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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XIV, No. 35. CITY NEWS. Mr. B. If you have relatives or friends visit the city or going to make a visit, please inform us; we solicit all your local news—Ed.1. Mrs. King of Highland Park is quite this week. Mr. Clay Lewis of Nineteenth and carpenter, was drawn as one of the servmen last week. SPECIAL—Word was received from Clinton that Rev. S. L. Birt's wife died Thursday. Mrs. Birt was formerly Miss Wright, of Marshalltown. Rev. W. S. Brooks who has been very sick which is improved at this writing, which is good news to his many friends. Born to Mr. and Mrs. John L. Thompson a 9 pound baby boy, last Monday in 27. Both mother and son doing well. Mrs. J. Robinson has been sick, does not improve as rapidly as her friends would like to see her improve, while not confined to her bed she is still poorly. Mr. Chas. Roy has been employed as assistant for the Harris-Emmery department store. The other young man, Mr. Martin is not able to stand theposer considering his ill health. Mr. Adam Dixon of Day street entrained at supper Wednesday the ter. Williams of Canada, Miss Winnie Hair, Mrs. W. H. Brooks and Mrs. J. H. Dowell. Mr. Jack Ford, formerly a Des Moines man, but now of Nevada, was called to our city on account of the arrows illness of his sister, Mrs. Jane Ford. He will return to Nevada this week. Mr. H. H. Lewis who has been in Colorado for the past eight or nine months, returned home last week locking well. All we glad to welcome her here. The Alpha club met on last Friday evening with Mr. Oscar L Glass at his home on Ninth街. All of the reside members were present. After the occasion of regular business and the addition of a program which consisted speeches on the different phases of man progress, the club adjourned. The Callanan Industrial club met at the home of Mrs. Shackelford. The meeting was called to order by the president, Mrs. E. B. Elliston. On account of the death of one of the awardress the Mother's Meeting was suspended until next Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Adam Dixon, 13th and 14th streets. The Intellectual Improvement club met Friday, Jan. 24, with Mrs. Chas. Cousins. The Affinity, was the subject or discussion and was condemned by the election of officers was held and resulted as follows: Miss Martha Lefter, President; Mrs. J. R. Erickson, Ice President; Mrs. James H. Woods, Secretary; Miss Tabitha Mash, Asa't. Secretary; Mrs. Chas. Cousins, Treasurer; Mrs. H. W. Hughes, Instructor, executive committee, Mrs. S. Joe Brown, Mrs. David Basfield and Misman Brown The club adjourned to meet the following Friday with Mrs. S. Joe Brown with the following program: Address by the president; piano recitation by Mrs. Hughes; a reading by J. R. Erickson. home of the musical talent of the day on Monday night at the home of H. and Mrs. E. B. Elliston and perished the organization of the McCowell Concert Orchestra, and elected in following officers: J. H. McDowell director; J. F. Bass, Asst' Director; L. Madaire, Leader of the Dance Orchestra; E. B. Elliston, Treasurer; A. Miller, Secretary; L. Shelton, Chairman of Business committee. The orchestra has a membership of fourteen an are now open for engagements. We received word that Mr. I. E. Williamson, formerly of this city but now in Washington, D. C., has been appointed a clerk in the United States biological Survey department; he has taken the civil service examination and appointed and began work at once. We congratulate Mr. Williamson as he is deserving and a representative race man. Dr. E. A. LEE DENTIST. Dinth and Park Sts. Seamless Gold Crowns. Bridges and Plate work a Specialty. EXAMINATIONS FREE. One of the grandest and largest attended celebrations ever given in the city, was held last Monday evening in the auditorium Batist church, given under the auspices of Mrs. I. M. Jones and Mrs Brown celebrating the event. Rev, T. L. Griffith's seventh anniversary as pastor of the church. Rev. Griffith has done great and noble work while in the city, the appreciation of which was shown by the immense crowd present. The following program was rendered: Invocation ..... Rev. T. L. Griffith Instrumental Solo.. Miss Delza Goggins Bass Solo ..... Mr. Oliver Rivers Solo ..... Mrs. Hessey Jennie Stanton Solo.....Mr. Oscar Watts Pipe Organ Solo...Mrs. Eugene Cutler Organist First Baptist church Remarks..... Hon. Harvy Ingham Editor Register and Leader. Solo..... Mr. Hearmansh Member of First Baptist choir. Solo..... Mrs. E. B. Elliston At the meeting of the board of directors of the Negro Republican club of Polk County Tuesday evening the following committee chairmen were appointed for the ensuing year: On Finance, Rev. H. McCraven; on Membership, Chas, Cousin, on City Affairs, Jesse Graves; on Hall, E. T. Banks; on County Affairs, C. F. Topson; on State Affairs, W. H. Humburd; on National Affairs, Rev. W. S. Brooks; on Printing, Gso. H. Mason and on Library, Elbert R. Hall. Several new names were added to the membership list and resolutions were adopted denouncing the alleged declaration of Mr. Ben Parker, ex-saloon man, to the effect that all the colored men of Des Moines were going to support his candidacy for mayor. It was also decided to hold an open meeting of the club Thursday evening, Feb. 20, to which all candidates for nomination at the city primary will be invited to come and address the club. GOOD FOR BUXTON Rev. A. L. DeMond and Rev. M. D. Willis were greeted with applause as they presented their contribution of $10, from the Christian Worker's Alliance of Buxton, to the State Temperance Convention in Plymouth Congregational church. These men were sent as delegates from the Alliance in Buxton to represent the people of that city who are in favor of temperance, and who desire to co-operate with the other temperance people of Iowa in driving the saloons out of the state as they have driven them out of Buxton. DEAD. Mrs. John Waller, formerly Mrs. Morris, died at her home on East Second and Walnut street last Sunday at 10 o'clock of heart trouble and dropsy. She was about 45 years old and is survived by one daughter, Miss Delpha Norris. The funeral was held last Monday at the A. M. E. church, preached by Rev. T. L. Griffith of Corinthian Baptist church. The remains were lad to rest in Woodland cemetery. Quite a few friends attended the funeral. She was a good woman, a church member and an earnest worker. 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There is no danger from it, and relief is always sure to follow. It is intended especially for coughs, colds, croup and whooping cough, and there is no better medicine in the world for these diseases. It is not only a certain cure for croup, but, when given as soon as the croupy appears, will prevent the attack. Whooping cough is not dangerous when this remedy is given as directed. It contains no opium or other harmful drugs, and may be given as confidently to a baby as to an adult. For sale by all drnggist. Down to Common Things. Hitch your wagon to a star, but when your auto quits seven miles from anywhere it is better to arrange for some commonplace motive power. Puck. DES MOINES IOWA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1908. Washington Special At last the 60th congress has its equilibrium and 60th commissure its session. By no means has this been an easy task for Speaker Cannon; no one but a thoughtful and level-headed man could have been able to set the machinery of the 60th congress to work without friction. The climax of prosperity has been reached by the country, which makes men of all classes feel high spirited; so much so that they are ready to enter into experiments of all kinds. Since the house of representatives is the art gallery or experimental ground, the speaker had to guard well every avenue against entering into these experiments that might clog the wheel of prosperity, and set the nation to wonder. Speaker Cannon has guarded well, by placing good and thoughtful men in positions on committees that will do much in shaping the work of the 60th congress. I want to give the readers of Iowa an idea of how well the speaker has placed these men, by showing them how the great state of Iowa has been placed on committees. I want to say, too, that no state in the union has a stronger hold upon legislation than does this state ( Iowa ), for the reason of the long service of its members, and the experience they have. The Iowa members you will find are placed on all the strong committees, as follows: First district, Charles A. Kennedy, mileage, pensions, coinage, weights and measures, levees and improvements of the Mississippi river. Second district, Albert F. Dawson, naval affairs, Pacific railroads, reform in service. Third district, Benjamin P. Bird rivers and railways and canals. Fourth district, Gilbert N. Haugen (chairman), expenditures in interior department, agriculture, war claims. Fifth