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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-04-06
BROKE ARM PLAYING BALL
Jerome Thomas, Son of Mr.. and Mrs.
.s@ F. G. Thomas. Is Victim.

jerome Thomas, Son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
.%@ F. G. Thomas, Is Victim.
Master Jerome Thomas, son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. G. Thomas of 322 South
Fourth street, is confined to his home
by the result of an accident, which
happened while he was playing ball, a
bone in his right leg above the knee
having been broken. Master Thomas
was playing ball in front of his home
Saturday afternoon, and when he
started to bat at the ball he slipped,
his right leg doubling under him as
he fell, and breaking the bone. He was
reported today as resting as well as
could be expected.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-04-06
Swiss Refused to Congratulate.
limited Press Dispatch.]

lUn1teQ fTeSS DlSpsttCh'I
Berne, Switzerland, March 31.-The
Swiss national council today by a
vote of II to "a refused to send a
message of congratulation to the new
reyolutional government of Russia.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-04-06
HORSE THEFT CHARGE
Ole Poplowsky Was Taken Into Gus
tody at Lake Crystal.
Erono SATURDAYS DaiIy

Sheriff Anton Osten this morning
received a telephone call from his
brother, Ed Osten, marshal at Lake
Crystal, to the effect that a man
answering the description of one want
ed at Mankato for horse stealing had
been apprehended at Lake Crystal.
The man for whom the sheriff had a
warrant was Ole Poplowsky, wanted
on the charge of stealing a gray mare
belonging to Joe Lashtun. The man
under arrest had been driving junk
wagon. The sheriff left early this aft
ernoon for Lake Crystal to take po-
session of the prisoner.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-04-06
Herr vereyen Sent to Front

Amsterdam, March 31.-Herr We're
yen, professor of philosophy at Bonn,
has been sent to the front for deliv-
ering lecture against Christian
dogmas.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-04-06

Commercial Club Members invited.
Commercial club members are cor
daily invited to the Retail Mer-
chants banquet at the Hotel Helm
rich tonight at $50, and a large at
tendance is expected
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-04-06
Was only Ten Months Old.
limited Press Dispatch.l

TTnTnd Press TJISpatcn.T
Prescott, Eng, March 30.-William
Henry received his calling-up papers
and was ordered to join the forces,
but was exempted when it was found
he is only ten months old
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-04-06
Shortage of Teachers.

London, April $40 take care OF
the shortage in teachers which faces
schools it is proposed to utilize the
services of curates in the elementary
grades, having them teach everything
except Scripture.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-04-06
Defense Council in Wisconsin.

UNITED Press Dispatch.1
Madison, Wis, March 30.-GOver-
nor e. L. Phillips today announced
that he had plan for the organiza-
ton of state defense council, pat
termed after the national defense
council.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-04-06
Further Grain Embargoes.
limited Press Dispatch. ]

Buenos Ayres, Argentina, March
30-Argentina is considering further
grain embargoes. 1t is believed that
maize will soon be included in the
prohibited list
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-04-06
SUNK HOSPITAL SHIP
That Is the News Brought Here BY
the Carpathian

New York, April 2.-Reaching this
port today, the Cunard liner Car
pathian, brought the news that sub
marine had attacked and sunk Brit
ish hospital ship, destroying 167 lives.
The Carpathian escaped the same
submarine by half an hour. The
freighter Asconia also arrived today.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-04-06
mlSS0URIAN WILL keep on
HANDLING the cAvEL
Defeated Congressman Mann BY Vote of
Two Hundred Seventeen to Two
Hundred Five; Representative julius
Kahn Introduced Bill Providing For
Universal Training; Other Matters
Before National Law.Making Body
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch. ]

Washington, April 2-president
Wilson will address joint session
of congress at eight o'clock tonight.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-13
BAY SIDE COLONY Will
GIVE SUBSTANTIAL AID
To Water Witch Company New Chem
ical Fire Apparatus.

