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The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
EIGHTY-THREE VETS
IN TROLLEY WRECK

. lafayette, Ind.-One man was
killed outright and SO veteran soldiers
were injured, some seriously, in a col
lision on the Lafayette battle-ground
electric road Wednesday. Both cars were
crowded with veterans attending the
G. A. R. encampment.
The collision occurred at a switch.
One car was coming towards the city
from the battle-ground loaded with vet
Grams and the other was outward bound.
Charles Roudebush, motorman of the
southbound car, was killed. Both cars
were demolished.
A dozen Or more physicians were
summoned, and the injured were
brought to the city in special cars and
taken to St. Elizabeth's hospital. It
is believed all will recover with the ex-
tion of Rev. Peter H. Owens, of Medary-
Vile, Ind.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
Road Of the CRATER.

The road of the CRATER is not an easy
one. The temptation to graft is in
sidious, and men who NEAR to conduct
themselves with honesty and dignity
may be betrayed into it. Modern
business methods" is a sufficiently
euphonious term to fool a brisk and am
bilious man not too much given to re-
Election or determination. And all
goes we'll for a time. The bank account
increases, the man feels himself to be
shrewd and influential; he is able to
put his family "at the top of the heap"
honors come easily to him, and young
men are fattered to be associated with
him in business. Then, says The Read
er, the exposure comes. Those that
have trusted him know him for what
he is; his own specious plea Of 1.-The
modern business method" sounds
strangely inadequate wen to himself.
His name, which he hoped to see as
ISOLATED in the minds of men with great
enterprises, and which he expected his
sons to use as a sort of open sesame"
becomes, suddenly, the synonym for
dishonesty, greed and failure. The
CRATER has, perhapt, thought himself
hardened. He finds, to his dismay,
that he is not. Shame awakens; con-
science no longer sleeps. The dreams
of his ambitious youth come to haunt
him. He would give his fortune, many
times duplicated, for the innocence and
integrity of his early manhood. He is
not a bad mamie can suffer, he can
be ashamed, he can long for innocence.
Perhaps, on reflection, there are no
bad men. At any rate, the CRATER has
shown himself capable of dying broken
hearted or of going, a melancholy luna
tic, to the asylum for the insane. His
career requires stern metal. Let him
who enters it be sure that his con
science is dead, his family pride buried,
his self-respect quenched, and that he
is obdurate to the %reproachful tears of
the women who love him! Having
made quite, quite sure of all this, one
might adopt a grating career in an
~expectant spirit.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
INDICTED UNDER
NUMEROUS COUNTS

Peoria, ILL.,, May 25.-The four prin-
cipal owners in the failed Teis-Smith
bank at Pekin, I'LL, were indicted,
Thursday, under 125 counts each by
the Tazewell county grand jury.
Judge Worthington fixed the bond of
the defendants at $35, 900 each, and
surety was furnished at once. The true
bills each charge embezzlement, and
each count is based on the charge of an
Individual depositor who placed money
in the bank after evidence offered to
the grand jury indicated that the insti-
tuition a insolvent. The men under
indictment are D. C. Smith, the aged
head Of the firm; e. F. INLAND, Conrad
Luppen and Henry Block. Habbe
Velde and Luppe Luppen, also partners
in the bank, were held by the grand
jury to have had no knowledge Of the
banks insolvent condition. Judge
Worthington will adjourn court at Pc
kin this week, and the trial Of the In
dicted bankers a not take place be-
fore the September term of court. The
Teis-Smith bank failed April 2.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
Alleged to Have Killed q Man
While Acting AS a Volunteer
Military Officer On Duty
On the Water Front.
WAS DEFENDING A MARINE
The Body Of the Man Killed Is Al
and Thrown Into the u ana
No Report of h Occurrence
Made to the Coroner.

