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PATHETIC STORY OF 1 A RUINED FAMILY m rsi | Husband's Tender Devotion and Self Denial. ?? j ; INSTANCE OF MOTHER'8 PRIDE During the Trial for Lunacy of Mont' bora of Ona of tha Wealthiest Familis in Kentucky Pathetic and 8efractional Affair Brought to LighL Versailles, Ky., April 26.?The pathetic story of a husband's tender do otion and self-donlal and a mother's pride, and an instance of destitution In one of the wealthiest counties In Kentucky that beggars description, ware brought to light during the trial for lunacy of William O. 8hock and his wife, Mary Ellen Shock. Both wore declared unsound in mind, and they were taken to the Eastern In* sane asylum In L<exington. Shock If 60 years old and his wife about 45. Fifty years ago Mrs. Ellen Johnson, bow 80 years old, the mother of Mrs. Shock and a grandnlece of the famous picsaeer, Simon Kenton, married Andrew Johneon, a wealthy farmer and alare holder. Johnson died after the war, leaving hla widow, daughter and a eon 500 acres of land and valuable personal property. Mrs. Johneon was In court and told how, from one cause or another, their fortune had been diaaipated. A Beautiful Qirl. Fifteen years ago William Shock, ol Philadelphia, came into Woodford eounty traveling for a Philadelphia publishing house. He met pretty Mary Ellen Johnson and married her. Soon afterward his young wife beqaroc hopelessly- Insane. Unwilling to be saparated'Trom her by having his wife placed in a sanitarium, Shock undertook to care for her at home. Mrs. Shocks' mother was getting old, and he being the only person who could control his wife. Shock was forced to give up work and remain with her constantly day and night. Through 12 ar 14 long years he has been the oonstant companion and guardian of a mad wife shut away from the world In. a little house near the Kentucky liver, below Millville, during the past winter they afid the* mother who has been with them wen reduced to suffering and almost ataAatlon. The pride of the aged ga ? ? rwler, who remembered her forratf *?, -"t position in life whan every aivathed -was obeyed as a UotUsed, when starv"The^be known.* suacepOWSft strain affected "and for tnla. --in to wander you to wear them.^ "Shall I get somejto. While you are here?" aba a smile. "I will If you "Would you do It If I a. was?" he replied, resolving td ground and looking squarely i But that elusive young ladj to be cornered. "You remind me of a story once," she said, "about an Who was called upon to plead not guilty to the charge of ness. When asked nfterwnr pleaded he said, 'Uednd, I Judge an equivocal answer.' was that?' bp Id his friend, whin the judge axed me wa g | m He eat etarlng moodily at U or not guilty I answered, grandfather a monkey?" At gave me sixty days.' " "Well," replied Prank, "tha story, bat it doesn't answer tlon." That afternoon when Alice with her brother he said, ' how do you like my friend?" "Qh, he means to be nice plied, "but he is a little tt and It would do him good 1 work for his living a year or The two days lntervenli Bmiday passed all too quick three young people. \Vhei morning came they of cotaw church, and Frank found hit mfawaA m* hi, all ?h. *%? w? m w *jj mi cuv j/cv^ro gate. lie did not pay muci to the sermon, but a good certain awed soprano rote choir, and when after ser Joined them he bold!/ wal with her and left Albert cha A neighbor. On the way home she, of o fA tiK JWhl qtwaUou u t > ^ I COURT'S ORDER HAS | CREATED A STIR Brunswick Railroad Circles Are Very Much Agog OVER ACTION OF E. C. MACHEN It Is Belis^J^n that 8ection that the , Atlantic and Birmingham Will Con* tinue to Operate Brunswick and Biri mingham Road. Brunswick, Ga., April 2G.?Railroad circles in Brufiiswick are in a stir over the appointment of a receiver by Judge ' Speer, of the United States court for the Brunswick and Birmingham railroad, E. C. Machen being the only complainant who claims that the road is indebted to him $3,000 for services when president. John R. L. Smith, of Macon, is the receiver. He returned here from Waycrose, where he has been in conference with the Atlantic and Birmingham officials, the purchasers of the road, while the order issued by Judge. Speer prohibits the officers of the Brunswick and Birmingham sanctioning the sale to the Atlantic and Birmingham, and further re strains the Brunswick and Birmingham from carrying out the conditions of the sale. Just why Machen has taken this step is unknown. He claims that the road is indebted to him only |3,200. When the stockholders' meeting was held there March 29 to confirm the sale of the Brunswick and Birmingham, Machen did not participate at all. It has been