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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-14

Cash quotations were as folloWs: Flour-Firm.
 Wheat-No. spring 9Sc@ $1.1O; No. red 90% @92%c
 Corn-No. 2, 741A @75c; No. yellow. 76Q761zc.
 Oats-No. 2 white, 5SAc; No. white, 54@57hc.
 Rye-No. 2, 74c.
 Flax Seed-No. 1 northwestern, $1.25A.
 Timothy Seed-Prime, $40.
 Short Ribs, Sides--Loose, $8.75 e 9.12h.
 Mess Pork-Per bbl, s1s.55 @ 1860. Lard-Per 100 lbs, $9.571s.
 Short Clear Sides-Boxed. $9@9.25. Whisky-Basis of high wines $1.35. On the produce exchange today tn @ butter market was steady; creameries, 1SM21%c; dairies, 17%20c.
 Eggs-Firm; at mark cases included, 15@16c; first, 1712c prime firsts, l9h c. Cheese-Steady; 101@11Rc.
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BOSTON, MASS, and Return .s3s.30
 Tickets sold July 30, S1, Aug. 1, 2, 3 and 4. limited to Aug. 16, may be ex- tended to Sept 16.
 Seashore Camp Grounds ....... .$S.75
 Tickets sold July to Aug. 1. Limig Aug. 8.
 SUMMER TOURISTS TICKETS on sale daily until Sept 30, limited to Oct S1. SPECIAL HOMEsEEKERs' RATES to, the west and northwest. Tickets on sale first and third Tuesdays of each month.
 For full information, call on or write to P. Sid Jones, D. P. A. Both phones 977, Birmingham, Ala.
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Ads illustrated witt good cuts arc trsGe winners-The Gawk makes good
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-14

Total sales Tor the day, 3se200 shares
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State, County and City Bonds.
Street Railway Stocks and Bonds.


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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-30
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

F. R. Smith of Minneapolis Will
open up a large commercial fruit or
chard near Washburn.
The Wolf River Paper and Fiber
company started its pulp mill at Sha-
wano and expects to rebuild its plant
destroyed the last of May.
Another block of tar macadam
pavement is being laid by Marinette.
If the test is successful more of such
pavement will be laid in the future.
The Bankers Supply company of
Denver Colo, will open it's branch
lithographing plant at Green Bay. It
has acquired the quarters of the old
shoe factory.
The Waukesha Canning company
having completed its pack, has closed
for the season. A total of 100000
cases of peas and 10000 of beans
were packed.
w. H. Tyrrell of Delavan has been
appointed receiver of the electric
light plant in proceedings instituted
by bondholders. The company was or
ganized ten years ago by local cap
italists.
The Michigan Elm Hoop company
of Koss, Mich. will remove its plant
to Marinette city, having secured a
location on Witbeck island. The COM
pany will engage in the manufacture
of barrels and kegs.
BY the discovery of an inexhaust-
ible bed of shale clay together with
liberal deposits of fine sand, the Fond
du Lac Pressed Brick company may
in the near future engage in the man.
ufacture of vitrifed brick and thing.
+ The La Crosse Water Power COM
pany expects to have its two mile
canal between the dam and the power
house completed by Oct. 1, when it
will be in a position 20 furnish cleo
trical current to Winona, La Crosse
and other points.
The first of the complex buildings
for the new plant of the Pluto Pow
der company's upper peninsula works
will be started this week about a
mile and a half south of Ishpeming.
Mich. 1t will be of concrete block con-
struction.
The state railroad commission has
placed a valuation of $3.50 on the
plant of the Manitowoc Gas company,
this figure not taking into account the
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-30
F'asts for Nine Days.

Fond du Lac, Wis, Sept. 24.-After
going without food for niue days and
drinking nothing but water, julius
Coleman, barber, was compelled to
abandon his fast and also his posi-
ton. For the first few days Coleman
did not mind the absence of food in
his stomach, but on the eighth day
he was afraid to even smell cooking
food as it made him sick. On the
ninth day he could hardly continue
his labors and on the morning of the
tenth he had to quit work and break
his fast at a nearby restaurant. He
lost about four pounds in weight and
says that he tasted simply because he
thought it would be an odd 'stunt"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-30

