 1902 at
Chicago, has been engaged by Richard
Croker to ride for him on the British
turf this year.
Packie Mcfarland intends to retire
from the prize ring after two more bat
ties, and will try his luck at the stock
yards. where he first got his start, but
in an entirely different role.
In the National League Berger leads
she catchers. Camel the first basemen,
Pattee the second basemen, Leach the
third basemen, all having averages of
1000. Joe Tinker leads the shortstops
with .976.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
ALL OVER THE STATE.

The County Superintendents' Associa-
ton of the State will hold its annual
meeting in Oshkosh on Tuesday, May 26.
E. II. Smythe of Beloit, 66 years old,
a wealthy retired farmer, committed sui
eide on a train at Davis Junction, ILL.,,
by shooting himself in the head.
An attempt to wreck the Wisconsin
Central passenger train between Fan
Claire and Chippewa Falls was thwart-
ed by the fireman of a Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis and Omaha freight train who,
as the trains passed near the junction,
called the passenger engineers attention
to the track where the rail had been re-
moved.
Papers from Goldfeld, New, say James
E. Keelyn, former newspaper man Of
Racine, has struck it rich. The story
goes that he and others have cleared up
100000.
Holding that the company was negli-
gent in not maintaining in proper repair
a gate which protected it's tracks, Judge
Schmidt in municipal court in Manitowoc
has awarded judgment of S277 in favor
of Michael Carney of Cato against the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway Com
pany for six head of cattle killed in Au-
gust, 1904, by being run down by train.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Sparta & Melrose railway
it was decided to change the route and
make it as direct as possible instead of
via Trout Falls.
The State board of control will on
June elect a successor to Superintend-
dependent children, who has resigned on
account of i'll health.
While searching in a pile of rags in an
old house at Stockton, abandoned thirty
years ago, Rose Tovey Doyle found $500
in bills and some coins tied in an old sock,
believed to have been hidden there by
her grandmother.
Henry Mewhorter, a farmer, living
three miles east of Tony, was instantly
killed by being struck on the head by
large stone while digging a well. He is
survived by large family.
z. S. Sullivan burned to death while
asleep in a small building in Glenwood,
MINI. He was about A. and left three
children at Reedsburg, his home. Smok-
ers are blamed for starting the fire.
Final alimony OF 10000 was granted
to Mrs. w. ]. Hess of Manitowoc, IN
divorce decree given her by Judge kirwan
in the Sheboygan county Circuit Court.
The wife is given the daughter, Cythani,
aged IL. Mr.. Hess is president of the
Manitowoc Boiler Works Company.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
Tenderness of the Hanging Judge.

Tenderness of the Hanging Judge.
Justice Hawkins tenderness for
women prisoners was well known. He
admitted it, and he had a great dislike
Of sentencing these poor creatures to
death who had been recommended to
mercy and would probably be re-
prieved. On one such occasion the
sheriff asked If he was not going to
put on the black cap.
NO." he answered, II am not. I do
not intend the poor creature to be
hanged, and l am not going to brighten
her to death"
Addressing her by name, he said !:
Don't pay any attention to what I
am going to read. No harm will be
done to you. l am sure you did not
know in your great trouble and sorrow
what you were doing. and 1 will take
care to represent your case so that
nothing will harm you in the way of
punishment"
He then mumbled over the words of
the sentence Of death SO that the poor
creature did not hear them.-London
Graphic
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
FEAR KENosHA GIRL MURDERED
Think Lena TiIIman May Have Been
One of Mrs. Guinness Victims.

