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low from the least complex and apparently arest
business transaction dire financial consequences may
follow, unless the pitfalls in the way have been
closed with the aid of an experienced attorney.
The experiences which follow have been cleaned
from the reColectons of attorney whose practice
in of the interior counties of Pennsylvania.
While they occurred under Pennsylvania law in
general way, under the circumstances, prac-
tcally the same results would have occurred in any
other Jurisdiction.
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.0HE Chinese are said
to pay their physi-

THE Chinese are said
to pay their physi-
clans to keep them
we'll; the Americans pay
their physicians only when
they are i'll. Likewise.
with the great majority of
people, they do not con-
suit an attorney till they
are in trouble. With both
their physicians and their
lawyers most people would
fare better if they pursued
the Chinese plan,- paid
their physicians to keep
them we'll and their at
torneys to keep them out of
trouble,-fo as from the
simplest injury neglected
a serious illness NAV fol-
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OBJECT TO ONE
REGENTS BOARD
Poll Of House Shows suf-
ficient Strength to Defeat
Consolidation Measure.
Des Moines Bureau of
The Ottumwa Courier,

AISo sudICu 90.
The opponents of the bill to consol-
ldate the management of the State Ed
ucational institutions under one board
OF regents, in the house today, tried to
make the senate bill special order
TOR this afternoon at 1880 when they
intended to kill 1t. A vote to make a
special order requires two thirds vote
or IL votes and on roll call they had
but 81 votes for the special order.
The friends of the bill tried to make
1t a special order for Tuesday next at
2 O'clock but failed. The bill retains
Its place on the calendar and may be
reached late today.
II Is understood that poll of the
house has been taken on the bill and
the opponents claim they have Sc votes
pledged against 1t, which is sufficient
to kill it. 1t is suspected they have all
they claim
The senate passed the bill TO give the
state medical board power to revoke
any medical certificate, after providing
for an appeal to the court. Also the
uniform fire Insurance policy bill and
the bill to increase the pay of the as
sistant dairy commissioners.
The anti-pass bill was made a special
order for tomorrow. The inheritance
tax billwas introduced providing for a
direct inheritance tax ranging from
one per cent to five. The bill to re-
quire corporations to report and pay a
small fee was discussed at length but
was not passed.
The house passed the bill permitting
automobile railroads to be built and
defeated Pierce's referendum bill by a
vote Of A to "a. A bill was introduced
by Ritter amending the law SO that city
and town councils can allow saloons to
remain open till IL o'clock at night.
Ora Williams.
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IS THERE RACE
SUICIDE IN
IOWA?
Census Bureau Gives Esti-
mate Showing Decrease in
Population Ottumwa
aims

Washington, D. c., March 29.-
Iowa's population is declining in
numbers, according to an estimate Of
the census bureau given out recently.
The bureau has prepared estimates OF
population for the dSf1erent' states and
leading cities for 1906. The Iowa esti-
mate is based on the staet census of
1905 and compared with the federal
census estimate for 1904 and the fed
eral census of 1900. The census bu-
reau gives the state in 1906 2,205, $50
population, against 2,210,05O in 1905
and an estimated population Of 2,214,-
Ali in 1904. The census of 1900 gave
the state 2,231,S53. Since then there
has been a decrease of 21,S03 in pop
llation, according to the census esti-
mate is based on the state census Of
The estimate for Des Moines is
1928, against 1886 in 1905 and 62,135
IT 1900. The increase over last year
ic 6Q7
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Crazed Mother
Throws Infant
Into The Sea
Steamer Arripes at New
York on Which Un-
natural Parent
Drowned Babe

-
New York, March 29.-Crazed by
sickness Mrs. Filomena Aquila, pas
senger on board the steamer Koenig
Albert, which arrived here today from
Naples, threw her infant daughter IN
to the sea last Wednesday where it
perisned. The woman tried to follow
the infant to death, but was restrain
ed
Passengers on the steamer saw the
woman with the child in her arms act
ing strangely near. the steamer rail
Tney saw her carry the child to the
rail and rush was made as her lie.
sign was seen. But It was too late.
She threw the child into the waters,
then tried to jump after the baby, but
in this she was frustrated.
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.CYCL ONE HITS
PAGE COUNTY
FARMS
Starts Near County Line
and Uproots and De-
molishes Houses
and Barns

