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AILY DEMOCRAT.
AKRON
VOLUME lO-NUMBER. 157
AKRON, OniO, MONDAY EVENING OCTOBER 21, 1001.
PRICE ONE CENT.
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MURDERED
By Man She Re
fused to Msjrry.
Akron Girl Concerned In
a Dark Tragedy.
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Verne Rogers Killed Her, Then Tried
, to Kill Himself.
Because sho would not marry him,
Verne Rogers shot and killed Margaret
D. Hallcn and then tried to kill him
self In the same manner. Tho tragedy
occurred In Cleveland Saturday after
noon, at a boarding house, at 183 Ilani
llton street.
Miss Hallcn wns well known In Ak
ron, this city being her home. She Is
a sister of Mrs. Bert Eckerman, of
403 West Thornton st., nnd was for
merly employed at the Windsor hotel.
Sho left the hotel in July, and had
since worked in Cleveland as a wait
ress at tho Forest City restaurant
Rogers hnd repeatedly urged the girl
MURDERED GIRL
MARGARET ITALLEN,
Tho Bullet's Victim.
to marry him, but she had refused, so
tho stories state. She and Rogers met
In Akton five years ago nt a reception
nnd immediately fell In love with each
other and becamo engaged. Not long
afterward the betrothal was broken,
ns the girl's family objected to Rogers.
IIo was a brnkgmnn on the Valley
railroad. It is also said that the young
people hnd planned several times to
elope, but these plans were always
frustrnted by tho family. Despite her
demands that Rogers keep awny from
her, he persisted In calling upon her
whenever possible. To escapo him
she went to Cleveland with her sister,
JeoJinette, hoping that ho would not
learn where sho was. Rogers, how
ever learned that sho was In Cleve
land, nnd called at tho Forest City
restaurant at noon Saturdny. IIo
and Miss Hnllen talked over their af
fairs, nnd finally they left for tho
young woman's boarding house. They
quarreled while together in Miss Hal
len'3 room, nnd f Rogers fired four
shots at her, afterward shooting him
solf through tho temple.
' Miss Hallen wns In her room when
tho first shot was fired nt her. Sho
ran out of tho room ns soon as sho
jwas struck by tho bullet nnd started
to flee down tho stairs. Rogers ran
nftor her, however, nnd fired threo
moro shots. One struck tho girl in tho
neck, severing tho Jugular vein, Sho
Immediately fell and rolled down tho
stairs.
Two other shots wero fired but they
missed the girl and struck tho wall
of tho building.
As tbo front door Just at tho head
of the stairs was partly opened Miss
Hnllen crawled through. She got ns
for as tho stouo steps outaldo, when
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she fell over and rolled to the ground,
where sho lay writhing in agony.
Rudolph Miller, of No. 7-11 St. Clair
St., who was passing the house, heard
the shots nnd saw tho girl fall from
tho steps to the ground. In company
with a laboring mnn working upon tho
streets he rushed to the dying girl's
side. The two men attempted In vain
to stanch the wound. They saw her
lips move and heard her murmur in a
barely audible tone: "My God, Verne,
I loved you. Why did you do It?"
By tho time an ambulance wns call
ed the girl was dead. Her. body wni
removed to Hognn & Co.'s morgue,
and prepared for burial. Sunday eve-
AND HER SISTER.
JBANNETTE HALLEN,
Sister of the Dead Girl,
nlng the remains were brought to Ak
ron, and taken to the residence of tho
girl's sister, Mrs. Bert Eckerman.
Funeral services' will bo hold there
Tuesday at 10 a.m. Burial at Mt
Hope cemetery. -
Rogers after he-had committed tho
terrible deed shot himself in tho tcin-
Cape Town, Oct 21. Tho Invaders
have reached the sea, a commando of
flvo hundred "on having penetrated
through tho rich Great Berg river val
ley to Ilopefleld and SnUauhan Bay,
northwest of Capetown,
pie. Ho was picked up n few minutes
Inter upon tlio threshold of tho young
womim'H room, and carried to St. Vin
cent's hospital. Ills attempt nt sul
cldo will probably bo successful, as
tho 'doctors think that ho cannot live,
Rogers says ho nnd the girl were mar
ried. Margaret nallen was aged 24 years.
Sho was born In a llttlo home, near
Akron, and lived here the greater part
of her life.
Many stories are told of tho history
of Miss Ilnllcn, but they aro con
flicting, and no doubt do'her memory
an Injustice.
Peter Schumacher, of Cleveland, a
brother-in-law of Miss Ilallcn, saj)i
that Rogers Is the father of. hLs sis
ter's child, a girl aged nearly flvo
years. Other stories state that Mar
garet was married once and divorced,
and that tho child came from this
union. This. story Is denied by the
girl's friends.
WEAKNESS
Again Assails the Pope.
An Alarming Recurrence of
His
Illness.
London, Oct. 21. (Spl.) Dnlzlel's
Rome correspondent states tluit the
pope had an alarming reoccurrence of
his Intestinal trouble on Saturday
night, and that today his holiness is
in a Btnte of great weakness.
