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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16
NUBBINs OF NEWS

1t is announced from Port Arthur.
Texas, that John w. Gates has donat-
ed $25O.000 for a university for the
Methodist Church and has offered a
forty-acre tract on a ridge overlook
ing the Gulf of Mexico as a site for the
institution.
Joseph H. Hoadley, of New York.
who heretofore has owned the contron-
ing interest of the Alabama Console
dated Coal and Iron Company of Biz
mingham. Ala, has sold the majority
of his holdings to a syndicate compos-
ed of some Of the largest coal opera
tors of Scranton. Pa.
Rear Admiral Charles Herbert
Stockton. retired, was appointed act
ing president of George Washington
University, to succeed DR.. Charles w.
Needham, resigned.
Under the direction of DR.. Dearborn.
who is connected with the biological
department of the government AT
Washington, the work of destroying the
mice and chipmunks that have been
eating up the pine seeds as fast as
planted by the forestry department. in
the vicinity of Deadwood, s, D.. has
been undertaken. After considerable
experimenting it was decided to use
barley saturated with a solution Of
strychnine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16
STORM SWEEPS SOUTHWEST.

Lightning Fires Buildings and
Houses Are Unroofed by Wind.
A terrific rain and wind storm swept
st. Louis the other night and after
noon. Many buildings were unroofed
and lightning set fire to many dwell
ings. The damage caused by the storm
was the greatest of the year Many
citizens were terror-stricken as they
recalled the cyclone of May 81, 1896,
when 400 St. Louisians were killed.
Reports from Arkansas, Mississippi
and West Tennessee indicate the worst
rain, wind and hail storms throughout
this territory in years.
Rains of torrential nature fell over
Western Arkansas and a tornado Lit
the towns Of Pine Bluff and Hot
Springs. Only one life was lost, mat
of David Meadows, a farmer near Fort
Smith, Ark, who was drowned while
riding on mule. A Frisco train went
through bridge near the same town,
the engine getting across in safety, Dut
fourteen cars of merchandise went
down to destruction. A college build
ing at Nettleton, Ark, was completely
destroyed. Wire service all over Ar
kansas was out of commission for. sew
eral hours. Damage to crops will be
enormous. Young corn was beaten to
the ground and cotton washed out of
the soil This will mean probably a to-
tai loss of the early corn crop in LAT
section, and many thousand acres of
cotton will have to be replanted
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16
MANY DEAD IN QUAKES;
PANIC RE|GNs IN ITALY
Great Distress at CaIitri and Other
Towns in AveIlino Province
Suffer.
LOSS OF LIFE ABOVE THIRTY
King and Queen Rush to Scene in
Special Train-People, Caught
While Sleeping, Flee.

The province of Avellino bore the
brunt of a severe earthquake that was
felt throughout Southern Italy shortly
before dawn the other day The dead
are estimated from thirty-f1ve to fifty,
and many are injured. Distressing
scenes were witnessed as thousands
fed in terror from their novels, some
dying Of fright. Much damage was
done to property, but it is impossible
to determine the extent of the devas-
tation.
In Avellino little harm was done,
and the only death reported was that
of an old man who died of fright. The
population, however, was terror-strick-
en-
Reports from villages throughout tho
province are much more grave. A.
Calitri, where twenty people are re-
ported killed, the situation is distress
ing. Ten persons are said to have met
death at San Sossio, where the sulphur
waters, with which the district is rich,
were released from bounds by the dis
turbance and flooded the vicinity. From
tAAS AoOd hOAlOuo SdSCS d1OSS- AZ StIA-
anche house fell, burying and killing
an aged man. One person was killed
and several were injured at Castelba-
roma. Calabritto was badly damaged.
1t was in the darkest hour of the
morning when the shock was felt at
Avellino. The sleeping town was arous-
ed by the shaking of walls, the rafting
nf f1,,y7 e. G L.
from the ceilings In a moment panic
had seized the 10000 inhabitants, who
live in. daily fear of a seismic disaster
Half naked men, women and children
fed from their homes screaming with
terror. They had in their minds Wis
ions Of Messina and the horror of Reg
gio. Recently there was gossiped about
prediction that the approach of Hal
ley's comet portended the end of the
world. The authorities kept their
heads, but they could not stay the mad
rush for the squares and open districts
outside the city. The widest confu-
sion prevailed and the frightened ones
could not be reasoned with: could not
be stopped. In the squares hundreds
threw themselves upon their faces and
implored the mercy of the Almighty
After several hours of frantic entreaty
the authorities succeeded in re-estab-
fishing a semblance of calm and relief
squads were organized. AS is usually
the case, the inhabitants refused to re
enter their homes, fearing that another
quake would occur. Throughout the
day the police were busy bringing to-
gether the scattered members of fami-
lies and reassuTing the frightened ones
Word that the king and queen were
route there on a special train served
, afford new coursge to the people and
mad a good effect in restoring order.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16
NEWS OF MINOR NOTE.

