Ironwood News-Record from Ironwood, Michigan • Page 14

WEALTH AVAILS NOT. ARTHUR DUESTROW MUST FACE THE CALLOWS. Etta Great Wealth Only Served to Influence the Jury Against of MUsouri Cannot Be Trilled. A. Notable Criminal Trial.

RTHUR Duestrow, whose trial for the murder of his wife and child at St'. Louis two years ago has been one of the most, notable cases in the criminal au- nals oi St. Louis, was convicted of murder in the first degree at a second trial which ended the other day iu Union City, Mo. The trial just concluded lasted three weeks and was a contest between lawyers aud medical experts. Duestrow is the son of a capitalist who left the young man.

an immense fortune, hut placed it in the hands oi a trust company, with the restriction of an income of to he paid to him for life, the principal to go to his heirs. Two years ago lie murdered his wife and child, a boy of 4. The best attorneys in St. Louis, led by Charles P. Johnson, were retained to defend him.

the case first came up a change of venue was taken to Union. A plea of insanity presented, and, after number of continuances, a trial was had to settle that question. The jury- was unable to agree. Another trial resulted in a verdict of sanity. Then was brought up for trial for the crime.

Last September the case was fought long and bitterly in the court and the result was a hung jury. Duestrow's wealth and the atrociousness of his crime have made his various trials of absorbing interest and public opinion has all along demanded his conviction. The prosecution argued he was drunk and not insane when he committed the crime. Duestrow shot his wife and child on the night of Feb. 13, 1894.

The principal witness for the state was Katie Hahn, a servant in the Duestrow home, who was present when husband and wife quarreled immediately before the murder. She testified Mrs. Duestrow was dressing when her husband drove up to the house. The wife sent her downstairs to ask if he intended to take her out. Duestrow cursed her for impudence, followed her into the house, and when his wife objected to jus abuse of the girl turned on her with curses.

The witness said he threatened to strike her, to which his wife objected. if you must strike anv- E. 0. Day, a hostler who drove Dues- trow from a livery stable to his home, testified that the murderer "had a nice little jag on," but was affable. Dues- trow told him he was going to take his wife out to Forest Park and asked him to wait until he returned with them.

The crime occurred within a few minutes, but when Duestrow left the witness he showed no signs of ugliness or anger. Duestrow aud his family spent the summer of 1S93 at Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. He lived there on his private yacht and spent his money with the prodigality of a prince. He had a beautiful wife and a little son 2 years of age. Outwardly he appeared a most devoted husband and father, but he had not been at the resort very long before strange rumors began to gain currency.

It was whispered about that the beautiful yacht was the scene of wild and uncanny orgies. People strolling on the banks of the lake at midnight had noticed that it was brilliantly lighted, while the faint sound of ribald songs and drunken laughter floated over the water. It was also said that on several occasions the screams of a woman, as if in agony, could he distinctly heard above the sounds of merriment. People looked curiously at the beautiful wife of the millionaire when she attended social gatherings. They noticed that her youthful face was becoming lined 'with care and that her eyes, when directed at her husband, dilated as if with fear or some other strong emotion.

She seemed to shrmU MR. JOHN G. WOOLLEY THE MAN WHO WANTS CHRISTIANS TO GET TOGETHER. Believes that by United Action They Coald Carry the Country for I'rohl- Be the Presidential Can- dldato of That 1'arty. j-5 the heat of the 11 national campaign I it would not be sur- I prising if the name of a Chicago man should be sounded all over the land as a presidential possibility, says the Times-Herald.

"I am out to kill the saloon, and to help men escape from the temptation of drink. I do not care who kills the liquor traffic. Whoever or whatever agency undertakes the work can count on my support." This is the platform upon which John G. Woolley, one of prohibition's foremost workers and most popular agita- ors, has taken his stand. It is scarcely the platform of the prohibition party, and might not suit the views of those vho believe that prohibition is a political issue to be fought for with machine tactics.

