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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04

We were both children then Afte,
'he was married TO Lowering a few
letters passed between us. but there
vas nothing improper in them for I;
married woman to write.
Il never stayed at Mrs. lowering.
boarding place at 333 Columbus ave
nue over night" resumed Wall.
This was in direct contradiction tc
Loyering's sworn testimony that vi
Ill used to stay there frequently.
u never entered with key; | ney.
2r stayed later than II o'clock: J
never saw any liquor In her rooms
md | never saw her at the Hotel &c,
I'll. do not remember ever taking
her out to dinner
All this was exactly the opposite
to what Levering AMI his friend
Howard g. Cross. had testified.
Mr. Wall denied having key to
the Yarmouth street room and was
never entertained by Mrs. lowering
in her bathrobe He did. however
recall receiving a letter from Joseph
Lowering protesting against witness
intimacy with Mrs Lowering.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04
KID MCCOY
A FAvORITE
Over riscke, the Holland Glant--Thc
Fight Comes Off Next
Tuesday Night

Special TO The Bulletin.
New York. April when Henri
Placke, the giant IEollander, faces
Kid Mccoy in the ring at Philadelphia
April 5. he will have behind him the
coaching of the shrewdest ring gener
nj in the fight game-Tommy Ryan.
middle weight champion.
Negotiations for the services of Ryan
have Just been concluded whereby
RYAN will act as Placke's second.
Against a shifty fighter like Mccoy
Ryan should prove invaluable to
placke. who is ignorant of many Of
the finer points of the game.
Notwithstanding the great discrep'
ancy in size between the men, Mccoy
Is favorite for the affair. Those who
have watched Placke in practice say
that the big man is as slow as an old
iron clad in turning
His blows have tremendous power.
but he Is very easy to get away from
Mccoy has trained hard for the bat.
tie. and is taking no chances on get
ting caught by the big man, owing to
want of speed
Mccoy says he Is willing to meet
Fitzsimmons after the Placke fight Is
over.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04
REGGIE To LIVE
ABROAD FOREVER
In Preference 10 Telling OF Losses
at Canfield's House.
HE DECLINES TO TALK
ABOUT HIS GAMBLING EScAPA-
DES ASSERTING THAT DIS
cusSIoN OF AFFAIR is
ANNOYING TO HIM.
Special to The Bulletin.

Special to The Bulletin.
Newport. April al would rather
stay away from New York forever
than TO return at the price of a
''squeaf' on Garfield will never
peach on Dick Garfield or anyone
else"
This is the first statement that
Reginald Vanderbilt has made re-
garding the famous gambling cases
with which his name has been asso-
ciated 1t was made In hot anger
when his attention was called to the
story printed in the New York papers
that his wife's uncle, Frederick Geb.
hard, was endeavering to use his in.
iluence and that of the Vanderbilt
family to procure immunity from Dis.
trict Attorney Jerome,
Mr. Vanderbilt has practically been
an exile from New York ever since
Mr.. Jerome began to look for him with
subpoena. Since that time he has
flashed into New York and out again
but his comings and goings have been
very quietly conducted, and absolutely
unheralded, contrary to the custom of
the young milionaires of the Newport
set.
TITS just about time all this talk
over these gambling cases ended ad.
ded Mr. Vanderbilt. This entire dis
cussion Is exceedingly annoying, and
| am growing tired of it all. cant
see why | should be constantly drag
ged into this affair, and don't see
why | should be continuously ques.
toned ON the subject
MIR. Vanderbilt was growing more
are more heated each moment, and
his Mptest appeared inclined to take
rather snobbish tone when he said
lmpatiently; ASK me for money nr
anything else, but not about this. AS
for Freddie Gebhard trying TO In
fiuence Jerome to drop the gambling
cases or to get him to agree not to
subpoena me, that Is matter about
which / know nothing. That III all
news to me.
Il THE whole affair has been very
annoying to me, and | don't want to
hear anything more of 1t. 1t is all
such rank nonsense. This is my po
sition In the matter, and | say 1t now
for good and all will never peach on
Dick Garfield or anybody else
That's ALL he said Now I'm
though I've said more than I've said
before on this extremely disagreable
subject and this is the last time |
will talk about it,
Mr.. Vanderbilt does not give any
indication that his enforced absence
from New York is worrying him at
all. He is growing rather stout and
has a color that shows that he has
been much in the open air of late
Today be wore a box coat of the
sort In which he was to he seen In the
Horse Show days and one Of the fiat
topped fiat brimmed hats that has be
come popular with the college boys
during the past year.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04
FURTHER SkiRMiStIING.
By the Associated Press.

