Semi Weekly Reporter (Newspaper) - August 10, 1906, Waterloo, Iowa REPORTER AUGUST 10 READY TO SURRENDER CASHIER OF WRECKED BANK DE HE IS A FUGITIVE A PARTY TO ROBBERY HAD NO HAND IN LOOTING MIL WAUKEE AVENUE BANK Claims DM Not Qo Away to Avoid In Chicago Since Monday Chicago Aug Tribune says W Bering cashier of the Mil waukee Avenue State bank is la Chi Hering was Seen yesterday by reporter He declared he intended give himself up to the police today and affirmed he had taken no part in the robbery of the bank Bering up the lake Saturday for a briel rest but returned Monday Another warrant charging a Viola tion of the state banking laws wan out today tor the arrest of Theodore vice president of the suspended bank He will be ar retted on this warrant today accord Ing to the police ORDER TO LOWER GRAIN Hand td Down Important Ruling Aug rates for the state of Wisconsin will be re practically a cent per bushel by the opinion of the railway commission handed down today This is most the important decision ever rendered by the Wisconsin commission The or der will affect all railroads operating in the state THOSE BUMPER CROPS Al Baum is apprehensive of the safety of his brother W A Baum who is located at Fort Worth Texas The section of the country in which Mr Baum is located was greatly damaged by flood W A Baum is general min ager of the National Biscuit company TOO MUCH MEDICINE KILLS HER Clrl Dies After Being Attended By Ten Physicians Cleveland O Aug Gross aged 16 died yesterday from too much medicine One of the ten physicians who prescribed for her during a short Uli declared that death was due to summer colic caused by drinking ice Coroner after in the case says he thinks the girl died from too much medicine containing morphine None of the doctors was informed by the mother or daughter that other physicians had been In attendance It is customary the coroner to administer from sixth to an eighth of a grain of mor suffering from sum mer colic think the girl had more in her system n her constitution could FRIGHTFUL FRENZY ATE TWO INDIANAPOLIS YOUTHS DEADLY SICK AT CEDAR FALLS AND WILL LIKELY DIE FOUND IN FIELD AT NOON Hope Hold for Being Cured for at City Hill Cedar Falls Aug Os car Franklin and Jacob Welch two young boys from Indianapolis are in a precarious condition at the city hall as the result of eating toadstools for mushrooms The boys were found at noon near the gas plant by a teamster and were taken to the city hall where they are deathly sick Little hope is held for their recovery FIRE DESTROYS BARBER CHOP Tripoli Had Fin LOH of 11780 Early Hour Today Tripoli Aug A fire which started from a gasoline stove destroyed the barber shop by William Hattendorf at an earl hour this morning Loss on Bhoj 1750 with no Insurance The build ing was owned by Messrs Redeman Koch and their loss is placed with insurance As the city has meagre fire protection the work of combatting the element iwas difficult is due who gave their services for the effec tive manner in which it was handled preventing the fire spreading to adja cent property NEW CASES DOCKETED MRS MABEL DIVORCE FROM CECIL KERR A VOICE FROM KANSAS in St Louie Republic Threw Child Out of Third Story Win dew and Jumped After Cincinnati Aug Me Kenria a waiter at the Grand hole threw his three year old child from the third story window at his horn today and then jumped from the win flow to the sidewalk below Both ar dead McKenna is believed to hav been mentally deranged TUG BOAT STRIKE FELT Railroad Terminals in Jersey City Con in Consequence New York Aug strike o several hundred deck hands oiler and firemen on the railroad tugboats In the harbor badly tied up the rail road tugboat fleet today This in turn prevented the movement of a large amount of freight from terminals in Jersey City to this city POPE TAKEN ILL TODAY Suffered Severe Attack of Heart Trou bie But Was Soon Relieved Rome dispatch shortly after his return from the ceremony attending the celebration today of the third anniversary of his coronation the pope had a severe attack of heart weakness He was attended by Dr gave him relief i PICNICKERS IN PERIL Twenty Injured When Wagon Fell Over Thirty Foot Embankment Pittsburg Aug night a pic nic wagon containing twenty persons fell down a thirty foot embankment and all sustained more or less severe injuries The passengers were mem bers of a council of the Daughters of Liberty and all lived in Allegheny No Polish Bishop Appointed Rome Aug announcement mad ein Toledo Ohio yesterday that Bishop Weber had been appointed by the pope as bishop for United States to look after the welfare of the Poles In America is incorrect No Polish bishop has been appointed