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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
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Baseballs and moth balls are in sea-
son.
However. it's little early yet to
pick straw hats.
Is the lamp shade" hat for the
light headed woman?
Pittsburg grafters come in packages
the same as stogies.
They seem to be catching a lot of
steal men in Pittsburg.
The Socialist victory wasn't the first
thing that made Milwaukee famous.
Halley's comet is helping a lot of
people to learn how to get up early.
Astronomers say the comet is losing
some of its couture as it speeds along.
A New York clerk has just died leav-
ing 100000. He also left the bank
1t seems wicked to spoil perfectly
good spring weather by cleaning house
in it.
Still, the exposures are not likely
to make Andrew Carnegie proud of his
Pittsburg.
Mr.. Roosevelt continues his philan-
thropic work of giving Europe an in
teresting time.
Indianapolis coal grafters made a
mistake in hiring a stenographer with
eyes and ears.
The Pullman company will not be
able to pull a man so much for upper
berths hereafter.
BY getting up as early as it does the
comet is helping along the more day
light movement.
1t was time for the interstate COM
merce commission to do something
about that upper berth.
Next thing the country will have 10
form a Society for Helping Rich Men
Ia Get Rid of Their Wealth.
If all they say about that Kansas
City doctor is true he was almost any
thing else than the ideal family ply
stefan.
Doubtless the reason the astrono-
mers could not see the comets tail at
first is that the appendage is only p
100000 miles long.
James j. Jefries, who had a fine
time on his birthday, hopes that the
nations natal day viii be for him as
! joyous an occasion.
It is not. however. by the census
enumerators that the hairs upon our
heads are numbered. The beauty par
| Iors take care of such things
According to this years baseball
rules the umpire will be absolute mon
arch, but he will fall down if he at
| tempts to censor the remarks of the
| bleac cherries
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
MARK TWAIN IS DEAD
Of 4 BROKEN HEART
Americas Famous Humorist, Sad
dened by Loss of Daughter and
Friends, Gives Up Fight.
HIS ENDING IS WITHOUT PAIN
Sad Event Occurs at His Home Near
Redding, Conn.-Angina Pee
toris the Cause.

Mark Twain, beloved the world over
because he made it laugh, is dead. He
passed away without pain at 6:22
O'Clock Thursday evening in his coun-
try home, "Stormfeld," back in the
wild Camarack Hills, from Redding,
Conn. For five hours he had been I'M
conscious and the end was almost UNI
noticeable. 1t was simply cessation
of pulse and respiration. At his bed
side were his only living child, Clara,
who is the wife of Ossip Gabrilowitsch,
the Russian pianist; Albert Bigelow
Paine, his secretary and literary ex-
ecutor, who was almost a son to him;
Drs. Edward Quintard and Robert Hal
sey, the heart specialists, who had kept
him alive by stimulants for nearly
twenty-four hours, and his servants,
headed by "Old Katie" who for thirty
years has been his housekeeper.
Angina pectoric, the doctors have it,
ended the life which every one who
had ever known Samual Langhorne
Clemens hoped might be spared longer.
That malady was coupled to some ex-
tent with asthma of the heart, brought
about by excessive smoking. But what
laymen call a broken heart was more
responsible than the world in general
knew. When his chum, Henry H. Rog-
ers, died last year, those close to Mr..
Twain saw that his grief was intense.
The odd companionship-h and
multimilliOnaire-W a nearer and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
DEMOCRAT WINS IN LANDSLIDE.
James S. Ravens Elected to Con-
gress in New York State.

