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It is estimatedthat there -were about
twelve thousand people at the park
yesterday.
A light sprinkle fell last night,
which made the atmosphere some
what cooler for a short- time this
morning.
As a result of yesterday's game To
peka is in second place now and is
but a few points behind Joplin for
first place.
Richard Ij. Thomas has returned to
Topeka after an extended visit in
"Wales, Paris, London and other Euro
pean cities.
H. A. Hebb, who runs a grocery
ptore at Sixth and Clay, -was awarded
the prize as being the handsomest
grocer in the city.
Marshall's band left for Atchison at
7:30 this morning to play at theWag
gener picnic. They will return on a
special train tonight.
Work has been commenced on the
new band stand which is to be erected
in City park. The first concert will be
given week after next.
The Rev. M. Talbot will preach at
the 4 o'clock service next Sunday
afternoon at the Calvary chapel on
Sixth and Lake streets.
The Giants won j'esterday from
Clearwater, Iowa, by a score of 10 to
fi. Anderson and Struthers composed
the battery for the Giants.
Topeka's victory at Hutchinson yes
terday was due to ForreBter's mas
terly pitching, but Hutchinson helped
some by making six errors.
The present plans for the opening
f the new Y. M. C. A. building provide
that the building will be ready for
opening by the first of August.
The exodus to the park continued
all day yesterday, but the picnickers
did not return until about 11 o'clock.
Consequently standing room w-as at a
premium.
It is remarkable the ease with
which the many blind people who now
infest the capital city find their way
across the avenue without falling
through some of the holes.
There will be a five cent rate to
Vinewood tomorrow an-d it. is expected
that a large crowd will take advantage
rf this rate. A few days with a five
cent fare and the railway company
will see that ir is a paying proposition
to make that the regular fare.
The midsummer edition of the
Washburn Review comes out August
1. It will contain a write-up of some
of the familiar college scenes, a fore
cast of the new football prospects of
the year, and an article telling some
thing about the new athletic coach
and what may be expected in the way
of athletics for the coming winter. In
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this connection it is rumored that
there is to be a new girl basket ball
player who will make the hearts of
the town girls thump with jealousy.
The Review will also tell of the suc
cessful efforts of Prof. Townsend and
Dr. Fisk in getting students from the
eastern part of the state. Always
before the great bulk of the students
have been from the short grass
country.
FELL INTO CELLAR.
Third Floor of Business Building Went
Down With a Crash.
St. Louis. July 26. With a roar that
startled the business center this morn
ing a portion of the third floor of the
American Oak & Leather company.
No. 512 St. Charles street, heavily
loaded with leather, crashed through
the second and first floors into the cel
lar. Bayard Watson and Iram Gibble.
two boys of 16, were carried down and
internally injured. GibMe's parents
live in Carthage. Mo. Singularly no
other employes happened to be in the
path of the crashing floors and Bayard
and Gibble were the only two injured.
BINDS WOCXDS WITH PETTICOAT
Woman Tears Off l iiderskirt In Effort
to Save Lad Hit by Car.
Now York. Julv- 16. Six-year-old Frank
Demothies of 1168 Third avenue, was run
down bv a Lexington avenue street car
at the corner of Sixty-seventh street last
night and suffered mortal injuries. A
fashionably dressed woman, wearing ex
pensive jewfls. rushed to his assistance,
and, tearing of her underskirt, a flimsy
white garment, ripptd it up. bandaging
his wounds and stanching the flow of
blood. A fpw minutes later, when an am
bulance arrived, she disappeared, refusing
to give her name.
The boy. with a number of his play
mates, was running about, the streets
when he was struck. He fell beneath the
fender and was dragged for twenty feet.
Th passengers jumped from the car,
crowding around his body.
Policeman Minogue of the Kast Sixty
seventh street station, had just telephon
ed for an ambulance when the woman
pressed through the crush and pulled off
her petticoat without a moment's hesita
tion. She tore it in two, placing one part
as a pillow under the lad's head and with
the other part she bandaged his wounds.
The boy suffered a fractured left arm
and leg, besides internal injuries, and died
half an hour after reaching the Presby
terian hospital.
The motorman, John Adler, of 70 East
Ninety-ninth street, was taken to the
East Sixty-seventh street station, charg
ed with homicide, and released on $1,000
bail.
SCHOOL BOARDS CHEATED.
Charts Worth Only S10 Were Sold to
Them for $43.50.
