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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
FATAL STORM IN TEXAS.
Houses i'm Many Towns Blown Down
Seven Persons Meet Death.


Thirteen persons were killed and a
score or more isiured in a terrific cleo
trical storm which swept the country
thirty miles north of Fort Worth, Texas,
Wednesday. Fifty houses and stores at
Slidell were completely wrecked, only
TWO buildings being left standing. Bridge
port, Decatur, Grafton and other towns
also suffered heavy losses. Many farm
houses in the path of the storm. which
was five miles wide were destroyed. The
dead included A. ID. Price, a farmer. his
wife and five children and farm hand,
who were burned to death when their
home. three miles north of Slidell. was
wrecked. Two negroes named Clark were
struck by lightning near Sander and
killed. The home of c. NJ. Bailey at
Bolivar was destroyed and the members
of his family injured. At Greenwood an
unknown man was killed in the storm
and at Slidell two men sought safety
under haystack which caught fire and
both burned to death. At Crisp the
storm wrecked the Methodist Church.
While much damage has resulted. the
rain was badly needed for crops and live
stock.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
DISMISS FREMoNT's SON.
President Taft Approves Action to
Drop Captain from Army.


President Taft has approved the action
Of Secretary of War Dickinson, who or
dered the dismissal of Captain John G.
Fremont from the army Captain Ere
mont is the son of the famous 'Pathfnd
er" Fremont, and was one of the officers
selected by Mr.. Taft, when Secretary of
War, to go to Cuba with the army of
pacifcatiOn. About three months ago
numerous charges were made in Cuba
against Captain Fremont to the effect
that he had made false statements about
his superior officers and that he had made
contradictory statements on these charges
when he was investigated by the inspector
general. The court martial found him
guilty on the charges. The case was APP
pealed to the Secretary Of War with the
final result that the President has dis
missed Captain Fremont from the army.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
Mother and Son Found Dead.

4 party of Odd Fellows on their way
to the home of William Brash, near We
taska, Alberta. found the body of Brashs
mother. aged 50, quarter of mile from
the home. In the house they found the
son sitting in a chair dead. 1t is
thought the son became i'll and the mother
was stricken going for assistance
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
TORNADO HITS SOUTHWEST.
One Man Is Killed and Many Build
ings Raced at Laredo.

One Man Is Killed and Many Build
inGs Raced at Laredo.
One person was killed, four others
were injured and property damage estl-
mated at $4,000 was caused by lorna
do which swept through Laredo, Texas,
and vicinity Tuesday night and destroyed
wire communication north of Laredo.
The casualties occurred when the round
house of the Mexican National Railroad
was demolished. The orphanage of the
Sisters of Guadeloupe. on Iona Vista
Heights, was destroyed, but the occupants
escaped the falling walls and We're res
cued. The houses of Messrs. May, Nc
Culloch. Barnett. Andrews. Moore and
Scovil were blown down and many other
houses were damaged. The storm was
felt as far south as Lajarita, on the Ma
tional Railroad
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
Florida City ImperiIed by Fire

Fire which broke out at / a. m. Thurs
day in a three-story building on Forsyth
street, in jacksonville. Fla, for a time
threatened the entire business district
The fire department was called out in
full force and at 3 o'clock had the fire
under control, after having confined it to
the one building. The loss is estimated
at S3J0,000, partially insured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
GOV. CURRY DECIDES TO STAY.
withdrawS Resignation Upon Re-
quest from President Taft.

Governor Curry, in response to Il tele-
gram from Washington has telegraphed
President Taft withdrawing his resigna-
ton as Governor of New Mexico The
Governor refused to make public the teie-
gram he received from President Taft
saying publicity must come from the
White House, if at all. 1t is known,
however. that the message contained an
expression of President Taft'S confidence
in Governor Curry. and of his support.
and requested the Governor TO reconsider
his resignation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
221 DROWN; 80 VESSELS SINK.
Huge Loss of Life and Property
During Winter Season.

Two hundred and twenty-one persons
persisted by shipwreck and eighty-nine
vessels met with disaster off the New En-
gland and British North American coasts,
or while engaged in the New England or
Canadian trade. during the fall and win
ter season of 190S-9. which ended Sunday
night. OF the eighty-nine vessels cast
ashore or lost at sea. six steamers and
fifty-six sailing craft were totally wreck
ed The financial loss exceeds $3,000,000.
The most thrilling disaster of the season
was the collision between the White Star
Line steamer Republic and the Italian
steamer Florida. The navy had few ac-
{ dents during the season.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
Torpado Causes Death by Fire.

