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Loup City Northwestern
VOLUME XXIX._ LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , SEPTEMBER 7, 1911. NUMBER 44
EPITOME
OF*
WEEK'S NEWS
Mast Important Happen
ing* Toid in Brief.
Wa s ningfon
thousand from all
parts at the wuctry me". is Washlsc
am to dm I* the problem of set : me
• arm tar the unemployed The con
wsatloe «u railed and presided own
Of Jaateo tied* Horn the mill)centre
• • •
The standard of temperance in tbe
army, tor both officers and men. is «
-ept* ttallj bich and ta not exceeded
la the ether walks at the. unices in
-he batch and asm railroad em
pseyuo." soya HaJ On Frederick D
■tract la a report to the war depart
• • •
•Joker* 'bare been diacorered In
the raspoics publicity law passed
at U last aeasteo at '-onfrees which
teed to draw Its teeth so far as the
ateecioe at t sited States senator* Is
Domestic
Sauerkraut * to her cine act Kit tbe
staff hoc -ae ncency lor rrt; jn*:s*
J« at the lissetUcir O i state boa
JttmL pro* - Vd the theory c: a O:ne*o
*-a‘J physician prorea correct after a
horoash ’eat Tbe claim of tbe On
■■■ati doctor la that eattas the dish
alii add to the years at tbe consumer
e e e
A Jefejattsue of fifty farmers from
ear*.. port* of PennrylTisn a and
New Torn state* are ta New Terk city
to start a plan for ro-operstlve mar
ke*_.r« * *h*er prodarts They Hale
to repsesect more than Sd.Ofd farmer*,
who wtti b- realer sell *hrlr produce
direct to the city retailer without la
ferret.:ms at the middleman
e e e
Testimony rjrrwborauee of the
•tor* toM b? Henry Cloy Beattie. Jr,
-ha: a bearded hJcbaaymaa killed hit
wife with a shotcan was Introduced by
the defease la the B rattle trial si
Chaoterheld roorthoese. Va, when
V R Holland, who tires ta the nctn
tty at the Midlothian turnpike, where
the murder occurred, declared be had
seen a bearded man with a shotcua
there about fire hours before the
traced y..
m m m
The late Jobs » Gates left at es
tat# worth about BMM.***. accord
:xg to relative* if ring at St- ('harlea
tll_ who hare J-s* returned from New
Torh Hr the will ipprettsaistr $1.
was distributed among about
•fctrry distant relatives and friends
The b-aia of *be estate ts divided
tgaiif between ('terl-* Gates, the
son. and the widow
• • •
Th» <• Lawreac* nter ;« so low at
Con. - aB. Oat . that in order to keep
'h# rater m tb* anal up to the re
united level tt r.as been found a
•art t« abut off all aater from 'h«
fan titles there.
• we
!a 'be presence of jeoj.lt- at a
brte*’ aviation exhibition for the
widow of I we A- Kreamer. who was
kiifVed in 'be fail of an aeroplane in
'hicago. July 14 Fred Hregel a Phi
-ago aviator, plunged » feet 'o -arth
-a a b.pi»t* at rr-epor. in. sustain
hg ni'rtana injuries.
• • •
The arrwwt at Jersey CHy. X of
Thomas Parker, a throe-year-old child,
m a chars- j» assault and hattery la
bettered to wuWiili a record for the
t utted Staten. Joseph R BlumcctbaJ
barged that the child buried stones
at and bn fctm
• • •
The ibnadard Otl company of Xee
'etwwy the orporatloc which has
tiem the storm center of astly rest ng»
union throughout the country tot
•rata has passed out of existence, as
tar as its preset form and functions
arc concerned
• • •
Jwsei* Powell. eighty yearn old. 1*
dead at her borne in KdwardsvMe
f*x- front a maanutto bite. She was
St'te* on the arm a week ago and
pc-aoned tbs wound by scratching It
with her finger sails
• * •
Thro* faraM Ira are burning tt
Part eaonrr. Montana Th* largest
fire la on T>i*er Ibc» <rwk at the
"eat end td Mount fluids A force of
•angers 'men iJelngntoa and farmer*
Mrtag near the fir* are fighting the
• • •
Orimt over the death of hi* wife led
c-oeet <a Englishman and
«f Oxford nul*emtty.
hceo n rnaMaat of
. Mo. for tbo laat afar rear*,
hta •am* children and than
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Setnraa from tbe Democratic prl
taoa. Dsate^ "nftelT ****
STi
President Taft's administration was
ndorsed and delegates were named
ttd instructed to support him in the
lext national convention when the
Republicans of .^Alabama held their
itat e convention at Birmingham.
