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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-26
Financiers to be Blacklisted.

Great fnanciers who achieve wealth
by oppressive and INSCRIPTIONS meth.
DDS will be blacklisted, and no more
funds will be sought of them by the
Congregational church, according to
DR.. Washington GLADDEN., who was in
terviewed at length on this theme
while attending the state convention
of his church at Sioux City last week.
DR.. GLADDEN. says their money will not
only not be solicited, but will be re.
jected when rendered. Though I
failed in my effort to get the gift Of
500 900 by Mr.. Rockefeller rejected
by the American board of foreign mis-.
sions," said DR.. GLADDEN., Il am salts.
fed that in the future Congregations.
alists will neither solicit nor accept
funds from him" DR.. GLADDEN. says he
looks upon Rockefeller as being in a
list by himself in this respect at pres
ent, but that others are rapidly get.
ting into the class whose money
is well known to be tainted" AS
rapidly as their methods become noto,
riously inscriptions they will he
added to the blacklist. The sixth an.
nuai session of the State association
of Congregational Ministers adopted
resolutions commencing President
Roosevelt and the house of representa-
tives for their efforts to curb the
trusts. Rev. o. D. Smith of Grin
nell presided at the first days
session. Mayor w. G. Sears delivered
an address Of welcome, and the con.
vention sermon was delivered by Rev.
A. l.. Frisbie of Des Moines.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-26
Elopement Causes Separation.

As q sequel to the sensational elope-
ment Of Miss Kate Downing and A. ].
Bailey from Marshalltown last week,
Miss Downing's parents have separat-
cd. MI. Downing believes his wife
aided in the elopement, and has dis
covered that a considerable sum was
spent for a wedding %trousseau. The
couple divided their property interests
and will apply for a divorce. They
have been very prominent in Marshall
town. Bailey was the business part
ner Of Downing until a short time ago,
when business matters were made a
pretext for getting Bailey both out of
the firm and away from the Downing
family. Bailey sold his business in
Sioux City to Downing and went
straight to Marshalltown, where Miss
Downing was visiting. The young
woman readily consented to elope,
Bailey is twenty-four years of age, and
had been counting Miss Downing fol
six months. Miss Downing is only
seventeen years of age.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-26
Saws Paderewski Is insane.

Professor Frank j. Fitzgerald, dean
of the music department of the Iowa
industrial school for girls at Des
Moines, declares that all professional
musicians are cranks and that Pad
erewski is insane. Professor Fitzger.
aid made this statement in addressing
the graduating class of the Emma Con-
s%ervatory of Music last week. Take
away the musicians musical ability"
continued Mr.. Fitzgerald. "and the
great musicians of the world are all
abnormal I do not believe there
is a group of physicians in the country
who would not declare Paderewsk in.
sane if he were sent to them for ex.
animation and did not possess his en-.
tr%aordinary musical ability"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-26
t,hcr c%onfesse::. md 1 was glad he LAD

thor confessn::.. md 1 was glad he Lad
come.
I'm love?' lie asked. NO boy ever
thinks unless ne's in love-"
In troGole," SAIL.
Same thing" lie an5wered, lighting
his pipe. Love is trouble with a bit of
sugar in 1.-THE sweetest trouble q man
can have. What's the matter?"
Its a great secret" 1 said; II have
never told it. l am in love-
"knew IT," lie said, putting at hts
pipe and smiling in q kindly way. Now
let's put in the trouble.
"Si.e does not love me- l answered.
"Glad of it," he remarked. "I've got
a secret t. tell YOU
"Wliat's that?' l inquired.
"Wouldn't tell anybody else for the
world, my boy" he said; 'its between
you an me-
Between you an me-" 1 repeated.
Well he said, you're a fool"
"That's no secret" I answered, much
embarrassed.
"Yes, it isl he insisted; you're
smart enough an We can have most
anything in this world II We axe the
right road. Ye've grown t. be a great
big strapping fellow, but you're only
sixteen?"
That's ALL" 1 said m%ournfully.
"Ye're as big a fool to go falling in
love as I'd be. Ye're too young an
I'm too old. 1 say to you, wait. Ye've
got to go t. college,"
"College!" l exclaimed incredulously.
Eyes, an thet's another secret" said
he. Il toll David Brewer what /
thought o. your writing thet essay on
bugs in pertickler-an' l toll i'm what
people were sayin' O your work in
school,
"What d. he sayY 1 asked.
"Said Hope had tol' him all about it
that she was as proud O. you as she was
NV her curls. an 1 believe it. Well
says l, " oughter sen that boy t. col
lege.' Coin to- says lie. He'll go t.
the 'cademy this fall if he wants to.
Then he can go t. college soon's he's
ready Threw up my hat am shouted,
l was that glad"
AS he spoke the old mans face kin
died with enthusiasm. In me he had one
who understood him, who saw truth in
his thought, music in his verse, a noble
simplicity in his soul. l took his hand
In mine and thanked him heartily. Then
we rose and came away together.
"Remember," he said as we parted at
the corner, there's q way laid out fer
you. In Gods time it will lead tc
every good thing you desire. DOM
jump over the fence. Don't try t. pass
any milestun fore ye've come to it
Don't NOPE. Keep yer head cool with
philosophy, yer feet warm with travel
an don't worry bout yer heart. II
won't turn t. stun If We do keep II
awhile. Allwus hev enough Of it about
ye t do business with. Goodbye
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-26
HAPPENINGS IN IOWA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.
Former Trusted Employe of the Des
Moines National Bank Under In
dictrnent on a Charge of
EmbezzIement.
Embezzlement.