Abilene. Kan.. July 26. Twenty more
notes given by school district boards for
United States agricultural charts were
placed in a lawyer's hands for collec
tion. The boards claim that they were
cheated and the county superintendent
has warned them that the charts are
not worth more than $10 instead of the
$43.50 charged. Two notes have been
taken Into court and cases are pend
ing. About half the districts are paying
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Editor Anthony Has Diphtheria.
Leavenworth, Kan.. July L'6. D. R.
Anthony, editor of the Leavenworth
Times, is confined to his home with a
light attack of diphtheria. Mr. Anthony
was given antl-toxine and his condition
is not serious. His home is under quarantine.
It the joy of the household, for without
it no happiness can be complete. How
sweet the picture of mother and babe,
angel smile at and commend tha
thoutrhts
bending over the cradle. The ordeal through
which the expectant mother must pass, how
ever, is so full of danger and suffering that
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WHEAT RATE REDUCED.
Western Roads Equalize Freight Kates
on Wheat and Flour for Export.
Kansas City. July 26. The Journal savs:
The wheat rate from Kansas City to the
Mississippi river and Chicago will break
4c on next Saturday. Some of the roads
failed to get their notices of reduction
filed with the interstate commerce com
mission yesterday, and will not put the
reduction into effect until Monday, be
cause of the three days' notice required
by law. All of the lines give notice that
the rates will expire August 2fi, two davs
before the new rate law goes into ef
fect. These reductions were made at the close
of a meeting of executive officers of in
terested roads in Chicago yesterday. The
meeting ended in a row and the execu
tives fell over each other in rushing to
the telegraph offices in order to notify
their representatives at Kansas City and
the interstate commerce commission of
the reduced rates.
The break comes as a result of the de
mand of the Kansas City wheat export
ers that wheat rates for export be equal
ized with the low flour rates which have
been in effect for some time on export
shipments. The trouble started when the
Chicago Great Western contracted to
move a big lot of flour at 8 cents to Chi
cago instead of at a 12-cent tariff which
had previously applied. The other roads
met the cut, but confined the rate to ex
port flour.
Wheat exporters petitioned for an equal
ization of rates with flour, contending
they were unable to sell wheat in the ex
port markets in competition with flour
at the rates applying on the latter. An
open meeting was held on the board of
trade and the transportation department
of the board instructed to adopt measures
to secure a reduction in wheat rates, the
understanding being that legal action was
to be taken if necessary.
The western roads called a meeting for
Chicago to consider the matter, and, fail
ing to agree, the lines began taking indi
vidual action, with the result that most
of them had made announcement of the
reductions yesterday. It is expected the
others will foilow today.
The reduced rates will apply on domes
tic as well as export wheat and on wheat
products for both export and domestic
trade, the shippers thus gaining more
than they had contended for.
The notices of the reductions came too
late to affect the wheat market yesrter
day, although many traders bought on ex
pectations of a break. The reduction
amounts to 2 4-10 cents a bushel on wheat,
and the market is expected to advance
today in sympathy with it unless offset
by other bearish conditions.
FOSTER MUST PRODUCE BOOKS.
Judge Tells Auditor of American Sugar
Company What He Must Do.
Xew York. July 26. That the
United States grand jury in investigat
ing western trunk line railways sus
pected of having granted rebates to
the American Sugar Refining company
was made known when W. E. Foster,
general auditor of that company, was
taken before Judge Hough in the
United States circuit court as a recal
citrant witness before the grand jury.
The foreman of the grand jury re
ported to the court that Mr. Foster
had declined' to produce before the
grand jury certain books and docu
ments demanded of him. Mr. Foster
said that he had not refused to pro
duce the data. He said that he had
riot the physical possession of ail books
and papers in question except as gen
eral auditor of the corporation. A
portion of them, he said, were in the
safe of the company's president. He
could only temporarily produce the
books and papers, he contended, and
would provided he wa.s assured that
they would be given back to him at
the end of the day's session that he
might return them to the officials who
had their proper custody.
Judge Hough gave Mr. Foster until
tomorrow' morning at 10 o'clock to
comply with the grand jury's instruc
tions. Unless the papers are forthcoming
the judge informed Mr. Foster that he
would consider an application to pun
ish him both aa a recalcitrant witness
and for contempt of court.
ANOTHER BLIND BEGGAR.
Colony Now Enjoying Topeka Claim Is
Augmented Wednesday.
