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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-15
SECRETARY MACVEAGH MAPS
OUT BIG REFORM PLAN
Show Saving of Vast Sum in Govern
ment xpenses-Broom for
Custom Houses.

Washing ton.-Franklin MacVeagh,
secretary Of the treasury, submitted
his annual report to congress. Among
the recommendations are currency
reform, extension Of the scope of the
national banking laws in the event
of no immediate general changes in
the monetary system, civil service re-
tirements, a customs service free from
practical politics, businesslike meth
DDS in the daily transactions of the
government, and a general abolition
Of red tape.
Expenses Of government in the ifs
cal year 1912, for which this session
Of congress is asked to appropriate,
are estimated at $630,494,01312. The
estimated expenditures of the Panama
Canal are given as 20,84769,
making total of $687,414, 86081. The
estimates represent net savings of
about s18,000,00O in the executive de-
partments, compared with the ap-
preparations for the current fiscal year.
Calls 1t Panic-Breeder
Our system can fairly be called a
p1AIS-D4 SSuAuS SYSTEM, lie says,
whereas every other great national
banking and currency system is panic
preventing As long as we continue
under our present system we are liza
bic to panics, and the devastations of
panics reach Republicans and Demo
Gratis, and all parts of the country
alike. Panics are no longer necessary
and no longer respectable. 1t is for
the government to say whether we
shall have them in the future. 1t is a
mere matter of choice.
I'VE have no system Of reserves;
our banking system destroys them 1t
concentrates in New York what are
pretended to be reserves and then
forces the New York banks to lend
and abolish them. Our system, in
stead of building up a reserve, de-
stroys it as fast as it inclines to &C
emulate"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-15
GERMANY FACING
UNSAVORY EXPOSE
High Personaqes Fear That
Dancer viii Tell Secrets.
SHE MAY UNLESS LET ALONE
Signora Tarragona, Friend of Euro
pean Royalties, Threatens to Ex-
pose Incidents in Private Life
of Reigninq Family.

BerIin.-A scandal which, it is
said, will make Macmillan Hard
ems revelations of the knights of the
Round Table look tame threatens the
nobility Of Germany.
Some of the most powerful families
in GSmany are shaking with appre-
hension lest Signora Maria Tarragona,
a Spanish dancer, be not prevented
from publishing her memoirs. She
threatens to expose incidents in the
private lives of members of one Of
Germans reigning families, of several
officers of the crown, and Of other
prominent men.
Signora Tarragona makes these
threats in deadly earnest and will
carry them out-unIess the police
leave her in peace.
To a visitor the dancer gave proofs
that she has known well members of
nearly every reigning family in Eu-
rope. She was a friend of King Leo
pold of Belgium, an acquaintance of
King Edward of England, and an in
innate of several royalties who still
are alive.
The signora is twenty-nine years old
and fascinating. Her first protector
was an American who made his ire
mendous fortune in steel. Her ex-
tTaordinary career began with her
meeting this American steel magnate
ten years ago.
RerausA of Sipnora Tara goua's
friendship with a member of a GER
tain princely German house the
Munich police tried to compel her to
leave Bavaria, but they were unsuc-
cessful because she proved that she
was a German subject Besides, she
knew too much for the police to try
to bully her. Scandal after scandal
about her has been whispered. but
she VOWS, and has proof of what she
says, that in almost every case she
was the injured party.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-15
Badgers Lose Debates.

The University Of Wisconsin lost
the intercollegiate debate here to
Iowa. The decision Of the judges was
unanimous, the verdict sustaining the
negative of the question, Resolved,
That the movement of organized labor
for the closed shop should receive
the support of public opinion"
Andrew T. Weaver, Pewaukee;
Frank A. Daley, Madison, and Howard
T. Lewis, Madison, represented Wis
consip in the affirmative. They con-
tended that the closed shop, although
admitted to regulate production, is es-
sential to the life of labor organiza-
ton and collective bargaining. They
challenged the negative to prove that
the mixed shop is of greater value to
unionism than the closed shop.
Iowa's team was composed of Leon
Powers, ]. E. Ashton and Frank
Jones' They held that the closed
shop Is not essential as a requisite Of
effective labor organization.
The judges were Prof. Floyd B..
Mechen, University of Chicago; Ed.
ward Sonnenschein, Chicago, and
James Gray, Minneapolis Journal,
Prof. T. K Urdahl presided.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-15
TWO WORLD FAMED GRANNIES
One of These Talented Women Ia
Sarah 6ernhardt and the Other
Ellen Terry.

