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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
FOIL DAYLIGHT FoOTPADS.
Bank Messengers Hold Coin Despite
Agony.

Agony.
While Joseph Elder. bookkeeper, and
Samuel Adelmann, messenger of the JEFF
ferson bank, with main offices in Canal
street, near the Bowery, were distribut-
ing cash among the banks branch institu-
lions the other day they were set upon
in front of 50 First street. New York,
by a trio of footpads. who 8-ied to steal
a bag containing $4,000 in cash that the
men carried. The attempt was frustrat-
ed and the men captured, but not until
both Adelmann and Elder were seriously
cut and stabbed Turning the corner in
First street, Elder and Adelmann were
surprised by handfuIs of red pepper be-
ing thrown in their faces. Screaming
with pain and fright, they made a dash
TO get away, but the three men closed on
them, and one slashed at Adelmann's
hand that held the money bag. Policeman
Gilon heard the cries, and, rapphg for
help, ran up in time to take hand.
The highwaymen put up a stiff fight, and
Adelmann got stabs in the face, eyes,
neck, hands, body and arms. At the hos
pital. where he was removed in an ambu-
lance, it was feared that he would die.
Elder was also severely cut, as were
two of the policemen. Gilon managed to
get one of the bandits, and by liberal
clubbing to reduce him to submission.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
TOLD IN A FEW LINES.

An operation On Jacob Ritz, who shot
himself at New York, removed four ounces
of his brain, but he retains all his facul-
ties.
Alvin F. Heaton, Jr., school boy in
Kanab, Utah, is said to have confessed
numbering Mary Stevens. 10 years old, to
whom he had been attentive
United States citizens residing in the
City of Mexico are conducting an excit-
ing ballot to see whether or not intoxi-
cants shall be served at the Fourth of
July celel ration.
The defalcation of William Montgom-
cry, formerly cashier of the Allegheny
National bank at Pittsburg, will reach
S1.2JO.G00. instead of S469,OO0, as first
estimated, it is said.
William B. Truesdale, president of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western rail-
road in an interview in New York declar-
ed that the anthracite coal trade had not
suffered as greatly as generally supposed
during the business depression.
Fire destroyed property valued at s5S,-
600 at Barrytown Landing, y. Y. Nearly
every building in the town was destroyed.
1t is believed the fire started from a
plumbers lamp at the Riverside Hotel.
\ bin appropriating $4,000 for a
memorial 10 Abraham Lincoln on rhe site
of the Lincoln birthplace in kentucky
was passed by the Senate upon motion
Of Mr.. Wetmora.
An earnest bur Ineffective appeal was
made in the House by Messrs Richard
a pension of $50 month to Ellen Ber-
rard Lee. widow of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee.
Gen. Crozier, chief Of ordnance of the
army, issued an order in Washington, ID.
c., to have all caliber go Calling and
Colt automatic guns .arned into the
Springfield (Mass.) armory for RECLAIM
bering and resighting for model of 1906
ammunition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
LAUNCH NEW WARSHIP.
Michigan Takes the Water with Miss
Carol Newberry as Sponsor.

taTOt Ne"DcFfg as SponsoT.
Into the restless waters of the Della
ware river, on whose shores so many OF
the ships of the new navy have been
built, there was launched the other day
the great steel hull of what will be the
formidable battleship Michigan. Built by
the New York Shipbuilding Company at
South Camden, n j., the Michigan,
sister ship to the South Carolina under
construction at the Cramps shipyard, on
the Philadelphia side of the Delaware, is
more than 80 per cent completed and will
be turned over to the government in about
a year. The launching of the Michigan
was successful and was witnessed by a
number of invited guests, including Tru-
man II. Newberry, assistant Secretary of
the Navy; Secretary Garfield of the In
terror Department, Gov. Warner of Mich
igan, the United States Senators from
Michigan and other prominent persons of
Washington and the Wolverine State.
The sponsor was Miss Carol Barnes New
berry of Detroit, daughter of Assistant
Secretary Newberry.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
SAYS GUINNESS WOMAN LIVES.
Letter from Arkansas Man Tells of
Her Supposed Escape.