' Two more beggars arrived in the
city "Wednesday. It is beginning to
look as if there might be a convention
of them coming on the installment
plan. This new delegation claims to
hail from Leavenworth. The outfit
consisrs of a man, a woman and a tin
cup. Their assets are one game foot
and one crutch for the woman and
blindness for the man. They say that
they w ere unaware how popular To
peka had suddenly become as a sum
mer resort for beggars. Unless they
are really having a convention, it is be-,
ginning to look as if the blind beggar
business is becoming a bit crowded in
the capital of Kansas.
IiJ IIAL1DURG,
3Ir. and Mrs. Morgan Rather
Like the Big German Town.
Up the Elbe Kiver 75 Miles
Keally One Long Port.
CASALS LIKE HOLLAND
Like a Modern American City
Without Antiquity.
I'Jace Is "Not Long" on Cathe
drals or Art Galierie8.
Hamburg, Germany, July 6.
Landing in a foreign country is al
ways an interesting operation and to
anyone who is prone to worry it is
sometimes exasperating. We left our
ship, the Deutschland, at Cuxhaven,
with the band playing and the cooks
waving goodbye with their aprons and
towels and were brought to the shore
in a smaller boat, a "tender." Cuxhaven
is the deep water port at the mouth of
the Elbe river and as far as the loaded
Deutschland could get. Going through
a custom house no longer has the
charm or excitement of novelty. The
officials did not even look into my bag
gage and only gave a little squint into
Mrs. Morgan's to see if she had any
"liquors or tobacco." American tour
ists are never supposed to have any
thing dutiable except those two artic
les any place I have been in Europe.
Hamburg Is 75 miles up the Elbe river
from Cuxhaven and the river is really
one long port for that distance. It
makes a fine harbor and ordinary ships
go right up to the city. We made the
trip on a fast train and aftev a week on
the ocean even a Kuropean passenger
car seemed comfortable.
Hamburg is quite a city second in
size in Germany only to , Berlin. It
has an interesting history of its own,
for it never really had a king and the
emperor of Germany is largely orna
mental so far as it is concerned.
About the beginning of the ninth cen
tury Charlemagne, who was conquer
ing Europe and spreading Christianity,
built a fort here as an outpost against
the heathen and put in a general and
a bishop who were to work together.
In those good old days missionaries
went out in armies and when they
captured heathen the choice was given
of death or baptism. Most of the
heathen wisely took baptism and with
it the right to go on and conquer and
baptize other heathen. The bishop of
Hamburg turned out to be a good
proselvter and the town grew rapidly.
Just w hy it was called Hamburg 1 can
not find out, as it was before the days
of Hamburger steaks and the develop
ment of pork into ham had not then
reached a prosperous state. But there
is nothing in a name. There is no
ham in hamburger. On account of its
harbor the people were merchants and
traders, and when the empire of
Charlemagne had broken up and that
part fell into the jurisdiction of the
counts of Holstein. the wealthy tow n of
Hamburg bought many privileges.
When a count, wanted money for war
or for fun he could get it from Ham
burg but he had, to dicker. So Harrf
burg secured self-government and
about the thirteenth century when
the rest of Kurope had gone broke
crusading Hamburg and a number of
other North German cities which had
bought their freedom formed a loose
federation known as the Hanseatic
league. Hamburg was then and con
tinued to be a republic, governed by
a city council chosen by the votes of
the wealthy and aristocratic citizens.
When the Reformation came Ham
burg went Protestant, perhaps be
cause the best customers were Prot
estants, but during the religious wars
In Germany when Christians were
killing each other for the love'of God,
the Hamburgers attended to business,
contributed cash to the Protestant
side, but refused to fight. Hamburg
has alwaj-s shown the characteristic
of looking out for Hamburg first.
