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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-25
THURSDAY.

The convention was called to order
by Chairman Henry Cabot Lodge short
ly after 10 o'clock and opened with an
invocation by Rev. John Wesley Hill,
of Metropolitan Temple, New York.
Senator Albert J. Hopkins of Illinois,
chairman of the Committee on Resolu-
lions, was then recognized and began
to read the platform which that body
had agreed upon after long and bitter
fight. AS the Senator read the doctrine
settled upon by the Resolutions Com
mittee he raised frequent applause by
the laudation OF President Roosevelt.
The convention adopted the platform
framed for it and defeated a minority
report by a vote of go to %.
The platform was adopted after a
three hours debate and without halt
the convention swept on to the nOmina
ton of a presidential candidate. Tired,
scOrched, hungry and restless, the spec
tators sat through the nominating
speeches. Sweltering under the great
roof of the Coliseum the crowd of To-
600 grew light-headed from the heat
and became so lost to control while
Gov. Hanly of Indiana was nominating
Charles Warren Fairbanks, that Chair
man Lodge had to threaten that the po-
lice would clear the galleries.
On the call of States, Illinois was
the first to be reached, having a fay
orite on"-Representative II. S. BOu-
tell presented the name of Joseph G.
Cannon, Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives Then Vice President
Fairbanks and Governor Hughes were
presented. Congressman Burton, of
Ohio, took the platform at . 30 o'clock
and placed the name of William How
ard Taft before the convention, and
afterward the claims of Senator Knox
and Senator La Toilette were offered.
The nomination of Taft was made
amid wild enthusiasm. The great build
ing rang with shouts as Ohio placed
her favorite son in nomination, and
even greater applause marked the be-
ginning of the vote. On the only ballot
taken he received 7O2 votes out of 97S
cast, two delegates out of the $50 max
ing up the convention. The nomination
was made unanimous on motion of Gen.
Stewart L. WoodfOrd Of New York,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-25
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

The clubhouse of the Buffalo Yacht
Club, stationed at Point Abino, Buffalo,
was burned. Loss $1,000.
A labor paper is being started in the
interest of the organized workers of Lex
ington, Frankfort and Covington, Ky.
Seeing her son stabbed by her husband
with a butchers knife, Mrs. Caroline
Campbell of East Ninetieth street. New
York. rushed between the combatants and
received a knife thrust which caused her
instant death. The husband, Cornelius,
is under arrest.
Frank E. Ferguson of Hagerstown,
Md, has been appointed assistant direc-
tor of the bureau of engraving and print
ing by Secretary Cortely on.
Watertown, S. d. claims to have under
construction on contract, buildings to the
value of 81 O24, 800, half &c which will be
completed this summer.
Part of the new wing of the homeo-
pathic hospital being erected i'll Pittsburg
collapsed. The damage is estimated at
100000.
Hetty Green, 1.-The richest woman in the
world has subscribed to a news-clipping
bureau to find out what the papers say
about her"
The distributing depot of the Cincinnati
Oil Works Company, at $40 Eggleston
avenue, in that city, was burned, causing
a loss Of $4,000.
Lieut.. Frank I. Evans. son of Eight
ing Bob" with the aid of a revolver res
cued two ''jackies' who fell into the
cisco.
Freedom of religious thought was adj
vocated in the opening sermon of the
Western Unitarian conference, which held
its ffty-sixth annual convention at the
Church of the Messiah. in Chicago, and
many addresses along the same, line were
delivered during the meeting by prominent
Unitarians from all over the country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-25
TUESDAY.
Chicago correspondence:

