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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-06-15
Saturday.

Prison horrors in Russia increase
under the constitution as administered
by Premier Stolypin.
Summary of German reports secured
through State Department showed
high tariff on gloves and hosiery was
based on incorrect statements.
Chicago reports show four plans 10
relieve transportation tangle. Sl12,0O0.-
600 being highest cost estimate, with
hourly carrying capacity of 529,12O.
That an air bubble forced into
vein caused the death of Mrs. Norah
Jane Cleminson is new theory which
the Chicago police are following in the
mystery.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-06-15
Friday.

NJ. Chauchard, owner of great Paris
department stores, dead.
Illness of Mrs. Taft postponed Presi'
dents summer trip to West.
EX-President Roosevelt guest of mis-
sionaries and settlers at Kijabe.
Taft will reopen Brownsville case
by giving discharged negro soldiers
chance to prove innocence.
Prince Begration, descendant OF ia
nous Russian general. was slain in
brawl at Tiflis by Prince Eristoff.
Profits of s5,0OO.OOO in the sale of
the Three T. Road in 1898 were al
legged in fee suit of the heirs of John
S. Cooper against Joy Morton, Paul
Morton and Theodore Shonts.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-06-15
FIGHT FOR THE REMNANTS.
Standing of Clubs in the Principal
Base Ball Leagues.

NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-06-15
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
Sunday.

Col. Alexander K. Mcclure, friend
of Lincoln and noted figure in journal
istic ranks, died suddenly.
Countess of Aberdeen made plea in
New York for cooperation with the
women in Ireland to fight on tubercu-
losis.
Secretary Macveagh's Chicago ad-
dress is regarded in Washington as
the voice of the administration and as
signifying the shifting of the center
OF political power to the Middle West.
Reminding of speculative spirit in
Wall street followed announcement Of
arrangement to trade in United States
Steel on the Paris bourse and the
agreement between Union and North
ern Pacific.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-06-15


Following discharge OF thlrty-nve
drivers at Boston store in Chicago for
wearing buttons exposed union threat
ened general strike; merchants agreed
to maintain open shop"
DR.. John T. Binkley, 50 years old,
of Evansville, Ind, was found dead In
the Wellington Hotel in Chicago with
a bullet wound in the head. The po-
lice say he committed suicide, but his
son declares he was killed by robbers.
Thursday.
Midshipman Hugh Van Deboe will
marry in spite of prohibitory decree
issued by Secretary of the Navy.
Prof Reed, dean of University of
Michigan, denounced fraternities, call
ing chapter houses mere clubs for
dissipation"
Attempt to force cloture rule in
Senate angered Tillman, who shouted
defiance when Vice President ordered
him to take his seat.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-21

81 now replaced the nail and
regarded it attentively. A person
passing out through this window
might have reclosed it, and the
spring would have caught; but the
nail could not have been replaced.
The conclusion was plain, and
again narrowed in the field, of my
Investigations. The assassins must
have escape through the other
window. Supposing, then, the
springs upon each sash to be the
same, as was probable, there must
be found a difference between the
nails, or at least between the
modes of their fixture. Getting up
on the sacking of the bedstead, l
looked over the headboard minute
ly at the second easement. Pass
ing my hand down behind the
board, / readily discovered and
pressed the spring, which was, as
l had supposed. identical in char
acter with its neighbor. I now
looked at the nail. 1t was as stout
as the other, and apparently fit
ted in the same manner, driven
in nearly up to the head.
at had, say, every appearance
of its fellow in the other window
There must be something wrong
/ said, about the NALL I touched
it, and the head, with about
quarter of an inch of the shank.
came off In my fingers. The rest
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-21
bYA EDGAR ALLAN POE.

