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o-umjuu. I au.quutu me ju«tuioLh during ' his ministry. He bed the funeral sermon of my % who died in 187S, and also of loiher, who died in. 1S82. I re-er seeing Rev. Eberbart stand :he steps of the Presbyterianh and sing in a good strong voice song, “A Thousand Years My Columbia. , ave made seven visits to Waier-ince I moved away from there, .st in 1905. The people I used- to there are getting few in number, v set has taken their places. We ones can look back and think, of was done and of what might been done. The future is before nay God give us w;isdoro and ?th to use it for His -honor and CHARLES JENNINGS, a wood, N. Y.e editor of the Courier reraem-several incidents recited in Mr. ngs’ letter, particularly the se-itorm of July 8, 1874. He was of opinion that Mr. Jennings was ken. in the date as it does not that 35 years have elapsed since memorable July afternoon, hut les of the paper corroborate his rents. The.present editor was at ime carrying the east side route s Weekly Courier, and well re-the sudden, dead calm that was limination at about 4 p. in, of a iiDgly hot ■ day. The barefoot with his bundle of papers, was two-thirds of his way across the ; when, on looking up the river, w an immense wail of blackness Ing toward the city. In less i minute his nimble legs carried ;o Colburn lt;Geddes’ marble now the Wells-Fargo express of-he nearest place of refuge. The was the worst even known in story of Waterloo, many build-cing unroofed and blown down.)OUUUUUg VY 111 111UL oc A/vmtu*Claims Daughters of DefendantAbused It Unbalanced Her Mind.soISWI1ANKDIED YESTERDAY.erday afternoon at 3:40 John Swinbank passed away at his 450 Florence street, death be-le to pernicious anemia, with he had been ill for a year and ‘. He was taken worse two ago and grew gradually weaker the end came, his death, how-being very peaceful at the last. Swinbank was born in Shells-Wis., February 14, 18-53, and have reached his fifty-sixth ay next Sunday. He spent his d days in Shellsburg and most life in ■ that state, coming to loo six years ago. He leaves to . his death his wife and two ;n, Harry, aged 16. and Helen, .1. Six brothers and three sis-lso survive, ail of them being its of Wisconsin. Mr. Swih-was a blacksmith by trade and ill health prevented, worked at ide in Waterloo.Swinbank was a Mason and the?rs of the order , in Waterloo will charge of the funeral services will be conducted from the Thursday afternoon at 2:30, !. D. Hull of Grace M. E. church the officiating clergyman. The rill be taken early Friday morn-the old home in Shellsburg, vhere it will be laid to rest. The ; of the family all extend sin-’mpathy to the relatives at uiis oe.■inin a was MvING TRADE ISI Ttrifl Revision and. Nalura iandlllons are Attributed As Causes.York, Feb. S.—Bradstreet’s levs:e is quiet as a whole and in-I operations are still below nor-moet lines. Conservatism in is still marked and there Is esent the feeling of disappolnl-dtherto noted at the failure of trade to open up more rapidly, neasures of trade volume show-ht recessions In January from oer, but the failure record was ouraging one and the improvc-ver the same month a year ago, ousiness was at a low ebb, Is and marked. ' Collections are anged and classed as fair as atioti of Consumptive Requirements.disposition in many lines'is still ibute slowness of demand in j up to fear of tariff revision, sro is manifest now a disposi-recognize more fully the play iral conditions and restrictionumptive requirements proeeed-■m reduced earning power of avmunity. The leather trades ly active and the shipments of re making a, far better exhibit )n?e time ago. or than in the eriod a year ago. In the manu-)g industries, such as iron and usiness is quieter. Some large for rails have been placed, but n is weaker and finished prove less active despite'concea-i many lines.exports for the week arc 1,-bu. against 1,835,196 bu. In For thirty-two . weeks ending corn exports arc 16,742,320 bu. 31.913,972 bu last year.Stat« Increases Reward.House, Des Moines, Feb. 10.— I.)—Governor Carr oil thisr offered a refin'd of $890 for nd conviction of the murderer ltoeen in Ottumwa,(From Wednesday's Daily.) Standing out vividly in interest and overshadowing all other details in- importance, the story of Fred H. Cordell, prosecuting witness in the case of state vs. Mrs. Louise Kelley, when he told on the witness stand of how Mrs. Kelley, who ia his mother-in-law, fired several shots at him aldose range, the bullets riddling his clothing, and the story of Mrs. Kelley, the defendant, who declared that her tiyo daughters, one of them Mrs. Cordell and th other her youngest girl, her babe, now' nearly 18 years old. had been ill-treated by Cordell, mark the crucial points in prosecution and defense.Because the plea of the defense is emotional insanity, such a„ condition of mind being brought about by the alleged abuse of Mrs. Kelley’s daughters by