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Pervert Is Spreading Terror at
Dayton, Ohie.
Six Girls, Attractive in Face and Form,
Are Strangled to Death in a
Few Weeks.
Cleveland, Ohio.—That the murders
of six women in Dayton were com
mitted by a single individual is the
theory of Dr, Charles H. Clark, the
former clinical director of the gov
ernment hospital for the insane at
Washington, and now superintendent
of the Cleveland State Hospital
“Circumstances identical in each
case point to a single murderer,” said
Dr, Clark. “The facts In the Day
ton series have ben published broad
cast, Yet no similar crimes have oc
eurred elsewhere, This is an argu
ment for a single murderer,
“This monster is selective, His vic
tims have been nearly of an age.
Their circumstances in life have been
similar. All were girls attractive in
face and form)|
“The best evidence that all six ot
the murders were committed by a sin
gle ilndividual is the fact that in
each case the victim was strangled.
This—the use of one method in sev
eral cases—is typical of the pervert.
The Dayton monster has a prototype
in Jack the Ripper, the London mur
derer,
“Once the pervert has taken life in
a certain mannper, thereafter he can
not be satisfied except in that identi
cal way. Perversion usually lasts
through life. Ag long as the pervert
is free he is bound to commit more
erime, In my opinion this pervert is
‘not only sane, but responsible. When
convicted of crime he should be pun
ished as any other criminal.”
Dayton, Ohio.—With the conclusion
of microscopic examination of the
stomach in search of possible traces
of poison, the final autopsy on the
‘(b,%dy of Elizabeth Fulhart of Vandalia,
io, Dayton’s latest murder victim,
failed to reveal the immediate cause
of the girl’s death.
The only tangible theory left, the
police say, is that the girl may have
been drugged, which accidentally
proved fatal, and the body thrown in
to the abandoned cistern to cover up
the traces of the crime.
Roy Cooley, a close friend of Miss
Fulhart, who was detained by the po
lice for examination, was released,
TO FORTIFY CANAL.
Danger of Enemy Destroying Locks in
Time of War.
Panama.—Now that the type has
been definitely settled, the greatest
gproblem that confronts the builders
lof the Panama waterway, is the pro
‘tection of the canal against the foes
of the United States in time of war.
President-elect Taft has been in
formed that within the past two years
no less than five Japanese experts
‘have been here at different times
'studying the canal with undoubted
object of discovering its weak points
of defense. Thcse weak points at
first were many. Now they have been
partially eliminated.
The original plan of the canal had
two locks at Laßoca, on the very sea
edge. They would have been a plain
mark for an enemy’s fleet that might
have sailed up within rifle shot, blown
‘both locks into the air at the first
fire, and thus have destroyed the en
tire canal, without the slightest trou
ble.
Discovering this fatal defect lln
time, the canal engineers have moved
these two locks six miles back from
deep water, planting them where a
range of hills looms up on either side
.for .additional protection. Also on
Sosa Hill and San Juan Hill, guard
4ing either side of the mouth, heavy
‘batterles will be placed to further
guard these locks. To make the de
fense of the canal from this side
complete, all the islands off the shore
will be fortified.
On the Atlantic end of the canal
locks on either side, are also six
miles from the possible approach of
the enemy’s guns. It has been an
nounced that General Murray, chief
of the United States ordnance bureau,
is coming Here at once to locate de
fensive batteries without loss of time.
$250,000 FOR CHILDREN,
Red Cross Society Aids Little Ones
Bereaved by ’'Quake,
Rome, Italy.—lt is officially an
nounced that the '‘American National
Red Cross, through Ambassador Gris
com, has put $250,000 at the disposal
of the committee, organized by Queen
Helena, which has undertaken the es
tablishment of an orphanage, to be
devoted to the care of children left
homeless and without parents by the
earthquake disaster. The institution
will be called the ‘American Red
Cross orphanage, and it is intended
to bring up the children as agricultu
rists. i
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MAN HAD FIFTY WIVES.
