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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13

Denver, June 11.-Judge Peter l..
Palmer yesterday administered a Sc
we're judicial rebuke 10 more than lOO
reformers who appeared in his court,
as they had previously announced
through the newspapers that they
would do to protest against the grant,
ing of injunctions against the city fire
and police boards in case Of restau
rant claiming the right to serve
drinks on Sunday with meals and q
saloonkeeper who held that under the
law he was entitled to sell liquor tC
women at the bar.
The judge closed his remarks by de
claring he intended to make judicia
inquiry into the question of whether
or not certain clergymen of Denver
who denounced him in the pulpit Sun
day were in contempt of court and i
he satisfied himself that they were h
would Immediately take the case VI
and give them full punishment unde
the laws.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
MOTHER A MONSTER.
Confines Her Daughter in Room Twen-
ty-EiVe Years

Paris, June 9.-The sensation of the
Monnier, rich, miser1y landowner of
the neighborhood of Poitiers, on the
charge of incarcerating her daughter
for twenty-five years in a room. The
police were anonymously notified of
the woman's detention, entered the
house and found Mile. Monnier shut
up in a room in darkness, lying on
mattress, stark naked and so enact
ated that she appeared to be living
skeleton. The room was covered with
filth and refuse and all kinds of YER
min.
The unfortunate woman, who had
partially lost her reason, was taken
to a hospital 1t was thought she
would die, but she is now improving.
Twenty-Five years ago she was beau
tiful brunette and fell in love with a
lawyer without means Her mother
of their love and confined
her in the room which she only recent
ly left. The lawyer died in 1885.
There was another dramatic devel-
opment in the case yesterday. Mad
anne Monnier died in prison of heart
disease: The gravity of her crime
was brought home to her in the exam
ination Thursday and she became i'll
and died suddenly in an infrmary of
the prison.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
BRECKENRIDGE WOULD
REORCAN|zE DEMOCRACY

Lexington, June 11.-Replying to a
letter asking for his views on the re-
organization of the democratic party
and future issues, Col. Breckenridge
the ex-democratic congressman, says:
THE American people will never
consent to such legislation concerning
currency as will put into a statute the
views of Bryan. 1t is equally true
that the American people will not ap-
prove of the territorial policy advocat-
ed by Bryan.
For the next few years the cur
rency issue and the expansion issue
rendered by the democratic party and
accepted by the republican party have
been settled
Further along in the letter he says
I'VE are, therefore, confronted with
This actual state of facts: 1t is i'm
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
BESGNT AND BUCHANAN.
Prominent Opposing London Authors
Pass Away.

London, June 11.-Sir Walter Be
SAINT, the novelist, died Sunday at his
residence in Hampstead after a fort
nights illness from influenza. He
was born in 1886. He recently Great
ed sensation by charging fraud
against London publishers. Sir Wal
ter was a ruddy, bluff Englishman,
of leonine. whiskers. A list of novels
he produced in collaboration with
James Rice and by his own unaided
| exertions would fill a good part Of a
column The best known is All Sorts
and Conditions of Men. He was a
great authority on London life. He
desired that his name should be pro
nounced with the accent on the last
syllable, because Mrs. Annie Besant
pronounced her name with the accent
on the first. Sir Walter was 81 years
old, and Of late had not been over
active as a literary worker. Since
the peoples palace was put up in the
east end as a result Of his book, Al
Sorts and Conditions of Men, he in
terested himself in social questions
and some of his works show amazing
conceptions of anthropology and O.
the pathogenesis of crime. He wa:
also a journalist
London, June 11.-Robert William
Buchanan, poet and prose writer, i!
dead. He was born August IS, 1S41
He engaged in a spirited controvers!
with Besant over the merits of Kip
ling, Buchanan violently assailins
Kipling.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
HORRlD MAN.
Ohio Girl Sues to Bar One From Love.
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making.
Toledo, O., June 9.-The Ohio courts
have been appealed to by pretty girl
to prevent man from making love to
her Miss Marie Aletta Lent, musi-
clan and elocutionist, is plaintiff in
such action here, and John p Delphi,
a lawyer, is defendant
Miss Lent represents that she has
been bothered by the lawyers ardent
loVemaking, and that she has been
obliged to bring action to protect her
self AT first she contemplated hay
ing lunacy charges made against Del
phi, but did not do so, her lawyers be-
lieving that it would be impossible to
convince jury of Delphi's alleged in
sanity on no other grounds than that
he had fallen desperately in love with
their pretty client
The court is asked to enjoin the at
torney from sending Miss Lent letters
by mail or messenger, from lettering
around her house day or night, or
from talking to her or communicating
with her in any manner
Miss Lent recites in her petition
that Delphi refuses to be repulsed,
that he knocks at the doors and win
dows of her home at unseemIy hours,
and that he tries to embrace her wher-
ever and whenever he meets her All
OF this she wants the court to prohibit
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
SOUGHT DEATH TOGETHER.
Styishly Dressed Couple Puts an End
to Lives.