Mayor barrow and his law partner, II.
Y. Worden, of Laporte, Ind, who repre-
resent Ray Lamphere, accused of murder
ing Mrs. Belle Guinness and her three
children, are disturbed over receiving a
letter from an Arkansas man saying Mrs.
Guinness is alive. The writer is known
to Mayor barrow, who places credence in
his statements. The letter positively
declares that Mrs. Guinness escaped in
mans clothing and that the writer, not
later than May 3, five days after she was
burned to death according to the official
statement of Coroner Mack, received a
letter from her. He says he will produce
this letter and turn it over to officers, and
offers to give additional Information re-
garding her if he is personally inter-
viewed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
BABY SAFE AS CARS RUN OVERT
Little Julia Weig1e Central Figure
i'm N Remarkable Escape

One little Chicago girl baby has been
run over by an entire train of ears and
yet left practically uninjured. This re-
markable child is Julia Weigle, who has
attained the age of years and still lives
with her father and mother at their home
at 2795 North Forty-ninth avenue, in
spite of her experience with an express
on the Northwestern railroad. Julia was
playing in a sandpile close beside the
railroad tracks near her home when the
train rushed by. The suction from the
swiftly flying engine dragged the little
girl under the wheels and the Mortified
engineer, watching the accident from his
cab high above the iron drivers, pushed
the throttle and stopped the ten heavy
passenger cars, expecting nothing else
than to find the mangled body of the tiny
girl back between the rails. But julia
had been pulled by the wind suction
completely into the center of the track
and there she had lain, too astonished to
move, until the whole train passed over
her. A few scratches on her chubby legs
and shoulders, a cut lip and barked fore
head were her only hurts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
A. =. CrOyyninshield Dead.

Admiral A. S. Crowninshield, Z. S. N,
retired, died at the Episcopal hospital in
Philadelphia Wednesday. The admiral
had been at the hospital about a month
and an operation was performed on him
for an affection of the nose. He never
fully recovered from the shock. The i'm
mediate cause of death, however, was
hardening of the tissues of the body.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
GREAT DRY WAVE IS
SWEEPING THE LAND
Report 70 Presbyterians Shows As
Fer Cent of People Free
from Saloons.
BIG TOWNS SPURN LIQUOR.
List OF Eight Bishops Selected by
the Methodist General Confer
ence at Baltimore.

Eight million six hundred thousand
people abolished the saloon last year.
including four entire States. The seven
prohibition States have a population
of over 100000, while 100000
more live in other prohibition terri
tory, making about 10 per cent of the
total population of the United States
free from the influence of the saloon.
OF the thirty-four legislatures in ses-
sion last year, twnty passed laws IN
favorable to the liquor traffic, while
not a legislature has been in session
the present year that has not had one
or more temperance bills before it. In
recent years no legislation favorable to
the liquor traffic has been eEacted.'
Such was the language in which the
pogress of the temperance move nent
in the United States was reported to
the general assembly of the Presby-
City.
1t was shown that the victories of
the opponents of the traffic were not
confined to rural districts, bnt were
obtained in such cities as Kansas City,
Kan; Atlanta, Ga; Birmingham, Ala,
and Worcester, Mass, each with a pop
ulation of over 100000. Ten other
cities of over 10000; twenty-five over
10000, and seventy-six having between
5000 and 5000 have banished the
saloon.
The Temperance Committee reported
that while there was a time when
more States than at present had pro-
hibitory laws, more than twice as
many people to-day live under prohi-
milton as at any previous time in the
history of the United States. The aim
aim of the temperance work was given
as twofold. First, to keep people away
from strong drink, and, second, to
keep strong drink away from the peo-
pie. Continuing, the committee report
ed: 1.-THE latter may be accomplished
by law, so far as men can be made
to respect and obey the law. The for
mer must be done mainly by educa-
ton, moral suasion and religious int1u-
ence."
New NJ. e. Bishops.
The Episcopal election of. the Metho-
dist Episcopal Conference of 1908 was
completed at Baltimore on Tuesday,
and when announcement was made Of
the selection of the eighth and last
bishop many of the delegates heaved
signs of relief. The full list of selec-
tons is here given:
DR.. w. f. Anderson. DR.. w. S. Lewis.
! DR.. J. L. Nelson. DR.. E. II. Hughes.
DR.. w. A. Quayle. DR.. R. Mcintyre.
DR.. C. w. Smith. DR.. T. NJ. Bristol.
The Rev. George A. Cookies appeal
against the ruling of Bishop David H.
Moore in the matter of Mr.. Cookies
charges against Chancellor J. r. Day
of Syracuse University was dismissed
by the Judiciary Committee of the Gen
eral Conference. Mr.. Cooke preferred
charges against Chancellor Day before
the New York conference alleging that
DR.. Day had spoken disrespectfully of
President Roosevelt in his writings.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
HUNDREDS LOST IN TYPHOON.
New Disaster at Hankow Follows
Recent Deatb-Dea1ing Flood.

