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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-07
HAVE EWW|TNESs
IN PE7RAS TRIAL
DEFENSE ENDEAVORS TO SHOW
THAT TWO MEN WENT UP
STREET FROM CAR.

Geneva, ILL.,, July Ga new witness
was produced by the defense at the
murder trial Of Tony Petras today to
challenge the testimony introduced by
the state to show that Petras got off
a street car the night that Theresa
Hollander was murdered and that he
ran back towards a crossing a block
away from where Miss Hollander left
the car.
The state has put in evidence to
show that but one man of the two,
Petras and Walter Hickman, negro
who got off the car block beyond
where Miss Hollander alighted went
up Indian avenue, the street parallel
ing Ohio street which Miss Hollander
took on her way towards home.
This man, according to the testimony
of several state witnesses, including
the man himself, was Hickman. The
witness produced today by the defense
L. w. Fowler, said he saw two men
20 up Indiana avenue although he
could not tell who they were.
Petras has claimed he went up
Indiana avenue.
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Morris Williams
HORSE MARKET
SPECIAL SALE THIS WEEK.

Don't forget this-also don't forget
that we will hold but two sales during
the month of July. One Of them on
july 10 and the other two weeks later.
SO if you have anything you want to
sell bring it in this week and the more
especially so, as have the promise Of
a good number of buyers and the fear
is that we may not have horses enough
to supply their wants.
In a general way the best demand is
for wagon horses weighing from 1900
to 1900, business chunks 1900 to 1,400
and full aged draft horses, with an oc-
casional buyer for a driving horse.
1 know it is busy time on the farms
but if you have surplus horse and
can spare him now, better come this
week, as there will be a lot Of them
coming to market as soon as the har-
vest is over, and prices are apt to go
lower.
Two dollars worth of time now lost
from your work may save you $40 to
$40 difference in price. Besides If you
want a man to take your place in the
field while you come to market, and
word to Nat Cremer. he'll come out.
MORRIS WILLIAMS.
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they are spending the Fourth.

they are spending the Fourth.
Miss Anna Miller, 71S West Main
street, has gone to Des Moines to visit
with friends.
Mrs. Will Rath of Creston has re.
turned home after visiting with Mrs.
o. A. Coyne, 439 East Fourth street.
Miss Eta Wolemoth, 3OS North
Moore street. has left for Des MONIES
where she will visit with friends for
a few days.
Miss Isal Jones, Springfield, Ohio,
is visiting at the home of Mrs. w.
Dorothy, ia West Third street.
Mrs. G. L. Lambertson, ia South
Elm street has gone to Abba to visit
with relatives for few days.
Mrs. Bert McGraw, and daughter
Geraldine, SIS East Holt street, nave
gone to Abba to visit with relatives.
Miss Mabel Vinson sos Wabash
avenue who is attending summer
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FIRE DEPARTMENT
HAS MANY CALLS
SUNDAY BLAZE INCLUDES DE.
STRUCTION OF BARN AND
SHEDS-FIVE RUNS.

Fire alarms were numerous Sunday
although the Fourth was without any
calls on the department. But one of
the blazes Sunday was Of any moment
and a barn with two sheds were de-
stroyed. The oilers were small, losses
having been reached in time to avoid
great danger.
Beginning at 1870 a. m. Sunday, a call
was made at TIE rear of the block on
East Main between Court and Market
streets, where pile of rope and Irvine
had been stored by the Haw-Simmons
Co. Twelve hours later another call
was made to the same place where the
fire had broken out again. The firm has
been ordered by the fire chief to re-
move the Irvine and rake over the
place where It was stored.
AT 80 an alarm brought the de-
partment to the home Of Boone Baker,
Ransom and Vine streets where the
barn and two sheds were destroyed.
Cause unknown.
At $3.50 in the afternoon the dump at
Second and Birch street took fire and
was PIT out by the department. The
last call was at A:45 when the sawdust
packing about the water mains on the
Market street bridge took fire. This
was extinguished by chemicals.
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HEN LAYS
UNUSUAL EGGS.
w. n. SHEWRY HAS "BIDDIEn
THAT PRODUCES ITS THIRD
CURIOSITY.

