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The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1914-07-03
ON LOCAL SUBJECTS
Local Items and Interesting Bits Of
News Of All Sorts

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The Laclede ball team cleaned
lup the Hale team at Hale last
Thursday l9 to s.
Every member of the Mems
Brotherhood should remember the
regular meeting next Monday
night. There will be an address
by DR.. Brunk Of Kansas City as
well as some important business to
come up.
Every young woman Is cordially
invited to the meeting Of the
Young Women's Christian As
ISOLATION to be held at the Rest
Room Friday afternoon. Every
one is urged to5be on time as the
meeting will begin promptly at
800 o'clock.
Twelve automobile loads of
#Sumner people were here Tuesday
boosting for the Sumner chautan-
qua which begins next Saturday,
July 4, to run six days. If the
chautauqua is run with the same
vim and enthusiasm that the ad-
vertising squad were displaying it
will surely be success.
Among other business transacted
at the Mems Brotherhood meeting
last week the following standing
committees were appointed: On
benevolence and charity, VIM.
Kraft, j.. B. Patrick and DR..
Standby; on social work, L. F.
Moore, Herbert Allen and Max
Jones; on membership, H. G. Lo-
max, H. E. Garside and F. R.
Power; on finance, a. E. Johnston,
II. w. Lomax and s. e. Kuhn.
The following officers were in
stalled in Cypress lodge 227, A. F.
& A. M. last Saturday night: X.
Y. z. White, worshipful master;
H ]. BENJAMIN. senior warden:
E. E. Benson, junior warden;
John Hetrick, treasurer; 9. G.
Bigger, secretary; L. F. Moore,
senior deacon; Ira Peer, Junior
deacon; A. j. Harter, senior
stewart; A. j. Baum, Junior
stewart; John Nelson, tyler.
On an examination taken last
May at st. Joseph Miss Leora
Walker of Laclede has been issued
a five year state certificate by
State Superintendent Evans. Miss
Walker made high grade and the
certificate qualities her to teach in
any county in the state. She is
the only one in Linn county to
receive a certificate on the May
Miss Walker has
been employed to teach in the
high school at Bucklin this year
and the Buckhn people are to be
on securing her
services.
j. FL. Nichols, junior member of
the firm of Geo. NJ. Nichols &,Son,
has returned from spending several
days at Burlington and is now
busy unloading two car loads of
and placing it in their
new store in the Benson building
Their stock includes everything in
the furniture line as well as rugs,
Iinoleums, curtains and shades and
other house furnishings. Their
stock is probably as large as any of
lhe kind in the county and is all
new and up-to-date and the prices
viii be found to be right. Their
Undertaking department is well
stocked with all sizes and a range
If prices to suit all. They have
fine hearse and a large lot of
olding chairs to accommodate
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1914-07-03
PARAGRAPHS
Brief Mention Of Those Who Come
and Go During the Week

j. W. Lomax was in Meadville
on business Monday.
Chris Brockman and family
spent Sunday with relatives near
RothviIle.
Geo. Estes went to Hunnewell
Wednesday for a short visit with
relatives.
Miss Grace Sissons is spending
few days with Mr.. and Mrs.
Handy at ChiIlicothe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert McKisson are
entertaining a fine boy baby born
to them last Friday.
Prof. E. L. Joyce aud wife of
Brookfeld were guests of MIR. and
Mrs. j. E. Welsh last Sunday.
Mrs. John Kedash arrived Tues
day from Bosworth for a visit
with Rev. Mendenhall and family.
B. Manley Garnett of Chicago is
the guest of Rev. Mendenhall at
the Methodist parsonage this week.
Mrs. j. A. Cook of Carrollton
visited her daughter, Mrs. B. F.
Thompson and family here the
past week.
Albert Bolts and family of
Meadville were guests of j. E.
Marsh and family on route three
last Sunday.
Mrs. P. A. Owens of Novelty
has been the guest of her daughter,
Mrs. j. D. Mendenhall in Laelede
the past week.
D. A. Henley is here from
Wheeling spending few days
with his son, c.. B. Henley, and
family on route two.
Ivan and Emogene Osgood are
visiting their father, E. T. Os-
good, in Marceline and will remain
until after the fourth.
Miss Nina Gertrude Linhart of
Brookfeld has been here the past
week visiting her grand parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. E.. Childress.
Mrs. C. A. Welsh and daughter,
Miss Floranah, of Kansas City
were guests of Mrs. j. E. Welsh
and family the first Of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. 7. Patterson Of
Browning spent a few days the
past week with F. E. Drake and
family at the Patterson farm on
route two.
B. Ward Welsh of Brookfeld
visited his patents, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. E. Welsh here Monday and left
that night for st. Louis to take up
his new position with the Burling-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Inman of
Brookfeld visited friends here the
past week. MIR. Inman is in very
poor health the result of an injury
received while working in the rail-
road shops last fall.
Dick Hoskins, a veteran of the
civil war and an old time citizen
of Laclede, now an inmate of the
soldiers home at Leavenworth, is
here spending a week with his
sister, Mrs. Lizzie Edwards.
Victor w. Lomax of BroOkfeld
visited home folk here the first Of
the week. He has held a clerk
ship in the Burlington for some
time and has recently been pro-
NOTED to stenographer for Chief
Dispatcher Allen.
Mrs. II. c. LOmax spent the
first Of the week visiting her son,
Carl Heryford, and wife at Des
and viii 60 from there to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-27
FLOWER, GUILTY,
ASKS LENIENCY
SWindlcr. Old and Broken in
Health, Wants a Chance
at Omen Air.

