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The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-03-26

them, for at 8 o'clock the money was
intact and not a man had appeared at
the spot at which 1t had been left.
Whitla had a score of detectives In
readiness in this city to start a search
for the %kidnappers as soon as he had
safely secured the boy. Mr.. Whitla
and the detectives left Sharon last
night. A conference is being held In
Sharon and plans are to be made to
attempt to capture the kidnappers
with the boy in their possession.
Whitla believes that the failure to eff
feet a settlement with him Saturday
night will brighten the k~idnappers and
they will not communicate with him
again.
Believes Efforts Useless.
The police of Ashtabula are unwill-
ing to believe that the kidnappers
have left that section of the country
Although Whitla has instructed them
to discontinue their search, as he be-
lieves II is useless, they are attempt
ing to find the hiding place Of the
~kidnappers.
The letter from the captors Of Will
lie Whitla came to thee boys parents
in Sharon, Pa, Friday afternoon. In
structions were given Mr.. Whitla to
go alone to Ashtabula on Saturday
night and place the $40, 900 under a
rock at the base of a gorge in the
park at 1 O'Clock. At 3 o'clock on
the following morning, if the money
was obtained by the kidnappers, they
promised that the stolen boy would be
sent to the Smith hotel in Ashtabula
unframed.
Letter at Smith Hotel.
In order that there might be no mis-
take made, another letter, it was
promised, would be written to Whitla
under the name Of &C. A. White" Sat
urday night. He was to receive this
letter at the Smith hotel in Ashtabula.
The letter was delivered as promised,
but after laying uncalled for for about
half ar hour the clerk opened it, the
police and a guard was placed in Flat
iron Park, thus running the plan for
the return of the boy.
After FIVE hours of anxious waiting
Whitla went to the hotel to get his
boy. There he was informed that Off
GERS had been on guard at the park all
night and that no one had come for
the money. Whitla was overcome
when this news was broken to him.
He went to the park and found his
package of money u~ndisturbed.
Later, in company with the detect
ives, he returned to Sharon.
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CASUALTIES.

Two men were killed and a third
vas seriously injured by a boiler ex-
~pIosion at Gardiner, Me.
Clifford La Rue, a young man living
uear Spencer, Iowa, while hunting,
was instantly killed by the discharge
Of the gun, the top of his head being
blown off.
NJ. A. Harlwan Of Alden, brakeman
On the Illinois Central, was killed at
Reinacker Siding, Iowa. The accident
Is the fourth to occur there during the
past month.
A hot fiat iron which Joseph d.
Druse "a farmer Of Design, Ill, took to
bed with him two months ago burned
pne of his feet so badly that he died
IRON blood poisoning.
Seven passengers were injured,
some severely and two perhaps fatal
ly, when a passenger train ran into
an open switch and crashed headlong
against q switch engine on a side
track In the yards at S~anderson, Tex.
While crossing the Northwestern
railway tracks about o quarter Of q
mile from Daggett station, Mich,
where his mother was waiting for the
train, George Eek, nineteen years old,
was struck and killed by a passenger
train. His head was crushed and his
body terribly mangled.
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OTHERWISE

The California assembly passed a
bin making 1t a misdemeanor for one
man to treat another In a saloon.
Norval Baptie, worlds champion
professional ice skater. again was de-
feated by Morris Wood of New York
at Cleveland In the final contest Of the
Indoor meet.
The constitutionality Of the New
York public service commission law
was sustained by a unanimous deci.
sion of the appellate division OF the
supreme court.
Pat Grove, former ksdnapper and
later an evangelist. recovered from
his third fall from the water wagon
In Chicago last week. and allowed his
friends to put him on a train for Pa,
tiae. He was hurried to the santa
rium there.
Kiss May irwin. actress composer
OF a cook book and owner OF an Isl
and ness ciAytcn. In he st. Law
renee flyer, has announced that she
has decided 10 convert her house on
the island into q hotel and uondact II
next summer under the name Of May
TWINS Inn.
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MCDONALD is GIVEN LIBERTY.
Missouri Requisition Against Mime
anoIis MiIIionaire

