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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
STRIKE BREAKERS QUIT JOBS
South Bend Fears Fresh Rioting on
Account of designations.

NSSOuiii VI
South Bend, Ind.-With it's crews
shorthanded the Grand Trunk railroad
had difficulty in moving freight in and
out of this city, but the few trains
that were operated met with no inter-
ference from strike sympathizers.
Mayor Goetz and General Mckee of
the Indiana National Guard, after a
conference announced it was apparent
no further rioting was imminent and
the presence of state troops would not
be necessary. They said that not the
strikers, but disorderly loiterers had
caused the trouble Of the last several
days.
The nonunion men worked for two
days In the midst of a mob, but they
quit Several admitted that they
feared to work longer.
Railroad officials are determined to
continue the yard engine service, and
the locomotives will be started at
work again AS soon as crews can be
secured. Only one engine has been
started out thus far.
A crowd of $500 to 1000 men and
boys Monday night made an effort to
burn a refrigerator car that had
been switched on a crossing west of
divers station. The city fire depart,
ment succeeded in Quenching the
flames after the car had blazed for 20
minutes or more.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
LOCAL OPTION PLANK ADOPTED
Iowa Democrats Meet and Ratify
Nominations en- State Ticket.

Ottumwa, Ia.-After bitter
wrangle in the resolutions COM
mittee the Democratic state conven-
tian adopted a local option plank,
thereby putting the liquor question
which has been a thorn in the flesh of
both parties for years, squarely up to
the people.
Jerry B. Sullivan of Des Moines,
former candidate for governor, acted
as temporary chairman, and scored
Theodore Roosevelt numerically in
his speech.
The platform contained Is planks..
The tariff bill was denounced as
masterpiece of injustice involving
remorseless exactions from the many.
to enrich the few"
The nomination of Claude R. Porter
for governor was ratified, and the EN-
tire state ticket A Vanwagonen of
Sioux City and Judge Wolf of ClintonI
were nominated for judges Of the SUI
preme court.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
BRYAN LOSES TO "WETS"
I'M HOME STATE CONTEST
Pleads Ia Vain for County Option
Plank in Nebraska Democratic
Convention.

Grand Island, Neb.-William ]. Bry-
an spoke before the Democratic state
convention Tuesday night for an hour
in an effort to prevent the elimination
Of his county option plank from the
state platform.
Mr.. Bryan had labored hard in the
committee in an effort to have his
ideas written into the platform, and
after being defeated in the committee.
he appealed to the convention and in
this appeal made the speech of his
life to a convention already instructed
against him
He pleaded to his old friends.
begged them not to repudiate him un-
less they found him untrue to Demo
cratic principles; he threatened state
wide prohibition If county option was
defeated; he denounced those Demo.
Gratis whom he charged with being
subservient to the liquor interests;
and he cajoled the uninstructed dele
gates to vote for him and his plans.
And then standing aside he listened
TO the most bitter words directed at
him that he has ever heard.
No attack made against Bryan by
Republicans or others, in any of his
campaigns, was ever so bitter as were
the attacks made by Bryan's old
friends against their old leader. AS a
member of the committee on resolu-
lions, Mr.. Bryan returned a minority
report on the county option plank.
This minority report, signed only by
Bryan himself, was short and to the
point, saying simply: I'VE favor coun-
ty option as the best method of deal.
ing with the liquor question"
1t was in defense of this report that
Mr.. Bryan made the speech which will
be called the greatest effort of his
life.
The sentiment towards Bryan was
shown when, for more than an hour,
the convention called upon different
leaders to address it. but not a single
one was made for Mr.. Bryan. When
the final vote was taken, Bryan's
plank was turned down 645 to 1876
and a direct anti-county option plank
inserted.
Lincoln, Neb.-Philosophical in
the face of his decisive defeat
in the Democratic state conven-
ton, William j. Bryan returned to
Lincoln, content, he says, to become
an humble worker in the ranks of the
party of which he had been for many
years the acknowledged state leader
Mr.. Bryan made it plain that he had
no intention of boiling, but at the
same time he said he had not retreat
ed one inch from his position on coun-
ty option and his attitude against the
liquor interests. He will use his In
fiuence, he intimated, to secure the
nomination of Richard L. Metcalfe for
United States senator, but if Mr.. Met
calfe fails at the primaries he will
give the party's nominee at least nom.
inal support.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
TraVeIinu Trees.