At the community meeting at Arun-
del-on-the-Ba Saturday night, it was
Unanimously voted to give a generous
contribution to the Water Witch Com
pany of Annapolis to help defray the
cost of their new chemical truck,
which enables the company to give
aid in case of fire to outlying county
sections.
A subscription list was started at
the meeting and in less time that it
takes to tell it the sum of $3.50 was
pledged.
committe was appointed by the
Commissioners to wait upon the resi-
dents not present and ask them for
"a contribution.
1t is hoped to materially increase
the sum pledged at the community
meeting, and to turn over a substan-
tial check to the Water Witch Com
pany, who will be invited to come to
Arundel-on-the-Bay next Saturday
night to receive the gift at a public
meeting of the residents.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-13
GET COMMISSIONS IN
OFFICERS RESERVE CORPS
Five AnnapOlitans Qualify at the Army
Training Camp at Fort Myer, Va.

Maryland's sons will write her name
in a new chapter of this stirring per-
iod OF the country's history when 19S
of them, who have been in training at
the Officers Reserve camp al Fort
Myer, Va, received their commits
sions today in the United States Army.
OF these lucky ones over 100 are
from Baltimore.
These commissions viii be bestowed
upon them at the commencement exer-
cises by Secretary of War Newton ID.
Baker as a fitting reward for the three
months they have spent going
through military duties under exact
ing examiners.
The War Department announced
yesterday the winner Of commissions.
Some of the lucky ones have been ap-
pointed to the Officers" Reserve Corps.
some to the national army, some 10
the regular army and some TO the
Federalized National Guard regiments
included in the lists are few men
who have substantially heId their
commissions for some time, as. for ex-
ample, Phillips Brooke Lee. son of
former Senator Blair Lee. Captain
Lee has been commanding Company
X of the First Regiment for the last
eight mnoths
Five of those who get commissions
are from Annapolis.
Second Lieutenans. infantry sec
ton: Andrew A. Kramer. Annapolis;
George D. Tilghman, Annapolis;; K.
Hammond Elliott, Annapolis; Samuel
j. Lowe, Jr., Annapolis. Second Lieu
tenant, field artillery: Carl d. Upton.
Annapolis. First Lieutenant, statis-
tical section, Adiutant Generals De-
partment, National Army, Louis
Creaga, Annapolis.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-13
SOLDIERS
TAKE TO ATHLETICS
Ball Game Saturday and Swimming
Events Tomorrow
GUNNERS WON BY ONE RUN
Nose Out Rivals In The Ninth Inning :
CRAWFORD and Clark Twirled
Well

Members of Company NJ and the
Machine Gun Company of the First
Maryland Regiment of this city, now
in the Federal service, and spending
their few remaining days here by en-
gaging in a series of athletic sports.
Saturday afternoon baseball teams of
the two organizations engaged in
baseball game on the st. Johns Col
lege diamond and tomorrow after
noon, starting about o'clock, the
soldier lads will have a series of
swimming races. Both of these
events were arranged to help raise
funds for the benefit of the two COM
panies, and nearly everyone you see
, about the city has been wearing
round red tag, indicating that he has
helped the soldiers in a financial way
The tags are sold at whatever the pur-
chaser wishes to give in aiding the
cause.
ed in victory for the Machine Gun
ners by the close score of to 5, after
a lively contest. The winning run
was tailed by Bielaski in the ninth
inning The Gunners started off at
lively clip, registering runs in the
second inning, but the Company Nj
men gradually overhauled their rivals
and tied the score in the eighth. Gran
ford and Clarke, the opposing
pitchers, both twirled in fine form and
1, n trrhn ftfrsf1fclnd
interest to the big crowd of spectators.
The swimming races tomorrow
afternoon will take place from the
float of the Severn Boat Club, at the
foot of Gloucester street The finish
of all the events will be near the float
where everyone may get good view.
The program and list of entrants in
the several events follow:
|. Underwater Swim: Machine
Gun Bielaski, Newton. Clark.
Company M-Claude, Lorea, Crawford
III. 50-Yard Dash: Machine Gun
Co-Woodward Frazier, Frank. Com
pany M-Hardesty, Fisher. Dadds.
III. One-half Mile Swim: Machine
Gun Co.--McGuckian, Duyer, Lutz.
Company M-Claude, Hyde, Hoff.
Nv. 50-Yard Breast Stroke: Ma
chine Gun Co.-Trott, Frank, Graham.
Company M-Hoff, Lorea. Thomas.
V. 1O0-Yard Swim: Machine Gun
woodward, McGuckian, Frank.
Company NJ Claude, A. G. Lee, G. r.
Clark
VI Plunge for Distance: Trott,
Woodward, Frazier, Wiegard, Mitchell.
Company NJ Claude, Lorea, Collins.
VII Relay Race: Machine Gun
Wiegard, Frank Frazier, Wood
ward. Company M-Hyde. Hardesty,
Fisher, Claude.
The events will start at 3 o'clock.
Mr.. Roland Thomas will act as starter.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-13
NEGRO WOMAN OF THE
COUNTY A SUICIDE
Apparently Demented Stella Owens
Hangs Self to Tree Near Home.
HUSBAND FOUND THE BODY
His Wife Missing Upon Return to House
Saturday, He Conducted An
All Night Search.
HUSBAND FOUND THE BODY

