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^ V' v; ? * _ -ic **.-1:: _% * > - ^ • ̂ , > |-4"" •'" ^ .*ir* "V \; ^ , ' * . . ' , v V.V r (.»»' v~" ..... «•»' N . " ?" . 1 J ' 1 -v**« - »„ . w • V ' v * r/. I§AS|gpgJ^|^^ » "" •«• x f The McHenry Plaindealer. prmisnn> BY . . 91 «. iClKEISii. ILLINOIS. Getting a divorce nowadays Is as easy as lying. ^ Even if Kerofcrwere meditating war fke would not mention it. Gov. Edward Casper Stokes^jf' NOT* Jersey was at one time a teatelier » » ||S : village school. _______ v > Chickens in the city are a luxury, ' whether they be in the back yard or • jv ob the dinner table. In the blessed era of airships no one will be able to tvreck the trains by pulling up the raite. Caruso's salary is $200,000 a year. He ought to be able to have his own private monkey house on that. There is one thing to be said in fa- '^or of a backward spring. It short­ ens the season for mad dog scares. • Census statistics say that only one woman in five works. But the other four keep father and others fejisy. Secretary Root must have found a good dyspepsia cure, for he says the world is all right and growing better. It ts quite natural that the roofer should have high aspirations. He has learned that there is always room at the top. „ c 7'. •; i An Ohio man has walked from Hew li£\*Ork to Zanesville in search of health. Anyhow, the detective rail dltia't get him. The name of the new heir to the Spanish throne has as many storlis as a sky-scraper. It i6 to J|e hoped that he can live up to it. The near-naturslists naturaify do not like the president for showing them up. Near-naturalism is great graft in the magazines just now. .jheorvo with relief that the president has made no protest against misrepresentations as to the size ami habits of their kind of ga'me. Prick is reported to have tost $36,- 000,000 and 30 pounds. £ P°aH<* 'or each departed million is not so much, but how light he would be now had he lost $250,000,000! Jf The Chicago lady who toM her has* - hand that she hated him with "the ' hissing hate of hell" was apparently If ^ designed by nature for a headliner on i one of the Chicago papers, says Boston Globe. - = V~ ' Alabama has five former governors s still living. They are Rufus W. Cobb, - elected in 1878 and 1880; Thomas G. * 'Jones, elected in 1890 and 1892; Wit .f,/ liam C. Coates, elected in 1894; Jo- -L' yseph F. Johnson, elected in 1896 and '1898, and William D. Jelks, who sue- * &ceeded to the office on the death of Ym^ William F. Stamford and was elected , to a fall term in 1902. f i • I t i s n ' t n e c e s s a r y f o r a p e r s o n t o g o ?• _ to Europe nowadays to get the name being a globe-trotter. An enter­ prising New Yorker will for five dol- ./s lars plaster your baggage with red, ^ ^ white and yellow labels of European hotels, steamship lines and railroads, . each label, bearing a date stamped on It that will defy detection from the i•>'.genuine, says the Express-Gazette. The labels are sold In lots of 40 and 4 include different itineraries. Each set* / however, is sold at the same price, ^. and the dealer, at whose little store can be purchased European novelties, f / is enjoying a large and increasing |. patronage. Renewed interest in the preserva­ tion of the Alhambra has manifested ' itself in Spain. The governor of Gran­ ada has had building experts and in­ fluential citizens meet to discuss plans for preventing the palace from going ing into complete decay. The struc­ ture was begun in the thirteenth cen­ tury, and has passed through various vicissitudes. When the French evac­ uated ,it In 1812, they blew up some of the towers to destroy Its value as a fortress, and in 1821 it was damaged by an earthquake. Queen Isabella in­ terested herself in it in 1862, and be­ gan the work of restoring it to its original condition so far as th&toould be ascertained. , * ' W According to the latest returns from the Chinese census, the empire has a population of fully 400,000,000 per­ sons; enough, certainly, to have con­ siderable Influence on the future of ; the world if they all become enlight­ ened. It is the possibility of depreda­ tion that lies in these hundreds of mil­ lions of Asiatics that keeps the mili­ tary students of the world awake. European civilization must be pre­ served; and although the prospect of an Asiatic invasion of the western countries is remote, so conservative and sane an observer as Admiral Ma- han hag warned Europe of the peril of neglecting to prepare against it. AL IS DENIED HAVWOCft DtFENSE RWUlRED TO PRESENT EVIDENCE. OPENS ITS CASE MONDAY Prosecution, Rests Afl®rv' leaving Offered Final Teaffihfftfc" !