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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-01-04
OGDEN MILLS
DIED SUDDENLY
The Aged Philanthropist and
Financier Seemed to be in
Good Health

San Francisco, Jan. 4.-Derius og-
den Mills, the philanthropist and
iinancier, father of Mrs. Whitlaw
Reid, the wife of the American am
bassador to Great Britain, and direc-
tor in many corporations. died q. his
winter" home near here last night of
heart disease, 81 years old. Death
came almost without warning after
period of better health than MIR.
Mills had enjoyed in several years.
Mrs Reid was the only child at the
bedside when the end came, his son,
Odg Mills AMI his wife having start
ed for New York yesterday, believing
the aged financier to in excellent
condition. Mr.. Mills was born in West
Salem. Westchester county, New York,
in 1925. He was educated at North
Salem and at Mount Pie acade-
my. Sing Sing, N. Y.
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the bacillf of the new disease was in
jected. Similar inoculations of MON
keys. rabbits and rats produced iden-
tical results.
The report of these experiments
stated, "the results are conclusive evi-
dence of the nonidentity of the two
diseases"
The new disease exists in a consid-
cradle number of cases in Montana.
Nevada. Idaho, Oregon and Wyoming.
where it is locally called "tick fever
Ihe disease is found only at high alti.
tudes, and does not prevail south of
forty degrees or north of forty-seyen
degrees latitude. 1t prevails exclu-
slvely in the spring and early summer.
Hyglenic laboratory attaches believe
that the disease is caused by inocu-
iatlon from the bite Of a tick which
lnfects the horses and cattle on vest
ern ranges
Mortality Seventy Per Cent.
The new malady is one of the most
deadly diseases known to medical sci
ence. The crisis of the disease ia
reached on the twelfth day, with fever
as high as 106 degrees. 4 violent red
eruption OH the skin is one of the GER
tain Symptoms of the disease. The
mortalit. is about seventy per cent.
Bacteriologists of the hygienic la
boratory are now searching for rem
edy for the disease, the physicians i'm
the territory where it prevails are
conducting independent Investigations
to discover remedy. Thus far the
only drug which has been of any
value is quinine, administered in
a"ormous doses.
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revolver did not explode. He fell, dy-
Ing almost Immediately.


Gibson was 49 years old and his
wife was three years younger. He
was well known in this city as we'll
as In Homestead, having been, en-
ployed at the Harbison-W Walker Re-
fractories plant in Lawrenceville
years ago. Until several years ago
he was superintendent of traclllayers
at the Homestead Steel works, leav-
ing that position to take up similar
work at AleAandria, Ind. He resign
ed at the latter place before going
home week ago.
Gibsons body and that of his wife
lie ide by side cn couch at the
residence. COZ Twelfth street, Mum
hall, after being prepared for burial.
Howard was taken to the Homestead
hospital, while the other children are
at the homes of neighbors.
Mrs. Moore is suffering from
shock. Her child lay sleeping in its
crib until the first shot was fired.
When the bullet entered it's grand
mcther's back, blood spurted over the
bed and onto the cradle, staining the
little ones hand.
Wounded Son Falls.
Not more than minute elapsed
from the time Gibson entered the
room until he fired the last shot,
which ended his own life. When Mrs.
Gibson's body crashed down the
stairs, Walter and Grace followed
screaming and carried their mother
to a lower room, fearing their father
might shoot them 10th. Howard.
with his hand bleeding, fell to the
floor from the shock and remained
there until his father went into the
next room and shot himself. The
others, except Moore, fled from the
room and called neighbors. The
crime is blamed chiefly on liquor.
Gibson had been temperate in his
habits, it is said, and rarely was in
toxicated. When he left home yes
terday morning, he wished all Hap
py New Year and said he would be
back for dinner. He was much later
than expected and the family became
tired waiting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gibson had been mar
ried about 25 years, and until 1892
had resided in Pitts5urg. During
Gibsons fifteen years employment at
the Homestead Steel Works he ac-
quired much property in Homestead
and Munhall, and it is stated he was
worth over 100000. He was men,
ber of high standing in the Elks'
Lodge of Homestead, Mrs. Gibson
was a member of the Roman Catholic
church,
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DRIVEN OUT
Storm Forced Cave Nan to OMIT His
HabitntiOn.

