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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05
KANSAS MURDER MYSTERY.
Accuse Husband and Woman as
SIxyers of Wife and Children.

Frank Schneck and Mrs Mollie Stew
art were held for trial in the District
Court in Ottawa. Kan, on the charge of
numbering Mrs. Jane Schneck, wife OF
Frank Schneck Mrs. Schneck's body.
with those of Ter little son and daugh-
ter, was found in her home in Centropolis,
and the threats of all had been cut. Ed
ward Stewart, husband of Mrs. Mollie
Stewart, gave the testimony which result
ed in the defendants being held. Schneck,
who had been staying at the Stewart
home in Ottawa, had just moved his fam
lily to Centropolis. Following the murder
Mrs. Stewart tried to establish an alibi
for Schneck. Stewards evidence conflicts
with the abb of hs wife. He declares
that Immediately after the murder was
discovered his wife cautioned him that
they had better tell the same story, as
the implication of Schneck would involve
all of them. The theory Of the State is
that Schneck and Mrs. Stewart drove
from Ottawa to Centropolis, twelve
miles, at night and after committing the
crime returned to Stewards home before
daylight
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05

from a geometrical deduction and with
machine precision. The shell will
doubtless land just where aimed for.
and then if the theory of the naval
experts holds good. it VIII be DETECTED
and the turret left uninjured.
Naval attaches from all parts of the
world are anxiously scrambling for an
opportunity to witness it, but the de-
partment has declined ali applications ;
in fact, it is said the test will be made
far out at sea. so that observations and
deduction by foreign powers cannot be
made. The chiefs in charge Of the
work to be performed by these two
monitors have been instructed by the
Board of Officers in charge of the ex-
pertinent to say nothing to the press,
and the result is TO be kept solely for
the information of the United States
navy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05
OHIO VALLEY FLOOD
CAUSES BIG DAMAGE
Rise of Several Rivers Is Reported
to Be the Highest in Many
Years.
SUFFERERS FLEE TO THE HILLS.
Boat Invades Flooded Cornfeld to
Save Farmers and Stock-Sick-
ness Follows Privation.

The flood throughout the Ohio val
ley, caused by heavy rains and melting
SHOWS, is reported TO be the highest
since 1876. Lives have been lost,
homes. bridges and fences swept away,
and crops and roads ruined. Hun
dreds of families have been food
bound in the overlooked areas
The Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio,
Wabash and smaller streams have all
contributed to the destruction which
has moved down the Mississippi to-
ward the Gulf of Mexico.
Pittsburg, perhaps, has been the
greatest sufferer from the flood which
has been sweeping down the Ohio val
ley. Any one acquainted with the 10
cation of the Smoky City knows why
Pittsburg is annually, and sometimes
several times a year, a victim of high
water. The Monongahela and Ale
gheny rivers, uniting to form the Ohio,
each flows through a narrow ravine
and when the waters Of the noun
tains and highlands come down in IN
usual quantities, owing to prolonged
thaws or persistent rains, the flood of
necessity must overflow tine narrow
point between the ravines, thus mum
dating more or less of the city.
In the vicinity of the junction of the
Ohio and Wabash rivers flood suffer
ers abandoned their homes to the rag
ing waters and fed to the hills. Here
they have been quartered in huts,
sheds and deserted buildings and as a
result of the exposure and privation
pneumonia has become prevalent.
People along the lower Ohio River
have prepared for the siege in store
for them. Nearly a hundred families
on the Indiana side, opposite Union
town, Ohio, were removed. The big
Ohio River steamer City of Spottsville
cut across a cornfield and brought out
several families, with 200 hogs, eighty
mules and fifty cattle. The rescued
flood victims had spent two nights in
terror and fought necessarily to keep
their stock from drowning. Residents
at Shawneetown, ILL.,, are apprehensive,
as the levee has been weakened by the
excessive rain and the three floods of
last year. A constant watch is being
kept of weak places.
The Evansville and Terre Haute
Railway Company has been anxious
about the safety of its embankment
which parallels White River. and thou
sands of bags filed with sand have been
placed to strengthen it. This place is
now known as the BLACK Hole be-
cause of the disappearance of train
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05
JACKIES AS TARGETS.
Remarkable Test to Be Made by
Navy Department.

