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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01

The democrats in Congress who are Drevet republicans should get ready for a warm home campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01

Castro, is going home to face hos tile multitude, and pretty soon the 2S de1rocratic bolteia will do likewise
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01

Canada has stopped the piping of nat ural gas to the United States. This is putting conservation of natural re- sources on a practical footing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01

Kidnaperess Boyle longs to get out of jail to take hand in uplifting the stage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01

Minneapolis and St. Paul are dis cussing consolidation. The gross re- suit would be a city in the Baltimore class.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01

Uncle Joe's nephews are becoming more dutiful and polite, but some of them still have something up their sleeves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01

d JOhe
 "so long as the bachelor enjoys thq joke, why should anybody carer"
 A MERRY CANDIDATE. He blithely ran for office,
 And while he didn't win, He still shook hands with everyone And wore a cheerful grin Now, that's the sort of fellow Who ought to have a crown; Just cause another got the job. He didn't start to frown. Most greedy office-seekers Are only pleasant while They're running-when defeated they No longer wear smile.
 REPLIES. Typewriters continue to get the worst of it in fight talk.
 A traveller who had his trousers stolen in q sleeping car missed some important connections. including connection with his trousers.
 The only regrettable feature of Colonel Roosevelt's trip to Africa Is that it start cd Professor Starr of Chicago to yawp- irg.
 An Atlanta man fell in love with widows biscuits. married her and died of acute indigestion A sad, short story If nobody feels able to whip Mistah Johnson, steps should immediately be taken by the Anti-Noise society to gag him.
 The knowledge that Buffalo Bill'' is on the water wagon probably makes the driver of that time-honored vehicle feel like cracking his whip louder than ever. When a man gets up in the morning feeling as if he were 100 years old, the chsi ces are that he travelled the equiv- alent of "century' the night before. Crfzy Snakes little escapade lends ad- ditioual weight to the belief that most of the good Indians are dead
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01

As things are going in the amuse- ment world the nickelodeon is the kin dergarten of the stage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01

Those African lions that mauled 13 hunters last year are about to get what is due them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01

Benzoate of soda is good preserva- tive in every instance except diges- tion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01

If Arkansas goes dry there will no longer be a demand for an old-home week in that state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01

Johndee says he is running the oil wagon, not the water wagon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01

England and Germany are raising each other with an ante of Dread noughts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01

Dr. Eliot would not only fill White law Reid's shoes but overflow them on every side
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01
IN POLITICS.
WHY. INDEEn2 2

"Pa, what are lies nailed with ?" Usually another lie. my son.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01
Real Estate Active.

of the filing of deeds of conveyance is significant the realty market is cer- taiplv not dead by any means" said Sam M. Blake, clerk of the probate court yesterday.
 ''The file of the probate court has been exceptionally heavy recently and inves- tors seem to be buying substantial prop erty especially in the residence sections Of the city. Much property Is also being bought in small tracts.
 Tt seems to me that the heavy file of warranty deeds is evidence of the con- fdence of investors in Birmingham real estate and that the sign is good one"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01

Everybody seems to think bachelor a joke "so long as the bachelor enjoys thq joke, why should anybody care?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01

! Mrs Earle says the affinity business
 does not pay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01
Tn. Treble cIef Concert.

Music lovers are speaking in high nraise of the Treble Clef clubs con cert which was given Tuesday night at the Jefferson theatre" said a well known musician. While there is some difference of opinion among the critics regarding the playing of Hartmann, the violinist, all agree that he Is great artist.
 "One of the notable fine features or the concert was the musicianly work of Mrs. Charles E. Bowman, as accom- panist to the Treble C1ef chorus. This lady has established herself as val uable acquisition to Brminghams musical contingent.
 "Reverting to Hartmann, amusing stories are told of his distress over reaching Birmingham on pelated train and having to hurry to the Jef- ferson with out being able to fix nm self up in a dress suit. He relt chagrinned and at first declined to go
 on the stage in his every day clothes unless the lady chorus retired. He had ] the lights turned down. The audience
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01

Washington Bureau Age-Herald' 142l c street. N. W.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01

The tariff on tea will boom sassafras
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-01

