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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-25
WOMEN JURORS CRY
AT INQUEST HEARING
Tears Stream Down Cheeks Of Women
Jurors as They Hold Man Respon-
sible for Death.
(By United Press)


Erie, Pa.-After week Of mystery.
rumors, accusations and charges of
frame-up in connection with the death
of William E. Schultz and serious in
juries to William Donaldson, employ
ees of local traction company, struck
by an automobile early last Tuesday
morning while at work repairing street
car tracks and protected by red lights,
a women's coroner's jury today held
City Solicitor Martin G. Cornell for
the killing Of Schultz. With tears
streaming down their cheeks, the jury
of women filed in and announced it's
finding Mayor Miles Kits and Cor
nell are law partners and both testi-
fed that at the time Schultz was struck
down and killed they were at their
homes. The death car was traced to
Cornell's garage. Mayor Kits was al
legged to have been in the automobile.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-25
Gas & Electric Co. Goes
Into Court to Collect
Surcharges.
CLAIMS FOUR CAUSES
Company Demands Damages Of
$4,000 Alleging City Has
Refused to Pay.

The old fight between the Wisconsin
Gas and Electric company over the
collection of sur-charges made in con-
nection with the bills for street light
ing, reached the circuit court this
morning when the attorneys Of the
company filed suit naming the city
as defendant and demanding dam
ages in the amount of S6,135.32 to-
claims made by the company and re-
naming unpaid by the city. The com
plant is a four barel1ed one, the com
pany alleging four distinct causes for
action and claiming damages on all of
them. The unpaid r-charges are al
legged by the complaint to date back to
the order issued by the railroad com
mission of Wisconsin October 7, 1918
and at the same time the company was
given permission to revise it's rates.
City Pleads Contract
The city council has repeatedly re-
fused to pay any claims of the com
pany for sur-charges on account of
the fact that the aldermen have held
that the city had a definite contract
with the company to cover the cost
of street lighting for term of years.
The general contract between the city
and the company was made on January
/, 1915 and later contract was made
covering the special charges to Nbe
made for ornamental lights. Then
came the order of the railroad COM
mission giving the company the right
to increase rates and this same order
gave the company the right to make
a sur-charge on all bills for electric
lighting The sur charges were paid
by the people generally without pro-
test but every bill sent to the city
covering the added charge was held up
by the committee on gas and light and
payments to the company were for the
fixed charges under the contract.
Other Cities Have Paid.
Other cities which had lighting con-
tracts with the same company were
charged with the sur-charge and these
cities have paid. Racine paid the sur
charge claims after getting an order
from the railroad commission.
The city attorney is expected to
fight the case for the city, but as yet
no answer has been filed. The COM
pany claims the sur-charge on every
character Of service rendered in con-
nection with the street lighting.
There has been no suggestion of com
promise but the matter will probably
come up for discussion at the meeting
of council on next Monday evening.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-25
NEVIS ALTER EGO

Secretary Baker can find solace and encour-
agement in the remarks of Mrs. Pethick-Law-
renee, an Englishwoman who is in this country
bestowing public praise on the conscientious
objector, that species of citizen who command
ed so much of Mr.. Bakers jealous attention
during the war. The lady recently held meet
ing in Washington theater within a stones
throw of the War Department. At the con-
clusion of her address a resolution was passed
urging general amnesty for all political pris-
oners in Federal prisons. It is no secret that
the chief objection of the veterans to the ad-
ministration Of Mr. Baker is the leniency which
he showed to the conscientious objector, and it
is reported that the remarks of the English la
dy have been made the basis of action by
American Legion posts to stop the spread Of
such doctrines throughout the country
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-25
CHICAGO POLICE ARE
IN NEW BIG SCANDAL
Chief Fitzmorris on Warpath Against
Gambler Who Escaped Bertillion
Measurements.
(By United PressT


