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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19
DEATHS

AMES-Paszsd into life eternal on wednes-
day, Nay IS 1910. ANNA CPSHCR SEE-
dota- this city
Mrs Arnes vas born in Acconac county.
Va. the daughter Of a prominent lawyer
a the state She removed with her parents
10 Carlisle. Pa, At an early age, and vas
educated there In 1881 she was married
the Rev A d Ames- Her death fol-
lowed an Illness OF nearly twelve years.
She Is survived b. her husband and one
daughter
BENsON-On Tuesday, May L. 1910. al S
a M at she residence OF his grandmother.
Ms Barbara II Clements. 1883 Maryland
avenue northeast " RAYMOND BEN
son, son Of the late Thomas and Matilda
Benson, aged seventeen years
CLOYEs-on wednesday morning May Is.
1910. KATHERINE c. wife OF Charles
ClOyes and mother Of Mrs Q. r. Fletcher.
of Sherwood, D. c. and H H Cloyes.
q Portland. Ore. aged seveuty-nine years
DONOHUE-On Wednesday, May IS 1910.
JOSEPH P DONOHUE. husband OF Ger
JTude DOnOhue-
FAUNCE-On wednesday. Nay Is 1910. Mrs
AGATHA FAUNCE, wife OF John FaUnce.
N The slxty-first year OF her age Her
KASSOS-On Wednesday, Nay IS 1910. Al
his residence. I725 I street northwest. JOHN
A KASSON, n his eighty-ninth year
REILLY-On Tuesday, May L. 1910. ED
WARD A. son Of the late John T and
Margaret A Reilly
SAN1AEkf- SI1c15nly y at noon on wednesday.
May Is 1870 JOHN SAEART. formerly
Cup 10 1Ss7) assistant librarian IN the
library OF Congress
Funeral on Friday morning. Nay &C. at
II O'Clock, from his late residence 232g y
szFeet northwest It.
sI86PSON-Passed away on Monday. May Is
1910. at Il o'clock p m, the residence
Of his parents. lI2I Monroe street north
west. PAUL A SIMPSON, son Of J. H
and NAY z Simpson
STEIN-On Tuesday. May i. 1910. at $50
,. H.. ar his residence. 500 LonEfeIovy
street northwest j. CHARLES husband
OF Mary A Stein, in the 6fty-u!uth year
Of his age
ETTIC-Suddenly. on Tuesday. Nav L.
1910 at her residence -ls Sixteenth street
northeast. AGNES r.. beloved daughter OF
VI liam and Julia ". WettIE. IN the ninth
year OF her age
uneraI al a. m. on Friday. MAY 60
Z. IN the Church OF the Holy Comforter.
Fourteenth and East Capitol streets uyhe-e
requiem mass wiil be said Relatives and
friends invited Etc
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19
Delegate TO Typothetae Con-
vention Gives Advice to
Young America.
BOOKWALTER CITES
GERMANYS SUCCESS
Gathering Votes $1,000 to Winona
School, Elects Officers,
and Adjourns.

That the American boy OF today con-
siders It dishonOrabIe- and a disgrace 10
work with his sleeves rolled up because
Of a deplorable existence Of false pride
and that their heads are being dsve IOp-
ed to the detrirnent Of their hands and
arms. WAS the declaration made tOdsy
by former Mayor Of Indianapolis Charles
Bookwalter. before the convention Of the
United TypOthetae Of America.
In a stirring speech. Mr. BOoICWalter
declared that boys are refusing 20 learn
trades and work with their hands, be-
cause Of the existence OF a false social
caste which has been created and which
causes the boy 20 look down upon hon
est labor His utterances made cOnsid-
cradle impression upon his az 1itors. and
he was loudly aPpiaUded during his
speech
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19
Hand and Head Work.

American people must ei.her educate
their boys properly" M. 9ockwalter
declared, "or they have these same boys
grasping at their threats before long
The boys must be taught the honorable
use OF their hands. We don't want boys
with heads as big as bushel baskets
and arms like broOmsticks- We dcu't
want our boys 20 think that Il IS more
honest or more fiattering 20 work as q
clerk in some Office or TO pound keys
OF a typewriter. than 10 become an
efficient draftsman-the master OF an
honorable and profitable trade
This mistake in education is one Of
the curses OF the age. The only meth
Cd Of stopping II IS 10 es1a 5Iish the
proper trade schools thro IEhout the
country and 10 place theta upon the
same plane as the high schools and
other Institutions which modern boys
are proud 70 attend. We must impress
upon the lad that Il IS no disgrace 70
work with his hands
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19

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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
MEET IN WASHINGTON.
Governors Discuss Problems of State
and Nation in the Capital.