Broken in health and without money,
DR. Richard c. Flower, whose swindline
schemes have Melted him millions OF
dollars. appeared before Jnstice Davis,
in the Criminal Branch OF the Supreme
Court, yesterday and pleaded guilty TO
TWO OF the 1--WE indictments on which
ne is now being held.
He does not seem at all averse =
spending the rest OF his years in the
custody OF the law, and his only re-
quest is that in passing sentence the
Judge take into consideration his ad-
vanced age and i'll health. II is his de-
sire. ne says. to spend az much of his
time as possible in the open air. Until
after he had entered his pleas ne would
have nothing to do with lawyers, but
later Justice Davis prevailed on him to
accept William N. K. 0lcott as coun-
sci.
DR.. Flower vas indicted on five
counts in 1908, when he was charged
with having induced women TO invest
in fake mining schemes. He was ar
rested and jumped bail amounting TO
$4,000. and since that time has wan
dersd about the country trying 20
evade the law. Last week he was ar
rested in Toronto.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-27
TWO FIREMEN HURT
in 100000 BLAZE
Lieutenant COllapses and Lad
derman Gets Hands Slashed
i'm Factory Fire.

Two firemen we're injured last night
at a blaze which for two hours 0etied
the high pressure apparatus summoned
by three alarms. The four upper floors
OF a six story factory building on the
northwest corner of Lafayette and
Great Jones SITS. were burned out. Act
ing Chief Martin estimated the damage
al from $4,000 to 100000.
Lieutenant James Brown. of Engine
Is, is the most seriously injured. His
company, called by an automatic alarm
was the first due. Brown and his men
carried line of hose to the fourth
floor and from there made their way 70
the roof. Their hose was still playing
when the hook and ladder men cane
through to wash down, but Brown was
unconscious n the floor. DR.. Refs, OF
the Fire Department. had him sent TO
st. Vincents Hospital. 1t was said
there that he was in q critical condi-
ton from inhaling gas and smoke.
Thomas Finnegan. of Hook and Ladder
D. was the second fireman injured. Both
hands were lacerated while he was pull
ing down some tin from the top floor
curing, the washing down.
Il took 100000 gallons OF water to
subdue the fire, according to Chief Mar
tin. a food descended into the new
Lexington subway Workmen finally
DETECTED it with barricades made OF
bags of cement and paving blocks. Re-
serves of four precincts were called out
10 handle the throngs.
In the last two years there have been
FIVE fires in the building. Seven years
ago, when it was occupied by the Adams
Express Company, the building was de-
strOyed by fire.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-27
TYPlST BREAKS RECORD
Preszger Writes 129 Words a
Minute at Business Show.

Fingers few over typewriter keys
last night at the eleventh annual Bust
ness Show and Efficiency Exposition in
the 69th Regiment Armory faster than
ever before.
Last years winners we're successful
in two events, the professional and
amateur championships. The novice
event Is for operators who have been
using a typewriter less than year.
With penalty OF FIVE words for each
error, Emil A. Preszger, professional,
wrote 1873 words a minute for an hour,
exceeding his last years record by four
words. Miss Fife Friedman, the anna
teur winner, wrote 129 words a min
ute for half an hour, as compared with
1l6 in 1918.
The novice championship was won
by George II. HotFeld. He wrote as
words q minute. ten more than last
years winner. Miss Lillian Baker, VINO
has been running a machine only since
March, wrote 50 words a minute for
half an hour without an error. Il was
announced that all the winners used
Underwood machines.
The show continues through Satur-
day. Tomorrow is TO be big night,
officers and stockholders of the big
typewriting concerns being invited and
the public excluded.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-27
MRS. BRYAN WILL
SPEAK FOR VOTES
Secretary's Wife to Take Part
in Jubilee November 6 if
Suffrage Cause Wins.