Cordell, and because the defense does not deny the shooting, the story of Mrs, Kelley on. the witness stand attracted much attention on tho part of the' spectators.With the exception of two witnesses who could not be located this morning for the serving of subpoenas, the state rested at 11:15 . These two witnesses will be called later if found. Attorney Arbuckle placed Officer Tom E. Hartman on the stand as the first witness, questioning him as to the conduct of defendant while being conveyed to the police station on* the night of the tragedy and after being locked in a cell. Witness said she talked loud on the way to the station, saying the officers now knew who had shot Officer Widmann. He said that defendant sang and talked alternately while locked in' a cell.Defendant Tells Her Story. Interest was whetted to a lively point when Mr. Arbuckle called upon Mrs. Kelley to take the stand- After being sworn, defendant took the witness chair, closely scrutinizing the jury- She talked at first in so faint a tone that the court asked her to speak louder. Here are the main points of her testimony up to noon:My name is Louise Kelley and my home has been at. 222 Sycamore street, Waterloo- Ia. Am acquainted with Fred H. Cordell, have known him five or six years. He married my daughter, Mamie Bitterly, in Independence about five years ago. I was then living at Davenport. Cordell and my daughter went to housekeeping Waterloo, lived on the sand hill tent, in some bushes. Cordell working with a grading gang, daughter had rheumatism and when I visited them and found them living in a tent, I thought the exposure might make my daughter worse and I objected to their living that way. Then they moved into a brick house near the paper milt Cordell afterwards run a. job wagon. The couple moved from place to place, and one time Cordell was a machine agent and got into some trouble between here and Greene. When they lived on Bluff street my youngest daughter came to live with them. That was two or three years ago. Genevieve will be 1 8 years oid in' May. Cordell and the girl were at the barn a great deal. He seemed to exercise some influence over hex, and I thought it was for the bad, and objected to their being so much together; could see things going on thatdid not look right.Cordell went to Oklahoma after that and said he would send for his wife, and would leave my youngest daughter here. When he got a place at Oklahoma City he sent for his wife, and -she started for there.My youngest daughter wanted to go with her to Des Moines, where they have a sister living, to visit her: Mrs. Cordell had a. baby boy and they laid (him away in Oklahoma. When I heard of my grandchild’s death I went down there. First I stopped at Des Moines to see my daughter, expecting to find my youngest girl there, but she had left for Oklahoma City that morning, and I did not get to see her then, but did see her when I ax-rived at Oklahoma City, where she was living with Cordell's people again.I staid there five days or a week, and then came back to Waterloo. While there Mamie. Cordell’s wife, pleaded with, me about her younger sister, saying she thought something was wrong,and that it was then too late to do anything. .“When I came home Cordeli said he would write, but I wrote repeatedly and could get no answer. I wanted to know what my youngest daughter, was doing . Then I went to visit ray sister in Dubuque, and found that there was some mystery surrounding my daughter. When I got back a little over a year ago. I .wrote to Cordell again saying that if I did not hear from them I would consult the police.Pleads for Money to Come Home.“My son-tn-law did not write, but my daughter did- She said, ‘Mamma, for God’s sake, send me J18, or you will not see me alive again.' T telegraphed two tickets for the girls to come home, and Cordell tried to get the money from them, so I learned, but couldn’t. I sent the tickets to a town between Oklahoma City ‘ and Kansas City. They'had come there in a covered wagon-Each Had Babe in Her Arms.“They got bn the train there and came through , to Waterloo, and when they arrived I wh dumfounded to find that each had a child in her arms. My youngest gir! had something in her arms that looked like a bundle of rags, and t didn’t suspect what It was until 1 heard an Infant cry and wait.T was almo«t distracted. The little one was about'a month old, Mrs. Cordell had a little daughter also. When T talked with my youngest daughter she said the child had been born in the covered wagon while on the way frorp Oklahoma City. She had what she claimed was a marriage certificate,.showing that she-hart boon married to a man named Charles (. Moo, at Guthrie. Okla. When I asked where her husband was, she said lie dropped dead In a field, I wanted ilt; write to the undertaker and got a death certificate. and finally my daughter said Cordell was the father of the child, and that he had made but the certificate. I could tell it was his writing, at least it resembled it. very much. I said, to my daughter. Darling, tell me the truth,’ and she then told mn Harden was the father of the child. The babe will be seven months old next month. ;Wanted the OrtiIleallt;\“Cordell several times wanted me to give him back the marriage certificate, and said if I did not he would kilt me. I told him I could not get it as the police had it. After Cordell had. been let out of the station where he was ,held for investigation, ho having confessed to me that lie had killed Widmann, he threatened me again if I would not get the certificate. He said he would choke me to death, and he tried to choke me. He always denied about his being the parent of the child.