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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
MANIA AND HYPNOTISM.
Woman Accused by Youth of In
fuencing Him to Crime.


The confession of George Baughman,
20 years old, and the arrest of Mrs.
Dolly Carpenter, formerly prominent So
cially, has cleared the mystery, the po-
lice believe, surrounding the many re-
cent attempts TO wreck trains on the
Pennsylvania railroad near Tifin, Ohio.
The woman IS believed to have a mania
for wreckiDg trains. Mrs. Carpenter is
said to exercise hypnotic influence over
young Baughman, and in this manner is
thought to have forced him to assist her.
Baughman says Mrs. Carpenter original
ed the plot TO ditch a passenger train,
so that she might inform against him,
and receive a large reward, which she
promised to divide with him when he
had served his sentence for committing
the crime. Baughman says he went to
her home On the night of the attempted
wreck, where she suggested the plan. He
at first refused and later consented be-
cause she threatened to shoot him. To
gether they fixed a piece of rail in the
frog of a switch, ard also placed hugS
coil Of wire on the track, and then re-
tired to her home to await results. They
had made a mistake in their calculations,
however, and instead of a fast passenger
train derailed freight. After the wreck
they went to the train and stole some
coal. Mrs. Carpenter is well-to-do and
highly educated. She was a society
leader years ago, but an unfortunate
marriage wrecked her life and after her
divorce she lived alone in the eastern
part of the city. She is 40 years old.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
REFORMS FOR LIFE INSURANCE.
New York Committee Presents Re.
port to Legislature.

In a merciless and thorough arraign-
ment the insurance investigating commit
tee of the New York Legislature review
ed the situation it has uncovered. After
making a number of recommendations for
reform the committee in its long-expect-
ed report summarizes the sensational
testimony 1t brought out and showed how
matters could be remedied.
Absolute prohibition of campaign con-
trlbuions, strict regulation of all life in
surance investments, limitation of new
business and the participation of every
policy holder in the election of company
officers-these are a few of the proposed
cures.
Lobbying is denounced as pernicious
and needless in plain terms, and the Leg
iSlature is told that it owes it to itself
to stop the practice. AS to campaign
contributions, the report says:
The frank admission that moneys
have been obtained for use in State cam
paigns in the expectation that candidates
thus aided would support the interests of
the companies has exposed both those
who solicited the contributions and those
who made them to severe and just con-
NiCAAAdbAOA. NC CouiAIlNlSG
the passage of an unequivocal and dras-
tic measure to remedy this evil"
Matters demanding the consideration of
the Legislature for the purpose of rem
edying existing evils and of establishing
more securely the business of life insur-
ance in this State are grouped under the
following heads:
l. Organization of life insurance cor
porations.
,. Control, or the rights of policy hold
ers in the election of directors.
3. Retirement of stock.
4. Investment including syndicate par
ticipations.
D. Limitations of new business.
6. Political contributions.
Z. Lobbying.
:. Limitation of expenses.
8. Valuation of policies.
10. Rebates.
II. Surrender values
u. Ascertainment and distribution of
surplus.
13. Remedies of policy holders, or
right to resort to the courts.
IA. Forms of policies.
10. Publicity and State supervision.
16. Penalties.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
wOMAN,s AWFUL CRIME.
Former Chicago Resident Throws
Children from Fall River Boat.

A woman believed to have been Mrs.
Waters, wife of John w. Waters,
who recently moved from Chicago to
Brooklyn, threw her three children
overheard the Fall River line steamer
Plymouth when the boat was en- route
from New York, and then followed them.
committing suicide. She left a note say
ing she had drowned her children and
would kill herself. She is said to have
suffered from mental trouble for some
time. The stateroom occupied by the
woman was engaged in New York under
the name of B. Z. Allen. She is describ-
ed as about 80 years old and we'll dressed.
The three children included a girl about
3 years old and two smaller children, be-
lieved to have been boys, one a nursing
infant. Among the letters left by the
woman was one addressed to john w.
Waters, 10 Broadway, New York. One
of the missives was written On a part of
an envelope, the other on a piece Of
wrapping paper. The note on the envel-
ope read: Dear Husband-Forgive this
trouble. l have nearly broken my heart.
Dear John, forgive me for causing you
this sorrow, but l could not live and l
could not leave our children. / have wor-
ried so much I fear insanity and l could
not leave the children" One letter dis
posed of the woman's personal property.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
D. B. HENDERSON DIES.
PASSING OF A DISTINGUISHED
CITIZEN OF IOWA.
Former Speaker of National House
of Representative Is Victim of
Paresis-Death Occurs in Du-
budue Hospital.