A tornado did considerable damage to
Fort Deposit, Ala. The negro quarter
on the Norwood Johnson place was de-
stroyed and number of persons injured
On the Buchanan place the cottage of
Miles Henderson was blown into splin-
ters. Just east of Henderson's house an
other cottage was wrecked and small
child blown into the fireplace and burned
TO death
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
WhifeIay Reid Grandfather

There was great rejoicing in the fam
lily of Whitelaw Reid, the American am
bassador. Wednesday over the arrival OF
a baby boy to Hon. Mrs. John Ward.
who was Miss Jean Reid. King Edward
and Queen Alexandra viii probably stand
sponsors at the christening of the Ward
heir
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
Missing Youfh Fouud i'm England

After search in all parts Of the
world Glenn Prater. aged 20, son of a
wealthy farmer of West Liberty. Ohio,
has been located in an asylum in Eng
land. and will arrive in New York Satur-
day. accompanied by minister who dis
covered the young man and cabled his
whereabouts to the family
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
Woman and Children in River

The bodies of Mrs. Amos Miller and
her two children were found in the Farm
ington River at Simsbury. Conn. The
children had been tied together before
drowning ensued, and. through a note
left by Mrs. Miller. the probability is
strong that she took their lives and her
own while mentally depressed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
Kills Lumber Co. Head,

John Day, master mechanic at the
Bluff City Lumber Co., shot and killed
Henry Duncan, principal owner of the
Company. Day surrendered at Ryson,
Ark, the county seat. He declined to
make a statement further than 10 say
he acted in self-defence and that Duncan
would have killed him but for his prompt
ness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
Orsanist Drops Dead in Church.

Mrs. Georgia Wheeler. organist at the
Gibson Heights Presbyterian Church in
St. Louis. dropped dead as she entered
the organ loft to play the first hymn of
the morning services. As soon as it was
discovered that life was extinct the con-
gregation was dismissed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
Widows Divide Their Dead.

The dispute over the remains of two
men who died in the powder mill explo-
sion at Wallace, Idaho. has been settled
by placing portions of the remains in
two caskets. Each widow takes one.
Mrs. Pfneo sent her casket to Seattle for
burial and Mrs. SkaIberg sent one to Los
Angeles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
1anS Gefx Fire Inss Record

For every dollar of premiums written
in Louisiana during 1908 a fire loss of
81 % per cent was incurred. The ratio
for the previous thirty years averaged 48
per cent of the premiums written. 1t has
been the most disastrous experience for
companies operating in Louisiana since
1892
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
Refuse to Accept Wage Cut.

\ committee representing the 5000 EN-
ployes of the Reading Iron Company ap-
peared before the superintendent of tie
different plants and laid before them the
decision of the employees not to submit to
a reduction in wages of from to II per
cent. No answer was given to the men.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
s,oo 600 uac.iue-sbops Burned.

Fire, famed by a high wind spread
from one building to another of the Her
man Broesel machine ships in New
Brunswick. \. J.. until six of them had
been burned. causing a loss of S1OO,OoO.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
STABBED to Deotb nv Communion

D. ". Williams of Belle Center. Ohio.
while carrying a basket of whisky on his
arm was stabbed to death by an unknown
companion. The murderer knocked down
two pedestrians in his path and escaped
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
PADEREWSKI IS DISABLED.
Attack of Rheumatism Forces Plan
list TO Abandon Tour

Ignace Paderewski, the famous plan
ist. has been totally incapacitated from
playing in public for the present. at least.
and it may be years before he is able to
give a concert. Seized in Milwaukee
suddenly with rheumatism in both arms.
Paderewski has cancelled all the dates
of the tour he was on and started at
once for New York for medical treat
ment
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
Wander, in Trance Three Years.

J. ]. Driscoll. &c years old, vino says
his home is in Brockton. Mass, and that
he has been wandering for three years
with his mind a blank. suddenly came to
his senses while walking along Spring
street in Los Angeles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
Manufactures Hangs HimseIf

John Rieger, formerly well-to-do
manufacturer of billiard tables. commit
ted suicide in Boston by hanging Bust
ness and domestic troubles are assigned
as the cause for SUICIDE.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
Pay of 500 More Steel Men Cut

The American Iron and Steel Company
posted notices in Lebanon. Pa. that. be-
ginning April D puddlers will receive
S3.T5 per ton instead of S4.50. the present
rate. About 500 men will be affected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01

In anticipation of the passing of tar
if law, the Eastern Pig Iron Association
has announced a 10 pr cent reduction in
the wages of all its workers. A general
cut in all parts of the country is Expected
to follow. Between 10000 and 5000
workers will be affected finally.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01

4 $4,000 merger of trust companies
has been effected at New York in the alb
sorption of the Bowling Green Trust
Company by the Equitable Trust Com
pany. the stock of the former to be liqui-
dated at about 40. The Equitable Life
win continue to hold its interest in the
trust company.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
Oklahoma Bank Is Robbed.