• • •
President Taft in an address before
‘be American Bar association on the
iub;*-ct of Judge* compensation at
Boston advocated an increase in Judi
cial salaries He explained his sug
gestion with the phrase. "So that the
tx-st men of the bar might be secured
for the courts."
• • •
A bill was filed in the United
Stales circuit court a* Detroit to en
Mn the Michigan Retail Lumber
Deax-rs' association from continuing
an alleged conspiracy to restrain com
merce and trade in lumber and lum
ber products in many s’ates.
• • •
Sjvesktng at Manchester. Mass., in
behalf of the Indian and negro Indus
•nai school at Hampton. Va., of which
be is trustee. President Taft voiced j
his in 1 treat Ion at the necessity that :
such useful Institutions must bog fot
money and at the failure of the na
tion'k many millionaires to come to '
their rercue with contributions.
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Two hundred boys, members of the 1
T* :uni»--r fire department of Randall's 1
1; and. where New >ork has a reform
a:cry school and other corrective In
stltutions. fought a fire that imperiled
'he Uges of 115 women employed in
•he big laundry building and subdued '
•he blare atier a two hour struggle.
• • •
Police at Buffalo. N. Y.. have in cus j
•ody two Pullman porters whose ar !
rest, ‘hey hope, will end a series of
?>t: Tiling suitcase robberies on the
cars of *he New York Central rail
road.
• • •
Circuit Judge f. c. Eschwelier of ;
Milwaukee began suit against Mayor i
Etnll Seidel for Sud.OOO damages for j
alleged slanderous remarks made by
the mayor in a speech during the last
Judicial campaign.
• • •
For the first time in a year Mayor
Gaynor of New York city is moving
a'out the city without police protec
•ton Ever since he was shot two po
or* effi era constantly have kept near
him on the street
• • •
Mir- Lena S Swartz of New York j
city dreamed her aged father. Samuel j
Schwartz. had met with a serious acd
d»-nt. She awakened and hurried to a
hallway and found the aged man with ,
a tube attached to a gas bracket In ,
bts — ou'fc A physician revived the ;
man
• • •
At least fifteen persons are dead as
he result of the storm which swept
'kariestoc. S C. The wind has died
love and tbe water has receded. Cor.- j
ergatives estimates of the damage
vlare the loss at upward of $1,000,000. j
Both bridg's into the city were badly |
lamaged.
• • •
At bis Brooklyn borne Joseph Rich
trds. a mounted policeman of the
oney Island station, is recovering his
aealti after an illness of several j
seeks from nervous prostration. His
•'hysiclac* declare that his illness was
drought on by having to listen to the
slaying of hand organs and bands at
be amusement places on Coney
Uiand.
• • •
Fearing the attending physician
would (-ease his visits. Sylvester Jasin
tki. aged eight, of Pittsburgh. Pa.,
who suffered a .-rushed foot, had bis
mother carry him to the cellar of his
tome. In an old tin can was found
11.11 The doctor refused to accept
be "fortune" and promised to attend
be boy free.
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Foreign
According to an official statement
by the Italian government there were
1.435 cases of cholera and 593 deaths
from the disease in Italy In the seven
lays rom August 2<» to 26. inclu
sive
• • •
A campaign for a reduction of the
high price at iood has started in
Pari*. Ipen agitation, with some vi
jlenoe. s going in in thirty or forty
town and cities la the northern de
partments. and the movement is
spreading to other part* of France.