Missouri Requisition Against Mime
apoIis Millionaire Withdrawn.
Minneapolis, March 21.-H. W. Nc
Donald, the millionaire Minneapolis
lumberman, who has been imprisoned
in the Hennepin county Jail because
Of a charge of bigamy made against
him by a Missouri woman, was re-
leased late yesterday afternoon, after
Gov. John A. Johnson had received
word that the requisition from Gov.
Hadley of Missouri had been with
drawn. =
Belle Hamilton accused Mcdonald
of having married her in Canada in
1908 and brought suit against him in
Minneapolis last fall. When the suit
was settled out of court last Deem
Der and Mcdonald turned over to her
mineral holdings said to be valued
at $11O, 900 and considerable cash, it
was supposed that the case was over.
But last Monday Mcdonald was ar
rested on requisition papers sent by
the governor of Missouri.
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Father and Son Are Sentenced
to Twenty Years in the
Penitentiary.
FRIENDS RUSH TO SIGN BONDS
Wealthy Citizens Swamp Clerk Of
Crimina. Contribution for New
Trial Will Be Made. =

Nashville, Tenn, March 23.-After
filing a bond totaling nearly a mil
lion and a half dollars, Col. ID. B.
Cooper and Robin ]. Cooper, convict
ed Of murder in the second degree
and sentenced to twenty years in the
~penitentiary for the killing of former
United States Senator E. w. Car
mack, retired to the home of Judge j.
c. Bradford Saturday night and dis
cussed the next move in the case.
Although Judge Hart fixed the bond
at $25, 900 for each defendant, there
was a rush to sign it On the part OF
wealthy citizens of Nashville, which
fairly swamped the clerk in the Grim
inal court. In vain he protested over
and over again that more than enough
sureties had been signed, but the in
variable answer was: I'VE want to
put our names on that bond, too"
Trial Lasts Sixty Days.
The trial has lasted sixty days.
The jury was out seventy hours and
twelve minutes. John D. Sharp had
been acquitted the day before. The
Coopers received thee vrdict without
emotion.
The jury reached an agreement at
daybreak. The original ballot, taken
within a few minutes after the jury
retired, showed one juror for murder
in the first degree, three for murder
in the first degree with mitigating cir
cumstances, one for acQuittal and the
rest for punishments varying from ten
to twenty years Imprisonment in the
state penitentiary.
Within a few minutes all were
brought to an agreement as to the
guilt of the defendants Cooper, but
disagreed as to the punishment.
There was not at any time the ques-
tion of the conviction of John SHARP
Will Probably Go to High Court.
Saturday, April 8, the motion for a
new trial will probably be entered and
argued before Judge Hart. He will
probably deny the motion and the
case will be appealed to the supreme
court.
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NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
Important Events at Home snd ca
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.
PERSONAL

G. p. Taft has given $4,000 for q
park shelter house at Cincinnati, TO b
named after the president.
Former Judge W. W. Howe Of the
Louisiana supreme court died at New
Orleans, aged seVenty-ive years.
Capt. Henry c. Kelly, one Of the ex.
perts who made transportation by
pneumatic tube a success. is dead in
Chicago
Paul Stanley, comedian and com.
poser of the song, "Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-de'
Ay," is dead at Denver after a linger'
ing illness.
Henry Clay Cullom, brother Of Sen,
ltor Cullom, died at Peoria, ILL.,. aged
seventy years. His death was the re-
suit OF a paralytic stroke.
Lewis McClough, formerly president
" the state agricultural college of
South DAKOTA, died at New Britain,
Conn, aged seventy-three years.
Lieut.. Herman e. Mitchell, son OF
former Senator Mitchell of Oregon,
has resigned his commission in the
army. The action is voluntary, Lieut..
Mitchell desiring to live abroad.
Mrs. BENJAMIN S. Edwards, eighty.
aine years old. daughter-in-law of Min.
ian Edwards, n of the early govern,
srs of Illinois, died at Springfield, Ill.
Mrs. Edwards was sole aIrvivor of the
-x.Ik --aNz,1.Ar 80 The -rn1Ifnx 80
Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd.
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SAW KIDNAPPED
BOY IN CLEVELAND
Police Arrest Man, Give Him
Third Degree" and Get
on Trail of Boy.
WHOLE SECTION RANSACkED
Millionaire Uncle Assumes Charge OF
Search-Father Refuses to
Publish Letter.

