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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES

Revised estimates of the loss caused by
the fire at Princeton, n. j.. place the fig
ures between 100000 and $4,000. Ten
frame buildings were destroyed.
A man and woman were found aspbyx-
lated in hotel at Philadelphia. They
are thought to be Maurice p. Patterson
and Margaret Loman of that CITY.
The Minnesota Supreme Court upheld
the State pure food law in the case of
Jacob Messbesher against the Channel
lene Oil and Manufacturing Company.
Because he prepared a thesis in which
he denied the crediblity of the resurrec-
ton, along with other miracles. Samuel
). Banta says he was compelled to leave
the Wesleyan University at Lincoln. Neb,
The Oregon Senate passed bill pro-
viding that any candidate who signs a
pledge to support certain bills shall be
disqualified from holding office he seeks.
James T. Scheuer 81 years old. of New
York, plunged from the deck of thu Old
Dominion liner Princess Anne, en- route
TO Norfolk. Va, and was lost. He was in
i'll health.
The United States has been asked to
be represented at the international mu-
sic congress to be held in Vienna in Nav.
1909, on the occasion of the centennial
celebration of the birth of Josef HAYDN.
the &C nposer.
Creditors of the Pillsbury- Washburn
Flour Mills Company at Minneapolis will
form a company with 100000 capital
to operate the mills, which will be leased
FOL twenty years.
A broken fange was the cause of the
wreck of the Oregon express on the Union
Pacific Railroad, near Dana Wyo.. in
which one person was killed and thirty
were injured.
Frank Hagerman, the Salina (Kan.)
banker, who year and a half ago walk
ed from Salina to Kansas City, will ac-
company Frank Bristow, a son of Sena-
tor-elect Bristow, in walking from New
Orleans to Mobile. Ala.
President Roosevelt announced at the
dinner given in connection with the chill
dren's conference at Washington that he
would send a message to Congress advo-
eating a federal children's bureau.
A committee of the New York State
Bar Association approved a plan to
amend the corporation laws to allow COM
panies to issue shares of stock without
assignment thereto of any value in money
Senator Thomas c. Plat, through coun-
sci in the New York Supreme Court, re-
nounced all responsibility for personal
debts contracted by Mrs. Lillian Janeway
Plat, from whom he was separated in
1906, and sought to have reversed a iudg-
ment of s2,471.60 against him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
LOCK TYPE APPROVED
BY BOARD OF EXPERTS
Engineers Declare There Is No Oc-
casion for Changing the Plan
of the Panama Ditch.
ALL CRITICISMS ARE ANSWERED
Cost of Waterway Placed at $50
Millions-Can Be Completed
in 1915 or Earlier.

Transmitting to Congress the unanl-
nous report Of the engineers who visit
ed Panama with Taft which indorses
the Gatun dam and the lock system,
President Roosevelt characteristlcauy
declared in the accompanying message
that any attack hereafter made upon
the present plan for building the
Isthmian Canal must be regarded as
'in reality merely an attack upon the
policy of building any canal at all"
President Roosevelt, i'll his message
prefacing the report, said that the
document shows in clearest fashion
that the Congress was wise in the posi-
ton it took, and that it would be an
ineXcusable folly to change from the
proposed lock canal to sea-leyel
canal.
LAS to the Gatun dam itself" he
said, they show that not only is the
dam safe, but that on the whole the
plan already adopted would make It
needlessly high and strong, and ac-
cOrdingly they recommend that the
height be reduced by twenty feet,
which change in the plans | have ac-
cordingly directed" The engineers re-
port that as the Gatun earth dam was
the central point of discussion they
gave it, under instructions from Mr.
Taft, first consideration in the light
of all new evidence" and they add
that 1.-The type of dam now under con-
struction is one which meets with our
unanimous approval"
Their estimate of the complete cost
of the canal is $360G00,0O0. They say
it is incorrect to state that the orig
inal estimate of cost was $140,000,0G0
as this did not include sanitation and
zone government"
Commentator is expressed at the
present condition of the work. In
their opinion 1.-The work is well Or
ganiZed and is being conducted ener-
getically and WELL"
I'VE see no reason" they add, why
the canal should not be completed, as
estimated by the chief engineer, by
January 1, 1915; in fact, it seems that
a somewhat earlier completion is prob
able if all goes WE'LL
Considering the cost and the time
of construction of a sea-level canal as
compared with the lock type, they told
that most of the factors which have
operated to increase the cost of the
lock canal would operate with similar
effect to increase the cost of the sea-
level canal, and at the present time
there are additional factors of even
greater Importance to be considered
as affecting the time of completion and
cost of a sea-level canal"
Replying to the criticism that "the
canal region is liable to earthquake
shocks and that sea-level canal
would be less subject to injury by
earthquakes than a lock CANAL they
assert that dams and locks are struc-
lures of great stability and little sub
ject to damage by earthquake Shocks"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
Forgetting the Maine.