Former Speaker David B. Hender-
son of the national House of Repre-
sentatives died at o'clock Sunday
noon at Mercy Hospital, in Dubuque,
Iowa, of paresiS, which attacked him
nine months ago. He began TO sink
Friday afternoon, rallied Saturday
morning, but in the afternoon lapsed
into Inconsistencies and failed rapid
ly until the end came.
Colonel Henderson was stricken with
paresis last May and his condition
grew so grave that he was removed to
a hospital in September. His condition
remained unchanged except for the
usual progress of such a disease until
few days ago, when he suffered an
other stroke, which resulted in total
blindness. The former Speaker failed
rapidly physically and mentally until
Friday, when his mental powers re-
turned for a few hours. followed by a
relapse which ended in death.
David Bremner Henderson was born
in Old Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland,
March 4, 1910. The family came to
America when David was 6 years old
and settled on a rented farm in Win
nebago County, Illinois. in 1916. A
residence of three years in Illinois net
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
GIVES TRUST A HARD Blow.
Court Rules that Railways Cannot
MING and Sell Coal.

Common carriers cannot lawfully
deal in the commodities which they
transport, according to a decision of
the Supreme Court of the United States
handed down by Mr.. Justice White.
The decision hits at the foundations
Of the monopoly of the great coal car
rying railroads which, through their
ownership and operation Of coal mines,
are able to undersell their competitors,
thereby giving what amounts to a dis
elimination in freight rates. Thus,
while nOminally they charge the pub
lished rate for transporting coal, they
can sell it at a price which would
mean an actual loss to the mines if
the full freight charges were paid.
Not only does the decision affect the
coal monopoly, but it may have far
reaching effect on the beef combine in
its capacity of proprietor of refrigerat-
ing car lines. Cases are pending in
court now in which the government is
endeavOring to have private car lines
declared common carriers, and in case
the suit is successful packers either
will have to give up their car lines or
abandon their trade in the beef, pro
duce, poultry and fruit which they
transport. The decision also will APP
ply to the great breweries which own
their own refrigerator cars, as well as
to several other lines Of business.
Mr.. Justice White, in his decision,
said that to permit the carrier to be-
come a dealer in the commodities car
ried by it would be to supply the means
for perpetuating an evil which the in
terstate commerce commission was ere
ated to remedy, and would make the
adherence to published rates only a
farce.
The case in question originally was 4
dispute between the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad Company and the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Rail
road Company. The former agreed to
supply the latter with 100000 tons OF
soft coal between July 1, 1897, and
July l, 1902, Tut because of strike
fell short 10000 tons in making the
deliveries. The buyer went into.~the
open maket, bought the coal and sent
the bill to the Chesapeake and Ohio
This the road refused to pay, but deliv'
cred the coal called for by the contract
though the price of fuel had gone VI
to such an extent that .he road lost
heavily by doing so.
The fight over a matter of a little
over 100000 in the lower courts at
tracted the attention of the interstate
commerce commission, which became q
party to the litigation, taking the posi-
ton that the action of the Chesapeake
and Ohio IN delivering coal at far below
the market price was, in fact, a cutting
of freight rates and an evasion of the
law prohibiting the transportation OF
freight at less than the published SEIZED
ule and asking an injunction to stOI
the road from dealing in coal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01

Andrew Hamilton, the peculiar financial
methods of the company and the payment
of huge sums to campaign funds, all of
which were brought out on the witness
stand, caused his resignation. Adverse
criticism of his administration worried
him into an illness from which he never
recovered.
Mr.. Mccall was compelled to mortgage
and then sell his country place at Long
Branch. \. j., in order TO keep his pledge
to pay $235.000 of the Hamilton account.
John \. Mccall was born in Albany,
\. Y, March 2, 1910. He entered the
insurance business early in life, and in
1885 was appointed State insurance COM
missioner by Grover Cleveland, who was
then Governor. He relinquished that po-
sition t. become Controller of the Equit-
able Life Assurance Society, which posi-
ton he held until he became president
of the New York Life Insurance Com
many in 1890
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
SENATE PASSES PURE-FooD BILL
struggle of Fifteen Years Ends-Th
L.

