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Alleged Accomplice of Mrs. Belle
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Authorities.
Kay Lampliere, who was charged
with the murder of Mrs. Belle Uun
nenH nnd su!)H''(jucntly convicted of ar
son In connection with the burning or
the home on her "murder farm," near
Lnporte, died nl the State penitentiary
In Michigan City, Ind., of tuberculo
sis. The man, suspected of (insisting tilt
supposed arch-murderess In slaying
the ten victims whose bodle were
found hurled about (he rami after her
disappearance In April. 1908, made no
statement to the prison officials).
in the pust few weeks State's Attor
ney Kalph Smith, who prosecuted
Lamphere, and officials of the peniten
tiary have sought to obtain from the
prisoner a statement. To all ques
tions, however, Lninphcre has stead
fastly replied that he knew nothing
which might throw further light on
the wholesale murders.
Lamphere was 38 years old, und for
three years prior to the disappearance
of Mrs. Gunnens and her three chil
dren had been employed as a field
hand at the "murder farm."'
The crimes, ruthlessly premeditated
and diabolically executed, rivaled the
famous Holmes Castle murders In Chi
cago and the Bender murders In Kan
sas. Whether Mrs. (iunness was a par
ty to these crimes, and whether she
escaped or was burned to death In her
houso In April, 1!0S, never has been
satisfactorily explained. She former
ly lived In Chicago and went to La
porte after her first husband had died
under circumstances said to have been
suspicious.
After establishing herself on the
farm. Just outside Lnporte, the woman.
is said to have been a frequent corre
spondent wth matrimonial agencies In
various parts of the country. She
thus formed the acquaintance of a
number of men. At least six of them
went to Laporte. all of whom disap
peared. Later, when the yard hack
of the farmhouse was excavated, the
bodies of some of these admirers were
Identified among the ten which were
found. Lamphere was arrested tho
day tollowliigtheburnln'g of the house.
Ho had been seen In the vicinity ol
the building tho night it burned.
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Elver Blocked from Pittsburg to Cin
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The Ohio riverv from Pittsburg to
Cincinnati, Is closed to navigation, and
according to reports, will bo ice-
choked probably for several weeks. A
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Ice gorges, It Is feared, will result
in heavy damage. Rivcrnien are as
tounded at the unusually severe Ice
packs for the present time of ear.
and predict heavy loss of property
before a thaw sets In. At New Mar-
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were waiting for the passing of the
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FRISCO TO RUN CARS.
City Approves Municipal Ownership
Scheme at Special Election.
San Francisco the other day took
the first step toward municipal owner
ship of ifs street railway lines when
by a vote of 31,000 to ll.ono tho peo
ple carried a bond issue to the amount
of $2,020,000. The funds raised by
tho sale of these bonds are to be used
in the construction of a municipal elec
tric line along Geary street nnd other
thoroughfares from the heart of the
business district to the ocean beach, a
distance of about nine miles. This
proposition hes been submitted to the
voters of the city four times, the other
three polls being against the bonds.
The present deary street car line Is
nn obsolete cable system. It Is oper
ated under a special permit granted
to a private company by the super
visors after the franchise of the orig
inal company had expired. The causes
leading to the voting of these bonds
by a decisive majority after the same
proposition had been three times de
feated are numerous cud complex. Pos
sibly more than anything else the vote
represents an expression of dissatis
faction with the methods nnd service
of the United Railroads. The car sys
tem of the city under the present pri
vate monopoly admittedly is not good.
MOB HANGS VIRGINIA SLAYER.
liuir UnllM Murderer' Flight, bat
Attempt nt Vrimraucf Falls.
Following the killing at Murley.
