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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
Both Cold and Distant

Have you any distant relatives?'
! should say so! Ny Uncle Tobias
wouldn't live in the same town with
me-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05

AlgernOn-Aw-y know, Adelaide,
there's no use in our disputing any
noah, but TIl-aw-bet the kisses
he, he-that I'm right.
Adelaide-AIl right, but I shall claim
the privilege of choosing the stake
holder.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
A cLERGYMANs TESTIMONY,

The Rev Edmund HesIop of Wig
ton, Pa, suffered from Dropsy for a
year. His limbs and feet were swol-
len and pulled. He had heart flutter-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
The Electric Coupe,

There is something refined and ele-
giant about an electric coupe"
yes. l dare say it is the most arts
tocratiC vehicle we have and it will
probably always be highly respect
able"
why do you think so?"
Because It's limitations are such
that it will never be a popular vehicle
for an early morning joy ride"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
What to Lake.

The sky is blue and cIoudIess, too,
The sun is bright and yellow.
But take no chances; take instead
Your tried and true umbrella.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
Creditors.

"Bliggins says he owes everything
TO his wife"
That isn't true" replied Bliggins'
father-in-law His wife quit lending
him anything years ago and then he
started in owing Washington
Star.
AS a general thing the kind Of man
who wears a watch on his wrist
doesn't need all his pockets to carry
his money in.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05

To ease another's headache is to for
get ones oWn.-Abe LncOlr
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
Finnicky.

Some motorists kick
At the gasoIene OdOr,
They'd like it to smell
Like an ice cream soda.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05

She (romantically)-Oh! for the
wings of a dove!
He practically breast of a
turkey for mine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
! Bolt / :

If you have Rheumatism, Piles
or Backache write to M. r. Zaegel
& Co., 913 Main ST., Sheboygan,
Wis, for a free bottle EMO by
return mail. At drug stores, IS cts.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-21
President is Delayed
by Fog in New York

NEW YORK, March 3o.-President Taft
found himself visitor to New York
when he awoke this morning. He had
expected to be In Washington, but In
stead found himself marooned In New
York for q few hours on account Of fog.
The president was a passenger last
night on the Boston and Washington
express. which is ferried around the
city on a car float. Because OF a heavy
fog the railroad officials would not VEN
ture to send the presidents car by the
river route. The train was switched into
the grand central yards. where the presi-
dents car. the Colonial. was run on a
siding. Before retiring tho president had
left instructions not 20 Be disturbed.
Police guarded the car during the night
This morning he ate breakfast m his
car and later made a call at the home
Of his brother, Henry W. Taft. and then
went TO the Pennsylvania station where
he took the i0os O'Clock instead OF the
1915 o'clock train for Washington.
WASHINGTON, March sD-when Pres;
ident Taft arrived from New York today
he was informed that a rumor had
reached Washington that Mrs. Taft. -
tending a vomans Industrial exhibition
in New York. had fallen and injured her
self Mr.. Taft was informed later that
Mrs. Taft stepped on her dress at the
exhibition and fell, but was not injured
in any way.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-21
LA TOILETTE TAKES DAKOTA
Wisconsin Senator Leads Roosevelt
About -Four to Three.
MAJORITY MAY REACH $4,000
Thomas Marshall, In Toilette Cam
dtdatc for National Committee
man, Has Majority Equal
TO That OF Hi. Chief.

FARGO. n. D., March eo.-with partial
returns received during last night. sena-
tor Ia Toilette Of Wisconsin evidently
has a lead OF more than 1900 votes over
Theodore Roosevelt In the first prcsiden-
tial preferential primary election yes
terday.
At an early hour this morning $50 pre-
clnets out OF l.soe give La Toilette z1.6sI
and Roosevelt ib.tti. This ratio. II MAIN
talned by the reports from others pre-
einets will bring La Foliette's majority
over Roosevelt up to approximately
l2Soa
La Follettes strength was greater In
the eastern part Of the state, although
Roosevelt did not develop 80 much
strength In the west as had been auto.
ipated. Roosevelt carried but one Of the
! eastern tier OF counties.
Thomas Marshall the La Toilette can
dldate for national committeeman. has \
majority which II is believed wilI equal
that Of la Toilette. The la Toilette
presidential electors all have been cleo
ted with majorities ranging about the
same as the head Of the ticket.
The total vote in the state Is believed
to be about tsooo. Il was cut down very
materially IN the western part on ac-
count OF a storm
President Taft's vote throughout the
state was neglible.
Bryan is Pleased.
LINCOLN, March 0.-The North pa !.
kota primary result was highly gratify-
ing to w. J. Bryan. MIR. Bryan said to.
day.
Il was up there the other day and from
what heard | expected La Toilette 10
carry the state. l need hardly add that
/ think he deserved the endorsement
He is the pioneer progressive OF the re-
publican party
Mr. Bryan also admitted that 1t was
true that he had advocated the endorse
ment Of La Toilette in addresses delivered
in North Dakota.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-21
THIRTEEN BOMBS FOR KNOX
Explosives Are Found Under Rail.
road in Nicaragua.
RESULT OF LIBERAL PLOT
Report from siuefIeid. says Man,
her of Prominent Politicians
WIN he Put 20
Death.

