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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
Left the Worry to the Doctor.

How about that little bill?" asked
the doctor
why, DOCTOR was the reply, "only
a little while before you sent it in you
told me not to let any thing worry me,
and l haven't. Chicago Post.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
rom ALL OVER IOWA
payid 3. Prescott Dead.

Keokuk. Ia, Jan. 19.-David B.
rescott we'll known as a hotel pro
gietor and contractor, died of paral-
sis. He was sixty years of age.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
PANAMA STILL THE TOPIC.
nate Disposes of Postoffice ResoIu.

Senate Disposes of Postoffce ResoIu-
tons and Takes Up Treaty.
Washington, Jan. 20.-The senate re-
quired less than minute to dispose
of the motion to refer to the commit
tee on postoffices the various resolu-
tions looking to an investigation of
the postoffice department. The ques-
ton had been previously debated for
hours at a time, but no senator mani
tested any disposition to discuss it
further and it was adopted without
negative vote. After the passage
of half dozen bills. the senate re.
turned to the consideration of the Pan
ANA question. Quarles spoke for al
most two hours in support of the
course of the administration and was
followed by Patterson, who criticised
the presidents course in Panama.
Patterson was subjected to many in
terruptions and had not concluded
when the senate adjourned.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21

Some folks are like good natured
dogs. If you pat them on the head
they will jump all over you.-School-
master
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
Dead Cashier Short $4,000.

Muscatine. Ia. Jan. 1S.-Develop-
Iments indicate that G. F. Utterback.
gsashier Of the sigourney Ua.) Saw.
lings bank, who committed suicide
MONDAY night, was short $4,000 in
shis accounts. The shortage was the
result Of speculation. Utterback
stlew his brains out just before the
time scheduled for him to attend a
directors meeting and make state.
mant
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
Seriously injured by Bursting Boiler

! Seriously injured by Bursting Boiler.
!, Cedar Rapids, Ia, Jan. 16.-Archie
gCampbell. chief engineer at the cleo.
Htric light and power house, and Fire.
man William Miner were seriously
gcalded by the blowing out of flue
pf the boiler Campbell, who was
directly in front of the boiler, re-
feived the full effect of the steam in
his face and about the chest. He is
frightfully scalded. Miner, who was
behind him, may recover.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21

He who has no vision of eternity will
never get a true hold of time Carlyle.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
Judge Shelton c. Spencer Dead.

Lawrence, Kan. Jan. 20.-Judge
Shelton c. Spencer is dead at his
home here after long illness, aged
seventy-four. He took an active part
in the early border troubles and in the
civil war was commissioned major gen.
eral in the Third Kansas volunteers
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
House Considers Pure Food Bill.

Washington. Jan. 2O.-The house
considered the Hepburn pure food bill
but did not complete il. An amend
ment, coming from the Democratic
side, was adopted. inserting the word
"wilfully," relative to the sale of pro-
hibited adulerated goods by retailers.
which would make it incumbent on
the government to prove knowledge
on the part of retailers that such
goods were contrary to law. The
principal speeches of the day were
made by Hepburn and Mann in favor
of the bill and Adamson and Clark in
opposition.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21

Miss Alice Bailey, Of
Atlanta, Ga, escaped the sur.
geon's knife, by using Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
DEAR Mrs. P1NKHAM 81 wish to
express my gratitude for the restored
health and happiness Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has
brought into my life.
had suffered for three years with
terrible pains at the time of menstrua-
ton, and did not know what the trouble
was until the doctor pronounced it in
hammatiOn of the Ovaries, and
proposed an operation.
l felt SO weak and sick that felt
sure that could not survive the ordeal,
and SO told him that I would not un-
dergo it. The following week read
an advertisement in the paper of your
Vegetable Compound in such an emer-
gency, and SO decided to try it. Great
was my joy to find that actually inn
proved after taking two bottles, SO I
kept taking it for ten weeks, and at the
end OF that time was cured. had
gained eighteen pounds and was in
excellent health, and am now.
You surely deserve great success,
and you have my very best wishes."-
MISS ALICE BAILEY, SO North Boule-
ward, Atlanta, Ga. $1,000 forfeit II original
duced
All sick women would be wise
If theywOuld take Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound and
be well.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21

