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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-23
Wires Are Frustrated.
MRS. CHADWICK is UNMASkED.
CoIIapses in Court at the Sight of At.
torney Bedford.

CoildPSeS IN NouFt at the Si9nt OF AZ
torney Bedford.
Cleveland, Dec. 20.-The mask was
%ruthlessly torn from Cassie l.. Chad
wick Saturday, revealing Nine. Lydia
De We're, charlatan, fortune teller,
swindler, forger and convict.
Supt. Tom Burns never worked the
third degree" on a prisoner in more
grim fashion than the government au-
thorities worked it Saturday on Mrs.
Chadwick. No terror-stricken felon
ever collapsed SO utterly rs did this
miserable woman when she realized
just what had been prepared for her.
1t was suddenly decided to arraign
her along with President Beckwith
and Cashier Spear of the Oberlin
bank, on the seven indictments found
against them Wednesday,. A big arm
chair was placed within ten feet of
and directly facing the clerks desk.
At this desk sat Irving Bedford, the
man who successfully defended Joseph
Lamb, the Toledo expressman who
was jointly tried with Nine. De We're
for forgery in Toledo.
Mrs. Chadwick ColIapses.
When halfway to her seat Mrs.
Chadwick's beadlike eyes lighted
upon Irving Belford, directly facing
her and piercing her veil with a steady
stare from beneath his shaggy eyes.
Instantly all strength seemed to
leave the woman. Her knees gave way
and she would have dropped to the
floor had not the officers held her up.
Trembling from head to foot, she
fought to master the weakness, but
her limbs refused to do her bidding.
She was terror-stricken-a mere inert
bundle of brown clothes.
The marshaJs fairly carried her to
the armchair and dumped her into it.
There she sat, huddled up like a
stuffed figure, resting her right elbow
on a table and hiding her face to shut
u the accusing eyes of Belford.
The mask had been torn away. 1t
was not Cassie l.. Chadwick, high
priestess Of frenzied finance. it was
Nine De We're, forger and ~ex-convict,
cringing before the bar Of justice.
When it was all over and the miser:
able creature had been carried back to
Jail, Mr.. Belford said:
ut was brutal, positively brutal, but
it had to be done. l knew her the in
slant I saw her, and she knew me. 1t
is impossible to forget her once you
have seen her as I have"
Not in Doubt.
"Then there is not the slightest
doubt in your mind that she is Nine.
De Vere?"
"No more doubt than l have that
that is Judge Wing sitting there"
pointing to the Judge on the bench"
All three defendants pleaded not
guilty to the indictments and waived
examination. Mr.. Dawley. for Mrs.
Chadwick, reserved the right to
change his plea later on.
Judge Wing fixed bail in $4,000
each for Beckwith and Spear, which
they gave, but Mr.. Dawley said he
did not wish bail named for his client.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-23
SURRENDER IN LONDON.

Young Man Claims That He Embex-
xled From Springfield, Mo, Bank.
London, Dec. 21-The American en-
bassy is inQuiring At Washington
whether Lawrence Innez. q bank clerk.
is wanted on charge Of embezzlement.
Innez..w who has given himself up to the
London police. says he absconded Oct.
Is with money belonging TO the Ma
tional Hxchange Bank % Springfield.
Mo.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-23
Girl LEAPS TO A
One Killed and Others Fatally Hurt in
Factory Fire.

Portsmouth, Ohio. Dec. 20. = One
girl was killed, two fatally injured and
a score Of others hurt from jumping
from windows during an explosion
which wrecked Lloyd & Simpsons toy
pistol factory. Flames cut of the es-
cape of some and the frantic girls
leaped from the second and third
stories. 1t 10 believed that al the
girls succeeded In getting out.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-23
MOST VIOLENT STORM IN YEARS.
Snow Storm and Gale Sweeps The
North Atlantic Coast.