Chicago Man Sent to the Peniten
tiary on Bigamy Charges.
Chicago, 111. — Harry J. Bauman,
alias Dr. Herman Brandt, €aid to
*have had fifty wives, and to have
swindled women out .of $500,000 in
five years, was sentenced to the Jo
liet prison to an indeterminate sen
tence of from one to ten years on. a
charge of swindling. Detective Wool
dridge( who captured Bauman, says
he has evidence to prove, Bauman
married at leas;: fifty wopn in Eu
rope and. America.
Plans. are under state’s
attorney to obtain against
.-mfimat:fl over. f big-
BTN LA V 4
‘Measure Barring Aliens Voted Down By
California Legislature.
Sacramento, Cal.—Afler a debate ot
12 hours’' duration, the assembly, by
& vote of 48 to 28, rejected the Drew
bill, barring aliens from owning land
in California,
The result of this contest is con
sidered a falr test of the relative
strength of the two factions in the
assembly and as foreshadowing the
defeat of all measures that would
tend to embarrass the national gov
ernment in its relations with Japan,
The bill had been amended at the
request of President Roosevelt and
Secretary Root, so that the clause
applying it to Japaneee only, was elim
inated, making the bill apply to all
aliens.
In substance, the objection to 1t
was that it would drive at least a bil
lion dollars of foreign capital out of
the state, and might jeopardize the
present friendly commercial relations
with Japan,
Two sensational speeches were
made, one for and one against the
measure,
Assemblyman Grover L. Johnson
made an impassioned appeal for the
enactment of the bill. At the climax
of his speech he walked backward
from his seat to the lebby rail and,
seizing in his arms a goldeu-haired
little girl of three, held her aloft, and
declared that “he was in favor of
this, as opposed to the Japanee men
ace to our institutions.”
A REMARKABLE OPERATION.
Leg of Dead Man is Grafted to Body
of Living Sufferer.
Washington, D. C.—Doctors at the
Georgetown University Hospital wit
nessed a remarkable operation per
formed there several days ago by Dr.
George Tully Vaughan of this city on
George A. Kelly, aged 29. The bones
of Kelly’'s knee were so badly de
pressed that Dr. Vaughan decided on
amputation.
In the hospital was a man about
to die. Dr. Vaughan obtained permis
sion from the dying patient’s family
to remove the left leg in the eveut
of death, and it was decided that the
knee of the dead man should be
grafted to the leg of the living suf
ferer,
The transfer was duly made. The
bones were riveted together by sol
der, strong wire and the delicate
phase of the operation, that of join
ing the ligaments, caused the sur
geons to work as they probably never
labored before. Every tissue, tendon
and muscle was joined and the bones
fastened together.
MOSQUITO CAUSED FAILURE.
Insect Blocked French Panama Canal
Project,
New York City.—ln an address be
fore the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, Dr. George Adami, of Mc-
Gill University, said that it was the
mosquito and not the graft that caus
ed the French to fail in their project
to build the Panama canal. This ma
lariasbreeding pest, he continued, was
indirectly responsible for the decay of
Greece and the fall of Rome. After
paying a high tribute to American
medical science for the work in Cuba
and in Panama, he said:
“Half the population of the world
die from malaria, in most cases spread
by the mosquito. Out of six millions
who died in India, five millions died
from malaria. Pathological research
has led to practical means of preven
tion, and the death rate has greatly
decreased.”
SPAIN FEELS SLIGHTED.
Resent Failure of American Ships to
Touch Spanish Ports,
Madrid, Spain.—Failure of any of
the American battleships to stop at
any Spanish port during the fleet’s
stay in Mediterranean waters, has
caused an under current of resent
ment in government circles, For dip
lomatic reasons the government is not
voicing its displeasure. Ports in
France, Turkey, Algiers and other
countries were touched, but Spanish
coast towns have been ignored.
