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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-02-08
is STILL A MYSTERY
Disappearance OF John Barry Battles
All the Efforts of the Police to
Solve the Mystery.
WIFE GIVES HIM UP FOR DEAD

Mrs. Barv was Seen at Her Deserted Home
This Morning and Says That There is No
Doubt But That the Husband Has Beer.
Foully Dealt W1th-Greatest Mystery in
the History of the Kenosha Police De-
partment
AS the days pass and no trace is to
be found of the whereabouts of John
H. Barry, who disappeared from his
home in this city week ago last Fri
day, the casesis gathering interest and
the police declare that it is the most
mysterious case that has ever been re-
ferred to the, department IN this city.
For full week the police have been
bending every effort to locate the man,
but all their efforts have met with
rebuff and only serve to increase the
mystery of the case. Letters have been
sent to every possible place where the
man might have gone, but they have
all resulted in reply that Barry had
not been seen. Chicago police have
searched the city, but without avail,
and this morning the police decided
that the theory ofSfoul play which was
at first advanced by the wife OF the
missing man was the most probable
solution of the mystery. In the mean
time the home of Barry is home of
sorrow. For ten days the wife and
son have waited in vain for the return
ing step of the husband and father
and the wife is in a state of almost
nervous collapse. Kind neighbors
have done all in their power to lessen
the trial of the lady, but it is evident
that she will not be able to stand the
strain more than a short time longer.
A representative of this paper called at
the house this morning and found Mrs.
Barry sobbing as if her heart would
break. She said that she had heard
positively nothing from her husband
since the evening when he put on his
hat and went toward the city.
Letters have been written to all his
friends and relatives but they have
brought no comfort to the deserted
home. Mrs. Barry said that she had
given her husband up for dead and that
shetfe1t certain he had met with foul
play. She has no idea of his fate but
stated that he had told her that he had
number of enemies who had threat
ened him several times. Mrs. Barry
said that her husband took nothing
with him when he left home but wore
an ordinary suit of clothes.
From the conditions it is evident
that Barry did not intend leaving the
city when he left home Friday even
ing. The story told by Mrs. Barry is
verified by most of the people living
in the neighborhood of the Barry home.
They state that it was happy home
and that Barry was never known to go
out without his wife.
One man was found, however, who
lived in the neighborhood, who stated
that it was his opinion that Barry was
alive and we'll. He said he was friend
of Bary's and had often heard that
Barry and his wife did not get along
any too well. This man limited that
there was another woman in the case.
This theory, however, is doubted by
the police They think that the man
either wandered away in fit of tenn
porary insanity or has met with foul
| NAV
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Russell.

r. B. Dixon, of Gurnee, visited here
last Wednesday.
Miss Josie Efinger, who had been
visiting here, has returned to her home
in Waukegan.
H.F. Silver was a Kenosha visitor
last Saturday.
Miss Lena Dixon is making an ex-
tended visit with friends in this
vicinity.
Rev. Tandy, of Chicago, called on
friends here last Tuesday.
w. H. Silver has been kept busy since
last Wednesday passing out cigars to
his friends and accepting congratula-
tions on the birth of a ten pound son.
All concerned are doing nicely.
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publication, Feb. s, 1900.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

TENOSHA COUNTY COURT-In Probate.
II In the matter of the estate of Sara M.
Clapp, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the claims and
demands of all persons against Sara M
Clapp. deceased, late Of the city of Kenosha, in
said County of Kenosha, viii be received, ex-
amined and adjusted by the County Court of
Z enosha County at the regular terms OF said
Court to be holden at the County Court Room,
in the City of Kenosha. in and for said County
on the first Tuesday of April D. 1900.
and on the first Tuesday Of September, A. D.
1900, at 10 o'clock A. Ne of those days; also
that the time until and including the first
Tuesday of September, A. d. 1900, is the time
Sara NJ. Clapp. deceased, to present their
claims for examination and allowances.
Dated at Kenosha the first day OF
February, A. d 1900 By the Court
RUSSELL II. SLOSSON,
42 County Judge
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BELIEVE HIM INNOCENT.
Henry Corbets Receives Help From His
People in England.

People in England.
Henry F. Corbett, the man accused
of shooting Rev. and Mrs. D. B.
Cheney, at Racine, and who has been
confined in the ST. Luke's hospital on
account of sickness, yesterday received
letters from his sister and her husband,
who live in Kent, England. One of
the letters contained a draft for an
amount of money to be used in his
defense and which is made out to
Henry Joseph Fu1gan Dakin, which
is the real name of the man.
The letters are in answer to one
written by M. E. Walker, attorney for
Corbett, and in which he informed
Corbett's relatives of his trouble. The
letter written by his sister is a touch
ing one and when Corbett read it he
wept like a child. Both of his relatives
believe him innocent and that he is the
victim of an unfortunate resemblance
to the assai1ant. They ask that the
name, address and denomination of
the minister be sent them, also any
press comments which have appeared.
On account of the delicate condition of
Corbett's mother she has not been told
of his misfortune, nor have any of the
other brothers and sisters.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-02-08
RATES 10 INCREASE.
Insurance Agents State That an Increase
is Bound to be Made in Short Time.

