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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
SENATE AGAIN
TAKES Up THE
TARIFF BILL
FIRST VOTE TAKEN TODAY GIVES
VICTORY TO ALDRIcH OVER
THE INsuRGENT SENATORS
AND DEMOCRATIC.

Washington, D. c., June T. - The
senate today resumed it's work of re-
vising the tariff by sustaining the COM
mittee on finance in its recommends
tions by a vote of Al to 26, Foster and
McEnery, as usual. voting with the
majority, and nine Republicans, Bever-
idge, Bristow, Brown, Burkett, Cum
Minis, Dolliver, Gamble, LaFollette and
Nelson voting with the Democrats.
The vote was taken on the amend
ment to levy duty of three cents a
square yard and 20 per cent advalor-
EN- on cotton window hollands.
Porto Rican Bill Passed.
The house today resumed consiler.
alton Of the Porto Eican bill and fin
ally passed the bill which authorized
the continuance Of the current appro
priations for the next fiscal year.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
KENTUCKY FEuD
CLAIMS ANOTHER
Ex-SHERlFF CALLAHAN SLAIN AS
ELIMINATION OF RREATHlTT
TRAGEDIES.

Jackson, KY, June 7. - Ex-sheriff
Edward Callahan, famous throughout
this section of the state for the part
he played in numerous feuds that had
disrupted Breathitt county for years,
was shot from ambush early today
and probably fatally wounded at his
home in Crockettsville Callahan had
swept out his store preparatory to
opening for the day and was brushing
the refuse from the front door when
shot was fired. Blcodhounds have
been put on the track of the assassin.
The excitement is intense.
500 Hurt by Explosion.
Cracow, Austrian Poland, June T.
Five hundred persons were wounded
by an explosion of an army powder
magazine here Saturday night. Three
soldiers were killed and hundreds OF
houses were damaged.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
CHILD cHokEs ON NIPPLE.
Little Theodore s. WesthoIm of Dav-
enport Meets Tragic
Death,

Davenport, June Z. - Theodore s..
Westholm, the seven-months-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Theadore Westholm Of
ITO Eighteenth and half avenue,
Moline, choked to death on nipple
Saturday afternoon. It's mother gave
it a nipple and then went to one of
the neighbor's homes.
Coming back to get a teakettle, she
found that the baby had swallowed
the nipple and was choking. She at
once summoned physician and ev-
erything possible was done to save the
child's life, but without avail.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
Supreme Court
Says Blodgett
Must Serve Time

s. .aaA@AAA i j. i j. j
]. Des Moines, June I'd. T.
!. Blodgett, a politician and can \
j. didate for congress on an in i
!. dependent ticket last fall, must !
j. serve term Of five years in \
i. the penitentiary according to \
!. the decision of the state SUI !
!. preme court handed down to- !
j. day. Blodgett was convicted of i
!. having issued forged instru- !
j. ment.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
SHOOTS TWO; SUICIDES
Ohio Man Goes Insane Through Worry
Over Lawsuit, Causes Reign
of Terror.

Columbus, o., June Tn an insane
frenzy caused by brooding over a law
suit, Edward Sands, aged 6S, former
inmate of the county infirmary, today
shot and wounded Jacob Zettler in the
latter's grocery and attempted to kill
c. M. Gardner, one of Zettler's clerks.
Yelling like mad, he drove three peo-
pie from the grocery during the brief
reign of terror then fatally shot him
self.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
BoLIciToR GENERAL RULES ON
FAMOUS CONTROVERSY AND
uPHoLDs CONTENTION OF THE
BLENDED DlsTlLLERs.
MOLASSES BOOZE
MYTH HE DECLARES
oILuTIoN OF WHISKY BY ADDI-
TIoN OF ALCOHOL DOES NOT
ROB 1T OF ITS NAME; RE-
VERSES FORMER DECISION.

