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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
BRIDE is FOUND SLAIN.
Husband Missing After Crime Com
mil

Husband Missing After Crime Com
mitted Several Days Ago.
Mrs. Anna Munro, % years old and
bride of two months was found dead in
the apartment which she and her husband
had occupied at 81 East Forty-ffth
street, New York. The condition of the
body, fully dressed indicated that a muir
der had been committed several days ago.
Mrs. Munro's head had been beaten in
with blunt instrument and she had been
strangled David Munro, the same age
as his wife. formerly a gateman on the
Third Avenue Elevated railroad, is miss
ing. and has rot been seen, so far as the
police could learn, since the previous Mon
day evening, when he left the building two
hours after he and his wife were seen en-
tering their door. The police are proceed
ing on the theory that Mrs. Munro was
murdered by her husband in a fit of jeal-
ousy, and a general alarm has been sent
out for his arrest Around the neck of
the body red automobile veil was found
tightly tied
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24

44.4 per cent greater, with a decrease
of per cent in the average hours of
labor per week.
The retail price of principal articles
of food was 206 per cent higher in 1907
than for the period 1890 to 1899 Com
pared with the average for the same
ten-year period the food purchasing
power of an hours wage in 1907 was
6.S per cent greater.
The report adds that the greatest in
crease in wages per hour was in the
manufacture of cotton goods, the in
crease being 1919. In the paper and
wood pulp industry there was an in
crease in wages per hour of 10.1 per
cent; in the silk, woolen' and worsted
goods industry GA per cent; in the glass
industry and street and sewer work an
increase of 5.S per cent. The investiga-
ton made by the bureau covers those
industries in which the wages paid in
one year were 100000 or more.
! of thirty staple food commodities as
sold in sixty-eight localities in the
United States by 1,014 dealers.
Retail prices of food in 1907 were
higher than in any other year of the
eighteen-year period above named. be-
ing A. per cent higher than in 1906
The average prices of Twenty-Five of
the thirty articles included in this COM
pilation of prices were higher in 1907
than in 1906. The articles which show
ed the greatest advance in prices are
flour, SO per cent; butter, s per cent;
evaporated apples, rs per cent; milk,
73 per cent; corn meal, 6.S per cent;
cheese, G. per cent, and potatoes, "a
per cent. The only article which show
ed a decrease is tea, the decrease being
% Der cent
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Blame Woman for Boyertown Fire.

A warrant has been issued for Mrs.
Harriet E. Munroe of Washington, D. c.,
owner of the copyright of the entertain
lment: The Scottish Reformation -
which was given in Rhoads Opera House
at Boyertown, Pa, last January, when
III persons were burned to death Mrs.
Munroe was not present but it is alleged
that she employed incompetent help which
led to the disaster.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
$4,000 Fire in St. Paul

The Gribben Lumber Company plant
East Seventh and Earl streets, st. Paul
was almost totally destroyed by fire, en-
failing loss of about $4,000, partly
covered by insurance. Several tenement
houses and minor buildings were destroy,
ed, Including the office of the Herzog Iron
Company. Several fremen were over
come by smoke.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
EuRoPE's WHEAT CROP SHORT.
Harvest Completed and Totals Low
for Third Consecntive Year.

The European reports to the Superln-
tendent of Agriculture in Washington say
that the wheat harvest over the greater
part of Europe is already completed. In
several countries reaping was hindered
and the crops seriously damaged by rain
Prospects point to a smaller harvest than
last year in western Europe generally. A
moderate increase in the yield is expected
in the East But. while Russia probably
will reap slightly heavier crop than last
year. there is no doubt that totals will be
below the average. This will be the third
year of serious shortage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
LOCKED IN CELL IN OWN JAIL.
Ohio Sheriff Confined for Contempt
on Complaint of Mayor.