Insurance agents representing large
companies, state that the rate of fire
insurance will in a short time increase
in the city in spite of all efforts made
to keep the rate at a low minimum.
The large losses by fire in the United
States during the past month is given
as one cause. When policies expire OF
the different holders it is likely that
an additional rate will be affixed. The
rate now in this city is high enough,
and is a reasonable one considering
the small loss by fire we have had here
during the past few years, but that is
not taken into consideration, the total
loss sustained all over the country is
doubtless the cause of the increase.
The Journal of Commerce and Com
mercia1 Bulletin of the 9th says: ''The
fire loss of the United States and Can
ada for the month of January, as COM
piled from our daily records, aggre-
gates S11, 755, 300. This is materially
larger than the total for the same
month in 1898 and 1899, as will be seen
from the following comparison: 1898,
9,472, 800; 1899, $40, 718,OO0 While the
January losses show serious increase
the February losses are really astonish-
ing. They averaged about million
dollars day for the first four days of
the month. The sentiment favors an
advancing of the rates, as the fire COM
panies generally lost heavily on their
underwriting operations in 1899 and
bid fair to suffer even more severely in
+he current wear
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First publication. Feb. 8, 1900.

First publication, Feb 8, 1900
CTATE OF WISCONSIN County Court for
y KenOsha Comfy In Probate
Notice is hereby given that at a regular term
of the County Court to be held in and for
said county, at the County Court Room in the
City of KenOsha, in said county, on the first
Tuesday, being the 9th day of March, A.
D. 1900 at 10 o'clock A M, the following
matters will be heard and considered:
In the matter of the Last viii of Edmund
w. Blinn deceased.
The application of Julia E. Bltnn for the ex-
animation ana allowance of her final account
as executriX of the will of Edmund W. Blinns
late of the city of KenOSha in said county, de-
ceased, and for, the assignment and distribu-
ton of the residue of the estate of said de-
ceased.
In the matter Of the estate of Moses c. Bus
The application OF Henry F. Jordan for the
examination and allowance of his final &C
count as administrator of the estate of Moses
c. Boswell, late of the town OF Somers, in said
county, deceased, and for the assignment and
distribution of the residue Of the estate OF said
deceased.
In the matter of the estate of Susan Cooley,
deceased.
The application of henry Watson for the ex-
animation and allowance of his final account,
as administrator of the estate of Susan Cooley,
late Of the town of Salem, in said county, de-
ceased, and for the assignment and distribu-
ton of the residue of the estate OF said de-
ceased.
In the matter of the Last Will and Testa-
meut of Charles B. Gaines, deceased
The application of Mary Annette Gaines to
admit to probate the last will and testament
of Charles B. Gaines, late of the Town of Bris-
toll in said County, deceased.
In the matter of the Las Will and Tesla
ment of Anthony @. Hesing, deceased
The application Of Charles F. Pietsch and
William H. Lee to admit to probate the last
will and testament of Anthony c. Hesing, late
of the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois
By the Court.
Dated February z, 1900.
RUSSELL H SLOSSON,
42 County Ju ge.
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Auction Sale

Moses Achen having rented his farm
for a term of years, will sell at auction
on the premises situated in the town of
Bristol one mile southwest of Dev1in's
creamery at Wards corner, and one
and one-ha1f miles east of ]. Britton's
corner, on Tuesday, Feb. 20, farm
stock, implements, harness and house
hold furniture. Lunch at noon. E. r.
Wilson auctl, Ger.
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The fond mother dreams great dreams
of baby's future as she holds the sleeping
little one in her arms. But the dreams
will never come true unless she has
given him a strong body and a healthy
mind. Children die in hosts, or live to
struggle through life feeble of body and
dull of mind because the mother was
unfit physically and mentally for moth
erhood. Women who use DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription endow their chill
dren with strong bodies and bright minds.
It is every mothers duty to give her
child the advantages of a healthy body
and mind. A weak or sickly woman
cannot do this. "Favorite Prescription"
makes weak women strong and sick
women well.
Mrs. Orrin Stiles, of Downing, Dunn Co., Wis,
writes: III have been intending to write to you
ever since my baby was born in regard to what
your Favorite Prescription has done for me- ]
cannot praise it enough, for / have not been as
we'll for five years as / now am In July last had
a baby boy, weight II pounds, and was only sick
a short time and since got up have not had
one sick day. have not had any womb trouble
since got up. was not only surprised myself
but all of my friends here are surprised to see
me we'll"
DR.. Pierce's Pellets cure bi1iousness.
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Regular meeting of the Side Rank
Council, C. o. f., to be held Thursday
night, Feb. s, at Sch1itz Hall. All
members are requested to attend.
Business of Importance to be trans
acted. MATH. G. BoERNER, Sec.
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whist club Scores,

