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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
UPHOLD MOVE To
CHANGE SITE
ASSEMBLY DOWNS MOTION TO
RECONSIDER VOTE OF
RESOLUTION.
ATTACKS MORMON CHURCH
Gettle Resolution for Cons titutfona
Amendment Prohibiting Polygamy
Was Adopted Other Bills Also
Given Consideration.

I Madlson.-By a vote of "A to 81.
the assembly defeated the O'Connor
motion to reconsider the vote by
which the Plowman resolution, au-
| thorizing the commissioner of public
lands to secure options to a suitable
! site Tor the state fair. was adopted.
The movement to take the fair
away from Milwaukee has assumed
a serious aspect and Milwaukee mem
bers intend to get busy to head it
off.
With Speaker Ingram encouraging
old-time agricultural shows and
! county fairs, the race horse bill in
troduced by the committee on agri-
cultural exhibits is expected to Gre
! ate a big stir. Formerly the state
paid so per cent of the total pre-
miums with not more than one
third for the races.
The new bill fixes the amount of
the state aid to county fairs at so
per cent Of all premiums, including
the purses for races. Without fixing
maximum amount for the speed de-
partment, the bill is sure to cause
legislative argument
The bill further provides that any
county or agricultural association
which holds a fair within a week
when the state fair is in progress,
shall forfeit all right to state aid.
Declaring that as the Mormon
church is as great a menace to the
country as any great special inter-
est in Wall street, Assemblyman
Gettle made a plea for his joint res
olution memoralizing congress to call
convention to propose an amend
ment to the constitution Of the
United States prohibiting polygamy.
The federation of polygamy is ma
tional insult to womanhOOd and
childhood. The resolution was
adopted by a vote Of 46 to 35.
The assembly committee on the
welfare of women and children re-
ported in a new labor bill for women,
which provides a ten-hour wOrkday
and not more than ffty-fve hours a
week, and establishes eight hours
work at night as a maximum.
The assembly by a vote of AZ to
So, killed the Strouf bill abolishing
the present state oil inspection de-
partment and giving the inspection
work to the state dairy and food de-
partment. AssembIyman Spoor said
that the state dairy and food COM
missioner had all the work he could
do without adding more.
The assembly adopted the Hahn
bill relating to the Sherman anti
trust law and asking congress to
establish certain exemptions.
Milwaukee will be without a pro-
baton officer The assembly killed
the bill providing for such an Off
ciaI at a salary of $500.
The new hospital for the criminal
insane will probably be built at
Waupun as the Ballard BILL naming
Waupun as the site, was advanced
to engTOssment.
The Kahn BILL providing special
ballot boxes for women, was report
ed in for passage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
The New AnricuIture.

Il calclate my boy Seth is goin' tel
come back to the old farm after all
when he gifts through up there to col,
leGe," said Granger Timothy Seede
MS he leaned on the top rail of the
acre-lot fence and conversed with
Neighbor Joel Haycock, in his buck,
board in the road.
"Sho! You don't say!" said Joel 81
thought the boy was goin ter quit the
farm"
We'll. it did look like that fer
spell, but guess he's thought better
on 1t. fer he sent his ma and me home
a newspaper piece which says that he
'plowed up the field for many yards
and his team never pulled better to
gether.' Gosh, he'd never touch +
pillow at home here!"-Puck.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
ASK NEW FEDERAL
QUIZ ON L0RIMEn
Illinois Senate Adopts Resolution to
Reopen Case-Vote on Proposal
SO to 10.

Springfield, In.-By vote of 80
10 10, the Illinois state senate, after
an exciting session, adopted a reso-
luton submitting to the United
States senate the report of the Helm
Investigating committee, which de-
clared that Senator William Lorimer
would not have been elected in May,
1909, had it not been for bribery and
corruption, and calling upon the fed
eral senate to take action in the
matter.
To this resolution was added an
amendment criticizing those senators
who bolted Albert ]. Hopkins, the
primary nominee to succeed himself.
A second resolution declaring there
was tangible and definite evidence of
wrongdoing and official misconduct on
the part of Senators John Broderick
and Stanton c. Pemberton and asking
that the Helm inquiry be extended to
May 81 was first given a black eye
by Lieutenant Governor Oglesby, who
said it was extending the life of a
committee beyond the life of the leg
islature, and then defeated, SO to s.
ngton.-Senator La Toilette
gave notice in the senate that he
will call up his resolution providing
for reinYestigation of the Lorimer
case next Monday, Immediately after
the conclusion of morning business.
The senator will make a statement to
the senate of reasons why he believes
the reinvestigatio should be or
dered and will press for the passage
of his resolution at the earliest op-
portunity. The issue will probably
be Joined as to whether the investiga-
ton shall be conducted by a special
committee named in the resolution or
be referred to the senate committee
on privileges and elections.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
DElTZ Is NOW IN WAuPuN
Great Reception at Chippewa Falls
Convicted Man Expresses
Pleasure

