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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
|Ah[S STUDENTS
CREATE A SCENE
Many People Indignant Over
Disturbance Created at Per
formance of Show
MAKE RUSH AND STEAL sEATaI
Armory Managers, College Proctors
and City Marshal Called to Use Cons
bined Efforts to Quiet the Troubis
Even Then the Students Persisted hi
lntsrruptihs Show With Their Yslls.

Special to Times Republican.
Ames. Feb, 11-About 300 students
Of the Iowa State College attended the
performance Of the Flora Devoss Com.
pany at the armory here Saturday.
and created disturbance that siinsnoI
way credit to them or to the college.
From the facts that can be learned, its
appears that a body Of students were
gathered for the express purpose of
having a good time. Upon arriving a
the armory, they proceeded to form ~
wedge and rushed for the door in the
worst jam ever seen in Ames. Re-
gardless OF ushers. they rushed into
the house and took the front seats
many OF which had been sold and ro-
served by town people. After q vain
endeavor to restore order on the part
Of the armory managers, the proct0rg
from the college and the marshal suc-i
ceeded in quieting the trouble and the
show proceeded, but not without what.
the citizens Of Ames call the worst.
performance by college students that,
they ever witnessed. Many declare
that they will not attend show again
when students are there. ss
Even after the offenders had been
compelled to give up the stoden seats.
they persisted in yelling and causing
much disturbance to the show. Many
people are indignant over the affair.
and the students are fortunate that
greater trouble did not result. Marshal
Wiley had six deputies, all Of whom
carried guns, and their use was Al
most required. s.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
sroRk HovERs OVER QUEEN.
Spanish Women Making Baby Clothes
for consort Of Alfonso.

Madrid, Feb 11.-Arrangements for
the storlxs visit Ito the royal house of
Spain are proceeding apace. Her ma
jesty, Queen Victoria, who welded
King Alfonso on the 31st of last May,
prefers to keep away from public func-
tions until April, when the church bells
shall ring merrily for the birth of a
child to the youngest king and queen
in Europe. More than 100 Spanish
women are making baby clothes for the
heir to the throne The christening
and presentation of robes will be the
same as worn by Alfonso Kill, and
his lamented father.
OF course there will be fancy
Anna" to carry the future king Cor
queen) and if not useful she will be or
namental wearing the splendid nation
al costume of these dames-short vel
vet skirt, trimmed with scarlet velvet
and gold braid, low buckled shoes, silk
stockings, satin apron, gold embroid-
cred bolero over lawn chemisette. hair
parted la madonna and knotted be-
hind under flowing ribbons, with a
veritable shower of chains around the
neck and long earrings.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
MARsHAIITowN MONDAY. FEBRUARY II 1907

railroads recently because of the large
number Of wreckss the Lake Shore OF
ficers decided to make test on this
division of their road A party con-
sisting of Assistant Superintendent >.
w. Brown, Division Superintendent H.
NJ. Tompkins, Assistant Superintend-
ent L. P. Cook, superintendent OF Sig
nails A. NJ. Black, Foreman OF Signal
Maintenance H. X. Everett; Trainmas-
ter E. v. Brogan and Travelling Engi-
neer j. p. Freeman, arrived here last
night and went to the signal tower
which controls this section OF the
block system.
They darkened the lights which sig
nal whether or not the tracks are clear.
and then they waited for developments.
Train after train flew past the tower
and the crews paid no attention what
soever to the absence of signal lights.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
Western Union Employees May
Demand Increase In Wages
Of 10 Per Cent
DEFY COMPANY lNrERFERENcE
Mass Meeting Held and Resolutions
Adopted Scoring President clowry-
Big Tie-up !. Threatened Within
Three Days-other News Of import
ance Given.