chicago correspondence
Shortly after noon Tuesday Chairman
Harry S. New of the national commit
tee swung the official gavel, and the
fourteenth Republican national conven-
ton was in session. All had been well
oiled for the moving along Of the con-
vention plans, and when the crowds got
into the Coliseum nothing was wanting
in the way of arrangements. Bishop
Muldoon offered the prayer opening the
convention, and then Senator Julius C..
Burrows of Michigan was introduced as
temporary chairman.
Early in the forenoon the crowds
turned their faces Coliseumward. An
hour before the convention was called
to order the terraced sides and galleries
of the big building were filed with
ticket holders. Usually the scenes in
cident to the hour preceding the open
ing of a President-making cOnclave are
as enthusing as many of the events tax
ing place on the stage after the per-
Torrance has been formally begun.
There are the celebrities to receive
cheering homage as they march into the
hall at the head of State delegations.
There is the seemingly unending con-
fusion out in the area where the Pres
ident-makers are moving about before
settling into the reservations for the
respective State delegations. Here's a
United States Senator whose name is
a household word talking to the Gov
ernOr of a State who perhaps already
has been mentioned" as a likely can
didate for White House honors next
time" There they are, as you look
down from your seat on terrace or in
gallery, conservatives" and radicals"
patriot and self-seeker, demagogue or
misunderstanding to the standpoint
of the faction to which you belong. No
where can they be seen all together in
animated mixture, except every four
years at the national party convention.
The streets reflected the nation. On
every corner gamins hawked the papers
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-25
TOLD IN A FEW LINES.

John d. Rockefeller is about TO begin
the erection of an orangery on his estate
at Pocantico Hills.
The mills of the J. & P. Coats Com
pany, limited, in Rhode Island, have re-
sumed a fve-day per week schedule.
Ocean Park and Santa Monica, two
California towns, are in a bitter war
concerning the disposal of sewage.
The national convention of the De Leon
wing of the Socialist party will be held
in New York City, beginning July 3.
The War Department has designated
seven national holidays which justify
chicken and turkey in garrison rations.
The Society of American Magicians
gave a farewell banquet in New York
to Harry Kellar, who has retired from
the stage.
A special train has been chartered to
convey the District of Columbia delegates
to the Democratic national convention at
Denver next month. The train will leave
Washington the afternoon of July 3.
The Mystic Workers of the World in
their convention at st. Paul, Mimi, Sc
lected Elgin, H., as the next meeting
place of the order in 1910. A proposition
to fix a per capita tax of 10 cents a
month was defeated.
James Flood, or Montague, the youth
charged with killing A. 2. Camden, the
Chicagoan in Minneapolis, is said by the
police there to have dual personality.
They say the woman in him, according to
his story, told him to kill.
In the Breathitt Circuit Court at Jack
son, KY, the case of Beech Hargis, charg-
ed with the murder of his father, ex-Judge
Hargis, was continued until the October
term.
Jose. Augustin Arrange, Panaman minis
ter to the United States, who is in New
York after a trip to Panama, says that
there is no danger of an instruction on
the isthmus.
The armored cruiser North Carolina
has broken the coaling record, having
loaded 4S7 tons in three hours at the
Bradford naval coaling station.
Charged with the embezzlement of
about $4,000 from Servians, Peter Zen
ich, 81 years old, of Steubenville, Ohio,
was arrested in Pittsburg.
The international cotton congress has
adjourned in Paris, to meet in Italy in
1900. The congress invited all confed-
Grated associations to join in harmoni-
Gus curtailment of cotton during periods
of distress arising from over or under
production and urged the European gov
ernments to study AMI advance the ex-
tension of colonial production of cotton.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-25
SIOUX CITY HURT BY A TORNADO

Houses in City's Outskirts Wrecked
Several Persons Are Injured.
Several persons were injured, one per-
haps fatally, and two houses and half
dozen barns destroyed by a tornado which
struck the eastern outskirts of Sioux City,
Iowa. The residence of Mrs. Matte
Howe of Greenville was wrecked. The
three persons in the house, Mrs. Howe,
Charles Eakman, her nephew, and Charles
Youhill were badly injured. Mrs. Howe
may die The home of Fred Demaran-
Vile of Morningside was torn to pieces.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-25
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