OF $4,000 arrived at New York as a
prisoner on the steamer Afghan
Prince, from Brazil.
By an order of President Roosevelt,
about 10000 acres of land adjoining
the Oregon-California line is to be set
aside as a reservation for the propa-
cation and protection of all native
birds.
James P. Graham of Newburgh, N.
Y, filed a claim of $2,954.77 against
Harry K. Thaw, with Referee in
Bankruptcy w. R. Blair. The claim,
which is said to be for legal services,
is disputed by Thaw.
A jury was secured in the case of
Abraham Raymer, of Springfield,
ILL.,, alleged leader of a mob, which
n the night of Aug. Is, last, dragged
William Donnegan, an aged negro,
from his home, cut his throat and
lynched him.
Clint o. Heath, formerly a real
estate dealer and promoter of Denver
was found guilty of embezzlement of
$500 from Mrs. Mary Hustled of
New York. The sums lost by Mrs.
Hustled through her dealings with him
amounted to $4,000.
The illegal liquor sellers of Perry
county, Ill, are being prosecuted.
Twelve convictions were recorded
during the last week and forty-two
cases are docketed for the present
term of court. Hundreds of witnesses
have been subpoenaed.
Clad in boys attire so that she
could go west and punch" cattle,
Martha A. Rinehart, IA years old, of
Lima, O., was found at st. Louis by
her father. The girl told the police
that another girl and boy of Lima
had planned to follow her after she
had secured work here. She left for
home with her father.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-30
DOMESTIC.

+ C. Canton's store at Armour, S.
d was robbed, the thieves getting
from the safe $4,000 in paper, $4,000
in gold and $500 in silver.
Fire which threatened the whole
business section of Lafayette, H. de-
stroved four stores, causing damage
amounting TO $4,000.
Two robbers attacked K. E. krekel
Of Burlington, Iowa, dubbed him into
Inconsistencies and robbed him OF
$40 He is in a critical condition
At the yearly meeting of Indiana
friends it was announced that Robert
Andrew of Greenfield, Ind had be-
oueathed $2$O,O00 to Earlham College
Richmond.
The Georgia state senate unexpect-
edIy receded from its position on con
vict legislation before it, and passed
the measure abolishing the convict
lease system.
All of next weeks sessions OF 1he
Houghton county, Mich, circuit court
will be devoted to naturalize 81
aliens eligible for admission to fuli
citizenship at that time.
The acting secretary of the inter
Tor has issued regulations for the
sale at auction of 1000 town lots, ad-
Joining Lawton, Okla, on Nov. 10
John Zett, on trial at Rockville
Conn. for the killing of his wife ana
granddaughter last month, was found
guilty of murder and sentenced to he
hanged on Dec. 81 next.
A. F. BonelG former banker of
Cleveland, O., charged with the theft
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-30
OBITUARY..

Christopher G. Bramow, a pioneer
resident and a soldier of the civil
war, aged Is, is dead at Racine.
General Charles S. Miller, president
of the United States Army Aid asso-
citation, is dead in New York.
Franklin Hunt, father of Leigh
Hunt, the Corean mine owner, died
suddenly at Hecla, Ind Decedent was
80 years old
Edward Petty, of Nation, ILL.,,
known as "Baby Bliss" is dead He
weighed 480 pounds and was the
heaviest man in Shelby county.
Edwin Boaler, for years one of the
best known wholesale fishermen in
Green Bay, is dead, aged SIS years.
DR.. Frederick Huntington Snow,
formerly chancellor of the University
of Kansas, and an entomologist of
world wide reputation, is dead, aged
68 years.
Walter M. Shirk, of Poynette, Wis,
is dead, aged so years. He was a
former newspaper publisher of the
Poynette Press, Fox Lake Breeze,
and the Tomahawk at Tomahawk,
Wis.
William J. Parsons, for forty-one
years a resident of Chicago and of
late years a tax agent for the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul rail-
road, died at his residence in Chicago.
George E. Weidler, lumber manu-
facturer and in former days one of
the most prominent men on the Pa
cifc coast in the lumber business, is
dead. He was II years of age
James H. Barnett, president of the
Old National Bank of Grand Rapids,
Mich, and director in many of the
leading business enterprises of that
city, died aged 76 years, as the result
of paralytic stroke suffered several
weeks ago. He was one of the early
lumber barons of Michigan, and later
had large lumber holdings in Louisi-
ana, Florida and North Carolina.
Colonel Manning D. Birge died at
his home in Chicago aged 6S years,
after a lingering illness resulting
from sciatic rheumatism. Early in the
civil war he served as a first lieuten-
ant of Company A, Sixth Michigan
cavalry. When "a years old he was
promoted to major for charging the
enemy and recapturing several Off
GERS. During the Shenandoah Valley
campaign General Sheridan placed
him in command of New York regi-
ment of cavalry. During the war he
was in 100 engagements. He re-
cruited a company of 1,500 men for
the Spanish-American war and was
commissioned colonel bN Governor
Tanner.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-30
AFRAID TO EAT.
Girl starving on Unsolicited Food.

