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Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1910-12-23

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
WOMAN POISONS
SELF AND BABIES
Mrs. Margaretha Nehlsen of
Scott County, North of
Davenport, Suicides.
DISCOVERED BY HUSBAND
Makes Grewsome Find Upon Return
From Trip to Eldridge--Brooded
Over Daughters Action.

4 tragedy was enacted early this
nc; ming at 9the home of Nick Nehlseni
eight miles north of Davenport. on the
Utica Ridge road, when his wife, Mar
garetha, took the life of her two baby
daughters and then committed sui
eide
At o'clock this morning, Mr.. Nehl-
sen left his home for -Eldridge with a
load of hogs. Upon his return at $50,
he entered his home and was Mortified
to see the dead bodies of his wife and
two children, lying On a sheet which
had been spread upon the floor. He
hastily summoned his sons who were
al work in the field, and physicians.
Unon examination it was found that
tho mother had given each of the chill
den strychnine. and then had taken
some herself Before doing this she
hco laid out burial clothes for all.
BrOOds Over Daughters Actions.
1t is thought that Mrs. Nehlsen
brooded over the elopement of her
daughter, Emma, who ran away some
time ago with man from LeCIaire.
Since that time her action had been
strange, but had caused no comment.
The woman was AZ years of age
and a native of Germany. Beside
the husband, she is survived by sew
eral children.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
TAKES OWN LIFE
Hampton Hardware Merchant
Found With Bullet Hole
in Brain.
KNOW NO REASON FOR ICED
Missed From His Home by HIS Wife
and Search Reveals Dc - Lying
in Store Bascutns.

Charles Harmon, a member of the
firm of Harmon, Kidney & Ryan,
hardware merchants of Hampton,
committed suicide last night or early
this morning by firing bullet into
his brain. This morning he was
missed by his wife who telephoned
to the store and search for the miss
ing man was started at once. 1t
ended in the basement of the store
building where the dead body was
found. Harmon had laid himself
down with his coat for a pillow and
then fired the bullet into his forehead.
The revolver was lying beside him.
Was Married Twice.
The suicide, as far as can be ascer-
tanned, had no trouble or anything
that would make him want to do
away with himself He was about
as years of age and was in good
health. He was married twice, his
first wife having been divorced from
him several years ago following
some domestic troubles. Surviving
him are his second wife and two
children, one II years old and the
other scarcely year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
CLAM MERS' FIND
PROVES VALUABLE
Charles Schrieber of Hampton Sells
Pearl for $S5O-Found 1t While
at Work Last Week.

A pearl found by Charles Schrieber
of Hampton while the latter was at
work claiming near his home last
week has turned out to be worth a
small fortune to the lucky finder. He
sold it Saturday to w. L. Gardner, a
Hampton jeweler, for the sum of $3.50.
The pearl is slush colored and very
beautiful and weighs &c grains, being
one of the. largest ever found in this
vicinity. The finds which have been
made in the Mississippi river during
the last few weeks have stimulated
claiming to great extent, many peo-
pie engaging in the work more in
hopes of finding pearls than for the
purpose of realizing any profits from
the clam shells.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
BURGLAR is BOLD
Robs the Kopp Popcorn Stand
at Noon Yesterday and
Escapes Observation.
MANY PEOPLE CLOSE BY
None See Him, However, and no Re-
port Is Made to Police - Only.
Small Sum Is Secured.

Rock Island can boast of a burglar
who while very small fry apparently
is one of the boldest in the game.
Imagine a bank being entered and
robbed at noon yesterday with people
on the streets all the time and yet
not one seeing the operation going
on. That would be a pretty difficult
feat for a robbef to get away with
but the particular bandit spoken of
above got away with something even
better though less serious than that.
He broke into the popcorn and lem
onade stand run by Anton Kopp on
the corner of Eighteenth street at
Second avenue and although he did
the job while the proprietor was
away at noon, not soul interfered
with him in any way or reported the
matter to the police. There must
have been hundreds of people in the
vicinity as the job was done about
the time church lets out, but the bold
burglar was not disturbed.
Got Only smaIi Sum
The risk run by the burglar was
not worth the sum which the job
netted, as the proprietor had left be-
hind him only the small change
taken in during the morning, amount
ing to about $3.50. The cash regis
ter at the Kopp stand consists of a
cigar box with slots cut in the lid in
which to drop the coins, and it is
nailed down on the counter at the
side opposite the window. The bold
burglar must have slipped a knife
in between the window and the frame
and raised the hook which holds the
window shut. 1t was then a very
easy matter to crawl partly into the
stand and jerk the cigar box cash
register from it's place. This was
all done in plain sight of any one
who happened to be within half
block in any direction and yet 1t must
have escaped notice. When Mr.. Kopp
returned from dinner he found the
stand open and the box gone, but he
took a philosophical view of matters.
All he did was get another cigar box
and turn it into a cash register and
decided mentally to take all bis CASH
with him after this.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
City Chat
Kerler 6 Co. make rugs.
Buy a home of Reidy Bros.
Tri.City Towel Supply compan