In connection with recent demand
of German nurserymen for seeds of
the Montana larch, to be planted in
Germany, the curious fact is brought
out that white pine seedlings are to
he imported from Germany to be
lplanted in the province of Ontario,
Canada. Now the white pine is in
digenous to America, and was trans
planted to Europe many years ago.
to reinforce the forests there. It has
fiourished so well in the old world
that it now appears that the German
;nurseTymen are able to deliver white
pine seedlings on this side of the
ocean more cheaply than American
nurserymen will furnish them. The
interchange of trees among the vari-
lous continents is a most interesting
development of modern civilization.
Besides the white pine, Europe has
taken from US the Douglas fir and the
black walnut, and we have taken the
eucalyptus from Australia and the
Norway spruce and Scotch and Aus
<rian pine from Europe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
The Professor Confused

1t was told of a distinguished pro-
,fessor of history that, in an address
before a woman's club on Obscure
Heroes of the French Revolution" he
had reached the point where one of
them, nobly resolved to essay the res
cue of a friend doomed to the guillo-
tine, sought a parting interview with
his sweetheart before making the al
most hopeless attempt The professor
had moving voice, and was eloquent,
says the Youths Companion, and the
assembly of women, many of them al
ready near tears, hung breathless
Mpon his words.
''Biddy, diddy," said he, pathetical-
ay; then coughed slightly and went
back: "Hiddy Biddy-" Something
was evidently amiss. He tried again.
'Biddy hiddy diddy doc"
BY this time the ladies looked puz.
zled and the orator desperate. Draw
ing a long breath and speaking with
painful deliberation, he at length con-
quered the elusive syllables, and said;
Did he bid adieu?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
New Wisconsin Corporations.

Articles of incorporation were fled
In the Office of Secretary of State
Frear as follows:
Wisconsin Pure Drug association,
Milwaukee; capital, $4,000; incorpor-
ators, Joseph H Schmidt, c. Widule,
W. F. Kaiser, E. G. Raeuber, S. a.
Eckstein.
Bradley Iron works, Milwaukee;
capital, 5000; incorporators, ]. A.
Wallis, August Moeller, H. C. Mullen.
Fraternity Hall association, Shell
Lake; capital, 10000; incorporators,
]. NJ Smith and eight others.
Ritter Automobile company, Madi-
son; capital, $4,000; iAcorporators,
Henry R. Ritter, j. c. Harper, Homer
E. Webster.
Wakem & Mclaughlin, an Illinois
corporation with $4,000 capital and
no interest in Wisconsin, filed a state
ment to do business In the state
Brown and PiQuett Mining com
pany, Platteville; capital, $4,000; In
corporators, Joseph Piquett, L. g.
Huckins, W. w Cummins-
Redemptorist Fathers or Wisconsin,
Oconomowoc; no capital stock; incor-
porators, T. P. Brown, ]. A. Bell, Mi
nhaal Curry.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04

grew stronger, and within three months
l was a perfectly well woman.
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Thousands of unsolicited and genu-
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Women who suffer from those dis
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Ifyou want special advice write
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this way, free of charge. Don't
hesitate write at once.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
TAFT CONGRATULATES
HARDING ON NOMINATION.
President Returns to Beverly From,
His Ten Day Vacation

