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    BOODLE AGAIN
SHOWN; ST, LOUIS
BACK TO GRAFT
Marked Bills Used As Bait If
Trap That Catches Two
Aldermen.
*OLK’S SUCCESSOR BUSY
Circuit Attorney Sager Will Now Turf
His Searchlight on the Whole
House of Dele
gates.
St. Louis, Oct. 23—That St. Louis,
once cleaned by Joe Folk, has returned
to political corruption, is shown by
five marked $100 bills given by CIO
cult Attorney imager to Henry Ascheh
of 5011 Delmnr boulevard, that were the
bait in a trap set for Delegate Ferd
Warner, of the Second ward, and Del
egate F. W. Priesmeyer, of the First
ward, who were given a preliminary
hearing before Judge Rodgers on in
dictments charging them with bribery.
The indictments followed their arrest
In the chamber of the house within
fifteen minutes after the marked bills
in an envelope, so it is charged, had
been passed to Delegate Priesmeyer
in the washroom in the north end of
the corridor on the second floor of the
city hall.
The grand .iury, under the direction
of Circuit Attorney Sager, will now
devote its entire time to investigating
the house of delegates in connection
with the delays of the asphalt paving
bills, the bill for a public utilities com
mission and other important legisla
tion.
Sager »as been planning for weeks
to catch Warner, who is chairman of
the public improvements committee of
the house, and has the power as one
of the leaders rf the combine, to kill
or pass any bi. referred to his com
mittee.
Warner and Priesmeyer were ar
rested immediately after a bill granting
Ascher the right to build and main
tain a garage on the rear of 5011 Del
mar boulevard had been reported out
of the public improvement committee
and pa ssed.
Ascher Tells the Story.
They were conducted to the circuit
attorney’s office and ushered into the
grand jury room. Ascher had preceded
them and had related to the grand
jury the details leading up to the cli
max in the house of delegates chamber.
Ascher had constructed the garage
. without having first obtained the nec
essary ordinance and authority from
the building commissioners. A suit
had been filed against him in the po
lice court for violation of city ordin
ances. Six weeks ago he caused an or
dinance to be introduced granting him
the authority to erect and maintain
the garage. This was referred to the
public improvements committee, where
it was held up for several weeks.
Used the Marked Bills.
Ascher, finding that he could not get
the bill passed by the ordinary meth
ods, entered into negotiations with
Chairman Warner. These negotiations
reached a point where Ascher went,
to the circuit attorney’s office anti re
ceived from Circuit Attorney Sager
five marked $100 bills in a sealed en-»
veiope.
BIGAMIST S TWO
WIVES IN ONE HOUSE
Sedalia. Mo., Oct. 23.—When a policeman
•vent to the home of A. H. Hall, a busi
ness man, to arrest him for bigamy, he
found the two wives of Hall under the
same roof. Hall admitted his guilt in the
presence of the two women, and is in the
county jail awaiting his preliminary
hearing. Until her husband was arrested
the first Mrs. Hall thought wife No. 3
was an orphan niece of her husband.
Hall, who is the owner of a large bil
liard and pool hall on East Second street,
was first married In Kansas nine years
ago. and has two daughters. About three
months ago. he says, he advertised for a
w'ife in a St. Louis newspaper, and Miss,
Etta Florence Smith, 17, w'ho resided with
her parents on a little farm one mile north
of Finley, Dyer county. Tenn., answered
the advertisement.
Married in Tennessee.
After a short correspondence, Hall went
to Finley and September 2 he and Miss
Smith were married by a justice of the
peace. Hall remained a week in Tennessee
with wife No. 2, and, leaving her with her
parents, returned to Sedalia.
Wife No. 2 came to Sedalia fourteen days
ago and, pretending to be an orphan niece
of Hall’s, became an inmate of the Hall
home. The parents of Miss Smith learned
that their daughter had wedded a married
man, and M. C. Reason, a Finley consta
ble. arrived here to take the girl back to
her Tennessee home. Constable Reason,
also was armed with a warrant for Hall s
arrest.
DOG TRAVELS 300
MILES TO MISTRESS
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Chicago, Oct. 23.—Left in Columbus, j
t).. more than 300 miles away, on 1
March 18, Trix Clark, pet dog and com- !
panion of May Clark, 16 years old, of
23f> North Clark street, has turned up !
in Chicago anil discovered his mistress.
