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Oelwein Daily Register (Newspaper) - May 12, 1909, Oelwein, Iowa245 Oelwein Iowa wednesday May 12 1909 ottdmw4 goes wet by court ruling revocation petition which closed to loons was held to be Insoft deut bulks against petition holds that Legal voters under the 1uw must foe registered Imd have voted at 1recevdiiig election Ottumwa May Vermil lion in the District court yesterday ruled that the revocation petition the filing of which last december closed All Ottumwa saloons was Insu Cieni and the saloons wholesale houses and brewery All opened today All the saloons were closed hers following the meetings of hang exist sunday and the circulation of a tuition to revoke the petitions of c ii sent then in Force this revocation petition carried the names of an apparent majority of the voters of toe City but was contested on the grounds that some of the signers did not vote in the preceding general election Uiki others were not registered As voters police judge Kirby first passed Oti the Validity of the petition holding it insufficient and the Case was appealed to the District court and heard b judge Vermillion a few saloons opened recent1 after the decision by police judge i by anticipation of Vermillion decision but they carried but Little Stock and have been in fear of being closed up Vermillion decision leaves not i ing in the Way of operating All the saloons after Pike its place a sunnier of Waterloo to Linn for coi Urnest Washington d c Mav Politi Cal report of interest to the third do strict of that a d sinner of Waterloo will be a candidate Lor member of tue House to succeed representative Charles picket or sunnier is one of the employees of the Senate in Washington and has a responsible position of messenger on the floor of the Senate which gives him charge of All of the Senate pages he has been Active in third politics and was appointed to his pres ent place through senator Allison or Sananer would not confirm report that he is preparing to run for Congress but friends of his Bone assert that he is Oran mrs Hannah Lyne Meyer and her Mother mrs p h Meyn visited at the borne of mrs j r Knowlton one afternoon last week mrs Oleg Schlaggel and son Willie visited with or and mrs p h Meyn one afternoon last week miss Flossie Knowlton and Mother visited at the Home of or and mrs w h Obenchain sunday mrs Meyn and daughter visited at the Home of mrs will Nieburh Over on the big Wrapsie last thursday or and mrs John Mcsweeney nil or and mrs Jim Mcsweeney a daughter Mary visited relatives ii Oelwein last sunday or and mrs p h Meyn entertained company at their Home in this neigh boyhood sunday last mrs Hannah returned to her Home in Chicago the first of this week hum80ldt court to move Shire City it Cessley for court House liaises question of moving Humboldt la May county will soon have to erect a new court House the present building in Dakota City having about outlived its usefulness As it does not coi Itu a proper or sufficient vault room and it is not such a building As Humboldt county needs and should have prob ably preliminary to the new building an election will be held to remove the county seat from Dakota City to Humboldt representative Thor o Hanson of Bode now comes Forward with a suggestion which will probably meet with much favor he suggests that the present court House might be at a comparatively Small expense changed into a county Hospital Ander the new Law passed by Tylij thirty third general Assembly Tae present court House is Well located for such purpose on the top of the Hill rising from Humboldt to Dakoff further it would be putting u excellent use a building which would otherwise have Little value and at the same time assure Dakota cites sup port to the proposition for the removal of the county seat agent the proposition to remove the county seat from Dakota City to Humboldt some rather humorous proposals Are coming from the Little towns of the county some of them located on the Border line of adjoin ing counties As to their Centrallo cation and of the flattering terms their business men will make lives More would donate a site and give Bode Bradgate Pioneer Renwick and Thor will do even better while Gil More City lying partly ii Pocahontas county would like to be the county seat of both counties and have the two buildings face other but the Best proposition is that of Badger in Webster county which seeks to have the North tiny of townships in that county Rean need upon condition that they be Al Lowed to donate the site and Bui Diu sick headache constipation and bilious Ness Are relieved by Kings Little liver pills they cleanse the system do not Gripe Price Everett Bros drug store for the Register Des Moines has costly fire Mccune building is is placed at fire men Hurt Dos Moines la May in this City totally roved the Mcdue building ii Mie and fifth streets i y the new York Wall paper Anil stationery of puny and for a time threatened to Desroy the state Central hotel Adjoint it Thi loss to the Mccune building it half covered bin sur i Nee Jap students strike Tokyo Way Hundred students 01 the commercial High school held the inst mass meeting Here at which resolutions were passed Declar ing to fact Duey would no looser a tend Tow Booi after the mass meeting the format a line la front