Clarinda, March ga cyclone
started yesterday afternoon at 4:SO
a mile and half north Of Clearmont
Mo, and travelled northward, passing
one mile nast OF the town OF Brady.
Vile, Page county, Iowa, just north ct
the state line. There was no. electrical
disturbance, but the storm was lac-
conpanied by darkness and a loud
roaring. The genuine tornado seemed
to start north of Clearmont. Its work
was as follows:
It demolished the house and barn tf
John Burch, the barn and outbuildings
the home Of Ira Hodges, for no word
has been heard from the family. Near
Braddyville the tornado tore into
splinters the house, barn and outbuild-
ings of Will Akin. set Jim Burgess
house in the road and completely de-
stroyed the barns of Henry Lush,
Eathen Kelly and Laurence Snod-
grass, all well known Page county
farmers. No deaths are yet known.
The tornado followed the course of
Buchanan creek for some distance be-
fore 1t spent itself. The most damage
was done near Braddyville.
At Kelly's and Stanton's farms some
marvellous freaks were wrought Three
COWS STdzlnS DeSlQe- renee on the
Kelly farm were lifted into the air and
deposited unhurt on the pasture of a
farmer named Stanton just across the
fence, which itself was unmoved and
unshaken
The cows are eclipsed, however, by
the mule. The animal was standing
by the barn when the swirling wind
hit the building. The upper half Of
the barn was sheered off and deposited
on the mule and in a second more a
water tank blew down on top Of the
barn and mule. The animal was dug
out, uniAjured,
Five tons of hay lying on the second
story of the barn were left untouched,
although the roof and sides had been
torn off,
A similar curious happening with
regard to quantity Of hay occurred
at the Stanton barn. The hay in this
case was lying on the first floor and
1t was left there. the walls and rest OF
the building except the floor was lift
ed high and dropped down nearby.
Remarkable as were these events they
are vouched for by number of thor
oughly credible eye witnesses.
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Injunction Continued

Grand Rapids, Mich, March 2s.--
Judge Knappen today continued until
April Is the restraining order which
he issued at the opening of the litiga.
tion between A. S. Bigelow and the
Calumet and Hecla Mining company
over stock which the latter company
has purchased In the Osceola mine
The restraining order allows the Calu.
met company to vote its stock in Os.
ceola only for the purpose of secur-
ing the adjournment of the annual
meeting Of the company until some
sssao subsequent to April Is.
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MEDAL IS GIVEN MISS STEELE.

Honor For Des Moines Girl Who Saved
Human Llfe-PuIled Man From Water.
Des Moines, March 29.-Miss LAWN
ma Steele, an employe Of the state H.
brary, is in receipt Of medal from
the Carnegie Hero commission.
1t was awarded to her for heroism
displayed in Iowa City when she pulled
a man from under the ice. He was
James Hall. Miss Steele and Hall were
skating together and he slipped into an
air hole.
State house friends Of Miss Steele
are offering her congratulations.
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NO CHANGE IN.
PRICE 20 ss ~ = {
charge Frozen Com
modo > Will Remain the
Same as Last Season

From Fridays Daily.
There will be no dropping off in the
price of ice this year although there
was a bigger crop than last year, ac-
cord1ng to statements made today by
number of local icemen.
The local prices will be 40 cents per
hundred to private families, and 20
cents per hundred to saloons, butchers
and others who buy in like wholesale
quantities.
These are just the same prices as
prevailed last year. When seen this
morning two Of the local dealers stated
that the same schedule of prices would
remain in force.
In speaking Of the situation w. w.
Cummings said:
mo ice dealer in town has more
than two-thirds of supply The Nor.
rell plant last year agreed to furnish
us ice through the season, but l un-
derstand that this year they will not
sell any ice at all. We may, before the
end of the season, be compelled to go
north to buy ice.'' 81
The Ottumwa Brewing g. Ice Co.
will not be in the local retail trade this
year, though it will make ice to sell to
the local dealers.
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THAW IS RECOVERED
FROM NERVOUSNESS
Seems Anxious for Lunacy inquisition
to Proceed NO Court Held Until
Tomorrow.

