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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-04
WILL MAKE SILVER THE ISSUE.
CONGRESSMAN Babcock SAYS Demo-
crnts VIII Fight and Lose on That

Congressman baOCOCh SuSo
crnts VIII Fight and Lose on Ihat
Question.
Milwaukee, Sept. 4.-Congressman >.
w. Babcock, chairman of the repupil-
can congressional committee. who was
in the city, says that If the democrats
take up free silver as an issue next year
the republicans will win with hardly a
fight. Mr.. Babcock said that 1t looks as
though the democrats We're determined
to make free silver the issue IN spite OF
the fact that the people are tired OF ~.
IF the democrats insist upon repeating
the Chicago platform we are bound 10
win without anything of fight, ne
said I'VE will pass currency bill be
fore the next congress adjourns, ano
when we have enacted sound financial
legislation neither Mr. Bryan nor any
one else can defeat us. The law as
passed will be mandatory and Will have
to be obeyed by every one from the
president down"
Speaking of other issues, Mr.. Babcock
said THE trust cry may help the dem
ocrats some. but l think they will gain
nothing by opposing the presidents poll
ICY The trust problem is one of the
hardest we have to solve. 1t Will have
to solve itself. / admit ! am not wise
enbngh at present to offer a solution
| and do not believe that any one else is
| 1t is not the legitimate consolidation OF
capital that we have to fear, in my
opinion, but the imitation of capital, like
4 that Washington street car consolida-
/ ton, where the interest charges are $500
a day on road that has never beer
able to pay 800 a day. That, by th'
way. is democratic scheme, as some
of the most prominent men in the par
ty, like German and Murphy. are inter
ested in it.
4 so far as anti-expansion goes, ever,
loyal American will endorse the stan,
taken by President Mckinley. TIL
thing for US to do now is to esta blis
our supremacy in the Philippines, the
it will be time to talk about the form O
government. believe every patriot
American who has given the matte
careful thought feels that way, and tn
democrats can make no Roadway i
criticising the presidents policy
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-04
SHOOTS WIFE AND BABE.
Henry Emde, of Chicago, Then
Takes his Own Life.

Takes His own Life.
Chicago, Sept. 4-Henry Emde, a
carpenter, shot and killed his wife and
wounded his 5-year-old daugh-
ter. Hilda. while they We're in bed at
their home in the lower fiat at 35s West
Belmont avenue, at an early hour yes
terday morning. Then he killed himself
by cutting the blood vessels in his fore
head and wrists with pair Of scissors
and hanging himself to the top hinge of
the kitchen door.
In letter. written in German. the
last sentence of which is dated at 2 p.
M, Emde said that he would kill his
wife because she had continually tried
to make trouble for him, that he had
tried to starve her, SO that she would
leave him, and that the privation had
been worse on the three children than
on her. He also said that he would kill
Hilda because she had said that she al
ways wanted to stay by her father.
Emde wrote that he wanted her to go
to heaven with him.
At o'clock yesterday morning, as
vas their custom, Emma, years old.
and Willie. II years old, entered their
mothers room to awaken her. They
found her dead In pool of blood in the
bed. There was a bullet hole in the
temple and another in the region Of the
heart. Hilda had fallen out of the bed
and was unconscious. with bullet hole
in her forehead. She was sent to ST
Elizabeth's hospital where she died be-
fore noon. Emma and Willie found
their fathers dead body hanging to the
top hinge of the kitchen door, blood Still
flowing from the wounds in the fore
head and wrists, and with the bloody
scissors lying on the floor near by.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-04
PAINTS GLOOMY SC[N[
Fear of War In the Transvaal
Causes q Panic at johann
nesburg.
Business Paralyzed and the People
Are Leaving the Country
Trains Searched.
Disgusting Actions of Women at
Kaffir Kraal In Lond on-Old
World Gossip.

