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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-27
A HAND WRECKS
ITALIAN STORE

New York. Feb. 26.-An Italian bomb
explosion, similar in character to many
which have taken place in this city
within a year occurred in Brooklyn to-
day when Peter Locates music store,
in Morgan avenue, was wrecked.
Locate had received many socalled
blackhand letters, but, having refused
to pay for immunity, his store first was
blown up last spring. In December
last another bomb was left on the stoop
and the doors and windows were demol-
ished Since then he has received sew
eral letters demanding money, but has
ignored them. resulting in the third
mysterious attack today. Locate, his
wife and three children, who occupied
rooms in the rear of the store, escaped
With slight injuries.
Immediately following the murder of
Girolano Celia, a we'll known Italian
merchant, last night, today's crime is
regarded as evidence that the black
mailers and murderers whose crimes
have been aimed chiefly at italians.
have beer made holder by the contin-
ued inability of the police to detect and
punish them.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-27
GIRL BASKETBALL
FANS ARE KILLED

Spring Valley, N. ", Feb. 26-A foam
speclsed pair of horses that tore through
the streets dragging behind them a
splintered wagon pole brought to this
village the first news of a grade cross
ing accident in which nine members
of it's most prominent families were
either killed outright or frightfully in
jured. The runaways brought UP at
the livery stable of Geo. Young, from
whom they had been hired the night
before to take a party of young men
and girls to a basketball game at
NSack.
Returning in the early hours of the
day the w~agonload of merryfnakers
was run dow at West Nyack cross
ing by an Ontario & Western express
train. Fou of the party We're instantly
killed, two died while being removed
to the Hudson county hospital at Ho-
boken, N. j., and the other three lie
in a serious condition at that institu-
ton.
The dead:
GEO. REITH, aged 80, assistant SUI
p~erintendent of the telephone Office and
of the Spring Valley basket
ball team.
NELSON MAY, aged 10, who drove
the team.
BERTHA SINGER, aged IS.
EDITH SINGER, aged 20.
GEO. SHINN, aged 80, a basketball
player.
JEANNETTE PALMER. aged q.
The injured:
Warren Palmer, 90 year old, condi-
ton serious.
Henry Dietrein, aged % years, bas-
ketball player; will probably recover.
Mary Edith Bird, Is years, condition
critical.
The responsibility for the accident is
in dispute. The survivors cannot be
questioned as yet. and the only other
witness was the crossing gate tender.
He claims that the team was driven
through the lowered gates. The gate
on the side of the approach was broker
down, but the opposite gate vas intact,
and il previously lowered must have
been hurdled by the frightened horses
after the Wagon had been struck and
torn from its pole. The animals were
uniniured.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-27
LUMBER KING DIDN'T
WANT TO BECOME 1
TRUST EMPEROR
T. w. Walker Declined to Form
Combination to Control
Output Of Forests.

Minneapolis, Mimi, Feb. 24.-Content to
be simply the largest individual owner OF
timber in the world, Il. b. Walker the
Minneapolis millionaire lumberman. has
rejected the opportunity to become the
trust emperor of the world-to be greater
even thar John d. Rockefeller, commonly
termed the richest man In the world, and
at that only a trust king" ruler Of a
kingdom which would be puny compared
with the empire of lumber over which Mr..
Walker might have re!gned.
Mr.. Walker disclosed this fact. at the
same time declaring he did not believe in
trusts. though characterizing John D.
Rockefeller, creator of the Standard OIL
trust, az zone of the best citizens Of the
United States honorable, just and
square"
For the first time, too. the fact was
Brought out that, whatever Mr.. Walkers
view of q lumber trust may be, he is him
self the greatest of humber kings. For he
was introduced before the Minneapolis
Clerks as "the largest individual owner of
timber in the world and his statements
as to his position in the lumber world all
went to support the assertion.
Mr.. Walker said that he is not a believer
IN trusts, and that, should there ever be
an attempt to form a lumber trust, he
would break up the combination. Such a
trust would. without doubt, be one of the
most powerful in the country" he said.
1T would be capitalized at 5000. 00O. 900, as
against $1ee, 0oe, 900 for the oil trust. But 1
have always maintained that If such a
move were made l would break up the
combination. l control enough timber
lands to make such a combination impos-
sible in case I antagonize it. ] have been
approached and asked to form and become
the manage of such q trust, but ] have
declined
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-27
BILLICK'S ACCUSER
ADMITS He LIED

