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VQLl.MhXXIX. t LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY . MAY 18. 1911._ NUMBER 28. -: s Oft i WEEK'S EVENTS | . • • Latest News of Interest S Bo.td Down for the • • Busy Man. • Washington teere-ar? of War Jacob McGavock 1)KL:!» i of Tennessee, tte Demo ■ Tatar nastier of President Tafts ttto". baa rtapi 1 Henrj L Btitn k* of Jfew Tack, reeenti} defeated Kept, eat r—dl HH for pvcncr of 'nag • ti*» ie«et *J*en tte »ar par folk It tte *4»er» exchanged teaeet tte president and llr LHck ttsux no reason* utter that that of pressing private affairs is gives for tte •ecnetarr'a retirettea* • • • Tkr teeretarr of State Knot. I*r*-swk*i Taft astteriaed United States to ’ntnoWif lane Wilson in Kti.x Ort* to deny in tte mast post tire terms all too list stories" of in tern ea-.xan tt Mexico by tte United States • • • A treaty bet seen tte United States sac Canada to present tte further pa* I. ka of tte gres* lakes is proposed by a re-wjiutio* introduced tt tte na twnal house of representatives by Si'pr——tsrlie Suiaer of Xew York • so Tte incapacity at the Republican party :t tte senate to control s caucus smote tte sid at tbe insur tetts was demonstrated in tbe senate • net after more than two hours of •tar. and as s result of seven bal lots tte senate tailed to elect Senator ■«antiger at Sew Hampshire as presl Se®' pro tempore to sutreed Senator Frye Cota try and city mere arrayed sgattur cart other at the Canadian unpocn bearing before the aetiate finance ;ommir;ee at Wantlngum tamers from Minnesota and North Hakom des'mnoed the agreement ac •h*T- :<m* ■ tile members of boards if trade from cittern along the interna ' ata. bsnsdary indorsed it unquali fiedly. • • • The decalogue and the golden rule re staniar is for lam* and government are r*tiag.g.»ndr; to ronc-ear In a Wf res- . Bti-JB prepared by Rep re •emtaffite fv; r-r of ioma at the re quest uf the Christian party • • • Vicious assaults cm the Canadian r» rrorr MU marked the bearing » that easure by the V £ senate finance casern trees Farmers from the border states fisfeerme* from Gicuces ■w Maas maaufarturers of mire * : for paper atlas and mastfae • tames Of book wrapping and news P«et paper all poere«c forth their pro tsr* against the MR • • • Domestic The ;m ■tsgers and ertm of the Meu Tor* and tubas Mail Fteaxushii reas pan * line? Merida sunk afier a euJiietoa with the I'nlted Fruit ram » steamship Admiral Farragut a« Ci;e Hepr-. arrived at Norfolk. Va safe, after being twice trans shipped Not a sou' mas lost and cmiy ■me i.«-rsot a mesmaa passenger. mas alight)injured • • • ‘Vs: er E Duryem mho bred nearly f*e:»* years with a broken neck, is i*md at t*» nome la rpper Montclair. N 1.. ta his for*y fourth year He broke has neck is August Hs»*. by tumping from the eamtno at Glen Core tone mg alighting cm his head m the •and is three fee: of mater. • • • The detmresneat of fustic* is pre paring to bring tie beef combine raae *-» as «*rif trial Senator Kenyan of •own mf!| be -t charge of the pr. secu :k* Yhsm he resigned as a**.s:ant to tb» arecener genera; be offered hit wu i ices free- ta the case and Attorney a saiarai M i-kersham accepted them. • • • Ttrer ewagaues of rebiia. com j> nc -'*' «or* are catajwd la the ’*■ “*^U4r> lC<' *" ‘ *** Tiiaaaa. Lsv er Tire too* was taken - aaaattit the jarle luiiaj four ■ • tihse-rratnre ect ‘.mate* of the dead sad WMVdad da both swfw place • • • - • \ta<-r:raa apavta ’* *** * f*4” e^orurat * *— Gooqpe of IT—iMnn aa -JtepmHt. IWtuiHwu by ruder,, k Kaarfcfc*. the at» -•r-*?T * 'W *—*■■■ "-|L of Natural History o • • WTu* Ju<fce W E Pardee*, *<•*,.