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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-11-24

Your health at this time Of the year de
ponds much upon your blood. Purify il by
taking Jesdbeater's Colonial sarsaparilla.
SOC bottle.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-11-24
AA2YLAND, DELAWARE AND VIZ.
GINA RAILWAY COMPANY,

CAMERON Street " hhrT.
Call phone 50. jy2H
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
SCHLATTER TOOK CASH
BUT FAILED TO CURE
Divine Healer" Who Recently Vis-
tied Rock Island, Arrested on
Clinton Mans Complaint.

Des Moines, Iowa, June 2S.-"Divine
Healer" Schlatter, who declares his
right name is Charles Mclean and
says he is a cousin of Admiral Dewey's
wife, is in Jail here charged with OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses.
The sheriff at Clinton, Iowa, is re-
sponsible for the arrest. Information
against "Schlatter" was filed by j.
Anderson of Clinton, who declares that
the healer accepted large sum of
money as advance payments for cure
he was to make, but which never
materialized. He says: Schlatter left
town without paying him back a cent.
AT the police station when searched
a roll of money aggregating $755 and
three diamonds valued at 5000 each
were found in his rags.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
Complete Disappearance
Has Started Police
Thinking.
CHUNG NOT BELIEVED
Man in Custody Now May Have
Killed Both Countryman
and Girl.

New York, June 2S.-Failure to find
any trace whatever of Leon Ling has
caused the police to give some atten-
ton to the theory strongly revived to-
day that the missing man may not
have killed Elsie Sigel and that he
was himself the victim of the same
hand that killed the girl.
Cbung's Story Doubted.
This line of reasoning necessitates
the rejecting of the story told by
Chung Sin, who said he had seen Leon
in the room over the Eighth avenue
restaurant. where Miss Sigels dead
body lay, but the authorities declare
Chung's statements have shown dis
crepancies with known facts in sew
eral particulars.
Body In Trunk, Also.
In considering the possibility that
Leon was killed. it is regarded as prob
able that his body was placed in
trunk, as was the girls, and this has
drawn renewed attention to the bag
gage CHecheu " oCueHeCtduy, ~ L.
near where Chung Sin was found, and
reChecked by the Chinaman from
Schenectady to Cleveland. Ohio.
Chung May BE Murderer.
What about the theory that Leon is
dead?" Police Inspector McCafferty
was asked today.
We'll, il Leon is dead we have one
of the birds that killed him under ar
rest We can lay our hands on an
other in five minutes, he replied.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
CHICAGO PUZZLED BY EXPLOSION:
GAMBLERS WAR May Be At BOTTOM

Chicago, June 2S.-The cause of the
explosion which last night wrecked the
telephone exchange in the heart of the
city and did damage to property esti-
mated to exceed 100000 and inflicted
injuries which may be fatal TO one
man and slightly wounded II others,
is still unexplained. After several
hours of careful investigation the po-
lice are unable to determine whether
the terrific detonation was the work of
persons desiring to harm the telephone
company or another series of the
bombs which have marked the prog
ress of what is known as the gam
0lers' war"
Strike Is On.
A number of employees of the tele-
phone company are on strike. The
principal damage was done to Is ca
bles controlling $4,000 telephones.
Among the buildings damaged was the
Chicago Title & Trust building, 16
stories high.
WAS 3Ist Bomb.
Chicago, June 2S.-"Bomb 81" ex-
the Ottawa building, 107 Madison
street, and the Chicago Title & Trust
building. 100 Washington street, at IL
O'Clock For the first time in the his
tory of the bomb outrages in the gam
blers' war i'll Chicago, persons were
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28

injured SeriouSly-One perhaps fatality
The explosion blew the windows in
on five floors of the Chicago Title &
Trust building, rendered the lower
floor almost a total wreck, and de-
stroyed telephone connection in the
down town district by wrecking the
central exchange of the Chicago Tele-
phone company, which is located in
the building of the trust company.
se4-The old building o. the University
club on Dearborn street was damaged
seriously and the old Inter-Ocean
building at the northwest corner of
Dearborn and Madison streets WAS
badly damaged
Panic and wreckage.
The back room of Stoll q Bowen S
saloon on Dearborn street, against
which it is suspected by some that the
explosion may have been directed, was
wrecked. Windows were broken in
the loop district for a radius of a
block, and crowds going home from
the theaters were thrown into a panic.
Many thought there had been an
earthquake
In speculating as to the cause of the
explosion. many saw significance in the
fact that Powers & Guilbert's saloon,
119 Clark street, and Mont Tennes, 121
Clark street, are within leo feet of the
place of the explosion.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
TROOPS FOLLOW FLEEING
BAND OF WICKED MOROS
With Bandits in Philippines
and Five Are Killed.

