THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1000. BICAMYJIS HOE Man With a Dozen Wives Makes Full Confession. WOOED THEM FOR THEIR MONEY Admits He Was Engaged to Eight een Women Besides Those He Married He Courted Sev eral at Once. Snn Franc-Wen. .Inly 1-1. Christian C. .Tolmson. alias Holm Madson, alias John Anderson, sentenced to seven years In State prison fur lilirauiy. has made n full eont'o.-'Moii. Ills story in dicates that he is the arch polypi mist of ids time, the greatest Iiluolieard of them all. Accord I m; to Johnson's story lite career as a Mneheard really licwin In San Francisco, he havlnu' committed liiirnmy here on Dec. 2S. 1SMM. when lie married Mrs. Sylvia Pollard De Hon net t. At the time he had a wife living in Massachusetts, whom he led to the altar In November, Hid.". A few weeks after his marriage to Mrs. I)e Bonnott he deserted her. and from that day on ho made his livelihood ly making love to women and taking their money. He confesses that during the period of less than four years since his de sertion of Mrs. no Bonnett he has courted hundreds of women, married ten others after he had committed bigamy and separated at least eight een of them from their last cent. "From that day to this," he said, "I have been making my living by marry ing. My life and story for the last four years has been woven about women. The women to whom I have been engaged to marry nre so many that I am unable to count them offhand." As far as this modern Bluebeard was able to recollect In the course of his conversation ho hns only twelve vivos. Mrs. Mnry Brown of Spring field, Mass.. -vas his first and only legal wife. 11 says lie really liked her and that on the wedding day she gave him $500. He left her a few days later. Mrs. Eliza Jones of Portland. Ore., was a well to do widow who answered one of his advertisements. While ho was courting Mrs. Jones he was court Ing ten others at the same time. "I got $1,800 from her," Johnson remarked. no deserted Mrs. Jones and married Mrs. Henrietta Leopold of San Fran Cisco, no got $1,200 from her nnd left her three days later. Mrs. Josephine Trcthcwny of Stock ton,, whom ho mnrrled next, had only $300 nnd he took the money and fled to Los AiV?q!s. There ho married Mrs. Catherine Hoenc(l whom ho rob bed of ?400. In the four years of his marrying nnd courting he has got from women more than ?2.",000 In cash, besides jewelry. AMERICAN GIRLS INJURED. SHAH HAS FEW DEFENDERS. CONFEREES Insurgent Army In Persian Capital Meets Little Resistance. Teheran, Persia, July 14. Recent events In Turkey are being repeated In Persia. The Constitutionalist forces nre now In possession of the greater part of the city, which they entered without encountering any organized re sistance. Wlillf. I'll rl t'.l un,1 ntitl CM, in li tin ! tlm 1 lenders In the movement, concentrated LOBBYISTS BESIEGE MEMBERS. the attention of the Itoyalists by dem- onstratlons to the west a strong body o their About 400 Amendments to Tariff Bill Passed On. Setting an Asparagus Bed. "What is the best method to pur sue starting an asparagus bed?" This question was referred to Prof. H. A. Surface, State Zoologist, Harrlsburg, by one of the newspapers of Phila delphia, the Information having been asked by a correspondent of the pa per. It elicited the following reply: "In planting an asparagus beu the ground should be spaded or plowed deeply, or to a depth of twelve Inches If possible. In turning the soil, manure should ho mixed well with it and, in fact, some of the fertilizer f Nationalists and Bakhtlarls made Representatives of Special Interests 1 The soil cannot he made too fertile! Thrust Anneals Upon Commit- I Three to lour inches of manure well teemen In Regard to the Various Schedules. way unnoticed around to tin north, from which point the capture of the capital was not dlllieult. The guards at the northern gates were disarmed and the Invaders marched In. the foreign section lead ers taklnir uii their iuarters In the old Me.lllss building. This gives the Na tionalists command o! the city, with over the cotton and woolen schedules i (he exception of th artillery square without taking up any of the amended and the drill ground adjoining. ' paragraphs and skipping the disputed , The Itoyalists are badly situated to points connected witli the rates on ' make further resistance, and the Cos- lumber In the wood schedule, the tar saeks, under command of Russian of- iff conferees have already disposed of fleers, remain outside the city, entirely about 400 amendments, cut off from their eomrodes in the nr-1 Many important subjects, such as tillery square. 