for Amer ica Standard Oil Philanthropy Cleveland Aug Standard Oil company today reduced the selling price of all grades of refined oil 12 cent per gallon The Farmington opened Friday The exercises are being held in a tent with a seating capacity of 4000 people and it was comfortably filled the first day with good promise of the Chautauqua proving a success W H Barker of Milton while en route from Ottumwa to on a Wabash train claims to have been robbed of by one Willie Dooley of IOWA K OF P ELECTS OFFICERS F L Ferris of SiouxCity It Grand Chancellor Iowa City Iowa Aug nights of Pythias grand lodge yester day elected these officers Grand L Ferris Sioux City Grand vice Tur ey Bradgate Grand keeper of record and H Mfc Washington Grand Dolmage Vic tor Grand master at C Strawn Iowa City Grand inner E Diedrich Durant Grand outer W H Mer ritt Mt Pleasant Grand W Beebe Hamp ton Justin Nora Springs FAMILY HAD NARROW ESCAPE Lightning Home of Mayor In gledue of Marshalltown Aug O L Ingledue and wife had a narrow escape from death by lightning Wednesday morning While eating breakfast lightning struck the house the bolt entering the room and appearing to burst over the table with a terrific re port scattering dishes and stunning those at the table Both suffered se verely from the shock WELLS WILLS FILED GRUNDY COUNTY CROESUS LEFT TWO TESTAMENTS DISPOSING OF HIS WORLDLY WEALTH BULK GOES TO LEGAL HEIRS Sitter Wat In Second Will and Wat Given Grundy Center Iowa Aug The funeral of Hon George Wells was heia Wellsburg and his remains of PORTERS HOME IS PROUD Citizens Give Candidate Warm Wel come on His Return Centerville Aug Claude 1 Porter democratic nominee for gov ernor returned to his home here yes afternoon from the state con vention at Waterloo he was given a Hundreds of citizens both democrats and republi cans i wearing Porter badges met the rain and escorted their distinguished through the streets with a band THe square had been gaily decorated with flags and banners for he occasion and here the procession topped amid the salutes of anvils and he cheers of hundreds of throats The people here believe him to be he best possible candidate for the democratic party He is very popular here and ran a thousand votes ahead f his ticket when he was last a candi ate for office in this county A big reception and jubilee will be eld Friday night on the Porter lawn nd tonight the Elks will give him a in their club rooms brought to the cemetery west of this city for burial Mr Wells left two wills which have been filed with the county clerks of fice in this city The first will was executed in 1881 in which all of tie property was left to bis wife Mrs Wells died Nov 9 1895 Mr Wells executed a second will in 1903 in which he made two bequests one of to Mrs Martha his wifes sister and another of to Rebecca Wilkey a girl who had work ed in the family for a number of years The balance of his estate he left to his legal heirs Estate Widely Distributed R M Finlayson president of the First National bank of this city and Charles Biebesheimer cashier of the Wellsburg Savings bank who were guardians of George Wells for the past year have been appointed spe cial administrators of the estate Their bonds were fixed at which have been filed and approved Mr Wells estate consists of about 7000 acres of land situated in Em met Kossuth and Grundy counties and personal property in different banks in Iowa and Chicago He was largely interested in the First Nation al bank of this city and was president of the bank for a number of years He was also interested in the of Wellsburg Iowa and his estate is valued at about MEETING WAS SUCCESSFUL Clear Like Drew Goo Year Rev E G pastor Grace M E church of this city wh has been at Clear Lake the past sev eral days looking after the interest of the Clear Lake Chautauqua bly of which he is president of th association writes that the meeting closed there on Monday of this week He left Tuesday for Madison Wiscon sin where he will spend a few day visiting Rev E J Baskerville an Moody He will also go to Chi cago for a short visit before to Waterloo Mrs Cattermole the children returned home yesterday Referring to the meetings at Clear Lake he states the association a season on Monda with a grand concert by Prof Moody Rain interfered seriously on Saturday OPEN MARKET FOR SILVER Department Will Resume Purchase for Subsidiary Coinage Washington Aug was an at the treasury department oday that purchases of silver bullion or subsidiary coinage will ba resumed will be made each ay beginning the loth instant About ne hundred thousand ounces of sli er will be required a week Mo ranted Dooley has been ar WANT SULLIVAN PUT OUT