Va., of Samuel Baker and the serious
wounding of his widow and two chil
dren by Henry Peuniugton, a mob of
100 took Pennington from jail and
hanged him to a steam pipe. Penning
ton, who had been drinking, picked a
quarrel iwlth Baker, his enemy, and
shot him while the latter was on his
way to a Sunday school celebration
with his wife, two children, and a
friend, Wy'att Meadows. Seeing that
he had killed Baker. Pennington start
ed to run away. Mrs. Baker called
after Penniugton and Implored him to
help her take the body home. The
ruse worked and Pennington went
back to the spot where hi3 victim lay
dead. Bent upon vengeance, Mrs. Ba
ker grabbed Pennington's pistol from
his pocket and shot twice at hira. Her
aim wa3 bad, but she succeeded in
wounding him in the hand and thigh.
Pennington recovered possession of the
pistol and theu shot the woman zaA
attempted to kill Meadows and the two
children. Pennington then lied, but
was surrounded and captured by n
posse on the outskirts of the town.
BOYCOTT AS A FOOD-PRICE CURE
Movement, of Nation-Wide Scope
Started at Washington Meeting.
Plans for a national boycott of
those combinations that increase the
cost of living were laid in Washing
ton the other night, when the Nation
al Anti-Trust League was launched.
Members of Congress are Interested in
the new movement and immediate
steps will be taken toward perfecting
State organizations. Then, when prices
soar,, the league members by stopping
the use of such articles or commodi
ties as have gone above legal level
will put them back again by refusing
to furnish a market. The plan was
one that was tried In Germany a few
years ago and which, according to a
report, broke uu a combine in coffee
that had raised the price of the bean
to almost prohibitive prices.
CUMMINS TALKS DEFIANTLY.
low Senator Points to Line of Bat
tle Between Republican Faction.
In a notable address delivered be
fore his political friends In Dm
Moines the other evening. Senator
Cummins of Iowa sounded the battle
cry of the progressive wing of the Re
publican party. Not only were Sena
tor Aldrlch, Speaker Cannon and tat
rest of the standpat group reviewed
and condemned by the Iowa Senator,
but war was declared upon the remain
ing standpatters and Cannon adhei
ents In the Iowa delegation In the na
tional House of Representatives. Sena
tor Cummins specifically expressed ap
proval of the efforts to prevent the re
nomination of Capt. Hull as a member
of Congress from the Des Moines dis
trict. He also Indicated that the group
of which he Is the leader will strive t
control the State convention of the Re
publican party and to nominate pro
gressives for tho offices that are to be
filled.
If Senator Cummins succeeds In at
fight to make Iowa entirely progressive
In its representation In Washington
another thing naturally will follow
which was not directly discussed at the
Des Moines meeting. The Iowa Sena
tor will probably become the leader ef
the progressive forces of tho nation
and presumably will be the choice of
that group for the Republican nomina
tion for the presidency.
In his Marquette Club address In
Chicago Senator Cummins pointed out
the line of cleavage between the pro
gressives and the reactionaries of the
Republican party. In his Des Moines
talk he went further and pointed out
the line of battle. The fights In the
Iowa districts still represented In Con
gress by friends of Cannon doubtless
will be duplicated in many other dis
tricts in the West.
The present contest between Cum
mins and the progressive group on one
side and the Cannon-Aldrlch coterie on
the other for supremacy In the Repub
lican party Is likely to be one of the
memorable episodes in American an
tics, is the opinion of a prominent
Western paper.
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FINDS CHILDREN'S BODIES.
fire Tragedy Costa Two Lives in the
Village of Santa Claus, Ind.
In the village of Santa Cluus, Ind.,
two children were burned to death the
other night. Their mother found their
blackened little bodies a few minutes
before they died. In a room In which
she bad left them playing an hour be
fore. The mother, Mrs. Fred Keller
wife of a young fanner, went to the
barn to help him milk the cows. A
thought of her girls, 2'j and IVi
years old, led her to leave her hus
band and return to the house. As she
approached uhe heard the children
creaming. The rooms were filled
with miioke. Groping along the floors
she came upon the babies and dragged
them to a door. The children had
played near tho utove.
BO IIUKT IN DEPOT EXPLOSION.
