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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-24
WRUNC HIS NECK.
Kidnapers Kill Him to Stop His
Noise They Confess.
Hide Body in a Swamp Where
1t Is Found by Searchers.

New Orleans, June 24.-Two miles in
the interior of a big swamp near this
city the headless body of Walter Lama
ma, an Italian child between and 8
years of age, who was kidnapped and
held for $4,000 ransom two weeks ago,
was found by police and vigilantes. He
had been strangled to death, according
to the confession of one of the several
Italians held by the police.
The boys neck is supposed to have
been broken when he was strangled,
causing the head to become separated
from the body when decomposition set
in. The head was found short dis
tance from the body.
Eve Italians, two of them women, are
under arrest charged with being accom-
plices to the murder and extra details
of police and deputies are maintaining
order in the excited Italian quarter.
Seventy armed deputies have been plac-
ed on guard at the Orleans parish pris-
on, the strongest in the state, where
three of the prisoners are held and some
apprehension has been felt for the safe
ty of the two others who were last night
taken to an adjoining parish.
The murdered boy was found near st.
Rose, about 20 miles from New Orleans.
A sweating process wrung confession
from one of the italian suspects who
was taken from his home in st. Rose
and carried into the woods by a combin-
ed force of officials and vigilantes who
had the search in charge. This man,
Igansio Campigciano, was kept in the
woods an hour, when he confessed,
charging four Italians with the murder.
He said that about the time of a mass
meeting in New Orleans more than a
week ago for the purpose of prosecut
ing the search for the body, these men,
who were in a vacant house in st. Rose,
became frightened and consulted about
what to do with the child. The boy
was crying, begging to be taken home
to his parents, said Campigciano, and
one of the quartette of the kidnappers
grabbed the child and strangled him to
death to stop his noise.
Later two of the kidneppers, he said,
came to him carrying the body in a
blanket, and after threatening him
with death if he told took the body into
a swamp.
Campigciano, after relating this story,
led the police through two miles of
swamp where the searchers sometimes
waded in water nearly waist deep and
at others crawled under tangles Of
briers. In shallow pool at the end of
this search the body was found in the
blanket in a clunp of cane.
Returning to the city the police ar
rested Nicolina Gebbia, an Italian wo-
man who is alleged to have confessed
that she knew of the kidnapping plot
from the first, from one of the four kid
nappers whom she expected to marry.
Campigciano said that these four were
Stefano Monfre, Tony Gendusa, Angelo
Cacatari and an italian named Incan-
terra The police said they expected to
capture these men within two or three
days The other prisoners directly i'm
plicated by the confession are Campig-
ciano's WIFE, Frank Gendussa and Leon
ard Gebvia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-24
Three Distinct TOrnadOeS Visit
Town of Medicine Lodge.
Came Sunday Night AccOmpan
led by Torrents of Water.
A WOMAN IN TREE TOP
The Gypsum Mill and Santa Fe
Round House Destroyed.
Senator Longs Home Damaged
and Ralph Faxon's Demolished.

Wichita Kan, June 24.-Seven per-
sons were injured and one is missing
as the result of tornadoes that visited
Medicine Lodge. Barber county, Sunday
night.
The injured:
Mrs. May Lyle, internally injured.
J. E. Mccoy, arm broken
Mrs. J. R. Mccoy, ribs broken and in
jured on skull.
Miss Mary Griffith, hurt internally.
Mrs. Morris, arm broken.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Saury, bruised.
jured. While seeking shelter she was
blown into the top of a cottonwood tree
and when found she was unconscious.
Senator Longs residence was damag-
ed slightly and the new home of Ralph
Faxon, Senator Longs secretary, was
demolished. Three distinct tornadoes
visited the town between the hours of
Z o'clock and IL o'clock Sunday night.
They struck the town from the north
west and were accompanied by water
that fell in torrents.
The gypsum mill and Santa F'e rail-
road round house were among the
buildings destroyed. Limbs were blown
from trees and posts and wires were
torn down and twisted. The greater part
of the damage was in the north part of
the city. Mrs. Bell, an aged lady is
missing. Reports from the surrounding
country continue to bring accounts of
loss to property and injury to property
and persons,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-24
ALMOST A TORNADO.
Lyon County Visited by Severe Wind
and Rain Storm.