buy HOIHe oIA hSluJ DEOS.
Tri-City Towel Supply company.
For bus and express, Spencer & TrefZ
LaVanway buys and sells every
thing. Telephone west 247.
Fine millinery at cost at The
Vogue, 1904 Second avenue.
Let William Johnson do your tin and
furnace work. 1916 Third avenue.
H. T. Siemon wants your tin and
furnace work. 1526-152s Fourth ave-
nue.
DR.. Cora Emery Reed has moved her
office and residence to 191S-1920 Fourth
avenue.
Bear G Foster will run twice month
excursions to the corn belt of South
and North Dakota. Come and join US.
The Sisters of the Visitation at the
Villa de Chantal this morning went
into retreat till Sunday next and dur
ing this period will receive no visit
ors.
Two excursions to Linwood every
Sunday on the steamer w. W., COM
mencing next Sunday. Morning trip
leaves Rock Island 10 a. m. Afternoon
trip leaves Rock Island p. m.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
HEAPS CURSES
ON BENEFACTOR
Beggar Proves Most migrate.
full Wretch to Woman Who
Would Befriend Him.
SENT DOWN FOR 20 DAYS
Arrested by Police on Complaint Of
j. c. Dunn-Police Court Has
Busy Monday Morning.

John Murphy, one of the class OF
make an easy living of the generosity
and credulity of the average house
wife, was sent to Jail this morning by
Police Magistrate C. ]. Smith as the
result of complaint registered
against him by J. C. Dunn The lat
ter's wife was called to the front door
o. her home at Twenty-seventh street
and Fifth avenue Saturday shortly af-
ter dinner and Murphy stood there
with a card in his hand asking for
AIMS and telling the usual gag about
having family to support and being
hungry and the like. Mrs, Dunn re-
fused to give him any money but said
~ he was hungry she would get him
something to eat provided he would go
around to the rear door. He did so and
sat in the shade under a tree waiting
for his handout. Mrs. Dunn looked over
TIE larder and found that there was
nothing suitable\ left from the dinner
table and she hurriedly prepared an
egg sandwich and carried it out to the
man. He gave one look at 1t and then
began cursing his would-be benefactor
fer having caused him to wait ten min
rites for nothing more than a sandwich.
He refused to accept it from the aston
ished woman and went out the gate
still cursing her. She was so fright
ened that she telephoned to her hus-
band and told him of the incident. He
notified the police and the ungrateful
wretch was arrested during the after
neon. This morning he was given a
20 days sentence in the county Jail.
Police Court Busy.
Joe Lesson was arrested yesterday
on complaint of Mrs. Alice Leonard
who swore out warrant in which he
was charged with disorderly conduct.
Lesson, according to evidence produced
at his trial before Police Magistrate
SIR it'll this morning, had been follow
irg Mrs. Leonard and her daughter
and otherwise harrassing them. He
was found guilty of the charge and
fined SO and costs.
Oscar Peti, Cyriel Boert, Sable
Reese and julius Mortier wc-- having
a rather boisterous time last night in
the east end bluff section, and when
were arrested. Each was fined 81 and
costs this morning by Police Magis-
t1ate Smith on a charge of disturbing
the peace.
CAMEL Van Ocker and Alfonso Hues
engaged in a street fight in the east
.erd of the city last night, and they
were arrested and brought before Po-
Ice Magistrate C. ]. Smith, charged
with assault and battery. Each was
fined So and costs.
Henry Green of Moline was fined 81
ard costs and J. B. Thompson, also of
Moline, was fined 81 and costs by the
police magistrate. The charge against
them was disorderly conduct. Leo
WEIGH, also from the sister city, was
assessed SO and costs for similar rea-
sens.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
Today in the Markets

