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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-03-18
Spring Millinery.

Our Hats are now on display. We
have selected for our showing what we
believed to be the best and most ac-
ceptable of the styles involved. Our
exhibit includes Hats for all occasions.
MRS. E. DENoYELLEs.
Millinery Parlors.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-03-18
Brother Breeders and Farmers
Read.

80 choice Duroc Jersey bred Gilts,
all are bred to a No. | hog, the best
that could be found in the country.
Has very heavy hone with length
of body combined; will make 1000 lb.
hog Many Of these Gilts BY the last
OF January will tip the beam at 800 lbs.
Everyone guaranteed. Also closing out
8 Poland China Gifts to make room for
the Reds; these are also bred and safe.
Write, or better, come and see me,
and ! will show them to you.
JOSEPH BOUsKA,
36tf Calmar. Iowa.
1t expels Al poisons, stimulates the
internal organs, cleanses the system
and spurifies the blood. Such is Hol-
listers Rocky Mountain Tea the most
effective preventative and cure Of bad
blood, constipation and sluggish liver.
VIM. Connolly.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-03-18
AUCTION AT pROTIvIN.

will offer for sale on March 26, 1910,
at one o'clock p. M. five acres of tim
ber on section 20, Sumner twp, VIM
pesheik county, Iowa.
JOHN BOusKA.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-03-18
For Sale !

For Sale $780,
Hay and potatoes. Phone s46.
l. L. EATON.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-24
PARLIAME
ELECTIONS SHOW
PRACTICAL TIE
Liberal LabOrite Party Has
Popular Vote Majority
UNIONIST ARE SATISFIED
Condition Such That Neither Party
Wants Responsibility of Legis-
lation

London, Jan. 24.-Never In the re-
collection of the Oldest politicians
have the British parties been in such
a perplexing position as they find
themselves today and are likely to
face when the next House of Com
mons is organized. So evenly divided
will be the membership of the next
House. and SO close is the popular
vote, that the results of the elections
for all practical purposes may be CON
sidered a tie.
No human mind can divine which
of the principal and different ques-
tions before the electors had the most
influence at the polls or whether the
results mean that the people demand
tariff reform, or are loyal to the Lords,
or anxious to reject Chancellor Lloyd
Georges budget or whether all three
of these had an equal effect. Under
these circumstances, neither party
wants the responsibility of attempting
to legislate and, since a division must
be so close, the Unionist are better
satisfied to be in opposition than to
have won by a very small majority
The remarkable figures recorded at
this stage of the balloting foreshadow
clearly how nearly equal both the
popular vote and the membership Of
the House of Commons will be divid-
ed between the two great factions.
The popular vote stands: Unionists,
.2.565.627: Liberals, 2,324,315; Labor
ties, 335, 119 This gives the united
Liberal-Laborite party a majority of
1853, 500 in total vote of $3.50 1871.
Today the membership of the House
of Commons is a tie, the Unionists
and the combined Liberal and Labor
party each having elected 2llS repre-
sentatives
one hundred and sixty-seven seats
remain to be filled of which 1902 are
English In the last Parliament
these were; rJnionist, 80; Liberal,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-24
WEBSTER OBSOLETE
Senate Committee Wants New Defin-
ition of Hazing

Washington, Jan. 21-Steps were
taken by the Senate committee on
Military affairs yesterday to have
Noah Webster and his famous die
tionary adjudged obsolete. The def
milton given to "hazing" by that auth
ority is not satisfactory to the com
mittee and Congress is asked to
make a new one.
Senator du Pont was authorized to
introduce a bill prescribing regulat-
ions governing the dismissal of cad
cts from the Military Academy on
charges of hazing and to define what
constitutes hazing 1t provided that
dismissed cadet shall not be rein
stated and shall not be eligible fol-
appointment as an officer of the army
for two years after the class of
which he was a member has been
graduated.
At present the secretary of war de
cides when hazing is sufficiently seri-
GUS to warrant the dismissal of the
cadet Heads of the war department
have disagreed on this question and
many conflicts of ruling have appear
ed in the action of different secretar-
les. Frequent resort was had to
Webster's dictionary to prescribe the
rule
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-24
sQUAWs FOR HIRED GIRLS
Carson City Likes Them Though
They are Not Dependable