San Francisco, May 25.-Ernest
Denicke, son of E. A. Denicke, a
wealthy San Francisco banker and cap
italist, was arrested at his home, Thurs
day, on a charge Of m~anslaughter.
Denicke was released later under S.
900 bonds. On April 20, Denicke, wear
ing the uniform of a lieutenant Of the
United States army, shot and killed
an unknown man on the Lombard
street wharf. To representatives OF
the press Denicke admitted the shoot
ing, but refused to talk further until
he had secured counsel.
Volunteered His Services.
Denicke is a well-known mining e
gineer, who has seen military service
in the Philippines. On the night of
the earthquake he donned his old uni
form and volunteered his services to
the colonel of the Twenty-second Unit
ed States infantry. His tender was ac-
copied and he was detailed on duty
along the water front.
Cause of the Tragedy.
On Friday afternoon, April 20, a coop
of chickens were liberated on the Lom-
bard street wharf, and a number Of
refugees scrambled after the fowls, and
one of these, evidently a middle-aged
Italian or Mexican, was accosted by a
drunken marine, who stabbed the man
with a bayonet. The latter succeeded
In wrestling the gun from the marine,
when an army officer rushed up and,
according to stories told to the police
by ey~e-witnesses, deliberately shot the
man three times while he pleaded for
mercy.
Thrown Into the Bay.
The man did not die Immediately,
hut, it is alleged, was allowed to lie
on the wharf until II o'clock that night.
It was then discovered that the man
was dead, and his body was weighted
and thrown into the bay. No report Of
the death was made to the coroner, and
1t is alleged no report of the occurrence
was made at military headquarters.
Searching For the Body.
For a long time the identity of the
officer who did the shooting was not
known.
The police are now dragging the bay
in the vicinity of the Lombard street
wharf, in the hope of recovering the
body.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01

When Kansas was suffering from
the visitation of grasshopper the
whole country united in raising
money and contributing food and
clothing for the sufferers. Many a
mean man was developed then. The
contributions were sc generous that
opportunity was afforded for graft.
And more than one man now rich laid
the foundation of his fortune in the
cash or goods which he stole from the
relief fund. Much the same thing has
been noted in a smaller scale in the
San Francisco case. - -
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
VIM. F. SW|TzLER
THE NEsToR OF JOURNALISM
IN AMERICA DEAD.
Passed Away At His Home I'm CO.
lumbia, Missouri, At the Hips
Old Age Of 81 Years.

Columbia, Mo.-Col. William F.
Switzler, the historian Of Missouri.
and for 65 years an editor in this
state, died here of old age at $3.50 q. M.
Thursday, at the age Of 81.
Col. Switzler's three children, Mrs.
J.. S. Branham, of Columbia, Warren
Switzler, Of Omaha, and Irwin Swift
Ter. of Columbia, were at his bedside
when the end came.
Col. Switzler was born in Fayette
county, Kentucky, March 6. 1919. In
1926 he moved with his fathers family
to Fayette, Mo. He came to Colum-
bia in 1841, was admitted to the bar
and practiced law four or five years.
He was married in August, 1843, to
Miss Mary Jane Royal, of Columbia,
who died September II, 1879. He was
q member of the Presbyterian church.
He asserted during his life, and the
assertion vas never controverted, that
he was the Oldest editor in the United
States, that he was Missouri's first
civil Colonel" and that he had never
in his whole life tasted any intoxicat-
ing beverage.
His newspaper career began In 1841
when he became editor Of the Colum-
bia Patriot. He established the States
man in 1843, and conducted it contin-
uously until 1885, when he was ap-
pointed chief of the bureau of statis-
tics at Washington, holding the posi-
ton until a few months after the in
auguration Of President Harrison. He
achieved a national reputation as q
statistician.
In 1891 Col. Switzler took charge Of
the Chillicothe Constitution, and a
year later of the Boonville Democrat.
In 1902 he returned to the Statesman,
which he managed about six months.
During the last three years he had not
engaged in newspaper work beyond
occasionally assisting in the publica-
ton of the Statesman.
Col. Switzler was the author Of a
comprehensive History of Missouri"
and of the History of Boone County,
besides numerous shorter works on
Missouri history. His latest work was
a History of Missouri University"
which 1t was the greatest ambition of
his later years to see in print. He died
just before the probable consummation
Of his desire.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
Three and a Halt Squares Of Fair.
banks. Alaska, Devastat.
ed By Fire.
Several Banks, Hotels and Large
Business Concerns Among
Those Burned Out.
A WOMAN FATALLY BURNED
Fairbanks, Though Young, IL One 81
the Most Important Cities North
of Vancouver, With n Large
Gold Output That il Steadf-
fly Increasing.

