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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
PITTMAN Is FOUND STARVING
Nicaragua President Reported to Have
Badly Mistreated American Pris-
oner-Creates Reign of Terror.

Washington.-The United States
must soon intervene in Nicaragua or
allow peace to be effected there by
England and Germany.
Unmistakable significance attaches
to important reports from its diplo-
matte representatives in Nicaragua to
the state department Thursday show
ing that Madriz has produced inten-
tionally a reign of terror in the west
ern half of Nicaragua, in which four
fifths of the white people of that re-
public live.
The dispatches show that William
Pittman, an American prisoner in the
hands of Madriz, was inhumanly treat
ed by starvation and other privations
since he left Greytown on July on
his way to Managua.
When he was put in prison in Mana
qua it was in filthy cell" five feet
by six and there again he was starved.
A prompt protest from Consul Oil
wares at Managua secured the trans
fer of Pittman to a better cell and
the United States is furnishing the
money to feed him properly, and it is
also furnishing the money to take
care of the relatives in Nicaragua Of
the murdered Groce.
The more serious aspect of the gen.
eral situation is that citizens of Ger
many and Great Britain are protesting
against the reign of terror in western
Nicaragua. Nicaraguans openly make
threats against the lives of American
citizens and there is nothing to pre-
vent an immediate outbreak of street
murders, arson, robberies, etc, which
viii involve all foreign residents in
Nicaragua.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21

through the end loop, then work off
the rest of the loops two at a time as
in ordinary tricot
Row 2-Commence as usual, but
pass the hook through the upright
thread, and also through the top
thread between that and the next up
right, and draw up a loop through
both threads at once, then draw a loop
through the top thread between each
Of the uprights as far as the last two
stitches, this time take the upright
and the top thread following together
as at the commencement of the row,
draw the next loop through both front
and back uprights of the last stitch;
work off as before, drawing through
ione loop at first, and then through two
at a time for rest of row.
Continue repeating this row for
length of scarf, the two stitches at
each end of the row making a nice
firm edge on both sides of it, and will
prevent the work from slanting.
Along each side work double Gro
Chef in the end stitch of the first row,
s., pass one, five trebles in next, pass
two, double crochet in next, repeat
from +.
Work a single crochet-or chain
stitch-in the top back thread of each
stitch of previous row.
Before commencing the fringe,
work about three rows of FIVE chain
loops upon each end of the scarf.
For tho Erinop-C,1t tho wool into
26-inch lengths, pass the hook through
the first loop at end of scarf, fold four
strands of the wool exactly in half
and draw them short distance
through, forming small loop, draw
the eight strands, right through this
loop and pull gently, drawing the knot
close up to the work. Repeat this into
every loop, taking care all the knots
are turned the same way
To knot the fringe, take four threads
of the first tassel and four threads of
the next one, and tie them together
about an inch below the other knots,
tie the remaining strands of the sec
ond tassel to four of the third one and
repeat to end of row, being careful to
keep the knots quite level
Tie another row of knots an inch
below these, but this time taking the
them together.
Tie two more rows of knots at equal
distances below these and cut the
ends level with pair of sharp scis-
SOrS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
Cords as Fasteninus.

Rich cords as fastenings on the aft
ernoon coat are a relief after the va
rious hook and button arrangements,
even though they are so shaped as to
suggest the drop handles of old furni-
ture
They slope gracefully down the bias
opening Of short coat of gray cloth
for the older woman
Silver hair is beautified by the in
PRODUCTION of metallic touch On the
costume. The button or round form
on which this loop is caught to fasten
it is covered first with gray silk and
then with the wound-round cord.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
PINCHOT AND CANNON TALK
Engage in Extemporaneous DEBATE as
to Who Was Father of Con-
serVation Idea