Mrs. William Jennings Bryan will
make her first suffrage speech at the
campaign jubilee on November 8 at
Carnegie Hall if--well, if it is a cam
LaiRn jubilee.
The suffragists are sure, of course.
that they are going to have chance
10 celebrate the winning of the vote in
seven new states. OF these, Nebraska
is the one on which they are. banking
most, because it is Mr.. Brysn's home
state, and he came out for votes long
ago. Mrs. Bryan will speak at Carnegie
Hall if she can come as a voter. There
will be speakers from every ono of the
states where women already vote and
from all the new states. Ohio, Missouri,
North and South Dakota, Nebraska,
Montana and Nevada are the states
where the question is 20 be voted upon
next week.
Mrs. Arthur Murray Dodge, president
OF the Association Opposed 10 Woman
Suffrage, said yesterday that she was
confident the suffrage amendment
would be defeated in every one of the
seven and that in two it would be lost
by 100000 votes. Nebraska WIS one
where the women were sure to lose.
"Mr. Bryan has cost the suffragists
100000 votes" she said. His support
has made -suffragists OF all his po-
litical opponents. If Mr.. Bryan could
lead his state it might have helped the
women, but he doesn't happen to be
on top out there just now"
The snti-suffrage association has
seven speakers and four organizers in
the campaign.
The Woman Suffrage party will get
the returns at its headquarters. as East
oath ST., on election night. DR.. Anna
Howard Shaw and Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait will address the crowds dur
ing the intervals.
The big yellow thermometer Of the
$4,000 campaign fund registered
Si1,634 yesterday. This does not in
clude the large donations from wealthy
friends Of the cause, but is made up
chiefly Of sums under s..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-27

told his hearers In Suffers own As
sembly District that Sulzer had not a
chance 20 win and that vote for
Sulzer was vote thrown away the
crowd applauded.
"However much resentment some OF
You may feel toward the Democratic
PARTY for it's treatment of Mr.. SulZer'
said Mr.. Whitman. you know that ne
has no chance Of winning and you
know that one of two groups Of men
will be elected on November 3; one
group, headed by Mr.. Glynn, and the
other which | have the honor TO head
and II you want Tammany Hall to Keep
lis firm grip on the power. the Offices
and the funds Of the state, vote for
the group headed by Mr.. Glynn. II you
want those conditions which have DIS
graced the state in the last four years
10 change, YOU will vote for the ticket
nominated by the people of the state
Of New York through the Republican
party"
Generous applause was given Judge
Whitman's picture of Mr.. Glynn as
candidate. promising to remove incom-
petents from Office. and promising TO
abolish all useless offices and depart
ments if elected, and Mr.. Glynn as
Governor failing to remove the incom-
petents or TO abolish the useless Offices
and departments.
The other meetings District Attorney
Whitman addressed. in all of which he
was greeted as "Our Next Governor
we're: No. 1876 Clinton ST., Manhattan;
Palm Garden. Hamburg and Greene
avs, Brooklyn; Arcadia Hall, Hslsey
ST., near Broadway, Brooklyn; Congress
Hall. Atlantic av.. Brooklyn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-27
WITNESS THOUGHT
WILSON REPUBLICAN
Court Refuses to Entertain Test
mOny of Man Ignorant of
Pcnnant Winners.

William Bemish McDermott might
have been good carctaker at the
home OF Mrs. Amelia Gertrude Cut
ter. whose viii is being contested in
the Surrogate's Court, but as court
witness he failed dismally yesterday,
Surrogate Cohalan refusing 10 enter
tain the testimony of any man who
believed that President Wilson was
elected on the Republican ticket, and
who did not know or care who won
the worlds baseball championship.
McDermott, who is thirty-seven years
old, can neither read nor write. Mrs.
Cutter. widow Of Henry 7. Cutter. one
of the founders Of Glegeman & Co.,
left an estate valued at more than
81 600 900 TO friends and charity. Sew
eral cousins are contcsting her will.
on the ground that she was of I'M
sound mind and under undue infiu-
ence when she executed her ill. OF
March u last. McDermott said Mrs
Cutter would keep bottles of milk
standing for weeks at a time, and
would not let him throw away stale
food
81 do not believe what this witness
s9ys," lie ceuEt gyerred.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-27
10 die In WEEK
FROM MENINGITIS
Health Board FearsDisease
May Become Epidemic
To Prevent Spread.

