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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-03
1000 Acres for Unemployed.

George NJ. Jackson, of Piggott Ark,
announces that he will give to unem-
ployed men, under the auspices Of the
Brotherhood Welfare Association, 1000
acres of good bottom lands near his
home. The offer was made at St Louis.
at a meeting of the association, Of
which James Eads Howe, the million
aire hobo, is the head. The plan sug-
gested by Jackson is that 400 men take
ten acres each without any conditions.
Jackson, who is Is years old, is work
ing for the redistribution Of all lano4
and will seek additional gifts from 9TH
er wealthy land owners for similar
purposes. Although he has nine grand
children, he refuses to leave any land
to them, saying that they have done
nothing to deserve it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-03
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Steps are being taken to form a
pipe trades council in Philadelphia.
Carthage CMo) unions have under
discussion the formation of a central
organization.
At the recent city election at Mason.
Ca, two union men were elected to the
City Council, as well as the city clerk
Twenty thousand British miners are
idle in the Northumberland coal dis
trict because of an efght-hour day dis
pute.
Claims are made for the carpenters
union at Minneapolis, Mimi, that it is
now the largest union west of Chi
cago
Seattle (Wash.) has had no strikes
during the last year, with the excep-
ton of the elevator constructors, whose
strike was amicably settled, the men
gaining an increase of so cents day;
apprentices 20 cents day increase.
The Vallejo (Cal-) Trades and Labor
Council has taken the preliminary
steps to enter the field of politics, and
at a recent meeting the question Of
putting up a straight municipal labor
L,
ed.
The teamsters are making great
gains in every section. The member
ship has increased almost 40 per cent
within the last six months. At pres
ent the aim is to organize every driver
of vehicle of any kind in greater
Boston.
The wages in the mines of Germany
have shown a downward tendency in
recent years. There have been further
decreases in 1909 ranging from 2 per
cent to s per cent in the various dis
tricts These figures do not relate To
rates, but to actual takings reckoned
from the pay sheets.
The organizing committee of the San
Francisco Labor Council has decided
that the State Union of Shovelmen
and Dredgers shall be permitted to af-
filiate with the council.
In Rhode Island it is estimated that
the 10000 operatives affected by the
new fifty six-hour law will lose 10000
working hours week, or a total of D.
0S0,O6O working hours a year.
When the diamond workers union in
Holland was started in 1894 the hours
were generally twelve a day, reduced
to ten in 1896 and in 1904 to rine a
day. They viii be ffty-one a week
from October 1 next
George L. Berry, of San Francisco,
president of the International Printing
Pressmen and Assistants Union, has
announced his candidacy for re-elec-
ton
The new Boston Furniture Trades
Council will seek better conditions for
| the members OF the upholsterers', cabi-
net makers and mill men. hardwood
finishers and wood carvers' unions,
which comprise it.
It is said that less than 5 per cent
| of the shoe operatives of the country
| do not belong to either the United
| Shoe Workers of America pr the Boot
| and Shoe Workers Union, the two or
| ganiZation in the trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-03

