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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-02-23
A Forger Voluntarily Gives
Himself UP to the Billings
Officers.
NOW I LIES IN JAIL
Crime Committed at Fort Benton
Last May Forged Two
Checks for $50.

Conscience stricken and having had
no peace Of mind for almost year,
John g. Murray, confessed forger,
gave himself up to Jailer Harding in
this city yesterday afternoon. As
Officer Harding was coming down
.own from the Jail he was met by a
man who stopped him and told him
he wished to speak to him. Tho man
asked Mr.. Harding il he believed that
a mans conscience could hurt him, to
which the former replied that he did not
know. The man then went on to say
that he desired to be taken into
custody; that he had forged two checks
in Fort Benton last May for about $3.50,
and he hadn't had minutes peace
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-02-23

Sunday the pastor will preaon at 4 a.
M, aud at 7,aO pm, Sunday school at
10 m. Junior Endoavor ut ai8O p, m,
and Senior Endeayor at 0 40 pm.
v
There will be tho usual services 40
st. Luke's church next Sunday, Morn
ing prayer aud sermon AT IL o'clock.
aud evening prayer aud sermon AZ 100
o'clock. Sunday school AZ 0'ab, The
rector wishes TO see everybody out 10
prepare for the Lenten work, On Ash
Wednesday there will be Holy Gem
munion AT 10 u, M, and daily services
during Lent at 4 p. IN.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-02-23
Church Notes.

Baptist services at the court house
next Sunday conducted by Rev. VIM.
Remington, the new pastor, late OF
Belt. Praa ching at | | Il. M, and 7 $50
p. m. Sunday school ut 10 a. m, You
will be made welcome at all these scr.
vices.
Services as usual ut the M. n. church
next Sunday at ! ] u. M. and 7:8O PIN.
Sunday school at noon; Junior League
at $3.50; Epworth League at 0;80 p. m,
At the Congregational church next
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-02-23
The state Takes Action.

County CLERK Carwile received a let
ter yesterday from Acting Governor
Norris stating that he would offer an
additional state reward OF $3.50 for the
arrest and conviction Of the murderer
Of Rogner, Together with the rewards
offered by the county commissioners,
the citizens Of Columbus and Sheriff
Hubbard, this makes total Of tl,l00
reward.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-02-23
A Louu Way A,,erthougn,,

"rhat was u pleasing afterthought
OF yours" remarked the old preacher
who had listened 10 u sermon by one
OF his y0nngest brethren, when you
drew upon thu analogles OF nature 10
prove thu immortality OF the s0li,"
IAN afterthoughtY" said the younger
clergyman In some perplexity,
"Yes, You thought OF II about 2,40Al
years after Socrates. "-Chicago Trih.
uAe,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-02-23

Services at the Catholic church next
Sunday at the usual hours. The priest
will explain the regulations governing
the observance Of Lent.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
OUR RELATIONS WITH TURKEY
Rumors of a Rupture of Diplomatic
Relations With the Porte
are Unfounded.

Constantinople, Friday, November
3O.-The rumors that a rupture of dip
'lomatic relation between the United
States and Turkey is imminent, are
unfounded. The relations between
the porte and the United States lega-
ton are excellent. In fact, the Unit
ed States charge d'affaires, Lloyd C..
Griscom, has been received in audi
ence six time this year. Only a fort
night ago he was invited to a musical
entertainment at the Yildiz palace.
This proves he is presona grata at the
palace.
The visit of the United States bat
tleship Kentucky to Smyrna does not
influence the nature of these rela-
tions, though it does induce the ports
to more strictly concern itself with
the United States claims for indemni-
ty, which were already on the point OF
solution.
DIR. Thomas III. Norton is going.
Monday, to take possession of his post
at Harpoot.
The United States legation will con.
tinue to press it's demand for an exc.
quatur, but a prompt solution of this
question is not likely.
The orders to the Cramps, of Phila-
delphia, for a cruiser will be small,
the price being less than 100000 Tur-
kish pounds.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
WANT TO BE AMERICANS.
Delegate Degetau Says Porto Ricans
Are Beginning to Realize
Their Proud Destiny.

