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Show GRASSES ECCENTRIC MILLIONAIRE. Maniac Murders Nurse to Prevent Her from Leaving , ODD 'Ghastly Crime of Life Prisoner In a New York Asylum Victim Warned, But Takes No Heed Slaying Is Carefully Planned. Y. Lizzie Halllday, a FUhklll. li ff prisoner at the slate hospital for the Insane, has added the fifth murder to her record by killing with awful cruelty and cunning a girl nurse ho had won her friendship by unvarying kindness Her victim was Nurse Nellie Wlckes, aged 24. who was stout to leave the asylum to take up professional nursing. It was the fear of losing her friend that piompted the maniac to take her life A week ago the nurse tuld the woman she soon would leave her The reShe murderess was downcast garded the nurse for a moment, and then, (n a torie of cold deliberation, exclaimed If sou try to leave me 1 will kill you " Oh, no. I guess not," said Miss "You wouldn't Wlckes. laughingly harm me " From that moment the maniac She watched every planned (he deed movement of the nurse. Once she As the wadded her not to leave. days passed a cruel gleam soiled In her eyes Early the other morning Nurse Wlckes approached and slipped her arm about the Woman's waist. she i'ra going to leave you said. "I want you to remember me. and not make any trouble." "Mrs. Halllday turned sway. Tears came to her eyes. Then she drew herself up to her full height, hef lips moved convulsively, and she remarked In a low tone: "You'd better not try It. Mias Wlckes left the corridor a few minutes later and went Into a room adjoining The maniac folmoment she flung her lowed herrdtt self upon the nurae. pinned her to the floor, while she locked the door. ' Mlsa Wlckes, alone In the room with the murderess, made a desperate fight for her life. Out she was no match for the maniac. Throttling the nurse. Mrs. Halllday .snatched a pair of scissors from Mls Wlckes belt. Screaming, she sank the sharp blades again and again into the nurse's face and throat. Mors than 200 timet the scissor points were plunged down before nurses and attendant! succeeded In breaking down ths door. On the floor , lay Miif Wlckes, gasping her, last breath. . iA rs. llaillday stood at St win-docalmly watching the death atrug-gla- . A maniacal amlle of triumph lighted her face. She wont leave me now,M she said, and laughed as ahe spoke. Miss Wilkes was hm Tied to a cot, but died w.ihin an hour without reMis Halil covering const iiMiMiesH w hen loll she dav la ighed was dead Supei inleiident I .a mb had Mrs llallldav locked in a loom and She sat placed lindi r special guatd N " - f J ' ' t-- , - CHARACTERISTIC! OTA CONSIN MILLIONAIRE Laid Foundation for Hla Walth In Chicago After Groat Fire Eats at a Thrce-Cen- t Lunch Counter and Wears $ Suit of Cloth Wls. The spectacle of n millionaire being arrested Uit alleged violation of the city ordlnaaces in leasing property for disorderly pur-bu- s called attention to the untune peisonality of Frank A Ogden. The apital city of Wlaconsil cannot laiuit many millionaires. It b a city of Mindy, people, wbo point with pride to Robert M. LaFollette, a type of poor man who has remained khii despite his extraordinary success Madison, well-to-d- o i unerchtint, reasonable successful And satisfied." Ogden was born at Painted Poet! N Y., somewhere about 1830. He declines to give his exact age, but some time ago, in response to an inIf any' young quiry, said, playfully married, I am old girl wants to genough " Another ecullanty of his in this respect Is to xlve his age us 40. He is, however, more than 70. as he entered the University of Wisconsin with the first class in 1850, 56 years ago. The Ogdens left New York In 1836, starting overland for Wisconsin. They passed thiough Chicago and Frank "That Ogden says of the Incident part of the city of Chicago west of in iMilltlcs. Hut Kiank A. Ogden la anotier type, and it Is probable that no city In the istssesses n citizen'vhb has suth a ipiantlty of contradictory habits as Mr Ogden. Hla lead ini characteristic la hia eccentricity.,- - if he- - were not worth a million It wouli attract but little attention, but in some ways he emulates the late Russell Sage. Ogden was one of the men who got a start in the big Chicago flr of 1871. It may be said that his. prosperity dates ftom that tragic episode With the natural acumen of the business man Ogden saw his apportunity and made the most of It. He decided that he could make a fortune If he made the proper use of hla money, and scarcely before the embers of the lire had died down Ogden was negotiating for leases on all the buildings he could get hold of. Possessing ready money, this was an easy task at that time. He Immediately the buildings at greatly advanced figures, and to this Is due his rise In fortune. Right after the fire property commenced to soar in value, and money commenced to flow in n steady stream Into the Ogden coffers. Well placed Investments Increased his Income, and he soon was known as one Of the city's wealthy men. For years Ogden has lived a quiet life In Madison, occasionally coining Into the limelight on account of his well