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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-28
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VTRWOWI NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


Barre's Good Government club starts
with membership OF 250.
Grand Isle county sees prospects of a
bumper annie crop as the trees are bios
so"''"s Iu''
Fire which dostrovcd a dvoIlinp az
Fowler last week ate I'M s5oo which Raj.
fael Monte had stored in a TRUNK
1t cost Clarence Huntlcy OF Water
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The oldest resident Of Bennington
county died last week. Mrs Jennie Winin
l'owrie. aged 81 years. She was born
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Petitions filed In bankruptcy with the
clerk of the United States court at Rut-
land are those of Joseph r. Rodney.
Roxhury fish dealer. whose liabilities are
s1,136 and assets N.5io and Of Lulu +
liabilities of &, 7os and assets Of sso5
Inc dea'h or george W. bassett or.
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Keepers IN central vermont ior many
Mrs James Barrett aged Sc years. died
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cause "i death She was the WHO" OF
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three years old, went on an exploring
expedition at Dr. III. n. Corwins while
the latter and family were absent.
Frederick struck the doctor office the
first clip and helped himself to morphine
tablcts which nearly killed him.
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-28
CITY NEWS

Mrs. J. I. Fugere has received word
Of the death in Denver. Coo of her
sister. Mrs. J. j. Mulqueen. formerly OF
Burlington. The body was brought
here for burial.
The case OF j. W Page Va. c. w.
Fuller. apt. and V A. Billiard and G. y
Wetherby trustees. an action of general
assumpslt, was entered Friday in Chit
tendon county court
The usual Memorial sermon to STAN
bard Post, q. A, r.. WAS this year preach
ed by the Rev. T. J. Barrett. at St
Marys Cathedral last sunday evening
his theme being brothcrly love.
r. + Davis, who has been employed
on the Louisville Il Nashville railroad
has been appointed night operator and
ticket clerk at the local station to succeed
w ". Rodgers. who lately resigned
The following cases were entered Satur-
day in Chittenden county court; George
w. Irish vs.. Gilbert DcCamp apt. &C
ton of book account; +. n. McGennis Va,
r. T. Ennis and wife, action Of as
sumpsit.
In city court Tuesday judgement
was rendered in the case Of Peter NJ
Campbell vs. Adolphus King for the
p'aintif to recover 400. tho amount
of board bin. and costs of s9.6s.
W. W. Rodgers finished his duties as
night clerk at the local railroad station
yesterday and left for Lake Placid. n.
Y, where he has a position for the sum
ner.
William Pasha. Battery street
rouL gsto- was Yesterday committed 70
upon his plea of being guilty Of ha bitual
truancy.
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he case against him was continued I'M
VI to-day
The Burlington Philharmonic chorus Of
eoo voices under the direction oc y p.
coffin ~ hoene. y. H.. and assisted hv
eoloists from New York Boston and
Montreal gave two fine concerts at the
strong theatre Monday.
Annie Dougherty. arraigued in city
court Tuesday pleaded guilty to- be
Ing intoxicated and was fined 81 and
costs Of s745. Israel Provost, who
pleaded guilty to a similar offence.
VAS fined s. and costs Of sS45.
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-16
NEW YORK

Rather more than usual post-hoiday
quiet is reported in general trade and in
dustry, but the financial situation shows
continued betterment. Reduction sales
stimulate retail trade at some cities, buS
mild weather limits seasonable distribu-
ton at the Northwest, while holding of
cotton affects retail trade and collections
at the South. Money is more easily OBJ
tainable for business purposes at large
centers.
Business in dry goods and clothing is
hight, as whole. but the tone of that
trade is more confident than month
ago. The leather trade is quiet, with sole
leather stocks small. owing to curtailment
OF output, but stocks of hides are large.
The wholesalers are not buying freely,
but the per cent reduction in 1907 ship
ments would indicate that stocks are not
heavy.
Business failures for the week ending
Jan. number $40, against 24S last week,
lS5 in the like week of 1907, 900 in
1906, 21S in 1905 and 262 in 1904. In
Canada failures for the week number -.
as against 30 last week and IS in this
week year ago.-Bradstreet' Report.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-16
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CHICAGO


