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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05
New interpretations.

New interpretations.
The Northwestern Oil company, Su.
perior; capital, $4,000; incorporators,
Charles A. Teporten, H M Mckenzie
and W. M. Powers. The Oshkosh
Medicine company, Oshkosh; capital,
$4,000; incorporators, Louis Strubing,
c. H. Sawyer, E. A. Darling and A. c.
Smith. The Elk Mound Flax Mill COM
pany, Elk Mound; capital, $4,000;
incorporates, E. B. Ingram, c. A.
Chamberlain and o. T. Bunby. The
Bayfield, Land and Abstract company,
Bayfield,; capital, $4,000; incorpora.
tors, A. H. Williamson, w. W. Downs
and John Fisher. The Merchants
Realty company, Milwaukee; capital.
$4,000; incorporators, o. G. Schumach
er, E. ]. Gross and B. F. Saltzstein
The Cream City Contractors associa.
ton, Milwaukee; no capital stock; in
corporators, r. Malnekoff, B. Mendel
sohn, A. Wolfstein, ]. Collin, A. Levin,
A. Lakomovitz, Max Lubou and G. N
Schon. The St. Aemelanus Orphan
asylum, st, Francis, Milwaukee coun.
ty; no capital stock; incorporators, Sc.
basttan G. Messmer, William Heber1
stock, Nicholas Becker, Michael Graet-
finger, Sebastian Bernard, ]. T. Grem-
scheld, ]. L. Ripple, M Seeboth and
John M. Schneider. The South Side
Liberty Pleasure club, Milwaukee; no
capital stock; incorporators, Larry
Knopp, A Zantke, Mike Keller, Stan
ley Polakowski and Vincent Wojda
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05
MOUNT ETNA SPOUTS FLAMES.
Begins Eruption Without Earth Trem.
ors-ViIIagers Are Alert.

Catania, Sicily.-Mount Etna is
showing considerable activity. There
have been no earth tremors, how
ever, but red hot material has
been erupted, making a striking con-
trast with the snCS-capped volcano
The villagers living near the crater,
remembering former experiences, are
keeping a close watch on the vol
cano in fear of being overwhelmed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05
KIDNAPERS GET LONG TERMS
Judge Numerically Scores "BIack
Handlers" Convicted of Stealing
Two Rows In RrookIvn

New York.-In a courtroom guard
ed by detectives to prevent bomb
throwing or any attempt at re-
lease, Maria Kappa and Stanislaus
Pattenza, the kidnapers of the Longo
and Rizzo boys, were sentenced by
Judge Fawcett to not less than TWEEN
ty-nine years in prison nor more than
forty-nine years and ten months.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05

Nl0nssota oWn Ea~ept y frs.
Madison Lake, Ginn.-The bust
ness part Of this town was wired ont
~ FIRE Friday The loss is estimated
:, 100000
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05
Millions Hang on Badger State Suit.

Millions Hang on Badger State Suit.
Four million dollars in unsolicited
inheritance taxes for the state Of Wis
consin hinge on the ultimate success
of suit Instituted by Attorney Gen
eral A. L. Gilbert.
The suit will determine the right of
the state to collect Inheritance taxes
on the estates Of deceased nonresi-
dents who hold stock in Wisconsin
corporations, will be instituted in the
Milwaukee county court, and will be
carried, it is believed, to the highest
courts for final settlement.
Administrators Of the estate Of the
late W. H. Tilford of New York will
be defendants in the test case brought
by the state to determine it's rights.
Attorney General Gilbert has ap-
pealed to the county court of Milwau-
kee for letters Of ancillary admins
tration for the purpose of collecting
this tax
The test case, similar in nearly
every respect to others which may be
brought should the suit be successful,
involves 100000 in stock owned by
Tilford in the Milwaukee road on
which the tax will be $4,000. To pre-
vent the defendants from escaping on
a technically, l. B. Mallory, public ad-
ministrator of Milwaukee county, also
signed the petition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05
SLAIN ON EVE OF WEDDING.

