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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-06-22
kNOLLS KILLS HIMSELF
MAN WHO HAD BEEN ACTING
oUEERLY ENDS LIFE TO-DAY.
USED SHOTGUN ON HIS HEART
Dependency Over Money Matters, the
Loss Of His Store and DEBTS About
Town, Drove Former Creighton Man
to Suicide Here.
IFrom Fridays Daily.1

TO Suicide Here.
tFrom Fridays Daily.1
Placing the muzzle of shotgun
against his heart as he stood erect,
with the butt end against the wall,
Thomas Knoll, the Norfolk man who
had been acting queerly for several
weeks, this morning snapped the trig.
| ger by means of a long stick in his
hand, and was instantly killed by the
charge that tore out his heart. The
suicide occurred at the rear of the
Schorregge building, 21S Norfolk av-
enue, in which he operated a bakery
and confectionery store for some time.
The gunshot was heard at about $3.50
o'clock this morning.
The powder from the gun burned
knolls clothing around his heart. The
report of the gun was heard by Mrs.
| Ellen Henderson, who lives behind
the Schoregge building, and an in.
vestigation revealed the result of the
tragedy.
Coroner Kindred of Meadow Grove
was notified and arrived on the noon
''o'h W hoiu Oil luuueSl IUlS dIJeT-
noon.
Knoll had been acting queerly for
some time. AS told in these columns
some days ago, he shut up his store
one night and went to bed, locking
himself in, and refused to eat any
thing for three days, until forced to do
so by the police. He came here from
Creighton about year ago. purchased
the residence of L. C. Bargelt on
South Ninth street and bought the
store from Lewis Brothers when they
left for their new location. OF late it
is said he was forced to turn back the
store, not having paid for it, and he
is said to have had other debts, which
evidently preyed on his nina. He is
said to have been disappointed in not
receiving money to the amount of
$1,000 from relatives in Iowa. He was
man of about fifty-five years of age,
and an old soldier, having been exam.
ined only last month for pension
Knoll ran feed stable at Creigh-
ton. He is not known to have had
any relatives in this section. At
Creighton he was known as Tommy
Knoll"
He started out yesterday with a
shotgun
w. w. Severns has bought the store
formerly operated by Mr.. Knoll
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-06-22
Advice 10 TraveIers

Never leave home on a journey with
out a bottle of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy Change
OF drinking water and diet often cause
bowel troubles, for which this remedy
Is especially intended. 1t cannot be
obtained on board the cars or steam
snip. For sale by Leonard the drug
gist.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-06-22
Delicate Operation-

Neigh, Neb., June Especial to
The News: DR.. ID. w. Beattie per.
formed very delicate operation upon
llttle Gertrude McAllister, daughter Of
John McAllister, last Friday. The op-
Grafton was the second for the little
one, and was the removal OF a tuber-
culous gland
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-06-22
Not Drunk.

Madison Chronicle; II you should
smell a strong odor of alcohol don't
accuse your friend of being drunk as
1t is only the new distillery which has
been built by The Norfolk Daily News
since the passage of the denaturized
alcohol bill.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-06-22
Picnic at PiIuer.

Pilger, Neb., June 16.-Special to
The News: The NJ. w. A. picnic at
Pilger was an ideal gathering. DR.. C.
N. Dawson of Stanton delivered the
Grafton and the Stanton band fur.
nished the music. An exciting game
of base ball was played by the Stan.
ton and Pilger teams, score 9 to 6 In
favor of Stanton.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-06-22
NEBR|A|E HANGS SELF
SAMUEL YosT TIES WIRE AROUND
HIS NECK.
TRAGEDY NEAR BASEBALL PARK
BY Means OF Wire Moose and a
Tree, Man Whose Friends Had Sent
Him to Lincoln Asylum, Ended His
Life on Return to Grand Island. |

Grand Island, Neb., June 15.-Spe-
cial to The News: Samuel Yost, sim
gle and forty, who had just returned
from Lincoln where his friends had
sent him as an inebriate, committed
suicide by hanging himself with a
wire attached to tree in Hans park,
near the baseball ground grand stand
today.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-06-22
Against AItschuIer,

Others who were put on the stand
to testify that Julius Altschulers rep
utation for truth and veracity is bad,
were j. w. Humphrey, a prominent
merchant, J. C. Stitt, an architect, and
r. II. Reynolds, contractor.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-06-22
"skIopoo, 49," SUICIDE CRIED.
Chicago Man Leaped Into River, VI
terinq Popular SIanq Phrase,

With cry of "Skiddoo-23 for me" ,"
a man whose identity is unknown,
sprang from the Madison street bridge
into the river last night and was
drowned says Chicago report Po.
licemen in rowboats dragged the spot
where he sank for two hours, but II
is believed the body was carried down
stream by the strong current
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-06-22
RURAL CARRIER EXAMINATION.
Five Applicants Showed up to Take the
Civil Service Exam.

