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The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
IMAGINATION ALMOST
CH0KES BOY TO DEATH

Pittsburg, Nov. 29.-Simon Vetter, 8
years old, nearly choked to death on
imagination. Not until he was examined
by the x-ray ana was operated upon at
the hospital did the boy find relief. The
surgeons found no obstruction in his
throat, but they told him they did. Then
he breathed freely, and the blush color
left his face.
While eating lunch at his home in
Verona some food lodged in his throat and
he began to cough. While he coughed up
some obstruction, the boy was sure that
more of 1t remained. No argument con-
WINGED him to the contrary and he sudden
ly became semi-conscious, breathing with
a harsh, rasping sound. The parents of
the boy became alarmed and quickly had
him removed to the Columbia hospital.
In the opinion Of the physicians the
choking was due to the fact that the
boy imagined the food was still in his
windpipe.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
SEVERED FINGER Is
A CLEW TO THIEF

London, Nov. 30.-"The Clew of the
Severed Finger" a thrilling detective
story, might be founded on a real in
cident in the London police annals Of
this year.
Patroling a Clerkenwell street at
night, a policeman found a mans finger
impaled on a spike ~surmounting a gate
way. He took the grim relic to Scot
land Yard, where a print Of its mark
ings was taken and compared with the
other finger prints in the Rogue's gall
lery. 1t was thus proved to belong to
the right hand Of a notorious thief,
William Mitchell.
1t was then a simple matter for de-
tectives to look for a man with a BAN
daged right hand. He was eventually
found among a gang Of p~ickpockets in
South London, far away from the place
where the finger vas found. He pro-
tested his innocence, gave his name as
Harry May and Indignantly asked how
he could pick pockets with a hand like
that?
+, But the evidence Of the severed
finger was conclusive and Harry May"
confessed that he was really William
Mitchell, and that the finger was torn
away while ne was climbing the gate
in Clerkenwell. The police proved a
number of previous convictions against
Mitchell, who was sentenced to IL
months hard labor as a suspected
person."
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
JUSTICE BREWER
IS OPPOSED TO
SECRET DIVORCE
Declares Cases Should Be
Heard in Open-Deplores
Publicity.

New York, Dec. There was con-
siderable discussion today over the ad-
dress Of Justice Brewer. of the United
states supreme court, concerning secret
divorces. Justice Brewer delivered his
opinion of clandestine divorces for the
wealthy in a talk to the Progress club
at Far Rockaway.
He first condemned the publication of
some OF the evidence in the newspa-
pers.
THE publication of testimony in yell
low journals" he declared, particular
ly In regard to divorce cases, Is to be
deplored. Such publication does not
help the cases and 1t drags into the
public eye family skeletons that had
better be left in their closets. The pub
lcation of such stuff simply feeds the
morbid interest and exerts anything ex-
cept a healthful influence. In many
cases where such matter is published,
people go to the bad who would other
wise resume the straight and narrow
path, and when they go wrong as a
result OF such publications. they rarely
ever recover their lost standing and
their desire to be proper citizens.
No Veil for Justice.
But despite all that" he said, "some
divorce suits are conducted without
publicity. A commissioner is appointed
TO take testimony, Upon which q d.
vorce is granted. while the testimony
and the entire proceedings except the
result are concealed from public view.
There are, 1t is said, unpleasant dis
closures; there is a skeleton In the
FAMILY. Public trials bring to light a
FEARFUL mess Of revolving facts. While
regret as much as anyone the dispo-
sition on the part of some journals to
hunt out the nastiness Of life and lay
IT before their readers, yet against any
concealment Of secrecy in judicial pro-
ceedings l must earnestly protest.
Better no divorces than divorces OBJ
tanned by secret judicial proceedings. II
there Is on thing which justice should
always seek, 1t is the light of iday-no
dark chamber performances In this land
OF equal rights. Let no man be rich
enough to buy a veil to cover the rec
ords OF a court Of justice. "
IF he will come into court, If he will
ask judicial action, let him do so only
upon the condition that everything
there Is to be open and public"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
BRITISH LAY kEELS
OF BIG B~A1TLESHIPS
Monster Dreadnought of Most
Improved Class to Be Added
to the Navy.

