m fflo» w
RUNS FOUR FAMILIES OLD MAN SHOOTS TWO
THREE
FOE OF FOOD E X P E R T W ILEY
S IS T E R S
HOM ES
AND
A
IN
SEPARATE
REAL
W IF E .
PARALYZED
TOOK
BY
F E U D IS T S ,
DO UBLE TO LU
HE
E arly D ays or *
EBINBUKfflS SlMSEim)
M a n H a s 21 O ffs p rin g by F o u r W o m L e e k W h itt, a D a r in g F ig h te r, T h o u g h
P a s t S e v e n ty Y e a re of Age, A d d a
en, and S e e m s P ro u d of It — A ffa ir
A n o th e r to K e n t u c k y 's Fe u d
C o e s 18 Y e a re W it h o u t
T ra g e d ie s.
D isc o v e ry ,
According to the evidence before
the house
Investigation, Solicitor
Louisville, Ky The killing by L e e k
Meridian, Miss.— How a man main
George F. McCabe Is the man who
ha» been trying to oust Dr. Wiley tained four households for 18 years, Whitt of his nephew and aon-ln law.
from the bureau of chemistry of the three In addition to that of his legal Buddjr WWtt a,ld Jam''» Hart " r* a'"»
_________ _ department.
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... he
wife, was revealed when F. U Dsaeon.
shooting of latck Whitt
agricultural
Although
has been the active adversary of Dr. '» h o lives near Collinsville, was tried
, „ frl? nd? of th*' d‘ " d n" ‘11 ut
Wiley for a long time. It Is only re In the circuit court before Judge lluck- ville. In the mountains, bids fair to be
come a classic In feud history.
cently that McCabe has been brought Uy.
Two or three years ago la-ck Whllt
Three
of
the
women
In
the
case
further Into the limelight. When the
was shot by one of the men and Ills
pure food and drugs act went on the were sisters -Cricket, liorsh and El- i
statute books McCabe became "so leu Cochran aud they were shown to right arm paralysed by the bullet
Leek Whitt »ent to Salyersvllle from
licitor'' of the agricultural depart be the mothers of 16 of his children
ment. Congress specified that the bu- >*»«on also has five children by hts hl“
» » b‘ « two en,v
reau of chemistry should be the arid , wife.
j
»*
«* the courthouse there.
ter of questions arising under the 1
I —
How - IVuson was able to maintain 1 In the years since his right arm was
paralysed Whllt. who was about seven
pure food and drugs act. Wllev was these four families during the period
head of the bureau. But McCabe said
HI years without action having beeu ty years old, had learned to use his
In effect that the solicitor" of the taken against him does not appear l.’î*’ ” !. W!.'.h
**_"!’ I*
from the record, hut his neighbors pro- quietly up to them and, drawing hla
department, the ;
»a s
cupylng. should be the actual arbiter
they knew nothing about the con revolver with his left hand, shot Har
per through the throat and tired tivù
of the questions Involved In the act. dltloni existing.
That was the beginning of the strug- i When the VhTee women and Deason bu.U**‘ * ,nl" hU n‘ ? hew'
Itefore the smoke had blown away
g!e for supremacy. Young McCabe ts Faced Judge Kuckley they were accorn
1
¡"''J -'.
* ,r . . i *
^
the son of a railroad engineer of I'*uled by their children, and admit-
1’ tah, and came to Washington ln 1899. He passed a civil service examina ted their guilt. The women were sen Whitt pistols began to bark at him
tlon In Utah, which entitled him to a position In the treasury department at »«need to one day each on the pro-
eV>ry “ ld‘‘ . 1 h’* old, 1"!!,n V T *
$00 p*r month.
He took the job and decided to study law. His salary was ▼«•ion that they leave the county in still and straight In the middle of thu
street
until
he fell (lend with his
raised to $100 per month before he had been In the treasury department W days. Deasou was given 60 days
In Jail In one case a n T lh ^ a m t W K M
r," ' ° lver •*111 ,n hla hnnd
many months. In 1901 he was transferred to the agricultural department
Not n groan or a moan had esenped
McCabe prepared all the bills that were sent to congress both for appro- °» $¿00 Hues aud 60 days were sus-
him.
although
It was found that seven
prlations and on other matters. He prepared a bill that raised his own Ponded,
salary to $? 500 and he prepared a bill that authorized him to take on assist
The trial of the case brought Into
11 * * 1,11 H,ru‘
,lm n '
' ' ,l*
and were so aimed that they made al
ants. The department of agriculture had no legally appointed solicitor. Me-
courtroom an unusually large
most
a
straight
line
of
holes
across
Cab« decided to be the solicitor of the department In name as well as In fact, crowd. Deasou appeared calm and un
his chest. Severn] other bullets struck
and he wrote an appropriation bill In which the word "solicitor" was used in moved. An effort was made to show
him. and It Is believed that at least
IE most venerable of Edln I ancient fortress From here Jsmes II.
specifying the salary he was to receive. Congress passed the bill. McCabe he was a Mormon, but this failed.
twenty
bullets were tired at him.
burgh's historical relics are wss carried off by his mother In s
Asked If he believed In polygamy, he
was "the solicitor” and has continued to be so called.
