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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-05
IOWA STATE NEWS.
A Fatal Accident.

Joseph Ballbrecht, an Austrian OF
81 years, while working on the Milwau-
kee cutoff, south of Muscatine, was
the victim of q horrible accident, which
proved fatal. He was employed on a
work train and the rope used as a
brake encircled his arm, manging and
cutting the member terribly and hurl-
ing him to the earth, distance of 20
feet. Surgical aid was summoned,
but amputation did not save him. He
passed away at the new Hershey hos
pital, the first death within its walls.
The contractors, Mcintosh brothers,
gave him interment in the Catholic
cemetery. He leaves widow and
children in Austria.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-05
News in Brief.

The members of the Iowa worlds
fair commission have decided to al
lot $15O,000 of the states approp1ia-
ton for the erection of building
at the worlds fair in St. Louis. This
will leave $4,000 for making exhibits
in the department buildings.
Otto w. Roderick is now alone
charged with the murder. of Clerk
Moyen in Council Bluffs, the similar
accusation against John Williams,
who was with Roderick on the fatal
night, having been dismissed.
The board of trustees of Iowa
state college at Ames has granted an
indefinite leave of absence to Presi-
dent Beardshear because of sickness.
Secretary Stanton will act as presi-
dent temporarily.
A cloudburst did $4,000 damage
and drove 20 families from their
homes in Waterloo. At one time the
business streets of the town were
under from two to three feet of
water.
H. Jordan, a well-to-do retired
farmer living at Keystone, shot him
self through the head because of
dependency over a cancer of the
neck, which was incurable.
Tip Long, a young farmer of Guss,
Taylor county, was drowned in the
flood waters of the Nodaway, three
miles northeast of Clarinda.
Tip Long, a young farmer, was
drowned in the Nodaway river, three
miles northeast of Clarinda.
A valuable horse and rig were stolen
from the streets in Brooklyn. The out
fit belonged to John Gritsch.
The post Office at Emery, Cerro
Gordo county, mas been discontinued;
mail to Mason City.
Congressman Walter /. Smith has
been unanimously renominated by
the republican congressional conven-
ton of the Ninth district.
Twelve members of the family of
Peter Smith, living near Jesup, were
suffering from serious illness, showing
evidence of poison. They believe their
sickness was caused by beer from a key
of wiSnh they drank freely.
The board of directors of Amity col
lege at College Springs have elected
Rev. Mr.. Smith, of Burlington juno
ton, Mo. as president of the college
to fill the vacancy caused by the resig-
nation of President Calhoun.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-05
Refuse to Paw

Rev. FIR. O'Connor, of St. 10.
seph's Catholic church in Sioux City
discovered that Montreal money
loaners have mortgage on the
structure, alleged to have been ar.
ranged and entered into by Rev
FIR. Fowler, formerly pastor OF
the church, without the knowledge
of the pensioners and without the
consent of Archbishop Hennessy
who, at the. time, had jurisdiction
over the Catholic churches of Sioux
City. The only way to prevent the
mortgage holders from foreclosine
is to pay the sum asked by them
This the members of the congrega.
ton refuse to do, and have secured
an option on another site.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-05
TO SECURE UNIFORMITY.
Pharmacists Want Scale of Prices
Adopted That Will Reach All
Sections of the State.
Especial Correspondence.)

The Iowa Pharmaceutical associa-
ton at its recent meeting at Sioux
City appointed the retiring president,
E. B. Taintor, of Carroll. to prepare
uniform scale of prices for the
members of the association to sell
goods by. Mr.. Taintor recommended
this action in his annual report. At
present druggists in different sec
tions of the state sell goods at diff
ferent prices and in some sections
competition has reduced the price
below respectable profit. The plan
of the association by this move is
not to increase prices, but to secure
uniformity. Howard S. Baker, of
Sioux City, has been elected presi-
dent of the association.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-05
BIG FINANCIAL DEAL.
and Electric Company Are Now
Under One Manngement.

One of the biggest financial deals
in Sioux City's history has been
closed by the purchase of the Sioux
City Traction company, which owns
all the street car lines in Sioux CITY,
As miles, and the Sioux City Gas and
Electric company, by the interests
which control the Sioux City stock
yards. The companies will be
merged. The exact sum involved is
not known. The traction company
is capitalized at $l.5Oo,Oo0. Neither
company has a rival in the field The
Swifts are considered to be the real
purchasers
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-05
Astronomy Aids Saloons.

