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'AGE TWELVE UMINKAPOtlS MORNING TRIBUNE: SATURDAY NOVEMBER 11 l)22 glvlng to his ute courtship, Dr. Waterman (MitHia that timo to say "yes" 'Perfect Fool' Star Gets Divorce From Scott's Kin Cissie Loftus Breaks Down When Jailed on Drug Charge in London Red Letter and Coffin Bring QuickPayment of Undertaker's Bfi ment. No attention was nai'l It. Then Ford drew up a statement in red ink ami pasted a plctme of a coffin it. In three days he received a poMtoftlce money order for JO, and this rl0t'-: "Dear Hems Fo' Gawd's nuke (loan yo' all sent ma no mo' of (5t'm lx''x letters an' coffins! Ah Is tovlne Iy yo' da rent in er few dayn." telephone proposal.

After their marriage continued her stage career while her husband became associated with a London hospital. A eon, Peter, now 12 years old, is In the custody of his mother. His parents were divorced two years after his birth. Chicago, Nov. 10.

Winfield ficott Freeman, plmw of the famous General AVbtfichl ticott, Indian lighter, and f- 200 Perish as Chinese River Steamer Burns Panic Seizes Crowd of Hawkers and Coolies When Fire Breaks Out. also nephew of former I'. K. Senator Society Flocks to Court a3 World-Famed Actress Is Remanded. South Carolinan Settles Debt 17 Old When He Gets Illustrated Statement.

Family Reunion Held After Half a Century i'ulvin )j. Hi Ice of Ohio, was today divorced by his wife, Mm. Crace Freeman, an actross now playing in Perfect Fool," a musical comedy running here. The decree was granted; by JudKe Harry IJ. Miller after Mrs.

Freeman testified that Freeman deserted her on May 5, 1913. Khe said they were married April 8, 11)07. South Dakota Voters Defeat Hydro-Electric, State Bank Proposals Prisoner Recovering From Spree Given Jail Sentence 'By Request' Milwaukee, Nov. 10. Thirty days In jail.

"by request" was given Charles Johnson, 47 years old, Eau Claire, today in district court, where he appeared and asked for a Jail sentence in order to recover from the effects of a six months spree which started in May when he received an inheritance of BosUn, Nov. 10. James Vv. Murphy of Wyaidotte, was reunited with his two Irothers and two sisters at the home of lv sister, Mr. Mary 13.

Hoper, 48 Cedar Soinervlllo, after an absence of 50 years. Murphy left home in l'ort Ileod, Cape Iireton, in 1872. There were 13 children in tlio family, and the only five alive today we-e present at the York, S. Nov. 10.

Seventeen years ago the wife of fieorge Campbell, Negro, of Clover, a town near here, died. George, tho husband, lacked $17 Of having sufficient funds to pay for the kind of coffin he wanted to bury her in. Clyde Ford, embalmer, credited him. The husband no attention to statements for the balance due of $17 and later left the country. Ford located him and sent a state Gorman L'nvoy Ralls for Japan.

Ban Francisco, Nov. 10. Dr. William Ilelmlch 8olf, German ambassador to Japan, departed today for his post In Toklo. Solf arrived here three days ago from the East.

Sioux Falls, 8. Nov. 10. Ap-parentiy fearing an Increase in state taxes, South Dakota voters defeated the proposals to build a state-owned hydro-electrio power plant and to establish a state-owned bank. It was pointed out that the former proposal entailed an appropriation of J22.000,-000 and the latter an appropriation of $2,000,000, levied not directly upon the state funds, but upon the credit of the state.

The proposal to allow the Legislature to fix salaries of state officers is merely an old question in a new guise, and was defeated as in former elections. The proposal to move the University from Vermillion to Sioux Falls was not pushed by the initiators, which probably explains its easy imrvfiW' irl iiisrTiir Ti London, Nov. 10. -(Universal News Service.) Charged with beinj in unauthorized possession of atrophine and morphine, Cissie Loftus, world famous vaudeville actress, was remanded today In the Marlborough street police court in $500 bail. The btmd wW fur-nished by Eva Moore, one of the most prominent British actresses.

