The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1908-08-01


Nine. Vera ST. Leger Goold, sery-
ing life sentence at Cayenne for
the murder OF Emma Levin in the ia
nous trunk mystery at Monte Carlo
a year ago, died of typhoid fever, ae-
cording to a Berlin paper
The farmers mammoth grain ele,
yator at Danyers, ILL.,, was burned
with a loss of $4,000. 1t was the
largest in Central Illinois.
The reeord-hreaking session of the
last Illinois general assembly. which
was in session the reeord-hreaking
time of II months. cost the state
$i4G,G57. OF this the 204 members
drew $1,000 each as salary.
More than so per cent of the wells
in Northern Illinois are condemned as
unfit for drinking purposes, according
to a report to the board of health.
Not we'll less than so feet deep was
found without disease germs.
Charging Horace G. Knowles, U. S.
minister to Roumania, with exceeding
his authority in negotiating an extra
dition treaty with Roumania, which
the United States government repudi-
ated the Roumanian government feels
embittered against the United States
and will likely ask for recall OF
Knowles.
Dying of starvation, NJ. A. Gould, 70,
who says he is second cousin of the
late Jay Gould, is in the county hos
pital at Los Angeles. He had lived
with his daughter in little cottage,
but she is too i'll to care for sim long
err and he has become county
charge He lost thousands in specu-
lation, he says.
In retaliation for the summary eX-
pulsion of j, H. Dereus, the Duteh
minister at Venezuela, it was official
ly announced that all Dutch warships
in American waters have been or
dered to make demonstration
against Venezuela.
George Burchardt, A. a wel-to-do
farmer, is dead at his home at Or
chard Place, H., as the result OF a
lightning bolt out of an almost cloud
less sky. His wife and five children
who were rendered unconscious, are
all seriously i'll,
As Walter Goodwin, who betrayed
night rider secrets in Trigg county,
Ky, was returning home from a
neighbor's house, he was fired on sew
en- times by men lying in ambush
One bullet passed through his jaw
and was extracted from under the
ear. His condition is serious.
One man was killed and four seri-
ously injured when two engines came
together in a headon collision near the
Burlington, Ind plant of the Illinois
Steel Co. The victims were the crews
of the two locomotives which came
together. A dense fog caused the
accident.
A rubber balloon which Miss Grace
Cochran, clerk in toy store at Jop-
lin was showing a prospective pur-
chaser bursted and a fragment of 1t
struck her in the eye with great force.
1t is feared the eye will be permanent
ly blinded
William Bargee, one of the best
known lawyers in Illinois, died at his
home in Dixon as a result of a street
car accident near his home several
weeks ago Mr. Bargee was the legal
school master of many Chicago law
yers and jurists of prominence,
VIM. Stamm, a farmer residing Is
miles north of Chester, Illinois, was
arrested and lodged in iail, charged
with the murder of MS two sons who
disappeared about a year ago The
preliminary examination has been de-
layed while search is being made for
the bodies
The federal Grand Jury in Chicago
returned indictments against % al
legged "get-rich-quick" concerns, in
yolving the use of the mails to de
fraud clients out of $500O,000,
An unknown thief hurled a brick
through the plate glass window of c.
d. Peacock Co., jewellers at Adams
and state streets, Chicago, early We'd
nesday and escaped with tray of
rings valued at $1,000
TuHrau Erpsrp,tn palrpp and Snp-
man, sitting in the Federal Court of
Appeals at Chicago, knocked out
Judge Lands $29,24O,OOO fine imposed
on the Standard Oil Company for re-
batting. The higher court reversed the
decision and remanded the case to the
lower court for new trial. The
Standard Oil attorneys left court with
their faces wreathed in smiles OF
triumph.
Night riders burned the station
houses of the Illinois Central railroad
early Wednesday morning at Crazy
in Christian county; Cerulean, in
Trigg county, and Otter Pond, in Cald
well county.
The Minnesota, Red Lake &, Mani.
tobe Railroad Co., of St Paul, Wed
nesday served notice on the state
railroad and warehouse commission
that beginning Aug l it would charge
a passenger fare of cents mile
thus ignoring the 2-cent fare law.
E. P. Cropsey, Al, Il wealthy real es
tate dealer and member Of the Crop
sey family of colonial fame, Shot and
killed his wife in his home in Bath
| Beach.
The men injured in the explosion on
board the warship Kearsarge severa.
days ago are all improving and it is
expected they will recover
Because she refused to live with
bj,, again Charles Wilhelm "A furui