Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 14, 1895, Page 6

Ofce, 12 Penrl Streot--11. W, MINOR. MENTION, 3. R. McPherson, florist; telephone 244, Grand hotel, Councll Bluffs; 100 rooms facing Bayliss park. E. F. Clark, proprietor. John OriMth in “Faust” will be the at- traction at the New Dohany theater Sunday night. A marriage license was Issued yestorday to John Haile, Jr., aged 36, and Mina J. Ross, aged 15, both of Council Bluffs, 8, P. MacConnell commenced a suit in the @istrict court yesterday against J. N. Wooley for $115 for services performed last April. The funcral of Christopher Thompson will take place funday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the residence, 2301 South Seventh street under the auspices of the Danish brother- hood, of which he was a member. The hoer case of the Krug Brewing com- any against Berncke was submitted to Judge ney yesterday. A default was entered in the suit of Council Diufts lodge No. 49, 1. 0. 0. F., against Lamb and others, A team belonging to Stephan Bros. col- lided on Broadway Thursday night with a earriage in which were Miss Minnie Unthank and her companion. Both escaped injury, al though the carriage was overturned Al chevaliers Canton Pottawattamie No. 6, 1.°0. 0. F., are requested to attend speclal meeting at Odd Fellows hall Saturdayeeven- ing, Sept. 14. Business of importance Order of C. B. TAYLOR, Commander. Special meeting of Canton Pottawattamie No. 6 is called to meet at Odd Fellows' hall this evening at 8 o'clock to take action in regard to golng to Omaha to H\‘k‘ part in the parade Wednesday, C Taylor, eap- tain Harry Burton, who was arrested with a couple of skeleton keys in his pocket a few days ago, had a preliminary hearing before Justice Cook erday. The police were un- ablo to show that hz had had the keys for any criminal purpose, d he was accord- ingly discharged by the court The members of the Woman's Christian assoclation are laying plans for the produc tion of an operetia at #ohany's about O tobsr 18. The cast will include a large num- ber of local musicians, and the opera fs sald to be very tuneful. It de- geribes the incldents of the olden time in whichi Powhatan and Pocahontas figured so prominently. Maggie Looman, who was arrested a day or twn ago on the charge ot keepinga dis- orderly house at 704 North Tenth street, wili be tried on a more serlous charge. At the direction of the judge of the police court yesterday an information was filed by the city attorney charging her with committing the crime of incest with her brother. The latter will also be arrestzd. hal Canning and Deputy Marshal owler went about their occasional house cleaning last evening, and made several raids upon disorderly houses. Five women were picked up at Mittnacht's place near the Northwestern depot, and another at 1609 Third avenue, each of them being charged on the books with being inmates of disor- derly houses. At a late hour last night the two officers were still on the war path. Two men, named Osborne and Van Dusen, who occupy the same house at the corner of Pierce and Union streets with thelr fam- flics, became involved in a fight last evening about 7 o'clock. The children of the two families did not seem able to get along peaceably and the two men, starting out to quell the disturbance, made it greater. Eyes were blacked, noses were punched, and the neighbors were furnished a fortnight’s amusement in fifteen minutes. There were no arrests. “The only ‘mourning’ paper In Council Blufs” scratches the name of E. B. Cook from the republican ticket before pasting it at the top of its editorial nlates. One might think that it possibly might be some such mistake as the old lady made in writing up the county convention a day before it took place, but she says she never makes any mistakes, and she ought to know. Possibly that baby bicycle has slid down Into her stocking, and is chafing a tender corn. Sho'd better take her slipper off and shake it out. Farm loans mado in wesiern Towa at low- est rates. No delay In closing loans. Fire and tornado Insurance written in best of com- panies. Bargains in real estale. LOUGEE & TOWLE, 235 Pearl St. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. S. P. MacConnell and family leave today for Kirksville, Mo., where they will remain for a month or so. Ed Bennett and family, who have been visiting their relatives here for the past week, leave for their home in Chicago Sun- day evening. Derne Sawyer, son of Superintendent Saw- yer of the city schools, leaves today for Towa City, where he will enter the law de- partment of the state university. He has been spending the summer in Missourl. E. W. Wecks of Guthrie Center was in the city yesterday. He Is secretary of the Republican League of lowa, and expects to be prosent at the organization of this dis- trict, which will take place in a few weeks B. M. Wells of Chicago, who is well re- membered by reason of his connection with tho defunct Judd-W=lls Investment company, has lost his evesight. He had been suffering with his eyes for some time past and put some cocaine in them to deaden the pain. He used too much and the sight was de- stroyed. His friends hope that the blindness 1s only temporary. The Veno Medicine company, with head- quarters at the Ogden, and which gives free lectures on the streets each evening, is at- tracting a great deal of at:-ntion. Many of the cures, some of which are referred to in another column, are of well known Council Bluffs peopl>, and are remarkable enough to Justity the attention they are attracting, Nothing is so priceless as good health, and the men who can restore it to those who have lost it are those who deserve to be called blessed. Wead Daviy aheap. Tue Hariman piano wins many friends. ad. Davis sells hammoacks Democratie Caucuses Tonlght. Last evening the democrats held primarires n all the precinets to select names to be voted on this evening as delegates to