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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
THROWS TORCH AT FooTPAD.
Authorities Looking for Man Sup
posed to Have Been BADLY Burned.


The authorities at Springfield, Ohio,
are looking for highwayman who, they
believe, was seriously burned after ne
attempted TO hold up and rob A. Z. Nc
Manus, a railroad engineer. The high
wayman is thought 10 have been burned
by oil that was thrown over his body by
the engineer when an effort was made to
hold up and rob him. McManus was IN
charge of the train due at Durbin about
IL o'clock at night. After stopping at
the station, the engineer left his cab to
oil up his engine. He had no sooner
reached the ground with the lighted torch
in his hand until he was struck over the
head with some blunt instrument. The
blow stunned him for a few seconds and
when he recovered he found the highway
man going through his pockets. Nc
Manus, in an effort to get away from the
robber, threw the lighted torch at his
assailant. The oil spread over the man S
clothing and ignited He made a hurried
getaway, beating the flames out with his
hands. McManps mounted his engine
and made the run to Urbana, where he
left the engine and his injuries were at
tended by physician. The wound on
the head indicated that the highwayman
used pair of knucks to knock out his
victim
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
CHICAGO.

heaVy May settlements and interest
disbursements account for a largely in
creased volume of payments through the
banks, while commercial defaults sustain
their recent high average. The business
situation generally presents no special de-
veiopment, production and distribution in
the leading industries rejecting but lit
Tie departure from conservative policies
pending clearly defined revival in de-
mands. Unusually wet weather hinders
seasonable activity in leading retail lines,
construction and farm work, but encour-
agement is derived from further favora-
bic reports as to winter wheat growth
and the promising outlook in agriculture.
Crop marketings run short of those a
year ago, and there is smaller outgo of
breadstufs from this market, although
operations in the May deliveries appear
on heavy scale and prices have risen
to the highest average this season.
Money is quoted lower and choice com
merclal paper commands the easiest rate
IN several years. Offerings of desirable
discounts, however, remain extremely
IlSht, the best borrowers being in posi-
uon to dispense with customary accom-
mediation. More investment is seen in
real estate and improvements, and better
demand strengthens the market for high
grade bonds, but sales of local securities
are OF smaller volume than at this time
iast year, with values moving irregular
~ although averaging above those of a
month ago.
Bank deposits here and at interior
points show steady gain, but some COM
plant is noted as to the inability to find
adequate employment of surplus funds
Freight movements compare unfavor-
ably with the corresponding period of
last year, there being continued falling
off in heavy materials forwarded.
Iron and steel returns disclose little
Roadway in outputs over recent low fig
ures. Quarry products, builders hardware,
cement and plumbing materials reflect
wider absorption, and there is more de-
mand for some hard woods.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number SO, against 80 last week
and ID year ago. Those with liabilities
over $4,000 number 8, against Q last
week and in 1907-Duns Review of
Trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
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Chicago-CattSo, common to prime,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, prime heavy. $4O0
$4.00 to $3.50; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $500; sheep, fair to choice. $500
to 500; wheat, No 2, 99c to 81 90:
corn, No. 2, Tic to 73c; oats, standard,
53c to 54c; rye, No. 2, SOC to Sic; hay,
timothy, $3.50 TO $1,000; prairie, $500
to $500; butter, choice creamery. 19c
to DE; eggs, fresh, lie to 16c; potatoes,
per bushel, zoe to TIC.
napolis-Cattle, shipping, $500
to $700; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $40; sheep, common to prime
$500 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2. 99c to
$1.0O; corn, No. white, 63c to Goo; oats
No. white, sic to 52c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to S7.15; hogs,
s4.0O to $500 sheep, $500 to 5000;
wheat, No. >, S1.05 to S1.0G; corn, No. .,
Tic to re; oats, No. 2, 49c to ole; rye,
No. 2, Zoe to Soc.
Cincinnati-Cattie, S4CO to 1878:
hogs, $500 to 1886: sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, $1.02 to S1.O4: corn.
No. 2 mixed, Toe to 7Gc; oats. No.
mixed, sc to 53c rye, No. 2, S2c to S4c
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs.
$4.0O to $500 Sheep, $3.50 to 500;
wheat, No. ?. $1.OO to S1.O1: corn, No Z
yellow, 73c to 74c: oats, No. 3 white.
54c to 55c; rye, No. ,, SIC TO SIC.
New Yor1-Cattle, $500 to S7.2O;
hogs, $3.50 to $G,1o: sheep. $500 tc
$50; wheat, No. 2 red STOP to S1.03
corn, No. ., 73c to Toe; oats, natural.
white, Sc to G0c: butter, creamery, 23t
to 2Jc; eggs, western, BE to lie
Wheat, No. 2 northern.
s1.O6 to S1.09; corn, No. 3, tic to &c;
oats. standard. 54c to 5Jc: rye, No. l.
SIC to S3c; barley, No. 2, Tic to re;
pork, mess, $133J.
Bufalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers
S4.00 to 500: hogs. fair to choice $4.0C
to 5000; sheep, common to good mixed
500 to SG.1J; lambs, fair TO choice,
$500 to S7.S5.
Toledo-Wheat, No. mixed, CSC tc
99c: corn. No. mixed, I1c to re
oats. No mixed, J4c to Jjc; rye, No
., sc to s3c; clover seed, prime, $500.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
FOURTEEN DIE IN WINDsToRM.
Tornado Sweeps Over Nebraska,
Doing Great Damage.


