Obrien County Bell (Newspaper) - September 21, 1905, Primghar, Iowa 1 f L- i F 4 B I i r 1 t I 3 i li b THE O'BRIEN COUNTY BELl J H Publisher PRIMGHAR IOWA Ono of the moat wonderful an en Inj United Slates senate is of Alabama He Is years old and two years from thia he win complete thirty years service in the senate recent short session he spoke for than four hours for two consecutive days The physical of for four hours on one day is more many senators care to attempt some one asked how long he could ly talk depends upon the he replied it wore a matter that I thoroughly understand I could talk for two or three if it were a ter I knew about I could talk for two or three Files of the Nevada Transcript of tell of the visit of a company to tho mining town of Red The headed by Kean Virginia Frank Charles Elizabeth all of whom py prominent places in the history of tho American played nights in Red Dog to an average ness of a night The plays were and Today not vestige of a house is to be found on the former site of Red which was about nine miles from Nevada City i F Consumption of horseflesh is j Increasing in Berlin and its i where 250 slaughter j Many dealers have become so that they have exchanged the humble cellars where they formerly carried on- business for handsome shops In large towns the same stale of especially in the annual consumption is computed to be much of is used in sausage manufactories It is said that the patrons even of good restaurants In largo German cities not Infrequently treated to roast horse when have ordered roast beef WOMEN TO DEMAND ON LABEL Davenport Matrons Declan Radical in Their Demands IOWA'S POPULATION LOSES OVER AT DES MOINES DYNAMITE DEPOT AT GET LITTLE MERCHANTS ARE NOTIFIED The Completed Census Figures r Show That Few ties Gained LARGE CITIES GROWING Women of the River Town as Wef as in Rock Island and Will Not Redd Advertisements Unless Bearing Labels Practically All of the Large Towns ana Cities in the State Have Increased in Population During Five Years la Sopi Davenport has a Women's Label league that intends to let the people here know that it is in H has re- cently Rock Island and Moline as the field of and from which it draws its membership It meets alternately in Davenport and and at its DOS Sept the preliminary of the state completed yesterday by tary of the executive lost in population in years between and 1905 this year is and live last in Davenport ii adopted years ago it was f A m T w tfm r resolutions that pledge its members take a very decided stand in favor of the union la In these resolutions they serve notice on merchants they will not read any advertisements that do not bear the label of the union A v HI And if deliveries or purchases are made to their homes with the delivery horse or team wearing a new harness that does not bear a union label they return the coods to the merchant instanter SENSATIONAL ESCAPADE Girl Alleged She Had Been As by Two Men Twenty-two counties show increases in and the remainder show losses Practically all of the larger cities of the state increased in population ing the five The loss was exclusively confined to the rural dis- All of the census authorities agree upon the proposition that the ment of Iowa farms is responsible for the loss of rural population The figures of the different as compiled by Secretary will now go to the classification and it is expected that correction of clerical errors may show a slight variance from I the figures now given for the but la Sow Dr Henrich C recently supplied almost city of N with young trees He bought thousands of maple end chestnut had shipped to Tonawanda and stored in a nursery there Then he announced that all who would might have trees by at- the nursery The effect was Streets that never would have had trees were soon filled flourishing saplings that in twenty years will be superb monument to one Alphonse the inventor of the finger print system of Identifying is described as a est man with more the of a scientist than of a hunter of men A high a well balanced a thin oval a pair of serene dark a dark but not too pronounced in a dark a complexion strongly reminiscent of long and delicate a light If ram are the characteristics of The old white beaver is not yet wholly obsolete It is worn by a member the house of Sir Edward who relates proudly that he the beaver hat in Paris upward jof thirty years that he has worn it every summer that it is as as and owing to the of are all but now at least ten times original price j j Queen Alexandra of England like many ill at ease on the trum Her voice is low and with just the suspicion of foreign accent about it There is an almost pathetic note in its tones that lingers in the memory hauntingly her subjects loyally declare that she is most speaker and that the tinge is but an added charm to the voice it is bound to be very slight The counties which showed increases in population for the five years Appanoose Black Carroll Cerro Em- Polk fied her Ka as a domestic in the family of a fanner near Cora a pretty girl of 15 adopted sensational methods in an effort to induce her parents to send her 10 school She procured a razor 1 and shaved off her golden cutting j and at them until she j seated u frightful sight She then took a rope and tied herself to a tree near the houee of her employer John where she after ing- several hours in attracting the at- tention of passersby by her screams She told a of having been by two strange who cut Junior Iowa Senator Addresses