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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
TYPHOID BAc1LLI FOR MURDER.
Suspected Man is Known to Have
Bought Germs

So firmly convinced are the relativea
OF Thomas H. Swope of Kansas CITY,
that the deaths of the multi-million-
aire philanthropist and his nephew,
Chrisman Swope, did not occur from
natural causes that they have placed
the Investigation into the cause of the
deaths in the hands of law firm with
instructions that all the millions of
the dead philanthropist be used if
necessary to get at the truth
The assertion is made that both
Thomas Swope and his nephew were
poisoned and that the author of the
crime also inoculated the entire Swope
family. consisting of eight people, with
typhoid germs in an effort to extermi-
nate them. The bodies of the two
dead Swopes have been exhumed and
their organs are being analysed. The
death of both Thomas and Chrisman
Swope by commissions after being TAX
ing capsule and the subsequent Sc
rious illness of the entire Swope fam
lily with typhoid led to the investiga-
tion.
Shortly before Chrisman Swope's
death, the man to whom suspicion
points visited the Office of well
known bacteriologist of Kansas City
and obtained some typhoid germs.
With these deadly bacilli those push
ing the matter believe he hoped to
inoculate the members of the Swope
family.
i am buying these merely to do
some experimenting, he is said to
have told the bacteriologist. Chrisman
Swope became seriously i'll with ty-
phoid. When it was found he would
likely recover, and that the inocula-
ton of the typhus bacilli did not take
as was expected, he was given strych-
nine to make sure of death, accord
ing to the theory of those conducting
the investigation. Since that time the
other seven members of the Swope
family have been taken down with ty-
phoid
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
GUINNESS DEATH FARM
MYSTERIES LAID BARE
Alleged Lamphere Confession Tells
of Murders and Wonan's
Death.
DETAILS Staying OF 8 MEN
Two Papers Give Out Purported
Admission That Hired Man
Dragged Assassin.

Ray Lamphere, who died recently in
the Indiana penitentiary at Michigan
City while serving a term for setting
fire to the home of Mrs. Bella Guinness,
near Laporte, Ind, did not carry the
secrets of the Guinness charnel farm
to the tomb with him. according to
copyrighted story in the st. Louis
Post Dispatch When he believed death
was near he confessed.
The confession was made to Rev.
DR.. E. A. Scheli, formerly pastor of
the Laporte Methodist church. now
president of the Iowa Wesleyan uni
versity at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and
held by him inviolate as a secret of
the confessional, until the main facts
had already become public. when he
broke his long silence and gave to the
Chicago Tribune the confession, made
to him in the county Jail at Laporte,
Ind, in April, 1908.
The confession, which hitherto has
been held as privileged communi-
cation by the minister, was given with
all the detail of the three conversa-
lions in which Lamphere laid bare the
secrets of the Guinness charnel house.
1t describes the killing of Mrs. Belle
Guinness and the three children who
persisted in the burning of the Gun
ness house. Lamphere admitted kill
ing the four persons, but denied set
E,.a 20 i q
confession duplicates a negress as an
accomplice. Lamphere said he wit
messed the killing of Andrew Hedge
lein and assisted in the burying of the
bodies of two other men.
Lamphere, according to the st. Louis
story, had guilty knowledge of the
murder of three men in the Guinness
home during the time he lived there,
about eight months in 1907. and he as
sisted Mrs. Guinness in disposing of
the bodies of the three men. He said
he thought he had not received as
much of the profits of the transaction
as he considered himself entitled to,
and he went to the farmhouse at night
win q WOAinuy AuSd AhiS. 0Nh-
ness, her three children and Jennie
Olson. He and the woman then
searched the house, finding between
$50 and $40. The light they used was
candle, and they left the house with
out knowing they had left behind
spark that soon burst into flames.
Mrs. Guinness method of killing her
victims, Lamphere said, was first to
chloroform them as they slept and
then If the drug did not itself kill, to
sever the heads with an ak Each time
a man was to be murdered, according
to Lamphere, she sent him to pur-
chase chloroform. Lamphere said he
saw one of the men killed and aided
in burying all three. These men were
Andrew Helgelein and probably Ole
Budsberg and Tonnes Petersen Lien.
Warden Reid of the Michigan City
prison denied the story told that Reid
had said he had talked with Lamphere
while in prison and that the convict
had discussed with him the Helgelein
murder. The warden said he never
had talk with Lamphere regarding
Lamphere's case and that he never
told any such story as was credited
TO him.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
6HO0zS
0LLEaEs