hemarkaDle lest TO be maOe Dy
Navy Department.
The Navy Department has under con-
sideration the most startling tests of
the penetrating power of shells, dam
ger to life, and the resisting power Of
armor that ever has been tried in any
navy. The proposition is to have the
monitor Arkansas fire a Pinch shell
weighing $50 pounds from Cotton gun
a distance of two miles and have it
strike the turret of a sister ship, the
Florida, which is being placed in read
mess for the trial.
The astounding part of the test is the
proposition to have in the turret of
the Florida at the time of the impact
men. All paper figures, all statistics
so far as weight of metal thrown, heat
generated by impact, resisting power of
armOr, and other details would indi-
cate that the men in the turret would
come out unscathed except for the
shock. OF course, there is no record
in existence of monitor, the turret
protected by an 11-inch armOr belt. be-
ing struck plump by 13-inch shells of
S5Ot pounds weight. All figures are
purely theoretical.
The possibility of missing is indefi-
nitely small. All shots are now fired
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05

looking to the dissolution of the Standard
Oil Company were continued before Judge
Ferriss at st. Louis. z. Dana Durand
testified that in the case of the Chicago
and Eastern Illinois Railroad shipments
of oil were way billed at II cents per hun
dred pounds, while part of such shipments
were carried at SA cents per hundred.
and part at 6 cents per hundred All of
the testimony brought out by Mr.. Kellogg.
counse. for the government. was designed
TO show that the Standard was enabled
to obtain a monopoly of the petroleum
business through system of secret re-
bates paid by the railroads.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05

youngest of the Washington brothers.
He was born on the ancestral estate OF
Hardwood, in Jefferson County, West
Virginia, the birthplace of his mother,
which was built jointly by George and
Samuel Washington.
1t was by act of Congress that the
gift of the Ohio property was made to
the first President of the United States.
Whether or not he accepted it, or if
he did, to what use he put it. is not
known by the Philadelphia descend
ant but he does know that the estate
is very valuable now and Sould make
park.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05
FRAY ENDS WEDDING.
Knives and Beer Bottles as Weapons
in Nuptial BravvI.

Four men were probably fatally wound
ed. fifteen others, including a policeman,
were severely cut and several more slight
~ injured in a riot between two factions
of Polish celebrators at wedding festivi-
ties at 3 a. N. the other day in Chicago.
The fray marked the end of celebration
in the saloon and dance hall of Joseph
Kuta, 70 Front street. The participants
were in attendance on the nuptial cere-
monies of Leo Chasski, u years old, and
Mary Wadya, 10 years old. Intermittent
fighting was started at midnight and cul-
minated in a terrific battle, in which
knives, beer bottles, chairs and tables
were used. The conflict had its origin
in an old controversy between two Polish
factions, and arguments between indivld-
uals finally led to the free-for-aH fighting.
Four men were slashed on the face and
body until they fell unconscious from loss
of blood. One of them was the brides
brother. Policeman John McDonough,
who was detailed at the hall, was cut on
the hands and his uniform was ripped to
pieces. Other policemen were slightly in
jured but succeeded in arresting twenty
of the combatants. The police say the
battle was the worst they have ever had
to contend with at a celebration by the
foreign element.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05
some years ago. All efforts to fill this
hpIn bayo hnop fr1ti1a

some years ago. All efforts to fill this
hole have been futile.
AS a result of the heavy snowstorm
throughout the Middle West, railway
traffic has been greatly impeded and
telegraph and telephone service Grip
pied. Dispatches tell of several trains
being snow-bound for many hours The
area of the storm is large, extending
from Texas to the northern boundary
of the country. and east from Denver
to New York. In several sections the
snow is more than a foot deep on the
level. Stock is reported suffering in
the Western States and the loss is eX-
pected to be heavy. Drifts have made
travel over country roads in wagons
imDOSSihle in many DIaceS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05
PLUMBER IN PRISONERS ROOM.
PostOffice Frauds and Burglaries
May BE Proved by Find.