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to
Norwich bulletin., 1909-10-26
Condensed Telegrams

OOEu6uS6u l6l6yTdlllS
 King Manuel of Portugal who has been ill, is eonvalescent.
 Charles F. spaIdins, prominent Chicago banker, Is dead.
 Princeton University has recently re- ceiyed gifts aggregating $54,417
 A Bomb Was Found in the Church or the Irish Dominicans at Lisbon.
 Nicholas Nj. Smith died at Mobile from tetanus caused by bad tooth:
 It is Reported That Spain will not push any further its operations in. Mo- rocco.
 Ten Thousand Persons Took Part in an anti-clerical demonstration at Bill bao, Spain.
 Hope Booth, the Actress, is lying in hospital in Genoa, Italy, suffering from nervous breakdown.
 Henry Charles Lea, widely known as author, banker and scientist, died in Philadelphia, aged S4 years.
 At Ia Mass Meeting in Los Angeles resolutions were adopted protesting against the surrender of De Lara to Mexico.
 The Unveiling of a Statue of Gen. Jose de San@Martin, the South Ameri- can liberator, took place at Boulogne Sur Mer, France.
 The United States Steel Corporation plans to buy up the breweries in Fay cite county, Pa, to curb the drinking of, the cokeworkers.
 The Contest Over the Will of Mar garetta Todd. the eccentric millionaire, who died in New York in 1905, has finally been amicaDly adjusted.
 The Revenue Cutter Woodbury saved vessels from collision with a derelict off Sequoin light. on the Maine coast, and lowed the derelict to port.
 A Movement to Raise Funds for a memorial tablet to Prof. Ross G. Mar win, who was drowned on the Peary north pole expedition, has been started at Cornell
 Oscar Pease and Charles Wycoff, en- gineerS, were killed by the blowing out of a firebox on a Cleveland, Gin cinnati. Chicago and St. Louis freight locomotive.
 Many Valuable Jewels and expensive shirt waists were found in the trunk of Bessie Lee in Greenwich. Conn She had worked as laundress for many rich New York families
 Charles N. Fowler, chairman of the 1ae.ara kA~.. l. lenged Senator Aldrich to a joint de- bate on the latters plan to establish central bank in this country.
 Rev. Oscar Haywood, pastor of the Collegiate Baptist Church of the Covenant. New York city, says that if the Apostle Paul were living today he. would be a Champion of woman suf- f.age.
 King AIfonso's New Cabinet is try ing to quiet the storm aroused by Ferrer's execution. while the other governments of Europe are watching the movements of the more extreme socialists with interest
 In Battle between the revolution- ists and the government troops on the San Juan river. below Boca San Car torious 100 of the government troops being killed and 800 wounded.
 Unusual Precautions are being taken to protect Emperor Nicholas on his travels because of the agitation that followed the execution of Francisco Ferrer. the Spanish educator and re- former. After quitting Italian soil the ruler of the Russians is to meet M. Pichon. the French foreign minister on the Italian frontier.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-10-26
SHOT HIS WIFE
 ON A SOUTH NoRWAK STREET
fingered Because She Would Not Live
 With Him.

South Norwalk Conn, Oct 25.- fingered because she refused to return to his home in Bridgeport and live with him, James A. Reynolds, 2S years old. shot and seriously, if not fatally, wounded his wife Acelia, A years old. on South Main street here. tonight. Mrs Reynolds left her husband. with whom she, had been living in Bridge port a short time ago. and came to the home of her mother here and se- cured work in local hat factory. Since leaving her mother he had re- to him, but had in each case refused. ing her place of employment and again asked her to return to him and on her refusal drew a revolver and fired six shots at her. four taking effect. One bullet struck her over the right eye. passing through her head, de- stroying the sight of both eyes; a sec ond shot struck her right wrist. a third her right arm and the fourth her right breast.
 Mrs. Reynolds was taken to Memo rial hospitals, where it is thought that she has slight chance for recovery. though if she does live she will be totally blind.
 Reynolds walked away after shoot ing his wife and was arrested a short distance away from the scene of the shooting. He seemed to realize what he had done and said that he guessed it was all up with him. He will be held pending the result of his wife's injuries.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-10-26

