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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
WORKERS BILL IS
PASSED BY SENATE
COMPENSATION MEASURE AND
AMENDMENTS ADOPTED BY
VOTE OF % TO 8.
EARLY ACTION BY ASSEMBLY
Amendments Attached are Principally
Designed to Meet Objections o
Manufac turers and Farmers to
the Original Bill.

MadlSOn.-The senate, under suS-
pension of the rules, passed the work
mems compensation bill by a vote
| Of p to 3. Twenty amendments,
| principally designed to meet objec-
! tons of manufacturers and farmers
to the original bill, were adopted.
The bill provides for a system OF
compensation for bodily injuries to
workmen, the compensation to be
paid by the employer, who is ex-
pected to reimburse himself by add
ing it to the cost OF his products, as
he would the loss by wear and tear
on his machinery or other expenses
incident to the manufacture of his
goods.
The compensation ranges from 65
per cent of the average wages of an
employe for temporary partial dis
ability to four times the average
annual wages for permanent total dis
ability or death. Every employer has
the option of coming under the act.
The employe also has such option,
but he can not exercise it unless his
employer has come under the act
If an employer does not come IN
der the act, an injured employe re-
tains his right of action for damages
under the statutes and common law
as at present. If the employee de-
clines to come under the act and his
employer is under it, the latter re-
tains his defenses in actions for dam
ages as at present.
The most important of the amend
ments were those restoring to the
employer the present defenses of as
sumption of risk, contributory negli-
gence and fellow servant negligence
in case the employe does not elect
to come under the act providing that
a claim for compensation shall have
precedence over all other claims, ex-
cept the lien Of any judgment entered
upon an award, providing that an
employer of less than three persons
shall not be affected by the act, and
that persons employed by a contract
or of a county, city or village school
district or the state shall not be
considered an empIoye of such state
or municipal subdivision.
The twentieth amendment was Of
fered by Senator Sanborn, providing
that the act shall not go into effect
until Sept. 1, instead of July l of
this year
The bill will come up for consid-
GRAFTON in the assembly within a few
days.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
MExiCANS FIGHT
TWO DAY BATTLE
Rebels Retreat After important Con.
test in Sonora-Captur Of
Town Denied.

FL Paso, Tex After two days
Of fierce fighting between federals
and rebels near the towns of
Ures and San Rafael, in the state of
Sonora, the most important battle of
the Mexican instruction was brought
to an end, when the rebels retreated.
Although the insurrectos outnum-
bered the federal forces, their am
munition became exhausted, while the
federals were able to obtain rein
forcements and ammunition from Her
mosillo, and the insurrectos were COM
PEELED to abandon the fight
Although the loss On both sides was
heavy, reports of the killed and
wounded have been greatly exagger-
ated, and it is now known that not
more than 100 were killed on both
sides.
The report that the federals had
gained decisive victory in the first
days fighting. which was issued by
the Mexican authorities, has been de.
MED by mail advices from Hermosil
10. The federal wounded have been
brought to Hermosillo.
The movements of the insurrecto
force after the battle are unknown
A rumor that they had captured the
town of San Benito has been denied
by Governor Cubillas, who says there
was no fighting In the town of Ures,
although the engagement took place
near there.
The report that HermosiIIo is
threatened by an insurrecto force also
is unconfrmed
Persistent rumors are still current
that Juarez will be attacked soon, al
though there is little to substantiate
them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
Record of Dissipation.

In her statement to District Judge
Riddle Of New York, just before he
granted her a divorce, Mrs. Matte F.
Work said: 4 married David E. Work
on January /, 1891, and during the en-
sire period of our married life, up to
she time We separated six months
ago. he was intoxicated two or three
times a week" According to the wife
Work accumulated 2,033 Tags" dur
6ng the 10 years 6 months and II days
of their married life at two Tags" a
week. Computing on the basis of a
quart of whisky to each intoxication
Work consumed sos gallons, or 1117
barrels Of whisky, costing him s3,O4S
at $3.50 a quart If Work was intox-
1cated three times week he should
be credited with 1850 "jags" and the
consumption of 1923 gallons of
whisky, costing $4,575.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
HOARD RESIGNS AS REGENT
Political Partisanship in University
Management Given as Reason for
Withdrawal by Ex-Governor.