Two famous grandmothers are dis
tinguished visitors of this country. Re-
ferring to these talented ladies The
Rochester Post Express says: "One of
&he grandmothers is Nine. Sarah Bern.
Sardt; the other is Ellen Terry. Both
actresses have reached an age when it
is permissible to retire from active
life; but the French actress is said to
be as energetic as a woman half her
age, while Ellen Terry is declared to
be as young as ever she was in the
palmy days when she and Henry Irv-
ing ruled the theatrical world of Eng
land. Miss Terry has retired from the
stage so far as acting is concerned,
and has taken to lecturing on Shakes
peare's heroines. And who could do
better than she who has played so
many Of the womanly women of the
great dramatist? Readers of her
breezy biography know what she
thinks of Portia, Beatrice, VOLTA, Rosa
lind and other famous women of the
tragedies and comedies, but no print
ed page could charm as does the won.
derfully expressive features and the
velvet voice Of the greatest living
English-speaking actress"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-15
EAGER 70 WORK.
Health RegaIned by Right Food.

The average healthy man or woman
is usually eager to be busy at some
useful task or employment.
But let dyspepsia or indigestion get
hold Of one, and all endeaVor becomes
a burden.
"a year ago, after recovering from
an operation" writes a Michigan lady,
my stomach and nerves began to give
me much trouble.
cat times my appetite was vora-
cious, but when INDUCED, indigestion
followed. Other times I had no appe-
tite whatever. The food I took did not
nourish me and / grew weaker than
ever.
81 lost interest in everything and
wanted to be alone. l had always had
good nerves, but now the merest trifle
would upset me and bring on a violent
headache. Walking across the room
was an effort and prescribed exercise
was out Of the question.
81 had seen Grape-Nuts advertised,
but did not believe what read at the
time. At last when it seemed as if
was literally starving, I began to eat
Grape-Nuts.
81 had not been able to work for 6.
year. but now after two months on
Grape-Nuts l am eager to be at work
again. Ny stomach gives me no trou-
bic now, my nerves are steady as ever
and interest in life and ambition have
come back with the return to health
Read THE Road to WellFille, ID
pkgs. There's a Reason"
Ever read the above letter! A new
one appears frsm time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full OF humaa
interest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-15
BATHTUB TRUST HIT.
Thirty-TWo Firms and is Individuals
Indicted for Conspiracy.

Detroit, Mich.-The anti-monopoly
campaign of Attorney General Wick
ersham shifted to Detroit this
week with the result that indict-
ments were returned by the federal
grand jury against Is firms and 80
individuals alleged to have secured
control Of IS per cent. of the annual
output Of enamel ironware, bathtubs,
sinks, laVatories, etc, in the United
States.
Against each firm and each individ-
uaI there are two indictments, con-
tanning six and four counts respec-
lively, under the Sherman antitrust
law. charging In substance that the
defendants control IS per cent. of the
output of enameled iron ware, tubs.
SINKS, lavatories, etc, and that they
have conspired to restrain trade and
TX prices. 1t is alleged that the con-
splracy was formed at Mount Clemens,
Mich, last April and the criminal
cases grew out of a civil suit brought
IN the federal court at Baltimore.
Inc two indictments against each
defendant contain six and four counts
respectively and charge that the de-
PENDANTS, controlling SIS per cent. OF
the annual output, combined to re.
strain the trade of manufacturers and
OF 5obbers of plumbing supplies by re-
fuslng to sell to jobbers handling the
goods of so-called independents, by
the liking of resale prices, by the di.
vision of the United States into eleven
zones and refusing to sell to jobbers
vsS would not maintain the resale
prices established by the alleged
agreement Of the defendants.
1t is charged that the effect of these
resale prices is to make the price of
the articles manufactured by the com.
binatton the same throughout the
United States, and to eliminate the
competition of jobbers as well as OF
manufacturers
The indictments charge also that
the defendants compelled the jobbers
to enter into uniform contracts and
that all the defendants refused to sell
to any jobber unless he would sign
such contract.
The defendants will be required to
appear at once in the United States
court here and give bonds for their
appearance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-15
MRS. EDDY WILLS MILLION
TO FAITH SHE FOUNDED
Cams Will Get Back Greater
Part of 1t.