Francisco Madero was unanimously
nominated for president of Mexico by
the Constitutional Progressive party
• • •
Dispatches received st London from
, Copenhagen and Stockholm tell of sev
eral mutinies in the Norwegian army
as the result of the Socialistic propa
ganda There have been serious riots
The officers are defled and soldiers
confined In military' prisons have been
released by force.
• • •
Personal
loseph Jefferson's grandson. Joseph
Jefferson III- Is dead at his summer
home at Buzzard's Bay. Mass., from
I epilepsy
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Rev. S. Rice, a prominent Methodist
, clergyman and editor of the Guide ta
Homes, a thurch publication issued in
i Philadelphia, is dead at Seattle,
Wash He was sixty-nine years old.
The body will be sent to Akron. O
for burial.
• • •
John Kile non Lodge, son of Henry
Cabot Lodge. Uni'ed States senator,
was married at the rectory of the ca
thedral of the Holy Cross in Boston to
Mary Catherine Connolly, by Rot.
Father Flsigan.
FIND VEINJDF COAL
THE DISCOVERY MADE BY WELL
DRILLERS NEAR DU BOIS.
NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE
What is Going on Here and TJiere
That is of Interest to the Read
ers Throughout Nebraska
and Vicinity.
Du Bois.—While boring an eight
inch well for William Rohlmeier.
south of town, at a depth of twelve
feet. Shi llham brothers struck an out
cropping of coal. At a depth of sixty
feet they passed through a ten or
twelve inch vein of coal. At seventy
five feet the drill passed through a
two and one-half foot vein.
St. Libory Watermelons.
Grand Island.—St. Libory. a small
station on the Ord branch of the
i'nion Pacific, is a candidate for hon
ors as the watermelon station of the
state. Its sandy soil seems peculiarly
adapted to the raising of the fruit.
Some years ago two oc three farmers
began raising a specially large and
desirable sort. At present nearly a
dozen farmers engage in the culture
a- a side line, and the melpns are be
ing shipiied out by the carload to
many points in this and other states.
Two Lives Lost in Auto Accident.
Stanton.—W. G. Munger and Louie
Hoppe!, two business men of Pilger.
Neb., were killed in an automobile
accident near this place. When
found an hour after the accident both
men were dead. Munger’s body was
under the overturned machine, the en
gine of which was still running. Mun
ger is a brother of Tnited States Dis
trict Judge W. H. Munger of Omaha.
Lincoln.—Two boys. Herman and
Max Sapson. brothers, aged twelve
and seven, were burned to death in
a fire at the home of J. Lockhart.
The boys had gone to spend the night
with a son of Lockhart and were
sleeping in a tent on the back porch.
The origin of the fire is a mystery.
Mhen it was discovered the younger
boy was dc3d and the elder was
taken from ihe tent in a dying con
dition
Tecumseh.—Michael Murphy. an
eight-year-old boy, fell from a trapeze
a considerable distance to the ground
and alighted in such a manner as to
break the radius bone of each arm
about an inch below the joint and dis
locate the ulna bone of each arm at
the wrist, the injury to the two arms
being almost identical.
Humboldt.—Cecil l^awson. twenty
two years of age. of Falls City, a mem
ber of the Burlington bridge gang, was
struck by a Burlington train Saturday
night and killed. His body was not
discovered until next morning. His
skull was fractured and his face badly
cut.
NEWS FROM THE STATE HOUSE
Valuations of railroads in Nebraska
for purposes of terminal taxation
show an increase of $450,400 over last
year.
Afte- sleeping continuously for
twelve days. Sam Polkios. aged twen
ty-four. a recent immigrant to this
country, died at an Omaha hospital
of a very rare disease known by the
medical world as ptoxemia.
State banks that were called to ac
count by the state banking board for
advertising that the state of Nebras
ka guarantees deposits under the
guarantee law have all ceased the
methods which the board found fault
with.
The recent primary drew more
voters to the polls than any previous
election, appearing to indicate that
the primary is bringing out a more
representative expression of opinion
as the voters become more familiar
with it.
A portrait of Champion S. Chase, at
torney general of Nebraska from 1867
10 1869. has been presented to the
legal department by Clement Chase
of Omaha, son of the former official.
