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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-05-01

ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
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A spotted Indian pony came to our
place Sunday morning, April 81, owner
can have same by calling at the home of
@. II. Compton, paying for keep and
advertising. Roy Compton.
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President Roosevelt and Attorney

PRESIDENT Roosevelt and Attorney
General Knox are going after the
trusts with such vigor that the dem.
ocratic party Of the country is
becoming alarmed. The tariff.
money, reciprocity, Cuban and
imperial questions have all been set.
tied by the republican party and
here they are breaking the last LEG
that the democrats had to stand on
by cleaning up the trusts.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-05-01

The salaries of priests in the
Catholic church of Iowa have been
fixed at a uniform rate of $1,000 a
year.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-05-01

President Roosevelt has nominated
William H. Moody to be secretary of
the navy. Mr.. Moody comes from
Massachusetts,.
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THIRD WARD.

Congressman Burke has introduced
a bill in congress for permission to
bridge the Missouri river at Pierre.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-05-01
A Dumping Ground.

Parties desiring to haul out manure,
ashes, ETC., will linda convenient dump
ing ground, until further notice, just
south Of the depot between main track
ant sidlng.
j. II. Pidcock.
Street Commissioner.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-05-01

Farmers, bring in your old scrap iron
while the price is up-S6.M per ton in
trade at the Bell Clothing House.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-05-01

We have the finest assortment of horse
cuts in this palt of the state and will
turn out a neat attractive bill on short
notice.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-05-01

The republican voters of the LIST ward
will hold their caucus in the classroom
of the NJ. Z. Church Saturday evening
May s, for the purpose Of electing two
delegates to attend the republican
county convention to be held at the
opera house in the City of Webster Sat
urday, May 10, 1902 at 8 o'clock p. m.
John Norton, Committeeman.
SECoND WARD.
The republican voters of the End ward
will hold their caucus in SmaiTs lumber
Office Saturday, May 8, for the purpose
Of electing 8 delegates to attend the
republican county convention to be held
ax the opera house in the City Of Web
ster Saturday, May 10, 1902, at s o'clock
p M J. w. Abbott, Committeeman.
THIRD WARD.
The republican voters of the 3rd ward
will hold their caucus in the opera house
saturday, May 8, for the purpose of
electing 8 delegates to attend the repub-
iican county convention to be held at
Che opera house in the City of Webster
Saturday, May &c, 1902, at s o'clock p. m.
G. w. Siglinger, Committeeman.
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COUNTY CONVENTION CALL.
The Formal Call for the Repub-
lican County Convention.

Notice is hereby given, that a county
convention of the republicans of Day
county will be held in the city of Web
ster, South Dakota, at the opera house
OF Saturday, May, 10, 1902, at 2 o'clock
p. IN. for the purpose of selecting thirty
one delegates to attend the republican
state convention, to be held in Sioux
Falls, South Dakota, on June 4th, 1902.
The basis of representation to the
county convention of each of the several
precincts of the county shall be one
delegate for each twenty-five votes or
major fraction thereof cast for the Hon.
Charles N. Herreid, republican candi-
date for governor at the last general
election.
The several precincts of the county
are entitled to the following represen-
tation.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-05-01
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-05-01

Special Excursion to Eureka,
Via the Chicago, Milwaukee G. st
Paul R'y, on Saturday and Sunday
May 18th and 18th.
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-05-01