Inc holidays brought the usual easing
OH In business activity, but the new year
opened up with the general indications
more clearly defined and encouraging.
Clearance sales in the leading retail lines
reflect no special pressure in the offerings.
particularly of heavyweight apparel, and
the buying is satisfactory. Wholesale
branches have hurried inventories and
prepared for departure of road statesmen.
Some manufacturers took more time for
necessary repairs to machinery. and the
number of hands made idle increased. but
assumptions next week will bring relief
TO the temporary depression in iron and
STEEL
The annual stock taking thus far dis
closes snug conditions in both producing
and distributive trades, there being fair
profit results and no serious overaccumu-
lation of products.
January disbursements in dividends and
interest are exceptionally large, and there
is more effort to obtain better circulation
OF currency and further loosening of the
strlngency. Mercantile collections in the
west remain slow and assistance is not
lntrequently needed to tide over diff
cultles, yet the default record for this dis
trlct exhibits no discouraging increase in
numbers.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
Irlct number ". against % last week and
- year ago. Those with liabilities over
$1,000 number only /, against Z last week
and in 1901.-Dun's Review.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-16
TOLD IN A FEW LINES.

The Russian war department has Or
dered the formation of a military auto
mobile corps, to be based on the German
model.
Pierre Jules Cesar Jansen, the cele-
brated French scientist and director of
the Meubon observatory, is dead in Paris.
He was born in 1924.
w. n. Williams. member of the board
of review of Columbus, Ohio, died of a
stroke of paralysis. He was one of the
best known Democratic politicians in
Ohio.
Gov. Harris of Ohio pardoned William
Houck, serving life sentence on convic-
ton of the murder of Mrs. Sarah Hess, at
Bladensburg. Knox county.
Thomas w. Lawson OF Boston an
nounces that he is going TO start new
political party and run Roosevelt for
President and Gov. John A. johnson of
Minnesota for Vice President.
Elinor Glyn. the English writer, whose
book, Three Weeks was the cause of
her being snubbed by the Pilgrim Moth
ers in New York, calls the mothers, in an
interview, IAN aggregation of dowds,
frumps and tabby cats-a lot of breast.
less, slab-hipped. pancake-footed rights
of things"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-16
Meningitis Cure Verified.

The numerous favorable reports con-
corning the cure for cerebro-spinal menin-
gifts discovered by DR.. Simon F1exner of
the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re
search are now officially and authorita-
lively verified in the announcement made
in the official journal of the institute.
While no claim of infaliibiity is made,
the results have been such as to prove
the great efficacy of the remedy, and DR..
Flexner and his associates feel sure that
it will prove one of the greatest benefac-
tons to mankind. The Board Of Health
of New York City has been cooperating
with DIR. F'lexner in his Investigations
and it is said that the city has furnished
the doctor with nearly fifty monkeys,
which animals were used in experiments
because of their anatomical resemblance
to the human race
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-16
FACTS ABOUT : /: i:
/: : THE CENSUS.


Though we are still getting bulletins
and reports based on the census of 1900.
the time has come to begin active prepare
tons for the enumeration of 1910. Bills
have been introduced covering the main
features of the next census, and an APP
preparation of S14.OOO,OOO will be asked.
1t is nearly five years since perma-
nent census Office was established. The
maintenance of a sort of skeleton organ
ization should make for economy, system
and superior efficiency during the next
census and the tabulation and publica-
ton of its results. 1t is proposed to re-
strict the inquiries to population. agrIcul-
ture, manufacturing. mines and quarries.
All sorts of suggestions have been made
for particular and additional inquiries,
but while the utility of some OF them is
undoubted, limitation is deemed necessary
in the interest of accuracy, speed and
economy.
To complete the work of enumeration
in a shorter period than usual, it is pro-
posed to employ $1,000 enumerators in
stead of $4,000, the number employed IN
1900 Thirty-five hundred clerks and $50
supervisors will be required and an effort
is TO be made to secure high-class men
for the various branches of the work. A
census generally brings a scramble for
patronage" each member of Congress ex-
Meeting to nominate certain number of
clerks and to use pull where the applI-
cant's qualifications are not up to the
standard. This time it is proposed TO dis
regard political affiliations and TO hold ex-
aminations for clerical positions tof the
competitive kind) under the direction
of the civil service commission. 1t IS
further provided that the director may
give preference to persons of previous ex-
perience and good records in census work.
While these tests do not err on the side
of strictness. the spoilsmen of the old
school are expected to find them too dras-
tic. so that a fight against features prom
ising efficiency is not improbable. The
supervisors are to be appointed by the
President and paid fair salaries. They
will in turn nominate the enumerators,
the appointment of such nominees being
left to the director-Chicago Record-Her-
AID
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-16
MOUNT ROYAL is IN PORT.


