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lit. IIS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 181)3. Highest of all in Leavening Pow ABSOLUTELY PURE BUTCHER AND IJAIl About Rounds Up the Charac ter of J. E. Stone. SOLE SLAYER OF THE WRATTENS. Th Notorious Confeasor Contrasts Agai:it lhi Time That He Alone Committed the ItMttnrd lfeil, nri I Sure of the Ititine 1'orgttrm A Letter to Hi Wife urn! liil.Iren- The I'.lootly Morv Me Tell Hi Tuck t on ml. W AsiUMJToN. I ml., Oct. 'Ji.-Janies K. Stone I m i tnwle m socoud confession, com pletely exoticrattus the (hthoiis whom fie implicated in the (irt confession in the Wrttcti tiiunWr on Sumlny morninc. Tuesiliiy lie stated to Deputy Prosecutor llisl.ns tlmt hi first confession was in tiie iniiiii untrue; ttiat lie alone was guilty f tbe atrocious crime, hihI that he hud no m-complices. He saiil tliHt he ami Mnrtin Ynrhoro Ut summer .mke of roll hiug the house, but Yarlro had backed don 11. lie said tlmt ariuinj; himself with a sinnll i.i ami a corn Lni.e lie proceeded to the lionsp. l alhnt; Mrs. Wr.tt:e:i to the door he infrineii her (hat he had a cise if toothache anil Mrs. Wrattin brought him some Wizard oil A ehe brought it he struck her li the floor w illi the corn knif Tli Kutchery f the others. He then rushed into the room where .Mr. Wrutteu -id the children were. Kllen V ratten, the 11-year-ohl fcirl who survived the horrible blow she received that tiiht for several days. Erst awoke, and recogniz ing Stone, exclaimed: "Mr. Stone, what are you doitg here?'' He struck her, then turned to the heipiess patient V ratten wan ill in ImmI. He struck him n fatal blo'.r on t "ne foreln ad. Next he killed hot ii the Muall children. lie then tried the door to the room of oid Mrs V ratten, but could imt force it. so Ire furred the window by breakii i; it w i'h Ins foot. Then a ter rible : morale ensued, for i ne old lady w as as strong us in lie.- prune; having killed her he parsed through t lie rooms in which bis other victims lay. Mr. and Mrs. V rat ten were It iiii still l.vin, but delirious. He gave I nt ru t he titia! blow. 'I he Lord It Veiy .Merciful. Stone i'. aI not get uny money anil said that after the tragedy 1 e did Itot care for money. Stone then hid his clotiies and bloody weapons. He wis the first at the Wrntten homestead when the alarm of the murder was given. He was u pall-bearer at the funeral and assisted the undertaker in dressing the bodies f ir burial. He says that he has beeu forgiven by the Lord and ia a Laj py man. Tidd Where Hot Tool Were Hidden. In the confession Stone told the officers where to find the weapons with which the deed uns done. The nflicerg wctit out and found them where Stone had stated. A aniall, bloody axe and a corn-knife were bidden under a log in a piece of woods close by the scene of the tragedy. The weapons are now in the hands of the grand jury. It is reported that when the consta ble went to arrest Stone be invited the constable into family prayers alter he said he would go with him. His wife has been brought to Washington for protection, as she feared violence from the murderous gang to which her husband belonged. Wrilei a Letter to His Family, lie wrote the following to his wife and children: TAH ChtlLUA, SA1.LIE, EZUA AMI IlAItliV I don't think I will ever see your fac?s again. Raise these children to fear God. 1 will tell you that today I am happy in a Savior's love. I nought Christ yesterday evening and all last night. 1 have found him precious to my soul and am now ready to die and am a happy man. Please meet me in heaven, all of you. Tell Cecillia to w.rite me as aoou as she gets this, and that she did just right in telling the truth on me to the grand jury. I am saved. I'ray for me, Cecillia, (iood bye. John K. Stone." The last story of the self-confessed mur derer caused iutense excitement in this city and is generally regarded as being the truth, but he is such a notorious liar that some still dotibt that he tells the whole truth. It is the general opinion that he believed himself to be in a tight place and thought best to make a clean breast of the whole tragedy. The weapons being found just where titoue said he had plnced them, has banished all doubt ns to his guilt. The crime stands wit hout parallel in the history of southern Indiana. Steps are being taken to liberate the six men now confined in the state prison who were arrested mid placed