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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-17
SLAYER LOSES HIS
JAIL PRIVILEGES
Prize Fighter Guard Knocks Out
Henwood for Abusing Denver
BastiIe Freedom

Denver, Colo, Feb. 16.- Harold
Frank Henwood, former globe trotter
and slayer of "Tony' Won Publ and
George Copeland in a local hotel bar
room, is no more a special privileged
prisoner in the county Jail here. How
ever, he is confined to his couch with
his face and head badly disfigured as
q result of fight today with Isaac M.
Goldman, a guard and said to be a
former prize fighter.
Sheriff Armstrong ordered that IN
the future Henwood be treated as
other prisoners in the Jail.
According to reports, Henwood i'm
bibed too freely Of wine while enjoy,
ing a meal in his sumptuously
furnished cell in the jail, and
sauntered forth into the corridor.
Goldman said he attempted to escort
Henwood back to his cell when the
latter tried to strike him with a ham
mer and to disarm the prisoner Cold
man resorted to violent physical
methods.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-17
CHOSEN FOR
STEEL CASE DEAD
William NJ. Lanning, Aged 63, Was
Prominent on Bench and In Pres
byterian Councils.

Trenton, N. j., Feb. 16.-United
States circuit court Judge William M.
Lanning died at his home In this city
today from heart trouble.
Judge Lanning was to have sat with
Circuit Court Judges Gray and Buffing-
ton in the government suit against the
United States steel corporation and it's
subsidiaries.
Judge Lanning was 63 years old and
he had been i'll for several weeks. 1t
was believed he was suffering from a
nervous breakdown and 1t was thought
with rest ne would recover.
Judge Lanning was prominent in
the affairs Of the Presbyterian church
and was member of the board of
trustees of the general assembly Of
that denomination. He was director
of Princeton theological seminary and
was trustee Of the IAUnenceville
school
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-17
ASK RESIGNATION
OF DRY CHAIRMAN
ProhIbitonist State Committee De-
clare Jones Must Resign; He
Asks Money Due Him.

Des Moines, Feb. ia resolution
asking for the resignation of c.. Dur
ant Jones, chairman of the state cen.
trail committee of the prohibition par
ty, was adopted at meeting Of the
committee here last night.
Rev. P. H. Arlington Of Correction.
Vile, in behalf of the committee asked
for the resignation because Of troubles
between the chairman and his com.
mittee due it is said, to the activities
of the chairman in promoting the in
terests of the prohibition extension
society Of which he is sponsor. It is
said Mr.. Jones, who is mayor of
Perry. Iowa, has used his influence as
chairman of the party to secure sub
scriptions to his own enterprise and
as a financial detriment to the party.
Mayor Jones agreed to resign as soon
as he has been paid $500 which he ad'
vanced for campaign purposes.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-17
DUNN and 0'C0NN0R IN FIGHT
FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION
LEGISLATIVE MINORITY LEADER
GIVES PLATFORM IN HIS
ANNOUNCEMENT.

Des Moines, Feb. 16.-Frank O'Con-
nor Of New Hampton, democratic floor
leader in the lower house of the legis-
lature last year, today formally an
nounced himself as a candidate for
governor on the democratic ticket.
O'Connor in his announcement
pledges his support to five proposi-
tions which he said needed imme-
diate attention They are as follows:
First-A revision of the tax laws
through the medium of a permanent
tax commission which will put an end
to the present system of tax admins
tration, which is a disgrace to Iowa's
intelligent citizenship. u
Second-A revision of the school
laws SO that properly paid teachers
may elevate the standard Of the
schools in which more than 30 per
cent of the children receive their only
education.
Third-A measure for the reguIa-
ton of our public utilities. Just now
there is imperative demand for legis-
lation to regulate the utilities systems
of the state.
Fourth--The adoption of the Oregon
plan or some similar plan to provide
for the election of United States sena-
tors by direct vote of the people.
Fifth-A non-partisan judiciary bill.
Our courts should be free from nnlltics
and nn1iticians.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-17
DOUBLE MURDER
AT TOPEKA, KAS.
Indications Point to Killing Of Child
BY stepfather and Staying OF
Latter BY Another.