New York, Dec. 3.-Porto Rico's
first delegate to congress, Frederick
Degetau, is in this city. He arrived
on the steamer San Juan, Saturday
night, and will stay here to visit
friends for a few days before he goes
to Washington. He has a great de-
sire to study. the English language.
my people want to become, root
and branch, American" he said yes
terday. 1--WE can not do it too quick
ly. We recognize that we are natural
~ Americans and that our future is
part of the future of this country. At
ter centuries of sleep, Porto Rico is
getting there with great alacrity.
The first sign is the development of
the natural of the island.
The evolution of the people, their de-
velopment, their education and their
enrichment will follow. The only
question now in Porto Rico is between
the federalists, who want to hurry up
and be made a state with an autono-
nous government at once, and the re-
publicans, who want to go slow and
first be made a territory with a terri
torial government, and later gradu-
ate into full statehood"
was chosen by a large majority over
his federal opponent. He is about
forty-three years old. His home is in
Ponce, where he formerly edited La
Tsla de Porto Rico,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
. MEXICAN CENTRAL WRECK.
Injured by a Head-End
Collision.

San Antonio, Tex. Dec. 3.-A terri
bic wreck, in which a score of persons
were killed and about sixty hurt, oc-
Cured on the Mexican Central rail-
way, between Tamanaeha and Symon,
50 miles south of Jumilico. The first
news OF the disaster reached here
yesterday. Edward Rische, a citizen of
San Antonio, was at the scene 20
minutes after the engines crashed to-
gether. The place where the wreck
occurred is in a valley at the foot of
two immense hills. At the time both
trains e running 80 miles an hour.
One of the trains had on Goard a con-
struction crew numbering $50 men.
The other was a freight train of 55
empty cars. Three engines and about
forty cars We're piled up so feet high.
Two Americans, train employees, were
forced to flee to avoid being lynched.
The names of the killed and injured
not obtainable. This is said to be
the most serious wreck that has ever
oocurred in Mexico
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
ORDERS TO CONSUL GUMMERE.
To Proceed to the Capital OF MOr0C-
co to Press the Claim of the
United States.

Washington, Dec. 2.-The state de-
partmenb mas sent instructions to
United States Consul Gummore, of
Tangier, Morocco, to proceed to the
capital of that country as far as pos
sible on a United States man of wal,
to present a fresh claim of the United
States for indemnity on account of
the murder of Marcus Ezaguin, a nat
uralized American citizen, who was
killed in June, 19O The warship,
which probably will be the Kentucky,
recalled from Smyrna for that pur-
pose, will convey the consul from Tan
gier 20 Mazagan which is the nearest
port To Fee, the capital of Morocco.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
THE M
Worry is worse on looks than any
thing else, so women should fight the

Worry is worse on looks than any
thing else, so women should fight the
blues.
Women are beginning - find a bust
ness side to art in the designing of
labels for preserving firms, suggesting
names for new brands, designing pic
lures for advertising and arranging
displays at fairs and expositions.
The Livery Stable. a weekly paper
printed in New York, charges the tight
check rein and the locked tail horse
to "heartless woman" and adds that If
a'ladies will refuse to drive behind
docked horses and tight check reins"
both denominations will soon disappear.
Under the rules of the board of edu-
cation of Philadelphia, a woman, no
matter how well she may be equipped
mentally and by experience and prac-
tical knowledge, is excluded from the
supervising pripcipalship of the pub
lie schools, except those in which there
are girl pupils only, or of mixed pri-
mary schools. It is claimed in extenu-
alton that women, as a rule. have not
al good executive ability as men.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
HOTEL FIRE AT EAST ST. LOUIS
The Dleht Hotel, East st. Louis, H., Badly
Damaged by Fire Narrow
Escape or Guests.