Kansas City, Mo. = Clifford Pin
chot and Speaker Joseph G. Can
non engaged in an extemporaneous de-
bate upon the subject of conservation
before the Knife and Fork club last
night. While each gave expression to
the highest personal regard for the
other and both agreed that conserva-
ton of the natural resources should
be encouraged, they differed on the
question who was the father of con,
servation
Mr. Cannon, who spoke first, said
that the late J. w. Powell, at one
time director of the government geo.
logical survey, deserved the honor,
but Mr.. Pinchot asserted that Thee.
dore Roosevelt was the father of con
servation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
AVlATION'S DEATH TOLL GROWS
ERBSLOEH AND FOUR coMPAN-
IONS KILLED IN PRUSSIA.
Perishes in Accident-RoIls
Loses Life in England.

Leichling7r, Rhenish Prussia.-Os.
car Erbsloeh, the German aeronaut
who won the international balloon
race at ST. Louis in 1907, and four
companions were killed Wednesday
when the dirigible balloon Erbsloeh
burst at height of several hundred
feet and dropped to the earth a crum-
pied mass.
The Dead.
Oscar Erbsloeh, inventor and bal
loonist.
Herr Toelle, manufacturer of Bar
men.
Engineer Kranz
Engineer Hoppe.
Motorman Spicke.
The craft was of the nonrigid type,
176 feet in length and 33 feet in diam
eter. The motors were of 125 horse
power and drove the airship at a
speed of 2S1a miles an hour
The war department recently pur-
chased one of Erbsloeh's balloons.
The cause of the accident is a mat
ter of conjecture, but it is believed
that the bursting of the bag was due
to the expansion of gas by the warm
sunshine
Bournemouth, England Hon.
Charles Stewart Rolls, third son of
Lord Llangattock and one of the most
daring and skillful of British avia-
tors, who recently made flight from
Dover to France and return, met a
most tragic death at the close of the
first flying machine tournament of the
year in England Tuesday.
In the presence of a great company
CT spectators, majority of whom
were women and children, and many
personal friends Of the young aviator,
the Wright biplane on which he was
flying fell suddenly with terrific speed
from height of 100 feet.
1t struck the ground close to the
crowded grand stand, smashed into a
tangled mass, and before the doctors
and their assistants could reach the
spot Rolls was dead.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
JAPANESE BAMBOO BOXES
They Come in Nests and Are Useful
for Holding Many Articles of Young
Girls Wardrobe.

japanese bamboo boxes, which come
many trifles of young girls ward
robe 1t is only recently that these
offerings from the orient could be OBJ
tanned here, but now all the leading
shops dealing in eastern goods keep
them. The original set comprises six
rectangular receptacles about two or
two and a half inches In depth. By
using the larger of each group of two
for the cover one may have three sep
arate and convenient places in which
to keep ribbons, gloves, collars and
the various trinkets which so easily
lose themselves in a dresser drawer.
The rich reddish brown of the BAN
any girl. The wood is split into strips
about half an inch wide and woven to-
getner In an open basket pattern.
Inc edges are strongly bound with
strips of the bamboo laced together.
Other baskets are to be found in this
same material, and the fern holders
are unusually charming when filled
Win II CoA 81 cen llOSS anu QoltCdIS
green sprays. These baskets are lined
with dull brass boxes, which slip into
the bamooo part, so that they do not
show from the outside For country
houses they are particularly we'll
adapted, and so are the large handled
baskets for holding the garden flow
ers as they are freshly culled.
Japanese straw sandals are another
useful article which can be picked up
in these oriental shops. They have
woven soles of grass or fiber, with
cross straps of Powered silk to match
ones kimono. Or if they do not
match in coloring the original straps
can be covered with a silk that does.
Other sandals have embroidered COW
erings for the toes and are heelless
like the strapped ones.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21

Russia has not figured extensively
as cotton-producing country. But it
seems to have ambitions in that direc-
tion. Reports from Tifis are to the eff
feet that the area sown to cotton this
year is double that of 1909. In one dis
trict 400 acres are devoted to the
stape That is a tiny fraction of the
total in the United States, but high
prices have stimulated cotton growing
wherever practicable, and the aggre-
gate result may be substantial gain
IN the foreign output
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
The Stomach Hold,

