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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
THIEF HIDES 10 DAYS IN TUNNEL
Trapped i'm BurrOw Under Store, He
Waits Long to Surrender.

Waits Long to Surrender.
After nineteen days Imprisonment in
cramped. underground passageway be-
meath cigar store in San Francisco,
which he is charged with having twice
robbed, Edward p. Rand, civil engineer
who claims TO be graduate of the Ken
lucky State University, was arrested
while endeavoring to escape from the bur.
row. Rand crawled into the tunnel near
ly three weeks ago and before he could
get out again the police discovered signs
indicating that the man who had twice
robbed CUNT cigar store had made his
entry through the cellar. They at once
posted watch and Rand's retreat was
cut off, though his presence or the ex-
istence of the tunnel was unknown. Rand
burrowed until he made his way into
saloon which adjoined the cigar store.
There he obtained blankets, food, maya.
zines and an electric light which he con-
nected up to illuminate his underground
prison. For nineteen nights the police
man on the beat sat in the dark in the
cellar where Rands hat had been found
Unable to escape by daylight because OF
his suspicious appearance and afraid to
attempt it at night because of the pres.
ence of the officer Rand finally crawled
+ out of his hole and surrendered. He
claims that he did not rob the safe OF
the cigar store as is charged but that
this was done by a companion who dis.
covered the combination of the strong
box by watching through a hole in the
floor as it was opened each morning.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
KILLS HIS OWN CHILD.
Baby's Neck Is Broken by Father
to Stop Cry.

Baby's Neck Is Broken by Father
to Stop Cry.
John David Stewart was tired when
he came home at night after his work
in Kansas City. He had heard the
changing of tools and machinery all
day and quiet was what he wanted.
But there was no quiet at his home.
A little girl, ten months DID, was a
part of the Stewart family. She cried
frequently, after the manner of babies
when the father comes home tired A
child of ten months was but a fluffy
bit of nothing in his hands. The fin
gers accustomed to hard work gripped
too tightly for baby's comfort. And
with those same strong hands Stewart
choked the baby. He shook it hard
one night and then slammed it down
on the bed and told his wife to care
for it. Baby's temper was broken. SO
was it's neck. The coroner and the doc
tor said Stewart killed the child and
the wife pointed the accusing fuger.
In criminal court Stewart withdrew
his plea of not guilty and pleaded
guilty to manslaughter in the fourth
degree. His sentence to the peniteu
tiary WAS two wears
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
KANSAS TO DOUBLE WHEAT CROP
Agricultural College Experime 8
Promise Wonderful Results.

Agricultural College Experime nts
Promise Wonderful Results.
Prof. II. f. Roberts of the Kansas Ag-
ricultural College has been experimenting
in the breeding of wheat since 1906. His
experiments have now reached the stage
that a warning has gone out 10 farmers
to increase the size of their granaries. The
result. of Prof. Roberts researches is the
probable propagation of wheat that will
increase the average yield from fourteen
to twenty-eight bushels an acre. The
wheat crop of Kansas FOR the last five
years has averaged approximately S0,000,-
600 bushels. Roberts gathered GIG varie-
ties from every known country. Through
the process of elimination there now re-
main thirty-nine varieties. by next fall"
declared the professor, 81 will have Sc
cured the ideal wheat. Then watch Kan
sas. Her wheat yield will be doubled, and
the farmers of the State will have their
annual incomes increased to the extent of
nearly fifty million dollars"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
@a he Side
X. Of a.
the News -

re rolls the Oregon land deal?