A discovery in consequence OF
which it is alleged Iowa saloon men
may keep open until 1926 instead OF
ten O'Clock p. m. as at present has
been made by ex-City Attorney S. j
Quincy, of Sioux City. He holds that
the saloons which now are closing on
standard time have the right to op.
crate under solar time. The ques.
ton will be tested in the courts i'm.
mediately and the result will be
watched with interest all over the
state
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-05
Exidences of MURDER,

The body of an unknown colored
man about so years of age was
found beside the Iowa Central tracks
threefourths of mile south of
Hampton. 1t was supposed first that
he was killed by the cars, but his
head was found to have been split
open with a Ratchet. 1t was evident
he had been dead for two days. He
had been at work in town two or
threa lnNS
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-05
New Bank.

Hardin county is to have another
bank, which will be started at Gar
den City, a new town on the Des
Moines, Iowa Falls q Northern road.
Radcliffe citizens will back the insti-
tuition, which will he branch of the
Farmers bank AT Radcliffe. A. N.
Drake, r. b. Ballard and other
wealthy and influential citizens of
southwestern Hardin will officer the
new institutions
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-05
Stabbed to Death.

Fred L. POWELL. brakeman on an
early morning freight of the Chicago
& Northwestern railroad, was stabbed
to death by an unknown tramp few
miles west of Arion. Powell was dis
covered by fellow brakeman only a
few minutes before he died. He never
spoke. William Numley, a negro, was
arrested at Denison and charged with
the murder, and he made full confess
sion of the crime.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-05
Killed by n Live Wire

Frank Leahey, a drug store clerk at
Marion, recently from Chicago, was
instantly killed by taking hold of live
wire which connected with an electric
fan, and several other parties about
the city were severely injured in like
manner. 1t is believed the trouble was
caused by transmitter being burned
out. One man had his hand burned to
the bone and it required three others
to drag him from the burning wire.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-05
Crop Outlook.

The weekly crop report of the
Washington weather bureau says for
Iowa:
Some progress with harvesting first half
Of week; general rains last half. with
strong winds and, heavy downpours in
southern and eastern districts; crop dam
age heavy in storm swept area; oats ex-
tensively lodged and condition of crop
critical; spring wheat rusted, but fairly
well filed; corn sufferedleast damage, and
Its condition is fairly good on we'll titled
upland; apples badly windfallen; numerous
reports of potato rot
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-05
Efforts for Pardon.

Efforts are being made to obtain q
pardon or parole for Samuel Williams
of Washington county, who is serving
q year for an alleged attempt to COM
NIT rape, and also has a fine of 81 900
hanging over his head for trying to
break Jail. He has many friends in
Washington county who believe him
innocent and Col. D. j. Palmer is in
teresting himself in the case.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-05
Treatment for Dipsomaniac..

The board of control has issued
an order to establish a department
in the Mt. Pleasant hospital, under
authority of the law enacted by the
last general assembly, for the com
mitment of dipsomaniacs, for inc
briates and persons addicted to the
excessive use of narcotics. The new
law went into effect on July 4 and
since the board has received many
communications of urgency.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-05

5. n. Bidne, blacksmith living at
Norma, was tried before Judge Kel-
ley at Forest City, under the new law
for the detention and treatment of
dipsomaniacs. He was arrested and
sentenced to confinement in the hos.
pital for the insane. 1t is the first
case under the new state law.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-05
Pleaded Guilty.

Mike Fahey, one of the seven persons
who escaped from the county Jail
on the evening of June and was re-
captured in Chicago and taken back to
Council Bluffs, pleaded guilty before
Judge Wheeler in the district court to
holding up and robbing Fritz Goth in
the railroad yards, and the court SEN
fenced him to four years in the peni-
tertiary at Fort Madison.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-05
CHURCH DIRECTORY.


