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'FRANKEIN PRESS 5 LOSES OPENER TO HOLMAN'S QUINTET :VOL XXXII--NO. 49 The Franklin Press baseball five lost their opening game of the sea-- son last night to Holman's Liberty-- ville team at Libertyvile by a 27 to 11 score after they had led up to the last quarter 9 to 7. It looked MUke the Waukegan boys were not supposed> to win that game. Both Teams Use Flock of Play-- ers and Locals Kick at Offi-- GIRLS BEAT LAKE BLUFF The Libertyville girls team, com-- posed of Waukegan girls including some of the stars of the old Wau-- kegan Giris' team, meat the Lake Bluff girls in a curtain raiser by an 18 to 0 score. The Libertyville girls played a good game of basket-- ball but must put in a lot of prac-- tice before they get back to their stride of former years that put them in line as oune of the best giri. teams in this section of tae country. _ Hanson at center for the Frank-- lin _ five did the heavy d'u.g in shooting field goals and he the #coring for the locals with 4 bas kets. Todor, a new _ Libertyyillle man, starred for the macaroni mak-- ers with six: baskets. The officiating in the main game Of the evening was nothing to brag about 'as a young Lake Forester had the whistle between his teeth and couldn't be convinced that The rule book knew more about the game than hbe. In the last quarter he refused to allow the Waukegan boys to take time out and Called fouls on them in rapid succession while Libertyville was> ufftouched. "FINEST SCHOOL" State Official Calls Hawthorn Farm Structure "Best Ele-- Hawthorn Farm school, three miles southwest of Libertyville, built on land given by Samuel Insull and-- at-- tended largely by children born on his farm lands, was dedicated Tues-- day night Francis G Blair, state su-- perintendent of Public Instruction, and his assistant, U. J. Hoffman, who has characterized the school "the best elementary school in the state," were present. * C i HAVE BUSSES FOR PUPILS Mr. Blair awarded a superior ele-- mentary school --certificate to ~the school it being presented to: Miss Florence Chapman, the principal. ---- Sixty--fAve pupiis from three school districts have been entering the $18,/ 000 building since Sept. 1. The school grounds comprise three acres, half a mile from the -- Insull home, < from whose supply tank flows the achow!'s water. Busses are supplied by the dis-- trict to take the children to and from school. There wore 250 persons at the dedicatory ceremonies, Other speak-- ers were T. Ar&lur Simpson, clol:::{ snperintendent 8 £. C. W. Farr, uulhm%mht of schools from Cook county, Newton. The ladies of the district served re-- freshments later, Dancing followed. . The board of diractors of the school are Joseph Reuse,° president, -- Mra. Jessie Rouse, secrotary, Park Allin-- son, Ola Allinson, Fred Bulkley, Robert Dawson and Chris. Jensen. CHARGES HUSBAND HAS DESERTED HER Mrs. Georgettes Mariae Badow, today filed suit for divorce, through her At-- torney, Georga W, Field, from Gar-- ard Badow, in the circault court She chargos desartion. "The Badows woere married in 1906, the petition states, . Ben Stickles, of Fox Lake, charged with having appropriated $8,000 from the Harbaugh m.&'« company while c-m'u by that fAirm, is to be placed on in elroult court Jan. 4, it IS DEDICATED AT LIBERTYVILLE ciating Game. mentary School." LAKE COUNTY INDEPENDENT Lote County's Big Weeky WAUKEGAN WEEKLY SUN MRS. THOS. M°'MARON FIGHTS BAIL FOR Wife of Ex:m) Demands that Husband and "Other Wom-- en' Be Kept in Jail. was --innocent of any wrong GOING. _ "lohs,n'tchonno.o-thi months," Mrs. McMahon said. "When he worked for the Ermine Cleaners at Highwood he seldom came home. For a long timg I didn't know what he was doing. But I'm nexst to him now. I've been told . that he WAS living with this other woman down there." ' McMahon claimed he had just met Miss Bukantis by accident on the traimn yesterday and that she told him she was leaving home because she could no longer get along with her folks. The warrant for bot! the charges or at leas\ bonds so they could get "Miss Bukantis has a . | . _: MB . _....c. .. db t