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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-11
SON4lN-IAW TEACHES
WIFE TO DRINK she
CANNOT STOP, now
Girls Mother Charges Young
Husband With Causing
Chronic lntoxication.
FAIR DRuNkARD IS RICH
New York Police Judge Commits Her
to Catholic Retreat in
the Hope Of Effect
ing 4 Cure.

New York, April s.-Mrs. Annie
Clark, 80. wife OF Frank B. Clark. 9
cracker manufacturer. was a~rratgned
In police court on charge OF habitual
drunkenness and committed to the
House Of the Good Shepherd until
April 10, in the hope OF curing her.
Mrs. Clark, ~fashionably gowned. went
30 court In her handsome turnout ess
eorted by Court Officer Baton. who
served the warrant. Her arrest was
made on charge preferred by the pro-
baton officer. Miss Annie Virginia
Roome, at the solicitation OF Mrs.
Clark's mother, Mrs. Nevens.
Mrs. Nevens blames her son-fn-law
for her daughters fondness for liquor.
She said they were married eleven
years ago and hat he left heT#in
March. 1906. Since then, Mrs. Nevens
had increased. Mrs. Nevens went to
live at $50 Penn street, and 1t was
then she decided to appeal for Mrs.
Clark's commitment.
Mrs. Clark stood erect before the
bar while the charge was read and
then in a clear, even tone said:
Who is 1t that makes complaint
against me? / protest. While it may
be taken for granted that I am an
habitual %drunkard, or addicted to the
constant use of liquor. 1t seems to me
that a police magistrate has no right
under the law to send me to an ineti-
tuition, or to punish men in any way,
on the charge that has been made.
THE court must understand" she
continued, that l am not a vagrant;
thas 1 have no family; that l am de-
pendent on nobody for support, and
that the use of liquor is a privilege OF
which I can avail myself and the law
Toes not deny me that privilege"
Judge Higginbotham was amazed al
Hrs Clark's argument and seemed puz-
kled as to what action to take, wher
the woman's mother entered the court
room and pleaded with the magistrate
to send her daughter to some institu-
ton to be treated for alcoholism.
Mrs. Clark renewed her argument
when her mother had finished, but tn,
magistrate committed her to the Hous,
OF the Good Shepherd.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-11
HE|RESS WHO RUNS
AWAY, HOME AGAIN,
DUE TO A TRICK
Guardian kidnaps Miss Met Clans
ahan From Train, Taking
Her to New Canaan.

Stamford, Conn.,, April 10.-Miss Giles
Gamble McClanahan. the eccentric
heiress of William McCianahan, OF
New York. who ran away from the
McClanahan homestead in New Ca
naan, accompanied by her nurse, Miss
Annie Phillips, and Lillian Richter, of
No. 317 East Eighty-sixth street, New
York., and Dora Zeeth, OF New Canaan,
two girl friends, has been taken back
to New Canaan.
Just as soon as Miss McClanahan
and her friends got to New York they
called on Attorney HI. A. Herold, of No.
1876 Broadway. Miss Mechanism
the lawyer to do something to rid her
of the restraint under which she was
held. She desired to have control of
her estate and said she was competent
to manage 1t.
Attorney Herold called DR.. G. H.
Scovil1e, her conservator, by telephone,
and the physician went to New York,
where he had a long interview with
Mr.. Hero1d. After the interview DR..
Scoville employed detectives to locate
Miss McClanahan. They found her and
arranged with the nurse to take Miss
McClanahan on a trip into Connecticut.
Miss Mechanism and the nurse
boarded an express train at the Grand
Central station late last night. DR..
Scoville, who was On the train, kept
his eyes on Miss Mechanism n just
as soon as the train crossed the New
York state line he took a seat near
her.
At Stamford. the New Canaan
branch train was on a siding waiting
to pull out and before Miss McClana-
a realized what was happening she
was hustled aboard it and taken to
New Canaan. She is now being held
under strict guard. DR.. Scoville. it is
understood, will apply to the probate
court for her commitment to a SAM
.tarium.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-11
WEEDS HIS SUPPOSED
WIFE AS she DIES
Mrs. Thomas O'Brien Nods
Faint Assent to Priest in
Hospital.
FATHER IN EXPLANATION
Thirteen Years Ago Each Believed
That the Mere Marriage
License Was
Enough.
IN

