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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-07-08
Blaine and HI. Hostess, Gale.

About twenty seven years ago the
late James G. Blaine was invited to
dine in a certain city in EASTERN Maine,
where he happened to be on business
His host had married a second wife
more noted for beauty and wealth
than for intelligence. 1t was near the
middle of March, and storm was
coming on, which, the husband re
marked, would probably be an equi-
noctial storm.
What do you mean by that? Is il
the same as the line gale?" she asked.
The husband replied in the aff1rma-
tive, and in reply to further questions
told her it was usual to expect storm
twice a year, when the sun crossed
the equinox.
THAT day at dinner" said Mr.
Blaine II remarked upon the severity
of the storm, and my hostess, with an
engaging smile, replied: Yes, Mr..
Blaine, isn't it singular that we al.
ways have such fearful storm when
ever the sun crosses the Penobscot 2
Before I could frame reply my host
in tone OF mild surprise exclaimed:
You don't mean the Penobscot, dear,
and she at once said: oh, no. How
stupid of me! / meant the Androscog-
GIN "-BOston Herald.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-07-08
Leaves Prison in a Box.

Jefferson City, Mo.-Harry Ham
mond, a convict in the state peniten-
tiary, sent up from st. Joseph in 1898
for Is years for murder in the second
degree, escaped the other night in a
shoe-box, and but for the fact that he
had failed to provide sufficient air.
holes would probably be a free man.
Hammond concealed himself in the
shoe-box in the prison factory and was
started on the trip to Chicago. At
Cedar City, just across the river from
Jefferson City, the box, in which he
was securely nailed up, lay for some
time on the station platform and the
agent heard groans coming from the
box. The box was opened and Ham
mond was taken back to the peniten-
tiary. He said he knew he was TAX
ing long chance when he entered
the box, but he regarded anything as
preferable TO prison life.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-07-08
SCIENCE NEARING PLAGUE
Avenue of Commerce from Damascus
to Mecca Now Nears Breeding
Place of Disease.

The railroad from Damascus to Nee
ca has reached Maan, on the pilgrim
route, nearly 800 miles south of Damas-
Gus, and not far from the head of the
Gulf of Akaba, and a celebration was
recently held at that point, in which a
deputation from Medina, where Moham-
med's body rests, took part. The pri-
mary purpose of this railroad is an
nounced to be the assistance of pilgrims
on their way to and from Mecca. But
it will also possess strategic value for
the Turkish government, which is push
ing 1t, and for the world at large it is
Of Importance because it cannot fail to
let the influences of civilized life into
a region sadly in need of them. Mecca
has long been notorious as breeding
place of cholera and other epidemic dis
eases which spread over the globe.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-07-08
! N2WHRE
81 ME,


cial delegates of the German mutes
but accompanying them, though un
burdened with credentials from his
silent cOuntrymen, came mute of tai
ent and renown through all the father
land, Rudolf Janik.
"Lipgens, who had achieved grea
prominence through the formation Of
club bearing his name "a branch Of
the deaf-mute Masonic order known as
the League of Elect Surds), seized
upon the distinguished visitors from
Germany, and when they came to New
York gave them big banquet at the
Arena. @ ~
"But Loew also was at the head of an
organization and had invited the dele
gates to attend reception given BY
the Union League of Deaf-Mutes or
the same night that the Elect Surds
held their banquet.
1.-THE delegates went to the Surds
dinner and in twinkling fingers told
of their joy and happiness. But they
did not go to the Loew society's recep.
ton, which was a sioomy affair as a
result. :
"Yet they would have been there
claimed Loew, had not the busy fin
gers of Lipgens, writhing like snakes
poisoned their minds against him.
Whereupon he was deeply Inundated
perhaps the more because the greater
mart of tho oynonco Of tho Iooo,,o,c 70
ception had to be borne by him per-
sonally.
"It hurt him especially because
Wutzulik was an old friend of his
whom he had entertained during a
similar congress of deaf-mutes at the
Chicago worlds fair; and when Lip
gems accompanied Wutzulik to ST.
Louis and back again to New York
and never let him go near Loew all
the time he was in the country Loew
writhed with anger.
Then he turned for consolation to
Janik, the unofficial delegate, who
having found New York to his liking,
decided to follow his profession-por-
trait painting-here.
Idle Fingers Again.
HE became friendly with Loew, and,
Lipgens claims, was by him influenced
against Lipgens. At any rate, idle
fingers that had nothing better to dc
than to gossip conveyed to Lipgens
bullying eyes the news that Janik had
been talking about him. So when
Janik applied for admission to the
League of Elect Surds it was Lipgens
who blackballed him.
"The enraged Janik was seen by
Loew about this time, and was pre-
vailed on to apply for membership in
the Union League of Deaf-Mutes,
which he did, being elected. Now a
tie bound Loew and Janik that moved
them in one direction-revenge on
Lipgens, and, if two heads are better
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-07-08

