The evening world. Newspaper, March 2, 1903, Page 12

MINK ROBBERS AN NCHTAFTER AGE FIGHT e: Desperadoes Taken in Disorderly House in Hartford, Conn, with) “$8,685, Part of Plunder, *® Property in Long Course, Fol!» ing of Deputy Sheriff Laid at . Doors of the “Missouri and George Collins, Who Two Sheriff’s Posses. | ‘ORD. Conn., frate Western outlaws are lodged) horn’s mill pond, in this city and will sback to the town of Union, Mo. they are wanted for robbing the) Of $110,000 in securities and $14,000 hand for the murder of Deputy Schumacher. The story of their ipeads like ona of the ren of the James boys, E in. Hartford its exciting Incidents, i in comparison with “daring robbery of the ‘tiieir thrilling escape from tro "6 posses which were organized jpamture them at any cost. They had determined to die , and are chagrined that Enst- Sag turned the trick “on them ele Records of Crime. r names are Willi own at home as “The Missouri Kid, George Collins. soon be} tant Each has a long} ‘of crime although only twenty- 1 old. The former tovks the| ant Of a desperado, but Collins has the! rer of a young business men. bandits were traced to Hartford p of paper found In the home 's parents after the robbery. “George Collins, Hartford.” “found that the young outlaw's in-law, a man named La Plante, two sons lived here. ¢ were on the alert for them i few days ago located them 1 They were followed con- the detectives awaiting an b to take them together in the pat. ‘The opportunity did not come. © Powned by Detectives. bst@rday they ‘were aeen to enter a derly house, and the place was sur- ded. Detectives were stationed xt | door, and their vigilance was | rewarded by the appearance of n two La Plante boys. detectives fell upon him, and for fnutes they rolled over and over in the ground, the outlaw fighting and until overcome and thrown into a cab. The La Plante boys sub-| to arrest without opposition, Phe detectives then rushed into the fuse, Where Rudolph was sitting in the dor. He was warned of their coming, ft in time to get his revolver into) Politics he has always bh Three men attacked him, ‘a struggle, in which he bit the ckeand hands of one of the detectiv wes handcuffed ‘and taken away to e Whole Town, ‘@nethe aay. of the robbery they rode to the town of Union, firing thelr re- ere and terrorizing the inhabitants t none dared to interfere with 4 work. They went to the bank, @ ypeir weapons at the © ded all the money and valu- It was handed to jout question, and they rode herlff organized a party and : surrounded in the home of ph’'s parents, a short They walted until the depu- t far from the house, and, the front door, began a fusillade. the guns, and father] @hoot, Schumacher fell at the Bt volley, and the entire posse soon re- wa secured horse: pity. They were followed by @ jand jarger posse, which overtook | them about fifty miles from Union, c battle resulted. horses, Indian fashion, two men fought off their would-be and escaped without a scratoh. not seen again until traced house where the two bandits there was found $8,085 in @ kit of burglars’ | was wanted by the Missouri |} before the Union Bank rob- three years they had been ‘Dim for a crime committed in Btanton in 1898. Bedstead and all night tong |S! ves. GHgun sete. & rons to their feet and a nto reveal the hid) arms | they mane at daylight Mr. and Mrs, , rere only ba per DOORMAN SMITH. ip Gambling-Honse ih, ailaw Hitchens, who Ming place @l- | Brightoa ... Farrell, in the night by Dis- BREAKS; SENATE TO MEET CITY MENACED. IN EXTRASESSION Flood of Water Rushing Toward| President Roosevelt, Determined Schenectady Turned Aside by, to Have Panama Canal and Heroic Man Who Opens Sluice) Cuban Reciprocity Treaties Gate. Saving Life. | Ratified, Issues the Call. er i WASHINGTON, March 2. President MANY RUN FROM TORRENT. roosevoit issued 9 proclamason to-day calling an extraordinary session of the =f ie nate of the Fifty-elgath Coagre-s to Homes Inundated and Much Damage |e! March + 4. The cabling of the extea ses ton diy « surprise, ae the Presijent pra ally made a lecaradon of Ms uu = lowed by the Waters Which,! pore on Saturday, he being determining to have the Panama Canal and Cuban Checked, Flooded Into Ravine, | Reciprocity treaties ratitied | Although th ate met to-day there was to det action on the treatle which have been hung up! for weeks the sessions