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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-27
Crazy When he Did It.

Yes. I killed my two sisters and my
brother-in-law. and l was crazy when
I did it, he finally confessed. 1T took
me three mouths to plan it. Day by day
the picture of their bodies lying before
me grew. and at last, two weeks ago, l
saw it all. My plan was perfect My
hatred was going to be satisfied. bought
a revolver Then I waited.
Tuesday Rose went to visit at Van
Royen's and Lon went into the woods.
To make sure he wasn't around, l went
to the house and they told me where he
was. / found him cutting wood l shot
him in the head When he fell l fired
five more shots into his back. / always
hated him. 1 dragged his body across
the creek and left him under the leaves
where he was found
Il walked around for an hour and then
went back TO the house. My first shot
killed Mrs. Van Royen. She was sitting
in chair, but she stood UP when the
shot hit her and screamed before she
fell. Rose started to yell and 1 shot her.
She was dead with that one shot. But l
fired two more shots into Mrs. Van
Royen and five more into Rose. i didn't
hurry any. l wasn't excited. l had
thought it all out before.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-27
Two Sisters Elope With Farmers.

BRISTOL, Va. October 27-Messrs.
John Otis White and Benjamin L. Coll
line. farmers Of Bedford county. eloped
to Bristol with sisters and the two mar
riages were performed by Rev A. n.
Burroughs. White married Miss Naomi
Wyley and Collins married Miss Mary
V. WxAy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-27
Hides Revolver and Jewelry

Then I went through the house and
took all tie rings and other jewelry
could find. I hid them with my revolver
in corn shock.
1T didn't bother me at first. When
YOU brought bIoodhounds 1 wasn't afraid.
Blu; l colidnr sleep. Every hour some
thing has been driving me to tell. Now
III sleep in peace
The cause OF the quarrel between the
murderer and his victims seems to have
bee the desire of the senior Mrs Nc
Mahon to give part of her property to
younger sister, spent much of her time
al the Van Royen home.
Patrick Mcmahon. brother Of the slayer,
and Patrick Lamb, a farm hand, were
held as witnesses. The self-confessed
slayer was emphatic in his denials that
Patrick Mcmahon had anything to do
with the crime.
Fearing mob violence by throng that
gathered about the county Jail after the
confession became known, the sheriff
rushed the three prisoners in two auto
mobiles to the penitentiary at Leaven-
worth. where they spent the night.
Unless there are other developments
Patrick Mcmahon will probably be re-
leased soon. Patrick Lamb, the laborer
on the Mcmahon farm, who is also being
cause Of the fact that in his confession
yesterday James Mcmahon completely
exonerated Patrick.
While Sheriff Becker was hurrying the
three men to the penitentiary his mother
was dying and later in the night he re-
ceired telephone message that she was
dead
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-27
5oc Fountain Pens. 2e

Special sale of Good Quality Para
Rubber Fountain Pens; Complete
with pen point and large barrel. In
neat box, with filler. Special price.
each. 25c. Regularly soc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-27
oilet Leaders.

Laxative Bromo Quinine, the genu-
Inc kind, prepared by Z. W.
Grove. Regular price, sc -
"o@N wv
Genuine Rubberset Shaving Brush
es. bristles set in hard rubber
and warranted not to come 49,
out .................. AIS
Regular loo cakes of Renais-
sance Soap. for the skin. &c
Regular JOc bottles of -,
Danderine, for the hair. DOC
Powder Books, Papier Poudre.
Leaves of face powder. White
or pink. Worth 15c. Special at. yC
Munyon's Witch Hazel Extract q
high-grade witch hazel: large size
bottle. Regular price. JOc.
Thursday Bargain Sale IN
price hVC
Wilberts Nursery Talcum Powder.
large one-pound cans; extra fine tai
cum, borated and deiicately So
scented: worth 25c box. Do
Regular &c cakes OF Sweetheart
To- Toilet Soap. Three cakes 1Oc
lOI = W.
Dorin's Eyebrow Pencils, black
and brown. Regular l0c kinds. DC
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-27
ADMITS FOUL CRIME.
James Mcmahon Kills Sisters
and Brother-in-LaW.
EXHIBIT OF FIENDIsH RAGE
Robs House of $500 and Articles Of
Jewelry.
HATED HIS SISTERS HUSBAND
Sheriff Takes Precaution Against
Mob violence-Alleged Accom-
plices Also in Custody.
HATED HIS SISTERS HUSBAND