liam J. Gaynor, democratic nominee for mayor, John F. Calvin, democratic nominee for president of the board of aldermen. and Robert Moore. demo- cratic nominee for comptroller. whose names appear under the Independence league emblem, to appear as witnesses.
 While the Independence league is not now. strictly speaking, an organization of Independent voters. the adoption of the name by Tammany Hall was con- sidered an asset to the democratic candidate in that it might lead Hearst supporters to vote under that emblem. Fervid Oratory from Three Candidates.
 While lawyers were arguing in court over this latest phase of the campaign, fervid oratory by the three candidates for mayor was going on throughout the greater city. Judge Gaynor addressed a gathering of Columbia students and others at the university late this after noon and spoke before a labor mass meeting at Cooper Union tonight. MT. Hearst spoke first at the Murray Hill Lyceum in the heart of New York, city proper, then crossed over to Long Island. where he spoke at College Point and Long Island City. Mir. Barnard. the republican nominee, delivered a se- ries of addresses in Brooklyn.
 The Hearst and Gaynor speeches to- night paralleled each other in many respects. Both dwelt at length on po- lice reform and both criticized General Theodore A. Bingham, recently busted as police commissioner. Heretofore Hearst has made little reference to the police, but Gaynor has emphasized in nearly all of his addresses his ciews on Personal Liberty" Hearst follow ed along these same lines tonight.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-10-26
ONE RoBsER STOOD GUARD
While Another Entered and Robbed a
 Saloon and Killed Two Men.

Philadelphia, Oct 25.-A new and surprising solution to the mysterious killing of two nen and the wounding of a third in a saloon in Old York road on September 27 was made public today, when Michael Comporto. who has been under arrest here during the past week, made a confession in which he admits that he kept guard on the outside of the building while Sebas- tiano Dimasse went inside, shot the three men and robbed the cash draw er Dimasse was arrested in Jersey City last Saturday. but denied all knowledge or the crime and fought extradition
 After the shooting James Quinn and Henry Saylor who had both been shot in the stomach. died before they were able to shed any light on the tragedy.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-10-26
Took His Wife to the Woods Near Islip and
 Shot Her Eighteen Months Ago
THE MURDERER'S SIGNED CONFESSION
Anna Luther whose Skeleton Found Week Ago was but One of several Women whom Frederick Cebhardt MarriedT thrilling Details of the Tracking by Detectives of the Slayer to His Home in storia

1 Wrote Fatal Letter to German Consul.
 T am the husband" it ran, with out doubt of the woman, Anna Muel- Ter. After we arrived in New York from Germany, in April of last year, we stayed in New York ten days. Then v7e went to Florida for the health of my wli 1pand settled there for the time being.
 Tn Jamaica where I formerly lived with my wife. she had received vis- itor whom she represented to me to be a Mir. Bradley of Denver. From ! Florida we went to Denver, and this Mir. Bradley called again. In Sep tember, 1908, my wife disappeared, ofter 1 reproached her for seeing Brad ley when 1 happened to be away for two days.
 "This man. Bradley, is about six feet high with light hair, smooth face, and claims to be a real estate agent. l, Mueller, will at once go to Germany to see my parents in-law and will then be at your service"
 T he same inexDlicable impulse which prompted Gebhardt to write this fatal letter had led him to give to Bradley imagination. his own personal descrip tion. As soon as he saw the letter again his jaw dropped, he grew white and began to shiver, and before the reading was completed, exclaimed: "Oh what's the use. anyway? You have me, and I might as well own I killed her.
 "l Had to Get Rid of Her."
 Given verbally the confession as re- lated was even more shocklngly brutal, the police say, than it appears in the formal language of the police officers, whose version Gebhardt signed.
 T had to get rid of her" he said, but I did not mean to kill her. thought first I could get her to give me some money for land l didn't own. So I took her down, to Long Island. near some lots I did own, to let her see the land. She would not come to terms, and told her then that 1 was .already married and had child low ed, that I was tired of her and wanted to go back to my wife.
 "She began to cry and plead and scream and run about. She told me she loved me and kissed me. AS she put up her face to kiss me again, I shot her in the head"
 How the Detectives Found His Home.
 Gebhardt told the police he never thought it worth while to go back to bury her. Instead he wrote let ters to her friends in Newark and Germany, telling them that Anna was III DODT nedlllI, duu tiiQ SOHS LO TlOi- ida, Then he quit bothering about her"
 Gebherdt, when he was in Germany, bought two German police dogs. and it was by tracing the dogs that the detectives found his home in Astoria. While a newspaper photographer chanced flashlight at the dogs. the flare revealed the pale face of Geb- hardt peering from the, chinks of an outhouse. He was run down and ar rested.
 Search of the house discovered a quantity of household effects and woman's fnery marked "A. L." Geb- hardt had told his wife he bought them at sale of unclaimed trunks in Germany.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-10-26
Repeaters Sent
 To Sing Sing
cHAs. FOX AND PATRICK NooNAN
 GET FIVE YEARS.
JUDGE DYKE OF BR0oKLYA
In Passing Sentence Scored the Pris- oners and Hoped That the Lesson Win Discourase Others.


