Nebraska Newspapers

    fHE O’NEILL FRONTIER
D. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
KNEIU, N E D K ASK A
Lady Sybil Gray recently accompa
nied her father, Karl Gray, governor
general of the dominion, on his trip
to the Canadian arctic gold fields. Near
Lawson City, the capital of the Klon
dike, she pegged out a claim for her
self with all the prescribed legal for
malities and christened It the Sybil.
Her first panning out produced $20
worth of gold, which she considered a
very promising start. During the long
arctic winter Lady Sybil Is working
her claim by deputy, but she says she
will return next summer to supervise
operations and examine results in per
son.
Fifty years ago an American natural
ist, Dana, discovered on the surface of
the sea a little animal of so singular a
character that he named It "mon
strllla." It Is a small crustacean, nkln
to the cyclops so common in ponds.
But. While the latter are furnished with
all that Is necessary to capture and
digest their food, the monstrilla has
neither apparatus for seizing prey nor
any digestive tube. It Is richly pro
vided with muscles, nervous system
and organs of sense; It lacks only what
Is necessary to prolong life by alimen
tation. The monstrilla Is doomed, there
fore, to natural death.
Americans living In Beirut can re
member when there was not a window
pane in the city. Twenty-five years
ago there were no carriages, women
making their social calls on the backs
of donkeys. The city now has 600 li
censed victorias, besides the private
vehicles, with automobiles and electric
Btreet cars. There are complete postal
and telegraphic services, newspapers,
colleges and the palaces. In the far
east Japan leads the way, but the
Levant is following the lure of clviliza
One of the hardest things in the world
to buy, In the opinion of a man who
recently tried it, is a watch key. The
practical disappearance of the key
wound watch hns made the key a rar
ity. Even tho high grade Jewelry Bhops
are apt to be without them, while the
department stores, which seem to keep
everything In the world, fall in this
particular. It is the small shop in a
cross street in Third, Sixth or Eighth
avenue that is most likely to have
watch keys.
A system of forced ventilation Is to
be tried on the street cars of Chicago.
Several fresh air Intakes are cut
through the floor under the scuts and
at other convenient points, and before
entering the car it passes over electric
heaters, so that it is tempered or heat
ed as desired. The vehicle is fitted with
a double celling and the lower one
has a number of outlets for the vitiated
air, but all openings are arranged so
that there Is no possibility of experi
encing a draft in any part of the cars.
Among the patients in a certain hos
pital of Harrisburg there was recently
one disposed to take a dark view of his
chances for recovery. "Cheer up, old
man!" admonished the youthful med
ico attached to the ward wherein the
patient lay. "Your symptoms are Iden
tical with those of my own case four
years ago. I was Just ns sick as you
are. Look at me now!” The patient
ran his eyes over the physician's stal
wart frame. "What doctor did you
have?" he finally asked feebly.
Arthur Dupln, the "father of the
Apaches," hns Just died in Paris. He
was a feuilletonist, who wrote stories
for tlie Paris press after the stylo of
Fenlmore Cooper. One of his early con
tributions, entitled “Los Apaches deus
Belleville," made such an Impression on
the criminal classes of that notorious
Paris suburb that by common consent
they adopted the name of the redskin
tribe.
Under New Hampshire's new law
governing the use of automobiles on
public highways, which went into effect
January 1, the registration fee is In
creased from $3 to $10, and the speed
limit In compact portions of n town or
city is increased from eight to It) miles
an hour, while in the rural districts
of the state the rate Is 26 miles an hour
instead of only 20.
The waiter's art Is a serious, clever,
bright profession In Germany and
France—seriously studied with appren
tice years spent In Paris, Berlin, Lon
don. Rome and New York, In the great
hotels In the world's greatest resorts.
This explains why so many of the suc
cessful managers of hotels and restaur
ants In London and New York are
former German, French, Italian or
Swiss waiters.
The city of London proper which lies
'J1 the heart of Greater London, has a
\ living population of but 36,000 by night
ilthough 300,000 people do business
there by day, while all of the currents
of British life pass through Its portals.
Here Is the bouI of the empire with Its
population of 400,000,000, and Its area of
11.400.000 square miles, or more than
one-tlfth of the population and urea of
the globe.