The argument in favor of raising the
wreck of the Maine in Havana harbor
loses none of its force with the passing
years, but the delay grows more scanda-
lous.-Boston Herald.
Maybe we are not remembering the
Maine as much as we ought to.-Balti-
more Sun.
As the Maine is harbor obstruction,
Havana can't help remembering it
Springfield Republican.
The Spaniards speak of the Maine just
as if it were Americas skeleton in the
mud-Augusta Chronicle.
The earthquake in Spain was probably
the agitation in this country for raising
the Maine-Atlarta Journal.
There lies the dismembered Maine"
begins a Congressman, dramatically. All
right-re-member the Maine.-Cleveland
Leader.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
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Kaiser and King,

Berlin's spontaneous enthusiasm at the
visit of King Edward appears to have
suffered from Washington
Post.
Bill and Ed have slobbered over each
other again, but the hammering in their
navy yards goes merrily on.-Detroit
News.
Heavy firing off Mole st. Nicholas"
Or was it King Edward and Emperor
Wilhelm kissing each other?- Toledo
Blade.
1t is expensive entertaining King Ed
ward, but it is cheaper than fighting.
That should console the commercial Ger
mans.-Providence Bulletin.
The King of England is having a de-
lightful time in Berlin as the guest of his
loving nephew. the Emperor. And the
British Parliament has just authorized
the building of six more battle ships of
the Dreadnought type.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
SlO0 Reward. 500.

The readers Of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there Is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure
in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation Of
the disease, and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and assist
ing nature in doing its work. The proprie-
tors have so much faith in its curative pow
ers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for
any case that 1t fails to cure. Send for list
Of testimonials
Address F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists. roc.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
Taft at Panama.

The Culebra cut and the Gatun dam
are on their best behavior.
Plain Dealer.
Mr.. Taft has tackled up the Don't
Worry sign over the Panama Canal
Baltimore Sun.
The Panama idea is that all the dams
are safe after being tested by Mr.. Taft's
standing on them.-Indianapol Star.
The sea-level canal party has made a
long. game fight, but Taft sat on its
hopes at Panama and f1attened them out
entirely.-Cleveland Leader.
One throbbing problem at least has
been decided by Mr.. Taft's visit to Pan
anna. There are no corns upon the toe
of the Gatun Observation-Disclosures Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
Echo of Iroquofs Disaster.

Nearly $4,000 is TO be paid to the
relatives of persons killed in the Iroquois
Theater fire. Chicago, or to persons who
were injured in that disaster as a result
of settlement made by the George A.
Fuller Construction Company, which
built the Inflated playhouse. and is one
of the defendants in pending litigation for
damages.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
Our own MinsfreIs.

Tambo-Mistah Walkah, kin yo' tell
me de diff'unce tween a waif an an
apartment house?
Interlocutor-I give it up, Jerry. What
is the difference between a waif and an
apartment house?
Tambo-De one am a homeless kid an
de uddah am a kidless home.
Interlocutor-Ladies and gentlemen,
Prof. Howlan High-Eenah, the renowned
tenor. will now sing his great topical song
I Love Him, Mamma He Looks Like
Fido ~
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25

lasting cure, not
merely a temporary
benefit. Profit by
the example OF
Rev. ]. M. Stuff ED,
Of 2179 S. 8th ST.,
Lincoln, Nebr., who
confirms a report
of his cure after
several years. Il
told in a state
ment made for pub
LEGATION in 1900 how
Doan's Kidney Pills
had relieved me
after other rene
dies had failed"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
$500 Personally Conducted Ex-
cursfOns,

Colonists' one-way tickets, Chicago TO
the Pacific coast, via the Chicago,
Union Pacific and Northwestern Line,
are on sale daily during March and
April at the rate of $500. Correspond
ingly low rates from all points. Double
berth in tourist sleeping car only
500, through without change to San
Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland.
No extra charge on our personally con-
Quoted tours. Write for itinerary and
full particulars to S. A. Hutchinson,
Manager Tourist Department, 212
Clark street, Chicago, III.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
Not ADDIicahIe.

