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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30
SHAPIRO CONFESSES
IN R0SEhTHAL CASE
IInpIicates the -Four .Gunmen
as the Murderers.

New York, Oct 30.-William Sha-
piro, driver of the car which brought
Herman Rosenthars murderers to the
Hotel Metropole, signed an affidavit in
the district attorneys Office, saying
that the men in his car on the night
Of the killing were Dago Frank, Gyp
the Blood, Whitley Lewis and Lefty
Louie.
This Identification will make Sha-
piro the principal witness against the
four gunner at their trial. The con-
fession came following an hours talk
Mr. Whitman had with the motor car
driver. Later Aaron Levy, Shapiro's
attorney, was summoned.
"The confession was complete in
every detail" said member of Mr
WhitmaI's staff Shapiro implicated
the four men, and the statement was
even more positive in detail than Mr..
Whitman expected"
From the four gunmen came a state
ment that under no circumstances
would they plead guilty and further
protestation of their combined limo
cence.
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s,.i, Woman Inherited $50, 900.

Baltimore, Md, Oct. 30.ZSophia G.
Singer, who was found murdered in
Chicago rooming house, was daugh-
ter of the late Frank o. Singer, of this
city, and her family is well connected
here.
Miss Singer lived with her mother
In Lennox street Her brother, Frank
o. Singer, Jr., is contractor and
builder. Miss Singer inherited 100000
from her father.
When she left Baltimore she is
known to have had with her several
thousand dollars worth of jewelry and
about $1,000 in money. Mr.. Singer ex-
pressed his belief that robbery was
the motive of the murderers.
While members of Miss Singers
family expressed ignorance of her as
sociation with Worthen. sister-in-law
of Worthen said that she was not sur
prised to hear that they were together
or that they intended to wed.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30
LITTLE MuTERAc4 u q. s..
Only III Fer Gent Of Population cans
not Read or Write.

Washington, Oct 80. = There are
fewer men, women and children in
the United States who can neither
read nor write than ever before in the
nations history, according to special
illiteracy statistics made public by the
census bureau.
In the entire population illiteracy haa
declined from 10.7 in 1900 to TT per
cent in 1910. Among children from
ton to fourteen years old the decline
has been from 72 to Al per cent. In
1910 the whole number of children
who could neither read nor write was
87O,120-144,659 white and 218,355 me-
groes and 7106 Indians, Chinese and
Japanese.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30

There Is more Catarrh in this
section of the country than all 9TH
er diseases put together, and until
the last few years was supposed to
be incurable. For great many
years doctors pronounced it local
disease and prescribed local rem
edies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounc-
ed It incurable. Science has prov
en- catarrh to be constitutional dis
ease and therefore requires con-
stitutional treatment. Halls CatarIh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Chen
ey C Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only
constitutional cure on the market.
It Is taken internally in doses
from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. 1t
acts directly on the blood and Inu-
cous surfaces Of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any
case 1t fails to cure. Send for cir
culars and testimonials.
Address, F. J. CHENEY & Co..
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
ADVERTISEMENT
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NO HOPE FOR
Mr.. SHERMAN.
Vice Presidents Death Is Said
TO be Near.
MS CASE is HOPELESS
Nypodermics Have Been Resorted to
to Ease His Sufferings-Family at
His Bedside.

Nypodermics Have Been Resorted to
to Ease His sufferinss-FamiIy at
His Bedside.
Utica, N. Y. Oct. 30.-Vice Presi-
dent James s. Sherman lies at his
home in this city in the shadow OF
death after night which brought not
q single ray of hope to the members
of his family or to his physicians.
The vice president is slowly but
surely losing ground, and death appar-
emily is a matter of but a short time.
The end may come within twenty-four
or forty-eight hours or the sufferer
may survive a week, but his case ap-
parently is hopeless and the end, 1t
would appear, cannot be deferred for
long.
Hypodermic medication has been re-
sorted to by his physicians to ease his
sufferings from the involvment Of the
kidneys, which have now failed to per-
form their functions, and as q result
of the administering of these Quieting
medicines the vice president slept with
very few periods of wakefulness.
Mr.. Sherman's condition was sum-
med up in a statement made by DR..
F. H. Peck, the vice presidents per-
sonal physician. These are DR.. Peck's
words:
During the night Mr.. Sherman
slept uninterruptedly from II o'clock
until 5 a. m. It was a restful sleep
and no opiates were necessary to pro-
duce it. When he woke up he was
perfectly rational and was greatly re-
freshed. Later there was return OF
the distressing conditions due to the
failure Of the functions of his kidneys
and his condition became desperate.
Subsequently, by means of hypodermfc
medication, he was quieted and he
dropped into a sleep.
''Mr. Sherman's heart action is fair.
but the complications from his kid
neys make his condition extremely
critical, because there is grave doubt
II the kidneys will respond to RENE
dial measures. Uraemia Is now sapping
the vitality Of the vice president, and
I have great fear of the outcome. His
condition could hardly be more des-
perate, but I do not apprehend his
death at present"
DR.. Peck is constantly at the bed
side of the patient. and the members
of the vice presidents family, Mrs.
Sherman and her three sons. Sheriff.
Richard and Thomas, are In the SheHs
man home waiting for the
the sick chamber which they SO dread.
but which they. realize Is inevitable.
No visitors are received beyond rela-
uves or intimate friends and absolute
quiet prevails in the Sherman man
sion.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30
INFANT FALLS TO DEATH
Child Three Years Old Climbs Up
Monument 11O Feet

