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4 THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1910. phere gave them shortly after the disappearance of Helgeleln Mrs. Gunness probably would have been caught alive. NO PART DIVULGED By Rev. Schell, of the Alleged Contession Made By Lamphere.

fusing for several hours to stateBurlington, Iowa, January rement concerning the alleged confession of Ray Lamphere, Dr. Schell announced that he had never repeated to any person the admissions made to him by the convicted man. the first of the year." he said, was interviewed by the representative of metropolitan newspaper, who sought to elicit the story related to "Reasons were advanced me by Lamphere. as to why should make publie any information given to me in the several conversations I had with him. I declined to talk at the time and later consulted with several ministers and laymen as to my duty in connection with my knowledge of the affair.

I became convinced both from their advice and the dictates of my own conscience that any admissions made to me were sacred, and I have since at all times refused to divulge any part of the conversations." The confession as alleged to have been made by Lamphere Was repeated to the minister and he reiterated that he had not divulged any such confession to any person. GERMAN GIRL Becomes the Wife of a Baltimore Chinaman. Washington, January Hon, Baltimore Chinaman, and Carrie Acker, an eighteen-year-old girl of German parentage, were married here to-day. When the 11- cense was applied for the girl swore she lived in Washington, but later said she lived on the Bellair road in Baltimore. HIDDEN In Incompleted House But Well Treated Is Alma Kellner, Says Dreamer Of Harrodsburg, Whose Visions Proved True on Several Occasions.

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Harrodsburg, January 13. Jack Noel, the famous Mercer County dreamer, believes that he can solve the Alma Kellner mystery. For three nights in succession the past week he has dreamed of the case. In each vision he saw four people, He belleves the child was not taken out of Loutsville, and is now in a house that has never been completed.

In one of his dreams a very old woman held up a placard so that he could see certain street and number In Louisville, which, Noel says, he may reveal in due time. The girl is in splendid, health, says Noel, and is being well treated by the people who have her in That Noel's dreams come true many believe. A West End farmer some time ago lost his pocketbook containing $75 and valuable papers. Mr. Noel told the man that if he would come to town the next his day he would tell him where he could find pocketbook.

Jack that night proceeded to dream. The farmer was on hand promptly the next day, and was informed by Mr. Noel that if he would go to an old dilapIdated log crib in his barn lot and to the northwest corner of the crib, in a horseshoe track, partly submerged in water, hie would find the missing wallet and contents, The farmer found his money as. indicated. On another occasion, when a large mansion in the country had been burned, Jack dreamed that in a corner of the old toundation were some old gold coins.

Next morning he found $65 there. A few nights following the assassination of Governor Goebel on the Capitol grounds, In Frankfort, Jack dreamed that two men were in an office, and he saw the taller of the two draw a bead that laid the champion of the great common people low. His description of the two men he saw in his vision exactly fitted the description of the men afterward arrested for the crime. "NUISANCES" Discussed By Civic Department of Cincinnati Women's Club. Mrs.

James R. Murdoch was to have read a paper before the Civic Department, Cincinnati Woman's Club, yesterday, on the subject, "Nuisances Which Beset Our Dally Life." but she was called to Urbana, owing to the death of her aunt, Mrs. Williams. Each of the members present discussed various "nuisances," such as the way the snow is in the streets of this city at present, and how it should be carted away more rapidly; also the overloading of ash carts and garbage some of the debris falling on the streets. The "nickel shows" came in for a share of the discussion.

and that a high standard of pictures displayed should be maintained. The tricks of children as set forth in supplements," were also discussed. NURSEGIRL STRANGLED And House Robbed and Later the Coachman Cut His Throat. Millbrook, N. January young woman known as Sarah Breymer, a nurse In the employ of Mr.

and Mrs. Barnes Compton, was strangled to death by burglars to-day in her bed in the Compton mansion here. The house was robbed of a quantity of silverware, the value of which is unknown. Mr. and Mrs.

Compton were in New York City and the house was in the care of servants. Frank Schermerhorn, coachman on the Compton place, cut his throat late this afternoon. Just before attempting suicide suspicion had pointed to his as the slayer of Sarah Brymer. Chief McCabe says that after choking and assaulting the girl Schermerhorm arranged things to look like burglary. MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Isidore Gouder, driver, 652 West Ninth street, and Edna Kissinger, 22, 2070 Baltimore avenue. Albert Carrelll. 23, tallor, 1505 Walnut street, and May Williams, 18. 1130 Gest street. Rev.

Scholl. Raymond 23, safe maker. 1612 Hughes street, and Bessie Bohnert, 23, 814 Main street. Rev. Eiseniobr.

Charles Penn. 24, polisher, 1718 Queen City avenue, and Emma Brewe, 25, 1008 Montana avenue. Rev. Richle. Michaela and Longano, laborer, 523 East 1600 street, Highland Mariantania avenue.

Rev. Piceinnio, Balangero. 20, domestic, Charles Homer Ireton, 36, dairyman, Blanchester. Ohio, and Florence Leila Johnson, 36, Loveland. Rev.