„ s«ratcr «d the estate of Frederick Pat ferae*. T«. who died fa. supposed dot erry at Akron O. opened a !lB ^ tma4 ta be old teas • room, be dis posed a fortune of S— ,* corns, teak mm, bask books and securities. • • • Cofi**e processor* of Co—3 re. fuaod la translate tote Greek a* in Tttanoa ta Coe Uoodrov WHmb of Xev Jersey to address the Dearer Press cSok, oa *be «r erd that WUaou •b* ooo of the greatest atrtborltiaa OB Gre* t la tbt OBactr* The demurrers of the Chicago pack • r> n the beef trust" case were over ruied by Judge Carpenter in the Uni ted States district court. Judge Car -nter declared that the Sherman ant. trust law which had been at tacked by the packers, is constitution ai He also held that the indictment charging the packers with violating its provisions is valid. • • » Waiter E Lmryea. who lived almost a full dozen years with a broken neck died at his heme in Upper Montclair, X. Y.. in his forty-fourth year. He broke his ueck in August. 1S99, by jumping from the Casino at Glen Cove landing, alighting on his head in the sand in three feet of water. • • • New York s sick list averages 135, biH) names daily, or one person in 35. and within a year 1.530,OW cases of -tineas occur within the city bound aries. according to statistics compiled ny the Charity organization society. • • • Fire which smarted in underbrush about a miie from Miller s Falls. Mass., spread through several towns, burning over an area abort six miles long and more than a mile and a half wide. • • « A mob attacked the driver of a horse car who ran down and killed a baby ;n a downtown New York street, •» ertuming the car and yelling “Lynch tun:” Police rescued the driver. • • * rtve men were suSocatec and others -ere saved by government rescuers in a fire in the Boston colliery of the Uelaware A Hudson company at Larksville, Pa. • • • With efficiency in play as the key note. the fifth annual meeting of the Playground Association of America pened in Washington. • • • Gen Juan Navarro surrendered Jua rex. the objective point of the Mexico revolutionists, and placed his army, his barracks and his equipment in the hands of Gen. Francisco I. Madero, provisional president of his opponents. Madero asserts he is ready to end the conflict if Diaz's government is ysosed to deal frankly with him • • • Lieu* George M. E Kelly of the Th.rtietb Infantry, detailed to study the science of aviation, was killed when he was thrown from a Curtiss aeroplane at Fort Sam Houston. • • • Two men were killed and 27 per sons injured when west-bound Den ver A Rio Grande passenger train No. 1 tu derailed while rounding a curve two miles east of Minturo, Colo. • • • Fitting with grim determination to end her life. Mrs. Elizabeth Hart lev of BuEalo. sixty years old. was rescued from death at the brink of the atarart at Niagara Falls by Consta ble Thomas Harrington, who faced constant danger of being carried over the fails with the struggling woman. • • • The famous Aaron Burr mansion, on Riverside drive. New York, is to be "m down to make room for apartment bouses. The mansion was occupied by President Madison from 1804 to 1806. • • • One of every seven couples married in Iowa In 1910 took their matrimonial troubles into court, and one of every -i. couples was divorced. • • • The application of John J. McXa rtiara for the fixing of bail on the barge of dynamiting was disallowed by -uperior Judge liordwell at Los Angeles. Cal., without prejudice and with leave to renew it at any time. • • • Foreign The bourses of Vienna and Budapest are c< pressed because of renewed re ports of Emperor Franz Josef's failing health. • • • Lady Decies. who before her mar riace to Lord Decies was Miss Helen Vivien Gouid. undtmwent art operation for appendicitis, whe surgery was done a; the London residence of her mother in law. Dowager Lady Decies, and the result was most satisfactory • • • The possession of Juarez has brought such governmental responsi hilities to the insurfectos that provi sional president Francisco I Madero appointed the following cabinet: Dr Vssquez Gcmez. minister of foreign relations. Gustavo Madero, finance: (’em Venustiano Carronx. way; Fred neo Gonzales Garzo. interior; Pinz -uarez. justice, and Juan Sanchez Az ona. secretary to the president. • • • During thunderstorms throughout Germany lightning kiiied eight per <.r.