London, Sept. 4.-The Johannesburg
correspondent of the Daily Mail. who
paints gloomy and pitiable picture of
the condition of things there, says:
1T is almost case of absolute exodus
and panic. Business is paralyzed, the
half the houses are empty, and the
others are tenanted by people who do
not pay rent, the landlords being glad
enough to have them as occupants in
order to insure some sort of protection
to the property.
The tension has reached the snap
ping point. Bankruptcy and starvation
are staring the people in the face. An
lother fortnight of suspense will result
lin complete commercial collapse.
THE banks are thronged with people
anxious to withdraw their gold, and the
railways are besieged by those who
wish to get away
The Cape Town correspondent of the
Daily Mail says:
The Transvaal authorities are for
warding huge quantities of Mauser am
lmunition from Pretoria to Bloemfontein.
ION Friday 100000 rounds arrived at
| the Orange Free state capital.
"Rumor fixes the number of warrants
ISSUED a l47. including the represent
atives of al the London daily Eewspa-
/ pers.
Mr. Moneypenny, editor of the STAR
lit is reported, has evaded the detec-
tives sent to arrest him and has sue
ceeded in crossing the border.
1T is believed that the mediation of
Mr.. Fischer. the representative of the
Orange Free State. has failed"
1 All the special dispatches to the Lon
don morning papers from South Africa
! indicate that the correspondents have
the impression that the reply of the
Transyaal government to Mr.. Chamber
lains latest note will be an impertinen,
rejection of the suggested conference
at Cape Town and threattso withdraw
the tive-year franchise offer.
The correspondent of the Times a.
Newcastle Natal, confirms the belief OF
Its Johannesburg correspondent. Mr.
4 Moneypenny, that aggressive action i.
4 Imminent.
4 A special dispatch from Johannesburg
II says it is understood that the charg'
against Mr.. Pakeman, editor of tn
Transvaal Leader. who was arrested oil
I Saturday, will be reduced from seditiol
Ito contravention of the press laws.
Mr.. Hoskin, the proprietor of tn
I Transvaal Leader. is chairman of tn
SIoutlanders' council and president of tn
) Johannesburg chamber of commerce.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-04
MYSTERY IN woMAN's DEATH.
Miss Laura Lee French. Of Burl,ns

Miss Laura Lee French, of Burling.
TON, Dies of Poison in Nebraska.
Omaha, Neb.. Sept. Aug. y a young
woman stopped at a hotel at Hastings.
Neb., and registered as Mrs. w. l.. Lee.
She was accompanied by a midlle-aged
man. who left an hour later. He did not
register. That evening Mrs. Lee died
from the effects OF poison. Detectives
have been at work on the case. The
fact has developed that the woman was
Miss Laura Lee French, of Burlington,
Iowa, prominent school teacher. Foul
play ia suspected. Her relatives do not
believe she took the poison with suicidal
intent. The remains have been sent to
Burlington.
Miss Laura Lee French was teacher
In Burlington. She was supposed to be
away visiting. Chief of Police Martin
and County Attorney McCreary went to
Omaha early yesterday morning to con-
tinue work on the case.
Members of the Danish Norwegian
Methodist Episcopal church are in con-
ference at Minneapolis, MINI.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-04
Two suspects Arrested.

