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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-04
EDNA STOKES KILLED.
Actress and Lover Qunrrclnnd MUIR
der Is the Result.

Chicago. June 4-Last night Ed For
shay killed Edna May Stokes. an
actress al the Vernon hotel No. lo2
Randolph street He had not thu nerve
Ia end mis- own life az he intended, but
sought 10 escape A 15-year-oid boy
captured him
The couple had been living together
fov years, but recently the woman had
.ef{ Forshay. and this was the cause
of the crime The TWO had boarded at
tie Dale hotel UP to three weeks ago,
When Mrs Fershay aa she was known.
lleft and Went 70 the Vernon hotel. The
tragedy took place about 745 O'Clock.
Fofshay had called three times during
the day and inquired for the woman,
hut she vas absent. Last night he called
\ again and the actress was informed
that he was in the parlor. She cana
t,iown stair 10 meet him, and almost as
4 soon as she entered the room Two shots
I were fred a her by Forahay The first
\ struck her in the left breast and passed
thru the body The second missed her.
She staggered out Of the room, fell in
the hallway, and WAS dead when the
1 matron of the house reached her side.
4 Forshay at once ran from the house
followed by sons. Of the inmates. He
Iran east to- Dearborn street, south TO
lCalnoun place. and thru that alley TO
clark street, and then north TO the
courthouse, where James Helm. To-
year-old boy. who had outrun him,
jumped on his back and held him until
1.-THE police arrived. Heir had been at
tending a meeting of the employees of
the brunswick Balke-Gollander com
lpanv In the building next the hote
lust reached the street when he heard
the shots. Seeing man dash out Of
the hotel he gave chase. Forsnay threv
away his revolver in Calnounpace. Th
weapon was found by Officer Moriarity
The woman who was killed came
originally from sedalia. Mo. Forshay i
a resident of Kansas City. where hi:
mother lives. The pair met in st. Loui
seven years ago, and had been togethe
ever since. He was insanely jealous
and during the last year the two hat
Ihad frequent quarrels.
Miss Stokes had had no regular en-
: Engagement for some months. Fo.sha.
was employed at the Victoria theate
Iup to the time that Manager McGint.
left town without paying the company
Since then he has been idle.
According to letters written by For
shay and found in his pockets he in
tended to commit suicide after killin
the woman, but flis courage failed hir
and he ran instead. He wrote three lei
tiers before committing the murder, on
to his mother in Kansas City in his ow
name, one to the same address in tn
name Of his alleged wife and one
Chief of Police O'Neil.
The first letter to his mother reads:
Darling Mother, Sister and All: TIL
is the last time will ever drop my da
ling onea line. Mother. know II
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-04
have the honor to be-" etc.
uunt for Negro Mnrderer

Kansas City, June AIRS. Mary
schuier. 20 years old while rocking a
baby in her arms in her house at Sec
ond and Woodland avenue yesterday af-
ternoon, was struck down with a
hatchet by negro. The shockingly
brutal crime was committed to clear
the way for the theft OF few trinkets
and bits OF silver that lay about the
humble home, of which the woman and
child were the only occupants. Mrs
schuler's skull was fractured AND she
cannot live.
Scores Of men living in the poor dis
trict in the east bottoms, where the at
tack was made. are hunting for the ne
gro and if he is caught he is sure u
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-04

be roughly handled. Half dozen ar
rests have been made, but none OF the
suspects have been identified.
Mrs. Schiller had no warning OF her
danger until the negro appeared IN
front Of her and quickly struck two
blows. Neighbors We're attracted to the
house by the woman's screams. On the
floor near where she had sat with the
baby there was pool Of blood. Bureau
drawers had been searched. trunks had
been ransacked and bedding had been
dragged from the bed by the negro In
his search for valuables, Mrs. Schiller
during period of momentary con-
seriousness described her assailant, and
a crowd that had gathered aided by a
squad of police, began the search for
the culprit
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-04

blow will almost kill you. but you must
forgive your only boy. for have been
crazy for over a year Darling Edna
and nave parted and l have tried my
best to forget her but cannot. So, dar-
ling mother, maybe it is for the best. I
will close for the last time on earth,
hoping you will pray for me and Gods
forgiveness.
"ED FORSHAY."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-04
The Defenbnch Insurance Case.

