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Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-30
A LASTING EFFECT.

At later interview, MT. Brown said: T still hold a high opinion of Doan s Kidney Pills and confirm the public statement I gave in their praise some years ago. Kidney trouble and have been strangers for a long time."
 For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster -Milburn Co.,, Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States.
 Remember the name-Doan's-an take no other.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-30

Man is glad te remove his hat ia tn.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-30

The worms have no reason to com plain of the chestnut crop this year and apparently they have no fear of the ptomaines in the blight.-Ansonia Sentinel
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
STATE WILL CONTEST.
Son Sues on Ground e. G. Davis Of
Neosho Never LIFT Testament.

Joplin-A case to determine the
lawful heirs to the $4,000 estate left
by b. G. Davis of Neosho, Mo-, who
died in November, 1912, was begun in
circuit court here Davis was thrice
married, and three heirs are involved
in the suit.
Davis was Confederate soldier
Soon after the close of the war he
left his family In Kentucky, fearing
death at the hands of his enemies
made while serving in the cause of
the South. At Pierce City, Mo-, he
was married again. Ills wife died
within two years AMI later he went
to Neosho, where he was married
third time. The third wife also is
dead.
Testimony is to be presented to the
effect that a will was made by Davis
leaving his property to his first wife
and children. The plaintiff in the suit
is Ezra Davis, son by the second
marriage. There are three sons by
the first marriage, one of whom is
S. l.. Davis of Kansas City. The
other persons involved are relatives
of the third wife. Ezra Davis con.
tends that will never was made by
his father. Davis was a widely-known
cattleman Of southwest Missouri
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
CAPITOL BIDS VARY
Fourteen Contract Prices Offered eu.
From $91,221 to S17o.e53.

Jeftt rscn City.-Fourteen constr,,c
ton firms bid for the contract tn mn,
in the foundation for the new state
capitol, with a range of more thar
$4,000 between the offers.
Following is list of the bidd,rs
and the amounts asked, all being sinh
mitted scaled:
Poiligieen Construction comnarv
st. Louis, $4,000; Carroll Constr,c.
tion company, st. Louis, S1134o,.
r. Johnson & Son, Sedal,a, S9l .22r
Mckenzie Williams Construction cor,
pany, Webb City, $139, 500: Josepb
Pope, Jefferson City, S112,9OO; God.
frey G. Hirsch, St Louis, $l2gq23.
Hiram L. Lloyd Building COMPANY. s.
Louis, s13s,0O0; Steininger.Taylor
Construction company, st. Louis
$4,000; Westlake Construction com.
pany, st. Louis, s170,653 c. O. NJ
Bronx Building company, ST. Louis
S9S,700; Morrison Bros, Kansas CITY
$i34,h00; F. II. Wurster, San DIEGO
Cal, 1871; Il. l.. VIM Construction
company, Kansas City, $1i5.5OO. and
Ernest Braun, Jefferson City, Sl09-
500.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
GETS PRISON CONTRACT.
Packing company's Bid for Meats Ac-
cepted for Year.

Jefferson City.-The Armour Pack
ing company of Kansas City was
awarded the contract for supplying
fresh and cured meat to the peniten-
tiary for the ensuing year at prices
above the contract of last year.
The bidders were Armour & Co,
Cudahy, Swift 4 Co., Morris & Co.,
and Sulzbefger & Sons.
The price per pound OF the various
meats will cost as follows: Beef, go
cents; pork, 1890; mutton, 1910;
frankfurters, 1915; pork sausage,
1O.1S, and bacon, 14.49.
A year ago the beef contract was
awarded to the same firm at 7.S4
cents per pound. The increase Is said
TO be due TO the scarcity of cattle and
increased prices. The contract will
amount to about $4,000 month.
In the course of year the prison
uses about 100000 pounds of beef,
$4,000 pounds of pork. $4,000 pounds
OF mutton, $4,000 pounds of bacon.
10000 pounds of pork sausage and 15.-
coo pounds of frankfurters.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
.AFRA|DOF TARIFF MEASURE
MURDOCH SAYS CHANGE WILL
RUIN PROSPERITY.
Progressive Congressman. in Minority
Report, Asks for Commission to
Secure Information.

