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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
100000 MEN WALK
OUT lF COAL MINES
Two=Thirds of Bituminous Supply
of the United States Threat
ened in the Struggle.
SUSPENSION FOR SHORT TIME?
Trouble Is Not Called a Strike and
Hope Is Expressed That It
VIII Be Soon Over.

Two hundred and seventy thousand
mine workers, producing more than
two-thirds of the total output of btu
minous coal in the United States, laid
down their tools the other night for Al
indefinite period. From various sec
tons Of the country optimistic reports
were received that the suspension
would be of short duration and that
the supply Of coal above ground, with
the output of nonunion mines, would
be sufficient to keep the wheels of in
dustry moving until new wage con-
tracts were negotiated. Neither the
coal operators nor the United Mine
Workers admit that the trouble
amounts to a strike. They prefer to
term it suspension" but whatever
name it goes under the production Of
coal has stopped in the districts affect
ed ard no one is able to say when it
will be resumed
The total bituminous coal production
in the United States in 1907, which
was the banner year, was 394,759,112
short tons. In 1908 the production
due to the trade depression, fell off
about 60,000,000 tons, but last year it
increased to close to the 1907 total
The production of anthracite amounts
to approximately S0,000,00O tons a
year.
In the eleven States affected by the
suspension, the shutdown is complete
in all except Pennsylvania. In the lat
ter State only the Pittsburg district,
employing about $4,000 men and pro-
ducing about 60,000,000 tons, is involv-
ed. In central Pennsylvania a major
ity Of the mines are not organized, and
as the nonunion mines have posted
notices of an increase in wages, it is
said no effort will be made by the m
ion to have them shut down. Internal
strife among the United Mine Work
ers may prolong the suspension beyond
present indications, according to those
who are familiar with conditions.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
CROWDS OF STUDENTS
HOOT At ROOSEVELT
Mob of Egyptian Nationalist Makes
Demonstration Before Hotel
Where Teddy Is Staying.
CENTRAL FIGURE MISSES FUN.
He and Mrs. Roosevelt Were Taking
Tea with Prince Eite1 of
Germany.

Down with the liari" "A bas
ROOSEVELT" give Egypt" 1--WE want a
constitution" "Hurrah for the Assem-
0lyl" yelled and howled the tarbouched
mob that marched and remarched past
Shepherds Hotel in Cairo the other
afternoon. 1t was the answer of the
Nationalist to Colonel Roosevelt's
speech at the University of Egypt.
The meetings of protest that began
the previous night were continued in
various sections of the city, the Ma
tionalists assembled voicing their dis
approval of his views, and then march
ing before the hotel in the hope of let
ting Colonel Roosevelt see and hear
them, so that he might know what
they thought of him. They shouted
Down with hypocrites!" a term which
is applied to everyone dissenting from
the Nationalist program. The Colo
mel missed the show, he and Mrs.
Roosevelt having gone to take tea with
Prince Eitel at the Savoy Hotel
1t was picturesque sight, but pitt
ably ineffective, save for the noise.
First were heard strange cries in Ara
bic Across a corner of the garden
came what looked like a moving Turk
ish carpet traversing the bounding
street. The carpet pattern proved to
be about 200 students, mostly youths,
a large number of them mere boys,
led by a black-mustached man who
seemed to be the only mature person
in the throng.
Reaching the front of the hotel, they
shouted with zest The effect would
have done justice to college crowd.
After each yell they vigorously ap-
plauded, presumably themselves. They
marched and remarched, led by tired
looking policeman, back to the hall,
where they held another meeting and
another march.
Condemnation of assassination and
a declaration that nations as well as
individuals need long and careful
preparation for f-government were
two of the most striking features Of
Colonel Theodore Roosevelts address
in the assembly hall of the University
of Egypt in Cairo the other morning
On both subjects he had strong words
to utter, burning words that went to
the kernel of the Egyptian political
middle.
He uttered these words against the
advice of missionaries and officials,
both native and English, who feared
that the result might be personal
harm. Every effort was made to dis
suade Colonel Roosevelt from talking
on either of these subjects, but he
resolutely declined to alter his adj
dress, his ultimatum being: IF
cannot say what l believe to be true
then I won't speak" He spoke and
emerged safely, his speech being
cheered to the echo, although not by
the students, because they were not
invited to be present, owing to the ap-
prehension felt by the government Off
Gals.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
JUSTICE BREWER DROPS DEAD.
Heart Disease Brings Sudden End
to Long and Useful Career.