Doylestown, Pa. Jan. 4.-After liv-
ing as hermit for three years in the
rocky caves of Haycock mountain,
James Miller, known as the wild
man of Haycock mountain" was
compelled to desert his nature home
by the recent snow storm and cold,
and is now confined in the Bucks
County Almshouse.
When Miller. who is about IS years
old, arrived in Doylestown yesterday
in charge Of Overseer of the Poor.
N. H. Gresham of Springfield town
ship. he wore four coats, tattered and
patched with vari=colored cloth, and
four pairs of trousers His face was
bristling with a long beard, while his
long black hair hung in matted
strings and curls far down upon his
shoulders.
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Gaping Crowd win Not Be
Allowed to Hear Evidence
WOMAN FORCED To rr11
HER STORY COURTROOM LOAFERs-REyoIT.


Kansas City, Jan. 4.-The morbidly
curious persons who had expected to
go to the criminal courtroom to hear
Mrs. w. F. Jackson tell the jury the
story of her assault by the two ne
groes who will be placed on trial for
their lives tomorrow morning will be
disappointed. The broken and suffer-
ing woman will be spared the humil-
iation Of reciting the terrible details
of the attack before a gaping crowd.
Twice already Mrs. Jackson has
been compelled to tell of the assault
to men who have bowed their heads
and covered their faces to hear IT
once to the police and once to the
grand jury. Those ordeals will not
be repeated, to the extent at least Of
permitting q whole courtroom to view
her sufferings.
This morning by the order of Judge
Latshaw two rows of chairs were re-
moved from the courtroom. Only a
few chairs in the back part of the
room remain. These will be occupied
principally by the more than one hun
dred veniremen from which jury
will be selected to try the negroes.
That will leave only a few vacant
seats and no one will be permitted
to remain in the courtroom who has
not seat.
Only the Jury Will Hear.
{. Not even the members Of the spe-
cial venire not chosen as Jurors will
hear the testimony given by Mrs.
jackson. A chair will be placed d.
rectly in front of and close to the
jury, and she will be permitted to tell
her story almost in whisnar-inat
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Washington, Jan. 4.-Dr. John F.
Anderson, director of the hygienic
laboratory sta of the public health
and marine hospital service, has just
announced the discovery and classi-
fication of strange and deadly dis
ease which is prevalent in the Rocky
mountain region. In making his in
vestigations of the malady, DR.. Ander-
son was assisted by Assistant Sur
geon Joseph Goldberger of the service.
At first physicians and bacteriolo-
gists believed that the disease was
similar to the ordinary but usually
fatal typhus fever, which kills thou
sands of persons every year in the
United States. Later Investigations
tended to upset this theory, and in
order to more fully investigate the
strange disease DIR, Anderson went to
Mexico, in which country he spent
some time studying typhus fever.
Mexico is considered to be the most
fertile breeding ground for the lat
ter disease, owing to poor sanitary
conditions.
In Mexico DR.. Anderson became con-
vinced that typhus fever is altogether
different from the new disease. Soon
after his return to Washington DR..
Anderson began an exhaustive series
of experiments with the bacilli of the
recently discovered malady, which
confirmed this opinion.
Guinea Pigs lnOculated.
In experiments with guinea pigs
an injection of blood drawn from pa
tients suffering with typhus fever
failed to produce the same conditions
which prevailed in the animals when
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-01-04
TURNS JOY
TO SUDDEN GRIEF
:
Came Home on New Years
Day and Shot Wife and
Then Himself