London. Dec. 1.-The keel plates Of
two monster w~arships, the Orien, the
improved dreadnought battleship, and
the Lion, the cruiser battlesnlp, were
laid today, the formers at Portsmouth
and the latter's at Davenport. The bulk
of the material for both vessels Is ready
and all arrangements have been made
for their completion within two years.
The construction of the Lion will
mark a notable stage of evolution of
the cruising battleship. She will have
70, 900 horsepower, while her immediate
predecessor had $4,000. Che will dis
place q, 900 o and her length will be
zoo feet, making her the longest man
Of war ever laid down.
What is technically known as her
s'run of deck indicates an intention
to equip the cruiser battleship with 10
Pinch runs, thus placing her as re-
CARDS armament OF an equality with
the latest battleships. She probably
will have a nominal speed of 81 knots
an hour
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
YOUTH IS CAUGHT
WHILE TRYING TO
HOLD UP A BANK
Boy Bandit, Nabbed in st.
Louis, Deserted by More
Guilty Companion.

st. Louis. Mo-. Dec. 1.-Tom Gala
CHER, Is years old, captured after q
wagon load of men had surrounded the
Lafayette bank, Broadway and Park
avenue, early today confessed that he,
with another boy. planned to rob the
bank.
The other boy. who was acting as
a lookout, fled when the patrol wagon
approached.
Gallagher, who had assembled to the
third floor Of the building in the effort
to get into the banks quarters, was
captured as he descended the fire es-
cape. The boy had no burglar tools
and no weapons. He technically COM
mitted burglary, as he entered the Of
flee Of a physician.
THE other boy put me up to It," said
the young prisoner. 1--WE were going
past the bank the other day, and he
pointed to a pile of money we could
see through the window, and it would
be easy to get that Then he planned
how he and l were to get 1t.
He made me go ahead of him. and
said he would whistle If he saw any
body coming. But he never did. He
lust
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
MESSENGER BOYS
FIRST TO SUFFER BY
TELEGRAPH MERGER

New York, Nov. 3O.-Officers of the
American Telephone and Telegraph COM
pany recently that as a re-
suit of its purchase of a large interest
In the Western Union Telegraph company
a new device would be adopted that would
put the messenger boy out of business.
According to these plans 1t will soon be
possible for the telephone subscriber to
write out his dispatch on an electric ma
chine, which will reproduce it simulta-
neously in the office Of the telegraph
company.
This will virtually make a telegraph Of
flee out Of every telephone station and
will add enormously to the facilities of the
telegraph companies.
While 1t will take some months for the
telephone company to work out this ar
rangement, the persons in authority said
that 1t would be only a short time before
such a device would be placed at the
command of all the large business houses
Of the United States.
The charge for such a writing machine,
with a direct telegraph connection, win
not probably In any case exceed 800. In
cases where from 300 to 400 messages are
sent each day there will be no extra ex-
pense whatever.
One of the highest officers Of the tele-
phone company said that he believed 1t
would be possible after a while for the
telegraph company to accept messages on
the basis Of a 25-cent charge for a 15-word
message, instead of a 10-word message.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
ROOSEVELT PRAISES
PEARY'S POLAR FEAT
Letter Is Received From For
mer President in His African
Jungle Retreat.

New York, Nov. "a letter from
Theodore Roosevelt vas received by
Secretary Bridgeman. of the Peary
Arctic club, today, replying to the cable
announcing that Commander Peary
had reached the north pole. as fol-
lows:
ION Safari, North of Mount Kenia,
Sept. %, 1909.-Dear Mr.. B~ridgeman:
Your cable has just been brought me
by a native runner here in my camp
by the Guaso Nyrio. l am writing to
Mrs. Peary and to Captain Peary; I
have no idea where he is. I am mex
pressibly rejoiced at this wonderful
triumph, and proud beyond measure,
as an American, that this-one Of the
great feats Of the ages-should have
been performed by a fellow country
man OF ours. 1t is the great feat
Of our generation. We are Captain
Peary's debtors, all of us who belong
to civilized mankind. Faithfully,
Theodore Roosevelt"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
GIRLS EMBARASS
THE HERO OF SANTIAGO