Reece. Nicholas Lena Kahles, tinner, 1814. Race street, and domestic, 24 Wert Elder street. Albert C. Seeger.

24, printer, Pleasant street, and Edith Vanderbilt, 19, clerk, 1134 Sherman avenue. Rev. Charles Jennie H. May Wilson, Reed. 20, 20.

laborer, Pleasant Ridge. and Pleasant Ridge. Estella Frank Gray. Mind. 22, 26, 415 laborer, John 418 John street, and ling.

street. Squire Roeb- EXPORTS FROM GERMANY. year of Large gains are preceding shown in front. the exportation of hides, chemicals and 1 Berlin, January 13. Returns from the consulates place the value of German PXports to the United States in 1900 at $108.913,308, an increase over the SLUSH.

Icy Walk and Fog The Direct Cause of Four Deaths in Chicago, And Some Serious Mishaps Are Recorded. Collapse of a Snow Shed Kills One Man. Northwestern Ohio Experiences the Worst Blizzard in Years Other Storm News. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Chicago, January serious cidents, crippled transportation facilities and general suffering and discomfort here followed in the wake of the heavy tall of snow, five inches of which has fallen since midnight Tuesday.

Four men are dead and several others badly Injured direct result of railroad accidents, slippery walks and inclement weather conditions. Perhaps the most serious phase of the situation la the fear of wide-spread sickness, due to the angle-deep slush and the microbe-laden air. Physicians agree that the conditions are ripe for much pneumonia and similar ills. The tour latest victims of the storm are: Barney, Joseph, Indiana Harbor; killed by switch engine in a fog. Thomas Golden, Hammond, killed in train crash due to fog.

Andrew Gransik, Indiana Harbor, slipped on tracks, killed by train. J. Schell, killed by collapse. of snow-covered shed. Three of the accidents will probably sult fatally.

In two of these cases men slipped and fell long fights of Icy stairways, and in another a woman fractured ber skull. SERIOUS DAMAGE Caused at St. Louis By Breaking of the Big Ice Gorge. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. St.

Louis, January big gorges above this city let go to-day and the ice rushing down has alteady inflicted over worth of damage to vessels and $100,000 river buildings. The Wiggins terry office, on the East Side, was partially wrecked. Barges and a piledriver from the Free bridge works were swept away. Over $12,000 worth of houseboats were destroyed. A ferry boat at Venice, valued at $40,000 and a $7,000 landing launches were lost.

Valuable pleasure and rowing club boathouses were destroyed. Several large boats moored here are in Imminent danger. The big excursion steamer City of Providence is in great danger. The Weather Bureau notifled bustness houses along the river that the flood stage is likely to be reached within 24 hours if the ice below 8tz Louis does not break. There is a possibility of the The gauge here stood at 27 feet gorge breaking.

at 9:30 o'clock, a rise of 1.3 feet in an hour. BOOMS BURST In the Cumberland and Thousands of Logs 'Are Adrift. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Lexington, January report from Stearns to-night is to the effect that the Stearns Lumber Company has lost 2,000,000 feet of logs through the bursting of booms in the Cumberland River because of the uncommonly high tide. The mammoth sawmill at Stearns, it said, will be shut down for about four months because of the floating away of the logs, many of which are being caught in booms at Burnside, and will be sold by the Stearns Lumber Company to the mills at that All of the mountain streams were full and, following the thaw which began today, they will be out of their banks if the warmer weather continues.

The snow that a is now melting was the heaviest in years in Central and Eastern Kentucky. Nearly all of this water will And Its way into the Ohio. FLOOD DANGER At Pittsburg and the Ohio Seems To Have Passed. Pittsburg, January slow melting of the snow and the easy rainfall to-day precluded the probability of an early flood, according to local weather sharps. nless much higher temperature arrives suddenly the river and creeks will carry off the surplus water without flooding.

The ice gorges in the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers have melted to normal condtions. portion of the Freeport gorge having already gone out without damage. Walter Damrosch Conductor New York Symphony chestra of 100 men, who appears at Music Hall January 14th, writes as follows of the Mason Hamlin Pianos: Gentlemen- -The remarkable growth la appreciation of your pianos by the artistic world during the past ten or twelve years, together with the increasing knowledge of your instruments gained through hearing them played by many great pianists at. the concerts of the New York Symphony Orchestra, and also through my personal use of them at my home and in my lecture recitals, prompts me to gratulate, qualities. you upon their wonderful The even beauty of the entire scale, ranging from the finest pianissimo to the greatest fortissimo, enables me to translate the orchestral score, which I Interpret in my lecture recitals, with close appreciation of the composer's requirements.