Fear of an outbreak of cerebro'spinai
meningitis similar to the wave OF the
disease which caused such ravages in
1904 and 1905, was manifested yester-
day at the Health Department, when
the weekly mortality record was issued.
Ten deaths from the disease eight In
Manhattan-wer reported. For the cor
responding week in 1913 there vas only
one death. 1t was in Manhattan.
The department bulletin, reviewing
the course Of the disease for thirty-fve
years, says that it is noticeable that
at intervals Of about eleven years the
mortality reaches high rate. The trst
considerable increase in mortality from
this cause occurred in 1SS1-l6S2. In
fg02-1893 there was a similar outbreak,
repeated in 190f-1905, and now in tslr
way TO afilict the city again. In 1904
1905 the number of deaths for the two
years reached the unprecedented total
of 5000.
According 20 the bulletin the use OF
serum has been efec-
tive in treating this infectious disease.
Prepared at the department laoors-
tories, this seruut~ is supplied free 20
residents Of New York. Since the serum
has been used. IL was announced, the
mortality rate has been less than one
half what it was formerly.
Other than cerebro-spinal meningitis
the infectious diseases showed little
variation last week from their course
in previous years.
According 10 age groupings last
weeks totals show 80 fewer deaths OF
infants under one year and 10 fewer
Of those from one to five years. In the
group of from 10 TO 90 mere were 80
more, and. among those older % more,
due to organic heart disease and all
forms of tuberculosis. For the first
forty-three weeks of 1914 the rate was
1856 per 900, compared with 1898 last
year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-27
THREE KILLED BY
FALLING CORNICE
TWOsTon Piece of Metal Drops
on Laborers-COntrac-
tor Arrested.

Three men arc dead, two others are
badly injured. and Richard Dccves, \
contractor, of lO3 Park ay., Manhattan,
is under arrest, a. the result of heavy
piece of cornice falling upon a scaiiold
in Jamaica, Queens Borough, yesterday
afternoon.
The dead are Thomas Hart, OF Willis
and Hart avs, The Bronx; Timothy
Collins, Manhattan, and Joseph Burn
ham, of Bayside, all OF whose skulls
were crushed.
The injured are John Beck, Of 81
Ward ST., Morris Park, who has a
fractured spine, and Charles Conover,
Of 2l7 Hudson ST., Manhattan, who has
severe cuts or the face and head.
The five men were working on a
scafrold forty feet above the ground on
new building being erected for the
New York and Queens Electric Light
and Power Company al Van Wyck av.
and Carroll ST., Jamaica, when two
ton piece OF cornice fell upon the scat
fold instantly killing Hart and precipi-
tating the other four 10 the ground.
AmDulances we're called from the ia
maica and ST. Msry's hospitals, in ia
msica. Beck and Conoyer were taken
TO ST. Marys Hospital, and Burnham
and Collins were placed in the Jamaica
Hospital ambulance. The automobile
ambulance made all possible speed 10
an effort 70 get Collins to the operating
table before he died, and a surgeon was
waiting. The patient died Just before
the institution was reached.
Deeves, the contractor, was placed
under arrest, but later admitted TO bail.
There were angry mutterings among
the workmen who gathered at the scene
OF the accident, and rumors were afost
that the material used was not of a
proper kind. Coroner Ebert made a
personal investigation late in the after
noon, but would express no opinion.
He said the responsibility would doubt
less be fixed at the inquest.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-27
FOUND DEAD IN HIS ROOM
Uhran, Once in Bellevue, Sui
eide by Poison.

David Uhran, retired clothing man,
ufacturer, who lost 100000 IN wall
Street in 1910, was found YESTERDAY
dead in his room in boarding house at
"A Seventh av. An autopsy showed that
he had killed himself with cyanide OF
potassium.
In the spring Of 1911 Uhran was
taken TO Bellevue for Observation. ZIG
- Lncbirg at the Holland House
when he became greatly excited when
talking Of his trouble. lie was re-
leased from the hospital the next day:
Several times later he was arrested
for insane outbursts in public places
and hailed before magistrates. In
April. 1911. ne fled suit in the Supreme
Court against Moses Esberg, Mrs. rs,
berg, her daughter Helene and David
l.. Sohn. Miss Esberg's tiance, demand,
ing So, 900 damages for his arrest and
detention in Bellevue, the suit growing
out of the incident at the Holland
House.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-27
RECORD BEEF CARGO HERE
Liner Voltaire Brings 80, ooo
Quarters from Argentina.