James S. Ravens Elected to Con-
gress in New York State.
In the Congressional election at
Rochester, N. Y, the other day Re
publican standpatism was dealt a
blow as terrific in its effect as that
which ii sustained few weeks ago in
the Fourteenth Massachusetts Dis
trict, where Eugene n. Foss, running
as a Democrat, reversed the tradition
al majority in a district supposed to
be rock-ribbed Republican.
James S. Ravens, a Democrat, has
been elected to fill the vacancy in Con-
gress caused by the death of James
Breck Perkins over George W. AL
bridge, the Republican boss of Monroe
County, by the unprecedented plurali-
ty of $500. The district, the Thirty
second, had not gone Democratic since
1900.
The defeat was overwhelming. Mr..
trict in 1908 by 10,167. Fighting sin
gle-handed, Mr.. Ravens succeeded in
almost reversing this plurality in
campaign that lasted but seventeen
days. While the so-called moral is
sue was undoubtedly paramount in
the campaign, there seems also to be
no doubt that the Payne-Aldrich tar
if bill had a great deal to do with
the result. Aldridge had come out
tiatfooted as indorsing the tariff law
as it stands. Ravens was avowedly a
tariff refOrmer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
CHINESE TOWNS BURN
is MISSIONARIES FLEE
Mobs in Possession, Foreigners
Threatened and Guns Trained
on Changsha.
WALK THIRTY MILES IN RAGS
Refugees Tell of Slaughter of Many
Natives, Including All the Stu
dents of a School.

The situation in Human province,
China, is reported as critical Women
and children are fleeing for their lives
from Changsha, the capital. A number
Of villages near that city have been
reduced to ashes by native mobs. The
country is placarded with threats to
Kill all foreigners.
This disquieting news was brought
oy missionary refugees who arrived at
Hankow from Changsha and nearby
mission stations Many of them had
travelled thirty miles on foot and
reached the Yangtzekiang in rags.
Their houses had been burned and THY
lost all of their property.
The missionaries said that gunboats
IN the river have their guns trained
on Changsha and nearby points and
nave afforded refuge for many for
elgners. Three thousand Chinese i'm
perlal soldiers are occupying the stra-
teglc points of the capital and detach-
ments are being hurried to outlying
districts, where rioting is reported
Many Chinese have been killed. In one
instance technical school was set on
fire and thirty students were burned
to death. When vessels approached
Changsha to rescue the imperiled ones
the Chinese mob saturated junks with
kerosene from looted stations of the
Standard Oil Company, and, setting
them on fire, allowed them to float
down stream in an attempt to burn
oncoming steamers.
The viceroy of Human province and
the governor of Changsha assert that
they have the situation in hand and
that order is practically restored, but
the missionaries say they fear further
outrages. Telegraph wires west of the
disturbed districts have been cut Many
missionaries French and
rwegian-remain at outlying posts.
The British consul at Changsha, who
has arrived at Hankow, said. IF one
foreigner had been killed a massacre
probably would have followed. The
British consulate was burned because
it employed laborers from another
province in the construction, of new
buildings" The loss to foreign inter
ests is believed not to have been great.
The Standard Oil Company has lost a
few thousand cans of OIL
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, prime heavy $500
to 1925; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50
to $50; wheat, No. 2, $1.07 to S109;
corn, No. 2, SIC to SOC; oats, standard,
40c to 42c; rye, No. 2, TIC to 78c, hay,
timothy, $1,000 to $500; prairie, $500
to $14.00; butter, choice creamery, 27c
to 31c; eggs, fresh, 18c to 21c; pota-
toes, per bushel, 15c to Csc.
anapolis-Cattle, shipping, $500
to 1925; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$500 to 1895; sheep, good to choice,
$500 to $3.50; wheat, No 2, $1.01 to
$103; corn, No 2 white. 5Sc to Coo;
oats, No white, 42c to 43c.
ST. Louis-Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to 1925; sheep, $3.50 to
$S.15; wheat, No. 2, $1.O6 to $107;
corn, No. 2, soc to Gle; oats, No 2,
4Oc to 41c; rye, No. 2, 76c to nc.
Cincinnati = Cattle, $500 to $775;
hogs, $500 to 1913; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.O7 to $110;
corn, No. 2 mixed, 5Sc to Soc; oats,
No mixed, 42c to 43c; rye, No. 2,
SIC to SIC
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $500; hogs,
$500 to $1085; sheep, $3.50 to $500:
wheat, No. 2, $1O5 to $1.06 corn, No
yellow, 58c to Coo; oats, standard,
43c to 44c; rye, No. 1, 79c to soc
Wheat, No. 2 northern,
$1.06 to $1,07; corn, No. 3, 59c to soc;
oats, standard, 42c to 43c; rye, No. /,
78c to soc; barley, standard, 66c to
&c; pork, mess, $21.5O.
Buffalo = Cattle, choice shipping
steers, $500 to $685., hogs, fair to
choice, $500 to $3.50; sheep, common,
to good mixed, $500 to $7.40: lambs,
fair to choice, $500 to $10.25.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $500:
hogs, $500 to 1885; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, Slip to $113;
corn, No. 2, Gle to SIC; oats, natural,
white, 45c to 4Sc; butter, creamery,
26c to 31c; eggs, western, 19c to 23c-
Toledo-W Wheat, No. mixed, s105
to S1.06; corn, No. 2 mixed, SEC to
SIC; oats, No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c;
rye, No. 2, 78c to 79c; clover seed,
1925.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28

