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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-23
Allegations Sensational.


The allegations in the socalled graft
case are among the most sensational
in which high officials of great cor
poration ever have been named. The
Investigation began over a year ago.
1t reached crisis last spring, when
President Harahan began actions to
recover sums said to aggregate more
than 100000, alleged to have been
secured by car repair companies in
connivance with high officials OF the
road. Hartman, Ewing, Taylor and a
large number of others of lesser mag
nitude resigned their positions. Much
OF the money is said to have been re-
paid privately. The name of Ira j..
Rawn, vice president of the road, who
resigned to become president of the
Monon, and who was found dead re-
Gently at his home with bullet wound
in his breast, was brought into the
scandal. Murray Nelson, Jr., attorney
for the Illinois Central, stated that
Rawn's death headed off warrants
which would have been issued for him.
Private detectives working under
the direction of President Harahan
are said to have unearthed frauds 9th
er than those connected with padded
car repair bills. These are said to
involve the diverting of $1.00o.O00. or
more, from new construction. The in.
vestigators claim to have secured sew
eral confessions which will be used in
their attempt to fasten the guilt on
culpable persons.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-23
oniciaI census Eiaures.

Washington, Aug. 20.-The popula.
ton of Sioux City, Ia, is 47,S2S, an
increase OF 14,717 or 44.4 per cent, as
compared with BILL in 1900. The
population Of Danville, ILL.,, is 1851.
an increase of 11.515, or 70.4 per cent.
as compared with 1864 in 1900.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-23
Signs.

signs.
what was the bridge Of sighs!"
asked the woman who was looking at
the picture book.
Il suppose" replied Mrs. Flimgilt.
shat is one of those games in which
you are obliged to make 1t spades
every time"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-23
Ex-senator can Do Stricken.

Ex-senator Call 10 Stricken.
Washington, Aug. a. Former U.
s. Senator Wilkinson Call, of Florida.
was stricken with a hemorrhage at his
home here and taken to the Elmer
gency hospital in an unconscious con
dition. Mr.. Call is Sc years old.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-23
ZEPPELIN DlRIelsLE is SPEEDY

improved PropeI'ers and Other Fea.
lures Tried Out.
Friedrichshafen, Wurttemberg. Aug.
2O.-The Zeppelin vi. which the direc.
torate of the Passenger Airship com.
pany recently decided to transfer to
Baden Baden to carry out the program
for passenger trips, has been fitted out
with improved propellers and other
features and made trial fight. This
big dirigibie proved to be the speed,
Test Zeppelin airship yet built.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-23
Mendoza Quits in Panama.

Panama, Aug. 22--Acting President
Mendoza resigned and has been sue.
ceeded by Senior Don Samuel Louis
minister of foreign affairs. Intense
excitement prevails throughout the re,
public of Panama as result Of the
complex political situation.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-23
Something Wrong.

"Post committed suicide because he
was oyerworked"
Pooh! He couldn't have been 80
very busy or he wouldn't have found
time to do It in."-Life:
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-23
Tho Feminine Ides.

she-Dear. saved great deal Of
money today.
He-Glad to hear II. How did you
do It?
she-1 bought handsome rug for
only $40.
He But. my dear. We don't need ..
new rug.
She-I know w don't. but II We
had needed It We would have had to
pay $45 for It
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-23
on Funds,

did Billy call UP his girl on the
long distance?"
NO"
why not?"
HE was too short"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-23
oua,e Shocks in Massachusetts.

Quate Shocks in Massachusetts,.
Towci', Mass, Aug. 22.-Earth trem.
CTS, aceomp; I cd by heavy rumblings.
susc1 70 siderable alarm in this city,
~ suiIc I'd ne towns. The shocks
l5&I sescIai seconds, but did no
I....;IGe.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-23
caxe.ln Kills Miner.

Duluth, Aug. 20.-John Andrizich,
miner, Is years of age, who had been
married three weeks, was killed by
cave-in at the Spruce mine, Eveleth.
The body was recovered.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-23
Two children burned TO Death

Two children Burned to Death.
Marshalltown, Aug. 22.-While play.
ing with matches in a hayloft, Teddy
Thurber, aged g.. and Wayne Paris,
aged s, of Liscomb, Iowa, set the barn
aiire and both We're burned to death
before help arrived
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-23
Minneapolis Merchant Dead.

