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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-27
SENTENCE MAY Be
M'CLURE'S SALVATION
Richmond Young Man MUS
Serve Year in Penitentiary.

Albert E. Mcclure, OF this city, has
been sentenced to one year in the
federal prison. He was convicted of
using the mails to defraud- Mcclure
is well known locally and his troubles
developed from an illegal method pur-
sued while in business as a coal deal
er. Friends here believe McC1ure's
punishment will prove his salvation.
He never was recognized as young
man of criminal tendencies. He
seemed imbued with an idea to get
money quickly regardless Of means.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-27
vienna THINKS
WAR IS NEAR
Declared Balkan Trouble Has
Come to Head and Trou-
BILE Is Imminent
MINISTER is WITHDRAWN
RUssIA's UNFAvoRABLE REPLY,
CLASH OF TROOPS, AND ALLI-
ANcE BETWEEN NATIONS THE
CAUSE OF UNEASINESS.

Vienna, Nov. 27.-This has been a
Various reports, all seeming to har
monize with each other, created the
belief that the Balkan trouble had
come to head and that war is near
The general Interpretation of the
withdrawal of Marquis Pallavicini, the
Austrian ambassador at Constantine
pie, as a disguised ultimatum to Tur.
key; Russia's .unfavorable reply to the
Austrian note concerning the confer
ence; the reported definite conclusion
Of the alliance between Turkey. Mon.
tenegro, and Servia; the alleged clash
OF an Austrian column with a Servian
guerilla band; the rumored increase
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-27
.B|LL|K'S PATHETIC
NOTE KILLS MOTHER
Condemned Murderer's Par
ent Died Today.

Chicago. H., Nov 26.-Mrs- Bar
bara Billik, mother of Herman Billik,
the Bohemian clairvoyant, condemned
to hang next month. died today in
Cleveland as the result of an attack
of heart trouble brought on by her re-
ceiving a pathetic farewell letter from
her condemned son. Billik collapsed
when informed OF his mothers death.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-27
Gets From One to TWenty-one
Years in Penitentiary for
Burning Home of Mrs. Belle
Guinness. --.
PATHETIC FAREWELL
SCENE THIS MORNING.
Aged Mother of Wayward Man
Says She Believes in Sons
Innocence and then SWoons
To the Floor.

Laporte. Ind, Nov 2T.-During a pa
thetic farewell meeting this morning
between Ray Lamphere and his sister.
Mrs. Steele of South Bend, and his sew
enty year old mother. the aged woman
swooned to the floor after caressing
her wayward son and proclaiming her
belief in his innocence. II was neces-
sary to carry her out, and serious re-
ults are feared.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-27
ONE DIVORCE IS
GRANTED TOEVERY
TWELVE MARRIAGES
Almost One Million DEGREES
Granted in United States
In Past Twenty Years, Re-
port Shows.
DIVORCE SITUATION GETS
WORSE EVERY DAY.
Illinois Leads States of Union
For Largest Number While
Indiana Comes Third-Sec-
ond Investigation.
20 Years of Marriage
and Divorce in u. S.

Number of marriages from 1887 to
1906, inclusive, 12,s32,o44.
Marriage rate in 1900 was SO per
10000 total population and 321 per
10000 adult unmarried population.
Panic of 1892 spoiled 25s,s1s we'd
dings.
One marriage in twelve is terminal.
ed by divorce.
Divorce rate in the United States
much higher than in other countries.
Divorces from 1887 to 1906, incIu-
sive, total e42,625; for preceding twen-
ty years, a2s,716.
Indiana holds third highest divorce
record for the United States, Illinois
leading.
Divorce rate increasing; 10000 di.
vorces in 1887; $4,000 in 1906.
Wives obtain twice as many dvor-
ces as men.
Six husbands in Utah got divorce
DEGREES because wives failed to sup
port them.
Causes for divorce in order of fire.
quency: Desertion, statutory cause,
cruelty, drunkenness.
Only IS per cent Of divorce cases
are contested.
One divorced wife in eight gets ali
mony; one husband in fifty.
Average duration Of marriages ter
minated by divorce is ten years. Most
of the divorces occur in the fifth year
of the marriage and most Of the sep
arations in the second year.
Of married persons coming to Unit
ed States fewest divorces are among
the Irish.
Children figure in two-fifths Of all
divorces.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-27

