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Connecticut western news., 1900-04-12
Assaulted Ills Aged Mother.

Middletown, x. r., April 11.-Charles Eppinger of this city, while intoxicated, made a murderous assault on his aged mother with chair and then attempted to smother her with bed quilts. It is feared she will die. The mother refused to make complaint, and the son was sent to the penitentiary for six months.
 Ii is said that eowbells are produced In only four factories in the United States and are made just the same as they were 100 years ago and sound tho sama
Connecticut western news., 1900-04-12
General Booth.s BirthdaY.

London, April 1.-The birthday of the Rev. William Booth, general of the Sal vation Army, was observed by the receipt of hundreds of congratulations from all parts of the world and the presentation of purse of $2O0,000. The money is the result of collections made during the re cent self denial week of the army. Gen eral Booth was born in Nottingham. Eng land in 1899.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18
WiIlmarth the man? OF curse he

VililidItu the mduF vi COURSE nc
a The INSCRIPTIONS. resolute sell
hshness and avarice which were popu-
larry recognized as his dominant char
asteristics would have qualified him
for such a deed as the widow alleged,
and his power of wealth and influence
were such as would justify her dread
OF awaking the antagon;sm of her UNI
named enemy until she was sure of
the weapons with which to meet him.
And now, as an added proof, IL one
were needed, the name of his long
hidden ~copartner in crime, Michael
McCaffrey. cropped up, linked with
his IN close and secret association.
by the time his train had reached
Jersey City Mr.. Latham had clearly
planned his course of procedure.
Travel stained and weary as he was,
he determined upon going into action
at once, without waiting even to son.
suit mis- principal, Mrs. Hall. Sending
his ~valises home by express, he
jumped into the first hack that pre-
sented itself IN the New York side OF
the ferry and ordered himself taken
with all possible speed to the station
house of the precinct in which Mr..
Willmarth had lived. Chester Sewall's
interests and his relations to the Will
marth family were, for he time being,
forgotten. The Widow Halls concerns
took precedence over everything else
In Johns estimation just then. lie
wondered IL she knew that Mccartney
had come to light or was likely to be
made to do SO. OF course she must
have been informed by the morning
papers that Willmarth was dead, and
no doubt took il for granted that in
his so escaping her long prayer for
vengeance her hopes of attaining jus
tice were extinguished. Probably she
would not see the evening paper al
all. 1t was his impression that she
did not read evening papers. Should
he telegraph to her? No, he decided
that he would not until he had accom-
plished something.
His cogitations were interrupted by
the stopping of the hack at the sta
tion house door.
The police captain received Mr.. La
than ~courteously and heard will
manifest interest the frank statement
he made of his reasons for desiring AZ
immediate interview with Michael Nc
Caffrey, for whose address he asked
Continued Next Week.)
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18
The Flttest Survives
BY J. II. CONNOLLY.

