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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24
CRIMES COMMITTED IN.
THE NAME OF LOVE
A Strange Epidemic Of Murders in New York
City in Which Dan Cupid Plays the
Leading Part.

That there is really an epidemic Of
crimes in the sacred name of love
might we'll appear from the recent
startling record of fatal tragedies,
large proportion of which have had
their scene in New York.
Il killed her because l thought she
was not true to me-" said Julius Hof-
man, as he looked from the New York
police to dying Draga Seigel.
"Will you take me back?" demand
ed Henry Fischner of Johanna Hoefer,
An attractive young waitress who was
on duty at her uncle's lunch room, S21
Tenth avenue, and as she didn't re-
ply he shot her down in cold blood,
then turned the weapon on himself.
Thus, on the police blotter, within
"a hours two more murders were
charged to the blind little god, Love.
Why has Cupid traded his well-be-
loved and gentle weapons, the bow and
arrow, for the more formidable revol-
yer?
In the days when Love was young,
and the simple life an actuality, not
theory, Cupid tipped his arrow with
golden love-songs and aimed it with
a laugh. To-day, in New York, with
its strange commingling of foreign
elements, its nervous tension, its gilt
tcring pleasures and its appalling
loneliness, Cupid ofttimes loads his
newly acquired weapon with death
dealing bullets and sends them flying
to the accompaniment of a groan or
curse. Within the past - months
Loves hand has aimed more deadly
weapons than Bacchus, or Greed or
Revenge or Hatred. Race-hatred, sud
den fury following on the heels of a
business quarrel, these and all other
causes must give Love precedence as
the power behind the gun, the knife,
The stiletto.
Just a year ago, in an obscure down
town hotel, Louis G. Hampton man
of family, social and business stand
ing, shot and killed first the woman
he loved and then himself. The wo-
man in the case was Victoria Tacz-
kow, beautiful salesgirl in a depart
ment store. She was 80 years the
junior of her wealthy and influential
admirer, who was an official of the
United States Trust company, of Wall
street. She did not know he was mar
ried. She was waiting for the death
of his aged mother to relieve him of
certain domestic responsibilities and
set him free to marry the girl he
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24

Fallen drew Mrs. wiedman aside and
again urged the unlawful love which
she had often spurned, and, being
spurned again, that love cried hoarse-
ly: I'm tired of this nonsense. l
love you, and I'm going to have
you
Then again the fatal shot and an
other at Mrs. Wiedman's assistant,
who came to her rescue, and still a
third and a sharp knife at his own
throat. Another tragedy in the name
of Love had been written in New
York's criminal annals.
IN the early dawn ui March 1 Ame-
tillo Gallo, a young bride of Northern
Little Italy, went a-gunning for the
man who had stolen from him, at a
dance in the New Star Casino, One
Hundred and Seventh street and Lex
ington avenue, the belle of the ball,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24

ther found that the rumors were only
too true and the engagement was
broken of. The Crouses went to
Ocean Grove, whittier young Bissell
followed. The two young people met
on the street, and surreptitiously Bis
sell displayed a revolver and ordered
the girl to accompany him to the pas
torate of Rev. c. NJ. Griffin, pastor Of
the Ashbury Park Methodist church
In the middle of the service Miss
Grouse began to scream, asking that
she be protected from her too anxious
lover. Whereupon, the clergyman,
being strong of arm, pinioned the half
crazed youth, and Miss Grouse es-
capped to the bosom of her family
But the end was not yet, and friends
of the family assert that Bissell should
be confined. as the girl is not safe
so long as he is at large.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24

The increase in its area in Kansas
affords some although no adequate
ideal of the growing appreciation in
which the plant is held. 1t is 16 years
since the crop was first thought of
enough Importance to chronicle its
statistics, when the enumerators of
the board of agriculture returned the
area for the state as S4,834 acres
This year (19O7) the area in. alfalfa
is 742,14O acres, or an increase of 2O.7
per cent. over the area of 1906.
AS a hay there is none so good 70,
all kinds of live stock as alfalfa and
for horses and hogs it is a most inval.
liable food either as a hay, a soilinp
crop, or as pasture. AS a meat-maker
milk-maker and money-maker it is
equally prized and as a renovator and
improTer of soils itshas no competitor
F. d. Coburn, Secretary kansas
Board of Agriculture.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24
Old Coins niscnuered.

