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CAIRO
BULLETIN.
Exclusive Franchise
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: Associated Press :J
Official Newspaper
OF IBB
: City of C airo :
VOL XXXVU. NO. 283.
CAIRO ILL., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 29. 1905.
ESTABLISHED IN IUI
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HO LET UP III
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SIR IS FALSE
CLASH- AT Lift
FEELIHG AGAINST
HITS REPLY
f
LAWLESS BLACKS
TO BRIAN'S LETTER
MURDERS
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BUTCHER
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BAFFLF. POLICE
New York and Buffalo Force
are Trailing Down Clews
DIVERS HUNT FOB BODY
Dr. Hgan Says Now is the Most
.Critical Period
I "
STRICT ENFORCEMENT
OF THE PRESENT REGULATIONS
TROUBLE WITH THE BIG
FOUR RAILWAY ADJUSTED.
Dr. J. A.
state hoard
1 ' . -i .
OF BOSTON GIRL CHASE FOR
GIRARD SUSPECT IS CLOS
ING WITH POSSES STILL
IN WOODS.
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New, York, September 28. A curi
ous incident which may modify or
change police theories of the murder
of Jacob, H. Thompson, the newspa
per man who was done to death in his
roin at the St. James Hotel, No. 109
West Forty fifth tsreet. some tim rlnr-
Ing the night or September 7, has just bcfit known authorities In the country,
come to light. Dr- Kuan's visit was for the pur-
It proves convincingly' that there "se of investigating the quarantine
was not only a struggle but that the 'here wlth the view of adopting any
bounds ol it were heard, and heard in tavorame points for the Cairo quar-
Egan, secretary of the
of health, returned last
night from Memphis, where he went
'o consult with Dr. Heber Jones,
health commissioner in charge of the
Memphis quarantine and one of the
Woman and Pour Children - Vic
tims of an Awful Murder
THEIRB0D1ESMUTILATED
TWO-YEAR OLD . BABY ESCAPED
MASSACRE WHOLE COUNTRY
IN SEARCH OF MURDERER
WITH DOGS.
a quarter least anticipated by the aged
editor's assailants. Those sounds, in
deed, were so strangely transmitted
to the only known listeners to the hid
den crime that they assumed an al
most ghostly and supernatural signi
ficance. It was oniy several days
mtlne, He made a thorough investi
gation of the situation and last night
said that so far as he could see there
remained nothing to be done here ex
cept to enforce with the most string-
?nt manner the present regulations.
Dr. Egan complimented his assist-
later, when accident revealed their t, Dr. George Thomas Palmer, for
true source, that the mystery was ex- tnc efficient, manner in which he had
planed, and the woman who heard conducted the quarantine during his
them realized her uncanny relation to I bence.
the murder that has bo for baffled the ln speaking of lifting the quarantine,
police. - Dr. Egan said that he and Dr. Jones
Directly opposite, the St. James Ho- ha1 decided that now. was the most
tel. at No. 108. is the Professional crltical Perid tor the yellow fever
Woman's League House. It is one of
a series of tall brown-stone fronts.
i He lower floors are devoted to the
Wats of the organization, the upper
ones are .ontcd to resident members.
The east room on tho upper floor is oc
cupied r; Mis Engel Buninor, an ac
tress, who has lived there since mid
summer.
ind that any relaxation of the meth
ods now in force would be decided un
fortunate.
The trouble between the state an.l
the Big Four was settled last night
when O. S. Sweeney, superintendent
! of the Cairo division, called upon Act-
ng Secretary Palmer and assured him
that every requirement on the part of
Edna, Tex., Sept. 28. Mrs. A. J,
Conditt and four children, a daughter
of Vo, and three boys aged from 6 to
), were murdered at their homo to
day. : ,: g
The mother and daughter were as
saulted and their bodies brutally dis
figured. A baby about two years of
age was the only one left alive.
The victims heads were crushed ana
their throats cut with a knife or razor.
