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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-15
AWFUL GRIM e.
Five-Year-Old Child Said to Rave
Been Murdered.


Marlboro, Md, May lit is re
ported tina a 5-year-old girl was muir
derd on the night Of March II near
Waldorf. Charles county, a short dls-
lance from the Prince Georges county
line. under peculiarly atrocious cir
cumstances. The report grew out Of
a letter which was found in Washing
ton. purporting to nave been written
nv the father of the murdered child TO
q relative in that city, which letter
was forwarded by the Washington
notice to the auth critics in this
county. According TO the letter, the
bousekeeper of the man who wrote the
letter seized the child, while several
ether children were supposed to ne
asleep in the garnet of the house, ana
hanged her to the baRisters until life
was almost extinct. Then with a blow
with a pair of fire tongs she crushed
in the little ones head. The woman
then took the body. it is said, to an
clubhouse and cut off the hair to pre-
vent Identification.
Early in the morning the Oldest girl
was sent out to search for the missing
child. This girl, whose name is saia
to be Sarah, had heard the noise OF
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OBITUARY.,

Potter Palmer was buried in Chi
oago Thursday.
Archbishop Michael A. Corrigan was
buried in New York Friday.
Read Admiral William T. Sampson
died of cerebral hemorrhage.
doc" Slater, Baltimore's gambler,
politician and philanthropist. is dead.
The body of Congressman Amos J,
Cummings was inferred at New York.
'Macabebe Marie beautiful
Filipino woman who was a spy ana
scout for the Americans, is dead
J. T. Bellows, a prominent quaker,
who received the honorary degree of
master of arts from Harvard uniyer-
sity, is dead in London
John Critchell, who was prominent
in Chicago insurance circles for
twenty five years, died at Glenwood,
Fla, where he had been for four
mounths On account of poor health.
Jonathan Sprague, the oldest Odd
Fellow in Michigan, died at Ann Arbor
of pneumonia. He was made an Odd
Fellow in 1916 and had held all the
offices in the grand lodge and grand
encampment.
President Ruthrauff Of Wittenberg
college died from supposed worry over
an insult by the students in inviting
another member of the faculty to pre-
side at commencement. Congestion OF
the brain was the direct cause OF
death.
Stenhen p ROwIeS for several
years familiar figure on the Chicago
board of trade, died at the residence
of his daughter, Mrs. c. w. Arthur.
Mr.. Bowels was born in Bangor, Me,
in 1880 and came to Chicago shortly
after the civil war.
It Ell Paso, Texas, A. H. Schofield,
half brother of former Lieutenant
General Schofield committed suicide
by shooting himself. Schofeld was a
man of family, secretary of he
Baptist church and bookkeeper for
Jumper company.
Theodore Lattan, ST., 81 years old,
a Chicago pioneer, died Of pneumonia.
Mr. Lattan, then a painting con-
tractor, came to Chicago in 1851 from
Wisconsin. He conducted a prosper
Gus business until 1874, when he re-
tired from active life.
In New York Paul Leicester Ford,
the novelist and historian, was shot
and killed by his brother, Malcolm W.
Ford, the noted athlete. The latter
was disinherited by his father for in
attention to business, and blamed his
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-15