Chicago, Feb. 25.-It was announced
today that a sworn confession had beer
obtained through the instrumentality OF
Rev. p. J. O'Callaghan, head of the
Paulist fathers of this city from Jerry
M. Vrzal, age is, whose testimony in a
great measur served to convict Her.
man Billik, the Bohemian fortune tell
er, in which Vrzal declared the evil
dence given by him was simply per.
jury.
Billik is under sentence to be hanged
March 20, the supreme court having
just affirmed the judgment Of the trial
court.
In the purported confession. young
Nrzal not only impugns his own testi-
mony but declares two of his relatives
falsified on the witness stand. In an
affidavit the boy states that all of the
vital part of the evidence he gave
against Billik was perjury, taught him
by a high police official and an assistant
states attorney, and specifically name:
these men.
Father O'Callaghan has been inter
ested in the case for some time; and has
repeatedly expressed his belief in Billik's
innocence.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-27
EDUCATIONAL BILL
is

London, Feb. ga new c~ducational
bill was introduced in the house OF
commons today by Reginald McKcnna,
president of the board of education.
The bill! regulates conditions under
which the public money may he ap-
piled in aid of elementary education in
England and Wales. The house of
was crowded for the occas-
ion.
The new measure IS not as contet-
tious as Birrells educational bill Of
1906, which the house of lords threw
into the waste paper basket without
ceremony. Two main principles en-
bodied in the rev bill are there shall
be complete public control of @lenen-
tary schools by locally elected bodies.
There shall be no denoIninaticnai tests
in appointment of teachers.
In speaking Of the bill, Mr.. Nc
konna said the failure to pass the
ministerial proposals would give most
powerful impetus to the movement 20
secure total abolition of religious W.
structiUn in the schools.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-27
THE TWO lLIPINOS
INTERESTING MEN

washington. Feb. 26.-The two new
Filipino cofnsiissioaess-ia washington
to whom the privileges of h floor OF
the House have been granted. ana
Herewith the right to ensconce them
selves in offices In the House ofnce
buildings, are persons of deep interest,"
to Washington. They arc Ocompo de
Leon and M. LIE Garda, both of
and both representing the highest grade
of Filipino intelligence and develop
ment.
NJ. LIE Garda is one of the wealthiest
men in the archipelago, and before ne
came to Washington as commissioner
had a good many friends among h
members of congress-, eau he had
entertained at his magnificent nome in
Manila numbers of visiting American
statesmen. Among these, he numbered
as his friends and one-time guests
Representative Longworth and wife,
then Miss Roosevelt. The LIE Garda
home was one of the finest in the far
East. always opened to Americans of
standing, and remembered by them
with the most pleasant recollections.
nj. LIE Garda is probably not the wealth
lest citizen of the islands. but he is
one of a small circle of the men who
have at once great wealth and high
standing among the people. He is re-
garded as a patriotic Filipino despite
that he has prospered under both Span
iSh and American rule, and while he
is interested In maintaining a stable
government he has the confidence of
people who are anxious ultimately to
secure Independence for the islands.
M. LIE Garda's sons are types of the
highest development of the oriental oc-
cidenta1 influences; while he has a
daughter who, in Paris and
used to the ways of Europe, would pass
for n Parisienne in any drawing room.
Her French, Spanish and English are
above SllSnioinn and she iS ynarta 5 tn
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-27
SALESMAN WINS
AN IOWA KEIRESS

Chicago, Feb. 25.-The love of a
bank er's daughter for a travelling sales
man triumphed last night over parental
objection, and in a justice court at
Crown Point, Cupid chalked another
victory to his credit
Miss Augustine Duncombe, daughter
of the president of the First National
bank Of Fort Dodge, Ia. figures as
the heroine in the romance. Her mar
riage to G.. II. wilmington was per-
formed only after the two had over
come innumerable obstacles. Im1nedi-
atcly after the Mrs. Will
ington returned to her home in Fort
Dodge, while the groom came to Chi
cago.
The two met three years ago. The
banker froWned pom the attentions
which Wilmington bestowed upon his
daughter. Several months later the
couple planned to elope. Their ar
rangements were upset by the vigilant
father, who sent his daughter to
Europe. There she remained for two
years, but all the while she Ionged
to return to the United States, so that
she might meet her admirer.
Mr.. Duncombe permitted his daugh-
ter to return home last December, but
she and Wilmington did not meet until
three weeks ago, when she again paid
a visit to friends in ChicaPo.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-27
AIMEE LLOYD, "WOMAN
IN BROWN" COkFESSES