Emporia, Kan, June PA rain storm
amounting almost to a cloudburst was
accompanied here with a high wind,
which did great damage Saturday night.
In places the action of the wind was
similar to that of a tornado. Eight
miles southeast of here a twister tore
the corner out of the home of G. w.
Vanorden and destroyed his barn.
Shortly before the family had taken
refuge in a storm cellar and escaped
injury. The same twister cut a path
through the timber on Coal creek, near
the Vanorden home, uprooting trees
three feet in diameter. At about the
same time a smaller twister was de-
stroying an orchard in the Fowler set
tlement, about five miles southeast of
Emporia.
Telephone wires are all down and it
is impossible to obtain particulars or
learn whether any persons have been
killed or injured. The Cottonwood river
is bank full.
In the vicinity of Reading, in this
county the storm was the worst in
years. The wind blew a gale from the
southwest and was accompanied by a
heavy rainfall. The orchards were
damaged as were also most of the shade
trees. Small buildings were overturn-
ed and large barns were moved from
their foundations and some of them
demolished. The wires were consider
ably DANA ged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-24
Situation Which COnfrOnts the
Postal Telegraph Strikers.
Are Discharged Unless They
Return to Work Today.
If THEY COME BACK
Later They Will Be Considered
as New Employees.
Importation of Operators From
the East Is Denied.

San Francisco. Cal. June 24.-n
PRESIDENT S. j. Small. of the CONNER
cial Photographers union, today said
that he had issued no word for q
strike at Ell Paso.
The next strike,'' said Mr. Small,
Paso."
No word indicating an early settle
ment OF the local telegraphers' strike
came from the New York head office
of the Western Union and Postal
companies yesterday. Officials Of
both companies in this city say they
nave been instructed to have no DEAL
fngs with the telegraphers' union
looking toward a settlement, but that
former employees will be received as
individuals.
Unless the striking operators of the
Postal company here and in Oakland
return to work today the company saws
they will be looked upon as dis
charged employees and their places
will be considered filed, according to
the orders which have been received
from First Vice President and Gem
eral Manager Nally of New York.
A new phase of the strike as it af-s
fects the Postal men who are out lies
in the fact that after this morning
they will lose standing in point of en-
titling them to pension of 20 per cent
of their salaries after 15 years in case
of being incapacitated for work. The
pension, which amounts to $3.50 a
year at first. is increased at the rate
of three per cent each year for 10
years. In case the strikers from the
Postal company return after this
morning they will be considered new
employees and will have no time to
their credit.
Members of the telegraphers' union
stated yesterday that they had in
structed an operator at Sparks, New,
to ascertain whether it was true that
two carloads of telegraphers were
bound westward on an overland train
to take the places of local strikers.
The operator reported that he had
learned from the conductor of the
train that the cars in question did not
contain operators.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-24
SHE WANTED TO DIE.

Because her love affairs were not in
the condition that she thought they
should be I1ottie LOCKER a seventeen
year-old girl employed in an east
Sixth street restaurant attempted sui
eide Saturday by the carbolic acid
route and was only saved by prompt
work on the part of those in the house
at the time assisted by a physician
who arrived on the scene early.
The girl has on numerous other oc-
casions threatened to take her life
and the acid taken yesterday was
purchased some time ago when she
had made up her mind to end it all by
a dose from the bottle. When she
awakened and found that she was not
in a strange world she Immediately
informed those about her that she
would make arrangements to repeat
her performance at an early date. This
morning she was feeling better and
has decided that she wants to reside
in Topeka for a while yet and has
promised to not repeat her perform
ance of Saturday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-24
RINDT CASE AGAIN IN COURT.
Mother, Who Claims Livery Stable
Held by Sheriff, Appeals.