Washington. n. CA tariff COM
mission, with power to elicit informa.
ton, was urged, reasonable reduction
of any duty obviously excessive was
advocated. and radical reductions not
founded on adequate information were
opposed in a minority report present
ed TO the house by Representative
Victor Murdoch OF Kansas. the Pro-
gressive member of the ways and
means committee.
Murdoch asserted that IL there had
been wanting proof OF the necessity
of a tariff commission, the pending
Democratic tariff bill alone would sup
ply It,
He charged that as a result of the
methods used in its preparation. the
few men who drafted II ARE not war
ranted in feeling certainty as to its
affects, and most of those who have
endorsed 1t in caucus as a party meas
ure cannot have other than q super
fetal knowledge of its provisions.
Under the guise of reducing the
cost OF living" he said. lit may de.
stroy the very basis of our industrial
prosperity. Proposing and promising
TO cheaper the food and clothing Of
the workingman, it may take from
him the very means by which he may
earn his livelihood"
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
STATE BOARD MEETS.
Railroads, Street Railways and Phone
Company Hearings to Be in May.

Jefferson City.-The state board OF
equalization convened here for the
purpose of assessing the railroad,
street railway, telegraph and tele-
phon companies and the bridge prop.
erty Of the state for the present.
years taxes.
Gov. Major was named president
and state Auditor Gordon secretary.
During the approaching month repre-.
sentatives of the various classes of
property will be given hearings as to
the physical value of the property to
be assessed.
The total values placed upon these
classes last year was approximately
S1S5,O00.D00. This valuation will be
increased to keen pace with the in
crease in real estate and personal
property and somewhe' between So
100000 and $10,O00,O0O will be added.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
FUMES CHECK RESCUERS;
NO HOPE FOR ENT0MBED
Si>ty Who Rcscn Surface Say Entries
are Filled With the Dead-En.
frances Are closged but Tappings
Heard on Outside Give Hope-Res-
cue Squad Of U. S. Bureau Of Mines
Give First Aid-After Damp Caused
Death Of vietims-Most Of Dead
Are Foreigners.

Pittsburg, Pa.-There are 10
counted as dead and 100 believed
TO be entombed in the Cincinnati mine
OF the Monongahela River CONSOLIDATE
ed Coal and Coke company, at Finley
vile, about p miles southeast of
here, which was fired by an explosion
yesterday afternoon.
The flames which prevented rescue
work for many hours have been sub
dued sufficiently to permit squads to
so in.
More than three score workmen
made thrilling escapes, crawling most
of the time on their hands and knees
through deadly gas fumes and over
debris. Many were badly burned.
Seventy bodies have been brought
to the entrances and the work of re-
covery continues.
Faint tappings against pipes and de-
bris in the mine are plainly heard
by a frantic crowd of men, women
and children outside the mine.
Two-thirds OF the victims are for.
eiguers.
The bodies were located by rescu-
ing squads of the United States Blu.
reau of mines, the Monongahela Riv-
er Consolidated Coal and Coke com.
pany and the Pittsburg Coal company.
As the rescuers found a body it was
carried to an entrance. None, how
ever. was brought to the surface.
Preparations are being made to
handle the dead. Box cars have been
ordered to a mine siding. 1t is an
ncunced the victims will be taken
from the mine and shipped at once
to Monongahela City to be prepared
for burial.
Rescue work Is hampered by after.
damp.
The federal mine rescue car sta
toned at Bruceton, Pa, left there for
Flnleyville Immediately on receipt of
news of the disaster.
Conditions in the mine, as far as it
could be penetrated. indicate that
most Of the men were not killed by
the explosion, but were caught by af-
ter-damp.
The bodies were found scattered in
the entrance, where death by asphyxi-
alton overlook the victims, while they
were attempting to reach safety.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
BRYCE QUITS WASHINGTON
AMBASSADOR WHO REFUSED II.
TIE RETURNS HOME.
"commoner" Has Been Before Pub
lie over Half century-Will Re-
sumo His Literary Pursuits.

Washington, ID. C.-IIon. James
Bryce, British ambassador, rs years
Young. said farewell to Washington
and started back to England to take
up the literary labors he dropped in
1907 when his government detailed
him to the United States TO settle vex.
ing international disputes.
The ambassadors rudy face,
framed in its aureole of white whis-
kers, was solemn as he said good-by
to the diplomatists and national Of
ficials who made a little fete in the
Union depot, bidding Godspeed.
Yours is a wonderful country and
wonderful government" he said. Il
am leaving It perhaps for the last
time. Naturally, it makes me feel
sad. l am going back to my home
in Sussex, where / will complete a
work on Australia and possibly fur
Their revise my history Of American
Eovernment-who knowsY' And the
ambassador laughed happily and
beamed upon his wife.
W IVA DA9tN . uNHnA luit OlC Vi AhN
noted characters in international life
steps from the stage of events. In
his long career-he has been a public
figure since he was 81 years old-he
has been scholar, author of books on
subjects ranging from botany, natur-
al and political history to interna-
tional Jurisprudence, diplomat and
college professor. Countless degrees
and membership titles in learned or
ganizations have been showered on
him.
Through all his successes he has
remained plain James Bryce. Al
though he was for long time men,
Der of the British cabinet, chief Sec
rotary for Ireland and chancellor
and was offered a title by the gov
eminent, he refused it, preferring to
remain a commoner.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
WOULD STOP PARK SPOONING
Kansas City Police Chief Plans Way
to End Public Lovemaking
With Searchllght