lows Editors on of the DCS Sept address at the auditorium night was the feature of the r session of the Upper Des association While it primarily a newspaper meeting and the was scheduled tot take about 4 of the he considerable of his time to out the desirability of rather than as far as the 1 party is concerned As tho Mr expressed the opinion that it is now impossible to any revision with safety to ithe business of the because the great variety and conflict of Inter- ests and the multiplicity of concerning the manner of i As to railway rate the expressed the opinion that tho recommendation of the president to an effective amendment of lent laws would be followed by con- In this latter connection said some of but which quite a stir as he said them doubt very he this some of the most difficult problems of the has been helped forward very much by speeches the integrity of our public life and government in the United for by the time you have con- a man that congress has for thirty years been corruptly dominated by corporate interests he is likely to take only a languid interest in the prospect of our redemption through the interstate commerce In connection with his tariff remarks Senator declared that the party could only be held together by the fundamentals of the party faith in capital reserving the things about which the party is not agreed for temperate argument in smaller He also demanded which leaves parties quarreling and fighting among Are Thought Have Got in Their Work at M L Building ONLY PENNIES ARE TAKEN There is No Clue as to the abouts of the One Was Awakened by sions Though Severe HOARD OF CONTROL PLAN IS ADOPTED Special Legislative Commission Agrees to It for Educational Institutions GOVERNOR TO APPOINT Sept safe at the Milwaukee and St Louis depot was wrecked evening by bers The door was completely blown off Its a drill and a charge being used to do the There was only about in nies in the part of which was not taken Some of the neighbors who live In the vicinity oC the depot heard the report of the but did not know the cause and did not any alarm The work is supposed to have been done by professionals REED BUYS SHIRAS BOOKS But Commissioners Salaried Board Agreed to Unanimously and Report Being Written Finest Private Library in the State is Sold Sept Heed of the United States district court of the northern district of chased the law library of Judge who retired from the bonch some time ago It is paid to be the finest private library in the stale The library was assessed at almost The parting with his library indicates that Judge Shiras has laid aside the law for jrood j and that he does not intend to delve I into the the profession killing one another ther than Taking a passing interest in WILSON'S SON WEDS Secretary of Agriculture at Traer tt Witness the Wedding Sept the home of the bride's Mr and Mrs ert celebrated a pretty one another out and party organizations broken and less LIGHTNING KILLS THREE is going or in the Reed has decided not to move to buque and will continue to make his Cresco his home in the future COULDN'T AWAKEN GIRL off her lied her to a when Mr and Mrs stuffing jier apron in mouth to j Stevenson gave in marriage their daughter to Mr Ward eldest son of Hon James secretary of the department of ture Rev Mr of the Presbyterian performed the ceremony in the presence of about sixty guests Immediately following the season of congratulations the guests sat down to a handsomely her out She said no ait empt to outrage her had been made and that the men after cutting off her hair and securely going towards the town of LeGrand The sheriff and his deputies were notified here and a posse went to the scene of the crime In the meantime the sheriff the girl who finally Admitted j pointed wedding supper Mr and Mrs that she hud tied herself to the tree Wilson will make their home on the old and shorn her own thai Wilson where the groom was that she born her reason for so doing to her parents to take her from the work of a servant and her to FOOT WAS BURNED OFF BIRDS MENACE CROP Leslie of Boone Victim of Ac on a Bridge Boone la Sept injured and had a narrow escape from Farmers Face Serious Problem of How to Save Corn Fields Sept excellent corn crop in this vicinity is threatened with great damage unless the farmers devise some means for keeping out of east of this was painfully their fields the pest of blackbird bers So serious is the threatening fully one-half of the crop on some that it is probable a He his Brother Frank were ing- a and shelter from Ericson they had been to Cooper eight and half miles east 01 Boone They were i ri o si rt f 1 I united effort will be made next to burn out all the sloughs where blackbirds make their nests and their ing a bridge about sixteen feet long j It is said that several farmers which spanned a when the of here have decided to station two Are Fatally Injured in Startling Tragedy Which Took Place at Warren County Fair Des la Sept bolt of lightning struck the chicken tent at the Indianola fair at 9 o'clock this and killed three men and perhaps tally injured five others The CHARLES PETERMAN BRIGGS LOUGH UNKNOWN FARMER BOY Seriously Five unknown farmer boys The tent was filled with chicken ciers at the time and many others are reported injured The tent and all its contents was wrecked The accident occurred at the fair grounds About the same time lightning struck a livery barn in set it afire and fatally injured John Simmermon tent was crowded by people who