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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-03

fraudulent voting or other misdemean-
ors were made. Returns from several
states. will be very late owing to the
large number of candidates to be voted
for and the exceedingly heavy poll,
counting slow. Where voting
machines are used returns may be eX-
pected soon after the polls close.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-10-15
BANKS TO BE EXAMINED
OFTENER IN THE FUTURE

Washington, Oct. 14.-Comptroller of
the Currency Murray has decided to
increase the number OF national bank
examinations. in many cases from twice
to three or four times q year. 1t Is
not his purpose, however, he says, to
examine all national banks four or even
three times q year, but the new rule
will be made to apply to all national
banks that have in the past shown a
disposition TO violate or evade n of
the provisions Of h national banking
laws or the regulations prescribed by
the comptroller of the currency. 1t Is
stated that a considerable number of
national banks have heretofore seemed
to consider violations of some of the
less important provisions Of the ma
tional banking laws as matters of small
consequence and have treated the or
ders Of the comptroller on the subject
with apparent indifference. Practic-
ally the only remedy in such cases Is
to declare the banks charter forfeited,
but this action in nearly every case
would be regarded as entirely too dras-
tic. considering the character OF tho
offense. .. .. ..nasa
Comptroller Murray's purpose. how
ever Is to keep In closer touch with
those banks whose management Is I'M
der more or less constant suspicion.
Reckless and speculative banking will
be discouraged to the limit Of the comp
troller's ability.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-10-15
AMERICAN AMBITION
RUNS IN WRONG LINES,
SAYS DR.. PARKHURS7

New York. Oct. lin his sermon
last night at the Madison Square Pres
byterian church DIR. Charles II. Park.
hurst deprecated the swollen ambition
OF present day American life.
American hustle is putting its
blight upon everything that really de-
serves to be called substantial Ameri-
can progress" he said. Eve have re-
Gently been informed by one who has
had exceptional opportunity to ac-
quaint himself with the facts that with
all the crowding and prodding that dis
tinguish the American school room,
there is less to show for 1t than is
secured by the more steady and COM
posed discipline OF German instruction,
The most serious feature OF frenzied
American activity IL MOI that we are not
doing as good n solid work as would
be accomplished were our activity of a
less wearing n distracting kind, but
that IL leaves the minds Of the people
in that tumultuous condition that tends
to render them insensible to any in
fiuence such as emanate from the field
Of material interest and ambition
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-10-15
GETS HEADACHE
TRYING TO SKETCH
ROOSEVELT IN ACTION

Washington, Oct. O-When Charles A
WhiHple, a portrait painter Of New York
city, visited the White House to make
studies Of the president for a portrait that
will hang on the walls OF the Republican
club Of New York, he stepped jauntily Into
the executive office. Two hours later he
came out with a haunted look on his face
and perspiring freely.
Just take a chair the president said
to his visitor. and max such sketches
of me as you wish"
The painter seated himself. When he
looked, the president nae bounced out IA
see Secretary Loeb. He bounced In a mo-
ment later, flung himself on a pile OF LET
tiers on his desk. scratched busily with his
pen for a minute, and bounced I'D again
as Governor Conner, of Alabama, was ush.
cred in.
When. the Handwriting ended Mr.. whip-
pie discovered that the president had
placed the governor before him as a
screen.
In quick succession there followed .Jps-
tice Harlan, Secretaries Root and Garfield
Attorney General Bonaparte, General
Corbin, United States Treasurer Treat and
a score of others. And all the time Mr..
Whipple tried to make thumbnail
sketches.
TITS given me a headache" he said on
leaving the White House. land, incident
ally, it's the only thing I am taking away.
except q vivid impression OF s~trenuosity."
The painter will make another attempt.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-10-15
ROMANCE WEARS
OUT ''P. O." FLOOR
Marble Paving at General De-
livery Window in Mime
apolis Is Gone.