Washington, D. c., June solicitor
General Bowers today submitted to
President Taft his opinion as to what
the term whisky" means in law. In
effect Bowers holds, after discussing
at great length what the term "whis-
KY meant at the time of the passage
Of the pure food law, that the public
does not consider that added coloring
Or favoring matter can make whisky
out of what otherwise Is not whisky.
Whisky is regarded generally and
naturally as having flavor and prop
critics Of its own.
Mixture Still Whisky.
A mixture of whisky with alcohol or
neutral spirits is entitled to the name
of whisky, Bowers holds, provided the
mixture retains a substantial amount
of the by-products in proportion of
the volume of the mixture giving the
distinct flavor and properties.
He says the addition of alcohol to
whisky is not the introduction Of a
foreign substances, but is merely the
enlargement of the proportion of one
proper constituent. 1t is merely form
Of dilution just as the addition OF
water is.
Can't Make 1t From MoIasses.
The dilution by alcohol lessons only
the congeneric strength. The unmis
takeable reduction of stronger straight
whisky by the addition Of alcohol tc
an identity with weaker straight
whisky does not deprive the mixed
article of the name of whisky.
Bowers holds the name whisky has
no different scope whether it be uset
as drug or as a beverage. He alst
holds that the contention that whis
ky may be made from molasses is in
correct.
overrules Former Decision.
While the opinion of Bowers is no
final and may be overturned by sub
Bequent proceedings, it is distinctly {
victory for the contention of the blend
ed whisky distillers and is a reversa
of the position heretofore taken b
the department of agriculture. TIL
opinion is very voluminous.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
Mrs. Taft Saves Russian.

Washington, D. c., June Mrs.
mercy, has saved from death Rus
sian named Perovich, convicted of
murder at Fairbanks, Alaska and SEN
fenced to be executed 1t is said that
her intercedence with the President in
huenced him to change the sentence to
life Imprisonment, which he did yes
terday.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
ANOTHER COUNTERFEIT
Ten Dollar Note Is Being Circulated:
May be Identified by Poor
Fiqures.

Washington, June IA deceptive
counterfeit ten dollar national bank
note, bearing the portrait of William
Mckinley has been discovered by the
secret service. The note is on the
Citizens Central National bank OF
New York City, series 1902. The num-
Der is poor, the figures being irregu,
lar in size and alignment.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
KILLS SELF AND SON
Salem, Ohio, Woman, Despondent
Over Sons Incurable MaIady,
Kills Him-Suicides.

Salem, Ohio, June Mrs. Eliza
beth Sharp, a prominent society wom-
an, and the wife of G. V. Sharp, poll
tician and manufacturer, killed her
twelve-year-old son. Harold, last night
and then herself with revolver. The
motive for the tragedy is believed to
be the woman's sorrow over the in
durable nature Of her sons malady.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
TRY TO LYNCH AN UMPIRE.
Saved by Police as He is About to
Be Strung up by the Neck;
Badly Beaten.

Frankfort, KY. June Baseball
fans and spectators yesterday after the
game at Paris, KY. near here, in
which Winchester beat Paris 4 to 2,
took Umpire Wilson off the diamond
and were carrying him off to lynch
him. when Chief Of Police Hi and
deputies rescued him. The mob also
hurried across the town and caught
Wilson in an auto as he was being
hurried out of the town and beat him
severely He escaped with his life by
being carried away on q special car.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
shrlners In Session.

Louisville, June THE thirty-fifth
annual session Of the Mobiles Of the
Mystic Shrine convened here today
Little business comes before the ses-
sion beyond the election of officers
and the granting of new temple char
ters.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
500 Hurt by ExpIosion,
STAYS MAN ON TRIAL
st. Louis Constable Shot Down ir
Court Room by His Former
Deputy

ST Louis, June Z. - Fred Mohrle,
who killed Constable Sam Young sew
eral weeks ago, was assassinated in
the corridor of the criminal court
building today by William Kane, for
mer deputy under Young. The shoot
ing occurred as Mohrle was being TAX
en- to the court to stand trial, and is
the elimination Of a bitter political
feud.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
Member of u. ofC.
Faculty Denounced
BY The Baptists

