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The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1910-11-16

Chicago, Nov. 9.-Securing
control IF t he next National
House of Representatives by che
Democrats was decisive. Returns
up to date show that the Demo
Gratis have made gross gain of
forty-eight members. This figure
was offset by a Republican gain
of five members, leaving a net
Democratic gain of forty-three
new seats.
If the Democrats maintain
their normal representation in
districts yet to be heard from,
they will have an ample MAORI
ty. This majority, it was con-
sidered probable, would be in
creased by results from Colorado
and Oklahoma, among other
States.
The normal Democratic repre-
sentation in Colorado is three
members and in Oklahoma xthe
Democratic candidate in the Sec
ond district was reported to be
leading the Republican incum-
bent. The Tenth Indiana and
Fourth Minnesota districts were
in doubt along with districts in
Iowa. Michigan, Missouri, Ne
braska, Ohio, Pennsylvania and
West Virginia.
In order to secure control of
the House it was necessary for
the Democrats to secure twenty
four new members. With a net
increase of orty-three they ap
pear to have gained nineteen
members in excess of the num-
Der necessary to control. At the
same time the R e p u b Ii c a n
strength has been reduced b y
the election of a Socialist IN a.
Wisconsin district, normally Re-
publican.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1910-11-16
Net Gain of Forty-Nine Seats Assured and
Sixty-SecOnd Congress Sees RepubIi-
cans Badly in Minority.
G. OPP. MAKES GAINS OF ONLY SIX SOL ONS

The greatest gain in any one
State was New York, where the
present delegs ton of twelve
Democrats was increased by ten,
making the division as to New
York in the next House twenty
two Democrats, fifteen RepubIi-
cans. The representation from
New York in the Sixty-frst Con-
gress is twenty-five Republicans,
twelve Democrats.
The next largest increase was
Illinois, where the Democrats on
the face of the returns made six
gains. In Pennsylvania the Dem
ocratic gains were five, Ohio
four, Missouri two, Maryland
two, Maine two, previously elect
ed, and one each in connecticut,
Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mas
sachusetts, Oklahoma and Rhode
Island.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-07-15
THE JouRNAl FR1pAY JI1Y Is 1e1o

term Of six years, this being the
seventh time he has been chosen as
the head of the government. Ramon
Carral was elected vice president Re.
ports from all the states In the Mexi.
can union are to the effect that in
the ELECTORAL colleges Diaz and Cor.
raj won overwhelming victories and
that no disorder of any kind occurred
in any section of the country. Presi.
dent Dia2 was first elected president
in 1876 TO serve a term of four years.
He has been president of Mexico ever
since with the exception of four years
-lSS0 to 1SS4-when Manuel Con.
zalez was chief executive. Until 1892
the president was chosen for four
years; since that time the term has
been six years. President Diag is
hale and hearty.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-07-15

/ tinued, mot only have their own trou
bles to endure, but also must put M
with two distinct annoyahCes from
the outside. harsh and ignorant criti.
Cism like that OF Lady Ch'islc. ur
scuNnenta, rot rhe later is the
harder to sea" and It does more harm
Have !Cu ever reait,cd tha' al!
tlltse semi prilanthropi" hotels and
hcmCs for working girls, though they
have a beautiful seuti,nout behind
them, actually help tn, employer TO
keep down wages, and damage the
women they want to aid?
One of the first things the woman's
industrial committee will attempt is
the organization of shop girls. Today
the employer who is urged to pay a
living wage can shrug his shoulders
and reply, What is a living wage?
| pay girls what they are willing to
work for And even more frequent
than the man who tells a girl to get
gentleman friend IL she can't live
on $3.50 or $5.50-the average pay OF
women in the industries-is the EN-.
ployer who says, oh, yes, you can
manage on $3.50. You can get board
at Saint Somebody's home for $3.50
week
Our aim will be to better general
conditions, to raise wages by organiza.
tion. No amount of philanthropy ever
raised wages. In fact, it lowers them
The only thing that ever raised the
wages in this world is a union" Mrs.
Valesh added with profound convic.
ton.
And you don't think there are
thousands of women in America who
work only for luxuries?"
1T depends on what you call luxu.
ries," replied the general organizer.
Pretty clothes are as much a neces.
sity of youth as food or shelter or
sunlight. I've known a few girls who
worked because their fathers couldn't
buy them proper clothes. But no wo.
man in trade works except from
necessity"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-07-15
WHY COLLIER WAS REMARKED.
Ceremony Was Necessary to be Sure
His Wife Would Inherit Estate.