This was one of the most dramatlo
those which crowu the summit j chest In order to save him from a fsc-
replied he did noL
affrays that has ever occurred In the
of the Castle Rock
Long be ! tlon of the nobles who wauled the
The three sisters reside close
fore there wss u royal palace control of the kingdom. Here took
gether. and at one time, at least dur- tnou" " lln «>untry. It recalls (he case
lng their relations with Deacon, two of " l ' ncle ru rt"
•bou» twenty or even n religious house of Hulyrood I'lsce the treacherous slaughter of the
of them were under the same roof yonr" n* °' ,h*‘ ,,o ry of whlch WR" ,oM I there was a fortress here The cas two young Douglases, which gave rise
Judge Harvey M. Trimble of Prince
Denson Is a farmer, apparently mod- by JudK° J uae* Mar'“ " w M l * ,be ' ttt' I tie preceded even the village of mud to the lines.
ton. 111., who has been elected com
1
ter was on trial at lleattyvllle for huts which originally sprung up under
est and retiring
"E d in b u rg h rsstlls, town unit tower,
mander in chief of the Grand Army of
(imt srw nl (hou sin k f»»r slit.
The section around Collinsville Is complicity In the killing of James H. Its ehelter, and which developed Into
the Repub!! i, is one of the best
Amt that i - v m fur t b e b l o c k dlnuu s
j "Edwin's burgh."
sparsely settled with whites, and to Marcum.
E a r l 1 Htuglaa s a t I h r r v ln ."
known of living Grand Army men.
had Incurred the en-
Its earliest history Is lost In s cloud
this fact ts ascribed the Ignorance
, ‘‘ Cncle
» Curt'
. ..
He served with the famous Ninety-
The Ikiuglsscs hnd come to the cas
of
legend
and
romance.
The
rock
Is
professed by hi. neighbors as to hi. m,,y of v“ r1o“ , 1 r‘‘“ d- nt* 0 ,hat ^
third Illinois and accompanied Gener
relatlons with his wife and the three tlon. having killed several men, and believed to have been occupied with s tle by Invitation, snd wers banquet
al Sherman on his march to the sea.
other women. Deason appears to be was therefore wary when In the ene- ' fort by the aboriginal tribes prior to lng with the king, when suddenly th«
The election was made unanimous
"Black Bull's Head." the signs! of
about fifty year, old; hi. wife seem . ™y
t ory^ 11 ut on c day. » h , n h . , the Invasion of the Romnna.
■when Mr. Trimble’s rival, Col. John
it Is reasonable. Indeed, to think death, was set on the table The king
close to the same age, and all three was less careful than usual, he rode
along the Kentucky river near Jack- that a place so well fitted by unture (James II ) trli-d to save the youths,
McElroy of Washington. D. C.. with
of the sisters might pass for forty.
son. At the ford ne neglected to look for a fortress, commanding a wide but IJvIngstuue aml Crichton, who
drew after a heated contest
about I • 'ore his horse stepped Into view of the country Hnd of the routes wem responsible for th« plot, hsd
Judge Trimble was born In 1842
near Wilmington. Clinton county, O.
SLAYS LION WITH A KNIFE the water. An enemy was concealed north snd south, would commend It them carried to ths courtyard snd be
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behind a log, and as "Uncle Curt's" self from the earliest times for pur headed.
The family removed to a farm near
Princeton, Bureau county, I1L, In
With the exception of St. Margaret's
F a r m e r K i l l s B e a st T h a t D e vo u re d horse entered a bullet struck him In poses of defense.
