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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
FROM srgAM TO ELEcrRlclry
Inauguration Of New System on th
New York Elevated.

New York, Dec. 31.-Tomorrow will
witness the inauguration of the elec-
trio system on the second avenue ele-
waited road. Other lines will be changed
from steam to electricity within the
next six months. The total cost of the
improvement is estimated at eight mil
linn -. ..
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
GERMAN STEAMER WRECKED.
Four Officers and Four Passengers Are
Miseino

Hong Kong, Dec. 31.-The German
steamer Clara was wrecked near Hoi
Hu, Island of Hai-Nan. Forty-two of
the ships company were saved by the
French steamer Hanoi, but Captain
Ulderup, and three other officers and
four European passengers and eleven
Chinese are missing.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
m;iI Rnx A. Par.

New York, Dec. 31.-Formal an
nouncement was made today that j. p.
Morgan & Co. would purchase at par
all Of the Northern Pacific preferred
shares presented at their office.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
CHINESE COURT.

Will Proceed to Pekin by Train Jam
uary 7-WiII Refuse to Amend Man
ehurian Treaty.
Pekln. Dec. s1.The Chinese court viii
proceed by train from Pao-Ting -Fu for
Pekin on Jan. Z.
The Russian minister to China, Les
sar, has informed the Chinese plenipo-
tentiaries. Prince Ching and Wong Wen
shao, that the Russian government will
refuse to amend the Manchurian treaty
The situation is practically at q dead
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
!. 8. Van Antwerp.

Washington, Dec. 31.-James s. Van
Antwerp. a widely known newspaper
correspondent, died at his home here
today of nervous collapse superinduced
by oyer-work
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
Demand Underground Wires.

Denver. Dec. 31.-The board of alder
men have adopted an ordinance, COM
pelling the electric light, telegraph and
telephone companies to put their wires
under ground.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
Ransom GilIes Dead.

Detroit, Dec. 31.-Ransom Giles. one
of the founders Of the wholesale dry
goods firm OF Edson, Moore & Co..
this city, died at his residence today,
- r,,a,,roopio ssef
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
HlTzER's TERRIBLE ACT.
Kills Two and Wounds Wife and
naunhfAr

Bitter, jeweler, shot his wife. six year
old son, ten year old daughter and Ida
Gullum, who was employed By him as
a clerk, today. The boy and Miss Gull
ium died soon after being shot. Bitter
was arrested.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
Thomas c. Herkon Dead.

New Orleans, Dec. 31.-Col. Thomas G..
Herkon. manager of the New Orleans
clearing house, died today, aged 72. He
served in the confederate army.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
Rur;aI of Mali crop.ev.

New York. Dec. 31.The body of Nell
Crorsey arrived here today from Eliz-
Iabeth City, N. c.. With the body was
Andrew G. Cropsey. of Brooklyn. uncle
| of the dead girl. The casket was taken
..ss-- Ncsw ssftrerht cesrrtrryp s4ru0KIyn,7
for interment. r
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
FURNISHED MURDERoUs KNIFE.
Syrian Woman in Omaha Bound Over
~. M,ndar Hh~roa

SYRIAN woman III Ofnana 6ounu 0Ver
on Murder Charge.
Omaha, Neb., Dec. 31.-Mrs. Beder
Hina. a Syrian woman, was today bound
over to the district court charged with
murder in the first degree. as accessory
to the killing of Hajeeb Sadly during a
riot in the Syrian colony on Nov. 30. She
is charged with having placed a knife IN
the hands of Joe Bardaweel, who is al
legged to have stabbed Sadly to death.
Bardaweel escaped.
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lfe in Iowa and some of the bitterest
enemies, and the newspaper men who
so after information or opinions con-
cerning him are able to get almost any
thing they want, good or bad. The IL
Illustrated weeklies are getting informa-
tion regarding the family and pictures
and the Shaws are thus thrust into ma
tional prominence with great rapidity.
Johnson Brigham, state librarian, has
an order for character sketch for the
Review OF Reviews. and other able
writer's have orders for Shaw stories
and information.
The ;ate Frank n. Peavey, Of Minne-
apolis. who was married to a daughter
of the then Senator Wright in Des
Moines, twenty-three years ago, was
we'll known in Dss Moines. He made a
fine inpresson at the last national grain
mems convention. where he was looked
upon as the greatest of the grain deal
ers AS Illustrating the clear insight of
the late Judge Wright into human
character and the early signs of great
ness in Mr.. Peavey, an old Van Buren
county friend of The family relates that
along in the early '70s the now sorrow
ling widow was engaged to be married
to a young man in Mt. Pleasant. SEN
ator Wright her father sized the
young man up and didn't think he would
amount to much. He took his daughter
to Washington and kept her there a
long time, and the match was broken
off. When Frank Peavey, then a Sioux
City merchant, asked for her hand the
cautious old senator made an inventory
OF Peavey's characteristics and put his
o. X. on the match. His Judgment has
been amply vindicated in both the
men.
An elaborate rural trolley system ID
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-16
Rfver on 4 IRan,naue.

