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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01

King Edward is said to be ANNOYED
when beautiful women enter into open
rivalry for his smiles. He might avoid
the annoyance by making them form
line.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01
MADDEN WILL FIGHT.
Determined to Have Divorce Regard.
less of the Cost.

Tess OF the Cost.
Lexington, KY, Aug. 80. = John E
Madden, noted turfman, engaged in a
legal fight in New York, Ohio and
Kentucky courts over divorce pro.
ceedings and alimony claim, and who
was held in contempt of the New
York court Saturday, held a confer
ence here yesterday with his attor
neys to take steps to press Madden's
suit for divorce in the local court
Madden says he now proposes to
fight to the finish" if it costs for.
tune.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01

The house in which Juliet is SUD-
posed to have lived at the time Ro
meo used to sing under her window
has been bought by the city Of Verona
for $4,000. The cable does not say
why j. Pierpont Morgan didn't bid
It in.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01

Luther Burbank suggests that men
be cultivated as plants are cultivated.
Men would hardly be worth the trou-
BILE. Plants have no innate deprayity
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01

That Massachusetts judge who says
an umbrella is private property doubt
less will forget all about it when he
happens to be out on rainy day.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01

Women, according to the declara.
! ton OF a. New York preacher, are
largely responsible for the rascality Of
the times. This is true. undoubtedly.
4 there were no women we are posi-
tive that not another rascal would
ever be born. js
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01

Russell Sage attributes his longev.
ity to his sticking to work. Clipping
coupons must be healthful as we'll as
a pleasurable exercise.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01

An eastern paper is discussing "the
origin of pie 1t may be observed
in passing. that everybody knows what
the destiny of pie is.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01

War has broken out between the Hin
Sing longs and the On Leong Tongs
IN New York. They ought to be
pinched
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01

The playful idiots who put apple
jack in a can of church lemonads
should have another kind of stick ap
piled to them externally.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01
WIFE is NOT MuRDEREss.
Woman Who Confessed to Poisoning
Husband Is Insane

Buffalo, N. Y, Aug. 3O.-The death
OF John A. Homer, the Buffalo merch
ant, was due to cholera morbus and
heart disease. and not to carbolic acid
administered by his wife. Mrs. Homer
gave herself up to the police on the
day of her husbands death, saying she
had poisoned him. She has been adj
judged insane.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01

P. Mammalian, the Hindu mission
airy, says wealth is the American peril.
He doubtless comes to remove as
much of the peril as he can
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01
Hit in the Eve with a ApnI.

Hit 10 the Eye With an Apple.
Echo, Mimi, Aug. 80 ~ While at play
n the street the ten-year-old son 81
Judge Pool was hit in the eye with
IN apple thrown by his Playmate the
blow rupturing q small blood vessel.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01

AS long as ]. P. Morgan likes the
companionship of that small grand
daughter. YOU can't make people be-
lleve he's bad.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01

Edmund Clarence Stedman says
there isn't much money IN poetry"
Nor in prose either, for that matter.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01
HOLMES HAS SURRENDERED.
Former Associate statistici.n return.

Former Associate statistician Returns
to Washington for Trial fs5 ss:
Washington, Aug. 30. ~ Edwin S.
Holmes, Jr.. former associate statis-
tician Of the agricultural department
who VI was indicted in connection with
the B cotton leak 'inYestig ton has
given himself up to the United statesf
marshal. 4. ISL
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01

Quinine candy is said to be nov.
city that the children cry for. What
we need now is pill that doesn't
have TO he swallowed.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01
BELIEVED HE HAS NOW sue
cEEDED IN ATTAINING HIS
OBJECT.
CONVICT RUINED HIS MOTHER
ROMANCE BEGUN IN WEST vlR'
GlNlA LEADS TO BATTLING
OF UNCLE SAM.

