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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18
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A project to organize a labor protective
league is on foot in Boston, Mass.
A general strike of carmen and motor
drivers has been declared in BudaPesth,
Hungary.
Unemployed benefits to the amount of
| 100000 were paid By the Cigarmakers'
International Union in the last fiscal
year.
For the last fiscal year, although sur
| rendering eleven charters and issuing only
eight, the Cigarmakers' International
Union gained POO in membership.
The cotton dispute cost the General
| Federation of British Trade Unions $780,
600, and left a balance of 100000, to
which has been added the last quarter
contributions, amounting to about $780,
| 600.
Additional death benefits of $3.50 for a
membership of seven or more years, and
and $500 for one of ten or more years
have been established by the Brotherhood
| of Painters, Decorators and Paperhang-
| ers.
The official reports for 1908 of the
Amalga Association of Street and
Electric Railway Employees of America
show an increase in membership of 49,
| 4Oi. The total increase in wages for the
year was 100000.
According to decision of the Build
| ing Trades Council of Greater New
York, the Grave Diggers' Union does not
come under the head of building trades,
and they were, therefore, refused admit
lance to the council.
The National Federation of Postoffice
| Clerks is planning to erect a home for its
aged and wornout members.
The Musical Mutual Protective Union
| has adopted an amendment to its consti-
tuition which exempts from all dues and
! assessments members over so years of age
| who have been members of the union
| twenty-five consecutive years.
Should the plans of the United Associa-
| ton of Journeymen Plumbers, Gas and
| Steam Filters succeed. these industries
| will all be under one head, thus making
the union one of the largest belonging to
| the American Federation of Labor.
| There are now eleven railroad organi-
cations affiliated with the railway depart
ment of the American Federation of La
| Dor.
San Francisco (Cal) Stablemen's I'm
| ion has decided TO start a campaign for
| the unionizing of all men in the stables
| of the city.
A great victory is recorded in favor of
industrial peace in England by the con-
stituticn of a Cancellation board for iron
| founders throughout Lancashire.
The proposed consolidation of the Cen
trail Labor Union and the Federation of
Labor of Brooklyn, \. Y, has the appear
| ance of an accomplished fact.
On the night before his Inauguration
as President Mr.. Taft was the guest of
| about 200 Yale graduates, who held a
! smoker at the New Willard After re-
| rring to the fact that he was the first
Yale man to be elected President, Taft
| expressed the hope that he would over
come the difficulties in his official path
''by the exercise Of common sense, a
| sense Of proportion and an absence of
swell-headedness all of which are incul-
Gated at Yale" He hoped he was GO
ing to make good. and that he could
stand just criticism and improve by it,
| and at the same time not to care a darn
| for luiuSt cririciSm.'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18
NJariueffe SIasher parOIeI.

Charles Strutz. known as Jack the
Slasher." has been paroled from the
Northern Hospital for Insane and has
returned to his home in Marinette. For
months women complained to the police
that valuable dress skirts had been slash
ed while they traversed the streets or
shopped.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18
BIG BOOTS SAVE LIFE.
Man Jerks Foot Away While Cog
wheels Crush Big COwhides.

wheels Crush Big COwhides.
Few people wear boots nowadays, but
it is to this happy circumstance that
Charles Kastern owes his life. Mr.. Kas-
ten was walking about the machinery in
his mill in Eau Claire. He slipped near
one of the machines and one of his feet
became caught in some cOgwheels and he
was being drawn into the machinery to
certain death when he gave one mighty
pull when he felt his foot being squeezed
by the wheels and the imperiled member
shipped from the boot and Mr.. hasten
was saved while the boot was ground up
in the machine
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18
To Regulate OpfOmetry.