October, 1843, and remained on this
the buck
There Is s legend connecting It with chapel snd tbe portion of the csstla
S o n but L o s e s R ig h t A r m
"Uncle Curt," seriously hurt, man King Arthur of round table fame, al In which Queen Mary's rooms are sit
farm until 1867, when they removed
in the F igh t.
aged to get his own revolver Into play. though the association does not come uated, the buildings ou the Castle
to the city of Princeton. His early
education was obtained In the com
Brownsville. Tex -M adden ed at the but cou,d nü, r,!ach ,b * CODcea'*4 down to us In quits so localised a Rock are subsequent to this period
marksman. The horse kept going form as that which coMiects the greet . All usrller buildings (other than those
mon schools, supplemented by a par
sight of a huge mountain lion stand
toward the opposite bank, the enemy sovereign of romance with the hill mentioned) were destroyed at th«
tial course at Eureka college, Illinois.
ing over the dead body of his three-
While a student In this Institution he
year-old son. Juan Morales, a farmer continued to fire. "Uncle Curt" con which hears the name of Arthur's time of this Siege
tinued to shoot back, but with no ap
entered the army In the summer of
Charles ! slept In the castle on the
Heat.
living seven miles from here, killed
parent
effect. Finally, when ho
1862. In the Ninety-third regiment of
There are grounds for believing I night before his coronntlou as king of
the beast with a knife thrust In the
reached
a
half-submerged
stump
near
Illinois volunteers, of which regiment he became the sergeant major,
that the rock was a place of strength | the Scots In Holyrood, nnd from her«
j heart after a 15-minute struggle. In
the Jackson side, and had been struck
participated In all the campaigns of his regiment.
In the fifth century. And down to the i he rode In statu down the High street
! which he sustained Injuries which
Among old soldiers he has always been active, having served as the wiu co, t hlnl the lo„ of htg r,ih t arm by six bullets, be slipped off bis time of the Introduction of artillery It I nnd the Canongate to the Chapel
horse
behind
the
stump
There,
though
president of the Bureau County Soldiers' association, and commander of at tbe ghoulder
After killing the
was Impregnable to assault. It could Royal on the morning of the cere-
Ferris post No. 300. Grand Army of the Republic, at Princeton, and also as ||on he vv^lkecl to the city to be weak from loss of blood, he walled only be taken by surprise or through i mony. He also held hla coronation
for
the
enemy
to
show
himself,
aud
commander of the department of Illinois, Grand Army of the Republic.
banquet In the great hall of the castle.
treachery.
treated by a physician.
when be did Curt shot him dead.
Bssltgsd by Cromwell.
Reliable history really begins with
Morales bad left home to visit a
A few years later the castle was be
Malcolm Can more, who built a resi
neighbor. When he returned he heard
the screams of hts children and then CELLS WERE LIKE ARSENALS dence here In the eleventh century. sieged by Cromwell. At the revolu
There still exists a relic of his saint tion of 1668 It held out for Jsmes But
caught a glimpse of a huge mountain
Just at present "Gen." Clnclnnatus Non. weighing probably 400 pounds. C o n v ic t s In W is c o n s in P r is o n W h o s e ed consort, the early Norman chapel the tables were turned In 1746. when
W e ll E q u ip p e d W it h O ffenelve
of 8t. Margaret. In which she passed i the garrison fired on the troops of
Leconte claims the right to be called standing over the almost headless
W e a p o n s fo r B ig B re a k .
Although
much of her time. In the castle tbe Prince Charles Edward
president of Haiti. He's a mulatto body of his son
The beast sprang
queen died within s day or two after Prince Charlie held state st Holyrood.
with a reputation for blood lust. a» Morales and the desperate fight be
Waupun, Wts. — Many dangerous she received the tidings of the death the castle continued to be occupied
When old Nord Alexis was president 8*®-
Morales
was
almost
exhausted
weapons
of many different kinds were of her husband, and her body waa car by the government troops, and every
in 1908 Leconte was minister of the
big taken from convicts In the Wiscon ried out of the sallyport on the west now and again the Jacobites were re
Interior In his cabinet A black man when he succeeded in driving
— the
— —
sin penitentiary
‘
named Simon got up a revolution and \ blade of the knife Into the heart o f 1 «In
penitentiary at
at Waupun.
Waupun. w
when
ofll- ern side and down the rocks while minded of the fact. Not much dam
for months there was bloodshed In the animal and staggered from Its cers of the Institution made a com Donald Bane, the usurper of her son's age was done, but Imbedded In the
rights, thundered at the main gate wall on the Castiehlll Is one of the
Haiti. Leconte ordered ten promi grasp as It fell dead at bis feet. Mor- plete search of the premises It
nent sympathizers with the revolution ales fainted and bis two little girls1 the first time in eight years contra- To that same sallyport. If tradition last balls fired from this ancient fort
to be taken from their beds in Port revived him with cold water and then ' band material was found about the says true, "Bonnie Dundee” climbed ress.
