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WATERTOWN WEEKLY LEADER.
VOLUME XLVII
HEINZE QUITS
AS BANK BEAD
Resigns the Presidency of
the Mercantile National
of New York.
RESULT OF CRASH IN COPPER
Gross & Kleoberg, Brokers of the
Montana Mining Men, Forced
to the Wall.
Firm of Otto Heinze & Cos. Announces
Ite Temporary Suspension in a
Statement at Opening of
Stock Exchange.
New York, Oct. IS. —Disaster lias
overwhelmed the speculation in the
United Copper company—the $50,-
000,000 Heinze copper holding and
financing concern —and in the collapse
of Heinze securities Gross & Klee
berg, brokers of the Montana mining
FKXTZ AUGUSTUS HKINZK.
men, wore force*! to the wall, while
the firm of Otto Heinze & Cos., bank
ers and brokers, was unable to fultill
demands made on it by fellow mem
bers of the New York Stock Ex
change.
Heinze Quits Mercantile Rank.
F. Augustus lie 'i.’C, president of the
T inted Copper com. any, has resigned
the presidency of the Mercantile Na
tional bank, one of the large financial
institutions of the city, and W. B.
Kidgely, comptroller of the currency,
has been invited to accept the presi
dency. Tills was one of the results
of the collapse of the attempt to comer
copper. It followed a night confer
ence on the copper situation at the
home of Charles W. Morse, who Is
heavily interested In the bank. Mr.
Heinze said:
“The troubles of the United Copper
company are internal and were
brought about by differences between
certain interests. I have much to do
at tins time in bringing about a set
tlement of affairs and there is nothing
more that I can say at this time.”
Copper Steadily Declining.
For some time past the situation in
the copper shares has been rather un
favorable. For a number of weeks
the Amalgamated Copper company has
been holding down the production of
its mines to about one-half its normal
output because of a heavy over-produc
tion of the ore and the refusal of con
sumers to buy at the prices which had
prevailed. Since this reduction of out
put was put into operation the price
of the metal has slowly but steadily
been declining.
Following the policy of the Amal
gamated Copper, Clark and Phelps-
Dodge interests, the Cerro de Pasco
copper mines in Bolivia, South Ameri
ca, it is announced, have reduced their
output to 75 per cent, of the normal.
Otto Heinze & Cos. Suspend.
Otto Ueinze & Cos. made the follow
ing statement at the opening of the
stock exchange;
“Arthur F. Ueinze is no longer a
member of the firm of Oito Ueinze &
Cos. The firm of Otto Heinze & Cos.
feels itself perfectly solvent and will
meet and pay all its just and legal ob
ligations in full. The firm, however,
refuses to pay obligations which it
does not consider legal or just until a
proper adjudication of the matter has
been made. Rather than submit to
such unjust demands it prefers to per
mit itself to temporarily be suspended
from the privileges of the stock ex
change.”
Savings Bank of Butte Suspends.
New York. Oct. 18. —A dispatch
from Butte, Mont., says that the Stal*
Savings Bank of Butte has suspend
ed. This bank, according to a recent
statement, owed depositors $4,021,970.
Although a savings bank the institu
tion transacted a general banking busi
ness.
A run had been precipitated on the
hank because of stories received over
private wires that the firm of Otto
Heinze & Cos., of New York, and a
large German bank in Berlin had
failed. These interests are closely
identified with A. Heinze in his cop
per mining operations. Heinze is the
largest stockholder and a director in
the State Savings Bank, which has
deposits of about $4,250,000.
Heavy Failure at Hamburg.
Hamburg, Oct. IS. —The liabilities of
Hallef, Soehle & Cos., bankers, whose
failure is announced, are estimated at
from $3,000,000 to $7,500,000.
The failure was due in part to the
fall in American copper shares, but the
bank also had great speculative Invest
ments in real state companies and in
dustrial concerns, in which It era
barked heavily after the death some
years ago of the senior partner. Dr
Soehle.
Decrease in Copper Dividends.
New York, Oct. 18.—Directors o'
the Amalgamated Copper company
have declared a quarterly dividend of
1 per cent, as compared with a divi
dend of 2 per cent, for the last previ
ous quarter. This makes the annual
dividend rate 4 per cent., as compared
With 8 per cent, the previous year.
