Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 52, Number 6, Jasper, Dubois County, 12 November 1909 — Page 3
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LOSES LIFE IN REVENGE. Sicilian Romance Ende In America With Double Tragedy. ES KENNEDY'S GREAT GIFTS. Gotham Rich Man Leaves More Than $25,COO,000 to Charity. I FEAR CHEWING GUM FAMINE. ; Yucatan Chicle Growers Destroying Trees at Rapid Rate.
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BKlFnE COMMISSION HANDS CARREwtROS TO THE BRAVE.
Blucficld, W. Va., Special: A romance of two contlnonts had a tragic ending at n coal mining village near hero. A Sicilian girl who had two swcclhourts Jilted one and came to America recently to marry the other. Mlchaolo Urunlldn. the scorned lover, followed. He traced tho couple,
Mr and .Mrs. Falrdence, from Brook-
...u Drformed Deeds of lyn, where they were married on tho
Ohoa" VY"U , Klrl a arrival, to Weat Virginia, where
Heroism at Athens riooa ui
SPECTACULAR
ACTS OF BRAVERY
went to work in the
L,on's Share of Honors.
the husband
mines. Tho old Bwoctheart camo hero and found the girl he loved in the homo of her husband. He tired at her, the bill let entering her hreast. The woman . .1 t l I . ..!...- ,..1
j , i.rnv. I I'rwuieu nur iiiiguuim ruvui'vi iwiu arsons for i cls j jw flnj(, ftt nrun,lda WoundtnB him just MIIOUS CQndUCt. UU whj ilnr i,IIHi,nm nnlnroil th Innr Thn
iq sneclal: The Car-
Fund Commission has re-
. ..im llW.'l rd. made to a
. anada. the persons rememh, oiHinlsslon are residents , .1 states, twenty-two living
x ., ,tely $33,000. twenty-three ,i t. ut) seven bronze medals k "', I heroism during the Hood . nhlo, March 14. 1907. re- ). m eater part of the at ten- ,, . iimmisslon. , of courage brought to the . the commission Included iMson from fast running pas.,in. rescues from Mood rlv- , , ,nn unmanageable runaway
a carrying perauns i;.. lings. ,. :.t among the awards and Hi.- most spectacular act of , i! vd to the attention of the - , was the case of Halley u merchant of Athens, O. . Hoods of the Hocking M i. oh. 1907. Woods, unasslst...1 two men and a woman
certain death, when he
,t bottomed skiff through
IV ft. r. ei ' . i ' bf . .1 in A,. (I C 1 ' a- v: et;.- . 1. 1 T' 8 fa - c h - r v ' ' fa c ' M . I r e' t r 1 ; a ti i -' 1 .
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t . . -ort and presenteu mm wun : r $1,000 and a silver medal. müht cases of bravery durv lions flood were also retiibly. i .irly worthy award was the c, . ".rue E. McCue, colored, of i., , ', Kansas, whose heroic act , a baby from in front of a
,u; passenger tram was the attontlon of tho comcity ofllclals of the town " if lived.
.i had left a 2-year-old i'Ied In a baby buggy in i depot and express office. a the baby buggy upon the A. rturnlng the vehicle. The l the Infant In the carriage. m the overturned carriage, : ii r see tho baby. A passen- . inning close to sixty miles
u..a approaching. McCue ran track and, about half way . carriage, .aw that it coninfant He redoubled his : .K hing the vehicle In time to trom the right of way and . . d tho pilot of the engine
.tin sped past the depot was given a bronze medal ;n t and $500 for educational he having expressed a de.i nd an industrial school for '. ii i en. i h of the other fifty awards a
as her husband entered tho door. The latter took the pistol from his wife's hands and kilted lirunllda, firing shot after shot Into him as he lay dying.
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WAS
EPISODE IN STEINHEIL
CASE AT PARIS.
YOUTH CONFESSES TO MURDERS
In Courtroom During Trial of Mme.
Steinheil, But It's all for Effect. ,
AND
REPUBLICANS WILL TÜRE THE SOUTH.
CAP-
SAYS CULL0M IN
Hints at Plans In Contemplation
Which Taft Is Now Trying to Carry Out.