Bleeker-What's the matter, old man
You look like an illustration of a hard.
luck story.
Meeker-DOmestic troubles. Had a
scrap with my wife this morning
Bleeker-Oh, don't let a little thing
like that worry you. \ thunderstorm
clears the atmosphere, lou know"
Meeker-Yes, but that doesn't help
man who has been struck by light
ming.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
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Failure of m Experiment.

That's too fine a watch for a man to
carry who has to be out late at night.
Why don't you wear one of these dollar
watches?"
Il tried that once. | won't do it again.
The hold-up man that relieved me of it
seemed to be a judge of watches. He
beat me over the head with it."-Chicago
Tribune
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
Nv Heinr Fired

"Ruggles, how did you catch that
cold?"
We'll, I'll tell you, Ramage. l lost
my job the other day. 1t was the first
time such a thing has ever happened to
me, and l got kind O. reckless you know,
and exposed myself. and-and-"
Il see. You caught it on the first
bounce"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25

said Rev. Suf1eld. Il have no hesita-
ton in confirming that statement now.
l have used Doan's Kidney Pills at
various times and they have never
failed me-"
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25

"Of course, you got the copyright"
They said, ION your famous song."
81 did not" said the luckless wight
They printed my copy wrong!'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
Ceremony Omitted

The king of the hobos, who was on his
travels, had just met the king of the
Cannibal islands.
We'll" they said, as they looked at
each other, Il guess we won't kiss
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
BAR Children from shows.

The New York Board of Aldermen
passed an ordinance barring children IN
der Is from moving picture shows unless
accompanied by parents or guardians.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25

No harmful drugs in Garfield Tea, Ma
lures laxative-it is composed wholly of
clean, sweet, health-giving Herbs For
constipation, liver ard kidney troubles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25

Mrs. Winslow's SOOTHING srRUP for Children
teething; softens the gums reduces in hsmmation al
lays pain cures wind collie. Is cents bottle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25

Some of the moons mountains are &c.
900 feet high.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25

The Dutch throne has forty-one posi-
bic claimants.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
MUST BELIEVE 1T.
Every Reader Will Concede the Truth
of This Statement.

One who suffers with backache or
any form of kidney trouble wants
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
Always Keeps a Bottle in the House.

Always Keeps a Bottle in the House.
About ten days before Christmas
got my hand hurt so badly that l had
to stop work right in the busy time of
the year." says Mr. Milton Wheeler,
POO Morris ave, Birmingham, Ala. AT
first l thought l would have TO have
my hand taken of. but someone told me
to get a bottle of Sloan's Liniment and
that would do the work. The Liniment
cured my hand and gladly recommend
it to everyone"
Mr.. ]. E. Matthews, proprietor of
st. James Hotel, Corning. Ark. says
My finger was greatly iniamed from
a fish sting and doctors pronounced it
blood poisoning l used several appli-
cations Of Sloans Liniment and it
cured me all right. 1 will always keep
a bottle Of Sloan's Liniment in my
house"
Mr.. ]. P Evans Of Mt Airy, Ca,
says AFTER being afflicted for three
years with rheumatism l used Sloan's
Liniment, and was cured sound and
L
troubled with rheumatism since. My
leg was badly swollen from my hip
to my knee. One-half a bottle took the
pain and swelling out"
When We Are Angry.
According to DIR. Maurice de Fleury,
a distinguished French scientist, ey-
cry time one becomes angry ones vi
tally sinks After even the most art
fully suppressed signs of bad temper
the vitality becomes smaller and
smaller, until finally nothing is left.
Anger is certain kind of cerebral
excitement, explains DR.. de Fleury.
The hypersthenic subject is always on
its verge, while the neurasthenic be-
comes infatuated only by a sudden
bound of reaction excited from with
out. But at that moment when they
are let loose the two are alike, save
that the strong man is a binder,
brute, while the weak man is some
what of an actor and seems to aim at
effect
Prof. Lange, of the University of
Copenhagen, holds that ''all emotions
are due to disorders of the circulation
of the blood. and anger, in particular,
to very intense dilation of the small
arteries of the brain" He describes
redness and swelling of the face as
constant sign of anger, forgetting the
white rage which is so frequent and
impressive.
But he has brought into strong re-
lief this capital fact-that anger is
state of general representation. The
whole organism, the muscles and
glands for anger has its tears,
sweats and foaming of the mouth
set in action by superabundance of
nervous influx, begin to work to ex
cess, acting for the mere sake of act
ing, in disorder, without aim, without
utility, solely to relieve overtensiOn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25

