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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1911-06-27
Ozje volitve V Avstri

= UzJe voltve V AvStrlji 50
koncane Izvoljenih ie 70 social
Stov. Ma Dunaii so krScanski So
cialci zgubili vse. Socialistov ie
bilo izvoljenih 10. Velik napre-
dek, ako pOmislimo, da V sploSni
kuriji, ko so pryiG volili delavci.
MISC ma Dunaji izvolili niti enega
socialista.
Y koliko so narastli socialistiG-
nj glasovi SploSnem. Sc ne more
mo poroGati. Cakati bo treba. da
pridejo tasniki IL stare domo,i-
ne.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1911-06-27

This paper Is devoied
10 the interests of tn Q
working class. Work.
ers are entitled to all
what tn ey produce.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-07
400 FLEE FROM
BLAZING BUILDING
Girls Stampede Is Prevented by
Cool Heads.
HEROES DEVELOPED BY FIRE
Elevator Men in Patton Block At Chi.
cage Save Scores OF Lives
Telephone Operator Stick.
to Her Post.

Chicago.-Four hundred men, WON
Ell and girls fed terror-stricken
by stairway, elevator and fire es-
cape when flames suddenly burst
from the windows of the twelve-story
Patten office building at West Har-
rison street and Fifth avenue.
Only few were injured slightly.
cooi-headed men and women prevent
ing stampede that might have result
ed in great loss of life With scores
Of frightened women clinging to the
fire escapes men in the street gave
warning that there was no great dan
ger and prevented several from lump
ing.
Meanwhile there was the greatest
confusion inside, as hundreds STAN
peded for the stairways and elevators.
The stairways were damned and only
the act of some foolhardy person was
needed to send scores of human beings
to their death in a heap at the bottom
of the stairways. But always there
was some man or woman in the right
place to calm the fears.
A. B. GTeig proved the hero Of the
elevators. He was the operator of one
and he never left his post until the
last person was out Of the building
When he brought down the final
load he had to be carried from his
car, but quickly revived in the open
air. The three other elevator men also
did heroic work. all sticking to their
cars till the last
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-07
PROBE MAY COVER PRIMARY
Senator Hepburn, Chairman of Steph-
eEson Investigating Committee, De-
c!ares Scope of Work Uncertain.

Milwaukee the committee
appointed to investigate the election
of Senator Isaac Stephenson meets in
Milwaukee early in October, it will
not be known whether the investiga-
ton will be confined to the election
of Senator Stephenson or whether the
primary nomination will be included
in the investigation.
This was the statement made by
Senator w B. Hepburn, chairman of
the committee. who stopped over in
Milwaukee while on his way from
Washington to his home in Wallace,
Idaho.
Senator E.eyburn's visit was for
the purpose of looking over the situa-
ton and making preliminary arrange
ments for the meeting of the commit
tee.
There will be much interest taken
in the decision of the committee re-
garding the scope of the investiga-
ton. Those opposed to Senator Steph-
enson are anxious that the commit
tee take up the expense at the
primary election, as that was where
Senator Stephenson money was
spent.
If the investigation extends to the
primary the committee may remain
in session six or seven weeks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-07
He Was q Episcopal.

A Northwestern missionary bishop
dsed to tell story which was re-
peated to us last week by Rev. w. w
Washington of Cuyahoga Falls.
Il met an old farmer in North Da.
kota," he relates, "and in the course
Of conversation l asked him if he was
connected with any religious denom-
nation. Yessir,' he answered, I'm q
'Piscopal'
"Of course this gratifed me, and
asked him what parish he belonged to.
Hadn't heard about no parish he
said, with a puzzled expression.
Well, what diocese? ! persisted.
You got me there, too
-" Where were you confrmed?'
Dunno what you mean
Then how are you an Episcopal
tan?
oh he answered, frightening up
at once. I'll tell you. I went to a
church down in Bismarck last winter,
an they called it 'PiscopaL And |
heard the people sayin' that they'd
done things they hadn't orter done.
an left undone things they'd orter
done" An l says, That's me, to a
t" an since then, I've called myself
a 'Piscopal.'
Now I understand" continued the
bishop, laughing, why the membership
Of our church is so large. Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-07
QUARRELED OVER TREE
1T HAS COST $4,000 RUPEES AND
A DOZEN LIVES.
Bengal Estates Ended by Calcutta
Business Man.