district, Robert G. Cousins, (chairman), foreign afairs. Sixth district, Daniel W. Hamilton, mines and mining, public lands. Seventh district, John A. T. Hull (chairman), military affairs, mililia. Eighth district, William P. Hepburn (chairman), interstate and foreign commerce. Ninth district, Walter I. Smith, appropriations. Tenth district, James P. Connor, labor, library, public buildings and grounds. Eleventh district, Elbert H. Hubbard, insular affairs, revision of laws, expenditures in department of justice. The committee on military affairs of the house have before them many measures of national importance. They are called upon to appropriate between eighty and ninety million dollars for the support of the army and for military posts; also for army transports, and all other affairs relating to the army. The committee will be one of the first committees to make its report to the house. A very important matter is now before this committee, that of paying the men of the army an increase in their salaries. There are but few Americans that would not consider the men of the army poorly paid at the rate of thirteen dollars per month. In my opinion this bill will pass, for Mr. Hull's tact in preparing his bills and bringing them upon the floor stand second to none; hence these bills are seldom turned down by the house. The house being a committee of the whole house on the state of the union, to lay down and amend the penal law of the United States. Mr. Bartlett of Georgia offered a resolution to strike out the three last amendments of the constitution known as the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. Mr. Hepburn of Iowa, who is a lawyer, a counselor and one of the greatest debaters upon the floor of the house, offered his rebultal in the following language: Mr. Hepburn—Mr. Chairman; I am very sorry that gentlemen on that side have precipitated this debate. There was no necessity for it. Gentlemen, there is no enactment of law proposed here. We are dealing simply with a codification of existing laws. Why gentlemen should have seen fit to precipitate this kind of debate upon us at this time is something that I cannot understand. This is a section that only seeks to preserve the right of the citizen—no more; the right of a citizen who has every qualification fixed by the law for certain duties and certain obligations to perform these duties and obligations. That is all that it is the pose of this statute. It is strange that this opposition should come from the office of democracy—that democracy that they have told us over and again has for its primary purpose the securment of "equal rights for all; special privileges for none." That is democratic doctrine, you tell us. How many times have you rung the changes on that proposition in your national platform? How many times have you garnished your speeches with this declaration over and over repeated, to protect the rights of all—all American citizens? That is what this section proposes to do. Some gentleman says he wants bygones this debate if that is what the want? Does he have the spirit that knowledge this legislation the thirty years ago is now dead, there is no more of it, and therefore no necessity for the legislation? That is what true is. I am reminded of a gentleman in this house who is fit to adorn the senate of the United States, who is the peer of any man who has sat in that body during the last fifty years, a man of popularity in his state, a man of infinite worth, who in a contest that he had last summer, only triumphed by a few hundred votes, and that over a man who made his campaign, if the newspapers correctly reported him, upon the proposition of repealing the last three constitutional amendments and taking from a large class of citizens at of the rights of their公民 at upon a platform in the kind that gentlemans within a few votes of defending this man so pre-eminently qualified to adorn the senate of the United States (Applause on the republican side). I tell you, gentlemen, that so long as the spirit lives I want the letter of the law to live. (Renewed applause.) As long as that kind of sentiment finds popularity in the south, I want these statutes that were necessary at the time of their enactment to remain upon the books, and I am sorry that you gentlemen have precipitated this dispute. (Loud applause on the republican side.) I want to call the attention of the gentleman from Mississippi (narr. Williams) to the language of its statute: No citizen possessing all other qualifications which are or may be prescribed by law shall be disqualified for service as grand or petit juror in any court of the United States, or of any statute of color, color or previous condition of servitude. That statute was enacted thirty-odd years ago. It has been on the statute books during all of those years; on the statute books at a time when contention was rife over the question of the rights of the colored men in the south. Has there been any denunciation of that section by the supreme court of the United States? Has there been a question raised such as the gentleman raises now of its unconstitutionality? If not, assume that his argument upon this question of the right of this congress to indulge in this legislation ought not to have much weight. T. E. B. Bystander office: located over 201 Seventh street; [Name] M. B. REV. ABRAHAM LINCOLN DEMOND. Rev. DeMond, the pastor of the First Congrega- tion of Buxton and editor of the Buxton Gazette, atten- ture temperance convention in Des Moines this week. H the Buxton Christian Worker's Alliance. He has be- ber of years an earnest temperance worker. Two when a student at Cortland, N. Y., he was awarded the best temperance oration given at a celebration at the only, colored speaker. In the pulpit, from the through the columns of the Buxton Gazette Rev. DeM vocated moral reform and the highest interest of his DeMond, his wife, is a cultured christian woman who splendid service in church, school and temperance refo Des Moines Marketing Place McQUAID CO Rev. DeMond, the pastor of the First Congregational church of Buxton and editor of the Buxton Gazette, attended the state temperance convention in Des Moines this week. He represented the Buxton Christian Worker's Alliance. He has been for a number of years an earnest temperance worker. Twenty years ago when a student at Cortland, N. Y., he was awarded the prize for the best temperance oration given at a celebration at which he was the only, colored speaker. In the pulpit, from the platform and through the columns of the Buxton Gazette Rev. DeMond has advocated moral reform and the highest interest of his people. 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It gotten gains seldom 1930 The First Congregational church Buxton Gazette, attended the state lines this week. He represented iance. He has been for a num- nance worker. Twenty years ago he was awarded the prize for at a celebration at which he was pulpit, from the platform and in Gazette Rev. DeMond has ad- estest interest of his people. Mrs. Christian woman who has rendered and temperance reform. Marketing Place ID CO., With Street. 25c size Burnham's Clam Chow- der .....22c 10c size Burnham's Clam Chow- der .....8c Burnham's Hasty Jelly-con. 3 Joe packages .....22c 25c Snyder Salad Dressing 25c Columbia Salad Premium 2 for 35c SANITARY MARKET All varieties "No. 100" Spices. sifter top cans, each ... 10c 8 lbs. Hutter coffee ... 10c 8 lbs. Special Leader coffee ... 10c 4 lbs. Perfection coffee ... 10c 8 lbs. "No. 100" coffee ... $1 $5.00 CERTIFICATES WITH $1.00 PURCHASE IN TEA OR COFFEE DEPARTMENT. All varieties Perfection Tea, lb 45c All varieties No 100 Tea, lb 60c Tea Dust, lb 40c Tea Dust, package, pound, 12/2c Gallon Blackberries, 53c Gallon Tomatoes, 35c Gallon Pumpkin, "4c profit much; evil associates and whisky will ruin any man. It is a shame to see some of our young men and girls going crazy after the minstrel shows and the sporting business, neither ought to receive our approval. HARSH FOR COMMISSIONER We are glad to announce to the 900 colored voters one of the rising young business men of the city in the person of W. F. Harsh, now the junior member of the city board of public works Mr. Harsh was for years connected with the large implement house of Gaar, Scott & Co., on East Fourth street. He was for eleven years connected with the C. Aultman company of Ganton, Ohio, and for seven years connected with the schools in New Berlin, Ohio. He is a member of the Commercial club and was for some time president of the Implement Dealers' association. He says: "I believe in keeping within the city income, and if elected will do all in my power to decrease the city's debt." Friends of Mr. Harsh believe that his experience and business ability will under the new laws if elected, and that he has scores of friends among the business men as is evidenced by the flood of over two hundred letters from prominent men, urging the mayor to appoint him to