Topeka, Kas., Feb. 16.-Officers to.
day are searching for the third person
who can solve the mystery Of the
brutal murder of Clara Belle Stickney,
a IA year old country girl and her STEP
father, John J. Rickels, whose bodies
were found in ravine here last even
ing.
Evidence is accommodating that
Rickels attacked and killed the child
and was in turn slain by a person who
welded corn knife or other sharp
instrument so effectively that the
mans head was chopped to pieces.
Officers today interrogated Mrs.
Rickels, the girls mother, but she is
in a hysterical condition and little ad.
Iditional Information was gained. They
also talked with her. grown brother,
Albert Stickney, who is said to have
been sick at home all day Thursday,
and Miss Grace Wallace with whom
the child talked while on the way to
school.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-17
OSKALOOSA BUTTON
WORKERS STRIKE

Oskaloosa, Feb. 1G-Because the
factory refused to recognize the union
recently organized by pearl button
workers, all Of the employees are on
strike today. O. c. Wilson and others
from Muscatine are here in charge Of
the unions side of the controversy.
The first trouble arose when the men
complained Of unfair counts and other
alleged determinations.
They were told to quit if they did
not like the method OF the factory. 1t
was then that union was formed.
The factory refuses to recognize the
union and owners say they will con-
tinue to operate as an open shop.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-17
CROWDS ATTENDING
DAVENPORT TRIAL
Court Room Crowded When Case OF
Anna kiiduff on Charge of
Murder Is Opened.

Davenport, Feb. 16.-Every seat IN
the large Scott county court room was
taken an hour before the time the
morning hearing was scheduled to
start and many were standing around
the rear of the room to listen to the
evidence in the case of Anna Kilduff,
charged with numbering her husband,
John Kilduff. Yesterday afternoon
scores Of people stood in the hallway
leading to the court room waiting an
opportunity to secure some one else's
place inside
Edward Kilduff, brother Of the
deceased and working with him at the
Barr oyster depot when he was killed,
was the first witness for the state.
He said Mrs. Kilduff came to him at
the depot on the afternoon Of Oct.
80 after having fingered around out
side for some time and asked to see
her husband. He told her he was not
there because he feared there would
be trouble. He claims she called him
liar and vile adjective and walked
on past him into a room where her
husband was working. He claims he
heard her call her husband a vile
name and later he heard shot, and
going in found his brother dead on
the floor with his hands in his pockets.
Attorney William Chamberlin in his
opening statement for the defendant
claimed 1t would be shown that Kill
duff knew when he married his wife
that she would become mother soon,
and knew who the father Of the child
was. The attorney claimed that the
defendant was to have been married to
the father of the child. but he was
drowned three days before the date
set for the wedding. .H =.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-17
SECRETARY OF GRAIN DEALERS
RESIGNS TO ENTER RACE
FOR GovERNoRsHiP. ~

Mason City, Feb. 16.-E. G. Dunn,
former secretary of the Farmers and
Grain Dealers association today
formally announced his candidacy for
governor on the democratic ticket. He
was endorsed by the Grain Dealers
yesterday. +"
Grain Mems Endorsement.
Fort Dodge, Feb. 16.-Twenty-five
hundred members of the Farmers
Grain Dealers association last night
indorsed the candidacy Of E. G. Dunn
of Mason City for the democratic
nomination for governor of Iowa. The
action was taken enthusiastically, and
the little opposition that developed in
the afternoon. when the proposition
was made quickly was lost sight OF
when the evening meeting was begun.
Dunn made a short speech in which
he said he had been for ten years in
the work of the farmers, and although
he laid down the secretaryship of the
association he expected to continue
his labors, in private life If not as
governor.
He declared further that he stood
now where he stood in Des Moines
three years ago, when he said ne
would support Clifford Thorne.
Mr.. Dunn asserted that both the re
publican and democratic parties are
under the domination of "the big in
.terests, naming James A. Smith OF
Usage as leader of the republicans in
this matter and Senator A. F. Frudden
of Dubnane as leader of the democrats.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-17
ARMY OFFICER
COURT MARTIAL
!. TO AIR DISPUTE
Old Fight Waged for Quar-
ter Century Between Line
and Staff to be Brought
Out in Ainsworth Case.