tace school dipped from the Stream life is just a Little of the Good and of the bad of things that keep us Happy and of things which make us sad life is just a measure of the song the world has Sung Ever since the world has yearned for the dreams that keep us going take to heart the goodness which presents itself to View every smile you Garner serves to keep the heavens Blue every bit of cheering which you lend along the Way makes glad tomorrow and a Beautiful today when the tears Are fall up and the hearts no longer Light when despair is calling and your Hope is planning Light dont lose your re a Man and say youre glad that life is just a Little of the Good and of the us Frank w Taylor lit Hazleton or 11 h Hunt went to Chicago n wednesday morning where he will take a Post graduate course at the College of physicians and surgeons he expels to be absent five or six weeks mrs Hunt accompanied him As far As Independence returning Home the next Day born to or and mrs Walter Jar rett wednesday May 5 a daughter mrs James Netcott and daughters Odessa and Mary of Independence spent most of last week with rela Tives Here thursday was mrs Capples birth Day and Many of the ladies in love United in remembering her with a Post card three German families arrived in town thursday from Waverly and will work on the farms taking care of the sugar beets seven families were expected and four Farmers went Home disappointed John Follmer and or styles took one family John Harrington one and doric Carvey one each Farmer furnishes Twenty acres of ground for one Man to take care of the Farmers think the cleaning the land will receive will be Worth an Ordinary crop All will watch this Industry with interest mesdames c l Armstrong and d Evans spent thursday in Oelwein j miss Gladys Kiefer has been Gourji 1 to Oelwein the last three Days of the past week where she works on the books for the Searle Kiefer Lum Ber co George Kent of Readlyn spent thursday with his family Here Eugene Merrill returned from Pas Sadena Cal the first of last week and expects to make his Home Here in the future mesdames de Nibeck and Roy Mer Rill of Oelwein spent Friday with relatives in town Lola Coy who has been working in Anita arrived Home thursday for a visit with her Mother and other relatives Leo Bardeen spent the first pan of the week in Waterloo at a meeting of the Highland Noble Lodge n m Miguet returned saturday from his trip to the Pacific coast having a delightful time w g Kiefer went to Cedar rapids saturday where he intended to Chase a flue new automobile should he not find what he wanted in Cedar rapids he would go of to Chicago misses Verua Curtis and Lala Short were guests in the Finicle borne in Oelwein saturday miss Barbara Simek went to oel Wein saturday to visit her mrs str ognian after a months in the Home of her brother Joe Simek miss Cynthia Finch of brants Burg is staying with mrs h h Hunt during the absence of the doctor mrs Homer Darby visited her Sis Ter mrs h Stearle in Oelwein sat urday and sunday Senate cuts rates upper Branch puts several articles on the Tariff free list soap assessed for Revenue the Printer Murk we recently received an offer from a sail Antonio Patent Medicine Cern of four dollars for a certain specified amount of advertising to run a full your four ads Advertis ing Worth fully a Check for he of Cir dollars in Advance accompanied the offer a6 a bait but we did net catch on Olve Rve thai several of our exchanges Are running this Eon Cerefi advertising find we Prtine it the Earne schedule offered us just is Long As the country editor is so Sis accept la these Lidi Cullis oilers for valuable spin that ions will the country editor in hard up and publish is Jurhs about the id penniless Printer Etc litre is no reason Why the n Paier business pay As v Ell Jiser any other legitimate inn Iii if is properly Eun Diterl i n Lic Buir s i business principles Haw Price that Riniti Ami Slick to in in prices on Jon own do let the other fellow make them you of he will make Ihm Low enough you if you wore in his place and you then i tips up your sleeve to see the Oor Casil worked hard up Ever complaining country publisher grasp at the Opportunity to Rake in a few Dol Lars regardless of what he Muat give in Exchange for them Colorado Cut Lea Colimbus Tex new Bronze ankle 8tnpn Czar keeps Ola Cabinet St Petersburg May solution of the Cabinet crisis whereby Premier Stolpin and his colleagues in the Cabinet will retain their posts was arranged at a conference Between the Premier and emperor prominent Iowa merchant slain West Liberty a May through the Throat 1 f Doty prominent hardware merchant of this City was found dead in his store friends believe he was murdered perfumed variety is subjected to 50 per cent and Valorme auction on steel and earthenware it voted Down by members Washington May soon As the Tariff Bill was taken up by the Senate senator Aldrich stated that the committee on finance would submit to the Senate a different scale of duties on Zinc Ore and products of Zinc and asked that that schedule As Well As sections enacted on relating to Lead products be passed Over for the present the request was conceded the committees amendment strik ing out the House duty of on half of one cent per Pound on refined nitrate of Saltpetre was agreed to it in understood