Madison.-EX-Gov. w. D. Hoard
has sent to Gov. McGovern his resig-
nation as a member of the board of
regents of the state university. Be-
fore going south early in the winter
Mr.. Hoard resigned as president of
the board. A little later Regent
Magnus Swenson, who succeeded him
as president, resigned from the board,
and it was said at the time that Gov.
Hoard would soon do likewise. It
has been well understood here that
both men were not in sympathy with
what looked to them as a policy to
conduct the university on political
lines. That this view was true is
borne out by the letter of resignation
Of Gov. Hoard, which is as follows:
eft. Atkinson. Wis, March 20.
Hon. Francis E. McGovern,
Governor, Madison, Wis Sir: I
hereby tender my resignation from
the board of university regents to
take effect at once. Failing health
and an unwilIingness to longer re-
main as a member Of a body that has
lately been reconstructed upon the
basis and for the main purpose of
political partisanship for the La Fol-
lette faction in politics are my chief
reasons for resigning.
Il do not believe that a great state
school Ike our university can be wise
~, honestly or efficiently administer
ed from so narrow a standpoint Re-
specially yours, w. D. HOARD"
Both Gov. McGovern and Presi-
dent Van Hise of the board of re-
gents have given out statements de-
nying with great emphasis that there
IS any political partisanship in the
board, as charged by Ex-Gov Hoard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
MAY SELL WINE TO MINORS
kenosha Judge Rules That Druggists
Are Under Less Restriction
Than Saloonkeepers.

Kenosha.-In the circuit court
Judge E. B. Belden has handed down
a decision in regard to the sale of
liquor by druggists, which holds that
druggists are not liable to prosecu-
ton for selling liquor to minors on
the same basis as saloon men. Ac-
ton was taken in the case of the
State VS.. William E. Pomeroy, who
had been arrested charged with sell
ing a bottle of wine to a schoolboy.
The court held that druggist sold
liquor under special permit and that
as the liquor was sold not to be drunk
on the premises, it was impossible to
hold him under the same law as a
saloon man would be held for selling
to minors.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
WAGE BILL HITS EMPLOYERS
Measure Providing Minimum Com
pensation in All industries Begin
mig 10 Attract Due Attention.

| Madison.-The Stern minimum
wage bill, which has almost been lost
sight of in the rush of other big meas
ures, is one of the most important
that has been introduced in the legis-
| lature. 1t is more far reaching than
any bill that has been or will be
passed, yet it has been left almost
unnoticed.
The bill contemplates the fixing of
minimum rate of wages for every
employe in the state and, after such
wage has been fixed, any employer
will have to pay at least that wage or
be convicted of a misdemeanor and
be subject to a fine of from $40 to
$50 for each violation, or be Sent
to jail from ten days to three months.
The term living wage" the bill
says, shall mean such compensation
for labor performed under reasonable
conditions as shall enable employees
to secure for themselves and those
who are or may be reasonably de-
pendent on them, the necessary COM
forts of life
1t is further provided that every
employer shall pay ''to every en-
ploye in each oppressive employment
at least a living wage"
Oppressive employment" is de-
fined to mean an occupation where
employees are unable to earn d living
wage
1t is made the duty of the labor
commissioner and he is given the
power to fix the minimum wage in
each employment. He can investi-
gate and hold hearings to determine
the classification of different en-
pigments. No employer can employ
labor in any Oppressive employ
ment' until he has first secured a
license from the labor commissioner.
This license is to be revoked by the
labor commissioner in case he finds
that less than living wages are being
paid by any employer or if such en-
ployer fails to keep a proper register
or refuses to permit its inspection.
Even if the employer should es-
cape the labor commissioner he is
still liable to the heirs of any en-
ploye.
When employers throughout the
state wake up to the really far reach
ing effects of the bill it is probable
there will be considerable opposition
to it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
MURDERS SUSPECTED WIFE
Shooting Follows Quarrel Over Ac-
cusation of PIover Farmer That
He Was Being Poisoned.