From Minnesota, the Dakotas and Wis
eo-sin crop reports are all favorable.
Iowa farmers are complaining of too much
rain.
Near Alma, Wis, John Grimes of Clear
Lake and J. W. Erschern, with a pack
of wolf hounds, killed Al wolves in three
weeks.
The graduated land tax bill which by
excessive taxation seeks to prevent the
owning of more than $40 acres of land by
one person in Oklahoma, was finally
passed by the Legislature and sent to the
Governor. The income tax bill and the
inheritance tax bill are in the Governors
hands also.
The total wheat exports from the Unit
ed States last month amounted to $685.
sol bushels, of which Portland contrib
uted 1,10S,314 bushels; New York G67-
ia bushels; the combined ports of Puget
sound, 654,S64 bushels, and Philadelphia
33O,653 bushels.
During a thunder storm near Alma,
Wis, lightning struck the barn of Jacob
Castleberg in the town of Nelson, killing
thirteen horses, and several calves and
DESTROYING the barn. William Kaufman
of the town of Belvidere lost three horses
by lightning.
During the worst electric storm wit
messed in years, in Faribault county.
Mimi, six houses and barns were struck
On the Rugg- Underdahl farm the barn
and seventeen animals were burned The
barn Of Or. j. j. Mclaughlin, in ST.
Paul, was burned. The Bemis dwelling
on farm about three miles south of the
city was also burned.
The general Office has adjusted its ac-
count with the State of North Dakota un-
der the act of Feb. %, 1889, showing the
per cent of net proceeds of sales of pub
lie lands within said State for the period
beginning July 1 and ending Dec 81,
1907, as shown by the adjusted returns
from the various local land offices. The
receipts from the sales of public lands
during the said period were 1,102, 1871.
From the sales of Indian lands it is $685.
SS1 .OS, and from the fees and commits
sions. sos. 1924, total from all sources
of 81, 239, S31.23.
Fruit growers in the Black Hills claim
that their crop has been practically
ruined.
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of the principal cities, in their cries 60
ing over the principal places of a great
republic. The people who streamed up
and down the thoroughfares wore
badges which indicated that every COM
monwealth from torrid Texas on the
south to the States which border the
Canadian provinces ON the north. from
New England on the east to the coast
States of the West, was represented
adequately not only by the ubiquitous
delegates but by correspondents and Wis
itors as well.
Shortly after II o'clock it was as if
q f1oodgate had been opened, for
streams of people poured into the great
Coliseum at every door and scrambled
for their places. At the outside en-
frances the doorkeepers would have
been swamped except for the aid of po-
lice, who insisted that everyone find
their proper entrance. BY u o'clock
the floor was a black sea of humanity
while Michigan and Wabash avenues
were crowded with overfiows of people
anxious to hear the shouting and wit
Thousands upon thousands of faces,
wearing the most multi-varied express
sions-confident. anticipatory, excited.
anxious, apprehensive. alert to sense
the faintest breath that might mean
possible defeat: tense, eager; old dele
gates behind masks of smiles, young
| delegates of huge Importance, fussy al
| ternates hoping for an opportunity !;
CHEEKY contestants who were seated.
sullen ones who were not; a sea of
ripping movement.
A brass band playing somewhere
stirring tunes; delegates marching and
| banners lifting; crowds pouring in from
| the right, from the left, everywhere
whisperings, condolences, laughter, chat
| ter, bubbub, and, as the clock hands
/ passed noon, every eye focused upon
the great platform, swathed in the tri-
color, where a rugged figure, strangely
unfamiliar without its wide-brimmed
black hat. sat already playing with a
gavel. ''Crack :" A smart blow from
that gavel; then another; and a little
| hush. as tense and still as if on the eve
of some profound ceremony of worship
or in the presence of a miracle The
Republican national convention had be-
| gun.
In the crowded human hive which
had been made of the Coliseum. the
fall of National Chairman Harry News
| savel was greeted with a roar which
drowned all further efforts of the chair
man for several minutes. Every seat
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-25
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Chicag o-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to 1925; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to S5.S5; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to 1925; wheat No. 2, 92c to Ole;
corn, No. 2, &c to 69c; oats, standard,
SOC to sic; rye, No. 2, 7Sc to 79c; hay,
timothy, $500 to $3.50; prairie, $500
to $11.50; butter, choice creamery, Zoe
to 23c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 16c; potatoes,
new, per bushel, $1335 to S1.4O.
Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $500
to 1925; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to 500; shep, common to prime,
$500 to $425; wheat, No. 2, 90c to
Ole; corn, No. 2 white, Csc to 69c; oats,
No. white sic to 53c.
St Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $50; hogs,
$500 to 1913; sheep, $500 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, 94c to 995c; corn, No. 2,
Tic to re; oats, No. 2, SOC to sic; rye,
No. 2, 79c to Soc
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 10 $6.75;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$460; wheat, N 2, 9Oc to Ole; corn,
No. 2 mixed, 73c to 74c; oats, No.
mixed, 52c to 53c; rye, No. 2, SAC to SEC.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to 5000; hogs,
$500 to $500 sheep, $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, 9ic to 92c; corn, No. 3
yellow, 73c to 74c; oats, No. 3 white,
54c to soc; rye, No. 2, 76c to nc.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. northern,
SLOT to S1.1O; corn, No. 3, roc to Tie;
oats, standard, sic to 53c; rye, No. 1,
TIC to 7Sc; barley, No. 2, G4c to 65c;
pork. mess, $13.72.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $7.75; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to 5000; sheep, common to good mixed
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $3.50.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $735;
hogs, $3.50 to $6.O5; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat No. 2 red, 97c to 99c;
corn, No. 2, 76c to TIC; oats, natural
white, Sc to Soc; butter, creamery, 21c
to 24c; eggs, western, 13c to 16c.
Toledo-Wheat No. 2 mixed, 9Oc to
Ole; corn, No. mixed, zoe to Tic;
oats, No. 2 mixed, &c to 53c; rye, No.
2, SOC to Sic; clover seed, October, $742.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-25
THE PLATFORM AT a GLANCE.