evening after lying for hours in q
| cOmatose condition and barely alive
| he aroused long enough to call tke
members of his family to his bedside
and bid them good-by. Immediately
after this he again lapsed into III
| consciousness and SO remained uDG'
the end came.
While regarded as sick man tos
the past six months, the decedent hao
| been attending to his duties a good
portion of the time, but sixty days
ago his ailment became so pronounc%
that he was forced to give up his WORK
altogether and take to his bed.
On April 1 he was taken to we
Presbyterian hospital at Chicaso.
Here he remained but four days, tbs
| physicians holding out no nope Fos
either relief or recovery and advising
| that he be taken home. Since reach
| ing Watertown he has slowly grown
| worse. His stomach has been dnabS
| to retain food and he had suffered
greatly from nausea. 1t was though
at times that he could not survive
several of these attacks.
Early this morning. he reused rron
his stupor and acted as though ne
racnqnized those about him, yet this
could not be taken as an indication
that he had in the slightest improved.
Was Born in England.
On Aug. %, 1886, in the city OF
Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, Lieu
tenant Governor Jesse Stone wac
born. There he lived until he was
years old, when he accompanied has
parents to the United States and took
up his residence at Waterford, n. 7.
After concluding a course in the COM
non schools of that city he devoted
his time to the trade Of a macbinist-
in which he displayed considerable
skill and some inventive genius. The
most important piece of work which,
he accomplished while in this line Of
work was the construction Of the frs<
cracker machine used in this country.
He was marred to Miss Sarah ].
Welsh Of Ticonderoga, n. Y, in 1854.
From Waterford ne went to Louisville
KY, where he engaged in the soda
cracker manufacture for a number Of
years, and also pursued the same line
az Chicago for a while
In 1859 he went to Watertown, Wis,
where he has since made his home,
and there ne entered into partnership
with Marshall J. Woodland, under the
firm name of Woodland g. Stone Co.,
for the manufacture Of bread, crackers
and CONNECTIONS, the firm becoming
one Of the most prosperous and we'll
known concerns IN the state. This
plant was purchased some years ago
by the National Biscuit company, and
Mr.. Stones only son and heir, VIII
liam G. Stone, also of Watertown.
was given the management
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the killing of her sister and had beea
kept awake through the greater pasx
OF the night by the groans Of her
dying sister. She notified her father.
VINO worked number OF miles av~
from his home
Deputy Sheriff Wells hunted up tbs
father of the girl, it is said. aD&
found that the story was true. Fwa
women have been arrested in Charles
county, and it is said one. or pros-
ably botn, will be charged with 80
crime
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-15
THE FIRE RECORD.

| The Wells elevator at Buffalo was
destroyed by fire. Loss $225,0O0.
The Pontiac Illinois reformatory
cehnouse burned last night and panic
ensued among its 800 inmates. This
is the third fire at the institution n
one month and the inmates are be
lieved to have set it.
In williamsburg, Pa, planning milf
owned by William H. Post, and other
buildings, burned. Loss, $4,000.
Lightning during a terrific wind
storm at ST. Louis caused the burning
of Madarl's patent pulley plant. Loss
100000.
A dwelling house, seven stables and
a blacksmith shop were burned at
Lewistown, Pa; loss $4,000; IN
surance $500.
Five bids we're received by Briga-
dier General Greeley, who invited pro-
posals for furnishing and installing
complete system of wireless tel
egraphy in the territory of Alaska be
tween certain points
The people of Glen Carbon, H., who
held fair and raised money to de-
fend Joseph Machutis, accused of
murder, were justified in their belief
in his innocence. The jury acquitted
him and he was restored to his wife
and child.
Notice has been served by Judge
Elmer B. Adams of the United States
district court that lottery agents
must leave st. Louis. The first one
to feel its effects is Samuel J. Ten
nants, who was fined $4,000 and SEN
fenced to six months in Jail for selling
lottery tickets.
Following the meeting of the di-
rectors of the United States Steel
corporation, it was stated that the
syndicate which is to underwrite the
$3.50 100000 of new per cent. bonds
will receive a stated commission Of 4
per cent. upon the actual amount of
bonds bought by the syndicate.
Representative Eddy has been ad-
vised of vacancies at the West Point
military academy, and at the naval
academy at Annapolis, to the credit
Eddy has recommended Viggo John
son of GIenwood for appointment to
the cadetship at the naval academy
and Monte Brown, son Of Judge c. l..
Brown, for the cadetship at West
Point.
The tobacco factory of l.. W. Davis,
at Norfolk, Va, the candy mandatory
of Bosnian & Lewman, hotel and
restaurant of r. W. Mcdonald and the
large grocery house of l.. P. Roberts
C Co., on Commercial Place; D. q.
Donald's dairy lunch rooms, two
vacant store buildings, and the Dis
patch newspaper Office and Hof-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-15

