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SEDAXIA THE TELEGRAPH SERVICE OF THE DEMOCRAT-SENTINEL IS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. litabfincd 1880. KXVII. 1868. Vol.

XL. Consolidated 1907. TWO.PARTS-SEDALIA, MISSOURI, SUNOAYMORNING DECEMBER ONE VOL 2, NO. 287. PRICE FIVE CENTS BLOODY FINGER PRWIS MAY LEAD TO THE DISCOVERY OF PERPETRATOR OF BRUTAL MURDER.

OK wi IS umaoi unde unEST many kinds of first class brick may be manufactured, and at the meeting; Monday he will submit to the people of Sedalia a proposition looking tr- the establishment cf the industry. Secretary Mellor is confident that this is a splendid opportunity for Sedalia, and every person who is Interested in the upbuilding of the city is urged to be at the of the Business association at 3 tonionow afternoon Spooner is Under Consideration. Circumstantial Evidence Points Very Strongly to His Missouri Farmer Found in Cellar. Head Beaten in td Democrat-Sentinel. Vandalia.

Dec. finger prints upon a joist in the collar of the storehouse in w'hich August Wagner, a young farmer living three miles from Vandalia, was found dead yesterday mornjng with bis skull crushed, may lead to the undoing of his slayer. This feature of the crime that has stirred all of Audrain county is anala- gous with Mark murderer of fame. and great importance is placed upon the gory imprints by the authorities That Wagner was lured into cellar of an outbuilding in the rear of his home and killed as he stooped to lift a box of potatoes or apples from the floor is the theory of Sheriff A. D.

Johnson, Prosecuting Attoruev John D. Orear, and Prosecuting Attorney-elect E. S. Gantt, who, wdth other offlcers, are conducting a rigid investigation. Luther, also known as Anderson, formerly a sailor and recently proprietor of a restaurant at Faberr, a little town and one-half miles from the Wagner farm, is charged with murder in the first degree in a warrant swon out today.

He is now a Iloarst Service. Hot Springs. Dec. Senator John C. Spooner, of Wiscon- i sili, has been meniioiuMl as the suc- Cf of Elihii Root as secretary of i state, and President-Bleet Taft is now considering bis appointment.

EIGHSTA6 IN TURMOIL HAVE A CARE EXTRAORDINARY SCENE OCCURRED IN PARLIAMENT TODAY. THE EMPEROR! WAS FREELY CRITICISED One of His Defenders Started to Reply, but Became Hysterical and War. Carried Shrieking and Sobbing From Chamber. (Hearst News Service.) Berlin, Dec. extraordnarv scene occurred in the reichstag today, furnishing striking evidence of the extremely high tension to which German politicians have been stiZng by recent events.

The setting of the scene a spirited discussion of the imperial prisoner in the county jail at Mexi- course of which ani- mated reference w'as made to the na- Anderson protests his innocence in program and the foreign situa- the face of circumstantial evidence and has engaged counsel. His preliml- ate, and such third person as they! might select; or to these two logeth er with Mr. Judson or Mr. Lehmann. 0.

tion in Germany. Flerr Scheldemann, socialist, at- CAUSED A RIDT la the tragedy the officers are probing the sale of a span of mules by Wagner to Anderson. The slain man informed his neighbors and a dozen friends in SUFFRAGETTES IN LONDON INTERRUPT CHANCELLOR OF EXCHEQUER. iiary hearing Is set for Monday tacked the government, and vehe- Vandalia. He Is about 25 years gently criticised the action of th-s kaiser.

At the conclusion of Herr Schelde- speech. Lieutenant Colonel Goltz, commissioner of the federal council, arose to reply. He uttered the opening words of Vandalia that he was to receive address, then suddenly stopped $337.35 from Anderson for the mutes. and burst into a hysterical shriek of One Had Chained Herself to Her THE DFFIGERS RAD ID REMDVE THEM He more than once expressed a fear jaughter. that Anderson, who had been carried shrieking and sob- possession of the mules, would not building.

pay him. Anderson Insists that paid Wagner $336.35 last Tuesday. Said if Their Cause Failed It Would Be Their Own Fault. (Hearst New's Service.) London, Dec. 5.