That brought him back to the start
ing point In his hideous circle OF nee
essity. His torture was that of Tanta-
lus. Fortune, all he had ever dreamed
of and more, smiled alluringly at him.
and he did not dare to take the first
step toward possessing her. Starya-
ton threatened him, for he literally
had not a penny-nothing but those
monstrous bills--and he was fearfully
hungry, hungrier, he thought, than
ever before in his life.
III he could only know what hap
pened hen the-the--discoyery was
made. Perhaps the morning papers
would give some hint about the bills.
He would have to see them before
risking anything. Through the long
hours until dawn he sat up, lot dar-
ing to go to bed, and pohdered upon
his situation. The fire in the stove
burned out, the room grew cold and
the chill made his sense of physical
discomfort almost as keen as his mem
tai torture. Nineteen hours had
passed since he had tasted food, and
his experiences in that time had 50
exhausted him that the lack made
him weak and nervous. The fancy
that something was behind him re-
turned. An unfastened window shut.
ter swung In the rising morning wind,
and its rusty hinge made a noise like
a shrek, causing him to start and cry
out. He felt as If he must go mad II
this strain continued much longer.
At length he heard the newsman
come up the steps and poke under the
hill 1nnr fhn n,n,.nlnm m afNare for 4
lodger who would not wake for hours
yet. Leaving his door open that the
hall might be lighted up, he slipped
down stairs, shuddering at each creak-
Ing step, clutched the papers and re.
turned swiftly to his room. He had
the three leading morning journals
md taking them together could be
pretty sure of knowing all the report
ers had been able to find out.
The accounts were meager, owing
to the lateness of the hour at which
the body had been stumbled over by
n policeman. Death appeared to have
been caused by n frightful cash on
the back of the mans head, produced,
evidently, by his falling upon a
Jagged, sharp rock, but there was no
reason to suppose his fall an accident,
A great bruise on the face showed
that he had been knocked down, no
doubt for the purpose of robbery. His
valuable watch and n considerable
sum of money were untouched in his
pockets, but that fact simply went to
show that the assassin, after tearing
his clothes open to plumber him, had
been alarmed by something and had
fled.
All was as the murderer could have
desired except that one account closed
with the sentences:
'The police have n clue to the as
sassin, and believe they will be able
to arrest him today"
Not happening to know the utter
emptiness of that stereotyped phrase
the preliminary 20 characterizing
the crime as IAN inscrutable mystery"
when the murderer was not caught in
the prescribed time-Chester Sewall
was Mortified. It's meaning to him
was the realization of his worst fears.
The large bills had been missed and
were expected to serve as the clue!
In fancy he already saw the gallows
booming up before him.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18
A True American.

Julian Hawthorne, the brilliant son
of a gifted sire, sees neither fame nor
gain in IN alliance of any kind with
the empire of Great Britain, saws the
Ottumwa Democrat. If there be such
an agreement, and all our administra-
tons movements seem to point out
that there is, we must sacrifice the
friendship of Russia, our best friend
in the dark days from 1860 to 1864.
for that of England, who at the same
trying period, forced us to submit
to many a humiliating measure rath-
er than provoke the active hostility of
a power anxious to get the slightest
pretense on which to hang a quarrel.
that must necessarily cause the de-
struction of the great republic, which
was and is, destined to be her only
trade rival.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18
ingenious chinese ror,ures.

London Mail: The Chinese have
for long been famous for the peculiar
fly and fiendishness of their tortures.
There Is, to begin with, the torture
of molten lead. The victim Is bound
hand and foot with ropes. and a bar
Der shaves his head till 1t Is ~speckless.
Then a cloth is bound tightly round
the skull while lead is being melted
under intense heat in a pot. Binding
his prisoner to an upright post until
movement is impossible, the execu-
toner removes the cloth from the
skull and takes a small spoon, holding
one drop of the molten lead. The ex-
posure creates a feeling of cold, and
before this has died away the drop OF
lead falls upon the barred head, eating
into the flesh.
Another favorite torture acts upon
the mind and the palate. All the pris'
oner's food and drink is tainted with @
peculiar all-pervading flavor. 1t Is
never absent. The victim, in all prob
ability, believes hat he is being slow
ly poisoned, and, moreover, the con
slant recurrence of the flavor in every
thing he touched creates nausea. In G
third torture, hat of the white bird
the prisoner is bound in a sitting posi-
ito at the foot of a tree. His ankle,
are secured in n species of stocks. III
can see his legs as far as the ankles
but he canno see what goes on at tn,
other side of the stocks, where his fee
project. A little distance above tn,
toes a little rod of wood, like a Bird
perch, is placed. On the perch is
white bird with a strong and piercing
beak. In that position II Is starved
until, sooner or later, il begins to en-
the toes and feet Of the agonized vic
tim.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18
CHAPTER Xxx.