ST Joseph. Mich. March l6.--The ST.
Joseph river was on a rampage yAster-
day morning and as a result several
private boat houses on the banks OF the
Morrison channel and ships anchored al
the mouth of the stream We're battered
for hours by foes OF ice swept lakeward
by the current OF the river The sides Of
the boat houses were crushed in by the
force of the ice and the schooner Cape
Horn was broken from its anchor.
Mountains of Ice piled up along the
east shore of the river and the upper
point of shuler's island. The water was
forced over the banks of the river and
the low land between ST. Joseph and
Benton Harbor was flooded.
Farmers living in the vicinity Of the
Somer.eyton resort discovered the en-
tire valley between the banks OF the st
Joseph river and the Royalton heights
was being flooded and great fear was
entertained that the large hoted anG
several cottages at the Somerleyton re.
sort would be carried away. Three fee
of water now covers the main floor o.
the hotel and cottages.
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ground burned my feet and the smoke
almost choked me, but kept running
towards the swamp. knowing could
escape If / reached it. More than once
1 fell. but managed finally to reach the
swamp, where rolled in a pool OF wa
ter Then tainted.
lido not know how long lay there,
but finally 1 woke up knew must
reach Mobile or die from my hurts. L
made my way 10 a little landing, where
the camp had several canoes, and rowed
over here.
There was no use to- try to make for
a house to get assistance, az there are
no dwellings within miles of our camp,
and our own medicine chest wac
burned along with the balance Of the
things. j did not go back to the camp.
but am sure our men must have been
burned Unless they escaped before I
Gid they could not possibly have lived. :
Pressler is of the opinion that the fire
was started by three negroes who were
run out of the camp yesterday morning
They We're roughly handled before being
allowed to leave. and he thinks they set
tire TO the woods for revenge. The me-
sgroes are not known here. but Pressler
furnished a good description Of them
and a posse has gone to Baldwin county
70 look for them. Ii apprehended they
g re- sure TO meet the fate bestowed upon
their victims
The owner of the camp ia James Hel-
soway of WISCONSIN. He was at the
camp Thursday
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-16
CUNV1VI . al IEMFI ESCAPE.
Twelve Prisoners In Nebraska Pc,
Discovered just I'm ,rime.

3 =
Lincoln, Neb., March 16.-Only the
presence of the Nebraska militiamen on
guard at the state penitentiary pre-
vented the escape of twelve desperate
convicss. Mounting from the floor Of
the dollhouse to the top OF the roof thru
a ventilator 9ue. after first saving thru
an iron grating and big iron bars at the
lower end the twelve prisoners looked
over the top edge of the front wall down
to the road below only to sac four vigi-
liant guardsmen patrolling ceaselessly
along the front OF the building. Tho
the criminals had rope ample to lower
them to the ground, they dared not risk
a meeting with the Springfield rifles
and steel-capped leaden missiles await
ing them, and, cowed from their pur-
pose. they huddled down together in the
great drain trough along the edge Of the
roof just behind the abutting wall and
lay there shivering, some without shoes.
others only in their underclothtng, till
they We're discovered by Deputy War
den Bowers shortly after 6 O'clock yes
terday morning and marched down to
dark dungeons below.
The cell from which the attempt was
made is the only portion OF the peni-
Tertiary which was not destroyed in the
fire of two weeks ago. It 10 untitled
with cells or any prison equipment,
having never before been used. The
men, 2s5 In number. are herded there in
a bunch at night and sleep on !mpro-
Hissd Hoodan hunkA xhAA1 AEa RANGED
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-16
Mrs. Richardson Give BAIL