Canadian Steamer Missing Month
Is at Queenstown.
The long overdue steamer Mount Royal
put into Queenstown Tuesday and the
news of her safety was received with re-
joicing in shipping circles. She had not
been heard from in many days. having
been reported last off the Lizard Dec. 10.
Watch was being kept for her on both
sides of the Atlantic and as far south as
Bermuda. The Mount Royal belongs 70
the Canadian Pacific Railways Atlantic
service. She left Antwerp Dec. Z for
ST. John. y. B., and had on board 800
Hungarian emigrants and a crew Of
about 100 men. She was first definitely
sighted off Old Head of Kinsdale, six
teen miles west of Queenstown, and was
then proceeding slowly under her own
steam. She declined the help of a tug
sent out TO assist her. Trouble with her
boilers compelled the Mount Royal TO put
back. She is at best a slow boat, and
shortly after leaving the British coast
encountered violent gales. The vessel
battled with the heavy seas for fort
night, until Christmas eve, when serious
trouble with her boilers developed. The
steamer was then in longitude "a 80 west
and latitude AZ north. The engine-room
force succeeded in obtaining a moderate
supply of steam, but the weather was
such that the captain reluctantly decided
to make for the Irish coast.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-16
Neglect Making of Alcohol.

The report of the commissioner of inter-
nal revenue shows that since the passage
of the free denatured alcohol bill only ten
mills have been set up for turning out
this product. notwithstanding the fact
that the Treasury Department has sent
out pamphlets instructing the farmers
how TO manufacture the spirits. While
the distilleries are permitted to use any
material whatever in producing this spirit,
the product so far has been mainly from
corn. 1t is said that in Germany there
are about 10000 farm distilleries produc-
ing industrial alcohol. which is sold to
consumers for about 81 cents gallon.
while in this country the average price in
barrel lots is SO cents gallon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-16
SHORT NEWS NOTES.

Twelve men arrested in Camden. Y.
J., charged with stealing and carrying off
two-story house.
On account of the easier money market
the Reading Railroad Company announc-
ed at Reading, Pa, it would pay it's shop
bands in cash. Other employees will be
paid in checks.
The Bishop of london, who made such
a notable visit to this country in Sep
TENDER, is now planning to tour Russia
and visit some chaplaincies in that coun-
try.
Officers of the st. Louis insane asylum
took a party Of women, suffering from
insanity in its milder forms, on a shop
ping tour. The experiment was found
beneficial.
Prof Oscar Lassar. well-known der
matologist and member of the Berlin
university faculty, died in Berlin as a
result of hurts received in an automobile
accident recently.
Experts have decided that the famous
st. Paul's cathedral, in London, is safe
so long as the buildings around it are
not disturbed and thus ends long con-
troversy.
Mary King, aged 8 years, of Philadel-
phia. in trying to kiss fish in a large
globe. upset the vessel. which, topping
over. struck her on the head, causing con-
cussion of the brain.
Col. John Jacob Astor has just spent
$4,000 for private clubhouse on his
Hudson river estate, where his guests
may play tennis as well protected from
the weather as they are in the indoor
courts of the racket club in New York
The Salvation Army in England in the
last year has added directly or indirectly
2O.SS3 women, 3,162 of them having been
taken into the rescue homes, and no few
er than 2,164 have turned out well.
4 hog weighing $40 pounds, fed in
Brooklyn, y. Y, on beer and whisky by
some jokers, knocked over two policemen,
boarded trolley car and caused a panic,
and was finally caught by a reserve force
of twenty policemen.
A newspaper. clipping forwarded by
Consul Harry A. Conant Of Windsor
states that many depositors from the
United States have been opening accounts
IN Canadian banks. and especially in
branches in that city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-16
UEz l%kA|[2saIz[ERS
SR: -AGG~

