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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-09
LORIMER DEFENDS HIMSELF.
Illinois Senator Makes Speech De-
nying Bribery in Legislature.

William Lorimer the other day ask
ed the United States Senate for an in
vestigation of the charges that his cleo
ton was secured through the buying
of votes in the Illinois General Assem-
bly, at prices ranging from $1,000 up
ward. By way of preface to this re-
quest he delivered his long-awaited
speech, and in vehement language de-
clared before his colleagues that the
bribery scandal is the outcome of a
political conspiracy" Immediately
after finishing his speech Senator Lori
mer hurriedly put his affairs in order
and caught a late afternoon train for
Chicago
The main points in the Senator's ad
dress were as follows:
Eulogy of Minority Leader Lee O'Nen
for bribery.
Attack upon Governor Deneen.
Assault upon Representative Charles A.
White, whose confession opened the scan
Attack upon the Chicago Tribune
ye-thousand-word history Of Mr.. Lor-
outline of his newspaper "feud."
Declaration that Governor Deneen first
suggested that Lorimer become a candi-
date for Senator. but withdrew his support
on the day of election
Accusation that Governor Deneen broke
faith with him on water way legislation
Denial that Representatives H. ]. c..
Beckemeyer and Michael S. Link have
made confessions coTroborating Whites.
Declaration that Governor Deneen join
ed the Tribune in a Conspiracy to over
throw Lorimer, to get control of the next
Legislature
Mr.. Lorimer's request for an inves-
tigation was referred under the Senate
rules 10 the committee on contingent
expenses.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-09
MRS. DOXEY IS FREED.
Jury Finds Her Not Guilty of Muir
dering Erder in st. Louis.

Jury Finds Her Not Guilty of Muir
dering Erder in st. Louis.
Mrs. Dora Elizabeth Doxey was
found not guilty by the ST. Louis jury
which heard the evidence against her
on a charge of numbering William j..
Erder with arsenic. The verdict was
returned eight hours and forty min
utes after Judge Grimm ordered the
jury to retire for elaboration. Late
at night Mrs. Doxey was rearrested,
this time on a charge of bigamy.
The charges against DR.. Loren B.
Doxey, who was accused Jointly with
her, will come up for trial within two
weeks, according to the announcement
of Attorney Newton.
Mrs. Doxey was placed on trial May
%, after having been held in the city
Jail since Dec. 1, when she was
brought from Columbus, Neb., where
she had been arrested on the warrant
charging her with the murder of Err
der. She was born near Aledo, H.,
March II, 1880. In 1895 she married
Robert L. Downing of Joy, III. Dr.
Loren B. Doxey was the family ply
stefan and attended her four children,
who died. She married Doxey in Bur
lington, Iowa, in August, 1906, after
Downing had divorced her. Mrs. Doxey
came to st. Louis in April, 1909, al
which time she was alleged to have
married Erder, who died July 10, 1909.
Miss Kate Erder, sister of the dead
man, caused her arrest in Columbus,
Neb, on Nov. A.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-09
Saturday.
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

McAlester, Okla, adopted a commits
sion form Of government by a vote ~
1900 to 500. E[
Sixteen hundred building Iaborers
all union men, informed the contract
ors of Providence, r. /, when they fin
ished their weeks work that thew
would not return unless they received
an advance in wages.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.. has com
pleted his apprenticeship in the carpet
business and left Thompsonvine. Conn.
for New York. After his marriage in
June he will go to California to repre-
sent the carpet company.
An increase in wages is to be grant
ed 10y. several of the leading flour man.
ufacturers of Minneapolis to men en-
ployed in their mills. The increases
Will average about s per cent
In the marriage at Stamford. Conn.
Of Miss Emily Brown. a schoolteacher
to Norman Provist, ends a courtship
which began before the Civil War, the
two being sweethearts when Provost
enlisted in the Union army.
Throwing rings at knives or canes III
county fairs or other places of amuse-
ment is not gambling within the law,
but test of skill, according to IN
opinion issued At Albany by the Attor-
ney General of New York State.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-09
Lessons of Bird Flight,

Through discovery made by Prof.
Ernest Huebner, a German naturalist.
that migratory birds never cross the
seas and oceans except in storm cur
rents, the science of air navigation by
men is destined to make its greatest
step forward, according to an article
IN the June Century. His recent ex-
periments with the German redbreast
show that the bird determines from the
wind as felt in the nostrils when to
start. A French scientist proved that
the birds depend on the sense of feeling
in the nostrils by testing the flight of
three homfng pigeons, the ears of one
and the nostrils of another being seal
ed, the third being left free. The free
one arrived home on time, a distance
of 300 miles, as did also the one with
ears sealed. But the one with nostrils
closed was two days late and then
came in with the nostrils freed. These
experiments are expected to enable
aeronauts to invent instruments with
which to read the changing air cur
rents, so as to make long flights and
overwhelming attacks in time of war
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-09
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP
NOW At 32,936,445
Protestant Denominations Report
7o,2S7,74z and the Roman
Catholics Iz,ozo,I4o.
NUMBERS ARE ON THE INCREASE
Statistics Are Based on Report of
United States Census, Soon to
Be Published.