Carl NJ. Spencer, a former trusted
employe of the Des Moines National
bank. was indicted by the federal
grand jury last week on a charge of
ENLIGHTENMENT and for alleged fraudu-
lent entries in the banks books. The
amount of %Spencer's alleged shortage
and for which he is being prosecuted
will not exceed $4,000. There is
. pathetic story in connection with
S%pencer's confession, which he made
prior to the indictment. For many
years annually he had been taking an
invalid son East for medical treat
ment. He had been unable to meet
the expenses incurred by the medical
attention and to save the boys life he
took money from his employer. An
other clerk suspected of the theft, for
which he was subsequently dismissed
from the bank, is completely exonerat-
cd by Spencer's confession.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-26
"%FSshtn'r" he asked.

Its q bad way n answered, Il
do not think he ought to come here.
Hopes a child yet, and we mustn't let
her get notions"
"I'll tell him not t. come any more"
said David as he and Uncle Eb rose to
! 60 to their work.
"I'm 'frald she ought not to go away
to school for a year yet" said Eliza.
beth, a troubled look in her face.
"Pshaw, motherl Ye can't keep her
under yer wing allwus." said he.
"Well David, you know she is very
young and uncommonly"- She hesltat-
ed.
"Han'some," said he. 1--WE might as
well own up If she is u child"
"If she goes away" continued Eliza
beth, some of US ought t 60 with her"
Then Uncle Eb and David went to
their work In the fields and I to my
own task. That very evening they be-
gan to talk Of renting the farm and go.
ing to town with the children.
I had q stent Of cordlng wood that
day and finished it before 2 o'clock.
Then I got my pole Of mountain ash,
made hook and line ready, dug some
worms and went fishing. I cared not
50 much for the fishing as for the soil
tude Of the woods. l had a bit of
thinking to do. In the thick timber
there was a place where Tinkle brook
began to hurry and break into muir
murs On a pebble bar as If its feet were
~ <tnly1od A Pop roora otono md ~ ht,rof
into q peal Of laughter that lasted half
the year as 1t tumbled over narrow
shelves Of rock into q foamy pool.
Many a day I had sat fishing four
hours at the little fall under a birch
tree among the brakes and moss. Nc
ray of sunlight ever got to the dark
water below me-the lair of many q
big fish that had yielded to the tempta.
ton of my bait. Here / lay in the coo,
shade while a singular sort Of heart
sickness came v 9 me. A wild par
fridge was beating his gong in the near
woods all the afternoon. The sound o1
khe water seemed to break In the tree
tops and fall back upon me. I had lair
there thinking an hour or more wher
I caught the Jar of approaching foot
steps. Looking up, l saw Jed Feary
coming through the bushes, pole II
hand.
"Fishin'Y' he asked.
only thinking" I answered.
Couldn't be In better business SAID
, he % he sat down beside me.
xors than ones hs had been my "a
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-26
Terrific Race With Death.