Now York, Special: John Steward Kennedy, one of America's little known rich men, who died of whooping cough In his New York residence Sunday, left bequests of more than $25,riArt rum .-. linlt..tilr nml
IN I tnVltW educational Institutions in his will,
filed for probate here. The gift is tho largest singlo contribution of itB kind ever made and tho beneficiaries Include educational and church Institutions, North, South, Hast and West In this country, and several abroad; sixty in all. Nearly half of the $25,0uo,000 goes to institutions connected with the Presbyterian church, of which Mr.
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS DECIDED IT.
HAS
PLAN TO FURTHER TEMPERANCE
Public School Teachers Urged to Dis
cuss Subject Before Youth of Nations.
Wnshlncton. Sneclal: Alcohol and
alcoholism are two of tho real and
Washington. Sneclnl: Judging from
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CuirÄol . thörota toAtovn an active member 8ubstantIal enemies of m oral, artistic sympathy among men conspicuous in n '?"' and commercial progress of the human
a sine irom inese guis, .nr. tvn- race according to mo report oi uic nedy left approximately 135,000,000 to iTnitG(i states delegates to the Twelfth
his widow, his relatives and a great international Congress on Alcoholism
number or his friends and employes. The widow's share will be about $10, 000,000. All of the testator's employes received gifts from $500 to $2,000 each.
sympathy among men conspicuous
the Republican party of tho Northern Statos with the attitude of the South
ern Domocrats toward the negro po
litically.
The Senator's discussion of the mat
ter is apropos to the President's tour of the South and of his effort to win
that section or parts of it over to Re
publicanism.
Mr. Cullom said in nn interview: "Remove the negro from politics In the South give that section of tho country an exclusively white ballot or a franchlscment which will mean absolutely and unequivocally whlto supremacy in the manasement of its whole affairs, and there is not a state below the Mason and Dixon line which will not he found in the Republican column of the Electoral College.
"The whole truth of the situation
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FLYING AUTO DASHES INTO THE
CHICAGO RIVER.
Just made public by the State Depart
ment.
The delegates wero appointed i
Rnrntnrv Knox as ono OI IMS nrsi
offlclal acts. The congress was held
luKt .Tulv In London, and twenty-liw
covernments were represented, me
delegates of each concurring In the
general finding that alcohol not omy was unnecessary to human life and comfort, but was Inimical to both.
Three departments or tue unueu Sintes Eovernment were represented
bv delecates. the State. Navy and
Treasury. Twelve representatives
went abroad, and all or tnem signeu the renort made public, the finding of
which is to condemn the drinking
City of Mexico, Special: Dire woe is In store for tho American gum chewer. In fact, his favorite non-per-ishablo delicacy is threatened with extinction, according to Franklin Can
ning, an officer of tho American nici Company, who has been investigating
the chicle supply iu this coutnry.
Owintr to the great demand anu con
sequent high prices, tho chicle growers of Yucatan have been tapping the
trees too often, and as a result tno trees are being destroyed at a rapid
rate. Unless now chicjo forests are discovered or a system of reforestation
Is put into effect, Yucatan will have no chicle to export in a few years.
Massacred Virginia Family. Hnntlncton. W. Va.. Special: The
famous Grundy (Va.) mnsBacre of an
entire family, which occurred uui a
few weeks ago, was repeated on a lonely country road four miles out of
Beckley, when the enttro iamuy oi C. W. Hood, an aged Union soldier, including his daughters Carolina, aged 40; Emma, 12, and Roy, 25, -wero brutalb murdored as they slept and the bodies uumed with their home In an effort to conceal the crime.
lican doctrine of a protective tariff.
But the people are held in leash, so to Hears Piercing Scream as Six People
Paris. Cable: The most stirring
scenes of the modern melodramas
lmvn hnnn oflliiKfiil bv a startling inci
ulng river current into the tient jn tue stelnheU murder trial in
window of a nau-suD- .. ajRi7 cnnrt.
use. carrying his rescued let- while the accused widow, dressed
n to shore and satety. in in mourning and presenting a pa
in the case of Woods tho tlietlc figure, was wrestling with the n found that he was in debt jU(g0( prosecutor and jury' to save her
..f $1,000 lor ins smau mer- nfe nor attorney, M. Aubln, cried:
Sto!" With electric effect he sud
denlv unshed to the front a youth who,
ho said, wished to confess that he had been hired to kill M. Steinheil and
Mme. Jany
M. Aubin read a letter signed "Jean I.efevre." asking that he be permitted
to confess, and then ho pointed at tho
man and said dramatically: "This is Jean Lefevro."
