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C O N S U M P T I O N WILL LAST A MONTH, JOE'S SERMON Quick and Witty. Lord Young is said.to l)e one of the ablest Scotchmen on, the bench or at the bar. At least, he. lias a ready tongue. One day in September he \vas driving into town from His place in the country when he met an acquaintance. "Hallo!"'said the latter, ^what are you doing here? I'thought ail respect­ able people were out of towp." ,fWeIl," said the other, "'have you seen anything to make you iilter your opinion? I haven't." At the time of the general election of 1892, he was visiting at Dalmeny House, and the report came that Lord Wolmer, now the Earl of Selborne. had been returned for the Western Division by a majority of three, over Mr. T. R. Buchanan. Soon after some one came in and said that Lord --- and Lord had voted for Wolmer. "Ah," said Young, "that accounts for the two ciphers." BARRIOS IS HUMBLED. SLAIN WHILE THEY SLEEP. Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for ttM feet. 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An Austrian newspaper announces that Mtfuser; the well-known manufac­ turer of firearms, and . tlie inventor of the mitrailleuse, which bears his name, has just invented a new mitrailleuse, which loads and discharges itself auto­ matically. There are three models of this, and experiments with them are Baid to have been highly successful. Guatemalan President Snes Morales for Peace. A private cipher cable dispatch receiv­ ed in San Francisco from Guatemala, when deciphered, reads that the revolu­ tionists have Barrfas cornered and that the general has been trying to compromise with Morales. He. has sent word to the insurgent leader that he is ready to sue for peace. The proper construction to put on the message is that Barrios has probably been compelled to accept terms of surrender from Morales. The members of the Central American colony in New York are^horror stricken over the news of the ttehooting of promi« Terrible Tragedy Is Enacted in an Iowa Farmer's Home. John Becker, aged 44 years, attended services at the church in Breda, Carroll County, Iowa, Sunday afternoon with his wife and eldest daughter, spent the even­ ing brooding over some financial affairs, although he was a wealthy farmer, as farm wealth goes, and some time in the night shot and killed his wife, his six little children and himself. Becker was to help a neighbor thrash Monday morning, and on not putting in an appearance about 9 o'clock his brother Henry; who lives with the old folks about twenty rods away, went to learn the rea­ son. The doors were locked and there were no signs of life about. He tried to get in the house, but met no response and finally he kicked in the door and found the dead bodies. Becker with his wife and baby slept in a back room, and the three corpses lay on one bed. The wife had been shot in the neck with a shotgun, which stood in the corner. The baby had been shot and its head crushed with the butt of a revolver. The man was still breathing and had a bullet hole high up on the forehead and by his side was a revolver, two chambers empty. • - ' • • Upstairs Henry, aged 8, and Lizzie, aged 6, lay on a bed with bullet holes in their foreheads, the latter dead, the boy still breathing, and in the. opposite corner of the same room Caroline, aged 14; Chris­ tine, aged 9, and, John, 3, were dead, each with a bhllet hole in the forehead. The indications are that Becker first dispatched his wife with the shot gun, shooting her in the neck, then used the revolver on the baby, first shooting, then knocking'out its brains with the butt. He then went upstairs, where the five chil­ dren were sleeping, and killed them. He must have used a light, for his aim was effective, each victim being shot in the forehead. All but two of the children met with in­ stant death, for the blood clots were under their heads and two lay as calmly reposed as if in sleep. All except Henry, who is not yet dead, were attired in night robes. The murderer had reloaded the weapon while upstairs and evidently sent the see- ond bullet into the oldest girl's brain just before leaving the room. Going down­ stairs he stretched himself beside the corpse of his wife and shot himself. Becker for over twenty years lived in the same neighborhood, in fact, on the same farm. He was married eleven years ago, and after living a year with his par­ ents moved to the scene of the tragedy, which is almost within hailing distance of the old home. Becker had been regarded as a prosper­ ous farmer, and only recently bought a 200-acre farm a few miles from the old homestead. Sunday he attended church at Breda with his wife and some of the children. Later in the day he was visited by a neighbor, who says that when he left the Becker home later in the evening they were seemingly a happy family, and there was not an indication of the awful tra­ gedy enacted a few hours later. CHICAGO'S GREAT MURDER TRIAL DRAGS ALONG. Case of Sansagemaker Luetgert Is Far from Being Ended-Shotgnn Quar­ antine in Texas - Irrigation Congress Meets--Government Report on Crops. End Is Not Near. The beginning of the sixth week of the Luetgert trial in Chicago brought „to the court room a large and more heterogene­ ous crowd than usual. Long before the court room doors weTe open, men, women and children surged about the main en­ trance of the criminal court building and made violent efforts to get in. Policemen and court bailiffs on duty at the doors had much difficulty in handling the crowds and admitting those with tickets. The State's Attorney's office was overrun by people who importuned Assistant State's Attorney McEwen for