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The Forrest City times., 1909-05-14
Aged Merchant Found M

Hope.-A terrible murder ~.
mitted here Tuesday night 49, 10 eOa'
o'clock. The dead BODY of 10
McCreevey was discovered Ia Sa4es
the floor in his store room nv 70
gro. who went To the Store :. ae
purchase. McCreevey wac a1
with his head in pool of hIoo. 'as
his face battered almost bevona saa
ognition. A bloody brickbat was w
and a blood-stained buteherknife -
found within foot OF the body ~
alarm was given and officers ,,.'
oloodhounds started on a trail a..
%as taken by the hounds. leading :,
ward the south. The men and hon.
returned to the city, having LOST M
trail eight miles out OF Hone Do
berry was evidently the purpose n.
front door OF the store was unlocL..
and the rear door stood wide ono,
McCreeyey lived in the rear roo,
and his trunk had been rifed No,1
ins is known as to how much mopov
If any, the murderer got MeCreevsv
was 7S years old and had been a resi-.
dent of Hope for four years.
The Forrest City times., 1909-05-14
HE WASA WONDERFUL JOCKEY

ton half miles at fairs, and even last
October at the state fair resented
proffered assistance when alighting
from the sulky. His mental and physi-
cal activities were surprising to the
last. He did the chores, cared for the
garden and hens.
He would rarely sit down. and al
ways kept busy, saying: This is
what saves man Work to eat. work
to sleep. If man can't sleep he'll
wear out" four weeks siege of
pneumonia carried Mr.. Taylor off at
last, though the attending physician
says he was out doors every day dur
ing the time and seemed recovering
until a relapse the day before his
death
The Forrest City times., 1909-05-14
City Provides For Water and Iioh,,

NashYille.-A deal has been closed
between the city OF Ashland and the
J. {, Stephenson Lumber Company
for the installation OF water and
light plant, and it is expected wors
on the plant will be started soon. In
the deal the company takes the gss
mains and other piping of the nv
nicipal plant at $1,000, which will
pay FOR the street lights for two
years. The contract between the
city and the company provides thai
the charge. for electric lights shall
not exceed Is cents per kilowott, and
the water charge is to be a fat rate
OF one dollar per month for resi-
dences. Fhe wafer is to be aresian
water, and the stand pipe will BE-
erected on a hill to give good pres
sure Tor fire protection.
The Forrest City times., 1909-05-14
Every Town In County DRY"

Little Yates has the distinction of
being the only county in the state that
is absolutely dry" Every town in
the county has voted no license The
village OF Penn Yam, the county cap
ital, viii use cold tea as a regular
beverage for the first time in 80 years.
Yates is the smallest county in the
state. and the tourist can cross 1t in
either direction before he gets very
THIRSTY without exceeding the speed
limit.-Utica IN. y Press.
The Forrest City times., 1909-05-14
Experiment on Rice Growing

Hampton - The Freeman-SmIa
Lumber Company will experiment ID
rice culture at Stark in this county.
he local agent of the United States
Department of Agriculture will have
charge of the work. The water sup
ply to flood the rice is a certainty
as artesian water can be had
abundance One well in close pfoi
unity to the land flows 25O,OOO gar
Ions per day.
The Forrest City times., 1909-05-14
Young Lad is Brutally Assaulted.

wisville-Ernest Elliott the IL
year-old son of p. Il Elliott OF this
city. was struck on the forehead
with a blunt in., 'ument while cross.
ing the Cotton Belt railroad tracks
here last week. His assailant made
his escape in the darkness. Young
Elliott was picked up and given med
ical attention and will recover. He
has no idea who his assailant was
or what the motive could have been
in attacking him.
The Forrest City times., 1909-05-14
Weighed 800 Pounds; Heart Fails

Nashville.-Miss Martha Graves
aged about 80 years. died suddenly
at the home of a neighbor west OF
Nashville recently of heart failure
resulting from excitement and unus
ual exertion incident to reaching sheF
ter from a rainstorm Miss Graves
was very stout. weighing more than
300 pounds. and when sae reached
the house at which she died she fell
70 the foo. expiring instantly.
The Forrest City times., 1909-05-14
TRAINS FOR
MURFRESSBopn

Nashyille.-The false wor,
memphis, Paris and cr, On lie
bridge over the Little Nj failroat
mas been finished and The l n's
placing the steel spans sa. 'Vrk q
Inc spans should be in n,as Oeg@
Ten days, SO that the work tr., With
cross and begin laying The rail- aA eaa
the river to Murfreesboro vb, .s ifoa
occupy not more than three ~ vii
days, so, with no accidents - lou
should enter Murtreesboro n.' ~. Haa
snort time. "i'nl a
The Forrest City times., 1909-05-14
To Erect Concrete Lumber Plant.