" dSulHSlOu, L. ~, NV -t-Af
most 100000 divorces in twenty
years in the United States is the cen
sus bureaus answer to the question
Is divorce a failure? The ratio of di
vorces to marriages is nearly one to
twelve.
The exact figures of broken hearts
and homes is 945,625 divorces granted
by the courts in the twenty years
from 1887 to 1906 inclusive.
Against the bulletin of the bureau
which has just been issued, places
12,S32,04 marriages in the same
length of time. The bureau declares
that the divorce record of the United
States is the worst in the world.
And. what is more significant, ii
In 1870 there were eighty-one divorces
per 100000 of married population. In
1900 this number had jumped to 200.
Illinois Leads in Divorces.
At the head of this black record
stands Illinois. In the twenty years
from 1887 to 1906 her courts granted
S2,209 divorces, and in the twenty
years prior to that they had ground
out 36,072. The first of these records
is at the rate of 100 divorces per TO-
900 of population, while the second
was at the rate of sixty-eight per 100,-
900.
Next in rank comes Ohio. with 63,-
9S2 for the later period and 26,367 for
the earlier one. Indiana is third and
Michigan fourth.
In point of rate per 100000 in the
1900 record Washington is highest
with 1S4, Montana second with 167,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-27
THE WEATHER PROPHET.

Friday night; colder
in extreme south portion: Satur.
day, fair; light west winds, be.
coming variable.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-27

oHIO-CoIder- and fair Friday night;
fresh west winds; Saturday fair.
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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-10-27
An Unexpected Check.

A man who won a reputation for cool
daring and almost eccentric fearless
ness along a thousand miles Of the
southwestern border was A. L. Par
rott, at one time a sergeant in Mcneil
ly's company Of Texas rangers. One
night in 1875, about six months after
Parrott left the state service, he was
sitting in a house in a little town in
southwest Texas playing chess with a
friend. 1t was a warm night, and the
chessboard was on a table close to an
open window. Parrott had the white
men. His queen was in a direct line
with the black king, but black knight
was between the two pieces. 1t was
Parrott's move Suddenly there was a
sharp report outside, and bullet whis-
tied in through the window, hit the
black knight and buried itself in the
wall. Parrott had been bending over
the board, and the bullet was evidently
intended for his head. But for few
seconds he did not stir. He saw the
black knight suddenly vanish. Then in
his peculiar drawing, hesitating way
he said. Check,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-10-27
The Stone of lnfamY.

In many Italian cities there formerly
existed what was called "pietra din
fannie" or stone Of infamy for the
punishment of bankrupts. In Venice
one stands near the church Of st.
Mark, and in Verona and Florence they
are near the old markets. On a day
in carnival week the old time custom
was to have all traders who had be-
come bankrupt in the preceding twelve
months led to the stone, and one by one
each stood on it's center to hear the
reading of a report of his business fail
ure and to endure the reproaches heap
ed on him by his creditors. At the
end of a certain time each bankrupt
was partly undressed, and three officers
took hold of his shoulders and three
others of his knees and, raising him as
high as they could, bumped him on the
stone deliberately twelve times, lin
honor of the twelve apostles" the cred
itOrs growing like cocks while the
humping proceeded.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-10-27

the manse farm free to the old man as
long as he lived.
See what it is to have a pretty
daughter said the squire. who was in
high spirits at having won the great
treasure he longed for. Now let us fix
the wedding day All Gairncorn shall
make holiday when l take my wife
home"
He either did not notice, nor did not
care, how white and wan the lovely
face was; he was boisterous, happy
and content. He sent wine for the sick
mother, whose face grew better as she
drank it, He sent one of the boys to
school. Then the price Of this had he
paid.
The wedding day was fixed, and on
the seventeenth of June, amongst the
rejoicing of his tenants, the squire took
his lovely young wife home.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-10-27
THE END.
FOLKLORE OF oATHS.
One Prosecutor Who Denounces Per-
iury as the Greatest Crime.

During one of the occasional OUT
groupings of pure thought with which
the recent Ruef trial in Judge Caba-
niss's court was Illuminated. says the
San Francisco Chronicle, it was stated
by a distinguished prosecutor that
perjury has become the greatest
crime of the age"
Perhaps the trouble is-that perjury
does not entail such dire calamities
nowadays as it once did. Into
the subject with the spur Of curiosity,
we learn that two or three centuries
ago it cost something to swear falsely.
Then it was a mortal sin rather than
a simple crime, and some of the do
mestic troubles which followed were
curse running to the seventh gener-
alton, death from a lingering disease
within twelve months. or being turned
into a stone, swallowed up by the
earth and ever afterward crawling
about as vampire.
Those were punishments which de"
TERED. if one believed them. AS a
matter of fact few did, and people
committed perjury as merrily in the
good old 18th century as in the 2OthA
Then, as now, the moral man spoke
the truth for practical moral reasons
and the immoral man lied for immor-
al reasons.
Superstition has always been the
basis of oaths. and their practical val
ue has depended on the depth OF the
superstition. That, of course, is EVIL
dent enough, as all that differenttates
an oath from plain statement is that
one introduces an element of religious
faith. In California taking an oath
requires simply that a witness raise
his right hand while the clerk informs
him that he solemnly swears to tell
the truth. the whole truth, and noth-
ing but the truth, so help you Cod
The charm of legendary attaches to the
explanation that the hand of the Wit
ness was originally raised to show
that he had not a weapon concealed
in it, but this is apocryphal.
Touching a sacred object is world
wide method of oath taking In earlier
ages one swOre by the sun or by a
! great river or some other awesome
thing in nature. Even now the GangeS
is the most binding oath to a Hindu.
The TungaZ witness still brandishes
knife before the sun, saying, IF L lie,
may the sun plunge sickness into my
entrails like this knife" The Somali,
administering an oath. declares: "God
is before us and this stone is from
Amr Bur-" naming a sacred mountain.
The man to be sworn then takes the
stone and says Il shall not lie in this
agreement" 1t would be pleasant to
believe that he does not"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-10-27
Car of the House In Political Fight OF
His Career.