st. Louis, April with none but
khe sisters as witnesses. Mary Main
WAS married to Thomas O'Brien in the
little chapel OF st. Mary's hospital. East
st. Louis. Seven hours later, at 2
o'clock yesterday morning, the same
sisters saw her die, with her husband
holding her hand at the bedside. To-
day she will be buried from st. Henry'a
church.
Mary Main was Mrs. O'Brien to the
man, to the world and in the eyes OF
all but the law. For thirteen years
they had believed themselves married.
n O'Brien was proud of her and their
seven children.
O'Brien is a railroad laborer and lives
in a little cottage or the shore OF the
Cahokie creek, near the Relay station.
East st. Louis. He Is A years Old; his
wife was ten years younger.
Thirteen years ago. both unfamiliaf
with customs and conventionalities, OBJ
tanned a marriage license. To them the
license was the equivalent of a mar
riage certificate.
Wife Becomes III.
Mrs. O'Brien became SO i'll one month
ago she went to st. Mary's hospital.
suffering from necrosis. Her bones be-
came like lime and day by day her
condition grew worse. p.
O'Brien went to his priest, Father
Wiener, Of st. Henry's church, and told
him of his sorrow.
She is a good woman, father" he
said; IA good mother to the children
and 1t seems hard I have to lose her"
The priest consoled him.. Then the
conversation changed to church AFFAIRS,
and presently the priest knew n UNI
married, though he thought he was.
"What?" sked O'Brien, t mother
of my children not my wife?" That
cannot be. OF course she's my wife"
He was made to understand and
vowed he would marry her as soon as
possible.
AT the hospital, Thursday afternoon,
the woman lay still as death. Her
cheeks were as white as the pillows
upon which h rested. She was o n
scious, but could scarcely raise g finger.
IN attendant placed a rolling table
beneath the cot and quietly moved her
into the chapel and withdrew. The
candles upon the altar twinkled.
Priest Reads Ceremony.
Father Wiener stood before O'Brien.
who stood beside his wife's cot and
read the ceremony, that had been de-
layed just thirteen years. Mrs. O'Brien
could hardly nod an assent to the ques-
lions.
The priest and sisters withdrew and
Mrs. O'Brien was wheeled back into the
ward. j@f
Presently h closed her eyes and
dropped into a sleep. AS she slept the
nurses noticed a more peaceful express
sion than they had seen before.
OBrien and his Oldest daughter re-
manned at the wife's cotside through
the remainder of the evening and into
the night. Occasionally the physician
took the han from the husbands clasp
long nough to feel the pulse.
At : o'clock yesterday morning, he
felt for the pulse, placed the hand back
gently in the husbands and shook his
head.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-11
POET GENE WARE
ASKS A PENSION
.lronquill" Promises to Give
His SIP a Month to a
Little Girl.
REQUEST is in PROSE
Former Official Who Used to Issu,
Orders in Verse, Will Aid
a Soldiers Sis
REQUEST is IN PROSE

Washington, D. c., April 10.-Eugene
r. Ware, of Topeka, %"Ironquill," ex-
commissioner Of pensions, genius, &C.
centric and litterateur, who used to is
sue general orders in verse In the pen
sion office, and who looke after the
interests OF nearly 1000, 900 pensioners.
while he would not apply for the pen
sion that he had himself earned, has
changed his mind.
He has asked for a pension, and he
did 1T in plain prose.
1t caused a sensation in the big pen
sion bureau when it was noised about
that Deputy Commissioner Davenport
had received in a personal letter from
the ex-commissioner an application for
a pension. Mr.. Ware doesn't believe in
the pension system, though he does be-
ffeve in pensions for really needy and
deserving soldiers. But he always drew
a line of distinction. His theory is that
a mar who served his country we'll,
and whom the country afterwardi
served so well hat he does not need theI
pension, ought not to ask 1t. HavingI
plenty of money of his own he would,
join the army of pensioners.
But he has reformed. Under the new
pension law which gives a pension to
every honorably discharged soldier who
SSI lliIlely ddyS, WllGll le TEACHES OA
years of age, Mr.. Ware is entitled to
$12 a month. In applying for it he
wrote that he had never expected TIC
ask this pension, out that there was
a little girl in Topeka whose brother
was a soldier in the Philippines, and
dS her sole support.
II am going to take this pension in
my own lame, because l car get it in
her name he wrote. and turn it over
to her"
Deputy COMMISSIONS Davenport
promptly announced that this was the
best excuse he had yet observed for
Ware to write some verse and said
he would at once send the letter back
to the ex-commissioner. with the re-
quest that the application and the ex-
PLANTATION be submitted in appropriate
rhyme and meter. Meanwhile there
will be no delay about approving the
pension.
Apropos of the new pension act, it is
stated that the unwillingness of a large
number Of we'll to do pensioners to have
their names published as such is re-
sponsible for the withdrawal of the rule
making public lists of persons as they
are placed or the rolls. This informa-
ton is now denied to the ewspapers
Many thousands of rich men draw pen
sions, and among the people applying
unde the new act it is said the, major
dty of new pensioners are of this class.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-11
PUERTO CORTEz is
REPORTED CAPTURED