Kenosha people are watching with a
great deal of interest the developments in
the search for bodies at the Guinness farm
near Laporte, Ind, as it is thought pos
sible that Anna Tillman, formerly of
kenoSha. is one of the women buried be-
meath the soft places on the farm. The
woman disappeared two years ago, and
at that time she had just left Laporte to
go to a farm near that city. The last
letter received from her stated that she
was not in good health. and that she had
been invited to go out into the country
for an indefinite time. Anna Tillman
was handsome brunette. She had been
estranged from her mother. who still re-
sides in kenoSha
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
STORM SWEEPS STATE.
Greatest Damage Done in Country
Near Madison and Mazomanie

Near Madison and MazOmanie.
Many sections of the State were swept
by a storm of almost tornado proportions
Monday afternoon. George Bull. Jr., aged
6 years, son of George Bull. ST.. of Sun
Prairie, was crushed to death beneath a
barn, where he and several other children
had taken refuge. AT Mazomanie a car
penter named William Roysteon was
struck by flying timbers when the storm
struck a barn on which he and three
others were working. He died from his
injuries. The other three were badly
hurt. The storm passed northward from
Mazomanie in a narrow path and did
considerable damage to farm buildings.
telephone and telegraph lines. Advices
from Beaver Dam, Kilbourn. Eagle, Port
age and WauSau indicate that the storm
was the most severe in years. Thomas
Wood, a man employed by c. d. Olds at
Eagle, was blown down and severely in
jured. At Baraboo the storm tore. off
roofs, uprooted trees and wrecked a num-
Der of barns. A small cyclone visited the
country between Dale and Medina, and
destroyed the Medina Lutheran church.
located about midway between the two
villages. The church was lifted off the
foundation and moved about fifteen feet
and again set down. but not until it had
been badly wrecked. The cyclone was
followed by a terrific downpour of rain.
A feature of the wind and rain storm in
Oshkosh was the phenomenal water spout.
which appeared on the Fox river between
the West Algoma and the Wisconsin
avenue bridges about 3 40 o'clock. A
column of water about twenty feet high
and about FIVE feet in diameter rose in a
solid column. When the water broke
there was a gale of wind in the nature of
a small tornado and lumber pile and a
billboard in the vicinity were blown away.
No other damage was done. Just previ-
Gus to the appearance of the water spout
the barometer took drop of a quarter
of an inch, indicating tornado conditions.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21

to set down some particulars Of which
feel you are ignorant. Jacob Arley was
my enemy. The only crime he could
ever accuse me of was that 1 married
your mother-the girl he professed to
love, but who did not love him. Three
times he tried to ruin me in business,
but failed. When you told me that you
loved his daughter and wished to
marry her, forbade you, on pain Of my
to think of such a thing
When you persisted-you were always
stubborn threatened you with loss
of my favor and esteem, and to dis
suade you-for l loved you, my SOM
informed you that your brother Lionel
had a claim upon Miss Arley's affec-
tons. So he had, but not upon the
Miss Arley whom you and quarreled
about. The woman your brother loved
and has just married is Miss Arley's
cousin, and bore the same name. ask
you to let the traitorous designs Of your
fathers enemey be the excuse for my
deception. l have since repented Of it.
Before l go to Join your mother wish
you to know. should this letter ever
fall into your hands, that the head
strong course you pursued in leaving
home after our quarrel has darkened
the closing hours of my life. Some day
you will learn that it Is the privilege
Of the old to demonstrate with the
young and the duty Of the young to
listen in patience to ACCOMPLISHMENT.
The warehouse and the business 1
have left to you Your brother holds
it in trust till you return. He will be
a good steward. for he is upright and
generous, and has such an affection for
you that / trust you will return it in
some measure. May the peace that
well doing brings be yours. Accept my
blessing. But, oh! my lad, why did
you ever leave your well-meaning but
|blundering father?
Thomas Sardon."
Good news, old MANI"
"Yes, too good for me. I'll not let
you read the letter, Ii. 1t is too sac
red. But am off again, Ii. I'll write
this time to tell you how get on"
"Not without your breakfast my son.
NV wife will be down soon, and she
will be disappointed If you go away
without seeing her. I told her the good
news of your arrival"
well, all right. But after break
fast 1 must say goodbye"
"Perhaps," said Lionel.
| He led his brother upstairs and, with
rare tact, left him after giving him the
key Of the ancient oak clothes chest
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
Death from Blow on Funny Bone.