Beverly, Mass.-Returning from his
patched the following telegram TO
Maine cruise, President Taft dis
Warren c. Harding, the Ohio Repub-
lican nominee for governor:
Il sincerely congratulate you on
your nomination and earnestly hope
that you viii be elected.
WILLIAM H. TAFT"
The president is fully satisfied with
the Ohio platform. He applied him
self to a reading of it as soon as he
got back to Beverly. The dispatch of
the telegram to Harding followed.
With couple of days now in which
to rest up from his vacation, the pres
ident will be ready to buckle down to
a heap of work which Secretary Nor
ton says is stacked up for him. That
there is to be plenty doing here at the
summer capitol from now on is eYf-
denced by the fact that another re-
cruit to the clerical force has arrived
from Washington. Two came in, in
fact, while the president was absent
in Maine. R@
pOSSID1S ny
a fusion of the Garfield and ad-
ministration men, Warren G. Hard
ing, former lieutenant governor, was
nominated Tor governor by the Ohio
Republicans, Wednesday. His selec-
ton came on the third ballot
F. w. Treadway of Cleveland WIS
renominated for lieutenant governor;
Granville w Mooney for secretary OF
state.
Despite the efforts of Senator Bur
tons Cuyahcga county delegation to
stampede the convention for Nicholas
Longworth, and George B. CoX's every
effort in behalf of Judge o. B. Brown,
the Dayton man, the combination Of
the "progressives' with the national
administration men broke up the fight
on the third ballot. Then Cox, yield
ing to the inevitable, cast the 81 Ham
ilton votes for Harding, and that
finished it.
The withdrawal of James R. Garfield
and Carmi A. Thompson, before the
beginning Of the vote, made possible
decentralization combination
that "a hours previously would have
seemed to the delegates here an
opium-inspired dream.
All the Garfield votes, outside the
Cuyahoga delegation, and a few that
chung grimly to the undeveloped can
didacy of the ex-secretary of the in
terror were cast for Harding
The platform which it is expected
will h0 al fny- f11f7 Pnn11h1ioa0
conventions, was adopted almost
unanimously, there being but few
scattered noes"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
POWERAMENDME
MAY Be SUBMITTED
VOTERS NEED NOT AWAIT SEC
oND ACTION OF STATE
LEGISLATURE.
AT THE NOVEMBER ELECTION
Secretary of State Frear Will Submit
to the Voters the Amendment to
the Constitution Proposed by
the Legislature of 1907.

Madison.-Attorney Gilbert notified
Secretary Of State Frear that the pro-
posed water power amendment to the
state constitution should be submitted
to vote of the people at the Novem-
Der election, notwithstanding that the
measure has been acted upon by the
legislature but once
An amendment to the constitution
requires two passages Of the legisla-
ture and the sanction of a majority
of the voters of the state in a regular
election
This amendment has once passed
the legislature and came up a second
time, when action was deferred pend
ing the report of a special committee.
The committees report having
been submitted and the second action
not having been taken the question
arose whether the amendment could
be submitted in the election next No
vember
The attorney general held that the
second action of the legislature might
follow the election, and also pointed
of special session
1t was necessary to decide the ques-
ton at this time in order to make
preparations for the election.
Secretary of State Frear will there
fore submit to the voters at the No
the constitution proposed by the legis-
lature of 1907 and now pending before
the legislature of 1909, providing that
the state may appropriate moneys
for the purpose of acquiring, preserv-
ing and developing the water powers
and forests of the state; but there
shall not be appropriated under the
authority of this section in any one
year an amount to exceed tWo-tenths
Of one mill of the taxible property of
the state, as determined by the last
preceding assessment"
Thus the matter is temporarily de-
termined. If no special session of the
legislature of 1909 is held, then, even
if the people vote their approval, the
amendment falls and the purpose ar
rived at in the proposal can only be
brought about by beginning all over
again, passing a resolution through
two legislatures and again submitting
it to the people. Should there be a
special session of the legislature after
the November election, then there
might be a question as to whether
the approval of the people, given be-
fore legislative action, would make
the amendment good That might be
question for the supreme court.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
SAYS |. C. HEADS SPLIT GRAFT.
Former Car Inspector Declares Bills
yNora M

O0i ai'fSf~$-St 1~(tol GS 6UiS
Were Padded 40 Per Cent.
Chicag o.-'High officials of the Hi.
mis- Central railroad, who were in
terested in car-repairing plants, en-.
tered into an agreement among them
selves to divide profits grated from
the railroad. These profits amounted
TO as high as 40 per cent. CT the total
amount paid by the railroad COM
pany."
That is the charge made on the
witness stand by Harold A Sims, in
his continued testimony concerning
the grating from the Illinois Central
railroad. His testimony was given be-
fore Master in Chancery Mason, in the
suit Of the railroad to recover $500, 900
from the Memphis Car company. Al
though he was on the inside and
knew in detail the method used to rob
the railroad, Sims says that he realized
only $3.50 for his share in the work.
Illinois Central lumber was used to
repair Illinois Central cars, and then
the road was charged for the lumber,
was another of his charges.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04

