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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-01
GREAT LAKE REGIONS
SUFFER PROPERTY
AND DEATH LOSSES

CHIsAGO, April SO.-Death and de-
structiNn followed in the wake of
storm which swept over the middle
west lat night. In Chicago many
buildineA were unroofed, homes blown
over and scores of people driven into
the storm many narrowly escaping
with theiA lives.
At leash twenty are known to be
dead, inclu1ing those killed at Grand
Crossing, Adistrict of Chicago, in the
collapse of \ factory.
Great desruction was wrought by
the storm bsore it reached the Great
Lakes regionA
At Summeville. Mo-. the wind
created havoc Two persons were
killed and may were injured. The
dead are Miss Relle Delurey and Mrs.
George Smith.
The storm wa\ furious in the south
ern part of Illhpis. At Texas City,
near Carnli, foul persons were killed
and many serioust wounded. The dead
are Edward Overth, Mrs. Overton, her
baby aad servanA
Great damage tobroperty and crops
was caused In Mi@igan on the east
shore of Lake Michfan. MANY vessels
were imperilled.
Dispatches from AuIt ste. Marie.
Mich, report that s\amship believed
to be the Aurenia, of Ae Corrigan line.
was seen TO sink in Whefsh bay.
At Michigan City In\. on the south
shore of Lake MichigA, the wind
storm was terrific and aportion of the
wall of the northern IAana peniten-
tiary was destroyed. Militia from
South Bend were orderedto the scene
to guard the prisoners.
In Wisconsin the storm was con-
verted into blizzard any for many
hours there ragged one or V severest
snowstorms OF the seasoAin many
towns, causing great dainaA to prop
erty.
At La Crosse and Superb reports
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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-01
DEAD STRANGER FOUND
NEAR "SUlclDE BRIDGE"

CHICAGO, April SO.-The police have
thus far failed to find any clew to the
identity of woman whose body was
found in the Lincoln park lagoon near
''Suicide bridge" Wrapped in cloth
and SUSPENDED from the neck by a
string was a receipt to Mrs c. A.
Lewis" for payment for safety de-
post box. The box on being opened
by a court order was found to contain
$3.50 in currency and two scraps of pa
per, one bearing the figure ''2'' and the
other the figure 49,"
The body had been in the water sew
eral weeks and the clothing and jew
elry were undisturbed. The woman is
believed to have been stranger In
Chicago
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-01
DEMANDS
$4,000 OF WIDOW
SUITOR ASKS BALM FOR HIS
BROKEN HEART
Mrs. Julia Dotson, Wealthy and At
tractlVe, Must Defend Action for
Damages in Breach of
Promise Case

Mrs. Julia E. Dotson, wealthy
widow, residing at 1918 West Twelfth
street, is made defendant in breach
of promise suit filed yesterday in the
superior court by John ]. Mooney, a
real estate dealer, who asks, as the
measure of his wounded feelings,
broken health on account of grief and
modification, the sum. of $4,000. The
suit was filed by H. II. Appel, attorney
for Mooney.
Mrs. Dotson denies that she ever
promised to marry Mooney or that she
ever considered his proposal OF H,aa,sd,, mar
riage seriously. She says that Mooney
is disappointed because he did not get
control of her property
"Mooney's brother and his wife called
on me last night and urged me to
marry him because he was grieving
himself to death on account of unre-
Quilted love-" said Mrs Dotson. 'Of
course. told them | had no idea of
marrying him. Let him go and make
a man of himself said to them"
Mooney alleges that Mrs. Dotson
promised to marry him, April 25, and
that he arranged with q minister to
perform the ceremony. The minister
has been expecting a call to perform
the ceremony ever since. The plaintiff
as a result of worry and grief over the
broken pledge, and that he has suf-
fered modification because he had an
nounced the nuptials to his friends and
relatives. He AYERS that his proposal
of marriage was accepted February 20,
1909, and that the date of the marriage
was fixed for April 25.
Mrs. Dotson Denies
To all of these statements Mrs Dot
son enters a positive and emphatic de-
NAL She says Mooney, during the
lifetime of his wife, was tenant OF
hers. Mooney has a daughter about IL
years old. In February she took
Mooney and the daughter to board.
Mooney, she says, had no employment
and she procured him position as
watchman in a bank. She asserts that
instead of paying his board and that
of his daughter, he spent the money
She says that Mooney threatened TO
commit suicide and frightened her TO
such an extent that she called on
lieutenant of police and sought his
advice The following day she wrote
q letter to Mooney notifying him THAT
he must not come to the house again.
She says she humored Moneys court
ship, hoping that she might get him
to pay his bill, but AYERS that 1t is sun
Writes to Mooney
This letter Mrs. Dotson retains copy
of. and it reads as follows:
April 25-Mr. J. J. Mooney: Dear
Sir-I take this opportunity to
notify YOU that have studied the
probiem of your remaining here
longer. and find I was friend in
deed, for / was friend in need,
and it seems I could be so indefi-
nitely, but If I do not stop now,
should be in the same boat. 1 feel
have fully done my duty in every
sense of the word, carried both
Margaret and you through sickness
and tried to put you to the front
NV sympathies have been larger
than my pocketbook, but as have
pearl Can adopted daughter) and
myself to look out for, / must be
just and not so generous to others
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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-01
STRONG CABINET
FOR TURKEY BY
TEWFIK PASHA
RECONSTRUCTION OF EMPIRE
TO BE BY FRIENDS
ABDUL HAND WILL NOT BE
RT-MARTIALED
Police Seize Much Arms and Ammuni.
tion Intended for Fanatical Out
break-YiIdiz Searched
for Treasures
[By Associated Press. ]