Alameda, Cal, May 24-The Northern
Commercial Co., the largest Of the mer-
camille concerns interested in Alaska,
received the following from it's agents
at Fairbanks Wednesday,:
"The entire town, from Turner to
Lacey street, and back to Third, except
the Fairbanks Banking Co.'s building
and warehouse, has been destroyed.
One woman, Lolita Talbot, was burned
to death. No damage was done to our
plant except to the electric light mains.
The fife has been extinguished."
Fairbanks Is situated on the Chena
river, a tributary of the Tanana, and.
although but three years old, is now the
largest and most important city on the
Pacific coast north OF Vancouver, B. c.,
having a population of about 1000. The
gold output in 1905 was $1,000, 900, and
during the present year it will reach
$12, 900, 900 to SIS, 000, 900. The burned
district covers three and a half square
blocks. The First national bank, the
Washington Banking Co. and the Fourth
national, located in the burned district,
probably were destroyed, as were many
Of the retail stores, saloons and pos
sibly one or two hotels. The most i'm
portant of the financial institutions in
the city, the Fairbanks Banking Co., is
intact. An unofficial estimate places the
loss at about one million dollars. There
Is no danger of famine, a. the ware
houses of the Northern Commercial Co.,
containing nearly half a million dollars
worth of foodstuffs, are uninjured, and
there is positive information that four
steamers are On route with additional
cJ,np1ioc
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
Robert A. Smith, who has just beer

Robert A. Smith, who has just been
reelected mayor Of st. Paul. Mimi,
has served six or seven terms in that
Office, FIVE Of them c~onsecutively.
Mayor Smith is Is years old, not a
youngster as mayors go, and as be-
sides his various terms as mayor he
has filed other Offices a good part Of
his life has been oficeholding. Half
a century ago he gave up one Office in
Indiana to take one in Minnesota. In
1866 malcontents used to talk about
the continual Office holding Of this
man Smith
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
HEARD DEATH TRAP SPRUNG
Woman Charged With Murder ~
T.. Kansas City Hears Things
at Night.

Kansas City, Mo-, May pa venire
was summoned Wednesday from which
the jury is to be chosen which will
try Mrs. Dora Drogmund, charged with
numbering her husband, Edmund, after
domestic infelicity. Both were musi.
clans of reputation.
Mrs. Drogmund's cell in the county
iail adjoins the death chamber. In
terest of the inmates of the Jail is cen
tered on it by the affirmation OF the
supreme court.
Wednesday Mrs. Drogmund said she
heard the death trap gaNows sprung
three times during the night.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
PRESBYTERIANS CAN
UNITE, SAYS COURT

Decatur, Ill, May 24.-The "loyalists"
of the Cumberland Presbyterian church
were denied petition for injunction re-
straining the assembly from uniting
with the Presbyteriahs. The "loyalists"
that they will appeal their
case to the supreme court. The news
was received by the Presbyterian as
sembly, in session at Des Moines, a.,
with tremendous applause. The gen.
eral assembly Of the Cumberlands, in
session at Decatur, announced that they
would send a delegation to Des Moines
for conference on union.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
UNDER STRONG GUARD
TO PREVENT LYNCHING

Wichita, Kas., May 24.-To avoid the
possible 1ynchin, of three negroes,
bud" Gibbs. Leonard King and Peter
Dunn, were hastily removed from the
police station. Wednesday afternoon, to
the county Jail and placed under a
strong guard. The negroes were arrest
ed on the charge of robbing and prob
ably MORALLY beating VIM. Sutton, a
grocer
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01

Anniversary Of the Birth of the Late
Queen Victoria Celebrated on
Elaborate Scale.

London, May 25-Empire day was
celebrated. Thursday, in London and
throughout Great Britain. In some
Eases the rejoicings were carried out
on an elaborate scale. Dispatches from
various parts Of the empire indicate
that there was the greatest enthusiasm.
All the British embassies and legations
likewise celebrated the occasion.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
QUICK ACTION INA
SUIT FOR DIVORCE

st. Joseph, Mo.-Mr. Ellen
P. Tootle, wife Of J.. ]. Tootle, a mil
~lionairo banker of st. Joseph, was
granted a decree of divorce by Judge
Henry NJ. Ramey, in the circuit court,
Thursday afternoon. The suit was
fled Thursday. and was Immediately
taken up by the court. Desertion and
indignities were charged. A decree was
granted.
Cloverly Farm, the splendid country
mansion, recently erected by the Too
ties, is to became the property Of the
wife. She is also to receive 500, 900 in
money.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
THE G. A. r. OF MISSOURI
Officers Chosen At III State En-
campment in Jefferson City
M0berly Next Year,

Jefferson City, Mo.-At Thursday
Afternoons meeting Of the state en-
campment Of the G. A. R.. the follow
Ing were elected: Department COM
mander, John M. Williams, California:
senior vice-department commander, j.
B. Davis, Kansas City; junior vice
department commander, H. T. Holmes,
Jefferson City. Moberly next year.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
TRIED TO ESCAPE FLOOD
Mother, Daughter and Son Perish
In High Water at Cawker
City, Kansas.