It Is said of the author of a recent
volume of biography that his verdict on
the great of his chosen period is much
like that of the New Hampshire parson
at the highly approved funeral of a par
ishioner: "Brethren, we must agree
that our deceased friend was mean in
some things—but let us in Christian
charity allow that he was meaner In
others."
It Is possible that the world's future
supply of paper pulp will be derived
from the bamboo forests of the tropics
Instead of being drawn from the forests
of the temperate zones. Successful ex
periments have been made In Japan
pointing in that direction. A company
has obtained a perpetual lease of 8,000
acres of bamboo forest In Formosa,
enough to provide 600 tons a month.
Public Occurrences, one of the first
newspapers ever published In America
never got beyond Its Initial issue. It
appeared in Boston, September 25, 1690.
It contained a promise to publish in Its
next Issue the names of all the liars In
Boston, and the authorities, taking cog
nizance of the threat, wisely forbade
the publication.
Since the czar gave out that his sub
jects might have liberty of conscience
about 250,000 are said to have gone over
to the Roman Catholic church, 15,000
have become Lutherans, 50,000 were
converted to Mohammedanism, 3.500 to
Buddhism. 400 to Judaism and 150 Si
berians have declared themselves pa
gans.
Mining has always been the tradi
tional Industry of Mexico because of
the rapidity with which fortunes were
made. The recent depressions of this
Industry have brought agriculture tc
the fore.
In Rotterdam, with a population of
400.000 fires are so Bcarce that the city
has practically no fire department.
The caribou of Alaska travel north
every year In large herds. Some say
that these droves number 1,000.
DRUNKEN HUSBAND
SHOOTS AT W1FF
Hits Her in Hand and Creates
Panic in Crowd of Citizens
at Rosalie.
Rosalie. Neb.. Keb. 7 -fiarfle.'d Waitft
!3 in jail here accused of shooting his
wife last evening when he went home
in a drunken condition and engaged In
a quarrel w ith her over some matter
unknown to the public. He shot at
her while film was In a company of
people and created a temporary panic
until he was caught and disarmed and
it was learned that her wound v.as not
serious, being only a flesh wound in the
hand.
During the night Waite broke out of
the jail and made his escape, but this
morning he was caught about a half
mile from -town and brought back and
will probably have to face the charge
of attempting to murder his wife. They
have had some previous trouble,
thought to have been the outgrowth of
his habit of drinking. Waite Is about
30 years old. has been married perhaps
ten years, and works in the lumber
yard owned by his father and brother.
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4 FONDNESS FOR THE PIPE 4
4 CAUSES GRANDMA’S DEATH 4
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4 DeWitt. Neb., Feb. 7.—Grand- 4
4 rna Bowdlsh’s fondness for the 4
4 pipe, the solace of her old age, 4
4 caused her death yesterdaj aft- 4
4 ernon Although SO years of age, 4
4 she has Insisted upon living by 4
4 herself in a two-room house on 4
4 tl.e same lot as her daughter. 4
4 the wife of Postmaster Frank 4
4 Wild. 4
4 Desiring to light her pipt aft- 4
4 er her dinner, while alone in the 4
4 house, she tottered Into the bed 4
4 room and struck a match. A 4
4 part of the* head set fire to the >
4 bedclothes, and when her son. 4
4 Homer Bowdish, came to her 4
4 aid and carried her out, she 4
4 was so badly burned that she 4
4 died within a few minutes. 4
4 Homer Bowdish was badly 4
4 burned nbout the face anu hands
4 and Inhaled some flame. His 4
4 condition Is reported critical. 4
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NICARAGUAN REBELS
CAPTURE A VILLAGE
Three Hundred of Them De.
scend Upon Government
Troops and Conquer.
Managua, Nicaragua. Feb. 7.—Three
hundred Insurgents under command of
General Muzio, captured Boace, a town
60 miles east of Managua, yesterday.
The lighting lasted two hours but the
casualties are not known here. The
town was defended by 76 government
soldiers, led by Colonel Barquerci. The
latter were surrounded, but fought
their way through the Insurgents' lines,
the survivors reaching the main body
of the government army at Toustepe.
General Medina declares that the
originals of Zelaya’s telegrams In
structing 1dm to cause the executions
of Groce and Cannon, the Americans,
were surrendered to the former presi
dent before his departure for Mexico.
Medina is corroborated by the tele
graph operator, who says that the orig
inals were turned over by him at the
request of Zelaya.
