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Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-17
HAS. sLEPT4 THREE DAYS.
Ida Desdsienais Suffering from Un.
usual Aiiment at Her Home.

A case Of rather unusual nature Is
that of Miss ida Desdelenais. aged ~
years and an employe at tie Edwards
mills, who is Ill at her home. 20 Min
street, and who has been in a deer
slumber for three days. The young
woman went to the mills as Usual Mon
day morning and was later found in
the entry asleep All efforts to arouse
her were futile and she was taken to
her home where she has since remained
in that condition. So ,ss=...-.. -. u
She was able to take little nour-
ishment yesterday afternoon by being
raised up in bed, but showed no signs
of awakening and had not last evening.
The case IS. not considered dangerous
and IT Is expected thAt the patient will
awaken in due time. she is suffering
from what is known as an hysteric
trance, .
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-17
IN GREAT AGONY.
Continued from Page One.)

by poisoning is of sufficient importance
to require an investigation.
Several Bowdoinham people Wednes-
day expressed the opinion that the
person who sold or gave the liquor
which caused his death to Kincaid. is
guilty of criminal offense and should
not be allowed to escape the law. Just
what will be done regarding this new
phase of the question has not been
definitely settled.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-17

Service. There We're 70S casualties to
such craft as sailboats, launches and
row boats, the accidents resulting in a
loss OF six lives. Because of the assist
ance Of the life savers. it is pointed out,
that of s1300O,000 worth of property in
volved in disasters, more than 1000,
900 worth of property was saved. The
life saving establishment now COM
prises $50 stations.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-17

lost when they rolled into the square on
the 9 P. NJ. car, says the Lewiston Jour-
nal. To punish them for their late ar
rival the Lewiston five severely beat them
Ill three strings. Scores ran much low
er than in the game, last week at the
Augusta alleys where both teams rolled
over 1900. Tarr was high man with III
The result gives Lewiston four games ou,
OF the six and completes the series. The
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-17
MARINE DISASTERS
Number 1894 With % Lives and ST.
863,790 in Property Lost.

States In the last fiscal year, resulting
in A property loss of $1,863,79O and the
loss of % lives, according to the annual
report of General Superintendent Kim
ball Of the United States Life Saving
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-17
AUGUSTA LOCALS.

j. H. Cogan went to Boston last
night on business trip.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-17

Canadian Y. c. Withdraws Cha'lsoss
Toronto. Dec. 16-The Royal oauJ ~.
dian club tonight withdrew its c'ls,
lenge to the Rochester facht Ciu. Isa,I
a race for the Canadian cup next -
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-17
CHRISTMAS
SUGGESTIONS
IN THE
CLOTHING
DEPARTMENT

What would make better Christmas Present than Hart
Sclaner Marx Ovcrcoat Rancoat Suit of Clothes
This Famous Make, Fur Coat We have them for Bot
Men and Women in Dog Skn Calf Skin, Coon Skn Possum
etc. Also Fur-Iined Coats and Fur Caps.
FOR OTHER GIFTS WE SUGGEST
Mems Bath Robes, House Coats, Beautiful Ties Silk Hand
kercies Linen Handkerclefs Scarf Pins Cuff Links Fanc
Arm Bands Fancy Suspenders Fur Cloves Fur Gloves
Silk-Lined and Feece-ined Gloves Fancy Hose Silk Um
brellas Grips and Suit Gases.
We recall With Pleasure the Past Years of Satsfactor
Holiday Trading and hope continue merit the Confdenc
of Many Satisfied Customers, and many new ones
We extend to you Hearty Greeting and the Hope that Yo
May Enjoy Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-23
Foreign.

Further reports of the rioting at
Kiahsingfu, town in the province of
Chekiang. China, declare the move.
ment to be anti-foreign.
Henry Farnam. the French aero,
naut, has won the Deutsche archdea.
con prize by making circular kilo-
meter in an airship heavier than air.
While performing an operation on a
child at Birkenfield infirmary at Der.
lin, DR.. Merlin died suddenly from
heart disease. AS there was no other
surgeon present. the child also died.
Laplanders have petitioned King
Gustav Of Sweden for duty-free -four,
as great distress prevails among
them on account Of the wet summer.
About fifty parishes are represented
in the petition. The king has ordered
an investigation to be made.
Following the installation of electric
lighting and heating apparatus. the
Vatican has now installed linotypes in
the papal printing Office. The pope,
who has expressed a desire to watch
the working of the linotype. will pay
q visit to the printing house.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-23
Personal.

