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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-14
CHRONOLOGY OF INDIANA
MULTI-MURDER MYSTERY.

MAIDS Albert Sorensen. Austin. H.. dies
mysteriously (19oo). His widow col
lects $500 insurance.
Candy store at Elizabeth street and
Grand avenue, Chicago, owned by Soren
sens, burns. Insured
Two peculiar fires in Austin home. In
surance collected.
Widow marries Joe Guinness. Moves
to Laporte farm. Adopts Jennie Olsen
Guinness killed $500. Widow saws
meat cleaver fell on his head Collects
$500 insurance.
Ray Lamphere goes to work for Mrs
Guinness as hired man.
Widow sets dogs on visitors.
Neighbors see lanterns on farm at :
a. m.
Jennie Olsen disappears Real parents
are told she is in Los Angeles school. but
can not find her (19o6l.
Andrew Helgelein, Aberdeen Is. d..
answers matrimonial ad. and arrives at
Laporte farm. Loans Mrs. Guinness ST.
900. Disappears with like amount in
pocket. Widow says he went to Norway
Mrs. Guinness (190I) tells sheriff
strange man killed child in woods near
farm. Sheriff finds only empty grave
Ray Lamphere arrested for annoying
Mrs. Guinness.
Widow tells lawyer april 25l that
Lamphere intends to kill her. Draws VI
will.
Home burns April %. Bodies of three
children and headless woman found in
ruins.
Lamphere arrested in hollow tree, hid
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-14

Four of the bodies were found buried
in a refuse pile about $50 feet from the
house. while another body was dug
up within a few feet of the ruined
home. 1t is the opinion of Coroner
Mack and physicians who examined the
bodies that they were burned after
death. Helgelein was easily identified
by his brother, although the remains
had been badly mutilated The body
of the other man shows a red muStache.
The discovery Of the bodies primarily
was due to the efforts of Mr. Hedge
lein, of Mansfield, S. D., brother of
Andrew. The former had known of
his brothers correspondence with Mrs.
Guinness and of the latter's trip 10
LaPOrte. When the brother arrived
in LapOrte he demanded Il thorough
search Of the Guinness premises. Two
weeks ago he had been informed in a
letter written by Mrs. Guinness that
his brother had gone to Norway.
Mrs. Arthur Olander. 2S1S South
Park avenue, Chicago, sister of Jennie
Olson Guinness. also spent two DAYS in
Laporte following the fire searching the
ruins in quest of the girl. The theory
now is advanced that Jennie knew too
much concerning the death of Mrs. Gun
ness second husband, who succumbed
TO wounds received from a meat chop
per four years ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-14
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS.

An ice cream factory is the latest adj
dition to the American plant in the Pan
anna canal zone.
President Castro of Venezuela has or
dered the port of La Guavra closed be-
cause of three deaths and twelve cases
of a mysterious tubercular fever there.
The department of municipal engineer
ing at Washington is planning a complete
system Of macadam roads for the canal
zone and work is being pushed forward
rapidly. In the vicinity of Panama there
have been constructed since American oc-
cupation about eight miles of macadam
roads.
The largest single Easter church offer
ing in New York was S15S00O at Grace
church. 1t included a $4,000 memorial
fund. to be used for endowment of a
home for aged men,
Half a hundred survivors-plectical
all there are ieft-of the Ninth New York
volunteers, more commonly known as
Hawkins Zouaves, held their annual re-
union at the Hotel Astor. New York.
Gen. Vigy, with a column Of 400 men.
is making demonstration in the Ain
chair region of Algeria to suppress anti
French fanaticism which exists among
the Berber and eastern Moorish tribes
men.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-14
WHISKY TO BE DEFINED.
Judicial Determination of Ingredi-
ents Expected as Result of Suit.

After months of preliminary Skin
mishing between the government and
the whisky manufacturers, the public
is about to ascertain just what consti-
tutes real whisky. A test case has been
started. leading distillery having filed
its answer to a suit begun by the De
partment of Justice, according to pre-
arrangement.
The question of what really is wills
ky has been a thorn in the side of the
pure food law since its enactment
The President was appealed to, but he
did not know and passed the problem
along to the Attorney General for
decision. MI. Ronaparte sat up late
many nights and evolved a schedule.
This did not suit the manufacturers.
The Attorney General decided that
whisky was whisky; that mixture of
two WHISTLES was q blend that q mix
ture of whisky with neutral spirits was
compound. and could be termed a
blend, and that neutral spirits. doc
tOred and colored, must be called imi-
tation whisky. In his opinion these es-
sential facts should appear on the la
bells of bottles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-14
Over the Alps by Wafer.