Cleveland. March 21.-At midnight
the police of this city were expecting
TO find within a short time little VIII
lie Whitla, son OF the rich attorney of
Sharon, Pa, who was kidnapped from
his school there Thursday. They then
had under arrest a man with whom
the boy had been cen in a down
town hotel as late as 9:15 o'clock last
night, according to reliable witnesses.
This man was given the third de-
gree" for several hours, and, it is
said, admitted that Willie Whitla,
with others of his captors, was in a
lonely suburb of Cleveland.
In a fast automobile, a squad of de-
tectives started for this point at IL
o'clock, but their search was without
result. The officers returned and re-
ported they had been unable to find
the boy at the address given.
Porter Gives the Clue.
According to the police, the man
who furnished them with the infor-
nation is Henry Ball, a porter in a
local restaurant. Ball told the officers
that a friend who lived at the Hotel
Benway, on Ontario street, met him
on the street Thursday night. The
friend had the boy with him, saying
he was the son of a Mrs. Satchell,
and asked Ball to take the child to
business place near the Erie depot,
where the boys father would meet
him. Ball received 81 as rem"nera-
father and then proceeded to visit all
the hotels, in the hope OF locating
him. Not succeeding, Ball took the
child back to the Hotel Benday and
left him. 1t was to this hotel that
the police went last night.
Frank II. Buhle, the millionaire I'M
Gle of Willie Whitla, arrived here last
night from Sharon and Immediately
assumed charge of the hunt for his
nephew.
captors Use Big Words.
Sharon, Pa, March 20.-J. P. Whit
la, father of the missing hoy, last
night made this statement:
There is no truth in the Cleveland
rumor that my son has been found,
and ! hope that the papers of the
United States will discount the story,
which might tend TO discourage fur
ther search"
The lawyer and his close friends
and assistants in the kidnapping In
vestigation refuse TO give out for pub
licity the letter received from the kid
nappers. 1t is said, however, that the
letter contained some striking sen
in addition to those made pub
lie. One alleged remark is: Our per-
capabilities are as keen as yours, and
we have brains to help u.s." 1t threat
ened instant death to the boy should
the letter be made public or shown
TO detectives, according to reports
here. 1t Is also intimated that the
letters contained something which
had to do with the method in which
the money was to be paid over to the
kidnappers.
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CANCERS TOLL is APPALLING.
Disease Claims Half as Many Lives as
tuberculosis.


tuberculosis.
Albany, N. Y, March 23.-'The in
crease in cancer disease in the State
Of New York is little short of appall-
ing. 1t now takes yearly toll of half
as many lives as tuberculosis"
Iris startling declaration, proved
by statistics. IS made by DR.. Harvey
r. Gaylord, chief of the Buffalo state
cancer hosrital, in a report to the
health department.
Or. Gaylord declares the average
death rate for cancer per 100, 900 pop
ulation for 1906, 1907 and 1908, taken
collectively, is seventy-six,; showing
an increase in thirteen years, from
1896 to 1909 of 28.8 per cent. The
average death rate per 1000 for
1906, 1907 and 1908 for tuberculosis IL
1919, showing a decrease in the last
thirteen years of 81 per cent.
"We well understand why tubercu-
losis is decreasing" says DIR. Gay
lord. ut is the result Of u knowl-
edge of the infections OF the disease
and of the now we'll organized war
fare which is being opposed to it. Our
knowledge Of the nature of cancer as
a disease is in its infancy, but 1t is
rapidly advancing, and the outlook to-
day offers a very bright hope that in
the future we shall understand anS
comhat the disease by methods based
on tie present experimental re-
search"
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CHEMICAL EXPLOSION COSTLY.
Minneapolis Drug Company Calls Loss
500

Minneapolis, March 81. - Damage
estimated by the wne at 500, 900
was done the stock and fittings of the
Minneapolis Drug company by an ex-
plosion of chemicals on the sixth floor
of its plant and the consequent break
ing loose of a thorough sprinkling
system over all six floors.
Though forty women employees on
the third floor rushed from the build
ing in a panic, no grave injuries are
reported. The explosion is said to
have occurred when John C. Walker,
2 chemist, opened a container of bari
um, a supposedly non-explosive Sub
stance.
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TANKS BLOWN Up;
CITY IS FLOODED
City Reservoirs at Parkersburg,
w. Va, Are Wrecked
by Dynamite.
NO clue TO The MISCRtANTS
Three Persons Killed and Many Build.
ings Swept Away-Water
Famine Threatens.