HONSTANTINOPLE, April 30.-Tew-
I ff Pasha finally succeeded in
~ forming a new cabinet to preside
over the Turkish empire, task he
undertook reluctantly.
The ministry follows:
Grand vizier-Tewfik Pasha.
Minister of interior-Former Grand
Vizier Ferid Pasha
Minister of war-Salah Pasha.
Minister of finance-Rifaat Bey.
Minister of marine-Gen. Ria Pasha.
Minister of foreign affairs-Rifaiat
Pasha.
Sheil1 vi Islam-Zia Eddin Effendi
Minister of public works and COM
merce-Ga briel Effendi.
Minister of agriculture-Prince Nav
rogordato.
Minister of pious foundations-Mah-
mould Ekrem Bey.
Minister of public Observation-Disclosures
Bey.
Mehemmed V drove through the
streets in democratic fashion today on
his way to the mosque to offer up the
regular Friday prayers. The pomp
that attached to the function during
the reign of Abdul Hamid was alto
gether lacking, and the subjects of the
new sultan seemed to appreciate this
and accepted it as evidence of the be-
ginning of a more lenient rule.
Report from Salonika that Abdul
Hamid would be court-marti3led was
denied here
1t is reported the police have made
numerous seizures of arms, ammuni-
ton and bombs which were to have
been used in fanatical outbreak,
which General Schefkets timely occu-
patton of the city prevented. Search
ing parties are digging in the grounds
of the Yildiz Kiosk for treasure sup
posed to have been buried by Abdul
IJan1id
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-01
NEW SULTAN OF TURKEY is
MAKING STRONG IMPRESSION
BY HIS SIMPLE MANNERS