San Francisco, July Ill wanted
to make sure that she could inherit
my fortune in the event of my death, -
was the explanation made by Willie
Collier for marrying his actress wife,
formerly Paula Mari a second time
yesterday. Mrs. Collier, who was
formerly Mrs. c. w. Gall, went
through the marriage ceremony with
the actor at the Hotel Metropole, Oak
land. j. G. Quinn, justice of the peace,
officiated.
1t was less than two months ago
that the Golfers were married at
Davenport, la. 1t took lawyer to de-
termine that no matter how much
Collier and his wife think of each 9TH
er, legal complications might prevent
Mrs. Collier from inheriting her hus-
bands 100000 estate in case he died.
The situation was due to the fact that
while the present Mrs. Collier was
Mrs. c. w. Gall she was divorced from
her husband in the San Francisco
courts five years ago, and that was
before she met Collier. She married
Collier while he was a legal resident
of ST. James, n. Y.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-07-15
Submarine Makes Good

Hamilton, Bermuda, July 1.-THE
United States submarine boat Salmon.
which sailed from Quincy. Mass. al .
O'Clock on the afternoon OF July :
made St Dayids light at O'Clock
yesterday. She remained untn n
IN. and then took on a pilot. arriving
at Hamilton three hours later. The
salmon encountered a rough sea on
the 4th and 5th, but suffered no dam.
age. She fully demonstrated the prac.
ucability OF the submarine for long
voyages. The distance between Ouin.
cy and Hamilton Is about 500 miles.
and the submarine made an average
speed OF between 6 and 10 knots an
hour. The seaworthiness of the little
craft was proved to the entire salts.
faction OF the experts of the navy
aboard and the builders The sub.
marine will proceed from Bermuda to
Hampton Roads. but the date of her
sailing has not yet been fixed. The
submarine is under command OF for.
mer Lieutenant Commander Gregory
G. Dawson and carries crew Of
twenty-one officers and men.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-07-15

combine, My contract withe Gleason
called for me TO furnish all the money
while he was to have half the profits
1T was further stipulated that he
was not to have any partner, and
whether Berger was in with him | do
not know. knew II | didn't take
Gleason in with me he might bid so
percent and they would call that the
best OFFER"
Rickard refused to state whether he
gave Sam Berger bonus, but on the
best of authority 1t may be stated
Berger received S2,50O.
Johnson signed his contract with
Jeffries two days before bids were
opened and Berger and Jeffries sign.
ed the day before.
Rickard says If he can sign up Sam
Langford and Tommy Burns for Sep
tember in Reno he may pull off this
bout. He thinks this is the only good
fight in sight.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-07-15
"WOMEN DON'T LIKE WORK."
Mrs. Valesh, Unionist and Organizer
Tells Her Views,

New York, July lin fifteen
years of active experience among the
working women in the United States,
! have never known one woman who
worked for a living for any other rea-
son than necessity" said Mrs. Eva
Mcdonald Valesh.
Here and there, in the arts and
professions, we find a girl who paints
or writes or follows the law or medi-
cine from some compelling talent, in
dependently of financial pressure. But
tradeswomen work only because they
have to work"
This is the answer of Mrs. Valesh,
general organizer of working women
for the Federation of Labor, to the
criticism voiced recently by the Eng.
lish countess of Carlisle that America
produces annually thousands of girls
who have no need to earn a living,
but who become wage earners simply
because they are tired of home life.
Mrs. Valesh is the general secretary
of the women's committee on indus
trial problems, of which Miss Anne
Morgan, a daughter of j. Pierpont
Morgan, is member. Foremost
among this committees work is the
organization into trades unions of en-
ployed women and the collection of
statistics concerning them.
Working women" Mrs. Valesh con-
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-07-15
sUNsHADEs TO MATCH FRocks.
Simple Cover May be Put on Parasol
at Little Expense.