(§(»•• • Remittances to Orchard and Adams. Man cannot live on medals alone. That is the reason that so many of the Carnegie badges of heroic distinc­ tion find their way into the shops where the three golden balls proclaim that there is money to lend on large or small collateral. II® W 5. 4 |f the anto is going to put' the horse out of business it ought to hurry up and put the horse out of suspense. At present the latter is rejoicing in the fact that he commands about $100 more in the market right now than he ever did before. ----"•ygNfi" Boise, Idaho.--When the state Fri­ day closed it# case against William D. Haywood, charged with the murder of Frank Steunenberg, the defense made an unsuccessful attempt to secure from the court an order directing the Jury to acquit the prisoner. Judge Wood's ruling, which requires the de­ fense to meet with evidence the case that the state has presented, was made at 5:15 o'clock, and it was then arranged that Haywood's counsel should make their opening statement and present their first testimony on Monday next. States Case Is Closed. When court opened Friday movn- ing It was stipulated that the record should show that the date of the draft sent by Haywood to Jack Simpklns late ip 1905 was December 21, and after that the prosecution proceeded to show by a handwriting expert that George Pettibone, using the names of "J. Wolff" and "P. Bone," made two remittances of money to Harry Or­ chard at San Francisco through the Pacific Postal Telegraph company in the fall of 1904. The state next called Jim Seahorn.'a colored horse trader, who swore that he sold a horse and buggy to Orchard in Denver in 1905, and identified Haywood as one of the men who rode with Orchard. After that the defense admitted that in June, 1903, Haywood sent $75 to Steve Adams at Ogden and when the neeessary showing had been made on the record the prosecution formally rested. The notion for an instruction to the Jury |o acquit was by agreement pre­ sented at the afternoon session and the jury was sent back to the jury house out of hearing of the argument. Mr. Richardson's Argument. Attorney E. F. Richardson made the principal argument in support of the motion in a long, carefully prepared and eloquent address. He took for his guide the Idaho statute which for­ bids conviction upon the uncorrobor­ ated testimony of an accomplice, and qaoted many authorities in support of Ms contention that there must be convincing corroboration entirely in­ dependent of tho testimony of the accomplice, and made an analysis of all the testimony offered. He declared that none of the testimony could stand without support of Orchard's story, and that the statute specifically forbade its acceptance under those circumstances. He also argued that the testimony of Orchard was the only showing that in any way connected Haywood with the crime aad that the statute fors- bade conviction under those circum­ stances. Answered by Mr. Borah. Senator Borah, Who alone spoke for the state, argued with like force and eloquence that Haywood's connection has been independently shown and that Orchard's testimony has been corroborated by independent circum­ stances and evidence. He also sub­ mitted a general argument to show that the state had established the ex­ istence of a general conspiracy in which Haywood was a participant, and in which he strongly developed the alleged connection of Pettibone and Simpkins. Clarence Darrow, who closed, plead­ ed that there was not a shred of evi­ dence in the case capable of standing without the "rotten thread of Or­ chard's story" to sustain it and that the plain provision of the Idaho stat­ ute made the duty of the court clear. He ridiculed the idea of a general con­ spiracy and contended that If the most liberal allowance were made for the entire showing of the state it would not make out a case against the prisoner worthy of submission to the Jury. WOMEN AS MOB LEADERS. & ix Arrested for Attempt to Lynch Man at Assumption, III. Asumption, 111.