CONSTANTINOPLE, April SO.-Me
hemrned V. sultan of Turkey, clad in a
khaki uniform and accompanied by q
suite of a half-dozen officials of his
household, drove through Constantt-
nople to the mosque of st. Sophia to-
day, where the new sovereign prayed
for nearly an hour >,
This simplicity is taken as an evil
dence of the democratic tendencies OF
the new ruler His majesty entered
through the sultan door, which had
not been opened in twenty-siX years,
the last occasion being when Abdul
Hamid took Rudolph, the crown prince
of Austria, to the mosque Inc MIN
ute the sultan stepped out OF his car
riage to the red carpet leadlns llleo
the building. a priest in black rope
cut the throats of two rams, and the
sacrihcial blood flowed almost to the
feet of the new ruler.
AS Mehemmed was leaving the palace
today, two brothers, Greeks, Frustrated
themselves and tried to kiss the SUI
tan's feet Mehemmed recognized
them as his former jewelers. whom Ap-
duI Harnid denounced as spies and as
taaino over friendly to him. Abdul
Tanid sentenced the two to seven
vears' Imprisonment in the fortress OF
Sastamda. and only recently were tney
released Mehemmeds face lit up WITH
.nlaasr as he raised the men to their
feet and embraced them, saying:
"You are my brothers.
Relieves Sufferers
Rev. w. w Peet, the representative
bera of the American board of mis-
sions who is managing the work OIL
relieving the sufferers from the mas
sacres in Asiatic Turkey from Gallclt,
has shipped twelve tons OF nour aIlu ar.
15O. 900 pounds of rice to Adana. MI
Peet has received $1,000 from the amer
lean Red Cross, $llOO from Ins g-n Altieil- s.s,-
can board of Missions and $2foo from
fine Society of Friends of Armenia, anu
saws he needs from $4,000 TO $2O,OVO
more for his immediate requirements
A letter from Tarsus. written by Dr.
Christie of Hartford, Conn.,, dated Aprll
90 saws: 81 estimate there were lOO0
dead in Adana and Tarsus ana oVO IN
neighboring towns, but begin 70 thlIlk
This estimate is too low for the coun-
tr,, disfricts. Our bankers, shaker bou-
tros for example, have farms south
east of Tarsus and had eighty-one men
ar work upon them, one Greek ana
5The Greek came in with the story
that every one of the eighty Armenlans
had been killed.
From Kosolock came a similar tale.
i never would nave DellSNSu lnSlh Se'Pa
ble of such cruelties, the sight OF which
I saw Saturday morning. AS the train
on which / was riding moved through
the VINEYARDS and the gardens this side
OF Adana they reminded me Of Shiloh.
of Corinth, of Vicksburg, of Atlanta.
Here were bodies lying where they had
fallen. There was a heap Of ten or
twenty piled up like cordwood-I sup
pose in preparation for burial. In
Adana carloads were being dumped
into the river. In the long street lead
ing from the station I counted 300 that
had not been removed.
There were two whole days of bitter
street fighting, of massacres of the de-
fenseless, and of burnings. Our great,
strong city of Adana is now thing of
the past"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-01
MOTHER STANDS BY
SON WHO SLEW Her
HUSBAND, A FEUDIST
Entire Fortune of Woman Is Placed
at Boys Disposal to Defend
Himself on Charge of
Murder
[special to The Herald.l

IRVINE. KY, April 3O.-No criminal
trial, perhaps, in the history of the
United States has attracted more at
tention than that of Beach Hargis,
chrged with the murder of his father,
Judge James Hargis of Breathitt
county. Judge Hargis was a teudlst
of renown, and the mantle has fallen
on his son, who was his slayer.
A remarkable feature of the trial
was that the mother and grandmother
of the boy testified that the father was
unusually severe and often cruel to
the boy The mother placed her en-
tire fortune at the disposal of her son
in defending himself in court. Through
out they stood by him.
THE son testified that at the time
he shot his father the latter was chok-
ing him, and that he fired in self de-
fense, The youth is unusually hand
some.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-01
FONDNESS FOR DOGS
FORCES AGED WOMAN
TO MOVE INTO BARN

SAN FRANCISCO, April SO.-NIrs.
Matte Harley, an aged woman, has
been elected from her humble home and
is living in barn. Through the expendi-
ture Of her meagcr income for the care
of stray and hungry dogs she was un-
able to pay her own expenses. Her few
possessions, consisting of one large mat
tress and dozen smaller ones, the lat
ter for the accommodation Of twenty-one
Of her canine dependents, and few
other articles of necessity were moved
into the barn by kind neighbors. Short
" after she was Installed in her new
quarters Mrs. Harley adopted another
stray dog attracted to the scene by the
barking OF her charges.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-01
LOCAL

Highway commission will demand recognition
by county board of supervisors.
Wealthy woman is sued in breach Of promise
suit.
Case charging woman with obtaining money
OH land fake deal dropped.
Babies uninjured when auto strikes carriage.
Marriage of woman, who Nodded second hus-
band before final divorce from first was
granted, is annuled.
Complainant to mayor wants ordinance pro-
hihiting women from displaying ankles on
streets.
Raisin day generally observed in Los Angeles
Municipal league nears thousand mark in
membership.
Friday Morning club in controversy over
contract for building new club house.
Warren L. Williams appointed police justice
to succeed late II. C. Austin.
Today is Tag day.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-01
To Run for Senator

CHICAGO, April 3O--A special dis
patch from Washington to the Record
Herald says: Governor John A. john
son of Minnesota, according to friends
here, intends to enter the senatorial
race to contest for the seat now occu-
pied by Senator Clapp. The term of
Mr.. Clapp expires March 4, 1911, and
his successor will be elected by the Leg
islature in 1910.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-01