Mobile. Ala. April 1O.-A teamer
which just arrived, brings news that
Puerto CorteZ has fallen.
The information is contained in a
message received by the Thacker
Steamship company over the telephone
from New Orleans. News from the
seat of hostilities the past w weeks
has been obtained by mail or cable
from Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. All
cable messages are carried from Cortez
by boat to Puerto Barrios and require
about seven u by sailboat.
The message also says Ceiba. Hon
duras, is in the N~icaraguan's hands.
Advices received today from Com
mander William F. Pullman. Of the
United States gunboat Marietta via
the steamer Columbia, Just arrived
say Ceiba was taken on the eyeninp
of April 3 by the Nicaraguan armies
Ceiba was taken without a shot and
then the Nicaraguan forces left for
Puerto Cortez on board the gunboa
Ometaphe, a gasoline launch and small
gunboat. They proceeded to Cortez bv
Marietta to protect American interests
1t had been agreed between Estrada
and Fullam that Puerto Cortez should
not be ~bombarded.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-11
PlTTSBUR WARNED
lT MAY BE RUINED

Pittsburg. Pa, April 10.-Pittsburg is
In danger OF devastation some day by
a food similar to that which laid waste
J~ohnstown. Thousands OF lives and
millions OF dollars worth Of property
will be lost, according to o report made
public by ]. w. Arras. of the United
States engineer corps.
MI. Arras, who has charge OF build
ing dams In the Ohio and Allegheny
rivers, has investigated conditions here'
and his report to he government
isoundssa warning of the disaster which
he declares Is sure to come.
In the March freshet. says Mr.. Arras.
the Monongahela predominated. Should
the Allegheny take the lead-and there
is no reason why 1t should not-the low
wooden bridges would be washed from
their foundations and h entire mass
smashed against the Pennsylvania rail-
road bridge.
Would it Withstand the attack" he
asks. mo man can tell. 1t is a pom
derous structure, splendidly proper
toned and substantially built. How
ever, what 1t will do seems fmmaterial.
for, whether it stands and holds the
gorge ora falls before It, it will In either
case divert the irresistible, oncoming
tide toward the mainland, where the
damage to physical property would be
enormou and lives by the thousands
would be sacrificed, since there would
be insufficient warning to enable the
unsuspecting to withdraw to places OF
safety"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-11
RUFF FRAMES
LINE OF DEFENSE

San Francisco, April 10-The trial of
Abraham Ruef, on a charge of extor-
ton, came up again today. The ex-boss
will present a contract in evidence as
the basis of his chief defense in the
case now before the court, and also on
the other Indictments charging him
with extortion in the French restaurant
cases., showing that he was retained
as counsel for the men whom he is ac-
cused of mulcting.
This contract will show, 1t is assert
ed by Ruef's attorneys. that he was
retained to act as counsel for the res
~tauranteurs for two years at a nominal
salary of 5000.
They will contend that the significant
detail of the contract is tina it was
made to extend beyond the life of the
administration of Mayor Schmitz, and
that this shows that the relations be-
tween ltuef ana the restaurant men
were the ordinary relations between an
attorney and his clients.
The prosecution declares it can prove
to the jury the political affinity between
Ruef and Schnlitz was used as q club
over the heads of the restaurant keep
ers to force from them the So, 900
yearly retainer"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-11
REJECTED -FOUR
TIMES IN A WEEK
HE WEEDS widow
Grandfather, Aged Sc, Is Finally
Welded to a Great
Grandmother.

Freeland, Pa, April 10.-Wiliam
Cover, a carpenter of this place. and
Mrs. Mary Strause were married at the
home of the brides daughter, Mrs. Will
liam McClelland.
The bridegroom is sc and has sew
eral grandchildren, while the bride is
his senior by a few years and is a
great-grandmother. The bridegroom
lost his first wife a few months ago
in o drowning accident in the Lehigh
river, at Bethlehem, n last week sur
prised his friends by announcing his
intention to remarry.
He went counting in a business like
way, and in one week had proposed to
and was rejected by four widows re-
siding in this place.
Rebuffed, but not discouraged, he
continued his search for a wife until
he met Mrs. Strause, who succumbed
to his Establishments.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-11
MILLIONAIRE KILLS
HIS WIFE'S CREDIT,
PRINTS A NOTICE
John E. Dean Proposes to Curb
Extravaganza and Avoid
Future Spite Suits.