Qua
I'lanr lu Moutrral Train lllowa
I'll anil Muni- Slav Die,
Over a Bcore of people were Injured
In an explosion at the Place Vigor sta
tion of the Canadian Pacific Hallway
In Montreal. Many of the victims were
.frightfully mangled, and the death Hat,
It In feared, will be large. The Quebec
truln, which usually leaved the station
at about 11:30 p. m., was on the eve
of pulling out. The station platform
was crowded with a throng, seeing
ifrlcnda off, when there was a terrific
explosion, which ripped up the plat
form from end to end and burled more
than a score of people In the debris.
The gas plant on the Quebec train had
blown up.
Bars Malta On Now Jersey,
Carrying down to death Capt. Joe
Wyman and a crew of five men, the
eoal barge John A. Drlgga, which
broke away from the whaleback
teamer Thurmond off Point Pleasant
In the blizzard, sank off the coast of
New Jersey.
I Children hlu In Uurnlnif ( harrb.
While firemen fought a stubborn
blaze in the basement of the People's
Methodist church In Kansas City, flrty
children sang Christmas hymns on the
floor above.
The llirinon pn-Hiilenti.il boom
Biiid to have bit WuHhinKton bard.
rocent two days' visit of Ohio's Gover
nor to the United Stiitcs capital bus
installed him in popular favor and
placed htm In a in w Unlit regnrdlng the
cuinliiK presidential candidacy.
It leaked out how Andrew CarncKle
and Secretary of State Knox had h
Bliarp, wordy encounter during the din
ner Riven at Washinitton by John Bar
rett, director of the Hurcuu of Ameri
can licpublics, to me uipiomuuc rep
resentatives of the I.atln countries to
the south of us. CarneKle was rulo
gizlng the peace work of Secretary
Root, and began to compare It with
thu "Bhot-gun policy" of the present
administration, when Knox Jumped up
and told the laird lie was butting Into
affairs that ho knew nothing about.
Again, later, when Carnegie deprecat
ed the present handling of the Nleara-
guan affair, Knox angrily demunded
that Carnegie stop.
That Congress will take official no
tice of the ltalllngcr-l'lncliot contro
versy by ordering a sweeping Investi
gation of tho Interior Department and
tho Forest Service was assured, when
Senator flint ot California submitted
to tho Senate b resolution calling for
all the uapers In the case of Glacis
against Halllr.ger. This was passed
and then Senator Jones of Washington
announced that he would mijve an In
vestigation after the holidays If no one
else did, und read a letter he bad re
ceived from Secretary Hallinger, In
which that official Insisted that If Con
gress were to Investigate his depart
inent the Inquiry should also include
the Forest Service, since he bad "rea
son to believe that the pernicious ac
tlvlty of certain of Its officers has been
the source of Inspiration of these
charges." Mr. ltullinger goes on' to
av: "I therefore court the widest und
fullest Inquiry by Congress." Senator
Gore would huve had the Senate at
once order an investigation, but on
objection from Aldrlch the matter went
over until documents should be In pos
session of Congress.
Leslie M. Shaw, former Secretary of
the Treasury, who addressed about 400
business men at the board of trade In
Indianapolis, throughout his address
opposed the idea of the central bank
He clulma that such a bank would be
sure to be owned, or at least controll
ed. by tho Standard Oil combine.
In a speech rauiaiing nia conception
of Christmas cheer. Senator J pew
wafted the compliments of the season
even to Ia toilette, wno Had sharply
criticised tht. isew xorner in the
Christmas number of Iji Kollette'a
maKaxine.. Pepew praised the I'real
dent and referred to the new tariff Uw
as an unmixed tling.
GIRL SLAIN; SUITOR SOUGHT.
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Toledo Maiden AUcbimI !(! in of lie.
JM-cd I.over I'uren t Shot.
Carol Hunt, 18 years old, was In
stantly killed in Toledo, O., and her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Hunt,
were wounded, though not seriously.
Joseph Mackley, aged 33, who Is
charged with having bhot the three, is
being sought by the police. The shoot
ing occurred at the Hunt home.. Ac
cording to the police, Mackley, a rail
roader, who Is said to have a wife and
hild In Mansfield, O., attempted to pay
attentions to the girl and became en
raged when he was repulsed. He en
tered the Hunt home, and, declaring
hla intention of killing the family,
drew a revolver and began shooting, it
Is alleged. After exhausting all the
cartridges In his revolver Mackley is
said to have reloaded, fired four more
shots and fled.