Annapolis and Anne Arundel county
are surely on lire criminal map again
for a change.
With the investigation Of the Bran
don murder mystery, the most horri-
BILE crime ever committed in the an
nails of the city. still under way, news
came to the city this morning of
tragedy in the West river section of
the county, wherein a colored woman
committed suicide by hanging herself
to the limb OF tree in the woods near
her home at Drury, in the Eighth
District.
Stella Owens colored 2S years old,
wife of Edward Owens, a well known
negro of the neighborhood, is the
name of the suicide. She was the
mother of three small children 1t
was stadted today by persons living in
the neighborhood that the woman had
apparently been in an unbalanced
state of mind ever since an illness
which she suffered several months,
and that is attributed as the cause of
her taking her life.
The husband of the woman, it is
said, returned from his work late
Saturday afternoon, and found that
his wife was missing from the house.
He Immediately instituted a search
with the view of locating her. He in
quired of a number of neighbors
whether they had seen her about the
neighborhood, but in every instance
the reply was in the negative Owens
continued the search until late i'm the
night. but without successful result.
He resumed his investigations early
Sunday. Going into a clump of woods
near his home, he made the ghastly
discovery. Dangling from a limb of a
tree, scarcely ten feet from the ground
he found the body of his wife. The
body was stone cold ana the woman, it
is thought must have been dead for
ten hours or more. The woman com
mitted the deed with short piece of
rope, scarcely larger than the weave
of the clothes line type, and made one
end of it fast to the tree limb. The
WOindH, IL Is Sdiu utSu VI StidiBuid-
tion. If she uttered any cries or
means, no one living in the neighbor-
hood heard them.
The husband. Mortified at the sight
that greeted him, knew not what to
do. Finally however. he notified
neighbors and then decided to inform
Police Justice John Shepherd, of the
district of the tragedy After viewing
tine body. Justice Shepherd decided
that the woman came to her death as
the result of suicide, and permission
was granted to the husband to have
the body cut down 1t was taken to
Owens home and later turned over to
an undertaken to be prepared for
burial.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-13
BAITINOREAN BROWNS
WHILE ON VACATION
William George Parkhursfs Body
Found After Long Search
WAS EXEMPTED FROM DRAFT
saI Support Of Widowed Mother Had
Tried Unsuccessfully For Training
Camp at Fort Myer

Tho body Of William George Park
A,rs, 20 years old, of Baltimore,
.sre 10 the surface of West river
Sunday afternoon in the midst of a
mill gotllla Of rowboats and launches
,bst had been searching for it ever
.irce the young man drowned shortly
teforo noon Saturday Seinee had been
s,raiched across the river all Satur-
d.y afternoon, but TO no effect, and all
saturday night men dragged the river
With lines.
Parkhurst was an employee of the
crown Corn and Seal Company and
bad started on his vacation of two
weeks last Thursday. Just before he
eft the city the draft exemption board
in his district had exempted him be-
cause he was the sole support of his
widowed mother, Mrs. Charles r.
parkhurst They lived at 709 West
North avenue, Baltimore.
Had Tried For Fort Myer
he began his vacation in some dis
appointment at his failure TO be ac-
cepted for membership in the Second
officers Reserve Corps Training Camp
al Fort Myer Va He had passed a
good physical examination, but his
name did not appear in the official list
on Thursday he proceeded with a
marty of friends to the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Lerch on West river,
ust opposite Galesyille. Saturday he
went winning with the others. Just
how and why he droWned no one
seems to know. II is believed he was
seized With cramps. He made no loud
outcry Those nearest to him simply
heard him say Pm gone and then
he sank. His body did not come to the
surface.
Crowds of cottagers and summer
visitors gathered on the shore, and
swimmers dove for the body. But the
divers met with no success.
SeineS Stretched Across River.
Then the seines were stretched from
bank to bank of the river, and from
time to time they were hauled up, but
there was no trace of Parkhurst's
body. When it seemed certain that it
could not be recovered Immediately,
word was sent his mother and his
other relatives in Baltimore.
Mrs. Parkhurst was prostrated and
her condition, is said to be serious.
Mr. Davidson went out in boat,
and he recovered the body when it
came to the surface He returned TO
Baltimore with the other relatives last
night after arrangements had been
made for sending it back home
The funeral mill be held tomor-
row morning at 1890 o'clock at 709
West North avenue. Burial will be in
Grcemount Cemetery.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-13
EUGENE WEBSTER MACRUDER
COMMISSIONED CAPTAIN
Orders Date From August l, From Was
Department