w. H. Shewry, SIG Summit street,
has hen that has ways of her own
and believes in being distinctly differ
ent in her mode of producing eggs
from any of her sister "biddies." Not
content with laying an egg a short
time ago that looked like monster
snail shell and bordered on the horn
OF plenty In its style of architecture,
Madame Hen produced another freak
egg with wart like protuberance on
one end few days ago, and just to
show that she can vary her style in
case any other feathered artist should
attempt to copy it, this unusual chick
en- produced the third freak egg which
is now on display in one of the win
dows of The Courier office. ibis egg
is quite small and it too has an unusual
shape the smaller end narrowing down
to a top like point. This is not all.
The egg when candled was found to
be perfectly clear and without the Gus
tomary yolk. The freak hen has thus
far escaped detection by its owner who
is unable to tell which Of his variety of
chickens produced the egg for he has
Roc.-s, Cochins and numerous other
breeds in his pens.
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noon on Burlington No. 6 for Chicago
where they will make two weeks
visit with relatives and friends.
Mrs. J. w. Ownby, 157 South Elm
street, has gone to Charlton to visit
with friends and relatives.
Miss Nellie Synder, ia South Ward
street, has gone to Chillicothe to spend
the Fourth.
Miss Sarah Gallagher, 606 May
street and Miss Katherine Rowland
2117 East Main street, have gone to
Abba to visit with friends.
F. R. Cooper of Chicago, is a guest
at the home of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. H. Cooper, 625 North Court
street.
Mrs. Alice Smith and daughter
Miss Eva, 407 West Park avenue,
have gone to Des Moines for few
days visit with relatives and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Styre and family,
425 North Hancock street, left this
morning in their auto for Lucts, where
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.hool at Mt. Pleasant has returned

school at Mt. Pleasant has returned
home.
Miss Blanche Griffin, 100 East Sixth
street has gene to Abba to visit with
relatives.
Miss Mary Erskine, 1851 West Main
street, has gone to Bidwell to visit
with friends for few days.
Miss Laura Lumsdon, 121 Grand
avenue, has gone to Moravia to visit
with friends for few days.
Miss lille Van Trump, s22 West
Main street, has left for Centerville
to visit with friends for few days.
| Mrs. Sarah Fletcher and daughter
| Marguerite, 925 Queen Ann avenue
! have gone to Centerville to visit with
relatives.
| Miss Edna Cupp, west of the city,
has gone to Moravia to visit with
friends and relatives for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Richards, 901
Jay street, have returned home from a
visit in various cities through Colo
RADIO.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Kendall and
family of Galesburg, ILL.,, are visiting
relatives in the city.
City, Mo-, are visiting at the home of
Mr.. Ulrich's parents, MIR. and Mrs. J.
P. Ulrich, 436 North Jefferson street
Miss Dorothy Simpson of Rock
Island, ILL.,, arrived in Ottumwa this
morning to visit with her sister, Mrs.
| R. D. MacManus and with Miss Marie
Silvers.
William Taylor of Centerville, is Wis
iting his daughter, Mrs. Lulu Flactiff,
527 West Second street
Miss Emma Watts, 24O North Moore
street, has gone to Cedar Rapids and
Iowa City to visit with relatives.
| Miss Bertha Parcel, 400 North Wash
| ington street, has gone to Cedar Rap
ids to visit her father, Fred Parcel.
R. A. Rath Of Waterloo, is visiting
with friends for few days.
Miss Ethel McMullin, 1901 North
Court street, has gone to Sigourney
to visit with friends.
Ray Fuller of Waterloo, is visiting
at the home of Inez Hendrickson, BIT
Sheridan avenue.
Mrs. Homer Henderson, 321 Ferry
street, has gone to Blakesburg to visit
, with her parents Mr.. and Mrs. Lee
Cloyd.
The Misses Marguerite and Marie
Mottet, 31S South Sheridan avenue,
have gone to Iowa City to visit with
friends.
Miss Rose Crockett, 334 Cara street,
has gone to Sigourney to visit with
| friends.
! Miss Mary Blitz, northeast Of the
city, has gone to Cedar Rapids to visit
with friends enroute to Iowa City.
Miss Verna Stahl, 634 West Second
street, has gone to Centerville to visit
with friends.
Alvah Orvis Of Chicago is spending
the Fourth with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Orvis, 115 North Clay street.
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BAPTISTA ON WAY TO EUROPE,

