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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-27
WINNING RICH HUSBAND

romance Ol AIuil W. WOOUs Jne
Pittsbrfg millionaire who. not long
ago in the face OF vigorous pap-
ltesis Of his family, married Goldie
Mohr, sprighty New York chorus
girl.
She was then receiving salary
OF $25 week from her stage posi-
ton and the transition to Ink
,mious home in a fashionable apart
mrnt house in New York was
vast improvement in fortune. When
MIR. Wood died last summer his
estate was valued at $lj,OOO,OOO.
! Not long altcr the death of MIR.
Wood came the news that Mrs. Il.
X. Whitney. wife of the aged
Canadian lumber dealer. had also
(, been left Il wealthy young widow.
Mr.. Whtneys fortune was rs-
timatcd at from $l5,0OO,OO to
| $2O, 100000.
This romance was remarkable
in that it ran smoothly. Pretty
Anna Bennett, graceful, attentive.
soft voiced and %, was telephone
operator at the Grand Union hotel
in New York, where the aged
lumber merchant made his home
when on business trips ITO that city
He was charmed by the pollte girl
at the telephones. His only son, a
middle-agcd, successful business
man, approved the match. While
Mr.. Whitney did not live long TO
enjoy the society of his charming
young wife, it is said their married
nfe was more than usually happy.
Some years ago Boston society
was thrown into Sudden daze by
the marriage OF young Francis
Skinner. = son OF, millionaire and,
hike Alfred Curtis, nephew Of Mrs.
",Jack" Gardner, TO Miss Sadie
Carr, MiSs Carr was saleswoamn in
n department store and her father
pursued his daily vocation in a
modest tailoring shop.
Young Skinner went about his
wooing in straight forward man.
ner blu, neglected to inform his
relatives cd his intentions until
1fter he and his pretty bride had
sailed upon their honeymoon on the
.bridcgroom's splendid yacht Con-
stcllation. After that speculation
was rife as to the probability of
the millionaire father disinheritine
his son, but upon the death OF
the elder Skinner few weeks ago
il was found that he had not done
tso.
/ Only short time Since Leonard
Ames of New York, retired
iron manufacturer of great wealth
astoundcd his relatives by wedding
/ Miss Fannie Rowbotham of Oswe.
! 60, N. Y. for many years q
,paid in his household.
1 Ma. Ames,, IL is stated, has pass.
Jed his sixtieth birthday anniversary
while the woman he married is
much younger. Back Of the story
is. romance.
The first Mrs. Ames was an
invalid and employed Miss Row
botliam to remain in the service
of his family. Now she is in joint
possession of his splendid city
and country homes.
Recently Mrs. Bernard iSaxton
az aI bride left New York with
her adoring husband to take pos.
session Of a mansion amid the
fragrant orange groves in Flor.
ida. For several years as Ida
| Schwindt she had attended the tel.
ephone exchange in tn Park Ave.
hotel.
| There Mr.. Saxton saw her and
to see was promptly to fall in
love. Ii was some years however
before he could persuade her Ia
become his wife. Miss Schwindl
was a warm friend of Miss Anna
Bennett, the telephone girl who
married wealthy f.. r. Whitney
and each attended the marriage oi
the other. Chicago Chronicle.
on1n Inv hhotna,u h,,xoard loaif n o,,
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-27
OLD TINE DINNERS
English Gentlemen Lived Well
and Had Curious Customs

An account of hospitality in 1929
gives good idea of the manner in
which a country gentleman of the
period lived. Dinner and supper
were brought In by the servants,
with their hats on, custom which
,is corroborated by Fynes NIorryson
who says that being at knights
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-27
JULIA MARLowE, WHO PLAYS sALoME.


bodnes
metre II gay
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-27

Has Much Public Business.
Notwithstanding the public build
ings owned by New York city it payi
in rents $332.0O0 annually.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-25
BADGE OF HONOR.
Labor Unionists Adopt Roosevelt's
Title of Undesirable Citizens

