Register National News
Mrs. Carrie Nation announced in Wichita today that she will not accept bond tomorrow at her hearing, but will go back to her old cell in the county jail. After she has served out her time she will renew her saloon smashing crusade, this time to include cigar store. During her trip through the business district today large crowds followed her everywhere and several detectives from police headquarters were on her trail. She wore a new silk dress, and several persons accused her of “putting on style.” This enraged her so that she threw away her silk shawl.
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Thomas Shelton, editor of the Christian, a monthly publication, is under arrest on an indictment made by the federal grand jury charging him with using the mails to defraud. Shelton professes to cure all mental and physical ills by sending “vibrations.” He came to Denver from Arkansas about two years ago.
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The remains of Abraham Lincoln will be exposed to view before government officers and others preliminary to their transfer from their present temporary resting place to their permanent abode in the newly completed tomb. There will be no ceremony. The casket was opened four years ago. It was found then that the face had changed but little. Persons who knew him in life said that none of the familiar linaments of his strong features had been lost. Since then the body has rested in a hermetically sealed casket.
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The danger to the Oklahoma wheat crop from the green house, that has appeared in indescribable numbers, is alarming. The louse has been steadily trailing northward for about two weeks and has reached the Kansas line. In some of the large fields of Southern Kay county the louse was not observed until three days ago. In the rich wheat district surrounding El Reno the louse has been at work for several weeks. Many fields have been practically destroyed. Henry Lassen, an El Reno miller, said today that generally the fields were in condition to give a hopefully outlook, but unless there was a change for the better in three or four days the crop would be seriously damaged.
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Stephen Weltmer and Joseph Kelly, of Nevada, until recently engaged in the business of curing “diseases known to man or woman,” on arraignment in the United States district court yesterday, pleaded guilty to nine counts and threw themselves on the mercy of the court.
