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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-03-27

Mute reminders Of atrocious crimes IN
the annals of local police. numerous re-
volvers, bludgeons. razors, knives, brass
knuckles. pieces OF pipe and other weap-
ons arr TO be found in a case hanging
high up on the wall in Chief Clerk
Kemp's room at Police Headquarters.
Could they but tell their tales the most
sensational dime novel would be laid on
the shelf
With the weapons in the case are
linked the names of Dorsey Foultz,
George Bush, Mrs. John Shea. William
Briggs, Antonio Nardello, an italian.
and others who have faced charges of
murder within the past twenty years.
Banners taken from Coxeys army, bull
lets extracted from the bodies of muir
dered persons. apparatus and contri-
vances used by burglars. housebreakers,
and bank robbers. together with fake
internal machines and safe blowers
'layouts," are also to be found in this
case.
Bottles for Poison.
More gruesome than the above is the
collection of bottles which once con-
tanned carbolic acid, creohne. laudanum,
morphine, strychnine, and other deadly
drugs, as wen as the revolvers, knives,
razors. and different weapons used by
persons in ending their lives. Coroner
hewitt has few OF these in his Office,
some collected by him, and others found
there when he took charge.
Detective Proctor, at Police Head
quarters. who has Investigated the sale
of hundreds of bottles of poison used
by suicides also has a few of the walls
that could tell interesting stories of
love. strife. hardship, poverty. oppres-
sion. and faithlessness were they gifted
with the power of speech. In murder
cases. the police are compelled by the
courts to hold the weapons as evidence,
] If the case proves TO be an ordinary one
the weapon is turned over to the prop
/ erty clerk. who waits until he accumu-
/ lates about a hundred and then send
them TO Harbormaster Sutton, who loads
them on the Vigilant. the police boat
and dumps them in the river, about ten
/ miles down. Weapons taken on Of per
sons charged with carrying them con-
! cealed or openly with intent to use them
| are also destroyed by the Harbormaster
/ When a suicide is Investigated and the
/ sale Of the drug is in accordance with
the law, the bottle is usually thrown
away, unless the case is an extraor-
binary one. Then Detective Proctor OF
the Coroner keeps them. Where weapons
are used. the relatives of the person
who commits suicide apply for II and
/ receive IT. When no application is made
/ the weapon is destroyed or dumped into
\ the river.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-03-27
Attracts Attention.

The case in Mr.. Kemp's room attracts
the attention OF every one who ever
visited Police Headquarters. The clerks
in the ONCE are piled with questions
until they become weary and refer their
questioner 10 the little red book on the
desk beneath the case. All OF the ar
ticles in the case are numbered. Upon
examination it can be seen taat OF re-
cent years the police have either failed
to collect gruesOme mementos or there
has been a scarcity Of them, rs nothing
has been added for several years.
No. IN the case IS found 20
be a Jimmy left at the residence OF
Albert Richards. New Jersey Avenue
and NJ Streets southeast. and is sup
posed TO have been the property Of Bill
"" Williams an alleged adept at hand
ling that useful tool
The stone used by Daniel Montford in
numbering William j. Murphy on DC
tober 10 1888 lies on the ledge Of the
case with blood stains distinctly visible
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-03-27
An Interesting History.

No. has an interesting bit OF his
tory It is a large brass lock. which
formed part Of the fastening on a box
which contained ST. 900 worth Of jeweIry
stolen from the residence Of Lieutenant
Tyler The principal thief in this case
received a sentence of twenty years in
the penitentiary.
The knife used by John Daley in muir
dering Judge J. c. G. Kennedy at the
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-14
BOSTON MARKETS.

