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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
BOY OF IS ADMITS
He IS SLAYER OF 8
ELoIN FARM MURDERS CLEARED
BY CONFESSION OF PARoLED
DELINQUENT.
"IUsT BLOOD LUST" HE SAYS
Shot Mother Three Times After She
Fled From Kitchen - Struck
Down Babies With Axe and
Hid Them in Cistern.

Elgin, III. - Herman Coppes, 16
ear old, confessed that he was the
slayer of Mrs. Hanny Sleep and her
two small children, whose bodie9
were found in a cistern under the
kitchen of the Sleep farm, FIVE miles
west of Elgin.
Coppes says the killing resulted
from Mrs. Sleep saying she would
see about it," when he had refused in
i'll humor to do n of his accus-
tered chores after school.
mo, it has not bothered me at ALL
Coppes replied when question as to
whether the killing had interfered
with his taking his meals at the
kitchen table, which is . feet above
the c~istern, where the bodies lay for
a week. Il don't know why | killed
Mrs. Sleep and the children unless it
vas just blood-lust."
Coppes' Story of the Murders.
Lack of sleep after being arrested
appeared to be the cause OF Coppes'
inclination to confess. Al first he
only admitted writing the letter which
was found with Mrs. Sleeps body,
and which %purported to tell OF her in
tention to commit suicide after she
had made way with her two children.
"Oh, Herman, Herman, why did you
do it," Mrs. Sleep screamed when
she had been shot twice and had run
from the kitchen into the next room.
Coppes said as soon as he began to
talk freely. Then | shot her thrSe
times more and threw her into the
cistern.
"OrVille, 8 years old, and Sarah, 2
years old, who had been standing in
the kitchen eating bread and butter,
started to cry, and l stepped out and
got the axe and hit them 10th on the
head. When the bodies we're all in
the c~istern, | went and did my regu-
lar evening work"
DR.. H. ]. Gahagan made an exam
nation of Coppes and said that the
youth was unquestionably subnormal.
Later the prisoner vas photographed
and during the process displayed Pc
culiar levity.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
might let us have it dyed"

might let us have it dyed"
SILLY! Haven't you been ear
ing scarfs right along? My silver
gauze isn't a patch on that old lace
thing. I'll bet it's full Of holes"
1T isn't the veil, it's that odd red
flower. If she makes a red rag look
like that, wonder what she could do
with these sweet peas?"
The stylish two started on, and
the other woman sauntered along on
the sunny side Of the street. The
blood red flower glowed in dramatic
contrast to its somber setting, but it
was the rusty lace shawl that made
her different from that thousand 9TH
er women.
For In the lace mantilla Of her coun-
try Is folded the Of old Spain.
The mystery of its grace cannot be
learned from a fashion page. 1t must
be taught in Spain.
And by way Of a first lesson one
must be born there.
HA# aL - E
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

Il was enlightened, though. very
shortly, for ] received a second mes
sage. It read: 'Telegrapher made a
mistake. Message intended for you
sent to Senator -. He has yours
ION exchanging kilograms with the
senator, ! found them very similar.
His read:
~ have always supported your wing
Of the party. | have always trained
with the progressives. I want your
support for the post office at X.
Please do what you can for me.fr
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
"ROOTlNG" NOT LOUD NOISE
Western City Attorney Rules Base
ball Park Would Not lnjure
Hospital in Vicinity.

San Francisco, Cal.--Baseball
roofing may not legally be classed
among cloud and unnecessary noises"
Such in effect is the ruling IN
nounced of the city attorney on the
protest of a local hospital against the
proposed location of a new Coast
league ball park in the vicinity of the
institution.
An ordinance designed to protect
hospitals was cited, but the city at
torney held that it referred only to
street noises incident to traffic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
NATIONAL GAlgiaIEd93
.AlFEAIIIQS g. zEEEz
Uncle Sans Postal Machine Performs Wonders
he lets George dol IL.

He lets George do 1t.
All the nice clerk has to do now is
to play a little ~fandango on the top
roll piano, take a crisp note from the
oven, turn the organ crank. make the
pedal thing snap a round bite out of
your certificate, and-and-
But, maybe, 1t might be more reAa-
bly, satisfactory for you to go your
own self to the postal window with a
nice little bill and tell the clerk you
want to belong. You mustn't get
nervous For while he is a clerk who
looks clever enough to write a law
book, there is also a something about
him that makes you know he could be
tagged for Fairgrounds and scouts.
And you can stand up like a soldier
and tell your truly age. He will never
breathe it, for two reasons. One is
official reference. The other is that
he doesn't care a cahoot-
II you are d prosaic person with
eyes like that hawk that lends itself
10 accommodatingly to sigh-compari-
sons, you will see in George merely
an invention which will do things for
the clerk, but
If your mathematical capacity per-
mits you to put two and two together
and make five Of it, the new machine
takes on the aspect of that other
George, who is there to help you down
your wolf, as once he downed his own
dragon.
And to have help in your battle with
the wolf means something. II you
have eyer glimpsed the sharp white
Of his teeth.
N. Bit is always safest to hedge
Maybe the machine isn't SO b%rand-new,
after all, except to the woman. And
ito Solomon.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
Childish Consistency.