The aggregate number of communi-
cants or members of all religious de-
nominations in the United States in
1906 was 32,936,445, according to the
United States census of religious
bodies. Of this grand total, the va
2S7,742 and the Roman Catholic
church 12,679,142.
Of the Protestant communicates, &C.
cording to the report, sos per cent
were outside the principal cities Of the
country. Of the Catholics, 27.9 per
cent were in the cities of the first
class, those having a population of
more than 100000, while AIS per cent
were outside the cities of the first, sec
ond, third or fourth classes, the last
class being cities of $4,000 to $4,000.
Protestants in the first-class cities ag-
gregated 7.3 per cent.
Of the Protestants, the Protestant
Episcopal church reported a majority
of its communicates in the principal
cities, 51.2 per cent, as did the Church
of Christ, Scientist, S2.6 per cent.
The report shows a growth of all
communicates, both in the cities and
country, since 1890. In the five lead
ing cities the proportion of communi-
cants to population was: New York,
AT per cent; Chicago, 407; Phila-
delphia, 1873; Boston, 626; CT Louis,
466.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-09
6HOOkS
60 COLLEGES

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 98S,
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 Uni
versity, died recently at the age of 60
years. He was brother of the late
George Cochrane, president of Los An
geles University.
DR.. John c. Parish, of the State his
toricaI department of Iowa and son Of
the late Prof. L. W. Parish of Cedar
Falls, has accepted a position as pro-
fessor of American history and politi-
cal science in Beloit College.
The annual meeting of the Tri-Coun-
try Educational Association was he'd
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 Ameri-
can universities in point Of numbers.
DR.. Toyokichi Iyenaga, a noted Jap
anese scholar, last returned from tour
of the globe on which he studied
world politics bearing on Oriental
problems, 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 fled articles OF incorporation
with Secretary of State Julius
Schmahl The object OF the new or
ganization 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, 1910-06-09
CHICAGO.

The Weekly Review of Chicago
Trade, published by R. G. Dun & Co,
says:
Despite the lowest weekly aggre-
gate of payments through the banks,
the unsuccessful efforts to settle coal
mining troubles and other develop
ments disturbing sentiment the bust
ness position is easier by declining
speculation in securities and grain,
better tone in money, improving
weather and decreasing cost of food
stuffs. The failure record also makes
a good comparative exhibit, and there
is now more adequate reduction of
merchandise stocks in the leading re-
tail lines here and at the interior.
Evidences of sustained production
in the leading industries in this dis
trict undergo no diminution, and the
sustained forwardings Of factory out
puts and commodities continue swell
ing gains in gross earnings of the
Chicago steam roads. There is also
extended passenger travel both east
and west bound. Visiting buyers at
tend the wholesale merchandise mar
kets more numerously, and the buying
is wider in fall and winter lines Of
dry goods, footwear, clothing and
household needs, but orders for imme-
date shipment have not expanded as
expected. 1t is noted, however, that
many buyers are conservative and pre-
fer to await clearer views of agricul-
tural prospects and probable tenden-
cies Of prices.
Bank clearings, $244,S47,555, are
90 per cent under those of correspond
ing week last year, and compare with
$210,326,721 in 1908.
Failures reported in the Chicago
district numbered fourteen, against
twenty-seven last week twenty-five in
1909 and twenty-five in 1908. Those
with liabilities over $4,000 number
six, against five last week, six in 1909
and five in 1908"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-09
C. Il. TREAT FALLS DEAD.
Former Treasurer of Nation Stricken
with ApOpleXy.

Charles Henry Treat, treasurer of
the United States under President
Roosevelt, died of apoplexy in his
apartment at the Hotel Victoria in
New York. He was stricken an hour
before death, and did not regain con-
sciousness. He is survived by his
wife and two daughters.
Mr.. Treat was born in Frankfort,
Me-, about sixty-eight years ago.
Among his ancestors were Robert
Treat Paine, signer of the declara-
ton of independence, and Robert
Treat, colonial governor of Con-
necticut. He was graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1865, and at
once entered business with his father
and brothers, who operated fleet of
twenty-eight vessels engaged in the
import and export trade.
In 1888 he was Delaware's delegate
at-large to the Republican convention
in Chicago and was credited with so
lidifying the Delaware delegation for
Benjamin Harrison. Soon after Nc
Kinley's election he was appointed
Collector of Internal Revenue for the
Wall street district, serving during
the Spanish-American war.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-09
SUES HARRY THURSTON PECK.

