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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
LIQUID METAL KILLS.
Fifty Tons of 1t SpInshes Over
Heads of Workmen.

A dozen men were burned, one of whom
has since died, in q terrific explosion of
steel at the Monongahela blast furnace of
the National Tube Company in McKees-
port, Pa. The huge steel-plated furnace,
100 feet in height, burst at the tap-hole
and fifty tons of liquid metal dropped to
the floor, accompanied by explosions as
it spread and splashed over the heads
and bodies of the work men near by. A
slip in the furnace caused hundreds of
tons of iron ore, coke and limestone to
drop to the bottom, forcing the heavy
steel plates apart. The men ran, but the
metal splashed into the air when it struck
the cold floor, and the detonations broke
all the windows in the plant and for a
radius of two squares, causing intense
excitement in the town.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
Big Car Plants to Close.

Because of a lack of orders from rail-
road companies, the plants of the Ameri-
can Car and Foundry Company at Madi-
son. ILL.,, and various Missouri, New York.
Indiana, and Pennsylvania towns, en-
ploying 10000 men in all, will be shut
down, according to the statement of an
official.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
=. Five Killed in ExnIosion

Five persons are believed to have been
killed by the explosion of mixer in the
starch factory of c. S. Tanner, in Provi-
dence, r. l. Three other persons were
injured Their condition is not regarded
as serious The building was badly
wrecked by the explosion and fire fol-
lowing completed the work of destruc-
ton. The loss was 100000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
U. S. AFTER EXPRESS COMPANY.
American Sued on Charge of Carry
ing MaiI-Basis of Action.


ing MaiI-Basis of Action.
The opening gun in the campaign
against common carriers for alleged vio-
lation of the mail laws in carrying first
class mail matter without postage was
fired in Cincinnati when District Attor-
ney Sherman Mcpherson filed a suit in
the federal court against the American
Express Company. The complaint is bas-
ed on a transaction between Mrs. Will
Brown of Bolton, Texas, and the Hop
kins Glove Company of Cincinnati. Ac-
cording to information furnished by post
Office inspectors, Mrs. Brown sent an or
der to the glove dealers for gloves and
Enclosed an express money order in pay
ment. This letter, it is charged, was car
ried by the express company without post
age affixed, and as it did not relate to any
of the express company's business the
district attorney maintains the action of
the express company constitutes a viola
tion of the postal regulations. The pen
altv for such violation is $500.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
sign Treaty of Admiration.

Secretary Root and Ambassador JUS
serand have signed treaty in Washing
ton providing for the arbitration of any
issue that may arise between France and
America. The treaty will have to be sub
mitted to the American Senate and to
the French executive before it can become
effective. Meanwhile it's provisions are
withheld from publication.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
THEFT OF $4,000 is MYSTERY.

Tin Box with Bonds and Securities
Taken from Minneapolis Man.
A tin box, containing bonds and other
securities valued at $4,000 and personal
property of Daniel G. Hopkins, vice pres
ident of the Hopkins Land Company. has
disappeared from his office in the Metro
politan Life Insurance building in Min
neapolis. The police are trying to solve
the mystery and seem to be baffled. They
say the case is one of the most difficult
that the department ever has attempted.
Mr. Hopkins believes the box was stolen
from his desk Friday morning.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20

Fortunately for him, in the present
disturbed condition of affairs England
is bound by treaty not only to prevent
an invasion of his country but to main
tain the present dynasty on the throne.
Any effort, therefore, to place a pre-
tender in his place would lead to arm
ed Intervention on the part of Great
Britain
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
Chm ffeur Guilty in Killing

Chauffeur Jesse Watson was sentenced
in St. Louis TO one year in Jail and fined
1900 for killing little Christine Musick,
who was struck by Watson's automobile
last October. Watson was in the employ
of Clay Arthur Pierce, son of Henry Clay
Pierce chairman of the board of the
Waters Pierce Oil Company. Testimony
during the trial was to the effect that the
automobile was running between forty
Ave and fifty miles an hour.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
YOUNG KING OF PORTUGAL.
Manuel II, at Age of Eighteen Takes
His Murdered Fathers Place.

HAdhSC4 -, at 1AS e VI I1S1LCCll dhCS
His Murdered Fathers Place.
Very Unexpectedly a boy of IS is
raised TO the responsibilities of King of
Portugal. Young Prince Manuel natur-
ally felt that the burdens and dignity
of that high place were far removed
from him. His royal father was in
the prime of life and his elder brother
stood between him and succession. But
the bullets of the assassins removed
the King and the crown prince in a
twinkling and upon an unframed boy
develops the tremendous duties and
cares of Kingship.
Manuel IL, who was proclaimed
King the morning after his fathers
death, has served his country in the
navy. He is a blonde, tall, well edu-
Gated and considered good-looking. He
is said to possess the qualities which
go toward making a determined ruler.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20

The Mare Island navy yard, San Fran
cisco. is infested by thousands of rats. AS
it is known that they are spreaders of
disease. board was recently appointed
10 investigate the situation. The board
was recently appointed to investigate the
situation. The board has reported recon-
mending preliminary expenditure of
$4,000 which is to provide means for
getting rid of the pest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
Fleet Goes Through Magellan.