Where rolls the Oregon land deal?
'Impulsive insanity" is a new kind o!
brainstorm.
ming to see daylight.
If the 'foot-and-mouth" disease should
ever strike Washington
Things are still little bit shaky in
the neighborhood of Messina.
The Senate seems to have blackballed
New Mexico and Arizona again.
Somehow, hanging doesn't seem to be
quite enough for a Night Rider
The Britishers must have arrested Car.
RE Nation just to make her feel at home.
Japan might get some satisfaction by
declaring war against the California Leg
islature.
President Castro considers it much
more pleasant to be hung in efigy than
in real life.
Judge Lands thinks S2OO0O,OOO worth
of filming entities him to rest in the
Standard Oil case.
Uncle Sam tells Miss Columbia that
two year is all he can afford of Merry
Widow-size battleships.
Mr. Taft told the Georgia girls that
matrimony isn't necessary. No; but they
all know it is very desirable.
If they don't quit bothering him, Farm
er Jim Wilson will pick up his scythe
and NOW down a few professors.
When Uncle Sam is sending those 1900
houses over to Italy he might send along
some firm and stable land to put 'em on.
The Ohio man who has invented a cur
rent CT al. which will throw people ont
of the way of street car is hot stuff all
right
The New Yorker who has found a
Rockefeller prototype $500 years old
must have been going back to the old
Adam.
His doctor friend says John D. Rookie
Teller will live TO be 100 years old. By
that time will the rest of the country have
aug money left:
"Phoniste" is the new name for the
telephone girl. But the man who can't
get his number will probably continue to
cali her the same old names.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
INDIANA COUNTIES GO DRY"
Four Practically Swept by Militant
Anti-Liquor Forces.

Anti-Liquor Forces.
Complete returns from four Indiana
counties holding local option elections
Tuesday show that four have been
added to three that entered the dry
column some three weeks ago. In every
county the victory was more decisive
than the advocates of option had ex-
pected and rout of the liquor forces
comes with crushing force because
overwhelming results were not antici-
pated. In Decatur County the MAORI
ty is close to 1000, with only 1 per
cent wet: in Putnam, 1874, with only
two precincts out of thirty four wet !;
in Upton, 1927, with all twenty-four
precincts dry, and in Hamilton the ma
jority will reach 1000, with possibly
only one or two precincts wet. Elec-
lions in all the counties were quiet
and orderly. The anti-saloon elements
were busy all day. Women in cities
and towns took leading parts in get
ting voters to the polls. In some cities
church bells were rung at regular in
tervals. In others, teachers marched
at the heads Of their classes to the
polls, wearing badges. In country dis
tricts and in cities and towns schools
were given holiday and the children
went out with the teachers election
eering.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
NEW CLEW TO sTRANGLER.
Beautiful Girl Found Dead in Third
Mystery i'm DAYTON. Ohio.

Dayton, Ohio, has another Dona Gil
man mystery, so similar, in fact, to the
Gilman case that the police believe if
they find the criminal they viii have the
perpetrator for both crimes. The victim
Mary Vorschner. 15-year-old girl of
beauty, was found in a field strangled to
death. Two men have been arrested. The
most important clew is prints in mud
showing the murderer wore corduroy trou-
sers. Dona Gilman was killed in the
same way Nov. 20, 1906, and Anna Mar
kowitz on Aug. ;, 1907. Although a ne
gro is serving life sentence for the Mar
kowitz crime, many now believe that all
three murders were committed by the
same person.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
CUBA IS FREE AGAIN
ISLAND CELEBRATES
Governor Magoon Turns Reins of
Government Over to Presi-
dent Gomez.
ELABORATE CEREMONY HELD.
New Executive Is Leader of Liberal
Party and Choice of People-His
Regime to Be Progressive.

