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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09
Ne WAS A PHYSICAL WRECK
so HE DECIDED TO DIE AND SIZE
ASKED TO BE TAKEN
ALONG.
LACKED NERVE TO KILL HERSELF
THE MAN LEAVES A LETTER FOR
THE POLICE EXPLAINING
MATTERS.

st. Louis. Jan. 4.-New light, sufficient
10 explain the tragic death of Pearl
Sutton and the attempted self-destruction
of Charles L. Holcomb, now lying at the
city hospital is thrown upon the mys-
terry by the discovery Friday morning
of a letter written by Holcomb to the
murder and suicide and the motives
therefor are set forth fully.
This letter. written Dec. % and placed
in Holcombs trunk. in his room at
Gould's hotel, where the tragedy took
place. shows that the man had deter
mined to kill himself, because he was a
physical wreck on account of dissipation,
and, according to his statement, tina. he
intended to kill the young woman be-
cause she wished to die with him. but
lacked the nerve" to kill herself.
Tells Why He Did 1t.
The plans were found by Detective
Richard Joyce. who was detailed to make
a thorough search of the ROOM The let
ter is as follows:
St. Louis, NO., Dec. 90 19O1-To the
Chief of Police. and to Others Whom 1t
May Concern: This deed which l am
going to commit tonight is not the work
of a crazy or jealous man. We have
both contemplated this step for some
time. l have been taught that to take
ones life is a crime against high heaven,
who gave it, But I have since decided
that when life becomes a burden to any
one. they have the right to lay it down.
My reasons for taking this step are
briefly these:
am physical wreck. l know I can
never be well man again. My business
Is dull and is not paying expenses. Still
have enough money saved to tide me
over till next spring, when business will
be sure to pick up. But, to cap the cli-
max, l received news from home (the ma
ture of which I will not say here. that
decided me to take this step at once.
don't want my relatives to know any,
thing about this. So I have destroyed
all their letters to keep them from being
communicated with. Pearl wanted to 20
with me when I went. Her
Nerve Is Not Sufficient.
to take her own life. So she asked me
to do it for her and let her die quickly
and painlessly. I don't much like this
part of the job, but still 1 will try it. 1
hope my friends will not speak and think
too harshly of me for this
You can see by my books that I have
cleared UP to date 5000 (six hundred dol
iars). 1 have wasted a great deal of
it. 1 have $3.50 two hundred and fifty
dollars) hid in the cellar, under the sa-
loon. This will pay all my expenses and
put me away decently. Pleasetssee that
it is done. The place is marked in the
1 would have it with me tonight. but 1
don't know who would find us first and
l might be robbed. So farewell to all.
Charles H. Holcomb.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09
WHITE HOUSE DEBUTANTE.
Presidents Eldest Daughter Is Pre-
scented to Society.

Presidents Eldest Daughter Is Pre-
scented to Society.
Washington, Jan. 5. - Miss Alice
Roosevelt, the eldest daughter of the
president and Mrs. Roosevelt. was
formally presented to Washington So
cety last night at ball given in hef
honor at the White House. About SUI
guests were present, many Of whom
either We're connections of the Roose-
Welt family or we'll known society peo-
pie living outside Of Washington. Miss
Roosevelt is the first White House
debutante since 1873, when Miss Nellie
Grant, the daughter of President ana
Mrs. Grant, was presented to society
at ball which was the gayest social
event of the decade. Last nights en-
tertainment was given a personal rath-
err tkah an official character by Mrs.
Roosevelt, whose wish was that Miss
Roosevelt should make her debut much
as Though it had talen place in her
own private home rather than in the
White House.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09

The plan for penal colony for an
archists, proposed or suggested by
Senator Vest seems to meet the an
archist situation the most thoroughly;
besides there is poetical side to the
idea of letting the anarchists work
out their theories on themselves. A
fertile island, capable of yielding it's
Inhabitants bountiful living with an
average amount of labor, should be
chosen, and the anarchists should be
deported there and left to themselves
and their theories. In order that no
doubts might be raised as to their
having a fair show, the government
might support them for year or two
and supply them with all the nipple
ments of industry and the comforts of
a high civilization. After such a pc
riod, let them work out their own des-
tiny, the government only taking care
that no one should escape from the
island. 1t is safe conjecture that un-
der such conditions the anarchists
would have their theories changed by
close experience with practical affairs;
they would come to learn respect for
government and to know that a gov
eminent by a majority is much prefer
able to a government by any one pos
sessed of the greatest physical force.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09
People Talked About.