Chicago scandal in the Chi
cage police department threatened to-
day following an announcement by
Charles Fitzmorris, chief of the Chi
cago police, against influential gam
blers in raids on vice quarters Sunday
who were not measured or photograph
ed for records for Bertillion identified
ton. Chief Fitzmorris announced an
investigation would be made of how
these persons escaped the Bertillion
room. He said orders had been given
that the 500 who were taken in the
greatest crime raid ever known in Chi
cage were to be sent to the Bertillion
room for Identification before release.
He also was angered by the small fines
judges melted out to the offenders
caught in the raids.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-25
PATIENCE. YET AWHILE

Reports from Washington are to the effect
that recognition Of the new Mexican govern
ment will be likely be delayed a long time. Gen.
Obregon was duly elected by the votes Of the
Mexican people, and will take office the LIST of
December, facts which cannot be ignored. With
the Inauguration of President-elect Harding
we shall have man in the White House not
afraid to look facts in the face. Probably he
will not only recognize the existence Of peace
with Germany, fact now two years old, but
also the existence of a government in Mexico
far more stable and more representative of the
people than the Carranza regime which Mr..
Wilson formally recognized.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-25
WAS Coon MONEY THOUGH.

Paris-Talk about filthy lucrel A
microscope at the Pasteur Institute
here discovered a mere trifle of
80,000,000 disease germs on one
franc bank note. Among the little fell
lows were the bacilli which cause tub
erculosis, beri-beri, lockjaw and sew
eral hundred others. The temperature
of a mans pocket is just about right
for bacteria, it is said. Of course, the
professor explains, there might be a
lot more than 8O,OOO,OO0 on the note.
That was all he had time to count.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-25
Former Kenoshan
Dies i'm ManitOwoc
Mrs. Mary Ortiz, Widow of Peter Orth,
Dies in Manitowoc Monday After
Long Illness.

Word was received here this morn
ing of the death of Mrs. Mary Ortiz,
widow of the late Peter Ortiz, at her
own home in the city Of Manitowoc.
Mrs. Ortiz was formerly resident of
Kenosha and has many friends here to
lament her death.
The deceased was born in Somers in
1866, the daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter eraser. She was married to
Peter Orth and the family has made
its home in Manitowoc for many years.
She is survived by one daughter, Mrs.
w. j. Wochowitz, and one son, Benja-
min Orth, of Manitowoc; by two broth
ers, Nicholas and Matt eraser of Ke-
nosha; and four sisters, Mrs. Henry
Sullivan and John, Fuhrer of Kenosha,
Mrs. Thomas Balm of Russell, ILL.,, and
Mrs. John Tepoorten of Superior.
The funeral services will be held
Thursday morning in Manitowoc with
interment in the family plot in the
cemetery of that city.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-25

it that the automobiles were parked
right in the future"
May Put Up Signs.
With a view of being far with the
drivers of automobiles coming into the
city from other parts of the county and
from other counties and states, the
police department viii ask the city
council to have signs put up at the
leading entrances to the city warning
the people of the enforcement Of the
parking ordinances and giving them
suggestions as to just how they may
be free Of such violations. This has
been done in nearly all Of the cities
where parking ordinances are in op-
GRAFTON and it is said to have aided
materially in taking away the sting of
the enforcement Of such ordinances.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-25

ping unless his crime be very shameful"
1t appears, therefore, that being a gentle
man in Massachusetts was condition of life,
rather than of character The Chinese defni-
ton is the better. And, by the way how many
gentlemen would still be considered such, if the
Confucian specifications were strictly applied.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-25

A Syracuse professor caught a glimpse Of
heaven after an auto accident, thus upsetting
the theory of thousands of pedestrians who
figured careless motorists were headed the 9TH
er way.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-25