the county convention, to be held at Avoea next Wednesday., Three times the number of names were sefected, and the right number will be selected this evening from the names chosen last night. The following are the Pplaces where each ward will hold Its caucus: First wacd: First precinct, Wheeler & Herald's; Second precinct, Broadway and Unlon streets. Second ward: First precinet, city building; Second precinet, Broadway. Third ward: First precinet, Creston house; Second precinct, engine house on Main street. Fourth ward: First precinct, Farmers’ hall, court house; Second precinet, Kelley house, South Main street, near Twelfth avenue, Fifth ward: Both precincts, corner Sixth avenue and Fifteenth street, Sixth ward: First precinct, Broadway and Twenty-third street. HOMESEEKERS' Vin Burlington Route. August 20, September 10 and 24. Low rates to various points In the south, southwest, west and northwest. For full in- formation call on or address 0. M. BROWN, Ticket Agent. The Standard piano next to the Hardmar. Yes, the Eugle laundry is “that good laundry,” and located at 724 Broadway. Don't forget name and number. Tel 157 If in doubt about this try it and be convinced. Omaha Fi . Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 13, 14 and 15, the Union Pacific will run traing leaving Broadway depot at and 11 a. m. and 1 p. m., direct to the Omaha fair grounds, returning at 6, 7 and 9 p. m. Commencing Monday, the 16th, and during the week, until Friday, the 20th, inclusive, will run trains every hour, commencing at 7 & m., until 8 p. m, returning last train leaves Omaha at 9 p. m. Tickets will be on sale at Unlon Pacific ticket office, 421 Broad. way, also.at Hroadway depot. 30 cents for he round trip. Hardman and Standard planos, 113 N. 16k, Councll Bluffs kindergarten, 116 4t street. EXCURSION, Titon, Manager AN NOTANLE SAINTS ARRIVING, Many Visitors from Afar Sojourn at the Camp Grounds nt Munnw, The second day of the Latter Day Saints' conference was one of great Interest to those attending, although so many of them were busy stretching tent ropes and arranging | their cots and other camping paraphernalia that the mectings were not so well attended as they will be later on, when the more prac tical things of this life have been arranged and the delrgates a hle to pay more atten- tion to the thines of the life to come During day anite a number of prom- | inent members of the chureh from a distance ved, among wiom were Rev. M, H, F cutt of Nebraska City, Rev. R. Bize Rev. W. T, Dozorth and wite, and Re Thomas of Kansas City, Rev. C, of Falrfield, Neb., and Rev. P. Du Fontanelle, da. A number of other nc are expeeted today, among them Rev. A, H Smith and F. A. Smith, Joseph Luff, J. W. Wright and others. A permanent organiza- tion will be effected th!'s afrern 1. All the delegates have pronounced themselves de- lighted with the camp grounds. and the feel- ing Is strong that there can be no finer place for them to choose as their regular meeting place than Lake Manawa. The sermon last cvening was preached by Rev. R. Etzen- houser of Kansas City. Motor trains leave the corner of Broadway and Ninth street for Manawa at 9:30 and 11 a.m., and 2, 4, 6 and 7:30 p. m. Returning, the last train leaves the lake at 10 p. m 80 as to glve plenty of time for people from the city to take the train after evening service. SCHOOL ATT INCRIIAST bers Shown e Buildings. there has been a steady increase in the school attendance, which s very gratifying not only to the school authorities, but to the friends of edu- cation as well. Yesterday closed the first week of the current year, and the figures glven by Superintendent Sawyer of the en- rollment still shows a healthy growth in the number of young ideas. The enrollment for the week has been 3,719, an increase of 151 over that of the first week of last year. Miss Badollet’s room, the lowest in the Washington avenue building, opened the week with 100 pupils, all of them little tots, tak- ing their first lessons in work. During the week thirty of them were transferred to other rooms, but thé room is stiil very much overcrowded, and small-sized chairs have to be set all around the room in order to re- lieve the pupils of the necessity of taking turns at the desks. The little people seem to enjoy their work hugely. A diminutive edition “of the American flag is put to a strange use. Whenever a pupil is tardy he has to pick up the flag from its roosting carry it up to the teacher, and take it This seems like a simple and not particularly unpleasant thing to do, but the little fellows, after trying one dose of the flag, wull run their legs off before they will be tardy again. They do not like to be sin- gled out, and to their youthful minds there is something decidedly unpleasant about hav- ing to be stondard bearer under just those circumstances. Wi Reduce the sNessment, The city council met as a committee of the whole yesterday morning and talked over a number of things which will be definitely disposed of, in all probability, at the special council mecting next Monday night. A favor- able report was decided upon with reference to the petition of John Danforth and F. T. True for a reduction of assessment on the Ogden house property from $8,000 to 35,500, The clerk will be ordered to certify this ac- tion to the Board of Supervisors and ask the co-operation of the latter. The petition for the location of a fire box at the corner of Fourth street and Twenty- first avenue was referred to a committee con- sisting of Brewlck, Brown, Barstow and Spetman and the electrician and chief of the fire department, with power to ac, The request’ of the Omaha Bridge and Terminal company for permission to rectify its mistake of several wecks ago by accepi- ing the ordinance awarding it a right of way over Union avenue and giving it an extension of time to January 1, 1806, was referred to a committee onsisting of Aldermen Green- shields, Brewick and Spetman and the city attorney With reference to the grading of Ridge street it was decided that when the property owners shall have spent $100 on_the work it will be completed by the expenditure of $50 at the city's expense, all work to be done under the direction of the city engineer, The new Bluffs City laundry, 84 North Main, claims less wear and finer work on shirts, collars and cuffs than any laundry in the state. Phone 514 ¥ liar Positlio JEFFERSON, Ta., Sept. 13.