Child Three Years Old Climbs Up
Monument 11o Feet.
Indianapolis, Ind, Oct. 30.-James
Polsgrove, aged three years, fell from
q window in the Soldiers and Sailors
Monument, no feet from the ground
and was instantly killed.
The child's mother, Mrs. James Polls
grove, had left him at the base of the
monument while she went to the top
In the elevator with q friend.
The child, it Is believed, slipped past
the monument keeper. and started to
ascend the stairway. It is thought he
became tired when he reached the
window and, climbing up to rest, lost
his balance and tumbled out.
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.,ok. Means Death For Bow.

Allentown, Pa, Oct. 3O.-A joke end
ed fatally when Frank Durnin, seven
teen years old, died in the Allentown
hospital. Last Saturday he was re-
turning from a football game, when a
companion ''for fun" tossed his cap
on top of a covered grocery wagon.
Durnin climbed up to recover it and
he was jolted from the wagon and his
skull was fractured.
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BRIDE TO Be SLAIN
IN ROOMINC HOUSE
FIancee Finds Woman Dead
and Va|uabIes Gone.
ROBBERY WAS THE MOTIVE
Police Seek High Diver and Wife,
Fellow Roomers, Who Have Disap-
peared.

peared.
Chicago, Oct. 3O.-The romance of
an elopement was wiped out by the
gruesomeness of brutal murder here,
when Miss Sophia G. Singer, an at
tractive Baltimore girl, was found
slain.
Several hundred dollars In money
and jewelry, brought from her Mary
land home to grace her wedding to
William R. Worthen, street car con-
ductor, was missing, and robbery has
been accepted as the motive for the
crime.
Worthen discovered the girls body
when he returned home after midnight
to the suite occupied by them and two
vaudeville performers in rooming
house at 1929 Indiana avenue. Miss
Singer had been bound and gagged
"billy" made from an iron door knob
wrapped in a handkerchief. Her body
was EMBODIED in blanket.
Charles D. Conway, high diver,
whose right leg has been amputated
at the knee, and his wife, who also is
known as Beatrice Riall and May
Monte, a variety actress, who roomed
In the same apartments and who had
been befrier led by Worthen, are being
sought by the police.
The body of Miss Singer was found
on the bed in the room occupied by
them. The couple had been in the
house during the evening. but no trace
of them has been found since the dis
covery of the body.
According to Worthen, Miss Singer
was an acquaintance of Mrs. Conway,
who was known to her as Miss Riall,
and it was through the latter's invita-
ton that he and his sweetheart went
to room at the same house. The four
moved into the rooms where the MUIR
der was committed only the day be-
FORE Worthen told the police he had
paid the expenses of the Conways as
well as those of himself and Miss
Singer at the rooming house since
joining them.
Worthen, who was held by the po-
lice, declared that before leaving the
house he handed his fiancee $48 in the
presence of the Conways and then
went down town. It was after mid
night when he returned to the house
and found the hallway spattered with
blood He aroused others in the house
by repeated pounding on the door
leading to the Conway room after find
Ing that Miss Singer was not in her
own apartment.
A key was finally furnished by Mrs.
Julia Mccarthy, keeper of the house,
and the door was opened. Further in
vestigation showed that the money he
had given the woman was missing, as
well as several articles of jewelry, re-
vealing robbery as probable motive
for the murder.
A trail of blood led to a kitchen,
which the four had the use of, and
there the table was found covered with
blood, as was the floor. A door knob,
with the piece of iron attached for
knob on the other end, lay on the
floor wrapped in a handkerchief sat
urated with blood and with leather
shoe string attached to it in loop fash
ion, making billy" of it. Worthen
said Conway had once exhibited the
bludgeon to Miss Singer, with the re-
mark: "This is what I knock 'em
out with"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30
Mrs. Mary e. CUMMINGS Dies.