Minneapolis, Oct. 10-Two years ago
q new marble floor was put down in
the Minneapolis p~ostoffice; some hun
dreds OF ear g other marble floors
were put down in European palaces
and things.
The marble floors Of Europe are still
there; the n in the Minneapolis post
office is worn out.
Minneapolis shoe leather has done
the work.
There are persons who have no homo
address: there are other persons who
have home addresses, which are Just
as good as new because they are never
used. There is a travelling public,
which prefers to stamp in and out of
postoffices n kick the floor while thu
clerk is looking through the pigeon
holes. There are the commercial men
who patronize the general delivery
from choice. There are also the young
n romantic persons who have substi-
tuted the p~ostofflce in town for the old
hollow tree down by the spring.
And It has taken these classes and
others, including those who buy stamps
and register letters and patronize the
money order department, and want to
know how much will this take,
please ?" Just two years to play more
havoc with one Minneapolis marble
floor than all the tourists Of the world
have been able to do to Europe's pave
ments.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-10-15
DEPUTY DAVIS TIN
STAR DIDN'T TWINKLE
So Thieves Got Mays of Distin-
guished Author, Who, Alas!
Had Fallen Asleep.

New York, Oct. 10.-What's the use of
being a celebrated author and a deputy
sheriff and having a country estate and
a tin star and a kennel master and
things like hat II horrid thieves come
around in the night and steal your horses,
anyway? Ask Deputy Sheriff Richard
Harding Davis. Of Mount Kisco.
For some months past enterprising
burglars have been active about Mount
Kisco, where Mr.. Davis lives. While he
has not been able to capture any OF them
alive, the weight Of his deputy shrieval
oath. nevertheless. has obliged him to
sleep with one eye open.
But flesh Is flesh, and Mr.. Davis other
eye closed the night before last. and he
slept the sleep that has made policemen
famous. Unfortunately the author-dep-
uty's stud groom and his second and third
grooms and his rubber and his strapper
slept as well, and ~so-confound the fell
low!-did his kennelmaster.
In the morning three OF Mr.. Davis best
saddle nags were missing from the stables.
The news did not circulate in Mount Kisco
until yesterday. Mr.. avis had no COM
ment to make except that 1t was Jaw
fully irritating"
Still. he doesn't deny hat there is some
satisfaction in being a deputy sheriff.
For example: If ones motor cars is 60
ing rather fast and a constable person
old one up, all one has to do is to
flash his tin star and say, I'm after q
horse thief"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-10-15
CHICAGo'S GREAT WHITE
WAY" IN COLLISION nth
WATER STREET FRUIT,

Chicago, Oct. 9.-Chicago's prospective
Great White Way" has collided with
South Water streets bananas. with the re-
suit that the illumination OF Dearborn
street from the North Side to Polk street.
and its transformation in other ways, in
GLIDING ~repaving, has been postponed long
enough to clear the street of melon crates
and fruit peddlers' wagons.
Dearborn street, however, is to be turned
into a Broadway. For the benefit of the
thousands who people the office buildings
that front upon 1t. paving that will mini
miZe the clatter will be used and the street.
will be made one dazzling vista OF electric
lights. No boulevard from the North Sida
onnects the downtown district, there be-
ing no bridge at La Sale street, and a
snarl of street cars at State street. Later
Michigan avenue will be made to connect
as a boulevard with the LAX Shore drive,
but the board OF local improvements has
not, for some mysterious reason, dismissed
the plan Of an elevated viaduct for the
connecting link. and this forebodes post
ponement, litigation and delay.
Further south, Michigan avenue Is be-
ing widened and will be a broad boule-
scum, and the Field museum, that will be
creditable to Chicago-a city that already
has surpassed others in America In the
size and beauty Of its park and boulevard
systems.
It's parks are Chicago's one good boast
in the matter of beauty, for the smoke
pail remains for the women Of the Anti
Smoke association to fight.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-10-15
KISSING"
FIGURES IN SUIT

Chicago, Oct. 12.-"Shadow kissing"
or, more accurately, SHADE kissing"
will be a feature of the hearing Of the
suit for separate maintenance filed by
Mrs. Rose Allegretti against her hus-
band, Benedetto Allegretti. a wealthy
candy manufacturer at 1920 River ST..
which is to be heard Tuesday before
Judge Ball.
It has been learned ~ Attorney Chas.
Stiefi, who is defending Mr.. Allegretti.
that several young women stenogra-
piers in a building adjoining Mr.. Abe
gretti's candy factory are prepared 70
testify that on several evenings they
saw on the shades in Mr.. Allegretti's
office shadows Of a couple in the act
of kissing. Attorney Steih will ask
these witnesses whether they are will
ing to swear that the shadows they
saw on the shades were made by Mr..
Allegretti and Miss Marie Mclean, 230
Webtser ave-, former ste~nographer for
Mr.. Allegretti. who is mentioned in
Mrs. Allegretti's complaint. The suit
was filed on April q.
Miss Mclean, formerly was known as
Darling Dolly" in the North Clark
street roller skating rink.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-10-15
EVANS NOT DRUNK,
SHOWN BY TESTIMONY