Minneapolis. Aug. 22.-George NJ
.Tibbs, president of Tibbs, Hutch
ings & Co., Wholesale dry goods, is
dead at his summer home, Minneto
ka Beach. Lake Minnetonka.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-23

Fifteen Soldiers Buried by Blast.
Mainz, Germany, Aug. 20.-Fifteen
soldiers are reported to have been bur.
led by premature explosion of dyna-
mite during the maleuvers OF pioneer.
Ing troops OF Sechtsheimerberg,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-23
KNOW IT WE'LL.
Familiar Features Well Known to
Hundreds of Cresco Citizens.

A familiar burden in every home.
The burden OF q chad back"
A lame, a weak or an aching back
Tells you OF kidney ills.
Doan's Dldney Pills will cure you.
Here Is Cresco testimony to prove
1t.
Mrs. Anna Boucher. Market ST..
Cresco, Iowa, says: For five yesrs /
suffered from kidney trouble, and 1T
times had such terrible pains in my
back that l WAS fore d to call il
doctor. Often had to take to my
bed and remain there for days. Colds
slways settled in. my kidneys and
caused me to suffer more intensely.
The kidney secret,Ons were also un--
natural and irregular in passage.
The doctor did not help me. nor did l
receive any benefit from the use Of
different remedies. at last heard OF
Doan's Kidney Pills, procured q box
from the Fergen Drug Store. began
their use. Ina few days noticed
an Improvement and was encouraged
to continue taking the remedy until
Cureu. \croM st0Someht given NOV.
10, 1902
CONFIRMED AFTER SIX YEARS.
On July l6, 1908, Mrs. Boucher
said: .:.Since Deans Kldne. Pills cured
me six years ago / have had no teri--
GUS return of my. former trouble.
When having slight attacss OF back
ache however, a few doses of Doan's
Kidney Pills have always relieved me.
l cannot recommend them too high
ly."
For Sale by all Dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster Milburn Go. Buffalo.
New York, Sole Agents for the United
States.
Remember the name Doan 's-and
take no other.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-23
Lockout at WInnI PEG.

Winnipeg. Aug. 22.-StrikiDg brick
and stone masons not having returned
to work, all city contractors declared
a lockout of the building trades and
work on all city buildings is idle.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-23
THREE ARRESTS
IN RAIL- FRAUDS.
FORMER OFFICIALS OF ILLINOIS
CENTRAL TAKEN INTO
CUSTODY.
MILLION INVOLVED IN swINDLE
President of Road Determined All
Grafters Will Be Exposed.-Rawn
Escaped Arrest BY
Death.

Chicago, Aug. 2O.-Three ex-officials
of the Illinois Central railroad COM
pany were arrested in connection with
the alleged huge frauds by means of
which the railroad claims to have been
defrauded out of $1,5OO,00O. The men
arrested We're:
Frank B. Hartman, former general
manager for the road.
Charles L. Ewing, former manager
of the lines north of the Ohio river.
John M. Taylor. former general
storekeeper Of the road.
The warrants were sworn to by Pres
ident Harahan, of the railroad COM
pany concerned. They charge the
three men with conspiracy to cheat
and defraud the railroad by false pre-
lenses and with operating confidence
game. Hartman and Ewing we're TAX
en- to the Harrison street police sta
ton. Their bonds of $4,000 each
were signed by professional bonds
man.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-23
subonic PLAQUE In Ecuador.

Guayaquil, Ecuador, Aug. 20.-Ten
cases of bubonic plague were report.
ed during the first fortnight of August
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-23
No Danger From Disease Here. y


New York, Aug 2O.-Tbesesfs not
the slightest possibility~of the cholera
plague spreading 10 the United States.
the Quarantine measures now in force
here and in Russia being SO effective
as to preclude any danger of Russian
immigrants bringing over the dread
disease.
DR.. Doty, health officer of the port
of New York, said the present con-
ditions in Russia and Italy had been
anticipated from information received,
and during the past year persons com
ing from these countries had been SUBJ
jected to the closest scrutiny. DR..
Doty said that as measure of safety
all persons coming from Russia are
held at the various ports of departure
for five days under medical superyi-
sion before they are allowed to en-
bark for this country. Persons in
fected with cholera develop the disease
within five days. The present regula-
ton of quarantine at point of depart
ure until the danger period is passed
probably will be put into force at
once at several of the Italian ports.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
HALLEY'S COMET.

