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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28

The open session of the Senate Friday
was concluded with an extended debate
on the power of Congress to regulate in
terstate and foreign commerce and a neg
alive poll. % to 81, was taken on a mo-
ton to adopt the Foraker substitute for
the interstate commerce commission reso-
luton extending the time when the pen
atty provision of the commodity clause of
the Hepburn railroad rate law is to take
effect The Foraker substitute provided
that the prohibition against railroad trans
porting across State lines coal or other ar
ticles produced by them, shall apply only
to property acquired since the passage of
the Hepburn bill. May %, 1906. The
committee resolution applied to all pro-
ducts without limitation concerning the
time of ownership. The bill to place the
date of canning meat products upon pack
ages was discussed briefly. as was the ON
r.ibus BILL but both were displaced. The
disagreement of the House to the confer
ence report on the postoffice appropriation
bill on account of the Senate provision
for mail subsidy was laid before the Sen
ate and another conference was ordered,
with instructions TO insist upon the
amendment. Practically all hope of
ship subsidy was abandoned when the
House, by vote of 14J to 15G, rejected
the conference report on the postoffice ap-
preparation bill. containing a provision
therefor. The bill was sent back to con-
ference and there is little prospect that
the House conferees will yield. BY a
strict party vote of $50 to 123, a cam
5o.t NIT
amendment providing for reduction of
representation in the House in the South
ern States was passed The Democrats
voted against the bill because of the
amendment The conference report on
the District of Columbia appropriation
bill was agreed to and the Senate amend
ments to the general deficiency and mill
tary academy appropriation and omnibus
Indian land bill were all disagreed to and
the bills sent 10 conference.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Miners Are to Resume Work

Thirty-fve thousand coal miners of
Missouri. Kansas Oklahoma and Arkan-
sas, members of the United Mine Work
ers who have been on strike since March
l. have decided to return to work. Prices
and conditions are to remain the same as
last year. There are a few minor points
yet 70 be settled.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
CASHIER is SHORT 100000.


Declarations of Allegheny Official
Grow-Brokernge Firm Quits.
1t is now believed that the defalcations
of Cashier Montgomery of the Allegheny
National bank, which was closed the other
day, will amount to over 100000. The
city of Pittsburg has entered suits to re-
cover $1,0OO,0O0 from bondsmen because
of threatened loss on $1,5OO,OO0 of de-
posits in the bank. Following the closing
of the bank receiver was appointed for
Carothers & Co., large brokerage firm.
The firm made a speciality of municipal
bonds and was heavy investor in Pitts
burg securities.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Collision Near Antwerp.

The worst railroad catastrophe ever re-
corded in Belgium occurred near Contich,
six miles southeast of Antwerp, when the
Antwerp express. striking a misplaced
switch while running fifty miles an hour,
crashed into a train loaded with pilgrims
on a siding. About fifty dead were re-
moved from the wreckage and more than
100 were injured
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Life Saved by N-Rax.

Mays, used by the surgeons in Har-
LEM hospital. New York, located a needle
withinNa fraction of an inch of Nicholas
Huyler's( heart and made possible the saw
ing of the mans life. The needle entered
the chest of Huyler tailor, while he was
carrying a garment on which he had been
working.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Eu.iueers Vote i'm Motormen.

The brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
nccrS has voted TO admit to membership
men employed IS motOrmen on interurban
lines having more than twenty miles of
line outside of city limits. The action
was taken on the broad view that cleo
tricity must be the motive power of the
future
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
TRACTION Millions Wnsted

Receiver Whitridge of the Third Ave
nue. Street Railway Of New York reports
that about SIG. 100000 paid in for bonds
has been wasted. and that not dollar
of it ever was spent for Improvements,
but that it will be impossible now to re-
cover a dollar for the bondholders.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Bank BIacI>maiIer Guilty.

James ]. Fee, who on March 10 called
at the Merchants National bank in
Omaha and threatened TO blow it up I'M
less Cashier Luther Drake produced So
coo, was found guilty of blackmail His
defense was insanity. Sentence was re-
served.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Daniel Frohman. president of the

Daniel Frohman, president of the Ac-
tors Fund of America, which held its
annual meeting in New York, told those
assembled that the fund, in its twenty
seven years of existence, had disbursed
more than 100000 to the needy, but
that the last year showed a deficit of
$4,000
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
seven Years for Def,uItcr..

Thomas ". Harvey, former teller of
the Enterprise National bank of Pitts
burg. which failed several yesss ago for
nearly 100000, f~aaias n his attempt
TO interest ~ United States Court of
.a.,,-ss.s in hiscase, surrendered and was
sentenced to even years in the western
r-nitentiarv.t
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Miners Agree: Strike to End

After seventy days of negotiations the
coal mining troubles of the Southwest.
where $4,000 men are upon strike, were
practically ended when the joint subcom-
mittee of the operators and miners in
Kansas City reached an agreement on the
wage scale and working conditions.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
rEur!Sey'S RuIpr in Peril.