—(Special)—. peculiar point in connection with the Aus tralian ballot system of voting has arisen for which no provision appears to have been made. At the rpublican county convention Dr. 0. W. Lowery, a candidate for represent- ative, was defeated by P. A. Smith. Nothing had be:n heard or said concerning the mat- ter until yesterday, when Dr. Lowery ap- peared before the county auditor and asked it nomination papers had been filed for th offica of representative on the republican ticket, that being the first day for filing. He was informed none had been pr-sented, ana thereupon produced nomination papers signed by twenty-five republican voters of the county asking that his name be placed at the head of ths republican county ticket on the ballot, s provided by law. The county auditor sald he would take the matter under adyisement, but it s understood the demand will not be granted. Dr, Lowery holds that the law does not take cognizance of the polit- feal conventions and that in its eyes nomina- tion papers signed by twenty-five republicans are just as legal as the nomination papers signed by the chairman and secretary of convention, und that being a republican ana the first fo present papers, that he Is en- titled to the place demanded. In case this 19 refused the matter will be appealed, w Make n ndred. The first anniversary century of the Gany- mede Century club will be made to Little Sioux and return, a distance of 100 miles, Sunday, September 15. The start will be made from the Ganymede club rooms at § o'clock in the morning. Notices have been sent out to all the members of the club, asking them to take part in the run, and it is expected that there will be & heavy onslaught of wheelmen upon the inhabitants of Little Sioux. tw fro | years past For sevi itieian, We have leased the L. G. Knoits & Co. coal yards and will furnish ell kinds of coal, weighed on eity scales, ton and over, without extra charge. A. J. Blood & Co, The Hardman piano improves with use. Owner of Suvage Dogs Must Pay, CRESTON, Ia, Sept. 13.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Several months ago Otto Kruger was attacked by savage dogs owned by Mrs. Revena Roberts, and horribly-bitten, Kruger commenced suit for $2,000 damages in the district court, and today secured a judgment After the suit was instituted Mrs. her for $800. Roberts deeded and left the property to her son New parlor corner pleces, upho'stered in silk brocatelle, damask and Irish frieze. Dur- tee Furtiture Co. s BN ki GAVE THE COURT A ROAST, Tramp nt Julexburg, Colo., Abu Judge Who Sentenced Hi JULESBURG, Colo., Sept. 13.—(Special Tel- egram.)—James Jackson, the tramp who stabbed Sheriff Wallace fn June, was today found guilty o fassault to murder, after a two days' trial, and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. After recelving sentence he roundly abused the court and attorneys and on leaving the court room af tempted to escape on a sad horse hitched near, but failed. On reaching the jail he broke a lamp and spilled the oil, setting the Juil on fire, and made another bold attempt to escape, but was restrained by the deputis and the fire quenched. He s the worst pris onar the sheriff says he has ever had in *“Goure adjourned today, atter our a A % ., disposing of & the wheel | < The Moderns Far Outolossed by Their Predecesss s, SAMPLE CASES FROM MUSTY HISTORY Killing of Sir Thomas Overbury— How the Itallans Made Murder ot Polson' Venders. When Dr, Buchanan was legally ki'led at Sing Sing a few weeks ago there was closed forever one of the two most notorious pol soning cases of recent years.. The other was that of Medical Student Carlyle W Harris, who sent his girl wife to her grave by an overdose of morphine, purposely ad ministered. In unraveling the mystery sur- rounding these erimes expert toxicolo gists figured more conspicuously, perhaps than in any other cases of a similar nature ever tried in the United States, and public interest was a:ousel to an extent never be- fore equaled. Fortunately, po'soning as a means of com- mitting muraer has never been popular with people of Anglo-Saxon origin, says the Brook- lyn Bagle. Its insidiousness appeals rather to the guile alleged to be inherent in the Latin racss, Hencs it has flourished best in Italy and France, attaining at times ‘n either country the dignity of a scienca, Although | has been pursied in England to tome extent the majority of the attempis there hav lacked the dexterity and finish characteristic of the Itallan or French posoaer when at his best One of the most famous poisoning cases in all history was that of Sir Thomas Over- bury, secretary to James I. Woven around the story fs a web of intrigue and villainy such as befitted a court as despicable as that of the first Stuart who wore the BEnglish crown. Every student of history knows somcthing of Robert Kerr, Viscount Rochester and earl of Somerset, the first of the two d solute and worthless favorites upon whom James lavished so much. Tradition says that Kerr had the good fortune to attract the at- tention of 'nis king through an accident which befell him in the hunting field. His hand- some face and easy manners rapidly advanced him in the royal favor. and he was succ sively created lord high treasurer of Scot land and a peer of the realm, with the title of Viscount Rochester. Sir Thomas Overbury assisted Rochester while the latter was prosccuting his suit with Lady Francis Howard, wife of the ear of Essex. The