Another chapter in the troubles of the
Rindt family in Dickinson county was
opened up in the Supreme court today,
when Johanna Rindt appealed from the
decision of the Dickinson county court
in favor of ]. B. Favor sheriff of Dick
inson county, and others.
The troubles of the Rindt family
commenced when Bertha Schlesener
sued Robert Rindt, the son of johann
ma Rindt, for damages, alleging that he
had taken advantage of her under
promise of marriage. She made a good
case against the young man, and secur-
ed a judgment for several thousand dol
lars. Then Bertha Schlesener tried to
collect on her judgment by levying on q
livery stable owned by Robert Rindt.
This was where the sheriff got into the
game, for after he had taken possession
of the building, Johanna Rindt stepped
in with the declaration that the
livery stable really belonged to her, she
having purchased it from her son. She
said that she had always supposed that
the property stood in her na-ie. but that
through the deception of her son lit
stood in his name and not in hers. She
is trying to have the livery stable re-
leased from the custody of the sheriff
on the ground that Robert Rindt does
not own the building.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-24
OIL FIELD HARD HIT.
Lightning Sets Fire to Number Of
Big Storage Tanks.

Tulsa, June PA violent storm
swept over this section of Indian Ter
ritory Sunday, causing damage to pro-
perty estimated at nearly half a mill
accompanied the wind and lightning
struck oil tanks all over the mid
continent field. In Glenn Pool, near
Tulsa. SO, 900 barrel tank of the Quak-
er Oil and Gas company and a 10000
barrel earthen storage tank of the Vic
tor Oil and Gas company and dozen
other small tanks, were struck by
lightning and are still burning fiercely
William S. Mowry, of this city, suffer-
ed a loss at Cody Bluff of nine 1000
barrel tanks and the Standard Oil tank
farm at the same place was almost to-
tally destroyed. Reports received from
Ochelate, Nowata and other
points tell of heavy damage by wind,
but no loss of life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-24
COL. NORTON AS AUcTIoNEER.
He Makes a Good Record in Selling
Farm.

Persons desiring the services of q
first class auctioneer are recommended
to try Col. John Norton, under sheriff.
With two bidders on hand, he coaxed
$575 more than the appraised value out
of a real estate sheriff's sale at 10
o'clock this morning.
The sale, which was the result of
suit in partition brought by part of the
heirs of James Carroll. deceased, had
been advertised, and L. d. Allen, a far
mer of Williamstown. Kan. came here
to bid on the property Opposing him
were William Carroll, one of the heirs,
and Martin L. Foltz. a farmer who
owns property near the Carroll farm a
opened the ball by bidding $1,000. which
was over two-tl1irds of the valuation,
and Allen raised him thousand. Car
roll bid $4,000. and then Allen came
back with $4,000, the apprised vaiua-
tion. Carroll then dropped out and Foltz
began raising 1t a hundred over each
bid made by Allen, until $10,500 was
reached. Then the raises dwindled to
s. and $40. and closed when Foltz bid
$10.575 and Allen refused to raise it.
The property, which consists Of $50
acres of bottom land with good barn
and house. has been occupied by VIII
liam Carroll. the unmarried heir who
stayed at home. Since the death of Car
rol Sr., two years ago. the heirs have
been unable to agree on a price to w.
N. Carroll, who desired to purchase,
and the suit in partition was the result.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-24
MURDER IN A DREAM.
Story of the Italian Who Did Shooting
on the Rock island.

Goodland. Kan, June 24.-John
BelIo, the italian who killed a man
and wounded two women passengers
on Rock Island train east of here
told through an interpreter yesterday
the story of the shooting.
Bello asserted that he committed
the murder in his sleep as the result
of a dream. His story, dramatically
told, with many and almost fearful
protestations of honesty, follows:
MY wife and children and 1 and
Patsy Leganbradi and his wife and
children lived in Genoa. We decided
to come to the new world and grow
rich as we heard it was easy to do. We
landed in Boston from the White Star
liner Cyrnric, few days ago and took
a train for the west. We were on the
way to California.
1--WE were a strange land, among
people whose language we could not
understand. had been nervous from
the time 1 left home. I dreamed that
a man with a white handkerchief over
was trying to rob me.
t'I fought with all my strength.
Finally 1 managed to throw my as
sailant off. The robber turned to rum
L had revolver in my pocket, and I
seized it and began to shoot.
''AIl of this was in my sleep. The
report Of the weapon awakened me,
and I found myself on my feet with
the pistol in my hand shooting right
and left. God knows I did not mean
to kill any one. 1t was all terrible
Carl V. Topp. the tailor who was
Killed by the Italian, was asleep in his
seat with a white handkerchief over
his face.
Bello is in the county Jail here. He
face in his hands muttering in
Italian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-24
A BABY ON HIS PORCH.
A Four-Days-Old Child Left at a
Pratt Bachelors Residence.