been accomplished; but, secondly
and CHIEFLY, I wish to impress
upon your understanding the
VERY EXTRAORDINARY, the al.
most preternatural, character OF
that agility which could have &C
complished it.
"Remember then, first, the
VERY UNUSUAL activity of which
I have just spoken, and, second
the VERY PECULIAR shrill Cor
harsh) and UNEQUAL voice,
about whose nationality no two
persons could be found to agree
and in whose utterance no WORDS
could be detected"
At these words vague and
half-formed conception OF the
meaning of Dupin fitted over my
mind. I seemed to be upon the
verge of comprehension. without
power to comprehend.
/. LET us now revert to the IN
terror of the ROOM" continued
nv friend. 1.-THE drawers OF the
bureau. it Is said, had been
robbed. although many articles
still remained within them. The
conclusion is absurd. 1t Is mere
guess-a very silly one. How are
we to know that the articles
found in the drawers were not all
these drawers had contained? II
a thief had taken any, why ola
he not take all? Why did he
abandon 1000 francs in gold to
cucumber himself with bundle
of linen? wish you. therefore,
to discard from your thoughts the
laundering idea of motive, engen-
dered in the brains of the police
by that portion of the evidence
which speaks of money delivered
at the door of the house. Coinci-
dences 10 times as remarkable as
this happen to all of us every hour
of our lives without attracting
even momentary notice. Coinci-
dences, in general, are great STUN
bling blocks. Had the gold been
gone, it would have been corrobo-
rative of this idea Of motive. But,
under the real circumstances OF
the case, if we suppose gold the
motive, we must also imagine the
perpetrator so vacilating an idiot
as to have abandoned his gold and
his motive together.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-21
THE TACOMA TIMES
'[f MURDERS i RUE mORGUEl

1 felt a creeping of the flesh as
Dupin asked me the question. "a
madman," l said, has done this
deed-some raving maniac es-
capped from an asylum"
I'm some respects" he replied.
your idea is not irrelevant; but
madmen are of some nation, and
their language, however incoher-
ent in its words. has always the
Conference of qualification. Be-
sides, the hair of a mailman Is not
such as I now hold in my hand.
disentangled this little tuft from
the rigidly clutched fingers of
Nine. L'Espanaye. Tell me what
you can make of it."
'Dupin!" l said completely I'M
nerved, this is no human hair"
81 have not asserted that it is"
said he; "but, before we decide
this point, wish you to glance at
the little sketch 1 have here traced
upon this paper. 1t is facsimile
drawing of bruises, and deep in
dentations upon the throat of
Mile. L'Espanaye.
ITO be continued.)
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excepting now steadily in mind
the points to which l have drawn
your attention-that peculiar
voice, that unusual agility, and
that startling absence of motive in
a murder SO singularly atrocious
as this-let us glance at the
butchery itself. Here is a woman
strangled to death by manual
strength, and thrust up chimney,
head downward. Ordinary assas-
sins employ no such modes of
murder as this. Least of all do
they thus dispose of the murdered.
In the manner of thrusting the
corpse up the chimney, you will
admit that there was something
altogether irreconcilable with our
common notions of human action,
even by the most depraved of men.
Think, too, how great must have
been that strength which could
have thrust the body up such an
aperature so forcibly that the unit
ed vigor of several persons was
found barely sufficient to drag 1t
down.
"Turn, now, to other indica-
lions of the employment of q mus
cular power most marvellous. On
the hearth were thick tresses-
very thick tresses-of gray human
hair. These had been torn out
by the roots. You are aware of
the great force necessary in tear
ing thus from the head even 20 or
80 hairs together. You saw the
locks in question as well as my
self. Their roots Ca hideous
sight) were clotted with frag-
ments of the flesh of the scalp
sure token of the prodigious
power which had been e0erted in
uprooting perhaps half million
of hairs at time. The throat of
the old lady was not merely cut
but the head absolutely severed
from the body-the instrument
was a mere razor. I wish you
also to look at the brutal ferocity
of these deeds. OF the bruises
upon the body of Nine. L'Espan-
aye / do not speak, The doctors
say they were inflicted by very
blunt instrument. True! The OBJ
fuse instrument was clearly the
stone pavement in the yard upon
which the victim had fallen from
the window which looked in upon
the bed. This idea. however SIM
pie it may now seem, escaped the
police-because, by the affair of
the nails, their perceptions had
been sealed against the possibility
of the windows having ever been
opened at all.
"If, now, in addition to all these
things, you have properly reflected
upon the odd disorder of the
we have gone SO far as
to combine the ideas OF an agility
astounding. q strength superhu-
man, ferocity brutal. butchery
without motive, q grotesquerie In
horror absolutely alien from hui
and q voice foreign In tone
to the ears of men Of many ma
tions, and devoid of all distinct Or
syllabification. What
result, then. has ensued? What
impression have J made upon your
fancx1*
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-21
NE " NIGHT
WATCHMAN
EXPENSIVE