A new era of Cuban independence
dawned Thursday when the affairs of
the island, which have been admins
tered by American officials for more
than two years as a result of the rev.
olution against former President Palma
in 1906. were formally transferred to
the newly-elected native executives.
The coming of this new day of Cuban
liberty was signaled by general dis
play of fireworks, the velvet blackneSs
of the tropical midnight being set
afiame by screeching rockets and bombs
which sent down showers of golden
rain and cleaning, vari-colored lights.
The streets of Havana, which were
brilliantly Illuminated and garlanded'
with chains of incandescent bulbs, were
thronged until an early hour in the
morning and carnival spirit every
where prevailed.
Thousands of people gathered around
the Clerks Club throughout the night,
where inaugural and farewell balls
We're held jointly in honor of Presi-
dent Gomez and Vice President Zayas
and Gov. Magoon. An interesting cere-
mony was the decorating of the old
battleship Maine with elaborate
wreaths of garlands and hosting at
half-mast on the protruding military
top of a new American flag. This idea
originated among the crew of the new
battleship Maine, which now is in the
harbor, who subscribed $3.50 for the
flowers and greens.
President Gomez was escorted from
his home to the palace by attachments
of troops and the rural guard He rode
in the same carriage with Gov. Ma
COON, who called for him with a native
military guard of honor. The ceremo-
| MES of Inauguration at the palace were
brief. Precisely at noon President
| Gomez stepped out upon the balcony
| overlooking the Plaza de Armas and
| took the oath faithfully to enforce the
| laws of the republic and defend the
constitution. The oath was admins
| tered by the Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court. Afterward President
| Gomez made a short address.
Jose Miguel Gomez assumes power
as leader of the Liberal Coalition par
ty and as choice of the people at the
elections last fall. The Cubans always
held it against former President Palma
that he was the choice of the Ameri-
can government No such complaints
| can he made in the case of Gomez, for
the Americans studiously avoided any
thing resembling advice or suggestion
| as to the candidates or the platform.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
IN HONOR OF THE POET POE.

Elaborate Ceremonies Held and
statue Unveiled to His Memory
The Tooth anniversary of the birth of
the poet. Edgar Allen Poe. was celebrat-
ed. elaborate ceremonies being held at the
cottage in which he lived at New York
(FordhamD. at Boston. his birthplace and
at the University of Virginia, where he
was a student. A statue was unveiled
to his memory at Fordham and the old
cottage was thrown open TO the public BY
the owner. Exercises We're also held at
the New York University and at Colum-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04

Treasurer. Banking Commissioner Zfm-
norman Immediately closed the Chelsea
Savings Bank. and it was madeypubIic
that the institution had heavily over
loaned to Mr.. Glazier and TO enter
prises of which he was the head An
investigation of his action in depositing
State funds in the bank of which he
through excessive loans to himself re-
suited in indictments being found
against GlaZier by the grand jury in
Lansing, charging misrepresentation of
State funds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
Promoter Kieran Surrenders.

p. ]. Kieran, the much-wanted head of
the Fidelity Funding Company, who has
been sought all over the world for two
months past on account of the big dis
crepancy between the company's assets
and liabilities, has voluntarily surrendered
to the authorities at Pittsburg and given
BONDS for his appearance in court at New
York, asserting that he was prepared to
make good every obligation of his COM
pany Many Catholic institutions were
believed to be involved in Kieran's af-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
NEGRO SLABS WHITE BOYS.
Race Feeling in Cincinnati Leads t,

Race Feeling in Cincinnati Leads to
Fatal Fight Between Lads.
So eloquently did Horace Telford plead
his case that, although one of the white
youths he stabbed in the recent East high
school riot in Cincinnati is dead and two
are dying, no charge rests against him.
Telford, a negro, is houseman for United
States Judge Thompson and is studying
for the bar He declares that race pre-
JUDGE which threatened TO check his am
bition to become a lawyer started the ia
tai ARRAY Although stories of tahe fight
outside the night school differ. the police
seem inclined to accept the colored boy s
assertion that he was set upon by the
white lands as he came from his studies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
Pirates Kill Fishermen.

The insular government is considering
the ACCESSIBILITY of calling on the navy
department to assist in Kidding the south
ern coasts of the Philippine Islands of
the bands of Moro pirates that now in
fest them. The latest depreciation of
these pirates was the killing of seven ma
tives in an attack on the Panang pearl
fishing feet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
FOUR CHILDREN ARE CREMATED
Their Parents Seriously Hurt When
Home at Dunbar, Pa. Burns.

