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Systematically and without coming un-
der suspicion A trip to Europe proved
his undoing.
MARITIME added to his income by work
as ''parlor entertainer" He got $25
a night for this, and SO pleasing was
his personality that he seldom failed
to convert his patrons into admiring
friends. He has appeared in the houses
of John d. Rockefeller and Grant B.
Schley. He stage managed the en-
tertainments at the West side Y. M.
c. A., where he was highly esteemed.
MARITIME, whose right name is said
to be Martin, came to- this city from
Baltimore ten years ago. He is %
years DID, and is known as one of the
'smartest dressers" in town.
In the West Side police court MARITIME
was brought to answer a charge of
grand larceny preferred by his en-
ployer, w. A. Laughlin. Edward H.
Hobbs, counsel for the haberdasher,
said the stealings of Mr.. MARITIME in
the five years he has worked for the
concern are not known, but he was
charged with the theft of $500.
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State Topics Briefly Told.

Inmates of the Sheboygan aims
house have protested to the board of
aldermen against being served with
oleomargarine. They demand butter.
There was panic in the Nelson res
taurant at Racine caused by an expIo-
sion of gas. The shock tore the wash
room to pieces, set fire to a tablecloth,
and filled the room with smoke Many
guests fed to the street, but no one
was injured.
Fire DIT Muscoda destroyed the two
story frame hotel and saloon of the
Gund brewery at La Crosse, loss $4,000.
From New York city, where he has
been for several months past, the Rev.
S. r. S. Gray, rector of st. James Epis-
copal parish of Manitowoc, has for
warded his resignation with request
that the resignation become effective
in the immediate future. 1t is probable
that Mr.. Gray will not return.
The Chronicle, the only morning
newspaper in La Crosse, has been sold
to r. B. Gelatt and Fred G. Cowles.
The new owners took possession imme-
diately. The paper has been owned
for the last four years by w. S. Car
gill. The Chronicle will be continued
as moruing Republican newspaper.
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RICH AND ELDERLY BUSINESS
MEN THE HEROES OF ROMANCE
Guido in Age Deeds Which Usually Are
Associated with Passionate
Youth.
CHICAGO MAN TRANSFERS WIFE TO SON.
Stepmother Had Won Love of Youth. and Fa-
Their Resigns His Bride-Marital Mixups of
Two Eastern Millionaires

thing, inasmuch as my wife and
seemed Incompatible"
Freedom Her One Thought.
So eager was the pretty girl from
Michigan to marry her husbands son
that she made no contest, though she
had lawyer to represent her. All she
wanted was her freedom-and her Ed
ward! She blushed as she owned up
to her love-the frank, honest blush
of a pretty girl who has at last found
out her real romance.
I'VE were married last December"
she said with just a little wistful
smile, and came to Chicago to live.
There / met Edward, my husbands
son. After the first week l was not
happy, / realized that / didn't really
love my husband Our ideals were not
the same. One evening after dinner
tainted. Edward rushed to catch me
in his arms. Then | really knew which
one loved"
WELL remarked the court, TO
come to the point, you didn't care
whether your husband left you or
not?"
The little country girl hesitated. For
a moment her lips trembled and two
little tears coursed down her cheeks.
Well she faltered, Il guess don't
care much! No, am not sorry that he
wants to give me up. have been en-
tirely indifferent to my husband, and
/ found it too hard to pretend to love
him when | didn't really care for him"
do you think you are on the right
track now?"
Eyes, that's it,, sighed the little wife.
II am on the right track now, Judge"
'sAll right" announced the court. Il
think it would be wise to grant the di-
vorce. You are sure you like the son,
Edward"
Yes, quite sure" sighed little Mrs.
Twitchell. Il think | love him very
much"
And such is the romance of the
Twitchells, father and son.
Captain Appleton's Romance.
Everybody in Boston who knows
anybody, knows Capt. Nathan Apple
ton, one of the famous Appletons. He
is millionaire, soldier, clubman,
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COURT ENDS SITTING
WISCONSIN SUPREME BENCH AID
JoURNS UNTIL MAY s.
TO DECIDE IMPORTANT CASE
Validity of Inheritance Taxation Law
in Question Membership n Mil
waukee Chamber of Com
merce More Valuable.