The girl and her mother were kill
ed In the house, the boys 'about one
hundred yards away. ,
Mr. Conditt was away working in
the rice fields. A negro boy about 12
years old was plowing in a field near
AND THAT DENEErJJS ON MOST
FRIENDLY TERMS GOVER
NOR DENEEN REPORTED TO.
HAVE THROWN HIM DOWN
Special to the Bulletin:
Springfield, 111., Sept. 28. Regard
'ng a statement made in certain Chi
cago newspapers Thursday morning
purporting to make from information
received f:om one- of the conferees
that were at the conference between
former Governor Yates and his lieuten
ant and Goverm Deneen at the ex
ecutive mansion, Tuesday n'ght, Gov
ernor Deneen had declined to openly
come out as an advocate of Yates' se
lection to the United States senate to
the exclusion of Hamlin and Sherman
though promising Yales the support of
his organizat'on at the primaries, and
that in consequence Yates would not
be a candidate. Governor Deneen yes
terday afternoon made the following
statement:
"A number of gentlemen called up
on me at ny home Tuesday evening,
I did not understand that tliey were
talking for publication, and therefore
cannot say what was said by them
nor myself. I may say, however, that
Vice President Objects to Show'
ing Books of New York Co.
AGENTS 'COT BONUSES
IN ORDER TO INDUCE THEM TO
DESERT OTHER COMPANIES
AND COME TO NEW YORK
LIFE
New York, Sept. 8. Several -sen-
saiional Incidents developed at the
session of the legislative committer
on life Insurance investigation today.
The first was when Geo. W. Perkins
vice-president of the New York L'fe
Insurance company, arid a member of
the firm of J. P. Morgan and Co., ob
jected to producing books of his firm
showing certain transaction of that
firm with the New York Life, Per
kins offered copy of the entry in ques
tion -front 'the-books, but Hughes de
manded the books after several refus
als on the part of Perkins.
The books will be produced later.
ki the course of his testimony Per-
in Pulaski County as Result of
Long Reign of Crime
WHITE WOMAN'S PLUCK
k
SAVED HER FROM ROBBERY OR
POSSIBLY ASSAULT MRS.
JOHN NOLTE FIRES ON
NEGRO ASSAILANT.
A Convincing Statement Against
Proposed Rate Legislation
FEDERAL OWNERSHIP
WOULD BE THE RESULT OF THE
INTOLERABLE SITUATION
THAT WOULD COME FROM
THE PLAN
Miss Sumner's room is on the fourth lnc bor would be met by the Big
floor.' but. taking into account the Four and its employes and that the
English basement It is on an ixact employes would bo immediately noti-
levol with the room where Thompson n"1 tf co-operate with them
mct-lils. death, ta the Jftfth floor of
th?
Intel, St. James. Thompson's I h.,. ideui.
window, the second from the east end
of the hotel, la directly opposite that
of Miss Sumner.
The street hardly exceeds twenty-
five or thirty feet in width, and, with !
the asphalt pavement below, and the
high stone houses on either side, has
almost: the effect of a canyon. This
explains the practically perfect ac
counts which have added such singu
lar testimony to the crime.
Miss Sumner was well acquainted
with Mr. Thompson's methodical hab-
Her inability to explain the strange
disturbance bothered her for a day or
wo, though even the news of the mur
der failed to suggest a clue.
was writing at the table Immediately
beside the window when she heard a
woman's voice from the far side of the
room, supposing some one nan enter
ed she was surprised to find on looking
p that she was alone.