heimer's cigar mandatory are de
stroyed. Total losses about 1925, 600.
Increases of 500 a year in the sal
aries of the following postmasters in
Minnesota are allowed: Fergus
Falls, Glencoe, Graceville, Hastings
Heron Lake. Lake Park, Leroy, Lu-
verne. Moorehead, New Prague, Fulda
Greenwo God. Hallock, Hopkins, Lake,
field. Lanesboro. Little Falls, Monte,
video Morris, New Ulm and Olivia. In
creases of $4,000 a year are also made
in the salaries of Minnesota post
masters, as follows: Milaca, North
field, Herman and Mapleton. The sal
airy of the postmaster at GAINESVILLE
Mimi. will be reduced from $1,000 &c
81 200.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-15
DOMESTIC.

Potter Palmer carried only s25, 00G
life insurance.
Molten metal killed four men at
Steelton, Pa.
Police Chief Edwards of Larimore
~. D., prevented a lynching.
Tams Bixby of Minnesota resigned
sYom the Indian commission.
Herr Most and another anarchist
speaker were arrested at New York
FOR alleged violent utterances.
Four thousand school children were
in the crowd that greeted Admiral
Schley in Meridian, Miss.
The National Board of Fire Under.
writer's at a New York meeting elect
cd Robert B. Beath president
President Roosevelt threatens an
extra session if necessary to get
Cuban reciprocity legislation.
The postmaster general has been in
structed by the court to restore sec
ond-class privileges to certain rail
way publications, which he has ex-
cluded from the mails. They are the
Official Railway Guide and the Official
List
Henry o. Havemeyer has just given
1000 volumes to the library of the
100000 public school at Greenwich.
Conn, erected by himself aud his
wife as 9 memorial
Mariana Mason daughter of the
Rev. John Mason, of Greenpoint, N. Y.
was found dead in bed under mys-
terious circumstances. Poison was
discovered in her stomach
Hetty Green secured a permit to
carry a revolver to protect the money
and stocks which she carried. She
declared her real reason to be the
lawyers who might inspire attacks on
her.
Sensational charges against Milton
w Kirk, the wealthy Chicago soap
manufacturer, who is suing his wife,
mrs. Ethel L. Kirk, for divorce, are
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-15
SCHOOL FOR DEAF BURNED.
Iowa State Institution Almost Tota
Loss.

Loss.
Omaha, May 10.-The Iowa state
school for the deaf, three miles east
of Council Bluffs, burned late yester-
day afternoon. The main building and
chapel are a total loss. Fire Chief
John Templeton of Council Bluffs was
seriously injured and three fremen
were caught by part Of the falling
structure and severely burned. 1t is
not known whether any received fatal
injuries. None of the inmates so far
as known were injured. The loss will
reach 100000 The buildings were
located outside of the city limits and
the only fire protection is an indie
pendent plant. When the fire depart
ment reached the institution the
chapel was destroyed and an effort
was made to save the main building.
The water pressure, however, was so
low that little could be done. The en-
tire structure and its contents are a
total loss. The fire is thought to have
originated in the kitchen which ad-
joins the chapel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-15

Watertown, Wis, May l2.-Leusess
ant Governor Jesse Stone died at 3 "
Sunday night.
The end came peacefully. sfss
patient passing away and apparepsag
without any pain.
At the bedside were his wife, son
William and his wife, former partner
III business; Marshall P. Woodward
Frank Woodward and w. H, Woos-
ward, intimate and old friends OF las
dead official, and the physiciaes,
Death was due to cancer OF sAe
stomach.
had been expected almost momentaYRs
for fOrty-eight hours. Early SatuFssasf
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-15
Bad Man Prisoner,

Kansas City, May 10.-Al Beard,
with many aliases, wanted in st. Paul
on a charge of robbery and for whose
capture Minnesota offered a reward Of
1900, was arrested here yesterday.
He is said to be one of the three men
who shot and killed Policeman Mayer
in st. Paul Feb. I, last, while robbing
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-15
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
WEST INDIES DISASTER.