certain mango tree, 1t appears, in
growing up would not observe the
boundary line between two Bengal es-
tates and distributed its foliage and
fruit impartially over both. AS con-
sequence the owners Of the estates
have spent about $4,000 rupees in
litigation, killed a dozen people and
fought the bitterest armed fights.
During the bearing season the tree
was productive of many mangoes. The
first quarrel seems TO have started
among the women folks of the two
families, who insisted that the man
goes belonged to one, then the other.
They even resorted to picking the
mangoes at night until one party hap
pened to catch the other poaching. A
fight followed in which, it is said, two
were killed.
After this quiet reigned for some
time, when the two principals met one
day in neigk5oring village and par
ticipated in free-for-all fight over
the innocent tree. They were sep
arated in bloody condition and were
fined by the police Then followed
long series of feuds and battles COW
ering a period of many years, during
which the tree yielded its luscious
fruit to the one who happened to be
cunning enough to pick it first. Final
" both sides established armed
guards around the tree and kept
watch on each other night and day.
This went on with occasional fights
for several years. 1t was a case of
one trying TO wear the other one out.
Thousands of rupees were paid out
for these special parties and fines, for
burlals OF victims, court expenses and
ammunition. 1t was not until just re-
Gently that a prominent business man
of Calcutta was able to settle the dis
pute. He asked the two land owners
to Jointly deed the tree to him in re-
turn for many favors he had rendered
both of them This was finally done
and he has caused a large cement cir
cular wall to be erected about the
tree, to which he has acquired full
title and possession.
The quarrel has not only been ex-
pensive and fatal, but has kept a COM
munity in a constant state of hostility
for many years. Any one travelling
in eastern Bengal can easily hear the
story and visit the scene of the feud,
if sufficiently interested In the case.
The gentleman whose strategy saved
the situation desires that his name
should remain unknown.-Calcutta
Englishman
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-07
The Garden of Neatness.

Paul, aged four, had been taught
neatness ever since he was big enough
10 walk When the warm weather
came on wee plot of ground in the
corner of the garden was given to him
for his very own to plant things in.
His mother showed him how to put
the little seeds in the ground, and how
TO water and care for them and watch
10 see the tiny sprigs of green force
their heads above the earth. At last
a few spears of parsley or Tadishes or
whatever it happened to be came up
and even fourished.
One morning Paul was discovered
in front of the kitchen sink, tip-toe,
water streaming over something he
clutched in his chubby hands.
What are you doing, Paulie,"
called his mother from across the
room
"Washin' dere feet off, muzzer.
took up de flowers in my garden and
all dere feet was so terrible dirty. I'm
goin' to put 'em back again now"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-07
EPIDEMIC FEARED
AFTER HURRICANE
Bic Force Works to Clear Charleston
Streets-Gale Is Fatal to
Fifteen.

Charleston, S. C.-With the danger
of an epidemic of sickness in
the lowlying sections Of the city
greatly increased by the effects Of
Sundays hurricane, Charleston began
its earnest effort to recover from the
disastrous result of the gale A large
force Of laborers is cleaning up the
debris-strewn streets and train serv-
ice is approaching normal
So far as can be ascertained Is
lives were lost and a score or more
Of people injured. The property dam
age amounts to at least 100000.
Shipping has suffered heavily, but
it is impossible at this time to fix the
loss in dollars. Scores of launches
have broken away and efforts are be-
ing exerted to catch them.
The Clyde Line steamer Apache
made port after thrilling experience
off this harbor during the hurricane.
Passengers wore life preservers for
several hours and were prepared TO
leave the ship at any moment.
Savannah's parks are scenes of
desolation as result of the winds.
Two men are reported to have been
drowned in Lazarette creek
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-07

In the villages of Russia the prayer
Aall" is the common ''izba" or cottage
of a Stundist mujik, or shed attach
cd to a very primitive furnished sur
rounded by prodigious quantities of
mud, dust or snow, according to the
season of the year. A separate build
ing erected expressly for worship
among the rural evangelicals of Rus
sic is a luxury yet to be provided in
the great majority of cases. The
meeting place, whether 'izba" or out
house, has walls of earth. 1t is with
out ceiling. The floor is the bare
earth. trodden hard by many feet
through the lapse of long years, and
worn into Jumps and hollows. The
walls are lime washed and destitute
of decoration or adornment There
are rough wooden benches around and
across the room. The place is usu-
ally packed to suffocation with men,
women and children, crowded on the
seats, thronging the doorways, and
budding together on the top of the
huge stove.-Sunday at Home.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-07
STATES ALIJAT|ON
NOW s2,94I,4l2,0422
WISCONSIN TAX COMMISSION
ANNOUNCES ASSESSMENTS
FOR CURRENT YEAR.
GREAT INCREASE is SHOWN
Value Is SIeS. 232. 43S More Than
LAST Year Milwaukee County Gain
S36, $50. 500; Dane, SIi,4Ie, 564
Douglass Loses Half Million.