Madison.-The Wisconsin supreme
court finished its sitting for this
month and adjourned to May s, when
it will take up the final assignment of
cases on the January calendar for ar
gument 1t will probably be able
to render decisions on the final as
signment and clean up all other work
before it early in June. AS the roof
on that section of the capitol building
occupied by the court leaks it has
been decided to replace it by a new
one, but this work cannot well be done
while the judges are at work either
on the bench or in their chambers.
One of the most important cases to
be heard at the next sitting is that
of Henry Nunnemacher against the
state, which involves the validity of
the present inheritance taxation law.
The case was first argued on December
Is last, but the court asked for re-
argument on several points. The next
assignment of eases is as follows:
Nos. 125 to 1873, inclusive, except Nos.
126, 1T, $50, and 1871; the cases Nos.
3, Z, Ii, Is, 16 and IT; 162 August cal
endar and SO and SO.
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Wisconsin, University Debaters Win.
Debaters from the University OF Ne
braska, which college has nine con-
secutive victories in intercollegiate de-
batting to its credit, met defeat at the
hands of Wisconsin orators at library
hall, Madison. The decision was
unanimous n favo: OF Wisconsin.
The question was: Resolved. That
in some Industries, at least in railroad
ing and mining, it would be good pol
icy to require employers to pay COM
pensation to their employees for indus
trial accidents. The affirmative was
upheld by Charles A. Saunderlin, AL
yah G. Hough and Earl NJ Marvin.
of Nebraska, and the negative was
supported by j. E. Baker, Harold
Geisse and Emil Olbrih, of Wisconsin.
The Affirmative presented as a cause
for action the immense number of
workmen who are yearly MANNED by
the railroading and mining industries
of the country. AS partial compen-
sation for the loss of life and limb the
affirmative proposed to inaugurate a
scheme of compulsory insurance.
They, however, failed to outline a
definite plan for accomplishing this
end and failed to refute the argu-
ment that the present system of pri-
yate and liability insurance provided
adequate relief and compensation for
injured workmen.
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a diplomat, traveller and an author.
He is a member of the famous Myopia
Hunt, and lives at the very smart Som
erset club. Boston, the most exclusive
organization of the kind in all New
England. He married in 1887.
One year later his wife left him.
There was no scandal-it was just that
they had agreed to disagree. No ex-
PLANTATION was offered to their many
friends, and after time the trouble
was all but forgotten.
But then Miss Edith r. Willis came
on the scene. She was young. viva
cious, talented, beautiful. From that
moment the gallant captain believed
that he had met his fate. He frankly
told Miss Willis that he believed her to
be his affinity, and he asked her to
marry him.
Yes she said, but it takes more
than whispered assent to make a
marriage. There had to be a divorce
first.
/ So Capt. Appleton has begun suit
after all these years. Mrs. Appleton
lives in New York with her confidant
since her separation from her hus-
band. Miss Katherine Parsons, of Vir-
ginia, daughter of Col. Henry Clay Par
sons. At first Mrs. Appleton said she
wouldn't contest the suit provided the
captain made her a suitable allowance
out of his wealth, but evidently the
two could not come to terms, for the
iccua has hnan ioined and the case will
come to trial. Miss Parsons will take
the stand in behalf of Mrs. Appleton.
This doesn't worry me" said Cant.
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New York.-Three men whose re-
cent romantic stories have made their
names household words are Thomas
w. Kiley of Brooklyn, Capt. Nathan
Appleton or Boston, and Watson a.
Twitchell of Chicago.
Elderly, rich, and known as keen,
practical business men, they have gone
to greater lengths for the women OF
their hearts than ever stripping die.
They have done for love what few
youngsters would do. Between them
they make up veritable trio OF ro-
nance.
They are men of affairs, each in his
own city. Not for moment would
anyone believe them anything but
hard-headed business men. Yet what
they have dared is remarkable-these
three men whom everybody believed
beyond the age when Cupid calls his
Ioudest.
Thomas W. Kiley married the
daughter of his benefactor because she
loved him, and he thought his first
wife dying. Appleton met his affinity
and is now preparing to divorce his
first wife. But most remarkable of all
is Twitchell. He gave up his bride
his second wife-to his son, because
ne loved them both, and wanted to
see them happy.
And first, then, this remarkable ro-
nance of the Twitchells.
Bertha May was pretty little coun-
try girl who lived in quiet little
Michigan town, when Watson II.
Twitchel, widower, with son "a years
old, came there on business visit.
He met charming Miss Bertha and fell
head over heels in love with her-this
gray-haired business man of Sc
She Wanted to See the World.
He told the ambitious little girl from
Michigan OF the pleasures of life in
Chicago When he asked her to mar
ry him she thought that her desire to
see the world-that is, what of~it that
can be seen in Chicago-was really
love. So the old man with the grown
up son and the unsophisticated little
girl from Michigan were married. The
proud bridegroom brought his dainty
bride back home to Chicago, and there
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they met young Edward Twitchell, the
handsome, stalwart son of the old
time benedict.
In week the pretty little Michigan
girl found that life in Chicago with a
man old enough to be her father was
not the same thing rs real love. She
found that the young fellow who was
her stepson had far more attractions
for her than her staid and very con-
sentative husband. In fact, before the
month was out, she was head over
heels in love with the son of her elder
ly husband. And, as if to add TO this
strange mix-up, the son himself was
just as madly in love with his own
stepmother-the wife of his father.
OF course, such things couldn't go
on forever. Mr.. Twitchell, ST., soon
learned that he stood in the way of
Mr.. Twitchell, Jr. He taxed his wife
with loving his son. Proud of her love,
she owned up.
And so the case was taken to court.
The elder Twitchell sued, and Judge
McEwen decided in his favor. He
frankly admitted that he wanted his
wife to be happy, and for that reason
he was going to give her to- his son.
81 am no hero" he said, with kind
ly smile, ''and don't want too much
said about this, but you see am as
years old and my wife is only "a. It
is only natural that she should trans
fer her affections to my son Edward.
| am glad that they ale happy, and
shall be happy to know thar they love
each cher. love my boy and be-
siaEe thai the divorce is the right
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sURFEIT OF MOOSE MEAT.
tors on a Trip Through
Alaska.