Mr. Woolley holds other views on the temperance question for which ae alone is responsible, and which have, no cioubt, contributed largely to lis fame as a successful worker in the cause of reform. He is known all over the country and has thousands of ardent admirers in the ranks of the old larties. His acquaintance with the rising generation is especially wide-reaching through his activity upon the lecture platform in behalf of the Young take up the practice of law in New York and assume char ge of certain, corporate interests. He declined an offer to be come a temperance agitator without any assured salary, aud has since that time declined even more nattering offers to re-enter the legal profession.

Mr. Woolley has persistently declined to be under anybody's management or to be held by any society, church or political party, or to issue circulars or lithographs of himself as a lecturer. He is a favorite speaker at Christian Endeavor conventions, and is believed to have addressed larger audiences upon his chosen subject than any other speaker. He spoke 100 consecutive nights in Minneapolis, "thirty nights in New Haven, and sixty nights in Boston. He has traveled in England, Scotland and Wales, making friends wherever be went.

HE ENDED HIS LIFE. PATHETIC STORY OF LAWYER VANTON'S SORROW. MRS. DUESTROW. from his very touch, and yet she obeyed him with a servile obedience that was in itself a matter of comment.

Duestrow did not make many friends, but to those he singled out as companions he appeared a well-read, affable man of the world and undeniably a geutlernan. MISS AMY BEND. tht; ARTHUR DUESTROW. said the wife, and the husband said, "All and struck her. Twice this happened, the witness said.

Then he took the baby and ran downstairs. "I begged Mrs. Duestrow to let me go home," continued the witness, "anC he heard us talking. He came running upstairs with the baby on his arm, and drawing his pistol, he held it out at hoth of us. Mrs.

Duestrow said: 'Doa fool with your pistol, Arthur, you'r He said: Til show you who's Then I became frightened and ran upstairs. I heard her pleading with him not to shoot her, saying: 'Don't, Arthur, for your family's Then came the pistol shots. I heard him say, 'Goo'd-by. Tinie." just as he shot. Then making up my mind I would be killed if I stayed upstairs.

I ran down. As I passed through the hall I heard Diies- trow say German to his wife: 'Tinie. hist du and saw him pick up ths child by the arm. I turned my eyes away and heard the shot. I then ran on downstairs and outdoors, hearing two more shots as I ran." The witness testified that had abused his wife several times and called her vile On one occasion he had their child in the bathroom and when it began to cry the mother went in 10 get it.

The husband called her a vile name, ordered her out of the room and kicked her "in the back. One night the servant heard a rumpus upstairs and when Mrs. Dues- trow came in the morning she had a black eye. On CTOss-exaTP. the witness testified that Duestrow remained at Humored ttuvt SIio Will Itecoj: Bride of YV.

K. Vundcrbilt. New York society has now a new theme to discuss, and, as it concerns Willie K. Vanderbilt, it is an interest in one. The gossips have it ail mapped out already.

Mr. Yanderbilt is to marry again, and the young woman is Misa Amy Bend. Although no formal announcement of the engagement has been made, there are those who say thai this wedding is inevitable. If Mr. Yan- derbilt were not a divorced man the whole affair would have been settled long ago, but even the boldest have refrained from congratulating the gentle man and lady as yet from consideration only of the latter's feelings.

Miss Bern is a beautiful girl and of the znos chroming personality, and a great fa- vorfte in the exclusive set. Mr. Van derbilt has been openly paying her such extreme attention that an anticipation of the final result is a matter of no logic at all. It htis been said on wha seems pretty good authority that Mr Van derbilt has ben paying her court sad this would not be at all surprising if all the stories they tell are true. Re cently Mr.

Vanderbilt gave a gorgeous luncheon at the Waldorf, and Miss Bend was one of the very few guests. Wha more could be desired as evidence One of the 3tarvels. Among the collection of the microscopic objects in the United States Army Medical Museum at Washington is a specimen of microscopic writing on glass which contains the Lord's Prayer, written in characters so small that the entire 227 letters of that petition are engraved within an area measuring 1-29-i by 1-441 of an inch. An inch square, covered with writing of the same size, or counting 227 letters to each of such fractions would contain 29,431,458 letters. The Bible is a book of which we may safely assume that everyone has an approximate idea as regards its general size or extent.

