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STORY No. 4
UTeBiebiish
Band
Being an Acoount of the Capture and
Conviction of That Notorious Band
of Counterfeiters of Which Fred
Biebush Was the Leader.
Br CAPTAIN PATRICK D. TYRRELL
(Copyright, 1905, by Marlon G. Scheltlln.]
(Continued).
It required some time to accomplish
my purpose, but the time came when
•I felt safe in revealing my true identity
to these men and in showing them the
trap into which they had walked. -They
found themselves face to face with im
prisonment on one hand and turning
against Biebush on the oth^r. They
chose the latter alternative. These ne
gotiations were conducted, of course,
with the utmost secrecy and it was
stipulated that they in no wise were
to change front toward any member of
the Biebush crowd. Mrs. Woods,
through her alleged husband, was also
enlisted on the government side and
produced one bit of information which
later proved of much value—that in
the Chestar, 111., penitentiary was one
John Mitchell, alias Jacobs, a former
Intimate of Biebush, whcj probably
would be able to give the authorities
desired information.
Mitchell, It seemed, was in Chester
lor the cure of the same habit that had
brought "Hoosier Bill" to Joliet—that
of getting his own horse confused with
those of other people. He had boarded
•with Mrs. Woods and had revealed to
her his association with Fred Biebush
In handling counterfeit money. I con
sidered the lead a promising one and
fwent to Chester. I was'amply repaid.
II have told how Biebush escaped from
(the court when confronted by William
Shelley, the counterfeit engraver, in
'1870. I found it had been Mitchell who
had met him at the foot of Perry street
with a skiff, in which the "Oreat South
west Koniacker" made his escape to
Cabaret island, and that Mitchell had
been arrested for stealing the horse
and buggy with which to further aid
his chief to escape the law. He had
passed counterfeit money for Biebush
in 1877 and 1878, recently enough to
make the offense punishable at that
time.
Of course, I secured from Mitchell all
the information I could, and among it
was this fact: While serving a pre
vious term in the Joliet penitentiary
Mitchell had formed the acquaintance
of a fellow convict named Thomas,
who was doing time for the theft of
harness. Thomas had told Mitchell that
he combined preaching with larceny
and mixed the duties of singing reviv
alist with those of "koniacker." Sub
sequently Mitchell had carried written
communications from Biebush to
Thomas, and the latter, Mitchell said,
iwas then in St. Louis following his in
congruous occupations of saving souls
and passing bad money.
I But little time was required to lo
cate Thomas. A man answering our
description of him was found to be
[preaching at the Methodist church at
jMorgan and Twenty-fourth streets. To
tall appearances Rev. Andrew Jackson
.Thqmas (sometimes known as Austin
J. Thomas) wa8 a sincere preacher ana
was doing good work in the vineyard.
It was found that he was living with
nxs wife in Finney avenue, west o£
Grand avenue. The couple had no chil
dren, and, so far as I could learn, they
lived much to themselves, so far as
their neighborhood was concerned. A
"shadow" was placed on the house
And Its occupants. The police beat on
which the Thomas residence was lo
cated was patroled by Officer Weigman
of the St. Louis force, a most compe
tent officer. From him it was learned
that some time before a peddler had
complained to him that the minister's
wife had given him counterfeit coins
for vegetables. This had happened
often enough to convince even the
thick-witted peddler it was not a co
Incidence, and he told his troubles to,
the policeman.
The "shadow" carried on his investiga
tion in the stores in which Mrs. Thom
as traded, and several instances of the
passage of bogus silver pieces were
found. I therefore decided some one
•hould be selected to gain the minister's
confidence, and almost as quickly de
cided that the one should be Woods.
Before long the two were doing business
together, Sullivan having been the in
termediary. Woods and Sullivan
planned to go to his house on one occa
sion for counterfeit money, but the
preacher objected to the place of trans
fer. He also objected to the plan of
meeting Woods in Bosse's saloon, be
cause the church of which he was pas
tor was so close to the saloon that mem
bers of his congregation might see him
entering or leaving the drinking place.
It was arranged, therefore, that Woods
should attend night services at the Mor
gan street church whenever he' wished
to make an engagement with the minis
ter, and they could select a meeting
place while the preacher ostensibly was
exhorting the sinner Woods to repent
of his evil ways and become a Christian.
It was one of these occasions I described
in beginning this narrative.