IOuiIk Hay or Urlnklnw by nevolre
Funlllmle In Own Home.
Wlnfield Gibson, aged 48 years, resi
dent of Munhall. a Pittsburg suburb.
shot and killed his wife, seriously
wounded a boh. llred three shots at his
fleeing daughter, and then sent a bullet
crashing through hla brain, dying In
stantly. Gibson, who Is a former offi
cer of the Carnegie SteeT Company,
came home late after a day of drink-
lug with friends, according to the state
ment of the police. Meeting his wife
as she awaited his coming at the top
of a flight of stairs Gibson fired at her
with his revolver. His wife's dead
body fell down the stairway. Howard
a la-year-old son. hearing the shots,
ran from a room, and was seriously
wounded by a bullet from the revolver
in Hhe hands of hi3 enraged father.
Grace, a 14-year-old daughter, coming
to the stairway,. was shot at three
times, the bullets missing her by a
fraction of an Inch. A 3-year-old child
was playing within ten feet of where
the shooting took place, but was tin
harmed by the father.
CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE.
Mulhrr Ixltluv elnhlior W ben
Home CSela Ablnae.
Mrs. Henry Blanton left her home
In Pratt, Kaa., and went across the
alley to talk with a neighbor. When
she next looked at the house it was
a mass of flames and her three chll
dren, whom she had left In bed, were
being burned to death. The dead are
Roseby, a boy 5 years old: Myrtle. 3
years old, and Margaret, 2 years old
The house was In the outskirts of
town, and with the exception of Mrs.
Ulanton and tne neighbor no one was
near. Mrs. , Ulanton ran for help
WlilAe she tvas gone the house fell.
burying the children.
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FIVE TRAINMEN DIE IN WRECK.
Dnillnri and Car Suiualied by Head
(In Collision Hounding? Curve.
Five trainmen were killed and two
fatally Injured In a collision on the
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Rail
road between freight trains Nos. 51
and 98, twenty miles west of Seymour,
Ind., near Fort Ultner. On a sharp
curve the trains met head-on, apparent
ly because of a misunderstanding of
orders. Engines and cars were smashed
and their wreckage piled high. A re
lief train was sent as soon as word
of the wreck was received, but the
injured suffered terribly from the cold
before help camo.
llefoed Fortune, Fearing- Kvll.
Patrick M. Smith, aged 57, the Jani
tor who was found dead In Seattle
recently, was Informed that he had
fallen heir to 30,000 In Ireland. He
refused to claim It, being despondent
over his appetite for drink and feeling
that the money would do him no good.
Mr Dead In Yule Bllaaard.
Eleven Newfoundland schooners and
their crews of sixty men are believed
to have been lost in the Chrtstmxs
blizzard, while great destructloi has
resulted to n-ouerty
Officials of the brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen, with headquarters In
Cleveland, formally notified the vari
ous divisions of about scventy-flvc rail
roads east of tho Mississippi River
that the 75,000 members of tho brother
hood would on January 3 make demand
for an increase in wages nmountlng to
from 5 to 40 per cant. Tho existin
agreement necessitates a notice before
such a demand can he made. Then the
trainmen will wait until January 20 for
their answer. President Iee of the
trainmen does not expect a strike, but
says It will come If the demands are
not granted.
The l'lock Signal and Train Control
Hoard, which was authorized by Con
gress aome three years ago to investi
gate the whole subject of passenger
train control und protection, has now
reported to the Commerco Commission.
It severely criticises certain roads for
the character of the signal system, and
says that inexperienced operators were
found all over the country. Others who
have the experience are lacking In re
liability, and still others ure too young.
The buard has examined 328 inventions
of protective devices offered, and of
these only twelve were deemed worth
testing at government expense.
The Northern Pacific has a llfty-two-acre
poultry farm seventeen miles east
of Seattle. Wash., with a profit of 11.