Robbers blew open the safe in the bank
of Coldwater, Okla, and escaped with
$1,000. \ heavy rain aided in conceal
ing the operations of the robbers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
Paris Strike Is Called OF.

At a mass meeting of 5000 of the strik-
ing government telegraph and postoffice
employees in Paris, it was voted by an
overwhelming majority TO resume work.
Only about 200 of the men voted to con-
time the strike,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
Travelling Man Found Dead.

George Dohnick of Fort Wayne, Ind, a
travelling salesman, was found dead in
hotel in Philadelphia, the cause of death
being apoplexy. He was about 40 years
old
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01

The Ashikaga. Japanese organiza ton
of weavers. have retracted the resolution
which they adopted several. weeks ago
not to participate in the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition, to be held at Seattle
this summer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
Nan Shot nv SON Dies

Otto Smith. who was shot by his son.
William. in Hornell, n. Y, is dead. The
son killed himself after shooting his
father
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01

Poisoned wheat is to be used as bait to
kill off the prairie dogs that now infest
Arizona and New Mexico and have be-
come menace to the forest rangers there.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01

Lutheran Church was almost complete
ly demolished but through its sacrifice
many lives were spared and much
more damage prevented, as it was di-
rectly in the path of the water.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
shoots Father-in-Law and Himself.

Lynn Hodges shot his father-in-law
A. ?. Anderson. at Youngsville, Pa. A
few minutes later Hodges put bullet
in his own head Both men viii die.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01

Count Zeppclin's dirigible airship made
n new record. carrying a crew of twenty
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
Friday.
Saturday.

Jngocs in England profit by the alarm
over the navy disclosures to stir up anti
German feeling.
Paderewski, the pianist, seized with
rheumatism in both arms. was forced to
concei all his engagements
The Nashville jury found Colonel Coop
cr and son guilty of second degree muir
der for the killing of former Senator
Carmack and fixed penalty at twenty
years Imprisonment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01

Tie danger Of war in the Balkans and
Germany's rapidly growing navy alarm
LnnL.ua
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-01
SHORT NEWS NOTES

The business section of Arlington. Tex
as, was wiped out by fire. The loss is
100000.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-09
The Pope and the Comet.

The appearance of Hauey's comet is
driving the secular editors to their en-
cvcIopedias in search Of Information
about these strange visitors to our So
lar system. Some of the information
they pick UP and coolly pass on TO their
readers as science and history is SIM
nix, romance. More Of it is calumnl-
ojs For instance, an editorial writer
IN last SUNDAYS World-Herald rehash-
ed for us the old gable about the Dun
issued by Pope CalliXtus Ill, on the
anDearance = Halley's comet during
his reign. TIL 7alumny was EXPLODED
long ago ring the past year IN
the column If the World-Herald IL
self when II ~ "igge, s. j., recent
~ chosen 3 -7ler.7 Of the Royal As
+Tonomical society rather Rigge show
81 concIusiveI,, mat the story was
sb1a without a h ed Of truth to sup
11oT+ it-and vet an editorial writer
,aI,,o1v mems another reiteration or inc
falsehood. Ignorance may De ple esn,sIa
as an excuse. but it is not a creolIaDie
excuse to offer -.
In truth. there is no longer any eA-
,5ee for writers of today who MAKE
t,.ase old mistakes about Catholic his
$500 THE late Pope Leo XIII threw
80, +l,e great Vatican library to the
sa,o1ars of the world nearly 40 years
30 and invited all to come ana STUDY
% first hand the precious documents
preserved there. How many non-Sa ~, -.
Ole scholars awaited themselves OF TINS
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-09
Who is not Here.
HORSESHOE LUCK.
An Old Myth That Goes Back to the
Greeks and Their Sea God.