Chicago, June Am the Unger- Def
enbach insurance conspiracy case Mon
day Clarence r. Smith, an insurance So
licitor, told how Miss Defenbach paid
500 premium on a policy which she
wished to get from the New York Life
Company. This payment was made
subsequent to an application by DR..
unger for $4,000 policy for person
whom he did not name. Miss Oefenbach,
witness declared was refused policy,
as the management was not satisfied
with her story. Later he told of the eff
forts Of Unger and Miss Defenbach to
recovered the 500. Mrs. Miles said that
later Miss Defenbach was allowed to
take out a $1,000 policy. DIR. Raymond
| L Leonard, q state witness who saw
Marie Defenbach the last few moments
of her life. was recalled by the defense.
and said that death was caused by
heart failure. due to natural causaa~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-04
DoWIE,s CRAZY CLAIMS.
Declares He Is Elijah Come to Earth


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things EAJah was l'ioi''ies. go. -.
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most IN me constitution OF 'iie eii'te
states, ana tne supfehie aae'ioii's .
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-04

Eczema. salt rheum, letter. chatting.
ivy poisoning and all skin tortures are
quickly cured by DeWitt's Witch Hazel
saive. The certain pile cure. Geo P.
Powers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-04

Fire in the repair shops Of the Min
neapolis & Omaha railroad at Hudson,
Wis., caused an estimated loss OF $780,
non
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-05-18

Many farm horses are killed each
year by thoughtless owners. They
would not take their lives as butchers
would, nor do they purposely take
their lives by intentional cruelty. BY
careless inattentio,r the work is done,
and many men. gre guilty of the
charge of killing of good horses if
the matter could be definitely traced.
Poor treatment when disease attacks
the vital parts of horse is source
of much fatality among horses. Lack
of judgment under circumstances re-
lating to the care of horses when
they are out of condition is another.
The lack of proper knowledge of the
effect of different foods for horses
under peculiar conditions may be
added to the list. A great many
causes might be given, but it is I'M
necessary to repeat them here. The
horse owner who will give the sub
ject any thought can figure out more
ways than one in which the lives of
his faithful animals may be short
ened or heightened. There are very
few horses worn out. The most of
them die from some cause or other,
and these causes are what horsemen
want to look after ii they want their
horse TO live to a green old age. 1t is
easier to preserve horses than to pro-
cure them. Barring accidents, sound
horse should be as good at twenty as
at any other age, yet we find but few
that are old that are able to 10 n
full days work without great fatigue.
You must study the care of your
horses if you would preserve them
Farmers Home Jou ual
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HERE AND THERE.

Five pounds of oats give horse
az much nourishment as ten pounds
of hay.
Have name for every COW, and
call her by that name, spoken in an
easy conversational but firm voice.
"A mule can endure more hardship
than a horse, will pull more in pro-
portion to his size, and will stay
with it, longer.
When any animal is "off it's feed"
as the saying is, and has no appetite,
it should be separated ut once from
the rest OF the stock, and fed in such
manner as il needed
An energetic mule will mako .
trip quicker than horse, though he
may not go fast-the secret of his
speed is his uniform gait, steady and
persistent.
Why should farmers spend an en-
tire day cultivating one acre when,
with many-toothed implement made
FOR the purpose, he can cultivate ten
times as much, and do better work?
Those who expect to succeed in
live stock raising must study the
characteristics of their animals, weigh
carefully the chances of reproducing
them successfully in the locality In
which they live.
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AN IMPORTANT "IF."
The Farmers Life Must He = SIREN
nous One If He Would Reap
Profit for His Labor.