ParKersburg, w. Va, March 21.-An
entire section of the city was swept
away before a deluge Of water at $50
yesterday morning, when two I'M
mense water tanks, located on the
heights above the city, and from
which the city's water supply is fur
nished, were wrecked, supposedly by
dynamite.
So far the bodies Of Walter Wag-
gle, wife and child, have been taken
from the ruins and the search for 9TH
ers is continuing.
The property loss mas been placed
at 5000, 600.
Water Famine.
Added to the death and horrors Is
a threatened water f anime. The
city's entire water supply was CON
tanned in these tanks.
An awful deluge of water came
without a moments warning, and
when the great majority of the occu-
pants of the houses that were in it's
path were still asleep and utterly
helpless.
The first buildings to be caught in
the rush of water were the st. Johns
Lutheran church and the summer
school building, both being complete
ly wrecked.
Path Of Ruin.
Altogether over forty houses were
caught in the torrent, all of which
were wholly o. partially wrecked,
leaving a complete swath through
that portion of the residence district
of the city affected.
No clue has been secured as to the
possible perpetrators of the outrage.
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SPOIL PLANS FoR RETURN OF BOY
OverzeaIous Police Spoil Arrangement
Between Father and kidnappers.

O~verzealous Police Spoil Arrangement
Between Father and Kidnappers.
Cleveland, March 23.-But for the
bungling of a secret letter intended
for James P. Whitla, in an Ashtabula
hotel Saturday night. Billie Whitla,
the Sharon boy, would be safe in the
arms of his distracted narents
All night $4,000 in bills lay be-
meath a rock in Flatiron Park, Ashta-
bula, left there by Mr.. wh.tla ander
instructions from the ~kidnappers.
AT 3 o'clock yesterday morning
Whitla returned to the rock there.
hoping to find his money gone and in
its the place the signal that his son
would be returned TO him in the Smith
house, Ashtabula, within the hour.
But the money. untouched since ne
had depositedis there at 8 o'clock Sat-
urday evening. was still there.
Police Spoil the Plan.
whitla was instructed in a letter
from the kidnappers to leave the
money in Flatiron Park Saturday
night. III no detectives We're about
the kidnappers promised they would
secure the money and deliver the boy
safely to the father In a hotel at ASH
tahaia at 8 o'clock yesterday morn
ing.
Whitla deposited the money as re-
quested, but the Ashtabula police
learned of the plans to pay the ran
som and went to the park. The kid
nappers are supposed to have seen
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Carrie Nation Returns.

New York, March 23.-Jack Binns,
who has been acclaimed the hero of
the spectacular wreck of the steam
ship Republic; Carrie Nation, who has
been abroad pursuing her life work of
fighting the saloon and Sir Andrew
Frazer, a prominent official In British
colonial service in India, were pas
sengers aboard the steamer Baltic,
which arrived here late yesterday.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-03-26
Farmers Fight Pure Milk Law.

Waukesha. Wis, March 23.-At a
meeting of O mill SINNERS a
Milwaukee. Waukesha and other coun-
ties It was decided to fight the Mil
waukee ordinance which forces farm
ers shipping milk to the city to have
certificates that their cattle are free
from tuberculosis. They will fight a
state law on the same subject.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-03-26
Eualtlxe cashier Returns Money.

Comanche, Okla, March 21. - John
Campbell, the fugitive cashier of the
First National bank, who left Monday
night with more than $4,000 of the
banks money. returned $4,000 yester-
terday in a letter written in Denvei.
He said he was intoxicated when he
left. and that he had no intention of
stealing. He will not be prosecuted.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-03-26
ManaIed Under Car Wheels.

Minneapolis March - ..ian~
titled man was mangled and killed
beneath 500 Line train No. 1913 In
Minneapolis yesterday. He stepped
off the train just as it was starting
after coming to a full stop for the
junction, and slipping on the icy bank
rolled under the wheels.
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sH,pLoAD or ALIEN sPups-

Philadelphia. March 2S.-Ssxty hou
sand bushels OF foreign potatoes, the
largest consignment ever brought 70
Philadelphia. were landed by e
steamship Buenos Ayrcan from Glas
now AID Layerpool. The Snksvs cssse
from England. ireland and SccttaDd.
and the shipment was made possible
by reason OF the short erop Ia the
United States. Other liners are due
here with big shipments Of potatoes.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-03-26
peace in balkans Assured.