Governors from thirty States of the
tai, Washington, D. c., to discuss
problems of state and of national in
terest, opened their three-day session
Tuesday. Gov. Wilson Of Kentucky,
chairman of the committee on arrange
ments for the conference, was in the
chair. In a brief Introductory speech
he referred to the first conference of
state heads, invited in May, 1908, by
President Roosevelt, to meet in the
White House.
Monday night the governors, with
the members of the National Civic Fed
Grafton, attended a reception at the
home of Miss Mabel Boardman. Tues
day night they sat down to a dinner
in their honor at the home of John
Hays Hammond
On Thursday Idaho's executive head,
Gov. Brady, talked on irrigation Gov.
Ansel of South Carolina followed with
an address on extradition Mining was
the topic of Gov. Sloan of Arizona
Gov. Carroll of Iowa, ON the divorce
question.
Irritated by the manner of their re-
ception and treatment in the national
capital, the governors of the states
registered their protest in the shape
of the adoption of a resolution to meet
next year in Springfield, III. Various
causes will operate to bring about this
decision. In the first place, the gov
errors feel it to be important to as
sert the rights of the states, to show
the country that their Jurisdictions are
not subordinate in all things to the
federal government. In the second
place, the dignity of their excellencies
has not been respected. They are out
ranked at social functions by the mem
bers of the cabinet and senators.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
WRECKEReS Of BANK
TO Be GIVEN FREEDOM
Formalities Alone Delay Release of
LoOterS of Milwaukee Avenue
State Bank.
sTENsLAND AND Herring HAPPY
Opposition to Action by Parole
Board Not as Strong as
Formerly.

Paul o. Stensland and Henry w.
Herring, convicted wreckers of the Mil
waukee Avenue State Bank in Chicago,
were voted a parole by the State board
of pardons at Joliet the other day, and
they were informed that they soon
would come forth from the peniten-
tlary into the big outdoors.
The previous day convicts Nos. 1902
and 3, they are to take up the thread
of life as they left it nearly three and
one-half years ago. They have ex-
plated their admitted crimes to the
laws fullest requirement Bitter as
was the feeling against them after the
bank failure, the opposition to their
parole, although determined, this time
lacked the force of former occasions.
The usual necessity of obtaining en-
ployment for paroled prisoners may
prove simple for Warden E. ]. Murphy
in this instance, and instead of be-
coming a problem of several weeks
may be taken off his hands entirely
The decision of the pardon board
was announced by E: A. Snively, acting
for Chairman Charles G.. Eckhart 1t
came after the conclusion of the only
open meeting held by the board for
some time and after lawyers and 9th
ers had presented arguments for and
against the paroles. The session be
gan at 1890 a. m. at the prison at
Joliet, and shortly before 1 o'clock the
matter was taken under Amusement
At 2 o'clock the board went into ex-
exutive session
Stensland, broken in health, was in
the prison hospital, sick, but happier
than he had been since the iron gates
changed behing him on Sept. 26, 1906
Herring, impatient, hopeful of the fu-
ture, awaited his release in a white
washed cell which has been his home
since August, 1905. There was no hap
pier man on either side Of the lowered
walls of the prison than Herring. Stems
land, too i'll to talk, could only smile
when word was brought to him in the
mysterious prison manner that he was
to be free.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
GUINNESS DEATH FARM
MYSTERIES LAID BARE
Alleged Lamphere Confession Tells
of Murders and Woman's
Death.
DETAILS Staying OF 8 MEN
Two Papers Give Out Purported
Admission That Hired Man
Dragged Assassin.