Sheriff Dan p Stein is being held a
prisoner in Akron, Ohio, in the Jail over
which he has jurisdiction. Late the other
night the sheriff was locked up on a COM
plant of Mayor Sawyer, who alleged con-
tempt of court, because the sheriff refused
to take two prisoners before the mayor
for a preliminary hearing on the charge
of murder. The next day the sheriff, who
said that he acted on advice of his law
Yer, began habeas corpus proceedings for
his release. The sheriff took the position
that the mayor had no jurisdiction in the
murder cases, as they were being investi-
gated by the county grand jury. Sheriff
Stein passed three hours in one of the
cells of his Jail.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
WRIGHT MADE RECORD FLIGHTS
Ohio Aviator's Feats with an Aero
plane Startled the World.

Orville Wright. before the recent ac-
cident put a stop to the trials at Fort
Myer. startled the world by his feats with
his aeroplane and established records for
both one and two man flights. His great
est flight was made on Sept. -, when he
remained in the air for one hour fourteen
minutes and twenty seconds, covering a
distance of 51.3 miles. Leading up to
this he had made the following flights:
Sept. 9-57 minutes 81 seconds; SO
miles.
Sept. 81 hour minutes Is seconds
3S.5 miles.
Sept. 1O-E hour minutes % seconds
IL miles.
Sept. Ill hour 10 minutes % sec
onds; 46.S miles.
Wright's record for flights with a pas
senger were:
Sept. Sc minutes % seconds; miles
Sept. 12-9 minutes seconds; 6 miles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Coaches Roll Down EnbanI<ment

Four persons are known to have been
killed and twenty-six were injured in a
wreck on the Yazoo and Mississippi Val
ley railroad, two miles south of Clarks-
dale, Miss, when two coaches of a passen-
ger train rolled down an embankment
Two or three passengers are unaccounted
for. and it is possible their bodies will be
found under the wreckage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
SENTENCED IN Brazil
Members of I1I-Fated MagaH Expe-
dition Receive Light Penalties.

A cablegram from the American consul
at Bahia, Brazil, reports TO the State De
partment in Washington, D. c., he is in
receipt of the conclusion of the trial of
the flibustering expedition led by Sc
basian ii. L. de Magali into that re-
public in 1907. The expedition consisted
of eight men, under the leadership of
Magai, four of whom were young Ameri-
cans by the names of Samuel Parker,
Herbert Phannebecker, Everitt Wilson
and George Vice, all of New York. The
consul reports that Magali received a
two years sentence, that Vice, who was
seriously wounded in the skirmish which
led to the arrest of the men, was acquit-
ted: that George Gordon. a Scotchman
and follower of Magali. was sentenced 10
one year, and that the remaining mem
bers of the expedition were sentenced to
imprisonment for one year and five
months. The outcome Of this case, 1t IS
felt, must be gratifying to the families
of the persons, in view of the gravity OF
the crime charged against them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
WAGES AND PRICES SOAR.
Purchasing Power of Labor and Cost
OF Necsssaries COMPARED

The average wages per hour in the
principal manufacturing and mechan-
zeal industries of the country were 81
per cent higher in 1907 than in 1906,
while retail prices of food were A. per
cent higher, according to the July re-
port of the bureau of labor. The regu-
lar hours of labor per week were four
tenths of one per cent lower, and the
number of employees in establishments
investigated by the bureau showed an
increase of / per cent.
The purchasing power of an hour
wage, as measured by food. was less in
1907 than in 1906, the decrease being
one-half of per cent. Tie report shows
that as compared with the average for
the ten-year period 1890 TO 1899 the av-
erage wage per hour IN 1907 was 2S.S
per cent higher, the number of employees
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Suicide Doctors Body Found

The body of DR.. Joseph B. Clifford, A
years old, prominent physician, who has
been missing since Aug. 81, was found in
the Monongahela river at Pittsburg. Let
tiers on the body showed the physician
had taken his life. Nervous affections,
which had caused insomnia, are thought
to have unbalanced his mind. DIR. Clifford
had four brothers, all doctors.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Cars Wrecked in Fog.

