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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1910)
- - - - - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _ . . - 1 , . . The Valentine Democrat . VALENTINE , NEB. . Y f. M. RICE , - - - - - Publisher ' I - . . . : I IN A KING'S PALACE . . . ; i AUSTRIA'S RULER AND ROOSB \ " VELT IN AUDIENCE. , , i Emperor , Intended to Return Ex-Presi- dent's Call , but is Prevented by Sud- H I den Storm-This Compliment Only i Extended to Reigning Sovereigns. i _ _ _ _ _ s Is . Vienna : Col. Roosevelt was re ceived at the Austrian capital Friday ' 1t t 1 in a manner almost like that accorded , e a reigning sovereign. The punctilious , Austrian court , the most ceremonious of those in Europe , had arranged the program and left nothing undone I which could emphasize the unprece - ° dented honor being paid the visiting American. As a special mark of his personal es . teem the aged emperor-king , Francis 1 Joseph ) , received Col. Roosevelt in his I , 0 : private apartments at the imposing V Hofburg palace instead of in the regu- 4 lar audience chamber. The monarch , uni- I who was attired in an imperial form , was extremely gracious to the American ex-president and kept him s in conversation for thirty-five min utes. What interesting subjects they' found to discuss were not made pub- lic , as they were alone and Col. Roose- velt naturally : has declined to reveal the slightest detail of the conversa- . tion. In Emperor Francis Joseph ' intended , jersonally to return Col. Roosevelt's f P call on his way out to the Schoen- brunn castle , where the monarch usu- , ally passes the night , and was only de- ? terred from so doing by a sudden i storm which broke late in the after- noon. Therefore he was compelled to .send his aid de camp. : Such an honor . as a return visit from the emperor is / -only extended to reigning sovereigns G SENATE ON RECORD. _ Favors Thorough Inquiry Into New York Legislative Corruption. Albany , N. \ . : Giving heed to the i , recommendation of Gov. Hughes , the I senate Thursday went on record in favor of a thorough inquiry into all allegations of legislative corruption. It is now up to the assembly to say whether the senate's lead shall be fol lowed. The resolution directing that the . deals uncovered by the Allds-Conger bribery scandal and the fire insurance . . . . investigation be taken up by a special legislative committee with full power - . - to probe into these and other matters _ must be approved by the assembly ways and means committee before its ! submission to the lower house. -t CRITICISES ' . HIS ACTION. - - Colleagues Ask for the Resignation of State Senator Bilbo. . Jackson , Miss. : Concluding their afternoon session with the adoption of a resolution sustaining State Senator Theodore Bilbo by : a margin of one vote , the senate late Thursday night adopted another resolution demanding that he tender his resignation and bit- - terly criticising his actions in connec- tion with his charges of irregularities during the recent senatorial contest. The resoltuion attacks , the credibil- ity and character of Senator Bilbo and condemns his charge and statement that he acted in the role of detective as untrue. Concluding , it declares him unfit to retain hjs membership ir the legislature. , Blow to American Divorce. Windsor , Ont. : A decision has been , handed down by Judge M. A. McHugh , - of the Essex county court , which de- nies the validity in Canada of decrees . , of divorce granted to citizens of the United States in which there can be shown any irregularity on the part of the principals thereto. , Rich Man's Daughter Weds Nurse. Detroit , Mich. : Ida M. Schmidt , daughter of the late Traugott Schmidt , a millionaire leather manufacturer , and Harris J. Marvin , a general hos- pital nurse of New York , were married in Detroit March 26 , the facts just be coming known. Marine Victim of Shark. Vallejo , Cal. : Leters received here from Cristobal , Panama , state that on , March . 31 Samuel Barnes , a marine on the cruiser Tacoma , fell overboard and was carried under by a mammoth shark. Sioux City Live Stock Market. Friday's quotations on the Sioux City live stock market follow : Top beeves , $8.05. Top hogs , $9.80. < , ' Granted a Divorce at 72. l Sterling , Ill. : Daniel McNamara , of this city , aged 72 , has been granted a divorce from his wife , aged 65 , the charge being desertion. , Wants City to Own Saloons. Rockford , Ill. : Alderman Ogren , the ( only socialist member of the city coun- cil , has suggested a plan for estab- > . . , lishing municipal saloons. A commit- . jtee has been named to investigate it " . ' . ' , . ' . " ' - . ' . ' , -s-- - - - - - 1s V ASQUITH IS I SUSTAINED. < . Commons Approves His Resolutions Dealing with House of Lords. London : Amid scenes of excitement hardly paralleled since the Gladstonian