This mornings mail brought COM
mission as Captainsin the Engineer
Corps of the U. S. Reserves for Mr..
Eugene Webster Magruder, son of the
late Judge Daniel r. and Mrs. Magru-
der, of this city.
Mr.. Magruder is now at Auburn.
n. Y. where he has been engaged in
engineering for some time.
His mother Immediately telegraphed
to him and he is expected home this
evening or tomorrow morning, thence
to report for duty.
Capt. Magruder's commission dates
from August first. He is graduate
of st. Johns College. and took special
courses at the University of Maryland
and Johns Hopkins. His brother. Mr..
Calvert Magruder. has recently been
detailed to the Second Reserve Corps
to report at Fort Myer on August 20.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-13
MILITIA COMPANIES MAY
LEAVE CITY ON WEDNESDAY.

The Annapolis soldiers, members
of Company NJ and the Machine Gun
Comany. of the First Regiment, prob
ably will get away from the city on
Wednesday or Thursday, according
to all information that has been re-
reived up to the present time The
companies together with other or
ganizations of the regiment, scattered
throughout the State, will be ordered
to mobilize at the regimental head
quarters at Hagerstown, and from
there they will entrain for the Army
training camp at Admission, Ala. There
they will be joined by the troops of
the District of Columbia and Vir-
ginia. All Of the soldiers appear to
be anxious to get away for the active
training course. rather than while
away so much time that they have on
their hands. apart from their daily
routine of drills.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-13
EXEMPTION BOARD IS
NOW HARD At WORK
Physicians Start Examination Of
Men Subject 10 Draft
MEN REPORT BY 1ffE SCORES
Busy Scenes About State House Where
The Examiners Are Holding Forth
Exemption Claims Presented

Busy scenes were presented in the
vicinity of State buildings on state
Circle throughout today. when the trio
of physicians appointed in connection
with the military draft board for An
napolis and Anne Arundel county got
down to their work promptly.
In order to secure as much privacy
as possible. the physicians are hold
ing forth in one of the large commit
tee rooms ON the basement floor of
the State House The examining
physicians are DR. Walton H. Hopkins.
the county health officer. who was
originally named as member of the
draft committee, and Or, James }
Murphy and DIR. j. oliver Purvis The
latter two were named at the request
OF States Attorney Nicholas II. Green
and Sheriff John r. Sullivan. the other
members of the board as originally
appointed This was done in order
that the details in connection with the
draft might be conducted in as
thorough a manner as possible
All day long streams of young men
under the draft age of 81 years, whose
names were drawn in the original
draft by the Federal officials in Wash
ington. came into the city from every
section n-of the county. and presented
themselves either TO undergo the pre-
scribed physical tess or to sign the
necessary afiidavits, in the event that
they claimed exemption from military
service The Office of States Attor-
ney Green was surely a busy place,
because that official was not only en-
gagged along this line, but his atten-
ton also was thoroughly engrossed
in holding conferences with detec-
tives and others in an effort 10 arrive
at some definite action in the Bran
don murder case. II was a tiresome
day for many of the men who are
subject to the draft. for there was no
certainty as to what time of day they
would be called before the examining
physicians Therefore. the situation
presented reminded one of scenes
about a Court House when a number
of witnesses are in waiting TO appear
before a grand jury. 1t has been es-
timated that the exemption board and
the physicians would be able to COM
plete their work in about three days.
but il is hardly likely that they will
dispose of the first four hundred who
have been called in so short time.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-13
]. H. U. Now Giving
Night Courses In Engineering