there on Stone's first coufessioti. TRAGEDY IN A TENEMENT. Quarrel Over liivirilon of I'roerty lls a l-atul Oulcuiue. Boston, Oct. 0. Five pistol shots rang out in a room on the fourth floor of tene ment house No. 21 Billocca street. A mo uieut later it man's body was seen to tail from a window- of the room to the side walk below. Officers were soon on the spot aud found that there was still life in the Isidy. The man was scut to t he Grand Central hospital. Two other men with bullet wounds in their bodies were taken with him. The first named is Louis Warsfsky, who died just before reaching the hospital. He had two bullet wouuds in his body. A bad wound was on tne back of his head, where he had struck the sidewalk. It was at lirst thougnt that he had been killed by his companions, out the investigation shows that he had himself lin.ii the shots at bis erstwhile friends and himself. His companions were Isaac Glass, in whose tenement ut 21 Billocca street the affair occurred, aud Simeon Marketson, rf 7 Billot-en street. It seems that the three men had purchased a house between them some time ugo and were engaged in quar reling over the division. - Will Kuu These Gins Ilegardless. St. Lot is, Oct. 20. A Post Dispatch er. Latest U. S. Gov't Report. mm Ponder i Milan, Teun., special says: The wniterap war upon cotton ginm rs has reached here, and the gins of James Morgan, D. C. Clad ' well, and Butler & C o. have been posted with the usual "10 cec ts per pound" ivarn ing. The citizens here are wrought up by the affair, and have at ranged to guard the gius which will be run regardless of threats. t ailed In Get 1 hat StSO.OttO. Dss MoiNES, la., Oct. at. The cases of Eva I- Knight, of C'ed.ir Rapid, and Mar garet Courdran, of Coon liapuls, against the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road for ftfil.tXHj, which were tried m the Unitei' Stntes district court before Judges Wool son and Shiras, resul ed iaaxeruict lor the defendant. EXPERIENCE NO USE TO THEM. A Startling Story of Disobedience of Or ders on the Hail. 1KTI:IT. Oct. S'.. A News special dis patch from Battle Cre:k, Mich., says: The whole story of the awf jl rail n ay horror o' last Friday morning bus not yet lieen told. The truth is that lie fore sunset of the sa'i e memorable day the terrible disaster came within a hair's-breadll of being ree:tted at a point farther west on the same road. There was another instance of gross di so liedience of orders, a ad the escape was simply miraculous. As a result the crew of a passenger train were quietly dis charged upou their return to K ittle Creek from Chicago, and the facts are not wtiis rered outside of railway circles. The disoledicnce of orders on the part of the train employes was even more marked than Mas the case in connection with the now famous horror of last Fri day. After the wreck a train was made up here to carry the uninjured survivors of the wreck to Chicago, it was knewn as a continuation of tin ill-fated No 9 ami was in charge of Conductor Kugene Has ley aud Engineer Gus Jlibbitrd. who are resi dents of this city. Thtir crders were tj meet a heavily loaded east-bound passen ger train at a place cal ed Haskell's. This order was whol y ignored and the train carrying those wl o had already had one terrible experien'e within a few hours passed Haskell's and continued se renely toward Yalpartiso, Ind., einm miles distant. Only a miracle saved the passengers who were rescued from tne Battle Creek wreck from being placed again in perhaps even more deadly p-ril before their journey Lmi been continued loo miles. The east bound trail:, heavily loaded with returning World s fair visitors, re mained five minutes lo iger at Valparaiso than had been its custom in order to take on water and allow the engineer ami con ductor to eat lunch. 