At the regular meeting of the Keno
sha Whist club Tuesday, the following
scores were made:
NORTH AND SOUTH.
Frantz and Fisher-179.
Ho1derness and Andre US.
Reino1d and Char1es-167
Average north and south hands-173
EAST AND WEST.
Penny and Frantz-178.
Brown and Mar1att-178.
Robinson and Ha1e-176.
Average east and west hands-1I/b
The Dickens club was pleasantly en-
tertained Tuesday afternoon BY Mrs.
Samuel Reynolds.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-02-08

oh! the snow, the beautiful snow.
1t was very welcome, as many have
njoyed s1eighrides.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-02-08

Mrs. Barv Was Seen at Her Deserted Home
This Morning and Says That There is No
Doubt But That the Husband Has Beer
Foully Dealt W1th-Greatest Mystery in
the History of the Kenosha Police De-
uartment
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-21
POINTS AND OPINIONS.
Mckinley needs an American
: secretary of state.-Chicago Chron.

MIR. Mckinley needs an American
for secretary of state.-Chicago Chron.
icle.
TO get outside the constitution
and inside the treasury appears to be
the idea of the present administration
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
1t is not to be maintained in rea.
son that President Mckinley this year
will be nearly as strong candidate as
he was in 1S96.-N. Y. Press (Rep.).
When the Nebraska republican
platform points with pride to ths
results of "the remodeling of our tar.
if laws" it entirely fails to enumerats
among those results the trusts.-St
Louis Republic.
Senator Jones has notified Hanna
that congress will have to remain in
session until August if the 50 900 600.
a-year ship subsidy bill is to be passed.
Hanna and Mckinley must give up the
measure if to pass it will take all sum.
mer." They have other business ON
hand.--Chicago Chronicle.
-Carpetbaggery may be admins.
tered in homeopathic doses to Porto
Rico until after the election, but il
William Mckinley is again chosen pres.
ident the island will be stuffed full OF
it. Carpetbaggery is as inevitable a
corollary of imperialism as pustules
are of smallpox.-Kansas City Times.
-Ry retaining Mr.. Mckinley and
his congress in power the people OF
this country will be enabled to accus.
tom themselves to an object lesson in
genuine Imperialism, exhibited in
Porto Rico, the Philippines and possi.
bly, in Cuba. which will prepare them
for receiving the same benefcent yoke
upon their shoulders when the trusts
shall have completed their plans for
turning the republic, both in form and
in fact, into a moneyed oligarchy,s.
Kansas City Times.
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-21
Enn for the Shah.

During the winter months the
little colony of sixty or seventy Eng
lish people at Teheran organize con-
certs for one another's amusement.
There is dance now and then at the
legation, and, of course, when the
weather is cold, there is skating.
Skating is the greatest marvel of all
to the Persians. Some years ago the
late shah, Nasr-i-Din, saw twenty
skaters twirling and curling and
spinning gracefully on the ice. He
was amused. He thought it wonder
full. The next day he sent to the le-
cation and borrowed dozen pairs of
skates. These he made his ministers
put on, and attempt to skate on the
lake in the palace ground. The poor
ministers were terribly discounted,
but it was twice as much as their
heads were worth to refuse. His
majesty was more amused than ever,
and he nearly had an apoplectic fit
from laughing Golfers Weekly.
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-21
THE DESECRATED FLAG.
Old Glory TrampIed in the Mud of
.Mflitarism by Repub~
Iicans.

There is a society in these United
States, styling itself american Flag
Association" and it is afflicted with
spasms of the repeated dissertations of
the flag which the association is in
corporated to preserve it against.
"Twenty-two years have passed." il
says, reproachfully,. "since the first eff
fort was made in congress to obtain
legislation to protect the United
States flag from desecration. Flag
bills are now lying in the pigeon holes
of the judiciary committee rooms un.
der the dust of neglect. In the Tacon
theater in Havana. it is Kissed, and
elsewhere spat upon, and it is abused
in Porto Rico, Cuba, Honolulu and Ma.
nila."
Of course it is, and it may be also
said that it is the most infamously
abused in Sulu. Moreover the Turks,
Chinese and other foreigners are not
stuck on it. This society of good peo-
pie do not seem to be aware that none
of the places mentioned are subject to
the constitution of the United States,
and according to Mr.. OXnard and the
trust managers of the republican par
ty, it has no business there against
their interests. If the flag adorers
would begin a crusade against the
dissertations, saliva and contumely
heaped upon the American flag by the
Mckinley administration and haul ii
out of the mud where it has been
trampled by the republican party,
they might restore some veneration
for the fac OF our country.
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-21
AN AGGRESSIVE CAMPAIGN.
The Democracy Is Lining Up for q
Vigorous Attack Upon Im-
periaIism.