Plttshurg. Pa, Nov. 29.-Rear Admiral
Wlnfeld Scott Schley and United States
senator George I. oliver were the VIC
inns OF practical jokers on the stage of
the Gayety theater.
The admiral was the guest of Syria
Temple Of the Mystic Shrine. A loving
cup made of armor plate was presented
to him, Senator oliver officiating. Then
there rushed from the wings a half
dozen chorus girls in short skirts. Two
OF them had opened bottles Of champagne,
which they emptied into the loving cup
In the hands Of the admiral. They stood
on either side Of the embarrassed sailor
and made signs for him to drink Admiral
schley finally raised the cup to his lips
while the audience broke into How Dry
! AM"
Admiral Schley passed the cup to Sem
ator oliver, who seemed paralyzed since
the chorus girls descended on them. He
took his sip. then CALAMITY passed the cup
to the chorus girls, who in turn passed
1t to the score of Shriners who had como
on the stage to assist in the embarrass-
ment Of the admiral and senator.
There Is much discussion over the affair
and many husbands are trying to explain
that the girls really had a lot of clothes
on.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
AMERICAN EXPOSITION
WORRIES GERMAN PAPER

Berlin. Dec. 1. - The Rheinisch
Westfaelische Zeitung, a trade paper
of Essen. which is commonly described
as the organ Of the manufacturers Of
that city and vicinity. is much dis
turbed over the American exposition
which is to be held in Berlin next
ummer.
In it's issue today the paper attacks
the plan as likely to injure German
trade by a%ffording Americans an oppor-
tunity to show the excellence OF their
manufacturers. 1t appears to fear the
effect of a contrast between German
and American wares, and alludes to
Prince Henry of Prussia as an agent
American trade, because the prince
is a patron of the exposition and chair
man of the %eception committee.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
WEST INDIAN VESSEL
RUNS HARD AGROUND
Steamer Brewster in Danger.
Gus Position South of Cape
Hatteras.

New York. Dec. 1.-The steamer
Brewster, in cargo from Jamaica and
Cuban ports for New York, is today
hard aground and in a dangerous posi-
ton off Diamond Shoals lightship, just
south Of Cape Hatteras. The steamer
is sending out calls for immediate as
sistance.
The all for help was received by
wireless telegraph in this city in a
message picked up by the United Wire
less company and originating with the
government station en- the light. The
message said the Brewster was
aground about six miles inside the
lightship, in a precarious position. The
sea was reported smooth and the wind
moderated at that time, however.
The Brewster, Of S31 ton net regis
ter, and owned by H. II. Schmitt Of
Hamburg, sailed from Kingston No
vember Is for New York.
A wrecking outfit was ordered from
Norfolk to the aid Of the stranded
steamer.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
ARTIST CHRISTY IS
DODG|NG HIS WIFE
Hears She Procured Habeas
Corpus Writ for Daughter
Natalie.

Cincinnati, Nov. 29.-"I shall leave Amer
lea as quickly as steam will carry me and
may not be bach for a solid year." said
Howard Chandler Christy, the artist,
when he passed through Cincinnati en-
route to Cub
IL got a tip that my wife and her law
yers were coming on from New York to
get possession Of my daughter. Immedi-
ately my sister n myself got our things
ready and brought the child away from
my fathers, In GAINESVILLE. We are going
to Cub to spend the winter.
Well skip from place to place all over
Gods big world before we have her take
Natalia away from u.s."
He and his sister, Miss Rose Christy,
departed soon afterwards for New Or
leans, taking the little girl with them.
Mrs. Christy obtained a writ of habeas
corpus Saturday at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, to
get possession of the child. The artist and
his wife have been living apart since last
spring.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
STRIKERS ARE EVICTED
IN TERRIBLE WEATHER

Ludlow, Mass, Dec. Rain last
night and early today added to the
misery Of the 800 persons evicted on
Saturday from tenements owned by
the Ludlow Manufacturing association
because Of a strike in the mills Of the
company.
The household effects Of the evicted
persons were piled in a heap in the
street. The owners found refuge for
themselves and their families in the
houses Of friends.
The work Of eviction was suspended
today, but 1t vas announced that on
Wednesday the occupants Of 16 other
houses owned by the company would
be ordered to leave. The principal
development today was he importa-
ton of a band of so Italian strike
breakers, who were taken to the mills
under police guard.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
GERMAN AvIATORS
KILLED IN FLIGHT
Bodies of Two Distinguished
Aeronauts Found in River
Fiume.