Ray Lamphere, who died recently In
the Indiana penitentiary at Michigan
City while serving a term for setting
fire to the home of Mrs. Bella Guinness.
near Laporte, Ind, did not carry the
secrets of the Guinness charnel farm
to the tomb with him, according to a
copyrighted story in the st. Louis
Post Dispatch. When he believed death
was near he confessed.
The confession was made to Rev.
DR.. E. A. Schell formerly pastor Of
the Laporte Methodist church, now
president of the Iowa Wesleyan uni
versity at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and
held by him inviolate as a secret of
the confessional, until the main facts
had already become public, when he
broke his long silence and gave to the
Chicago Tribune the confession, made
to him in the county Jail at Laporte,
Ind, in April, 1908.
The confession, which hitherto has
been held as privileged commune
cation by the minister, was given with
all the detail of the three converse
lions in which Lamphere laid bare the
secrets of the Guinness charnel house.
1t describes the killing of Mrs. Belle
Guinness and the three children who
persisted in the burning of the Gun
ness house. Lamphere admitted kill
ing the four persons, but denied set
ting fire to the house. Lamphere's
fnCciO,,
accomplish. Lamphere said he wit
messed the killing of Andrew Hedge
lein and assisted N the burying of the
bodies of two other men. J.
Lamphere, according to the St. Louis
story, had guilty knowledge of the
murder of three men in the Guinness
home during the time he lived there,
about eight months in 1907, and he as
sisted Mrs. Guinness in disposing of
the bodies of the three men. He said
he thought he had not received as
much of the profits of the transaction
as he considered himself entitled to,
and he went to the farmhouse at night
with woman, chloroformed Mrs. Gun
ness, her three children and Jennie
Olson. He and the woman then
searched the house, finding between
$50 and $40. The light they used was
a candle. and they left the house with
out knowing they had left behind
spark that soon burst into flames
Mrs. Guinness method of killing her
victims, Lamphere said, was first to
chloroform them as they slept and
then if the drug did not itself kill. to
sever the heads with an ak Each time
man was to be murdered, according
to Lamphere, she sent him to pur-
chase chloroform. Lamphere said he
saw one of the men killed and aided
in burying all three. These men were
Andrew Helgelein and probably Ole
BudsDerg and Tonnes Petersen Lien.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
g92NAlkAAEERCAL
-l-- 81: 4: ! Hin
$3.50 81 AND a "a
Hs.s ,ss>sg7lA. Sss
zFNANCAL
CHICAGO.

K G. Dun's Weekly Review of Chi
CATO Trade says:
The failure record includes an in
creased aggregate of liabilities and the
volume OF payments through the bank
does not rise as expected. but weather
conditions are less severe and some
recovery appears in the general activ-
ity. Factories are now obtaining nee
esary fuel and freight movements are
less delayed.
The markets for the leading food
stuffs indicate moderate transactions.
Operations are conservative in view of
the feeling against high prices. Lead
ing retail trade reflects seasonable
progress and the January clearances
have been successful in ordinary nee
essaries.
Adverse weather is to some extent
responsible for slow collections, but an
Improvement in remittances will fol
low with normal transportation and
prompt deliveries.
Bank clearings. $2S3,6S9.347. are
40 per cent over those of the CORE
spending week in 1909, and compare
with S22S,O49,573 in 1908.
Failures reported in the Chicago
district number 80, as against SO last
week, % in 1909 and SO in 1908. Those
with liabilities over $4,000 number 10,
as against last week, in 1909 and
16 in 1908"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
SCARED GIRLS LEAP TO DEATH.
Five Philadelphians Die as Result of
Panic and Fire.

-Four girls and man leaped to their
death the other day in a panic caused
by fire in four-story factory building
IN Philadelphia. Five others receiv-
ed probably fatal injuries, and many
more were hurt. Nearly all of the
dead and severely injured were en-
ployed in the shirt waist factory of
Joseph Chachkin, on the fourth floor.
Chachktn was injured, one of his
daughters is dead, and another dying.
HIS force of operators was greatly re-
duced owing to the shirt waist strike.
otherwise the number of fatalities
probably would have been greater The
flames originated in the elevator shaft,
supposedly through the short circuit
ing of the electric motor.
Chachkin's factory operatives be-
came panic stricken and many jumped
from windows. Men on the street
spread blankets and an awning to
break their falls, but in the smoke
which filled the narrow street many
fell to the pavement before these i'm
provised fire nets could be extended
for them. The building was equipped
with fire escapes and fire ropes. One
man, instead of lowering the rope and
sliding down it, jumped from the win
dow with the loose end in his hands.
He was killed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
NEW YORK.