Prof. John Bierrel, professor of ORR
entail languages at ST. Andrews uni
versity, London. since 1871, is dead. He
vas born in 1886.
DR.. Speicker, who assumed charge of
the Dunkards' Aged and Orphans home
at Mexico. Ind, died. aged forty-two,
from pneum onia. DR.. Speicher was Il
prominent Dunkard.
Edward H. Kellogg, Northwestern
manager Of the National Life Insurance
company, died at his home in Chicago.
He was seventy years old. and until ne
was attack I'd by cancer of the stomach,
six weeks ago, he never had been i'll.
David P. Thompson, a we'll known
capitalist and fol mer United States
minister to Turkey, died in Portland.
Or. Mr.. Thompson was born in Ohio
in 1884. He came to Oregon in 1853.
walking every step of the way across
the continent.
D. w. Minshall reputed to be the
wealthiest man in Western Indiana, is
dead at Terre Haute, aged seyenty-four
years. He recently gave $4,000 to De
Puaw university, at Green Castle, Ind,
for a new science hall. His estate is
estimated at 100000.
Augustus L. Allen one Of the original
trustees Of Vassar college, is dead, aged
ninety-two. In 1850 he was chairman
of the committee appoints I'd to welcome
home the late Prof. S. F. 3. Morse, in
ventor Of the telegraph, after his re-
turn from his first protracted trip in
Europe.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09
TRIAL OF MurlxEERs.
Prisoners Who Broke Ont of Leaven
worth Bastilc Held for Murder.

Prisoners Who Broke ont OF LeOHen-
worth Bastile Held for Murder.
Leavenworth, Kan, Jan. 5.-The pre-
liminary trial of Gilbert Mullins, Fred
erick Robinson and Robert Clark, three
of the ringleaders in the recent federal
prison mutiny, was held yesterday IN
the library of the prison before United
States Commissioner Bond. Mullins,
Robinson and Clark were charged with
murder in the first degree for the kill
ing of j. B. Waldrupe, one of the pris-
on guards. Various prison officials
testified as to the incidents of the out
freak. The commissioner remanded
the three prisoners into the wardens
care to be held to the United States
grand jury. The examination of Frank
Robinson and Turner Barnes will take
place to-day.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09
WORKS A HARDSHIP.

Secretary Gabe Refers to theOpcra-
ton of the Deportation Law.
Washington, Jan. 5.-Secretary Gage
has complained for some time Of the
hardships wrought on foreigners under
the deportation law. He related the
instance of the wife and family of a
foreigner who We're held at the immi-
grafton quarters at Ellis island because
of a contagious disease of the eye.
The husband and father was in this
country in favorable circumstances
The case had excited sympathy in New
York, but, under the law, the wife ana
children must be Geported.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09
FRIGHTFUL SUICIDE.
Man Uses Dynamite to Help Hin,
Over the Dark River.

Man Uaes Dynamite to Help Him
Over the Dark River.
Morris, ILL.,, Jan. 5. - There was
frightful suicide yesterday at Coal City.
ten miles southeast of this city. Jo-
seph H. Bovine, leader among the
Bohemians in the coal fields, had
trouble with his wife in the morning.
He brooded over the matter till after
noon, when he went to the village and
secured a stick of dynamite. On his
return he went Lack of his barn, and,
lying on his back, placed the dynamite
beneath his vest With his hands he
struck the cap and exploded the dyna-
mite The explosion tore a great hole
in the earth and blew the mans body
into countless pieces.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09
Unfortunate Happenings.


