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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-31
NEW YORK

The weeks developments have been
generally favorable. Chief among these
have been the advent of warm spring
weather. which. coupled with the near
approach of Easter, has stimulated re-
tail trade at all markets, allowed of
expansion in the building trades, the
preparation of the ground in the North
for planting, the beginning of seeding
of grain and cotton at the South and
of oats and vegetables in the middle
regions of the country. The industrial
situation, too, has materially i'm
proved in the collapse Of the sympa-
thetic strike at Philadelphia, the re-
turn to work of many thousands of
idle hands there and the submitting
of the Western railroad mems demands
to arbitration.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending March "a
were 231. as against 20S last week.
226 in the like week of 1909, 286 in
1908, 166 in 1907 and 169 in 1906
Bradstreet's.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-31
CONGRESSMAN WHO BROUGHT
ABOUT CANNoN'S DOWNFALL.

George William Norris, representa-
tive from the Fifth Nebraska district
whose onslaught on Cannon has made
him famous from Maine to California
has worked his way, despite many
handicaps, up to a position Of emil
nence. He was born on farm in
Sandusky Ohio, in 1861. His father
died when he was a babe, his only
brother was killed in the Civil War
and his mother was left in straitened
circumstances. He worked among the
neighboring farmers in the summer
months and attended school only in
the winter, became a country school
master, studied law and was admitted
to the bar in 1883. Then the West
opened vistas of preferment, and he
went to Nebraska in 1885 and soon
began to be conspicuous in politics In
1895 he was elected District Judge of
the Fourteenth Nebraska District.
-Four years later he was reelected to
the same position, which he held when
he was nominated to the Fifty-eighth
Congress, and since that time he has
represented the Fifth District Mr.
Norris is man of strong personality
and is a ready debater.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-31
[T)kTICSS ~ 1,
0IQ>LITIcIANNS

Another radical move on the part of
the suffrage advocates which is receiv-
ing much attention in the eastern part
of the country is an organization of
college women at Wellesley, Smith,
Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe and 9TH
er colleges for women, the members of
which promise not to get married I'M
til she shall have won over to the
cause at least 500 men.
I have nothing to conceal in con-
nection with my activities in behalf
of legislation providing for the pay
ment of subsidies for the upbuilding
of the American merchant marine
said James T. McCleary of Minnesota,
in commenting upon the report that
the committee on the judiciary might
subpoena him as a witness in an eff
fort to uphold the charge that unusual
methods were followed in an effort to
press this legislation through Con-
gress.
Some of the aggressive women of
Chicago have now formed an organiza-
ton the slogan of which is mo vote,
no tax" and when certain women
property owners appeared in line at
the city collectors office the other day
members of this new league picketed
the line and prevailed upon the wom-
en- to go home and leave their taxes
unpaid. The pickets distributed cards
containing the following sentiment: IF
You can't be persons and citizens at
voting time, don't be persons and citi-
zens at taxpaying time"
Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock, editor of the
Omaha World Herald, announced that
William ]. Bryan had given his word
that he would keep out of the next
race for a Nebraska seat in the United
States Senate. Hitchcock, who has
been three terms a member of Con-
gress, will now run for the Senate.
That definite plans are now being
made for a battle to prevent the re-
nomination of Senator Robert NJ La
| Toilette, was shown when William u.
| Conner. former State chairman, who
! managed Senator La Follette's first
successful campaign, made a state
ment declaring he might manage the
| campaign against Senator La Toilette.
! The action of the Canadian govern
! ment in giving to France a reduction
| in duties of 212 per cent. which action
! is automatically extended to twelve
| other nations under the most favor
| ed nation rule, has brought the Uni
! ted States squarely up against the
prospect of a trade war with our
! neighbor to the north. Special Com
| n1issioners Pepper and Emery recent
IL went over the whole subject with
the officials at ottawa, but the latter
/ believing that the American tariff
was unduly severe on Canadian trade,
woll1d make no concessions. President
! TAFT has been giving much attention to
this question.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-31
WINS IN REPUBLICAN FORT.
E. N. Foss First Democrat to Carry
18th Massachusetts, District.