The following applicants appeared
Saturday to take examinations for ru.
raj route positions as carriers: Ern.
est A. Arnett, Madison; John E. Risk,
Battle Greek; Seth ]. Arnett, Madi.
son; Alva H. Mcknight, Tilden; Peter
Zimmerman, Battle Creek. 1t was a
Madison county examination.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-06-22
SHIP TO ILLINOIS.
Remains of Thomas Knoll Will be
Taken East.

Taken East.
The remains of Thomas Knoll, who
suicided yesterday, will be shipped to
Illinois for burial, in accordance with
a telegram received early this morn
ley, who said: prepare remains for
ship to Illinois. Am coming"
When Knoll came to Norfolk a year
ago. he bought the Bargelt house on
South Ninth street for his sister, who
suicided by shooting herself with a
shotgun before she ever saw the house.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-06-22

Farmers bring In your repair work
for spring. will save you 20To as |
have the time and am prepared to do
the work Paul Nordwig.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-03
To Button Her Waist Behind.

milwaukee Sentinel.]
She stood at the glass and she tried
with her might
TO button
Her waist
Behind
The movements she went thru were
surely n sight
To button
Her waist
Behind
She would reach and she'd tug, she
would sigh and she'd groan.
And after each effort she'd let out a
moan;
She twisted and squirmed till she
strained every bone,
Her waist
To button
Behind
She would take long breath and
then stand on her toes,
To button
Her waist
Behind.
She strained at the risk of ripping her
clothes.
Her waist
To button
Behind.
She had a contortionist beaten a mile.
She would bend like a jackknife, then
straighten a while.
And wonder why nightmares like that
were in style
The waists
That button
Behind.
For an hour she labored in widest
despair.
To button
Her waist
Behind.
Her face became red and all loosened
her hair.
To button
Her waist
Behind.
She wept and the tears splashed down
in her lap.
While for life and its pleasures she
cared not a rap.
When she went to the office a hideous
Was there
In her waist
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-03
The l:ventful pav.

tuS isVSHAtNt 00ys
AT six in the nornin' Pat Henry got
Tip
And, smashin' his saucer and wavia'
his cup,
SAYS, pass me the liberty!' Then he
he took breath
And says, If you're out of it, give me
some death!"
Gee rye needn't boot us;
Cae sar had Brutus,
And Cromwell turned Charles to a
Guyasticltus.
AT seven-f fifteen Tommy Jefferson rose,
Not waitin' to put on his collar or
clo'es,
And wrote, MEN are equal and also
are free,
The mighty few of EN- are equalin
va me-"
Woods of promise
Wr tten by Thomas!
Where's the gazabo can pilfer 'enl from
US?
AT eight-forty- ilve Franklin sent re-
post
He had captured King Louis and all of
his court:
So wise was his wit and so shining his
sallies
That Franklin and France very soon
became allies.
i Benny, the bright man,
Also the kite man,
Got France on his string to prove he
was the right man.
at ten in the mornin' George Washing
ton fought
All the British could crowd in ten
acre lot.
4 And when he had licked EN-, he mutt
tered, ooh, bother!
This country will soon be a-callin' me
Father
First in scrappy
Times, or happy;
No wonder the country has christened
him "Pappy."
Some time before noon, then, the eagle
+ was set
To hatchin' out states. and they're
hatchin' out yet!
/ = Pluribns Unum and where can you
match it
What the eagle and George did with
their little hatch-it?
Fizz-Boom-Ah
Hip. hurrah!
Amt We the best that the world ever
saw?
Edmund Vance Cook in the Metro
politan Magazine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-03
niger rump convention. but ordered his
name off AT once. His evidence should