Columbia University Professor Ac-
cused of Breach of Promise.
Suit for $4,000 for alleged breach
of promise of marriage has been
brought in the Supreme court of New
York by Miss Esther Quinn against
Prof. Harry Thurston Peck, A. NJ, Phi.
D., D. D., L. H. D., holder of the chair
in Latin of the University of Column
bia; president of the Latin Club of
America, member of many prominent
literary clubs and associations, maya
zine writer, critic of the fair sex and
essayist on perfumes as related to
morals. The first wife of Prof Peck
obtained a divorce at Sioux Falls, S.
D., in September, 1908. The ground
was desertion August % of the fol-
lowing year he married Miss Elizabeth
H. Dubois, a teacher of classics in the
Morris high school.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-09
BANIsHMENT FOR HEBREWS.
Russia Gusts Jews by the Thousands
from City of Kiev.

One thousand and two Jewish fami-
lies have now received official notit-
cation that they must leave KieV, Rus
STA, in accordance with the determi-
nation of the Russian government TO
drive back into the pale all Jews who
are unable to establish their legal
right to remain outside its confines.
An additional 1913 families living in
the suburbs outside the city proper
are subject to deportation before June
IA unless in the meantime they pro-
duce proofs of their right of residence
in their present homes.
It is quite impossible to secure sta
tfstics showing the number of those
already expelled. Even the Jewish re-
lief committee is unable to state the
exact figure, but the committee esti-
mates that between 200 and 800 jew
ish families have quilted the city.
In addition to the deportation order
ed, the Jews of Kiev have been sub
iected to minor annoyances, such as
the refusal of passports, good over
the year, and interference with their
residence at the summer resorts out
side of Kiev, where all those who are
prosperous enough go during the heat
ed term. the law forbidding Jews to
settle in the villages or on farms, in
order to prevent the exploiting Of
simple peasantry."
The real hardships for the Jews are
expected to come on June IA, when
the time limit for their departure ex-
pires. All who still remain in KieV
on various pretexts will be expelled on
that date Although the Jewish relief
committee is collecting funds for this
contingency. 1t is feared that many
will face deportation by force rather
than leave the city voluntarily. The
committee has collected several thou
sand dollars, and hopes are entertain
ed that adequate funds may be secured
from the considerable colony of Jew
ish millionaires in Kiey.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-09
KELLNER GIRLS BODY FOUND.
Prisoners Husband Is Missing Jani-
tor of Church-Grave in Cellar.

Prisoners Husband Is Missing Jani-
tor of Church-Grave in Cellar.
The body of Alma Kellner, who dis
appeared Dec. 8, was found the other
day in the cellar of st. Johns Paro-
chial School, five blocks from the
home Of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred F. Kellner, in Louisville, KY.
Mrs. Lena Vending, wife of Jo-
seph Vending, who was janitor Of
ST. Johns Roman Catholic Church,
and who disappeared Jan. IA, has been
arrested, charged with being an ac-
cessory to the murder Mrs. Wend-
berg was h0usemaid for Father George
Schuhmann, the pastor. Vending,
who is "a years old, left no word as
to his destination, his wife asserted.
The child's body when found was
incased in carpet, sewed together
lengthwise, and the child had evident
ly been slain and then thrown through
a trapdoor. Almost every bone was
broken and the skull was fractured.
1t was evident that Quicklime had
been used and that attempts had been
made to burn the body. Alma Kell-
ner was years old, and left her home
to attend mass Wednesday morning,
Dec. s. 1t was thought she had been
kidnapped, and rumors of demands for
money had been frequent. The car
pet wrapped around the body, it is al
legged, belonged to Vending, and the
police have found some of his cloth
ing crimson-stained
The Identification is thought to be
complete. The body was found by
Richard B. Sweet, plumber, who
was pumping water from the cellar
The ground had been scooped out to
a depth of six inches, making a shall
low grave.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-09
NEW YORK.

Trade advices are irregular, vary
ing somewhat with the sections or
lines reporting, but with quietness the
prevailing feature. In the northern
half of the country unseasonably cool
weather has been a bar to expansion
in retail trade, which at many cities is
classed as disappointing. At these
centers recorder business is light, and
jobbers' operations are consequently
restricted. Probably the best reports
as to trade come from the Northwest
and the Pacific coast.
Business failures for the week end
ing with June in the United States
were 100, against 200 last week, 191
in the like week of 1909, 225 in 1908,
155 in 1907 and 1872 in 1906.
Business failures in Canada for the
week number eighteen, which com
pares with fifteen for last week and
nineteen in the like week of 1909.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-09
BAD WEATHER HURTS CORN.
Unreasonable Conditions Worry the
Farmers-Crop Backward.