She looked about for a solution of
the phenomenon, and presently found
It in Thompson's room across the way
its. Every morning at seven she saw The coroner and doctor were holding
him moving about his room, tils cus- a conclave in the apartment of the
torn was to keep the sash raised and dead man, and a woman was giving
the shade high to get as much air and her testimony. While they (the men)
light as possible. But to shield him sat jn a semi-circle, the woman sat
self from too close srutlny he placed facing the window and her voice, car-
a small screen across the lower part Tc,i uy (no corridor's aceouslics, re
of the window. From Miss Sumner's verberated from the farther wall of
apartment he' was plainly discernible Mss Sumner's room. It was plainly
as he walked about or sat reading, as audible through all the noise of the
was his habit morning and evening. ,trc(Jt below. This was repeated again
On the night of the murder Miss an,i again.
fcumner retired shortly before 11:30, When seen yesterday, Miss Sumner
iter tolding-bed when opened stretch Uaiil that the quiet, of the street at
es across the window facing Mr. nleht roafe every sound additionally
Thompson's. As she had placed the ciear an,i that she could only account
pillows at the foot her head was pre- for her strange experience by the be-
tlsely parallel with the window
which was open, though the inside
blinds were drawn.
Usually an immediate and sound
fcleeper, she found herself unable to I fstte'd neighbor.
ciose ner eyes, sne was vaguely un
easy, but it was not until she hnri
been lying still for some time that the
conviction grew upon her that there
was some one in the room, At first
it seemed to bo that some one was
hitting on the bed on the side farthest
iief that the wall of her room, acting
is a sounding-board, had given her
this ghostly evidence of the deed in
irogress in the apartment f her ill-
INDIAN'S WIFE
Once the Handsomest White Woman
In the Hoosler State Is now a Maniac
from the window whlch'she faced.
Then the feeling that there was more
than one person near tier ueeame cer
tain. ' ' . -,(
She tried to shake off what she Im
agined was purely nervous terror, but
for a while lay paralyzed by fear,
Indefinite noises, always on the side
Goshen, Ind., Sept. 28. Thirty
years ago the handsomest woman in
Indiana, Mrs. Alice Ryan Maxey, but
i shadow of her former self, Is a
raving maniac and will be taken to
Long Cliff asylum. Mrs. .Maxey, af-
or being arrested, was declared in
sane yesterday, at, Plymouth.
As a society belle she married John
furthest from the window, increasod. Maxey. and assisted him in editing
A clothes cupboard is on that side of the Pern (Ind.) Sentinel. Then she
the room, and the frightened woman edited and published True Blue, a re-
reasoned that the sounds must come
from there. . , . yH T
Finally she summoned up courage
to rise and light the gas. She search
ed every nook and cranny, but found
nothing. She looked' at her watch,
and it was live minutes to 1. She was
so completely shaken that she sat
down and read the Bible for some
minutes to calm herself,
When she went back to bed, -how
llglous paper. Becoming prominent
!n temperance circles sha toured the
middle west, to deliver temperance
'ectures." An estrangement with her
husband followed. She left him awl
then startled her friends by marrying
in Indian. From that day her decline
has bien steady.
Dur ng the last few years Bhe se-
;luded herself with her guns and
logs. When she began firing bullets
"mmmmm mm mmmwmmh mnmmmmmm m i mmmmmmmmmmmw-mmmmi """ mmm-
The feeling against negroes in Pu
laski county Is running high just now
as a result of several unlawful acts
committed by them.
Wednesday night, a negro Bhot Mrs.
John Nolte, of Mounds, as she was on
her way to her summer home on the
outskirts of Villa nidge.- Mrs. Nolte
was saved from possible assault or
robbery by her own pluck and nerve,
for when the negro assailed her, she
pulled a revolver and fired at him. He
returned the fire and made his escape,
when several citizens rushed to her
aid.
Lawless negroes have caused much
trouble and annoyance to the residents
of the small towns of Southern Ill
inois within the last few months.
Hardly a week has gone by that some
store was not burglarized and many
hold ups and attempted hold tips have
been reported. A few months ago a
merchant at PHlii shot and killed a ne
gro burglar and was immediately ex
onerated by the coroner's jury. Short
ly afler that, three negroes attacked
an Illinois Central brakeman ami
seriously shot him. A white, girl while
out driving was fired upon from am
bush and badly hurt. The shot was
supposed to have been fired by a ne
gro. ,
The story of the attack on Mrs.