New York, Dec. 20. - The snow
storm and gale which struck the coast
Saturday afternoon and continued un
til the early hours of yesterday morn
ing, was the most violent that has oc-
Cured for several years. Reports
from the New Jersey and New. Eng
land coast and from incoming steam
ers tell of furious gales and many dis
aSterS.
At Vineyard Haven over fifteen
%schooners anchored in the harbor
were blown ashore yesterday and sev
eral others were damaged in coils
ions.
The Cunarder Umbria and the
American liner st. Paul, both of which
arrived yesterday, reported heavy
weather and adverse gales during the
whole passage.
In the river and harbor the traffic
was for a while during the worst OF
the storm
Almost at a ~~:andstili.
So heavy Was the snowfall thai
lights could not be seen on the river q
boats length ahead, and ferryboats
and other craft proceeded at a dimin
ished Roadway, blowing whistles and
feeling their way cautiously through
the binding storm.
In the city the snow fell almost
without intermission until early yes
terday morning, by which time eight
inches had fallen. There was little in
terruption of traffic, thirteen thousand
snow shovelers and four thousand
teams being set to work as soon as the
snow ceased falling to clean the prin'
cipal thoroughfares. Three feet OF
snow on the lefel was the record OF
the storm in the east end Of Long
Island.
Wires Are Frustrated.
Boston, Dec. 20.-The storm yester.
day was of blizzard severity along the
southern New England coast. Al
wires to Cape Cod were prostrated
and there has been no communication
south of Wareham by land lines since
early yesterday morning.
The captain of the Watch Hill life
saving station reported that when the
storm cleared three barges were seen
ashore on the south side of Fishers
island.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-22

Olympian woman with the black cat so coura-
geously defended at the time by Emile Zola
against the indignation Of the art critics To-
day the forty pictures of the Thames near West
minister. painted during the spring of each year
from 1900 to 1904. and on view at the
DurandRuel Gallery. characterize the scope.
fertility and maturity Of his genius more en-
phatically than anything he has yet accom-
plished.
The Thames is the unique theme of each Of
the forty pictures, but it is impossible 10 imag-
inc greater diversity of atmosphere and color.
It is the struggle between the sun and the
clouds and fogs of London. There are eight
views Of Charing Cross Bridge. with crossing
trains. whose locomotives emit thick pufs of
smoke and cinders. shooting Off in transverse
directions and finally blending in the univer-
sal fog. River barges glide about through violet
mist. Here the bridge in sombre gray
and the next canvas Giscloses il in deep blue
with a red sun disk cleaning in the sky like
danger signal. There are pale yellow sunlight
deep golden sunlight, violet sunlight and silver
sunlight There are weird ghostlike effects of
bodies emerging from the fog-supernatural and
grand. There eighteen views of Waterloo
Bridge seen through fog mist, BY dawn, or
noon, by slanting afternoon rays, or by twi-
light. by rain. by the midday sun, seeking
to penetrate 4 pea-soup fog. notwithstanding
the heavy, thick sooty atmosphere. the pict-
ures luminous. Long professions of yellow
omnibuses, of red coated soldiers and of or
ange vendors catch the dead gold or russell sun
light refracted through crystalline drops of dense
moisture
The eleven views shown of the Houses OF Par
lament marvellous in diversity of color
The graceful architectural structure is dimly
outlined In deep blue against skies Of gray, of
violet, OF red or Of yellow. and these superb re-
Elections are again repeated In lower chromatic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-22

reproduce the portrait Of him by Mr.. Seymour
Thomas. Of New-Orleans exhibited In the
Salon The Paris correspondent of The Tribune
has recently said of it that besides being
stihngly truthful likeness it Is a picture Of
great distinction In line and color" The painter
has felicitously introduced among the Access
SORES the writing table beside which Mr.
Vlgnaud is seated, bronze statuette OF Co
lumbus, the symbol Of those studies to which
this American scholar has for many years dedi-
Gated his leisure hours.
Mr.. VIgnaud according to WHO'S Who in
America" was born IN New-Orleans. of old
Creole family. in 1880. He began life as a pub
lie school teacher and a journalist. served in the
Confederate army, and captured in New
Orleans but was able, in 1863. to proceed TO
Paris as secretary of the Confederate diplo-
matte commission. He served as secretary of
the Rumanian Legation IN Paris in 1869 and
was connected, at Geneva. in 1872 with the
Alabama Claims Commission. In 1878 he was
appointed delegate TO the International Diplo-
matte Metric Conference He was second secre-
tary at the American Legation at Paris from
1875 to 1882, when he was made first secretary
The French edition Of his iconocastic book
'ToscanelH and Columbus: The Letter and
Chart Of Toscaneli on the Route TO the Indies
by Way of the West" published in 1901,
the English version appearing in the following
year. This work and the controversy provoked
by II have been traversed at length in The
Tribune We need do no more at present then
to recall that Mr.. Vignaud's aim IN this publ
cation was to impugn the purely scientific origin
Of Columbus discovery, and to state that his
argumentA Il not convincing to all the oppo-
neu1 Of his hypothesis, have, ct any rate, not
been refuted. His latest contribution to Colum-
bian literature L. q suggestive critical study of
The various dates assigned to tho birth Of the
explorer. n which he nxes upon 1851 n the
correct data
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-22

