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The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-07-14
SLEuTH
IS LYNCHED BY MOB
Ohio Town Wrought to Fury by
the Unprovoked Murder Of
Restaurant Man.

Newark, O., July 12.-Carl Ethering-
ton, % years old, employed Thursday
night by the state anti saloon league
a blind tiger raider, was lynched here
at l0:30 o'clock last night, following q
day of almost continuous rioting. The
heavy doors Of the Licking county Jail
were battered down and Etherington
was dragged from his cell. He was
shot, kicked and bruised before the
street was reached n the finish fol-
lowed quickly.
Etherington, early in the evening,
confessed he killed William Howard,
proprietor of the Last Chance res
taurant and former chief Of police, in
a raid Of alleged speak easies' during
the afternoon, and narrowly escaped
lynching at that time. When the news
from the hospital that Howard had died
passed over the city at , o'clock, the
fury Of the mob took definite form.
Large battering rams were directed
upon the doors of Licking county Jail,
and deputies were powerless. The
doors fell after nearly IN hours attack.
Bess for His Life.
Crying piteously. Etherington, q
curly headed Kentuckian, who had
been serving as a strike breaker since
he was released from the marine serv-
Ice three months ago, was dragged
forth.
Il didn't mean to do it." he walled.
His cries fell upon deaf ears.
Fearing that the mob spirit would
not be satisfied with one victim, Sheriff
Links Immediately asked Adjutant Gem
eral Waybrecht for troops to protect the
six other dry raiders held at the city
prison in another section Of the town.
A hurried guard was thrown out in
their defense.
E~therington's last moments, while he
heard the mob battering down the
doors, were spent in praying and writ
ing a note to his parents, farmers re-
siding near Willisburg, KY.
What will mother say when she
hears this?" he kept moaning to the
iailer.
Howard, 1t is charged, did not resist
the detectives when they entered his
place on the outskirts Of the city. He,
1t Is said, however, put his arms about
Etherington as IL to hold him, where
upon the officer fired a bullet into his
head.
Striking Baltimore & Ohio railway
employees declare Etherington recently
came to Newark as a strike breaker and
the i'll feeling growing out Of the strike
has intensified that due to the raids to-
day.
AS Etherington mounted the block
ready to swing he was asked to make
a speech.
II want to warn all young fellows not
to try to make a living the way 1 nave
done-by strike breaking and taking
jobs like this" he declared. II would
better have worked Inc I wouldn't be
here now"
Trouble Seems Over.
Although Adjutant Weybrecht and
members Of his staff are here ready to
direct the bringing of state troops in
case of need. 1t is not believed that
further trouble will follow the lynching
last night Of Etherington.
The double tragedy and the part in
1t that was played by 500 citizens Of
this town has sobered the people. Ex-
ira police guards n deputy sheriffs
are believed by General Weybrecht to
be sufficient to handle the situation.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-07-14
MAYOR GAYNOR REFUSES
TO BECOME WROUGHT UP

Boston, July 13.-Messagcs from the
governors OF Connecticut. Colorado,
North Dakota, Vermont and West Vir-
ginia, expressing sympathy with the
movement to prevent the exhibition
of fight pictures, were received yester-
day by William Shaw, general secre-
tary of the United Society Of Chris
tian Endeavor.
From Mayor William Gaynor, of New
York, Secretary Shaw received the fol-
lowing letter.:
1T is quite impossible for me to I'M
derstand how II can enter any mind
that we are In danger of race riots
in the city of New York between blacks
and white. 1 would also remind you
that the government of the city OF
New York is a government of laws
and not of men, and hat I have no
right at my mere will to prohibit any
thing. l see no reason to get excited
at all. The people most excited seem
to be those who read every line of
the fight In the newspapers and are
eager to read more. If I had the pow
ers of my own will to do what you
suggest, l would DO it quick enough"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-07-14
RUM FOE MAKING
FIERCE THREATS

Columbus. O., July 12.-Announce-
ment was made here today by Ed Hale.
who headed the detective force of the
Anti-Saloon league yesterday at New
ark in raiding the soft drink" saloons
there, that he Is gathering an armed
force Of so detectives here, and has Sc
cured warrants which he intends to
serve on Mayor Anterior and Sheriff
Linke, Of Newark, this afternoon, for
not UNFOLDING the laws Of Ohio and for
aiding the lynchers, and also on several
proprietors of speak easies" for vio-
lating the local option law Of the state
in serving beer in a dry" territory.
The detective say he will take his
men to Newark by train and mount
horses in the suburbs and ride into
town with h warrants and serve them
II he has to shoot.
Secretary Long today received a tel
egram from Governor Harmon, who is
at his summer home at Charlevoix,
Mich, stating that he will leave for CO.
lumbus at one and take charge OF the
situation at Newark. The governor is
expected some time tomorrow.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-07-14
PHILADELPHIA men
KILLED BY TRAINS
Two Prominent Citizens of
Quaker City Meet Death
Under the Wheels.