-Four children were cremated and their
parents seriously injured in fire which
destroyed the home of A. II. Kendall
Pryson HILL Dunbar, Pa. The dead are ::
Earl Kendall, II years old; Pearl Zen
dali, years old; Anna Kendall, I years
old; baby. = years old. Mr. and Mrs
Kendall leaped out of a se,ond-story win
dow.
II is beIeyed the fire started from a
small gas stove which aas left burning
when the family retired. The parents
made repeated efforts TO roach he room
occupied by the four children when the
fire WAS discovered, but were finally com
PEELED TO jump to save themselves. The
damage is $1,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
Watchman Murdered and Robbed

James Wolf, aged 81, night Waterman
at the plant of the Capital Lock, Nut
and Washer Company in Columbus, Ohio,
was beaten TO death with a blunt instru-
ment and robbed of SO, together with a
watch and revolver. Jesse Hazlett. aged
20. an employee of the company, has been
arrested on suSpicion
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
EXPLOSION KILLS MINE OFFICER
superintendent Loses Life and Ten
Men Are Caught in Wreck.

superintendent Loses Life and Ten
Men Are Caught in Wreck.
While Superintendent ]. G. Logan and
party of miners were investigating con-
ditions. which had been unsatisfactory, in
the coal mine of the Merchants Coal
Company at Boswell, near Pittsburg, a
gas explosion occurred which has already
cost the life of one man and may result
in the death of ten more. Because of the
anticipated trouble the night shift was
not permitted to enter the mine, and thus
the lives of many men were spared. When
the explosion occurred the mine caved in
and the passageway was completely block
ed, with ten men back of the obstruction.
The superintendent was carried out seri-
ously injured and died soon after being
taken from the mine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04

-5acob and Abraham Kapnar, father and
son. hosiery manufacturers, and J. s.
Prettvman. vice president of the First Ma
tional Bank at Dresden, Ohio, which fail
ed in October, 1907, were found guilty
by jury of misappying the banks funds
and conspiracy to wreck the bank.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
Woman Is Crippled at 104

Miss Sarah Bates, of West Liberty,
Ohio. more than 1o4 years old, is in a
critical condition as the result of broken
leg. A broken bone is no new thing 70
Miss Bates, for during her long life she
has had both arms and both legs broken,
as well as numerous ribs and several col
lar-bone fractures, but this most recent
accident has made her an invalid
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
Secretary Root Resigns.

Secretary of State Root has rendered
to President Roosevelt his resignation, eff
fective upon qualification of his success
sor. Robert Bacon, whose nomination
along with that of j. c. O'Laughlin to be
Assistant Secretary of State in place of
Mr.. Bacon, went to the Senate Monday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
Makes plea for Farmers

Secretary John t. Burns of the Trans
Missouri Dry Farming Congress has sent
a letter to President Roosevelt urging
upon him the sending of the country life
commission to the annual congress to be
held in Cheyenne Feb. 1925.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
For Two Opera SEASON,

Oscar Hammerstein announced at New
York that, beginning next August, he
would give a three months preliminary
season of grand opera at low prices. thus
extending the opera from five months to
eight. He will make the performances
especially attractive 90 schools and col
leges. Some will be in English.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
Summons Wife Kills Self.

Vernon, Pa, telephoned his wife to hurry
down to his office. Then he hung up the
receiver and put bullet through his head,
dying instantly. His wife tainted when
she stumbled over his body. The cause
of suicide is unknown.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
Senator Is Choice of Voters.

United States Senator Francis G. New
lands, Democrat, who had been chosen
by popular vote to succeed himself, was
reelected by both houses of the Nevada
Legislature, voting separately. The Re
publicans stood by their agreement to
abide by the popular vote and placed no
candidate in nomination.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
uoIds Court Over TeIeabo.