-. and near Hamburg rekindled a natural gas well which had beer apped recently with the greatest diG -ulty. • • • The boerses of Vienna and Budapest are depressed because of renewed re ports of Emperor Franz Josef’s fail ing health. It has been denied he ii ’.ling, hut the statement that appa rams for radium baths was sent tc Go* doelloe has reawakened uacasi ness • • a A movement for the protection o foreign residents in Mexico City in the event that the rebel forces should -track the capital as they have threat ened to do. was instituted by the dip lotnstic representatives of the foreigr powers. • m m Personal At the annual meeting of the Britisl Iron and Steel institute in London th« Carnegie research scholarship of $501 «ras awtrdrd to R. M. Keeney of Colo nu"u. DECLAMATORY BOUT TWENTY-TWO TOWNS ARE REP RESENTED AT AURORA. NEWS FROM OVER TtfE STATE What is Going on Here and There That is of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Nebraska and Vicinity. Aurora.—The state declamatory con test was held here with a large dele gation front many towns over the s -Ue in attendance. The contest was dltitled into three classes and occupied the entire afternoon and evening. In the oratorical class Elmer Nel son of Sidney won first place; Earl Williams, Eddyvilie. second; William Medlar. York, third. In the dramatic class, Harry Hawkins of Stanton won first; Mary Bowman. Broken Bow, second; Viola Beckler, Crawford, third. In the humorous class. E. M. Burr of Aurora won first place; Lee Chebey, Cambridge, second; Beulah Smith. Alliance, third. The judges were Professor W. E Gilson, Uoane; Miss Beulah Champ. Wesleyan; Miss Alta Walton. Nebras ka University, and W. H. Plasters, Ne braska University. Revolution Too Slow. Lincoln.—Rex McDill, a former Lin coln university student, has written home that life with the Madero forces on the Mexican border is too dull for an American who is really seeking excitement and that he has now re turned to El Paso. Victim of Peculiar Accident. Humboldt.—S. Parker of this place was the victim of an unusual accident which nearly cost him his life when a bottle of carbolic acid in his pocket was accidentally broken. His body was badly burned, but it is thought that he will recover. Killed in Runaway. Osmond.—John Belts, a wealthy farmer residing near Foster, was killed In a runaway. The front axle of his buggy broke down and he was thrown over the dashboard and kicked to death by the frightened horses. 4 Deshler has sent a car load of brooms to Boston. Scottsbluff has been incorporated as u city, and is putting on lots of airs. The state encampment of the G. A. R. will be held at Kearney Mav 17 to 19. Twenty-one hoboes were guests of the city in the jail at Wymore in one day. ' I ncle Zed" Goodwin, a pioneer of western Nebraska, is dead at Alli ance. v -Merchants of Fremont are talking up a big Fourth of July celebration scheme. Music will hereafter be one of the courses-of study in the Auburn public schools. Plans are being made for an avia tion meet at the state fair grounds on May 24 and 2a. Over 2G0 delegates were present at the annual Sunday school convention at Osceola last week. Hastings won out against Grand Island in the contest for the next camp o: the Modern Woodmen of America in 1914. Rev. Farley, pastor of the M. E church at Shlcklv, is dangerously ill with blood poisoning caused by prick ing himself with a splinter. Lev. W. W. Tait. late pastor at Min d«n. has gone to Tecumseh, where he will become the psstor of the First Presbyterian church in that city. Surveyors for the proposed interrr ban from Omaha to Fremont and thance northwest to Norfolk have com menced setting stakes in Fremont. Fire broke out in the opera house at Mason City and was with difficulty extinguished. The volunteer fire de partment did some danng work. John Fratler almost lost his life in bringing a woman from the burning building. He was badly burned and partially overcome by the heat and smoke. John Wright was caught in the elevator of the new First National bank building at Lincoln and had his head and face badly crushed, bat it is thought be will recover. Eighteen caricads of Russians, men. women and children, have left Lincoln for the beet fields of the west. The crowd of laborers is bound for