Waupun.-John Deitz was brought
to the state prison Wednesday, Nav
II, accompanied by Sheriff Clark and
deputy. He was not manacled, and
talked and laughed in a jolly man
ner A small crowd was al the sta
/ ton and punches of people gathered
on the corners along the route to
the prison.
! The sheriff allowed Deitz to drink
a bottle of pop-all he drinks-and
| have cigar, while the other men
| refreshed themselves with . glass
of beer. This was in a saloon on the
| main street. Deitz walked through
| the prison gates as if not at all
worried, looking observantly at the
grounds and the nigh building. In
the office he was put through the
usual routine of questions and as
signed to the Office for Bertillion
measurements. bath, prison clothes,
etc. Warden Towne said his num-
Der would not be given him for a
| day or two.
Sheriff Clark and Deitz waited two
hours at Chippewa Falls last even
ing for train connecting with the
Waupun line. When they arrived at
the depot, 500 people were there to
greet the prisoner. The streets for
the entire distance of a mile to the
Jail were crowded with SPECTATORS.
as DeItz was carried in an automo-
bile to the county Jail.
There the sherifs permitted Deitz
to hold reception and for over an
hour he shook hands with hundreds
OF men, women and children who
crowded the building. Several hun
dred failed to gain admittance to
the Jail before it was closed for the
night.
Deltz was pleasant and very cor
dlaI and expressed pleasure over the
great outpouring Of people and the
friendly greetings extended to him.
de said he did not know where his
famlly was or what their plans for
the future were. The woodsman's
cordially and hearty manner made
tremendous hit with the crowd
and Sheriff Clark, surprised by the
great ovation, said to Deitz: John,
am your friend and am very sorry
to see you co.
Deitz wore a stiff hat, dark green
trousers, shoes broken out at the
heel, and with his famous smile did
not look at all the desperate ont
law who drew a life sentence for
murder. His first day will be spent
in solitary confinement, work being
assigned him later.
When Sheriff Clark and the prison
er left HAYWARD Friday afternoon,
Deitz wore a smile. When inter
viewed, he said: 81 suppose the
lumber trust have got what they
want" His family is in Rice Lake
and so were not present to see him
start on the journey, but crowd
thronged the depot.
At Couderay petitions are being
circulated asking Gov. McGovern to
pardon Valentine Weisenbach, who
has served six years of a tweIve-year
sentence for the shooting of Pat
McGinn, near Cameron Dam. Nc
CHM, sheriff at the time, was on his
way to arrest Deitz when attacked by
Weisenbach and the man for whom
he had a warrant, and was shot
through the arm.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
GRADUATES GET DIPLOMAS
DR.. j. M. Beffel, of Milwaukee. Win
Make Speech to Nurses at
Waidheim.

Oconomowoc.-A class of nine will
receive diplomas at the annual COM
mencement exercises of the Valid
helm Training School for Nurses.
conducted by Dr. J. H. Vote, at Ocon-
omowoc lake, on the evening of
Thursday, June 1. Musical numbers
will be given by the Westminster
quartet of Milwaukee, Miss Over
heiser acting as accompanist. DR.. J.
M. Beffel of Milwaukee will give the
commencement address. DR.. Vote
will also give a short talk to the
graduates and will present the di-
plomas. The class comprises the
following: Mary Brady, Jessie Per-
sonius, Valley City, N. D.; Rosemary
Vosen, Winnetka, H.; Ida Meyer,
Isabel Vogel, Watertown; Mrs. f.
.. Sebenthal, Eau Claire; Julia Mel
son, Lime Ridge; Lena Holland, Me-
nomonie, Wis; Eleanor Hoffman,
Madison.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
Hiram Warner Names Dead