KANSAS CITY October 27.-After hav-
ing worked side by side with the police
for seven days in their hunt for the STAY
er Of Miss Rose Mcmahon. Mrs. Alonzo
Van Royen and Alonzo Van Royen, vic
Tins of an atrocious murder James Nc
Mahon. brother of the two women. con-
fessed yesterday afternoon that he him.
self was the murderer.
While the murder was unique in its
exposition of fiendish rage-the victims
being shot repeatedly after they had
fallen dead-the behavior of Mcmahon
during the week since the discovery of
the triple tragedy on the little farm five
miles from this city has been extraordi-
nary for a man tortured with the thought
of his crime.
Time and again he has gone over the
scene of the crime with the detectives.
never faItering in his original story. that
a strange man dressed as laborer whom
he saw the night of the murder scurry ing
away from the house must have done
the shooting.
Excites Suspicion.
The first suspicion attached itself to
Mcmahon when ii was discovered that
the Van Royen homestead showed no
signs of having been hurriedly searched,
although 500 and much iewelry had been
stolen a further deduction that the
murderer was known to his victims was
drawn from the fact that Mrs. Van ROyen
was shot three times, her sister six times
and Van Royen six times. 1t was the
work. the police believe. Of man
either crazed by jealousy or hatred,
or one determined to make sure of the
death of all three TO prevent identifica-
ton.
When Mcmahon offered a reward of
500 for the murderer suspicion pointed
toward him more strongly. He had never
possessed 500 before. In his confession
yesterday he admitted he had stolen the
money from his dead sisters cupboard
savings.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-14
THE. FARMERS, INTEREST.

In statement made public yeste--
day DR.. Melvin Of the bureau of ami
NAL industry shows that during the
last calendar year there were inspected
and passed" 519.649 cattle, 90,a84 calves,
450,235 sheep, 4,054 goats and 1877, 453
swine. The number Of carcasses
thanked" or destroyed on post 1nortem
inspection turned out 231, 400, 319 pounds
Of meat products. On reinspection
there was destroyed 252,s72 pounds.
Any farmer who cares to use his
arithmetic can quickly find out for
himself approximately what tubercu-
losis cost at the market where "stuff
ready for market" came to inspection.
He can't figure, nor can anyone else,
the loss of feed wasted attempting to
at such animals for market, losses on
the farm. the future loss from infec-
ton and the nnultitudious ramifications
Of loss into which the disease runs.
However it Is probably fair to assume
that the animals caught and con-
damned by federal inspection do no!
represent 10 per cent OF the actual loss
IN casn or a. good as cash from tuper-
culosis in animals.
NO new legislation~as proposed tc
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strengthen the inspection law beyond
the recommendation the department of
agriculture will submit whereby the
grading of meat will be effected. AT
the present time inferior cuts are label
ed inspected and passed" the same as
the superior cuts. The department
would like the authority to announce
on the label whether the meat is ex-
cellent of merely good. Farmers and
islation. All loss comes back to the
farm. An inferior and diseased pro-
The diseased and inferior animal
cheapens the price OF all. Don't imagine
that the packer is paying for tuber-
culosis. The man who raises and feeds
and sells the best animals is the great
est loser by the cheapening of his pro-
duct by the tubercular and unfit an
imals. Everey tanked carcass is a tax
on the pastures and feed lots, precisely
as hovel next door is an element in
cheapening the price of an otherwise
first class residence.
If any man is vitality interested in
stamping out tuberculosis in animals
used for food the man who raises and
feeds them is the one.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-14
Iona Newspapers
LOOKING ON FROM OUTSIDE.
Ia ckleV journal