He who has neither friend nor enemy
is without talents, powers or energy
Lavater
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
CITIZEN TRAIN DEAD
BRILLIANT BUT ERRATlc GENIUS
PASSES AWAY IN NEW YORK.
Was Noted as Prolific Writer and for
His ntricities-started First
Clipper Ships TO California and Pro.
NOTED Several Railroads.

New York, Jan. 19.-Georgs Francis
Train died last night from heart dis
ease at Mills hotel No /, where he
has lived for some years.
George Francis Train was born in
Boston, March "a, 1929 He was or
phaned in 1892. his father, mother
and three sisters dying at New Or.
leans of yellow fever. He organized
the firm of Train & Co.. shipping
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21

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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-17
INTERESTING LIQUOR CASE.
An Application to Annul License
Granted by a Town Council.

The following letter has been received
by the editor from a citizen of Jackson
vile, Onslow county:
''At the November meeting of the Town
Council a petition signed by most all the
voters of this town. was read asking the
council to call an election to vote on the
whiskey question. The council called this
election to be held on the 10th of Deem
Der following Prior to the holding of
this election (about December 1st) the
council called a special meeting and grant
ed license to the saloon men to sell whis-
key from January LIST to July LIST, 1904.
Now, Mr.. Editor, won't you be kind
enough to please let me know if this as
legal or possibly there has been just such
case in some other place in North Car
olina. If so what has been done about
it? If no such case has yet come up
won't you please advise me if there is any
way to shut up the dives before July list.
1904. AS you know the people voted whis-
key out by large majority"
1t is impossible to give the information
desired just at this time. as there has
been no similar case decided. This mat
ter. it is learned, is now in the hands of
the Attorney General an application hav-
ing been made to him by Messrs. Frank
Thompson, Of Jacksonville, and A. D.
w ard, of New Bern, in behalf of citizen
of Jacksonville, to bring suit for the pur-
pose of vacating or annulling the liquor
license granted by the Town Council.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-17
Cotton Mill Machinery Exhibit.

A carload oil cotton mill machinery ar
rived yesterday, consigned to Curator H.
H. Brimley, of the State Museum, to be
sent to st. Louis for exhibition in the
special cotton exhibit in the Agricultural
Building. This machinery was made by
the D. A. Tompkins Company, of Char
lotte. and will occupy a very advanta-
geous position in the centre of the Agri-
cultural Building. 1t will be sent on
along with the rest of the State exhibit
some time next month.
Mr.. Brinley is getting in some very in
teresting fresh forestry specimens, and
also some valuable contributions in the
way of minerals. Arrangements have
been made, too, to exhibit the mineral
waters of the State, and in the line of
economic minerals there will be shown
both the raw material and the finished
product, as well as specimens illustrat-
ing the immediate processes in manufac-
turing the same.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-17
JUST COME TO LIGHT.
How Col. Hicks Went Help to Old En-
gineer Rufus H. Horton.

An act of whole-hearted. disinterested
kindness on the part of Col. w. T. Hicks,
the venerable Superintendent of the Ok
ford Orphan Asylum, has just come to
light. 1t seems that about month ago
the veteran engineer, Rufus H. Horton.
who has seen fifty-seven years of active
service on the railroad was burned out
Of his home near Method and sustained
severe loss. Col. Hicks heard Of Mr.. Hor
tons calamity, and straightaway drove
through the country to his cd friend and
almost took the latter's breath away by
offering assistance of any kind, money
goods, clothes, or anything that might be
needed. Now Mr.. Horton is not a Mason,
and never has been, and there was con-
sequently no obligation upon Colonel
Hicks to offer this aid. 1t is but another
instance of that broad and beautiful spirit
of brotherly love that is characteristic Of
the big-hearted father of Oxford" and
indeed of Masonry in general, for out of
some $50 orphans at the Oxford Asylum, be
it recorded that less than thirty OF them
are children of Masons.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-17
THE WAY OUT.