J
18th Massachusetts, District.
Eugene n. Foss of Boston the other
day was elected to Congress from the
Fourteenth District of Massachusetts.
Running on the Democratic ticket in
a district which in 1908 gave the late
William c.. Lowering, Republican,
plurality of 1926, Mr.. Foss defeated
William R. Buchanan of Brockton, the
Republican nominee by 5,617 votes.
The victor in this election is brother
of Congressman George Edmund Foss
of Chicago. Mr.. Foss was adopted as
the favorite son of the old colony dis
trict by the decisive action of Repub-
hcans and Democrats, who gave major
tiles to him in thirty-three of the for
ty-four towns and in the two cities in
the district. The Democratic candi-
date invaded Brockton, the home of
his opponent, and secured the major
portion of the votes, winning in that
city by a plurality of III. This show
ing in the Fourteenth District is ag
gressively and demonstratively insur-
gent. 1t turned a majority of $4,000
for Republican into an excess of s.
GIT for a Democrat Of comparatively
recent conversion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-31
WOMEN's HATS DIVIDE CHURCH
Hereafter, Pastor Says, Worshipers
Cannot Sit Together.


Men and women can't sit together
any more at the First Methodist
Church in BIuefeld, w. Va. The wom-
ems hats are to blame. The men have
to sit on one side of the church and
the women on the other
Rev. Mr.. Loe, the pastor, believes
that half the effect of a sermon is lost,
if the congregation fails to see the
pulpit; gestures are useless and per
sonal magnetism has no value at all
when the auditors view of the speak
er is cut off.
Tha hats do this, so Rev. Mr.. Loe
thinks. Women wear hats to church
to have them looked at and admired,
reasons the minister. Men who do go
to church want to get the full benefit
of the sermon, in his opinion.
"You women who must wear big
hats, sit on one side of the church
where you can gaze upon them to your
FILL" he said from the pulpit. You
men who want to get the good Of this
service, sit on the other side, where
you may see the pulpit
One woman in the congregation, who
always has boosted that her husband
never complains about what she pays
for hats, because he admires fine mill
merry, says that be is going to sit in
the millinery department at church
Sunday, just to show his loyalty to
her and his disappproval of the min
ister's stand.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-31
48 DEAD, 43 INJURED
IN COSTLY RAIL WRECK
Chicago and St. Louis Trains on
Great Western Road Leap
Rails in Iowa.
CHICAGO DOCTOR IS A HERO
Organizes and Leads the Work of
Rescue Among Panic-Stricken
Passengers.

Forty-eight persons were killed and
forty-three injured, many probably ia
tally, in a wreck at $50 o'clock the
other morning four miles from Green
Mountain, Ia.
The train wrecked was a combina-
ton of the Rock Island roads Twin
City express trains, bound for Mime
apolis from Chicago and St. Louis,
and being routed over the Chicago
Great Western tracks. The wreck.
which is the worst in the history OF
Iowa railroading, was caused by the
tender of the first of the two engines
drawing the combined train jumping
the track and plunging into a clay
bank lining a deep cut near Green
Mountain.
A relatively unimportant freight
wreck on the Rock Island at Shells
burg the previous night was the in
direct cause of the catastrophe. In
this freight wreck traffic was so tied
up that it was necessary for the Rock
Island to make a temporary routing
arrangement with the Chicago Great
Western to care for its passenger
trains to and from Minneapolis
The Chicago Twin City Express
and the St. Louis train were combined
at Marshalltown. AS there was no
turn table, it was necessary for the
two engines to be coupled at the head
of the train with their tenders ahead
and pull the cars backing up. 1t is
supposed that this unusual method OF
running the engines caused the ten
der of the first locomotive to leap the
track in the cut. The tender plunged
into the bank and stuck there and the
two locomotives leaped the rails and
damned into the cut.
Next to the engines was the heavy
Pullman sleeper of the st. Louis train,
in which many of the passengers had
not left their berths Directly behind
the Pullman were two lighter cars,
first smoking car and then day
car. and behind these were the ten 9th
er passenger, baggage and express cars
which composed the train. Although
the train was not travelling faster than
twenty-five miles an hour. the enor-
nous weight back of the lightly con-
structed day coach and smoker tele-
scoped them against the immovable
bulk of the heavy Pullman anu the two
locomotives. Most of the fatalities and
serious injuries occurred in these two
cars, which were ground almost to
bits. The passengers in the ST. Louis
Pullman escaped with a shaking up
and minor bruises, while the ten cars
back Of the telescoped section of the
train remained on the rails and those
riding in them suffered only trifiing in
juries.
Wild scenes of panic ensued. The
presence on the scene of so many I'M
injured passengers, unaccustomed to
acting in emergencies and overcome
by the horror of the catastrophe, add
ed to the confusion. A young Chicago
physician, Dr.. John w. De Vry, stands
out as the hero who brought order out
of the chaos and was responsible for
the organized work of rescue that
doubtless saved many lives before the
special train from Marshalltown, bear
ing doctors and nurses, had reached
the scene.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-31
TWELVE PERSONS DIE
IN BAD CHICAGO FIRE
Flames in Fish & Co.'S Building
Surround Victims and Hinder
the Firemen.
YOUNG WOMAN LEAPS TO DEATH
Heroism Of Men in Attempting to
Save Girls Trapped on Top
Floor in Vain.