Col H. n Renouf, at the "Old
Guard" banquet at Delmonicos, en-
phasized the Importance to an army
of a good commissariat
You have perhaps heard" he said,
of the company of privates that a
patriotic lady entertained one Me
mortal day to dinner
ut was a good dinner, and at its
end a pretty maid servant entered
with superb dessert
Dessert, sergeant?' she said to
the stalwart young soldier at the
heaC of the table.
Desert? the sergeant answered.
Eotbin'? Nixiel Not mel"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
URGES LOEB FOR GOVERNOR
Taft Favors Collector New York Port
for GubernatoriaI Candidate In
Empire State.

Beverly, Mass.-President Taft Mon
day urged William Loeb, Jr., to ac-
cept the Republican gubernatorial
nomination in New York this fall. Mr.
Loeb is averse to taking up the task
and would prefer to complete the work
that he has undertaken as collector
of the port, but before he left Burgess
Point he assured the president that If
the demand was made he would ac-
cept the duty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
IN AND OUT INDICATOR
Simple Form of a Very Needful Ar
ticie That Can Be Made of Card
board and Silk.

An in and out Indicator is often a
very needful thing and we show in
our sketch useful and simple form of
this article that may be easily made.
The. size given in the left-hand dia-
gram will be found quite large enough
for all practical purposes.
To make it a piece of stout card
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21

The latest government report is adj
ditionalIy favorable to a big wheat
crop. The returns, as interpreted by
the skilled statistician Of the New
York produce exchange, indicate a to-
tai harvest of 702, 100000 bushels,
against an indication for the same
time last year of 652. 351 900 bushels.
The estimate for 1909 fell below the
actual result. for the total yield last
year was 737, 900 bushels. Should
there be similar excess this year there
will be a good chance for a record
breaking output.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21

1t is stated that the recent missile
test against the ram Katahdin has
demonstrated that the theory as to the
piercing power of big projectiles fired
modern battleships' range is wrong
that the missile really drops from the
trajectory at so sharp an angle that it
delivers a glancing blow and therefore
does not penetrate armor plate of only
moderate thickness. If this is true,
the fighting will have to be at closer
range, and the guns of smaller caliber
than the big 1S-inch rifles will come
znto greater favor
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
Submarine Rams a Gunhoat

Provincetown, Mass.-During the
maneuvers in the war game Monday
the submarine Bonita rammed the
gunboat Castine, flagship of the sub
marine fetilla, and to prevent her
sinking she was run ashore and
beached. No one on board was hurt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
COL. GUFFEY EMBARRASSED
Business Affairs of Democratic Lead
err of Pennsylvania Are Placed
in Hands of Receiver.

Pittsburg, Pa.-The business affairs
of Col. James M. Guffey, Democratic
leader of Pennsylvania, member of
the Democratic national committee
and one of the best known oil and
coal men of the entire country, were
placed in the hands Of receiver Fri
day.
The assets of Colonel Guffey are es-
timated at s17,0oO,0O0, his liabilities
at less than s7,006,0O0 Inability to
realize on his assets, which consist
largely of coal lands in West Virginia,
is said to be the reason for Mr.. Cuff
fey's embarrassment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21

The peril of the four young men
who put out upon Lake Michigan in a
gasoline launch with supply of fuel
close to exhaustion should remind mo-
tor yachtsmen that small boat with
out power is helpless in comparison
with sailing yacht The latter can
be handled so that she will be safe in
the toughest of weather, while the
powerless motor boat must wallow and
take what comes, unless those in
charge of her have seamanship enough
TO rig a sea anchor and ride behind it
while awaiting succor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
Old Advice.