Savannah, Mo, March 16.-AIrs. Addie
L. Richardson was formally arraigned
in the circit court yesterday morning at
10 o'clock. To the charge of murder in
the first degree Mrs. Richardson plead
ed not guilty A motion WAS maze ny
her attorneys to releas-. Mrs Richard
son on bail. Judge Burns stated that by
aslate actof the legislature the crime of
murder was bailable and 1t was his in
tention TO admit Mrs Richardson to
bail. Her bond was ixed at 10000.
which was signed by John D. Richard
son, manager of the American Biscuit
Company, Chicago, and others.
Mrs. Richard sen's trial was set for
May Y. 1T is my intention, said she,
to continue my residence in Savannah
/ am not at all worried about the result
of my case. ! do not want change of
Venue want p be vindicated BY the
people of my oStl town" John %. Rich
ardson left last evening for his home in
Chicago.
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within reach of the humblest household.
az thousands of grateful letters testify.
The use of this marvellous remedy,
now spring is here. makes all the differ
ence between impure, sluggish blood
and tired nerves and a healthy, energet-
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health The incalculable amount of
good it is doing these spring days in
making sick and even despairing people
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health in this, spring OF 1901.
1t drives the poison germs Of deep
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cures sleep. so necessary to brain and
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Thousands have been benefited; thou
sands have been cured by Paine 8 celery
compound when everything else failed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-16

along the WALL in which is the mouth Of
the ventilator, and screened the men
In their work, which they had been car
rying on at night ever since the fire and
intended to eliminate last night. The
ventilators are of stone and run
straight up thru the solid outside wall,
being eighteen inches square on the In
side The convicts, equipped with a
splumber's metal saw. two cold chisels,
two small sledges, files and dagger,
their possession of which is unex-
planned, cut thru the heavy iron grating
over the fiue opening and then thru
thick steel bars further up.
They first started to burrow straight
thru the outside wall on the level of the
ground and took out huge chunks OF
stone, which were discovered yesterday
hidden in the ventilator. When within
a few inches of the outside, however,
they became discouraged and deter
mined to flee via the roof. They stole
quantity OF rope from The broom fac
tory and worked up forty-five feet to
the top of the vsntilator tower. They
dropped to the roof, but feared to face
watch or a very loose one was kept.
SOMSkllb5 III lU'> Zig rain 5NttSl "
hind the parapet al the edge, the crimi-
mails nearly froze and one of them
weakened early in the morning. wish
ing to be discovered and taken back to
the warm cellhouss, but. fearing his
companions, he stealthily threw a bottle
and then a stone ali the nearest patrols
man. The soldier surmised tina. the
missile must have come from the roof.
but could see no enc. He reported the
matter and orders we're given the guard
to shoot any one on the roof on sight
or any convict showing himself outside
the walls.
A roll call was then taken in the cell-
house and twelve absentees discovered.
The deputy warden and a guard mount
ed to the roof and found the men half
frozen. They Were utterly cowed and
came down without murmur TO the
dark cells for punishment. Two We're
clothed only in the blankets from their
beds. Another had citizens clothes. OBJ
tanned from some source. Few had
shoes. All twelve We're robbers, with
sentences ranging from two TO thirteen
yaara
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-16
n1tss,ne Man FOUND Murdered.

ST. Louis, March 16.-Robert Walsh,
the missing son of a prominent lumber
man residing at Saginaw, Mich, was
murdered in a garnet room at AIS South
Sixth street, in the course Of a quarrel
over the spoils Of robbery.
This is a solution of a mystery that
had enveloped the discovery of the life
less body OF stranger, lying with a
crushed skull in his linely room ON the
morning Of Feb. g. His slayer is still
at large. but his name and description
are no longer secrets at police head
quarters. and his arrest is expected to
take place shortly.
Thomas Quinn, 1t is stated, furnished
the police with the means of Identify
ing Walsh. Thru him 1t was made pos
sible to secure the names OF the thieves
among whom the young man fell, to-
Hgether with the additional fact that he
left Chicago with the other men.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-16
STRIKES A SICK LEGISLATOR.
Representative Hits u senator ane
Offers an Apology

