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TALK UFA1*Citiaens Believe Tragedies May Be Traced to Murder of Swedish Girl.Cambrldco Ills. Oct 2—With the burial yesterday In Ottfc grave of an entire tacnily, huebarul wife and their seven children whispers of “The Curse of Cambridge’ were renewed TWELVE TRAGEDIES In five years there ha*n been nln* murders three suicides and two sud-den deaths All these tragedies but the first murder, that of a friendlessSwedish girl, from whoso de^th It Is believed, the curse fell, have come In the Inst faw weeks ending with the ^Unction of the family of Cl-irenee Maikham Two of the cases one *ul-Clde and one murder are traced more ftr lees directly to the death of the Swedish girl The others are c.130 a scribed by certain poisons to The Curse of CambridgeMrs Markham under a spell of lh-sanlfy Saturday killed her se%en children tlio «ldesl of whom was 8 yrarc and after setting fire to their home ojided her own life Markham returned :it night and upon finding himself bereft. phot Hnwlf to death after tying a rope around HU neck *o ho would choke to deith !f the bullet hid not done Its woik All were bulled to-KClherNAME FORGOTTEN Few citl/en^ can recall the mnu of ihr* Swedish girl to whoso death the list of tragedies is afcrrlbotl ind these never talk Of the rase It Jo only remembered generally that she died in agcpy in the home of a weiltht tnnn where she wop a servant cnlt;T that her bod uas hurried into the ground it night without an mquf^t It Is commonly accepted ar a fact 1hat she wasvJrtully murderedDRIVEN TO SUICIDEOnly a few weeks ago Dr William D Powell a veterinary surgeon committed suicide He It ib said met persecution because he objected to attention paid by certain prominent men to hip wife To checkmate them he had detectives unearth the history of the Swedish *-ftrvAnt This he placed In the hands of John V Streed *i liwvcr with insti uctlcmw to proceed against certain of the men Streed refused to act be-c »w*e some of the men mmed were his fi lends The persecution Inc* eased and Powell escrtpOd it t suicide STREEDS CASH streed who was \ic* pic**ldent of tho Swcdish-Amerii m Republican league of Illinois was murdered a week ago apparently crviled from his office in the night and ahot In the hick of the head It Is belle* cd hisknowledge Of the fact*, conreming the girl « death furnished the motive foi hi* own tlolent end When excitement About the murderof Streed Was at He height, Mas Millie Chllberg, a daughter of Postmaster Oh Uberg, and a friend of the Strecda. fell dead presumably from heart failure, superinduced by the shock ofStroed’s deathThen nearly contemporaneously With the Markham horrOr. came the sudden death Saturday night of I* F Wilkinson a leading politician This too la laid by aomd* to The Curse of CambridgeFINE CATTLE FOR EXPORTShip Men te From C Any Wi«Tt Plfnol**Valued at t40r90».Flora rile Oct 2 —The recent shlptneU of errvrt cattle f'nm this city am punting to a a aluatlon ?40 TOO ha o marker all epoch In the caul- induMfj of southern lJUnois !□ a smsb «hipm«»*t whkh went hy apo«ia1 train to Chkngo ond from th»n« to Ll\erpool Errand ihere were man hiad wblch brought the »op price at the market The axerage weight ««a J pounds ana It txaa claimed rh« -e (wunc cnttlp when entd In tha English markets will bring about $J7o per head fehoithnrn Hereford and Boiled Angus were the hired* repreflenipd It I* onl* within to «mt viiir* that Hie stock dealer* and cattle rrrn flf Cl u county have attempted to produce tuicli oradcs of railte and thoir rate at gor IDtIcc* In live foreign toarkets ht»* been anllmuhJH tv the Caltlo bu*laerlt;« lit IW« localit*■»■ ■■' ♦ 1 -Pann News ScefN a bctiop.The Faim ExenlrtK New* scored a mranp la 3t» Issue rtf SA»Urdity h F.niyilnlt;-big that Otl•t id aficr Tuesday Oet 3 it mil he mom ing !»pei* *Ttm Atldnm Bemett Tracker*,P^m^nt ID* Oct 2 — 3upMnt*n*cnt Randte of th^ Mattaon Mty echooifl ha« racelxed andn^cpied ftti InMUtlon to addreaa tho PiaU county tenrhern In Bcment Oct 211 » ■■■ -- —I'ranrtfee of NUooa Hotel*Mellroi Ilia Oct 2—3 he Cortnnl traPBfer oft\c DM* house for O H P.lck* H ttithen* tv«s 2711 !e ‘‘ftturdaj Mr and Mr* ftick 111 llt;v*ve fora two months \lt;*it In Washington »Lervo Fair m Smpcmh.Lrtin Ilh* net .—The 'twt fair cloned this, evening and mu ouch a ^reat succeas that ihn ^rriiei* fit the nsnoclallon have decided to repeat it h*xt 'lt;**»■TROUBLE AHEAD FOR MUSICIANSNew Turk MonaK^h* Contemplple the thDndoQineot of Orehntrie. ,New Turk, Oct 2—At a meeting of♦ he Association of Theatrical M«n-HkTcrs held recently In tha Hudson theater th^ aubject of abollolilug or-che^tns (n the large play houses where stiaight dramatic’ performances Are given was dlscursed The advisability Of doing away With ♦he thfiter orchestras was die-cussed at longrh and it waa d?cidlt;rl to bold the matter* Over until the mxi meeting when the rjnea-lion w lu he further discussed with a \\uw to definite action Many of the managers where only dranuiJr enlertalnmenta arc glten are of the opinion that tire entr-aCle music l« unnece^ary Thc play house* in Fiance have no ir.uslc between the ncK of dramaticP“rfonnanco* and fti England the imn-ageis are making a move to abolish their orchestras At the next meeting of the maunders* association it Is possible that a lote on dMnir awa wltli the Cheater orchestra* will be taken
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Decatur Daily Review
Decatur, Illinois, US
Mon, Oct 02, 1905
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