London. April 3. Reports of fun
ther skifmishing between Russians
and Japanese IN tho Yalu river region
arc reaching Toxic. but no reliable
details are given
The Telegraph's Seoul correspond
ent believes that the defenses Of Pcr'
Arthur have been so weakened thai
an early capture Of the port Is to BIZ
.llxpet'tets.sS Thsrs 4iss liltle doubt: the
correspondent says, that Mnun,lHf Kill
passages arc left and that at the
first favorable opportunity the Japan
ese will block the channel The Rus
slams have taken many l2.inch guns
out Of the ships to arm the defense
Of Port Arthur
j The correspondent says he learnn
that In the first attack on Port AT
thur, the greater part Of The Japanese
torpedo flotila By mistake followed
two Russian destroyers and thus fail.
ed TO enter the harbor To compiet1
the destruction Of the Russian fleet.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04
TOUGH JOB
FOR TEDDY
He Would Ike to Meet Britt Think
ing Him an Easy Prop
osition.

Special to The Bulletin.
Philadelphia, April 3.-Terry Nc
Govern, after winning si00 on Jimmy
Britts victory. says he wants to gel
a match with the San Francisco fight
er for the near future
McGoyern thinks he can whip Britt
He thought Young Corbett would best
Britt. but did not think that the Cali
fornia lad was 2-tol shot in the re
cent battle.
Accordingly. Terry bet 5000 against
s400 that Britt would win and clean
ed up. McGovern made his bets wit,
Johnny Eckhardt, of this city.
McGovern still thinks Corbett is 3
much harder fighter TO beat than
Britt. and hopes TO be able to prove II
by whipping the native son" when
the latter gets well enough to tall
match taking.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04
STRUCK MOTHER
ROBBED SISTER
Meanest Man in Greater New
York Given Six Months.
UP FOR SEVENTH Time
HAD BEEN BEATING HIS MOTHER
AND Ro5RlNG HIS SISTER
ALL .WiNTER--NoW RE.
- PENTENT.
Special to The Bulletin.

Special to The Bulletin.
New York. April 3,---James Skallon
Is thifty-six years old, six feet tall
two hundred pounds in weight, blind
as bat and the meanest man In
Greater New York. according to his
seyenty-year-old mother,
For beating his mother, and his
sister, Theresa, who says James has
been robbing them all winter, Skallon
was sentenced by Magistrate Zeller,
in the West Side Court, to spend six
months in Blackwell's Island THAT
is the seventh time have had to do
that he commented.
The home of the Skallons is at lif
West Sixty-second street. Mrs. Skal.
Ion formerly kept store on Columbus
avenue and accumulated small for
tune, on the interest of which she
lives. Her daughter, Theresa, who
is twenty, is manager of the various
branches OF a laundry firm and han
uitS IT'D ihphC9.
Mrs. Skallon declares that her son
is worthless and has robbed her daugh.
ter of a gold watch and opera glasses.
His sister in the Court of Special Sos'
sions yielded to his pleadings and de-
clned to prosecute him. That was on
ly few months ago.
A week ago Miss Skallon missed a
toy bank, in which she had $50 That
night her brother, she said returned
home intoxicated and wearing new
suit of clothes. In fumbling for q
watch, key, a duplicate Of one which
unlocked a drawer containing the
firms money dropped from his pocket
and explained to her the disappear
ance Of the money she missed.
She said he confessed the theft and
said he would do il again. Then he
left the house and did not return TN
til early yesterday morning.
When his ringing brought no re
sponse he smashed the glass in the
door leading into his mothers apart
ments. He was beating his mother
and sister when ncighbor interfer'
red,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04
HUSBAND FLAYED
IN DIVORCE CASE
Severe Reprimand Administered
For Testimony introduced.
He MADE BASE CHARGES
AGAINST HIS WIFE, THE MOST
BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN
AMERICA WHICH WERE
coNTRovERTEp.
Special to The Bulletin.