The Scottish regalia—the crown,
au Prince, marched them to a ceme helped him to bandage the wounds. I prison, but enough was secured to many centuries afterward to talk to
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I break a score of Jails.
the sword of state and the scepter—
the governor of the cnstle.
tery, stood them up In a row, shot
The men gave up the weapons will-
In the old wars between Scotland which were used at the coronation of
them to death and burled them on the
spot. Nevertheless the revolution “CEMETERY CURE” EFFECTIVE Ingly. the articles Including 153 knives. and England Edinburgh castle played the Scottish kings down to that of
succeeded. Old Nord Alexis was
, three wrenches, 36 files, seven saws. 13 a prominent part. It waa captured Charles I. In Holyrood snd Charles II.
driven Into exile and Simon was made D r u n k s of Illin o is T o w n A r e N o w dangerous long pairs of sh e a rs, two and recaptured ngaln and again, and at Scone (the last coronation In Scot
drills, five pairs of pinchers, 31 shop- many bold deeds were done by gal land) are preserved In the castle,
president Of course Leconte had to
C ro w d e d In to S t r a ig h t a n d N s r -
i made sharp-pointed weapons, ten ham- lant Rcota. It was associated closely where for many years they were hid
flee from the blood-stained black re-
row Patht-
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j mers, one slingshot, several pieces of with the fortunes of Bruce. Three den a way until, largely through the
public. He took refuge In Jamaica
Springfield.
III.—
Illinois
has
a
brand
wire for picking locks, sealing wax for times It was captured by Edward efforts of Sir Walter Scott, they were
and began Intriguing for the downfall
the making
of Simon and his own elevation to the new an<* or,8l®kl plan to cure
_ Impressions, nltro glycerine. I Longshanks and three times It was discovered.
The Castiehlll was long used for
Valiant
presidency. In May he returned and “ l “ 01, hablt- •» waa devised by cltl- soap, a rope, strap, nails and other taken again by the Scots
deeds were done here by the Douglas executions, and It has been estimated
began what proved to be a successful zens of New Douglas. It la called the Junk.
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and by Randolph In defense of the that about 2.000 persons were burned
revolt. In the meantime ‘‘Gen.” Antenor Firmln was heading another revolt. cemetery cure, but that does not mean
here for witchcraft Among them were
The two rebel armies approached Port au Prince from different directions. for the patients the usual trimmings COURT ORDERS LEGS BROKEN independence of their country.
aeveral persons of distinction.
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A B ra v e D u n d e e S h ip m a ste r.
It looked as though Port au Prince was to be given up to rapine, but the of drapery and florists' emblems, nor
At a Inter date the soil of the Css-
In the reign of Edward III. the cas
American minister, H. M. FurnlsB, went out to the rebels and told them Is the trip to the graveyard accom P a r e n t s R u s h A r o u n d s n d S c re a m a s
tle fell once more Into the hands of tlehlll was, by a curious legal fiction,
they could come in and take possession, but if they began the old program panied by a string of cabs at four dol
Ju d ge D ire c ts O p e ra tio n on Bow -
the English, but It was recaptured held to be the soil of Nova Scotia.
of slaughtering the people and destroying property they would have to reckon lars per.
L e g g e d C h ild.
The situation handled otherwise |
through a brilliant and romantic Those who were created baronets of
with Uncle Sam. Leconte’s army marched In, he was proclaimed president
In the early evening the patients are ; pitsburgh. Pa.—To straighten the stratagem devised by William Mullock Nova Scotia and who received grants
and the senate regularly elected him for the term of seven years.
carted to the city cemetery and while nmb|l of „ bow.p.KKed boy. Judge L L. | and carried out by the Knight of Lid of land there had to have "aelsln,”
the late moon looks down on the u . hM ruled that an operation, desdale, Sir Simon Fraser, and a but It wns felt to be a rather big
strange task they are bound with ropes j muBt be .^ rforIneii. The parents of brave shipmaster of Dundee, William undertaking to croan the Atlantic for
the purpose. The device adopted
to upright monuments, while others flva.year<)ld Minnie Johns screamed Curry.
are laid In graves which have sunk In a|)fl ra(J up and down , he courtroom
Curry, pretending to be an Enrl'sh saved this. Between 1625 and 1649
Sir Percy Sholto Douglas, ninth
through years of stormy stress. New frantjCally when the Judge decided that wfne merchant, offered to supply the over sixty baronets of Nova Rcotln
marquis of Queensberry, who has
Douglas people solemnly aver that
little girl's legs must be broken governor of the castle with wine and took "seisin" here of the lands which
come to this country seeking bis for
since the cemetery cure has been put and thgn r(|M t Tw0 physicians tesU- wheat. The offer was accepted Cur had been granted to them In America.