had enticed to his room by a promise
Of work, and thrust her while yet alive
in his fireplace, where, soaked with oil,
her crumpled body writhed and burn
ed. With the same waxen-faced indif-
ference that he had shown throughout
the trial, Wolter eyinced no emotion
when the verdict was announced. HIS
fate will be the electric chair.
The law was quick to deal with the
youthful degenerate, who was crazy"
about women. 1t was one month ago
that Ruth Wheeler left her home,
where she lived with her widowed
mother and two sisters, TO answer az
advertisement for a position as steno-
grapher. She never returned, and
when her movements were traced il
was found she met her death in a
struggle to save her honor. Failing to
dispose of her body in the fireplace,
Wolter cut it apart and left the bust
and head wrapped in burlaps on the
fire escape from where it was pushed
into the yard below He was arrested
on Saturday, March 26
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
j. S. CONV|CTS MAKE
MAD TRY FOR LIBERTY
Five Flee the Federal Prison at
Leavenworth, but Two Are
Recaptured.
STEAL AN ENGINE TO ESCAPE.
After Wild Run Three Are Surround
ed in the Woods Siren Calls
Aid from Many Farms.

Five train robbers, serving life SEN
fences, escaped from the federal pr;s-
on near Leavenworth, Kan, early the
other day. Within a short time two
were recaptured. At IL o'clock the
three others were surrounded in the
brush within a short distance Of the
prison and it was believed all would
be taken. The men recaptured were
Bob Clark, sent up from Tyler, Texas,
and John Gideon, of Moscow. The three
others were Thomas A Hating, from
Allen, Okla; Arthur Hewett, from
Caddo, Okla, and Frank Grigware, one
of the men who held up Union Pa
cific mail near Omaha last fall
The break for liberty was made
about o'clock, and was the result OF
a clever plot on the part of the con-
victs. It's execution was most daring.
Two men were at work in the carpen-
ter shop and the others were in the tai
lor shop. A Union Pacific switch en-
CINE had backed into the prison yard,
and at the sound of the whistle the
men dashed into the yard and made for
the engine. Leveling dummy guns at
the engineer they climbed into the cab
and compelled him to reverse his en-
CINE. The engine, with the convicts
aboard, rushed through the west gate
into the open country and soon was
speeding toward the woods.
When the escape became known a
few minutes later the siren whistle at
the prison was sounded as a warning
to farmers to be on the lookout The
whistle can be heard for miles and its
sound caused CONSERVATION. At the
time heavily armed guards we're
thrown around the gates to prevent
any further attempt to escape, while
others started in pursuit. When the
engine had reached a point half a mile
from the prison the five men Jumped
to the ground and made for the woods.
Clark and Gideon separated from the
others and soon were captured. Then
every available guard, led by Deputy
Lemon, started after the other three
men. Half mile farther on they were
surrounded in the woods.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
DEATH ENTERS DR.. HYDE TRIAL
G. T. Twyman, Important Witness
for State Passes Away Suddenly.

G. I. Twyman, Important Witness
for State Passes Away Suddenly.
Death has entered the trial of Dr.
B. G. Hyde, who is charged with hay
ing by the use of poison killed Colonel
Thomas Swope in Kansas City. 1t
was just after City Attorney James A.
Reed had concluded the opening state
ment for the State when the an
nouncement was made that Dr. G. T.
Twyman, one of the principal wit
nesses for the prosecution, had died.
Dr. Twyman was taken i'll Saturday
and it has been announced that he
probably would be the first witness to
be called by the State. His death was
attributed to acute diverticulitis.
The opening of the case was marked
by a sharp clash between counsel for
the State and defense, the latter OBJ
jecting strenuously to Mr. Reed, as
special counsel, making the opening
statement. The objection was over
ruled.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
U. S. TRADE WITH ISLANDS.
Report Shows Value of Goods Sent
to Philippines Is S10,151,276.