1t was among the kilograms in n To-
cal paper purchased en- route, while
passing through Pennsylvania, that
John Latham first read of the murder
of the banker, Richard Willmarth. The
killing of so rich and prominent a cit
izen, the apparent boldness of. the
crime, and the mystery thrown about
it in the earlier publications of the
event, made the news of such inter
est hat it was given prominence in
all the dailies Of the country. But
comparatively few of those to whom
the knowledge was brought could
have felt such interest in it rs John
Latham. How, he asked himself,
would it affect the fortunes of his
friend Chester Sewall? Would lrma
Willmarth, presumably free now to
follow the bent of her own inclina
tons, reward the constant affection
of her lover by making HIM her hus-
band at as early a day as propriety
would permit? Or might it be that
her obstinate father had found some
ingenius legal device for still con-
constraining her to his will? There
was also just a possibihty-by no
means probable, however, he reflected
that the sudden acquisition and con-
troll of great wealth might modify her
ideas of the d~esirability of matri-
mony. At all events, he concluded,
the sudden death of Mr.. Willmarth
was most likely to prove a rather for
tunate thing for Chester, particularly
If he should take exactly the right
course of action. That the young man
would do so without better guidance
than his own John doubted, and he
was consequently impatient to get
home and offer such counsel and aid
as might be required.
To the time of his reaching Tren-
ton, hardly an hours ride from New
York, each train of thought in John
Latham's mind connected with the
subject of the Willmarth murder had
Chester Sewall's interests for it's OBJ
jective point, but there he obtained
an afternoon paper, in which he read:
TT is known that Mr.. Willmarth
was going to see a man named Mi
chael Mccartney when he met his
death. The discovery of this fact was
a triumph of detective genius. 1t puts
in the hands of the police the key for
calculation of the mystery. The ends
of justice compel the suppression of
details for the present. No arrests
have yet been ordered, but they can
be made at any moment and are hour
ly expected"
Going to see Michael Mccartney!
Mrs. Hall had not confided to him
the name Of the man who had so deep
ly wronged her husband, or even
given a hint that might suggest his
identification, but John Latham knew
it now. Richard Willmarth was the
man! And it was in going to a meet
ing with his former accomplice or
tool that he had met his death! Well,
IL this was not poetic justice" 1t
would be difficult to say what it might
I've.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18
THE ONE MEDICINE

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organ affected. This is why Pe-ru-na
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Pe-ru-na will cure YOU.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18

The tripping feet-the sparkling
eye-the graceful movement-be.
long not alone to the budding maiden.
These graces are the right-aye
duty Of every woman until the hair
whitens-and regal dignity replaces
them.
The mother who guards her
strength has so much more to de-
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her dear ones. She should be a
comfort-a cheer-always.
Yet how many feel that they
have the strength to properly bal
ance the home? The world is list
less, weary and morbid. It's blood
moves sluggishly and is full of i'm
purities. 1t needs a kindling, in
MIGRATING tonic to set it { ire-it
needs Pe-rt1-na.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18

A poor Mexican mechanic of Tolu-
ca has received an appointment of
honorary member of the National
Academy of Agriculture, Commerce
and Manufactures of Paris, because of
the invention of an air compressor of
great economic value which he sent
to the exposition. 1t can be used for
the transmission of all kinds of motor
force. Mexico doesn't know of his ex-
stence.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18
BEST FOR THE BOWELS.

No matter what ails you, headache to q
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on it. Beware Of limitations.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18
Ono u ON ,n's WIsdom.

Chicago Evening News: He had
proposed to the idol of his heart, but
things failed to come his way.
"Do you know" he said, as he was
leaving her presence forever, shat
you are wringing my heart from my
bosom?"
Possibly" she answered coldly,
''but it's either that or marry you and
wiring the bosoms from your shirts
in after years."
Seeing the case was hopeless, the
party of the first part let a cigarette
and wandered hence into the hither.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18
Passing OF the Horse.