Bill ings. Mont., and Uanchester, Wyo. Harry S. Ayres, station agent at Frankiin. fell under a fast freight train at Culbertson, while attempting to board the moving train. One of his legs was cut off at the thigh. He is not expected to live. Miss Olive Griffith, a Nebraska girl, whose parents live at Pawnee City, has returned to her home after nearly six years' absence in India, where she has been a missionary since her grad uation from the University of Nebras ka. M. W. Cozier, who together with his wife was poisoned by eating ^reen6. died near University Place Friday. His wife died a couple of weeks ago. Lloyd Knox the 1-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Knox of Riverdaie. died of blood poisoning which resulted , through severely burning his hand on ' a stove Mcndar All slate offices were closed during the funeral o' the late Lieutenant | Governor Hopewell. : The voters of Fairbury will decide j at a special election on May 16 wheth ! er the town is to have saloons or not i The annual convention of the Xe j braska State Pharmaceutical associa- j tion will be held in Fairbury June 12 j to 15. Lawrence Hanaka. twenty-one years of age. committed suicide at his home j two miles east of Shubert Saturday i i morning. While Mr. J. A. Cook, was crossing j the street at Auburn he was knocked j down and run over by an auto but was ! ! net seriously hurt. Thos. P. Kennard. a pioneer Xebras- J i kan. was injured when a Lincoln street ! j car struck the buggy he was riding in ; ; and demolished it. The board of education of Spring- \ field has elected G. E. Heaccck, a ; j graduate of the state normal, princi- j ! pal of the high school. W. H. Gardner of University Place j j has been appointed county superin- j I tendent by the Lancaster county com j missioners. The appointment follows i j the death of O. H. Morris. Damage conservatively estimated tc j 1 be in the neighborhood of $75,000 re 1 suited from a fire that for a time i ! threatened the destruction of the , I Creighton university arts building at j j Omaha. Mrs. Grace Gerry, who. at the age oi j | more than 82 years, recently died in ! | Giltner. was a niece of Elbridge Gerry [ signer of the Declaration of ladff j I pendence and vice-president of the ; ! United States. , i IJncoln—Robert W. Porter of Alma I has appealed to -the supreme court ! from the mandamus Issued by District j Judge Harry Dungan to compel Porter | to turn over to Miss Jean McKee the moneys and books belonging to the of fice of treasurer of t~e city of Alma. Unless the court holds that she has no right to the office or is disqualified in holding it, Porter will have to com ply with the demands of the lower court. The snpremet^jjourt held several j months ago ^iat another woman. Ger trude Johnson, was qualified to hold i the office of county superintendent in j Cherry county. Mrs. John X. Hubbard, who was elected as city clerk of Alma, will also have her qualifications passed upon in the same ease. Job for Board of Pardons. Governor Aldrich has saved a job for the advisory beard of pardons. He I has decided not to take up the appli cation of Mrs. Nannie Hutchinson of j Nuckolls county for a pardon for her self and her son, who were convicted : of murdering Eli Feasel. a farmer for whom Mrs. Hutchinson kept house. The woman is serving a sentence oi ten years and the son a sentence of twelve years. A brother of the murdered man proposes to resist the , application and the governor will de- j ter action till the board of pardons | comes into existence. July 7. The legislature failed to make a spe cific appropriation for state aid for the building of bridges and since the dis covery has been made it is said State Auditor Barton will not draw warrants . on the treasury until the attorney gen eral or the conns decided that such warrants shall be drawn. In any event no part of the one-fifth mill levy can be drawn out of the treasury until the j levy is made by the state board of assessment and until The money is col lested. - No more examination periods will be the rule next year at the state univer