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DECEMBER 12, 1908.
FARMER'S BEAUTIFUL LIFE.
Horticultural show / /Iowa to Stlni-
utote Farm 1/ .ovement*.
Council Bluffs, / /wa, Dec. 10.—
That the farmer, Aas time for the
beautiful Ufa la evidenced In the fact
that Counoll Bluffs.Is to have a na
tional horticulture ahow of surpass
ing beauty and undreamed of variety.
Flowers, vines, 'fruit and small gar
den truck from many states will com
pete with the “Iowa Drown” products,
Idaho and California and other states
both east and west are going to have
state exhibits. There will be eery
thing from great big cbryaanthe
mums of many colors to wee, wee po
tatoes.
The National Horticulture Con
gress will be held Dee. 14 to 19. The
*..4 Ih.t SV. rr-.ii w.
savannas, Doc. lfli-At ono min
ute to tweivo o'clock; lira. Roxlo
Spalding; at ten mjhutes after
Iwnlvy Miss Roxlo Phillips; at flvo
'nii^|pe past two o'clock, Mrs. Rox-
ie Martin. How Is that for a rapid
chang of names?
This Is the record accomplished
hy a lady In Savannah yesterday.
Mrs. Rpxte Spalding at noon secur
ed a second verdict of divorce and
8 P a, dIng. The ver
dict vat, .‘.ingned almost beforo tho
cloci had ceased striking and with
in ten minutes every
Columbus, Da., Dec. 10,—Tha
Oaorgla and Alabama Industrial In.
dex says In Its regular weekly issue:!
"Twenty new corporations, with
minimum capital stock of'9546,000,
and with authorised capital, going
well Into the millions, applied for
charter In Georgia and Alabama
during the week ending to’day, the
new enterprises repnsenUjjjL^anany;
phases ot couimorco and industry.
The constant stream of new blood
that Is pouring lhto the arteries of
business cannot but have an cncouj-
aging apd helpful effect, and It .la In
teresting to the public as Illustrating
that Investment Is seeking, fertile
.fields with all the enthusiasm and
alflrtnflaa nf vnr«
fact that the Horticultural Show Is
to be held at the same time aa the
National Corn Exposition at Omaha,
Deo. 9th to 19th, Is worthy of note.
The proximity of Council Bluffs and
Omaha makes It possible for visi
tors at either the National Corn Ex-
position or the National Horticultural
Congress to attend the other. The eltl-
los of Omaha and Council Bluffs are
very clore. It Is only a, matter of
four miles from the centre of Omaha
to the centre of Council Bluffs. A
ten .minutes run by trolley makes
good accomodations. The programs
of the two shows have been so ar
ranged that visitors may participate
Treasury Helped in Panic.
The treasury was called upon In
the latter part of October, 1907rto
render assistance In a financial pan
ic which started In New York City
and which gradually extended over
the entire country. Through treas
ury operations during this financial
disturbance the amoont ot public de
posit t with the hanks reached '3236,-
648.3(1 on November 3fftbV . 1907,
and oVDeetaifMr 27, 1997, the max-
Imum of 9299:994,271 was attained,
after which it was dec
9266,920,164 by the Hose
month, , - -
/further withdrawals
H detail had
beeBHJ|anged.She was restored to
her majdfln name, Miss Roxle Phil
lips. lu the audience at the court
house present when the second ver
dict und the decree were sccurod was
John It. Martin, a citizen of Rrook-
let, i!ujldBnu*{y. ' r
He jpineJ Miss Phillips as sho loft
the ooijtij. room with her lawyer and
accompanied her to the ordinary’s
office where' tboy secured a license
to wed ! They then went to the offico
of Justice Vangesscn on West Droad
street tad had the lustlco been In
they would have made even a faster
record Asttlns married thRn they
did. The,V had to wait on him awhile
nn d Jar 1 **wo hours. Ry two o'clock
howfire jlliss Phillips was married
“HijaM^had ^jomc Mrs. Martin.
" > off house for Mr.
.alted L
i ~ fn that she 4ad thr^
haJm.-R in hours' time. Sho seem
ed very halpy wlfb her new husband
ind as shi has had a good chance
I is his hous keeper to get acquainted
silh him 1 Is probable they under-
i ittjnd each other pretty well. Tbla
s a new Clatham county record for
i iVorce and marriage.
In both eventa without any Inconven
ience.
ONE IN HOSPITAL, ONE IN JAJL,
McGrath Recovering From Wounds
Inflicted by Harry Paul.'
Savannah, Gsl, Dec. 10.—James H.
McGrath, a well known Savannsblan,
Is ( ln the St. Jpsepb hospital recover
Ing from the effect* ^ea R( Jtt knife
woutids ■> Id tb.havn b«^2J n |el»ter-
vAi y*16. 1908. At the beginning
of the prerent fiscal yft.v^therc was
a froe circulation of mf land large
am mint:' wore- returneffl W finan-
|cl i centers and rome‘ : \ doposl-
sault took plloe onHolH^E^^i
McGrath was eating suppefvfib a
restaurant when Paul Is said to have
made some taunting remarks to him.