diiihadapn tmb ind d 4 bonds so they could get out of jail. "Miss Bukantis has a two months old child and she can't take care of the baby now," she said. * Mrs. finm said a woman with a little y has no business chas-- ing around, "I've got two of my ov'x; to worry about," Mrs, McMahon said. "When my husband falled to pro-- vide for me I got so badly in debt that --I had to rent our house and go to live with my aunt, -- _ _ . _ ERTYVILLE TINDEPENDENT _ . Both McMahon and the Bukantis woman were returned to Jail baing unable to give bail for $1,000 each. Their case was continued until Dec. He 10, by . Coulson. FORT SHERIDAN _ HORSES DIF IN OfMMcers at Fort Sheridan are wor-- rled over an epidemic of shipping fovr-- er, a.sort of influenkza, which has al-- regdy taken the liyes of two horses at the post, Twenty other animals are The post veterinarian, Liout, H. K. Moore, has been ordsred to Grand Haven, Mich., where an, armjy tre mount depot is loonted, because of an outbreak of the same dissase there. KFort Sheridan oMcers axpect a car lond of thoroughbreds which they purchased at the Diamond Bar ranch in Wyoming, to arrive within a day or two, and appoaled to divisional hoadquartors to send Lieut, Moors or another vetorinary to Fort Sheridan to aksure adequite care of their ani-- "Pig Thou Art, to Pig Returneth' SECTION® TWO LILBERTYYILLE, LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1924 by Justice of the Poeace H. C. MATE, AFFINITY l;l"'tbé'_'-'b--tiér woman" by her brother, George egged his wile to drop or at least llgn_tl_u_l_r FLU EPIDEMIC FREE 2 ALLEGED _ MURDER SUSPECTS: . RELEASE OTHERS Charges Dropped Agah\d Two Men in Death of Chas. Sir-- at Channel Lake, pleaded gullty and was released on parole to the prob& tion officer, Charles H. Mason. ~ Elisha Phillips, charged with hay-- ing taken a revolver from a trunk be [ Charles Duchek, Chicago, dairy-- man, chargeod with having swindied a number of Lake ccunty dairymen, is Leing held under $5,000 bail. 1-- Te bah 'or Herbert Periberg, Frank Walkoweki and Max Stets:, in Alcted for allezsed burglacy of the J. H. Peterson & company clothing store, was fixsd at $19,009 aech. longing to another negro, released. Alfonse Ricardo and Portirio Cor nezio, held to the grand jury in com nection with an alleged attack upon Metra Martinez and another Mexrt can in North Chicago several months ago, were paroled to the probation officer after entering pleas of "guil-- t'." Bail for William S. Hart, Wauke gan taxricab driver, chargod with hay-- ing stolen $27 from his employer, was fixed at $1,000. Manuel Rodriguez' bond was fixed at $10,000, He is being held4 on a charge of burglarizing the John Cichy tailor shop at Libertyyille, of $2700 worth of clothing. Charles Ii--chman, Waukegar, was placed under $2,000 bond, on a charge of thett. > e NO SHORE LINE SEEKS $1,000,000 Springfileld, II!., Dec. 3.--Authority to issue $7,000,00 first and refund-- ing mortgage gold bonds was asked by the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee railroad in an applica tion filéd with <«the Illinois Com-- merce Commission today, --», Bpringfield, II1.,. Dec. 3%.--A new m on life was today granted d Willlamk, senten¢ed to . hang for murder in 8t. Clait county, when the Ililinois supreme court gave his attorneys until January 1 to file ab-- stracts and briefs, and continued hisg case. Tha court 'ean now make mno decision in the case until next May or June, it is believed. FLOYD WILLIAMS GETS A RESPITE MeDONALO 18 HONORED London, Dec, 3.----Labor members of the newly convened parliament today --electeod Ramseay MacDonald, ::.