+ !. X 4 !. !. 4 j. T. j. ~ +.|A \ j. .
+ Chicago, June because of !
= his views on religion, particu- ;
+ larly as to the divinity of Jesus ,
\ Christ, Professor George Bur :
\ man, professor of theology at !
\ the University of Chicago, was :
+ denounced as an undesirable
\ member of the, Baptist denom-
4 ination," and his withdrawal
= from the Baptist church and
+ university was demanded by
4 speakers at the weekly meet
!. ing of the Chicago Baptist min
\ listers conference here today.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
TEN DROWN IN SOUTH
Collapse Of Wharf Near New Orleans
Fatal; Seven Others May be
In Mater

Vaudeville, La, June by the
collapse Of frail wharf here upon
which about sixty-five people had rush
ed last evening to board the excur-
sion steamer Margaret, ten persons
are known to be dead. A rescue
party is searching for the bodies of
seven other persons who are missing
and whom it is feared have been lost.
All were residents of New Orleans.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
Detroit Autos XIII Five.

Detroit, June T. TWO men dead,
two women and one child injured, is
the heavy toll automobiles took in De
troit in the past forty-eight hours.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
Detroit Broker suicides.

Detroit, June IA. Milton Holden,
B. Osborne e Co., committed suicide
today by shooting himself. Holden
vas respondent over business affairs.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
Down Direct Senator Vote.

Madison, Wis, June 1.-THE assem-
bly, today killed the senate join resolu-
tion asking congress to change the
constitution SO that United States ser
ators may be eletced by the direct
vote of the people.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
Veteran Killed by rraIn.

Marshalltown, June 7.-Jerome Sea-
bury, 70 years old, member Of the
Iowa soldiers home, was struck by a
Chicago and Northwestern freight
train yesterday and killed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
Former U. S. Marshal Dead

Des Moines, June T.. (SpeciaD IS.
S. Ethridge, formerly United States
marshal for the southern district CT
Iowa, died this morning. age II years.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
Autos 3,each ST. Louis

ST. Louis, s'une 1.-Two Ford cars
In the New York to Seattle automo-
bile race arrived here at 1880 O'clock
this morning and the Shawmut ma
chime at o'clock.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
MaeLaurin, Heads institute.

Boston, June Before an assem-
blage of notable guests, DR.. Richard
Cockburn MacLaurin, formerly con-
nected with the Columbia university
today was inducted into office as
president OF the Institute of TechnoI-
ogv.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
HIakesburo Man Seriously Injured.

Blakesburg, June Z. Especial. y
poak Cooper, while returning home
ast night from church at Ash Grove,
was seriously injured when his buggy
went into deep hole. He was thrown
pver the dashboard and kick by the
horse rendered him unconscious.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
insurgency Touched Upon.

Mr. MacVeagh in this connection,
said that he saw for himself very
clearly that while President Taft would
be greatly and temperamentally in
clined toward party regularities and to
the encouragement Of party unity, he
would not wish nor be able to lose
sight of the fact that the Republican
party has wished to dedicate itself in
the present time-even as 1t did in its
earliest days-to the furtherance Of the
higher ideals of the people, to the
wider and more varied and complete
progress Of the nation and to the ma
tion's helpful work and influence in the
world at large" He referred to the
presidents Difference and respect for
the formal privileges of the congress,
"and what is more significant and in
teresting at present is not the actual
non-interference, but rather the fine
disposition the president shows to re-
spect all rights and to meet everybody
half way in the hope and interest Of
homogeneous party Of progress-a
disposition which can only be in
terpreted as statemanlike conciliation
| and which 1t would be fatal mistake
to consider as change of actual policy
| or purpose.
AS to the Roosevelt policies, Mr..
MacVeagh said that they were as safe
in the hands of the present administra-
tion as they were in the hands of the
last. I'VE are not hearing much about
sthem,' he said, "but that is. partly be.
cause the president has his own way
of arriving at results and because
| other issues are not associated with
| them in the activities at Washington
issues that before left to the Roosevelt
policies the whole stage" He men
toned the tariff. Currency and bank
ling reform would have to be wrought
1 out in the present years; the deeper
reunion of the south with the north
would interest people and administra
ton.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
INSANE MAN CAUSED
PANIC AMONG MEN
WITH RAzoR-EpeEp KNIFE THE
FORMER oTTuMWA PACKING
HOUSE EMPLoYE SUDDENLY.
RUNS AMUck WHILE AT WORK.