Senator Bodenstab succeeded in hay-
ing his bill regulating the practice of
optometry, which had been recommend
ed for indefinite postponement, re-re-
ferred to the committee on public
health.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18

eracy day the ideals Of business and political life
the rise They invite comparison with those OF
other Of their predecessors and ancestors Our political
heroes to-day Taeyrands to declare that the
qualification successful statesman is the ability
to lie And the merchants Of to-day have so far aban-
doned methods primitive commercialism the
moving Of prices and kindred ideas that they find
1t difficult trade with the nations which have NOT
adopted their own, the modern system.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18
GIRL BURNED TO DEATH.
Almond Young Woman Attempts to
Start Fire by Use of Kerosene.

While lighting fire with kerosene at
the home of her grandmother in Almond.
Miss Emma Whitman was fatally burned
The clothes of the young women caught
fire and after Intellectual attempts to
Quench the flames she rushed from the
house into the yard. Here she attempted
to put out the fire by rolling in the snow,
but the flames had gained such Roadway
that her clothes were burned almost COM
pletely off her body before help arrived.
Miss Whitman died several hours later
iE great agony.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18
Retirex After Fifty Years.

Michael Howard. for fifty years an
employa of the St. Paul road. has given
up his position as -ateman in Beloit. His
first job was laying tracks for the road
at BeIoit in 1854 when the road was
called the Racine and Mississippi road.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18
Present Widow wit hRcsideDce.

Citizens presented to Mrs. Samuel
Brown and family, of Chippewa Falls a
residence in memory of the late Mr..
Brown. pastor of the Presbyterian
Church. Those who contributed to the
fund for the memorial are among mem
bers of all churches and classes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18
THE NATION OF MONEY TO BURN.
By Samuel II. Adams.

low long shall we, as nation continue to
make good the vulgar boast that we have
money to burn? Surely we have. with our
billion dollars given to flame and smoke in the
past ten years, sufficiently established our pri-
macy in wastefulness. The idea has taken too
firm a hold upon us that fire is necessary
evil" A lothsome alocution that! respon-
sibiIity- shifting lie, paralleling the dispense
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18
Kills Intruder in Home.

William Buckley, finding George
Schultz. Gillette, with his wife in the
early morning hours when he returned
from work unexpectedly. after short
battle with the intruder seized a shotgun
and killed Schultz.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18
VIII Organize Picket Post.

Fred s. Lowell Post Of kenosna IS 10
organize a picket post of the Grand Army
of Genoa Junction. with au enrolment
If sixteen. That makes an increase in
the membership of Lowell Post since last
June OF thirty-three, the largest gain Of
any post in the department.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18
Killed hx stray stacs.

Michael Drummer. a prominent Thorpe
farmer. was killed by a falling straw
stack while doing chores. and when found
by neighbors a short time after the acct
dent life was extinct from smothering.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18
Trade stamp Bill II In.

AsSembIyman Curtiss Of Kenosla
would prevent frauds in the trading
stamp business. lie has a bill which
provides that after july 1. 1909 it shall
be unlawful to carry on such trading
stamp business unless the firm or cor
poration shall have at least $1OO,O02
caDitaI stock in cash. The bill would
put these concerns on a licensed basis,
as insurance companies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18

4 two days meeting for farmers and
horticulturists Of the county. at which
r. A. Moore and other State officials win
attend. is announced at 1Ianitowoc for
March 10 and 20. The meeting is under
the auspices of the County Agricultural
Society.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18
Rock County sIan Disappears.

Leaving note saying, Rock River is
my old. friend Peter knutson. aged 30,
Of Door township. has disappeared. It Is
believed he took the proceeds Of load
of corn and left the country. leaving the
note rs a blind. He abandoned his yong
wife and child.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18
s4t.ctzs sheriff and Escapes.