known parsimonious habits lie Is one of the most absteml-6u- s of the inhabitant! of this city, and says he does not know how much he country - Screaming She Sank ths 8clsora Again and Again Into the Nurtss Face. gazing with amused Interest out of She seemed to know the window precisely what she had done, but was indifferent When Coroner Goring asked her why she had committed the murder, she replied , "She trifwj to leave me Mrs. Halllday will not be placed In a cell. Superintendent lamb says she will be carefully guarded, but there will he ik) punishment for her "We have always watched her closely," he said, "but of late she has seemed so cheerful that we never dreamed her murderous Impulse would return. She was fond of Miss Wlckes. They used to talk together for hours, and Mrs. Hslllday would take much delight In telling the nurse of her life. "8he would never mention the murders she had committed, but would dwell upon her childhood daya. Mrs. Halllday was regarded by us aa a trusty. She. ia entirely , rational upon., every subject. .The homicidal mania ia her She has on different only trouble. occasions struck some of the nurses and patients, but these atacka have not been vicious. Wife with Whip Gets Gems Given by Spouse to Rival Cleveland, O. No youthful monarch ever lived under stricter surveillance Snake. Mathleson. the daughter of a farmer, wa during a yoke of oxetr mowing hay. when the biggest snake ever seen In Minnesota appeared The oxen hallowed In teirur and ran away, while the girl was thrown from the mower Miss Mathl-so- n and severely Injured declares the snake was 15 feet long. Bnd that Its body at the largest plaee was as big as the Pelan mill smokestack. The young woman's veracity has nevef been doubted, and a large artv of men has started In search of the reptile. Intending to kill it and send the body to the Field museum, In Chicago. "Go Back and Gat Thosa Diamonds! entered the cottage and attempted to use the whip on her husband, but the officer restrained her. la a few moments the three emerged j Fnom the cottage Gill appearing In a cUsheveled state and a further scene was enacted on the port h. "Go back Into that house and get Mrs. Gill (hose diamonds my diamond pin yon gave to that infuriated woman. woman," that cried the Fifteen-Foo- t Miss Fsrret Attacks Baby Girl. Hartford. Conn Mrs. Gus Pickett, of this city, discovered a ferret suck. lng the blood from the hotjy of her daughter, whom she had placed op a bed on the floor. The Infant was almost dead when fdund, and when the mother picked np her baby the animal still clung to Its hold and had to be killed before It could be made to let loose. The child may die. - aire.) mick, the favorite grandson of John D. Rockefeller, In 1901, was one of the great sorrows In the life of the money king. Edith, another child of Harold Mo Cormtck, died about ten years ago. AN IMPOSING MEMORIAL. New York. New York's beautiful monument on Lookout mountain speaks for itself In the picture herewith. The memorial is now finished, with the exception of the bronze work, which Is to be very elaborate and artistic and will require much care and tne to finish As for the site It is one of the finest In the country "There Is nothing like It In all America," said Prince Henry, when he stood on Lookout mountain during his Inspection of the battlefields on his visit to this country. The Jutting promontory of the historic peak gives a marvelous view extending Into seven states On a sunny afternoon or In the earl gray of the morning dawn or at sunset when the sky for hundreds of miles flamesin every color from fiery red to soft pearl and the deep green of the sea. the scene Is one never to be forgotten. New York's memorial Is by far the most Imposing of all the many monuments of the other states marking one Fowler Or. Williams' Pink Pills the Meet Successful Remedy for All Forme of Debility. 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This should be done by Sepmail postpaid, oil receipt of price, 60 by tember first: it then gets all the fall cents box, six boxes for S2 60, by rains. Aftei October first it may be the Dr.perWilliams Medicine Company, In in weather the dry pastured Schenectady, N. Y. inspring it may be pastuied without jury to either crop until June first. you want to make Money send for Rye always shells out some and will my Illustrated Catalogue. Fro to lthelf and makes excellent pasIou. Bargain Houao of Chao. LubrachtjOjBoimeaLVjCItji. ture of meadow Whether seeding with rye oi oats 1 always cut the stubble high to protect from the hot sun. Repartee Won Hearers. In the past ten years I have never yet A good story is told of Frances missed getting a good solid stand for Lady WaldegTave, who long since paid pasture or meadow. her debt to nature. She was a womaa of quick repartee and many husbands. OIL IN MACADAM HIGHWAYS. It was soon after her fourth tnatrlmo-na- l with Chichester venture Experiments Being Conducted in This an Irishman, that she appearTheir Value. to Test Country ed In a Dublin theater with the bridegroom. From the gallery a man Road experts are mote or less interAnd which tv