Farming would be fun if crops did
not have to be cultivated. Preparing
the soil and keeping down weeds COM
prise most of the labor of growing
cultivated crops and preparing the
land. holds the same position with
broadcast crops. 1t used to be thought
that sowing oats on hard ground and
blowing them in with turning pillow
and mule was killing two birds with
one stone, and the thought made lazi-
ness comfortable to contemplate. 1t
has bsen learned, however, that prop
err preparation and cultivation can be
made to double the yield in many
crops But proper preparation and
cultivation is practically impossible
with the tools our grandfathers used.
How can soil be properly pulverized
when the cIods must remain unbrok-
en-, or be broken one at time over
q large field. And how can weeds be
kept down by blowing them up afssr
they are q foot high and have done
their damage? But that's the way we
used to do the thing. or attempt it, at
least, and the custom has not yet dis
appeared. But now we have tools that
do the work perfectly and rapidly.
First. we plow the land as deeply as
necessary, then we crush the clods
on a strip seven or eight feet wide
each trip across the field. Then by
treating ten to fourteen acres a day,
we thoroughly fine the surface and
confine the soil moisture, and with
the same implement that fines the
surface we kill the weeds without
ever letting one get an inch high.
How can farmers compete with those
improved processes with the old
fashioned tools? As well haul cotton
to Houston on an OK wagon, or tour
the state on horseback, or do any
other foolish thing in foolish way.
The old rule Of IAN acre dr. does
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ENGLISH FACTS AND FIGURES.

England spends 100000 year on
foreign gloves.
The British income tax dates back
to the Saladin 1.-THE Of 1888.
In England 81 murders occur year
~. in Ireland 131. in Scotland only 10.
OF 1.G14 gasworks in the United
Kingdom. 1858 are in England, 253 in
Scotland and 10S in Ireland.
In 1910 English people used pound
ounces of tea head. This has
grown to pounds IA ounces.
On January 1, 1899, 100,418 able
bodied British paupers were receiv-
ing either in or out door relief.
Rye is the only British-grown grain
of which the average has not fallen
off since 1871. Beans have fallen
from Gos.000 acres to $4,000
Great Britain receives 81 per cent.
of her total imports from her col
onies, Holland one per cent, France
ten per cent, Germany one-tenth OF
one per cent.
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Jack Duke, of Grimes county, Tex,
was generally considered the best
farmer in the county, always making
better crop, aud apparently with
less labor, than any of his neighbors.
He also had some quaint but forcible
ways of expressing his views. We
called at his house one frosty Decem-
Der day, and asked: mfr. Duke, what
are you running all those piows for?
You had all your ground broken two
weeks ago." "Cultivating my corn"
was the reply. "Cultivating corn?
Why, you have no corn to cultivate"
"Oh, you fellows don't understand
me. 1 do most OF my cultivating be-
fore l plant, and have corn to sell
when you want to buy" On another
occasion another neighbor was at
Dukes farm and expostulated in a
good natured manner with him about
not planting corn. 1--WE are getting
anxious about you, Duke" said the
neighbor. "We have ell planted and
got corn up, and we want to know
when you are going to plant!
"Well, I'm going to plant just
when get ready" said Duke, "and
you would make better crops than
you do if you wouldn't plant till you
get ready The neighbor saw the
point" but whether he profited by it
or not is another question, and we
will not discuss it. But it is fact
the Duke sold corn that fall to that
neighbor.-Farm and Ranch.
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Fighting Nature with shotsuns.