Chicago. Feb. 11.-Unless the de-
mands Of the newly organized employees
of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany relative to the reinstatement OF
operators discharged within the past
few weeks are complied with within
three days Chicago may experience a
strike that will tie up its wire connec-
tions with the outside world.
Nearly 1000 employees Of the COM
pany met yesterday in the Musicians
union headquarters, in Van Buren
street and adopted resolutions defyins
the company and publicly announcing
their affiliation with the Commercial
Telegraphers' union.
"JJnless the company recedes from
the position 1t has assumed within q
few days and stops discharging its EN-
ployes for their activity in promoting
their interests the action will be re-
sented by the telegrapllers' union. That
means q strike which will not AFFECT
Chicago alone but at least twenty-five
cities thruout the country where SINH
lar situations exist ana where the en-
ployes are organizing for self-protec-
ton" said S. j. Small, president OF the
local union, after the meeting yester-
day.
..While we may not insist on the re-
instatement Of the nine men dis
charged, we shall insist that the dis
charge of employees s.ctive IN organ
ization be stopped and that we be per-
mitted to organize without hindrance.
There will be no troable In securing
work for the discharged men, SO we
will not insist on thei, return to work.
We shall not insist OIL the increase In
wages asked unless thu. company forces
the fight to an issue.
..In that event, another demand Will
be presented, asking for a 10 per cent
increase and backed UP by all the force
at our command.
The issue between the company and
it's employees is one Ut long standing,
and in twenty-five cities the work OF
organizing the employees has been
pushed till the union claims control OF
the situation. On the list of cities are
those of New York, Chicago, Boston,
Philadelphia. Baltimore. Pittsburg,
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Washington, st.
Louis. Kansas City, San Francisco,
New orleans. Buffalo and Omaha. All
are looking to the battle about to start
in this city, and if a strike is called 1t
will become general, according to the
leaders.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
MUST BE NO WAR
United States and Mexico viii Unite
With South American Republics in
Making Identical Representations to
Honduras and Nicaragua.

Washington, Feb. 11.-At a confer
ence held today between Assistant Sec
retarv Bacon. and the Mexican am
bassador, 1t was decided that Mexico
and the United States would unite with
Salvador, Costa Rico and Guatemala
in making identical representations to
Honduras and Nicaragua, to the effect
that they would be expected to settle
their differences without resort to war
and that the arbitration which was re-
Gently terminated at San Salvador
must be reconvened In order that the
issues between the two countries may
be peacefully settled in accordance
with the existing treaties.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
WOMEN CLERKS IN UNION.
Postoffice Employees Admit Them 1
Full Membership,

Chicago, Feb. 11.-Women postal
clerks have been admitted to member
ship in the Postal Clerks union, which
establishes precedent in the United
States, as heretofore the organization
has been composed entirely OF men.
Neither of the two women responsible
for the organization Of the female
clerks in the postofftce. Hazel Mac.
Donald and Nellie Thomas. was present
at the meeting held in the Masonic
Temple yesterday, but their names
were presented as members and voted
upon favorably. Both are employed in
the money order division and were un-
able to get away from their work.
There are over 100 women In the local
postofftce and all are expected to be-
come members Of the union eventually.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11

Washington, d. c., Feb. l1.-patsnts
have been granted as follows:
NJ. II. Daniels Of waverly. COW milk
ing device; Charles K. Hurd, Of lows
CITY. extensible display rack: T. O..
Jenson, Of Kimbleton. brick moulding
machine; O. II. Jure. Of Decorah. wire
reel and guide bed equipment for wire
coils: John d. Kneedler, OF Sioux City.
roadbed equipment; August LAge, Of
Everly, hay and grain loader, unioade1
and stacker; Asa B. Loses, OF Lake
city. display rack; Franklin Shannon,
of Sloan, elevator: 9. 8. Zigler. sf ox-
ford junction, combined tre0oego
stretcher and presseF.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
President Moves to Secure Elk.
clusion From Mails OF Papers
Printing Thaw Case Details
REFERRED TO THE LAWYERS
Direct Testimony Before the Senate
Committee to Effect That Whites of
Brownsville Did the shootins-Nesro
Says Bullets Went Over tho Fort
Washington News.

Washington, Feb. 1.-THE president
has communicated with Postmaster
General Cortelyou to know whether it
is feasible to bar from the mails pa
pers that give the full, disgusting par
ticulars Of the Thaw case. He does
not know whether it is feasible, but il
it is, he wishes it done.
The presidents letter to Corteiyou
will be referred to the legal division of
the postoffice department. which Will
expedtate the matter and if any action
is taken by the department looking to
the exclusion OF testimony from the
mails 1t will be done soon.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
LosT LIFE ON DoMlNoEs.
Cincinnati Policeman Played for High
Stakes in Game With Wife.