Your great inveation, the Mason Hamlin Tension tor, without doubt gives to your instruments a quality of tone of extraorsinging capacity and of great sonority. (Signed), WALTER DAM- Call and examine these beautiful The Cable Company, 182 WEST FOURTH ST. D. F. SUMMEY, Manager.

of the severest blizard that has swept this section of the country for many years. The wind is blowing 50 miles an hour. A steady downpour of snow has been tallIng for the last 24 hours. Eleven inches of snow is on the ground and street- trame, except in the downtown district, was abandoned to-night. All trains east and west are reported many hours late.

Marine men predict a big flood on the Maumee should the sow turn into rain. ATLANTIC OCEAN Swept By Severe Storms and One Big Liner Badly Damaged. New York, January reporta received here to-day indicate that the Atlantic is swept by severe storms, which have worked havoc on at least one ocean liner. The worst sufferer from the wild weather so far reported is the HamburgAmerican steamer Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, which, according to the dispatches, put into Plymouth with her port rail torn for distance of 50 feet by that caught and threw down a score of passengers who were on deck at the time, five of whom were badly hurt. Her Captain the tempest the worst he had ever encountered.

Another vessel in the track of the storm is the Cunard Liner Lusitania, due here tonight, but reported running through heavy seas and 12 hours late. The 8t. Louis, of the American Line, due Wednesday evening. is two days late. HEAVY SNOW Again Interferes With Railway Traffic in Wisconsin.

Milwaukee, January and the greater portion of the state experienced blizzard to-day which Interfered with trains on the steam and electric railroade. The forenoon passenger train on the Sheboygan branch of the Chicago and North. western Road was abandoned, and a senger train on the Madison-Portage branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Road was stalled in one of the cuts Alled with drifted snow. The street railway in Milwaukee had hard time endervoring to keep traffic mov.

Ing. and suburban electric trains were running irregularly. GREAT MIAMI Is at Flood Tide and Rising RapidlyOhio Towns in Danger, Piqua, Ohio, January Great Mi. ami River is at a flood tide at Piqua and points above here to-night. By the towns to the south of here morning will suffer.

Those living in the lowlands have been warned to move, and factories in the danger line are taking every precaution to avert loss. Heavy rains and melting snow have converted the stream into wildly raging river. Everybody le making ready for one of the highest water-marks in the history of the stream. CAUGHT IN ICE And the Steamer New Haven Was Crushed and Sunk. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER.

Evansville, January telephone message from Uniontown, to-nignt says the steamer New Haven had peen wrecked and carried away from there by the heavy ice and sunk, being total loss. Information received here to-day from ton, states the Wolf's Creek Algorge still holding. It is about 15 miles long. and is the largest that has formed along the lower Ohio in 30 years. FAMILIES HOMELESS Along Little Miami River, Which Is on a Rampage.

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Lebanon, Ohio, January of South Lebanon, five miles south of here, are panicstricken to-night over the sudden rice of the Little Miami River at that point. Ice two feet thick, which had been gorged for over mile, broke late to-day, the water driving the familles from their homes to-night. All the families in the bottome are moving to higher ground to-night, and the worst flood since 1885 is expected. WHITE RIVER Rising Rapidly and Farmers in the Lowlands Are Seeking Safety, SPECIAL.

DISPATCH TO THE EXOCIRER. Hazleton. January to the Incessant rainfall of the past two days and the melting snow, White River now on a boom which has set Hell's Neck farmers and others living in the lowlands trek for the hills. It was rising an inch an hour during the day. It registered stage of 9.7 feet to-night.

FLOOD IS FEARED. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Newark. Ohio, January 18. -Inhabitants of Texas and Oklahoma.

located on the outskirts of Newark. are moving their household goods to place of safety, fearing repetition of the floods of last year, in which three people were drowned and thousends of worth of property destroyed. The continual thaw has raised the Licking River to overflowing. MIAMI OVERFLOWS. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER.

Hamilton, Ohio, of the January Miami 11 -The perennial Peck's overflow addition began River InundatIng Crawford's Run followed to-day, and havoc in East East suit, playing John street. No serious food is antietavenue and pated. BRIDGES SWEPT AWAY. across Topeka, the Kansas River January at 13. cla and Lecompton were swept Willard, Valen- Bridges Ing the night by Ice Jame.

away dura reached -its maximum early The to-day water thenbegan to fall slowly. and Lexington. KENTUCKY STREAMS FULL streams and January rivers are the rising by the James SPECIAL Cornet's received M. a Atlanta, some disreputable of by fine and Indianapolis C. ford jury Sun.

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Kentucky Solons Pile Up: a Stack of Bills. Last Paragraph of the Rules Resolution Was Left Off Accidently inthe Hurry of Framing--Probing Committee Reports To the Senate. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Frankfort, January 13. Without dissenting vote the House of Representatives to-day referred to the Committee on Resolutions, the resolution favoring the passage of the sixteenth amendment to the Federal Constitution, the proposed income tax amendment.

The bill is sure to pass, as it has 1 been adopted by the Democrats at the House caucus. The Waggoner County unit bill was again introduced by Rev. G. C. Waggoner, and proposes to extend uniform temperance legIslation in every county by a majority vote.