What to Do When Food Don't Agree.
When food don't agree sensible folks
make a change.
Where all others fail Grape Nuts, being
predigested and all nourishment, succeeds
usually from the first trial.
A lady Of Washington. says: my baby
10 months old had never seen a well day
in her life. She had suffered from indi-
gestion from the time of her birth and it
seemed impossible to find any food to
agree with her She could keep almost
nothing on her stomach and her bowels
were in such constlpated condition she
suffered great deal.
1T was then that 1 tried Grape Nuts
for her. sleeping it thoroughly and stain
ing it, putting a small portion in each
feeding and it worked like a charm. She
began to improve Immediately and gained
half a pound the first week
'.Baby got her Indigestion from me for
my digestive organs have always been
weak l rely on Grape-Nuts for most of
my food for there are times when 1 can
eat nothing else at all but Grape-Nuts
/ am steadily improving and know it will
entirely cure me in time. l never have
that tired feeling anymore. l eat Grape
Nuts and l feel its effects in improved
mental strength very forcibly" Name
given by Postum Company, Battle Greek,
Mich
\ Look in each package for copy of
he famous little book. THE Road to
ellville.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-17
AN INSTITUTION.
TO BE PROUD OF
Growth of Life Insurance Company oil
Virginia Scarcely Less Than
Wonderful.

The record made during the past year
by the Life Insurance Company of Vir-
ginia, of which Mr.. Geo. T. Hanes, of this
city, is State supervisor, has been SO re-
markable that the following is compiled
as of public interest:
The steady growth from year to year
of the business of the company is scarcely
less than wonderful.
From 1887, when the premium income
was less than 100000, each years bust
ness has shown a substantial increase
over that of the year before, and this,
too, in spite of periods of depression in
the general business of the country.
The year 1903 was no excep.,on, and the
gross income increased during that year
from $1,38S, 24S.16 in 1902 to $1,570, 1853. 81
and insurance in force increased from
$34 Ale, 1892 to $39,717,4 31, an increase of
S., 301, 100 in one year, by far the largest
increase in any one year OF the com
panys history.
1t is worthy of note that the increase
in gross income for the past year was
nearly twice as much as the total pre-
MUM income of 1887 and considerably
greater than the premium income two
years later, in 1889
This steady and continuous growth IRON
year to year is the best proof that couii
be offered that the company is steadily
and continuously growing in popular Ia
vor. 1t is gratifying to be able to make
such a statement concerning a Southern
institution.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-17
BRYAN IN LINCOLN.
He Says the Commoner Will Not Push
Any Would be Cansdate.
CBy the Associated Press,l

Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 16-William Jen-
nings Bryan returned today and went i'm
mediately to his home at Fairview. He
was in good health and spirits and said
he had never enjoyed anything more than
hls quick trip to Europe. Mr.. Bryan will
remain at home until after next Monday
in order that he may attend the banquet
to be given in his honor here Monday
night.
Mr. Bryan was asked this evening if
the daily Commoner, which he proposes
to publish at st. Louis during the Demo
cratic convention, would advocate the
candidacy of any particular aspirant for
the presidential nomination. He said:
ut will not, it will simply advocate
Democratic principles. And" he con-
tinued, 81 do not care to discuss anybody's
candidacy. l have no favorites. All that
desire is that the candidate be man
whose Democracy is so well known that
it will not be subject of inquiry or dis
cussion during the campaign, and whose
fidelity to the principles of Democracy
Will not be questioned after the election
I simply want to do what 1 can to pro-
tect the party from any confidence game
that may be attempted on the voters"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-17
Darncll
&
Thomas
Raleigh, N. G.
Russia Ready to Yield
Something.
Continued from Page Nine.)

