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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
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At johannesburg, Transvaal, ten white
men and 159 natives were drowned in
mine which became flooded by the burst
ing of a dam.
Jose de Paul, the Venezuelan ambassa-
dor, has opened negotiations with France,
looking toward a settlement of the trou-
bic between the two countries.
A landslide following a severe earth
shock in the region south of Tetuan,
Morocco, has wiped out several villages.
1t is reported that hundreds of people
were killed or injured.
The Dominion and Canadian express
companies have telegraphed instructions
to their agents throughout Canada to re-
store the schedule of rates existing prior
to Jan. ], according to a ruling of the
dominion railway commission. The jan
uary schedule was about 33 per cent in
excess of the old schedule.
The Prussian diet has voted down var
ious motians favoring electoral reform.
direct ballot, lacked three votes of a
ma jority.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad compa-
nv has sent hree officials to st. Paul and
Chicago to investigate the operation of
stock yards and packing plants with
view to erecting a plant at Winnipeg.
In Paris, the civil court of the Seine
ordered Harold Vanderbilt to pay 500 to
peasant named Guigard, who was
struck recently by Mr.. Yanderbilt's auto
mobile near Nice. Mr.. Vanderbilt has al
ready given this man $500 voluntarily.
Although embarrassment prevails in
France through lack of information as to
the exact nature of the visit of the Amer
lean feet to French ports, the officers
and sailors will be given cordial recep-
tons. No special features have been ar
ranged for.
The Shakespeare Memorial Committee
in England has decided to establish a
national theater at which Shakspearean
and other plays are to be presented I'M
der the best conditions possible. The
educatio and municipal authorities of
the country will be asked to associate
themselves with the theater which will
represent current literature, drama, music
and education.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
PERMANENT TARIFF
BOARD IS FAVORED
Sentiment at Indianapolis Conven-
ton Unanimous for Com
mission Plan.
CAMPAIGN is TO BE KEPT UP.
Before Final Adjournment j. W. Van
Cleave Is Put at Head Of Per-
manent Organization.

The national tariff commission con-
vention came to an end in Indianapo-
lis Thursday and its officials and del
egates, before their departure, ex-
pressed confidence that its work would
soon be perpetuated in the form of a
permanent tariff commission, toward
the attainment of which their labors
have been directed.
The convention was small in num-
bers, but large in enthusiasm. It's del
egates represented great commercial,
agricultural and civic bodies and many
were United States Senators, Congress
men or national and state officials.
James W. Van Cleave, chosen as it's
permanent chairman. had behind him
scores of members of the National As
socis son of Manufacturers, and from
the platform on the last day Thad
Snow, who declared himself ''just a
plain, unattached farmer Of Indiana"
joined with his predecessors in what
had been a remarkable unanimity of
expression from various sections, pro-
LESSONS and occupations for the estab-
lishment by Congress of a permanent
scientific and non-partisan tariff COM
mission.
During the session hundreds of mes
sages of congratulation and encour-
agement were received. The messages
bore the names of many great manu-
featuring firms and business houses.
None came from Andrew Carnegie, al
though the Pittsburg irOnmaster had
previously expressed his approval of
the purposes of the convention.
Before the final stroke of Chairman
Van Cleave's gavel each delegate
pledged himself to continue in his
home territory the work for which the
convention was called
The permanent committee of 100, of
which J. W. Van Cleave is chairman,
will give the widest possible distribu-
ton to the records of the convention
proceedings and carry on the work of
agitating for the creation of a perman-
ent tariff commission. The chairmen
of the permanent committees of the
convention selected by Chairman Van
Cleave are H. Z. Miles of Racine, Wis,
of the Executive Committee, and John
Herbert, Jr., of Dayton, Ohio, of the
Finance Committee.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
QUAKE OF LAST MONTH FOUND.
Mysterious Shocks Widely Recorded
Occurred in Persia.

