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The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
TWO KILLED IN CIRCUS DUEL
Cowboy and Police Captain Shoot
Each Other at Gulfport, Miss.
The Shots Sounded Like One and the
Men Fell Dead Side by Side
in the Ring.

Mobile, A1a.-Two men shot each
other dead in the circus ring of the
Miller Brothers "101 Ranch" Wild
West Show in Gulfport, Miss, and a
riot followed that would have result
ed in many more fatalities if the
Mayor had not rushed large body Of
policemen and constables to the spot.
One Of the duelists was Lon Seely,
a cowboy belonging to the show. The
other was Lee Varnado, captain of
police. Varnado lost his life becauss
he disdained to decline challenge
to fight to the death from Seely after
striking club out of the cowboys
hand in time to save tentman Both
men we're killed instantly. Seely's
bullet entered Varnado's mouth and
came out at the back of the captains
head. The policeman's shot went
through the cowboys eye and trav-
ersed the brain.
Quarrels arose among the show
employees when the outfit was pulling
stakes to leave the town. Seely was
on the point of stunning a tentman
with club when Captain Varnado
rushed up and knocked the weapon
out of his hand The cowboy, cry
ing, "I'll kill you for that!' whipped
out his pistol Varnado took out his
revolver at the same time, and the
two backed to opposite sides of the
ring. The shots sounded like one,
and the men, staggering toward each
other, fell side by side in the centre
of the ring.
A furious attack on the showmen
by the villagers followed. Shots
were fired by both sides. The cow
boys and other show employees stood
about the dead men and repulsed
the attack firmly. So swift was the
Mayors action that the riot was
stopped before any one was hurt.
But the cowboys had to take the
cowgirls and Indian squaws out of
town between two columns, and they
rode on their way with revolvers in
their hands.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27

thrilling adventures I have ever
heard. His companions, two Ameri-
can boys, were killed by the Indians
last January
The Baron described the San Bias
country as being very rich and the
natives warlike. He was certain
there is plenty of gold back in the
mountains, as the Indians traded for
merchandise in gold nuggets, which
had evidently been washed down
some mountain stream. He said that
the difficulties to be encountered in
the San Bias country were very great,
as there were no roads at all, the only
means of travel being by canoes
and navigating tortuous waterways
where an exploring party could be
easily ambushed. In addition to the
Indians there was the malignant
black-water fever to be contended
with.
"The Baron is making monthly ex-
petitions into the San Bias country
on behalf of the Panama Govern
ment to teach the natives how to get
rid of the swarms of locusts that de-
stroy their crops He stays in as
long as his provisions last. He is ac-
companied by his brother, Heidel-
berg student. The baron said it
would be perilous for any white man
to attempt to reach the mountains in
search of the gold, as the natives
have never allowed any strangers to
penetrate into the interior He was
only there on suffrance, and had to
be always on the alert. Their coun-
try is rich in coal and all kinds of
minerals
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
KILLS BRIDEGROOM
ON WEDDING TRIP
Rejected Suitor Shoots His Sue
cessfuI Rival.
TRIES TO MURDER THE BRIDE
Widowed Wife of an Hour Defends
Herself Until Uncle Thrusts His
Thumb Under Pistol Hammer
Professor Van Ingen Killed.