He,resented these and'Paul out him
very everly two or three times. It
was thought at ons time McGrath
would die hut he la getting well.
own state, bought a 13,000-acre
tract of land [if Florida. In Atlanta,
Ga., residence sold for 936,999. >
“There steamed out of Bessemer,
Ala., last Saturday an engine pulling
a solid trbln load of east Iren pipe,
the dipt consignment of a great or
der from Cuba, received by one ot
the Alabgtaa companies.
"Fltsgerald, Ga., has sold. Its Im
provement bonds and will proceed to
make substantial Investments In
schoolhouses, waterworks and sew
erage. Under a decision of the Geor
gia supreme court, Albany, On.', can
sell Its Improvement bonds and will
now depend the money aa originally
planned,
“A 939,000 company was incor
porated at Columbus, Go., ,to manu
facture ahow caies and blgh-grada
offico'futures and Its plant fill soon
be In operation. In Montgomery
county, Alabama, an election on tho
Issuance of 9160,000 of road-lm-
protement bonds was ordered.' Birm
ingham. .Ala., If to.have * 960,009
grist mill, Decatur, Ala.,'Vtoit#|
VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY,
t ctit ,on June TO, 1907, is shown tol
hpvc boon 9934,902,760 and on June
3V, 1102, 9907,603,-990.
i The report Shews that from tha
dkte ot the pasage of the national
bank act In 1103 to July 1, 1903,
charters were granted to 9,174 pa-
tlbnal hanking associations, and at
the dose et the last fiscal year there
wpre In operation 6,827 associations,
with authorized capital stock of
9934,542,774. Banka to the number
of 1,976 have been dosed by the
voluntary action of their stockhold
er* and 300 Insolvent associations
hsvp been placed In charge of re-
Allegcd Slayer of Dr. Frederick Rue-
tin le Acquitted of Crime.
Omaha, Dec. 10—The Jury In the
case of Charles Edward Davis on
trial for the murder of Dr. Frederick
Ruatln this morning returned a ver
dict of not gnllty. They were out
fourteen hours.
The state tried to prove that Dsv-
IsYhot Dr. Rustin at the physician's
own request after the latter bad an-
tered a suicide pact with Mrs. Abblo
Rice.
The woman testified that she and
Dr. Rustin agreed to kill each other,
but her nerve failed.
Dr, Rustln^was shot and killed
Sept.' J.g Davis' defense was an alibi.
Shoes and hosiery, 101 North Pat
terson, on the corner. Wyone Shoe
Company.
12-Uswlt dlt
here were purchased for the coln-
of subsidiary silver during the
,1 year. 11,060,309 ounces of sll-
bulllon at a post of 99,933,026.
fht reliable Shoe comer. 'Wyone
Blue Company.
12-tsayit *t
(S FACE 10 FACE
WITH GALLOWS
of Five lento of
Fsnlly to Pay Penalty Tomorrow
Chicago, 111, Dec. 10.—After a legal
battle of over a year. In which Ms
case Was carried to the highest court
In the land, Herman Bllllk, the mur-
■ dyer of five members of the Viral
family. Is face to face wth the gal
lows. Today, in his cell In the Cook
-county jail, the man whom the po
lice deelare to be a worthy rival ot
H. H. Holmes and Johann Hocb, could
hear the workmen setting up the scaf
fold on which be Is condemned to
die tomorrow. There appears no
chance now for Bllllk to escape his
fate. The murderer himself appears
resigned. Since the death-of Ms ag
ed mother a week or two ago he has
appeared without hope. Today he re
ceived a farewell visit from Ms wife
and daughter. Hfs remaining hours,
win be spent in company-with Father
O'Callaghan, the Catholic priest who
has labored incessantly to save the
Bohemian fortune teller from the gal
lows.
Career of the Condemned Man.
Of all the prisoners Vbo figure In
the criminal history of the country
there never was one who went about
Ms business In-a more eOld-btooded
manner than did Bllllk. Of allthi
schemes evolved by other experts In
j criminal* toxicology who manit.
obtained..
Took Life For Small Sum.
Previous to the death of Martin
Viral Bllllk bad obtained In “loans'
from Mm another 32.004. making the
total netted from the killing of five
people 90.000, a trifle over 91.000 a
life. But that was not the .lq;
price for which Bllllk would pon
murder. The life of little 12-yearo]
Efat Vsral was snuffed out wlttf arse
nic because her'mother had Mr In
sured for an amount that netted 3105.
She was the last of the ttfethflustdes
the mother to die, and according to
the evidence at Ms trial BHk was
hard pressed for funds at the turn
Bllllk Arreted and ConviOted.
Investigation of the series of m;
terious deaths In the Ysrafe family
was began by the poHee offer the
death of Mrs. Vsral, The death first
was pronounced suicide, but inquiry
showed that Bllllk had been In the
room with her prior to her death and
had given her medicine. The fortune
teller was arrested and placed-* on
trial July 3. 1907. The bodies of the
Vsral family bad heed exhumed, and
all were. Tonnd to contain arsenic.