to fight Russia. There are two opinions
about that"
Baron Hayashi intimated that he
thought Japan was bound to be beaten in
tie end
IF we were beaten the Minister re-
sumer," Russia would take Korea and
Manchuria by right of conquest, and pos
sibly Japan No power on earth could
then dislodge her from central China and
all the Far East. I am sure it is better
to go to war when you know you are
right, even if defeat is possible. than to
see your independence submerged under
continual aggression that is bound to
absorb you eventually Nothing can
avert war between Russia and Japan in
future years, even if peace is procured
now, so long as Russia pursues here pres
ent Far Eastern policy.
THE American action in enforcing the
opening of the Manchurian ports was
splendid example of honest diplomacy
1t was a straightforward step, which con-
trasts favorably with Russian methods.
No ether nation, except Great Britain,
when the British Admiralty bought the
two Chilean warships, has taken any
practical steps to live UP to it's diplo
matte demands on Russia anent the Far
East. We believe we are now fighting a
diplomatic battle in behalf of America
and Great Britain, but if only war can
settle it we know we shall receive as
sistarce from neither. We are prepared
to fight our battles and take the conse-
Quences"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-17
Fortunate Chatham.

The Chatham Record says that, having
purchased the old Petty place, near Hawks
Chapel, Mr.. w. A. Ellington, has moved
from Wake to Chatham. 1t has already
been printed in this paper that Mr.. FL
hngton has rendered his resignation as
County Commissioner, because he will
move back to Chatham, the home of his
birth. H has been twice elected county
commissioner. He has made a useful and
patriotic officer, and his many friends
IN Wake county regret to lose him as
commissioner and citizen of Wake county
May he live long and prosper in old
Chatham
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-17
At WAVES MERCY
Eccentric Strap on Noord-
land Breaks. a Ter
ribIe Experience
(By the Associated Press.)

Philadelphia, Pa, Jan. 15.-The Red
Star Line steamer Noordland, Liverpool
for Philadelphia passed in the Delaware
Breakwater today, being five days over
due. The delay, as reported by Captain
Roberts, was due to the breaking OF an
eccentric strap on the engine. The cap
tain said the accident occurred when the
Noordland was about 500 miles out from
Queenstown. She was experiencing
heavy weather, and during the severe
pitching the strap snapped. The big
steamship was hove to for two days for re-
pairs and later proceeded under head
way repairs"
The Noordland arrived at her dock to-
night A large crowd of persons, most of
whom were relatives and friends of those
on board, were there to greet the dis
abled steamer.
From statements made by passengers
and officers of the Noordland there were
some very anxious moments while the
staunch vessel lay helpless In the turbu-
lent sea, although at no time was she IS
real danger Of laundering.
Captain Roberts said that from the time
the Noordland left Liverpool the steamer
had continuous heavy west gales. On
Friday night, January I, he said, an ex-
ceptionally severe gale was encountered!
The vessel, i'll consequence, pitched heav-
lily, causing her propeller to race every
time her stern rose out of water. The
strain on the engines was so great that on
Saturday, January 2, the eccentric strap
On the main shaft snapped, and the big
vessel was at the mercy of the waves.
The terrific gale did not begin to subside
until Sunday, when the weather gradual
ly moderated.
According to cabin passengers conster-
nation reigned when it became known
that the Noordland was unmanageable, al
though the officers did the best they could
to allay all fear While the ship lay help
less she pitched so violently that every
thing movable was thrown about. Crock
cry and furniture were damaged, and those
on board had difficulty in moving about.
One passenger states that the pitching of
the ship was 50 great that the ends of the
rugs on the cabin floor were turned over.
The steerage passengers were locked be-
low, and prayers were offered by them
for their deliverance. The greatest fear
existed among those in the steerage, while
the cabin passengers, although greatly
frightened, were calmer
The captain stated that while prayers
were being made heavy seas were shipped,
one of which carried away about thirty feet
of the aft rail.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-17
TO REMOVE THE STAIN.
Mrs. BechteII's Attorney Works Both
for Mother and Dead Son.
(By the Associated Press.)