He had made one of the most re-1
markable journeys by an animal on,
record, and accomplished the addition
al l'eat of singling out the family with
whom he formerly lived from among
more than 2.000,000 persons.
How the dog found the residence of
his young mistress will always remain
a mystery When Miss Clark came out
of a restaurant he was sitting, wan and
gaunt, in front of her lodgings.
At the sight of her he dashed forward
and before she realized what was hapJ
polling he had both paws around her
neck. Miss Clark and her mother hav*
been living in their present quarteri
only three weeks.
FIND BODY OF A WOMAN
HANGING TO A TRE!
Kearney, Neb., Oct. 23—Mrs. Williar
Wagner, wife of a barber at Amhersi,
committed HUicide by hanging herself
to a tree near the side of the old
Stanley postofflee, which is about two
miles from Amherst.
The woman used a pair of suspenders
and a short piece of rope. Deceased
was a woman 45 years old. She had
often threatened to kill herself and had
it regular suilide mania, though other
wise quite rational. She leaves a fam
ily of three boys and one girl and 1. ts-,
band.
VIVISECTION IDEA
TO BE EXPANDED!
New York, Oct. 23.—Vivisection on !
a larger scale and by more scientific
methods than have ever been practiced
is beind arranged for the Rockefeller
institute for medical research, created
and endowed four years ago by John
D. Rockefeller.
The first step In the elaborate scheme
has been taken in the purchase of a.
ninety-seven acre farm In New Jer
sey. The stocking of this farm with
animals and fowls for vivisection pur
poses has begun. When the arrange
ments are completed the farm will be
the most scientifically equipped and
extensive place of its kind in the world.
The chief reason for the establish
ment of this first great scientific farm
is the increased facilities that could
be obtained for scientific work. Here
animals may be bred and guarded,
hereditary in its bearing on disease ob
served and the quality of the raw ma
terial for vivisection work may be bet«
ter known and controlled.
FISH-HARRIMAN
ROW IS POSTPONED
Chicago. Oct. 23.—Stuyvesant Fish
early today secured an adjournment of
the Illinois Central stockholders’ meet
ing to December 18.
The Harriman people agreed to the
postponement, although previously ;
anxious to push matters as rapidly as
possible.
The decision to adjourn was the re
sult of a conference held at 3 o'clock
this morning between William Nelson
Cromwell, for Harriman, and Judge
K. Farrar, for Fish.
The overtures came from Cromwell,
who sought out the Fish people, and
declared he wished to come to some
sort of an agreement. He was in
formed the only agreement that could
be reached was to accept the terms
of Fish, which would be adjournment
until December 18, and await the de
cision of the court if the Harriman
people so desire to determine the right
to vote the 236,731 shares of stock
against which a temporary injunction
was issued by Judge Ball a week ago.
After an extensive conference Mr,
<7 romwell assented.
THAW FACES SUITS
BY HIS ALIENISTS
New York, Oct. 23.—Dr. Allen Mc
La no Hamilton, the well known alien
ist whose testimony formed an import
ant part of the trial of Harry K. Thaw,
Is preparing to sue the Thaw family tor
his services.
The suit which will be for between
$6,000 and $7,000, will probably be fol
lowed by similar proceedings on the
part of all of the other alienists em
ployed by Thaw’s counsel to testify in
his behalf. At present Dr. Hamilton
is awaiting the outcome of the action
by Dr. C. L. Dana, another of the
corps of insanity experts, for non-pay
ment of his bill for services.
Pr. Dana was awarded a judgment by
default of $1,500 on October 11 by Judge
Green, of the city court, Clifford W.
Hartridge having failed to appear in
Thaw's defense. Yesterday, however,
Mr Hartridge filed an application to
have the judgment vacated on the
ground that he had been unable to ap
pear and that he had understood that
Attorney Martin W. Littleton was to
handle the case.
Claim Repudiated.
fn explaining his absence from court
Mr. Hartridge made affidavit that pri
vate cares (the sensational disappear
ance of his wife about two weeks ago)
had rendered his state of health such
that he was unable to leave his home
His affidavit was accompanied by that
of Miss Rachel Riordan, a stenographer
corroborating Mr. Hartridge’s state
ments and declaring that she had been
assured over the telephone from Mr
Littleton's office that he would repre
sent Thaw, which, however, he failed
to do.