The Lamport & Holt liner Voltaire,
which has not been 10 this port In ten
months, arrived here yesterday WIN
$4,000 quarters Of Argentine beef, the
largest consignment Of chilled meat
that has been brought to New YORK
in one steamship. The record up 20
yesterday was $4,000 quarters, which
came on the Vandyck several months
ago.
Among the Voltaire's passengers
were Zbys2ko, the Polish wrestler. and
his troup OF wrestling men. People in
Brazil and the Argentine having tired
of the sport, Zbysgko came 20 Now
York and will challenge all corners. lie
travelled under an assumed name.
Also on board were Senior Sergio Gar
cia Uritburn, Argentine Minister 10
Great Britain. and Hector Vclasqrez.
Uruguayan Minister TO the United
States
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-27
Both Drank from Bottle OF
Aconite He Took from
Mystery Trunk"
SHE THOUGHT LIQUID
WAS WILD CHERRY
Woman, Who CollapSeS When
Police Arrive, Says Mr.. Price
Worried Over Losses.

Frederick Allen Price, a retired busl-
ness man. died Yesterday in his apart
ment az 500 West 2lSth St, and ms
wife, Henrietta, collapsed on the ar
rival Of doctor from drinking AGO.
mite, which was in bottle Labelled
wild cherry syrup" The woman, who
is fifty-one years old, is a prisoner IN
Washington Heights Hospital on q
charge of attempted suicide. Her hus'
band was fifty-eight. One son rs n stu.
dent in Stuyvesant High School and
another is IN the book business IN
North Dakota.
Although Mrs. Prices condition is
regarded as seriou-. she was able 20
tell what happened. She said THAI
when he got up yesterday morning
Price seemed in poor spirits. I'LL health
and financial troubles since he retired
from business. she said, had depressed
him and he frequently talked Of end
ing his life. Yesterday, however, she
considered that he was more emphatic
than usual.
"'Henny.' he said TO me-" the wife
explained. "I'm tired OF living. This
is positively my last day on earth.
This was about $3.50 o'clock. Two
hours later he told me 10 telephone to
his brother Charles, who lives in
Woodmere. Long Island, TO tell him 10
come over, as he was not feeling we'll.
about noon he went TO a mysterious
trunk, which ne had ordered me never
10 try to open. and took out a bottle.
which appeared TO be wild cherry
syrup. He poured out some OF the
liquid in a glass after | had refused to
drink from the bottle, and went into
the bathroom. While he was absent |
drank few swallows of the syrup.
When he did not return / went to the
bathroom. Ny husband was lying on
the floor. frothing at the mouth"
Il was at this time that the tele-
phone operator in the apartment house
got frenzied orCer to call a physician.
Or. James J. Grady, from 5000 Broad
way, arrived. just as Mrs. Price col
lapsod Satisfying himself that the
man. was dead, DR.. Grady informed
Police Headquarters. An ambulance
was sent up from Washington Heights
Hospital and Coroner Reardon was in
formed.
After Mrs. Price had been cared for
the Coroner ordered the body Of her
husband to the morguc for an autopsy.
After she had told her story she was
made prisoner.
Charles Price arrived later from
Woodmere. but could not clear up the
mystery. SO far as he knew his broth
es financial reverses were not serious,
and although his health had not been
Of the best there was apparntly no
cause for worry.
Price was employed for years by the
Matthews Soda Water Company, leav-
ing the concerns employ to open a
delicatessen store ct Columbus az. and
18th st. He sold out last March and
moved to 2l3th 81.
Search Of the mysterious trunk re
vealed q store Of canned goods and
crackers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-27
PIG EUGENICS COSTLY
Investor, Tempted by Figures
Loses S150-Two Arrests.

John Kearny's great knowledge of
the habits aud customs of the pig,
which, if properly capitalized, would
make millions for himself and his as
sociates, was the burden of the song
Of Aaron Dsttel in the West Side court
yesterday. Kearny and his wife, seven
teen years old, were held in $4,000 bail
each on the strength of Dattels tale.
Kearny, according TO the rueful Dat
tel, had a great scheme for realizing
on the homely but toothsome porker.
The formula, as Dsttel says it was set
forth TO him. was this:
One SOW will bear two litters OF pigs
a year.
Each litter will number six pigs.
Each pig is worth $40.
Dattel says he invested $3.50 in the
enterprise. which was known as the
Eastern Pig Company, with Offices at
, Columbus Circle. lie also drove
around town in wagon containing a
sow and bearing a poster telling people
they might get rich if they bought
sows. Dattel says he had the job only
q week when Kearny and his wife dis
appeared. Dattel asserts that Mrs.
Kearny vas stenOgrspher for the firm.