 New York, Oct. 25.-Judge Dike in the county court, Brooklyn, today, sentenced Charles A. Fox to not more than five years and not less than two and a half years, and Patrick Noonan to five years in Sing Sing for illegal registration. In sentencing the men, he said:
 You have been convicted of the crime of illegal registration on the eve of a great municipal election. Such a great offense against our laws is of peculiar interest. You are types of the miserable repeaters who, in the past. with the frightful system we know existed voted or tried to vote in several election districts, and proba- bly, in several boroughs of the city. What can the people expect of the ballot when such miserable types as you nullify it's workings?
 Tn the borough of Brooklyn it is hoped that repeaters will be discour- aged when your pals learn how this court disposes of such men as you"
Norwich bulletin., 1909-10-26
DYNAMITE EXPLOSIONS
 LAID TO LABOR UNIONS. Four Buildings in Indianapolis Wreck ed About Midnight Sunday.

Indianapolis, Ind Oct. 25.-Four buildings in different parts of the city were wrecked late last night by ex- plosions of dynamite caused, according to the police. by malicious members of labor unions employed by Albert Won Speckelson, contractor, in the construction of a Mystic Shrine temple and theater.
 The four explosion occurred about midnight. and it was not discovered until today that more than two build ings had been damaged. Two auto mobiles and two horses were destroyed in the explosion and fire in Von Speckelson's stable. A branch ex- change building unde,' construction by him was damaged beyond repair Von Speckelson's blaming mill was torn to pieces. A branch Of the public libra ", being built by Won Speckelson, was damaged to the extent of $1.O00.
 During the fire at Won Speckelson's home fine horse, pet of the family, staggered out of the stable, horribly burned. and was shot by a policeman.
 Small buildings surrounding those destroyed were damaged.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-10-26

New York. Oct. 25.-A year and a half ago girl was murdered in a forsaken patch of woodland near Islip, Long Island; a week ago the crime was discovered when her bleached and charred skeleton was found with noth- ing to indicate it's identity but her jewelry and a bill of sale from Ger man shop; three days later. through the police of Hamburg, Germany, her identity was established as Anna Lu- ther, though the cables first carried the name as Latter; last night her husband, Frederick Gebhardt was caught in Astoria. l.. l., and tonight he confessed over his signature that he Is the murderer
 The Confession in Full
 The confession is as follows:
 About December, 1907, first met Anna Luther. We were married in February. 1908, and went to Europe to live. We returned April 6. 1908. She went to Henry Wertupp's in Newark. N J., to spend a day or two. On the pretense that l was going to rent an apartment for us to live in, I returned to my home and wife in Astoria.
 T met Anna again on April s, in Newark, and we went to an address in Thirty fourth street, New York. and NIlEi u JdHtdANd- A>. T. WV Stos SN Db Jamaica until next day.
 April we went to Bayshore and We walked about, and I showed her some property l got into an argu ment with her about some money mat ters and I turned away and wanted to go back. She followed me up, scream ing. and shot her in the head. I did not look at her, and do not remember whether I shot her more than once.
 Immediately after, l went to the Islip depot and took 4 train for home It was nearly dark. On the way home on the trainsI threw the revolver out of the car window.
 Why He Shot Anna Luther.
 T want to state that I did not kill Anna Luther for her money as the newspapers have stated. My original reason for marrying Anna was that I did not care to live with my first wife any longer, but as she-my first wife had given me child, my desire to again zee my child caused me to want to get rid of Anna Luther and return to my first wife and child.
 ~This is the reason why I shot An Ina Luther, and I told her in Bay shore that I was married and had wife and child and must leave her.
 "She screamed and ran after me, and kissed me. and wanted me back, and I shot her.
 This confession is made of my own free will, without any hope of recom- pense being offered me"
 Admits Committing Bigamy.
 From the time of his arrest last night until he broke down under the questions of the detectives, Gebhardt, though admitting that he committed bigamy when be married Anna Luther, denied consistently all knowledge of her death How about this letter ?" asked Coroner Savage. and he began to read a note mailed last night to the German consul and signed Otto Muel- Ter, the name under which Gebhardt was known when he married the Lu- ther girl.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-10-26
Two Notable
 Gatherings
AT ST. LOUIS AND IN EAsK ST.
 LOUIS, ILL.
WATERWAY IMPROVEMENT
yhe Theme on Which President Taft, Speaker Cannon and Others Spoke  to Large and Interested Audiences.