notwithstanding to the terms Of
the will of the late Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy, which have been learned, the
Christian Science church, the source
from which it came, will get the major
portion Of her estate, including the
value of copyrights. which is about
100000.
To the board of directors is left
the final decision as to the form which
this bequest will take, but in her will
Mrs. Eddy has left several suggestions
and it is said that the principal one
relates to the instruction of needy
persons who may desire to become
Christian Science healers.
The construction of a college for
INDECENT students may be the outcome
Of this provision of the will, but it is
considered equally probable that the
bequest will be devoted to the spread
ing of the faith in foreign lands.
Ideas along both these lines are
said to have been included in the
will.
The estate at Chestnut Hill is be-
queather to the mother church. It's
future will be determined by the
board of directors.
Pleasant View" the splendid es-
tate at Concord, n. H, where Mrs.
Eddy made her home before coming
to Chestnut Hill, is to be sold.
The administrator of the estate is
ex-ConSressman Henry NJ Baker Of
Bow, =. H. He was the fayorite rela-
tive Of Mrs Eddy. But all he gets
under the terms of the will is a
keepsake
Members of Mrs. Eddy's household
are remembered in requests which
range from $1,000 to $4,000. The
will was drawn in 1904 in Concord,
". H, and those that receive be-
quests we're then members of her
household at Pleasant View
Not a dollar is left to George w
Glover and DR.. E. ]. Foster Eddy, re-
spectiVely the son and adopted son of
Mrs. Eddy. They were the leaders in
the famous next friends" suit which
had a sequel in each receiving large
amount Of money from Mrs. Eddy.
Members of the board of directors
and other leaders of the mother
church are not mentioned in the will.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-15
WhN Do They.

Why women like the baldheaded
man it is somewhat difficult to define.
1t may be because he appears to be:
Thoughtful and kind.
Trustworthy and confding. Whim-
steal. Past the follies and friyolities
of youth
Usually successful.
A man Of property
Opinions why women like the bald
headed man obtained by the Daily
Mirror are as follows:
He is not silly like young men.
He accepts refusals of marriage so
nicely that one is sorry one did not
accept him.
The bald patch looks so clean and
nice One would like to kiss it.
A doctor welcomes badness when it
comes to him, as it is sign Of Sc
datencss and dignified learning, which
invariably increases his practise.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-15
HIS OPPORTUNITY AT LAST
fMangan's Luck" Brave Policeman
Called 1t, But the World Supplies
Another Name.

For Is years James Mangan walked
bis beat as a policeman of the Greater
City, and n all that time nothing had
happened TO him, says the New York
correspondent of the Cincinnati Times
Star. His name never got in the re-
ports for bravery. He did his duty
well but it came to him in the com
rnon and prOsaic form it offers to the
greatest run Of men. His hair had
Begun to turn gray and the fire of
youth had abated. His fellows in the
station began TO call him Pop" IN
gil those years he had not so much as
stopped a runaway. No greengrocer
could have led a more placid life
Even the men he arrested, won by the
EoOd-natured smile, did not resist.
The goddess of chance that walks by
every blue-clothed man upon his beat
seemed to have forgotten him.
And then, the other night, his chance
came to him. Locked on the top floor
Of a burning building were two little
children. A weeping mother came
and Mangan, with Is years of kindly
duty behind him, became a hero. He
struggled up to the locked door
through a swirling hell of fame and
smoke. Burned, half-strangled, he
burst in the door and gathered the lit
tile ones in his arms, protected them
under the heavy cloth of his uniform
coat. Down the lettering stairway he
felt his way, blinded and gasping. Half
way down its fame-rotted timbers
broke beneath him and he fell. Even
las Inconsistencies came upon him,
5he still drew over the little children
the skirts Of his coat, and it was thus
the fremen found him when they
fought through the curtain of flames
that barred their entrance. Mangane
they say, will die
How are the kids?" he reused
enough to say. And when they told
him that the boy and girl were safe
a faint smile came to his blackened
lips.
'Mangans luck" he whispered.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-15
Wisconsin After Inheritance Tax.