John J. Murphy, who late Sat-
urday afternoon killed five mon In
SomerviIe, Mass, and wounded
four others, was enpo.yed at the
plant of John Morrell g. Co., seven
teen years ago as butcher, and
worked here until he moved to
Somerville ten years ago. He was
we'll known among packing house
men and residents living In the
Vicinity of May and Mabel streets,
where he and his wife resided. He
was a skilled butcher and while
here performed the occupation OF
cutting off heads of hogs after
they left the scraplns room Of tho
packing plant. Murphy had no
relatives here SO far as Is known.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08

maniacal shrek, John Murphy turned
from pig sticking to man killing in
the North Packing and Provision com
panys slaughter house Saturday, and
driving his fellow workmen befora
him, slew five of them and wounded
four others. Two of the wounded
were reported later as dying.
The dead are:
SMITH, HUBERT. colored, Of Cam.
bridge
CATRE, JAMES, colored Of Cam.
bridge.
GROVE, THOMAS, OF Cambridge.
JAMAIS, MICHAEL, SUNNI merville.
The wounded are:
DR.. Daniel G. Hayes, government In.
spector of Waltham.
John Cheevus, Of Cambridge.
John Lewis, Of Cambridge.
Josph Chetkokslky, of Somerville.
John Patterson, Of Somerville.
According to some workmen, Muir.
ply had been acting peculiarly for
some days, but he returned from hia
dinner apparently in normal condition.
Maniac Starts Slaughter.
Shortly after 2 o'clock he suddenly
uttered scream and sprang at DR.,
Hayes, waving 15-inch razor
edged knife in his hand. He cut
Hayes deep cash, on the neck, stab.
! bed him over the heart and prac.
tically disembowled him. The terrified
| workmen rushed for the door, but
Murphy ran after them, slashing right
and left. Every man whom he
struck went down with a groan. The
crowd plunged down stairs with Muir
pry after them and at every landing
he cut somebody. On the second floor
one of the workmen seized a heavy
bar of iron and felled Murphy, but
he was quickly on his feet again and
wounded another man.
Overpowered After Fight
On the street floor he was given an.
other heavy blow on the head and his
knife was wrenched from his hand.
Two policemen came in to assist the
workmen and Murphy was given d
fearful beating before he was finally
| overpowered and taken to the police
station.
The wounded men were taken to tha
Cambridge relief station, where 1t was
reported there Is very little hope oi
Hayes or Cheeyus surviving their
wounds. Murphy had worked for the
North company five years, coming To
Somerville from Iowa nine years ago.
4 Witnesses Of the slaughter said that
more than three hundred employees
were driven from the plant when
Murphy started on his wild rush
through the six floors and basement oi
, the building, and not few mer
escaped death by narrow margin
!; DR.. e. w. Clark, Of West Somerviile
the United States veterinary at the
plant, saw the attack On Hayes, ant
at Hayes command hastened to sent
for doctor. Murphy followed Clarl
who later ran into side room. Muir
ply followed, completely blocking tn
doorway. The butcher yelled at thu
doctor and told him to get out. A sud
den change seemed to comeaover thu
lunatic for minute, and he steppet
, to one side with pleasant Hello
Doctor" and allowed Clark to pass.
+ Doctor object Of Vengeance.
$ DR.. Fred Saunders, of Salem, anoth
: er veterinary at the plant, seemed t
be an object Of Murphy's vengeance
for Murphy was heard constantly NUT
tering his name as he rushed through
: the rooms. Saunders recently CAV
Murphy young bull dog which 800
:, died, and Murphy was constantly ash
: : ing for another to take its place. Mul
Z r. n
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
M'vEACH Gives
TAFT'S POLICY
SECRETARY OF TREASURY SAYS
THERE WILL BE GREAT AD-
MINiSTRATioN CHANGE.