Washington, D. c., Feb. 16.-Whil
no order Of military arrest has beel
issued early today the status of Majo
General Frederick c. Ainsworth todaI
was that of an officer of the arml
under suspension from the exercise o
his duties as adjutant general ant
under orders to remain in Washington
pending the adoption of disciplinary
measure by the war department. This
is thoroughly we'll understood to NEAR
that General Ainsworth is to be tried
by court martial on military charge
which translated into plain English Il
to the effect that he is alleged to have
been guilty of disrespect to Genera
Leonard Wood, the chief of staff, his
senior in the army, and to Secretary
of War Stimson, his official superior
The war department officials are
busy selecting the court which will
try General Ainsworth and in formu
lating the charges. Necessarily mum
Der OF retired officers of high rani
must be placed on the court, and the
department is communicating with
some of these officers who are not
now in Washington to ascertain If they
would find it feasible and acceptable
to serve on this court, which from the
Importance of the issues, is likely tc
be one of the most notable In army
history. 1t may be several days be-
fore the issue Of the formal order
creating the court and citing Genera
Ainsworth before it.
To Air Disputes OF Quarter Century.
Although the issues to be tried are
exceedingly important, involving as
they do all of the old rancorous dis
putes that have been waged between
the line and staff for a quarter of 3
century, legal officers of the war de
partment do not believe the trial 1T
self will consume much time. 1t is
believed the evidence to be presented
will be principally documentary, in
Guiding the various orders and reports
that have been issued from the adju
tant generals office within the last
four years and especially the letter
made public yesterday from Secretary
Stimson to- General Ainsworth, form
ally charging him with disrespectfu
conduct. In view OF the limited ac
commodations at the war department
the court probably will assemble al
the war college or at Fort Meyer
across the Potomac. ..
General Ainsworth maintained the
attitude of absolute reticence he has
steadfastly occupied since Secretary
Stimson's letter was made public. It
is understood that he Is now arrang
irg for counsel and preparing his own
defense.
It is fully expected at the war de-
partment that this case will figure ex
tensively before congress and that
perhaps the democratic house may
take steps to investigate the whole
war department, and especially the
relations between the general staff
and the adjutant generals office
Officials of the war department pro
fess no concern at this, taking the
ground that the president, as com
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-17
Colonel Roosevelt IndOrseS
Taffs ReGns:;;:;%;;S;s: CO.; ~: ,endation For
An s'.,..s.r.,o,rr1al r,,v Commission

- + + + + + ) + II : + + : : : + : ***~
New York Feb 16Theodore Roosevelt in editorial IN the
Industrial Justice says
The recommended the
a industrial conditions
and
conservative will all back this action
madeup
relations without prejudice
would look at
the public interest with
labor disputes and for
settling that arise just and permanent basis
Undoubtedly large be found in the
rather than the federal and
be found in voluntarily
But
really satisfactory and all
matter"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-17
CHICAGO MAN KILLS
WIFE; SHOOTS SELF

Chicago, Feb. 16.-While Mrs. koH-
stantia Zarozikowska lay In her bed
sleeping here today her husband
Frank, shot and killed her. Then he
attempted suicide by shooting himself.
They had quarreled over domestic az
fairs. Five children Of the couple
who slept in an adjoining room were
awakened by the shots.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-17
TODAY IN CONGRESS

in session. Meets at
2 p. m. Monday. ~
Manufacturers of steel products con-
ttnued to protest before finance
committee against house steel tariff
bill. a
Appeals for constitutional amend.
ment granting votes for women
mittee. s.. ..-,.
Senator Williams of Mississippi, ad.
vocated before senate Interstate
commerce committee his bill for the
regulation of interstate corporation.
Delegation from the American Bank
ers' association urged the enactment
of legislation for better regulation
Of bills Of lading.
at noon.
Florida Everglades investigation is
continued, new interests added by
proposed prosecution of recently
dismissed agricultural department
officers. ~
Interstate commerce commissioner,
b. H. Meyer, at a hearing urged
wide powers for the commission,
including physical valuation of rail-
roads and supervision of bonds
Consideration of army appropriation
bill resumed.
Congressional investigation of the
war department said to be a Ger
tain outcome Of the Ainsworth
incident.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-17
German Aviator Killed.

