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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-13

Miss Bessie Sherwood is spending a
week with relatives and friends in
Rogers Park aud Evanston.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-13
SOUTH CHICAGO.
The score by innings:

Two base hits-Babcock, Andrews Home
run-Breen. Struck out-By Keely, 6; by
Aronsen, |. Bases on balls-Of Kelly. /; off
Aronsen, /. Umpire CantilIion. Time-1:4O
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-13

Carl Starr speut Sunday at Lincoln
Park, Chicago.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
And Other Issues Are in the Shade.

Gen. Goblin. of the Pennsylvania
militia, testified yesterday that the
troops were barely able to maintain
order.
Philadelphia, Jan. 12.-The non
union men having closed their case,
the coal companies opened their side
of the controversy Saturday before
the strike commission, representa-
tives of the Delaware & Hudson COM
pany being the first to present their
side of the controversy. Mr.. Culver,
comptroller of the company, disputed
the accuracy of Mr.. Mitchell's state
ment that anthracite miners receive
less than the same class of workmen
in the soft coal fields. The witness
also said the company was making
determined effort to lessen child la
Dor.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
A MICHIGAN TRAGEDY
Estranged Couple Meet In Adrian ana
Husband Kills His wife
and Himself.

Adrian, Mich, Jan. 1o.-William II.
Chic, aged As, of Toledo, on Friday
afternoon, shot and killed his wife
Elizabeth, aged IS, and then fred the
revolver at his own breast. Both
victims were dead, the woman with IL
bullet wound through her heart,
when a crowd of people, who heard
the shots, broke into the parlors OF
Platt's hotel, where the tragedy oc-
cufred. The couple had been living
apart and the woman was On employc
of the hotel. She had charged that
her estrangement from her husband
had been due to the latter's abusive
treatment of their 14-year-old daugh-
ter.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
SEVEN MEN KILLED.
Result Of q PasAen4er Train Crash
Ing lnto Rear End Of q Freight
ut C0chrAne, Pa.

Pittsburg, Pa, Jan. s.-As result OF
o collision between a passenger train
and the rear end of freight train on
the Monongahela division of the Penn
sylvania railroad tonight at Cochrane
station, just above Duquesne, seven
men are dead, one is dying and five
others are injured.
Following is list of the dead: c.
E. Stroud, baggage master, Elizabeth
accommodation, Homewood; c. NJ.
Boehner, brakeman of accommodati ion.
Pittsburg; John Stewart, passenger,
residence unknown; two unknown for
eigners, killed outright; two unknown
foreigners. died on way to hospital.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
URGES IMMEDIATE ACTION
President Bringing Pressure to Bear
for Enactment of Antitrust
Law by Present Congress. +
he CoMFERs WITH REPRESENTATIVES.
Goes Over Skuasbion In House with
Sneaker Hender son and Grosven0r
NO Particular Measure Discussed
Views Of Presldent Expressed by
Attorney General Knox.

Washington, Jan. S.-President
Roosevelt had a conference Wednes-
day with Speaker Henderson and
Representative Grosvenor, of Ohio,
with regard to proper antitrust leg
islation. The conference lasted for
a considerable time, the situation in
the house being discussed thorough
ly. It is understood that the presi-
dent impressed upon his callers who
went to the executive Offices at his
request his desire that some legisla-
ton dealing with the trust question
should be enacted at the present ses-
sion of congress. No particular
measure was under discussion and,
of course, none was agreed upon.
Dimcult to Handle.
1.-THE trust question is most diff
cult one to handle in a legislative
way said Gen. Grosvenor. as he left
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
COAL STRIKE HEARING.
The Con- unission Resumes Work In
Philadelphia ana Hears NonunAoa
Side of the Controversy.

Philadelphia, Jan. 7.-After recess
over the holidays the anthracite coal
strike commission resumed its work
Yesterday of hearing the nonunion
mems side of the controversy in the
great industrial war in the anthracite
coal regions during the past year. Inc
entire day was taken up in hearing the
stories of intimidation, boycotting and
personal violence, the commission
learned nothing new the evidence being
mostly cumulative.
Philadelphia, Jan. "a clash BE-
tween President Mitchell, OF the
Miners union, and Chairman Gray, OF
the coal strike commission, was the
feature of yesterdays Tearing. Ex-
ception was taken by President
Mitchell to remark make by Chair
man Gray that he would like to see
the Miners union come up out OF the
mire that is around the baser part OF
it into the sunlight. Mr.. Gray re-
piled that he did not wish to indict
the organization, but hoped it would
disentangle itself entirely from the
violence and lawlessness committed
during the strike.
Philadelphia, Jan. 10.-After occu-
plying eight days, during which time
they presented about $50 witnesses,
the nonunion men, who are a party
to the arbitration agreement, closed
their case yesterday before the coal
strike commission. The coal COIN
panies will open their case to-day.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
Good Roads Convention.