Napoleon anrfexed the city to the
French empire but when Napoleon's
assets were distributed by the admin
istrators Hamburg went back to be
ing a German republic, belonging to
the German federation. When the
German empire was formed in 1871
Hamburg became a member as an
independent state. The imperial gov
ernment has really not as much power
in Hamburg as our government has in
Kansas. The city is governed by a
city council of two branches, the sen
ate of 18 members, elected for life, and
the low er house . of 160 members
elected for six years. The senate elects
two mayors, or burgomasters yearly,
but they are ornamental only. So
Hamburg in a kind of a Hamburg
steak of a government, with a heredi
tary emperor, a senate for life, an
elective house, and the voting done
only by citizens of wealth and stand
ing. They call -this a "republic" in
Europe but it would be called a sham
in America. In how many American
cities would the people stand It to have
the council etected for life! It makes
trouble In Hamburg, but just think
what it would do In Chicago or Hutch
inson! The Important part of Hamburg Is
the river, lined with vessels of all
kinds, from ocean steamers to canai
boats. The great prosperity came to
Hamburg in recent years Just as it
did to Liverpool In England, on ac
count of the American trade. Ham
burg is the greatest German port ana
ACommon'Sense Tal
Many years ago
when I began
treating only spe
cial diseases I met
with many things
with which I had
to contend, but my
paying strict atten
tion to my busi
ness and, by con
tinually studying: in
mv special lines of
I work, and keeping
! my promises, ail
i s otistaoieg nave oeen
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No incurable cases accepted for treat
ment. I cover the entire field of Private and
Chronic, Deep-Seated, Complicated Dis
eases. Authorized by the State to Treat Chron
ic, Nervous and Special Diseases.
It vou can not can. write, ah corre
spondence strictly confidential.
Dxi. d. a: gookinham
106 West Eighth street
OFFICTJ HOURS 9 to 12, 2 to 5,
7 to S; Sundays, 9 to 1".
Consultation and Examination Free.
deals with all parts of the world. But
the ports that do business with Amer
ica are the ports that are biggest and
best. Germany is a great big pros
perous nation filling up a lot of cen
tral Europe, but with only a little
stretch of coast along the North sea.
Consequently the German emperor
throws everything he can to Hamburg
and the smaller ports, so that they
will be strong and prosperous. As a
singular fact the other important port,
Bremen, is just like Hamburg, a self
governing, independent city for cen
turies. There is no current in the
river Elbe, only the tide, and the har
bor8 Is voimected with all parts of
north Germany by canals. It is a
good deal like Holland, and the ad
vantage of cheap - water transporta
tion to the interior and to the mar
kets of the world is enjoyed with
only one change of carriage, that at
tide water in Hamburg. With a few
exceptions all of the great cities of
the world have been built up on water
transportation. Steam and electricity
may work a change, but water trans
portation means cheap freight rates,
and it was never more a fact than
now that the freight rate makes a
city rather than location or climate;
There was a big fire in Hamburg 60
years ago which destroyed most of the
town. Consequently Hamburg has the
appearance of a modern city, and loses
the charm that comes from antiquity
and peculiarity. The big boom has
come in the last quarter of a century
and therefore the business blocks are
about like those in New York, only the
government forbids skyscrapers and
compels better construction -and hand
some architecture. Here and there are
buildings which escaped the fire and
the march of progress, but most of
Hamburg would be a credit to a good
American city like Chicago or Hutchin
son. In the harbor district canals run
this way and that way from the river
so that boats are unloaded into ware
houses like boxcars are from side
tracks. The general effect is that of the
elevators and warehouses being built
into the river when in fact the river
has been built in among the buildings.
Harbor towns are always busy and
noisy for it takes lots of labor and
many words of command and encour
agement (mild) to load and unload
ships. Sailors who have had no oppor
tunity to spend money on their voy
ages endeavor to blow in their wages
quickly, and that makes excitement.
There are 750.000 people in Hamburg
and they come nearer to striking the
American gait than those of any other
European city I have visited. The
bourse, or board of trade, has 6.000
members and is said to resemble a luna
tic asylum as much as does the board
In Chicago.
Of course this kind of a city Is not
long on cathedrals or art galleries. Most
European cities have at some time In
their history established great collec
tions of art and built cathedrals whose
spires should be higher than those of ca
thedrals in neighboring cities. But
Hamburg has not gone in for supremacy
of this kind. The principal building is
the Rathhouse, or city hall, and there
Is a large wine cellar and restaurant in
the basement of that. I wonder what
kind of a "graft" the city council gets
out of the wine cellar? But I am in
Germany now and a public place with
out a room for eating and drinking
would not be constitutional, or at least
I never knew of one being without.
There is a pretty part of town, a large
rectangle which includes a natural lake
nearly a mile long. Around the lake ,
are avenues with double rows of trees
and on the avenues face handsome hotels
and stores. There are public gardens
and promenades, and on the lake little
steam boats ply back- and forth like
street cars. In the evening with a bril
liant illumination the scene is beautiful
and everybody in Hamburg that is any
body have their evening's evening on
the wharves and in the dance halls on
the river, a half mile away. The lake,
called the "Binnen Alster," narrows like
the neck of a bottle as it goes out of
town under a big bridge, and then en
larges into another and larger lake
around which are beautiful homes and
country residences.