Jacksonville III Aug democrats in convention today endorsed Bryan for president The convention praised Bryans attitude to ward Roger C Sullivan and prepared a petition to the coming state conven tion to name a national committeeman in place of Sullivan DIED IN COLORADO Mrs David E Hume Pasted Away at Lamar Wednesday Evening Mrs David E Hume died at Lamar Colorado at p of a complication of diseases after an illness dating over several months and having been confined to her bed since July 6 A telegram announcing the death of Mrs Hume was received Thursday morning by C H Hackett from his wife who has been spending some time at the bedside of her moth er The telegram stated funeral ar rangements were yet unsettled Mr Hackett states that the news of her death did not come as a surprise to the members of the family as her con dition had been such they had little hope of her recovery although she was some better when Mr Hume was here a short time ago Deceased was one of the early set of Blackhawk county having re sided on a farm north of Raymond several years prior to moving to Wa about twentyfive years ago The out of the lee by President Shanklin who was called to the sick bed of his wife Rev Mr substituted a1 a who spoke on The White Mr Kepford makes a stir ring address on this vital theme The band gave two splendid per The program was the most expensive in the 25 years exper lence of this famous resort At the annual held Tuesday Jev Edward G Cattermole of Wa was chosen president for the year Rev W W Carlton of MasonCity corresponding secretary Professors Dickman of Tipper Iowa university and Barcello of Me university vice presidents toward the incorporat ng of the International Sunday school as the Chautauqua were taken This Institute promises o be the most successful gath erings for in the middle west H H of nation al fame is atthe head THE CARNIVAL On in the early part ofthe evening there was a very small crowd at the carnival This fact however did not discourage the carnival people as they kept all of the shows running until quite a late hour All who were out report a good time in spite of the muddy con dition of and the ency of the weather A New Son to Rev Maderia Rev and Mrs E E Maderia are the parents of a boy born Tuesday at their home in St Paul Rev Maderia was formerly rector of Christ church in this city This is the second boy in the family and his advent is hailed with delight by parents and friends PAY PULL POSTAGE GENERAL PUBLIC STANDS REQUIREMENTS OF DEPARTMENT THE STAMPED ENVELOPES Dont Clip From Government Envelopes and Paste on Post Postmaster states there are some things relating to mall mat ter which many people do not to understand people in mailing letters clip stamps from gov envelopes and paste them on another and expect the letter to be transmitted through the mails This s impossible as the government does not recognize such stamps except on he envelopes where they are printed Then again some people write on he face of the postal card more than the address necessary and mail it without additional postage This is violation of the postal law in that t changes the class of the card and makes two cents postage necessary f the card is tobe delivered All eather or metal post cards with any writing thereon except the address omes under the two cent rate and cannot be forwarded unless such amount of postage is paid There are now a large t number of these post ards held at the general office for so if anxious friends have een awaiting answers to cards sent hey should call at the office and see t they have violated the rule and hanged the class of their missive In leir original state such postcards go s merchandise but when written up n they become first class and must ave letter postage A one cent stamp will not carry a paper or magazine hich weighs more than four ounces et many of them are mailed with one ent stamp affixed The foregoing are some of the reas ns why letters and papers are not by the through ut the country and cause thousands f missives to be sent to the dead let er office There is a great amount of work to handle the mails in a ty the size of Waterloo and the care with which some people place on letters and papers makes WANT TITLES CORRECTED of Tax Salt Show Up In Court to Correct Collect on Note Mrs Cecil Kerr better Wown as Miss Mabel Perry has filed a petition for divorce from her husband charging desertion and habitual drunkenness as grounds for decree being granted The couple were married August 4 1904 and on the morning of August the same year the husband left tha home and has since refused to con tribute to his wifes support Plain tiff states that during the time they re