Boston, April S.-Mrs. Elsie Lover
ing, whose beauty caused Coquelin to
say that she had the most beautiful
figure OF the French type of any wo
man he had seen in America, was Sat.
urday granted a divorce from her huS
band, Joseph Lowering, who had filed
cross bill in answer to his wife
suit.
Judge Sherman, in granting the de
cree, took occasion to give Lowering c
severe reprimand for what he calIcV
the false testimony given by him as
well as for the unjust determinations
he had made against his wife.
Milton T, Wall, the correspondent
in the cross suit, took the stand Sat
urday and fatty contradieted the tes
timony which Lowering had given
Friday against his wife.
Il never had any improper relations
with Mrs. Lowering at any time in
our lives" he declared He Is TWEEN
ty-one years old and is engaged In the
wholesale meat business.
Il first met her eight years ago al
Sunapee Harhor, N. H." he added
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04
Special to The Bulletin.

Special 10 The Bulletin;
New York. April 3.--One effect OF
the merger decision has been to re
move the uncertainty which held IN
check n number Of important railroad
deals. Now that competing roads can
not be put under control OF holding
company other means are being
sought for railroad development, fol
restraint Of cutIhroat competition
and for stability in rates and earn
ings. The enormous growth of oul
railroad systems has created forcet
which lax the ingenuity of our ablest
finaneiers and lawyers to Withstand .
and selfpreservatin is simply driv
ing the great leaders into some SORT
of cooperation. which they natural
u desire to make as permanent as
possible. Just where the line shalt
be drawn between too much conCen
tration aud too much competition f.
the problem now before the railroad
msgnates of the west, and il is i'm
possible for either insiders or outsid
ers TO anticipate the final outcome
Suffice it to say that moves of
great Importance are now being made
on the financial ehessboard and nit
mate outcome of which Is likely te
be beneficial TO all concerned. Incl
dent TO these final objects there may
be temporary differences Of opinion
as we'll as strong play Tor position
and mastery. but all interests seen
agreed that something must be dons
TO conserve the interests of both own
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04
THE BIG BATTLE
STILL GOING ON
Suit Filed in Securities Case.
One For Control of Mp.
GAME AS A SURPRISE
TO ATTORNEYS FOR THE DE
FENSE-ANoTHER LONG
COSTLY LEGAL BATTLE
IN SIGHT.
BY Associated Press,

/ ~ ssSstiR1tSH 4 iGaS.
ST. Paul, April 3Nono of the at
torneys for~the defendants in the suit
of r. H. Hartman and Winslow
Pierce and the Oregon SHIRT Line
Railway company. against the North
ern Securities company. notice o1
which was served yesterday, woult
MAXI an extended slatement with
reference thereto today Ii was ad
mitted that the suit was step In thu
struggle for the control Of the North
ern Pacific railway between f. Fl
Hartman and the allied interests OF
James J. Hill, J. Z. Morgan and
| others.
Attorneys for the defense say the
filing OF the petition came as sur
prise, and they decline to say what
course will be pursued until the prin'
cipals have been consulted.
The citation in the suit is directed
to the Northern Securities company
Northern Pacific Railway company
Great Northern Railway company
James ], Hill, ]. F. Morgan and otk
ers and gives notice that on April lal
Hartman, Pierce and the Oregot
Short Line Railway company will ap
ply to the judges of the United States
circuit court for leave TO file peti
tion Of Intervention In the suit OF til !
United States against the same de
PENDANTS, with reference TO the exc
cution of the final decree Of the court
which was filed April .. 1908 /
The petition states that the North
ern securities stock assigned to thu
petitioners in exchange for Northern
Pacific, common and preferred stock
Is held intact by the Equitable Trust
company Of New York, as a pledge
for the bond issue Of the Oregon
shpssIta slines and III aagallahle On ftF ex
change. II is alleged that the piaI
proposed for the distribution OF ths
| Northern Securities assets by a Pre-
rata return Of Northern Pacific and
Great Northern stock would leave the
control Of the two roads in the hands
/ Of the same people who now are H.
control and would In effect. defeat
| the decree Of the court TO dissolve Tho
Securities company.
II Is asked that the directors of the
/ Northern Securities company be di
rected to return TO the petitioners the
Northern Pacific common stock orig
inaly exchanged by them and add,
tional Northern Pacific common stock
created by the conversion Of the pre-.
ferred stock of that road exchanged
for Northern Securities stick, and
that The directors OF the Securities
company be enjoined from carrying
into effect the proposed plan Of dis
| tribution, until the court acts on this
petition
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04
Fifteen YEAR
BOY DROWNED
In Twelve Feet of Back Water at Car.
rier MiIls---Of Prominent
Family,