La Crosse, Wis, Aug. 30.-Love, an
elOpement, an irate son looking for
revenge upon the man who had ruined
his mother and his fathers family
these, it now develops, are the causes
that led to the arrest of Turnkey
Merch Childers of the La Crosse coun-
ty Jail late Saturday night, charged
with voluntarily permitting the escape
of Andrew Cunningham and Homer E..
Trainor from the Jail on Aug. l and
Aug. respectively.
The two men, with another still in
Jail here, are alleged to be members
of the famous Eddie Fay gang of post
office robbers, accused Of over 100
burglaries of posroffices in the North
west
Bought His Escape.
Fay was arrested several months
ago and taken to the Jail at GAINESVILLE,
Wis, but escaped, it is said, by the use
of $4,000 in buying the means to pro-
vide an escape, effected by the saving
Of prison bars.
1t was about six months ago that
Cunningham, Trainor and James c..
Crane were arrested at W;nona, MINI.
Inspector Fraser of the postoftice de-
partment had worked up a case
against the trio for blowing the post
Office safe at Stoddard. nine miles
from here, and asked that they be
turned over to the United States au-
thorities. This was done and they
were placed in Jail at La Crosse
On the night of July 80 Cunningham
escaped by saving through the bars in
time that saws were sent to him by a
mysterious woman, who had passed
bananas to him by permission of
Turnkey Childers.
Second Man Escapes.
On the night of Aug. Is Trainor es-
cared.
When the second escape was made
Inspector Fraser set upon an investi-
cation. And here the plot involving
the elopement came in. He received
mysterious woman who had visited
the Jail here, had something of inter-
est to say to him. He went there and
was told that the woman had told her
son on July 81 that she had "ar-
ranged" for the release of Cunning.
ham and Trainor by the payment of
$500
The sons story was to the effect
that Trainor and his pals dropped
into Clarksburg, w. Va, one day some
years ago and entered the hotel and
saloon owned by the St. Paul mans
father. Trainor had just been re-
leased from prison at Columbus, as
was afterward shown. He first
Met the Boys Mother
that day, and although they had no
money, prevailed upon the father to
allow the band to stay there in return
for some cheap jewelry that doubtless
had been stolen.
The mother fell desperately in love
with Trainor and he was given job
at the hotel. After time a daring
robbery was committed in the town
and Trainor fed. With him went the
wife and mother. She has been with
him ever since, living in the best of
quarters in Chicago, devoting her life
to Trainor and helping him out of ev-
cry scrape into which he has fallen.
Her son has followed her continual
ly, seeking for 9 chance to get
Trainor, and now it is believed he has
succeeded.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01

Even the president of glue com.
pany could not stick to his place. l.
is filled by new man.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01

A man may wear what he want.
to-" says ]. Pierpont Morgan, so
long as he pays his tailor" In that
harsh. qualifying clause is found the
reason why large number of men
don't wear what they want to.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01

Any fool can start war, but wise
men are needed when it comes to
deciding on the indemnity.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01

Judge Blizzard is running for Office
in West Virginia. He should be good
Eeated-term candidate
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01

Books come high in New York's SO
'clety, but it feels it must have at least
one line OF them.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01

An American bank has failed in
Manila. This shows that it is not q
matter of climate.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-01
The Maestro's Advice.

"The question is, Do you love him?'
No, ] dom t. 4
"I'hen marry him. by all means. II
you really loved him, II might inter
fere with your career. Puck.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-25
SULTAN IS FIRM
 IN HIS RELIGION
ADVISERS TELL HIM ISLAM WILL
 BE ANGRY IF HE SELLS TERRI TORY EXCEPT UNDER FORGE.

Constantinople. via Vienna, November 25.-The chief explanation of the obstinacy shown by the sultan of Turkey regarding the demands of the powers for the finan- cial control of the Macedonian vilayets. is to be sought for in his own peculiar char acter, said a prominent resident of Farm, a suburb on the north shore of the golden horn, known as the European quarter, where the ambassadors reside. The informant Is man whose long res- idence and studies of the Levant author izes him to speak with certainty. To a representative of the Associated Press he said
 While the sultain is of an arbitrary nature, he Is greatly influenced by his religion. The opponents of this religion who surround the sultan are densely ignorant of international politics, and they have succeeded in making the sultan be- lieve 1t is against the law and teachings of Islam for him to cede territory, ex- cept when compelled to do so by force" American readers should understand that Turkey is 300 years behind the rest of Europe that the sultan has absolute power; that his ministers are mere figure heads. and that all powers are confined in the hands of the sultan, or in those of his immediate entourage at the palace. the chief eunich. the Muliahs Cor priests), his fayorites etc"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-25
May Abolish Crop Bureau.