Chicago-Cattle, common to PRIME
$500 to $685.; hogs, prime heavy, $500
TO S4JJ; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to 1923; wheat, No. ,. 99c to S1.O0;
corn, No. ,, JSc to SOC; oats standard,
Ace to soc; rye, No. =. Sic to S3c hay,
timothy. $3.50 to $1,000; prairie, $500
to $500; butter, choice creamery, 24c
to 29c; eggs, fresh. 25c to 30c; potatoes,
per bushel, soc to 60c.
Indanapolis-Ca Cattle, shipping, $500
to $500: hogs, good to choice heavy,
500 to $4.60; sheep, common to prime,
$500 to $40; wheat, No. 2, Csc TO 99c !;
corn, No. white, :J5c to JGc; oats, No. ,
white, 49c to sic.
st Lous-Cattle, S4.50 to 5000; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to $500;
wheat, No. =. $1.04 to S1.05; corn No. >,
soc TO SIC; oats, No. =, 49c to ole; rye,
No. 2, 75c to Toe.
Cincinnati-Cattle, S4.OO to $40;
hogs. S4O0 to S4.75; sheep, $500 to
$40; wheat, No. ., S1O2 to S1.O4: corn,
No. = mixed soc to sc; oats, No. .
mixed. SOC to ole; rye No. 2, Sic to SIC.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $3.50: hogs,
S4.O0 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to SI.25;
wheat, No. ,, STOP to S1.03; corn, No. 3
yellow, Gle to 62c; oats. No. 3 white,
Ole to 53c; rye, No. >, Sic to see.
Milwaukec-Wheat, No. northern,
S1.O9 TO Sill; corn. No. 8, SIC to J9c;
oats, standard 49c TO 51c: rye, No. l.,
SIC to Sic; barley, No. =, S1.0l to $1.04
pork, mess, $1247.
Buffalo-CattIe, choice shipping steers.
SI00 TO SJ.75; hogs. fair to choice, $3.50
to S4.7J: sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $3.50.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $3.50 to $40; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. . red, S1.O5 to S1.O6;
corn, No. ., &c to 69c; oats. natural
white. SIC 10 SIC; butter, creamery, 2jc
to soc; eggs, western, 24c to 2Sc.
Toledo-Wheat, No. mixed, $100 to
S1.02; corn. No. 2 mixed, 59c to Gle;
oats. No. 2 mixed, Sc to 54c; rye No.
2, SOC to SEE: clover seed, prime, $1,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-16
MANY MEN UNEMPLOYED

Canvass i'm Chicago Shows $500
More Idle than Year Ago.
A careful canvass of the labor situation
in Chicago revealed the fact that there
are in the city 1880 idle working peo-
pie. There are normally $4,000 men out
of work at this season of the year, name
Iy, those whose employment ceased in the
winter time, so that the number of men
idle as a result of business depression is
$3.50. The associated building trades,
with 81 affiliated unions, shows $4,000
out of work, against an absolute scarcity
of men one year ago. The teamsters
have the next highest number, $1,000 idle
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-16
HOSPITAL FIRE KILLS THREE.

Scores OF Patients Frenzied by
Flames that Destroy Laundry.
Three persons lost their lives by fire
which destroyed one of the buildings of
the French hospital in San Francisco.
The main hospital building. which held
many patients, was for a time seriously
threatened. There was a panic among the
patients, but they were removed as fast
as possible by nurses. 1t is believed one
of the dead was the wife of Michael
Franco. The others were laundry en-
ployes. The building was a two-story
brick and was used as a laundry and
for the electric power plant of the hos
pital. The fire is believed to have started
through a defective 1ue. The loss was
more than $4,000 on the building.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-16
MINERS ENTOMBED FOR WEEKS.
Three Men Buried a Thousand Feet
Underground in Nevada.

