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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-21
sale of Bonds.

Sealed proposals for the sale of two
separate issues Of bonds of the CITY
Of Marion. Ohio, will be received at
the office of the CITY Auditor i'm said
sltN until l2.OcloCk noon Of SATURDAY..
July 20 1911. The issues and the con-
dluons OF sale of each issue are des-
cribed as follows:
An issue of S22.5O0 to pay the cost
ana expense OF erecting a new engine
mouse for the fire department of the
city OF Marion i'm the central section
of said city. This issue Will bear date
Of March !, 1911. and shall consist of
g bonds each of the denomination of
5000. Each bond win bear interest
at the rate Of four per cent. per an
mum, payable semi-annually The
ponds VIII mature and be PAYABLE as
follows; Two bonds on the first day
OF March and two on the first dav OF
!. 1918. 10 September I, 1928. both
inclusive. and one bond on March t.
l924. Each bid must be ACCOMPANIED
by q certified check for $1,000 as a
OF the bidder.
An issue Of $4,000 to nay the cost
ana expense OF purchasing motor
ilre. APPARATUS for the fire department.
bear date. Of March 1, 1911. and shall
consist Of 30 bonds each OF the de-
nomination of $500 Each bond will
bear Interest AT the rate of -four per
cent Der annum. navable scmi-annu-
allv The bonds viii mature and be
paYablc as follows. Two bonds on
the first day Of March and two on the
FIRST day of iseptember .of each
March / 1920. both Inclusive Each
| bid must be accompanied bv a ceru-
| fled check for $500 as guarantee OF
good faith on the part Of the bidder.
:, Harry y, Elliott. CITY. Auditor.
Marion. Ohio. June 80. 1911.
G-30 7-7-14-21-28
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-21

the tearing down of the old Harrison
street police station in Chicago to
make room for large printing plant.
More than million prisoners oc-
cupied its cells I'm the forty Years of
its life, including some of the most
notorious of the worlds criminals.
Among its guests" were Bunko
Tom OBrien and Eddie Gucrin who
later gave the police authorities of
Paris so much trouble. O'Bricn died
prisoner on Devils isle, but Guerln
escaped from that penal colony and
after a most thrilling and adventur-
Gus journey reached London whore he
IS now living Big Dan Coughllu was
locked up in the Harrison station in
connection with the murder OF DIR.
Cronin. 1t was at this station. I'm
1890, that George Porteous established
the first Bertillon system of identi-
fication i'm the United States. "There
is no police station IN the world like
Harrison street" said Porteous when
the wreckers attacAed the building.
"Bow street in London and Mulberry
street in New York are the only sta
tions in the world that can stack mp
against Chicago's famous prison." The
first prisoner In the structure was
"Honey" Han. a we'll known negro
character Of the first ward. Honey"
stood In front OF the station the night
after the wrackers had been busy ON
Il for a day, and sadly shook his
head at the passing of the landmark.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-21

fabulous prices, anything in fact that
the dupe wants dohr. The crusade
followed an exposure of their methods
by the Chicago Tribune, after re-
porter had visited a number of the
seers. Their methods are all the same.
by trickery they answer n few ques-
tions 10 gain the confidence Of the
victim. Then they say they can make
everything come out just right but
that the dupe lacks "magnetism' and
if that lack is supplied success will
be much surer, quicker and greater.
OF course they agree to supply the
needed magnetism" by a course Of
treatments at from S2j to 500, de-
pending upon the apparent prosperity
Of the dupe Several seers have been
arrested and the police are hunting
evidence against the others
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-21
Put Him wis..

"Dld you give the waiter a tip?'
did I? Well. I should say l iid! I
told him IL he didn't quit hanging
around our table III beat his block
on'-St Lcnis Globe-Democrnt.
Kansas city, Mo, July 2O.-with
one robber under arrest. police are
combing the city Tor the other OF a
pair of daylight robbers who today
entered the iewelry store OF Benjamin
Franklin. held up the proprietor and
escaped with tray of diamonds.
The robbers fed down side alley
from the store and one, John Brown.
ran into store whore he was cap
tured.
The diamonds, worth Sl5G1. were
carried by the other hold-up. Frank
lin and clerk pursued the men
through the alley and a shot that was
fred fatally wounded =. a. seitz. a
passerby.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-21

Miss H. Abbott Washington
OF
having Miss Abbott according testimony
disappeared
The reads - that represented myself that did
satisfy him o. Charley Taft
brother the president who was really represented The president
no objection clair
Abbott
o
does Charles p TAFT ther
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-21
Mrs. Quick's Bunch Berry
Design to be Adopted by
the Havilands.
Passing of One Of the Most
Noted Basitles in Criminal
History.
Ho.(.e Racing Does not Thrive at
the Hawthorne Track--Needs Bet
ting 60 Make II Interestlng-For-
tune TelIers are Robbers.
BY United Press wire.