4 plot to aSSaSSinate Sultan Abdul
Hamid greatly agitateS the sublime porte
in ConStantiuoplc: Seventy-five persons
are in prison on charge of treason.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Model Sveatshop Building.

A model sweatshop apartment building.
where working people may labor and live
under sanitary conditions, has been erect
ed in Paris. The building has forty-eight
workshops. A bequest of Mdlle. Souves-
ire started the undertaking.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Road Buvs 1000 New Cars

Evidence of returning prosperity is fur
nished by the announcement that the
Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad has or
dered the Standard Steel Car Company to
begin construction of 1000 all-steel cars
for that road.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
RECEIVER FOR ALASKA FIRMS.
Properties Partly Controlled by
Frost of Chicago i'm Trouble

FF0st OF thIcagO I'm TroubIc.
According TO cabled news from Fair
banks, Alaska. Judge Reid on petition
OF John f. Balaine, representing Seattle
and eastern interests to the amount of
S3,0OO.0C0 of bonds. appointed John +.
Goodwin receiver of the Alaska Central
Railway Company and the Tanana Rail
way Construction Company. These prop
critics were controlled by A. c. Frost of
Chicago, and III. c. Osborne of Toronto.
Bailaine's complaint. covering forty pages
OF typewriter matter, was cabled to Far
banks at an expense of $1,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Anuapnlis student browns,

Midshipman Arthur Linford Lucas of
Cleveland, one of the graduating class.
was drowned at Annapolis. Nd. and Mid
Shipman Carl u. Uibbard of Northield
Mimi who was with him at the time
nearly lost his own life in an effort to
save his fread.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
To Reduce Cotton Acreage.

Throughout the South members of the
Farmers Cooperative and Educa tional
Union have begun blowing up portion
of their cotton fields to insure against an
excessive crop. Besides this. the yield
will be further reduced by the damage
from floods in the Southwest
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
ARREST GUARD FOR ROBBERY.
Charged with Stealing S35, 900 from
Express Company.

Deputy Sheriff w. H. Farmer of Daw-
son was arrested in Springer, n. NJ, in
connection with the robbery of the strong
box of the Wells-Fargo Express Company
of $4,000 at French on Thursday. Far
mer had been detailed to guard the treas
ure from French to Dawson, where the
money was to be used in paying off min
ers. Farmer was taken to Ration and
incarcerated with two men arrested the
previous day. 1t is reported, but uncon-
frmed, that one of the men arrested has
confessed, duplicating two men not yet
arrested
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
circus Tent Blows Down.

Terrific electrical wind. rain and hail
storms prevailed Wednesday night
throughout the Northwest. At Wahpcton,
\. H.. the main tent of Campbell Broth
ers' circus blew down. while 1900 persons
were watching the performance. Several
were hurt, none seriously.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
oBJEcToR IN JAIL; DITCH DUG.
Ohfoan Now Gets His Revenge in
the Courts Opinion.

TIC COurts Op1nIOns
John Puchta, who tried to stop the
construction of a ditch across his place
with g shotgun and was placed in Jail
long enough for the work to be completed,
has been vindicated by the common pleas
court in Bucyrus, Ohio. When the ditch
was proposed Puchta objected, declaring it
was not necessary. When construction
was started he drove the laborers off the
place. He was arrested and kept in Jail
without bail several days until the ditch
was finished. Later he was assessed for
his portion, but brought suit by injunc-
ton to stop collection of the assessment.
Judge Babst in his decision backs up
Puchta in the contention that there is no
need for the ditch.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
To Give the Idle Work.

The leaders in the new National Pros
perity Association say that they have
begun negotiations with the leading man.
ufacturers of the country TO induce the
latter to apply every increase in business
to the re-employment of workers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Minister Murders His Wife.

Rev. s. \. Coffman. 80 years old. a
prominent Methodist Epicopalian clergy
man, killed his wife at Fairmont. W. Va.
by cutting her throat. 1t is believed he
is insane.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Alligator Eats Boy at Picnic.

A 14-foot alligator in the Calasciu
river, near Fenton. La, ate George Frye,
the 3-year-old son of Gus Frye. The
baby's father headed a party of picnick-
ers, who spent the day on the banks of
the stream.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
orc. Mated Pianist Dead

DR. Robert Goldbeck, once noted as a
pianist and composer. died at his home in
st. Louis, aged 10 years. In his youth,
in Prussia Goldbeck was celebrated as a
virtuoso and played before kings and
nupenS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Mae wood. Case Dismfx.a

Mae Woods suit against Senator Platt
has been dismissed by Judge O'Gorman in
New York and the plaintiff was commit
ted 10 the city prison by the court on
charges of perjury andl forgery.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Fire Causes Water Famine.