Chicago, Sept At the Warren ave-
nue. station the police have under arrest
the two men who. they believe killed
Walter F. Koeller in his room at ss0af
Fulton street Saturday night. They
are Richard Honeck, % years old, and
Norman Hundhausen, 20 years old, and
in consequence of their arrest Cnlef
Ripley promises to have Policeman
Thomas NJ. Whalen of the Grand Cross
ing station wearing the stripes OF a SER
geant today noon. Both suspects deny
their guilt. but the police believe that
the evidence secured against them is
sufficient to convict.
When arrested Honeck and Humid
hansen had with them a small-sized ar
senal, and one weapon, pearl-handled
hunters bowie knife, with two-edged
blade ten inches long, was smeared with
blood, and this, the police say, was the
knife that was plunged through koel-
ler's heart and into his left side.
| AS soon as the police were notified OF
| the crime a description OF the murder
ers was telephoned to all police stations.
! Policeman Whalen was sent out from
the Grand Crossing station at 1890 p.
m. and in forty-five minutes he had
Honeck and Hundhausen under arrest.
| They llesitated in answering the po-
lliceman's questions, and he commanded
them to open their grips, each carrying
one. AS Honeck opened his he tried to
| throw back of him the blood-covered
knife and forty-four-caliberr revolver.
Whalen thought that was sufficient ev-
Iident on which to take them to the sta
ton, and, calling citizen to carry the
grips, he made the prisoners hold their
n1x1 In n
marched them two blocks to the station.
with hand on the neck Of each.
i At the station a search of their per-
sons and their grips produced the fol-
lowing armament: One pearl-handled
hunters bowie knife, blade double
edged and ten inches long, covered with
fresh blood; one heavy bowie
knife, blade eight inches long; one dia-
mond-shaped dirk knife, with blade
four inches long; one forty-four-caliber
revolver, barrel one foot long; one thir-
ty-eight-caliber revolver, one twenty
two-caliber revolver, two belts of cart
ridges for the larger revolvers, worn
about the waist of the prisoners; one
lead-filled billy, one razor and one case
knife.
Yesterday morning Chief Ripley or.
dered the prisoners transferred at once
to the Warren avenue station. There
the afternoon was spent in probing ths
mystery. 1t developed that the two
prisoners were born and raised in Her
r mann. Gasconade county. Mo-, ant
o were playmates at school with tn
. Koeller brothers, they, too, having beef
= raised there.
: Waiter Koeller took q course in tele
Igraphy at the Dixon (Ill.) normal sctoo
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-04
L Would Not,

II were you. accept substitute for
Beggs' Little Giant Pills, when you go
out the druggist laughs and says he was
easy. Be sure you get what you want
Beggs' Little Giant Pills. Geo. p. Pow
ers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-04

DsWitt's Little Early Risers perma-
nently cure chronic constipation, bill
BUSINESS, nervousness and worn-out feel
ing: cleanse and regulate the entire sys-
TEN. Small, pleasant, never grippe or
sicken--'famous little pills" r. B. Will
ey. postoffice Druggist, and g. p. Pow
era
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-04

LONDON, Sept. 4.-Throughout the
length and breadth of the land there are
quite a number of coming fes-
tivities going on.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-04
Dixon Theory of the Murder.

Dixon, ILL.,. Sept. 4.-The report of the
murder of Walter r. Koeller in Chicago
Saturday night, a former student OF the
Northern Illinois Normal College here,
caused a sensation at the school, where
he was we'll known. Koeller came here
from Hermann, Mo-, about year ago
and was in the business department.
He also played short stop on the Dixon
college nine. He made many friends,
and, as far as known, had no enemies.
He had kept company with Jessie Horn
and Jessie Scott. The theory of the
Chicago officers to the effect that these
girl students had some connection with
the motive of the crime proves to be
wrong, upon investigation.
| About Aug. l there came to the school
| from Hermann, Mo-, Frederick Humid
hansen, who began course of study in
| the business department. He is alleged
to have had considerable money, which
| he spent freely. He and Koeller had
been intimate friends in the Missouri
town. Richard Honeck. of the same
place. came here Yesterday week ago
1 to visit Hundhausen. Three years ago
lat Hermann. Mo-, in prosecution for
assault, Koeller gave some. evidence re-
| fecting upon Honeck's character and
some relatives OF Honeck. 1t is thought
this in part is the motive for the crime.
To several room mates here two dirks
we're displayed, and Honeck said:
l"They will be used some day before
long"
i While here Hundhausen and Honeck
made inquiries for Koeller's address IN
i Chicago and were referred to his former
lodging place. The occupants here did
not know 1t. The two men later sent a
note by small boy to Miss Scott and
she furnished the address. That night
after obtaining this information. the
two men are alleged to have sat up a,
Hundhausen's room until nearly morn
ling.
koelier's flancee. Miss Jessie Horn, Of
Shirley, ILL.,. did not know the two al
legged conspirators. There seems to be-
no question in the mind of Sheriff Nc.
Gowan and the police here that Humid.
hansen and Honeck are the guilty men
With this idea in view they have ceased
to do any further work on the case. De
Electives Book and Mackey. of the Chi
cago police force, returned to Chicago
' last evening
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-04

panicky.
Saturday detectives searched the Sim
rnerjack mine for arms, but found none.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-10-19
TO BRING ABOUT SLEEP.
The Half Hour Before Bedtime Should
Be Quietly Spent.