1 his delay allowed the westbound train to come within sk'ht of the station before the other train, which was ou the same traci, had left it. The two engiues came toget her with consider able force, but not hard enough to w reck the trains, owing to t ie fact that No. U had slowed down tit .ts approach to the station. On return to Battle Creek Con ductor liasley, knowing that discharge was inevitable, walked .ntothe office and tendered bis resign.it ;on, while K.:giu:- llihbard was itieoutmen !v tird. The fireman Corroborate AVooley. BATTLE C'EtLK, Mich, Oct. a; la the I Inquest on the Grand Trunk horror Josep-. II. Turner, fireman of No. i. Wooley's train, testified that Woe ley asked Conduc tor Scott lie'ore pulling out whether No. t was in, and Scott replied: "Yes; hurry up and get out of here." Scott and Worb-y refused to testify on the ground that they would incriminate then selves, and Attor ney General F.llis has ired in reply 1 o a question that they caiin it lie compelled to testify. GREAT DISTRESS IN THE STRIP. lozen of the Itoniners KlitireU Destitute and W ore to (viue. ST. LotTS Oct. 2t'.. A special to an evening paper from Arkansas Citj, Kas., says: The first toucli of w inter now bt inj experienced in the Cherol.e strip reveals out faintly the condition that will otita; n within the near future.- Hundreds of people and d'-zens of families in the strip are entirely destitute Up to this time many of them have been entirely v it hout sheber save tlid stars. Mod the-.- Imt-f no money to g'.;t away or to procure detent shelter for the winter. Hundreds will be in dire distress soon. Without money, homeli ss and landless, they must do something or starve. Ke tur.iing boomers are bt ating their way back to their former ho-ties as best they can. Arkansas City it. oerrun with them. They ure ou starvation's verge. Many of them are sick and witht ut means to pro cure medical attendance. They are com batting dmease and pove -ty. should win ter set iu in earnes-t the rittiatiun of these people woul d lie deplorable iu the ex treme. It is estimated by those familiar with the facts that fully l.!.,000 persons failed to secure anything iu the r ish. By far the larger portion of these It ckless ones had means to go awav and bnve gone. Bui lo the few whose all was comprised in a few dollars, a scanty hourd of provisions, a team and wxgon and a hi If dozen hungry children, failure to secure a claim meant absolute ruiu. Wimiu the lust leu days scores have tramped through Arkansas City who went into the Strip in covered wagons. Ordered Out of Louisiana. New Ouleans, Oct. 20. The La Belie Creole troupe of colored lemaie minstrels has arrived here in distress, having had a ralher rough time of i- in southwest Lou isiana. They did not kuow that ''Creole" doesn't mean quadroon, mulatto or any other mixture of negro blood, but white, o French or Spanish descent, who highly resent such a misuse of t ic word. They were ordered out of the state for the "in sult," the "regulator" lo limit tee iu one instauce being headed by the mavor. I'rctty Costly Glass of lteer. EMi-oiiiA, Kan., Oct. 20. In the district court Judge W. A. Kaudolph sentenced Theodore Voeste to sixty days in jail and to pay a fine of 2U0 aud costs of trial and to give $2,000 bond not to engage in the liquor business again. Vo ste had pleaded guilty to scllir.it. tine triass of. beer. SFIEXPOPTHE HAIL ! Adds Nearly a Score to His List of Victims. . THREE BAD DISASTERS IN ONE DAY. tour Men Killed at llat-risbure, I'm., and Terribly Mangled Manetiter of Trnuipa iu Mew Jersey and Texas An Vnknown Number Sent to Eternity Several Per sons Itadly Hurt Miraculous riseape of Engineer and Fireman. Hakicisulku, Pa., Oct. -.M. Four men were killed in a wreck on the Pennsyl vania railway in this city, almost on the spot where the Dock btrect horror oc curred in June, 1S10. A loaded freight train going east was boarded at Market street by five men, who got into a coal car. Two squares away the coal car jumped the track at a switch and half a dozen cars were tilted on end and crashed into a westbound train of empty cars. The car in which the men were sitting was held in the middle of the grinding mass and four were iusiantly killed aud one injured. Crushed Out of Recognition. It is almost impossible to identify three of the dead owing to their being crusiled out of recognition. The fourth is known to be Kit-hard Doyle, of Pittsburg, a rail roader out of work. Two of them were boilermakers and the fourth a switch man. They were well dressed and the mau who was injured says they came from Illinois or Ohio aud had families. Frank Ward, of Burlington, la., was the only man who escaped. He says that Frederick Gimfuell was one of the men killed. They were all bound for Philadel phia. Ten cars luuded with oil and lum ber were wrecked ami contents destroyed aad six empty cars were smashed. THREE UNKNOWN TRAMPS KILLED And an Kngineer and llrouin lladly Hurt on the 1'eiinsylvaiiia. Tuknton, N. J., Oct. 21. The second section of the Chicago limited on the