.Woods reported to me that he was
feilftiilri'hTn
on sucn terms with Thomas that he
could secure "coney" from him without
d«lay at any place appointed. It was
still necessary for us to Qjace ourselves
in position to corroborate the state
ments of Woods, and in order to do this
there must be a witness to one of these
transactions. Woods was instructed to
make an engagement with the preacher
to deliver to him a package of counter
feit money at the customary meeting
place near the "Rock" church, and a
few nights after the meeting I have de
scribed in Grand avenue between the
preacher aad "Harry" I became a wit
ness to one of these deliveries, being
stationed so fchat their every move
might be observed.
.*
The operations of the secret service
related up to thfe point had covered
months. I was determined to do the
work so thoroughly there would be no
chance of its coming to naught in the
courts, as so many efforts to "settle Old
Fred Biebush' 'had done. Thielen, Sul
livan, Hargate, Evans, Mrs. Welch and
the others were shadowed or "piped." in
the vernacular of the department, with
same good results. A continued watcb
was kept on Bosse's place. This sur
veillance, for one thing, resulted in our
catching Evans and the Welch woman
passing counterfeit money in small
amounts. I was thoroughly satisfied
this money came from dies made by
Hargate, and, for the purpose of prov
ing it, caused the arrest of Evans and
Mrs. Welch and tried hard to get them
to tell where they got their supply of
money. Although they were the small
est ducks in the Biebush puddle, they
stubbornly refused to give any informa
tion whatever as to where their sup
piles came from. The system of "pip
ing" also revealed the fact that Hargate
.was handling 25 and 50-cent pieces only.
So far as the minor members of the
ring were concerned, the net was being
drawn around them in a satisfactory
way, but Biebush was still well outside
of it. The solution of this great diffi
culty at last came through Whal^n,
who, after being enlisted on our side,
one day met in Bosse's saloon a stranger
from southeast Missouri. The two be-
AUSTIN J. THOMAS.
came well acquainted, the stranger con
fiding his criminal history and desire to
handle "coney." It is unnecessary here
to relate the details of the deal which
was consummated between Whalcn and
the stranger, whereby the latter was
to "rope" Biebush. Suffice it to say that
this deal, was carried to a successful
close, the wary Biebush at last being
drawn into the net he had seduousiy
avoided for so long.
N
The facts as here related, with many
circumstantial and corroborative de
tails I believed justified the making of
arrests. Fred Biebush had moved
from his Stoddard street residence to
a place acquired by him through fore
closure of a $2,500 mortgage 5% miles
west on the Olive street road. It was a
well-known tavern called the Seven
Mile house. Deputy United States Mar
shals Wheeler and Soest and I left the
Liadell haiel in a carriage about five
,o'clock one afternoon in October, 1573,
and gave the driver directions to go to
the Seven-Mile house, where we arrived
at dusk. There was a water trough in
front of the house, and as I stepped out
of the carriage to uncheck the horsas
so they could drink, Biebush stepped out
of the house, bare-headed.
In the dim light he did not recognize
me, and I am doubtful if he would have
known me had the light been good, as he
had never seen me, except in the dis
guise of a river man at the Bosse sa
loon. Wheeler and Soest remained in the
While there was no possible doubt
that the members of Biebush's family
had full knowledge of the nefarious
business in which he had been engaged
all his life, they
seemGd
to take his ar­
rest as hard as though it was not to be
expected. The prisoner's daughter
went for her father's hat and coat. He
had wanted time to get these himself,
but I had refused to allow it, knowing
that he undoubtedly would make his
escape into the woods in the rear of his
house and be lost to us—perhaps for
good. The venerable malefactor took
his arrest calmly, as he had done when
previously arrested, ind chatted with
the officers on his way to the four courts,
where he was locked up.
T^ie leader of the band in custody, the
work of the night was only begun. I
had determined to make all the arrests
that night—or as many of them as pos
sible—before the news of the arrest of
the ringleader reached the others.
Twenty-six years ago the telephone was
not in general use, and other means of
communication were much more lim
ited than at present, so I felt that if ve
worked fast the chances for any of the
gang escaping us were small.
In my detective career of 40 years I
do not recall another night as lively as
that one. Our liext move was against
the Thomases. To make these arrests
we took Officer W«igman^ as he was
familiar with the minister and his wife,
and with the premises, besides being an
intelligent and trustworthy policeman.