In the Senate the committee appointed to investigate the charge made by Senator Combs that the resolution giving him and Senator Linn the authority to appoint the Senate committees and draft the Senate rules had been tampered with reported as follows: "That in the morning of the opening day of the session Senator Combs, with other gentlemen, prepared a resolution to be of-fered giving the President pro tem, of the Senate and the Chairman of the Senate caucus the power to prepare and submit to the Senate the rules for the government thereof, and to designate the Senators who should compose the committees of this body, that this said resolution was hurriedly written with lead pencil, and that in the haste the last paragraph was left off by Eli H. Brown, who made the copy and gave it to Senator Gus Brown for introduc- tion." Colonel Chinn Starts War. Another war was started to-day on Colonel Ell H. Brown, and Harvey McCutcheon, Prison Commissioners, by Colonel Jack P. Chinn, of Mercer County, for the undaunted Kentucky legislator introduced a resolution calling upon Speaker.

George S. Wilson and Lleutenant Governor W. H. Cox to appoint a joint committee to begin at once an investigation of the prisons. He also desires to know why State Inspector and Examiner M.

H. Thatcher has not made his report on the conditions of the penitentiaries and the asylums. Another flurry was caused in the House by the introduction of the resolution by P. W. Berkshire, of Daviess County, calling for an investigation of the count on the good roads constitutional amendment.

There was a flood of bills introduced today, as this was the first "bill day" in the House. There were introduced 153. bills and three resolutions. A dozen of the bills related to the repeal of the "dog tax law" and almost everything imaginable. A few follow: Carter--An act to provide for a state school fund and create a State Educational Commission.

Carter--An act to amend Sections 2,622, 2,623. 2,625, 2,627 and 2,628, Kentucky Statutes, reviding to for its the State Board of Pharmacy, prolating meetings, its organization, defining its duties, providing salary of, providing for registration of applicants and fixing penalty for attempts to procure false registration. companies Carter--An under act putting control telephone the and telegraph of Railroad Commission. Reid--An act allowing bail in criminal cases where Zimmerman- appeal has been taken after conviction. An act providing that contributory negligence on the part of a servant shall not bar recovery for death or injury, but shall (reduce the damages.

Zimmerman-An act to prevent treating in saloons. W. October H. 12 Newell, Newport--An act to designate of each year a legal holiday. Board Southall-An act creating and establishing of Commissioners, to be known as Kentucky State Board of Control For Charitable Institutions, prescribing Its duties and powers, the providing Legislature.

for election of three Commissioners by mittee. To Charitable Institutions ComBerkshire An act allowing Insurance companies to Invest in bonds of this and other states. Klair, act to abolish the office of state revenue agents. Klair, Lexington -An act providing for the recording of the names of persons pooling tobacco or any farm crop. 000 Klain, for the Lexington--An erection of act to buildings appropriate at University at Lexington.

the State for Klair, erection Lexington- An act to provide $60.000 of tuberculosis sanitarium Kentucky. school Buford--An in act Frankfort establishing a central normal is annually to be for its maintenance, the old Capitol and appropriating $25,000 Ten thousand used as the building for the school. the buildings. dollars is appropriated to repair Steers -An act fixing passenger rates at 2 cents mile in Kentucky. Steers, of Grant County -To exempt from taxation debt all issued bonds, notes state.

and other interest-bearing by the station Brooks--An in Eastern act establishing a subexpeniment and and one in Western Kentucky, $5.000 annually. appropriating $5,000 for the location and 1906. Niles -An amending act to amend Chapter 21, Acts utes. to Section 2560, Kentucky StatMorals. relating intoxicating liquors.

Public grocery act to divorce liquor trade Waggoner--An from Waggoner- -An business. act To Public Morals, Kentucky Statutes, to amend Section 2650, Nquors, providing for relating to intoxicating laws. To extension of county unit Public Morals. able Taylor- by death act or making confinement kidnaping punishfor life. in the penitentiary tion of a retraction act of providing libelous that the publicaShanks -An in shall the same size the type AS the original a article twice prevent recovery of punitive damarticle ages.

F. E. Graves- An act qualifying and women to vote for School Trustees and other enabling school officers. To Suffrage and Education. Change in Committees.

The Senate convened at 10:30 o'clock, with only half the Senators in their seats. address was delivered by former Lieutenant Governor Thome. Senator Beard called the attention of body to the fact that, through error, name had been inserted as Chairman of Committee on Congressional Redistricting. Senator Chipman was intended for that post. The Senate consented to a change, placing Chipman at the head of the committee.

Senator Newcomb, of the special committee designated to look into the charge by Senator Combs that the resolution thorizing Senators Linn and Combs to draft the rules, was not genuine nor as written, reported the charge as "not well A communication from Governor Willson was State read, appointing the following Trustees of son, University: Prof. James K. PatterLexington; Charles B. Nichols, ington; T. L.