Girl Starving on Unsolicited Food.
Several years ago l was actually
starving" writes Me. girl. yet dared
not eat for fear of the consequences.
81 had suffered from Indigestion
from overwork, irregular meals and
improper food, until at last my stom-
ach became so weak | could eat scarce
ly any food without great distress.
Many kinds of food were tried, all
with the same discouraging effects.
steadily lost health and strength until
l was but a. wreck of my former self.
Having heard of GrapeNuts and
its great merits, purchased package,
but with little hope that it would help
mel was so discouraged.
II found it not only appetizing but
that | could eat it as l liked and that
it satisfied the craving for food without
causing distress, and if l may use the
expression, it filed the BILL
For months Grape-Nuts was my
principal article of diet. | felt from
the very first that l had found the
right way to health and happiness, and
my anticipations were fully realized.
With its continued use l regained
my usual health and strength To-day
! am well and can eat anything l like,
yet Grape-Nuts food forms a part of
my bill of fare" There's a Reason"
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Creek, Mich. Read The Road to Well
ville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? Anew
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-30
Attemps to Wreck Car,

Sheboygan, Wis, Sept 24.-An at
tempt was made to wreck one of the
large Milwaukee-Northern cars near
Cedar Grove. John Hutchinson, a
farmer residing near there, is charged
with having thrown a railroad tie in
front of the car. There was a num-
Der of people on the car, including
General Manager Walker. The car
struck the tie but was not derailed.
Hutchinson was seen to throw the tie
and he was placed under arrest. A
son of Hutchinson was arrested
charged with putting sandbag on
the track.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-30

good will. To reproduce the plant on
account of increased cost of material
will take S172 600.
interstate Commerce Commission
ers Cockerell, Lane, and Judge Glenn
ments will take up the complaint Of
the merchants of Georgia and Alaba-
ma against increased freight rates
recently made by railroads east of the
Missouri river into the southeastern
territory
Richland county has nine cream
cries and f1fty-two cheese factories
which are supplied by $50 and A.
179 cows respectively. A total Of 3d.
264 pounds of butter and 6,208,934
pounds of cheese were produced the
last fiscal year. In addition there
were 1882 ponds of butter pro-
duced on the farms.
It is rumored among railroad en-
ployes of the Illinois Central road
that the gasoline motor car, which
has been making daily trips between
Freeport and Madison, is to be re-
placed by steam train. The passen-
ger traffic has been exceptionally
good on the branch and the officials,
it is said, are about to put On the
steam train again
The wage dispute between the en-
ployers and the cotton operatives at
Manchester, England, has not
reached a settlement and it is now
certain that a majority of the mills
will not open The card combiners
are still in consultation, but no COM
munication passed between them and
the employers federation.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-30
Library Association EIec.s.

Green Bay, Wis, Sept. 24.-Miss
Pleasant of Menasha was elected
president of the Fox River Valley Ii.
brary association at the business SEES
sion of the convention. M. ]. Macs of
Depere was elected vice president,
Miss Dwight, Appleton, was made
secretary and Miss Dobb of Fond du
Lac, was chosen treasurer. Miss L.
E. Stearns of the state library com
mission spoke on the subject of the
problem of recent fiction.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-30

taken to the home of a friend, John
Muldoon, and later was conveyed to
the hospital.
DR.. John F. Ward, the family physi
clan, was summoned to Chicago, and
his family have been at his bedside
for the past two days. Mr. Ryans
received word that his illness is re-
garded as serious, although the
physicians are hopeful for his recov-
cry
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-30
FOREIGN.