Arriving at the house in Finney avenue,
I sent Weigman ahead to knock at the
door. Mrs. Thomas responded. Weig
man asked for her husband and the
minister's wife said he was out—she
believed attending a lecture at Dr.
Brooke's church, but she expected him
home soon.
While Weigman was'holding Mrs.
Thomas in conversation Wheeler and 1
entered the house, telling Mrs. Thomas
we intended to make a search of the
premises. She was properly indignant,
but cool. I ordered her under arrest,
and placed her in Wheeler's custody. I
then sent Weigman out to wait Jor
Thomas, as it was evident his wife had
told the truth about his absence. We
intended, of course, to take Mrs. Thomas
to jail, and as she was not properly at
tired for such a trip, I directed Wheeler
to have her select such additional cloth
ing as she wished to wear.
The preacher's wife was an Amazon
in physique, and strongly masculine in
disposition and action. She claimed to
have been Mrs. Richard Pollard, a widow,
when she married Thomas, two years
before, having formed the acquaintance
of the minister, through taking music
lessons from him during her widow
hood. There had been some sinister
suggestions concerning the disappear
ance of Pollard, but I believe no evi
dence ever was presented going to show
that there was anything irregular in the
affair. We had learned a good deal con
cerning her physical bravery and de
termination while "shadowing" her
during the previous weeks, and, while
wishing.to show her every possible
courtesy due a woman, I dared not let
her out of our sight. After she had se
lected the clothes she wanted I had
Wheeler search tLjm for a concealed
weapon, but none was found.
While she was dressing for the street
and I was making a hurried searfch of
the house. I was startled by a pistol
shot outside. Telling Wheeler to watch
the woman. I ran from the house, to
And Weigman grappling with Kev. Mr.
Thomas. It seems when Thomas ar
rived Weigman promptly covered him
with his revolver and told him he was
under arrest] The minister, a power
ful man physically, did not see fit meek
ly to submit to arrest, and he fiercely
attacked the policeman, striking him a
terrific blow on the jaw. Weigman fired
a shot to bring help. I ran up to Thom-
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"One seems to have done it," said
"No three men in St. Louis can take
me," angrily declared Thomas.
Weigman.
"Not by a d—d sight," retorted the
minister, significantly.
Just what he intended to do I cannot
cay, for at that instant there came loud
shrieks from the woman in the bouse.
Leaving the preacher handcuffed and
under cover of Weigman's revolver, I
rushed into the house to find Wheeler
desperately trying to wrest a revolver
from the determined grip of the minis-
ter's wife. The deputy marshal was a
carriage. Biebush made a pleasant cas- man of great physical power, but he had
ual remark about the weather, and as all ho could do to secure the loaded
he did so I stepped up to him and laid
a hand on his shoulder.
"You are my prisoner," I said, "and
you will please make no noise."
pushed him firmly toward the car
riage and into it, where the deputies
immediately handcuffed him. His wile,
a woman nearly as old as he, had come
out of the house, ana, seeing her hus
band being taken away, began to cry
Diteouslv. Her mother's sobs attracted
a grown aaugnter, wno came running
to the porch and did what she could to
comfort her mother.
weapon and subdue its owner. Al
though Wheeler had searohed the clothes
she put on, the woman had made a sud
den movement toward a bureau drawer,
from which she grabbed the,revolver.
After this masculine outburst of phys
ical force, Mrs. Thomas sought refuge
in the feminine relief of loud and con
tinued screaming. I tried to quiet hQr,
but she refused to stop. Then I threat
ened to handcuff her unless she calmed
herself
"For God's sake don't do that," she
begged.
"Madam, I never did such a thing in
my life," I said, "but I certainly shall
be obliged to in this case if you don't
stop that outlandish shrieking."
The threat hau the desired effect. We
bundled the minister bis now calm
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spouse away to the police station. In
my hasty search of the house I had
found plasUr of parls molds used for
making counterfeit dies, but I did not
make a thorough search at that time,
as there was other more important work
to do. The next day, provided wifH a
spade,' I went to the Finney avenue
house and made a careful search. In
the back yard under the kitchen window
I found buried 23 counterfeit silver dol
lars, while in a jar in the pantry I found
a quantity of counterfeit 50-cent pieces,
such as had been passed by the preach
er's wife. .=
It was now 11 o'clock. The stable
of Dr. Barnes, in which Sullivan lived,
was the next objective point. The col
ored man had been shadowed to the
Barnes residence that night, and we
knew he was somewhere around the
premises. I stationed myself at the al
ley entrance to the stable and sent
Wheeler around to the front door of the
house. He rang the bell, which was an
swered by Dr. Barnes. Wheeler asked
for Sullivan.