NEW ORLEANS. March @.-As the re
suit OF the alleged discovery by the gov.
ernment Of Nicaragua Of plot to assasxi.
nate Secretary Knox during his recent
visit there II Is not improbable a number
OF prominent liberals win be put n
death. according TO advices received here
today from Bluefields.
Thirteen dynamite bombs placed be.
meath the roadbed over which Secretary
knox's special train Travelled from Co.
rinto TO Managua and connected with an
electric battery were discovered by gov.
ernment agents and will be used as eyl.
dence against the consplrators.
On the day Of Mr.. Knox's arrival at
Managua a bomb Was exploded under the
ShIlamate bridge between Leon and La
Ceiba. but doing little damage.
The thirteen bombs were not discov-
cred until after the Knox train had
passed on It's way to the capital.
Twenty Zeiayistas or liberals are in
the Managua penltentiary held incom-
municado pending the investigation.
III Daro de Nicaragua. a Managua daily.
published an article on the day OF Mr..
Knox's arrival at the capital with the
suggestive heading:
Dynamite for Knox"
The issue OF the paper was suppressed
and the editors and publishers were
thrown into prison.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-21
Nine Persons Killed
by Explosion Of Gas
at Scranton, Pa.

SCRANTON. Pa. March 0-In a gas
explosion.caused. II is thought. BY mine
settings, nine persons were killed and
two injured today In Dunmore. near
here. Two families. comprising two
women and seven children. were either
blown TO pieces in the explosion OF
burned In the fire that followed and
destroyed three houses. The dead are:
MRS. JOHN cAvELLA and her five
children. Rose. aged years. Dominick.
aged 5 years; Lucy. aged II years; Bes-
se. aged "a: William. aged 20 years.
MRS. VITO sUMMA. Mrs. Cavella's
daughter. and her two children. Mary.
aged years. and Frank. aged years.
The body Of Mary Summa was found In
the limbs Of tree fIfty feet from the
scene OF the explosion a half hour after
the accident.
More than twenty dwellings near the
scene Of the explosion were badly dam
aged by the concussion and the flying
timbers and scores Of persons were
thrown out Of their beds and bruised.
During the last week mine settings
in the neighhorhood Of the Cavella
home have caused alarm Only a few
days ago the cellar dropped out Of a
house on the opposite side OF the street
and several miners climbed 10 the sur.
face on ladders let down by the women
OF the house.
Dunmore police say that gas froE a
broken main cansed probably by the
mine settings found its way into the
cellar Of the Cavella home where IL
gathered in a dense volume and exploded
when It came In contact with an oil
lamp that was burning in the house.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-21
Methodists Discuss
Dancing and Cards

KANSAS CITY. March 9.-Card play
ing, dancing and theater going are among
the topics scheduled for discussion by the
forty-fourth annual meeting Of the 81.
Louis conference Of the Methodist Epis-
copaI church. which began here today.
Drop 1t or enforce ~ Is the slogan of
many ministers regarding The rule In the
Methodist discipline against these diver
sions. All the Methodist churches Of
southern Missouri are represented at the
meeting Bishop william A. Quayle Of
Oklahoma Is presiding.
While the Missouri conference lie in ses-
sion the fifty-seventh annual meeting Of
the Kansas conference Of the Methodist
church IL to be held In Kansas City. Kan.
with the possibility that a union OF north
ern and southern Kansas churches. d.
yided anoe the civil war days. may be
consummated
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-21
EXPRESS SAFE IS DYNAMITED
Train on Mobile & Ohio Road is
Robbed Near Corinth, Miss.
SIXTY THOUSAND IN THE SAFE
Statement that This sum Was
Taken Cannot BE Confirmed
BIoodhounds Are On the
Trail of Robbers.