Chicago, April 1O.-The following add
vertisement has appeared in the news
papers:
"Notice-All merchants, traders. man
u~factrrers. jewelers., ~dressmakers, mil
liners, dealers in any line. including
hotel keepers, are notified not to sell
or deliver any goods in their line to any
person for which they may expect me
to pay the bill. without my written con-
sent. as l shall decline to do so.
John f. Dean
Mrs. John Z. Dean, wife Of a mil
lionaire resident of the Metropole hotel
and a. leader in exclusive society, stands
today without any more credit than the
wife Of an humble $1,000 clerk.
If Mr.. Deans effort has been success
full, her name has been stricken from
the creditors list Of every State street
department store and Cancelled by jew
elers, florists, dressmakers and millin-
erS.
Her husband has accomplished this
through the "waft adj column. level
ing Mrs. Dean and his two daughters.
Misses Marion and Evelyn, with the
wife of the man who warns creditors
that this day my wife, having left my
bed and board, etc"
High society sat up in establishment
at the notice aaunted through the
newspapers.
No More Spite Suits.
Mr.. Dean, a retired real estate man,
apparently does not intend to have
any more suits against him like that
for a 81, 900 fur jacket bought by Mrs.
Dean at a State street department
store, and for which she refused to
pay.
While the whole family is denied
credit in this remarkable notice. the
warning is believed to apply only to the
wife.
THE purchase of an expensive fur
garment by Mrs. Dean n other pur-
chases which were charged to MI. Dean
led him to publish the notice. said
Mrs. Dean-Wood. 1T virtually applies
to Mrs. Dean alone, as I and my sis
tiers have independent allowances. The
notice was adopted by our father as
the best means of curbing general ex-
travagance and of bringing all charge
account to his notice"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-11
OF CLOAK
MODEL GETS DIVORCE

New Haven, Conn, April 9.-Judge,
Shumway of the superior court.
granted a divorce to Edwin Kenneth
Norton, Of Riverside drive, New York
city. Judge Shumway finds that the
eli i'm Of Norton of improper conduct
OIL the part Of his wife is true, and he
sustains the charge. in which George
jenkins. Of Hartford, is named as CO.
respondent.
The pair eloped in 1905, while Norton
was a student at Yale. Josephine Biz
ney, the bride, being a cloak model.
When Norton's father earned Of the
wedding he sent his son to Europe.
Edwin Norton, of New York city.
president Of the tin plate trust, put
detectives on the track of his sons
wife. They Swallowed her to Hartford,
where she had gone to work, and saw
her with George Jenkins, who was
named as correspondent.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-11
TOWN OF EPILEpTICS
TO Be RUN BY STATk
Money Appropriated by indiana
Legislature Being Used
in Preparation.

Newcastle, Ind, April 10.-Within tvs
months superintendent Van Mugs, OF
the state epileptic village, near this
city, will be ready to receive a limited
number of patients. but at first only
those persons will be accepted whose
afhliation is not so far advanced but
that they can do some work about the
village. and thus aid in developing the
institution.
The last legislature appropriated
S25, 900. which is now available. and
furniture is being purchased for the
two buildings, which were completed
last fall.
1t is estimated that fifty patients can
be cared for with the present facilities,
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-11
IS
THE LATEST DRINK

Wilmington, Del, April 9.-Haye you,
had one yet? No? Well. according toI
Pat" Dougherty, its inventor. o had
better try one. Pat" twirled a longt
spoon In one and as he handle 1t over
the bar he exclaimed:
There isn't a headache In it. It'sI
Just 10 cents-that's ALL"
Further inquiry developed the factI
thai Pat" originated the name forI
the new connection while it was set
ting" Sort Of a sizzler," he mussed,|
"a regular brain Storm"
According to Pat" it is made of
irish whisky, benedictine, vermouthi
and a dash OF orange bitters. A lump
OF ice is added and in the words of the
inventor, 1t Is allowed to Thaw."
Those who are acquainted with the
ingredients are of the opinion that a,
few drinks will dispel the theory OF
those who contend that there is no
such thing as a brain Storm
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-11
POET KNEW IDENTITY,
BUT NOT WAY HOMk