Berlin, Feb. 16.-The German avia-
tor, Schmidt, died today from the ef-
fects Of fall of 100 feet while he was
flying yesterday in his biplane. The
cause os the accident was the breab-
inp of the elevating rudder.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-17
BRIEF MATTERS IN
THE DAYS NEWS

WASHINGTON, D. CA new interest
was added today to the congression-
al inquiry into the Florida Ever
glades by the fact that Attorney
General Wickersham had recon-
mended grand jury consideration of
the charges of transference of pub
lie funds against the recently dis
missed officials of the agricultural
draining bureau, C. G. Elliott, chief
drainage engineer and his assistant,
A. D. Morehouse.
DENVER, COLO.-Judge Lewis in the
United States district court here to-
day declined to hear a petition for
the issuance of writ of habeas
corpus for Henry w. Legleitner, ar
rested Tuesday on an Indictment re-
turned at Indianapolis. .
BURLINGTON. IA,.-President How
ard of the M N. & S. railroad an
nourced today that the regular train
service on the Burlington extension
of the road would be inaugurated
February q. &
.FT. DODGE. Sioux City was awarded
the next. convention ofathe Iowa
Grain Deakfg' Association at the
closing session here today. Des
Moines, Cedar Rapids, Muscatinel
testants.
HUNTINGDON, PA.-The number of
: dead as q result of the wrecking of
the Pennsylvania Limited express
of WYor
raised to four today when Alexander
Servant, a porter, of New York, died
in the J. c. Blair memorial hospital
where all the injured were taken.
Servant had been badly scalded. The
other thirty injured will live.
FIT. MADIsON.-Capt. George l..
Hewitt Of the local militia company
was today recommended by Major
Hollowell for the position of bat
talon adjutant Of the 54th regiment
vice Weaver D. Smith Of this city,
resigned.
SARATOGA, N. Y.--William X. Ben
son, who was president of the De-
troit Federation Of Labor in 1910,
one Of the labor leaders recently in
d1Cted IN Indianapolis, was arrested
at his farm near Barkerville today.
SAPULPA, OKLA.-Examination OF
the body Of William Berryhill, a
millionaire producing oil land own.
er, who died suddenly yesterday was
begun today by physicians at the
instruction of relatives who assert
the belief that the man was the vic.
p tim of foul play.
LINCOLN, NEB-A call for a state
wide Harmon meeting to be held at
Fremont, Neb., on Monday, Feb. 10,
has been issued by a committee OF
democrats.
LEAVENWO ORTIZ, KAN.-Charles e.
Mullin, formerly cashier Of a nation.
al bank at Pittsburg, Pa. and Clar.
ence c.. Waller, formerly connected
with bank at Fort Smith, Ark,
are among ten prisoners for whom
paroles were received at the federal
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LEAVENWORTH, KAN.-Charles E..
Mullin, formerly cashier Of nation.
al bank at Pittsburg. Pa, and Clar.
ence c.. Waller, formerly connected
with a bank at Fort Smith, Ark,
are among ten prisoners for whom
paroles were received at the federal
penitentiary here today.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-17

FIT. MAD1SON.-Capt. George l.
Hewitt Of the local militia company
was today recommended by Major
Hollowell for the position of bat
talon adjutant Of the 54th regiment
vice Weaver D. Smith of this city
resigned. n
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-17

LINCOLN, NEB.-A call for a stat4
wide Harmon meeting to be held Al
Fremont, Neb., on Monday, Feb. 10
has been issued by committee ol
democrats.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-17

SAPULPA, mination OF
the body Of William Berryhill, a
millionaire producing oil land own.
er, who died suddenly yesterday was
begun today by physicians at the
instruction of relatives who assert
the belief that the man was the vic.
tim of foul play.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-17

N. Y.--William X. Ben.
son, who was president of the De-
troit Federation Of Labor in 1910
one of the labor leaders recently in.
dicted in indianapolis, was arrested
at his farm near ,Barkerville today
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-12-05
THE ap,usdN BILL
PASSED HOUSE TO-DAY
Measure Provides For a t"''mi->i""
l." Make 'hyJical Valuation
of Railroads.

Associated Press Special.
Washington, Dec. 5.-rhe ADAM
son bill, providing for IA commission
to make physical valnat.on Of
railroads, WITH the Mana amend
ment, empowering the Interstate
commerce commission to faenlate is
sues of stock and bonds. passed the
house today.
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Mack Lamherth Vas in Daias lasl
night and saw "Louisiant I.od 4
the Dallas opera house.
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Funeral ii Characteristic. :"

The funeral OF n.nele Jessie.
Wiley was held this morning at 70
O'Clock at the homefof his daughter
Mrs Frank Horson, on Matef
street. Rev. iGf H. Hogan con
Quoted the serNTe and the NasonS
also officiated Nm the service. Tue
remains were Inferred in the city
cemetery,
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1912-02-24
REBUKE FOR HoBsoN.