Pratt, Kan, June 24.-Steven Beck,
a bachelor farmer living with his
mother four miles northeast of Pratt,
was awakened at 4 O'Clock Sunday
morning by the wall of an infant and
upon investigation discovered a baby
girl lying costly in a basket on his
front porch.
Mr.. Beck drove to town imm ediate-
ly and gave all the information that
he had obtained to the authorities,
who at once took steps to uncover and
punish the guilty ones.
The child is about four days old, is
a sweet baby and it is rumored that
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Gillun, a promi-
nent Pratt family, will adopt the little
tot and give it a home.
No small excitement prevails here
over the crime and everything will be
done to intercept the guilty ones.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-24
EIGHT Killed in wreck

Hartford, June 24.-Eight work
men were killed and IS injured when
a passenger train on the Highland di-
vision of the New York New Haven
and Hartford railroad crashed into
the rear of a work tram that was
backing into the city from New Brit
ain at the Sigourney street crossing.
OF the injured two probably will die.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-24
InIr Disbursements

New York, June A.-The July divi-
dend and interest disbursement this
year by various corporations will reach
a grand total of S1S2, ,881, ,S49. This is
SIS, S,573, ,67S greater than the aggregate of
last year and eclipses the total of any
previous July in history.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-24
One-third Die F,rom AccIdents.

Pittsburg, June 24.-Twenty-s six
hundred and sixty deaths were report
ed to the coroner in the year 1906,
919 of which were the results of acci-
dents in mills. mines or on railroads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-24
WRECK AT PERRY, 0. T.
Santa Fe Passenger Train Runs Into a
Freight.

Oklahoma City, Okla, June "a
Southbound Santa Fe passenger train
No. 405 ran into a freight train that
was taking a siding as it entered the
yards at Perry, Okla, at midnight last
night. The engine and several coaches
are reported to have been derailed and
a number of persons badly injured,
but no one was killed.
According to the advices received
from the scene of the wreck at the Of
flee of General Manager J. E. Hurley
this morning, the wreck is not as Sc
rious as reported in the above dis
patch, The wreck was caused by the
engine of No. 405 crashing into the
rear end of a freight train which had
not yet cleared the main line and
gone on to the side track. There were
no derailments of any of the passen-
ger coaches. A few of the freight cars
were derailed. The only injury was to
Engineer Spunangle of train No. 4O5
whose foot was badly cut.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-24

Weather Indications
Chicago, June 24.-Forecast for Kan
sas: Showers and thunder storms to-
night and possibly Tuesday; cooler.
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Z
lt ss; away IN she interior oSitiie work.
Iings they might haye been.
system Tres pensive.
81, A stemsof this kind uuId not
be exp siye 10 install and Womb 81
inex tensiye I'd keep In order AMI. In
readin ess for any 4 energency In
mtnes here compressed ais rs !lseIl
It could By making the line explosion
preoi, De i mad g part OF the 1regttiai.
working system. "a 6 or Sinch Tmain
line would insure a good supply OF air
Tor from two TO three hundred men 81
confined to three or four safety cham.
bers, The line can also be used fo4
the transmission Of LIQUID foods. as
well as a conduit for telephone wires. :,
In order that the'miners should hsys
a guide to the safety station arrows
pointing In its direction should be-
made on the side OF the entries with
luminous paint, beacons pointing the
way to present safety and eyen,ual,p
to wife, home and children. Full in,
strdctions In every language repre.
scented in the mine should be printed
and posted In conspicuous places
These instructions should fully set!
forth the uses Of the system and I'm.
der what conditions It Is to be used
AT each large mine there should be n
corps Of trained men conyersant with
methods OF life saving after an explo.
sion, who could act with intelligent
end efficient promntness. Let It be
said to tho deathless honor OF coal
miners everywhere that in case OF an
explosion there are always volunteers
ready to rush into the very jaws Of
death, and the history Of coal mining
IS replete witt. deeds OF the. loftiest
heroism before which the boosted ex.
PLOTS OF chlyalry pale Into insignia.
canoe. Again and again rescue par.
ties/have descended into the yawning
olackness Of the pit, have met death
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-12-26
siRspsY DEcENs =,