Someone has actually determined the number of letter's contained in the Old and New Testaments, and finds this to be 3,566,480. Hence the number of letters which a square inch of glass would accommodate, written, out like the text of "-'the Lord's Prayer on this strip of glass, is more than eight times this last number; or, AMY BEND. New York will soon have another wedding? Jcnlnnsy Prompts a. Horrible Crime. At Swansea, a few days aro.

Frank Jones, superintendent of tae Swansea Coal company's mines, quarreled with his wife, of whom he was home the night before the murder. Ke insanel jealous, and. procuring his had a magic lantern, amusing his child. He brought it home himself. The evening was passed in this way until about o'clock, when the baby was pnt to bed.

About witness brought a bot- tie of beer tip to Duestrow. Then she went to bed. She next saw him at 6 o'clock in the morning. She saw him in his bedroom sitting on a chair, all dressed. His wife and baby were in bed.

He asked her politely to get his paper for him and also to fix the furnace. This hour -was early for him. He usually got up at 9 or 10 o'clock. She noticed nothing -unusual about him. He did not seem nervous to her.

He told Mrs. Duestrow that he was going downtown to get some kind of heaters for the house. shotgun, fired a load of buckshot into her breast, inflicting injuries believed to be fatal. The couple were at home with their two children when the shooting occurred. After the tragedy Jones went out in the streets, still armed.

and defied arrest. It is said he suspected his wife, who is a beautiful young woman 20 years of age. of being too free in her attentions to other men. Cheeses. The principal cheeses made in England are Stilton.

C'nesshire, Cheddar. Gloucester, Wiltshire and Leicester. Two cheeses somewhat resembling Stilton are also made at Wensleydale, in Yorkshire, and Catherstone, in Northumberland. After a Faw Months of Wedded Life Ills Wife Mudu Serious Charge's Aga.nst Jlim ami Suit for Divorce. FRANKFORT, the other day, Attorney Samuel Vanton was found dead in his oflice.

A bullet hole in the temple and a revolver lying on the floor told that the wound had been self-inflicted. The lawyer's decision to die is supposed to be the result of an unhappy marriage. Last July Vauton, who had been a widower for many years, married Mrs. Frankie A. Meeker, a wealthy society woman of Quincy, 111., and two mouths later his wife had deserted him, returning to her old home.

Later she filed a suit against her husband, claiming that he had misappropriated $1,500 of her funds. The suit was finally dismissed, but the loss of his bride weighed very heavily on Vanton's mi ml and he frequently talked to his friends of his trouble. On Saturday three weeks ago he was last seen alive. On that day he called at the First National bank. In a conversation with Cashier Si dwell he incidentally remarked that livng alone as ihe was and having no family, it was his desire that Mr.

Sidwell or A. A. Laird should settle up his business in. case anything should happen to him. He also called upon Mr.

Laird and expressed the same wish, but, being of a very eccentric character, his friends thought little of his actions until some time afterward, when it occurred to them that they had seen nothing- of the attorney during the week. Going to his office, they found the door locked. A policeman was summoned, and, breaking in the door, found the body. In the dead man's hand was a brief note telling where his funeral garb and clean linen could be found. Mr.

Vanton was about 55 years of age and went to Frankfort in 1S75 from Middietown, N. Y. It was not known that he had any children living until he told Cashier Sidwell that he had a son living in Middletowii, and it rras his desire that the son should have his property. Vanton, while a finely educated man and able lawyer, had many peculiarities. With the exception of his two months' honeymoon he for many years did his own cooking and lived in his oflice.

A new dirk on his desk indicated that his intention was originally to cut his throat, but the fact that Charles H. Anderson tried this route A TRIP TO THE GARDEN SPOTS OF THE SOUTH. On March 10, tickets will be sold from principal cities, towns aud villages of the north, to all points oil the Louisville Nashville Railroad in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and a portion of Kentucky, at one single fare for the round trip. Tickets will be good to return within thirty days and will allow stop-over at any points on the south bound trip. Ask your ticket agent about it, and it' he can not sell you excursion tickets write to C.