1 the house drawback feature of the al- Tlie strictest discipline Is being eohol paragraphs. the rates on oilcloth maintained by the Natlonllsts, who are , and the various Items under the head placing guards at the gates and other , of lithographs were submitted to sub points as the Royalists nre disarmed. conferees. The treasury experts who The Nationalist leader in a note to the , helped the sennte finance committee in Russian and British locations cunran-1 its consideration of the bill are assist- 2 M J tfl , Ill tees security of life nnd property to foreigners. England Will Not Aid the Shah. London. July 14. There Is little sym pathy In England for the shah, who, according to reports from Persia, will lose his throne. Oreat Britain, In con junction with Russia, consistently urged him to re-establish the constitu tion, the failure to do which has placed him in his present uncomfort able position. (Sreat Britain's action will be con fined to safeguarding British Interests. It is believed that Russia will act sim ilarly and will not allow her troops to Interfere In the present crisis. N0RD2CA TO WED IN LONDON. Miss Feigenspan and Miss Ness In Auto Wreck Abroad. .Toigny, France, July 14. Miss Ella Feigenspan and Miss Appa Ness, American girls, were injured in an au tomobile accident near here and nro being .cared for at the Brlenon hospi tal. The condition of Miss Ness Is critical. Miss Feluenspan's injuries are serious. The accident occurred In the village of Esnon. The machine was running rapidly when it skidded In the mud nnd turned over. Edwin Feigenspan of New York, brother of Miss Feigen span. nnd the chauffeur escaped un injured, but the two women were pin-1 ned beneath the wrecked machine. Feigenspan Is a son of Christian Feigenspan. a brewer of Newark, N. J. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Prima Donna'o Third Husband Will Be Geo -ge W. Young. London. July 14. The marriage of Mme. Lillian Nordlca. the prima don na, to Oeorge W. Young will take place here tomorrow. Her marriage to Mr. Young will ho Mme. Nordlcn's third matrimonial venture. Her first husband was Fred erick A. Gowcr. a wealthy electrician, whom she met nnd mnrrled In Paris In 1SS2. Three years later Mme. Nor dica began lcgnl proceedings for a sep aration. The case wns postponed from time tf time and, in 18S7, news was received that Gower hnd lost his life while making nn nttempt to cross the English channel In n balloon. Mme. Nordica's second marriage took place In Indianapolis in 1S90, when she wedded Zoltnn Doeme, the Hungarian tenor. She obtained a di vorce from Doeme in 1004. Mr. Young has been a prominent figure in social and financial circles In New York. He was formerly president of tlie United States Mortgage and Trust company and is now vice presi dent of the Windsor Trust company. His wife, whom he married In 1SS0, divorced him in Trenton last year. 1 turned under and stirred into the I soil will not be too much. Dig holes to a depth of eight inches with a circumference of two feet, mnkiug thein five feet apart each way, or at Washington. July 14.