Stevens Point. believing that she
had given him poison, August Krue-
ger, a farmer, shot and killed his
wife in their home near Plover.
Kruger is now in jail
Kruger was taken violently i'll
after eating breakfast. He went
to this city and was treated. Declar-
ing that his wife had attempted to
poison him, he returned to his home
and upbraided her. She called to
stepson who was in the barn but be-
fore he appeared Kruger killed the
woman, firing the contents of DON
BILE barreled shotgun into her breast
Kruger was the dead woman's
fourth husband. Two of her pre-
vious husbands met tragic deaths in
Kentucky.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
MAY SOLVE STUMP PROBLEM
500 Railroad viii Build Giant Fuller
and Seek Prize Offered by Wiscon-
SIN Advancement Association.

Superior.-The 500 railroad has
entered the contest of the Wisconsin
Advancement association for the ST.
600 prize for the most practicable de-
vice for pulling the large pine stumps
with which the soil of the northern
part of the state is dotted There is
also method in its entry, for the de-
vice will be used to clear up many
sections along its own right of way.
The railroad has set aside fund
of s25, 200 to be used in developing
a powerful puller, mounted upon
skids or traction wheels. 1t is sup
posed that the apparatus will follow
the lines of power skidder such as
is used in the lumber camps,
In lower Michigan, where the same
conditions prevail over certain sec
lions, coterie of men joined cap
ltal and purchased an old wrecking
crane from one of the railroads, and
mounted it upon traction wheels
Moving under it's own power, and
with the strength to lift a loaded
boxcar, it was able to travel the
length of field, clearing the stumDs
for a distance of fifty or more feet
to either side, and furthermore,
stacking them in windrows for fences,
Tor transportation to the turpentine
mills, or for burning. In a major
lty of cases they were used for
fences. The company cleared land
for SO an acre and made money.
There is no question that the eff
forts of the Advancement association
for betterment of agricultural con-
ditions will, within a few years, con-
vert the stumpy maze of northern
wisconsin into one of the garden
CnntC Of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
SEEKS TO WARN GOV. HARMON
Armed Man Acting Strangely Is An
rested at Ohio Statehouse.

Columbus, O.-Declaring that be
came to Columbus from his home
in Ostrander, o., to warn Gov,
ernor Harmon of some terrible calmity
about to befall him, the nature of
which he refused to divulge, a man
about twenty-five years of age, giving
the name of Guy Rittenhouse, was
sent to the county prison pending ex-
animation as to his sanity A loaded
revolver was found in his possession
According to state house attaches,
Rittenhouse came into the building
and paced up and down the corridor,
refusing to give any indication of his
business
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
Sues Catholic Sisters.

Racine.-The Sisters of st. Domi-
ME in charge of the Holy Rosary acad-
envy, a private school for Catholic
girls, at Corliss, are made defendants
in a $4,000 damage suit filed here
by John Funk, who lost hand there
while operating a gasoline engine in
1908 and claims the accident was
due to improper guarding OF the gear
wheel
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
Those Contemptuous Clerks.

DO you suppose there are any peer
esses left in England" inquired the
plainly dressed woman with her arms
full of bundles.
why, suppose so. madam" re
piled the foorwaIker in that soothing
tone one uses toward mild lunatics.
We'll" the indignant, Inundated
little woman whose means limited her
10 the cheaper grades of everything
said, Z didn't know but what they
were all over here working in this
store Pick
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
Railroads Gain a Victory.

Madison.-The assembly commit
tee on transportation has recommend
ed for indefinite postponement the
Nye bill holding railroads RESPONSE
Bile for fires caused by sparks from
locomotives, and the Gilboy bill pro-
viding for electric bells at all railway
crossings in the state. The Gilbert
son bill authorizing railroads to grant
rates to settlers within the state is
recommended for passage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
Custom House Humor.