Spain would have welcomed the op
portunity of doing honor to the fleet,
seeing in such event a complete ef
facement of the last trace of bitter
ness growing out of the Spanish-
American war,
The situation is so delicate, diplo
mats explain, that Spain could not
urge her claims though it was hoped
until the last that the American gov
ernment would arrange the Mediter
ranean itinerary to include at least
one Spanish port.
Mobile Fugitive Captured.
Mobile, Ala.—Charles C. Dickens,
who mysteriously disappeared from
Mobile ' several weeks ago and iz al
leged to have taken with him bonds
and funds of the assets of the Eng
lish Manufacturing company aggre
gating more than SIOO,OOO, creating a
sensation both in financial and social
circles, has been arrested at Houston,
Va.,
Penitentiary Sentence For Woman.
Roanoke, Va.—At Rocky Mount,
Va., Lucy Mitchell, a young woman,
was convicted of second degree mu:-
der, and sentenced to the state peni
tentiarytentiary for sixteen years, for
killing Miss Minnie Mcßryde, on the
latter’s seventeenth birthday, and on
the eve of her wedding, last October.
Heary Watterson to Retire.
Tampa, Fla.—A letter from Henry
Watterson published here says tnal
Mr. Watterson, on account of the
double bereavement of the loss of his
daughter and son, he has canceled all
encniemm of public nature and
that he will make N 0 mgse gddresse:
‘and has retired
COTTON GRADES FIXED
By the Experts Appointed by
the Agriculture Department.
Experts Rocommend That the Standard
of the Different Grades as Adopted
By Them Be Made Official.
Washington, D. (C.—Recommend
ing that the standard of the different
grades of cotton as fixed by them be
adopted as the official classification
of the government, the committee of
expert cotton classifiers designated by
the secretary of agriculture to assist
him in establishing a standerd, have
made their report to the latter., The
committee has made up types repre
senlative of the nine diferent grades,
to be designated middling fair, strict
good middling, good middling, strict
middling, middling, strict low mid
dling, strict good ordinary and good
ordinary to be the official standard.
The recommendation is made that
in view of the confusion that might
arise in case the standards were pru~
mulgated at once, that they should
not go into effect until September 1,
1910; it is also recommended that er
forts should be made to secure the cu
operation of foreign exchanges in con
nection with the standards. The fur
ther recommendation is made that
congress enact legislation penalizing
any one tampering with the standards
which are to be kept locked up at
the department of agriculture, Secrc
tary Wilson still has the report of the
committee under advisement,
The belief was expressed that as
the result of an examination of the
standards of this and foreign coun
tries the least confusion would arise
to the cotton business by adopting a
classification of cotton that was ac
ceptable to all foreign consumers, -but
owing to the action of congress the
committee found it necessary to con
fine itself to stated names in use in
this country, The standards finally
recommended are those in use in prac
tically every day’s business through
out the greater part of the cotton
belt, and are the standards accepted
in commercial practice between this
country and Europe. The characteris
ties recognized in the estimates of
the grades are those generally used
in the trade at the present time.
It was the expressed wish of the
committee that the government should
at all times maintain the strictest su
pervision of the preparation of the
standards, and that the standaras
prepared should be safeguarded in ev
ery way by legislation to prevent their
being handled or tampered with. It
wag strongly urged that steps imme
diat:ly be taken to secure the con
currence of foreign exchanges in
these standards, and owing to the
fact that on the exchanges in Ameri
ca transactions are being made in
contracts fully a year ahead, it was
believed that in order to avoid con
fusion the standards certified should
not go into use in the trade prior
to the time indicated. It was pointed
out that it would be unfair to have
the standards used as a basis of saies
in the middle of the cotton season,
and that they could not be used for
the coming season without great in
justice and confusion,
A RARE AND HIGH HONOR.
Judge Taft Will Be Made a Mason
at Sight.