otyIIShly dressed couple Puts an End
to Lives.
Chicago, June 11-Side by side,
each with bullet wound in the tenn
pie, the dead bodies of l.. Hartman
and wife were found in their bed at
the Great Northern hotel last evening.
The room showed no evidences of a
struggle and both lifeless forms were
composed. The covering of the bed
was well tucked about them, but the
revolver clutched in the right hand of
the husband told the story of the
double tragedy.
OF the pair that courted death so
successfully nothing is known
by the managers of the ho-
tel beyond the report that
the man has wealthy connections
in New York, and that the woman.
Rose LeSebre, variety actress, under
the stage name of Rose Violet From
information given by woman who in
CURED for them yesterday morning it
is supposed the case is one of runa-
way marriage, with death as the result
OF dependency over the obduracy of
the unforgiving father Hartman and
his wife registered at the hoted June
e. giving address as New York. Both
were stylishly dressed and appeared to
be persons of means. They spent
most of the time in their rooms, It was
surmlsed they were on their wedding
trip. Early Saturday night they re
tired to the apartments and nothing
was seen of them until last evening
when they were found dead in bed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
CARS LEAVE TRACKS
AND DOZEN PASSENGERS ARE IN.
JURED.
BAD WRECK IN KANSAS
Wild Cat Freight Runs Into Sururis-
in Binghamton in the Form of Dy-
namite-Cars Shattered, PEOPLE
Killed and Buildings Suffer for Miles
Around.

Wichita, Kas., June 9.-I'he east
bound Frisco passenger train, No. s,
which left here last evening was
wrecked at Greenwood, sixty miles
east, and ten persons injured, two CT
which die. The fatally injured are
Mrs. H. w. Smith of Newkirk, Ohio.
and Conductor Eckers. The names Of
the other injured are not yet obtain
able. All the injured have been taken
to Fall River and physicians have
gone from here to attend them. The
train was going at the rate of thirty
miles an hour and at an abrupt turn
near Greenwood station the dining car
and sleeper jumped the track. The
range in the dining cars was upset and
live Goals set fire to the dining car and
both derailed cars were totally con-
sumed. None of the other passengers
in the coaches were injured,
Runs Into Dynamite.
Binghamton, N. Y, June 9.-While
a freight train on the Lackawanna
was taking water at Vestal ten miles
"SSl, last ulSuL IL WAS run INTO from
behind by a doubleheader wildcat
freight. In the third car of the sta
tionary train was large quantity of
dynamite which was exploded by the
impact. Six men were killed
and three others are thought to be in
the wreck A number are known to
be badly injured.
The explosion completely demol-
ished both trains. Much dam
age was done by the conclusion, most
of the windows in Vestal and Union
across the river being shattered.
Binghamton's plate glass fronts did
not escape. Many of the largest
glasses in the center of the city were
broken. The shock was felt a dis
lance of thirty miles.
Indiana SmashUp.
Jonesboro, Ind, June 9.-Two pas
senger trains on the Michigan division
of the Big Four collided last evening,
both engines being demolished. A
number of passengers were bruised
and all severely shaken up, but none
dangerously.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
UNGER AND BROWN GUILTY.
Defenbach Case Ends in Victory for
State.