Kansas City. Mo.-To stop
"spooning" in Swope park, Chief
of Police Griffin said he hoped soon
to install upon one of the high towers
of the park shelter house a powerful
searchlight, "the eagle eye of which
would bring into the limelight all cou-
pies secluded over the 1,20O acres of
hill and dale the park contains"
The board of public welfare and
the park board recently have made
urgent complaints to the police
against indiscriminate lovemaking in
Swope.
Il believe the searchlight is the so
luton" said Chief Griffin. This park
spooning must be stopped"
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
MILITIA TO GO IN CAMP
5rleadier Clark Arranges 1918 Field
Duty for Missouri Guardsmen.

Nevada,-Brig. Gen. Harvey c
Clark, commanding the Missouri Ma.
tional guard, has issued an order COY.
ering the 1913 field duty. The order
provides for the annual encampment
OF all the infantry regiments here
July 13 to 20.
Batteries A of ST. Louis and b OF
Kansas City are instructed to engage
in practice marches from their head
quarters on such dates as their com
handing officers may select, the tour
in each case to be eight days
Troop B cavalry of St Louis is or.
dered to practice march for eight
days from its headquarters on dates
to be named by its commanding Of
ficer, unless arrangements now I'M
der consideration are completed for
1t to participate in a practice march
Of Illinois and Wisconsin cavalry, to
be made from Chicago during the
summer.
About 1000 men will camp at Ne
vada, the service being in the nature
of division school of instruction.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
BERTHA CAPPs DENIES EVl.
DENCE SHE GAVE, CONVICT.
ING FATHER OF MURDER.
SWORE PARENT FIRED HOME
Largely Through Her Testimony
Methodist Minister Was Convict
ed Of Staying His Three Chill.
dren-Brother Regulates.

Fort Smith, Ark Bertha Capps, rs
FEARS Old. daughter Of Roy. Marion
Caps, recently convicted and sen.
fenced to hang for burning his three
children to death, rcpudlates her tes-
timony given in the trial of her faith.
er, and which was largely responsi.
bic for bis conviction
It is said that Ellis Capps, 10 years
old her brother. has also made the
statement that his testimony against
his father was false.
Mr.. Caps, a Methodist minister Of
White Bluff, was convicted here
month ago for the deaths Of his thrco
children in a fire that destroyed his
home December Is last.
Bertha Caps, In her testimony.
said she was tied in an oil-soaked
bed and the doors or the room locked.
She also swore she saw her father
leave her room and lock the door
while the fire was being started.
The room was saturated with oil,
she said. In her confession che makes
a general denial OF her testimony,
and now says the fire undoubtedly
was caused by the explosion OF a
lamp and that her father was in no
way responsible for the deaths OF his
children.
The Caps children that were
burned to death were: Posie, 8 Prls-
ella, 3, and Mack, ~. Ellis and Ber-
tina were also injured in the blaze.
The girl at the trial declared she
was forced TO lie in bed until the
fames from the burning house ate
through the ropes that bound her and
then, staggering, and half blinded by
the smoke and gas from the burning
oil, she managed to escape from the
house and fee TO the home of neigh
bors, where she gave the alarm and
caused rescuers tc rush to the house,
but too late to save two of the chill
dren, who were burned in the build
ing, and another child that died a
few hours later as the result OF
burns.
The boy testified that after he es-
capped from the fire his father told
him that If he did not return into the
building to rescue the remaining chill
dren he would tie his hands and feet
and throw him into the flames.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
ONE CONTRACT AWARDED
johnson Company Of Sedalia viii
Build Foundation for $9t,321.