Madlson.-The Wisconsin tax com.
mission has announced the 1911 as
sessment of the taxable property of
the several counties of the state, and
filed the assessment rolls in the office
of the secretary of state. The appor-
tiOnment among the counties of the
special taxes next January for the
construction of the new capitol, main
tenance of the state charitable and
penal institutions, state aid for
schools and other special purposes
will be based on this assessment.
The value of all taxable property
in the state, according to the assess
ment, is $2.941, 412,842, an increase
of $198,232,43S over that of last
year. The valuation of real estate is
So, .225, 226, an increase of S94,-
0S5,265, and the valuation of per-
sonal property is $739,1S7,616, an in
crease of $19S, 232,438
The value of all property in Mil
waukee county is fixed at S57S,715,-
754, an increase of $38,230,906 over
that Of last year; Dane county at
$138, sol, 543, an increase of Sill
419, 564; Dodge at SS2,989, SAT, an
increase of $7,667, 594; Racine coun-
ty at SIS, S50,284, an increase of So
557,379; Walworth at S5S,973, 1874,
an increase of $5,921,1O0; Rock at
$84,S42,5S1, an increase Of $5,210,-
691; Winnebago at S74,775, All, an
increase of $4,9SS,9 09; Green at
$46,214,062, an increase of $4,005,-
922; Waukesha, at $56,732,2S2, an
increase of IS, 391.653; Sank at $46,-
034,284, an increase of $3,840,617;
Nanitowoc at $59,393,45S, an in
crease of $3,764,889; Jefferson at
S56,906,349, an increase of So, 273,-
304; Eau Claire at $50, Dol, $50, an
Increase of S3,053,15S; Fond du Lac
at S75,217,63S, an increase of ST.
774.218; Grant at .S56,601,295, an
increase of $2,450,534; Brown at
S57,738,481, an increase of $2,230,-
466; La Crosse at $44,420,464, an
increase of $2,187,279 Iowa at $780,
924,96S, an increase of $2,092,0 03.
The only county not drawing an in
crease of assessment is Douglas The
assessment of that county is $780,
AL, 1856, a decrease of $691,718. The
assessment Of real estate there in
creased $1,514,360 but that of per-
sonal property decreased $2,206,078,
leaving a net decrease of S691,718.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-07
To Purity Drinking Water.

The increasing use of hypochlorite
for the publication of drinking water
supplies makes the subject of proper
methods of applying this and other
chemicals a timely one. The usual
method of introducing the disinfect-
ant into the suction pipe or suction
we'll has not proved altogether salts
factory, owing to the injury to the
pump valves and other difficulties. An
ingenious device for applying chemt'
Gals directly to water flowing in pipes
under pressure is described In a re-
cent number of the Engineering News.
The principle of the apparatus con-
sists in so regulating the pressure by
chemical contrivances that the sOlu'
tion is forced through the feedpipe at
a rate always proportional to the ex'
listing rate of flow through the main
From the Journal Of the American
Medical Association.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-07
BOY At WIRELESS
SAVES SO LIVES
Youthful Operator Proves Him
self a Hero.
CALL FOR HELP ANSWERED
Climbs Into Wave-Dashed Rigging and
Repairs Wrecked Electrical Appa-
ratus-Passengers Taken OFF
by Revenue Cutter.

Charleston, S. C.-Climbing into the
rigging of the wrecked liner Lexing-
ton, when the steamers wireless sta
ton went down in the storm, Operator
Scheetz, sixteen years old, repaired
the apparatus while waves swept over
him, established connection and called
for help.
The revenue cutter YamacraW an
swereG and saved the II passengers
in the quicksands of Hunting island
and is probably a total wreck.
Two iremen are reported to have
been Earned to death and a third ter
ribly scqlded when the vessel ground
ed. First officer Chamberlain suffered
a fracture of his right shoulder.
The Lexington, which is Mer-
chants ard Miners liner, was bound
from Savannah to Philadelphia. Three
times she was covered with water, the
pumps eXpelling enough to clear the
upper portions and float the stern.
Three times in one hour the entire
hull Of the Lexington was lost to view.
with the craft at the mercy Oh the
storm because it was impossible to
make the least Roadway, great seas
were swept down on the bow, cover
ing her from stem to stern.
Sunday night and Monday morning
Captain Connally, almost naked and
half frozen, stood at the wheel with
his pilot house glasses turned in every
directions, with stokers working des-
perately while standing to their arm
pits in water trying to increase the
small pressure of 20 pounds Of steam
to a sufficient power to enable the Lex
ington to steer away from the treach-
eTous shore.
Passengers and crew declare they
owe their lives to the daring act OF the
wireless operator.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-07
Making Money Ranidlv-