Carson City, the capital of Nevada
is probably the only city in the coun-
try where the hired girl is a squaw
To the Carson City housewife every
Indian man is Jim and every Indian
woman is Sally. Neither jim nor
Sally can ever be depended on to
work regularly. but as other help is
scarce and high priced the occasional
services which they deign to render
are always welcome.
When Sally wants to work she al
ways opens the kitchen door without
the .iormality OF a knock and says,
Mahaylie (woman) you want work
done - Or simply Me heap hogadi"
which means that she is hungry and
wants to work for a meal.
An eastern woman is apt to be
frightened the first time this happens
or the first time she looks up and
sees a bucks swarthy face pressed
against the window, but she soon
learns that Jim and Sally are quite
tame.
Sometimes Sally comes shivering
to the door in winter with baby I'M
der her blanket She is heap cold
and wants to toast herself and the
queer little morsel of humanity on
her back at the kitchen fire. Some
times Sally will bring an armful of
baskets to sell at the door and then
the eastern woman rejoices exceed
ingly for she knows that she can
pick up for few cents baskets that
she would have to pay dollars for in
the Carson stores.
The housewife likes to get Pluto
Sally to work for her if possible for
she is cleaner, more Industrious and
more adaptable than the Shoshone OF
Washoe Sallies. The remains OF
these three tribes have their homes
up in the high hills above Carson
where no one else wants the land
They come down to the city every
day, but they never stay over night
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-24
MURDEREROF ANNA
SCHUMACHER
CONFESSES
Crime Committed in Rochester
Cemetery Last August
VICTIM ONLY II YEARS OLD
Solitude Of Prison Ship Drove Navy
Oeserter TO Admit Horrible
Deed

Portsmouth, n. H., Jan. 24-James
Hall. held on the United States pris-
on ship Southery at the navy yard,
under sentence for fraudulent enlist
ment, has confessed that he killed
Anna Catherine Schumacher IL years
old in the Holy Sepulchre cemetery
in Rochester. n. Y, on the afternoon
of August Z, but he declares that the
killing was an accident.
Hall says that he was beating hls
way about the country last summer
and that on the night Of August he
was in Rochester and slept in the
cemetery He loafed about the Gem
etery the next day, got food from
nearby houses and intended to sleep
there that night.
Late in the afternoon he saw Anna
Schumacher enter the cemetery with
flowers for her fathers grave and
followed her until she was in a lone
ly spot in the cemetery
He approached Miss Schumacher
and she tried TO run but he caught
her stihed her cries and assaulted
her, but not until she had made a des-
perate fight Then he killed her, al
though in his confession he SAYS that
the killing was an accident that he
only intended TO stun her.
When he found she was dead he
became frightened and sought for
some means of disposing Of the body
While searching about the cemetery
he came upon a shallow grave in the
sand that had been dug by some boys
at play. Into this he threw the body
OF his victim and covered her with
sand
Removing the marks of the conflict
from his person he made his way TO
the tracks of the Lehigh Valley rail
road. where he caught a freight train
and was we'll on his way west before
the body of his victim was discover
ed. forty-eight hours after the crime.
Before Hall made his confession he
was warned that it was very serf
GUS matter and that whatever he said
would be used against him He ne.
piled that he was tired of carryinS
his guilt with him, and said that the
solitary confinement on the shin had
nearly driven him msanes
While he was roaming ab0u; the
country he could stand the strain OF
the guilt but as soon as he was
brought to the prison ship and had
time to dwell ON nothing else he gave
way and sent for the Rochester pol
ice at first simply giving the infor
nation that he could give them some
/ ,,+tI,Dga ,.ft tho grirtn
Hall in the opinion of Sheriff Gill
cite is a degenerate and a typical ho
DO. He had been In the navy for a
short time but was dishonorably dis
charged He comes originally from
Minnesota. is of Swedish birth and
about 26 years of age. Hall is not
his right name but he was brought
up by family named Hall and has
always gone by that name. His real
name which he has never used, he
did not give.
He has knocked about the country
since he was boy and in that time
has served time in iails and prisons
for various offences He was dis
charged from the navy, was arrested
while re-enlisting at Columbus and
was sentenced to eighteen months
for fraudulent enlistment He has
served about two months of his sen
/ teucc
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-24
PAID BALLlNeER $3.50.
Clarence Cunningham So Says, But
It Was Years Ago.