Struggle of Fifteen Years Ends-The
Vote Is 63 to 4.
After fifteen years consideration of the
subject the Senate has passed the Hey
burn pure food bill by a vote of SO TO 1.
The committee accepted a number of sug-
gestions and incorporated them in the
bill as passed Those who voted against
the bill were Bacon of Georgia. Bailey of
Texas, Foster of Louisiana and Tillman
of South Carolina.
The bill makes it a misdemeanor to
manufacture or sell adulterated or mis-
branded foods, drugs, medicines or liquors
in the District of Columbia, the terrific
ries and the insular possessions of the
United States and prohibits the ship
ment of such goods from one State to
another or to a foreign country. 1t also
prohibits the receipt of such goods. Pun
ishment by fine of $500 or by imprison-
ment for one year or both is prescribed
By its provisions the Treasury Depart
ment and the departments of Agriculture
and of Commerce and Labor are requir-
ed to agree upon regulations for the col
lection and examination of the articles
covered by the bill. The Investigations
by the Department of Agriculture are
placed in the hands of the chief of the
bureau of chemistry and if he finds that
the law has been violated the United
States District Attorney is required to
institute proceedings in the federal courts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
ILLINOIS MEN WILL LEAD.
Annual Encampment of G.. A. n. VIII
Begin August Is at Mfnneapolis.

Begin August Is at Minneapolis.
In general orders Commander-in-chief
Tanner of the G. A. r. outlines the pro-
gram for the national encampment at
Minneapolis, beginning Aug. ). He says:
"On the evening of Tuesday, Aug. IA,
there will be a semi-oficial meeting TO
receive addresses from State and city Off
Gals and from the committee of arrange
ments, and greetings from our auxiliary
societies. Responses will be made by
comrades designated by the commander
ir-chief. The annual parade in connec-
ton with the national encaIpnent will
take place Wednesday, Aug. 10 commenc-
ing to move at 10 a. N. sharp, and will
be composed exclusively of Grand Army
comrades, as posts or individuals, and
their accompanying organiza tons, the
usual military bands and a marching flag.
The parade will not be more than two
miles in length. The department of Hi
nois, by right of seniority, will have the
right Of the line; other departments will
follow in the order of seniority Of date
of charters. The entertaining department
will take position on the left of the line.
The commander in chief has accepted the
proffer of Columbia Post, No. TOO, de-
partment of Illinois, as his personal es-
cort. The business session of the encamp-
ment will begin Thursday, Aug. 16, at
a. m. Sharn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01

Flames Destroy Four DormitOries
at kenyon Academy.
Three cadets persisted in a fire which
destroyed four dormitory buildings of the
Kenyon Military Academy in Gambler,
Ohio. Twelve other cadets were injured
in escaping from the burning dormitories,
and three of them are not expected to
survive. Eighty-five boys were in the dor
mitories when the fire broke out, and
wild panic ensued. The fire started at
o'clock in the morning, while the students
and professors were asleep, and spread
rapidly. The charred bodies of Cadets
Winfield Scott Kunkle of Ashtabula,
Ohio; j. +. Henderson of Ridge Farm,
ILL.,, and James j. Fuller of Warren, Ohio,
were found in the ruins Of Delano Hall.
The buildings destroyed We're Delano
Hall. Minor Hall, North Hall and the
Annex. The losses on the buildings and
their contents will probably aggregate
100000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
TeIepra Dhic Rreyities,