The burning of the water and light
plant in Mayfield, KY, last Sunday has
caused an alarming water famine, and
water is being sold from wagons. The
price ranges from l cent per gallon up
ward. Water fit to drink is very scarce.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
WOMEN PUNISH WIFE sEATER.
Apply Whip, Tar and Feathers and
Give Fence Rail Ride,

Roscoe j. Beemer, an alleged wife
beaten living near Encampment, Wyo.,
was taken from his home the other night
by a posse of women, wives of men work
ing in the mines, given twenty lashes on
his bare back, ducked several times in a
big barrel of water, tarred and feathered
from his waist to his head and then put
on a fence rail and ridden out of the COM
munity. The husbands, brothers and sons
of some of the women witnessed the pun
ishment of Beemer but took no part in it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Saw Cost of Living Is Less.

Bradstreet's report shows a decline of
ID per cent in the cost Of commodities
in the last month. The groups which fell
were breadstufs. live stock. provisions,
hides. textiles, building materials and
chemicals.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Car Hits Buggy: One Dead.

Col. Evan t. Williams. one OF The most
prominent attorneys in southern Ohio.
was killed and his friend, Joseph Cloran.
was probably fatally injured when their
buggy was struck by street car at Iron
ton, Ohio.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Exhnme BODY; Eind Strxchnine

Traces of ,stryclmine were found in the
lining of the stomach of Jacob s. BeSore,
% years old, whose body was eXhumed at
Youngstown. Ohio. on demand of an in
surance company.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
presh,terinn Assembly onens

The general assembly of the Presbyte-
rian church in the United States assem-
bled in Kansas City Thursday and Rev
DR.. William II. Roberts was chosen mod
era tor
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28

Denying that he intended TO pave the
way for an International marriage. Prince
Prospera Colonna Of Italy arrived in
Washington with his son, Prince Mario
Colonna, and the Marquis of Sommi.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28

Announcing that the conferees of the
Senate and House on the currency bill
would be unable to agree if Congress is
to adjourn at an early day. Senator Aid
rich on Thursday reported from the COM
mittee on finance a joint resolution Gre
ating a national monetary commission to
BE- composed of nine Senators and n'nc
Representatives TO investigate all matters
concerning the banking and currency Sys-
tenn of the country and the resolution was
passed without debate. Senator Rayner
again discussed his resolution authorizing
and requesting the President to order a
court of inquiry to investigate the charges
against Col. William L. Stewart and the
resolution was placed upon the calendar.
The Senate passed the general deficiency
and military academy appropriation bills,
the last of the great appropriation bills
4 bill regulating child labor in the Dis
trict of Columbia and the territories was
passed Following debate the confer
ence report on the District of Columbia
traction BILL permitting the laying of
street car tracks to the Union station was
adopted by the House with the provision
for universal transfers eliminated: the
conference report on the agricultural APP
preparation bill was agreed to; the SEN
ate amendments, which increased by S12,-
100000 the public building bill appropria-
ton were disagreed with and a conference
asked.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Deficit for the New Haven.

The New Haven railroad system re-
ports the largest deficit for the last quar-
ter since the beginning of the panic last
fall, the shortage being $66S.S37. This
condition exists in spite of rigid reduction
in operating expenses.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
IN oUIcKsAND THREE DAYS.
Tony Haas of Axiom, Ill, Half
Crazed Tells of Terrible Ordeal

Crazed Tells of Terrible Ordeal
Buried to his waist in quicksand. after
he had been thrown into pond by three
men, Tony Haas. 24 years old. stood in
the water for three days. according to
his statement, when he was found Friday
wandering in a half-crazed condition
along an interurban street car track. The
crew on a passing car saw Haas along
the track near Benbow City. Ill. His
clothing was drenched and muddy. his
face was white and drawn and he ran
when Conductor Hord approached Ilord
overlook him and brought him TO Alton.
After being cared for at the police station
Haas said that three men had thrown
him into pond and he had been held fast
in the quicksand for three days. Early
Friday some logs foated near him and
he succeeded in dragging himself from the
sand and finally reached shore He could
give no reason for having been thrown
into the pond and said the men were
strangers to him. The police are inves-
tigating the story.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
AGED SOLDIER KILLS coMRADE.