It is likely that the case will be re
opened and the judgment contested
The Thaws, through Mr. Hartridge,
repudiate the claim of Dr. Dana.
Dr. Hamilton’s attorney said yester
day: "We are waiting to see the out
come of Dr. Dana’s suit before we pro
ceed with ours. No papers have been
served yet, but several bills have been
sent to Mrs. Thaw and her son and we
have not even had a reply. There has
been plenty of time for them to settle
Dr. Hamilton’s account, and it looks
is though a suit was unavoidable.” -
Mrs. Thaw Pinched for Money.
Pittsburg, Oct. 23.—Mayor Guthrie!
announced that for the present, at
least, Woodland Road, a private road
leading to Lyndhurst, the former resi
dence of Mrs. Mary Thaw, would be
kept in repair by other wealthy peo
ple. including the mayor, who also uses;
the road. Heretofore Mrs. Thaw hast
always kept the road in good condi
tion, but the heavy drain on her purse
caused by the trial of her son, has
forced her to economize in every way
possible. Since Harry Thaw’s trouble^
the road has been neglected, but the
other citizens will see that it is kept
up in future.
BOGUS PARSON BEATS
FARMERS BY SCORES
Kittanning. Pa., Oct. 23.—Men wearing
ninisterial garb had better keep away
from the farmers of Indiana county. About
twenty wealthy residents have been
swindled on a game which is original—
here, at least.
A man wearing ministerial clothes, and
who says grace at the table and invites
the family to jo-in in evening prayer, has
been going about among the farmers, be
ing overtaken at night, and has usually
been invited to remain. He has always
selected tlu* men w'ho are known to have
money.
Next morning as the alleged preacher
is ready to depart, young man and
woman ride up in a buggy and hurriedly
ask where they can find a minister, as
they are anxious to get married. The
young man usually displays a roll of bills,
and the visiting parson, trying to earn an
honest dollar, offers to marry the pair.
After the ceremony the visiting minister
asks the farmer if he will witness the
marriage certificate, which the farmers
have been doing. I^ater they are told that
a promissory note is in the neighboring
bank, and they are called to pay up.
RUSSIANS HOLD RICH
AMERICAN AND WOMEN
St. Petersburg, Oct. 23.—Wm. Eng
lish Walling, of Indianapolis, a rich
socialist, his wife and his sister-in-law
Miss Hose Transky, were arrested in
this city by a force of gendarmes be
cause of their association with several
members of the Finnish progressive
party. ^ _
Allan A. Kyan, son of Tnomas E
Ryan. will. It is said, build a suinmei
home at auffern, N. Y., to cost $1,000.
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UNION PACIFIC GOT
LITTLE OVER 2 CENTS
A MILE, WITH PASSE!
Oid Not Come Up to That Aver,
age for Entire Line-Only
in Kansas.
Topeka, Oct. 23.—The Union Pacific
Railroad company received only a lit
tle more than 2 cents a mile for carry-.
lng passengers last year when passes
were allowed in Kansas and did not
receive that amount for Its entire line,
according to the report of the company
for the year ending June 30, filed with
the railroad commissioners. In Kansas
thv company received $.02074 a mile for
each passenger who paid fare. Taking
Ithe system as a whole, the company
ireceived $ .01965 a mile for each pas
fsenger.
The company carried 1,130,441 pas
sengers during the year, and its pas
senger earnings from all sources were
$1,966,448.59. Its freight earnings were*
$4,499,824.39. Agricultural products fur
nished the largest percentage of freight
tonnage, 38.27 per cent. The other ton-*
nage was animals, 11.59; mine products,
18.03; forests, 9.94; manufactures,
13.68; merchandise, 6.90, and other
commodities 1.59 per cent.
The Missouri Pacific, in its report,
shows that in Kansas it received
$ .02104 for each mile a passenger was
carried in Kansas and $ .02068 a mile
per passenger over the entire system.
The company’s passenger earnings
were $2,383,502.69 and its freight earn
ings were $8,466,381.60. Mine products
^furnished the hulk of the company’s
freight tonnage, being 32.54 per cent.
The other products furnished tonnage
as follows. Agriculture, 25.13; animals,
*8.06; forest, 10.10; manufactures and
‘merchandise, 19.71, and other commod
ities 4.46 per cent.