Pittsburg, Jan. AIN the space of
a few minutes yesterday evening Joy
turned to tragedy in the home of Win
1leld Gibson, a well-to-do resident of
Munhall, when he fired two bullets
into his wife, killing her Instantly:
snot his l5-year-old son through the
mead, the same bullet cutting off a
lock OF hair from his 14-year-old
daughters head, and finally shot
himself through the head, dying in
stantly. His wife's body fell down a
flight of stairs, toward which she was
running to escape when a bullet in
the back of the head killed her.
The shooting occurred in a bed
room of Mrs. Frank Moore, a daugh-
ter whose 3-weeks-old child Law
sleeping in the room. Five other
persons were in the room, including
Gibson's children. Howard, aged Is;
waiter, aged 10; Grace, aged IA:
Frank Moore and Mrs. Mary
Schwartz, neighbor.
Gibson, who for several years had
been employed by the American
Plate Glass company in Alexandria
lnd.. came home week ago to cele-
brate the holidays and the event that
made him grandfather. Yesterday
morning he left his home to visit
friends in Homestead and returned at
6 o'clock, shortly after the family had
finished dinner. When he entered the
room his wife asked him what he was
carrying in package.
Attack MAS Sudden.
THAT is bottle of whiskey," he
answered. Moving up to the bed, on
the edge of which Mrs. Gibson sat
talking to her daughter, Mrs. Moore,
he exclaimed:
"I'll show you who is running this
house."
With that he drew revolver and
before anyone could interfere q bull
let was sent into his wife's back. The
son, Howard. who was in another
room, rushed into the bedroom and
jumped between his father and moth
er. AS the son threw up his hand to
prevent another shot from striking
Mrs. Gibson the weapon was dis
charged and the bullet passed
through the boys hand. This bullet,
it is thought, was the one that
WhtZzed so close to Grace's head that
her hair was shipped off. Mrs. Glib
son, who did not fall with the first
bullet, leaped from the bed and, with
blood squirting from her wound, ran
from the room. AS she reached the
door Gibson, it is said, turned and
fired another shot. which struck his
wife in the back of the head. She
ran few steps to the head of the
stairs and fell, her body stopping on
the second landing of the winding
stairway, where she died a few min
utes later.
Mr.. Moore, the first to recover self
possession, seized Gibson by the arm
and tried to take away the revolver,
but Gibson, it is said, pointed the
gun at him and cried:
Ends Own Life.
LET me alone or will shoot all of
you!"
He then walked into his own bed
room and, standing before a mirror.
fired bullet into his temple. He
tried to fire a second shot into his
.--'- I-.A 4ho fsfth o"rt~i 'ua in tho
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-01-04
EIGHT Minute
SESSION TODAY
Senate Adjourned Out of Re.
spect to McI.aurin's
Memory

Washington. Jan. 4.-Abandoning
all business for the day and after be-
ing in session eight minutes, the SEN
ate today adopted a resolution in re-
spect to memory of late Senator Nc
Laurin, whose death occurred in
Mississippi, December %, and ad-
journed. In respect to wishes of
Senator McLaurin's family, his desk
bore no marks of mourning.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-01-04

loud enough for the members Of the
jury to hear The attorneys who ask
her questions will speak in low
tone, not loud enough to be heard by
the persons occupying the seats in
the courtroom reserved far snecta.
tors.
Mrs. Jackson will occupy the ma
irons room until the jury is ready
10 near her story. Then she will be
brought into the courtroom through
a side entrance. The persons who 20
to the criminal court building in the
nope OF obtaining a glimpse of her
Will be disappointed. It is said Mrs.
Jackson has suffered SO much since
the assault that she hardly is able to
go to the courtroom to testify. II
she becomes nervous while testifying
she will be excused for a few mo-
ments while she goes into the ma
irons room to quiet herself.
feared Q Demonstration.
1t is said that the story to be told
by Mrs. Jackson is SO revolving that
1t crowd were permitted in the
courtroom to hear it there might be
a demonstration of some kind,
1t is said that one of the negroes
will tell a story Of having brother
who resembles him very much, and
will attack Mrs. Jackson's identif1ca-
tion Of him. Two negro attorneys,
George Wasson and William Houston,
will defend Williams and Reynolds.
The prisoners expressed desire to
enter pleas of guilty. Judge Larshaw
said he would assess the death penal
ty In the event they did SO. The me-
gro lawyers advised them to plead
r~& ~..ilk.. --Li-1 &L-- -.-A--l--
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Heard With Sorrow.

New York, Jan. 4.--The news of the
sudden death of d. o. Mills was re-
ceived with sorrow here where he had
SO long been prominent, Mr.. Mills
withdrawal from business and active
interest in his various philanthropic
enterprises because of i'll health had
somewhat prepared his friends for the
sad news. although the fatal termin-
alton of his illness at this time was
not expected. Although his active par
t,cipation in business affairs had
ceased. Mr.. Mills up to the time of
his death. remained>a director in many
corporations.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-01-04
Many Others Escaped Thinly
Clad With Mercury Twenty
Below Zero
FOUR were BADLY INJURED
IN JUMPING FROM WINDOW
Fire Occurred in Boarding House
One Other Victim May Die as the
Result Of Injuries Sustained in Es-
Gaping From Building.