Manila, June 2S.-Successful oper-
ations against Jikiri's band of Moro
bandits have been conducted during
tie last few days by Captains Byratt,
Rhodes and Anderson. commanding
detachments of the 9th cavalry that
are cooperating with the mosquito"
fleet under Captain Signor.
Captain Anderson struck the band
on Pata island and in the running
engagement that followed, five of the
bandits were Killed, a number were
wounded and. several others were cap
tured by the friendly Moros. Thirty.
one of the band have been killed OIL
captured during the last so days, but
.Iiliiri himself always manages to efude
capture.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
DRIVEN To- Death
Heat Responsible for the Sui
eide of Adolph Backmann
of Davenport.
AT THE COUNTY POOR FARM
Had Been Inmate Since He Suffered
SunstrOke Five Years Ago While
at Work i'm Streets.

Heat is held responsible for the
suicide at the Scott county poor farm
at Mt. Pleasant last night of Adolpn
Backmann, an inmate. Backmann.
who was about 60 years of age and
who has no relatives so far as known
was overcome by heat five years ago
while at work in the streets in Dav-
enport Though he recovered his ply
sical strength he partially lost his
reason and was committed to the
county poor farm.
Lately it was noted that he was I'M
usually Respondent and last night he
disappeared This morning attend
ants found his body hanging by rope
in the woodshed. 1t is supposed that
in his condition he was peculiarly suS-
ceptible to the present hot wave and
that this is the direct cause of his act.
Fireman Makes Failure.
Fred Albrand, fireman on the Rock
Island road, attempted TO commit sui
eide at the home of his brother i'm
Silvis, where he resides, yesterday.
About a year ago his wife died sudden
ly in this city, and he had been sub
ject to periods of dependency since,
it is said. = Yesterday he drank the
contents of a bottle of carbolic acid,
but it was weak solution and quick
relief measures not only saved his life,
but prevented serious injury. This
morning he was able to go out on his
rim
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
LEFT TO TAFT
TO Define THE
Term WHISKY

Washington, June 2S.-Acting in his
old-time capacity as Judge, President
Taft today wrestled with the question,
What is whisky?" Before him were
attorneys representing practically all
the interests that have been waging a
fight over the original decision of DR..
Wiley, chemist of the department of
agriculture, in regard to what is wfis-
ky and what should be labeled "imita-
tion whisky" They had come to OBJ
tain a final decision on the much
mooted question.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
UP WITH MERCURY
Tariff Duties Rise as Weather
Grows Warmer in Senate
Chamber.
PASS ON SOME NEW ITEMS
Agreement i'm Sight on Census APP
preparation Bill, Conferees Fin
ishing Work.

Washington, June 2S.-The intense
hot weather brought out variety of
picnic clothing when the senators as
sembled today to take up the tariff
bill. Vice President Sherman was at
tired in white from head tofoot Vests
were generally discarded by the sena-
tors, and nearly every one had fan
on his desk. Most of the fans were
kept in motion
Show Desire to Save Time.
Without debate the senate placed
cotton bagging on the free list and
agreed to the house rate of 3 of d
cent a pound on cotton ties. The con-
time. The item will still have to run
the gauntlet of the conference.
Washington, June 2S.-By majority
of seven the senate voted down an
amendment to the tariff bill making
cotton ties free of duty. The vote
stood 81 to 3S.
More Duty on steel.
The senate made a slight increase
in the duty on structural iron and
steel when valued at more than . of
a cent per pound. \ motion by Stone
to put structural iron and steel on the
free list was voted down, as was mo-
ton by Cummins TO reduce.
Zinc Up, Too.
A duty of Il cents per pound up
on zinc in the pig instead of l cent
as provided in the house tariff bill
was agreed to.
Agree on Census Act.
Washington, June 2S.-An agreement
on all disputed points in the bill pro-
viding for the 18th census was reached
by the conferees of both houses of
congress today and their report was
accepted by the house, leaving nothing
but the action of the senate and the
signature of the president TO make it
law.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
HAD THE BEST GRADES
Pupils Entitled to Scholarships Are
Announced