Nolte is as follows:
Mrs. Nolle and her little son ar
rived from Mounds between 9 and 10
o'clock In the evening. While passing
u,,T,i,ij uhalows a Eovt db'tiUKP
New York, September 28. The re
ply of the conservative wing of the
democratic party io W. J. Bryan's re
cent open letter to the president on
railroad rata legislation, ; contained
in an ariice by Rlrbanl Olney In the
October number of the North Ameri
can Review, published tomorrow. In
what is practically his first public
utterances In two yars, Cleveland's
former secretary of state presents hit?
final judgment against the proposed
legislation, In the form of a brief, rov
eriug not only the law but the public
policy involved in the agitation.
In discussing ihe effects of govern
ment regulation upon the railroads,
Mr. Olney says:
"The situation to be anticipated,
then, Is that railroads private proper,
ties and representing private invest
ments aggregratlng billions of dol
lars will" find themselves controlled
in the vital matter of their charges,
not by their private owners, but by
two public ' boards one representa
tive of local interests and the oth'T
of national Interests, and both ania
gonislic to the interests of the private
owner concerned. The two boands will
aim at the lowest poss ble rates each
In behalf of the particular bus(ne:!3
under its charge, and will therefore
be ln constant rivalry with each oiher
In the endeavor to extort from the car
rier 'lho best, service at the smallest '
cost. I'nder thesa conditions any
thing like skillful, just, reasonable or
stalde rate making becomes impossi
ble. A situation Is created intolerable
"V
IF THAT PROSPECTIVE COAL STRIKE COMES OFF.
Mr. You-N Me: "If that, argument, becomes a fight I'll get soaked to jfiay for the row!'
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from their home taey were stupprd
by a negro, who wore, a ma:dt over
his face.
Tho negro demanded that the boy
put the lantern out which he was car
rying. This was refused and Mrs.
Nolle ordered the negro to let them
pass. The negro Kept advancing, .wis.
Nnbe then drew a revolver and began
booting at him.
I'htt negro backed, but drew a pistol
mid shot at Mrs. Nolte three times.
One bullet made a bad wound In her
eft, arm near the elbow
In the meantime the boy had fled.
Ills screams were heard by Al lluli-
ner, Kobert Adrlch and others. 1 ney
rati to Mrs. Nolte's rescue but the
negro had fled before they reached the
scene. ! "iWJi'Sa
('. V. Pavey heard the screams of
the woman and child. While hurrying
In the direction from whence they
came, he met a small mulatto. Mr,
Pavey asked the negro what the shoot
Ing wan about.
The negro said that "he had shot i
dog that got; after him."
Mrs. Nolte and her son's description
of the negro bandit tallies with that
of the negro who "shot the dog."
The town of Villa Ridge is aroused.
Should the negro be captured and
Identified he would be In danger of
beinf, lynched.
the house at. tho time of the murders
and heard the children screaming.
He saw a man chastng the woman
around the house. He was afraid to
go to the house, but ran to a neighbor's
homo and told what, he had seen. ;
The neighbor ran to the place and
found the five members of the family
killed
The entire county Is out in search ot
tho murderers. It Is supposed there
were two of them. Dogs have been
sent for. ' . . ,
GRIEF ,
Over Parting With Son May, Have
Caused an Attempted Suicide.
ever, the sounds that had so alarmed through the celling and windows of
her continued. At liist her ears caught
the short thud of something pushed
down or dropped, still on the farther
side next to the wall, and the muffled
movements as or more than one per
son tn the room.
Miss Sumner sprang out of bed, lit
the gas, and a second time made a
search of her room to no tivil. She
even walked lo the window, threw
back the blind for a moment and nd
led the light In Thompson's room
acrops the way, with no thought, of
connecting her terrors wilh her op
posite neighbor. Then she closed It
and again read the Bible for an hour
or more. Wbou be returned to bed,
har abode she wa taken Into custody.
Rather Nasty.
Blnks (puffing) "Have one ot my
cigars? I do enjoy a good smoke occa
sionally."