Two hundred people were drowned in
a waterspout in SATIRE. Morocco.
California was swept by terrific and
destructive windstorm last week.
Todd, Burns & Co.'S big dry goods
warehouse in Dublin was damaged by
fire to the amount Of E130,00o.
An explosion at the old Sharpsville
furnace, at Sharpsville, Pa, wrecked
the furnace plant and killed three men.
Another workman was probably fatal-
~ injured.
At Birmingham. Ala. an East Lake
street car collided with a number OF
freight cars attached to a switch en-
CINE. E. w. Jones, conductor on the
street car, was killed, and two other
men were injured.
The German steamer Clara has been
wrecked near Hoj HUI. Island of Hal
nan. Forty-two of the ships company
were saved by the French steamer Ha-
mel, but Capt. Ulderup and three other
officers. four European passengers and
eleven Chinese are missing.
Three children of Jacques Modry We're
burned to death in a fire that de-
stroyed a two-story frame building in
Lombard street, Buffalo. They We're
aged ten, seven and three. The mother
and babe two days old We're carried
from the building on a mattress.
The Boston clothing firm of Spit2
Bros. & Mork was the principal suffer-
err by fire in he Charles street block.
The flames started in basement and
buried up through two floors of the
five-story granite building. causing a
loss estimated at about 100000
At Bridge No. ST. seventy miles west
CT Albuquerque, N. NJ. Fireman Henry
Shropper. of the westbo ind California
limited, was instantly killed. AS the
train approached the bridge at fun
speed. Shopper leaned far out to make
an observation on the engine. Ills
head struck an iron girder and was
severed from his body.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09
FOR INDIAN SALVATION.
Rev. Henry G. GnnsS Becomes Treas
urer of Catholic Funds

Washington, Jan. An pursuance Of
the action taken at the recent meeting of
the Catholic archbishops of the United
States. the Rev. Henry G. Evans has
been appointed financial agent of the
bureau of Catholic Indian missions. He
will have his headquarters in this city
and will enter Immediately on his work
of collecting funds for the support o:
Catholic Indian mission schools He has
been for a number of years the rector
of st. Patrick's church at Carlisle, Pa.
during which time he has looked after
the spiritual wants of the Catholic pupils
Of the Carlisle Indian school. He is a
man of much musical and literary
ability.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09

Like great many other men OF
genius who have lived in this world,
the late Eugene Field was generally
hard up for money. Nevertheless, this
is no infallible token of genius, and his
latest biographer goes to the limit of
indelicacy in retailing episodes in the
career of his subject illustrating his
impecuniosity. These are among the
things that are better left unsaid, ex-
cept as they serve to illumine char.
acter.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09
SHAW IN WASHINGTON.
New Secretary Holds Conference
With the President.


With the President.
Washington, Jan. 5-Gov. Leslie M.
SEaw of Iowa, who is to succeed Hon.
Lyman J. Gage as secretary of the
treasury, arrived in Washington last
niglr. ne is staying at the Arlington
tote; and had been there but a short
tine when. in response to a message
ION the White House. he walked TO
tia presidents home and remained
with him until after 9 O'Clock. Later
the governor called on Speaker Hender-
sou. He will have a more extended
conference with the president to-day.
Gov. Shaw accorded hearty greeting
to the group of newspaper men who
were awaiting aim in the hotel lobby
after his return from the White House.
He was n-comm,lnicative, however,
when asked leadin:s questions about
matters of financial Iolicy.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09
CLERKS KEPT BUSY.
y. r. Preferred Stock Turned In,
Paid for NmI Cancelled

y. r. Preferred Stock Turned In,
Paid for ana Cancelled.
New York, Jan. Sat the offices of
the Northern Pacific railroad in Wall
street the statement was made yesler-
day that all the Northern Pacific pre-
ferred stock, except about s2,OoO.OOO.
had been turned in by the holders. paid
for at par and cancelled, under the
terms Of the resolution adopted by the
Northern Pacific board a few weeks
ago. The exchange Of Northern Pa
cific and Great Northern shares into
Northern Securities stock Is progress
ing as rapidly as the large clerical
force in the Northern Securities office
can handle it.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09