Gently. Mr.. and Mrs. Loew spend
their summers with the Sonneborns
at Long Branch, where they drive the
smartest rigs and entertain largely.
1.-The other defendant-plaintiff in the
case is almost equally well known, and
among the deaf-mutes perhaps even
more prominent than his septuagen-
arian opponent. He is Wilhelm Lip
gems, a German with a trade, or, per-
haps, an art, that makes him unique
among craftsmen. He engraves upon
gold and silver by process all his
own, and since his arrival in New
York four years ago has been en-
ployed at very high salary by Tiff
fanny & Co. He had been in this coun-
try less than a year when he became
known to fame by personally present
ing President Roosevelt with silver
dollar on which was the efigy Of the
president in rough rider dress on
horseback, for which Mr.. Roosevelt
spoke his thanks in German, Mr.. Lip
gems understanding the movement of
the lips when they frame words in his
native tongue.
"Mr. Lipgens is married and lives
with his wife who, like him, is deaf
mute, and two thoroughly normal and
unusually bright children in fashion
able apartment on Washington
Heights.
"As soon as Lipgens came to this
country he became fast friend OF
Loew. The latter was the first prom
inent deaf-mute to welcome him. tc
New York, and their families became
closely associated. Dinner parties, at
which the elite of deaf-mutedom were
present, social affairs Of every kind.
made the Loews and Lipgens families
well known and popular, and the
friendship between them grew strong
er and stronger.
But the break came, a chasm was
formed that can never be healed, and
will only be widened by the courts.
probably. 1t started in simple man
ner.
Zone evening Lipgens was a guest
at Loew's house. The conversation
came, somehow, to the honors that
had been heaped upon Loew by the
emperor of Austria, Francis Joseph
With fingers that twinkled with pride
Loew told how the emperor, recogniz.
Loew married deaf-mute daughter OF
Lonas Somehow, retired millionaire
merchant, who lives in West Eighty.
sixth street, and has two children, the
son, strange to say, being a deaf-mute
like his parents, it being unusual fol
the affection to descend from one
generation to another. Young Loew
however, became deaf-mute through
illness and not as direct Inheritance
Their daughter, a beautiful girl Of Is
possesses the faculties of both speech
and hearing. One of Mrs. LOew's sis
tiers married q son of Meyer Guggen.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-07-08
1t Is on the Fall Calendar of the New
=. 49,. York State Supreme Court. x III:
DEAF MUTES FOR PRINCIPALS AND WITNESSES
Testimony to BE Taken in Foreign Sign Ian.
guages and Translated Into English-Prob-
lem for Judge and Jury-Story
of the Quarrel

New York.-The most remarkable
suit ever tried in a court of law will
besheard when the New York supreme
court takes up its autumn calendar.
Yet to say that the case will be
heard is not stating the exact facts
for the testimony will be given in that
most silent form of all silence-the
sign language of the deaf-mutes. Both
the parties to the case are muteS and
all the witnesses, of whom there will
be SO or 60, are likewise afflicted, SO
that the story Of the trouble that has
landed them in court will come from
the fingers instead of from the lips.
But this is not the only remarkable
feature of this unusual case, which is
further complicated by the fact that
some of the witnesses cannot "speak"
English, so that a great deal of the
testimony will have to be given first
In the sign language in German, then
translated into English, again into the
sign language, and finally to spoken
English, so that the court and the jury
may know what is going on.
With a situation like this the posi-
bilities to arise from the case are un-
limited, and the tribulations of the
presiding justice, the jury and the
counsel for both sides may better be
imagined than described at this time.
AS for the audience, it is promised a
most unusual event.
Case of Wide Interest.
The New York World, commenting
upon this remarkable case, says:
Eighty thousand deaf-mutes in this
country, and fully as many more in
Germany, Austria and France, will be
affected by the outcome of the case,
whatever it may be, for the parties at
law are both among the most prom
inent mutes in the world, and what
ever interests them will interest their
fellows in the United States and Eu-
rope.
1.-THE belligerents are both prom
inent in New York city, where they
reside. There are two suits, one
brought as an Offset to the other, so
that both parties are plaintiffs and
each is defendant. And, most Gu
rious point of all, considering the fact
that everyone connected with the af-
fair is a deaf-mute, the twin suits are
for-slander!
1T would be hard, then, to conceive
q more intricate, complicated, para
dOxica1 Situation than nracontc ;tcolf
now.
Jacques Loew, one of the plaintiff
defendants, is well-known resident
Of New York, which he has made his
home for the past 80 years since he
came from Austria. Although a deaf
mute, he is an expert worker in leath-
er and plush goods, and made a good
living even before he became a part
ner in one of the biggest concerns
manufacturing these goods. For a
score of years he was a prominent fig
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-07-08

