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SEDALIA A DE OC DEMOCRAT-SENTINEL TI EL THE TELEGRAPH SERVICE OF THE DEMOCRAT-SENTINEL IS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Establ'aned 1880. Vi. XXVI. Consolidated 1907.

TWO PARTS -SEDALIA, MISSOURI, SUNDAYMORNING DECEMBER 6, ONE VOL. 2, NO. 287, PRICE FIVE CENTS Democrat Established 1868. Vol, XL. BLOODY FINGER PRINTS MAY LEAD TO THE DISCOVERY OF PERPETRATOR OF BRUTAL MURDER.

ONE MAN IS ALREADY UNDER ARREST Circumstantial Evidence Points Very Strongly to His Guilt--Young Missouri Farmer Found in Cellar, Head Beaten in Specie to the Democrat-Sentinel. Vandalia, Dec. finger prints upon a joist in the cellar of the storehouse, in which August Wagner, a young farmer living three miles from Vandalia, was found dead yesterday morning with his skull crushed, may lead to the undoing of his slaver. This feature of the crime that has stirred all of Audrain county is analagous with Mark Twain's murderer of "Puddinhead Wilson," fame, and great importance is placed upon the gory imprints by the authorities. That Wagner was lured into the 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 Attorney John D. Orear, and Prosecuting torney-elect E. S. Gantt, who, with other officers, are conducting a rigio investigation.

Luther, also known as "Curly" Antderson, formerly a sailor and recently proprietor of a restaurant at Faberr, a little town two and one-half miles from the Wagner farm, is charged with murder in the first degree in a warrant. swon out today. He 1 is now a prisoner in the county jail at Mexico. Anderson protests his innocence in the face of circumstantial evidence and has engaged counsel. His preliminary hearing is set for Monday at Vandalia.

He is about 25 years of age In connection with the tragedy the officers are probing the sale of a span of mules by Wagner to son. The slain man informed his neighbors and a dozen friends in Vandalia that he was to receive $337.35 from Anderson for the mutes. He more than once expressed a fear that Anderson, who had been given possession of the mules, would not pay him. Anderson insists that he paid Wagner $336.35 last Tuesday. On Thursday, the day on which he is supposed to have been killed, Wag ner told Clarence Farnsworth, his nearest neighbor, that he had not re-' ceived the money, but had been promised it bv Anderson that day.

Wagner was never again seen alive. Jolhn Wagner, the 70-year-old father of the victim, and the owner of the 106 acres which his son farmed, came to Vandalla yesterday from his home in Piper City, Ford county, and accompanied the young man's body back to the sorrowing mother today. The elder Wagner's grief was inconsolable. He declared he had been warned in a vivid dream last Tues. day night that all was not well with his son, and had only been prevented from hurrying to Vandalia by his wife, who, he said, quioted his fears and cautioned him not to venture on the journey in the Inclement weather.

Constable J. S. Atkinson and Deputy Constable Joe Gray were the first officers to reach the Wagner farni. 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 a lantern showed blood spots everywhere.

It was dark in the celJar, though the sun shone outside. AN IMPORTANT MEETING Will Be Held at Office of Secretary Mellor at 3 P. M. Monday. An important meeting is to be hell at the office of Secretary J.

W. Mellor, of the Business Men's at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. to meet Messrs. J. E.

and C. H. Me. of Jamestonwa, N. who cusker.

have been here for a week past, in vestigating the clay deposits near Sedalia, with a view of putting in 1 plant and entering into the manufacture of brick on an extensive scale. Mr. J. E. Mecusker stated to the Democrat-Sentinel Saturday that there are three distinct bodies of clay near Sedalia, from which as 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 TO the establishment of 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 rooms of the Business Men's association al 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Spooner is Under Consideration. Hearst News Service. Het Springs, Dec. Senator Jchn C.

Spooner, of Wisconsin, has been mentioned as the successor of Elihu Root as secretary of state, and President-Elect Taft is now considering his appointment. REICHSTAG IN TURMOIL EXTRAORDINARY SCENE OCCURRED IN PARLIAMENT TODAY. THE EMPEROR! WAS FREELY CRITICISED One of His Defenders Started to Reply, but Became Hysterical and Was Carried Shrieking and Sobbing From Chamber. (Hearst News Service.) Berlin, Dec. extraordnary scene occurred in the reichstag tofurnishing striking evidence of day, the extremely high tension to which German politicians have been sting by recent events.