-tt premier, as their h«r£ ching 'session. Opposit to mll basedom -- eriticiam of his conduct. of 'the lahar eamnaign aks: Dismiss Theft Cases. PERJURY CASE MAY GO TO JURY TO-- NIGHT, REPORT Witness Swore that Defendant Related to Him that Ira | Blackwell Took "Graft." The jury in the Grom perjury Case at Woodstock was completed late in the afternoon on oMnday, and Attor-- ney W. L. Pierce immediately pre-- sented the state's openifg. statement to the twelve men, followed by Attor-- ney Montgomery Ward, one of Grom's lawyers. RAHSED PROTECTION PRICE The first witness called was For-- mer State's Attorney V. 8. Lumley, who testified that he first met the de-- fendant a short time after he was ar-- rested on a charge of transporting in-- toxicating liquors. *Mr. Lumley swore that Grom re lated to him that Ira Blackwell, for-- mer member of the L e Co. sponge squad, had been collec. :z money for allowing beer to get through Mo-- Henry county and that he (Grom) had paid first at the rate of $1 a barrel and later the price was raised to $2 per barrel. "Monroe Fuller, of Marengo, was the mext witness. Mr. Fuller testified that he was foreman of the grand jury which returned the indictment against Grom and that he had ad-- ministered the oath to Grom before he woent on the witness stand in the Sheriff Edinger was called by At-- torney Pierce and was asked to relate conversations which took place in his office between Grom and others. The sheriff stated he had heard Grom ad-- mit paying sums of money to get been through thg county, Owen H. Corr, & deputy sheriff, also testified that Grom told him he had paid money for the priviiege. Loren es io Wwepintodk after his. Arrant. Grom to Wood after his arrest, was a good witness for the state, telling of his conversation with the BOY KILLED BY GUN OF JUSTICE FROM HALF DAY The shotgun of William Farris, for-- mer justice of the peace at Half Day, killed a little boy Tuesday. 1 There was & silky haired red dog sitting in the front seat of the auto-- mobile parked at 1433 West Erie street, Chicago. The youngsters playing around the car made friends with the setter. Then Julius Bati-- ntah -- saw a bis sun in the back Lad of 4 Years Finds Shotgun in Auto; Shoots -- Brother While Playing Soldier. OWNER HELD FOR INQUEST The shotgun belonged tO ! a close friend of the dead father. Farris was returning a hunting trip. He w pending the inquest today. CARNIVAL MAN, KNOWN HERE, DIES A dispatch from Greenville, Miss., tells of the death there of Con T. Kennedy, one of America's best known out door showmen, owner of a carnival bearing his name. Death followed a short Hliness. Mr. Ken-- nedy brought his carnival company to North Chicago last summer and it proved to be by far the cleanest and best attraction of the kind ever seen in this vicinity. KILLED BY ACCIDPENT Butte, Mont.. Dec. 3.--Robert Poo-- pleg, 31, _ was almost instantly killed here today in the offices of the :'um department store by a bu!-- ¢ from a gun which was knocked to the floor at his feot as he alid a heary ledger from a vault shalt at the trigger. a big gun in the of the dead boy's held PRACTICALLY NO CONTAGION FOUND -- ---- INTAKE COUNTY counties . in the . state.: Of. the: 308 aw cases 'of scarlet faver reported trom . various counties? in ~the : state Lake county did not report any caS-- es... The same is true of other con-- taglous diseases. n ue s . The smallpoxr situation appgars to have cleaged up as no new" tases of . the disease have broken out for some time. The heaith situation here appéars to be most favorable. 'Here is what a Springfield dis patch says of the matter: Scarlet fever prevalence i@ Illi-- nois took another jump during the past week when 308 new cases were reported to the state department of public healith, an Aincrease from 256 the proceding week. Of these Cook county had 191, Greene county 8, Jackson 11, Kane 6, LaSalle 7, Mad-- ison 6, Peoria 5. > Only 3 Cases of Diphtheria Re-- ported Last Week; No Other Other contagious diseases in the state and the number of cases re-- ported during the past week includ-- ed: diphtheria 158, smallpoxr 11, ty-- phoid fever 27, poliomyelitis 8, pneu-- monia 190, influenza 22,-- syphilis 188, gonorrhea 446, whooping cough %82, tuberculosis 220, measles 101. HEART TROUBLE CAUSED SUDDEN --DFEATH OF WOMAN Mrs. Emma McClerry of Fox Lake, Found Dead in Home by Husband Mon. p. m. World's Largest Snake. The python is considered the largest | snake in the world. It is found in the \Kast Indies and in the Philippine Islands. . Specimens thirty feet long +--bave been seen. All the various spe-- «es of pythons lend themselves casily | to covsivity and taming. wASs