Berlin, Nov. 29.--Dr. Brenknann and
Hugo Francke, the two most daring
members of the Aero club, of Berlin.
have been killed through the collapse of
their balloon "Kolmaar.'' Their bodies
were found today near Fiume, Austria
Hungary. Nearby was their balloon,
a huge rent in the envelope telling the
story Of their death.
Brenckmann mad been the third per-
son to insure his life with the newly
formed company which takes air navi-
cation risks. He was connected with
the Charity hospital Of Berlin, and
Francke was an architect. Their aerial
exploits In the past have attracted
much attention and no little alarm on
the part of intimate friends.
They assembled Monday from SEMINAR
gendorf, q suburb Of Berlin. The point
at which the bodies were found is on
the northern edge Of the gulf Of Quar-
nero. at the northeast extremity of the
Adriatic sea, and in an almost direct
line south 300 miles from Berlin.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
SENATOR CLARK TALKS
ON COPPER SITUATION

coming and not enough going out;
European consumption Of copper is not
keeping pace with American produce
tion," said former Senator William A.
Clark, Of Montana, today as he stepped
from the gangway Of the inbound
steamer Mauretania.
1T is true, copper is selling too low,
but overproduction is responsible. The
normal price should be Is cents; 10
cent copper is too cheap"
Informed OF the recent decision
against the Standard Oil company,
Senator Clark said:
Pm not surprised. I never believed
In large corporate a~ggregations of cap
ital, and for myself / have always pre-
ferred to work as an individual"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
FINDS FATHERS BODY IN
MEDICAL SCHOOL BY VISION

New Orleans. Nov. 29.-An occult tip
led Harry Balastier to his father, Will
lam Augustus Balastier, a confederate
veteran, who had been dead to his family
since June 2. The son found the dismem-
bered body in the medical department Of
Tulane university. where six students
were gathered about the head, receiving
instructions from the professor.
William Balastier disappeared from his
home, at No. 1918 Constance st. Search
by the family proved unava.ling. Re-
Gently the son declared the elder man was
being cut up by savages. Upon investiga-
ton he learned that his father was COM
mitted to the house of detention by Re-
corder Fogarty on the charge of insanity.
The prisoner was removed later to the
Charity hospital, where he died.
The hospital officials had no knowledge
Of Balastier's family, and, as Is custom
airy, the unclaimed body was turned over
to the medical college for scientific pur-
poses.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
FIREMAN LOSES LIFE
IN A KANSAS WRECK

Parsons, Kan, Dec. IA fireman
was killed and several passengers were
injured, none seriously, in a collision
at Olive, near here, today between
northbound Missouri, Kansas e. Texas
passenger train Nc. 80 and an engine
sent put to flag the passenger.
Il. s. Wayman, fireman Of the pas
senger engine, was killed and Engineer
Lanahan was perhaps fatally hurt.
John Haley, conductor, was badly
bruised. The flag engine was sent
from Parsons to flag the incoming pas
senger train and report for a train
order. In the dense fog the fiagman
did not see the passenger train until
too late to apply the brakes. The
engine men in the flag engine jumped,
thus saving their lives.
Lanahan is thought to have inhaled
steam. His face was badly cut and
bruised and he was rendered uncon-
scious.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
TRAINER IN BATTLE
WITH FIERCE BABOON
Infatuated Animal Gives Man
Desperate Struggle for
His Life.

Portland, Ore, Nov. 3~o.-Struggling
for his life with an Infatuated baboon,
Fred Wilson, Of Brazil, Ind, a trainer
employed by an animal show, fought
desperately for half an hour yesterday
with a baboon that attacked him in
the cage.
The beast clutched Wilson'S throat,
but so long as the trainer could keep
on his feet he had the best Of the fight.
At length he fell exhausted from loss OF
blood and the strain, and the animal
gnawed at his legs.
A score Of monkeys in the cage kept
up a shrill screaming during the prog
ress of the fight and this finally at
tracted the attention of other employees,
who rescued Wilson. Wilson Is in q
serious condition.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
BOTH SIDES INVITE
KING TO ARBlTRATE