Manila, Oct. 10.-The taking OF testi-
mony in the case of Lieutenant Frank
T. Evans, of the battleship Louisiana,
courtmartialed on a charge OF absent
ing himself from his post while off,
Ger OF the deck, disrespect to his SUI
perior officer and intoxication, has been
concluded. There remains only the
summing UP by counsel, and II Is ex .
pected that h proceedings will end
today. -
The chief contest by the defense was
against the allegation of intoxication,
n in this respect the evidence Is re-
garded as favorable to the accused off,
Ger. Surgeon Andrew r. Wentworth.
of the louisiana, and others, testified
that Evans, in their opinion, was not
intoxicated.
Lieutenant Evans admitted, during
the hearing, that he had left the deck
while on watch, but presented evidence
to show that he went below to Quell a
slight disturbance.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-10-15
MURDER +.
IN PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia, Oct. 9.-As a result OF
investigation today, District Attorney
McDade has deemed it necessary to or
der the arrest of Mrs. J. Clayton Erb,
whose husband was shot and killed last
night at h Erb country home. This
was done because, it is said, Mrs. Cath
crime Beisel, Mrs. Erb's sister, had re-
pudiated h alleged confession the po-
lice say she made, in which she admit
ted having killed her brotherinlaw.
Philadelphia, Oct. ii. Clayton Erb.
captain and regimental quartermaster
of the Third regiment, Pennsylvania
national guard, was shot and killed at
his summer home In Delaware county,
last night. His sisterinlaw, Mrs. Cath
crime Beiset, is under arrest In the
Media Jail, charged with the murder.
The m admits she did the shoot
ing during a family quarrel.
Captain Erb, who was private sec
rotary to Israel ". Durham, a political
leader Of this city, was one of the best
known men in political circles in Phila-
delphia. He was married two years
g to Mrs. Erb, who was Mrs. w. e..
Rothermel, a divorced woman. Much
domestic trouble followed.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-10-15
THREE CoRNERED FIGHT
OVER GRAIN RATES

Chicago, Oct. 1.-THE grain inter-
ests OF Kansas City, Omaha and ST.
Louis are in q three-cornered fight over
grain rates from trans Missouri river
territory to the southeast. The trouble
was threshed over at a conference held
ago Kansas City shippers filed a petit
ton with the Interstate Commerce
commission asking to be allowed o diff
ferential Of "a cents over Omaha to
st Louis and 3 cents on grain for
points east of st. Louis. The present
differential is / cent. ST. Louis fled an
intervening petition stating that IL
Kansas City was given such differen-
tials, st. Louis would have to go out
of the grain business.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-10-15
INSANE MAN BATTLES
WITH "C0PS" ON TOP
OF BROOKLYN BRIDGE

Z New York, Oct. 14-Atop the great iron
tower at the Brooklyn end Of the Will
liamsburg bridge a thrilling struggle took
place yesterday while hundreds Of persons
looked on from below. An insane man,
who had eluded the tower Waterman,
climbed an iron stairway to the top OF
the tower, 5S5 feet above the East river
and was preparing for q leap into the
river when two policemen climbed up
after him.
The appearance of the policemen dis
tracted the man from his purpose and he
turned upon the blue coats with a razor.
The insane man rushed to attack them
and then IN the narrow footing at the
dizzy height a 10-minute battle too place.
Back and forth the trio struggled, now
on the verge Of topping to destruction
and then tottering back to the center of
the small platform. To those who gazed
aloft 1t seemed hours instead OF minutes
before the man was overpowered. At the
hospital the prisoner gave his name as
Joseph Kratz, of Brooklyn. He was
placed In q padded cell.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-10-15
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS,
SON OF LINCoLN'S
RIVAL, IS DEAD