learned that a petition was filed in the superior court several weeka ago by the Knickerbocker Trust company, of New York, asking 1 for a receiver for the road, but this was only done to protect the bondholders. None of the officials of the Atlantic and Birmingham are in the city, and nothing can be learned as to their future movements. However It if believed that they will continue to operate the road, and that no changes will take place. SPURN8 A FORTUNE. Poor and Aged Man Says He Would Not Cross a Street for 9100,000. Omaha, Neb., April 2G.?James Dotle, an aged man of this city, has ; a rortuiftT awaiting him at Dixon, 111., but, he declares he does not wish it ajAhtrlll not go there to claim it. ^ "I don't want to be bothered about this fortune," he said Impatiently, WhgflLlnformed that s relative had , dihd ar Dixon and left him sole heir to'a large estate. "I don't want any more ninn?v 1'vo -1 ? ? ? ? ?V Ml ? ?/ m guw aiuug V without riohes andTm too old to begin to worry about them now. I would not walk across the street for $100,000. 1 am. cfertalnly not going several hun djred miles for it." JL Mr. Doyle has never been married. f 1has always worked hard for a liv^m*nd never has accumulated any BeirtoKPr Property. He was born in Irishman '^?ut 70 yoars ago and has guilty or fasha many years, drunkon- , d how he pleasure,.man In Opsn Car. give the you for n gu April 26.?An A ltd (What I think it couten Horr and Begor,ra, only coax my motde <*f snow , s I guilty and you and yotn.n one i us. Wo would visit x'.nstant/ 1 C2/x\ sorts and have no end v "It's a delightful outxna ' gest," she answered, "and I JA very much, but I wouldn't 1 coming if your family had to b *? 8?. nn(l then It's not likely t wk. could find the time." "Oh, I didn't mean It that ^ (iLy sold, looking serious, "only mo V?~VA the Kir'8 are afraid of the wa ? Iff la aI1" IfS JMA When conversation lagged \gjgm\i begged that she would sing t Ms J and suggested selections fron and Sankey, and despite her 1 STnAj sarcastic remark that It wnsi E|L^S vlval meeting they were hol< not only played nnd sang r U V > time worn melodies, but a lot < ? from older collections. When ^ time came Frank asked that elude with "Ben Bolt" "I shall not need to recall t to remind me of you," he s: low voice as he spread It on tl rack In front of her, "but I ways feel Its mood when I m /lames. you." "Was yer "Does that mean that you a id then "he of mo as sleeping 'In a corner and alone' in some churchya t Is a good responded archly, my que#- "By no means," he aald. "on perhaps have a little of the sa was alooo *t times that Ben Bolt had 'Well, sis, hoard of the fate of his sweet It was a pretty speech, an i," she co- Imagined she threw a little rr koughtless, usual pattas Into the song to have to hut then M doubt his Imagine two." blasod by his feelings. ig before When they stood on the plal ly for tho *?e*t morning awaiting the a Sunday. *lJd quietly: b attended "May I send you a few b< nself slyly *ome new songs when I get he i of Sand- I "want to show you h i attention I bare enjoyed this lalt." deal te a "It la very nice of you to n In the replied, "and I shall be g vice Alice remembered and hope you wll ked away again." ttlng with When the train came In 1 hurriedly offered his hand an oursa, ask- "Permit me to thank you aga' o bow be M b*L tunnd anr 1 A WITNESS TELLS OF BELGIANtTROCITIES Story Told by Former Superintendent Congo Railway. UNTOLD CRUELTIE8 TO NATIVES Bullets Used to Unload a Vessel When Terrified American Negroes Refused To Disembark?Alleged They Were 8hot Down by 8oldiers. New York, April 26.?A former superintendent of the Congo River railway, new residing in Brooklyn, gives some hitherto unpublished facta concerning the brutal treatment of natives and others by King Leopold's Belgian officials. This man is a German, who has lived' in America some years. "At the instance of the Belgian government, 1 took from America 300 negroes to the Congo region ly July, he said. "I engaged these men to work as laborers for the Con^o railway for 76 cents a day and' their board. In crossing the Atlantic we touched at Las Palmas, in the Canar.es. to change steamers. "When we had boarded the steamer for the Congo region priests came aboard and warned the negroes that they would not be treated as paid workers but as Blaves by the Belgians, and begged them to leave the vessel and leturn to America. I told the negroes that I was not the slavedriver'that the priests made me out; and 1 would see that they were properly and fairly ireated and get their pay and board as stipulated in the contract. "This was my first experience working for the Belgian government, and although I had heard tales of the cruelties of the Belgians. I thought them exaggerations. So T perstiaded my men to remain aboard, but their fears had been so worked on by the priests that when the steamer reneheO Wrunn at the mouth of the Congo, they refused to disembark. The commanding official of the railroad at Bonia became gicutly incensed when I reported that my consignment of negroes reinsert to leave the vessel. He said that he would get them ashore. He summoned a hundred of his native soldiery and ordered them to shoot into the negroes, who were hudled together on the deck forward. 