Report Shows Value of Goods Sent
to Philippines Is $10,151, 276.
An increase of about SO per cent in
the total trade in domestic merchandise
between the United States and the Phil
ippine islands during the eight months
ended Feb. % last, as compared with
the corresponding period of the preced-
ing year, is recorded by the bureau of
statistics. The enormous increase is
attributed by the bureau to the removal
of tariff duties on domestic merchan-
disc passing between the United States
and the islands The value of such
products shipped from the United
States to the Philippines during the
period mentioned was $10,151 ,276.
against $6,S71, 764 in the correspond
ing months of last year. The value of
merchandise imported into the United
States from the islands was $11, 420,475,
against S7,070,132 last year. This in
crease in trade with the Philippines,
the bureau said, practically equaled
the gain in the commerce between the
United States and all other portions of
it's noncontiguous territory in the same
period.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
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CHICAGO

r. G. Dun & Co.'S weekly review of
Chicago trade says:
While an excellent exhibit appears
In both aggregate payments through
the banks and trading defaults. the
business situation presents some ir-
regularity, mainly due to weather I'M
certainties and labor disputes. The
matter of costs also suggests more Sc
rious thought as to future undertak-
ings. Further weakening in prices of
raw supplies affects some interests
and large consumers apparently await
more favorable buying terms Con-
tinued low temperatures have adverse
ly affected leading retail lines and out
door activity, but transportation has
suffered little hindrance and freight
movements have remained exception
ally heavy in factory outputs, general
merchandise, farm needs, lumber,
hides and grain.
Interior advices indicate that mer-
chants have done well thus far in sea-
sonable goods. Reduction of light
weight apparel and fashionable wear
is IN part delayed by the cold and
wet conditions, but local sales have
been of fair volume. The attendance
of buyers has been equal to expecta-
lions in the wholesale district and re-
ordering for broken lines aud fall
needs have been the features For
wardings remain fairly large in tex
tiles, millinery, footwear, clothing,
suits and house needs Dealings have
been seasonably active in food prod
ucts and sporting goods
Bank clearings, 2,649,0S4, ex-
coed those of the corresponding week
in 1909 by Ill per cent, and compare
with s222,6S4,009 in 1908. Failures
reported in the Chicago district num-
Der only Is, as against q last week,
80 in 1909 and "a in 1908 Those with
liabilities over $4,000 number 4, as
against 10 last week, in 1909 and 10
in 1908"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
MILLIONS LOST THROUGH FROST
Heavy Damage in Iowa, Where Tenn
perature Drops to 90 Degrees.

Secretary Wesley Greene of the
Iowa State Horticultural Department
estimated that he damage to the Iowa
fruit and vegetable crop from the
freezing weather will be between S.
100000 and $10,OO0,000. He asserts
that early fruit, cherries and plums in
particular, have been destroyed, but
vegetables may be replanted, thus re-
gaining part of the loss. Snow has
been falling in many parts Of Iowa. A
temperature of % above zero was re-
ported from the southern part of the
State. Temperatures ranging from q
to 38 above zero, accompanied by fur
ries of snow, represented the weather
in Western Missouri, Eastern Kansas
and Southern Nebraska. In Illinois
frost has greatly damaged fruit at
Galesburg. Springfield and Central
Illinois were visited by a heavy snow
fall and budding fruits were killed by
frost. A cold, drilling rain fell
throughout Southern Illinois and hard
rains fell in Southern Indiana and
Western Kentucky, washing away
many bridges.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
CUBA FEARS UPRISING;
RUSH MACHINE GUNS
Troops Dispatched to Santa Clara
Province, Where Negroes Are
Reported in Excited State.
GOVERNMENT MAKES A DENIAL
Promises Impossible of Fulfllment
Said to Be Cause of Agitation
Rumors of More Trouble.