The lives Of twelve men and women
were lost in a fire in the L. Fish &
Co. furniture store, Chicago. Eleven
of them were burned to death on the
sixth floor of the building They had
been trapped on the top floor, nearly
100 feet from the ground, with no pos
slble chance of escape, and the flames
roaring so furiously about them that
the fTemen could not raise ladders to
go to their rescue The twelfth vic
tim, a girl 10 years Of age, jumped to
escape the flames, but was so badly in
jured when she struck a glass awning
that she died. Miner w. Bell, one of
the department managers of the COM
pany, and H. NJ. Mitchell, auditor Of
the firm, and brother-in-law of Isaac
Fish, were burned to death They
gave their lives to save the girls who
were trapped by the names.
The fire is said to have started from
an explosion of an alcohol cigar light
er which was being filed on the 4th
floor of the building With the excep-
ton of. that on the intake water tun-
mel it was the most disastrous since
the Iroquois theater horror. 1t swept
upward through the structure with
such rapidity that the men and wonl-
en- in the general Offices on the sixth
floor had little chance of escape. There
is no fire escape on the front of the
building. It was a fire of horror and
thrills, marked by tragic death and
wonderful escapes. There were forty
or fifty employees in the building when
the report of the explosion was heard.
The furniture fed the hungry flames
and in an incredibly short time tie
scorching tongues had burned their
way through the fifth floor. Soon this
section was an inferno like the fourth,
and then the fire crept to the sixth,
cutting off all escape for the girls and
men who were at work in that sec
ton. The financial loss is estimated
at S250,000. The contents of the build
ing practically were destroyed by fire
and water. The bodies were recov-
cred
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-31

DR.. Edward Meyer, professor Of an
Gent history at the University of Ber
lin and one of the greatest living his
torians, is giving a series of lectures
before the students OF the University
OF Wisconsin.
A lively discussion is in progress in
Japan in regard to the advisability of
adopting the jury system. Even among
the members of the legal profession
opinion is divided, but il anything the
balance appears to be against the in
novation.
A German south polar expedition
virtually has been arranged by Lieu
tenant Filchner, of the general staff of
the army, under the auspices of the
geographical society. Lieutenant
Filchner announced that the expedi
ton would start in October of this
year, if the necessary funds were
forthcoming.
The announcement that there Will be
no Home Rule bill presented to the
present session of Parliament, while
not unexpected, caused regret in Ire
land. and it is recognized now that it
may mean another election before Ire
ldIu Will DC given III A4o@@N -
herself
The great German firm that is
known to everyone as "Krupps,' and
which supplies half the civilized world
with what it wants in the way OF can
non. is buying a large tract of land IN
Holland, with the object of erecting
new works there, and also have made
investigations in America with view
to establishing a plant.
The naval program of Russia has
been finally completed, sanctioned by
the Gar and presented to the commits
sion of defense. The plan calls for the
expenditure of s500,000.000 extending
over a period of ten years, and besides
battleships and cruisers there viii be
built fifty destroyers and sfifty trans
ports. Most of the ships, it is an
nounced, viii be constructed in Rus
STA. but it is probable that few of
them will be built in France, England
and America.
Vesrvius has suddenly become ac-
tive again. Several assures have open
ed from which gas and lava are flow
ing in great quantities.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-31
.N%g1f&'j0a/