home rule debates , the house of com mons Thursday night by a majority of 103 recorded its approval of Pre mier Asquith's resolution dealing with the veto power of the house of lords and heard the premier's declaration of policy for carrying them into statutory effect. Before he formally introduced , amid loud cheers by his supporters , his bill embodying the resolutions , Mr. As- quith said the government's existence- depended upon the passing of the reso- lutions into law. If the house of lords failed to accept or declined to consider their policy the government would feel it their duty to advise the crown as to what steps were necessary to in- sure their "policy receiving statutory effect. Mr. Balfour , leader of the opposi- tion , rose amid a considerable uproar and said that the premier's ! important statement represented the culmination ' of long negotiations with the Irish par- ty. The government , he declared , was paying a monstrous price for the budg- et. The premier had bought the Irish vote at the price of "the dignity of the home office and its great tradition , of which he , of all men , ought to be , the custodian. There were hisses and cheers and ) cries of "dynamiter , " "traitor" and similar names. LONG SEARCH REWARDED. Ohio Father Locates. 10-Year-Old Son Near Everett , Wash. Everett , Wash. : After a search that lasted several years and covered many states , H. L. Peake , acting for I. C. Brewer , said to be a wealthy manufac- turer of Sandusky , 0. , Thursday se cured possession of Curtis Brewer , the 10-year-old son of Brewer , and his di- vorced wife. , Following a faint clew to the effect that the lad was with his mother on the shore of Lake Everett , H. L. Peake came here Thursday and began his search. Accompanied by a deputy sheriff , he went to the Lake Stevens school and identified the boy by an old photograph. A writ of habeas corpus was produced and the boy was brought back to Everett. According to papers filed in the case , a divorce was granted to Brewer in Cleveland in 1905 with the under- standing that he was to have the boy after a specified time. In the mean- time the mother fled with the lad , and since them search for the two has been made throughout the United States , Cuba , Jamaica and Canada. The boy and his mother were known here under the name of McIntyre. They made their home on a ranch overlooking the lake for three years. TRIAL COMES UP IN MAY. Robin J. Cooper Gets His Appearance Bond Cut to $10,000. Nashville , Tenn. : The bond for the appearance of Robin J. Cooper at the term of the criminal court , to answer an indictment charging him with the t murder of former United States Sena- tor E. ' W. Carmack , was Thursday re duced to $10,000 by the state supreme court , following the action of that tri- bunal Wednesday reversing the ver dict of the lower court which had sen- tenced the young man and his father to twenty years in the penitentiary. Pending the action of the supreme court Wednesday on the appeal Col. Cooper and his son were set at liberty on bonds of $25,000 each. According to the attorney general , the case will come up at the next term in May. Gov. Patterson , whose pardon of the elder Cooper almost immediately after the supreme court had affirmed the sentence of twenty years in the peni- tentiary caused a sensation , has re ceived about 150 telegrams from his friends indorsing the pardon. There is no ground for several sen- sational rumors that have gained CUP rency. SHORTAGE OF $63,480.65. . Discrepancies Found in Books of Late Kansas City Treasurer. Kansa's City , Mo. : That William J.- Baehr , formerly city treasurer of Kan- sas City , who died recently , was short in his acocunts $63,480.65 was reported to the mayor Friday by a firm of ac countants. The report says the dis crepancies found in the books date from April 20 , 1908. From April 28 , 1908 , to April 19 , 1909 , a shortage of $18,000 was carried. The repohrt says the $18,000 was re placed on the last named date to make . the books balance for the annual ex amination by the auditor. Baehr , the books show , had used $6,941 to pay his own tax bills. The report of the accountants says other employes in the city treasurer's office knew of the shortage , although they did not profit by it. One of the ex hibits in the investigation is Baehr's check for $200 which had been return- ed from a bank marked "insufficient funds. " This check , the report says , was carried on the books as cash. Woman Stricken at Prayer. Pittsburg , Pa. : As she . knelt in prayer while leading a large meeting of the United Brethren church in Wil- kinsburg , Mrs. Sarah Goudy , a widow , was fatally stricken with paralysis She died later. Miss Morgan to See Lindsey. Denver , % Colo. : Miss Anne Morgan . , daughter of J. Pierpont Morgan , has gone to Denver to meet Judge Ben B. Lindsey and study the juvenile court. . , ' : , - . . . . \ , - ' . - . . . . . , - a' - .1 - - - - - . . , . x , - ' . . - - - Nebraska News of Ihe In Concise NewsWeek " Form Week ® Stale t News EZSSB - LINCOLN GOES DRY. Enters Upon Second Year Without Ll- censeStudents Decide Issue. With the most perfect organization ever known in the city district or state , the "drys" won their contention at Lincoln Tuesday by a majority of 900 in a total vote of practically 10- 000. At every polling place business and professional men who thoroughly understood the election laws and armed with positive proof of what- ever they undertook , watched the vot- ing , and wherever they made achal- _ lenge they made it stick. From two to four automobiles were used in each ward , and so absolute a tab was kept that the checkers for the "drys" could at any time tell the number of wet and dry votes cast. There was no dis order and the police for the first time enforced every provision of the Aus- tralian voting law. The "wets" also had an effective organization. The size of the dry majority is credited largely to the university stu- dent vote which has been active in the canvass and maintained a perfect working organization. When E. S. Johns'on , a traveling man proposed to vote , claiming that he made his headquarters at one of the local hotels it was shown that he had a family living at Kansas City and he was told by Chief Malone that if he attempted to vote he would be thrown in jail. Johnson went to the polling place twice during the day but did not vote. . Several university students were challenged on the ground that they received a part of their support from home and were not residents of Lin- coln. The students swore in their votes and this may be made the basis for a contest. NEW AIXSWORTH CHURCH. Methodist House of Worship Dedicat- ed Free of Debt. Bishop John L. Uuelsen , of Omaha , dedicated the new Methodist Epis- copal church at Ainsworth on Sun- day. The bishop preached powerful sermons morning and evening , and Rev. J. B. Carnes , D. D. , superinten- dent of the Long Pine district , gave an address in the afternoon. There were fourteen baptisms-in the after- noon. Several united with the church. The sum of $2,200 was needed to meet all claims. Many were afraid that the money could not. be raised , but the way in which the bishop easily se- cured the funds was a surprise to many. The dedication service was held in the evening. The new church is valued at about $8,000. The audi- ence room is 30x50 feet. It has in- clined floor , circular assembly chairs , art glass windows and. a fine choir loft adjoining the pulpit. The as- sembly room is 20x30 feet. The ves- tibule is 10x10 feet. In the basement is a large dining room , a commodious kitchen. The whole church is to be lighted by electricity. This is one of the best churches in northwestern Nebraska. Rev. Vincent R. Beebe is now serving his second year as pas- tor. EQUAL TO EMERGENCY. When Prisoners Fire Jail , Orders Them to Work or Perish. Seizing an opportunity when Sher- iff Quinton was away and the depu- ty sheriffs were busy , prisoners in the Cass county jail at Plattsmouth , it is thought , set fire to their quarters , be- lieving the jailer's wife , Mrs. M. E. Manspeaker , would at once open the doors. Inste'ad the plucky woman stood at the bars and ordered the men to put out the fire or perish , which they did with dispatch. When the alarm she sounded brought the fire department there was no blaze. The sheriff was absent taking Ar- thur Brann , convicted of horse steal- ing , to the penitentiary at Lincoln. The deputy and jailer were in the country attending a sale. It is be- lieved that Fred Ossenkop , sentenced for ten years for murder , incited the prisoners to the revolt. Company F Disbands. . At a recent meeting of the members of Company F in Madison the com- pany decided to disband. This action was brought about on request of Ad- jutant General Hartigan and Major Charles Fraser of this city has noti- fied the officers at Lincoln of the action ,9f the company. Bitten by a Coyote. Lee Galloway of Beatrice was sever- ely bitten on the right hand by a pet coyote Sunday evening. Galloway was petting the animal when it suddenly sunk its teeth into his hand. John Forman , a youth 14 years old , who is charged with stealing a horse at Lincoln , Neb. , a week ago , was arrested at the farm house of _ Ed- ward Johnson , five miles northeast of Pickrell , Tuesday evening and lodged in jail. . Hospital Formally Opened The Mercy Sisters of Omaha have formally opened the hospital at Re- liance under the name of "The Mercy Hospital.1 , I ' .I . - - . . , < FIREMEN PREPARE FOR MEET. York Will Entertain Visitors in Bcs\ of Style in July. At a recent meeting of the York fire department the matter of the state tournament was discussed and the date was fixed for July 26 , 27 and 23 , It is ten years since what is acknowl- edged to be