Mme. Steinheil gazed -at him wearily
and. after he had mado a rambling
statement. In which he said that, dls
imised as a woman and wearing a wig
of red hair, he had helped to commit the murder, she could not Identify him as one of the murderers whom she had previously described. The presiding judge promptly ordered Lefevre's arrest and an investigation of his statement On further examination Lefevre said that his name was Rene Collnrd, and
ho is an actor. He admitted that he had not tho slightest connection with tho crime, and had merely acted on a chivalrous impulse to save Mme. Steinhell, of whose innocence he was convinced. He was ordered detained pending verification of his identity. A summary of the evidence shows that the Judge failed to shako Mrs. Steinhell's original version of tho prime. She admitted intrigue, but
heatedly denied that she sent her mother to solicit money from her lov-
urn-rest story or roai noroism P.TS and she insisted mat tier nusuanu
' . . i in.
had never prometi oy ner immoral me. Admitting that she had done wrong In a tearful voice she beseeched the Jury to pardon her faults. She defondod herself by snying that, since
she did not live with her husband
his wife, she longed for sympathy
love.
When confronted with the Inconslst
encies of her stories, she Justified them by saying she had lost her head when harassed by Journalists and detectives, and had thus been led to believe that those whom she had accused were perhaps guilty. The iudce led the woman ngain and
again over tho story of the crime itself, and after suggesting thnt she
In
Motor Plunge to stant Death.
In-
sneak, by the fear of negro domlna
tion; the fear of colored men In office, both of the elective class and those appointed at Washington. "How can you blame communities
like South Carolina nnd Mississippi, Chicago, Special: A big touring car for Instance, for voting the Democratic wth six passengers, two women and
ticket, where in some sections tho pro- fmir ,nnn ninc0il Into an open drow-
portion of colored population is 10 brideo of the Chicago river at the
blacks to 1 white? It is in comraunl- Tnfo,Knn l.oiilovard crossing at 11
ties like these that tho white popula- oiopi, at nicht and all were drowned.
tlon are afraid. Now, mind you, I do Tne acci(ent was wltuessed by Dr.
moral, commercial and military great
ness.
While the Congress urged the neces
sity of imposing the most rigorous re
strictions on the sale or trnlnc in al
coholic liquors, It regarded as equally Important the need of educating the vounucr Generation to a true knowl
edge of what alcohol is ana wuai ua
effects upon the human system are The delecates believe that the numor
ous recent discoveries as to the harm
fulness and even of "moderate drink
Inir. nlso. should be set before children
that thov may see tho danger of the
not necessarily mean that I favor tho A E Bertling, who, with his wife and nractlce; Tho American delegates total disfranchisement of the negro. a couple of riends, was In another au- th, , j u , e 0 t by "In Illinois, for instance, we have a tomoblIe waiting for the bridge to J"1? ims 1 "abC 1
large negro vote, just as umo, inummi, close. incrnnse! toachlnc as to its char-
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and rsew According to Dr. Bertling, there was nptfr nm, lnflllpn(, shoui(1 bo rovided.
York have. But in these communl- no guarti chain or policeman at the ties it is a different proposition. There rmnnlnir. He -was barely able to see
appears to be a distinction somewhere tnat tjje urdge was open, the night
between tho two sections in tms re- holnir focev.
spect, and tho Northern colored man As tj,e car dashed by him he shouted who uses his ballot with wisdom nnd to tno driver that tho bridge was open.
fairness. We are satisfied with him, Tjje chauffeur did not hear him, for
hut It is notorious, of course, that the the car did not slacken speed.