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10Th day of April. wv
[SEAL] FRANZ SEARS
Notary Public, Day County ,
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Chairman County Central Commute
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Capital,
Undivided profits less expenses and taxes paid,
Deposits,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-06

herst, N. H., Oct. IA, to visit a sister
of Mrs. George Nichols, who lived with
the Nichols family. They were old
friends of the nurse. Since then,
says State Detective John S. Patter-
son, who made the arrest, II kept her
in sight and, in fact, became acQuaint-
ed with Miss Toppan and was quite
intimate with her, accompanying her
frequently on trips to the postoffice,
etc. Her mail was examined and ev-
cry effort made to find the evidence that
was sought for, but it was not until
day or two ago that we secured evil
oence that warranted an arrest.
las soon as this had been found and
our suspicion seemingly confirmed, the
arrest followed"
Miss Toppan is forty-f1ve years old
and has passed her life in towns in
the vicinity of the murders. She is
a member of the Congregational
Church in Lowell. Her reputation
among physicians and patients has
been of the best. She is large, kind
ly faced woman with dark hair streak
ed with gray Her face has a jolly,
QuizZical expression and outwardly
bears no marks of degenerate mind.
This is her life history in brief.
Forty years ago an immi grant fam
lily of the name of Kelly came over
from Ireland and landed in Boston
The father and mother died almost inn
mediately of ship fever and the two
children were turned over to a So
ciety for orphans. Nora, the girl
was adopted shortly afterward by the
Toppan family of Lowell, Mass, al
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-06

1t happened that he had the usual
number of disreputable Friends. They
were All Right but he did not dare
to have them up to the House, because
Angel-Face had investigated them and
returned True Bills. They were a lit
tie too Carney for Presbyterian Circles,
but they fitted right in at any Function
where every Man takes off his Coat.
Husband began to use the Telephone
and in the course of an Hour he had
organized a Pirate Crew that would
go as far as you like at any Game
from Pitch-and-T to Manslaughter.
For when a decent Married Man does
start out to find something different
from the calm Joys of connubing in a
Side Street he is the Village Limit.
Husband had the whole Shop to him
self. He employed a Senegambian who
was a good two handed Worker with
the Corkscrew. Then he had $40 worth
of Dutch Lunch sent in from the
Rathslkeller and arranged the Stacks Of
Reds, Whites and Blues. He told him
self that the only True Enjoyment was
found in Bachelors Hall.
His Hicky Acquaintance came in
showing more or less Stage Fright, as
they were not accustomed to seeing
Rugs and Tides. They told him that
he had a Swell Joint. After they had
peen to the Tea couple of times they
began to peel and one Of them started
some rowdy Work on the Piano. An
other backed into $40 Statuette and
put 1t out Of Business and then Of
fered to pay for 1t, but the Host said
1t cost only 0S cents at Bargain Sale.
AT 10 2. M. the Wife. who was In
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-06

interrupted by a small Bunch of Food
at the Dairy Lunch.
thinking of the Absent One.
Then an Hour or two in the Library
with the jovial Macauley.
Then to Bed in the lonesome House
and Dreams of Sweetie.
He gave her a Schedule which she
could consult at any time, Day or
Night, and thereby find out what he
was doing at that Moment. 1t was just
as convenient as sending a Marconi
every Hour or so.
EIe held himself down until the Train
had fiirted around the Curve, for he
knew that she was watching him from
the Observation Car. Then he threw
his Hat in the Air and began to do
Flip-Flops.
20, l suppose this is Miserable" he
SAID. L can see very poor Month
ahead of me--yes-not. Me wearing all
my Bells and taking Hurdle every
Furlong"
He rushed into the Telegraph Office
and sent Wire to her, so that it would
eaten her at the first Station up the
Road. 1t said not to worry and to take
GOOD Rest and everything was NOV
Ing along about the same as usual
With Love and Kisses.
After which he went over to the
Brewery to see If they would make a
reduction on Wholesale Orders.
HUBBY went up street with his Pan
anna dipped down in front, the same as
the College Rakes wear them. and his
Coat was thrown wide open to show
the dizzy Flats. His Cuban Blood was
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-06