There has never, in the writer's
recollection, been more favorable
winter for the preservation and repro
duction of flies, mosquitoes, and every
ether pest that the formers have to
encounter and contend with, than the
present. Therefore, these few lines
not as prophesy, but warning.
The last seasons exceptionally high
price for cotton will undoubtedly i'm
duce the unthinking planter to put in
extra cotton for 1901. and as sure as
he does so, in the black land cotton
belt of Texas, it will be eaten up by
the leaf and boll-worms, and perhaps
q sprinkling of the boil weevil.
/ was out in the fields some ten
miles from town last week, and saw
farmers sowing oats while 14-year-old
boys were following droves of black
birds with guns over the adjacent
farms, keeping them constantly on
the move, so that they could not eat
mp any of the grain. ! noticed these
birds, when left undisturbcd, were i'm
dustriousIy scratching for the chrys-
ulis of the cotton worm left on de-
post last fall.
Oh, when will our farmers learn 80
use natures laws and protect them
selves from their natural foes, whcth-
err human or insectivora, in natures
manner?-Cor. Farm and Ranch.
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Rock Island VIII Ran Cheap ExeuFs
sions to Colorado.

The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
railway, which made phenomenal success
of cheap excursion rates to Colorado lass
season, has again asked its competitors in
the Western and Southwestern Passenger
associations to agree upon series OF cheap
excursions to and from Denver, Colorado
Springs and Pueblo for the approaching sea-
son on the following basis: Tickets to be
sold from Chicago and all territory up to
Missouri river June Is, IS, July 10, q, and
30. Aug. 6, IL, 20 and q, at the rate of one
fare plus 81, or $3l .50 for the round trip.
On July and 9 and Sept. and 10 q rate
of SIS is to be made from Chicago, and SIS
from Missouri river points for the round
trip. Intermediate territory will have pro-
portionate rates. Tickets are to be sold
from Missouri river points one day later
than the dates given above in each case.
Proportionate rates will be made to and
from Glenwood Springs, Salt Lake City and
Ogden.
A series of East bound excursions is also
proposed, tickets to be sold from Colorado
common points every Thursday, commence
ing with june 20 up to and including Sept
IL, at rate Of one fare plus 81 for the
round trip. All tickets viii be limited for
return passage to October 81. These rates
will be rendered connecting. lines for bas-
ing purposes, which will probably insure a
very low basis of rates throughout the Unit
ed States for these excursions.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific win
unquestionably make these rates and ar
engagements effective, regardless of the ac-
tion OF its competitors, and will run special
trains, only one night out to and from Col
orado, on the dates ramed.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
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AIways Up-to-Date.

The Passenger Department of the Union
Pacific Ry. has recently issued twenty.
eight page booklet of "The Overland Limit
ed" 1t is magnificent specimen of print.
ing, artistic in the highest degree, and ID
embellished with views of the train men.
toned both interior and exterior, together
with much information regarding the serv'
ice, and also interesting points on the
route to California. 1t makes one feel like
possible delay and taking trip to the Gold
en- Gate. The Union Pacific was the pio-
neer line Westward, and it is not too much
to say that it has maintained the prestige
which lat fact gave it. A trip to California
over the Union Pacific in connection with
the Chicago & Northwestern and Southern
Pacific Systems is delight at all times.
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He was very nearsighted, which fact 40
counts for this tale. 1t was On one of the
recent snowy mornings, and he was unde-
eided whether to yield to Quixotic i'm
pulse, and clean the sidewalk himself, or to
toss quarter to one of the passing show
elers, and, calm in the assurance that had
some one been set to work to earn an hon
est penny or two, pursue his own and more
dignifed way.
A preparatory survey, resulting in the
discovery that a particularly cold and cut
ting wind was abroad, sufficed
Say, my man." he exclaimed to the first
person he saw passing, what would You
take to clean this wallk:'
"a shovel, by all MEANS" was the la
comic reply.
As prominent politician went chuckling
down the street, the astonisAed questioncr
went into the house and kicked himself
three times.-N. Y. Mail and Express.
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February 18th and each Tuesday there.
AFTER, until and including April goth, Special
Low Rate Colonist Tickets win be sold via
the Southern Pacifc's Company's Ogden"
and Sunset" Routes to all points in Califor-
MIA. The rate viii be: From Chicago
5000, from St. Louis, Memphis and New
Orleans $27 80, from Omaha, Kansas City,
ETC., $500. Corresponding low rates from
al other points east and north.
For particulars and detailed information
pertaining to the Southern Pacific Com
pany's Routes, and these special rates to Cal
iornia, call upon or address -.
w. G. Neimyer, G. w. A, S. p. Co., 81
Clark S., Chicago, III.
w. H. Conner, C. A., S. P. Co., Chamber
of Commerce Bldg, Cincinnati, Ohio. :,
G. G. Herring, G. A., S. p. Co., III ldrs
Bldg, Pittsburg, Pa.
!, L. +. Townslsy, c. A.. s. P. Co.. 42l oliv'
q. G. Cary, c. A.. S. P. Co., 2os sheidls,
Bldg, Kansas City. Mo.
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INDIAN MIssIoNARY's STORY.
Years of Toilsome Ministry Amons
che Choctnws.