JeTsOlbbat Vsral and 'Emma Vsral-
Niemann, children of,Mrs. Vsral, were
the prlnclii. i witnesses against Bli
nk. He wis conrioted and the death
penalty fixed hf the Jury on July 18.
fW&S Mjmneed to hang on Octo
ber- El, the time for. the execution
afterward being extended to April
24, 1108, and Governor Deuecivteter
IB #K«4llAW 4a Vi* M 11 '-- ffrtlA
Washington; Dec. "10——The annual
of Mr. Cortegrbn, the sec re
el the treasury, shows a re-
1 of conditions for the fiscal
1908, as compared with the fis
cal year for 1907. For the latter
year the Receipts were 9g4,236;S88
id excess of the disbursements. 'For
the fiscal year 190$ the disburse
ments were 968,070,210 In excess of
the receipts, due to buslnejl depres
sion and Increased . appropriations.'
Fortunately, the report says, the
available otsh.balance at the begin
ning of the fiscal yea^ vfua 3272,-
■f:
magician.
; was born In Bohemia about
y-five years ago. As did his motn-
br before him he followed the busi
ness of a car reader and seer. He
ated In the Bohemian colony on
-West Side near the home of the
B.
His Awful Trail of Death.
The immediate crime for which
Bllllk was sentence to death was the
murder of Mary Vzrel, the 22-year-old
daughter of Martin and Rosa Vsral.
He was charged with the murder
of Martin Vsral, 'the father; of TUlie,
aged 18; Rose, aged 14. and Ella,
aged 12, While'the evidence that he
murdered Mrs; -Rose Viral, the moth
er. Is not complete, it seems certain
that If he did not himself administer
the poison that caused her death he
compelled her .through the hypnotic
Influence he exercised over her, to
■take her own life. These five crimes
■were committed by Bllllk within one
-year and nine months, and In thst
-time he had multched tbe family;
-through tbe medium of Mra. Vsral',
ance carried by his victims, which
-went to the mother and which he
CAUSED A REIGN OF TERROR.
Drunken Men In Bartow County
Spread Terror Among Women.
Cartersvllle, Ga., Dee. 10.—On a
charge of being Implicated with two
other men In firing on the Gibson
family near Cartersvllle, resulting In
the wounding of Mrs. Gibson, at
tempting assault an pillaging the
house,'Tom Collier, a young man, has
been Jaled here. Tbe officers also
have warrants for Bud Lanham and
Steve'Heath and are making an effort
to locate them.
Lanham, Heath and Collier left af.
ter midnight after Imbibing freely of
whisky and near beer, terrorlilng the
country wherever they -went. Thev
shot the Gibson bouse fall of holes
after breaking down tbe -'doors and
forcing an entrance.,/''I(e husband
was force# at the pri. ^w-a pistol to
sit aside while the htftria was robbed
and the woman assanlted. Lanham
at the point of a pistol dragged Lizzie
Hardy, the alster of Mrs. Liz tie Gib
son, 16 years of age, by the hair of
her head from the house Into tbe
ot (4,000 in property and life Insur- bushes away from the bouse and as
saulted her. The other men attempt
ed to assault Mrs. Gibson.
nmoi
itFIy four million "'Sollarn.
A further withdrawal of public mon
ey from., deapositoiy banks Hi New
York City, made In January, amount
ed to'98.350,000, making the Valance
In the banks to the credit of the gen
eral (und at the end ot January,
3226.241,418.
Further voluntary surrender of de
posits were made dnring February,
and on June 30th the general fund
had been reduced to 9146.000,000.
The aggregate of trnst'tunds, con-
slsttTT^ of gold coin and Standard sil
ver dollars held for the "redemption
of certificates and notes 'for which
they were respectively ffiddged
creased 3139,000,000 Baring the
year.
*34.72 Per Capita In Circulation.
The monetary stock for the year
Increased 9263,203,000. The growth
In gold was 3161,744,SOL 'In silver,
917.916,396; national bank note*
394,646,227. At the same time (here
was a decrease ot 31,006:000. At
the close -of the fiscal year 1008 th*
money m circulation amounted
93.038,016,482, or a per capita of
334.72. The percentage ot gold to
circulation -was. 946.06. There was
Increase of 304,546,297 In the
volume of national bank notes du
ring the'fiscal year closed July lit,
last.
The amount of. Interest heart!
sAt Cost For Cash Until January 1st, 19W)|
f Qn all Improved Agricultural Implements;
This is the season for the one and
two horse Chattanooga Disc Plows.
No. 16'Osborne Disc Halrrows were $27.50, now $22.00
“ 18 “ * “ S t “ 30.00, “ 24.40
20 " “/ \1- “ 32.50, “ 25.85
9 F. Chattanooga Disc Plows 45,00, “ 32,95
HAR
LEY’S
dware
CO.. H ARDWA
\ Taldosta,
V Georgia
Harley stand for Hardware
see how the names: link to
gether : : /
White Pine Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mantels, Etc.