Richard Pearson Hobson, who was
drawing pay from Congress while
neglecting his duties and delivering
a long series of lecture engagements
at $500 per night, merited the re-
buke administered him by Congress
man John ]. Fitzgerald, OF New
York. Chairman of the Appropria-
lions Committee, and Representative
Hay, Of Virginia. Congressman
Hay described the Legislative meth
DDS of Hobson, the hero of the Merri-
mac, as "cowardly and under
handed" and Chairman Fitzgerald
said the Alabamian was "neglectine
his duty as a member of the House
while chasing imaginary phantoms
on the Chautauqua platform and de-
livering imaginary messages to the
people," Their anger was aroused
because Hobson had inserted in the
Record statements reflecting on them
and growing out of the controversy
over the Hay army reorganization
plan. His friends were reported
uneasy while awaiting his return to
Washington, but there need be little
fear that he will create any great
furore.
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1912-02-24
INDIAN SCHOOLS.

As mo question is ever settled
until it is settled right" there need
be little surprise that the religious
phase of the educational question,
like Banquo's ghost, reappears occa-
sionally to haunt the American
public. How many there are VINO
do not know that there is no
connection whatever between the
Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions
and the Government schools taught
by Sisters. Forty-six Catholic Indian
mission schools depend for their en-
tire support on the voluntary offer
lngs of the Catholics OF the United
States, receiving no benefit from the
tribal funds.
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1912-02-24

House of Representatives. who are
charged with having committed a
political blunder. Our far-seeing
neighbor thus views the situation:
1.-THE Democratic majority in the
House has voted to bestow on the
Governor a machine which win make
him absolute and all powerful in his
dictation of party affairs. He can,
II he so desires, use it to step from
the Governors chair into the United
States Senate. He can, IL he so de-
sires, employ 1t to defeat the politi-
cal ambition of every man who on
Tuesday Of last week voted to make
him a dictator. Hereafter, IL the
Senate approves the Hamilton sub
stitute, the beginning and the end of
the Democratic party will be the
Governor"
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1912-02-24
BoNAR Law LOSES.

The present session Of the British
Parliament opened with an intensely
embittered state of party feeling and
a prearranged affront to the King by
the "Diehard" Peers. who wanted to
punish him for agreeing to create
new Peers last year and his suspected
sympathy with the Irish home rule
bill. In the House Of Commons the
Unionists. inflamed by a supposed
reaction in the country in their favor
and the imaginary weakened condi-
ton of the Government, resolved
upon rushing tactics. Their new
leader, Bonar Law. elated by the
plaudits he received for his Albert
Han speech, which was full OF rash
and groundless statements. with
fatal imprudence thought TO repeat
his performance on the floor of the
House. The result was that within
two hours after. Parliament met he
had blundered into two indiscretions
which utterly demoralized his party
and irretrieyably damaged his repu-
lation. causing him to be placed
under the tutelage OF Austen Cham
oerlain and Walter Long, the two
men whom he beat in the race for
Balfour's shoes. Every Unionist
paper in the country has been busy
ever since explaining away his
declaration that his party II returned
to power would repeal the Insurance
ac' Then when Prime Minister
Asquith challenged him TO bring his
charges Of corruption against the
Government to the test OF examina-
ton across the floor Of the House.
Law beat retreat. declaring that he
made no charge, but only asked for
Information.
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1912-02-24
Fmry.ErcHrH ANNIVERSARY.

Percy Bareford, OF New Albany. Mr..
and Mrs. Reilly were both born In
ireland and we're married In the
County OF Limerick, the parish Of
Effin, February 90, 1854, and on
June OF the same year came to
Louisville, and with the exception OF
a residence on West Magazine street
have lived In that section here
known as Limerick, being the oldest
residents Of the Dominican parish,
residing there seven years before the
present church was built. Only a
little over a month intervenes be-
tween their birthdays, Mr.. Reilly be-
ing eighty years old the twenty
fourth of next June, and Mrs. Reilly
will be seventy-five the eleventh Of
May. Many congratulations were
showered on this splendid old
couple Tuesday and predictions Of
further anniversaries were freely
predicted.