Chicago, Jan. 12.-President w. II.
Moore, of the National Good Roads as
ISOLATION, has issued call for the
"good roads" convention to be held in
St. Louis on April ~ to May 2. The
invitation is signed by governors of
states, presidents of railroads and rep
resentatives of civic societies and busi-
ness firms in a number of cities. Atten-
ton is called to the fact that the ques-
ton of good roads has received more
consideration in the last year than ever
before. ..!5-3 i
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16

Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, who
died recently, had known every presi-
dent of the United States since Jack
son. She knew, and knew we'll, Mrs.
Dolly Madison, Mrs. Alexander Hamil.
ton, Queen Victoria, the Empress Eu-
genie and a host of the most famous
women of both continents. A belle Of
Washington at IA, the bride of rum
away marriage at II, the wife of tho
first republican candidate for presi-
dent IN 1856, for years she had lived
In quiet and obscurity in little rose
powered cottage at Los Angeles, Gel.
Jared for by her devoted daughter.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
GOSSIPS TO BLAME.
Woman HAMS Two Babes and Her
self-Driven to Deed by People
with Busy Tongues.

Palmyra, Wis, Jan. 12.-Mrs. Amelia
Poller, of this place, killed her two
children, Arthur, aged three years, and
Clarence, aged five years, by hanging
them, and then committed suicide by
hanging herself. The two children
were found hanging side by side in a
doorway, and the woman's bodyswas
found hanging in the woodshed. She
is supposed to have been insane. I'm
note to a friend before the tragedy,
Mrs. Poller said: II am driven to it
by gossips of Palmyra"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
KILLED IN A WRECK.
One Tr.lnman Dies and Others Are
Hurt in q Collision Between
Trains at Moro, Ill.

St. Louis, Jan. 1o.-Two express
trains running at full speed came into
collision at nine o'clock Friday night
near Moro, ILL.,, on the Big -Four, A
fireman whose. name has not be IN as
certained was killed. Engineer Hen
bricks and Mail Clerk Thomas Corrigan
were probably fatally hurt. All the
cars but two left the track, but so far
as known none of the passengers was
seriously hurt. The trains were Nos.
II and Sc.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
FOUR PERISH.
Their Lives in q Hotel Fire
in Chicago.

Chicago, Jan. Fire in the Hotel
Somerset, Wabash avenue and Twelfth
street, caused the loss of four lives
Mrs. Margaret Perry and her three
daughters-at an early hour. The
flames were confined to five rooms on
the fifth floor, but they burned so
fiercely for q few minutes that the VIC
tins were unable to escape, three being
overcome in the building, while the
fourth jumped from window and was
killed.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
Indiana Lexislature Meets.

indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 9.-The
Sixty-third regular session of the gen.
eral assembly of Indiana convened
Thursday. Both branches met at ten
o'clock and were regularly organized
by the election of the states Endorsed
Wednesday night at the republican
caucus. A cordial reception was given
to Henry w. Marshall, of Lafayette,
as he tool the speakers chair.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
Ex-Conxressman Dies.

Denver, Col, Jan. 1o.-Ex-Congress-
man H. P. II. Bromwell died in, this
city Friday. He was born in Balti-
more, was admitted to the bar at
Vandalia, ILL.,. in 1853. was for four
years county judge there, and after
removing to Charleston, ILL.,, was
elected to congress, serving from
1865 to 1869. He came to Denver in
1850 and engaged in the practice OF.
law. W a&
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16

A recent analysis of the water Of the
Dead sea shows that there is over "a
per cent. of solid matter in it. The
greatest part of this-over 3 per cent.
lis chloride of magnesium. Next in
quantity comes common salt, and then
chlorides of lime, potash, iron and
aluminium in decreasing amounts, with
traces also of salts of ammonium, sill
lea, sulphur, etc. After a person
battles in the water his body becomes
instantly covered with a thin layer vt
these salts. The water is extremely
Irritating to the eyes.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16

All the women who have written to
the bachelor governor of Kansas pro-
posing marriage will receive courteous
replies, but not from the pen of Gov.
Bailey. His private secretary has be-
gun declining with thanks the offers,
saying to each that Gov. Bailey is not
in quest of a wife. About fifty photo
graphs will be returned to the send
ers. Sixty-six destinations will go to
New York women and more than 100
to New England states. Not one OF
the proposals came from Kansas
woman.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16

Harboring venomous reptiles. ca
ressing them, loving them, teaching
them tricks, and attending to their
needs and comforts quite as eagerly
rs other girls look after their cats,
dogs or canary birds, is the strange
fad with Miss Lillian Sanderson, who
lives among the beautiful, oak-covered
hills Just back of Nordhoff, Cal. She
has q room full of rattlers. tarantulas
and ella monsters.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
Illinois LeEiS1a ture.