Arkansan Is Shot by Brother In Quar-
rel Over Sister.
Prescott, Ariz.-Will w. Hendrix
shot and killed his brother, Henry,
who was to have been married
to Miss Bette Brown of Prescott
The shooting occurred in their IA
theirs store and followed a quar-
rel In which 1t is said Henry ac-
cused VIII of Shaping their sis
ter Pearl, who is twenty years old.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05
CHICAGO HAS NEW FIRE CHIEF.

Charles r. SeyferIIch Succeeds James
Koran as Marshal.
Chicago-Mayor Busse has ap-
pointed Charles F. Seyferlich, who
for nearly thirty years has been con-
nected with the city fire department,
fire marshal to succeed the late James
Koran, who lost his life in the stock.
yards holocaust last week.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05
CARROLL OUT OF RACE IN IOWA.

Governor Declares He Is Supporting
Young for senatorship.
Des Moines, Ia.-Governor B. F.
Carroll announced that he was not
and would not be a candidate for
the United States senate before the
coming legislature. He said he was
supporting Senator Lafayette Young
for the position.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05

By the Wisconsin Anti-Tubereu.
Iosis Association.
20 PER CENT. WERE UNS0LD
The Sales in the State This Year Are
Greater Than in 1905 5o, $50
or 1,15o,e3o More Than Last
Year Are Sold.

Madison.-More than 4,250,000 Red
Cross seals were sent out by the Wis
consin Anti-Tuberculosis association
in the campaign that closed.
While the total was 4,313,662, past
campaigns have shown that about 20
per cent. Of seals sent out are re-
turned unsold This means, If the
estimate holds good this year, sale
in the state of 3,450,930 or 1,15o,930
more than in 1909.
Of the 4,313,662 seals sent out,
961,06S went to Milwaukee. Because
the seals were on sale in 1000 drug
stores, grocery stores, department
stores, saloons and other places, it is
not known whether the 20 per cent.
estimate will hold good in Milwaukee
In any event, 1t seems assured that
the city will have disposed Of 500, 1000
seals.
The awarding of prizes in the state
cannot be determined until the final
returns are received and tabulated.
1t is not expected that the actual fig
ures will be known before the end of
January.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

swimming pool and a gymnasium Tho death rate in Bournvile is five per thou
 sand, while in Birmingham, four iniles
 away, it is 15.
 The Bournvile boys of 12 are three
 inches bigger around the chest than .hcir city neighbors in Birmingham The en- terprize was made over in 1900 by George
 Cadbury to a perpetual trust, which will carry out his ideas. The undertaking Is
 on strictly>business basis. the net p:oflts of about 4 per cent being devoted to the
 building of more houses.
 A dreamer looked into the future, ana
 curious as it may seem. his dream came
 true, for Ebenezer Howard, whose Gar
 den Cities of Tomorrow opened the 'yes of the public to the possibilities of town development, has lived to see realized
 most of the essential ideas of his enter prise in the Model Cities of Letchworth about 35 miles north of London. In 1902 a tract of $500 acres. at s20o per acre. was bought by the First Garden City, Limited, 120O acres being designed to house a population of about 30,0O0 pno- pie. The remaining 2600 acres are de- voted to an agricultural belt whlcn en- circles the town and which shall remain inviolate. A limit of 12 houses to the acre has been established and & conscious eff fort has been made to provide housing facilities for all sorts and conditions or men. the rents ranging from B to w a month up to 40 or $50.
 A part of the property lying close to the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

railroad, but screened by hill and a belt Of trees has been set aside for factory
 enterprises. Already more than twenty
 different enterprises have left London and
 found 1t to their financial benefit to oper-
 ate their works on cheap land where he homes of the operatives may be within walking distance of their work.
 | The directors have wisely held the most
 attractive portion of the land for future civic center. The population of Letch-
 worth Is now 1000. and the idea is to use
 small temporary municipal buildings until the city approaches It's final population of | 30,00O
 | The most attractive London suburb
 Hampstead Garden, which is only % min
 utes from the heart of London, was ds- veloped by the Hampstead Garden Suburb
 Trust, which for $250O per acre bought from Eton college 240 acres of rolling
 country bordering Hampstead Health
 The building upon the property is up)n
 a preconceived plan designed by Barry
 Parker and Raymond Unwin. The land is not sold, but lots are rented for 999 lyears. Three very successful copartner- ship societies have built homes all of
 which must be approved by the architects
 so that the harmony of the treatment may not be disturbed. Only eight houses are permitted to the acre so that there are ample gardens and open spaces. The in-
 formal treatment of the streets and the placing of buildings sometimes in groups 'of two, and three have produced very
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
GARDEN CITIES IN ENGLAND
Nv W. TEMpLEToN JOHNSON