A French newspaper has been cal
culating what various champions gain
by the hour or by the mile The gains
of Andre Beaumont, the aviator, work
out at almost s37 mile. He cannot
compare with the winner of the Grand
Prix at Longchamps, AS d'8tout, who
won money at the rate of $4,000 a
minute, or s38.400 mile.
Automobile driving IN 1905 paid a
winner, Thery, at the rate of SIS a
mile, or s3,857 an hour The chief BIZ
cycle prize of France pays about ST.
066 a mile, or from $500 to s400 a
minute, but the tour of France for
bicycles, whrein men have just cycled
more than 5000 miles around France
during the hot wave. only pays Sc
cents a mile.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-07
NJ A R K E T S
AilNaukee. August

Milwaukee, August 81, 1911.
Creamery Extras. zoe;
prints, &c; frsts. 23@ 24c: seconds.
20 @21c; process. 21@ 22c; dairy
fancy, 22c
Cheese - american, full cream.
Twins, II &c: daisies, new. $50
8 Z c; Young Americas, 121a 01Sc;
longhorns, l &c; limburger, new, 101a
q lie; brick, lie; Swiss, 14Q17c.
Eggs-Current receipts fresh. as
to quality, Ice; recandled, extras
20 q 21c; seconds, 100 12c.
Live Poultry Fowls, 13c: roost-
ers, &c; springers, 141Sc.
Potatoes = Wisconsin, new, OF
track, lis 01.25.
Hay-Choice timothy, 21.50; clo-
yer. 1900; No. / prairie, 1850
Wheat-No. 1. northern, 1860
LOS; No. 2. northern. 1.0S@1.09;
No. 1, durpm, 99@1.0O; No. 1. vel
vet, 1.0O01.01.
Corn-No. 8, yellow, 641ac.
oats-No. ;, white. 4SHc; stand
ard. 43c.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., 1.19; No. 2,
1.22; medium. 1.19.
Cattle-Butchers steers. 5000
6.75; heifers, 3.25 $50; cows, $50
a 500; feeders, 3.SO@4.25; calves,
7.750S.50.
Hogs-Good heavy butchers. 745
q 765; fair to best, light, 1900
7.75; pigs, 6.50@7.20.
Sheep-Lambs. 100000: ewes
27503.25.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-07
ProWess of Women.

The athletic young woman, or per-
haps the young woman of courage, is
doing her full duty these days. In this
one city within week more than one
sneak thief has been caught and held
by some young woman until he could
be taken off her hands by the police
or some other assistance. In New
York three such cases were reported
in a single day. Probably this is not
a modern trait of character, but some
of it at least may be attributed to the
modern training The time has come
when the burglar or sneak thief who
expects to get away uncaught will
have to make sure there are no wom-
en- about the premises he intends to
raid
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-07
TWO ARE KILLED
IN ELGiN RACE
"Dave" Buck and mechanfcian Jacobs
Are SIain-Grand Stand in
Collapse.

Chicag o.-Two lives were sacrificed
in the final days session of the auto
mobile races in Elgin.
On the twenty-ffth lap Of the ma
tional trophy race a Pope-Hartford
racer driven by David Buck threw q
tire on the back stretch and, whirling
completely over. fatally injured Buck
and instantly killed Samuel Jacobs, his
mechanician. Buck died little less
than two hours later in an Elgin hos
pitaL He was a nephew Of the late
David Buck, music composer.
The trophy was won by Lon Zen
gel In a National car, who ran at an
average speed Of 66.45 miles an houc,
four miles an hour faster than the
record of 1910. The trophy race was
the big" one of the meeting
Zengel sustained an engine killing
speed for the 305 miles His car ran
in splendid luck. outlasting Ralph Null
ford's Lozier, Ralph De Palma's Sim
pick and Spencer Wisha-t's Simplex.
three Of the most touted cars in the
race. Every one of them fell before
the tremendous pace, leaving the
trophy between Zengel. Grant and
Hughes. who finished in the order
named.
The crowd had a touch Of excite
ment rot on the program at the end
Of the first lap when the grand stand
folded up like a window shutter and
tobogganed 1000 persons to the
ground
1t was at first thought that there
were some fatal injuries, but tnVesti-
cation showed that the worst suffer
ers sustained nothing more thar a
broken limb, Nearly q hundred per-
sons in all sustained bruises and 9th
er minor hurts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-07
AMERICAN WOMEN ARGUERS
They Wranqle Over Trifies and Make
Life Uncomfortable, Says the Mar
risd Man.