Belgrade, March 2s.-Peace Is re.
garded as assured. 1t was serii-ofi
cially stated last night that the powers
today will invite Servsa o declare the
question OF the annexation OF Bosnia
ma g~erzegoyina settled ana b dis,
arm end discharge its reservists.
Furthermore, II is said that the
servia government will accede 10 this
request. thrs opening the way for a.
rect NEGOTIATIONS between Austria
Hungary and servia for a comr,ercial
agreement.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-03-26
costs $50 to Give Pike AWAY.

Pepin, Wis, March 23.-Wisconsin
Game Warden Sprichtman arrested
Louis M%aimquist for taking pike out
of his nets and giving them away to
a farmer. He was tried at Maiden
Rock and fined $50 and costs. This
Is Malmquist's second ofYense. The
farmer was also arrested, but his trial
was postponed.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-03-26
Alleged swIndler Goes Free,

Eau Claire, Wis. March 23.-Harry
A. Gowdy, charged with obtaining
money by false pretenses in an ad-
vertising enterprise. was discharged
in the circuit court on the ground that
the alleged false representations made
by him were not the inducing cause
Of the complainant parting with his
money.
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FoUR DROWN IN o o
Frantic Father Searches Three Days,
but Finds Only One Body.

~
but Finds Only One Body.
Spencer, S. D., March 10. Mrs.
Herman Fickens and her three chill
dren a girl of five years, a boy Of
three and an infant, were drowned in
the swollen Vermillion river when a
light wagon in which they were jour-
neying to a new home farm was swept
from a bridge by the flood which
was flowing over the floor of the
structure.
A passing farmer discovered the
drowned horse and the overturned We
hicle. A few minutes later the father
Of the little family arrived at the
bridge and was appraised of the trag-
edy.
Frantic with grief, he searched con-
tinuously for three days, but only the
Uody UI IHr lCCrU BTI Was TeCOVeIeu.
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Good Tlrnee In the HlIls.

Desdwood, 8. D.. March 2a-Figures
for February. just completed by
treasurer Corum, show that Lawrence
county had better collections than at
any time IN its history. Over 5000
GOO was colected by the county,
which is $4,000 better than the rec.
ord.
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Bishop Gillespie Dead.

Grand Rapids. Mich, March 81.
Bishop George ID. Gillespie Of the
Protestant Episcopal diocese of west
ern Michigan, died early yesterday
after a long illness.
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Sentenced and Fined.

New York, March 23.-Francis PAL
mieri, president of the Cooperative
Securities company Of this city. who
was convicted Of using the mails to
defraud investors. was sentenced to
three months in the penitentiary ana
to pay a fine OF $3.50.
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Chippewa Falls, Wis, March 10.
Jacob Rheingan dropped dead in the
German Lutheran church at Eagle
point Sunday. The deceased was born
in Germany about seventy years ago
and had resided in this country forty
Years.
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San Salvador, Republic OF Salvador
March 20.-Izalco, a volcano in Saliva.
dor known as the lighthouse of the
Pacific" is reported to be in violent
eruption. Izalco is Ten miles north OF
Sonsonate.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-03-26
DEPUTIES STAND BY PREMIER.
Indorse French Governments Atti-
tude In Postal Strike.

itbdOloS TtCiSt IIS NAkt-
tude In Postal Strike.
Paris, March 21.-At the conclusion
Of a stormy debate, which lasted
from 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon
until midnight, the chamber of depu-
ties adopted a sweeping Endorsement
~of the governments attitude concern.
ing the strike of state employees. The
vote was 1858 to 211.
The improvement in the strike stu,
alton yesterday, due to the partial dis
tributioh of mail and the opening of
some lines of foreign communication,
was more apparent than real. The
number Of state employees on strike in
Paris was greater and the tie-up In
the provinces was constantly extend
ing,
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COLE RESIGNS AS PRESIDENT.

WIN Retire as Executive Head of Oil
YER Company.
Duluth. March 19-Thomas F. Cole,
president of the oliver Iron Mining
company. a subsidiary of the United
States Steel corporation, will send In
his resignation today. His
1t is generally believed, will be w. ].
olcott, president of the Duluth, Mes
sabe & Northern, also a United States
steel subsidiary.
Mr.. Cole Is a multimillionaire and
prominently identified with several
valuable copper mining companies.
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Chicago, March 81. - Policeman
Alexander Scott last night shot and
killed Joseph Finn, a laborer. whom
he mistook for Pickles" Gilroy. a
man being sought by the police.