And such is Hamburg. On the river
side busy, bustling, prosperous and a
little wicked. On the lake side hand
some, stately, brilliant and probably
just as bad. W T. MORGAN.
NOT FRESH RANCH EGOS.
A Kansas Date Une Gave Oregon
Grocer Dead Away.
Portland Ore., July 2. An in
nocent little note on the proverbial
egg, again with a "Bleeding Kansas"
farmer as the author, has not only not
resulted in getting the lonely Kansas
man a wife, but in losing for a Port
land grocer one of his best customers.
It is not the fault of Mr. Jesse Simp
son. Concordia, Kan., that the ending
of this particular egg episode was so
much less romantic than the usual
denouement. Mr. Simpson put name
and addTess, and this significant invita
tion on the side of the fresh-laid egg:
"June 14. Write."
July 20 a Portland housewife called
up her grocer.
"Have you any fresh Oregon ranch
eggs today?"
"Yes, ma'am. Just rt some in."
"You're sure they're fresh?"
"Yes, ma'am.' No older'n the time
it took to set 'em from the ranch
here."
"Well, send me up two dozen," or
dered the housewife, and when the two
dozen came Mr. Simpson's egg. all un
noticed by the hapless grocer, reposed
suggestively at the bottom.
Herewith Mr. Simpson Is doomed to
disappointment. There are no mar
riageable daughters in the house
where his egg went, and In that same
house. Concordia, Kan., eggs, date
June 14. will no longer pass a fresh
Oregon ranch eggs, date July 19, or
thereabouts.
Cheap Rates to Canadian and Xev
England Points, Santa Fe.
Concord. N. H-, and return, $36.05.
Montpelier, Vt., and return, J 36.05.
Portland, Me., and return, $37.00.
And many other points at low rates,
on sale daily to June 30 and July 18,
August 8 and 22, good SO days from
date of sale.
Montreal, Canada, and return, $36.05.
Toronto, Canada, and return, $30.90.
Collengwood, Can., and return. $3 2.30.
And many other Canadian points, on
sale daily to September 3 0th, limited
30 days from, date of sale. Address
T. L. King, Agent. Topeka.
. Twenty Year Battle.
"t was a. loser in a 20 year battle with
chronic piles and malignant-sores, until I
tried Bucklen's Arnica Salve, which turn
ed the tide, by curing both, till not a
trace remains," writes A. M. Bruce of
Farmville. Va. Ecst for old ulcers, cuts,
barns and wounds. 23c. Arnold Drug Co.,
821 X. Kansas ave
Wants, Rents. For Sales, Etc.
Hand your little advertising, such as
wants, rents, for sales, etc., to your
carrier, accompanied by the cash, and
he will bring the same to the ofHoe for
you. Six ordinary words make a iine,
and the rate is five cents per line per
issue, or if ordered by the week, the
rate is four cents per line per day.
No advertisement of less than two
lines is accepted.
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Capita!, Surplus and
SOLICITS YOUR BUSINESS
DIRECTORS:
J. R. Mulvane, President.
A. W- Knowles. Vice President.
J. W. Thurston, Cashier.
T. B. Sweet.
J. Mulvane. J. P. Griswold.
Our July Directory Shows 5,400 Subscribers
Twice as lar?e as anv
sas. Our Sly.OO a year
Telephone 13 very popular; also have exten
sive toll line connections, 4- ,
THE TOPEKA INDEPENDENT TELEPHONE CO.
SIGNS OF REFORM.
Trial by Jury About to Be Engraftea
I pon Chinese System.
Washington, July 26. Marked evi
dence of the reform which is sweeping
China can be seen in a recommenda
tion of commissioners named by the
government to revise the code govern
ing Chinese legal piocedure which was
recently submitted to the empress dow
ager and emperor for their considera
tion. Two- revolutionary changes in the le
gal procedure of China are suggested.