 St. Louis, Mo- Oct 25-waterway improvement as a part of national policy of conservation of the streams, the lands adjoining them and the for ests at their sources today was the theme of two notable gatherings in St. Louis and in East St. Louis, H., in which President Taft, Joseph G. Can non, speaker of the national house of representatives, and Governor Deneen of Illinois and Governor Hadley of Missouri took leading parts.
 Vice President Sherman was also at the East St. Louis meeting, his pres ence making the occasion perhaps the first, that so complete roster of high officers has gathered at any place west of the Alleghenies.
 Audiences of 100000.
 Cabinet members. United States sen ators and representatives and minis ters from foreign governments listened to the speeches at one or both of the meetings. Added to these were state and municipal officers of all degrees and close to one hundred thousand cit izens who had focked to the two cities to see and hear their superior officers.
 Speeding Down the Mississippi.
 Tonight the president, the speaker, the diplomats, the legislators and sew eral hundred representatives Of com mercial organizations in the Mississippi valley are speeding down the Missis- sippi river aboard a fotila of paddle wheel steamers bound for New Or leans There they are to assemble with hundreds of others in the annual convention of the Lakes the Gulf Deep Waterway association, whose pet project is the creation of a permanent fourteen foot channel in the Mississippi river from the Illinois river to the Gulf of Mexico.
 Four Speeches by President.
 President Taft made four speeches today. but the longest consumed less than half an hour. At breakfast, as a guest of the Commercial club of St Louis, he referred to the part that body took in the inspection of the Panama canal by business forganfza- tions several years ago. speaking about fifteen minutes.
 At the Coliseum he discussed water ways for about twenty-five minutes, but at luncheon with the Business Mems league of St. Louis and at the East St Louis meeting he merely thanked his hearers. using his voice less than five minutes on each occa- sion.
 President in Fine Trim.
 'T left most of my voice in Texas, tried vainly to recover it in Arkansas, and lost what was left of it in Mis- souri, he. told his Illinois auditors. Except for his hoarseness. the presi- dent look i'll fine trim and ready for the final laps of his long journey around tfp cOTnfrv
Norwich bulletin., 1909-10-26
TALK OF CURTAILMENT
 IN NEW ENGLAND MILLS
Between Nine and Ten Million SpindIes
 Will Be Affected.

Boston, Oct. z5.-The official. of the Arkwright club reported today that cotton manufacturers in New England representing several million spindles have expressed their intention of fol- lowing out the clubs suggestions for a curtaiiment equivalent to PA hours between Nov. list and August. next.
 lt was also stated that while some of the mills might not curtail unless there were general action on the part of a large majority, many other mill treas ur.rs have announced that they will close their factories regardless of what action others mey take.
 Assurances have been received, it is eaid, from mills in New York state that they will follow the example of the New England mills.
 If the other mills included in the Arkwright club join in the movement, between nine and ten million spindles will be affected.