Of all the emblems for good fortune
the horseshoe stands among the first
Everybody knows it is unIucky to pass
a horseshoe on the road without pick
ing it UP. 1t is a luck emblem Of the
greatest power. We are indebted for
this statement to old tales centuries
in age that have descended from IA
Their to son, from mother to daugh-
ter, through the years.
The old myths repay research. The
luck Of the horseshoe has a most re-
spectacle beginning. 1t is traced to
the religion Of the old Greeks and their
sea god, Poseidon, who was identical
with the Roman sea god Neptune
To Poseidon horses were sacred, and
to him they were sacrificed. Poseidon
was believed to have created the first
horse when he struck the ground with
his trident and a horse sprang from
the hole which afterwards became d
spring. To him all springs were as
cribed. In the shape of horse he
sometimes wandered by the shores of
his ocean domain, and where he struck
his hoofs deeply there the waters gush-
ed out and permanent springs We're
found. This is the reason why horse
shoes. are reckGned lucky. Going to the
root OF the matter, one sees a nature
myth as the root principle. From the
sea all rain comes, ana to the sea all
springs owe primal origin. and to the
rain and the fresh waters, sea derived,
we owe all fertility Of the earth.
The old Greeks therefore worshiped
Poseidon as the fortune giver through
his springs They gave him horses,
his precious beasts, and they adored
the footprints of horses when they
found them, for they might be the
very footprints Of the god himself.
When the horses came to be shod
the transition of the luck emblem from
the footprint itself TO the shoe mark,
practically the same thing, was easy.
Pegasus. the winged horse, from
whose hoofs the water springs gushed
copiousIy when he came to earth, has
been credited with the origin Of the
horseshoe luck
The horseshoe was a specific against
earthquakes. 1t would keep a house
safe from harm by earth shaking. Again
one perceives the sea MULTIPLICATION
was the shaker Of the earth.-Team
Owners Gazette.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-09
cRUcIFIxIoN.
Date Fixed as April 1s, 20 A. D.
EnoIand's Oldest Shrine.

Professor L. H. Weston of Portland,
Oregon, makes very interesting cal
culation, fiving the date for the cruel
fixion of Christ on April IS at noon, in
the 74th Julian year, on the 29th year
A D. He does it by computing the
position of the sun and moon.
According to Professor Weston, the
full moon occurred at 7:4, Jerusalem
mean time, on the 18th of April, "a Ju-
liam. This was a Julian Sunday and
was the thirteenth day of the moon by
the Jewish calendar. 1t was a rule of
law among the Jews that the day began
at sunset; hence the calendar of Call
lupus invariably called that day fol-
lowing the sunset Immediately after full
moon the 14th day of the moon and a
Sundayday (sun's day.. Thus, the full
moon occurred at IA in the morning
of the 18th of April, Julian year, and
that in the calendar of Caillippus was
the 18th day of the moon, or the one
before the 14th, and was a Jewish Sat
urday
The Passover was always celebrated
on the 14th day of the moon next fol-
lowing the solar ingress into the first
degree of Aries, the vernal equinox,
and it must always, by law, be cele-
brated on the 14th day of the moon, as
shown on the calendar calculated by the
priesthood
In the Julian year "A the sun entered
Aries at 5:26 p. m, on March %, which
was a Tuesday. The new moon fol-
lowing was at 1:19 p. m. April 2, a
Saturday Full moon, then, falling on
the 18th at 7:41 a. m, shows Tertullfan.
the latin historian, to be correct in af-
firrning that the Passover feast was on
the 18th of the calendar of April.
Again, says Professor Weston, mod
ern ecclesiastical authorities on chro-
nology find it impossible to assume that
Christ was born later than B. c., and
Tertullian clearly states the nativity oc-
CURED in the 41st of the Augustan mon
archy and 2Sth after the death of Cleo
patra. Thus in the 750th year of Rome,
or 4 B. c., Christ was more than 80
years of age, for His ministry began
the third year before the crucifixion-
He was 80 years old in 20 A. D.
Irenaeus says the crucifiXiOn was at
the end of Daniels 20 weeks of prophe-
CIV. This ends about the commence
nent of the 18th year of Tiberius and
the second year of the 202d Olympiad.
More exactly, the sixteenth year of the
reign of Tiberius began on Aug. 10, "A
Julian. and the first year of the 202d
OIympiad ended on July Il, "a Julian,
and this date also ended Daniels 10
weeks But the crucifixion was at the
Passover three months before the end
of the Olympiad. Irenaeus used round
numbers, and the fractional year is one
fourth minus. Accordingly, says Pro-
lessor Weston, it would seem impos-
sible to get any other day for the cruel
fixion of Jesus Christ than Monday,
April IS, Julian year "A, at noon sixth
hour) Jerusalem-New York Herald
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-09
Uomdn's u)orId
CONDUCTED BY HELENE vALEAU.

opportunity to seek the sources of much
that is written about the Church? A
few scholars; but the results of their
research are almost unknown to the or
binary reader
Most writer's are content to accept
the garbled and tabled narratives that
passed as history half century ago.
As result they sometimes cut a sorry
figure when called to task for their
mistakes. 1t is about time that the ed
ltors of our daily papers should learn
TO inform themselves from reliable
sources on ecclesiastical history before
they write upon the subject. 1t will
save them much embarrassment and
modification
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-09

THAT many cases of color blindness may
a,1,.ed or at least rendered less serious
De De o nrscticing color-combinations. Is as
s Ds by an eastern aculist OF nole'