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime.
$500 to $3.50; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to SLIGO; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50
corn, No. 2, SOC to 60c; oats, standard,
43c to 44c; rye, No 2, 7Sc to roc; hay,
timothy, $1,000 to $3.50; prairie, $500
to $14.50; butter, choice creamery, 28c
to 32c; eggs, fresh, 18c to 21c; pota-
toes, per bushel, zoe to 30c.
dianapolis-Cattle, shipping, $500
to $500; hogs, good to choice heavy.
$500 to $1100; sheep, good to choice,
$500 to $500; wheat, No. 2, SLY to
$1.18; corn, No. 2 white, Gle to 63c;
oats, No white, 45c to acc.
st. Loufs-CattIe, $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to $11.OO; sheep, $3.50 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, $12O to $1.23;
corn. No. 2, 61c to 63c; oats, No. 2,
43c to 45c; rye, No 2, 79c to soc.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $500;
hogs, $500 to $11.O5; sheep, $500 to
$G.75; wheat, No. 2, $1.21 to 1922;
corn, No. 2 mixed, Coo to &c; oats,
No mixed 47c to 48c; rye, No. 2,
SAC to SEC.
Detroft-Cattle, $500 to $500; hogs,
$500 to S1O.75; sheep, $3.50 to $775;
wheat, No. 2, $1.16 to $1.18; corn, No.
3 yellow, soc to Gle; oats, standard,
Acc to 47c; rye, No. l, 79c to SOC
Wheat. No 2 northern.
S114 to SLIT; corn, No. 3, Gle to 63c;
oats, standard, 43c to 44c; rye, No. l,
78c to soc; barley standard, 69c to
roc; pork, mess, $26.50.
Buffalo = Cattle. choice shipping
steers, $500 to $3.50; hogs, fair to
choice, $500 to $1110; sheep, common,
to good mixed, $500 to $40; lambs,
fair to choice, $500 to 5000.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $500;
hogs, $500 to s11.75; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No red, s124 to $125;
corn, No. 2, 63c to &c; oats, natural,
white, acc to sic; butter, creamery,
BIC to 34c; eggs, western, 19c to PC
Wheat, No mixed, $117
to s1.18; corn, No mixed, Gle to
62c; oats, No mixed, 45c to 46c;
rye, No. 2, 79c to soc; clover seed,
$40.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-31
CHICAGO.

r. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review
o. Chicago Trade says:
Easter trade in the PRINCIPAL
branches of distribution equals san
guine expectations. A high volume Of
payments through the banks is sus-
tanned and the trading defaults fur
nish a favorable comparison with pre-
vlous years. Buying in the leading re-
tail lines rose TO new high proportions
during the week, and business gener-
ally reflects the quickening derived
from the advent of spring and the re
markedly fine weather which prevails
here and throughout the West.
New building and heavy construc-
ton are vigorously advanced, and
there are notable additions to workers
employed at the mills and factories.
| Activity among the industries and in
| transportation now compares satisfac-
torily with the best previous times,
while the improving position draws
strength for the future from the wider
range of new demands for finished
products.
E1dI ulISS VI me chicago slbt5Il
roads surpass all former gross records
| for this season of the year, and threat
eGed difficulties with workers are re-
moved by higher, wage concessions.
Offerings of commercial paper have
increased, and the discount rate rose
to ~ per cent for choice names.
Bank cleaings, $3.50, 465,077, exceed
those of the corresponding week in 1909
by 127 per cent and compare with
1922, 409, 514 in 1908. Failures reported
in the Chicago district numbered "a, as
against 20 last week, "a in 1909 and 80
in 1908. Those with liabilities over
$4,000 number 10, as against ? last
week, in 1909 and u in 1908"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-31
CARNEGIE TELLS HOW TO SAVE.
When Man Has $1,000 He Can
Begin Prudent Investing.