niger rump convention, but ordered his
name off at once. His evidence should
be conclusive. The Enterprise says:
The Carroll county republican con-
Nention was almost unanimous TO"
Cummins. Attorney Lee presided.
Resolutions We're passed endorsing
President Roosevelt and instructing for
Governor Cummins and Senator Garst,
and Senator Garst made spirited
speech which was enthusiastically APP
plauded. After the adjournment of the
progressives. Chairman korte called
the Perkins delegates to order. holding
a rump convention and choosing con-
testing delegation. AS the CummlnS
forces had 122 delegates to the stand
patters 10, tho the vote of the county
was on a ratio Of about to !. there
can be no question as to their right
to the county, and contest is foolish.
The Enterprise has taken the ground
from the start that an expression of the
majority of the voters of the county
ought to decide as to which candidate
the county belonged-if for Perkins the
entire delegation belonged to Perkins,
and If for Cummins the whole delega-
ton belonged to Cummins, and that
this decision at the caucuses should be
final The Enterprise still stands on
this position Carroll county, by Its
caucus and convention vote, belongs TO
Governor Cummins beyond question.
and the fight having been fought out
and decided by the people, the scrap
should end here 1t has been contest
of ideas and convictions.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-03

credited to him about Cummns by the
Republican editorially are lies. The
seme could truthfully be said for the
greater part of the editorial page of
that paper. as we'll as much of the
news
Editorially and in its news columns
the Republican gives the impression
lat Captain Rathbun is but stalk
ing horse for the standpat forces; that
he will select a delegation with the
view of killing off Mr.. Cummins rath-
er than IN the interest of his own cam
pagn. Captain Rathbun may be
fool. but we never thought so. A few
days, if we are to believe the Republi-
cfli. and the county will know.
The Cedar Rapids Republican seems
to have bunch that it should be con-
suited as to exactly who Captain Rath-
bun will select on the Linn county del
egation. Probably the Republican VIII
Rave us believe that it was given TINS
right on account of the valiant services
it has rendered Captain Rathbun IN
lis 81, rnpaign
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-03

parties. He is the premier's-any prem
ier's-chief secretary.
minute before the British cabinet
assemblies, the prime minister's chief
secretary thoroughly explores the room.
He shakes the curtains, looks behind
the furniture. and inspects every ante
room for possible eavesdroppers. He
keeps guard outside the anteroom as
long as the council sits, allowing no one
to enter even the anteroom
The moment the meeting is ended he
is the first to enter and examine tho
chamber. He looks for any forgotten
scrap of paper which may bear impor-
tant information, and frequently finds
one. He destroys the top sheets OF
blotting pads, and burns all the tiny
pieces of paper which. already clipped
into minute shreds by the ministers
themselves. had been used for making
notes during the deliberations of the
cabinet.
The premier never leaves London for
many hours without his chief secretary
He does not invite that functuary to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-03
PETRIFACTIONS IN MARION
COUNTY.
Knoxville Journal


Travellers and curio seekers who car
ry home great slabs Of petriffed and
salicified wood from Arizona, Colorado,
and the Yellowstone Park regions.
could save themselves considerable
trouble and expense. and get speci-
mems equally fine, by taking a stroll
along the banks of the ravines which
furrow the pastures almost within
sight of Knoxville. There are hundreds
of pounds of petrified wood to be found
in the bed of the small stream which
runs northwest thru the Bush estate,
adjoining the inebriate home grounds.
The specimens are to be seen in all
shapes and sizes. from the bigness of
lead pencil to great masses weighing
from 25 to 10 pounds. In most cases
the texture of petrifactions is so fine
that the fibre cannot b, distinguished,
but quite frequently a specimen is
found which plainly shows the lines
that marked the different stages of
growth.
Persons who have given the science
of geology but little or no attention
are astonished beyond measure when
they make discovery of such speci-
mems as we nave mentioned. THESE
relics of the bygone ages are very fine
grained, and on that account those
who find such fossils invariably de-
clare that they are "petrified hickory.
The truth is that they are probably the
remains of coniferous (pine) trees,
such as covered the surface of the
earth at the time our great coal beds
were formed.
Specimens which show knots as per-
feet as those in the modern cord wood
stick or saw log, are occasionally met
with: also. we have found slabs on
which the bark was still intact. A re-
markable point about such specimens
is that the inner side of the bark, and
in the cavities Of the knots, there is a
deposit of crystalline matter which
shades thru the various colors from
dark brown to pink and pure white.
These crystals, whether perfect or 9TH
erwise. are harder than steel and cut
glass like diamond.
Yes. SIT makes fellow feel a little
queer" to prod around a knot hole that
was perhaps filled with worm dust. and
furnished a place of refuge for insects,
birds and small animals that probably
lived 10000 years ago!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-03
SPECIAL ANNUAL

