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The San Francisco call., 1908-05-29
RIFLEMEN NOT TO CoMPETE

WASHINGTON, May 28 = James
Drain, president OF the national rife
association of America announces that
the team of rif1emen to represent the
United States in the Olympic games to
be held in England July 8, 10 and IL,
will not be sent owing to the refusal
OF the British Olympic council to ex-
tend the time for submitting Individual
to June IL.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-29
KILLED BY PLUNGE OF AUTO

SEATTLE, May 2S.-Mrs. Amanda
Ottolenguy of New York city was killed
when an automobile carrying seven
people fell over the embankment on
Magnolia bluff last night and landed
on its back with every member of the
party underneath. Vera Brace, a IL
year old girl, was the only witness of
the accident and ran quarters of
a mile to Interbay for help.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-29
CONCERT IS ANNouNcrn

BERKELEY, May 2S.-An evening of
music will be given by the United
Swedish singers in the Allston way
rink building tomorrow night under
the auspices of the College avenue
Methodist Episcopal church. Soloists
of Berkeley and Oakland, who will
augment the singing society at the
concert. are as follows: Miss Marion
Howard Fitton, Miss Lillian Malcolm.
Mrs. J. Rollin Fitch of Hughes club
and contralto soloist at the College
avenue church.; Mrs. Robert Hughes of
the Hughes club, and Master Donald
Cameron.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-29
VETERANS FUNERAL HELD

Thomas brennan, a veteran or the
civil war, was held from his late home
4130 San Pablo avenue. today. with in
terment at Mountain View Cemetery.
brennan died Monday evening after an
Illness of a few weeks. He leaves two
sons and four daughters, DIR. Arthur
brennan. John brennan and Anna
Alyce. Mary and Kate brennan
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-29
DIPLOMATS WILL MOVE

TOKYO, May 2S-The official an
nouncement of recent diplomatic ap-
pointments is expected tomorrow.
Baron Chinda, vice minister of the for
eign office, will be ambassador to Ber-
lin; Viscount Hayashi. minister of for
eign affairs, ambassador to Rome, and
Baron Ijuin. formerly vice admiral, am
bassador to Peking. Baron Ishu, now
chief of the bureau Of commerce of
the foreign office, will be appointed
vice minister of the foreign office as
successor of Baron Chinda.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-29
wRIGHT DENIEs REpoRT

MEMPHIS. Tenn, May 28.-General
Luke E. Wright, whose name has been
suggested for secretary of war, stated
to an Associated Press representative
today that he had no information on
the subject whatever and that it was
highly improbable that his name would
be considered for position of which
he absolutely knew nothing.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-29
pERsIANs WOUND RUSSIAN

ST. PETERSBURG, May 2S-Dis-
patches from Teheran received at the
foreign office tonight state that an
armed attack was made on the official
residence in that city on the RUSSIA,
financial agent, NJ. Ostrogradski, at 3
a. m. and that he was dangerously
wounded
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-29
DIES AT BROTHERS HOME

ALAMEDA. May 2S.-John Camp
bell. who came here a few days ago
from Bakersfield. died yesterday at the
residence OF his brother. Bernard
Campbell. S015 Central avenue He
was a native OF Michigan. aged SIS. the
husband OF Mary Campbell. and the
father OF Mrs John Dumont. Mrs Hell
en- Jerome. Miss Gertrude Campbell.
John NJ and Kenneth Campbell
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-29
TITUS ESTATE APPRAISED

OAKLAND. May 2s.-The estate of
John Titus. whom Robert e. Curtin
killed on October 8 OF last year, has
been appraised at $4,000 1t consisted
of a personal note against J. e David
son. Curtin has commenced serving a.
life term for the murder. having been
recently convicted by a jury
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-29
GREEK ISLANDERS REVOLT

CONSTANT1NOPLE,M May 2s.-The in
habitants of Samos, a Greek island off
the west coast of Asia Minor, are in
revolt against the prince of Samos and
the governor of the island. Fighting
tai. for the past three days and there
are numerous victims Of the encoun-
ters.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-29
SUFFRAGE LEAGUE TO MEET