MANY PEOPLE
Want to See Czolgosz
Die.
Warden of Auburn Prison Has
Many Applications.
Albany, Oct. 21.-(Spl.)-Wnrden J.
Warren Mead, of Auburn prison is
in the city today, In consultation with
tho Superintendent of Prisons C. V.
Collins, relative to the final details
of tho execution, Oct. 28, of Leon P.
Czolgosz, President McKIuley's as
sassin. Warden Mend had received applica
tions from all parts of the .Stnte for
invitations to witness tho execution.
"None of tlie details of the electrocu
tion or names of tho witnesses aro
to be made public," said Superintend
ent Collins todny. "I am at work on
tho list."
Carnegie's Latest.
Glasgow, Oct. 21. (Spl.) Andrew
Carncglo has given 600 each to tho
churches at Irvine and Castle Boug-
Lias, tho money to go toward the pur
chase of organs In the churches.
Plague In China.
London, Oct. 21 (Spl.) Tho church
missionary society has received a tele
gram which states that tho bubonic
plague Is very bad In Southern China.
, The Weather:
FAIR AND WARMER.
Boers Have Reached
EJTITUIH CAMP 5EOtWE
Tho Boers havo secured many re
cruits and much supplies. Cjeneinl
French Is directing tho operations
against them.
In a brisk fight tt Twenty-four
Streams, neap Plquetbcrg, yesterday,
CHANGED
The
Place For
Payment.
Miss Stone's. Captors
Closely Pursued.
Have Been Sighted and Chased
by Bulgarian Troops.
Constantinople, Oct. 21.-(Spl.)-Tho
hill on the Bulgarian frontier where
Miss Ellen M. Stone was supposed
to be Imprisoned by Bulgarian bri
gands has been found to be In-accessible.
The brigands were seen on an
other niountnln nearby ami 200 Bul
garian troops cbnsed them, but with
out avail. It was learned later that
this appearance of tho brigands was
but a ruso to divert tho attention of
their pursuers while Miss Stone was
taken elsewhere.
The American missionary Is now re
ported to be In a peasant's hamlet
In tho environs of Elechnltze. She
has been traced through the Turkish
district of Ruzllk, then to the frontier
village of Gracherskl; where her ab
ductors remained for a few days.
The brigands have changed the
place for the payment of the ransom.
They have now notified Consul Gen
eral Dickinson that tho money must
bo paid at Starchlhta, a Bulgarian vil
lage in eastern Macedonia.
POST OFFICE
Safe Was BIp.wn Open.
Robbers Secured Booty and Made
Their Escape. '
MbKeosport, Pa., Oct. 21.-(Spl.)
Tho postolllce safe at Duquesne wns
blown early this morning. . The rob
bors got ?1,000 in cash and $800 In
stamps. The safe and part of the
jbulldlng-were wrecked and much blood
is spattered about the place, indicat
ing that the robbers were wouuded by
the explosion. W. Cnnfield, who was
sleeping above the postolllce was
thrown out of bed by the explosion.
He saw four men run from tho build
ing and gave tho alarm.
GREAT BATTLE.
Its Anniversary Celebrated by
German Citizens.
Members of the Akron Lledertnfel
nnd tho late Mllltalr Vereln met at
Music hall Sunday evening in Joint
celebration of the anniversary of the
battlo of Lelpslg. Two hundred peo
plo were present, and a banquet was
served by Caterer Becker. Short ad
dresses wero dellevcred by Messrs.
Paul H. Werner, Udltor Louis Soybold,
Prof. Gustav Slgcl and others.
the Sea Mustering Supplies and
Two Scenes In Boer Camp.
Captain Bellow and four other Britons
wore killed and sovernl others wound
ed. Tho British having surprised sever
al camps tho Boers are now in the
habit of shifting camp by night. Latc-
DEPARTED.
Duke and Duchess of York Sailed
Pod England.
nallfnx, Oct. 21.-(Spl.)-Tho Duke
and Duchess of Cornwall and York
sailed for England this morning, at
0:30. The Royal party was given an
ovation by the crowd that had gath
ered to witness tbo departure of the
yacht Ophlr. A stop will be made at
at John's If tho weather bo thick.
INDIGNANT
At Ingratitude of Min
nesotans. Mrs. Cushman Davis Will Bring
Senator's Remains East
St Paul, Oct. 21.-(SpL)-Mrs. Cush
man K. Davis Is so nettled becauso
the Minnesota Legislature failed at
Its last session to provide a monument
fund for her late husband, the Sen
ator, that sho has declared his re
mains shall not remain In Minnesota.
She has left for Washington, and a
casket containing her dead husband
Is on tho same train.
Candidate's New
Champion.
Bourke Cochran Out
For Shepard.
Addresses Some Sizzling Sentences
to Piatt '
Now York, Oct. 21. (Spl.) W
Bourke Cochran Is out for Edward
M. Shepard for Mayor. In an open
letter announcing the fnct ho says:
"All doubts and hesitations have been
dissolved and dissipated by your
courage In daring to reassert in tho
very presence of tho local boss and of
his followers all that you have said
In condemnation of his system from
tho platform of his own hall to criti
cise those features of the party ad
m'nlstratlon whichhave been general
ly attributed to his lnfluenco."