sity. According to a series of rules | passed at a meeting of the university senate, class work will continue throughout the year, and the final ex aminations will be given at the regu lar class hours, instead of discontinu ing classes for an entire week at the end of each semester as is now the rule and scheduling all examinations for this period. Circulating magazines, on the seven day book plan, forms a new feature at the Fremont public library. state Accountant Toilers has an- i Bounced the completion of his four weeks’ investigation cf the accounts of ' the Eeatrice institution for the feeble ! minded for the two years ending Jan uary 26. 1911. As a result of his ex i a ruination he found discrepancies ■ amounting to $1,395.47 in the accounts of T. E. Stewart, bookkeeper of the institute during the superintendency of Dr. G. L. Roe of Beatrice. Fair bury will hold a special election May 16 to decide the Question of saloons or no ^aloons. The secretary cf state reaped a rich harvest for the sale in automobile registration fees during the month ol April. He collected from that source $12,195.90. Soon his fee will be paid to counties instead of to the state, il the bill passed by the last legislature can be so interpreted with all of its contradictions. The fee is not called a license fee is the old law because ii it were a license fee the money would hare to go into the state schdbl fund So the law makers call it a "registra | tion fee,” and the money goes into th« i general fund of the state. E . THIS CONGRESS HAS A RECORD FOR THE WORK. I — THOWS ON SEARCH LIGHT Resolutions are Adopted Ordering that Thirty or Mere Subjects Be Given Investigation. — 1 Washington.—This congress has the record for ordering investigations. More than thirty resolutions, pro viding for investigations have been introduced and several others are be ing framed. Eleven resolutions authorizing in vestigations have passed the house. ; They are to investigate the War, j Navy. State, Interior, Agricultural, I Postofflce, Commerce, Justice and Treasury departments. These will be investigated by nine committees on expenditures. Resolutions to be acted upon are: By Francis of Indiana—To investi gate the wool trust. By Clark of Florida—The Hospital for the Insane at Washington. By Grey of Wisconsin—The health department of the District of Colum bia. By Sheppard of Texas—Expendi tures on public buildings. By Clark of Florida—Each and every board, commission or other like body, named by the president or con gress By Flood of Vlrgnrta and Garrett ol Tennessee—The disturbance in Mex ico. By Anderson of Ohio—The tele phone service in the District of Co lumbia. By Francis of Ohio—The American Woolen company. By Goodwin of North Carolina—The entire civil service system. By Carter of Oklahoma—The admis sion of the Five Civilized tribes. By Howard of Georgia—The ‘‘un- j American practices of intimidation : and coercion in the Postoffice depart- > ment." By Pepper of Iowa—The Taylor sys tem of shop management. By Rainey of Illinois—The enforce i ment of the anti-trust act and the : conduct of the attorney general. The resolution to investigate steel 1 will be acted upon as soon as Senator 1 Stanley returns to Washington. JOHN DIETZ GETS LIFE TERM. — Defender of Cameron Dam is Found Guilty in First Degree. Hayward. Wis.—John F. Dietz will spend the rest of his natural life at hard labor in the state prison at Wau pun. by the verdict of the jury, for the murder of Deputy Oscar Harp in the j battle of Cameron Dam on October 2 ; last. The verdict is: "John F. Dietz, guilty of murder in the first degree. Hattie E. Dietz, his w ife, not guilty of murder in the first degree. Leslie Dietz, his son. not guilty of murder in the first degree.” — THE NATION'S FARM. Department of Agriculture Gives Out Estimate of Production. Washington.—The value of wealth produced on farms of the United States was $8,926,060,900 in 1910, as estimated by the Department of Agri culture in a statement just issued. This is an increase of $104,000.01*0 j over 1909. Texas, with its 10.000.000 j acres of cotton wrested from Illinois ; the honor of being the first state in the union in value of principal farm crops, which was $364,110,000. Peace Talk Revived. Juarez. Mex.