New York, July 11.-Pretty little
wash frocks are often accompanied
with sunshades that match them in
material. Printed and plain lawns
and batistes are used in this way, and
if the dress is embroidered the sun
shade is also apt to have a touch of
the needlework. A plain cover in any
material can be put on a sunshade
at little more than a dollar and
often an old frame may be made to
match a gown with little expense.
The parasol is taking a good many
airs and graces to itself in this day
OF multitudinous combinations. The
newest idea is the use of black and
white even striped silk with cerise.
The striped silk makes cores which
include each rib, while the other cov-
ers the top of the shade. Some
times this order is reversed and the
plain silk is used for the small cores
and the stripe for the other part.
Carved sticks of sunshades are one of
the fads and they copy all sorts of
animal heads and bird forms.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-07-15

of cruel and inhuman treatment with
other allegations, including that of
abandonment.
The Singers were married less than
three years ago They lived together
only ten days after a fashionable we'd
ding in New York, where both had
lived until Mrs. Singer brought suit
for divorce year ago. Mrs Singer
is the daughter of George w. Rudkin,
manufacturer. In her petition Mrs.
Singer declined to insert clause for
alimony. She is wealthy in her own
right.
Young Singer is 81 years old and
the son of Joseph H. Singer. He is
rich and familiar figure in the club
life of the Quaker City. He is said
to own several thousand shares of
the Singer Machine company's stock.
In her plea for divorce Mrs. Singer
alleges that less than ten days after
the ceremony her husband beat her
inhumanly and that they Quarreled
violently directly after the ceremony.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-07-15
ETHEL LEVY A BRIDE AGAIN.
French Whip the Husband of George
M. Cohan's Divorced Wife.

New York, July IA letter re-
ceived from Paris yesterday an
nounced the marriage of Ethel Levy,
divorced wife of George NJ. Cohan, to
Pierre Crepin, professional whip of
the French capital. They were mar
ried in a province outside of London
last October and lived at the Hotel
Carlton for several months following
the ceremony, but managed to keep
the marriage a secret until recently.
Mr.. Crepin is "a years old, tall, and
athletic. He is one of the most expert
equestrians of the continent and holds
many records for high jumping. 1t
is Miss Levy's intention to return to
New York in August and assist her
husband in feats of horsemanship In
this country.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-07-15
LOST IN A couNTYsAlL 81 DAYS
Official Coonizance Of Two Prisoners
Misplaced With the Evidence,

Denver, July ll.-Lost in the county
jail has been the peculiar predicament
of Joseph +. Lewis and Charles f.
Dauterich for the last thirty-seven
days.
The men were arrested on a charge
of burglary. They were given hear.
ing before justice of the peace and
bound over to the district court, pend.
ing action by which they were re-
manded to the county Jail.
Through an oversight, the tran
script of the case was never sent from
the justice to the district court and,
officially, no trace of the prisoners
could be found.
Their odd situation was discovered
today by accident. They will be given
an immediate trial
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-07-15
NeWport Wins Game,

Springview, Neb., July 11.-Special
to The News: The Newport Haymak-
ers took away the laurels in what
ball here this season Friday afternoon.
Both teams were on their mettle,
Springview from the start and the
Newport boys when they discovered
that they would have to play ball to
win. The score was 4 to in favor
of the visitors.
Keya Paha county received another
good rain Friday night, with indica-
tions of more to follow.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-07-15

three youthful bandits from robbing
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas South.
western flyer No. at an early hour
yesterday near barrymore, st. Louis
county, about fifteen miles from st.
Louis. Three were arrested as sus.
poets and are In Jail pending investi.
cation.
Engineer Quinn, through ruse, pre-.
vented the baggage car and passenger
coaches from being robbed. The ban.
dts compelled the engineer and fire.
man, al the point of revolvers, to de.
scend from the cab and go with them
to the baggage car to assist them in
uncoupling it. While tinkering about
the coupling the engineer and fireman
In the darkness managed to glide
away from the bandits.
The two started on a run for the
cab. The bandits soon became aware
that the crew was dashing for the cab
and opened a rain of fire.
Five miles further on, at Spanish
lake, Quinn rang up o. c. Hill, yard.
master Of the st. Louis, Keokuk and
Northwestern in st. Louis, and told
him of the robbery.
Several shots we're fired during the
attempted holdup and the passengers,
who filled five coaches, were thrown
into panic. Conductor Walker, who
also displayed great GOODNESS in the
crisis, devoted his time to calming
the passengeres. The train was in
the hands Of the robbers for forty
minutes.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-07-15
FOR AN ELECTRICAL GARDEN.
New Experiment in Fruit Culture to
be Tried in New York.