Jinks (also puffing) "Yes, I should
hink you wouldIf these are what
vou generally smoke."
Th Ideal Woman,
The ideal wonwn, If she ever could
exist, would be a bore, a prig, a hopo
tpa dowtlv, and would undoubtedly
be at loggerheads with all her friend
and relations. World. .
South Bend, Ind., September, 28.
After placing his 10-year-old son In the
Junior department, of Notre Dame I'ni
vornlty, Femqullla Pararta. of San
Diego de la Alexandria, Jalisco, Mex
ico, went to Chicago, secured a room
at the Atlantic Hotel, at Sherman and
Van Buren streets, blew out the gas
and late In the afternoon was found
In an unconscious condition. He was
taken to the Emergency Hospital,
where it is said he cannot recover.
Whether Parnda Intended to eomlnit
suicide is unknown, but It Is believed
grief in parting with his son may
have unbalanced him. But for I lie
tuition receipts found In his pocket
he would not have been identified
The son of the Mexican was taken to
Chicago tcday.
Parnda Is several times a millionaire
and this was his first trip out of Mex
Ico.
Language on the Danube.
Fifty-two language and dialects are
spoken along the bank of the DanuU.
1 have read the accounts of what oc
curred with some surprise. If the In
formation, such as appears in some
of tho accounts, was given to tho-op-rescnlatlveg
of the press by anyone
there, It is plain that the gentleman
who pretended to state what occurred
had no greater respect, for the truth
than he had for the proprieties which
hoiild obtain among gentlemen In ref
erence to private conversations and
social calls."
Former Governor Yates stated thai
he story was redlculous and on a
par with his alleged Cincinnati Inter
view. He said:
"It. Is oni a par with ihe redicuUjus
story that was sent out from pincin-
natl some months w al eopied by a
large number' Of Illinois papers that
had announced my candidacy for
the United States senate while in that
city. Heretofore when I have made
un my mind to be a candidate for any
office I have taken the whole people
Into my confidence and told tbem so
In black and white. I do. not expect
to deviate from th's In the future. In
the meantime no one is authorized to
speak for me In thi matter.
"1 want It to b.s known that at tne
conference at the executive mansion
last. Tuesday night between my friend
mid Governor Detuvn, nothing was
said by Governor Deneen that coub
nosHlblv be construed to Indicate any
other, than the most friendly feeling
upon h's part-toward me or any am
billon I might have. t
kins was asked concerning the d Iter-
enee in statement of "profits from se
curities" In the MaHsacpu'sefs report
f the company and of -the net profits
from 9-jcurltles" In the New York re
port and he said:
When we get nationaMtipervisi.n
we wont, have these conflicts tie-
ween the different stated."
l-Vrklns testified to a number of
transactions in wh ch he represented
Morgan and company a seller and
the New York Life Insurance com
pany as purchaser.
Another sensation was sprung when
Vice-president Bnekner, of the New
York,. Life detailed advances made to
he afcents and which were carried in
the report to the state superintend
ent, of Insurance as eomtnnUng renew
al premiums. It was brought out as
matter of fact that thee advances
were loans, but were not carried as
such.
Buckner testified, that
' Liberal Offer.
An advertisement, in a derma
newspaper 'contains this tempt Ins off
er. "Anybody who can prove that my
tapioca li damaging to health will a
nr recelv thr racketa train..
INCREASE
In Number of Caes at New Orleans.
But Still Improvement is Shown
New Orleans, Sept. 28. Though .to
day'' fever report 2;t new cases
slightly topsd that of preceding 21
hours, the figures were so much lower
than those of a week ago as to carry
assurances of strong ' Improvement
that has set in. Rain continued Inter
mittently today, the federal authori
ties, however, were Inclined to iwdlevc
the storm had done more good than
harm.
WOLF HUNT
Will Mark the Passing of Cattle From
Oklahoma Range.