New York, March 29.-After hall
hours interview with Harry X. Thaw
today Attorney Peabody said "Thaw
is feeling splendidly and seems thor
oughly fit. He has recovered from
whatever nervousness he may have
had regarding the first session of the
commission IN lunacy and is now ready
and anxious for the inquiry to proceed
He feels entirely confident as to the
outcome"
The hearing adjourned yesterday un.
til tomorrow.
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Rush to Gixa Aid.

lmmedlaLely aLter the disaster all the
available doctors and nurses OF this
hetty We're hurried to the scene, and
relief trains We're started from los
Angeles, sixty miles awav. Vehicles
of all kinds We're pressed into service
to carry the wounded to the hospital
here and the dead to the morgue. In
short time the hospital was crowded
to overfowing with victims and many
We're cared for in private houses.
Many of the injured were seriously
hurt and several may die before morn
ing. Late last night eight bodies could
be seen buried under the debris, but
wrecking machinery to move the heavy
cars will have to be procured before
the bodies can be recovered. Four Of
the cars were smashed. Baggage and
mail was scattered about from the two
forward coaches, and in the smoker
and first day coach the passengers
were killed or injured. The Italian
victims were on their way from New
Orleans to San Francisco. where they
were to work as laborers.
Four Coaches Undamaged.
The four rear coaches remained IN
the track, and those Of the Pullmans
which were derailed, suffered but lit
tie damage.
The train, which was an unusually
large one, was crowded. There were
ninety in the Pullman cars alone, and
only two of these were hurt. The day
coaches, which were of lighter con-
struction. were crowded. The train
was nearly twelF, hours late, and was
running at top speed, in an effort to
make up for lost time, when the wresk
occurred.
The. Florence Roberts Theatrical
company occupied one coach, which
was hurled from the track and both
ends Of 1t crushed in. But two men,
bers of Miss Roberts company, out OF
a total of twenty five, were injured.
Miss Roberts herself escaped entirely
unhurt. The escape from death of the
occupants of this car was remarkable.
considering the manner In which the
coach was splintered and torn to
pieces. The men and women were
hurled from one end of the car to the
other.
Train in Ditch.
Oklahoma City, Okla, March 20. -
The Choctaw. Oklahoma & Gulf pas
senger train. running from Memphis
to Amarillo, and drawn by two engines.
was partially derailed at Council,
eight miles west of Oklahoma City to.
day
Both Of the engines were badly
wrecked and the mail and baggage
cars were overturned but the other
cars remained on the. track.
One engineer and an unknown negro
were killed and the fireman was fatal.
ly injured and the porter hurt.
Seven of the passengers sustained se-
we're bruises and cuts, but all will be
able to continue on their way,
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No Lives Lost
FIRE AT IOWA CITY.

Iowa City, March 20. The Humer
Flour and Feed Mill was badly burned
last night. The loss will be $4,000.
The mill burned to the ground last
August and was to have started today.
1t means a big loss to the farmers as
grain has been held all winter waiting
for the mill to start. The mill was
insured.
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PANIC IN BRUSSELS.

Four Failures Yesterday Involving
$4,000, ,ooo-Others Are Expected.
Brussels, March 29.-There was a
panic on the Bourse here yesterday.
Four banks were unable to meet their
liabilities and four others were obliged
to obtain an extension Of time
in which to settle their accounts The
losses in the Brussels money market is
estimated at $3,O00,000. Other failures
are expected.
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Arrest Murder Suspect.

Moscow, March 90. "A lawyer
named Alexandroff, secretary of the
Moscow section of the league of Rus
sian people was arrested today as the
instigator of the murder of DR.. Jollos,
editor of Russki Viedomosti No trace
of the actual murderer has been found.
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Twenty.Th Killed and 100
Injured Pullmans Crush
Forward Cars When
Train is Derailed
TRAPPED COACHES
RAZED BY FLAMES
Eight Of the Injured are at
the Cotton Hospital and
May Die-21 Of Dead
Were Italians

Z i "a
Cotton Cal. March 29.-As a re-s
suit Of the disastrons wreck on the
west3cund Southern Pacific Sun, 4,
set express in East Cotton late yes
terday afternoon, twenty-threei
dead bodies lie today in local unr
dertaking establishment, eight ter
ribly injured are In the Cotton hcs-
pitsl. and more than fifty othcrs
whose hurts are less serious. have
heen taken to Los Angeles. The
dead:
ALBERT w. SHE. mail clerk.
Los Angeles.
GEORGE X. SHARPE. sacra-
mento.
Twenty-one Italians, including
one woman on her way to San
Francisco.
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breaches HIS OWN
FUNERAL SERMON
Former Baptist Preacher SWINGS from
Ga'l0ws in South Carolina for Muir.
der.