Chicago, Oct. 12.-4Stephen A. Douglas, a
son and namesake of the great rival of
Abraham Lincoln, died suddenly at his
home, "a East Twenty-second St, last
night. Yesterday Mr.. Douglas. with Will
liam H. Taft, delivered an grafton at
Galesburg, ILL.,, at the 10th anniversary OF
the famous Lincoln-D Douglas debate.
His speech was delivered on Knox cam
pus. on the exact site where so years be-
fore his father had contested the great ma.
tional issues with Lincoln. The speech Of
yesterday was the last Of a series OF cam
paign speeches made in the last few
weeks by Mr.. Douglas and he complained
of fatigue and a severe cold on his re-
turn trip to Chicago. He collapsed sud-
denly after dining with his family and
died before the arrival Of a physician.
Mr.. Douglas was IS years old.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-10-15
GIRL MURDERED
ON WEDDING EVE
Suspect Groom, Because Of q
Clew Furnished by q
Broken Horseshoe.

WRdsworth, Ont, Oct. 13.-With un-
usual energy the police authorities are
endeavoring to unravel the mystery Of
the murder OF Ora Lee. 81 years old, a
handsome factory girl, whose body,
pierced by two bullets, was found early
yesterday on the road between Wads-
worth and the hamlet Of Custard Hook.
Guy Rasor, the man whom Miss Lee
was to have married this week. Is de-
tanned by the sherifr pending devel-
opments OF the police investigation. Ra-
sor denies all knowledge of h tragedy,
and in support OF his denial exhibits q
marriage license procured at Wooster.
The body Of the young was
found by Chas. Rasor, a cousin Of
Guy Rasor, as he passed along the
road in the early hours OF the day.
The principal clew that led to the
detention Of Guy Rasor Is the fact
that along the road where the murder
was committed are plainly seen the
An examination of the stables at Rasor
home disclosed the fact that one Of
Rasor's horses has a shoe missing.
Rasor refuses any explanation concern
ing this feature OF the case. He de-
clares he car prove an alibi.
Another police theory is that q rival
for the affections Of Miss Lee may have
shot the girl on learning OF her ap-
preaching marriage to Rasor.
Miss Lee left Wadsworth last night
ostensibly to prepare for her wedding.
When the body was found the hands
were folded over the breast and the
limbs Strengthened out as IL the corpse
had been carefully arranged after
death. .n" rs f.%" "
The girls suitcase was on the ground
beside her. Her handbag was still on
her right wrist, and in her left hand
she clutched a handkerchief. There
was no evidence of a struggle. Rasor
apparently Is bowed with grief. g.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-10-15
ART, DRAMA AND
LITERATURE UNITE

New York. Oct. 1S.--Art, literature
and drama will be happily mingled in
q new department house soon to be
erected on cooperative plan at "a
Gramercy Park.
Richard Watson Glider and his son,
Rodman ID. Glider, provide the literary
atmosphere. Art will be represented by
Jules Guerfn and Herbert Lucas, an
architect, while the dramatic element
will be provided by Francis Wilson.
These 1--WE, together with Charles H.
Lee, Of the United States Leather COM
pany, have incorporated at Albany the
No. "a Gramercy Park company with
a capital Of $4,000 to carry through
the project.
The structure will be IL stories in
height and will stand on a plot 51x103
feet. Apartments will be of the studio
type. Each Of the six incorporators
will have a suite for his own use.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-10-15
CoRsETs WIN OUT IN
SUIT OF SALES GIRL