Beloit. Kas.-Rain f ell in regular
torrents at this place and west and
north Of here. Creeks are all bank
full. At Cawker City. 20 miles west,
Mrs. Williams, her daughter, 10 years
old, and son, five years old, were
drowned while trying to escape from
the house, around which the water was
rapidly rising.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
VICTIMS OF LIGHTNING
At HAMMOND, IND.

Hammond, Ind, May 24.-Three peo-
pie were killed and one fatally injured
by lightning during a storm Wednes.
day afternoon.
The dead:
John Michow, West Hammond.
Louis S%teinbach, Hammond.
Mrs. Ludeke, Whiting.
The injured:
Roy Witter, paralyZed.
Farmers report great damage to thu
crops by the heavy rain.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
Found Dead In Her Home.

st. Louis, May 24.-Returning from
school for his dinner, Wednesday, Eddie
Wiedekand, aged IL, found Mrs. Kate
Geissler, the keeper of the apartment
house where he lived, lying dead on a
couch with a revolver OF the floor be-
side Ter. Her husband declares that
they never owned q revolver.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
Patrick Hearing Concluded.

New York, May 24.-The hearing be-
fore Recorder Golf to determine wheth-
or or not Albert T. Patrick shall DO
granted a new trial on the charge OF
causing the death OF William Marsh
Rice has been concluded. The record
er's decision Is expected In a few days.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
Regulation Honored.

Sacramento. Cal.-Gov. George C. Par
dee has honored the reQuisition Of the
governor Of Massachusetts, for the re
turn to that state of Thomas A. Blake,
wanted to answer a charge Of grand
larceny. 1t is alleged that he stole
from his employers certificates Of stock
amounting to thousands Of dollars.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
Nav Test the Blaine Divorce.

New York, May 24.-Mrs. James q.
Blaine, it is said, will contest the valid
ity Of the Blaine divorce, obtained in
South Dakota, seeking, through the re-
cent divorce decision Of the United
States supreme court, to show that Mr..
Blaine was never legally separated from
his first wife.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
sHOWMEN STARTED FIGHT
So Says Acting President Jones Of
h University Of Missouri of
Recent Affair.

Columbia, Mo-, May 24.-Acting Pres
ident Jones has given out an official re-
port of the fight between the students
and showmen which occurred here re-
Gently. President Jones finds that the
students were first attacked at the
show by the showmen. armed with tent
stakes, while they were going out OF
the tent quietly.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
ANOTHER OUTBREAK
IN SANTO DOMINGO

Washington, May 24.-News Of an
other outbreak in Santo Domingo
reached here Wednesday from a senior
Laval officer on that station, to the fol-
lowing effect:
"News has been received Of an insur
rection at Macoris, Santo Domingo, in
which prisoners were released, the reb,
els Withdrawing. No American inter-
ests endangered"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
x,,Iea self and stepdaughter.

Laredo, Tex. May 2.-Francisco
Elizado stabbed to death his 15-year-
old step-daughter, G~uado1oupe Ramos,
because she wished to marry against
his will. then plunged the knife with
which he committed the deed into his
heart. dying almost instantly.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01

Chicago, May 25.-Dowie, accompan-
led by his ~lieutenants, Lewis and Pc
tiers, arrived in Chicago. Thursday night,
from Zion City, and will remain here
until after Dowie appears in the suit
now pending in the federal court.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
Mother Drops Dead.

New Orleans.-Mrs. Robert C.
Cameron. the wife Of a wealthy planter
near M:nden, La, had a sudden attack
Of heart disease, and fell forward dead.
Her two-months-old baby, which she
held in her arms at the time, was
crushed to death by the fall.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01

New Orleans, May 24.--ft Is an.
nounced here that Very Rev. Pat,
rick ]. McHale has been appointed
bishop OK Porto Rico to succeed Arch
bishop Blenk, recently elevated to thu
archbishopric o6 New Orleans.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
MYSTERY
The MutiIated and Battered Head o.
q Man Found In the River NJ
Louisville, Ky.

Louisville, KY, May PA grewsome
mystery, which gives every indication
of rivaling the Pearl Bryan murder
case in Covington some years ago. is
disclosed by the trunkless head OF q
man, apparently 60 years of age, found
mutilated and battered. floating In the
river al the foot Of Shawnee park by
Fred Keller, a riverman.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
Hanged Himself To . Rafter.

Joplin, Mo-, May N.-John Henry
Mittendorf, aged So, foreman in the
Joplin Sash & Door Co.'S factory, and
whose family live In st. Louis, commit
ted suicide by hanging to a rafter in
the factory. No AUS for the act is
known unless it was his estrangement
from his family.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
Earthaxake ShoeIx m utah.