DOING THE DISHES Mrs. Emma McClerry, 40, of Fox Lake, who was found dead, lying on the floor of her kitchen Monday after-- noon by her husband, died from mio carditis, a hoart ailment, according to a verdict returned by a coroner's jury Monday evening at the inquest. . _ Jhere's a human head in this box. Whe box was paraded through the 'streots of Peking. mbg'n"dg%g(t&,y'mon'rd", Feng Yu--hsiang Coroner J. L. Taylor of Libertyville, discovered that the woman had been suffering from sharp pains for the past week, but that she thought it was & lung trouble. °.. _ . Her husband, Charles, had been away from the house since noon and returned about 2 o'clock to find heér lying om the kitchen floor, dishes on one side of her and sillverware on the other. Ho thought at first she had swooned while washing dishes, but Dr., W. W; Warriner of Antioch, pro-- nounced her dead whem e arrived. The McClerry's made their home on the old Busse farm a short way from Fox Lake. + Coroner Taylor did not find it neces-- sary to hold an autopsy on thea body. ITne neag is LESV.OI a BOTIRIOE UE LITC AREAWRIRONE AABRREECE mmmmww,mmmumd Ing were reported. & QUARANTINE 3 _ -- COMPANIES AT NAVAL STATION Appearance of Two Cases of Scarlet Fever Causes 'Ac-- tion to Be Taken. > NO -- CAUSE FOR ALARM In view of the appearance of two cases of scarlet fever among recrauits quartered in 'Barracks "A" of the Great Lakes naval training station, a modified quarantine has been estab lished by Capt. Waldo Evaps, UAN., &:m quarantine applies strictly. to the 'companies of m in' Barracks® "A", and ' they drill, Mess, and take their recre-- ationa!® perlods ~separate and , apart trom her recruits at the training sta-- tion, and until medical officers, are satisfied that all possible danger of further contagion has passed the re-- cruits of these three companies will not be permitted to visit nelgh bor-- ing communities. ue s 2 -.E;;Civ-;i;';iotes that the prompt precautionary measures taken at his direction by the medical officers of the training station have brought the situation well under control and that no apprehension need be felt either locally or in the neighboring commun-- Ities that these sporadic ca%es of scarlet fever will assume the propor-- tions of an epidemic. FORGER GETS 7 CHECKS CASHED THE -- TOTAL® HITS $116 W. S. Pearce, Druggist, Finds Someone Has Been Writing Checks.on Him in Chicago. ds BPR TCI RWRIWOOCO P0 C OCC local person, in the past few days has been able to cash seven checks in Chicago signed with the name of W. & * Pearce, owner of the Pearce drug store. & * The seven checks © amounted to $116, but it is believed that | there are more of them out. ' Mr. Pearce discovered the forgery yestérday in going over & number of canceled checks of recent dates. He noticed that some were on' Marshal Field & company, Carson, Pirlé Scott and such firms in Chicago. -- A care-- ful canvas of expénditures developed that no such purchases had been made in these places." -- Bs He notified the First National Bank, the institution that had accepted the checks, and they immediately: took the forgeries in hopes of apprehend-- Ing the forger. _ The chocks were stamped with a rubber stamp bearing the name "Pearce Drug Btore." Under 'this tirm name had been signed the umol "W,. 8. Pearce." It was an easy matter to have tho; checks cashed as Mr. Pearco has ac-- counts in all of the firms where they were "worked." ' #Ha fears that the noext canceled checks to arrive will carry more bad| news. 1 Wanted His Monay's Worth. Newly--Riches were seated in theig handsome drawing room. Mra Newly--Richa, at the grand plano, Im« boriously picked out kymn tunes with one fAnger. "Hang it all, missu®," said Mr. New!ly--Riche, impatiently, "If I buy you a plano that size, I axpect you to use both fsta" 7 clever forger, thought to ON LOCAL MAN $1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE Worth. eontinu » seated in | in sear oom. . Mra. | preys & plano, in« while ¢ tunes with | beneAt i11, missus," | phoobe -m-q'lm CRIES OF SLAIN _WOMAN'S SISTER = _ DISRUPTS COURT ! It is for the murder of Mrs. Fran-- icel Eder, Mrs. Himmelberg's sister, ; that Kammerer is being tried specif-- 'lcluY. although conviction virtually ' would prove hbhim guilty as well !ot the killing of Mrs. Eder's hus-- 'band and their three sons, aRy, ,Jaekle and Harvey, whose bodies 'were found beside hers in the home \June 27. John Krammerer, on Trial for Murder in Wheaton, is Men-- aced in Court. Wheaton, I!l., Dec. 3.