philadelphia. July 13.--F. II. Lincoln,
until recently assistant general man
ager or the Philadelphia Rapid Tran
sit company. was instantly killed while
attempting to board a Washington
train at the West Philadelphia station
OF the Pennsylvania railroad today.
Mr.. Lincoln resigned his position
with the Street Railway company to
become associated with the Gold
herim company. metal man
ufacturers. New York City. He was
n or the original promoters Of the
ray Within Car company. aud at the
time OF his death was e-president
OF the Electric Service Supplies COM
pany Of this city.
While attempting to board a fast
moving inbound passenger train at the
Ttoga station Of the Reading Railway
company, today, Rev. DR.. Jacob Sallade,
acting pastor of the Grace Baptist tenn
pie, was whirled under the wheels and
crushed to death. DR.. Sallade was Sec
rotary of the American Home Mission
society and formerly served as pastor
of the Temple Baptist church.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-07-14
SOAP KING TURNS
Up MISSING With
WIFE ON LOOKOUT
Gables Her to Come Over From
Europe, but Is Not on the
Pier When She
Arrives.

New York. July 13.-IIas anybody
here seen Percy?-Percy Proctor.
whose family is in the SOAP company
Of Proctor 81 Gamble? Apparently no.
body here has. least Of all his wife.
Most everybody believes Mr.. Proctor
doesn't wish to be seen. Maybe so. but
Mrs. Proctor doesn't believe it. But
she couldn't find him In Cincinnati and
now she has come here to look around
n bit.
For a pair OF newlyweds the rela-
tons of Mr.. and Mrs. Proctor since
they were married III London last
October have been peculiar. They
vent for a honeymoon to Mentone on
the Riviera. That had beef their first
when he vas a millionaire and n Wild
over calling himself sc and she % and
the wife of Baron de Klifuss, who had
a villa there.
Death Saved Her Divorce.
Mrs. Proctor has a paper purporting
to be a copy Of an exchange between
herself and her husband several
months before their marriage, in which
he pledged with her the 100 shares Of
Proctor & Gamble stock on condition
that h obtain a divorce from Baron
de Klifuss, to whom she had been
married when 16 years old.
Tuberculosis saved the trouble OF di-
vorce, and when the widow married
Mr.. Proctor the stock. she asserts, was
passed by him to her outright as q dot.
Her appraisal of 1t was $4,000. She
says he promised her also an additional
$40. 900.
n m can make me believe" she
said, that Mr.. Proctor remains away
from me of his w will on account Of
the 100 shares of stock. He knew on
u wedding day that 1 had passed the
certificate over to Mr.. Wyckoff. On
the train as we were leaving London
that day he asked me If I still had it
below where I usually carried it, and
I said that I had given 1t to Wyckoff
in London. He seemed satisfied.
after he left me at Mentone, 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. I received an allowance
Of 5000 q month from him. Finally he
telegraphed me to come over.
Didn't Meet Her at Boat.
when 1 arrived by the Mauritania,
May 90, l could not understand his
failure to meet me. I went OH to Gin
c%innati and tried to find Mr.. Proctor,
put could not. Neither his family nor
his lawyers would meet me. Then a
suit was brought against me to recover
the stock.
What haa become of my husband I
do not know. I cannot understand why
he remains away from me. There has
never been anything in our relations to
estrange us. and / came to this coun-
try because he wished me to do so.
There is n mystery hat I wish some
one would clear. I hope I shall not be
forced to make n contest for the $780,
900 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 has a
daughter, Leonie, by Baron de Klifuss.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-07-14
MAD CAT, ON STREET,
ATTACKS CHILDREN
Leaps on Two Youngsters and
Claws and Bites Then:
Fiercely.