Special to The Bulletin
Carrier Mills. ILL.,, April Oscar
Patterson, the l5year-old brother OF
Merchant w. ID. Patterson. while in
company with Owen Dunn, boy Of
about his own age, was drowned In
the back water about threefourths o.
/ mile below Whitesville, this county
Patterson and Dunn were returning
from taking a. party across the bach
water in skiff when Patterson got
ont of the skiff onto log to shoot >
squirrel The gun kicked him and
the log turned, He lost his balance
and was drowned in twelve feet OF
water.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04

which Medical Examiner Hartlett re
fused TO make public. clearly indicates
that she was demented. II has since
been learned that the woman had been
pronounced insane twice in the last
ten years. For while she was con.
fined In an insane asylum, but her IN
sanity was believed To- be of such a
mild type, that after a short confine
ment she was set at liberty.
Mrs. Waltrous was fifty years OH
and bad husband and four children
All of the children are married and
reside here. Mr. WaItrous. it is be.
lieved. is in business somewhere In
the south. Formerly he praeticed lay
in New Haven. but he did not do very
well financially and the first time his
wife was declared insane he left her
and his children aud went south. lie
has never returned.
Up to two weeks ago Mrs Watrous
had been living in Maine sith some
friends When she returned IN New
Haven she went 10 live with fam
ily in Vine street. Her manner last
night. according to these folh. was not
more remarkable than usual She re-
tired To her room at about 2 O'Clock
and later was heard praying aloud in
her room No attention vas paid to
this, as II was matter of frequent
occurrence. About 10 o'clock The
mumhlng Of The demented woman
ceased and by II the horse was in
darkness.
No one heard her rise and leave the
house this morning. The woodshed
lies IN the rear Of the house. about
twenty yards away. With the pscul
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04
INDEX TO CONTENTS.

PAGE oNE-Associated Press
news, Special telegrsphic ser.
vice. important local matter
PAGE TWO-A ssociated
Press news, Special teiegraphic
service, important local matter
and Peoples column.
PAGE THREE Correspond.
ence from neiehboring towns
and Animal stories.
PAGE EOuR-Editorial. Use
fuI information. Fun and Phil.
osophy, Fashion Plate. OF Pub.
lic interest. How the Trains
Run, City and County Directory
and Personal Opinion.
PAGE FivE-Serial story.
PAGE SIx-Sportine Base
ball and Rseine) and MiseeIlsn.
eous.
PAGE SEvEN-Grain and
Stock Markets.
PAGE Ei6HT-chronologiesI,
Personal Items, General Local
News, tmUsements, Weather.
River Column Peoples Forum
! and Daily Menu.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04
WEEKLY FINANCIAL letter
OF HENRY CLEWS AND CO.
Approach of Spring Causing More Less Revival OF Industrial
Activity and Resumption OF Busness"stocks
Exhibit Strength.

erg and users OF railroads. who arf
alike benefited by stability and rea.
sonableness OF rates Since unrestrlct
ed competition has proved Injurious
to all interests. and consolidation OF
competing lines has been decided to
be against both the Sherman anti
trust Law and public interest, some
other device must be utilized, tempo
rarily at least, until better one is
secured The eommuuity-of
idea has consequently received
fresh and powerful impetus from tbd
recent decision of the supreme court
and most of the negotiations now go
ing on seem to be based upon that
plan.
One thing is quite certain Those
who lead In these movements are not
going to risk another such expert
ence as the Northern Pacific panic Q
9oi There is fortunately little. II
any. probability OF a repetition Of
that memorable event About all
that can be said Is that exceedingly
important negotiations are under way
between those who control the yari
Gus continental railroad systems. and
that these parties are earnestly work
ing to reach an understanding, eth
er by friendly means or possibly
through the courts. but not by con.
test In buying for control. The sharp
advance in Union Pacific was unanes.
the result of these move.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04
A TERRIBLE WRECK.


Terre IIaute, Ind. April 3.--Three
men and two engines and forty cars
demolished in headon collision Of
Vandalia freight trains at Locust Cut
today. The dead: Brakeman Ira
vaine. Richard Simmons. Frank Hick
ey. The wreck is attributed to mis-
Interpretation of orders.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04
DEATH or PRINCESS EDWARD.
BY the Associated Press.