South is not. -I nm certain there was no chain
"President Taft has a fixed Idea of acros3 the roadway and no policeman, acauainting himself with the condl- .ithor cltv or nark, on guard. It all
tions and the people thioughout the hannened in an instant. The big car,
South, and he can be reneu upon 10 whlch bad approached irom tne easi,
to conserve industrial efficiency in the commercial competition of nations, as well as to promote two of the chief ob
jections of government, the public health and morals." The United Statos made a good showing in its exhibits. Germany also was to the fore with a particularly fine collection of colored charts showing the effect of alcohol on tho body, the family and upon society. Espe
cially effective. It Is said, wero the Btereopticon slides of the Natlonnl
The relation of drunkenness to
LUNATIC DUPED HUNDREDS. Aasstd Fortune by Assuming Pow ers of Prophecy.
' ( able: Horr Heinrich Beri 'i .i man of unsound mind, has 1 In duping many thousands ' J men and women by tolling : tiii:-s, and thereby amassing a f t" tune for himself and his parti '!! Schmidt, of Madgeburg.
give them a square deal. Naturally, behind me, did not slow up, and when Temnerance League of Great BriUnln.
no win nm uiiun uiu uciuui.1 " .v i i came iu a ruauziiuuii v v.South to have exclusive control of going over I shouted at tho top of my
Federal patronage, nut ne isn't iineiy v-0ice, but In vain, to offer appointments to that section -The car had bowled over the edge which are objectionable. But It is of ana (iOWn into the river. 1 Jumped more Importance to have the South out 0f my car and ran to the edge of with us. Therefore, I reiterate that xq water and, peering over, could It Is the negro voto which is holding plainly see one man and one woman Dixieland aloof from tho Republican struggling in the water and shouting count of the Electoral College. Erase n nconlzed tones for help.
that objectionable vote and this coun- "The boat for which the bridge had
He Sure Proved It, New Orleans, La., Special: J. O. Wilson, for 29 years a disciple of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy's Christian Science doctrine, threw himself in front of a trolley car to prove his faith, and tho fact that he is still alive convinces him that the drastic test has upheld his belief. Local Christian Scientists were much perturbed at Wilson's act and declared that his Is a case of misdirected energy, and that he nor the church could hope to profit by it Couldn't Locate Kldd's Millions. Hallfax, N. S., Special: Failure has ngain attended an efTort to wrest "Capt Kldd's millions" from their roputed resting place on Oak Island, which for 150 years has been the goal of hundreds of treasure sccners. Tho latest attempt to secure this money, which has been carried on an summer hv n nartv from New York, has met
with no more success than has afc tended all previous attempts. Plant of a Thousand Blooms. New York, Special: Sarauel Untermeyer, the well-known lawyer, has has been awarded the prize by the Horticultural Society for a singla chrysanthemum plant, 9 feet in diameter, 30 feet in circumference cud bearing more than 1.000 largo and perfect blooms. Tho judges of the society's annual exhibit declared it to bo the most perfect plant ever grown.
Virginia Forests on Fire. Winchester. Va., Special: The forests on the Great Northern Moun
tains, west of Winchester, are on ure
crime was a subject that received and th0 flanies, fanned by high winds,
try will be a unit politically ns it now nened had got by Jackson boulevard
In nnlrlnllnnllv" I i. f- iUn n 11 1 nmnfitln nlnni'Prl In. 1 Ill-
la JIIW
MAKES JOB LOOK SICK.
Patience of Bible Character Discounted by Iowa Men's Stunt. n0 tnlnos. la.. Sneclal: Job will
have to take a back seat while four
iffnrn thn nutomobllo nlunKcd In. Ini
mediately after the car went In the river another vessel, larger, camo up from the same direction and proceeded through the draw before the bridge tender turned the bridge. "What efTect the passage of the second vessel had on tho fate of the unfortunate party In the car or on tho car I do not know. The river at that
sband as Dca Moines men move up to the front point has a swift current and I could athy and "ow Think of playing a series of observe that tho persons who were gVmes which takes more than nine visible, were carried rapidly south in
i- rtrmann and Schmidt were mi a charge of fraud, aston- . IJ. H... ...... I ...... flnt n n
iwi cc m Biw. iwiimuu ... .npt(,,, . fnntnstle
I himself at the village or ,u"""f ; 1.
u little more than two years pioi, m V:.Tr:
uearueu men u inrnuucu u. .......
or adapted irom
- a phrenologist, and subsequenti astrologer, and, by means of advertising, offered to fore- .! events. Linens developed to such an 's.tt he was obliged to engage ! ;s business manager. With 1 1 assistance he established ranches in different parts of inent. and dealt with the "f all those by mall. Accordthe evidence Bertermann aci'd a fortune of more than " within two years, while the ial sum of approximately t'll to Schmidt.