New York, July 13.-Two children
were badly bitten and scratched by a
large black tomcar at Coney Island. A
shot from a patrolman's revolver finally
brought down the animal. The body is
under examination by the Coney Island
|D,oard Of health to ascertain whether
the cat had rabies.
The cat came running down a street
about II o'clock, tossing its. head as
Enough in pain. A crowd of children
at play started toward IL and the cat,
instead of trying to elude them. ran
at them and made a leap which landed
i on Aurelo Ruggeio, 10 years old.
The boy screamed. His cries were
|seconded by his companions. most of
whom ran away.
a few, among whom was James
wallace, tried to help the Ruggeio boy
po free himself from the scratching
|sand biting ball Of fur. The animal
Turned on Wallace, who got rid of 1t
nlaliy. Then the policeman shot it.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-07-14
NEWSIES OF OMAHA
IN new CLUB. WILL
Be SELF GOVERNED
Move for Better Condition Led
by Men Once News
boys.

Omaha, Neb., July 12.-How to keep
the 400 newsboys OF this city from
shooting craps. swearing, smoking and
forgetting to wash their hands and
faces at regular intervals has been q
problem that has agitated the mem
bers of the Childrens' Home society for
nan a month. At last 1t is believed
that a solution has been reached and
that from now or the one word, "sin,"
will be erased from the newsboys'
calender.
Eight years ago there was an or
ganization for the welfare of the news
boys. but it died and since then the
youngsters have been permitted to Just
grow up and run wild. Now, however.
they are to be taken in HAND and their
condition bettered.
Probation Officer Bernstein has in
terested a number Of the business men
of the city and a club has beer or
ganized with e. w. Dickson, a very
wealthy man; Rome Miller, proprietor
Of the largest hotel in the city; J. M.
tor who has always interested himself
In boys, and Judge Sutton, Of the
juvenile court, trustees.
The committee having charge Of the
welfare of the boys Is made UP Of Joe
Carroll, Tony Costenzo, Tony Monico
and Sam Kalin, all of whom were once
hewsboys, but who are now prosper
GUS business men Of the city.
A large room has been rented near
the business portion of the city. It
has been equipped with a small IL
brary, tables where all kinds Of games
are permitted to be played, tub and
shower baths.
The club will be self governed, Of
dcered by the boys, but owe Its affairs
thn 1N~aynna o% H,naaa NaA. xrytI
have general supervision, they feeling
hat they should have the control, as
they are supplying the finances for its
maintenance.
Each boy joining the club does so
free Of charge. Each member is given
q numbered badee for Identification
and as a certificate Of character.
If a complaint is filed against any
boy or If any boy becomes trouble
some, a report is made to the juvenile
court, when Judge Sutton will investi-
gate and take the necessary action.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-07-14
BOAT is
AT BOTTOM OF RIVER
crowded Steamer Sinks, but
It's 90 Passengers Are Land
ed in Safety.

G. Louis, Mo-. July 13.--The river
keamer Cape Girardeau struck a snag
|, the bottom Of the Mississippi river
Erlv today at Turkey Island, so miles
outh of here. Ninety passengers were
beard and all were taken off safely.
| The boat was returning from Com
borce. Mo. Many passengers were
pomen and children. They were asleep
Then the boat hit an obstruction.
Fhe alarm was given by Captain Will
lam H. Leythe. The passengers
|rowded on the decks, and as members
n the crew quieted them, they were
6ken to shore In boats. Later they
Eare brought to st. Louis by train.
/ The Cape G%irardeau was built in
Ind. In 1899. She was $50
|set long and carried a crew of i5.
Ebe boat is owned by the Eagle Pack
|, company of st. Louis. On the eve
ling of May IL the steamboat City of
Ealtillo struck a snag and went to the
kottom of the Mississippi river Is miles
Ielow st. Louis. Twelve persons were
Irowned by the sinking Of the boat.
1 pilots John Stout and John Street, as
loon as the boat hit the snag, headed
The PROV toward the shore. The boat
lank close to the bank of the river
loon after the passengers left. One side
has submerged.
| The passengers walked from the boat
In the gang plank.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-07-14
KERMIT ROOSEVELT SAILS
ON A EUROPEAN TRIP

New York. July 13.-Kermit Roose-
welt, who was with his father on the
African hunting trip, sailed today for
Europe in company with Congressman
steamship America. Young Roosevelt
carried considerable baggage with him
and a number of guns and 1t is under
stood he will do some hunting in
switzerland. He expects to return in
September and declared his only OBJ
ject in going to Europe was for recrea-
ton and pleasure.
Asked If he was going to Europe to
meet Miss Margaret Rutherford, young
Roosevelt laughed and replied:
why, I am not even acquainted with
the young lady,"
Having been away for " months it
Is expected that Kermit would spend
the summer at oyster Bay and his trip
to Europe was a surprise to his
friends.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-07-14
NEGRO CONSPIRACY
IS N|PPED IN CUBA
Black Ringleaders Arrested for
Alleged Plot to Overthrow
Government.