Our map shows our politics." said
a Helsingfors university professor to
Harry de Windt He pointed to a
map of Finland and explained: You
see. she snaps her fingers at Sweden
and kicks Russia in the eye" If you
will look up Finland in your atlas you
will see this at once, and always go
on seeing it when you glance at the
map in future. 1t is one of the clear
est of these atlas pictures. Ireland
has undoubtedly a face turned toward
England, Tough Neagh forming the
eye and Carlingford Tough the mouth
iBut is the figure bowling toward Great
Britain or lowering its head to butt
her in the stomach. There one gets
upon dangerous political ground.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
MANY PoIsoNs IN ONE DRINK
Connecticut Doctor Ends Life by
Deadly Compound.

Bridgeport, Conn.-Dr. Frederick l..
Graves, one of the foremost medical
practitioners of western Connecticut,
died here Is hours after taking a dead
ly draft compounded from many pois-
ons with suicidal intent.
Doctor Graves has been melancholy
because he believed himself inclrably
Ill.
Graves wife found him lying under
tree at the rear of their summer
home, Laurel Beach, Milford, when
she returned from a stroll along the
shore.
Drs. John Wright and Charles H.
Sprague of this city, raced to the doc
tors aid in automobiles They found
him unconscious. They first believed
he was suffering from morphine
poisoning, but soon were puzzled by
conflicting symptoms When they ex-
amined his medicine case they found
every poison was missing. He died
without regaining consciousness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
A Protection AGAINST the Heat.

When you begin to think it's per-
sonal matter between you and the sun
to see which is the hotter, buy your
self a glass or a bottle of Coca-Cola.
1t is cooling-relieves fatigue and
quenches the thirst. Wholesome as
the purest water and lots nicer to,
drink At soda fountains and car
donated in bottles-5c everywhere.
Send &c stamp for booklet THE Truth
About Coca-Cola" and the Coca-Cola
Baseball Record Book for 1910. The
latter contains the famous poem
Casey At The Bat" records, schedules
for both leagues, and other valuable
baseball information compiled by au-
thorities. Address The Coca-Cola Co,
Atlanta, Ga.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
ORDER BIG BUILDING STRIKE
Trades Council Seek to Force Settle.
ment With Elevator Company.

Chicago.-In a final effort to OBJ
tain settlement with the Otis
Elevator company, a general strike of
building trades was decided upon at a
conference of thirty-seven unions AL
ready 635 men have gone out and it Is
predicted by the leaders of the union
lists that 1850 men will be on strike
within a day or two. The only union
not affected by the order Is that of
the carpenters.
The cause of the strike is the re-
fusal of the Otis Elevator company to
remove machinists from elevator con-
struction work, the American Fedora
ton of Labor having held this line of
work to belong strictly to elevator
constructors.
It is said the company has contracts
on thirty buildings, now in the
course of construction here, and that
work will be stopped on all of them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
WANTS HER
LETTER
PUBLISHED
For Benefit of Women who
Suffer from Female Ills

Minneapolis, Mimi was great
sufferer from female trouhIes Which
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Yes. Indeed,

Hostess Cat party)-Why, SO silent
Miss De Muir? You've scarcely said
a word since you came.
Youthful Guest-Really, Mrs. Lead
er, am having a very enjoyable time
but my father has told me 100 times
never to say anything unless | have
something to say, and l suppose
Hostess-But, my dear child, think
what stupid and tiresome thing so
ciety would be If everybody followed
that advice!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Finds Chickens With tuberculosis.


tuberculosis in chickens has been
found in five cases this year by the
state hygienic laboratory at the Uni
versity Of Wisconsin. In no case,
however, has 1t been proven that peo-
pie have contracted the disease
through eating such fowls.
1T is quite evident that the chick
ems get the disease by pecking about
in barnyards where there are cows or
people infected with It," said DR..
M. P. Ravenel, director of the labora-
tory, recently. Eve had a chicken
sent us not long ago from the neigh
borhood of GAINESVILLE. We found the
bird had tuberculosis, and upon visit
ing the farm it had come from, dis
covered nearly every animal in the
entire dairy herd there badly infected.
Few cases of the disease among
fowls have been reported hitherto,
only two or three having been known
in the United States until this year. "
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Secure Many Convictions.