.: 'i.. ; A t. . t r 1,- f
tnken from books
Rrimo similar crime of which sho had
read in her youth. -confronted her with the charges of having dyed her dresslug gowns after tho murder to get rid of tell-tale stains and of having exchanged some of her stepmother's bedding. a Puts O. K. on Peary.
w.iahincton. Special: Commander
Robert E. Peary practically was in-
iinrKPil as a discoverer of tho North
Pole by the National Geographical So
ciety. Every indication points 10 iuu fact that Peary's personal statements hofnro the subcommittee of tho society
convinced its members that he had set
foot on the top oi me worm. 1110 ex
That's Going Some. T.'xiiH. Mo., Special: A divorce i .......1 t .. X I X Tl
- iivu IU -HIB. i. E.. Ulli IIS, I " ,.,,. ,1,. ikn f...m i ,u r rinrnr has been invited to deluer tho
. a, oa'dintm on n,Vt oi hi. ,.c lecture, before Iho
"iiü count min anu near in- ru .;.. ,,r .. ,
d the testimony. Mrs. Burns open to tne ffiMuw.. u...
WOU1C1 nuVU UVUll mivu i l'l'vu.. Finds Greatest Waterfall.
Oh. Let it Be Soon! nahkosh. Wis.. Special: EUWflM
,l- Ainoi, c...-1-i. . nnirh Barr, the Oshkosh explorer who
' M V k . 11 fainil aV with ML has Just returned from Labrador, rehu been organized to ports the discovery In the rn peak this winter, it was an- of that countrj , of a hi ge ater all
t husband called her names on .'"'IS.
r
t:t
1 and nut an en.l tn iho mn. which HO is coniiuui i i'.u i
.H m tiiirhost waterfall on tne western
'1 'he summit The nartv will Hemisphere. This fall, he says, is
V.mbcr 15. The expedition Is larger than '1 m l'au
i naiiced here.
the stream.
"As soon as the bridge was closed I ran on it and found thnt the bridge tender had been unable to throw lifepreservers to the helpless persons in the river because they wero tied, and he could not looson them having no knife, as he explained to me.
'My wife and I, witnessing the no
tr. nnih! That is what four
East Des Moines men nre doing. They arc Col. John C Loper, Mllo Ward,
Dr. W. N. Henton anu &am iNeiuiu.
For nine years tney nave uuen ink
ing crlbbagc. Six years ago n suggested that they play a series
which should cnu wnu i, in hv one side.
On Monday night of each week since cident. were almost beside ourselves. ?hat time they hnvo met and played. The clearest recollections I have of
nnt ono of the four has ever once ror- tho moment is a series oi agonizing gotten the evening or the hour. They cries and heart-breaking screams from have piled up the points, 120 at a the persons in tho Ill-fated car."
time, until at tne present cumii muj have exceeded the 000,000 mark and a Warning to Dreamers.
the series is within tnree years ui ua Vienna. Cable: Dispatches received
ft n tall I linrn f Tnm Vtnlirrnilo. Snrvln. snv that
iiuiui'f I vv - a - - -
More than 5.000 games nao own Dishop NMkador, of Nlsh, Servia, is to
played In the 31 suungs. .uuiu u be trIe(1 for nign treason for an un-
fortunnte dream, in wmcn ne saw a revolution in Belgrade, the deposition of King Peter and the proclaiming as King the former Crown Prince George. Tho Bishop told of his vision to some friends and finally It reached tho ears of the government
much attention at tho Congress. The
chief Justice of England, Lord AlverBtonc, announced that In his belief 90 per cent of the crimes passing un
der his observation was due to drink.
FOOTBALL CARNAGE FIERCE.
Eleven Deaths Already, Six Fatal Juries and Many Accidents.