-By passing ! lellst, "ot lc tlinn four lect. Put earth in the bottom of each hole' nnd set the asparagus plant or root on this firmly, with the roots spread In every direction. Over this place about two inches of good rich soil that is not so damp as to pack or cake when tramped, and then tramp It with the feet firmly around the heart of the stalk of the plant. The secret of making this kind of plant grow Is to pack the earth quite firmly about the roots, but not to have it so wet that It will cake or form a ball. Next, throw two or three Inches of loose earth over the packed earth, leaving a depression In the ground for watering and future filling. As the little weeds start, hoe and gradually fill the space around the new plants. Cultivate them deeply, thoroughly and fre quently, and use considerable salt and commercial fertilizer. In fact, much salt can be used on the surface of asparagus beds to kill the weeds, and at the same time benefit the as paragus plants greatly. I have seen the ground covered with salt to a depth of one Inch, killing the grass and weeds but not injuring the as paragus roots. "The chief pests will be the 'Rust,' for which spraying should be done with Bordeaux mixture, and the Asparagus Beetles, which insects should be dusted with freshly slaked lime (thirty parts) and Paris green (one part) ; or sprayed with arsenate of lead, one ounce in each gnhon of water or Bordeaux mixture." DROUGHT OVER WIDE AREA. Closing Stock Quotations. Money on call was 1?J per cent; time money and mercantile paper unchanged In rates. Closing prices of stocks were: Amal. Copper... 79?i Norf. & West... 81 Atchison 116 Northwestern ,.lS3,i B. & 0 119 Penn. II. R 137 Brooklyn R. T,. 775i Reading 156 Ches. &Ohlo.. 77H Rock Island 33V4 C. ,C.,C.& St.L.. St. Paul 153Vs D. &H 192 Southern Pac...l32?i Erie 3G Southern Ry.... 30 Gen. Electric... 104 South. Ry. pf... C3 111. Central 155 Sugar 126 Int.-Mct 15 Texas Paclnc... 32 Louis. & Nash.. 141 Union Pacific... 193U Manhattan 144 U. S. Steel C8 Missouri Pac... 71 U. S. Steel pf,..125Vi N. Y. Central... 131 West. Union.... 72 Crops In Parts of New York, Pennsyl vania and Connecticut Suffer. New York, July 14. New York city and the territory for a hundred miles around it Is in the grip of a serious drought, according to detailed reports made to the weather bureau. Throughout this territory, which in cludes rich farming and truck raising land In southeastern New York, north eastern Pennsylvania and eastern Con necticut, there has been no rain since the middle of June, nnd as a result vegetation is parched, wells nnd rivers nre drying up and roads are almost impassable because of the dust. The situation is considered unusually grave by the farmers, whose potatoes, ber ries and small produce at this season of the year usually yield them tens of thousand of dollars. In eastern Pennsylvania the Schuyl kill river hns broken the low water record for forty years, while In New York state many of the mills along the Hudson which operate by water power have been compelled to close down. WRIGHTS MEET MISHAP AGAIN, Market Reports. WHEAT Contract grade, July, 1.18a 1.19; August, $1.16al.l7. CORN-July. 79a80c; August. 77a78c. OATS No. 2, white, natural, 69a70c. BUTTER Steady; receipts, 25,301 pack ages; creamery, specials, 26a27c; (offi cial 26V&C); extras, 26c; thirds to firsts, 22a25c; state dairy, common to finest, 20a25c; process, common to special, 16a 21c; western, factory, 17a21c; Imitation creamery, 22c. CHEESE Steady; receipts, 13,792 boxes; state, new, full cream, special, 13V4al4Y4c.; small, colored, fancy, 13Vic; large, col ored, fancy, 13V4c; small, white, fancy, 1314c; common to good, 10al2c; skims, full to specials, 2al0c. EGGS Firm for top grades; receipts, 10,917 cases; state, Pennsylvania and near by, hennery, white, 28a31c; gathered, white. 25a28c: hennery, brown and mixed. fancy, 26a27c; gathered, brown, fair to prime, 23a25c. : western, extra firsts; 23a 23Vic: nrsis, Uftazzftc; Beconas, zuazic. DRESSED POULTRY Firm; broilers, ' nearby, fancy, squab, per pair, 40a50c; 3 lbs. to pair, per lb., 25o30c; western, dry picked, 18a23c; scalded, 18a22c; old roos ters, lOalOHc ; spring ducks, nearby, 16a 17c; squabs, white, per doz., $2a3.60; froz en broilers, milk fed, fancy, per lb., 22a 23c; corn fed, fancy, 18a20c; roasting chickens, milk fed, 23a25c; corn fed, 19a 37i : arMuie. no. i. loauo. ing the conferees in gathering Informa tion about these subjects. The corridors about the conference room In the senate olllce building are about as thickly peopled with repre sentatives of special Interests nnd lobbyists generally as they