With crops beyond the danger
point, with securities at the highest
point since May, 1903, and with many
factories starting up the business out
look grows better.
The butter market has not mate
rally changed. Quotations remain at:
Chicago 20; New York, 20h; Boston,
211sc. The situation is firm on the
best grades though some of the under
grades are weak and the general sit
uation is more quiet. The Boston re-
ceipts last week were 1,313,926 pounds,
decline of 10000 pounds over the
receipts of the previous week. Pro-
duction Is getting below the consump-
tive demand and in New York storage
stocks have been drawn on somewhat.
The Oct. / stock on hand in that city
is estimated at a little less than year
ago. The statistical position of butter
is healthy, and if speculation does not
send prices too high there ought to be
favorable condition during the sea-
son.
Choice nearby eggs are firm, but all
others are easier. The eggs in storage
in the four leading markets of the
country are estimated at 1,44o,ooo
cases against $4,000 at the same time
last year. The New York Produce
Review says this is more than can be
reduced to a safe figure by January
1st under any normal conditions OF
trade. This makes the market some
what depressed.
The cheese market shows an ad-
vancing tendency and has strong
tone.
Apples are dull except for the best
table fruit. The crop is large one
and receipts are heavy. l was IN
some of the apple regions in New YORK
state last week and found apples sold
as low as so cents per barrel. the buyer
to furnish barrels. The exports since
the opening of the season have been
81. 900 barrels. Cranberries are cheap
on liberal receipts. Grapes are plenty.
Peaches are holding out later than u.s.
ual
Prices of vegetables show an ad-
vancing tendency. especially potatoes
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-14
Farmers Must Demand II.

Green hills and yellow butter are
two staple articles in Vermont. The
vermonter will do well to adopt these
coIors for a state badge. Let him I'M
derstand, however, some Of the things
they should not stand for. Take that
new and greatly needed building for
the dairy school at the Vermont ag-
ricultural college for example. The
Vermont farmer should not be green
enough to imagine that the building
will ever be built unless the farmers
demand it and work for it. Let him
also understand that the farmers
must show no yellow streak in their
courage, but push on with bold front.
No one will do their fighting for them
without demanding a bigger price
than the fight is worth! Keep at them.
Long experience has taught us that
battles of this sort are not won by
trying to deliver one knockout blow
and then going to sleep. 1t is the con-
slant jabbing and thrusting that tires
them out. Keep at them.-Rural New
Yorker.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-14
CHESTERFIELD.

The earlier arrival of the mail car
riers is a great satisfaction to all.
Henry Hammond has just finished
stating the south side of the Congre-
gational church
B. C. Thatcher was nominated for
representative at the caucus Monday
evening. A good choice.
The fruit crop for this season is i'm
mense and hundreds Of bushels of APP
pies will rot on the ground. In fact,
crops of all kinds have been abundant.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orrin Fowler and little
daughter of Keene visited here briefly
this week on their return trip from
Brattleboro where they had been to
visit her sister, Mrs. Thomas and fam
lily and her parents, DR.. and Mrs. d.
F. Randall.
Henry S. Wilder of Mt. Tom, Mass,
made brief but pleasant calls on old
friends here last week. He still runs
the telegraph office, being its first OPP
orator, we think, many years ago; has
a store, express office, ETC., evidently
doing a good business and correspond
ingly appreciated.
Mr.. Berrie, formerly an assistant in
the Brattleboro asylum, visited Mr..
and Mrs. j. C. Hubbard and other
friends last week. He has an important
position in an asylum in Middletown.
Conn, where the dining room seats
1850 patients. His long service in such
institutions makes his services of spec
ial value.
Uncle Cyrus" Hildreth has closed
his house here where he has lived for
some two years and after visiting with
relatives and friends in Brattleboro
will go to Grand Rapids, Mich, where
he will enter the soldiers home for
the winter returning in the spring.
We shall all miss his CHEEKY face, but
shall look for him in the spring and
hope his winter with the veterans will
be a pleasant one.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-14
Henry Britton is machine tending

Henry Britton is machine tending
at G. A. Robertson & Co.'S MILL
F. e. Cutler has given up the meat
cart and is firing on the railroad.
Charles Stafford entertained his
brother Frank of Keene over Sunday.
E. ]. Temple married Claude Spear
and Maud Hawks of Manchester re-
Gently.
Frank Stebbins and wife have re-
turned for a short visit at the brides
parents.
George A. Stevens is to move into
the Church street tenement of the
Fay estate.
Mrs. Mae Crowley Bunce is visit
ing at John Donovan's after her
wedding trip.
Postmaster Barrows and her moth
er enjoyed a three days stay in Dub
lin last week.
Mrs. Jondrow is to move into the
old Hunter house, to have more room
for her boarders.
Mrs. Charles Stearns is quite ill
and is being cared for by her sister,
Mrs. Lyman j. Wood.
There will be a parish meeting of
the Universalist church Monday
evening to consider the resignation of
Rev. H. G. Roscoe.
George p Hooker sustained recent
" some slight bruises and cuts from
a log breaking while walking over a
ravine in Guilford, VT.
Prof. Herbert S. Streeter of Green
field, Mass, will organize dancing
classes at the town hall next Monday
afternoon and evening.
The republican caucus Saturday
evening nominated F. A. Davis and
James O'Brien as representatives to
the general court by almost unanimous
votes.
F. S. Leonard, o. c. Robertson, z.
&c. Robertson and w. S. Adams at
tended the tissue manufacturers
meeting at Fifth avenue hotel, New
York, this week.
Invitations are out for the marriage
of Carrie Judd. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Newton Stearns of this town, to
Frank Barbour Ballard of Barre, Vt,
to take place at noon Oct 81.
The baseball association organ
lied last week Thursday with F. II.
Fuller, president; W. J. Curran, vice
president; w. o. Amidon, secretary
and treasurer; and o. c. Robertson.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-14
HIN SDALE.
A peIiahtfuI Country Fair-The Town
Hall Furnishings.