Suffragettes of During the debate, Herr Sydew, secretary of the imperial treasury. On Thursday, the day on which he is details of the supposed to have been killed. Wag expenditures. ner told Clarence Farnsworth, his. followed by speakers of va-' en-aged in a riotous dem- nenrest neighbor, that he had not re- parties who criticised the in- reived the money, but had been prom- creased celerity shown in building onstration against Da Ised It bv Anderson that day.

a fact that a member of George, chancellor of the exchequer, ner was never again Seen alive. center party said was taken as a this afternoon, wiiiie he w'as dellvev- Wagner, the 70-year-old fath- challenge by other nations. ing a speech at a meeting held hy er of the victim, and the ow'ner of ihe Liberal federation atAi- boys bad escaped from the reform school at BoOnville. requesting the officers to be on the lookout. young men are thought to have board an K.

T. train for Sedalia, but up to a late hour last night uei I her had been Bank Is Closed, Hearst News Service. Pearl. Dec. private bank of C.

A. inventor of the navamoltlle and an invention lo prevent safe robberies, has been iosed. A PRDPDSAL TD PAINTER WANTS THE QUESTION OF LIEUTENANT GOVERNORSHIP SETTLED SOON. MR. GMELIGH WRITES A LDNG LETTER Oil Barge Foundered; Seven Perish.

St. Johns, N. Dec, men perished when Standard Oil No. Idl foundered in a gale off Sea island, according to a of the accident which was brought to Shelbonrne, N. by the tug John Hughes, which was towing the hafgo.

ANTI-FLUtTS BOYS AND GIRLS IN OVER VIGILANCE" OF MEW CENSOR. THE STUDENTS OF THE OPPOSITE SEXES Were Licensed to Wed. Marriage licenses were issued to the following Saturday: Walter Carpenter, Lamonte; Nora Breeden, Green Ridge. James Louis Wicker, Hotistonla; Alice A. Houcben, Houstonia.

INTO A MOTOR GAR MISSOURI PACIFIC TRAIN TORE THE BUZZ WAGON ALMOST TO PIECES. HAPPENED NEAR INDEPENDENCE, MO Conductor Hiram Train Hit Auto While Going at High Rate of Was Hurled Forty Feet. Hiram special on the Missouri Pacific, by Engineer Frank Raymond, crashed into an automobile in the Kansas City yards Saturday morning, demolishing the machine, as will be seen by the following item from last Kansas City Star: The locomotive of a Missor.M Pa cific passenger train crashed into a motor car in which Monroe Lee and Eugene Welsh, of Kansas City, were riding this morning near Independence. Both escaped injury, aUhougn the collision cut off the front end of the motor car back of the front wheels within a foot of the boys eaf Indians Defeated Denver. Denver, Dec.

Carlisle Indians defeated the Denver foutltall team this l)y a score of 8 to 4. proposes to Democratic Candidate That a Bi-Partisan Committee Decide Who Was Elected November 3d. the acres which his son farmed, carae lo Vandalia yesterday from home in Piper City, Ford county, 111., and accompanied the young body back to the sorrowing mother today. The elder grief was inconsolable. He declared he had been warned in a vivid dream last day night that all was not well with his son, and had only been prevented from hurrying to Vandalia by his wife, wiio, he said, quioted his fears and cautioned him not to venture on the journey in the inclement er.

Con.stable J. S. Atkinson and Deputy Constable Joe Gray were the first officers to reach the Wagner farm. They found the young farmer on his knees in the cellar of the outhouse, his head mashed to a pulp, evidently by a blunt instrument. His bead rested against the side of a barrel full of apples, and the rays of II lantern showed blood spots everywhere.

It was dark in the cellar, though the sun shone outside. 8 ENEIIIIL MRIIIES Head of Revolutionary Army Welcomed With Delight. Hearst News Service. Port All Prince, Dec. Antoine Simon, at the head of In's revo- bert hall.

In his speech the chancellor promised that the bill granting the franchise to w'oraen would soon be introduced in parliament. The organizers of the meeting, who are strongly opposed to the violent methods of the militant suffragettes, had taken the precaution of havings imionary army of 8 00 i. entrv into this city at 8 cloci? this disturbance The suffragettes got into action ps DAVIS MURDER CASE ADJOURNMENT TAKEN AT NOON SATURDAY UNTIL MON day MORNING. AN EFFORT TO IMPEACH MRS. ABBIE RICE morning.

He was quietly welcomed by a eommonoed. Chancellor George had scarcely op- of citizens and presente. a crown of palms. It was expected that he es oned his mouth when a woman in ihe we w-ant is after touring the city. Inste.irt or proceeded at once to Witness Swore He Saw Herr at 1 A.

M. on Morning Dr. Rustin Was Had Testified She Was Two Miles Away. this, he set up headquarters ve her. Tuit had difficulty.

in a residence on the Champ de Mars. found that the interrupter IN iPORTINT (yVilt Be Held at Office of Mellor at 3 P. M. Monday. He was received with wild everywhere he went.