The setting of the scene was a spirited discussion of the imperial in the course of which anibudget, mated reference was made to the naval program and the foreign situation in Germany. Herr Scheldemann, socialist, -attacked the government, and vehemently criticised the action of the kaiser. At the conclusion of Herr Scheldemann's speech. Lieutenant Colonel Goltz, commissioner of the federal council, arose to reply. He uttered the opening words of his address, then suddenly stopped and burst into a hysterical shriek of laughter.

He was carried shrieking and sobbing from the building. During the debate, Herr Sydew, secretary of the imperial treasury, went over the details of the reve. nues and expenditures. He was followed 1 by speakers of various parties who criticised the creased celerity shown in building battleships, a fact that a member of the center party said was taken as a challenge by other nations. GENERAL SIMON ARRIVES Head of Revolutionary Army Welcomed With Delight.

Hearst News Service. Port Au Prince, Dec. Antoine Simon, at the head of his revoof 8,000 men made his lutionary army into this city at 8 o'clock this entry morning. He was quietly welcomed by a deleof citizens and presented with gation a crown of palms. It was expected that he would establish himself in the national palace the city.

Instead of after touring this, however, he set up headquarters in a residence on the Champ de Mars. He was received with wild delight everywhere he went. BEAT INDIAN RUNNER Smallwood Distanced Famous Red. skin Champion. Hearst News Service.

Philadelphia, Dec. defeated Tom Longboat, the famous long-distance Indian runner, in a tenmile race held here tonight, Ly a lap and a quarter. Smallwood took the lead in the seventh mile and held it to the f.nish. Longboat was unable to finish owing to the crowd rushing out upon the track. Smallwood's time was 65 minutes 10 2-5 seconds.

Infant Girl Passed Away. An infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith. 414 West Cooper street, died at 6 o'clock Saturday evening and will be buried in Crown Hill cemetery today.

HAVE A- CARE INCENDIARISM PERMITTED REVOLUTION PORTEI boys had escaped from the reform school at Boonville, requesting the officers to be on the lookout. The young men are thought to have board ed an M. K. T. train for Sedalia, but up to a late hour last night net ther had been naprehended.

Inventor's Bank Is Closed, Hearst News Service. Pearl, Dec. private bank of C. A. Manker, inventor of the navamobile and an invention to prevent safe robberies, Las been Indians Defeated Denver.

Denver, Dec. Carlisle Indians defeated the Denver football this afternoon by a score of team 8 to 4. THE DAVIS MURDER CASE ADJOURNMENT TAKEN AT NOON SATURDAY UNTIL MON DAY MORNING. AN EFFORT TO IMPEACH MRS. ABBIE RICE Swore He Saw Herr at 1 A.

Witness M. on Morning Dr. Rustin Was Killed--She Had Testified She Was Two Miles Away. Associated Press. Omaha, Dec.

the announcement of Judge that there would be Sears yesterday this afternoon of the trial A session Charles E. Davis, charged with the of murder of Dr. Rustin, when adjourntaken at noon today it was ment was morning. This was 31 until Monday of attorneys for the the suggestion defendant. tending to impeach that Testimony Abbie Rice, the star witness of Mrs.

for the prosecution, was introduced this morning. watchman testified to hav A block her within a block of the ing seen Rustin home at 1 o'clock on the morn killing of Dr. Rustin, when ing of the to her testimony, she wag according asleep at the house of Clara Gleason, two miles away. watchman's testimony was The corroborated by that of 9 partially street car motorman. Minor Leagues to Protest.

Hearst News Service. Milwaukee. Dec. O'Brien, of the American association, has gone with his attorney in New York to present the case of the minor baseball leagues and to demand satisfaction or quit the national commission. ate, and such third person as they might select: or to these two togeth er with Mr.

Judson or Mr. Lehmann. Oil Barge Foundered; Seven Perish. St. Johns, N.

Dec. men perished when Standard Oil barge No. 101 foundered in a gale off Sea island, according to a report of the accident which was brought to Shelbourne, N. by the tug John Hughes, which was towing the barge. Were Licensed to Wed.