Naomi chapter, No. SO, o. E. S,
held its second annual Country fair
in the town hall Thursday evening.
Exhibits of farm products were DIS
PLAYED in profusion, almost equal TO
the agricultural hall at the large fairs,
with the advantage of not having 10
see so much of it before one can get
out. A most notable exhibit OF odo
books owned in town, was contrib
uted by Father Ling, Mrs Addie Dix
and Mrs. d. C. Minis; also fancy work
in profusion, relics, antiques and
curios. The public was held in sus-
pense as to the identity of the char
acters in the two-act comedy, Slab
town Organizes an Aid Society, until
Mrs. Tilden appeared as Mrs. True;
Miss C. B. Howe in a nice piece of
character work as Lydia, the dear
woman; Mrs Kimball as the hired
girl was quantity comical and Mrs f..
J. Richards as Mrs. Jellaby, Mrs. Eva
Fay as Mrs. Simpkins, Mrs. Gray as
Mrs. Peters, and Miss Temple as Mi
randa Floribel adj doing well. H. c.
Holland as Uncle Doolittle, the lone
man in the play and oldest inhabitant
told lies in very life-like manner.
Three hours dancing followed the
play.
Il
the committee who had it in charge
to furnish the hall, as these furnish
ings were used for the first time
Thursday evening. The need was evil
dent of having tables, dishes and
kitchen utensils put in the dining
room. rather than that each society
giving suppers should be obliged to
move and remove these articles for
each occasion. Last spring the ques.
ton was agitated and a paper drawn
up for private contributions, many
pledging support, when it was decid-
ed to first bring the matter up in
town meeting. Two hundred dollars
was voted and a committee of four
ladies and two men, representing most
of the societies of the town, was APP
pointed to administer the fund.
Through its efforts a complete outfit
was placed in the dining room and
curtains hung in the audience room.
Rev. Father Ling is on two weeks
vacation.
Mrs. Lester Clark will move soon to
Brattleboro.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-14
He Knew How.

Superintendent of the Public
Schools Maxwell of New York was
one day showing off his pupils to a
crowd of visitors.
Can you make a Maltese cross"
he asked of a bright-eyed boy.
Yes, sir" answered the boy readily.
you see," said the delighted Max
well. this boy knows how to make a
Maltese cross. Well" to the boy,
make one"
Il can't right here" replied the
puzzled boy.
why not?" inquired Maxwell.
How do you make a Maltese cross
anyway"
The boy put his finger In his mouth.
Il pull its tail" said he.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-14
Beans
Tomatoes are much higher.

Tomatoes are much higher. Beans
continue firm.
Beef and pork are firm for best quail
titles. Fat hogs are well sustained in
the leading markets of the country
Poultry is easy under full receipts.
The best mutton holds its own.
The hay market is easy on all but
the best grades. The edge Of the
speculative movement in wheat is off
on reports of a larger acreage. The
lumber market is quiet to steady. Wool
Is a sellers market with prices adj
vancinp G. NJ. w.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-14

Judson Strong, a wealthy real estate
OPERATOR and DIR. Benjamin Jackson,
an X-ray specialist, both Of SPRING
field. Mass. were shot by DR.. E. j.
Belt in the Office of the former in that
city Saturday night, Oct. s. DR.. Belt
then committed suicide by drinking
carbolic acid. He was crazed and de-
spondent by drink and had previously
threatened to kill his fiancee, Miss
Dumas, at his own office. but she es-
caped. DIR. Jackson Is recovering
from his injuries, but Mr.. Strong Is
critically i'll in the Mercy hospital.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-14
The Cow and Her Kick.