Lockesburg-At board meeuH'
of the Dierks Lumber and Coal Oom
pany at DeQueen, it was decldeo y
rebuild the pine sawmill which ~a'
destroyed by fire last week at oh''
II is said that the mill will be iars',
than before. and will be CONSTRUCTS
of reinforced concrete.
The Forrest City times., 1909-05-14
Train Service is Temporarily CUT

DeQueen-The service on the De
Queen and Eastern railroad has Deea
cut down temporarily to one regui@
train. and but two section crews a'
being maintained. but the WORK VI
making the survey for the road irol
Valiant, Okla, to DeQueen IS pens
pushed with all possible speed.
The Forrest City times., 1909-05-14

That evening DR. Furnivall, reading
a daily paper. saw, In story headed,
Mystery in High Life. Child Abduct.
ed, this paragraph:
Wednesday evening between seven
and eight o'clock the three-year-o
son Of Mr.. Chase Harlow, of the ultra
smart set was kidnapped from that
gentleman's home, and all attempts to
recover the child or learn the den-
THY Of the abductor have failed That
the crime must have been committed
by a person thoroughly posted upon
the habits of the inmates is assured by
the manner in which the daring deed
was conceived and carried out
1t viii be recalled that it was only last
week that Mr.. Harlow succeeded in
securing a divorce from his beautiful
wife. who was Frustrated on finding
that the custody of the child whom
she worshiped. was given to the ia.
! ther"
DR.. Furniyall gave a low whistle
''Joye. my lady of the veil" he ex-
| claimed. You said you had your rea-
sons, and you certainly did haye-with
| vengeance"
Copyright, 1909, by w c. Chapman)
Copyright in Great BritanD
The Forrest City times., 1909-05-14
Episcopalians in Session.

Little Rock.-The Episeopalian DIV
cese of Arkansas thirty-seyen(h an
nual council session is being new
here this week. Over 200 clergyni'-
are present.
The Forrest City times., 1909-05-14
sixtv.three Form Military COMPANY

Hope-A company of state uliir
tia, to be Known as the Hempslea'
Rifles, has oeen organized at HOP,
and 60 members have been enroiie'
to date, Robert Coffey has DeeA
elected ptain of the organizaioD
The Forrest City times., 1909-05-14
by a Buquy w heei'
Boy lnj,N

Little IocSSamuel McCrosky,
ten-year-oll boAattempted to ca'eD
A ride on the ~ end of bugs'
and got caught iNe wheels. lOslns
a limb. M
The Forrest City times., 1909-05-14
He took a small rnagnifying glass

He took q small magnifying giass
from his pocket. and after scrutinizing
the various footprints on the shore,
again waded into the stream and
searched the tracks there with the
greatest care, following them for somo
distance. Suddenly he uttered an eX-
clamation of satisfaction mingled with
establishment.
My boy" he soliloquized, I've got
you, But what in the name of heaven
could be your obiect?'
Within ten minutes he was at the
police station. and a few moments
later in company with two officers he
entered the room of Barney Maloney
al his clearinghouse. Barney was sit
ting on the side of his bed. preparing
for his days sleep. He was some.
what stupid appearing young fellow, of
% or so, not too cleanly, with a sandy
complexion. stocky of build, and it was
plain that he had been drinking some.
Barney" said DR. Furnivall without
ceremony, tell these gentlemen what
you know about the death of Sadie
Patrick?"
He removed his spectacles as lie
spoke and looked flxedly into the
mans faded blue eyes.
For moment 1t seemed as II the
fellow had been suddenly turned to
stone. he became so rigid and gray
Of skin. Then he shrieked out
Why. | was the man that found
I -
il? l found her there in the water, yes,
and the boys all saw me when | done
it, and the blood that's on me. got
1t when | picked her up in my arms
and put her on the shore. and the boys
will swear 10 it, every one of them,
for they was there
He paused in his headlong rush OF
words, his eyes in the Doctors, his ex-
preston changing rapidly from fright
TO peace, to earnestncss. and finally to
wrapt abstraction Then almost in
stantly he resumed in a voice more
resembling a machines than man S:
I killed her myself.
Why"
she was my wife. and she was try
ing to run away frem me With another
man. and | wouldn't have it She was
my girl, that married when she was out
Of work and supported, unbeknownst
to anybody because she was ashamed
of me-she thought | was not as good
as she might have. found that out
all right And when she got work she
was for going some place else where
| wouldn't be botherng her-me that
took her when she was poor and in
trouble. And then | heard she was
on with this other one. So that night
| slipped out of the mill and had her
take walk for a word about that
and she madded me, and the first thing
| knew | had done it. for | had the
knife with me. ran away back again
70 the work but | seen the blood on
me- and | knew twas no good trying
TO hide the clothes, for somebody al.
WAYS finds them, so | would make the
play that | found her in the morning
and got II on me then. Back | goes
TO the bridge and took her in the water
to the place where | thought | could
see her when We was coming by in
the night-shift off | put her too far
down on the bank and couldn't see
her in the morning. but | knew she
was there. so cries out and runs"
Al this point one of the officers took
him by the arm.
Il have a warrant for you, Maloney,"
he said, for the murder of Sadie
Patrick"
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-17
ACQUITTED OF MURDER CHARGE
Ambrose Rietf, Accused of Infan-
ticide, Gets Off With a Roast
ing from the Judge.