Chicago, June 11.-Dr. August M.
Unger and F. Wayland Brown on trial
for conspiracy to defraud insurance
companies though the death of Marie
Defenbach were last evening found
guilty and sentenced to the penitenti-
airy under the indeterminate act.
Frank H. Smiley, who was indicted
with Unger and Brown, pleaded guilty
and turned states evidence. 1t is like
ly he will escape with a slight SEN
tence.
Evidence in the case showed that
Unger, Brown, Smiley and Miss Defen-
ach entered into a conspiracy by
which Smiley was to appear as the
affanced husband of the woman. She
was then to be ill and apparently die,
leaving insurance which aggregated
$25,000 The woman in her will said
she desired her remains be cremated
and it is supposed it was the intention
to hurry her away after the supposed
death and cremate another body pro-
cured from the hospital
The woman became i'll, according to
the program, but did not rally and
died. The body was at once cremated.
Al inquest was held by Assistant
Coroner Weckler without jury and
Weckler returned to the coroner's Of
fee a vedict that the woman died of
natural causes. The death of the wo-
man was shrouded III mystery and
physicians on the stand differed wide
ly as to the cause of death. The state,
however, declared that the woman
was murdered although it could not be
positively proved. 1t was shown that
all the insurance carried by the wo-
man was assigned before her death
and that her will was drawn up after
these assignments had been made.
The will has no effect save in a clause
touching the cremation and it IS
claimed by the state that the will was
prepared only to facilitate the DISPOSE
ton of the body after death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
MYSTERIOUS MEETING
OF PRESIDENTS CABINET

Washington, June lin response
to message from the president sent
late yesterday afternoon, after half
hours talk with the secretary of state,
all the members of the cabinet now
in the city assembled at the white
house at 8 o'clock last evening.
The president and Secretary Long
had been out driving together during
the afternoon. When the president
returned he found Secretary Hay
awaiting him. The two spent half an
hour together, the secretary leaving
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13

be called castle in England. From
Its highest tower rises great flag
staff, and on it between sunrise and
sunset every day floats the American
flag. Ophir Farm through the long
summer days furnishes splendid hos,
pltallty to select body of men and
OF course, their families, who are Of
national name and eminence. Nearly
every man Of any consequence who
visits New York during the summer
receives a cordial invitation to visit
Ophlr Farm, and although Mr.. Reid is,
as everybody knows, a strenuous re-
publican his politics does not interfere
with his friendships.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
Old Mission Burned.

Bayfield,, Wis, June little old
Catholic mission building on Madeline
island was destroyed by fire Sunday
night. The destruction of the mission
removes one of the land marks of Che
uamegon bay. 1t was erected by the
late Bishop Baraga, then an Indian
missionary, during the 30's of the pres
ent century. For years services have
been held in the old chapel by the
members of the Franciscan order, and
for some time the chapel has been in
the custody of an Indian half-breed
who is descended from Cadott, a noted
French trader.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13

possible TO win without such a nom
inee and platform as will secure the
support of those democrats who re-
fused to vote for Bryan in 1896 and
1900, and 1T is also impossible to win
without the cordial support of the
regular democratic party
1T has occurred to me that the is
sue in 1904 might be our relations
with new possessions. That these
will be retained is now certain. That
the principles promulgated by the SUI
preme court in the late opinions will
be accepted by the people is certain. -
After outlining the questions in
volved, Mr.. Breckenridge says: 1--WE
should adopt a policy which does not
require that any democrat should re-
tract any utterance heretofore made.
or apologize for any course hereto
fore pursued
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13

on the night train for Buffalo. 1t was
Immediately after this call that the
cabinet was asked to assemble, and
they arrived about o'clock, attired in
evening dress. Secretaries Long,
Gage, Hitchcock, Wilson, Attorney
General Knox and Postmaster Gener-
al Smith were those present The
cabinet Immediately repaired to the
cabinet room, where they remained
less than an hour At the conclusion
of the meeting none of those present
would discuss it's object.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
Clever Forger Cauuht,

