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Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17
WOMEN DIE IN CAR PLUNGE.
Coach Falls Into River at Sheboyqan
Wis.-AI the Victims Trapped.


Sheboygan, visa trolley car
plunged into the Sheboygan river
through an open draWbIidge in
the bride at Eighth street ii this city
and three women imprisoned in the
speeding car went down to their
death.
The dead: Miss Anna Mather, aged
fifty-three, Sheboygan Falls. a music
teacher Miss fannie VanOuwekerk,
aged sixteen, a kindergarten teacher;
Miss Olga Willimite, Sheboygan. a
waitress.
Motorman George Theme and Con-
ductor Frank Weber were saved, as
were two other passengers, one Of
whom was Paul O. Etzold, a travelling
salesman from Milwaukee, They es-
capped death by jumping just before
the car plunged into the river.
The death Of the three women is
probably due to a stumble by Etzold,
AS he rushed out of the car he fell
and the three women fell over him.
He regained his feet and leaped from
the car, but the women behind him
were trapped.
The bridge where the catastrophe
occurred is situated at the bottom of
a hill. 1t had been opened to allow
the tug Peter Rice to pass through,
when the car came down the hill.
The rails were slippery and the
motorman was unable to set his
brakes. He made an attempt to es-
cape, the car plunged from the bridge
into the river
1t turned completely over and right
ed again before reaching the water,
which at that place is about ten feet
deep. The tug boat crew who wit
messed the accident, returned imme-
diately and rescued the motorman and
conductor, who were clinging to ice
cakes in the river.
Holes were chopped in the top Of
the car, which could be seen near
the surface of the river, and the
three bodies taken out.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17
76 ARE INDICTED FOR
VOTE FRAUD AT DANVIlLE
Hardy n. Whitlock, Alleged Embex,
zler, Leaves for Detroit Before
Subpoena Is Served.

Danville, H. Seventy-six addi-
tional indictments for vote selling
were returned by the Vermilion county
grand jury.
Former Sheriff Hardy H Wsftlcck.
indicted last week on the charge Of en-
bezzling county funds, returned to Dan
vile in custody of Sheriff Shepard and
Immediately gave bond. He said he had
received no subpoena to appear before
the grand jury, but If one was served
he would gladly go.
Mr. Whitlock suddenly changed his
mind about remaining in Danville
and left for Detroit The statement is
being freely made on the streets and
about the courthouse that Whitlock
was urged to return to Detroit before
be issued for him. According to the
story certain powerful interests which
are attempting to block the investiga-
ton told Whitlock they would stand
by him in his trial If he would leave
the state until his trial was called.
Sheriff Shepard and his deputies
began serving bench warrants on some
of the persons who have been in
dicted.
The grand jury Is expected to probe
Several persons connected with the
management of the home have been
subpoenaed
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17
MASSACRE FAMILY;
TAKE Sl,5O0,OO0
Mexican Travellers Tell of Terrible
Slaughter.
ARE KILLED BY SOLDIERS
u. S. Troops May Guard New Colo
radc River Dixie to Prevent Its
Ocstruction-Forty FederaIs
Fall in Fight.