kempt yards. "Is it any wonder" he
 said to himself, "that with such dernoral-
 izing living conditions, the workmen, in- stead of coming home. spend their wages
 drinking at the saloons" The man was George Cadbury, now one of the propri-
 etors of a great manufacturing company.
 and the town of Bournville. four miles
 from Birmingham. Is the result of hs ef-
 forts to secure good living conditions for any one who might desire an attractive
 home in district so designed that there Is plenty of room and fresh air for all the inhabitants. Only 40 per cent of the houses at Bournville are rented by em- ployes of Messrs. Cadbury Co. Mir Cad bury having wisely decided that there
 should be no obligation on the part of his employees to live In Bournville and also that the colony might be open to any one.
 rive houses in Bournville are attractive
 brick structures with gardens in front and l,.nina The Village Trust offers prizes for the best kept garden and for the finest fruit and vegetables. With this incentive, the gardens are always neatly cultivated, and 1t has been estimated that the produce raised reduces the rent of every family | in Bournvile nearly half dollar 8 week. 1here are tennis and football fields, a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

charming street pictures.
 Within few years Germany has learned the lesson of Letchworth. Bourn- vile, Hampstead and Harborne. Garden cities are springing up in many localities. What are we doing in the United StatesY Next to nothing. At Hampstead they have realized that by making tenants their own landlords the holders of property will not wish to wiring out of the land the last cent of profit.
 There is land within the limits of most of our great American cities which Is no more expensive than that at Hampstead and which could be developed on similar lines. Are we going to stand still and watch 25 50, 10 or more houses to the acre, without so much as breathing space, sweep solidly over the land surrounding our cities? When will people realize, as they have in England, that beauty is Just as cheap as ugliness? Think of the $1.50 a week houses at Letchworth and contrast them with our own product. There is a saying of President Lincoln's. For peo- pie that want that sort of thing that's Just about the sort of thing that they want l hope we are going to want something better than we have. There is a very good rule that if the people want a thing hard enough they generally get it. The introduction of the Garden City which is SO successful in England IS per fectly possible in the United States and It's establishment will mark a new era in American building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
IF OUR LAWS SHOULD BURN?
As They Are All Stored in an Inflam-
 mable Place, It Would Be Easy

Washington Letter to the Brooklyn Eagle, Washington-Sta tell us that this is government of laws and not of men, but if fire should sweep through the library of the state department on the third floor of the state, war and
 navy building the United States would
 not save any laws, so far as the original copies go. All the laws of this country, from the days of George Washngton's s administration down to the newest of all statutes. Canadian reciprocity, are Tn that room. They are written and printed on parchment and bound in volumes. be- ing numbered in the order fin which they reach the state department. There are no fireproof cases in the H. brary. Neither Is there any fireproof vault. These unique documents are stored away in wooden cases which would readily make food for flames There never has been fire in the state
 department library, and no laws have
 been destroyed. There never was a fire
 in the capitol at Albany until 1t was
 swept by flames almost from top to hot
 tom While the state, war and navy
 building itself Is considered to be a
 pretty good piece of freproof constr,c
 tion, its office furnishings and eauip-
 ment could readily be burnedA Other
 departments of the government take
 better care of their documents than the
 state department does of its precious
 laws
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