Death of at least two persons, injuries
to scores of others, and widespread trou-
BILE in one way or another were caused by
the heavy fog which enveloped Chicago
during the early hours Thursday. At
least four wrecks were reported on rail
lines within the city limits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24

*Fusion of Democrats and greenback-
ers. *#Plurality for fusion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Kills Slnnderer of His Wife

THAT is what your tongue did.
guess that argues our case" With these
words DR.. James Hurns, prominent ply
stefan of Albion, Okla, coming upon Prof.
William Cheeseborough of Albion college
in lonely part of the woods, leveled a
rife and fired. Cheeseborough lived only
a short time. The shooting is said to
have been caused by stories told about
DR.. Hurns' wife by Cheeseborough.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Radfum Creator of Gems.

In a paper read recently before the
French Academy of Sciences, Prof. Bor-
dass said he had obtained remarkable re-
suits by placing crystals of corundum in
contact with radium for periods varying
from thirty to sixty days, the idea being
suggested by the fact that the glass in
which radium is inclosed takes on a blue
tint. Thus treated. colorless corundum
became yellow like oriental topaz Blue
corundum was converted into oriental sap
pbire. Neither heat nor electricity affect
ed these artificial gems, which experts
could not distinguish from those of nat
ural origin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
AIR EXACTs HEAVY DEATH TOLL
German Scientist Probably First t.
Die in Effort 10 E1x

German scientist Probably First to
Die in Effort 10 Fly.
The tragical mishap which cost Lieut..
Thomas Z. Selfridge of the United States
signal corps his life is the most recent
of many resulting from mans persistent
effort TO conquer the air.
Lilienthal. German scientist. and NJ.
Pitcher. another student of aeronautics.
probably were the first martyrs to the
cause of the heavier-than-air type of air
craft The former was killed in the sum-
mer Of 1896 while experimenting with his
gliding machine which is said to have
furnished the first model for the Wright
brothers. The latter met his death about
the same time in test of his own aero
plane.
On Sept. 3 last Charles Oliver Jones.
the Hammondsport y. W aeronaut, fell
TO his death from his dirigible balloon
Boomerang while giving an exhibition
fight in Maine.
While it involved no loss of life. the
destruction of Count Zeppelin's mammoth
balloon by lightning at Echterdengin, near
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Indicts Banker as EmbezzIer.

The grand jury at Elensburg. Pa re-
turned twenty-one true bills charging en-
bezzlement against Bozo Gojsovic a for
eign banker of Johnstown, who until re-
Gently was considered wealthy. Deposit
ors in Gojsovic's bank, recently closed,
and men who gave him money to be for
warded to old world countries are the
nroSecutorS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Acquitted of Killing EIoper.

Charles w. Moore. who killed David A.
Cohen. son of Rabbi Cohen of Detroit,
Aug. II, in Trinidad, Colo, by blowing
his head off with a shotgun, was acquitted
of the charge of murder. His defense was
insanity. Cohen was killed when about
TO leave the city in company with the
wife of the man who shot him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Funny Congressman Beaten.

Congressman ]. Adam Bede of the
Eighth Minnesota District has been de-
feated for denomination. James A. Taw-
ney in the First District, it was thought.
had met like fate in the Republican
primaries, but later returns show that he
pulled through. Both men made hard
fights and were confident of reelection.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Find Slain Man in River.

The sheriff and coroner of Pueblo coun-
ty. Colo are investigating the mysterious
murder of an unidentified man whose body
was discovered in the river at Nepesta.
with a bullet in the brain and a leather
strap, with rope attached, bpckled tight
around the neck. There were no marks
of identification on the clothes of the dead
man.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Con Lorsp,s Widow Sue.

Mrs Mary S. c. Logan, widow of Gen.
John A. Logan. has filed suit in the Dis
trict of Columbia Supreme Court to re-
cover S3,5o0 damages for alleged personal
injuries. According TO the declaration. as
Mrs. Logan was alighting from a Wash
inSton street car May % last she was
thrown violently to the ground.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Tries Murder and Suicide.