Chicago, April 25.-President
RooseveltS phrase, undesirable citi-
zens," with which he branded Meyer
and Haywood in his letter to Honore
j. Jaxon, was voluntarily assumed last
night by ninety-five delegates who at
tended a meeting of the Moyer-Hay-
wood defense conference. The
stigma" was declared to be a badge
of honor"
Incidentally plans were laid for a
demonstration on the lake front on
May 19. Chairman Barney Berlyn an
nounced that only undesirable citi-
zens' would be invited to participate.
The Chicago Federation of Labor is
unwilling to shoulder the responsible
ty incurred by the Roosevelt reply to
Jaxon. AT a meeting of the executive
board yesterday it was determined to
sidestep the boomerang" which de-
scended on Jaxon.
I'VE haven't a word to say" de-
clared Secretary Nockels. "Jaxon does
not represent organized labor and
therefore he will have to face his own
troubles alone. Labor can not be held
to account in any way for Jaxon's pro-
test to the president. nor for what fol-
lowed.
The policy of the federation. it is
said, will be to await an answer from
the president to the resolutions adopt
ed by the central labor body last Sun
day and which were forwarded to
Washington the following day. 1t is
thought the president had not yet re-
ceived the resolutions when he wrote
the letter to JaxOn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-25

whose only interest was to delay re-
pairs and thus allow the streets to decay
is about to expire. The purpose of an
asphalt repair plant, as is now contem-
plated, to be operated by expert help
erS under direction of the street COM
missioner will prolong the life of those
streets where they are not already
ruined and at little or no expense to the
city, provided the cost of the repairs
caused by the plumbers is charged up
to the latter, the plumbers themselves
being under bonds and getting their
pay from those who employ them The
same rule should prevail with the brick
paVementS.
The street commissioner should be
empowered to make all street re-
pairs after the plumbers. to see that
the excavation is properly filled with
wet earth and we'll tamped, the brick
evenly replaced, leaving no ridge or
cutters and no chance to settle. The
expert repairerS employed by the
commissioner would have no interest
except to make a good job, whereas
The plumbers assistants now have no
interest except to make quick,
cheap job. It may require an order
of the city council or an ordinance to
bring about these charges. This plan
cities and Mr.. A. A. Robinson, who as
an engineer has had large experience
in the cities of this country and in
Mexico. states that this way of max
ing repairs is the universal rule in
that country and that all pavements
are thus kept in perfect repair.
The recently appointed city en-
gineer. Mr.. John Rodgers, is in hearty
sympathy with this reform and no
doubt the street commissioner would
readily cooperate in the same. All
they require is authority to act.
My excuse for intruding in this
matter is that I am a lot owner in
this city: that I was one of a COM
mittee appointed by the lot owners
to work up a sentiment in favor of the
first pavement ever laid in Topeka:
that I have made something of a
study of the subject for the past
twenty years in this and in other cities
where 1 have lived and have noted the
fatal results where timely repairs
were neglected.
NORRIS L. GAGE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-25
FRONT FELL OUT.
Wall of an Eight Story Building Col
lapses in Chicago.

Chicago, April 25.-The front of the
eight-story brick building a 346 and 34S
Wabash avenue, East side, between
Congress and Harrison streets, collapsed
early today, tumbling into the street
and carrying several of the floors with
it.
The crash was preceded by no warn
ing and several cabmen on the nearby
stands had narrow escapes.
The building is Is years old and was
acquired a year ago by Jacob L. Kes-
ner, who rernodeled it. Recently the
Kline Furniture company rented and
occupied the three floors.
The debris generally fell upon or close
to the sidewalk in wabash avenue but
some fell on the elevated loop structure.
Several timbers falling across the third
rail were ignited but the fire depart
ment had been summoned and when
the engines arrived the blazes were put
out.
The IL" tdains on the loop were stalled
for half an hour as were the wabash
avenue surface cars.
The judgment of the firemen was that
the collapse was the result of a weak
ening of the binders and supports of
the building occasioned during the re-
cent reconstruction of the building
The loss to structure and contents is
estimated at from 100000 to $4,000.
Julius Kechy, a Waterman employed
by the furniture company, had left the
building only moment before it fell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-25