| Three hundred and i've cases and
115 deaths from the Asiatic cholera
were reported for twenty-four hours.
Eight policemen were sentenced to
six years penal servitude for beating
prisoner to death at Melitop, Rus
STA.
Count Leo Tolstoi has been elected
to honorary membership in the fac
ulty of the University Of St. Peters
burg.
The newspapers of Lisbon declare
that King Manuel is arranging to con-
tract a marriage with an English
princess.
A violent earthquake shock
experienced in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
caused a great panic among the peo-
pie, but there was no loss of life.
Guayaquil Ecuador, is very much
excited over the discovery of two de-
falcations on the part of men we'll
known in banking circles and that
amount together to $250,000.
Miss Annie Peck, the American
mountain climber who recently sue
ceeded in reaching the summit of
Mount Huascaran, has arrived at
Lima, Peru. She will proceed to
Cuzco.
Several of the st. Petersburg news
papers print report that John w.
Riddle, the American ambassador to
Russia, is about to retire on account
oh his health. Mr. Riddle denied this
report.
The report is published in Paris
that Prince Miguel of Braganza, the
eldest son of Dom Miguel, the pre-
tender to the throne of Portugal, was
recently secretly married to Mrs.
Samuel Sloan Chauncey, a rich Amer
lean widow.
The engagement is announced of
Ivan Shipoff, the Russian minister of
commerce, to Mile. Kropotovoi, the
daughter of noble, though not
wealthy Russian family. M. Shipoff
was a delegate to the Portsmouth
peace conference.
A dispatch from Teheran says that
the shah has replied to the anglo
Russian note, but it is understood
that his answer is not satisfactory 1t
practically amounts to a refusal to
review the constitution until Azerbal-
jan province is subdued.
The pope received in audience
seventy sailors from the American
battleships Maine and Alabama that
are at Naples. The pontif expressed
pleasure at their smart appearance.
Each of the men kissed the pope's
ring and received from him medal.
Anti-German demonstrations, in
which a large body of Slavonians
have been taking part, eliminated in
an attack upon the Vienna police, who
were made the targets for stones,
glasses and other missiles. Finally
the police fired a volley, killing two
of the rioters and wounding four.
AS a mark of their disapproval at
being called out at night to repeat an
evolution which had been improperly
performed, the crew of the British
cruiser Gibraltar destroyed all the
gun boats on board AS a punishment,
smoking and the use of the canteen
have been stopped until the culprits
are discovered.
The Cienfuegos, Cuba, council has
notified Governor Magoon that it has
appealed to the supreme court against
the action of President Roosevelt &C
cording to which Cienfugos is re-
ouired to pay three-ffths of the cost
of the Cienfugos sewers, the contract
for which was awarded to Hugh J.
Reilly of New York The appeal IS
based on the ground that the city has
not been given supervision of the
work.
TRAGEDIES.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-30
RAIL ROADS BEAT
BACK FLAMES
RIGHT OF WAY OF DUBNAR &
WAUSAUKEE LINE
THREATENED.
CONGREGATIONS SPRING UP
AFRESH IN COPPER
COUNTRY.

Wausaukee, Wis, Sept 24.-Dan-
gerous fires are burning in the west
ern part of Marinette county. At
Stephenson, u miles southwest of
here, the schoolhouse was burned,
and the farm buildings of S. N. Fla
WON ON the Milwaukee road below
this town were destroyed. The rail-
roads are experiencing difficulty in
protecting their property, and pilots
have ben sent out before trains on
the Dunbar & Wausaukee railroad to
report the burning of ties and the
spreading of rails.
A lumber camp at Lond Spur was
abandoned by the loggers and the
camp supplies buried to prevent their
destruction. The N. Ludington COM
pany will be a heavy loser on cut
timber. While a freight train on the
Wisconsin & Northwestern railroad
was passing Lond Spur car load Of
logs caught fire and the crew was
forced to unload the lumber to save
the rest of the train.
Merrill, Wis. Sept. 24.-At Coombs'
Station five miles south of here, the
farm buildings belonging to Frank
Oldenburg, Anton Richter and Allen
Williams were reported burned, to-
gether with a total loss of the stock
on the farms Thomas Johnson Of
tbs city lost $500 worth of hem
lock bark
Escanaba, Mich, Sept. PA shift
in the wind saved the village of Bark
River from destruction and the fire is
now held in check a block from the
outskirts.
Marshfeld, Wis, Sept 24.-Imme-
diate danger from fire in this city
is past. The wind has died down and
the fires which were burning fierce
ly on the outskirts a few days ago
have been beaten back and are under
control
Calumet, Mich, Sept 24.-Forest
fires are now raging in Keweenaw
county worse than ever before. Re
ports brought to Calumet say that
the Long Swamp is roaring mass
of flames and the fire completely sur
rounds Seneca lake. The fire is with
in short distance of thirty new
dwellings erected recently at Allouez
by the Calumet & Hecla company.
Ashland Wis, Sept. PA slight
rain fell, the first in nearly two
checking the forest fires. A
big fire south of Ashland attracted
general attention.
Rain to Quench Fires.
Washington, D. c., Sept. 24.-The
forest fires in various parts of the
country are being watched carefully
by the government. The forestry
service has already made arrange
ments for complete report from an
agent sent to personally investigate
the situation in the northwest, and
the officials of that bureau are pay
ing close attention to unofficial re-
ports as to the spread of the fires
all along the line. The weather bu-
reau predicted that there probably
will be a copious rainfall about the
latter part of the week in the Mis-
sissippi valley region.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-30
T. E. RYAN IN DANGER.
Democratic National Committeeman
Taken Sick in Chicago.