Stakes in Game With Wife.
Cincinr I'll, o., Feb. 11.-That Police
man Lou S. Rouse, a popular officer.
staked his life on the result of game
Of dominoes with his wife is the belief
of the coroner and his friends. After
a game in which she won he left the
table, went into an adjoining room.
and shot himself, dying within half an
hour.
The wife, who suspected nothing,
played with great skill. blocking every
one of her husbands moves Enthused
by the joys OF victory she exclaimed:
Il have wont"
II have lost" responded Rouse as
he arose to fire the fatal shot.
The policeman was involved in debt
and frequently complained Of his bad
luck.
Rouse frequently played dominoes
with his wife to pass the time, and 1t
is thought decided to accept the result
of the last game he played with her
as an augury of what the future prom
Used.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
Saw. White. Did shootino,

Washington. Feb. 1.-THE shooting
up of the town Of Brownsville was in
the form Of an attack upon the garri-
son at Fort Brown according to the
testimony given today by Mingo San
ders. former first sergeant of Company
B, Twenty-Five infantry, before the
senate committee on military affairs.
Sanders said that while running from
his quarters to the Company B bar
racks, after being awakened by firing
on the night Of August 49, shooting was
going on and 1t came from the town.
1t was toward the hospital on the mfli-
tary reservation. He said bullets were
whizzing over his head. This is the
first direct testimony given by any dis
charged negro soldier that the fire came
from town. IA
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
wc...AN STARVING TO DEATH.
.HeIptessIy III, Without Food and Fuel
Septu auenarian is Found.

S0PkuaS0ttaSiatt 70 ON'Ns
Chicago. Feb. 1l.-Destitute of food
and fuel and helplessly i'll Mrs. Mary
Fox, 70 years old. was found yesterday
in chilly room in a tumble-down
tenament building at 5047 Princeton
avenue by Policeman James Bremner
OF the stockyards station. For several
weeks the woman had been lying sick
in bed and supported only by the food
brought occasionally by neighbors who
had heard of her plight.
Upon inquiry 1t was learned that the
woman had been brought to her pres
ent condition by the death of her hus-
band five years ago and the deaths of q
crippled brother and an invalid sister
for whom she had provided and worked
during the three years following her
husbands death. At the end of that
time her health failed and her money
gave out and she was compelled to
support herself by selling her furniture
and all her personal possessions.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
DYING, WEEDS IN FAITH.
Pathetic Ceremony Performed in Chi
cauo Hospital.

Chicago, Feb. 11.A priest bent over
the thin figure of woman in ward
of.the county hospital. He strained his
senses to catch the words that came
feebly. from the futtering lips.
IT'LL death do us part, they fin
ished and the priest arose.
Il pronounce you man and wife, he
said. A smile fitted across the pale
face. A man sobbed. And then death
entered. The woman was Mrs. Mary
Chapman, 20 years old, civil law bride
of two years standing. She and her
husband had been married by a justice
of the peace. When she knew she was
dying she sent for her husband and a
priest. II wished to be married in the
faith" was her last desire, and it was
granted"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
UNITED STATES LOSES CASE.
Court Of Appeals Decision May Result
in International Comnlications.

Court Of Appeals Decision May Result
in International Complications.
Cincinnati, Feb. 1.-THE attempt OF
the United States to secure possession
OF islands Nos. and in the Straits Of
ST Mary. by SUIT to quiet title, has
failed. A decision in the circuit court
of appeals, announced today, sustained
the district court OF the western Mich
igan district in favor of the Chandler
Dunbar Water Company. Because OF
the location of the islands, on the
boundary line between the United
States and Canada and the treaty re-
1quirements, the United States must
keep that line clear. 1t is understood
that international complications may
arise as the result Of the decision.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
SAYS he WE'D s2 WOMEN.
Indiana Woman Declares She is Thirty
second to Marry Reider.

Indiana Woman Declares She is Thirty-
second to Marry Reider.
Detroit, Feb 11.-Alleging that her
husband, d. A. Reider, has thirty-two
wives to account for, Mrs. Jennie
Reider of Logansport, Ind, asked Coun-
ty Clerk Hines to enter upon his rec
ords that her marriage in Detroit was
not legal and to give her certificate
to that effect.
Mrs. Reider says she married Reider
Oct. 9, 1902 She discovered sher hus-
band had married another woman in
Detroit four months previous to marry
ing her. He then confessed to her,
she says, that she was his thirty-seo
ond wife.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
FIGHTING IN PERSIA.