Two Germans who were crossing
the Luxembourg frontier declared to
the customs officials: I'VE have with
us three bottles of red wine each.
How much is there to pay?" Where
is it," was asked. Well, inside us"
The official grayely looked at his
tariff book and read: Wine in casks,
20 shillings In bottles, As shillings.
Il donkeys hides. free. Gentlemen"
he added, looking up. you can go!"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
"WHITE MANS HOPE" WINNER.
Carl Morris Knocks Out Mike Shreck
at SapuIpa, Okla.

Sapulpa, Okla.-Before one of the
largest crowds, probably 10000 people,
ever gathered to see boxing contest,
Carl Morris of Sapulpa, Okla, knocked
out Mike Schreck Of Cincinnati Ohio,
in the sixth round after giving Schreck
one of the hardest beatings he ever
received in a six-round battle
A straight right to the mouth
turned the trick, and Mike went down
before the pride of Oklahoma as his
sixth victim Of the padded circle.
Schreck gave Morris his hardest
fight, and is the first man to draw
blood from the face of the only
White Hope" When Mike landed a
clean right to the nose, the taste of
blood seemed to madden Morris, and
he fought with renewed fury and
knocked Schreck through the ropes
out into the crowd.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
BIG COMBINE TO FIGHT TRUST.
Deeres Merge q Companies and WIZ
Enter Harvester Field.

Moline, Ill.-Organization of all
Deere industrial concerns and branch
houses to the number of % In
all parts of the United States
under one charter with an authorized
capital of $4,000, 900 will be effected
next month, according to information
given out by President William But,
terworth. Employees of the firm Of
Deere e Co. and of the branch house7
IN the different states will be given
an option to acquire stock.
In the commercial world the Deerl
consolidation is likely to act as slim
ulant. In the farm implement manu-.
featuring world there will arise
competition more keen, more invig
Grating and more healthy to all con,
cerned than anything similar in tho
past.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
Some WAYS Of HImaIsyan People

Some Ways of Himaiayan People,
Robert Dulwich, who has travelled
extensively in the lesser known re-
gions of the Himalaya, gives an inter
esting account of a native sect known
as the Tharys who have some curious
practices. The sect are worshipers OF
the goddess Kali. They believe either
in self destruction or in the sacrifice
of one of their fingers to appease the
deity.
Thus 1t comes about that when the
eldest member of a family is married
the unhappy mother is expected to
cut off the first two joints of the last
two fingers of her hand. Princesses
and other smart people in this re-
markable sect are allowed to offer a
substitute OF finger joints, modelled in
gold.-Eastern World.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
SHrnlN Nnteran Musician.

William Kuhe, who introduced Patti,
Trebelli and Christine Nilsson to the
concert platform in England, is eighty
seven years old, an age which, he
thinks, entities him to be known as
the oldest musician in the world. He
was born in Prague in 1923, the son of
German parents. He is a pianist and
has given concerts in association with
some of the worlds most famous ar,
lists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
FORCE NEGROES LEAVE TOWN
Peace Restored at Muddy, Ill.,, After
Murder of White Man.

Harrisburg, H. - AS a result of
the murder of William Devine
while at Muddy last Sunday by a ne
gro, Alexander Dixon, the whites at
that mining hamlet have driven all ne
groes away. The negro poolroom
where the killing occurred has been
burned and a race riot was feared.
But the removal of the negroes has re-
stored order.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
M'cREA DENIES COAL COMBINE.
Pennsylvania Road Not Interested II
Cnr4naI 80 o,,4.. Ii g.