Plaquemine, La.-Three years ago
Miss Mamie Rhorer, daughter of an
ex-Mayor of Alexandria, Tilted Frank
s. Beauvre after having promised to
become his wife.
While the girl and her husband of
three hours were speeding on train
to New Orleans for their honeymoon,
the rejected suitor entered the car,
congratulated the bride upon her
marriage, then drew pistol and shot
the bridegroom dead across her lap.
The man whom Beauvre slew was
F. F. Van Ingen, one of the wealth
lest young planters OF Louisiana.
Beauvre had turned the gun from
Van Ingen and was about to slay the
bride when passengers overpowered
him.
The wedding occurred at Alexan-
dria and was the society event of the
season.
The girl told Beauvre that she re-
jected him for Van Ingen because she
also because he had no Creole
i ACACA UtOOu LII u1S WELLS. DSduVlG
went away without a word.
He was in town, but did not attend
the ceremony. A crowd of friends
saw the couple off for New Orleans,
but they did not see Beauvre Chamber
aboard the same train.
Later in the evening Beauvre went
into the coach where the bride and
groom sat. He took the seat oppo-
site, and leaning across the aisle.
said:
Congratulations to- you DOM.
Thank you," said the bride, with
a smile. "We are very happy"
AS she spoke she turned to her
husband and laid her arm across his
shoulders.
This is too much!" cried Beauvre,
and, pulling the revolver from his
pocket, shot Van Ingen through the
head.
Next he tried to murder the young
widow, who saved herself by plucky
fight until her uncle thrust his thumb
under the hammer of Beauvre's pis-
tol and seized the slayer.
Van Ingen's head fell into the lap
of his bride-widow. and he expired
within few minutes.
Beauvre declared that he only re-
GREETED that he could not send the
false woman" to join her dead hus-
band.
Mrs. Van Ingen, the bride, followed
her husbands slayer from the train.
and was only prevented from attack
ing him by passengers and police Of
ficers.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
G0LC0NDA FOUND in THE CANAL ZONE.
Commissioner Collins, of WasEington c.. Says Life
Is Pleasant and Living Economical at Colon-ndians
Trade i'm Gold Nugsets--Can1blinE Not Popular
All American Games as
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New York Cfty.-After spending
fourteen months on an investigation
along the canal zone regarding the
allegations that have been brought
against certain officials in the employ
of the Canal Commission, J. H. Col
Inns returned from Colon, en- route
for Washington, D. c., to make his
report. He declined to discuss it be-
fore submitting it to the authorities.
Mr.. Collins said last month was a
record one for the amount of money
sent to the United States by men en-
them all in good spirits and fond of
and all kinds of healthy outdoor
sports. Gambling Is not popular nor
drinking to any extent, Mr.. Collins
found, and this had been so marked
during the last year that many of
the saloon and gambling house pro-
prietors in Colon and Panama have
closed up and gone to pastures new.
The health of the employees as a
whole was good, he said, and the
labor conditions at the present time
satisfactory. Excellent food at cost
price is sent down by the Canal Com
mission twice a week for the en-
ployes and theiH families.
''Just before leaving Panama."
said Mr. Collins, Il met Baron Won
Tuber. He was sent out by the
Smithsonian Institution to study the
conditions of the San Bias Indians,
who live in the interior of the Re-
public of Panama, about seventy
miles up the coast on the Pacific
side. He told some of the most
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
The Labor World.

The Mayor of Knoxville, Tenn,
recently appointed three representa-
tives of organized labor to assist in
drafting the new city charter.
The recent Scottish trades union
congress passed resolutions in favor
of old-age pensions, and in favor of
compulsory Intervention in labor dis
putes.
Martin Irons, the leader Of the
great Southwestern railroad strike
of 1885, who died about two years
ago in Arkansas almost forgotten, is
to have monument erected to his
memory.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
JAPAN'S CORDIAL WELCOME.
The Reception of the American Fleet Was Elaborate
and Perfectly Out.

Toxic, Japan.-The reception ac-
corded the American Atlantic fleet by
the Government and people of Japan
is conceded by the American naval
officers to be the heartiest and most
perfectly carried out of the many re-
ceptions received by the fleet since it
sailed from Hampton Roads. Rear
Admiral Sperry said that he was ut
terly unable to say how it had been
accomplished, but that the welcome
given the fleet and it's officers and
men here had been so carefully
planned and carried out to the most
minute details that lasting impression
has been stamped upon the mind of
every American who has witnessed
it.
1t is impossible to doubt the sin
cerity of the Japanese. The Ameri-
can officers and sailors are already
beginning to understand the fact that
the evident desire on the part of the
Japanese for the friendship of Amer
lea is not founded upon opportunism,
but finds it's source in sincere wish
to show that such friendship, at least
on the part of the Japanese, has ex-
listed always, and that this visit of the
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
WORST BLIZZARD IN YEARS
Six Herders Missing and 10000
Sheep Dead in New Mexico.
Fatalities in Northwestern Snowstorm
Many Lives Lost in North Da-
kota-Cattle on Ranges Perish.