woman securel a divorce in order to wed her latest lover. Overbury ob- jected to the proposel match. “My lord,” he s1id in the gal'ery of White- hail, where he met the infatuated Rochester on a summer afterncon, “if you marry this woman you will ruin your honor and your- self.” The viscount was furious, and Over- bury’s death warrant was as good as signed. Rochester met him again with a smiling face and smooth words, but with a brain which had alrzady planned his destruction. A few days after the Whitehall incident the king appointed Overbury embassador to Rus cia. Rochester advised the declination of the mission on the ground that it was a scheme to get the secretary out of the way. Over- bury acquiesced and sent his refusal to the King. James was incensed and ordered his commission to the tower. two 2very link in this chain of events was forged by Rochester. He was evolving the first chepters in his scheme of revenge. He solaced Overbury in his Imprisonment with promises of speedy reiease, and at the sam time took care that the lleutenant of the tower should be dismissed and Sir Jerv! Elwes, a creature of his own, aprointed in his stead. Richerd Weston, a druggist's as- sistant, was installed as underkeeper. When all these preliminaries were adjusted Rochester and Lady E:sex ret about poisoning Overbury. A woman named Ann Turner, whom Hawthorne alludes to in th “Scarlet Letter” as the friend of Mistress Hibbins, Governor Bellingham's sister, who was afterward hangel on Boston Commo: s a witch, was employed to secure the roi- sons. She purchased them from a charlatan named Formen and an apothecary, one Frank- lin of Lambeth. Mrs. Turnar sent polsoned pastry and other edibles to Overbury in the name of Viscount Rochester. Arsenic was mixed with his sabt and cantharides with h's pepper. On gne occasion Rochester szt h'm a dainty cut of venison which Mrs. Turner polsonad with lunar caustic. From first to last Overbury took enough poizon to Kill half a dozen men of ordinary constitution. Franklin, the apothecary, afterward con- fessed that in conjuncton with D= Forman he had preparel seven diff:rent kinis of poison for Overbury's consumption. These were aqua fortls, arsenic, mercuiy, powder of diamonds, lunar caustic, great soiders and cantharides. In spite of this Overbury lin gered so long that Rocoester and Lady Bssex eir patience having become exhausted, in- «d Blwes and Weston to fin'sh the job. In October, 1613, the unfo:tunate prisoner was given a doss of corrosive sublimite, which speedily put an end to his sufferngs. His body, wrapped in a sheet, was hurriedly bur- ied with'n the precincts of the tower. The circumstances attending Overbury's confinement, together with the iniecent haste of h's burial, aroused suspi:ion among his relatives and friends, and hints that he was foully dealt with were freely dropped in the king's presence. The Infiuence of the earl of Somerset, to which dignity Rochester had been advanced on the occasion of ‘nis mar- riage to Lady Essex a few weeks after his victim's demise, was declining before that of a new favorite. The star of George Villiers, afterward duke of Buckingham, was now in the ascendant. The new favorite did not hesitate to hasten the downfall of his predecessor. He nursed the suspicion in the king's mind concerning Overbury’s mysterious death, and James was at length moved to set an investigation on foot. The king, unaware that Somerset was s0 deeply implicated, at first merely ordered the arrest of Sir Jervis E wes. Then he sum- moned all his judges about him, and going down on his knees In their presence, deliv- ered himself of a vehement harangue on the enormity of taking human life by poison. He wound up by a prayer that his judges should sift tae matter to the bottom, and invited divine vengearce upon himself‘and his pos- terity if he should in any way neglect his duty In the premises. As the investigation proceeded Weston was arrested, then Frank lin, then Mrs. Turner, and lastly the earl and countess of Somerset, Weston was first brought to trial. He was arraigned before Lord Chief Justice Coke, found guilty and executed at Tyburn. Elwes, Mrs. Turner and Franklin shared his fate one after another. The last of the quartet suffered on December 4, 1615, but the chief Instigators of the crime, the earl and coun- tess of Somerset, were not brought to trial till the following May. Somerset while in the Tower had boldly assered that his hold on James was such that the king did not dare to bring him ‘o trial He possessed secrets, he said, which, if revealed even be- side the block, would set all England aflame and expose his soverelgn to the contempt of Europe. James evidently dreaded the threatened revelations and endeavored to persuade Som- erset to confess his gullt and trust to the royal clemency. The earl declined, but the countess accepted the king's counsel and was sentenced to death, Somerset defended him- self vigorously and was convicted after a stubbornly contested fight. He, too, was or- dered to the block. But the king, still fearful of the fallen favorite, refused to sign the death warrants and the earl and countess remained prisoners in the Tower for the next five years. Then, to the eternal disgrace of James, they were pardoned and were ordered to reside at a distance from the court on a pension of £4,000 per annum, allowed them from the confiscated estates of the earl. It s said that the death of James himself was due to polson administered by the duke of Buckingham, but the proof Is slight and history generally accords to a fit of ague the credit of having relieved England of its first Stuart soverelgn. In no other country was poisoning practiced as an art with such pre-eminent success as in Italy. The Italie poisoned his enemy with little compunction as any ordinary man experiences today when he brings a lawsuit against another. The refined Venetian or Florentine came to consider the