Little York, Ind, April (SpeciaD.
Twenty-Five years ago, the Rev. C.
ii. Thompson left Indiana. For z
time he preached in Arkansas, after
wards entering on the regular mis-
sionary work among the Choctcw In
dams.
For five years, he lived and labored
among the FIJI! bloods of the western
prairies, until on April 5th, 1856, hav-
ing lost his wife, he left the circuit
on which he had preached SO long.
and commenced travelling missionary
work among the Indians of the vari-
GUS Tribes scattered in the West.
This irregular work involved q
great deal of travel over the prairies.
The drinking of so much alkali wa
ter, brought on Kidney Troubles
which terminated in Diabetes.
Finally. while laboring among the
Creek Indians at Wagner, Indian
Territory, this noble man was strick-
er down completely. A Chicago Spe-
cialist was summoned, and after a
careful examination, declared that
there was not the slightest chance
OF his recovery. Besides the pre-
scriptiors of the doctors, he tried
many other medicines, but oil to no
avail. He says:
Il had concluded that my days
were drawing 10 close, when
p:cked up an Almanac telling of the
rnres of Diabetes by the use OF
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yelled greatly in that he had not met the
Microbe long since.
I'm what guise have you travelled, prayr
asked the Man.
Why, for the most part in the guys who
didn't boil the drinking water!" replied the
Microbe, candidly.
Of course, hygienic science was destined
to change all this.-Detroit journal.
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STATE OF OHIO, CrrT OF TOLEDO, -
LUCAS COUNTY. oSs

Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm Of +. j. Cheney
& Co., doing business in the city of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay the sum of One Hundred Dol
cannot be cured by the use of Halls Catarrh
Cure. FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day of December, A. d.
1856. A. w. GLEASON,
(Seal] Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
free. F. j. CHENEY 4 CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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not apply to the present day, or a.
least we should be able to go over
the field and be ready to go over it
again before the weed seeds covered
by the first days labor have had time
to come up. Weeders, rollers, har-
rows, improved plows, planters and
cultivators are necessary to success
on the farm nowadays.
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Ask your grocer to-day to show you pack
age of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that
takes the place Of coffee. The children may
drink it without injury as well as the adult,
All who try it, like it. GRAIN-O has that
rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it Is
made from pure grains, and the most delicate
stomach receives it without distress. the
price Of coffee. l5c. and 25cts. per package.
Sold by all grocers.
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Low Rate Winter Tours t. thu
Sunny south.

The Mobile 4 Ohio will run Special Low
Rate Excursions, good until June the first,
permitting invalids and others to stop at
first-c.ass hotels enroute at very nominal
rates to all points in Alabama, Mississippi,
Georgia, florida, Cuba, Central and South
America. Low Rate Homeseeker's LIST and
Ord Tuesday of each month. One Way Set
tiers same days at Very Low Rates. Any
ticket agent or j. T. Poe, G. T. NJ. Mobile,
Ala. C. NJ. Shepard, G. p. A., Mobile, Ala.
N. H. Bohreer, D. p. A., ISL Marquette
Bldg, Chicago. Ill, West Fort Street. De
troit. Mich.