P. Atmore, General Passenger Agent, Louisville, or Jackson Smith, D. P. Cincinnati, J. K.

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TO CALIFORNIA In I'ulliuaii Tourist Sleeping Cars. The Burlington Route (C. B. Q. R.

ruu personally conducted excursiona to California, leaving Chicago every Wednesday. Through cars to California destination, fitted with carpets, upholstered seats, beddiug, toilet rooms, every convenience. Special agent in charge. Route via Denver and Salt Lake. Sunshine all the way.

Write for descriptive pamphlet to T. A.Grady, Excursion Manager, 211 Clark Chicago. A Lonely House. It is stated that the gamekeeper's cottage in Skiddaw forest is entitled to the distinction ot" being the loneliest house in England. During the summer the gamekeeper or his wife may be seen trudging back from Keswick, round by Lonsdale Pell, laden with the week's supplies.

The nearest way to Keswick is the path by the Whit Beck, and that is five and a half miles of as rough walking as can be well compressed into that district. The house has the additional distinction of beiug the only one in the township, but it is said that the occupier is unable to vote, because there is no overseer to make out a voter's list and no church door on which to post it. HAS TAKEN TO BLOOMERS. A California Woman Woaring Them the Street. During a recent heavy rainstorm In.

Oakland, Mrs. W. J. Burwell ot 957 Franklin street, that city, got her skirts very much bedraggled, and as a consequence was laid up with, a severe sold. While confined to her room by this illness Mrs.

Burwell determined to abandon skirts for street wear In. winter and to substitute therefor the. bloomer costume. She laid the matter before- her husband and explained to him the advantages to be derived by a woman wearing bloomers over one wearing skirts. Mr.

Burwell went out into the storm and observed -women dragging their dresses along In" the mud and rain. Then he returned home and decided in favor of the bloomers, and Mrs. Burwell lost no time in preparing a costume which she designed herself. It consists of bloomers very full and reaching to the knee, and knit leggings, which reach down over the shoes. The coat buttons up around the waist and haogs gracefully about the form.

When she made her first public, appearance it; this costume she was the object- ot much comment on the part of men; some women also objected to the iou. But Mrs. Burwell was not dis-" mayed. She expected to hear remarks made by men, but she did not expect a chilly reception from the women. She experienced such comfort and convenience in her novel attire, however, that she found no difficulty in facing adverse criticism from other members JOHN G.

WOOLLEY. People's-Society of Christian Endeavor temperance reform. He has been a resident of Chicago since the early part of 1893. Party is a secondary matter with Mr. Woolley so long as thetemperance cause is advanced.

He considers his work to be the education of the consciences of young men that they may lead right lives, and believes the best way to do this is to avoid partisan methods. He is satisfied with simply urging all persons to refuse affiliation with political parties that refuse to deal frankly with the liquor traffic. Much has been written of Mr. Woolley's life, his success, his fall through drink, his conversion, and his devotion to the cause in which he is now working. His father's family were among the early settlers of this country, coming from England In 1653 and settling at Newport, R.

I. Mr. Woolley was born at CoIHnsville, Ohio, his father, Edwin C. Woolley, being a prominent physician. Early in the 60s the family moved to Paris, and at the age of 17 the young man held a prominent position in the public schools.

Mr. Woolley was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan College in 1871, went abroad, and on his return entered the law department of the University of Michigan. He was admitted to the bar in 1873 in the Supreme court of Illinois, when ihe chief justice pronounced his showing on examination the most brilliant of all he had known. After practicing four years in Illinois he moved to Minneapolis, where he entered Supreme court practice, becoming state's attorney and a leading lawyer in criminal cases. In 1SS5 he was called to the Supreme court of the United States.

He next engaged in civil practice and conducted to a succesful issue one of the most important commercial litigations the northwest, in -which, as the representative of a New York syndicate, he attacked a transfer of property on the ground of fraud, and by one argument recovered $2,000,000 for his clients. Mr. Woolley became known as one of the most successful lawyers in the northwest. He is said to have received the highest fees of any lawyer in Minnesota, having once heen paid $500 in gold for a speech of Sve minutes In a successful plea for mercy for a convicted criminal. In 18SS Mr.