"He is not here," said Dr. Barnes,
curtly.
Wheeler tpld the doctor his mission.
"Sullivan isn't here." he repeated,
"and you've no business around here
looking for him."
Wheeler did not know how to act in
the face of this extraordinary reception
from a man who, we supposed, would
gladly assist officers of the United
States, and came around the house for
further instructions from me. I had
taken my stand in the'alley, believing
Sullivan to be in the house, and that,
at the first sign of danger, he would seek
te escape by way of the alley. I told
Wheeler to go to the back door of the
house, seek admission in the regular
way, and if it were refused him, to
smash the door in. He started to carry
out these instructions when Sullivan
dashed past him at break-neck speed
in the direction of the alley, running
plump into my arms. No man was ever
more surprised than he. We lost no
time in getting him behind the bars, for
the night's work was not finished.
(Continued in Next Issue.)
•&*
OBITUARY.
Henry Lentener -died at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. George Henry,
Sunday morning at four o'clock, after
a prolonged illness. The immediate
cause of his death was rheumatism
of the heart. Deceased was in the
seventy-first year of his age. He and
his aged wife came to this city about
eight months ago- from Kirksville
Missouri, and have made their home
with their daughter.
Mr. Lentener haO. been in poor
health for some time, but was not
considered seriously ill by his loved
cncs until a few days ago. He is
survived by his wife and four chil
dren, all of whom were with their
father during his last hours. The
I children are: Norton Lentener, of
Marietta, Ohio W. P. Lentener, of
Creston Mrs. Rhoda McDonald, of
Ottumwa, and Mrs. George Henry, of
this city.
Funeral services were held at the
residence Monday afternoon at three
o'clock and the remains were tender
ly laid to rest in Evergreen cemetery.
—The Fairfield Journal.
A. C. D. Bradshaw was born in Jef
ferson county, Iowa, Mav 11, 1846. and
departed from this world to the berti
lifnl home beyond. Monday morning,
as. and. before he had a chance to offer September 25. 1905, at 6 o'clock. His
further resistance, clapped the hand- early life was spent on a farm in this
cuffs on him.
county. Arriving at the age of youns
manhood, he evinced a desire to study
medicine and his parents, always
mindful of their children's desires per
mitted him to go to Ann Arbor Medi
cal college at Ann Arbor, Mich. Here
he worked hard and graduated from
the institution with great honors on
March 27, 1867. Returning to his na
tive county he began the practice of
medicine in Salina. Here he wooed
and won his excellent companion and
on March 4, 1S68, Miss Mary McCulleyi
became his bride'. To this union eight
children were bom, three of whom
have preceded their father to the bet
ter land.
In early life Dr. Bradshaw became
a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church of Salina and after removing
to this city, was a most faithful work
eV in the Presbyterian church, which
denomination he later joined. He is
the last of the charter members of
Forest City lodge. No. 37 Knights of
Pythias to be called to his reward.
This order realizes that they have suf-
McGlothlen cemetery, where Mr. Mc
Glotlilen was buried September' 22, by
the side of his father and mother,
one sister, wife, Martha, c.nd two
children. Father McGlothlen was a
saintly man. He professed faith in
Christ in 1835 and joined the Chris
tian church, of which he remained a
member until his death. He was one
of the founders and for many years
one of the staunch supporters of the
Christian church at Kirkville.
In politics, was always a consis
tent democrat, though not a partisan
always attending conventions, always
at the polls and always casting his
vote. And while he was a democrat
he was one from principle and loved
his party for its conservative princi
ples, believing that its theories were
necessary for the good of the coun
try. He loved the people because he
believed in the people. He was op
posed to all class legislation because
he believed in competition and be
lieved while justice should be done to
all. industry, perseverance and integ
rity would succeed without assist
ance by legislation. He always avoid
ed office, though in 1863 as a war and
Douglas democrat he was elected to
the legislature of Iowa. He served
one term and would have been nomi
nated to succeed himself had he not
declined the nomination, know
ing that belonging to the
minority party he could accomplish
but little gooa in the legislature, while
he would be deprived of the pleasures
of home and his rural enjoyments.