chusetts town began to see that there
might be something more than coin
cidence in the four deaths, so similar
and all following each other so close
ly. One apparent flaw in the case was
the blameless character which the
trained nurse, Miss Toppan, had al
ways borne. Nevertheless arrange
ments were made for locating and
@hadowtng the woman.
The bodies of the Davis family were
exhumed. They had been embalmed,
but Prof. Wood, of the Harvard Medi-
cal school, was intrusted with the task
or discovering whether poison had
been administered previous to death.
DR.. Latter, the attending physician,
made known some interesting features
of the case. He is now dead and the
police do not state exactly what his
evidence might have been.
Five days later Prof. Wood made
known the result of his long and ex-
haustive analysis. He had found large
quantities of arsenic in the stomach
submitted to him for examination.
This was the signal for the arrest of
Miss Toppan at Amherst, N. H., where
she was living quietly with the family
of farmer in the outskirts of the
town
From Cataumet Miss Toppan went
to Cambridge, where she was we'll
known and had lived for sixteen years.
Ii she attempted in any way to elude
the police or suspected that she was
being followed it did not appear in
her actions. Later she went to Low
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-06
Copyright 1902, by
Robert Howard Russell.
The Modern Fable of The summer Vacation That That

Once there was Wife who gave the
Money Getter a Vacation by going into
the Country for a Month. Dearie took
her to the Train and all the way she
kept saying that it did not seem just
right to romp away on a Pleasure Trip
and leave him Shell-Roaded.
He began to fear that she would
Weaken, so he told her that while he
was shaving and humping in the CITY
st would give him sufficient JOY to
know that Darling was out in the
Woods listening to the Birds. He in
sisted that she should stay until she
was thoroughly Rested. Of course
he did not dare to make it too Strong.
He played the Self Sacrificing Gag and
threw in a Dash of Marital Solicftude
and made an awful Try at Initiating
one who has been soaked by Great
Sorrow. AS the Missus looked at him
through her Tears and held his Salary
Hook in hers, little did she susnect that
he had framed up a Poker Festival for
that Night and already the Wet Goods
Were spread out on the Ice.
: He had told her that he was going
to sit up in the Library. every Evening
and read Macauley's History of Eng
land. BY opening the Windows on
both sides he could get a nice Breeze
From the West. Along about 10 o'clock,
II he got Sleepy, he could turn in. Why
Not?
1t was lovely Time Table that he
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-06
By George AIDE.

In the Morning when Papa arose
and looked at the cold Welsh Rabbits
and saw the Cigar Ashes all over the
Place and when he had Taste as if
he were taking care of a Lap Robe,
the glad Bohemian Existence did not
hook as Good to him as Il had when.
Then sitting alone in the Cleaning,
lighted up the Night before. Espe-
cially as he had got the Zoop for some
so BuckerineS.
Still, there is no one case of Re-
morse that is going to head off a Man
who wants to be rejuvenated. He pull
ed himself together on the Second
Day and resumed the Merry Clip and
there was nothing doing in the Mac
auley Line. Home did not get him
until the Lights had winked out in
the other Places. He would not leave
the Stag Club or the German Garden
until they began putting the Chairs on
the Tables.
For the first two Weeks it was I'M
mense. In time, however, it struck
him that there was a certain Monot-
ony in spending ones Money on the
Night Owls and showing up with the
Milkman. The Poker Players were
into him and he began to suspect that
he needed q Guardian.
Like every other Man who sends his
Wife to a Summer Place he ended his
'Hurrah by making a few Resolutions
and begging her to come Home.
And she will always believe that he
did the Macauley Act every Evening
while she was away. Which Is just
as we'll.
MORAL: In order to put a true
Value on Civilization, one should pace
few Heats with the Indians now
and then.
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at the training school for nurses con-
Necleli win the Lowell general hos
pital. She followed the calling of
nurse ever since. and was never
known to have any trouble with her
patients.
In 1899 she nursed Mrs. o. A. Bridg-
man, daughter of Mrs. Toppan, her
adopted mother. Mrs. Bridgman died
Mrs. E. F. Bannister died Aug. 27,
1901, in the same house under the care
Of Mrs. Tonnan. In January, 1900
Florence Calkins,a servant, died in the
Bridgman house, also cared for by
Mrs. Toppan.
Mr.. BIidgman, it is said, was also
mysteriously i'll, and recovered after
Miss Toppan left the Bridgman home.
In Lowell, Cambridge, and the towns
where Miss Toppan is best known
there is pretty general consensus of
opinion that she is an able nurse.
All Miss Toppans acquaintance in
Somerville seem agreed that none of
her actions or characteristics indicat-
ed homicidal tendency, nor had they
ever noticed that she was addicted
to the use of morphine or other drugs
or more than ordinarily interested in
poisons.
In fact, about the only unfavorable
impression that had found Judgment
in their minds was that growing out of
the woman's abnormal tendency to
tell exaggerated stories 1t appears.
that she did not even spare her friends
In this respect, inaSmuch as on at
least one occasion she had been found
guilty of disseminating false reports
about one of them.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-06