(Exelusive Service The Survey Press
 Bureau).
 \The damp climate of Great brltaih' which permits luxuriant plant life even lin deep shade, and the influence exerteu by hundreds of years of constant contac. with the gardens of the great landed estates, have led to the evolution of the garden city in England.
 The Garden City, as we know 1t today was instituted aHOut 90 years ago, as housing adjunct for a great industrial en- lterprise. Tn 1857 the firm of Lever Bros. soap manufacturers. bought some land be- tween Birkenhead and Liverpool on which to build homes for their employees. The first houses constructed were too costly to be profitable and of late years the K pense of maintaining roads and parks has risen so that on an investment of Sf, ,60O, ,O0t there is no profit after the payment of fixed charges, but MT. Lever believes in carrying on the enterprise because em- ployes living in community which pro- notes good health are more intelligent and efficient.
 Fifty years ago young man walked the streets of Birmingham, England, on Saturday afternoons looking at the sqnali, working mems houses and the dirty, un-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
WHY ISN'T A HEN A BIRD?
Court Will Pass on This Along
 With Some Other Things

From Case and Comment.
 | Animals of various kinds have been hav-
 Ing their day in court. That no tsh were
 bn the ark and that therefore the creature Is not an animal was the position taken by a St. Louis city attorney in a case against a peddler accused of cruelty to
 animals.
 The case was dismissed over the eTf1-
 ,i,a;ic protest of Judge Pollard, who ar-
 .ued that the dictionary defined fish as m animal. The peddler was charged with |advertising his fish by displaying live animal from a string on his cart, tha. it's topping might attract the eyes of pfos- |,ective purchasers.
 There can be no doubt, however, that a monkey Is an animal of high degree. A l |ive- pound simian slumbered peacefully
 T his cage at the Kentucky State Fair |frounds q few months ago, while four 'ttorneys fought wordy battle in tte magistrate court as to whether state fair |5isitors should be permitted to anuse themselves by throwing balls at the monkey.
 To champion his cause and see that jus | ice was done to little Jocko half d dozen Louisville club women were present After |An hour and a half of testimony and legal |,ratory about Darwin, monkey prostra- |Eion," nervous fatigue" and other things |hat the ordinary layman would not be- |ieve monkey was heir to the magistrate Decided that the owner should pay me |bf S25 for letting the visitors at the fair make his monkey a target for rubber balls
 That it is against the Ohio law to hold bald eagles In captivity was the ruling re- |ceived from Attorney General Hogan by Elmer Fawcett, a Logan county farmer. |Fawcett had one of the birds and the at Eorney general ordered its release. The |sagle was taken after fierce fight sev- |sral weeks ago. Fawcett discovered it with its talons fastened in the woolly back of lamb, seized pitchfork and |,aptured the bird after a lively struggle.
 The attorney general holds that native eagle cannot be held captive in Orio
 The much disputed question 'Is a hen Ia bird?'' which the treasury officials passed up as too complex for them, has been presented to the new court of cus- toms appeals The present form of the problem is this: If birds eggs are free under the tariff and hens eggs are taxed s cents dozen, why isn't hen bird?" An importer who paid the duty wants to know.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
No Excuse at All

|From the Washington Post. N c. Goodwin, the famous comedian |condemned, at a dinner in New York, a new comedy.
 Its climax" he said, lis false and un- satisfactory-as false and as unsatisfac- |tory as Rowndar's excuse
 "On Rowndar's return at very late hour. his wife said responsibility:
 i"'Y ou used to VOW I was the sunshine |pf your life. but now you stay out nign, after night
 Well, my love- said Rowndar. I don't ask for sunshine after dark '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
The Tastes of Men and Women

4VCW
 The tired shopper paused before the window of the mems furnishing house.
 "Why, is it." she said that never find goods that I really like for my shirtwasts in A womans store, but always see them on my way home in some window where mems shirtings are shown? There is no use trying to buy any of the goods, either, although proprietors have told me that women, frequently make the attempt. Women may have a more cultivated taste than men, but a glance at window like this makes one have doubts.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
Optical Illusions
From the Washington Post.

rom
 We are at times curiously deceived by our own senses. A flash of lightning lights up our surroundings for one-millionth of second. yet it seems to us to last much longer What happens is that the im- pression remains on the eye or the re- tina for about one-eighth of second, or 124,O00 times as long as the flash lasts. If on dark night train speeding along at 60 miles an hour is lighted up by a lightning flash it appears stationary, yet in the eighth of a second during which, we seem to see it the train travels il feet.
 But we really oply see during one one millionth of 0 second and in that time it travels only one-hundredth of an inch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
lave Your Monogram laced On Our New Tinted Perfectly (rOper Stationery

Our artist will make you an artistic, beautiful and effective mono gram.
 It can be embossed or engraved on some of the new tints in writing paper.
 