Rochester, Mimi. Feb. 24.-Galled by
the monotonous life in the county Jail
here, where she has been in confine-
ment since October, and welcoming
most anything il 1t were q change from
a situation that has become abhorrent
to her, Aimee Lloyd, who was charged
with a series Of bold forgeries and
swindles upon merchants and other
business men Of Eastern cities as well
as OF Rochester, appeared before Judge
A. Fl. Snow. of the district court. and
pleaded guilty to the Indictment charg-
ing her with obtaining money on a
fraudulent check. She was sentenced
to the state reformatory at ST. Cloud.
She is a woman Of wonderful beauty
and was once socially prominent in
Winona where her family still lives.
Mrs. Lloyd'S resolution to plead gull
ty and begin her term came as a great
surprise to every person connected with
this extraordinary case. No u quail
ihed to receive her plea of guilty was
convened here at this time, but Judge
A. FL. Snow, of Winona. was advised
of the wishes of the fair defendant and
consented to come to Rochester and
hold a special term.
No friend or relative attended Mrs.
Lloyd in court and there were on1y
a few spectators of her humiliation.
have ignored her from the outset no
doubt had its effect in causing her to
plead guilty at once rather than stand
a long trial.
Mrs. Lloyd broke down when sentence
was pronounced and sobbed aloud. She
would make no statement. out her at
tor1ey, Thos. Spillane, aid Mrs.
Lloyd had a good defense. but for fam
lily eason l could not prevail upon her
to use IT."
The woman now admits that the man
Albert whs called on her in Jail, is her
husband. lie has apparently forsaken
her.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-27
MARYLAND BREAKS
WORLD RECORDS IN
WORKMANSHIP

San Francisco, Feb. 24.-The record o
the recent target practice at Magdaleno
bay shows that the Maryland made two
worlds records with three-inch and six
inch guns. Out of 1855 shots per minute
with the three-inch guns the MaryIand'i
men made 1865 hits per minute, a perfec
record of LEGO per cent without a single
miss. This is the highest score ever made
will this particular gun. The MARYLAND
not only carried off individual records
but also led in the highest score made
among all ships.
The range measured about ZOO yards
and the men were obliged to train their
guns on canvas targets 12x20 feet in siZ,
and checkered in black and white squares
Six cruisers participated in the shoot. IL
the final score the following percentage.
were attained:
Maryland, $3.50; Tennessee, ss.24: Colo.
ado, 63.6S; Pennsylvania, $3.50: West Vir.
GINA. 90. 20: Washington. $50.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-27
A LINE TO
BREAK RECORDS

Chicago, Feb. 25.-According to Pres
idcnt Earring a record has been made
in the construction of the MilwaulSee's
Pacific coast extension never before
equaIed in the history of railway
building. Mr.. Earring and a party OF
st. Paul officials returned last night
from an extended inspection of new
lines.
In the party was c. A. Goodnow,
formerly general manager of the Alton
and also formerly general s~uperintend-
ent Of the ST. Paul road. 1t is under
stood that Mr.. Goodnow was to accept
service on the coast extension work.
but Mr.. Earling said that there was not
to be an appointment just yet.
The president of the Milwaukee an
nounced the opening of the line to Lom-
bard or Terry, Mont This Is the place
where the road crosses the Yellowstone
river and near where the Missouri rises.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-27
REX BEACH FIGURES IN
DRAMA OF LIFE