Chicago, July 20--rhe great differ
ence between the traditional penniless
actor walking the ties and pawning
his stage clothes to get food and the
actor OF today Is shown by the real
estate assessments in Chicago for 1871.
Five actors and actresses are asseaeed
upon 100000 worth OF property this
being one third the actual vabfe Be
sides these 1--WE there are eighteen 9TH
er stage people who have invested
part of their earnings Z in Chicago
realty. May Irwin heads the list her
run making and laugh. provoking
ability having enabled her TO purchase
$4,000 worth OF city property in addi-
tlon to her other holdings in the st.
Lawrence Mrs. Otis skinner is as
sessed on G0,OOO Lillian Russell on
$4,000, Mrs. Alma Youlin on $4,000
and Nine. Rosa Olitzka, the opera
singer. on $4,000. Tne others on the
list are Mrs. Marshall Stedman. Marie
Nelson. May Ryan. iEthel Johnson
Sarah Truax, Winona Winter. Kate
Watson, Marion Murray. Lottie May
er. Vera Berllnger. Annie Buckley,
Gertrude Murphy, Sallie Fisher,
Knox Wilson, Tony Denier. May De
sonsa. and the estates Of Joseph JEFF
ferson and Richard Mansfield.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-21

The efforts to revive horse racing
I'm Chicago. made recently at the old
Hawthorne track. have been given up
temporarily at least. and tom" Car
ey has quietly passed the tip around
that the promised fifteen day sum
mer meet would not take place. There
was racing at Hawthorne on July 3
and which had been advertised as a
mo betting affair. The gambling
was so open that public sentiment
was aroused and threats of a grand
jury Investigation were sufficient 90
warn the promoters against attempt
ing 60 carry out their plans for r.
longer meet. The racing men planned
10 keep the bookmakers OF the
track, but 10 establish pool rooms all
over the city where bets on the races
could be made and the results received
by telephone, the promoters 10 share
I'm the profits. Without betting It
would be impossible to have a success
full meet and give a $500 purse for the
chief event each day. as had been
planned. Horse racing I'm and around
Chicago had been dead since Mayor
Carter Harrison stopped the betting
on derby day at Washington park
several years ago. That year demon
strated that racing I'm this country
cannot be made 10 meet expenses
without gambling. Washington park
was in the center Of the South side.
within easy reach of all quarters OF
the city, and nm effort was made to
continue the meet without betting. II
failed after three day trial.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-21

Her Pattern.
Little Sigrld was born in America oi
Norwegian parents. what is your
nationality, SlgridT asked the teacher
Sigrid tossed her naxen braids. I'm
an American Of Norwegian design
she said proudly.-Harper's Magazine.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-21

The profession Of telling fortunes"
of gullible people has become so pro-
htable in Chicago, and the fortune
tellers so numerous tnat Mayor Har-
rison has ordered the police and law
departments 10 clean the city Of them
Most of them work under the gulse
Of clairvoyants They pretend to re-
veal the future, reunite sweethearts
and untangle all love and domestic
and business difficulties. find lost
treasure, sell all sorts OF mines AZ
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-21
suitnble.

AN easy job viii suit me, senator"
How about winding the clocks ev.
cry weelT
Il might make that do But what's
the matter with tearing the leaves of
the calendars every month Wash.
ington Herald
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-21

There may be others. but
man who kAeps adding cargo un.
I'll he wants to kiss the bartender
loves his enemies more than
most men.--Atchlson Globe.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-21
Players Of St. Louis Ball Team
Heroes Of Bridgeport Train Wreck

bridgeport Conn July 1SThe heroic work Of the
Louis National league baseball rescung victims
e Federal express here VIII long be remembered Led
resnahan the athletes
to 80 to the relief held the
o. rescue
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-21
The sarbor's Delight.