The Keep commission. in it's nvestga- tions, has reached the crop reporting bu- reau of the agricultural department, to which no chief has been appointed since John Hyde's departure.
 The proposal will be seriously urged that the bureau be abolished, it's 150 clerks transferred under the civil service to other bureaus in the department and its work be assigned to the weather bureau and the census office, both of which per- form a service now which. if properly combined, would practically duplicate that of the crop reporting bureau.
 It Is pointed out that the weather bu- reau reports, as complement of their weather observations. can report on con ditions of the crops more fully than now, and that the census office could report acreage through its special agents just as 1t now gets the cotton ginning.
 It is believed by some that this new ar- rangement will improve the service as well as effect a substantial saving At the same time the department of agriculture is believed to be too strong in Congress to allow the abolition of It's crop reporting division.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-25
WOMAN AND FIVE
 CHILDREN KILLED Husband is Charged With the
 Awful Crime
USED HAMMER FOR DEED
Wife Was Also savageIy Attacked With Knife, and Children Were Dispatched One at
 Time.

Des Mones, Iowa, November A.-Mrs. William McWilliams and her five chil- dren, ranging from to IS years of age, were found murdered this evening at their home six miles south of Independence, Iowa. The husband and father, William McWilliams, Is now under arrest at lnde- pendence, charged with the crime.
 The murder was the most brutal in the history of eastern Iowa. Evidently the mother had been killed while preparing a meal, probably dinner, for when the bodies were found food was on the stove cooking She had been killed by blows from hammer and her skull was terri bly crushed She had also been savagely attacked with a knife. After her murder the children had evidently been called in. one by one, and murdered in similar manner for all wore clothing that indi- cated that they had been at work on the farm just before death. The babe, not years old. when found still wore hood and mittens, and had In it's hand piece of buttered bread. One blow of the ham, mer had sufficed for it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-25
REFEREES MAY YET
 WIN THEIR FIGHT
Patent Medicines Contain Too
 Much Alcohol
10 ABOLISH CROP BUREAU
Keep Commission Proposes to Take This From the Agricultural De. partment and Place 1t Un-
 red the Census Bureau.

Washington, November 4.-(Special)- Charles H. Scott of Montgomery leaves tomorrow for New York to spend several days. after which he will return home to consult with Judge Jones over the ap- polntment of a marshal and dist.nct at torney in the Montgomery district and a marshal in the Birmingham discfict.
 MT. Scott believes that the President will follow the recommendations made by Col lector Thompson and him and appoint [. Pope Long marshal at Birmingham and E. J. Parsons and J. P. Burton district at torney and Marshal respectively at Mont gomery. MT. Scott announces that here after there will be but one assistant at torney in the Montgomery district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-25
Patent Medicines Contain Liquor.

Internal Revenue Commissioner Yerkes today made public the names of number of patent medicines now sold In drug stores without the payment of internal revenue tax and which contain a sufficient percentage of alcohol to make them tax. able under the law. The commissioner chemist has been analysing patent medi- cines and while the ingredients of al of them have not yet been passed upon he announces that druggists handling the subjoined list must contribute the regu- lar tax of $25 per annum:
 Peruna, Kundros, Rock Candy Cough Cure. Hostetter's stomach bitters. Gilbert rejunevating iron and herb juice, Duffy's malt whisky, Dr. Fowler's meat and malt, Dr. Dourrer's buchu gin, DeWitt's stomach bitters. Cuban gingeric. and At. woods la grippe specific
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-25
BOOKKEEPER TELLS SOMETHING NEW Andrew Hamilton Was Paid
 Sum of S59,3l0 AGREEMENT WITH PERKINS Madison Also Tells of Payment of $4ooo to Perkins as Profit on
 Loan to a Boston
 Firm.