In-
New York, Special: Thrco deaths resulting from last Saturday's football games have served to call attention to the fact that this season promises to furnish the most growsome list of death and accidents of any in the history of football. Already there have, been eleven deaths with the most fiercely contest
ed cames vet to be played. A sum
nro Rwoenlmr over large areas of val
uable timber land. Little progress has been mnde In beating hack the flamoa by tho mountaineers. Woman Orders Airship. Haramondsport, N. Y., Special: Mrs. II. A. Arnold, who has a largo estate on the Florida coast, south of Jacksonville, has contracted to purchase an aeroplano for $7.500. This is said to bo the first purchase of an aeroplano by a woman.
Amply Justified. Gallatin, Mo., Special: Believing Otis Claycomb, a young farmer, was justified in killing the man who wrecked his home, six members of tho Davics County Grand Jury refused to vote indictments against him for kill-
mary of other injuries so far reported ing John Ward, a wealthy land owner, this year shows six young men to bo August 24, last. suffering from what oro believed fntal injuries, twenty-two broken collar Worth Every Day of It. bones, fifteen broken legs, sixteen Holland, Mich.. Special: Justlco broken legs, slxteeu broken noses, vnndcnmullen, of this city, a confirmnine broken ankles, eight victims of hnri,ior Imnosod a sentenco of
broken ribs, eleven broken shoulders, njncty days In the Detroit house of
six broken fingers, six broken arms,
one broken wrist, ono broken hand and two broken jaws.
IMMENSE HAT A HARRIER.
correction upon Harlem Timms, or Grand Rapids, for stealing a kiss, and intimated that the punishment was entirely too light
Smallpox Cases Decrease. Washington, Special: Smallpox cases numbering 24.C50 in the United cfntn. ilurlm: the fiscal year ending
I kJV w . . .9 a
iinmn rniiior Ono of tho naners ti.iw 1 Inst wero reported oy tne puo-
of the Bernese Oberland relates an tc health service. This aggregate for
Worn By a. Woman, It Blocks a Pass In the Alps.
3,000 more must be. played. At the
present time uoi. imVmi Ward, who play against Dr. Heaton and Mr. Neidlg, havo a lead of C.C00
points. Work of Jealous Hubby. Mishnwaka, Ind., Special: Dead In his carriage, with a bullet hole behind t.i Inf, nur Rnoch HlchSChCW W88
found by his seven-year-old son. Chief
of Police B. F. jarreu aeciareu it v.ia a case of murder. As Hlghschcw passed a lonely spot he was shot from behind. It is said by the police that the shooting was done by tho husband of a woman with whom Hlghschew has been friendly. Love Died Hard.
Pnri Cable: A man who is ue-
Anythlng to Get Skinny. Denver, Colo., Special: Oiled silk waists arc being worn, vinegar and other acids are being swallowed in largo quantities by the corpulent members of Denver's smnrt set, who are taking Spanish waltz lessons and learning to kick high that they may appear well in conspicuous costumes. Carrie On a Tear.
New York. Special: After entering
1 tx B'.
C'.r.
I" I l-r
Starts Early on Crime Career.
Dynamite Steel Plant.
" t. Special: Cvrll SI. Armnn.l CICVCinnu. v., opvv... .
- "Id, has been sentenced to blew up $100,000 wort" or stee. apimprisonment for horse pllances and construction n the now ' Wl.on 8 years old I he wl a plant of tho Corrigan McKlnncy Com- . ,i r . ' Lnv in tho Cuyahoga Itlvcr bottom
- train, llig youth tabled Thlm and wVecked Iho track, of tho New-
i- sentence for this and a num- burg & souui burglaries which followed. .... . T..,..u.ctw-
- - vvny wmjr .-! . Merely Playthings. Chicago. 111.. Special: Four men .nkfort. Ky.. Special: Holding who dragged Harry Tletlebaum, a nonbat i.raH knucW' 'n , An . i .nlon bakery wagon driver, from his
" " ' uiiiitjui - j I
' w.apnns. Governor WIHrom on.
r. ilipd thn jail sentence against Luther Doyd. of Mndlaonvllle.
wagon and beat him to death in n strike last spring, wero sentenced to 25 years each in prison.
