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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
Wisconsin
State News
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BEHEADS HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW.
Man Recently Ont of Asylum Pun
ishes Woman for ScoIding.

ishes Woman for ScoIding.
George c. Wapp of Milwaukee has 81
fenced his mother-in-law by cutting OF
her head after knocking her down with
his fist and beating her with a poker.
Wapp was released from the insane hos
pital some weeks ago. but his mother-ln-
law, Mrs. Frederick Freund. resented his
treatment of her daughter. The other
morning, going TO his house. she began
10 berate him. according to his confession
To the police. and he knocked her down.
Then he hit her in the head with poker
while she pleaded for mercy. When she
was unconscious he took razor and cut
of her head. which he left on the floor
some feet from the body. He then went
to her house and spent the day with her
other children. Toward evening, when
the family began to be worried about the
failure OF the mother to return. Wapp
and an acquaintance volunteered to look
for her. When they stumbled across the
body in the Wapp home Wapp appeared
10 be terribly shocked. but when ques-
toned by Chief of Police Jansen he told
the whole story. He seemed to be sane,
but the police believe that his former ma
Eiss had returned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
TO PROBE MANITOWOC DEATH.
Aged EmpIOye at Hospital Dies from
WOuul in Hend.

Mystery surrounds the death of Peter
O'Brien, an aged man, who had been en-
ployed at the hospital in Manitowoc for
six years. Death was due to a deep
wound in the head which O'Brien receiv-
ed while absent from the hospital one
day short time ago. Physicians say
that his story that he sustained the in
jury in a fall is impossible, and the po-
lice will investigate the case. O'Brien
was 16 years old and is survived by a
widow and nine children. He was buried
al Grimms.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
Electric Pen,

An ingenious and yet simple method
of writing with electricity is suggested
by a Californian, who has a metal
plate, on which is laid a sheet Of paper
(white), which has been previously
soaked in solution OF potassium TO-
dide and water for about a minute.
The sheet of metal is then connected
with the zinc or negative wire of a
battery. and the positive wire is held In
the right hand and used in the place
of pen. By tracing or writing over
the paper with this wire, brown lines or
characters will Observation-Disclosures
Record.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24

How do you like your new motor
carp
First rate" answered Mr.. Cumrox.
But I hear it has had a way of
breaking down In the middle of a jour
ney.
1T has: But that's all right. Most
of the social functions mother and the
girls were taking me to l didn't care
much about in the first place. Wash
ington Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
Notice of n Contest.

A bit of spice was injected into the
Assembly session Wednesday by Willis
Ludlow of Monroe filing notice of con-
test for the seat of Fred lies, whose cleo
ton had been certified. The grounds for
the contest are that Ludlow received the
greatest number of votes, because in GER
tain precincts the election officers had
counted the vote wrongly, and because the
inspectors in certain towns counted
straight Republican tickets, where the
voter had split his ticket on the Assem-
bly, candidate.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24

There is raft of kids" in the Assem-
bly, this year, it seems, albeit many of
them have old heads on their shoulder
apparently. This has given rise to the
hope and the expectation and general CON
cession that the upper house-the Assem-
bly, being on the second floor of the
capitol and the Senate on the ground floor
will be rather more Independent than it
has in recent years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24

Benton Mother Gave Girls Lover
Money to GET Divorce,

Money TO Get Divorce.
Riley Searcey, who was shot by Fred
Benson in Rispen's livery barn in Ben
ION. shows considerable Improvement,
and it is now believed that he will re-
cover. 1t has been learned that the men
quarreled over money matters. Benson,
1t is said, had wife living in Missouri.
When he came to Benton TO work in the
mines he began paying attentions TO
Searcey's step-daughter. The girls moth
er favored his suit and loaned him $50
with which to secure divorce from his
Wife in Missouri that he might marry
the Benton girl. Benson did not pay
back the loan and Searcey pressed him
for payment. When the men met in the
livery barn an argument about the money
came up and there was a difference of 90
cents between them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
To Regulate Teachers Salaries.