through experiences which, II exciting in them
Selves are OF still greater Importance to the
noVehst as forces influencing the behavior of
the two men, In other words, she not ONLY
knows all the natural phenomena of n land
where they are Of peculiar significance to man:
she not only is familiar with the typical Incl
dents Of Klondike adventure, but she under
stands much of what happens to the soul when
II Is touched by one of the most tremendous Of
social influences, the thirst for gold Her vivid
panorama Of the frozen North is humani2ed
from beginning to end, for all that it has next
to no plot.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-22

scales in the river. In one picture scores of
sea gulls soar in front of Westminster and circle
in midair or skim the water There are studies
Of masses of smoke and banks Of fog. High
chimneys rise heavenward like Venetian cam
panili. TIE eternal war between the London
sun and the London fog is artfuIly portrayed in
its manifold phases. Clever and daring com
binations of yellows. Of violets, of green's of
opal grays and of pinks with translucent rays
Of sunshine. golden silver. or blood red, owing
to the prismatic action Of the globules OF moist
ure in the atmosphere. present 4 highly original
yet truthful portrait of London that would
have made Turner jealous and would have de-
lighted Ruskin CIR
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-22
MONET ON THE THAMES
The Great Impressionist Studies the
Ri0er IN Many Moods.
Paris. May 10.

Paris, May 10
NJ. Claude Monet has discovered the Thames;
and, judging from the Turneresque radiance OF
some Of his Waterloo Bridge sunsets, the mas
terful French colorist seems to have set It on
fire. He has a passion for repeatedly portray
conditions Of light and atmosphere. He exhib-
tied in 1895 twenty-five pictures OF the door
way OF Rouen Cathedral, each in a separate
ana distinct scheme Of light. He made dozens
of carefully elaborated paintings of the gray
stone church at Vetheuu. and OF that delight
full pale green wooden bridge over a stream
covered with American water lilies on his own
property atIGiverny. It with his multi
farious chromauc pictures Of the Seine near
Havre that Monet acquired his reputation when
ne exhibited one Of them in the Salon of 1865
the same memorable Salon that shocked the
academcians with Edouard Manets daring
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-22
HENRY TIGN1CD.
A Portrait Of a Vel Kno7cn Figure
IN Columbian Literature.

The researches Of Mr.. Henry Vignaud first
secretary Of the American Embassy at Paris in
the history of Christopher Columbus. have raised
him 10 honorable rank among scholars and
have made his name known to many readers on
both sides Of the Atlantic. But his personality is
not familiar here, and We are glad, therefore. to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-22
LITERARY NOTES.

MI Howells is staying at FoIkestone in pur-
suance of his purpose OF seeing England and
its life all Sides The scenes Of the novel he
intends to write Will be laid in that country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-22

There is 10 be a new edition OF n p WiIlis's
People Whom l Have Met" with all the sup
pressed personal passages which were not al
lowed TO appear in England presented in full
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-22

Mr.. and Mrs. Egerton Castle have written a
new novel which they call French Nam
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-22

A volume on Maria Edgeworth by En-
less Is to be added to The English Me
ters' series.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-22
FICTION.
IN Oriental Romance and .Study
of Klonadike Life.

THE FT-AME-GATHERER By Margaret Horton
Potter limo, pp. 1T. The Macmillan COMPANY
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-07-28