Mauch Chunk, Pa, Oct. 80. = Mrs.
Mary Packer Cummings, aged seventy
four years, known throughout the east
ern section of this state for her many
philanthropies, died at her home here
after an illness of twelve weeks. Mrs.
Cummings was the only surviving
child of Asa Packer, the coal pioneer
and one of the builders of the Lehigh
Valley railroad.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30
STEEL TRUST PROSPEROUS
Net Earnings Increase Nearly $5,00o,-
600 Over Previous Quarter.

Net Earnings Increase Nearly $5,00o,-
600 Over Previous Quarter.
New York, Oct. 80. - The United
States Steel corporation declared it's
regular quarterly dividend of ~ per
cent on the common stock and TX
Der cent on the preferred stock.
Tie earnings of the corporation for
the quarter ending Sept. 80 were $780,
063,512; the net income for the quar-
ter, $20,777,465, and the surplus 81
434,801.
These returns compare with earn
lngs at the end Of the previous quarter
Of g$25, ,102,265, net income of $18s429,-
e94, and a surplus of $56,4S3.
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INCREASES FREIGHT CREWS

Pennsylvania Railroads Traffic Is the
Heaviest For Several Years.
Harrisburg, Pa, Oct. 3O.-The Penn
sylvania railroad assigned dozens of
men to regular crews for the winter
rush on the middle and Philadelphia
divisions, the assignment being the
largest ever made by the company at
this point.
The company's traffic is heavier
than in years and the roll of men is
larger. The men called for service in
clude new men who have been on ex-
ira duty, and the order is taken to
mean lively times for the next few
months and big Christmas checks.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30
Mortgagee's Sale
Personal Property

by virtue of u power OF sale contained In q
- chattel mortgage from w. Herman Mar.
shall to Levin b Dali, dated the 9th day OF
April, A. D /, 1912. and recorded among the
mortgage records Of Dorchester County,
ETC., default having been made by the mort
gagor In complying with the terms OF said
mortgage, the undersigned, as mortgage
public auction to the highest bidder or bid
ders al his farm known as the "James STAN
ley farm, on the road from Bucktown to Best
pitch Ferry, in Bucktown election district,
In Dorchester County, being the farm on
which the said Marshall lately resided as ten-
ant.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30
SATURDAY., November 8, 1912

commencing at 8 O'Clock q. m, all the fol-
lowing personal property, to wit:
pair good mules, 10 and IL yrs. old; fine
gray mare. yrs old next spring; sorrel
horse; two-horse wagons, good as new;
brood sows; 2 2shoats; COW and calf; cows;
I corn planter; spring tooth harrow; Mo-
line suiky plow, nearly new; trotLing sui
Ky; top carriage, spike harrow
This sale will take place, rain or shine, as
in case of rain there is a large shed to protect
the people In attendance.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30
II g Exnr.ss Passes Dividend.

New York, Oct 80. - The United
States Express company passed its
semi-annual dividend of So a share.
The establishment of the parcels post
and a decrease in the company's earn
ings during the last fiscal year were
among the reasons given by the direc-
tors of the company for the failure to
declare the dividend.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30
TAFT I coMMuTEs SENTENCE
Cuts Down Penalty Of Cashier Who
Made False Sentry.

washington, Oct 80. = President
Taft commuted to expire Dec. % the
five-year sentence of J. Otto Wilson,
who pleaded guilty June IA of making
a false entry in the books of the Peo-
ple's National bank, of Salem, N. Y,
of which he was cashier.
Wilson went to the penitentiary for
an act committed to oblige woman
friend of his wife, but with no inten-
ton to defraud. 1t was this fact that
led the president to order his release
in time to be home for Christmas.
Mrs. Wilson's friend overdrew her
account To give her an opportunity to
replenish hey deposit, Wilson made
false entry on the books.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30
Secretary SIays EMPLOYER.