The American fleet has passed un-
scathed through the dangers of the Ma
gellan "Narrows.' The vessels hardly
lost the stately formation of parade while
steaming under quarter speed through
the most treacherous water passage in
the Southern Hemisphere. And this de-
spite bitter. squally gale, that whistled
through the crags and precipices.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
Troops to watch Strike.

BY order of the President, Acting Sec
rotary Oliver has sent a company of in
fantry from Fort Gibbon, Alaska. to
Fairbanks. in that territory, to preserve
order during the miners strike This ac-
iion was taken upon representations from
the United States Court in Alaska to the
Attorney General that the presence of
federal troops was needed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
Kills Himself with Scissors.

Two hours after he was taken to the
county hospital in Chicago suffering from
pneumonia, William Andrews, cook.
committed suicide during the absence of
the nurse from the dressing-room. He
snatched pair of scissors that hung on
a nail in the room and jabbed the long,
sharp blade into his neck severipg the
iugular yein
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
CANADA SPLIT BY JAP ROW.
Dominion Government to Kill Law
of Province.

The fight between the dominion and
provincial governments over the question
of japanese exclusion has reached a crisis
in Vancouver b. G. The federal govern
ment has announced that it will disallow
the Natal act just passed by the Legisla-
ture of British Columbia. This act pro-
vides an educational test for all immi-
grants. 1t must remain in force ten days
before cancellation. Meantime the fed
eral governments lawyers in Vancouver
have been instructed to obtain the admit
lance of all japanese held by the provin-
cial enactment, by applying habeas cor
pus proceedings in the courts The OF
fawa government has advised the EN-
peror of Japan that the rights of Jap
anese coming to British Columbia will be
fully protected. If the provincial govern
ment fails to keep out the japanese by
reason of federal interference, working
men may make another demonstration
against the orientals.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
GOAL Oil Johnny Is Dead.

John Ward, once known throughout the
country as Coal Oil Johnny" died in
Crookston. Mimi, Friday. the cause of
death being excessive alcoholism. At one
time he was wealthy. For the past eigh-
teen years he had lived in Crookston.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
Exiled by Fear of Black Hand.

Antonio de Salvo, wealthy Italian
contractor, who was three times made the
victim of an attack by the Black Hand,
left Pottsville. Pa, the other night for
New York, from which port he sailed for
Italy, leaving his extensive interests to
be disposed of by local agent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20

From the kick of horse, received
over a week ago, in Lead. S. D., George
W. Glover, son of Mrs. Mary Baker, G.
Eddy, the Christian Science leader. is
suffering with paralysis of one leg that
threatens to become permanent. Glover
is man past middle age. but has always
been very active.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
Cnnfnfu fuSf Serve Decade

Captain William II. Van Schaick of
the excursion steamship General Slocum,
which was burned on June 10, 1904, in
East river with loss of about 1000
lives, must serve ten years in prison, his
sentence having been affirmed by the
United States Circuit Court of Appeals.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
DAVIS NOT TO MARRY.
Family Opposes Union Of Aged Mil
Eouaire and Miss Ashford

IIOudITG ana MISS ASntOTQ.
Miss Maud Ashford will not become
the wife of former Senator Henry Gas
saway Davis. the northumberland
West Yirginian and father-in-law of
Senator Stephen B. E9kins of that
State. The engagement between Miss
Ashford and Mr.. Davis has been brok-
en-, it is stated. There will be no breach
of promise suit, no money settlement by
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
Fire Kills Sleeping Baker,

Charles Cyrane, a journeyman baker.
was burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed the bakery of William III.
Behrles, in Reading, Pa. He slept in the
building and his charred remains were
found in the ruins.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
R,nLrupt Firm Burns ONT

Fire damaged the establishment of the
bankrupt firm of Heath & Milligan and
downtown Chicago choked under the
fumes from burning paints and oils.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
shot hr Ncgrocs FROM Ambush.

Cooper Henderson, a mill owner, and
Sam Culpeper, county convict manager,
were fired on from ambush near Graham's
station. Miss, by three unknown negroes.
Henderson was probably fatally wounded,
while Culpeper received serious injuries.
The negroes escaped.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
Celebrates "Anthrncite', Centennial.