--Six women were ar­ rested Friday on the charge that they were implicated in the attempt to ItfViAln A n_..l J _ . , A ouuiduu, a liiiiitsi , JttBi Monday night. Bouland was accused of being a bigamist. The woman who claimed to be his first wife was ar­ rested charged with having been a mob leader. She was released later on her own recognizance under the condition she remain away from As­ sumption. Bouland was tried recent­ ly and acquitted of the charge of big­ amy. The women arrested Friday are Mrs. Gus Dysart, Mrs. Prudent Rogers, Mrs. Paul Ducha, Mrs. Caroline Mow- ington, Mary Budman, Mary Buboyce. The oldest member of the British house of commons, in time of service, has died after 40 years of sitting in parliament and, "standing" for elec­ tion. If he had been obliged to rua, American fashion, he might not have lasted so long. J* The little Spanish prince deserved •omething better of his parents than to be burdened with 12 names. Think of the worry when kind hearted vis­ itors pat him on the head and ask, •"What's your name, bub?"--Washing TELEGRAPHERS QUIT WORK STRIKE IN BAN FRANCISCO AND OAKLAND OFFICES. -TW TNI SAFETY RAZOR. , V 1 * ' ' V-> ' ' *•> 'S • Trouble Will Be Local Bo Long aa Brought ta from Otttaide Clties.% '* % - !. WC, „ San *Francis<so.--Strike-riddSl fsiSn Francisco had another strike add­ ed to the list Friday afternoon, when the telegraph operators em­ ployed by the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies left their keys ajt 3:30 o'clock and walked out of the offices here and at Oak­ land. Three short blasts from a police whistle gave the signal and at the sound the operators arose from the tables, put on their coats and quit their jobs. a 3 The operators in San Francisco and Oakland i were dissatisfied with thq letter from President Clowry. of the Western Union, published Thursday, and insisted that their demands for a 25 per cent, increase in wages should be granted. » President Small, of the Commercial Telegraphers' union, arrived here Thursday and, after considering the situation, ordered the strike unless the increase was granted. Both the Western Union and Postal officials- declined to grant the increase or to consult with the union. They ex­ pressed their willingness to consider and act upon any requests presented by their employes as individuals, hut this has not satisfied the men and the walkout resulted. So long as an attempt is not made to bring in operators from outside points the strike will be purely local. If, however, the company attempts to bring in outside men operators in other cities will be called outr>* fn order that the strike may be confined to San Francisco and Oakland, it is announced that operators in other cities will be allowed to work with so-called "unfair" operators in San Francisco and Oakland who did not go out with the strikers. t«*s& ft 1 ORAT0«*V ;S SCHMITZ OUT AS FRISCO MAYOR. Board of Supervisors Name James L. Gallagher to His Place. San Francisco. -- Under order® of District Attorney" William ll. Langdon, the board of supervisors adopted a resolution declaring Mayor Eugene Sclimitz temporarily unable to perform his official duties and ap­ pointing Supervisor James L. Galla­ gher acting mayor. Gallagher's appointment as acting mayor is only a temporary one. He will serve only until the supreme court has decided whether or not it will admit Mayor Schm^tz to bail pend­ ing the hearing of his petition for a new trial. Should Schmitz be grant­ ed freedpjn on bail Gallagher will, of course, go out of office at once, for the mayor will no longer be incapaci­ tated for performing the duties of chief executive of the city. Schmitz was given permission by Judge Lawler Tuesday to pay another visit to the offices of his attorneys, but failed in his effort to have the court extend the scope of his absence from the county jail so as to permit him to attend to other than private business. The application recited that the "district attorney is seeking to usurp his office, and it is necessary for him to take steps to prevent it." DES MOINES TO TRY NEW PLAN. Adopts Modification of Commission System of Government. Des Moines, la.