Springfield, ILL.,, Jan. s.-Both
houses of the Forty-third general as
sembly convened promptly soon after
noon Wednesday. In the house, after
the swearing in of members, the first
business was organization, and John
H. Miller, being the choice of the re-
publican caucus, was elected speaker
and the other officials on the slate
were also approved. Gov. Yates mes
sage was read in both houses.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16

With sixty feet of water above them
md but a steel film and ten feet or so OF
mud between, a little group of human
ants is toiling day after day, SCOOP
ing out beneath the North River the
path Of the new trolley tunnel from
Jersey to New York. Within a few
feet of them ocean steamers are pas
sing. For % years men have been try
ing to dig that tunnel. and it is more
than three quarters completed. and It
is promised that the cars shall be run
ming through it in Is months from
now.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16

"A curious example Of the reward OF
excessive virtue is the case of certain
British pickle manufacturers who have
been making their pint bottles hold q
little more than a pint, to be on the
safe side of the British law. When
these pint bottles arrived at Canada
they found that there was q law in
operation which provides that any
package measuring more tnan a pint
must pay duty as a quart!
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16

The aborigines Of Venezuela dwell
in huts built of palm leaves. Each
family has it's little garden, the chief
crop of which is cassava root, useful
for bread. These people are among
the nakedest on earth, neither men
nor women wearing any garment ex"
cept a small rectangular scrap Of
beadwork hung in front and fastened
by a string. The beadwork Is very
beautiful, and is always Of particular
pattern.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16

It appears that Great Salt Lake. in
Utah. is doomed. Weather Bureau Of
icials announce that the waters OF
the lake are rapidly receding, and that
unless there is a large increase in the
rainfall of that region the lake must
eventually dry up. Local observers
declare that even an increased rain
fall would have no permanent effect
In staying the drying-up process. Tho
lake in the last ten years has receded
seven or eight feet. Wet seasons do
not seem to have made much differ
ence,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16

The mighty peaks Of the Himala-
vas, several of which rise far above
the Hottest elevation attained by any
other mountains on the globe, have
long challenged the mountain climber
with IMMUNITY. Sir Martin Conway
got to the top of one, $1,000 feet in
height. in 1892. but the real giants
rise more than a mile above that lev
Ell. Now DR.. Jacot Guillemot, with a
party Of two Austrians and three Eng
lishmen, has started for India to at
tempt the ascent Of Mt. Goodwin-Aus-
ten, formerly known as Mt. Dapsang.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16

Americans in Alaska are discover.
ing that great profits may be found In
reindeer farming. The animals are
useful in so many ways. They are
COWS, for their milk Is wholesome;
sheep. for their flesh is eaten and
clothes made from the skin; horses.
for they are the only reliable means
of conveyance in the Alaskan region.
From their antlers are made tools;
from their skin harness and from
their sale good Alaskan gold.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
In Memory of Mckinley.

Columbus, O., Jan. 10.-Gov. Nash
has issued proclamation calling
upon the people of Ohio to observe
January 20 with exercises in all
schools, colleges and universities
commemorative of the sixtieth ami
versary of the late President McKin-
lows hirth
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
Sad Fate of Sisters.

Sisseton, S. d., Jan. 12.-Twin daugh-
tiers of Ole Thorson, farmer, IL miles
west of here, were frozen to death in
the recent blizzard. They set out from
here for home with their father late
in the evening. He was intoxicated.
They lost their way among the coteaus
and wandered all night, perishing be-
fore dawn. The father was not badly
frozen. The girls were IA years old.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16

: Walrus skin 10 the latest thing to
be used for covering the hundred and
one things necessary for mans hap
piness. The very handsomest memo
randum books, desk pads and card
cases come from the skins OF the
North sea animals. and one and all
are completed with silver corners OF
dull, old-looking metal.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
Michigan legislature.

Lansing, Mich, Jan. s.-Both
branches of the Michigan legislature
met at noon yesterday and organized.
Gov. Bliss message was read to joint
session of the house and senate this
morning. January 20 the legislature
will elect Senator r. A. Alger, of De-
troit, to fill out the unexpired term of
the late Senator James Mcmillan.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
Dropped Dead.