1797-Weellly mail service established
between the United States and
Canada.
1SO2-Detroit Incorporated as a city.
1SO7-Congress officially informed of
Aaron Burr's conspiracy.
1S1S-British and Indians defeated the
Americans at Frenchtown. about
twenty-five miles south of Detroit.
British repuIsed at French
town, on Lake Erie.
1S14-Pope Plus VII dismissed from
Fontainebleau.
1S1S-Gov. Mitchell of Georgia con-
Guided a treaty with the Greek In
dams
1S26-The Spanish evacuated Peru.
1S27-Duke of Wellington made COM
mander-in-c chief of the British
army.
1S2S-Indiana college established.
1S33-South Carolina suspended the
Nullffcation ordinance.
Rebellion Losses Biz intro
duced in Dominion Parliament.
1855-The eastern coast of Canada Wis
tied by a disastrous storm, many
lives being lost.
1S61-The Virginia Legislature appro-
priated S1,OOO,OOO for the defense
of the State. =. The Confederates
seized the United States arsenal at
Augusta -. Georgia convention in
session at Milledgeville passed the
ordinance of secession.
1S63-Joseph Wheeler promoted ma
jor-generaI in the Confederate
States army.
1S65-Lord Monck opened the last
Canadian Parliament.
1S71-King William of Prussia pro-
claimed German Emperor. e.. The
British Columbia Legislature pass
ed resolutions in favor of joining
the Dominion.
1873-Gen. John B. Gordon elected
United States Senator from Geor-
gia.
1S74-Morrison R. Waite appointed
chief justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States.
1SS8-New South Wales celebrated IFS
centenary as a colony Thomas
Greenway became premier of Man
itoba.
19G0-John p. Stockton, former United
States Senator from New Jersey,
died in New York.
f901-King Edward VII of Great Brit
ain and ireland assembled the
throne
I9O3-Alaska boundary treaty signed
by United States and Great Brit
ain.
1905-Robert NJ. LaFollette elected
United States Senator from Wis
ConSin.
1907-Twenty- eight persons killed IN
explosion of carload of powder at
Sandford, Ind.
1908-John r. Walsh, president of the
Chicago National Bank, found gull
ty of misappropriating the funds
of that institution.
t909-George E. Chamberlain elected
United States Senator from Ore
g0n.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-03
Shaded Portion of Map Is Sub
merged Zone; Tower in Danger;
Playwright Aiding Victims.
UNCLE SAM TO FIGHT TRUSTS.
Planning Crusade Against All
Monopolistic Combinations

Washington correspondence
With the Standard Oil Company and
the American Tobacco Company in
the hands of the Supreme, Court and
with the beef trust now under fire, the
government is preparing to proceed
against other trusts, which in public
estimation, at least, are held guilty of
many of the evils of which complaint
is made. Already the Department Of
Justice has started Investigations OF
many corporations which it is be-
lieved are operating in restraint of
trade. The identity Of these supposed
offenders is carefully concealed 1t is
the intention of the department to in
vestigate all concerns. suspected of con-
trolling prices, of unjust discrimina-
ton and of Illegally maintaining a
monopoly, and in this work it will
have all the special counsel and in
vestigators required.
The Supreme Court may facilitate
this work of investigation greatly, for
it is expected that in dealing with the
oil trust, or tobacco trust, it will hand
down a decision as to what mon
opoly really is. The Sherman anti
trust law does not attempt to define
monopoly. Every person." says this
act, who shall mOnopoliZe or attempt
to monopolize, or combine or conspire
with any other person or persons to
monopolize any part Of the trade or
commerce among the several States or
with foreign countries shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con-
viction thereof shall be punished by
fine not exceeding $4,000 or by impris-
onment not exceeding one year or by
both punishments in the discretion of
the court"
The Supreme Court may hold that
combinations are legal where they op-
crate only to eliminate unnecessary
cost; where they take advantage of
the concentration of administration
functions and lower prices, or in other
words it may decide that all combina-
lions are not bad" Or it may decide
that a combination which grasps all the
competitors it can find, brushes them
to the wall and stiles all the effort of
anybody to create a similar business
is a monopoly that should be sup
pressed
That the widespread protest against
the present excessive cost Of living is
squirting on the government to action
may be taken as granted. 1t is point
ed out by Secretary Wilson that the
food products of the American farm
are being sold in foreign countries
cheaper than in the United States and
without mincing words the Secretary
states that this condition is due to the
trusts and the trusts only.
Meantime the Department Of Justice
is deeply interested in the inquiry into
the beef trusts affairs which is now
proceeding before Judge K. NJ. Lands
and a Federal grand jury in Chicago
and which may result in indictments
against members of the great packing
houses United States District Attor-
ney Sims is conducting the case for
the government and the Department of
Justice is in close touch with every
phase of the situation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-03
GREAT EUROPEAN FLOODS
IN PAST CENTURIES.