--By an overwhelm­ ing majority the citizens of Des Moines Thursday adopted what is known as the Des Moines plan of government, a modification of the commission form of government, adopted some years ago in Galveston, Tex. The new plan provides for an elimination of the ward system, with its aldermen, mayor and other elec­ tive officers, and the election xby the city as a whole of five commissioners, all of whom shall give their entire time to city affairs, one as mayor and the other four as heads of department. All other offices are made appointive. FIVE KILLED IN AUTO CRASH. Man Crazed by Lightning. Detroit, Mich.--Special dispatches tell of a severe electrical storm that passed over the lower peninsula of Michigan late Friday. At Kalamazoo Frank Stirner was struck by lightning while trimming a spruce tree. The shock left him clinging to the branches of the tree bereft of his reason. George Hawley, a farmer, was struck by lightning and killed while plowing in a corn field near Kalamazoo, ahd Mrs. Stephen Curtis was struck by lightning and killed at Onaway. Murders His Family an<f,Self. JaBper, Fla.--W. W. Barton, a car­ penter, shot and almost instantly killed his wife, three children and himself at his home here. Unhappy domestic relations are believed to have been responsible for the crime. Man and Wlfs Killed by Train. Colorado Springs, Col.--D. W. Cell, of Fountain, Col., one of the earliest settlers of thlB reiion, and his wife were killed by a Colorado & Southern train near Crews, eight miles south of t^ia citjr, Thursday. Terrible Accident Near Naples--Ital­ ian Prince Among Victims." Naples.--A most appalling automo­ bile accident occurred at Caianello, about 100 miles distant from Naples, Thursday, five men being killed. The motor car, which was going at high speed, ran into a rock and was demol­ ished. Among the killed was Prince Pescara, a member of the Italian no­ bility and related to the Spanish royal house, on account o* whose death the aristocracy of the whole of lower Italy will be in mourning. Isidor Wormser Is Dead. New York.--Isidor Wormser, the banker, died Friday night. His condi­ tion has been critical since he suffered a severe attack of gout two weeks ago. He was 77 years old Frenchman Is Golf Champion. Hoylake, England.--For. the first time in its history the open golf cham­ pionship has gone out of the British Isles, Arnaud Massey, the French champion, winning the title Friday with a score of 312 strokes. .$5,000,000 for Pasteur Institute. London.--The Jewish World says that the will of Daniel Osiris, the Jew­ ish banker and philanthropist of Paris, who died some time ago, leaves $5j000,- 000 to the Pasteur institute. The es­ tate is valued at $13,000,000. Big Sawmill is Burned. Mobile, Ala.-*--The sawmill of the extensive plant of the Kansas City Lumber company at Lucedale, Miss., was destroyed by fire Thursday, en­ tailing a loss of $70,000, partly cov­ ered by Insurance. ^ y j • »^ " 5 • World--*! Haven't Much Faith In Th ese New-Fangled Fixing*, Aa£* thing to Keep Down thtf War Crop." Colt Out of Senatorial Race. Providence. R. I.--Col. Samuel Pom- eroy Colt, of Bristol, notified the Re­ publican state committee at its meet­ ing Thursday that he had withdrawn unconditionally from the senatorial SEVEN KILLED IN A MINE TWO EXPLOSIONS OF GA$ IN SHAFT AT PRiCEBURQ, PA. Victims Are Horribly Disfigured- Wild Excitement Prevails Among Families of the Mineri. Scranton, Pa.--Seven mfett were killed outright and two others serious­ ly Injured in two explosions of mine gas in the Johnson No. 1 mine at Prlceburg late Tuesday. , The first esplosicm, which occurred about three o^efock, was eaused by thb carelessness of a door tender who, by leaving the door open, allowed gas to accumulate In the workings. One man was injured as a result of this. The second explosion which resulted in the death of seven men and the injury of another, occurred about five o'clock and resulted from the ignition of the deadly fire damp which accumulated after the first explosion. A runner who was near the foot of the shaft when the second explosion occurred gave the alarm and a rescue party hurried to the scene of the ex­ plosion. News of the explosion spread rapid­ ly through the village of Prlceburg, a mining hamlet just north of Scranton, and hundreds of wives, children and other relatives of those who are em­ ployed in the mine hurried to the breaker. So badly disfigured were the remains of those who were killed that identification at the time was im­ possible and the wildest excitement prevailed. Harsh measures had to be pursued by the mine officials to keep the crowds back, and hundreds fol­ lowed the ambulances to undertaking establishments. It was with the great­ est difliculty that any authentic news of the affair could be learned, because of the excitement that prevailed. About 1,500 men work In the mine, but as no account was kept of those who had come out before the explosion occurred it is impossible to determine, until the rescuing party returns, if the present death list is complete. WOLLER GIVEN THREE YEARS. Milwaukee Embezzler Is Sentenced by His Bosom Friend. Milwaukee.