Edelen, Frankfort; John Atkins, Hopkins County; James Warden Turner, Johnson County: These appointments were made for a of six years, and are appointed in lieu the following men, whose terms expire month: Charles B. Nichols, T. L. Edelen, Basil M. Brooks, French A.

Hopkins and Robert L. Stout. The following Senate bills were offered. Watkins- A bill proposing numerous changes in the school laws. Watkins--An act providing for releasing recorded liens of whatsoever character.

Watkins An act more strictly regulating 8p- plication for insurance, proviaing for atiaching applications to all policies; affects both Insurance companies and fraternal organizations. Watkins- A bill making it a felony tor any man to willfully neglect his wife or minor children, Combs- An act creating a Tax Commission of three members, to be appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate. Salary or commission is not fixed, but they must devote entire time to their duties. The bill provides for a secretary and two clerks. Combs--An act providing for the improvement and development of the live.

stock and agricultural and kindred interests by the establishment of an additional state fair at Lexington, to be known as the Blue Grass State Fair, and to be under the control of the Blue Grass Fair Association. The bill provided for an annual appropriation of $25,000, to be used as premiums. Combs- An act prohibiting the unlawful issuing, selling, exchanging or giving away of street railway transter tickets, and prescribing a fine of not less than $5 nor more than Combs- An act establishing a medical college at the State University, as provided by law In 1908 at Lexington and Louisville, appropriating $150.000 tor suitable buildings in the two cities and $45.000 annually for two branches. Donaldson increasing from 200 to 500 pernumber of proposing policy holders and capital from $200,000 to $500,000, to secure charter from the Kentucky Insurance Commission for a life Insurance company. Requiring foreign companies to show standing in its home state, and be approved on coming into Kentucky.

Thomas An act to amend the act creating the Board of Prison Commissioners converting one of the penitentiaries into a Kentucky reformatory, in which is to be incarcerated all persons under 30 years of age. COLONEL WHALLEN ILL. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO ENQUIRER. Louisville, January by a physician, Colonel John H. Whallen, local Democratic leader, was brought home 111 to-day from Frankfort, where he has been attending the legislative session.

Physicians state that his condition is not serious. STAGELAND GOSSIP. STAGELAND GOSSIP. The 'concert to be given by Walter Damrosch and his complete New York Symphony Orchestra of 100 men, the largest orchestra heard here outside of the FestiMr. val, will Damrosch take is place in Music Hall to observing the twenty-fifth anniversary of his activities as a conductor and is being feted everywhere.

A large reception will be held this afternoon in his honor at the Sinton, and the leading mustcians and music lovers and friends of the distinguished conductor have been invited. The concert to-night will be one of great proportions. Mr. Damrosch will present a colossal program of Wagner and Richard Strauss, With his augmented orchestra of 100 he will be able to present these works as we rarely have opportunity to hear. The program complete is as follows: ft: Prelude to Lohengrin Wagner Bacchanale from Act 1..

Wagner (Paris Version.) Serenade for wind Strauss Siegfried' Rhine Journey, Siegfried's Funeral Music, from Wagner Prelude to Act 3, "Die Wagner Juan (symphonic poem). Strauss Good Friday Spell from (Arranged as violin solo.) Mr. David Mannes. "Ride of the Wagner FOR SUNDAY THEATERS. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER.

York, January movement is on foot to open certain theaters on Sunday night, to present plays which have been approved by a committee of ministers. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, of the Church of the Ascension, is said to be at the head of this movement, and he has him in the matter a number ofthe other ministers in New York who are regarded 88 progressive in their views. Every effort has been made to keep this plan quiet, some of the ministers who took part in a meeting at the New Theater last week, at which this plan was discussed, refusing to see reporters. But there is no doubt that the matter is being seriously, considered and that two ministers, representing those who took part in the meeting, visited Governor Hughes at Albany last week.

"BOCCACIO" PRESENTATION. The German players will present one of the best known and finest operettas from the pen of Van Suppe in a production of "Boccacio." This tuneful operetta will be well sung by the company and chorus, under the direction of M. Hermann. The new soubrette of the company, Fol Collini, will sing the title role. YOUNG LEADING MAN.

Miss Margaret Anglin's leading man in "The Awakening of Helena Richie," which play and star come to the Grand Opera House on January 17, is young Raymond Hackett, a youin of years. He plays Little David, and his part is as important in the play and as attractive as that of Miss Anglin herself. The young man is said to have achieved a wonderful success in New York by his naturalness and his ability is very great. He is a handsome little kiddie and is said to draw the neat little sum of $100 weekly for salary, which is not bad for a child of his years. NORWOOD.

horizon Storm and clouds are blowing over the municipal threatening to disturb the serenity of the new administration, as the result of a disagreeable surprise sprung on property owners on Main avenue, when they received a few days ago a notice that the first assessment on the new street improvement is payable. The assessment is for $3 50 per front foot, and that amount has been levied on both sides of the street. These figures. It is said, fairly amazed many of the property owners on the street, for they had conidently expected that the rate would be much lower. Those -who would talk about the assesament notices yesterday said that they were under the impression that property owners were to pay a third, the city of Norwood a third and the Main county avenue a third of the total cost of improving with granite.