CANNOT PAY THE
JAMESTOWN LOAN
Culled States Treasury Officials Feat
Advance to the Exposition
Will Be Dost.
Washington, Oct. 18.—Fear is ex
pressed by treasury officials that the
$1,000,000 loaned by congress to the
Jamestown exposition will never be
recovered. Money was also advanced
from the federal funds for construc
tion work on the fair, and this is ex
pected to be merely charged on Uncle
.Sam’s books in the profit and loss
column.
It is said that Acting Secretary Ed
wards is considering a plan to take
charge of the exposition and to retain
the gate receipts in order to get back
as much money as possible to meet
the government loan.
If this arrangement is carried out
the running expenses must be paid by
the federal government. When con
gress granted the loan it was pro
vided that a levy could be made on the
receipts if necessary. The paid ad
missions to the grounds have dwindled
down to from (>.OOO to 7,000 daily.
RICH lOWA MINE
OWNER IS SHOT
C. H. Morris of Enterprise, and the
Manager of His Store Victims of
Alleged “Bootlegger.”
Dps Moines, la., Oct. 18.—C. 11.
Morris, mine owner, capitalist, and
former president of the lowa Mine
Operators’ association, and E. C. John
son, manager of the company’s store
at the Enterprise mines, eighteen
miles north of here, were shot by J. C.
Cain, proprietor of the Enterprise pool
room.
Physicians hold out hopes that Mr.
Morris will recover, but it is not be
lieved Johnson can live. Cain is still
at large, but late reports say that he
has been surrounded in a cornfield by
a deputy sheriff and posse.
Morris and Johnson had been instru
mental in having Cain arrested on a
charge of “bootlegging” recently, and
the ill feeling which Cain held for the
men was the cause of the shooting.
Emperor's Ftiver Disappears.
Vienna, Oct. 18. —After a more rest
ful night, which was only interrupted
by occasional coughing spells. Emper
or Francis Joseph rose slightly later
than usual. The medical examination
of the patient resulted in a statement
that the fever had disappeared and
that the catarrhal symptoms had not
increased, which was regarded as be
ing somewhat favorable. Otherwise
the general condition of the emperor
was unchanged.
Churchman Convicted of Theft.
Chicago, Oct. 18. —Hiram H. Leon
ard, former treasurer of the Evans
Suyder-Ruel company, was found guil
ty of embezzlement after a trial In
Judge Chetlaln’s court, the verdict
carrying an imprisonment in the pen
itentiary of from one to ten years. The
jury found that Leonard had taken
$7,630 from the company. He was a
prominent Englewood churchman and
Mason. The money was lost in specu
lation.
Boy Shot by Policeman.
Chicago. Oct. 18.—Joseph Passo. 15
years old, 213 West Taylor street,
failed to halt as he ran with a com
panion after both had been caught
stealing eggs from a delivery wagon,
and was shot by Policeman George
Hatfield of the Maxwell street sta
tion. He is now at the county hospi
tal with the left arm shattered and al
most torn off. It must be amputated,
attendants at the hospital say.
Cars Excite Korean Crown Prince.
Seoul, Oct. IS.—The emperor and
crown prince of Korea left Seoul for
Chemulpo to meet the crown prince of
Japan at 12:30 in the afternoon. This
was the first time the crown prince of
Korea had ever ridden on a railroad
train, and he showed a cbilrlike inter
est in the proceeding. He was de
lighted with the speed of the cars and
wondered on seeing smoke pouring out
from the locomotives.
Floods in France Are Disastrous.
Paris, Oct. IS.—Dispatches from the
center and south of France all con
firm the worst reports of destruction
caused by the floods. The rivers
I.oire. Rhone and Saone and their
tributaries are raging torrents, the
water in some places being the high
est ever recorded. In hundreds of
cities and towns there is from two to
ten feet of water in the streets. Great
distress has resu ted.
Wood Entertains Taft.
Manila, P. 1.. Oct. IS.—Secretary
Taft was entertained at luncheon by
Major General Leonard Wood, com
mander of the military division of the
Philippines; in the afternoon he at
tended a reception at the Jesuit col
lege, and in the evening he was pres
ent at a reception given in honor by
the officers of the army and navy.
SUCCESSOR. TO THE WATERTOWN REPUBLICAN.
THE HAGUE CONFERENCE.
The start and the finish.
—Thorndike in Baltimore American.