JUDGE ORDERS MAN
TO TALK TO WIFL
Chicago, Oct. 23.—Municipal Judge
McKenzie Cleland, through the me
dium of his Maxwell street police court,
has persuaded wayward husbands to
stop drinking, has restored shattered
homes and even has induced profession
al thieves to give up their vocation, but
'can he make a man talk to his wife?
; This problem now confronts him, and
'if Adolph Felder, a giant machinist,
fails to talk to his wife for at least
half an hour each day hereafter, the
court threatens to make a human
phonograph of him.
Felder, formerly a saloon frequenter,
and arrested on complaint of his wife,
has been transformed into a model hus
band, but he will not talk when he Is
at home.
“What if your wife refused to talk to
you when you went home?” asked the
judge.
“I wish she would,” replied the pris
oner.
“Why don’t you talk?”
“I used too, but every time I opened
my mouth, 1 got both feet into it, so
I cut it out.”
“Now, see here, Felder, you've got
to talk to this woman half an hour
each day. If you don’t I'll take you
and your wife into my chambers here
when you report In two weeks and I’ll
make you talk steadily to her for three
hours.
"You may go now, but be here two
weeks from tonight, and bring a gener
ous supply of conversation with you.’*
about™ WED, SHE
CHANGES MIND, SATIN
GOWN IS NOT USED
Philadelphia, Oct. 23.—There is a
magnificent white satin wedding gown,
trimmed with the rarest oldest family
lace, there are the daintiest of Cinder
ella slippers, a filmy white tulle veil
and a wreath of orange blossoms In a
huge box in the apartments of Mrs.
Francis Hazelhurst, ready to be donned
by a beautiful bride—but the bride
is missing and the Invitations to the
wedding ceremony which was to make
pretty Miss Margaret Hazelhurst the
wife of Mr. Frederick Glbert, of New
York, have been recalled.
"I Just changed my mind,” says the
bride that was to be. but Isn’t, in ex
planation. according to her sister.
”1 just felt that I couldn’t bear to be
married. Of course, I loved Fred and
do love him, but I've changed my mind
about marrying him,” are the other re
marks, according to the same author! -
ty.
The bridegroom who thought he was
to be, but isn’t has made many trips
from New York. Margaret changed her
mind. Each time he has gone back
vowing eternal perdition to himself if
he ever thought of a woman again, and
each time he has caught the next train
back tc plead with his fiancee that was,
but his pleadings have been all In vain.
Miss Hazelhurst and her mother have
gone Into Maine for an extended trip.
. Miss Hazelhurst is the youngest
daughter of Mrs. Francis Hazelhurst,
and is considered to be one of the most
beautiful girls in Philadelphia.
KING’S MORGANATIC
WIFE WORRIES PARIS
Paris, Oct. 23.—Leopold, king of the
Belgians, is causing tile French govern
ment some trouble over the domestic
affairs of his morganatic wife, the
Baroness de Vaughan, who occupied a
chateau at Longjumeau. near Paris.
The baroness recently discharged her
cook without notice, refusing to pay
him anything, although his wages were
in arrears to the extent of J330.
The case Is awaiting a rehearing on
appeal to the barroness, against whom
n decision was given in her absence.
But King Leopold his evidently been
using his •■pull" with the French gov
ernment, for officials have been busy
trying to induce the cook to drop his
case.
The chateau at Longjumeau is guard
ed like a royal palace. French
gendarmes are on duty night and day
at the gates, and Belgian gendarmes
patrol the grounds, which are inclosed
by a high wall.
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♦ STATION AGENT ♦
> FOR 34 YEARS ♦
♦ ♦
'4 Cummings, Kas.. Oct. 23.— 4
4- Robert Kennish, station agent of ♦
■4- the Atchison, Topeka and Santa ♦
4- Fe, has been retired on pension ♦
'4- after thirty-four years’ continu- 4
4- oub bervice. 4
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About 70 per cent, of all the camphor
made is used in the manufacture of
ttlluloUi.