If they were correctly informed, they said, the property owners would pay $7, the city $7 and the county $7 per foot--a total of $21 per running foot that would have to be paid for the improvement. They asserted that this was entirely too much money to pay for a new street, even where such substantial material as granite is used, Ozjections were raised, also, to paying any assessment, large or small, before granite is laid In the center of Main avenue, The old complaint that good stone that could have been used for foundation for the granIte had been hauled away and dumped in other streets in need of repairs while the improvement was in progress has been revived by those who are dissatisfied with the assessment. It came from an officiti source last night that the new administration will take up this matter of the first assessment and see if the complaints are justified -by the facts. Martin Dreyfuss, who has been in business on Harrison avenue, near the H. and D.

Railroad. was induced to visit his daughter's home, on Wayland avenue, last night. When he Arrived there he found that friends had taken complete possession of the residence and had re membered the fifty-second anniversary of his birth. The West End Saengerchor added music to the program. Addresses were made by Police Sergeant Fred Hess, his son-in-law.

and George Renschler. The Norwood Board W. of F. Quadrennial Appraisers yesterday appointed Bonner assistant to Chief Clerk Durrell. and Marshal Moreton and M.

Whitacre expert real estate appraisers. The salaries to be paid to Moreton and Whitacre will be $200 per month each. It leaked out yesterday that Service Director Franklin had suspended Street Superintendent Voelker and City Stable Boss Opperman for 10 days for alleged fallure to carry out his orders respecting the removal of snow from sidewalks. Sherman Richards reported at police headquarters last night that he was discharging the duties that had devolved on Superintendent Voelker. Next Monday night, at the Evanston public school gymnasium classes will be organized for men and women.

The work of organizing the classes will be in charge of Charles E. Basler and Arthur Conden. Prof. Taube will be the class Instructor. Marshal Beckman of Oakley, reported last night to Mayor Keller, of that village, that owners of dogs are complying with the order to keep them penned up or muzzled, and that he killed two stray animals yesterday.

DANGER TO SHIPPING Increased By the Rapid Rise in the Ohio River. Louisville, January A rise in the Ohio at nearly every point south of Cincinnati, as the result of heavy rains, has increased the danger to shipping. The most serious gorge in the Ohio is at Brandenburg, where ice is piled 15 feet high and jammed into a solid mass for a distance of 50 miles. There are many coal barges and other river craft locked in this gorge, which today is giving decided signs of breaking up. River men fear great damage when this huge niss starts on its rush Southward.

CONFESSION Of Ray Lamphere, That He Killed Mrs. Gunness and Her Children, Is Not Given Credence in Many Quarters. Rev. Schell Denies That He Ever Repeated It. Laporte Authorities Say It Does Not Tally With Deathbed Statement of the Prisoner.

St. Louis, January a copyrighted story to-day the Post Dispatch publishes what it claims was the confession of Ray Lamphere, who died a few days ago in the Indiana Penitentiary, at Michigan City, while serving a sentence for setting fire to the home of Mrs. Belle Gunness, near Laporte, Ind. It is known that Rev. E.

A. Schell, formerly of Laporte, heard Lamphere's confession. The confession shows that Mrs. Gunness and three children were chloroformed by Lamphere, was robbing the house with a woman accomplice; that Jennie Olson was not killed by Mrs. Gunness; that the chloroform used by Lamphere was part of that he bought for Mrs.

Gunness to kill three men, one of whom was Andrew Helgelein, the others probably Ole Budsberg and Tonnes Petersen Lein, and that one of these men, propably Lein, was the third husband of Mrs. Gunness, Would Verify the "Confession." The Post-Dispatch says that if Dr. Schell would consent to tell, he would verify the confession it publishes, It, according to the paper, was obtained from a man of unassallable character and truthfulness, whose standing in the community where he lives is such that his word is accepted without question. Dr. Schell, at Burlington, Iowa, to-day, after hearing the confession which the Post-Dispatch printed, said he had not divulged any such confession.

A correspondent of the paper saw Dr. Schell, who is President of the Iowa Wesleyan University at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, at Adair, Iowa, last Sunday, where a church was dedicated. He refused then to give to the public the confession Lamphere made on the ground that it Is pledged by the secrecy of the confessional. Says Mrs.

Gunness Is Dead. The confession establishes the fact, doubted by thousands, that Mrs. Gunness Is dead. The adult body found in the smoking ruins of the Gunness farmhouse was the body of Mrs. Belle Gunness.

She was under the influence of chloroform when the smoke crept up through the crevices and smothered her. She died with the head of her little boy pillowed on her breast. He, too, was chloroformed and died without waking. Neither of them knew aught of it when the two little girls, Myrtle and Lucy, not 80 thoroughly chloroformed as the woman and boy, awoke to their peril and ran into their mother's room and' threw themselves on the woman, beseeching help. hey perished there with the woman and the boy.

mercifully suffocated by the smoke before the flames came. Death of Jennie Olson. Jennie Olson, niece and adopted daughter of Mrs. Gunness, who, it has been believed, was murdered by the woman over a year before, the house was burned, and whose body was believed to have been buried in the farm yard, was not murdered by Mrs. Gunness, according to Lamphere's contession, but was in the house the night it burned and was burned to death.