CHINAMAN SHOT
IBY HIGHBINDER
Culmination of the War Be
tween Different Tongs
in Chicago.
CHINESE MERCHANT THE VICTIM
He Is Waylaid and Shot Fourteen
Times by One of His
Countrymen.
Assailant Is Said To Bea Highbinder
and Also a Convert to the
Baptist Faith—White
Man Also Hit.
Chicago, Oct. 18.—The war in
Chinatown among the different fac
tions. or tongc, which for several
weeks has threatened to break out
with sanguinary results, culminated
in what is believed to be the mortal
wounding ofChin Wai, 303 Clark street,
whose body was pierced fourteen
times with bullets. Michael Daprzln
ski. a white man, who was an “inno
cent bystander,” was shot in the right
leg.
Harry Lee. a Chinaman, who says
he is a Christian convert, was ar
rested an hour after the shooting In
the establishment of Hig Lung. 323
Clark street, and identified by Chin
Wai as his assailant. Lee says he
was converted to the Baptist faith
two years ago.
Victim Bad Been Threatened.
The prisoner is said to he a mem
ber of the Highbinders’ society, which,
it is declared, has been carrying on a
system of blackmail among Chicago
Chinamen for several months. Chin
Wai told the lieutenant that he had
been threatened by members of the
society, among them Lee. Eighteen
other celestials who were found in the
Hip I.ung establishment were locked
up at the Harrison street police sta
tion.
Chin Wai has been a merchant in
Chinatown several years. At <1:20
o’clock in the evening he came out of
the building, 303 Clark street, where
he lives, to go to his store at 319
Clark street. His assailant, who had
been waiting in a hallway, stepped out
and began shooting at him at close
range. He had two revolvers, both of
which he emptied at Chin Wai, who
fell to the sidewalk after the first shot.
Some of the bullets went clear through
the Mongolian’s body.
Chinaman Riddled with Bullets.
Michael Daprzinski, 105 Block H.
Pullman, was walking in Clark street
and a stray bullet hit him in the right
ankle. He and the Chinaman were
taken to the Emergency hospital in
Fifth avenue. There it was found
that Chin Wai had been shot three
times in the left side of the back,
twice in the right forearm, four times
in the left forearm, once in the left
shoulder, and the third finger of the
right hand was torn off by a leaden
missile.
After his arrest Lee suddenly for
got his knowledge of English, and all
he would say was “Me no shoot: me
Clistian; me believe in God; sure,
Mike!"
War on Sunday Theaters.
Kansas City. Oct. 38. —Unusual
tactics are. it is stated, to be em
ployed here in the attempt to close the
local theaters Sundays by the arrest
Saturday morning next of every actor
and actress then in the city who may
have played here Sunday last in al
leged violation of the law against
working on that day. This would in
volve several hundred persons.
Two Men Crushed to Death.
Spring Green, Wis., Oct. 1 8. —George
Smith aud Charles Culver were
caught under a heavy traction engine
as it crashed through a bridge four
miles south of hex? and were crushed
to death. Smith mas instantly killed
Culver, caught under the engine, was
slowly scalded to death.
Finds Break in the Cable.
Honolulu, Oct 18. —The cable repair
steamer Restorer has found the break
in the Pacific cab’e line.
WATERTOWN. JEFFERSON COUNTY. WIS. OCT. 18 1907.
BURYING VICTIMS
AT FONTANET, IND.
Two Men Who Were Reported Dead
Found Sitting on a Coffin—
Search of Ruins.
Foutanet, I ml., Oct. IS.—Addison
Webster and Samuel Cothrell, em
ployes of the Dupont Powder com
pany, who were reported blown {o
pieces by the explosion of the plant,
were found early in the day seated on
a coffin in fornt of the undertaking es
tablishment. Both men had sous
killed and both had been seriously in-
The list of dead was reduced to
thirty-one during the afternoon, when
it was discovered that John Bobo,
George Hodge, William Hodge, Frank
Dial and Mrs. Audrey Owsley, sister
in-law’ of Superintendent Monahan,
are living and are being cared for in
neighboring farm houses.
The one little hearse of the town be
gan its mournful march to and from
the cemetery. All funeral services
were conducted under the direction of
the United Powder and High Ex
plosive Workers’ Union No. 101, of
which but six members out "of seven
ty-two were able to take part. All
others wore killed or seriously in
jured. The powder company con
tributed $5,000 to the relief fund and
is paying all funeral expenses.