WARRINER REVEALS
WHOLESALE THEFTS
Pillage of Big Four for Years
Is Calmly Related on Wit
ness Stand,
Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 7.--A chain of
embezzlements Involving three men ex
tending over many years and finally
culminating In the almost wholesale
looting of the Big Four railway treas
ury was the startling story told by
Charles L. Warriner, defaulting local
treasurer of the road. In his testimony
yesterday In the trial of Mrs. Jeannette
Stewart-Ford for blackmail.
One of the most startling develop
ments In the case came at the after
noon session of the court wnen War
rincr under rigid questioning admitted
that he had handled funds placed with
him for the payment of rebates; that he
paid out comparatively large sums In
rebates and that the simple auditing
of his accounts at any time would have
disclosed his shortage to the company.
Warriner represented himself as a
man pouring out gold with both hands
and in. ever Increasing amounts to keep
sealed the mouth of the woman, who,
through her infatuation for one of the
accused embezzlers, K. S. Cooke, had
learned the secret. Frank Comstock,
Warriner's predecessor as local treas
urer. was declared to be the third man.
According to the witness when he as
sumed office as local treasurer In 1902
he learned that Cooke was short in his
accounts $24,000. He also learned that
his predecessor, Comstock, was short
510,000. He himself was defaulter, and
to prevent his crime from being dis
covered he agreed to conceal the thefts
of the two former officials.
In the story of the gigantic theft
there Is one question which has never
been definitely answered, and the at
torneys for the defense today made an
other futile effort to obtain its solution;
"What became of the $643,000 which
Warriner has confessed to have
stolen?"
The witness declared that he paid
approximately $168,000 in blackmail and
that $34,000 had been stolen by others
than himself. The remainder of $441,000
is explained hv him as "having been
lost in speculation." Although he knew
exactly the amount embezzled and the
approximate amount of "hush money"
paid, to all questions as to his invest
ments he replied that he could not re
member how much monev he hud put
into any particular enterprises.
GALVESTON GETS PLAYER.
Auburn. N. Y.. Feb 7 -The national
board of the National Association of
Baseball leagues rendered a decision to
i'.a\ on the claims made by tile Galves
ton. Tex., and Burlington, la., clubs to
tile services of C. A. Baumgartner, of
Cincinnati. The claims of the Burling;
ton club were disallowed and Baum
gartner was uwarded to Galveston.
LARKDO, TEX.—Seventy-five per
sons in ail lost their lives as a result
of the mine explosion at Las Esperan
tos Wednesday. There may be one or
two deaths among those who are no\
In the hospitals.
HUSBAND SHOOTS
WIFE AND FATHER
On ha. Neb.. Fob. 5.—Sandie A.
Morrison, a letter carrier, today shot
and seriously wounded his wife and
her father, J. A. Summer, and then
killed himself. The shooting occurred
on Capital avenue, near the postofflce.
Morrison had been on the Omaha car
riers' force for many years. Domestic
trouble led to the tragedy.
The physicians have not yet decided
what chance Mrs. Morrison and her
father have of recovery.
MARRIED IN SIOUX CITY
AND CAUGHT IN LINCOLN
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 5—White 16-year
old Mable Sergept sobbed and refused
food in a cell at police headquarters
Tuesday noon, A. M. Hates, aged 21
years, declared that they had been
married in Sioux City last Saturday
and is awaiting a decision of the au
thorities, who say that a warrant
(Charging him with abduction has been
sworn out at Osceola, their home town.
According to Charles Sergent, her
brother, who trailed the couple from
Osceola to Lincoln, the youthful couple
eloped from Osceola last Thursday. He
and J. M. Sergent, a cousin of the
girl, took up the hunt as soon as the
disappearance had been learned in the
home town, and they came to Lincoln
Tuesday morning.
While the couple were walking down
P street near the postofflce at noon
Tuesday the girl's relatives suddenly
confronted the happy pair and one held
their attention while the other went
for the police.
At the station the young man stout
ly insisted that, although the girl is but
16 years old, they were married in
Sioux City Saturday, two days fol
lowing their secret departure from Os
ceola. The police say that they have
communicated with the county author
ities of Polk county and learned that
a warrant is being held against the
boy, charging him with abduction.