Miss Ehoda NJ. White, who gradu-
ated from the University of Wiscon-
sin in 1906, and has since held a fell
Iowship In sociology at that institu-
ton, has been made dean of women at
Middlebury College. Vermont
Fire in Chadbourne hall, women's
dormitory at the University of Wis
consin. caused a small sized panic
among the women students recently
The blaze resulted more in an album
dance of ludicrous incidents than in
actual monetary damage.
Educators Of the Indian from all
over the United States held recent
meeting in Washington, d. c.. TO dis
cuss methods of improving the minds
of Indians. The subject Of their edu-
cation was treated by those who have
had long experience in the work.
Rrvn Mawr College. Philadelphia, ac-
tnowledges the receipt of a gift of
a. 600 from one of the alumnae of the
college Miss Cynthia NJ. Wesson, of
Springfield, Mass.
The regents Of the University Of
Minnesota have electsd A. F. Woods, of
Washington, ID - as uedH OF the state
Agricultural College to succeed Dean
John w. Olsen, resigned
The board Of directors Of the Fari-
bault school for deaf and dumb In Min
nesota have decided to admit students
from other States to the institution. A
charge OF s275 per year will be made
for these students
The educational department. OF South
Dakota has completed the markings
on the papers returned from the No
xembe- examinations. and the results
show $50 new teachers authorized 70
teach in the State out OF sS1 appIi-
cants: as failed 10 come up to ths
required standard and were rejected.
| Haskell Institute. valued at three
quarters Of a million dollars. the sec
| and largest Indian school in the Uni :
ted States. Is 10 be offered to the
state OF Kansas as a site for day
/ trade school. according to an an
pouncement made by H. b Pearls. who
has recently been appointed as super
sntendent Of Indian schools.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
CHICAGO.

Dun's Weekly Review of Chicago
Trade says:
The underlying conditions augment
the prospects for charging trade, 81
though cross currents adversely inter
fere with current operations. Stormy
weather yet binders outside construc-
ton and freight movements, and in
creasing difficulties in getting coal is
responsible for temporary lessening OF
active factory capacity. The high value
of money also causes decreased invest
ment. but the volume of payments
through the banks yet shows larger
than at this time last year, when the
security markets were expanded. While
discouraging to transportation, the
heavy snowfall secures further pro-
lection for growing wheat and rye.
and the demand is notably good for
necessaries in the leading retail lines
here and at the interior. Speculative
dealings have stimulated activity in
the primary markets fer breadstufs
and provisions aud arrivals Of the
principal grains exceed those reported
recently and a year ago.
Bank elearings. S272,275,oso exceed
those of the corresponding week in
| 1909 by barely l per cent. and conf
pare with 1921, 967,Sl9 in 1908,
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number So, against 2S last week,
33 in 1909 and AZ in 1908. Those with
liabilities over $4,000 number Z, against
5 last week, 10 in 1909 and 10 in 1908
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
rr1EGRApHrc BREv1rrEs

over 1900. 100000 revenue stamps
will be required for the cigars. cigar
cites. strip tobacco and snuff during
the current hscal year, according TO a
deficiency estimate sent TO Congress
by the treasury department.
Members Of John D. Rockefeller
IRIS. New York Bible class contributed
an average Of 10 Id per capita per
sunday TO the collections Of the class
during 1909, according to the annual
report. This is a falling Of Of 2 GEMS
from the average Of 1908.
Yonn ". Babb. policeman Of West
chester. Pa. was shot and killed by
Joseph Carnathan. aged IS, whom he
had gone 10 Wawaset, near Westches-
teT. 10 arrest
Herbert Du Puy was elected tempo
rsry president Of the Crucibie Steel
Company Of America AT Pittsburg 10
fiji the vacancy caused b. the death
OF Frank 2. Smith
Arguments have been begun IN the
Injunction suit OF three railroad COM
panies against the State Of oklahoma
to prevent enforcement Of a 2-cent-a-
mile passenger rate and maximum
freight rate.
Three men are dead and fifteen are
in a hospital as a result Of battle
between two rival factions OK miners
al Phoenix. a Canadian mining town.
Welsh and English fought Italians.
West virginia has compromised in
lis suit against the Johnson y. Cam
den estate. II is reported Instead OF
Al zoe 900 the State viii accept $780,
600 under the forfeiture clause OF the
tax laws.
Mayor Gaynor OF New York has no.
.saed every department head under
him that they must indulge tn no
uewnpaper interviews and issue no
statements concerning the business OF
their departments except through him.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
k%RE15f%jNAzy/