Andrew Carnegie has found out that
the trouble of giving away millions de-
veIoDs into a monster that is no. d
myth. Although he finds the work of
disposing of his massive fortune to be
trife fatiguing, this white-bearded
machinist of millions has retained a
Bessemer steel grip on optimism. Mr..
Carnegie while in San Francisco talk
ed freely of his many charitable en-
terprises and discussed the means by
which the wage Garner can become in
dependently wealthy.
Have I a recipe to enable poor
man to get rich?" said he. Z have
that is, [ mean that any wage Garner
can hope for an old age of comfort if
he is prudent within his means. Say
a man makes $25 a week, for instance.
His aim should be to save something
out of this each week, no matter
what sacrifices he has to make. The
habit of saving must be cultivated. 1t
can be acquired more easily than a
lot of bad habits. Once it is acquired
it will remain a lasting habit.
"The first goal of wage Garner in
saving should be to acquire $1,000.
When he has the first $1,000 he is in
a position to begin prudent investing.
Money grows surprisingly fact, and if
you have none now, try the experiment
1 suggest of getting the $1,000 and see
| if I am not right.
"The trouble with many men of
small means is that they will never
make beginning and keep putting
| off the time when they will have a
nucleus for investing. Opportunity, of
| course, enters into the making of
wealth and all men have not the same
talents in investing their earnings. 1
should say, however, that any wage
Garner who has ordinary discernment
and does not desire to get rich too
quickly can proftably follow this ad-
| vice"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-31
GRAFT BILLS SNARE FORTY.
Barely Quorum Left When Accused
Men Plead Guilty and Resign.

Barely Quorum Left When Accused
Men Plead Guilty and Resign.
An embarrassing situation has de-
veloped in Pittsburgs councilmanic
bodies, through the enforced resigna-
lions of a number of members because
of confessions of guilt in connection
with the bribery conspiracy and 9TH
ers that are expected to be demanded
by reason of the indictments found
against forty present and former. mem
bers by the grand jury. 1t is not
known if there are enough members
left to form a quorum. 1t is consid-
cred fortunate in official circles that
the budget was passed before the storm
broke, as there might have been diff
Guilty in arranging special meetings to
pass the bills which had become laws
before taxes could be collected. The
penalty to which the guilty councilmen
are liable under the law is a fine not
exceeding $4,000, Imprisonment not
exceeding five years, and to be forever
debarred from holding any place of
profit or trust in the commonwealth.
Capt" John Klein, who started the
municipal uproar by his confession, is
guarded by two detectives at a down
town hotel His meals are being
served in his rooms. and his every
want satisfied. Judge Frazer of the
Criminal Court sat as a committing
magistrate to hear pleas of council
men who wish to come forward" and
receive suspended sentences. Anxious
former members Of the Common Coun-
ell appeared and pleaded mo defense"
to charges of having received money
for their votes in the passage of bank
and street vacation ordinances. Two of
the men who appeared were not even
under Indictment. All were given sus-
nanded sentences
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-31
SLAIN AFTER KILLING TWO.
Drink-Crazed Passenger Is Trapped
hy NiIIni 1, oton. DeI PnIica

Drinl1-Crazed Passenger Is Trapped
by Wilmington, Del, Police.
Barricaded in the toilet room of
Pullman parlor car, in which he had
taken refuge after killing a porter and
a conductor, J. H. Bethea, a drink
crazed murderer from South Carolina,
held the entire police force Of Will
mington, Del, at bay for an hour and
twenty minutes. He also tied up traf-
fic on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
for more than an hour. He fired more
than 100 shots from an automatic re-
volver at the besieging force, and
wounded two men Finally the fire de-
partment was called and drove him
from his retreat with a three-inch
stream of water through the window
Half drowned, he staggered on to the
railroad station platform and was shot
to death as he fired repeatedly toward
the police.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-31
BEEF FIRMS ARE INDICTED.
National Packing Company and TIE
Subsidiaries Are Hit,

National Packing Company and Ten
Subsidiaries Are Hit.
Indictments against the National
Packing Company and ten subsidiary
corporations, charged with operating in
restraint Of trade, were returned by
the federal grand jury in Chicago. ST.
multaneously, bill in equity was filed
by the government in which the courts
are asked to dissolve the parent con-
Germ. The double barreled blow is cal
culated by government officials to have
a far-reaching effect and shortly after
the grand jury was discharged it was
authoritatively stated that criminal
prosecution of individuls might follow.
The civil action was filed by United
States District Attorney Sims, under
instructions from Attorney General
Wickersham.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-31
PANIC ON STREET CAR.

Twelve Persons Injured in Rush
When Fuse Blows Out.
Twelve persons are suffering from
injuries and burns as a result of fire
in a car at West Lake street and Ham
lin avenue, Chicago A cry that bomb
had been exploded threw the passen-
gers into a panic after a fuse had
blown out. The brakes failed to work,
and the car sped on until the trolley
pole was pulled off the wire