Workingmen in demolishing the old
smelter house of the first United
States mint, on Seventh street, Phila-
delphia, have uncovered number of
relics of the early days of the repub-
lie. These relics consist of a number
of foreign and domestic coins, dating
as far back as 1898. Some of the in
teresting finds are number of test
coins that were experimental with by
the officials in the olden times. These
coins are, similar to Chinese money,
each containing hole in the center
that was filled with various kinds OF
metal to bring up the value or the
coin,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24

told the man she no longer loved him
that she was leaving him forever.
Three sharp reports, scurrying foot
steps and bated breaths in the hall
way without, and within-Cupid weep
ing over his deadly work.
November-and the Thanksgiving
spirit abroad in the big, bustling city.
But no such spirit in the heart of
Giuseppe Figlia. Working with him
in the same factory at No. 67 Spring
street was beautiful Antoinette Macio-
ci, beautiful as an Italian woman is
only at the age of 10. Figlia had
loved and wooed her, had been one
of many admirers treated with CO.
quettish toleration by the belle of
Carmine street and the Spring street
factory, but in time all fell back in
favor of Vincenzo Lavorce. The be-
trothal of the handsome couple was
announced, their wedding day grew
near-but with it came death. An
toinette, not content with her con-
quest, had later made fun of Figlia,
who was small and unattractive, call
ing him THE Toad" On the twenty
sixth day of November "The Toad
and the factory beauty met during
the noon hour at the water cooler. An
angry question, taunting reply, four
reports from a death-dealing pistol,
once beautiful form lying in pool of
Hood faain0 tho nfflRnrC
Of the law.
"She made fun of me, and killed
her Now she won't marry any one,
and if l die, too, don't care"
December, month of the Christ
child, passed without murder in the
name of Love; but on January 2 the
police gathered into their drag-net Leo
Mitchell, who for more than four
years had been in hiding for the mur-
der of Marie LewraZzo, pretty girl
who had refused to marry him, after
he had paid her passage over from
Italy. To be sure, this was because
Marie had heard that Leo had an
other wife in Italy. but the jealous
Italian had passed the stage where
marriage VOWS counted against the
power of the little god-and so he,
too, raised his revolver and shot the
girl through the heart
Five days later George Fallen, who
ran a flower stand at Eighty-first
street and Columbus avenue, shot and
killed Mrs. Madeline Wiedman, the
wife of his business neighbor, John
Wiedman, a news dealer. Mrs Wied-
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24

Sandra Giovelli. But his rival shot
first. Shots were almost as thick as
Italian curses, and for the love of one
girl Gallo died and six men were held
as his assasins.
June II, James Wardell and his
wife, Laura, entered into a suicide
pact, as the note found in their room
proved: 'As long as Laura is going
to live with me she will never
live with another We are going to
die together. Laura and jim" But
the woman shot herself first. The
man missed his aim and then weak
ened. Broken marriage vows, quar-
rels patched up and then renewed
love one minute, hatred the next,
death for the wife, suspicion, arrest
and dishonor for the husband-and
all in the name of Love!
Three bullets for sweetheart and
one for herself" is the tabloid form
in which Marie Balasi's tragedy was
written on independence day. De-
ceived and ruined by Henry Stern, a
stranger in a strange land, and desert
ed by the man she had trusted, poor
Marie Ballast thus ended forever the
new love dream in which Stern had
lost all sense of honor and obligation
to her.
On July 23 occurred one of the most
sensational murders in New York's
recent history. Miss Esther Nor
ling discovered that Frank H. War
ner, once her business employer, later
her partner, was not worthy of her
trust and love, and thrust him out of
her life. Drink-sodden and believ-
ing that the girl, by her act, had
separated him from the last hope of
earthly happiness or all connection
with decent life, Warner shot and
killed her in the very door of the
store where she was employed as
cashier, at No. West Forty-second
street. Then, blood-crazed, he dashed
down town and killed a lifelong
friend, John C. Wilson, millionaire
hat manufacturer of Waverley place
and Greene street, who was in the act
of loaning the crazed man money,
A doughty and strong-armed minis
ter of the gospel saved a young wom-
an from a hated marriage and per.
haps from actual death at Asbury
Park on September 10. Belle Grouse.
daughter of a Presbyterian minister
at Stanhope, N. j., was engaged to
Percy c. Bissell, student at the state
normal school, Trenton, N. j., when
rumors reached her that her intend
ed was a confirmed gambler. Her ia
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24
Local Option in Texas