Willemsteadt, Curacao, July 6.-Gen.
eral Leopoldo Baptista who fled from
Venezuela, where he was secretary.
general to former President Gomez,
has left here on board the Caracas, due
in New York July 9, on his way to
Europe.
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LADY JANE STONE DEAD.

London, July 6.-Lady Jane Stcne,
widow Of Sir Benjamin Stone, died to-
day four days after the death of her
husband She was seriously i'll when
Sir Benjamin succumbed.
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DuNNE OFFERS REWARD.

Springfield, Ill.,, July 6-Gov. Dunno
today offered 5000 reward for the ar
rest and conviction of Henry Naples,
alleged slayer OF Jess Ferguson
Meyer. Adams county June ~.
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DRAIN TILE
Ter PRICES and inform atior wits
Morey Clay Products Co
OTTUMVA. IOWA
Tri-Weekly Courier

CHANGING ADDRESSES.
Subscribers wishing their address
changed will please givc the name OF
the postoffics to which the paper has
been sent A. well o. tho postofrics
whare they desire It to b cha ged to.
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LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.

Mrs. c.. A. Gillcn and daughter Ruth,
622 North Fifth street, left this after
The Washington herald., 1914-01-25
PEACE CONFERENCE
FOR mexico PLANNED
Don Emeterio de Ia Cara. jr., Max.
ing Arrangements for Meeting
in St. Louis.
Mr.. WILSON GIVES APPROVAL

Abilene, Tex, Jan. 2i-Don Emeterio de
la Cara, jr., personal representative and
emissary of President Huerta Of Mexico.
Gen. Carranza. Gen. Zapata and twenty
two governors Of states Of Mexico Is at
the waldorf-Astoria in New York. formu-
lating his plans for a peace conference
Of all the states and territories. and all
the interests of Mexico. both civil and
military. to be held at the Coliseum in
ST. Louis next July.
Mr.. De la Cara has appointed Morris
r. Locke. of Abilene. general director and
secretary OF the peace conference Mr..
Locke is a friend Of twenty-five years
standing Of the De Ia Garazas. Trevinos.
De Goaldas. Macedos, Solaraz. Diaz. and
other liberal MeSicans- Mr.. Locke ex-
poets to go to ST. Louis and meet his
chief there.
Mr.. De la CARA was born in Monterey,
Mexico. forty years ago. He was grad
uated with the highest honors at Cornell
University. after which he was associated
9TH his distinguished father. both at
Monterey and the City of Mexico. in the
practice of law. representing many large
interests. Mr.. De la Cara, ST., was a
member Of the Supreme Court, and its
chief justice. He was an aid de camp of
Gen. Gernomimo Trevino under Presi-
dent Juarez. I,erdo. and DiaZ. He helped
to drive the Austrians and French out OF
Mexico in 1855.
Few persons have a more interesting
personality than the younger De la Cara
The Washington herald., 1914-01-25