Pennsylvania Road Not Interested In
Control of Output, He Says.
New York-OfficiaIs of the Penn
sylvania railroad here made public the
following statement from President
McCrea of the company:
MIR. McCrea authorized the state
ment that reports telegraphed from
Washington and published in newspa-
pers concerning the existence of a
combination to control the output of
anthracite and bitummous coal in
Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio,
alleged to be headed by the Penasyl-
yania Railroad company or interests
allied with 1t, are absolutely without
foundation"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
SANTA Fee DISCHARGES 81 MEN.
Federal Grand Jury to Look Into
Their Collection of Fares

Kansas City, Mo.-Stxty-two con-
ductors, brakemen and porters,
many of them long in the service.
have just been discharged from the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad.
The federal grand jury, which con
venes in April, will be asked to inves-
tigate the collection of fares by some
Of these men. The discharged men
worked on runs from Chicago to the
Pacific coast and intermediate points.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
teachers Convention Set

Neenah.-E NJ. Beeman, president
of the Northeastern Teachers asso-
citation of Wisconsin, has announced
that the next meeting will be held at
Oshkosh on February SO, 1912.
Booker T. Washington will be one of
the speakers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
Jail Was L ong Empty,

When Robert Timm,
who refused to pay attorneys fees
and costs in a divorce suit was taken
to the Winnebago county Jail he
broke what promised to be a record
for the county institution, for he was
the first prisoner to be confined in
the bastile for three months.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
pnarN Z Bear Animal

MISUNDERSTANDING Robert E
PeaTy was Wednesday commissioned
civil engineer with the rank of rear
admiral in accordance with the act
of congress passed at the last session.
The appointment Is 70 date from April
s. 1909. the day he reached the north
pole
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
Fol oWs Friend in Suicide.

Viroqua. -Brooding over the sui
eide of an acquaintance a year ago,
Gerry Davis of Purdy left note
saying that he had left and would
not return. A search disclosed his
body dangling at the end of a rope
in a patch of woods.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
POET AND WIFE REcoNctLEp,
Illness of Joaquin Miller Causes Re.
union After Ten Years.

San Francisco. - Joaquin Miller,
the poet of the Sierras, who early
in the month was given up by
doctors, is now almost fully recov-
cred. He has returned to his home
on the Heights, overlooking San Fran
cisco bay, where he has done some
of his best work. He took with him
his wife, from whom he had been
separated for ten years, and hence
forth she will make her home with
him, as well as his daughter Juanita.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
MONSTER WAR SHIP LAUNCHED
Former American Woman christens
New British Super-Dreadnouuht

New British Super-Dreadnought.
London. - An American woman
Mrs. Lewis Harcourt, wife of the
colonial secretary, who before her
marriage was Miss Mary Ethel Burns,
christened the super-Dreadnought Mon
arch, which was successfully launched
at Elswick. The Monarch is the larg-
est battleship ever built In the Tyne
She is Of the same type and arma-
ment as the Thunderer, which was
launched on February /. Her dis
placement is 22,500 tons and turbines
of a total of 27,000-horse power are
expected to make possible a speed of
Fl knots an hour. She is armed with
ten 13.5-inch guns and "a four-inch
guns.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
A Reproof.

Charley, DEAR said young Mrs.
sTorkins, did you say that man you
dislike was elected on Joint ballot"
That's what l said.
We'll. much as you may dislike our
legislature, | think you go to an un-
pardonable extreme in calling it a
Joint"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
ITALY coNeRATULATEDBY TAFT
Cables Fluctuations on Opening of
Exposition at Rome.


Washington.-An exchange of tele-
grams between President Taft and
King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, on
the occasion of the opening of the ex-
position at Rome, was made public at
the White House
In his telegram to the king the
president rendered his sincere con-
gratulations on the commemoration
of the fiftieth anniversary of Italian
unity and his best wishes for the well
fare of the king and the prosperity
of the people of Italy
King Victor in reply said the presf-
dents fluctuations will be particular
ly gratifying to the Italian people "as
being the expression of the cordial
sentiments which unite our two ma
TONS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
Dead Miner Is Nnhle's Kin

Mineral Point.-Charles Salisbury,
whose body was found at the bottom
of 200-foot shaft in mine in Haz-
elgreen several weeks ago, has been
identified as a nephew of Lord Sails
bury, the former English premier,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-06
Prominent Mason Dead

Urbana, nl.-The funeral of Edward
Blackshaw, a prominent Mason. was
held here Wednesday. Mr.. Blackshaw
caused the first step to unite the
Grand Council with the Grand Chapter
of Royal Arch Masons, where It re-
NAMED until 1882.