After knocking down 81 riff Hall, Ed
Harten. held in connection with the as
sault On and robbery of George Chase,
escaped from jail in Monroe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18
INSISTS LINCOLN SHOT HIM.
Mans Reason Overthrow by Read
ing of Recent Centennial.

ing of Recent Centennial.
Rudolph Scheele of the village of Sill
yer Lake was adjudged insane in the
County Court in Kenosha. and sent to the
State hospital at Mendoza. He insisted
that he had been shot by President Abra-
ham Lincoln. and it is thought that the
large amount of reading he had been do
inc on the recent Lincoln celebration aid
ed in dethroning his reason. lie is now
suffering from an acute religious mania
and talks necessarily.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18

supply Of the country viii not last longer than twenty
five thirty years
though foreign invader, some deadly
pest, should suddenly appear shores and ravage
the entire OF the country at the rate OF two
States year. until every tree gone Do you i'm
agine for instant that the years by in
this great question will become less vital,
less personal than it is today?-Success.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18
THE MENACE OF A WOOD FAMINE
By Roland Phillips.

To-day, to supply public needs and to NIL
their own pockets, individual exploiters are
sweeping away the forests three times as fast
as they grow. This means that many Of the
hard woods already gone; that the total
supply of hard wood, which used to furnish
the better-grade furniture, fittings, and so on,
will be exhausted, for commercial purposes.
within fifteen years; and that the entire wood
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18
WORLD CONSTANTLY GROWING BETTER.
BY Ada May Krecker,

So soon as we look at our own times with
the historical perspective they seem different
And they seem better. They are contrasted
with the past, and the favorable changes that
have taken place in the meantime are clearly
exposed. They receive from the past the light
that is needed in order to set into relief the
present. Without this light from the past the
present is easily misunderstood. Modern peo-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18

The amateur gardener raises more
blisters than vegetables.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18

Employment Office for Farm Labor.
Senator Thomas bill creating an en-
ployment office for farm labor was re
ported for passage by the committee on
manufactures and labor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18

People always behave themselves a
little better when they get to thinking
seriously Of Judgment Day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18
RACE NEEDS IMPROVING.
By Prot. Charles Zuebifn'

We are not witnessing any marked improve
ment in the human race as compared Win
four or ter thousand years ago. Win our
scientific knowledge of to-day we ought 10 see
ar improvement which is beyond what we
see among favored people, Increased stature,
In yigor, in mental endowments, because OF
their peculiarly favored circumstances. We DO
not kno. enough to perfect the human race,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18

pie Insist upon learning something about their times
And then they verify the old that little learning
is dangerous thing For they have discovered the Ills
of our own time without relating them the greater Ills
of the other times.
For all the pessimism abroad regarding the degen-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18

but we know enough to begin Our chief obligation In
this life is the care children 1t should be chief
il spiritual satisfa ctions
There ia no other equal to enjoyment of the of
children We must give little children fine
cepton Of the least of human relationships If
to expect them fulfill their obligations the greatest.
Therefore they be trained in citizenship the girls
as well the boys
We have often had presented to the contract be-
tween the beautiful free life of the country and the rich
uany-sided life Of the city. Most city people would
dread isolation Of the country and the country people
afraid Of the oyercrowding OF the city There ought
not be either the the other. The con-
slider the beautiful positive contributions Of rural life
become convinced they ought be the
possession Of the city people. and the the
schools libraries churches newspapers music halls and
all the other opportunities Of city e the be-
convinced they ought be the possession of
the country people.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18

For s. steam viii do the work
which would cost $500 if done by
hand
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-11
THE FUTURE ISSUE:
WILL BE A WINNER
New Orleans States-)