OAKLAND, May 2s.-The suffrage
amendment league will meet Friday
evening at the children's room of the
public library. Mrs. r. M Ray will be
installed as president. H. A. Walker
will deliver an address on a proposed
new charter for Oakland.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-29
NINE FooT SHEET BILL A Law

GUTHRIE, Okla, May Ex-Governor
Haskell today signed the famous hotel
inspection bill commonly known as the
nine foot sheet" bill, because of the
provision that the upper sheet in all
hotel beds must be long enough to turn
back two and q half feet over the other
covers
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-29
Luther Burbank

Luther Burbank and his new en-
vironment, by p. j. Wickson of the
University OF California. is the title
OF an article IN the June Sunset dealing
withs the wizards success with the
spineless cactus and his work under the
patronage of the Carnegie Institute
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-29
sCAREs AWAY BURGL.R

OAKLAND, May 2S.-victor Nc
Carthy of 4166 Montgomery street,
hearing a noise at his front door early
this morning. threw the door open
and saw a masked burglar STOPPING at
the lock. The intruder ran.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-29
AUTHOR CoMMITs SUICIDE

WASHINGTON. May 2s.-Mrs. Mary Hinton
formerly OF Dondon- England once a frequent
contributor to English and American magazines.
committed suicide at her home here early today
BIZ asphyxiation. She was IS years old.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-29

Australia's largest cattle herd is that
running on the Victoria river station,
northern territory, 500 miles south Of
Port Darwin. It numbers $4,000 head.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-15
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Government regulation of the meat in
dustries will be hailed as dear TO the
packers heart at the coming meeting of
the American Meat Packers Association.
which is to be held at the Grand Pacific
hotel in Chicago. Fullest cooperation be.
tween packers and government in order to
hold up the grade of meat will be urged
and the federal inspection act will be
called boon to packer as well as public
in the papers that are to be read.
If the recommendations adopted at the
twelfth annual meeting of the interstate
association of live stock boards, at its
concluding session in Washington. are
approved by Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson, the federal quarantine reguIa.
tons for preventing the spread of the
Texas or tick" fever in cattle in certain
Southern States will be raised next year
Cattle in certain areas in the States I'M
der quarantine are said to be entirely free
from the Texas fever.
John Barke, a prosperous farmer liv-
ing near Henderson, Mimi, has the cham
pion COW of his section. This bovine
gave birth to three calves. They are all
heifers and give promise of doing well.
An unknown incendiary set fire to and
burned four settings of grain belonging
to J. NJ. Buckley, and those belonging
to P. Eieff of Morris. MINI. About
week ago some party set fire to Edmond
Barry's granary in the same neighbor-
hood and although the building was de-
stroyed, some of the grain was saved
There was no insurance in any of the
cases.
4 new class for draft horses has been
added to the premium list of the Mime
sofa State fair, for the purpose of recog-
niZing high-class draft horses of various
kinds. The horses entered in these classes
were exhibited each evening in the horse
show and hippodrome in the live stock
pavilion.
The interstate association of live stock
sanitary boards has elected these officers
President, W. II. Dalrymple. Baton
Rouge, La; vice president, S. B. Nelson.
Pullman, Wash: secretary, Charles E.
Cotton, Minneapolis. Measures were
adopted for the extinction Of tuberculosis
among cattle.
1t is understood that the three trans
continental lines running into St. Paul
will put in a tariff on wool which will
allow storage at the Minnesota trans
fer in transit. This will virtually make
St Paul a wool market, since it is prob
ably the object of wool growers to compel
eastern manufacturers to come West to
do their buying instead of patronizirg
Boston and Philadelphia markets. 1t is
estimated that between ten and fifteen
of H. -
the Central warehouse this season..
''Bill'' Hatfield, who is in the Grayson
county Jail, Texas, was identified as
James c. Durham, who is wanted at San
Jose, Cal, for the murder of six people.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-15
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The Disastrous Drouth.