TACKLE TEDDY, JR, TO
CURE DWELLED HEAD”
llxrt.r. N FI., Got 22 -TIr.it
aradeir.y made a deliberate attempt to
do up Theodore Roosevelt, ji\, 111 the
game with Harvard’s second eleven,
is now generally admitted and the
^original reason was that he had a
“swelled head" on account of too much
* newspaper notoriety
i Direct evidence of this comes from
(one of the best known men in New
Hampshire, who has a son there. His j
son said to him:
"Father, young Roosevelt is going to
play here with the Harvard second
eleven. If he does they are going to do
him up."
"Is that so? Why?’’ asked the par
ent.
"He has a swelled head. He Is get- j
ting altogether too much newspaper
notoriety."
Roosevelt piayed, and when the
tangle, which lasted a good many sec
onds, was unwound, Roosevelt limped
to the side lines, and had to he taken
cure of.
DUPED WIFlfoFFAIKE
LORD SEEKS DIVORCE
, Oxford, Pa., Oct. 22.—Mrs. Irene
Stanley, of Calvert, Md„ duped wife of
the tramp-actor, who palmed himself
'off on her as a millionaire nobleman,
iLord Stanley, earl of Aberdeen, cousin
of King Edward and boon companion
of the Belmonts, Astors and Vander
bilts, of New York, with castles and
estates in London, Edinburg and va
rious other places, will apply for a di
vorce.
This has been determined upon, and
the grounds for the suit will probably
be that the contract was obtained by
fraud and hence was void. As yet, no
action has been taken, but very soon
proceedings will be begun toward an
nulling the marriage,
Mrs. Stanley, nee Clayton, Is very
much broken by the happenings of ti l
last few months. Her health and spir
its have suffered by the unhappy end
ing of her strange romance, and the
gossip it occasioned among her friends
and neighbors has preyed upon her
mind until she Is a ghost of her form
er self. She said today:
Was Not Herself.
"Yes, I Intend to apply for a divorce
on the grounds of fraud. 1 do not re
member a thing about the marriage
ceremony. If It were not so silly, I
would believe that I was hypnotized. I
was certainly not myself at the time,
and the very instant I realized what
I had done, was only too anxious to get
rid of the bogus lord.
"I have not been well since my moth
er died, and I think my mind must have
been affected at that time. I have never
heard from Lord Stanley since he left,
and hope 1 never shall.
"I only saw him a few moments after
the ceremony, and perhaps t am not
really his wife after all, if the numer
ous reports spread abroad are true. I
am perfectly satisfied with the name
of Clayton, and had I desired to change
It, could have done so years ago.
“I only want to forget the terrible
experience, and hope my friends will
forget it, too. I have not yet decided
Just when I shall Institute proceedings
for the divorce. I would have done so
long ago, but for my dread of recalling
the terrible episode and causing mor«
talk among my neighbors."
SMALL, THE STRIKE
LEADER, SUCCUMBS
Chicago, Oct. 22.—Sam J. Small, de
posed president of the Commercial Tel
egrapher's union, sang his swan songln
a statement issued at his residence on
Evans avenue today.
He states failure is due to the work
of ‘'politicians" who would wreck the
union and the cause it is fighting for.
He says he has decided not to appeal
to the special convention to be held In
Milwaukee October 23 either for rein
statement or for a trial on the charge
of failure to perform the duties of
president.
“Will you return to work for one of,
•the telegraph companies?" he was
asked. I
"No they probably will not want
me," said he, “I expect to have another
Job within a week."
‘GO WEST” NOT BY
GREELY, AFTER ALL
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Terre Haute, Oct. 22.—In the flies of
the old Terre Haute Express has beenj
•found a story of the origin of the ex
pression commonly attributed to Hor
ace Greely: “Go west, young man, go
west.” This says it was written byl
John L. B. Soule, editor, as the result!
of a bet that an editorial could be| ;
written in the Greely style which would!
pass for one of his own.
The editorial began wdth the expres-i
sion quoted and further along Smith
was said to intimate that Greely had1
used it. The slogan went over the*
country as coming from the New York!
editor, and Anally the New York Trib
une said: “The expersslon of the sen
timent has been attributed to the edi
tor of the Tribune erroneously, but so
fully does lie concur in the advJee It
gives that he indorses most heartily, j
.tlie epigrammatic words of the Terre '
Haute Express and joins in saying, Go >
west, young man, go west.’ ” i !
The usual addition, “and grow up
with the country,” was not in the ,
original.