London. Dec. IA request that
King Edward mediate the Alsop claim
dispute between the United States and
Chile was made by the United States
through the foreign office today.
His majesty had been communicated
with informally on the subject before,
but at that time gave a noncommital
reply.
Later in the day q similar request
wa received from the Chilean govern
ment. In forwarding these requests
to King Edward it Is understood the
foreign Office advised his majesty that
in view of the fact that both parties
desired him to act as arbitrator, there
was no reason why he should not ac-
cept the invitations.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
WIRES AND POLES DOWN
ALONG SANTA FEE ROAD

Topeka, Kan, Dec. From 1000
to $500 telegraph poles and several
miles of telegraph wires are down on
the western divisions Of the Chicago,
the western Kansas divisions Of he
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and
Atkinson, Topeka & Sante Fe rail-
roads as the result Of a storm which
began Saturday, lasted over Sunday,
and is now abating. Rain. sleet and
snow fell.
Snow and sleet were confined to
the rain was general over Kansas.
Lack of detailed reports prevent an
estimate of the damage at this time.
All trains from the west are delayed.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
POLICE MAY PREVENT
OPENING PRlZEFlGHT
OFFERS IN NEW YORK.

New York, Dec. 1.--lndica-
tions today were that the law
would prevent the proposed
gathering in Madison Square
garden next Wednesday night at
which bids for the Jeffries-
Johnson fight for the heavy
weight championship of the
world were to be opened.
Police Commissioner Baker
gave IL as his opinion that such
a gathering would be in VIOLA
ton of tho law and that the po-
lice would be forced to act to
prevent it's taking place.
The commissioner held that
the New York penal law makes
il q misdemeanor to promote a
prize fight even II the fight 10
not to take place In the state.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
MURDERER CAUGHT
IN A STRAWSTACK
Armed With Weapons, but
Makes No Fight-Brother
Flees Before Posse.

Aberdeen, s. D., Dec. 1.--Samuel
Cant, one Of the slayers Of Louis
Maxwell, Of Englevale, killed Thanks
giving day, was captured near Britton,
s. D., by Sheriff Jones, of Marshall
county, in a strawstack early Sunday
morning. He Is Is years old. His
brother, Daniel, who 1t is claimed did
the shooting, Is fleeing on horseback
through the western part of his coun-
ty and the sheriff and posse from Alb
erdeen are in pursuit. The captured
man was armed with a rife and two
revolvers, but offered no fight.
The killing Of Maxwell followed a
dispute over 50 and the Giants, former
Texas cowboys, terrified the town Of
Englevale the rest Of the day.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
AMERICAN SWINDLERS
LAND IN PARIS JAIL

Paris, Dec. -Four men and a
woman who have posed here as Amer
lean ~millionaires, but who are alleged
to compose a gang Of international
swindlers, were arrested today, charged
with extensive stealing and defraud-
ing of jewelers.. Jewels valued at $15,-
900 were found at their home. The po-
lice claim these were stolen from Eu-
ropean houses.
Two Of the men gave their names as
John Francks Of New York, who is said
to have once been expelled from
France, and Jacob Hymen of Phila-
delphie.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
PHILIPPINE DIRECTOR
OF EDUCATION NAMED

Manila, Dec. Frank White vas
today appointed director Of education
for the Philippine islands to succeed
DR.. Barrows, resigned. Mr.. White mas
been assistant director of education
here for several years. He was reared
in Nebraska, was graduated from the
University of Chicago in 1900, and came
to the Philippines in the following year..
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
GOVERNOR HUGHES
is DETERMINED TO
STOP PRIZE FIGHT

Albany, N. Y, Dec 1.-Governor
Hughes has written District Attorney
Sanford and Sheriff Bosch, Of Albany
county that, having received informa-
ton that the Knickerbocker Athletic
club, of Albany, had planned a 20-round
prize fight to take place at BulI'a Head
tavern on the Troy road On December
2, he would hold the authorities respon-
sible for any violation of the law.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
WOMAN TRIES TO
MURDER A NEGRO
WHO ATTACKED HER

McAlester, Okla, Nov. 30.-Mrs. John
King, wife of a miner, when taken to
the county Jail here today to identify
Will Jones. the negro who tried to as
sault her yesterday. pulled a revolver
from the folds of her dress and fired at
the prisoner. The bullet went wild and
the officers disarmed her and took her
away.
Last night a mob tried to get the
negro away from the officers and lynch
him. There were no indications of a
mob today.