His second wife died in 1900, and
since that time he has made his home
with his children. He was taken ill
while visiting at the home of Adam
Bell in Eddyville, where he was cared
for six weeks and then removed to
the home of his son, Jacot*. where
with tender, sympathizing care, he
lingered for five weeks, when he clos
ed his eyes to all that is earthly to
open them in a country that is fair
er than day.
The pall-bearers were six of his
grandsons: Wm. W. McGlothlen,
Chas. H. McGlothlen, John L. Mc
Glothlen, Otle McCombs, Grover Mc
Combs and Frank McCombs.
—Contributed.
Mrs. Pheba Hea.rn, one of the old
est settlors, died at her home in El
don Sept. 5, 1905, after an illness of
six months, caused by a broken hip.
She was born in Pittsburg, Pennsyl
vania in 1831. She moved to Iowa
with her parents and in 1858 was
married to Alfred Moore. Two chil
dren were born to that union. Mel
cenia, who died in infancy, and Mrs.
Anna Giles, now of Eldon. In 1860 she
was married to Solomon Hearn. Sev
en children were born to this union—
Eurias and Mathias of Westfall, Ore.
Mrs. Selma Caster and Harry Hearn
of Ottumwa William, iJavid and Led
ger of Eldon. She was a member Of
the M. E. church of Eldon and resid
ed with ber three sons.
—Contributed.
Bertha A. Enyart, oldest daughter
of Harvey W. and Elizabeth Enyart,
was born at Agency City, Iowa, June
2. 1868 departed this life Sept. 21,
1905, aged 37 years, 3 months and 19
days. She moVed with her parents
to Eldon in 1888. She was married
to F. Cunningham March 13, 1889.
To this union were born five chil
dren—Floyd, aged 15 years Vera, 13
years Bessie, 11 years Sadie, 7
years, and John, aged 3 years, who,
with their father, remain to mourn
their loss. Besides her family, she is
survived by her father and mother,
two brothers and four sisters, and a
host of loving relatives and friends.
The deceased has been a patient suf
ferer for the past three years
and toward the last expressed
a willingness to die. She was a de
voted wife and mother and was loved
by all who knew her.
—Contributed.
SUEZ CANAL
IS BLOCKED
BRITISH STEAMER CHATHAM OB­
STRUCTS IMPORTANT
WATERWAY.
Port Said, Egypt, Sept. 26.—A ser
ious stoppage of traffic on the Suez
canal is threatened owing to the ne
cessity for the blowing up of the Brit
ish steamer Chatham, which was
sunk September 6, owing to the fact
that she was on fire and that the
flames threatened to reach a quantity
fered a great loss in the death of this of dynamite which formed a part of
good man. He was also vice presi-i her cargo. Since that time the wreck
dent of the Jefferson County State has obstructed the waterway. Divers
bank at the time of his death. tomorrow will place cases of blasting
A loving wife and five children,John, I gelatine in the hold of the Chatham
Carl, Allie, Leland. Mrs. Una Tallman
and Ethel, all of this city, as well as'
three greatly beloved grandchildren,
Carroll W„ and Ruth R. Bradshaw and
Leland C. Tallman survive him.
Funeral services will be held from
the family home Wednesday afternoon
at 2 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Alex
ander Corkey and the remains will be
laid to rest in Evergreen cemetery
Thomas D. McGlothlen was born in
Wayne county, Ind., Dsc. 10, 1816,
and died at the home of his son, Jacob
McGlothlen in South Ottumwa. Sept.
21, 1905, aged 88 years, 9 months and
11 days. He was married to Miss
Sarah Meek in Fountain county, Ind.,
in 1 j36. To them were borii two
daughters, Rebecca J. and Mary I. The
motiier died in 1840. In 1841 he was
married to Martha Taylor in Foun
tain county, Ind. To this union werp
born eight sons and three daughters.
Four sons an dtwo daughters survive
their father. Mr. McGlothlen came to
Iowa with his family in 1844, two
years before Iowa was admitted as
a state, and located on a farm five
miles southeast of Eddyville. The
place consists of 420 acres and has
been owned by other parties for sev
eral years, but is still "known as the
McGlothlen farm. One acre is used
'or a burial around, known, as the
a°cL^.es®_??
to
await the great judgment. The Fal^
field Journal.