Catholic, St. Rose OF Lima First Mass every Sunday
at a. M High Mass every Sunday at 1880 a. M Sum
day School Saturdays from Sept. 1st to Jan.
list and from March LIST Cordially invited
REV. FATHER NJ. ]. FARRELLY.
Methodist, Sunday Services Glass Meetings, $3.50,
Preaching. 0:30 Sunday School, IL :00 Junior League,
$3.50; Epworth League, $780, Preaching, 1890 Prayer
Meeting, Thursday evening $780, DR. E. NJ HOLMES.
Baptist Sunday Services = Preaching, 1890; Sunday
School, 11-45: b. Y. P. u. $3.50: Preaching 730 Prayer
Meeting Thursday evening, $780, REV. f. W. BATEsoN.
Presbyterian, Sunday services-Preaching 1920; Sum
daySchool. 2:O0 Christian Fndeavor $780, Preaching,
REV. A. G. MARTYR.
Episcopal, Services every third and fourth Sundays
1890 and 73O Rev. ALLAN JUDD.
German Methodist, Sunday Services-Sunday School
$50; Glass Meeting, 1900; Preaching. 1890 am,
Young Peoples Meeting 500 p M Pr oa 7;So M
Saturday evening: Woman Aid Society meets first
Thursday of every month. REV. Q. 6. CLAUssEN.
German EvanRicai Lutheran Zion. Sunday Ser
vices Sunday School, to 10 preaching 1880
and every last Sunday Ladies' Society every
Friday to at the members Parochial School from
Nov to March Sunday evening services at 80
cry third Sunday during summer Paroehes IN connec
o. Lothringer, Pastor
First Church Of Christ (scentist At McKim Hall.
Sundays 1885, Sunday School at l30 Experience
ing Wednesday evening at 500 Reading in connect
ton open daily.
MRS. EMMA CORNWALL, First Reader.
Denison Holiness Band, Sunday services at Epis
copal church. Sunday school at 1870; Prayer and Praise
Meeting $780, Prayer meeting Wednesday evening Mt
7:0 E. A. STONE, Lea lei.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-05
Three Days Without Food.

Passers-by, attracted by cries of
help from a closed box car in Mus
catine, secured the help of brake
man. On opening the car three ho-
boes, nearly dead, were liberated.
They got in at Missouri, and becom-
ing imprisoned, had travelled three
days without food or drink.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-05
LODGE AND CHURCH DIRECTORY.
LODGE DIRECTORY.

LODGE DIRECTORY.
Second Friday evening month Commander j. L. Nc
Clean, Adjt, J. L. Warbasse
Sons Of Veterans, McHenry Camp No. So each first
and third Friday evenings OF each month Captain N L.
Hunt; LIST Sergeant, A. @. Weeks.
Masonic, Sylvan Lodge No Tuesday before
full Worth Worthy Master, B. F. Phbrook;
Secretary, G. ". Stephens
O. O.. E. F. Tucker; K Of R. and S.. 1. w. jackson.
Redmen, Ute Tribe No. &c. Tuesday evening" sachem,
Q. E. Lyman; Chief Of Records h. F. Hodges
Odd Fellows Dcnson Lodge No. 626 Thursday evening
N g.. Harry scaags Recording Secretary, John Mount
Odd Fellows, German) sidonia Lodge No. $685. Friday
evening. N. g., John Reeh Secretary, Frank Faul.
Modern Woodmen, Denson Camp No. sl5. Wednesday
Gsenng. v. C., john schnoor; Clerk, E. Quick.
Woodmen Of the World, Hawkeye Camp No. 70, satur-
day Evening. Clerk w. r. Kirkup.
Fraterna Choppers, Walnut Camp No. "a, Friday
evening. W. O. O. W. Wheeler Clerk. A. W. Fau.
Saturday 3 p Pres, NJ S. McHenry Sec, NJ ShawVan.
Eastern STAR Sylvan Chapter No Tuesday
4ull W. NJ, Mrs. A. Oswald; sec'y, W w. Cushman.
Rebekat's, Lodge 4th Wednesday
N. G.. Mrs. Flora Baker; Sec'y, Mrs. J. A. scaggs.
Woodmen Circle. Linn Grove Monday evening w. G.
L.. Mrs Thos. Luney; Clerk Mrs F. L. Horton
Brotherhood Of American Yeomen, Denison Home
stead No. GIG. h F.. T. Durkee: Cor, Maggie Quade.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-08