pe lTleo IN new york.
New York, July 11.-Infuenced by
reports from Dresden of experiments
there in raising farm products by
forcing maturity through the aid of
electrical currents, Thomas II. Will
liams is going to experiment at his
farm, Belle Crest, East Northport, n.
Y, in an endeavor to find out if he
cannot force the growth of fruits and
vegetables.
Mr.. Williams is inclosing one and
one-half acres of ground with a line of
wooden posts ten feet apart, on which
he is going to string uninsulated wires
a short distance from the ground. He
is erecting a small windmill which,
with storage batteries, will furnish
power for dynamo from which an
excess current of electricity will be
passed, the current thrown off from
the wires passing, by induction,
through the ground, which will be
under constant shower" of electri-
city.
1t has been demonstrated in the
German experiments, according to Mr..
Williams, that electricity stimulates
vegetable growth and he says that
everything raised on his electric
farm" not only will mature from three
weeks to a month before produce
grown in the ordinary manner, but
that 1t will be much larger and of a
finer grade.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-07-15

lowed soon by speed of $50 to 200
kilometers, at which speed aeroplanes
would be little affected by the wind.
The moment is in sight, they think,
when travelling by aeroplane will be
as safe and easy as fast trains.
The distance and duration records
made by Labouche, $40 kilometers
ella miles, in hours 81 minutes
and As seconds were broken by Olies.
layers, who made fight of 1893 kilo-
meters (244,44 miles) in hours 2
minutes and As seconds. On landing,
Olieslagers was handed telegram of
congratulation from the king of the
Belgians
The only American competitor,
Weymann, while he did not win
prize, made a good showing.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-07-15
KEEPS GIRL FROM SUICIDE.
Man is Shot in Seeking to Prevent
Sweetheart Ending Life.

La Crosse, Wis, July 11.-Mrs. Ber-
tina McGovern and Roland Dickson
Dresbach (Minn.) sweethearts, today
are at hospitals here with bullet
wounds as the result of an attempt
to commit suicide by the woman and
an effort on the part of the man to
prevent the shooting.
Dickson says the woman turned the
revolver upon herself, shooting twice,
one bullet being prevented from en-
tering the heart by corset steel. In
trying to take the weapon from the
woman Dickson was shot in the groin.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-07-15
HOW HE GOT THE BIG FIGHT.
Rickard Tells a Few Inside Facts Of
the Big Deal.


San Francisco, July 11.T"Tex"
Rickard has given some inside facts
about the deal by which he secured
the Jeffries-Johnson fight two days
before bids were opened in Jersey
City.
"The fighters were signed up with
me two days before the opening of
the bids" he said yesterday. when
/ went to New York saw a joker in
their contract. 1t stated that best
inducements would be accepted /
knew that meant they could do as
they pleased.
II worked on Johnson and also his
wife. / offered Johnson a bonus of
$4,000 and told his wife would buy
her sealskin coat, If her husband
would sign. The champion accepted
and in addition / had to loan him
$4,000 when the articles were sign
ed
Most of the negotiations with JEFF
fries were worked through Berger
Berger told me that he had promised
Gleason the fight and he said: You
combine. My contract with Gleason
That was why took Gleason into the
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-07-15
WHY LITTLE WAS FIRED?
johnson Says He Was Asked to Throw
the Eluht,