Helena, Montana Reports re-
ceived here indicate that the storm
in Northern Montana stands unpre-
cedented for October, so far as sever
ity and loss of life are concerned.
The United States weather bureau at
Havre recorded six inches of snow.
The storm extended all along the
line of the Great Northern, with gales
of seventy miles an hour blowing
In North Dakota an unusual number
of lives were lost among sheep herd
ers and many had narrow escapes.
The remains of a sheep sherder
named Graves, who was frozen to
death, were brought here from Ches-
ter and were prepared for shipment
to his folks in Michigan. J. w. Pow
ers, Of Malta, was caught in the storm
and frozen to death
George Driver, an employe of Pugs-
ley C Simpson, near Wild Horse
Lake, was lost in the storm and his
remains have not yet been found.
His dog, 1t is reported, was found al
most frozen to death.
The storm was accompnied by a
gale that drove the range cattle SO
fences in travelling away from the
storm. Large fiocks of sheep were
lost by the herders, they drifting and
scattering all over the country. Many
hundreds were chilled to death
Santa Fe, N. M-Twenty thousand
sheep. grazing on the Cumbers Noun
tain range in Rio Arriba County, 140
miles north of here, are reported to
have perished in the blizzard which
has ragged in that section during the
last three days.
The storm is the worst in years,
and snow is from five to ten feet
deep. Besides the great loss of sheep
six herders are missing, and it is be-
lieved they were also frozen to death.
Medicine Hat, Saskatchewan.-The
first trains to reach Medicine Hat
since the snowstOrm arrived from the
East Riders got in from the region
stretching south to the United States
border with fearful tales of hardship
created by the storm. William
Mitchell arrived from his ranch, sixty
miles south of here, and reported the
second fatality as result of the re-
cent storm.
Donald Cameron, sheep herder,
with two others, were forced to leave
their sheep to perish and seek safety
for themselves. Cameron, however,
became exhausted and died After
being sixty hours without sleep or
nourishment the other two men
reached a ranch in safety. 1t is
feared that many other herders have
perished. Three thousand sheep
were driven by the storm into Many
Islands Lake and only 800 were saved.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
FORTY FOOT FOSSIL FOUND.
Tyrannos aurus Rex Now FOR American
Natural History Museum.
Complete

New York City.-Dr. Henry Fair
field Osborn, president of the Ameri-
can Museum of Natural History, re-
ceived word from Great Falls, Mon,
that research party from the mu-
scum, headed by Barnum Brown, had
discovered part of the skeleton of the
Tyrannosaurus rex, prehistoric ami
NAL, in the Bad Lands several miles
south of Glasgow, Mon.
The fossil. which is forty feet long
and twenty-five feet high, has per-
feet skull, an entire set of ribs, back
bone and hip girdle and practically
supplements the specimen discovered
in the same section in 1902
Ever since the first fossil of the
''king of the reptiles" as the Tyran-
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27

j. Mara, of Paterson, won the one
hundred yard championship of the
Eastern Y. M. G. A. at willard Park,
Totowa, N. ].
The Boston Globe is Of opinion that
the Cleveland Club pays too much at
tention to picking up outfielders and
not enough to securing competent
pitchers.
Captain Currier of the Harvard
varsity baseball team, announced the
appointment Of L. P. Pieper, 1903,
to be coach of the team next season.
Pieper has served as coach for the
last two years.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27

fleet has merely afforded the Japan
ese an opportunity for that express
sion.
Admiral Sperry was received at
the imperial palace. On the next day
the admirals and captains of the feet
were the guests of the Emperor at
the palace. Admiral Sperry conveyed
to the Emperor a message from Pres
ident Roosevelt. This message
breathes spirit of friendship and
sympathy and expresses keen express
sions of the traditional friendship be-
tween the two nations and an earnest
wish for the strengthening and con-
tinuance of the friendly relations of
the past.
Three thousand sailors from the
American feet were granted shore
liberty daily, and it is remarkable
that Notwithstanding their long con-
finement aboard ship not single diff
ficulty has been reported, bearing out
the statement of Admiral Sperry,
made in one of his speeches here, that
the American sailor of to-day is the
result of that development and edu-
cation which Japan is seeking in
every department of her national life.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
Prominent Peoule.

Hamilton Fish resigned as Assist
ant Treasurer of the United States at
New York
Frank P. Sargent, Commissioner
General of immigration, died in
Washington, D. C.
A rousing reception was given to
Cardinal Gibbons on his arrival in
Baltimore from Rome.
Denman Thompson is seventy-fve
years old. He created the character
Of Uncle Josh in THE Old Home
stea.xSs. srlrty-three years ago, and
since that time has played no other
Dart~
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
BOY DID THE RoBBING.
Old Man Covered Kansas City Rail.
road Trainmen With Guns.