Jefferson City.-The state capitol
commission awarded the contract for
the construction of a concrete foun-
dation for the new state capitol to
t. H. Johnson & Son of Sedalia for
$91 1921, this being the lowest bid The
work will begin Immediately The
company gave a bond for $4,000 for
faithful compliance with the terms of
the contract. The foundation is TO be
completed under the contract by Sep
TENDER /.
When the board receives the final
plans for the capitol proper from the
architects on July 1 it will advertise
for bids for its construction. The
capitol must be built of Missouri
stone.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
WOMAN FREED OF MURDER
Mrs. AppIebaum Says He Told Her
you've Got Just Five Minutes
to Live"

Atlanta, Ga.-Mrs. Callie Scott
hpplebaum took the stand in her
trial for the murder CT her hus-
band, a Chicago salesman, and told
the jury that she was "as innocent as
an angel in Heaven"
"At 1920 midnight, on Feb 25,"
said Mrs, Applebaum, my husband
lay down beside me with revolver
in his hand and said: You've got just
five minutes TO live put my head
under the cover and told him to
shoot. / give you my word of honor
l do not remember anything else tin
| was in the housekeeper's room the
next morning, and some one was
bathing my head"
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
PREDICTS HIGHER MEAT COST
sWift's New Year Book Says sIaueh.
ter Of Calves and Cattle Scarcity
viii Boost Price.

Chicago.-Iincreased cattle pro
duction and prohibition of the
slaughter of calves for veal are put
forth in the Year Book Of Swift &
Co, packers. as necessary to keen
beef prices from going still higher.
Tables show that, while the popula.
ton of the United States increased
16,563,00O in the last 10 years. the
production Of cattle decreased 1865
400 head.
To relieve the pressure the consum-
ing public is urged to eat more NUT
ton and lamb and to cut out veal,
the consumption of which has ex-
banded 100 per cent in a decade.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
JUNGLE MITCH" DIES.
Festus Pioneer Lived In Same Home
stead for 80 Years,

Festus.-Mitchell Mccormick, 80
years old, of Plattin station, died at
his home.
The aged man, who had lived in the
Mccormick homestead since 1880, was
known in Jefferson, st. Francois, Ste.
Genevieve and Washington counties
and in st. Louis as Uncle Mitch"
In his early days he traded extern
sively In live stock throughout south.
ern Missouri.
He was born in 1923 in st. Fran.
co.'s county and was the Oldest living
member of the Mccormick family. He
was the son OF Hardy Mccormick.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
8 SUFFRAGETTES SENTENCED
MRS. oespsrd Gets Fourteen Days and
Her Companions Receive Ten
Days Each.

London England.-Mrs. Charles
Despard, the leader of the suffragettes
arrested while trying to hold a meet
ing in Trafalgar square. was sen.
fenced to ID days Imprisonment in
default OF payment of a fine OF SIS.
Her companions we're sentenced to 10
days each.
Mrs. Despard declared that the at.
tempt to hold meeting In Trafalgar
square was made as a protest against
the governments prohibition OF suf.
trage meetings in Hyde park.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
TO BUILD RIVER LEVEE.
Citizens Consider Plan to Protect
Thousands Of Acres.

New Madrid.-Citizens OF New Ma
drid considered the question Of build
ing a levee. Three plans were pro
posed, one TO associate with the St
Johns levee district, one with the
Little River drainage and levee dis
trict and one to organize a New Ma
drid district.
The st. Johns district will contain
10000 acres. The New Madrid levee
will protect 100000 acres extending
from high ground .below this city to
high ground at Farrenburg, a distance
of II miles.
No figures were available OF the Lit
tie River district and a committee,
with II. c. Riley as chairman, was ap-
pointed to report at an adjourned
meeting to be held with instructions
to make full examination of the plans
and inform the citizens as fully as
possible.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
5000 BOY SCOUTS HUNT GIRL
Child, 9, Mysteriously Disappears
While Selling Tickets for Church
Benefit-Gypsies Suspected.

Chicago, 1ll.-Three thousand Boy
Scouts in Chicago were enlisted
in the search for Katherine Winters,
8 years old, who disappeared from
her home In Newcastle, Ind, March
20, while selling tickets for a church
benefit.
A committee of boys representing
the scouts called at detective head
quarters to get description of the
missing child, who is believed to have
been kidnapped by gypsies, who
brought her to Chicago or some city
near by.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
LOWER RIVER LEVEE BREAKS
Point Coupee and IbervlIle Parishes
viii Be Partly FIooded-RaiI
Traffic Threatened,

Melville, LA portion Of the
main levee forming the east bank
Of the Atchafalaya river, north
of Krotz Springs, gave way. The
crevasse will flood parts of Point Cou-
pee and Iberville parishes.
The Frisco railroad between Baton
Rouge and Opelousas and the South
ern Pacific branch between Baton
Rouge and Lafayette will be cut by
the flood waters, and the Texas &
Pacific between Plaquemine and Mel
vile will be abandoned.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01

John eeal, Editor
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
serubwoman Leavee s5o.ooo.

New York.-M.s. Matilda Wynne, a
negress, an Oyster Bay washerwoman
and scrubwomaD, left an estate Of
more than $4,000 The estate in.
Guided $4,000 deposited In New York
and Brooklyn savings banks.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
WORKING 10 Aid Victims.