Offers an Apology.
Olympia, Wash. March 16.-The clos
ing hours of the legislative session Wit
messed Il hand-to-hand encounter be-
tween Senator Ruth of Thurstons county
and Representa- yesterday of Pierce
county. and arose az a result of Ruth 9
Vote for the indefinite pos,ponement of
yesterdays bill TO repeal the present
libel law of the state. The bill was on
the senate calendar, having passed the
house some time ago. and came up in
regular order Representative EASTER
day Was on the senate floor and ~ soon
as he saw that his bill was beaten he
walked over to Ruth and called the lat
ter a liar and accused him OF promising
10 support the bill. Ruth retorted sharp
ly and Easterday hit him. Ruth has
been i'll for some time and was sitting
down when Easterday hit him. He al
tempted to rise. but in the meantime
Senator Hamilton and Others had
crowded between the belligerents and
had separated them. After adjourn
nlent Easterday's friends persuaded
Ruth 10 accept an apology which East
.erday made in open session of the SEN
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-16

celery compound is not a patent medi-
tine II is not 4 secret preparation. II
Eis he formula of Edward E. Phelps. NJ.
~. LID, professor of Materia Medica
in the Dartmouth Medical School.
VI IS the only great popular remedy for
blood and nerves ever frankly endorsed
by the medical profession.
Men OF ample means who can com
ipand the beet medical services; the
ablest and the most influential per-
sons in the country. az well az the most
progressive physicians. We're the first to
perceive the extraordinary worth of
Paine's celery compound and TO use it.
That this remedy has succeeded from
the start IS moi astonishing. Thousands
owe to ii restored vitality, sound sleep.
better digestion, freedom from pain,
stronger nerves and purer blood
The wealthiest family in the land can
secure nothing better, if they are look
Ling for d spring remedy. 1t is easily
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-16
Baker IL Heir 10 el27.OOo.

Lebanon, Ind, March 16.-Max L..
Goldrose. a journeyman baker Of Leb-
anon, has been notified that he is heir
to $4,000 by the death of his father at
Bromberger. Germany. Goldrose was
editor of the Bromberger Tagblatt in
1890, and some of his articles offended
the crown, and he sought America as a
refuge. His brother in Germany has
obtained amnesty for him. and he left
yesterday to claim his fortune and the
title OF baron. He went by way OF
Chattanooga, Tenn. to wed Miss Anna
Franklin. descendant Of Benjamin
Franklin. Goldrose came here from
Chicago SIX months ago. He il 80 years
old, and graduate of Heidelberg uni
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-16
SIXTY DIE BY FIRE.
Fire In an Alabama Turpent1:

Fire in an Alabama Turpentine
Camp Results Disnstrously.
Mobile. Ala, March ia turpentine
camp across the bay in Baldwin county
was burned early yesterday morning
and sixty people, mostly negroes are
supposed to have persisted. Az far az
known f. c. Pressler. who brought the
rews here, is the only man who sur
vived.
This is his story:
.Our camp was miles from any settle
mept and bounded on one side by a
swamp and on the other by an immense
forest. Our shack was one long, frame
building, and in it slept the whole force
of sixty-one men. Partitions separated
The negroes and white men. The house
was made of dry pine lumber and
burned like finder when the flames
reached it. In shed near us We're 800
barrels of raw turpentine.
II was awakened by the intense heat
and the cracking of tinbers around me.
The whole earth seemed abaze. l was
sleeping near the door and instinctivey
rushed out into the open when / discov-
cred what was happening. didn't take
time to make a close inspection of the
room It was full of smoke such as pine
timber gives out, and I believe not one
OF my companions escaped. am sure
il I had not been right ait the open door
the smoke would have sttfied me.
II screamed with all my might as
ran from the burning house, but il any
replies came / never heard them. The
cracking of the burning houses and
trees would have drowned the strongest
voice.
~ i1adS& dash thru the IRE as soon as
graaped the situation. I was un-
$1,000. and TIA AhAA.AA tisuhAxs IN thA
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-16

IS William G Maybury Is now serving
his third term as mayor Of Detroit,
Mich.
In 1882 he was elected to Congress
from Michigan, elected in 1884, serv-
ing during the forty eighth congress on
the judiciary committee, and in the for
ty-ninth on the ways and means COM
mittee. His leisure is devoted to the
affairs Of St Peters Episcopal church,
TO attentions to the aged. the sick and
the poor.
In the light of many such public en-
dorsements as the above from Mayor
Maybury, it is easy to see why Paineis
celery compound is displacing all other
remedies
1T has been truthfully said that the
men and women who use and recon-
mend Paine's celery compound are not
T the class of people who take doubtful
remedies and patent medicines. Paine $
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-16
NIGHT Mns Her Terror.