that that product will be placed on the list senator Aldrich then requested an agreement to the committee Amend ment increasing the duty on All salts of Santonio from 50 cents to one Dol Lar stating that the proposed duty was the rate of both the Dingley and the Gorman Bills there were but few senators pres ent and senator Overman suggested the absence of a quorum a Roll Call bringing into the chamber 61 senators the Section relating to salts of Santonio was then agreed to As amended duty on perfumed soap on motion of senator Aldrich the Section relating to soap was amended so As to place a duty of 50 per cent and Valorme on perfumed soap which he said was for Revenue purposes the House provision on Sulphur was further amended so As to place crude Sulphur on the free list and to provide for a duty of Lour dollars a ton on refined Sulphur the present Law and the House Bill providing for a duty of six dollars a ton the Section relating to Lime Stone Rock Asphalt first amended by reducing the duty 50 per cent under the present Law but later on motion of senator Beveridge who suggested that perhaps that article should go on the free list the paragraph was temporarily passed Over the schedule relating to Mica was also passed Over senator Aldrich say ing the committee desired to recon Sider that paragraph As it was not satisfied whether the duty should be increased or whether the article should be placed on the free list chinaware schedule up when the schedules relating to chinaware and earthenware was reached senator Cummins suggested that two third of chinaware used in this country was imported while 80 per cent of the earthenware used was of Domestic manufacture and added that he proposed later to offer an amendment to reduce the rate on earthenware senator Aldrich said that the two articles had been Classi fied together and Given the same duty since 1883 even the Wilson Bill Mak ing no change in the classification As n result of an understanding reached after a discussion of the parliamentary status of the Bill hereafter the Senate As in committee of the whole will finally adopt each Para graph of the Bill As reached unless passed Over by agreement and no fur ther Opportunity will be had to Amend the Masur intr it has reached the Quick Justice ten cents per week cues in prison kidnappers in Good spirits of first Day in the Penitentiary the Best Laid plans of mice and men gang aft Galfy parliamentary status of being before the Senate Bacons amendment beaten speaking in favor of a reduction of the duties on steel and earthenware As a Means of giving the people generally a cheaper goods of that kind senator Bacon offered an amendment reducing the rate from 60 to 35 per cent and Valorme Senato Bacons amendment was Defeated by a vote of 25 to 21 senator la Pollette being the Only Republican who voted in the affirmative with the democrats explaining that he desired a rate of duty on common crockery Ware which would reduce its Cost to the con Sumer senator Bacon offered an other amendment to reduce the rate from 55 per cent and Valorme As it stood in the Bill to 40 per cent after considerable debate the amendment was voted Down 50 to 27 pleads for tobacco producers pleasing for an amendment to the Bill to permit the producer of tobacco to Sel hand twist tobacco without the a payment of a duty of six cents per Pound senator Paynter of Kentucky Laid before the Senate a history of the to Licco Industry in his country what the tobacco grower desires Sair senator Paynter is the privilege of Selling his tobacco in the natural Teaf to the consumer that this Privi lege May be exercise by Selling it to tobacco dealers and they he permitted to sell it to the Consumers without the payment of tax says they Are not prosperous if the tobacco growers and their tenants had been prosperous there would have been no demand for a change in the Law it was the unfortunate condition in which they found themselves that caused them to begin to investigate what had caused the condition which confronted them and they demanded a change which would enable them to find markets for the tobacco where there was a Competition among those who desired to Pur Chase Bride loses husband vice ones Ina has strange Case of bridegroom disappearing three Days after marriage death saves mans life Niagara Falls n y May 12as Willis White was trying to shoot James Thomas he was attacked with Haemorrhage of the lungs and the bul let went wild with blood pouring from his Mouth White staggered for Ward several Steps and fell dead Vincennes hid May 12 mar chares h Crown of he Titington ill mysteriously ios her husband in Vin Cernes and officers find no Trace As miss Elizabeth Terrell self Noimie Here last saturday with Brown and they Wera married the pail drove Back to Vincennes from Lawrenceville 111 to buy House hold goods he having Jisoo in his pockets at the courthouse Brown left the buggy presumably to leave some tax Money this is the last mrs Crown has seen or heard of him and no one in the courthouse can be found who saw it own fails to find Only Man in world who knows Loca Tion of Cache returns to Frisco without treasure san Francisco May no treasure trove but with a hardluck Story of a typhoon a reef and a ship wreck capt James Brown who claims that he is the Only Man in the world who knows