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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-11
DAY FOR CONVICTED.
Judge Dana Deals Out Justice This
Morning.

Today was t'retribution day. in dis
trict court. About a dozen jointists,
who were convicted during the last
term of court, were sentenced. Andy
Jordan and ]. Cooper. two colored
men who were captured at the Tenth
street drug store in Sheriff Wilker-
sons first raid last April, were let off
easily. Both had been found guilty
on several counts, but it was brought
to the attention of the court that they
were only hired men, working for
a salary, and that the real culprit,
who reaped the reward of the alleged
Joint, had escaped before the raid.
The court therefore used judicial le-
nience in their cases. and sentenced
them only to 80 days in jail and fines
of 500 each.
The attorneys for Harry Johnson,
the young man who killed Dennis
Dumford in a disorderly resort about
year ago, asked that johnson be
sentenced to the state reformatory in
stead of the penitentiary. johnson
was found guilty of murder in the
second degree, and Judge Dana re-
fused to entertain any suggestion as
to the reformatory. The prisoner
still has a stay of execution for 90
days, pending an appeal to the SUI
preme court. The penalty for muir
der in the second degree is ten years
in the penitentiary.
All patients subject to the diagnosis
of the January term. were required
to give a new bond today.
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1t is believed that this confession
was given to shield Horace Trosper,
the girls lover. Trosper was arrested
this morning at his home in Marys-
vile. Marshall county, on telegraph
advice from the county attorney here.
George Tennyson, son of the MUIR
dered man, was arrested here Friday
evening as an accomplice and taken to
MarysvilIe today. 1t was George
Tennyson, who after three and a half
hours of vigorous sweating last night
at the county Jail here, made the
confession and produced the written
statement of his sister which he has
had since her death three weeks af-
ter that of her father in 1905.
George Tennyson had the statement
locked up in safety deposit box at
the Ottawa county bank in this city
and turned it over to the officers this
morning. His confession was one OF
the most sensational in the criminal
history of the state and clears up a
murder mystery which has baff1ed the
Pinkertons and the law officers for
work of County Attorney Guy T
Helvering of Marshall county, and
Judge w. S. Glass of Marysville, whom
the county employed as special assist
ant in the case, aided by Sheriff Fred
K. Barrett of Marshall county and
relatives of the late David Tennyson
Son Had Been Suspected.
George Tennyson had long been sus-
pected of knowing something of the
crime. In August. 1906, he moved
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-11
STORY OF THE CRIME.
David Tennyson Shot Through Win.
dow as He Sat at a Table

The murder of David Tennyson to
which his son George Tennyson has just
confessed took place Tuesday night,
February q, 1906, at the Tennyson farm
one mile east of Frankfort. Mr.. Tenny-
son and his wife who were elderly peo-
pie approaching the allotted three score
and ten years of life, as was their usual
custom that evening were sitting in the
living room of their home which is a
pretentious building. A daughter, Mrs.
Flora Brock, who had, however been
separated from her husband and who
went under the name OF Flora Tenny-
son, was in the sitting room with them.
The only other member of the immedi-
ate family who lived with the parents
was George Tennyson, a son of q years.
George went to town that night A lit
tie before o'clock Flora went to her
room which was up stairs. Mrs Ten
nyson was sitting in the corner of the
room working at some knitting The
window stills in the Tennyson home are
quite low Mr.. Tennyson sat near the
center of the room with his back to
Mrs. Tennyson, and was reading a pa
per About five minutes before O'Clock
Mr.. Tennyson went out on the front
porch and took walk through the
yard, returning with a couple of apples
He soon resumed his position in the
center OF the room. He had been sit
ting but Few minutes when Mrs. Ten
nyson stopped her knitting for a mo-
ment and sat straight up in her chair
Continued on Page Eleven.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-11
THAW JURY COMPLETE,
The Trial of the Case Will Begin
Monday.