San Francisco, Jan. 22.-That Rich
ard A. Balllnger, secretary of the in
terror, several years ago when he
was judge in Seattle, received
money from the claimants to the coal
lands in Alaska, whose patents are
now being investigated by officials of
the department of the interior, was
the admission of Clarence Cunning
ham of Seattle the Alaska coal mine
operator in Los Angeles
"They have been making all sorts
of charges and insinuations about
Balinger having received money in
this case" said Cunningham, but
the whole thing easily can be ex'
planned | admit that we paid him
money, but that was several years
ago. 1t was when he was Judge in
Seattle and we asked him about the
legality of our patents, over which
they are causing us so much trouble.
Mr.. Ballinger told us they looked all
right to him, and we sent him back
to Washington to look into 1t further
and report to us. | pressed $3.50 on
him, which at first he did not want
to take, but afterward accepted It.
So far as | can remember that was
all the money | ever gave him, and
as far as / know, the others did not
give him anything"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-24
COST OF LIVING IS
NOW At HIGHEST
RECORD POINT
Prices Exceed Figures Reached
in March, 1907
AND ARE STILL SOARING
Federal investigation This Week May
Bring Out Some Important
Facts

New York, jan 24.-Bradstreet's
has compiled a record of prices on SO
commodities that enter into daily and
direct consumption by the people and
the result shows that the cost of liv-
ing has now reached an absolutely
high record, exceeding even that of
March l. 1907, when prices went
soaring in anticipation of the panic
which came in the fall of that year.
The figures for December L last were
below the previous high record Of
1907, but the continuous skyward
movement of prices in the last month
of 1909 had established a new high
water mark by January l.
This week will see some interest
ing developments in the movement
against the high cost Of living. Next
to the action of the Federal authori-
ties against the beef trust the inyes-
tigation by the District of Columbia
committee of the House of Repres-
entatives promises to yield the most
satisfactory results. That committee
is scheduled to begin today its inves-
tigation into the high prices prevail
ing in the district
One of the first to testify before the
committee will be Secretary of Agri-
culture Wilson. He seems to be the
only public official who has really
made an investigation into the con-
ditions and who willtbe able to pres
ent hard, cold facts. The secretary
has had his men at work all over the
country collecting information and he
already has formed some pretty def
mite conclusions which he has eX-
pressed off and on recently.
The secretary already is satisfied
the farmer is not getting exorbitant
profits out of the beef he raises.
The secretary of agriculture has
little doubt that the excessive profits
on other farm products also. are go
ing into somebody else's pocket
the secretary's opinion that is soma
texcuse for certain increase in tho
cost of living, because the farm area
has not been keeping pace with thu
increase in the population but this
condition does not explain the pres
ent prices
One of the first totestify before the
Departmental Agriculture views the
situation is the decline of the neigh
borhood farmer. Fifteen or twenty
years ago farmers living near small
cities used to have their family Gus
toners. The families arranged reg
ularly with the farmers for their sup.
ply of pork, butter, eggs, fruits, vege-
tables, potatoes and sometimes lamb
and other meats. The neighborhood
farmer began to decline with the APP
pearance of the refrigerator cars
The little farmers dropped out under
the hard competition of the refriger-
ator business and the big ones took
to disposins of their products only to
the commission men or shippers
Thus cities that formerly supplied
their demand with home grown prod
ucts now depend absolutely upon pro
ducts shipped in refrigerator cars.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-24
VERMONT FEDERATION
Mid Year Meeting of Women's Clubs
Held at Barre