where to find the Cocos Island Cache of has returned from the Antipodes Brown left this City february 2 and March 5 left Sydney in a 25ton Schooner with a Crew of four to search the South seas for the treasure two Days later the boat was thrown upon a reef and wrecked he and his Crew were rescued by a French ship conried body brought Home new York May body of Heinrich conried formerly director of the metropolitan opera company who died in Meran Austria on april 27 was brought Home on the Steamer Cecilie it was accompanied by mrs conried the widow and by Richard g conried woman strangled to death Providence r May terribly battered body of mrs Laura r Regester a Cranston woman was found it the old hebrew cemetery in Reservoir Avenue this City and Marks on the neck indicated that the woman had been strangled chinaman club Bill Dies j Jefferson City to May to House for time a Blini of kid toys 0 i he Iowa puss association at h bulks m a 7 am 7 sensational Story told Man convicted of Willie Whitla adduction declared Harry Forfar relative of stolen child planned crime to get Money Kare is designation Given the above photo by the Charles City intelligencer in calling attention to the fact that both com rom picture Foft the ique because of the presence in ninety four years of age and is by group of a b f1 Hildreth Tablin hed the i Tablin hed the new a paper in Charles City in 1856 that paper the of a b r Hildreth newspaper Man in Iowa not the old est perhaps in Point of service but Ottest la or him rms Charles City Intel once has be from t it Tim time until Cut i the Register by the Western in Lier whose representative or Quinn corralled the Bunch and employed u photographer to take a shot at them or la in front Row sixth Pittsburg a May fiting and wearing incidents mra James Foyle had a Good nights rest n the Western Penitentiary woke very much refreshed site was in Good spirits and has regained much of her old time vivacity her arrival at the Penitentiary was the hour for retiring and she was1 Given Only u night dress while All her other clothing and ornaments were taken from her she awakened to find Only the prison garb in her eel marching in line with the other prisoners mrs Doyle smiled As she went to her first prison breakfast and ate heartily she was Given permission by the Matron to make cushions and other fancy work for her cell and materials were promised if she cared do so to do housework it was determined after a physical examination what character of work she will be Given she will be either in the Kitchen or in the Selna room Boyle slept Well also he ate heartily for breakfast an submitted Grace fully to the Barber who cropped his hair closely Bertillion and measurements of the pair were made from All reports that have received Here it is not believed any action will be taken following statement of Boyle the Mercer county officials discredit the state ment and the whole matter probably will be allowed to drop and be for gotten she kisses Jimmy the prisoners upon their arrival were taken first to a Side room Zarfl told that they would have to say gco4 by As the rules of the prison not permit them to see each other again mrs Boyle threw her Arm around jimmys neck and kissed him she said we must take it Best we can the prisoners then Shook hands the Matron escorted mrs Boyle front the room when she reached the Ridor she burst into tears and to be permitted once again to see her husband the request was and she again kissed and Boyle the Man maintained his so Lence and had nothing to say Boyles number at the Penitentiary is 6c31a and that of his wife 6632a the prisoners were photographed to Day and Bertillion measurements of them were taken Boyle makes statement before he left Mercer Boyle out an interview to be used under his name he said in part on the morning of between1 the hours of Dan Reeble or was found dead on the sidewalk in front of the Mauser Block East fed eral Street Youngstown and Over the prostrate form was or Harry Forker of Sharon a holding in his right hand a package of letters that was gathered from the sidewalk near the dead body of or Reeble As he was about to depart from the Vicinity he was intercepted by the writer and a Man who has since passed to his Reward or Dan Shay a Saloon keeper of Oak Street Youngs town o the writer and or Shay examined and read the contents of same Utica proved beyond a doubt the pres Snee of or Forker the r at that time the letters were written by a lady Twe from a party in York state and the others from Cleveland o says Forker bought silence after telling How paid him hush Touey Boyle Ilei Lares it was Forkis plan to the Whitla Loy his Rie phew in Onier to then Boyle goes into a Moscrip Tob of lie kidnapping saying it was not he who too the boy to Wann says he met James i Whitla int hex of the Hoy and told him about for kers connection with the kidnapping Ami Whitla promised there would he no prosecution Ali Iii brands Boyles usury As me mrs to tour Ohio Columbus May Alice Roose Al t Long Worth either i Meiouls the spend a considerable portion of time in Ohio or contemplates in Tito Mobile trip through the state for has applied to the state automobile department for n fifteen families Winnipeg Man Hay i families Hare Rusa Lake two Chi

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