6 EITINDIM RUNNER Smallwood Distanced Famous Redskin Champion. An important meeting is to be held at the office of Secretary W. Mei- lor, of. the Bitsiness Men associa aT 3 tomorrow to meet Messrs. J.

E. and C. H. to the crowd rushing out upon had chained herself to her seat. Momentary silence followed, which Mr.

George endeavored to continue his speech. Then an other volley of interruptions, during which several more women were for- cibly removed. After repeated efforts. Mr. George I was allowed tn say: bill to en- Hearst News Service.

w-omen will soon be intro Philadelphia. Dec. defeated Tom Longboat, the famous speaking of the danger of reaction long-distance Indian runner, in a ten- in against the cause on ac- mile race held tonight, Vy a of the tactics adopted by Ian and a quarter. i sections of It, he appealed to the Smallwood took the lead in the sev- jjien present to do their utmost to enth mile and held it to the f.nish. rather than to retard the move- Longlmat was unable to finish ow-- ment.

If this chance to get what they Jefferson, City, Dec. F. Gmelich, republican candidate for lieutenant governor, addressed a letter last night to William R. Painter, his democratic opponent, in which he makes a number of suggestions as to how it shall be determined which of them is entitled to the office of lieutenant governor. He first proposes Governor J.

W. Folk and Attorney H. S. Hadley as tw'o of a committee and they lo name the third, and then goes on and suggests several other commiti tees of prominent citizens of St Louis and Kansas City, and even suggests one to be composed of two democrats and one republican. The letter.

in part, follows: What the people of Missouri want Associateod Press. people of Mis Omaha, Dec. I j.ouri want is that the one of us who Btan.iing the announcement of received the most votes for lieuten- Sears yesterday that there would bo governor should get the office. session this afternoon of the trial I am willing that this question of Charles E. Davis, charged with the pe submitted to a commission murder of Dr.

Rustin, when adjourn- Qf three members, composed of Gov- ment was taken at noon today it Folk. Attorney General Hadley nnill Monday morning. This was ai such third person as they may the suggestion of attorneys for the agree upon. defendant. I Or.

I am willing that this question Testimony tending to impeach that should be submitted to Mr. T. K. of Mrs. Abbie Rice, the star witness the chairman and the demo- for the nrosecution, Introduced cratic member of the board of elee was hurled into a corn field ing the road.

The motor car turned half around, the boys seated in it. the wheels having turned as though on a pivot. Monroe Lee, 17 years old, is a son of Samuel N. Lee. president of the Argyle Investment company.

Eugene Welsh is a son of Milton Welsh, 1514 Lin wood boulevard. Thefr car was a Buick roadster. were going hunting and drove out Fifteenth street toward Independence. Lee was driving the motor car. slowed down as we the Missouri Pacific tracks, three miles west of Lee said canopy top of the car was up I looked up down the track, bu could not see more than thirty feet either way.

Half of the car was across the first rail when I heard a whistle. The train was within Lwen ty feet of us. The motor car was running so slowly that my first im pulse was to back up. The motor car stopped, then began to back slow ly. When we started back, the sea of the motor car was directly over the track.

first thing I knew- we hai been turned about and w'ere tacftig toward Kansas City. We sat in the machine, which was tilted, front end resting on the body of the car. I looked out from under the top as we sal there and saw several persons on the train looking back at The train w'as going fully forty miles an was no signal at the crossing and the bell w-as n- 3 ringing as the train approached fhc crossing. I found one cylinder of the motor car ergine feet away. Every spoke in both front w-heers w-as demolished.

The hubs and tires were They Meet and Discuss Matters tfia Faculty Feel Confident Do Not Have to Do With matical Problems. md Cable to Democrat-Sentinel. (Hearst News Service.j Dec. students of Glasgow University, both boys girls, are up in arms against an flirting campaign waged against by on the The solemn senate of the university has been pained to observe that wffien students of opposite sexes meet their discourse is not always ed to mathematical problems, tifie theories or the aphorisms of to. A censor of morals has therefore been sternest, mhst mature and most forbidding of ladf ecturers.