The search of the ruins of the plant
for more fragments of bodies is being
continued.
MEN ON STRIKE
ARE NOT LOAFERS
Chicago Judge So Rules in Dis
missing Fourteen Charged
with Vagrancy.
Chicago. Oct. 18. —“Men on strike
are not habitual loafers.” declared Mu
nicipal Judge Petit In discharging
fourteen men who were arrested near
the plant of Theodore A. Kochs &
Cos.. Wells and Erie streets, where a
strike is in progress, and charged with
vagrancy.
“I cannot hold these men under the
vagrancy charge,” said the court. “1
do not think the act Avas intended to
be construed as including men on
strike who are orderly and peaceable.”
No evidence was given to show that
the defendants Avere disorderly, the
only testimony being that they stood
near the plant’s entrance.
Forrest Veterans in Reunion.
Memphis. Tenn.. Oct. 18.— SeA'eral
hundred grizzled veterans of the civil
war. survivors of the cavalry com
mand of General Nathan Bedford
Forrest, met here in their fifteenth an
nual reunion. The day was ideal and
large croAvds thronged the streets to
witness the parade. About 400 Forrest
Aeterans AA-ere mounted and led the
line of parade, which included mem
bers of the Southern Mothers’ organi
zation.
Sudden Death from Bee Sting.
Canton, S. D., Oct. 18. —Stung on
the temple by a common honey bee.
Avhile he was picking up potatoes on
the farm of Henry Tripp. Michael
Oakleaf died fifteen minutes aftenvard
in convulsions. Physicians, Avho were
summoned, hastily examined the bead
and gave as their opinion that the
sting penetrated the brain through
the knitted part of the skull, which
caused his sudden death.
Transatlantic Wireless Service.
London. Oct. 18.—Several of the
newspapers received dispatches from
the Marconi station at Glace Bay. N
S.. and many persons sent congratula
tory messages to Marconi, including
Lord Mayor Bell of London, the duke
of Argyll, and Lord Strathcona. the
Canadian high commissioner. The
public displayed great Interest in the
opening of the transatlantic service.
Rail\A - ay Conductor Killed
Pittsburg. Pa., Oct. 18.—As a result
of a heavy fog an east-bound freight
train on the Panhandle railroad,
crashed into a switching engine and
caboose near Sheraden. Conductor
Elmer Hoovler. who was in the ca
boose, was killed and three trainmen
were seriously injured.
Farmer*. National Congress.
Oklahoma City. Oct. 18. —The Farm
ers’ National congress conA-ened here
io tweuty-seA-enth annual session with
delegates present from every state
and territory in the Union and was
called to order by President John M.
Stahl of Chicago. /
IDE BASEBALL CURVE
An Old Timer’s Story of the
Game That First Saw It.
IT WAS USED BY AN AMATEUR
According to This Old Professional
Player, Arthur Cummings Was the
Young Pitcher Who Was the Origi
nator of the In and Out Shoots.
Speaking about the early history of
baseball the other day, an old time
professional player said there were
many things not known generally.
“There is, for instance, the matter of
curve pitching. Who pitched the first
curved ball? No; don’t name any of
the men that won pennants and got
$lO,OOO a year. The pioneer wasn't a
professional, but an amateur—that is,
he was an amateur until his curves
made him famous.
“His name was Arthur Cummings,
and he was a New York boy, a tall,
thin young fellow with hair ns blond
as a chorus girl’s. How he came to
discover curve pitching I don't know,
but it was generally believed after
ward that he hit on it by accident.
He tried it out for the first time in
1867 in a game between two scrub
teams In Washington.
“The famous Excelsior club of New
Y'ork was then visiting Washington as
the guest of the old National club, and
the two played a series of games on
the old White lot. Toward the end of
the series someone suggested that the
young New Yorkers who had come
over with the Excelsiors make up a
scrub nine and play a nine of Wash
ington boys as a sort of comic inter
lude.
“The suggestion was adopted, and the
New York nine consisted of four or
five Excelsior substitutes and a num
ber of other young fellows, among
them Arthur Cummings. The Wash
ington nine was made up in the main
of players belonging to the Junior Na
tionals, the crack amateur team of
Washington.