Veteran Throws Enemy, 73 Years
Old, from High Window.
The bitter enmity that two old soldiers
entertained for each other eliminated in
murder at the Soldiers Home in Day
ton, Ohio, following a quarrel, when John
Samuel, aged 81, deliberately threw from
second-story window of the barracks
James Bowlin. aged 73. Bowlin fell head
foremost on the cement pavement below.
His skull was fractured and he died in
the home hospital.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28

The Mississippi Hone Fire Insurance
Company has passed lao the hands of
receiver. Excessive losses and inability
10 realize Oh assets cauaaI lie suspension
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
RoyalAlIianc Rcieefed

King Manel of Portugal rejects She
British princSs suggested as a Wife by
his mother. ddaring he loves the dakush-
ter of lady | waiting and will wk.d no
other.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
NEEDS $4,000 TO FIND POLE.
Peary Says He Is Sure of Success
Ninth Trip to Arctic.

Ninth Trip to Arctic.
Commander Robert e. Peary, who has
been in Washington and has had special
conference with the President, arrived in
New York the other day. He desires to
get, if possible, the $4,000 which will be
necessary to take him on his ninth expe-
dition in search of the north pole this
summer. Commander Peary said he need
ed $4,000 to make the trip to the pole
and, while he had assurances that he
would get at least a third of that amount,
he was not certain that the remainder
would be Forthcoming.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
Church Growth Recorded.

In connection with the opening Of
the general assembly, the Interior,
Chicago organ of the Presbyterian
Church, presents statistics of the de-
nomination for the year. 1t is shown
that the presbyteries have organized
1875 churches and dissolved 1O3. This
practically corresponds to last years
record. 1t appears that the ministry
has made net gain of seventy-siX
men in the interesting commerce. Of
trading preachers with other denom-
nations
That the church has gone on grow
ing at about the usual rate is indicated
by the total of additions. The net total
church membership at present is 49,
300, and that of Presbyterian Sunday
schools, 1,137,143. Gifts to foreign
missions aggregated $1,1j3,SJ2, to home
missions $1,4S2. 1872. to education S113.-
237, to Sabbath school work $173,473,
to church erection $1S4,646 and to aid
for colleges S4S4.26G. Congregational
expenses reached total of $15,93G,290.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28

Fire in Holiday, Read & Sons chem
ical works. New York, caused damage to
the extent of $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
CHURCH MUST MAKE
THE NATION BETTER
Plea of Retiring Moderator, DIR.
Roberts, Before the Presby-
terrain General Assembly.
WOMEN ARE THE PILLARS.
Indifference of Men to Religion De-
plored-Statistics as to Growth
of the Church.

with officers and leading ministers
of the church in America. as we'll as
prominent laymen and foreign mis-
slonaries in attendance, the one hun
dred and twentieth general assembly
OF the Presbyterian Church in the Uni
ted States began its sessions in Con-
vention Hall at Kansas City. The
most important business of the first
day was the election of a moderator
to succeed Rev. William Henry Rob-
erts, ID. D., of Philadelphia.
The feature of the morning session
was the opening sermon by the retir-
ing moderator. 1t was largely a plea
for cooperation of the churches in
lighting the many influences opposed
to the Christian religion in this coun-
try. Above every other nation of mod
ern times, DR.. Roberts said the United
States represents those widespread
movements which are lifting men out
of the narrowness of caste, which are
making the world a neighborhood and
which seek the welfare not of a class
or classes, but Of the whole people.
EvangeIization the Great Need.
The retiring moderator in his ser
mon said in part:
In this land to-day the churches con-
front conditions OF notable character.
The world which God made is in a sense
within our borders. Its multitudes are
pouring into every corner of the country.
The populations of Europe. in particular,
are accessible through us to the influences
of the gospel in marked manner. So
vast Is the movement that it can be said,
as was said at Penteccst, that men out
of every nation under heaven are in our
midst.
Opposed to the Christian churches in
our country are to be found many evil
influences. There is the irreligion of the
average immigrant, the presence of an
inordinate commercial spirit, the Calico
like attitude of majority of our politi-
cal leaders, who care for no religious opin-
ion whatever, but solely for self, and,
above all, the practical unhelief of the
majority of American men. We are a
Christian nation only because three
fourths of our women are Christians. Ev-
erywhere there is the need whether we
have regard to our native population or
the foreign immigrant, for persistent,
united evangelistic and educational work.
We must go forth everywhere under
the influence of the ''love divine, all love
excelling," under the influence Of the love
for the world of God the Father, and Of
the saving power of Jesus Christ the only
and all-sufficient Divine Savior, proffering
unto every creature that salvation which
is profitable both for the life that now is
and for the life that is to come We
must increasingly strive to win America
for Christ, that we may thereby win the
world for Him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28

Mrs. Hetty Green is said to be guarded
every day by a detective since the receipt
of ''black hand" demand for $1,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
Progress of Pennant Race in Base
Ball Leagues.

NATIONAL LEAGUE.