Chicago-Cattle. common to prime.
s4.c0 to $500; hogs. prime heavy, $3.50
to $3.50; sheep. fair to choice. $3.50
to S625; wheat, No. 2, sl24 to S1.26;
corn, No. 2, 65c to &c; oats. standard,
Ate to 4Sc; rye. No. 2, roc to soc; hay,
timothy, $1,000 to $500; prairie, $500
to $3.50; butter, choice creamery, 34c
to 35c; eggs, fresh, S4c to Csc; pota.
toes. per bushel, 40c to 53c.
Indianapolis-Cat shipping. $500
TO $3.50; hogs, good to choice heavy.
$3.50 to $500; sheep, good to choice,
1926 to $500; wheat, No 2, 1924 to
1925; corn, No. 2 white, &c to CSC;
oats, No. white, 47c to 49c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $500 to $40;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep. $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2. $1.31 to $132;
corn, No 2, &c to CSC; oats, No Q
4sc to soc; rye, No. 2, 7Sc to soc.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $685.;
hogs, $500 to 1910; sheep, $500 TO
1915; wheat, No. 2, $1.29 to $1.3l;
corn, No. mixed. 67c to SOC; oats.
No. mixed, ACC to 50e; rye, No. 2,
SAC to S5e.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to 5000: hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to s475;
wheat, No. 2. $1.2f to s126; corn. RIO
yellow, &C to soc; oats, standard.
Acc to soc; rye, No. /, SEC to SIC.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. northern.
$1.15 to $1.1S; corn, No. 3, CSC to zoe;
oats, standard, 47e to 49e; rye, No. /,
79c to sic; barley, standard, roc to
TIC; pork, mess, $22.35.
Buffalo Cattle. choice shipping
steers, $500 to s6.75; hogs, fair to
choice, $500 to $3.50; sheep. common
to good mixed. $500 TO $3.50; lambs.
fair to choice, $500 to $3.50
New York-Cattle. $500 TO $3.50:
hogs, s400 TO $500; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No red. s1.31 10 1913;
corn. No. 2, TAG 10 roc; oats natural.
white, SIC TO soc; butter, creamery,
&c to 3cc; eggs, western. Csc to 39c.
Toledo-Wheat, No. mixed. s1.25
I, s125; corn, No mixed, &c to
500; oats, No. mixed, acc TO soc:
rye, No. 2. soc to SIC; clover seed,
1896,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
MEET IN WASHINGTON.
Governors Discuss Problems of State
and Nation in the Capital.

and Nation in the Capital.
Governors from thirty States of the
Union, gathered in the national CAPT
tai, Washington, ID. c., to discuss
problems of state and of national in
terest, opened their three-day session
Tuesday Gov Wilson of Kentucky,
chairman of the committee on arrange
ments for the conference, was in the
chair. In brief Introductory speech
he referred to the first conference of
state heads, invited in May, 1908, by
President Roosevelt, to meet in the
White House.
This conference was on the govern
ors' own initiative Gov. Wilson de-
clared that in his opinion no better
means of devising improved and uni
form state legislation could have been
found than for the chief executives OF
the states to come together as they
had and in a friendly way, with parti-
san feeling forgotten, talk over to-
gether the questions in which they all
were interested in.
Monday night the governors, with
the members OF the National Civic Fed
Grafton, attended a reception at the
home OF Miss Mabel Boardman Tues
day night they sat down to a dinner
In their honor at the home OF John
Hays Hammond
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
NURsED BABY ROCKEFELLER.
Woman Who Served Two Genera
tions Dies, Aged 1913.

Woman Who Served Two Genera
tions Dies, Aged 1913.
Nora Williams, nurse to the Rookie
Teller family for two generations, died
in Cleveland at the age of 103 years,
according to records in her possession.
She came from Wales, England, when
16 years DID, and attended John d.
Rockefeller, Jr., when he was baby.
At that time the oil king was taken
i'll and Nora divided her time between
him and the infant For twenty years
Nora served the different Rockefeller
families. Four years ago she is said
to have disputed with John d. Rookie
Teller over the treatment given his
grandson. From that day to her death
she is said never to have crossed the
threshold of the Forest Hill home.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
NEW YORK.