his present position. A. K. STEWART FOR COMMIS SIONER It is with pleasure we announce the name of Mr. A. K. Stewart, a lawyer of East Des Moines, for one of the commissioners. He is a self-made man and one of the best men in East Des Moines to assist in making the new plan work. He has lived in our city for 25 years and has always worked for its success, but has never asked or held any office. He has the requisite knowledge, experience and ability, and if chosen as one of the new councilmen he will prove himself to be the right man in the right place. He has for years been identified with East Des Moines and while fair and liberal with all portions of the city, he will see to it that his people are fairly and justly treated every time—and this is all they ask of the city." Following is his announcement: To the Citizens of Des Moines: TO the Citizens of Des Moines: be a candidate for the office of one of the four commissioners or councilmen to be elected at the coming city election. "The whole body of voters will make these nominations, and on them are placed the duty of selection. If proper men are selected, I believe that the new system of government will give more efficient service at less or no greater cost than under existing conditions. Every legal voter is a stockholder, with one share of stock, in this business corporation, and it is his duty to vote that share of stock in person, for no proxies are recognized. The opportunity of Des Moines can hardly be realized. The eyes of the whole country are upon us to see if we can make good. "If I shall be elected it will be my single purpose to so conduct the affairs of the office as to give an efficient business administration, not niggarly, not extravagantly, but that the people shall have full value received the taxes collected and expended. Six years' experience on a Des Moines school board convinces me that this can be done. "It is my hope and belief that under the Des Moines plan "that government of the people, by the people and for the people can be established and maintained in our cities, efficiently, honestly and economically, and that Des Moines can furnish an object lesson to our sisters cities now looking toward us for an example of business municipal government. A. K. Stewart." HAPPENINGS AROUND CLINTON Frank Smith, who has been an efficient employee of J. H. Nancock, left for his home in Detroit last week, where he will remain indefinitely. Rev. and Mrs. Birt had the sad misfortune to lose their two-day old baby last week. They have the sympathy of their many friends in their bereavement. number of our people are troubled with the lilies of winter. Rev. A. J. Johnson of Dubuque conducted the meetings at the A. M. E. church last week. A hard times social will be given by the Y. P. S. C. E. of Bethel A. M. E. church Friday night. Supper will be served at 6:30. Miss Carrie Hayes of Detroit is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. J. N. Hancock. Mrs. Wright of Marshalltown is in the city, called here on account of the illness of her daughter, Mrs. S. L. Birt. Once more we ask Bystander delinquents to call and settle their obligations. Grand Master W. H. Milligan of Cedar Rapids was in Clinton last week on the visit of Inspection on the Masonelle lodges. On Thursday night he was the guest of Clinton lodge. At the conclusion of business all repaired to the home of H. G. Williams, where a social evening was spent. While in the city the grand master was the guest of M. O. Culberson. You Have Been Waiting for This. Trv Barton's Creole Face Cream and Bleach 50 cents postpaid. Lady agents wanted. Liberal terms. Free premiums. The Barton Toilet Goods Co., St Joseph, Michigan. Forgetting an Injury. Church—I like to see a man who can forget an injury. Gotham—Well, there's that neighbor of mine; he suing the railroad company for an injured leg, and every once and a while he forks to Imm. ```markdown ``` ALBIA NEWS. The Sewing Circle club met at the hine of Mrs Henry Jones on Monday. The Normal class met with Miss May Davis last week and with Mrs. Nellis Esters this week. Mrs G. A. Davis entertained at dinner Sunday Miss Francis Parker and Mrs. Bessie Grayson. Mr. John Ages is in Albia again. Miss Henrietta Jones spent a part of her vacation in Chicago with her sister Mrs. Maggie Nelson. There was an explosion of a car of dynamite in Rocking Friday night, which burned the store, restaurant, and shook all the window lights out of the houses. GALESBURG NEWS Mrs. Corinne Brown of Chicago spent Sunday in Galesburg visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Solomon and other relatives. The Missa Pate edtrained at dinner Sunday. Invitations have been issued announcing the wedding of Mrs. Mary Luons and Mr. Park Rhodes, to take place at the residence of Mrs. Lyons Thursday Jan. 30. Mr. C Bolder is suffering from an attack of lung fever. The Allen Chapel held their quarterly meeting Sunday. Owing to the absence of Presiding Elder H. H. Thompson, who is ill in Chicago, an interesting sermon was preached by Rev. Sandy McDowell of Monmouth. Mr. Henry Wells is improving after a serious spell of sickness. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Ousley entertained a number of young people at their home Friday evening. A musical was given during the evening by those present. Miss Mattie Mason and brother delightfully entertained a number of young people at their home Friday evening. Miss Beatrice McGill is confined to her home by sickness. Mrs. John Johnson died Saturday morning, Jan. 18, at her home on S. Cedar street, after an illness of several months. Mrs. Johnson left surviving her a son, Andrew B. Johnson and a sister Mrs. Fleming. The funeral services were preached Monday afternoon at the home by Rev. Moore, pastor of the A. M. E. church, assisted by Rev. N. Alexander. Mr Chas. Fletcher is suffering from an attack of la g. ippe. The Misses Little and Holly of Monmouth have returned home after a visit here with Mrs S. Holley. Mrs. John Logan is on the sick list. Why Suffer from Rheumatism? Do you know that rheumatic pains can be relieved? If you doubt this just try one application of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. It will make rest and sleep possible and that certainly means a great deal to ane afflicted with rheumatism. For sale by all drug-gist. SIOUX CITY, IOWA In the home of her sister, Mrs. Rev. Knight, 600 West Sevenen street, Mrs. Myrtle Taylor, enttained at 7 o'clock dinner Rev. Dr. Reid and wife, Rev. Newman and wife, Mrs. Abe Cason and wife, Dr. W. Norris and wife, Mr. Crawford, and W. P. Shields. The dining room was abloom with a profusion of pink roses and carnation. Menu: Cream tomato soup, celery, dainty flakes, baked balibut, holiday sauce, flakes, goose, oyster dressing, cream corn, puffed potatoes, cranberry sauce, hot rolls, coffee, french salad, baked house rolls, olives, black coffee, ice cream, cake, bananas, bonbons, oranges. A Dog's Opinion of Boston Dialect. "An intelligent looking dog," said the visitor from Boston. "Oh, he is," exclaimed Fido's owner. "He knows every visitor you say." Then said the visitor from Boston: "My canine friend, I am exceedingly interested in the hypothesis that has been presented to me to the effect that your understanding of human speech is perfect, and in order to test this matter I wish that you would be good enough to bark three times in rapid succession as an indication that your comprehension of my request is in all ways clear and lucid." "And did he bark?" said I to Teagarden, who was telling me the story. "No," said Teagarden, "but he growled like —" His Discovery. Cholly—You remember I told you yesterday that Miss Perkyn told me the night before that she would marry me. Jack—Yes, Cholly—Well, I happened to think this morning that she said that she would marry me on the thirty-first of September, so I looked up the calendar to see what day of the week it would be, and, do you know, September has only 26 days! A Strong Appeal. Almost modern is the Persian story of the man whose disagreeable voice in reciting his prayers in the mosque was annoying to everyone. One day some one asked him how much he was paid for reciting. "Faid!" he replied. "I am not paid. I recite for the sake of Allah!" "Then," replied the other, "for Allah's sake don't!" DAMAGE OF $1,700,000 IN CHICAGO CONFLAGRATION. Several Large Concerns Burned Out— Morris & Co. Sustain $500,000 Loss in Kansas City. Chicago — Fire in the loop district of Chicago Tuesday evening did about $1,700,000 damage and interrupted transportation for hours. The flames broke out in the wall paper house of Alfred Peats & Co., on Wabash avenue between Madison and Monroe streets, and in a short time the entire building was like a furnace. The fire quickly jumped a narrow alley in the rear and attacked the big wholesale millinery establishment of Edson Keith & Co. at 132 Michigan avenue. The four upper floors of the Keith building were gutted and only by hard work were several other buildings. Meanwhile on Wabash avenue the conflagration spread south to the building occupied by John A. Colby & Sons, furniture, and that firm and a dozen others sustained heavy losses. The fire lasted all night and was one of the most disastrous in this city since 1874. Kansas City, Mo.