Local option prevails in Texas.
There are 147 countries that are alb
solutely dry, SIS are partially so, and
only Al are totally wet. Gov. Camp
bell writes: Nearly all the dry terri
tory has become so since 1903. The
effect has been to greatly decrease the
consumption of intoxicants. 1t has
decreased the state revenue to a con-
siderable extent, and has greatly de-
creased the amount of crime in the
dry counties after ene law has been
in force enough to accomplish its
legitimate results. The saving in
court expenses from decrease in crime
is believed to Offset the loss of rev.
enue from closing the saloons"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24

loved. Her name was above reproach.
Her family knew Of her love affair and
approved of the supposedly prospect
i've marriage.
What happened between these two
behind the barred door of the obscure
hotel no one known. Perhaps the girl
had learned the hideous truth, and
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24

was impaired and the kidney secre-
tions were badly disordered. l was
completely worn out and discouraged
when l began using Doan's Kidney
Pills, but they went right to the cause
of the trouble and did their work well.
l have been feeling well ever since"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24
Saws It's Not So,

Report to the effect that electric
lights are detrimental to the eyesight
are pronounced unfounded by an elec-
trical expert in the London Times.
He says that the trouble arises from
too direct exposure of the eye to the
light, and that effect would be tho
same or worse with any other light.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24
Drink Leads to Divorce.

According to recent statistics, 81
per cent. of the divorces requested
during the past year in the state of
New Jersey were because of drink
The moral, says the Baltimore Ameri-
can, is quite an old one, the girl who
marries man in the hope that she
will reform him is likely to be seri-
cusly disappointed.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24
Seeking Refuae in England.

Monks and nuns exiled from France
by the recent laws are still seeking
refuge in England in considerable
numbers. Fifty nuns recently left
Brest on board the Antelope and 100
brothers of Christian schools, who
have been expelled from their insti-
tutions, are seeking home in Jersey
and England.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24
Ireland Saloon Rurdsn.d

ireland has licensed drinking place
for every ITO of the population. Each
of these institutions is a poverty-pro-
ducer and trouble-maker. Their aboli-
ton would greatly help to restore
prosperity and peace to that much
disturbed country.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24

man was a striking brunette who with
her assistant, Miss Ratel, piled the
trade of manicuring at the Endicott
hotel. She lived at No 80 West
Eighty-second street, WHITTIER on the
fatal night George Fallen had been
hidden, with other guests, to celebrate
a birthday. AS the guests separated,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24
Unfermented Crane Juice.

Stem six quarts of grapes, wash
them, and put them over the fire
with one quart of cold water Bring
slowly to the boil, boil up hard, and
strain. Return the Juice to the fire,
bring again to the boil, bottle and
seal.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24

Mrs. Stubbs (angrily) idea
John, of that mar wanting '$5 to trim
our hedge. Why. ] think he is a regu-
lar hog! ~b8 j.
Mr.. Stubb-Not regular hog, Mar
tina, think he must be "a hedgehog
Chicago News. sWiVet isS ~
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24
Ncamnalnn of Educatlnn y

United action by leading brewers
Of the United States against the
spread of local option was taken at q
secret meeting. in Cincinnati. A
campaign Of education Is needed.
Minneapolis Journal.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24
Old Church.,

The one thousandth anniversary Of
the founding of st. Peters church,
Chester, England, finds the structure
in good condition, portions of it hav.
ing been rebuilt in 1440 and 1878.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24

1V6 mOQIlS III q uOS-
pital / was dis
charged as incurable.
and given only six
months to live. My
heart was affected, l
had S m o h e ri n g
spells, and some.
times fell uncon-
scious. / got so 1
couldn't use my
arms, my eyesight
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24
Not to Be Wasted.