sided together as man and wife she conducted herself In a dutiful and lov ing manner as a devoted and loving wife should and that the action of her husband iu deserting her no fault of plaintiff To Correct to Property August Ebel has filed a petition In which he asks the court to confirm ti tle to lot 1 in block 1 Eggers addition to the city of Waterloo against all un known claimants whatsoever The property was bought at i tax sale and a tax deed was issued Oc tober 19 1887 and been in undisputed and open possession of J Briggs court firm title to lots 5 9 15 16 17 and 1 in section 36 Poyner township Th property has been in his the past twenty years everi since pur chase was made from the county ahi tax deed issued Martin Rinderknecht and Georg have filed petition in dis Met court asking the confirmation o title in plaintiffs to property known as the west half of the southwest quar ter of the southwest half the north west quarter of section 20 In Leste township They claim to have held undisputed possession of the propert for thirty years There are irregular ties in the title which are desired cor reeled HIT lit J Mr Maderia is now the rector of it necessary for the clerks to devote To Collect on The Vaughan Manufacturing com pany has filed a petition to realize on note given by the Waterloo linple ment company in the sum of on September 1 1905 due February 1 1906 no part of which has been paid At the time the negotiation of note was entered into Henry and John Botham and J Wi Galloway were members of the firm but before the note was really executed Mr Gallo way sold his interest to Henry Botham and the firm hag since been of Botham Bros Judgment is for which includes Interest to date Christ church in St Paul and has charge of a large and influential par ish When he went there several years ago he did so as assistant to Hev Andrews On the death of the latter a few months ago he was elec ted to the higher position Court right to Old Senator O B Courtright will de liver the principal address at the old settlers meeting to be held at Chau park on Saturday August 18 Arrangements for the event are going forward and it is predicted that it will be one of the most generally at tended reunions ever held The ranks She was about 67 years of age and old settlers are fast thinning and it is but proper that they should join in an outing at least once a year to talk over and discuss the events of a half century ago with her husband went to Colorado the first of the present year spending a few weeks with her daughter in Golden before locating in Lamar She was quite well known through out the city and was a highly re spected by all The news of her The people of Solon were surprised to learn of the secret wed all who knew her here death will be received with regret by dinS of thc cit marshal Warren Hess andMiss Blanche Rogers These two have been husband and wife since Your money worth or your money nearly i j months kept the happy event from back at the BLACKHAWK PHARMA and most of their kins CY 121 East Fourth some time to noticing the postage as well as reading the addresses This work nas to be bandied rapidly and occasionally letters slip through with insufficient postage and the receiver has to pay when the letter is delivered LOSES JEWELS AT BALL GAME Diamond Merchants Wallet Disap pears at Crucial Point of Game Philadelphia Aug the most exciting part of a ball game yesterday John H Royer a diamond merchant lost a wallet full of precious stones at the ball park at Broad and Huntingdon streets Five hundred dollars reward and no questions ask ed is now offered by Royer Whether they were stolen or the wallet worked out of his hip pocket during the ex citement Royer is not prepared to say The son of J E Heath a barber of Neola was quite severely cut on the face with a hatchet in the land of another little boy Thursday They were playing when the accident happened The cut almost severed tho upper lip and made a bad cut in the cheek PIETY SPLITS RAILROAD Y M C A Ban Against Sunday Sport Causet Of in Peru Ind to Resign Peru Ind Aug piety and not enough Sunday recreation is the charge that has stirred up trouble in the railroad mens Y M C A of this city the organization established by Miss Helen Gould in which she has manifested so much interest As a result President J M Hughes Secre tary Frank L Greer and 0 J Bow man director of physical culture have resigned and it is said the organiza tion has shown a decided lack of inter est and a loss of memership lately One of the divisions of sentiment is over the question of Sunday baseball which many railroad employes favor as a harmless recreation It is charg ed that the officers