in journeying down one of the
tributaries of the Tanana river, in
| Alaska with party of prospectors in
1902, our raft went to pieces on a drift
and every pound of provisions, cooking
utensils, bedding and pretty nearly all
the clothing of the outfit, as we'll as a
tidy gum of money, went to the bot
tom," relates p j. Habberton, of
Seattle.
Luckily managed to save my VIM
chester and few rounds of ammuni-
ton, and if it had not been for that
believe we would have come pretty
near starving to death, as the place of
the accident was 100 miles from any
settlement or roadhouse. My gun was
the only one that was saved, and never
did one come in handler. We trudged
along, shivering and greatly depressed
at our loss, but such is the elasticity
of the pioneer adventurer that upon my
shooting a big bull moose about sum
down the whole party began to get in
better heart, and even to jest about our
predicament.
eve cut out the best parts of the
flesh of the moose and made hearty
supper. Little then did any of us
think that we would be confined to
that single article of food for four
| long days. Now, moose meat isn't bad,
but to have to eat it for 16 straight
meals, unrelieved by grain of salt or
pepper, is a hardship such as / hope
never to experience again. Long be-
fore the dawn of the fifth day how we
did lothe the very sight of the soli-
tary item of our bill of fare. Some
of the party experienced extreme nau-
sea, but marching over the snow is
hard work, and the pangs of hunger
would drive them again to the mo-
notony of the moose menu.
well, when at last we got to
roadhouse and found that plenty Of
beans and coffee were to be had a
shout of joy went up that rent the
heavens. had SO left from the food
and every cent of it went for just one
meal. / think we ate for two hours,
then went TO sleep, woke up and went
to eating again, until not bean was
left. / wouldn't even at this far day
from that gastronomic tragedy partake
of a chunk of moose meat for the
weight of the animal in gold''
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DEMOCRATS TO MEET IN JUNE.
Convention the Latter Part
of Month.