1 pleaded with the official that he order only blank car:ridges to be fired, and ho ag-eed. Tl.t volley from the hundred rifle.*, however, had no effect on the frightened negroes, who atfll refused to Ianve the ship. "The Belgian official then ordered his men to load with ball cartridges. Then, despite my pleading, the 100 soldiers fired at the defenseless, unprotected negroes. Twelve were killed outright and about 30 wounded. This h&d the effect of scarlng-the survivors into going ashore. I protested to the official against this outrage and said that I would report it to the Belgian government. He laughed and told me to tell Leopold all about it. 1 learned afterward that King Leopold was fully aware of all tho cruelties practised by his officials In the Congo. "i insisted that tho dead should be buried and the wounded attended in tho Boma hospital. I heard afterward that the unfortunates taken to the hospital received Indifferent care. "X had noticed the cruel grins .-of satisfaction on tne faces of the native soldiers when they were ordered to use ball cartridges and learned that not only did they enjoy killing simply because it suited their bloodthirsty patures, but because tho Belgian officers held out the reward ot promotion lint hose who killed the most persons. uninjured survivors of this vny," we were herded on the wharf ther ana <j together with chains, ter, thnt ~r0 attached to their necks \In this fashion they were ' * "J1 ^lver to Mataldy. They xt i"U Mataldy to work still brothers \ ??; n't a re- ^en the heayy ste l ling she ,(,er8 whon th0y ill those I Arcngth gave out, of others *-*^MverB beat .them retiring ^at brought the she con- v?as if the lashAn ideal' hat song , T \ over this, aid In a homes. i^Vssigtance he music per aere; rrrtmn stopping shall al- jL released think Of wheat, oata, j|manly fl8 rill think vegetables. 11 In com; obscure Stick raogt'' ^ rd?" she . ? day Uie the year. ly i may Southeast #rwna,ne? me mood , # Hiany terrlwhen be Sa<% LouiaiaAlty of the Alice." f.11 i dpD?0 raild Frank rul1 01 by s nalore than climate 19 mjrtoy death. C the lands araJ" Low Hoiffs there, he tnS he about half fanM RDd 1?ft ? was the . . Belt twice a vera cmooks and W , . imc, Misa third Tuesdajl*01^ the ow much T7. J Jr16 BlavM For descnV^^moBt aay ao," maps and excursion^ j lad to be 1 vlalt na to y ie rather N. B. BAIRD, *P d with a Cotton Be,t- ATLAf V ka I is lined with these whitening bonce. "The American missionaries plead la vain with the Belgians to be lesa crvel. The missionaries are told that cruelty is necessary to get any work out cf the natives. "This whole Congo region ought to be taken away from Belgium and placed iu the care of a decent nation liko the United States. As long as the Belgians are in control these cruelties will always take place. "One of the worst features of Belgian misrule* in Africa is that the officials bribe the natives to work by offering them gin. Great quantities of gin are imported f%m Europe and given to the natives In exchange for labor. It is quite the usual thing in the course of a day to come across hundreds of natives, dead drunk, lying In the bushes. Sometimes they remain drunk for days at a time. They alwayr drink until they have no more gin left. "And yet missionaries aro sent to the Congo to 'convert' these poor beings who are thus misused by an alleged Christian nation!" FIRE HEROINE SUES. Miss Gaylord Saved Many Lives at Risk of Her Own Life. Desinoines, April 20.?Miss Lena A. Gaylord,jot Belvidere, 111., who was tho heroine of the fire that destroyed tho Clifton hotel In Cedar Rapids last year, resulting in the death of 12 persens, has-brought suit against the propnetors of the hotel for $5,500 damages for personal injuries and loss of property. Miss Gaylord occupied the parlor on the second floor on the night of the fire, and she was one of the first to be aroused by it. -She ran through, the house, clad in her night gown" warning the sleeping inmates. Sho forgot her own danger and was cut oft hv Hin flomAC WOta ?i.v l/uv nou I tOVyUtU UJ IIIO firemen, who caught her In a blanket when she.jumped from an