1161-Thousands drowned in Sicily.
1173-Zuyder Zee enlarged by floods.
-F'riesland, 100000 drowned by
1446-Holland, seventy-two villages in
undated, 100000 drowned.
1485-The Great Waters" caused by
overflow Of Severn.
1521-Holland, 100000 lives lost.
1530-HoIIand, bikes break, 100000
drowned.
157o-Holand, 10000 persisted in Freis-
1615-Greatest flood ever recorded in
Paris.
1646-HoTand, 10000 persisted.
1802-Great flood in Paris.
1S13-Austria, Hungary and Poland,
10000 persisted.
1S25-Jutland made an island by mum
dation of sea.
1840-France, Seine and Rhone swept
away villages.
1S46-Disastrous inundation in the
center. west and southwest of
France.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-03

In Cleveland, Ohio 46O superintenG-
ents and foremen employed in twenty
one of the largest factories there, have
pledged themselves not to eat any
meats for thirty days and to induce as
many as possible of the 1000 men I'M
der them to do likewise, as a practical
protest against the high price charged
by the meat trust This action was
taken at a meeting Of the Superintend-
ents' Club, after a brief trial of the
vegetarian diet The pledge states that
the signers, as wage earners, are will
ing to assist the authorities in an in
vestigation of the high cost Of living,
particularly of. meats. Some of the
sigrers were quoted as saying that
Americans eat too much meat anyway,
and that they want to test the state
ment of the packers that the prices are
the result of gluttonous eating of meats
by the great mass of people.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-03

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lands,
who in his instructions to the federal
grand jury at Chicago on the inquiry
into the alleged beef trust intimated
that he personally had been response
BILE, rather than the government au-
thorities at Washington, for the insti-
tuition of the inquiry, became national
Iy known in 1907 through his imposi
ton of a fine of S29OO0,O00 on the
Standard Oil Company. This fine, for
alleged violation of the laws against
railroad rebates, was set aside on DIP
peal. Judge Lands practiced law for
fourteen years in Chicago before he
was appointed to the Office of United
States district judge in 1905. He was
born in LiIIville, Ohio, in the year
1866
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-03
ACCUSES THE RAILROADS.
Attorney Declares Riparian Rights
on Mississippi Are Being Seized

Attorney Declares Riparian Rights
on Mississippi Are Being Seized
Attorney c. L. Hood in the circuit
court in La Crosse charged the rail-
roads with a conspiracy to gain con-
troll Of riparian rights in the principal
cities along the Mississippi and it's
tributaries, with the intention to throt-
tie river commerce by controllfg wharf
age between factory sites and the
water. He declares the conspiracy is
country wide and wherever factories
are located where water shipments
could be made, the railroads have
strung tracks along the waters edge
and claim riparian rights which would
make double handling necessary, were
manufacturers to seek to ship by
water instead of by rail. Attorney
Hood made the charge in connection
with a suit over land owned by Sarah
Larson, condemned and appropriated
by the st. Paul road upon payment of
$50.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-03
CREATED
IN SCORES FOR BIRDS
Government Sets Aside Fifty=seven
Tracts as Breeding Places
in Many States.
PROTECTIVE LAWS GROWING.
A Newspaper Writer Says Statutes
to Safeguard Feathered Song
sters Are Increasing.

AS one of the features of the adj
ministration policy for the conserva-
ton of the natural resources of the
country, ffty-seven bird preserves have
been created by proclamation Of the
President of the United States in order
to prevent all shooting of song and
plumage birds and to regulate the
shooting of game birds for the market.
The recent demands Of fashion for
plumage to decorate hats has caused
an unprecedented slaughter of birds,
a Washington correspondent says, but
that has been very largely checked by
the action of the federal government
and the cooperation of the several
States under the leadership OF the Au-
dubon societies. Each year brings a
clearer understanding among the peo-
pie of the need for the protection Of
birds, both from humane and econom-
zeal reasons. The slaughter of wild
geese and other fowls which live upon
worms and insects has cost the farm
ers of the United States hundreds Of
millions of dollars and has compelled
them to devise some other means of
protecting their crops from pests, now
that that which nature provided has
been recklessly destroyed The hunt
ing license system, whereby funds are
provided to pay for the employment
of wardens and the enforcement of
the laws, is now in operation in all but
one or two States, and the practice Of
caring for wild game in severe winter
weather is spreading. A similar awak-
ening is manifest regarding non-game
birds, and farmers, who realize the
efficient service they render voluntari-
ly in the protection of crops, are de-
handing laws for their preservation.
The fifty-seven bird preserves are
chiefly government lands, of little or
no agricultural value, upon the sea-
coast and fresh water lakes in North
Dakota, South Dakota, Michigan, Min
nesota, Wisconsin, Oregon, Washing
ton, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Ari-
IONA, Idaho, New Mexico, Louisiana,
Florida and Alaska. The action Of the
federal government is limited to States
where there are public lands, but sew
eraI of the States have already taken
similar action, and it is expected that
others will undoubtedly follow. These
preserves are intended to be sanctu-
aries, where colonies of birds may take
refuge during migration and the
breeding season, and they have already
demonstrated the efficiency of the plan
as a means of increasing bird life.
Several of them comprise areas of
marsh land that have ever been the
breeding ground Of wild fowl. One of
them embraces several of the western
islands of the Hawaiian group, and
contains one of the largest breeding
colonies of sea birds in the world.
Others consist of reservoir sites of
reclamation projects, where the little
artificial lakes will doubtless attract
many birds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-03
Edison Storage Car a Winner.