There are three Donts' which
every clergyman could with pTopriety
add as a homily to the wedding cere-
mony," remarked an unhappy looking
married man. Don't argue, don't
bIcker, don't nag, and the greatest Of
these is don't argue, for in the trail OF
argument troops pickering and host
Of other petty, disagreable traits
which lead straight to disaster.
The habit of arguing over trifies Is
a dangerous one, yet one that is in
dulged in by women, and particularly
American women. 1t is not going too
far to say that the American woman
is more given to argument than any
other. She contracts the habit in the
cradle and successfully carries it
through life.
The fact that many women use
an argument as a safey valve for de-
preston and vent their illfeeling in
this form Of wrangling And generally
the smaller the trifle the greater the
wrangle. Once an argument is fairly
started, no one knows where it may
land one. One goes much further than
INTENDED, and says things that had bet
ter been left unsaid
1t is a rare woman who can take
an impersonal attitude in an argument
and maintain it. The average woman
quickly becomes personal to the point
of rudeness and is often disagreeable.
Worse than this, she is not always
overly scrupulous in her methods. She
viii say anything TO carry her point,
with an absurd diregard for accuracy.
"A certain type Of woman instinct
lively takes the opposite side of a ques-
ton. If you mildly remark that the
day is pleasant, she declares it quite
the contrary. This sort of woman has
a tremendous power for making life
uncomfortable. and her methods may
slowly wreck a home"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-07
TRAIN wREckER IN ASYLUM
Girl, Charged With Attempting t.
DeraaiI Trains, Arrested.

Cleveland. o. - The mystery
surrounding several recent at
tempts to wreck passenger cars on
the Lake Shore Electric railway
near this city has been cleared up
by the arrest of Miss May Ermer,
nineteen years old. who resides near
the line.
Detectives in the employ Of the
railroad declare that the girl is re-
sponsible for attempts to wreck cars
at various times by placing obstruc-
tons on the tracks at night
In probate court the young woman
was adjudged insane and committed
to the asylum.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-07
TRAIN pERAILEp; SO HURT
Eight Persons Are Seriously Injured
In Connecticut Wreck.

light FeTsONs NTs SERIOUSLY EHIUFSu
in Connecticut Wreck.
Middletown, Conn. A special
on the New York, New Haven &,
Hartford railway was wrecked here
last night and sixty persons were in
iured. eight of them seriously.
AS the train was dashing west five
miles from this city the track spread
and the locomotive and two baggage
cars were derailed. The coaches re
manned on the track but were badly
damaged.
Nearly every passenger in one OF
the coaches was injured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-07
Did He Need Anv2

The Masons Of Manhattan gave a
banquet. The POSTMASTER called up
on one brother whose name was not
on the program. 1t rather confused
him.
Look here, Mr. Toastmaster, said
he, this isn't exactly fair You have
called me to make an ass of myself
without any preparation whatever
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-07
GEN. H. c. OTIS is ACCUSED.
Charged That Los Angeles Times Pub
lished Indecent Matter

Los Angeles, Cal.-Guy Eddie, city
prosecuting attorney, filed in the Uni
versity court two complaints against
Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the
Times; Harry E. Andrews, managing
editor, and R. NJ Whitney, telegraph
editor, charging them with printing
and circulating indecent matter in
the Times.
A story in the paper of August 10
relating to the divorce of Mrs. Claudia
Libbey Haines is alleged to have con
tanned the obscene matter as charged
in the first complaint The story of
as printed last Monday morning was
ths cause of the second complaint
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-07
WATERMAN Meet 10 chioaoo

ST Louis.-Omcial announcement
Of the sixth annual convention Of the
Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway as
ISOLATION to be held at Chicago, Oc-
tober Il, 13 and Il, was made by w.
K. Kavanaugh, president of the assc
citation.