Galveston, Tex. News was
brought here on steamer from
Frontera, Mexico, of the cold-blooded
massacre of an entire family of revo-
lutionists in Pueblo, state Of Pueblo,
and the seizure Of about S1,500,000 in
gold and securities by troops of Presi-
dent Diaz
Passengers said that recently the
government, upon information that
Aguiles Salano, a prominent Pueblo
merchant, was acting as a treasurer
for insurrectos, sent troops with
machine gun to his house. They took
possession, but found the place ap-
parently deserted.
Finally a secret cellar is said to
have been discovered where Salano
and his family were hiding All sur
rendered, whereupon, it is alleged,
the troops Immediately shot the Ell
tire family to death. Search Of the
premises is said to have revealed
more than s1,5O0,Oc0 in gold and
negotiable securities.
Maria, Tex. Delayed advices
received here clear up suspense
over results of the fighting between
insurrectos and federals around Mula-
ia. Word received the middle of last
week told of federal reverses In an
assault upon rebel lines at Mulata.
News received here says the tide Of
battle remained the same, with the re-
suit that the federals retreated to
orc hnf hocn Of %
insurrectos were unable to check Gen
eral Luque's retreat. Their supply Of
ammunition was exhausted The fed
eral loss was 40 killed and wounded.
The insurrecto loss was ore killed
and wounded in the two days battle.
Stories are told of federal soldiers
cruelty to noncombatants and the re-
fusal of the insurrectO leader to per
nit his men to take revenge Four old
noncombatants were found dead in a
farmhouse near Mulata when the fed
erals first approached the town. They
were Muceivo de la Cruz, Cruz Sa-
maneijo, Decederio Carrasco and Ma
tias Carrasco. One of the men was
ninety years old, another was blind
and another a cripple. All were white
haired. The insurrectos found these
old men with their hands tied behind
their backs, lying riddled with bullets.
Their heads were crushed and one
was slashed across the FACE by a sa-
Der. A number of Americans viewed
the bodies and several signed an aft
davit describing the incident.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17
MOT0RMAN BLAMED BY JURY
Verdict in Inquest Over Bodies Of
Women Drowned in Sheboygan
Car Charges Negligence.

Sheboygan.- Responsibility for the
death of three women when a car of
the ShebOygan Street Railway COM
pany plunged through the open draw
bridge into the river was placed on
MotOrman George Theme by the cor
oner's jury. The company is also
scored for it's lack of protective mea-
sures.
The jury in it's report cites the
death Of the Misses Anna Mather,
Tannica Van OuWerkerk and Olga
Willimit, and continues:
eve further find that the motor
man, George Theme, was guilty Of
negligence and contributed to the ac-
cident by allowing his car to descend
Eighth street hill at too high a rate
of speed, and in not observing the
open draw of the bridge in time to
stop his car"
Testimony was brought out that
the car descended the hill at a speed
Of about fifteen miles an hour.
MOtOrman Theme said that the
descent of the hill was made as usual
and at the bottom he set his brakes
to reduce speed, but the rails were
slippery and the car skidded. It
was then that he noticed the bridge
opening. He said that the front Of
the car was about eighteen feet from
the edge when the bridge began to
swing
The bridgetenders and Capt. Will
liam Groh of the tug declared that
the bridge had swung over two-thirds
of it's area when the car went over
the edge.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17

Mayor Fitzgerald has received from
The Boston Home and Social assocla
ton draft of proposed curfew ordi.
nance, which provides, among other
lhings, that an engineer at city hall
shall blow a whistle each evening at
B:50 o'clock to warn children under IA
years of age to hasten to their homes
Fbe proposed ordinance provides that
all children under IA years shall not
ioiter Or remain upon any street, high
way, park, square, thoroughfare or al
ley in the business section of the city
sitter nine o'clock at night, says the
Boston Globe A fine of five dollars is
provided for violations.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17
PACT WINS FIRST ROUND.
House Decides on immediate Consider
alton of Measure.

Washington.-The Mccall bill car
rying out the Canadian reciprocity
agreement reached the floor of the
house Monday and that body by a
vote of 1877 to 100 decided to begin it's
immediate consideration.
Immediately after the representa-
tives met Mr.. Mccall of Massachu-
sets called up the reciprocity bill.
Objection was made by members Of
the District of Columbia committee,
this being district day on the house
calendar A point of no quorum also
was made.
To insure a full vote a call of the
house was ordered, and all absentees
were summoned to the chamber.
The roll call showed an Overwhelm-
ing majority for reciprocity.
While the vote to displace the reg
ular order on the house calendar can
not be accepted as an exact indication
on the final vote on the reciprocity
bill, it is regarded as being approx
mately so.
The vote against taking up the
measure came almost wholly from the
Republican side. The Democrats voted
almost solidly for immediate consiS
Grafton.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17
DECLARES POST INCREASE JUST
Hitchcock Says increase on Adver-
Using Sections Is Fair.