Trade reports are of the usual mid
winter character, rejecting widespread
Indictment weather, and also consid-
cradle unsettlement due to commodity
price fluctuations. Outdoor activities,
such as building, are, of course retard-
ed, and bad roads affect country trade
Good spring orders are being received
by jobbers. Retail trade varies with
the sections reporting.
Reports as to collections are irreg-
ular. 1t is noteS that a good deal of
money is tied up at present in grain,
which has been in transit for some
time
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending with Jan.
20 were 275 as against 291 last week,
307 in the like week of 1909, 40S in
1908, 252 in 1907 and 276 in 1906.
Business failures in Canada for the
week number A, which compared with
A last week and 40 in the same week
of 09.-Bradstreets
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
SEE 1910 As RECORD
BREAKER IN BUSINESS
Correspondents of St. Louis Bank
Are Unanimous in Their
Optimism.
WEST AND SOUTH ARE TO BOOM
Large Crops and Growth in Industry
and Manufactures Forecast
by Observers.

Record-breaking commerce for 1910
Is the unanimous forecast of several
hundred correspondents of the Nation
al Bank of Commerce in st. Louis, one
of the largest financial institutions in
the South and West Communications
from bankers of most of the southern
and western commonwealth indicate
exceptional vitality in agriculture, in
dustry, finance, manufactures and
trade, with almost as strong demand
for money as was experienced in 1907.
Manufactures and industry will, &C
cording to the authoritative predic-
lions, recover completely in 1910. Fac
tories, mines and mills will be rushed
with work. Construction operations
will be general and pretentious. Whole
sale and retail trade will be heavy
Agricultural production will be large
and diversified.
Opinions expressed in the letters sig
nifty that idle labor will be re-employed
and the country, as a whole, will enjoy
its greatest prosperity. Yet it seems
to be impossible to gather clearly
whether there will be a decided reduc-
ton in the cost of living. AS we'll as
may be inferred, prices will continue
high on all the necessities of life, al
though the improvement in conditions,
resulting in the unemployment of idle
labor, should have the effect of provid-
ing the wage Garner with larger means
and thereby causing better ease.
The increase in the gold supply is
given as one of the causes of the high
cost of living, and authorities appear
to be agreed that it is a powerful fac
tor. But high prices are ascribed to
additional causes, including the in
adequacy of the supply to the demand
the increasing population, the aug
ment1ng prosperity, extraordinary de-
Velopment, growing demand, reduced
supply, combinations and agreements
as TO prices, cost of service in trade,
and even, paradoxically, idle labor.
Indications are excellent in farming
regions and heavy production is the
outlook. But crops will be more diver
sif1ed than ever, but it still is hard
to foretell the range of prices, or to
say where the decline is likely to
show. Grain districts promise large
output, whereas cotton localities COM
plain, to some extent, of the boil wee
vii and refer confidently to a diversif-
cation of production
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
OHIO HITS THE FOOD TRUST.
Cold Storage to Be Regulated and
Price Boosters to Be Prosecuted.

cold storage to BE Regulated ana
Price Boosters to Be Prosecuted.
Every energy of the Ohio state gov
eminent is to be enlisted in the fight
for a revision downward of the cost of
living. Gov. Harmon, Attorney Gen
eral Denman, State Food Commission
er Dunlap and Speaker Mooney have
entered into close cooperation to
achieve real results. Gov Harmon sent
a special message to the general assem-
bly,. Speaker Mooney and the Senate
leaders will give right of way and
boosting to necessary legislation. The
attorney general will draft bills and
resolutions and prosecute conspiracfes
to boost prices The dairy and food
department and the state board of
health will hunt for the facts and
causes of food prices and the condition
of food sold from cold storage ware
houses.
First will come a campaign to get
the facts. A joint committee will make
a legislative investigation. The COM
Aitt00 Will b0 amply hholhOou' win
hold hearings, and examine witnesses
in a dozen cities Commissioner Dun
laps food inspectors will be set to
work to gather data. The chemists of
the state board of health will examine
food kept for various periods in cold
storage. The public will be asked to
take a hand in the crusade for facts.
This triple line of inquiry by state
by volunteers from the ranks of the
citizens of the state is expected to
bring together wealth of information
which will enable the legislature to
contribute in sane and effective way
to lessening the high cost of living.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
THE NATION RISES To
LOWER FOOD PRICES
Lawmakers Join Women and Clergy
in Seeking Cause of Exactions
in Necessities.
PROTEST MEETINGS PLANNED
Department of Commerce and Labor
Starts Investigation-Consumers
to Boycott Dealers.