Cincinnati, Ohio.—The grand mas
ter of Ohio Masons, Charles S. Hos
kinson of Zanesville has tendered to
William Howard Taft the rare and
high honor of being made a Mason at
sight.
Judge Taft has accepted and will
return to Cincinnati on Thursday,
February 18, when the grand master
will convene a distinguished com
pany of Masons in the Scottish Rite
c®hedral and exercise the high pre
rogative which belongs only to a
grand master of Masons.
This honor is so rarely conferred
that there is but a single instance on
record in the one hundred years’ his
tory of Masonry in Ohio. On October
18, 1892, the Honorable Asa S. Bush
nell of Springfield was made a Ma
son at sight by Grand Master Levi
C. Goodale, of this city.
CLEVELAND ON GOLD.
Portrait of Ex-President on the New
Certificates.
Washington, D. C.—Secretary of the
Treasury Cortlyou has approved new
designs for the $lO and SSO gold cer
tificates, and the notes will soon be
issued from the bureau of engraving
and printing. The $lO certificates
will bear the portrait of Grover Cleve
land, this being the first time that
the dead former president’s likeness
has been used on any note or stamp
of the United States. The new 350
note will bear the portrait of form
er President Grant. ' 4
FOREST FIRES RAGING.
Section of South Georgia Covered
With Thick Smoke.
Albany, Ga.—The whole face of the
earth in this séction is covered witn
a thick pail of smoke, the result ot
woods fires which cover a wide area.
Reports coming into Albany by tele
phone, incoming trains and parties
who have driven through the county
in buggies and automobiles, indicate
that fires are burning everywhere,
In many places, turpentine farms
have been invated by the flames
which have fedf on undergrowth dried
by the dryest§fall and winter this
section- has :
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Cannot Make It Better
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better the land the more profitably a good fertilizer can be used on it,
Do not imagine because land will produce a fair crop without
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to increase the gualily,as well as the guantity of the crop—and you
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“I have been using your fertilizers for a number of years” says
Mr. William Fraiser, of Glasburg, La., “and find that it not only pays
2o fertilize, but to do plml{ of it, and use the best fertilizsers to be
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HOMING PIGEON FAR AT SEA.
Dropped Exhausted to Vessel Off the
Texas Coast.
Capt. Baker of the El Cid, when his
vessel arrived in port - Saturday,
brought with him a carrier pigeon
which he claims to have picked up at
sea 650 miles off the Texas coast. He
says that the bird dropped to the deck
of his steamer early one morning and
that when picked up it was in a com
plete state of exhaustion.
The unusual fact of such a bird be
ing so far from lané excited his atten
tion, and it was discovered that the
bird had attached tc its leg a silver
band bearing the inscription “No. 19
R 2"
There is no way of ascertaining to
whom the bird belongs nor where it
came from. Local pigeon fanciers
know of no such record mark or num
ber and have been unable to find it
listed in any of their catalogues. |
Whetrer or not the bird bore a mes
sage when it was released is not
for there was no ‘trace of ?
ére‘c;l.“ Capt.
Virginia-Caroljna
experience, for when it dropped it was
in a state of exhaustion and could not
have gone much further.
The El Cid left the port tonight for
New York, but Capt. Baker has taken
good care of the bird and will en
deavor to ascertain where is comes
from and if possible get an explana
tion as to why it was way out on the
Gulf 650 miles from the nearest land.
—G@Galveston 'Correspondence Houston
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He Had No Chance, “
He had proposed, but she had giv
en him the frigid mitt—seemingly;!
but five minutes later they were
busy swapping Kkisses. !
“But if you really and truly loved
me, why did you turn me down at
first?” queried the puzzled young
man. ;
“Oh, that was just a whim of
mine,” she replied. “I wanted to see
how you would act.”
“But suppose I had rushed offwith
out giving you a chance to e n?"
he said.
- “Imposgsible,” she answer
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