death was fast approaching, y
writes Ralph F. Fernandez, of Tampa,
Fla., describing his fearful race with
death, 'as a result Ct liver trouble
and heart disease, which had robbed
me of sleep and of all interest in life.
l had tried many different doctors aud
several medicines, but got no beEeit,
until | b gan to use Electric Bitters.
So wonderful was their effect, that in
three days l feltlike a new man, and
today | am cured of all my troubles. y
Guaran'e d a p. A. Clemmer's drug
store; price SOC. F
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-26
Uses Two DRUGS,

With two emptied bottles of lauda-
mum and carbolic acid on his breast,
the dead body of Ollie M. Newman of
Savannah. Mo-, was found, in. a room
in the ELK lodging house at Sioux City.
On the pillow was a pathetiesnetesEAy.,
ing that ill-health had driven him to
suicide and requesting that his pa.
rents in Missouri be notified. 1t was
learned that Newman had been in
Sioux City for several months and was
supposed to have been a sufferer from
tuberculosis. He was about twenty,
three years Of age,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-26
Recovered His Runaway Wife.

A. w. Prinz traced his clipping wife
from Sioux City to Lincoln, Neb., by
means Of a quaint old Dutch trunk
which she took with her. Joseph DELI
sen, a former boarder at the Prinz
home, ran away with the woman. He
was not with her when the husband
overhauled her, and Prinz made no eff
fort to find the man. but left at once
with his wife for their home at Sioux
City.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-26
Army peserters Arrested.

James Farney and Luke Congl on,
charged with desertion from the Unit
ed States army, were arrested at st.
Louis last week and turned over to
the military authorities at Jefferson
Barracks. They will be taken to the
military post at Des Moines. Farney
was sentenced in 1901 to serve ten
years in the Alcatraz, Cal, military
prison for desertion from the Twenty
seventh volunteer infantry in the
Philippines, during a native insured
ton on Jan. 18, 1901. Recently he
knocked a prison guard senseless and
escaped. Congleton is charged with
having deserted from the Columbus,
O., barracks last January.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-26
ALLEGED silk Thieves CAUGHT,

Through the arrest of Chris Ritter
and a man named Jackson, the police
Of Marshalltown believe they have
gained a clue that will unearth an or.
ganized gang of silk thieves that has
been operating all over Eastern Iowa.
Robberies were committed at Marshall
town, Davenport, Cedar Rapids. Gin
ton and elsewhere, similar in all re-
spects. The men are accused of
robbing the E. R. Lay department
store of silks and laces to the value of
nearly $1,000. The police claim they
have recovered part of the goods.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-26
To Land Agents and Homeseekers

Tie Chicago Great Western Rail.
way will on May 2nu and 10th ard
Tune 9Th and goth sell Hcmeseekers
Tickets to the North, Northwest,
South, Southwest al d East at greatly
y, ~ u mav a rd.f sard and f soth a arnp' f h1Se
18th and 9th Aomeseekers tickets
will be sold to points in Minnesota,
the Dakotas and Canadian Northwest,
Fer further information apply to any
Great Western Agent or j. p. Elmer,
|G P A st. Paul, MINI. june q
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-26
Private Soldier Sent to Prison.

Private Mcclure, a trooper in the
Eleventh United States cavalry at
Fort Des Moines, has been sentenced
by court martial to serve two years in
the government prison at the army
post for forging an army canteen check
and at the expiration of his sentence
will be given a discharge certificate
marked "dishonorable."
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-26
chlnaman Appeals for Protection

Charlie Win, a Chinaman at Bows,
Ia, has appealed to the federal au-
thorities for protection from highbind-
ers, who threaten to kill him unless he
pays them $500. He has received
numerous letters, some of which
threaten death and others a return to
China. These letters were written by
Cinnamon in Iowa, who are believed
to be members of a gang operating
from some Western city. Fong Vim of
Rockford, Ia. has also been threat.
ened.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-26
lime Given.

I have this day given my minor son
Fred II. Kaatz, aged l8years, his time
and will hereafter claim none OF bis
wages nor will be responsible for any
debts or contracts he may make.
Date Cresco, Ia. May 18, 1905,
74t3 JULIUS KAA TT,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-26
Low Rates to Portland. Oregon, Via chlea

Low Rates to Portland. Oregon, via Chica-
go Great Western Railway.
Tickets on sale frequently beginning
May 23rd Till Sept. 29th. Also very
low rates t Seattle, Tacoma, Belling-
ham and Eve etr, WASH, Victoria
and Vancouver, Is. G., and San Fran
cisco, Los Angeles and San Diego,
Cal. For low rates, dates OF sale and
other inf QImation arp'y to any Great
Westerl Agent or j. P. Elmer, G.. p.
a., st. Paul, MINI. sept 20
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-26
Doctors Puzzled In birth Case.