to- nor is any look | morrow and Wednesday 2 aes Raker Drops Dend in Street. SCHENECTADY, March 2— thirty foot embankment which had been ere: ed by contractors on the branoh of the | New York Central road between Car- man and South Schenectady, at a point| While delivering bread to the grocery about a mile and a half from this city, | store at No. 510 West Thirty-sixth street gave way by reason of the pressure of | i Rettig, forty years old, of No. 352 West A great quantity of water whioh had) itu backed up on the other side ofthe bank | fran nett eee acon ay and eaten its way through the earth. Instantly thousands of tons of water were precipitated into the ravine on the other side of the embankment, flooding who saw the man fall, ran to his as- sistance. An ambulance was called, and on its arrival the surgeon pro- nounced the man dead. |tached to the order of arrest and signed at an early hour thia morning Philip |¢X#tmlnation of Broker Elliman's books Policeman Stekler, i THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, MAKUH 2, 1903. RICH BROKER TAKEN TOJAIL. WILLIS FILED. Dry Goods Merchant, Who Died Abroad, Formally Declared He Was a Citizen of the United States. Mary | Nichols Accuses William Elliman of Mis*ppropriating Her Securities and Gets an Order for His Arrest. Law Deputy Sheriff of Queens County jay Wiliam Bill LEAVES MUCH TO HIS WIDOW. un, (ety years old, a broker, In = = His handsome residence on Maple ave Flushing, Lo 1 «st was|Many of His Servants Are Remem- ie wrder sign y Justice Mac i Lean th reme Court, and lasued pee id eee baci ee Ation of M 1, Nichols Each Ic to Be Paid His or Her of No. tral Park West, who eharg broker with misa relat Wases torial year. Ing hier ste accountng, Kk and refusing to make an Mr, Elfman was taken to the Queens} ‘The will of John Taylor Lord, one of County Jail and held by. Sheriff De | the founders ¢ -goods house of Bragga in $7,500 ball, An afidavit at-| Lord & Taylor, was filed to-day by ex- District-Attorney Philbin for Edward P, Hatch, of No, 1033 Fifth avenue, Mr. Lord's partner, who, with the widow, Janet Hay Lord, is named as executor. The will was executed at Mr, Lord's London home, No. 38 Park Lane, West, Sept. 12 last, It begins by announcing that though living in England he is a by Reginald Hood Glies stated that an showed that in July, 1902, Mrs. Nichols had credited to her $121,466 worth ot stock, of Which $56,085 was over and above all brokerage claims. The broker was not placed In a cell Jn the jail, but remained in the Sheriff's 9 unt! he could summon als lawyer. 1 is sald that Mr. Elliman has a son| native and eltizen of the United Staces. who is a millionaire. It refers to a will made und French Jaw in France to convey ¢ | the’entire country In that vicinity. The | water followed the general outlines of | Mill Cxeek into the dam of Schermer- about half a mile dis- ‘It is a hard case, very hard." | Shocking Society Scand New York Lawyer Has Been) wien the Burdick mystery Is uncov- Selected by the President for | ¢r4--!¢ 't ever isa shocking aocial con- dition among the younger married per- the Bench in the Newly Cre-, tons of Buftato witt ve unfolded. Many ated District. couples know this, and tremble for the | notoriety and disgrace that is almont certain to follow if the murderer be found WAGHINGTON, March 2—President !t 18 no wonder then that these proml- Roosovelt baa decided to appoint George Tent society and business folk are not C. Holt as United States District Judge) #*ous to ald the police, and that they in the diatrict recently created in. !@¥0 feigned trnorance of atl of Fawin | Southern New York Burdick’s relations with women other han his wife in Buffalo. The persons ex- The appointinent probably will go to | : inelG@enacantaraes amined by the District-Attorney and the ‘olice are among the wealthlest in Buf- Mr, Holt is a well-known lawyer of |} . 