Anti. Government Bands Seize Annsu-
milton Stores at Tabrlx.
London, Feb. lit was tanneunced
in a dispatch from Teheran this after
noon, that anti government bands had
seized ammunition stores at Tabrix sd
that faction lighting was proceeding -
the streets.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
ARREST NEGRO FOR ATTACK.
Police Consider identification Of IS


Police Consider Identification Of 15-
Year-OId Victim Conclusive.
Kansas City, Mo. Feb. 11.-Will JEFF
ferson, 10 years old. was arrested last
night and identified by Flora May
Clark. as the negro who brutally at
tackled her Saturday night as she was
going home from work. Jefferson lives
within n half block of the girls home.
She had seen him often before. and
the police consider her identification
conclusive. The girls condition Is still
serious She is Is years old and worked
as cash girl at downtown dry goods
store.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
MAIL BAGS BURNED.
Accidentally Thrown Onto Pile Of Hot
cinders At Garner.

Special to Times Republican.
Garner, Feb. 1.-THE mail clerk on
the Milwaukee road Sunday morning,
accidentally threw the bags of mail on
a pile of burning cinders which were
piled at one end Of the platform. The
bags of mail, when discovered by Fred
Cornish, the mail carrier, were well
under flames. All the papers were
burned and only few partly burned
letters were saved.
A home talent company, under the
management of NJ. G. Dillenback and
wife, will present to the audience on
Monday and Tuesday nights, the 11tl1
and 18th, the play Santiago" for the
benefit of our base ball team. On Sat-
urday morning all the seats In the
opera house were sold for the first per-
forrnonco ...
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
IGNORE DANGER SIGNALS.
Lake shore Officials Find That Twen-
ty-four Crews Of Twenty y-five Dis
ohev Rules.

Conneaut, o., Feb. 11.-While high
officials of the Lake Shore railway
stood hidden beside the company's
tracks here, twentyfour trains rushed
past the signal targets here, the lights
of which had been turned out as
warning that the tracks were not clear.
Only one train out of twenty-five
which rushed thru here in the tins
the railroad officers stood watch,
obeyed the signal that there was dam
ger ahead, and stopped. Four passen-
ger trains were included in this, and
only two of these even slackened speed.
The other two tore past the target with
reckless disregard OF what might be in
store for them further along the track.
AS result of this test 1t is said that
a number Of train crews will be dis
missed
Aroused by the criticism heaped upon
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
AGREE ON WINE LEoIsLATIoM.
Fassstt eilI % Amended 70 SMest Views
! Of Ohio orooorp. ;gSs s

! Of Ohio 0roosrU.
Sandusky. o.. Feb, IL. Secretary
William Homer Rheinhart, Of the Ma
tional Wine Growers Associa tion an-3
nounces that an agreement has been
reached with the American Winegrow-s =
ers' Association whereby certain fea-9
lures Of the FaSsett pure wine bill will
be eliminated and all obstacles in the
way Of the passage OF that measure res
moved. The National Winegrower'9
Association has been lighting the Fas-s
sett bill on the ground that II made q
law 1t would discriminate against many
OF the Wineries Of the middle west TO-
such an extent as to put some classes
OF them out Of business. The FAasetts
bill has had the endorsement OF the
California growers and by the cons
promise Mr.. Rheinhart says has beelt'
reached all Of the winegrowing inter-
ests, IT is claimed, will be satisfied.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
FAMOUS WAR WRITER DEAD.
Sir William Howard Russell Of Bull
Run Fame Expires in London.

Run Fame Expires IN London. .
London, Feb. 11.-Sir William How
ard Russell, editor of the Army and
Navy Gazette, is dead. He was Sc years
old He was famous war correspond
ent and in that capacity served on the
London Times at the Battle of Bull
Run. His account of that battle tell
ing in biting sarcasm of the rout of the
union forces, won for him the title of
Bull Run" Russell
He went thru the Crimean campaign,
the Indian mutiny. the Indian cam
paign Of 1859, the Danish war, the AUS
tro-Prussian war, the Franco-German
war, the first South African war and
the campaigns in Egypt. He was
knighted in 1895.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
scHooLsAIP ABOUT FoUNpEREn.
Sixty Boys on Board the saratosas
Have Terrifying Experience.