J. Gilman Choteau, aged seventy
two years, descendant of the founder
of st. Louis, who was born in 1886 in
the first house erected in that city, is
dead.
Max Scholzhosen, ten years old, liv.
ing at Cleveland, who was blind for
six months, can see again, thanks, his
parents. say, to Mrs. Sarah Tanner,
ooted for her cures by prayer.
Mrs. Ruth Kim, pretty Japanese
widow, has brought suit against Jim
Fook, a Chinaman who runs a restau-
rant in New York, claiming $4,000
damages for breach Of promise.
After having passed the greater part
Of their lives quietly and uneventfully
in an old farm house at Providence,
R. l., Jonathan King and his wife died
together. The wife passed away few
minutes before the husband. In both
cases death was due to old age. Mr..
King was eighty-four years old and
his wife lightweight.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-23
KICK ON CANAL NEWSPAPER.
Question Of Propriety Of Issuing Pub
LEGATION Comes Up in Committee.

lication Comes Up in Committee.
Washington, Jan. 19-The question
of the propriety of the isthmian canal
commission issuing an official news.
paper for the dissemination of infor-
nation about the progress of the work
at Panama caused somewhat lively
discussion in the hearing before the
senate committee on interoceanic ca.
nails yesterday. There was an echo
of the debate in the senate two years
ago, when the literary bureau conduct
ed by James Bucklin Bishop, the pres.
ent editor of the Canal Record, was
roundly scored as a government in.
stitution that had no right to exist,
and which eventually resulted in a
promise to cease publication in the
face of an amendment by Senator Cul.
berson abolishing the bureau. Sena.
tor Culberson yesterday intimated
that the promise had not been kept.
Col. Goethals told why the paper
had been established and said that 1t
was now being run to show the men
on all parts of the line what was being
done at other points.
1T does good" said the colonel, "be.
cause 1t keeps the men Informed OF
official orders and fosters a spirit OF
rivalry as to the amount of work that
is daily accomplished at different
points"
Senator Flint expressed himself as
being entirely in accord with the Ca
nal Record proposition. Col Goethals
promised to deliver to the committee
some figures concerning its cost.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-23
Crimes.

Charles ]. Jackson, an actor and
nephew Of Joseph Jefferson, commit.
ted suicide in his room at the Hotel
Gerard in New York by hanging.
Jackson, who was forty.five years old,
had been out of employment for eight
months, and became respondent when,
after obtaining place in a company,
he was unable to memorize the lines
of his part.
The supreme court of Ohio sentenc.
ed Former Supreme Court Clerk Law.
son e. Emerson to ten days in Jail and
State Senator Austin Of Toledo to ten
days in jail and 500 fine in connec.
ton with the charge Of securing the
EATERS certificate to practice law in
this state without proper examination.
Disappointed at not finding money
after they had broken into a grocery
store in the business district al
Muncie. Ind burglars saturated the
place with kerosene, set fire to It and
then left. The flames were checked
By dremen. .
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-23
walls GUILTY OF sANkwREcklNo
Intensely Dramatic Scene at the Close
Of Trial of Aqed Ejnancjer.