George Lockwood and Albert
Smith were arrested an an early
hour this morning, and locked up
on q charge Of suspicion. Officer
Brady, who made the arrest,
learned that two men had been
seen crawling into the Old Stand
ard saloon through a window, and
proceeded to investigate.
He found Lockwood, who had
been employed yesterday as night
Waterman for the saloon, and his
companion on the top floor, sur
rounded by numerous bottles, and
In a state Of alcoholic exurberance.
The men were released this
morning and Lockwood was given
an opportunity by the saloon peo-
pie to look for another position.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-21

of the shank was in the gimlet-
hole. where 1t had been broken
off. The fracture was an old one,
and had apparently been accom-
plished by the blow of hammer,
which had partially imbedded in
the top of the bottom sash the
head portion of the nail. now
carefully replaced this head por-
ton in the indentation whence !
had taken it, and the resemblance
to q perfect nail was complete.
Pressing the spring I gently raised
the sash for few inches; the
head went up with 1t. remaining
firm in its bed. / closed the win
dow and the semblance of the
whole nail was again perfect.
"The riddle, SO far. was now I'M
riddled. The assassin had escaped
through the window which looked
upon the bed. Dropping of its
own accord upon his exit Tor per-
haps purposely closed), it had be-
come fastened by the spring; and
1t was the retention of this spring
which had been mistaken by the
police for that of the nail.
1.-THE next question is that OF
the the mode of descent. Upon
this point I had been satisfied in
my walk with you around the
building. About five feet and a
half from the easement In ques-
ton there runs a lightning rod.
From this rod 1t would have been
impossible for anyone to reach
the window itself, to say nothing
of entering 1t. I observed, how
ever, that the shutters of the
fourth story were of the peculiar
kind called by Partisan carpenters
ferrades--a kind rarely employed
at the present day. They are in
the form of an ordinary door Ga
single, not folding door,, except
that the lower half is latticed or
worked in open trellis. thus AFFORD
ing an excellent hold for the
hands. In the present instance
these shutters are fully three feet
and half broad. 1t was clear
to me that the shutter belonging
to the window at the head OF the
bed would, IL swung fully back to
the wall. reach to within two feet
of the lightning rod. It was also
evident that by exertion of a very
unusual degree Of activity and
courage an entrance into the win
dow from the rod might have been
thus effected. BY reaching to the
distance of two feet and a half
Eve now suppose the shutter open
to Its whole extent) a robber
might have taken firm grasp up
on the trellis-work. Letting go,
then. his hold upon the rod, plac-
ing his feet securely against the
wall. and springing boldly from it,
he might have swung the shut
ter so as to close 1t, and II we
Imagine the window open at. the
time, might even have swung him
self into the room
II wish you to bear especially
in mind that have spoken of q
VERY unusual degree of activity
rs requisite to success in SO hax-
1rdous and 80 difficult q feat. 1t
8 my design to show you, first.
hat the thing might possibly have
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-21

SHOOT POOL new automati,
tables. Donnelly Billiard Room. go
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-21
WASH0UTS CUT
PORTLAND OFF
FROM The EAST

BY United Press Leased Wire.)
PORTLAND, Jan. '21.--All rail
communication between Spokane
and Portland. except by way of
Tacoma, has been cut of in the
past "a hours by floods and land
slides in Eastern Washington.
The Washington division Of the O.
r. & N. has been tied up for
several days.
The North Bank has had a bad
washout east of Roosevelt and has
sent out no trains since Tuesday
morning.
Although advices received here
Indicate that it has stopped rain
ing at the seat of the trouble the
water is high and the storm may
resume at any minute and cause
more trouble.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-21
ACTION
IS DEFERRED

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 21.--All
action on pending proposed anti
Japanese legislation was deferred
one week by the lower house of
the legislature, following fiery war
talk and sarcastic illusions TO the
of President Roose-
welt in the premises by Assembly
men Grove L. johnson of Sacra-
mento aud A. M. Drew of Fresno
today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-21
Praise Roosevelt.