CoRINTH. Miss. March 2o-Sherifi
McPeters OF Alcorn county started today
at the head of posse in pursuit OF tho
robbers who last night held up north
bound Mobile & Ohio train No. 4, dyna-
mited the safe in the express car and es'
capped with booty. the amount OF which
| has not been determined.
The robbery took place seven miles
south of corinth in the Tuscumbia river
bottom, an ideal place for a holdup, as
that section is heavily wooded.
II is believed the robbers were the same
ones who recently held up Rock Island
train west Of Memphis.
ST. LOUIS, March so.-More than two
hours behind its schedule the Mobile a
Ohio passenger train No. 4. which was
held up and robbed near corinth. Miss
arrived here today. The express mes
senger, william snoddy. told further de-
tails Of the robbery. He would not say
how much money the bandits obtained.
Passengers quoted Snoddy as saying so,-
600 was In the safe.
Il had no idea the train was being
robbed when II stopped" he said. The
first l knew anything. was wrong was
whep | heard something crash against
the door OF my car.
'.Then the door gave way and the first
thing l knew a man had jumped In He
threw a revolver up and ordered me 70
put up my hands. He ordered me q
keep still and then another man came in
Il was ordered then TO leave the car
Outside one man guarded me. Another
was busy In the car for several minutes.
Then he, too, came out minute later
and then came the explosion and the safe
was forced open.
Il have been instructed by the COM
pany not to discuss the matter.
Passengers Hide yaIunbios.
]. j. Howell. his wife and their daugh.
ter OF Avon. ILL.,. were passengers on the
train. Howell told how the passengers
hid their money and vaiuables when the
conductor rushed through the coaches
informing the people the train was being
held up.
Women put jewels In their stockings and
hid them In their hair. he said. while
the men slipped their purses under seats
and into every available niche.
The safe in the express car was wrecked
beyond repair. the whole front being
torn away. Officials believe nitro
glycerin was used for the blast. Win
dows in the car were shattered and ex-
press upackages broken open by the
force OF the explosion.
Members of the train crew with the
exception of snoddy, left the train at
Jackson. Tenn.
Attempt to Steal Bullion.
SAN BERNARDINo, Cal, March co.
An attempt to loot the safe Of the Gen.
tral Lode Mining company in the Slate
mountain district Of se0.0o0 in bullion.
which resulted in revolver battle in
which three men were wounded, was re
ported here today.
H. Langley and Bert Lane, posing as
teamsters. obtained employment with the
mining company. They were said to have
tried to loot the safe. but were frustrated
by Henry Preston. q watchman. Lang
ley and Lane are reported az seriously
wounded. while Preston was shot through
the shoulder.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-21
Suffragette Who
Tried to Burn Post
Office is Sentenced

LONDON. March 1.-Ellen Pitfield.
the suffragette who attempted TO set
fire to the general postoffice In London
on the evening OF March 3 by throwing
a bundle of paper saturated with petro-
lenm into the building. was sentenced
today at the Old Bailey sessions to six
months imprisonment in the second di-
vision. This means that she will be ac-
corded many privileges not granted to
ordinary prisoners. The judge explained
that her. sentence would have been more
severe except for her IN health.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-21
Hadley Orders Name
Taken Off Ballot

JEFFERSON CITY. NO. March ut
am not now and will not be candidate
for vice president" said Governor H s.
Hadley today when he heard that his
name had been PRESENTED for filing as a
candidate for vice president
He dictated a letter to the secretary Of
state OF Nebrsska requesting him to re-
fuse the petition and not place his name
on the official primary ballot
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-21
HOUSE INVESTIGATES
REPORT ABOUT KNOX

WASHINGTON, March a.-The house
committee on State department expendi-
lures is investigating statements that
Secretary Of state Knox uses as a pri-
yate servant Archibald s. Pnkert. ne
gro carried on the State department pay
rolls. and that Pinkert is accompanying
Mr.. Knox as valet on the present Central
American tour. Pinkert is said to have
been employed by Mr.. Enox when the
latter was in the United States senate.
The committee also inquired into the
matter Of defraying the expenses Of the
secretary's Central American trip.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-21
ALLEGED NEBRASKAN KILLS
MAN At CAIRO, ILLINOIS

CAIRO. H.. March l9.-Phlip W Har-
Ian. who registered at a hotel here as
being from Beasley. Neb.. killing s. F..
George. proprietor Of the hotel. last night.
BY cutting his throat Harlan is % years
old. Although Harlan registered from
Beasley. there is no such town In Ne
brazk&
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-21
Mysterious Murder
at Pittsburg, Kan.