The other night a special train car
rying a battalion of infantry and a
battery of machine guns under com
mand of General Rivas left Camp
Columbia, near Havana, Cuba, bound
for Santa Clara. A rumor is current
that an uprising is in progress in
Santa Clara province, but this the gov
eminent denies
Secretary of the Interior Lopez
Leiva issued a statement saying that
there is not the least disorder in any
other part Of the island. The secre-
tary said reports had reached the gov
eminent that there was a condition OF
suppressed excitement among the ne
groes of Santa Clara and the eastern
provinces in consequence Of the incen-
diary utterances of the negro agitator,
General Evaristo Estenoz Because OF
these reports, the secretary said, the
government had decided to send
troops for the sake of the moral effect
which their presence would have in
overawing possible disturbers of the
peace and in giving confidence to 10y
al, lawabiding citizens.
There has been great unrest in the
country recently because of the agita-
ton of the negroes.
The newspaper La Lucia, which
was the most influential instigator
and supporter of the August revolu-
ton, but which is now Zayista or
paD cODomoptipU or, n rocopt roootin O
of the negro members of congress,
says the government is responsible,
having before the election promised
the negroes things impossible of full
fillment. The paper adds that it is
now incumbent on the government to
check the race agitation energetically.
General Estenoz, leader of the negro
movement, is making indammatory
speeches in Santiago Province. When
he reaches Havana after in1aming
Santa Clara, Camaguey and Pinar del
Rio he will present an ultimatum to
President Gomez to resign with the
alternative of having the Americans
brought back to Cuba. Everyone is
wondering who is financing Estenoz,
who is a Jamaica negro. Haytian ne
groes are accompanying him. They
travel in special trains for which they
have no means of their own to pay.
1t is rumored that ansinsurgent party
has been formed in Santa Clara Prov
ince. The government denies this, but
the negro agitation has caused the dis
patch of troops to garrison the pro-
vincfal capitals
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
NEW YORK.

Weather conditions and the unset
tied outlook for prices of many COM
modities are the causes assigned for
the quieter tone of trade in many
lines. Retail business and, to a GER
tain extent, recorder demand from job
bers, was affected by the return early
in the week of wintry weather. These
influences were, however, largely tenn
porary, and they were largely offset
by the decided benefit to the crop out
look generally by the breaking of the
drought Collections are about fair
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending with April
q were 1913, as against 2O7 last week,
247 in the like week of 1909, 254 in
1908, 157 in 1907 and 1T in 1906
Business failures IN Canada for the
week number 49, which compares with
q last week and SO in the correspond
ing week of 09.-Bradstreet's
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
SHOOTING AT STRIKE OPENING.
One Man Wounded in Riot at Press

One Man Wounded in Riot at Press
ed Steel Plant Near Pittsburg.
Without warning 1000 men, mostly
foreigners, employed in the erecting
department of the Pressed Steel Car
Company, Schoenville, Pa, ceased
work the other day Within an hour
a workman had been shot in the left
arm and the chief Of the car com
pany's police had been severely beaten
by members of the strikers body and
taken to a hospital. The trouble is
reported to have started over the dis
charge Of four Workmen. The men
are said to be members of the Indus
trial Workers of the World. When
the whistles blew for the opening of
the plant the workmen gathered at
the gates and discussed the situation
noisily. Chief Of Police Smith and his
officers attempted to dispense the gath
ering. Smith was struck down from
behind with a blackjack AS he fell
he fired several shots from his auto
matte pistol. One bullet lodged in the
left arm of a striker
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-28
ENTOMBED IN A MINE.
Men Imprisoned by Explosion at
Mulga, Ala, All Dead.

Forty men were entombed in the
Mulga mine of the Birmingham Rail-
way Coal and Iron Company at Mulga,
Ala, by an explosion at o'clock the
other night and it is believed that all
are dead. Fifteen white men and
twenty-five negro laborers are in the
mine. The foreman, who is entombed
with the others, has the only list Of
those working at the time. When the
first crew of rescuers reached the bot
tom of the shaft the following moru-
ing the bodies of two miners were
found. On returning to the surface the
rescuers expressed the opinion that
all the men were dead.
After the explosion flames shot up
the shaft for about 400 feet and the
ground is covered with charred tim
bers, which are blown up from the bot
tom of a 350-foot shaft by the force of
the blast Every window in the vii
lage was broken.