He was about to hold his peace cons
ference In Montreal under the impression
that Great Britain was a better friend
of Mexico than the United States, but
his mind was disabused of that by tho
Business Mems League. of St. Louis.
Mr.. De Ia Cara has been working on
his plans for peace since last July. He
has met with many obstacles, but has
surmounted them all. First. he Travelled
all over Mexico to get the signatures OF
The different governors and the indorse-
ment of Huerta. Carranza, Zapata, and
other leaders
Mr. De la Cara is arranging his at,
fairs so as to take up his residence at
ST. Louis where he will give publicity to
his plans, and invite the cooperation OF
all his countrymen and OF all Americans.
His first move will be for an armistice
throughout all Mexico. and the holding
of conventions to elect commissioners to
the st. Louis conference.
Morris r Locke. general director and
secretary Of the peace conference, Is a
native of Lexington, Nd. He was a Con-
federate soldier. and has been q lawyer.
writer. and newspaper correspondent for.
fifty years.
The Washington herald., 1914-01-25
The WAR DAY By DAY
Fifty 11ays Ago.
January IS lss4Aa Ast - - BAD 4 Fea 0Eess d Lib
Pissa Escape By Tu.a Sssu Was Fuskaisd b 0hsaes
hat NsiA~ Labor Nss hss cssA Ovsesns-DsJag Fed
Air and Flk.
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1.-The great. dark cellar. and explore II
with q view to starting q tunnel Here
he met Hamilton. similarly engaged. The
two were strangers. but they at once
Joined hands In plotting escape.
Plan to Rush the Guards.
The east cellar promised well. and the
two soon began to dig with two case
knives and broken shovel.
In few days they were excluded from
the cellar. The auxiliary kitchen >was
and the cellarway boarded up.
Disappointed here, the plotters turned
their attention to the center cellar. The
room EDove this cellar was the main
Kitchen for the prisoners. 1t had door
opening on Carey street, outside which
sentry always paced.
Watching his chance. Rose. on a stormy
night, when noise was drowned by the
rear Of thunder. wrepched up a board
in the kitchen floor. and while Hamilton
stood guard, descended to the cellar by
sliding down the board placed on end.
Finding that a large door opened from
this cellar directly upon Canal street. the
plotters had decided to form q company
to make rush upon the sentries that
paced the beat along the prison wall out
The Washington herald., 1914-01-25
|JAPAN'S ACTION SIIRS
Big NAVY ADVOCATES
Large Appropriation Used as Arsu-
meat for Increasing OR Ship
building Program.
DANIELS FOR TWO VESSELS

The dispatches from Tokyo announcing
that the Japanese Parliament has con-
scented to- an appropriation Of Ss0o0o,0oc
| for the navy fon the next fiscal year
already is being used a. strong arRu-
ment In favor Of Increasing the United
States building program for the year by
two more battleships. Secretary Daniels
already has recommended the authorize
tion Of two battieships. and the General
Board Of the Navy ID in favor Of four
for this year.
No Immigration bill which would in
validate the present '.gentlemen's agree
mert," by which japanese emigration
to the United States IL restricted Is like
liy to receive the approval Of the admin
istration. This became known yester-
day.
The State Department Is largely re-
sponsible for the acceptance in adminis-
tration quarters OF the belief that the
present arrangement with Japan had
best be left unaffected by new legisla-
ton with regard to the admission OF
aliens. The department is satisfied that
this ARRANGEMENT not only Is satisfac-
tory In its operation. but that II is the
only method of restricting japanese ad-
missions which would not be offensive
to Japan.
The Japanese national pride and the
dignity Of the japanese government both
are conserved by the existing agree
ment. inasmuch as II leaves the matter
to the honor and good faith Of Japan.
That government exercises Q most eject
i've restrictive control on the number Of
Japanese coming to the United States
by means OF withholding passports from
all but exempted classes, to whose ad-
mission the United States has no objec-
tion. The arrangement has effectively
kept the number Of japanese in the coun-
try almost stationary.
Secretary Wilson in his letter to the
House immigration Committee. has REQ
commended that the Japanese arrange
ment be left undisturbed. The memoran-
dunn on the pending bills furnished 10
the House committee by the State De-
partment likewise pointed out the desir-
sbil.ty Of making such a provision ir any
til favorably considered.
The Washington herald., 1914-01-25
FIRST NHALES GAS, THEN
SEEKS DEATH IN BATHTUB
Despondent Over Husbands Absence,
Woman Makes Two Futile
Attempts at Life.