Chicago, June 7.-Franklin Mac
Veagh, secretary of the treasury and
Jacob M. Dickinson, secretary of war,
were the guests of honor at banquet
Of the Chicago Commercial club here
Saturday night.
In his speech MacVeagh outlined the
characteristics of the Taft administra-
tion and emphasized the fact that 1T
would be a distinguishable from the
Roosevelt administration as Roose-
velt's was from McKinley's.
Dickinson talked of the Panama
canal. as he had seen it on his recent
trip. He talked about the canal in op-
timistic vein and said he is certain 1t
will be finished on schedule time.
In the mind OF Secretary MacVeagf
the leading and controlling note Of the
present administration was deter
mined tendency toward regularity OF
decision and Of procedure. President
Taft he said, would administer his Of
fee within constituted boundaries. The
effect of this he declared, would be
to keep the president the leader of the
party organization. President Taft, he
said, was the man of progress, "and 1t
goes without saying that no great lead
er of an American party, in this day
and generation, can fail to understand
the values of independent thought and
action in the party itself, wherever
they are manifested, whether in CON
gress or at large if only this indie
pendence aims at the party's progress
and liberalization and If it seeks in
and through the party to answer more
perfectly the deliberate and wise de
mands of the nation. And you and
must agree-for we cannot escape the
conclusion-tha it might become al
any time the duty of any great party
/ leader to create for his party a new
/ M q inritN and control
Monroe City Democrat., 1909-09-09
Democrat and courier-Posts Popularity Contest

The ladies who admirably
o one o
o o is
DEMOCRAT CouerPs the number them
cand
if a a a
tha
Sta erormer
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Monroe City Democrat., 1909-09-09
Don't be Timid--Ask Questions
That's What We're Here For.

you information regarding DEMOCRAT and Courier
Posts Great SIS 500 Popular Contest?
If so; drop in and write call up
The Contest Department maintains representatives
and willing to any and all questions
calls from asking for
regarding pertaining great $50000
Some TMID about asking for information Get
from that idea The Contest Department opens m and closes
week day During those twelve hours there
santy duty only willing but anxious give full and
plete information any question you may ask
You talk ntegeny convincingy prospective
scbers unless know thoroughly what talking about
Not only have representative duty all day. but
have representatives who here for the purpose calling
getting them started right filling them chuck full of useful
nation and putting them the right road to becoming winner
When you consider that the DEMOCRAT and
giving ABSOLUTELY FREE 100000 worth awards
sne $2O00O Ford Automobile eight $3.50 Panos eight
mond Rings eight Scholarships the Hannibal Commercial College
eight $2 guaranteed Gold Watches thyhree elegant
doesn't ought justice yourself all the
information regards conducting successful campaign
and make TRY for these extraordinary awards? Think
what be gained by little HARD WORK The
full swing and votes pouring rapidly Many hanging back
debating WHY Simply because they do understand fully the
magnificent awards be for the labor Why
onee Get with the Department and start
active work Immediately.
have conditions the
plain but there be doubt in the minds
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PEI THAT DOUBT asking information You are only
getting what here give give you chey Talk
minutes hour it's all the are positively
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where it will do good,
nothing well Office force us up and ask to
representative call and then there to
give you all the information could possibly desire
Ask for the Contest Department.
We are here to serve you--make earn our
money. 7 a ad
Monroe City Democrat., 1909-09-09

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Monroe City Democrat., 1909-09-09
Nomination Blank.
$500 Prize Contest.

While it is not absolutely neces-
sary that one of these blanks be
sent in for each candidate who de-
sires to compete, it would facilitate
matters if the contestants would
do so.
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votes.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-01-15
Decision Affects Only
ExtentiOn Of Agency

Guthrie. Okla, Jan. l5-Under the
decision Of the Oklahoma supreme
court on the now famous state agency
case. wherein the question Of continu.
ing the state agency was raised, the
holding Of the court determines the
legal outcome Of the last election on
that question The agency is stin in
force, but its application to towns
of less than ] 1,OOO was not adopted.
It develops that the legality Of the
entire question based on the election
results, reyolved about the phrase
ology of the ballot used last November.
The lower court held that there we're
two distinct subjects intended for sub
mission, under the legislative act, but
by the wording Of the ballot the two
were grouped as one. The idea was
upheld by the supreme court.