PITTsBURG. Kan. March 2o-Enoch
sommers, young man recently married.
died under mysterious circumstances at
his home here ana coroner's jury today
decided that his death was caused by
poison administered by an unknown per-
son.
sOmmer's body was found In his bed
and 1t is believed the poison was ad-
nlinlstered while he slept
The police are trying to locate Mrs
Sommers to get her evidence In regard to
the case.
sommerz. who was 3 years old, married
Clara Anthony, school teacher here.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-21
Mrs. Taft Gets Fall
By Stepping Oh Dress;
No Injury is Caused

NEW YORK. March 20-Mrs. Taft,
wife OF President Taft. stumbled as she
was aliehtlng from a wheeled chair at
the woman's Industrial exhibit In the
Grand Central palace this afternoon and
fell to the floor. she was not injured.
The report that Mrs. Taft had been
badly hurt spread rapidly. President Taft
called on the long distance telephone
when he arrived in Washington and was
informed that Mrs. Taft merely had
stepped on her dress and had fallen.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-21
Long sentence for Taxi Robber.

NEW YORK, March i0.-Geno Montani.
the chauffeur who drove the taxicab in
which two bank messengers were beaten
and robbed Of s2o.ooo in cash, and who
was recently found guilty Of highway
robbery, was sentenced today to from ten
years to eighteen years and two months
IN states prison.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-21
ROOSEVELT NAMES HIS ISSUE
In Speech at Carnegie Hall Declares
People Fit to Rule.
ANSWERS TAFTs ARGUMENTS
Asserts He 10 Not Leading Fight as
Matter of Pleasure, bat He
cause Otherwise it Would
Not he Made.

NEW YORK, March 3o-s'The great
fundamental issue now before the repub-
Iican party and before our people can be
stated briefly. II is. Are the American
people fit to govern themselves, to rule
themselves, to control themselves? be-
lisve they are. My opponents do not
With these words Theodore Roosevelt
tonight opened the first speech he has
delivered since the public announcement
OF his willingness TO accept the repub-
lican nomination for president. His sub
ject was The Right Of the People to
Rule" The speech. deiivered at Car
negie hall. under the auspiees Of the
Civic ceForaaL elaborated iiluc4 that Colo
mel Roosevelt said In his Columbus (o)
address and answered In dctaii certain
arguments OF President Taft in reply. Il
stand on the Columbus speech said
Colonel Roosevelt. the principles there
asserted are not new. but believe that
they are necessary to the maintenance Of
free democratic government"
Explains Meaning.
After his opening declaration Colonel
Roosevelt continued:
80 that no man may misunderstood
me. let me recapitulate.
Il. am not proposing anything In con-
nection with the supreme court of the
United States, or with the federal consti-
tuition.
%. am not proposing anything having
any connection with ordinary suits. civil
Of criminal. az between individuals.
-. l am not speaking Of the recall Of
judges.
"a. / am proposing merely that In a
certain class Of cases involving the police
power, where q state court has set aside
as unconstitutional law passed bys
Legislature for the general welfare. the
question of the validity Of the law
which should depend. as Justice Holmes
so well phrases II. upon the prevailing
morality or prcponderant opinlon-be sub
mitted for final determination to a vote
Of the people, taken after due time for
consideration"
Why He a. I'm Fight.
Colonel Roosevelt quoted the remarks Of
William Draper Lewis. dean Of the law
school Of the University OF Pennsylvania.
who approved Mr.. Roosevelts plan OF q
popular recall Of judicial decisions re-
garding constitutional amendments, but
declared 1t unfortunate that the plan
should have been proposed by q man OF
such marked charaeteristics'' as Colonel
Roosevelt. whose personality. he said.
might cloud the issue. To this Colonel
Roosevelt replied:
Il can only say that wish somebody
else whose suggestions would arouse less
antagonisin had proposed 1t; but nobody
else did propose II. and 20 ! had TO.
am not leading this fight as q matter Of
aesthetic pleasure. ! am leading because
somebody must lead, or else the light
would not be made at all.
Il prefer ID work with moderate. with
rational. conservatives. provided only that
they do In good faith strive forward
towards the light But when they halt
and turn their backs 10 the light and sit
with the scorners on the seats OF re-
action. then must part company with
them. We, the people. cannot turn back
Our aim must be steady, wise progress"
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-21
Taft's Talk with
Mitchell Put Off