The portraits of former attorneys
general are now complete, except for
that of A. S. Churchill, who served
from 1835 to 1897.
governor Aldrich has appointed the
following delegates to attend a public
lands convention to be held at Den
ver, September 28 to 30: G. E. Pari
soe. Minden: Prof. George R. Chat
burn. Lincoln; S. A. Sear'es. Omaha:
Dan V. Stephens. Fremont.
Adjutant General Phelps of the Ne
braska natiopal guard has gone to
Oklahoma City to attend the national
| meeting of the United Spanish-Amer
lcan war veterans. He is past de
partment commander of the depart
ment of Nebraska and is entitled to a
vote in the national meeting of the
organization.
The coin turnstiles used at the en
trance of the state fair grounds this
year can be operated only by the use
of a 60-cent silver piece. Monday.
September 4. the opening day of the
fair, is expected to be one of the best
days of the fair. The program will
include the dedication of the grand
stand at the race course by Governor
Aldrich, concerts by Liberates band
and opera company, an unusually
good program of races, daylight fire
works. and the famous Wright
brothers’ aeroplanes in sensational
flights.
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA.
Possums are playing havoc with
Tecumseh chickens.
The old settlers’ picnic of Jefferson
county will be held September 14.
The York public schools are
scheduled to open Monday. Septem
ber 4.
Work on the high school building
destroyed by the storm at Hebron is
progressing rapidly.
Mrs. J. C. Messick of Hastings is
dangerously ill from ptomaine poison
ing fro meating ice cream.
The Grand ' Island Canning com
pany has began operations in putting
up the season’s crop of sweet corn.
The citizens of Steinauer will vote
on issuing bonds in the sum of $7,500
for the installation of a water works
system.
Phil Brust. a Nebraska City car
penter. walked through a big plate
glass window, completely demolishing
it and cutting himself badly.
William Brockelmeyer. a well-known
pioneer of Lincoln, was found dead in
his room at the Capital hotel, pre
sumably from heart trouble.
Every child in the Havelock schools
is to have an individual towel every
time he washes his hands at school
during the coming school year.
C. M. Davis, a printer, met a hor
rible death at Columbus. Neb., by
having both legs and one of his arms
cut off in the Cnion Pacific yards.
W. W. Dye, an old soldier at Fair
bury. 6S years old. has returned from
a visit to his old home in Virginia,
bringing with him a bride IS years of
ago.
The Woman’s club at Lincoln is
making efforts to secure a chapter
house for that place. A banquet was
tendered some of the national officers
Saturday night.
Harry B. Hunsicker. the real estate
man whose neck was broken on Au
gust Id. when he dove in shallow
water at Courtland Beach, died after
two weeks' suffering.
As Grand Island officers were about
to arrest a mar. answering the de
scription of E. E. Hesse, wanted for
murder at Tecumseh. he fled to a corn
field, where all trace of him was lost.
Germans in large numbers from
over the state assembled in Lincoln
Sunday to assist the members of the
Kreigerverein in the ceremony of
dedicating the German and American
flags.
During the recent wind and ram
storm by actual count 773 sparrows
were killed at the lumber yard of
J. A Sire at ©eWitt, The sparrows
when picked • np filled two bushel
baskets.
John M. Persinger, county clerk of
Merrick county, enjoys the distinction
of being a candidate for re-election
on four different tickets, the repub
lican. democratic, people’s independ
ent and prohibition.
Each year the children of Nebraska
City are taken to Lincoln to see the
sights and attend the state fair. All
children that 'cannot pay their fare
are given tickets from a fund collect
! ed for that purpose.
D. Hawksworth. familiarly known
as "D. H..” one of the pioneers of Ne
braska. prominently connected with
the Burlington railroad and a veteran
of the civil war. passed away at
Plattsmoutb. Friday.
The funeral services over the re
mains of the late Judge Joseph E.
Cobbey were held from the home in
Beatrice and were perhaps the most
j largely attended services of like na
ture ever held in that place.