II only we realized 1t. If only we Gull
tivated 1t more, we could see with
clear-eyed vision that all OF. a child's
original nature breathes constancy. 1t
y an essential strength Of the unde-
filed child's nature to be constant. Not
until our own false examples have at
tackled the natural purity Of the child
does 1t become inconstant-unreliable.
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
MESSAGE From Col. Astor.

Boston.-An echo of the wreck of
the Titanic was furnished by Capt.
Willis Of the British tramp steamer
Longspar, which arrived from French
ports. He says he has in his posses
sion a message which Col. John ia
cob Aston wrote before he went down
to death off the Grand Banks.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
tackles to Cruise to Europe.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Daniels an
nounced that next winter practically
the entire Atlantic feet would be sent
on a three months cruise &c the Med
iterranean. This will be the new sec
retary's first step in pursuance of his
policy to make the navy, in times Of
peace, a great educational force for
the enlisted men.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
Ray Pfanschmidt to Hanq.

Quincy, Ill.-Ray Pfanschmidt vas
found guilty of the murder of his
mother, father, sister and Miss Emma
Kaempen by a jury and as a penalty
for his crime he must die. While
technically Ray Pfanschmidt was
found guilty of the murder of his sis
ter, Blanch Pfanschmidt, in reality he
was found guilty of the killing of all
four persons found murdered on the
Pfanschmidt farm last September.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
GUILTY OF NUMBERING SON
Father, Causing Death of Boy Under
Cars, Says He Made Agreement
for Both to End Lives.

Seattle, Wash.-C. N. Johnson,
a stationary engineer, was found
guilty of murder in the first
degree for causing the death Of his
6-year-old child by standing with the
boy in his arms in front of a speeding
train, Dec. 8, 1912.
Johnson, on the witness stand, told
of making a death agreement with
his little son, after Johnson and his
wife had quarreled.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

Sarah. the new maid. was unused to
city ways. One day soon after her
arrival her mistress noticed a pail
hanging from the gas bracket In the
hall %Suspecting the country girl, she
called Sarah and asked what It all
meant, well, you see, ma'am." re-
Piled Sarah, "the master said the gas
was leaking, 80 ] put up the pail to
,ateh It."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
Banker Guilty Of consplracy.

Bellingham, Wash.-Jacob Furth,
millionaire Seattle banker, was found
guilty Of conspiracy in connection
with the insolvency of the Schricker
bank of L~acouner, Wash. Furth was
accused of having e~onGpired with
Schricker to accept deposits when
they knew the bank was in~solvent.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

It is quite indicative that when a
girl speaks of her corsetier that her
father makes at least $1,000 per an
mum, and also when she speaks of her
Parislenne corsetiere, daddy has got
another raise,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

A Gotham mar is to be investigated
on the charge Of having offered a po-
lieeman q bride of $40. 1t is not stat
ed whether the offense consisted in
the neager nature of the bribe.
Gotham policemen coming very much
higher.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

Here and there you will see a re-
sourceful young nan wearing one of
those green hats and trying to es-
cape, avoid, or minimize the deep
darnation thereof by having the bow
shifted from the back to the side.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
KING George plsIIkes snapehota.

London-King George doesn't share
the German crown princes taste for
snapshot pictures. He has caused 1t
to be known several times that he
objects to the sort of photographs
published and also to being snapped
Unfortunately.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

The complaint of the New York
lady that on an income of $4,000 a
year she had to help in the homework
Is expected to arouse sympathy and
commiseration only among the Little
Brothers of the Rich"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
Woman Would Burn Depot.

Danville, Ill.-Charged with having
threatened to burn the Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern station at ORAL
Ion, unless the agent there promoted
her husband to the position of section
foreman, Mrs. Ernestine Phelps of
O'Fallon was sent to jail under $4,000
bond.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
MlssIna Girl Returns.