These are the right of trial by jury and
the employment of attorneys for the
defense of criminals. Never in the his
tory of China has the practice of law
been recognized as a reputable profes
sion. The study of law has been
frowned upon from time immemorial
and only recently have attorneys been
permitted to argue cases in courts and
this permission has been limited to
courts in coast cities "where foreigners
reside. Heretofore a class of scribes
versed in legal phraseology had been
authorized to draw up petitions and
other legal documents, but these men
have not been lawyers In the broader
sense. From the report of the com
missioners which has just been sub
mitted to the state department it may
be seen that Japan's action in bringing
its legal procedure into harmony with
the Kuropean court methods has in
duced the Chinese commissioners to
suggest the abolition of the present
antique methods of that empire for the
methods in vogue among all western
nations. International complications as
a result of the difference between the
procedure in China and in other parts
of the world are discussed by the com
mission which says:
"In China mixed Chinese-foreign
cases are daily increasing in number
and complexity. Foreigners consider
our manner of judgment different from
theirs and there constantly arises a dif
ference of views. Chinese merchants
too, are not familiar with foreign regu
lations and constantly suspect bias, and
as such suspicions accumulate, harmony
becomes impossible. Every lawsuit
growing out of some ordinary trifling
dispute becomes a question for interna
tional investigation. There have been
innumerable cases of this sort in recent
years. Until the rules of court proce
dure be revised, with changes of all
kinds being permitted and their adop
tion even being urged, although the real
body (of the law) may be perfect, Its
general operation will not be a success
and the judicial administration will not
be Improved.
"Heretofore at the various ports of
international trade in China foreign
lawyers have already been permitted
to practice in the courts. Worst o?
all, even the Yamens following the
custom of employing advisers have de
pended upon foreigners for defense
in Chinese suits, with the result that
much obstruction has been experi
enced. For instance, when a case of
International concern has arisen they
have Invited such an attorney to con
duct the case, although there is cer
tainly no right principle of action re
quiring a man to assist others to the
detriment of his own people. . On this
account the ex-territorial powers of
the consuls grow and extend them
selves. How can one bear to think
of the evils that must afterwards' re
sult." As the changes suggested by the
commission if put Into effect would
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necessitate the employment of hun
dreds of lawyers throughout the
provinces the commissioners make
recommendations for the preparation
of Chinese to undertake this legal
work. They suggest that henceforth
in each of the provincial schools where
men are being trained in the law a
definite number of students of good
character, "serious minded and well
versed in the law" shall be selected,
who after they have completed their
courses shall be examined and. If
found qualified, shall be given diplo
mas and apportioned among the prov
inces to argue cases before the courts.
If such young men can not be pro
vided on short notice the commission
recommends that each province shall
select the best qualified of its legal
secretaries for this work. These legal
secretaries are men familiar with the
code, employed as private secretaries
by the magistrates to assist in dif
ferent cases. Until recently such sec
retaries had no official Etandlng.
A revision of the code accomplished
by the commission provides for the
division of all cases into two classes,
civil and criminal. The civil class in
cludes cases having to do with debts,
houses, lands, titles and damages.
Cases that have to do with rebellion,
counterfeiting, murder, robberv and
swindling are included in the criminal
class.
BITjJ; FIGHT IN ILLINOIS.
Em-aged Animal Puts Out Two Men
and a Horse.
St. Louis. July 26. A maddene 1
three-year-old Durham bull named
Mike, seriously Injured Chris Poller
man, a butcher, at Worden. 111., 20
miles from St. Louis. keptGus Albright
up a tree for several hours, killed a
horse and by besieging tactics kept the
family of Louis Blume imprisoned at
home. Finally "Mike" wa.s shot dead.
"Mike had been considered danger
ous for some time, and Blume. the
owner, decided to have him killed.
Thereupon he sent for Mr. Soilerman.
the butcher. Astride a horse Butcher
Poilerman rode into the Blume farm
pasture. "Mike" took a good look and
then charged full tilt. Down went
horse and matador. Pollerman's right
leg was broken at the ankle and dis
located at the knee. While "Mike"
gored the horse. Soilerman crawled
forty feet and dropped over a rail
fence. An instant later "Mike" tossed
the body of the horse over the fence.
This attracted Gus Albright, a neigh
bor farmer, who hastened into the
arena to do battle: Then he imme
diately hastened out again and into a
tree, where he tied up a ripped trous
ers leg and remained three hours.
During this time "Mike" sought to
effect an entrance Into theBlume home
without success. Blume's shouts at
tracted another farmer, who brought a
rifle and killed "Mike." and Soilerman
was conveyed to the hospital at Gran
ite City.
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wants, rents, for sales, etc.. to your
carrier, accompanied by the cash, and
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you. Six ordinary words make a line,
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issue, or if ordered by the . week, th
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