City Dog Catcher Randall at Lin
coln has captured 1.327 dogs since he
began his war on untaxed dogs. Of
this number hut 175 were redeemed.
Fifteou hundred dog taxes have been
taken out during this time.
Through the efforts of the Rev. E.
D. Eubank a Christian church has
been organized at Coburg and a house
of worship built. The church will
seat 230 people and will be dedicated
within a few weeks, as soon as the
pews and other fixtures arrive.
The «ighten-months-old baby of Mr.
and Mrs. Lester Johnson, near Table
Rock., was scalded by pulling the
plug from a washing machine which
had been filled with boiling water.
The child was a mass of burns from
head to foot.
unq oi tne mg iratures oi ine rati
festival to be held at Hastings during
the week of October 9 to 16 will be a
band contest, open to the state, when
it is expected a number of bands will
complete for the cash prizes offered
by the board of governors of Yt
Nuoc-Sntada.
Lillian Christenson, the ten-year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Law
rence Christenson, near Valentine,
was dragged to death by a horse.
A drunken Indian at Valentine
caused considerable excitement by
lassoiag a traveling man an^ taking
several shots at his ' victim, all of
which, however, went wide of the
mark.
The volunteer firemen of Wymore
have taken over the old city hall in
that town and will convert the same
into a department headquarters, with
rooms for fire apparatus and assembly
hall.
A lighted cigarette carelessly laid
on a window ledge was responsible
for a fire that destroyed the home of
W. A. Dodge at Fremont.
The grounds of the experimental
farm will be thrown open to state
fair visitors, and several guides will
be on hand to look after their per
sonal comfort and convenience.
Harry Forbes, John Evans and
Charles Taylor, alleged bank robbers,
were sentenced to twinty-eight years
in the penitentiary with one day's sol
itary confinement each year on the
anniversary of the crime, by Judge
Corcoran at Aurora.
DEMOS OF LABOR
*FTER CONFERENCE THEY ARE
ABSOLUTELY REJECTED.
ANSWER SHORT UNO POSITIVE
Julius Kruttschnitt Refuses Requests
of Federation of Shop Em
ployes After Three Hours'
Consideration.
San Francisco.—Late Friday night
President Kline of the Blacksmiths'
jnioc made the following announce
ment:
“Owing to the deadlock between the
.'omnuttee and Mr. Kruttschnitt it is
practically certain that the general
.'ommittee of the unions involved will
be called to San Francisco imme
diately for consultation. The interna
tional officials here have not receded
from their demand that the feder
ation be recognized.
"The railroads recognize and deal
with collective transportation organi
sations; they should receive the shop
trades on the same basis.
“Joint action is recognized on
fourteen railroad systems with entire
success, and the Harriman lines will
Cave to come to it.”
Members of the general conventions.
Mr. Kline said, would come from
Houston. San Antonio and El Paso,
Tex.: Tucson. Ariz.; Algiers. La.; Og
den. Cheyenne. Denver. Sacramento,
laps Angeles. Sparks. Nev.; Omaha.
North Platte. Xeb.; Pocatello. Ida.,
md Kansas City and Portland. Ore.
The Southern Pacific Railroad com
pany. through Julius Kruttschnitt.
vice president and director of main
tenance and operation of the Harri- j
nan lines, absolutely rejected a de- j
mand for recognition of the Feder- I
ttion of Shop Employes, comprising 1
five shop craft unions and 25.000
men.
That such recognition, with its im
plications. would hamper the com
pany in performing its duty to the j
public was the position taken by its i
officials. Union leaders asked for it
jn grounds of economy and expedi
tion. and admittedly because of a
eelin? that greater centralization of
capital and power made corresponding
'entralization among various unions !
lesirable. Ttie unions involved had >
asked their general officers for per- i
mission to strike in the event of the ,
refusal to grant recognition of the j
federation.
A conference lasting three hours i
md twenty minutes was terminated j
by Mr. Kruttschpitt's final answer and
following it. the union representa
tives. sober-faced, went into session
by themselves, to consider the strike
rote, which they may accept as bind
ng or may reject, refusing to sanc
tion a strike.