Law ton, Okla., September 28. In
celebration of the final abandonment
advances of ,ht, Iast n(ltan reservation of West
weie ma.?. sometimes, to get agents ern Oklahoma by the cattle kings,
from other companies, and c ten an and the ushering In ot agriculture!
instance in inmaio in tne lan ann win C)i,nshln rlil.en f rimitannocH
teroflliOl and 1902 when a number of Oklahoma. have arranged for a big
Equitable , agents were tasen . ,, ,.,. rt ,-h.-r western
over info the employ of the New York L.,nr, NWmhnr 11 tmif million
litre. Hucaner nn noi snow tne
number, but said liberal advances
and liberal contracts were made. A
contract was produced. This wai
acres of Kiowa, (Vtmmanrhe'and other
Indian lands on which President
Roosevelt hunted In April are lo be
leased December 1 by the Secretary
witn iiaviu h. iwHiw-fuw, ot nuua.o, ()f ,,,,. for agricultural pur
and was offered in evidence,
A confidential letter which was at
tached to the contract showed that the
New York agreed t pay Dwsbevk a
bonus of tl.ftfin ind lo make certa'n
... i-i..
advance IO mm. .. ,- ,,,,,, i,,,.,.ir fa.
Any return for the. advance, Buck "J " " ,1IirtlInfllf,
r:rzli r.n. 'h f wm u over
mil l m .. ... .,.. . ,.,. li,., I., i ttma
i rn in in r tun .- v
'on that day-
poses. Before that date an catue win
have been removed to Ihe targe pral
ries In Texas. Excursion from points
In bolh territories and adjneent slates
will be run for the celebration. John
alike to the carrtr an,l to ih, tinldic
whole scheme of government rate- .
making be abandoned Is government
ownership.
"Government ownership of all rail
roads is obviously the goal toward
which some of the government rate
makers are striving, while o'h;rs. If
not welcoming it and not working
for it, profess not to ' fear It, and
claim that it would at ail events, be
an Improvement upon the present
status. Both point to existing in
stances of government ownership of
tnllroads-the one claiming that the
results to the public are distinctly
favorable, the other that they are at
least, not so detrimental as is Mime
times declared. But when govern inept
ownership of the railroads of tin
country is seriously considered, ottr
dual politcal system is at once- seen
to present problems of the gravest
character. The few and comparative
ly unimportant, railroads that are
wholly intrastate may. be properly
ignored. Every ; railroad of conse
quence is engaged in both kinds of
ransnortatlnn in transportation that
begins and ends in a single state, end
in transportation that passes beyend
state lines. Hence, if government own
ership of railroads be regarded as the
inevitable sequence of government
ate-makins the first auestoin is,
which government fs it thab is to own
the railroads, the state or the United
States?
"The significance and Importance of
he inquiry." continues Mr. Olney, "I
apparent If., we remember that the
railroad is only one .species of high
way, and that. what. Is true of railroads
must be true of ordinary highways
The jurisdiction of the national gov
ernment must be the same, In bolh
cases. If it is competent for the na
tional government under the com
merce clause to own and operate all
she. great railroads of the. country. It
must be also competent, for it to own
or control and operate all the great
highways of the country.
"Is it by any possibility true that
i ho. national government has been
granted any such powers that am re
spects every roa.l or street in the
country which Is a lluk In lnterst.it 4
communication the national govern-
nent may at its option take complete
possession and control, may deree the
mode of i construction. Its yrraden,
the sort of vehicles by which It may
be used, may, in short, assume Its en
tire management and operation In all
the most minute detail.-? NtKhing
could be more revolutionary In prac
tice nothing more contradictory of
the views customarily heVI. It Is
necessary to consider most carefully,
therefore, whether the powers In ques
tion are actually conferred on the na
tional government It.1 being conceded,
as It must be, that the power can bo
deduced, If at all, only from the com
merce clause of the constitution."
In pointing out the conflict of Jur
isdiction under a system of govern
aient control - of railroad propertt,
Mr, Olney has this lo says "The mte-
l Concluded on second page.)
(Continued oo Third ruge.)