New York, November 2.-Startling de- velopments were brought out at today 8 session of the Armstrong committee on insurance investigation in the course of a minute inquiry by MT. Hughes, counsel to the committee. into the syndicate trans actions participated in by the New York Life Insurance company.
 The most important witness of the day was Milton M. Madison, bookkeeper of the New York Life Insurance company, during whose examination 1t was brought out that In the case of the United States Steel corporation syndicate, the mana gers of which were J. P. Morgan & Co.,. there appeared in one instance profit due to the New York Life of $S71S7 from which was deducted, no retainer being given, the sum of s59,31o, paid to Andrew Hamilton, who has been described in the course of the investigation as the ''in- surance legislative generalissimo
 It appeared from records produced by Mir. Hughes that an account of J. F. Morgan & Co., with Hamilton showed that in December, 1901 that firm had advanced 
 October l. 1902, this amount amounted with interest to s5s,S10 and that it was then cancelled by the entry of that amount to Hamilton's credit. The entry of this amount in the account of the New York Life read "as per cancelled statement and agreement with MT. c. w. Perkins"
 It was also developed that the partici- Xorlr Life was effected through the New York Security and Trust company, by which one-fourth of the profits of the former company were retained.
 Pressed by Mir Hughes to tell whether he knew of any other instance of money due to the New York Life being paid to third party as in the Hamilton case, Mir. Madison recalled the payment in 1904 of s4oo0 to George w. Perkins representing the profit on loan of s930,000 to the Bos- ton firm of Kdder Peabody & Co. The profit witness said came In the form of a check on the First National bank which he cashed. giving the money to Perkins. What the latter did with it, the witness did not know No entry of the trans action was made on the books of the New York Life.
 Other witnesses examined during the day were George T. Wilson, fourth vice president of the Equitable; Francis D. Jackson auditor and Gerald Brown in charge of the bond department of the Equitable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-25
CHILD IS KILLED.
Freight and Passenger Trains Collide
 on Boston and Maine.

Wayland. Mass, November 24.-In col lision between freight and passenger train on the Boston and Maine railroad this afternoon, a child was killed, the engineer of the passenger train received fatal injuries and several persons were seriously hurt.
 Pauline Adams, year of age. dead. F. A. Clifford of Lowell engineer. leg broken, internally injured died at hospital. Mrs. Ernest Adams. mother of the dead child. injured internally.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-25
Another MutIny Reported.

London, November PA dispatch to Reuters Telegram company from St. Petersburg says 1t is persistently re- ported there that there mas been mutiny in the Black sea fleet. and that portions of the Sebastopol garrison have mutinied. killing the chief of stan and wounding a colonel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-25

sentenced for thirty-five years for first degree robbery Vaughan was member of the Morris Rosenaus gang with which three detectives fought a terrible battle on Chestnut street in St. Louis One detec- tive was shot dead and the other two de- tectives died later in the city hospital from wounds. Rosenaus was shot dead and Morris died subsequently from wounds Vaughan was badly beaten up, and after recovery was sentenced to the penitentiary.
 Louis, sentenced to three years for burg lary and larceny. Hiram Blake from Grundy county is also serving a three years sentence for burglary and lar ceny.
 George Ryan from Kansas City, Kan, "the ice box" man, is serving a sentence of eight years Eli zeigler from Warrens- burg was sentenced to three years for rob- bing dead bodiss ct . yajlgoad wreck
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-25
Refuse to Pay Taxes.

Kielse Russian Poland. November A. The population in various parts of the providence are refusing to pay taxes. The court houses and spirits shops have been sacked.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-25
Prevent Germans From Crossing.

Moscow. November A.-The Russo Slovo today prints dispatch from Warsaw say ing that Austrian troops in Galicia are ready to take trains for the frontier and prevent the Germans from crossing into Russian Poland.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-25
Sensational Turn is Taken in Mtriwether Case
BODY WILL BE EXHuMEO
The Defense Maintains That Physical Weakness Could Have Caused the Death of Branch Instead
 of Fist Blows.