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ROB OREGON EXPRESS.
Negro and White Companions Blow
Safe and Escape.
Redding, Cal.—Three robbers, one a
tegro. held up the southbound Ore
! jon Express on the Southern Pacific
| -ailoard a mile and one-half north or
Lamome, forty miles north of Red
ling at 9 o’clock tonight. They blew
both safes in the express car. rifled
hem and escaped.
In their escape the three men were
iccompanied by two other robbers,
who had been riding on the roof or
:he car. Xo one was hurt. The value
if the booty has not been learned.
I THE COTTON AGREEMENT.
New Central Bureau Will Begin Its
Activities.
Xew York.—The new agreement in
ended to safeguard cotton shipping
i locuments will go into effect Friday
! md the central bureau provided for in
: :hat agreement will begin its activities
■ with the backing of all the cotton-car*
’ying railroads, it was announced to
tay by the Liverpool cotton bills of
ading conference committee in a
itatement which explianed in detail
the plan adopted and answered vari
ous criticisms.
Iowa State Fair Closes.
Des Moines. Ia.—The great Iowa
state fair came to a close Friday with
the $1,000,000 stock parade. Fifteen
chousand people attended the fair on
.he closing day. Races between aero
planes and automobiles featured the
closing program. The state agrieul
ural board will make about $50,000
ibove expenses.
Button Workers In Riots.
Muscatine, Ia.—Two men were in
jured. many windows in the McKee
ind Bliven button plant were broken,
tnd James McKee and W. I. Bliven.
the owners, were forced to escape in
hi automobile from a mob in the first
serious rioting in Muscat ine5's second
button workers' strike.
Foreclosure Against Lewis.
St. Louis.—Foreclosure suits were
filed in the United States circuit
court on Friday by non-residents,
asking that three pieces of real es
tate owned by E. 6. Lewis compa
nies be sold te satisfy mortgages. The
property consists of one tract of
sixty-eight acres of improved property
In University City, the Woman s Mag
azine building and the real estate it
occupies and the Woman's National
Dally and its real estate. The mart
gages covered by suits now started
aggregate $836,250.
MAN WHO STOLE BEES
DOES RUNNING STUNT
WOULD BETTER HAVE CARRIED
OFF RED HOT STOVE WITH
OUT ASBESTOS GLOVES.
Savannah. Ga.—The man whose
thievish Instincts led him into the
taking of a red hot stove without the
protection of asbestos has been held
jp as an example of enterprise in this
particular line, but he must step into
second place for the man who attempt
ad to steal a bee hive from E. W. Jew
ett, of this city. The particular hive
selected by the thief in the absence
af a census of its occupants is esti
mated to accommodate somewhere in
the neighborhood of ten thousand
bees.
The hive was found just outside the
gate through which it had been taken,
its position indicating that it had
been left in a hurried manner. When
Mr. Jewett found the hive its top
and bottom were both off. and the ten
Ttiief Steal* Bee Hive.
thousand bees were circling around
trying to repair the. damage which
had been done. Knowing the resent
ment that bees show when people
knock the top and bottom off their
hives and otherwise manhandle them,
Mr. Jewett is uncertain just how far
the bees chased the thief before re
turning home to take stock of the
damages. Mr. Jewett’s theory is that
the thief knocked the top off going
through the gate, and the bees sallied
forth and began to puncture the ma
rauder, causing him to drop the hive
and start an extemporaneous effort to
set up a few running records.
BALD EAGLE FIGHTS SOLDIER
—
; Infuriated Bird After Being Woundec
Savagely Attacks Man Who
Fired the Shot.
9
Lynn. Mass—Corporal Thomas
; Campbell, formerly of New York, of
i rhe 147th company. United States coast
i artillery, stationed in this city, is suf
fering from injuries received in fight
ing an American baldheaded eagle
i here. He was summoned into court
; charged with violating the game laws
| of Massachusetts and fine $20.