—Peace negotiations, unofficial but auspicious have been j resumed between the federal govern ment and the insurrectos and the prospects are that a definite under- ; standing can be reached within twen- : ty-four hours. Postmaster Thomas' Case. Washington.— Postmaster General Hitchcock has referred the findings of the Civil Service commission in the Thomas case of Omaha to the law of ficers of his department, this act be ing taken before Mr. Hitchcock left j the city for the week end Young Confesses Murder. Ottumwa. Ia.—In a written state ment to the police Charles Young con- j fessed to murdering Tom McGrah last j week and attempting to murder John j Allen, throwing both bodies in the ! Des Moines river here. To Presicute Census Padders. Seattle. Wash.—The United States government has announced its inten- i tion of prosecuting Seattle and Taco- j ma census enumerators d'ho are al leged to have made fraudulent re turns. Uprising Against Madero. El Paso.—“Much as the United j States has been trying to keep out of j the Mexican trouble.” said a United States army officer, “things are grow ing worse and worse and intervention is only a question of time. Every day ; brings the crisis a little closer." This j view is held by many who are fam- j iliar with the situation across the Bio Crande. It has been shown clearly that Madero is not in absolute com mand. Internal dissension among his men. It is said, is plain to be seen la many ways SETS BEATS-! TRAP FOR STORE THIEF DEVICE OF ITALIAN MERCHANT AT KANSAS CITY LANDS PRIZE. Kansas City.—The grocery store of John and Andrew Barbera, in this city, had been robbed six times in as many weeks and goods valued at $200 stolen. This became monotonous to John Barbera. twenty-one years old, and he set about to catch the thief. He cut a hole In the money drawer the size of a revolver muzzle and placed the weapon so it would be dis charged when the drawer was opened. Then he attached a 6tring to the trig ger. Barbera was watching outside his store the other night and when he heard a shot within he went home and went to bed. When he opened the store the next morning he notified the police of an attempted robbery and a shooting. "Why didn't you notify the police Weapon Was Discharged When Drawer Was Opened. when you heard the shot?’' Barber* was asked. “What was the use?" he ceplied. "1 knew I had the thief.” The police have an Italian, twenty two years old, under guard at the general hospital with a bullet wound in his right shoulder. This man was found lying on a mattress in the base ment of a building next door to the Barbera store. He told the police he did not know how he was shot, but they believe he is a victim of Barbe ra's trap. LIMIT IN STAGE REALISM Gruesome Scene in Gilbert’s New Sketch, “The Hooligan,” Pre sented in London London.—It would not be easy to imagine a more gruesome subject for a thatrical play than the last hours and confession of a murderer in a condemned cell. This was selected by Sir William S. Gilbert, the London dramatist, for a new sketch. “The Hooligan." presented a few nights ago at the London Coliseum. The little play, horrible, unpleasant, begins with the discussion by the pris on warders of the execution within a couple of hours of the prisoner asleep in his bed. They awake him from his broken slumber, witness his horror when he recollects that he has to die in two hours, and as he dresses give him reminiscences—to keep up his courage—of how piuckily other prison ers had gone to their doom. The pit eous plea of the wretched youth for a reprieve, his insistent cry that he had only intended to wound, not to kill, his sweetheart, were realistically agoniz ing. His descriptions of his night P'teous Pleas of the Wretched Youth for Reprieve. mares, his shrieks when he hears steps outside the cell door, added to the ghastliness of the whole business. When at last the governor, chap lain and officials enter his