Have Terrifying Experience.
Delaware Breakwater, Del, Feb. -.
Stormswept and leaking the Pennsyl-
vania schoolship Saratoga, which left
Philadelphia on January 22 for wili-l
ters cruise in the West Indies, was
towed into the harbor here yesterday
in distress, by the tug Hughes. On
January ~, when 200 miles north Of
Bermuda, the old frigats was struck
by northwest gale, which sent the
vessel floundering thru the seas. which
for the time threatened to enguf her.
The sixty boys on the vessel had an
experience which they never expected.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
MAY LYNCH FOUR MEN.
Quartet Of ,Murderers at jackson, N. c.,
Threatened by Mob,

Norfolk, Va, Feb. 11.-By the confess
sion of Richard Mathews a murder at
Jackson, N. c., has been revealed and
as a result quadruple lynching may
occur. Paul Rainey, nephew OF
Mathews, was killed with an ak. Math-
ews has implicated James, Sonny, and
Henry Barner, who are brothers and all
four men are under arrest. Robbery
was the motive. Jackson is small
place on a spur of the Seaboard Air
Line. and is few miles south of the
Virginia border line. Telegraph and
telephone connections are cut
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
ALLOW INDICTMENT 70 STAND.

lroquois Theater Fire Case Will Be
Heard in March.
Danville. ILL.,, Feb. 11.-The counsel
for VIII J. Davis, charged with man-
slaughter, in the Iroquois theater ire.
at Chicago, today withdrew the motion
to auash the indictment. The hearing
is set for March 4th.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
Earthquake in Viroinia.

Richmond Va, Feb. 11.-This morn
ing distinct earthquake shock was
felt lin the region between Rockcastle-
and Columbia. sixty five miles west Of
Richmond. No damage is reported.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
RAILROAD ADMITS CLAIMS.
Omaha Grain Exchange Complains
Against the Union Pacific.

against TITO OuuOH y oSsuSs
Omaha, Feb. 1.-THE interstate COM
merce commission today began two
days session in Omaha, making an
investigation of the recent raise in
grain rates, put in effect by the Union
Pacific railroad. The complainant, is
the Omaha Grain Exchange, the COM
plant being that the Union Pacific
railroad raised the carload rates on
grain across the Missouri river bridge
at Omaha, from 50 per car to from So
to s8 per car. The railroad in it's an
swer, admitted all the claims of the
plaintiff except that it is denied that
the increased rates are exorbitant.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
ROBBED. or s2s,sco.

Armed Men Hold Up oovsrnmsnt's'
Messenger TO Moscow Bank.
Moscow. Feb. 11.-A messenger 1e-s
longing to the government spirit ae-
pot, while on his way to the bank this
morning, was held up by ten armed
men and robbed Of $25.b00.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
shaw ModiKes Offer.

Washington, Feb. 1.-THE secretary OF
the treasury, has modified his offer OF
December 10 and will now accept $25,-
100000 worth Of United States fours OF
1907 al 101.5 for both registered and
coupon.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
PAGE ONE.

PAGE ONE.
Tslssraphic News.
Women Barred From Thaw Trial.
Lawmakers Entitled to Medal fo1
Slowness.
Obscene Matter May Be Barred from
Mails.
Ames students Create Row in Thea
ter.
PAGES TWO AND THREE.
Iowa News.
Proposed Parole Board Measure.
willed Money to Poor of Norway.
Melvin Banker Sued by Women.
Three Killed in Odebolt Accident.
Anderson Heir Located.
knights of the Grip.
PAGE FOUR
Editorial.
The Unwritten Law.
Lincoln's Centenary.
Schoolma'ams in Demand.
Topics of the Times.
Iowa Opinions and Notes.
Starving Millions Face Pestilence.
Railway Grab Opposed
Oddly in the News.
PAGES SIX AND SEVEN.
Local News:
Lumbermen Here February q
County Fair in September.
Cherry Concurs on Request.
Wills Are Probated.
BOY is Unlucky.
Death of ]. G. Weitzell.
The City Field.
PAGE EIGHT.
General News.
Wheat Closed Lower.
Corn Inclined to Weakness.
Decline in Cattle.
Hog Market Steady.
Timber Cut Reduced. g
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
FA,RcHILD uNMoLEsTEp.

No Attempt to Arrest Former Secretary
Of Treasury, Tho Indicted.
New York, Feb. 11.-Charles S. Fair
child, former secretary of the treasury,
who, with George W. Perkins, was in
dicted in connection with the affairs
of the New York Life Insurance COM
pany, arrived here from Europe today.
No attempt was made to arrest Fair
child.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-11
DEEP OIL ADVANCES FIFTEEN.

Standard Oil Company Announces It's
Heaviest Single Advance.
Marietta, o., Feb. 1.-THE heaviest
single advance of Oil ever made by the
Standard Oil Company, was announced
today. amber or deep OIL being ad-
vanced 10 cents per barrel, and shallow
oil cents.