cretia Borgia. She stands singly and
alone as the greatest criminal of mod
ern times. Holmes, who was hanged
at Philadelphia in 1895, was an anna
teur; Garcia PalaSco, executed in the
City of Mexico in 1867; Valdirez Mas
sinni garroted in Barcelona forty years
/ ago, and Maria Pollock, put to death
in St Petersburg in 1856, were angels
OF mercy as compared to this woman.
Her recital of her crimes makes ones
blood run cold. She has told of the
death Of her victims as If she were
talking about a summer picnic at
(Which she enjoyed. herself; of the
fendish subtlety she employed in end
ing human lives, the patience she
maintained during the paroxysm pre-
ceding dissolution, the eXuberance and
joy which came to her when she saw
their eyelids pressed down. No ghost
has come to her in the midnight hours
to disturb her dreams, no smarting of
conscience visited her unnatural brain
that excited either tears or sorrow.
Is Puzzle to Chemists.
The three alienists who examined
into her sanity marveled and thought
she was an extraordinary criminal
when she confessed that she had pois-
Oned eleven persons and attempted to
kill two others. But to these men she
told only one-third of the tale of her
career.
Tuesday morning, for the purpose
of his further investigation from a
medical standpoint, DR.. Henry r. Sted-
man was told of the confession of Miss
Toppan that she killed by the uses of
narcotic poisons twenty persons in ad-
dition to those she had mentioned to
him. DR.. Stedman has in preparation a
work for psychologists, with Jane Top
pan as the subject of investigation.
He-ha intended writing merely of
his own observations and detailing the
admission Of eleven murders she made
to him. When he was told Of the 9TH
er twenty he decided that the magni-
.tude of the case required the most
careful investigation, and he intends
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-06

failure" Jane Toppan nursed him.
Miss Sarah E. Connors, matron Of
ST. Johns Theological school refectory,
died in Cambridge, Feb. II, 1900, aged
48. Complication of diseases" Under
care of Jane Toppan.
Mrs. Alden P. Davis, of Cataumet,
died in Cambridge, July 4, 1901, aged
62. Chronic diabetes" Jane Toppan
nursed her.
Mrs. Annie E. Gordon, of Chicago,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Alden P.
Davis, died at Cataumet, July 81, 1901,
aged 38. Short illness. No death
certificate. Jane Toppan nursed her.
Alden P. Davis, died at Cataumet,
Aug. 8, 1901, aged IS. Few days ILL
ness. No death certificate. Jane Top
pan nursed him.
Mrs. Mary E. Gibbs, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Alden P. Davis, died in
Cataumet, Aug. 10, 1901, aged 40. Two
days illness. No death certificate,
Jane Toppan nursed her.
Mrs. Edna Bannister, of Tunbridge,
VT, sister of o. M. Bridgman, died
in Lowell, Aug. q, 1901, aged II. Two
days illness. Heart failure" Jane
Toppan was in the house when she
died.
Judge Bixby had read an interview
with the physician who had attended
WV .SASCo' III WHICH the UOCIor
said both died from natural causes
there were no suspicious circumstances
no evidence of poison having been
given.
HE is wrong" said Miss Toppan.
There was nothing suspicious about
the deaths; that is, nobody thought
so, but 1 poisoned them both
She went back over the preceding
years and mentioned the names of 9TH
ers whose lives she had taken.
Tells the Whole Story.
Of that number there was not one
case that had aroused any suspicion
on the part Of the physician, who, de-
pending upon the nurse, was using his
best skill to restore the patient to
health. Miss Toppan said she had
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-06