cell, he lost control of himself. He shrieked foi another half hour, half an hour with the clergy man. He crouched on the floor, clinging to a leg of a table Then quietly the governor told him that a reprieve had been granted There the gruesome side of the fale seemed to have ended. Xot really so however, for the strain of the news was too much for the man; he stood up, swung himself around and fell dead on the floor of the cell. When the curtain, in response to applause, was taken up, the dead body of the pris oner was seen lying cn the bed. WOMAN IS FREED BY UNWRITTEN LAW Texas Jury Acquits Her of Charge of First Degree Murder, STORY A SENSATIONAL ONE For Two Years Woman Prayed for Her Victim, Then Shot Her When Prayer Did Not Prove Efficaci ous—Dead Woman Stole Her Husband. Fort IS orth, Tex.—The unwritten law in Texas applies to women as well as men, a cording to a jury at Fort Worth, which cleared Mrs. T. M. Brooks, charged with first degree mur der In slaying Mra. Mary Binford whom she charged with trying to break up her home. Insanity was the grounds she was freed on, but there was not a word on insanity mentioned in the trial. It was a plain case of the unwritten law and it was enough tc free the woman. Mrs. Brooks is the wife of a Fort Worth attorney. During the busy part of the day of January 16 last, she went to a large department store where Mrs. Binford was employed and shot her to death. She left a prayer meeting at her own home to accomplish the deed. The story of hpw Mrs. Brooks, al ways prominent in Methodist church circles, prayed every day for two years that the Lord would make a bettor woman of Mrs. Binford, and how. after hearing, unwittingly, a tele phone conversation between her hus hand and Mrs. Binford, Mrs. Brooki gave up the struggle and resolved to kill the woman who had spoiled her life, made one of the most sensational murder trials Texas has had for years It was Mrs. J. W. Boyd, formerly a next door neighbor of the Brooks', who declared that she knew of her own knowledge that the defendant had prayed for the redemption of Mrs Binford. change her husband's dispo sition and end her troubles. Mrs. ; Boyd had talked to the witness fre i Shot Her to Death. quently as to what course should be pursued to end matters so everybody would be satisfied and they decided that prayer alone could accomplish this. "We were very happy until we moved to Fort Worth," said Mrs j Brooks on the stand. Then she told t how Mrs. Binford came into her life | nearly five years ago. She said: “She came to my husband's office tc ! get a divorce, and Mr. Brooks called : me up and said: 'Mamma, there is a i woman in my office who wants me tc i do a little legal work for her. She : has no friends in the city and little money. What do you say if I bring her up tonight?' “She came. That was the begin ‘ nisg. Welcoming her as a friendless j young woman in a strange city and j with a desire to give her a good ; start, I fostered the cause of my wreck j ed happiness, stood it as long as 1 j could and then killed her.’ GAVE AWAY CHICKEN LUNCH Leads to Discovery of Ancient Cold Storage Poultry—Twenty Thou sand Pounds Condemned. Cincinnati.—What amounted to j practically a raid on cold storage poul ! try was completed by Doctor Blume. the city meat inspector. Within the j month he and his assistants have i condemned 20.000 pounds of cold stor j age poultry Doctor Blume says he j found meat that had been in cold stor ! age for five years, some venison | actually being stamped 1905. Doctor Blume said that what first ; attracted his attention and suggested i the investigation was the fact the cheap restaurants were selling a chicken dinner for 15 cents and that some saloons were supplying chicken In their free lunches. “I conjectured.” Doctor Blume said, “that something must be the matter with poultry that could be sold at that figure.” Dies in Fasting for Cure. Toronto, Ont.—Herbert Deverell is dead here as the result cf a 15-day fast which he undertook in the hope cf curing a slight illness. Two years ago he successfully fasted for Unr^c ! weeks.