H. u. Hunting reports IN the Technical
World Magazine how an Italian engineer
named Caminada has undertaken to trans
port freight across the Alps from Genoa
to Basel by novel system of water tubes
linking the Mediterranean with the Baltic
and North seas. The tubes are to be
constructed in pairs parallel at inclnes
corresponding to the natural contour of
the land with open water levels at con-
venient intervals. Water derived from
the mountain streams and lakes will be
used to fill the tubes while gates at each
water level so control the inflow and out
flow that while the water is rising as one
of the parallel tubes is filling up the other
tube is emptying into it. Thus boat hoat-
ed into the upper end of one of the tubes
passes down the incline to the lower end.
as the water level falls and at the same
time this wafer let into the twin tube
may lift another boat from the lower end
Of the incline to the higher. The boat,
both in rising and descending. is kept at
a proper depth of water by two running
sheaves, placed upon the prov and below
the stern respectively, which will guide
Sse boat on its way with two rails fixed
longitudinally on top and bottom of the
lock, springs being provided to avoid
shocks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-14
EXPIRES AS TROOPS HUNT.
Murderer Shoots himself After Bar
Reading Barn and Defyfng Arrest.


Reading Barn and Defyfng Arrest.
After a company of State militia had
been ordered to capture Berth Deyany,
who barricaded himself in a barn near
Washington Court House, Ohio, after
having slain two persons, possibly
third, and fatally wounded another, De-
vany committed suicide. Devany's first
victim was Miss Ida Bird, aged %
years, whom he shot TO death in her home.
Her mother, who attempted to save the
girl, was fatally wounded. The cause
OF this shooting is not definitely known,
but is supposed to have been jealousy.
Devany then fed and took refuge from a
crowd which was following him in the
barn of Silas Shackelford The owner
entered the barn and ordered him TO
leave. He was shot down. Thomas
Shackelford, son of the slain man, is
thought to have been in the barn at the
time his father was murdered. Four shots
were heard by the crowd outside later,
and it is supposed the younger man also
was slain. Seeing the local police were
unable to effect capture, the Mayor sent
an appeal to the Governor for aid. In
response the State authorities ordered
Company VI, Fourth regiment, o. \. g.,
under command of Capt. Allen, to storm
the barn. They found Devany inside
dead
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-14
JEWISH PLAN WORLD WIDE.
Effort to Restrict Colonial Trus
Fund to Palestine Defeated.

Fund to Palestine Defeated.
A petition of the Jewish Colonial Trust
for power from the court 10 restrict its
operations to Palestine was dismissed in
London by the court of chancery. The
trust has a capital of 100000, which
has been subscribed with the object of
promoting the welfare of the Jewish race
in all parts of the world. The managers
of the trust, who were supported by
considerable section of the stockholders,
contended that the colonization Of Pales-
tine and neighboring territory was the
great ideal Of Zionism and the only OBJ
ject worth entertaining" Israel Gang
viii and other dissentients bitterly oppos-
ed the scheme OF limitation. 1T would
mean," Mr.. Zangwill declared to the
court, sitting idle before the closed gates
of Zion.' The promised land, he declar-
ed, was not at present attainable, and
the proposed restriction would prevent
the trust from ameliofating the distress
of prosecuted Jews in many parts of the
world. In dismissing the petition Justice
Eve took Mr. Zangwill's view. He said
that if he sanctioned the suggested al
teration he would be doing little to i'm
prove the condition of an oppressed and
great people outside of Palestine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-14
SAVE CREW OF IMPERIlED SHIP
Seventy-Two Men Rescued from
Danger on the Peter Rfckmers.