King Victor Emmanuel intends to
pay a state visit to Russia during the
summer. The date has not yet been
definitely fixed,
The twenty seventh national confer
ence of charities and correction closed
at St. Louis with a general session on
lawbreakers.
The Massachusetts Legislature took
steps to investigate the threa tened milk
famine in Boston, due to the farmers
refusal to sell milk at summer prices.
Vie Chain Yong, toe Korean who
stabbed Premier vi, in an attempt at
assassination Dec. %, 1909, was SEN
fenced to death at Seoul
John w. Gates, while declaring he
did not join the Methodist Church, Of
fers s250,000 for the erection of a
Methodist university and forty acres
of land on the edge of Port Arthur,
Texas.
Pittsburg's famous orchestra passed
out of existence when committee an
nounced it had been unable to obtain
a sufficient money guaranty to contin-
ne. Pittsburg will have four concerts
next year, two by the Thomas Orches-
ira of Chicago.
OIeott C. Colt, loan broker Of Wall
street. New York, was convicted IN the
federal court at Kansas City on the
charge of using the mails to defraud
Fifteen persons were injured when
two coaches of Denver and Rio Grande
train No. lis jumped the track two
miles from Cucharas junction, Colo.
Spreading rails caused the wreck and
two cars went down the embankment.
Representatives of fourteen railway
systems of the West met in Denver
and decided to put into effect at once
an increase of wages of cents an
hour for yard men and to apply there
the working rules now in effect in Chi
cago and Eastern yards.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16

w. F. Schilling, editor of the Mime
sofa Dairyman, has filed for the Senate
from his district on the Republican
ticket
In the recent Ohio Republican pri-
maries eleven of the twenty-one sue
cessful nominees for Congress had de-
clared themselves against the re-elec-
ton of Speaker Cannon, while nine re-
manned noncQmmittal, and one, Keifer,
is openly for Cannon.
The National Congress of the Social
list party which met in Chicago to re-
wise the platform and program, voted
after long discussion that the party
is opposed to the exclusion of any i'm
migrants on account of race or ma
tionality, and demands that this coun-
try be kept as a free asylum for per-
sons prosecuted in other lands; but
that it favors all measures tending to
prevent the immigra ton of contract
Iaborers or strike breakers. This was
the compromise resolution offered by
Delegate HiIquit of New York. The
policy of the party as to the farmer
class was left open, and an enlarged
committee was appointed to study the
question and report at the national
convention two years hence. The con-
vention took positive position against
the commission form of city govern
ment.
Senator A B. Cummins, who, with
Senator Dolliver, is working on the
progressive campaign in Iowa, makes
little comment on the situation in
Washington. He condemns the rail-
road bill, which he thinks should be
greatly amended.
The liquor interests are responsible
for the forcing of the county option
question into the arena of politics, and
they have only themselves to blame for
the results that shall follow the grow
ing indignation against the impudence.
the insolence and the sordidness of the
LIQUOR interests" declared William J.
Byran in a recent address at Nebraska
City.
Senator Thomas Morris, candidate for
lieutenant governor, who gave up his
gubernatorial aspirations to help =
store harmony in the La Toilette fac
ton. will manage the La Toilette cam
paign in the State.
President Taft, commenting on the
hill he favors for the Statehood of Ari-
IONA and New Mexico, said: There is
a hesitation on the part of the Repub-
| Hcans in the Senate TO pass a bill
which is so likely to add four Demo-
| Gratis to the Senate, or if not Demo-
Gratis. Republicans of that radical type
that are entirely out of sympathy with
| the more conservative notions of the
East"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16
6HOOz
C9ILEaB