The trial of Ambrose Ref, the
Nicollet county farmer, who was
charged with murder, was of short
duration.
The case came up before Judge Pau
at Mankato and on Friday County
Attorney Plymatt made his opening
address to the jury.
Mr.. Plymatt stated in this opening
address that the state would under
take to show by the three children of
Mrs. Emma Zimmerman that child
was born to her on the goth of March,
year ago, alive and fully developed,
and that its death occurred that eve
ming; that Ref, who is supposed to
have been the father of the child, told
these children that the infant was not
fully developed and would not live:
that the day after its death he pro-
posed first to bury the body in the
barnyard and then take it to his farm
in Nicollet county and bury it in the
WOOAo Ol GlC' 4Skilid1 CA
never to mention the birth or death of
the infant. saying that if they did they
and their mother would be sent to
prison, while he would go free; that
when he was arrested soon after these
events, on a charge of having COM
mitted fornlcation with Mrs. Thinner
mann, he begged the children not 10
send him to prison: thatn doctor
was called at the time OF the infant S
birth and that no record was made Of
its birth or death as required by law:
that Ref subseq uently denied the
birth of the child.
Henry Zimmerman. the Oldest son
Of Mrs. Z immermann. was the first
witness called and substantiated much
of what had been claimed by the state.
He is twenty-one years Of age.
The other children testified along the
same lines.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-17

linen the case came TO an aDrupt
end. The state having rested with
this meagre testimony the attorneys
for the defendant, deciding not to in
troduce any evidence, asked the court
to instruct the jury to return ver-
dict for acquittal.
This Judge Pau did, giving as
his reasons therefor that while there
had been evidence tending to prove
the birth and death of child, the
illegitimate child Of Mrs. Emma Tim
mermann and Ambrose Rieff, there
had been none tending to prove that
she infant came to It's death through
violence.
In dismissing the prisoner, after the
verdict of mot guilty" had been rem
dered, Judge Pau said:
Ambrose Ref, you have been in
a pretty serious position and nothing
has developed in this trial that has
beeu creditable to you. You were
close to the verge in this matter and I
caution you to turn back and consider
your conduct. I take no great pride
in discharging you, but lack of evil
dence compells me to do SO. It is only
in justice and not because want to.
Take care that you do not step little
nearer the verge next time"
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-17

Edward Payson Weston, the veteran
pedestrian, started from New York
Monday on walk to San Francisco,
a distance of 300 miles. Weston is
now seventy-one years of age, but he
made the first thirty miles with appar-
emily as much ease as if he had been
forty years younger.
The Springfield Building & Loan
association has reelected II. Bendexen
as president, j. J Ray as vice presi-
dent, NJ. Lehrer as treasurer and John
Il. Schmid as secretary. VIM. F.
Runck and DR.. J. G. Rothenburg are
among the directors.
The fire losses in Minneapolis dur
ing 1908 amounted to 81, lS9, 1912 and
the premiums to S1,8l8,0l8.72. st.
Paul paid 1888, 423. IS in premiums and
sustained losses to the extent of s502, :
307.36.
Walter Williams was operated on
last week for the removal of an alb
scess on one of his lover limbs.
Walter p. Close was visitor at.
Madelia and Faribault the ferepart of.
last week.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-17
PROGRESS IN CLAY PROJECT
Meeting Will be Held Tomorrow
Evening to be Addressed by
Prof. Sardeson.
Local Committee Suggests Expen-
diture OF $1,000 or $1,000
to Make Sure OF Facts.
No Attempt to be Made to Raise
Money for Plant Until This
Has Been Done.