Spartanburg, S. c., March 29.-Thos.
Harris, a young white man. formerly a
Baptist preacher, was hanged at Gaff.
ney today for the murder Of Mrs. Hort
ense Morgan, an aged white woman,
last November. Before the black cap
was adjusted Harris preached his own
funeral sermon. He killed Mrs. Nor.
gan by cutting her throat after which
he took $500 from her clothes.
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EUROPEANS SAFE IN MOROCCO.

Representative of Sultan Calls on
French Minister and Gives Assurance.
Tangier. March 30 The represen-
tative of the Sultan of Morocco today
called upon the French minister and
assured him that measures had been
taken for the maintenance Of order
and for the security of the Europeans
In Morocco.
Troops Leave oudJa. 1890
Lelle Marina, Algeria, March 20. -
The column Of French troops detailed
to occupy Oudja, Morocco, left here
early today.
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Michigan Bank Blown

Jackson, Mich, March 20. Safe
blowers robbed the Farmers and Mer-
chants National bank at Hanover
early today, securing $4,000 The VII.
layers were alarmed and organized a |
posse, but the robbers escaped
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MccIeary Sworn IN.

Washington, March 20. Former
Representative James T. McCleary of
Minnesota was today sworn in as sec
ond assistant postmaster general, in
succession of VIM. s. Shallenberger,
resigned.
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BREWERY WORKERS STRIKE.

Employees Of St. Louis Concerns Ask
increases Of From to go Per Cent.
st. Louis, March 29.-Brewery work.
ers to the number of $500, said to in.
yolve workers from every brewery in
st. Louis, struck this afternoon for
increases in wages ranging from five
to sixty per cent
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STATE RESTS CASE.

Standard OIL Begins its Defense in Sui,
in Which Rebatins is Charged.
Chicago, March 29.-Government at
torneys today rested their case against
the Standard Oil company of Indiana
which Is charged with receiving re-
bates from the Chicago and Alton rail.
road on the shipment of oil.
The oil company commenced it's de.
Tense this afternoon
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Carolina Town Rurninn.

Spartanburg, S. c., March pa
special from Newberry says the town
is burning. Six large stores and
twelve residences have been destroy.
ed and the fire is spreading rapidly.
The water supply has given out.
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Society Leader Suicides

San Francisco, March 29.-Sydney
Salisbury, son of Monroe Salisbury
the well known horseman and former
society leader in this city, today com,
mitted suicide by gas asphyxiation
Dependency was the cause.
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COMMITS SUICIDE.

James McAleer Of independence
Takes Life In Cedar Rapids.
Cedar Rapids. March 90 James
McAleer, an Independence business
man. committed suicide by taking
morphine at local hotel. Drink and
despondency were the causes.
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Trainmen and Conductors
Announce They Will Do
Nothing Until Govern
ment Officials Arrive
PLEA OF ROOSEVELT
BRINGS ABOUT DELAY
President Points Out Dan.
gers of Tie-up of Railroads
to Managers and
Trainmen

While no members of the local
lodges of the B. Of R. T. or B. of
Z. +. and b. have been found who
cared to make any statement in
regard to the pending strike, the
general opinion is rife among the
members Of these organizations
that the strike is imminent, the
rumor being that the firemen may
go out early this evening and the
trainmen before morning. Local
employees of the roads are very
reticent' in regard to the matter
and the rumors are said to have
resulted from bits of conversa-
tfons CLEANED from the unguarded
consultations which have been
held among the different groups
while off duty today. The local
trainmen take no stock in the
talk Of arbitration.
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kEokuks is FLOODED.

Three and Two Tenths Inches Of Rain
Fall in Less Than Ten Minutes.
Keokuk. March 29-Three and two
tenths inches Of rain in less than ten
minutes, which fell at $3.50 o'clock yes
terday afternoon flooded the entire
city. the sewers being unable to carry
off the unprecedented fall Of water. At
one time there were six inches of wat
er on Main street. The cellars Of many
of the leading merchants were flooded
to the depth Of from two to eight
feet and thousands of dollars loss sus-
tained. gl
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Tacoma Has Shock

Tacoma, Wash, March 29.-Three
distinct shocks of earthquake were felt
here a few minutes before z o'clock
this morning. No damage was report
ed
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Figures on Iowa Cities.