Havana, July 13.-Colonel Georg.
Valera. 2. mulatto, and six other per-
sons, most of them colored men, were
arrested by the secret police today,
charged with conspiring to start an
uprising against the government.
The seven men were on their way to
Vieja Bermeja, in the province of Ma
tanZas, to which place a trunk contain
ing arms n ammunition and dyna-
mite had been shipped from Havana.
Letters n documents found on the
prisoners, who have been brought to
Havana, are believed to implicate many
other persons in the conspiracy.
The trunk was traced by the police
officials to the medical school Of the
Havana university. The janitor Of that
institution was arrested today and a
large quantity of dynamite was found
in his possession.
1t is not quiet three months since
the last negro conspiracy against the
government was nipped in the bud by
the police officials.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-07-14
DR.. COOK HIDES FROM
SIGHT OF FELLOW MEN

New York, July 13.-Another travel
err has come back from South Amer
lea with tales Of the the vanished polar
explorer, DR.. Frederick A. Cook.
This time 1t is DR.. Robert N. Kelley.
Of Philadelphia, and he brings a photo
graph to prove his tale. DR.. Cook is
shown In the print wearing a long rain
coat, a golf cap and without the mus
tache he had when he toured the coun-
try.
DIR. Kelley, who arrived Saturday.
did not succeed in interviewing DR..
Cook.
1.-The doctor keeps very much to him.
self he explained, "and avoids Amer
leans whenever possible. He is living
in Cumbre, II, 500 feet up in the Chilean
Andes.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-07-14
T NEGROES
GREET RACE IDOL

New York, July 13.-Jack Johnson
came to town today. The negro
friends of the worlds champion heavy
weight fighter scattered thousands OF
dodgers through the black belt"
which read:
ITO every colored man. woman and
child in New York:
BE at the Grand Central station at
$3.50 o'clock Monday morning and let
us all shake the glad land of the stall
wart athlete, the greatest of tho
twentieth century.
Come anyway you can. Come in
vehicle or on foot. All be there"
And ] reckon they will all be there"
said Johnson as he alighted from .he
Twentieth Century limited and radi-
Gated his golden smile" on a density
Of negroes that not only filed the
station. but nearly blocked the streets.
More than 10000 negroes welcomed
Johnson.
The fact that the train was nearly
five hours late, because OF 4 wreck
near Albany, did not dull the edge ce
J~ohnson's greeting. The police flea ring
trouble. refused to permit a parade,
but there were Il score or more of au-
tomobiles on hand TO escort Johnson
to the hotel of a friend, where a rccep-
ton vas held.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-07-14
RESCUE A
GIRL ENTICED BY
MARRIAGE PROMISE
Villain in Case Terrorizes His
Victim by Means Of Knife
and Bad Looking
Pistol.

Belleville, Kan, July 12.-Rescued
from her captor by hoboes who were on
their way to the harvest fields and
taken in charge by the police here.
Beatrice Tanning, a ~19-year-old girl,
who had been enticed from home on
promise Of marriage, was started on
her way to her home in Toledo, Ohio,
last night. When she was taken into
custody here she was wearing mems
clothing, which, she said. h had been
forced to wear after she attempted to
escape from her captor In East st.
Louis. From st. Louis to Belleville
she and the man., who she says was
Cameron Keener, "a years old, a ma
chinist In Toledo, beat their way on
freight trains.
keener. she told the police, carried
a razor. a knife and a revolver and
threatened to kill her If she tried to
escape or attempted to tell anyone of
her plight. From Kansas City to To-
peka. Deli Mosher, a hobo, rode in the
same freight car with them, she says.
At Topeka h attempted to get away
from keener, who choked her and beat
her. Mosher tried to defend her, but
Keener drove mir away with a re-
Told Troubles to Hoboes.
At Manhattan, Lewis Evans and two
other men, who were beating their way
to the harvest fields, got in the same
a with the couple. She managed to
tell a that she was a woman and
that she wanted to get away Evans
told the other two men. and when
Belleville yards Saturday night the
three men attacked Keener. He es-
capped and the men took the girl to Mr..
Walker, city marshal
Cameron boarded at our house, 631
Woodland avenue, in Toledo" the girl
since. last January. We became en-
gagged. Cameron said he wanted to be
married at the home Of his mother,
Mrs. Kelly, in Steamboat Springs, Colo.
Finally he persuaded my parents and
me that everything would be all right
and Cameron and I left a month ago.
Didn't Care II She Died.
II soon found out that he didn't in
tend to marry me. I tried to escape at
East st. Louis, ILL.,, and he took my
clothes n burned them and gave me
some Of his to wear. After we left st.
Louis we beat our way or freight
trains. / was afraid to tell anybody be-
cause he said he would kill me. After
he beat me at Topeka, though, 1 didn't
care whether he killed me or not, so
I told"
Bellville citizens furnished money
and clothing SO that the girl could re-
u to her mother, who was notified
of her daughters trouble. The mother
asked that the girl be sent home at
once.
Toledo, Ohio, July 9.-On the pre-
tense of taking her to visit his mother,
whom he said was sick In Colorado,
Keener enticed Beatrice Tanning, 10,
to make the trip with him. The couple
had been acquainted about one year
and the family supposed them to be en-
gagged.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-07-14
BIG RAILROAD CUTS
ITS WORKING FORCE
Pennsylvania Company Reduces
Number of Freight Crews on
Two Divisions.