Flora, Ind.-Miss Mabel Glasscock,
the Indiana university student who
has been missing for a week from
Indianapolis, has returned to her
home. She was taken sick and had
gone to a friends home.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
Lower Arkansas Inundated.

Memphis, Tenn.-Water from the
breaks in the Laconia Circle levee, On
the Arkansas side Of the Mississippi
river, near the mouth Of White river,
IL in~undating a large section Of south
east Arkansas.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
Reseuea FIFTY From steamer.

Norfolk, Vain response to a wire
less call, so passengers were taken
from the steamer City of Baltimore.
While on the way from Baltimore to
Norfolk she broke a cylinder head 10
miles below Annapolis. Md.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
WllIia Moore Elred.

Washington.-Prof. Willis L. Moore
chief Of the weather bureau, was sum
moved from office at the direction Of
rection OF President Wilson. 1t was
announced in the executive offices
that the reason for this action was
serious irregularities In Office
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
Wilson Heads Boy Scouts.

Westinghouse a mark of appreci-
alton for the work Of the boy scouts
in acting as guides at the inaugural
March A, PRESIDENT Wilson accepted
the honorary presidency Of the Boy
Scouts of America.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

The c%artoonists these days are
welding the pencil to portray spring
buds. About the best spring buds in
the minds of women, however, are
those seen in the millinery depart
ments marked $49.98.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
Hone Joins Charity and Faith.

Greenwich, Conn.-The death here
of Mrs. Hope Tower Allcorn, the last
Of triplets born in England 50 years
ago and named Faith, Hope and Char
ity, is announced. Charity lived to
he only So years old. Faith died at "a.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
Earthquake il Tennessee.

Knoxville, Tenn.-According to re-
ports reaching here from other sec
tons OF east Tennessee, a severe
earthquake shock was experienced.
No lives we're reportd lost.
xNHencE ETAO SHRD 1905. 177
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
New Administration Arrlves.

New York.-Dr. Constantin Theo-
dore Dumba, Australia ungary's new
ambassador to the United States, ar
rived here from Europe, He proceed
ed to Washington, where he will pre-
gent his credentials to President VIII
ION.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

Bloomington, nl.--Cecil Loshey, .
young farmer of Vernon, Ind, went
into a churchyard at Greenwich and
killed himself by swallowing carbolie
acid. He was said to be despondeni
over i'll health,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
slnms ATTACKED bv Banker.

washington Because Representa-
tive Sims refused TO apologize for a
speech in the house about Charles @.
Glover, president Of the Riggs Ma
tional bank, Glover attacked Sims liz
Farragnt square.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

Advance fashion bulletins decree
that the women will wear smaller hats
during the coming season. but at the
same time are maintaining an eio-
quent ailenee regarding the size Of
che hole they will make In poor old
dads po~cketbook.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

The countess D'Lasteyric has bag
ged fourteen goats shooting with her
left hand. Not so remarkable when
it ia considered that some people get
goats hands down.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
IL Hurt on Cotton ReIt.

Pine Bluff, Ark.-More than a dozen
passengers we're injured when north.
bound passenger train No. 2 on the
Cotton Belt railroad was wrecked
north Of Camden A chair car asd
two parIor cars left the rails.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
lnuentor,a Estate Small.

Los Angeles, Cal.-The estate Of
the late Prof. Thaddeus s. G. Lowe,
soldier, scientist and inventor, and
once many times a millionaire, has
been appraised at 1868 in filing bis
will for probate.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
CALGARY Has 100000 Fire.

Calgary.--Ffre which broke out In
the Mcleod clothing store destroyed
the building and contents and spread
to the plant Of the Afbertan, a news,
paper, wrecling the Gplant. The loss
is $300,0 900.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
Prairie Fires Raqinc.

Brainerd, Minn.-Brush and grass
fires are raging at Ossipee, in the
north end of Crow Wing county.
Other fires are sweeping about Long
Lake township, to the south of Brain
erd. Heavy winds prevail.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

One pleasant thing about a cold is
the large variety of delightful cures it
brings to ones attention, and the pa
tient can generally try them all before
the cold gets tired and quits.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
100000 In Locked safe.

Kansas City, Mo.-The big safe at
the First National bank cannot be
opened, and six safe experts are at
work on 1t. There Is 81, 100000 in the
vault. The combination works, but
the bolts will not draw back.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
ReIaIan Strike unchanaed.