“Cummings was a rising young pitch
er, but no one thought that there was
anything remarkable about him, and
the Junior Nationals prepared to knock
him out of the box. But when the first
batsman fanned out the Washingto
nians began to look surprised.
“ Tt’s the darndest thing 1 evei suv,,’
said this batsman. T struck right out
at all three balls, and every one of
them seemed to jump aside just as it
got near the plate. One jumped out
ward, another Inward, and the third
seemed to rise. Maybe I’m beginning
to see things/
“It puzzled Jewell, the catcher, too,
not to speak of A1 Mills, the umpire.
Jewell caught all of the balls because
It was then the custom for the catcher
to stand far back and catch on the first
bounce, but it made him dizzy.
; “The second batsman of the Junior
Nationals went to the bat and wal
loped the air three times too. A1
Mills came up close to the plate to see
what was wrong. It looked to him as
if Cummings were wild.
“ ‘Just keep your head there,’ he said
to the third batsman, ‘and you'll get
your base on balls.’
“This third batsman had a steady
hand, and, sure enough, he got his base
on balls. Cummings pitched the ball,
and it seemed to be coming straight
for the plate, when suddenly, just as
It was ten feet or so away, it curved
out and missed the plate by a foot.
Mills called a ball.
“The next ball came straight on, but
the batsman, hoping to hit it and profit
ing by bis experience, swung his bat
far out. But, Instead of curving out
like the last one, It seemed to jump.
It crossed the plate on a level with
the batsman’s eyes.
“That scared him, and he just stood
there without making a move until a
succession of wild balls sent him to
first base. The fourth batsman struck
out so easily that It was pathetic.
“Well, sir, Cummings began to get
more control over the ball after that
first inning, and Mills had to admit
that It was coming over the plate; but,
except by accident, not a single Junior
National batsman could touch It. It
jumped; it sank; it wabbled from side
to side. Mills rubbed his eyes and won
dered how r the thing was done. Cum
mings merely smiled.
“In the fifth inning one of the Na
tionals by dumb luck landed on the
sphere and drove it into the next coun
ty. There were two men on bases at
the time, and this home run brought
them home. That gave the Nationals
three runs. So far as I know, they
made no other runs In the whole game.
“After it was all over the whole
town buzzed about Cummings’ queer
pitching. As for him, he was as silent
as the grave.
“ ‘How do you make the ball curve?
asked a hundred persons.
“ ‘Does It curve?’ Cummings would
say, innocent-llke.
“And then he would shut up and be
come a clam.
“When he got back to New York he
was signed by the champion Athletics
and became their star pitcher. Other
pitchers watched him and got on to
the trick, but It was three years before
anybody did It as well as he. During
those three years his ream kept the
championship.
“And that, so far as I know, is the
story of the origin of the curve ball.” —
Baltimore Sun.
The Funny Part.
“Was there anything really humor
ous about your show?”
“Yes,” answered the manager, “the
critics said some things about it next
day that were really funny.”—Wash
ington Star.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
Americans in Manila are dissatisfied
with Taft’s speech at the opening of
the assembly.
Harry Newcomber of Gold town
ship, Bureau county, Illinois, while
playing football broke two bones of
his left ankle and may be a cripple
for life.
Two hundred and fifty dollars were
bid for a single car of corn at the Chi
cago corn show.
The Rev. John Potts, treasurer of
Victoria college and secretary of the
department of education in the Metho
dist Episcopal church in Canada, is
dead at Toronto.
Packey McFarland knocked out Joe
Galligan iu*the ninth round at Indian
apolis.
Delegates to the Illinois federation
convention urged union labor to es
tablish an independent party and a
political blacklist.
Rain prevented balloon trials at St.
Louis.
Nathan Straus, of New York, has,
through Richard Croker, offered the
city of Dublin a complete milk
pasteurizing plant to help in the fight
against tuberculosis.
E. Benjamin Andrew’s, president of
the University of Nebraska, urges
hanging for muckrakers.
Clarence S. Tidy, 40 years old. met
death while painting a house at Wau
kegan. 111. An extension ladder
broke, and in the fall Tidy’s nock was
broken.
Railroad in Lower California.
San Francisco, Oct. 18. —The first
railroad ever built in Lower California
will be in operation in a few’ days.
This line was built by E. 11. Hard
man. is known as the Inter-California
railway, and runs southward from
Calexico as far as Paradones, thirty
seven and a half miles from Calexico
and thirty-seven miles from the inter
national boundary. There are ten sta
tions on the new’ line, which runs
through a particularly rich grazing
country.
