Chariton Herald (Newspaper) - November 7, 1901, Chariton, Iowa M. LUCAS NOVEMBER 7, 17, Number 10. EXPOSES COUNTY GIVES GOOD REPUBLICAN Siue B. of This Brings Chicago Villains to Sue Way daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth of this and a sister of Miss May B. the First has succeeded in winning prominence for herself in Chicago by furnishing tes timony to send two villains to the and imposing a fine on a It will be remembered that Miss Waynick is a teacher in the Chicago Manual Train ing She boarded last winter with the family of a man named Philip Bulfer induced her to Joan him last on the plea that he needed the money very badly for an and would pay it After his continued failure to pay it Miss Waynick suspicious of his character and and demanded promised to sell her a and - make the part payment on it. She but he failed to live up to that so acting on the of her swore out a warrant against him for actions from that time on showed that he was a rascal of the deepest and was one of a band of conspirators who were working under the guise of officers of the law to rob citizens and extort money from them in every possible Bulfer was an attorney by and after having the case against him continued several he surprised Miss Waynick by having her arrested Chariton citizens remember of the arrest of the young lady last as it created quite a stir of indignation The it afterward was ail a bluff scare Miss Waynick from pushing the case against But she is not of the kind that is easily and after securing an easy release from the charge against she proceeded to probe the Bulfer crookedness to the She A. whom the conspirators also to by arresting without After investigation by the it was found that the so-called was in conspiracy with a constable named Thomas D. Courtney and a man named Henry all of whom had been working together for some time to extort from citizens or strangers by intimidation or Justice Scott of the town of Harvey was also found to be in the The plan was to have Constable Courtney arrest strangers or innocent citizens on information sworn out by who by the name of Allen in the official and the prisoners were then locked and afterward released if they paid the officers or else they tried before Justice Scott in Harvey and fined for imaginary Bulfer was the attorney and of the Miss proved more than a match for faim by consenting to act as chief witness for the state of Illinois in the and as a consequence the trial of men came oS in Judge court last and Bulfer and Courtney were given three years in the besides a fine of while who is an old man and evidently a tool for the was released with a nal fine of and outcome of the Investigation is a revelation to even the judges of who to all kinds of Judge who first bound men to grand was so stirred ' by the revelations which Miss inaugurated that be has called a S council of the leading attorneys and of Chicago to draw up a to the next Illinois directed toward out Such under the guise is and Miss Waynick is to be congratulated upon villains so successfully and to Plurality 618Hasselquist and Waynick Elected by Over 400 Plurality Office in Elect Miss Fitch for by ML Fot by W. For by W. For by B. Chairman County Central First Presbyterian will be a of the of the First Presbyterian Church on the 11th. day of 1901, at 2 P. in the audience room of the matter to be considered is the ln our A vote can taken on filling that vacancy Every who be order of tbe 8. f vote in Lucas county last Tuesday was about the same as two years The total vote for Mr. Cummins this year was 1664, as against 1691 for Shaw in 1899, and 1046 for as against 1153 for White in 1899. The prohibition vote was about 150. plurality in the county is 618. Mr. for representative is 455, Mr. for treasurer is 431. Mr. Larimer's for supervisor is not yet For sheriff Mr. Mauk is at present 4 votes behind Mr. the democratic the chances even for his success in the official For superintendent of Schools Miss defeated Prof. Glackemeyer by 120 The unofficial table of be found in another part of R. For B. plurality in Iowa will be 90,000 or the largest the state has fever Seth Low is elected Mayor of Greater New his entire fusion ticket being elected by 30,000 Pennsylvania go heavily while democrats win in Maryland and vote in Iowa was quite the republicans polling about sixty per cent of their vote of a year and the democrats but forty-seven per cent. In the state legislature the republicans have gained seven five in the senate and two in the The republicans will have 39 members in the senate and the democrats 11. In the house the republicans will have 83 members and the democrats 17. by About Ten Thousand total vote in tne counties ported is 23,556 less than on governor last indicating a total vote in the state of not far from 200,COO. Nov. 7.Figures covering j about 70 per cent of the state vote on j judge of the supreme court of lea indicate that in 1,131 precincts state out of the total number of j 1,611, that Sedgwick has received 74,-; 527 and that Hollenbeck has 63,118 thus giving a majority of 11,409. ; appended table of 42 shows a plurality for Sedgwick of 6,001. These same counties last year gave Republican candidate for a plurality of 41, a net gain over last year of 5,960, when Dietrich had a plurality in the state of 861. This would indicate that the Republican plurality on the head of the state ticket will be in the neighborhood of 10,000. 