This Notwithstanding comet
Is between us and the sun, and
travelling towards us at the rate
OF half a million miles a day. Its
wake, or tail, is several million
miles long, and in it are thous-
ands OF worlds bigger than our
own. Should one of them strike
us we would be blotted out of ex-
istence. AS it is, some prophets
say if it does not hit us. the
fumes and gases from it will
contaminate our atmosphere and
cause instant death to all animal
life here.
One of the leading astronomers
AYERS that unless the tail lessons
in length much faster than it has
grown it will easily encompass
the IA 900, 900 miles between the
earth and cometon May Is. The
sky of that night should be filled
with a fine, luminous display. In
fact, we will all be bathed in the
comets tail, as it were.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
COMMON SaORN or POWER,
Gar Hurled From Lofty Position
by Democrats and INSURGENTS.


Speaker Joseph c. Cannon, as DO
iitical entity and Cannonism as exem-
plihed by the Speaker, were ground to
pieces In revolution in the House of
Representatives Saturday. By a vote
OF III to 155 the allied Insurgent Re-
puollcans and Democrats ousted him
from the Committee on Rules, through
winch he had welded his greatest
power. The House, however, declined
to take the speakers chair away from
Mr.. Cannon. He and his friends call
that vote of confidence" but the
only confidence shown after that first
crushing defeat was too sickIy and
weak TO hold up its head. The real sig
nificance of the vote to dcpose the
Speaker was that the Insurgents refused
TO make a martyr of him. Further.
they refused to cause a state of chaos
by bringing on the election of a new
Speaker.
Not only were Cannon and his staunch
supporters outvoted, but they were
outgeneraled and outfought. And not
only were they given the most humili-
ating reputation that any socalled
leaders of the House have ever suffered.
but they were made to taste the bitter
medicine they have so often admins
tered when they had the party lash and
the fear of party accommodation to
help them achieve ruthless victory.
For the Speaker himself, though he
died, as he has often said he would
when the time came, with his boots
on, ne had the courage, audacity.
affrontery, or whatever it may be called.
to retort to the vote that discredited
and rcpudiated him with a defiance of
those who had crushed him, and liter
ally dared them to follow up their VIC
tory and throw him out of the Speakers
chair
The Speakers old guard fought with
either bravado or bravery to the end.
Braced by the Speaker himself. they
made the best showing possible under
the heart-breaking circumstances. and
when the Speaker uttered his final de-
fiance to his enemies they stood up and
cheered him as though they had won
the great battle of their lives, instead
of having lost that battle.
1t was history making session of
the House of Representatives that
brought the final defeat of Cannon. If
Its like was ever held before, none of
those who took part in the fight re-
member the occasion, or an occasion
that approached that of that day in i'm
portance. And no session that this
generation of legislators has seen ap-
preached it either in the intense ex-
citement, the wild disorder, the bitter
ness of feeling or intense partisanship
that was displayed. IS 80
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
SOME WEDL. NGS.

The marriage of Miss Clara Peed to
Oldham Lewis, both of Baltimore, but
formerly of the Northern Neck, is an
nounced to take place in Baltimore
March 81.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. S. Brent. Sr.
OF Kilmarnock, have announced the
marriage of their daughter, Miss Mary
Miller. to Mr.. George w. Noblett, at
Columbus, Ohio, which took place
Tuesday, March 18th. Mr.. Noblett is
brother of A. Noblett, of Kilmarnock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Noblett will make their
home at Staunton, Va.
The marriage of Miss Mildred Mar
vel, of.Cambridge, Dorchester county.
Maryland, TO Mr.. l.. Giles Headley.
shipbuilder of Cowart, Northumber.
land county, Virginia, is announced to
take place in Cambridge on the 18th of
April. After tour north the couple
will reside at Cowart. Mr.. Headley is
a son of Mr.. Louis E. Headley, and is
a young man Of sterling worth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Granville C. Batey. of
Murfreesboro, Tenn, announce the en-
gagement and approaching marriage of
their daughter, Martha Ivie, and Rev
Ernest Leslie Peerman. The wedding
will take place in the new Methodist
church at Seoul, Korea, on Tuesday
June 9TH, 1910. Miss Batey was sent
out by the Woman's Board something
more than twoyears ago, and has proven
an efficient worker. Mr.. Peerman is of
the Virginia Conference and has been
IN Korea about three years.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
CRISP NEWS.