This year will be memorable for one of
the most extensive and damaging droushts
the North American continent has ever
experienced. How great a loss it has in
ficted upon all sections of this country
and a large area of Canada is impossible
to say, but it is Of enormous proportions.
Forest fires due TO drought are said to
be the most destructive in twenty-five
years. They have ravaged the southern
part of Canada. New York. Maine Wis
consin, Michigan. Minnesota. and as far
south as Pennsylvania. The loss from
this source is probably not less than
100000. Scarcity of timber makes
the seriousness of this loss hard to over
estimate. 1t will undoubtedly cause an
advance in the price of lumber and may
check building operations all over the
country.
The drought has left Lake Champlain
eight feet below high-water mark and the
Ohio river is fordable where the water
is usually thirty feet deep. A number of
cities are threatened with lack of water
for fire protection and mills and factories
using water power have been compelled to
shut down.
The government has sent experts to
study the causes of forest fires with a
view to prevention. Catching flood wat
ers in reservoirs for use when needed is
now done to some extent. The present
disastrous experience with widespread
drought justifes careful consideration of
all suggestions for safeguards against a
repetition of this years devastation
Chicago Journal,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-15
WANTED TO KNOW

The Truth About Grape-Nuts Food.
1t doesn't matter so much what you
hear about a thing, it's what you know
that counts. And correct knowledge
is most likely to come from personal
experience.
About a year ago." writes a n. Y
man, II was bothered by indigestion
especially during the forenoon. l tried
several remedies without any perma-
nent Improvement.
my breakfast usually consisted of
oatmeal, steak or chops, bread, coffee
and some fruit.
Hearing SO much about Grape-Nuts,
1 concluded to give it a trial and find
out if all had heard of it was true.
80 1 began with Grape-Nuts and
cream, 2 soft boiled eggs, toast, cup of
Postum and some fruit. Before the end
of the first week l was rid of the acid
ity of the stomach and felt much re-
lieved.
BY the end Of the second week ali
traces of indigestion had disappeared
and 1 was in first rate health once
more. Before beginning this course Of
diet, never had any appetite for
lunch, but now l can enjoy a hearty
meal at noon time" There's a Rea-
SON.
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Greek. MICH. Read, 1.-The Road to Well
Vile" in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time.
They are genuine, true, and full OF
human interest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-15
The Campaign.

One of the new methods of stimulating
popular interest in the presidential cam
paign is the distribution of photograph
records of speeches by the leading candi-
dates Hundreds of thousands of voters
may thus hear the voice of the party nom
inees, even though they may see only a
picture of the men themselves.
At the same time, the number of sal
aried campaign speakers is much smalle,
than in former years. Those who talk
are expected to give their time to the.z
party because of their belief in its prin.
ciples.
Political campaigns are quieter and
more business like than they used to be
The speeches of the candidates are re,
ported in the press, and the voter thinks
the questions out at home. The political
rally does not attract generation OF
newspaper readers as it aroused their
fathers in the old days when talk was
cheaper than print.
Yet the voice of a man of conviction
the living words of a great leader, will al
ways be a power. There is magic in the
personal contact of the politician with the
voter and political speeches can never &C
wholly out of fashion. Even the phono.
graphic reproductions, interesting and vaf
liable as they are, will not quite take the
place of the real thing. But people are
getting too intelligent to have their con.
victions swayed by ''sp2llbinders," who
receive fifty dollars night for their eff
forts to save the nation from disgrace.
If lively campaign is known by tho
amount of shouting and eloquence, per.
haps we shall never have another one. The
vitality of political contest depends or
the interest the people take in it. and theil
interest may be intense although they sill
at home and say not word until the time
comes-Y ouths Companion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-15
Fipbfirp Formosnn Tribes,

Several weeks ago ten communities
of the Narrow aboriginal tribe in the
Giran province of FOrmosa proposed
to the government to submit, says the
South China Post. Upon this the gov
eminent gave them the following items
of conditions under which the govern
ment was disposed to admit their sub
mission:
l. The aborigines concerned should
hand over to the government those
skulls which had been cut off the bodies
of the other tribes whom they killed
and are keeping i'll their houses, ac-
cording to their habits.
2 Their arms and ammunition
should all be surrendered to the gov
ernment
The aborigines agree to the former
condition, but many of them objected
to the latter, and thereupen they gave
up the idea of submission. Since then
they are again offering resistance
against the government troops, appear
ing here and there in the vicinity of
the Aiyu line Ga guard line establish
ed by the government against the I'M
subjugated aborigines), but the gov
eminent troops having finished the con-
struction of their guardhouses, tele-
phone lines and wire entanglements,
and thus almost attained their object,
are now chiefly paying attention to
their guard service, attaching less i'm
portance to their submission.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-15
The Corn Crop.