Milwaukee.-The Democrats of Wis
consin will hold a convention, at
which a platform will be adopted, in
the latter part of June.
This decision was reached by the
members Of the state central commit
tee after a session that lasted nearly
five hours, in which the question was
discussed at length.
Under the terms of the primary cleo
ton law the platform must be formu
lated by the candidates on the state
ticket, SO the action OF the convention
will be merely recommendatory, but it
is not believed that the platform
adopted in June will be different from
the one that will be prepared by the
nominees after the primary on Sep
TENDER 5, unless there should be ma
terial change in party opinion be-
tween these dates.
A committee consisting of Chairman
H. II. Manson of Wausau, j. j. Cum
ningham of GAINESVILLE, J. A. Awkward
Of Madison, George Hilton OF Oshkosh,
and Albert ]. Groundman of Oshkosh
was appointed to fix the date and
place for holding the convention.
Oshkosh and Madison have already
put in bids for it, and as Milwaukee,
will probably also ask for it lively
contest is expected.
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MAN LEADS DOUBLE LIFE.
New Yorker Who Posed as Wealthy
Society Man Is Held for
Larceny.

New York.-Through the arrest OF
John Wilmer MARITIME, head salesman
in Fifth avenue haberdashery, one
of the most remarkable dual PERSONAL
tiles in the police records of this city
has come to light. MARITIME worked
each week from eight a. m. to six D..
m. for 81 a week. After business
hours he was a welcome guest to the
homes of some of the best known fam
lilies in the city. He numbered among
his friends several wellknoMn society
women.
Skillful and continuous larceny, it IS
alleged, enabled him to live at the
rate of $4,000 year. For two years
or more, it is charged, he has stolen
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for three years he has maintained two
homes, and in each a woman who
thought herself his wife. He married
the second one three years ago when
he believed his first wife dying.
She lived, instead.
Here was a strange quandary for the
man. He had two wives, each appar-
emily married to him by every right of
law. But let him tell the story him
self; just as he told it when it was dis
covered that he had one wife living at
No. 2O1 Jefferson avenue, Brooklyn,
and another at No. ZIG Brooklyn ave-
nue.:
II was called to the bankers con-
vention in San Francisco in October,
1903, and asked Mrs. Flora III. Colt to
go with me, whom l had loved when
we were young. When we left Brook
Ign my wife was extremely ill at home,
and not expected to live. On the way
out west I talked the matter over at
great length with Mrs. Colt. Her father
had been my employer, my benefactor.
/ had been a bachelor until I was SO
and then l married my brothers wild
ow when Flora Colts husband was
still alive.
Mrs. Colt knew how my heart stood
in the matter, and | told her that /
wanted to marry her. We both be-
lieved that my first wife would be dead
before we got back to Brooklyn. My
only excuse was that | was nervous
and overweight.
Married at Hammond, Ind.
when we arrived at Hammond,
Ind, we were married under our. true
names In month we returned to
Brooklyn. / bought my second wife
the house on Brooklyn avenue, and
made it over to Mrs. Colt in her own
legal name. made the agreement with
her that we would live publicly as man
and wife just as soon as my first wife
died. We had not expected to come
east until her death.
but my first wife grew stronger,
and soon recovered her health. There
was nothing Tor us to do but to keep
thing to my first wife, and she under
stands everything. | have maintained
them both since them
To-day both women feel the weight OF
the shadow upon their lives. Kiley has
told all. And that is where the case
stands now-the case of the three ED
erly persons-the man well over 60,
each woman over 50-whose loves and
lives have been so sadly tangled.
And now, who shall say that ro-
nance is only for the young?
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Kindness well Regarded.

Kenosha. BY the will of the late
Mrs. Ellen Brown, which Is filed for
probate in Racine, Alfred Rice, an old
attendant at the Pennoyer sanitarium
in this city, will be made comfortable.
Years ago Rice was kind to the hus-
band of Mrs. Brown during his last Ill
ness. Mrs. Brown never forgot him.
and Dequeathed him the interest on
$4,000 during the period of his life.
After Rice dies it is stated that the
funds are to be turned over to st.
Luke's Episcopal church. He is %
years old.
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Appleton. II don't think it will affect
my suit in the slightest. don't care
whether she joins Mrs. Appleton
against me or not; for | can win out
against both of them. | hear plenty
of rumors, but they don't interest. The
suit will take care of itself when the
time comes"
There is much that Is mysterious in
this shattered romance of the elderly
clubman. Some of it, it is expected,
will be cleared up at the trial
But. asks Boston, if Capt Appleton
wants divorce, why did he wait for
Is years before asking for it? Perhaps
Miss Willis can give the answer.
The Man with Two Wives.
Thomas w. Kiley, president OF the
North Shore bank, of Brooklyn, and
millionaire head of Thomas w. Kiley &
Co., hardware merchants, is we'll along
toward life's winter. He is to-day GA
years old. 1t has just transpired that
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will Appeal Grain Case Decision.