TOKYO, Jan. 21.-Japanese
diplomats and press today are
praising President Roosevelt as 4
result of his action in connection
with teh anti-Japanese measure
pending before the California legt
islature. Leaders here believe
that Roosevelt will settle the trout
bl satisfactorily.
Work is to be started soon on
the improvements in the cbambef
of commerce quarters. E. j.
Bowes, T. e. Ripley, A. A. Hill
ton and e. e. Horgan were yes
terday named as a committee to
have entire charge of the imt
provements.
The committee will have "a, 900
to spend.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-21
BETROTHAL OF MISS
JORDAN ANNOUNCED
(By United Press Leased Wire.

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
PACIFIC GROVE, CAL, Jan. 2t
The engagement of Miss Edith
Jordan, daughter of David Starr
Jordan, president of Stanford
university, to Edward Berwick,
jr., of Carmel Valley, Monterey
county, was made public today.
Miss Jordan announced her betro-
thai at a dinner in Los Angeles
given yesterday in her honor.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-21
WOMAN DROWNED
IN OREGON
FLOOD

(By United Press Leased Wire.1
PENDLETON, Ore. Jan. 81
Mrs. Lars Hansen, wife of UNA
tilla county rancher. was drowned
and her husband seriously injured
in flood which swept down Cold
Springs canyon Tuesday as the
result of the rapidly melting
SHOWS.
In returning from visit to
town they attempted to cross a
gulley, dry when they came in, but
which in their absence had been
transformed into a raging torrent.
They attempted to ford the stream
and their team was swept off its
feet and carried down stream.
Larsen was rescued unconscious
fran barbed wire fence, where
he lodged and his wife's body was
found two miles farther down the
stream. The horses were drowned.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-21
SERIOUS BREAK
IN WATERMAN

A bad break in an eight-inch
Waterman occurred this morning
on teh end OF Division avenue next
TO the waterfront. A storm sew
or outlet ran over the water. pipe
and washed out the dirt from un-
der IL until the water main broke
and the water then rushed out and
cut q big hole in the bank. The
department was notified and shut
on the gates to save the water an6
. gang e. man y a work on re-
mtrA 1879
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-21
BOUNDARY
QUESTION
SETTLED

(By United Press Leased Wire. }
WASHINGTON, ID. O., Jan. Fl.
senate committee ON for
eign relations today reported fav-
orably the new Canadian bound.
airy treaty, settling various ques-
tons relating to the boundaries
between the United States anG
Canada, which have been the sub.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-21
CLEARING HOUSE
OFFICERS ELECTED

At the annual banquet and cleo
ton of officers of the Tacoma
Clearing House. held Tuesday
evening in the rooms of the Com
mercial club, the following were
elected for the coming year: Pres.
ident, Arthur G. Pritchard; vice
president, W. H. Pringle; secre-
tary, George B. Burke; manager
A. ". Hayden.
Covers were laid for 90 at the
banquet which followed, and I'm,
promptu speeches and toasts were
the order.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-21
IS CRUSHED To
: DEATH BY ICE
(By United Press Leased Wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
MISSOULA, Mont, Jan. 21.-
Crushed to death between an ice
floe and a bridge pier in He'll
Gate river was the fate of Roy
Robin while attempting yes
terday to dislodge quantity of
Ice threatening the destruction of
q trestle over the stream.
His companion was carried a
distance of 500 feet down the
river on cakes of ice before he
was rescued. He was so badly
injured that it is feared he will
die.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-21
BOY IS REPORTED
MISSING

John Edgar, the 16-year-o1d
son Of Hugh Edgar, 617 South /
street, was reported missing by
his parents this morning. The
lad, who attends the University of
Puget Sound, left home early yes
terday morning but did not report
at school. He has not been seen
since.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-26
No REASON FOR IT
When Salt Lake City Citizens Show the
Certain Way Out.