The annual outing of the North Cen
trail Minnesota Editorial Association
will be held at Glengarry Springs, on
Leech Lake, near Walker.
The oldest educational institution in
existence is Ell Ashar University at
Cairo, Egypt. 1t was founded in 9S8,
and had $50 students last year.
Simplifcation of spelling is a plain
matter of business expediency, accord
ing to Prof Homer H. Seerley, presi-
dent Of the Iowa State Teachers Asso-
citation.
Twenty-Five colleges have been invit-
ed by the games committee of the Mis-
souri, Valley conferences to participate
in the annual meet to be held at Des
Moines.
For the second time in two years the
debaters of St. Thomas College have
defeated the representa- tives of the Fo-
rum Literary Society of the University
of Minnesota.
Fifty students of the University of
Minnesota have been dropped from the
rolls of the colleges Of engineering and
science, literature and arts, for failure
to maintain the required standard #
scholarship.
Prof R. r. Cochrane, of the chair
of mathematics of the Manitoba Unit
versity, died recently at the age of 60
years. He was a brother of the late
George Cochrane, president of Los An
geles University.
DR.. John c.. Parish, of the State his
torical department of Iowa and son of
the late Prof. L. W. Parish of Cedar
n
fessor of American history and politi-
cal science in Beloit College.
The annual meeting of the Tri- Coun
try Educa tional Association was held
in Grafton, N. D. Resolutions were
adopted imploring the State legislative
assembly to appropriate money for the
benefit of rural schools while medical
inspection of school children was urg-
ed
An actual registration of 4,947 stu
dents for the year at the University OF
Wisconsin is shown by statistics in the
new catalogue now in press. This is
an increase of 426, or 10 per cent over
last years enrolment and brings Wis
consin up seventh in the list of A1neri-
can universities in point of numbers.
DR.. Toyokichi Iyenaga, a noted jap
anese scholar, last returned from a tour
of the globe on which he studied
world politics bearing on Oriental
nrobIems. gave several illustrated lee
lures on the subject last week to stu
dents of the University of Wisconsin
under the auspices of the political
science department.
Sanitary fountains have displaced
the old faucets and drinking cups in
all the buildings of the University of
wisconsin, in compliance with the new
State law against public drinking cups.
The St Paul Hebrew Institute Of St.
Paul has filed articles of incorporation
with Secretary of State Julius
Schmahl The object of the new or
SANITATION is to provide and conduct
for the Jewish people of st Paul popu-
lar educational facilities, including
schools, libraries, reading and debating
rooms, lectures, religious and social
meetings, also conducting free shelter
ing houses for poor and worthy Jewish
strangers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16
WARNS AGAINST SOCIALISM.
Taft Says Institution of Private
Property Is Growing Issue.


Socialism was proclaimed by Pres
dent Taft the other day as the greatest
and most difficult problem that ever
faced the United States, and the in
stitution Of private property was her
aided as the frame of the growing is
sue. Without entering into any dis
custom of the tenets and principles Of
socialism, the President declared that
the Republican party has demonstrated
its capacity for dealing with other
great issues wisely and effectively and
that the country must soon determine
trusted with the solution of the next
big problem.
President Taft's speech was deliv-
cred in Jackson at the unwilling of a
bronze tablet in commemoration of the
birth of the Republican party under
the oaks" in 1854, and by many of his
hearers his utterances werec onstrued
as framing a possible issue for the
next presidential campaign.
One passing reference to the insur-
gents was made by the chief executive
in declaration that unless individuals
are willing to subordinate themselves
to the Will of the party majority the
result would be rule by groups. ''In
that event." he said, "the Lord only
knows what your government would be
and what it would accomplish"
Earlier in the day at Monroe, Mich,
President Taft paid tribute to the mem
DRY of Major General George A. Custer,
making an address at the unwilling of
a bronze equestrian statue of the civil
war veteran and martyr of the Little
Big Horn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16
NEW YORK.