 Then you'll have the very swellest that can be found.
 It is a speciality of ours D and in this depart ment, as in all others, we keep right up to the very minute.
The evening world., 1911-06-12
PICKS UP CL0THESlINE;
GETS TERRIFIC SHOCK.
It Was of Wire and Was Charged
With Electricity Victim
Drops Unconscious.

MONTCI.AlR. n. j.. June l2.-Frank
Joyce had an experience this morning
that he would not pass through again
for a million dollars, so he says. By
the merest accident he touched a wire
clothesline and received a charge OF
about 1000 volts. lie dropped uncon-
scious and was found an hour later by
the gardener. who supposed him dead.
II was with great difficulty that he
was revived. One OF his fingers Is ter
ribly lacerated.
Mr.. Joyce lives at the corner Of Park
and Walnut streets. and started out
this morning to look around town "a
see the damage done by the big storm,
He paused at the beautiful Upper
Montclair avenue home of James ",
Jarvis, the Sugar Trust magnate. and
noticed a wire clothesl!ne on the pave
ment. He stopped down to put 1t GU,
OF the way and received a tremendous
shock. The storm played havoc with
telephone and telegraph wires and one
of these Is supposed to have crossed
the clothesline.
The evening world., 1911-06-12
Genuine Crex Rugs

At lowest prices at which these service
able sanitary floor coverings are
anywhere sold;-
The evening world., 1911-06-12
LEAGUE GIVES
TO LEGISLATORS ON
PLEDGESO Of PARTY
Tagging Action in Albany on
Principal Planks of Demo-
cratic Platform.

ALBANY. June 1.-THE Democratic
League. through Mayor John K. sagus
of Poughkeepsie. its vice-chairman. has
appealed to Gov, Dix and the Demo-
cratic members Of the Legislature to
carry into effect the pledges Of the
Democratic party platform made at the
Rochester convention. The memorial
wse prepared by q subcommittee. Of
which Congressman c. r. Smith was
chairman, and says in part:
"For Ave months the State Legisla-
turs has been in session. :, direct pri-
maries Law Is not on the statute books.
Local and partisan bills a been given
precedence over this momentous popu-
lar issue. Failure to enact a direct pri-
mary law, giving full effect to the bind
ing pledge of the Rochester convention.
will invite the charge that the party
won success at the last election under
false banner. using the methods OF
gross political insincerity.
The Democratic State Convention de-
clared for improved election laws. NO
action has thus far been taken by the
Legislature to accomplish that end. The
fact is notorious that other states are
far ahead of New York In providing
methods by which voters. with greater
convenience and certainty. may record
THAR choice. Yet In. Ave months Of the
legislative session this subject. which so
directly concerns all the people. has
been given little attention. As yet no
law has been enacted to correct or amel-
,orate the antiquated and unsuitable
conditions which now prevail.
The Legislature has adopted a reso-
luton by Senator Roosevelt requesting
New York's representatives In Congress
10 use their best endeavors to secure "A
constitutional amendment providing for
the direct election Of United States Sem
ators. and the League declares that the
Democratic Legislators should leave In
M possible doubt their desire that Con-
press submit the proposed amendment to
tho Federal Constitution to establish the
reform"
Neglec to approve the Federal in
come tax amendment, the League de-
clares, would be a plain breach OF
pol,tical good faith and would be a Just
and serious handicap 20 the Demo icy
in the state and national campaign Of
next year
The Democracy was placed on trial
in New York." concludes the appeal.
not By Democrats alone, but by inde.
pendent voters who felt hat a change
OF administration would bring needed
economies and greater efficiency In State
government. There was confidence that
the promises made In convention an.
supplemented by the Democratic press
and By public speakers would be full
filled. And the New York Democratic
League uncompromlsingly demands that
party faith shall be kept"
The evening world., 1911-06-12

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