Wisconsin After Inheritance Tax.
Unless all signs fail, Wisconsin
is in a fair way to collect more
than half million dollars which is
due the state under the inheritance
tax law. Frank L. Gilbert, attorney
general of Wisconsin, has just come
from Washington. The principal bust
ness which brought Gilbert east re-
lates to various inheritance tax col
lections which Wisconsin state Off
Gals are attempting to make.
Chief among these claims is that
against executors Of John S. Kennedy.
who died in New York about a year
ago. Kennedy left an estate whose
estimated value ranges from s60,000,
600 to S70,000,000. He was private
banker in New York at the time the
Northern Pacific railroad went into
bankruptcy. Kennedy represented
Dutch banking syndicate and acquired
100000 shares of Northern Pacific
stock. He owned this stock at the
time of his death. The Northern Pa
cif1c is a Wisconsin corporation and
under the Wisconsin inheritance law
stock in this company devised by Ken
nedy Is subject to taxation.
The executors are not disposed to
recognize the right of Wisconsin to,
collect an inheritance tax on this
stock, inasmuch as only a small pro-
portion of the right of way of the
Northern Pacific is in Wisconsin. Gil
bert insists this is not true test Of
the states right, and declares that in
asmuch as the Northern Pacific is
domestic corporation all stock in this
company devised by Kennedy is with
in control of Wisconsin for taxation
purposes under the inheritance law.
Among questions which have arisen
is that Of the value of this stock. The,
law provides that an Inheritance tax
shall be assessed on a basis of it's fair
market value. At present the selling
price Of Northern Pacific stock left
by Kennedy would yield about $685.
100000, on which Wisconsin would be
entitled to levy a tax Of about $780,
900, but if the 100000 shares of
Northern Pacific stock were thrown
on the market in one day nobody can
tell what the result would be on the
price Of the stock. In the ordinary
course of events there might be panic
on the New York stock exchange
Gilbert held several conferences
with attorneys representing Ken
nedy's executors, but no final agree
ment was reached for settlement of
the states claim.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-15
Marking an Old Trading Post.


The Old Settlers club, assisted by
the park board, is having log cabin
erected in Mitchell park on the site
of the first trading post. This is to
lbe done in commemoration of the
memory of the first white trader and
because of the historical value of the
spot. The cabin /. being erected in
the northeastern part of the park and
on the exact piece of ground on
(which the cabin Of Jack Vieau, the
first white man who traded with the
indians in what is now known as Mil
Iwaukee, was located away back in
1871. The cabin will be a model of
the rough cabins which we're built
i'm those days.
The site on which stood the log
cabin of Vieau, the Frenchman. so
many years ago was located by Hans
EReinertson. a member of the Old Set
tiers club. Mr. Reinertson had in
his possession papers relating to the
location, and with the aid of these it
was fouEG.-MiIwaukee Sentinel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-15
Frear Files His Account.

Secretary of State J. A. Frear filed
a statement of election expense with
himself in which he notifies himself
that he spent $881.97 during the re-
cent campaign.
Congressman ]. J. Esch of La
Crosse spent $94220 Congressman I.
L. Lenroot spent $21390. William
SINNERS of West Bend spent 1928 in
his campaign for state senator in the
Thirty-third district. George D. Scott
Of Prairie Farm spent $27 to be elect
ed state senator. Clarence Powell of
Reddsburg, Democratic candidate for
state senator in the Twenty-seventh
district, spent S261.90. Leo J. Evans
of Marinette, Democratic candidate
for state senator in the First district,
spent $326.34. E. L. Urquardt of Med
ford, Republican candidate for the as
sembly, spent $29.48, and G. A. Boor-
man of Grand Rapids, Social Demo-
cratic candidate for state senator in
the Ninth district, spent 1855.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-15
STATES CLAIM
On MILWAUKEE
Fines and Penalties Kept by City
and County.
BELONG TO THE SCHOOL FUND
Case Argued in Supreme Court to Re-
cover 1920, 732.48 Collected for
Violations of the Penal Laws
of the State.