Red haired bandit escapes with chum and
both are believed to have found shelter in
Spokane
Hartman officials deny there Is any struggle
with competitors for control Of Lolo pass in
Oregon.
Suit is brought at San Francisco to enjoin
county treasurer from paying salaries to de-
tectives in graft cases.
Claims force is used in reclaiming son by
deserted husband who seizes his child at Santa
Barbara.
witnesses attempt to show that Patrick Cal
houn at San Francisco paid money to super
visors.
Blaokmailers demand $4,000 from noted re-
former, Rudolph spreckels, on penalty of death
IL not paid.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-01
constantInopIe Incited Attacks

ADANA. April S0.-The conviction is
held by the Armenians that the Moslem
attacks against them had their origin
in Constantinople. The massacres be-
within 100 miles radius from the Gulf
of Alexandretta, and therefore they
maintain that they could not have
started from a local row in Adana.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-01
copper Interests NAY combIne

NEW YORK, May 1.-After recently
comforting with forty of the leading
copper men, William e. Corey presi-
dent of the United States Steel corpora
ton, has under way plan for combin
ing the big copper interests of the
country, according to the World today.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-01

Brother of Captain Hams, who is in trial for
his life for staying W. e. Annis at Bayslde
Yacht club at Long lslana, gives graphic de-
scription OF shooting.
Mother OF Beech Hargis stands by her son
during trial for murder of his father
Casualties Of storm run into the hundreds
and more deaths are being reported in the
south and middle west.
Senator Mccomber favors admittance OF lum-
ber free and creates controversies In senate
during his speech.
Labor circles in Chicago more than unusually
quiet.
Fire In tenement house in New York causes
mothers TO throw babes from windows.
Self-government seems TO be the ambition OF
Oregon, says speaker In Chicago.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-01
THE NEWS SUMMARY
FORECAST

For Los Angeles and vicinity: Fair,
continued warm weather Saturday;
light north wind, changing to south
west. Maximum temperature yester-
day, 72 degrees; minimum, 48 degrees.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-01
Dies Of RlcycIe Injury

SAN DIEGO, April 30.-William Luce,
a Western Union messenger, who sus-
tained a concussion OF the brain by
fan from his bicycle yesterday, died
last night.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-01

Heralds proclaim birth of daughter to queen
Wilhelmina.
strong cabinet for Turkey formed by Tewtik
Pasha and reconstruction of empire is intended
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-01-22
LOOK TO THE SEED.

Although there are quite number
of intelligent and progressive farmers
throughout this section, who fully ap-
preciate the importance Of planting
none but the best seed II Is fact also
that the great majority never give the
subject Of seed selection second
thought.
Take the matter Of corn for in
stance. and there can be found farmers
who last year planted and who again
this year will plant seed about which
they know nothing, except that 1t Is
corn.
Only yesterday. a farmer in reply
to an inquiry, admitted to the writer,
that he is planting seed that he bought
originally for feed purposes, without
knowing even what 1t looked like on
the cob. Il bought it at the mill,
where it had been taken in as toll he
said, but fortunately it turned out
pretty well, and mixed with seed / got
from other farmers, l think, | have a
pretty good corn"
This Is merely a case of good luck.
There are many other cases where the
luck has not been so good. There can
be found in this county numerous far
mers, who make poor corn, largely be-
cause they plant poor seed. OF course,
that is never to be taken as the sole
reason. The man who has not learned
the importance Of planting good seed
cannot nave q very thorough idea Of
the Importance Of proper fertilization
or cultivation.
The United States department of
agriculture holds that the corn crop
Of this country can be increased twen-
ty or twenty-five per cent by proper
seed selection alone. 1t Is generally
understood that the people Of the west
have been giving more and more at
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-01-22
CAUGHT IN NEW JERSEY.