A mighty wave Of protest against
the increased cost of living is sweep
ing over the country. This wave,
unique in many particulars, is gather
ing force as it rolls and surges from
East to West and from North to South.
Already its force is powerful; it prom
| ises to become irresistible. From per-
sons of high degree and low degree
| this protest is emanating. Women and
women's clu5s-a mighty factor in
any popular move-have taken the
matter up with a will. Clergymen-
Catholic, Protestant and Hebrew alike
bishops, archbishOps and a cardinal
are inveighing against the tremendous
increase in the cost of things neces-
sary to feed families and sustain life
| Antitrust combinations are being
formed; men, women and children in
| different sections Of the country are
taking pledges to abstain from meat
and other articles Of diet until the
price shall have been lowered. The
national House of Representative has
been asked to order an investigation
into the whole question and the De
partment of Commerce and Labor al
ready is making an inquiry into the
subject
The Attorney General of Missouri is
planning an investigation into the high
prices of meat and has asked other
Mississippi Valley states to join him
in his work. A resolution has been in
troduced into the Ohio Legislature
calling upon the people of the State to
abstain from eating meat for the next
sixty days. These are just a few of the
ways in which this mighty, almost
countrywide protest against an intan-
gible something that has forced up
prices of necessities and Iuxuries has
taken being.
Women of the country are most en-
ergetic in the fight which has been be
gun. Women, upon whom devolves the
work of supplying the table and of
supplying good, nourishing food for
hungry little mouths, have looked ask
ance at the ever decreasing supply in
the face of increased expenditures and
are ready and willing to join any move
ment that promises to remedy present
conditions.
President Taft cOmmends the aims Of
the National Anti-Food Trust League.
In letter to Dr. Emil Scharf OF
Washington, president of the league,
President Taft said that he indorses
any effort that may make for the re-
duction of the price of beef, meats and
the necessities of ufe His indorse-
ment of the leagues work is uncondi-
tional. There is no question by the
President of the legality of a country
wide boycott by the American people
against eXorbitant prices.
To show how great in the last three
months has been the increase in the
price of articles of food-meats, poul-
try, canned goods butter, eggs and the
ilke-the following table has been pre-
pared by the Chicago Examiner:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $40; hogs, prime heavy, $3.50
to 1915; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50
to 1925; wheat, No. 2, $1.21 to $1.22;
corn, No. 2, 63c to 65c; oats, standard,
Acc to 47c; rye, No. 2, TIC to soc; hay,
timothy, $1,000 to $3.50; prairie, $500
to $15.50; butter, choice creamery, 30c
to 32c; eggs, fresh 34c to 37c; pota-
toes, per bushel, 45c to SAC.
Indianapolis-Cat shipping, $500
to $780, hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $3.50; sheep, good to choice,
1925 to $500; wheat, No. 2, $1.21 to
$122; corn, No. 2 white, Csc to 66c;
oats, No. white, 47c to 48c.
ST Louis-Cattle, $500 to $500;
hogs, $500 to 1915; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No 2, $1.25 to $1.27;
corn, No. 2, Csc to 66c; oats, No. 2,
47c to 48c; rye, No. 2, zoe to SIC.
Cincinnati Cattle, $500 to O6.15;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No 2, $125 to $128;
corn, No 2 mixed, &c to CSC; oats,
No 2 mixed, 49c to Sic; rye, No. 2,
85c to sec.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $500; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to $475;
wheat, No 2, $124 to $125; corn, No.
yellow, &c to CSC; oats, standard,
49c to soc; rye, No. 1, Sic to 83c
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern,
Slip to $1.15; corn, No 3, 66c to CSC;
oats, standard, 47c to 48c; rye, No 1,
79c to Sic; barley, standard, zoe to
Tic; pork, mess, $22.35.
Buffalo - Cattle, choice shipping
steers, $500 to 1925; hogs, fair to
choice, $500 to $500; sheep, common
to good mixed, $500 to $3.50; lambs,
fair to choice, $500 to $3.50
New York-Cattle. $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to $500; sheep, $500 to
1925; wheat, No. 2 red, 1928 to $129;
corn, No. 2, re to 73c; oats, natural
white, 53c to 55c; butter, creamery,
&c to 33c; eggs, western, 4Oc to 42c
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed $123
to s124; corn, No. mixed, &c to
Csc; oats, No. mixed, 48c to 49c;
rye, No. 2, SOC to SIC; clover seed,
$3.50