The tangled storage battery
street car created by Thomas A Edison
was tried out on a New Jersey trolley
line and is said to have made good,
several trolley officials riding on the
trial trip. The batteries are equipped
to run the car $50 miles without re-
charging, at an average expense Of
about l cent a mile. It takes four
hours to recharge the batteries, but it
is expected that by installing wires at
intervals along the track the recharg-
ing can be done while the car is in
motion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-03
MEAT UNDER CLUB BAN.

Anti-FIesh Sentiment CrystalIizes in
Organization.
An anti-meat club with a charter
membership of about 200 was formed
at a meeting of labor unionists in
Trades and Labor Hall, Fond du Lac.
Another meeting will be held soon at
which it is expected there will be a
large increase in the membership. Cir
culars announcing the forming of the
club were placed in circulation togeth-
err with pledges by which all members
agree to abstain from meat for thirty
days or a longer period if necessary.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-03

The National Shoe wholesale Asso-
citation, in session at New York, voted,
after discussing the increased cost Of
leather and other materials used in the
manufacture OF shoes, to raise the
prices sufficiently Ito permit the addi-
ton to each grade Of such value as
will compensate the wearer for the in
creased cost" This news has excited
much sarcastic comment in the press,
owing to the fact that the same as. D
citation recently prevailed upon Con-
eress to place hides on the free list be-
cause. leather was too high.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-03
HANDY TO UNDERTAKEN

Oshkosh Carpenter Shoots Himself
in Front of Coffin store.
Harry A Chase, a carpenter Of Osh-
kosh, formerly of Fond du Lac, is ~
a precarious condition with bullet
hole just below his heart. Chase cash
ed a pay check of $12 Saturday night,
going to Fond du Lac and returning
early Sunday morning with only 5
cents. After eating at a restaurant
he went outside and shot himself, fall
ing to the sidewalk directly in front
of an undertaking establishment. He
has a wife and two children, and is
SO years of age.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-03
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
SMALL BANKS HELD By TRUST.


Wisconsin Official Finds Forty Tn
der One Holding Company.
The state commissioner of banking
has discovered a new kind of trust
a combination Of banks in the small
towns Of the Northwest. The annual
report given out the other day asks
for legislation to prevent such a com
bination. The report shows that there
is a Minneapolis holding company
which holds the majority Of the stock
Of forty banks in the small cities of
Wisconsin. Iowa, Minnesota and the
Dakotas and that other similar hold
ing companies are being formed. The
commissioner believes that there is a
serious danger in these banking trusts
for the general public Holding com
nanies cannot pay close attention to
the individual banks and the risk
through defalcation Of subordinate off
Gals not directly interested in the CON
Germs is great.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-03
SUEZ CANAL MUST BE DEEPENED.
Work to BE Accomplished if Modern
Ships Are AccOmm Odated.