PostOffice Frauds and Burglaries
May BE Proved by Find.
Government inspectors located at the
Hotel Essex in Boston a quantity OF loot
in the room formerly occupied by James
A. Baker, the alleged postofice robber,
who was arrested in New York after de-
tectives had chased him across the coun-
try. Postoffice Inspectors Kinkaid OF
New York and G.. n. Perkins of Brock
ton, with d. Miles Rigon, chief of the
secret service of the Pennsylvania rail
road, searched Bakers room. They found
suit case nearly filled with postal money
order blanks from various places, some
partly filled out, a number of tickets on
western railroads, several hundred dol
lars worth of mileage books and a guam
tity of wearing apparel. This discovery,
the inspectors believe, will furnish evil
dence connecting Baker with a series of
postoffice frauds, burglaries and robberies,
stretching from the Pacific coast to the
Atlantic
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05
IMMIGRANTS SHOW DECREASE.
Greatest Falling Off in Percentage
Is Shown by Japanese.

At the Cabinet meeting Wednesday
Secretary Straus of the Department of
Commerce and Labor laid before the
President some significant figures as to
immigration and emigration. The fig
ures show that for January there was
a large decrease in japanese arriving
in the United States. The total arriv
ais for both the mainland and Hawaii
were OIL, as compared with 1000 for
January, 1907.
As to the immigration from other
countries, the total for January was, in
round figures, 2.1G0. as compared with
5.4O0 in January one year ago For the
months of July. August. September and
October the total immigration was 1853,
600, while the emigration for the same
period was 10000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05
PATENT RECORDS GONE.
Inventor, Attorney and Examiner In
Government Office Indicted.

Inventor, Attorney and Examiner In
Government Office Indicted.
Indictments charging destroying public
records were returned by the grand jury
in Washington against Ned ". Barton,
an assistant examiner of the patent office
Henry f. Everding, a patent attorney of
Philadelphia, and John 4. Heany of York,
Pa. an inventor The men were arrested
and bail was fixed at $4,000. The in
dictment charges that the three with in
tent to steal and destray'' carried away
from the patent Office letters, specifica-
tons and amendments and unlawfully
and wilfully destroyed them. The case
revolves around an invention valued at
more than SJ.000,G0O. 1t is alleged that
through connivance with Ned w. Barton.
Heany and Everding outrivaled more than
twenty of the largest electrical concerns
in the country, striving to get the same
natpnt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05
Workshop for Unemployed.

At meeting of fifty men interested in
charitable movements of New York City
it was decided to erect 100000 build
ing to be used as a home and workshop
for the worthy unemployed. who are will
ing to work. 1t will make no appeal
to the professional vagrant or tramp. DR..
Harvey Furbay. one of the founders,
says that charity lodging houses are much
imposed upon by the drones of society.
The new plan is expected to separate
these from the earnest unfortunates. 1t
is expected that the work will make the
charity self-sustaining. The statement
was made that out of 997 men of the bet
ter class of unemployed so were found
to be college graduates.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05
9NxMtERCDAL
/. 1 :tkztA
N.Y. AND ls@1a
I-fNr>SlEezs 5&SS
zzEMKNCAL
CHICAGO.