Washington.-"An army Of mercy"
under the direction Of the Red Cross,
numbering approximately 5000. and
having at its command nearly $1,000
600. is working throughout the re-
Gently flooded districts in Ohio, help
ing impoverished plain people" back
to independence
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
MiIitantS Burn Rowboats,

birmingham, England.--A band OF
militant suffragettes burned four hand
somely equipped rowboats at the fash
ionable Handsworth Park boathouse.
The boats were burned to the waters
edge and on the charred hulls the
women left Votes for Women"
placards.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
Fishulue Discoverer Dies.

Gloucester, Mass.-Beniamin Rob-
inson. the discoverer Of fshglUe. died
al the age Of 81. When eating fish
chowder many years ago, he noted a
gluey substance on his spoon and af-
ter experimenting for some time es.
tablished an industry which has be-
come one of the largest in the city.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
Arrest Of Glover ord.res.

Washington.-Arrest of Charles C.
Glover, millionaire president OF the
Riggs National hank. and his appear
ance before the house on a charge
Of contempt because Of his assault
upon Representative Sims Of Tonnes
see was recommended to the house
by the subcommittee.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
Thief Gets $4,000 From Bank.

McAlester, Ok.-Whilq Cashier
Badger OF the Calvin National bank
at Calvin was at lunch some person
or persons entered the building
through a window in the basement,
entered the the bank through a trap
door and took $4,000 from the till. All
but s535 was in currency, $40 bills
and under.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
Miners Reject Pronosal.

Charleston, w. Va-The striking
miners Of the Goa! fields in this yicin-
itY rejected the proposals of Coy. Hat.
field for a settlement OF he strike
which we're accepted several days ago
by the operators.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
Fer Uniform Labor Laws.

Washington.-An amendment to
the constitution which, when ratified
by two-thirds OF the states, would
give congress the power to make
uniform the hours of labor through
out the United States. is proposed in
a resolution introduced in the house
by Representative Curley of Massa-
Chusetts
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
Explosion on Liner Imperator.

Hamburg.-It is said that the Ham,
burg-American giant Imperator was
rot injured by the explosion reported
aboard the liner. The story was that
several cans of petrol blew up be-
cause OF carelessness in handling and
eight men were injured.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01

Kansas City.-The fourth trial Of
DR., B. Clarke Hyde. accused of the
murder Of Col. Thomas H. Swope,
scheduled to open at Kansas City,
was. at the request OF the state, post
poned until September g.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
Two Entombed Miners Found Alive

Pittsburg, Pa.-Two men were
found alive shortly after midnight in
the Cincinnati mine at Finleyville, the
scene Of Wednesdays explosion, in
which from 80 to lis men lost their
lives.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01

spcii the rod and spare the child
Is the modern way.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
Former County Surveyor Is Held

Macon.-Sheriff Joseph Holvey ar
rived from Denver, having in his Gus
tody Leroy d. Williams, former sur
veyor OF Macon county, Mo, who IS
charged, while in office, collected and
appropriated money for bridge work
that belonged to Macon county.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
100000 Awarded TO Girl.

Little Rock, Ark Judgment for
100000 against W c. Faucette. for
mer mayor and wealthy citizen Of
Areenta, Ark, IN favor OF Lota An.
derson Of Fort Worth, Tex, for
breach Of promise, Mas awarded.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
Strike Cost Is 10000 .nnn.

Brussels, Belgium. Competent
economists reckon the money loss
caused by the recent strike for equal
suffrage at S2O,OO0OO0. This, the So
cialist leaders declare. has been well
lost il the country has thereby won
equal suffrage
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01

Evansville, lud-When Rev. Ora
per Reed a Free Methodist minister
Al Ncwburg, Ind, was arraigned be-
fore a justice FOR beating his wife,
he said THE devil is in me-" lie
has been conducting A revival.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
Another MuIlane AssaiIant sentence

lronton.-Charles Parvis. one of
me eight men who are on trial at
lronton for attacking Mrs. Lily Null
lane near Annapolis, Mo, was SEN
fenced to five years in the peniten-
tiary.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
RaIty Lands a ss.non Lob.

Washington, d. C.-James l.. Baity.
private secretary to Senator James
A. Reed of Missouri, was nominated
Tor auditor OF the war department.
Mr' Baity will draw $4,000 a year in
his new place.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01

Fifty thousand dollars is a neat sum.
useful in old age. But It's long odds
that an aviator so reckless as 10 be
willing TO fly across the Atlantic 10
get the money would never live to a
ripe old age anyway.