Chicago, June ia young man
who gave the name of Melville Ches.
ter Finley and said he was the son Of
a wealthy business man Of Kansas
City and a graduate Of Yale, was ar
rested last evening on the charge of
forgery. After the arrest he was rec
ognized as Melville Chester Finley.
alias Melville Chester, Jr., Jordan
Hanna, John Reid. W. o. Brown, and
various other names.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
WOODMAN HOST GATHERING.
Expect 100000 Members of Order Will
be i'm ST Paul


st. Paul, June 1.-THE twelfth BIZ
email head camp or national conven-
ton OF the Modern Woodmen of Amer
lea will be called to order at the Audi
forum in this city today and already
many thousands Of delegates and
others are in the city for the opening
meeting. Sessions of the convention
Will continue until Saturday. 1t is es-
timated fully 100000 members of the
order will be present in the city during
the week. Degree teams in uniform
are already present from Grand Rap
ids, Kalamazoo, Falls City, Sparta and
Prairie Far in Wisconsin, Davenport,
Des MONIES and Sheldon in Iowa. and
Rock Island, Bloomington and Gales
burg in Illinois,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
STATE RESTS.
In Trial of Mrs. Prince-kennedy for
Murder.

Kansas City, June 1.-THE state in
the case of Lulu Prince-kennedy on
trial for numbering her husband rest
ed yesterday afternoon and the court
adjourned until today, when the de
PENDANTS side will be presented. The
case will probably be given the jury
Saturday. Yesterday the state ad-
duced additional evidence to prove the
claim that Kennedy was forced to
marry Lulu Prince at the point of a
revolver and Will Prince furnished the
weapon and nerved her up to commit
ting the crime. Today the defense be
gins its testimony to show that Mrs
Kennedy inherited insanity, that Ken
nedy ruined her and that his refusa
to acknowledge her as his wife TEN
porarily deprived her Of reason.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
Whitney Wins Derby.

London, June civilian C. Whit
neys brown colt Volodyovski q.
Reiff), Florizel H-La Refine, won the
derby in record time, minutes 40 As
seconds. The duke of Portlands bay
colt William the Third, ST. Simon-Gra-
Wit, was second, and Douglas Baird's
chestnut colt Veronese, Donovan
Maize. third.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
Mrs. M'kinley Gaining Little.

Washington, June Cdr. Rixey said
last evening: Mrs. Mckinley is rest
ing comfortably now She gained a
little last evening but there is no
marked change. She is doing very
we'll" The president is spending a
large part of his time at Lis wife's
bedside
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
WOMEN GIVE BANQUET.
London Society Entertains Distin-
guished Guests at the Hotel Cecil.

London, June 9.-The Society of
American Women in London. enter
tanned a distinguished company last
night at the Hotel Cecil. Hugh Reid
Griffin presiding. Ambassador
Choate was the chief guest. There
were only two toasts. The King and
President Mckinley. Mr. Griffin, Mr..
Choate, James Bryce, Augustine Bier
rell, Frederic Harrison, Nine. Sarah
Grand and others made felicitious
speeches.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
PLoWs WON'T GO UP.
Twenty-one Largest Factories to be
United Shortly.

Chicago, June 11.-Plans for the
combination of twenty-one of the
largest pillow factories of the country
were practically completed yesterday
at the meeting at the Auditorium An
mex, over which Charles H. Deere of
Moline presided. Former Judge Vim
cent of Chicago has the details in
charge and expects to have com,
bine incorporated within month,
with prospective capital stock of
$75,OOO,O00. 1t is positively denied
that the price of plows will be raised
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
Mrs. Mckinley Gains Steadily.