William Henry Harrison of Kenosha,
supervisor of assessments for Kenosha
county, acting at the suggestion of mem
bers of the State tax commission, is pre-
pa ring a law which will have for it's pur-
pose State regulation of salaries paid to
school teachers. The law, if enacted, will
bring about revolution in the payment
of teachers salaries.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
Ice Road Is Laid Out.

The ice road on the Mississippi river
from Brownsville. Mimi, to La Crosse
has been laid out. The work was done
by George Holzhammer. the son OF the
Brownsville pioneer. who for forty-two
consecutive winters laid out the thorough
fare. After his death, year ago, his
son took up the work.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
May Be Hidden by Her Lover.

The police of Kenosha are making re-
newed efforts to find some trace of Fee
licia Capable, the comely Italian girl
who disappeared on Christmas eve. 1t
was thought that the girl committed sui
eide on account of being crossed in love
and for two days members of the life
saving crew dragged the lake for her
body. Recent developments show that
the girl has been seen since and it is now
thought that she is being hidden by her
lover or by relatives who objected to her
marriage
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
Some of the New Bills.

New bills in the Assembly provide for
a repeal of the mortgage taxation law,
a railroad co-employe law, a Jail penalty
of six months for autoists who refuse to
stop on motion of a horseman, the estab-
Ishmenr of a binding twine plant at the
State prison at cost of 100000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
Dies on Way to Feast.

Mrs. Hester Lounsbury Powell wife of
former Mayor Benjamin Z. Powell and
one of New Richmonds pioneers, died at
her home. She was stricken on board
railroad train en- route to a neighboring
town where she was intending TO spend
the holiday season with friends. Mrs.
Powell was 80 years of age.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24

the United States,
will be one of the
richest men IN the
world when he
comes into posses
sion of his share of
the fortune of Gen.
Luis Terrazas, his
father-in-law, and
adds It 10 his own
wealth. Gov. Creel
is an American In
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24

and then she'd appear and talk to
the men-young engineers, you know
After that she'd lop down and read
novels or sleep until evening, when the
men were home again. Then she'd
come to life in earnest. My, how she'd
sparkle! l used to blink-couldn' be-
lieye my own eyes, she was SO differ
emit from the daytime Dora"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
= SEATS IN CARS OR NO FARE.
La Crosse Citizens to Secure Ordi-
nance Against Railway.

La Crosse citizens have tired of stand
ing in the street cars, and will try to
pass a mo seat, no fare ordinance.
which has been introduced in the Com
mon Council. Under the ordinance it is
unlawful for the conductor to ask for
fares from any one who has not a seat.
Il cars enough to accommodate crowds
are not provided the company may be
subjected to heavy fines.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
May Not Change Law.

1t is probable that Senator Sanborn's
bill to amend the civil service law so
that it will not apply to a portion of the
legislative employees will be killed. On
the motion of Senator Sanborn himself
the bill was referred to the committee OF
legislative expenditures and employees.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
COMPLETE S1,OOO,OOO WORK.
Extensive Northwestern Operations
In ShebOvpaD Are Finished,

in ShebOygan Are Finished.
The Northwestern railroad improve
ments in Sheboygan, costing S1,O0O,0OO
and including the new belt line, viaducts,
bridge over Sheboygan river, and the new
passenger and freight depots, have been
completed, and II. y. Trip. the engineer
in charge, will leave for Fall River to
take charge of some track changes there.
Mr.. Trips crew of assistants also will
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
Railroad STATION Burns.

Central depot at Packwaukee and dam
aged the restaurant of George Kinney and
the saloon of Z. F. Markofske to the ex-
tent of $1,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
Good Name for Automobile.

"'We call our motor car 'Balzac,'"
said Mrs. C. n. Williamson once, be
the great writer, its genius is violent
and complicated
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
Interesting News Items.