w III kApD6d1 SIdlA OttSC OCC1SlOHs
The publishing of the opinion of
Judge Sanborn Of the United States
court at Madison and a careful study
of the text of the opinion has con-
WINGED Superior grain men and attor-
neys that the decision of the court
knocks out Minnesota inspection as
well as inspection under the Wiscon-
sin grain bill. Attorneys say that il
the Wisconsin law is restraint of in
terstate commerce 1t is certainty
that the Minnesota law is likewise a
violation of the interstate commerce
act. The Wisconsin grain bill is sim
liar to the Minnesota law in theory
but the amendments to the former.
The case will be appealed to the Unit
ed States court of appeals, according
to Judge L. K. Luse and Senator Hud-
nall, counsel for the grain companies.
The former declares that he thinks
in the case and thinks that the com
mission can win on an appeal. He
says that this will be the course of ac-
ton as soon as the necessary arrange
ments can be made. Senator Hudnall
says that the decision surprised him.
He was one of the men who drafted
the bill and knows more about it than
any other one man. He is also of the
opinion that fight to the last ditch
is the only method and is ready to be-
gin the appeal action.
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BADGER STATE NEWS
INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN
VARIOUS WISCONSIN TOWNS.
LEAVES SCHOOL FOR FARM
Prof. Simonds, Of Oshkosh, Tired OF
Pedagogue's Desk-Police Look
ing for Men Accused of
Swindling Games.

Oshkosh.-From pedagogy to agri-
culture. That is the jump that Prof.
H. A. Simonds. superintendent of the
Oshkosh schools, will take at the end
of the current school year. Mr..
Simonds has rendered his resignation
and it has been accepted by the
board of education. He will go to
Washington and engage in farming
in the vicinity of Seattle. Through a
son he has important interests there.
Mr.. Simonds has been at the head OF
the Oshkosh schools seven years. He
came here from Stevens Point. He
has been prominent in local Knights
of Pythias circles.
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State Banks in Fine Condition.

State Banks in Fine Condition.
State Banking Commissioner M. G.
Bergh has given out summary of
the business of state banks at the
close of the business on April 6 last
The report is compared with the last,
that of January 20. During the period
mentioned eight state banks went out
of business and three began business.
The report shows that the deposits in
creased over $1,000,000 This, the de-
partment says, indicates a healthy f.
nancial condition in Wisconsin The
total increase in the resources and
liabilities of the banks is $107,171,.-
623.27. Of course, the resources bal
ance with the liabilities Otherwise
the delinquent banks would be put out
of business. The summary does not
show the standing of each bank. 1t
simply shows the resources and liabil-
tiles of the whole number of banks.
The decrease in resources since Janu-
airy 20 is $4,000, while the increase is
$246,456.33. The increase in resources
during that period was $3,797, 1898. 1S
and in liabilities $3,S59,245.51. On the
whole the banking commissioner con-
siders that the banking business Of
the state is in most wholesome con-
dition and that consequently the peo-
pie of the state are in a most prosper
Gus condition.
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Meets kin After be years.

Knoxville, Tenn.-John S. Kreider,
of Lebanon, Pa, and Uriah Kreider, of
this city, brothers, have met in this
city for the first time in % years.
Uriah Kreider left his Pennsylvania
home 20 years. ago. John s. Kreider
was in the civil war. Recently he
passed through the city with Gov.
Pennypacker's party. He met his
brother at the train, and recognition
was mutual Both shed tears. Other
veterans gathered about to hear their
story.
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Burned to Death in Bonfire.

Beloit. While standing over bon
fire on her farm, near this city, Mrs.
John Seaton, aged 65 years, had her
clothing take fire and was quickly
burned to death. She was SO disfigured
that her sister, who saw her by the fire
few minutes afterward, failed to rec
ognize her and rushed into the house
to say to the sister that there was a
strange woman dead in the yard. Mrs.
Seaton was an old resident of Shirland
township