--Frank E. Woller, for 18 years clerk of the municipal court of this city, was Friday evening brought into the court of which4ie had been an official so long, pleading guilty before his bosom friend, Judge Brazee, of embezzlement of $30,000, and was sentenced to three years at hard la­ bor in the Milwaukee house of correc­ tion. The scene in court was sad in the extreme. Many attorneys pleaded with the court for a lenient sentence. The prosecutor did not suggest a measure of punishment further than to insist that justice be meted out. Judge Brazee said that duty alone prevented him from calling in another judge to sit In the case. He was al­ most overcome as he pronounced the Eight Bodies Now Recovered. Washington.--Rear Admiral Brown- son, chief of the navigation bureau, received a dispatch Tuesday night from Rear Admiral Emory, in com­ mand of the fleet in Hampton Roads, stating that the bodies of two more of the victims of the Minnesota's launch accident were recovered late in the afternoon, those of Midshipman Herbert L. Holaen and' Seaman Rob­ ert H. Dodson. This makes eight bodies recovered. Sentenced For Land Frauds. Omaha.--Thomas H. Huntington and Ami B. Todd were sentenced by Judge Munger in the United Slates district court Thursday to pay a fine of $1,000 each and to be imprisoned in the Douglas county jail for three months. Fred Hoyt was sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000 and to stand com­ mitted to the Douglas county jail un­ til the fine Is paid. The three men were convicted of conspiracy to de­ fraud the United States out of pos­ session and title to large tracts of land. FRENCH CABINET UPHELD* Government Given Vote of Confi­ dence by Deputies. Paris.--By a majority of 104 the chamber of deputies Friday afternoon voted confidence in the government and gave the ministers a free hand to establish the sovereignty of the law in the disturbed departments of the south. This result came after a day of ex­ citement over the mutinous movement of troops In the south, following the widespread disorders of the wine­ growers. The "graves view the French capital takes of the revolutionary events in the south of France and the tragic outcome was evidenced by the scene in the chamber of deputies when the government was interpellated on< the measures it proposed to take to re­ establish order. Even standing room was not obtainable and many women listened to the debate, which at times was superheated. Premier Clemenceau lost no time in Imparting to the deputies the news from Narbonne adding to the informa­ tion already published the fact that over a hundred soldiers were wound­ ed In the fighting Thursday with the rioters. The latter, he said, had dis­ appeared from the streets. The peas­ ants from the surrounding villages, terrified at the shooting, took the first trains for their homes. IS ARRESTED FOR FRAUD. (hi B. Smith, Prominent In Milwau­ kee, Accused. Milwaukee. -- Ira B. Smith, a member of the wholesale grocery firm of Smith, Thorndike & Brown, which recently went Into involuntary bankruptcy, was arreuted Wednesday afternoon on a warrant sworn out by Oliver C. Mason, a real estate broker. Smith is charged with obtaining money under false representation of his firm's finances. He went to tlj^ municipal court voluntarily and was admitted to ball In the sum of $6,000. In the schedule of assets of the de­ funct firm Smith was shown to be in­ debted to the firm to the extent of about $100,000. , Mr. Smith for many years has been one of the most prominent business men in the city. He was president of the Merchants and Manufacturers' as­ sociation and has been a prominent clubman. JOHN D. BREAKS 8PEED LIMIT. Rockefeller, Stopped by Constable, Pays Fine for Chauffeur. New York.