3 gw vorklanatiewelitated Of falo, Thetr uniform answer to all ques- od generally , 1), bythe barter Nar Serie ons has been, “1 dont know | Arthur K. Pennell hae cleared his 3 —— |name of any suspicion, the \Warrens George C. Holt was born in Oswego, i i ln JMG and te consequently Just eiany| RY? Proved an allbl, and the District Attorney has examined without avail @ prominent woman who figures in th | divorce case as Mary Doe. None of these is under suspicion now, and the Diatrict-Attorney ja directing his in- vestigations along other nes. ‘There is no longer any doubt that a steel-Upped golf club was the weapon used to murder Edwin Burdick. One ot his clubs has been found stained with blood. The medical examiner has testi- fled that Mr. Burdick's skull was re- markably thin, and he does not doubt that a Woman would have had strengta enough to commit the crime. | Byery effort is being made to follow Mr. Hoit graduated from Yale in the|!he clue given by Policeman Meyers, of 1886 and three years later from|who was on duty near the Burdick bla Law School, The Bar As-|home at the time of the murder, About holds him dn grout eftvem:/midnight he saw a well-dressed woman having elected him time after Ume @ member of the Executive Committee, walk hurriedly from the direction of the years of age, For ha: that length of| time he has practised the legal profe sion in New York. Until four years ago, 1899, Mr. Holt took no active part in politics, but was known as being op- posed to Tammany Hall. In national na Requbll- 8 an Independ- in the fall of ca enc, It was this attitude witch led the del- egates to the Independent-Labor Con- vention, held here In October, 189, to nominate Mr. Holt as one of the ant- | Tammany candidates for the Supreme Court. A {ow days later the City Club also indorsed him for the position along with| Joseph F. Di n municipal matt The Judge-elect 18 also a member of] Burdick house; he does not know that the Century, Yale and Lawyers’ clubs. came from the house, She was Mr, Holt ‘was recommended for the|waiking on tha east side of Ashland We toward Bryant street hen she saw him she turned into street and walked in the middle of ement until she was lost to his He paid little attention to her at that time She was of neat appearance, and if he thought at all he thought she Waa some Woman who had been out Inte new position by some of the most mous lawyers in New York, among them being Joseph H. Choate, Edmund Wetmore, Judge Addison Brown, Al- bert Stickney, Peter B. Olney and Fran- Cle Lynde Stetson At the same time President Roosevelt. was impressed by the need existing for DID A WOMAN Me. Li tain property at Cannes, wh died Jan. 2 All % books, silver, vines, Hqu Me Rls. . worl plate pletures, welry, mu ect ging Me nda it had %gjeavelry. music, furnishinis, horas, r ed that point. ca es and othe belonging hr othe Wesley Fulle: owner of, the rill Bl J RD | CK Vondon house are bequeathed to Mrs with rate quickness of thought, threw | 9 Lore . | up the gate to the sluiceway, allowing £ | There ts a bequest of $5000 to aj the greater part of the io run daughter, Janet Gifford Hamilton, widow through tne slulceway. ver, the _ of Major Peter Piske Perceval ‘Mamti- great yolume could not he accommo- CaCaR RATE ton, RL A., and $25, another daugh- the hillside and into the vicinity of the, a Marmarel R, Heber Arnold, St. John, cies Pablo ers threatened |!D& World reporter saw Chiet Cusack with a sick friend or at some othei|ij. Tends $00.) MAT® Barrill, of with the overflow. but the water did N® positively refused to talk about the | @uts There Is $1.0 for Bllen Juce, Mra. not reach them, nature of the visit of the two women. May Me Suspected Woman, Lords's maid, and. sa each for the irbout to hundred families resid; tie sald they were promiment society'| ‘The fact that sh out Into tne | Widow of the butler and Capt. G. ness in bing {0 placer of 'aafely. | called to Police Headquarters at the ¥e-| wo dd not’ see Nor face di coe tga Heaueathed a year's wages Many: instances of heroism are reporte:l 5 y to bel his suspicion, He noticed o every’ n : 0 quest of the District-Attorney to 0 no her only. in | to,cvery gem {una of $20,000. for and several permone dont the entire cry | questioned regarding their relations |&,caaual way, but remembers her well | sie taas, ‘his witan a mecer tor life , property. ons lenough to give a fair description to the | : diay, ‘hls eaenigce itor te Togs is estimated at about $50,000, with Burdick In the Red Jacket Gols! police, He thinks he would know he. | @l $10.00 In trust for Mrs, Ann Ha ‘uller, ves mig! q fi i Mevers was © office of r o James a or year fo! paeeee Ne der, He refused to tell who they are | iit Attornes at the dine Of the Faith Reveccs ord and the lacome ot | “Have they been arrested versation with the woman susp. the vest to; Mra. Lord for life or until | | No, the two women were simply |Nelther “he nor the District Att tn: RUG L rem ARS RE CeTeD Nien ene: Tut rs y .