Ogden, Utah.-A distinct earth
quake shock was felt at two o'clock
Thursday morning at West Weber,
four miles west of Ogden. Buildings
we're shaken and much excitement pre-
vailed, but there was no damage.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01

New York, May ga verdict Of
suicide was rendered by the jury in the
inquest into the death by a pistol shot
wound of Charles L. Spier at his home
at st. George, Staten Island, on the
morning of Monday, May I.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
Rec1u.e Found Dead.

st. Louis.-John Neuman, who was
aged 80 years, an eccentric r~ecluse, was
found dead, Thursday afternoon, in his
room, where he had lived alone the past
eight years. He worked as a stonema-
son until a few days ago.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
To BE Court-MartiaIed.

Washington, May PA general
court-martial has been ordered for the
trisl of Capt. Perry Garst, commanding
the battleship Rhode Island, for ground
Ing that ship May 6 on York Spit.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01

Wellston, O.-The recent notices
posted by some Of the coal companies
asking the miners to return to work
at the 1904-5 scale have accomplished
nothing here. Not a man returned to
work. unless under the 1903 scale.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01

st. Louis, May 24.-Gov. Folk IL Q
delinquent in the payment Of taxes on
his personal property in st. Louis. and
an official announcement to that effect
has been sent to him at the esssutiw
mansion IL Jefferson O4y.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01

Hearst VIII Rum For G~Overnor.
New York, May 25.-John Ford, q
politician, declares positively that
Hearst will be nominated for governor
this year by the Independent League.
Of which organization the journalist is
leader.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01

A Nephew of Vest Dies ON Stree.
Memphis, Tenn.-James H. Trip
lett. clerk in the Frisco Office. a nephew
Of the late Senator Vest, of Missouri,
and a cousin of Gov. Beckham, Of Ken
lucky. was seized with a violent hemor-
rhage on the streets and died within
three minutes.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01

Columbia, No., May 24.-Col. William
F. Switzler, the distinguished Missouri
journalist and historian, is critically iii
here in the home Of his daughter, Mrs.
J. 8. Branham, and there is little hope
Of his recovery. He is SO.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
The storers Leave Vienna.

Vienna, May 24.-Bellamy Storer. the
former American ambassador here, and
Mrs. Storer left Vienna for Paris Tues
day. They are going to the United
States in the fall.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
The wellmar Polar Expedition.

Paris. France.-Maj. H. B. Hersey
has left for Tromsoe, Norway, where he
will meet and conduct to Danes island
the first party Of the Wellman balloon
polar expedition.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
uoman a Age Of 1O7 Dies.

Hopkinsville, KY, May A.-Rose NJ
Ynman. colored, the Oldest woman IN
the state, aged LOT years, died In the
western lunatic asylum here. where she
had been q patient 80 years.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
Rixerman Probably Fatally Crushed

Riverman Probably Fatally Crushed
Peoria, ILL.,, May 24.-Capt. Bradley
Hawley, an old riverman, fell from q
gangplank and was probably fatally
crushed between the tug City OF Henry
and the barge Hudson. The broken
rihs purctured his lungs.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01

Japanese Ambassador to France.
Marseilles. May 25.-M. Kurino, for
mer Japanese minister to Russia and
recently appointed Japanese ambassa-
dor to France, has arrived here from
japan.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
Cruiser Chicago AT Portland, ore.

Cruiser Chicago At Portland, Ore.
Portland, Ore.-The u. S. cruiser
Chicago. flagship Of the Pacific squad
ron, with Admiral Goodrich ON board,
arrived Thursday, to participate in the
made In Oregon" exposition.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
Resolutions Adopted.

The democratic party of Missouri, in
Judicial convention assembled, expresses
Its loyalty to the immortal principles Of
the party SO inseparably connected with
the history and institutions Of our coun-
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-11-23
Uaeful Teeth.

Many different reasons are assigned
by people for their unwillingness to
submit to the extraction of teeth. But
1t was no fear of pain which was up
permost in the mind of Miss Mehitable
Lamson of Willowby when told by the
dentist that she would be much bene-
flied by the loss Of two of her prom
inent teeth.
you say they can't be filed" she
said, In evident distress, land you
couldn't get any others in for me for
more'n a fortnightY'
The dentist admitted reluctantly that
Ii was so.
"Well, then, I suppose I'll have to
get on as best I can" And Miss Me-
hitable seated herself In the torture
chair. "But I don't see how I shall
make out. Here I am, chambermaid
to. the Willowby inn during the sum-
mer, and it's chock full Of folks, with
lots o. transients coming and going,
and those are my pillowcase teethw