Fifty violators of the new parking
ordinance of the city were taken into
custody by the police of the city on
Monday afternoon and evening, but not
one Of. these people went before the
bench at the municipal court to say:
"Good morning, judge" They were
booked as first offenders against the
parking ordinance at the police station
and the list of the people picked up
reads little like social register of
the city. The people were not all from
the city and number of them were
well known farmers living in the terri
tory about the city. Under instruc-
tions from the chief Of the department.
none of the persons picked up were
taken to court, but they were warned
Don't do it again" In the long list
of people whose names were taken, not
one was charged with violating the
time limit provision of the parking
ordinance.
Get Autos in Wrong.
The violations were alleged to have
followed the wrong method Of parking
the automobiles in the downtown dis
trict. Instead of putting the cars par
allel with the curb, as is required by
the ordinance, the people taken up by
the police had insisted on letting the
automobiles stick out into the street.
1t was declared by the police that this
kind of parking is more dangerous
than overtime parking.
Eve are not holding these people
for penalties, declared Chief O'Hare
this morning. "We have told them
how to obey the ordinance and nearly
all of them showed willingness to
comply. They admitted that they had
not understood the provisions of the
ordinance and that they would see to
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-25
POLICE PICK Up
FIFTY VI0LATORS
Auto Drivers Who Fail to
Observe Ordinance Are
Warned Monday.
DON'T DO IT AGAIN
Police Officers Busy Taking
Drivers into Custody but
None Taken into Court.
BULLETIN.

Up to three o'clock this after
noon twenty more people had been
given red tags for violating the
parking ordinance. This brought
the total to seventy.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-25

Two bottles Of beer have been placed in the
Milwaukee public museum. One might label
them elixir relics, or relixirs for short
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-25

If education uplifts, how about the section
boss who can swear in seven languages?
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-25

Mildred Harris, it is reported, will marry
again. This time it's probably man who eats
custard pie instead of throwing it.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-25

They're raising Cain in India which is one
of the easiest things the Hindu kindu
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-25

House this November; there was the old rooster
to fall back on.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-25

There are many barefoot millionaires in the
Crimea. Over here the millionaires have their
wives go bareback
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-25

If the Shipping Board paid S161 for hinge.
as is charged, someone ought to swing for it.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-25

The quarrels of the magnates fail to reassure
the baseball fans.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-25

The term "gas" was first used in
chemistry in the sixteenth century.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-10-06
CUBAN CANE CROP is
INFERIOR THIS YEAR

Havana, Cuba, Oct. 5.-Prediction
that Cuba's cane crop would be in
ferior to the one of 1918 and that its
product would not reach the market
before February, 1922, was made in
bulletin issued last night by the
sales commission which represents
holders of a considerable portion of
this years unsold crop.
"In view of the loss of the crop in
the Oriente REGION" the bulletin said
"the abandonment of many cane
fields and the poor clearing up OF
others, the delayed work in cane fields
in general, especially that of prepar'
ing for the next crop, the sales com,
mission believes, harvesting of the
coming crop would be delayed and
that it will be inferior to the present
one, totalling approximately $500.
Geo tons. 1t will not begin to reach
the market before February, 1927
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-10-06
SEARCH FOR OWNERS
OF LIBERTY BONDS

New York, Oct. 5.-Speaking at
military reunion dinner here to-
night, Brig. Gen. N. M. Lord, chief
of finances of the United States
army, said his department in Wash
ington has 4,0OO Liberty Bonds,
representing s275,0OO which belong
to soldiers who can not be found.
The bonds have been held for two
years and carry coupons represent
ing 100000 in interest. The depart
ment, he said, had been unable to
reach the owners at the addresses
which they had given and has ap-
pealed to the Red Gross, the Y. M.
C. A., the Knights of Columbus and
other war organizations to help To-
cate these men.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-10-06
BIG FIGHT AT WATTS

Magistrate Hollingsworth issued a
warrant Tuesday for the arrest of
Mary Wade and her sister, Emma
Jeter, charged with an assault and
battery with intent to kill. Accord
ing to the the tale of prosecutor
Thomas Cannon the two women
came into the field where he and
his wife were picking cotton, the as
sailants being armed with a blud-
geon, pistol and knife, and under
took to do them bodily injury. The
negroes who were attacked left the
field and went to Watts to board a
train for Abbeville for the purpose
of swearing out a warrant and were
followed by their assailants who
threatened to kill them if they came
to Abbeville for such purpose.
Cannon and his wife were pretty
badly used up in the encounter.
Judge Hollingsworth will sit on the
case as soon as the defendants have
been arrested.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-10-06
JAPs WILL DISCUSS
SITUATION IN u. S.
Meeting To Be Held In Toxic On
October Eleventh-Sound Ad-
vice Is Given.