sylvania railroad company today re-
duced the number Of freight crews in
active service on both the Philadelphia
and middle divisions, and Is prepared
to reduce the time in the extensive
shops in this city.
On the middle division 26 crews will
be laid off on Monday. Orders were
given to store "a engines in the middle
division, and 20 have already beer
stored on the Philadelphia division. On
July IL four preference crews will be re-
stored. Reductions in the number of
engineers were made and firemen and
trainmen laid off.
The reductions are due to traffic con
ditions, it is said, which do not warrant
the force carried lately.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-07-14
NEBRASKA CITIES
IN BUSINESS WAR
Fremont Carries Her Grievance
Against Rival to Interstate
Commerce Commission.

Washington July ia commercial
contest between three cities Of Ne
braska was instituted today before the
Interstate Commerce commission by
Fremont, Neb.
A complaint was instituted by the
Fremont Commercial club against the
Chicago, Burlington G. Quincy Railroad
company and several other interstate
carriers alleging that the rates on coal
from points in Kansas. Missouri, Ark
ansas and Oklahoma to Fremont were
unreasonable, preferential and discrim-
inatory, as compared with the rates for
the same poin's OF origin to Omaha
and Lincoln, Neb.
The commission is requested to ad-
Just the rates on an equitable basis.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-07-14
MAGNATE'S DAUGHTER
IN A HURRY TO WE'D

New York. July 13.-Rather than a
Trip to Europe and a big wedding in
The fall. Miss. Margaret H.. Brown,
laughter of William c.. Brown, -presi-
lent of the New York Central railroad.
those a home wedding to. take place
Is early as her parents could arrange
Tor 1t, and a honeymoon IN the Adiron-
hacks, where two years & she met
George S. Patterson. whose name she
how bears.
Eerday in the home of Mr.. Brown here.
bnly the brides parents and Mr.. Pat
father. c. M. Patterson,
banker and manufacturer, Of Char
|otte. N. c., we're present.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-07-14
INSANE MURDERESS
ROAMING At LARGE
She Escapes From Institution
by Dropping Lightly From
a Window.

murderess Is at large in the vicinity
of Pittsburg today. During the break
fast hour at the Allegheny county
home in Woodville, a suburb, Isabella
Williamson dropped from a window on
the first floor and got away.
The woman shot and killed Robert
Winters in Allegheny nine years ago.
She was adjudged insane and ever since
has been regarded at the institution as
one Of its most dangerous inmates.
The police throughout the country
have been notified of her escape, and
1t is believed she will be captured be-
fore nightfall.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-07-14
OLD WORLD FEUD ENDS
IN A CHICAGO KILLING
Sicilian Murdered, Presumably
as Result of Vendiller of
Long Standing.

Chicago, July ia tragedy explain
able only on the theory Of an old Sicil-
ian feud was enacted here today.
Leonardo Balachia, 86S Gault court,
in the heart Of the north side Italian
district, was slain by a man who sud
denly approached while Balachia was
talking to a third person in front OF
the Balachia home.
The murderer fired five bullets into
his victims back. Although pursued
he escaped. Mrs. Balachia, mother Of
five children. declared her husband had
received no threatening letters, and
in Sicily.