Reports as to trade and transporta-
ton reflect variations of weather ir-
regularly affecting sales and move
ment of farm products and coal sup
plies and of spring goods to various
markets Retail trade in winter goods
has been helped by cold, stormy wealth
err and the usual January price revi-
sions. A very fair volume of recorders
is reported by iobbers, while the vol
ume of orders for spring reaching
wholesale houses from travellers is
fairly good,
The question of higher costs is be-
ing considered by many manufacture
ers, who are finding higher prices for
raw materials and requests for ad.
vances in wages.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending with Jan.
10 were 29l, against 271 last week,
319 in the like week ef 1909 331 in
1908, 2S4 in 1907 and 279 in 1906.
Business failures in Canada for the
week number "A, which compares with
SO for last week and SO for the like
week of -Bradstreet's
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
GRAVES IS FORESTER.
Protege of Pinchot Appointed to Sue
coed ousted Chief at Washington.

Protege of Pinchot Appointed to Sue
coed ousted Chief at Washington.
Henry S. Graves has been appointed
chief forester to succeed Clifford Pin
chot. Had Mr.. Pinchot controlled the
selection of his successor he prob
ably would have named Mr.. Graves,
who is his protege, and who entertains
substantially the same views and advo-
Gates practically the same policies as
Mr.. Pinchot. Mr.. Graves was the most
available man of those with the neces-
sary technical training available, and
she will take up the work laid down by
Mr.. Pinchot with zeal. He was born
in Marietta, o.. but while young his
family moved to Andover, Mass, where
Mr.. Graves father was for many years
a member of the faculty Of Phillips
Andover Academy. When Mr.. Pinchot
became forester of the Department OF
Agriculture in July, 1898, Mr.. Graves
became his first assistant.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
U. S. FLEETS THREAT WINS.
Nicaraguan Official Gives Steamer
Clearance When "Bluffed.''


The story of a bloodless victory of
United States naval forces at Corinto
over the Nicaraguan authorities was
brought by the liner San Juan.
Capt. Chavez, Nicaraguan officer
who had given the American consul
details of the execution of Cannon and
Groce, had gone aboard the steamer
City of Para by advice of the acting
American consul, navy officer, for
protection. When Capt. Nelson of the
Para applied for clearance papers he
was told that the ship could not leave
until Chavez had been surrendered to
the authorities.
The captain told his trouble to the
naval consul, who wig-wagged the
american fleet lying off Corinto. Capt.
Oliver of the Albany came ashore, bow
ed to the Nicaraguan commandant and
remarked I'll let you have just five
minutes to let Capt. Nelson have his
clearance papers"
The City of Para sailed on scheduled
time, with Chavez aboard.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
Saturday.

A suffragettes' invasion of the pub
lie schools was stopped by the New
York Board of Education with radical
action.
Barrett Eastman, Chicago newspa-
per man, former husband of Sophron-
lsba Harrison. committed suicide in
the South.
The Canadian authorities at Edmon-
ton recovered the 10-year-old son of a
Russian baron who was kidnapped two
years ago,
An eighty-foot wave struck the liner
Lusitania, wrecked the pilot house
and injured the quartermaster; the
ship halted in midocean for repairs.
attorneys for, the Swope estate in
Kansas City reported the finding of
poison in the stomach of Chrisman
Sxope and said that an arrest is near.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
BRIDE BEATEN, FLUNG IN WELL
Found Near Death and Accuses Hus-
band of Crime.

Found Near Death and Accuses Hus-
band of Crime.
William Ferris was forced the 9TH
er morning by the freezing of his well
in Bridgeport, Conn.,, to seek an old
well that had long been out of use and
he found woman up to her neck in
its icy waters. After heing beaten and
robbed she had been thrown into the
we'll as Z o'clock the night before. The
woman was Mrs. Joseph Brooks,
bride of a week. For thirteen hours
she had chung to an old pipe in the
unused well to save herself from
drowning. When she was taken from
the water it was found that both of
her feet were frozen and that ampu-
tation would be necessary. AS soon
as she had been taken from the icy
water the woman accused her husband
of the crime, and the sheriff and the
police force are seeking him in ali
directions. A confederate, according
to the woman, aided in the crime and
disappeared with the husband.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25

At the same time he expected to be in
formed that the last signature required
to wind up his financial affairs had
been affixed to the settlement agree
ment between himself, the associated
banks which backed adjustment of the
affairs of his three banks when they
were suspended in 1905 and the six
guarantors of his S7,121.sS7 note to
those banks. Mr.. Walsh has put his
business into such shape that 1t can be
handled by his sons, John w. and
Richard w. Walsh, without his assist
ance.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
spain,s Minister Is Moved.