Manager-You never get this scene
right Your business with the sweet
peas is all wrong and you forget when
you are to speak-you get your lines
all mixed up.
Actress-All right, sir, III be more
attentive and fix the sweet peas and
try to get my lines In the right place.
Manager-Your course is very sim
pie. Just mind your peas and cues
Baltimore American.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21

the bearing down. / recommended it
to some friends and two of them have
been greatly benefited by it" Mrs.
lac MCKNIGHT, Oronogo, Mo.
Another Grateful Woman.
st. Louis, Mo. II was bothered
terribly with a female weakness and
had backache, bearing down pains and
pains in lower parts. / began taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound regularly and used the Sanative
Wash and now have no more troubles
that y."-Mrs. AL. HERzoG, 5722
Prescott Ave, st. Louis, Mo.
Because your case is difficult one,
doctors having done you no good,
do not continue to suffer without
giving Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Grial Itsurely has cured
many cases of female ills, such as in
f1ammation, liberation, displacements,
fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic
pains, backache, that bearing-down
feeling, Indigestion, dizziness, and ner-
yous prostration. 1t costs but trife
to try it, and the result is worth mil
lions to many suffering women.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21

New records are made by flying ma
chimes almost daily. France comes
forward with the most notable achieve
ment with an aeroplane carrying two
persons. One of these airships, with
two army officers as passengers, few
from the starting point 20 the gates of
Paris, distance of 1866 miles, in two
hours and fifty minutes. The times
seems to be at hand when the ma
chimes will engage in regular tarffic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
Cheer up, astronomers! Mars isn't
going to run away anyhow.

The ice cold geyser discovered in
Yellowstone park not only upsets the
accepted theory as to the origin of pc
Tiodical natural fountains, but adds a
feature of economic value to the scene
of natural wonders. Heretofore tour
asts have been able to catch fish and
swing them from the river into a gey-
ser basin of hot water, to be cooked
while still upon the hook. Now they
will be able to catch the fish and
swing them into cold storage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
The Fashionable Umbrella.

1t has long-very long, handle.
And great round silver cap.
Or severely plain hardwood
handle.
If there is any engraving 1t is done
in old English letters.
Colored taffetas-dark blue, red,
green or brown, are almost as much
in vogue as black.
Smooth finished hardwoods, inlaid
with silver, make elegant handles.
Many men prefer the wooden stick
as being more substantial and mas
culine looking than the steel rod
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
Sink Two Pirate Boats

Hongkong.-The guns of the Portu-
guese gunboat Patria Wednesday dis
lodged the Chinese from the fort on
Colowan Island. Many of the Chinese
were killed during the bombardment.
Two junks loaded with Chinese who
were attempting to escape were sunk
and all of their occupants drowned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21

Two French officers occupying a BIZ
plane flew from Chalons to Vincen-
mes, distance of loo miles, In two
hours and thirty minutes. The speed
made by these flyers was satisfactory,
but the fact of their having Travelled
across the country a distance of over
400 miles will renew speculation as
TO the arrival of the airship capable of
carrying several passengers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
Embroidered Collars.

Now that all the summer blouses
are cut low, the Dutch collar is again
with US, but mounted on neckband
SO as to avoid the unpleasant exposure
Of the whole neck SO frequent last
summer. These collars are often, of
course, of embroidered linen, but are
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
Killed in Mistake for Another.

Kendallville, Ind. - Albert Lehr,
thirty-eight years old, was Killed by
five Italians employed on a section
gang while standing on the plat
form of the Lake Shore depot. The
shooting is thought to be the outcome
Of the accidental killing of an Italian
by freight train three weeks ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
Powder MAGAZINE Blast Fata,

Pittsburg. PA powder magazine
at Cabot, Pa, exploded Tuesday, kill
Ing one person and injuring 20 others.
The magazine was the property of the
Standard Plate Glass company and
contained 1000 pounds of dynamite
and 5000 of blasting powder.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
Church to Build Asylum.