Fourteen persons are known to have
been killed and score injured by tor
nadO which swept over the northern part
of Nebraska, beginning at o'clock Tues
day afternoon. The storm, which gained
velocity on its way south, started in
Omaha about 4 80 o'clock. At Bellevue
the college buildings were damaged to
the extent of probably $4,000, and sew
eral persons were injured, none fatally.
The storm then moved on to Louisville,
Richfeld and Springfield, where the prin-
cipal damage and loss of life occurred.
An officer from Fort Crook stated that
the damage to the buildings would
amount to 100000 at the army post
alone, and that the village is almost a
total wreck. When the officers realized
that a tornado had struck the post 600
troops of the Sixteenth Regiment were
brought to battalion formation and, in
the midst of flying slate roofs and other
debris, they We're marched across the pa
rade ground to the substantial buildings,
where they were put at rest" and took
to the cellars.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
MURDER FARM IS A MAGNET.
Thousands Visit Scene of Slaughter
Officials Will Push Investigation.


Officials Will Push Investigation.
Lemuel barrow, mayor of LapOrte,
Ind, after a conference with prominent
citizens, has declared that the investi-
CATION into the Guinness murder mys-
terry would be pushed with greater
vigor. Said the mayor: Il suspect that
more tragedies will be discovered. We
intend to push this inquiry the way it
more centralized effort to solve this
mystery
Laporte of late has beeen a morbid
magnet. Morgues and morticians have
been the centers of attraction which
converted the city into show ground,
and the murder farm an exhibition
tract that would make a circus man
ager turn green with envy.
Thousands of curious persons, their
sOrdid cravings supreme, have tram
pied over the ruins, gaped at the open
graves in the Guinness yard and strug-
gled to tear down the doors of the
barn where the disarticulated skele-
tons of the credulous victims of Belle
Guinness blood passion and money lust
lay.
On the Sunday following the discov-
cry from dawn until darkness an alter
mating procession of humanity choked
the narrow winding thOroughfare
which leads from the town to the gore
stained scene. While hucksters, livery
men and souvenir vendors raked in the
shelles from the gay throng of holiday
torso SearcherS and human bone yard
picnickers, the agents of the law were
continuing the serious business of at
tempting to solve the mysterious crime
Two letters written to Mrs. Guinness
just before the fatal fire, which reach
ed the Laporte postoffice after the four
charred bodies had been removed from
the ruins, are now in the hands of the
authorities and some clews which may
lead to the discovery of co-conspirators
in her death-luring marriage bureau
are said to have been found in them
1t is the conviction of Sheriff Shutter
that Mrs. Guinness had some one asso-
ciated with her in the operation of her
marriage bureau. Perhaps it was Ray
Lamphere. He is suspected. The prob
ability that it might have been some
0ne else is not, however, being over
boxed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21