Ben Cary had near his house a
swamp, which was a breeding-place
for herds of man-eating mosquitoes
Some enterprising neighbors, who
learned of the crude oil treatment,
went to Ben and tried to persuade
him to eXterminate the pests.
"Exterminate 'em?" said Ben. "Not
much. Not much. Why, Mis- Cary
an l just paid $S2 for screening the
side piazzer that she's been pestering
me about for years. How we goin'
to get any good of it, if we kill off
the skeeters ?"-Youth's Companion.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24
FIVE MONTHS IN HOSPITAL.
Discharged Reeaues Doctors Could Noe
Cure.

Levi P. Brockway, S. Second Ave,
Anoka., MiDu., says: AFTER lying for
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-24

No man is called to a life of self
denial for its own sake. 1t is in order
to obtain compensation which is real
and always proportionate-Drum-
mond.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-30
The caIIigraphy of the Dumase..

Both the Dumases' hands are those of
busy men, but the elder Dumas could
go on forever. He never stopped to
punctuate. One Of his literary canons
was that clear style punctuates itself.
There is a good deal in this. The son
never missed comma, semicolon, CO.
lon or full stop. He had not the IA
theirs facility, which resembled trop-
1cal vegetation at the end of the rainy
season.
The younger Dumas beat his brains
terribly and forced them to bring forth
plays, but his letters were jeux d'esprit.
He ought to have been a preaching
monk or an advocate He liked to
preach and point morals and to kick
his fair penitents to give them real
cause to cry. But he was not the brute
he liked to pass for being. Nothing
can be more refined than his hand
writing. The original manuscripts of
his plays are scarcely legible. the cor
rections and erasures are so numerous.
But he did not let the copyist or, In
deed, any stranger see them, but re-
wrote ana added pungent and preg-
nant sentences as he did so. The first
thoughts Of some authors are the best.
They were the worst Of Dumas fills
unless when he was answering let
ter-answering. mind 1t was then
case of steel responding to flint.
Sparks flew. If there was an explosive
about, it went off-London Truth.
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OF all the pleasure grounds we saw
abroad | liked Phoenix park, in Dub
lin, the best, says a writer in the
Guidon. 1t covers nearly 1000 acres,
and the seven mile drive around 1t is
delightful.
Acres of 1t are let to citizens for pas
turage, and herds Of fat kline lazily
chewing under the trees or idly stand
ing in cool stream give touch not
found in any other resort
On one plat when we were there a
detail of his majesty's redcoats were
practicing target shooting. Yonder
came three dragons back from cross
country run. The vice regal lodge,
plain and white, looked, in spite of the
vastness of the green grounds about 1t.
hot and uninviting in the glare of the
August sun
In sight of the house, but long way
from it. is the spot where Cavendish
and Burke were murdered some years
ago. In vain do the gardeners try to
keep grass above it, AS fast as a bit
grows it is taken up and carried off by
relic hunters.
Scores of deer were roaming about,
so tame that they frequently came
close to our car. One big stretch of
rolling land was crossed and recrossed
with what looked in the distance like
bitches. They are troughs, our driver
told us, into which at morning and
night water is pumped for the deer,
which come there by the hundreds to
drink
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-30
Curious Marriage Customs,

Wedding customs in Servla, that lit
tie kingdom in Europe, are curious in
deed from an American standpoint.
For instance, neither the bride nor the
bridegroom is the most important fig
ure In Seryian wedding, but the best
man takes the leading part He care
fully guards the bride all the day be-
fore the wedding takes place, and
sleeps outside her chamber the night
before the girl Is to be married. He
wears big stiff sash made of heavy
silk, carries big white staff and q
huge bouquet all for himself There
are no bridesmaids, but two god
fathers. each of whom presents to the
bride silk dress. After the priest
has performed the ceremony the best
man takes the bride around the church
and she kisses all her girl friends good
by and is finally carried off to the
bridegroom. who at last gets his wife
from the hands of the best man. Then
the happy couple return to their in
tended home. Bridal tours are foreign
to Servian ideas and only the very rich
or the nobility indulge in them
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-30
Mo Mail For Him.