had gone in to escape the ram The lightning bolt struck the tent pole and split it wide lightning radiating over the tent and tearing it into shreds of chickens in coops Trere killed BUSSE AND SMITH HANG the Des Sept board of control for the state tional institutions will be recommended by the legislative commission which Jias been investigating the feasibility of the proposed change in the method of managing the the tural college and the normal school An adjournment of the meeting or the commission was affected yesterday afternoon after a vote had been taken maintain secrecy concerning its work Members declined to discuss the conclusions of the but it rivas stated that another would be held before the legislature convenes hastened from town adjournment It a common belief that the committee had to recommend a single but to make it of considerable size in- stead of the small board proposed in ithe drastic legislation offered in tho session of 1004 1 The details of the plan to be mended by the committee were not dis- an J not be until it reports to the legislature early in the winter This fwill prevent discussion of the plan by the people till the report is made to the the committee having adopted the scheme of secrecy 1 one has ever objected to the pointment of the members of the posed new board by the governor and their confirmation by the senate J It had not been supposed that the would so easily reach an at least in favor of the board in view oC the well attitude of most of the members lin opposition to the plan as ated in the considered by the ature at the last session WOULD LYNCH SUSPECTS and center of the bridge gave ing the engine to the creek below and pinning Leslie Boyd beneath a broken three farm hands in their fields to kill and scare the j away plank and the hot boner His brother They figure that the wages to maintain such a guard Tvill be aj small part of the in their corn crops Belmont O measures up to President Roosevelt's and de- serves honorable mention in the line iof family affairs There were 590 j deaths in that county the fiscal j but the births numbered 712 j males and 679 females The marriages j during that period were i 667 Considering its mont county is far above the average made every effort to rescue the young man from his perilous but could not move the planks and he soon went after help Clyde and Grant Cooper but it was fifty minutes e PRISONERS ESCAPE FOILED unfortunate young ted from his County Jail Inmates at Sac City Caught j in the deaf and dumb sign alphabet i Ice water baths proved unavailing to Governor Fixes the Dates After j restore and electrical lature so Cases Can Be Re- touches and other vigorous plans adopted were until one after- versed by noon the suddenly Des Sept sat up in bed rubbed her eyes and re- yesterday denied the l marked that she must have been very cations for clemency filed by i sound asleep She arose immediately j afterwards as though her sleep had been a normal one of a few hours Affected With Paresis But Now pears to Have Recovered Sept of strangest cases that has come to the I attention of physicians is that of Hiss Ruth a girl Several months ago the girl was en with a sort of paresis affected her and disabled her for weeks The disease gradually yielded to and the girl had ently recovered her usual the effects of the stroke entirely when one day after returning from a day's picnic she com- of feeling and sank into a deep slumber -As the evening advanced and she did not her parents attempted 10 restore her to but without success they sent for a who resorted to various methods to re- vive the sleeping The night and morning came and still she slept soundly on Ten days passed and the girl remained in the comatose condition into which she had passed She was to all appearances sound regularly and occasionally moving restlessly in her slumbers Once or twice she moved her hands as though trying to to the watchers at her bedside j Western Iowa Drenched and Shaken 4 J J r H A f Great Crowd Follows Five Men Women Held for Crime Sept by 800 excited women and five murder suspects held for the ing of Mrs Maggie Webb at had a narrow escape from lynching The jury returned a verdict of murder without naming the guilty but ordered the detention of Miss Fay Sum Clifton Chas Foster and Ray who were said to have been with the woman shortly before her death The officers handcuffed all these but when they started away demanding that they be punished there and then Coroner Chas Foehlinger and Deputy Sheriff Moore brought the five suspects to for safe keeping and they are now in jail VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ers Louis Busse and Joseph fixed the dates for their hanging and issued death warrants to the sheriffs 1 and since then she has been t pf the counties in which they were con- i in the best of health Up by Bad Storm Sept of tha heaviest rainfalls of the ex- tending generally over eastern braska and western began early today It was accompanied by severe thunder and In Omaha two inches of rain had fallen at 8 o'clock APPOINTED TO PREACH An alarm of fire in the vicinity of Harrison street in Baltimore brought out the fire department of the district last While the bells clanged I are sent oiu by the gent wood smoke of the President's office nf Slate col- could be position It then found that his J left foot had been burned almost eft and had to be He probably recover STATE COLLEGE JUBILEE Ames Preparing to Entertain Crowd September 29 and 30 in Nick