Allentown, Pa, Jan. 15.-The trial of
Mrs. Catherine Bechtel, charged with be-
ing an accessory after the fact to the
murder of her daughter Mabel, was con-
tinued today and number of witnesses
were examined
No important evidence, however, was
ELECTED to throw light upon the mystery
O. the girls death.
Mr.. Schaadt, the attorney for Mrs
Bechtel, is endeavoring not alone to ac-
quit his client, but to remove from the
memory of her son the suicide the
stigma of being the murderer of his
sister. This was indicated several times
today on his cross examination of wit
neSseS for the commonwealth
At the present rate of progress the case
will drag over into next week. Experts
on blood stains will likely be called to-
morrow. Both sides are we'll fortified with
expert talent.
Mrs. Margaret Miller testified to seeing
blood-spots on the side walk in front of
the Bechtel home, besides carriage wheel
tracks and hoof marks She said Tom
Beehtel rarely spoke to any member of
the family, but that Mabel and her mother
frequently quawelled over Weisenbergl
the mother Directing to her association
with him. Several neighbors testified
that they heard nothing unusual in the
Bechtel home on the night of the murder.
Coroner Scherer testified that rigor
mortis was setting in when he took
charge of Mabel Bechtetls body. He
said the wounds had been evidently in
flcted by concava instrument. The
wounds looked as though they had been
washed. DR.. w. w. Basch corroborated
Coroner Scherer's evidence. Death, re
said, was due to a fractured skull.
Police Chief Eastman told of finding
the blood-stained garments ard articles
III the Bechtel home. Tom Bechtel came
to police headquarters, he said, Wednes-
day afternoon and volunteered to help
find the man who killed his sistetr.
Undertaken V. F. Wonderly identified
the clothing tatken from Mabels body
Tom called at the morgue, he said, to see
the body and was visibly affected. Dur
ing this testimony, Mrs. Bechtel wept
freely, her body quivering as she gave
expression to her sorrow.
Eugene Hartsell, a next door neighhor
gave some important information While
III inc OuIuOuSc Ou ms pISlIlSSS az D d. H.
Monday, he saw a light in BechteTs kitch-
en-, the rear door being open. Witness
heard the voices of a man and a woman.
He also heard water flowing into the
cesspool from the Bechtel home. Two
hours later Bechtcls door was closed and
nc water was flowing.
w. r. Whitehorne, professor of chemis-
try at Muhlenburg College, reported his
analysis of Mabels stomach and its con-
tents. There was no poison discovered.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-17
A Man and a Woman
Defy the Town.
BULLETS HUM VAINLY
Driving Out the Proprietor and the
Habitues of the Place, This Well
Mated Pair at Last Accounts :
Were Still Holding the
Fort.
(By the Associated Press.l


ST. Paul, Mimi, Jan. ia special to
the Dispatch from Black Duck, Mimi,
says:
Great excitement prevails at Kelliher,
a new border town, twenty miles north of
here. gambling house was surrounded
all last night by a score of armed men,
who were trying to get man of the name
Of Plummer, and a woman companion,
who had elected the proprietor of the
house at the point of their guns following
which they proceeded to shoot up the
place" in true border fashion.
When the proprietor and the inmates
had been driven out by the couple, the
town council assembled and called for
volunteers. Each man was furnished
with a gun and a quart of whiskey, the
latter to combat the bitter cold. Then
the shooting began.
The house was riddled with bullets fired
by both sides, and the town marshal was
slightly wounded.
The couple in the house wrecked the
interior with axes and fired at everyone
who came within range.
The battle continued until midnight
when the besieged sent up flag of truce.
The town marshal accompanied by a
number of volunteers started for the
house, but was told that only one was
wanted at a time. A truce was arranged
until morning. The beseigers then took
turns at watching and sleeping and occa-
sionally a shot was fired.
In the meantime the sheriff from Bever-
idge was summoned and he is expected to
arrive tonight