were when the Mil wns In house nnd senate com mittees. The moment a member of the con ference emerges from a session he Is surrounded nnd briefs relating to va rious schedules nre thrust at htm. Some of the conferees have adopted the plan of refusing to accept these arguments, basing their decllnntlon up on the ground that the bill has been considered In both branches of con gress and that it Is now the duty of the conference committee to harmonize the differences without outside influ ence of any kind. Few of the conferees predict that a report can 1' made before a week from Saturda and some go so far a., to forecast A-g. 1 or later for the nd inurnment of the extra session. Members of the senate committee oi. finance nre preparing n statement re plying to charges that senate amend ments to the tariff bill will result In Increasing the cost of woolen and cot ton clothing, shoes and other nrtlclcs of common wear, as well as other ne cessitles of life. The statement will be intended to show that the duty on shoes has been reduced and that tliert has not been a change in the rates on woolen goods and that the rates on cotton have not been Increased. There will follow a list of about r(K decreases in rates from the Pingley duties and a list of about sixty ot seventy-five increases. An effort will be made to show that most of the lat ter are not In reality Increases In rates but that they provide for the collec tion of the rates fixed by the Illnglej law, which had been set aside by mis interpretation of that law. Senator La Follette of Wisconsin pre sented to the senate a table of the in creases and decreases of tlio senate tariff bill over the Diugley bill which was prepared by the bureau of statis tics of the government. It is generally understood that this table does not correspond with the table prepared by Senator Aldrlch, but, on the contrary shows the senate rates to be higliet In some schedules than has been ad mitted by the chairman of the senate finance committee. This tnble, togeth er with n consular report showing tho working of the Initiative and referen dum in Switzerland, Senator La Fol lette secured leave to print as public dociinients. The senate received the ofiicial no tice of the house asking a conference on the Philippine tariff bill, declined to take up legislation affecting solely the District of Columbia on the ground that it would be In violation of the unanimous consent agreement and, after a brief executive session, ad journed until Friday. "'ted ALCOHOL 3 PER npKT ANcgetableCrcparatfonrcrAs stmilailng ibcfbnf andRcgida-lingUicSiomachsaiiiiBcm-clscf CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Promotes Digeslion.Qeifii!-; ncss and Rest.ContaIiis neither : OpiunuMorphicc nor Mineral; Not Narcotic, i flaip&w Seed" jVx.Sc.vta UimSerJ- QimriatSugcr WntinttcnHina: Aperfecl Remedy for ConsRpa-tlon.SourStoraach.Dlarrhoci Worms,CoiOTlsims.FeveRSlr ricss aniLOSS OF SLEEP, facsimile Signature of NEW YOHK. . .Guaranteed under the owU Exact Copy of Wrapper. Signature yA ft Jrv . In rtX Use j For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CCHTAUH COMPANY. IWtO CITY. H. C. HAND, President. V. 15. HOLMES, Vice Pres. H. S. SALMON, Cashier W. J. WARD, Ass't Cashier We want you to understand the reasons for the ABSOLUTE SECURITY of this Bank. -THE- BRYAN WRITES TO TAFT. The Undesirable Mosquito. "Preparations should be made at once to down the undesirable mos quito," is the suggestion made by the Division of Zoology of the Penn sylvania Department of Agriculture. Mosquitoes carry the germs of dis ease and there is no more potent disseminator of fevers. The utmost precautions should, therefore, be our homes. As pools of stagnant water, cist erns and cess-pools are breeding places of mosquitoes, Prof. H. A. Surface, the State Zoologist, recom mends that all tanks of water, cist erns, or vessels which hold water, or which might be filled with water af ter a rain, be covered, or screened with a screen of at least 18 meshes of wires to tho inch. Standing wa ter on lots or commons should not ho permitted. All shallow lots should bo drained and