Of those who went before her, and
when she was placed beside the others
in the Cataumet cemetery he and DR..
Latter. the Davis family physician,
who died ten days ago, talked about
what had happened.
BY degrees, as facts were pierced to-
gether, the police of the little Massa-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-06

though she was not made their child
legally. She took the name of Jane
Toppan and appeared Of pleasant and
tractabledispo sitfon. Her foster ia
Their was sea captain, genial and
well to do.
Jane expressed a preference for the
calling Of nurse, and was graduated
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-06

ell, where she was taken i'll and was
patient for some weeks in the gen
eral hospital. A detective followed
her there and occupied a place in the
next ward to hers. At the hospital
Miss Toppan was treated for nervous
disorder.
She left Lowell and went to Am
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-06
Jane TOppan's Life Has Been
One Constant Desire to
Kill the Sick
KISSED THOSE SHE SLEW
To Spend Balance of Her Days At
Taunton AsyIum-Alienists De-
clare Her Case One of the
Most Remarkable.

p BOSTON, July 5.-Jane Toppan,
epinster, aged As, a trained nurse by
profession and by confession a MUIR
derer of thirty-one persons, is now
safely confined at the asylum for the
Iinsane at Taunton, to which place she
. was taken after the alienists appointed
by the court had declared her of I'M
Sound mind and irresponsible for her
conduct.
T. Her crimes outrivaled those of Lu-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-06

had mapped out. He submitted it to
Pet before she went away and she put
her 0. K. on it, even though her Heart
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Upper Seven, referred to her Time
Table and saw Papa sitting by the
Students Lamp reading MacauleY.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-06

all het up and he told himself that he
was Is years old and never had
Home.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-06

to consult the attending physicians of
each patient Miss Toppan says she
poisoned to ascertain if her story of
the manner of death is consistent with
the symptoms observed by the doctors.
When Miss Toppan made heE start
ling confession to her chief counsel
former Judge BiXby of Lowell, she
could not remember the names of all
her victims, but she remembered hav-
ing killed thirty-one. The following
is list of those she has put to death
within the past seven years. She has
promised her attorney that as soon as
her mind becomes fresher she will
prepare for him complete roster of
those she has killed with morphine and
atrophine.
Partial List of the Victims.
Israel P. Durham, of Cambridge, died
May &c, 1895, aged SO. Cause given,
"strangulated hernis." Ill four days.
Jane Toppan nursed him.
Mrs. o. A. Bridgeman, of Lowell.
died Aug. 20, 1899, aged SO. Two days
illness. Heart failure" Jane Toppan
was in the house when she died, and
waited upon her a part of the time
she was i'll.
Mrs. Mary McNear, of Cambridge,
20. Two days illness. "ApopIeXy.
Jane Toppan nursed her for three
hours before death.
Mrs. Florence NJ. Calkins, house
keeper for o. NJ. Bridgman, of Lowell,
died Jan. Is, 1900, aged As. III three
DAYS. Heart failure" Jane Toppan
was in the house when she died.
William H. Ingraham, of Watertown
died Jan. 81, 1900, aged 70. Heart
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-06
Reason For Investigation.

Capt. Paul Gibbs was convinced
then. he said, that there was reason
for an investigation into the deaths