Toxic, Oct. 5.-Arrangements
have been made by the standing
committee of the oppositions party
of the house of peers for general
meeting\to be held on October II to
discuss the anti-Japanese move
ment in California. Among those
who have taken part in making
plans for the meeting is Marquis To-
kugawa, a prominent member of the
Japan Red Cross Society. 1t had
been decided to request the pres
ence of Masono Hanihra to make a
detailed report on negotiations with
the United States.
Professor Hayashi, counsellor of
the foreign affairs Office, is quoted
by the newspaper Hochi Shimbun in
an interview relative to the situa-
ton.
"The best way to settle anti-Japa-
nese questoins," he is quoted as say
ing, is to appeal to the sincerity and
to the fairness and good will of the
American people. Japan should re-
member California is not all of A
merica, where I believe sympathy
exists for the japanese in connec-
tion with movements against men,
bers of our race. Above all a half
century of close diplomatic and
economic relations must not be. al
lowed to be stained with discord."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-10-06
BIG CRIME INCREASE

Macon, Ca, Oct. 5.-More than
$50 mer charged with illicit making
of liquor will be arraigned in the
United Sttaes district court during
the term which opened this morning.
Pleas of guilty are occupying the
courts attention for the day.. more
than forty of these being entered.
Almost 80 of these are in cases
where "moonshining" is charged
The criminal docket to be tried at
this term of the court contains more
than 800 cases, by far the largest
number in the history of the court.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-10-06
COMISKEY GIVES
PRIZE MONEY TO
LOYAL PLAYERS

Chicago, Oct. 5.-Every member
of the 1919 White SoX except the
eight members of the club under in
d;ctment for conspiracy to ".ar1w''
the world series last fall to Cincin-
natl, Monday was handed a check
for the difference between the win
ners' and the losers end of the
.,,ries. The amount is appl oXimately
$500 for each player.
The players who received the
money are Urban Faber, Byrd Lynn,
Ray Schalk, Richard Kerr, R. H.
Wilkinson, E. T. Collins, John Col
Inns, Havey Mcclellan, Harry Lie
bold and Eddie Murphy. Manager
Gleason also was given a check
equalling in amount those given
each of the players.
The money was given the players
by Charles A. Comiskey, owner OF
the league.
Ina letter to Manager Gleason
and to each of the players, Com's-
key said:
81 regret more than you the oc-
currences of the 1919 world series.
The honest ball players are stronger
today than ever.
GAS one of the honest ball players
of the Chicago White Sox team l
feel that you were deprived of the
winners share of the world series
receipts. do not intend that you,
as honest ball players, shall be pc
nalized for your honesty or suffer
by reason of the dishonesty of 9TH
ers. I therefore take pleasure in
handing you $1,000, the difference
between the winners and losers
share wish you all the luck possible
and hope that the future will bring
nothing but happiness to you and
yours"
The players who received the
money signed joint letter to the
''fans of Chicago" acknowledging
receipt of the money and praising
Comiskey's generosity.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-10-06
ROOSEVELT DRAWS A
VERY ROSY PICTURE
Says Support For Cox Is Now Ga.
.hering Great Momentum.

ST.. Louis, Mo-, Oct. 5.-Franklin
D. Roosevelt, democratic vice presi-
Dental nominee, starting the ninth
week of his campaign here today,
declared the peak of the republican
hope hard been reached and passed
and that support for the demo-
cratic ticket was now gathering mo-
mentun which would sweep Cover
nor Cox into the presidency next
month Mr.. Roosevelt arrived here
early today after conferring with
Governor Cox on the latter's special
train between Terre Haute and
Indianapolis yesterday.
"The outstanding feature of the
last week." he said, "has been the
rousing of the interest of the women
voters in the campaign, especially in
those states where they have not
had the franchise before.
"Then sense the important dis
tinction that, in lew of the split in
the republican party, to vote for Mr.
Hading will be the vote against the
league. Governor Cox told me that
he had found the same tremendous
swing in the west in the past 10
days."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-10-06

lowing in Indiana. Mr.. Ryrnes Is
looked upon as one of the leading
men on the minority side of the house
in congress and his replies to state
ments of Republicans at the last ses-
sion Regarding Democratic waste and
extravaganza are not being widely
used as campaign material in the
fight now on. I
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-10-06
SAFE is BLOWN