New York. Feb. 2G.--ReX +. Beach,
and novelist, is the central fig
ure In a real life drama as picturesque in
plot and sprightly IN action as the best
products of his pen.
While seated In .he Lambs club two
weeks ago, Mr.. Beach was called to a cab
in front of the club. The occupa intro
duced herself as Mrs. Badenoch, of Chi
cago, and asked him to take a drive. On
the drive they talked of friends and Chi
cago and of Mr.. Beach's literary work.
Three lays later Mrs. Beach received q
telephone message from Mrs. Badenoch
demanding that she be protected from Mr..
Beach's unwelcome attention.
Meanwhile, a stylishly gowncd woman
called upon a well known New Yorker to
request his. services in making public what
she said were the facts about Mrs. Bade-
noch. The woman said:
Mrs. Badenoch is the wife of a promi-
committee to lunch with Rex. r. Beach as
nent western business man. She was grad
uated from a college at Evanston. In col
lege she and her chun We're applicants
for admission to the Alpha Phi society.
The girl who figures now as Mrs.
Badenoch was ordered by the initiation
evidence of her fitness for admission and
her chum was instructed to lunch with
George Ade. Both were totally unknown
to the girls.
My friend failed in the stunt but was
initiated.
Later she married and q few weeks ago
started east from Chicago with her hus-
band. At Cleveland he was recalled by a
business telegram and she came on alone
to the Hotel Aston. Foolishly. she regis
tered as Mrs. B%adenoch. using tile name OF
her brothers college chum.
Then she thought Of that old. unful-
filled soroity stunt, and decided that it
would be fine to lunch with Beach after
all, and then tell the girls about 1t at the
next Alnha Phi meetInw.n
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-27
DISEASE"
LATEST MALADY

New York, Feb. 26.-'The gasoline
driven automobile has added a new
disease to the woes of civilization
a disease which may cut ten years
off the life of persons afflicted. I would
call il the automobile disease and
have discovered that not only in New
York. in streets fr~equented by such
motor cars. but in Paris, London n
Berlin Il exists also"
DR.. Henry Becker. physician. made
this statement after conducting tests
for nearly a year on patients suf-
fcring from the new malady. which af-
fects the tissues of the throat and
lungs, causing congestion and decay,
and giving a working ares for the bac-
cili of consumption, pneumonia, grip
and other affections peculiar TO the
respiratory organs.
The doctor attributes the disease to
the fumes from gasoline.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-27

Washington, Feb. 24.-The sentence
Of Genera Stoessel is regarded by
American military officers as the
logical consequence, both of the sur
render Of Port Arthur n Russian
military discipline.
That the sentence is justified Is the
generally expressed belief. The con-
sensus OF opinion is that Port Arthur
was surrendered prematurely. Tie con-
s~iderations which entered into the mill
tary problem which General Stoessel
had to face are summed up here as en-
bracing a choice between standing out
to the last ditch, and in that way
keeping the besieging army engaged
and not free to strike at another point,
and surrendering the ultimate
result was apparently hopeless.
The American articles of war pre-
scribe death as the penalty for exactly
such conduct Such a sentence, how
ever, has never been carried out In this
country, although 1t was imposed in the
case of General William Hull, who sur
rendered Detroit in the war of 1872.
General Hull was subsequently cash
tered in lieu OF the sentence because
OF his previously excellent record.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-27
%gdEaMSE4
GAS KILLS
BELMONT'S DAUGHTER

New York, Feb. 25.-Mrs. William
u BufueII, wfi6%Twn 1shtfta
lRives, daughter of O.. HI. r. Belmont
and q society favorite In New York.
Newport and Washington, we g
dead In bed at hen Fifth home.
Death, the coroner decided. was acct-
dental M due to gas poisoning Ada
connected gas tube,gWhich had led from
q chandelier to a8drop light. so placed
that Mrs. Burden might 81 while
flow Of gas that filled the room and es-
Gaping into the hall finally attracted
the attention OF the servants.
Mrs. Burden was % years of age and
since her marriage on April AZ, 1907,
she and her husband had been occupy
father, the late James A.. Burden, at
eos Fifth avenue. The discovery of her
death threw the household into con-
fusion, and when the facts became gem
orally known created a sensation In h
social set to which theB Burdens belong.
Goodnight"
Mr.. Burden had spent the night In
another part OF the house and earned
Of his wife's death from the servants.
who had entered her room at 10 o'cloc
in the morning. Entering the house at
IL o'clock at night, Mr.. Burden had
noticed that q light wa stu burning ~
his wife's room, and passing the door
called out, Goodnight" Mrs. Burden
responded, Goodnight" in a tone that
indicated that she was In her usual
health and spirits.
Mrs. Burden had been In the habit Of
reading after retiring and this practice
recently led her to have q gas reading
lamp placed in her room. This stood
on q stand conveniently near the head
Of the bed. At 10 o'clock, Mrs. Burden
leaving directions that she be called at
10 o'clock in the morning, dismissed her
maid and settled herself in bed with q
book. The greeting OF her husband an
hour later was the last heard from the
room.
Passing through the hall on her way
to Mrs. Burdens room on the second
floor in the morning the maid detected
the odor OF gas n hastily entering
the chamber u her mistress dead
The room was Allied with gas, though
q window was open several inches FROM
from the rubber tube direct into the
lead woman's face. Mrs. Burdens
physicians, DR.. Finnicutt and DR.. II. II.
M. Lyle, were summoned, and they In
turn notified the coroner. The latter's
investigation showed that the tube had
been disconnected from the lamp. Hav-
ing apparently become drowsy Mrs
Burden had reached from her bed and
turned of the lamp cock instead OF taxi
ing the trouble to get up n shut OIL
the gas at the chandelier Jet. In SONS
undetermined the tube became
loosened at the lower end and, slipping
off the feed pipe Of the lamp, laid In
such a position that the flow of poison
GUS gas was directed in the sleeperS
face.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-27
DUMPING GROUND
OF ALL CRIMINALS