Sheriff Brown on Tuesday afternoon
received a telegram from the police
authorities of Newark, n. j., to the ef-
feet that they had Wallace Jackson un-
der arrest and instructing the sheriff
to send an officer with requisition pa
pers after the negro at once. Deputy
Sheriff Fred Quinn left for Newark
on Wednesday morning to bring jack
son back to Yorkville. and will prob
ably return Tuesday. In The Enquirer
of January l9, 1906, the following sto-
ry was told Of the crime for which
Jackson is wanted:
George Robinson, cOlored, was seri-
)usly, If not mortally shot by Wallace
jackson, also colored, last Wednesday
night between s and 9 o'clock. The
shooting occurred at Jackson's home
in the southwestern part Of town and
from such information as has been OBJ
tainable, 1t appears it was because Of
woman. The story Is that Jackson
had taken possession Of Robinson's
wife, and had her at his home. Robin
son made arrangements to move to
Rock Hill and went to Jackson's home
to persuade the woman to go with
him. He called for the woman at the
door but she would not come out.
Then he went inside. Jackson imme-
diately pounced on him and knocked
him down. Robinson, after jackson had
beaten him more or less severely got
up and started to run, whereupon Jack
son drew a revolver and fired five
shots. Robinson fell and subsequent
examination showed that he had been
hit twice. One bullet struck him in
the back Of the head and glanced off.
The other penetrated his lungs and
went entirely through his body. I'm
mediately after the shooting Jackson
ran away, and when the officers OF the
law appeared on the scene shortly az
terWard they We're unable to get any
information as to his whereabouts. A
blood hound belonging to eX-Sheriff
Logan was procured: but it was una
BILE to strike q trail. The doctors are
unable to say definitely what will be
the result Of Robinson's wounds, but
they think his condition IS very seri-
Gus, the danger coming more Darticu-
larly from pneumonia, which is liable
to set in at any moment. Jackson has
been about Yorkville for q good many
years, acting as handy man around
stores running small stores himself
and selling whisky. He is said to have
shot two negroes at different times be-
fore this. The common opinion is
that he has not gone very far away;
but Is still hiding somewhere in the
community"
George Robinson, the negro whom
Jackson shot, recovered, and is still
living in YOrkville.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-01-22
NEW ROAD WANTED.

The following petition, addressed to
the York county board of commits
sioners. is being circulated in York.
vile by J. G. Wilborn, Esq, and Is be-
ing generally signed by those to whom
1t is presented:
We, the undersigned citizens and
taX-payers of the county Of York, res
pectfully ask for the laying out and
establishment as a public highway OF
a. road about ten miles in length, COM
mencing at the incorporate line Of the
city of Rock Hill at the termination of
Main street, and running thence
through the Sturgis place, near the
present residence of James Sturgis,
striking the old York and Nation Ford
road at or near the top of the hill at
the old Bigger place, and thence in as
straight line as practicable to the
county home, utilizing, where deemed
advisable, the old York and Nation
Ford road.
And we, who own land through
which said highway will run, do here
by grant unto the county of York the
right of way for such road as 1t may
be laid out through our lands by the
commissioners appointed to lay out
said road.
A like petition Is being circulated In
Rock Hill and is being freely signed
II Is understood that the object of the
petition is being enthusiastically en-
dorsed by the people who live east OF
Rock Hill in the Nicely Creek neigh
borhood and also by the people Of Fort
Mill who have occasion to come to
YOrkville by way Of the county bridge.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-01-22

Wallace jackson, the negro fugitive,
managed to keep out Of the hands of
the authorities for three years and
two days.
Hundreds of York county farmers
are but awaiting favorable seasons to
SOW large acreage in oats. Spring
oats have turned out we'll the past two
years.
Mr.. William e. Harrison of York
vile No. 2, yesterday sent to this office
half dozen specimens Of fairly well
developed second crop apples, and In
forms us that there are yet about half
a bushel Of the apples hanging on the
tree.
More than one York county farmer
has demonstrated most clearly that
more net profit can be made from an
acre of corn than il is possible to make
from an acre of cotton, and that 1t
takes less work to make 1t. Every
farmer in York county should remem-
ber this fact when making his plans
for the corn and cotton crops Of 1909.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-01-22

PRESIDENT Woodrow Wilson OF
Princeton university, was the orator
on the occasion Of the celebration of
Lees birthday at the University of
North Carolina on Tuesday night. In
part he said:
Many gratifying changes have TAX
en- place since the great struggle be-
tween the states, in which Gen. Lee
played SO conspicuous and distin-
guiShed part, and one Of the hap
piest thoughts of a celebration like this
is that Gen. Lee long ago ceased to be
regarded as a sectional character, that
he has been accepted the country
through as u great American, devot-
ed in the time of his chief distinction
to a particular cause. The south does
not grudge him to the nation as one
Of it's great figures" he continued, but
cheriSheS as a section q particular and
ardent affection for the gracious gen.
tleman who led its armies in the great
contest which was fought regarding
some OF the essential questions of our
constitutional life. 1t loves TO remem-
Der all the qualities of greatness that
there were in him, how gentle and
magnanimOus spirit dwelt in the
great soldier, and how great soldier
il was who led her armies"