Athens, Ca, Oct. 5.-The iron
safe in the office of the Seaboard
Air Line depot in this city was
blown by expert safe crackers short,
ly after midnight Sunday morning
and the whole amount of cash con-
tained therein, about $4,000 way
stolen. Nothing else in the office
was damaged.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-10-06
DIR. w. E. LINK VISITS

Dr.. w. E. Link of Wilmington,
who does not expect to get to hea-
ven before he is a hundred, is in the
city visiting his sons, Coils. S. ].
Link and R. S. Link. No, he did not
come to attend the circus, but to
visit. While here he is an attentive
listener at the fine preaching OF
Rev. Paul Pressly, at the Seceder
church.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-10-06
SENATOR BORAH TO
REMAIN IN HARNESS
Wires Harding He Will Not Kick
Out Of The Traces-But Is
Against League

Against League
Marion, Ohio, Oct. 5.-ln answer
to widely published reports that
Senator Borah, leader of the
treaty irreconcilables, soon would
Guit the republican campaign, Sena-
tor Harding's headquarters here
made public today a telegram in
which Mr.. Borah declared he would
continue to wok for epublican sue
cess.
The message, addressed to Sena-
tor Harding, was as follows:
"In view of reports I wish you to
know my speeches in future will be
along same lines as at Dayton ana
in the senate. I want to see you
win and want to see the league
scheme defeated. In my own way
shall devote my time to the
achievement of both propositions"
Senator Harding already has de-
clared that Senator Borah's declara-
ton in campaign speeches met with
his approval, and he renewed his
prediction today that throughout
the remainder of the campaign he
and Mr.. Borah would be found
speaking in accord. The nominee
also revealed that in his next public
address, which is to be delivered
Thursday at Des Moines, Iowa, he
expects to develop a step further
his position on the league issue.
Senator Harding would make no
comment today on the statement of
President Wilson, appealing for
support of the league, but said that
in his Des Moines address, he would
"devote some attention to the mat
ter"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-10-06
SPARKS CIRCUS IN TOWN

Sparks Bros. Circus hit town in
the early hours of the morning. All
the little boys about town went to
bed early in order to get up and
see them unload, but most of them,
like Son Bill, oversight themselves
and will have to be content with
seeing the parade and "going in,"
like Candidate Cox believes in do
ing.
A great many parents are in town
today who wanted very much to stay
at home and pick cotton, the men
of course outnumbering the wo-
men. The children wanted to see the
elephant, and finally and after
much persuasion, father got up
early, put on his Sunday clothes, and
thought mother never would get the
children ready to go, because ne
was in hurry to get here and get
back home, he said,-after he had
seen everything. A good many men
suddenly wanted to sell cotton to-
day. Some wanted to know how the
market was, others wanted to know
when the bank notes would be due,
and others still insisted on coming
to town to get something for his
wife, while some had toochache, 9TH
er hardened sinners called it Cir
Gus. But they all come, whatever the
excuse.
Cheap cotton and cheap cotton
seed does not keep the African away
from the circus. They commenced
coming in by good daylight and
they are still coming. The negro
preachers, who collect when the
members sell the cotton seed, may
not get all that is coming to them,
but the circus people will.
The big parade took place at
1880 and a great crowd of people
standing on the curbs, sitting in the
up-story windows, on tops of bales
of cotton, in trees and elsewhere
took a look at the animals and at
the pretty women horseback
riders, as we'll as enjoyed the music
played by the one cylinder steam
! piano.
The gates to the main show were
opened at 2 o'clock, and the show is
now in progress while we are al
work. But there will be anothe,
Sitting" tonight and we hope to be
able to tell the story before we &C
to sleep again.