Guaranteed in his home by the board
of health on account of his little daughter
having scarlet fever, Judge Harry Wilson
of Clarion, Pa, held court over the teIe-
phone, hearing motions and making orders
to the attorneys and the clerk. who were
assembled in the prothonotarys office at
the court house.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
Actor Killed by a Live Wire.

Frank Robinson, leading man for the
As Told in the Hills company, was
killed by coming in contact with a live
wire as he left the Gale theater in Mitch
ell. s. D., after the performance. His
body was found lying in an alley across
from the theater an hour after the play
had ended
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
Robber. Get OFF with $1,000.

Robbers entered the Davis Shoe Com
pany's store on Main street, Salt Lake
City, forced the lock on the door of a
safety vault and escaped with nearly ST.
eco in cash and bank drafts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
Explosion Death Roll Is 2es

In response to a Senate resolution,
Chairman Knapp of the Interstate Com
merce Commission has forwarded to that
body table showing the number of cas-
ualties among passengers during the years
from 1908 to 1908, inclusive, from loco
motive boiler explosions TO be go killed
and 116 injured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
Earl of Leicester Dies.

The Earl of Leicester, the patriarch of
the English peerage, died at his ancestral
home. Uolkham He'll, Wells, Norfolk,
Sunday. His death caused little surprise,
as the earl was 81 years old and has been
in failing health for several months.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
twelve Old PeopIe Hurt I'm Fire.

Fire destroyed the mems building of
the Mahoning county infrmary in Cam
field, Ohio, and twelve of the aged in
mates received burns, more or less serious.
The fire loss is $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
$4,000 for Loss of Arm.

A jury in Judge Sturtevant's depart
ment of the Superior Court in San Fran
cisco awarded James Dillon $1,000 dam
ages from the United Railroads for the
loss of an arm. He had brought suit for
$4,000. An appeal will be taken.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
Resisting Negroes are Killed.

Three negroes, brothers, named Nc
LaughIin, barricaded in farmhouse, re-
sisted the attempt of three deputy sheriffs
to arrest them near Payson, Okla, and
as a result one of the negroes was killed,
another shot so that he died the next
morning, and third fatally wounded.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
Woman Attacked; Lynchfng Feared.

Mrs J. r. Faulkner, wife of State
Representative Faulkner, at their home
at Hobart, Okla, was assaulted by J. F.
Bowden, white. The community is excit-
ed and lynching is threatened
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04

known for days. Thousands of homes
would have been plunged into grief and
anxiety but for the reassuring news
thai the accident was not so grave as
had been feared, and that the loss Of
life was small.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
Shot Dead nv Wife.

During family quarrel in Ironton
Ohio James Taylor was shot and instant
" killed by his wife. 1t is said he hacked
her with butcher knife because she re-
fused to give him the revolver with which
the shooting was done.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
XIII, Three Children and Self.

After having suffered several months
from poor health. Mrs. Charles Mock of
Clay County, Neb., killed three of her
youngest children and then committed sui
eide
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
Young Chinese Ruler III.

Cabling from Picking, the correspond
ent OF the London Times says that the
infant Chinese emperor, Pu Wei. is suf-
frribg from continent smallpox.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
Children Rnrn Pauier Eatau

Four children were burned. three of
them fatally, when one of them ignited
three kegs of powder to see ''the puff at
Stoughton, Pa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04

Map showing the position OF the Re
public when it was rammed, the loca-
ton of the ships summoned to its as
sistance by wireless telegraphy and
the land stations that also got the mes
sageS for assistance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
u. 6. Seeds Sent to Panama.

The gold employees in the isthmian
zone are being given some of the free seeds
distributed by the bureau of agriculture
at Washington. Two hundred and fifty
packages of vegetable seed and 800 pack
ages of flower seeds have been sent there.