The Ohio House has passed the Wertz
bill abolishing prison contract labor in
Ohio.
Charles Hendrickson of Fairhaven, n.
J., was drowned while relocating on the
Navesink river.
Dean Charles d. Williams was conse-
Grated at Cleveland as Protestant Episco-
pal bishop of Michigan.
The authorities are investigating nat
uralization frauds in Youngstown, Ohio,
Pittsburg and Cleveland.
The South Carolina House passed the
bill to abolish the State dispensary. The
measure had passed the Senate.
Fifty-fve natives were drowned in Jo-
hannesburg, Transvaal, owing to the
flooding of South Rose, deep gold mine.
The Arctic and Explorers Clubs gave a
farewell dinner in New York to Prof.
Otto Nordenskjold, the antarctic explorer.
The fve-story building occupied by
Glasa, Hall & Co, wholesale dry goods,
in Philadelphia, Pa, burned. Loss $780,
600.
A live rooster in a cage was sent
through the pneumatic mail tubes in Phil
adelphia as a test. The bird came out
alive and well, having made a mile in
three minutes.
Several Russian naval officers have
been ordered TO the Orient for asking an
open trial for Lieut.. Schmidt, who was
in command of the cruiser Otchakoff when
the crew mutinied.
Edward Dunlap. a noted burglar, who
ii ~, IrhS al
brain to science and left the manuscript
of book defending his crimes in COM
parison with those of high finance.
Lady Mary Hamilton, with an income
of S1,000,000 a year, will become the
bride of the Marquis of Graham. She is
the daughter of the late Duke of Hamil-
ton and the richest woman in Britain.
The photographers International AS
ISOLATION at Buffalo elected ]. W. Ham
iIton of St. Louis president and Albert G.
Bruck of Chicago vice president. The
next convention will be held at Cleve-
land.
Irving D. Smith, known as the million
aire farmer of South Dakota and famous
for his charities, died in Madison, S. D.,
aged so. He was possessed of S1,JO0.OOO,
nearly all of which is invested in farm
lands.
The suit brought by the State of Kan
sas nearly year ago to GUST the Santa
Fe railroad from the State on account of
alleged violations of the antitrust law.
was dismissed at Sedan, Kan.
The works of Jack London have beea
withdrawn from circulation by the free
library of Derby Neck, Conn, the author
tiles explaining that the author has pub
Iicly announced himself as an anarchist
When placed on the operating table In
the New Orleans Charity Hospital to be
operated upon for a supposedly mortal
accident, Joseph Donahue broke away
from the surgeons, ran up a ladder to
skylight and was captured after a chase
around the roof.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01

ted the family enough to move to Iowa.
Going to Fayette County, they ac-
quired a large tract of government
land which soon became known as
Henderson prairie and still bears
that name.
Young Henderson was a student at
Upper Iowa University at the begin
ming of the war and his love for his
adopted country led him to take the
initiative in a movement which later
resulted in a company being organized
and sent to the war from Fayette
County. Henderson was unanimously
rendered the captaincy of the company,
but he declined on the plea that he
was too young and inexperienced. He
did accept the position of first lieuten-
ant
The company of volunteers which
young Henderson had organized
among the young men of Fayette
County was mustered into the service
as company A, Twelfth Iowa Volun-
teers, and sent to Fort Henry, where
they received their baptism in fire and
blood. Henderson fell, struck in the
jaw by a rebel bullet. The ball frac-
tured his jaw. In the battle of Co
rinth Oct. 4. 1862, Lieutenant Hender-
son was again badly wounded, result
ing in the amputation of leg.
When a call came from President
Lincoln for more troops the Forty
sixth Iowa infantry was organized
and Lieutenant Henderson, though he
had already given a leg to his country,
rendered his service and was elected
colonel of this regiment and served
until the end of the war.
In November, 1856, Colonel Hender-
son was appointed a Collector of In
ternal Revenue He occupied this po-
sition until June, 1869, when he re-
signed to become a member of the law
firm of Shiras, Van DuZee s: Hender-
son.
Elected to Congress in 1882.
In 1882 Colonel Henderson was
unanimously rendered the COMPRESSION
al nomination for the Third District
and he was elected to the Forty-eighth
Congress by a splendid majority.
Work on the appropriations committee
and as chairman of the judiciary COM
mittee made him for several years one
of the foremost members Of that body
of intellectual giants, so it was nat
ural that when Speaker Reed laid
down the gavel in 1899 Colonel Hen
derson was the unanimous choice for
that exalted place.
Colonel Henderson was elected
Speaker of the House when Congress
convened on Dec. 4, 1899. His re-
election to the speakership in Deem
Der, 1901, was insured by the election
of an increased Republican majority
in the House.
Colonel Henderson was serving his
second term as Speaker and his tenth
term in Congress when in the fall of
1902 ne startled the country by with
drawing from the political field.
He served out his term in Congress
and when he stepped down at the
close Of the session and turned over
the gavel to Speaker Elect Cannon he
was accorded one of the WarIneSt dem
onstratiOns ever witnessed in the ma
tional house.
Colonel Henderson was married
March i, 1866. to Augusta a. Fox, who
survives him. Three children were
born to them, namely: Mrs. S. c. Peas
lee and Miss Belle S. Henderson of
Dubuque and Don \. Henderson, of
California.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
STORY FREES BOY MURDERER.
brothers. Teasing Leads to Death
and Inrnr.a Nnur, Co.