1870, one William w. McCamman OBJ
tanned an interest In said land, that in
June, 1914 lte sold his interest in said
land 20 plaintiffs grantors, but said decd
fails to state whether the said Mccain
man was at the time single or married,
but plaintiff says that said McCamman
has been dead for twenty years, that the
name Of his wife, II any he had, is un-
known 10 plaintiff and the interest she
appears to have in said land is as the
wife Of said VIM. McCamman and is de-
rived from him as her husband, and that
said land has been held adversely 20 her
for more than twenty years and her
claim is barred by limitation, and that
plaintiff cannot insert the names of said
legatees, heirs and widows because their
names are unknown TO him, nor can no
state their interest more fully because
their exact interest is unknown to him.
1t is therefore ordered by the Clerk Of
this Court, In vacation, that publication
be made notifying said unknown widow,
heirs and devisees Of Spencer II. Olms-
sted and the unknown widow of VIM. w
McCammun, deceased, and now Won said
defendants are hereby notified of the fill
ing Of this suit, the object and general
nature of which is to obtain "a decree of
the Audrain County Circuit Courtperfect
ingplaintlfi's title to the aforesaid lands.
by Limitation, under the provisions of spc-
tons 42GS and 1860, chapter l4s. Revised
Statutes of Missouri for 1899; and noy
unless you, said unknown widow. hnirs
and deVisees of Spencer II. Olmstod and
the unknown widow of YIN. w. Mccain
man, deceased, be and and appear nj the
next regular term of this Court to be be-
gun and held at the Court House I'm the
City of Mexico, Audrain County, Mis-
souri,, on the Bird Monday in September
1904, and on or before the first day of said
term answer or otherwise plead to plain.
tiifs petition the same will be taken as
confessed and judgment rendered accord
ingly.
And it is further ordered that copv
hereof be published in the Mexico Mis-.
souri, Message, IA weekly newspaper pub-
lshed in Audrain County, Missouri. for
four weeks successfully, the last inscrtion
to he at least 10 days before the COM
mencemcnt of the next term of this Court
State of Missouri,
County OF Audrain. 81
l, W. II. Morris, Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Audrain County, Missouri. do
hereby certify that the above and forego-
ing is full and true copy of the Order of
Publication in the above entitled cause os
IulIy as the same appears of record in nv
office.
witness my hand and official seal,
Done at Office in Mexico, Audrain County,
this July 22nd, 1904.
LsEALI w. ii. NORRIS.
Clerk Audrain Circuit Court
%. Hit and p. II. Cullen, ATTORNEYS for
Plaintiff
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-07-28
AS to Telephones.

Rush Hill, Mo, July "a 1904 -
Editor MESSAGE: That the people
may understand as to our tele-
phone efforts I would ask you for
publication of this article.
First, l will say | have only
worked to establish a strictly mu-
tual and cooperative telephone
company and get a telephone in
every farm home as well as every
home in the small towns and cit
les of our county and adjoining
counties, trying with all the power
that is within me to keeO our
country people from getting a
rental and toll system fastened up
on them. Excepting a territory
of 3 or 4 miles east of Mexico,
there is scarcely Il farm east of
Mexico that hasn't a telephone,
owned by the farmers, extending
to the Mississippi River, and
north to Monroe City, south to
the Missouri. In the next three
months we expect to be connected
with all points west, south west
and northwest.
On our lines that are completed
we are getting as good service as
any one could ask, having equip
ped our lines with the best equip
ment that money could buy, and as
to construction will compare with
the best. To all that may wish to
connect with this system, we as
sure them an equal pro rata Of
maintenance. This is all it will
cost parties connecting with us;
OF in other words, we want to As.
sure the people that there is no
money making scheme back of
this company.
Would ask all parties interested
in this mutual telephone system TO
meet with us at Rush Hill Satur-
day, July 80, 1904. at 10 O'Clock;
especially all STOCKHOLDERS in the
Laddonia, Rush Hill and Mexico
Union Tel. Co.
j. N .RossER.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-07-28

nounced by political organization
in defying corruptionists, and re.
pudlating their support and their
votes. All the nominees have ex-
pressly Endorsed this platform, and
| have no reason to doubt their
sincerity that they will stand by
me in the fight to be made on cor
ruptionists and their allies.
/ propose to carry out the
plans and policies enunciated i'm the
platform and in my speeches dur
ing the campaign. will not get
any Doodle votes, and do not want
them, aud will make my appeal TO
the decent elements alone. | can
not be hampered materially in the
work | propose to do, even tho
some Of the nominees should be
unfriendly to me, and / have no
reason to believe that they are.
All the candidates are pledged to
carry out the principles of the
platform. The old organization
known as the machine has given
way TO a reorganized state central
committee. two.thirds of whom
were among my original support
ers, and nearly all are in hearty
sympathy with this movement.
Il propose to carry out the dec
larations l heretofore made that
no appointed officer should be a
member Of the state committee. !
do not propose that a personal
machine shall be built up"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-07-28
YOUR NEIGHB0Rs