What shouted Loew's right hand,
while his left reached for the desk
drawer in which he kept the tokens of
the emperor's esteem. You doubt
me?'
"Lipgens' fingers spoke the doubt
that would not allow him to believe
any sort Of proof of his friends asser-
lions, and they parted for the evening.
The usual Good evening, come again,
was not mOtioned in the hall. The
breach had! begun. 1t was only small
leak in the dixie of friendship, one that
could have been covered by the aglIe
hand of either Lipgens or Loew. !.
But Loew's hands were busy ex-
pressing his outraged, feelings, while
Lipgens', if Loew's suspicious be cor
rect, were mischievously busying
themselves in spreading the Islander
that Jacques Loew's Austrian honors
and decorations were bogus. I
"The rupture once made took the
erstwhile friends further and further
apart as time wore on, and the fingers
once raised and wagg1ed in kindness
we're now trembling spasmodically as
each of their owners dilated on the
faults of the other.
The eliminating Point.
'"The eliminating point was reached
last summer, when the Worlds Con-
gress of Deaf Mutes was held in st.
Louis.
From Germany to attend the con-
ference came Herr Albin Maria Wat
zulik, distinguished mute, who occu-
pies the post of superintendent of the
government printery at Altenburg, in
Saxony; and Martin Czempin, repre-
senting the many deaf-mute organiza-
tons of Berlin. These were the off,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-07-08
llPGENS

empire skilled mechanic nemed Yen
Shin was brought into his presence to
entertain him and the ladies of his
court. Yen Shin had some automatic
figures which not only were capable of
dancing, but of accompanying their
movements with song.
During the performance the puppets
cast such significant glances toward
the ladies that the emperor became an
cry, and ordered the execution of the
originator of the play. The mechanic
ripped open the puppets and proved to
his astonished majesty that they were
artificial. Instead of being executed,
Yen Shin was allowed to repeat the per-
Torrance, which corresponds to Punch
and Judy in England and America.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-07-08
PUNCH CAME FROM CHINA
This Character and Judy, So Popular
with Little Ones, Date Back 1000
Years Before Christ.

Punch and Judy dates back to about
1000 years before Christ.
When Emperor Mu, of the Chou dy-
nasty, was making tour through the
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-12-03
ASKED TO BIZ KILLED
Dwyer prefers Death 10 Undergo
Ing NomenIary Insanity.
RESTORED TO REASON
His skull Crushed by a Steel Rail,
For lime the Man Was a
E1,ing Maniac. aud Had
Abscess ON Brain.

Ann Arbor. Mich. Dec. 4.-Restors e
from seemingly hopeless lunacy 10 COM
plete sanity by surgical operation al
the University hospital. william Dwy,r.
In a momentary period OF control after
being placed on the operating table.
begged the surgeon 10 kill him with
his lancet n Il appeared that he would
always have 10 be- crazy.
Two years ago. In a smelter furnace
at Portland, y. Dwyor's skull was
crushed being hit by a steel rail AT
e. an apparent recovery he becam. q
month ago a ayiug maniac. In the op-
fration 10 was demonstrated that bis
mental trouble was entirely due 90 600
Hbscess ln hls brain This was succrs..
fully removed and silver plate about
two Inches square fitted In the hole
that the surgeon had made in the skull
Then the scalp wac sowcd iu place and
the patient b. woll ou the way back 10
his former usefulness
Dwyer is thirty-nvc years old and
has wife ana two children
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-12-03
POISONED HIS SPOUSE
North carolina Physician AeenseG
Of Terrible Crime.
DEED WAS DREADFUL.
While Mrs. Mathews Suffered -nothr:
Doctor Charges the Husband with
secretly Injecting Drug
Into Limb Of Lady.