News has been received showing
that the violent earthquake recorded
on Jan. % at almost every scientific
observatory in the world where seis-
mOgraphs are installed had its loca-
ton in the province of Luristan. west
ern Persia Sixty villages in this dis
trict were wholly or partially destroy
ed, and the loss of life is placed at
between 5000 and 5000.
The districts of Burujurd and Sela-
hOr in Luristan province were the CEN
ter of the greatest violence and there
the heaviest casualties occurred. Sew
eral villages are reported to have been
ingulfed. The destitute survivors are
fleeing into the town of Buruiurd.
whence appeals for assistance are now
reaching the government
The province of Luristan is noun
famous and sparsely settled. 1t =;
about 300 miles southwest of Teheran
and the only communication with the
Persian capital is by courier. The in
habitants are chiefly Bakhtyaris. an
otfshot of the Iranian people.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
SHORT NEWS NOTES

The three-story building at Kansas
City, Mo, occupied by Rothschilds &
Sons clothing store. was DESTROYED by
fire. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
The Central arcade at Schenectady. Y
Y. consisting of twenty stores on the
ground floor and offices above. was de.
stroyed by fire. The loss on the buildinp
is 100000 and on the contents S5O,oOO
O. O. Slaughter of Big Springs. Texas
sold 100000 acres of land to an Iowa
syndicate. This is the largest land deal
ever consummated in that pant of the
State. The price was 100000.
An American named George Scott who
was formerly connected with Barnum &
Railey's circus. committed suitid in q
Covent Garden hotel in London. Eng
land. by shooting himself while in bed
James Knyvett Estcourt Howard
brother of the Earl of Suffolk, who mar
ried Miss Daisy Letter. is seriously i'll
in New York. He had his feet and fD-
gers frozen in a hunting trip in British
Columbia and may not recover
Senator Teller introduced bill in the
Senate appropriating S1,75O,0OO for a
mammoth structural material testing ma
chine.
John d. Long, former Secretary of the
Navy. announced in Boston that he
would retire from the practice of law and
devote his time to caring for trust es
tates. of which he has charge.
There was large and fashionable au-
dience at the Manhattan opera house.
New York. on a recent night TO see the
opera "Salome," in which Mary Garden
had the star part. The dance of the
seven wells" and the head scene in which
Miss Garden appeared created a sensa-
ton.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
KILLS SWEETHEART IN TAxIcAB
Jealous Young Man at Reading, Pa,
Then Commits Suicide.

While escorting his sweetheart, Miss
Estelle Rocktashel to Ger home in taxi
cab in Reading, Pa, after the pair had
spent the evening together, George l..
knaut shot the young woman through
the head, causing instant death. Later
he turned the weapon upon himself and
committed suicide. Knaut was p years
old and the girl a year younger. They
had been close friends for three years.
and it was understood by the girls par
ents and by acquaintance that the cou
pie were engaged to be married, although
no formal announcement had been made
At midnight the couple were seen on one
of the street corners. They were quar-
reling, and the girl laughed in a tantal-
izing manner at her companion. The po-
sition of the dead girls body leads the
police to believe that she may have been
asleep when she was shot. That jealousy
prompted the shooting is the generally
accepted theory.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
NEW YORK.

Reports as to trade and industry are
irregular, rejecting Interruptions due
to stormy weather talk of pending tar
iff revision and price unsettlement
caused by manufacturers in some lead
ing lines Offering concessions to secure
business. Taken as a whole, the vol
ume of business doing is still below
expectations, while industrial output is
irregular and below the normal.
Business failures for the week end
ing with Feb. Is were 2S2. against 211
last week, 326 in the like week of 1903.
III in 1907, 1S6. inv19J6 and 30 in
1905.
Canadian failures for the week num-
Der 81. which compares with % last
week and A in the corresponding week
last year.-Bradstreet's.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
ADMITS STEALING $4,000.
Tax Collector Gets 16 Years; Was
Robbed of $4,000 of Loot,