According to detectives who searched
the effects of the alleged bride and
groom, a marriage license showing that
the wedding had taken place in Sioux
City Saturday was found, and they
say that this corroborates the state
ment he made upon ids arrest.
BOY DIES SUDDENLY.
Lyons, Neb., Feb. 5.—Guy, the 16
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett
Holmes, died at their home north of
here, yesterday. He was in school
Monday and went home sick, appendi
citis developed rapidly and a physician
from Omaha was called to perform an
operation, but on arriving here pro
nounced it too late to save the boy's
life.
RANDOLPH HAS INITIATIVE.
Randolph, Neb., Feb. 5.—The special
election in Randolph yesterday resulted
in adopting the initiative and referen
dum plan of settling questions of city
government. The vote was 159 for the
plan to 28 against. The saloon question
will be settled under the new plan.
WYOMING BLIZZARD
INVADES NEBRASKA
Norfolk, Neb., Feb. 5.—The blizzard
which last night swept northern Wyo
ming is moving eastward today. Ac
cording to reports received here heavy
snow, driven by a northwest gale, drift
ed badly, and it is snowing and blowing
north and west of Chadron, Neb., to
day
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MAKES ONE POUND OF
BUTTER WEIGH TWO
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 5.—The state
board of health is being bombarded
with inquiries from northern Nebraska
about a preparation a Kansas City firm
is trying to sell dairymen up there. It
is guaranteed to make, a pound of but
ter weigh nearly two pounds. The for
mula given is to add a pound of water
to the butter, then put in 10 or 12 drops
of the liquid. These are supposed to
hold the particles of butter and water
together so that when the two are
worked the Ingredients are in an in
separable mixture. Four ounces of the
stuff are sold for 25 cents.
The state board will investigate to
find out if the stuff is harmful or if it
violates the pure food law before ad
vising any action.
COLERIDGE WOMAN DIES.
Coleridge, Neb., Feb. 5.—Mrs. Ida
Churchill was buried here Tuesday. She
had been ill for some time without be
ing able to secure relief. She was a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Peck
and was very popular in the eommu
nitv.
PACKING COMPANY ON
ROCKS FOR MILLIONS
New York. Feb. 5.—The Mexican Na
tional Packing company, a New Jersey
corporation, controlled by English in
vestors and operating slaughter houses
nnd packing houses In Mexico under con
cessions from the Mexican government,
failed yesterday, with liabilities. Includ
ing stock, of 237.000,000. The assets were
not given out, but it is announced that
they are in excess of the liabilities. The
company will continue to operate its plants
as usual. Henry He Kay was appointed
receiver by Judge Hanning, of the circuit
court of New Jersey. The appointment of
a receiver was not brought about by any
condition in the live stock market, but
by the tying up of a part of the company’s
funds in the United States Banking com
pany in Mexico City, which suspended
recently.
Among the concessions held by the com
pany is an exclusive right to slaughter
<attie in Mexico City until 1926. Its spare
capital is $22,500,000. and it has a bonded
debt secured by a mortgage of about $12.
500.000. and a floating debt in the neighbor
hood of $2,000,000, of which, however, only
about $300,000 is due.
The bonds, stock and debts are held
mainly in England, and the British and
Mexican Trust company, limited, of Lon
don, procured the receiver as the holder
of about $6,000,0(10 of the bonds, approxi
mately two-thirds of the stock, and as tho
owner of $300,000 of floating debt.
TOWN IS VERY GOOD.
Danville, Ky., Feb. 5.—Junction City,
the town second in size in Boyle coun
ty. cites us an unusual record that dur
ing tho last 12 months there was not a
single police court case. Policeman
Clem, who symbolizes the law in that
community of 1,000 residents, has an
nounced his intention of cultivating a
crop of tobacco this year as a diversion.
COLLEGE CHANGES NAME.
Baltimore, Md„ Feb. 5.—In the fu
ture tiie Woman’s college of Baltimore
will be known as Goucher college, in
honor of its founder. Rev. Dr. John F.
Goucher, of the Methodist Episcopal
church. The trustees of the institution
voted last night to make the change
of name.
PLOT IS ALLEGED.
Managua, Feb. G.—The government
declares It has discovered a plot
hatched by the conservatives to precip
itate armed intervention by the United
States by tiring on an American war
ship in the harbor of Corlnto. ,
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WATERTOWN, S. D.—The Minneap
olis & St. Louis will build a new sta
tion here costing $165,000.