from 1.-The old paths" lest the founda-
lions of faith be undermined Out
OF the antagonism of these two ele-
mentS energies the decision as to what
stand the church shall take There
has been much talk that the Methodist
church is about to modify it's long
time attitude with reference to the
amusement question, and church peO-
pie of all denominations have been in
terested in the outcome of the discus
sions.
Another important and always in
terestinS matter is the naming of new
members of the board of bishops
During the last quadrennium Joyce,
McCabe and Fowler have passed
away. Other members are very old
and are ready to lay aside the work.
Much care has been exercised in Sc
lecting new men to take up the great
responsibilities in these offices.
Then there is the arranging of
the finances which will require the
most skilled management, and a null
titude of other matters which enter
into the general scheme of church
management and polity.
. This quadrennial General Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
commentaries the one hundredth ami
yersary of the organization or reorgani.
cation of that church upon the basis
of its present constitution, an achieve,
ment which also was effected at BaIti.
more and which marked not any radi-
cal transformation of the Church or
departure from the original Wesleyan
principles, but simply practical recog-
milton of the needs of an establishment
which was growing almost beyond prec-
edent and which felt the necessity Of
adapting its ways and means to it's eX>
banded status. The century since 1903
has been marked with continued
growth at an exceptional rate, until
that Church now considerably outnum-
bers any other Protestant denomination
in this country. No church-save fox
the unfortunate division between the
North and South, which, however. is
technical rather than spiritual or dog,
matic-is more truly national in scope
or more evenly distributed throughout
all parts of the Republic, in city and in
country and among all sorts and condi,
lions of men.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
METH0DIsTS IN CONFERENCE.
Quadrennial Meet at Baltimore In
One of Much Interest.
The general conference of the Meth

The general conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church is in session at
Baltimore. 1t is an imposing gather
ing. 1t convenes once in four years
and its sessions cover the month of
May.
1t is the law-making and governing
body of an ecclesiastical denomination
whose church spires point heavenward
in every country ON the face of the
globe. John Wesley, the founder Of
the church, declared that the world
was his parish and that spirit has ami
mated the church from the days of the
fathers. The church is noted for its
missionary zeal, and the amount Of
money sent to heather lands every
year is marvellous.
The conference is having many i'm
pOrtant matters to consider There is
always an element in every church de-
nomination which is ready to agitate
creed revision. One element is fear
full that the church win deteriorate
unless the articles of faith are mod
ern." Others hesitate about departing
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
Sustains Negro Dismissal.

The right of President Roosevelt sum-
marily to dismiss a negro soldier of the
Twenty-fifth infantry for alleged partici-
patton in the riot at Brownsville, Texas,
was sustained by Judge Hough in the
United States District Court in New
York. Judge IIough ordered verdict
against Oscar W. Bald the soldier who
sued the government to recover $122 as
wages from the date of his dismissal to
the expiration of his enlistment, holding
that the President had right to dismiss
the soldier
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
SHOTS FROM AMBUSH KILL TWO
Man Arrested Following Tragedy in
Woods in Northern New York.

The crash of a charge of buckshot
through window upon a party of card
players killed Jerry Apple in his little
cabin on Apples Island III black lake,
north of Watertown, n. Y, the other
night. As Apple fell a son-in-law, AL
bert Crowder, jumped to his feet. The
report of the shotgun again echoed
through the woods and Crowder fell dead.
Mrs. Royal Dunning, Apples daughter,
fled and escaped in spite of several
charges aimed in her direction. She
brought the news of the double tragedy
to Watertown after a night of terrified
flight through the woods. On her COM
plant her husband, Royal Dunning, with
whom she had quarreled, has been arrest
ed charged with murder. Dunning main
tains his innocence
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
ELEVEN KILLED BY STORM.
Tornado Blows Across Five States,
Cnusing LOSS of Life and PrOpertX.