Berlin, April 1O.-The Deutsche lei
tung, a daily paper here, relates an
amusing incident abou Gottfried KEEL
Ter, the we'll known German poet.
While celebrating with several friends
the success OF one of his books, Keller
suggested Just one more glass until
he was not so very clear as to his way
home.
AS he walked along without paying
much attention to grace of motion or
to the straightness of the path, Keller
thought it was taking too long to get
home. Meeting a little boy, he asked:
Say, little man, do o know where
Gottfried Keller, h poet, lives?"
The y%oungster, recognizing the poet
from pictures in newspapers answered
joyfully:
why, you are Herr Gottfried Kel-
ler.'
: Il am not asking you who / am,
but where l live" the poet responded.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-11
EXCESSIVE HUI lARPS!
CAPiTOL'S FL0OR3|

Harrisburg. Pa. AprilS 9.-.-HoM sHnu9
ton, hi half million dollar ArchttectK.
and Sanders0n. the capitol s'trinnunerssssA
worked together for heS;striMInln sac
fore the y~rinannins, was authoriSed.j
ID . feature 81 the testimony beforsss
the Legislative investigatin8 sscomrnttcl
tee.
Under oath, "A. Hamilton, repre~i
senting the manufacturers Of parQuetryt
flooring. told how WAS introduced
to Sanderson by Huston. = the subj
ject discussed year before h strinJsI
mingsa schedule ct 1S04 2 adyer-33
tised.
His testimony refuted Illusions -
sertion that ne had not talked 70 Sand-l
proposals were advertised In 1904.
Fut.lerrnore he rectted how his conn
pany was to get It In the neck howl
the parquetry flooring had been warped
by excessive heat, intimating that ~
was part OF the plan to freeze Y
his oncer
Huston also gave instructions to tho
maker OF the Moravian mosaic tiles for
Sanderson's beneiit, protecting the
.trimmer's In his bid OF $2.25 per FOOT
for tiles which were sold for $l.03.
Fraud In 0tass.
Fraud practiced by Sanderson Ia sub
stituting Beaver countymade glass forl
|1lnpOrxGQs OaCCATAl AnQ lACQu0E AOE% Iu0E-l
curial gold finish" on the chandeliers
was a third feature. and once again tho
fake in the s'Baccarat" glass. for which
Sanderson collected $13S, 770.e0, was ex-
posed. w. Bond Thomas, general man-
ager for the Tiffany studios, OF New
York, was the witness. He swOro that
the TIFFANY furnaces are the sole pro-
prietors OF h favrille glass. which was
supposed to be used for capitol chan
deliers. Although favrille was specified
there was not q panel of that gtass in
the building.
Mr.. Thomas said that tho process 81
manufacturing favrille glass was secret
and the name patented.
"Favrille glass can be obtained only
from Tiffany??" asked Mr.. Scarlet.
Eyes, sir" replied the witness.
Did you ever sell any to h Penn
sylvani=asenze company or to John H
Sanderson?"
we did not said Mr.. Thomas.
rs there any favrilie glass In this
building"
There Is none"
is manufactured in northern a He
was asked IL 1t could BIZ obtained Ia
America, and he replied that there Is q
Baccarat glass agency In New York.
The Chandeliers.
Can it be used for chandeliers. FOL
lighting fixtures ?" asked Attorney Scar
let, TO refute the defense of Sandersonss
brother-in-lar,, Pedro g.. Salon., who
trying to excuse the fake. declared that
Baccarat glass was a type, and the im-
ported glass was utilized only for table.
ware. Said Mr.. Thomas:
TT can be used"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-11
PLOT 70 WRECK TRAIN FAILS.

New York, April 10-'"There Is nothing
new in the discovery credited to Fillmore,
the Pittsburg cobbler, by which coal
ashes may be treated chemically so as to
burn for a long period and give greater
heat than pure COAL" said Leander Ham
mond, a carpenter.
Mr.. Hammond claims that for a long
time he has been burning coal dustin his
stoves at home after he had saturated 1t
with a secret chemical.
AS q result of his experiments, the car
pentera says that he can make one ton of
coal dust so treated last a whale.year4t
heating an ordinary sized house.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-04-11
NO BATHS IN TEN
YEARS, IS SENTENCED

Cleveland, O., April 9.-Judge Fielder,
In police court, sentenced a man to
a year and a half Of cleanliness.
John Artl. arrested for neglecting
his four small children. hasn't taken
a bath In ten years, Humane officer
Poole told the judge.
i have arrested him on almost every
minor charge" the officer said. "and
have tried for ten years to make him
keep clean"
"Unwashed for ten years, eh?" COM
and the court. "Pll ak him so he
won't be dirty for a long time. / shall
send you to the workhouse with in
structlons to the superintendent to keep
you there eighteen months and put you
to light b n rave you scrubbed
twice a day during your inearc era
tion.'