East st. Louis, Ill.,, Dec. 4.-The
Diehl hotel, the largest hostelry in
East St. Louis, was partially destroyed
by fire Monday afternoon. The on
tents of Is rooms were consumed by
the flames, and it looked for a time
as if the entire building was doomed
TO destruction.
The fire started in a portion of the
hotel known as the Annex, at the
corner of Missouri avenue and Third
street. The timely arrival of engine
company No. IS and truck No. 8 of
the ST. Louis fire department saved
the big structure.
The fire had its origin in a chimney
fue between the second and third
floors. When the building was first
erected this fiue was not completed.
1t is believed that some guest, not
knowing that the fue was incomplete,
build a fire in the CRATE in one of the
rooms.
John Matt, a saloonkeeper, was
overcome by the smoke, which poured
INTO his room in great volumes. Other
guests who passed his room saw him
lying on the floor near the open door
which he had tried in vain to reach.
Though they themselves were in
peril they stopped long enough to
pick up the unconscious man. He was
carried to the street where he was
quickly revived.
On the second and third floors of
the Annex were Is rooms, all occu-
pied. All were either attacked by the
flames were deluged with water.
All of the property in the rooms of
Leo Keschner, including his clothing,
" destroyed. Mrs. William PadfieId,
wife of The principal of the Webster
school, had no time to try to save her
valuables-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
THE RURAL GUARDS OF CUBA.
The Separate Organizations to be
United Under One Head for
General Duty.

Havana, Dec. 3.-To-day Gen. Wood
will issue a decree providing for the
union of the separate organizations
of provincial rural guards under one
head. Hereafter they will be known
as Rural Guards of the Island of
Cuba" and will be subject to the or
ders of the central government. It
it intended that this body shall pre-
serve the future peace of the island.
Hitherto the provincial officers have
never gone outside their respective
provinces. From this time the guards
can be sent to any part of the island
to meet any emergency. The plan is
to concentrate Is many as possible in
the vicinity of the sugar estates dur
ing the grinding season.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
The largest stool of old coin and |

The largest stock of gold coin and
;IIlion ever held in the United States
; o accumulated in the treasaSy
nd its branches. The total has been
ising steadily during the whole of
he present year, and is now s474.-
ios,336, or about $4,000, 900 greater
han at the close of 1899.
United States Ambassadors Whites
speech at the Thanksgiving Day ban
auet of the American colony in Ber-
lin has been received with favor by all
sections of the German press, even
he government organs publishing it
IN full.
By clever work Burlington (Ia.) of
ficers trailed and captured a man
named George Anderson, who is, with
Inter of Cedar Rapids and fatally
shot Mrs. Inter in Burlington, in an
attempt to hold them up.
Secretary Bracken, of the Minneso-
- state board of health, gives out the
Sment that smallpox is epidemic
It Winona. It is said that there are
300 cases, mostly in a Polish set
Element.
Cattle thieves, with all arrange
ments made in advance for shipping
the stolen cattle, took 1870 head from
the ranch of Alfred Mccoy, six miles
from Rensselaer,, Ind, shipped them to
Chicago, and had them sold before the
owner was aware of his loss. They
were valued at $4,000.
Oscar L. Boese, aged 81 years, is e
ported as lying at the point of death
at his home in Bristol, Pa, as the re-
suit of an outrageous hazing to which
he was subjected at the West Point
military academy, to which he was APP
pointed, about a year ago, by Con-
Wanger.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
Hooliranlsm in London.

London, Dec. 2.-The recent in.
creased activity of the police here
against 'Hooliganism," in Whitechap.
el, has been speedily followed by a re,
vengeful murder. Constable Thomp.
son attempted to dispense a band OF
"Hooligans," when one of the latter
turned and stabbed him to death.
Thompson was closely connected
with the search for the perpetrators
Of Jack the Ripper" murders.
Another band of armed "Hooligans-
shot a woman in the Limehouse dis
frict, Friday night
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
SHROUDED IN MYSTERY.
Body GA an Old New York Policeman
Found Floating i'm East
River.

New York, Dec. 3.-Mystery sur
rounds the finding, yesterday, of
the dead body of Policeman Patrick
McGloin, which was floating in the
East river at the foot of N~inety-ffth
street. McGloin, who was regularly
detailed to duty in the house OF the
Good Shepherd, answered eight
o'clock roll call as usual, yesterday
morning, at his police station, and
then left to go, it was beIleved, to the
house of the Good Shepherd. Timothy
Callahan, captain of a canal boat, at
$3.50 o'clock, discovered the body of
the policeman in the water.
McG1oin had been on the force about
twenty-five years, and was "a years OF
age.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
FIVE INSTANTLY KILLED.
Explosion of = Roller IN the Power House
House of the Chicago q North
western Traction 60.