Not during the present session of
Congress has such large amount of
legislative business been done by the
Senate as was accomplished Friday.
The army bill. carrying appropriations
amounting to S102,626,O5O, and the pen
sion bill, with appropriations aggregat-
ing S16O,S69,0 of which 100000. 600
was for pensions and $S69,OOO for fees,
ETC., were passed. Forty-five other bills,
forty of which had previously been ia
vorably acted upon by the House, were
passed. The Notifications bill was COM
pleted by the House and went over to
the Senate; the sundry civil bill was
reported and the postoffice appropria-
ton bill was sent to conference. The
report of the special commission on
pulp and paper investigation was read
the river and harbor bill was reported.
and the report of the special printing
investigation committee was submitted.
During the general debate on the forti-
fcations bill numerous speeches on mis-
cellaneous topics were made.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25

The linen industry of ireland employs
10000 persons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25

Weknow of other medicine which has been so sue
cessful in relieving the suffering of women secured
many genuine testimonials, as has Lydia E. Pinkhams
Vegetable Compound.
In almost every community you will find who
have been restored to health by Lydia E Pnkhams Veg
etable Compound. Almost every you meet has
either been benefited by it. knows some one who has,
In the Plnkham Laboratory at Lynn Mass. files
tanning million hundred thousand letters from
women seeking health, in which many openly state over
their signatures that they have reganed their health by
taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound has saved
many women from surgical operations
Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound is made
cuslvey from roots and herbs, and is perfectly harmless.
The reason why successful is because it contains
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restoring it to healthy and normal activity.
Thousands of unsolicited and genuine testimonials such
as the following prove the efficiency of this simple remedy
Minneapolis, Mimi 81 great sufferer from female
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25

The pOstoffice bill, carrying appro-
priations of over S232. 100000, was
passed by the Senate Thursday after
a stormy debate. during which Senator
Penrose, in charge of the measure,
made an angry assault upon Senator
La Toilette, who had entered into
general criticism of Senate committees
because of what he termed their IN
warranted delay in reporting great ap-
preparation bills. The controversy over
the Legislative appropriation bill, in
connection with the much discussed
salary of the Secretary of State. in
volving the eligibility of Senator Knox
for that office, was settled in the
House when the bill was sent to con-
ference and the committee authorized
to consider the salary provision as if
in disagreement. This gives the COM
mittee power to reduce the pay from
$4,000 to $4,000, its former figure
The Republicans were caught mapping
when a resolution by Mr.. Fitzgerald
was adopted disagreeing on the Senate
amendments creating the office of I'M
dersecretary and fourth assistant sec
rotary of state. The bill codifying and
amending the penal laws of the United
States was passed and the fCrtifica-
lions appropriation bill discussed. Wig
orous attacks on the House rules were
made by Messrs. Hubbard and HeD-
burn of Iowa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25
WORK OF
CONGRESS
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The naval bill, carrying total appro-
priations of about S1360O0,GO0, was
passed Wednesday, after having been
under consideration in the Senate for
three days. The bill was changed by
restoration of the House provision for
two battleships of 10000 tons displace
ment, to cost 100000 each. An in
effectual effort was made to defeat the
amendment for restoration of the ma
rine corps 80 battleships and cruisers
Of the navy, which was placed in the
measure while the Senate was proceed
ing in the committee of the whole. Dur
ing the last hours of the session Sena-
tor La Toilette severely criticised the
methods of the navy. declaring that
senatorial influence in the work of the
department caused an unbusinesslike
development of navy yards and sta
lions. An attempt to abolish capital
punishment as penalty under Federal
laws blocked the conclusion of the con-
sideratiOn of the penal code bill in the
House, sitting in committee of the
whole. This bill was taken up after the
House had become entangled in the
Knox eligibility question and had laid
the question aside for the day. The
most important amendment incorpOr-
ated in the bill was one to regulate the
interstate shipment of intoxicating liz
uors. Representative Mccall of AIssa-
chusetts led the fight against capital
punishment, and when he was voted
down made point of no quorum. Just
before this, by % to -. the committee
had declined to substitute electrocution
for hanging as death penalty. A mo-
ton to take recess was opposed by
the enemies of the bill and a filibuster
resulted. The doors finally were closed
and the sergeant-at-arms sent after alb
sent members. Nearly two hours later,
at 30 p. m, when Representative Mad
den of Illinois answered the roll call,
quorum was secured and the House
was declared in recess until Thursday
at II o'clock.