Campbell found the bird perched in
; a tree. He got a gun and fired. The
: bullet only stunned the bird, which
i then began to fight. Thomas Egan
I who was with Campbell, had his over
, alls torn from his body while attempt
\
Eagle Attacks Soldier.
ing to lasso tne bird. It was finally
overpowered. The bird is alive and
nnder surgical treatment at the home
of Game Warden Thomas Burney. It
is six feet ten inches from tip to tip
of its wings.
Burned Her Prayer Book.
Fort Wayne, Ind.—WTiile a sudden
electrical storm of great severity was
passing over this city lightning struck
the Trinity Episcopal church and
stunned many of the worshipers gath
ered Inside the sacred edifice. The ef
fect was startling. A prayerbook held
by Mrs. W. W. Shryock was burned
from her hand, which was blackened
by the bolt. _
BARS EVERY WOMAN
NONE PERMITTED TO ATTEND
FUNERAL OR LOOK UPON
HIS FACE.
DECLARED ALL TREACHEROUS
Wife's Desertion Made Harness Maker
Lifelong Enemy to Those of Her
Sex—Tells Friend on Deathbed
Why He Cherished Hatred.
Evansville, Ind.—Soured on the fair
sex because his wife deserted him in
Louisville, Ky.. years ago, John Stel
ler. ac;ed 67 years, before he died
here made the request that no women
be permitted to look upon his face
after he had passed away and that
they be kept away from his fu
neral.
“They are mischief makers and as
treachert-us as a rattlesnake," the old
man said on his deathbed.
Out of gratitude for the man who
had been his true friend and who as
sisted him in his last days, Steller left
a good farm in Warrick county, near
here, to Joe Haas, a grocer and poli
tician.
Years- ago Steller came here frorr.
Louisville and got employment as a
harness maker. He toiled steadily al
his bench, and seldom lost a day from
his work. Among the large number
of employes in this establishment Stel
ler was regarded as eccentric. H*
talked little, and to none of his fel
low workingmen did he make anj
mention of his past life. Most oi
the men with whom he worked
thought he was a bachelor, none
knowing that at one time he had a
happy home; that he had become a
woman-hater because the wife h«
loved tenderly ceased to love him, and
deserted him when the hand of af
fliction was laid upon him.
In silence and alone Steller bore his
burden—and saved his money. He
had no one to live for, and cared lit
tle about the companionship of his
fellows. He lived alone above the
John Steller.
j grocery store of Haas, and not untl
his last illness was the story of hi;
life revealed.
Steller was taken 111 and remainet
In his room. He was ill for several
days before any one made inquiries
about him. Then Haas, who had not
seen the old man for some days, went
to his room and found the door lock
ed. He broke in, and there found Ste!
ler lying on the bed in a semi-con
scious condition, from which he wat
with difficulty aroused.
When Steller fully realized that the
end was near he told Has that h«
wanted to talk over some matters
with him. Then he told the grocer the
story of his life.
He had been married, he said, anc
was happy with his wife in their home
in Louisville. After their son wai
born his wife asked him to deed ovei
his property to her. He arranged mat
ters bo that she could take control o
half of it. A short time afterward he
became ill with typhoid fever. Afte
strangers had ministered to him, h<
asked for his wife. He was told sb<
had gone away.
When he sent word begging her tc
return to him he said she replied
that Bhe didn’t love him any more anc
he would have to get along with
out her. Later he obtained a di
vorce and came to Evansville to wort
at his trade.
“Now you know why I am a womai
hater,” he said. “I hate them all
They are a curse to the race, meddle
some and treacherous 'as a rattle
snake and as uncertain as life it
self.
“I guess It's all up with me now
Before 1 die 1 want to make one re
quest of you. I don’t want any liv
ing woman to attend my funeral
Keep them all away. They woulc
only come through curiosity, any
way."
A short while later he was dead
Haas obeyed the dying request. H«
alone accompanied the undertakers tc
to graveyard where the old man
'was buried.. He will erect a moo
ument over the grave and pay for H
himself.
Besides the property left to Haas
Steller had a $1,000 life insurance pol
icy, payable to his son. The son die
not attend the funeral. It is said he
will collect the life insurance, but wil
not attempt to contest the will be
quea thing the Indiana farm to Haas