Washington, June 11.-Dr. Rixey
when he left the white house at 10
last night said: Everything is en-
couraging and Mrs. Mckinley is doing
very nicely. She is gaining steadily
She sat up in rolling chair several
times yesterday, aggregating prob
ably an hour We are much encour-
aged by the steady improvement"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13

Whilelaw Reid, editor of the New
York Tribune, and Mrs. Reid, the
daughter of D. o. Mills, have gone to
their magnificent country house,
Ophir Farm, in Westchester county,
80 miles from New York. Ophir Farm
is one of the finest places of the kind
in the country. About 500 acres of
woodland, splendid lawn, highly cult
waited fields, Conservatives, and flower
gardens from the setting of a great
stone turretted building which would
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
MANY CHINESE DROWNED.
Md Traveller Must Give Up Flowery
kinndnnn

And Traveller Must Give Up FIowery
Kingdom.
Victoria, June 1.-THE steamer
kinshiu Maru, which arrived yester-
day from the orient, brought news
that the Chinese passenger boat
bound from Chusan to Ningpi was nd
set during a squall May and out of
slxty-eight on board only 8 were saved
Thirty bodies were washed ashore.
George w. Schilling, who left New
York in August, 1897, to walk around
the world is reported at Kobe from
India, being unable to walk through
China owing to it's unsettled condition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
Illinois Day POSTPONED.

Chicago, June 11.-Illinois day at
the pan-American exposition has been
postponed from June 25 to September
16. Governor Yates decided it would
be impossible for the state to make as.
great a showing as desirable on the
first date mentioned The new date
will also be Chicago day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
JELLEFF CONFESSES.
Tells Where Money Stolen From Bank
is Hidden.

Mineral Point, Wis, June 11-Stew-
art Jelleff, the Ripon young man who
is under arrest charged with having
broken into and robbed the First Ma
tional bank of this city, has told the
police where the stolen money was
hidden and all but $4,000 has been re-
covered. Saturday night $4,000 Of
the money was found. Last week
$4,000 was recovered, making a total
of $21, 900. The last find was in an out
building belonging to Mark Terrils, at
whose house Jelleff had been boarding.
Jelleff has confessed where the re-
malnder of the money is hidden and it
is expected that all of the plumber viii
be returned to the bank
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
CQuIdn't Wait For Weddinn

North Vernon, Ind, June 9.-John
Nicely, prosperous young farmer.
shot himself On his sweetheart's door
step because she refused to marry him
as early as he wished. When the
woman found her lover dying she at
tempted to shoot herself. but was de-
TERED by friends.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
Girl Would Join Show.

Appleton, Wis, June 11.-Ruth
Price of Oshkosh was arrested at APP
pleton Junction on complaint of her
parents, she having mysteriously left
her home last Friday afternoon, pre-.
sumably to join Pawnee Bills wild
west show
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
CHIEF SWEENiE REIGNS.
Head of Chicago Fire Department
Half a Century.

Chicago, June 11.-Denis J. Sweenie,
chief of Chicago's fire department for
over half a century, formally resigned
his position last night. Inability to
cope with the arduous duties of his Of
flee and i'll health are given as the
reasons
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
Prominent CIerqynsr Dead.

Davenport, June 11.-W. H. Barrie,
: ID. d., first professor of theology in
Griswold college, and a prominent
clergyman and curator of the Daven-
port Academy of Sciences, died yester-
daY. aged SO.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
One Badder Wins.

West Point, June 11-Of forty-nine
candidates who reported for entrance
examinations last week only % passed
successfully. Among them are P. j.
r. kehl of Wisconsin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13

cational circles, as he was also in the
town fire insurance business. Four
years ago he organized all the officers
of the insurance companies in the
state into an organization and he was
it's first secretary up to his death.
He leaves a wife and two children, his
son Ernst, aged 26, teacher at
Ryan high school in Appleton, his
daughter Jenny, aged IA.
Ernst Greverus was graduated from
the university in 1899.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE,

Will Clemens, writing about the
heroic side of Mark Twain, quotes al
old steamboat man as saying that
when Mark Twain was on the Missis-
sippi he would go miles out of his way
to get whack at a snag and was
never happy unless he was bouncing
over something"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
Third Haiistorm Comes.

Greedy, Col. June 11.-This vicinity
was yesterday visited by the third
disastrous hailstorm of the season. All
fruit, alfalfa and wheat has been prac-
tically destroyed.