So o as nature sees an improy e.
ment there is a change. The candle
gave way to electricity and the horse
to the automobile. The fact that Hos
letters Stomach Bitters has been sold
for over half a century proves its
value. There is nothing to equal it
for stomach or liver trouble. BE sure
to give it a trial.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18

There has been found In London a
letter written by Gladstone which
leads to the belief that the only rea-
son the former premier did not ac-
cept a title was because he insisted
upon becoming the earl of Liverpool,
which was successfully opposed by the
Jenkinson family.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18

The free rural mail delivery service
Is now being established in the vicin-
ity of Denver, and the government
agent in charge reports that it is in
creasirg the value of land along the
way SIS an acre. 1t is, moreover, in.
creasing the use of the mails and
keeping the young men at home"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18

President Gilman of Johns Hopkins
university, Is a believer in the value Of
Latin, and recently advised a friend to
read u certain amount of Latin every
day, no matter what profession he
entered.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18

"DEAR MRS. PNKHAM:-
Ihave taken Lydia e. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound as advised. and now
send you a letter for publication. For
several years / was in such wretcbed
health that life was almost a burden.
I could hardly walk across the floor,
was SO feeble. Several of our best
physicians attended me, but failed to
help. i concluded to write to you for
advice. In a few days l received such
akind, motherly letter. Ifollowedy your
instructions and am my odd self
again. Was greatly benefited before I
had used one bottle. May God bless
you for what you are doing for suffer-
ing women Mrs. CLARA GATES
Johns p. o., Miss, Oct. 9, 1899.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18

Shake into your shoes Aliens Foot
Ease, a powder for the feet. 1t makes
Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and Sweat.
ing Feet. At all druggists and shoe
stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad-
dress Allen 8. Olmsted. Leroy, N. Y.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18

Omaha World-Herald: Among the
amrsing things of the season is the
sight of men living in Kalamazoo,
Oshkosh, Kankakee, Oconomowoc and
Passamaquoddy sneering at the out
landish names the Chinese give to
their towns.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18

The sultan of Turkey has fallen VIC
tim to the automobile fad, and is so
well pleased with his particular ma
chine that h. has conferred a decora.
ton on the manager of the German
works at which it was built.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18

Piso's Cure is the best medicine we
ever used for all objections of the
throat and lungs.-William o. Ends
ley, Van Buren,, Ind, February II,
1000.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18

South Carolina is the only state in
the union in which divorce is not al
lowed on any ground, a nd it is
claimed that the people of the state
are largely in favor of the prohibition.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18

The quarrel started over pronounc.
ing the name of Ii Hung Chang. Its
not Lee!" "It's Lee!" "Lie!" Then
they got at it.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18
my OWN SELF AGAIN."

Mrs. Gates Writes to Mrs. Pinkham,
Follows Her Advice and is Made Well.
"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:-For nearly
two and one-half years l have been in
feeble health. After mylittle child came
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18

MSs. winslew's SOOTHING erHup for chidrea
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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18

. seemed l could not
get my strength
N again. / have
chills and the
~severest pains in
my limbs andtop
M of head and am
IA almost insensi-
BILE at times. !
also have a pain
just to the right of
breast bone. 1t is
10 severe at times
hat / cannot lie on
ny right side. Please
me what you
of my case. ~
MRS. CLARA GATES,
Johns p. o., Miss,
April IS, 1898.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-18

Halls Catarrh euro
Is a constitutional cure. Price rs :entA
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-05-09

country. Many Of the old pioneers had
struck their tents for the last march,
trekking into the plains Of the great be.
yond. None would be greeted there
more cordially or more kindly remem.
bered here than Mother Looney.
AT THE CEMETERY
another large number OF neighbors were
assembled. The funeral cortege
stretched along the roads for nearly a
mile and filled to overhowing the beau
tiful enclosure on the knoll in the
midst OF the grain fields. The grave
was lined with walls OF flowers aud they
were heaped over the sides and hung in
wreaths on the granite shaft erected
over the grave OF Jesse Looney. II is
related that when he was on his death.
bed he called his sons and daughters
about him and gave them these AZ his
parting words "Do right, be honora.
BILE and truthful" These words are in
scribed ON his monument,
When the last words we're said by
Rev. Bagley in very impressive man.
ner, the earth descended on the coffin,
the burial mound was heapsd up, the
last tears were shed, and then the grave
was again completely covered with
flowers.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-05-09
PERSONALS