passes. State's Attorney Deneen and Assistant Statfe's Attorney McEwen avoided the solicita­ tions only by locking themselves in the State's Attorney's private office, where they consulted for half an hour with Po­ lice Inspector Schaack and Police Cap-' tain Schuettler. Never before at criminal trials in Chi­ cago, the anarchist trial not' excepted, has there been more widespread interest- than has been aroused by the Luetgert trial. All classes of people have been attracted, including politicians, ministers, actors, jurists and men and women of prominence in other walks of life, to say nothing about the thousands of morbidly Curious people whose frantic efforts TO* gain admission to the court room daily inject the only comedy , element in the whole ghastly affair. During the prog­ ress of the trial a United States Senator, several ministers of national reputation, visiting judges from other States and at­ torneys of high repute have been among the interested listeners to the evidence. State's Attorney Deneen expressed the* belief that at least four weeks more would be required to complete the presentation of the case. Luetgert came into court smoking a cigar and greeted his attorneys and his son, Arnold, pleasantly. The alleged wife murderer seemed to be in anexceptionally pleasant frame of mind and joked and laughed with his son and Wm. Charles, his business partner, until Judge Tuthill appeared upon the bench. Mary Siemering, the servant girl, whose cross-examination was in progress Satur­ day^ when court adjourned1, was called. Around this witness, according to the the- ory of the prosecution, the motive for the" alleged murder of Mrs. Louise Luetgert centers. . Luetgert's infatuation for his Try Gratn-O! Try Grain-O! Ask your grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The chil­ dren may drink without injury as well as tlie adult. All who try it like it. 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The organization is an outgrowth of the North American Transportation and GUARDS DRIVING REFUGEES FROM FEVER STRICKEN DISTRICTS, pretty servant girl is claimed by the pros­ ecution to have been the instilling motive to this celebrated crime. When she went on the witness stand to again endure, as she supposed, the cross-examination of State's Attorney Deneen, Mary Siemer­ ing appeared composed and defiant. Her cheeks were flushed, which indicated ap­ parently some mental excitement, but tlie young woman, it was evident, had made up her mind to control her feelings, and not permit the State's Attorney to con­ fuse her. His cross-examination was not severe. "Did you not say before the grand jury that Mrs. Luetgert was a good and kind mother?" asked Mr. McEwen. "I did," confessed the witness. "Now you say she beat her children and was cross with them?" "When I went to the grand jury room to testify Inspector Schaack was there. He told me if I did not say what I did he would punish me," said the witness. The photographs which were identified by witnesses from Kenosha wehe handed to the witness and she identified them. The picture which included Mrs. Luetgert and her two children was taken two years ago, the witness said. Several questions of an impeaching character were asked and Mary Siemering was excused. She left the witness stand with a smile and took a seat within the iuclosure and re­ mained to listen to other witnesses. Jacob Melber of Wheaton, 111., testified, that on May 0 he saw a woman at the depot in Wheaton at 5 o'clock in the morning whose description resembled that of Mrs. Luetgert. She inquired the way to Elmhurst. Melber is a butcher. He said he saw Mrs. Luetgert once last March. When asked upon cross-examina­ tion to describe the missing woman he could not do so and was excused. Charles Boehnke, who had worked for Luetgert for sixteen years, testified that on April 28 he bad a brief conversation with Mrs. Luetgert. She seemed much depressed, the witness said, and remarked that "things were going bad in the house." She said, according to the witness, that she would go to the country and go to work as a servant. "We are about ruin­ ed and I will go to the country and work out. I cannot stay here," tlie witness said were the words of the apparently dis­ tracted woman. "I-told her that times were as hard in ,the country as they were iu the city," said Boehnke. "and advised her not to go." When Mrs. Augusta Koch, a neighbor of the Luetgerts, who knew Mrs. Luet­ gert well, was called to the witness stand, Juror William Harler was called upon to act as interpreter. Mrs. Koch said she had known Mrs. Luetgert for eleven years and had lived near her most of this time. She saw and talked with Mrs. Luetgert tlie last week in April. Mrs. Luetgert was depressed and talked about going away. She told the witness, according to the statement of the latter, that Luetgert had been swindled by a man who had promised to pay a big sum for an interest in the sausage factory. Luetgert had let the man have a large amount of money and the man had run away. This evi­ dence was in support of the statement of ex-Judge Vincent at: the opening of the trial to the effect that a promoter had swindled Luetgert out of $25,000 and that this was the beginnitfg of the troubles of the sausage maker. Other witnesses tes­ tified along this line. William Charles, Luetgert's partner, testified that the caustic soda taken to the basement of the sausage factory in March was brought there for the purpose of cleaning the establishment. Several bar­ rels of tallow and a barrel of chipped bones were emptied into the middle vat to make soft soap, according to the wit­ ness. 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