Cissie Loftus was arrested late last night, causing a sensation In the theatrical word. The police court was packed with fashionable women when the case was called today. The actress was arrested when leaving a drug store, where' she obtained the drugs, in crowded Tottenham court road. She spent the night in the police station and broke down when informed of the seriousness of the charges, begging to be released. The famous mimic, who has Just completed a theatrical engagement In London, was a pitiful figure when she appeared in the dock.

Her head was bowed and she waB acutely nervous as she pleaded not guilty. The police asked for a postponement in order to complete charges of a "false prescription," with which the drugs were obtained. garding arrest In London or ber recent movements. Dr. Waterman and Miss Loftus were divorced about 10 years ago.

The marriage of Dr. Waterman and Miss Loftus was the result of a child hood romance of the days when both were beginners on the stage. Dr. Waterman deserted the footlights in 1902 to study medicine here. The wedding followed a three-min- gaming Hulk Is Menace to Other Shipping No For-1 eigners Reported Aboard.

Shanghai. Nov. 10. (By Associated Press.) Two hundred persons ars reported to have perished In a fire on the riverboat Ta Shlng, which was carrying passengers and produce between Shanghai and Tsunghing Island, off the south of the Yangtsze river. The steamer was beached at Whang-poo, rear Shanghai, It virtually was impossible that any foreigners were aboard the vessel.

Those who loft their lives were hawk-era and coolies, according to unconfirmed reports. The heavy-laden steamer was traveling from Whangpoo toward Shanghai When the fire broke out. A panic seized the crowd. Passengers and crew fled In a single small boat. The blazing steamer, unmanned, drifted down stream, many leaping overboard.

The menace to other shipping removed itself when the craft grounded fcelow Pottung, opposite the industrial section of Shanghai at 1'angtszepoo. Bodies are being piled on the beach of the river. The flames on the hulk were extinguished by police and Five Reasons Why You Should Buy Your Clothing for Thanksgiving Here Read therhl Think of them as being real, and that you can have them without any extra cost inf act, you can ave a dollar! Women's, Misses' FINE WINTER T1TL 1 1-1 f-t A Two Women Charged With fobbing Aunt's Apartment i in St. Louis Are Freed Beautiful Array of New 1. vv noiesaie vaiues that cannot be beat.

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New York, Nov. 10. London dispatches telling of the arrest of Marie Cecile (Cissie- Loftus) for the alleged illegal possession of drugs, brought to the United States the first news In years of an actress who had starred a long time in this country and England on the legitimate and vaudeville stages. Born in England she showed at an early age an aptitude for mimicry. London audiences hailed her as a child prodigy for her imitations of Sarah Bernhardt and other celebrities.

American audiences were similarly delighted with her. Finally she left vaudeville for drama, being notably successful as co-star with Sir Henry Irving In "Faust," "If I Were King," end "Peter Pan." her clientele, In England as well as America invariably demanded her return to the role in which she first excelledthat of a mimic. Cissie Loftus always has been a picturesque figure. She startled her followers on both continents when, during a vaudeville engagement In London, she eloped with Justice Huntley McCarthy the English dramatist, from whom she was divorced In America some years later. In 1909 she was married to Dr.

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Nov. 10. A charge first degree robbery against Mrs. Augusta Hilllard, also known as Miss Helen Gordon of Chicago, were dismissed in circuit court here today. Miss Adele Schreiner of this city, a niece of the late president of a large chemical manufacturing company, also was freed on this charge.

The two women were of Milwaukee, and Harry Frank of Chicago with having robbed an aunt of Miss Schreiner in her apartment in this city after gaining admittance in the disguise of telephone repairmen. The two youths were sentenced to five years in the penitentiary last Monday, but their sentences were commuted to terms In the state reform matory. 1 fjiollinsj suit your convenience. Look at these price reductions $125 Model E-2 now $140 Model F-2 now $165 Model H-2 now $225 Model K-2 now $275 Model L-2 now Select your favorite instrument now for Christmas Delivery when desired. lop fepil Majestic Music Shop Appeal From Dry Ruling.

Washington, Nov. 10. The International Merchant Marine company and the United American Lines today filed In the United States Supreme count their appeal from the district court In Kw York, which sustained Attorney General Daugherty's extension of the national prohibition act to the high eas. The companies contend that the law was not intended to apply outside the United States. 16 So.

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