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Perhaps your PHONOGRAP would like to sing you a new song, and if you find this is so, bring in your old records and get new ones for them DURING THIS MONTH J. H. AN DRUGGIST Complete Optical Room BANKER GUILTY IN BRIBERY CASE fcry Renders Verdict in Pittsburg Graft TriaL f. W. RAMSEY CONVICTED Paid Councilman Klein $17,500 to Se cure the Passage of an Ordinance Making Former's Institution a De pository for City Funds—Is Liable to Fourteen Years' imprisonment and a Fine of $22,000. Pittsburg, Feb. 19.—W. W. Ramsey, former president of the German Na tional bank, was found guilty as in flicted in connection with the recent graft exposures. Ramsey waa accused of bribing Councilman John F. Klein by giving him $17,500 for which Klein waa to fecure the passage of an ordinance Baking the bank a depository for city (fends. Ramsey's attorneys will ask for a |ew trial. Under the verdict the dfe findant is liable to a sentence of four teen years and a fine of $22,000. Immediately following the Ramsey ferdict Councilman Klein was placed trial on a charge of soliciting a fet-ibe. Klein pleaded not guilty and the selection of a jury was taken up. ALLEGED DIAMOND ROBBERY Express Company Loses $200,000 Worth of Jewels. Richmond, Va„ Feb. 19—Advices ||om Pinehurst, North Carolina's win |fcr resort, are that the offices of an 9kpress company at that place were iWoken open and robbed of diamonds 4*1(1 iewelry va'ued at approximately £tiiniM)0 on l)'v ri.iit of I'M). 0. in.) \i w i' 1 rv I l)i i n sent, it is YOUR OLD RECORDS Are worth something if you will return them to us. stated, for the inspection and approval of various wealthy Northerners win tering at Pinehurst by New York and Chicago concerns. The express company and detectives who have been put on the case are said to have made every effort to keep the fact that a robbery had been com mitted from leaking out. In this ef fort they were successful until !t was found necessary to ask the assistance of the police of other cities in running down the thieves. AFTER A LOVERS' QUARREL Wisconsin Man Kills Sweetheart and Her Mother. Boscobel, Wis., Feb. 19.—John Mo Donald, aged twenty-five years, a farmer living near Gays Mills, in Crawford county, shot and killed hi.s sweetheart, Nancy Lenox, and ht-r mother, Mrs. Oscar Lenox, at their home about five miles from Gstys Mills. The murder followed a lovers' quarrel. McDonald went to Gays Mills and purchased a revolver. He returned to the Lenox farm late In the afternoon and without warning began firing on the women, killing both. After the crime McDonald returned to Gays Mills, where he gave himself up to the marshal. He was taken im mediately to Prairie du Chien, where he was locked up in the county jail. MRS. LEMP GIVEN DIVORCE Decision Rendered in Sensation*! St. Louis Case. St. Louis. Feb. 19.—A decree of divorce, with alimony of $6,000 a year and the custody of her son, *a awarded Mrs. William J. Lemp, Jr., by Jud^e George Hitchcock in the circuit court here. The decision followed a sensational trial which lasted moro than a week and closed Tuesday last Mr. Lernp is given the society of th« seven-year-old boy from Saturday morning to Sunday evening of each week. Mrs. Lemp had contended strenuously for an award of alimony in gross, her attorney asking for $500, 000. This would have given her an Income of more than thrice the allow ance granted by the court. The net. result of 11. N i -T. 1 some what as a •ni!Tcr.:i Royal Baking* Powder Absolutely Tare Renders the food more wholesome and su perior in lightness and flavor. The only baking powder made from Grape Cream of Tartar# 3 E S O N JEWELER A. F. Laity, Optician KNOX TANGLE AGAIN GOiYiES UP IN HOUSE Tawnsy Resolution Adopted by Vote of 182 to 125. Washington, Feb. 19.—When the house met Mr. Dalzell, from the com mittee on rules, reported back the joint resolution presented by Mr. Taw ney, which authorizes the conferees on the legislative, executive and ju dicial appropriation bill to treat the provision making gn appropriation of $12,000 for the salary of the secretary of state during the next fiscal year as if the two houses had disagreed on it. There was an effort to immediately order the previous question, but this was met by an objection from the Democrats. A roll call was ordered and resulted 157 yeas and 107 nays. Consequently the previous Question was ordered. After debate the resolution was adopted, 182 to 125, and now goes to the senate for concurrence. If it is adopted the conferees will take up the salary question as if there had been a disagreement of the two houses. The house's conferees are Bingham (Pa.), Gillett (Mass.) and Livingston (Ga.). TESTIMONY IS CONCLUDED Arguments in Harriman-Hill Fight Will Be Heard in April. Chicago, Feb. 19.—Interstate Com merce Commissioner Prouty conclud ed the taking of testimony in the ap plication of the Union Pacific railroad to compel the Northern Pacific to en ter into a through routing arrange ment under which the Harriman roads may use the Portland gateway, con trolled by J. J. Hill, to points beyond. P. S. Eustis, general passenger traf fic manager of the Chicago, Burling ton and Quincy railroad, was the last witness. He said he wished the Port land gateway were even tighter, as it would force more traffic over his road hy way of Denver and Billings. The commission will listen to argu ments of counsel in the case at Wash ington April 7. LUMBERMEN IN CONVENTION Hardwood Manufacturers' Association Meets in Louisville. Louisville, Feb. 19.