Kansas City.-A man fifty years
old, followed by boy of fourteen
wears, pushed open the rear door of
tho caboose of Frisco freight train.
Hands up" one said as two pis-
tolls were pointed at Elmer G.. Butch
er, the conductor, and William M.
Smith, brakeman. The trainmen
obey.
Now. sonny, go through them, !"
the older man said to the boy. While
the robber kept the railroad men COW
cred with his pistols the boy went
through their pockets and took $3.50.
and their watches
The robbers tied the two trainmen
with ropes and left the train as it
neared Kansas City.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
MAJOR ROBINSON A SUICIDE.
Mobile Politician Was Considered
Next in Line For Governor.

Mobile, Ala.-Major Edward Muir
ply Robinson, thirty-five years old,
an influential politician, a speaker of
national note and next in line for the
Governorship of Alabama, committed
suicide by shooting while his family
were at dinner in their home. No
cause is known.
Major Robinson excused himself
after soup was served, and, stepping
into the library adjoining, blew out
his brains. He married the daughter
of P. D. Barker, postmaster of Mo-
bile, two years ago, and his wife and
one child survive him.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
Feminfne Notes.

Nine, Schumann-H -Heink sailed for
Europe to begin years concert
tour.
Thirty-five entries were received
for the national women's golf cham
pionship.
Miss Mary r. Sanford, member
of a wealthy family of New York
City and New Haven. has become a
Socialist
A storm of protest followed the
removal Of the Professional Woman's s
League from its fine clubhouse in
New York City to humble quarters
In hotel
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27

nosaurus rex is called, was found, re-
search parties from the American
Museum have been searching through
the Bad Lands for a specimen that
would complete the missing parts.
The first fossil had good hind limbs
but incomplete back bones. DR.. Os-
born said that he believed the two
specimens are about the same size
and that the museum will now be
enabled to mount the animal COM
plete.
During the five years of search
fragments of Tyrannosaurus rex have
been found from time to time. DR..
Osborn said biologists would be
highly elated over this second dis
cOVery
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
INVENTORS SHOW MORE ACTIVITY.
$ For Mechanical Patents Made
This Year.

marks, 636 labels and 279 prints.
The total receipts of the office were
$1,S74, ,180.75; the total expendi-
lures, $1,60S, ,292.01; the grand total
net surplus of receipts over expendi-
lures, including the past fiscal year,
was $6,972, ,070.3S.
The amount of profits derived from
the issuance of patents is large
enough, the Commissioner maintains,
to be used for the construction of a
new Patent Office building. The
Commissioner says that treaties en-
tered into with foreign countries will
be of great value to manufacturers
and inventors of this country who
have foreign trade relations.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
JOKE CAUSES INDICTMENT.
New Yorker Gives Woman a Bad
Coin For Fun.

Detroit. T. F. Tull, audi
tor of the New Amsterdam Gas Com
pany, of New York, was indicted by
the Federal Grand Jury here on the
charge of passing counterfeit money.
Tull brought with him when he
came to Detroit for vacation last
summer lot of counterfeit coins
taken out of the gas company's slot
machine meters in New York and
gave some of them as joke to a
woman whom he met here. His ac-
tion came to the knowledge of Sc
cret Service agent and he was ar
rested,
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27

Washington, D. C. - Inventors of
every class in this country exhibited
greater activity in 1908 than in the
year preceding, Edward Bruce
Moore, Commissioner of Patents, out
lines the work of this department as
follows 5S,527 applications for me-
chanical patents, 1921 applications
for designs, 207 applications for re-
issues, 2036 caveats.
He reports falling off in the reg
istration of trade marks; 7467 ap-
plications for registration of trade
marks, $40 applications for labels
and 339 applications for registration
of prints were filed, and of these
there were registered 6135 trade
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
Far Eastern Notes.

The Chinese-American alliance
idea is spreading in Manchuria.
An edict in Pekin announces the
abandonment by the government of
the opium monopoly.
pekin sent out details of the Chin
ese constitution, which is to become
effective in nine years.
The Bulgarian Cabinet has decided
to refuse to pay Turkey an indem-
nifty for Bulgaria's independence.
New South Wales exports in 1907
amounted in value to $165,000, 900
an increase of $25.00O.000 in the
year
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
DETECTIVE SHOT FOR BURGLAR.
Killed by Mistake While Looking For
Housebreakers.