CeIebrates "Anthrncfte Centennia1.
Hundreds of the leading citizens of the
anthracite region attended a public meet
ing in Wilkesbarre, Pa. to commemorate
the fact that just 100 years ago Judge
Jesse Fell Of that city was the first to
burn anthracite coal in the Wyoming val
ley in crate.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
woman slay. Her Children

Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens killed her little
daughter and son in Haverh;ll, Mass,
cutting their threats with a razor. When
arrested Mrs. Stevens, it is said, declared
she thought it was for the best that the
children should die. Mrs. Stevens was at
one time in the asylum for the insane at
Danyers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
shoots Man for EVIL Eye

Alleging that for two years he has been
pursued by the malign telepathic power
of DIR. L. T. Meyers, Edward Power,
merchant, went to the office of the physi-
elan in Columbus Ga. and shot him
twice. making wounds that will cause his
death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
Hurt in Coa.ting Accidents.

Twenty-seven persons were injured, two
probably fatally. in coasting accidents
in Greater Pittsburg the other day, twen-
ty-one of them in one accident on the
north side and FIVE in another in the same
section
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
uu-bes Sbuus Second Term

Gov. Hughes served notice, by public
ufterance. of his fixed determination not
10 succeed himself as Governor of New
York in any circumstances, in a speech
mt the annual dinner of the National
Guard Association in Albany.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
shoots wife; Kills Himself.

Joseph March, bookmaker at the New
Orleans race tracks. shot and fatally
wounded his wife at their boarding house
lie then killed himself. Jealousy is be-
lieved to have been the cause of the ira.
cetly
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
s1s.aa7.1z4 for Chicago schooIu.

The Chicago board of education has
adopted a budget for 1908 amounting to
S13,3o7, ia. including an increase of sal
airy for elementary teachers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
VIII Fight Wheel Tar.

Action to test the validity Of the stat
ute on which the wheel tax ordinance in
Chicago is based has been brought in the
form of an application for a bin for in
junction in behalf of $1,000 owners Of
vehicles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
Finds $500 Gem in Refuse.

NJ. w. Brest, night Waterman at a
Kalamazoo paper mill, found $500 dia-
mond in the refuse from the rag-cleaning
room of the mill.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
Many Bitten by New York Dogs.

New York health authorities admit that
fifty cases cases of hydrophobia are being
treated in that city. This is almost
record for the epidemic of rabies, which
has been on for two years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
Prohibition with. Mi..i..inni.

The Mississippi Senate has passed the
statutory prohibition bill by vote of SO
to L. The bill is effective Dec. 81. The
House passed the measure the previous
week.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20

To Guard flights OF Blue Jackets.
Declaring that years experiment has
been productive of much good, society
known as THE Blue Jackets Friends
gave notice in Boston that it has been
permanently organized and Incorporated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20
IMPLEMENT CONCERN FAILS.
p. p. Mast 6 Co.'s Business Taken
Over by Courts Orders.

Over by Courts Orders.
The firm of P P Mast & Co., agricul-
tural implement manufacturers of Spring
field, Ohio. has been thrown into the
hands of receivers by action begun in the
United States Circuit Court in Cincin-
natl. Howard ID. Maize and Samuel f.
McGrew were named as receivers. The
assets are given as approximately $1,000
600 and the Indebtedness of 100000 is
declared to be increasing through the in
ability of the company to meet maturing
obligations
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-20

Mr.. Davis on Miss Ashford and no fur
Their consideration of an alliance be
tween them. These statements. accord
ing to a Washington dispatch, were
made by Miss Ashford Rumors had
been circulated that this would be the
outcome, because of the strong opposi-
ton TO the proposed marriage by Mrs.
Elkins, daughter of Mr.. Davis, and
members of her family.
, 1908-05-30