assassin's poniard as an essenuaily vulgar means of revenge. Poison, W If necessary, but nevertheless surc, was substituted. After a while the sale of drugs, so prepared that their administration would kill a vietim In any rlvtn time, grew into a recognized trade. n 16690 Pope Alexander VII. was notified by deputations of the Roman clergy that the crime of slow polson had, assumed extraor. dinary dimensions in the gapal capital. Nu. merous young widows had-eome to the con- fessional and admitted that they had thus effected thelr own beredvbfent. The pope instituted a_strict inquiry. and discovered that there exioted in Ronie # society of young married women who met at thy house of a reputed witch named Hicfonyma La Spara A spy in the service of the authorities called upon La Spara. and. representing herself as an unlucky wife rendered unhappy by the possession of detestable spouse, purchased from the old woman a-elesr, tasteloss and limpid lquor warranted to kill. La Spara and four of her assoclatestifere arrested and hanged on the same gallows at Rome. Thirty others were whipped thraugh the streets and a few were fined wnd banished. Even this stern enforcement of . the law did not stop the crime, and within a few months nine more women suffered death and a score of less culpable ones were punishel by the lash, ~ = Still the practice went on. Polson was compounded and sold i any degree of strength to suit the purchaser, who signifiel whether he wished his intended victim to die in one week, two weeks, six wecks or a year. In 1719 the viceroy of Naples discovered that an old woman namel Tophania was selling slow po'son In greit quant ties, From Napies she sent it all over Italy in li‘tle vials 0 labeled as to lead the custom house officess to believe that it was the sicred oil that miracu lously oozed from the shrine of a saint whose reputation for working miracles wis only s-c ond to that of the lament=d and dismembered Gengulphus. This polson clos:iy resembled that manufactured by La Spara. Ha nem nn, founder of homeopathy, analyzed it ad that it was compounde raenlal ne. tral salts, which caused gradual los: of appeti‘e, wasting of the lungs and other d:adly results Another authority asscrted that it was ad* ministered In tei, chocolate or soup, a few drops at a time, and that its effects were | gradual and hardly perceptible, Dr. Garel | court phys'can at Vienns, said the basis o the poison was crystal.ized arsenic. It is estimated that from first to last To- phania was ace:ssory to the poisoning of 800 persons. Her arrest was not less remark- | ible than her career of the viceroy began se claimed sanctuary in a convent. The abbe refused to give her up. The cardinal-arch bighop supported the abbess. The vic:roy threatened to invade the convent by force cardinal promised to excommunicate d lay an interdict on the city if he When the emissarie: rching for her, sh ild. The populace, ignorant of the crimes of Tophania, sided with the cardinal. The vice- roy, however, was a man of resources and swift to execute a might decide. y purpose upon which he He threw a guard around the cardinal's palacs to prevent the issuing of any interdict. The people he quieted by cir- culating the report that Tophania had pois- oned all the wells in the city. Then hi soldiers scaled the walls of the convent and carried off the poisoner, whose 70 years did ng 1t save her from b After her death slow fashionable in 1 tegally strangled soning became le in this conne tion, however, it is interesting to not egend that the Venetian city of still famous for its manufacture of once made a goblet of tuch peculizr proper- tles that it burst into a thousand pleces at the touch of poison. Of cours: it i a fable and yet, adds one of the most dalightful writers on Venetian toples, “it would have taen an excellent thing in the good old toxi- cological days of Italy; and people of noblc family would have found a sensitive goblet f this kind as sovereign against the arts of venomers as an exclusive diet of boiled RES. In France during the seventeenth century s 0w polzoning became such an art that Mmc. De Sevigne dec ared the names of Frenchman and poisoner were liable to'bccome synony- mous, The Italian mo?dl: o toxicology were copied and in some instancas improved upon The most celebrated case was that of the Marquise de Brinvillicrs, who flourished to ward the middle of the certury, and upon whose fair shoulders rested the weigat of at least three murders. Mme. de Brinvilliers conceived a fondness for one M. Sainte Croix, v dissolute adventurer to whom her own husband_had introduced” her. Sainte Croix noeded Money and suggested that the mar- quise should replenish licr, pprse, which had previously been free'y opered for his benefit, by getting rid of her aged father, M. D'Au- bray, a man of fortune, Sainte Croix fur- aished the poicon and Mme. de Brinvi'liers administered it, a little cach day. M. D'Au- bray died within a week, Thereupon she marquise decided that she preferred the whole > her father's estate td a portion, and pro- ceeded to send her two brothers by the same road_‘ier unfortunate parent had already (raveled. Both were burled within three months from M. D'Aubray’s deith. Then the marquise made a_determined effort to get rid of her husband, but her lover was unwillin that the death of the marquis should gi liberty to & woman whom he was beginning to detest, fo e man:ged, through the medlum of a servant, to give Brinvillers an antidote whenever the woman administered a poison. Brinvilliers fina'ly made his cscape with a ruined constitution. Sainte Croix eventual'y ame to his death through an explosion of *hemicals in his private laboratory, and cer- tain papers found among his effects by the police definitely connected the marquise with the murders of her father and brotners. She cscaped to England, where she remained for three years. Then she incautiously returned to France, imagining