Miss Pearl Morris is visiting
relatives in Clarksville.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Il. A. Collins OF
Columbia were the guests of Mex.
leo friends last week
Newton Wilson OF Mnskeego,
1. T., is visiting the family of
Geo, Wilson, near Moline.
ED. NJ p. Matheny of North
Carolina Is the guest Of w. H.
Turner and family In this city,
oUncle" Alex Davis, near
Thompson. is entertaining his
daughter. Mrs, Ernest Davidson,
of Boone county
VIM. Brandon Of Laddonia came
up to Mexico first Of the week to
see his brother, Escue Brandon,
and together they made business
trip TO Glasgow
The Perry Enterprise says; Miss
Ethelyn Hurley entertained at six
O'Clock dinner young friends Tues
dey evening 10 honor Of her friend
Rlahaga Mason n Mealco
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-07-28

J. S. Smith at Montgomery
City is threatening to do some
thing. Thru the Standard he
says: | think it is but fair that
due notice should be given of the
fact that it is in contemplation to
publish the next petition for sa
loon licenses. Men in busin Tess
might be willing to sign petitions
privately who would not be willing
that the public should know that
they had done so. Every signer
is a partner in the business and
customers will so regard them; and
while business men sign petitions
to court the saloon trade, good
moral people who are opposed to
the saloon will naturally do their
trading with those who do not ia
vor the saloon. And the masses
of the people in the country, even
many who drink, are hoping to
see the day when, for the sake of
their boys, the saloon will be a
thing of the past. While the town
people allow the questsOn of rev.
enue to blind their moral vision,
there Is no such influence to blunt
the moral sensibilities of the cOun.
try people, and when the country
people awake to the fact, that af-
ter paying their own taxes they
are duped into paying thru the sa-
loon, the taxes of the town, aud
that the town people boast of that
fact they will bring their infu-
ence to bear to drive the saloon
out of the town. 1t is we'll known
that the saloon eats up a very
large per cent of the taxes of the
county, both directly and indi-
rectly. 1t destroys the tax-paying
ability of every drunkard, and
heaps mp criminal costs on the
county. The saloon must go.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-07-28
THE GRIM REAPER

Everett Farrah, aged 40 years
died at his home near Rush Hill
last Friday of consumption.
The infant child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bozart, who live northeast OF
Mexico, died early Monday morn
ing. There was a funeral service
held at Rock Hill church.
J. w. Carson, formerly con-
nected with the Mexico Savings
Bank, after lengthy illness died
at his home in st. Louis last
Thursday. The remains were
shipped to Mexico for interment.
The wife and two children, Flor
ence and Wallace, survive him.
Little Miss Helen Torreyson,
aged about IA, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. a. Torreyson at Laddo-
MIA, died last Sunday of consump-
ton. She was a bright and lovely
girl, and the parents and relatives
have the sympathy of all in
her early taking away.
VIM. Lewis, son of W.C.Lewis.
formerly of this county but now of
Fort Collins, Colorado, died at his
home in Fort Collins last Thurs
day of consumption, after an af-
Fiction with the measles. The re-
mains were shipped to Mexico and
funeral service was held at the
Baptist church Sunday afternoon
by his former pastor,
Rev. A. b, Burch, of Kansas City.
The remains were then laid to rest
in the Mexico cemetery. William
was a good boy and had many
friends here. He was member
of the WOOdmen and Maccabee or
ders, under whose auspices the fu-
neral was held.
DR.. G. T. Varnon, County Cor
oner and City Physician of Mex
leo, after two months illness
with Bright's Disease, died last
Sunday morning. But few days
before he had been out driving on
the streets. He was in his 54th
year. Was born in Kentucky.
Moved to Boone county, Mo-, and
later TO this county. Began prac-
ticing medicine in 1875. Had
lived in Mexico 10 years. Was
County Coroner several
months since and was the nominee
of the Democrats for the next
term in this office. His first wife
was Miss Ida Baker of this county. !
To this union there was born one
child, Miss Katheryn Varnon. The
first wife died several years since
and DR.. Varnon was married again
to Miss Margaret Layson of Boone
county. DR.. Varnon was a man
highly esteemed. He belonged to
the Masons, the Maccabees and |
the NJ. w. a., these lodges as
sisting in the funeral held at the
Christian church Monday after
noon. Reys, Kokendoffer and |
leading the service. A
good man, and useful man, has
been called mp higher.