upper window. Her hair had been burned and she was otherwise injured, but she bravely assisted In th ecare of tho more seriously Injured after being provided with an oVercoat and skirt. DAUGHTER AVENGES MOTHER. Stepfather of Young Actress Condemned to Life Imprisonment. Des Moines. April 2G.?Charles W. Graves, charged with murdering his wife and burning the body, was found guilty In the district court, a jury recommending life imprisonment. A daughter, Winnie Reader, member of the Grau Opera Company then playing In Chicago, arrived home to spend tho holidays three days after the crime was committed. She buried her mother, accused her stepfather of the orime'and secured his conviction. Used Company's Funds. New York, April 26.?Bertram Na? gelechmltt, cashier of the Hermann Furniture .company, who disappeared December 15, leaving an alleged shortage of several thousand dollars in his accounts, has -been arrested. Ho returned from Montreal in order to effect a settlement of the matter awd. beg .^forgiveness of his former emnlnvpra M a oloeohm iff ?-.w. ??UC)iVOVlUlllbV TY ?o Cfc U1C111" ber of numerous German societies and took a prominent, part in entertaining Prince Henry of Prussia two years ' ago. His heavy expenditures in meeting social obligations at that time, he admits, caused him to use some of the company's funds. Bride To Be Stepmother to Nine. Dubuque, Iowa, April 26.?Nine children and a three-time widower have no terrors for Miss Rose Busch, a Dubuque girl, 21 years old, who contemplates matrimony. If nothing happens Miss Busch will soon be Mrs. H. G. Kuenster, of Glen Haven, Wis. The groom-to-be is 49 years old and this ls^iis fourth offense in the matrimonial business. He has nine children and Is prosperous. Marries Man Who Gave Sympathy. Poughkeepsie, April 26.?Mrs. Bstelle Van Wormer stepmother of the three Van Wormer brothers, who were executed at Dunnemora prison for the murder of their uncle, Peter A. Hallenbeok, has been quietly married In Kinderhook to William C. Schryver, o! Pomilnn W V T-V. ~ V.-I J vuu.uvu, >1. m.. iuo unaegruom nnu read of Mrs. Van Wormer and of the brave battle she made to save the lives of her three stepsons. This led to' a correspondence and court hip. Escapes from Gypsy Camp. Indianapolis, Imd., April 26.?The j free and roving life of a gypsy is not t othe liking of Oliver Burdlck, a 12year-old patient at the City hospital. The boy says he has been a member of a gypsy family since the first or last October, and that he ran away to escape the hardships. The boy says he is the son of John Burdlck, who Uvea about 2% miles west of Terre Haute. Lived To Be 104 Years Old. Berlin, Mass. April 26.?Miss Rebecca Wkitcomb died at the great age of 104 years. She was born In Bolton kNov. 17, 1799. She attributed her flongevity to be temperate mfnner of living rather than to constitution or to heredity, none of her relatives livIn* ux aa age that approaafeaO. hank ? ' ' N ^ v>VJT' ... *? ; < i uHbJtWlMftr I -1. CONSTANT IMPROVEMENT. j < . k\ Every business that does not go forward does the opposite, goes backward. There is no such thing as standstill in business. The man who wants and deserves your business is constantly striv= ing to improve the service that he gives you and to make his place of business Attractive, Pleasant and Satisfactory. \ ? ? -?? It has been the policy of this company since its founda tion to appreciate fully and thoroughly every patron, large or small, and as an evidence of this appreciation to give the consuming public the most thoroughly modern and . \ wuiupiv LV UiUtU^ OIUIC * in this part of the State; thata we have done this, and that we are constantly improving and making more attractive both our methods and place of business, is evidenced by the constantly increasing and appreciative line of customers who are always glad to testify to the truthfulness and merit of our claims^ Every day witnesses the arrival of fresh and seasonable "things that are good to eat," and our patrons do not know what it is to tro hiinorv. . ? c* ft-J We Respectfully Solicit r-? J ?t# ? t a share of the grocery busi- . ness of every honest man and woman in Union and Union county, and we give this unequivocal guarantee, that no firm selling the same rlace nf fArv/4 r*H/\/l i Atf wia^ vi i wu pi uuuvid w ill sell you any cheaper than we will, and that every article that leaves our store must be as represented. ' v It is our aim and determinotinn tn ma Ira aira<*?r 1 U11UI1 IV 1IIUKW VVW1 J VU31U" , J mer a satisfied customer. We are selling and satisfy. ing hundreds and if we can sell you, we will satisfy you. ^ The Union Grocery Go., , (Handlers of Everything Good to Eat.) / L. L. WAGNON, - Manager*