that time had brought her immunity from arrest. Her hope proved false. She was hounded to a convent, whence she was afterward induced to emerge by strategy and placed under arrest. Her trial and conviction followed speedily and in the month of July, 1676, she was beheaded in the Piace de Greve, Even this signal vindication of the law did not materially check the poisoning craze in France. Two women, who pursued in Paris the same trade carried on in Italy by La Tophania and La Spara, were publicly burned on_the spot where Mme. de Brinvilliers had suftered & few years before. One of them, named Lavoisin, had a list of those who had purchased poison from her, and the record contained the name of the Marquis de Luxem- bourg, the Countess de Soissons and the Duchess de Bouillon. The countess fled to Brussels. Luxembourg was arrested and thrown into the Bastile. He was tried after a needlessly long imprizonment and acquitted. The duchess suffered a few months' imprison- ment and was finaly released through the intervention of powerful friends. Fruitless as these arrests had been in the line of direct results, they still had an effect on the public generally. People became aware that the French laws were disposed to severity with- out respect to rank and slow poisoning de- clined thenceforth in popular favor. Before it was finally checked, however, more than 100 criminals had been hanged or burned. Dida Apprecinte a Thrilling Tale, “I want to give you the confessions of a drunkard,” said a gentleman whose jag was of very recent complexion to the Nashville American man. “I'll tell you,” he said, ‘there is nothing on earth that will bring out a man's finer sensibilities so much as a three days' drunk, and I know what I'm talking about, for I've begn there. From the time the first drink is taken until the jag has reached the proportion of a ‘chronic,’ the victim has a constantly increasing disposition to think less of himself. And, as that dis- position grows upon him, hejbegins to weigh himself in the balance with his fellow man, with the difference decidedly in favor of the other fellow. It is after he begins (o re- cuperate, however, that -théy reai weight of the responsibility falls upon him. In the morning, when his jag has soured on his stomach, a man will turn oyer and think of all the mean things he bas ever said and done, and the more he thinks them over the worse he feels. y “Finally, when he decides that another de- coction would go pretty well, and reaches down in his pocket for the price of it, then he discovers that it is nol there. Say, you may talk about your dispggeeable feeiings, but I don’t think there I$ anything to equal that. It is then that he begins to argue with himself, ‘What a fool I am,’ and after a bit he wonders, ‘Where will 1 go to get that drink I need?’ Then, when he wanders into aloon and says, ‘I wouldn't mind having a little drink, but'I haven't the price,’ and the barkeeper looks at him a moment and replies, ‘I can't do it, old man, and hold my Job,' then he does feel badly, Say, I just went through that experience awhile ago; you don't happen to have the price with you, do you? When he had succeeded in falling to get it the jagged individual remarked: “It's just as 1 sald, The finer sensibilities all belong to the drunken man, and you may bank on it that they are boginning to work out of this one In great shape. Good day. I'll try to find a more appreclative reporter to give my confessions to."” And thus was & very wild and weird story lost, METHODISTS OPPOSE MULCT Third Day's Session of the Towa Conference Very Warm, POLITICS SUDDENLY BECOMES A FACTOR Strong Resolutions Adopted Denounc- ing the Liguor Trafic and De- claring it a Menace to Religion, OTTUMWA, Ia, Sept. 13.—(Special Tele- gram.)—The third day's session of the lowa Methodist conference was full of interest The lay delegates held thelr session and developed some pretty political tactics in the selection of delegates to the gemeral confer- | ence. Senator Harlan of Mount Pleasant and Chris Haw of Ottumwa were chosen dele- gates with Messrs, Hayne of Bloomfield and Axtell of Newton alternates. The resolution favoring the admission of women to the gen- eral conference was carried with a rush, but one granting equal suffrage. with man in church and state was tabled. The fire works began when Hon. John Mahin of Muscatine sprung his temperance resolutions on the lalty, The resolution, after reciting the fact that it is a matter of his tory that the Methodist Eplscopal churen has taken an uncompromising stand against the traffic in intoxicating liquors, declared in faver of re-endorsing and giving emphasis to the declaration of the bishops in 1888, opposed what s called the bar feature of the mulet law, opposed the preposed manufacture of liquor in Towa, declared it the duty of every Methodist in the coming state election to agonize any candidate who Is in favor of giving the liquor power a further grant of privileges, and declared in favor of resub- mission of the prohibitory amendment. DEFENDED MULCT LAW, Hon. T. Horton of Martinsburg, a member of the last legislature, defended the mulct iaw, then Frank Bacon, prohibition candidate for governor, opposed both mulct and re- submission, Hon. John Mahin denounced the mulct law and favored resubmission, and Marcus Samp. son of Burlington declared the Martin law the best prohibitory law ever cnacted. After a heated discussion Mahin's resolution was adopted. In the ministerial session Bishop Foster de- livered the address to the class coming into full counection, and laid out a broad basls for future Methodism almost startling to the 1d school. The conferanca voted to ask the zeneral conference to chauge the diseipline so that any ordaired minister may perform e marriage ceremony. For delegates to the zoneral conference: President C. L. Stafford f Mount Pleasant, T. J. Myers of Blooming- ton and Morris Bamford of Oskaloosa were