Greensboro, N. c., Oct. 30.-George
q. Thompson, division freight agen
# the Southern railway, was shot and
killed here by w. R. Blair, his private
secretary, whom he had dismissed
Blair was arrested in the room witt
the body, crouched in corner, NUT
tefing: 81 have killed my best friend
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30
Strikers and Mine Guards Fight

Charleston, w. Va, Oct. 30.-A bat
ne was fought between a posse Of
armed mine guards and striking coal
miners at Messy, Fayette- county, in
which fifty shots were fred and sew
.eral men wounded. The fight was the
result of the kidnapping of four guards
on duty at the mine of the Four States
Coal company.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30
Lad Fatally Cut During Alteration
With Parent.

Washington, Oct. 80. - John W..
.Thompkins, nineteen years of age, is
probably fatally wounded, and his
father. John P. Thompkins. is charged
with having stabbed him in the back
during an alteration in the presence
of five other children of the family.
The fathers attack was precipitated,
according to the police, when John,
the oldest, urged him to let the young
or children visit the mother, who Is
said to have been visiting in Virginia
for several weeks.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30
CHEW TOBACCO ON TEST
Enlisted Men In United States Navy
Experiment,

Washington, Oct. 30.-For the next
York navy yard will be busy chewing
forty kinds of tobacco to decide which
shall be bought for use in the navy.
Bids were opened from fifteen deal
ers who wish to furnish 100000
pounds, about years supply, for the
American navy. Prices ranged from
80 to ~ cents for various grades. The
mems decision will decide the award
ing of the contract.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30
Crown PRINCE Alexis Improves.

st. Petersburg, Oct. sO.-The i'm
provement in the condition of Crown
Prince Alexis continues, according to
advices from Spala. He was trans
ferred to another room, in which he
passed the day in good spirits. His
temperature was s9.5, pulse slightly
apove norma:
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30
Chicken Thief Kills Man.

Wilkes Barre Pa, Oct. 30.-Anthony
Phillibus, of Wilkes-Barre township,
was shot through the neck by an un-
known man who had just come out of
his chicken house. The wounded man
died in the hospital.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30
Murders Policeman Who Rebuked Hin

Boston, Oct. 30.-Patrolman Albert
r. Peterson was shot and fatally
wounded on a West End street by an
unidentified man, whom he had re-
lbuked for making an insulting remark
to a woman. The officer died few
hours later. Peterson described his as.
sailant as a foreigner, about thirty-fve
years old.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30

! On all sums Of $40 % and under, cash on day
of sale; on all over that amount edit of
ten months will be given on note to be ap-
proved by the undersigned, the said note or
notes to bear interest from the date OF the
SALE. n o property to be removed until terms
of sale are compiled with.
LEVIN g. DAHL,
Mortgage
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s1os GOO Gem. Stolen,

Fort Worth, Tex, Oct. 30.-Stocks
and jewels belonging to the late s. w.
Wilson, valued at $105,000, were stolen
from the safe of the Wilson Lumber
company here. The safe door had been
left unlocked.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30
Fresh Oysters For Sale.

Families desiring carefully shuck-
ed, fresh oysters, will be pleased
with those which we have on sale.
Mrs. VIM. Price. Phone 286. Water
street. 9-16-e.o.d.-tf.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30
Haircut Up In Chicago.

Chicago, Oct. S0.-Chicago BARRIERS
have decided to raise the price of
haircut from 25 to 35 cents after
Nov. Is.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30
LEE FONG
Star Laundry

We do our work by hand and
guarantee the best grade of work.
Will call for Laundry at any time
Or place. All laundry that is
broughtin on Thurs. or Friday a. m.
will r ldone at six o'clock Satur-
day and customers are earnestly
re ,uested to call for same as soon
IS convenient.
LEE FONG,
Poplar Street.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30

WANTED-By young man with both
wv store and office ex perience clerical
D. m. Address A, care OF Banner office.
10-28-6t.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30
For Rent.

TOR RENT-Livery stables In rear Of
by Allen Tyler. Apply to w. Lake Robin
son or Edward q. Phillips. 5-3l-tf.
COK RENT--Desirable Off ce, electric lights
ETC., In the New BI own Building Apply
]. Ben Brown. 9-30-tf
E,OR RENT-Two rooms on Poplar ST., Sec
ond floor. VIII improve to suit tenant.
Edgar b. Simmons
EOR RENT--House on Willis street, now
occupied by Mr. Howard Bradshaw,
which rents for $3.50 a month. Apply to e.
s. Phillips lG22-tf
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30
FOR SALE