Heved to have been either an Amcrl- the cafe at the Hotol Knickerbocker can or nn Englishman, dramatically nnd shouting that tho men drinking committed suicide In a Mont Martre wero going "straight to hell," Carrie cafe He hall asked the orchestra Nation, the Kansas saloon smasher, .,'.. iin,oa tn nlftv tho wnltz. "When was followed down Broadway by a
I ovo is Dead," and ns the Inst strnlns hooting crowd until arrested and taken died away ho placed a pistol to his to tho Tenderloin Police Station head and shot himself, dying instantly, charged with disorderly conduct. Violating the Speed Ordinance. Tut, Tut, Professor. . oii. T,f v. i Lnfrence. Kans.. Special: L. A.
vBCÄiff' hat HÄ Ross, professor of sociology In the
. ...no i,eVVvn.l from Mt Lookout University or Wisconsin, in an uSSmelvXv nnr Slfht lately The dress to the students of tho University 0,,8C Into vlSX r about 10 -30 and of Kansas, declared that school vacacomet camo into mow auoui iu.ou h .,( ,..D n.,,i
appeared as a small speck of iignt rushing toward the sun nt the rate of
a million miles nn nour. Dies In Duel With Cow. Columbus, Gn., Special: Trying to kill a cow, Oslo Askew, IS years o d, was charged by the animal, and In the collision Inflicted a wound on himself which caused death.
tlonB nro a relic of pioneer days and that children should attend school
twelve months in tho year.
Aviator Soars 977 Feet. London. Cable: Flying nt Iho San
down Park race courso, last week,
Louis Paulhan, the French nvintor,
made a now record for height In Eng
land, reaching an altitude of 97 foot
amusing incident said to navo oc curred In the Aar gorges, near Merit
It appears that a fashionable dame, wearing the huge hat which fashion
Imposes upon her aevoiecs, iaueu 10
pass througll a narrow gurgo wuu her headgear. The hat stuck between
the two walls and reiused to ue moved.
a nartv of tourists coming up De-
hind had to wait until the obstruction
was cleared away, uveniuauy me
wearer of the monstrous nnt was
obliged to take it off and let the mere
men of the party wrenen u iree.
Stage Coach Held Up. Vancouver, B. C, Special: Two
masked highwaymen nein up tne
Cariboo stage ai iiu-iniio nouse, in
tho year is a decrease of 7.C00 from
the preceding year. THE MARKETS.
Indianapolis. Wheat No. 2 red Corn No. 2 white... Oats No. 2 white.... Hay No. 1 timothy.. Poultry cocks Old torn turkeys .... Hen turkeys Ducks
Chickens Butter country .. .. Eggs fresh Cattle prime steers. ,?C35 Hogs heavies 8.00
Lights
1.16 .00 .37 11.00 .07 .14 .10 .10 .11 .22 .28 3 7'.50 8.20
CP 7.95
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ued at $5,000.
Original D. A. R. Dead. Freeport, 111., Special: Mrs. Elenorn
Zimmerman, whoso ratner, fsicnoias Ickcs, served for three years In the revolutionary war under George Wash
ington, died Inst week at ner nome in Dakota, III. She was SC years old. Tall Timber for Rockefeller. Paris, Cable: A dispatch from Amsterdam to the Eclair says John D. Rockefeller has purchased 35,000 plno
trees, costing over $20,000, from a
Chicago. Wheat No. 2 red. . . .$1.17 1.19 Corn No. 2 whlto 02 .02 0ats4o. 2 white.... .3S4
New York. Wheat No. 2 red.... 1.10 Corn No. 2 white.... .01 Oats No. 2 whlto .38
Frisco as "Paris of America." San Francisco, Special: Tho dropping of graft prosecutions and the making of San Francisco tho widest
nurseryman of Goud, a town in the opon town in tho country will, it is 30Uth of tho Netherlands. Mr. Rocke- conorally believed, he tho speedy ro-
SUlt Of 1110 ciCMjuuii ui r. ii. .ucvariy
to the mnyoranty nnu oi uunriea ncK
roller lnteud8 to plant these trees In
a park.
Had Their Nerve With Them. Copenhagen, Cable: Burglars raided Bcrnstoff castle, tho residence of Princo Waldemar, the king's brother, and stole nearly $ 1,500 from tho secretary's office.
ort to tho county prosecutorshlp. McCarthy has announced that ho wanted to "make San Francisco tho Paris of America." It Is believed on nil sides that the mayor-elect has In mind tho äporting features of Paris, rather than Its artistic achievements.
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