| wi sav whether she looks lik ith 4 e anceme oi " # ne questioned. They will not even be de) Woman he saw in the street on the | death of Mrs. Lord the residuary estate | tained night of the murder. mies to the daughters. tate . Mi. Cusack ‘sald: | Nodiientu aXe Nn gatimale of the value of : | | "1 am still of the opinion the mur- NAAR eee Ee Nodes i jderer is a woman, We are still work- INORG ETON AT OHTOEEnEn Ing. and there ls no progress to report. | terious dituppearatce of We have nothing to offer as a develop- jtlr. This bottle Incident is regarded =o | of much moment, < explanation cays Vo ment now. Something may come any" /he gained, the ‘authorities believe, time, or it may be a long time coming. | may disclose the facts for which they ee fre now. proving 4 it Was A quart bottle Alled with Mar- tink cocktails. It was bought by Mr. Burdick on ‘Thursday afternoon, the afternoon preceding the night on which he was murdered. The police know where it was bought, and have certain other information regarding it CAS AND PISTOL The hottie was taken to the Burdick SSS foe BY its Ge It eres the a peuEns That {ite gay, it had its orig. August Lingenau Found Dead piece, Mr. Burdick took it home and| in Bed with a Tube Hanging mit ft in the family provender in the itehon Thore were three bottles in the same chest. ‘Those three bottles were still in the house when the police made their first scareh of the house after the trag- edy. But the quart cocktall bottle was misalng ‘ Since the bottle was put ‘away In the Kitehen chest {t has not been seen. The bottle that forms part of the midnight feast, the remnants of which were found on the table in Mr. Burdick's den, is not the one. That was a square affair, pecullar to the use of druggists, and is Near and a Bullet Wound in Temple. August Lingenau. a retired merchant, who had been living in seclusion since July last in a flatdhouse at No, 228 Hast Elghty-first street, was found dead this afternoon in his apartments, with a gas of conta mae that Pena} only | tube hanging alongside his head and an from Chicagy. The cocktail bottle was | ata cio: 1. Na ani ong “the ho Aas] abrasion on one temple made by a bul arched high and low for it. They have | let nosed into every nook and corner of the| He had made careful proparation to urdick premises, but without suecess, 7 i 00 y The police to-day made a new searc 1 his life. The jamb of the door lead, of the premises and made a discov ing from ‘ais bedroom to the sitting- to the mystery of the Thel> search was a very more thorough than any that simply add missing lott thorough one room had heen packed with a sheet, and then through @ chink in the transom the The revoler with @ legal specialist on bankruptcy, Judi Adams, who presides over the adjolt | ing district, 1# an admiralty expert, | Mr. Holt, having been a referee in ban ruptey since the aot was adopted, had come to be regarded as an authority in that department | Mr. Holt was at one time a partner with Stephen P. Nash and et various Umes bad other partners, In the la few years, however, he has been prac- | Using alone at No. 34 Pine street | At, Evening World reporter was told there to-day that Mr, Holt waa not at! the office, nor would he be for seyeral| days, on account of the death of his sister, Mra, Ellen Holt Bowen, wife of the late Henry ©. Bowen. | Mrs. Bowen died yesterday in Brook-| lyn and will be burled to-morrow. in Oswego County es Dead trom Asphyxt MRS, WINEHILL. GOT TOO MUCH GAS It Blew Up and Wrecked Her Home, So She Sues the Com- pany for $15,000 Damages. Rapes . Ge rhe house of Mrs, Winebill Buttle it “absolutely uninbabitabl Olinda David MoClure affected - to Pring de t fore ‘Antilis hie sory, and au Prince | Nassau | Antouly | Chad not sufficient infor wublect to form an opis amount of damage dons, Dn ae tO INCOMING STEAMBHIPS, DUE TO-DAY. Large Bay, ldebon, Mae, iat Pit stil Demanio, an Italian workman, | Wake died to-day of typhold fever con ‘at No, 16 Howard avenue, High | iracted at Oomnell, where he was @ to-day freshman, This makes the second death Bridge, was shooked to death | August Linginan, sixty years old, was i |found dead at his home, No, 22% East| While all New York js up in arma be- yefiret street, from gas asphyxia. |cause It gets loss gas than It is paying It {8 supposed he commited sui- | for Annette E, Winehill, of No, 119 Bast Vifty-mixth street, is suing the Conaoll- a dated Gas Company for $15,000 damages SHIPPING NEWS. ecaliae whe Kot more KAR than ahe paid ~. for. ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY JL happened in September, 1899, ‘The \Moon set,. 9.23 | gax, Daniel P, Hayes told Justice Gle High 1, Cow Water, |Kerich and a jury in the Supreme Court A PM. AM PM. |to-day, leaked Into the cellar of the Baty Hoe id, Bat 1bde AR PBL] houne neat door from a service pipe of | Gate Ferry Mob 1.6) G8 6.38/ the company until the cellar wasn't big ell enough to hold it any longer Pro OF NEW YORK. T , On the night of Sept, 2, there ARRIVED. WAS an expiomion ‘completely wrecking” i inalings scot at the Conaojideted pur- yeyor of gas \leclared In Mavunswer ihwt ation on the the eff d, The suicide was about sixty years of axe JOHN T, LORD'S {ADMITS BLAME NCAR TRAGEDY Vice-President Young, of the Traction Company, Says High School Girls Were Killed Be- cause Rules Were Violated. | Children Were Allowed to Ride on! the Platforms and the Conductor Failed to Have the Car Stopped Tirty Feet from the Crossing. | Responsibility of his company for the trolley tragedy, in which Newark High School girls were killed was practically admitted to-day by Vice-President David Young, of the New Jersey Traction Road, at the Inquest which was re- sumed by Coroner Heilman and a jury in Newark Mr. Young, under cross-examination by Foreman Coe, said that the accident would not have occurred had the rules “the {act of | Board of Police Comm: | Martin, |dence he would withdraw from the case of the veral that have preceded it.| gas tube had been led Tt extended even to an examination of | wnyen je meant to make dobly the garbage can in the rear of the prem. | Wen te Bavd meant to ads 5 lea in July last, when LAngenau moved Found Top-Plece, i e flat, he had for a companion vho’ gave the name of Pre Tucked away in the bottom of one of | AMY RO FT ee NT way two the bottle that Mr. Burdick brought to] Kent close 10 Mie Toate ise, and. to the house on Thurs: afternoon snake Wy inese did he give an Ink- tached to it was the metal to her aie thaty made him that made its identification possible, te Was preventing him palter are prewerving the Wrapper and ame one ae top-plece for further developments, ‘ah here the a ti i snitted) were found two from the time he brought the bottle was committed were found two) home Bven axsuming that the Hanon |unkbooka CR a eae ‘ound inthe drug receptacle was part] and a lot of receipts also of that which was in the quart bottle, | leiter written in German saying that and that all the vest had been drunk, it] life was not worth living so long as he be explain what became could not see bis ebildren, wh hy re if It was taken from the[ {i an institution in Yonkers. No refer who took it?) Why was itl ence was made to his wife. The name 4d what w sumstan of his wife had been cut out of his attending the taki i #-] marriage certificate. It show 4. that he tions may not apy importance tol Wid heen mi on Reb, t the layman, ‘The 1 however, are | minister was John. Schneider. anxious to find the answer to t iuit_the name of the ehurch had been of the company, as framed by him and general superintendent, been ob-| served, He laid particular stress on the that the regulations forbid the crowding of the front platforms of the cars “I suppose,” he said, dven who crowded car No. 291 were fond of the motorman and the motorman was fond of them, and he allowed them the dangerous privilege of getting on the platform.” He also satd that th conductor should have left the car within thirty feet of| the croesing, which he did not do. “It was the conductor's duty to get out and run to the middle of the rail- road tracks to see if a train was ap- preaching,” said Mr. Young, ‘The first witness to-day was Col. Will- that the chil- | | | pecial Tuesday Sale in Our New and Enlarged Drug Dept. Introducing some of the greatest bargains ever offered anywhere. Mail orders filled. Malt Extract, warranted the best tonic; dozen bottles, 89c.; bottle Seidlitz Powders, full weight U. S. P.; 2 boxes for. seeeeee Witch Hazel, full pints; special Wood Alcohol, special, full pints i Lithia Tablets (50 in bottle); 3 gr, 12iéc. Cod Liver Oil (Norwegian); full pint, speci Blaud's Iron Pills (5 gr.), 100 in bottle, U. S. P.; Camphorated Oil, 4-02. bottle. : Wine of Coca, 23-02. bottle; spe Beef, tron & Wine, 16-07. bottle; special Charcoal Tablets, box., Headache Wafers (12 in box Essence of Ginger, 4-oz. bottle. Pumice Stone; special ba Coke Dandruff Cure........ . dais White Pine Expectorant, best cough cure; special... Boracic Acid, %4-Ib, box +10¢ Ehrich Bros. 6TH AVE,, 22d AND 23d STS., NEW YORK. iam M. Morton, the President of tho joners, He was asked if a special policeman had been placed at the crossing after the Mayor's | warning, ile said he thought not. Winton C, Garrison, President of the Board of Works, testified that he lived near the fatal crossing and that he observed that the trains ran at a speed ot from twenty to forty miles an hour, When asked {f the board had ever dene anything to prevent the running of trains through the city at crossings at a greater speed than fifteen miles an hour, Mr, Garrison gave a negative | answer, Mr. Ballard, of the Board of Works, sald the board had not been asked to! enforce spect ominances although the, Clifton avenue crossing had long been deemed a dangerous one, Division Superintendent Ketcham, of the Lackawanna Road, testified that the Clifton ayenue crossing was dan- gerous for a trolley car to pass over Witness sad that he did know there was an omilnance regulating the speed of tral Vice-President David L. Young, of the | North Jersey Street Hallway Company, admitted on the witness stand that the crowding of she front platforms of cars should not be permitted, and he sald it was the duty of the inspectors to re- | port to the superintendent any violation | of this rule. He said he considered t Clifton avenue crossing a dangerous | one But," he added, “if the Lackawanna ! road had allowed’ us to connect a de- railing switch with the signal system there 1 think It woitld be practical. As A matter of fact tnere was a deralling switch there about two years ago, but when the Luckawanna, refused vy! 15 « us the signal connection I ordered it taken up,” At the concluston of Mr, statement the inquest wa until to-morrow at 10 o'clock, ee STILL CONTESTING THE BABY Midwife’s Hiness Cansex Postpone- | ment of Martin Hearin, The hearing before “Health Commis- sioner Lederle in the application of Dr. John McLeod Martin to have expunged from the department's records the regis try of the birth of a litte girl to his) wife last July was postponed to-day for | two weweks because of the Milness of , Mrs, Richerts, the midwife in Whose house the ciild is alleged to have been | born aefore the adjournment Mr, Andrews, | Dr, Martin's lawyer, said he had col: | lected a mass of testimony. tn rebuttal | to that offered by Mrs, Martin to prove the birth of her liftle girl, which, when adduofefd.' would create a'sensation, He sald to Mr. Reynolds, counsel for Mra, that when he ‘heard the evi- Young's postponed Mr. Reynolds replied to that statement that nothing short of @ confession by Mrs. Martin that the child was spurious would cause him to withdraw dom the ITHACA VOTES ON WATER QUESTION, Stern Brothers HAIR GOODS. 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ITHACA, N.Y, Maroh 2—The von]! | Awmilngs made to order—Splendid line to select from. of victims of the pre ot typhold ep. demic was increased to-d by the ce . deaths of Misi Mary 1, Birdsall and | A large and varied assortment of materials ready for inspection, Mre Davenport, both citizens of hace The condition of students patients in the Cornell infirmary was reported to] | | se ee to-day of any day during | | Curtains and } Ithaca ts tosday voting upon the} TRY CURTAIN | question, “Shall the elty own iis own GERMAN TAPES RY G Ay oe $9.50 pair to waterworks?” All indications point .o 1 favor of Jclpal own: | |MERCERIZED REP CURTAINS, a snip. an fall. the ane vores || Reduced from ¥9.75 pair to againat munictpal ownership by a small tasty: but the ‘present epidem| vot | MERGERIZED REP CURTAINS 0 pair to typhoid fever, which has been ascribed to the wate ly, hus made che de- | TAPESTRY COUCH COVERS, tmand practically unaalmous tor a new | | [6 inches wide, each arth per ETE eee EE Single and double-face Velour by the yard for door curtains, election by women of the city, who if | Slip Covers and Shades to order. 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