New York. Jan. 1.-The attorneys
in the Thaw trial are taking a day off
today and going over their testimony
for the last time before the actual
trial Of the case begins. The jury
was completed last night. On Monday
morning the trial proper will be
opened with brief address by AS
sistant Attorney Garvin and then the
peoples case will be put in. The case
will be brief The killing will be
proved and evidence will be introduced
to show that the shot which killed
Stanford White was fired by Harry K.
Thaw. 1t is not likely that more than
two or three hours will be required.
Then the prosecutions direct case
will be closed and the defense will
begin.
The twelve men who will decide the
young Pittsburger's fate are all be-
yond middle age, there being five
gray headed ones in the jury box. Ten
Of them are married, the other two
being widowers and practically all of
them are fathers of families.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-11
DARK SECRET OUT
Mystery of Famous Tennyson
Murder Solved.
George TennysOn, Son OF Slain
Man, Is Arrested.
SHOWS A CONFESSION.
Paper Signed by His Sister VINO
Is Now Dead.
She Takes the Blame Of the
Crime Upon Herself.
HER LOVER ARRESTED
Believed She Attempted to
Shield Horace TrOsper.
Further Developments Are Ex-
pected to Follow.
She Takes the Blame OF the
Crime Upon Herself.
HER LOVER ARRESTED
Believed She Attempted to
Shield Horace TrOsper.
Further Developments Are Elk
pected to Follow.

Minneapolis, Kan. Jan. IL
George, 1 was the cause of father S
death. Don't tell anyone unless you
have to. FLORA
The above confession written and
signed on her death bed by Flora
Tennyson will, it is believed. clear up
the mystery which has surrounded the
murder of her father, David T. Tenny-
son, a wealthy farmer which occurred
on February 27, 1906, near Frankfort,
Kan
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from Marshall county and bought a
16o acre farm nine miles from Min
neapolis. Recently he received $4,000
from his fathers estate. On Christ
mas day he married Miss Jean Flem-
ing, very attractive young school
teacher in this county
The officers from Marshall county ar
rived in Minneapolis on a late Friday
afternoon train. They were accompan-
fed by Lafe Lindsay and Will Johnson
of Marshall county who married two of
David Tennyson's daughters. Sheriff
Barrett, accompanied by Deputy Sheriff
John Mccullough of this county at
once got a team and drove to George
Tennyson's farm with the warrant for
his arrest. When Tennyson was ar
rested his young wife expressed no
special agitation and it is believed that
her husband had told her of his posses
sion of his sisters confession to the
murder. Mrs George TennySon accom-
panied her husband to town.
It was nearly nine o'clock at night
when the officers arrived with Tenny-
son who at first refused to make any
confession. The sweating process then
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-11

began. TennysonN denied everything;
denied making certain statements at
tributed to him by his brothers-in-1aw.
He was suddenly confronted by his
brother-in-law LATE Lindsay. Lindsay
accused him of saying to him in June,
1906, four months after his fathers
death: There was more than one con-
cerned in this murder There was two
or three. have something to tell about
this and want to get the whole family
together and tell it, but when I do tell
it it will kill mother"
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county not being liable, but on account
OF Irregularities in the proceedings and
new trial is ordered

The decision of the probate court
OF F1nney county in the contest Of H.
" Lawrence against A. c. Wheeler for
the office of county treasurer was re-
Versed by the supreme court and the
case sent back for new hearing Ac-
cordfng to the election returns Wheel
er was elected county treasurer a year
ago by small majority. Lawrence
who was treasurer filed a contest The
contest board decided against him and
the probate court to which the case
was appealed sustained the board The
case was then brought TO the supreme
court. Last fall Lawrence refused to
give up the office and mandamus
proceedings was brought to compel
him to give up the office. The SUI
preme court refused to grant the
writ of mandamus as the appeal in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-11
SliphtIv Cooler To-day.

The weather today Is the same old
story. There is no word which could
be found that would distinguish the
weather today from that of the many
preceding days of the season. A
high clear sky, just little wind and
just enough chill in the air to make
it invigorating is the general sum-
mary of the weather for the past few
days. Tomorrow will be a little nicer
than today The wind today is fifteen
miles from then orth. The following
aro tho tamperaf lures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-11
RESERVE SURPLUS.
Clearing House Banks Hold $6.0S4.-
$50 Above 25 Per Cent Requirement.

New York. Jan. 1.-THE weekly state
ment of the clearing house banks show
ed a surplus of reserves under the re-
culrements Of the 25 per cent rule today
for the first time since the financial
stringency began in October. The sur
Plus was 1884. $50. This is an increase
of SIT ,593. 500 in the proportionate cash
reserve as compared with last week,
when there was deficit of 81, 500 $50.
The statement follows:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-11

intriguing are eliminated from the
legislative halls. These momentous
questions should be settled, and settled
right, if it takes all the summer"
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weather Indie

Weather Indications.
Chicago, Jan. 11.-Fcrecast for
Kansas: Generally fair tonight and
Sunday.
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Continued on Page a.,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-11

to be in a perpetual state of lombard
ment of imaginary attacks on the
rights Of the dear people in general
and the political ambition Of Mr.
Stubs in particular.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-11

Frankfort Index: If Ex-Governor
w. ]. Bailey should enter the race fol-
governor he would be nominated and
elected hands down. An injustice
was done Governor Bailey in refusin
him second nomination He should
be rendered the nomination withou,
being required to announce himself q
candidate.
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Continued on Page Eleven.)
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-10-03
Mr.. TAFT DOES THINGS.
One incident The. Shows the Quality
Of the Man.

OF the man.
This incid~nt affords perhaps ms good
an insight into the psychology of MIR
Taft as any that cou b. cited II 4
Illustrates the way Mr. Taft does things
the way he works aud the way h.
plays. for when he plays he plays "a
hard and zestfuily ns he works With
him the thing II TO do II. Accomplish.
mcut l. ever his aim II happened
while Mr. Taft was Oh the sea. bound
for Manila 10 open the Philippine us
scmbly The narrator watched the pro.
crcdln.S AT close range. Three m"u
stood lctwcen decks on the Steamship,
away up In tn" eyes of the ship. nn
contemplated u hole ten feet above
their heads \ uarruw iron ladder led
pnrpcndcularly 10 the deck. The cir.
rumfrrcucc Of the hole seemed 20 mp.
proNimatc that of u sugar barrel. one
pf the mcn Ambassador O'Brien.
bound for Tokyo. was tail and spare
lean and sirrwy. The second. judge
Thomas Burj" of Seattle. was short
and rptund The third. Mr. Taft. WAS
larger AMI heavier than the other tw"
put together
1T would be- easier f6r the camel to
gn through the needles eye. MIR Sec.
Rotary. than for you 10 get through
that hole" hantrred Judge Burke
II vouIdu'i like to try that climh
IN confrs~." snil the ambassador
We'll. don't know" rrlnin"d tn"
81 pound secretary Of war. 1T looks
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-10-03
THE PARTY OF YOUTH
Why Young Men Vote the Repub-
Iican Ticket.
IT STANDS FOR PROGRESS.
Nav Voters Proud to Ally Themselves
With the Party Of Lineoin-lts Past
Performances Presage a Still hore
Glorious Future.

II Is not without significance that
young men who have just attained
their majority are found. as a rule.
voting the Republican ticket. The rca.
son Is plain Those young men look
ON the Republican parry rs the party
of hope. the party of promise aud of
performance. the party for whose can
didatcs they will be proud TO say In
later years that they east their first
ballot. the party whose past needs no
apology. no balm of oblivion for blum
ders and Ter crimes. no record uf SlJv-
cry. rebellion aud attempted rcpuda.
tlou. each Stamped out In It's turn 10y
American frrrmcr under Republican
leadership
The Republican party IS cmiucnily
the party Of youth With Republicans
the emory of the glorious past Is but
an Incentive to make the future still
more ploriuus 70 the Democracy Is
left the cougcuinl occupation Of noun.
dcriug IN he MARSH of bygonc Demo.
cratic vagarirs. lurcd on 10y some new
and lrluSivr wIll-o'-rhr. wiSp +" the
quu-mirc Il uuudrcuu1l fixture
Tho youtntul voter finds ~ nitrac-
ton ~ such company he prefers Ia
march forward on firm ground. with
the party Of Lincoln Of Grant Nc.
Kiulry and Roosevelt Of TAFT aud
Sherman aud Hughes NJ nearly every
great American. living aul dead.
4.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-10-03
FOLEYSHONEYAr6TAR
stops the cough and heals lungs
uema eraey pivia q.

Thomas L. iIi,gru. Hearst candidate
for the prcsi !"Gcy. looks for ia" "I"r
ton Of TAFT aud then a new uiigr
mcnt of political parties Mr. IIisg"u
says
The Democratic party Is dividing
The radical nnh the rlo"" conservative
elements can phil together only a lit
Tie while longer After Bryan Is de.
fratcl for third time there is bound
10 be- new align u"ut of The people.
ana IN" Democratic party VIII di'in.
trgrarr The RrpuhI ms will Let me
~ those former Democrats ana IN
Indoprusicuc" league will got NOR" Of
them The campnl"l Of 10" win be-
fought out by a different So, "f %
lIIinnl parties from lhps" now IN ~"
field
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-10-03
LABOR TURNS TO TAFT.
Toilsrs Scent Dang In the FaIaeies
Of Mr. Bryan.


Convincing cyilCurr was furnished
10y the conference IA Cincinnati last
week 10y Judge lHft with oscar
StrnuS, secretary OF commerce aud la.
Dor. ana Z ' rowdcrIy. formerly
general mlsirr workman Of the
Knights Of Labor. that the attitude nf
labor Is growing each day more friend
~ 10 THlt The campaign Of education
which the Republicans hnv" been car.
ryilg Oh has been effective. amd the
tailoring mau. 50 MIR puwdrrly told
the candidate. Is beginning Ia npprr-
ciatc the tact that u restoration uf
business confidence through the cleo
tion Of MIR Tart means more work aud
prosperous times for him.
Secretary Strn,s announces his ia.
tcution t. - ont on the slriun for tn"
specific purpose of exposing som" of
the Bryan rillnrirS IT, regard t. Labor.
Said Mr. Sttaut The most dangerous
of these fnlIfcirs pr's"ui"d ~
Bryan'S Slogan Shat the l'npl" rule
aud we'll may Il" n-l, II. lur ry'ry un"
of NJ, lrndiug doctrines Z, q lrniIl ~
that rule"
Mr. Sulus rlis,cs Mr. l;r,uu's gov
cinmrut guarantee oi lnuE drro~il~ as
ucXt iu poinr al danger ru lt, plan f."
the government uu unlship pf railroads
Mr. Straits believes this guarantee
proposition j. IS great urugrr a. lh"
Old rs to ! hobby "Tn guarantee @"-
posts" snid Secretary Su8u< els -
,stt..t.rT.f..t. tn, Ittt.g. ,f ff,.. Irtl.. T.I.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-10-03
Difficult
Breathing

Short breath, iluttcring,
palpitation, sinking spells
are symptoms Of a weak
heart, strugGlin" to do its
work. 1t must keep the
blood in circulation to
carry nourislrncnt to
make flesh, bone and mus
Gle, and remove the worn
out particles. When it
cannot do this, it must
have help. DR.. Miles
Heart Cure gives strength
to the heart nerves and
muscles, and increases the
heart action.
u am glad to say that am ro much
improved ion health, br Milo, Heart
euro cured we when several doctors
failed t..nk 20. other Medicine
done. Ny C4-r was h1d, hgd us Il
could b. at times. I had difficulty In
getting my breath, my heart bat 50
fast ~ times TINT I thought il Inn
possible To- live without r,'iri: tho
pain WIS worry severe lu my laft side,
and NV nerve, was an uuHtruug. |
had almost glE"n M all lHr. ~ being
gnrr"ndt a.a az, En- s"re wa.'9 .. m%t' i
take great pleasure" IN g. -uwm"UdinS
nr. Miles remedies 10 an who sur
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-10-03

YOU need straight goods" ii YOU
want ANYTHING. There j, no same
thing a, the Kcclcy Cure except the
Kcc'cy Cure itself, and the only place
10 find It in Maryland or the d Of C.
i, a, the kccley Institute, I'll North
Capitol street. Washington. ID C.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-10-03
SCOTS
EMULSION
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Send this advertisement. together with name
OF paper In which u appears, your address and
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NEGRO AND DEMOCRACY.
Would Be Suicidal For coiored Men 70
Vote For Bryan.


one OF the g.eatr.d negrW~ this
q ntry has Known. n ieitler Of his
race aud the honoreI conli.luai cf
President Grant and Secretary FISH
recently sail III would be- suicidal
for coored men TO vote for Br.uu
They have nothing 10 hope for from
the Democratic party. which his dis.
fiunchiscd them IN the so,.ilI aud
which Processes TO regard them a.
unit for the ballot anywhere Tin
only chance for the negro IT, with TIE
Republican party. unJ II vii he a sal.
day fDr the negro wllel u Republican
prtei en- - be- elected without thp
votes o. II groes having helped
place III ia power"
Ia view II TIE fact that Bryan hin
eli has NJ owed no@'D disfrn @.
mrnt il the south thprp c:.n be no
,lobt of his aitiu. e Should II" h.
c.rclr' I, tn pre- 4 enc. while ne
aouthcgn l.rnurraiS woull record
.Jrthtfu nr,.o votes tor IL yr cap j.
llics ~ nn iluren.c:il by tn ri'..ro
race IT southern treatment ~ tie ne
70.
Il Is impossible 10 hr.irvr tlLit az.
rrsgp who has studied Litr'ligrn,ly ~
history OF his race VIII Z, into IL
e0jlng booth nnl east II hi.i''' IN faro
Of i.rynu and against Tan AMI Shai
man. the Republican r.in.ilati's ~.
candidates OF the party which 0l"u'
the door Of hope to The cplprci mnn
which gave him the ballot and safe.
guards him In It's nnr In every state III
which Republicans rule.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-10-03

Er-nu'. greet hrnli,"ir f. ruuuiu;
for the prrsid"ro' TINT hr cauir Z
run away fruri ns record
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-10-03

Tho ind hlo'"r'h wh""r II lI@lrih
So docs WIllirn Jennings BRYAN. II Is
WAY they both have.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-10-03

rhr issue Il Just this TAFT aud pros
tcrity or Bryan anl paralysis
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-31
FoR KINpEReARTEN WoRK.
International Union in Session in New oI
 nPleama

Orleans.
 New Orleans. March 3o.-With several hundred delegates in attendance. the Inter- national Kindergarten Union opened it's fifteenth annual meeting here in Gibson Hall, Tulane University. today. with Miss Elizabeth Harrison of the chicaEo Kinder garten College, presiding.
 Organization was effected today and the first regular session of the convention will be tomorrow morning at the Athenaeum. The cnvention will be brought to close Thursday night.
 During the four days of the convention subjects of interest to kindergarten instruct ors will be discussed and these discussions wall be interspersed with addresses by prominent educators of the country.
 While the convention proper does not open until tomorrow. a large majority of the delegates were in the city when the preliminary meeting held today. In private car which arrived last night from New York were Miss Patty smith Hill. of New York. acting president of the union in the absence of Miss Fannie Belle Curtis. of Brooklyn: Miss Harriet Mills. assistant edi- tor of the Kindergarten Magazine of New York; Miss Luella Palmer of the Speyer School of Columbia University; Miss Anna Harvey of Adelphia College, Brookiyn;, and others.
 The organization includes in its member ship Kindergarten teachers of Japan Aus tralia, Mexico and Canada.
 Senorita Estefania Castenada, head of the kindergarten inspectors of the City of Mex ico is here as the Mexican representative.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-31
BROODs OVER FIELDS DEATH.
Oldest EmplOyo of Big Firm Passes
 Away.

Chicago, March 30-After long breeding over the death of his old employer, Mar shall Field. and after innumerable discon- solate visits to Mir. Fields grave in Grace land Cemetery. Pierre Funck. the oldest employe of Marshall Field Company. will be laid away in the same cemetery today.
 Mir. Funck, who was born in Luxembourg, Germany in 1888. came to Chicago when young man and was employed by the then new firm of Palmer. Field and Latlmer. He rose to occupy a confidential position in the wholesale house of Marshall Field and Company When Marshall Field died. he declared in his will that the salary of his eldest emoloye should be paid to him as long as he lived.
 Though hale and hearty up to the time of Mfr. Fields death Funck began to fail in health immediately afterward and died last Friday. He had worked for the Field Com pany for forty-two years.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-31

The weather was generally cloudy over the Mississippi valley and the gulf states this morning. but very little precipitation occurred in those sections. The greatest occurred over New England and the ex- treme Northwest, and the greatest amount at any station was 0.6 Inch at Boston Mass
 Temperature changes in the Gulf States have been very slight, but the temperature over the Northwest is rising rapidly;
 The area of high pressure over the At lantic coast is expected to pass off to the eastward today and will be followed by the This area of low pressure is expected to cause rain in this section tonight and Tues 0+T Temperature and prseiyltGtioa as EspOrs.