The steamer ShinonnO Maru of the
japanese line, which arrived Thurs
day at Victoria, B. c., brought news
of another disaster through typhoon
at Hankow, following on the disastrous
freshet which involved the loss of more
than 1000 lives with the wrecking of
1000 junks and the stranding of many
steamers, including several of foreign
river craft.
The shores were thick with corpses
of jewellers along the river. Hundreds
were recovered before the steamer left
Shanghai. The typhoon came suddenly,
and in a few hours reduced hundreds
of boats in the Kan river to sprinters.
Steamers broke away from their moor
ings, and only those which could get
up steam quickly escaped.
News was also brought of a great
coal mining disaster in Kwang Sa,
where 1000 lives were lost when the
mine took fire
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
Receiyer.S Sule Is Ordered

Judge MCGEE in the Circuit Court in
Rapid City, S. D., ordered receivers
sale of the Missouri River and North
western railway, a line forty miles long,
operating between that city and Mystic.
The sale is to take place on June %. The
sale will be upon the foreclosure of a
mortgage on the road securing a bond
issue of 81 100000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
In Church Ignorant Of Fire

While the congregation of Hennepin
Avenue NJ. E. church in Minneapolis
listened to the pastor fire burned over the
heads of the 500 people, and less than
thirty minutes after the benediction the
roof was all ahame. A chandelier weigh
ing several hundred pounds fell when the
FOOTBALLS of the worshipers had hardly
died out. Damage of $4,000 was caused.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
CLOWNS TRICK is FATAL.

James Murphy, or BaInau, of the
New York HippodrOme, Loses Life.
James Murphy, known on the stage as
James Balnau, one of the clowns at the
New York Hippodrome, is dead at Flower
hospital. Several days ago he was ex-
perimenting with a cartridge which he
had fixed into his clowns slapstick, hop
ing that the arrangement would serve to
make a loud report whenever he used this
weapon. The cartrige exploded and one
of the veins in his neck was cut. There
was excitement at the Hippodrome at the
time of the accident, which occurred just
before an evening performance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
Terrific Storm in Texas.

A terrific wind and rain storm, that at
times developed into a tornado, swept
Texas. The destruction to crops and
vegetation, trees and shrubbery was the
greatest reported in years. In numerous
places houses were unroofed and small
villages and hamlets in many instances
were inundated by the terrific rainfall,
which in four hours reached seven inches
in many localities.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
Liability of Railroads.

The United States Supreme Court has
sustained the decision of the Arkansas
courts awarding S1.242 damages to the
widow of a brakeman killed on the Iron
Mountain while trying TO couple cars not
equipped with the standard coupler re-
uuired by the law The defense was that
the road had taken reasonable care by
providing certain aids, but Justice Moody
said that there was no escape from the
express provision of the law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
OPERATOR SENT FALSE WIRE.
Inserted Word s'Not'' in Albany Mes
sage, Investigator Reports.