--John D. Rockefeller's automobile, in which Mr. Rockefeller was being rather hurriedly driven to his country home Thursday, was stopped by a constable at Elmsford and the chauffeur was subsequently fined $25 for exceeding the speed limit. Mr. Rockefeller paid the fine. Mr. Rockefeller was on his way from this city to Pocantico Hills when his car was halted. According to the constable the machine was making 30 miles an hour wheu he dMigiii. Its speed over a measured course. Two Killed In Auto Accident. Clnclnna.tl.-VThomas Trever, super­ intendent of tne H. & S. Pogue Co., and Alfred Trever, of the same com­ pany, were^'icilled in an automobile accident'Tuesday night. The chauf­ feur, name unknown, is seriously in­ jured and may die. ».-n Hotel Proprietor Found Dead. Martin City, Mo.--George Lee, pro­ prietor of the Martin City hotel, was found dead three miles from here on the road Tuesday. It is believed Lee was struck bjr. an sutomobUft. ;jif • Prominerft Wisconsin Woman Dies. Chippewa Falls, Wis.--Mrs. Flora Beall Ginty, the 68-year-old widow of Gen. George C. Glnty and one of Wis­ consin's most prominent women, died here Wednesday. For six years she was treasurer of the Wisconsin State Press association, editor of the Chip­ pewa Herald two years and a vice president of the board of lady man­ agers of the world's Columbian expo­ sition Detroit Strikers Enjoined^ Detroit, Mich.--As a climax to the numerous acts of violence and rioting which have resulted from the strike which has been In progress for the past month of a thousand molders, machinists and metal polishers In 14 manufactories of the city, a blanket injunction was issued Friday after­ noon by Circuit Judges Hosmer, Man- dell and Brooke restraining the metal polishers' union and 200 specified in­ dividuals from interfering in any way with workers at any of the plants af­ fected by the strike. Willson Nominated in Kentucky. Ixmisville, Ky.--Augustus E. Will- son, of LoulBville, was nominated by acclamation Wednesday night as Ra» publican candidate for governor of Kentucky, at the state convention in session at the Coliseum. Net* Head of Beloit College. Beloit, Wis.--Rev. J. P. Deane, of Ashland, Wis., has been appointed principal of Beloit college. Prof. A. W. Burr, who has held the place for 24 years, has resigned to take up work on the college faculty. LITTLE CAUSE FOR WORRY. IpRofftftr Less Glittering Bait Held Out i" '•••!• to Cow Puncher*. Oiw in the Salmon rtrer meadows country, in Idaho, ranged a wild and woolly bunch of long-hatred cow punchers, whose knowledge of the world was confined jsnalnly to trips |after cattle into surrounding counties. :|nio this reckless but. com­ munity there came the smooth* tongued representative ^bf a wild west show, who hired slferal riders at a high salary to do a hair-raising act, the chief feature being that they should appear to be thrown from their horses and dragged by the foot. After they had practiced in ft corral for a while one of them loosened himself and rising from the dirt, dis- fifcieveled and dazed, inquired: =3 "Say, mister, ain't this ruther dan- 'gerows? We might git killed" "That's all right," chirped the show's representative cheerfully. ,fYour salary will go on just tba tame."--Lippincott's Magazine. JEHK REORGANIZED NEW YORK INSURANCE COMPANY. £ new Board oi Trustees of the J^ew York Life Insurance Company, chosen by the policyholders under the Armstrong laws, ^as taken charge of the company's affairs and has begun the work of reorganization. In choosing the principal officer^ of the company, the Board has adhered to the idea that a life insurance com­ pany should be managed by life in­ surance men. The new president is Darwin P. Kingsley, a college bred man of good New England stock, who has been in the company's service In a variety of capacities for a period of nearly twenty years. In the parlance of life insurance, he "began with the rate book" and has advanced step by step up to his present position. The first vice president of the com­ pany-is Thomas A. Buckner. who has served the company for more than a quarter of a century,--Indeed has never had any other business connec­ tion. Associated with these men are others long trained in the company's service, each an expert