The New York chamber OF COM
merce will receive subscriptions for
survivors.
Many Martinique residents were
drowned while crossing in boats to
Dominica.
Professor |. C. Russell of Michigan
state university doubted the serious
ness of the eruption o. Mont Pelee.
Four hundred and fifty survivors
from St. Pierre arrived at Fort de
France. Ships went to search for
others.
The French minister of finance
ordered a 500, 600 relief fund at Fort
de France. French vessels were sent
out.
The United States cruiser Dixie
was ordered ready to sail from New
York with provisions and clothing for
the sufferers.
William P. Eno's yacht Aquillo, with
a party of guests, left New York to1
Martinique to view the eruption
Other yachts will follow.
Herman Gerischer, boatswain or
the steamer L. w. Norton, supposed
lost in the Mont Pelee eruption, was
a son OF Mrs. Mary A. Gerischer, 1921
Evans avenue, Chicago.
Souffriere crater, st. Vincent island
is in active eruption since Saturday
Two plantations were burned and so
are believed killed.
Three Martinique towns were de
stroyed with st. Pierre-Le Carbet
5000 population; LIE Precheur, $500
and Manceau, inhabitants mostly es
capped.
Latest accounts confirmed previous
reports of widespread disaster il
Martinique and st Vincent The eXac
loss of life is impossible to estimate.
The loss of life in the Island o
Martinique surpassed that on Kraka
toa in 1888, when $4,000 were killeC
by a volcanic explosion heard 800
miles
Ship loads of supplies for Martin
ique survivors were started by tn
United States, England, France an
other nations. The cruiser CinciL
natl and the Potomac are en- route.
The wife of United States Consu
Prentiss in St. Pierre wrote fror
there late in April that Mont Pele
was rumbling, but it was not regarde
as dangerous.
The ruined city of ST Pierre on tn
island was visited by a correspondent
who found the streets heaped with HI
man bodies, which the soldiers ar
burning. lie Carbet and the fort qual
ter of Martinique are leveled to tn
ground
Both craters on the British isle c
St Vincent are in active eruption an
an official party which left st. Luci
on May saw flames for the entir
journey Ashes fell on ships $50 mile
away. The north end of St VinceT
from the Chateau Belane to Georg,
town is destroyed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-15
FOREIGN.

The Chinese rebels fired on Jesuit
headquarters.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
held another levee in London.
Tie officers Of the cruiser Chicago
who were jailed in Venice were re
leased.
Asuncion Esquivel was inaugurated
President of Costa Rica to succeed
1glesias
Queen Wilhelmina gave birth to a
child prematurely and her condition
is critical
The Chinese government is making
strenuous efforts to put down the re,
bellion.
Russian troops who have refused to
fire on street crowds are being pun
ished
A fire at Lobrinsk, government OF
Minsk. Russia, destroyed 972 houses
and $50 small shops.
Sixty-one bodies have been re
covered from the scene of the fire al
Mt Gamer, Egypt.
Augusta Severe, the Brazilian aero
naut, made a successful ascent with
his airship in Paris.
The Russian government will re
build it's forts on the German and
Austrian frontiers.
Students riots have occurred il
Portugal, and a cabinet crisis is re
garded as imminent.
70 at nr
lands of the British iron and stee
manufacturers is reported.
Friends of the Italian bandit Muse
limo plan to elect him to parliament
which would bring about his release.
The battleship Gaulois sailed from
Toulon for Annapolis, bearing thu
members of the Rochambeau mis-
sion.
The success of the Santo Domingo
revolution headed by Vice-Presiden
Horatio Vasquez is believed to be as
sured.
| Princess Beatrice, daughter of Dol
Carlos, attempted suicide by dressing
in rich attire and throwing herself in
to the Tiber.
Considerable opposition to tn
peace movement is developing amon
the irreconcilables of General De
larey's force.
A train loaded with Belgian pi
grims, on their way to Lourdes, wa
derailed near Moyenville. Nine pee
pie were killed.
ho
taken steps to restrain French priest
whom he accuses of interference i
the recent elections.
Andrew Carnegie, in London inte1
view, said England will not be
European power in the future, an
lean republics.
The royal family of Greece wa
safely landed at Chalkis, Eubeca is
and, thirty-fve miles from Athen!
The royal yacht Amphitrite, which "a
aground. has not yet been floated.
The Morgan steamship trust agree
ment, published in London, shows tn
White Star, Dominion, Atlantic Tran!
port, Leyland, and Richard Mills
Co. lines entered the trust. The cal
ital is 100000.
The town of ST. Pierre, on island c
Martinique, was totally destroyed b
earthquakes and a volcanic eruption
and $4,000 inhabitants are reporte
killed. All shipping in the harbo
was destroyed. Other islands SUI
fered also.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-15
ARE YOU MARRIED
Serious Question Asked by Jessaa
Girls at Yonkers. N, Y.