Washington. Large profits as
serted to be incuring to the pub
fishers of magazines and immense
losses being sustained by the gov
eminent in the transportation Of
magazines as second-class mail mat
ter at existing rates are made the
basis Of a statement issued by Post
master General Hitchcock. The
statement is in response to the attack
made by the magazine publishers
upon the proposed increase of the
postage rate on the advertising pages
of the large magazines from one cent
to four cents a pound.
Mr.. Hitchcock makes it clear that
the proposed new rate docs not af-
feet newspapers of any kind. nor
does it apply to periodicals mailing
less than 1000 pounds Of each issue"
Applying the increase to the en-
tire amount Of second-class mail mat
ter" continued Mr.. Hitchcock, cit
would amount to less than one cent
pound"
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17
KILLS SELF AFTER DEATH PACT
Woman Dies After Shooting Son, t.
Keep Promise With Husband.

Oxford, Me a compact entered
into a month before the death
Of Lynwood S. Keene, which occurred
Saturday, explained the suicide of his
wife after she had fatally shot her
fourteen-year-old son, Gerard. The
document was found in Mrs. Keene' 8
dresser 1t related many family trou-
bles and in it Mrs Keene bound her
self to end her own life and that of
her son after the death Of Keene,
which was expected apparently when
the pact was made.
Friends of the family who were in
the Keene home heard shots upstairs.
They found Gerard in bed with a bull
let hole in his temple and the lifeless
body of Mrs. Keene on her bed in the
next room.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17
IN NORTHERN CLINICS.

H G. Wells thinks that some day
there will be universal flight from
eur northern climate to live through
The winters n the south. That time
will never come. For the person born
tn the northern climate that is best
The monontony of tropical life Is OPP
pressive; every day the same; no
trosts, no freeze, no icy blasts-this is
= sad lot. The particular commenda-
ton of the tropical life is that It is
mostly outdoors; that one gets pure
air and sunshine. But one can get
these things in the north and in a way
that makes them real. The bedroom
window can always be open. The house
may be kept temperate, 65 to 70, an
moist, says the Ohio State Journal
Then one can robe himself and strike
put into the keen air with a relish.
These are better than monotony OF
warmth. There is the variety of life
In the northern cline, somewhat that
gives it spice and zest. That is the
secret Of our civilization. 1t is what
makes a man get q move on himself
Let one walk along the woodland ways
Of the tropics as the sun goes down,
and fee' all the soft luxury of the
event, and the experience is not half
as grand as when one puts on his
great coat and dashes out into a big
Bunlit morning, when the thermone-
ter is ten degrees above zero, and
the crisp air makes the blood fairly
shout for joy.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17

While the result of DR.. Stiles in
Sestigation into the alleged relation
between The lint of cotton mills and
the condition among southern mill
workers is what practical mill men in
the north expected, it is nevertheless
gratifying to have the assurance of a
recognized expert that there is no
basis whatever for the claim advanced
In the south that the condition was
due to lint rather than to the hook
worm, says the Manchester Union. DR..
Stiles caused an investigation to be
made in many New England mills, and
bf the results he says: las the New
England mills are using southern cot
ton, and as the mill hands are breath
ing in the same kind of lint as are the
southern hands, these observations
give proof of the error OF the populaS
Idea that the condition or the latter
mill hands Is due to the breathing in
of lint. He says further that such
an array of data is now on hand not
In harmony with the lint theory that
when all facts are published it is be,
ieyed public opinion will of necessity
undergo a change. Hook-worm dis.
ease is due entirely to soil pol
Iution.''
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17
CANADIAN PACI
WINS IN HOUSE
REClPROClTY TREATY BILL lS
VICTORIOUS BY A DECiS-
I'VE MAJORITY.
FINAL VOTE is 221 TO 81
measure Has Almost Solid Demo-
cratic Support, While Majority OF
Republican Members are Opposed
Heated Debate Is Held.