The indications are growing stronger
that the coming campaign will be one
of aggression on the part of the dem
ocratic party. Taking the cue from
the republican state conventions re-
Gently held in Ohio, Pennsylvania. Wis
consin and Indiana, the issues delin-
eated in the respective platforms are
without exception mere Endorsement
of Mckinley and the ratification of his
policy of Imperialism. With the excep-
ton of Wisconsin, however. which,
while declining to indorse his policy,
demanded his denomination. the fact
is that, so far as the republican party
is concerned, it has no issues to pre-
sent to the people. 1t merely presents
itself to the public as party of impe-
rialism, a party of trusts and a party
which has foisted upon the nation the
most infamous currency bill ever ac-
cepted by any nation in the world I'M
der such circumstances what can the
democratic party do but be aggressive? :?
Mr.. Bryan, the great leader of the de-
mocracy, insists that the issues are
money, trusts and Imperialism. In
spite of the fact that Mr.. Bryan is mis-
quoted and misinterpreted on all oc-
casions, his last utterances to the pub
lie are to the effect that money, trusts
and Imperialism will form the issues
to be fought in the national campaign.
The republicans make no issue upon
the trusts, it having been. determined
on oil hu Mr. low o1J No,
Hanna that nothing whatever would
be done to injure them. So far as i'm.
perialism is concerned and the utter
and absolute violation of the organic
law expressed in the constitution, they
are proud of it. Even Senator Hoar,
with all his learning and fear that such
a policy will destroy the republic, Will
stand by his party in continuing the
destructive policy of imperialism
should Mckinley be reelected.
The money question is all the more
absorbing and essential because it is,
so to speak, the base of the issues of
imperialism and trusts. Take from
the bankers of the country, who rep
resent the money power, the absolute
control of the money of the people,
and the problem of the trusts and
that of imperialism would soon be
solved. The people are beginning to
understand that by giving up to the
money power the one great essential
in their personal and social affairs,
to-wit, the creation and control of
their money, they have saddled them
selves with the other two branches of
the question. Hence it is that the
money question is all important, and
this is the reason why Mr.. Bryan has
often indicated that he could not
abandon it even if he would. 1t is
immaterial whether the money ques-
ton be called ''the silver issue" or not;
it is still the same question, control of
the circulating medium by the govern
ment and the creation of money for
the benefit of the people and not for
the enrichment of special class.
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-21
FOR HIslIAllLIAlRIA,
CHILLS And fever.
The Best Prescription Is Groves
Tasteless Chill Tonic.
The Formula Is Plainly Printed on Every Bottle.
So That the People May Know Just
What They Are Taking.

Imitators do not advertise their formula
knowing that you would not buy their medi-
cine It you knew what it contained. Groves
contains Iron and Quinine put up in correct
proportions and is in Tasteless form. The
Iron acts as a tonic while the Quinine drives
the malaria out Of the system. Any reliable
druggist will tell you that Groves is the
Original and that all other so-called "Taste-
less chill tonics are limitations. An analysis
of other chill tonics shows that Groves is
superior to all others in every respect. You are.
not experimenting when you take Groves its
superiority and excellence having long been
established. Groves is the only Chill Cure sold
throughout the entire malarial sections of the
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-21
when the Prince Bored Her.

Here is the latest anecdote concern
ing the prince of Wales. A young
lady was presented to him at a social
function, and, not knowing how long
she should talk to him, she naively
requested him to tell her when she
should leave him. "On the contrary"
said the prince, sit is for you to tell
me when you are bored.' Later his
royal highness asked where the young
lady was born. 'At x. have lived
there all my life" "How many years
did you say you lived there?" in
quired the prince. 81 am bored, sir, %
said the lady. quietly.-London Chron-
io1a
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-21
Ali signs point toward tremendous

/ >----s'~--' ~~~--
All signs point toward tremendous
democratic victory next November.
The republican leaders are astounded
at the reports which are reaching them
from every section of the country of
the apathy and indifference of the re-
publican masses. In many states the
reports come that it was with great
difficulty that enough republicans
could be induced to come to the polls
to elect delegates to the various repub-
lican state conventions. Federal and
local office holders had to be relied up
on to make up the delegations. If this
condition cannot be overcome, million
of republicans will stay away from the
polls next November. The gains in the
local elections in Indiana are so general
ly in favor of the democrats and so ex-
tensive that good political judges pre-
dict that it will vote for Bryan by the
largest majority in 20 years. What is
true of Indiana, is forecast for the
whole middle west, from Ohio to Min
nesota.