State Game Warden Rickermann
said that his department. during the
preceding seven days, had secured the
conviction of a score of persons for
violating the fish and game laws, the
total fines imposed amounting to s48s
and costs $24786. One Of the meB.
arrested was B. T. Gutenberg, alleged
to be one of the candidates for sher-
If of Cook county, H., who is charged
with making false statement regard
ing his residence
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Wisconsin Patents.

The following list of patents. re-
Gently granted to Wisconsin inventors,
is reported by Oiphant & Young. pat
ent solicitors, 107 Wisconsin street.
Milwaukee: Herman Bolinski and Nj
Schmidt, New London, automatic
speed-controlling clutch Edward Che
shire, Milwaukee, sheet register de-
vice; Jacob Christensen, Racine. can
lister; Albert Clausing, Milwaukee. gas
burning attachment for stoves; Dome
mic Cortese, Spooner, ratchet drill;
Frank E. Davis, La Crosse, seeding
machine; Frank E. Davis. La Crosse.
plow; Frank E. Davis, La Crosse. cul-
tivator; Clinton ". Dickinson, La
Crosse, pillow; Clinton w Dickinson,
La Crosse, grain drill; Clinton w.
Dickinson, La Crosse, disk drill; Frank
A. R., Henry c. and Otto L. Fiebach.
Lake Mills, cutter for corn harvesters !:
Albert t. Hanson, Amigo. and G. J.
Hanson, Milwaukee, switch lock: Will
liam c. Hartman, Milwaukee, cream
separator; Louis R. Horvath and P.
Kotrucz, Milwaukee, cuspidor; John
G. Kirksey, Milwaukee, hydraulic ore
concentrator; Frank w Herman. Mil
waukee, power-generating apparatus :;
Oscar Loewenbach, Milwaukee. de-
tachable cover for pads, books, etc !;
Frank Matthes, Milwaukee, knock
/ down table; Thormod Odee, Beloit,
cooling system for internal combustion
engine; Allan G. Park, Madison boat
steering gear; Aaron G. and G. E. Sc
berg, Racine, ore-separating machine !;
Willard A. Van Brunt, Horizon, grass
seeding attachment for grain drills.
Progress on New Capitol.
The main offices of the railroad
commission, were moved from the sec
ond floor of the old south wing of the
capital into rooms on the ground floor
of the new east wing. This is some
what of a change from the plan made
some time ago to make a temporary
home for the entire office and admin
istrative force of the commission In
the new Washington building on East
Washington avenue, just off Pinckney
street.
1t is understood that the original
plan is changed to the extent that
only the clerical, statistical and en-
cheering departments will go to the
quarters engaged while the commits
sioners themselves will be provided
quarters more easily accessible from
the other departments of state.
The executive offices, and those OF
the state superintendent, the commits
sioner of banking, the adjutant gen
eral and the tax commissioner, are all
that now remain in the old south
wing
Governor Davidson expects to oc-
cupy the new executive offices in the
east wing by the first of the month.
The others in the south wing will
have to vacate soon for the workmen
are gradually working their way from
the center and soon will have RACED
the old structure.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Accused Wife Slayer Taken.

Chicago Heights, ul.-One a lonely
road six miles south Of Chicago
Heights a posse Ct citizens and police
surrounded clump of woods in which
John Barcha, supposed wife muir
derer, was hiding Tuesday, and after
fight succeeded in arresting him.
Barcha, few hours before, had, it is
charged, shot and killed his wife,
Margaret, in their home. He fed and
the neighbors joined in the pursuit.
When he was found in the woods he
drew a knife and fought the posse
before he was finally overpowered.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-04
Qualified.

prominent western attorney tells.
of boy, who once applied at his Of
flee for work.
This boy was bright looking and 1
rather took to him.
Now, my son. l said, if you come.
TO work for me you will occasionally
have to write kilograms and take
down telephone messages. Hence a
pretty high degree Of schooling is es-
sential Are you fairly well edu-
cated?'
THE boy smiled confidently.
81 be- he said. "-Independent