to Long and Useful Career.
David Josiah Brewer, associate JUS
tice of the Supreme Court of the Unit
ed States, dropped dead in the bath
room of his home, 1923 18th street,
Washington, few minutes after II
o'clock the other night Heart dis
ease is believed to have been the cause
of death.
Justice Brewer apparently had been
in the best of health. He was seventy
three years old and had been mem
Der of the Supreme Court since Deem
Der, 1889. He was born in Smyrna,
Asia Minor, where his parents were
residing as missionaries. He was a
graduate of Yale College. He was ap-
pointed to the Supreme bench from
Kansas
1t is within the range of POSSIBLE
ties that the death of Justice Brewer
will have far-reaching effects on i'm
portant cases now pending before the
Supreme Court. Justice Brewer was
one of the progressive members of the
court and inclined to a liberal con-
struction Of the laws. He sat in both
the tobacco and Standard Oil cases,
both of which are on the eve of being
decided. 1t has been the general ex-
pectation that the vote of the court in
both the tobacco and Standard Oil
cases would be close. With Justice
Brewer now dead there is a lively
possibility that conditions NAV be re-
versed one way or the other over the
decisions as they would have been rem
dered had Justice Brewer lived.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07

Friends of Governor Davidson, of
Wisconsin are compIacent in the pros
pect of his easy reelection for anoth
err term, which would give him a ten
ure of seven years continuous service
in the executive chair.
Tim" Woodruff, he of the reputed
beautiful waistcoats, is still the head
of the New York State Republican ma
chine, despite the avowed intention of
Senator Root, backed by President
Taft and Gov. Hughes, to unhorse him.
Andrew Carnegie defends the Payne
Aldrich tariff law, declaring it a very
decided Improvement upon its prede-
cessor He asserts that the tariff will
grow less and less important as a pro-
tective measure and of increased i'm
pnrtance as "A source of revenue.
THE Taft administration will make
a blunder if it attempts to induce the
Minnesota Republican State convention
to indorse the new tariff law" said
Representative Davis of St Peter,
Mimi, in commenting upon the report
that the President and other party
leaders were paving the way for an
Endorsement of the Aldrich- Payne act
by the various State conventions to be
held this year.
Chairman Norman E. Mack, of the
National Democratic Committee, and
Charles F. Murphy, Tammany chief,
both denied tonight the report that
the councils of Democratic party lead
ers held at Hot Springs, Ark, are for
the purpose of freezing Bryan fol-
lowers out of the party affairs"
New York Republican politicians are
wondering what Mr.. Roosevelt will do
about State politics when he gets
back Some busy slate makers have
been trying to decide who shall run
for Governor to succeed Hughes, for
Senator, to succeed Chauncey Depew.
and for State chairman to succeed Tim
Woodruff.
BY the votes of seven Democrats and
ten Republican members of the Ken
lucky Senate. the federal income tax
amendment was killed after it had
twice passed the lower house during
the present session. It went down 10
defeat on a point of order raised by
Senator Linn that the bill had not
been printed or read in the Senate. BY
the vote of II TO II the Senate refused
to suspend the rules, a two-thirds vote
being necessary for that purpose.
The South Carolina Senate has pass
ed resolution indorsing a constitu-
tional amendment permitting Congress
to levy an income tax. The resolution
has already passed the House.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
SENATOR Aids FOUND GUILTY
Verdict on Bribery Is 40 to g.
Move to Probe Grating.


After seven weary weeks of inves-
tigation the New York Senate has con-
victed Senator lothian P. Aids, of
Norwich, of accepting a bride of $1,000
to influence bridge legislation. The
vote against him was Overwhelming
40 to g. By the unexpected move Of
sending in his resignation Aids re-
lieved the Senate of the painful duty
of expelling him. The resignation was
sent on the advice of his attorneys,
who were convinced that he had lost
and who desired to put the blame on
political interference with the Sena-
torial jury from Washington and else
where.
There is every Indication that Sen
ator Benn Conger, who accused Aids
in an effort to defeat him as majority
leader, will be expelled within a month
unless he resigns in the meantime. A
resolution for a committee to prepare
charges of bribe-giying against him
was offered. Nor will this end the
matter. The proposition for general
investigation of all sorts Of bribery
charges will undoubtedly be present
ed and can hardly fail of passage.
Ex-senator Aids declared that he
would seek vindication from the Sen
ate verdict and 100000 damages from
Senator Conger in the civil courts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