Fort William, Jan. 4.-Fcur people
were burned to death in fire early
this morning in F. H. Babcock's board
ing house on Mcclellan street. The
temperature was twenty below zero
apd the occupants of the house es-
capped in their night attire. The dead
are:
-. Hopson,. an oiler in Ogilvie's
mill.
Andres sorenson, railway laborer.
Nina Clysolis. a kitchen girl.
A Chinese cook.
Four others were badly injured in
jumping to the ground and one may
die.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-01-04

new distance record for monoplanes
and new worlds speed record. He
covered 1924 miles in two hours and
% minute, maintaining an average
speed OF approximately forty-nine
miles an hour. De La Grange had
been a we'll known autoist and WIS
ON cof the first men in Europe to
take up aviation.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-01-04
Experts Of France Realize
That Airships Must Maneu-
yer at Night
FRANCE IS ExPf | :EATING
WITH The NEW SCHEME
Perpendicular Firing Would Be Self
Destructive and There Would Not
be More Than One Shot in Five
That Would be Destructive to Enemy

Paris, Jan. 4-The war in the air
must be war in the night. The air.
ships usefulness dates from sunset
to dawn and its battles must be waged
In pitch darkness. according to Gen.
eral Bonnal Of the French army, men,
ber of the military commission of the
National Aerial league.
France, like England and Russia and
every other country, almost, on this
side Of the water, is afraid Of Germany.
And Germany has a wealth of dirigi-
bles, not to mention quantities of shell
ters for them where hydrogen is pro-
vided at short notice. So France.
since the Repubique was destroyed,
very much feels her inferiority to her
old enemy across the border. And,
IN spite of announcements that no
afrship building would be indulged in
unit! experiments would obviate much
or the risk of them becoming obso-
lete right after completion, secretly
France is brisker than popcorn in a
hot skillet. In six months France
aims to outstrip the Germans in diri-
gfbles just as far as she now outstrips
her in aeroplanes.
Dfrigibles Are Slow
The Aviator Capazza some weeks
ago startled the country by explain
ing just how far ahead of France the
Germans really were in this dirigible
business. It was pointed out by milf
tary authorities that a fleet of aero
planes could sail over and under and
all around q feet of dirigibles and
poke more bombs and bullets q min
ute into the enemy,s. ranks than the
atrshtps could in a week. The latter
would resemble q bunch of drifting
toy balloons when compared with q
swarm Of hostile aerial sharpshoot-
ers. A dirtgible is an easy mark for
artillery at a 5000 yard range. One
we'll directed shot would send her to
destruction, while an aeroplane could
sail high and fast, offering much less
target opportunity and at the same
time could do equally as much dam
age.
Must Fight In Darkness
But here Is where General Bonnal
comes In with his plan to fight his air.
ship battle In the dark. Suppose for
example, Germany should declare
war on France. Belgium on one side
and Switzerland on the other leave
precious little French and German
border. It is down this little neck Of
land that the kaiser's soldiers would
have to come, unless they ran over
Belgium or Switzerland, the latter
unfeasible and the other improbable.
Belgium has voted compulsory mill
tary service to obviate this very thing.
Therefore, it is probable that the
midnight battle with airships would
be in that narrow neck. After dark
the Germans could not see the diri-
gibles, even il directly overhead, un-
less powerful searchlights were en-
ployed. This would in all likelihood
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-01-04
ONE MAN KILLED IN EXPLOSION.
Several Others We're Iniured-Dcad
Man Was Literally Torn to Atoms.

Pittsburg, Jan. 4.-One man was
blown to atoms and several others
are reported injured as the result of
a boiler explosion on a pumping boat
of the Peoples Coke company at In
dustry, Pa. down the Ohio river from
here. The explosion was caused by
fine collapsing.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-01-04
HE PROTESTED
HIS INNOCENCE
But the Death Penalty Was
Inflicted Despite His
Protests

West Chester, Pa, Jan. 4.-Protest-
ing his innocence to the last Jan Cho-
qwoski Polander. was hanged here
today for the murder of Harry James
and his wife, an aged couple who
were found dead with their skulls
crushed in.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-01-04
NEBRASKA IS
~
SNOW BOUND
Telegraph and Telephone Ser
vice Paralyzed and Railway
Traffic Impeded

Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 4-Drifting snow
impeded railway traffic throughout
southern Nebraska today. Trains
were belated on all railroads. The
telephone and telegraph companies en-
countered persistent troubles. In Lin
coin, the street car service was COM
pletely paralyzed.. The lines to sub
urban points were showed in. \
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Omaha Tied On,

Omaha, Neb., Jan. 4.-The worst
blizzard of the season is raging in
northern Nebraska. In Omaha the
weather bureau reported temper
ature as twelve degrees below zero
early today. A heavy snowfall during
tho night tied up the street car serv-
ice and crippled the railroads in this
section.
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Will Sail at Once.