Unreasonably cool weather still ar
rests retail trade and retards crop
progress in the northern half of the
country, and trade is quiet in the
southern districts, though cotton and
fruit crops there are making progress.
Jobbing trade reports reflect quiet in
consumptive demand in a moderate
volume of recorders, which are classed
as frequent but small in the aggre-
gate. Trade as whole still hesitates
pending a clearer view of crop and
price outcome. Industrial reports
point to considerable curtailment of
output. Collections range from slow
to fair.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending June 9
were 189, as against 100 last week.
1877 in the like week of 1908. 253 in
1908, 161 in 1907 and 10 in 1906.
Business failures in Canada for the
week numbered SO, which compared
with IS for last week and 20 in the
like week of 1909.-Bradstreet
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16
CHICAGO.

R. G. Dun & Co.'S weekly review of
Chicago trade says:
Trade conditions reflect little
change in the prominent activities.
There is a smaller shrinkage in the
volume of payments through the
banks. and the trading defaults make
a good exhibit. Operations in produc-
ton and distribution are stimulated
by a more confident tone as to the
future. Forwarders have found salts
faction in the Washington conference
as 10 a threatened advance in trans
portation rates. Other favorable de-
velopments include more seasonable
weather for fashionable lines, further
ease in money, 1essened labor disputes
and Wednesdays excellent crop re-
port.
The markets for general n1erchan-
disc attract increasing attendance of
buyers. Sales have risen to satisfac-
tory aggregates in dry goods, foot
wear, clothing, mems furnishings,
millinery and food products Inferior
merchants report expectations realized
on spring stocks. Local dealings were
stimulated by higher temperatures
and Roadway is made in the depletion
of lightweight apparel. The demand is
now quite strong for vacation needs,
and large sales are noted in sporting
goods and house furnishings
Markets for bonds and local Sc
curities compare unfavorably in trans
actions with this time last year, but
there is heavy investment in realty
and improvements. Commercial paper
OF the best grade is quoted at per
cent, and deposits are strengthened by
an increasing return of money from
the West.
Bank clearings, $267, 723, 9O1, are
2.6 per cent under those of CORE
spending week in 1909. and compare
with $215, 492,046 in 1908.
Failures reported in the Chicago
district number eighteen, as against
fourteen last week, twenty-one in 1909
and twenty-one in 1908. Those with
liabilities over $4,000 number seven,
as against six last week, four in 1909,
and eight in 1908"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $8.75; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $9.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50
to $500; wheat, No. 2, $10O to $1.O2;
corn, No. 2, 58c to &c; oats, standard,
35c to SIC; rye, No. 2, 75c to TIC; hay,
timothy, $500 to $500; prairie, $500
to $14.50; butter, choice creamery, 24c
to &c; eggs, fresh, 16c to 1Sc; pota-
toes, new, per bushel, 9Oc to $11O
lndianapolis-Cattle, shipping, $500
to $500; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$500 to 1885; sheep, good to choice,
$500 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, 97c to
CSC; corn, No. 2, white, 60c to 62c;
oats, No. 2 white, 36c to 37c.
st. Louis - Cattle, $500 to $3.50:
hogs, $500 to 1910; sheep, $3.50 to
$3.50; wheat, No 2, S1O8 to Sill;
corn, No 2, SIC to 6Oc; oats, No. 2,
35c to 36c; rye, No. 2, 78c to 79c.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to $4.75;
wheat, No. 2. $1.03 to $1O5; corn, No.
; yellow, 60c to 62c; oats, standard,
39c to 41c; rye, No. 1, soc to SIC.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern.
S1.04 to SLOT; corn, No. 3, 58c to soc;
oats, standard, &c to 39c; rye, No /,
TIC to 78c; barley, standard, Csc to
&c; pork, mess, $22.25.
Buffalo = Cattle, choice shipping
steers, $500 to $3.50; hogs. fair to
choice, $500 to $1,000; sheep, com
non, to good mixed, $500 to $3.50;
lambs, fair to choice, $500 to $1,000.
Toledo-Wheat, No 2, mixed S1.04
% $1.05; corn, No. mixed, sec to
soc; oats, No. 2 mixed, CSC to 40c;
rye, No. 2, 78c to 79c; clover seed,
$3.50.
Cattle, $500 to- $3.50;
aogs, $500 to 1856; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.06 to $1.1O;
corn, No. 2 mixed, Gle to 62c; oats.
No. 2 mixed, 39c to 4Oc; rye, No. 2,
SIC to 83c.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $500:
hogs, $500 to $1,000; sheep, $500 to
1854; wheat, No 2 red, s103 to s1.05:
corn, No. 2, Csc to CSC; oats, natural.
white, 43c to 45c; butter, creamery,
Csc to 29c; eggs, western, 18c to
21c
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16
ASSOCIATION.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
GOES INTO RECEIVERS HANDS.
Jones Dry Goods Company of Kan
sas City Taken Over by Courts.