Andrew Swanson, of Becker, Mimi,
recently sold hog to a live stock
dealer at that place for $3.50.
For the fourth time within four
months, the 1000 employees of the Wal
Waltham, Mass, have been notified
that the plant will be shut down TO
currtail production.
The Nassau mine, near Hibbing,
Mimi, which was controlled by the
Pittsburg Iron Ore Company, has
passed to the control of the Interstate
Iron Company, which is the mining di
vision of the Jones & Laughlin Iron
Company. The Nassau adjoins the
Longyear, which is also controlled by
Jones & Laughlin, and the two prop
critics will make large stripping prop
osition. The Nassau is listed by the
tax commission at 100000 tons.
1t is expected that more land will
be sown to wheat and oats and other
grains in the region about Sank Cen
ter, Mimi, as the potato crop last year
Has not so successful, and farmers are
selling potatoes at 20 cents bushel to
the cities. Many of the farmers also
will grow corn to fatten hogs and cat
tie. Many acres of land have been
broken up in this vicinity. Last year
was the most profitable to farmers in
this territory for many years, and land
is high-priced.
A Holstein COW owned by the Dairy
Department of the University of Mis-
souri, in one year produced more hu-
man food in her milk than is contain
ed in the complete carcasses of four
steers weighing 1880 pounds each.
This statement, impossible as it seems,
is not only true, but does not even do
full justice to the COW The solids in
the milk which are completely digest
ed and used by the body are counted
against the entire carcass of the steer
which is only in part edible.
Charles Ware, for the last five years
superintendent of the Nebraska divis-
ion of the Union Pacific, has assumed
the position of general superintendent
of the road, vice w. L. Park, resigned.
immigration Commissioner George
Welsh is enthusiastic over the fax
straw future of Minnesota. Since re-
ceiving the sample and statement from
Senator Knute Nelson he has made in
quiries as to the possibilities along
this line in Minnesota. He declares
that there is no limit to the wealth
this new industry may bring into the
State if everything is as represented
to Senator Nelson ty the inventor,
Robinson.
Absorption of the Consolidated Trac-
ton Company property by the Morgan
interests through the Chicago Railway
Company is to be carried out, if pos
sible at a secret meeting of Chicago
traction magnates at Augusta, Ga.
]. Pierpont Morgan's next great
achievement will make the Central and
South American republics financial de-
Tendencies of the United States. Ac-
cording to well Informed circles in
Wall street, he plans to establish 2
chain OF banks in those countries,
which viii make his firm the financial
power Of Latin America and bring the
commerce of the several countries un-
der American control
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
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Chicago Cattle. common to prime.
$500 to $3.50; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $10.95; sheep, fair to choice, $4.5G
to $685.; wheat, No 2, $1.18 to $121;
corn, No 2, 59c to Coo; oats, standard,
42c to AZ; rye, No. 2, 79c to soc; hay
timothy, $1,000 to $780, prairie, $500
to $14.50; butter, choice creamery, CSC
to 32c; eggs, fresh, 18c to 21c; pota-
toes per bushel, 1Sc to 28c.
Indianapolis-Cattl shipping, $500
to $500; hogs, good to choice heavy
$500 to S11.15; sheep, good to choice,
$500 to $500; wheat, No. 2, $1.17 tc
$1.19; corn, No. white, Gle to 62c;
oats, No. 2 white, 45c to acc.
st. Louis-Cattle, $500 to $9.40;
hogs, $500 to $10.95; sheep, $3.50 to
1926; wheat, No. 2, s118 to $1.20;
corn. No. 2, Gle to 63c; oats, No. 2
41c to 43c, rye. No. 2, 79c to SIC.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $4.G0 to $50;
hogs, $500 to $11.00; sheep, $500 to
S6.75; wheat, No. 2, $1.18 to $1.20;
corn, No. 2 mixed, SOC to 62c; oats,
NO. 4 UllASu, 4oC W fOC, lJC, NJ. y
SAC to SEC.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $500; hogs,
$500 to S10.85; sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. 2, $116 to SLY; corn, Nc.
8 yellow, Gle to 63c; oats, standard,
acc to Ate; rye, No. 1, 79c to soc.
Wheat, No. northern.
S1.13 to $1.15; corn, No. 3, Gle to 63c;
oats, standard, 43c to 44c; rye, No. /,
7Sc to soc; barley, standard, CSC to
roc; pork, mess, $4,000.
Buffalo - Cattle, choice shipping
steers, $500 to $3.50; hogs, fair to
choice $500 to s11.25; sheep, common,
to good mixed, $500 to $40; lambs,
fair to choice, $500 to $1,000.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $500;
hogs, $500 to $1125; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. red, S1.24 to S1.25;
corn, No. 2, 63c to SAC; oats, natural,
white. 49c to sic; butter, creamery,
90c to 34c; eggs, western, 19c to 23c.
Toledo-Wheat, No 2 mixed, SLY
to s1.1S; corn, No. mixed Gle to
63c; oats, No. mixed, 44c 10 45c;
rye, No. 2. 79c to soc; clover seed
$40.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
PROGRESS OF sAYLER TRIAL.
Much Interest Is Excited by Murder
Case in Watseka, Ill.