THE WEATHER
Following is the official weather
forecast up to 8 o’clock tonight;
Illionis and Indiana—Partly cloudy;
much colder.
Lower Michigan—lncreasing cloudi
ness with possibly showers: much
colder; high southwest shifting to
northwest w inds.
Wisconsin Increasing cloudiness;
much cuidcr; U.gh northwest rJr.h.
lowa —Generally fair and much
colder.
THE MARKETS
Chicago Grain.
Chicago, Oct. 17.
Following were the quotations on
the Chicago Board of Trade today:
Wheat — Open. High. Low. Close
Dec. ...$1.03% $1.04% $1.02 $1.02%
May ... 1.09% 1,09% 1.07% 1.0814
July ... 1.02*4 1-02% 1.01% 1.01%
Corn —-
Oct 63%
Dec 02 .02 .60% .01
May ... .02% .60 .01% .02%
Oats —
Dec 54% .54% .53% .53%
May ... .50% .50% .55% .55%
Pork—
Jan, ...15.87% 15.95 15.80 15.85
May ...10.22% 10.30 16.15 16.17%
Lard —
Nov. .. . 9.25 9.30 9.25 9.20
Jan. ... 9.00 9.05 9.00 9.02%
May ... 9.20 9.25 5.17 9.20
Short Ribs —
Jan. ... 8.17% 8.17%. 8.10 8.12
May ... 8.45 8.45 8.35 8.3%
Cash sales —Winter wheat —By sam
ple: No. 2 red, $1.03 @ 1.05%; No. 3
red, $1.00% @ 1.0-1; No. 2 hard, $1.02@
1.07; No. 3 hard. $1.00@1.05. Spring
wheat —By sample: No. 3 spring,
$1.05 @l.OB. Corn—By sample l%c
lowe": No. 2. 63%@64c; No. 2 yellow,
64c; No. 3, 63%.@64c; No. 3 white,
63%@64c; No. 3 yellow, 63%@64c; No,
4. 62 @ 63c. Oats —By sample 1c
lower: No. 3 white, 51 @ 53c; No. 4
white, 40@51%c; standard, 53% @54 c.
Live Stock. Poultry and Hay.
Chicago, Oct 17.
Hogs—Receipts 15.000. Sales ranged
at. $6.55@ 6.65 for choice heavy ship
ping. $6.75@6.85 choice light. s6.4o'f/;
6.60 mixed packing. $6.00@6.25 choice
pigs.
Cattle —Receipts 10,000. Quotations
ranged at $6.75@7.45 for prime fat
steers. $4.50@5.00 selected feeders.
$3.50@3.80 fair to good stockers. $3.90
@5.00 good to choice cows, $4.50@5.75
prime heifers, $8.00@8.50 good to
choice calves.
Sheep—Receipts 32,000. Quotations
ranged at $5.25@5.75 for good to prime
native wethers, $0.00@5.50 good to
prime native ewes, $6.75@7.35 good t)
choice native lambs, $6.00@6.75 medi
um spring lambs.
Live poultry—Turkeys, per lb, 13c;
chickens, fowls. 9c; springs. 10c;
roosters, 7c; geese, $5.00@7.00; ducks,
10% c.
Hay—Choice timothy hay at $18.50
@19.50; No. 1 at $17.00@18.00; No. 2
and No. 1 mixed at 15.50(ft10.00; No.
8 and No. 2 mixed at $12.00@15.00.
Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin feed
ing prairie, choice, at $ 10.50@T 1.00:
No. 1 at $9.00@ 10.00. Tacking hay at
$5.00@9.00.
Fast Buffalo Live Stock.
East Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 17.
Dunning & Stevens. Live Stock
Commission Merchants, East Buffalo.
N. Y., quote as follows; Cattle—Re
ceipts 10 cars: market slow. Hogs—
Receipts 3.000: market strong; heavy.
$6.80@7.00; vorkers. $7.00: mediums
$7.00; pigs, $6.25. Sheep and Lambs
—Receipts 3.000; best lambs, $7.35;
yearlings. $5.75@6.00: wethers, $5.50@!
5.75: ewes. $5.00®5.25. Calves —Best,
$4.00@9.00.