Strange indeed was the form in which
death came to Abel b. CASTOR, son of
DIR. W. F. CASTOR of Plainfeld, n. j.
The young man, Is years old and very
popular, was a student at the local high
school, With other members of the
school young CASTOR was attending a
class reception a few days ago, and while
waltzing with Miss Margaret Lambert,
struck an iron pillar in seeking to avoid
other dancers. \ sharp corner caught the
ulnar nerve, commonly known as the
funny bone," and he Immediately COM
planned of numbness in the limbs. He
was assisted to an ante-room, where he
became unconscious, remaining thus until
death. about SO hours later. Four physi-
clans diagnosed the trouble as meningitis,
and worked hard to restore the sufferer
They assert that the attack was the dl-
rect result of the blow on the elbow.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21

Grafton of his candy and caramel factory.
While passing electric currents through
milk to sterilize it he found in the milk
a soft. white. elastic substance. This was
the beginning of a series of experiments
resulting in the product for which he has
now coined the name ''omsite-'
Sixteen pounds of omsite can be pro-
duced from 100 pounds of skim mill" "
the latter having a market value Of eight
cents for 100 pounds. 1t is said to be
impervious to acids, unaffected by heat
or cold. an absolute non-conductor OF
electricity, freproof and practically indie
structible.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
Value of Irrigation.

Moreover, we can add enormous tracts
of the most valuable possible agricultural
land to the national domain by irrigation in
the arid and semiarid regions and by drain
age of great tracts of swamp land in the
humid regions
We can enormously increase our trans
portation facilities by the canalization of
our rivers so as to complete a great sys-
TEN of waterways on the Pacific, Atlantic,
and gulf coasts and in the Mississippi Val
ley, from the great plains to the ALE
ghenies, and from the northern lakes to the
mouth of the mighty father of waters.
But all these various uses of our nat
ural resources are so closely connected that
they should be co-ordinated, and should be
treated as part of one coherent plan and
not in haphazard and piecemeal fashion.
We are coming to recognize as never be-
fore the right of the nation, to guard its
own future in the essential matter of nat
ural resources.
In the past we have admitted the right
of the individual to injure the future of
the republic for his own present profit. The
time has come for a change.
As a people we have the right and the
duty, second TO none other but the righ1
and duty of obeyiDg the moral law. of re
quiring and doing justice. to protect our
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
REsCUEs DROWNING CRIPPLE.
Grand Rapids Man Nearly Loses His
Life m the

Grand Rapids Man Nearly Loses His
Life in the Attempt.
A tragedy was narrowly averted by the
prompt action of Ed. Smith of Grand
Rapids in rescuing James Mcclure of
West Grand Rapids. The lad was walk
ing along the edge of the stone dam of
the Consolidated mills when he lost his
balance and fell into the river. Smith
was rowing in the pond above the dam
and the cries attracted his attention. In
the struggle which followed, the boat was
overturned and both man and boy were
carried near the edge of the Rapids. Their
calls for help were answered by work
men, and their prompt response and eff
forts saved the life of BOTH
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
MURDERER SEEKS RELEASE.
jones l.. Hampton, Wife Slayer
Asks Freedom from State Asylum.

jones l.. Hampton, Wife Slayer,
Asks Freedom from State Asylum.
James L. Hampton of Manitowoc, who
is an inmate of the Northern Asylum at
Oshkosh. where he was committed after
being adjudged insane on a plea in de-
Tense on a charge of wife murder six
years ago, has written to Probate Judge
Chloupek of that city, asking his support
in a movement to secure his freedom.
Hampton was convicted of the crime and
was sentenced to life Imprisonment, but
the Supreme Court gave him a new trial
and the jury declared him insane and he
was taken to Oshkosh. Hampton has
sought several times to start a movement
for release. 1t is now said that Oshkosh
attorneys will take the case. Hampton
is 30 years of age.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
Accidental Discovery OF Fortune.

Through the accidental discovery of a
process by which solid substance hay-
ing the qualities of rubber can be pro-
duced from skim milk George ". Frye
of Lexington, Ohio, has enlisted the in
terest of manufacturers to such an extent
that three offers of S1.o00000 each are
said TO have been refused by him for
all rights and patents in connection with
it. He is not satisfied with this, and a
company capitalized at 100000 is to
be incorporated to make and market the
new material.
Mr.. Frye made the discovery in the OPP