in his own de­ partment of work. Wm. B. Ingersoll, who has for many years had charge of the company's great business in Europe, is one of the second vice pres­ idents, and will continue at the head of the company's office in Paris. Rufus W. Weeks, who has been in the company's Bervice for nearly forty years, ranks next to Mr. Buckner as vfce president, and continuous as chief actuary of the company. The policyholders have expressed their belief in this company iii uo un­ certain terms* The upheaval In life in­ surance within the last two years has resulted in a great deal of misunder­ standing and policyholders, alarmed on matters which were not very clear to them, have been disposed to give up their contracts at a heavy sacrifice. This has not been true in the New York Life to any great extent. The com­ pany had $2,000,000,000 Insurance on its books when the life insurance in­ vestigation began, and while the laws of the State of New York now do not permit any company to write over $150,000,000 a year (which is about one-half the New York Life formerly did), the company's outstanding busi­ ness still exceeds $2,000,000,000. Policyholders generally will be still further reassured by this action of the Board, as it places at the head of the company to protect their interests men of thorough training and unexception­ able character. The Mules Understood. A story is fold of Senator Knute Nelson, who spent some of his early years in a logging camp. He there discovered the necessity of certain emphatic language in order to make mules move. "All varieties" of .tongues were in demand in that camp: Scandinavian, German, Italiaa--but none of the words used seemed to have the explosive force to adjust the tempo of the mule to the desired pace. Alodg came a strapping Irish­ man, who used some popular exple- usually indicated in print by jjlank, blank, or "-••• . The mules .moved! "There's a language all tnules understand," said the Irishman •--"and it's not me mother tongue, ayther."--rJoe Mitchell Chappie, in National Magazine. Home, 8we*t Home. The wife of a naval offleer attached to the academy at Annapolis has In her employ an Irish servant, who re­ cently gave evidence of nostalgia. "You ought to be contented and not pine for your old home, Bridget," said the lady of the bouse. rou are earning good wages, your work Is light, everyone is kind to you, and you have lots of friends here." "Yis, mum," sadly replied Bridget; "but it's not the place where I be that makes me so homesick; it is the plaoe where I don't b&" Satisfied. A seedy-looking loafer, having or­ dered and eaten a large and sumptu­ ous dinner, explained to the waiter that he had no money. The waiter Immediately told the restaurant proprietor, who sent for a policeman. The proprietor, going Ujl to the un­ welcome guest, explained Qiat he had sent for a policeman. "Thank gpodneas! you didn't send for a stomach pump!" the seedy one replied, wittn huge* contentment.--Il­ lustrated Bimk; •• Gs«mI for Evil*. Sunday a teacher was trying to illustrate to her small scholars the lesson, "Return good for evil." To make it practioal she said: "Suppose, children, one of your schoolmates should strike you, and the next day you should bring him an apple--that would be one way of returning good for evil." To her dismay one of the little girls spoke up quickly: "Then he would strike you again to get another apple!" Water Remarkably Pure. The water of Loch Katrine, In Scot­ land, is wonderfully pure. It holds only quarter-pound of alluvial deposit to every 1,000 gallons of water. The Thames averages four pounds to til* MOO KIDNAPED BOY SLAIN OF NEW ORLEANS LAO It 4 FOUND IN A SWAMP. SUSPECT JELLS OF CRIME Says Italians Who Stole Lad Becama E Frightened and Strangled Him . ffJfWiBata. of Lynching ;; Heard. t New Orleans.