WIDOW FINDS $26,000
IN DEAD SPOUSE’S BED
' Carlisle, Oct. 22,—Twenty-five $1.00(7
notes were found hidden In the bed lnj
which J. Dunlap McDurmond, of Phila
delphia, died nt NewvUle. The money
was found today when the housekeep- ,
ers were i..-.ki * up the room. A small
box of gold was also found.
While McDurmond was known as a
man of means and always carried con
siderable money on his preson, it was
not suspected that he had hidden any
such large sum. His wife who survives
him and is also sertously 111, suspected
that he had money hidden In the house,
and told the neighbors to look arounci
carefully.
They did so, and discovered the $25,
0C0 In the bed hidden in a spiral shaped
section. The money was deposited la
the NewvUle bank, of which McDur
mond was a large stockholder.
THIEF TAKES THE
SMALLEST SHOES
Kansas City, Oct. 22.—The Sorosis
shoe store was broken into and shoe3
pnd silk stockings worth $23 were
>tolen.
. "It Isn't the way the thief got in that
puzzles us," said one of the clerks.
"He simply forced up one of the back
windows. Hut why in the world did
he take only one pair of men's shoes
and choose the smallest pair of wom
en’s shoes we had in the store. (
"We're going to ask the police lo
look for a men whose wife has re
toarkabiv small ”
LibiiS Mi GUILTY;
VESCECT IS ORDERED
Judge Instructs Jury in Famou/
Murder Trial to Acquit
Man and Wife.
CHEERS IN COURTROOM
Clinton, III., Couple Accused of Kill
ing the Man's First Wife
State Fails to
Prove.
Decatur, Oct. 22.-Fred Maglll and
his wife. Faye Graham Magill. did not
kill his first wife, Pet Magill, accord
ing to a verdict rendered by the Jury
in tiiis famous murder case on instruc
tions from Judge Cochran, who took
tlie case as soon as the lawyers had
finished their arugments, following the
hearing of Mrs. MagiU's case.
The Judge’s action brings to a close
one of the most remarkable instances
of evident misapplied vigor on the part
of the state and county officials that
lias ever been recorded in court an
nals.
Put to Heavy Expense.
To bring one witness from Denver to
testify that when Magill and Faye
Graham were married they gave places
other than Decatur as their residences,
cost Illinois $904.
To bring a lone witness from Mis
souri cost $S2.
To perform the most trivial act in
connection with the prosecution cost
the state something. A Dig bill lias
rolled up in the attempt to convince
twelve men that Maglll and his second
wife murdered, and now Judge Coch
ran has ended it all by ordering a ver
dict of acquittal.
Each of the jurymen shook hands
with the defendants and the court room
rang with cheers, despite threats at
wholesale arrests, when the Judge de
clared the state had failed to prove its
case.
Weds stenographer.
Maglll ami Ills bride were arrested
Saturday, July 13, In San Diego, Cal.,
where with Maglll's daughter. Mar
guerite, 17, they were stopping on a
tour of the west. Maglll was married
In Denver July 5 to Miss Faye Graham,
a stenographer, who was a school chum
of Ills daughter.
The arrests were ordered by State’s
Attorney Miller. The accusations
against Maglll and Ids bride furnished
a climax to the rumors which had been
life In Clinton for the past month.
Maglll is 3S years of age and has
spent his entire life In Clinton. He la
a son of an old and wealthy family.
He Inherited a good-sized fortune,
spending nearly every cent of It. In
1S'J2 his father died, leaving him $50,000.
In two years, It is said, he was al
most penniless. He then decided to
go to work and was given a position
as assistant cashier In I he John War
ner bank, a post he held until a short
time ago, when he resigned, following
the death of his first wife on Muy 21
last. He also secured some money from
a settlement of his father’s estate,
$S,0U0 being turned over to him last f 1.
This money lasted him until spring,
according to report.
Leaves Secretely.
After the death of his wife and his,
decision to marry Faye Graham, he
made a final stand in the direction of
money getting. He sold his house anil
lot, It is said, drew his last dollar from!
his father’s estate and got together,
$5,000. With this money he and Miss
Graham and his daughter, Miss Mar-1
guerlte, left Clinton secretly on June
30 last. No one knew the destination
of the trio, and, ill fact, no one knew
that they had left together.