brothers. Teasing Leads to Death
and Jurors Let TOunSStcr Go.
Il didn't mean to kill my brother,
Howard. but he pulled the bed covers off
from me and wouldn't let me sleep. Then
Howard got some ashes out of the CRATE
and rubbed my face with 'em. Gee, but
! was mad them and | just jumped out
of the bed, grabbed a big poker, and
smashed it at him to scare him. l didn't
mean to hit him, but just as soon as |
let her go, Howard he fell down to the
floor and hollcred for man. NirC-year-
old Harry Haas told this story to a coro-
ner'S jury in PittSburg in explaining how
he killed his brother, Howard, 13 years
old. The jurors, believing that the boy
was too young to realize the enormity of
his crime, brought in a verdict of ac-
quittal. The physicians who examined
the dead boy found that the poker had
peneua.,d the abdomen and intestines
10 the spine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
cATTLEMAN's CHASTITY FIND.
Skeletons of 200 Indians DiscOy
cred in an Arizona Cave.

ered an SaNe.
Jeff Adams, an Arizona cattleman,
found in the Superstition mountains a
few days ago a cavern 35x100 feet in
area, heaped up with the skeletons of 200
dead Indians The cavern is up in the
side of a PERCEPTIONS gorge, reached only
oy a dangerous trail. In Phoenix Adams
learned that he had rediscovered the long
lost cave where, in December of 1872,
the Fifth cavalry accomplished the great
est job of Indian killing IN the history
Of the army. The Indians, Mojaves and
Apaches, had fed to the cave, pursued
by five troops of cavalry and company
Of Maricopa Indian scouts.
The besiegers had settled down to
starve the aborigines out, when one of the
troopers discovered that by shooting at
an overhanging rock bullets could be made
to glance into the cavern. Firing in this
manner was kept up until the glancing
bullets had killed or wounded every
Apache within. Then the Maricopas led
the way and finished the bloody job.
Under the body of its mother was
found a year-old babe, which was adopted
by a Maricopa squaw, later to be sent
to eastern schools and to become the
famous Indian physician, Or. Carlos Mon
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
SUPPOSED DEAD SON RETURNS.
Man Who Left Chicago Seven Years
Ago Finds Parents In Indiana.

After seven years absence, during the
greater part of which time he was mourn
ed as dead, William Dubsky has been re-
united with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
]. Dubsky, near ODER, Ind. Young Dub
sky left his home in Chicago seven years
ago with the intention of going to South
Africa with a party of civil engineers.
Instead he changed his mind and went to
Alaska, where he says he made a for
tune. The young mans parents moved
to farm near ODER several years ago,
but he says he will build them a home in
Chicago and take them there with him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Aged Man Killed i'm AutO,

V. e. Rice, aged 60 years, father-in-law
of Judge H. D. Dickinson of the District
Court, died in st. Barnaby's hospital,
Minneapolis, as the result of injuries re-
ceived in an automobile accident. Mr.
Rice and Judge Dickinsons chauffeur
were out for a spin, when the machine
dashed over a high bank.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
Fire CrippIes San Francisco.

Fire in the central station of the San
Francisco Gas and Electric Company
caused a loss of 100000, crippled many
commercial and manufacturing establish
ments and caused the injury of six per-
sons. All the evening papers were with
out power to run their machinery and
nearly all the telegraph wires leading out
of the city were idle for hours.