WASHINGTON. March 2o.-The confer
ence between President Taft and John
Mitchell, regarding the threatened coal
strike. has been postponed indefinitely.
according to an announcement at the
White House today. No reason was given.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-21

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Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-21
The Weather

snow: colder ID east portion; high north
lerly winds
' FOR IOwlA-Snow. probably heavy
colder; high northeasteriy winds.
! renu~rnfure mt Omaha Yesterday.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-21
The House.

Met at noon.
State department committee began in
Considered bills on regular Wednesday
calendar
A minority of Interstate Commerce COM
mittee filed a report against the Panama
government bill. contendlng assessment OF
railroads.
Civil service and consular reform repre-
sentatives advocated before foreign af-
fairs committee the Sulzer bill providing
against political affiliations In consular
service.
Chairman Padgett, by order Of naval
committee, circulated petition among
democrats for caucus to reconsider former
caucus declaration against battleships
appropriation this year.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-21
Miscellaneous.

Senator Hepburn Of Idaho has returned
from Atlantic City. where he went a
fortnight ago suffering with lesion over
his left eye. He Is practically well.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-21
BRIGGS BULLET KILLS GRAY
Mass Meeting at Springfield Makes
Statement About Blunt Killing.
EYE WITNESSES ARE QUOTED
Postmortem at Lincoln Establishes
This to Be True.
Posse of Farmers Passed Close TO
Wagon and Did Not shoot BE-
csuse Blunt Asked
Them Not To.

Sentiment among the people OF spring
field and vicinity that the life OF Roy
Blunt might have been saved had the
officers been less precipitate in their pur-
suit Of the murderers OF Warden Della
hunty. is growing. A mass meeting was
held at the town hall In Springfield Tues
day night at which a statement was
drafted giving the version Of the shoot
ing as Il appears to the friends ana
neighbors Of the dead farmer. The state
ment was drawn by committee con-
sistIng Of J. c. Mangold. n. c. Bates, l..
C. Johnson. W. s. Ely and Thomas Nell
son and was unanimously approved. IT
follows:
Mass Meeting In Held.
Notice to the Public. AT mass meet
ing held by the citizens OF Springfield In
regard TO the capturing of the eonviets
and the method employed by the Off
clals OF the different counties and cities,
the following statements are made In
reply TO the statements made by Sheriff
Hyers OF Lancaster county. Chief Briggs
OF South Omaha and Sheriff Chase OF
sarpy county and other officers given
out in the daily papers.
The real facts In the case are that
the people Of Springfield heard first Of the
convicts by telephone when they started
from the Blunt home with Mr.. Blunt
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not over thirty yaras nom 'nem' p'une
recognized tho men. mace plea tor ms
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and II they opened fire the convicts would
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"The posse, not wishing to endanger
Blunt, turned back TO the cross roads, a
auartar OF a mile farther distant, one
rig going 10 a farm house a quarter OF
| n mile away 10 telephone what had hap
lpAncd and the other stopping within $50
yards from the cross road. After the
convicts passed the cross road the two
rigs took I'D the pursuit keeping within
l5e yards Of them for four and a half
miles, when the officers. including Briggs.
Trouton. Chase and driver. passed the
posse. requesting the driver TO crowd
the team on closer TO the conyicts. Chase
rose, the driver refused TO push on closer.
80 gave the lines TO Trouton and got
out before Rose left the rig. Lloyd Blunt.
brother Of the dead man, rode up TO
the side OF the officers rig and wanted
them not to shoot. as his srotner was
sitting on the seat driving Briggs or
dered Blunt 10 telephone TO South Omaha
TO warn the police force there that they
were coming that way, telling Blunt that
he was Briggs. chief OF police Of South
Omaha.
warning To Officers.
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