Greensboro. ~ c.. Dec. 2-Dr. J. B.
Mathews. well known physician, was
arrested here on q warrant charging
him with the murder of his wife. who
died Friday night after suffering ex-
cruciating agony for more than twelve
hours. The warrant was Issued by
Mayor Murphy. Mrs. Mathews death.
according 20 Dr. J. T. Turner. the COR
oner who was called 10 her bedside.
resulted from "a dose Of strychnine. fol-
lowed by "a potion Of morphine. which
Coroner Turner alleges was adminis-
tered % the woman by her HUSBAND
Dr. Mathews was arrested. u main-
tains that while he prescibed for his
wife be dil so in the hope 81 allevilt-
Ing her pliu. Coroner Turner who
swore out the warrant againJt Jr
Mathews. makes sensational ,r- es
against Dr Mathews in conn, ION
with the scenes boz the dying woWau's
room.
Dr. Turner alleges that after sur
fering f.r hours the dying woman Gi
rected Deer Ian-year-0II son 90 seek ONE
other physician her husband. accord.
ing tD f.. uurUuers story. having re-
fused fu summon one. Dr Turner.
who Was the rrsJ to reach the stricken
womaus bedside. diagnosed the oHe.
Hs one of poisoning. and at ono. lI-
ministcrHI Iu.iIotes. which failed f1
have thH desired effect. As tha ,..
upurolcHaI Dr Turner alleges t..
husband entered the wife, bed room
and asked ur. Turner 10 Doe might knee
ut the bedside and ruy with bis wife.
requesting Dr. Turner meantime to
leave the room. which Dr. Turner poe
fus t0 do. Dr. Mathews kuelt 40 IIF
wife.s bedside and cIaspiug one of D..
wifo's hands Boo his. prayed iu "a voice
plainly audible throughout the room
Continuirg. Dr. Turner says. De disc
covered his patient was writhlnC iu
pain and approaching the bed le
threw back the coyerlets and charges
that he discovered "a hypodermls syr-
inge hud been plunged into "a limb ~
the woman He says De seized the syr-
ings and drove Dr Mathews from the
room. Mrs. Mathews died "a few mo-
mcnts later and the coroner's jury was
notified Both Dr. Mathews and hIs
wife are well known here
Mathews stoutly insists that H. had
no intention ~ taking his wife's lifo.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-12-03
FAVORED BY DRAKE.
Thinks All Local Life Insurance Com
panies Should Be Examined.

Washington. Dec THE regular ex.
animation OF life and fire insu -ano.
companies In the light OF Insurance
developments IN New York and th,
general revision OF Insurance laws fo'
national capital Is recommended o..
Superintendent of Insurance Drake iu
his annual report 10 the commission
ers OF the District OF Columbia SUI
erintendent Drake says:
In my judgment. all local life In
surancc companies. associations an
fraterual orders should be examined
annually and all companies be exam
ined triennially or oftener II deeme
necessary. The wisdom OF this cgu
be seen daily In revelations made o.
the legislative investigating commit
tee In the investigation that Is now be-
Ing made OF life insurance compaui.
In New York or 227 companies %.
censed thirty are local corporation
Only five Of the thirty thus far ha,.
been examined = the department Boo
detailed way on account OF the lack l.
funds and adequate force"
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-12-03
REVOLT CEASES.
Number Of Prisoners Taken Exceed.
Two Thousand.

Two Thousand.
81 Petersburg Dec. The follow.
ing dispatch from Vice Admir-
Chouknin at sebastopol was given ou,
"rhe reyolutionIsts counted on q
complete success. assuring the sailor.
and soldiers that the could remain 10y.
al servants Of the emperor. while pre-.
sentiug their demands and that q wa.
not necessary for them 20 use vloleng.
BY acting together they were told
they could not far 20 succeed.
"Only the ringleaders were acquaini
81 with the real objects Of putin.
forth economic preteNts on service
bases. the majority of the men be-
lieving that arms would not be en-
ployed.
The crews on board the ships re-
mained loyal Terrorists. incmdIn,
threats OF death. was used 10 force the
workmen Of the post O strike.
The tempest Of war has ceased. bui
not that Of revolution. The Russian
people are being led uncomprehend-
ingly into civil war and self-destruc-
ton"
General Baron Meller Gakomelskv
commander of the Seventh army corp-
OF Sabastopol. telegraphs on Friday
as follows; Armed revolt ceased. Am
the troops behaved brilliantly and per
formed their difficult duty devotedIy.
The number OF prisoners exceeds 9 900
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-12-03
PHYSICIAN ACQUITTED.
Or. meLes5 Adiudgsd Not Guilty In
Suit Case Tragedy