biO"s AcFOSs rive
Causing Loss of Life and Property.
a wind storm starting in the south
west on Sunday swept through Texas,
Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois and Wiscon-
sin Sunday and Monday, killing at least
eleven men and women and destroying
thousands of dollars worth of property
and live stock. The storm was felt as
far south as Gainesville, Texas. At Lit
tie Robe, Okla, ]. E. Hale and his wife
were killed, two unidentified persons were
killed at Arnett, Okla, and DIR. ]. How
ser of Wei, Arthur Sibel of Mutual. Will
liam Hand of Estelle and Mrs. Young
of Selling complete the death list in Okla
homa. Reaching St. Louis, the storm
did considerable damage, but was chiefly
feared for its resemblance to the tornado
that destroyed a large portion of the city
on May 81, 1896. Mrs. Elizabeth
Gottsch was killed by falling timbers in
Illinois, and George Bull and one uniden-
titled man were slain in Wisconsin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
CavaIryman Kills Comrades.

A telegram received from Camp Stotes-
burg. Los Angeles, Pimpango province,
Island of Luzon, by the adjutant general
in Manila announced that Private Beach
am of the First United States cavalry
killed three and wounded three of his
comrades, one probably mortally. De-
tails of the tragedy are lacking, but it
is presumed that Beacham was insane
when he committed the deed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
MOSQUITOES DIE, SOLDIERS LIVE
Warfare on Deadly Pest Greatly Re-
duces Sickness Mt ARMY Posts

Warfare on Deadly Pest Greatly Re-
duces Sickness at Army Posts.
Careful attention to the eradication of
the mosquito and the destruction of its
breeding places, a thorough screening of
the buildings and the use of quinine by
army surgeons at Forts Hunt and Wash
ington, on the Potomac river, during the
year has resulted in a decided reduction Of
the sick rate. Last year those posts had
the highest sick rate from malarial fever
in military posts in the United States, but
through the efforts of the medical officers
the rate at Fort Washington has been
reduced to less than one-half of the pre-
ceding year, while the reduction at Fort
Hunt has been about one-third.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
Girl Fears DismiSsaI: Ends Life,

With one end of a rubber hose in her
mouth and the other attached to an open
gas jet. Virginia Paul, chorus girl, was
found dead in a theatrical boarding house
in Philadelphia. Miss Paul was young
and pretty. She was in the chorus of an
attraction now playing at a local theater,
and it is believed the fear of losing her
position caused her to end her life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
Lynch Negroes for Attack on White

Immediately following his preliminary
trial at Naples. Texas, on charge of
assault to murder and rob. John Will
liams. a negro, was taken by a mob and
hanged to a tree near the depot Viii
iiams was charged with assaulting a
white man.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
Cleveland Rank Closed.

The Reserve Trust Company made an
assignment in Cleveland TO the Superior
Savings and Trust Company. The liabili-
ties of the concern are about s.. 100000
Inability to realize on outstanding loans
Is said to have precipitated the failure
Officers of the bank say deposItorS will BE
paid in full.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
Double Shooting Ends Family Row

John Laughed. aged 40 years, living
apart from his 11-year-old wife, broke
into her bedroom in Toledo, Ohio. and
shot her, inflicting fatal wound, then,
turning the revolver blew out his own
brains. The couple had not been living
together for some time, the wife residing
with her mother. Laughed and his wife
were married two years ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
school Children in Revolt.

Three hundred pupils of the Morton
avenue public school, in Chester, Pa, re-
fused to enter the building on a recent
morning unless two teachers, Miss Annie
Anderson and Miss Anna j. Mcfarland,
were removed. The grievance against the
teachers is that they rode on a trolley
car of the Chester Traction Company, on
which there is a strike.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
Progress of Pennant Race in Base
Ball Leagues.

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
Hartman Answers Federal suft.

A general denial of the charges mad,
by the government in it's suit to dissolve
the Hartman system of railroads is CON
tanned in the answer filed by Mr.. Harri,
man himself at Salt Lake. Answers also
were filed by W. \. Clarke and other Off
Gals of the roads comprising said system.
Hartman denies that he, with Schiff,
Kahn, Stillman and others, ever owned
or controlled majority of the stock of
the Union Pacific or that they conspired
to restrain trade between the several
States. While admitting that the Union
Pacific acquired control of various lines,
he says the purpose was not to monop-
Ollie trade. He denies, further, that the
rail lines of the Southern Pacific are in
competition with the ships of the Oregon
Railroad and Navigation Company, and
that the ships of the Portland and Asiatic
Company were ever in competition with
the Pacific Mail lines. He admits that
the Union Pacific is a competitor with the
Santa 70
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
Mrs. III. Gould,s Father Dies.