-Fire of unknown origin which started in the canning department on the second floor of one of the twin main buildings of the $27,000,000 packing plant of Nelson Morris & Co. on the Kaw river in Kansas City, Kan., Tuesday night, threatened destruction of the entire plant and caused loss estimated at half a million dollars before it was controlled. All effort to save the east main building, in which the fire started, and the box factory was abandoned within a half hour after the flames were discovered, and the firemen devoted themselves to the work of saving the other buildings. San Luis Obispo, Cal.-Fire, which was burned Monday afternoon in an oil tank belonging to the Union Oil company at Port Harford by a stroke of lightning, burned all night and until late Tuesday afternoon, consuming, with their contents, the tank which was first set on fire and three others belonging to the Standard Oil company. GLADYS NOW A COUNTESS. Daughter of Mrs. Cornellius Vanderbilt Weds Hungarian Nobleman. New York.—The wedding of Miss Gladys Moore - Vanderbilt, daughter of Mrs. Cornellius Vanderbilt, to Count Laszlo Szechenny, member of the Hungarian nobility, lieutenant of Hussars and hereditary member of the Austro-Hungarian parliament, took place at the Fifth avenue home of the bride's mother soon after noon Monday. The ceremony was performed in the presence of about 350 guests in the salon on the Fifth avenue side of the Vanderbilt residence. Miss Vanderbilt was accompanied to the altar by her elder brother, Cornelius Vandervilt, and the count was accompanied by his brother. The wedding ceremony was performed by Monsig, M. J. Lavelle, rector of St. Patrick's cathedral, wearing purple silk vestments and lace cope. He was assisted by Rev. John J. Byrne. The wedding chorus from Gaul's cantata "Ruth" was sang by 30 boys of the St. Patrick's chapel. Immediately after the wedding breakfast the count and countess departed upon their honeymoon trip, eluding by clever strategy the throng of people that pressed about the Vanderbilt mansion eager to catch even a fleeting glimpse of the bridal couple. Measure Indored by Bankers Introduced in Congress. Washington. — A currency bill was introduced in the senate Monday by Senator Hopkins and in Illinois which bears the indorsement of the currency commission appointed by the American Bankers' association and of the executive council of the Illinois Bankers' association. The bill is the result of the hearings and subsequent deliberations of the commission which was appointed by the senate. The commission is composed of 15 of the most prominent bankers of the United States and they are from all sections of the country. Gen. Benjamin B. Cowen Dies Gen. Benjamin R. Cowen Dies. Cincinnati—Gen. Benjamin R. Cowen, for over 23 years clerk of the United States circuit and district courts for the southern district of Ohio, died Wednesday afternoon at 5:30 in his seventy-seventh year. He served through the war and during the administration of President Grant he was assistant secretary of the interior. In 1882 he became editor of the Ohio State Journal, which place he retained until appointed clerk of the federal courts. For many years he was a member of the Republican national committee. Alward a Congressional Candidate, Washington—Dennis E. Alward, for the 12 years reading clerk of the house of representatives, Wednesday announced his candidacy for election to congress in the Eleventh Michigan district. Lovers Kill Each Other. Pittsburgh, Pa.—A lovers' quarrel at Ambridge, a new town established by the American Bridge company 17 miles northwest of here. Tuesday night ended in the death of both man and woman, each inflicting a fatal wound upon the other. Cardinal Richard Dies. Paris—Francois Marie Benjamin Richard, cardinal and archbishop of Paris, died here Tuesday of congestion of the lungs after a short illness. He was born in 1819. A Mies Gladya Vanderbilt Who Was Married to Count Lazlo Szechenyu of Hungary in New York City the Other Day. ANOTHER MORSE, BANK SHUT NEW AMSTERDAM NATIONAL IS CLOSED BY COMPTROLLER. President Klnman Baye Depositors Will Lose Nothing and Stockholders Will Get Dividend. New York—The New Amsterdam National bank, capitalized at $1,000, 000 and situated at Broadway and Thirty-ninth street, was closed by the order of the comptroller of the currency Wednesday night and National Bank Examiner Charles A. Hanna was placed in charge. The institution's liabilities are placed at $4,520,016, of which $2,065, 242 are due payers. The bank's officers assert that not only will every depositor be paid in full, but the stock- holders will receive a substantial dividend. The New Amsterdam National was formerly one of the chief links in the chain of banks established by Charles W. Morse, President Frank W. Kinsman, Jr., declared, in a statement issued Wednesday night, that "the closing of the National Bank of North America, attracting renewed attention to the interests which had previously dominated both institutions in their past administrations, started fresh reports of an exaggeration of the bank's access to the Huidation of the bank." The institution occupied quarters in the Metropolitan Opera house, in the heart of the uptown theatrical district and numbered among its clientele many of those prominent on the stage. About a year ago the New Amsterdam underwent a reorganization because of a failing off in its business and Frank W. Kinsman, Jr., was elected president. Every effort was made to rehabilitate the institution. The recent panic was not without reason, as the storm and succeeded in reducing its clearing house certificates from $1,705,000 to $200,000. President D. A. Sullivan of the Mechanics' and Traders' bank announced shortly after midnight Wednesday night that the institution would not open its doors Thursday. This decision was reached at a meeting of the board of directors lasting four hours. In a statement issued after the meeting the directors declared the bank solvent, but the state of the cash resources made it appear inadvisable for the bank to continue business. Gov. Hughes Indorsed. New York—Gov. Hughes was strongly indorsed for the Republican nomination for the presidency and the administration of President Roosevelt was commended in a resolution unanimously adopted by the Republican county committee at a meeting in the Murray Hill Lyceum Wednesday night. The resolution further favored an instructed delegation to the Chicago convention from this state for Gov. Hughes. Bank Cashier a Suicide. Appleton, Wils.—A. L. Sloss, cashier of the First National bank of Appleton committed suicide by blowing out his brains with a shotgun. No reason is known for his action, but it is believed that he was demented. Marines Drowned at San Juan. San Juan, Porto Rico.—A sail boat with a party of 12 marines on a pleasure trip was capsized off Morro castle Monday. Two of the party, Phillip Nunez and Clarence Merritt, were drowned. Oulda Dies of Old Age. Rome—Miss Louise de la Rame, better known by her pen name of Ouida, died Friday night in the home of her faithful mollin, Iola Cervelli, near Florence. Her death was due to old age, but it had been hastened by the privations which the novelist was forced to undergo since the disappearance of the fortune her writings brought her. No friends were near when the end came, the only person in the miserable but which served as the writer's home during the last two years being the old servant woman. GRAFT HINTS IN HORROR. Boyertown Theater Fire May Result in Prosecution. Boyertown, Pa. — Suggestions of graft and admissions of neglect, which it is intimated, may result in prosecutions, marked the opening session of the Inquest here Tuesday in the horror at Rhoades opera house on January 13, when 169 persons lost their lives. It was brought out that the main exit to the hall was locked by the box-office and that the stairway and the point of exit and entrance was but three feet one inch in width, and that Harry Fisher, the operator of the stereoptic apparatus, had received the instructions in the methods of handling the calcium light and that he operated the machine in public for the first time on that fatal night. In addition to this, Dr. Thomas A. Rhodes, the owner of the building, declared that the building had been inspected and passed by a state factory inspector after he "had given a contract for fire escapes to a Reading man." He added, in reply to a point he made, that he did not blame Dunn, that the factory inspector told him whom he should buy his fire escapes from, that he placed the order with the Reading contractor and that the inspector passed the building. The