President Bingham of the CONNER
cial club has announced public meet
ing of that organization to be held at
Schell's hall tomorrow evening.
The announcement is not only for
the members of the Commercial club
but for all people who are interested
in the development of New Ulm.
The object is further discussion Of
the advisability of arriving at some
definite conclusion as to the clay re-
sources of this vicinity.
It is one in which every public spiri-
ted citizen should be thoroughly inter-
ested.
Ten days ago, it will be remembered,
a Minneapolis firm of promoters came
here and made a proposition. They
said they We're willing to do one of two
things either to furnish 5000, 900 if the
people of New Ulm would raise $780,
600 towards the erection of a $500, 900
plant, or they would furnish all of the
capital necessary to the erection of an
up-te-date sewer pipe, pottery and
brick plant if the citizens would fur.
nish them the evidence that clay of the
proper quality existed here in suffici.
ent quantity.
A committee was appointed to can.
vass the situation and this committee
held secret meeting early in the week
AS result a subcommittee, con
sisting of F. H. Behnke, j. Klossnel
Jr., L.. j. Buenger and Q. G. Strick
Ter. was appointed to carefully consi
der the most practical manner of as
certaining the quantity and quality O
| our raw clay products and this com
mittee at once arrived at what the Re
view has always commended the mos
sensible course-the ascertainment, or
the part of the people of New Uln
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-17
Picked Unanimously for First AZ
fair OF This Kind to be Held in
Four Years.
Delegate Meeting Also Appropri'
ates S15O Towards Defraying
Expenses of Class to Gin
cinnati.
Resolutions Adopted Denouncing
Armour Effort to Locate Pack.
ing Plant Near State Uni
versity.

A delegate meeting OF the Minnesota
Turnbezirk was held in this city
Saturday and Sunday.
The first session was opened at the
Turner hall Saturday afternoon with
a brief, but whole-souled, address Of
welcome by Capt. Burg, president of
the local society. Then Mr.. Radbruch
of St. Paul called the meeting to
order and Capt. Albert Steinhauser
was chosen as presiding officer and
J. G. Rhomberg of Minneapolis and
George Ehlers of St. Paul as secre-
taries. @
Perhaps the most important act of
the convention was the passage of a
resolution naming New Ulm as the
place Of holding funniest in 1910.
This will be the first funniest held in
four years, the last having been held
in Whapeton, North Dakota, in 1906.
Another thing, quite out of the
ordinary, was the passage of a reso-
luton anent the erection of packing
plant near New Brighton.
The resolution adopted sets forth
that the Minnesota Turnbezirk stands
primarily for the proper training and
development of the body, believing
that the best physical development is
conducive to the best intellectual and
moral development; that in this day
of progress in every department of
civic affairs, more and more attention
is being given every year to. whole
some environment which includes pure
air, pure water, as we'll as better So
cial surroundings; that the packing
plant, with it's allied industries, such
as stocky ards. rendering plant and
fertilizer plant, which the Armour
company proposes to erect upon site
between the Twin Cities, is in close
proximity to the state university, the
agricultural college, the state fair
grounds and several UNCONVENTIONAL
institutions, as we'll as some of the
best residence districts of st. Paul:
that the nature of the packing house
business, involving, as it does, large
stockyards where large numbers Of
cattle, hogs and sheep are constantly
kept and where their slaughter by the
thousands goes on daily, is revolving
and Objectionable to women and chill.
dren particularly; that the experience
of other cities, where large packing in
dustries are already established, is
that they become nuisance because
of the odors which they emit and Other
objection able features.
Then the resolution goes on to stat'
that there are other sites available tt
the Armour company affording jus
as good or better water and sewag
facilities and equally good railroa'
advantages, and for that reason it en-
dorses the Rowe bill, designed to re
gulate the location of such industries
and declares the sentiment Of tn
Minnesota Turn beZirk to be in favo
of compelling the Armour company t
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-17
HARD BLOW FOR SLEEPY EYE.
Offices of Big Milling Plant in Our
NeighbOring Town to be Trans
ferred to Minneapolis.
Fears Entertained That This Move
is to be Followed by Reno.
val OF Entire Plant.
Loss to Sleepy Eye Will Aggregate
Many Thousands of Dollars
Every Year.