GRASSE, FRANCE—Louis Edouard
Rod, the novelist, died suddenly Satur
day soon after his arrival here from
Paris with his family.
LOGAN, IA.—Roy Vanderpool has
been sent to the penitentiary for an
indeterminate term for borrowing a
horse and failing to return it.
DUBUQUE, IA.—Arrangements are
being made to honor the 100th anniver
sary of the death of Jullen Dubuque,
after whom the city was named.
PIERRE, S. D.—The Indians on the
Cheyenne reservation are receiving
their quarterly annuities, consisting of
$18 for each Indian on the reserve.
SOUTH BEND, IND.—Fire, starting
in the Morning News building, yester
day caused a loss of several thousand
dollars to the News Publishing com
pany.
HERMOSA, S. D.—The first baseball
team to be placed on the field in South
Dakota for the coming season has Just
been organized here, with L. J. Behren
captain.
WINFRED, S. D.—The business men
of this place have organized a business
men's club, which already has taken
hold of projects for the upbuilding of
the town.
NEW YORK—Seven indictments,
charging grand larceny, were filed by
the grand jury yesterday against the
defunct brokerage firm of Tracey & Co.,
which failed on May 17, 1909, for $1,
500,000.
MILBANK, S. D.—H. L. Smith, who
bought the Grant County Review from
H. S. Volkmar has sold it to H. F.
Denton, of Webster, and will return
to the Twin Cities.
CAT TTAM O TT rri,« T 1
rial club is behind a plan for a farmers’
stock company to purchase the local
creamery and conduct it as a co-op
erative concern in future.
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.—Mrs. Phil
lip Webster, 42 years old, yesterday
gave birth to her 26th child. She was
married at the age of 16. Five pairs of
twins and one set of triplets were in
cluded In the number, but none of them
lived.
LA MANS, FRANCE—Two persons were
Killed and seven others seriously injured
yesterday when a passenger train toppled
from the track into a ravine. The acci
dent was due to the settling of the rails
from under which the roadbed had been
washed by the floes.
NEW YORK—Moses Gutman, a man
ufacturer of 16 East One Hundred and
Twenty-ninth street, was shot dead in
his apartment on the first floor of the
house at 1:30 o’clock Sunday morning,
and his son, Isaac, a lawyer, 35 years
old, was fatally shot by a burglar.
PANAMA—A steamship passenger,
arriving at Colon, from England, and
stopping two days at Cartagena. Co
lombia, is now isolated in the Ancon
hospital suffering from yellow fever.
This is the first case of yellow fever
that has occurred here in several years.
CHICAGO—Charles Barnes, an actor,
shot his wife and her mother, Mrs. M.
Servoss, at a hotel Saturday. Mrs.
Barnes was shot in the mouth and
through the left wrist and Mrs. Servoss
was wounded In the chest. Neither is
thought to be fatally hurt. Barnes es
caped.
BUTLER, MO.—C. C. Dickinson, of
Clinton, a democrat, defeated Philip
Griffith, of Greenfields, republican, in
the special election in the Sixth district
to select a successor to the late Con
gressman David A. De Armond. Offi
cial returns have not been given out,
but it is estimated that Dickinson's ma
jority is about 3,500.
DULUTH, MINN.--Dr. Marcus B.
Cullum, democratic candidate for may
or, yesterday defeated the present In
cumbent, R. D. Haven, republican, by
a majority of 791. Eight aldermen were
elected, of whom five are democrats,
two republicans and one independent.
This means the city council will be
democratic, 11 to 4. with the independ
ent member mentioned.
SEATTLE, WASH.—Anxiety is felt
here for the safety of the Alaskan
Steamship company's steamer Farral
lor, which sailed from Valdez, Alaska,
for ports to the westward. 28 days ago,
and has not been spoken to since. If
the Farrallor is not reported within
a few days the revenue cutter Scout,
which is at Juneau, will go in search
of her.
LONDON—One of the most serious
railway accidents In England since the
disaster to the steamer train at Salis
bury in July, 1906, when many Ameri
cans lost their lives, occurred at Stoats
Nest station near London, on the Lon
don and Brighton railway, Saturday
afternoon. Eight dead and about 30 in
lured were taken from the wreck.