Intensely Dramatic Scene at the Close
Of Trial Of Aged Finaneier.
Chicago, Jan. 21.-John r. Walsh, for
mer president of the Chicago Natioanl
bank, which closed its doors in Decem-
Der, 1905. was found guilty Saturday
on fifty-four counts of the indictment
against him charging misapplication
of the banks funds. The verdict was
returned by jury in the federal dis.
trict court here.
540-year Term Possible.
Walsh was permitted to remain at
liberty under the bond furnished by
him after the indictment had been re.
turned against him one year ago to a
day, pending the hearing of arguments
on Jan. % on a motion by his counsel
for new trial.
The penalty fixed by the statutes for
the offense of which the aged finan-
cier was convicted is Imprisonment
for not less than five years or more
than ten for each count upon, which
his guilt was established. This would
make the maximum $40 years.
Intensely Dramatic Scene.
The reading Of the verdict was fol.
lowed by scene intensely dramatic.
When the jury was polled at the re.
quest of Attorney John S. Miller Of
counsel for the defense, Ebert
Palmer, juryman from Harvard, ILL.,,
was overcome by emotion and wept
as he signified his acquiescence in the
finding
Walsh, the subject of his compass.
sion, who sat at table, surrounded
by his attorneys appeared less moved
by the result of the long trial than al.
most anybody else concerned.
Eight Has Just Begun"
Appealed to for an expression of
opinion as to the finding he said:
THE fight has just begun. 1 have
nothing further to say"
William B. Ridgely, United States
controller, who reached Chicago Satur.
day, declared the government was well
pleased with the result of the trial.
The misapplication of approximately
100000 was the act Of which the
jury found the defendant guilty.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-23
PLOT TO BLOW Up SHIPS:
Brazilian Police Discover Aaarchist
Plot to Destroy Pacific
2 Fleet.

Rio Janeiro, Jan. 21.-The Brazilian
police have discovered an anarchtstic
plot here having as its object the de.
struction of a part of the American
fleet now lying in the harbor. The
conspiracy, while centering In Rio de
Janeiro and Petropolis, has ramifica.
lions In Sac Paulo and Minas Geraes!
An individual named Jean Fedher,
who resided in Petropolis, was the
chief conspirator here, although it is
understood that foreign anarchists
are deeply involved in the plot. Fed.
her is believed to have fled to Sac
Paulo, and the police, who know him,
have been sent to that place for the
purpose of apprehending him. In an
official note which the chief of police
sent to the correspondent Of the Asso.
ciated Press he says:
Police Were Warned.
"Some time before the arrival of the
American feet at Rio Janeiro the Bra.
lillian government received from
Washington and Paris Information
that anarchists of different nationali.
ties intended to damage one or sever
al of the ships of the American feet.
The names and addresses of the con.
spirators we're indicated by informa.
ton which the police here had re.
ceived previously from France and
Germany. The police of this district
are working with the police of Sac
Paulo and Minas Geraes, and am
sure every precaution will be exer-
cised and the most rigorous vigilance
observed both on land and at sea to
prevent any injury being DONE"
PIotters Flee to interior.
The chief of police, after having
made this official statement, said that
he did not feel he should go into any
further details with regard to the con.
spiracy, but he authorized the state.
ment that the plot was organized by
Fedher and he added that the people
of the United States could rest easy,
as all bf the conspjrators had taken
refuge in the interior.
AS yet the people of Brazil are igno.
rant of the details of the plot to do in.
jury to the visitors, although there
has been some slight inkling of the
matter.
On Track Of Malefaetors.
The impression which the exposure
of this plot will create here will be
profound one, because it is the first
anarchistic conspiracy that has ever
been known in Brazil.
The police of Sac Paulo have sent
word that they are on the tracks of
the malefactors, who they declare will
not be able to come to Rio Janeiro.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-23
Judge Takes Request to Exclude
Public From Court Under
Consideration.
ELDER MRS. IhAW TtST|f|ES
Sincerity of Evidence as She Tells Of
Sons Strange Conduct Has
Marked Effect.