John I. Morgan. former tax collector
of McKees Rocks, a suburb of Pittsburg.
was sentenced to sixteen years in the
penitentiary for forgery and embezze-
ment. Morgan pleaded guilty. An Off
cial of the CHARTERS Trust Company tes-
tilted that Morgan drew $4,000 of Dor
ough funds from the bank August 20
last, when he disappeared. Morgan said
he was robbed of $4,000 in New York
and that he spent all but 5000 of the
remainder in travelling. He did not fur
nish bond in 1907 and 1908 and the Dor
ough will lose the whole amount. Asked
why he did not furnish a bond. Morgan
replied Because no one asked me-"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
$4,000 RUG IN WHITE HOUSE.
Gift of Armenian to Nation Accepte

Gift of Armenian to Nation Accepted
for Presidents Home.
A rug said to be worth more than $50
600 and declared the finest in the world
was presented to the White House as a
gift to the nation and was accepted by
President Roosevelt. 1t will be placed
in the parlors of the Presidents home.
The donor was II. II. Topakyan. a rich
Armenian of New York City. The rug
is six and half feet long and four and
a half feet wide and is of imperial silk
heavily jeweled with rich pearls, tur-
quoises. rubies and other oriental stones.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
80 ENIoMBED MINERS RESCUED.
Remainder of 147 in English Shaft
Believed to Have Perished.

After twenty-four hours of rescue work
in the shaft Of the colliery at West SIAN
ley. England. where disastrous explo-
sion had occurred, the mine was partly
cleared and thirty-two men were found
alive Most of them, however, were Sc
verely injured. The bodies of a score of
men who apparently had succumbed to
after damp also were recovered. All told,
only thirty-seyen men have been brought
up alive out of total of 147 in the pine
at the time of the explosion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
BURGLARS TAKE 100000 GEMS.
Chicago Concern Reported Victim of
Express Robbery.

1t became known the other day that the
safe of the Southern Express Company at
Pinehurst, n. c., was broken open and
robbed of diamonds and jewelry valued
at 100000 on Tuesday night, Feb g..
The jewelry had been sent, it is learned,
for the inspection and approval of var
ious wealthy Northerners wintering at
Pinehurst by New York and Chicago con-
Germs. The packages were taken to the
express Office on Tuesday afternoon. The
place was broken open early, in the morn
ing and robbed of everything of value.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
Big Field Is Open.

Asserting that if the United States
is to develop her trade with the TWEEN
ty Latin-American republics in the
western hemisphere, John Barrett, di-
rector of the International Bureau of
American Republics, in an address be-
fore the convention urged that most
careful considerations be given tariff
relations.
Equally important with the i'm
provement of steamship facilities, the
establishment of banks backed by
United States capital and the thor
ough, legitimate exploitation of the
markets of South America by respon-
sible agents of Ameriman manufactur-
ers," said Mr.. Barrett, sis the need of
framing our tariff with some reference
to the interests of our sister republics.
"In other words, If the United States
expects these twenty growing. re-
sourceful and ambitious countries to
purchase our manufactured products
in greater volume we must in turn give
them an opportunity to sell within our
limits their natural products in larger
quantities"
He said that the undeniable import
ance of the Latin American field of
trade was proved by the fact that in
the year 1908 these twenty countries
conducted with the outside world a
commerce valued at $2,0OO,OOOOOO, an
increase of $1,OOO,OOO.OOO in ten years.
or an average of $1OOOOO,OOO per an
mum.
'The share of the United States in
this tOtal,' he declared, docs not ex-
coed s56O,OOO,deO, including both ex
ports and imports. and the balance of
trade is overwhelmingly in favor of
Latin America
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
ANGEL OUT AS PRESIDENT.
Resigns at Ann Arbor to Be Made
Chancellor Forthwith.