Woolley was offered by General Fisk and others associated with him a large salary to in other words a square inch of glass would accommodate the entire text of the Bible eight times over, written out as is the Lord's Prayer on this strip of glass. Justice Brevror-K Clmrminc Justice Brewer's two unmarried daughters are extremely attractive young -women and are as popular Washington society as they were in their Kansas home. Miss Elizabeth Brewer, the younger, was one of last year's debutantes. She is a charming young woman, highly educated and with the advantage of much European travel. Indeed, all the children of Justice and Mrs.

Brewer fall within this discription. They aro remarkable linguists and converse in six or seven languages. Miss Elizabeth, or "Betty," has a pronounced artistic instinct and is a talented amateur pianist. She turns her taste to a practical account also, and the pretty frocks she wears are of her own designing. As a ELIZABETH BREWER.

consequence she is more handsomely gowned than the majority of Washington girls. FRANKIE AlVANTON. and failed a week before is thought to have caused him to select a revolver. Prosye roils Fur morn. Yankton Press and Dakotian: In Yankton County, South Dakota, there are at least one thousand farmers who came here as poor as the proverbial turkey of Job and who to-day count their worldly possessions by thousands.

Many of them started in with a house built of sod, and almost empty handed BO far as horses and cattle go. Today they occupy fine dwelling houses, have large barns, fine horses, cattle, hogs and sheep, granaries filled with grain, fruit orchards and money in hand. We mention this to show "that South Dakota farmers are the prosperous class. Prosperity Is the the exception. With fair prices for grain aud live stock they would be rolling in wealth.

Prices, however, have nothing to do with the fertility of the soil and the favorable character of the climate. These natural advantages are here to stay and assure prosperity to the farming classes. A copy of an illustrated pamphlet on "Irrigation in South Dakota," just issued by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway, can be had by addressing W. E.

Powell, General Immi-. gration Agent, Chicago, III. A Question of. Tcmperjiture. When Dr.

Kenealy, being returned to parliament by, the electors of Stoke, took an early opportunity of moving a vote of censure on the judges, he found a teller in Mr. Whalley. On the house dividing, it was found that 433 men of all parties voted in the negative. Dr. Kenealy's proposition being supported by single member.

The single member was Major O'Gorman. Asked afterward why he had gone against his own party, for once merged in the majority, the major, mopping his massive answered: "Bedad, it's a hot night, and I knew there would be more room in the 'aye' lobby." Sho Worked sis a At Meadville the discovery was made that Henry a jail prisoner held there to answer a charge of arson, is a woman. The prisoner confessed that she is Mrs. Harriet Vandegriff, of Harrisburg, where she says she has 15-year-old son. Her husband is (lead.

She worked as hired man for David Peters, near Meadville, but quarreled with him and left on account of Peters' jealousy for the "hired man's" attentions to his wife. Jan. 18 Peters' barn was burned, and next morning Vandegriff was found in a neighboring barn sick. Now Mrs. Vandegriff is in the female department and says she is glad her deception has been discovered.

AIRS. BURWELL IN STREET COSTUME. of her sex. Her appearance at entertainments and on shopping tours caused a sensation, but Mrs. Burwell paid no heed.

She just went about her business on the principal streets, and that the new costume is a decided: success. Now she is going to form a bloomer club to be composed only oE married women who desire to dress for comfort and not for style. It shall be, the duty oE every member of the proposed club to wear the Burwell pattern of bloomers whenever it rains. A set of rules will be' agreed upon, and these must be strictly carried out. Mrs.

Burwell thinks that all that is needed in Oakland to make her costume a success Is a leader who is fearless and will do what she believes is right. She is willing to undertake the task of leading the reform movement. Mrs. Burwell says that whenever it rains she will be seen in her bloomers. It is a matter of principle and comfort.

Delirious Itt.irTs Frerik. J. C. Thompson, a member of the firm of Smith, Adams wholesale grocers of Springfield. became wildly delirious at the homeopathic hospital at Albany, N.

the other night. He attempted to kill the two physicians who were attending him by throwing them out of a third-story window. Supt. Congdon. of the house staff.

was hit on the head by a pitcher in the hands of Thompson. He a. fractured and is seriously but Tint fatally injured. Thompson wil! ably die. He is suffering from typiiok' i pneumonia.