Fact that she did not harbor any Improper
Characters. A good many Improper Char
acters came around and sized up the Lay
out and then blew.
1t was a sure enough Boarding House,
such as many of our Best People know all
about even if they won't tell. All they had
to do to get the Center Table ready for
Ping-Pong was to take off the Casters.
The Landlady was doing what she could
to discourage the Beef Trust, but she car
ried a heavy line of Oatmeal. She had Oat-
meal to burn, and sometimes she did 1T.
And she often remarked that Spinach had
Iron in it and was great for the Blood. One
of her pet Theories was that Rice contained
more Nutriment than could be found in
Spring Chicken, but the Boarders allowed
that she never saw a Spring Chicken.
In the Cast of Characters were many of
the Old Favorites. There was the lippy
Boy with the Williams and Walker Shirts
who knew the Names of all the Ball-Play-
ers and could tell when there. was a good
Variety Show in Town.
Then there was the other kind with a
straw-colored Mustache and a prominent
Adams Apple who was very careful about
his Pronunciation. He belonged to a So
cial Purity Club that had a Yell His Idea
of a Hurrah was TO get in a Parlor with a
few Sisters who were under the Age Limit
and sing the Bass Part of Pull for the
Shore"
Then there was the Old Boarder. He
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ing TIE ~ ason, he replied If il were 10 90
nom NJ 'e they would get fit. and could
get D:!f work out OF them, / would. But
why should l let them go down 10 Caro?'
1t is unamiable, but il is war and IL has
severe magnificence. And If you suppose,
thereicre, that the sirdar is unpopular. he
is not No general is unpopular who always
beats Lhe enemy. When the columns move
out OF camp IN the evening 70 march all
nlgnt through the dark they know not
WINNER, and night at dawn with an enemy
tney nave never seen, every man goes forth
with a tranquil mind. He NAV personally
come back and he may not: but about the
general result there II not a doubt. You
bet your boots the sirdar knows: he
Wouldn't night IL he weren't going 10 win
Other generals have been better loved.
none was ever better trusted
For Of one human weakness the sirdar
Is peIeNed not to have purged himself
AMBITION. lie Is on his promotion. a man
who cannot afford 10 make a mistake
Homilies against ambition may be left to
those who have failed in their own: the
Slroar 5 II apparently purely personal. is
lesltlmate and even lofty. He has attained
eminent distinction at an exceptionally
early age. He has commanded victorious
armies al an age when most men are hoping
10 command regiments. Even now Junior
major general, he has been intrusted with
an army OF six brigades a command such
a. Re" OF MS seniors have ever led in the
heio. Finally. he has been charged with a
mission such almost every one OF them
would nave greedily accepted-the crovvnir-r
triumph OF half a generations war. Nat
urally, he has awakened jealousies. and he
has bought permission 70 take each sfen on
the way only by brilliant success in the
last II In this case he be not so stifflv nm
bending TO the high as he is TO the low who
shan blame him? he has climbed too high
not 10 take every precautiOn against a fall
BUT ne viii not fall. just yet at anv rate
30 Iar as Egypt is concerned he Is the M :,
OF destlny-the man who has been prensr-
ing himself sixteen years for one great pur-
pose FOR Anglo Egypt he is the Nahdi.
me expected, the man who has siffed eN-
perlence and corrected errors: who has
WORKED al small things and waited Tor
ereass marble 10 sit still and fire 10 sr,ite.
mas cut out his human heart and made him
sell machine 10 retake Khartum.'
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MODERN FABLES GEORGE AIDE.
THE MODERN FABLE OF THE REGU-
LAR KIND OF PLACE AND THE
USUAL WAY 1T TURNED OUT
Copyright 1909, by Robert Howard Russell

Princess that brought in the Whites paid
more attention 20 him than 10 any one else.
because II ne didn't get Egg on his Let
tuce he was liable 10 cry ali over the Table
Cloth.
Then there was the chubby Man VINO
came in every Evening and told what had
happened at the Store that Day. and there
was human Ant-Eater who made Puns
One OF the necessary Features OF re-
fined Joint is the Slender Thing who is taxi
ing Music and has Mommer along 20 hght
off the Managers and hush the Voice OF
Scandal This Boarding House had one Of
these Mother-and-Child Combinations that
was a Dream. Daughter was fun Of kub-
elk and Josef Hoffman. Away back In tho
Pines somewhere there was a Father who
was putting up for the Outfit. Mothers
Job seemed TO be 10 sit around and Root
She was a consistent little Booster. IL
what Mother said was true then Effie's
Voice was good deal better than il sound
ed She said the Teachers were just crazy
about it, and all Of them agreed that Ellie
ought TO go 10 Paris or Milan The slangy
Boy with the rag-time Shirt went them
one better and said that all OF the phoney
Melbas in the country ought 20 pull for the
old Country and wait until they were sent
| for.
In this same Boarding House there vas q
Widow whose husband had neglected to
| die. Being left all alone in the World she
had gone out to make her Way, since which
time she had gained about 30 pounds and
was considered Great Company by the
| Young Men.
! Necessarily there was a Pale Lady who
| loved to read and who stuck 20 the Pat
terms that appeared in Godey's Magazine
| soon after the War.
Then there was the Married Couple, with
out any Children or Furniture OF their own,
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camp with supplies or the steamer action
can run with a full Nile. Fighting men
may chafe and go down with typhoid and
cholera; they are in the iron grip of the
machine, and they must wait the turn of its
wheels. Dervishes wait and wonder, pass
ing from apprehension TO security. The
Turks are not coming; the Turks are
afraid. Then suddenly at daybreak one
morning they see the sirdar advancing upon
them from all sides together, and by noon
they are dead. Patient and swift, certain
and relentless, the Sudan machine rolls con-
quering southwark.
I'm the meantime. during all the years of
preparation and achievement. the man has
disappeared. The man, Herbert Kitchener
owns the affection of private friends in
England and of old comrades of fifteen
years standing; for the rest Of the world
there is no man Herbert Kitchener. but
only the sirdar, neither asking affection nor
giving IL. His officers and men are wheels
In the machine: he feeds them enough 10
make them efficient, and works them as
mercilessly as he works himself. He viii
have no married officers in his army-mar-
rage interferes with work. Army officer
who breaks down from the climate goes on
sick leave at once; next time he goes and
the Egyptian army bears him on its
strength no more. Asked once why he did
not let his officers come down TO Cairo dur
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-08