Chicago, Aug. Following are the
quotations on the markets today:
Wheat.
September, 1033s, 1035s, 1925, 1929
December, 1047s, 1854, 1041s, 1O41s
May, 1888, 100. 10S1s, 1881.
Corn.
September, 635s, 641s, 633s, 63B.
December, 611a, 62s, 6119, 615s.
May, GO, 63A, 62%. e3A.
Oats.
September, 373s. 375s, 371s, 37H.
December, 1855, 3S34, 3SA, 1885.
May, 41B, 41H, 4O94, 41B.
Pork.
September, 21.5O. 21.50, 21.27, BIAS.
September, 11.47, 11.5o, 11.40, 1150.
October. 11.37, 1140. 11.30, 11.37.
Ribs.
September. 11.25, 11.30, lily, 1127.
October. 1896, 1885, 1910, 1882.
Receipts today-Wheat 43S. corn 172,
oats 1852, hogs $4,000, cattle $4,000,
sheep $4,000.
Estimated receipts Tuesday - Hogs
Is, 900.
Hog market opened 10c lower. Hogs
left over 1890. Light S.200S.55, mixed
and butchers 7.S0@S.35, good heavy
7.459s.20, rough heavy 7.455s7.65.
Cattle market opened steady.
Sheep market opened steady.
Hogs at Omaha 5000, cattle $500.
Hogs at Kansas City 5000, cattle TO-
900.
Hog market closed weak, 15c lower.
Bulk sales ZsO@s.10. light s.20@S.6O.
mixed and butchers 7.S0@S.35, good
heavy 745@s.15, rough heavy 1850
7.65.
Cattle market closed weak.
Sheep market closed steady.
Northwestern receipts-A1inneapol
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
MINERS ARE GIVEN 100000
Iowa Workers Vote Illinois Fund to
Continue Strike.

iowa workers vote ILLINOIS tund 10
Continue Strike.
Springfield, ILL.,, Aug. Illinois
mine workers received 100000 yes
terday with which to continue the
fight with the operators. Iowa min
ers, at special election, voted the
small fortune to aid their striking
fellows, who are now in position to
keep up the struggle indefinitely.
James Lord of Pennington and
Bernard Murphy of Pana, ILL.,, repre-
sentatives at national headquarters,
returned yesterday and announced
President Lewis has forbidden a can
vass of the referendum, by which the
compromise plan was defeated by al
most unanimous vote. President
Walker and other state miner
leaders believe Lewis will call for
national referendum to force the I'LL
nois men to. accept the operators
terms.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
OBITUARY RECORD.
Huber Funeral.

Private funeral services over the re-
mains of Ignatz Huber were held yes
terday morning at 9 o'clock from the
home. 2314 Third avenue. Rev. Adolph
Geyer, pastor of st. Mary's church,
conducted the services. Burial took
place at Chippiannock cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
PETITIONS ARE FILED
Candidates of Socialist Party Entered
at Springfield.

uI SpIIHEIItIU.
Springfield, Ill, Aug. 1.-(Special.)-
The following candidates for nomina-
ton in the Fourteenth congressional
district filed petitions for nomination
with the secretary of state today:
Member of Congress-Milton L. Mer-
rfll, Rock Island, socialist.
State Committeeman = Joseph F.
Krone, Rock Island, socialist.
/, Louis F. Keener of Rock Island filed
a petition as candidate for the socialist
nomination for the senate in the Thir-
ty-third senatorial district, and Charles
Block for the socialist nomination for
the house in the same district
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
Struck = Rich Mine.

S. w. Bends of Coal City, Ala, says
he struck perfect mine of health
in DR.. Kings New Life Pills for they
cured him of liver and kidney trou-
BILE. after II years of suffering. They
are the best pills on earth for con-
stipation, malaria, headache, dys-
pepsia, debility. Is cents at all drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
Bids on Coal Solicited.