A44S<A0S.
Discussing trade in Chicago and its VI
entity, r. G. Dun & Co.'S report says
Allowing for the adverse effect of I'M
usually severe weather and difficulties OF
transportation and communication, bust
ness as whole has held up better than
might have been expected. Recovery is
now expedited under brighter prospects
ana more animation appears in new de-
mandS, although many outside buyers
have been delayed in reaching this mar
ket.
The exhibits this week of the State
banks came timely and the details of con-
dltlon indicate that the lending power is
satisfactorily recuperated Money re-
mains freely offered at per cent for
commercial paper and the supply of the
latter begins to increase, but general inn
provement in the demand for funds is not
looked for until next month and there is
feeling that borrowing will have to cost
less to stimulate the principal industries.
February settlements at the banks make
satisfactory progress and increasing cur
rency returns from the interior cause
more expansion of deposits here.
Additional gain is noted in machinery
and labor employed in the iron branches,
but outputs are yet short of normal and
new bookings make a meager aggregate,
although there is hesitancy in rails. struc-
tural shapes, wire and pipe. Orders for
hardware, brass and electric goods are
yet running light. but there is fair activ-
lily IN furniture making and footwear.
Leading retail trade suffered some de-
cline from the severe storm and decrease
IN purchasing ability, yet seasonable goods
were required and both local and interior
stocks of merchandise met with crafty
ing reduction where heavy winter lines
had accumulated.
Many visiting buyers made their selec-
tons in the wholesale district and there
was substantial increase in forward or
ders for dry goods, millinery, boots and
shoes and furniture.
The total business made a closer com
parison with the high figures year ago
and there is an improving tone as TO the
outlook throughout the agricultural re-
gions.
Bank clearings, 500, $685. 800, are 90
per cent over those of the corresponding
week in 1907, which had only FIVE bust
ness days.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number Al, against 33 last week and
- year ago. Those with liabilities
over $1,000 number II, against 10 last
year and in 1907.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05
ORIGINAL "JIM BLUDso" DEAD.
Mississippi Pilot Thought to Have
Inspired Hays Famous Poem.

mississippi Pilot Thought to Have
Inspired Hays Famous Poem.
The body of John Jones, famous as the
Jim Bludso" of the upper Mississippi
river, was laid TO rest in Dakota, Mimi,
Thursday. Jones' experience was so much
similar to that of the hero of John Hays
famous poem that many believe he was
the inspiration of it. Jones was pilot of
the ferryboat Warsaw, which transferred
passengers from La Crosse to the Mime
sofa side of the river in the period just
after the Civil War. About forty years
ago the Warsaw caught fire while in the
middle of the channel, with several hum
dred passengers aboard, but Jones headed
the steamer for an island in the center of
the river and carried out his promise, in
the words of the poem, ITO hold her
nozzle against the bank till the last ga
loot's ashore" He was then obliged to
make his own way to land through the
burning boat. Although he received seri-
Gus injuries, he survived and died of old
age.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05

Three thousand miners employed in ten
mines owned by the Pittsburg Coal Com
pany went on strike Feb. 4, and it is
feared that within a few days a general
strike throughout the district will be de-
clared The cause of the strike was the
enforcement of the rule that the miners
must use smokeless powder instead of the
ordinary black powder, which has been
used exclusively heretofore. The mine in
spectors and operators insist that their
only object IN ordering the use of smoke
less powder is to prevent the mine hor-
rors which have cost more than 700 lives
in the Pittsburg district within two
months.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05

The Cooke and Rogers branches of the
American Locomotive Works at Paterson,
Nj, have recently laid off several hum
dred more men, so that of the 5000 or
dinarily employed at these plants, only
half are now working. and these are
mainly engaged in making repairs to old
locomotives. The reason given at both
shops is that no orders for new locomo-
tives are coming in, either from domestic
or foreign railroads.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05
Troops Ready for Night Riders,

The adjutant generals office in Column
bus, Ohio, was not1Ined that the sheriff of
C!ermont county had called out Company
X of the First regiment on account of
rumors that the tobacco district of that
county was to be invaded by band of
night riders from Kentucky. The com
pany is held under arms at Batavia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05
KILLS A RoeBER, HIDES BODY.
New York saIoonkeeper Follows
Brnye Defense with Odd Act