Seventy-Two Men Rescued from
Danger on the Peter Rfckmers.
Seventy-two men, who for more than
twenty-four hours had been facing death
in the raging sea near Fire Island, New
York, were rescued in surfbOats from the
crumbling hulk of the big German ship.
Peter Rickmers. The rescue was effect
ed after one of the most trying expert
ences the life savers on this exposed coast
had ever been called upon to face. No
Jess than dozen times hope of saving
the men on the doomed ship was all but
abandoned and it was only the easing
of the gale and terrific sea that mac
their salvation possible. Fortunately not
a man was lost and it IS believed that
not one of them suffered any permanent
harm as a result of their long fight
against death The great steel ship, one
of the finest sailing vessels that ever rode
the sea. is total wreck. Her bow and
stern have been completely torn OF by
the waves. her masts were ripped out,
her Lighthouses and bridge swept away
and she is full of water. She IS lying
far back on the bar. and it IS unlikely
even that any effort will be made to tow
her to deep water again.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-14
DOG HELPS MASTER KILL SELF.
Bull Terrier Fights Rescuers Who
Fail in Third Attempt.

After making two vain attempts to
commit suicide, aided by bulldog, Henry
z. Turpin, aged 80 years, drowned him
self in the old Pennsylvania canal at
Steelton, Pa. Turpin spent the night
drinking, and at dawn, accompanied by
his dog, went to the canal and plunged in.
Edward McCord and Frank Magnolia
tried to reach Turpin, when the terrier
sprang at them. They threw the animal
aside and dragged Turpin to the shore.
Shortly after 6 o'clock he returned to the
canal and again jumped in. His rescuers
once more fought off the dog and pulled
Turpin out. Then they sent for police
man. Before he arrived Turpin got away
and made third and successful attempt
to end his life. The men pursued him,
but the dog chased them from the edge of
the water. One of the men finally jump
ed into the stream, but the dog followed
even there and attacked him. A police
man shot at the brute and frightened it
from the canal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-14
VICTIMS DIE
IN BIG MURDER PLOT
Finding of Nine Bodies i'm Yard
Reveals Mysterious Whole
sale Killings.
WOMAN CALLED & HUBBARD
Supposed Death of Herself and Chill
dren in Fire Only Adds to
the Puzzle.

Wholesale murder-murder more
ruthlessly premeditated and diabolical-
y executed than the famous Holmes
castle crimes in Chicago-was revealed
at Laporte, Ind, Tuesday when five
mutilated bodies were dug up in the
back yard of the home of Mrs. Bella
Guinness, who, together with her three
children, are supposed to have met
death when their house burned one
week before.
Fifteen persons already have place
on the list of known or probably slain,
and circumstances point to Mrs Gun
ness as the arch-conspirator in at least
twelve of the crimes. Until this fine if
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-14
SLAIN BY TRAIN ROBBERS.
Express Messenger Killed Defending
Company's Money.

Express Messenger Killed Defending
Company's Money.
Train robbers who boarded Denver and
Rio Grande train No. t at Castle Rock,
Colo murdered Express Messenger Chas.
II. Wright, 60 years old, employed by
the Globe Express Company. From the
messengers body the robbers took the keys
to small safe in the baggage car, which
they opened, stealing the contents, worth
less than 500. \ large safe which con-
tanned a considerable sum of money and
the combination of which is known only
to clerks of the company at the principal
stations along the line, was attacked, but
the robbers were unable to enter it. The
robbers entered through a window, which
they broke open. From this they shot
and killed the messenger, who died with
his rifle in his hand. The body of Wright
was discovered by -. NJ. Bishop, chief
night clerk of the Globe company's office
at the Denver Union station, and B. NJ.
Peterson, his assistant. These men went
to the car to get express and could not
enter the door. which should have been
opened by Wright.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-14
WORK OF
CONGRESS



An extended speech in opposition 70 the
forestry service was made by Senator
Hepburn of Idaho IN the Senate Tuesday.
While the agricultural appro Ration bill
was under consideration lie criticised
the practice of speaking OF ANY man
poiicy. saying that the only policies OF
tue government thai are not fictitious are
those that are written in the laws of the
land. Mr.. Warner Of Missouri continued
MS speech on tae Brownsville ARRAY. but
did not conclude. \ lively debate was
Kept M all day in the House on the sun
dry evil appropriation BILL Repeated cf-
forts were made by Messrs. Gaines OF
Tennessee and Clancy OF Indiana. sup
ported by many other members. to pro-
cure an appropriations for any investi-
CATION looking TO increasing safety in min
ing, and they had abont got Chairman
fawney to the point where he woald CON
sent TO an appropriation of $4,000, when
Mr.. Underwood of Alabama objected and
the proposition, for the time at least. was
dropped
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-14
GHYA Y: ]! Ere
J.. ::::: es E::l::;i .fttM
T AND Sft@ &1a
'zENANCAL
CHICAGO.