Despondent because OF the absence OF
her husband. Mrs. Louise Cunkle, thirty
two years old. made two attempts at her
life last night. first by inhaling gas. then
by trying to drown herself in a bathtub
at the Capitol Hotel, Third street and
Pennsylvania avenue, where she makes
her home. She is at Casualty Hospital
suffering from the effects of her suicidal
attempts. but will recover.
Early this morning guests at the ho-
tel smelled gas and traced the odor -
Mrs. Cunkle's room. She had turned on
the gas jet and was lying In the bed
awaiting the end. She had inhaled OILY
u small quantity when her plan was frus-
trated.
Shortly after she had been quieted and
those who had interferred with her first
attempt. had left, they noticed water
flushing from under the door OF a bath
room and flooding the entire floor. They
found the Respondent woman In the bath
tub. engaged in a desperate attempt to
keep her head under water. She was
then conveyed to the hospital According
to her own story. Mrs. Cunkle's husband,
who Is a travelling man, has been out of
the city for several months and grief
over his absence caused her despondency.
The Washington herald., 1914-01-25

Fifty years ago today an attempt by Q
mall band of Federal officers in Libby
Prison to escape by a tunnel into sewer
was frustrated by obstacles that neither
labor nor ingenuity could overcome
Through a period of nearly six weeks
the devoted band had worked at their
tunnel always at night. in foul air and
Nth Spurred on to heroic exertions by
the hope Of liberty. they labored until
their strength tagged and their bodies
tainted. Ill from the poison Of the sewer
stencil that they breathed as they work
ed. they kept desperately on until at last
they met the insuperable obstacle. A
small sewer by which they sought to
reach the large one was not large enough
10 admit the passage of a mans body,
and was lined with heavy and hard oak
pianks that could only have-been removed
by digging from the surface.
The labors performed by these men. and
the cunning they displayed In escaping
detection by their guards while the work
went on. were remarkable. An indomit-
able will directed the labor. that of Col.
Thomas E. Rose. of the Seventy-seventh.
Pennsylvania Volunteers, who of all the
officers in Libby Prison-and at this
period there were about 1.loo-was ths
The Washington herald., 1914-01-25
nENDEL BEILISS Ill
ON WAY TOPALEsT1vE
Man Freed Of Ritual Murder" Charge
Has Made Plans to Take
Up Farming.
LIFE m DANGER m RUSSIA

London, Jan. 2l.-Mendel Bellies, just
freed in Russia At the sensational trial
for ritual murder has fallen Ill on
his way to Palestine. where he will
take up farming.
II was expected that Beiiiss eventu-
ally would settle In the United States.
and this was his own desire. but he
was overruled by sincere advisers Of
his own religious faith. who thought
Beiliss' farewell letter. which II dated
Kiev, January 8, is as foilows:
when my trial was over thought
that after two and q half years In
prison Il should become, by virtue Of
my acquittal. at least as free man
as anybody else, but this IL not so.
Until today could not appear In the
streets or anywhere in public without
my life being placed in danger. This
IL the firm opinion not only Of my
relatives, but of certain authorities
who have not hesitated to tell me the
truth.
"Those people who were anxious to
promote my trial on a charge of ritual
murder cannot rest even after my
acquittal. They continue In their ter
rible assertion that the Christian boy
Yushinsky was tortured by Jews. and
they stir up such conditions that the
lives of Jews in general, and my life
in particular. are continually in dan
ger.
such q life. Of course. Is impossible.
and ] am obliged to leave Russia and
my friends and relatives for a place
where Jew can live freely. as every
human being should live.
"On the eve OF leaving my country
think IL is my duty to declare that
IL my presence should be necessary
for tracing the real murderers Of the
Yushinsky boy / am always ready to
come back to Russia and give all the
aid in my limited power. For I know
nothing at all of the case, except that
was arrested for the crime, tried,
and acquitted.
Il do not go away to hide myself.
My domicile always will be known to
my relatives at Kiev. / am writing
this letter. not for the purpose of
causing a sensation, but simply in the
consciousness that I am fulfilling my
duty.
AS a proof of the sincerity of my
words. i take pains TO add that have
refused the most tempting financial
offers made by American managers and
impresarios to appear in public and
relate my terrible experiences from
the platform MENDEL BEILISS."
The Washington herald., 1914-01-25
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The Washington herald., 1914-01-25

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