Serious Question Asked by Je.vaa
Girls at Yonkers, N. Y.
New York, May 11-Great consters,s-
ton among the members of jewish So
clety at YOnkers has been the outcome
of the recent Purim ball. During rhs
evening 100 couples went through a
mock marriage ceremony. Now tia
rabbi who Officiated is said to have dc
Clared that the couples so married sa
eound in the eye Of the church and
therefore in the eyes of the law. T1sv
young people are at their wits ends 70
decide whether they are really married
Some OF those interested in the malice,
declare that the man who started tbs
story did so from a selfish motive
that he has family of eight daughters
all OF whom were married" at the ban
Several of the rabbis are expected ~
nave consultation and their colleotavs
decision is to settle the matter
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-15
ROOSEVELT NOT TO STUMP.
Administration Policy, However, vii
Figure in Fall Elections.

Figure in Fall Elections.
Washington, May lit is sad that
the statement that President Roose-
welt has consented to take the stump
in the congressional campaign this
fall is incorrect
What has been decided on by the re-
publican party managers is that the
contest for the election Of the next
congress shall be made upon national
issues involving the policy Of the
national administration and that the
president shall give his personal CO.
operation and make an issue OF the
policy of the administration. The
president is expected to declare a
policy with reference to a revision OF
the tariff and to the trusts, which will
be the keynote of the campaign.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-15

a store. He is also wanted for alleged
completely in the robbery of the bank
at Turin, Iowa, last fall when S1,6O0
was taken. In Boards room here was
found burglars tools, dynamite ano
other paraphernalia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-15
ROACH VERY SICK.
IT Is Said That He Cannot Survive the
Operation.

New York, May 11.-FOrmer Senator
William n. Roach of North Dakota.
who has been i'll several days at his
home in this city, will, it is feared, pass
away soon. AS the result of an opera
ton complications have followed, the
worst being that he can take no nour-
ishment. His stomach has collapsed
and he is now practically starving to
death
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-15
New ProVerb.

The tongue is mightier than he
SWORD Is the modern way Of putting
an old proverb.-Pittsburg Gazette.
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JESSE STONE
PASSES AWAY
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR DIES Ey
WATERFOWL.
HAD BEEN ILL SOME TIME

Family and Most Intimate Frtenas
at Bedside When Death Cane-
Active in Politics and Success&sA
Business Man-FuneraI to be h4ess
Wednesday.
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ooh, how my head achesi"
He with memories of recent denfa,
triumph strong upon him)-Why don't
you have it filed.
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What Caused Eruption !
Ashes Go Wide.

Bridgetown Island of Barbados British West indies May
10Vocanc dust from the eruption of the island of ST. Vim
cent is still falling here Roads and houses covered an inch
thick Barbados hundred miles from st. vincent
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DEATH LIST GROWS
Martinique Calamity Greater
Than First Supposed
Now Estimated Forty Thou
sand Were Killed
Eruption Lasts But Very
Few r1inutes

ST. Thomas D. ". l., May lot is estimated that
10000 persons persisted result of the eruption
the island of Martinique.