French section was thrown downstairs, even
Lord Knollys, the Kings private secretar.,
was arrested for a brief period, and for
about twenty minutes there Was aim ost q
riot.
A st. Petersburg despatch reports that
the warship "Peter the Great" has arrived
at Reval, having narrowly escaped founder
ing after striking on rocks in the gulf OF
Finland, and that the off are dismayed
at such an accident in those waters when
King Edwards arrival is so near.
Eighteen persons committed suicide in
St. Petersburg last week, the average
for each of the last three months being
eighty five. D%estitution and dependency
are given as contributory causes.
The Foreign Office has been informed OF
a fatal attack upon the Russian official resi-
deuce at Teheran, and has made the most
stringent representation regarding the ne
cessity for reparation and future security.
The newspap ~ say a bloody retribution IS
necessary to maintain Russian prestige Ia
the Orient, and the murder of NJ. Gribsy
Edoff, q former Russian minister at TeherAn,
is recalled.
Dispatches from Athens state that, follow
ing a contention between the Governor AMI
the Senate, the inhabitants of Samos re-
belled, ana fighting has been continuous for
IuTO6 udTS WIN uhn CdS0dLhAO OoOAtAA
in It defeat of the Governor, who is now
beleaguered in his palace. The reinforce
ments have been repealed, and the gendarmes
are joining the rebels.
Other advices state that refugees arriving
at Smyrna report the situation to be critical.
and that q massacre is feared when the
Turkish troops arrive. Il IS suggested that
England. France and Russia, as gIarantors
of Samos, should send w~arships to control
the situation.
Ottawa, May 29th.-A despatch from Port
Arthur, Ontario, reports that a dam on the
Current river burst and submerged q train OF
the Canadian Pacific railway. Three lives were
lost AMI tho damage Is estimated at half
a million dollars.
New York, May ~29th-Forty firms are in
terested in the cago of the steamer ''Goidbor-
ough," which is valued 1T a quarter OF q
million dollars. It is rumoured that she
sailed for either Hayti, Curacao or Hondur-
ras, and it is expected that u British warShlp
will be sent in pursuit of her.
New York, May 29th
Flo III, Blended Clears per barrel $50 $40
Meal, Kindred, per barrel 3.85-3.95
New Seasons Pork
Heavy Mess Pork, $14a--151
sncor Crystals per b, tt
0usar' Muscovado 89otest 34-5
Molasses Eng. Islds. per gal. no quotation
Liverpool Cotton middling Upland. 6
Exchange, New York q London. 6Odays
sight 4.853
Exchange NewYork and London. sight S4.873
london. May goth
Dem. Crystals los Cd los 81.
MuscovAdo, floating terms, in
sugar bond, lis. 6d-l1s. 90
German beet 89.f. 0. b lis. AID.
Java Sugar 5000 Gibraltar or ChaLnei lcr
orders, floating TINS. rs
Demerara Rum. Is 6d.--1z. 71d.
Cocoa, Trinidad, good lniddlins Red.nonllnA
pr cwt CTS.
Cotton, medium Fine Stat Liverpool, nominal
Is. I'D.
Bank of England Rate of discount 81
Honrojs 81 5-16
, 1908-05-30
MS
ST.. CROIX STATION.

ed from Vienna on the twenty seventh.
The Rigsdag closed ON the twenty third.
The Folkething rejected without a divi-
sion the socialist party's proposition for a
parliamentary commission for investigation
of Mr.. Alberti's administration.
The death is announced of the Dowager
Countess Moltke of Norager.
The st. Jan arrived at Rotterdam yester-
day.
London, May 29th.-Margaret Hamilton,
aged seventy eight, has been sentenced to
eighteen months imprisonment for perjury
in the bruce case, and her application for
appeal disallowed.
The Cable companies have sent a unitei
letter to the international Telegraphic Con-
ference, now sitting at Ii ibol, represent
ing that six cables to America have been
interrupted by trawlers, and the delegNtes
are requested to call the attention of their
respective governments to the necessity OF
appropriate protection.
The Bank of England rate of discount
is now the minimum for ten years past.
The bank had no option but to give trade
the benefit of two and half per cent rate,
the three per cent rate having been prevl-
ously maintained solely on account of the
absorption of gold by Paris and Berlin.
A despatch from Simla announces that
General Willcocks' force will return on
Sunday and dsmobilize. It's unexpected
success is attributed largely to Lord Min
to's success in eliminating Afghan parti-
cipation, a%verting a possible war. The
casualties number six officers dead and nine
wounded, seventy two men dead and one
hundred and four wounded. Half the
deaths are due to cholera.
TT thu HA7so of Commons Sir Edward
Grey, answering Mr.. Will Thorne, said no
Anglo-Russian negotiations were pen ling,
and none were contemplated, in connection
with the Kings visit to Russia, which,
nevertheless it was hoped would contribute
to excellence of relations between the two
governments and peoples.
NJ. Paul Cambon, the French Ambassador
gave a formal banquet at the Embassy yes
terday, returning the hospitalities shownP Pre-
sident Fallieres. No speeches were made.
Cne hundred guests, mostly officials, were
present, among them being the King and
the Prince of Wales and others who have
been prominent during the Presidents visit.
The Sevres service and gold utensils were
brought from the Elysee, the wines were
from France and of the choicest, and the
sumptuousness fairly rivalled that of the
banquet at Buckingham Palace. NJ. Fallleres
returns to Paris to-day.
M. Pichon, in an interview, said that
M. Fallieres was profoundly impressed
with his reception, which was encour-
aging to the lifelong supporters of an
entente with England. now in a permanent
form. and according to King Edwards phrase.
among the fundamentals of both countries
policies necessary to the logical development
of their histories affording the surest means
of counteracting all combinations against their
interests and maintaining peace, which was
foremost among their needs.
An unpleasant incident occurred during
the visit to the Franco British exhibition. The
police excluded about one hundred French
men holding tickete of admission to the
building, which the King was about enter