the best tournament ever held in the state of Nebraska came off in York. On that occasion the fire men and citizens united to make the affair a success and the event was been a standing advertisement for York through all these years. Less than three months are left in which to make preparations for tha event. so the firemen will soon be ac tively at work and they will have the hearty co-operation of the whole city. TJIE ADVENTISTS SPEAK UP. Adopt Resolutions Denouncing Liquor . . . Traffic. The Seventh-day Adventists of Lin- coln went on record Sunday night as ; against the open saloo"n at a meeting held at their church on Fifteenth and D streets. Resolutions adopted at the close of the meeting were as follows : "Whereas , The liquor traffic is a menace to the peace and welfare of the home , a burden to the state , a curse to the community , and is sap- . ping the moral foundation of society , therefore , be it "Resolved , That we hereby express ourselves as unutterably opposed to the liquor traffic , and in favor of mu- nicipal , state , national and world wide \ prohibition. " , . Nebraska Pioneer Dies. Major John T. Crofts of Omaha / , aged 96 years , a resident of Nebraska fifty years , and a veteran of three wars , died recently from an illness dating back to last February , at which time he contracted a cold while pres- ent at the laying of the cornerstone of the Douglas county court house at Omaha. He was born in Boston and was an intimate friend of Fletcher Webster , son of Daniel Webster. . Holdrege Man Dies in Alaska. Word has been received of the death of Ernest Peterson of Holdrege , far in the interior of Alaska on the 24th of February. The deceased had gone to Alaska in search of fortune , but could not endure the hardships of the Alas kan interior and died of rheumatism. The body was interred in the frozen earth a short distance from Valdez. Nebraska Land Sells Well. A record-breaking sale of Nance county land occurred last week at Fullerton , when a quarter section of land that was sold one year ago for $80 per acre , was again sold for $115 per acre. The land lies on the south side of the Loup river , about three miles from town , and was bought by George Fleece. Farmer Has Accident. H. C. Carman , a well known John. son county farmer , is suffering an in- jury. to his head. A small piece of gas pipe fell thirty feet from a tower and struck Mr. Carman on the head. At first it was feared he had been seri- ously injured. Big Price for Hog. Probably the highest price ever paid in Johnson county for an unpedigreed hog , bought for market , was one day last week when L. A. Hanks : , buyer at Cook , paid Sam Wilson , farmer and stockman , $69 for a single porker. The hog weighed 690 pounds. Narrow Escape From Death. Dr. Claude Watson , of Nebraska City , while riding in his automobile , had a narrow escape from being kill- ed. He lost control of his machine and it skidded , turned turtle , falling on him , breaking his left shoulder and bruising him badly. Will Make Tour of Europe. J. W. Wilson president of the Firs\ National bank at Polk , accompanied by his wife and son and Mrs. Calmar McCune of Stromsburg , will leave soon on a six weeks' trip through Europo and the British Isles. Cook for Blair Postmaster. Word has been received in Blah from Washington that Wesley J. Cook has been recommended for reappoint- ment as postmaster , and Mr. Cook is feeling on easy street. Suffers from Ptomine Poisoning. , Michael Curtin , a resident of Ster ling , suffered ptomine poisoning from eating canned corn. For a few hours he was in'a serious ccJhdition. A School of Instruction. A school of instruction . for the cen sus enumerators of Beatrice and Gage counties was held at Beatrice last week by Phillip H. Bross of Wahoo , census director for the Fourth district. Accused of Selling Beer. A complaint has been filed against W. C. Peterson of York : , who keeps : a restaurant in the north part of that city , charging him wth selling beeTr He was placed under $200 bonds. . t ' - -L , . , - - - ' - . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW I - - The regulation step of the British army is 120 to the minute. Salmon , pike and goldfish are said to be the only fish that never sleep. Peanut cake : seems to be supplanting cottonseed cake as the preferred food for Swedish cattle. Last year the geological ] survey fixed prices on 2,598,621 acres of public coal lands and classified . 