chosgen, The fourth will be chozen tomor- w. The ministers will have their inning tomorrow on the temperance question and on ‘ie admis:ion of women and a lively time is nticipated. SENSATION ROOM. Will Contest Takes n g CRESTON Sept. 13 pecial.) —Judge Penbrook Mercer of 1 sensation In the court room yesterday when 'e stated thatehe was in Justice Brooks' ffice at Savannah, Mo., when Mary Clancy was married, and that the men she married is Henry Walton, a night watchman at the Crugg packing house in St. Joe. Craig boarded at Walton's house in St. Joe, and it Is evident that Walton and Miss Claney lanned the conspiracy from intimate per- nal knowledge of Craig's heaith and the size of ‘his pocketbook. Cralg had been criminally intimate witl: Miss Clancy, for she swore on the stand that <he gave birth w a child and that Craig was its father. The child died. Walton is & married man, and his marriage with Mies Clancy makes him a bigamist. Squire Brooks swote he married the couple on the 28th. He had been told that the man’s wame was Walton. He afterward saw him in St. Joe. John Igoe testified that he helped Craig from the train at Greenfield the morning of the 28th, and that Craig was In the last stages of consumption. Another scroug point brought out was that of the signafure of the marriage license. It was signed John Cralg, X; his mark. Craig was an ignorant man, but he could write his own name, as many of his friends will testify. Mutiny Among lowa Militin, DES MOINES, Sept. 13.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Today closed the most successful fair in the history of the State Agricultural so- clety. ‘The receipts will be about $40,000. The weather this morning was stormy and cold and the attendance much decreased. The provisional company of the lowa Natlonal Guard, composed of men from companies A and H, detailed for duty on the fair grounds, cngaged in a mutiny last night because th. fair officials declined, or neglected, to pro- vide the men with supper and breakfast in addition to the free dinners which the so- cicty had agreed to give the boys while here. Second Lieutenant John Hull of company H was in command and is said to have been the moving spirit in the revoit. He apologized to President Evans for his conduct and will probably receive military discipline. Mills County Polities Warm, MALVERN, Ia, Sept. 13.—(Spacial)— Never before in the history of Mills county has there been as much interest in politics as at the present time. In 1894, when th: democrats and popuiists fused on the county ticket, the republican majorities ranged from 630 for W. M. McFarland for secretary of state down to 195 for 0. P. Kinney for auditor, the average republican majority on the county ticket being about 300, One pe- culiarity of the county politics is that while the republicans seem to have had very littie trouble in electing nearly every candidate. the democrats have elect:d their candidates for sheriff continuously for the past twenty years, created Savannah, Mo at Des Moines. DES MOINES, Sept. 13.—(Special Tele- gram.)—At an early hour this morning the factory of the Keith Furnace company was destroyed by fire, including many valuable patterns. The plant was valued at $10,000, and the loss tc business will be almost as much, as the fire comes right at a time when every part of the plant was being worked to its full capaciy to fill orders. They were two weeks behind in their orders already On the building and contents there was an insurance of $2,300. The factory will be re- built. Queer Method of Self-Destruction. DUBUQUE, Sept. 13.—(Special Telegram.)— Henry Neisen, a farmer living twelve mil from here, disappeared Tuesday. This morn- ing his clothes were found on the edge of a mineral hole, and at the bottom was his naked body, standing on its head. He had dived in head first, smashing his skull and breaking his neck. 'He was a widower about 35 years old. _ Was Sawing His Way to Liberty, ANAMOSA, la., Sept. 13.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Bigamist Curtis was caught at the state penitentiary today trying to saw through his cell with case knives niched for saws. He was formerly editor of the Ana- mesa Call, and ran papers in six Iowa and Minnesota towns. He was arrested in Duluth and has three living wives. slon Bureau Appoints Examiners. WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—(Speclal Tele- gram.)—Dr. Joseph Sem:ck was today ap- pointed .#n examining surgeon for the pen- sion bureau at Wilbur, Neb., and Dr. W. T. Kelly at Leon, Ia. George Dunbur Dead at 93, DUBUQUE, Sept. 13.—(Special Telegram.)— George Dunbar of Epworth dled last night, aged 95 years. He married his second wife thirteen years ago, when he was 82. Ingiplent Love Affair Results Fatully. MONTEZUMA, Ia., Sept. 13.—(Speclal Tele gram,)—Jennie Stell, aged 16, shot and killed berself this forencon. An incipient love af- falr was the ca Snnke Cha CENTERVILLE, Ia., Sept. (Spectal Telegram.)—Willlam Primmer, an experi- enced snake charmer, was exhibiting a rattle- Death, 1'fx1c mfmm nAn.f BEE: si\'; RDA‘Y snwfiusmn 14, 1895 ‘ ' : m—-—“—'—"“‘————m—_-. NERE TYROS IN POISON ARTs snake at the county falr today. He tried to put the reptile’s head fn his mouth and the snake bit him, fastening its fangs in his tongue. He dled in five honrs, Slugmed and Robbed nt Clinton, CLINTON, Ia, Sept. 13.—(Special Tele- gram.)