DR.. James Burrill Angel has resign
ed from the presidency of the Univer-
sity of Michigan after thirty EIGHT
years of continuous service The board
of regents accepted the resignation, as
DR.. Angel urgently requested that ac-
ton, but gave assurance that he would
not entirely sever his connection with
the institution by proffering him APP
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25

The Union Steamship Company ofWeI-
lington's steamer Penguin was wrecked
off Cape Terawhiti. New Zealand. Some
of the passengers and a number OF the
members of the crew were saved, but the
remainder of the ships company. num-
bering sixty-seven. are missing and are
supposed to have persisted. The Penguin
is a total loss
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25

Following a cloudburSt in Rublo Cam
yon. above Pasadena, Cal. a flood of
water came down the narrow canyon,
precipitating the pavilion into the ravine
and burying Fred I. Drew, agent of the
Pacific Electric Railroad with his wife
and four children, in the ruins. Drew
was rescued, badly injured, and three of
the children were also taken out. Mrs.
Drew and the other child are still buried
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
NO ONE BLAMED FOR CRIB FIRE.
Jury Returns Verdict AbsoIving Chi
cago Officials and Company

The coroner's jury seeking the blame
for the recent death of seventy men in
the fire that consumed the list street in
telmediate crib in Lake Michigan, off
Chicago. few weeks ago. rendered a YER
dict absoving city officials, officials Of
George W. Jackson, Inc, which had
change of the t1nnel operations. and
George W. Jackson. head of the con-
struction company, from any criminal
carelessness in carrying on the work.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
Scramble Every Ten Years.

D. A. Tompkins of Charlotte. n. c.,
pointed out the evils of the present tar
if system. THE present method of
making the tariff is ii sort of scramble
about once in ten years. he said. 1.-THE
industry which gets unsatisfactory re-
suits has no remedy. but has to wait
ten years and take chances again. If
under the present system tariff is laid
which develops graft this condition
must continue until the next general
tariff revision. Under the commission
plan the tariff might be in process of
revision or readjuStment all the time.
Revision might be upward or down.
ward. 1t would mean whatever
changes were necessary to produce the
best interests at home for the Ameri-
can people"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
Hundreds See Diamond Robbery

In plain view of hundreds, man
dressed in overalls threw a brick through
the window of NJ. c. Rosenfelds jewelry
store in st. Joseph, and seized $1,000
worth of diamonds. He was followed by
police, but a rope stretched across the
alley in a dark spot tripped the pursuing
officers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
Planters in Duel tn Death

A duel with revolyers in a crowded res
taurant was witnessed at Milton, Fla.
when Frank Fleming and Robert PEN
ton. prominent planters. met to settle a
grudge of long standing. The aim of
Penton proved the better. and Fleming
is dead. The coroner's jury exonerated
Penton
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
pointment to the position of chancellor
of the university.

of the university.
President Angeles resignation will
take effect at the close of the present
college year. He attempted to resign
four years ago, but at that time the
regents refused to consider his request
Since that time rumors have been fire.
quent that the venerable educator
would relinquish the reins to a young
er man. Despite these rumors, the ac-
ton both of President Angel and the
regents came as a big surprise.
DR.. Angel will continue to lecture
on international law and the history
of treaties even after his resignation
takes effect, and as chancellor will re-
ceive an annual salary of $4,000, be-
sides having his present residence
maintained
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
"Rtpper" Outrnges Up to %.

The vicious attacks on women on the
streets of Berlin continue, and the
criminal has not yet been arrested. Two
new cases occurred on recent morn
ing. and both women were slightly wound
ed. This brings the aggregate since the
beginning of these ripper outrages up
to TWENTY-FIVE.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
SINGING STOPS FIRE PANIC.

Lincoln Celebration at Fargo, N. d.,
Nearly Results in Tragedy.
With the Fargo opera house in Fargo,
n. D., packed to the doors, George Rad
ley, engineer at the theater, dashed from
the stage through the audience calling for
Fire Chief Sutherland. In an inst. Mt
the place was filled with a mob, WI Y
every one rushing for the exits. Tn
pianist rushed to the instrument on the
stage and America" was played A
chorus of voices on the stage took up the
air and in a moment the audience Joined
and order was restored again. Although
a few were jostled and slightly bruised
none was seriously injured
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
GIRL POSES AS MAN 8 YEARS

Wears Male Attire, Does Mems
Work, Smokes, Chews and Drinks.
William Winters. who is held by the
St. Louis police. discarded trousers and
donned skirts. He also took the name
of Lillian Winters, the name her parents
gave her twenty-five years ago. Miss
Winters left her home in Galveston
Tex. in 1900, and since then has been
wearing mems clothing. She has worked
as a bill poster, teamSter, rivet-heater
and a clerk in a hardware store Dur
ing her masquerade she learned to smoke.
chew and drink beer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
DEEP SNOW SAVES LOSS OF LIFE.
Great Northern Train Wrecked and
Chicago Man Badly Injured.