The long work Of securing the jury
III the famous murder case of DR..
". R. Miller and Mrs. Lucy Sayler
having ended in Watseka, Ill, the bat.
tie OF the lawyers and the taking of
testimony is well under way. No muir
der of recent years has attracted more
attention through the middle West
than when Dr. Miller killed John By
Tol: Sayler, z banker of Crescent City,
H., July II, 1909 The defense is
claiming that DIR. Miller was attacked
by the banker, while the state asks
the death penalty and hopes to prove
that DR.. Miller and Mrs. Sayler plot
ted to do away with the banker. The
state is using the evidence of Erring-
ton Miller, 13-year-old son of the ply
stefan, and Coda Sayler, the daugh-
ter of Mrs. Sayler, against the prison
ers. The defense is well armed with
money and has secured the best legal
talent in Illinois. The states attorney
declares he vii convince the jury that
d.. Miller was in love with Mrs Say
Ter and that she assisted him in doing
away with her husband. The death
penalty is sought for the man and
woman on trial.
John G. Grunden is Mrs. Sayler's
father, and his connection with the
tragedy has been strengthened by
much testimony tending to show that
he carried an automatic revolver of
the same kind and caliber as that
which DR.. Miller is reported to have
used in the Staying of Byron Sayler.
Mrs. Myrtle Green, sister of the dead
banker, positively identified the bloody
shirt worn by Grunden on the night
o. the tragedy. She also identified the
bloody shirtwaist worn by Mrs. Say
lei on that night and particularly
pointed out the blood stains which are
purported to have been caused by her
effort to hold Sayler to the floor dur
ing the melee.
The testimony of Mrs Green was
corroborated in the main by her SIS
ter, Mrs. Sneed. Some or she evidence
of the two sisters of the deceased
tended to show an effort on the part
Of Mrs. Sayler to hide the bloody gar
ments which she and her father, John
Grunden, wore that night
The coffee episode was brought out,
it being shown that Mrs Sayler under
took to make a cup of coffee for DR..
Miller right after the shooting, be-
fore she attempted to ascertain the
condition of her husband, who was at
the moment lying on the floor in the
parlOr CT his own home. Efforts of
Free P. Norris, counsel for the de-
tense, to shake the very damaging
testimony brought out were futile.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
CHICAGO.

R. G. Dun & Co.'S weekly review Of
Chicago trade says:
Business generally exhibits
prompt response to the seasonable
weather. Payments through the
banks, deposits and loans. are seen to
be far above all previous records, a
convincing testimonial to improve ac-
tivity in the leading industries and in
vestments. Movements have become
remarkably extended in heavy materi-
ais, raw supplies and factory outputs,
but those of grain, live stock and pro-
visions show declines. Forwardings of
general merchandise to the interior
exceed those of a year ago.
High prices still affect the markets
for the principal foodstuffs and buy
ers operate cautiously. Farm reports
reflect gratifying progress in seeding,
and the anxiety to complete spring
work soon accounts for smaller crop
marketings at this time
Heavy deliveries indicate that
manufacturers increase outputs of ma
chinery, implements, hardware, leath-
er and brass and woodwork. The mar
ket for factory needs reflect strong
buying against future consumption,
and hides recovered cent of the re-
cent decline. Building operations here
and at interior points compare favor
ably in the aggregate with this time
last year and the eagerness of buyers
causes firmer prices.
Despite the largely increased re-
sources Of the banks the discount rate
for choice commercial paper is held
firmly at 1905 per cent.
Bank clearings, S269, 3S0,676, ex-
coed those of the corresponding week
in 1909 by Ga per cent, and compare
with 1924, ,663 in 1908 Failures
reported in the Chicago district num-
bered q, as against "a last week, q
in 1909 and 16 in 1908 Those with
liabilities over $4,000 numbered s, as
against 10 last week, in 1909 and 3
in 1905"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
GIRL ACCUSED OF POISONING.
Catherine MANI Clings to Story of
Strange Man.