dust, a local dealer had large display
OF automobile goggles in his window.
ana one or the clerks was kept busy
nearly all the time dispensing these
public.
A debating team from Washburn
college will be sent against Kansas
university at Lawrence Saturday night.
According to the dope this will make
pretty poor picking for Washburn.
Washburn was. defeated by Baker and
Baker was in turn defeated by Kansas
university.
The bill at the Novelty this week is
pronounced by the critics who patron
ize vaudeville shows in Topeka as the
best show ever given from a vaudeville
theater in Topeka And this is saying
great deal as some past performances
at the Novelty have been right up to
the highest standard.
The annual May Day track meet be-
classes at Washburn college will take
place next Wednesday. The boys of the
two classes will engage in baseball
game in the morning and the girls will
play basketball. The afternoon will be
devoted entirely to track work.
A neighborhood row is just about
ready TO break out in Potwln neigh
borhood because one of the residents
was struck with Gover;cr Hocf's plant
about dandelions. and harvested the
crop from lis lawn or dandelion day
and left them piled about so the high
wind of Yesterday reseeded the entire
neighborhood.
Only One week from today and the
baseball season will actually be here.
the small boys of the town
have picked out their favorite knotholes
and are ready to defend them against
all intruders. The older fans of the
city among whom can be numbered
prominent business men are planning
a holiday on this occasion and the wo-
men of the city will probably even go so
far as to neglect their household duties
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-25
MAN WHO MINKEO.
A New Husband Holds Up Street Cars
in Search for Him.

Chicago, april PA dispatch to the
Tribune from Atlanta, Ga, says:
Armed with a heavy club, Oscar
Hlggard a husband of two months,
held up a dozen trolley cars in Atlanta
yesterday and Gemoralized the entire
system in an effort to find a conduc-
tor who winked at his bride.
Huggard stationed ti1nself IN White
hall street, a main thoroughfare, and
as car appeared he leaped aboard,
rushed to the conductor and brandish-
ing MS club, cried: Are you the man
that wiExed at my wife,"
'Winked at your wife!" the conduc-
tor said. why, 1 never saw you or
her either before in all my life.''
After IN argument of ten minutes or
more that brought all the men in the
car to the platform, she motorman was
allowed to go On. But the husband
resumed his watch, waiting for the
next car.
Five cars were held up in this man
ner without finding the winker, and
then Huggard brought Mrs. Huggard
into action. Together they held UP
seven more cars without finding the
conductor who w1nked.
BY this time IL affic on the Whitehall
line was demoralized The Police err
rested Huggard. He is a business man
and promptly gave bond
According to Mrs. Huggard, is she
left a car she had been winked at by
one of the conductors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-25
FATHER TOOK THE BOY.
Marital Troubles at Garden City Leave
Broken Hearted Wife.

Garden City, Kan, April 25.-The
kidnapping of the five-year-oId son of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Cook by his
father was the contamination of some
domestic unplea santness in the Cook
family. Mr.. and Mrs. Cook have been
staying at the Copeland where Mrs.
Cook has been employed. Early in
the week Mrs. Cook was called away
from the house by the illness of her
sister, who lives in town. and while
she was away her husband called at
the hotel. took the boy and drove east.
1t is said he went to Pierceville and
took a train for Kinsley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cook have been mar
ried for about six years and from her
story their married life has been far
from happy. Mrs. Cook has been en-
ployed at the Copeland and she says
she has been supporting her husband.
There was some dispute about
money. ct got the. money, said Mrs.
Cook "but he got the baby"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-25
DOLLEY is CHAIRMAN.
Wabaunsee Senator Head of Square
Deal Committee.

Two meetings of the Republican
Square Deal central committee were
held at room 116 in the Copeland on
Thursday afternoon and evening, and
permanent organization made, with J.
N. Dolley of Maple Hill for chairman
and H G. Larimer of Topeka for sec
rotary. Mr.. Larimer will receive a sal
airy of $4,000 a year, and will devote his
entire time to the work of organizing
the Square Deal Republican movement
in Kansas.
1t is expected that permanent head
quarters for the Square Deal commit
tee viii be opened in Topeka a once.
left to committee composed of J. n.
Dolley, w. r. Stubs and Arthur Cap
per. This committee also selected H.
G. Larimer for secretary, from a list
of four or five applicants.
One of the most important actions of
the meeting was the decision to in
crease the size of the committee to 10
members. The present members of the
committee will select one additional
member from each congressional dis
trict. %
There were only two members of the
committee absent from the Thursday
evening meeting. They were jill. Bris-
tow and W. B. Ham of the Sixth dis
trfct. Those present were w. A. White,
w. r. Stubs, J. n. Dolley5 j. T. White.
Carr Taylor. James Troutnan, Arthur
Capper, T. B. Murdoch, and R. N. AL
len.
An executive committee was created
TO be composed of Stubs, Dolley, Cap
per and two more to be selected at
some future meeting.
The committee will now under take to
raise a campaign fund of SO, 900. There
has already been 500 pledged to the
fund. u
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-25
NEW YORK IN DARKNESS
LampIighters Strike and Policemen
Try TO Light Up.