John Hopkins University will give
this winter its second season of Night
Courses for Technical Workers These
courses will ran from October 1917 to
May 1918, two evenings per week be.
ing required for each course Courses
in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry,
Mechanical Engineering. Heat En-.
gines Power Plant Design, Civil En-
giueering. and Electrical Engineering
are offered
AT the present time the demand for
technically trained men is much
greater than the supply. In the next
decade, If this country is to maintain
its plsce in the industrial world, high
ly trained men will be continuous me-
cessity.
II there should be any young men in
the vicinity of Annapolis who can take
advantage of this opportunity for ad-
yancement, further information as to
these courses will be gladly given by
Professor L. A. Doggett, U. S. Naval
Academy.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-13

sewerage improvements, and tries to
get movements for their installation
initiated by the localities themselves.
The directors OF the Annapolis
Water Company and the members of
the City Council who have voted for
the installation of filtration plant
are taking a decidedly enlightened
stand. and it is hoped that the other
members of the Council will soon see
the matter from different standpoint,
so that Annapolis may be brought in
line with other progressive cities.
Yours very truly,
ROBERT B. MORSE,
Chief Engineer.
Baltimore. Md,
August 10. 1917.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-13
On The Sick List

Mr.. A. C. Forester. local Manager
of the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany, is quite sick at his home on
Duke of Gloucester street. Mr.. For
roster has been indisposed for several
days, but did not give up. He is now
confined to bed.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-13
City Council Meets Tonight

Tonight the regular monthly meet
ing of the Mayor and City ConnciI
will be held at the Council Chamber
is expected little aside from the
Itutine business will be transacted.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-13

from Major Raymond Pullman. super
intendent of the Washington police,
that the department of that city will
lend every effort to aid the Baltimore
detectives in solving the mystery and
that he may rest assured that any
Washington angle of the affair would
be thoroughly and intelhgently
handled.
Mrs. HumistOn on Case.
Mrs. Grace Humiston, the New York
Portia, who, after repeated failures
on the part of score of detectives,
solved the Ruth Cruger murder mys-
terry, has given up a lucrative law
practice to devote her life to the pro-
tecion of he girlhood of America.
Out of SS cases of missing girls.
Mrs. Humiston has solved 14-or, in
other words, she has been instrument
tai in reclaiming IA girls who had
been lured from their homes from
lives of degradation and humiliation.
Her Office in New York is crowded
from morning until night with weep
AhS biOlnClo WnO UCS IcI W diu III
the finding of their missing daugh-
ters and by girls who have been led
from the path of virtue to the haunts
of vice.
Annapolis Crime Revolving.
81 consider no work more import
ant than that in connection with this
dreadful Annapolis crime said Mrs.
Humiston, who has been brought to
Annapolis by a Washington news
paper to help unravel the Brandon
mystery.
mot alone the safety of one poor
woman. but the peace of mind of mil
lions of women and children and hus-
bands and fathers is involved in this
/. case
'It matters not who committed the
crime; nothing can exaggerate the inn
portance of detection, conviction and
punishment.
IF, as | trust will prove 20 be the
case, the crime was committed by one
of the lowest and most ignorant of
human beings, all the more is it i'm
portant that he should be caught and
punished as an example to other GRIM
inals like him.
There is nothing that prevents
crime like quick detection and pun
ishment of criminals.
Must Defend Girls.
Let the police find and the law
punish the murderer of this poor
young wife, Lottie Brandon, and the
punishment will act as a warning
that will save others.
ITO hundreds of thousands of men
called into the countrys service the
first thought is of security for those
left at home undefended Young girls
and defenseless women in the homes
will rely upon the vigilance of the
police and the earnestness of the
press for their safety.
''As you know do not pose as
detective, although in the Ruth
Cruger case persistency did enable
me to find the body Of the poor girl
and locate the criminal | am very
glad to come to Annapolis to render
what service ! can in this case, and
especially to impress upon those re-
sponsible for crime detection what
such crime means not only to this
community, but to the whole coun-
try"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-13
WANTED!---TONATOES! |!

The Standard Fish and Oyster
Co., foot Of Johnson Place, Annap-
oils, Nd, will begin Packing TOma-
toes on August 9th. Phone An
napolis 237, or call and see us.