Bids for furnishing coal for use by
the Royal Neighbors of America at it's
supreme Office are hereby solicited.
Specifications as to quality and guam
tity may be had by calling at the SUI
ipreme office. MYRTLE E. DADE,
Supreme Recorder
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
PHELPS is WESTERN CHAMP.
Continued from Page Three.)

CONTINUED from Page Three.)
ID draw at >the sixteenth. Evans
went up when he holed a 15-foot put
for a 2-3 win at the seventeenth, and
Phelps won his first hole when Evans
MISSED 6-foot put at the eighteenth
and dropped back TO up.
Cards, morning round
Evans-Out 4 3 5 4-39
Fhelps-Out 4-39
Evans-In "a 2 5-36-75
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS.

Today's Quotations on Provisions, Live
Stock, Feed and Fuel.
Aug. Following are the quota
tons on the local market today:
Fresh Eggs-1712D1Sc.
Live Poultry-Old hens, 12Mc
pound. springs, 40c.
Potatoes-New, IS to SOC.
Butter-Dairy, &c to Csc; creamery.
2Sc.
Lard-15c.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
Feed and Fuel.

Grain-Corn, 72c to 75c; oats, 40c to
44c
Forage-Timothy hay, S13.
wild hay. $40; straw, $3.50.
Wood-$4.50 per load.
Coal-Lump, per bushel, 15c; slack,
&c.
All the news all the time-1HE
ARGUS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01

today 27O, last week 327, last year 240:
Duluth, today GO, last week sc, last
year 8.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
Phelps-In q 40 Sd 3 4-sS-77
Evans, Poor Putting Loses.

Evans Poor Putting Loses.
Evans has his session of poor put
ting in the afternoon, losing the first
and second by the bad work on the
green's and failing to win the third in
the same way. A sliced drive cost
Chick the fifth, similar mistake beat,
ing Phelps on the sixth. Poor puts lost
the seventh and eighth for Evans. The
Iext three were, halved, but Evans cut
his opponents lead down to one when
he won the twelfth on bad iron
shot by Phelps. The thirteenth was
halved.
Evans lost a good chance to win the
fifteenth when he failed on G-foot put.
Ee passed up a better chance at the
sixteenth by missing a shorter one, and
Phelps won the seventeenth and the
match, and 1, when he ran down an
S-foot put after Evans had made des-
rerate try. trimming the cup on 80
foot approach.
Cards afternoon round
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01
Staggers Skeptics.

That clean, nice, fragrant COM
pound like Bucklen's Arnica Sa1ve
will instantly relieve bad burn, cut.
scald. wound or piles, staggers skep-
tics. But great cures prove its a
wonderful healer of the worst sores,
ulcers, boils, felons, eczema, skin
eruptions, as also chapped hands,
sprains and corns. Try it, 25 cents
at all druggists.
Dysentery is a dangerous disease
but can be cured. Chamberlain s
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
has been successfully used in nine
epidemics of dysentery. 1t has never
been known to fail. 1t is equally
valuable for children, and adults.
and when reduced with water and
sweetened. it is pleasant to take. Sold
by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-01

Northwestern receipts-s1inneapolis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-07
SAY SACCHARINE Is USED.
Kansas Food Inspectors Hold Sweet
"Soda" Contains No Sugar.

Kansas City, July THAT soda pop,
red or white. that tasted so sweet when
you drank it, may have been the cause
of the indigestion you suffered, accord
ing to the Kansas state food inspectors
Some of the manufacturers of this hot
weather drink may be prosecuted by
the inspectors.
The trouble, as they see it, is that
the dealers are using saccharine to pro-
duce the sweetness. Now this saccha-
rine appears to have only one virtue-a
virtue which benefits only the manu-
facturel. Saccharine is much cheaper
than sugar. One pound will give the
sweetness of 500 pounds of sugar and
at the ~-~ense of s1.S5 the maker of
soda pop can produce the sweet taste
of $25 worth of sugar. But. according
to the food inspector, saccharine pro-
duces indigestion.
At the request of the food inspectors,
Joseph Taggart, prosecuting attorney
of Wyandotte county, has prepared
complaints and some of the offending
manufacturers will be forced to use
sugar or explain to the court why they
did not.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-07