A report that France had coded Tahiti
to Great Britain is officially denied in
Paris.
The equestrian statue of Gen. George
r. Mcclellan in Washington will be I'M
yelled on May 10.
Gov. Magoon signed a treaty of tx
tradition between the republics of Cuba
and Santo Domingo.
The Paris Journal says that jacques
Lebaudy. the self-styled emperor of the
Sahara is making a tour OF the United
States.
A lockout of $1,000 carpenters and
joJners has taken place in Berlin because
o: the noncompliance of the unionists
with the demands of the Master Carpen-
ters' Association.
The committee on railroads and public
service corporations of the Oklahoma con-
stitutional convention recommended 2
cent railway fare and the enactment of a
fellow servant law.
Prof. Albert William Berg, for forty
wears organist at the Church of the
TRANSPORTATION, commonly known as
THE Little Church Around the Corner"
in New York, died in that city, aged 81
years.
Prof. ]. f. Greer, principal of the pub
iIc schools at Waco. Texas, was thrown
from a buggy while the horse was running
away and instantly killed.
Prince and Princess de Broglie made
their London debut at the Tivoli Music
Hall. They were well received. Prince
de Broglie married Estelle Alexander of
California and his family disowned him
for so doing.
fire which began in a row of tene-
nent buildings in Ferry street, Hoboaen,
\. j.. spread rapidly to the adjoining
tenements and did heavy damage. The
loss was about 100000 The origin of
the fire is believed to have been incen-
diary.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
Freight Cars Hit Hotel.

Runaway freight cars in the st. Paul
yards crashed into the Union hotel in
GAINESVILLE and seriously injured two per-
sons. The cars partially wrecked the
hotel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24

What I'm getting at, Aunt Sally"
Mrs. Billings went on, lis simply this:
was brought Up wrong. | mend
and sweep and dust and clean for Jack
Billings, just as | always did for Faith
er. but do you suppose I'm an exalted
angel, that's it's a privilege to live
with? No, indeed! I'm just good,
ordinary wife, doing my duty; that's
all. Think how you used to say, Just
YOU wait and then see how Rufus
Chandler adores her, after being mar
ried to her seven years. l say she's
tremendously clever, and I'd like to
take lessons of her"
"Eunice Billings!" Aunt Sally reviv-
ed at this heresy. you don't mean a
word you say. Just you wait Rufus
Chandler isn't telling all he thinks
Chicago Daily News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
MORE THAN 35 DEAD.
Forty Hurt in Indiana Accident Due
to Explosion of Powder.


Nearly forty lives were lost in Big
-Four wreck at Sandford, Ind, Satur-
day night.
The cause of the disaster has not
been fully explained, as several theo-
rieS are advanced. The result was
terrible. The shock was felt for thirty
miles. many believing it an earthquake
The three coaches of the passenger
train were filed. The entire train, in
GLIDING the locomotive, was blown from
the track. The coaches were demOliSh-
ell. the engine was hurled fifty feet and
the passengers either blown to pices,
consumed by fire or rescued in a more
or less injured condition. At least thir-
ty-tive injured, some fatally, are at the
hospitals in Terre Haute and Paris,
III. Several are also being cared for
at SandfOrd
According to trainmen of the freight,
the explosion of the powder was caused
by the conclusion made by the passing
passenger train. which was slowing
down for the station at Sanford. An
ot-iSl lllCols SdS CSIetplllS Ilolu
an oil pipe line near by entered the car
containing the powder and a spark
from the passing engine ignited the
gas.
More than two score of lives were
sacrificed and three scores of persons
received serious injuries in railroad
wrecks in the United States the same
day. Weather conditions, combined
with the frailties of employees and de-
fects in construction of roadbed and
machinery, caused dozen different
wrecks in widely separated parts of the
country, half of which resulted in fatal
tiles.
Fire, incident to the use of steam en-
gines in connection with wooden cars,
added to the horrors of a wreck caused
by fog hiding a stop signal Oh the Big
Four road at Fowler. Ind, in which vii
layers who rushed to the rescue were
driven away by the flames, and stood
helplessly by while the victims of the
disaster were slowly roasted to death.
Scarcely less full of horror was a
wreck on the same railroad near Terre
Haute. Ind, caused by car of powder
on siding exploding and blowing to
pieces passenger train on the main
track. Passengers and members of the
train crew there met death or injury
without warning.
At Desoto, Kan. defective engine
boiler blew up, hurting the fireman and
engineer to death, and in Minnesota
fast train was ditched because of de-
fects in the track
Confusion of orders or needless of
signals caused disastrous collisions at
Minonk Ill. !; Denmark. S. c.; Meridian,
Miss, and Troupe. Texas. while a wash
out was responsible for wreck in
Michigan. and one near Peoria.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24