Holland, Mich.--A movement has
been started by preachers and laymen
in the Christian Reformed church to
establish an asylum where the church
will take care of its insane as it does
its roor. This plan includes the pur-
chase of a large farm between Hol-
land and Grand Rapids.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
Twenty-Five Hurt in Bridge Crash

New York.-Twenty-fve persons
were injured early Friday on the Man
haitian approach of the Greensboro
bridge over the East river when a
crowded car from North beach with a
theater party aboard crashed into the
rear CT a Flushing car
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
Inventor Passes away.

New York.-Alois Wirsching, in
ventor of the stock ticker and many
other well known inventions in the
electrical trade, died in his home in
Williamsburg Friday. He was seventy
nine years old.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
Beef Freiqht Rates Stand,

Washington.-The interstate COM
merce commission announced Friday.
that the recently filed tariffs, making
advances in the freight rates on cat
tie and dressed beef between Chicago
and New York, had not been sus-
pended.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
Admiral coqhian's Widow Dead.

San Francisco.-Mrs. Julia Barber
Coghlan, widow of the late Rear Ad-
miral Joseph B. Coghlan, died at the
Adler sanitarium Friday. after an i'll
ness of but two days, from uramic
poisoning.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
President of $4,000, 900 College.

Brunswick, Me.-Prof. William T.
Foster of Bowdoin college has accept
ed the presidency of Read Institute, a
college to be built at Portland, Ore,
from a fund given by Mrs. Amunda
Reed and now amounting to So, 600, 600
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
$4,000. 600 for Worlds Fair.

Winnipeg. Man.-At luncheon here
to Premier Sir Wilfred Laurier of
Canada, given by the city Tuesday,
he promised a grant of s2,500,000 by
the government to the worlds fair to
be held here in 1914. An equal sum
is promised from other sources.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
Wreck Dead Now Total %.

Hamilton, O.-Henry Oswald, in
jured in the Big Four wreck at Mid
dletown July 4, died of his injuries in
the hospital Wednesday. This brings
the death list up to %.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
Man AGED 1n4 Dies

Ripley, Miss.-Mike Cox, a native
of Ireland, said to be the oldest man
in the south, died here Thursday, aged
one hundred and four years He
worked as a farm hand until he was
one hundred years old.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
Hitchcock Off for Europe.

ashington.-Frank H. Hitchcock,
postmaster general, sailed from New
York Wednesday for Europe for a
months vacation. All the members OF
President Taft's cabinet are now out
of the city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
How to Wash the Jabots

Dissolve pinch of granulated sugar
in basin of water and wiring the ar
ticles out in it. Roll them in cloth
and let them lie for half an hour.
When ironed they will look like new
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
For Mine Rescue Stations.

Victoria, B. C.-The British Column
bia government Thursday placed or
ders in Pittsburg, Pa, for complete
apparatus for three mine rescue sta
lions to be installed in the principal
icoal mining areas of British Column
thia
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
sIaxs Norman and Kills SELF

Onawa, Ia.-John Kratz shot and
killed Mrs Agnes Mccoy and then
committed suicide here Wednesday.
Kratz was infatuated, it is said, with
the Mccoy woman, who resented his
attentions
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
fits Ban on Benzoate.

Pasadena, Cal.-Action taken last
rear, condemning the use of benzoate
If soda as a food preseryative. was
escinded by the American Institute of
Homeopathy Tuesday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
Troops TO Awe Refunees

Madrid.-Spanish troops are being
concentrated In the province of Valen-
cia in preparedness to move into Gaia
lonia because of the reported inten-
ton of the Spanish refugees to cross
the French frontier with arms.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-21
Falls TO Death In SIeen

San Antonio, Tex.-H S. Nugent.
one of the best-known newspaper men
in the state, fell out of a third story
window of hotel Tuesday night and
was killed 1t is believed he was
walking in his sleep.