1,642 1,202 1,482 1,439 637 1,708 848 681 992 1,727 9,170 LATEST Returns From Every County Give Cummins 89,423 Des Nov. 7.Returns from the county auditors of Iowa indicate that the official vote will give A. B. the Republican something like 90,000 of the counties have been heard from and a conservative estimate of the remainder indicates this result as quite returns from every county in the state give Cummins 234,492, Phillips 145,064. plurality 89,428. The returns on the legislature are not but the Republicans have surely made good gains and Increased their already large majority by eight or Cummins broke the record in Des Moines carrying the county by a plurality of 14. It Is usually strongly The largest plurality given Cummins was by Polk which gave him no less than 6,950. from 46 counties on tbe Prohibition vote give Prohibition candidate for 8,600 a net gain of 4,685, indicating a total Prohibition vote of 17,748. the first time in the history of Dubuque county since Iowa was admitted as a state the Democratic party has been routed with an average 45 j Republican majority of 2,000. The 749 I party has saved only two of Its representative in the 786! and buque was the banner 1,591 989 820 1,651 432 1,441 1,153 602 761 2,192 7,438 259 212 439 IN Will Have a Majority on Joint Ballot in Nov. 7.Returns from every county in the partly official and partly indicate a result in the legislative contest which is almost parallel in The most careful estimates and calculations give the Democrats 46 delegates and seven newly elected combined with the ten who hold over in the assures the friends of Mr. Gorman a total of Go on joint Republicans it appears have elected 49 delegates and six added to their three hold over gives them a total of 58 on joint These figures indicate that the Republicans will be able to organize the house of of the surprises of the day was the close vote in Allegheny heretofore safely Republican by majorities ranging from 1,200 to 2,000. Democrats have elected their senator and one representative in that and the result as to the four remaining delegates is St. Mary's which has been considered has gone solidly and Washington one of the picturesque figures on the Republican side of the is retired to private GAIN IN Sherman Stanton Thayer Wayne 1,598 419 637 1,289 974 1,227 880 202 46 123 1,382 847 650 1,198 1,757 873 815 740 1,119 622 1,855 538 654 944 824 1,102 in DAKOTA precinct 43,807 in Judicial Than Half the Vote S. Nov. 7.The results of the election for district judges Smith First 2,000 Jones Second 3,000 Bennet Third 600; Frank B. Smith Fourth 600; McCoy Fifth 600 to 700; Gaffy Sixth no McGee Seventh probably re-elected by a narrow Washabaugh Eighth 800. Less than half vote was Blare at Sioux Nov. 7.Fire last night destroyed Gunther wholesale store and notion Elizabeth of of the state university j who was principal of tbe Hi Kb along after the heads of School for three years and a teacher capturing about per cent In the 8th for two was a come visitor the firat of the Carries the State by Over Sixty-Seven Thousand Nov. 7.Chairman Dick of the Republican state committee has the returns from 86 counties in Ohio with only two missing and the two missing counties were estimated from the newspaper reports the following Sixty-two counties have Republican pluralities aggregating 90,840. Twenty-six have Democratic pluralities aggregating 23,179, making the plurality of Nash over Kilbourne for governor 67,661 and approximating 80,000 plurality for other candidates on the Republican state The total vote will not exceed 900,000. The plurality for Governor Nash exceeds that of two years when be was elected by 29,423, and the actual plurality of the candidates on the Republican state ticket greatly exceeds that for president last when McKinley and Roosevelt bad a plurality in Ohio of 69,030. Republicans elected 68 representatives and the Democrats 42. The senate stands 21 Republicans and 12 The Republican majority on Joint ballot for United States senator 1b 30. last Tne strike resulted from the refusal of the Temple company to reinstate 50 men who had been and in whose case it was alleged a blacklist from the Lehigh Coal company in the Maltby where they had been previously In was used against DESERTS Lynch of Washington Township Leaves His Wife and Goes to of Washington has played smash He owned a small farm south of Eussell until a short time when he sold it to S. O. His wife had property