New York. Jan. ia series of sur
prises brought the Thaw trial near
crisis yesterday. Both Evelyn Thaw,
the wife, and Mrs. William Thaw. the
mother of the defendant were on the
witness stand, and just as the former
was about to relate anew the story
of her life as she told it to Thaw in
Paris in 1908 District Attorney Je.
rome arose and suggested that in the
interest Of public morals all persons
save those Immediately interested in
the case should be excluded from the
court room during the recital of what
he termed a horrible tale" The no.
tice included the representatives of
newspapers as we'll as the public gen.
orally.
Judge Will Consider.
Attorney Martin w. Littleton of the
defense Joined in it to shield the
young woman from hundreds of curl
GUS eyes. Proceedings were suspend
ed until next Monday morning, when
Justice Bowling, who is presiding,
will announce his decision.
Mr.. Jerome objected to Mrs. Thaw's
detailing conversations she had with
Thaw three years prior to the tragedy,
but Justice Bowling ruled that the
declarations of the defendant were
admissible on general principles.
Then Mr. Jerome attacked the wit
ness in another way, and by standing
Immediately in front of her and OBJ
jecting to practically every question
which Mr.. Littleton asked in his pre-
liminary examination as to her early
history, cut the young, woman's recit-
al from the effective narrative form it
assumed last year into a hundred
fragments.
Ready With Objections.
Many objections, based upon the ir.
relevancy and immateriality, were
sustained by the court. When these
failed the prosecutor was ever ready
with others until the testimony fairly
was torn to shreds and had lost entire.
ly the many little touches of human
interest which were a part of the mar
ration last year.
The day, however, was one of good
progress for the defense. The elder
Mrs. Thaw, pale and weak from her
recent illness, was assisted to the wit
ness chair and repeated a large part
of the testimony she gave year ago.
Her appearance and the sincerity of
her evidence as she told of her sons
strange conduct after meeting Evelyn
Nesbft and hearing her story had a
marked effect upon all who listened
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-23

Thomas q. Robinson, a we'll known
business man and prominent member
Of. the Odd Fellows. committed suicide
at Detroit.
A court-martial at Bokhara has sen.
fenced to death five men who attack
ed the palace Of the ameer, killed the
minister Of finance and carried of
about 100000.
The safe of the Bank of Adair, at
.Adair, ILL.,, was blown open with nitro.
glycerin and $1,000, all of the currency
in the bank, stolen. The robbers es.
capped on hand car.
Mrs. John Hazel Of Toledo was
found dead in her kitchen, lying in a
pool of her own blood. Harvey Hazel,
son, was arrested and confessed
that he murdered his mother because
she refused him money.
Willard H. Myers, who in May, 1904,
absconded with $1,000 in negotiable
securities belonging to the National
Save Deposit and Trust Company of
Washington, walked into police head.
quarters last week and surrendered.
DR.. s. D. Francis, otherwise known
as DR.. Dunn, was arrested in Chicago,
charged with using the mails to de.
fraud. He is alleged to have adver-
tised himself extensively as medical
specialist, guaranteeing to cure Ger.
tain maladies.
Pietro Sarochi, an ironworker, and
his wife Reina quarreled and then
fought duel to the death in their
four-room cottage at Oakland, Cal. He
was armed with a large butcher knife
and she with a razor. After fighting
twenty minutes the husband finally
slew his wife and cut his own throat,
expiring on her dead body.
Furious over the treatment accorded
oy the villain to the heroine in a play
at a theater at Lynn, Mass, George
Munroe jumped on the stage and after
driving the actor who played the part
of villain off the stage, seized the he
roine in his arms and declared he
would defend her. Stage hands at
tempted to drive Monroe from the
stage, but he seized fire AK and re.
fused to leave until he was cverpower.
ed by six policemen.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-23
Casualty.

Five firemen were injured, none of
them seriously. at fire which caused
about 100000 damage in the Forester
& Cheney knitting mills at Detroit.
Mich.
An explosion Of natural gas in the
basement of the big Olivia apartment
hotel at Joplin, Mo-, killed Marvin
Reynolds, seriously injured several
other persons and caused $4,000 dam,
age to property.
John de Lap of Marshalltown, Iowa,
wandered onto the tracks of the Chi.
cago Great Western and was struck by
passing freight train. The pilot
beam struck him on the forehead, cut.
ting an ugly cash and throwing him a
dozen feet. He was not seriously
hurt.
A block Of fve.story tenement build.
ings extending from Ninety-third to
Ninety-fourth streets, on First avenue
New York. and which had been remod
eled for factory purposes and were oc
cupied by half.dozen enterprises
was burned, causing a loss of abou,
100000.
A. c. Coggin of Seattle, state man
ager of the Logan Americans; ]. w
Wesley and John Peters, wealthy
sheepmen of Prosser. left for Durango
Mexico, last March to purchase land
They took along about $4,000. Nc
trace Of them has been found since
last April, though it is known they
reached Durango. It is suspected they
were lost in the mountains or were
4 killed by Indians.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-23
Domestic.