—George Norton was held up on the street here last night, slugged and robbed of $760. THE THIRD REPUBLIC, Amid Storm and Stre Renches Its Silver Jubllce. While the Germans are celebrating thelr victories over France a quarter of a century ago, it I8 worth while to note, says the Loulsville Courler-Journal, that we have reached the silver jubllee of the third re- public of France. That republic had its birsh on_September 4, 1870 The new government was born amid storm and stress. There was much agitation In France befo the outbreak of the war with Prussia. A wew constitution proposed by the emperor and ratified by a plebicit in May had falled to give satisfaction to the republican element. Although it was adopted by a great majority, yet government inter- ference with the clection had been such as to rob'this majority of its moral effect, The state of the public mind fn France was ex- cited. war would not unwelcome to peror as a distraction from Qi home, Nevertheless, on June the prime minister, announced was more secure than ever. Two days later the proposition to make Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern Sigmaringen king of Spain was made, and on July 19 Louis Napoleon de- clared war against Prussia. From this date events moved rapidly. On July 28 Napoleon left Paris, leaving Eugenie The opinfon prevailed that a foreign be the em- atisfaction at 30 Ollivier, that peace regont. After a month of disaster, on Sep tember 2, he became a prisoner, and on the same day Sedan was given up. On the night of the 3d Jules Favre moved in the Corps Legislalif to depose the emperor. The next norning while the subject was under di cussion the people forced an entrance into the hall and the members of the majority fled. Gambetta and his followers procecdst to the Hotel de Ville. The troope fraternized with the people, and the republic was pro- claimed. It was ahout as irregular in its Figin as any government could well be, rest- ing upon the will of a Parisian mob and the garrison of the city. But the government then established, after passing through vari- s viclssitudes, has survived to this day, and it is apparently stronger than ever Since the revolution, which began in 1789, e has scen many changes. If we count » whole period from the beginning of th revolution till the proclamation of the empire in 1804, during which various ex eriments in ernment were tried, it lasted but fifteen wrs. From the proclamation of the em- dre to Waterloo but eleven years inter- vened. The Hourbons were restored in 1815, md Louis XVIII and Charles X together fifteen years, when the latter was Louis Phillippe reigned nearly cighteen years, and, aiter the second repub lic fell, the second empire lasted less than ighteen ye The third republic, therefore, has lasted ome soven years longer than any govern- nent or dyr that France has had sinc 789, Amid the celebration of German vie- tories it appears fo be forgotten that after Ul France got more out of this war than Ger- nany—not, indeed, in glory, but in things that are better than renown. Whatever > may think of ft, Louls Napoleon, in whose velns it is at least doubtful whether there was a drop of blood of the Bonapartes eized France, began his accession to power vith a massacre, and turned the country over to his subordinates to be looted. In 1870, be- fore the last plebicit, the opponents of the cmperor were able to charge that the em- peror had added five billions of frants to the national debt, that the budge's exceeded two billions a year, and the past eighteen years had been replete with outrages to liberty At that time nearly a third of the popt lation was unable to read and write. Since the organization of the third republic over $80,000,000 have been spent on school houses, and $30,000,000 a year are now spent on primary education.” Only about one-twen- tieth of the adult population are unable to read and write. The army I8 a great burden to the taxpayers, beyond doubt, but France has now a real army, and not a skeleton such as vainly disputed the German advance in, 1870, France 1s by no means a model republic, nor is the cond'tion of her people all that could be desired, but if we compare her con- dition with what it was under the old mon- archy or the empire we shall see that the French have abundant reason to remember with gratitude the 4th of September. STOVEPIPE AND BOWS, ortant Feature & the Dusiness )00 Denlers in Stoves, Tin and sheet iron workers dealing in stoves usually make their own stovepipe, while the bulk of the product of stovepipe nanufacturers 1s sold to dealers in stoves, hardware and household furnishing goods Most stovepipe is made by hand. There are various patents relating to the manner of joining the seams, says the New York Sun, and pipes are made that can he _shipped rosted, the seams to be joined at the point | f destination, therchy saving freight “harges Stovepipe Is sold in_Jjoints, length, and in various diameters. In anthra- “ite regions the pipe averages five or six nches in diameter, but in soft coal regions it is mostly seven or eight inches in diameter. Stovepipe is much cheaper than it used to two feet in be. Such pipe as formerly sold at retail at 25 cents a Jjoint can now bo bought at 15 cents or less. There are in the United States about 10,000 dealers’of one kind and another who sell stoves and the annual consumption of stovepipe in this country amounts to millions of joints. Stovepipe manufacturers begin making pipe for the winter trade about the middle of the summer and.jobbers begin placing their orders about the same time. The distribution to dealers is active through August and September and it continues until the end of winter. While many stove dealers having tin- smiths' plants make their own pipe, very few now manufacture elbows, which they can There There are MUNYON THEIR LEADER, PROMINENT PEG SUPPORT HUMA buy cheaper from the manufacturer. are numerous patents on elbows. 1id Work Acs Pl Eminent Professor, Mrs. John Serven, 310 West Fourth streat, New York City, says: “Professor Munyon's Remedies have really saved me a small for- tune in doctors’ fees. We have had a great deal of sickness in our family, and I used to call a physician for my little ones several times a week. -Now I am glad to say that we have not employel a doctor for two years. Whenever anyone is i1l a few doses of Mun- yon's Rcmedies act like magic and save us iong spelis of sickness. 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