_be connected with jin
electric battery ashore and eighty
tons of dynamite in the wreck will
be exploded Thursda -.
NO CHOLERA INCREASE.
apwp+Ktxv,*?
Re-
Neither New Cases Nor Deaths
ported at Berlin.
Berlin, Sept. 26.—No new cases of
cholera nor deaths were reported to
day.
CLAIMANTS DEMAND $50,000 FROM
WESTERN LIFE INDEMNITY
COMPANY.
Chicago, Sept. 26.—A new complica
tion was added- today to the legal en
tanglement of the Western Life Indem
nity company, when Federal Judge
Kohlsaat granted permission to Attor
ney Varnum to file an intervening pe
tition for the appointment of a re
ceiver for the company. Varnum told
the court that he represents claimants
who have been unable to collect in the
aggregate $50,000 from the Western
Life.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
WILL RETIRE FROM PUB-
President.
SHAW ANNOUNCES THAT HE
WILL RESIGN FEBRUARY 1
LIC LIFE THEN.
CANDIDATE FOR
THE PRESIDENCY
In a Letter to a Des Moines Republi­
can Club Famous lowan Says He
Has Set Date for His Retirement
From the Cabinet—Boomed For
Des Moines, Sept. 26.—Secretary
of Treasury Leslie M. Shaw will
leave the cabinet February 1 next.
He makes definite announcement
in a letter to the Polk County Re­
publican club. Shaw will then be­
gin his presidential campaign
among his friends.
Sketch of His Life.
Leslie Mortimer Shaw, governor of
Iowa, was born in Morristown, Vt. on
Nov. 21, 1848. He is the son of Board
man Ozias Shaw, whose father, Ebe
nezer Shaw, was one of the earliest
settlers and first selectmen of Mor
ristown. His mother was the daugh
ter of Jason Spaulding, a teacher of
some reputation in the eastern part
of New York state.
Boardman Shaw moved to a farm Ip
Stowe, Vt., where Leslie M. spent
his minority. He received his early
education in the common county
school of his country and the People's
Academy of Morristown, Vt. He re
moved to Iowa in 1869 and was grad
uated at Cornell college, Mt. Vernon,
in 1874.
Leslie M. Shaw was dependent up
on his own efforts in obtaining an
education, but with characteristic per
sistence went to work. He taught
school in the winter and worked in
the harvest fields In the summer. Sev
eral winters he tramped all over
northwestern Iowa selling fruit trees
and nursery stock. His energy was
wonderful and he was determined to
succeed in spite of his poverty. And
he did. After years of hard work he
earned sufficient to complete his col
lege and professional courses, and
was graduated from the Iowa College
of Law in 1876. In the same year
he located in the practice of his pro
fession at Denison.
Ever a Hard Worker.
Governor Shaw is a believer in
hard work. He has often been heard
to say that those who worked desert
ed to succeed. For years he was
usually at his office at 7 o'clock in
the morning and remained until 10
at night. His law library is one of
the largest and best selected in the
state. He was a moving spirit and
the largest contributor toward the
establishment of an academy and
normal school at Denison and has
held the position of president of the
board of trustees from its organiza
tion. He is also a trustee of Cornell
college and for several. years was
president of the state board of Den
ison.-* He was president of the bank
of Denison at Denison and the bank
oi Manila at Manila.
Mentioned for Vice Presidency.
Governor Shaw was mentioned in
1900 for the vice presidency. Since
that time and up to the time of Presi
dent McKinley's assassination he was
considered a candidate for the presi
dency. although he had made no an
nouncement.
In religious faith Governor Shaw is
a Methodist. For more than twenty
years he was superintendent of one
and much of the time, two Sunday
schools and he has represented the
Des Moines conference four times in
the general conference of his church,
and has recently been elected such
an honor unprecedented in the lay rep
resentation of that church.
Gov. Shaw's Methodism is of a sterl
ing type and was no small factor in
his candidacy for governor the first
time. He received much support from
the members of his church, who had
lonk known and admired him as a
man in their association with him in
church affairs.
Mr. Shaw has been in the cabinet
as secretary of the treasury, since
early in 1902.
If one has two inches of water in
his basement it is a consolation to
hear of some one else who has a foot.
CANT COLLECT MASONS MEET IOWA BRICKS
FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVO
CATION OF ROYAL ARCH DE
GREE AT IOWA CITY.