Brave Defense with Odd Act.
In desperate battle with four men
who attempted to rob him as he was
about to close his saloon in East Twenty
fourth street. New York. Thomas Craven
shot one of the robbers dead and put the
others to fight Then, in fear lest the
killing might mean a long term of impris-
onment for him, Craven concealed the
body of the dead robber in hallway out
side the saloon and hurried TO his home
without notifying the police. When the
officers took him into custody less than an
hour later he st first denied all knOwl-
edge of the killing. but finally made full
statement The three men who escaped
from the saloon after their companion had
been killed also are under arrest. The
man who was killed was known only as
Scar" Reilly. Reilly is said to have
been the leader of gang known to the
police as THE Forty Thieves" the mem
bers of which are believed to have been
responsible for much crime on the east
Sidp
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05
STOESSEL FOUND GUILTY
Sentenced to Die for Surrender of
Port Arthur, but Imprisonment
Is Recommended.
HELD COWARD AND TRAITOR.
General Fock Reprimanded and
Smirnoff and Reiss Acquitted
After Trial.

At st. Petersburg Lieutenant General
Stoessel was condemned to death by
military court for the surrender of
Port Arthur to the japanese. General
Fock, who commanded the Fourth East
Siberian division of Port Arthur. was
ordered reprimanded for disciplinary
offense which was not connected with
the surrender, and General Smirnoff,
acting commander of the fortress, and
Major General Reiss, chief of staff to
General Stoessel, were acquitted of the
charges against them for lack of proof.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05
shoots Two and Ends Life.

Lee Hart. coal hauler in Lamar, Mo-,
shot and killed Mrs. Joseph Edwards, his
mother-in-law: shot and seriously wound
ed the latter's husband. and then commit
ted suicide by lying across the track and
letting the st. Louis and San Francisco
fast express run over his body.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05
sISO.ooO Auto Factory Fire.

Fire of unknown origin broke out in
the plant of the Stoddard Dayton auto
mobile factory in Dayton, Ohio the sec
ond largest in the country. and swept
through the plant. The loss will be
SI50.oOO Ten newly finished automobiles,
valued at $4,000 each, were consumed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05
HERO DIES IN POVERTY.
Russell Page, Decorated by Congress
for Valiant Deed, Found LifeIess.

husseII TuSe. decorated by SOhSEcss
for Valiant Deed, Found LifeIess.
Dead from lack of proper food, Russell
Page, a Civil War veteran decorated by
Congress for valiant service at Fort Don
elson, was found in bed at his home in
Cleveland. While Page was dying his
aged wife was vainly searching for work.
Page, who was confined to his bed as the
result of a wound received in the war,
was too proud to ask for aid, as was his
wife. At Fort Donelson Page led an
army of sappers in mining the ground
near the Notifications. While directing
the men he saw Homer Stratton of Clever
land, a member OF an Ohio regiment, on
the ground badly wounded. Page carried
Stratton from the battlefield, keeping his
face toward the foe and shielding STRAIT
ton from the heavy musket fire with his
own body. After three volleys the Con-
federates ceased firing and cheered him
as he retreated to safety.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05
Orders Kidnapers to Prison.

Judge Kersten of Chicago has sentenc-
ed William Jones. alias Birmingham, and
his wife, Irene Alzina Jones, to the peni-
tertiary for kidnapping Lillian Wulff last
December Jones was given thirty years
and his wife twenty-five years, which was
the punishment fixed by the jury which
found them guilty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05
One Missouri Liquor Law Void.

The Missouri Supreme Court has de-
cided the law passed by the last Legisla-
ture prohibiting the sale of intoxicating
liquors within five miles of any State
educational institution having 1900 stu
dents enrolled is unconstitutional. The
law applied only to the Missouri State
university at Columbia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05

The Indictment of 1913 counts returned
last month by the grand jury at Salem.
Mass, against Speaker Cole of the House
of Representatives has been quashed by
Chief Justice Aiken of the Superior
Court. Mr.. Cole was charged with so
licitation of reduced railroad fares for
school children, and this action by the
court is regarded by his attorneys as a
complete vindication OF his course.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-05
Robbed in n TurnstiIe,

Mrs. Mary F. Johnston was robbed of
her hand bag containing papers, keys and
S23 as she was going through the turnstile
at a station of the Northwestern elevated
railroad in Chicago. A boy. apparently
Is years old. snatched the bag just as
Mrs Johnston was locked in the stile and
could not turn back. The boy escaped.