to her: ested in the use of oil on high wavs. shouted down From her best? like do four the you In Chicago, says the Prairie Farmer, out: The Irishanswer box her rang what was known as the old "Midway And the Irish peoman, of course. in 1903 has been converted Into a boulwith applause. house rang pled evard connecting Washington and Jackson parks. On the south drive Longest ,and Oldest Tunnel. of the old "Midway the park commisnear completion of the PennThe sioner! have applied oil to the drive, reminds the American with the result that it has become sylvania tunnel oldest known tunnel of the Israelite hard and somewhat unsafe for horses. of Shlloah, near Jethe that in world, Consequently, drivers of fine horses rusalem. It was used as an aequo-duc- t are avoiding this . thoroughfare and disThe tamoua Inscription, taking, the other which ia . macadam, covered a '"few" year ago," celebrate but unoiled. It Is reported that the first meeting of the diggers from oiled aide-o- f the boulevard is in high the aides. Newspapers did not apboth favor with automoblllsts. in those days, and to the event When oil Is applied to earth roads pear be cannot exactly dated, but it most, marked. Is In porthe effect not so took place under King Hexe-klahprobably tions of southern California, for in700 B. C., and Is an inabout stance, where the seasons are mild, to the high state the use of oil la regarded as highly teresting testimony the Jewa at a civilization among of beneficial to earth roads. was Inhabited by when Europe The department of agriculture is time savages. working on the oil road proposition and Is hopeful of results In Europe Round and Square Balia. ,oil highways are spoken of very highA few years ago there was started ly by writers who have Inspected In poChelsea, Mass., a semi-secrthem, but It is evident that If oil is litical organization, and after a few used In this country to any great exmeetings it was decided that a ballot tent it must be applied In a combinaA box and ballots were needed. tion which will not be either risky or a motion that a commitmade brother Injurious to horses tee be appointed by the chair to procure the same. A brother who was RAIN BARREL AND 8INK. always suggesting amendments moved an amendment that the committee be Arrangement Which Will Provide Con- Instructed to procura round white venient Washing Facilities. balls and square black balls. Another brother asked him to describe a Here Is the sketch of a handy arball, which brought the house square rangement hy which a correspondent down and caused the mover of the of the Prairie Farmer has connected amendment to ejaculate: "You think hla rain barrel on the ouside of the you are d d smart, dont youT house under the eave with a sink In the wood house where the men wash A FOOD CONVERT. 1 n-ai- low-lan- the river was a wet marsh and valued at )15 an acre i had just 315 then, Monument Erected by State of New York at Lookout Mountain. , Girl Sees Pelan. Minn (Wisconsins T Rockefeller's Grandson k Carefully Protected Against Kidnapers. IF d For-tesqu- e, Good Jpl I? hta .... to protect the young millionaire .. HV) against any danger of kidnaping. Since his arm- .1 at Cleveland, 'the watchful eve of the maldHa been reinforced hy the keen, sharp, practical eves of 'woetniwart guards, who are Alwavs thin rasy reach of on Lookout the boy as he pjavs sboqt grounds, (Ntw York's Memorial takes a hand at golf Mountain.)" hla grandfather, or dilvty or rid on Jthe counof America's most picturesque battleftry roads. McUo-mlck Fowler ;if be one of ields. Though New York had no troops at the richest men in tb world, for be Inp 1863, still she claims 111 not Chickamaugz only inherit lh million from heroes of the conthe of one greatest his grandfather, Rockefeller, but will Gen. Gordon Granger, a native flict also share with hit litu ,igter. Muriel McCormick, the fortun of bl rather, who Inherited his wealth from his father. Cyrus McCormick, who laid the Blacking from a Flower. McCormick Juice from an Australian flower, fortunes la the used for reaper machine Indmtry in Chicago gnu hibiscus species,-i- s The deeth of Bttl lacl Mct'or blacking ahoea. K - I New-York- " the True Road to Health. pled. When this state is reached, to resort to stimulants Is like whipping a tired horse with a big load. Every additional effort he makes under the lash increases hla loss of power to move the load. r. of an armed guard thaa little Fowler McCormick, who IS visiting his grandfather. John I) Rockefeller, at hla Forest Hill home This young heir of the money king has not been left unguarded for a moment during bla week stay at the Hm-k- i feller place. Fowler, a bngnt. promising lad of nine years, m the son of Harold F. McCormick and Edith Rockefeller McCormick At his Chicago home, a French maid is considered sufficient Food The pernicious habit some persons still have of relying on nauseous drugs to relieve dyspepsia, keeps up the patent medicine business and helps keep up the army of dyspeptics. la caused Indigestion dyspepsia by what is put into the stomach in the way of Improper food, the kind that so taxes the strength