Iowa City, Sept 26.—(Special)—The
fifty-second annual convocation of the
grand chapter of the Royal Arch
Masons of Iowa, is in session here.
The school of instruction opened this
morning and the work of markmaster's
and pastmaster's degrees were ex
emplified by the board of custodians,
composed of George R. Turner, of
Waterloo C. O. Greever, of Des
Moines and William D. Irvine, of
Sioux City.
EPIDEMIC OF DIPHTHERIA.
Town of Farmlngton, III., Is Under a
Strict Quarantine.
WILL JONES, JOHNSON COUNTY
FARMER, MUST PAY PENALTY
FOR MURDER.
Major Jefferson Randolph Kean, U.
S. A., Washington, D. C., was an
nounced as the winner of the Seaman
prize for 1905. This is a prize of $500
offered for the best essay on "Preven
tion of Disease in the Army and the
Best Method of Accomplishing that
Result."
GIVEN FREEDOM OF CITY.
Corporation of London Grants Rights
to General Ballington Booth.
London, Sept.. 26.—The corporation
of the city of London today conferred
the freedom of the city on General
Booth of the Salvation Army "in recog
nition of his great work for the n\oral
and social elevation of the people."
WILL ORGANIE A NEW SCHOOL,
Eighty Des Moines Students and Pro
fessors Withdraw from School.
Lcs Angeles, Cal., Sept. 26.—Claim
ing that the Pacific School of Oste
opatny has failed to deliver certain
shares In the school, which formed
part of the agreement for morging the
Des Moines College of Osteopathy,
eighty Des Moines students and pro
fessors have withdrawn and will or
ganize a new college. The Iowa con
tingent is headed by Col. A. B. Shaw,
All of them came west under an agree
ment with the local school several
weeks ago, after the Des Moines col
lege was absorbed by, the original Still
school a Kirksville, Mo. The Iowana
assert '.hat the local college has fail
ed t. keep its agreement and the split
came after a conference Saturday.
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NEWSPAPER MAN IS DEAD.
Harvey Hawley, Well Known Editor^
Dies After Active Career.
Berkeley, Cal., Sept. 26.—Harvey,
W. Hawley, formerly of Fort Dodg»
Iowa, a well known newspapei
publisher and manager, who had becg
connected with the Minneapolis North
western Miller, the Denver Sun anl
the Chicago Record-Herald and th*
San Francisco Examiner, died recent
ly aged 48 years.
PANAMA STREETS.WILL BE PAW
ED WITH MATERIAL
FROM DUBUQUE.
New York, Sept. 26.—On board
steamer which sails today for ColoC.
is a consignment of 4,000 tons of vil
rifled brick for use in the paving o(
streets In the city of Panama. Thii
is the first shipment made on a con
tract recently awarded by the Panama
canal commissioners to a Dubuqu*
(Iowa) firm for 3,000,000 vitrified
bricks capable of withstanding th
damp climate of the isthmus*
U-«J
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Peoria, III., Sept. 26. The
III., has Issuedanranfanwandananan
board of health of Farmlngton,
III., has issued a proclamation for
bidding children the use of the
streets day or night until the ep
idemlc of diphtheria now raging
at that place is checked. All the
cats in the village are ordered ex
terminated and the dogs must all
be tied up.
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A LIFE TERM
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Iowa City, Sept. 26.—(Special.)
Judge Byington this morning sen
tenced Will Jones to serve the remain
der of his life in the penitentiary
Fort Madison.
Jones is the young stockman and
farmer who shot and killed his friend,
S. E. Danner, in Coralville, a village
west of Iowa City, and also shot his
own divorced wife, Mrs. Ellvene
Jones. The latter is scarcely less in
danger of dying than she was the day
she was shot, in July, and the paraly
sis which the bull caused has de
creased but an iota. It is probable
that a double murder will be laid at
Jones' door before the year is out.
WINS PRIZE.
MAJOR J. R. KEAN, U. S. A., SE­
CURES TROPHY FOR AN
ESSAY.
Detroit, Mich., Sept. 26.—With 150
delegates present representing the
armies or navies of Japan, China, Mex
ico, Great Britain, Canada, Guatemala,
France and the United States and the
national guard of many states, the
fourteenth annual meeting of the As
sociation of Military Surgeons of the
United States opened here today. Re
ports from officers and committees oc
cupied the opening session. The re
ports were gratifying. Progress has
been made by the association during
the year.
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