FRED MAGILL ON
WITNESS STAND
Defendant in Murder Trial
at Decatur, 111., Gives
Testimony.
SAYS WIFE WAS DESPONDENT
Postmaster Davidson of Clinton
Told Him Mrs.lMagill Was
Taking Chloroform.
Witness Says His Wife Requested a
Bottle of Beer the Night Re Tore
lBhe Was Found Dead—Let
ters Rend in Court.
Decatur, 111., Oct. 18.—The early
part of the day’s session of the trial
of Fred and Faye Graham Mu Rill,
charged with having caused the death
of Magill's tirst wife, Mrs. Pet Gaudy
Magiil, was occupied with the reading
of the seven letters identified l>y Ma
glll’s daughter. Marguerite, when she
was on the standing the previous day
as having been written by her de
ceased mother while the latter was
propped up in bed previous to her
death.
Defendant on the Stand.
After tiie reading of the letters Mn
g;ll himself was placed on tin* stand
as the first witness of the day. Ma
pill told of his first wife’s despondency
and said he saw her propped up in be !
with pillows writing letters. He told
of the incident testified to by Mar
guerite, when a veterinarian was
called to chloroform a horse and said
Unit Mrs. Pet Mngili stated upon the
occasion that she wished the chloro
form was intended for her Instead of
the horse. He said that Postmaster
Davidson, of Clinton, bad told him
that Mrs. Magil! had told the post
master that she was taking chloro
form and that Davidson had told the
witness that he said to her: “You had
better get a gun and kill yourself In
stead of taking chloroform.”
Wife Asked for Beer.
He sni-J if vt + b>> r’lgb>y Mrs Ma*
gill died she had requested Marguerite
to telephone to Faye Graham not to
forget the promise, whatever it was.
that Faye had made to Mrs. Mngili.
Just before he retired that night, the
witness said, ins wife requested him
to get her a bottle of beer. He gave
ber a bottle from the Ice chest and
then retired. In the morning when ho
awoke he saw that his wife was not
in the room. He made search of the
house and found her in the spare
room, lying down, with a blanket
wrapped tightly around her head. He
spoke to her, but got no reply and
upon examination he found she was
dead. Witness said he detected tht
odor of chloroform.
FIVE DROWNED
IN OLD CANAL
Scow Turns Turtle aiul the Victims
Are Caught Underneath—
Thirty Escape.
Joliet, 111., Oct. IS. —Five men met
death when the scow on which they
were crossing the old Illinois and
Michigan canal turned turtle near the
junction of the Des Plaines and Kan
kakee rivers. Thirty other men who
occupied the scow at the time con
trived to reach land in safety after a
desperate struggle under the over
turned barge.
The men who met death were em
ployes of the Economy Light and Pow
er company of Joliet engaged in the
construction of the Morris Hydro-
Electric company’s new plant near
Chanauhon. HI. They were: Frank
Mowk, Pert Anderson, Chicago; G.
Posick, John Hyduck, Charles Grade,
Toronto, Can.
Organize for Historical Kesearch.
Lincoln. Neb., Oct. 18.—Representa
tives of ten state historical societies
of the Missisippi valley met in this
city and will form a national asso
ciation for historical research. Particu
lar attention will be paid to the Mis
sissippi valley region. This is the
first meeting of the kind ever held in
the middle west.
DrlmiM Not in Thaw Case.
New York. Oct. 18. —Dolphin M.
Dolmas, of counsel for Harry Thaw in
his trial for the murder of Stanford
White, is hack in New York to resume
the practice of his profession here. lie
says he is no longer interested in the
Thaw case as an attorney. Martin W.
Littleton is now in charge of Thaw's
defense.
Unveil Shaft at Valley Forge.
Valley Forge, Pa., Oct. 18.—In the
presence of a large assemblage of
many men prominent in Maine and
Pennsylvania, a monument to the
soldiers from the state of Maine who
were at Valley Forge in the winter of
1777-78, was unveiled at the historic
camp.
Automobile Mile in ;51 3-5.
Birmingham. Ala., Oct. 18.—Christie
Strang, a nephew of Walter Christie,
lowered the world’s mile automobile
record for a circular track by covering
the distance In ;51 3-5.
Bishop of London Departs.
New York, Oct. 18. —Bishop Ingeram
of London has left for England on the
Celtic. He says he has had a moat
enjoyable visit.
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