Miss Graham, who is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Graham, well
known and respected citizens of Clin
ton, led them to believe that she was
going to Chicago to secure work as a,
stenographer, and might also visit
Kankakee. The first intimation that
Clinton received of the marriage came
In a telegram from Denver announcing
the event.
Following the wedding the bride ant|
groom, with Miss Marguerite, left for
a tour of the west.
Marriage a Failure.
The first wife of Fred Magill wan
Miss Pet Gandy, of Dayton, O. The
couple were married in 1889. Mrs. Ma
gill was a woman of sunny disposition
and although her married life was not;
a happy one, according to report, shy
concealed her sorrows, and to the pub
lic she was always bright and cheerful.
On the evening of May 30 she and
her husband were out riding, and they
were apparently in good humor and
enjoying the outing. The next morn-,
ing the wife was found dead in f*
spare room by her husband. He sum
moned the family physician, who pro
nounced the death due to chloroform;
a bowl of the soporific being found near
Mrs. Maglil’s body, while a cloth sat
urated with the fluid lay over her
mouth. She had been dead some hours.
Directed to Remarry.
The letters purporting to have been
loft by the dead woman were peculiar
features of the case. It was the theory
of the state’s attorney that Magill*
aided by Miss Graham, concocted the
letter scheme and that the woman
wrote them at his dictation. One let
ter addressed to Magill declares that
the husband was not responsible for
the action, but that the treatment of
his mother and sister was. Another
letter was written to the daughter,
stating that she wished her to stand
by her father and Miss Graham and
to continue her intimacy with Miss
Graham.
The third letter was the most re
markable. It positively directed Magill
to marry Miss Graham Immediately
after the death of the first wife, regard
less of public opinion, and to go away
after the marriage and remain a year,
until the marriage would have been for
gotten and any ill feeling have died
out. The state’s attorney Insists that
no woman about to take her life would
write such a letter, directing her hus
band to marry another woman, young
and attractive. Another letter stated
that In killing herself the writer would
use either chloroform or strychnine.
All these letters are of considerable
lenth and all were passed around by
Magill the day after the body was
found.
JUST ONE EAR OF
CORN BRINGS $250
Chicago, Oct. 22.—Two hundred and
fifty dollars was the world's record
price paid for a single ear of corn. A
bushel at that rate would have gold for
$10,01)0. The ear, a "Boone County
White,” was sold to the highest bid
der in an exciting auction at the na
tional corn exposition In the Coliseum.
The purchaser was the man who,
grew it, L. B. Clore, a farmer from
Cranklin, Ind„ who has captured $7,53j‘.
In orizes at the sb‘->^
FATHER DISOWNS
BRIDE OF DUPONT
New York. Oct. 22.—Mrs. Alice Mad-'
rlox left tlio Plaza hotel the bride of
Alfred 1. Dupont and the disowned
dough.cr of her father. Judge Brad
t ord, of the United States circuit
court. At her marriage five years ago.
Mis. Maddox flirted openly with her"
now husband and her father says that,
he warned Maddox at the time that the
(marriage could not result happily.
,' It was not a particularly Joyous1
honeymoon purty that was begun by
,the newly married couple, for Mr. Du-,
pout, or Mr. du Pont de Nemours, as he
registered had Just heard of the terrt-l
ble disaster at Fontanet, Ind., In the
works of the Dupont Powder company,,
of which he Is vice president. The
bridegroom Insisted upon going at once
to the scene of the explosion. He was
Vrreatly worried and appeared to bellev#
that Ills friends had done wrong In con
cealing the facts from him until after
the ceremony. Both the bride and
'bridegroom were divorced recently. Mr.
Dupont secured his dlvotce In South
Dakota last December upon the ground
of extreme cruelty and Inhuman treat
ment. Mrs Maddox got her divorce In
the same state and In the same month.
Flirted at Altar.
Judge Bradford, father of Mrs. Du
pont, said:
, "1 do not wish to hear the name of
Mrs. Dupont. Her name has not been
mentioned In my family since her
mother's death. I do not know any
thing about that woman, Mrs. Dupont,
and I do not wish to hear about her.
"Upon the day she married Mr.
Maddox, who was a flue man, she flirt
ed at the altar with Mr. Dupont, who
.was acting as best man. I had warned
Mr. Maddox that nothing good could
come from the ceremony. I will have
nothing more to say about the matter.