New York, April 25.-Although the
public suffered inconvenience last
n1eht owing to the queerest strike this
city has seen for many day, that of
the lamplighters, the brunt of the
trouble was borne by the police.
Good sized sections Of the five
boroughs, especially the Bronx, the
upper part of Manhattan and the out
lying parts of Queens were in dark
ness until late. save for the light cast
by three quarters moon. Early in
thef night, when the more remote
populace suddenly became aware that
the customary illumination was not
forthcoming, complaints began to
pour in upon police hea dquarters and
so Commissioner Bingham ordered
that the police render all the assist
ance possible.
Much discontinue resulted Some
of the patrolmen climbed the lamp
posts and used matches a process
which required numerous matches as
the night was rather breezy. Others
who had more forethought took along
poles and tapers. But unfamiliarity
with the work resulted in ruination of
numerous mantles. To cap the eli
max strikers put out some of the
lights lit and from Queens, where
some of the police beats are four and
hve miles long, came word by tele-
phone to police headquarters that I'M
less help was vouchsafed it would be
daylight before all the lamps had
been attended to. This necessitated
calling out police reserves to help
light up.
The strikers union numbers about
400 men. These men are employees
of the WeIsbach Lighting company
which has a contract to light streets
where there are no electric lights
They are mainly Italians. They are
striking for recognition of the union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-25
SAVE THE PAVENIENTs.
Norris L. Cages Plea for Repair
Plant

To the Editor of the State Journal:
Permit me to call the attention of the
city authorities and of property owners
to subject of very great Importance
to this city.
Topeka is suffering from most ser
ious and unnecessary financial loss for
want of an adequate system for repair
ing her pavements.
Because of her broad streets, scatter
ed business, thinly settled resident pop
ulation and rapid extension of paving
the first cost of paving has been a
greater burden upon the city at large
and upon abutting lot owners than is
the case of any other city in the United
States Many people of moderate means
have been driven into poverty and have
left the city on account of the extension
of pavements into localities where the
business and travel did not justify their
construction. Business men familiar
with paving problems in other cities are
appalled, when shown the rapid extern
sion of paving into districts where they
are used so little and where for nine
months in the year. in this climate the
natural roads are as good or better than
a pavement
It is crime to allow pavements cost
ing such vast sums of money and the
payment for which has crippled so
many lot owners, to be broken up and
damaged for want of repairs which
could be made at little expense if taken
in time. This neglect is not so much
the fault of the plumbers who have no
material or tools for repairing asphalt
paving, who have to bid against each
other for their work and who have been
permitted to repair the brick paving in
a cheap and flimsy manner. The fault
is with the city itself in not adopt
ing and enforcing proper system of
repair work.
An opportunity now exists for correct
inS this fatal neglect. The repair con-
tractwith the Barber Asphalt company
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-25
A CONVENTION FOR TOPEKA.
State Federation of Labor to Meet
Here August 1914.