Washington D. C.-President
Tatts reciprocity agreement with
Canada was ratified in the house OF
representatives through the suDnort
OF an almost solid democratic vote
The Mccall bill carrying the agree
ment into effect, was passed, 221 to
81. A majority of the republicans
present voted against the measure,
the division being rs yeas and 81
nays. The democratic vote was 142
yeas and only 5 nays. A majority of
the republican insurgents present
voted for the bill.
The Mccall bill now goes to the
senate. What its fate will be in that
body is problematical at this time.
President Taft believes that if a fiji
buster can be avoided and a vote
taken the bill will pass. He is in
s1stent that the senate shall act one
way or the other and has indicated
that he would call an extra session
of congress if it does not do So
The passage of the bill in the house
came at the end of a long debate,
which at times was as bitter as has
been heard on the floor of that cham
Der in years. The fight was confined
almost wholly to the republican side.
Democratic members Joined in from
time to time and tainted the major
lty members for their lack of unity.
The Wisconsin delegation was di-
Vided upon the bill, congressman
Cary, Cooper and Kuestermann vot-
ing for, and Lenroot, Nelson and
Morse AGAINST the 10 sure
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17
Pension Roll Up $50, 600 600

Washington.-The senate commit
tee on pensions voted Monday to re-
port favorably the Sulloway pension
bill, which already has passed the
house. 1t Increases the general pen
sion roll about s5O,OOO,OOO a year. The
vote was to 3, the minority being
McCumber, Gore and Talliaferro
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17
WHiRLED $500 TIMES A MINUTE.
ST. Louisan Beaten to Death While
Replacing a Slipped Belt.

St. Louis around a shaft
ing $500 times a minute, Martin c..
Kuehnert, 20 years old, was beaten to
death by his body striking an oak
beam four feet above the revolv-
ing shafting. The accident occur
red at the plant Of a foundry
company here. Both feet were cut off
by the constant whipping of them
against the heavy beam. Every bone
in his body was broken. Kuehnert
was attempting to replace a slipped
belt while the pulley wheel was rum
ming.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17

When a person with bad cough
and a red nose and wrapped-up
throat and a general appearance sug
gestive of the influenza steps up to you
and sneezes in your direction and tells
Vou how catching the grip is are you
not annoyed?
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17

Women will be more interested In
the news Of that earthquake in Turke
stan when they learn that Karakol
where the coats (some of them, any.
way) come from, has also been wiped
off the map.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17
Science Healer In Tolls,

New York.-Christian Scientists re-
ceived blow when Magistrate Freschi
held for trial in special sessions Will
liam Vernon Cole, charged with prac-
ticing medicine without a license. Cole
was arrested Saturday after he had
treated a woman
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17

Two Hackensack church deacons are
charged with playing pinOcle and b0th
refuse to resign. Pinocle may seeEa
like an innocent game. but it loses
much Of this innocence at five cert
p poin'
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17

In London a petticoat manufacturer
claims that he was bankrupted through
adoption of the hobble skirt. How,
ever, he mustn't consider himself to
be the only one who has fallen down
on that account.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17

Especial interest attaches to the
astronomer who says Venus is inhabit
ed owing to the facts that his name
Is "See,N and that he comes from Mis-
souri,.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17

Every now and then you hear some
one discussing the weather, say: THE
paper said" so and so. Now, the pa
pers have enough to answer for with.
put being charged with the mistakes OF
the weather bureau.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17
Rob Bank: Two Wounded.

Sacramento, Cal.-Blowing open the
safe of the Nippon bank of this city
Monday, five bandits got away with
IS .90S after seriously Wounding Pc.
liceman Charles Pairlin and Charles
Allison, a companion.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17
Britons Rush for Bonds

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for the S..
100000 of Kansas City & Southern
railway refunding and Improvement
mortgage five per cent. gold bonds
closed Monday, having been largely
oversubscribed
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17
California Soldiers First Aviators.

San Francisco-The coast artillery
corps. National Guard Of California,
Monday completed arrangements. for
Eugene Ely, the aviator, to act as III
structor for the aviation squad. This
is claimed to be the first aviation
squad organized by militia corps.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17

1t is the correct thing now in Chi
cago to print the names Of those Pc
iicemen who get a chance to shoot
nold-up men. The latter. however, are
understood to strongly condemn this
form Of fulsome notoriety
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17
Bangor Brewery Burns.