Marriage licenses were issued to the following Saturday: Walter Carpenter, Lamonte; Nora Breeden, Green Ridge. James Louis Wicker, Houstonia; Alice A. Houchen, Houstonia. RUN INTO A MOTOR CAR MISSOURI PACIFIC TRAIN TORE THE BUZZ WAGON ALMOST TO PIECES. IT HAPPENED NEAR INDEPENDENCE, MO Conductor Hiram Lewis's Train Hit Auto While Going at High Rate of Speed--Cylinder.

Was Hurled Forty Feet. Hiram Lewis' special on the Missouri Pacific, "piloted" by Engineer Frank Raymond, crashed into an tomobile in the Kansas City yards Saturday morning, demolishing the machine, as will be seen by the following item taken from last night's Kansas City Star: The locomotive of a Missomi Pacific 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, although the collision cut off the front end of the motor car back af the front wheels within a foot of the boys stroes. The engine of the motor car was hurled into a corn field adjoining the road. The motor car turned half around, with the two boys seated in it.

the rear 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, of 1514 Linwood boulevard. Their car was a Buick roadster.

The were going hunting and drove out Fifteenth street toward Independence. Lee was driving the motor car. "I slowed down as we neared the Missouri Pacific tracks, three miles west of Independence," Lee said. "The canopy top of the car was up. I looked up and down the track, but could not see more than thirty feet either way.

Half of the car was the first rail when I heard a across whistle. The train was within twenfeet of 11S. The motor car was ty running so slowly that my first impulse was to back up. The motor stopped, then began to back slow. car When we started back, the seat ly.

of the motor car was directly over the track. "The first thing I knew we had been turned about and were facing City. We sat in the toward Kansas which was tilted, the front machine. end resting on the body of the car. I looked out from under the top as we sat there and saw several persons train looking back at us.

The on the train was going fully forty miles an hour. "There was no signal at the crossand the engine bell was no: ringing as the train approached the crossI found one cylinder of the ing. motor car ergine forty feet away. Every spoke in both front wheei3 was demolished. The hubs and tires were intact." PROPERTY LOSS IS $650,000 But After the Floods the Arkansas River Is Falling.

Associated Press. Pine Bluff, Dec. 5-After causing actual property loss of almost one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, estimated depreciation in valand an to adjoining property of one half ues million ollars. the Arkansas river a at this point today is slowly falling. A Talk by Fr.

Healy, The Rev. Fr. D. Healy, formerly of this city, but now of North Spring. field, is booked to deliver an address before the Humane society there on December 17.

GLASGOW'S ANTI-FLIRTS BOYS AND GIRLS "UP IN ARMS" OVER "MORAL VIGILANCE" OF NEW CENSOR. THE STUDENTS OF THE OPPOSITE SEXES They Meet and Discuss Matters the Faculty Feel Confident Do Not Have to Da With Mathe matical Problems. Cable to Democrat-Sentinel. (Hearst News Service.) London, Dec. students of Glasgow University, both boys and girls, are up in arms against an anti: flirting campaign waged against them by "prudes on the prowl." The solemn senate of the university has been pained to observe that when students of opposite sexes meet their discourse is not always confined to mathematical problems, scientific theories or the aphorisms of Plato.

A censor of morals has therefore been appointed--the sternest, most mature and most forbidding of lady lecturers. So effective was her "moral" vigi lance that for days none of the boydared to speak to a girl student on the university grounds. At all the universities in the United Kingdom women are now admitted to practically all the lectures which 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. Oxford and Cambridge the lady undergraduates from Somerville, Lady Margaret, Girton, Newnham or the other ladies' colleges, are almost invarialy accompanied by a chaperon, who keeps a watchful eye on her pils during the lectures. But at the non-residential universities the ladles have hitherto been regarded as quite.

able to take care of themselves. "There have been occasionat barmless flirtations, I admit," said a lady student at University college. London. "but on the whole the men and women look upon each other merely: as good pals, it they are friendly at all. "Under present circumstances know of no case in which any girl has had to be taken to task for flirting, say, with the men students, but I do know of many firm friendships and at least two marriages which have resulted from our co-education svstem." WOMEN CAUSED A RIOT SUFFRAGETTES IN LONDON INTERRUPT ENGLAND'S CHANCELLOR OF EXCHEQUER.