000 White Leghorn chickens, which
provide an average of 150 doeen eggs
pe- day. '
The New York Central, not to b
outdone by the Pennsylvania, has de
cided to put on soon a through train
to be known as the Cleveland, so thai
the Southwestern limited may run
from New York to St, Louis In twenty-four
hours,. "Transact to-day's
business in New York and to-morrow
In St Louis," is the way the New Yor
Central advertises the new train.
SLAYS GIRL HE LOVES.
Hold-Up Man Follows Sweetheart
and Shoots Her and Himself.
Roy McKinney at noon the other
day shot and killed Miss Dora Cha
pell, 21 years old, a waitress In the
dining-room of the Bearss Hotel in
Peru, Ind., and then ended his own
life with his revolver. It was learned
later that McKinney was, wanted In
Indianapolis for a daring hold-up in
the business section of the city. Ac
cording to advices from Indianapolis,
McKinney entered a lunchroom there
at 1 o'clock the previous morning,
commanded the lone man in charge to
hold up his hands, and rifled the cash
register with one hand while he cov
ered the attendant with a revolver.
Letters found In the dead man'
pockets indicate that to-day's double
crime was carefully planned. Tne let
ters were adressed to the coroner, the
girl's father, Frank Chapell, a sign
painter of this city, and to McKlnney'a
A'ife at East Germantown, Ind.
The letter to the girl's father cen
ured him for preventing McKlnney's
narrlage with the girl.
McKinney came to the hotel and
eglstored as L. B. Lenhart of Chl
ago. Heentered the dining-room at
noon and went to the table on which
Miss Chapell was waiting. The wait
ess bent over McKinney to take his
llnner order, according to those In the
room, and the man put his arm
tround her as if in Jocular affection,
ind drew her close to him. Suddenly,
.vtlh his other hand he drew a re
volver from his pocket and shot the
young woman In the left breast. As
Sumner Hart, the Bon of the proprie
tor of the hotel, ran Into the room.
McKinney shot himself in the heart
and fell from his chair.
OHIO LEGISLATURE OPENS.
First Session of the 7Sth General
Assembly Begins at Columbus.
The first regular session of the Seventy-eighth
General Assembly of Ohio
was called to order by Speaker Gran
ville Mooney in the House and Lieut
3ov. Francis W. Teadway In the Sea
ate. The Senate consists of twenty Re
publicans and fourteen Democrats.
There are forty-five Democrats in the
House and sixty-three Republicans, two
nembers having died. The speech of
Speaker Mooney advocated a public
itllitios commission on the line of the
New York body, and also declares for
m ample appropriation for a thorough
ind open probe of all the offices In the
3tate House. He also recommends an
tmendment of the laws as regards the
taxation of corporations. This pro
gram is understood to have been sanc
tioned by President Taft during a re
ent conference with Speaker Mooney
it the White House. The first annual
iiessage of Gov. Hanson was received,
md there was great Interest In Its con
ents. According to the talk of the
'eadlng Republicans, the majority la
ready to carry out many of the roc
immendatlons made by the Governor.
Hunker' Aim la Bad.
Robbers blew open the safe of the
"Uate bank of Centrevllle, Kan., and
scaped with $1,500. One of the rob
ers, the la -it to leave the building,
wa.i fired upon by C. H. Brown, presl
lenc of the bank. The robber return
id the fire and after a lively fusillade
jf shots, drove Drown to cover and es
caped. Neither was founded. The In
ferior of the bank was wrecked.
Taken from 8brlaT Killed.
Orvllle Snyder, who killed Arthui
Green Dec. 24, was taken from Deputy
Sheriff J. II- Casady while on bis way
to the county Jail in Canyon City, Ore
by five masked men, who shot him to
leath.
Hla Ezploaloa Kill roar.
Four shot-flrers were killed In dust
explosion caused by a "windy" shot la
mine No. 5. two miles south of Cen
tral la. 111. The explosion took place
200 feet from tht cage landing at tht
700-foot level.