London. April Princess Edward
of SAKE Weimar. died today Of acute
pneumonia Princess Edward wag
morganatically married tn Prince Ell
ward in 1851. She was the daught 4
of the fifth duke of Richmond. Queen
Victoria granted her the title of Prirt
cess Edward of Saxe-Weimaf In Eng
land. while in Germany she held tho
title of Countess Of Dorm burg. Prin-
cess Edward was born in 1897.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04

cabinet, members of the diplomatic
corps. supreme court and congress
Leading women of Washington are
taking part in the fair.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04
PRAIRIE FIRES.


BY Associated Press.
Bassett. Neb.. April "a prairie
fire broke out today near Bassett and
burned a four mile strip of the prairie
from the railroad north to the Mo
brara river Thousands of dollars loss
was caused by fires burning numerous
buildings, The fire is under control.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04

Find Low Temperature.
Balloonists who ascended about ten
thousand feet In Europe found a tenn.
nerature Of 27 degrees below zero.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04
TO GIVE JAps A RECEPTION.

BY The Associated Press.
Port Arthur, April 5. Preparations
have been made To give the Japanese
a warm reception In case they again
attempt 10 block the harbor Vice
Admiral Toga was right In surmising
that Vice Admiral Makaroff Is res.
ponsiblc for the change in Russian ma
val tactics and for the inspiration Of
the Russian seamen.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04

Shoessrings are largely made from
the skin Of the beluea, or white whale.
which Is known cs "porpoise leather. .
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04

tccncluded on Second pagsl
- vsvsfuvrla candidate.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04

Concluded on second pags.i
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-04

Continued or Second Psge.)
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-16

People VINO do not sttldy the subject
sometimes get the idea that Grape
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pure cereal food made upon scientific
principles and contains no medicine
whatever.
Stomach trouble must be treated
thru taking away the bad food and US
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trouble comes from the use OF lm-
proper food, and science says that the
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the cause and use good food In Its
p,ace. Il am brain worker and re-
sorted to the habit of drinking strong
black coffee for lunch to tone me up.
as / expressed it, ana the result was
that altho i ate a great deol of food
grew thinner and browner. until my
friends told me 1 really looked like an
ov4r-roas,ed coffee bean myself Then
began the use of Grape-Nuts food
and gave up coffee, for l found that
Grape Nuts gave me all the toninS UP
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healthier in every way and my brain
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/ began the use OF Grape-Nuts. The
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my friends assure me that l am act
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II first learned of Grape-Nuts thru a
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had known them only as puny sickly
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about by patent medicine as l had
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MY friend pointed out my mistake
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ana pleased me and / resolved to use II
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-16
DRURY IS DISCHARGED
Liscomb Farmer Charged With
Wife Murder, Set Free by
Grand Jury
EVIDENCE WAS NOT CONCLUSIVE
Robert Newcomb. Charged With Lewd-
ness, Also D,scharsed-John Drew
and Bertha Kirkland, Held For
Lewdness, Are lndicted-Jury Makes
a Partial Report This Morning.

Grant Drury. the Liscomb farmer. ar
rested two or three weeks ago charged
with the murder OF his Wit. left the
county Jail this morning a free man
The grand jury. in rartia! report
made early today. acquitted him of the
serious charge upon which he WAS
RACED in custody Drury received the
news of his acquittaf quietly. and while
he asserted afterwards mat he had al
no time doubted bu, that he would be
cleared of the charge, he was naturally
greatly pleased with the outcome.
Drury b,ames meddiiug neighbors ana
sossips for the time he has spent in
iail. and for the trouble and expense
ne has been put TO. H. returned 70
Ills home this morning.
Robert Newcomb. the aged prisoner
who was bound over upon the charge
of lewdness, was also discharged. Jonn
Drew and Bertha Kirkland, arrested
several weeks ago while Occupying a
room on North Center street, We're IN
dic.ed upon the charge of lewdness.
Paul Radloh. against whom an H.
formation was filed a few days aga
by +. +. Benedict. charging obtain
ing money by false pretenses. was also
indicted on that charge by the grand
Jury this morning. He was placed UNI
der arrest this afternoon at ] o'clock,
and was later released on bonds 10.