10,857,572 acres as non-coal land. An all-rubber automobile wheel has been patented , rigid at the center and with the hardness lessening gradually until the circumference is reached. The Paris Gaulois says that a Brit- ish Catholic whose name is not stated has given the Pope $100,000 with which to establish a Bible Institution. Thero are twenty-one States in the Union whose combined business does not equal that < * f the New York post office , which is more than the post office business of Philadelphia and Chicago combined. It ia ! already : proposed , with the ap proval of the mayor , to re-establish the nickel-in-the-slot machine in the . - - - cigar stores of San Francisco and to restore the recently suspended privilege of smoking in street cars. The oil palm ] is , perhaps , the great- est commercial asset in West Africa. On the palm the African has long de pended for food , clothing'shelter , fur- niture , utensils , tools , weapons , orna- ments , medicines and intoxicating bev- eragos. On a ride of 1,250 miles ? at an aver- age of forty-four miles daily , a Rus- sian cavalry officer lost only six pounds in weight , while his horse- nearly twenty years old-lost forty- five pounds. One day eighty miles was covered. During the last . three years there has been a fairly steady increase in the quantity of natural gas used In this country for domestic purposes , a decrease in the quantity used for manufacturing purposes , and an in- crease in the average price. Here is a fish story of the 1910 crop published by the St. James' Budget : "While Mr. McRorie , an angler visit ing Loch Tay , was fishing in the Killin waters with two rods , two salmon took the baits simultaneously and both were secured. The salmon weighed seventeen pounds each. " Mrs. : Gabrielle Mulllner is reported to be the author of the proposed city ordinance requiring fire drills in small factories in New York. Mayor : Gay- nor Is said to have told the City Fed- eration of Women's dubs that if it would have an ordinance drawn up that would hold water he would use his influence to put It through. Mrs. Martha C. Taller has givea $25- 000 to the New York University to endow a free clinic in connection with Bellevue Hospital Medical College. This is the first gift received to the endowment of the free clinic , and it is hoped to increase the endowment to at least $100,000. The money given by Mrs. Taller is to establish a mem- orial to the late William H. Taller. "No one meets such various kinds of people as we do , " said a librarian. "You sae that little old man over there ? He is going through the en- cyclopedias , one volume at a time. He comes in every day and begins where he left off the day before. He has read through an entire set and is begin- ning another. Pretty dry .reading , some of it , one would say.-New York Sun. Sun.Who Who invented the postage stamp ? A writer in Chamber's Journal points out that the inventor of the "adhesive " Row- postage stamp" was undoubtedly - land Hill. In 1837 he proposed the use of "a bit of paper just large enough to bear the stamp , and covered at the back with a glutinous wash , which the buyer might , by the application of a little moisture , attach to the back of the letter. " Miss Mary Agnes Cunningham is the first woman to . be appointed a member of the school board of St. ' Paul , Minn. She has taught in the schools of St. Paul for twenty-five years and is the president of 'the ' Teachers' Federation. During a fight she conducted for teachers' pensions she saw a good deal of tho mayor , who was so impressed by her character and ability that he appointed her a member of the school board. Turkey's war minister has just or- dered forks for the convenience of soldiers in barracks. The fork did not appear In Europe as a common table implement until the seventeenth cen- tury , though as early as the thirteenth century ' gold and silver ones were made for special purposes. The ordi- nary diner was only provided with a trencher , a napkin and a spoon. For knife he used his own , which he car- ried about. There was no second trencher , no second spoon. When the several courses came along he exer- cised his ingenuity and mopped his trencher with his bread. From time to time various colonies of Jews have actually returned to the holy land. There are records of J ew- ish settlements there as early as 1170 and in the sixteenth century the city of Tiberias , "where only Jews were . to dwell , " was rebuilt. But it was not until comparatively : modern times that g I the founding regular colonies be gan , In 1878 the ideas of Laurence Oliphant and the Earl of Shaftesbury. . took definite shape in the purchase of seven hundred acres of land by the Jews of Jerusalem and the foundation of the colony of Petah Tikwah. After the Russian persecution of 1881 largo numbers of Jews emigrated and at the end of 1898 there were about five thpt\- sand Jewish colonists in Palestine. , .1 - " . : : - : SWOPE POISONING CASE OH. rf / , Kansas City Physician Accrued' 6 % . Killing the Millionaire. ; ; Dr. B. C. Hyde appeared In the Criminal Coutt at Kansas City to a Ii swer a charge of murdering Colonel , millionaire phi Thomas H. Swope , a lanthropist and uncle of the physJr clan's wife. Colonel Swipe died Oct. 2 last. His death certificate gave apop lexy as the cause of