she was awakened on Good Friday night
by the noise of the soldiers and citizens
hurrying through the street and calling
out the news Of the assassination, she ut
tered an exclamation which caught and
held her fathers attention. and then he
listened to the tale which he had once
waved aside.
why did you not tell me this before!'
he demanded. II was then too late. The
most he could do was TO. collect such eVi-
dence from the school children as he might
to aid the detectives in hunting down the
conspirators, but they were unable TO put
their hands upon the teacher who had ut
tered that awful prayer. She had fled No
one could longer doubt that. in her visit
to her home. she had become possessed
probably under oath-bound seal OF ST.
lence-of the dread secret II Judge Rid
die had heard his little girls story in time,
perhaps he would have suspected its bear
ing; perhaps not. Who can tell? 1t Is so
together after fate has shown us where
each was intended TO go, than before!
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and the only reason they didn't take
House was that Henry had 10 be out Of
Town so often. Henry's Salary had been
whooped $500 a Year and she was just be-
ginning to say Gown instead OF Dress. She
had the Society Column for Breakfast and
things looked Dark for Henry.
For many months this conventional
Group of ordinary 67s Mortals had lived in
a Rut. At each mealtime they rounded up
and mechanically devoured what was doed
out 10 them and folded their Napkins and
broke ranks Each day was the Duplicate
of another and Life had petered down 10 a
Routine.
One Evening, just as they had come in
for their Vermicelli. new Boarder glided
into their midst. She was a tall Gypsy
Queen with about $500 worth OF Clothes
that fit her everywhere and all the time.
and she had this watch-me kind of a Walk.
the same being a Cue for all the other Girls
to get out their Hardware.
When she moved up TO the Table and
began to distribute a few sample Smiles,
so as to indicate the Character Of her
Work, the musical Team went out with the
Tide. the Grass Widow curled up like an
Autumn Leaf the touch-me-not Married
Lady dropped into the Scrub Division. The
Lady who read was shy a Spoon and afraid
10 ask for II. The Men were all google
eyed and the Help was running into Chairs
and dropping important parts OF the Menu.
Presently the Landady came in and ex-
planned. She said that Mrs. Williams was
in the City 10 shop for a couple Of Days
and her Husband would be up on the Night
Train. Whereupon five men fell under the
Table.
Moral: Nothing ever happens at a Board
ing House
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A TRICK OF FATE.
A Strange Prayer Made Just Before
Lincoin's Death.
New York Evening Pos

New York Evening Post
Fate plays some strange tricks. Who can
say that Judge Riddle did not for a few
brief hours the following spring hold Lin
coin S life in his hand? His daughter Har-
riet who afterwards became the wife of
Henry z. Davis, and has acquired reputa-
ton as author. was in the early part OF
1S65 2 pupil at a Roman Catholic convent
school in Washington. One day. lust be-
fore the tragedy at Ford's theater a fe-
male teacher returned from a brief visit 10
her Southern home, apparently laboring
under some terrible excitement which she
was trying 10 suppress At the session OF
her class Immediately preceding their sep
aration for Good Friday she suddenly babe
them all join me- in a prayer. which she
poured forth in voice and manner so
agOnizing that the children were thrilled
with a nameless horror. Among other
things she prayed for the souls which were
soon 10 be called before their maker with
out warning. and for those of the persons
who were TO send them
Judge Riddles daughter, who was an i'm
pressiOnable child, could hardly contain
herself till she reached home and sought
her father, TO whom she attempted To tell
the story of the afternoons occurrence
He. immersed IN anxieties over the polit-
ical and administrative situation, put her
OF till he should have more leisure. When