johnson Says He Was Asked to Throw
the Fight.
| Chicago, July 11.--With the return
OF Champion Jack Johnson to the
city from Reno, where he defeated
James j. Jeffries for the worlds heavy
weight title, the real reason for the
split between the champion and his
| former manager, George Little. be.
| came known. According to Johnson,
who is not a bit backward in saying
harsh things about his former mana
ger, Little tried to persuade Jack to
throw the fight to Jerfries. The
champion said Little had been offered
a large sum of money to bring about
this result. He would not mention
the names of the persons who were
mixed up in the deal, but he init
mated that they were men connected
closely with the Jeffries camp.
When Little presented the situation
to johnson wordy war followed, in
which Jack upbraided Little for ever
thinking of such a thing, and finally
wound up by breaking Off all relations
with the man who had taken care of
his interests since he returned from
Australia, where he wrested the title
from Tommy Burns.
Johnson said that his former mana
ger followed him around the camp af-
Ter the trouble and that finally he had
to ask assistance from the authorities
to keep Little away from the place.
After his dismissal, Johnson assert.
ed, Little circulated stories about San
Francisco that Johnson was not train.
ing, that he was sick and in no con.
dition to defend his title against JEFF
fries.
Little came to me one day and
asked: Jack, how much will you take
to throw the fight?'" Johnson said.
II asked him what he meant by ask
ing me to throw away the title which
/ had worked hard for eight years to
win and he answered by saying that
he had been approached by a person
who represented a syndicate, which
was planning to pay an exorbitant
sum if l would lay down.
1T took me some seconds to gather
my composure for I never thought
for an instant that Little would ap-
proach me with such proposition.
If ever | called man in my life, |
certainly told Little few things and
wound up by telling him that | was
through with him forever and that |
didn't want him around the camp an
other day"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-07-15
SOCIETY WOMEN WANT TO FLY.
But George Russel's BipIane Engine
Wouldn't Go-Blew Off Hats,

Mneola, n. Y, July IA dozen or
more society women flocked around
George Russell when he brought his
aeroplane out of it's shed. Every one
of the women was eager to make a
flight. They were standing in an ami.
mated group behind the biplane when
Russell cranked the engine.
The propeller whirling around with
terrific speed raised a wind that blew
off the women's hats, filled their
faces with dust and sent their hair
streaming in all directions. Then
came chorus of screams when rats"
went soaring into the air. Russell's
engine did not work right, so he made
no attempt to fly.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-07-15
HAS ANYBODY SEEN PERCY?
II They Have, Mrs. Proctor Would
Like to Know Where.

New York, July 11.-Has anybody
here seen Percy?-Percy Proctor,
whose family is in the soap company
of Proctor & Gamble? Apparently no.
body here has, least of all his wife.
Most everybody believe Mr.. Proctor
doesn't wish to be seen. Maybe so,
but Mrs. Proctor doesn't believe it.
But she couldn't find him in Cincin-
natl and now she has come here to
look around a bit.
For a pair of newlyweds the rela-
tions of Mr.. and Mrs. Proctor since
they were married in London last
October, have been peculiar. They
went for a honeymoon to Mentone on
the Riviera. That had been their
first meeting place in the preceding
year, when he was Il millionaire and
a widower calling himself Sc and she
20 and the wife of Baron de Klifuss,
who had a villa there.
Mrs. Proctor has a paper purport-
ing to be copy of an exchange be-
tween herself and her husband several
months before their marriage, in
which he pledged with her 100 shares
of Proctor & Gamble stock on condi.
tion that she obtain a divorce from
Baron de Klifuss, to whom she had
been married when 16 years old.
tuberculosis saved the trouble of
divorce, and when the widow mar
ried Mr.. Proctor the stock, she as
serts, was passed by him to her out.
right as a dot. Her appraisal of it
was $4,000. She says he promised
her also an additional $4,000.
"No one can make me believe" she
said, that Mr. Proctor remains away
from me of his own will On account of
the 100 shares of stock. He knew
on our wedding day that I had passed
the certificate over to Mr.. Wyckoff.
On the train as we were leaving Lon
don that day he asked lie if I still
had it below where l usually carried
it. and l said that I had given it to
Wyckoff in London. He seemed salts
fed.
After he left me at MentCne, be-
cause he said, it was necessary for
him to return to America, he wrote to
me every week. His letters were al
ways loving. | received an allowance
of 5000 a month from him. Finally he
telegraphed me to come over.
when | arrived by the Mauretania,
May 23, l could not understand his
failure to meet me. | went on to Gin
cinnati and tried to find Mr.. Proctor,
but could not. Neither his family nor
his lawyers would meet me. Then
suit was brought against me to re-
cover the stock.
What has become of my husband
do not know. l cannot understand
why he remains away from me. There
has never been anything in our rela-
tionS to estrange us. and ] came to
this country because he wished me to
do so. There is mystery that | wish
someone would clear. / hope | shall
not be forced to make a contest for
the $4,000 promised me-"
By birth Mrs. Proctor is Russian,
her father, Gregor Wengeroff, and her
mother both being physicians in st.
Petersburg. She has certificates as a
practitioner in Carlsbad. She had
daughter, Leonie, by Baron de Xii.
fuss.