Pennsylvania railroa4 was wrecked near Lawrence station by running into a de railed freight train. Three unknown tramps who were stealing a ride on the freight train were killed, and another named Ward McGonigle, of Pittsburg, was badly injure'!. Daniel Mahoney, the en gineer, and Henry Matthews," the fire man, of the limited, were badly injured. They stuck to their engine, which was thrown on its side into a ditch, and when picked up were unconscious. lour Men Slightly Injured. Ellis Green, A passenger, aud J. C. Car- I ter, w llli.im illis, and James T. Gray. , porters on three of the coaches which were ! derailed, were also slightly injured. The I wreckage was piled across the four tracks , in such a manner as to stop all traffic un : til after midnight, and passengersfor New York were transferred by way of Borden town and Moumouth Junctiou. The acci dent was caused by the axle of one of the freight cars breaking and throwing it across the main liue. The limited received a signal to stop, but could not do so in time to avoid the crash, i Seven tramps are believed to have been ( killed in the wreck. One of the survivors says that there were ai least fifteeu on the . train, but the cars are so badly piled up , that it will take another day to get at the correct number killed. Three if thepas sengtr coaches are iu the ditch aud how the passengers escaped is a mystery. Four dead tramps have been found and there .s a report that the numher Las reached seven. j Three More to Add to the Deii-.h l ist. ; Hol sToN, Tex., O. t. 2!. At .-si, 11a, eight miles from here, the est hound local freight was sidetracked. The westbound California express freight came flying along and the last car struck the east bound engine, wrecking it. Strange to say, neither the engineer nor fireman was hurt. The casualties--are: John Door, of Luling, and two unknown tramps, killed; G. Colliert, probably fatally hurt, aud an unknown man severely injured. It is thought that other tramps are still ia the wreck. I j Two Children Hurtled to Death. I WiNNirto, Oct. 20. Prairie fires have been committing gn at havoc in the Wiu , nipeg district for the past few d3s. Many farmers have lost their crops. Two little children, son and daughter of a Holm- field farmer named Watson, were caught . by the flames while following their ; brother plowing ia a field and burued to . death. I Lost Her Life Saving Another's. I WICHITA. Kas., Oct. 20. Mrs. James I Whitehead nnd her daughter, while on a claim iu the Cherokee Strip, were over taken by a prairie fire near lleunessy. The j mother placed her daughter on a poliy.but j before Mrs. Whitehead could mount her own horse the flames reached her aud she J was burned to death. The daughter es caped. Killed While Making a Coupling. ST. Paul, Oct. 20. While making a coupling at Miunesota Falls Freight Con ductor Pfeifer's coat caught, pulling him under the wheels and he died twenty min utes later. The AMociatlon Can Stand the Loss. SrniNCITLU), Ills.. Oct. 20. The auditor of public accounts has just completed au examination of the House Building and Loan Association, of Chicago, the secre tary of which absconded some weeks ago a defaulter. By the exercise of great ingenuity in managing the accounts he succeeded in robbing it of $23,4li. Of this amount the association will lose but f 13, 429, as the secretary was bonded by the American Surety company for f 10.0UO. Will Insist on Keductlon of Wages. PITTSBURG, Oct. 20. At a meeting of the window glass manufacturers o this district the action taken two weeks ago looking to a resumption at the workers' terms was reconsidered and it was decided to stand firm for the reduction in wages demanded originally. All Talk of Strike Knded. Empouia, Kan., Oct. 20. All talk here of a strike on the Sunta Fe among the em ployes because of back pay due them is now ended. An agreemeut has been signed by both sides, as foreshadowed in recent dispatches. Disappearance of an Iowa Farmer. Clinton, Oct. 20. John Hansen, a farm er of Grand Mound, Ia., has mysteriously disappeared. He came to Dewitt, twenty miles west of here, Monday morning to do some trading aud has not since been seen. ASBRTVIATED TELE3R.MS. The Iowa St.ne 1) m y soci it ion will hold its soveuU'entu annual meeting at New Hampton. Nov. 14. 