--Proceedings in the trial of John Kammerer were disrupted temporarily here _ today when Mrs. Paul Himmelbersg, sister of one of his alleged victims, at-- tempted to attack the defendant as he stood in the prisoner's box. DAMAGING "Ob, why did you kill my sister-- why did you kill her?" Mrs. Him-- meilberg's volce shrilled through the courtroom as she lunged _ toward Kammerer. Other relatives shifted meancingly toward the defendant and while trou-- ble seemed imminent, the judge or-- dered a five minutes recess. _ The outbreak left the defeudant more Rervous and shifty than during the preliminary days of the trial and ho cast his eyes abou . the court room unsasily as the first wit» ness took the stand. e n | The first -- damaging testimony against him came from Mrs. Otte Buck, a neighbor of the Eders, She testified that on the day of .the murder she had gone to the Ede#t home to return a dish she had bor-- "'"I went to the back answer but I could hear a sort OE pounding inside. ~Then a shade was jerked down and then« jerked aside again and I saw Kammerer's face at the window. ; --"Mrs. Eder has goune to Chicago to spend the day,' 'he--told me.". < The formal establishment of the corpus delicit was made througz@ tes-- timony of Coroner W. V. Hopf who described the finding of the bodies, all ~killed --by. an. axe blow-- in the back of the heads. "The bodies had 'been wrappod: in a bloody bedquilt," he was continuing .-_In.iglmndwt'- scream in-- terrupted testimony. --Bhe had . cunl dadrmcAun i o0 uio+ CS COn aud the taking of testimony contin-- terrupted his . testimony. -- She had been weeping loudly-- while h8 was taiking and. guddenly -- stood. upright, pointing an Accusing finger at the cowering: defesdant. - * Quiet was restored after the. recoss SHEATSLEY GETS MYSTERIOUS NOTE TN FURNACE DEATH Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 3-- my wife and l}ill yours." «You Kill My Witfe and 1 Kill Yours" Was Postscript to Anonymous Letter. Ananonymous letter, in an & most illegible scrawl on ordinary aote paper and bearing this 'postscript, was turned over to detectives today by Rev. C. V. Sheatsley, whose wite's body was found in the parsonage tur-- nace more than two weeks ago, The letter was signed with a skull and cross--bones And was addressed to "Rev. Sheatsiey, Columbus, OIx' The postmark, which was very tinct, showed the letter was mailled at Buffalo, N. Y., at 9:30 p. m. Nov-- ember 24, it read: _ "I kill your wife 'and I will kill you. . -- _ "No detectives will get me. I mur-- der them all. The police think she kllls herselt--Ho! Ho!" "Rev. Sheatsley, I will get you. Be-- ware'! % "P. 8. You kill my wife and 1 kill yours." 1 While detectives indicated they would attempt to trace the letter and arrest the correspondent, it * he is 'found, they admitted the 'wtiter ) might be a fanatic. , THREATENS -- SHEATSLEY At the top of the note were pen-- cil indentations of a sentence that had been erased. It said; B "You know who I am." According to members of the Sheatsley family neither the minis« lmlonmm-lih | benefit . to tarmerna _ T | phoobe is also known AS J | pewit. it, however, sh .contused with the wood | | ts a «: *~rent apectes of | ter nor his wife ever lived in or near Buffalo. 'The minister was at a loss to extplain the note or offer any sug-- gestion as to whom the writer might be. Prosecutor King refused to make any statement about the mysterlous letter and detectives likewiso assum-- ed an attitude of secrocy. . . .. The Phoobe, of the Fiysatcher Family, The phoebe, a small, grayish--browA bird, belongs to the Aycatcher family, It takes munotn-m-.w call, "pew!t, phoobe; phoebe, pewit," .. eontinuously repeated, as it fiys 38 in search of a habitation. The Y Ou TESTIMONY, Dec.' 3--"You kill