of her own before they were and her belongings were included in the Mr. Lynch induced her to sign the deed with him by promising her a visit to relatives after the sale would-be and also said he would buy another farm in where would make their Tbe sale was and she started on The same night that she Mr. Lynch's son from near arrived on the and either induced or plotted with his father to go with him to his home near Unionville and leave the mother to shift for herself on her So the old man gathered together all his it is nearly and went with the bod to The aged wife came back from her visit a few days only to find the home the furniture and furnishings nearly all and her husband She was very much but by inquiry found that her husband had deserted and had taken all their joint property and gone to his son's home in leaving her to paddle her own Robbed of her home aDd all her the poor woman appealed to her charitable who fitted her out with a place to live in the home which had been and are now keeping her from door with donations of the indignant neighbors raised a purse to send after the old man and prosecute County Attorney Drake went to Unionville and found but could not induce him to Tbe old man said that be would neither let his Beaten in Nov. 7.Practically complete returns from the state give Republican for state 52,360 plurality and Republican lor supreme court 47,939 The amendments carried by a big The total vote cast in the state will approximate 850,000. The total vote cast last year was 1,153,210. Loses in Nov. 7.Returns up to 12:30 indicate that the next general assembly in which will elect a United will 25 13 73 26 Miners Nov. 7.-An order calling a strike at the eight collieries of the Temple Iron was Nov. 7.The Mikado mine is afire in the seventh Two men who were at work below this level are imprisoned by the with no means of TERSELY mob raided a near and killed the proprietor's Rock Island and Pacific Railway company has added $ 10,-000,000 to its capital pants factory of Harrison Rudd at was destroyed by fire residing near killed his wife and 7-year-old child with an axe He then went into cellar and cut his own throat with a ' Fisher was found guilty at Wednesday of an attempt to extort from Charles a business man of that by threats to kidnap his his annual report the commissioner of pensions discusses at length the faults of the present system of pensioning and the difficulties in the way of determining the merits of claims for pension and tending to show that a pool exists between eastern roads on grain and grain products was given before the interstate commerce com mission Wednesday by C. H. a grain dealer of Fort captain and quarterback of the football team of the of was outlawed at the conference of the colleges sad is thereby barred from taking part is college athletics in the there nor let her have any of the The son seemed to have influenced his father to this cruel so Mr. Drake had to return without effecting the desired He then went to Des Moines for requisition to bring the old man here under He carried warrants on two one for larceny from his and the other for obtaining money under false On both of them the attorney general declined to recommend requisition he taking the stand that the laws of Iowa did not recognize stealing from a wife as Mr. Drake therefore and other will be adopted to bring the old I. to time and the wife is living off the donations of charitable friends and although she really has property her own which her husband stole from The flaw in the state law seems to have come from the old common in which a wife's property became her husband's immediately upon their Any clause in the old common law which Is not annulled by a new is still in so the attorney general be a husband cannou steal from his since tbe property they hold is owned by or at least by them as It appears from tbe developments in this case that Lynch and his wife are and he is that The fact that a man can steal all his wife's and all their joint and leave her to want and and still be protected by tbe is likely to arouse the indignation of the public in general until they will take the law into their own if the matter is not made right afternoon at three the marriage vows between Elmer Bash and Argie both of Union were made in the presence of the W. S. Long. The groom is a son of the late Fountain Rash and tbe bride is a daughter of Charles Both are natives of Lucas county and their friends hope for them a prosperous journey through Octogenarian Society of Pi lk county met last week in Des at the Kirk to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the first Iowa state About twenty-five were present and ail were over seventy years of Among them WM Edward Ames Who came to Chariton in 1853 and who established In the banking now conducted by the First and was until a few years ago numbered among Charlton's influential The Capital savs be was the and most one ot tbe C-