County superintendent S. j. Fer
guson has announced the list of pu-
pills who recently graduated from the
grammar schools of the rural dis
tricts who are entitled to the nor
NAL school scholarships. They are
as follows:
Mary Reeves, Cordova; Nellie
rnh-Port Byron; Bertha Mcconnell,
Coe; Charles Mcconnell, Canoe
Creek; Ildra Becht, Zuma; Emma
Skinner, Hampton; Lestine Mus
grave, South Moline; Gladys Hunter,
Coal Valley, Walter McElhinney
Rural; Myrtle Armstrong, Bowling;
Mollie Peck, Black Hawk, (South
Rock Island); Floyd Wenks, Anda.
lusia; Kenneth Oak, Edgington; Es-
tellye Elliott, Buffalo Prairie; Haren
Baker, North Buffalo Prairie; Ken
meth Powell, Drury.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28

union employees, demands for hearings
for discharged men, longer lunch time,
installation of bulletin boards in car
barns announcing lay-offs, and shorter
runs.
La Crosse strike Settled.
Lacrosse. Wis, June 2S.-The street
railway strike was settled late Satur-
day afternoon. An agreement was
back all of the old men and submit TO
arbitration all points on which the
company and a committee of men may
not be able to agree.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
Heat Breaking Records in
Different Parts of
the Country.
WARPS RAIL TRACKS
Causes Two Wrecks in Colo
rado-Number of Deaths
Are Reported.

Washington. June 28-While hold
ing out no particular encouragement
for cooler weather in the immediate
future, officials at the weather bureau
today stated that the warm wave is
less intense throughout the middle At
lantic and New England states. Thun-
der showers are promised today for the
section east of the Rocky mountains,
and these will moderate the tempera-
ture slightly West of the Rockies it
is generally cooler.
Causes Two Wrecks.
Denver, Col, June 28.-Two trains
in Colorado met with accidents yester-
day as a result apparently of the in
tense heat which is believed to have
twisted the rails. Eight persons were
hurt, none fatally, when three coaches
of the San Francisco limited east
bound on the Denver & Rio Grande
went into the ditch at Sedalia. The
wreck was caused by displacement
of the rails.
Wreck i'm Denver Limits.
A few hours later an engine and two
coaches of a Colorado Midland train
were derailed inside the city limits of
Denver. presumably as result of heat
twisting the rails. The passengers and
crew escaped with shaking up.
Hottest in 10 Years.
Yesterday was the hottest day in 10
years in Denver. The thermometer
reached 9S.
Four Deaths In Chicago.
Chicago. June 2S.-Four deaths SUI
perinduced by heat were reported to
the police today. There were numer-
Gus cases of prostration.
Heat in boston Kills 13
Boston, June 2S.-The hottest
seven consecutive days in Boston ev-
er recorded by the Boston weather
bureau came to an end early yester-
day with a cool east wind and the
maximum temperature was y de-
grees lower than the day before.
During the heated period - deaths
and 175 prostrations were recorded.
Insane; Kills Self.
Allentown, Pa, June 2S.-Sumer-
ing physically and mentally from the
effects of the recent excessive heat
= William Hiskey, aged 60, formerly
of Oakland, Cal, committed suicide
yesterday by hanging. His widow
lives in Oakland.
Eight Die In New York.
New York, June 2S.-There were
eight deaths due to heat here yes
terday. The average temperature
for the day was So though the hui
midity was unusually great.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
WARREN HAS A. CANDIDATE
j. b. Brown of Monmouth for State
Supreme Court.

Hon. ]. B. Brown of Monmouth has
been brought forward by the bar Of
that city to take the place of Judge
Robert J. Grier as candidate for tho
republican nomination for the supreme
bench to succeed the late Justice Guy
c. Scott Judge Grier last week an
nounced he would not be candidate.
W. A. Meese of Moline, having been
mentioned as possible candidate, to-
day stated that he had not considered
entering the race.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
Sent 70 Water.,wr.