If the old maxim "a man is measured
by his deeds, not by his words" is true,
then Billy Sunday must be ranked high
as a power for good. He has and al
ways will be severely criticized, but
history tells us that the greater the
prophet the greater his prosecution. AS
Sunday himself might put it, the devil
must resist most fiercely those who
fight most earnestly against him. Sun
day has been branded as CRATER, a
faker, a mudslinger, ETC., yet not one
word has been brought against the
cleanliness of his life or the honesty of
his living. He practices what he
breaches and until he does otherwise
the honesty of his intentions can not be
brought into question. If he is a CRATER
he CRAFTS for God; if he is a faker he
outwits the devil at his own game
for good purpose; if mudslinger, he
hurls mud only at those things so cor
rupt that mud looks like whitewash
against the blackness and filthiness of
their character. One look at the re-
suits of Billy Sundays work should be
sufficient to condemn his critics.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-14
A FAIR PROPOSITION.

Road makers may we'll take a lesson
from the cities where property owners
are insisting on a narrower roadway
and consequent lessening of the cost
of paving The main thing is good
street, wide enough to afford safety
and accommodation for traffic. The
city dweler is insisting that he should
not be obliged to pave one-third more
space than is necessary. And he is
exactly right in his contention.
We make four rod road in Iowa for
track whereon two teams and wagons
must pass. A strip twelve to sixteen
feet wide suffces the traffic. The re-
mainder of the sixty odd feet is left
very often to become a culture spot
for weeds, unsightly, unnecessary and
din a great many instances a danger
We scrape and pillow and dig up the
dirt drag it here and there and when
it is all done have spoiled acres Of
Iowa land to the mile worth Sl25 an
acre for mighty poor road.
Each quarter section farm could just
as we'll have an acre of it back again
as not and the road would probably be
a better road for the change. Being
smaller it would look easier to care for
and would receive the same intensive
culture which the small garden re-
ceives as compared to the larger one.
One of Ex-Governor Larrabee's sons, a
member of the state senate, has pro-
posed such change by statute but so
far he has not been able to interest
either legislators or farmers but as
land approaches the 5000 mark time
draws us nearer to his reform with
every passing day.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-14
AN OLD FARM.
1Relmond Herald.l


Fred Luck and Son have a piece of
land that is producing it's f1fty-fifth
crop. 1t was broken and planted to
corn in 1854 by Mr.. Franklin who set
tied in the grove south of town and
put up a substantial log house which
he intended to use for a hotel. Dur
ing the summer the hostile Sioux
chased band of Mosqua Indians thru
this part of the country and Mr.
Franklin evidently concluded that he
was a little too far west, so in the fall
when Henry and David Luck, A. Ov-
cracker and w. r. Gray arrived he sold
his claim to them. The log cabin was
occupied by Fred Luck and family for
many years and altho it was never
used as a hotel the writer with many
Iothers can testify that the menu was
excelled by none. Mr.. Luck informed
us Monday that crop OF grain has
been raised on that land every year
since. To show that the land has not
deteriorated during the last fifty-five
years, he gave us the following figures:
1905-TWenty- six bushels wheat per
acre.
1eOs-Seventy-five bushels corn per
acre.
19o7-F'ifty bushels barley per acre.
190S-Sixty-f bushels corn, sew
enty-two pounds, per bushel.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-14
AN AMERICAN DISC ACE.

Yesterday at a Des Moines amuse-
ment park an Iowa justice of the peace
and two persons of opposite sexes hired
for the purpose by a promise of fifty
dollars went thru a farce of marriage
10 the ielectablc enjoyment of a big
crowd The people We're not actually
married. They and the justice We're
only pretending but the crowd thought
it an actual ceremony and had the
time Of it's life making sport of a sac
rament.
Here is a factor in the arithmetical
progression of divorce. When thous
ands of i'll bred and thoughtless people
may be gathered from a smaller city
like Des Moines to jeer at a ritual in
vested with the sanctity Of marriage
and justice of the peace can be in
duced to debauch his office by taking
a leading part in the mummery, there
is certainly something vitality wrong
with the representative of the law and
the people who live under the law The
Justice Should be removed from office
IL legally possible and the people
should take stock of themselves.
How many fools went away from the
park with debased idea of marriage
and the home it presages? What are
we to expect from the unmarried peo-
pie, the youths and the children who
were tempted to ilorseplay over the
ceremony which covers children with
the mantle of legitimacy, that is this
cornerstone and foundation Of the
home? If any institution is sacred ant
to be protected from the laughter Of
fools and prostitution to the greedy, i
should be the one that gave us the
homes of our childhood, the homes O.
our ripper years and the right to tht
very names we bear.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-14
"rHE ALL-ARoUND TOWN.