Chicago, Dec. 4.-Four men and one
boy were instantly killed and IS per-
sons injured by the explosion of a
boiler in the powerhouse of the Chi
cage & Northwestern Dad last even
ing. Several of the injured are hurt
so badly that they may die.
The ~powerhouse vas a two7story
structure. On the first floor was the
boiler room, containing a battery of
four Boilers. Twelve men were em-
ployed around the building, and in adj
dition to such of these as were pres
ent at the time number of strangers
were standing around watching the
dynamos in the electric light plant.
Four of those killed were people not
employed by the road and all four
bodies were taken % the morgue UNI
identified.
1t is not known what caused the ex-
plosion. At a few minutes past five
o'clock one of the boilers in h CEN
ter of the row of four burst with 4
d~etonation that was heard at points
d ~ dlSldAIN. Al OAAo vi LIN 0OaAO
was blown toward the passenger de-
pot, and landed fully 20 feet away
from the boiler house.
Just as the explosion occurred h
Ashland limited train was pulling out
of the station. The greater part of h
train had passed, and although all the
cars were heavily battered with fall
ing bricks and debris. only the last
two coaches, a Pullman sleeper and a
drawingroom car, were badly dam
aged. The boiler head and the boiler
itself caught these coaches. The boil
er struck the rear car while the boiler
head ploughed through the one imme-
diately in front. Fortunately. both
flew high and struck the ars above
the windows, carrying away portions
of the roof and vestibule. But few of
the passengers happened at the time
to be in the ends of the two cars hit
by the flying metal, and such of them
as were hurt were struck by flying
splinters or suffered from being
thrown violently to the floor.
On the train were Mr.. and Mrs. Au-
gust Beck, of Milwaukee. and Mrs.
William Becker, of Shebogan, Wis.
Both couples were returning from
their bridal tours, and all four we're
injured. Mrs. Beck was dashed
against a seat in the car. and sus-
tanned internal injuries which may
prove fatal.
Neither of the cars was thrown
from the track, and the engine drew
them quite a distance before coming
to a stop. Traffic, however, was in
terrupted for nearly four hours.
The destruction of the electric
lighting plant plunged the depot into
darkness, and the pile of debris was
thrown across the tracks, temporarily
blocking suburban traffic.
Every attention to the wounded was
shown by the officials of the North
western road. All were conveyed Is
quickly as possible to hospitals, where
their wounds were dressed.
The property loss to the road will
not be far from $100,o 900. The boiler
house was practically reduced to a
ruin.
The cause of the explosion is a mys-
terry, the boilers having beer inspected
by the insurance companies Septem-
Der 1 and November /, and being re-
ported in perfect order.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
ALL THREE WERE KILLED.
Two Brothers attack IA Railway sta
ton Agent With Fatal Re-
suits to All.

Alexandria, La, Dec. 3.-News
reached here yesterday of a triple
killing at Parkdale, Ark. The klllian
brothers, after falling out with Sta
ton Agent Phillips about railroad
business, last night at II o'clock. went
to the station, smashed every window
and then went in search of Phillips,
who was at his clearinghouse. They
called him out and after exchanging
a few words with him, all drew pistols
and the three men yer dead almost
instantly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
THE CASTLE MURDER CASE.
| May 1O to the Jury nd n Dc cisfon
be Reached by b End Of the
Present Week.

Eldorado, Kas., Nov. 3.-Jessie Nor
rison may know her fate before an
other week has passed. The leading
attorney for the prosecution in the
murder case yesterday announced
that the defense would occupy but
two days in examining its witnesses.
With two days gwen to arguments it
will be possible to give the case to
the jury on Friday or Saturday next.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
Thew Had Fun with Never.

j. D. Meyer, a well-known politician
of St. Louis, was formally presented
with his own watch at a meeting of
his political club. An elaborate pre-
sentation speech attended the cere-
mony, and Meyer had arisen to re-
spond before he discovered that a
trick had been played on him. Since
then he has beer besieged by friends
expressing a desire to see his new
watch, and it always ends by his
buying"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
SMALLPOX AMONG INDIANS.
Outbreak of the Red Pest Among the
Bad River Indians at
Odanah, wis.