The mid year meeting of the Yer
mont State Federation of Women's
clubs was held at Barre, Wednesday
afternoon. January 10, twelve mem
bers of the board being present and
about 80 club women being in atten-
dance at the business meeting. The
president, Mrs. o. c. Ashton of Rut-
| land presided Those present were
the presidents of the four federated
clubs of Barre: Mrs. Theresa Lebour-
veau of the Athena club, Mrs. f. T.
Mower of the Glover club, Mrs. Mary
Benedict of Over the Tea Cups club,
and Mrs. j. w. Vaughan of the Philo-
nathan club; Mrs. NJ. Mae Clark of
Bradford, representing the Fortnight
ly club, Mrs. Henry W. Dutton Of
Royalton. president of the Woman's
club; Mrs. w. l.. WATSON of Water
bury. president of the Hypatia club,
who is also chairman of the educat-
ion and library committee; Mrs. Geo.
+. Warner of Brattleboro, chairman
of legislative committee; Mrs. p. F.
Hazen, general federation state sec
rotary, and Miss Margaret ROBBIE re-
cording secretary, both of ST. Johns
bury.
Mrs. Clark and Mrs McQuaid gave
brief reviews of the work their clubs
are doing as they are two of the new
clubs in the Federation. Reports
were read by or from the following
committees: Art, education and lib
rary, industrial and legislative. The
president gave report of the schol-
arship fund, established last yeai,
providing for one student at a Nor
! NAL school and urged the continue
ton of this branch of the Federation
work, that more students might be
supported She also gave a report of
the sale of the Christmas stamps in
the state, 1850 having been sold,
half to be disposed of as the Fedora
ton should vote. Most of ii was vot-
ed for the same work
1t was voted at the suggestion of
the chairman of the art committee IN
her report to support the editor Of
the Vermonter in the publication Of
Vermont art number, the federated
clubs to be responsible for 200 cop
les. Resolutions of approval were
adopted of President Tafts message
in regard to the white slave traffic,
and the following nominating com
mittee was elected: Mrs. ]. w. Dut-
ton of Royalton, Mrs. W. l.. Wassen
of Waterbury, and Mrs. J. w. Vuagh
an of Barre. In the evening a very
delightful informal reception was
held at the beautiful home of Mrs.
j. H. Jackson. y Music was furnished
by an orchestra during the evening
and refreshments were served in the
dining room.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-24
FLOOD SITUATION
IN PARIS DOES
NOT IMPROVE
Rain Continues and Water Go
ing Higher
NINE INCHES SINCE MORNING
River Seine Beyond All Records Of
Past 3e Years-Much Suffer

Paris, Jan 24.-The flood condit-
ions in this city have grown worse
instead of better during the night and
morning. The volume of water in
the Seine is increasing, having risen
nine inches during the night 1t is
now at the highest point recorded
during the past 3S years.
There has been no let-up to the
rain which today is accompanied by u
high wind.
The floods are fast assuming the
proportions of a national disaster. In
the north, east and west hundreds are
homeless and ruined The damage
will be very great
One of the water mains serving five
of the most populous arrOndisse,
ments. in the south and east of the
city burst tonight and these districts
are now without water It is feared
that the whole city will be in like
condition very soon, as the flood is
invading the pumping stations The
compressed air factory, which sup
plies the elevators in Paris has also
been forced to shut down.
one OF the great engines which
pump the sewage into the eastern
section of Paris broke down on ac-
count of the food and as a result the
sewers threaten to overflow the
streets. Several quarters are with
out electric lights and all the trolley
lines on the eastern suburbs are out
of commission. The main track of
the Lyons railroad has been partially
cut and it is feared that traffic on
this line will be completely suspend
ed tomorrow
The officials of the prefecture are
busy providing for the homeless. but
they are finding great difficulty in
securing shelter. Several of the
streets on the river sides of Passy
and Auteuil are uninhabitable Many
of the residents were compelled to
vacate their quarters. A consider
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-24
NO DYSPEPSIA MISERY
No Indigestion, Heartburn, Gas or
Headache Five Minutes Later.

You can eat anything your stom-
ach Graves without fear Of lndiges-
ton or Dyspepsia, or that your food
will fernent or sour on your stomach
.if YOU will take a little Diapepsin
occasionally.
Your meals win taste good and
anything you eat will be disgested;
nothing ferment or turn into acid or
poison or stomach gas, which causes
Belching, Dizziness, a feeling of full
ness after eating, Nausea, Indigestion
like a lump Of lead in stomach)
Biliousness, Heartburn, Water brash,
Pain in stomach and intestines or
other symptoms.
Headaches from the stomach are
absolutely unknown where this eff
fectiye remedy is used Diapepsin
really does all the work of a healthy
stomach. 1t digests your meals when
your stomach can't A single dose
will digest all the food you eat and
leave nothing to ferment or sour and
upset the stomach.
Get a large scent case of Papes
Diapepsin from your druggist and
start taking now, and in a little
while YOU viii actually brag about
your healthy, strong Stomach, for
you then can eat anything and every
thing YOU want without the slightest
discomfort or misery, and every par
ticle of impurity and Gas that is in
your stomach and intestines is go
ing to be carried away without the
use OF laxatives or any other assis-
lance.
Should you at this moment be suf-
fering from Indigestion or any stom-
ach disorder you can get relief with
in five minutes
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-24
MAY ANNEX NO MANS LAND
Bill Has Passed Senate Absorbing the
Spitzbergen Islands