DoctofS PuzZIed IN Birth Case.
Mrs. William Darby. who was mys-
teriously shot in the head two weeks
ago at Hooking and who has been I'M
conscious ever since, has given birth
to a child, which is perfect in every
respect. Doctors say it is the first in.
stance of the kind known.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-26
Ida Grove School the Victor.

At Iowa City, Ida Grove high school
last week Won the Iowa high school
field meet, making SO 1-3 points. East
Des Moines was second, with So; West
Des Moines third, 26 20: Sioux City
fourth, II,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-26
!. Police Protect Bride,

Lest the pupils of the bride. who was.
a teacher in the Highland Park col.
lege at DesaMoines, should interrnut.Y
her marriage eeremony-b by -a-demon.
stration, a dozen policemen formed
picket. lines about the house swktiesi
Miss Helen Longwell was naEried:rto rs
e. W::4Walay. "A band of. several afun-r ~
drodastudents was kept back bystha.sS
police. s4I A1tl-.s III seo::
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-26

|T[HE love of labor was counted a
great virtue there in Far
|MMSSisSl away. AS for myself, ] could
l0AASy never put nv heart in a hoo
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-05

Bad habits have been known to grow
on people who never even had warts
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-05
sparrows blamed for Fire.

indianapolis, Ind. = The English
sparrow is long suffering bird, and it
has been held responsible for many
things, but Rosedale, village in
Parke county, brings forward a new
charge against the bird. A fire that
startled the town, called out the fire
department and stirred up things gen.
orally, for it was very windy day
and there was danger of many homes
being destroyed, is traced directly to
the work of flock of sparrows. They
had carried straw. hay, feathers and
other light material to a hollow tree
which stood near residence A
passing engine communicated a spark
to the inflammable mass, and soon
there was a lively blaze in the tree.
This set fire to the roof of the house.
The homes of the sparrows were de-
stroyed, but the people of Rosedale
give them no sympathy.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-05
A BEGGAR WHO
WAS A GENIUS
NEW YORK POLICE CAPTURE
KING OF MENDICANTS
SOCIETY FOLKS HIS VICTIMS
Methods of Obtaining Money Reduced
to a System-Had a Private
Secretary Who Was Also
Arrested.

New "Hochstabler" Troebner,
transformed a little, cheap department
of graft into a profession, is in prison
here awaiting arraignment on a num-
Der OF complaints which James Forbes,
of the Charity Organization society,
hopes to lodge against him. The
greatest mendicant that ever lived, and
a genius in his line" Mr.. Forbes calls
him. According to his own story, and
according to the evidence which is pill
ing up against him, he has cleaned up
tens of thousands of dollars in the past
four or five years, and the full list of
his victims would read like a social
register of New York. He has lived at
expensive hotels and has blown in hun
dreds and thousands in a night on East
side stuss games and western faro
banks. Under arrest with him is his
secretary, "Sheeny Ike" Whites, to
whom he paid $25 a week to attend to
the clerical work of his mendicancy
business.
His real name is Herman W. Troeb-
ner. He is also that same "Adolph
Baron Won Manteuffel,' who was SEN
fenced for six months in New York in
1902 for obtaining money under false
pretenses from wealthy families OF
New York. At one time in his life he
was also prof. Max Muller There is
real Baron Won Manteuffel as we'll as
| a real Max Muller. Thereon hangs part
of the tale.
At the age of II Herman Troebne1
was very bad little Saxon boy His
parents couldn't do anything with him
SO they shipped him off to America in
care of his aunt. Mrs. Rosa Adler. who
kept a small hotel on the East side in
New York. She gave him up after q
year or two and shipped him back. He
soon returned and his relations with
his aunt closed. she says, when he
pawned her diamond earrings and
went on down the world with the pro
| ceeds. He tried all kinds of trades and
eight years ago he was a pedler OF
! matches in Philadelphia.
In that town he fell in with the
| "schnorrers," who haunt certain cafe:
| and make their living by touches
These are the persons who approach
| charitable and sentimental Germans
with tales about the dead baby 1yins
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-05