Assuming that Lamphere told the truth about Jennie Olson, the identity of the girl. buried in the yard adds another mystery to the case. Lamphere, said word silenced the dog and he let himself into the house the night. of the burning of the Gunness home. The chloroform was administered and the search was made, but less than $70 was found.

Then he and the woman who he says accompanied him went away, according to Lamphere, and it was when he was hurrying as the dawn was beginning to break, toward the country where he was to work that day, that he looked back and saw smoke and flames bursting from the house on the hill. He turned aside from the straight road and skirted the timber, so as to keep his gaze on the burning house as long as he could. COCK-AND-BULL STORY, Says the Prosecutor, and 'Lamphere's Real Story Comes Out. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Laporte, January one here belleves the tale published to day in a St.

Louis paper purporting to be a confession of Ray Lamphere, who died in the prison in Michigan City recently, when serving sentence for setting fire to the home of Mrs. Belle Gunness, the alleged arch murderess, whose crimes filled the whole country with horror in 1908. That there are errors of tact in it is evident to all who know the story of the Gunness tarm and its horrors. Prosecutor Smith says the story is of the cock-and-bull variety. But it has evoked the true story of what Lamphere told the Warden of the Prison North shortly before he died.

The prisoner had been indicted as accessory to the crimes on the Gunness place, He was sickly In prison. One day he was seized with hemorrhages. Warden Reid told him he would surely die pretty soon and advised him to tell what he knew of the tragedies. Warden Reid told what the prisoner said in response, giving the tale to the sister of Lamphere, Mrs. H.

L. Finley, and her husband, of this city, who had been visiting Lamphere In the prison. It WAS no confession of crime only a story of the events immediately preceding the destruction of the Gunness house by fire. Lamphere said Mrs. Gunness gave him 84 to take a horse to Michigan City and to remain there over night.

He went, and, unable to get a room, returned to the Gunness places It was about 11 o'clock at night. He heard Mrs. Gunness and Andrew Helbeleln quarreling. He came back to Laporte. Next day he asked Mrs.

Gunness where Helgelein was. She told him had gone home to Norway, N. had left hurriedly just a few minutes after Lamphere had left with the horse for Michigan City. "No he did not." was the reply which Ray Lamphere told Warden Reid he made to Mrs. Gunness.

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a result of heavy rains to-day. A 5ood feared. Ice gorges are in many streams. FIFTY-MILE GORGE THREATENS. SPECIAL DISPATCH 10 THE ENQUIRER.

Hawesville, January 12. An ice gorge, which extends distance of 50 miler, threatens to break to-night. The gorge Alled with logs number of barges and the Utica (Ind.) wharfbort. A number of steamers and several barges and docks are in danger in the harbor bere. Snow at Sandusky.

DISPATCH TO TEE Sandusky, Ohio, January 13-Sandusky and surrounding country la in the grasp the worst snowstorm of the winter. Trains And interurban cars are late, and traffic on the city lines blocked entirely. Another period of Isolation such as experienced last February le feared. SOCIAL AFFAIRS. Mra.

Iredell, at her handsome home North Crescent avenue, Avondale, very handsome bridge party yesterday ernoon in honor of her daughter, Mra. John Tenney (Virginia Iredell), and Mrs. Howard Colby, of Plainfield, N. sister-in-law of Mrs. Tenney.

The Iredell home la the acme of luxurious comfort, the handsome rooms crowded with beautiful appointmenta, Done of which is too good for the daily pleasures of life, and the Joyous round of hospitallty that goes on there. Mrs. Iredell' received in handsome toilet of yellow lace over satin. Mra. Tenney wore pale blue satin with la valilere of diaMra.

Colby wore green chiffon with pearls and diamonda. Despite the wretched weather there were no regreta. The prizes, very handsome silver picture frames, fell to Mrs. Lee A. Ault, Mra.

Charles Stepheas, Mra. Forwood, Mrs. James Hutton, Mine Ruth Outcalt, Misa Murdock. There handsome collation and the afternoon was great Little Miss Virginia ILL. cooing in her nurse's arms, held court in the nursery, and is really quite beile already, following the traditions of her family.

The guests were Mrs. Addy, Mrs. L. Ault, Mrs. Walter H.

Field. Mra. Ed Murdock, Mra. Stacey Hill, Mrs. Miller Outcalt, Miss Worthington, Mra.

C. Gordon Nell. Mra. Forwood, the Misses Bradford, Mrs. Charles Stephens, Mrs.

F. R. Ellis, Mrs. Charles of Amsterdam, N. Mrs.

Richard Bishop, Mrs. Jim Hutton, Mra. Frank per, Mra. 8. P.