The Marquis de villalobar. Spanish
minister TO Washington, has been
transferred to Lisbon. Action with
regard to the transfer has been held
ur for a fortnight, and the foreign Of
fee in Madrid stated that the Spanish
minister might not leave Washington
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25

Charging the necessity of their ac-
ton to the increased cost of materials,
225 manufacturers of shoes, compris-
ing the National Association of Boot
and Shoe Manufacturers, have made a
formal announcement Of horizontal
increase in the retail price of shoes.
amounting tofrom 10 to IL per cent. The
advance was directed to be made with
in the present year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
RESIST EXPRESS RATE CUT.

Companies Get Temporary Injunc-
ton Hating States Effort.
Three express companies doing bust
ness in South Dakota have filed in the
United States Circuit court in Sioux
Falls, suits for permanent injunctions
restraining the state railroad com
missioners from enforcing a distance
tariff of reduced express rates. Judge
Garland granted a temporary injunc-
tion pending hearing Jan. 20. The
companies are the Wells-Fargo, Adams,
and American.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
JOHN R. WALSH IS DEFEATED.
Former Banker Denied Writ of
Certiorari by Supreme Court.

The petition of John R. Walsh, the
Chicago former banker, for writ of
certiorari was denied by the United
States Supreme Court in Washington,
flee in Chicago the other morning
fully expecting to hear the result of
his appeal to the United States Su-
preme Court from the Federal Circuit
Court of Appeals affirmation of Dis
trict Judge Anderson's sentence of five
years Imprisonment at Leavenworth,
Kan, on the charge OF Encouragement
of funds in his Chicago National Bank
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
Cadet. Must Quit Cigarette.

Either cigarettes or shoulder straps
must CO." That is the order that Com
mandant Haskell of the Omaha High
School Battalion has issued to the
staff and company officers. Most of
the young men will give up their to-
bacco, though there are three or four
who declare that if they must quit one
or the other the gold braid will have
tn 90.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25

This years orange crop has been
damaged approximately 100000 by
the heavy frosts Of the last ten days,
according to estimates made by relia'
ble growers Some believe this amount
also win cover nursery stock and the
coming years crop. but others figure
the total TO be several millions
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
TwENTY-FoUR PERISH AT SEA.

Only One Man Saved from Wreck of
Steamer Cxarina I'm Coos Bay.
Dispatches received by the Portland
Oregonian from Marshfield estimate
that in the wrecking of the steamer
Czarina at the entrance of Coos bay
twenty-four men persisted. Harry
Kentzel, first assistant engineer, is the
only one saved. Harold L. Mills, son
of c. G. Mills, general manager of the
Southern Pacific company at Marsh
field, is one of those lost. c. Duggan
of San Francisco, was master of the
ship
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25

]. Edward Beech, who is serving
q seven-year sentence in Sing Sing
prison for a big jewelry swindle in
1907, may fall heir to more than a
million dollars left by ]. c. Louns-
berry of ST. Paul, who died there re-
Gently in squalor. Among Lounsberry's
effects were papers which prove him
to be an uncle of the Sing Sing con-
Wet.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
Get. Back sao, 1000 Necklace.

Mrs. Irene Isman, who last October
divorced Felix Isman. the real estate
operator and theatrical manager Of
Philadelphia and New York. has re
covered the necklace of pearls worth
$4,000 she lost In the street recently.
The working girl who picked up the
pearls received $4,000 reward.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
counter. valentines Burn,

Fire in the plant of the George c.
Whitney Company in Worcester, Mass,
the largest valentine factory in the
United States, did damage estimated at
5000 600 The almost complete destruc-
ton of the plant means an almost val
entineless St. Valentines day for the
nouutry
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
Finas Gola In ollahoma.

On the farm of Mrs. Albert Mitchell,
a few miles east of Purcell, Okla, 1t
is reported that ]. L. Millfats. an old
miner, has discovered gold ore that
assays sos per ton. The discovery
was made while Millfats was digging
a well. Excitement prevails here and
land values are advancing.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
HOUSE sTREwN WITH CASH.

Nearly $4,000 Found I'm the Home
of Father Nicholas simon.
Nearly $4,000 in cash. much of it ly-
ing where it had been carelessly tossed
into bookcases and desks. was found In
the home of Father Nicholas Simon
by the executors of his estate in New
Orleans. Father Simon was for many
years in charge of st. Francis de Sales
Church.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25

The Osservatore Romano in Rome
prints a dispatch from Harrar. town
of Southeastern Abyssinia, saying 1t
is reported that King Menelik died
Dec. % and that the news was sup
pressed in order to avoid internal
tr.,,,hlac