DOR SALE--Fine building lots on Oakley
L street. Apply Calvin Harrington or W
g. Winterbottom. 7-l3'tf.
TOR SAL E-More interesting than a novel,
Woodrow wilson wrote the most inter-
esting story of the American people ever
written. 1t is the story OF our country's life
from earliest times to the point where his
tory and the present meet. Write Harper
& brothers, Franklin Square, Few York, for
full particulars. Sl7-u
TOR SALE-Good cord wood, oak and pine;
j. 3yokes good steers; old steer; tim Der
carts, large, 2 medium; pair mules. Cor
dy B. Smith, Cambridge, Md. 6-17-tf
TOR SALE-Cheap. Good slab wood, cut
In stove lengths, at g. u. PHILIPPE mill on;
Dixon's tract, opposite r. 7. Derby's road
gate apply to Cam bridge Mfg. Co. 8l7-tf
TOR SALE-2i horse power Fairbank en-
gine In splendid condition. GOOD as new.
viii be sold cheap on account of putting In
Electric Motors. Walter I. stevens. corner
high and Gay Sts,, Cambridge, Nd. l05-tf.
EoR SALE-1 Gray Mare sound and good
worker, mule, COWS, horse cart and
pigs. e. W. Gibbons, Route, l. l0-202wks
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30

WANTED-An instructor in Shirts. must
w know how to work parts. Good wages
to right party. Apply J. e. Waller. Fishing
Creek, Md. lO-2S-3t.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-30
Wanted.

yT,ANTED-As stenogra pher. Thos. e. Jones
w Il Co 10-18-tf.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-09-20
western Newspaper Union news servics-
DATES Or COMING EVENTS.

September 1920 : western slope
atr--Montrose.
Sept. lS-2o.-san Luis Valley Fair. Ala
Inosa
September 2o-Grand commandery.
knights Templar of colorado-Denver.
september 2f-Arapahoe County FAIR
at Deer Trail
September I9-e1-Del Norte Fair =
Del Norte.
Sept. 24-2s.--coiorado State Medical
association. Pueblo.
sept. 26.-openinK Weld County EAR.
Rifle
September 24-27-crowley County
Fair. Sugar City
September 2f-27-Las Animas County
Fair-Trinidad
September 24-27-Mesa County In
anstriai and Fruit Fair-Grand juno
September 24-s7-coiorado and New
Mexico Fair and Indian carnival-Du-
=, September 24-27-Hotchkiss Fair
Hotchkiss
September 25-27-san Luis Valley
October H-I9-Festivai of Mountain
and Plaln-Denver
oct. 1S-20.-Episcopal Council meeting
at Grand Junction.
October 24-25-Bench Show OF Colo
rado Kennel Club. at Denver.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-09-20
News Summary of the Past Week
S o

The United States is about to inter-
vene in Santo Domingo. Warships will
be dispatched at once to the island.
A revolution has broken out which
threatens American and other foreign
interests.
Promotion for $4,000 railway postal
clerks on October 1 will be provided
in orders to be issued by Postmaster
General Hitchcock. More than 81 ,000,-
600 will be expended in making the
promotions.
Mrs. Joseph Letter, wife of the mil
lionaire and former wheat king, has
eschewed the pleasures OF Bar Har-
Dor and Newport for the delights of
her million-dollar glass palace in the
woods on the Virginia hills.
Foreign grown sugar beet seed, up
on which the entire beet sugar indus
try of this country now is dependent,
may be abandoned before very long
for a domestic product.
The first cotton ginning report OF
the census bureau for the 1912 season
shows 729.926 bales ginned prior to
Sept. /. Round bales included 6.134
Seal Island bales included 213.
In the opinion of the Department OF
Justice Socialism is no barrier to citi
zenship.
Bumper crops of corn. white pota
toes. spring wheat. oats. barley. rye
and buckwheat are forecasted by the
crop reporting board Of the Depart
ment of Agriculture in its September
report.
Miss Margaret Valentine Kelly, as
sistant director Of the mint and the
second highest paid woman in the ser
vice of the United States government
is to be married soon to Major Robert
Callem.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-09-20
PROPOSED SECOND eLoesMeNr.
soyce sWrote Young wife, and sneed
Read Letter.

Amarillo. Tex.-John Beall Sneed's
motive for killing AL. Boyce. who
eloped with Mrs. Sneed last winter.
was q letter frfom Boyce to the young
wife. which the husband intercepted.
The letter is said to have proposed
another elopement.
The clans OF the Boyces and Sneeds
are gathering here as the result of
the sensational unwritten-law killing
OF Boyce by Sneed here. All three of
the Boyce brothers-Linn. VIII and
Heary Boyce-are here and have
wired for number OF their relatives
and friends to hasten to Amarillo.