New York, Feb. 25.--That New York
is a dumping ground for the criminals
OF Europe and that immigration au-
thorities are to blane for this fact. is
the opinion of Police Commissioner
Bingham expressed in an interview.
we have had records Of SO Italian
criminals" said Mr.. Bingham, which
would exclude them from this country,
or once here should bring about their
deportation. Out of these SO only six
have been deported, Notwithstanding
the fact that the police have been ready
to furnish the immigration officials at
all times with information to keep out
and SEND out of the country these ha-
bitual criminals.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-27
JAMES j. HILL
WINS LAW SUIT

Washington, Feb. 26.--Thc caac Of
Clarence II. Nenner, versus the Great
Northern railway ard James j. Eill.
which was begun by Venner to compel
Hill TO account for and pay over 10
Nenner and other stockholders the
cause, as alleged, these holdings had
been impaired by the joint effort of the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
Railroad companies in 1900 to obtain
control of the Burlington railroad. was
decided by the supreme court of the
United States today gains Eerner.
Venue charged Hill had engineered The
merger for his own personal benefit.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-27
CARNEGIE GIVES S1,1co
FOR NEW PIPE RGA

Baskerville. la. Feb. 24-The trustees OF
the Methodist church met in the old
church Thursday evening and signed a
contract with the E.stey Organ company.
presented by their representative from
Vermont. MIR. Neaiy, for a pipe organ to
cost 200.
Andrew Carnegie. through the efforts OF
the pastor here. has Goaated 81 LOO toward
the new organ.
The organ will be installed in the new
SIS. 900 brick chrrcs, which is nearing com
pletion and which viM be Dedicated in
about SIX weeks.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-27
HERMIT LEAVES BIG
PILE OF WHISKY JUGS
FOR HIS URN

Columbia, Mo, Feb. 25.-James w
Turner, a hermit farmer living six miles
from here, who frequently declared he
wanted a monument built of whisky
Jugs is dead.
on his farm is an abandoned cor,
crib almost filled with empty whisky
jugs, that Turner Isl said 70 have crnp
tied himself duri"g tWenty years ano
which he saved for his monument. T..
is averred that he drank not less thar
a quart OF whisky u day for 20 years
He was A5 years of age. lie owned {
well stocked farm of $50 acres on which
he lived the life OF Il reciuse
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-27
VETERAN POLICE TAKE
WATER TEST" PROVES
TOO MUCH FOR THEM

Chicago, Fee. 26.-Thlrty-seven old
timers of the Chicago police force took
the water test and went through some
other stunts at the Robert Waller baths
to show whether they We're physically
fit. AS Il result all but two or three Of
The men, all OF whom are over 62 years
old, are TO be retired on half pay. Or.
w. A. Evans, commissioner of health,
conducted the examinations. The old
policemen thought the test was fool
ish. hard and an u~ugrateful return for
long years of service. Most of them
had served % years or more.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-27
CARS COUSIN WAS
TARGET OF PLOT

st. Petersburg. Feb. 25-Onicial an
nouncement was made today by tn,
minister of the interior concerning the
plct which was discovered and frus
tlzted two days ago by the police, the
object of wnich was the assassination
of Grand Duke Nicholas, second cousin
to Emperor Nicholas and Nj. Chtcheg
lobitoff minister OF Justice. The de.
tails correspond to those already given
The official announcement ascribes the
attempt directly TO h social revelu
tisnary party.