Inserted Word ''NOt' in Albany Mes
sage, Investigator Reports.
United States District Attorney Baker
in Washington has made public the report
on his investigation into the insertion of
the word not in the telegram sent by
Representative J. Sloat Fassett of New
York to State Senator Cassidy at Albany
regarding the vote on the then pending
anti-race track legislation. The report
holds that a telegraph operator, Julian
E. Undertake, caused a false telegram to
be wired to Mr.. Cassidy by inserting the
word mot" in transmitting the message.
The'report holds that the crime of forgery
was committed. The report also says
Timberlake admitted that he caused the
alleged false telegram to be sent. The
case will be presented to the grand jury
at once,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
SAYS LOVE PROMPTED MURDER.
Prisoner Declares Affection for EN-
pIoyer's Wife Led to Crime

pIoyer's Wife Led to Crime.
Albert Roubick confessed that he shot
and killed his former employer, Balo
Kvasnicka, a Chicago jeweler, at the lat
ter's country home at North Judson, Ind,
on a recent night. Roubick, who had
been the hired man on the farm and had
been discharged, said that he committed
the murder because of a growing love for
was reciprocated. 1t is said that several
weeks ago Mrs. Kvasnicka consulted a
lawyer in relation to the procuring of a
divorce, but that later her difficulties with
her husband were settled. Roubick, dis
appointed by the turn of events, then
planned and executed the murder. Mrs.
Kvasnicka collapsed when told of the
charges made by the prisoner.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
Gets Ready for Deaths Call.

Having a premonition of death, II. K
Inman of Columbus. Ohio, an old soldier,
dug his own grave, bought his own vault,
and asked his relatives to see that he was
buried in his army blanket. The other
day death came to him suddenly from
heart disease. Inman had read the Bible
100 timpS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
Ireasurer ROhheI of G2S6.

James Durbin, treasurer of a street car
mems union, living in Austin, Chicago,
when within 100 feet of his home, was
attacked by three armed men, who over
powered him and gagged, and bound him
TO a fence Then they took from him
1886 which he had collected from mem
bers of his local.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
OsIer AssniIs Homeopntbs.

During the commencement exercises of
the New York Homeopathic College Dean
Harvey said that DR. Osler, in response
to an invitation to address the alumni
banquet, had sent letter saying, in eff
feet, that the homeopathic were a bunch
of ouacks
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
DESTROY Harper's MarazfneS

Flames which practically destroyed the
interior of the building at 32S Pearl
street, New York. resisted the fremen so
stubbornly that thev were obliged to flood
the building and those adjoining, thereby
running from S150,oOO to 100000 worth
of Harper's Magazines, Harper's Bazaars
and the paper stock of the magazine pub
fishing company.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
Men Swept over Falls.

4 dispatch from Spokane says that
John Sharpless, john Miles and a young
Englishman named Richmond, all of Mel
son, B. c., We're swept over the falls in
the Kootani river and persisted. 1t is be-
leved that the men either miscalculated
the force of the current or that an oar
broke and they lost control of the boat,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
Four Killed in Mine Blast.

In a mine explosion at Gainesville,
Ohio. three men were killed outright and
one man was killed by falling pipe after
he had been dragged out of the mine by
the rescuers. The dead are John Rowe,
Westerly Wright, Theodore Lewis and
Frank Skinner
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
VIII Contestants Win.

In Clinton, H., the jury in the Smell
will case brought in a verdict setting
aside the will of Col Thomas Smell after
being out but six hours. The jury was
unanimous in declaring its belief that Col.
Smell was of unsound mind when the will
was Mritten.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04

{ J. Dalzell Brown, former vice presi-
dent and general manager Of the Cali
fornia Safe Deposit and Trust Company,
San Francisco. who was sentenced to
eighteen months Imprisonment in the
State penitentiary for ENLIGHTENMENT, viii
Immediately begin his sentence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
Seven Merrymakers Drown.

Seven prominent young society people
of Clarendon. Ark. were drowned as the
result of the explosion of the oil tank of
a gasoline launch in which they were TAX
ing a moonlight excursion. The boat was
wrecked Nine members of the party
were rescued with difficulty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
Bomb Thrower Taken mt Para.