Cedar Rapids Republican,
After a second murder in certain
rooming house in Burlington the mayor
has ordered the place closed. 1t was
a place" all we'll enough, a saloon I'M
derneath, a gambling house and rooms
for dodgers on top. The pity of 1T Is
that the mayor of Burlington has been
so patient with that kind of place.
He has probably proceeded on the
theory that such places are necessary
to an "all round city" We have heard
that so often that it has become ac-
cepted as part of the faith of many
men. They think that certain amount
of tolerated vice is not only necessary,
but that it helps to make a city. 1t is
lnoary tradition that has been dying
a hard death in many cities. We have
gotten rid of it in Cedar Rapids. and
they hace gotten rid of 1t in Des Moines
and Sioux City.
Let us preach the contrary doctrine
for while, namely that the men who
build tip city are not the gamblers
who fleece the innocent, nor the VIC
ious who scatter their moral filth, but
the men who conduct lawful end help
full business; the men who build fac
tories and give employment to decent
people. The other kind of people create
spots, fostering places which are to q
citys healthy growth about the same
as the cancer is in the human body
sapping its strength and running tts
constitution.
Burhngton's new arousal has beer
brought about by a second murder
but even that price is not too grea
to pay for a bit Of useful and help
full and healthful information
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-14

stantly and receive q courteous con-
signment to the waste basket. The
county attorney can't be expected to
concern himself over such commune
cations.
But the county attorney says he
summoned witnesses to appear before
the grand jury. Had these witnesses
been summoned in connection with a
case of theft, or arson, or murder, Of
course the county attorney would not
have considered his full duty per-
formed until he had come to Belle
Plaine and convinced himself that he
had all the witnesses that would help
to secure an Indictment.
If he be made out of the right kind
of lighting stuff he will proceed to as
semble his evidence and prosecute the
case with the same vigor that he would
an action for murder or arson. If he is
inclined to give the people the kind of
government a few noisy lawbreakers
say they want he will permit matters
to take their own course. A few wit
nesses may be summoned before the
grand jury as a conscience salve but
the proceedings will be largely per-
functory.
The county attorney of Benton
county is not worse in matters of this
character than those of other counties.
The most of them fight the bootlegger
with padded gloves. One trouble is that
very often you don't follow the trail
of a bootlegger long until you run into
some fellow in a plug hat. And then
the county attorney begins to apollo
gize for being alive and the temper
ance people take to the woods. We
have seen bootleggers backed up in a
corner and licked to a stand still. 1t
took time and it took money, and when
the last skirmish line formed, where
there ought to have been a thousand
temperance people in line of battle
there were less than a dozen.
Such conditions don't give the coun-
ty attorney much encouragement to
fight. The idea for instance is ridicu-
lous that the temperance forces of
Belle PLANE are not strong enough to
put crimp In a dozen or two of boot
leggers if they would get into the fight
and stay in. But they won't fight. They
want the county attorney to do all the
fighting. And the county attorney
wants them to assemble the evidence
and go over to Vinton and place 1t in
his hands all neatly tied up with a
blue ribbon. And so there you are.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-14