Dlhculties in going to sleep are
sometimes physical more than mental,
says the Spectator. The physical, I'M
der ordinary circumstances, are due to
the circulation. The following are
few practical hints: Some sleep better
half sitting up with three pillows,
some better with none; some with lit
tie covering. some with much. not
drinks or hot bath just before sleep,
hot bottles to the feet are often useful.
Tobacco often increases sleeplessness.
Sometimes, after long waking, a small
meal will bring sleep. Some, espe-
cially invalids, will wake after two
or three hours; a cup of hot, fresh tea
will often send them to sleep again.
Sometimes the darkness seems exciting
and one can sleep with a lighted can
die. Intermittent noises. as of rat
Ting window, are always bad, but a
continuous noise is often lullaby.
Moderate fatigue aids, but exhaustion
prevents sleep. Oftenest sleeplessness
is mental and springs from want
of self-control Either one subject
engrosses the mind or a succession of
ideas. In either case the sleepless
must make the effort to stop thought.
1t is best done by attending continu-
ously to some monotonous and unex-
citing idea which is self-hypnotism.
Some count, some breathe slowly as if
asleep, some look at imaginary sheep
going through a gate. One of the best
ways is to watch those curious appear
ances which come to closed eyes, a
purple hare fading into a star, which
becomes an irregular line, and again
changes to something else. They can
|. not be seen when first sought, but
will come with little patience. In
all these the purpose is to fix the at
tention on some object which will
arouse no associations. 1t requires
steady effort to do this and to prevent
the thoughts wandering, but exerciss
increases the power to succeed. The
half hour before bedtime shouf0 b
spent quietly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-10-19
MAZDA me PATHS Substitute.

'. To some persons a poor singer may
be better than no singer at all, but
the least musical person cannot fail
to perceive the irony OF the situation
described below: Once. when travel
ing in the north of ireland, an En-
glishman' of letters chanced upon q
small town which, TO his surprise, he
found extensively filled with, IAN
homogeneous Of a,Econcert at which
Madame Patti was to- appear. The
price of admission to the back Of the
hall being the extremely moderate one
of threepence, he fastened to secure a
seat. After a long interval of waiting,
the manager stepped forward, remark
ing: Ladies and gentlemen, l regret
to say that Madame Patti is unable to
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-10-19
An Arizona Apple Tree.

In little back yard off Utah avenue
between Second and Third streets,
stands a wonderful young apple tree.
1t is a rather neglected specimen part
ly shaded by tall buildings, it's roots
spreading as they can in hard-trodden
ground, and its branches receiving fire.
quent knocks from boys and passers-
by. The tallest shoot of this tree is
not over seven feet in height, and the
spread of its branches is hardly more.
The peculiarities of the tree are that it
IS almost a perpetual boomer, and that
it ripens three successive crops of fruit
each year 1t blossomed late in the
winter and sets it's fruit, specimens of
which are now nearly matured 1t blos4
sCmed again late in March, and the
fruit that set is developing nicely. The
tree is now again in blossom quite pro-
fusely and presents the astonishing
spectacle of bearing at the same time
two distinctive crops of fruit and
scores of beautiful and sweet scented
blossoms. Mrs. Kate Collins, on whose
lot the tree stands, says that if the tree
is true to it's former record it will
again blossom toward the last of Sep
TENDER. 1t is of the Winter Pearmain
variety and has been planted eight
years.-Tucson Star.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-10-19
CURIOUS FACT
Ihat the More Opera Singers MARBLE
the More They Waddle.