lesse of the opera house, E. C. Mauger of Pottestown, who admitted he did not know the location of the fire escapes on the building, said that he had been told by the inspector, but had been told his name was Bechtel. MILK WAR IN WISCONSIN. Waukesha County Farmers Threat end in Anonymous Posters. Milwaukee. — Farmers of Waukesha county are threatened with treatment similar to that given out by the night riders of Kentucky if they do not refuse to sell milk to Milwaukee dealers at the recent alleged low rate. "If you sell another can of milk to Milwaukee we will blow up your place the first good chance. Beware, WE MEAN BUSINESS." This is the threat, written so as to distract the identity of the writer, being posted all over the Waukesha milk producing district in the war to make Milwaukee dealers pay an advance of ten cents per eight-gallon can. A number of them have written letters to the dealers in Milwaukee, expressing their fear of personal injury if they ship milk. Marshal Halstead Is Dead. Cincinnati—Marshal Halstead, former United States consul at Birmingham, England, died at nine o'clock Wednesday night at the German Deaconess hospital here, following an operation for appendicitis. The deaconess was a well-known journalist and author. He was 45 years of age. Milbrath Guildy of Embarzlement Milwaukee Gulty or Embroiderment. Milwaukee...The jury in the embellishment case against C. W. Milwaukee in a verdict of guilty Monday night. The Milwaukee company, a large operator in real estate, failed in 1965 with $100 in cash assets and $75,000 liabilities. Pioneer Catholic Priest Dead. Wahasha, Mimv...Rem. P. B. Murray, a pioneer Catholic priest, died in St. Elizabeth's hospital in this city Wednesday evening at the age of 85. He came from Ireland in 1845. Give Site for Frisco Cathedral. San Francisco—At the fifty-eightth convention of the Episcopal diocese of California Tuesday, William H. Crocker, in behalf of the Crocker heirs, presented to the church the block on Nob hill, bounded by California, Sacramento, Mason and Jones streets, Jones street, Crocker mansion, where a splendid cathedral is erected. Bishop Nichols received the deeds in the name of the church. A. N. Drown appeared at the same time and presented a deed of gift of $50,000, the first cathedral endowment. JEROME WAS MILD SURPRISES COURT WITH ABAN- DONEMENT OF USUAL TACTICS. WHITE WRONGED EVELYN He insists that Thaw, Himself, Was Sane When He Planned Murder of Stanford White. New York, Jan. 31.—William Travers Jerome, representative of the people, made a master plea in the case of Harry Kendall Thaw. Vindictiveness sneers, inwarnings, all were lacking; logic, analysis and a calm consideration of facts were their substitute. It was no blind appeal for the vengeance of law that Mr. Jerome addressed in the letter. "I always there was the note of firmness, fairness and even, at times, of mercy. The year that has elapsed since the first trial had wrought a wonderful and startling change in the prosecution of the name Stanford White, he accepted the story told by Evelyn Neshtaw as true, all but the drugging, and he made frank confession to the jury that the velvet swings and mirrored rooms of the studio house deserved and were indeed a miserable reality. No longer attacking Evelyn Thaw as a skilled adventurer, Mr. Jerome pleaded for the girl, because she never had had a chance for any of her friends, and she had life. The climax came, however, when Mr. Jerome denounced both Thaw and White in one breath and classed them as "two degenerates quarreling over a woman". And the girl knew no more, had been taught no more by the world, than to play one against the other until in jealous rage, in blindest hatred; in vengeance of "an undeniably gross wrong done to you," the prosecutor Thaw shot and killed the architect. The prosecutor followed this, however, by signifying very plainly that he believed justice would be served if the defendant should be found guilty of a crime of responsibility than murder in the first degree. He explained carefully all the elements that entered into a verdict of first degree murder, and then pointed the way to two other possible findings—murder in the see and, or manslaughter in the first. The case goes to the jury this month. The jury will decide before the setting of another sun. Justice Dowling will begin his charge as a court convenes at 10:30 clock. STUPENDOUS GRAFT. Amazing Evidence Brought Out In Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 31.—The new famous bootlash stand for the senate lavatory, supplied by Contractor Sanderson, the Sanderson office of the senate. Sanderson is the state capital conspiracy suit on trial in the Dauphin county court, was offered in evidence by the commonwealth yesterday. Sanderson collected $1,619.20 and paid the subcontractor by whom it was supplied $125. Photographs of the rostrums of the senate and house caunus roons, for which the state paid Sanderson $0,748.20, and for which the senate also were offered in evidence. Fred H. Potter and Howard Kroesch of the audit company of New York were called by the commonwealth to establish the measurements of the rostrums, and wereuced before the jury. All of this furniture was supplied by Sanderson at the rate of $18.40 "per foot," and, according to the commonwealth he was paid for certain articles at the three times the actual measurement The commonwealth also offered several bills for furnishings supplied by Sanderson for the purpose of showing the importance of equipment were employed by the contractor for collecting for articles supplied under the same items in the special capital furnishing schedule of 1904. The bill required that he has secured a separate trial, has been subpoenaed as a witness for his co-defendants, former Auditor General Snyder, former State Treasurer Robert M. McKinney, superintendent of grounds and building, and Sanderson but may not be called. The feeling against the architect on the part of his four co-defendants more bitter as the trial proceeds. FIND BURIED GOLD. Treasure Discovered in Ruins of Robbers' Roost. Omaha, Neb., Jan. 31. -Superintendent Patterson of the Pacific Express company returned to Omaha with his two large bricks of bullion believed to represent part of the loot of a robbery of the company's office in Sidney, Neb., in March, 1880. The metal was found buried in the debris of the building with the bullion valued at weeks ago. The robbery was the holdest of its kind ever pulled off in the west and the bullion, which had been received that day by the stage crew, the Bison of the bricks valued at $127,000, of the bricks added to the Denver mint a year after the robbery. Sheriff McCarthy, who then owned the saloon which burned recently, was believed to be the leader of the robbery band, the express company which seized the detention. His brother was later hanged by vigilantes. McCarthy has been dead several days. Superintendent Patterson is trying to establish a new company to sell bullion, says the bullion value is indefinite, but he will have it assayed at once. PURE FOOD SESSION OPENS. Chicago, Jan. 31.—The commission which, under authority of congress is endeavoring to establish standards of purity for various food and liquor products which the subject to the national pure food law, began a week's investigation. The meeting was executive and public hearings will begin next Monday, when representatives of the National Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers will be heard. Feb. 1 the United States Brewing association will be heard, and after that such organizations or individuals as may wish to appear before the commission will be given an opportunity to present their views. William Frear of the state of col- ifornia, navalis is chairman of the commission. The Great Miss teeming That’s liven, in, scalp, ca, tant organ of the WORN OUT WOMEN Will Find Encouragement in Mrs. Men- rille Advice. Mrs. W. L. M. Lerritt, 207 S. First lve, Anoka, Mina, says: "Last win ter I began to suffer with my kidneys. I has pain in my back and hips and felt all worn out. Dizzy spells bottoned the kidney and the secretions were irregular. The first box of Doan's Kidney Pills brought decided relief. I am do the same for any for with my kidneys. I 'hain pains in my back and hips and felt all worn out. Dizzy spells bothered me and the kidney secretions were irregular. The first box of Doona's Kidney Pills divided relief. I am sure they would do the same for any other woman suffering as I did." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N. Y. She—You (shriek) brute, before we married (shriek), (shriek) you said namma could come and see us as often (shriek) as she pleased. He (meekly)—Yes, dear; but she has ceased to please. CUTICURA CURED FOUR Southern Woman Suffered with itch, Burning Rash—Three Little Babies Had Skin Troubles. "My baby had a running sore on his seck and nothing that I did for it took effect until I used Cuticura. My face was nearly full of teter or some similar skin disease. It would itch and burn so that I could hardly stand it. Two cakes of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment cured me. Two years after it broke on my hands and wrist. Sometimes I would go nearly crazy for it itched so badly. I went back to my old stand-by, that had never failed me—one set of Cuticura Remedies did the work. One set also cured my uncle's baby whose head was a cake of screws and another in the same six. Mrs. Lillie Wilcher, 779 Eleventh St. Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. 16, 1907. The Reason for Marrying. "They say that he married her for her money." "And what did he do when she lost her wealth?" "He lost his reason."-Harvard Lampoon. AN ADVERTISING TRICK FOR WESTERN FARMERS. Real Estate "Agents" Go After Men with Land for Sale and Reap Rich Harvest. A smooth scheme for separating farmers from their money has been worked with much success in South Dakota. An jolly grafter calls on a farmer and makes a bld for his land. The figures are absurdly low at first, but by degrees are raised as high as $60 an acre, and the farmer consents. Then the visitor explains that he is only an agent, but that he can sell the land at the price named if the owner will pay for it or advertising the rate of fifty cents an acre. The "agent" promises orally that the advertising money will not be payable until the land is sold, but this stipulation is not contained in a contract that the farmer signs. In a few days he receives a copy of an ad and not over-countre demand for money. It is said that twenty-two agriculturists were caught with this bait in Brown County and that one of them gave up $320. Others declare hotly that they will not pay but they will make a fight in the courts. Show us a man who lives the simple life and we'll show you a cynic. Thousands of American women in our homes are daily sacrificing their lives to duty. In order to keep the home neat and pretty, the children well dressed and tidy, women overdo. 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Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her, and she She has addressed thousands to health. Address, Lydia, Mass. Mammy Liza has lived with the "fambly" long enough to acquire words and expressions, which, used at second hand, are sometimes fatal to the family gravity. Recently a member of the little circle had occasion to call for the horse and surrey from the livery stable. After waiting a long while the order was repeated, with no immediate result. Mammy, having heard the conversation, and knowing the impatience of her mistress, expressed herself thus: "Huh! Dey's dey' no use counton' on dem libery stable folks, dey' so dililitate." It may be the uncertainty of firing that appeals to a girl; she is never quite sure but what she really means it. We Sell Guns and Traps Cheap Buy furs and hides, or tan them for robes & furs. N. W. Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis. It's easy for the average man to make a bad break. 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Uncle Hosea did not feel able to contribute more than 75 cents to the missionary cause, and was not particularly enthusiastic about giving even that. "You ought to give as the Lord has prospered you," said Deacon Ironside. "You don't think the Lord'll ever accuse me of bein' ungrateful" answered Hosea. "Six of my boys is preacher." How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any person that cannot be saved by the Cura Cura Cura. We, the undergirded, have known P. J. Chester Osborne, the founder of the company, in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligation we may have. We have a Bank at JAVIEN. Our Catsuit. Wholesale Drugs. Tololo O. Our Catsuit. Wholesale Drugs. Tololo O. deeply upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the pet. We offer a free pet bottle. Sold by all Drugs. EXPLAINED. "I have called," said the captious critic, "to find out what reason you can give for representing the New Year as a nude small boy." "That is done," responded the art editor, "because the year does not get its close until the 31st of December." Collecting In New Hampshire. "What do you think of the case of old Ketchum?" said one of the busiest men of the place to a friend. "Is it true that he has got religion?" "Well, hardy," replied the other. The fact is, it's entirely a matter of business with him. I am in a position to know that about a year ago the pastor $50, who later later wrote to me. So there remained nothing for Ketchum but to take it out in pew rent."—Sunday Magazine. CUBS' FOOD They Thrive on Grape-Nuts. Healthy babies don't cry and the well-nourished baby that is fed on Grape-Nuts is never a crying baby. Many babies who cannot take any other food relish the perfect food, Grape-Nuts, and get well. "My little baby was given up by three doctors who said that the condensed milk on which I fed her had ruined the child's stomach. One of the doctors told me that the only thing to do would be to try Grape-Nuts, so I got some and prepared it as follows: L soaked 1½ tablespoonfuls one pint of cold water for half an hour then I strained off the liquid and mixed it 12 tablespoonfuls of this strained Grape-Nuts juice with milk of rich milk, put in pinch of salt and a little sugar, mixed it and gave it to baby sugar, mixed two hours. "In this life simple, easy way I saved baby's life and have built her up to a strong healthy child, rosy and laughing. The food must certainly be perfect to have such a wonderful effect as this. I can truthfully say I think it is the best food in the world to raise delicate babies on, and is also a delicious healthful food for grown-ups as we have discovered in our family." "Epeats Nails is equally valuable to the healthy, manly or woman. It stands for the true theory of health. "There Reason. Read "The Road to Wellbeing." IOWA STATE NEWS Events of Recent Occurrence Throughout the Commonwealth. SIOUX CITY AFTER DENS. Anti-Saloon League Stops Sale of Liquor in Brothels. HEIRESS FIGHTS FOR ESTATE. Young Woman Claimant for Larg English Property. Sloux City—After years of effort on the part of various reformers to find a way to stamp out the "red light" district in Sloux City, the anti-saloon league seems finally to have found a way. At any rate, it has found a way to put new penalties, taxes and restrictions upon the numerous traffic and in many cases those are certain to prove destructive. The league has merely determined to enforce the new law as to the "red light" houses as well as to the saloons. Every house in the past has sold liquor; in fact, merely add to the entitlements of the new city to crease their profits very largely. But none of the houses here or elsewhere obey the state mulct law. Beer and other drinks are sold at all hours and night; they are sold without refinement, and itself a heavy burden, and then obey other requirements of the statutes. In Sioux City at least the proprietors of the houses seem to be "up against it". They declare that they their places with out selling liquor, and that they liquor in compliance with the law, even though they could afford to pay the tax. If the anti-saloon league persists and is vigilant enough it may die these institutions out of the city. Incidentally, when the court proceedings against the keepers and owners of the houses were published, a striking lot of names were brought out, including well known people who were involved in crime through the larger rentals they were for the buildings occupied by it. EXPLOSION WRECKS TOWN Dynamite Works Havoc During Fire In Supply Store. Hocking—An explosion of forty boxes of dynamite here seriously injured two men, sigingly injured thirty-one other people, destroyed three business buildings and completely demolished twelve freight cars and their loads of merchandise. There is not a house in the town that is not more or fewer injured and scores of men who were injured by the vicinity of the miraculous escape from instant death. The explosion in followed a fire in the Hocking Supply company's store, which was discovered soon after midnight. The side tracks of the Iowa Central railroad run near this building and the fire communicated from the station to the dynamite in the dynamite. When it became apparent that the fire would spread to the nearby string of freight cars on the track, men began pushing them away. While they were at work on one car which was already ablaze, some one shouted frantically to them that it contained a consignment of dynamite; the men ran, dodging the concrete on the road, just as they out of the direct force of the explosion which followed. Two of the men were seriously injured in spite of their flight. TOWN IS DESTROYED. Business Section of Leighton Is Burned Oksalaosa—Practically the whole district of Leighton, a small village about seven miles northwest of this city, was destroyed by fire, which started in the attic of the general store of Leighton and abated until it died of its own accord at noon. Leighton has no fire protection, and four business blocks and a residence were destroyed despite the heroic efforts of a bucket brigade recruited from every citizen in the city. The brigade reached beaches $20,000 and $35,000. The building and contents of the Tyfelling store were completely destroyed, including Mr. Tyfelling's living apartments on the second floor and the warehouse located at $17,000. He carried insurance of but $7,000. The Masonic building next door, occupied by the general store of Drefens & Burgraff, was also completely destroyed. The loss on the building was $1,000. The insurance is $3,000. The grain office of John Vander Zyl was damaged to the extent of $600, and the residence of Mrs. Dothoven, next door, was badly scorched. About $600 was lost, and the island stock yards were damaged to the extent of several hundred dollars. WATER CO. PAYS PROFIT. One-Fourth of $40,00 Debt Wiped Out at Dubuque Dubuque.—After eight months of municipal ownership the trustees of the Dubuque water worksp lant have paid more than a quarter of a debt of $40,000 incurred during the four year management, have a total balance of $7,311.91 and an indebtedness of but $2,196.53. During the former regime thousands of dollars were spent in alleged buremets, but even the price was not should be and the de continued to grow. This deficit was covered up for a long time by doctoring the books of the concern in a manner familiar to every bookkeeper. It was a difficult determination to discover whether bad management or actual theft was at the bottom of the trouble. This investigation resulted in the disclosure of peculations by Arthur McAurthr the superintendent of the $14,000 Municipal ownership was then paid, with the above flattering success. Water Main Burste. Otumwa—a big water main which supplies the business section of the city burst at the corner of the and Mumbai, and a time to fill adjacent basements. The water tore up the pavement in several places, before the power was shut off. The downstream section for several without it, the damage for several until the damage was repaired. HEIRESS FIGHTS FOR ESTATE Young Woman Claimant for Large English Property. Sloux City—If Miss Nellie Ingham can make proof or ner identity in the proceedings now on in the district court in this city, hers will be the remuneration of police property to comparative influence and possession of a fine old English estate. Miss Ingham, whose home is in Norfolk, Neb., who is whose well known in Sloux City, has been known as Nellie the family that took her as a mere babe and reared her to womanhood in their home near Sloux City. She was brought to the United States *of her own* only 2 years old. She never heard from him after he placed her with the Peggars until his death sometime ago, when she learned also that his family later inquired came to this city from a firm of English solicitors, asking about the existence of a daughter of this John Ingham and explaining that she had old-home near Liverpool, and other property valued at something more than $100,000. Then began her efforts to establish her identity and the hours to take evidence to be sent to England. Miss Ingham's life in recent years has been one of strange and tragic eventsuhness. She was within a foot of the murder recently committed on a crowded railroad coach, which smote the passengers with terror. She was also by fate made a witness of the Lamar murder in Nebraska last spring. AGENT SHORT $3,000. George Spelbring of Ida Grove Released From Duty. Ida Grove—A great sensation was caused by her work Chicago of Northwestern officials who immediately relieved the agent, George Spelbring, from duty and at once began a thorough investigation of the books. This is the best paying station in the world outside of Sioux City, and the business done here is very large, so that the examination of the books and accounts is bound to be a big task. The road has taken a mortgage on Spelbring's property, and it is given out that he is short in his express accounts. Spelbring has been agent here for 20 years or more and is one of the best known men in this section of the country, who had misfortune after misfortune during the past year in the way of loss of farm property, stock, etc., and his friends lay his trouble to this. The editors intimated that the shortage in accounts was between $2000 and $3000. 8YRIANS GIVEN 25 YEARS. Murderers of Fred Nawal Are Sentenced. Denison—Judge F. M. Powers sentenced Joseph and Soilman Hansar in the form of twenty-five cases in the sentence of four of their cousin, Fred Newfal, last January. A motion for a new trial was overruled and the case will be taken to the supreme court. Joseph was a hard fought one and the costs amount to several thousand dollars. The aged father of the Hansars came from Syria to attend the trial and he was overcome when he learned that a motion for a new trial had been made. Jos Harassan declared his innocence before sentence was passed. EVERY BONE BROKEN. Council Bluffs Miller Killed In Fright ful Accident. Council Bluffs—John Hutchinson manager of the Bailey Flowing mill, was killed in the mill and his body badly mangleed. He was taken to his clothing got caught in the shafting. Unable to extricate himself, he was whirled about, striking the timbers at a frightful speed, until almost every bone in his body was cut off and his flesh torn from his shins. The deceased was one of the earliest settlers here. He was a practical miller and has been interested in the business for more than thirty years and has created a widow and five grown children. Safecrackers Are Folded Mason City.—Safe crackers made a raid on the safe at Decker & Sons' packing plant but secured no booby. They were frightened away by a fire that broke the windows and sledge to pound off the combination and bolt knob. The officers are after two well dressed men who on the day before to two different restaurants passed spurious dollars, buying small articles, and the collar made of lead though exactly the initiation of the genuine. Iowan Burns in a Shanty. Hawarden—Richard Millett, who lived southeast of Hawarden in Washington township, was buried to death in a cemetery in the early evening before in an intoxicated condition. Early next morning the building was discovered to be a fire. Millett lived alone. Neighbors succeeded in building a fire of the flames, but life was extinct. Cow Drago Bay to Death Okalaosna—Jay Parchin, aged 12 years, son of Goo, Parchin, a real estate agent, met death in a distressing manner by being dragged by a cow skirty robes over the froze ground, with his head buried about his neck. His neck was broken. Alton Bank Robbers Failed. Alton—Bank robbers attempted to loot the bank, but they blew off the doors of the vault and the outer doors of the safe, but just as the cash was in sight were scared away by citizens, who were aroused by the explosion. Brakeman Killed at Rockwell. Jefferson—Frank Anderson; son of Mall Clerk W. T. Anderson, was killed at Rockwell City. He has been embalmed and is lying in a railway for the past two years. The young man was 27 years of age. ```markdown ``` Commissioner Smith vs. The Standard Oil Co. Mr. Herbert Knox Smith, whose zeal in the cause of economic reform has been in no wise abated by the panic which he and his kind did so much to bring on, is out with an answer to President Moffett, of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. The publication of this answer, it is officially given out, was delayed several weeks, "for business reasons," because it was not deemed advisable to funnel the storm clouds into the country formally disturbed by the crisis. Now that the storm clouds have rolled by, however, the Commissioner rushes again into the fray. Our readers remember that the chief points in the defence of the Standard Oil Company, as presented by President Moffett, were (1) that the date of six cents on oil from Whiting to East St. Louis has been issued to the Standard Oil Company as the lawful rate by employees of the Alton, (2) that the 18-cent rate on file with the Interstate Commerce Commission was a class and not a commodity rate, never being intended to apply to oil, (3) that oil was shipped in large quantities between Whiting and East St. Louis over the Chicago & Eastern Illinois at 6% cents per hundred pounds, which has been filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission as the lawful rate, and (4) that the 18-cent rate on oil was entirely out of proportion to lawful rates on other commodities between these points of action, which has been filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission, for example, is lined oil, the lawful rate on which was eight cents. President Moffett also stated that thousands of tons of freight had been sent by other shipers between these points under substantially the same conditions as governed the shipments of the Standard Oil Company. This defence of the Standard Oil Company was widely quoted and has undoubtedly exerted a powerful influence upon the public mind. Naturally the Administration, which has staked the success of its campaign against the "trusts" upon the result of its attack upon this company, endeavors to offset this influence, and hence the new deliverance of Commissioner Smith. We need hardly to point out that his rebuttal argument is extremely weak, although as strong, no doubt, as the circumstances would warrant. He answers the points made by President Moffett substantially as follows: (1) The Standard Oil Company had a traffic department, and should have known that the six-cent rate had not been filed, (2) no answer, (3) the Chicago & Eastern rate was a second rate, (4) the White rate but not Dolton, which is described as "a village of about 1,500 population just outside of Chicago. Its only claim to note is that it has been for many years the point of origin for this and similar secret rates." The Commissioner admits in describing this rate that there was a note attached stating that the rate could also be used from Whiting. The press has quite generally halted this statement of the Commissioner of Corporations as a conclusive refutation of what is evidently recognized as the strongest rebuttal argument advanced by the Standard. In fact, if it is as weak and inconclusive as the remainder of his argument. 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They terminate at Dolton, from which large o wise point entrance is made over the Belt Line. Consid and did Writing, where the oil freight originates, is not cued here. Writing, where Chicago Eastern Illinois Comp. which receives its Whiting freight from the upon this anl Belt Line at Dolton. The former practice, now their sev discontinued, in filing tariffs was to make mand it them read from a point on the line of the fil the fx excite ing road, and it was also general to state on freight the same sheet, e. g., Whiting. The Chicago and Judge commis Eastern Illinois followed this practice in filing den. The points the sheet that is applied to Whiting. This was have any, as in 1895 when this method of filing tariffs was to van (1) that in common use. Now let us see in what way the intending shipper of oil could be misled and deceived by the fact that the Chicago & Eastern Illinois had not filed a rate reading from Whiting Commissioner Smil. h contends that "concealment is the only motive for such a circuitous arrangement," l. e., that this method of filing the rate was intended to mislead intending competitor's of the Standard Oil/ Company Suppose such a prospective oil refiner had appalled the commission by this rate for the rate from Chicago to East St. Louis over the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, he would have been informed that the only rate filed with the commission by this company was 6½ cents from Dolton, and he would have been further informed, if indeed he did not know this already, that this rate applied throughout Chicago territory. So that whether he wished to locate his plant at Whiting, or anywhere else about Chicago, under an arrangement of long standing, and which applies to all the industrial towns in the neighborhood of Chicago, he could have his freight皱皱 over the Chicago territory. So that whether he wished to locate his plant at Dolton and transported to East St. Louis at a rate of 5½ cents. Where then is the concealment which the Commissioner of Corporations makes so much of? Any rate—from Dolton on the Eastern Illinois or Chappell on the Alton, or Harvey on the Illinois Central, or Blue Island on the Rock Island, applies throughout Chicago territory to shipments from any other point in the district. So far from the Eastern Illinois filing its rate from Dolton in order to deceive the shipper, it is the Commissioner of Corporations who either betrays his gross ignorance of transporting oil from Dolton on the surface on the public ignorance of their customers deceive the public too apt to accept questioningly every statement made by a Government official as necessarily true, although, as in the present instance, a careful examination shows these statements to be false. The final point made by President Moffett that other commodities of a character similar to oil were carried at much lower rates than 18 cents, the Commissioner of Corporations discusses only with the remark that "the 'reasonableness' of this rate is not in question. The question is whether this rate constituted a discrimination as against other shippers of oil," and he also makes much of the failure of President Moffett to produce before the grand jury evidence of the alleged illegal acts of which the Standard Oil official said that other Wine of Cardui W.L.DOVGLAS SHOES $300 SHOES AT ALL PRICES, FOR EVERY MEN, WOMEN, MISSES AND CHILDREN. W.L. Douglas makes and sells more than any other manufacturer in the world. Fit better, wear longer, and are of greater value than any other shoe. W.L. Douglas $4 and $5 Gift Edge Shoes cannot Be Equalled At Any Price. CAUTION. W.L. Douglas name and price is stamped on bottom. Take No Satisfaction. Sale ends on Friday, March 31. Shoes are sold by the manufacturer. Italian trained Catalog free to any address. W.L. Douglas Hreekou, Mass. ASK YOUR DEALER ABOUT THE WHITE WASKER Aspen Leap THE WHITE WAY WHITE LILY MFG. CO. 1700 Rockingham Road DAVENPORT IOWA Solely to introduce them, the first 1,200 books and many more are now available of venerated west in ranch farm, cowboy life, etc. Reds like a romance yet fruit. True. Solely to introduce them, the first 1,200 books and many more are now available of venerated west in ranch farm, cowboy life, etc. Reds like a romance yet fruit. True. large shippers in the territory had been guilty. Considering the fact that these shippers included the packers and elevator men of Chicago the action of the grand jury in calling upon President Moffett to furnish evidence of their wrong-doing may be interpreted as a demand for an elaboration of the obvious; but the fact that a rate-book containing these freight wages for other shippers was offered in evidence during the trial and ruled out by Judge Landis, was kept out of sight. President Moffett would not accept the request to charge him guilty although he might have been pardoned if he had referred them to various official investigations by the Interstate Commerce Commission and other departments of the Government. We come back, therefore, to the conclusion of the whole matter, which is that the Standard Oil Company of Indiana was fined an amount equal to seven or eight times the value of its entire property, because its traffic department did not verify the statement of the Alton rate clerk, that the six-cent commodity rate on oil had been properly filled with the oil, and that the failure of evidence and none was introduced at the trial that any shipper of oil from Chicago territory had been interfaced with by the 18-cent rate nor that the failure of the Alton to file its six-cent rate had resulted in any discrimination against any independent shipper—we must take this on the word of the Commissioner of Corporations and of Judge Landis. Neither is it denied even by Mr. Smith that the "independent" shipper of oil, whom he pictures as being driven out of business by this discrimination, has been shipped to the oil he desired to ship from Whiting via Dolton over the lines of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois to East St. Louis. In short, President Moffett's defence is still good, and we predict will be so declared by the higher court. The Standard Oil Company has been charged with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors. Beginning with the famous Rice of Marletta, passing down to the apostle of popular liberties, Henry Demarest Lloyd, with his Wealth Against the Commonwealth, descending by the same path, to the authorities, we finally reach the neither depths of unfair and baseless misrepresentation in the report of the Commissioner of Corporations. The Standard has been charged with every form of commercial piracy and with most of the crimes on the corporation calendar. After long years of strenuous attack, under the leadership of the President of the United States, the corporation is at last dragged to the court for warrants for its treason. The whole strength of the Government is directed against it, and at last, we are told, the Standard Oil Company is to pay the penalty of its crimes, and it is finally convicted of having failed to verify the statement of a rate clerk and is withhold a prodigious sum, measured by the car. Under the old criminal law, the theft of property worth more than a shilling was punishable by death. Under the new law, the theft of property was justified by Theodore Roosevelt and Judge Kensesaw Landis, a technical error of a traffic official is made the excuse for the confiscation of a vast amount of property.