Brussels, Belgium.-The general
ctrike for manhood suffrage is station
airy. In some places work has been
resumed, but this is balanced about
evenly by additions to the strikers
forces.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

Lansing. Mieh-The state senate
passed a bill to establish pensions for
mothers. Mothers having. chtldFtsi
dependent upon them may draw lot
to exceed SO per week for each chtlt
upon OF Ter Of the prob9e court.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

The common notion that talk ia
cheap will have to give way before
the figures of the Bell telephone sys-
tenn. which gross receipts
of $199, 100000 for a single year.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

The new nickel has evoked much
~unfriendly criticism, yet the coin
might have been a great deal worse.
Suppose some cubist had been allowed
to furnish the design for it.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

Utah evidently wants to increase its
population with it's reward to moth
ers of ten dollars for the first child,
and sever dollars for each additional
consumer. ,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

In payment of an election bet a
man is to lead a donkey from Port
land, Me-, to Portland, Ore. His COM
panion in the hike" is ~singularly we'll
chosen.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

New Yorks-Robert NJ. D~earbergh.
New York representative OF Dear.
berg, importers Of straw braid, plead,
ed guilty to charges OF Undertaking.
imports and vas fned $1,000.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

A hobo is reported to demand of
Los Angeles %iailors that he be permit
ted to take four baths a day. Posi-
bly, he is working for a permanent
berth in an insane asylum.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

The pursuit of ferocious African an
imals is urged as a distraction for
brain fag. Looking a large lion in the
eye Is well calculated to d~islodge all
other thoughts.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

Some men would like to have a
job picking the blossoms off a cen
fury plant at $4,000 a year, if they
couldn't get the job of boiler in
spector.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

A New York patriot has issued a
pamphlet that We should speak Ameri-
can, a greater name for the greatest
language. What's the matter with
talking United States?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

Announcement that pythons have
increased In price five dollars q foot
need I'll no uneasiness, as a very
small helping would be enough for
anybody.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

Twenty-three hundred love letters
were found among the effects of an
Australian bachelor. Evidently he
either had to die or marry to stop
them,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

If Friedmann's vaccine shall be es-
tablished, the turtle will take its
place alongside the cow. .
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

In the case of the Arkansas man
whose skull was trepanned with a
hammered out dollar, 1t Is a case of
a plugged dollar being a good one.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

Consideration for nerves OF others
should be felt by the Prince of Wales
when he begins those lessons on the
bagpipe to strengthen his lungs.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

With a buffalo on the new nickel,
don't feel called upon to shirk hust-
ling for the coin. The hump is on
your side Of the fence just as much
as it ever was.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

Skirts will be worm tighter than
ever" says a fashion expert How
can they?"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

Do you think that the man who is
always telling how to manage a wom-
an, ever tried it?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
smaIIpox in ROCK IsIand SCHOOLS.

Smallpox in Rock Island Schools.
Rock Island Ill.-Two public school
buildings were ordered closed when
n of the pupils was found suffering
from smallpox. A number of cases
are scattered over the city.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

What an awful calamity 1t would be
If the leading baseball players should
contract writer's eramp!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

In the dansest parts of Bombay
there are 740 persons to the acre.
New York has 1000 In the same area.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

Take your choice. hubby. when the
parlor rug comes out Beat it OF
beat it
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

Long silence by a man at a tele-
phone may not indicate wire trouble.
Maybe his wife's at the other end.S
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

Woman Goes over Niagara Falls
on Pleasure Trip" says a headline.
How enjoyable!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24
cvnFc.

Many a girl would 60 through fire
md water for d man. or even through
lis bank account
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

II science can evolve a ~stingless
bee. why not a Voieeless catf
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-04-24

An eastern divine remarks that the
world is growing better day by day.
How about the nights?
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-01-10
NEW YORKLETTER
By Norman.

up IN l69th street thinks she has
solution of the servant girl
problem which will be acceptable
to many fiat jewellers, and will in
cidentally enable her to make
living.
She supplies servant girls by
the day. Her plan means that
no servants sleeping room is re-
quired; that there is no outlay for
a servants food. The girl comes
to the house every day in the
week, except Sundays and holi-
days, washes the dishes, makes
the beds, dusts, sets things to
rights generally. Once a week
she gives the apartment a thor
ough cleaning; washes the win
dows, polishes the silver, etc. She
furnishes all working requisites
except a broom"
The girl does no cooking or
laundry work, the plan being de-
signed for women with small
apartments and small incomes,
who want to do their own cook
ing, and are able to employ a
laundress, but who do not want
to be burdened with the dish
washing and daily drudgery of |
the household. y
These are the rates named for
the service: Three rooms or
less, $3.50 a week; four rooms, So !
a week; five rooms, $3.50 a week; !
six rooms, 81 a week. Anybody |
with more than six rooms is pref
ty sure to keep a girl on the prem
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