demise. Dr. Hyd was in attendance. The State avers the physician poisoned the millionaire by administering strychnine to him In. a capsule. . > The' motive for the alleged crkne wealth. , says the State , was to obtain . "By the terms of Colonel Swop : ' ; will i Mrs. Hyde was to receive a share In her uncle's property and some money. . ot Desiring to hasten the settlement the estate , and also to prevent thi > making of certain changes in the wll . I i the colonel had planned , Dr. Hyde , tht State will attempt to .prove , killed thi aged capitalist. I a The indictment on which Dr. Hy4- is being tried is for first-degree mu' , . fer. < Ten' other Indictments have beo * returned against the physician. _ On * . charges first-degree murder of C11r tlan Swope , a nephew of Colon , t Swope , by administering poison to him. An indictment for mansl.inga- ter was voted , accusing Dr. HyJe OS' negligently killing James Moss Hun- ; ton , a cousin of Colonel Swope , ' bj , - bleeding him. The eight reulining- ! indictments charge the physician wiu * attempting to poison Misses L1 : ' _ y Le < - Swope , Mildred Fox , Sarah Swope Georgia Compton , Nora Bell DSrkson ! , - Stella Swope , Margaret Swope and Leonora Copridge. All these peopl ; . were attacked by typhoid fever whea. it was prevalent In the Swope home. . and it is averred Dr. Hyde cause I thel , - illness. No indictment but one relat- ing to the death of Colonel Swcpe eai ters into the present case. / . . REHEARING IN TRUST CASES. ' New Arguments Ordered in Standard Oil and Tobacco Suits. I The Supreme Court of the United. States has reassigned for argument tbe. cases of the United States against the American Tobacco Company and till' . Standard Oil Company. The reargu- ment of these cases comes as the direct. . . result of the death of Justice Brewer. This noted jurist died just a few days- after the Standard Oil case had bee. argued. As Justice Moody , owing to- the fact that as Attorney General fit ; had directed the suits , was unable t participate in the consideration of" " ' these cases , only seven justices were- ' ' " left to give a decision. ' How the court was divided In re53-rct to the decision in these cases is still much a mystery as before the assign . . ment of the cases for reargument. I . Is believed , however , that the con was evenly divided or almost so , an . that it probably was loath to give : tt' , the country a decision which was not ? supported by a majority of a full court , Such a majority would be five mem- bers. f f The fact that the corporation taf cases were not set for reargument & & . . taken to -mean that a decision will $ 1 & announced In regard to the constltu- , / J' , tionality of the law authorizing It wf In a short time. / ' SAFE DT POSTOmCE BLOWS' . ' J Cracksmen Wreck Melrose Par3& c Station and Escape. Cracksmen wrecked the safe In thq Melrose Park (111. ( ) postoffice with dj namite at 3 a. m. the other day an escaped with $500 In currency an $200 worth of postage stamps. Th * . terrific explosion shook the building shattered windows and tore away part of the flooring. The entire villa & was aroused and thrown into excite - ment. The safe-blowers escaped by/ boarding an out-bound freight train OBU . the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad. The Chicago police were asked td > search for the robbers and several de- . . . - tectives were hurried to the Westers' . suburb. The cracksmep : are believed , to be Chicago crooks. NO TRACE OF COOK FOUND. Fairbanks Expedition Gains Summit . of Tallest Peak in North America. The Fairbanks expedition to Moun McKInley , the tallest peak in Nort . America , reached the summit April- . . after a climb of one month from thfr- i base , it Is announced. No traces ox ' Dr. Frederick A. Cook's alleged ac cent were found. The expedition , . ; C which left Fairbanks , Alaska , Dec. 1. while the controversy over Dr. Cook' : E disputed ascent was still raging , wa $ > i financed by August Peterson and W11.- . llam McPhee. . . WOMAN 1qT.T oS BABIES. 1 1i i ; 2O-Year-Old Mother Slays Her Twd , . Children in Ohio. "The spirits kept bothering me , " IE > the only explanation offered by Mrs.- Rosa Marquardt , 20 years old , of Ak- < ron , Ohio , who killed her 2-year-old. daughter with a club and so seriously- i injured her 1-year-old baby that the zhild's death Is expected. The woman was committed to the Massillon State * Hospital. , t Heavy Fire L.OSS at GoldHeld. The 850-ton mill of the Goldfieid r Consolidated Mines Company was dam- r aged by fire to the extent of $250,000 ) Boldfield , Nev. After an explosion in ; the refinery , where more than half a , . 1' million dollars in bullion was stacked. G , for shipment , the fire spread to a huge conveyor that carried flames to th- sampling department and stamp bat teries. )1 ) , jt j . 1 . - . . .S ' . . : . i ' . ' _ - . . . - - - - 7 w