1 have disowned my daughter."
One month ago Mr. Dupont strenu
ously denied that he would marry
.again. For the last six months Mrs.
Maddox has been living In Paris with
her child. She Is a granddaughter of
.Alexis 1. Dupont, founder of the great
.powder works, and Is a second cousin
of her present husband.
Mr. Dupont, or Mr. du Pont de Ne
Imours, had Ids right eye shot out two
years ago while he was hunting In Vir
ginia. He had to have the entire eye
removed to save himself from total
blindness, and he became deaf as a re
sult of the accident. Mr. and Mrs. Du
pont will reside at Rock Farms, near
Wilmington, Del.
TELL COLLEGE GIRLS,
LEARN DRESSMAKING
Philadelphia, Oct. 22.—College girls
.should bo taught to wash dishes as
well as write abstruse theses. They
’should learn to read a cook book as
'well as Browning, and not be too in
tellectual to take Dart in the domestic
Scramble when the maid vanishes or
jthe jewel of a cook gives notice,
i This was one of the solutions sug
gested for the servant girl problem at
Sa meeting of the Woman’s club.
r Because of the all-absorbing and
ever-increasing field for Investigation
along the lines of domestic employ
ment, the women who constitute the
club are going to attack the servant
question this winter and see if some
thing can’t bP done to ameliorate the
unhappy lot of the mistress and maid.
‘‘We must approach this thing fair
ly,” said Dr. Rachel Skldelsky, "and
not put all the blame on the maid.
Many housekeepers are to blame. They
are not domesticated, and don’t know
how to manage servants. Their houses
are run In a slouchy manner. Just be
cause there Is no one at the head of
things. We should concentrate our
thoughts on two points, which may
help to a solution. One is to train
our young girls not to despise house
work. and regard it as drudgery, and
the other is to establish schools of do
mestic science for servants.”
FUTURE HOUSES
ALL OF ONE PIECE
New York, Oct. 22.—To build a three
jtory house In one solid piece at a cost
of only $1,000, and finish the Job In
twelve hours, Is the problem which
Thomas A. Edison told the members of
the American Electro Chemical society
he had solved, and he showed them A
model to prove It.
According to Mr. Edison, the house of
the future will be cast In concrete from
Iron moulds, In one solid piece. Includ
ing stairs and bath tubs: It will be fire
proof and Indestructible, and one from
one set of moulds an Indefinite number
of exactly Identical houses can be made.
For prevention against poor construc
tion he Intends to restrict the use of
his patents to contractors of responsi
bility who will agree to follow hls
formula for making concrete.
WARFIELD SPURNS
$1,000,000 CONTRACT
New York. Oct. 22.—The audience at
David Warfield’s performance of “A
Grand Army” at the dedication of
the Stuyvesant theater last night little
new that the star was gambling suc
cess In his new character against the
biggest offer of salary ever made to an
American actor.
Mr. Warfield declined the proposition
of $1,000,0U0 for a contract covering
ten years at $100,000 a year in order to
make his latest try for the approval
of the theatergoers, under the manage
ment of David Belasco, who first in
troduced him to the public In serious
roles.
This great sum was to be guaranteed
by real estate values and the actor was
to risk no capital. The offer was made
by Felix Istnand, of Philadelphia, who
la thought to have been acting for
•others.
KAISER MUST TESTIFY
IN BERLIN LIBEL SUIT
Berlin, Oct. 22.—Kaiser Wilhelm has
been summoned to the witness chair,
and in a most unsavory case, as one
of a long list of royal and artistocratic
personages on whose testimony Max
millian Harden, editor of a Berlin week
ly newspaper, relies to win the libel
suit brought against him by General
Count Cuno Moltke.
Harden’s article accused Moltke of
disreputable political intrigues and im«
moral practices.
FRANCE MAY BUY OUT
SPAIN IN MOROCCO
Tangier, Oct. 22.—A startling report,
which cannot be verified here, is in.
circulation this afternoon to the effect
that France, with the consent of Mul
tan Abdel-Aziz, intends making Spain
a monetary ofter fur all uer interests
In Morocco, notably Melilla and Ceuta,
winch points, if the deal is made, will
be the base of operat..,us against Bu
Hamura. the pretenuer ,■ ,.iy intone
uf Morocco, and for p i n; luu Al
gerian frontier.