matism in her shoulder few months
ago, and since then he has dressed her
in the morning and done up her hair.
That's a fact. She told me herself.
And one Saturday afternoon Jack went
sup there to see Mr.. Chandler on bust
ness matter and he couldn't make any
one hear when he raped. The sew
ing machine was going and it made
such a noise-needed oiling, of course
and at last Jack pushed open the
door. and there was Rufus Chandler
down on the floor, working the treadle
of that machine with his hands, while
Lazy Dora stitched a seam"
For the lands sake. What did Ru-
fus Chandler say to Jack?"
HE came in the hall to talk bust
ness, so that Dora wouldn't be worried,
and before he went back he said: Bill
lings. if ever man was privileged to
live with an angel, l am that man.
We'll, | never!" calculated Aunt
Sally, dropping back into her chair.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
Twenty-Five Persons Are Killed
in Disastrous Wreck.
MANY ROASTED ALIVE
Queen City Special Smashes Into q
Freight at Fowler, Ind.
Com binatiOn Car of Passenger Train
Is Crushed TO SpIinters aud Takes
Fire-Those Who Did Not Die by
shock Are Slowly Burned TO Death
Fog Obscured a Signal.

Twenty-Five persons were killed in
the wreck of Big Four passenger train
No. 3S near Fowler, Ind. Saturday,
twenty of whom were burned alive,
and forty others were injured. Those
killed were nearly all in the combina-
ton car, which took fire and burned.
The sleeping ears were not wrecked
The wrecked train was Queen City
Special, east-bound, from Chicago, and
was going fifty miles an hour. Owing
to a dense fog the engineer of the flyer
was unable to see the light on the sema
phore, which directed him to stop, rs Il
west-bound freight had the right of
way.
The train dispatcher, knowing that
the dense fog would prevent the train
men from seeing the block signal, went
outside and waved his lantern frantic
ally and fired at least half a dozen
shots from his revolver but the train
went crashing by and moment later
the crash came, the passenger running
into the freight, head on.
The tender of No. 80 telescoped rhe
baggage car, the rear end of the tender
cut through to within ten feet of the
rear of the smoker. The firemen of
trai LII lint
the engineers escaped by jumping. The
report of the collision was heard all
over the town. Fire bells and wills
ties called the people to the aid of The
injured.
Immediately following the crash The
wreckage caught fire and the people
were burned before they could be OK
treated from the ruins. The heat of
the burning cars was so intense that
the rescuers could not g< near enough
TO help.
Crushed Like an EgEsheIi.
The trains met three-quarters of a
mile east of Fowler. Both were at top
speed. When they struck the engines
were welded together. The combina-
ton car, first in the passenger train,
was crushed like an eggshell under the
impact of the sleepers behind. Before
the grinding, splintering mass had
time to settle bright flames sprang up
i'll half a dozen places. The cOmbina-
ton car was smashed to kindling and
much of it's wreckage, tossed up on the
kissing locomotive wreckage, burned
fiercely. In a few minutes the wind
had driven the fire back into the first
sleeping car. It's occupants knew the
car would burn and before the fire at
tackled it had fed, some of them in
night attire. All the coaches, except
the sleepers and the private car of
Vice President Schaff, were destroyed.
OF the passengers known to have
been in the combination coach at the
head of the train only five were res
cued. Most of the others died horri-
bic deaths by fire and steam, pinned
in the wreckage of the car.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24