His Career.
Philadelphia North American:
Danvlle H.. October 16.-ln his
desperate efforts to prevent his de-
feat in the Danville congressional dis
trict Speaker Joseph G. Cannon has
tried to justify his stand pat" atti-
tude on the tariff question by placing
the blame for non-revision upon Pres
ident Roosevelt.
The president declares Cannon
and not he, is responsible for the fail
ure Of congress to revise the tariff at
all times during the last four years.
Cannon is telling the voters of. a
conference called by the president
soon after his election in 1904, with
leaders of the house and senate, to
discuss the advisability Of calling an
extra session to revise the schedules.
After a long pow-wow Cannon repre-
sents President Roosevelt as saying:
well, gentlemen. I shall not call
an extra session. ! think we can post
pone revision until after my term or
office expires"
This story is being spread broad
cast through the district to meet the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-10-27

S9 A novel will has been unearthed at
BinghamtOn, N. " dated Feb. b, lT'9'
1t is a long document and was made by
Jacob Blackwell, transferring to his
heirs the property known as Black
wells island He also bequeathed
farm where Long Island City is now
situated
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-10-27
CANNON HARD PRESSED.

Charles S. Barrett,
President Of Farmers Union.
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Victors from $10.00 to S1OO % carried in stock
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Board Of Trade Meeting.

The regular meeting of the Board of Trade was held on Tuesday even ing with g good attendance of direc- tors.
 The Town Improvements Commit tee reported the action taken at the last meeting of the Town Council con- cerning sanitary and fire precautions around town, and also that the field notes of the Bradford Map would be asked fer by the Town Clerk, and if secured would be placed on file at the court house.
 The Secretary was instructed to secure 8 hundred copies of & valua ble irrigation pamphlet lately issued by the National Irrigation Congress and it is tho intention of the Board to distribute same to all who may be in terested in irrigation matters.
 The Board of Trade, in answer to a letter from one of the Tucson publis h. ing houses asking for endorsement of a plan to get up business directory of Nogales. to be published in Tucson. took the view that the town has advanced to the point where it is cap able of taking care of it's own advertis- ing along the suggested lines, and refused to endorse the plan.
 After attending to several other matters of routine businesss the meet ing adjourned.
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Political PIumS.

Last Monday Hon. J. F. Cleveland of Morenci was named as private secretary to Gov. Kibbey, to succeed Sims Ely. who on Saturday was ap- pointed to the office of territorial au- ditor
 MT Cleveland is not without pro- minence in Graham county and in the territory. Ia the last legislature he represented Graham county in the council. For the last four years he has owned and edited the Morenci Leader, weekly paper published at Morenci.
 Mir Cleveland arrived in Phoenix last Sunday morning, having been summoned by the governor. The name of MT. Cleveland was mentioned last week in some of the territorial papers as the probable successor of Auditor Page, who received the appointment to the office of secretary of the terri tory.
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RAILS BEING RECEIVED
Hartman Coast Line Gets Lar9e Sup
 piles of European Material.

The latest reports from the Guay- mas c Guadalajara extension of the Southern Pacific is that 4,OOO tons of 75-pound steel rails from Russian mills on the Black Sea are now en route from Tampico to Guadalajars having been unloaded at the gulf port December 24th. On the ocean and due to reach Tampico this week are 2.50O tons of Russian steel. This will be sufficient for fifty miles of track, all other materials, such as ties. telegraph wire, barbed wire for right of way-fencing, and 65 pound rails for side tracks being on hand.
 At last advices the steamer Sun gary was unloading 35, 900 barrels of Russian Portland cement at Guaymas for this line and the steamers Totten- ham and Wimbledon. the former with 96, 500 and the latter with S1,5OO Japanese oak ties. and the Foz'ey with S1, 900 were unloading at the same port and the MortIake was about to sail with 1000 more ties from Nip pon. Loading in the Mikado's do- main are the St. Esbert and Crowell which will bring their careoes to Guay- mas. The sailing vessel Marg4retha is due at Guaymas from Antwerp with IS, QUO barrels of Portland cement. Enterprise.
The border vidette., 1908-01-18