CHICAGO—After having given more
nan $4,000,000 to various struggling
'olleges in many parts of the country.
Dr. D. K. Pearsons, almost 90 years old,
has announced that he intends to give
away every cent he possesses before he
lies. Dr. Pearsons is reputed to be
■orth many millions.
PHILADELPHIA—Bishop Cyrus D.
Foss, retired, of the Methodist Episco
pal church, one of the best known
clergymen in the country, died Satur
day night in the Hahnemann hospital
from a stroke of paralysis which seized
hint while riding In a trolley car Jan
uary 18.
NEW YORK—A man whom the po
lice regard as the most important sus
pect yet taken into custody In connec
tion with ttie maniacal murder of the
Shibley and Lomas boys two weeks ago
was arrested yesterday. He is Herbert
Jerome Dennison. 27 years old, formerly
on the vaudeville stage as a magician
and only recently discharged from a
sanitarium. Lawrence Casey, a park
foreman who saw the shooting, has
made a partial identification.
ELY". NEV.—Tex Rickard, the fight
promoter, yesterday made public a con
tract signed by himself, Sam Berger
and J. J. Jeffries, under the terms of
which the Jeflries-Johnson fight is to
take place in Salt Lake City unless the
luthorities interfere. The contract was
signed in Ogden last Monday. If the
Utah authorities will not permit the
fight to take place in Salt Lake City,
Rickard is to forfeit the entire purse
of $101,000 to the fighters, who are to
divide it equally.
FISHERME*N DROWNED.
Christiania. Feb. 4.—Heavy loss of
life hai occurred among the fishing
fleets that were caught off the storm
swept coasts. The bodies of 10 fisher
men have been washed up at Lofoden
Isles. Nine smacks, manned by 40
mariners, are missing.
FLIGHT IS ABANDONED.
Ran Antonio. Tex.. Feb. 4.—C. B.
Harman, the balloonist, has abandoned
his Intention of trying for a long dis
tance flight from this city. He arrived
here last night ready to start on his
flight today, but business called him to
New York.
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SEINE FINDING ITS
OLD LEVEL RAPIDLY
ttiver That Overflowed Paris Is
at Last Approaching Nor
mal Condition.
Paris, Feb. 7.—The fall of the river
Seine was more rapid today. The ap
pearance of the city is approaching the
normal, but the subway system is still
Inoperative. Water still remains in the
tubes, which, after they have been
emptied, must be cleansed and disin
fected. The progress toward the re
iteration of the lighting, telephone and
telegraph lines is slow, but noticeable.
The work of disinfection and other
precautions against an epidemic of ty
phoid lias been so thorough that some
>f the newspapers predict Paris will not
inly escape contagion, but will emerge
from tile flood cleaner than before In
her history.
The superintendent of sewers reports
that from the examinations which lie
lias been able to make, it is evident few
Df the sewer mains burst, the ruptures
occurring in the brunch pipes leading
Into buildings.
Foreign contributions to t lie relief
fund totaled today about $700,000.
WANTS TO DIVIDE
SPOUSE’S ORGANS
Monroe City, Mo., Feb. 7.—An autop
ly was performed on the body of Pro
fessor J. T. Vaughn this morning and
a pathological examination will be
made of the viscera. The autopsy pro
ceeded only after a conference had
been held to discuss a demand made by
attorneys for Mrs. Vaughn that half of
the stomach, liver and brain be given
to her representatives.
This demand w-as refused by Coroner
Wilson, but a compromise was made
whereby the examination of the organs
will be made by two chemists, one se
lected by the state, the other by Mrs.
Vaughn's family.
Dr. Harry Payne, of Paris, Mo., did
the active work in the autopsy. Dr.
George Still, of Kirksville, represented
the brothers of Professor Vaughn, and
Dr. C. H. Dixon, of Fulton, the widow.
Dr. George Turner, of Monroe City, was
present at the request of Prosecuting
Attorney Fuller, of Monroe county, and
Dr. J. W. Martin, of Kirksville, was
there for Prosecutor Rieger, of Adair
county, where Professor Vaughn died.
Mrs. Vaughn's attorney in making the
request for half of each organ removed
from the body said the family was en
titled to that by the state law. Prose
cutor Fuller opposed the request. Even
after the agreement that two chemists
should be employed. Mrs. Vaughn's at
torney declared his client’s rights were
being overridden.