milwaukee. Hiram Warner
Mapes, who in the span of his life
saw anthracite in it's evolution until
today it occupies an important posi-
ton in the economy of the home, is
dead in his residence, 299 Second
avenue, at the advanced age of 81
years. s.-
When he was years of age he
saw the first hard coal in America
taken from a pit at Pittston, Pa. The
next year some of his relatives who
had taken the coal out and RATED it
down the river secured but $40 for
forty tons, and a second load was
dumped into the river because no
buyers could be found.
1t was Mr.. Mapes' father who built
the first crude coal stove in this
country. Another incident in the
younger mans life was his aiding
several other young men in stripping
the first locomotive brought to this
country of its brass rods from the
sale of which they procured small
beer and gingerbread.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
ASKS $4,000 FOR PREMIUMS
Milwaukee Delegation Appears Be-
fore Committee in Behalf
of Dairy Show.

Madison.-A delegation of Mil
waukee, Waukesha and east Wiscon-
sin men appeared before the senate
committee on state affairs recently in
favor of a bill to appropriate $4,000
to the International Dairy Show as
ISOLATION to be used in paying part of
the premiums to be offered at the
dairy show in Milwaukee on Oct. 10
Is. Those who appeared in favor of
the bill were: Frank A. Cannon,
Milwaukee, Stephen A. Baird, F. Il.
Fox, AMI John E. Ritschart, Wauke-
sha; S. c.. Stanchfe d, End du Lac,
and H. T. Giddings, She1oygan Falls.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
MADER0 PUTS OFF
MEXICO CITY TRIP
Remains i'm Juarez Until De La Barra
Made President-QuibbIe Over
Invitation.

FL Paso, Tex.-Not until Foreign
Minister de la Barra has been
made president ad interim of the
republic of Mexico will Francisco l.
Madero, Jr., provisional president. go
to Mexico City to assist in reorganiz-
ing the government, but will remain in
Juarez
Then he will proceed by way Of San
Antonio and Laredo to the Mexican
capital, accompanied by dis personal
staff, with as little ostentation as pos
sibIe
While Madero and all his people de-
clare that the provisional president
| received direct from the Diaz govern
ment the invitation to come to Mexico
City to assist in the reconstruction,
Judge Carbajal denies any knowledge
Of such an invitation.
Il believe l would know, having
| conducted all the official negotiations,
if Mr.. Madero had received such an
invitation, officially or unoficially,
from my government" said Judge Car
bajal. Il do not believe it is true.
We are, however, in entire accord in
the arrangement of peace and the
terms may be formally signed soon. |
have no orders as to my departure,
but expect peace to be formally
concluded before l leave, and before
Mr.. Madero leaves. The execution of
the program will be in Mexico City,
but its arrangements will be complet-
ed here"
Madero had planned tentatively to
leave for San Antonio on his
way to Mexico City. However he re-
ceived from friends in Mexico a warn
ing that it would be dangerous for
him to go before Diaz is finally out of
power. Madero said he was not
afraid of violence and would start as
soon as it was convenient for him to
do so.
The delay in Judge Carbajal's depart
ure is on account of demand Of the
Maderos for installation of four pro-
Visional governors mediately as an
evidence of good faith. When the
disposition Of the Mexican govern
ment on this issue is received by
Judge Carbajal the peace will be for
mally concluded. If this is not done
by tomorrow the five days armistice
will be extended.
Mexico City-With a five days
armistice declared and Madero pre-
pairing to start for this city to set
tie the terms of peace, three separate
and new revolutions are being TO-
mented, not only against the present
government, but against Madero him
self.
On the southwest Ambrosio Figue-
roa, with close to $4,000 men, is en-
camped at Puenta IXtla, ready and
willing to fight Madero, Diaz or the
proposed provisional president, de la
Barra.
On the east, Governor Dehesa rules
near Vera Cruz with 5000 armed men
who are gathered around the gulf port
of Vera Cruz to prevent the landing of
General Reyes, while Reyes himself
is combining with Felix Diaz, a
nephew of the present president and
the governor of the state of Oaxaca,
to start the most dangerous revolu-
ton of all, because it is Backed by the
entire power Of the Catholic church.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
rat" Houses Are Sold