Farmers-Crop Backward.
Unreasonable weather conditions
throughout the corn belt are causing
great concern on the part of farmers
IN regard to the corn crop. TemDera-
lures close to the freezing point have
been the rule for week or more in
Nebraska, and, while no serious dam
age has been done, the crop is back
ward and cold weather has undoubt-
edly checked the growth. One effect
OF the wet and cold conditions follow
ing the mild weather early in the sea-
son was to make replanting necessary
over a large area of the corn belt.
IN some sections corn has been plant
ed at least three times, and in other
districts good seed corn is selling at
almost unheard of prices. In some
places the supply of seed corn that has
been tested is nearly exhausted.
In the central part of Illinois it is
reported that seed corn is selling at
SIS to SIS bushel, which is on a fam
inc basis. Even at this price reports
stated that the supply was nearly
gone, and that farmers were in a
quandary. The poor termination in
some sections of the belt is ascribed
to the poor quality of much of the
corn and to the early frosts last fall,
before the corn was fully ripened.
Throughout the winter there were
reports that the corn was testing poor
ly 1t is still early enough for corn
to be replanted and, with favorable
conditions, to make a big crop, but
the poor start has made a big differ
ence in the views of farmers as to
the yield
In regard to the weather conditions,
oats have been favored by the cold,
wet spring, and conditions are uni
formly fine, reports from most Sec
lions being to the effect that the out
look was for a bumper crop. Should
the weather turn excessively hot,
which would be favorable for the
growth of the corn crop along normal
lines, it would be likely to injure the
oats just about the time they were be-
ginning to fill
Close students of cereal conditions
say that usually it is hard to obtain
big yields of both corn and oats the
same year, as conditions that are IA
Vorable for one are sometimes detri-
mental to the other.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-09
DYNAMITE WISCONSIN BANK.

Bold Robbery Is Committed at
Unity by Two Men Who Escape.
The State Bank of Unity, Wis, was
robbed the other day of $4,000. the
safe of the bank being dynamited.
The robbers escaped. It is supposed
the robbery was committed by two
men who had been hanging around
the bank for several days. The bank
was established in 1905 with a CAPT.
tai of $10,0Up.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-09
Baby Found Near Rail Tracks

A boy baby, hardly hours old, was
found alongside of the Big Four Rail-
road tracks in Cincinnati, within a
foot Of where the trains pass every
few minutes. 1t had evidently been
thrown from train that was inbound
from Cleveland. 1t was rushed to the
city hospital and the physicians there
hold out every hope for its ultimate
recovery
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-09
OHIO Ex-BANKER LEAVES PRISON
G. A. Rose of Cleveland Is Released
After Serving Ten-Year Term

George a. Rose, formerly connected
with the Producers National Bank of
Cleveland, was released from the Ohio
penitentiary the other day after serv-
ing ten years for violation Of the ma
tional banking laws. Rose was a gov
eminent prisoner and was sent to the
penitentiary in 1900. His home has
been broken up, his wife having died
at Cleveland several years ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-09
DEDICATE KENTUCKY's CAPITOL
New $2,OOO,OOO Structure Is Opened
with Much Ceremony.

VIII MUCH Ceremony.
Kentucky's 100000 capitol was
dedicated the other day with exercises
that occupied practically the entire
day. Special trains from all directions
brought thousands of persons to
Frankfort, one train bringing more
than 1000 girls from the Louisville
high school. The exercises, which
were opened early in the morning by
a signal gun, included an invocation
by Bishop Lewis w. Burton of Lexing-
ton and addresses, mainly of historic
interest, by Gov. Augustus E. Wilson
and United States Senator William O.
Bradley
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-09
Under Charges: Kills Self.

Preferring death to disgrace and a
probable prison sentence from pending
court-martia1 proceedings, G. c. Reeves,
first sergeant in the United marines,
stationed on Goat Island, San Francis
CO, snatched a priyate's revolver from
its holster and blew out his brains.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-09
MORE THAN 500 PERSONS PERISH
East Africa and Adjacent Ocean Is
Swept by Terrible Cyclone.

More than 500 persons were drowned
and many ships lost in the terrific cy-
clone that swept East Africa, according
to dispatches received from Mozam-
bique. The storm did great damage
on land as well as on sea. 1t is be-
lieved that several large ships, IS well
as smaller ones, were lost On one
were 400 miners, en- route to the Rand
mines. All were drowned
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-09
Forces Brother to Take Acid

During the absence of his mother,
6-year-old Harry Silvikas, of Bridge
port, Conn, found an ounce bottle of
carbolic acid lying on a table and in
play forced the contents down the
throat of his 1O-month-old baby broth
er. The latter died within an hour.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-09
Rich Youth Ends Life

George Morgan, % years old, wealthy
and we'll known socially in New York,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head Relatives ard
friends of the young man are unable
to give any reason for the act.