A spectacular attempt at murder and
suicide was made at the crowded corner
of Monroe and Third streecs, Memphis,
when Nose Cook, 40 years old, an insur-
ance clerk, fired three bullets into his
wife and attempted to kill himself. When
his cartridges were exhausted Cook coolly
started to reload the weapon, when a by
stander felled him. The woman is in a
precarious condition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
TO ENcIRcLE GLOBE IN AIRsHIP.
Predicts Flight Around World In
Week Within Five Years.


Week Within Five Years.
Within five years airships will be car
rying passengers across the ocean in
eighteen hours, 200 miles an hour. Aerial
flight will be commercialized in that time.
The north pole can and will be reached
in a forty-eight-hour trip. The perfected
heli0coptal will be able to encircle the
globe in a week" These statements were
made by Thomas 4. Edison, the inventor,
in the course of a talk on aerial naviga-
ton in Salt Lake City. Neither the
aeropanes now owned by the Wright
brothers nor any airship built along that
principle nor along the idea of the dirigi-
BILE balloon will ever be of practical use
or success Commercially" he said. THE
successful machine must be automatic in
operation. The human part of it must be
reduced to mere mechanism, as in the
case of the automobile and steam engine
Otherwise the dream of skimming the
clouds must ever remain a dream"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Di.peusnry Is Hit Once Mor.

The United States Circuit Court of Ap-
peals has sustained the opinion of Judge
Pritchard in the famous case of the
Fleischmann Company and others against
the South Carolina dispensary commits
sion. holding in effect that State cannot
conduct liquor traffic. that being a private
business
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Big Drop I'm Immigration.

Immigration statistics for August show
a very great decrease in the number OF
immigrants coming to this country com,
pared with the same month of 1907 The
total immigration during August was ~,
7S3, while during August. 1907, the i'm
migrants numbered 9S, S25.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Nfne-Story Fall Fatal.

William L. Reed of Portsmouth. Ohio.
an Elk and prominent in insurance circles
was killed by fall from the ninth floor
of the Havlin hotel in Cincinnati. He
suffered from cancer, and was in the city
for treatment Nothing has developed to
warrant suggestions of suicide.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Jealousy Prompts Double Killing.

While in a jealous rage. William Bel
merit aged IS years, a steel worker. shot
and killed Mrs. Sarah Boyer. his boarding
house mistress, and then killed himself in.
South Bethlehem, Pa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Identified nv French Court.

Louis A. Gregori was acquitted of the
charge of attempting TO kill Major Alfred
Dreyfus during the ceremonies at the
Pantheon in Paris. in connection with the
canonization of Emile Goa last year.
Gregori fred two revolver shots at Drey-
fus. one ball taking effect in his wrist.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Filler without a Tail.

Members of the Aerial Experiment As
ISOLATION at Hammondsport, n. Y, have
tried navigating the air in the June Bug
with the entire rear portion, or tail
of the machine removed. There was some
lack of stability, but greater speed was
possible with no air surfaces back of the
rudders. a speed of over forty miles was
ATTIC inpd
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Banker Prisoner Lands.

A. f. Ronelli. a former banker OF
Cleveland charged with the theft of $780,.
GEO. arrived at New York from Brazil, as
a prisoner on the steamer Afghan Prince
Bonelli was a steamship ticket agent anC
private banker dealing especially in for.
eign exchange. He disappeared June IS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Killed by okIahoma Explosion.