15 and 10 next. M.I Newron. of VVaterlo , is . president of the assoc. at iou and C L. Gnbrilson, of New Hampton, secretary. Presideut Barrios, of Gautemahi, has de creed that labor shall b henceforth free all over the country, thus alwdishing the system of forced lais.r, which was nothing less than a form of slavery thinly dis gnished. Obituary: At Paris, Emile Leouele, vice president of the French senate, aged f.0. At Vienna, J. Heilmesbeiger, musical director for the Austrian court. At Wash ington, Hear Admiral Walter W. Queen, I. S. N., retired, aged f'A. At Waukegan, 111., Marian E. Partridge, daughter of Mayor Partridge, aged 15. Attorney (ieueral Moloney has decided to bring suit against all coal companies in Illinois doiug "truck store" business. The llev. Benjamin Griffith. D. 1)., gen eral secretary of the American Baptist Publication society, died suddenly in Phil adelphia of heart disease while on the way to his ofilce. George G. Gaskin, a Brooklyn sailmaker, l eturued home after an absence of forty years to find himself a great grandfather and his wife the mother of ten children by another husband. Charles L. Fair aud his bride are said to have sailed for Europe. Indiana Foresters have withdrawn from tiie jurisdiction of the Illinois high court and established an independent high court, with F. P. Jones, of Valparaiso, as hiuh chief ranger. A hi vi sc i ii e ii t s. Harper's Theatre, J. E- Montrose. Manager. Thursday Night, Oct. 26. For the benefit of the fiin loving public, the farcical corned v. CRAZY PATCH Presented with niiny new aLd pl-irln? Patches, m.d a Company of Comedians 1'nder theDirettiou of MR. HARRY rillLLIPS. You Giggle! Von Lsrichf You Hoar! Reserved feats on f ale at Harper House Phar macy. Prices 25, 50 and 75 Cents. Harper's Theater, J- E- Montrose. Moaer Saturday Nigh:, Oct. 28. The Wizard of the Lauh'tni; World, CIIAS. A I.ODF.R. iu the Com edy Creation, Oh, What a Night! Fecocs'rncted Ri.d re-writteubjr r'rank Iiumont, au:h.ir of "The hy a rt; cognized com pany of c In dians. voca!its, and dui cer. Including Harry Ililtor, tbe fweet tenor, the hilariiy trl, Harry Shunk, Chap. Ed- . ward. Dainty Mini Gennell. A bevy or pretty girls in a guttering array of novel features. seat on sale Ort. 2fl at Harper Ho:;st phar macy. Prices 25c, t.('c, 7.'" and Jl. Burtis Opera House, DAVENPORT. Tuesday Evening, Oct. 31. C. 15. JEFFEKSON-KLOW & ER I.AN'fi ER Grand Spectacular Production. "The Soudan" Presented with t lit- Original Com pany and all the (iratnl Scenic EflYcts. RATTLE OF THE DESERT CITY Atid the Return of the War Ileroe. to Trufa'g-ar Square, London. Soy People in the Production Sou Brafs Band. Cram Corp-, Hores, Cannons, Eic. Prices 51. 75, TiO and iTic. Sule opens Saturday m irrint; at Flukes'. EC X cS t o e a to a o a u p. h LADIES. autTerioif from ailments pecular to their sex can be cured. MOUNTAIN ROSE"' the reliable uterine corrective and tonic will per manently relieve the worst cases. Book giviae full partlcnlars mailed free. Address: Koom 25 Whitaker Block, Davenport. 7 M s) co i 0 g H 5 H Q" fe ? This space is reserved for the Klug, Hasler, Sctiwentser Dry Goods Go. 217-217J W.St'oond St.. Davkm-oiit THEY ARE A car load of handsome bed room suits at the following prices. Suits worth fl.) 0i ;i at - - - - 20 00 ' ' 25 00 .... i.'7 50 30 00 35 00 40 00 ..... Remember we have only one car load to dis pose of at the above manufacturer's prices. CLEMANN & SALZMANN, 1525 and 1527 Second Avenue. Light on the Read these prices and you will be enlightened. Rice Root Scrub Rrushes .... Cc Stove Brushes 7C Hair Brushes Ce Cloth Brushes i30 Hair Curlers 5e Kirk's Turkish Bath Soap. . . . :h- Geo. 7 1 Great Slaughter Sale. ,sY5a.r.eJetermined to reduce our stock of 1 LUAKb, and if low Drices will r.n it tl, v will go at once. iNote tions: 1 JALKLTsrornier price 16. $18, and .V.. lduTeed t0H. 12, $14 and $16. JACKhlS-rormer price $9. $10, $12, and $11. reduced to $6, $7, $8 and $9. We guarantee to save you from two to tivr dollars on every purchase. 'A 3 Millinery. Hn ...... Ve maintain the supremacy in millinery. 1 he following are specials for this week: Beaver or Piush Top Sailors (new stvle) for .,-. former price $1.49. Sain Top Sailors (new style) 49c: uere 99c BEE HIVE Cloak & Millinery Co. IIJ. V. Second St. Davpnnort 3 BARGAINS. 124 126 anJ 12$ SlXteVUth Sire?;, Subject. Kirk's JiuiHuni oap . . Kirk's Juvenile S-ap Tinware, Glassware. C"::'.:.s ware, Lamps, and an ci.': less variety of H, r,-i! '. necessities. H. Kingsbury FAIR AND ART S'l ORE. the following reduc- V ft IS