*'Other Abuse Recounted.Defendant went on to relate what Mrs. Cordell had fold her about how CordeU would'go out among the farmers along the way and how .he would bring them to the wagon where t.he women were. She said her youngest daughter, when she came home, was scantily and Insufficiently clad.State’s Attorney Hoxie called several witnesses to the stand to corro-■»borate the story told by the prosecuting witness. Fred H. Cordell. These told practically the, same story, relating what took place on the night of the tragedj*.Resembles Famous Thaw Case.There are many elements in common with the defense in the case of state vs. Kelley and that in the case of state of New York vs. Harry K. Thaw. In each case emotional insanity was the plea, each alleged to be due to the ill treatment of those near and dear to the defendants. In the Thaw case it was Thaw’s wife's abuse that was pleaded as a cause for bringing about an unbalancing of the mind of Thaw. In this case it is the daughters of 'Mrs. Kelley.Underlying this sort of defense 5s the “unwritten law which of late has come to play such a. part in criminal cases.The instructions of Judge Franklin C- Platt will be read with unusual Interest because Of the novel lines of evidence introduced.Outline of Case.State's Attorney Jlnxle read the indictment charging defendant with assault with intent to commit murder, and outlined what the state would endeavor to prove. He said It would be shown by witnesses that defendant called at the house where Fred H-Cordell, defendant's son-in-law was staying on the night of Dec. 26, at 210 Sycamore street., had. him come to the door, and then opened fire upon him from ambush. He described the course of the four bullets fired at Cordell arid gave other circumstances tending to show that the crime was premeditated, and that it was only by the interposition of a. kind providence that Cordell was not killed.FI cads Emotional Insanity.Emotional insanity was the plea of the defense as given by Attorney John W. Arbuckle. the defendant's counsel, underneath which, judging from his dramatic presentation of the case to the jury, lies the unwritten law which has entered into some of tho most sensational murder cases of modern times, including the Harry Thaw case. When Mr. Arbuckle towering his gigantic stature of about six feet two inches, in front of the jury, got into his subject, he swept the court room with his hand until he espied the prosecuting witness, Fred H. Cordeli, and pointed at the latter with an accusing finger while telling how Cordell had abused Mrs. Kelley’s daughters, one.his wife and the other younger, now aged about eighteen. Wrought up in her emotions, the defendant, who sat within ihe enclosure devoted to attorneys and witnesses, shookwith suppressed sobs. Counsel toldin.a. simple, but impressive and dramatic way, the story of the ills that had been borne by defendant at tne hands of her son-in-law Cordell, and everybody in the court room listened intently, “ll is our contention and our witnesses will tend to substantiate it, that when Mrs. Kelley went tn ihe home of this prosecuting witness that night, said counsel, “she had no clear idea of what she was doing. It Is our contention that she had been so wrought Upon by these events that she could have had no clear idea of what she did.Cordon Tells of the Shooting.The first witness .called by the state was Fred H. Cordi?]]. He wore the clothing in which he was clad on the night of the tragedy, and he displayed the bullet holes before the jury. His coat was like a. sieve, so numerous were the punctures made by bullets from defendant's revolver. According to his testimony he was called out of his sister’s home at 21,0 Sycamore between 9 and 19 o’clock, and asked one of.the men inside to go out with him to act. as a witness in case anything should happen. He said that when hi*opened the door leading to the porch and advanced a stop or two, he was surprised to have a revolver pointed at him by Mrs. Kelley who was concealed behind a box.at the right end of the porch. The first shot passed, through the front of his coat, another grazed the left side of his face, another passed through the coat near the shoulder, Just grazing the flesh, and still another flattened