unburied at home or the sick wife who
needs medicine. Troebner became a
tirst-class schnorrer. 1t was not a year
before he had carried the business to
heights never dreamed of by ordinary
members of the craft
At that time he was a rather hand
some young man of about &c. His fig
ure was slight but elegant. and his face
had a suggestion of breeding. From
some reduced gentleman who haunted
the schnorrer dens he had picked I'D
little learned patter and brushed up
his high Dutch. Me began his opera
lions as professor of Sanskrit from
Heidelberg or Leipsic University men
and especially professors, were his
prey.
He would get to them with a forged
letter or introduction-in at least one
case from President Eliot of Har-
vard"-and give touching yet digni-
fled spiel about remittances which had
failed to come When the victim was
wise and asked questions, he usually
showed his ignorance of Sanskrit and
Heidelberg. But, somehow. few asked
any questions. He had hypnotic way
with him. The victim simply reached
for check book, drew for the amount,
received the professors thanks and
promises to pay-and was kicking HIM
self ten minutes later. He cleaned UP
the University of Pennsylvania. He
worked Princeton Systematically. There
are reports about the college town that
he even approached Grover Cleveland
with what results the ex-president al
ways refused to say.
The mendicancy officers have infor-
nation that Troebner's earnings" in
New York alone. during the four years
preceding 1902, were $4,000 Since his
release from Jail in that year, his in
come has probably been much learger
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-05
GOTHAM YOUTHS SLAY
A MONSTER REPTILE.
Big Boa Constructor Causes Stampede
Among Police When Taken
to Station.

New York.-A giant boa constructor.
l feet long and as large around as a
mans thigh, was brought into the
West Thirtieth street police station the
other day by a crowd of boys, headed
by Arthur Williams and Edward Hop
per. They declared they had found
the reptile alive on Fifth avenue near
Fifteenth street and had beaten it to
death with clubs and cobblestones. A
crowd of two score boys burst into the
police station, two of them carrying a
gunnysack. We'll, what's the matter
now?" said Sergeant Wilson. languid-
ly. The boys turned the sack upside
down, and as the glistening coils of
the serpent slid to the floor there was
wild stampede for safety.
Capt Cottrell, who had been standing
in the door of his Office, disappeared.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-05
DUEL BY AVALANCHE.
Rivals in Love Agreed to Novel Pact
but Alpine Fates Escaped
Them

Geneva.-Two young Italians, nameo
Guetta and Sorato, both in their teens,
and living in little village near Bel
linzOna, fell in love with the same girl,
who is said to have liked both suitors
equally well.
The young men, after many serious
quarrelS, decided on an original plan
to settle the dispute. Informing theil
parents that they were going on an ex-
cursion to the mountains, they set out
for the Splugen pass, which is notori-
Gus for its avalanches at this time of
year.
Choosing the most exposed slope,
they agreed that each should stand for
two hours every day (between 9 and II
q. M, the most dangerous time). in
the path of the avalanche and allow
fate to decide their destiny.
For three mornings these conditions
were carried out, but nothing serious
happened, though several avalanches
came down the slope, but not near
the foolhardy youths.
On the fourth day an enormous ava
lanche passed near Guetto. who was
knocked down by the rush of air, but
not hurt.
AS the young men had no more food
left, they retired to the village to pro-
cure some, but the authorities got wind
Of the affair and threatened them with
imprisonment. The youths then de-
cided to draw lots for the girl, and So
ratio won. Guetta left the village and
the young couple were married.
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A reporter had business outside, and
went by way of the window. Reserves
and plain clothes men vanished.
In few minutes the boys and the
dead snake had the premises to them
selves. Finally from under the desk
came the sound of Sergeant Wilson's
voice:
Say. is that thing alive?"
When assured the snake was dead,
the crowd returned one by one.
Suddenly the door opened and two
policemen entered holding up a
drunk" they had picked up on Seventh
avenue. he man emitted a yell.
There it is! Take it away" he
shrieked.
1t took a dozen policemen to get him
into the back room.
Williams and Hopper said they were
walking over the temporary bridge,
where a building is in the course of
construction. on Fifth avenue, near
Fifteenth street, when they saw the
snake in the gutter. They collected
cobblestones and heavy sticks anS
killed the reptile.