One morning early in December a
sudden crash of timbers, muffied
clatter of rock and cloud of dust told
the engineer of the Alpha mine. near
| Ely, New, that the five men he had
just sent down in the cage were buried
He gave the alarm and a thousand
men, eager to be of service, gathered
about the shaft. Supt. Gallagher care
fully picked the men he wanted, mott
fed others that he might call upon
them later and at once began efforts to
communicate with the entOmbed men,
hoping some might have escaped death.
Before nightfall he learned that two
Greeks were caught in the cave-in and
buried alive, but that the three Ameri-
cans, Bradley, Brown and Mcdonald,
were in no immediate danger A six
inch pipe runs from the mouth of the
shaft to the bottom and by removing
the cap from its base the imprisoned
men managed to talk with Gallagher.
They told him they had little food
and water enough for two or three
days.
With rubber devices Gallagher passed
food and liquids down the pipe and
was soon able to supply the men. He
started drift toward them and ut
first it seemed probable that he would
reach them in 4 week. Before that
time the unforeseen happened and the
rescuers were compelled to make new
plans. 1t was then announced that ten
days would be sufficient to get to the
miners, but fresh accidents beyond the
pale of prevention delayed the work
erS. Now Gallagher declines to make
predictions and simply says that he
has strength to direct it. The men
can be saved, he declares, and he will
save them.
The entombed miners spend their
long days far more cheerfully than
might be expected in such circum-
! stances. To safeguard them in case
the rescue party is delayed Supt. Gal
lagner has supplied them with enough
provisions to last three weeks. They
receive cooked food, eggs. milk. and
tobacco by means of siX-inch pipe
running down the shaft. They have
connected the mine telephone with an
| electric cable. and are able to talk daily
with their families and friends They
are we'll supplied with news, and have
shown much interest in the Goldfield
crisis. They have plenty of light and
room to move about, so that if they
| can endure the long delay they can
wait for rescue with confidence and
comparative comfort.
The rescue party itself has dangers
| to face A cavern below the tempo,
rary platform of timbers upon which it
| is working might precipitate it hun
| dredS of feet. Each man works with
a rope about his waist. SO that if all
suddenly find themselves without any
footing they can be hauled to safety.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-16
OIL WONDER OF THE WORLD.
Indian Territory Has Great
Wealth Producer in Glenn Pool.


Wealth Producer in Glenn Pool.
Nothing in the history of oil discov-
cries in the United States equals the
record of the Glenn pool. near Tulsa,
l. t. There are in operation LIS
wells, which produce a daily average
of 167,700 barrels, and in sixteen
months have sent to market 25,000,000
barrels. Land which in December,
1905, was worth 500 per acre now
brings $500 per acre. Three good
sized towns have been built from the
reflex prosperity of the pools. Glenn
pool is one of the wonders of the world
to men in the business of petroleum,
and men have come from all over the
world to see it. Glenn pool is not only
the most productive pool in the world,
but it is the largest in area. Up to
this time the proven territory covers
some 1900 acres. Rigs are still going
business think they have the lines pref
" well defined along comes a well
away off from production, which eX-
tends the limits of the pool by from
one to three miles. So nobody knows
anything about the limits of the pool
except that up TO this time 1900 acres
have been proven up.
Millions of dollars have been spent
in the development of the pool and
millions of dollars have been made out
of it. The pipe lines and the equip
ment run into money as rapidly as wa
ter runs down hill. 1t costs $1,000 to
drill and equip well. Then it costs
something for the lease and something
for the tankage. To drill and equip
each SO-acre lease takes close to $780,,
600 in real money. But the pool gives
it all back again. A real good well will
pay for itself in five or ten days
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-16
Tie Up Eddy Charity.

4 new turn has been given to the re-
Gently expressed intention of Mrs. Mary
Baker Eddy to bestow 100000 for the
founding of an institution TO be used as
a training school for poor people who
desire to become Christian Science heal
ers by the formal notice served upon
Trustees Mcclellan. Fernald and Baker,
having in charge Mrs. Eddy's estate, or
dering them not to make the gift recently
announced or any other appropriation
from Mrs. Eddy's estate pending the
outcome of litigation