La Crosse-The plant of the Ban
gor Brewing company at Bangor was
destroyed by fire. The village was
saved by the fire department from
La Crosse.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17
Woman Who Saw Lafayette Dies

Charlottesville, Va.-Mrs Cornelia
D. Burley, who was present when
Marquis de Lafayette visited the Uni
versity of Michigan In 1925, died here
Monday at the age Of ninety-three.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17
Provides Raise for Supreme justices

TTOVIUES FdTSE TOT OUJ7 tETIE Jus JUICES
Madison.-Assemb lyman Harper
has introduced bills calling for an
increase in salaries of supreme court
justices to $4,000 per annum and
to retire them on half pay at the
age of 70.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17
Many Middies Have "FIunked, ;,

Washington.-For failure in studies
ct the recent semi-annUal eXamina-
ION 81 midshipmen were Saturday
-opped from the rolls of the naval
-2derly at Annapolis.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-02-17
Rain Falls in Kansas

Sal1na, Kan.-A general rain fell in
central and western Kansas Monday.
This was the first rain of any conse-
-uence in five months
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-11-08

We deprecate as much as anyone
the reckless driving of our automo-
bilists and we concur in the sentiments
that have been so frequently voiced
that something ought to be done to
eliminate this continuous exceeding OF
the speed limit. We have an ordi-
nance making it a misdemeanor to
drive an automobile faster than 10
miles an hour but this is not being
enforced. At least we have not heard
of any convictions under it.
Nor will there be any until the
spirit becomes more generally pre-.
valent that the ordinance should be
enforced to the letter. 1t may not even
be necessary for the purpose of &C
complishing results, to enforce the
law. The number of those who dc
reckless driving is very small indeed
If these were to be reasoned with, i
their conscience were properly stimu
lated, good results would be sure tt
| follow. And with our own citizen!
staying within the speed limit, out
siders coming here would soon adjus
themselves to the sane driving il
vogue here.
1t might even be wholesome to hav'
some convictions. But conviction
are not secured by upbraiding ant
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-11-08
bills.

Judging from the actions OF certain
factions scattered promiscuously
shout the state the real meaning Of
Tag Day and its object is not sppre-
ciated or understood.
According to reliable reports this
popular day has been taken advsn.
tsge of by certain organizations IN
gathering funds to be used for the
erecting of new buildings. It is hardly
conceivable that institutions that
stand for and are supposed to support
bene6cence to humanity should take
advantage of and cheaper day that
ought to be made popular only in the
support OF the Visiting Nurses whose
helpfulness to mankind is directly
applied aud whose efforts among the
poor have proven indispensable. This
day for the visiting nurses has been
enthusia stically supported by the
people in and around the Twin Cities
for the last three, or four years, and
its plan ought not to be taken advan-
tage of and made q popular method OF
gathering funds for promiscuous uses.
If organizations wish to have tag days
let them have them in the support of
the visiting nurses.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-11-08

A vast number of innocent notions
are acquired by reason of misleading
names. For instance, says the Scien-
tifc American. we ask for a Dutch
clock. We get the kind we want, so
it really doesn't matter that it is not
Dutch clock at all, but one of Ger
man manufacture. Practically all the
wooden clocks called Dutch are made
in the village of Freyburg, in the
Black forest. This misnumer is due
to simple mispronunciation =
sDeutsch" meaning, of course, Ger
man. Nothing is more natural than
to assume that India ink comes from
India, but it does not and never did,
any more than does India rubber.
India ink comes from South America.
Camel's hair brushes are not made
from the hair of camels, but from the
hair of the tails of Russian and ST.
berian squirrels. Cancels hair is,
however, employed in the manufacture
Of certain fabrics to be made into
shawls, ETC., and is sometimes mixed
with silk. French brier pipes are not
made from the roots of brier, but
from the root of white heath which
.attalns considerable size in the
south of France, where it is seduously
cultivated for pipe-making purposes.
The name is derived from the French
bruyere, meaning heath. We enter
tain fine idea tn at centipede has 100
feet and naturally, but we are misled
10y the name. As matter of fact, this
insect, taking one of the largest
species, shows about 30 feet on each
side.