n. u Dun & Co.'S weekly review o.
trade says:
Although the usual index of business
activity Tags behind, there is distinct
Improvement in the money market and
increasing distribution in general mer-
cnandlse grain, provisions and live stock.
1i''le .cnange IS noted in production of
the reading industries especially in iron
anu steei' and the scarcity of new con-
tracts gives prices a weaker tendency.
large surplus stocks of ore indicate re-
duced outputs at the furnaces and mining
is expected TO be placed upon a smaller
scale but pig iron quotations reflect pro-
nounced weakness in market conditions
and meters confine their purchases TO ac-
tual wants.
Receipts of the raw materials for fac
tory consumption exceed those of a year
ago IN hides and wool. but are yet much
lower IN lumber, copper and other metals.
and the average of prices exhibits no spe-
cal recovery, although more strength is
seen in hides.
Outdoor work exhibits seasonable ex-
panslon, more workers are needed at west
ern points and there is less idle labor,
NNSh pay fOliS remain unueT HpTHldi
IN various manufacturing lines. Cement,
orick and quarry products move in heav-
Ter quantities and the consumption will
eApahd with new building enterprises.
wore frequent calls appear for planning
h'iil outputs, structural steel and furni-
iufe' and the tonnage of wire and hard
ware forwardings steadily improves
Mercantile collections improve with
the increasing ease in money and the dis
count rate for choice commercial paper is
more favorable toward encouraging ac-
commodation. Retail trade sustains it's
recent good showing, the absorption of
spring merchandise thus far being even
better than expectations. Wholesale deal
lngs IN the staples maintain more extend
ed proportions in both reassortments for
immediate use and advance orders for fall
and winter goods.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trIct number So against "a last week
and 10 year ago. Those with liabil-
ties over $1,000 number 8, against 10
last week and in 1907"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-14
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.

A general arbitration treaty between
the United States and Spain was signed.
The House has agreed to the conference
report on the bill recognizing the con-
sular service.
1t is stated at the DEPARTING of JUS
tice that arrangements are well under
way for a test case OF the commodities
clause of the Hepburn act TO be made,
unless a material change takes place in
the situation as a result of legislation or
other circumstances.
The yostead bill, authorizing the drain
ing of certain lands in Minnesota, was
passed by the House.
Senator Lodge has secured favorable
action in the Senate committee on for
eign relations On three propositions look
ing to the purchase of building in
Paris for use as an American embassy.
Each makes an appropriation of 100000.
Lawrence o. Murray, former assistant
Secretary of the Department of Commerce
and Labor, took the oath of Office as
comptroller of the currency. He succeed
ed William b. Ridgely, recently elected
president of the National Bank of Com
marce of Kansas City.
An omnibus bridge bill, the first meas
ure of its end to be framed and intro
dueed in Congress. has been reported
favorably by the House committee.
The conference report on the army
appropriation bill carrying S95,311 ,246
has been adopted by the Senate. This
amount was S3,463, 900 less than the bill
carried when first passed by the Senate.
Senator Lodge has reported from the
committee ON foreign relations an amend
ment which is intended to enable the Sec
rotary Of State TO return TO contributors
the $4,000 raised to ransom Miss Ellen
NJ. Stone. an American missionary 70
Turkey, who was abducted by brigands
On Sept. 8, 1901.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-14