A Para (BraziD dispatch says Bel
gian anarchist named Blanchet, who had
escaped from Cayenne, has been arrested
while in the act of throwing a bomb filled
with dynamite at the Belgian consulate
in Para.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
Four Killed in Tornado.

Peter Rudy, his wife and two children
were killed in a tornado which passed two
miles east of Alva, Oklahoma. at mid
night Several persons were injured. A
number of farm houses were destroyed or
damaged and growing crops suffered.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
Kansas windstorm Kills Man.

4 terrific windstorm, almost of the pro-
portions of a tornado, which passed over
the southern part of jewell county Kan,
killed one man, George Hahn, and in
iured twenty-five persons, seven of them
probably fatally.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
FLOODS DEvAsTATE OKLAHOMA.

Towns Under Water, Bridges
Wrecked and Roads Stopped.
Heavy rains and cloudbursts, continu-
ing three days, forced Oklahoma's rivers
over their banks, flooded a great part of
the State, swept away many bridges and
put every railroad out of business. West
Guthrie is inundated with from seven to
ten feet of water. which is rushing
through the streets. The Cottonwood
river is twenty-five miles wide. The last
road to suspend operations was the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas, which was
forced to quit when the bridge on the
main line at Eufaula went down.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
Fears Disgrace; Kills Self.

Because he feared that he was suspect
ed of being involved in a hotel robbery
case. Walter Johnson, n young man of
Chesterfield. near Trenton, \. J., COM
mitted suicide by cutting his throat in the
home of lis aged mother.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
SEEKING MURDERER; INSANE.
Wisconsin Official Becomes Lost in
Woods and Wanders to st. Paul.

Sheriff B. ]. Beartchue of Lincoln
county, Wisconsin, is in the custody of
Sheriff Gerber Of Ramsey county, Mime
sofa, on charge of insanity The Wis
consin sheriff was caught the other night
while promenading the avenues in st.
Paul fourishing a revolver. The mans
condition is supposed to be due to exhaus-
ton. He was lost in the woods for three
days while in search of man wanted
for murder. Finally he boarded a train
in starved and exhausted condition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
nafuye Proves Death Tran

Fourteen persons who took refuge on
an island formed between the new and
old channels of Red river, near Colbert.
Okla. are reported to have been drowned
when the flood waters swept over the
place where they stood.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
Mounted Policeman Killed.

Charles ]. Peterson, mounted police
man, was shot and instantly killed by an
unknown Hungarian while trying to make
an arrest in Cincinnati. A bystander
named Bower was shot in the groin, but
not dangerously wounded. The Hunga-
rian used a shotgun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
Twenty Russ Peasants Hanged.

Twenty peasants who took part in re-
cent agrarian disorders in the Ekaterino-
slav district were hanged at Kherson.
Russia. under decree Of 4 court martial
They belonged TO peasant association
the avowed objert of which was to drive
out landed bn,oprietors by the burning of
their estates.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
Fifteen Fall from Airship.

The new Morrell airship burst in mid
air on trial trip at Oakland, Cal, and
fifteen occupants were dashed to the
ground, most of them being seriously in
iured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
Efnds Thaw Insane.

In Poughkeepsie. n. Y, Supreme Court
Justice Joseph Morschauser filed his de-
cisiou in the case of Harry X. Thaw.
The court in his decision holds that
Thaw is still insane and not fit person
to be at large.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
Priest Almost Killed in Church.

A maniac attacked Rev. Father Joseph
F. Lubeley as the latter completed the
church at Salisbury, Mo-, and inflicted
injuries that may prove fatal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
Crash Kills Three; Injuries Fifty.

Three persons were instantly killed, five
fatally injured and forty-fve seriously
hurt in a collision between trolley cars
on Germantown avenue, near Chestnut
Hill. a Philadelphia suburb.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
Theatrical Mru Dies.

David Henderson, newspaper man and
theatrical manager and producer, died of
Bright's disease at Drexel hospital in Chi
cago.