Niagara Falls. N. ". Thursday, Aug.
is, 1906. via Big Four Route.
New York Central Lines. Rate $3.50
for the round trip from Peoria. Return
limit twelve days including date of
sale. Stop-overs will be allowed on
return trip at Westfeld for side trip to
Chautauqua Lake points.
Tickets will be honored on c. & 3.
Line steamers in either direction be-
tween Cleveland and Buffalo. Side
trips to Toronto, Thousand Islands,
Montreal, etc.
Special fast train of first class
coaches standard and tourist sleepers
will leave IL: 90 noon running thru
without change.
For further particulars call on near
est Big Four agent. or address H. r
DAILY, 325 Main street, Peoria Ill.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-03
HEADLINES AND FIRfcRAckERs.

II the newspaper neauHne editoi
aWere d gfoulish soul he would be rub
3 bling his clamr.ly hands in glee today
q at the thought Of what the morrow has
d In store for him. Hands torn open
z eyes blown ont, faces burned, boys
4 poisoned, horses frightened and wom-
81 en- and children thrown from their We
hicles: such will be the glorious
81 Fourth In America and when the head
iline writer approaches his desk for the
q production of Q newspaper on the 5th
lof July, the first thought will be to
II group his accidents, assign four to
live columns of space to them, select
1.-THE most horrible for leader and
Efoilow a slug head with those OF
lesser fatality.
So certain is this to be the duty of
sthe headline writer on the day follow
ling the Fourth that he might just as
well have his headlines set up in adj
bvance. He might turn to the issue of
fthe 5th Of last July and copy what our
kflast celebration furnished him. There
he would find in the Times Republican
9the following:
Several Hurt at Mason City.
"a Fatality at Dubuque
" Many Hurt in Burlington-El Eleven
Accidents.
ri Ottumwa Accidents-Four Injured.
!T Then there WIRE lesser accidents re-
Z ported from Council Bluffs, Iowa City,
Y Storm Lake, WiEterset, keokuk, Leon,
& Madrid, Cedar Falls, Charlton, and
Z Hwenty-six persons reported injured in
pes Moines. Marshalltown celebrated
hnd fourteen injuries were reported in
she next days .ssue of the newspaper.
Il And yet the headline artist considers
ed last years Fourth a quiet day 1t
appeared to him that celebrations for
y Ihe most part were quiet and orderly"
3 khat comparatively few accidents were
Feported!'
81 Such is the view of an American
& Fourth of July as presented to the
Il newspaper headline writers, but what
10 the mothers and fathers of Young
.9America think OF it? What provis-
Hon is being made today for tomor-
lows work of injury and maimingo
Are small boys to be armed with dyna-
1 mite and heavy explosives? Cities
Saave ordinances forbidding the sale of
KShe more dangerous Fourth of July
& bombs, but how many mayors will en-
{ force the ordinances? How many
: FATHERS will carelessly burn and MAIN
{ themselves trying to show small chill
! aren how the Maine was blown up
& 1t Havana harbor? If everybody could
write headlines for a newspaper a few
lessons there would be saner and
safer Fourth of July in America.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-03
Fourth of July Excursion Rates,

Via the North Western Line. Excur-
sion tickets will be sold at reduced
rates July and 4, good returning until
July 9Th, inclusive, to all points where
one way rate is $3.50 or less, on the
North Western Line including c., st.
P. NJ. & o. Ry., to points on Union Pa
cific r. R. east of and including Chey-
enne. Wyo., and La Sale, Colo, points
on Colorado Southern. Grin Jet. to.
Cheyenne. inclusive, also to points on.
d. S. S. & A. Ry. and Mineral Range
r. r. Apply to agents Chicago &
North Western R'y.
The state encampment of the United
Spanish War Veterans is being held at
Racine, Wis.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-03
HE Made GOOD.


Have YOU never noticed the boy who
left hts county town a poor half clad
urchin accompanied by the scoffings of
the community and the belief that he
would never amount to much? DID
you ever see one of these same young
fellows come back to the old brown
home few years later when he had
made good? Somehow 1t makes him
look all the better when he does come
back Somehow the wife and children
he Introduces to the community seem
to reflect the best of the good citizen
ship of our town instead of the worst
as you feared or predicted when he
left The refinement he carries with
him makes you drop the Jim you
Familiarity hailed him by when as boys
together you roamed thru the woods
and along the banks of Sduaw creek,
and now you salute him as Mr. Smith.
1t does not seem SO many months ago
that you saw him riding in the deliv-s
cry wagon at the grocery store. smok-
ing pipe; he was just young, inn
mature fellow then, but now he has ali
the appearances of modern business
man. He Is strong. healthy and carries
with him an air of Independence and
prosperity Jim had wandering spir-
it, he could not save his money; but 1T
seems that wholesale firm in Denver
found he had native ability enough
and energy to accomplish little more
than their city bred young men, so
Jim is just now acting as manager
OF the firm. His salary is more than
that of any two men here in our coun-
try town and you cannot see how 1t is.
No one but Jim knows, and he don't
care to tell. He simply made good
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-03