A powder magazine used by a wholesale
powder company and the Samples Mining
Company for the storage of powder, was
struck by lightning at McAlester, Okla.
the explosion killing one miner, Arthur
Richards. and seriously injuring eight 9th.
ers. Richards head was completely sew.
cred from the body.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24

Alexander Berkman,< now the active
leader of the American group of anarch.
lists. and who served a long prison sen.
tence for trying to assassinate II. c.
Frick. was arrested in New York fo1
irving to stampede a meeting of the I'm.
employed in Cooper Union, over which
James Eads How, the wealthy hobo, was
presiding. Emma Goldman was present
but she escaped arrest, although young
girl who aided Berkman was arrested and
fined. Berkman was sent to the work.
house tor FIVE days.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
RIurIx Hand Is Busy ACniu

The fronts of two stores on Flushing
avenue. Astoria L. l.. were blown in by
bombs Twenty families living in the
building fed TO the street. The police
think the bombs were the work of the
Black Hand organization. One arrest was
IN, 40
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
MURDER OF SIX FlREsUe's AIM.
Husband Sets Home Afre and Tries
Suicide Twice.

w. W. Reamer, $50 North Third street.
East st. Louis, ILL.,, set fire to his house,
endangering the lives of his father-in-law,
his mOther-in-law, his wife and his three
children, and afterward made two at
tempts at suicide, once by chewing a rail
road torpedo and the second time by
hanging himself in a cell at a police sta
ton. He had objected to the course of
his wife in taking her parents into his
home. Reamer poured gasoline on the
furniture and touched a match. Mrs.
Reamer, who was in another room, saved
her children and parents. The fire was
extinguished before the flames spread be-
yond the kitchen. The husband was ar
rested, and while in custody made the two
attempts at suicide.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Republican by Small Majority

Maine has elected Republican Gov
ernor by plurality of about 100. The
victory for Bert NJ. Fernald, the Republi-
can gubernatorial nominee, is seriously
discounted in the eyes of the Republicans
by the small size of his plurality.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24

Forest fires in the United States south
Of Fort Frances, Ont. are sweeping to-
ward Canada. Several large islands in
Rainy lake are in flames A fine. large
island. owned by James Harry. proprietor
of the Emperor hotel at Fort Frances, is
now devoid of trees.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
WOLVES BITES NEARLY FATAL
Marshal Alternately, Friend of
Roosevelt, Has Blood Poisoning.

harShht ADcrnntnyy fr1enu Oh
Roosevelt, Has Blood Poisoning.
With hands, arms and legs covered with
wounds inflicted by the teeth of two gray
wolves, United States Marshal John Aber
nathy, at Muskogee, Okla, who owes his
appointment to President Roosevelt for
teaching him to catch 'em alive" is I'M
der the care of physicians, suffering from
blood poisoning. Abernathy's hands are
swathed in bandages and so badly swollen
that he is unable to use them. During
the encounter Abernathy's thumb was
split open the full length, a tooth pierced
the palm of the same hand until one of
the fangs protruded half an inch, deep
cash was cut in his left knee and his right
arm was badly lacerated near the Shout
dor
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Stork Visits U. s. Grant III.

A daughter has been born to Lieut. q.
s. Grant Ill, L. S. A, and Mrs Grant.
who is the daughter of Secretary of State
Elihu Root. Lieut.. Grant is attached to
the United States engineering corps in
Boston and is living in Brookline.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
Would Disbar c. w. Trickett.

Disbarment proceedings against C. W
Trickett, assistant Attorney General for
Kansas. were filed in the District Court
of Kansas City. Kan. by c. X. Cooksey,
an attorney. There are fifteen separate
counts in the charge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
New Workers Name ChanIer.

Governor of New York. WAS nominated
for Governor by the Democratic State
convention in Rochester. The nomination
was by reclamation
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
IN. Signal Corps Ia Res,

Baron de Bode. military attache of the
Russian embassy at Washington, D. c.,
after watching the signal-corps operations
at Fort Omaha. Neb.. said he believes the
United States army has the best signal
corps in the world.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
REQUEST for Business school,

John Burnham Brown, formerly of Chi.
cago, willed S1.000.o0o TO found a bust
ness school at Ipswich. Mass. which will
be open to young people of Chicago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24
City. Auditor Kills Himself.

L. J. Granary. city auditor of Baton
Rouge, La. committed suicide in the city
hall by shooting He handed note to
friend before going into an adjoining room
to take his life