STAMPS
Worth Many Thousands Secured
by Safe Crackers.
Chicago, Oct. 21.-r(Spl.)-A bold and
successful robbery was accomplished
last night when oiftj of tho threo great
vaults in the Temporary postolllce
here was blown open ana over iu,
000 In stamps stolen. Sovernl em
ployes arc under surveillance and their
nrrcst may bo made later.
TAMMANY
Many Recruits.
lj de British columns, nrrcr iung)
night marches, havo, arrived at their
objective points only to tlud tho Boers
gone. '
British columns penetrating Orange
River Colony, many miles front tho
railways, find fields of mulzo or freshly
WEEK
Is Expected to End the
Inquiry.
Most of the Important Decisions
Have Been For Schley.
Washington, Oct. 21.-(Spl.)-It Is
generally expected that this will bo
the closing week of the Schley Court
of Inquiry. Attorney Rayner has on
ly about a dozen witnesses yet to ex
amine the last of whom will bo Rear
Admiral Schley himself.
Following the Admiral's testimony,
Capt Lemly, the Judge Advocate,
will doubtless call n few witnesses In
rebuttal, after which the case will be
submitted to the Court.
"We want the facts," has been Ad
miral Dewey's slogan since tho first
day of the inqury. It has served to
decide many a dispute regarding the
admission of contested evidence. On
many ocasions the Judge Advocate and
Admiral Sehely's count-el have disa
greed on tue question whether a wit
nebs should give c'eitaln testimony.
Captain Lemly has set forth the cus
toms observed by courts martial and
Courts of Inquiry since the days of
Paul Jones. Rayner has presented tho
ancient and modern rules of evidence
c
o
Entertained Mr.
Carthy,
Mo
Their Nominee For
AttPrney
General Bright Outlook,
Hon. L. B. McCarthy,, of Toledo, the
Democratic noinluee for AttorneylGen-
HON.
Democratic
m. b. McCarthy.
Nominee for Attorney
General.
oval, wns in Akron Monday and ac
companied by City Clerk Chas. H.
WEffiOCE3&3
ploughed lands, tho Boers mw
ff off
in tneir approach and returning when
tho columns pass. Tho herds on tho
high veldt s'Ull seem to bo numerous.
The Boers ao living on cattlo and
nmuics stored ill out of tho
places. " '
way
-s- ,.
obsprved by the civil courts of all
Christendom and a port of heathen
dom. The members of the Court have al
ways listened patiently, and at the
close of tho arguments, Admiral Dow
ey, usually without consultation with
his associates baa been ready to de
cide the question.
As the court Is a law unto Itself and
there Is no authority that may review
or change its decisions, it has a freo
hand In determining how the case
shall be conducted.
With one exception every Important
ruling and -a number not very import
ant, have been In favor of Admiral
Schley.
The one noteworthy ruling against
Schley has been that Sampson should
not figure In the Inquiry.
"Dewey is first of all, an honest man
and a gentleman," was the view ex
pressed by one of those who havo ob
served his conduct throughout tho'
progress of the Inquiry.
Isbell, member of the State Democrat
ic Executive Committee, spent the
morning making the acquaintance of
local Democrats.
To a Democrat reporter Mr. McCar
thy said that tho political situation
throughout the state has brightened
up considerably within the labt few
days, this result having been brougnc
about br interest in the Delaware and
luucyrus campaign openings'
"ThUs for," he continual, "the Dem
ocrats of Ohio have every reason to
tfteljitlsfled with the outlook. I havd
visited'' a number of couritlfrs and find '
the situation very encouraging, 'rbo
light registration in all of the larger
cities with the exception of Cincin
nati, is discouraging to the Rcpubli-
can committee."
Mn McCarthy said that Col. KlU4
bourne Is receiving an enthusiastic
welcome wherever he goes, and that
the Colonel is especially popular In
Northwestern Ohio. The fight which
Mayor Johnson Is maiclng In Cuya
hoga county is warmly commended by
Mr. McCarthy.
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CARNIVAL
And Jollity at
Yale
Marks Her Two Hun
dredth Birthday.
Now Haven, Oct 21. (Spl.) Yale's
two hundredth anniversary is being
splendidly celebrated today with,
speech and song and In the presence
of somo of her most distinguished
sous. The most spectacular perform
ances of this celebration will bo a
torch light procession tonight with
7,000 Yale graduates in line. The un
dergraduates will appear as rough
riders, Indians, colonial soldiers,
American sailors and the Japanese of;
tho school, in caps and gowns "tho
color of cherry blossoms, will carry
their national nag.
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RIFLEMEN
Return to Their Homes From
Newark Today.
The rlflo men from all over tho state
broko camp at Nowark, Monday anoj
returned to their homes. As Is usual,
ly tho case, tho Sixth regiment carried)
off most of the honors, tholr total
scores being higher than those of tho
other contestants. Tho final dav'a
I shooting, Sunday, was devote' pis,
.q work by tho olllccrs. e
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