attempt to turn the state convention
into a douma. Possibly he foresees an
eX-Spence attached to the scheme.
Madam said the wanderer, re-
spectfully, ito my request for trifie
of cold lunch / beg to add that you
may regard me as wholly mistaken
by the popular clamor against meat as
diet"
but the canned is bad, isn't ito" She
asked, as she prepared sandwich.
Moo" replied the guest, but such
use of a can to me represents painful
and manifest waste. A can, madam, is
designed for beer."-Phladelp Led
ger.
Harry Thaw always did bore Archi-
tect White.
Have you noticed that the decent.
well-behaved millionaire rarely gets
into the newspapers?
The way to denaturize candidate
is to add Ed Hunter to his campaign
In order that traffic may not be di-
verted from the railways in Manchuria
the Japanese. it is said, have rebuilt
the river bridges destroyed during the
war, so that they are too low for the
Chinese freight boats to pass under
them.
The "up-to-dateness" of this country
was illustrated by that telephone mar
riage at Pennington, Miss, the other
day. The minister secured to tie the
knot lost himself and did not show up.
When he found his way home about IL
%. m. he telephoned the waiting couple,
and was finally prevailed upon to con-
duct the service by telephone.
DR.. Calmette and M C. Guerin, of the
Pasteur Institute, of Lille France, have
Just communicated to the French Aca-
DENY of Sciences the result of expert
ments in vaccinating against infection
with tuberculosis. They find, says the
London Times, that if they cause calf
or kid to swallow at As days interval
two doses of and 25 centgrams of
dead bacilli of tuberculosis, or bacii!i
of weak vitality, the animal becomes
proof against injections of fresh bovine
tuberculosis. 1t is believed to be show,
that bovine tuberculosis bacilli killed
by five minutes boiling, or even merely
warmed for five minutes at 20 degrees.
afford "a perfect vaccination against
virulent infection by the digestive
tubes" Young cows can thus be vac
cinated without danger by simple in
testinal absorption of bacilli modified
by heat Human beings have not yet
been experimental on with this virus.
but it is thought that it may prove to
be effective.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-03
A JUSTIFIED REBUKE.
ont. Vernon Record)

The Cedar Rapids Republican says it
would rather vote for a democrat than
for Cummins or words to that effect.
1t also advises democrats to vote for
a democratic candidate, if Cumnins is
nominated From one very close to the
editorial end of the Republican we
have understood that it's editors pre-
fe,lred to vote for a democrat to Cum
n,ins in the past. They will have their
chance again this fall.
Governor Larrabee. the most
practical temperance man Iowa has
ever seen, and one of the best govern
ors, is not only campaigning for Cum
Minis, but says that the statements
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-03
British Premier Away. shadowed.

There is one very important serv-
ant of the British empire whose name
is seldom heard. He has many time
saved his country frbm being plunged
into a foreign war. and he is always
in possession Of state secrets, which, if
divulgad. would mean political up
heayal and a complete reshuffling of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-03
$500 to the Pacific Coast and Return
From chicaso-correspo Low
Round Trip Rates From Other

Points.
Via the Chicago. Union Pacific &
Northwestern Line daily, June 1 to
September 80, to San Francisco. Los
Angeles, Portland, Seattle and Tacoma
and other Pacific Coast points. Very
low rates to Helena, Butte, Spokane,
Ogden and Salt Lake City. Daily and
personally conducted excursions in
Pullman tourist slepeing cars to San
Francisco Los Angeles and Portland.
thru without change. Double berth
only $500 from Chicago and s5.75 from
Omaha. Choice of routes. For rates,
tickets, etc. apply to agents Chicago &
Northwestern Ry.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-03
Old Chronic Sores.

AS a dressing for old chronic sores
there is nothing so good as Chamber
lain's Salve. While it is not advisable
to heal old sores entirely. they should
be kept in a good condition for which
this salve is especially valuable. For
sale by all druggists.