BOSTON GOES AFTER
HIGH COSHF FOOD
District Attorney Starts Inves.
tigation of Alleged Extor
tionate Prices.
Boston, Feb. 7.—An investigation into
the high prices of meat has been be
gun by District Attorney Joseph Pelle
tier. of Suffolk county, and if sufficient
•vidence is obtained, it is said action
will be taken against certain packers.
A circular issued by a packing firm
last week instructing its agents to "get
every cent possible" for meats, the
pledging of a two weeks' abstention
from meat by the members of the "No
Meat" club, and other developments,
ire believed to have influenced the dis
trict attorney to make an investigation.
New York, Feb. 7.—Meat was still on
the rise in the local markets today. Re
tailers In many sections of the city,
especially the poorer quarters, reported
i falling off of from one-third to one
half in sales. Shipments, however,
have been curtailed, tending to adjust
the supply to the demand.
Investigation aroused by the agita
tion against high prices and the meat
abstention movement continues.
PLANNING TO REVISE
RULES OF FOOTBALL
New York, Feb. 7.—Football doctors
met here today to diagnose the case of
the American collegiate sport and de
cide upon a means to cure the ills that
are threatening its existence.
When the national football rules com
mittee met in the Murray Hill hotel, the
prospects were that a prolonged session
was ahead, as the need for drastic
changes in the rules seemed to be gen
erally recognized and every member of
the committee had suggestions that
called for discussion.
NEW YEAR’S DEBAUCH
CLOSES IN TRAGEDY
Guilty Pair Found Suffocated in
Apartments After a Whole
Month.
Philadelphia, Feb. 7.—Coal gas from
a small stove is believed to have been
the cause of the death of William Boh
rer, a prosperous lapidary, and a wom
an companion identified as Anita Ha
bermehl, or Habermuhl, whose bodies
were found yesterday afternoon in Boh
rer's apartments here. The coroner says
there is no evidence of foul play or sui
cide.
The man and woman were only part
ly dressed, and scattered about the bed
room were empty whisky bottles and
the remnants of a lunch.
Bohrer, who was about 50 years of
age, and the woman, about 20 years
younger, had evidently been dead for
more than a month. On December 31
the woman told a friend that she ex
pected to pass New Year's day with a
wealthy friend.
Bohrer was a widower, and the wom
an had been an employe in the restau
rant of a big department store.
ONE VICTIM DIES.
Chicago, Feb. 7.—Mary Servoss, who
on January 20 was shot by her sonin
law, Walter Barnes, an actor, died here
today. The assailant, who shot his
wife at the same time, has not yet beerx
found. Mrs. Barnes is now in a hos
pital, but her condition is not serious.
The shooting was the culmination of
domestic quarrels.
EMERY, S. D.—New officers of the
Tri-County Mutual Telephone com
pany, with headquarters here, have
been elected as follows: President, H.
A. Ra&emacher; secretary, H. M
Bleeker; treasurer, Fred Lit*.
GREAT MEDIUM IS
BRANDED A FAKER
BY PSYCHOLOGIST
Eminent Harvard Man Thinks
She Is Possibly Unconscious
of Deception.
New York. Feb. 5.—Dr. Hugo Yon.
Munsterberg, the Harvard psycholog
ical authority, has published a study of
one of the seances given by Eusapia
Palladlno, the famous Italian clairvoy
ant. Mme. Palladlno's performances
have excited great wonder both In this
country and abroad. Among those she
Impressed was the late Caesare Lom
broso, the eminent Italian criminolo
gist.
Professor Munsterberg asserts that
all her "feats” are caused by trickery
and physical devices. He qualifies the
charge, however, by saying that he
thinks she has a "spilt personality” and
that in her every-day proper person is
not conscious of the fact that she uses
trickery in her trances. In describing
a sitting at Lincoln arcade. Professor
Munsterberg thus writes of the incident
on which he bases his conclusions:
"One week before Christmas, at the
midnight hour, I sat again at Madame
Palladlno's left side. A widely known
scientist was on her right. We had
her under strictest supervision. Her
left hand grasped by hand. Her right
hand was held by her right neighbor.
Her left foot rested on my foot, while
her tight was pressing the foot of her
other neighbor.