tune, belongs to a family long dis
There Is a tradition (Robert I,ouls
Into effect the straight and narrow fled that tbe operation was a simple ry, pretending alao to be afraid of the
tinguished In Scotch history. He Is a
path Is becoming crowded.
one and retu|ted fatally only In one Scota, got permlaalon to deliver hla Stevenson fitly characterizes It as "a
collateral descendant of Black Doug
case In ten thousand. Physicians say cargo early In the morning. Before silly story” ) of a subterranean pns-
las, who fought side by side with
waa light IiouRlna and a number of snge between the castle and Holyrood
BIRDS STEAL FAMILY WASH the oiteration will he without pain to It
Robert Bruce in the great days of
his followers concealed themselves In and of a piper who volunteered to ex
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|
the
child,
and
will
[trove
a
Joy
to
her
northern chivalry, and for centuries
the vicinity.
plore It and never returned. Hlmllar
L in e n H a n d k e rc h ie f s C a rrie d A w a y ,m<l tbe P * re n ta -
the family was all powerful in the
At daybreak Curry, Sir Simon Fras legends are common In Scotland.
by S p a r r o w s and U se d to M a k e
annals of Scotland. One of the hold
er and a few resolute Scots, all dress There la said to he a paasage between
C o m fy Nesta.
WAGERED HIS LIFE AND WON ed In amocka, appeared at the gate the abbey and the cliffs at Arbroath;
ers of the marqulsafe was "Old Q,”
as he was best known, who was a
with barrels and hampers
The por and a lost piper figures In that atory,
Gary, Ind.— Mrs William Parry o f C a n a d ia n R e a ta u ra n t Man H a d Deter- ter orened the outer gate and lowered too. Secret pnssages are said to ex
famous or, perhaps It might be more
Crown Point placed four handker
m in e d N ot to L iv e L ife of D ru d g-
truthful to say, an Infamous, man
the drawbridge, whereupon Curry and ist between the eastle and the cathe
chiefs on a high bush to dry. An
e ry A fte r S to c k Deal.
about town In the days of George III.;
Fraser and their men set upon him dral In Ht Andrews, nnd alao In con
hour later two of them were gone.
and another holder of the title of
and took his keys, opened the Inner nection with Elgin cathedral.
Hamilton, Ont.— With $67,000 at In
Mrs. Parry placed two other handker
marquis of Queensberry was the
gate, nnd placed the casks and ham
chiefs on the bush several days later, terest, made from a quick turn In
eighth nfarquls, who was deeply In
pers so that It could not be ahut or
C o n v e rsa tio n a l T o p ics.
and from the window In her kitchen stocks, Joseph Hherbrooke, until re
terested In sports and who drew up
the portcullis lowered. The sound of
Mrs. Rich to -I»—Tell me. Maggie,
cently a small restaurant keeper here.
awaited developments.
the rules which modified the old code
the horn brought Douglas and hla men what you servants find to talk shout
The handkerchiefs had not been on Is about to start on a tour of the
of the London prize ring.
from the foot of the mil. The gai^B down In the kitchen.
the bush five minutes when two Eng world. Had the market gone against
It was "Old Q” who dissipated the
son by this time waa alarmed, and a
Mnggte— Oh. wo mostly talks about
him
he
would
have
killed
himself
lish
sparrows
flew
down
from
a
near
Queensberry fortune and since then
desperate fight took place. The Scota. the visitors up In the drawln’ room.
rather
than
return
to
drudgery.
In
by apple tree and bora the linen
the family has been poor. The present
however, proved victorious
And, beggtn' your pardon, ma'am,
When Mrs. Parry’s son cllmb- going Into speculation, he had decided
marquls has tried his hand at many occupations. He has been a midshipman away
Several of the Scottish sovereigns what do you moatly talk about up
In the navy, a sheep farmer and gold miner In Australia, a speculator on the ed Into the tree he found the four that life was not worth while unless
had a residence In the castle. Even stairs?"
London stock exchange and a manufacturer of cement. A few years ago he handkerchiefs fashioned Into a cosy he could be In easy circumstances,
nffer
Holyrood was built they were
"v>h, we talk mostly about the serv
neat.
and he staked his all on the turn.
went through bankruptcy proceedings
vlad at times to take refuge In the ants."— Life.
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