I Florida Fiicits. February and March are two of the best months of the year to visit Florida. The climate is fine and the social features at their height of interest. When you have made up your mind to go, you naturally Avant to go there as soon as possible and in the most comfortable manner. No matter whether you live in St.

Louis, Chicago, Peoria, Indianapolis, Columbus, Cleveland, Buffalo. New York or Boston, you can take one the magnificent trains of the "Big Four Route" from any one of these cities to Cincinnati, and with only one change of cars continue your journey to Jacksonville. Direct connections made in Central Union station, Cincinnati, with through trains of all lines to Florida. Call on or address any agent of the "Big Four or address E. O.

McCormick, Passenger Traffic manager, or D. B. Martin. General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Cincinnati, Ohio. Collecting Street Car TlcJceU.

Heinrich Fellmeth, professor of commercial science at Munich, recommends the collection of street car tickets. He has founded a monthly bulletin, "Trambilletsport," the object of which is to give pictures of tickets used for car fare In great cities, and furnish detailed information about them. He wishes to establish a society and a trambillet bourse. Marrictl His Nurse. A year ago Chester Smith, a lineman in the employ of the Central Union Telephone company at was seriously injured by a faJ! from the top of a high telephone pole.

He was conveyed to a hospital, where a charming little nurse ministered to his wants for many weeks. Her name was Elia Hynes of Brookpton. and they grew so fond of each other that the pretty romance culminated in their marriage one clay the past week. Cheap Kxrnrsinns to Great Southwest. On March 10, 1896, the Santa Fe route will run a series of homeseekers' excursions from the east to principal points in Arkansas, Arizona, Southern Missouri, Oklahoma, Indian Territory and Texas.

Ticket rate will bo about one fare for round-trip, with liberal limits and stop-over privileges. These Santa Fe Route excursions will enable you to take a Midwinter trip into a new country. By addressing G. T. Nicholson.

G. P. Monadnock Building, Chicago, yon can obtain free literature descriptive of the Great Southwest. IVonWn't IMscrace ITcrseJr. A woman confined in the New London.

jail was offered the freedom of the sheriffs house if she would assist in the house work. She stuck up her nose, said she was no domestic and stayed right in her little cell. She is charged with murder. Versonnllr Conducted -Excursions to Call- Via the Chicago. Union Pacific North-Western Line, in upholstered tourist sleeping cars, leave Chicago every Thursday via the North-Western Line.

Low rates, picturesque route, quickest time and careful attention are advantages offered to those who jofn these excursions. Cost of berth only $6. Ask your nearest ticket agent for full particulars or address W. B. ICniskern G.

P. T. Chicago, HI. HER PRAYER ANSWERED. In Ucr Prison Coll Sho Asked God tix.

GIvo Jlor Liberty. Nellie a little girl scarcely 1C years old, pale-faced and sorrowful prayed all one night the past week in the Central police station of Cleveland, kneeling on the cold cement floorl She asked that the judge and prosecutor release her and not send her to the reform school at Lancaster. Turnkey Dangler heard her praying as follows: "Please, God, I don't want to go ta Lancaster. Won't you please make Mr. Fiedler and Mr.

McConnell let me go free? I'll be a good girl, and won't play 'hookey' no more." Then she alternated with, "Now lay me down to sleep," "Our Father, who art in. There is money to be made in Cripple Creek. When you go take the "Rock Island Route" to Colorado Springs. This is the only direct several hours' time to Cripple Creek. Send for full information.

JOHN SEBASTIAN. General Passenger Agent, Chicago, NELLIE COYAN. heaven." always returning to the fervent request to be allowed to go home- Dangler was moved by the appeal and communicated to Judge Fiedler what he had heard. His honor was touched by the story and when court was opened he had Nellie brought before him. The little girl promised to be good and go to school every day, and as her mother interceded she was given her liberty.

Xo in Kncland. In England the gymnasium is known. The evenness of. the climate makes outdoor exercise possible throughout the year and a warni- bhocieri Englishman develops his mtrs- clc and brawn from walking, rowing" and runnine in the ooen air..