—Lumber Inter ests all over the country are interest ed in the convention of the Hardwood .Manufacturers' association which be gan here today. Practically every hardwood concern in the United States is represented. Next week the Flooring Manufac turers' association, which works in conjunction with the hardwood men, will meet in Chicago for a convention. The delegates to the present conven tion will go to Chicago from Louis ville. MADISON, SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1909 DEPLORES USE OF LARGE Senatorial Candidate Dis cosses Expenses. HATTON ON THE STANU One of the "AlsonRans" In Primary Contest Does Not Believe a Nom ination Secured by Excessive Use of Cash Should Be Binding, but He Refuses to Define Hia Meaning of "Excessive." Madison, Wis., Feb. 19.—The ques tion of campaign expenditures was the basis of the continued examina tion of W. H. Hat ton, one of the four Republican candidates for United ft at es senator, before the legislative primary investigating committee. He was asked to define "excessive" ex penditures, but declined to fix any certain amount as being excessive. He condemned the spending of an un reasonable amount of money in a campaign for a nomination and did not believe a nomination obtained through unreasonable spending of money should be binding. He side stepped the question as to whether the expenditure of $100,000 to $200,000 was excessive, saying he was not there to approve or condemn the ac tions of his rivals. The thirteenth! ballot for United States senator by the Joint conven tion of the legislature showed no choice. Senator Stephenson received 61 out of 130 votes cast, still lacking five of a majority. Senator Morris asked Mr. Hatton if he considered a man who had been guilty of a deliberate act of fraud fit for the United States senatorship. Mr. Hatton replied that it would seem hardly necessary to a&k such a ques tion when the intelligent constituency ot the state of Wisconsin is coasid sred, MAY BE ENTERING WEDGE Hopkins Supporter Breaks Away From Primary Candidate. Springfield, 111., Feb. ID.—For the first time in many days excitement was injected into the deadlock on the vote for United States senator in the general assembly by Representative John L. Flannigen of East St. Louis, who, in explaining his vote, which he shifted from Hopkins to Shurtleff, de clared it his belief that no man now in the race could be elected. The action of Flannigen was regard ed as indicative of a coming shift by the other Southern Illinois men and may be the entering wedge which will result in a dark horse capturing the togi. After the close of the session legis lators commented on the announce ment of Mr. Flannigen and recalled that he had nominated Senator Hop kins on the floor of the house. The opposition to Senator Hopkins was quick to assert that the shift of Flan nigen could be regirded as a with drawal of the candidacy of the man whom he had nominated. The Hop kins men were apparently undisturbed by the desertion and were firm as ever in their declaration of ultimate victory. ONCE LIVED IN SOUTH DAKOTA Man Who Attacked Kansas City Mil lionaire Identified. Kansas City, Feb. IS.—Robert Ben jamin Bledsoe, the man who attempt ed to extort $7,000 from Lawrence M. Jones, the millionaire merchant, by the use of a dynamite bomb, has con fessed his identity. Bledsoe said that he was well known in Dallas, Tex. He said that W. G. Gaston, a banker of Dallas, would vouch for the truth fulness of his story. Leaving Dallas about 1900 Bledso" has had a strange career. He has been around the world. In 1904 he was employed by E. D. Olney at the latter's home at Pierre, S. D. Bledsoe says his hair changes color. Some tiiu s it is reddish and at other times black. This latter statement leads the police to believe that Bledsoe dyes his hair, which is now black. MORE MESSAGES PUBLISHED Spanish Orders Relating to Surrender of Santiago. Madrid, Feb. 19.—The bitter contro versy aroused last week by the pub lication here of some cablegrams ex changed between General Blanco at Havana and the government at Madrid regarding the surrender of the city of Santiago, Cuba, to General Shatter on July 17, 1S98, has been further enven omed by the appearance of a fresh batch of messages which demonstrate that the government, when it found that Blanco was unalterably opposed to surrender, communicated directly with General Toral, the commander at Santiago, giving him a free hand Question as Superiority of SUMS Vii) CALUMET Baking Powder Received Highest Award World's Pure Food Expositka Chicago, 1907. HlPE FOR KiS RECOVERY Condition of Former Labor Commis sioner Is Critical. Worcester, Mass., Feb. 19.—No ap preciable change in the condition of President Carroll D. Wright of Clark university and former United States ffi CARROLL D. WRIGHT. commissioner of labor, is noted. 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