of the digestive organs they are actually crip- McCormick. g,-e- ANEMIA CURE a Most Eccentric Million- 15-ye- Holding Weapon Over Trembling Husband She Compels Him to Bring Back Her Diamonds Bestowed Upon Widow . Gill obediently entered the cottage lxa Angeles. Holding a horsewhip over her cowering husband. Mrs and returned, bearing the pieces of George A. Gill, wife of a rich Pasa- Jewelry, which he handed over to his dena man, compelled her spui.se to wife. Then Mrs. Gill led her hils go back Into the cottage of Mrs band, pale and trembling, to the car Maurlne Walker, a widow at Redondo, and started for home. which he had just left, and get diaPtlncipals In the affair were remonds worth several hundred dollar luctant to discuss the case. Mr. Gill even declared he had not been In and return thefn to her. Armed with the whip and accom- Redondo, and that he did not know panied by a detective, Mrs Gill pa- Mrs Walker. Mis Walker refused absolutely to trolled the street In front of the Walker cottage all night awaiting the ap- talk. pearance of her husband, whom she "I have nothing whatever to say on knew to be inside. At Beven o'clock the subject." she said. The affair has created a tremendous sensation In society In Pasadena, Redondo and Los Angeles. Mrs. Walker Is a widow of a former Los Angeles banker. She owns a beautiful summer home at the seashore city. Mrs. Walker and GUI became acquainted when the former lived In Pasadena a few years ago. FRANK A. OGDEN. -- LIKE TkEASURE. THEY I have seeded considerable land the past ten years and will give briefly and observation, my experience writes a correspondent of Farmer Review. In Mercer county. Illinois, the In the lowlands! grass (and red-towill supplant all other grasses in a short time w hen used either as yneadow or pasturage, especially the 1 but did not conclude to invest Ogden s Hist real estate venture waa in Madison. He had $ 10 and borrowed $20 more of his mother to make a payment on four lots which he bought near the state university ground on time payment Before the next payment became due he sold one lot for more than the four cost Mr. Ogden is said to be worth a million or tiuwe Resides his two hotels in Madison, he has big holdings of Immensely valuable lake fiont property In Chicago, property dn Superior, Wls , in Kansas, and In the state of Washington, wheie he recently sold a township of land at a handsome profit. Some time ago he said he owned a hundred farms in Wisconsin, and at one time owned many more In Kansas. A Madison man who knows him well Is worth. "He has the Instinct of buying 3 says: cent a at his meals counter, Eating A man can easily get broke spending a considerable portion of his right. time In the capltol park In a rdstlo on land, but Ogden is too sharp. seat reading the dally papers which Ogden got a big start by deals in others have discarded, Frank A. Og- Kansas. Without seeing the land he den, the citizen, wearing a $8 suit, has bought a big belt which some comlong been stigmatised in file town for pany offered to unload on him at a big his frugality. Ogden, ths business figure. Ogden has faith In the future. basis. He says man, sweeps out kla town lot! office, He buys on a shaves himself, and keep?1 Business every 15 years each section, and parnotes on the back of envekpel. ticularly each' pioneer Bectfon, takes a To those who inquire Us business big fresh start. He is willing to wait he replies that "he is a retired lumber bla 15 years to double his money. BOY GUARDED AS' -t FOR PASTURAGE Try helping the stomach by leaving greasy. Indigestible food and take on Grape-Nut- s light, easily digested, full of strength for nerves and brain, in every grain of it. Theres no with Rain Barrels Sink. waste of time nor energy when Grape-Nut- s Connecting Is the food. before meals. The plan ia well illus"I am an enthusiastic user of Grape-Nut- s trated In the cut. and consider it an ideal food. One large barrel may be used, or writes a Maine man: two may be connected as shown. Dur "I had nervous dyspepsia and was lng the season where there ls plenty all run down and my food seemed to of rain there is little trouble in keep do me but little good. From reading ' lng the barrels flUed and ready for an adv. I tried Grape-Nutfood, and use. after a few weeks steady use of it, felt greatly improved. Treatment of Old Harness. "Am much stronger, not nervous An old harness can be kept looking now, and can do more work without like new by using a dressing made feeling so tired, and am better every from three-ouncturpentine and two way. ounces white wax dissolved and mixed "I relish Grape-Nut- s best with dream over a slow fire. Then sdd one ounce and use four heaping teaspoonfuls at tvory black well pulverized. Wash the a meal. I am sure there are thouleather clean and when dry apply the sands of persons with stomach troudressing. ble who would be benefited by using Grape-NutsName given by Postum We need to pay more attention to Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the litthe fertilising of our land. tle hook, "Hie Road to Wellvllle," In Theres a reason. pkgs. off heavy, s es ." r |