ROOSEFELT-The abuse OF wealth. the
tyranny Of power. and the evils of privilege
and fayoritism have been put 10 scorn By
his simple. manly virtues of justice and fair
play. We pledge continuance of the
Roosevelt policies
ANTI-INJCNCTION - The Republican
party viii uphold the authority Of the
courts, but believes the rules OF procedure
tons should be more accurately defined by
statute, and that no injunction should be
issued without notice
LABOR-The same wise policy
viii De pursued in every legitimate direc-
ton within Federal authority TO tighten
the burdens and increase the happiness and
advancement of all who toll.
THE TARIFF-The Republican party de-
ciares for revision OF tariff by a special
session or Congress Immediately following
the inauguration Of the next President We
favor the establishment of maximum and
minimum rates TO be administered by the
President.
MONEY-An expanding commerce
and Increasing crop movements disclose the
need OF more elastic and adaptable sys-
TEN.
TRUSTS = The Federal Government
should have greater supervision and con-
troll over corporations engaged in interstate
commerce having the power to create mon
opolies.
INLAND WATERwAYS-We call for
large ana comprehensive plan, just 10 all
portions of the country. TO improve the Wa
terways, harbors, and great lakes.
ARMY AND NAVY-WhiIe the American
people do not desire and Will not provoke
a war with any other country, We never
theiess declare our devotion to a polcy
which will keep this republic ready at all
times to defend her traditional doctrines.
GOOD ROADS-We approve the efforts of
the Agricultural Department to make clear
TO the public the best methods of good road
construction.
NEGROES-We demand equal justice for
all men without regard to race or color, and
condemn all devices for the disfranchise-
ment of the negro.
REPUBLICAN POLICY-The difference
between democracy and republicanism IS
that one stands for vacillation and timid-
ity in government, the other for strength
and purpose. Democracy would have the
nation own the people, while republicanism
would have the people own the nation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-25
Brewers Favor Temperance.

Defining temperance as neither abuse
nor disuse," the United States Brewers
Association ended its Milwaukee meet
ing with platform of principles design
ed to correct popular misconceptions of
their position. 1t asserts that the brewers
are ready to cooperate in the work Of
reforming the retail trade, or the saloons,
to the end that the saloon may become "a
place for wholesome recreation and amuse-
ment." 1t repudiates the charge that the
brewers are in politics to influence legis-
lation for the protection of the disorderly
saloon. 1t deplores the fact that both
the prohibition and the anti-saloon move
ments aim at 1.-THE determination of our
business" and says that when the desire
to better the trade takes the place of that
aim the brewers will, as brothers, help
and Stav ont of notifies
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-25