The only enjoyment barber
seems TO haveAand this IS the
) crystalllzation of years of obser-
vation-is TO see just how much
the patient will jump when the
cold water suddenly Is turned
on the back OF LIS neck. This
propensity in BARRIERS, by the
) way. reduces the volume of
shampoo commerce 81 per cent
3 New York Mail.
80 49, AnA
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-21

Mrs J. Z. quick, a former Chicago
girl. has put one over" on her hus-
band. and incidentally made Paris ad-
nit that some good thing, artistically
speaking. may come out of America,
by having her design adopted by the
Haviland company for the decoration
OF the china 10 be used in the Cateau
l.aurier, the new $2,0OO,OO1 hotel soon
10 be opened In Ottawa. the Canadian
capital. Mrs. Quick Is the wife OF
the general baggage agent of the
Grand Trunk railway system, and
lives In Toronto. She has long been
Interested In decorative china paint
ing and without letting her husband
know IL she prepared "bunch ber-
ry" design and sent II 20 the French
china makers. She was surprised
few weeks later 10 receive letter
from them. but not so surprised as
was her husband wnen he read II.
The letter said: 1--WE are pleased 10
announce that the Theodore Haviland
china has been selected as the china
for the Chateau Laurier. Ottawa, and
that your decorative design Of the
bunch berry has been adopted for the
service Of the banquet hall. palm room
and team room" The new hotel Will
be the handsomest in Canada and Will
compare fayorably with the best I'm
New York ana Chicago. II is located
In the corner of Ottawa's most his
toric park. The design Is the old
French style Of architecture. and the
building, outwardly, Is similar to the
Chateau st. Louis OF Quebec. II is
on one Of the highest spots in Ottawa.
and commands a fine view Of the en-
tire capital city. 1t will be eleven
stories in height, contain $50 sleeping
apartments and he as thoroughly SAN
itary, comfortable and safe as mod
ern art and science can make II.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-21

Attorney General Wickersham ap-
pears 70 have inherited AR Ballingers
role as the Loeb OF the administration.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1911-10-07
LABOR NEWS.

Locomotive engineers of the thirty
seven Southeastern roads met in &C.
cret session at Atlanta, Ca, with
Grand Chief Warren s. Stone of
Cleveland in an effort to gain higher
wages. They expect to put an ulti-
matum up to the officials. It may
mean great strike.
Machinists employed by the govern
ment at the Rock Island Qll) arsenal
have adopted a resolution to proceed
to extreme measures If the Taylor
system is installed in federal arsenals
and navy yards. This is considered
equivalent to threat to strike.
Throughout the Hartman and H.
linois Central systems from Chicago
to the Pacific coast the order to the
shopmen to strike has been generally
obeyed and union leaders estimate
that over $4,000 men were out.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1911-10-07
NEWS OF WORLD
important Events Of the Week
In Condensed Form.
NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS

President Taft sped across Nebraska
on his way to Denver. He spent part
Of the forenoon in Omaha, stopping for
two hours at Lincoln, the home Of his
former political adversary, William
Jennings Bryan, and was entertained
at banquet. Mr. Bryan helped to
welcome the president to Lincoln and
at the Commercial club luncheon pro
posed the health of the chief execu.
tive "in beverage upon which the AL.
mighty has set the seal of his ap-
prevail" and it was drunk in sparkling
water. Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Bryan ex-
changed fluctuations and seemed to
enjoy their meeting. -. e
On the witness stand before the SEN
atorial investigating committee for
three hours, to answer charges that
bribery and corrupt use of money had
contributed to his election, Senator
Stephenson of Wisconsin testified that,
although he spent $107.793 in his cam
paign, he had little knowledge as to
just how it was spent, except that 1t
was not used in violation of the law.
The details. he said, he had left to
his campaign managers.
President Taft received a welcome
from many thousands of citizens of
Des Moines when he began the second
day OF his Iowa tour. Senator, Cum.
minis, the progressive leader, who was
conspicuously absent from the state
reception committee when the presi-
dent entered Iowa, was on hand bright
and early and greeted Mr.. Taft at his
train. ~'
Cromwell Dixon, the youngest aviator
in this country, entered by the Aero
club only Aug. 81, crossed the CONT
mental divide in Curtiss biplane at
the Montana state fair and achieved
a worlds record, being the first air
man to succeed in soaring over the
Rocky mountains.
President Taft closed his four-day
tour of Kansas with speech on the
tariff at Leavenworth. He again ex-
planned his veto and reiterated his
willingness to sign any tariff bills that
might be based upon the forthcoming
report of the tariff board. ..>:s
Miss Florence e. Hopwood, daugh.
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank P. Hopwood
Of Minneapolis, and Charles G. Gates,
son of the late financier, John w.
Gates, were married at the residence
of Robert F.. Hopwood, uncle of the
bride, at Uniontown, Pa.
w. Joseph Eldridge, who is working
as farmland near Lawton, Okla,
has received word that he is heir to
the title and fortune of the late Earl
Myers of Craig castle, near Glasgow,
Scotland
Governor Dix of New York has sign
ed the pardon of Captain Peter c.
Hams, who killed William G. Annis
at the Bayside Yacht club three years
ago .n.....a &C.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1911-10-07
THE DEATH RECORD.

Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley
fell dead on the street at New York
city. He had been a sufferer from
heart disease for several years. Ad-
miral Schley was born near Freder-
lex, Nd, Oct. 8, 1889. He was ap-
pointed midshipman in the navy in
1856, graduated from the naval acad-
envy in 1860 and took part in several
engagements in the Civil war. He
became famous as the commander of
the flying squadron which destroyed
Admiral Cervera's feet, off Santiago,
Cuba, July 3, 1898, after a running
battle following the Spanish admiral's
attempt to escape from that port.
News was received at the offices of
the White Star line at New York of
the death at sea of former United
States Senator Charles F. Manderso 4
of Omaha, Neb., on board the steamer
Cedric. General Henderson went
abroad early in the summer for his
health.
William H. Lewis, bodyguard to
President Lincoln during the Civil
war, and for forty-five gears ms>;l
clerk at the White House, where he
was well known to twelve presidents,
is dead at Washington of apoplexy.
Judge Henry P. Hedges, Yale 1888,
who for several years held the dis
tinction of being Yale's oldest gradu-
ate, Is dead at Bridgehampton, N, Y,
after a brief illness.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1911-10-07
TURK0-ITALIAN WAR.

italy has declared war on Turkey as
the outcome of the dispute over Trip.
oil. 1t is understood the Ottoman gov.
eminent completely conceded Italy's
economic claims in Tripoli, but evaded
q direct answer demanded by the Ital.
ian government which had set forth
In its ultimatum that Turkey must say
that she would not resist the proposed
occupation of Tripoli and Cyrene. In
stead the porte sent a conciliatory
note suggesting further delay.
Out of perfect maze of conflicting
reports and rumors 1t is utterly impos-
sible at the present stage to Gift the
grains of truth concerning the opening
days of the Turko-Italian war. 1t ap-
pears even doubtful whether there has
been any actual occupation of Tripoli,
and 1t is practically certain that there
has been no bombardment by the Ital
ian warships. v.~
The honor of winning the first en-.
gagement of the Turko-Italian war has
been won by the Duco Deglia d'Abruz-
ri, who. in command of the naval de-
tachment patrolling the Turkish coast,
has bombarded the seaport Of Pre-
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1911-10-07
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

Estimates of the loss of life in the
food that overwhelmed the towns Of
Austin and Costello, Pa, diminished
when an army of volunteer rescuers
worked it's way into the masses of
wreckage. In the opinion of many on
the ground the number of deaths
will not reach $50, while the less hope
full place the list of fatalities at 300.
The property loss will exceed &c.
100000 and 1t is the general opinion
that the towns never will be rebuilt.
Two, at least, of the large plants will
not be reconstructed and a majority
of the business men of the towns have
been financially ruined, State officials
in charge of the situation, after a
hasty canvass of the population, ex-
pressed the belief that not more than
$50 are dead in the wreckage. The
cause of the food was the breaking
of an immense dam; permitting the
water held back of 1t to sweep down
on the towns.
Aviator Cromwell Dixon, aged nine
teen, of Columbus. o., the youngest
aviator in America, who successful.
few across the main range of the
Rocky mountains from Helena to
Blossberg, fifty miles, last Saturday
was caught in an air current while
soaring above the grounds of the In.
terstate fair at Spokane, Wash, and
dashed to the earth. He died in few
minutes.
Mrs Virgil vandever and four of
her children were burned to death at
their home at Mitchell, Ill. Her hus-
band and Arthur Langford, eighteen
years old Mrs. Wanderers son by
former marriage, saved themselves by
jumping from second story window.
Eight children of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Dias of Hesbon. Pa, ranging in
age from thirteen years to three
months, were burned to death when
fire destroyed the family home.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1911-10-07
FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL

President Taft, In a speech at Wa
terloo, Ia, defining "the relation OF
the government to business" an
nounced that the trust prosecutions
begun by the department Of justice at
Washington would continue despite
the recent criticism that business was
being made to suffer. He served no
tice that the "big business interests
Of the country must be brought within
the law just as the railroads have
been, and declined to admit there ex-
lists any discretion which would ena-
bic the attorney general to stay the
hand OF the government in dealing
with combinations in restraint OF
trade.
A statement, authorized by the
unanimous vote of the directors Of the
United States Steel corporation, has
been given out at New York denying
emphatically that any negotiations
whatever have taken place between
the steel corporation and the depart
ment of justice looking to the disso-
luton or disintegration of the cor
poration. ~. =.
Reiterating the determination OF the
house investigating committee, OF
which he is the head, to proceed with
its inquiry regarding the United States
Steel corporation, Representative
Stanley of Kentucky said that it is
the intention of the committee to ex-
tend its inquiry regarding violations
Of the interstate commerce law.
An order restraining the Missouri
state board of railway commissioners
from putting into effect on Oct l the
new and reduced schedules of rates
on iron and steel was granted to the
Missouri railways by Judge Hook in
the federal court at Kansas City.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1911-10-07

vesa, destroyed the government house
and other buildings, and sunk Turk
ish torpedo boat destroyer. Another
destroyer, which resisted the attack,
is reported to have escaped.
The Turkish government has ad-
dressed another appeal to the pow
ers, expressing panied surprise at
Italy's action in declaring war and
saying that there Is still time to pre-
vent the disastrous and evil effects
of war which nothing in the attitude
of the Turkish empire justifies.
From present appearances the
Turko-Italiau war promises to be the
shortest and most bloodless war in
history. Thus far it's distinguishing
characteristic has been the absence
of fighting and, with Germany acting
as peacemaker, it may be ended be-
fore fighting takes place.
The Paris Mathis Malta correspond
ent says it has been learned through
an indiscretion of wireless operator
on British warship which has ar
rived there, that Tripoli was occupied
Sunday night and the Italian flag
hoisted on the governors castle.
The Italian squadron off Tripoli has
seized the Turkish transport Derna,
which was bringing the new Turkish
governor of the province, munitions
Of war for the garrison there and re-
Inducements of troops.
The Rome Tribune announces that
the Italian cruiser Marco Polo Las
captured the Turkish transport Sabah,
loaded with ammunition and troops,
on the way to Tripoli.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1911-10-07
FOREIGN NEWS.

A terrific explosion of rockets and
bombs in crowded church at Guada-
lajara, Mex, resulted in four dead and
fifteen seriously injured. OF the
wounded many were so seriously
burned or trampled in the panic which
followed that they are believed to
have been fatally injured. -.
Germany has formally accepted the
French proposals to settle the Moroc-
can dispute. Herr Won Kiderlen-
Waechter received M. Jules Cambon,
the French ambassador, at the foreign
Office and announced that the latest
note was satisfactory to the kaiser's
government .....
The bronze statue of Parnell, one
Of the finest achievements of the great
sculptor, Augustus st. Gaudins, which
has been erected largely through sub
scriptions b. American admirers, was
unveiled at Dublin by John e. Red
mond, leader of the Irish party. {.
The British steamer Hatfield, from
Huelva, Spain, for Rotterdam, was in
Will Iuc DIlllou SIcducI
Glasgow, from Rotterdam to Dundee,
and sunk. All the members of the
Hatfield's crew. numbering about
twenty men, were drowned.
A shaft $50 deep in the Shakes.
peare placer gold mine on Dome creek,
near Fairbanks. Alaska, caved in, i'm
prisoning fourteen miners, mostly
Russians.
Twenty-four coasting vessels went
ashore and forty small craft were sunk
in storm which swept the North sea.
Many lives were lost.
The appointment of George Bakh-
metieff as Russian ambassador to the
United States to succeed Baron Rosen
has been gazetted.
The Hamilton (Ont) Offices of the
Canadian Express company were
robbed of $4,000 in cash.