IA
Ships Are AccOmmO dated.
AS the present depth of the Suez
canal is but thirty-four feet, it would
be an utter impossibility for such
monster boats as the latest transports
of England and France, to say nothing
of the new liners, like the Lusitania
and the Mauretania, to pass through.
The present type of Dreadnaught
could pass, but not those which will
be launched in the next three years
from British and German dock yards.
At the last meeting of the council
of the Canal Company in London it
was decided to increase the depth to
thirty-six feet Still that would not
be sufficient to admit the Mauretania,
which, when loaded, draws thirty
seven feet six inches. The neutrality
of the canal could only be affected by
a general European war, but Germany
is known to be eXerting her influence
to have the canal deepened to forty
feet, although about half Of the 1000
vessels which pass through every year
carry the British flag.
Night and day dredges- capable of
raising 10000 tons a month are at
work. The company possesses the
largest and most powerful one in ex-
istence. The machinery includes a
monster bucket dredger and fleet of
barges and lighters carrying pipe
lines through which the excavated
sand is pumped onto the banks There
are also 60-ton floating sheer-legs, a
12-ton floating crane, a 3,000-ton float
ing dock and specially designed appli-
ances for rock smashing.
In 1869, when the canal was opened,
the average depth was twenty-six feet,
but by a marvellous system of dredg-
ing and rock blasting it has now been
deepened to allow the passage of all
but about dozen Of the worlds larg-
est liners 1t win be remembered that
thirty-five ships belonging to the
American navy passed through the ca
nal last year. The whole of the Brit
ish feet, including the Dreadnaughts,
could navigate the canal, if necessary,
but it would be with a very narrow
margin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-03
Murder May BE JustifiabTe.

Dr.. Edward A. Spitzka. of the Jeffer-
son Medical College, Philadelphia, in
an address before the Protestant Epis-
copal Clerical Brotherhood at New
York, created a sensation by arguing
that murder and suicide were at times
justified Doctors, he said, had the
moral right to kill patients to end their
tortures in hopeless cases. Spitzka also
said that the so-called science Jf
phrenology is in error and that the
theory of criminal brains is all wrong.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-03
FATHER FROZEN; GIRL HURT.
WoOdsman Loses Hands and Feet
and Sled Injuries Daughter

WOOdsman Loses Hands and Feet
and Sled Injuries Daughter.
Ole Paaske, aged "a years, was
brought to Chippewa Falls from Hol-
combe with hands and feet badly froz-
en-. He is a woodsman and started to
walk from Holcombe to Donald, dis
lance of twenty-five miles. 1t is neces-
sary to amputate both hands and both
feet His daughter Clara, aged IS
years, is at the hospital suffering from
severe internal injuries sustained
while coasting. She fell off a bob and
another bobsled following close be-
hind ran into her. Doctors say her
injuries may result fatally.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-03
DEAD IN BED A WEEK.

Body of Civil War Veterans Widow
Is Discovered by Mail Carrier.
Mrs. Agnes Berri, aged 50, widow Of
John Berri, a Civil War veteran, was
found dead in bed in GAINESVILLE. She
had evidently been dead for at least
a week. William ]. Lennartz, a mail
carrier, noticed that mail which he
had left at the house during the week
had not been touched and entering the
front door discovered Mrs. Berri lying
on her bed. Death was due to natural
causes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-03
RoBBER BEATS VICTIM.


steve I<owache in Hospital nt Wan
E<esha as Result OF Assault.
Steve KOwache, aged so, is at the
Emergency Hospital in Waukesha with
his face battered and cut beyond recog-
milton as the result of a vicious as
sault, which took place on East Main
street, by man who, he says, robbed
him Of $50. Kowache's assailant ran
through a back yard and disappeared
over a fence after viciously kicking
Carl Keno, a small boy, who, with
Mrs. Peter Long, witnessed the as
sault. The county jail was notified
and officers found Kowache lying in
the street. He was rushed to the Emer-
gency Hospital, where his injuries
were such that he was unable to give
a coherent account of the assault.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-03
MILWAUKEE, HAS A GIRL BANDIT
Young woman Robs Her victims in

Dung Woman RObs Her Victims in
Daylight Then Runs Away.
a pretty girl highwayman who robs
her victims in daylight and escapes is
being sought by the police of the west
side in Milwaukee. Miss Louise See
mann says the girl is about % years
old. 7 saw the girl approaching me-
said Miss Seemann, but did not pay
any attention beyond noting her come
illness. She was shabbily dressed, wICh
curly yellow hair and blue eyes. When
we met she began to talk in a foreign
tongue. I started to tell her that I
did not understand, when she raised
her hand as if to strike me- 1 raised
my hand, holding my purse, to protect
myself She snatched the purse and,
laughing, ran away Miss Seeman
says other women in the neighborhood
have been robbed in a similar manner.