Pogue, Mrs. Robert Pogue Misses Elizabeth Bishop, Margaret Ellis and Bessie Langdon, Mrs. Charles Iredell and Miss Rust. Mra. James Edmond Ives gave a charming luncheon yesterday at her apartment at the Clermont, East Walnut Hills Mra.

Ives very attractive New England woman, the wife of Prof. Ives, who o- cupies the chair of physics at the university. Prof. and Mrs. Ives have been established in Cipcinnati three or four years, but Mrs.

Ives has spent but few months each year here, and it has been her custom daring that time to give a series of small lunchYesterday's affair was oDe of the most successful of these, and brought together dozen charming women. They were Mrs. Ives, Louis More, Mra. Jus. Perkins Dayton; and Miss her guest, Miss Anderson, of Roelker, Mrs.

John Herron. Mine Neave, Miss Kate Neave, Mra. Rufus Smith, Mra. Penton Lawson, Mra. Erie Sattier, Mrs.

H. A. Worcester and Mrs. Thos. Allen.

This evening "Dainty Dick." Pinero': clever four-act comedy, will attract society to the Scottish Rite Cathedral, The greatest interest le shown in the affair, which in the frat performance of the Vaudeville Club, and will set the pace for future tractions. Carriages may be ordered for 11 o'clock. To-day Mra. C. Gordon Neft and the Misses Bradford will entertain luncheon at the Country Club.

the The Damrosch reception this afternoon Binton will bring together an Interesting company in honor of the great conductor, wbose New York Symphony archentra tonight at ale Hall will present a program arranged in celebration of Mr. Damrosch'a nty-Afth year orcbestral leader. Miss Alice Parton, of College Hill, gave delightful card party yesterday at the home of her father, Judge Huston, in honor of Miss Kathleen Rammelsberg. Bridge was the diversion of the affair, followed by ingly afternoon done tea. In The tea table was pink roses; in a pathway of rice was bridal procession of dolls.

the boy dolla in the of dress clothes and the girl dolls gowned as the bride and bridesmaids will appear on the evening of the 28th at Laurel court. The guests were Miss Kathleen Rammelsberg. Miss Nellie Henshaw. Mrs. Cecil Gamble, Mine Lilian Miss Tthelwyn Carey, Mine Helen Mise- Mina Edith McCrea.

Miss Alice Wild and Mra. Butler. of Chattanooga, who in a goest of Miss Huston. pretty Mrs. ten John Williams, of Westwood, gave yesterday in honor of Mrs.

Karl Mrs. Williams by Mrs. Little and Mire In the evening Mrs. Williams Mrs. Little.

Miss Isabelle York, will pragut February he ter School, His will include ing Pot" From Home." A great inter in the Saturday mats riding school fully inaugurated Miss Louis ent taker will lend at 6:15 Mr. and Rd A rondale. announced of their daughter Margate 1 and Me Nooses. The thirty-fourth wedding Mr. and brated last night the Rafael.

bee the Big Four Fitch. is a a of 0 member Woman's Press Ping carnations table 1 I called Pitch arrived seven week's the fornia and Mrs. John Westwood, terday afternoon tie, a wedding cown with rose sheer satin; sliver Miss Susan robe over 100 guests night honor Kati tingly Music Department mittee day, Robert Langlande Shutt. Mrs. lowing gram: Dropper riette Adolph Mrs.

El Langdon MORGAN'S GIF Will Establish Memorial Late New of the establishment tan meeting memorial Ionian York CRUEL GUARDS D. Pr stockade, ICE GORGE In the Kansas River Broke, Causing Damage at Lawrence. Lawrence, January lee gorge in the Kansas River reached Lawrence to-day, carrying out a wagon bridge and causing several thousands dollars loss between Le Compton, 11 miles west, and Lawrence. The Ice was tossed 40 feet into the air. All trame between Lawrence and North Lawrence was stopped, and the electrie light plant was shut down.

North Lawrence schools were closed. LASHED TO MAST or Wrecked Steamer Three Men Still Battle For Life. Marshfield. January 13. The wrecked steamer Czarina was plainly ible from shore to-day, and half dozen men' could be seen lashed to the of the last remaining mast.

Two of the rigging six survivors on board the Czarina later dropped into the sea, and another of the four remaining men appeared to be dead. It is believed that among the others are Captain Duggan, and First Harrold Mills, the only passenger, Officer Hughes. The life sayers were unable to reach the Czarina. Early Robinson to-day was Second washed Assistant ashore. Engineer J.

WORST BLIZZARD In Years Is Sweeping Over Northwestern Ohio. SPECIAL DISPATON TO THE ENQUIRER Toledo. Oblo, January Toledo and Northwestern Ohio are to-night in the prisoner. were $130 day any of Globe Were The mark of the method for la Inventory Correspondence, la insures and quick finding and every Globe Were pledge against of quality surance of immediate in every article ment you bay Every and a that all her St 418 Cincinna.