Madison.-In the supreme court was
argued the case of the state Of Wis
consin against the city and county Of
Milwaukee, an action brought by the
state to recover from those corpora
tions the sum of $220,732.48, being the
amount of fines and penalties collect
ed therein for violations of the penal
laws of the state and which, according
to the constitution of the state belong
to the school funds Of the state.
The period during which the state
claims there is default in the payment
of these fines and penalties by the
city and county extends from January
1, 1859 to January /, 1909, and the de-
PENDANTS plead the statute Of limita-
ton. In the trial court judgment was
entered for the state and the defend
ants appealed to the supreme court
where the statute of limitations was
again offered as a bar against collection
by the state. Attorneys concluded that
the statute was available to the de-
PENDANTS for the reason that they are
at most but agents for the collection
of the moneys in question, implied
trustees, and as such may invoke the
protection of the statute.
The state contended that the trust
is one created by the constitution
which provides that the clear pro-
ceeds of all fines for violations of the
penal laws shall constitute a part
of the trust funds Of the
state to be used exclusively
for the support and maintenance
of the schools Of the state and that it
is beyond the power of the legislature
directly or indirectly to ALLEVIATE the
fund or any part of it. to purposes
other than those specifically mentioned
in the constitution; that, under the
doctrine established by the supreme
court, the statute of limitations OPP
crates not only to abolish the remedy
but to transfer title to the adverse
claimant after the period prescribed
has expired; that the statute is not
available to the county and city for
the reason that the legislature is
powerless to relieve them in contra
vention of the plain provision of the
fundamental law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-15
URGES AIRsHIPs FOR ARMY.
Secretary Dickinson Asks Nearly
$2o,ooo,ooo to Fortify Panama
Canal.

Washington.-Secretary of War
Dickinson in his annual report
indorses the use of the flying ma
chine as military aid, and recon-
mends that congress appropriate
funds to provide the signal corps
with several machines for instruction
purposes and field work.
Congress is asked to authorize an
expenditure of $19,546,843 for the for
ttications on the Panama canal, in
Guiding the construction of posts for
the permanent garrison, and 100000
of this sum should be made available
Immediately in order to complete the
project within three years. The ad-
ditional sum of 100000 is wanted
Immediately, to be applied toward
the creation of naval establishments
in the canal zone.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-15
Harlem Horse Railroad.

The New York and Harlem Horse
railroad, the first of its kind in the
world, was organized in 1881, and
made its first trip from Prince to
Fourteenth street on November 26,
hS52. the line soon afterward being ex-
tended to Harlem bridge. John Ste
Fenson. who built the first tram car
run on that road, established in 1886
Ia large car mandatory in Harlem. AS
the city grew the horse-car lines were
extended in every direction. Although
horse cars have been discarded in
nearly every other important city in
the world, a few remain in New York
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-15
Uniform Alumni Badge.

The recommendation of a uniform
button badge for the Alumni associa-
ton of the University of Wisconsin
was adopted at a meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee and special com
mfttee was appointed to determine the
design.
Members of the executive commit
tee present at the meeting were:
Lynn S. Pease, Milwaukee, president
Of the association; DR.. A. J. Ochsner,
Chicago; Mrs. G. R. Carpenter, Ra-
cine; J. Glenn Wray, Chicago, and Dr..
W. G. Bleyer and M. S. Dudgeon, both
Of Madison.
The alumni reunion will be held on
Tuesday, June 20.
Reports showed that the member
ship of the association has been in
creased so per cent. since the recent
reorganization of the society.
Doctor Ochsner, Dr. A S. Loewen-
hart and Dr. H. c. Bradley, members
of the alumni visiting committee for
the school of medicine, investigated
the department and will report at the
next general meeting.