had been accepted as true that she and
her three children had met death in the
fire that destroyed their home, but now
the suspicion arises that the bodies that
were found in the smoldcring ruins
were brought from some hospital OIL
medical school for the purpose of ere
ating the belief that Mrs Guinness and
her family had passed from existence
List of known Victims.
Helgelein. Andrew, 40 years old. bach
elor, Aberdeen, s. D.: sutton for Mrs
Guinness hand. who came to Laporte in
January and disappeared one month later
after lOaning the woman $1,000: body
dug up to-day.
Guinness, Jennie Olson. IS years old,
adopted daughter of Mrs Guinness: disap-
peared in September. 1906, ostensibly to
attend school at Los Angeles; body dug
up to-day.
Unidentified man, believed by Sheriff
SmulZer to have been an admirer of the
woman.
Unidentified boy, apparently years
old mutilated body in gunnysack.
Unidentified girl, about { years old
mutilated body in gunnysack.
Guinness. Joseph, husband of Mrs Gun
ness, whose death at Laporte four years
ago had always remained mystery
Sorenson. MAIDS, woman's first hus-
band, who died under mysterious circum-
stances in Chicago eight years ago.
all lol
been burned to death in fire which de-
stroyed her home.
Sorenson. Myrtle, II years old eldest
daughter of Mrs. Guinness; thought to
have persisted in the fire.
Sorenson, Lucy, 8 years old, another
daughter; also believed to have been a
victim of the fire.
Guinness. Philip. ) years old. youngest
child: said to have been killed in the fire
Lindblom. Olaf. 81 years old, of Wis
consin: employed by Mrs. Guinness on the
farm. When he disappeared Mrs Gun
ness gave it out that he had gone to
Norway.
Gerhalt. Eric, 40 years old. of Wiscon-
sin worked five months for Mrs Gun
ness. then he disappeared.
Man from Ohio. 80 years old. name
not learned; worked on the farm and
owned a horse and buggy. Disappeared
and Mrs. Guinness fell heir to the horse
and buggy.
In the arrest of Ray Lamphere, a
former servant of the woman, Sheriff
Smulzer believes. some light may be
thrown upon the circumstances sur
rounding the deaths of at least some
of the victims.
Lamphere before the fire had trouble
with Mrs. Guinness. He had declared
about town she was trying TO get rid
of him because he knew too much. He
has told several conflicting stories
concerning his relations with the Won
an and his presence in the neighbor-
hood of the Guinness home the night ii
blrned
The discovery of the bodies led ex-
pressmen TO tell of the delivery of five
trunks to the Guinness farm during the
LIST six months. This fact has caused
the authorities TO incline to the theory
that the place may have been a clear
ing-house'' for murders. They suspect
that wealthy persons, after being lured
to Chicago and killed, may have been
packed into these trunks, sent to La
porte and disposed of there. Lamphere
in his cell declared Mrs. Guinness fire.
quently asked him 10 buy poison for
her. She wanted chloroform, he said
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-14
NEWS NUGGETS

Alexander E. Orr and Clarence H.
Mackay resigned as directors of the New
York Life Insurance Company.
\ Washington dispatch says President
Roosevelt will devote year to a tour
of the world at the close Of his term of
Office.
Daniel r. Noyes, one of the leading
PRESBYTERIAN laymen of the United States,
died of heart disease in his home at st.
Paul, MINI.
Rare autographs of famous political
and literary characters from collection
of Bayard Taylor are to be sold at auc-
ton in New York.
silver set for the battleship Mon
tana. made from Montana metal, is on ex-
hibition in New York and will be shipped
to Dillon, Mont, in few days.
Surrogate Jackson at Mineola, L. l.,
has issued a citation for Floretta VIVA
ley, who eloped year ago with Jere
X. Cooke, the Episcopal rector, with a
view to having settlement of the S25,-
coo estate of the young woman's grand
mother, Keziah Whaley.
Surrogate Beckett, in New York, has
appointed Mrs. Title Bloch administrator
of the affairs of Hugo Cohn, real estate
broker. who, according to the representa-
tions made to the court, has disappeared.
Cohn handled large estates and was said
to be involved financially.
At La Crosse, Wis, the lid order is
sued some time ago by Mayor Anderson
has gone into effect.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-14
Union Pacific BUYS Two Roads

At a meeting of the stockholders of the
Union Pacific railway in Salt Lake City,
at which T6 per cent of the stock was
represented, the directors were authorized
to issue S1o9.000,o00 in bonds to improve
the system and to purchase the Kansas
and Western and Topeka and Northwest
ern railroads.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-14
Plan Home for Working Girls.

Work is to begin Immediately on
modern hotel to be used for working girls
in Cincinnati, the land having been
bought and money raised before the an
nouncement was made by Rev. James O.
White of the Cincinnati Bethel. Pledges
of $1,000 each were secured from thirty
two prominent citizens, and then Charles
P. Taft and wife added $4,000 more