She makes a pound of butter,
Or maybe more, a day,
Because she's fed on silage
And bran and clover hay;
She is high born and queenly,
She makes the old farm pay,
But If you treat her badly. she
Can kick in the same old way.
-Elgin Dairy Repori
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-14
Fond of Work.

Your husband doesn't seem to like
work very much" said the summer
boarder.
That's where you wrong him." said
the woman with the sunbonnet on.
He likes work fine. Only he always
wants 1t done by me or one of the
girls. Evening Star.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-14

r, A. Weeks and L. S. McField, direc-
tors. Over 100 membership cards
have been taken and more are being
pledged daily to the 90 cents per
month dues
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-14

and so on up to any amount.
ing good, reliable goods from the best max
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-14
EAST DOVER.

Mrs. E. A. Roberts treated some Of
her neighbors to warm maple sugar
on snow yesterday. Oct. Is.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-14
We are Going to Celebrate!

Celebrate known woman and child
within radius oil Is miles Of Batteboro
this month made our initial bow TO the puone
Bnbo and surrounding quickly lime flies when you're
We've been busy
phenomenal
the giving
leading Cther rs and ufts OF TINS s "" e
the best town WhoH m
We've dreHab
we up promises
we advertised tuhuly
enterpising and obfging.
Good goods make goods The BEST STORE OURS
and shall
OUR GREAT jubilee
Starts tomorrow ancudg Monday 49, 1905
During Clothing furnishings oeS
TmnksSu Umbrellas made Bratebon
more immediate
not luck we have been and and lots reasonable prices
have rdeommo and showing appreciation
earliest and earliest date and hour
When coupons are
ed
The during Jubilee Will
$1,000 gold piece
Remember these valuable in addition
Watch Jubilee There will be lots interest you
J., FENT
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-14
YEARS in BUSINESS
$500 in Prizes and Money!

addition Jubilee teOobT - TO January
1oue are going 5 anniversary business 0y
Giving Away Over $500 in Prizes and Money.
Commencing tomorrow and including JAM TO- 1906 we WIN sNe
the cash purchaser Of every dollars with duplicate
and estimate OF the NUMBER OF Poo
contained in case in north window
You NAV out the coupon land The original to deposited
These window gay a"
pennies Gulf
dntnca will
Beautiful $3.50 ESTEY PIANO.
contained in the case
set of
watch
ndsome
e+h har
leather
OF
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
TEA TABLE CHATTER.

Among the presents given by the duke
of Norfolk to his bride Miss Maxwell,
was a sable wrap costing $4,000.
Mrs. Harriet S. MacMurphy, of Oma-
ha. Neb., will conduct a restaurant for
dvspeptics at the st. Louis worlds fair.
She is widely known as lecturer on do
nestle science
A manufacturer of women footwear
in Lynn, Mass, has an order from Mrs
Bradley Martin for shoes to be made
and shipped to her across the Atlantic.
The order is for 81 pairs of dress shoes
made to her own last These shoes must
match Mrs. Bradley Martins gowns,
and that this may be made certain
pieces from the materials Of which her
gowns for the season are to be made
have been sent to the manufacturer.
One of New York's wealthy women
has this year become singing teacher,
not for the sake of the money she might
earn nor purely from her interest in the
art. The desire to keep together the pu-
pills of teacher who is Ill led her to
take the care of them herself. So her
classes now meet at certain hours week.
ly in one of New York's handsomest
homes to take their singing lessons
from a teacher whose income is GER
tainly not less than $4,000 year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
FRILLS OF FASHION.

Light-toned velvets are much in de-
mand for ball gowns.
Ribbons will be extensively used for
millinery purposes this spring.
There will be a golden CLEAN to all
the trimmings of the coming season.
In the newest fur trimmings ermine
is ingeniously combined with darker
furs.
Gauze or tulle strings are predicted
on the dressy creations in spring head
wear.
Walking suits of wolfe on the order
of the French tailored style are the
latest.
Brittany embroidery adorns some Of
the collar and cuff sets SO much In
vogue.
For spring and summer the waist OF
Persian lawn will take precedence in
the cotton group.
Short, double-breasted Jackets, fitting
closely in the back and loosely in front
appear on the best spring suits.
Popular patterns for buckles are the
butterfly, Grecian head, ivy leaf with
medallion and Louis XVI. designs.
A new combination for belt buckles
and jewe1ry specialties is that of col
ored iridescent enamels with light sill
yer or gold
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
DISTINGUISHED FOREIGNERS.