John Gibbons, aged 80, of Tangier.
was shot and killed by Waterman on
seaside oyster grounds in Northampton
for trespassing.
The manure heap at the stable door
Is responsible for more house-flies than
a stagnant rain-barrel is for mosquitoes.
Both are incubators.
Through efforts of United States
Senator Thomas S. Martin the Senate
amended the rivers and harbors
bill so that James river will get
$3.50, 900, instead of 500, 600, for i'm
provements. When the bill was under
consideration in the House, the appro-
priation was cut to 500, 200.
The condition of Senator. Daniel. who
suffered stroke ofparalysis some time
ago, remains practically unchanged.
though there are signs of slight inn
provement in his condition. He is suf-
ficiently conscious to recognize his
family, and takes enough nourishment
to support life, but his physicians are
not sanguine of his ultimate recovery.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
AN AGREEABLE SURPRISE.
LRichmond Yirginian-l


The Commission of Fisheries has the
distinguished honor of having returned
to the State treasury as of March /.
1910, the snug sum of $l5,O36. rs, that
being the unexpended balance on the
date named. The Commission in hand
ing in its report says that the present
season, now nearly at an end, has been
the most prosperous in the shell fish
industry for several years, both As to
the business of individuals and financial
returns to the State.
The Commission did not succeed in
getting its James river bill through, but
Commissioner Lee thinks that good
work has been done and
that he has at least succeeded in con-
vincing the public that the Commission
has no evil designs on the natural rock.
In our view, it is a public misfortune
that the measure prescribing that the
lines in that river be Strengthened did
not pass. But it takes time to work
reforms. We believe the measure will
have better luck next time.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
RICHMOND COUNTY.
SIMoNSoN.

Our farmers are taking advantage Of
the spring-like weather and planting
early trucks, preparing for corn, etc.
Lloyd Mothershead, son of c. A.
Mothershead, of wilma, is critically IN
with pneumonia at this writing, but we
hope under the treatment of DR.. B. A.
Middleton he may soon recover.
j. Lloyd Hale and wife. of Oyster.
Va, are visiting relatives at Hale's Point
this week.
Miss Trina Edwards, of Farnham, spent
from Friday until Sunday with Miss
Fannie Dickinson, at '.Sion House,
j. M. Dickinson lost colt last. week.
Thieves also entered his hen house last
week and stole several head of fowls
therefrom. ~
The "Sion House" Sunday school will
be reorganized the first Sunday after
noon in April. This is an evergreen
Sunday school and has been in opera
ton seven years. and not recently or.
gained as reported by your Downings
correspondent last week. This school
has 90 names on the roll ''@ "
II. Booker Hale is on The Sonthside
of the Rappahannock this. week in the
interest of his firm.
Messrs. J.. K. Hynson and L. p.
Newman were in Baltimore last week.
The latter went to have his eyes treated
by specialist, '''a 80 > 'i-s''
Joseph Self has recently had a gaso-
line engine installed in his boat. -.
Misses Matte Scott and Todd Motley.
teachers in the High School at Sharps,
spent from Friday until Monday with
Mrs. Clarence Motley.
There will be an entertainment at the
''Sion House" school house on Friday
night, April 1st.. for the benefit of the
Farnham Parsonage Fund and the Sun
J day school. - $50 ,44-
Rev. H. l.. Walton, of Sharps, preached
a find sermon at the school house on
Sunday afternoon last to the largest
audience that we have ever seen at that
place. He brought his choir from
Sharps which gave us fine singing.
Come again. se, A WRITER.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
MINUS CAROLINENSIS.