The yield of corn this year will prob
ably be somewhat larger than that of last
year. The drought following the month
or two of heavy rains in the corn belt
cut deeply into the promised harvest, the
reduction in the prospective yield in the
month Of August being 122, 100000 bush
els.
Illinois, which produces more corn than
any other State, was the greatest sufferer,
the depreciation being 10 points. In
Indiana the falling off was &C points,
and in Kansas g.. Ohio, where climatic
conditions were fairly close to being per-
feet for grain raising. showed only a
slight loss in the conditions. Missouri,
Texas, Oklahoma and Iowa also reported
a small dropping off in prospects in the
month of August Nebraska is said to
have actually made gains.
The corn crop of 1907 was 2.592,320,-
600 bushels with an acreage of 9S,099,O00
The area under this grain this year is
estimated at 1O0.996 900 acres. The con-
ditions on the first of September were
1913 as compared with SOC on the same
date in 1907. Considering all these fig
ures the yield will be more than three
billion bushels. The frosts are still to
be reckoned with before the final figures
are written.-Toledo Blade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-15
TELEGRAPHING TYPEWRITERS.
New Instrument Sends and Receives
Without Making Mistakes.

New Instrument Sends and Receives
Without Making Mistakes.
The latest device in telegraph is Il
telegraphing typewriter. 1t can be at
tached to and placed under any ordin-
airy typewriter, says the Electrical
World. When so connected it becomes
complete sending and receiving tele-
graph instrument, and both sending
and receiving Instruments record the
message.
The only experience required is that
of an operator working a typewriter.
The message is sent in the same man
ner in which you would proceed to
write a letter on an ordinary type
writer. This same message will be re-
ceived on the receiving typewriter ex-
actly as it appears on the sending one
In some respects it resembles the
familiar stock ticker and other print
ing telegraph instruments, but unlike
these it makes possible the use of CAPT
tai and small letters as in ordinary
letter writing. The receiving machine
records the message just as written
and gives what corresponds to a carbon
copy made on the original machine.
There is said to be no chance for
mistakes. The machine takes down the
message just as sent. There is no hui
man receiver to make a mistake by
faulty hearing orcarelessness or neglect,
as is the case with the present Morse
system of dots and daShes in use all
over the world.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-15
The Rich Turkish Beggnr.

Beggars are never suppressed i'll Tur
key. The story is told (and they sey
it is true) about an American lady who
by mistake gave Il beggar of CONSTANT
nople Il goldpiece. The man had left
his post when she returned, but ont
of his colleagues told her where hi
resided" 1t was a fine house, anC
ly informed the lady that my master
is dressing He will be down soon.
And then the well groomed beggar
dressed for dinner, appeared and glad
ly returned the gold piece, exclaiming
in the meanwhile that such mistakes
were highly embarrassing.-"CharitieS
and Commons"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-15
NUBBINS OF NEWS.