Squire Farrar went TO Halsey today on
business.
Mrs. W. q. Evans, Of Brooks, was a
Salem visitor toda
d. T.. Swank aud John Lewis Of
Aumayile were In town today.
Prof and Mrs. Hidden and baby
daughter Marilla, are guests Of Miss
Ielo Nicklin.
Archie Mason went through To Spring
field today, lie says laborers are wanted
there at tl.75 day.
NJ. r.. Lynch, j. NJ. Boiler aud Ira
Esner, who are here from Minnesota
prospecting, left for hunting trip at
Lyons today.
Col. W. W. Taylor, Of the Bohemia
mines, aud d. $. Feiierlo Of Grants Pass,
convalescents from Dr. Calbreaths = hos
piial, left for their homes today.
II, NJ, Branson, the grocer, returned
today from u two months visit with
Kansas friends. lie says the country
Is prosperous and crop prospects good,
The Hidden Quartet composed Of
Reginold l.. Hidden, first violin Mrs.
Hidden, second violin Conrad, Cello T;
and Thielhorn, Viola arrived today
Tor the MAY festival.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-05-09
THE MUSICAL FESTIVAL
Opens This Evening at the First NJ.
E. Church.
A Grand Musical Eyent.-Prominent
Musicians Fiom All Over the State
Will Re Here.

The May Musical Festival opens thi
evening at the Methodist church will
the brightest prospects Of success. II /
incomparably the greatest musical even
Of the year, prominent musicians from
Portland, Eugene, Albany, Corvallis
and other neighboring cities will be here
as performers or as spectators.
This evening will be given the opening
Artists Concert.
Among the features Of the program
are included the following:
The Hidden String Quartette, Of Port.
land, will play Haydn string quartette
in four movements, a eplendid compost
tion and worthy the attention Of any
one who enjoys any kind Of music.
Miss Rita Hansen, Of Eugene, con.
tralto, will sing double number.
Prof. Edw. Tillson, Of Salem, will
play the superb Piano Sonata in +
Minor by Grieg.
Leroy J.. Gesner will execute violin
concerto, with piano accompaniment by
Prof. rillson.
Miss Ethel Raymond, Of Salem, So
prano, will sing the grand dramatic
scene Joan D'Arc, by Bordese.
There will also probably be cello
solo by Ferdinand Conrad Of Portland.
Most elaborate and painstaking prepa-
rations have been made for this festival,
and the character Of the musical people
in whose hands the matter has been
assures finished production.
A partial list Of the artists from our
neighboring cities who will take part 10
A. follows:
Portland-Proiesso and Mrs. X. l..
Hidden, Antoine Zilm, Joseph Taylor,
w. l.. Bentley, Ferdinand Conrad, Roy
Russell, J. W. Belchor.
Eugene Mrs. ID. Linn, Mrs. Miller
Misses Friendly, Gilstrap, Hoffman,
Brown, Hansen; Messrs. Brown and
Max. Plumb.
Albany-Prof. Geo A. Writ. Mrs.
Nelson, Mrs. Nutting, and Misses Breck.
enridge, Brownell, Reddeld, Ella Mead,
Dora Page.
Corvallis; Prof. John Fulton, director
Mrs. Lake, Mrs. Woodcock, Mrs. Rry-
son, Mrs. Cordley; Misses II. J.I
Chamberlain, Dorothea Nash Mtssra.
h. j, Lee, Roake, johnson, Britchard,
Brumnaugh.
Mt Angel: Father DoIninick.
A rehearsal was held last night under
direction Of Prof. Nash, and another
his forenoon.
Many prominent visitors are here from
outside, to help make up the most
notable musical gathering in the history
II Salem.