1t is evident that Mr.. Bryan has
taken note Of the intense dissatisfac-
ton with the AIdrich tariff law among
Republicans OF the west for in a re
cent issue of the COmmOner he urges
that a tariff for revenue be made the
DemOcTacy's issue and that il be en-
phaSlzed in the congressional cam
palgn next year. This IS good advice.
because the only great victory won
by the Democratic party since the
civil war was when il made IFS attack
III 1892 against the policy of pTOteC-
ton
Governor Johnson. Of Minnesota.
also appreciates the wisdom OF MAX
ing tariff for revenue the over
shadOwing issue in the imm adiate fu-
ture, because on his lecture tour he
found the west exceedingly bitter
against the tariff juggIeTs on account
OF their betrayal of the interests of
the people In an interview with a
Chicago paper a few days ago he said
there Is no doubt about the extreme
unpOpularity of the AIdrich tariff in
the states he had visited since the
bill passed. and these states include
Illinois. Iowa. Missouri Wisconsin
Nebraska, Kansas. Idaho. Montana
North and South Dakota.
L have talked with thousands of
men, said Governor Johnson. land l
have not found one who would defend
the law. Republicans and Democrats
all denOunce 1t as outrageous. No
plain citizen and no OffiCehOlders try
to defend it. Indeed the Republicans
seem to be the most resentfuI. for
they feel that it is up to them to
apologize for it and they do not like
oil % -
excuse the Republican leaders in con-
gress, and in my opinion no successful
attempts to do so can be made. The
next congress will inevitably be
Democratic "
There has been much plain talk in
the west about the way in which the
Republican leaders in congress have
repudiated the pledges of their party
and framed the tariff bill for the ben
eft Of the protected interests A
short time ago We quoted that stall
wart Republican newspaper. the Chi
caso Tribune, as charging that the
senate in adopting the wooden sched-
ule merely ratified the decision reach
ed by the wool growers and the wool
EN- manufacturers when their repre-
sentatives held a meeting in Chicago
last October, hence the hearings be
LCl = IuC way > anu 4ltduS CCUlIllLJee
were farce and the senatorial de-
bate was a sham battle
But the Republican newspapers in
Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin and other
states of the middle west are even
more bitter in their denunciatiOns Of
the fraud and trickeTy to which the
Republican leaders in congress re-
sorted in order to prevent a down
ward revision Of the tariff rates.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-11
HANDLED BIG PIECES
OF MILL MACHINERY

Several carloads of machinery for
the big mills now undergoing con-
stTuCtiOn at Southport arrived yester-
day and were switched to Central
wharf, where huge pieces were placed
safely on lighters. A fiy-wheel weigh
ing 10000 pounds, which was shipped
in two equal pieces, was handled
safely, having been transferred from
cars to lighter in five minutes, the
powerful crane there having been
made use Of During the day the
foreman experimenting the work sus-
tanned a fall which incapacitated him
for some time. Eight more carloads
are looked for within a few days.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-11
CITY ELECTION
AT CARRABELLE

Carrabelle, Sept. 9-The town
election passed of quietly here Tues
day, with the following results:
H. L. Mattair, mayor; r. P. Brad
ford, marshal and collector; J. X.
Blocker, clerk, assessor and treasurer;
J. P Westberg, c. II. Calhoun, w. B.
Lewis and Lee Pickett, cOuncilmen
The contract has been let to build
the ice factory and fish packing
house, and work began yesterday by
driving piling, This plant was burn
ed last May, and our community is
well pleased to know that it will soon
be rebuilt
The F. c. Lumber Co. has just fin
ished the schooner Willie II. Child
with a cargo Of lumber and now have
the Norwegian bark Valentine to load
for France.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-11
Congressman Vreeland's
Plan For Avoiding Panics.

Chairman Edward B. VTeeland, of
the banking and currency committee
| of congress, made a speech before
the State Bankers Association of
Pennsylvania at Bradford Springs on
Wednesday. Congressman VreeIand
is reported to have declared that the
country has OUtgTOwn its banking and
| currency system, which requires radi-
cal changes. He announced that
"panics on account of defects in the
system follow periods of great pros
perity," and asserted that these
would be averted By better banking
and currency methods"
OF course the gist of his argument
was the creation of a more elastic
currency. his particular point being
that gold should be merely a re-
serve upon which currency is issued. 4"
Whether he gave an opinion as TO the
amount of paper which it would be
safe to issue on a given gold reserve,
the dispatch did not say. Doubtless,
| however, his design would be to per-
NIT the utmost expansion in time of
need.
What Mr.. Vreeland breaches may
| be true in a certain sense: that is,
such a system might stave off a
panic for a certain time: might pro-
long the agony so to speak. But does
he go deep enough in his enquiry into
| economic and monetary conditions?
Is it, indeed, the best policy to fix
| a system Of banking and currency or
any other system intended to prevent
recurrence is due primarily and near
| ly altogether to wildcat speculation,
extravaganza and an absolutely arti-
fetal initiation along every line Of en-
deavOr which are the unsubstantiaI
Framework Of the elusiyely attractive
structure known as republican pros
perity?
Far better than any radical revision
of the banking and currency system
would be the resumption of normal
conditions in the government and in
private enterprise. And it is safe to
assume that no matter how elastic the
currency. no matter what safeguards
are established to protect the banks.
periodical panics can never be done
away with so long as artificial and
abnormal methods are employed in
every branch of the social and bust
Hess organization.
EvTthvEiaEts I11rinU Of
periods of forced prosperity remind
one very much Of those little boys. "
spoken of by Cardinal Wolsey, swim
ping on bladders in a sea of glory
needless of the concealed and treach-
erous snag that sooner OF later must
pc encountered. and which will pnnc-
fure their frail though buoyant sup
port. And then-fathoms of water
with, perchance, a muddy bottom.
HEAR THE BOOST; FEEL THE
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-11

The human family that, when discov-
cred, he merits especial mention and
applause.
And he has Just made his appear
ance at Alexandria, La. Just why
Providence chose this place for the
production Of such a prophet is not
. apparent to the naked eye; but now,
as ever, God moves in a mysterious
way His wonders TO perform" and
doubters still may ask, Can anything
good come out of Nazareth" Ut
strikes US this quotation is not just
right.
However, that is neither here nor
there, and our Daniel would be equal
ly wonderful and his modus operandi
equally beautiful had his sphere OF
life and endeavor been located in
TimbuctoO or the wild and wOolly
purlieus Of Oshkosh.
This Daniel is known among his
acquaintances as I. L. Hooe. He is
judge of the city court of Alexandria.
And this is what a dispatch says he
did: On Wednesday he folded his
magisterial robes about him and de-
scending from the bench with dignity
o. the righteousness which must
have illunined his face!-"asked a
presiding magistrate, pro hac vice
(thfs doesn't mean the other fellow
was viciOus) to give him the heaviest
penalty for failing to cut the weeds
in front of his house" And, then,
the story continues, Judge HOoe, at
ter being inflicted with the extreme
fine, remOunted the bench and SEN
fenced thirty similar offenders to. the
payment of the same fine which he
had been ordered to pay"
The Journal does not mean TO in
sinuate that any Of PensacOla's
judges permit weeds to grow in front
of their houses in defiance of law, but
just on general principles and in or
der to heap an honor upon this mod
ern Daniel and give him rare Op-
portunity to play this his apparently
long suit in the judicial game, We do
think he should be invited to change
his residence and become a citizen of
the progressive Deep Water City OF
the Gulf.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-11
JACKSON COUNTY
FARMERS MEET
Special 20 The Journal.

MaTianna, Sept. y.-Ihe citIZens
were called together Wednesday to
hear an address by Mr.. A. S. Meharg,
of Live Oak, L. S. agent for the state
OF Florida and agricultural demon
stratOr.
Col Meharg, in a few well chosen
illustrations, convinced his hearers
they we're in need of some means OF
improY ements and his proposition
was heartily endorsed and the
amount of 500 readily guaranteed TO
purchase seed and start the enter
prise.
There was a motion to appoint a
committee Of five to solicit subscrip-
tons TO this fund and the committee