There eau be no Just reason why any
reader of this will con tiuuc to suffer
the torturcs OF IN aching back, the an,
nolapcc of urinary disorders. the dan
gers Of diabetes, of any kidney ills
when relief is so near at hand and the
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citizen says:
Mrs, A. Clark, 367 West First South
street. Salt Lake City. Utah, SAYS:
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still holds good, and you may con.
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by attacks of backache for long time
and often the trouble WAS so oeverf
tha. / could moi attend - my house
work There were various othGr symp.
toms which plainly proved that my kid
peys were 1T fault, but | was at n loss
10 know what 10 take A uciphbor
finally told me 10 try Doan S Kidney
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cure0 box at L. j. Hill G. Co.'S d rug
store In n short time after commencs
ing their use, the backachc disap-
penrcd, and since then ! have had prnc.
tically no need of kidney remedy.
Doam's Kidney Pills deserve all the
praise given them
For sa,e by all dealers. Price 80
cents. FcstcrMilburn Co.. Buffalo. n.
y. sole agents for the United States,
Remember the nsme-Doan Sand
take no other.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-26
UNION PACIFIC MERGER
HEARING IS POSTPONED

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-Thc tax
ing of testimony for the defense in The
government against the Union Pacific
company and other railroads has beer
postponed until January ,, according tC
information received by the attorney
general TODAY.
The postponemcut was requested by
the defense at Cheyenne, Wyo.. Satur
day, and WAS proposed ny Spccia
Counsel Severance for the government
Judge Nandcvcntcr of the United
States circuit court granted the post
poncmcnt ON condition that the defense
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-26
DR.. FRITCH HELD
ON MURDER CHARGE
Much Damaging Testimony Civ
Ell by Chauffeur Who Drove
the Physician.
THREW SACKS INTO RIVER
IN DARKNESS OF NIGHT
Packages Supposed to Have
Contained Body of Maybcllc
NIillman.

DETROIT. Oct, 25.-Chauffcur Joseph
Leach, this afternoon at tho cxamiuH.
ion Of DR.. George y. t'ritcb on the
charge of manslaughter in connection
with the mysterious death of Miss May
belle Nillman, testified that ne took
the physician TO Ecorso creek in mis-
automobile aud that Dr.. Fritch threw
into shc creek three sacks which they
bad brought from his office.
Leach testified that on August -
Dr. Fvitcb tcicphoncd for him and he
went 10 see the doctor. He testified
the physician told him be was in trou-
ble that be wanted friend 10 help
BIN. Then, said Leach, DIR. Tritch
asked If he knew of any deep water
readily accessible,
Question Evaded,
"iIavc you been killing somebody ~
Leach said he asked INN,
You are mol supposed 10 know,
WIS The answer. Leach said.
Leach then arranged 10 conc back
10 the doctor S office later i'll tho night.
When he returned according 10 his
testimony, DR.. Frtch brought out TO
the automobile three sacks. They then
drove 10 the physician 5 house, where
bricks were placed III the sacks by DE-
FTtch.
Leach then described the route over
which he drove TO Ecorsc creek. When
they reached the bridge over the crock,
it was dark and after crossing over
they proceeded down the road a short
distance. thon turned and ran slowly
back on the bridge.
Throws Away the Sacks.
Leach said the doctor stood on the
running board of tho machine as they
drove back on the structure, and, open
ing the door of the touneau, lifted out
the sacks and threw them over the
railing into the water. They then drove
back 10 the city
Leach said that ON their return DR..
Fritch gave him so and told him he
need not worry about bill which lie
owed the doctor t'ritch told him.
Leach testified, that he bad another
parcel to dispose of. but Leach re"
spondcd that hc could not get away
again and this subject was dropped.
The physician left the machine before
they reached the downtown section OF
The city.
Attorney Ledge, representing DR..
Fritch, immediately hc"an searching
cross oss-cxaminatton on The chauffeur,
.hfter Il conference with the prosecut-
ing attorney. Justice Jcffres denied
the motion of DR.. Fritch 5 attorney that
the complaint lac dismissed and held
the doctor for trial IN the recorders
court under $4,000 bonds.