Springfield, ILL.,, Jan. s.-Capt. Ben
jamin H. Ferguson, president of the
Springfield Marine bank, dropped dead
in his office at the bank shortly before
noon Wednesday. He was reading
newspaper when clerk near him saw
him drop the paper and fall back in
his chair. He died before a doctor
could be summoned.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
Has 100000 Members.

Boston, Jan. s.-The twenty-second
anniversary of the formation of the
first Christian Endeavor society, Feb
ruary next, will be celebrated by at
least 100000 members in all parts
of the world, according to expecta-.
tions of the officers of the United So
ciety of Christian Endeavor.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
Stock Burned i'm Prairie Fire.

Mandan, S. D., Jan. 12.-News comes
from the southeastern part of the
county of the loss of 5000 sheep and
300 head of cattle belonging to differ
emit ranchers by prairie fire. The fire
broke out during the late high wind
and spread with great rapidity. Sew
enteen ranchmen suffered severely,
some of their houses being swept
away by the flames.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
Har Served Many Years.

Oil City, Pa, Jan. 10.-G. w. Put
nam, aged "a years, probably the old
est postal clerk in the country, is
dead at his home in Westfeld, N. Y.
He was appointed during President
Lincoln's first and held
that position continuously to his
death
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
All Barriers Removed.

Washington, Jan. Denomination
was received here of the reports from
Caracas to the effect that all barriers
in the way of settlement of the
claims of Great Britain, Germany and
Italy against Venezuela had been re-
moved by the last named country
yielding to the demands of the Eu-
ropean allies.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
Burning Fruit and Shade Trees.

Marshall, Mo-. Jan. 10.-A coal fam
inc prevails in Marshall and the near
by towns. Slater sent to this city
for coal, which is scarce here. Many
families are burning their fruit trees
and shade trees. Cut wood is SELL
ing for eight dollars cord, and such
fuel is very scarce. .,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
Death of a ConEress man,

Washington, Jan. 12.-Representa-
tive Thomas H. Tongue, of the First
congressional district of Oregon, died
suddenly at his residence in this city
at one o'clock Sunday afternoon of
heart failure following an attack of
Indigestion. ..,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16

the executive Offices, 'but I think
some measure will be enacted into
law at this session. It will be neces-
sary to steer middle course
between the desires of the radical
antitrust people and those who pro-
fess to see little evil in trusts or
combinations of capital. That such
a course will be adopted by congress
1 have no doubt"
Attorney Generals Views.
Washington, Jan. z. - Attorney
General Knox's views of the po-
sition of the administration on
the trust question provide for the
prevention and punishment of dis
ordinations in rates of trans
portation; prohibiting interstate COM
merce entirely in products manufac-
tured by illegal combinations; the
creation of a commission to supervise
the regulation of the trusts substan-
TALLY similar to the interstate COM
merce commission in its relation to
the railroads, and provision for the
expedition of suits against trusts and
illegal combinations.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
To Honor His Memory.

Springfield, ILL.,, Jan. 10.-The citi-
zens of Carlinville have started a move
ment looking toward the erection in
that city of monument over the
grave of Gen. John NJ. Palmer, former
governor of Illinois and United States
senator from this state and the gold
democrats candidate for president
of the United States in 1896. The pres
emit monument is but small slab
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
Little Girl Takes Poison.

Ottumwa, Ia, Jan. 12.-Because, it
is said, her mother refused to allow
her to play with certain girls, Lydia
Dwyer, ten years old, committed sui
eide by drinking acid.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
Boy AIRED II Years Hanged.

Camden, N. j., Jan. S.-Paul Wood
ward, aged II years, was hanged in
the Jail here Wednesday for the MUIR
der last Octaber of John Coffin, aged
II, and Price Jennings, aged IA years.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
Burned to Death.

Cherokee, Ia, Jan. 9.-John Miller,
leading merchant of Larrabee, was
burned to death Wednesday night in
flames communicating to his night
clothes from kerosene lamp. 553s.ss
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
Killed by Gas.

Chicago, Jan. I'll. Finkelstein and
his wife and two children were as
phyxiated by gas at their residence in
this city.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
baseball Learues at Peace.

New York, Jan. 12.-The peace treaty
between the National Baseball league
and the American league provides for.
two eight-club circuits in each league,
both leagues playing in Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and St.
Louis. A uniform contract and COM
bined game schedule is agreed upon.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
Villaxe DESTROYED.

Guthrie, Okla, Jan. s.-The town OF
Vista, in southeastern Oklahoma, has
been destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-01-16
A Valuable Discovery.

Carbonate, ILL.,, Jan. IA fve-foot
vein of plumbago has been discovered
in Saline county. 5s