wichita Kan. April 25.--General Or
ganizer Henry M. Walker of the
American Federation of Labor, who IS
engag ed in organizing the Kansas
lions of President Gompers of the j..
F. of L., has made headquarters here
and claims that the convention mas
been decided upon for Topeka, August
He says that the state federation
movement has been endorsed by the
United Mine Workers of America, the
district officers oe district IA at Pllts-
burg, and by a large number of prolnl-
nent labor men OF Kansas, and also by
the Central Labor Union of Wichita,
the Central Labor Union OF CofteyH'lle
the United Trades and Labor Couhcli
of Pittsburg. the Industrial Council OF
Topeka the Trades and Labor Councll
of Leavenworth, the Trades and La Dor
Council. Of Atchison, and mass meet
ings of union labor in lola ana EN-
endorsement b. the elected representa-
tives of more than 200 different LABOR
organizations in Kansas.
Kansas is now the only western
state not having this form of organi-
cation, which has proven to be the
best for the labor organizations
He claims that Organization animated
with A. F. of L and such organizations
as the Brotherhood Of Locomotive En-
gineers, Ffremen, Trainmen. Switch
men Conductors, Railway CLERKS
Bricklayers, and also the Operative
Plasterers, will be eligible to member
ship in the new body.
Mr.. walker lays the general call for
the convention will likely be issued !
through the national headquarters OF
all organiza tiops on or about May 10 |
and it is expected that at least 400 del
eeates will attend the convention.
He expects to visit a number of Kan
sas clowns between now and the con-
vention to address mass meetings or
IoI and s
readv to respond to calls upon these
lines free of any cost to those needing
his services.
Bankers Meet at lola.
lola. Kan, April 25.-Group of the
L1..,,cnr &c Ia IA mixers, association was |
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-25
LETTERS GO BACK.
In One Day 2O,36s Are Returned to
the Writers.

Washington. April 25-An previous
records for a days work in returning
letters to writers from the division of
dead letters We're eclipsed on Monday
last when 20.36S letters We're returned.
The largest number heretofore return
ed in a single day was lass on March
%, last. The number of letters on hand
awaiting return has been reduced to
So 600. A little over month ago there
were over 100000 of such letters on
hand. Assistant Postmaster DeGraw
expects that within short time writers
whose addresses can be ascertained will
have their undelivered letters returned
TO them within few days after re-
ceipt at the division of dead letters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-25
DO IT NOW.

Now is the time to take
something to clean and build
up the blood, Kidding the sys-
tenn of the poisonous waste
matter and acids which cause
Rheumatism, Blood disorders,
Nervous Debility, Backache
and other miserable weak
nesses.
Here is one of the simplest
though safest and most GER
tain mixtures. which can read
lily be prepared at home at
Fluid Extract Dandelion
one-half ounce, Compound
Kargon one ounce, Compound
Syrup Sarsaparilla three
ounces. Get these ingredients
from any relia BILE pharmacy
and mix by shaking them well
teaspoonfu1 after meals and at
bedtime. Also drink plenty of
water.
This homemade mixture,
writes a noted auth GRITTY. will
overcome most forms of Kid
ney and Bladder troubles and
at the same time force the :
Kidneys to filter and strain all
impurities and acids from the
blood, restoring the full blood
count Of 95 per cent red blood
corpuscles, which means good,
sound health and vigorous Vi
tality, to say nothing of the
clear, rosy skin and complexion
which must result
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-25
Farm Lands Rapid increase

T. w. Johnson, who owned a farm
two miles west of Bonner Springs in
this county which he bought last June
for $45 an acre, has sold it to George
Hail for SIS an acre, and there were
eighty acres. Hail sold forty acres of
land below Bonner recently to a ce-
ment company for $3.50 an acre, there
being a kind of rock on the place
which is ada pied to the making of a
fine cement. AS a farm the land was
really worth little, having a few acres
only in the bottom for potatoes
Leavenworth Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-25
Attempted suicide at LaCrosse.

Great Bend, Kan, April 25--Jesse
Talbot, a Lacrosse young man, while
drunk attempted to commit suicide at
his home He shot himself through
the abdomen with large caliber
Colts revolver, and he has but little
chance of recovery Telephone COM
munica ton was opened with this town
and young Talbot was brought to
Hoisington on Missouri Pacific train
No. 2. and from there to this city in
an automobile which was awaiting the
train Two hours and one-halfs after
the shooting he was on the operating
table in the hospital.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-25
SOLD AT sHERIFFs SALE.
Oil Property at Erie Goes Under the
Hammer for $4,000.

Chanute, Kan, April 25.-The property
of the Garden City Oil and Gas COM
pany has been sold by the sheriff in
Erie It was bid in by S. c. Brown of
this city for $4,000. Mr.. Brown acted
as agent for Edward Mcmahon of Chi
cago the man who held the mortgage.
The amount of the judgment was about
$4,000. The stockholders have IS
months in which to redeem the proper
ty in case they desire to do so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-25
'ePneumonia's Deadly Worl-

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