kept dry, and post holes filled, pld tin cans and bottles emptied, and all breeding places de stroyed. All stables ought to be provided with air-tight receptacles for refuse, and this refuse should be removed every week. Where there are large natural bodies of water which cannot be drained, the surface should be dis infected and oiled with kerosene at frequent nnd regular Intervals. Kerosene is invaluable in this con nection and it is also good as a dis infectant. Chloride of line or com mon copperas (sulphate of iron) can be thrown into cess-pools. Even the water used in sprinkling carts can be charged with disinfectants, and will prove a valuable aid in keeping away the mosquitoes. The proprie tors of restuarants, meat markets, milk depots and bakeries should be compelled to screen their premises as well as all receptacles in which water stands or food is kept and prepared, In order to guard against mosquitoes and flies. WAYNE COUNTY SAVINGS HONE SD ALB, PA., HAS A CAPITAL OF - - - 100.000.00 AND SURPLUS AND PROFITS OF - 355,000.00 MAKING ALTOGETHER - - 455.000.00 EVERY DOLLAR of which must be lost before any depositor can loseal'.fc.lS.NY' It has conducted a growing and successful business" for over 35 years, serving an increasing number of customers with lidelitv and satisfaction. Its cash funds are protected by MODERN "STEEL VAULTS. All of the-e things, coupled with conservative management, insured by the CARKFL'L PKlifcUXAl. ATTKNTION constantly given the Rank's nlfiilr by a notably able Hoard of Directors ushures the patrons of that SUl'RKMK SAFETY whioh b the prime essential ot a good Hank. Total Assets, $2,733,000.00 H. C. HAND. A. T. SKA1U.E. T. li. OLA IMC e" DEPOSITS MAY BE MADE BY MAIL, -a DIRECTORS ("HAS. J.SMITH. H.J. CONtiKl!. V V. SUYDAM. V. 15. HOLMES P.P. KIMItI.E H. S. SALMON Their Aeroplane Fails In Two Flights and is Disabled. Washington. .Tuly 14. Orvllle Wright made two unsuccessful attempts to maneuver his neroplane In the nlr at Fort Myer. The smnll area of the field nnd the unfavorable direction of tho light wind blowing at the time were largely responsible for the failure of both flights. The machine arose from the ground on both occasions, but tho aviator was obliged to make the turn at the end of the drill field before the "flying speed" has been attained. Greater speed is required for making turns than for straightaway flights, and Mr. Wright was compelled to come to earth because of lack of speed when he attempted to make the turn. On the last attempt a cross plcco connecting the two skids was broken, and It will take a whole day to repair the break, LangfordHayes Fight a Draw, rittsburg, July 14. Sam Langford of Boston nnd John nnyes of Chicago fought six rounds to n draw here, Hayes took the count of nine six times during tho bout. He Would H ave Vote Taken on Elec tion of United States Senators. Lincoln, Neb., July 14. William J. Bryan has written President Taft the following letter: President Taft: Now that tho states are going to vote on the ratification of the amendment specifically authorizing an Income tax, why not Rive them a chanco to vote on an amendment providing for the election of United States senators by popular vote? In your Bpeech of acceptance you said that you were personally Inclined to favor such a change in the constitution. Would this not be an opportune time to present the subject to congress? Two constitutional amendments, one au thorizing an Income tax and the other providing for the popular election of sen ators, would make your administration memorable, and I pledge you whatever assistance I can render In securing the ratlflcatlon of these amendments. With great respect, I am, yours truly, WILLIAM J, BRYAN, GETS $12,000 A YEAR ALIMONY. Mrs. W. Gould Brokaw Also Allowed $5,000 For Counsel Fees. New York, July 14. Alimony of $1,000 a month and $5,000 extra for counsel fees was granted to Mrs, Mary Hlalr Itrokaw pending a decision In her suit for separation from W. Gould Brokaw, tho millionaire clubman. Her milt alleges abandonment and cruel treatment. 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