Waukesha, Wis, Sept. 24-Nation-
al Democratic Committeeman limo
thy E. Ryan is seriously i'll at the
west side hospital in Chicago and his
wife and daughter, Margaret, have
been called there in response to
message from the attending physi-
cion
business trip to British Columbia,
when he was taken i'll on the train.
Upon his arrival in Chicago, he was
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-30
Telegrams Condensed
WISCONSIN WAITS.


over the discovery of iron ore near
there
Albert Johnson of Neenah was fined
$25 on conviction of operating an I'M
sanitary dairy.
William Kockon of Kimberly acct
dentally SHIT himself in the foot while
hunting squirrels.
The Charles Hickman elevator at
Welcome was burned to the ground,
entaiIing a loss of about $4,000. No
insurance was carried.
John J. Myle, advance man for
theatrical company, was bitten by a
spider at Kenosha and blood poison
resulted
Six hours after their first meeting
Oscar Birkett and Lottie James, both
of Hazel Green, were married at
Waterloo, Ia.
Alexander Martin has been appoint
ed postmaster at Middle Inlet, Mari
nette county, vice E. w. Dropp, re-
signed.
Frank Klein, a bricklayer employed
on the new Polish school at Amigo,
fell a distance of thirty feet and in
jured his back.
Josephine Klapfenstine, aged So
years, was married to Cassie Newhart,
aged 20 years, by a justice of the
peace at GAINESVILLE.
A consignment of 10000 black bass
fry has been brought to Oshkosh in
Do n nj
in Lake Winnebago.
H. C. Wilson, a pioneer farmer
south of Dane county, was accident
ally shot in the hand by two boys who
were hunting near his pasture.
st. Anthony's Catholic school at
Wausau erected at a cost of $4,000,
was dedicated by Bishop Schwebach,
who made the principal address.
A ban has been placed on cigar
cites by the Modern Woodmen of
Fond du Lac. No cigarette smoking
will be allowed in the Woodman Hall.
Four watches, the property of John
Nevers. of Marinette, were stolen
from the cash register in his saloon
while the bartender had stepped out
for minute.
T. L. Brown is hunting rattlesnakes
in la Crosse county for the bounty
He has already collected SIS on the
thirty-six dead ones, which he brought
to the county clerk
LLOYD Leib, 15-year-old Amigo
boy. is in Waterloo, Ia, undergoing
medical attention. Young Leib was
found i'll in box car while making
his way home from Hutchinson, Kas.
The Chippewa Falls police were
asked to assist in locating John Mes
sett. aged Is years, whose home is IN
BIoomer. His parents fear he mas
been kidnapped or has met with foul
play
Another effort is being made to
start = democratic daily newspaper
at Menasha. C. E. Cake and John
Shane of Chicago conferred with
democrats who have collected SZ'0Oo
to finance the paper.
In the United States court at Eau
Claire the case against Barber ana
Moon before Commissioner McBain !
was continued to Sept. "a. Commls-
sioner McBain received a telegram
from Boise, Idaho, requesting the
delay.
The resignation of Police CHER
Owen O'Hara of Kenosha has been
demanded by one of the city Officials
and it is said charges against 0 Hare
have been made with one of the mem
bers of the police and fire commls-
sioners.
Albert Rettmann, farmer living
about six miles northwest Of Cedar
burg while at the fair, was kicked IN
the face by colt which he had eX-
hibited. and died a few hours later
after having been removed to his
home.