The picture illustrates a not unfa-
miliar sight in Southern California,
where vegetation of all kinds makes a
wonderful growth in a single season
This particular pumpkin vine grew
along the roadside near Los Angeles
and completely covered the trunk and
remaining branches of dead tree. ex-
tending to a height of about twenty
feet 1t was a pretty sight during the
poisoning period, and later, when the
golden fruit hung from the branches, it
was even more beautiful.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24

No doctor can cure what ais you II
you have q mean disposition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24

Sow good deeds to-day II you would
reap happiness tomorrow.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
COMING cRoEsUs OF MEXICO.
Mexican ambassador to Be One OF
Worlds Richest Men

Enrique G. Creel, acting governor of
the State of Chihuahua, who has just
been appointed Mexican ambassador to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
assembly AnnOinf mentS.

Sergeant-at-Arms Irvine of the Assem-
big has announced the following appoint
mentS:
Assistant Sergeant at-Arms-Henry A.
Graham of hartford, Green Lake County.
Graham is a farmer. "a years old, and was
sheriff of his county from 1905 to 1907.
ostmaster-Ralph W. Cheever of Clinton
Rock County. Mr.. Cheever is a publisher,
80 years old. secretary of the Wisconsin
Press Association, and was postmaster 1886
1890.
Post Messenger-John Il. Snider, Kill
bourn.
Policeman-John Steele, Menomonie He
has been deputy sheriff
Night Watchman-Obert Sletten. La
Crosse. He is a university student and
clerk in the State census department
Weighs 1872.
Laborer-IIenry GrapenZlier Brooklyn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
Lessons in Sex Physiology.

Referring to the recent movement start
ed by the Society of Sanitary and Moral
American Prophylaxis, the New York
School Journal now declares that the
necessity of recognizing sex in the prac-
tical teaching of pupils in the public
schools is before us in greater force
lhan ever before. DR.. Mary Putnam, who
had investigated the schools of twenty
cities, found no attention given to sex in
struction, except in three girls high
schools, where women physicians gave
brief talks ON topics relating to child
birth. The result was that shame. mys-
cry and actual evil were Associated with
lex in the minds of children. especially
those over 10 years old" She opposes
the doctrine of leaving the matter alone
guilty. as many innocent ones are infect
ed for one guilty one. Dean Ballet of
the New York school of pedagogy say
the subject has passed the stage of in
1uiry as to whether these subjects shall
be taught. for the present question is how
the subject is to be presented. John r.
Elliott of the New York ethical culture
schools opposes the plan of having a ply
sician brought in to teach sex knowl-
edge, as it increases the wrong notion
the practical suggestion of using the boy
and girl leaders to influence their mates
in the right direction.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
: IIh w.
Carpenter, Brooklyn.
Prison for AutOists.

Railway men and chauffeurs who,
through carelessnesS or ignorance. cause;
fatal accidents are made guilty of man
slaughter in bills introduced Thursday
ir the lower house.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
Baby of the Assembly.

Elmer T.. Cain of Wauwatosa has been
heraided as the baby of the Assembly, but
that is distinction to which he can lay
nc claim. This distinction which fell to
Lawrence Ledvina of Manitowoc two
years ago, now belongs to John f. Baker
of Alma Center. Jackson county, who,
like Ledyina. is law student at the uni
versity There is another Baker in the
Assembly. the gentleman from Rock-A-
s. Baker. who is che of the patriarchs of
the House, while bis namesake from Jack
son county is but % years of age. He
will be &c in November. while Cain. who
is also %. will celebrate his next birthday
in February.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-24
senator StondaII Failing.

Senator and Mrs. A. NJ. Stondall left
for Mexico Tuesday morning, Senator
StondaH having been suddenly ordered
south by his physician for the benefit OF
his health. About six weeks ago Senator
Stondall returned from a trip to the Isle
OF Pines suffering from a severe cold,
which he has been unable to shake off
Senator Stcndall, who is an extensive
land dealer in Wisconsin and the North
west. went to the Isle of Pines with a
party to inspect a large timber tract of
10000 acres in which he is interested He
was elected to the Senate two years ago.