New Yrk. Oct. 12-Attorney Chauncey
H. Beasley raised the always interesting
question OF the effect of corsets on the
charming being who wears them. Mr..
Beasley seemed to have gained the idea
somewhere that corsets weaken Il young
woman's vitality and decrease her ability
to work.
Miss Katherine McKenna. Of No. 200
Runyon st., Newark, sued the North Jer-
sey Railway company for $4,000 damages
for INJURIES she sustained In a trolley coll
Iision at Clinton, avenue n Spruce street,
about two years age. Miss Mchenna tes-
titled that her hurts a compelled her to
give up her occupation as saleswoman and
ever now prevent her from sleeping we'll.
She described other lamentable results to
her health.
called DR.. John b. Gale, yesterday, and
started out to put a long hypothetical
question to ii N.
"If a young saleswoman sQueezes her
waist"
"She doesn't have to-" m q
youthful lawyer, associated In the case.
Mr.. Beasley's question, in brief. was:
''If q young saleswoman, who has to
stand for hours at q time behind a coun-
ter, squeezes her waist n Internal or
Rans with tightly laced corsets will she
not be incapacitated for such work."
Generally speaking, yes" said Dr..
GAZE, but he would not say that her cor
sets had caused the Ills Of which Miss
McKenna complained.
To 60 further into the subject, MI. Beas-
ley called DR.. John d. McGill, of Jersey
City. The doctor would not say, either,
that Miss McKenna's corsets had given
her insomnia. But, apparently, he thought
that the Venus de Milo, who never wore
stays, would make a fine saleswoman II
she had arms.
Then Franklin w. Fort called DR.. Will
liam Quimby, DR.. Edward Seely and DR..
Albert B. Nash. and they agreed that
Miss McKenna's corsets had not incap-
acitated her as a saleswoman; rather, she
had been compelled to lace tighter after
the collision that her corsets might brace
her weakened form.
The jury gave Miss McKenna $500
damages a distinct triumph for corsets.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-10-15
AUTO RUNS 200 MILES
IN FOUR HOURS

Philadelphia. Oct. 14.-Geo. Robert
son, in a locomobile car, today won
the 2OO-mile automobile race around
the dangerous eight-mile course in
Fairmount park. Time, 4 hours, 2 min
utes and 80 seconds. j. Patche (Acme)
second.
Several cars were wrecked, but no
one was seriously hurt.
The Motor Parkway-Long 1sland-Nas-
sau sweepstakes, a 100-mile automobile
race for cars selling for 5 1000 or under,
today was won by a Buick car, driven
by Easter. in 2 hours, 7 minutes and 30
seconds.
Burns Chalmers, of Detroit, won the
Jericho s~weepstake, 100 miles. in three
hours, two minutes and 80 seconds.
Lyttle won the motor parkway
sweepstakes, $50 miles, the big race of
the day. Time, three hours, 10 minutes,
10 seconds.
William H. Sharp won the Garden
City sweepstakes, 200 miles. Time,
three hours, 10 minutes, 81 seconds.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-10-15
BIG RAIL MERGER
Is UNDER WAY

New York, Oct. ia new railroad
alliance Of gigantic proportions is
forming and may lead to the merging
OF the Hartman and tina Rock Island
party interests, heretofore fierce ri
walls for prestige west and south Of
Chicago. 4.
The Rock Island company. which
controls railroad mileage second only
to that OF Harriman's Union Pacific
system, and which has been the most
formidable competitor Of the Harri-
man lines in the middle west and
southwest, has made arrangements
with Kuhn, Loeb g. Co, who back all
OF Mr.. Harriman's enterprises, where
by that house will act as fiscal agents
for the Rock Island and its subsidiary
companies.
The transaction means that warfare
between the rival systems Is to cease.
There is to be no costly competition in
the way OF invasions into each others
territory. The companies two systems
will cooperate on traffic agreements
that are expected to be mutually ad-
vantageous.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-10-15
PICKETING MUST BE
" PEACEFUL, SAYS COURT

Chicago, Oct. 18.-Considerably med
flied and with a number OF its para
graphs vacated. the federal court in
junction issued against the Iron Mould
ers' union, OF Milwaukee, during the
plant several years e was upheld to-
day by the United States circuit court
OF appeals.
In enjoining the union from picket
ing. the higher court made modifica-
tons which makes the injunction en-
join from ~"pioketing in a threat
ening or i~ntimidating manner" The
court held that the lower court went
ton far in prohibiting peaceful pick
etIng, hat there is no reason for en-
Joining a boycott because none ak
listed.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-10-15
MOUNTAIN FALLS ON
WILLERT; MAN OF
MANY ACCIDENTS

Auburn, Ia, Oct. lotto willert, q
laborer In the clay pit near this place,
was seriously IL not fatally injured by
q cave-in.
Several tons Of dirt fell without
warning, completely burying him. He
was rescued by fellow workmen. Both
of h legs were broken and he was
otherwise injured. A few years since
1t was thought that Willert could not
possibly survive injuries inflicted by
an enraged bull, nearly every bone in
his body being broken. He did, how
ever, and was afterward run over by
a freight train, which left him minus
one foot. -