A formal declaration of party princi-
pies specified as the party platform was
as unknown IL the early days as was a
convention. The noisiest, the jolliest, the
most exciting and perhaps least logical
presidential campaign was that of 1910.
William Henry Harrison, hero of an In
dian victory at Tippecanoe, a plain old
man, who had lived his opponents sneer-
ingly said, in a log cabin decorated with
coon skins and had drunk hard cider, was
selected by Thurlow Weed as a better
candidate than Henry Clay. To defeat
Clay in the Republican convention, the
unit rule was adopted. The issues between
Van Buren,, the Democratic candidate,
and Harrison were not clearly drawn, but
the adventurous circumstances of Harri
sons early life were Skillfully utilized for
theatrical effects. 'Old Tippecanoe' was
the slogan. PROFESSIONS, miles long, with
log cabins, cider barrels and coon skin
caps on poles, stretched from State to
State. Glee clubs were a feature of the
campaign and the Indian fighter was fair
ly sung into Office.
So vigorously did the Wings sing their
favorite refrains that echoes of the songs
still linger.
What has caused this great connection
-motion-motion,
Our country through?
1t is the ball a rolling on
For Tippecanoe and Tyler, too,
And with them we will beat little Van,
Van, Van. is a used up man.
Farewell, dear Van,
You're not our man
To guard the ship.
Well try old Tip.
In the campaign which resulted in the
election of Benjamin Harrison the fact
that he was a grandson of old Tip was
not forgotten by his adherents. Many
slangy, even irreverent references fixed
on grandpa's hat as a fit subject for
campaign quips. In 1914, the year when
the Democratic convention brought the
first dark horse into the running, the
songs of the majority were:
o, poor Henry Clay. poor Henry Clay,
You cannot be our President, for Polk is in
the way.
and
Hurrah for Polk and annexation,
Down with Clay and high taxation.
When John Hanks, cousin of Abraham
Lincoln, carried two weather-beaten rails
into the Wigwam-the structure especially
in Chicago, in May, 1S60-Lincoln be-
came the "railsplitter' candidate as Har-
rison had been the log cabin and Jackson
the hickory candidate years before.
In the convention of 1860 began the
modern custom of cheering and counter
cheering. The Seward contingent gave a
parade the day of the convention. While
they were marching Lincoln supporters
filled the Wigwam. With the naming of
the candidates began the cheering. When
Seward was nominated and seconded the
shouting was absolutely frantic, shrill
and wild. But when Lincoln's nomina-
ton was seconded the West was heard
from, and gave scream that was posi-
lively awful, and accompanied it with
stamping that made every plank and pill
lar in the building culver On the third
ballot Lincoln was nominated. The shout
ing was so deafening that the cannon
which was discharged on the roof of the
building could not be heard inside.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-25
WEDNESDAY.

The convention was called to order
at II 20 p. m. Senator Fulton, of
Oregon, announced that the credentials
committee, of which he was chairman,
would not have its report ready for one
hour.
After Senator Burrows, as temporary
chairman of the convention, called the
delegates to order he introduced the
chaplain of the day, the Rev. William
O. Waters. of Chicago. who offered the
invocation, closing with toe Lords
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-25
EMPLOYER SAVES cHILps LIFE.
Trenton, ". J., Man Jumps Into
Canal to Save Drowning Girl.


While his workmen on shore at Tren-
ton, " J., excitedIy but futiIely won
dered what they could do to save from
drowning 6-year-old Freda Grevenstein,
Charles E. Golding their employer, jump
ed from his office chair, and, running to
the bank, leaped into the canal without
divesting himself of any clothing. He
managed to grab the child as she was
going down the second time, and got her
to the bank. Then he worked over her
half an hour until life was restored. Mr..
Golding would not let the men help him,
and when the child was restored to con-
sciousness he went to his place Of bust
ness and Immediately discharged the work
men who did nothing while a human life
was in danger. Nj Golding is owner
of the Golding Sons Flint and Spar mills.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-25

Sending souvenirs home was the prin-
cipal pastime of most of the delegates
during the first day before and after the
opening of the Republican convention.
Post cards bearing pictures of hotels, the
Coliseum, marching scenes in Michigan
boulevard, and gatherings in hotel Hobbies,
ETC., were mailed by the thousands.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-25
Hvdrophobia Kills Aged Man.

Joseph Gerst. aged 70 years, is dead in
Danville, Pa, from hydrophobia. Mr..
Gerst was bitten by a dog two months
ago and the wound had apparently healed
when the disease broke out. The death
of Mr.. Gerst follows a series of mad dog
scares in Danville, which have extended
over q wear.