Seldom 2. Clemmons, father of Mrs.
Howard Gould of New York, died at
Central hospital for the insane in Jack
sonville, ILL.,, at the age of 30 years. He
was brought to the hospital March in
a pitiable condition, being stone blind.
His home was formerly in Milton, Pike
county. Mr.. Clemmons has another
daughter, who married a Chinaman in
San Francisco.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
Bank Robbcr Breaks Jail.

During a storm Clyde Reed, in Jail at
Platte City, Mo-, awaiting trial for the
robbery of the Bank of Camden Point.
Mo-, made his escape by saving through
the iron bars of his cell. Harry C. Meal
also is under arrest in connection with
the case, together with Louis H. Thayer.
who was caught in Chicago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
No Drinks for Tricks Miners.

We IL. c. Frick Coke Company. a
subsidiary of the United States Steel Cor
poration, has ordered into effect a new
code of rules governing its mines and
miners. the most remarkable provision of
which is the prohibiting of the company's
miners from drinking intoxicants, whether
or duty or off
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
BUYS LARGE FUEL FIELD.
BOSTON Concern Pays 81 100000 for
Property Of the Federal ComDnny

property OF the Federal Company.
The property of the Federal Coal and
Coke Company near Fairmonr, ~ IA.
has been purchased by the New England
Gas and Coke Company OF Boston for
$1,2j000O spot cash. The purchaser one
OF the largest concerns of its kind in the
country, which controls the coke and gas
business of Boston and surrounding
towns, will cxpend S7jO0OO in the de-
velopment of the property. The purchase
includes 300 acres of exceptionally good
gas and coal fields. situated twelve miles
south of Fairmont. on a branch of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The field
has 300 acres of surface containing a
nine-foot vein of coal. The selling com
pany was controlled by Pittsburg CAPT
taliSts
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
Adopt n Law to Fix Wages.

The Oklahoma House has accepted the
Senate bill demanded by the union labor
people of the State. The bill provides
that all business concerns must report
their business in detail and total to the
labor commissioner and gives the latter
absolute power to fix wages.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21

Rear Admiral Robley d. Evans. COM
mander in chief of the Atlantic fleet,
closed his long sea career Friday when
he went aboard his flagship. the Connect
cut. for the last time to be present at
the review of the combined Atlantic and
Pacific fleets by Secretary of the Navy
Metcalf at San Francisco.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
Montana Homes for Settlers.

Howard Elliott, president of the North
ern Pacific. who has been in Helena,
Mont, for two days, said that his COM
pany would throw open Immediately 2OO,-
600 acres of land near Glendive, and in
the near future 100000 acres near Bill
lings. The company will endeavor to
bring in only actual settlers, the deeds
being conditional on residence
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
Tenant Stays in Fight for Home,

James Brown, a stockman, was shot
and killed by r. NJ. Cotterman, a tenant
whom he was trying to eject from his
home near Galveston, Ind. Cotterman
surrendered to a deputy sheriff who ac-
companied Brown.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
AIDS IN FATHERS UNDOING.
Sixteen-Y ear-O1d Boy Exposes Sire's
Fraudulent Practices.

James I. Mulhall, whose use of the
mails in fhrtherance of a fraud. from
which he is alleged to have netted $780,
600 in twenty years, was betrayed by his
son, is years old is believed to be under
arrest in Venice. Cal. The son, Joseph,
testified last January before United States
Commissioner Foote in Chicago to his
fathers wrongdoing, but before the an
thorities could act the father had fled.
Joseph then lent his aid in tracing him.
The boy charged that he had been beaten
and otherwise abused and forced to aid
in his fathers schemes. Mulhall is al
legged to have heeced farmers in Mime
sofa in a fraudulent egg and butter COM
mission scheme, under the name of the
Nicolnt Creamery Company.