Council Bluffs, Fort Madison and Keo-
kuk have gone backward in population.
Clinton and Marshalltown have prac-
ttcally stood still. Des Moines has had
the largest Increase of any city in the
state since 1906
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Cardinal Macchi Dead.

Rome, March 29.- Cardinal Luigi
Macchi, secretary of the apostolic
briefs, died today OF apoplexy The car
dinal was born in Brazil In 1882.
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La CROSSE HAS FIRE.

Suffers Loss Of 100000 Through Blaze
in Business District.
La Crosse, Wis, March 29-Fire in
the manufacturing district today did
$160,000 damage. The La Crosse
Candy and Cracker company and the
Roosevelt company, plumbing supplies,
were the principal sufferers.
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ToRNADolIN SOUTH.
Marietta, !. T., Has Wind storm-Dam.
aoe ls ioht-No ns. of ia

'''S17
age Is Llght--No Loss of Life.
Ft. Worth. Texas, March. 2s.-Re-
ports Of a severe tornado at Marietta,
l. T., IN which many people were killed
reached here last night, but the wires
are down and no confirmation can be
obtained.
No Lives Lost.
Oklahoma City, Okla, March 29.-
No lives were lost at Marietta and the
damage is light.
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Scran Is settlad

Malagua, Nicaragua, March 29-Cos-
ia Riaa has recognized the provisional
government Of Honduras.
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~ 3.
1shicagp 1aaEeh 2e.--The attitude of
n. kxaBeTs4of the Order Of Railway
Conductors and the Brotherhood OF
& hallway Trainmen was today more
favorable toward a possible arbitration
OF the differences between them and
the railroads than on yesterday. 1t is
reported today that Chairman Knapp
OF the Interstate commerce commits sion
and Charles P, Neill, Of the United
Labor Commission, would probably
! leave Washington for Chicago some
\ time during the day and the labor
leaders declared they were willing
to await their arrival before taking
any acton.
President Intervenes.
Chicago, March $3.50 great has be-
come the danger Of a general strike on
an the western railways that President
Roosevelt yesterday stepped between
the General Managers association and
the disgruntled employees with plea
for arbitration.
Chairman Knapp Of the interstate
z commerce commission and Labor Com
missioner Neill, after conference with
the President, left Washington for Chi
cago. at an early hour this morning and
will arrive In this city tomorrow morn
Z Ing. The President is said to have al
SO sent word to each side Of the contro-
versy pointing out the danger of gen.
eral strike at time when the money
market is in an unsettled state, and
When the prosperity of the country de-
pends SC much on the united action of
labor and capital
Federal Officials to Plead for Peace.
Chairman Knapp and Commissioner
Neill will meet the representatives Of
both the employees and the railroads
tomorrow morning and attempt to
show both parties the benefits arising
from the appointment of mediators for
peace and the settlement Of the exist
Ing troubles by arbitration.
The action of the President followed
the refusal of the railroad managers
and their employees yesterday to consid-
er interference on the part of the Ma
tional Civic federation. The managers
refused to arbitrate through that
means, on the ground that they desired
to take advantage of the Erdman act,
and the employees declared that their
program would be carried out, regard.
less of arbitration
Should Chairman Knapp and Com
missioner Neill fail in their efforts, the
next step will be to propose arbitra-
ton under the act of 1898, but this can
not be forced upon either side. Should
this in turn fail, the President will
then send an open letter to the conduc.
tors and trainmen, asking them to sac
rifice their own interests to those of
the country. The President is said to
feel that the situation is serious be-
cause of the financial condition of the
roads at present.
The conductors and trainmen have
voted Overwhelmingly for strike, and
now find themselves in the position of
aggressors, with the managers attempt.
ing to enlist the aid OF the public in
their interests.
People of West Alarmed.
In the meantime the people of the
entire territory west OF Chicago, with
its 12S,o00 miles of railways, its s1O,-
045,000,000 of railway properties. its
annual earning capacity of $685. ,eo0. coo
In the railway service, On roads which