Pleading not guilty and waving pre-
ltminary examination, Catherine MANI,
the 16-year-old girl who is accused of
numbering her sister, by strychnine
poisoning, was lodged in Jail at Can
ton, Ohio, to await the action Of the
grand jury. That body will not con-
vene until May.
The girl has chung to her original
story of a mysterious man who gave
her two supposed quinine tablets, one
of which she claims her sister took ac-
cidentally. She gave the mans name
as Murray" and stated he lived in
Canton, but the police have been I'M
able to trace him and express the be-
lief that he is a myth.
The girls father and other relatives,
who disOwned her in the first shock of
the tragedy, have now come to her as
sistance and engaged attorneys for her
defense. A special grand jury may be
summoned to consider the case, but
this action probably will be forestalled
by lunacy inquiry. The girls rela-
tives claim that her brain has been
affected ever since a fall received in
early childhood.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
NEW YORK.

Trade reports are rather more irreg-
ular, with distribution rather less act
i've than in the preceding two weeks
Retail trade so far has been better
than a year ago, but from many cen
tiers reports say the volume of jobbing
trade is not up to expectations, for
which high prices and industrial I'M
rest are assigned as the reasons. The
two features really attracting chief in
terest have been the outburst of ac-
tivity in agricultural sections and the
many movements toward readjustment
in industrial lines.
Business failures for the week end
ing with March 81 in the United
States were 229, as against 231 last
week, 2O4 in the like week of 1909,
247 in 1908, 1877 in 1907 and ISL in
1906.-Bradstree
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
GIRL SLAIN BY BURGLAR.
Screams with Fright at Sight of It.
truder and Is Shot Down.

Screams with Fright ut Sight of IL.
truder and Is Shot Down.
His demand for money having beer
ignored, a masked burglar who had
entered the drawing room of the req
dence of Mrs. Sarah J. Dow on Rourd
Hill, in the northern part of Spring
field, Mass, the other evening, shit
and killed Miss Martha B. Blackstone,
So years old, a public school teacher,
and probably fatally wounded Miss
Harriet P. Dow, fellow teacher.
Miss Blackstone was shot through tie
heart as she ran screaming into an i'd
jacent room. Miss BOWS skull was
fractured and trepanning will be re-
sorted to in an effort to save her life
The murderer escaped through the
grove which surrounds the house.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07

the regent, with the approval of the
chiefs, took the reins of gov
eminent. At the same time Empress
Taitou was deprived of all power of
interference and her appointments of
favorites were annulled. Prince Lidj
Jeassu was proclaimed heir to the
throne May IS. He is IA years old
and little less than a year ago mar
ried the granddaughter, 7 years DID,
o. the late Emperor John and niece
OF Empress Taitou.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
CHURCH MERGER IS UPHELD.
Union of Cumberland and Presby-
terrain Sanctioned by Court.

Union of Cum berland and Presby-
terrain Sanctioned by Court.
The Indiana Supreme Court has
affirmed the case OF James W. Ram
sey and others against Joseph P.
Hicks and others, appealed from Van
derburg County. This is the famous
Presbyterian and Cumberland Presby-
terrain Church merger case. The two
branches of the Presbyterian Church
merged in 1906 The members of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church at
Washington, Ind, were not agreed on
the question Of merger, one part wish
ing to combine and the other faction
wishing TO remain under the old Cum
berland Presbyterian faith and govern
ment. They took their troubles into
court, and the lower court held that
the merged church had a right to the
property of the congregation.
The courts decision holds the gen
eral assembly of the Cumberland
church had authority to state the
faith Of the church. The court says
in relation to the claim that the mer-
ger means death of the Cumberland
church, every congregation, presbytery
or synod of the church, with possibly
some changes Of constituent member
ship and geog aphical boundaries, will
continue its existence and accustomed
WORK without interruption