Chicago Man Badly Injured.
The deep snow was probably all that
saved many of the passengers on the
Great Northern train which left Grand
Forks, n. D., Tuesday for Winnipeg.
The train was derailed three miles north
of Ardock, tie engine remaining on the
track and the coaches going into the
ditch. Nearly all of the $50 passengers
on the train were more or less injured.
One of the more seriously was "Cinch'
McCrea of Chicago. The combination
baggage car was ditched. the smoker and
observation cars were tipped on the side
and the day coach remained upright. The
accident was due to a broken rail.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
Found Guilty; Is Pleased.

Bully" exclaimed Alois Alumer. when
told that the jury in Toledo, Ohio, had
decided his fate. 1t was first degree muir
der with mercy recommended. Aumer
was charged with numbering his wife on
July % last The jury was out ealy an
hour and twenty minutes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
Has Sister Watch Suicide

Calling to his sister to witness his ac-
ton, Thomas j. AIcNerny, aged % years.
held aloft a glass containing carbolic
acid in Oil City. Pa. AS the girl ap-
pcared in doorway, McNerny exclaim-
ed: Here she goes" and drank the poi
son. He died in half an hour.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
Two Killed in Freight Wreck.

Garvin Weigand of Trinidad, Col, and
A. G. Searle. a cigarmaker from Berke-
ley. Cal. we're killed in the wreck of
freight train eight miles south of Gil
roy. Cal. The two men were beating
their way from Los Angeles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25

Fireman Killed at S15o,0oo Blaze.
Fire destroyed the sIx-story plant of
the Boston and Lockport Block Com
pany in I.ockport \. Y, and resulted in
the death of Fireman ]. Reid, who was
crushed by a falling wall. Loss, $780,
900
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
Kills Woman and Himself.

A man known as Pap" Johnson.
keeper of an illicit saloon, shot and killed
Mrs. Frances Switzer at the woman's
home in Lawrence, Kan, and then COM
mitted suicide. No motive for the trag-
edy is known
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
burglar Killed Fleeing,

George W. Reese, of Martins Ferry,
Ohio. aroused by burglars. fired from a
second-story window as three men fed
from the house. One bullet struck John
Coss. killing him instantly. Coss was
so years old and had served two terms
in the Ohio penitentiary for burglary.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
100, 900 Found Idle in Berlin.

A house-to-house census which has been
taken under the auspices of the trades
unions shows total of unemployed per-
sons ia Berlin of 61,361, in addition to
1888 unemployed in the suburbs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
Manitoba Cuts Phone Toll,

After the announcement was made that
the profits of the Manitoba telephone sys-
TEN under the operation of government
officials was S16S.OOO for the first year,
the legislature decided to reduce the pres
emf rates one-third
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
Gets 500. 900 for Fathers Bravery.

George W. Rollins. farmer, of Extra
Postoffice. W. Va, received word that he
had been left 100000 by Captain G. w.
Forester, a former Ohio River steam
boat man. Rollins father saved Forrest
ers life in a steamboat accident just
after the Civil War.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
Eiranen Reseue Eighteen Women

With the wind blowing gale and driv-
ing sleet in their faces, hremen carried
eighteen women down ladders to safety
when a blaze routed out the tenants in a
four-story apartment house at the corner
of Adams and 18th streets, Toledo, Ohio.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
Two Die in Burning yTanston

Mrs Robert Skipwith, an aged woman.
belonging to a prominent family, and
man named Johnson were burned to
death in a fire which destroyed an old
mansion near Clayville, Va