!, NJ, tii. Ja ~ y " II II
IN ll gte neblest epaeasor ID Vi tbe,si
Acoflira dess, fen il AM sorry IA 81.
acting viii riose hr5yesy ihaDl 3,,sS !,
ttlieiits nnns Essas III ana ,.itl fyailinsiy
4 ttelng their Syisiuabte itTes III
ssn9pla Ne yliSsnafef iSS N s slons Il,
our mines as we are pfenaftd .t,f ares
~ our Hes Tor no a, II ,aw ,,,s
= az AZ 81 '99 the hour when ese terrible
PISA sters Will send "a thrill OF horror
fhlroushontS tho world The tnt,lrs III
mining Is ztraught with crave dans
gers each year our airead Al h enormous
output Will be increased 3 ench y,aats
VIII mean more shafts, more as6o,is
mines, and unless more ssprecautlonss
are used each year will add to our M
ready too long lfst OF; disasters. q
Death Rate sinere lses. N
There Is nc: more important question:
thans that discussed In this artlclal
and 1t ought to DO thoroughly discuss
ed BY the hundreds of fire bosses.
mine foremen, superintendent; engi,i (
neers aad all intelligent mining men.
In the last ten years the death rate
by explosions has been gradually az.
creaslng In every mining country II, :
the world, except this and here, IL ii
steadily Increasing, notwlth standing
the fact that in Europe most OF thssi
mines are deep and gaseous, while
here the most are drifts and slopes.
generally free from gas. There: Ii, h, (
reason for this, and 1t Is simply be-
cause they exercise 3 more care anil
have more regard for the sacredness
oflhuman life. * 81
] hope to see every mining man who
has an, opinion Of his own contribute
his quota to this discussion and saX
y ae's, fearlessly and forclhly. howftlS
national disgrace can be wiped out
can be done in the columns Of thIs
per and will, l have no doubt, ileads
something decisive and final "a
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-07-11
TO SUCCEED sCHMITz.
Plan for Selection Of Mayor Of Frisco
Announced.

Plan for Collection OF Mayor Of Frisco
Announced.
San Francisco. July 1.-THE plan
Tor the selection Of mayor OF San
Francisco. pending the election of q
successor to Mayor Schmitz, convict.
ed and sentenced to five years In the
penitentiary for extortion, has been
decided upon by the bribery graft
prosecution and was formally submit.
ted through District Attorney William
H. Langdon to the commercial anc
labor organizations Of the city.
The plan calls for a convention
composed Of thirty delegates, fiftee
to be named by the labor and building
trades councils and three each by the
five leading commercial organizations
These are to select a mayor to fill out
the uneApired portion Of Schmitz'
term. ~. s..~z r.
District Attorney Langdon, in his
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-07-11

letter, reviewed the present situation
In San Francisco and the conditions
leading up to it; explained why the
district attorneys Office had to take
the initiative; expressed the desire tc
keep politics out Of the reorganization
Of the city government; stated that
the selection of Supervisor Charles I.
Boxton by the board Of supervisors as
acting mayor was merely temporary;
asked that all political and factional
differences be laid aside in the selec;
tion OF mayor and declared that the
graft prosecution would refrain from
participation after the convention was
assembled. A reply is asked for
within five days.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-07-11

Walker Vance of Cincinnati, Ohio,
will spend July with ]. w. Smith at
Grand Forks Bay. He is expected
this evening.
]. Walker Smith, who is spending
the summer at Grand Forks Bay,
was called to the Forks on business,
where he will stay until Saturday.
Mrs. w. A. Joy, Miss Joy, Mrs.
Woodwork and Mrs. Templeton are
spending the day at Lakeside, call
ing on friends and having picnic
lunch. ......-s> d
Mrs. Steven Collins and sons ar
rived this noon from Grand Forks.
They will spend the balance of the
month at the Bay, where her daugh-
tiers have a cottage. ~