George L. Glunt, superintendent of the
mill of the Carnegie Steel Company at
Hampstead. Pa. has resigned his $4,000
position to enter the ministry. He has
! been admitted to the Western Theological
seminary, Pittsburg.
BY the will of the late Henry J. Bra
college of Boston. Over S1.5OO.OOO goes
to the foundation of home for the aged
and other sums to various charities. The
Tufts bequest is to found a chair in COM
mercial and financial education.
Director H Newell of the United
States reclamation service sailed for Ha-
wall to investigate reclamation work there
with a view of opening up a larger field
for white laborers.
Suit for the recovery of 100000 da M
ages. alleged to have been sustained be-
cause of boycott, has been begun against
the United Hatters of America by D. Z.
Loewe & Co. of Danbury, Conn.
Pictures of John Hatfield are said to
resemble James c. Durham, who muir
dered the Mckinney family at Los An
geles, Cal. twelve years ago. and an Off
Ger will be sent to Sherman, Texas, to
identify or clear Hatfield.
Delegates from sixteen countries are at
tending the International Moral Educa-
ton Congress in session at London, Eng
land, and six governments are represented
| officially. The head of the British De-
partment of Education presides and NJ.
Bourgeois of France is chairman of the
general committee. Among the more
| prominent American delegates are Felix
Adler and Booker I. Washington. The
object is to permeate every lesson with
the moral idea. Thus history is to be-
come a lesson in moral experience. In
geography the idea is to have the contribu-
tons of the different nations so inter-
| preted as to show the unity of world In
terests.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-15
GIRL WAS DELIRIOUS
With Fearful Eczema-Pain, Heat,
and Ting1ing Were ExcruciaGing-
Cuficura Acted Like Magic.

can eruption broke out on my daugh-
ter's chest. | took her to a doctor,
and he pronounced it to be eczema of a
very bad form. He treated her, but
the disease spread to her back, and
then the whole of her head was affect
ed, and all her hair had to be cut off.
The pain she suffered was excruciat-
ing, and with that and the heat and
tingling her life was almost unbearable.
Occasionally she was delirious and she
did not have a proper hours sleep for
many nights. The second doctor we
tried afforded her just as little relief as
the first. Then l purchased Cuticura
Soap, Ointment and Pills, and before
the Ointment was three-quarters fin
ished every trace of the disease was
gone. It really seemed like magic. Mrs.
T. w. Hyde, Brentwood, Essex, Eng
land, Mar. s, 1907"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-15
Explained at Last.

"The late DR.. Morgan Dix" said a
clergyman of New York, had a drol
way of tightening grave subjects with
little humorous asides. Once | heard
him addressing graduating class at Il
medical school. He began in this way
" Psychologists tell US. gentlemen. that
the older a man grows the smaller his
brain becomes. This explains why the
old man knows nothing and the young
one everything
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-15
Force of Storm Waves

The average storm wave is thirty
feet in height. The highest storm
waves ever measured were between
forty-four and forty-eight feet high.
The gigantic force of storm waves is
shown by the fact that at Skerryvore
lighthouse, of the west coast of Scot
land, a mass of rock weighing five and
a half tons was once hurled to height
of seventy-two feet above the sea level,
While a mass weighing thirteen and a
half tons was torn from a cliff seventy
four feet high.-Pall Mall Gazette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-15

Mifkins (to Piffer)-She's stunning
be stuck on her. But don't mention
laundry or anything like that! Her
grandmother was washwoman.
Piffer Cater, to the lady in question:
as he relates a stOry)-Yes, indeed! l
can tell you, it took the starch-beg
pardon. the nerve-right out of me-
ifn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-15
Scaling Down.

The painters and decorators were about
to begin work in tAe professors study,
and the professor, being unwilling to
trust the handling of his books and pa
pers to anybody else. was removing them
into another room himself
I'm only three-fourths of the man l
used to be-" he muttered. when | was
young man l was a reporter, and now
/ am only n porter
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-15
PERUNA ADVISED FOR
SUDDEN COLDS.
1t Should be Taken According to Directions
on the Bottle, at the First APP
pearanCe Of the Cold.

ST. JOSEPH, MICH, Sept, 1901.-Last
winter | caught a sudden cold which
developed into an unpleasant ca
farrh of the head and throat, deprivlng
me of my appetite and usual good spirits.
A friend who had been cured by Peruna
advised me to try it and l sent for
bottle at once, and | am glad to say that
in three days the phlegm had loosened,
and ! felt better, my appetite returned
and within nine days l was in my
usual good health.
Miss Helen Sauetbier.
Peruna is an old and well tried remedy
for colds. No woman should be with
out il.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-15
HOW'S Ibis ?

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any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
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any obligations made by his firm
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Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent
free Price IS cents per bottle Sold by
all Druggists
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.