Sglt Case Tragedy.
Boston. Dee "a verdict OF uu,
guilty was reported iu the superior
court by the iur which Io.berat,d bon
the case of ur Percy u MeLa1I
charged aif. being accessory after .U.
fact 20 aH il.gal operation vh.gH r..
suited Boz tH. death OF susanue a.
Geory tho victim OF the suit case trar
edy. and with concealing the crime
The prisoner was discharged The oH-a
was given to the jury at 4.45 O'Clock
Friday afternoon aud conclusion
was reached at 1915. In accordance
with Instructions 81 Judge Stevens. tua
verdict was sealed
William r. Hunt and Louis W Craw-
ford. who pleaded guilty several days
ago Co the charge Of being accos-or-
les after the fact 90 tho illegal opera
tion were then brought into court EagI
was sentenced hy Judge Stevens to r g.
less than six years nor more than eleya.
years ln state prison.
when th, verdict was announced n
Or Mcleod case. there was pro.
uounccd stir throughout the court room.
accompanied by suppressed applau
which the judge imm. diately supprs-s.
ed. The clerk of the court then told
Dr Mcleod he was free Judge steve t
at once ordered William T. Hunt l.I
Louis W Crawford % be brought into
court Tor sentence They were broug
in without delay Their counsel ask .
that they be- given as light sentence
possible On view OF the circumstane
OF the case and the aid they had given
the authoriries in solving the mystery
connected with the tragedy Judre
Stevens t.en pronounced ,.e sDa-
tFucp
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-12-03
LIMB TORN OFF.
Negro Girl Dead and Five Persons In
iured OWING 70 Wreck.

Zwolle. Ia, Dec. "A disastrou,
wreck occurred on the Zwolle and
Eastern railway. IN which six peopl.
were injured. one fatally. three serious
~ and the others slightly. The main
line log train ran into a tree that had
fallen across the track. smashing ur
the locomotive. a box car behind II and
five loaded ears. Engineer Slmpso.
and Foreman Hayes remained IN thu
cab and escaped.
negro girl whose name could mo-,
be learned had one leg completely tori
from her body ana died shortly after
ward. Her mother had a leg broken
Serapho Calvin. "a Mexican. had his
thigh broken. Louis r. Cay. Jr.. was
bruised about the face and two un-
known men were injured on the body
and head
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-12-03
LEEDS IMPROVING.
II Is Denied That He viii Sever Con
neetion With Reek Island.

New York. Dec daniel G. Reid
chairman OF the board OF directors OF
the Chicago. Rock Island and PacifI.
Railroad company. said Saturday that
the condition OF William B Leeds
formerly president of that road who
recently suffered an attack OF paraly-
SIS, was improving MT Reid deui %
that Mr. Leeds had decided some tim
ago 90 sever his connection with CO.
Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific Raj
road company. or that Mr. Leeds r
Gently uquidatcd the bulk of his hold
iags OF IL securities.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-12-03
Bankers Prevent Break.

81. Petersburg. Dec. 2.-The fright
ened public continued 10 unload stocks
on the bou-e Friday. but the bankers.
In view Of the better outlook. took the
offerings and prevcn'ed a bad break.
although imperial o. closed one-half "a
point dow d.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-12-03
Fou- q Crew Urownvu

Vera Cruz. Dec. THE nri. harF
Ia Reganona collided with ro..
twenty miles from this port and uul.
almost Immediately. -Four ~ her Grey
we're drowned. The balance 81 tlo fsh-
ermen wc-o rescued by the launch
Olympia. which came 20 the rescue
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-03-21
NOTICE OF REDUCTION OF
RATES.

The recent notice Of reduction in
rates to water and light consumer
will apply only to those customers
who are on raeters. All flat rates,
TOR both water and lights, and the
monthly minimum on water meters
remains the same.
The following schedule is the new
rate for water:
First 10000 gallons per month rs
cents per 1000 gallons.
Second 10000 gallons per month
20 cents per 1000 gallons.
Third 10000 gallons per month IS
cents per 1000 gallons.
Fourth 10000 gallons per month
IL 1-2 cents per 1000 gallons.
All over special.
Electric Lights.
On meters:
First 50 X. w. hours in I month 10
CelltS.
Second 50 k. w. hours in I month
s cents.
All over at 6 cents per k. W. hours.
Flat rates-5o cents each for 10
candle power lamp and all owe 5
must be used with meter.
Flat rates-Watcr.-Stores, Offices
etc., 50 cents per month. domestic
spouts, 62 cents per month.
Special rates made for special uses.
James Mcintosh,
w. F. Ewart,
c. T. Summer,
Board Public Works.