Annapolis, November 24-One of the most remarkable incidents in the history of the naval courtmartial in this country marked today's session of the court which Is trying Midshipman Minor Meriwether, Jr., in connection with the fight between himself and Mdshipman James R. Branch, Jr. Rear Admiral Alexander H. Mccormick, next in point of rank of the members of the court to Admiral Ram say, It's president. was challenged by Judge Advocate Mark after the whole testimony for the prosecution had been submitted, a proceeding which the judge advocate said had never been taken by him in all his years of previous experi- ence, and of which he had never heard.
 The grounds for the challenge appeared after the beginning of the trial and were first that Admiral Mccormick had con- suited with a high medical authority Medical Director Thomas C. Walton, U. S. N, retired) in relation to the case; second, that he had by his repeated and continued cross examination of the pros ecution witnesses practically taken the place of the counsel for the accused; and third. he had evinced the possession of a. theory in the case which was so rooted that 1t would be impossible to move it by the evidence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-25
1t Is Els .,s PecuIations, WhIc. ave Covered Long Period, Will Reach
 Million Dollars.

Peoria H.. November 24.--Newton C.. Dougherty, former banker and president of the board of education, appeared be- fore Judge worthington today, pleaded guilty to five of the forgery charges against him and was given sentence Of from one to four years on each of the five counts of the indictments, the same to be concurrent. He will be taken to Joliet tonight or tomorrow.
 The prisoner accompanied by w. T. Irwin, one of his attorneys, his son Ralph and a deputy sheriff left the jail at l;So o'clock As he left the building Dough- erty said to the jaler:
 Many spectatorsePresent.
 Well I guess IT have to do it"
 In the court room there were 200 spec tators who had heard that the ex-educa- tor and financier would plead guilty. Att torney Irwin addressed the court He said that Dougherty had turned all Of his property over to him and that he 1rwin) had been given authority to set tie the affairs of the prisoner. He added that Dougherty's property would amount
 
 tions He admitted that Dougherty had been careless and that he stood willing to take his punishment
 Judge Worthington replied as follows:
 'I find 1t necessary to send him to the penitentiary as the law provides. It will be a severe punishment In count No 200 the sentence will be confinement in the penitentiary at Joliet for an indeterminate term not less than one year, nor more than fourteen years solitary confinement
 Tn counts 2l, 24O, 243 and PA the same sentence. That is all"
 Dougherty Looks Straight Ahead.
 While the court was speaking. Dough- erty looked straight ahead of him and did not move a muscle He said nothing when the sentence was pronounced. and was taken back to jail escorted by his attor- neys.
 Dougherty's action today was as unex- pected as 1t was astonishing, he having last week pleaded not guilty to the some charges
 This marks the closing scene of the most astonishing school fund robbery ever brought to public notice. For twenty five years Newton c. Dougherty as city superintendent and for nearly twenty years as secretary of the board had all most control of the school funds. He issued scrip and handled notes and checks as if they were his own property l. As president of the Peoria National bank he was enabled to cover up his peculations so well that from June 3O, 1904, to June 30, 1905, the school fund shortage amounted to s94.C00. While all the books of the board have not yet been examined by special auditing commit tee now at work, 1t is currently believed that the aggregate amount of money taken will reach Sl000,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-25
Robinson Gets Excited.

After Judge Advocate Mark had stat ed these grounds, Lieutenant Commander Robinson for the defense. jumped to his feet and addressed the judge advocate in d spirited tongue:
 Captain Mark" he said "I am . very young man. You wear more stripes on your arm than l can hope to do for many years, but -"
 At this point Captain Wainwright sug- gested that counsel address the court, and the exciting personal colloquy was averted.
 Lieutenant Commander Robinson, through Admiral Mccormick. suggested that the question was one for the im- mediate consideration of the court con tlnuing an argument to show that 1t was proper for a. member Of the court to ask such questions as he wished to elicit the facts in the case, and that to fail 10 ask questions along lines touching which they were doubtful. would be wrong. If the members of the court had asked any improper questions. the judge advocate should have objected to them at the time' he said.