The London Chronicle says that Car
Nicholas, one of the greatest of living
monarchs, is also one of the smallest
from physical point of view.
Rear Admiral Sotokichi Uriu, who is
taking a prominent part in Japan naval
operations against the Russian fleet, is a
graduate OF the United States naval
academy at Annapolis, which he entered
in 1877, remaining four years. He was
a most diligent student, popular and
deeply religious.
The Turkish minister, Chekib Bey, has
a cottage at Saville and when there, it
is said, he works nearly all night, only
retiring when the other members of the
household are preparing to arise. He
then retires and sleeps until three
o'clock in the afternoon. During his
sleeping hours no one can see him, 1t
being an objectionable act for even any
member of the household to disturb his
slumbers.
H. J. Thaddeus, the celebrated Eng
lish artist, is on visit to this coun-
try Mr.. Thaddeus has painted many
european C6I0UI1Il6S, luCluuluS lAC
pope, and is now taking a rest. When
he paints he usually keeps up running
fire of talk with his subject, thus reliev-
ing the painful rigidity of feature which
usually follows long silence. Thad-
deus, besides being an artist, is racon-
teur of decided ability.
Kaiser Wilhelm, the man of many
roles, is sustaining still another char
acter, according to those who have ex-
amined the new sculptured figure of Dan
iel on the facade of the cathedral in Metz.
Returned travellers say they had no
trouble in deciding that the face pre-
sented as Daniels is that of the reign
ing emperor. Unofficial newspapers
have limited at it but plain folk talk OF
the matter openly.
It is related that many years ago
gypsy fortune teller foretold the fates
Of the king of Denmark's daughters.
One, she said, would become a queen
empress, another the empress of large
empire, and the third should have a
queenly title without throne. The
princesses are now Queen Alexandra,
the dowager empress of Russia, and the
duchess of Cumberland, whose husband
ii he had succeeded to his fathers crown.
would now be the king of Hanover
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21

saw a few new race coats, and a great
deal of lace, l notice, is worn in con-
junction with white and champagne
shades of cloth, with beautifully en-
broidered trimmings.
Perhaps the most striking feature of
the spring modes is the quantity of
lace used on everything, but especially
on headgear. The lace veil or scarf
that drapes the brims of the hats and
falls into a curtain behind has become
an inevitable feature in millinery for
the moment. Some people look very
charming in these lace effects. 1t is
owing to the fact that lace scarfs and
wells forms a complete trimming in
themselves that so many OF the new
shapes in vogue are very simple.
The "Shepherdess" shape and the
old Dolly Warden" still continue de
rigueur, while the plain, straight lines
of the old masters, with the addition
of strings in some cases, give evidence
of the excellent taste of the Partisan
milliners Nothing after all can be
better style than these decisive lines
in beautifully light, fancy straws, Leg
horns and crinolines, rendered soft and
becoming by this drapery of old lace.
The simplest Breton sailor has same
scarf-like arrangement on it, say, a
simple twist of gauze in shaded brown
chiffon with broad border, which can
be tackled or pinned on with fancy
pins round the crown and the brim and
allowed to fall over the face or over the
couture at the back, as desired by the
wearer These wells are peculiarly fas-
cinating. and, if we'll arranged, exceed
ingly chic; they are tremendous i'm
provement on the old idea of a thick
lace veil coming from poke bonnet!
Some of these curtain" effects make
the plainest hat thing of real beauty,
Tor nothing is a more becoming back
ground for either young or old face
than chantilly or gauze. Possessors of
old lace wells have already the essential
part Of the chapeau of to-day.
The scarf and the veil are truly in
iicative of the early Victorian period
AS seen in old-world fashion plates we
do not perhaps realize their beauty,
but to-day what Americans call the
cunning" arrangement of these scarf
like wells in lace, net, silk, gauze, ETC.,
with a deep border. forms part-an
absolutely essential part-of the cha
peau.
Very beautiful are the colorings used
to-day. The fancy for browns and yell
lows has not disappeared, and it is ex-
traordinary how lovely roses can be
mixed in dozen shades from darkest
brown to brightest orange. blended
with tulle and lace, and forming an ex-
uuisite example of color study.