Wilfred the Buffalo Prairie
! brought here from Washington af-
having been adjudged of unsound
I, was recommitted' 10 th, Water
hospital Saturday evening. Ha
taken in charge at Washington
demanding $3,08O.00 that hc said
I'd advanced the government.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
WEREDRUCSUSED?
Evidence Points That Mrs.
Woodill Was Taken Advan-
tage of by Eastman.
BOTTLE LEFT IN BUNGAL LOW
Mans Body Buried ON Place, Even
Wife, Who Was a Few Miles
Away, Failing to Attend.

st. Michaels, Nd, June 2S.-After a
brief session in the bungalow the cor
oner's jury in the Eastman-Woodill
case adjourned the hearing without
rendering verdict No very material
new evidence was forthcoming.
Mcdaniel, Md, June 2S.-The East
man-Woodill coroner's jury assembled
here this afternoon to hear further tes-
timony
Lurcd To Bungalow.
st. Michaels, Md, June 2S.-The
theory that Edith May Woodill was
lured to Lame Bob" Eastman S
lonely bungalow without knowledge
of where she was going and that she
was drugged and detained there
against her will, was advanced yes
terday when further search of the
shack which the superstitious folks
of the neighborhood for evermore
will shun as haunted, revealed a
small bottle which hasty examina-
ton shows contained mixture of
narcotic drugs. There were strong
traces of morphine in the nearly empty
phial
Not In Drunken Orgie.
The discovery tends to bear out
the theory which the people of the
community long have wanted to be-
lieve. They never have listened to
the suggestion that she was involved
in a drunken orgie at the bungalow
and have contended that she lost her
life in repulsing the advances of the
man who acknowledged his guilt by
snuffing out his life when it seemed
that the hands of the law were about
to be laid upon him.
Eastman Invited Friends.
Yesterdays investigation led the
authorities still further away from
the idea that any one other than
Eas tman could have invited friends
from New York or from any other
place to visit his bungalow in the
condition it was in. The place, only
half completed, offered no accommo.
dations for visitors whatsoever. A
single bed, poorly fitted up; table
and a wash stand completed its
equipment of furniture. Eastman
himself slept in the place not infre.
fquently.
| Mans Body Buried.
| In a new made grave, not SO fee,
from the scene of the crime, which
| led him to his death, Eastman.
body was laid away early yesterday
No man of the church was there t.
offer last word for the dead; NJ
friend or relative came near. TIL,
undertakers and their assistants,
little band of newspaper men and ;
few idle persons, morbidly attracted
to follow the strange funeral pro
cession were the only persons at tn,
grave. With barred heads they re
peated the familiar words of tn,
Lords prayer. Mrs. Eastman, stop
ping IL miles away at Easto
pressed no desire to attend thl
eral.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
Won BUELOW WILL
QUIT HIS OFFICE
He Intends Being Cham
CelIor Only Till Finance Leg
islatiOn Is Disposed of.

/! Berlin, June 2S.-Prince Won Bue-
low authorized the announcement he
intends to retire from the empire in
any event so soon as the pending fl
nance reform measure is disposed of
i'm one way or another. The prince
remains in Office only temporarily in
an endeavor to pass the BILL
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28

Calhoun, president of the United rail-
roads whose trial on charge of Offer
ing bribe to supervisor ended last
Sunday in disagreement OF the jury.
announced that he would file motion
in an effort to impeach Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Francis ]. IIeney. He
also stated that he would file another
motion charging that Judge w. p.
Lawlor was biased and prejudiced.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
WIRELESS BRINGS HELP
Passenger Steamer, Propeller Lost,
/ Sends &c. Q. D." for Aid.

! SenUS 70. q. ID. TOT AIu.
Chicago, June 2S.-"C. Q. d." the
distress call of wireless telegraphy.
was sent out over Lake Michigan Sat-
nrday by the passenger steamer City
of Racine, which lost its propeller
wheel of Fort Sheridan. The call was
answered by the steamship Chicago.
which was well on its course to Mil
.waukee, and the steamship Iowa,
which was inbound off the Chicago
breakwater eight miles away Later
the steamship Christopher Columbus
of the same line. was ordered to pick
up the City of Racine and tow it back
to Chicago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
Case is Not Ended.

The circuit court is again occupied
this afternoon with the hearing of the
injunction case to prevent the moving
of building through the, streets of
Moline This morning demurrer in
one of the suits against the Sisters of
the Visitation, resulting from the op,
erations of p J. Kieran, was taken up,
but not disposed of by the. court.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
John r. considine Dead.

New York, June 2S.-John r. Con-
sidine, formerly proprietor of the
hotel Metropole and widely known
among sporting and theatrical men,
died of pleural pneumonia in his home
in this city Saturday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
ORvILLE WRIGHT
READY FOR FLIGHT
Aviator Scheduled to Make Test of
Flying Machine Built for the
Government.