Washington, Dec. 2.-Indian Agent
Campbell, of the LaPointe agency in
Wisconsin, has reported to Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs Jones that
smallpox has broken out at Odanah,
among the Bad River Indians. He
says their condition is serious, and
the outbreak is spreading. Commits
sioner Jones has ~telegraphed him au-
thority to quarantine the Indians.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
A Jail

Five prisoners, VIM. Douglass, Chas.
Davis, Ed. Riley, John Cullins and
Charles Coleman, held for burglary
and assault, escaped from the county
Jail at Mexico, saving the casing of
the inner cells and chiseling through
a brick wall. Eleven other prisoners,
among them Ed. Spencer, a preachers
son, convicted of murder, refused to
leave.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
Two Pardons Were Granted.

Gov. Stephens granted the usual
Thanksgiving pardons for good be-
havior. Those receiving clemency
were Lewis Griffith and Virginia B.
Todd, ootn being under a sentence for
murder in the second degree, the
former from Clay county for so years,
and the latter from Rails county for
IS years.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
The Canadiana m Loudor.

London, Dec. 3.-Yesterday morning
the members of the Royal Canadian
contingent attended service at West
minister abbey, where Archdeacon
Wilberiorcs delivered an appropriate
discourse.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
Arrived from China.

San Francisco, Dec. 3.-Brig.-Gen.
James FL. Wilson, who arrived here
Saturday from China on the transport
Thomas, will leave for Washington,
Tuesday, to report to the war depart
menl.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
Engineer and Ftreman KiIled.

Passenger train No. Sc, north-bound
on the Frisco, was wrecked four miles
north of Weaubleau station. En-
gineer Fox and Fireman Scott were
caught beneath the engine and
crushed to death. No one else was
hurt. Fox and Scott resided in Spring
field, where they have families.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
Bad Loss for "a G. IA. r.. Post.

Fire completely Quilted the lodge
room of the Frank P. Blair Post, G. \.
R., on the third floor Of 170S Market
street, ST. Louis. All efforts to save
the paraphernalia were in vain and
they, together with the records of the
lodge and the furnishings of the
room, were destroyed. 1t will be al
most impossible to replace the rec
ords of the post, and as many of the
flags and banners which decorated the
wall had histories, the members feel
their loss keenly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
whi1e the Famflv was AWAY.

The residence of Charles Meyer, at
Pacific, was burned the other night.
When the blaze was discovered the
family were absent and the house was
locked. Loss, $500; insured.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
Daughters College Reorsanized.

DIR. J. 3. Jones, president of Daugh.
ters' college, at Fulton, has made pub
lie the fact that the entire indebted
ness of hat institution, amounting
to $4,000, has been wiped out, and
that steps have been taken by which
the college hereafter shall forever be
free from liability of debt.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06

Former mayor of Portsmouth, o.,
G. A. Waller, who was a delegate to
the convention that nominated Abra-
ham Lincoln, in loco, and who was a
Lincoln elector from Ohio, died at his
home in that city on the 27th.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06

Continuous rain for As hours pro-
duced unprecedented floods in the
~Guayandotte valley, West Vi~rginia,the
river and its tributaries overlooking
their banks and bearing away. quanti-
ties of cross-ties, lumber and other
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06

The proposition to levy a tax for
the support of a free public library
was carried at a special election held
in Dubuque, Ia, on the Goth. The re-
suit carried with it a gift of $4,000
from Andrew Carnegie, also the
Young Mems Library associations 49,
COO volumes and other property worth
SO. 900.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06

The typhoon which caused the loss
of the auxiliary cruiser Yosemite
wrought great damage andloss of life,
also, on the Island of Guam. Among
the worst sufferers was the town of
Moranjan, which was completely de-
molished, with a loss of so townspeo-
pie killed and many injured.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06

Henry Russell, one of the most not
ed composers of sea songs, was re-
ported, on the goth, to be dangerously
i'll in Chicago. 1t is now some years
since he appeared in public, and, be-
ing 81 years of age, it is feared that
the outcome of the present illness may
be fatal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
Southwest Missouri Teachers.

The annual session of the South
west Missouri Teachers association
was held at Nevada. About 200 lead
ing educators of that section of the
state were present.