Inc expected mas happened IN con-
nection with the affairs of the Sleepy
Eye Milling company and the result to
the city is nothing if not disastrous.
Early next month the Offices of the
concern will be moved to Minneapolis
and eventually it is intended to trans
fer to the Flour City the entire plant
This means the taking away from our
neighboring town, at the very outset,
OF a force oftwenty- people and, in
the end, the throwing out of employ
ment of hundred more.
It will also mean the cutting down of
the Sleepy Eye postoffice receipts and
the disseminating of the present popu-
lar system of free delivery. The
Sleepy Eye Herald estimates the loss
to the postoffice at $4,000 per year and
the loss to the town in general from
the cutting off of the pay roll at not
less than $4,000 annually. 1t is a
blow that Sleepy Eye can lily afford
to stand.
The old mill, it is understood, will
be continued in operation, but this will
not keep in employment over two dozen
hands. The big mill employed in the
neighborhood of 150.
1t has a daily capacity of $500 bar
rels and is one of the most up-to-date
milling plants in the country. The
building is of brick, supposedly fire.
proof, and is equipped in manner to
excite the envy of mill owners in many
of the larger cities. A. c. Won Hagen
was it's promoter and builder and for
many years, in fact until very recent
ly, the public imagined he had in the
plant veritable gold mine. When
announcement was made Of the com.
pany's embarrassment, astonishment
prevailed on almost every hand.
The moving Of the offices to Mime
apolis is said to be in line with the
general trend of the past several years
in which some Of the largest of the
country millers, owing plants at vari-
Gus points in Minnesota and the Da'
kotas, now maintain general head
quarters in the worlds great milling
center
The moving Of the plant will be be
cause of the handicap of present loca
ton from the standpoint of shipping
facilities and the obtaining of raw
material
Receiver Hull was at Sleepy Ely,
Thursday making arrangements fo1
the transfer.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-17
MAYOR TnWARTs COUNCILS ACT
Vetoes That Part of Aldermanic
Proceeding Relating to the
Employment of Special
Council.

Tie mayor and the city council are
once more at loggerheads. This time
the mayor takes the initiative and the
club which he uses to bring the council
to terms is the executive power of
veto.
It will be remembered that at the
council meeting two weeks ago the
council, after accepting the resigna-
ton Of City Attorney Pfaender and
before receiving or confirming the
mayors nomination of Henry N.
Somsen, passed a resolution retaining
Mr.. Pfaender as special counsel for
the city in the Boesch and Nagel cases.
1t is this act of the council which
Mayor Bobleter vetoes. His reasons
are that 'the city charter provides
that the city attorney shall attend and
prosecute or defend all suits, actions
or proceedings, either civil or
criminal, for on behalf of said city
or in which the city may be a party
that he is unable to find any pro-
vision of the charter or of the law
authorizing the retaining or hiring
of special counsel in actions or
alters in which the city is Interested
hat the only provision of the charter
or law that he is able to find thai
authorizes the appointment or desig.
nation of some other attorney to take
the place of the city attorney provides
that sthe city attorney may in his
temporary absence or other inability
at his own expense, with the approba
ton of the mayor, designate same
other attorney to act in his stead fol
the time being;;'' that this provision
of the charter is clearly ineffective 81
| far as the present matter is concerned
that the city attorney nominated b.
the mayor and confirmed by tn
council is ''fully competent to con
duct the duties of the Office and t,
J represent and protect the interests 0
the city in all litigation proceeding
and otherwise. .
The council took up the mayor
s veto at special meeting held las
evening and in order to avoid furthe
: ruction between the two branches Q
the city government changed its resc
Hutton so as to give the city attorne
authority to employ special council i
! the two cases if he saw Fit.
. City Attorney Somsen was preser
, and announced that it was his inter
ton to engage the services of MI
: Pfaender.
! The council is to stand the expens
= of the extra counsel, Mr.. Somsen e,
!: planning that he had Attorney Pfaer
der's word that his fee would be non
inal.
Mr.. Somsen also stated that he ha
lconferred with Mayor Bobleter an
! that this arrangement would NEE
! with the approval of that official.