THE OFFICERS HAD TO REMOVE One Had Chained Herself to Her Seat--Speaker Said if Their Cause Failed It Would Be Their Own Fault. (Hearst News Service.) London, Dec. 5. Suffragettes of this city engaged in a riotous against David Lloyd George, chancellor of the exchequer, afternoon, while he was deliverthis speech at a meeting held by ing a Liberal federation at Althe Women's bert hall. In his speech the chancellor promthe bill granting the franised that chise to women would soon be introduced in parliament.

of the meeting, who The organizers opposed to the violent are strongly methods of the militant suffragettes, taken the precaution of having had 350 stewards and a large force of lice ready to handle the anticipated disturbance suffragettes got into action as The soon as the meeting commenced. Chancellor George had scarcely opwhen a woman in the ened his mouth "What we want is gallery shouted: deeds, not words." proceeded at once to The stewards her. but had great difficulty, remove found that the interrupter as they had chained herself to her silence followed, in Momentary which Mr. George endeavored to conhis speech. Then followed an tinue of interruptions, during other volley several more women were forwhich cibly removed.

After repeated efforts, Mr. George allowed to say: "A bill to enwas women will soon be intro franchise duced in parliament." of the danger of reaction Speaking in against the cause on acsetting count of the tactics adopted by some of it, he appealed to the sections to do their utmost to men present rather than to retard the movehelp ment. If this chance to get what they want was thrown away, he said, it would be entirely due to their folly or lunacy, as exhibited today by some of those who felt they had been as. sisting the cause. Escaped From Reform School.

Boys A telephone message to the local authorities last night stated that two A PROPOSAL TO PAINTER WANTS THE QUESTION OF LIEUTENANT GOVERNORSHIP SETTLED SOON. MR. GMELICH WRITES A 'LONG LETTER Proposes to Democratic Candidate That a Bi-Partisan Committee Decide Who Was Elected November 3d. 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 General H.

S. Had1ey as two of a committee and they to name the third, and then goes on and suggests several other commit! citizens of St tees of prominent and Kansas City, and even sug Louis be composed of two demgests one to republican. The letter, ecrats and one in part, follows: of Missouri want What the people and what the people of Mis to know that the one of us who souri want is the most votes for lieutenreceived should get the office. atn governor I am willing that this question should be submitted to a commission members, composed of Govof three Folk, Attorney General Hadley ernor and such third person as they may agree upon. Or, I am willing that this question submitted to Mr.

T. K. should be Skinker, the chairman and the cratic member of the board of elec commissioners of St. Louis, Mr. tion Schnurmacher, the republican member of that board, and such third person as they may select.

Or. I am willing that this question should be left to Governor Folk, Mr. Hadley. and Mr. F.

W. Lehmann or Mr. F. N. Judson, both of whom are democrats, but both of whom are regarded as among the ablest and fair.

est minded members of the St. Louis bar. Or, I am willing to leave the decis. ion of this question to Mr. Skinker and Mr.

Schnurmacher and Mr. Jud son or Mr. Lehmann. Or, I am willing that the decision of this question should be left to Mr. M.

Lowe, the chairman and the democratic member of the board of election commissions of Kansas City. Mr. Epperson, his republican associ. A CHRISTMAS WEDDING Hunter F. Smith and Miss KathMr.

ryn Wyan, by Rev. Campbell. Hunter F. Smith, a young farmer of Bunceton, and Miss Kathryn Wyan, stenographer at the F. E.

Hoffman inwill be united in surance agency, marriage at the home cf the young parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. lady's Twenty-fourth street and Ohio Wyan, avenue, at 11 o'clock on the morning of Thursday, Dec.

24. Rev. F. Y. Campbell, pastor of the First Baptist church, will perform the ceremony, which will be witnessed only by relatives and a few Intimate friends.

The bridal couple will leave at 1 o'clock that afternoon for a honey. moon tour of the east, after which will go to Bunceton to make they their home in a recently erected fiveroom cottage which Mr. Smith owns, three miles east of Bunceton. ormalities of bridesmaid and The groomsman will be dispensed with, wedding dinner will but a sumptuous served immediately after the mony. Smith is an industrious and Mr.

farmer, quite well popular young in this city, and to him and to known the young lady whom he has chosen for life the Democrat Sentinel extends congratulations MAY BECOME A CHAMPION Jem Driscoll Won Another Fight in Philadelphia Saturday Night. Hearst News Service. Philadelphia, Dec. by Jem Driscoll, of Cardiff, is the way through with his American going he is headed for some fort of bouts, a championship belt. He added another victory to his tonight at the National Athstring letic club by earning a six-round decision over Grover Hayes, the Chicago lad, by a narrow margin..