of the Y M C A leased the baseball park near the Y M C A building in order to prevent Sunday games The railroad men claim that there is no recreation on Sunday and that thus they have no enjoyment from week to week They insist that the associations work be conducted on broader lines When new officers are chosen it is thought there will be a decided change In the attitude toward innocent sport Slain in Caucasia St Petersburg Aug after noon papers report seven hundred persons have been killed or wounded during renewed fighting between Tar tars and Armenians Iu the Shusha dis Caucasia Your worth or your money buck at the BLACKHAWK PHARMA CY 181 East Fourth A J D DENNISON PEOPLE HAVE NO PATIENCE WITH WOBBLERS DENNISON IS DELIGHTED Work of Mtf Plotted From Dubuque Dubuque Aug Full of declarations that the democratic con vention at Waterloo was the best the party has ever held in the state the Dubuque county returned Wed morning from the scene of the deliberations Their fight to put John of this city at the head of the ticket was not successful but they supported him loyally and well and their efforts and hit reputation caused the insistence of the convention that he take the nomination for governor Will Take Stump Dennison will take the stump ac this fall in behalf of the ticket and will make addresses through the state It is not settled ho will talk in this city but he will be heard out in the county at all events was asked to make a statement about the convention and said Insofar as I am nan ever had more loyal support rora his friends and this is especially rue of the Dubuque county delegation The members of the Dubuque delega were loyal to me and enthusiastic or me Everything Wat Lovely I think the convention was the democratic gathering ever held in the state of Iowa Contrary o some reports absolute harmony prevailed and the purpose ot the dele gates was evident to nominate tha possible ticket and to adopt he wisest possible platform For my lart I am of the opinion that they in both In my judgment was the strongest man placed the convention and this main y on account of the that he had had eight years of legislative experi ence His record In the legislature is absolutely Criticism lieutenant governor and after Porter had nominated when Iwas urged to take the second place I declined positively The lead ing men in the convention however then said that it did not matter wheth er I wanted It or not that I would bo drafted and the upshot was that the nomination followed unanimously Partys Prospects Bright I think the chance to elect the ticket is brighter than in 1899 when Boies was nominated torthe first timo because the democratic party has a platform which appeal to every thoughtful man in the state while the Cummins platform is a complete surrender of the views that had given Mm His strength because Mr For record Is one of straightforward and consistent devotion to the peo ples Interests while Mr Cummins has been inconsistent and has surrender ed every principle Cummins stands today upon one plank and that is his own personal ambition He has dem that he la a wabbler and a quitter and the American no patience for that sort of ohm the people are nowadays dis criminating and the state of the pub lic mind IB such that in ray judgment it will not tolerate Cummins candi dacy for a third term The democratic party Is absolutely united and the iu owa is rent by internal feuds WATERLOO DID ITSELF PROUD Chairman C W Miller in Waverly Democrat The reception given by he citizens of Waterloo to the dele gates and visitors to the democratic was most gratifying Nothing within the power those In charge of the affair was left undone to provide for the comfort and conven ence of the visitors The gratitude elt by the convention was well ex in the vote of thanks adopted and enthusiastically Water oo appeared to excellent advantage At all timesa very beautiful city it appears at this season of the year at ts very best and expressions of ad miration were heard on all sides The accommodations at Chautauqua park were unexcelled The coliseum prov ed an ideal meeting place both for ts acoustic properties and its com ort The board of supervisors of Jones has purchased three teel bridges at a cost of one teel bridge 60 feet long at a cost ot 700 and a steel bridge 146 feet long o be placed over the Maquoketa river t Dales Ford at a cost of The Bridge company got all the contracts The Jros for a concrete bridge at at a price of Writing checks on the Merchants National bank with the familiar sig ature of D E Howell of the Warfleld company some unknown made a harvest In Cedar after banking hours Friday In all the something like 130 i