Ma1ison.-Property transfers in
volving over $275,000 have been
made by twelve fraternities and So
roIities within the last year. Last
September Alphi Chi Delta occupie d
for the first time it's $4,000 house
on Sterling court, Phi Gamma Delta
moved into the old Fox residence on
North Henry stree, and Alpha Tau
Omega secured an option on the old
Zehnter property on State street. A
few months ago Chi Phi Psi sold it's
present home to Sigma Alpha Epsi-
Ion for $4,000 and now plans to
erect a $4,000 house.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
cHURCHMEN MEET ON PIER.
Presbyterian General Assembly Opens
Session at Atlantic City.


Atlantic City, N. ]. - Holding
it's sessions on the steel pier,
as close to the ocean as they can
get in safety and comfort, the Pres
byterian church of the United States
opened its one hundred and twenty
third general assembly here. One
thousand delegates, representing all
parts of the United States, and a
large number of distinguished visit
ors are in attendance
The program Of the ten days ses-
sion has been completed and promises
to be the most notable in many years.
A wide ran~e of subjects will be dis
cussed, including home and foreign
missions, temperance, Christian edu-
cation, immigration, Sabbath observ-
ance, evangelistic, church extension,
church benevolence and ministerial re-
lief work
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
BANK CLERK AND NURSE VANISH
Also $500 of Continental and Com
mercial Nationals Funds MISSING.

Chicago. = John Ellerman, trust
ed employe of the Continental
and Commercial National bank, has
fed from Chicago in the company, it
is said, of Miss Grace Frost, a nurse
at the Garfield Park sanitarium. Ell
herman is alleged to have stolen more
than 1880 from the bank.
An official of the bank announced
that Ellerman was a fugitive. He had
been employed as a clerk in the trust
department for several years, and had
the confidence of the officials of the
institution.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
Names Cohalan For JUDGE.

Albany, n. Y.-Daniel F. Cohalan,
chief adviser to Tammany Chief
Charles F. Murphy, will probably sue
coed James A. O'Gorman upon the
supreme court bench. Governor Dix
sent his nomination to the senate and
it was reported favorably by the com.
mittee on finance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
STOCKYARDS DAMAGED BY FIRE.
Pens Covering Area Flock Square anG
1000 Sheep Are Burned.

Kansas City, Mo.-Fire, which for
an hour endangered the entire Kan.
sas City stockyards and the Live
Stock Exchange building, destroyed
sheep pens covering an area a block
square, burned 1000 sheep and partly
destroyed two mule barns.
The old American Royal Live Stock
pavilion also was in the path of the
flames, but was saved. A new fire
station in the course of construction
in the stockyards district was partly
destroyed.
Sparks from the burning pens set
fire to a school building five blocks
away. The pupils already had been
dismissed. The school building was
saved.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
Phsrisee and sadducee.

In his sermon the minister had fire.
uuently used the words "Pharisee" and
'Sadducee.' After the meeting was
out, young man, walking home with
the girl he was trying to marry, in
Quired:
do you think we are Pharisee and
Sadducee?"
why no: whatever made you think
of such thing?" asked the girl.
We'll, you are very fair-I-see' and
when you don't seem to care for me
that makes me 'sad-you-see.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
Enpineer Meets Death

La Crosse.-Engineer Eugene Car
roll, aged 40, Minneapolis, was killed
and Fireman Elmer Anderson also of
Minneapolis, perhaps fatally injured
when the engine of freight train No.
68 blew up at Frontenac, Mimi, re-
Gently. The boiler was thrown across
the main tracks, necessitating the
use of the Burlington lines from here
to the twin cities.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
Latham Breaks a Record.