letters over backwards?
I know man in a certain office in
this city who is so afraid that he viii
seem to be trying to curry favor with
his employers that when he happens to
come into touch with them he drops
the pleasant manners that make him
popular with his Office mates and be-
comes a rather surly person. Isn't that
slanting his letters over backwards?
1 know-and I am sure you do-Sev-
eral people who are so anxious to tell
the truth and never f1atter, that they
very frequently slant backwards into
saying unnecessary unkind and rude
things.
My sister and 1 called on one of these
people The other day. She looked US
over with the entirely unveiled scruti-
ny that is part of the pose of these
people, and then remarked, II like your
waist, Ruth, but ] don't like Bertha's
a Bit How absolutely unnecessary. 1t
wasn't as though her opinion had been
asked, and it had been necessary for
her to say something. Even then, what
she said would have been needlessly
crude, but under the present conditions,
it was simply pure case of an eager
ness to be frank. slanted over back
wards into a plain rudeness.
OF course in these days when all
sorts of new thoughts are the style.
you have met the person who Is so
afraid of being narrow minded and old
fashioned that he slants back into a
Bohemian disregard for conventional
tiles and a worldly wise pose Of cyni--
c1Sm.
And conversely you have met the
girl who is SO afraid of being lax in
some way that she slants backwards
into prudery.
1t is we'll to hate toadying and favor
currying and 1attery and narrow
mindedness and laxness.
It is well to shrink away from them.
But it isn't well not to know when to
stop shrinking.
At the farthest extreme from every
sin or mistake is another sin or mis-
take.
Virtue and wisdom are the golden
means between these extremes.
Do you slant backwards in anything?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-07
JoBEs GETS BANK CONTROL.
Directors of Security National Elect
New President.

Kansas City. Mo-, July THE con-
trolling interest in the Security Ma
tional bank, owned by H. M. Evans
and ]. D. Anderson, formerly president
and cashier. respectively, of the bank,
has been acquired by c. s. Jobes and
his associates.
At meeting of the board of di-
rectors, the following directors were
elected: r. H. Williams, c. s. Jobes,
F. c. Niles, j. n. Richardson of Wien
tia and A. E. Wilson of Leavenworth.
C. S. Jobes was elected president of the
reorganized institution and K. l..
Browne was appointed cashier.
Mr.. Jobes recently retired from the
vice presidency of the Pioneer Trust
company. which position he held since
April, 1907. The Security National bank
was organized two years ago with n
capital of u million dollars by Mr.. An
derson and Mr. Evans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-07
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.

Do you remember the days when the
vertical writing mania swept over this
country.
Do you remember when you, If you
were a youngster then or your children.
If you are of the older generation. toll
ed painfully to make ali the letters. sit
roit upright and to Danish the suspic
ion of forward slant from the page?
And do you also remember that q
good many of the children In their
eagerness 10 make those letters abso-
lutely upright even slanted them over
backwards in a perfectly absurd and
unnatural manner?
How many grown up people are do
ing just that same thing.
Figuratively, 1 mean. of course.
I know a rather poor girl who hap
pened to be thrown into contact with
wealthy people good deal. She des-
rerately disliked toadying, and was so
afraid that she would be guilty of it
that she was often actually disagree
able and impolite to her rich friends
whereas her manner to those of her
own statum was always sweet and
charming. Wasn't that slanting the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-07
SHOOTS HER HUSBAND
Her Three-Year-Old Daughter and
Then Takes Poison.

Chicago. July Mrs. Henry Null
saw, goaded to desperation by the
alleged brutality and urfaithfulness of
her husband street car conductor,
today shot and fatally wounded the
latter and their 3-year-old daughter
and then killed herself by taking car
bolic acid.
Mrs Mulsaw planned her act care
fully She borrowed a revolver from
her father. explaining that she needed
it for protection when her husband
worked at night. Then she wrote let
ters to her parents. to her mother-in-
law and to the public. In these she
declared she had been 4 good and
faithful wife, but that Mulsaw spent
his spare time with other women and
often beat her.
Mulsaw is alleged to have been witty
another woman until O'Clock this
morning when he returned to his
home. According to the police he be-
gan abusing his wife and she shot him
in the abdomen. He fell to the floor
and she sent another bullet into his
back. She then went to her bedroom
and fired a bullet into the body of
her little daughter. She completed
the tragedy by taking the poison.