Superintendent Thomas RynniDg, who was here yesterday from the Yuma pen, having been at Florence with the board of control, stated that "ramale Sam," who was sent to Yuma for robbery in Phoenix. by his crim- inal acts has lost his share of $780, 900 legacy left by his father. How ever, Sam has something left. receiving 8 remittance of $35 monthly from his mother. Sam's father left his money, with the condition that if any of his sons disgraced themselves they should be uherited.-Phoenix Democrat.
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ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRE- SENTS. That we, the undersigned, hsv- ing associated ourselves for the purpose of forming 8 corporation under Chapter II of XIII, Revised Statutes of Ari- zona, 1901, and Acts amend atory there- of, hereby adopt the following Articles of Incorporation:
 Article I.-The name Of the corpor- ation shall be MORALES CONSOLID- ATED COLD MINING COMPANY, and it's principal place of business shall be Nogales, Arizona, but other offices may be established and maintained within or outside of Arizona at such places as the Board of Directors may designate, where meetings of stock holders and directors may be held.
 Article 1.-The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted is mining, milling, converting, prepar- ing for maket and otherwise producing and dealing in gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, brass, iron, steel, and all kinds of ores, metals and minerals, oils, gas and coal. and the products and by products thereof; to purchase or other wise acquire, own, exchange, sell or otherwise dispose of, mortgage, hypo- thecate and deal in mines and mineral lands of all kinds, oil, coal and timber lands, real and personal estate, water and water rights, and to work, ex- plore, operate and develop the same; to purchase or otherwise acquire, erect,
The border vidette., 1908-01-18

The First National Bank of Tomb stone announces that the bank has gone on a cash basis, and President Cummings has authorized the calling in of all cashier checks which had been issued as certificates during the strin gency period. The cashier checks will be paid ln cash, and ample funds are available to meet all banking de- mands as before the financial furry. The local bank was one of the few western institutions that protected all depositors and paid demands in full without placing limit on withdrawale. -Prospector.
The border vidette., 1908-01-18

Large quantities of coke. coal and mine equipment is being shipped to Oananea, Sonora, by way of Naco over the South western. Twelve hundred cars of freight have been shipped to the Greene-Oanausa company during the past mouth for the use of the mines and smelters. This Is taken by mining men to indicate that the copper company is planning to start the camp again as soon as copper gets to pay ing price. and stArtup is expected within the next month.
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Attention Americans.
The A American Consulate. Nogales. Sonora, Mexico, January 17.
 1OOo

oOnOrb, me6icO, JAhuaEy lt, 4
 1908.
 A cting under Executive Order oi April Sth, 1907, have to inform American Citizens, residing Tn this Consular District. that register IS kept at this Consulate in which they are respectfully invited to inscribe their names
 They should register each year and any additional facts concerning re- sidence, marriage and children, should be noted in the register, but the full registration having once been made, need not be repeated on each subse- quent registration.
 No fee will be charged for regis tration nor for any service connected there with.
 SAMUEL T. LEE,
 American Consul
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Our new stock of Re- cords comprise ? over 1000, 10 and Is inch and a complete as- sortment of Red Seal.
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State of California, l County of Los Angeles.

Before me, Justine Ottofy, Notary Public in and for the county and state aforesaid. on this day personally ap- peared Ed. NJ. Bind, w. F. Simpson J. F. Megginson, known to me to be the persons who signed the fore going instrument, and acknowledged to me that they executed the same for the uses and purposes therein men, toned.
 Given under my hand and seal of of- flee, this 9th day of December, 1907.
 (sEAL) JUSTINE OTTOFY,
 Notary Public. My commission will expire March 8, IJO8
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to the prosressive. careful, and active work of the different committees of the board of trade having those matters in charge.
 Thus one by one your correspou- dent has endeavored to show, the ad- vanced position Nogales and her busi ness men have taken, and are taking. in the building up of the resources of this community. and the watchword for 1908 is nothing less in meaning than that of "Boost"
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Territory of Arizona. Jss County of Santa Cruz.

I hereby certify that the within in. strument was filed and recorded at the request of INV. T. Richards, Dec. 10th A. D., 1907, at a. m, book 6, Missel. laneous Records, pages 423 3424-425-426 and 427.
 Witness my hand and official seal the day and year aforesaid.
 (SEAL) PHIL HEROLD.
 County Recorder. First pub. Dec. 2I 1907. St.
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Victor Talking Machines.

We are wholesale and retail dealers for Mex ico for the Victor Talk ing Machines.
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Our prices are the same as Chicago and New York. w hen you purchase your Ma chine and Records from us, we save you the Express Charges to Nogales.