There Came a Gurgling Scream.
"For an hour the regulation perform
ance had gone one. We sat in the dark
ened room in the highest expectancy.
'John’ was begged to touch my arm and
then to lift the table in the cabinet be
hind Palladino. 'John' really came. He
touched me distinctly on my hip. and
then on my arm, and at last he pulled
my sleeve at the elbow. 1 plainly felt
the thumb and the fingers. It was most
uncanny.
“And finally 'John' was to lift the
table in the cabinet. We held both her
hands. We felt both her feet, and yet
the table, three feet behind her, began
to stratch the floor and we expected it
to be lifted. But instead there sud
denly came a wild, gurgling scream. It
was such a scrsam as I have never
heard before in my life, not even in
Sarah Bernhardt's most thrilling
scenes. It was a scream as if a dagger
had stabbed Eusapia right through the
heart.
Grasped Eusapia’s Unshod Foot.
“What had happened? either she
nor any of the others had the slightest
idea that a man was lying flat on the
floor and had succeeded in slipping
noiselessly, like a snail, below the cur
tain into the cabinet. I had told him
that I expected wires stretched out
from her body and he looked for them.
What a surprise when he saw that she
had simply freed her foot from her
shoe and with an athletic backward
movement of the leg was reaching out
and fishing with her toes for the guitar
and the table in the cabinetl And
then, lying on the floor, he grasped her
foot and caught her heel with firm
hand. She responded with that wild
scream which indicated that she knew
that at last she was trapped and her
glory shattered.
"Her achievement was splendid. She
had lifted her unshod foot to the height
of my arm when she, as ‘John,’ had
touched me under cover of the curtain.
She did it without changing in the
least the position of her body."
EVIDENCE IN THE AULD
COURT MARTIAL ALL IN
Boston. Feb. 5,—There was no morn
ing session today at the Charlstown
navy yard of the court martial which
is trying Paymaster George P. Auld,
on charges uf assault on Dr. Edward
S. Cowles at a “hop" last December.
The evidence was concluded yesterday,
and adjournment was taken until this
afternoon, when Major Leonard, senior
counsel for Auld, was to begin the
argument.
That unusual interest in the case is
being shown at Washington was borne
out in a degree by a request that a full
transcript of the proceedings be sent
to both Secretary of the Navy Meyer
and Senator Lodge.
The trial of Past Assistant Surgeon
Ansey D. Robnett on charges similar
to those against Paymaster Auld, will,
it was unofficially stated, start next
Monday.
MINERS UNION GIVES
MONEY TO THE BEREFT
Indianapolis, Ind., Peb. 5.—Reports of
committees occupied the attention of
the United Mine Workers today. The
leaders hoped to be able to complete
their work and leave for Toledo to
night.
The convention voted $1,000 for the
families of the men killed in the mine
explosion at Drakesboro, Ky.
Toledo, Ohio, Feb. 2.—At an executive
session of the operators of the Ohio,
Indiana and Pennsylvania mining dis
tricts lasting until noon today, J. C.
Kolsem, manager of the Jackson Hill
Coal and Coke company, of Terre
Haute, Ind., was agreed upon for chair
man of the Joint wage conference with
the miners. Another meeting will be
held tonight.
RAILROADS DENY
WAGE INCREASE
New York. Feb. 5.—Sixty railroads in
the country have notified the represen
tatives of 32,000 firemen of the rejec
tion of their demands for a 20 to 25
per cent wage increase and other con
cessions. News of the rejection was
contained in a private dispatch from
Chicago today.
The roads express a willingness to
arbitrate the question of wages, but
flatly refused other demands.
The demands of the firemen were
made on railroads in the west and offi
cials of the eastern lines said today
that they did not know whether de
mands would be made on their lines
or not.
LAYMEN *0 MEET.
St. Louis, Feb. 5.—A four days’ con
ference of the layman’s missionary
movement will begin here tonight with
a dinner to the 2,000 delegates. Ad
dresses will be made by Dr. M. D. Eu
bank, of China; E. W. Halford, of
Washington, and J. Campbell White,
of New York.
BJORNSON NEAR DEATH.
Paris, Feb. 5.—The death of Bjorn
stjerne BJornson. the Norwegian poet
and novelist, w as expected momentarily
this afternoon. The members of the
family were summoned early and re
mained at the bedside.