Washington, Jan. 2l.-The Spitz
bergen islands, described as No
Mans Land, 437 miles north of Non
way, more than $4,000 square miles
of territory may be annexed to the
United States providing a simple lit
tie bill which passed the Senate Jan
uary 3, goes through the Housa and
is signed by President Taft
The bill is reported under the head
of Extra territorial deposits of
phosphate, coal, etc" but it is de
signed to confirm some well known
capitalists in their claim to several
hundred thousand acres of coal lands
in the islands AT present the bill is
in the House committee on foreign
affairs and has been referred to a
subcommittee consisting of Con
gresham DENLY of Michigan.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-24

l15; Nationalist 16 Should the
present trend OF voting continue nei-
Their the Unionists nor the Liberals
can muster a majority OF more than
a dozen and the Nationalist with SO
votes, will be wholly masters Of the
situation
The peers and the Irishmen will be
the dominating forces of the next
Parliament. Premier AsQuith has
two battles to fight, TO reform the
Lords and TO pass the budget which
failed and the budget for the coming
year. The prospect is that both the
peers and the Nationalist will vote
for the budgets
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-24
MUTlLATED HEAD FOUND
Was That of Mrs, Jennie Cleghorn
Who Was Murdered in ST. Louis

Chicago Jan. 24.-The mutilated
head of Mrs. Jennie Cleghorn whose
decapitated body was found in re-
sort in Armour avenue Wednesday
was picked up in a vacant lot sever
al blocks from the scene of the muir
der.
The police profess to be as far
from solution of the mystery as
ever The murderer after having
made vain attempt to dismember
the body during the night so as to
conceal it in a trunk is believed to
have fled at the approach OF daylight
with the head. Not knowing what TO
do with it, or from fear of its being
seen in his possession by passersby
before re could reach the river or the
lake, he threw It into the vacant lot
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-24
ONE EGG VALUED AT s25
Was Stolen from the Coop Occupied
by the $4,000 Lady Washington

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Jan. 24.-There
was amazement at the Scranton poul-
try show when it was discovered that
an egg laid by the $4,000 prize win
ming hen, Lady Washington had been
stolen from the coop in which she is
kept
1t had been laid only a short tim,
before. F. o. Megargee the owner Of
the hen, has offered a reward of $25
for the return of the egg and the po
lice are searching for the thief
A special policeman guards the hen
and it is believed that several per-
sons were in the plot to steal the egg
and that they crowded around the
coop so that the man who took it
could not be seen by the Waterman.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-24
WORTH si,5oo,ooo AN HOUR
Child, Surviving its Mother TWO
Hours, Leaves Father 100000

Child, Surviving its Mother Two
Hours, Leaves Father S3,o00,000
Toronto, Jan. 24.-By his infant
son surviving its mother two hours,
Charles W. Mclean of Brockville,
formerly of Montreal. becomes EMIT
led to a third of ten estate of the
late Senator Fulford This is valued
at present at S9,000000
Mrs. Mclean who died about a
fortnight ago, was a daughter of the
late Senator Fulford Under his will
his daughters issue by marriage was
to succeed to one third of the estate.
Mrs. Mclean about two weeks ago
underwent an operation for appendl-
citis which was followed by the birth
of her child She died at its birth,
and the little one lived only two
hours after its mothers death.
On the -decease of its mother the
little mite of humanity succeeded to
her wealth Its death two hours lat
er left the father the heir.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-24

able number Of houses have sunk Ia
the soft mud and water and on the
boulevard of St German "a houst-gn-
der construction is totteriug and
threatening TO fall on the Chamber
of Deputies