London.-Hubert Latham, the
French aviator, broke all English
speed records when he flew in his
aeroplane from Brooklands to Oxford,
a distance of 40 miles, at an average
speed Of IS miles an hour, against a
very stiff wind.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
TO STRENGTHEN SHERMAN LAW
Gore Amendment Provides Jail Sen
fences and Bars "ReascnabIe,U

Washington.-Jail sentences of from
two to ten years for those found
guilty of contracts or combinations
in restraint Of trade are provided
in an amendment to the Sherman
antitrust law proposed by Senator
Gore of Oklahoma. The proposed
amendment also would narrow the
law so as to make it hold that no con-
tract or combination in restraint of
trade Of whatever kind or character"
should be adjudged to be reasonable. 4"
1t was referred to the committee on
interstate commerce.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
EuVs Factory Euuinment-

Green Bay.-The Green Bay Spe-
ciaIty company has purchased the
machinery and stock of the Standard
Overall company and with the equip
ment of the new machinery the out
put of gloves and overalls will be
increased.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
Pre- sident ParIin Leaves.

Wausau.-C. Parlin, principal Of
the Wausau High school for fifteen
years, and president of the Wisconsin
Teachers association, resigned as
principal, to accept business position
at Boston. He expects to assume his
new duties shortly after the close of
the public schools. His family will
move to Boston in the fall.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
500 Brewery Workers Strike

ilwaukee.-About 500 members
of trades unions employed in the
large breweries of this city walked
out when their employers refused to
sign a blanket agreement calling for
increased wages. Last year the same
proposition caused a strike lasting
seven weeks. The brewers claim
the men are asking higher wages
than private contractors are paying.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
lime Shinnoents ar,a

Fond du Lac.-The shipments of
slaked lime to northern Wisconsin
have been heavier than any previous
year, due to the great demand by
northern Wisconsin farmers who will
use the lime for preparing fields for
alfalfa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
westerner for Boston Health q

Westerner for Boston Health Board,
Boston.-After a vain search in the
east for a man qualified for the secre-
taryship of the Boston board of health
the city has decided to give the posi-
ton to western man. 1t has been
offered to DR.. Francis H. Slack of the
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan.
It is thought he will accept.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
ELK Orders Bank Probe

Albany. n. "a sweeping investi-
cation of the state banking depart
ment has been ordered by Governor
Dix The investigation will be in
charge of George c. Van Tuyl. newly
appointed Superintendent Of banks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
VIII Nee ar Graap Pav

Green Bay.-Plans are being made
for the twenty-eighth annual con-
vention OF the Wisconsin department
Of the Women's Relief corps, which
will be held in this city on June
SO. Mrs. Belle c. Harris of EN-
poria. Kas., national president, will
attend.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
French Defeat Morocco Tribes.

Paris,-Advices received at the
ministry of war state that a French
detachment was attacked by Moroccan
tribesmen near Debdou during a fog.
The enemy was repulsed, but two
French officers were killed and twelve
men killed or wounded.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
WESTERN FREIGHT RATES CUT.
Erie Road Reduces Tariff 20 Cents
Per 100 Pounds.

New York.-A cut of approximately
% cents per 100 pounds on west
bound freight between New York
and Chicago was announced by the
Erie Railroad company, to become
effective June Is. A traffic agree
ment opening a river, rail and lake
route is given as the reason for the re-
duction. The reduction came as a sur
prise to the other lines, and it is ru-
mored that they will meet the cut
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
PLEADS GUILTY TO KIDNAPPING.
viii Rogers Admits Stealing Grandson
of Henry L. Waldorf,

Las Vegas, N. M.-Win Rogers
pleaded guilty to the charge Of kid
naping Waldo Rogers, the grand
son of Henry L. Waldorf, general soil
citor of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe railroad. Joe Virgins, an ex-con-
Wet and alleged accomplish of Rogers
in the kidnapping, pleaded not guilty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
Ohio Senator Is Arrainned

Columbus, Ex-senator Crawford of
Carroll county, accused of soliciting a
bride of $500 from W. H. Cook of
Springfield. secretary of the Ohio
Butchers and Grocers' association.
pleaded not guilty when arraigned be.
fore Judge Kinkead.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-05-25
INDIcT ELEVEN IN OHIO PROBE.
Three Legislators Are Caught in
Bribery Net by Jury.

Columbus, o. The names of
three state legislators who have
been indicted by the grand jury which
bribery scandal were made public.
These are Representatives A Clark
Lowry of Lawrence county and Owen
J. Evans of Stark county and State
Senator E. T. Crawford of Carroll
county. Eleven indictments in all were
returned by the grand jury, but since
the other names have not been made
public it is not certain that there are
any legislators among them. The in
dicted men went to the courthouse
here and gave bond.