Cur summer boarders are COM
ing, are indeed here, and Minus
Carolinensis, who has been spend
ing his winter in Florida, made
his appearance afew days ago as
cheerful and springlike as ever,
perched on the arbor and pour
ing forth his MARBLE boldly and
bEaYely; harbinger of warm days
and sunshine. He was alone, but
hO-doubt his little wife is on her
way; north, and doubtless will
Join him ia a few days. He is a
cheap boarder, asking nothing
more than thepriviiege of picking
Sup an occasional worm or stray
bug and the protection that the
landlord can give. He is a song
ster OF sOngsters; his notes are as
soft ASA flute, and not far from as
varied and copious as the mock
bird himself, to whose family he
belongs, though not so loud and
strenuous. Ii he stops once in a
while to squall like a feline (from
which call he probably gets his
name OF catbird) he may be
excused for this, for in the
main he is worth all he charges
Tor his concertizing. Brave
little fellow he is and worthy
to- be protected, trusting to
man for shelter, and building
his nest under the shadow of the
home of the great destroyer.
Wicked boys and stray cats worry
him, but he is not easily dis
couraged and in some cases tar
ries even all winter. Soon the
groves will be vocal with his and
other songs of his kind, and
Spring, mild and balmy, will CON-
fort him and all such. He de-
serves protection and should
have it.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
WE DISLIKE 10 30 hi.

Some men seem to think IL they get
iito>a "sctape'' and the editor mentions
it In his paper that he does IL out of
malice towards them. fnnearly every
case of this kind nothing could be further
from the truth than such belief 1t is
the editors business to publish local
happenings, good or bad, and if a man
furnishes material for a bad item he has
no one else to blame should it appear
West Point News.
The editor strives in season
and out to build up his town and
give it good name. Some of
them give the best years and
energy of their life to this end.
To have a few miscreants con-
tinually doing dirty acts or talk
ing scandal drags down a place
and undoes the best work of a
life time. These hope for their
parents sakes that the editor
will not air their misdeeds. and
many escape because of this. But
no public spirited man can afford
to be u party to keeping such
things quiet, let alone aiding and
encouraging lawless characters
to continue their nefarious work,
no matter how much he dislikes
to give publicity to his towns
misfortune.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
This contractor GOT. results.

Some years ago a contractor build
ing railroad in warm climate was
troubled great deal by sickness
among the laborers. : 80
He turned his attention at once 20
their food and found that they were
getting full rations of meat and were
drinking water from stream near by.
He issued orders to cut down the
amount of meat and to increase greatly
the quantity of Quaker Oats fed to the
men.
He also Boiled Quaker Oats and
mixed the thin oatmeal water with
s their drinking water. Almost instantly
all signs 1t stomach disorders passed
andhis men showed a detided improve
ment in strength and spirits, This con-
tractor had experience that taught him
the great value of. GOOD osanaezL IS, :
The cost was small: loc Tor regular
size packagess it is also packedin her
medically sealed tins for hot climates.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
FALSE PREMISES, WRONG
CONCLUSION.

The Eastern Shore Herald and
the Amherst New Era, both anti
Mann papers, exploit the misin-
formation that Senator Lesner
was the man who gave Governor
Mann his big majority in Norfolk
and in return for this he was
named on the Farmville Board.
That is about as near correct as
our little single-eyed contempor-
aries everget on Virginia politics.
State Senator Lesner is from
Norfolk county, which county we
recall gave Slemp a majority
over Mann. Senator Lesner and
Republican leader Alvan Martin
of Norfolk county are at logger
heads. Mr.. Jimmy Trehy, and
not Senator Lesner, happens to
run Norfolk. Get straight, friends.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
AN ExTRANEoUs PROPOSITION.

AN EXTRANEOUS PROPOSITION.
A friend asks Us to multiply So by S.,
We do so and announce the result as $25.
Now multiply 500 cents, give the answer
IN cents. pure and simple, not as frac-
tional parts of dollar. We do so and
are surprised to see the figures climb up
to $50, 900 cents, which is 81. 500. AS S.
and 800 cents are equivalent the result is
puzzling. 1t cannot be urged that
decimal marks should be used. A cent.
as such, is as distinct unit as a dollar.
and as the result is to be announced in
cents the decimal cannot be pleaded in
extenuation of the rather surprising re-
suit. Can any reader explain it?-
Heathsville Echo.
We were taught at school that
five bushels of wheat could not
be multiplied by five bushels of
wheat; neither can five dollars be
multiplied by five dollars. But
five dollars can be multiplied by
with the result $50.
So 800 cents could not be null
tiplied by five hundred cents; but
it can be multiplied by >, or by
500. In the first CASE times
500 cents-the result would be
the same as So by 3. In the
second case, there is no par
allel; you are squaring figures
OF a different denomination
from that of the first propo.
sition (the So one) laid down.
In one case you are multiplying
by five, and in the other case by
five hundred, and the result is
bound to be a hundred times
greater. There should be nc
mystery here.