misunderstanding each other
for highwaymen two Pittsburg de-
tectives opened fire on each other
on the North Side. James Farrell
fell dead with five bullets in his body
and with his gun still smoking.
Clyde Edeburn, who had killed the
man whom he thought was a MUIR
derous highwayman, and who had a
bullet hole through his own clothes,
struck a match to search the body
and was Mortified to find by his badge
that the dead man was a detective.
Edeburn and Farrell did not know
each other. One had been a detec-
tive in the city of Allegheny before
it became merged with Pittsburg, the
other was one of the main city
sleuths.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
Shirt Sleeves For Church, Says
Bishop Hamilton to Niniste

Boston, Mass - Bishop John w.
Hamilton, formerly of California,
speaking to Methodist ministers of
the immigrant and how he should be
assimilated, said: II return to New
England and l find new New Eng
land. tell you to gather them into
the churches. Break down your pref
udices, social barriers They will
come in If you want them. Get down
to shirt sleeves and make a pair of
them the Methodist ehurchs coat Of
arms.n
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
To Accept ordinary Bill Of I.ading

Announcement was made that all
the railroads operating east of the
Mississippi River will accept the or
dinarysbill OF lading until January 1.
The new uniform bin of lading will
be pub into service at once, but the
ordinary bill be accepted until jan
uary /, provided that it bears stamp
mark stating that the bill is subject
to the specifications of the new uni
form bill
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
military Executions in Russia.

The Rech publishes Russian official
statistics showing that in 1907 627
ilians. OF these 453 were hanged
or shot for murder or robbery, sixty
two for mutiny or other offenses,
against military discipline, fifty-one
for crimes against the State and four
for desertion.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
University Orders

UIEIs 20 90 bartHeautu,
Lincoln, Neb The State Univer-
sity senate adopted a rule forbidding
young women students to wear hats
in classrooms. The order was made
necessary by feminine headgear which
had grown so large that 1t not only
tested the capacity of the classrooms
but interfered with recitations. An
other rule adopted prohibits students
indulging in shirt-tail parades or kid
naping class officers to break Dip So
cial gatherings, on penalty of imme-
diate expulsion.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
DISASTER TO BANANAS.
4O,O0O-Acre Plantation Ruined by
Nicaraguan Storm-Damage Inland.

New Orleans, lathe steamship
Habil, from Bluefields, Nicaragua,
brings the news that the Kukia plan
tation, near that town, was complete
ly destroyed by a storm. The Kukia
was the largest banana plantation on
the coast, having 10000 acres of
trees and operating a railroad to de-
liver the fruit to vessels at Biuefelds.
The damages in the interior, espe-
cially in the mineral districts of Mic
aragua, is understood to be far great
er than at the coast.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
Breeches Buoy Saves Eight lives.

The three-masted schooner Flora
Rogers, Captain Lowry. from George
town, S. c., for New Haven, Conn,
lumber laden, was driven ashore on
Bodies Island, NJ C. Captain Lowry
and his wife, from Bath, Me-, and
six men were rescued by the life saw
ers in the breeches buoy.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27

Setting up the plea of the unwrit-
had accepted the attentions of Muir
rill and defied his wife. Men, women
court each day and applauded testi-
mony favorable to the defense.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
Pierce Must Go to Texas.

H. Clay Pierce must go to Texas
for trial, the United States Supreme
Court having refused to grant him a
rehearing in the Standard Oil suits.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27

The insurrection in Korea, accord
ing to Japanese officials, is practi-
cally ended. The troops are still on
active duty, but the insurgents are
said to have dwindled to merely a
disorderly element.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27

Frederick Kerner. graduate of
the University of Vienna, who has
been studying mechanical engineer
ing at Cornell University, Ithaca, NJ
Y, went back to Austria in response
to a call to join the Army Reserve
Corps, to which he is attached.
The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-27
DIE ON WEDDING ANNIVERSARY,
Kid Hennessy, a Bluejacket, Kills
His Wife and Himself.


Norfolk, Va.-Daniel ]. Hennessy,
bluejacket of the navy, shot his
wife dead in Portsmouth. He then
fired a bullet into his brain. They had
not lived together for some time. One
night the woman was in the street
with another man for about three
hours. Hennessy saw her. Obtain
ing a pistol he went to the house
where she had been staying and shot
her as she sat in a chair. Stepping
back few feet he fred bullet into
his own body.
Hennessy was about twenty-four
years old and his wife about twenty
one. Hennessy's home was in Troy,
N. Y. He was prize fighter of note
before entering the, navy, and in the
navy he was known as first-class
fighter AS fighter he was known
as kid" Hennessy.
1t was the first anniversary of the
wedding of the Hennessys.