New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Getting fat is the great dread of all
women opera singers, from the prima-
donna to the girl in the 'steenth row of
the chorus said veteran theatrical
manager who was in the city a few
DAYS ego. Just why there should be
any connection between melody and
embonpoint am unable to say hut the
TACT is undeniable. To put it brutally,
the more they MARBLE the more inclined
lhey are to waddle, and such a catas-
trophe takes all the romance out of a
role. No woman can be truly poetic
with terrace of chins, and when a
singer sees the fatal symptoms begin
10 appear, she is willing to resort to
desperate measures to nip them in the
Dud. Calisthenics, dieting, practicing
with clubs, Turkish baths. and even
straight ont starvation are few of the
Things that are generally tried, but
they are rarely successful. One of the
Few cases | ever knew in which a
marked tendency to stoutness was sue
cessfully controlled was that of very
charming lady who is still an ornament
to the lyric stage Some years ago
she suddenly took on flesh in an
alarming fashion, and everybody pre-
dicted that her career was ended. Next
season, however, she was as sylph-like
as ever, and exactly how she did it
has never been told. The truth is. her
system was very simple. During a
summer vacation, spent in the country,
she had her husband drive a dog-cart
every day along quiet road while she
held to the back of the vehicle and
followed at a run. That sustained her
and kept her from falling, and at the
same time compelled her to take yio-
TENT exercise. The horse went at a
gentle trot, which was gradually in
creased as she became better and bet
ter Splinter. or course, it was very
absurd, leaping along in that manner,
and the country folks who saw her
thought she was crazy, but the plan
worked like magic and she lost all her
superfiuous flesh and at the same time
improved in health-a remarkable
combination. She will be angry with
me for giving her away, especially as
she is very dignified but the scheme
ought to be known for the benefit Of
other sufferers" s
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-10-19
A FRENCH JOKE
Partisan Journalist Asked to Bogus Re-
hearsal Of Parliamentary Bell.
(To be continued.)

Partisan Journalist Asked to Bogus Re-
hearsal Of Parliamentary Bell.
An interesting hoax has been perpe-.
trated by a prominent Partisan Jour
nal at the expense Of its contempora
ries, says the London Standard AZ Re-
corded some days since; NJ. Deschauel.
in the course; Of one of his noisy sit
tlngs or last session, broke the historic
Dell placed on his desk to call the
deputies to order. The journal, in
question announced that there was to
be an interesting rehearsal today when
with the ushers to initiate the noisy
deputies, a trial of a number of new
Dells would be made with view of
selecting successor to NJ. Fichet's
GIT, which had done duty since 1850.
he result was that a crowd of Paris
ian journalists were early in attend
ance at the Palais Bourbon. with a
view OF ascertaining the hour at which
THIS interesting ceremony was to take
place. Courteous ushers, who. no doubt,
from their long experience, would
make model deputies, were there, as
usual, to. greet them; but nothing was
known of the trial, and the Journalist
responsible for the original paragraph
has the satisfaction of knowing that
ne deranged at least fifty of his con-
lreres, caused much amusement at the
chamber, and afforded a subject for
gossip in the evening at the clubs. NJ
Deschanel, the president of the cham
Der, is still in this country; but on. his
return eight newubells, which ..have
peen cast, will be submitted, to- him,
and the chosen three, will be further
embellished with the initials %R. F."
One Of these Bells will be placed in
the chamber one Kept for reserve, and
the other sent to Versailles for the use
Of future congresses. 1t seems that
when VI. Deschanel broke the bell be-
longing to the chamber, that from the
congress hall at Versailles, also of his
tOrical association, for it has assisted
at each of the seven presidential! cleo
tons. was requisitioned, only however,
to almost Immediately share at the
vigorous hand of the president of the
chamber fate similar to that of the
confrere it had been called in to re-
place, and which it has now also gone
to join in the parliamentary museum.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-10-19


States. More than 100000 cans Of
sweet corn have been packed this year
by two factories. More than 4O, 900, 900
tin cans have been manufactured and
sold by one company tc,ypagkers in
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa Missouri, Cali
fornia, Wisconsin. and; Mississippi
More than 100000 worth of canning
factory machinery his been m2nufac-
tured and sold by another concern.
During the busy. season more than
1,5C0 people are employed here in these
canning industries, the pay-rolls
amounting to $500 per week! The
seasons product Of the combin ed fac
tory interests here will be more than
$l,O00,0 H0opeston is known as the
."Parlor City. of Illinois with popu
lation of $500, five miles of paved
streets and no saloons. '." Ill: