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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-27
SHOT WIFE AND SELF
Sensati. nal Tragedy Occurs at
Milwaukee, Wis.
DYING MAN TELLS STORY
George Wiliouuhby, Prominent Mem
ber Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, Shot His Wife Dead and
Then Shoots Himself.

Der Of the Methodist Episcop;
Church, Shot His Wife Dead an
Then Shoots Himself.
Milwaukee, Wis, March 20.-Gsc
WLloughby. manager of the Jewstt !;
Sherman company, coffee and sp#
mills, Friday shot and killed his W
Florence Willoughby, at their home
Prospect avenue. Willoughby thf
fired two shots into his own brest
and Is not expected to recover.
Willoughby confessed to the polit
The couple last evening attended
social at tae Park Place Method
Episcopal church, where both we
prominent workers, and where Nj
Wil4oughby also taught a Sund;
school class.
Upoa their return home they gus
relied
While Mrs. WilIoughby was an
the husband chloroformed her II
then shot her behind the left .
casuing instant death. He then 81
himself twice in the breast, the
lets piercing his lung but missl
his heart.
Tells Story to Police.
Willoughby told this story to
police:
II married my wife in LudingtQ
Mich, twenty years ago." said he
did not love her but | married
mostly out of sympathy, she being
poor woman. We frequently quarrelt
Mrs. Willougaby was inAansly jsAlcS
Of me.
-Four years ago wAile I was on i
way to New York / met woman
the train. Our acquaintance ript
cd into love- Then for the frst TIL
l realized 1 had met a woman l resf
loved This woman also was lv
an unhappy life. Her husband v
cruel to her and soon after | II
her he deserted her and her two SIN I
children. | then began to suppd
her. We became intimate and ha
been go for several years. Two YET
ago she obtained a divorce and sir
that time l have been providing j
her and her children. She is
living in Chicago.
Planning for Many Months.
For many months l have been plN
ming. began to collect ohlorofoI
l bought it in small lots and beg
to fcep it until / had large bots
of the drug.
T decided to end it all this NOR,
ing. After my wife had fallen asle'
7 obtained the chloroformS and then
shot her. II then fired two sho
into my breast, intending to shoot m
self in the heart, but failed.
Willoughby was fifty years old. H
wife was three years his junior.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-27

The sewers and cutters of Oklahoma
were flushed with newly brewed beer
when the branch of the Anheuser-
Busch company poured into the street
1900 barrels of the foaming beverage,
ms 1t had not matured enough to be
|salsble before the new prohibition law
went into effect. Hundreds of persons
|scooped the beer from the cutters and
carried it away in all sorts of recepta-
lcles. while some lay upon the side
Svalks and drank from the rushing tor
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-27
MISTAKEN FOR sMuGeLERs.
Custom Inspectors XIII Each Other Un.
der Mistake,

E Pa$o, Tex, March 21 Mounted
Customs Inspectors Charles Logan
and Charles Jones fought duel in the
dry bed CT the Rio GraDde river, in
THIS city Thursday night, and botn
were killed Their bodies were dis
covered Friday. 1t is supposed that
each mistook the other for a SNUG
sler
Logan was son OF the late Major
I. H, Logan, OF the United States
army, and a brother of the wife of
Captain Frank E. Wickham, Twelfth
infantry, United States army ;, sta
TONED at Governors Island, N. Y.
Jones was a railroad man. He lived
at San Anetnio and Houston, Tex,
before entering the cnatoms service.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-27
t7s. goo Names TO Petition

Kew -YoEk March 21--'Tne commit
teeApp otntbd BY the American Associ-
atfon, OF Masters, Mates and Pilots to
get signatures for the petition to Pres
ident Roosevelt to pardon Captain
Van Shaich, sentenced to ten years
imprisonment as a result Of THE Slo
cum disaster, reports 175 .0001 sigma
lures thus far. Captain van Schaick
was in command of the Siocum when
that steamer was burned and ! thou
sand lives leEt
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-27
slsna Extraditlon Parers

Mexico City, March 21-Etradition
papers in. the case of William F: Walk
er. the former New Britain, Conn. ),
banker, have been signed by Presi-
dent Diaz, and are now enroute to En-
ssnambia. The prisoner will be
surrendered to the United States au-
thorities Immediately upon their ar
rival. '
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-27
Escapes from Siberia /.

st. Petersburg, March 19-It is re-
ported here that Mile. Maria Spiridon-
iovo, who was exiled to Siberia two
years ago for the murder of the chief
of police of Tambov, has escaped and
is now in either Australia or New
Zealand.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-27
Shot Self Ihrounh Head.

Pavo, Ca, March 20-R. e. Dixef
thirty-five years of age, doing live
business at Barwick. s miles fro
here, committed suicide Wednesq
morning by shooting himself witN
pistol. - The ball entered the temp
going through the head and lodging
the bed clothing.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-27
A DANGEROUS CARGO.
salIors Refused to Ship on : Vessel
Containing Load of Dynamite. IL

Philadelphia, Pa. March 21r Fifteen
members of the crew of the British
steamship .Kiora, loading dynamite at
Thompson. Point, n. j., for the. CON
strucfon department Of the Panama
canal left the vessel Friday and no
amount of persuade could induce
the seafarers to return to duty
They claimed that the Kiora in a
floating mine and that going to sea
with such a dangerous c7rgo meant
death If any accident should occur.
Fifteen new men were shipped and
the Kiora proceeded for Colon.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-27
confHderate Veteran Dies

baltimore, Md, March 19-Colonel
BERT Hough, confederate veteran
well known to horse owners all
K3uEhoIt the east, died Wednesday
E1t, aged sixty-seven. He was one
of the founders of and formerly Sec
retary of the Pimlico Driving club.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-27
Appointed Governor cenrraI.

London, March 19.-Tne Earl OF
Dudley has been appointed governor
general of the commonwealth of Au-
stralia in succession to Sir Henry Stat
ford Northcote, whose term is about
to expire.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-27
To Dam the Savannah River

Washington, March 19-Representa-
tive Wyatt Aiken, of South Carolina.
has introduced in the house a bill to
authorize Hugh MeRae & Co., to con-
struct dam across the Savannah riv-
er from point in Blbert county, Ca. i,
to a point in Abbeville county, s.. G.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-27
Troops Attack Revoltino Natives

Troops Attack Revolving Natives.
Lisbon. March 20.-An official diI
patch has been received here to the q
feet that Portuguese troops made &
attack upon the revolving natives /.
Jafuneo and Aegene In Portuguese
Guinea and destroyed the town
VarelIa.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-27
Instructed for Cannon.

Litchfield H., March 19.-The re-
publican convention of the twenty-first
congressional district held here, elect
ed delegates to the Chicago cOnven-
ton and instructed them for Joseph
G.. Cannon for president.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-27
sixtx Horsea burned.

Chicago, March 20.-The livery Darn
of E. Sickles was destroyed by fire
OF unknown orinig early Friday. The
IN the SIS, 900. Sixty horses perished
in tire flames. The fire is supposed
to have started in the hay loft.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-27

Montgomery, Ala, March 19.-Rob-
ert Long, aged seventy nine, and his
wife, aged eighty-one, died within q
short time of each other at Luverne
and were buried in the same grave
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-27
NIGHT RIDERS KILL.
First Murder by Them in Blue
Grass Regiog.
FARMER is SHOT DOWN


Returned a volIey and He Fell Dead
In His Wife's Presence. e i;
Carlisle, KY, March 21.-A band
OF night riders early Saturday morn
Ing shot and killed Harlard Hedges,
q prominent farmer. seven miles
northwest Of this place. !.
This rs the first murder by the night
riders in the ''blue grass" region of
Kentucky.
Hedges was awakened by shouts
shortly before o'clock. Apprehend
Ing trouble, he went to Ids front door
With shotgun and fired once.
r. The night Elders replied with vol
ley, which killed Hedges just as his
wife reached his side
The masked men then rode rapidly
away, and did not attempt to set fire
to Hedges house or barn.
Hedges is an independent tobacco
farmer, and is widely known over the
county.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-27

-
mopolitan replies. that If these prac-s
tices are allowed to go on the trunk.
line rates will be completely upset and
asks the commission to, investigate, l
No Defense For Pettibone.
After the trial of George A. Petit
bone ut Boise. Ida. for completely In
the Steunenberg murder had been ad-
journed one day on account Of the ex-
treme illness of the defendant the tax
ing of evidence came to sudden and
unexpected end Dec. 81 when Judge
O. FL. Hilton. counsel for the defense
In place of Darrow. who retired on lac
count of illness, proposed that the case
be submitted to the jury without argu-
ment. The state asked for the courts
Instructions.
Oklahoma Destroys Beer
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-27
Steamer Burned to Waters Edge.

Barcelona, March 20.-The Spaniss
steamer Isle De Panay, Captain Aged
from Manila Feb. Is, for Liverpool
via Colombo, Feb. 2S, with a caref
Of tobacco and coocanurs on board, pit
in here Friday with fire raging Il
her holds and was burned to. the wd
ter's edge. The crew was saved.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-27
Emperor,s Maanificent Grown.

} The crown worn by the Austrian
emperor, which is regarded as one Of
khe finest works of European gold
Bmiths contains over 100000 worth
pf gold and jewels
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-27

We want your dollar; you wai The
news. Lets trade.
The daily tribune., 1908-10-13

was started several months ago. I'm.
meidately after being pardoned, Jenk-
ins was given employment at Morley.
a short distance from where the con-
vict's camp is now located
xr. -
What is believed to be one of the
biggest cases Of cattle rustling ON rec.
ord has been unearthed after syste
matte efforts by the Gunnison County
Stock Growers association. Philip
Pressle1 of Mount Carbon and his
hired man Felix White, a Mexican
have been arrested by Sheriff Watson
and brought to Gunnison charged
with the crime. An old mining shaft
eighty feet deep near the Pressler
home, was discovered filled almost to
the brim with hides, The sheriff
and posse of cattlemen who made the
arrest we're stopped by Kasper Press
ler, brother Of Philip, but he was
oyerpowered before he could get his
Winchester into play.
The daily tribune., 1908-10-13
PUEBLO ODD FELLOWS
WANT STATE Meeting

Large delegations Of members q
, the local lodge l. o. o +. and repre'
sentative business men of Pueblo will
attend the meeting of the grand lodge
L. o. o. f. which convenes in Gree
lev one week from tomorrow and
make a grand united effort to bring
the next meeting of the grand lodge
to Pueblo in 1909.
Practically all arrangements have
been made by the local lodges to cap
ture this important meeting. Buttons
of beautiful and attractive design
have been obtained and the Pueblo
delega tion will distribute these
among the hundreds of delegates ex.
pected at the Greeley meeting.
For some weeks the local lod ges
have been making preparations not
only to capture the 1909 meeting but
also TO entertain the large number OF
delegates who wi II attend the meet
ing. Already fund has been raised
for this purpose.
Pueblo will have competitor fol-
the 1909 meeting as Boulder has an
nounced that that city Is anxious for
it. However, local members OF the
- - -lasai II confident that Puel los
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claims will be recognized aud that
Pueblo will secure the meeting. 1t Ia
expected that at least $500 persons
will attend the next years. meeting.
This gear Greeley expects to enter.
tain 2, 900 delegates Last year when
the meeting was held in Salida there
was registered attendance of i.76o
members. The grand lodge meeting
was held in Pueblo in 1890. Pueblo
Chieftain.
The daily tribune., 1908-10-13
state Neps

The Independence party of Conejos
county held convention there and
put full Independence ticket in the
field.
The body of John ID. Sullivan, who
WAS drowned in front of party of pic
nickers yesterday at CleDwood
Springs. has not as yet been recover.
cd although several charges of dyna-
mite have been fred in an attempt to
raise the body out of the river.
Matte Triplett and Ethel Malchone,
the two runaway school girls of Monte
Vista, who are accused of stealing a
large quantity of wearing apparel,
had their preliminary hearing and
were bound over to the next term Of
district court. Their bonds were fix.
ed at 800 which was secured. and
the girls returned to their homes in
Monte Vista.
Xxx
While number of worKmen were
digging for gas main at Grand
Junction they unearthed twelve
watches, seven of which were solid
gold. They had evidently been
buried years ago by some one who
failed to return for them. They
had been wrapped in red bandanna
handkerchief and this had completely
rotted away.
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was perhaps fatally injured by the
explosion Of a kerosene lamp. She
had just lighted a lamp, and had
turned away when 1t exploded. Her
clothing caught fire. and it was only
through the heroic efforts Of mum.
bre Of neighbors that she was saved.
The long talked Of excursion to the
Clear Greek reservoir from which
the La Junta Land company has ar.
ranged for It's water supply, left La
Junta with over 100 persons abroad.
The object of the trip Is to demon
strate that the land company will ba
in a position to furnish water sniff
cient for the irrigation of its 10, 000-
acre tract lying east of that city.
While Superintendent Ambrose
Allen, of the Holly Sugar company
fruit farm WAS going home in
wagon, the horse he was driving
became frightened and ran away
throwing him oit. The prongs OF q
pitchfork were run into his head, and
he was picked up later unconscious.
He was Immediately taken to his
home and physician summoned.
Little hope is held out for his recov-
cry.
Eighteen thousand dollars In srecie
was distributed among the employees
of the American Smelling and Re-
fining company at Coke dale. being
the pay for the month of September.
This is the largest payroll in several
months at the camp. and in short
time it is stated that the payroll will
be as large as it has ever been before.
Unusual activity is being shown in
the camps of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron company and the Victor Fuel
company.
E. j. jenkins, colored, convict No.
5452, serving term of ten to fifteen
years for manslaughter, was pardoned
by Governor Henry A. Buchtel, the
act being in line with the governor 8
policy to pardon convict on each
legal holiday. jenkins was sent up
from Pueblo in May, 1905. He has
been model prisoner. and has been
a member of the road gang on the
The daily tribune., 1908-10-13
DISSOLUTION OF PARTNeRIHIP,

Notice is hereby given that the
firm of Taylor and Evans is dissolved.
All accounts due the firm will be col
lected by W. 9. Taylor and all bills
against the firm will be paid by him.
34.37.
The daily tribune., 1908-10-13
DIR. X. O. sAPERo

The Denver eye. ear, nose and throat
specialist can be seen at the Lennox
hotel. Florence, We'd Oct. IA Con-
sultation free.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-06-02
BY A VOTE OF 43 TO 22
Currency Bill Passes Senate and Con-
dress Adiourns

Washington, June 2.-The first ses.
sion of the SiXtieth congress has ad-
journed, following the passage of the
compromise currency bill by the SEN
ate.
The senate was extremely quiet dur
ing the closing hours, held together
only by the necessity of remaining in
session for the engrossing and sign
ing of bills.
The last days of the senate will be
memorable on account of the filibus-
ter of Messrs. La Toilette, Stone and
Gore against the emergency currency
bill, by the remarkable interpreta-
tions of the rules which go far to es-
tablish cloture in a body noteworthy
for the freedom of debate and by the
final passage of the currency bill
The senate adopted the report of
the conferees of the two houses of
congress on the Aldrich-Vreeland
emergency currency bill by the de-
cisive vote of 43 to % and thus was
taken the last congressional step nee
es sary toward the enactment of emer-
SShCy CuII6lCy I6SlSIdtlOl, the IeBlS
lation toward which congress has di-
rected its principal effort since it con-
vened last December.
The emergency law is q composite
affair growing out of the differences
between the two houses of congress
and between two different views pre-
vailing in the financial world The
leading feature of the Aldrich bill, as
1t passed the senate, providing for a
bond secured currency, is retained and
the leading provision of the Vreeland
bill, based upon commercial paper or
other securities, approved and guaran.
teed by an association of not less than
ten national banks, Is also retained.
In other words, there are two systems
under which emergency circulation
can be obtained. The Nelson amend
ment, providing for the payment of In
terest by the banks on government de-
posits, is also retained.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-06-02
RECESS APPOINTMENTS.
Wagner of South Dakota Among the
Names Announced.

Washington, June 2.-President
Roosevelt has announced the follow
Ing recess appointments:
Oscar r. Hundley, to be United
States district Judge for the Northern
district of Alabama; John e. Safer, to
be United States district judge for the
Southern district of Ohio, and Edward
q. Wagner, to be United States attor
ney for the district of South Dakota.
These appointments were among
ifty nominations not confirmed by the
senate at the session just closed.
Among other nominations not con-
firmed by the senate were those of
forty-two postmasters and the follow
ing:
z. Lewis Dalby, Indian inspector;
Newton Dwight Purdy, United States
district judge for the district of Min
aesota Nathan Fl. Alexander, register
G the general land office at Montgom-
cry, Ala.
The nomination of Mr. Purdy was
doomed to fail for confirmation in the
senate from the day II was made. Mr.
Purdy was nominated by the president
without consulting the Minnesota SEN
ators, to whom he was not especially
obnoxious, but they considered that
hey had a right to be consulted.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-06-02
MURDERER Is CAPTURED.
Young Man Who Killed Woman ir
Church Behind the Bars.

Fond du Lac, Wis, June 2.-Grant
Poole. who shot and killed Mrs. e. H.
Orvis at the Methodist church at Oak
field as the congregation dispersed
from the morning services, was cap
tured by farmer named Morgan near
the village of Ladoga, eight miles from
Oakfield. Poole was turned over 20
officers and was at once brought to
this city and landed in jail.
Poole has been madly in love with
Grace Orvis, the daughter of the dead
woman, and his attentions toward her
| have not been countenanced by the
family or the young woman.
Five years ago Poole tried to com.
NIT suicide by shooting himself, but
was prevented. He was arrested and
sent to the state hospital at Oshkosh.
He was at that institution for three
years and was then paroled. He went
home and since then has worked on
his fathers farm. He was a visitor
to the village every night, remaining
| there with relatives.
Miss Orvis was employed in the
bank at Oakfield and Poole hung about
that Institution great deal, seeking
to renew his attentions to the young
woman.
His victim was fifty years old and a
| daughter of Abel Bristol, the banker
| Grace, the daughter, is twenty-one
The Orvis family is prominent in the
| county and Mrs. Orvis was the social
| leader of the village and highly re
| spected.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-06-02
CHOSEN BY SECRETARY ROOT
Commissioners to Represent United
States at Toxic Exposition.

Washington, June 2.-Secretary
Root has decided on the personnel Of
the commission to represent the Unit
ed States at the ToAio exposition in
1912. The commissioners general will
be Francis B. Loomis, former assist
ant secretary of state; Frederick j. v.
Skiff, director of the Field museum in
Chicago, and Francis d. Millet, the
well known artist.
The first work of the commission
after its formal appointment, which is
expected to be made within a few
days, will be sthe selection of secre-
tary and other clerical assistants.
Many applications are on file for the
position of secretary and each has
numerous endorsements The recon-
mendation of the commissioners will
undoubtedly be followed in filling this
place. Upon good authority ii is pre-
dicted that the appointment will go to
John Callan O'Laughlin, a well known
newspaper writer of this city.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-06-02
FAIRBANKS IN RACE TO STAY
His Name viii Be Presented to Chi
cago Convention.

Indianapolis, June $50 many
false and misleading statements re-
garding Vice President Fairbanks
candidacy have been and are being
made that Senator Hemenway author
tzed the following statement:
THE purpose of these reports is
obvious and should not be given
credence. Vice President Fairbanks
name will be pres ented to the Chicago
convention for the presidential nom
ination. Any report or intimation be-
tween now and the assembling of the
convention at Chicago, from whatever
source 1t may be attributed, that any
variation will be made from Vice Pres
ident Fairbanks present position may
be put down as absolutely untrue"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-06-02

whose custody he is held. The prin
cipal point involved was whether
Pierce is really charged with crime
and Justice Moody said:
This court has said that an indict-
ment in order to constitute sufii icient
charge OF crime to warrant interstate
extradition need show no more than
that the accused was substantially
charged with crime. This Indictment
meets and surpasses that standard
and is enough. If more were required
1t would impose upon courts in the
trial of Srits of habeas corpus the
duty of a critical examination of the
laws OF the state, with whose jurispru.
dence and criminal procedure they
can have only federal acquaintance
Such duty would be an intolerable
burden, certain to lead to errors, irri-
table to the just pride of the state and
fruitful of miscarriages of justice.
The duty ought not to be assumed un-
less it is plainly required by the Con-
stitution and, in our opinion, there is
nothing in the letter or the spirit c
that instrument which requires or per-
Mits it's performance.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-06-02
BENCH WARRANTS ISSUED
Men Involved In Cotton Leak Scandal
Wanted in Washington.

Washington, June 2.-Bench war
rants were issued here for Theodore
III. Price of New York, a cotton oper
ator; Il. S. Holmes, Jr., former statis-
tician of the department of agricu.
ture Moses Haas and Frederick A.
Peckham, both of New York, charging
them with conspiracy. The warrants
are in the government cotton report
leak cases and were issued for the
New York men for the purpose Of
causing their arrest and return TO
this Jurisdiction for trial. All four
men were indicted here Friday.
Assistant District Attorney Adkins,
who has the case In charge for the
government, stated that the regular
routine of getting a prisoner to this
jurisdiction will be carried out, but II
is thought probable that Mr.. Price
can qualify in bail in New York city
to answer to the charge pending here
when called upon.