--Two miles in the In­ terior of a big swamp near this city* the headless body of Walter Lamana, an Italian child' between seven and eight years old who was kidnaped and held for $6,000 ransom two weeks ago, was found by police and vigi- lants just before daybreak, Sunday. He had been strangled to death, ac­ cording to the confession of one of sever&l lt&lians held by the police. , The boy's neck is Supposed to have been broken when he was strangled, •musing' the he^ to become separated " from the body when decomposition set in. The head was found a short distance from the body. Five Italians, two of them women, are under arrest charged with being accomplices to the murder. Seldom since the Mafia lynching* 16 years ago has New Orleans been so stirred with threats of violence and some of these threats are made by those who participated in the disor­ ders at that time. < The murdered boy was found near St. Rose, about 20 miles from New Orleans. A sweating process wrung a confession from one of the Italian suspects who Was taken from Ihis home in St. Rose about midnight Sat­ urday night and carried into th© woods by a combined force of offi­ cials and vigllants who had the search in charge. This man, Ignazio Cam- pigciano, was kept In the woods an hour, when he confessed, charging four Italians , with the murder. H<| said that about the time of a mass meeting in New Orleans-more than a week ago, held for {he purpose of prosecuting search for the body, these men, who were in a vacant house in St. Rose, became frightened and con­ sulted about what to do with the child. The boy was crying, begging to b» taken home to his parents, said Camp- igciano, and one of the quartette of the kidnapers grabbed the child and strangled him to death to stop his noiBe. Later two of the kidnapers, he said, came to him, carrying the body in a blanket, and after threatening him with death if he told, took tho body into a swamp. A8LEEP WHEN HE KILLED. Strange Story of Italian Who Shot Man on a Train. Goodland, Kan.--John Bello, tho ; Italian who killed a man and wound­ ed two women passengers on a Rock Island train east of here, says he committed the murder In his sleep as the result of a dream. He says: "I went to sleep in my seat and I had a terrible dream. I dreamed that a man with a white handkerchief over his face had me by the throat and was trylag to rob me. I fought with ail my strength. Finally I managed to throw my assailant off. The robber turned to run. I had a revolver in my pocket, and I siezed it and be­ gan to shoot. All of this was in my sleep." CHILD ARRESTED AS FIREBUG. Seven-Year-Old Boy Accused of Burn­ ing Two Houses. Parkersburg, W. Va.--Clyde Glid- den, aged seven years, has been ar­ rested and placed in jail on a charge of incendiarism, it being alleged that he burned two houses a week ago. The houses were occupied and the families barely escaped with their lives. The penalty for the crime of which the boy is charged in this state is death unless the- jury recommends jjjercy, and then it is life imprison­ ment. J. D. Ctf$ftf>, owner of the destroyed houses, alleges that young Glidden burned them because he had been ordered to stay out of Cutlip's garden. Six Men Killed Ift Collision.' Cartford, Conn. -- Six workmen were filled and 35 injured when a passenger train on the Highland divis­ ion of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad crashed into the rear of a work train that was backing *ntc the city from Ms™ Brits.!!! Sun­ day night at the Sigourney street crossing. Of the Injured two probably will die. Engineer Wilson of the pas­ senger train jumped In time to escape tajury. The passengers, however, were badly shaken up and some were cut by flying glass. Brutal Murder of a Negro. Columbus, O.--In a quarrel over & crap game Sunday, Oliver Anderson, colored, was knocked senseless, after which another negro deliberately cut Anderson's throat, killing him. Negro Kills a Constable. Memphis, Tenn.--Constable J. H. Goad is dead and Isom Reed, a negro. Is suffering from wounds which are considered fatal as a result of a pistol duel late Sunday, between the con­ stable and the negro. Reed was re­ sisting arrest. Two Bathers Are Drowned. Columbus O.--Henry Zipf and Her­ man Ludwig were drowned in Big Walnut creek near this city Sunday while bathing. Neither could swim and they got beyond their depth. Gen. William Duffield Dies. Washington.--Gen. William Duf­ field, for a number of years super­ intendent of the United States coast and geodetic survey, and said to have been the oldest living graduate of Co!um^ia college, New York, di^d at bis home here. T Emory Foster Dies Suddenly. New York.--Emory Foster, a well known newspaper man, died suddenly Surulay of acute kidney trouble. H« was a son of Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, the lecturer. •iv-sff..