Itselfvoice, i riui a a ue, imus a ««'•Judge Platt, who is hearing the case, warned defendant against talking when she was not on the witness stand, and this warning had to be repeated. .Very well, judge. I’ll ktrnp quiet. promised the defendant finally.Sang Nearer, My God, to Thee.’'According to the story of Cordell, defendant acted jn a hysterical manner while being taken to the station. Ho said she shouted, “I've bunted down 'the man that shot Officer Wid-maim,” and that she shouted other words along the way. When locked up in a cell nt the city jail, ho said Mrs. Kelley sang with vim, “Nearer,My God, to Thee.”Cordell claimed that Mrs. Kelley bad on several occasions threatened bis life, one of these occasions having been on Thanksgiving day at the Illinois Central depot as he was about to leave the city.A Gruelling (Voss-fvxa mi nation.On the cross-examination Attorney Arbuckle brought out the trouble that had been had at the plnco where Cordell's wife was staying a short time before the night of tho shooting. On that, occasion Cordell and another man had gone to where Mrs. Cnfdc.il was stopping, though witness said ho objected to going there. The door was kicked in by the other man, and witness was later Asked into the home. He: admitted that Mrs. Kelley’s deportment and remarks following the shooting indicated that who thought she would be doing a good thing if she had killed Cord II. Mr. Arbuckle in his opening statement had said Mrs. Kelley had been praying for a long time Ijor strength to do this deed.The moral character of Cordell was assailed by defendant’s attorney, and his past was gone into to Cordell's discredit.It was brought out that he bad been convicted in the district court of this county on an indictment charging assault with intent to commit rape upon a young girl.The, Jury In the Case.The work of empaneling a jury was commenced about 2:30 yesterday afternoon, and after five peremptory challenges had been used, the following were named as constituting the panel:A. T. Whittle, A. E. Bush, O. M. Lawrence. H. G. Calkins, G. W. Pratt, J. L. Beal, J. D. Beatty, Ira. Hoover, JS. L. Worrell, F. E. Wing and TI. R-Pilger,MIVUIIV fullUreat Array ofpa(From WeWith aboutprizes in the v; ' the .Short, Cottr Monday, Feb. manifested. T part.meats have for tho do meetthe spelling co Outlined beingCWOMEN HAVE MARATHON CRAZENew Yorkers Choose Path Around Reservoir for Running 'Track.New York, Feb, 9.—The department of water supply, gas. and electricity which has jurisdiction over the Central Park reservoir, has been bothered by the Marathon craze. There is a fine, level path bn top of the embankment that rung around the lower reservoir. The course is just a. mile a.nd a. half long, and scores of runners have discovered it. Among them are many women.The policeman at the reservoir noticed that the number of women has greatly increased of late. It often happens that an automobile or carriage will stop near by and the women go t.o the reservoir path, accompanied by a maid.Upon reaching tho path the woman will shed her cloak and display a costume suited for running. Once around the reservoir seems to fan enough for most of the women, but a few go over tho course twice.STORM STOPSRAILROAD TRAFFICNever Save Mountain Roads Bern so Blocked by Snowslidts.Mercury Creeps Low oo Dakota andCanadian Pralrlts.Denver, Colo., Feb. 10.—The storm that has raged through Colorado for the last 24 hours is the worst ever experienced in the state.Never before have the railroads been so blockaded by snow slides. The passes through the Rocky mountains are nearly all blocked and traffic over the Denver and Rio Grande and the Colorado Midland is almost suspended.Thirteen snow slides are reported between Durango and Silverton. The Georgetown Loop line of the Colorado and Southern is closed.Railroads Paralyzed.St. Paul, Minn.. Feb. 10.—The effect of yesterday’s storm is beginning to be felt In the railroad service. Today the trains on the Great Northern, Minneapolis St. Louis, Chicago, Great Western,-Rock Island, Soo andNorthern Pacific roads are reportedindefinitely late while no report has been received from any of the Omaha road trains.The coldest places on the map today were Blsmark, N. D., and Medicine Hat, Sask., where the mercury registered 22 degrees below zero.Wires Down on Two Divisions.Thirty-six hours have elapsed since any report ha,s been received regarding some of the trains on the Minneapolis and Iowa divisions of tho St. Paul roads and t;he Watertown division of tho Minneapolis and St. Louis road owing to the fact, that the wires are down on these divisions. The officials fear that the trains are stalled in snowdrifts.against bis pocKctktilfe. “Nothing Joder,Foley's Orlno Laxative Is n new remedy, an Improvement on the laxative of former years, as It. does not. gripe or nauseate and is pleasant to take. It is guaranteed!, Wangler Bros, and H. N. 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