eyes," remarked the driver, as his
leaders swept round the turn into
lightly timbered stretch Of level road
in the Australian ''bush," you may
not believe it, but those kangaroos are
as clever as people" Then, in response
to the inquiry of a passenger who con-
tributes the story to Casselrs Maya
zine, he proceeded to tell why
Nov, there's Moloney," he contin-
ued, "who owns the section on the 9TH
er side of the creek. He trained one
Of them to meet the coach every week
and get the letters for him.
''The kangaroos pouch comes in real
handy, We see.' he added, with the hui
NOR that belongs to the stage driver
the world over
Presently, as often happens ON q
quiet country road, a fine kangaroo,
disturbed by the approach of his maj
esty's royal mail, came into view, as
he raised himself from the grass where
he had been feeding and looked toward
the coach with an innocent, inQuiring
air
The driver glanced at him and shook
his head
Nothing for you today, old man, he
called genially.
The kangaroo, as if that was all he
had been waiting for, hoped quickly
out of view among the trees, to the
amazement of the box seat traveller
and intense enjoyment of the other oc-
cupants of the coach.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-30
The Money Maxine Game.

The first of all English games is
making money. That is an all absorb
ing game, and we knock each other
down oftener in playing at that than
at football or any other rougher sport,
and it is absolutely without purpose.
Ne one who engages heartily In that
game ever knows why. Ask a great
money maker what he wants to do
with his money-he never knows. He
doesn't make it to do anything with
it. He gets it only that he may get 1t.
what will you make of what you
have got?' YOU ask. "Well, I'll get
more" he says, just as at cricket you
get more runs. There's no use in the
runs, but to get more of them than
other people is the game, and there's
no use In the money, but to have more
of 1t than other people is the game
So all that great foul city of London
rafting, growing, smoking,
stinking-a CHASTITY heap of fermenting
brickwork, pouring out poison at every
pore-you fancy it is city of work?
Not street of it! 1t is a great city
of play very nasty play and very
hard play, hut still play 1t is only
LorA's cricket ground without the turf
"a huge Billiard table without the
cloth and with pockets as deep as the
bottomless pit. but mainly a billiard
table after all.-John Ruskin.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-30

uncomfortable. She cast one swift
look at us two; then she started up the
pine path.
Il know that careless Martha is let
ting the bread burn" she called back
over her dear motherly shoulder.
l took a string Of diamonds from the
box and put them around my sweet
hearts neck. An amethyst in its
quaint setting l pinned at her white
throat, a coronet of pearls 1 placed on
her golden hair. On her slender, trem-
bling fingers l put rings-rubies, dia-
monds, emeralds. On her pretty arms
l hung bracelets of queer design, and
then fastened her girdle-dull gold.
set with a great white opal which
broke into marvellous colors as my
sweetheart touched 1t reverently.
When had finished she looked like
sweet barbaric princess. l knelt be-
fore her, kissing her hand.
"All yours, my queen" l whispered,
"for I love you as he Caprice"
Maybe l am his Caprice" she an
swered dreamily, land maybe you are
he"
"Tell me that you love me. DEAR" l
pleaded,
She put her fiower-like face to mine.
"My first thought of you and my last
are the same. beloved" she answered
"And the thought is this-that you
have heart for whose belated wax
ing queens might keep vigil"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-30
Enoland,s National Collar

Why red should have been selected
as the national color becomes intel
Eglble when we look at the cross of
st. George. Sir Walter Scott, when he
wrote of how their own sea hath
whelmed those red cross powers" was
merely anticipating the phrase of to-
day. But Oliver Cromwell, when for
the first time he put the English SOL
der in a red coat, probably did as
much as st. George to monopolize red
ms the national color The aggressive
color has, however many meanings
and has lent itself to many uses. In
the days of the Romans when it
fiared on the head of slave 1t stood
for freedom; In the days of the French
revolution 1t stood for freedom backed
by blows, while In the streets of the
city today the red cross stands for
succor. So far back as the reign of
Henry II. there was a red book Of the
exchequer, a record Of the names of
all who held lands per baroniam,"
and at this moment persons Of conse-
quence In the service of the state find
their names entered in a red book
London Chronicle.