The Yale football management has
netted thirty thousand dollars from
this years games, but doubtless it
would give every dollar of it to have
reversed the figures of the score on
Soldiers Field.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09

Springfield, Ill.,, Jan. SIN an explo-
sion in the Black Diamond company's:
mine near this city yesterday after
noon while $50 men were at work,
Thomas Black and John Grabinsky'
We're fatally injured and Jesse Leu
tricks was badly hurt.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09
KILLED HIS PARTNER.

Lewis HartxOuSh Sentenced at Shcri-
4ian to Twenty Years.
Sheridan, Wyo., Jan. 5.-Judge Scott
s. ntenced Lewis Hartsough to twenty
years in the penitentiary. Hartsough,
who was a leading business man here,
was found guilty of manslaughter.
He shot and killed his partner, ]. FL.
Mclaughlin, about a month ago. The
dead man was also pronine mt in bust
ness circles in Northern Wyoming.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09
English peeresses are making organ.

English peeresses are making organ.
feed protest against the arbitrary cos
tune regulations for King Edward
coronation ceremonies. They say the
wearing of velvet will destroy the sym
metry of their figures and that ermine
will ruin their compilations: 1t begins
to look as if even hereditary caste
privilege in England has its limita-
tions. The cable may soon inform us
that his imperial majesty has dictated
10 the naughty peeresses what brand
of face powder shall be used in build
ing compilations for the august occa-
sion. and then the worm may turn.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09
THOUSAND OR MORE.
Iowa to Send Largo Delegation tn
Tencherx' Meeting.

Sioux City. Iowa. Jan. T. - 1t is
expected that Iowa's delegation to the
National Educational association conven-
ton in Minneapolis in July will number
at least 1000. Prof. II. +. Kratz of this
city. who was appointed by the Iowa
State Teachers association to take charge
of the Iowa delegation to the N. f.. A..
has secured headquarters for the delega
ton in the clnbroom Of the West hotel AZ
Minneapolis. A big showing win be made
from this state because OF the fact that
the president OF the national association
Is an Iowan-Prof. w. NJ. Beardshear.
president OF the Iowa agricultural college
at Ames
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09
SHERIFF FATALLY INJURED.
Has Desre rate Encounter Witt, Four
DespcraliOes.

Casper, Wyo., Jan. SIN fight with
four escaped prisoners yesterday Sher-
iff w. c. Kicker was shot and prob
ably fatally injured. The outlaws are
Clarence and Charles Woodward, Da-
vid Foote and G. B. Franklin. They
escaped the night of Dec. 81 and Sher-
if Kicker followed them to q point
seventy-five miles west of Casper,
where they were inambush They fired
OF the sheriff's posse and Kicker re-
ceived shot in the breast from which
he cannot recover. The posse has con-
tinued the chase for the men, none OF
whom is thought to have been hurt.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09

1t would be great thing for New
York if that German inventor We're to
destroy the London fogs Then New
York would not have to be at the trou-
BILE of cultivating them.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09

Russia is abolishing part of what
little local government it's cities had.
The car is laying up trouble for him
self against the time when the people
get aroused.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09

Emperor William has not only inter-
dicted dueling in the German colleges,
but has ordered the children in the
subordinate schools to discontinue the
practice of writing letters to him.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09

And now tn, Bulgarian brigands
have grievance. They complain that
Miss Stone, their captive, is trying to
convert them to Christianity AS this
is Miss Stones business she may sue
coed in gaining her freedom without
the payment of a cent of ransom. All
she needs to do is to persuade her cap
tors to apply the golden rule in her
case.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09
worked the Combinntion.