of Time vie ted In fixing the the ernor put them over until after the ad- Sac City la Sept was of the made bv the inmates of oun decided that it is his duty to treat the i 4 ta LIVE STOCK BURNED and the pungent engines filled the the merchant who occupied the first floor pushed his way through the crowd and a his door It in- to From a small two egro an arsenic near Elbe Pierce county has been developed un- til it is now tons twenty-four hours It is only in the country in ar- is t-ifcen direct from ore aJI the state to ine county jail last Saturday night to their freedom They had succeeded breaking out of the inner barred by the screws which the bars and breaking the andj were at the south window sawing the bars that kept them from liberty when discovered by the night The latter immediately summoned help and the city marshal and sheriff is to bring the aU corners of the what 111 is nl al th e ay herv it will bt n to what affair w 1 s j i- There are four prisoners in the three for burglary at Lake to sell stolen and for burglary in Sac City during by breaking and he depot of the Milwaukee railroad SWEDES WILL ORGANIZE applications for clemency filed with as applications for pardons which should be referred to the legislature for its dates named by the governor Joseph Smith Friday April 13 Busse April 20 There has been no hanging in Iowa ten yeans TO KEEP HER IN PRISON Emphatic Protest is Made Against Pardon of Beautiful Woman in Sept 10 For the of the the railway in youns men from 20 30 oM Xo on them were even an of about 30.000 above s had been reached All of the will two to the be be vs Jias off C M M- who re- cently spent at In Pyrenees him to a o n in all that DEVLIN'S PARTNER QUITS A Paris who had j belonging to a M Marcel was on a J S cf Forced the Wall in the e of the euch n Jn to r on cent motor the of Kfa ihc S jr of State Meeting to Be Held at Cowrie tc Form Conference Cowrie Sept The Lutherans of the stute of Iowa are to meet al Cowrie October S 9 and lo organize a Conference league The Swedish young societies Jowa are eligible to in the State Luther lea which of ty of c hut Swedes have joined the league They feel O an organization of a nature as to form at will to the ofj the state At the to organize J one minister and one delegate from each society ani wall be in of a broken at the state house today when the pardon secretary broke the seal of seventy-seven envelopes in one ail being emphatic protests against the pardon uf Josephine now serving a five-year sentence at Anamosa for conducting a house of ill fame Mrs who is reputed to be one of the most women in served nine months of sentence A DASTARDLY MURDER Blaze on County Farm Causes Heavy Loss Rolfe la Sept most trous fire in the history of Pocahontas county occurred at the Beaver Creek stock by N A Lind two miles north of Rolfe when four barns and fifty-two head of registered horn cattle were a loss of between and The loss is about half covered by mostly in the hontas County Mutual When the fire was discovered four buildings were and circumstances point to in- Mr has one of the finest herds of Shorthorn cattle in the and those consumed were in the barn being fitted for his pale of ber 10 the burned animals was his milk for which he had refused F SAVES FORGOTTEN BABE Mrs Performs Heroic Feat Amid Cheers From Bystanders Sept While the were from every in the cond of a i Ike table dren who resided in the r Assignments Announced for lows Con- ference of African Methodist Church St Sept The annual session of the Iowa conference of the African odit church adjourned here Bishop Shaffer and Rev George F of left for to attend a session of the Indiana and Kev Dr F H Hurd left for Cheyenne and the Colorado conference Bishop Shaffer announced the following Jowa G presiding St Des Moines 11 S T St Buxton E C St John's Burlington W St Paul's Cedar Rapids P M St John's Ml 1 G W Bethel T A Allen Clinton A Malone Sious City Iowa W T Mission at Fort J Peterson and Sioux Fails James Newton and B Grove and Indianola Cornelius Bedford and Oak J JU AV hart Boone and to he Albia and Hawking H Muscat and at to he and to s Council M G Iowa City R and to be Taylor PREACHER AS Youth KiHs His Sweetheart Be- cause She Refuses to Go to Fair With Him Sept As met Mar thv but in in on of -o f to enroll I 1 M V of is i in h ini i I J fo i HI tr of the 03 1 H i Executive Resigned Because the Liquor of 371 have n of one a v of of shot ii her north of this morning to go to the fair with the sc her which him in n brought ham to amid DES MOINES GETS BREWERY Council Gives Permission for Erection by Unanimous Vote r -T 1 Mr of of a known farmer and SHE PLAYED WITH MATCHES Is 14 with She brave PUGILISTS ARRESTED Davenport Sheriff Captures in Prize Fight Kid mem anO riff The of pf 11 13 on veto of Us city council the erection of In on in fey the OT for r -on the i -3 c TACK CAUSED I t the The i n r L L f PELLA PREACHER EXPELLED f J n T Rev Henry Baptist Minister to Explain Arrest for molars tif th SAYS SHE WAS FORCED FORGER BROUGHT BACK by for Paid that an n to immoral of many of t BABES POISONED T Sirl Sued Logan County ney on Serious Charges Admits They Were 7 l r by vole of Much Wanted Man Captured in a Con- frnro i i of K Three Little Children M Death's Doer from Eating Grapes 3 r i I Trie for IT- in for for I f f 1 wife a he the forced to trere t j but H IOWA and tout the he has on hotels an over put up A stiff u-c arc at Of pO y got hold of a Much of m filler often has of j poison of