The presidential elections in Hon.
duras will be held on Jan. &C..
The battleship South Dakota has
been ordered placed in commission at
the Mare Island navy yard Jan. 81.
An executive decree issued at Cara.
cas-, Venezuela, annuls the existing
match monopoly and puts an end to
the concession Of the National Match
company. ..
The executive board of the Hard.
wood Manufacturers association has
voted to hold the next annual meeting
of the association in Cincinnati on
Feb. 6 and z next.
William @. O'Brien, until recently
chairman Of the Indiana Democratic
committee. has accepted the appoint.
ment as treasurer of the Democratic
national committee.
The total grain clearings for the
week ending JAM II from Pacific coast
posts amounted to 343,277 bushels OF
wheat, all OF which is consigned to the
United Kingdom from Portland, Or.
Following the action of the White
Star and Cunard lines in cutting rates
the Alien. Dominion and Canadian Pa
cif1c Steamship companies decided tc
make cut in eastward rates in second
cabin and steerage to Liverpool and
Scandinavian points.
Fines of cent each were imposed
by Magistrate Walsh Of New York or
eighty push-cart men arraigned before
him. The strictly nominal amount Of
the fines, the magistrate explained
was in consideration Of the hard times
Most of the prisoners were mechanics
who had taken up peddling because Of
Inability to get work at their trades.
Gov. Post Of Porto Rico, in his mes
sage to the legislature, recommended
the establishment of additional
schools. land reservation, the exten
sion Of wards, increase in salaries O.
judges and the payment of taxes OF
property to municipalities.
Rabies, according to statement o
Health Commissioner Darling Of New
, York, is reaching the proportions of a,
epidemic in that city. There wer,
twenty-nine cases reported las
month. Last year the number o
deaths fro mthe disease was twenty
seven.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-23
BIG NAVAL DISPLAY AT RIO
Torpedo Boat F1otilla Joins Battleships,
Making . Most Picturesque
e Scene.

Rio Janeiro, Jan. 19-The American
battleship feet was Joined yesterday
in the harbor of Rio. Janeiro by the
torpedo boat flotilla, numbering six
vessels, which arrived from Penam.
buco and anchored near the sixteen
battleships.
The scene in the harbor yesterday
was a most striking and picturesque
one. Never before were so many war
ships anchored in this port at one
time. There was the fleet of Brazil.
ian warships, the German cruiser Bre-
men, and finally late in the afternoon
came the six American torpedo boat
destroyers to swell the great fleet.
Nothing occurred to break the abso-
lutte peacefulness of the scene in the
harbor and the enjoyment Of the men
ashore.
Inquiries Cause Surprise.
There was considerable surprise
and not little amusement among the
officers Of the battleship feet, as well
as among the people Of Rio Janeiro,
over numerous inquiries cabled here
from the United States during the
day asking for information regarding
a reported disaster to the battleship
Connecticut. At first the inquiries
were mystifying to those to whom
they were addressed, as the rumor of
a mishap to the Connecticut did not
originate here, and at the time fren.
zied inquiries were being telegraphed
from the United States all the ships
of the fleet were lying peacefully in
the harbor in plain view from the
shore. Finally it became clear that
the rumor of an accident originated in
the United States, had been widely
circulated and occasioned considera-
BILE alarm there.
Sinister ..umor.
New York, Jan. 19:-The above dis
patch from Rio Janeiro thoroughly es-
tsblishes the falsity of sinister ru.
NOR circulated in many American cit.
les yesterday as to grave catastro.
phe to the American feet. The ru.
NOR, originating in INSCRIPTIONS quar-
tiers, was systematically distributed
from Boston to San Francisco, mum.
Der of newspapers being misled into
printing the report, which was not on
ly groundless but was calculated to
excite the gravest alarm among the
friends and relatives of officers and
men aboard the American ships.