Jones Dry Goods Company of Kan
sas City Taken Over by Courts.
Receivers for the Jones Dry Goods
Company of Kansas City, one of the
largest retail general merchandise con-
Germs in the West, were appointed by
the federal court to-day. The liabili
ties are placed at S1,400,000 and the
assets at 100000. The receivers said
the company was solvent and that its
business would be continued without
interruption. 1t is alleged that the
company has been spending large sums
for realty and for leases that should
have been placed in the business. The
immediate cause of the receivership is
given as poor business resulting from
unfayorable spring weather. The prin-
cipal creditors are in ST. Louis, Chica-
go, Philadelphia, and New York.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16
80. HENRY" AUTHOR, IS DEAD.
William Sidney Porter Expires In
n New York Hospital.

William Sidney Porter Expires I'm
New York Hospital.
William Sidney Porter, better known
to the public by his pen name, 80.
Henry" recognized as one of the lead
ing short story writer's of the age,
died at the Polytechnic Hospital, in New
York, of cirrhosis of the liver. An op-
Grafton was performed by DR.. Charles
Russell Hancock few days before, but
it proved to be useless. Mr.. Porter was
born in Texas forty-two years ago and
began his journalistic career on the
Houston Post Before that he had
been cowboy, sheep herder and drug
gist, and an extensive traveller.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16
Roosevelts Guests of the King

Former President Theodore Roose-
welt and Mrs. Roosevelt were enter
tanned at luncheon the other day by
King George and Queen Mary at Marl-
borough house, London, England.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16
Held for Murder He Was Unaware Of

Unaware that fellow countryman
with whom he fought in WATERFOWL,
n. Y, had died of his injuries, .Kaston
Canton, Ohio at the request of the
Watertown authorities on the charge
of murder.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16
GOODWIN SMITH IS DEAD.

Fall That Broke Thigh Bone Fatal
to Professor Aged 81.
Professor Goldwin Smith. who for
many weeks had been i'll as the result
of fall died in Toronto, Ont. Since
Feb. Professor Smith had not left
his room, except to be carried to his
library. On that date, while walking
in the hall, he slipped and fell heavily.
His thigh bone was broken. On &C
count of his advanced age, ST, the sur.
geons made no attempt to unite the
fractured bone
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16
More Land for the People.

Sixty million feet Of merchantable
timber have been added to the Datil
national forest in New Mexico, and
nearly 100000 acres of land will be
thrown open to settlement by proc
lamation which President Taft signed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16
Pastor Found Dead on Train

Rev C. A Hallberg, aged 40 years,
pastor of a Swedish Lutheran church
at Sheffield, Pa, was found dead in
seat on a Lake Shore train near To
ledo, Ohio. He had complained of Il
ness an hour previous.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16
Boys Dare to Beat Train Costs Life.

In banter that he could beat across
the tracks a Baltimore and Ohio linn
tied train Jacob Tingerman, Il, was
killed at North Baltimore, Ohio His
back, neck, one arm and leg were
hrokpn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16
SOY KILLS CITIZEN BY MISTAKE

Suspected Of Being Burglar, Middle
town, n. ", Man Is Shot in Head.
Mistaken for burglar, Elmer Frost
a wealthy resident of a suburban vii.
lage near Middletown, n Y. was shot
and killed by the 1S-year-old son of G.
". Teed. The latter and his son no.
ticed a figure on their porch and think
ing it was an intruder the boy fired
his small rife, intending to brighten
the supposed burglar away. The bull
let pierced Frosts forehead, killing
him instantly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16
Yukon Navigation Is Open.

Private cable adyices received from
Skagway say that the ice on Lake
Labarge has broken up, thus opening
navigation throughout the entire course
of the Yukon river The first boat
left White Horse Tuesday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16
Rad Weather Causes Suicide

Suffering from melancholia, said to
have been brought on by unsettled
weather conditions, George Stevenson,
aged rs years, Pittsburg coal opera
tor, shot himself in the head with an.
old army revolver he carried through
the Civil War.