Sac City. Iowa. Jan. S. - Burglars
broke into the Moore jewelry store and
secured $500 ir. cash from the safe and
several hundred dollars worth of
rings. They succeeded in working the
combination. There Is no clue.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09

A Brooklyn jury has awarded $500
to woman who incurred a stiff fin
ger as the result of railway collision.
The company ought to be thankful her
whole hand wasn't stiffened.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09
Received Verdict with n Smile.

Winfield. KAN, Jan. 5.-Clyde Moore.
the seventcen-year-old boy convica ri;
o. murder in the second degree for Kill.
ing G. l.. Wiltberger. a farmer near
here last April for his money. was yes
terday sentenced to twenty years in
the penitentiary. He received the ver-
dicl with q smile.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09

A musical paper in London is in.
dignant because only one carriage at
tended the funeral of Manager Maple
son. But just think how many times
in his long operate career, Col. Maple
son announced substitutions in the
cast.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09

Although King Edwards coronation
IS to take place in June the confident
expectation is that it will be an august
ceremony
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09

Cities and towns are glad to accep,
Mr.. Carnegie's gifts just as they are
offered, but the United States can at
ford to make stipulations in such mat
ters.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09

Why should woman fiercely scold
a man for smoking on the street car
platform. He is really doing homage;
he is burning incense to the sex.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09

There is nothing inconsistent in the
proposal to make more compact the
various concerns that manufacture
compressed air tools.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09
Gen. scnn,nnx nend.

Washington. Jan. 5.-Gen. Seamans.
adjutant general OF California who
had been seriously III here for some
time is dead
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09

A roast pig that had been fattened
on potatoes is about the daintiest dish
of the Christmas season, and certain
ly the most expensive one.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09

GalesLurg. H.. Jan. 5.-While search
ing for supposed burglar around his
house Gustaf Lanholm was shot by his
seventeen -year-old son. who mistook
him for the burglar. 1t Is feared the
sons mind will give way.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09

Norway is the latest to score an
archy through its legislature. The re.
turns are not all in.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09

Doubtless some of the North Dakota
divorce lawyers have already sent their
business cards to Queen Wilhelmina.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09

Strange to say, the nickel mines
purchased by Americans in New Cal
edonia are not street-car lines.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-04-18
THE SOUND OF A PIANO.
Seeming Defects That May Be Often
Due to Exterior Causes.

Seeming Defects That May BE Often
Due to Exterior Causes.
"a piano" said dealer, twill some
times develop or seem to develop a
flaw in some one note, which comes to
have rattle or jingle or unpleasant
burr to it, but this jarring sound which
seems to come from the piano may in
reality come from some source quite
outside of it.
ANY given note when struck pro-
duces a certain number of vibrations to
the second. There may be in the room
some object that is in tone sympathy
with some particular note, and that
will be set in motion by it when that
note is sounded.
'The owner of fine piano sent to us
one day to say that there was some
thing wrong about a certain note of
the instrument, so that that note had
an unpleasant sound when struck.
When | heard the note sounded, l knew
at once that the disagreeable rough
ness or buzz about 7 was due not to
any defect in the piano, but to some
thing somewhere about in the room,
and, asking the lady to strike that note
occasionally. walked around the room
to see if could locate it.
passing across the middle of the
room as that note was struck, the
cause of the Earring accompaniment of
it was discovered to come from the vi
bration of one of the glass globes on
the chandelier overhead.
'The owner of the piano was almost
incredulous as to this, the sound had
seemed so plainly to come from the
piano itself. But when at my request
she stood under the chandelier and |
struck the note she was readily con-
vinced
81 made that globe immovable and
then struck the note on the piano. The
answer was clear and sweet and true.
$50, you see. the sound of the piano
may for one thing depend much upon
its surroundings, and what may seem
to be defect in piano may be in re-
atty attributable to something quite
apart from the piano itself
''And thus it might easily be that
some noble instrument that had SEEM
ed to be declining or to be developing
faults owed its apparent change to a
change of environment or to some spe-
citic outside cause and was in reality
as good as ever. as would happily be
discovered whenever the instrument
was again brought under favorable
conditions. Chicago Inter Ocean.