Adirondacks to take measures to pre-
vent railroad fires in that region, the
commission has rendered decision
ordering oil to be burned through the
months from April Is to November
Of each year.
Complete installation Of oil burning
Is to be effected by April Is, 1910, and
at least two locomotives on the Mo-
hawk & Malone railroad and two on
the Delaware & Hudson are to be fitted
with oil-burning apparatus and placed
In service this summer, in order to
accustom the meg to the use of oil
and avoid any experimenting next
year
"The hearings extended through
several months and all practical plans
OF fire preventions were considered"
the commission announces. "The cost
of electrification was found to be en-
tirely prohibitive, as it would involve
additional expense of moro than
$1,000,000 year for the New York
Central lines alone, over the cost of
operating steam locomotives, even If
water power could be obtained to
generate the amount of electricity
which would be required.
"The remedies proposed by the rail.
road companies provided for improve
ments in the present steam locomo-
tives, clearing the right of way of
combustible matter. patrolling, the
use Of special telephone system
and for fire trains.
"The railroad companies have also
failed to prove to the satisfaction Of
the commission that their locomotives,
as they propose to equip and main
tain them, will be sufficiently free
from the danger of throwing sparks
and dropping fires from the ash pans
to warrant the continuance of coal
burning during the dry months. The
evidence, however, shows that coal
burning locomotives properly equipped
can be safely used at night, and the
order provides accordingly.
The commission finds that 1853 gal
Ions of fuel oil are equivalent to one
ton Of bitiminous coal, and that On
this basis the extra cost of oil burn.
ing over the remedies proposed by the
railroad companies will be about $780,.
900 year.
1.-THE report made by the chief IRE
wardens of areas burned over in 1908
shows over $4,000 acres Of timber
land destroyed by fires set by hum
tiers, 10000 acres destroyed by incen-
diary fires and $4,000 acres by UNI
known causes, as compared with &c..
600 acres stated to be destroyed by
railroad fires. It is thus clear that
stopping the railroad fires is only a
substantial beginning in the elimina-
ton Of the total fire damage in the
forest preserves and that radical
measures will be needed on the part
of the state authorities to supplement
the precautions and expense imposed
upon the railroads by this order, II
the Adirondack forests are to be pre-
served"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-14
THE LODGES.
\ MASONIC NoTlcEs.

s : 1
xVisitors always welcome.
/VNHall over 1867 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE 10s A. r. q a.
NJ, no work tonight, work in second deS
gree Friday evening, June II, 1880. H
g. Hoeck. w. M. NJ. H. s. Lawrence
Sec'y.
sIGNET CHAPTER No. SO, r. A. N.
convocation Monday, june II
1880 p. M. work in Royal Arch degrees
q. n. Bosgie, Il r.
l. s. Willard, secy.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL n. q 81
'M.-Stated assembly Monday. June al
p. m.
A. d. Mesker. T. I. ~
I. r. Forbes, REQ. &
ST. ALDEMAR COMMANDERYt
No. 80, K. T.-Stated conclave Tues
day evening, June % at 8 O'Clock foh
business and work on the Order ofstha
Temple. r. NJ. Wilbur, e. G.
Fred Wallace, Recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81. O. st
S.-Regular meeting Wednesday; juno
16, at 8 p. m.
Mrs, Geo. Downing. w. u.
Edna G. Fularton, Secy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-14
SAME OLD STORY.

The county attorney Of Benton coun-
ty writes the Union that he is in re-
ceipt of an anonymous letter from
Belle PLANE in which complaint is
made Of the unlawful liquor sales being
made. He does not know what to do
about It. Prior to the last session Of
the grand jury the county attorney
was supplied with names Of witnesses
who were suggested as being in pos
session Of facts that might lead to con-
victions. These witnesses were sum-
moned before the grand jury but had
no evidence OF much consequence to
give.
The proposition that confronts the
county attorney in this county is not
materially different than that met by
similar officials in other counties. And
the attitude Of the county attorney
toward the conditions is about the av-
erage county attorney attitude. The
writer Of an anonymous letter is q
Toward. They come to this Office con-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-14
ECO with Two Shells.

One of the hens belonging to Mfas
William Childs last week laid an ega
which was a curiosity. In long cir
conference 1t measured nine inchess
in short circumference, seven incheA4
After keeping the egg for several
days, Mrs. Childs broke the she'll
when to her surprise she found on
the inside another egg we'll developed
with hard shell. The inclosed egg
was as large as an ordinary egg, the
space between it and the outer she'll
being filled with the natural contenta
the yolk and white Of the egg.-Dani
Vile American.
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