Washington, June 2S.-Orville
Wright is scheduled to make pre-
liminary flight in his aeroplane at
FIT. Myer late this afternoon. Every
thing is in readiness and unless the
wind is too high, it is not expected
the test will be postponed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
An INCOME TAX
AMENDMENT IS
BEFORE SENATE

Washington, June 2S.-A resolution
proposing an amendment to the con
stitution authorizing an income tax
without apportionment among the
states was reported to the senate today
by Chairman Aldrich of the finance
committee. Borah objected to immedi-
ate consideration.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
OKLAHOMA MOB LYNCHES
Takes Slayer of Deputy Constable
from Jail mt WiIburton.

Wilburton, Okla, June 2S.-A mob of
so masked men took Sylvester Stem
nien. negro, known as Alabama
Red from the Jail here and lynched
him. The negro Thursday shot and
killed Albert Turner, deputy consta-
bic, who had attempted to arrest him.
The mob was orderly. The sheriff was
out of town and the night watchman
was temporarily absent from the Jail.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
G. A. R. UNWILLING JULY 3
big Display at Statue in Honor of
Founder of Organization.

Founder of Organization.
Washington, June 2S.-One of the
greatest events in the history of the
Grand Army of the Republic will occur
when the statue erected in this city of
DR.. Benjamin Franklin Stephenson,
founder of the organization, will be
unveiled July 3. In connection with
the unveiling exercises there will be a
parade of all available United States
military and naval forces and the dis
trict militia. President Taft will de.
liver an address.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
LEON LING NOT MURDERER
BUT VICTIM, new THEORY

entire stock in the new Nonpariel
company which publishes the Nou-
rareil, morning and evening editions.
by Victor e. Bender to d. w. Norris,
Jr., and W. p. Hughes. proprietor of
the Times-Republican at Marshalltown,
Iowa. They will continue to publish
the latter newspaper.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
Halle, Political Economist, Dies.

Berlin, June 2S.-Professor Ernest
Won Halle, political economist, died
here today of plurisy. He was born
in 1868. He was well known in the
United States.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
TWO COUNTERFElTs OUT
Both SO Bank Notes and Both Are
Clever limitations of Genuine.

New York, June 2S.-The local Sc
cret service has sent out warnings to
bankers to watch for two dangerous
counterfeits. One is a SO bill purport-
ing to have been issued by the Ma
tional Union bank of Baltimore, and
the other counterfeit $40 national
note on the Germania bank of San
Francisco. Both are said to be very
clever limitations
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
Brown Now Governors

Atlanta, Ca, June 2S-John NJ.
Brown Saturday took Office as COVER
nor of Georgia, succeeding Hoke
Smith.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
TO Walk
People of Pittsburg in Bad HUI
NOR Over the Street Car
Strike.
HEAT ADDS TO DISCOMFORT
Men Formulate Their Demands
RiOtiHg Accompanies Attempt
to Open Lines.

Pittsburg, June 2S.-Real violence in
the strike situation occurred shortly
after today when IA alleged strike
breakers were chased away from the
Rankin car barns by union sympa-
thizers. A fusillade of shots greeted
the strikebreakers as they emerged
from the barns. County Detective Eng
lert was badly beaten up by the crowd
Farley Futile.
A long drawn out parley between
Mayor Magee, who threatens to use
his plenary powers to end the strike.
and the executive strike committee of
the motormen and conductors adjourn
ed this afternoon with the strike situa-
tion unsolyed.
People I'm Bad Mood.
Pittsburg, June 2S.-With business
paralyZed to partial extent, with in
adequate train service, and with resi-
dents already becoming annoyed over
interrupted traffic conditions, Greater
Pittsburg entered into the second day
of its street car strike today with none
too pleasant feelings.
Rioting, it is predicted, will imme-
diately follow the attempt of the car
company TO operate any of its cars dur
ing the next "a hours. The entire po
lice force is being held in reserve al
their precinct stations today.
What the Men Want.
The grievances of the union men In
clude charges of discrimination against
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28

Council Bluffs Paper Sold.
Council Bluffs, Iowa, June 2S.
is made of the sale
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
WOULD IMPEACH HENEY
Counsel for Patrick Calhoun, Will
File. Against Opponent.

San Francisco. June 2S.-Attorney
Stanley Moore of counsel for Patrick