II would cough nearly all night long
writes Mrs. Charles Apologize, of Alex
andria, Ind and could hardly get any
sleep. had consumption SO bad that
if walked block l would cough
ffightfully and spit blood. but, when all
other medicines failed. three 81 bottles
II DR.. Kings New Discovery wholly
cured me and gained fifty-eight
pounds It's absolutely guaranteed to
cure coughs, colds, la grippe. bronchitis
and all throat and lung troubles. Price
so cents and 81. Trial bottles free at
Geroge P. Powers drug store.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-16
Ouestton Anywered.

Yes, August Flower still has the
largest sale of any medicine in the CIV
ilized world. Your mothers and grand
mothers never thought Of using any
thing else for Indigestion and bilious
ness. Doctors were scarce. and they
seldom heard Of appendicitis, nervous
prostration or heart failure, etc. They
used August Flower to clean out the
system and stop fermentation of undi-
gested food, regulate the action OF the
liver, stimulate the nervous and or
ganic action of the system. and that
is all they took when feeling dun and
bad with headaches and other aches.
You only need a few doses Of GREEN'S
August Flower, in liquid form. to make
you satisfied there is nothing serious
the matter with you. Get Green's Prize
Almanac.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-16
WoLsELEY TO LANDsDoWNE.
Blames cabinet for Not Making
Known It's Lack OF Confidence in

Tendon. March 16.-The house of lords
was unu sually crowded yesterday ms
anticipation OF the reply Of Lord Mo-
seiey, .he fortner conn. 1Eder in lliss
TO the criticism of the former war SET
rotary, Lord Lansdowfe. now secretary
for foreign affairs The galleries We're
fuilSof peer sses and others.
Lord Wolssley, in his opening re-
marks said he regretted being COM
pelled 10 discuss q personal matter biit
could not pass liisehall enged the severe
comments q Lord I.ansdowne on the
manner in Nhies. ne had perfornleG the
duties Of cofs.Iaansiel, in eliess
I.ord I.ansGoSlse personalities we're
evidently pueinedltated His indict-
ments We're grave and it almost seemed
assif the persena attack Was made
sin order 10 divert public attention from
the question al issue and throw upon
he commander in chief blame fef the
mistakes made by tbs government.
Until the recent debate he had never
had reason 10 suppose thai he did not
possess the fall confidence OF Lord
+ Lansdowne and the CABINET Easily in
1900 circumstances occurred Which left
him no alternative but II resign, which.
he did: II he did fet posses the cabi-.
" Which might have legiiiinately beer
used to appoint another commander in.
chief.
Lord Wolseley then proceeded to re-
flute the specific charges launched by
Lord I-ansloNile He ssia he had
made every fort u Improve the aux
iliary forces. In February sg5 ne ret,
onlmegded tina; additional troops be
sent TO South friSa ard aT.rle,ded
Strengthening sfl.- NltaA garrison and
the defensive occupation not Of the
town Of I.adSsn1iIll otit Of he Big
garspeig rang. vllieil Asssa twenty five
miles in advance Of Lad sssriih He had
never considered Laf?yssnish and its
surrounding hills to be tenatole.
Lord Yoiselay admitted THAT. in com a
mon With all The outher authorities. he
had underestlmated the fighting power
of the Individual Beer.
Three weeks before Mr. Kruger's
declaration of war he mad urged Lord
Lansdowne 10 send out an army corps
a cavalry division and five battalions
for the lines of Communication, in adj
dition 70 the 10000 troops already in
South Africa. Such a comparatively
small number of troops employed early
had often achieved results which five
later The mobilization OF this force
at this time would have produced a
considerable effect in South Africa. If
Il the country was not prepared a the
outbreak Of the war IL WAS not be-
cause he had not urged the gradual and
transformations reinforcement OF the
forces.
Lord wolseley concluded with say
ing.
sI have said as little az possible con-
siste,tly with any justice 70 myself
The noble marquis made strong person
al statements which We're not support
ed have made my reply Which Is al
SO unsupported. can not, however
leave the matter thus. | feel am am.
ply justified in moving that all the pa
rers be laid on the tahle. / am prepared
10 prove BY official documents all
have said =
Lord wolseey's motion was rejected
by vote Of GO to 3s.