London, Jan. A. ,assador White
law Reid is arranging to sail fo. the
United States so as to be present at
the funeral Of Mrs. peid's father, D.
o. Mills. who died in California last
night.
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Another New MaIady is
Found Throughout the West

BE1 1EvEn tn
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Snow in Oklahoma.

Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. 4.-Snow and
sleet accompanied by a cold north
wind with temperature close to zero.
fell In the central west today, the
storm extending from Oklahoma
northward. In Iowa and Nebraska q
storm Of the proportions of a blizzard
wose reported and railway and street
car trafic suffered. The fall of snow
and sleet in Missouri, Kansas and
northern Oklahoma was the heaviest
of the season.
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In the East.

Washington, Jan. A heavy snow
storm, which will undoubtedly have
serious effect upon railway and other
traffic conditions, has developed in the
middle west and will set in over the
lake region and middle and central
valleys today and begin in the middle
Atlantic and New England states by
Wednesday. In special bulletin this
morning Prof. Willis L. Moore, chief
of the weather bureau, warned all
points throughout the northwestern
part of the country of the approach
of the storm. The disturbance is of
marked intensity and was first noted
this morning over the plains states
and is causing snow today in Missouri
and the middle Mississippi river val
leys and Rocky mountain region, and
rain and snow in the southwest. The
officials of the bureau predict that the
storm will increase in intensity and
move eastward attended by general
precipitation within the next thirty
six hours in the districts east of the
Mississippi river.
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! *s = :
THE WEATHER,
North DakOta-SnOw tonight
and Wednesday.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-28
Dear.

How much that little word
expresses, and how Httlel
We write Dear Madam" to
a woman we never saw; we
write Dear Sir" to a man we
hope will choke. And we say
my dear" to the young per
son who sells us a sack Of
sailed peanuts, or something
of the kind.
And sometimes We write
Dear" to a man who reaIIy
becomes dear to us; not that
we love him, oh no. We would
read his death notice with
the most unfeigned pleasure.
But the fact that we have
called him dear" will forever
rise up and slap us in the
face, just at the most unex-
pected time. He becomes truly
dear. in the sense that he
costs us something every time
we turn around.
And, like the moving
finger" it is writ and has
passed on,
nor all our piety or Wit
Can lure IL back to cancel
half a line,
Nor all our tears blot out
word OF It,"
And that is why somebody
wishes he hadn't written
Dear BARLEY"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-28

Miss Ethel Leroy Dekoven, whose be-
! trothaI to II. Kierstede Hudson, the son
of the prominent New York banker G. l.
Hudson. was recently announced, Is the
daughter Of the popular composer Reg
maid De Koven, and inhertts her marked
musical ability from her father.
| Reginald De Koven was born in Con-
nectlcut and belongs to an old English
| family. The American branch was founded
in colonial times by Captain De koven OF
the British army. Reginald DO Hoven's
father was the Rev. Henry De koyen, a
scholarly man who sought TO make music
only a subsidiary part OF his sons educa-
/ ton.
! Only small part OF De Koyen's youth
was spent in his native state. Father
| and son went abroad and the boy studied
music at some of the best German schools
and was prepared for oxford university
/ bv his father He took his degree in 1879
| and returned to Germany for further mus
cal study. His first reputation was made
as a composer of songs. His romantic
Light opera, robin Hood" first brought
/ him into general attention, and this great
success was followed by Rob Roy The
Fencing Master" and other tuneful oper-
ettas.
! Miss De Koven's mother is a daughter or
Senator Farnwell and sister Of Mrs
Hobart Chatfield Taylor. Mrs. DeKoven
has won her laurels as novelist and
dramatist.
! Miss De Koven is a charming young
woman who has proved to be a great so
/ ciaI favor.te in New York and Washing
ton. as we'll as at Bar HarbOr where the
summer home Of the De Kovens IL located.
She Is a skillfu musician and an ac-
complshed linguist
/ Last winter she won her laurels as
clever amateur actress and dancer when