So effective was vigl- a nee that for days none of the dared to sneak to a girl student oit the university grounds. At all the universities In the United Kingdom women are now admitted to practically all the lectureii W'hich are attended by men, but there has never been any need of a specially appointed censor to keep watch and ward over their daily inter course with each other. At Oxford and Cambridge the lady undergraduates from SomerviHe, dy Girt on, Newnham or other colleges, are almost var ialy accompanied by a who keeps a watchful eye on her pupils during the lectures. But" at non-resldential universities the have hitherto been regarded am able to tahe care of have less flirtations. I paid a Igdf student at University college.

don. on the the men and women look upon each other merely as good pals, if they are friendly at all. present circumstances know of no case in which any girl has had to be taken to task for flirting. say, with the men students, Imt I do know of many firm friendshlpm and at least marriages which have resulted from our co-educatloii av.steni.” this morning. A block watchman testified to hav tion commissioners of St.

Louis, Mr Schnurmacher, the republican ing seen her within a block of the j)er of that board, and such third per- cusker. of Jftmestonwn. N. whr the track, have been hero for a week past, in vestigatiiig the clay deposks near 10 2-5 seconds. Sedalia, with a view of putting in a plant and entering into the manufae- Hire of brick on an extensive scale.

want was thrown away, he said, ir Smallwood's time was 65 minutes would be entirely due to their folly or lunacy, as exhibited today by some of those who felt they had been tis- Infant Girl Passed Away. An infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mr. J.

E. Mecusker stated to Ihe Henry SmlHi. 414 West Cooper Democrat-Sentinel Saturday that street, died at 6 Saturday there are three distinct bodies of eveninir and will be buried io Crown clav near Sedalia, from which as Hill eerijetery today. sisting the cause. RusrJn home at 1 o'clock on the morn Ing of the killing of Dr.

Rnstln. when according to her testimony, she was son as they may select. Or, I am willing that this question rhouid be left to Governor Folk, Mr. asleep at the honse of riara Gieason. Hadley and Mr.

F. Lehmann or Mr. F. N. Jiidson.both of whom are Associatea PRRPERTt LOSS IS 650,000 IIGHRISTIISJNEDDINS Mr.

Hunter F. Smith and Miss Kathryn Wyan, by Rev. Campbell. Hunter F. Smith, a young farmer of Biinceton.

and Miss Kathryn Wyan, stenographer at the F. E. Hoffman insurance agency, will he united 1 marriage at the home cf the young parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.

J- Wyan, Tw'enty-fourth atreet and Ohio avenue, at It on the morning of Thursday, Dec. 24. Rev. F. Y.

Campbell, pastor of the First Baptist church, will perform he ceremony, which will be ed only by relatives and a few intimate friends. The bridal couple will leave at I that afternoon for a honeymoon tour of the east, after which they will go to Bunceton to make heir home in a recently erected five- room cottage which Mr. Smith three miles east of Bunceton. The ormalities of bridesmaid and will be dispensed with, but a sumptuous wedding dinner will be served immediately after the ceremony. Mr.

Smith is an IndustHous and popular young farmer, quite well known In this citv. and to him and to the young lady whom he has chosen for life the Democfiral Sentinel extends congratulations But After Fioodc the Arkansas R'vcr Is Falling. two miles away. The testimony wa'J democrats, but both of whom are re- partially corroborated by that of a garded as among the ablest and street car motorman. Minor Leagues to Protest.

Pine Bluff, Dec. 5 causing actual property loss of almost one est minded mem hers of the St. Louis hundred and and an estimated depreciation in val- Or. I am willing to leave the decis- to adjoining of ion of this question to Mr. Skinkee a million Arkansas river and Schnurmacher and Mr.

Jud at this point today is slowly fa.lng Boys Escaped From Reform School. A telephone mes.sage to the local auihorities last night that two Hearst News Service. Milwaukee. Dec. or Mr.

Lehmann. O'Firien, of the Or, I am willing that the decision trnnp with his attornev New of this question should be left to Mr has gone with chairman and the this cit.v. hot now of North Snrlng A Talk by Fr. HooJy. The Rev.

Fr. D. Healy. formet ly of Yn 1 to nresent the ease of tho minor J. M.

Lowe. hs ohlu and to domard sat- democratic member of the board of field. hooked to deliver an is.actiòi the national com- election commissions of Kansas Cllv. addre.ss before the Humane s. eiety I Epperson, bis republican associ- there on December 17.

MM BECOltCIISMPIDN Jem DrUcoll Won An6.ther in Philadelphia Night. Hearst News Service. Philadelphia, Dec. by the way Driscoll, of Cardiff, going through with his American bouts, he is headed for some fort of a championship belt. He added another victory to his string tonight at the National Athletic club by earning a decision over Grover Hayes, Chicago lad, by a narrow margin..